Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1933, Page 11

MAGAZINE PAGE. Artistic Hanging of Wall Mirrors BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. AN mr f :flluln i\ 1923, W'HE MIRROR IS CAREFULLY POSITIONED TO REFLECT AN OLD FAMILY SILHOUETTE. increasing use of mirrors in decoration leads to considera- + tion of how they should be | adjoining, ‘Too frequently one their charm does the opposite. In speaking of mirrors in decoration the first point of importance is what they will reflect. The filling of & certain space with something agreeable to meet the eye is important. Now a mirror used for decoration is only at- “tractive in proportion ta what is con- tained in the shifting reflection within its range. A mirror is well placed if it holds a pleasing vista within its frame. It the ugliest portion of a room or a hallway is held in the reflection it will not matter how handsome the frame. The mirror from the standpoint of dec- on;tlon ht]- mmfiiea o - recently wal e placing of some mirrors tn the home of an actist. A handsome gold-framed mirror was hung against & piece of red Italian damask with some old brass lamps from Italy beneath. This in itself sounds atiractive. What a shout of laughter arose when the result was viewed! For the mirror, in that posi- tion, was & total failure. It held the reflection of a typewriter in a room . and portions of & clothes closet. It was immediately shifted to & position where a handsome vase, beau- tiful lamp and handsome wall "!l’: ‘t..ha objects glim; is spacious by the placi mirror, reaching from fi opposite the doorway to room. Instead of looking af wall opposite the door, the visitor sees what appears to be the wide expanse of an room. ‘The use of mirrors to create vistas is of importance to any one interested in home decoration, whether the house be small or large. should be sus- pended on two cords each end, which extend perpendicularly from mirror to molding. A small mirror can be hung blind. Mirrors should not be allowed to tip forward, but be flat against the wall. Exceptions to this rule are exceedingly rare. (Copyright, 1933.) " UNCLE RAY’S 'CORNER A Little Saturday Talk. 8 I went over many fine letters from girls, telling about their Corner scrapbooks or how the Corner helps them in school, I . \was -ahle to sort them down to two which seemed of almost value. Then I was tempted to toss a coin to better! de which of the two was I did not toss the coin, because—at last—I found a slight reason to decide In favorof the letter’ written by Louise Mullinax, age 13, of 416 South Second street, Gadsden, Ala. This is how her letter goes: “I am certain that there is nothing which has helped me more in my school work than ‘Uncle Ray’s Corner’. Be- cause of the variety of subjects, it should interest every intelligent person, old or young. I am a diligent reader of these daily articles, and would not miss them for the world. “In my science class I have used the Corners more than any other place. The Corner about Sir Newton came at the time we were studying Newtord and gravity. We have been studying Pasteur in civics. I found the article ‘about this great sclentist very interesting. “When I was in grammar school I found the column about travel very helpful in geography. I am going to take biology next year, 8o I shall depend UNCLE RAY, | Care of The Evening Star, ‘Washington, D. C. upon Uncle Ray to keep it from becom- ing dull. g d “I do not take music, but I would like to. The ‘Masters of Music’ articles were very vivid and true to life.. I am sure many music pupils took these clippings to their teachers. “All the stories that Uncle Ray has written, thoughr they have no connec- tion with schoel work, are good forms |three of light reading. If any one would read these articles, they would be mu better off. LOUISE MULLINAX.” A copy of “The Child's Story of the Human Race” has been mafled to Louise. Once more I wish to say that I wish 1t were possible to send a copy of this book to all the boys and ‘girls,| who wrote excellent letters to me. Since that is not possible, I have mglled leaf- lets or foreign stamps to readers who sent me their return addresses in their letters, telling about the subjects men- tioned in the Saturday Talk during December. UNCLE RAY. Vegetable-Nut-Fruit Salad. Put through & grinder or slice one cupful of young carrots, one cupful of chopped apples and half a cupful of peanuts. Sprinkle with two tablespoon- fuls of lemon juice and one tablespoon- ful of sugar. Leave in the refrigerator for an hour, then serve on _lettuce leaves and garnish with a few nut meats. I wish to join the Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club. Please send me the printed directions for making a scrapbook, rules of the club and the 1932 membership certificate. I am & self-addressed, stamped envelope. THE NAME OF HIDDEN The puszle design for scrapbook cover, inclosing . A CAR IS IN THEr SIGN. Ulusirat@l above involves the name of one make of automobile that will be exhibited at the annual show, to be held January 28 to February 5, nclusive, at the Washington Auditorium, under the auspices of the Automotive Trade Association. This associa e Star, is conducting a contest, for which the winners each rulflo that ‘Th 106 free tickets as prizes. i e ot gty i unf ingidn Automotivé Trade Associa Only the Star answers and the files in the business office, tion, through appears, daily and Sun- mmeumnmm:?mwu- tion, room 1002, 1427 I street nortliwest, with a slogan—not, to exceed 20 words—on “Why here every year.” Remember, do not send the answe . There will be 27. It is not necessary to send in slogan are necessary. The the automobile show should be held ml&.unfll have puzzles may the co-operation of will recetve $100 and | THE EVENING NATURE’S CHILDREN T ¥Ee & i tidewater swamps. From the standpoint of a user, there is no difference. The grain is fine, the wood is hard, strong and durable. ‘The tree, when young, is about 75 feet high, is broad and pyramidal in youth, but gnarled and flat in old age. The trunk is three to six feet thick, the bark a pale gray, broken into ir- regular ridges, which are covered with minute, u'm 1o fmepl;rg:d'{: ute, ovate and closely a) the twigs. The floweuynre male and female on the same tree and the fruit of 18 to 20 seeds is found in clustered erect cones. The seed is under each middle scale. It is a specialized wood, and where “MONTEREY CYPRESS: tanks for liquids are used the cypress takes first place. Wines, soap dyes, fil- tration and acids are some of the liquids kept in cypress tanks. House construction, great stadiums, | , columns, shingles, outside stair- ways and wherever a strong, durable wood, exposed to the weather is needed, the cypress is first choice. In Lousiana, the home of Joseph Jefferson was bullt entirely of tide- water cypress and in Lutcher, La., the old Perique House, erected about 1750, is also of cypress throughout. Both houses are in perfect condition. One of the outstanding uses of oday is in the manufacturing of outdoor furniture. On account of its lasting qualities and because it takes the finish so perfectly that is used on trellises, arbors and garden chairs, the demand for this wood s almost unlimited. (Copyright, 1933.) —_— Christmas Fruit Cake. Four egg yolks, well beaten; one and one-half cupfuls brown sugar, packed; cupfuls flour, one teas| wder, two teaspoonfuls salt, ul cinnamon, two tea- spoonfuls -spice, one teaspoonful ground cloves, one cupful frult juice, one cupful (three-fourths pound) shaved citre one and one-half cupfuls (one pound) candied cherries, halved; one cupful (one-half pound) chopped figs, one cd:l)lp:gl raisins, ;hne cuptu“lla (one pouns jopped nuts, one ¢ vege- table ofl, four egg Whites, s beaten; one ful (one-half pound) chopped, can pineapple. Combine sugar and well beaun)va!kx and beat vigorously for 2 minutes.” Sift flour and measure. Sift two cupfuls of flour with the baking powder, salt and . o Combine the third cupful of our with the fruits and nuts. Add the sifted ingredients to the egg yolk and sugar alternately with the fruit juice and beat until smooth. Add the fruit and nuts, the vegetable oil and mix well Fold in the egg whites. Turn into & loaf pan lined with ofled paper and bake in a very slow oven (275 degrees Fahrenheit) for 4 hours. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST Grapefruit. Dry Cereal with Cream. & Baked Beans, Pepper Relish. * Raisin Brown Bread. Doughnuts. Cofteb. DINNER Cream of Mushroom Soup. Roast Poxa]l:own Gravy. Welsh Rabbit on Toast. Pickles. Olives. Brown Bread and Cream Cheese Sandwiches. Fig utg:: Cake. DOUGHNUTS Mix one large c and one teas bumrm. add one well-beaten egg, one-half cup milk (sweet or sour), one teaspoon lemon flavoring and cups flour; i 3 ;i i 2 : MODES== OF THE MOMENT — —— L DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Wife Who Lost Her Looks While Her Husband Grew More Handsome Is Perplexed, Telling Truth Is Safer. EAR MISS DIX: When my husband and I were married we were about on an average in appearance, and handsome youngsters, at that. Now that we are middle-aged I have lost all of my good looks and he gets better-looking every year. Everywhere we go ‘women say to me something about how good-looking he is, and it 15 getting on my nerves and giving me an inferiority complex. I feel that he deserves a prettier wife, but he seems satisfied, and he isn't in the least vain and conceited. What to do? BYLVIA. Answer—The only thing you can do is to meet the situation with philosophy and thank heaven that your husband’s good looks haven't turned his head and started him out on a career of philandering. I'r is one of the cruel jests of Nature that women, who need beauty so much more than men do, lose it sooner than men, and that as they grow older they so often deteriorate in looks, while men frequently improve. Many a gawky, lanky boy turns into a handsome and distin ed-look- ing middle-aged man. But time doesn't deal 50 kindly with a woman. It changes her from a sylph to something that, at its , we speak of as be “well preserved.” And the cruelty of the thing is that so often the middle-aged woman needs beauty to hold her husband. ‘There is this for your comfort: Few men ever take a really good look at their wives after they are married, and so they don't perceive the chapges in them. You often hear & man who married a slim little flapper still call her “little girl” after she weighs 190. The chances are that you look just as good to your husband now as you did on your weddlng day. DOROTHY DIX. * % x % DIAR DOROTHY DIX: My boy friend keeps asking me where my father is. I tell him that he is dead. My parents are divorced. Shall I tell him the truth? D. L. Answer—Of course. !Mdentlir he suspects that there is something ‘wrong, and he probably imagines it to be something far worse than it is. It is always a mistake to make & mystery about your personal affairs. It sets people guessing, and they always guess the worst thing possible. There is no disgrace in being dl:or‘oe::. DOROTHY DIX. DlARDOROTHYDlx:ImZ’I,msIobemrflcdm I am de- termined not to be the kind of flancee or wife who always tags her man. I want mine to feel that he is at liberty to do the things he would like to do, and not that he is tied to my apron strings. B. and I see each other approximately three times a week, but rarely spend the evening just sitting at_home. We dance, play tennis, go to church, visit, entertain friends. Don't you think it will be better if our relationship is kept on this basis. I'll admit that B. is a little jealous, and thinks I am too nice to every one. Is not his idea perhaps a trifie antiquated? ‘TROUBLED. Answer—I think you have framed up an unusually sane and broad matrimonial platform, and one on which you can be elected to domestic bliss. You are wise beyond your years in realizing that billing and cobing can be overdone.’ iy ] THINK you are wise in realizing that men are, after all, imperfectly housebroken and that they need some other amusement than sitting by the fireside. They require diversion and to have other people brought into their lives, and they need & wife who is a playmate as well as a sweet- gu{;tm |and a cook. And the wife who remembers this seldom loses her lusl L ‘Wisest of all are you in giving your man personal liberty. The chief that makes men chafe at matrimonial fetters is the sense of being bound, the feeling that marriage is & prison out of which they cannot break and that their wives are their jailers. IT 1is never having even the privilege of a servant girl's night off to do as they please; it is having to furnish an alibi for every hour they are out from under wife’s eye; it is having to lle to wife about where they went and what they did and how long they stayed that makes men jump the bars, because the desire for personal freedom is the strongest lon. of the human heart. It is what men fight and die for. * ‘That should be a tip to wives and make them realize that if they want to keep their hus- bands they must make them feel that they are free to gd at any minute. The bride who goes into marriage determined to give her husband liberty, to keep him from being bored and keep him amused and to make her kisses so rare that they will still keep their flavor, will make a wife whose price is above rubles. I congratulate the lucky man who gets her. DOROTHY DIX. « s s EAR MISS DIX—I am a woman of 51, with a tidy little property that I have accummulated by hard work and economy. I am in love with a widower, a man of 65, Who is a splendid man in m Are we' too old to marry? ‘WOI . - An;:er——]floz a bit of it. A matn 01123111': molty in his p;mh:ln these ere is no reason wh; WO sl not marTy an Ve many Vears of happy and congenial §?¢' together. DOROTHY DIX. DEAR DOROTHY DIX—I have been married six years and have a daughter 2 years old. My husband is good to me and gives plenty of money, but he stays out two or three nights each week all night. I feel that I cannot go on staying alone nights, as'T am very nervous, and the doctor warns me that I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown. My husband_declares he loves me and is always saying what a sweet dis- position I have, and he does not want me to get a divorce, but he will n stay at home. Can you suggest something for me to do? | DESPERATE. the world that would ‘The old wiseacres used to say: “Make everything pleasant for your hus- band at hime. Give him th‘:ng‘mumnu at home that he seeks abroad,” but 21l such advice is just by UNDOUBTEDLY, & man who has a nice, pleasant, cheerful home, with & little jolly wife who sets a good table in it, is. less ly to leave his omflrmdemmewhohunnnfigg'ue.mm d who has at his home environment, and no Everyday Psychology Remembering is one way we have of (Copyright, 1933.) Star Patterns Little Puffs. Mothers will be delighted with this style, for nothing little ttle yoke and quaint puffed demure sleeves. The pleats trimly conceal the fullness in the skirt. rub and tub well. It is No. 962. e pattern is designed in sizes 2 to 6 requires 23 yards of 36-inch ic for dress including bloomers. lified illustrated instructions for and sewing are included with ‘They give complete directions for making these dresses. To get & 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 Department, Washington, D. C. Several days are required to fill orders and patterns will be malled as quickly as possible. The Evening Star Pattern Dept. Inclosed is 15 cents for Pattern No. 962. Size. Name (please print). City and State Cutlets of Fresh Cod. Boil one pound of fresh codfish gently in boiling, salted water for about & quarter of an hour, skimming the water as soon as it comes to a boil after adding the fish. Flake the fish. Heat one-fourth pint of milk in a saucepan, add it one tablespoonful of butter creamed with two and one- half tablespoonfuls of flour in another saucepan, and keep stirring until the sauce is smooth. Then add one tea- of minced parsley, salt and pe&p:r to taste, one teaspoonful each of on] Juice and lemon juice, one egg yolk and the fish. Let stand for four ‘hours until chilled, then shape into cut- lets, dip in beaten egg, then in d crumbs, and fry in deep, smoking hot of Baked Pumpkin. Heat two hhmoonmn of fat in a {rying one small onion dwnped.p‘:nd four cupfuls of peeled and diced pumpkin. Fry for 10 min- utes. Add half a cupful of cubed American cheese and pour into a greased casserole. T« with bread crumbs. Bake in a lerate oven for 20 minutes, or until tender. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. WOMEN'S FEATURES. fldy Feels Uneasy. . EDDY FOX was far from home and in Blacky will come early.” Reddy had been traveling most of the At first he had hunted on the Meadows. Early in the evening he had caught a Mouse there, and that had helped a lot. Then when he had left the Green Meadows of Farmer Brown's farm and crossed bil of woodland, pastures and meadows of other farms, all covered with crusted snow, and so finally had reached coun- try ‘where he never had visited before, he had hunted as he traveled. Al- though he had used eyes, ears and nose | as only he knows how to use them, that one lone Mouse was all he had caught. He was desperately hungry. He lay down to await the coming of daylight and to rest, for he was tired. | Redd It was not easy to travel on a nearly empty stomach. He chose a place where he eould watch in all directions, curled his big tail .around over his nose to t. “I hope,” thought he, “that there will | it will be worth waiting . | never come? Bl be no hunters out with dogs. The snow 15 deep but it s crusted and hunters easiest to fool the dogs. worse comes t0 worse I can always get into my home in the e T ooy . :\\\\\\\\\\% REDDY HAD BEEN TRAVELING MOST OF THE NIGHT, it is all different. I don't know & single safe retreat. I don’t know where hunt- . It would be just luck under into one. And I don’t know where to run to make it hardest for the dogs to follow my trail.” There was a rosy light in the Reddy knew that jolly, bright, round Mr. Sun wes lucl off his preparing for dally climb up in the blue, blue sky, but it seemed as if he was an unusually long time in doing it. “I hope Blacky won't forget,” mut- tered Reddy. “If I knew just where that farm is I wouldn’t wait for him., But I don't. I'll have to wait for him. Oh well, if I can get just one fat he Tor.” . The light increased. Presently jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun peeped above the tree-tops. - Then he fairly began his daily climb up in the blue, blue sky. grew more and more uneasy. He moved to & place where he was partly hidden. He couldn't see as well there but on the other hand he couldn’t him= self be so readily seen. Would Blacky He had f« ten that had a long way to fly. He had just about given up hope when he heard far away a faint “caw caw.” He recognized Blacky's volce, (Copyright, 1933.) GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette. Y DEAR MRS, POST: Some time ago I had the pleasure of sending wedding two friends, girls of quite well-to-do and well-known families. The gifts were not cheap in quality, although they were inexpen- ! sive. Perhaps it would have been bet- | ter taste to send nothing at all, but I was always' under the impression that it was the thought and not the cost that really counted. Neither girl had the gr: knowledge the gift. Is this the fash- ionable way of do- ing things? If so, I am assuredly not fashionable.” Answer—No, this is not the benavior of those who are fashionable, if by that an occasional person, who should by birth and breeding be expected to have good manners, may prove to be a renegade. But that you should have had the misfortune to encounter two of this same kind certainly seems un- A usual. Typically, the higher s bride's Pposition the more meticulous she is sure 10| to be in sending notes of thanks, written by hand and at once. In more than 40 years I have never known of but two brides who failed to write a note of thanks to every giver. One said “Thank you” to no one; the other sent out engraved notices of thanks. Both were, as a matter of fact, the upstarts their rudeness proclaimed them to be. I chould perhaps add that engraved cards of greeting are in every way suitable to send, and charming to re- celve. But an engraved card in ac- ! knowledgment of personal kindness shown in a time of bereavement, or as thanks for a gift, falls short of evem common decency, let alone good taste. “Dear Mas. Post: The other evening at a charity dance, a stranger to me— a sthl;l who is prominent in the social at me with complete disdain, and turned her back. I could feel my face crimson, especially as I was wif girl I like very much. It made me nkemx.'.‘ever being polite to any one must have felt, perfectly! What I can't believe is that any one of her type can possibly be other than press-agent prominent! You know there are suchl A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER., Tmnh;u drama aplenty in the fact that Hiram Johnson of Cali- fornia—that “irreconcilable of irrecon- cialables” —was the first Senator to touch off the smoldering controversy over war debts in the Senate this ses- Senator “Hi” perhaps was never in better form than on the afternoon he made his war-debt speech. More than the usual number of Senators were on thaed?m. and the galleries were well ile He had cleared the space surrounding his and two other desks that he might the Democratic side to be closer. In the members' gallery, directly be- hind him, sat Mrs. Johnson. Mrs, Johnson takes a keen interest in measures before the s“:inu