Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1931, Page 56

WOMAN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, W FRIDAY, DF JMBER 11, 1931. TURES. Realizing and Enjoying Prosperity " BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ROSPERITY is of the spirit as son and each family should take an in- ventory of the good things they have and be glad in them. Those who do well a5 of the purse. It matters not how much money persons have. Unlest they appreciate the |this are going forth to meet bettered blessings attendant upon it, | conditions, which are already on the $hey feel poor way. They are acquiring the spirit of I remember well one old gentlewoman, | prosperity, and with it they will double Wwhom I knew as a little gir], who lived ' their benefits. Copyright. . B Brown Betty. Pare and chop six apples. Place & of apple in a well buttered pud- h, then a layer of bread crumbs Sprinkle With brown sugar and cinna- mon, and repeat until the dish is full Add several generous lumps of butter 1081) and pour sweet milk or hot water on until it comes w top of the in an inch of the Bake in a moderat brown and serve with plair ped cream Mustard Sauce Mix and beat together in a d iler over the fire h: : S bo sugar, one cupful of vinegar, one teaspoonful of s If a c butter, half a cupfu prepares tard and half a cupful of Beat three egg volks, di the hot mixture cook e saucepan u k like t g constantly MENU FOR A DAY EAKFA DINNER ken Broth with Rice ed Steak, Mushroom Sauce. BakedgStuffed Potatoes i Squash Cabbage Raw Carrot Salad h Dressing uet Pudding GRAHAM POPOVERS and sift a sift ¢ one-half teaspoonful salt. on slowly two cupfuls milk. " Beat two large eggs until very light Add to the first mixture and beat again for two minutes. Turn at once into hot buttered gem pans and bake in a hot oven 30 min utes I pans even and pour batter from & pitcher. Mix 1pful 1t and Pour FRIED TRIPE Cut boiled tripe in pieces suit- able for serving, marinate in French dressing for three hours and drain. Dip in fine crumbs, then in beaten egg diluted with one tablespoonful of wate dip in crumbs and set one or more hours, Fry in equal parts of lard and butter and serve with tartar sauce A FULL PURSE WITHOUT A SPIRXTJ OF PROSPERITY DOES NOT MAKE | e ONE FEEL AFFLUENT. | BROILED STEAK Have the steak at least three- uarters of an inch thick, trim nicely, dredge with salt and pep- per, grease the broiler, then cook 10 minutes if you like it rare, 13 or 15 if well done Turn every two minutes and be sure not to in one of the old-time stone mansions with great granite-pillared porticos With an income far exceeding any de- mands she would make upon it for up- keep or personal expenses, she never- theless felt poor. She lived in constant dread of ending her days in the poor- house. She was & miserable woman stick a knife or fork into i, as because she was minus the spirit of that draws the juice. Have th prosperity. In the very midst of sur- fire very hot and clear. passing wealth, she suffered poverty. | There are other persons who have | money enough to meet every necessity | and to supply themselves and their fam- tlies with many luxuries who suffer from this same poverty of thinking. They have monetary abundance, but no ap- | preciable prosperity, because they are constantly dwelling on the wrong side of things. Prosperity of spirit is something to be | desired, for without it monetary pros- | ileth little. Unless persons ugh to enjoy what they have, | cannot rise to the pleasures that Brown Mfishroom Sauce —Open one can French mushrooms, turn into bowl and let air one hour. Just before cooking steak melt four tablespoonfuls butter, add two tablespoonfuls flour, stir and cook until dark brown; then add one cupful stock if you have it; if not, of water and liquor of mush- rooms, season with salt, pepper, pinch sugar, one teaspoonful ta- ble sauce, one tablespoonful to- mato ketchup, one tablespoonful sherry and, if you use water, take piece of butter size of egg. Add are actually in their, possession. It mushrooms, put back on stove to takes the spirit of prosperity, plus the | | heat, but do not cook, as that materjal prosperity, to sati makes them tough In these days when one hears so (Copyrieht, 19313 much of adverse conditions, every per- NATURE’S CHILDREN | BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Hlustrations by Mary Foley, THE TURTLE. you ever had a turtle wink > "And didn't he seem to now something funny e going to find out." he does wink, but he does t have an eyelid or lashes. He turns his eyeball down against the lower lid gives you the impression he gave wink know, have been on the years, and at appearance | ellow for himself.” many monsters g for something st had to have to travel. S ef i e turf n whic h as if they were bone- | not. Her tail is held | is nothing to brag | y are but it you are her head. yo n The eyes are black, and at times she 1 n her snout are n answer for nostrils from handsome; is more a beak, and has very cutting edges. I must say, after a trip to the black- betry patch, Mrs. Turtle looks as if her | face needed washing. The pulsating | at is her way of swallowing | ipper shell is grown fa lower shell to | grows to be 6 ir turtle upor whose back initials and dates are place Should you come upon her sudd: | and be rude to her, she closes her doors with a hiss, and all you can see when | inspecting her is the tip of her nose | and t Her body 1is covered wil made up of various sized plates. They are not particularly chummy h each other, and when occupying me quarters seem to have a sud- nd ungovernable appetite for each r's legs and tails. They are espe- | cially fond of earthworms, and when | foraging for themselves they partake of | vegetables, fruit and insects. | The mother seeks damp places along | the edge of a stream or pond in which to place her white, leathery, oblong eggs. In the early Spring you will see her again, and while she will not greet you with'a smile, she will take food | from your hand’ if you have been | friendly with her the season before ‘These turtles are capable of keeping down many insect pests, while they do eat a great many tomatoes and fruits. They are of more value to us in a er garden. They make interesting pets and do not bite or attack you. In | fact, they seem to try to avold all forms of combat At the tipe old age of 40 a tu | as shy of you as she was w young damsel seeking her mate. (Copyright, 1931 ' flo le is Delicious Duck. Out the duck into suitable size pleces | for serving. Salt and pepper and roll in flour. Heat a generous amount of butter in a deep heavy skillet and brown the meat nicely. Sprinkle with half a teaspoonful of thyme and add one cup- ful of thick sweet cream or undiluted evaporated milk. Cover tightly and | simmer slowly over a low fire until very ender, or for about one and one-half hours. Serve at once. Any wild meat. such as. rabbit, or pheasant, 18 also | delicious cooked in this way. T — It’s taken the town by storm OXYD Bk @You'll thank the E doy you learned its name ®There's a moun- ain of suds in 4 every package 50% MORE SUDS in every package —Rich suds are the secret of successful washing. Oxydol gives 50% more suds in either hard or soft water. They are the liveliest, speediest suds you've ever seen. That's why they save so much of your time and energy and get clothes whiter and cleaner. Oxydol is wonderful for dishes and glassware also. It gets them clean and sparkling in a jiffy. You yill notice, too, how soft and smooth it leaves yaur skin, Your hands will tell you that it’s fine for even your most delicate clothes. Procter & Gamble THE COMPLETE HO ®You've never s such snow-white clothes as you get with Oxydol Oxynor. REG.U. 5. PAT. OFF. USEHOLD SOAP MADK BY XHE MAKERS OF IVORY SOAR x| DorothyDix| ;. the proverbial shoestring. They started housekeeping in a little twon by-four flat, and the husband hustled at his job, while the wife cooked and patched and sewed and trimmed her own hats and made over frocks and hunted down bargains in butcher's meat, were happy and contented and devoted to each other, ! MONG my acquaintances are a man and woman who married upon And they After a few years of this Darb them, as it almost always does ov stead of bringing them the happin: misery, for the husband wandered a the hands of a vamp who per some for the faithful little w gling to help him get a start ried the siren SUCH cases are not, alas, Joan -life, fortune smiled upon the thrifty and industrious. But In- s they expected, it brought them y from his own fireside and fell into aded him that he was too young and hand- e who had grown old working and strug- in the world, so he divorced her and mar- >mmon and they make one wonder whether poverty or riches mak happiness in marriage. According to the old adage, when pove cor n at the door, love flies out the window but just as often when riches come down the chimney, love ‘sneaks out the back stairs. Undoubtedly, bitter, biting poverty even love is material. When you heart. When you are cold you t body than you do of the tempera harassed by bills and hunded by fills your waking thoughts and ni before it can get in its great and perfect work. hard test for love to stand, for Ty you are more stomach than k more of the temperature of your re of your affections. When you.are money, and not sentiment Love has to be comfortable ON the other hand, money brings temptations from which poverty is ex- empt. Especially does money bring temptations to men, for every rich man is the predestined prey of adventuress he meets. Married or single, women smile upon him who has ce of the luxuries their sor- did souls crave, and so.it is that the m had he been poor, would have been permitted to walk the straight narrow path in peace, be- cause he is rich finds hundreds of soft e hands dragging him down into the pit. A woman once justified hes travagance to me by saying that the only way that & wife nowadays can keep her husband is to keep him poor, and she was not far from speaking the truth. A rich man has to be in- deed a Joseph if he resist the wiles and is adamant to the flatterles and seductions of the pretty young creatures who are always out on a still hunt for a Candy Papa. “And it should console many a woman for not having a limousine still to have a falthful husband, and to krw that that is a lJuxury DOROTHY DIX. sh a (Copyright, 1931.) Mince Meat. and keep in & cold place wntil ady to use. If the mince meat be- Simmer two pounds of lean beef in a | comes dry, add more cider or canned | g small quantity of water until tender, fruit juice | then drain, cool, chop and mix 'sith the beef broth. ' Pare, core and chop four pounds of tart apples and carefully pick over, wash, and drain three pounds of currants and two pounds of raisins. Mix these ingredients with one pound of finely chopped suet, half a pound of chopped citron, three pounds of sugar two teasjoonfuls each of cinnamon mace, and nutmeg, one teaspoon Special Sandwiches. Sandwiches are deliclous filled with fruit butter. T kinds of lemon curd, with eggs, butter, be bought in pineapple, banana, orange, lemon and grapefruit flavor. It should each of cloves and alspice, one table- | be used with tter and is delicious spoonful of salt and one pint of cider and | spread thick! n whole wheat bread one pint of canned fruit juice. Cook | or dry biscuits. for about one hour in a pteserving ket- Egg sandwiches will be improved if tle over low heat with an asbestos mat a little dry mustard is sprinkled over SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. i I heard my teacher tellin’ how her neber gibed nothin’ fer Chris'mus 'at her wouldn't be tickled to deaf to get herself. 'At puts a sort of new slant on ‘ese here washrags, (Copyriht, 1931 o J’ b BONERS e | Humorous Tid-Bits From | | School Papers. WHEN LINCOLN WAS PRESIDENT HE WORE ONLY A TALL SILK’HAT. | e | The flower had five parts, sepals, | pedals, antlers, pistil and trigger. | Napoleon dispensed the rioters with Whiff of grape fruit. Three .contagious diseases are smok- ing, chewing and spitting. | ‘The Duke of Clarence, according to ! is s made like the best | P18 usual custom, was killed in battle. Graft is an illegal means of unl!lngl cane sugar and crushed fruit. It can | trees to make money. A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold. Bronchitis 15 & disease that you can | get from riding a certain kind of horse | too much. ' (Copyyight, 1931.) | It kept slipping from his grasp There Are Eggs and Eggs. More often than you ever drea Are things and folks not This isn't always their own fault. By no means. It is often due to failure or the part of others to see them truly. | They may seem to be pne thing while in reality they are something altogether different, largely because others think they are what they age not. So it is wise to judge wholly by appear- the venturesome armer Brown's he ing for eggs. He never had se egg, but he was s one if he found it his father, had told big and & climbed into th something smooth hadn't a doubt that eyes glistened. F there, was no odor. Fe felt of it. was hard and smooth, so smooth that his little paws slipped trom it. It was bigger than he had thought be, a_third as b was still a little f Unc' Billy had said that the smooth it wor nimself, for part was a shell that he could hite through. He decided that he would try that egg then and there! One end | was smaller than the other. He lay | down beside it and claspea it with both hands and feet and tried to bite through the small end. His teeth slipped off. Yes, sir, his teeth slipped off. Trey as he would, he couldn't bite through that shell. What was mgre Ne had hard work to hold on to it He began to lose his temp He bit harder than ever and his teeth slipped off as before. It made him so angry that he kicked foolishly and that egg slipped away from him and out of the nest down to the floor, where it landed with a dull thump. Runty peered down. Then he <limbed down. That shell hadn't broken. It hadn’t even cracked. Runty sniffed in disgust_and then climbed to another nest. It also had an egg and this egg was just like the other, He couldn't bite it, try as he would. This he also kicked out on the floor and it didn't break. Runty was becoming discour- aged and oh, so disappointed! He be- gan to wonder what sort of teeth Unc' Billy had to bite through a shell like that. He climbed from nest to nest Some were empty and others had eggs just like those he had found. He tried them all with the same result. Of coursz, you know what they were. They were china eggs, china nest eggs put there by Farmer Brown's Boy. Just as Runty was al t ready to give up he found a nest with two eggs underneath and stir frequently to pre- | them with pepper and salt. There is ~ i in it. Yes, sir, there were two eggs in vent scorching. Add the juice and | no need to make the mustard in the Of 214 flocks of chickens on which | it. One was just like the others, but grated rind of two oranges and two | usual way, as this is apt to make the | records were kept in Ohio this year|one was different. It was a little lemons and mix well. Store in storte | sandwiches too moist. 16 lost money, smaller and it felt different. When he BEDTIME STORIES By Thornton W. Burgess. ried his sharp teeth on the small end they went through. Quicker thanm I can tell it Runty had a hole in that end and was sucking and lapping out tif. contents. He was getting his first taste of egg and liking 1t. He under- stood now why Unc' Billy wanted an egg 50 badly. He forgot Unc' Billy watting outside. He forgot that he was in a strange place. "He forgot everything but the feast he was having. When nothing but shell remained of that egg he went hunting for another. As befere he found several of those white china eggs, but now he knew the difference between these and real eggs .the moment he °d one, and wasted no more time ite a hole in one. in the far .cor TRY AS HE WOULD, HE COULDN'T BITE THROUGH THAT SHELL, upper row he found another real egg and once more forgot everything but the feast he was having. Those two eggs were the only ones in the hen house. They had been lald after Farmer Brown's Boy had collected the eggs the morning before. Meanwhile Unc' Billy was waiting impatiently out- side and wishing with all his might he could make himself as small as Runty long enough to squeeze through that | little_opening | " “An do wish that youngster would -roll me out an aigg,” sighed Unc' Billy. (Copyrizht, 1931 Orange Salad. Place a leaf of lettuce on each plate. Pare some oranges thickly enough to remove the white inner portion at the | same time, just as you would pare an apple. The juice may be squeezed from the Inside of these thick parings, into | the mayonnaise. Slice thin with & sharp knife. Sprinkle with cocoanus | and put a dab of whipped-cream may= ' onnaise in the center of the plate. CLAIMS MEAN NOTHING “-IOUR toaster tells you } L the truth—the whole truth—about bread quality. Regardless of claims, re- gardless of names, toasting is the only sure way of tell- ing what goes into bread, how it is baked. Experts endorse this test. You can make it in your own kitchen. Watch Wonder-Cut Bread win over any other bread in this test of quality. Take a slice of Wonder-Cfit. A slice of any other bread. Toast each the same length of time. Then note the amazing difference. 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