Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1931, Page 26

WOMAN'S PAGE.’ ? Watchfulness for Good Toast ‘ BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Toagt is one. of the most tempting | toast if one falls to givs the process the needed care and watchfulness, and appetizing ways of serving bread. '8 BEEREE N C T foning bread from It 15 S0 easy to make good toast that it | ;. iqing may prove 2s belpful to some seem that it should always be |other homemakers. Hold the loaf over ths flames from & gas or nn-burnerl cookstove. Dry cut the crusts all around. This will scal in the moisture, and the Inside of the loaf will remain | moist while the outside will not mold | easily. Be sure not to keep the bread | | too long over the heat or the moisture | will be drawn from the inside of the loaf. Keep turning the loaf whil | slightly seering it, for thus the crust | will not be burnt, merely browned ! slightly more than it is before this pro- cess 15 used. | (Copyright, 1931.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. t | Time Complex. | There are people who suffer from a | time complex. They are either a little behind or a little ahead of scheduled | | appointments. | Important persons, as a rule, are not | very prompt. It would appear that the | | more important & man thinks he is | the more he devises ways and means for arousing interest in his where- abouts. Delayed activity is a splendid mechanism for attracting attention. who has not admired it? Then, there are those who always get to their appointments shead of time. It has been said that these peo- ple are always the youngest in their Tespective families. The theory is that they early formed the habit of making a dash for the trough at the first rattle of the food bucket. A Again it has been suggested that promptness is a sort of nervous disorder. | When something is going to happen, these over-prompt people get worked up over the impending event. Conse- quently, their charged nerves carry !them to the scene of activities ahead Still again, it is suggested that | ahead-of-timers really don’t know whet |time it is. One noted psychologist points out that they have always been | slightly out of touch with the passing of time. Just a little unbalanced on | the question of duration. He finds that as school- children they had a hard time | learning the tenses in the grammar class, and found the clock problems in arithmetic to be unsolvable riddles. | A sense of importance, & habit of subservience in the family constella- | tion, nerves at a haiy-spring, an inabil- ity to sense the passing of time—ghese are factors in the time complex. (Copyright, 1931.) Watermelon and Apples. | Press the juice from a watermelon | and cook in it enough tart apples with |a Mttle spice and sugar to preserve the .Ygle& Stick cinnamon and a few of lemon add to the flavor. “BONERS” Humorous Tid-Bits From School Papers. TOAST SHOULD BE SERVED PIPING HOT. ; Caesar was murdered by a band of contractors. King Arthur was a person who was washed up when a baby, and Merlin said it should be s0 and they proved it. ‘The letters “M. D.” sij “mentall deficient.” ey i ! Jacob didn't eat much, as a rule, ex- cept when there was a famine in e — Pd The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere. Describe the hardships of _the Crusaders on their way to the Holy Land. Many of them died of salvation. Queen Victoria was the longest queen on the throne. o (Copyrights 2631 Fis ] g 5 3 = as it will, then the thoroughly. ks (Copyright, 1931.) i 2y | Her determination, G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SE Handwriting What It May Reveal. BY MILDRED MOCKABEE. I ~ 7‘4,,._ HE unique manner of making the “y” loop is an interesting fea- ture of this handwriting. It is seldom that we find the return stroke crossed in this way. We | might expect the writer to be of a very positive nature. It would be difficult| to trick her either about people or cir-| cumstances, For these reasons she might find particular success in some individual business venture. She seems well able to protect her own interests and develop good opportunities. The slant of her writing indicates friendliness, that should be of value in | buginess, also. This trait suggests that some type of selling might appeal to | er. She makes three types of “t's,” sug- gesting variety of thought and action. She probably finds no difficulty in adapting herself to new and strange | situations. In social contacts she should guard gainst expressing herself too frecly. which seems an asset in business, might detract from her charm to her acquaintances. Peo- | ple would be wise to follow her lead, however, as her clear-seeing brain will look ahead and plan carefully. For relaxation she probably enjoys | plays or pictures in which there is & strong_dramatic interest. The bizarre | and unusual would possibly please her more than the conventional. Modern- istic ideas of decoration might stimulate her and help her express her per- sonaMty. Note—Analysis of handuwriting is mot an_ezact science. according to world in- vestigators, but all agree it is interesting and lots of fun. The Star presents the above feature in that spirit. : e, VOur, Lriting BY LE® PAPE. Pop was smcking and thinking and ma was just thinking, and I said, Hay ma, you better sew this button on my coat before you go away, elts how am I going to get it sewed on? And how about the rip in the seet of my other pants? I said. I was just thinking something of the ver{ kind, I dont know whats going to become of your buttons and things while Im away, ma said, and pop said, I dont know what makes you wimmin think youre the ony sex can make a button go through its paces, Dont you know the best tailers in the werld are men? he said. Well if they are youre a long ways from being one of them, ma said. Give, me that button, Ill show you, | pop sald, and ma said, Ive got it sewed on _alreddy. | Wich she had, and pop sdid, Then give me that rip Benny was tawking about. | Good, that will be a reel test for| you, ma szid. And I ran and got my other pants and ma gave pop the sew- ing baskit and pop started to take a | needle with thred on the end of it, ma | saying, My goodness you wouldent sew | a brown Tip with white thred? would you? { ‘Why not, why shouldent I put a little | cheerful contrast in the drab life of a poor rip? pop said. However, for conventions sake Ill thred a brown geedle. I mean needle & brown thred, e said. {fan of your column. 'I read all the | that your advice is very efficient. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX DEAR DOROTHY DIX—I am a stepmother to a very beautiful, talented girl of 9. I adore her and she seems to love me,.yet che resents my every attempt to control her or advise her. I would make any sacrifice for her, but I do not seem able to get at her and I so long for the companio! ship and complete understanding that come naturally to one's own blood. My husband never corrects her when she acts unkindly to me, nor does he seem to appreciate me as much as he should. I am trying so hard to make a happy home for him and the child and to be a real mother to her, but I feel that I am such a failure and that he regards me merely as & housekeeper. Can you help me any? PUZZLED STEPMO' Answer: I think you are taking a morbid view of the situation and that all you need is to try to look the facts in the face and you will see that your position is not different from that of almost any other wife and mother. So cheer up. X THERE are precious few husbands who ever really appreciate what a good wife does for them. Most of them just take it for granted that, of course, & woman is going to be a good housekeeper and make an attractive home and look after their comfort and take care of their children and be 47 different varieties of a domestic angel. So they don't go around hand- ing her compliments and telling her what a wonder she is. And that is the kind of plain or garden variety of husband you have and you have to take it for granted that he does see all that you do and is grateful to you and in his soul is offering up thanks to whoever is the matchmaker among the angels for having bestowed you upon him. BEING 2 good stepmother is a hundred per cent harder job than being a good mother and requires an extra supply of &ll the virtues, There- fore, the man who has been lucky enough to draw one in his second matri- monial \'céuure should be always making whoopee over it. It is no more than her due. But probably he thinks that second wives/come that wa; 50 he takes her as much & matter of course as he did No. 1‘,“&2‘&:{;‘; this is hard on the stepmother, who knows that she has an extra big job and deserves a daily vote of thanks from her husband, but she won't get it. And she just has to make up her mind that she won't worry about it and let it go at that. z S for the little girl wanting to do her own way and resenting advice from you and being impertinent to you, that is not because she is a stepchild, ‘but because she is a human child. They all do it. They all “sass” thelr mothers and talk back to them and need to be spanked. Don't deceive yourself into thinking that there would be a: understanding between you and the child if she was your wax:yfl‘;gu:x;ll; blood. There wouldn't be. You never meet a mother who doesn't tell you that she doesn’t know what to make of her children and that she can't do a thing with them and that she never knows what they are up to. It is the difference in age, in temperament, in what children are taught in schools and what they learn from others that makes the bar between every grown-up and every youngster. Just go on being a good stepmother and you will have your reward. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) s MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Reducing the Ankles. Dear Miss Leeds—I am an ardent | plain olive ofl or castor oil or with white | vaseline, LEEDS. Oily Scalp. Dear Miss Leeds—My scalp is very I)ofly. In fact, I have to wash my hair | have, however, written to you before, | every four or five days, as it gets so oily. but received no answer. Now I have two | What can I do for this condition?>—M.L. | questions: (1) How can I reduce my | _Answer—Do not wash your hair so ankles? My form is otherwise normal, | frequently, as this only stimulates the | although I am la:ge for my age. I am |flow of oil. Us dry shampoos to keep | 16 years old and my ankles appear to | the hair presentable between the soap | be larger than the part of my leg right ‘V and water shampoos, which you ought | below the calf. | not to use more than every two weeks. (2) How can T make my eyelashes | Please send stamped, self-addressed en- | longer and darker? KATY. | velope so that T may mail you my leaflet Answer.—Sorry indeed that your other | on the care of the hair, as it will give | letters have remained unanswered, but | you just the help you need. happy that you still remain “an ardent | LOIS LEEDS. far.” I am sure you understand that it | is impossible to answer every letter and | so I try to cover them all by lenemli articles and answers to letters and find | Cheese Salad. Crush one-third cupful of Roquefort | | cheese and run it through a sieve. | | Blend with one-third cupful of cream | | cheese and two teaspoonfuls of lemon | juice or vinegar. Add two tablespoon- | fuls of finely chopped celery and one | | cupful of shredded cabbage. Add these | to the cheese mixture with a dash of paprika. Fold in one cupful of cream whipped. Pack and freeze for four hours in the mechanical refrigerator or ph:ck in ice and salt anq freeze for six urs, Casserole of Ham. Select a thick slice of ham and trim | away all fat. Pare and slice four | medium-sized potatoes. Cover the bot- | tom of the casserole with the sliced Wich he started to do, and ma kepp | on looking at him with cne eye and | articles which take up problems of | reeding the paper with the other, and | interest to many. Now for those ques- | pop kepp missing the eye and after | tions: (1) Keep an eye on the column about 5 minnits he said, How can I|and some day you will see an article, brown a thred needle with that doubt- | which answers this in more detail than | potatoes, sprinkle with black pepper, | arrange the ham over them and cover it with the rest of the potatoes. Then pour in two cupfuls of thin white | sauce, put the cover on the casserole | and bake in a slow oven for 50 min- PTEMBER 22 'NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. IMlustrations by Mary Foley. CXVIIL SCORPION FLY. Panorpa Rufescens NOW has no terrors for this fly. She has been seen by Comstock in New York on a cold Winter's day on the snow. She did not seem to be concerned about it, either. ‘The mothers have an egg-placer nearly twice the length of the body and the fathers have a mark like the sting of the scorpion fly. The head is rather long and ends with a broad snout almost three times the width across the eyes. At the ends of the snout are the chewing mouth-parts. The wings are long and narrow, witl many cross veins and splashes of yel- low and brown on them. The parents are three-fourths to one inch long. Their legs are extremely slender, while the body is stout. The children are hatched from eggs which the mother placed in a crevice in the ground. They must search for their food and they either burrow in or wander about. They seem to seek deacl animals or sick ones. The bal are whitish, with a light brown which becomes darker as the body grows gray. It looks like a caterpillar. The eyes are large. Along its “tummy” are pro-legs. It has spines on its back and the true legs are well developed and strong. There are about 25 in each new group of children. After two weeks the children, having passed through several stages in their growth, burrow into little tunnels under the surface of the ground and there they stay for some time. They refuse anything but meat and when they have this food they complete their growth, still under the surface of the ground, in about four weeks, After this they dig down into the earth, and, as little larvae, they remain for several months before going into the next stzge (pupa). Late in the Summer they return to the surface as grown scorpion flies. 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