Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1932, Page 26

MAGA Thrift Menus at BY LYDIA LE B. ENUS for poverty _parties should be decidedly different from those ugually served. If the party takes the form of a luncheon or dinner many eco- nomical dishes should be prepared. If refreshments only are needed, few should be served. In either case there ghould be ample quantities, not scanty as would be the case were the poverty | together in usable combinations. CHINA CHILO IS A DAINTY DISH TO SET BEFORE GUESTS. actual. Two menus are given, one for & luncheon or dinner and the other for evening refreshments. These are really thrift menus. Appetizer Soup. Soda Crackers. China Chilo With Rice. | Escalloped Tomatoes With Cottage Cheese. Salad Macedoine. Toasted Prune Tart Meringues. Coffee With Hot Milk. Appetizer soup is a consomme made from the water in which vegetables are boiled with one or more onions added and the peelings of the well washed | vegetables. Celery foliage is added and a little dried parsley. Strain, season to taste. For this menu add the bones| from the mutton and the tomato liquid | from a can of tomatoes. Boil for one- | half hour. Strain and serve in soup | plates. Common soda crackers go with this course. China chilo—This is a very old recipe | slightly adapted to suit modern meals. Simmer the necks of mutton, or any cheap cut, until the meat can be sep- | arated from the bones, but not until it falls from them. To every two cupfuls of this meat add two onions, one head of lettuce (not iceberg) saparated into Jeaves, one pint green peas (canned may be used), a teaspoonful each of &alt and pepper, a small bay leaf and one tablespoonful of diced celery. Put in a saucepan with one-half cupful of the water in which the mutton was sim- mered; bring to a boil and simmer slowly for one hour. Add a little more of the mutton water if needed. Serve MENU FOR A DAY. | Stewed Apricots. Wheat Cereal with Cream. | Browned Meat Cakes. Hot Corn Cake Coflee LUNCHEON. Corn Chowder, Crackers, Sponge Cake Squares, Chocolate Sauce. Tea. DINNER Dried Pea Soup, Croutons. Pork Chops. Apple Rings Delmonico Potatoes. Broceoli, Butter Sauce. Peach Custard. Coffee. MEAT CAKES Two cups chopped cocked meat, 1 cup mashed potatoes, 2 table- spoons finely chopped onions, 2 tablespoons chopped celery, 4 teaspoon salt, 'y teaspoon pa- prika, '3 cup flour, 4 tablespoons fat. 1, cup gravy ix meat, potatoes, onions, cel- ery, salt and paprika. Shape in- to cakes 2; inch thick and 1'% inches in diameter. Roll in flour. Heat fat and add and brown meat cakes. Add gravy. Cover and cook 2 minutes. Serves 6 pecple CORN CHOWDER Onc cup diced potatoes, '; cup diced carrots, 1'. cups corn, 3, cup chopped celery, 2 table- spoons chopped onicns, 2 table- spoons chopped green peppers or parsley, '; teaspoon salt, , teaspoon pepper, 4 cups wa- ter, 3 tablespoons butter, 3 table- spoons flour, 2 cups milk Mix vegetables, seasonings and water. Cover and cook slowly 40 minutes. Melt butter and add flour. When blended, add milk and cook until creamy sauce forms. Add to the vegetable mixture and cook 2 minutes. Serve in warm bowls, Enough for 6 people TARD DESSERT alf cup sugar, 5 table- spoons flour, ' teaspoon sait, 3 egg volks, 2 cups milk, ': cup peach juice, 2 tablespoons but- ter, 1 cup diced canned peaches, 1 teaspoon vanilla, . teaspoon lemon extract. '. teaspoon al- mond extract, 3 egg whites stifly beaten. Blend sugar, flour and salt Add yolks, milk and peach juice. Cool " until thick and creamy. Cook in double boile:. Stir fre- quently. Add peacher, butter, extracts. When mixed, fold in egg whites. Pour into glass dish and chill. | 50. BREAKFAST. | inch ~fabric, ZINE PAGE. Poverty Parties ARON WALKER. on a platter rimmed with boiled rice dotted with parsley. Escalloped tomatoes with cottage cheese—Alternate layers of the pulp of | the canned tomatoes and bread crumbs seasoned with salt and pepper and moistened with milk make the escalloped tomatoes. On each serving put a spoon- ful of cottage cheese. Sprinkle with paprika. | | Toasted prune tarts meringue.—Drain i onoked pruiies and mash enough pulp to cover as many circles of toust as | there are persons to serve. Heat the| prune pulp with the beaten yolks of two | eggs well mixed with the pulp. Spread | the prune mixture on the buttered toast slices. Dot well with meringue ) made of the egg whites beaten dry.| When beating gradually add two ta spoonfuls powdered sug Lightly | brown the meringues in a very hot oven or preferably under the flames of a gas | stove. Serve hot or cold. | Serve these prune tart meringues | with hot cocoa or with chilled lemon- ade. Or these may follow sandwiches made of chopped cabbage mixed with mashed baked heans and mayonnaise. | Pass salted peanuts and buttered and salted popcorn. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. | | | Some of the early Greeks supposed ! that “Nothing permanent but | change.” Words were considered no ex- | ception to this universal law. Some | went so far as to quit talking alto- gether, and resorted to the expedient of merely pointing and nodding. They | supposed that words would change from | what they were to something else, by| | the time they reached the ears of the| | 1istener. | | " "This, of course, sounds silly to us to- | |day. 'But the Greeks were arguing | | about the sense or nomsense of using| words at all. Not a bad question. Now- | adays the word-question has taken an- [ | other form: Can we think without the use of words? It may be that the| people who are living 25 centuries hence, will regard this as a silly ques- tion. But we shall not worry about that. Some modern psychologists believe it is impossible to think at all, unless| you think in terms of words. ' Others | subscribe to the doctrine of “wordless | thought” So far as I can find, those | who hold to the doctrine of wordless | thinking are decidedly in the minority | The argument is mainly against them. | despite the fact that we all have ideas | for_which we have no words. The argument runs as follows: Words | are the signs of ideas. Admitted. | Thinking is a process of linking Jdplz!ns, Ad- mitted. Words are the very things that put the thought-processes in or- der. [Even if words are arbitrary| things, standardized by usage and | taught in the schools, it does not follow | that they arc not an improvement over {he natural ability to entertain discon- nected ideas. You can do no consecu- | tive worthwhile thinking unless vou | understand tive signs for the ideas. And these signs arc words. | (Copyrisht, 1932.) DAILY DIET RECIPE FINE DRY CRUMBS. Roll crisp prepared rice or corn flakes, or even crisp bran flakes into fine crumbs. Good to roll croquettes in, or bananas, or to sprinkle over dishes where fine, dry breadcrumbs are suggested. DIET NOTE. Crumbs furnish starch and if used in large amount would add extra calories or fuel value, and hence fat making quality to the dish in which they appeared. The mineral and vitamin content of the crumbs would, of course, be the same as the content of the flakes from which the crumbs were made. Star Patterns Novel Collar. | Simplified illustrated instructions for | cutting and sewing are included with each pattern. They give complete di- rections for making these dre: This frock is smartness itself, show- ing to best advantage all the new ele- ments of the latest fashion broadcast It is No. 170. Its lines give a top fullness, draping the blouse, fit the hip- | line, then flare gracefully downward Front incrustation accentuates the snugness at the hips. The double- scarfed neckline, two-toned, falls into a well defined cowl when fastened. The sleeves, which begin from the arm-| pit, give a definite shoulder breadth The deep cuff which joins the puffed | elbow, emphasizes the slenderizing lines | of the frock as a whole. Designed in | sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42. 44, 46. 48 and Size 40 requires 4'; yards of 36-| or 4 yards of 39-inch fabric. | To get a patfern of this model send 15 cents in coins. Please write ver plainly your name and address, st number ‘and size of e m or-| dered and mail to The Evening Star Pattern Department, Washingion, D., C. The new fashion magazine with | color supplement and Paris style news is now available at 10 cents when or- dered with a pattern and 15 cents when ordered separately. The Evening Star Pattern Dept. Pattern No. 170. NAME (Please Print) | rebins r | del THE EVENING WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. S. Patent Office. When “Béau” Hickman rode up Pennsylvania avenue in the parade fol- lowing the building of the wood-block | | pavement? AVE W RIE” S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Illustrations by Mary Foley. ROBIN. Merula migratoria. HE robin sings after his mafie’ arrives and not until then. He may be so deeply engrossed in home building and looking about for food that he is silent. When his mate appears, such joyful songs as he pours forth day and even at night! And when he cocks his head and looks at the sky with such a knowing look, then sings, “I have a theory, a theory it's going to rain”—well, if you do not fall in Jove with him you just are hope- less. It has been said that he is re- | joicing over the coming shower, because the digeing will go easier and the worms be more plentiful. The robin is our most common bird, and in spite of this, little is really known of his habits and charm. He is about 10 inches long, while the sparrow is a little over 6 inches. The father robin is much more gayly dressed than his mate. The head is black and the back a slaty brown: the breast is a very bril- liant red, with brownish tints, The throat it white, streaked with black; b the k is yeliow and about his eye there is llow ring with a white spot_above it. The wings are a wee bit darker than the back and the tail is black with its two outer feathers tipped with white, Unless the bird is flying, the white spots do not show. The fcet and legs are dark and strong. The mother has a lighter colored back and breast and she does not wear a black cap. When the mate appears, right after the frost is out of the earth, they go to work building the nest. Strong root- lets and straw are arranged on a firm support, and when this building mate- rial is molded to suit the owners, the bird goes to the mud puddle or a stream and fills his beak full of the soft mud, then, returning to his nest, “peppers” or sprays the nest with the plaster. After the material is well soaked with the mud, the bird gets into it and molds it to his body by turning and turning until it is a perfect it. Scmetimes the mother does this part of the work, but as a rule the father completes the job. ‘The nest is lined with fine grass and rootlets. The mother then places her dainty blue eggs, about four in num- ber, in the nest Father and mother share the duties of keeping the eggs warm and turned. About 12 to 14 days later the wee baby ay be heard. When you see their wide, yellow-rimmed mouths open, for all the world like satchels, every time anything touches the nest, you can realize what a task it is to keep those greedy little rascals filled up and quiet. Often the devoted father will bring able, juicy worms and grubs to his faitnful little spouse. o for her and accepts the loving ing vith alacrity, ble what a number of worms four can consume. One man le youngsters worked hard all day to feed his adopted baby robin and dug out 58 worms for it and the greedy little thing cried for | mere. No wonder they grow so fast. The baby bird's eyes are closed until he is about 9 days old, and by then his | feather tracts show. The place where the feathers are to grow is covered with spinelike pin feathers. As the true feathers push their way out. the soft down of the baby's first covering clings to the tips, In 12 days they are well clothed, but no tail feathers. One is perky by now and eager to learn. Hav ing no tail to steer him. he lands pretty hard on his first flights The parents are the most anxious pair you ever saw. They sccld, coax Whd threaten. Sometimes they give a push and the baby is so frightened it tries its best and wins. There are several sets of children & year. Each brood has a new home, Baby robins are yellowish and very ! spotted and speckled. (Copyright. 1932.) My Neighbor Says: Leave cake or gingerbread cov- ered with a cloth to steam for three or four minutes before re- moving it from the pan. It will be more easily removed. A picce of felt or velvet glued to the bottem of vases will cover the rough surface which often scratches tables, mantels, etc., on which the vases are put Dip the stopper of a mucilage bottle in paraffin before putting it into the bottle and it will not stick. One teaspoonful of dissolved gelatin added to one-half pint of whipping cream will make the cream stiffer when whipped. (Copyri~ht, 1932.) reduce your family “Colds-Tax" use the Vick Plan for better ntrol-of-Celd Use Together Nose &Throat DrOPS She knows | It is hardly be- | STAR, 1 WASHINGTON, D. ., WEDNESDAY, DorothyDix (CONTINUED FROM MONDAY.) EFORE a girl gets married she should kriow how to cook. It is hardly too much to say that the success of a marriage depends more upon the wife being a good housekeeper than upon any other one single thing. A woman may be as good a looker as a Follies beauty: she may have the conversational line of a spellbinder; she may have the virtues of an angel, but they will avail her nothing if she does not know how to make her husband comfortable and provide him with good food. Concludes Attributes for Success with Husbands To the Girl About to Marry If every girl was & good Al cook when she got married, she could keep her husband eating out of her hand and prevent him from roaming, for nothing nails & man so securely to his own fireside as a rich, heavy dinner of the things he likes best. QHE should know how to handle money. Innumerable married couples = fight from the altar to the divorce court or the grave over the money question. This is partly because most men think that marriage can be run on hot air and they never get over being shocked by the monthly bills. And it is partly because S0 many wives seem to believe that money grows on trees and all that their husbands have to do is to pull & few more greenbacks when they want them. One of the reasons why every girl should earn her own living before she is married is because it teaches her the value of money and how to Gse it wisely. . She never looks lightly on a dollar again. She sees it al- ways as the symbol of safety and independence and precious because of the toil and weariness and suffering that have gone into the making of it. HE should know how to use some common sense. That means putting the right values on things. Not exaggerating petty difficulties. Not making mountains out of molehills. Tooking at things from a sane in- stead of & morbid poing of view. Realizing that a man may not come Up to all of a girl's dreams of a romantic hero and yet may be a mighty good provider. Realizing that & husband has to put up with just as many faults in & wife as she has to overlook in him. She should know how to be a good sport. She should not look upon marriage as & graft in which she expects to get all and give nothing, but she should consider it as a partnership in which she should do her share of the work and pull her weight in the boat. If she is marrying a poor young man, she should not whine because she to do her own cooking and washing and baby-tending and wear cheap clothes. Nor should she howl and complain because she cannot have the things she had as a girl and reproach her husband for not being a go-getter and a money- maker. HE should know how to get along With & man. Before she is mar- ried every girl has some sort of technique about managing men, or else she would never get a husband No girl has dates until she dis- covers how to please boys and jolly them along and keep on ihe sunny side of them and long before a maiden is Invited by any man to ac- company him to the altar she has discovered how to give the soft an- swer that turns away wrath: how to choose the psychological moment to impart bad news; how to sidestep his little prejudices and to lend an at- tentive ear while he talks about himself and the things he is interested in, This kindergarten knowledge that every girl has of how to manage & man is all that any woman needs to know of not only how to catch a husband, but how to hold him DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1932.) ODES OF THE MOMENT i i \ M) il Il T NN Wfiw‘“"“—“—‘fl'—“ Only six months but already 74 * FEBRUARY 24, 1932 SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. | 'There he is—aren't he big, though? | T don't beliche a feller like 'at is goln’ | to take it good to hab a feller my size | tell him he aren’t afraid. (Copyrisht, 1932.) NANCY PAGE Here's Tip for Roasting Meats Successfully. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. | The butcher from whom Nancy bought her meat was a progressive chap. He learned about the Nancy Page Club and the study they were making this year of maintaining stand- ards of living on reduced budgets. He wondered, and was quite humble in his offer, whether Nancy would like to have | him ‘come to the meeting and tell the | women how to get the most for their | meat money. She accepted with | alacrity. pr.He brought some cuts of meat with Peter later, “and used them to illustrate | his points. He told us that we could | easily locate a cut of meat on ourselves | if we visualized ourselves as four-legged creatures. Its easy, too. I tried it. Why, a slice of ham, a veal cutlet, 8| piece of round steak all come from the | same place on the various animals. When I placed that cut on myself in imagination, I could see just where the round bone fitted. It was fun,” and Nancy giggled in retrospect. “But the most unexpected thing he told the group was this—not all roasts should be cooked in covered roasting pans in the oven. Beef, pork and lamb | | should be roasted in an uncovered pan | with no water added. Veal is cooked in |a covered roaster, but with no water added. He said that the only liquid used in basting should be the fat which | is made liquid as the meat cooks. He i‘nld. too, that cooking meats in a cov- ered pan with water put in the bottom is equivalent to cooking meat in steam at fairly low pressure. That method toughens even a good piece of meat. He's right, too, for I have followed that advice of his before. I do cover the roaster toward the last when I have potatoes in the roasting pan, but he says that last 20-minute covering works no harm. Oh, we learned a lot today, and all you men will be the gainers You see’” = o 5 With the circus season just in the offing it has been officially announced that the world price of peanuts has risen, in the last year. married sh‘e has those Here’s new relief from this complaint @ If you've ever felt you just couldn’t look another pan of dishes in the face—then you've known the dishpan blues. Here’s a wonderful new soap dis- covery that gets dishes done cheer- fully and with almost incredible speed.Its name is Oxydol and its se- cret is the 50% more suds it makes ~richer instant suds that rout grease from dishes in any water— hard or soft. New Oxydol suds are ensieronhandsloo,becnusetheyare safe suds—and they get your hands NEW OXYDOL REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF. for. Procter & Gamble out of the hot dishwater quicker. New Oxydol is simply wonderful for clothes too. I SOAK clothes whitel than weak, old-type, waterysuds can ever get them —even with hard rubbing. Ask your grocer today for Oxydol in the orange and blue package. It gives you more work- saving suds for your money, and re- member, it SUDS, notsoap, youreally pay richer suds and cleaner e ‘ - XYp » ovot 0 7 MORE SUDS 37 LESS WORK 50 < MADE BY THE MAKERS OF IVORY SOAP Nancy was reporting the talk to, . WOMEN’S FEATURES. UNCLE RAY'S CORNER Chinese Writing. F ycu have ever looked at a Chinese laundry ticket, perhaps you have sald to yourself, “It's Greek to me!” As & matter of fact, Chinese is harder to read than Greek. Some Greek letters are like those in our alphabet, but Chinese words have none of the letters we know. China is an old, old country and has passed through many troubles. She has seen the Manchus come and she has seen the Manchus go. Japan may win power in China, but I think the Chi- nese will be in China long after the Japanese leave it. More then 3,000 years ago people in China learned the art of writing. Their first words, so far as is known, were picture-words. Words_cut in pieces of bone and old coins help tell us the story of Chinese writing during the past 3.000 years. The first words in China appear to have been pictura-words. A person made a picture of something and the picture stood for the name of the thing. A sketch of a man stood for the word “man.” A circle with a dot in the mid- dle stood for the word “‘sun.” A picture of a small sailboat stood for “boat.” In making a picture-word for “fire” the early Chinese tried to show the dancing flames. Their “fish” word was UNCLE RAY, Care of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. T wish to join the Uncle Ray Scrapbook Ciub. c printed directions for making a sc Tules of the club and the 1932 membership certificate. self-addressed, stamped envelope. Street or R. F. D City and State the pleture of a fish hding on ita | tailt “Thunder” was pictured by four eir- cles with a zigzag line running from one to another. The zigzag line must [ have been for lightning. “Mouth” was a sketch of an open mouth. “Tadpole” was a fat little pol- liwog, about the same size as the pic- | ture-word for “elephant.” [ Modern Chinese words show the old @>Gold A Man "7 =Horse ‘F: Bolj fi:T\ufle &: Girl ANCIENT PICTURE WORDS. picture-word idea, but there have been many changes. The picture-word for man has been changed so that nothing remains but a pair of legs (This story may be used as a school topic_in language. reading or history. It belongs in “History” section of your ggrapbook.) UNCLE RAY. Piczse me the rapbook, design for scrapbook cover, I am incl (Copyright, 1932.) A WASHINGTO DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. t has been said before, but perhaps it is worth repeating, the advent of Huey P. Long of Louisiana on the sena- torial scene in Washington made Capi- tal observers. accus- tomed as they are to unusual sights, sit up and take no- tice. But we heard a story the other day which perhaps ex- plains something of the Long psychol- ogy. It was back in the days before the “Hon. Huey” had attained such a prominent perch in the government of his State. He was then only chair- man of the Louisi- ana Public Service &F Y = & C SRR Commission. Duties of the commission had called him to New York at the time when Jimmy Walker was in the midst of a campaign to be elected “His honor, the mayor.” In front of Long's hotel on Columbus Circle a Walker “band wagon” put in | its appearance and a crowd began to congregate to listen to the speeches. Long was sitting quietly in his hotel when the show began, but soon his at- tention was directed outside. He wan- dered out o And it wasn't long before he felt the urge, which has been so pronouced in since, to make a speech. He approached the “boss” of the out- fit, but was brusquely pushed aside. But see what it was all about. | “Huey” wasn't to be dented. Time and #gain he bored in, repeating his request. His insistence finally attracted the “boss.” “And who are you?” a bit disdainfully “Huey P. Long, chairman of the Louisiana Public “Service Commission, by the grace of God the next Governog of Louisian: man capable cf making & better stump speech than the one we are now listening to. The * turned aside with some- resembled a “Humph!” i again pushed in, more insistent than ever. Finally the “boss” looked him over from head to foot. “Mister,” he sald, “I don't know whc you are. But you've got more nerve than any man I have ever seen before. I'm going to let you spesk. But get this straight “I don’t know how you play your poli« tics in Louisiana. I do _know how we play them up here. If there any double play when you get up there, then Louisiana will be minus a chairman ol her public service commission and you'll hever make another stump speech. Now g0 to it!” “Huey” climbed up. He had heard of Jimmy Walker. He xnew he was @ Democrat. And he had gathered from what he had heard that the Eighth Avenue Subway was an issue. He started out. Before he had spoken long that crowd in Columbus Circle was with him almost to a man. By time he had finished they had cheered themselves to the point of hoarseness | That, say his friends, is one secret | of “Huey's” grip on the people. He has nerve, a sensz of showmanship and an understanding of mob psychology. he asked Long. GRIPPE, FLU, COLDS make handkerchief washing repulsive! Use KLEENEX and destroy . . . No washing! No contact with germs! 1S advertisement is addressed to every woman who has ever washed a handkerchief used dur- ing a cold, grippe, or flu. Can you think of any more repulsive task? 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