Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1933, Page 31

a MAGAZINE PAGE, Cakes for Birthday Celebrations BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. BIRTHDAY CAKE is one of the good things to cat which chil+ dren always expect at a birth- day party. It is the main fea- ture of refreshments, There is something so gala about it, surrounded ®a it is with lighted candles, few, but full of significance. If o?e is young, there is a proud feeling of importance when candles are many, which is en- tirely lost in later years. If mother can make two dates on the cake, cne of the first birthday and the other of the present one, the cake is enjoyed even | ful orange juice to two of lemon juice. dles continue to be. Fun is in- med into the party refreshments if tiny favors are baked in the cake, the sort of favors that come just for sueh purposes. Be sure to tell the Ung folk that there are favors so that they will be on the lookout for them and not bite hard on them. Euch faver is supposed to have & meaning. A wee boat or train signifies a trip, a ring | means marriage, a thimble indicates an | old maid, a dime means riches, etc. | A good frosting for ornamenting cakes is made as follows: Two whites, ~three teaspoonfuls fi ly squeezed lemon juice, or one teaspoans The lemon gives zest, and is not for flavoring purposes. Use any preferred flavering, If vanilla is wanted use one teaspoonful of it. Lemon and orange rcquire but one-half teaspoonful, Add two tablespognsful of confectioners’ sugar to the unwhipped whitcs of eggs. Beat three minut2s before beginning to add more sugar, whichdo slowly, beat- ing one or two minutes each time after adding sugar before putting in more. When frosting is heavy enough to spread, put in a pastry tube and press in a stream over the already icad cake. Use any preferred vegetable ccloring for the decorative icing, which must, of course, be of a different color from | that already on the cake. The flavoring |2nd coloring should be added to frost- | ncw: be in the streets, but for its wcrk. A YOUNG PERSON IS PROUD OF THE NUMBER OF CANDLES ABOUT A BIRTHDAY CAKE. | more. In later years dates are kept in the background rather than empha- | sized in any such way. | Simple_sponge cake is just the kind | to have for a youngster's birthday. It | 18 easily digested and no hing. Angel | cake is another good kind. Avoid layer | cakes. A top frosting supplies encugh sugary sweetness, and this frosting | 1d not be too thick. But let it be | gay, with names and dates done in a cantrasting colored icing run in a fine | stream through a pastry tube. Or the | name and numel can be put in with | tiny colored can: Rim the edge of K the cake with candles. 1 For a child about 12 years old or in | the ’teens, a richer cake can be usedl and it can have layers. The name and dates are not so important, but the A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. IT had begun to look as if one of the| Senate’s most colorful figures—Smith | Wildman Brookhart—might wind up his period of service on Capitol Hill without having an opportunity for'an- other of his char- ], acteristic displays of F%ghung spirit. et since e since he re- turned to the present he has re- mained more or less in the back- ground. Just as the short session was nearing | the end, his opportunity came. The | Blaine resolution looking toward repeal | of the eighteenth amendment was just | the kind of thing to set him off. { Sheppard of Texas, co-author of the | amendment, was the first to jump into | the fray, but Brookhart was doing his | § art. » It was Brookhart who sidetracked | all attempts to get an early vote on the repeal resolution. | He met the first request for an im- | mediate vote with the statement that | it would take two weeks after March 4 | to answer all the statements made by anti-prohibitionists on the “booze” | question. And he objected to the second | request on the ground that “it is just @ little bit worse than the first.” | Thus it was the Towan who paved | the way for the mild-mannered Shep- | rd to pick up his speech on the| {:ague of Nations that he began 10! ears ago and outline to fewer than 1f a dozen Senators in a conversa- | tional tone the whole history of that organization. And it was Brookhart| who roamed the floor during Shep-! rd’s speech, ready at any moment | 5 jump in ¥f the Texan showed any | signs of faltering. Brookhart and his allies must have chuckled at the position in which they JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. IF MY SKATES WEREN'T BROKE, 'D 1 GO SKATING. A NEW RINK 15 T0 HAVE TINTED WE. BLACK AND BLUE SHOULD BE QUITE APPROPRIATE ; ing after three or four additions of \Fuggr, so that both are well distrib- uted. | (Copyright. 1033.) Uncommon Sense We’re Learning BY JOHN BLAKE. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. O, Bedtime Stories BY !'HOIJ(I‘ON W. BURGESS. Reddy Is Forgiven. Toe,tomper that is quick yowll find h 5 aaly Judgment xhus‘ho t'x:‘:xm;:{“ A R&. REDDY had just started to leap up on a snow-covered atump when Reddy Fox, leap~ ing straight at her, sent her sprawling. In an instant she was on her feet, her lips drawn back to show all her sharp teeth, her eyes flashing, a mingled snarl and growl in v throat. ”?:'ntfit at Mfi she sprang, sna) aws vcofl. log . managed 1o Goate her. e mAn: T. “Wait a minute!" :Odgllifld “Walt & minute!" But Mrs. Reddy wasn't waiting for any ane or anything, Her temper had the best of her and she was in a rage because Reddy had knocked her over. Like a red-coated fury she once mare sprang &t Reddy and once more Reddy managed to slip away frcm her befare her teeth could do any real damage. time Reddy retreated a few steps. Mrs. Reddy snarled at him, then turned back toward that stump and | once more prepared to leap up on it. As before Reddy plunged forward and knocked her sprawling. This time he pinned her down in the snow, for his own temper was getting the best of him, He shook her. “Are you trying to get caught in that trap?” he snarled. Mrs. Reddy stopped struggling. She glared at Reddy. “What are you talk- ing about?” demanded. “I don't see any tra Reddy had regained his temper. He grinned, “You may not see it, but you would have felt it but for me,” said he. “Of course, I mean the trap up on top of that stump.” Mrs. Reddy stared at the stump. Then she stared at Reddy. “Are you trying to tell me that there is a trap on that stump?” she demanded. “I The cries of people in distress did not greatly trouble Mr. Juius Caesar, his predeccscrs or his followers. You will remember, from your reading | of history, that many long years later, ! when the' Queen of France was told het her subjects were starving for “Why don't they eat | d. she said: Look about ycu today and you will di: rot only working to help others to fcod and jobs but zre spending their own money in the campaigns to he’p the un- employed. The gentleman who invented and used the phrese “enlightened” selfish- res§ isn’t employing it any mcre, for apparently it did not work as a busi- | nesy rule. Enlightenment is now the property of the unselfih, and they are using it with great devotion and with fine effect. * % % x The campaign of the Gibson Commit- tee in New York was supported by vcl- | untary ccntributions. It is not yet known how many people | it has kept in their homes who would | I have scen no figures as to the num- | ber of the unemplcyed who are now em- ployed because of its work, but I know the number is great. ‘The raising and intelligent and help- ful expenditure of $15,000,000 is a ter- rific jcb. It would never have been undertaken in_earlier days. It probably could not have succeeded at any former time in this country. This great campaign could not have succeeded if people were not learning, though slowly perhap:, that they are | and must be their neighbors’ keepers if | their neighbcrs, through no fault of thzir own, happen to fall into hard luck. | I do not believe that any cf the con- tributors to this vast enterprise, or any of those who gave their time and serv- ices to it, did 0 becau'e of the fear of what might happen if unemployment centinued to increase. 1 belicve they worked unselfishly for others, because they have a better un- derstanding of the duties of the for- tunate citizen to the unfortunate citi- zen. (Copyright, 1933.) found themselves, It was ideal fcr| throwing out the threat of a filibuster. | With the session so near the end and with the demand eo insistent that the pressing relief legislation be dealt | with before March 4, they held a poweriul weapon in their hands. If they were only able to keep talking, | there was a chance that they might cause their opponents to capitulate. Sq Mr. Brookhart, one of the Sen- ate’s most ayowed prohibitionists, got his chance to leave his imprint on Senators just before he was about to | don’t believe it.” | By way of reply Reddy walked over to the siump, stood up and with his | — er that thousands of people are | A MOMENT LATER HE PUSHED SOMETHING OFF. nose cautiously poked about. A mo- | ment_later he pushed something off. |1t fell, hung by & chain and swung | against the side of the stump. There was a sharp, ugly snap as the pan hit the stump %nd the jaws of the trap sprang together with a snap. Once more Reddy grinned. “Now, my dear, you may jump up there if you feel that you must,” said he. All Mrs. Reddy's temper had van- ished. “Tell me, my dear, how you knew that trap was there,” said she. “I didn't know; I guessed,” confessed Reddy. “It was a good guess, but why did you guess it?” demanded Mrs. Reddy. “One of my brothers lost a toe in a trap set in just such a place and I never have forgotten it,” replied Reddy. “You see, my dear, he had found somethin good to eat lying on the grour with no real reason for it baing there. He was suspiclous of it on this account. A little way off was a stump. He de- cided to jump up on that for a general look around. He did. It was his good luck that the trap hidden there caught him by one toe and not by a whole foot. Since then I have found traps set in similar places, sometimes on a stump, sometimes on a rock, sometimes on a mound, always the only thing just around there standing above the level of the ground and always at quite s little distance from the bait left by the trapper. He knows that we would look for a trap close to the bait, so the puts the trap on the highest place near which is this stump, hoping and ex- pecting that one of us will do just what you started to do. Now, my dear, we'll take that Rabbit and start this very night for our old home in the Old Pasture. Life is becoming too uncer- tain in these parts.” Mrs. Reddy did. (Copyright. 1933.) il Tired of waiting to get electricity from the government-owned River Shannon project, Dunmore, Irish Free bid them adieu. State, will build its own light plant. Ancther Baking Demonstration With Electric e = o @ Range Tomorrow—Wednesday—at 2 P.M. Here are the two essentials to successful baking — Washington Flour— both plain and self-rising—floun th and this last word in modern Electric Ranges. is specially | And that is just what Reddy Fox and apted for kitchen use— SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPY. ROSCOE FAWCETT. OLIVER ACQUIRED HER AMUSING HABIT OF SNIFFING, WHICH SHE EMDLOYS IN HER SCREEN CHARACTER = 1ZATIONS, WHEN HER BFFORTS YO SUPPRESS A SNEEZS WHILE IN A MUSICAL COMEDY MADE HE AUDIENCE LAUGH - DANCED THE CHARLESTON FIVE ™~ YEARS BEFORE \T BECAME PROULAR TONY. JA.. WHO SUCCEEDS THE WORLD-PAMED TONY AS TOM MIX'S MOUNT, IS NO RELATION YO WIS PREDECESSOR BUY RESEMBLES HIM ALMOST PERFECTLY. A0, e v 1 e i " 2 DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR MISS DIX—I am a young married woman with a good hus- band, two healthy, bright children, and that should constitute & happy family, but I have a mother-in-law who is abcut to wash our hame away with her tears. She is “so sensitive” that she is always fecling that she is being neglected or her feelinga are being hurt, even when nothing has been done or said at which it wouid seem ible for anybody to take offense. And then she starts to cry. My usband has been a good son to her and always catered to her, and when she turns on the waterworks he reprimands me for not being mare con- siderate of such a defenseless creature who is so mild that she simply - dissolves in tears when she is wounded. Do you think she will ever run dry? What reason do women have for go'ng into a flood of tears if some cne displeases them, or even if they are not displeased? In what way can I handle this matter, as it is driving me mad? MRS. C. W. D. NSWER: I am scrry to have to tell you that you are docmed to live in a flooded area as lang as your mother-in-law lives. For the fountain of her tears is one that will never run dry. Like the brook, it will flow on and on forever. For, you see, long ago your mother-in-law discovered that tears are ‘woman's most effective weapon and the one sure-fire way by which she can get er she wants and impose her will on others. That they are a coward's weapon that enables her to strike at the hearts of those who love her, and against which they are poweriess to defend themsalves, makes no difference to her, because she is seifish and self-centered and the only thing that counts with her is achieving her purpoee. ¢ Txm are thousands of women like your mother-in-law who make a graft out of the cry-baby act. They begin as babies howling for what they want and they go through life howling for wkat they want, and they invariably get it because hydraulic pressure is an irresistible force that flattens us out when applied to us and makes us nothing but door mats for the howlers to walk over, 1 have seen cry-baby womep weep their husbands into bankrup time and again by demanding luxuries the poor men could not afford, but that in the end they went in debt for to dry their wives' tears. I have seen mothers keep their daughters from making advantageous mar- riages and prevent their sons from accepting business opportunities that would have led them to fortune by weeping over them and telling them how they were not going to live long and how they couldn't bear to be s::u:d from them. And I have known any number of families that have n kept in abject slavery to a woman's tears. . HUBBAND didn't even dare to go downtown of an evening because if he did it precipitated a deluge. Even after the children were grown, they had to punch the time clock at the appointed hour, or else mother met them sodden with tears. Nobody could express an opinion without mother trotting out the tear jug. She had to have the best of everything. or else she considered herseif neglected and it took apologies and grovel- ing to stanch the flow. She kept her feelings scattered all over the place 30 it was impossible to move without stepping on them, and then there ‘was more woe and grief. Somehow before tears we seem peculiarly helpless. They melt down our backbones and we lack the strength and force to deal with them as we should because, of course, what we should do is to tell these grafters thay we are on to their game. Lacking the nerve to do that, the only thing we can do is to ignore them, pretend that we don’t see them, and that would do more than anything else to dry up the source of supply. AS for you, Mrs. C. W. D, you will have to charge your mother-in-law’s tears up to the profit and loss of matrimony, and even with that you are well to the good on your investment. We have to strike a general average in a lot of things in life, and it is only when we gét the philosophy that enables us to do that, that we have the e beaten. Just offset this moist, unpleasant old lady with your good husband, your home and your fine children, and you will find her easier to bear. ‘You can even find something humorous in watching the way she turns on the faucet, if you will ook at the funny side of it. , DOR! Y TUESDAY, FEBRUARY. 28, 1933, NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. STAG BEETLES. Lucanus dama. N the orchard and the woods, where rotten stumps are plentiful, these bezetles rear families. If you cut cpen one of these bettle castles you will find some of the it and whitest grubs you ever saw. grubs, of course, despises the light and make grotesque effcrts to get away from to> much pubicity. There are clever wocdpeckers who know how to sound the wcod creatures when they eome close to bark of the tree. It hes been said that many of the stag bectle offspring take six years to grow up. There are three well known specizs of stag beetles, all having the brancked horns from which they re- 67 @STAQ BEETLE: ceived their name. The giant stag beetle is fcund in the Southern States. The commcn stag is of the East and the horned stag found in both locations. ‘They are a deep mahogany brown, spine-edged leg-, branched hons (which are larger in the males), large eyes and strong biting mouth parts. They love the bright lights and many a eng who has strayed from his safe home i the forest or fisld has been tramp'ed under foot becau'e he tried :0 hard to break into the brilliant light. Country children love to y with them. They are patient and let you tie a strong read about their antlers. Then they pull about tiny acorm cuj filed with sand. They do not seem resent being a fairy horse draw a chariot, and if you pick them up they make & little squeaking sound, which Sow has been interpretcd by their playmates | as “vinging.” Boys call them “squeak- and they alo are kncwn by the | name of “pinching bugs.” These famous | pinchers are in great demand during the Initiation rites of ccuntry boys' clubs. i tmporiance. | T nom ce, decayed stumps in which {o dwell like the termites, subsist entirely on wood pulp. Birds and small animals are ever on the lookout for them. They are a {lulu morsel and large enough for a whole meal in some instanoes. ‘The mother beetle lays her eggs cloge to the wood'g:lg‘ln wee les she has made in rk. The little grubs make their wnfl slowly into thes soft ulp and here they grow so plump that heir head is & mere black spot with hmng jaws. A large stump will house hundreds and sometimes thou- sands cf these ecream-colored bahies, whose only ambition is to see how much they can eat of their surroundings. (Copyrisht, 1933.) Walnut Wafers. ‘Two tablespoonfuls butter, 1}3 cup- fuls brown sugar, 1 egg, ¢ tablespoon fuls flour, 115 cupfuls chopped nuts, Ver. 2 the. sugar gradually. e ‘oey 3 sugar gradually, the slightly beaten, the nuts mixed the flour and water. Drop hy tea- spoonfuls 2 inches apart on a greased baking_sheet. Bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees Fahrenheit) 7 to 10 minutes. Remove from the oven, cool 1 minute before taking from the pan. My Neighbor Says: Bits of jelly, jam or preserved fruits spread on egg cmelet after it has been cooked and then sprinkled with confectioners’ sugar makes a good luncheon dish. Coffee should be served with the omelet. To whiten clothes, beil the articles in a strong solution of cream of tartar water about one- half hour, then rinse well and boil again in a well-blued water until the water is clear. The sun will aid in making them ‘beautifully white. (Copyright. 1933 With RE is nothing known that will clean and polish teeth so quickly and leave them so ing whi D cleaning your teeth, as you always uses powder.’ Asit is only the powder part of any dentifrice th.\yt cleu;’:, a denvfi‘f'rice that Dr. Lyon’s Tooth Powder is ALL POWDER—100%_ cleans- oot paskl Dull Teeth L. H M—"If my skates weren't ‘dbroken is the correct form. So also we | say, “I didn't know it was broken (not | broke).” “It is your fault that the vase i broken (not broke).” Free Samples of Washington Flour —both the PLAIN and SELF-RISING—will be sent to your home for yeu to try in your own kitchen—if you are attending the demonstration for the Become White Dentists everywhere recommend Dr.” Lyoo's ‘Tooth Powder, because— teeth -im‘)fiy cannot t time. o remain dull and film Nation#l Electrical Supply Company E. C. Graham, President 1330 New York Avenue coated when it is all etai Iulunonfld otains is ALL POWDER just naturally | teet! eleanstbest. Powder... K They Found an Easier, Quicker, Better Way to Whiten Teeth Do As Your Dentist Does . . . Use POWDER d practical that leaves them :;.rk]ing—ml:;’ ‘shades whiter. No Grit—No Pumice Free from all grit or pumice, Dr, Lyon’s cannot ibly scratch, or 123re the softest enamel, as years of constant use have shown. dom from sibletooth 3 mwamiupmfiutm as every physical pain is a signal that something has gone wrong with the body. so every fear or mental pain is ;‘l ngnnl that all is not well with the ind. There Is momul{‘anflhlu by trying to argue t! where bodily funetions mental fune . ever found the dividing line. ever will. When physical pain becomes so in- tense that we can not stand it, Nature produces a ctate of uncaonsciousness the | Which gives our weary tissyes time in % which to reorganize Under dire stress, Jast part of the body-mind corperation to quit the scene of battle. cr.d get these fat, lolling | every coin you handled was contami- nated, that every open place was a elevotor or street car was a &ign of impending suffocation, that every varia- tion in your heart beat heraided the enset of engina pectoris (heart trouble), \nl".; every story abcut WOMEN'S FEATURES. EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY BY DR JESSE W. SPROWLS. ething to . 'There is only one thing thal could happen. Kindly Nature woul deprive you of the means cf reasoning about these things until you automati~ cally came o your senses. Al (fear) is the tl \bnormal that your mind. It is sall that you may forget sical pain by concentrating on it. Perhaps you may forget your fears by fixing ycur atten- tion on them. I am not certain about ;hl:‘ paint. But that’s what somg peo~ are us. (Copyright, 1033.) Every fear is a mental pain. Just gained egtion as to eave off and No one has One thing seems cerain: he “mind 5 16| the e ree tablespoonfuls choppzd onion, 3 tablespoonfuls chopped green pepper, ; 4 tablespoanfuls butter, ¢ eggs, 1 cup{:{ Suppcse that you imagiped that |fine dry bread erumbs and 3% cupf ketchup. Fry onign and p:pper in the butter pntil slightly brown, then pour |into a’baking disik. Break the eggs into the dish. Mix the crumbs with the ketchup and sprinkle over the eggs. Bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees Fahrenheit) until the eggs are sef, but net hard. Serve in the dish in which they are baked. of impending attack, that every was & of dangerous days, that every *This is the nicest looking wash I've ever had! Here's my new washday secret . . « *“T use my regular soap and washing method, @dd 2 tablespoans of LUX. 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