Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1933, Page 25

Treatment of Home Furnishings BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. HOMEMAKER has to be versed in the lar kinds of treat- ment the different articles in her house require, or she may ruin them instead of keeping them in the best condition. Some things need soap and hot water to make them shine. Some should never be 50 much as touched with hot water, ®ome not with cold, and soap may mar lacquers, lesther, paper, glass, plct. s, etc. In a single one of these general classifications, there are numerous fin- ishes, each with its own requirements. Many of these are familiar to home- makers, even the inexperienced, while others are unfamiliar, Metal lighting fixtures should never be washed. Not so much as a drop of water should touch them, for it mars the finish. They should be dust- ed and wiped off lightly with a soft cloth. Accessories to fixtures may re- quire washing, such as crystal pend- ants, and such portions of & fixture as may be of glass. When the giass forms an actual non-detachable part | of a fixture, care should be exercised not to let so much as a drop of the water or any liquid touch the metal. Pendants are cetachable and so are | strings of crystal. These should be washed in warm soapy water with a little ammonia in it, rinsed in water a trifie hotter, as the glass will be | tempered in the warm washing solu- tion, and dried thoroughly and also | rubbed to give the desired polish and glisten to the glass. Then the pend- ants are rehooked to the fixture. It is when crystal chandeliers catch the light and break it into rainbow hues that their real beauty appears, Japanned trays and other articles with this attractive finish should never be washed in hot water. It causes | the japan surface to crack and even scale off. Then the article loses its good looks. Use lukewarm water and white soap, since this is milder than yellow. With the solution given, wash the tray or whatever piece is being | cleaned. Do not immerse in the water, but wash with a cloth wet with it. | Wipe with clear rinsing water. Wipe dry. Sprinkle with a little flour, and let it remain on for 20 minutes or so. | Then rub the article with a soft clsth 81‘1‘3 finally with a piece of soft old Avold putting very hot dishes on lacquered and japanned trays. Tne | Sometimes they respond to rubbing with a flannel wet with sweet oil. After a | With a cloth wet with alcohol. marks left are very difficult to remove. | few minutes, wipe off the place quickly | THE EVENING NANCY PAGE Jolly Meals Are Served in Kitchens. BY FLOBENCE LA GANKE, “Suppose, Nancy, that you had to move into smaller quarters. And sup- pose that you had to take in some relatives so that your dining room be- came a different sort of room. And suppose that you to use the kitchen for a dining room. What would you do?” This question was put to Nancy by & club member who had had to double up with her relatives during the lean days. Nancy studied for a few minutes. “Well, I'd try to make the kitchen just | | as atiractive as I cculd, at the smallest cost. “I think I would get unbleached muslin, not too good a quality, be- cause I would want to have light coming through it. I'd make sash cur- | tains, or rather hangings that came | cnly to the sash. I'd trim the curtaing with ball fringe, not necessarily white. | It might be red or green or yellow. | “Then I would hunt for some of | those bargains in peasant linen table- cloths. They are colorful and have gay stripes or plaids, “I'd buy some pottery candlesticks— you can get thcm for very little, “I think I would use candles when company came, even though the meal A Mother'’s Duty to Her Daughter Sdfl Girls Be Taught Tact \DorothyDix| T IS just as much a mother’s duty to try to make her daughter a suc- cessful woman as it is to make her a good one. It isn't enough to see that little Mary eats her spinach and gets the proper vitamins and is sent to achool and learns moral mnh. It is mother's business to develop in her those graces and c! and the tact and suavity which are so potent in carrying a woman to the goal of her desires. 1t is every mother's duty to help her daughter to make the most of her- self, and particularly is this the case when the daughter happens to be an ugly duckling. Yet few mothers ever bother to do this. If Mamie's fairy godmother bestowed upon her a peaches-and-cream complexion and naturally wavy hair, mother rejoices and thanks Heaven for its mercies. But if Sally wasn't around when good looks were handed out, mother may ucretly‘wrm; her hands over the catastrophe, but she doesn’t do.any- thing about it. HE doesn't begin helping Sally by the time she is out of the cradle to outwit nature and build up a line of attractions that are just as potent as beauty. She doesn’t teach Sally that no woman need be as homely as she was made or that when a plain woman is fascinating she is the most fascinating woman on earth, And, moreover, her charms are indestructible because they are the kind that are proof against the ravages of time. No woman has a right to let a little girl grow up with bad teeth, an- ugly mouth or a hideous nose in these days of good dentists and plastic surgeons. Making a figure over is & matter of diet that is in mother’s hands, as is teaching a girl how to dress so as to turn the spotlight on her good points and camouflage her defects. And for the rest the beauty shop is the modern miracle worker. A MOTHER should teach her homely daughter that inasmuch as she is shy on pulchritude spe has to be long on other attractions, and that if she has these she can snap her fingers at the beautiful but dumb. So mother should see to it that Plain Jane learns to be a superlative dancer, and that assures her of never being a wallflower at a party. Also, she sees that Jane acquires a game of bridge that makes her one of those young women whom hostesses always think of when giving a week end Pcny. And she drills it into Jane’s youthful consciousness that while a iving picture may be snooty, a chromo must always wear an amiable and pleasing expression. Furthermore, she makes Jane realize the importance of cultivating her mind and acquiring an Mteresting and entertaining conversational line. People will put up with dullness for a time in a girl who is a feast to the eyes, but they will not endure being bored by one who is nothing to look at. Any bright, vivacious, amusing talker can cast a halo about her- self that will completely obscure her looks. A GIRL who knows how to dress, who knows how to dance and play games, who is good at sports, who is amiable and tactful, who can put men at their ease and entertain them, is independent of mere beauty. And all these charms her mother can give her if she will only teach her to make the most of herself. s Of course, it is every mother’s duty to have her daughter taught some way of making a living. This provides her against the necessity of marrying for a meal ticket or of marrying for an occupation and because she is bored running around to parties. But it is especially important that the girl should acquire some gainful occupation into which she can throw her v ot Lfl-«nvxxa:qa:l BTRINGS OF CRYSTALS FROM CHANDELIERS ARE WASHED WITHOUT SEPARATING THE) BEADS, the beauty. Such things may look '.he.t:m be:"wl-llnatih carefully dusted with s cloth. ‘There can be no hard-and-fast rule about cleaning things, since fittings and furnishings of a home are so va- ried—woods of many kinds, textiles in assortment, silver, brasses, compositions, JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. VA *SKROOLOOS THINKS “THAT A | CLUB SANDWICH 1S MADE P. K—If you are a guest for several days in some one's home, watch your hostess for the proper disposal of your napkin at the end of a meal. If she folds hers, you fold yours. Many fami- lies use a napkin for several meals. Of course, if you are a guest for only one meal, the napkin is not folded after it s used. FASHION ™ <o« AND THE SEA ee o+ ARE ON REVIEW ‘Tuk famous Palm Sunday and Easter parades on the Atlantic City Board- walk are almost ready to start. Framed against the blue of the sea . piced with the tang of ocean air o « « they’re gay pictures you won’t want to miss. Come and be a part of the gay throng, or view it at lux- urious ease from Chalfonte-Haddon Hall’s Ocean Deck. Why not come for the emtire Easter week? Enjoy a seashore ap- petite . . . and delicious food. Re- lax in a comfortable, friendly room. Play golf. Ride on the beach. In the evenings — dance, play bridge, or enjoy the amusements of the Boardwalk. The thoughtful con- sideration for your well-being that you'll find here, the salt air and sunshine will put a whole new zest in life. DAILY RATES Per person (2 in @ room, with bath) fTa CHALFONTE . . ..... $8.50 to $5.50 n HADDON HALL ........$10 10 §7 Woals included European Plan also ' |LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. | Ma was starting to do the crasswerd | puezle and pop said, By the way, you | haven't got that woolen vest knitted for me yet, have you? Meening the one ma said she was| going to knitt for him about 2 months | ago and hasn't started yet, and ma said, ‘That reminds me, it was only this very morning that I said to myself, Now I | really must buy that wool for Willyum's | vest the very next time I go downtown, | they're exactly the very werds I told myself. ; i vait for an anser? m‘fif‘fl,,?édny,fi“s:fl,f Do you think vou | Then I'd have him make a valance of want a blue one or would you prefer | Wood in scallops. I'd paint this. And a brown one. on the shelf I'd put some pottery or | A blue one with brown spots mite | colorful glass. | be a novelty, pop said. But I dont| “Perhaps you could enamel the | think Il haff to bother you after all, | chairs a bright color. Or you could that's why I brawt up the subjeck. | make chair seats of calico prints, What's why, how do you mean? ma | Using the predominant color in the said, and pop said, I was just reading | teblecloth cr the ball fringe. In any | an add in the paper announcing a sale | ¢ase, I would not feel the least bit of hand made knitted vests in all col- | SOITy for myself. Kitchens are homey ors for 3 dollers and 50 cents. I think | Places where folks feel they may be | Tl just stop in at Hookbinder's and |their jolly selves. pick one out, he said. | Why how _perfeckly redickulous, | some mistake. And she took the paper youwll do nothing of the kind, the |and looked all through it. saving, I ideer, why should I let you spend | dont see itI dont see a thing remotely money for a woolen vest when I can | resembling it, in fact Hookbinder's has make one for you? ma said. And any- no add at ali in today's paper. ways how perposterous, nobody can| By gollies it must of been one of | possibly sell a hand knitted vest for | those adds in invisible ink, maybe it 3 dollers and 50 cents, how can they? | will show up again in a minnit, ha ha she said. | ha, pop said laughing, and ma said, |~ Well, they just seem to put an add Willyum Potts now just for that I'm in the paper and then let things take | going to make you wait a while for their course, pop said, and ma said, | that vest. Let me see the add, there must Being just what she has been doing. Wwas seivea w1 the Kicenen. pastcl colored ta sturdy cnes. If there is a window over the sink, I'd try to get my husband to Don’t get | build a small shelf above the window. | energles and which not only will furnish her with support, but give her a real thrilling interest in life. Spinsterhood is a curse, or a pleasant and agreeable cendition in life, according to whether a woman has enough money to be financially independent and something she is keen about dolng or not. J T is & mother's duty to help her daughters get married. A lot of con- tumely has been thrown on the managing mamma, but if we concede that a good husband is the greatest blessing that can befall a woman, why is it not a mother’s place to do her best to try to secure this good thing for her child? Now every mother is either a come-on or a handicap to her daughter and has more than somewhat to do not only with the girl's marrying at all, but the kind of man she marries. A mother can help her daughters to popularity, and that eventually leads to marriage, by making her home so attractive that young men like to come to it. She can put welcome on the doormat, so to speak. She can feed the brutes, and turn on the radio and make the whole atmosphere gay and delightful and thus lure a young man's thoughts toward do- mesticity, Or she can.do the reverse and drive every possible suitor away from her daughters. NIOTHERS can help their daugnters get the right sort of husbands by keeping the wrong sort away. After all, girls generally marry the boys they are thrown with, and the wise mother doesn't give the run of her house to handsome drunkards nor fascinating loafers and | ne’er-do-wells. | | Half the disastrous marriages that take place could have been averted if only mother hadn’'t been asleep at the switch. Of course, all this | involves much labor and interferes terribly with one’s bridge. but in the | end it pays. i (Oopyright, 1933.) | | Eggplant With Cheese. One eggplants, three tablespoons butter, one and one-half cups minced | butter, 2 apples, 3 bananas, 3 cupful crumbs, one-half cup minced na:n.f;uzn;. ) tgtlpoonfiul :Imumu e Cut read into dice and sauf uf two tablespoons minced omlon, salt, | preed o dice and Shgte RO B | pepper, one-half cup grated cheese. cut very thin. Dredge with sugar mixed | Cut the eggplant in half lengthwise ) with cinnamon. Cover bottom of bak- |and scoop out the center pulp. Cover |ing dish with the bread, then add fruit ‘th‘? shells with cold water. Chop pulp |and remaining bread in alternate lay- fine, season with salt and pepper, and |ers, saving a few of the crumbs to put |cook with crumbs, ham and onion in [on top. Bake one-half hour, covered, butter until well blended. Drain shells, | and the last 15 minutes uncovered, in | sprinkle insides with seasoning and fill |a moderate oven, 375 degrees Fahren- with mixture. Sprinkle cheese over top. | heit. Brown Betty. | Three cuptuls bread, 3 tablespoontuls | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1933. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Aren’t this somefin’, Baby? (Copyright. 1933.) MENT FOR A DAY. 'BREAKFAST. Orange Juice, Farina with Cream. Scrambled Eggs, Bacon. Bran Muffins, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Jellied Tongue, Potato Salad. Crisp Rolls, Peach Shortcake. ‘Whipped Cream, Tea. DINNER. Cream of Mushroom Soup. Casserole of Lamb. Baked Stuffed Potatoes. Broceoli, Butter Sauce, Coleslaw. Baked Indian Pudding, Coffee. BRAN MUFFINS. Mix together (do not sift) one cup bran, one cup sifted flour, one-fourth cup sugar, one tea- spoon salt, four teaspoons baking powder. Beat one egg well, add one cup milk and one teaspoon melted butter. Pour this mixture into dry ingredients. Put into muffin pan and bake in gas oven at 375 degrees for 20 minutes. Grease pan with Jard and then flour it. You can use one cup graham or entire wheat flour in- stead of the bran and they are very good. (Copyright, 1033.) PERSONAL mLL the gentlemanly- looking man who was seen on a l4th street car, wear- ing a very dirty felt hat, phone Decatur 1120 so that the Dry Cleaning Depart- ment of the Manhattan Laundry may send for it and return it promptly, looking like new. His ap- pearance will be greatly enhanced by this simple and inexpensive move. —ep— wmnmnyioblwhmfl out and with such s great number of R:toph hungrily eyeing the patronage , it has become a matter for specu- lation as to what technique the Democn}lc lgdtetxl-s will emp! e method of distri- bution. ‘The average per- son, unless he is looking for a job, might find it diffi- cult to understand Just why Senators and Representa. tives in such times work themselves up into a fret over = the proposition, = Lo Z Simply, the an- >\ks=\“ swer is that these gentlemen can’t help it. They are exposed to the de- mands of those wanting jobs as never before. They are hounded in their offices. Their daily mail bulges with requests for jobs. And try as they may, they can't escape the fact that the responsi- bility for filling them is theirs—at least in the eyes of the applicants. In the light of this, therefore, it is not difficult to understand why, under the surface, Jim” Parley has caused the gentlemen “on the hill” to gnash their teeth of late. Farley, the patronage boss, started out with a new theory in the matter of giving Federal idea, in effect, was that deserving Democrats who wanted a share in the epoils of victory would be certified by the party leaders of the State after consultation with the county leaders. This meant that the Senators and Representatives would be deprived of their time-honored prerogative of being consulted before jobs were filled in their Btates and districts. The singular thing about Farley’s idea was that the Sen- ate confirms major appointments made by the President. The distribution had hardly begun, A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. appointment to the Shipping Senator McAdoo, it is said, had no knowledge of the selection, and was not entirely pleased. At the moment it appears that Sen- ators will have a say in the patronage distribution. But what about the Rep- resentatives? Some of those gentlemen have very definite ideas on the subject. Maybe the technique will have to undergo further revision. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED, Helping Himself. HEN the child becomes an- gry, the mother becomes an- gry, too, though she always manages to excuse her own emotion on the plea of its | perfect reasonableness. It is the | child’s anger which always seems to her so uncalled for. All mothers expect that the small | child, faced with the “refusal” of some inanimate object to act as he expects it to act, will accept the situation philo-~ sophically and discover fog himself in & reasonable and intelligent way just why | the go-cart can't be pushed past the | Obstruction of the step. All mothers are inclined to shout at the angry, helpless child: “Can’t you see you have to lift it up? Goodness, but you're stupid!” The temper tantrums that result |from a child’s helplessness in the face of such commonplace play situations should be understood for what they are | Why rail at the child? Almost any child is apt to get discouraged in try- ing to make objects do his bidding and, | quite like an adult, gets angry and | throws things about. This relieves the | tension of his nerves, and, while the | situation is exactly as it was before, | he feels better and can go away and leave the go-cart stuck at the bottom of the stairs, or he turns to some other |foy which he can manipulate to his satisfaction. however, before things were changed. | A conference at the White House re- | It helps not at all to become scath- | sulted in tre word golng out that Sena- | Ingly sarcastic about 'the childs stus Al(;;s ;\'ould&ll)ei cogsuncd in appointments | m,‘:i‘ J}gé:fi;"’g‘;d“‘!‘: 50;3 }?:11;]’ w‘m.h%‘:f affecting eir States. e . Rumor has it thet an incident oc- | lim quietly why the cart can't be curred recently “on the hill” which, if | Pushed up the stairs and show him true, provides a good illustration of | oW he himself can remedy the siua- what might continue to happen had the | tion. Farley rule been adhered to, ‘ e President Roosevelt sent to the Sen-| In Cuba and South America coffee is ate the name of a Californian for|served with goat's milk. 10% Discount During March New Mattress for $4 and up! ‘Why not save money on bedding? Let us make a buoyant new mat- tress out of your old one. Charm- ing new ticking will be put on and the inside cleaned and sterilized. The cost is only $4 and up. Our 10% Anniversary Discount will continue thru March Only. Beds - - Mattresses mm—\vi Box Springs National 9411 \better on VI17:7) coffee Coffee has a marvelous stimulating effect. It brings you a clearer brain, gayer spirits and a feeling of tireless endurance. But beware stale coffee. EN who strain every nerve with never a wink of sleep for hoursonend... keep going on coffee and more coffee. Coffee eases terrific tension, keeps the brain clear for instant decisions, muscles ready for instant action. Then why aren’t all of us able to use this stimulant to advantage? Why do some com- plain of getting indigestion, insomnia or “nerves’’ from coffee? Therealfacts have been unearthed by research. Now we know that any normal, healthy grown- up can drink five cups a day with no trouble at all, if he makes sure he drinks only fresh coffee. For, by analysis, it’s stale coffee that disturbs the system. Stale coffee contains rancid oil— as much as half a cupful to a pound. CHALFONTE- HADDON HALL ATLANTIC CITY and Lippincott Company l To banish forever this danger of stale coffee, to make Jfreshness certain, Chase & Sanborn instituted Dated Coffee. The date of delivery is clearly printed on every can. And no grocer is allowed to keep a can of Chase & Sanborn’s Dated Coffee on his shelf more than ten days.’ Dated Coffee is the way for everyone to enjoy delicious rich flavor and the wonderfully healthful exhilaration that only fresh coffee can give. Order Chase & Sanborn’s tomorrow. In half-pound and one-pound cans,