Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1931, Page 26

WOM AN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1931. FEATURES, Homemakers and Columbus Day BY LYDIA LE B, America is reputed to be the paradise | for women. Of all the continents on | the globe, it is said in this one alone, and in the United States in particular, | do women have the emancipation from male domination that prevails to a greater or lesser degree elsewhere. Ow- ARON WALKER. through these four huudred odd years. Other countries, older in civilization, have had earlier starts. but this youth- | ful_country has outrun them. | The setilers had the background of | such advancement as their own coun- tries supplied. Their handicep, or | thelr advantage as it seems to have | proved. consisted in the hardships of | ploneer conditions. which began with | the advent of Columbus, October 12, | 1492, The women and the men alike had | to shoulder responsibilities far greater than in their own lands. Each worked equally hard. In these respects their equality began when they arrived in America at such various and different | dates as their ships conveyed them to | these shores. But_equality of work had to be coupled with impartial legal rights for justice to prevail. | laws could not be against women and | to men’s advantage and be equitable. | The one-time prevailing inequality was | felt most when it came to affairs of the home and household. By degrees fair- f responsibilties and | | minded men and women, determined =3 R . vm e MAR Y - AMERICAN WOMEN HAVE REASON TO CELEBRATE COLUMBUS DAY. 1ng to the determination of women and the courtesy and modernized views of men, equal privileges for both sexes pry vail. Surely the women of America should celebrate this, Columbus day, sifice the settling of this continent. so liberal to them, by the harassed per- sons of foreign countries dates from the difcovery of America by Columb: over four centuries ago. The steady prbgress of women toward the goal of this equality in America has been Saving Wi to have fair play, pressed the cause of even-handed justice until barriers were removed—and equal rights prevailed. In the realm of the home and the rearing of children women may well rejoice this and every Columbus day. in that they are not fettered. (Copyright, 1931.) BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. ‘When Ed Cowling conducted his “up- | to-date livery and hack stable” at 1307 G street northwest? OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRIL Talking Too Much. “Something must be the matter with my little daughter. She talks all the time. The minute she is awake she begins and she never stops, not even while she is eating. Isn't there some- thing I can do to stop this? I've tried about everything from spanking to sending her to bed, but nothing seems to have any effect.” I don't believe that there is any- thing the matter with the child. Little children have to learn to talk. They need to practice words and phrases They need to acquire a vocabulary. The only way they can do these essential things is the way they talk—talking as much and as often as they can. Little children will pick up a word even & syliable and repeat y. That is their way of prac- ticing speech. They limber up their speech organs, develop them by use. This is & signal to teach rhymes. The more repetitive they sre the better. The House that Jack Built is & very good story for little children to L*L All the Mother Goose rhymes e good. Lear's nonsense verses aré fine. The more the language tickles their ears the more it will charm them into using their speech povers and increas- ing their power and control At this time language interest is at its height. Never agam will it be so easy for the child to learn a word, a verse, & phrase. Never again will he find so much joy in putting words together i telling a story. ' Never again will he love the sound of his voice as he does &l 4. though he be- come a street orator of the most tire- less kind. ‘Take advantage of this period to teach language, native and Toreign. 1t is & mistake 0 wait to the high school age to teach foreign languages. Begin when the child is in full_pursuit_of his speech powers The runabout children are those who are acquiring the use of their tongues They will talk to themselves if they have no one else to talk to, so it is hout Scrimping BY EDITH M. SHAPCOTT, Nutrition Consultant, Home-Making Center, New York. 'WW/E have spent some time in previous | acids, _either vinegar or lemon juice, | articles, learning to know the different cuts of meat and to appre- cidte the less costly cuts When preparing meat it is equally important, to re- member that the mpst tender and choice cuts may be ruined by im- perfect cooking. And, vice versa, ifexpensive cuts n:t-v be made deli- cius by the way in, which they are cooked. These and s¢veral other points the houscwife should kden in mind irst, the julces must be kept in, and this usually is accomplished by arplying intense heat to sear the sur- face of the meat. One method which adds immeasurably to the sealing pro- cegs and to the flavor of both meat and gmvy is to Tub the surface of the meat with a_mixture of sugar, salt and pep- per before searing. When intense heat is? applied, the sugar carmelizes and forms & crust over the meat which holds In the juices and also helps to bring out the flavor. The second point relates to tender- n The fibers of inexpensive cuts are less tender than those of the choice cuts: therefore, in cooking the less expensive cuts of meat, we must use a method which will soften the fibers. e surface of the meat must first be sehred, as above outlined, to hold in the juices. Then the meat' should be cdpked slowly for a period of tima either by boiling or baking, in the presence of molsture Meat fibers may also be softened by the use of marinades which contain NANCY PAGE Run of Garden Pickles Easy to Make. always “Phe garden in early Octobcr usually sHows something of a ragged air, that is f it has been a vegetable garden of ts earlier in the season. ‘Lois decided to gather a miscellane- ous collection of vegetables and see what she could do with them. She brought in & head of caulifiower, sdme green beans, taes, cucumbers, celery, green peppers, carrots. iThen she began to thumb her cook beok for some pickle recipe which would | uge these. She found one called. ap- propriately enough, “Run of the Gar- d¢n.” 1"Well, that's what I have” said she to herself, “the run of the garden.” When she told Nancy about her collec- tipn and what she planned to dp with its Nancy said, “Oh, you are making mage pickles.” "Here is the recipe: Dice 18 green tomatoes, one large stalk celery, eight cucumbers. Peel four dozen small onions and chop cdarsely, cut ends from one pound green beans and cut beans in small pieces, cHop four carrots fine after scraping them and cutting off tops, break one head caulifiower into flowerets, chop three red and three green peppers. Put these vegetables In an enamel or earth- efware crock and put one-half cup salt oyer them. Iet them stand over night. Heat two quarts vinegar with one cup bfown sugar, one-quarter cup yellow mustard seed, cne tablespoon ground | é and Cane SYRUP | clves, one tablespoon ground pepper d one-half inch stick cinnamon. Add two tablespoons tumeric powder if & yellow ol is desired. Drain % aad to hot spiced mixture aid cock until they are tender. Pack lean jars and seal. - - and seasonings. Use a_tablespoonful of oil to three of acid and one tablespoon- ful each of sugar and salt with a quarter teaspoonful of pepper and paprika. Blend well and brush the dressing over the meat, if the cut is for roasting or brasing. Chops. steak. or similar cuts may be allowed to stand in the marinade for 20 or 30 minutes. Then broil or cook them as usual. I shall give you a few suggestions about roasting meats and the temper- atures which should be used. Roasting is the method used for cooking thick pleces of tender meat. For this pur- pose the meat should be as compact as possible. The method of roasting is essentially the same for the different kinds of meat; the variation is in the time required, and the temperatures. To roast & small rib of beef, for example, which weighs three pounds or less, rub the roast with a little salt, sugar &nd pepper mixed und sear in & hot oven at a temperature of 500 de- grees Fahrenheit for 15 or 20 minutes: then reduce the temperature to 300 degrees and bake for 22 minutes per pound, if desired rare. If the roast is to be well-done, it will require 30 minutes per pound. Beef is baked in an open pan, as it has considerable fat. In baking, the fat side should be up. There is no need for the addition of moisture. Steak which is cut one inch thick requires 8 to 10 minutes broiling at a temperature of 480 degrees Fahrenheit A steak cut one and one-half inches thick requires 12 to 15 minutes’ broil- ing at the same temperature. Seasoned Rice. Wash two cupfuls of rice thoroughly, then drain. Put into a hot skillet with four tablespoonfuls of hot shortening, but not butter. Stir constantly until the rice is brown. Add enough water to more than cover, add one teaspoonful of salt, 2nd let boil slowly without stir- ring until done. reen onions, toma- | Syrup of Finer Flavor ina Pretty Glass Jug VIRGINIA - SWEET PANCAKE FLOUR BUCKWHEAT FLOUR | best to let. them have companions of their own age. To talk well one must have a good audience. and the right audience for a little child is always found within lis own group. You cannot isolate a child from his own kind without loss to I growth. Grown-up people can never wholly fill the place of a child com- panion. The intercourse must be close and the span between age and child- hood is too wide to be bridged. Chil- dren must live with children and learn of children They will pick up the wrong expres- sions now and then. That is to be expected. ‘The grown-up people use these expressions and children imitate the speech they hear. That is the way they learn. The wrong word, the cheap expression, will not cling to the child whose people use good language. The home background wins out. Correct the wrong expression by fgnoring it; then if it holds on, privately caution. It is unwise to make a scene about wrong expressions. as dramatics fix the ideas that produce them. Once & child has mastered the art of speech he ceases to babble and begins to read. Start him early with the good English of Mother Goose. Stevenson. Milne, Lear and the Fables. If after that ke talks” too much, change the scene and alter his thought by offering him pleasant occupation (Copyrieht. 1931) My Neighbor Says: ‘To remove and berry stains, stretch stains across a bowl. hold a teakettle 2 feet above and pour boiling water through stain until it_disappears. The blunt end of & pencil is excellent to use when marking initials on linens which are to be embroidered. Mold will not form on top of bottle chili sauce, if, bafore seal- ing, & few drops of olive oil are put into the bottle Do not fill the bottle full. Leave alr space at_the top. To keep waffles or pancakes hot after frying. heat a covered bak- ing dish and put cakes into it as they are taken from the griddle. Heat the knife blade before cutting a loaf of fresh bread. This prevents the usual break- ing and crumbling of the slices Apply spirits of camphor on a soft cloth on varnished furniture and rub briskly Print your child’s name inside his rubbers when he goes to school. This will make it pos- sible for his teacher to identify them, which would otherwise be impossible to do where there are so many rubbers of about the same size. Sometimes when the gravy from roasts is not quite as dark as you want it to be. try adding a little cold coffee—just enough to color it. Notes a Great 'mprovement \DorothyDix| Years Ago HOW women have changed in the last 30 years! In their personal appearance, for one thing. In the old days a woman was pretty or homely, young or old. If her good fairy was not around when puichri- tude was handed out, she accepted her bad break with humbleness of spirit and did not attempt to do anything about it, but went through life with a lumpy figure or carroty hair or a saleratus-biscuit complexion and was pittied and “poor Janed” to her dying day. Not so with the modern woman. If Nature has been a niggardly stepmother to her and held out on her in the matter of good looks, she simply shrugs her shoulders and gets busy on her own account supplying the deficiencies. SHE changes her shape at will and is slim and living-skeletonish or curved, as she pleases. She makes roses bloom on sallow cheeks. She turns thin, straight bips into a cupid’s bow. She is a blond or brunette or Titian-haired, 2s she chooses®and puts a crimp into lanky locks that far s:rpassts any job in the permanent waving line that Nature ever turned out. More than that, the modern woman snaps her fingers in the face of time. Birthdays may come and go, but she stays a perfect 38 for years and years and defies any one to disprove her alibi. Now probably there is no more beauty in the world than thera has always been, but it is more diffused, for practically there are no more vgly women. By its grooming, by its taste and dress, the entire feminine sex has made itself casy on the eyes. WHAT a change since grandmother’s days, when a woman was middle- aged at 30 and at 40 Was supposed to be done with all earthly van- ities and ready tb climb up on the shelf! A One doesn't have to be more than middle-aged o recall the time when the proper attitude for a perfect lady was to be in a state of being"per- petually shocked. Books had to be expurgated for her to read. Plays had to be censored for her to sce. She was swathed from head to foot in clothes. 1\N01'HER. great change observable in women is in their morale. They are so much more cheerful than they used to be. They are so much better sports. No modern poet would write, as one did in grandmother's y Men must work and women must weep, so runs the world * for the modern woman hes wiped her eyes and doesn’t spend any more time shedding tears than a man does. In fact, it is just about as uncommon to see & woman cry as it s a man, Life doesn’t change. Women have as much to grieve over now as they ever had in the past, but they meet the inevitable sorrows and disappoint- ments with more fortitude and philosophy than they formerly did. They no longer make a cult of grief. Telling their troubles has ceased to be their favorite indoor amusement, and you can now know a woman for 10 years without finding out that she has a secret sorrow. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) ’ The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Whose uniquely successful career emables her to speak with complete authority on problems of the modern woman. Will Not Let Her Alone. One thirg that makes me thoroughly tired is the girl who has so much “It" that she can't make a living. For in- stance. ligen to this letter: “Dear Miss Woodward: Please do give me somc advice. I am a ready - to - wear saleslady, and ha references as being a very good one, but my big diffi- culty is this: My boss pretends to fall in love with me, and _always suggests that big problem of a guil's life, It seems when T am g:tting along with my work in the very best way, my boss starts 10 be too friendly, and be- comes utterly repulsive to work for. “I am attractive, but, however, I try my best not to vamp. Sometimes T walk into a store and ask for a posi- tion and walk out with my wishes granted. Then next day there will be invitations to dinner, theater and par- tes. ‘Then, when I refuse. it's good-by job. I have the one satisfaction of holding my head up. However, I have to have a job, and I like to work, like to meet the public. and I know that my customers like me, as they will call and wait for me just to take care of their fittings. BILLIE C.” I am dictating this to a very attrac- tive stenographer and asked her what she thought of Billie's case. She said “She must be asking for it. No girl is man she works for I've worked for | will bother a girl that doesn't want to be \lr;u:zrg. bA]gArl who has any sense cugh! able to size hi quickly."” B Maybe Billie does try her best not to vamp the men, but if she does, then I am afraid she dossn’t know what vamp. ing is. They are in hard luck when girl tries to vamp them and then gets insulted when they act on it I'm getting a little sorry for all those wicked, cruel men in offices. They're in hard luck. Here comes a girl who looks &t one so invitingly—whose eves say: “Please love me!” Then when the foolish man accepts the invitation and says “How about a little supper?” the girl is insulted My advice to Billie is simple bachelors for bosses. Helen Woodward. pick on JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. COLUMBUS DISCOVERED THAT THE EARTH WAS ROUND. WERE HE T0 COME BACK TODAY, HE WOULD ) FIND IT RATHER /¢ ‘5 s Rl S& pursued by every unless she wants to be a lot of men and have had trouble of this kind only twice. Once I was fired because of it. In the other case I quit the job. But both times I was glad to go. because they weren't the type of men I like working for.” After all, my secretary, attractive though she is, is & girl herself. Perhaps she's prejudiced. So I showed Billie's letter to & man. He threw it down on the desk with a gesture of annoyance. “She’s & poor judge of men.” he said “She ought to be able to tell on sight whether & man is going to pester her or not. There are mighty few men who oy Fednacl ) A.R. V.—Ordinarily, the same sentence should be in the clauses of ent tense. Hence we say, “Columbus discovered (past) that the earth is (present) round.” “She says (present) that she is (present) well.” “She said (past) that she was (past) well.” Get far longer service from Your clothes by sending them where soft Net Bags keep out harmful wear! ANHATTAN saves you money a New Way!Lots of money in the course of ayear. For here your clothes are washed in soft, Net Bags . . . safe from wear. No harmful rubbing to weaken and tear them. Nothing but gentle suas of pure Palm Oil Soap . .. swishing through the Bags . . . loosening all dirt. Then floods of soft, filtered water rinse it away. Tests show the difference—longer life, greater beauty! But that’s not all. 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It & baby belongs to that small group of children who_have a personal sesitivity to cows’ milk, there will be some marked results if he drinks milk. He may develop hives, large reddish white welts which arise rapidly and may disappear with equal speed. He His eyes may swell or even his mouth, where the milk touches his skin. He may vomit or the bowels be affected. If these symptoms appear only after the baby has taken cows' milk, the mother may suspect that he has an idiosyncrasy for which makes this otherwise excellent. food a real poison to him. Mrs. R. W.'s letter describes such & problem. “I am writing you in regard to my 11-months-cld baby, who has weaned herself but cannot take milk in any form. I have tried several kinds, but if she takes even a little, all of her | food comes up, and she is very sick | for a day or two. She weighs 22 | pounds and has never been sick except { when I have tried to give her milk. | | sleeps all “She takes soups, eggs, bacon, drinks the juice of two oranges and can drink 16 to 32 ounces of water a day. She night with just water to { drink, but my friends say she should have milk. I would be so glad 4o have any advice. She walks everywhere, and her legs are as stralght as two pins. She has eight teeth.” Apparently this baby has a personal sensitiveness to milk. There are sev- eral ways in which this may be han- dled. Possibly she can take dried milk or evaporated milk in very small quan- tities. even as small an amount as one teaspoonful a day. Continue this for several days, and then increase the \ MILADY BEAUTIFUL e BY LOIS LEEDS. Bleaching Tan and Freckles. ‘zt;reelct is desired, a lemon bleaching Light tan and Summer freckles have | plain cord sream. - Seat thy Tagrosients a tendency to fade when cool weather | to the consistency of whipped cream somes, but milady often wants to hasten | and spread the mixture thickly over | the process by a series of bleaching the tanned parts. Before applying it treatments. Even in early Fall there to the face, however, place pads of are still many warm days and sleeve- | clean absorbent cotton, moistened in less, low-necked sports frocks expose the | water, over the eyes and eyebrows so skin to effects of the sun, but since the | that they will not be bleached. Have | vogue for sun-tan is now restricted to | the hair pulled back and weli covered | the Summer it 15 necessary to bleach also. The bleach may be handily wp- | the skin armonize with new Au- | plied with a flat w > | tumn and Winter wardrobes. spatula. R | Bleaching treatments should, of Bleaching packs are usually left on | course, include neck, chest, shoulders | and arms as well as the face. Begin the treatment by cleansing the tanned | areas with cold cream. Wipe it off | and sponge with a mild skin tonic or a solution made of one teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in & cup- | ful of water. Pads of clean absorbent | cotton are handy to use for the spong- ing and should be thrown away after- ward < Next apply the bleaching pack of your choice, putting it first on the darkest parts, which stand most in need of its whitening action. A simple but effective bleach may be made by mix- | ing four tablespoonfuls of carbonate of | magnesia with four tablespoonfuls of | strainec lemon juice and six tablespoon- fuls of cold cream. When a stronger about half an hour. The next step is to sponge the skin with a Turkish face cloth, wet with warm water. to remove all traces of the pack. When this has been theroughly done, the skin should be blotted dry with a clean towel. A lemon cream or a good tissue cream should then be patted on and massaged gently in for a few moments. | amount to two teaspoonfuls. By such small increases the baby may become immune to the irritating action of the milk. Goats' milk may not affect the baby, so it is desirable to give it a trial. Start with a small amount in order to note baby's reaction to it. Soy-bean milk, obtainable in commercial form from your druggist, is a preparation designed for babies who develop ecze- ma from cows' milk. This is a nour- ishing form of protein, and may have no_bad effect on baby. Eggs and meat are complete proteins, and may be substituted for milk in the diet of the child who has a milk idio- syncrasy. Get a good diet list and follow it exactly, giving the baby meat at noon and egg at night, trying to add to the menu enough different types of milk to balance the diet. You may have my leaflet, “Week's Menu from | One to Two_Years” if you will send a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your request to the “Your Baby and Mine” department of this newspaper. 1t is possible, also. for a doctor to vaccinate the baby against the irrita- tion of milk protein. By introducing the milk protein into the system in small amounts. the baby buflds up an immunity to it. just as she would to diseases against Which she has been vaccinated or immunized. In time she will be able to take amounts large enough to contribute to her nourish- ment without being affected by them tened with a skin tonic. Always wipe upward on the face. Powder base and make-up may follow the treatment i one s going out of doors afterward A simple bleaching pack of this sorh may be given once a week during the transition months between Summer and Winter. Even skins that are mot noticeably tanned will be benefited by such a course of treatments. Almost every one becomes a shade or two darker during the holiday months, ne matter how careful one may be to pro- tect the skin from strong sunshine, Hands, arms and chest are sure to show the effects of exposure, even when faces do not. Alec the Great Linen. Linen which is to be stored should b2 laundered but not ironed before it as put away. Otheryise there is some risk of its turning yellov Let Congress pass a million laws, in heated, wordy strife— I still will have to set the rules That govern my own life. N Breakfast Pults i the | same tense, but when an existing fact | is referred to. the verb is in the pres- | S PARKLE inA L 11 the/Day/ b o . 4 adkar ) START YOUR DAY witha dish of SUNSWEET California Prunes. A big dish! ‘Whata great start for a great day . . . at home, at school, or office! You will like them, of course. They are one of the tastiest of fruits. But SUNSWEETS are more than just a treat . . . they are Nature’s own way to good health. 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