Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1935, Page 34

Budgeting Spell Finds - Place in Linen Closets As Bride Fills Shelves Shops Are Showing Complete Outfits and Simplify Matters When Home Equip- ment Is Being Bought. BY BETSY CASWELL. NE problem that is earnestly engaging the attention of most June brides at this mo- ment is that of the necessary and handsome equipment to Al her new linen closet shelves. Linen for the household is, of course, a necessity. Whether you can afford to buy the least expensive grades of sheets, towels, napkins, etc., or the most : beautiful and | costly damasks and laces known —in any event, you must have a Well-stocked clos- et in order to sleep, eat and bathe properly! Whether you are buying for a tiny apartment de- = signed for two, or if you are eg:‘lp- PIng: & ManSON Botsy Casweil, controlled by a housekeeper and a flock of servants— your fundamental requirements are the same and, as such, must be given serfous thought and attention. Like most other things nowadays, linen closets have fallen under the budgeting spell, and shops are show- ing complete linen outfits all coming within certain price ranges. That will simplify matters for the girl who 1s not too sure just what she must| Rave, and who must bring her desires and household pride and joy down to | plain dollars and cents. * ok kX% THE‘R.E is nothing more soothing to the heart of the conscientious housekeeper than a beautifully kept linen closet with well-stocked shelves. Piles and piles of snowy linen, or softly pastel shaded sheets and pillowcases, with a broad shelf for downy com- forters and fuzzy blankets—all are a never-failing source of delight and pride. But remember—as in all things —overdoing s as bad as underesti- mating vour needs, and too many superfluous articles will make your carefully arranged closet look like & junk pilé in very short order. Here is a iist of fundamental neces- titles to adequately stock a linen closet at an approximate cost of less than $70: 8ix bath towels. Bix face cloths. Eight face towels (linen). Two bath mats. Six tea towels. One' tablecloth (white). Six napkins to match. 8ix sheets (single). Six pillow slips. Two pairs blankets. Two comforters, One bridge set. Two sets dressér scarfs. Four colored table mats and four napkins to match. Three fancy guest towels. XK xx 'HIS list was compiled and bud- geted by experts in domestic flelds. Far be it from me to pit my brains egainst theirs, but from my own per- eonal housekeeping experience of many years there are a few items they mention that I feel might | be replaced with others which they | have omitted. | For instance—how about leaving out the bridge set and the fancy guesl‘ towels, and substituting two single | mattress pads? Not as decorative, | perhaps, but very essential and practi- | cal. Also, the chances are that among wedding gifts the bride will receive bridge sets and fancy towels galore, so that in actually purchasing the recessary equipment for her closet ghe does not have to really spend time or money on these items. The white tablecloth mentioned would be best if bought in & lace or embroidery version rather than just plain, for a plain damask cloth calls | for a silencer underneath it when placed on the table, and that is an | additional expense, of course. In the average newlyweds’ home, if it is to, be run on a small scale, the coarser peasant linens and colored sets are really more appropriate. Usually two such sets may be purchased for the price of the heavy damask one. ¥ ¥ ¥ X 'OR the bride who is able to spend F a larger sum on her linens, the fleld s, of course, widely extended. | By the same token, this bride is apt to receive many lovely linen and lace luxurious articles. But she may have more of the essentials, and those of handsomer quality. For such a bride, the experts sug- gest the following list of necessities: 6 hemstitched sheets 4 hemstitched pillow cases 6 plain sheets plain cases tea towels dish towels linen tablecloth napkins to match bridge set linen table set colored table set embroidered three-piece set dresser scarfs pairs blankets bath towels in coral hand towels in coral wash cloths in coral bath mat in coral Same set in blue dozen linen towels Again, I suggest a few changes. Some of the fancy table linen might be replaced by two comforters, which are not mentioned on this lst. The mattress pads also could be substituted for the bridge set. This list budgets around $200—chiefly because of the hand work and labor involved in the dressier linens. In keeping your linen closet in order, don’t forget the little bags of dried lavender that make it smell sd sweet, and the broad ribbon bands to hold each pile in trim alignment. I you wish advice on your indi- vidual household problems, write to Betsy Caswell in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, self-addressed envelope for reply. Cook’sCorner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. - BREAKFAST, Grapefruit Juice, Chilled. Ready-Cooked Cereal. Cream. Toasted Buns, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Cottage Cheese and Fruit Salad. Date Cookies. Chilled Pears. § Iced Tea. DINNER, Deviled Eggs. Cold Sliced Ham. Creamed Cauliflower. Prune Bread and Butter, Radishes, Pickles, Strawberry Ice. Iced Coffee. DEVILED EGGS. 8 hard-cooked eggs. 1 teasnoon chopped fit 2 tablespoons orion. chopped celery. 4 tablespoons salad dressing 4 tablespoons chopped olives. 14 teaspoon salt. 14 teaspoon Depper. Cut eggs in halves, remove and mash yolks, Add rest of ingredients to yolks and roughly refill egg white cases. Chill. Arrange on serving platter and surround with sliced ham. PRUNE BREAD. (With Pecans.) 1 cup prune juice, 3 cups flour. 2‘4 cup 1% cups graham milk. four. tablespooris butter, 1 teaspoon salt. elted. cup chopped L) 1 eFw, Deaten, cooked prunes. % cup broken pecans. 2 feaspoons so . Mix ingredients and pour into two loaf pans, lined with waxed papers. Let stand 15 minutes. Bake 1 hour in moderately slow oven. Cool ana store in bread box. STRAWBERRY ICE. 2 cups crushed 2 tablespoons lemon berries. Juice. 11 cups sugar. 2 egg whites, beaten. 2 cups water. Mix berries, sugar and water. Boil 4 minutes. Cool. Add juice and pour into freezer. When half frozen add whites and freeze until stiff. APRICOT RHUBARB CONSERVE. 4 cups diced 4 tablespoons lemon rhubarb_(peeled). i 4 cups apricots. 1 cup pineapple. 8_cups sugar, Mix ingredients. Let stand 30 min- utes. Boil gently until thick and jelly like. This will require about 1 hour. Pour into sterilized jars and when cool seal with melted paraffin. Carefully look over eggs when buy- ing them. Select clean ones and of even size. FChicken and Asparagus Pie. Cut up the contents of a 6-ounce can of chicken. Drain the asparagus from a 10'2-ounce can and cut it in inch pieces. Dissolve two chicken bouillon cubes in two cups of hot white sauce. Put alternate layers of chicken, asparagus and white sauce in a bak- ing dish. Make biscuit dough with one cup of flour, drop it by spoonfuls around on top and bake the pie for gifts, so she, too, need not be hasty in selecting the more beautiful and about 25 minutes in & hot oven. If you're planning to go places and do things at all, even if it's just a neighborly visit, you want to add this adorable cape to your wardrobe. You'll fmmediately transfer all its adorableness to yourself; it's a most flattering accessory. You can make it in white, black or any of the pastel shades. And can't you imagine how lovely it will be over that Summer georgette or chiffon? It is crocheted in cotton and its soft your appearance. draping adds richness and charm to In pattern 5360 you will find complete instructions for making the eape shown, an illustration of it and of all stitches used, material requirements. To obtain this pattern send 10 cents in stamps or coin to the Woman's Editor of The Evening Star, N D. 0, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1935. B—16 WOMEN’S FEATURES, THE EVENING STAR! WASHINGTON, ! s Facts and Fancies of Universal Interest to Alert Feminine Readers Gleaming damask and snowy linens delight the heart of any good housekeeper when arranged in neat display in the new linen closet. Broad shelves for blankets and comforters, and s’fd;ng trays /or small articles add to the cffic;zne affitaranco of the household equipment. Ice Cream As Dessert In Summer Special Recipes Give Opportunity for Much Variety. BY EDITH M. BARBER. INOTHING tastes better for dessert on a warm night than ice cream. Of course, you know what store in | your neighborhood offers your favorite ice cream, which may be bought in 5o | many flavors. You may like to serve a chocolate, carmel or crushed fruit | sauce with this ice cream. If you have an automatic refriger- ator you will, of course, like to make | & frozen dessert with its help from time to time. For this you will need | | special recipes, as it is not possible | to get @ smooth mixture with the use of a recipe whose directions call | for turning in a freezer. All kinds of mousses which are made with flavored whipped cream can be made success- fully in your refrigerator. There are also a number of other recipes which are not quite so rich, but which give satsifactory results. Perhaps the easiest and least expen- sive are those made with the base of | sweetened condensed milk. I can make them in my own refrigerator without stirring, but refrigerators differ and you may find it necessary to beat the mixture when it is half frozen. The time which frozen mixtures take also depends upon the type of refrigerator. If you have a cold control, two hours is usually long enough, otherwise you will have to allow four or five hours, Vanilla Ice Cream. 1 cup cofidensed milk. % cup water. 11, teaspoons vanilla. Salt. - 1 cup cream, whipped. Mix milk and water, add vanilla and salt. Fold in whipped cream. Turn into freezing trays and freeze three to four hours. Variation, Peppermint ice cream—Substitute mint flavoring for vanilla and color with green coloring. Burnt almond ice cream—Fold in one cup macaroon crumbs and freeze. Coffee ice cream—Substitute strong coffee for the water. Chocolate ice cream—Melt two squares of chocolate in double boiler, Add condensed milk and water. Stir until thick and smooth. Cool, add whipped cream and one teaspoon of vanilla. Strawberry ice cream—Substitute one and one-half cups strawberries for vanilla and reduce the water to one-half cup. Crush the strawberries very fine. Apricot Ice Cream. 24 cup sweetened condensed milk. 3 pound dried apricots. % teaspoon lemon extract. 1 cup whipping cream. Cook apricots in one cup water until tender. Blend - together sweet- ened condensed milk, one cup water and one-half cup liquid drained from apricots. Chop apricots and add with lemon extract to mixture. Chill. Whip cream to custard-like consistency and fold into chilled mixture. Pour mix- ture into freezing pan. Place in freezing unit. Strawberry Delight. 1%; cups (1 can) sweetened con- densed milk. 3 tablespoons lemon juice. 1 cup crushed strawberries. 1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs. 18 vanilla wafers. ‘Thoroughly blend sweetened con- densed milk, lemon juice and crushed strawberries. until mixture thickens. Place in six sherbet glasses alternate layers of strawberry mixture and erumbs, leaving topping of crumbe. Push three whole wafers into mix- ture around sides of each sherbet. Chill. Top each sherbet with a whole berry if desired. Serves six, (Copyright. 10853 A ~——8tar Staff Photo. Oourtesy Woodward & Lothrop. Strikes Casual Note Two-Piece Summer Frock Has Cape Sleeves. BY BARBARA BELL, APE sleeves on & two-piece dress make & costume which strikes the casual note, so 4mportant in Summer things. Start out with it in the morn- ing and wear it all through the day. You'll be comfortable and cool and very smart. Color is very important in the Sum- mer mode. Be as gay as you like, but remember to plan your wardrobe as a whole. Do not have too many con- flicting colors unless you can have ac- cessories to match each costume. Clever women choose one or two colors which will predominate in all their frocks, eliminating that embarrassing moment when out of an assortment of accessories nothing seems to be quite ht. fl.m!roekkvar!wywmke. It comes in six pieces and the belt may be_bought. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1661-B comes in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40, 42. ding bust measurements, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40.and 42. Size 16 (34) Tequires 33 yards of 39-inch material. Every Barbars Bell psttern includes > an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to follow. Send for the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, prac- tical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the 104 Barbara Bell well-planned, easy-to-make patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slenderizing, well-cut patterns for the mature figure, afternoon dresses for the most particular young ‘woman and matrons and other pat- terns for special occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pat- tern Book. Send 15 cents for your copy today. Address orders to The Evening Star. BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1661-B. Size...... Address.....cccoininiinininanens (Wrap colns securely in paper.) Necessities For Double Ceremonies Position of Singer in Unusual Role When Wedding Is Held. BY EMILY POST. “T)EAR MRS. POST: My brother and I are planning to have & double wedding, but we've run into several distressing problems. Our father is dead and the father of the other bride refuses to walk up the aisle, and as & result we would all like to arrange the wedding proces- sion in this order: Two ushers, the two maids of honor, and then the two brides together. But would this be all right?” Answer: Although not the order conventionally preferred, several double weddings have followed the procedure you describe exactly. But there is one rule that is important to observe. Not only must the maids of honor match each other, but the two brides must be dressed alike in every detail. ‘Ihe effect will be very ragged and haphazard, otherwise. “Dear Mrs. Post—My sister is to be my only sattendant at a’church wedding, and because of this, I sup- pose, she cannot sing before the pro- cession starts. She has such s lovely volce and it seems a pity to deprive the ceremony of this addition, but perhaps you would suggest that she sing at the reception instead. At any rate, could you suggest something?” Answer: I have never heard of & maid of honor singing at & wedding, and I don't like to suggest innova- tions on deeply ceremonious occa- sions. But if the choir is seated in the gallery, she could, perhaps, sing while the congregation is assembling, and then go down to the vestibule and join your procession as soon as you arrive. But if the choir stalls| are at either side of the chancel, it is rather questionable whether it would seem proper to have her stand as near as possible to the choir and sing in the pause between the be- trothal and the plighting of the troth, | as the soloist at a choral wedding | service always does. One thing, how- ever, is certain—it would be very un- suitable to have vocal music (or any other music intended to be listened to) at the reception. (Copyright. 1935.) Home Links Likely to Be Preserved Chair Becomes Most Valuable Because of Associations. BY ANGELO PATRL HAVE an old friend who is spend- I ing the last days of his useful life on & farm in the hills. We sit by the fire and talk about the mysterious ways of life and he always has some word of wisdom to mellow the hard outlines of pressing events. ‘Noth- ing that happens is half so important | as what happens to one’s self in his | house and garden,” says he. “We are | interested in the noise of battling pol- | iticians. They help while the hours away. “See that little chair? My grand- | father made that chair for me when I | was a little shaver 3 years old. That's my chair. You have no idea what that little chair has meant to me. An| antique dealer wants it, expensively, | but it must stay where it is, there by the fire, because it is the one thing | above all others in the place that means home for me. “When I was little and played hard all day I used to come in dragging my | feet, staggering along. I'd make for that chair and the minute I sat in it I felt rested all over. I was content. When I was bigger, too big to get into | it any more, I used to think about it | ‘when I was tired, or when I was lonely, | or sick, and at once I was comforted. “You can see it isn't a costly chair. Maybe some folks wouldn't even think it was handsome. But money couldn’t buy it, and to me it is the handsomest chair ever built. “If you asked me why, I couldn't tell you. How can you tell anybody about the dreams, the aches and pains of childhood, the hopes and fears and the joyful tremblings that filled your heart | when you were a little chap and took refuge in your own chair? My life is | tangled about that little chair and | now that my grandchildren use it the old chair is richer in meanings than ever. “I've given each.of the children some such thing. I couldn't make them myself, for 'm no carpenter, Never was any good with fine tools. But I knew where I could get them, 50 as soon as they were old enough to know what a chair or a chest was, I gave them a piece of furniture for their very own. “There's something about having things your own size that makes you feel content when you're little. The grown-up chairs and chests and tables | are over your head and you can't see | them right, or feel them. But when they are scaled down to your size, and you can look at them on your own eye level, they snuggle into your heart | somehow and spell home. “I don’t hold with giving children | a lot of foolish odds and ends. When | I want to give them something I look around to see if-they need a chair, a table, a bed of their own. If they do, that’s what they get. I want them to | feel homelike and cosy with their things around them. That'’s what made me feel good and I know it makes them cheer right up. It's a great feeling, to sit in your own chair,” A UTTLE DETHOL AND | SING Y MOTHS STAY AWAY FROM | girl's { marriage. WOMEN’S FEATURES, Dorothy Dix Says Didn’t Know His Wife Hated Domes- ticity Until After Marriage. EAR MISS DIX—I am mar-| ried to a young woman who is pretty, intelligent, amiable, affectionate, all that a man | could, want in a wife, except | that she is the world’s worst house- keeper. I bought a pretty home when we married. It is never clean or orderly. There is never a place where you can sit down in comfort. Even the laundry isn't sent out. I provide ample money to keep a good table, but there is never anything fit to eat. Raw potatoes and overdone meat. Soggy bread. Food that would kill an ostrich. My wife frankly tells me that she loathes domestic work. That cooking bores her to tears, and, besides, she hasn't any turn for it and could never learn how to do it. The situation is particularly hard on me because I am a domestic man | and had looked forward to having a | home that was like the one in which | I was brought up, which was a place | of comfort and good cheer, for my mother was & marvelous housekeeper and enjoyed making a home for her | husband and children. | My wife and I have got almost to the breaking point. We quarrel con- tinually, because when I come home tired and hungry from my work of an evening I am infuriatéd over the mean dinner which she puts before me, and she considers me gross and material because I put stress on such creature comforts as a clean room, | fresh towels in the bath room and de- | cent food. What do you think of| our problem? ARTHUR. | ANSWER—It is a pity that when you were courting your wife you were so busy asking her, “Do you love me?” you neglected to inquire if she knew how to cook and generally to ascertain her views on a woman's | place in the home. If you had, you might have saved yourself much grief, because she might have told you in time that she did not have even a speaking acquaintance with a stove and that she had a well-developed phobia against mops and cleaners, It is & queer thing that men prac- tically never try to get a line on a domestic qualifications before they lead her to the altar, for on them more than on almost anything else depends the happiness of their For no marriage can be a success unless the wife knows how to keep house any more than it can be a success if the husband cannot make the money to support it. It is just as necessary that the wife should be able to fry the bacon as it is for the husband to bring it home. NO MAN can prosper if his wife is wasteful and extravagant. No man can be healthy and competent to do his best work unless he is properly fed. It doesn't avail a man anything | even for his wife to love him unless | she expresses her affection in making ! him comfortable. Yet men will marry girls who have had no domestic experience whatever, who have never cooked a dinner in | their lives, who do not even know how to order & meal in a restaurant, and expect them to be good housekeepers. | Apparently they think that a knowl- | edge of cookery comes by nature to | women and does not have to be learned and that every female is born with a hankering for pots and pans and wishes to spend her life in the kitchen, = Tms is & great mistake, Every woman is no more a born cook than every man is a born car- penter, and " just as certain lines of work are antipathetic to men, so is domestitc labor to many women, More- over, just as there are men who could never learn to sing because they have no musical talent, or to repair an automobile because they are not me- chanical, so there are women who can- | not ever be good housewives because they are not domestically minded. Evidently your wife belongs to this | latter class and the way for you to settle your problem is.either to hire & competent housekeeper and put the | entire management of your home in her hands, or else break up your home and go and live in a hotel Where you can get good food and good service. | Perhaps your wife's other charms and | graces offset her lack of domesticity. | DOROTHY DIX. * x % x \EAR DOROTHY DIX—I am an old maid, 35 years old. Not good- | looking, Short and dumpy. I know a girl of 23 who is tall and slim and | beautiful. Every man who looks at her is crazy about her. She can have her pick of them. What can I do to be like her? Why must I be so dumb and homely? HELEN, Answer—No one can answer that| question, Helen. It is one of the mys- ‘ teries of Nature that no one has ever fathomed. All that we know is that | HOW'D YOU LIKE IT OVER IN THE STORAGE ? FIN it happens and that some are born beautiful and others are born ugly. Some are given health and strength and others are weak and sickly. Some bave brilliant minds and others are dullards. Some are born to riches and others to poverty. THE accident of birth is something beyond our power to control. We can only accept it and try to make the best of it. This you will not do by trying to imitate the girl who has all the qualities that you lack. You cannot take 12 years from your age, you cannot make yourself tall and slim and glamorous, nor can you create for yourself that mysterious attraction she has for men, But you can make yourself a happy and useful life by doing some worth- while work that will give you some- thing interesting to think about and make you financially independent. And by being yourself you may attract some man who doesn't care for the spectacular charms of the butterfly woman, but who prefers one who has the good, old-fashioned domestic vir- tues. It is a matter of record that the girls who have the most beaux do not make the best marriages. One steady fellow who means business is more to be desired than a horde of chaps who dance around a popular girl, but who have no serious intentions. . DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 19835.) HOW I KEEP MY FIGURE BY UNA MERKEL, Y METHODS in “keeping my figure hardly merit the term because I do nothing in particular, other than try to take the best care of myself that time will allow. For instance, 1 don't adhere to a special diet. I just eat what I want and let it go at that, However, I'm not fond of sweets, and I have a nervous energy that burns up my excess weight that I might accumu- late. I am tremen- dously fond of Una Merkel, swimming and get In as much of it as I can, along with tennis and badminton. Fruits and vegetables comprise the main part of my daily diet, possibly because they are so easy to get all year 'round in California, and also because of my fondness for them. PFrequently I have meat, particularly fowl. I'm one of those persons who re- quire plenty of sleep, and I try to get in an average of eight hours’ sleep a night. Before retiring I always take a brisk walk—not long, but just enough to relax any feeling of tense- ness that I might have acquired dur- ing the day. Then I take s warm bath, finish off with a freezing shower and sleep like a top. - Posture is most important in main- taining a good figure. Bad posture can ruin & figure as quickly as any- thing I know of. Therefore, if I feel my shoulders drooping I remedy the situation as soon as I become con- scious of it. I even sleep without a pillow at night, so that I will be in a_ healthful sleeping position rather than be all propped out of line with a pillow. BROMLEY SHEPARD JERSEYS Prints, Sheer Wools and Boucle Suits, also SNUG- GLEBAND Underthings. 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