Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1935, Page 40

C—6 WOMEN 'S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1935. WOMEN’S FEA TURES. Well Chilled Fruit Beverages Helpful in Combating Heat Wave The Tinkle of Ice in a Frosted Glass—Sweet Music! Good Thirst May Also Necessary "Addition of Salt Is Recommended to Replace| Quenchers Contribute Food Value Saline Losses From the System in Hot Weather. BY BETSY CASWELL. HE mail is so full, these days, I of requests for recipes of “long. tall drinks” of a chilly na- ture, that I feel there is enough interest in the matter to warrant a special article on the sub- Ject. There is nothing quite so cooling as the sound of 3 jce tinkling against the sides of a beautifully frosted glass, and the liquid con- tents actually do a great deal towards helping us combat the August heat waves. It is a well-known fact that in Summer we especially need to drink plenty of fluids, and by varying the nature of the| beverages we manage to absorb cer- | tain food values that are vitally neces- | sary to our physical well-being. Fruit juices and syrups are par- ticularly beneficial because of their vitamin content, and their inimitable way of quenching thirst. Sometimes, in very hot weather, water has a peculiar drying effect on the throat after drinking, which is entirely ab- sent from beverages made with fruit Juice. Betsy Caswell * *x * X JNCIDENTALLY, T have been told recently, that one reason for heat strokes and prostrations is the loss of salt from the body, due to per- spiration and too great liquid intake. *To replace this loss, some salt should be taken every day, during hot weath- er, in addition to that normally in- cluded in food. If you like salt “as is,” the matter is simple—a pinch now and then on the tip of the tongue will solve the problem. If, however, you don't take kindly to this idea, try adding a little salt to your drink- Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. AN OVEN DINNER. MENU SERVING SIX. Baked Fish Fillets. Creole Rice and Tomatoes. Bread. Peach Butter. Head Lettuce. French Dressing. Apple Cobbler, Coffee. (Milk for Children Daily.) BAKED FISH FILLETS. ounds fish % cup milk L] lets ex % cup erumbs 4 ;nf;le:poons at 1 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper !4 cup water Wipe off fish with damp cloth. Dip in crumbs, in milk in which egg and seasonings have been placed and again in crumbs. Arrange in shal- low baking pan. Dot with fat. Bake 10 minutes in hot oven. Add water, cover and lower fire and bake 35 minutes in moderate oven. CREOLE RICE AND TOMATOES. 1% cups boiled 2 tablespoons rice chopped grgen 3 tablespoons flour ~_ peppers Y2 teaspoon salt 113 cups toma- 1, teaspoon pepper oes 3" tablespoons 3 tablesnoons chopped onions butter Blend flour with rice. Add rest of ingredients and bake 25 minutes in greased baking dish in moderate oven. APPLE COBBLER. 215 cups sliced 1 teaspoon apples cinnamon 1 tablespoon 13 teaspoon our vanilla 2 tablesnoons butter 1 teaspoon 12 cup sugar lemon juice % cup water Blend apples with flour and butter. Add rest of ingredients and pour into buttered, shallow baking pan. Cover with crust. CRUST. 2 cup milk %2 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons butter 1% cups flour 2 teapscons bak- ing powder %, teaspnon salt 4 tablespoons fat Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in fat with knife. Slowly add milk; when soft dough forms, pat out and fit over apples. Make four holes in top. Bake 15 minutes in moderate oven. Spread with sugar ing water, and to all fruit beverages. | A small quantity will not affect the flavor of -the drink, and yet will help build up the saline content of your body. Proper equipment for the making of Summer drinks wil' remove all drudgery from the operation; the shops are full of special gadgets de- signed to help the harried housewife in this instance. Fhere are electrical Jjuice extractors, hand reamers of un- usual efficiency, measuring cups, sieves, ice buckets and crushers—and all kinds of swizzle sticks, mixers, coast- ers, paper napkins, trays, amusing glasses, and so forth. It is definitely a case of simply “pay your money and take your choice!” * % ok X ISTED below are the drinks shown { ™ in the photograph, starting at the extreme left with the tallest and end- ing at the right with the shortest: ICED TEA. Serve this most popuiar of Summer beverages in a tall glass with lemon garnish and plenty of ice. A little | orange juice may be added to the tea to lend variety in flavor. ORANGE EGGNOG. | Beat together one =gg yolk. one- | fourth cup orange juice, one table- | spoon sugar. Fold in part of one | egg white beaten stiff with one table- | spoon sugar. | glass. Top with remainder of stiffiy beaten egg white and sprinkle with | | grated orange rind LEMONADE. | 'The practical beverage pitcher with a chrome cover is perfect for holding lemonade, which is | striped glass above. |allow juice of one lemon, one to | three tablespoons honey or sugar, | one cup cold water and ice to chill Garnish with maraschino cherry and | slice of lemon. | GRAPE LEMONADE. For each glass | three tablespoons orange juice to each serving of plain lemonade, reducing | the amount of water used accordingly. ORANGE JUICE STRAIGHT. Freshly extracted orange juice, placed in a shaker with chipped ice, and shaken vigorously until thorough- ly chilled, is delicious. Lime juice and added if desired. ORANGE GINGER ALE. Fill a cocktail glass (wo-thirds full of orange juice, over cracked ice. Just | before serving fill up glass with golden ginger ale. Another good Sumuner-time drink, which does not appear in the picture, is the following: PEACH LIMEADE: Make a limeade as usual, with the juice of fresh limes, and either still or carbonated water. Pour into a shaker and add the juice of two fresh peaches per glass. Shake well, with plenty of chipped ice until perfectly chilled. The juice may be extracted from the peaches by pressing the fruit through & fine sieve and then straining through cheesecloth. Mint is a good garnish for this drink. Iced mate 1s also deiicious, espe- usual and poured hot over ice into tall glasses. A little salt and some lemon juice add to the flavor. This drink has a particularly cooling effect which seems to linger a long time and to be very beneficial to tired nerves and body. If you wish advice en your individ- ual household problems, write to Betsy Caswell in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, self-addressed envelope for reply. My Neighbor Says: Soap jelly to which a table- spoonful of kerosene has been added will keep a porcelain sink clean and shiny. Wash woolen stockings in tepid water and white soap suds. Rinse in clear water, wring out and hang in the air to dry quickly. If treated in this way they will not shrink. (Copyright. 1935.) and butter and bake 20 minutes. ‘Whether yours is a stately Colonial four-poster or just a bed, the rich simplicity of this candlewick spread will heighten the charm of your bed room. No doubt you've admired these-spreads in the stores, but probably never dreamed how easy they are to make, nor that you'd be making one yourself some day. Worked with candlewick, you'll be surpriced how muc] fluffier the tufts become with every tubbing. The same design may also carried out with French knots using a finer thread and putting closer, as described in the directions. The large flower basket equally effective used alone in the center of the spread, or together with the corner and bolster designs contained in a separate pattern. Dresser scarfs and a pillow for that somfy boudoir chair may be trimmed with this design, too. inches, directions and illustrations for material requirements. In pattern 5403 you will find a transfer pattern and four, corners 7)2x7% inches, directions and wicking or French knots, magerial requirements. To obtain these patterns sent 15 cents each (30 cents stanps or coin to the Woman's Editor . : In pattern 5402 you will find a transfer pattern of a basket 15x20 doing candlewicking or French knots, of a motit 715x38 inches m\l’flfim(flm‘m- for both) in of The Evening Star, = . Add milz to almost fill | served in the| Add one-third cup grape juice and | a little finely chopped mint may be | clally when made twice as strong as | < Variety 1s truly the spice of hife when it comes to Summertime drinks. With the w command in warm weather, the housekeeper should have no trouble in concocting different kinds of nectar for her family. This array is within the scope of any cook, however inexperienced, and is described in detas] below. < ealth of frust juices at her Real Spirit Will Guard One's Faith' Loyalty Best Guide for ‘ Youth Looking to Marriage. BY ANGELO PATRI. OES that boy go to our church, | Marie?” “No.” “What are you doing with him around the place? You send him about his business or I will.” “But, father, he is a fine boy. He is the head of the class. He is smarter than any one. And he’s sensible and | decent. The rest of the boys around here—I wouldn't go out with one of | them on a bet.” | “And youre not going out with this one. You make up your mind to | that right now. Either you find a young man of your own faith or| | you stay in the house. I mean it. If he ever comes here again L1l kick | him out.” " | Religious loyalty is a fine thing. Family solidarity is equally fine. Cer- | tainly there is greater chance of hap- piness if the young people are of the same faith. But what are you going to do when they fall in love?” Take it as gently as you can. Wait and see what happens. Many a young couple think they are permanently {in love, and after a time discover | that it is not so. Given as much | of each other's company as they can have in reason, they learn each other's inner thoughts, tastes, pe- culiarities of behavior, personal points of view and set opinions thats prove to be rocks against which the frail craft of calf love is hopelessly wrecked. Wait and see. One of the best ways to persuade a child to keep his faith is to live it beautifully. There is great spiritual beauty to be found in any faith that is demonstrated in daily living. Love, charity, tolerance and trust in the uitimate goodness of God are the finest qualities of the human spirit. Whether they are imbedded in one faith or another, their power to lift suffering humanity from the depths to the heights is equally strong. We desire the children to cling to the faith of their fathers. Force will not do that. Compulsion never yet killed love between a youth and a maiden. Try love. Try living your faith in such a way as to make it lovely in the eyes of the children. Try living your faith in the details of every day. Be pleasant at break- fast. Be open-minded at dinner, courteous in the evening, tolerant and affectionate and kind all day. “My father is strong for his faith when it costs him nothing, as in this when he forbids me to see you, but I have never seen any sign of it any other time. He is not kind to mother, or to us. He hates people who are not of his church. But he will do business with them and invite them to iunch with him just the same, and then come home and say the worst things he can lay his tongue to about them. If his religion makes him like that, it isn't worth much. Why should I pay attention to 1t?” You see, children are not logical, especially when they fall in Jove. The best way to keep them loyal to the family faith, whatever it is, is to live that faith loyally, lovingly, devotedly and rear the children in that spirit. Then they will cling to it as to their mother. (Copyright. 1935.) The Old Gardener Says : School or Office Frock Smart Model Effective in Summer or Fall Fabrics. BY BARBARA BELL. HIS dress is one which smart women are wearing this Sum- mer in silk, or linen or cot- ton, in all the lovely pastels. And if your wardrobe needs perking up a bit, do have it for the remain- ing weeks of hot weather. If you are a college girl, planning things to be worn on the campus and in the class room, this is a grand design. Shops are already offering clothes for the schoolgirl, and no matter how gay a time you are having, or how you may try to escape the fateful day by hiding your bead in the sand, like the silly ostrich, you may as well face the fact that the opening of sehool is not so very far away and you'd best be prepared for it. Both a long-sleeved and short- sleeved model are shown. Don’t you like the way they are cut? Raglan, they are, of course, with no trouble- some armhbles to bother about, the seam being high on the shoulder, and squared away, to give the effect of a vestee. One sketch shows a V-neck, Garden makers who have not realized the necessity of thin- out their rock gardens should do this work now, even though an earlier date would have been better. Plants like creeping phlox, snow-in-Summer, bugle and aubrietias are likely to smother more tender plants. In fact, they will take possession of the rock garden if not cut back drastically, each year. Creeping phlox in particular needs to be watched closely. Of course, the plants thinned out need not be destroyed. Usually there: are neighbors who will be glad to bave them. (Copyright, 1935 with turned-down collar and tie, and the other a little, close-fitting round collar, with a tie like a man’s four- in-hand. Both are as smart as they very well can be. There is a pocket in the boyish blouse, just for the BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for lamm No. 1728-B. Size_... 17286 purpose of tucking away your gay- est handkerchief. The skirt has a narrow panel in back and front, and is quite wide at the hemline. Skirt lengths are pretty much a personal choice this season, but if you are young and slim, they should be short, so the fashion experts tell us. ‘There is so much to be said of colors! There is a new green, dull, and soft, that will be very popular. The russet tones are exceptionally smart. Reds have a good deal of blue in them, the winey shades re- maining very good. Purple tones will continue to be worn, although they will often have acquired the plum and raisin cast. Plaids are very, very good. The Scotch ones that all ap- pear, with their history, in a little book in your public library. Blue and brown are always top notch, and gray looks promising. Barbara Bell pattern, No. 1728-B, is designed in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Corresponding bust measure- ments 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 16 (34) requires about 3% yards of 36-inch material for the dress with (Copyright. 1935.) Red Hlt Chosen. PARIS (#).—Countess Elie de Ga- . them to play bridge at your house at Addressing Persons in Proper Way !Answers to Queries Cover Wide Range of Proprieties. | BY EMILY POST. | “T)EAR MRS. POST—A friend asked me to play bridge several weeks ago with herself and two men who were old friends of hers, but neither of whom I had met. When they took | | me home, they said they hoped we could play again soon. May I, with- |out any further interest on their | part, ask the- same two men in to | play’ bridge with my friends, at my | house? And if I invite them, ought |I to invite the men through my | friend?” | Answer—Certainly you may ask |any time you care to, or ask your friend to bring them with her. | “Dear Mrs. Post—(1) When identi- | fying myself over the telephone to | one whom I know, but not very well, | should I say, ‘This is Miss Doe, or Mary Doe?’ I didn't say ‘Miss’ when I telephoned my doctor, who is near my age, and now he calls me ‘Mary.” (2) Also a young clergyman, who is my age and whom I know only slight- ly, calls me ‘Mary,” but when I have occasion to use his name I call him | ‘Mr. Blank.’ It wouldn't seem natural to say anything else, but perhaps I'm too pre-modern.” Answer— (1) “This is Miss Doe,” or | if it is necessary to distinguish your- self from your sisters, say “Miss Mary Doe.” (2) While it is true that almost all younger moderns call each other | by first names almost as soon as they meet, out of respect to his cloth, I would continue to call him “Mr.” unless you get to be friends, and he prefers that you call him John. “Dear Mrs. Post—I'm sure that in your column, sometime ago, you said that ‘girl friend’ and ‘boy friend’ were not socially taboo. But a friend dis- agrees, so will you give your opinion again?” Answer—Why these two terms nave been accepted by the younger smart world, I don’'t know. But they have. On the other hand, calling a man over 21 a boy is taboo. A girl means under 21, also, but this is an elastic limit, since it is not thought courteous to insist that a young woman of 23 or | 80 is no longer a young girl. “Dear Mrs. Post—A friend whom I see constantly and have known for five years continues to call me ‘Mrs.’ Our husbands call each other by their first names. Isn't this unnecessary stiffness, especially after my husband suggested to her ‘that she call me by my first name?” Answer—If you are both very young, yes. Older people—especially those who are innately formal—are not apt to use first names easily. Your hus- band’s suggestion was quite beside the point. Nightie Has Ruff. LONDON (#).—The newest night- gown has an Elizabethan ruff of stiff- ened printed ninon. ADVERTISEMENT. Dorothy Dix Says Right to Some of the Money She Earns. Every Wife Has the EAR MIS& DIX—You say that wives should be paid for D their work; that is, that they should be given certain part of their husbands’ earnings for their very own. Some of the women of this community took this seriously and outlined a schedule of prices that ought to be paid wives for the various duties they perform and in most cases the total reached a figure far above the average man's entire income. It seems strange to me that you do not advocate teamwork between husbands and wives instead of the principle of division. The great majority of fam- flies have a limited income, which must be apportioned out to meet their needs. These matters must be freely discussed between husband and wife | and it makes little difference as to which one passes out the money. I agree with you that money is the cause of the domestic ggtrife we see all about us ang that seems to be the case whether the man or the woman has it. I have never known a poor man who married a rich woman who didn't pay for it through his nose. Warn the boys that when they see a girl with money approaching to flee for their lives. But, if you would be of service to your generation, preach teamwork and co-operation instead of division to the domestic life of the Nation. A MERE MAN. Answer—So I do, and I was try- ing in my feeble way to suggest a little co-operation in the purse-toting in the family when I said that every wife was entitled to a little of the money she earned for her own behoof | and benefit, and to be given to her as her just due and not as a gratuity. * % * x never even entertained the wild suggestion that wives should pre- sent an itemized bill to their hus- bands for the services they rendered in the home. For, as you say, if they were paid for at the current rate for such services when rendered by outsiders, they would bankrupt any | but the rich. Good cooks, for in- stance, in most places get from $10 to $15 a week. Laundresses $3-or $4 a day. Scrub women as much. Baby | nurses and nursery governesses come high. Trained nurses are $6 or $7 a day. Purchasing agents have their 10 per cent commissicn, and so on and so on, to say nothing of social secretaries, who make and keep hubby’s place in society, entertain his friends, write his letters and lie for him over the telephone. Figure it out for yourself. No woman who is a real woman and a real wife wants to be paid for any of these things. They are all part of her business of being a wife, of trying to help the man she loves and to make life comfortable and happy for him and for ‘heir children. She doesn't put a price tag on her services. She doesn't think of her sacrifices in terms of money. She gives and gives and gives because it is a foy to her to give all that she has to those she loves. * % x % UT no matter how much a wife loves her hu .and she is still a human being, with natural human instincts, and the chief of these is a desire for a little financial inde- pendence. It humiliates her to have to ask her husband for every cent she needs, justi-e of working like a slave for a husband who never gives her one cent of the money she has earned a hun- dred times over. And what I am trying with all my ht to make husbands understand. I want to make them realize that the woman’s point of view a“out money is no different from the man’s. Every woman wants her in- dividual pocketbook just as much as a man wants his, and her happiness and self-respect depend upon her having it, just as a man’s self-respect and happiness depend upon his hav- ing his. Of course, the ideal relationship between husband and wife is for them to be real partners financially as well as domestically, but very few men ever rise to this height of justice and generosity. They take their wives’ labor and then talk about “support- ing” them, which would be a laugh if it weren't such a headache, if you get | DOROTHY DIX. * ok x % what I mean. Dear Miss Dix: Some of us girls| got into an argument about going with boys. Should we accept invita- tions fro.1 boys whom we care nothing #hbout just for the sake of having lots “I'VE FOU WA and she writhes at the in-| of dates and going places? One girl considered it two-faced and hypo- critical to give a boy encouragement by going out with him when at heart she cared nothing for him. Also, should a girl be satisfled with a boy she can have, or should she sit at home and walt until one she likes happens along? M.C. M. Answer—TIt is perfectly ridiculous to think that a girl has to be in love with a boy before she can step out | to the movies or around the corner |to a drug store for an ice cream soda with him. Social life isn't run on a heartthrob basis. It is a matter of convenience and congeniality and | give-and-take-a-little-pleasure. | * ox % x ‘As TO your second question: A wise girl takes what she can get in the way of attentions from boys while she is looking for what she wants because that keeps her in cir- culation, so to speak. In these days | you have to go out and look for the Fairy Prince. He will never know you are even alive if you sit at home. Men are like sheep. They follow | their leader so far as girls are con- cerned. They flock around the one | that other boys admire and leave | alone the one that other boys pass | up. Every girl has to pay for being ‘populnr by being bored by a lot of | nitwits, and for having cut-ins on her dances by having her feet tram- | pled and her slippers ruined by boys | who dance like trucks DOROTHY DIX. 'Reason for Command Is Necessary Small Person Needs Treatment With Parental Logic. BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. 'HE small child, playing in the yard alone, must be watched and pro- tected. He cannot be saddled with the responsibility of staying at home and | then punished for failing to do so. The older child—over 2 but under 5—Ilikewise needs protection, for while he may understand danger, he is still | in no position to be made accountable for his mistakes in running into it But he is entitled to more freedom “My big oroblem now is running | away,” writes Mrs. L. E. “T have a 4-year-old boy and I talk to him before | he goes outdoors and he promises to | stay in the yard. In two minutes he | 1s gone. I have gone after him six or | eight times a day for a month. Then I tied him to a tree. Then I whipped | him. None of these methods was effective. | “I have tried to teach him to ask to go away—and said yes when he did to encourage him to repeat this. It is | only around the corner in another little boy's yard that he plays—but he has a nice playground and sand pile and toys of his own. What shall I do now?" I should take stock of the whole situation unemotionally. What you | are trying to do is to prevent the child | from playing with some one. Your boy isn't running away. You know where he is and he isn’t in any danger. | You have only made this a misde- | meanor by forbidding it. And the boy | knows, without being told, that play- ing with a friend isn't a great crime and so0 your efforts to prevent it have been ineffective. Ask the other mother to co-operate. Let the boys play in your yard one morning and in her yard the next | morning. Then you and she can keep your eyes on them and see that they do not leave either yard. If they do. separate them and bring each in his own house. This is punishment enough. You are right that children should ask to leave home—they should let you know where they are, but you make the child disrespect a reasonable demand because this one is so unrea- sonable. If the child is a good com- | panion, why shouldn't he be allowed | to play with him? If mothers would conscientiously view their commands and demands from such a standpoint, they would know why they can't manage to get | obedience. ND A REAL Y TO KEEP IN TRIM! combine a wholesome diet with my exercises. For diet is the thing that counts...and Shredded Wheat and milk is packed full of the health and energy I need.” (GOODBYE TO WORRY! Once you dis- over the new ‘‘Certain-Safe’® Modess you'll never worry about | embarrassing “accidents” again. | For this perfect sanitary napkin lives up toits name; its longer tabs can’t pull loose from the pins; it can’t strike through. You'll love itssoftness and comfort, too. Tryit! 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