Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1933, Page 24

MAGAZINE PAGE. Ingenious April Fool Dishes BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ISHES to serve on April 1 are given today. Any one of them can be used at a home meal to fool the family, or several can be used on & menu for an April fool party. In pre-| paring dishes for April fool surprises, anything which would be harmful to teeth or digestion must be strictly IN THE DISH OF SANDWICHES THE APRIL FOOL ONES COULD NOT BE DISCOVERED BY AP- PEARANCES. avoided. For example, hard substances | should not be introduced, for it is ible to break teeth by biting on| hem unexpectedly. Nothing should be| added in ingredients which makes Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Unc' Billy's Treetop Bed. sensible and clever. too, profits by what others do. —Unc’ Billy Possum. I ITTLE by little Jumper the Hare He's Who became convinced that it really was Unc’ Billy Possum and not his ghost or some other member of the Possum family in the tree above him. It was hard to believe, for he was sure that he had seen Unc’ Billy killed before his very eyes. Unc’ Billy explained that he was merely playing dead and in so doing had com- pletely fooled not only Jumper, but Yowler the bokcat. “If he hadn't thought Ah was daid he wouldn't have dropped me,” ex- plained Unc’ Billy. “The instant he started after yo', Brer Jumper, Ah done scramble up this tree and into a hollow up here. When he found it out, Brer Yowler sho' was pecved. Yes, suh, he sho’ was peeved.” Fearing that Yowler might take it into his head to return, Jumper de- cided that that was no place for him, especially as Unc' Billy showed no in- clination to come down out of that tree and be social. So he bade Unc’ Billy good-by and went his way, re- joicing anew in his long legs to take im out of danger and filled with ad- miration _for Unc’ Billy’s self-control that enabled him to keep from showing | of dark pick flannel or felt instead of | banana slices, cranberries for cherries, | | orange rind. | different_portions, and color each por- & sign of life no matter what happened. As for Unc’ Billy, he decided that he had had adventure enough for one night. While he hadn't been really hurt, he had a dreadful shaking and Just now he felt more like a peaceful Test than anything else. That hollow in which he had found safety from Yowler the Bobcat was rather too small for curling up in comfort, so Unc’ Billy decided that he would look elsewhere for a good bed. From where he sat he could tee a dark mass against the sky in a tree not far away and he guessed ‘what it was. “Some one done build a big nest up in that tree,” thought Unc' Billy. “Yes, suh, scme cnc go to a lot of work to build that nest. Ah never did like work mahse’f, but Ah cert'nly don’ mind havin’ other folk work fo' me. ‘Ah reckon ro ore gwine b2 usin’ that nest this time cf year, so Ah'll just have a lcok at it.” He slowly climed down from the tree he was in and just as slowly made his way over to the foot of the tree in which the nest was. He looked up z2nd sighed. That nest was high up toward the top ¢ the tree. “Ah don' see what anybody want to build a nest so high up fo',” grumbled Unc' Billy as he started to_climb. He took his time about it. He stopped often to rest. It wasn't because he was tired, but because he wasn't in & hurry. At last he reached the nest and looked it cver carefully. “Brer Squirrel done build this.” said he and grinned. “That means that it is sho' to have a good, comfortable bed inside and a good rosf over it. Once Ah get mahse'f inside, nobody happenin’ along this wsy is gwine see me. No. suh, nobody gwine see me. Ah gwine have a nice rest and nothin’ and no- body gwine to disturb me.” He found the opening to the nest. It was tco small for him, but it was little work to make it big encugh. Th2 nest was empty. “Ah reckon Brer Squirrel done build this fo' a Summer home,” muttered Unc’ Billy. “Right now_he probably is livin’ in a hollow tree. My, my, this is a good bed in here. Brer Squirrel likes things comfortable. Ah do mahsef, when it isn't too much trcuble to make 'em co. It is just as well fo' Brer Squirrel he wzsn't at heme tonight. It would have been just too ‘bad to have to put him out in the night, but Ah cert'nly would have had to do it had he been here.” Once irside, Unc’ Billy made himself comfortable. He pretty well filled that nest, but it was big enough and he could ask no more than that. In no time at all he was asleep in his tree- top bed and hedn't a care in the world. He would sleep all the following day. Anyway, that is what he expected to €> when he dropped esleep. “Copyright. 1933. ——e An srea abcut 59 miles wide and 120 miles lorg to to be added to Kruger Naticnal Park, Scuth Africa, where clifmnu. inyala and clend lb.ound. them revolting, although they may ap- };en]r tempting. It is the surprise which ools. To a dish of ordinary sandwiches add a few which prove surprising, such as cheese sandwiches which have as filling thin slices of raw pumpkin or squash dusted with mustard and pep- per. Tongue sandwiches with a strip tongue spread with mustard. Nut sandwiches in which pumpkin seeds, slightly chopped, and some sort of dry cereals are mixed with corn meal and maycnnaise. But one bite of any of these tasty appearing sandwiches will | prove enlightening. | Cut white bread into elongated tri- angles, and frost with chocolate and | other colored icings. Cut Boston brown bread into the same April fool's cap shapes and frost with white or colored icing. The white bread makes | the light cake substitute, and the| brown bread gives a good likeness to| chocolate cake. Golden or any yellow | cake can be simulated in color by corn bread and be frosted in any icing. | Nuts, cherries or any edible drcomlive‘ ingredients can be used to ornament tops of these imitation or April fool cakes. ‘With vegetable coloring or cranbagry | juice, tint ice water. Put into it} and curved slivers of carrots instead of Serve as punch. Of | course there should be real lemonade | to offer after all have been served with little glassts of the mock pink lemon- ade punch. Use uncooked turnips, carrots, pota- toes, apples, radishes, etc,, for founda- tions which should be cut into different | sized and shaped pleces to approxi- | mate those of bon bons. Flat rounds of potato make good mint shapes to be coated with chocolate. Rather lorg! rounded pieces of turnip tipped at one end and having the blunt end coated | with chocolate make dainty looking| almond paste_confections. Whitz tur- | nips should be tinted green. Shreds of white cabbage make an excellent “fool” substitute for coconut shreds| to roll some of the coated mock can- | dies in. * | Boil three cupfuls sugar and one cup- | ful water and a dash of cream of tartar until it registers 236 degrees. Pour onto a platter and when cool enough to dent when pressed lightly, begin to stir until creamy. Warm slightly so that the candies will | be coated when dipped into it. For‘v colored coatings divide fondant lntu[ tion differently, warming each in a saucepan as _needed for coating. (Copyright. 1933.) | usual railway coach. {ning. This car is propelled by a [7I?Sell THE EVENING UNCLE RAY’S CORNER Rubber-Tired Trains. HEN we travel at night we may sleep in beds or berths previded by railroad com- panies. There was a time when the sleeping car was looked upon as a wonder. That was when George Pull- man ¢énd Henry Wagner designed and built the “Pullman Palace car” almost 70 years ago. Judged by modern standards of com- fort, the early sleeping car was not a pleasant place to spend the night. But it was a good beginning. As I go about in modern sleepers I often think of how, in time to come, they will be improved so that they are more restful to sleep in. There are two troubles—noise and lack of encugh smcothness of riding. ‘Whether we shall have smooth riding depencs partly on how well the railway keeps up its roadbed; but, even with the best care of tracks, stecl wheels running on steel rails cannot give per- fect smoothness or quietness. What will the enswer be? Perhaps it will be found through such tests as those which have been made within recent mcnths by the Reading Railroad. This company has tried out a new type of car. The new car hes rubber tires which are adapted to running along rails. It weighs only cne-third es much as the The rubber tires contain air, but in- tide each one is a aluminum “collar” which will prevent sericus trouble in case of a puncture. If a puncture occurs, the wheel will drcp about half | an inch, but the car can keep on run- electric power plant which it carries. ‘We may look forward to the day of rubber-tired trairs, and if such trains come to be we should have a good night's rest when we sleep in one cf them. (For “Inventions” section of your | serapbook.) | If you want the free leaflet, “Ques- | ticns and Answers About Europe,” send | a stamped, return envelope to me in | care cf this paper. UNCLE RAY. o Asparagus in Cream. Cut the esparagus in 3-inch pieces. Cook until tender in as little water as | possible, Drain. Put back on the stove, and add enough heavy cream to moisten well. Add a gencrous piece of butter and let simmer for 5 minutes. Serve hot. MODES OF THE MOMENT \ A thmted. L\MLIA a.@ed& and, white chuck silk, it with o checked. B st Mo dreas %, 00(' iama, wwins STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Can Man Brought Up in Atmosphere of Hate Become Pleasant Husband?—Is a Woman Passe at 27? EAR MISS DIX—How much do children react to the undesirable characteristics of their parents? I have been brought up in a frigid atmesphere in which one never even says “Thank you,” where there is pever a demonstration of sffection. Father did not marry until he was old and crabbed and he does not sweeten with age. Mother is as cantankerous and impatient as father. Father can't start a conversation without giving or getting a snappy retort be- fore 10 words are out. Mother is & chlm’;lan nagger. A son, aged 22, is bullied like a child. Such is my home. t chance have I of becoming :"Klusnm. cheerful, pntl;un} hl\;sbmg l:g d;:me;.ldoml ’hut one who wife and cl n ? St W) ONE SUCH SON. Answer—You have the best chance in the world of becoming a model husband and father, because you have an awful warning in your parents of how much misery a man and woman can make for each other, and how they can blight their children’s lives by their lack of self-control. THAT will make you watch your step in dealing with your own wife and children Most of the temperance fanatics are people who have suffered from the effects of drunkenness in their own families, and the most peaceful home I know is one presided over by a woman who was reared in & house of strife and who says that she determined when a child that thefe should never be an argument in her home when she got married. Whether children imitate their parents or not, and how much they are molded by their environment, depends altogether upon the child’s reaction to the parents and the conditions in which it is reared. If the parents are grouchy and surly natured and the child inherited that sort of disposition, he or she will probably make just as disagreeable husband or wife as his father and mother are and go on making lnothgr miserable home. But if the child is shocked at its mother's and father’s conduet, and if it grows up hating the scenes that make the home a hell on earth, it will make a particularly tender end kind husbar~! or wife and do everything possible to keep the atmosphere of the home serene. SOMETIMES a slovenly woman, who is too lazy to keep he; house clean or give her family proper food, will have a slovenly daughter who poisons her family on bad cooking and throws half her husband makes into the garbage can. But more often the slovenly woman's daughter is so disgusted with her mother's housekeeping and wastefulness that she is a crackerjack housckeeper and a model of thrift. So true is this that it has passed into a proverb that a trifling mother makes a smart daughter, or, as one version of it goes, & heavy-footed mother makes a light-footed daughter. T know a household that is just such a storm center as you describe yours to be, one in which one is afraid to speak for fear of starting some- thing. There has probably never been a meal in it that didn't end up in a row. The mother and father quarrel violently and the children have grown up under a tyranny and heckling that was enough to break any spirit. BUT the homes these children have established are exceptionally happy. Possibly because they learned self-control in their youth they get along with’ their husbands and wives with unusual harmony, and, as I often think, they show to their husbands and wives a tenderness end consideration and affection for which they were starved in their youth. So you need have no fears on the score of not making a good hus- band. You have seen too much of an unhappy home not to do your part tcward making one that will be a haven of peace and any girl will be lucky who gets you. But my advice to you is to get out of your present unpleasant environment us soon as possible, There is no merit in suffer- ing unnecessary martyrdom, and if there is any torment worse than being “picked on” at home all the time, I don't know what it is. e DOROTHY DIX. I EAR MISS DIX—Is a woman passe at 277 I have become obsessed by the idea that life has passed me by, that I am too old to have any happiness. I long for the natural gay that belongs to health and vivacity. Must I look at the world through sedate and wise eyes and yield place to the girl whose only superiority rests in the accident of her being a few years younger than I? I have never had any real youth. It was spent in working every evening for an education and after graduation keeping my nose to the grindstone to pay back the money borrowed for my educa . A man a few years older than I wants to marfy me, but I am afraid that he may tire of me when he sees an attyctive girl who is younger than I. Is my age such a handicap as I thin¥ it is? M. W. Answer—There is nothing old about you except your viewpoint about age. That is at least 50 years old, for it has certainly been long since any one ever dreamed of a girl being passe at 27. In your grandmother's time, when girls married at 15 and 16 and had a family by the time they were 20, a woman was considered an old maid at 25. But in these more enlightened times a woman is a girl until she is at least 35, and at 27 she is just beginninz to come into her own. OSSIBLY if a weman has a golden age, when she is at the peak of her attractions, it is between 25 and 30. She is then at her best in the full tide of her good looks, with the added charm that sophistication gives her. She is old enough to have seen enough and to have read and studied enough to make an intelligent companion, and she has had enough experi- ence of the world to acquire tact in handling people. As far as being gay is concerned, that is a matter of temperament and not of years. Nature evidently did not put quicksilver in your veins and neither at 17 nor 27 could you have been one of the wild, screaming flappers. But that kind of vivacity has nothing to do with happiness, nor with one'’s ability to enjoy things. You must always do that in a quiet and sedate way, but you will get no less pleasure out of life because you do not make it a wild party. NOR need you be afraid to marry a man lest he might forsake you for & younger woman. If all women kept from marrying because of that danger, there would be no more marriages, because every year there is a fresh crop of debutantes and there are always younger and better- looking girls who might be potential rivals. ‘What you need to do is to get over your morbid insistence on age. Forget it as everybody else does. Never have another birthday as long as you live. There are a million things more important to a woman than her age. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) Cabbage With Beef. ‘The cabbage is best if boiled with corn beef. Break each leaf apart and Baked Tomatoes. Cut in slices some good fresh tomatoes that are not too ripe. Put a layer of wash separately. Put in with the beef about three-fourths of an hour before them in a dish suitable for baking, then a layer of bread crumbs, and so | TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933. How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. “Hand and Glove.” “Oh, they're hand and glove!” we hear about two people who are ex- tremely intimate. This metaphor to describe “closeness” needs no explana- lon. The use of the expression in modern speech is frequently with & shade of suspicicn, as referring to a person who has knowledge of the meretricious acts of one with whom he is supposed to be as close as “hand and glove.” The expression is no product of mod- ern slang, however, going back as far as 1782, to the “table talk” of William Cowper, where we find it as follows: “As if the world and they were hand and glove.” (Copyright. 1933.) My Neighbor Says: If a cold pudding sauce is de- sired, it should be chilled and served when needed. It should not be allowed to stand in the hot kitchen, where it would soften and lose flavor. Caramel frosting blends with spice, white or yellow cakes. (Copyright, 1933.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. ‘Scuse me, Baby—but you mustn't| get in the road ob a feller ‘at’s doin’| his athletics- | And like a lilting song. ‘lll the old jokes, and then we listened | onion, one green pepper, and one pi- (Capyright. 1933) WOMEN'’S FFATURES. MORE TRUTH BY JAMES J. A Tip to the Northman. I wonder why the Eskimo, When 1Bummer skies have lost thelr glow, Doesn't den in A walrus skin And sleep for half a year, And then, when once more shines the | sun, Devote six months to work and fun, For wherefore keep Quite fast asleep When skies are bright and clear? When nights are dark he cannot lark Or in his umiak embark, Nor stalk with care The polar bear The Styglan shadows through. It seems to me the stupid chap Should use the darkness for his nap, Which you and me, If we were he, Undoubtedly would do. When night and day divide that way Why not divide his work and play? He'd find his life Devoid of strife One day to slumber on this sphere And one to follow cne's career Is quite enough To do one’s stuff If both are six months lcng! Now We Know. We used to wonder what became of | to & radio broadcast. (Copyright, 1933.) THAN POETRY MONTAGUE. The Optimists. ‘While still the frost is in the alr And not a bird dares sing Lest he discovered in despair That still it isn't Spring, You hear a cheeping in the bogs— A thin and shrill refrain— And know the happy little frogs Are on the job again. They must stand watch-and-watch, I think, For, night and day along Forever by the river's brink You hear their trilling fong. But though you seek them 'meath the sun Or by the glowing moon, You never see a single one Pour forth his jolly tune. No soloist among them lifts A solitary song; A swarm, divided into shifts, Sings half the night along. From near and far and everywhere You hear their voices rise; Their chorus fills the frosty air And echoes to the skies, So if you'll venture out some night Across the flelds and hills, Yvu']l’lurlxtur their fresh and young de- Expressed in runs and triils. The snow may still be lingering Where woods loom brown and sere, But still the minstrels of the Spring Rejoice that they are here. Cheer Up. 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