Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1932, Page 51

wWOMEN'S FEATURES. Preparation of Holiday Parcels BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. UGGESTIONS for wrapping Christmas gifts could extent over many pages, in view of the elaborate character that been given this feature of holiday season within late- years. In some shops where the outer wrapping of an article purchased is made to the EACH PACKAGE WAS WRAPPED DIFFERENTLY _WHEN PUT AROUND THE TREE. customer’s order, real money can be involved. Sometimes in the bewilder- ment of dazzling papers and festive ribbons, there is a tendency to make & more pretentious show than the in- | closed gift seems to warrant. For Christmas giving, this pleasure in the outward appearance of a gift part of the proceedings, especially since the gifts, piled beneath the tree, form part of the actual decoration of the occasion in many jinstances. In- deed, it is quite delightful to all when those with little to give in actual value show their ardor for giving, by the en=- thusiasm which they put into the deck- ing out of their gifts in the most dash- ing holiday st; Perhaps this year, more than ever, is this side of the mat- tér to be applauded A gift in its wrappings may be made very attractive in white paper. tied with red cotton tape or tissue ribbon if a sprig of ever- green. bayberry or a few leaves of laurel be caught into the bow knot. Where MENU POR A DAY. BREAKFAST. ‘Tangerines Ountmeal with Cream Omelet Toast Orange Marmalade Coffee LUNCHEON. v Clam Chowder, Crackers Pruit Gehti; Brownies es DINNER. Oream of Spinach Soup Broiled Mackerel Escalloped Tomatoes Mashed Potatoes Asparagus Salad, Mayonnaise Dressing Squash Pie Coffee Cheese BROWNIES. Cream together two eggs, one cup sugar, one-half cup melted butter and two tablespoons cocoa or one square chocolate melted and one-half teaspoon vanilla. Add one-half cup bread flour, one-fourth teaspoon beking pow- der and pinch of salt. Beat well and then stir in_one-half cup chopped walnuts. Pour into but- ter tins to about three-eighths- inch thickness and bake in mod- erate oven about 25 minutes, or until top springs back when de- pressed with the finger. ESCALLOPED TOMATORS. Put in baking dish thin layer bread crumbs. Drain juice from quart canned tomatoes, season with salt and pepper and put on crumbs. Sprinkle tomatoes with few drops onion juice and spoon of sugar. Cover closely with layer bread crumbs, moist- ened in tablespoon of melted but- ter. Bake in hot oven for 15 x:}:gum and serve hot in baking (Copyright, 1932.) I'VE FOUND S0 MANY WAYS TO USE THESE $COTTOWELS - F e has | strips of red or green is | bridegroom. the cheapest of these plants or trees are accessible, no d | added cost is involved. Where this not the case, some two or three inch ribbon, cut di- supply the On & red Wrapping paper, & gold cord bought for a few cents a coil is stun- ning. If the supply of Christmas seals runs short or is not purchased, some of the colored pages of | may afford small parts of pictures without & piain card, on whith & Hame s to be he package written, tl won- derfully. b g For name cards to'be attached to gifts there come great varieties at al- most tesimal cost, but the in- ’fl'owl:x the fi those which were received have been saved. Care should be exercised to | make the newly cut edges straight, and to see that the name, or any writing of a previous season, is snipped off :dl:lg sth P ;i’flxw" or & knife, of t can desired, fin it is not (Copyright, 1932.) Good Taste Today BY EMILY POST, Famous Authority on Eliquette. Weddings. ODAY’S first letter is quite out- side of the prescribed rules Jaid down for a conventional wed- ding, but it is too original and interesting to be left out of the column. The bride-to-be writes: “I am planning to be married on my parents’ twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. would lke to dupli- cate their wedding, which took place at high noon, in a sweet old country | church, about a mile from our pres- {ent home. The minister who mar- ried mother and father is still liv- and available. Would it be ap- propriate for moth- er, who is still very young, to be my matron of honor, and for daddy to be best man to the | bridegroom? (They are great com- rades.) Is such an arrangement per- missable?” My answer is that I have never heard of such a wedding, but there is no rea- son in the world why you should not have it. In fact, I think it would be charming, and after all, that it shall be beautiful to you, is all that really matters. Let me suggest that your mother. wear as much silver as pos- sible—a dress brocaded with silver, and & silver toque, and silver in the ar- rangement of her bouquet. And under these particular circumstances it would seem best that you and she walk to- gether, since your father, as best man, will be wnlnn; at the chancel with the t you are having ushers and bridesmaids they would follow the ordinary conventions. “My dear Mrs. Post: I have been en- gaged «early three years and we had planned our wedding for the last month. But, instead, during that month we both had great sorrow—my fiance’s father died first and my mother diec two weeks later. Our wedding was to have been formal and I had bought a satin gown and a bridal veil. Now we do not want a wedding. Can I in any way make use of these clothes?” Answer: Certainly. It is always prop: er that you be dre: as a “bride,” even though no ome be present but yourselves and the clergyman and the necessary witness. Emily Post. 1932.) Prench_colonel issued a command that any soldier seen trying his skill with the toy would be placed in jail for two days. CHIC]| IS NOT A QUESTION OF MONEY . ... BUT FASHION TASTE For the latest fashion news from Paris, New York and Hollywood. READ THE SPRING FASHION NUMBER SIMPLICITY FASHION MAGAZINE 27 {5¢ SIMPLICITY 15¢ Pattems are sold. THE COPY Buy it today! Paper Towels...use once —then Throw Away! Many women buy these inespensive Scot- Towels for drying hands. .. but soon find dozens of other practieal uses. Wiping up spilled food—or grease oft pans. +Slicking up’ the stove or sink. Draining fried foods. Tryaroil. Ivory or green fixture 25¢ smfrOWQIs — (o Sale a¢ Geocers, Drug sad Deot. Scares. Oc writs Scott Papes Co., Clhester, Pa. v genious may prefer the fun of cutting hr{nmu cards of last yenr.! An be painted on f | ry. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 19.32.. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥, CORY. I'se a better hemmer than baby, if T could eber get my needle loaded. (Copyright, 1932.) UNCLE RAY’S CORNER 0ld Hermit's Christmas. AN AVALANCHE. &« OU were going back to Win- n‘ggg'!" exclaimed Betty. " , that's the city where my mother used to live!” “Indeed!" replied the Old Hermit. “That is most interesting. Winnipeg is a fine city, and I enjoyed living there; but I never intend to re- turn. It would be too sad—but I must g0 on with my story. “As I was saying. @y son and I were starting on our return journey with a load of gold. You know that pure gold is heavy but does not up much space. We had gold ni in our pockets, and there\ was gold in pack of our one and only donkey. “We were making our way along a narrow mountain road. On one side of us was & high, steep slope, on the other side a deep canyon with walls which dropped almost stralght down for half a mile. We became hungry, and de- cided to pause to cook a meal. We used a long Tope to tie our donkey to the trunk of a tree. Then we wandered about for a time, gathering firewood. “Arthur—that was the name of my son—walked over to the edge of the canyon, and called back to me that there was a beautiful view below, that it was almost & straight drop for half a mile. I remember that I shuddered as he said that, and I was just on the point of warning him not to step too close, when I heard a thunderous noise —the noise of an avalanche!” At this point the Old Hermit wiped his forehead with a colored handker- chief, and inquired: “Have you ever seen an avalanche?” “No,” both replied. “Well, I hope you never do—or at least that you never get in the way of one. There are rocks, loose earth, snow and ice on some mountain sides, and rain, snowfall or other cause will make them slide down the slope. Woe to any one in their way! “When Arthur heard this great noise, he turned around and shouted, ‘Look out, father! “These were the last words I ever heard him speak. . . ." The Old Hermit paused in his story. and used his handkerchief to wipe away s tear. UNCLE RAY. (To be continued.) N MY MOM PLAYED A GOOD TRICK ON MY DAD THIS MORNING! ) (4 J NOT MY DAD! HE SAYS ITSAS FLAT AS AN 1894 DIME! WELL, DEAR, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG | . refused to let them go where fortune called them because they could not 'Star Patterns to say no-more to the mother, but the hand sud step around t the . Of course there will be a pretty scene. since she cannot change it. "THERE is really no more despicable figure in the world than the woman who is 50 utterly selfish that she is willing to ruin her children’s lives in orcer to gratify her morbid mother passion. Her love for her children 18 not a beautiful, wholesome, natural affection. It is a neurotic emotion, something dark and sinister, that curses instesd of blesses. A real mother is a woman who is filled with tenderness and devotion to her children. She gives herself without stint to them. She ‘watghes over them night and day during their infancy, but she realizes that they | must grow up and become men and women and fullfil the destinies of men and women, and when the time comes for them to go into the world she does not seek to hi or hinder them. Instead she sends them forth gladly and proudly‘: nrher godspeed nn‘ln( in their ears. TH! real mother does not try to stunt her children and keep them per- tual bables, dependent upon her. Instead, she teaches them to upon their own feet, and she develops them into intelligent men and women, capable of using their own brains and intelligence and Judgment. Her love does not cause her to make morons of them. But, unfortunately, there are mothers who do not take this big, broad view of motherhood. They make of motherhood a graft. They enslave their children to them. They bind their sons and daughters so tightly to them with the bonds of filial duty that the poor bewildered youngsters are afraid to break them lest they commit a mortal sin. wrm tears, with reproaches, with ill health, with age, they cow the poor, wretched son or daughter, who asserts some right to his or her own life, into submission. I have known families who have been wait- ing for 40 years for mother to die, so they could do what they wanted to do and have a little liberty. I know a man who shut the door of oppor- tunity in his face because his mother, who was barely 40, implored him not to go and leave his poor old mother who wouldn't be here long, any- way. You see these selfish mothers and their victims sround everywhere. ‘Mothers who have kept their children tied to their apron strings and bear to be parted from them. Mothers who refused to let their children marry because they could not endure the thought of their sons and daugh- ters loving any one else better. Wr all know crochety old women with withered, dried-up daughters who have never had as much personal freedom as a dog on a leash, who have done nothing but be maids to their mothers all their lives. We all see old women with old bachelor sons dancing attendance upon them, always fetching and carrying for mother, taking mother around to the theaters or on trips or to concerts until they get to be nothing but old ‘women themselves. It is nothing uncommon to hear a woman boast that she has made her son or daughter promise not to marry as long as she lives, and you wonder' that any one can be such a monster of egotism and selfishness. For these mothers are deliberately cutting their children off from the fullness of life. They are denying them the happiness they had. For they knew love and marriage and had the happiness of buildiug their own homes and the joy of-having little children's arms around their necks. They had the happiness of that parental love that in its distorted form makes them willing to sacrifice their children to it. S DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX—My wife has gone to a fortune-tcller and has ac- cepted everything that she has been told as the truth. This fortune- teller told my wife that 1 will die in a short time and she wiil marry an old sweetheart. Now we have been married 20 vears and have been per- fectly happy together, but this has completely upset my wife. ~She ac- cepts It all as gospel truth and thinks she should save herself and her good looks for this other man. I feel that I cannot face the future with this trouble. C.C.R. Answer: Any woman who takes what a fortune-teller says to her seriously should have her head operated on. There is something the mat- ter with her mind. She simply isn't all there, or else she would have sense enough to know that these women who pretend to forecast the fu- ture know no more about what is going to happen than we do. AS for telling your wife that she is going to lose her husband and that she is going to marry an old sweetheart that is simply a stock- in-trade prophecy. They tell every single solitary middle-aged married woman who comes to them the same thing, and if you had gone they would have reversed the genders, and told you that your wife was going to die and that you would marry your old schoolgirl sweetheart. Noth- ing to it. Not even originality. requires 2% yards of 36-inch fabric, ;)r 21, y]_hwbl:r n-mfn 1;\::1;.1& umper. e blouse requires 1'4 of 36-inch to 39-inch material. Simplified illustrated instructions for cutting and sewing are included with each pattern. They give complete di- rections for making these dresses. To get a pattern of this model send 15 cents in coins or stamps. Please write your name and address very plainly; also style number and size of each pattern ordered, and mail to The Evening Star Pattern Depart- ment, Washington. D. C. Several days are required to fill orders and patterns will be mail as quickly as Ible. THE EVENING STAR, PATTERN DEPARTMENT. No. 957. Name (please print) ‘The most merciful provision of Providence is that the future is hidden from us, and that we have no way of knowing what is going to be our fate. Otherwise few of us would have the courage to go on living. We would die a thousand deaths anticipating the death of those we love. We could not endure thinking of the sorrow that we somehow find the courage to bear when it really comes to us. DOROTHY DIX. City and State But timely change saved her from pitfall of tasteless “bargain® bread! YEAH, SHE GAVE HIM SOME TRICK BREAD, AND WAS HE MAD! TRICK BREAD ? YOUNG MAN,WHEN YOU AND | FINISH THIS BREAD YOULL HAVE R LOAF! BEST YOU EVER TASTED, 700! Flavor in bread comes from two things—fine ingredients and careful beking. Wonder Bread is slo-baked from the choicest ingre- dieatsintheland. That's whyittastes somuch better thanordi- nary bread! And easier, gives you fuller food-value, too! IT'S CALLED WONDER BREAD. AND NO WONDER! TS THE BEST BREAD | EVER TASTED! i | traits. MAGAZINE My Neighbor Says: the Here is the correct way to stone ralsins: Free the raisins from the stems and then put them into a bowl. Cover them with bolling water and let them stand for two minutes. When the water is poured off, the seeds can be rezmoved quickly and easily without stickiness. - Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. What Is Personality? What is personality? Are you born with {t? Or do you acquire it? Personality is human traits in action. Such trajts as efficiency in one's work. ability to make the most of common sense on short notice, and so forth The number of such traits may easily run into hundreds when you come to observe human gs closely. The big point is that you are said to have a personality when you surpass the average run of persons in one or mere . Personality is therefore that something that makes you appear dif- ferent from others. Human beings have always been In- terested in the sources of their own make-up. Some say this make-up is inherited: some say it is acquired, This heredity-environment _question = never has been and never will be settled to the satisfaction of all. But one thing is certain Environment is the more im- | portant of the two sources. PAGE. Do you believe. in Santa Claus? You will if you spend Christmas at Ckalfonte-Hzddon Hall! Here s all the old-time Christmas spirit. Glittering trees, carols, stockings filled to overflowing for the children, entertainments, an old-fashioned dinner with your own family turkey. The Boardwalk a wonderland of lights. Holiday spirit everye where! The stimulating salt air, the besuty of the ocean, the comfort of Chalfonte-Had- don Hall are a perfect backe ground. Bring the whole family for an exhilarating week of healthful and happy activity. 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