Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1931, Page 49

WOMAN'S PAGE. Ruffles in Home Dressmaking BY MARY that makes home NE thi a attractive now: days is that you very seldom feally have to make a dress There is always the thought it you could buy some sort of dress ly made that would answer the se. And that if you must be very feconomical about your clothes, you can | 1l get as many as you really need r very small price. So if you de- | NATURE'S|| CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Illustrations by Mary Foley. | cracker crumbs, CLXVIIL TOBACCO BEETLE. Lasioderma Serricorne. HE insects originat: and man im- itates. They dwell in stucco houses, have silkk drapery before their doors, the bables are | clothed in silk undergarments, | Rhey have radio. All of these were an | old story to them befdre we ever | dreamed of such . Now we see | ghem going to the cigar stores for their | Bobacco! | Not satisfied with taking all the | Ehewing and smoking tobacco they | want, they establish a whole family | in ‘the midst of their favorite | . Many of these tobacco users move to the great warehouses, and the idamage they do and the amount the ponsume would amagze you Shouild the supply of tobacco run ou Rhey have been known to eat upho ered furniture and dried plants. After $hriving on a strictly tobacco diet, if deprived of their food, they have heen jlknown to do very well on red and black per. This happens when the beetl s taken up living quarters in a d tore. Of course, being born and reared n a tobacco atmosphere, the h ard to break These chewers are to be er the United States and Southern anada. The mother is a d essed in very light bout one-sixteenth of d her compound eyes are all. Needless to say, she has Ing mouth-parts. She places her eggs right in the food pply. No insect mother makes the Pnistake of giving her children ferong food, This mother know chew IBhe has every reason to believe jpourish her family. The babies are all white bodies. They have & coat very small feet and are brown fter chewing their tobacco veeks, they weave a eavily trimmed ood. ~ After a short own beetle walks out nd resumes his h great satisfac! admot s ndchiidr tobacc y ¢ Rcbacco and _cigarettes, igars as well. They mal ghrough them and alk right in aga To the cigar [Bvowed enemies pill runs intc e only way rdent tobacco chewers goors and Windows c house; place s pile, then use fgalcium cyanide ax JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English BY JOSEPE J. FRISCHL | DAD COULDN'T AFFORD T PURCHASE ) ME A TICKET TO THE B\6 ¥ — GAME, SO HE X . PURCHASED ME A FUR COAT £ INSTEAD, J L. B. M.—Buy me & ticket,” and _bought me a fur coat,” are the pre- ed forms. Although the verbs pur- r} and buy are interchangeable, best e favors buy for all the petty con- erns of common life. Purchase sounds flected. As & noun, purchase, not buy, | correct, thus: “She made several pur- | hases,” not “buys.” | cracker crumbs on the bottom MARSHALL. | to make a dress now and then, it 1 Decariae you really like to do it, or | because you want to work out some oflflnll idea in combination of na- terial or color, or because you feel that by making a dress or two you can have more of them. | | ™The fact 15 that interest in home dressmaking is definitely on the in-| crease and recent developments of | fashion have made it especially attrac- tive. Dresses are more elaborate with more of the so-called dressmaker touches that can be developed by any painstaking home dressmaker. There | are new wool crepe dresses with drawn- | work yokes, there are bands of hand- done ‘embroidery in Persian coloring, | | there are ruffles, frills and flounces to tempt the ingenuity of the home dress- | maker | The sketch today shows a charming | dress on which ruffies, those beloved | | favorites of the home dressmaker, are most fetchingly used. Ruffies are al- ' | ways an easy finish. The material can | be ‘picot edged or neatly hemmed, and | then carefully gathered or shirred into | | place with a minimum of effort for a | | maximum of effect. The dress in the | sketch uses ruffies for the tiny sleeves | f, |in a most amusing way that anybody | might copy. | Butterscotch Cream Pie, Heat one pint of milk in a double boller, reserving half a cupful to mix with half a cupful of flour and one- fourth teaspoonful of salt. Add this| o the hot milk, stir until thickened. and cook In a double boiler for 15 minutes. Meanwhile cook and stir me cupful of brown sugar with two tablespoonfuls of butter for five min- utes, then add to the thickened milk Stir this hot mixture slowly into two beaten egg_yolks, add half a teaspoon- ful of vanilla, and beat well. Pour the filling into a baked pastry shell, con- sisting of plain pie crust, let stand for a few minutes, then cover with a meringue made by adding four table- | spoonfuls of sugar and a few grains | of salt and a drop or two of vanilla to the beaten egg white. Spread over the top of the filling to the edge of the | crust and bake in a very moderate oven for about 20 minutes, or until the meringue is a light brown. This but- terscotch cream filling is also good served as a pudding with cream, may be used as a filling for pufls or tarts, cream Scalloped Oyrsters. Parboil six potatoes, slice them, and butter a baking dish. Put a layer of , then a layer of potatoes and a layer of oysters. Season with salt, pepper, parsiey and | a; | ica were the Aztecs, Morons. it well, inches square and remove the seeds THE EVENING “BONERS” Humorous Tid-Bits From School Papers. A PROTOPLASM IS A PERSON WHO | IS ALWAYS PROPHESYING A solution is saturated when it goes up in smoke. | The Pilgrims came to this country to ree theirselves of religion The original tribes of Central Amer- the Ci and the Who sald “After the deluge us Noah. | Orthography means having the right | about, everything (Copyri | Alec the Great pinions sy or it | This book I's That I'm a social Baked Squash Select & medium-sized squash, wash cut into pieces about three nd stringy portion. Put into & bits of butter, then another layer of|greased shallow pan, sprinkle with salt pof on until ithe dish is full, having the | of tatoes, oysters and so | and pepp#r, pour ‘melted butter or ther fat over the top, cover and bake top layer of crumbs. Moisten well with | in a moderate oven for an hour, or milk and rlke for 30 minutes. l the squash is tender. Serve hot. OF THE MOMENT o dlimmont diiss, plui el n i 4, and o mixture comb, 4 Nlade of brrsely U features we der s A walstll dotm dots / treatment . wof an sbeeve and wide cu The las stlser eross ‘ara To The Mothers Whose Children Won’t Eat A Simple Way to Correct Poor Appetite e knows best. Never coax a child ! Remove the cause of a young- 5 poor appetite. When appetite fails, tongue is coated white, eyes are a bilious yellow, don't give small chil- dren a constipating cathartic that drains the system. California syrup of figs is all the *‘medicine” they require. hild’s Appetite {lways Respond 1 tell you that a sluggish nost always means the hild has a sluggish colon. Correct this condition lled stasis, and see how quickly a listless, drooping boy or girl begins to eat—and gain! The only “medicine” such children seem to need is pure, unadulterated syrup of figs. Children who get syrup of figs, now and then, soon hsve the appetite and energy of young animals! They keep well and avoid colds and sluggish spells Begin Tonight Nature never made a finer laxative for children; and they all love the whole- some, fruity flavor of the real California syrup of figs. It’s purely vegetable, but every druggist has it all bottled, with directions. Begin with it at once. The very next day, your child will be eating better and feeling better. Keep on with the syrup of figs a few days and see amazing improvement in appetite, color, weight, and spirits. A SINGLE “IF"” The promises made by the bottlers of California Syn_‘fi) of Figs are true, and it will do the same for you, IF it's genuine CA{?I- FORNIA Syrup of Figs. Don’t accepi substitutes. STAR, WASHINGTON D. C FR Finds It Wrecks Many Marriages Making Each Other Over ]Doroth yDix ' NE of the disastrous experfments of matrimony that practiclly every husband and wife attempts as soon as they are married is trying to make each other over nearer to the heart'’s desire. You would think that men and women of ordinary human intel- ligence would pick out what they wanted in a life partner in the first place. You would think that they would give as much thought and con- sideration to-selecting an individual with whom they expected to spend the next 30 or 40 years as they do to choosing an automobile that they will trade in for a next season's model. And that they would take noth- ing that didn't suit their taste as to paint and upholstery and streamline effects and that didn’t have the latest gadgets and that their judgment didn't approve of as meeting their needs. NOT 50, however. A man doesn't buy a red-and-green sports car and expect it to be a delivery truck when he gets it home. A woman doesn’t buy a flivver and weep because it isn't a costly car when she gets a good, long, dispassionate look at it, and we would send in a hurry call for an alienist if we saw & man and woman taking their brand-new cars to pleces and trying to make them over into something they were never intended to be and never could be. Yet that is exactly what thousands upon thousands of brides and bridegrooms start doing on their honeymoon and it is why so many mar- riages get off on the wrong foot. Young Mr. Newlywed decides that, after all, he doesn't like the way Imogene combs her hair, or the length of her skirts, or her views on politics, and he begins picking her to pieces with & view {0 reassembling her into something that he thinks he will pre ND young Mrs. Newlywed thinks she would like Algernon better if he wore a different kind of necktie and put one lump of sugar in- stead of three into his coffee and held higher-browed views regarding the modern movement in drama, £o she gets out her little perforated paper pattern and tries cutting him over by it. ‘The result is a crashing and a shattering of vanity that buries the dreams of what marriage would be like under such a wreckage of self- love that often they are never able to dig it out and, if they do, it is never the same again. For this was not what they expected. It had never crossed Algerncn's mind that he failed to measure up in any way to Imo- gene'’s ideal of » man. Imogene had never suspected that Algernon re garded her as anything less than perfect. N fact, it was their mutual admiration that drev thing that made their courtship so delightful other’s hymns of praise, and what they married fo themselves a perpetual claque them together. The each F course, it is inevitable that in the close intimacy of married life hus- bands and wives should get a close-up of each other’s faults a weaknesses and see blemishes that they never noticed before ma riage. But if husbands and wives are wise, they take each other “as is,” as the shipping manifests say, and do not try to make each other over DOROTHY DIX Filled Meat Balls Make & paste with half a cupful soft bread and some w broth, Season &nd mufin pans with the white sauce, add one h: ed egg cut fine, two or three chopped olives, and some chopped onion and green pepper. Fill the lined pans half full and put a layer of ground beef or chicken on top, using one and one-half cupfuls in all. Bake for about 30 min- utes. Soup and Salad Brown one small minced or a pound mburger k two tablespoonfuls of fat. Add one pint of canned tomatoes, two ground carrots. and one quart of water, and simmer for one hour. Then add one-third cup- ful of rice, one-fourth teaspoonful of pepper, and two teaspoonfuls of salt, and cook for 20 minutes, or until the rice is soft, with chopped romaine, chopped eggs, and olives mixed with cooked dressing of with half ot in ste. Make a Serve with a salad made | SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Well! Here's hard times fer ya! (Copyright, 1931.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Color Preference. Individuals scem to differ enormously their color preferences. Psycholo- not given us very good rea- they should. They merely make some vague remarks about early experiences, implying that these early experiences are in some clated with visual memories. very illuminating about that! The interesting feature of the psy- chology of color is that which per- tains to race. Different races, on the whole, prefer different colors. The white race goes in for blue as the fifst ehoice. Green is the second chofce. Red is a close third The colored race prefers blue, but not so emphatically as the whites. Orange comes second. Violet and green are about tied for third choice. American Indians prefer red. Violet is second choice. Blue is third. Jap- anese prefer red, with biue as a close second. Filipinos prefer red, green, violet and blue in the order named. What's the reason for these prefer- ences? The answer is “natural in- fluences,” the most important of which is tradition. (Copyright, 1931.) WAy Aasso- Nothing FEATUR to Move. | From dey to day mo one at all | Can surely know wWhat may befall Une' Billy Possum ‘ In the Spring Unc' Billy Possum had | had to seek & new home. It wasn't | because he was not satisfied with the |old home. No, sir, it wasn't for any | | such reason ag this. He was satisfied | with it. He was entirely satisfied with | |it. It suited him better than any | other home he ever had had. It was | iz a big hollow tree in the Green For- ] | est near the Laughing Brook, and Unc’ | Billy dearly loves to be near water | The hollow was of good size, just the | right size, in fact, and he &nd OI' Mrs Possum had spent a very comfortable Winter in it. Then Spring came and with it babies, a dozen of them. Unc' Billy returned at daybreak one morn- | ing to find OI' Mrs. Possum sitting n the doorway and to be informed that he couldn’t come in “Because we-all need all the room there i5,” replied OI' Mrs. Possum “But Ah am tired and Ah want tc sleep,” whined Unc' Billy. “Then yo' will have to sleep some- where else” retorted O Mrs. Possum | shortly. “Ah haven't any more room | than "Ah need right now, and when | these chillun get bigger Ah don’ know | what ARl do.” |~ “But Ah don’ know any place to go,” | whined Unc’ Billy. “Ah reckon there is room fo’ me fo' & little while yet.” O Mrs. Possum was losing patience. “All right,” sald she, “yo' can come |in here and Ah will go look for an- other home fo' mahself and leave yo' | all mah troubles, 12 of them. Yo' can take care of them.” | _“Oh, but Ah can't do that! |Unc Billy in dismay at thought. “But yo' expect me to and don’ think anything about it,” snapped Mrs. Pos- | sum. “Now one of us has got to take care of these chillun. Is it to be me | or will yo' do it?" Mrs. Possum turned | her head ta hide a grin, for she knew | | very well that Unc' Billy wouldn't and | | couldn’t take care of those precious | babies, nor would she have let him if | he_could. | Unc’ Billy looked up at her in dis- | may. “Ah reckon yo' better take care | of those chillun,” said he. Then he | glanced about uncertainly. “But Ah |'don’ know where to go,” he whined. “Go where yo' go when yo' stay away |two or three days as yo' have done | | several times lately,” snapped Ol' Mrs. | | Possum. “Ah got Worries enough with- | | out worryin' about where yo' gwine to | | sieep. Just yo' go along now and don’ | | come * me fo' & long time. Ah | got mah hands full as it is.” [ | So Unc' Billy, feeling much abused, | wandered off rather aimlessly and .e- | | cause his stomach was full and he was | protested the very | it suited him. RS, very sleepy he Roilow log he the day X time the Black through the Green out to hunted he house. H felt mucl “BUT AH AM TIRED AND AH WANT ‘TO SLEEP,” WHINED UNC’ BILLY. he knew that what OI' Mrs, Possum had . sald was true and there wasn’t room | for him and that big family in the old home. He didn't find a place to suit him that night and spent the following day and several mor2 in a hollow log. Then | by chance he discovered & hole in a big tree some distance from his old home. He climbed up to investigate. It opened Into a comfortable hollow. It | was rather high up for a lazy fellow to climb, especially on a full stomach, and when he was very sleepy, but otherwise “ARhTl try it fo’ awhile and see how Ah like 1t,” he decided. (Copyright, 1931.) Macaroni-Cheese Souffle. Cook one and one-half cupfuls of macaroni until tender in boiling water. Scald two and one-fourths cupfuls of milk and pour it over one and one-half cupfuls of soft bread crumbs, one-third cupful of butter and three-fourths cupful or more of grated cheese. Add the gooked macaroni, one and one-half teasy sonfuls of salt. one and one-half teaspoonfuls each of chopped onion and parsicy and four or five beaten eggs. Turn into a greased dish 7 inches in diameter and 3 inches deep. Place the dish in a pan of hot water in a moderate oven and bake for about 40 minutes. WHICH? ou'e a tempting price. But when it meets your toaster, it’s out! For your toaster tells the truth. The whole truth. Every time. Only perfect bread gets by. A few minutes! Right in your kitchen! And you know which bread to buy. Toast a slice of Wonder- Cut Bread—a slice of any other bread —the same length of time. See the amazing difference—the whole truth, right before your eyes. Perfect bread makes perfect toast! Poor bread makes poor toast. These facts never change. Wonder-Cut Bread makes perfect toast. Sure proof that it’s perfect bread. Thoroughly blended. Slo-baked. Full-flavored. Good, through and through. 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