Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1931, Page 50

WOMAN'’S PAGE, Menus for Chimney Parties BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ANTA CLAUS chimneys are fea- tured in the table decorations and the menu for a chimney party. A good-sized chimney r to the one made for the game forms the oenterpiece, and proves to be a veritable well filled cmmm‘ a8 is in- dicated by an empty pack by the of the chimney. If a Santa Claus doll 4s by this empty pack, it further em- phasizes the idea. If the chimney used in the game is not too big, it can be used for the centerplece also. The host- D SERVED IN BREAD CHIM- NEYS. AND CAKE FROSTED TO RE- SEMBLE BRICK CHIMNEY. ess can have the refreshments before | the chimney is needed in the game, ot | she can put it on the table afterward and fill it with Christmas stockings. ‘These are made of different-colored net. A small child’s stocking can form the pattern. Run two stocking portions to- gether with colored yarn and run a draw string through the mesh at the top to close the end, after the stocking is filled with popcorn, candy and nuts, and a little favor besides, if one chooses, or a small bonbon with cap, etc. This cen- terpiece serves as a Jack Horner pie, Each guest is invited to take one of THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Here’s & charming black velvet dress with lace trim. Its wearable sophisticated simplicity makes it an economical choice. The neckline it particularly becom- ing and slimming. And don't you like the modified puffed sleeves? The curved hip seaming is slenderizing. The paneled front and back of the skirt gives the figure elegant height. And it's as simple as A B C to put this model together. Canton-faille crepe is effective in black with Persian green trim. Style No. 2553 is designed for sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust. Size 36 requires 4 yards 39-inch, with 8;-yard 35-inch contrasting. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty- ninth street, New York. Don’t envy the woman who dresses well and keeps her children: well dressed. Just send for your copy of our Winter Fashion Magazine. It also shows charming Christmas gift suggestions in lingerie, gjlmn and modern embroidery for the home. You will save $10 by spending 10 cents for thjs book. So it would pay you to_send|for your copy now. Ad- dress Fashioy Department. Price of book, 10 cenls, Price of pattern, Hl cents, / the stockings or the hostess can take them out and give them around. Menu Featuring Chimneys.—Santa Claus Chimney Salad and Santa Claus Pack Bricks from Santa’s Chimney, Chimney Cakes, Christmas Candy, side | Coft ee. Chimney Salad.—A chimney is made from four rather thick pleces of bread longer than wide. Butter the ends of two pleces and the sides near the ends of the other two. Put pleces together 50 that the buttered parts come to- gether and the chimney thus formed will stand up. It is wel to skewer the slices together also until they are filled. Use any preferred salad mixed with mayonnaise. Edge the top of the bread chimney with pimento strips. These chimneys provide both the salad and the bread. If preferred, large cubes of bread can be hollowed out to form chimneys to hold the salad mixture. Each pack is a little bag of net, trans- parent paper or crepe paper or tissue paper, and is filied with salted nuts and popcorn. Bricks from Santa Claus’ Chimney are just bricks of ice cream. A good combination is a red sherbet, green (pistachio) ice cream and a light cream such as vanilla walnut, or plain vanilla ice cream. Ice a large thin cake of any pre- ferred kind with red frosting. With a pastry tube make straight lines of white frosting across the cake both ways to | simulate bricks. Cut long, rather slen- der, pleces so that they look like brick chimneys, when served. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Apricots. ‘Whole-wheat Cereal with Cream. Scrambled Eggs, Bacon Curls. Rice Muffins. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Bausage with Baked Apples, Ice-box Rolls. Coffee, Bavarian Cream. Sponge Drops. Tea. DINNER. Boulllon. Lamb Chops. Baked Stuffed Potatoes. Creamed Cauliflower. Endive, French Dressing. ne Taploca. Coffee. RICE MUFFINS. One cup boiled rice, one cup milk, two eggs, five teaspoons melted butter, one-half teaspoon salt, two teaspoons sugar, three teaspoons baking powder, one and one-half cups flour. Mix rice, milk, beaten eggs, melted butter and beat well. Sift all dry ingredients together and add to batter. Bake in hot greased muf- fin pans 25 minutes in fairly hot oven. SAUSAGES AND APPLES. 8ix large apples, eighteen small sausages. Core apples; insert one sausage in each. Place apples in baking dish and lay remaining sausages around them. Bake in hot oven about 45 minutes. PRUNE TAPIOCA. Heat one pint prune juice to the boiling point, stir in two tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca, cook five minutes, then add one- quarter teaspoon salt and one cup stewed and stoned prunes and cook until the taploca is clear. Remove from the fire, add one tablespoon lemon juice and the stiffiy-beaten whites of three eggs; beat thoroughly with an egg beater, then return to the fire and cook two minutes, beat- ing constantly. Turn into a pud- ding dish, chill and serve with custard sauce. Custard sauce— Beat the yolks of three eggs, add one-half saltspoon salt, one-half cup sugar and pne pint scalded milk, cook over boiling water un- til thick, remove from the fire, flavor with vanilla and chill. (Copyright, 1931) Handwriting What It May Reveal. BY MILDRED MOCKABEE. HIS writer is apparently of a studious mind and tempera- ment. She is probably a keen lover of books, especially those of an_instructive and non-fic- tion nature. Volumes which deal with social problems or psycho-analysis most strongly. It is probable that her interest in books has caused her to withdraw too much within herself. She apparently is not at ease in the company of others, and possibly suffers from great self- consciousness. With such a handicap, 1t seems that she may have but few in- timate friends. To these chosen close comrades she presents a pleasing and most fascinating personality. In their company she seemingly feels at liberty fully to express herself. However, could she but. free herself from her almost ever-present self-consciousness and fear of other people, it is extremely likely that she could soon have a wide circle of close friendships. The exeremely long t-bar which char- | acterizes her writing would lead us to ib!‘l!e\'e she would find secretarial work, where some executive ability was neces- sary, a very appropriate line of work. | With her good educational background, it is quite likely she could hold a position of more than ordinary nature. ‘Women bank executives, and executive secretaries of civic and trade organi- zations, are well paid vocations. She seemingly would be fitted for such work. It is probable that she is not of a rugged constitution. It would be well to devote some time daily to exercise and health building activity. Such a hygienic program, if coupled with such pleasant social contacts as are found in the Y. W. C. A. or other women's clubs, would do much to insure the success in life of which apparently she is capable. Note—Analysis of handwriting is not an_ezact science, according to world in- vestigators, but all aoree it is interesting and lots of fun. The Star presents the abore feature in that spirit. you wish to have your writing analyzed, send a sample to Miss Mocka- with a 2-cent stamp. preted in this a handwriting analysis chart which you will find an interesting study. Salad Dressing. or sour cream with an egg beater. Add one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, a little very slowly, continuing the beating. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English: BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. VLL GET YOU CAN'T GET | R. N—“You can't get ahead of any- one by getiing even with him,” is the correct form, because everyone is sing- ular and requires a singular pronoun. Similarly we say, “Everyone is wearing his coat” (or “her coat,” if the -refer- ence is to women only) not “Everyone is wearing their coats.” would presumably hold her attention | Beat half a cupful of thick sweet| pepper, and 3 tablespoonfuls of vinegar | containing 1 tablespoonful of sugar, | MODES OF THE MOMENT —— Yawning in the Morning. When I was young and had to get to work at 8:30 o'clock, I would wake up at about 6:30. Under my pillow I kept a book, which I would read until 7:30. Then I would jump out of bed, under a shower, into my clothes, swallow a | bite of roll and some coffee standing | up—if I had time—and then out to the subway. And I'd arrive at the office | breathless and 10 minutes late. About once a month I decided that I must get to the office on time. I fig- ured that by read- . ing a little bit less in bed T'd make the grade. It never occurred to me that it might be a good idea to get up quite calmly at 7 o'clock and dress slowly and it |3 down and eat my breakfast in peace, perhaps readls { the paper while was doing so. This kept on for several years, and though I didn't know it until long | afterward, it came very near ruining both my nerves and my digestion. There are perhaps two or three mil- | lion 1s in the United States doing ' just the same thing right now. Almost ‘eve'ry girl plans her day so that she | Helen Woo! can get up at the last possible moment, gobble her breakfast, or do without any, | and reach the office within clock-punching time. | I'm not going to say anything here about getting to the office on time. That is your affair, I wasn't able to do it, and I'm not going to preach about it. But I wish you could know how much better you'd feel if you could make yourself move more slowly in the morning. & second of The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD, Whose uniquely successful career, both in business and private life, enables her to speak with authority on problems of the modern woman. | If you could get up half an hour D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15; 1931. —_— sooner, so that you would take your bath leisurely and eat your breakfast calmly instead of leaving the house breathless and with your nerves on edge, you would leave it rested and ready for anything. When you leave your house in a great hurry and with your nerves flying you feel excited and wide-eyed for the day’s job. Later in the day you are tired, and about once a week you have a headache or a cold. But none of that matters so much as what will happen to you two or three years from now, when you find that you have con- tinuous indigestion or repeated colds and a drawn look on your face. If you can be calm and slow about getting ready to go to work in the morning, you don't need to take any pills. ‘When we look over the menus that were eaten 50 or 100 years ago, we are aghast at the amount of food that those people could digest. Part of it, of course, was due to thelr outdoor living and exercise. But part of it was due to the NANCY PAGE ‘Heigh-ho for Gay Christ- mas Wrappings, BY FLORENCE LA GANKE, The ides of carrying out the color scheme of the Christmas decorations in the package wrappings as well was nothing new to Nancy. She had had blue and silver, green and red, green and white, green and silver years. For a multi-colored scheme—the kind which uses a real tree and puts on it all the tinsel and colored ornaments in rainbow hues—Nancy chose multi-color schemes for her Christmas wrappings. Let’s look at the parcels she had done up for Lois' family, First comes one of polka-dotted tis- sue paper. To tie this she has chosen yarn of varlous colors. Hanks of this yarn may be purchased at the needle- work department of any large store. Hooked rug yarn is about the right weight. Use a strand of vermilion, old blue and rich purple on a package wrapped in green or red polka-dotted paper, e dark package is tied in dark red or blue cellophane—that modern mate- rial which is so popular. It is wra) in shiny dark blue paper. The ends dt cellophane ties are fastened to snow- | balls of white cotton. The white paper package is tied with | silver ribbon, which makes the rosette | with fringed ends. Silver stars are pasted on to make a “milky way.” | These stars are graduated in size. | The package for Baby Ann is| wrapped in pink paper. It is tied with blue ribbon and has the name worked out in tiny blue dots of gummed paper. Nancy found most of these wrappings in the stationery or crepe paper de- partment of her favorite stores. —— Potato Chicken Pie. Butter a baking dish and spread 2| cupfuls of minced chicken over the bottom. Brown half a cupful of bread | crumbs in 1 tablespoonful of butter and | place over the chicken. Top with a| layer of chopped parsley, green pepper, or pimento. For the crust, beat 1 egg white stiff, and mix with 2 cupfuls of | mashed potatoes. Dot with butter and _FEATURES. “MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS, Clammy Hands. EAR MISS LEEDS—(1) I am 26 _years old, 5 feet 4 inches tall and weigh 115 pounds. Is that correct weight for my age? (2) What causes my hands to be clammy afl the time? Is there anything I could put on them to keep them from perspiring? It is 80 embal , a8 I work in an office and take a great deal of dictation from the manager. ANOTHER STENOGRAPHER. Answer—You are a few pounds underweight for your age and height. I should advise you to try to gain a few pounds and build up your health in general. The ideal weight for a rl of your height and age is between 26 and 136 pounds. Be sure that you eat mnourishing food; masticate your food thoroughly. Have sufficient sleep | and avoid nervous tension while eat- | ing. Learn to relax completely before | and after eating. (2) The clammy ds may be due to a form of nervousness or defective circulation Take a moderate amount of exercise every day. An excellent lotion that may be used for perspiring hands may be made of the following ingredients Two drams tannic acid. two drams glycerin, two ounces alcohol, one ounce cologne water and two ounces rose- water. Apply the lotion to the p-ims and between the fingers and maseage leave in a hot oven for 20 minutes, or |.gently until the lotion has dried’ on until brown. This is a good way to| use left-overs. the skin. Then rub dry boric aeid over the hands before putting on ygur | gloves in the morning. You may re- | peat the application again at bedtime. LOIS LEEDS. Rash on Baby's Skin, Mrs. D. E. J—Consult your physician | regarding your baby's skin; it needs medical attention. The trouble is due | to some form of skin disease that may | be easily overcome if you take it in time. Ask your physician if your baby’s diet is right for his age. I think you need to change it a little now that he is older. LOIS LEEDS. Miss D. T. Y~—Your weight and | measurements are correct for your age | and height. I consider you a normal, healthy girl and your figure is some- | thing of which to be proud, not dis- | gusted. Take an interest in active | girls’ eporis mnd forget your weight | and proportions for the present. | LOIS LEEDS. Dear Miss Yeeds—I have written to you before, but I know that there is not space enough to put all the letters in, 0 I thought I would write again. (1) I am 18 years old, 5 feet 5 inches tall. 1 weigh about 126 pounds. Is that correct? (2) How can I get rid of a few wrinkles before they become deeply etched? FREDA Y. Answer—Your weight is correct, and your height is considered ideal. Please send me a self-addressed, stampec envelope and ask for my beauty leaflet “on facial wrinkles.” It gives the cause of the wrinkles and the treatment in detail. LOIS LEEDS. French Fried Potatoes. ‘Wash, pare, and cut the potatoes ir the desired strips. Dry on a towel anc¢ cook in fat heated to 375 degrees, o1 medium heat, until soft and slightly browned. Remove from the fat and drain Let stand until serving time which may be quite a while. Just be- fore serving. heat the fat to 290 de- grees and fry the potatoes for a few seconds, or until they are crisp and brown. Dr salt, and serve. These potatoes will be tender throughout, and they will be of the right degree of crispness and brownness A G‘ift that pays fact that they got up and took their time in the morning. Of course, you won't pay any atten- tion to any of this. You are energetic and young and nervous and excited in the morning. And you think the extra half hour’s sleep is too good to miss, and you think it is fun to rush in the morning. But the half hour's sleep can't do as muc for your health or com- plexion as a little leisure after you get i (Copyright, 1931) Mexican Frijoles. Boak some dried red beans over night. Boil in enough water to cover until| tender, then mash smooth. Put 1 tablespoonful of lard in a skillet and add 1 chopped onion Cook until almost done, but not brown. Add the mashed beans, salt and pepper to taste, and stir often until well done. BEAUTY IS OFTEN A MATTER OF r4 gl it €nus LIPSTICK, powder-puff, and perfume are exciting enhancements te beauty. But without health, Nutritionists tell they are a delusion. us we are what we eat. That’s why milk is so important. It supplies the food needed to keep bodies young, complexions clear, skins smooth. Milk belongs in the beauty-diet. It is as important in reducing as in gaining weight. You will find it in the menu of Hollywood’s foremost screen-stars. Chestnut Farms Milk is a product of * the finest pasturage in the nation. It has a delicious flavor that makes each sip an invitation to another. Try a glassful with each meal for a week. See how much better you feel —how much younger you look. Telephone the World’s Model Dairy, rated 1009, by the District of Columbia Health Department; Potomac 4000. 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