Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1935, Page 28

"B_10 =2 WOMEN 'S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1935, WOMEN’S FEATURES. Basic Course at Informal Parties Must Adhere to Five Specific Rules Jellied Chicken-Vegetable Molds Lunches and Suppers Of the Buffet Variety Demand Easy Service| Difficulty in Managing Food Is Source of Dislike Felt by Many Men for This Form of Entertainment. BY BETSY CASWELL. HAT are the essentials of a good main dish for a buffet \/ \VI lunch or supper? First of all, it must be easy to serve. Whether you plan to pass already-filled plates among your guests, or whether you are of the school that believes buffet supper par- ticipants should #: wait on them- selves from plat- ters set on the dining room 33 table, in either case the main course must be compact, not too liquid and easy to manage on & plate perched precariously on the knee. Second, it must combine food values in itself, Sl 50 that it does not take up too much space on a plate crowded with. rolls, pickles, olives, celery, nuts, potato chips and other even more substantial delicacies. Third, it must not be inclined to epill or roll off the plate and it must not require cutting with a knife. Have you ever tried to consume green | peas that were leaping wildly in all directions, or cut a piece of ham with one hand while holding the plate with the other? It is such incidents as these that make the average man cry out against the buffet party. Fourth, it must be durable and not too temperamental. - Any one who attempts to serve a souffle at a buffet party is pretty much of an optimist. The main dish should not be of the type that must be served “just so” as to heat or cold to be edible. Granted that there are modern gadgets for keeping hot things hot and cold things cold in the original containers, you imust remember that wandering around, adding more dainties to a plate on which the main dish already reposes, is not conducive to keeping that item 1n the pink of condition. And last, but by no means least, it | must be charming in appearance, and daintily arranged, whether on a large platter or on individual plates. * *x ¥ % salad illustrated fills just about . every one of these requirements Especially at this time of year, the gellied foods have strong appeal and the added advantage of being pre- pared early in the morning. Here is the recipe: JELLI CHICKEN-VEGETABLE MOLDS. 2 tablespoons gelatin. 1 cup cold water. 2 cups hot chicken stock or broth. 1 teaspoon salt. Dash of cayenne. % cup stuffed olives, sliced. 3/ cup diced chicken (cooked). 3 cup cooked peas. 34 cup cooked diced carrots. 1 cup mayonnaise. Soak the gelatin in cold water and dissolve in hot stock. Add the sea- sonings. Cool. Arrange a layer of olives and chicken in the bottom of each mold and cover with a thin layer of the gelatin mixture. arrange a layer of the vegetables and cover with the remaining gelatin mixture. Chill until firmly set. Un- mold on lettuce and serve with mayonnaise and tomato slices. Gar- nish with watercress, rose-cut radishes and rive olives. This recipe will serve #ix to eight persons. * x ¥ x SING this salad as a base on which D to plan the rest of your buffet supper, you might select the following menu: Hot clam broth, in cups, with a dab of whipped cream floating on top. This would be poured into the bouillon cups in the kitchen and brought in lined up on a large tray. Either the tray could be passed to the seated guests or they could come and get their own eups from the tray on a side table. Crispy crackers or melba toast would e good with the broth—or wafers with caraway seeds in them are particu- larly good to blend with the clam flavor. It is best to have these in a large bowl, ready to hand, rather than putting one or two on the saucer, for if there should be a “soup spill” even though slight, promptly become sodden and unat- tractive. When firm | the crackers would | While the guests were making in- roads on the platter of jellied chicken molds, a maid should unobtrusively collect the empty soup cups and re- move them to the pantry or kitchen. e 'WITH the salad potato chips would be good; thin sandwiches of Bos- ton brown bread, filled with a cream cheese and horseradish mixture could be used in place of rolls or biscuits. Pickles, of course, and perhaps one or two sardines sprinkled with lemon juice would add just the right tang and zest to the chicken. For dessert tiny pastry shells filled with raspberry jam and a spoonful of vanilla ice cream poised on top. What could be cooler, crunchier or easier to serve? Only be sure and make plenty of them—I can assure you they will disappear faster than the proverbial hot cakes. Coffee, hot and fragrant, afterward, while the maid clears emptied plates, attends to overflowing ashtrays, and more or less brings order out of chaos. ‘With such a menu not even the fussi- est man can object to a buffet supper, and your carpets will not be wrecked i by the souvenirs of foods that wouldn’t “stay put.” If you wish advice on your individ- ual household problems, write to Betsy Caswell in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, self-addressed envelope for reply. Dorothy EAR MISS DIX—T am secret- ly married to & man I am very much in love with, but | ’ D who doesn't love me. He | just drifted into marriage because he | didn’t care what happened. | He was out of work, discouraged, | |and I was there with open arms. I| thought I could tie him to me by making marriage a desirable state, coming home to a loving, under-| standing wife; to a warm, comfort- | |able home; to a companionship: to| | all the things he hadn't had for a| long time. But I haven't had a| chance to try that out because we| haven't been able to establish a| {home. Now he seems to regret the marriage. Says that we made a mis- take in marrying, that marriage should be based on more than liking, and that it is a good thing we have kept it a secret. He expects to go out of town for a few months seek- ing employment and says he may not come back. % % &k HAT shall I do? Try to make him jealous or make him feel that no matter what happens 1 will is.lwnyu be there waiting and loving | him? I thought if I married him | | T would be the happiest girl in the| | world. Instead I am the most miser- | able. My pep, the very desire to llve‘l | 1s gone. J R Answer—It seems to me that the| time has come when you must have a showdown with your husband and | | find out just where you stand. The | | uncertainty in which you live at| present in harder on your nerves than any fate could be, for to alter-| nate between hope and despair is like having your heart torn to pieces by wild beasts. There is comfort in even ‘know!ng the worst, and peace comes | with accepting the inevitables. So force your husband to a de- | cision. Tell him that you will have no more of this secret-wife business. That will save your face and do much | to clarify the situation. Also it will leave you free to get a divorce in case | he is really tired of the marriage and wants to call it off. That seems to| be the case with him, and when a| man wants to go, all that a wife can do is to let him go, especially when she has as slim a claim upon him as a secret marriage gives her. * K X X PKRHAPS when your husband realizes that you will no longer put up with his shilly-shallying and that you are about to turn him adrift, he will be panic-stricken at the Thoroughly in tune with Fall fashions is this flattering knitted blouse! A soft, lacy design, a slightly rippling collar, all features that flatter—make it up-! to-the-minute smart. easy to do—there are only two pattern rows and you know helps to make knitting easy. Knit it with short sleeves Made of Shetland comfortable with a suit that way. if you floss it expensive and sure to fit into your Fall color scheme. Tequirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 Editor of The Evening Star. cents in stamps of coln to the Secret Marriages Are Rarely Successful; Best to Be Honest. " he does. ! him. | trap and let your rabbit go. | But as he is he isn't much of a pet, Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit Ready Cooked Cereal Cream French Toast Brown Sugar Coffee LUNCHEON. Cream of Pea Soup Wafers Pickies Sliced Peaches Sugar Cookies Tea DINNER, Broiled Lamb Chops Buttered Peas Mashed Squash Tomato and Celgry Relish Bread Grape Butter Caramel Pecan Pie Cofree TOMATO AND CELERY RELISH. 12 ripe tomatoes ped green peppers tablespoon salt teaspoon whole cloves Loosely tie spices in muslin bag, add to rest of ingredients. Simmer about one hour. Stir frequently. Re- move spice bag, pour relish into small jars, seal. CARAMEL PECAN PIE. 1 eup sugar 13 cup water % cup flour % i 3" exs yolks cup pecans ¥ ‘teaspoon salt 1" baked pie shell Pour one-third sugar in frying pan. Heat slowly and stir constantly with wooden spoon until brown sirup forms. Add water, cook slowly two minutes or until sugar has completely dissolved. Mix rest of sugar with flour, yolks, salt and milk. Cook in| double boiler until thick and creamy. | About 15 minutes will be required. Add sirup mixture and vanilla. Add | pecans and pour into pie shell. Cover | | with meringue. MERINGUE. Y cup sugar | 7a teaspoon salt | “Beat whites and salt until stiff. ;Add sugar and beat until creamy. | Roughly spread over filling and bake | 12 minutes in slow oven. Serve cool. onions | 2 egz whites Dix Says | thought of having his last anchor cut, the last bond of human love and | sympathy severed, and he will flee | to you for comfort and sustaining. | | Maybe it will make him realize that | he does love you better than he thinks Sometimes it takes & shock to wake & man up to a knowledge of his own feelings. At any rate, whether this plan works or not, it is your only chance. For you can neither bring him back by trying to mzke him jealous, nor can you inspire an ardent passion in | his breast by patient waiting. No | man values the thing that he can have that easily. It is too cheap. | I think that no women are more to be pitied—or blamed—than those who are so much in love with a man that they practically shanghai him into marriage. Such a woman knows that a man does not love her, that he! would not voluntarily marry her, yet she uses all her arts and wiles to en- | trap him. If he is sick, she nurses | If he is lonely and forlorn and | discouraged, she gives him companion- | ship and lets him talk endlessly to her about his misfortunes. If he is out of money she is the one person he can always borrow from. And, finally, in some moment when he is particu- larly down on his luck she drags him to the altar. I * R b i THE woman justifies herself by thinking that she will make the | man love her by being good to him, by surrounding him with all the com- forts of home, by making nre! pleasanter for him. She thinks he | can’t help but come to love her be- | cause she loves him so much. But her optimism is seldom, if ever, justified. Love is neither sold .nor bought. It is not the child of grati- tude. A man loves his wife because he does and not because he should. The husband who has been inveigled into marriage always feels like a wild | animal in a trap. So my advice, J. R, is to open your Perhaps | he will come back and eat out of your hand. *Perhaps he will never return. DOROTHY DIX. * x x® % DEAR Miss Dix: What can you do with a mother who seems to think that all of your dates are hers, and who spends the evenings when boys come to call sitting in the parlor and helping to entertain them? It isn't that my mother has any idea of watch- ing us and chaperoning us. It is just that she loves company and wants to be amused. I love my mother and wouldn’t say anything to hurt her feelings, but she is killing my popu- larity, for after an evening in the bosom of the family, as it were, a good prospect seldom returns. Isn't there some way that mothers can be put wise to the fact that when daughter has a beau she should scram after greeting the young man? SALLY. anyway. Answer—If mother loves the sound of her own voice, nothing short of gagging her, which is an undutiful thing and one that no daughter likes to do, will keep her from plopping her- self down in the most comfortable chair in the parlor and regaling the boy friend with a two-hour monologue about the cute child Mary was when she was a baby, and how sick Johnny was when he had the measles, and how different things are in these days from the way they were when she was a girl. * ¥k X AND mother doesn't mean a thing by it. She loves young company and she loves to talk, and she hasn’t the slightest idea in the world that she is driving away that nice Mr. Smith, whom she would be so glad to see Mary marry and probably doom- ing Mary to spinsterhood. For boys will not come to a house in which the parents are too much in evidence, It quarantines a girl against masculine society to have a papa who always reads the paper in earshot, just as much as it would to have a small- pox sign nailed on the door. Young men pass by on the other side of the street and rush some girl whose mother and father and aunts and uncles and little brothers and sisters stay in their proper place, which is not the parlor when the girls have company. A wise mother writes welcome on the door mat and gives the boy friend a glad hand, then she leaves the field open to daughter. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyrighs. 1935.) > 4 This is an example of a good main dish for a Summer buffet supper. Combining several varieties of food, of charming appearance, and easy to serve, it seems espe- cially designed for just such an occasion. Auwise choice for the enterprising hostess. Clean, Free Lines Charming Version of the Shirt Waist Frock for Older Women. BY BARBARA BELL. NE of the nicest things an older woman can wear is O some simple version of the shirt waist frock. It is dig- nified fashion. For one thing, the lines are clean and free from over- ornamentation, the whole success of the’ garment depending on its excel- lent cut and careful fitting. And the shirt waist frock must never be tgo fitted—it must be quite easy. Don't you like the wide collar on the dress today? The neckline is V- shaped, but the collar itself is wide and rounded, so you get the elongated line which is becoming to the mature face. The blouse is buttoned with two large buttons which appear in the middle of scallops—a chic detail, and although the dress does not open clear down the front, it has that effect, for there is a seam, right in the middle and down to the bottom of the or wrist length, buttoned with a single button. 1741-B Silk crepe is most appropriate for this frock, and in this season of gor- geous color you are sure to find one your heart warms to—if not, there is always black. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1741-B is designed in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 requires about 3% yards of 36-inch material. Barbara Bell pattern book available at 15 cents. Address orders to The Evening Star. BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington - Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1741-B. Size_____ - NAMe coecececnccaccanaan Address (Wrap colns securely in paper.) ?Suggestions , For Guests AtWeddings BY EMILY POST. “T)EAR MRS. POST:- What am I| | supposed to do at the wedding | reception of my flance's best friend | of college days for whom my fiance | will be best man? I am invited to| both church and reception and since these are not my friends I know no |one who is going. May I take a| friend who has not been invited?” Answer—You could not possibly take an uninvited guest to the reception. But since the best man has no duties | at the reception, your fiance can cer- | | tainly look after you, except during | the time that the bridal party are | seated at table—if there is to be a bridal table. And even so, it is more | than probable that among his own friends there will be many only too glad to pay attention to you. “Dear Mrs. Post: What is a guest supposed to do when he arrives at the wedding reception a stranger to all but the bride and her mother?” Answer—He shakes hands with the bride’s mother, who is receiving, and says something pleasant about the wedding, then joins the line leading to the bride and bridegroom. He con- gratulates him and wishes her happi- ness. Then if no beaux are lingering near the bridesmaids, he may, if he would lie to, shake hands with which- ever ones are unoccupied and look friendly. Usually he would say a few words about the wedding, and pass by, but if the reception is about over, and there is dancing, he can introduce himself, and ask a bridesmaid if she will dance. But if the reception is continuing, there is nothing to do but continue past the receiving line and then go into the dining room for some- thing to eat. He may talk to any young woman who encourages him, but not otherwise. “Dear Mrs, Post: like to wear a white corsage at my | brother’s wedding, but the bride in- sists that she alone wears white flowers at her own wedding. Must mother listen to such unreasonableness?” Answer—The fact that the bride carries a white bouquet does not mean that no one else can put on even a few white flowers, which would in no way resemble the bouquet of a bride. But since her future daughter-in-law feels as she does, your mother would probably save a threatening situation by choosing other flowers. It seems absurd, but from just such trifles as this many in-law relationships have been wrecked. (Copyright. 1935.) ADVERTISEMENT. | NEVER AGAIN will I be satisfied Beauty Advice for School Appearance on First Days in Class Room Important to Girl. BY ELSIE PIERCE. TH! last few days of Summer—and no vacation for mother! Tley're hectic days—these. Packing to do, moving back o the old homestead, the childref to prepare for school. Some of the tots looking forward (or maybe not) to their first day in the land of | the three R's. Mixed emotions for mother. A Teacher is going to play an impor- tant part in her life. And modern mothers are indeed fortunate, because part of the school’s curriculum today is health education. The importance of cleanliness is stressed. Daily in- spection and the immaculate ones re- warded generously with gold stgrs. Parents and teachers are co-oper- ating more than ever in the general upbringing and education of the child. In the matter of health and beauty homework the mother’s influence can build the strongest foundation for future loveliness. Make the young one aware of her | own individuality and responsibility, make her aware of her lovely, clean New Effort Needed to Alter Habit BY ANGELO PATRL IP CHILDREN were all alike and could be counted on to react alike to training our work would be much easier. But no two are alike, no two react in the same way to the same situations. One child will cry at the sight of the clown turning handsprings while his brother will shout with de- light. One child will eat neatly from his spoon while his sister will spill every mouthful down her front and over the tray. One will eat without protest whatever is put before him while his brother, two years older, will fight every meal time. These children are of the same family, live in the same home, have the same care, but they behave very differently. Sometimes illness makes it possible for us to train a child properly. A sick child cannot be disciplined. He learns this quickly, and he holds to body, make her realize that beauty begins with health and that the little details of good grooming are the big- gest beauty assets she will ever have. Ther. you will have contributed rost generously to her beauty, present and future. Reasons Why. Children of school age are old | enough to absorb the “reasons why.” Provide individual towels, wash cloth, soap, her own comb and brush, and two tooth brushes. Tell her that these are her very own, that though she share her toys she must never let | any one else use her personal cleanli- ness belcngings. You're doing it to avoid a spread of germs and infection and besides it’s nicer. When she looks all askew after a few hours play let her look at herself in the mirror. Then show her the contrast after bath and brushing. Say “how pretty you look when you're clean.” Let her do things for herself at 6 or 7. She’ll adore the responsibility and her sense of importance will be flattered. Gradually let her take her own bath (present her with a bath brush with the right sized handle so | she can easily get at ner back to give | her a scrubbing). All you have to do is inspect the tubbed product—hands, | knees, elbows, back, neck. ears. And as you admonish if the rating is less than 100 per cent, be just as lavish with praise if the job is a good one. Her hands and her hair will be the two hardest lessons. Teach her to wash her hands frequently; always | after playing and always before eating { and before going to bed. Give her her own small nailbrush and as she grows older an orange wood stick is not |amiss. Show her how to clean her | nails without digging deep. Warn her against using sharp instruments under | the nails, now or ever. Gradually keep |adding to her health and beauty | routine. Make the appreciation of | the esthetic value of cleanliness s0 deeply ingrained that it will be as | much a part of her as the tolor of her | lovely young eyes! (Copyright, 1935.) | PsyThglzgy BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Projection. that idea long after the iliness is for- | PROJECTION is the name for a gotten. Sometimes mother or some| © menta] reaction. A reaction that member of the family is ailing and the | genotes something rather derogative. child cannot be trained as it ought wi The main idea is that when you pro- be -ngege':)s into bzg;‘::“i'lmo‘;t‘?": | ject you imagine things about the out- ““Yk hf repplbaisagry Y ey | side world which really originate in work which makes the c ave | yourself. Your ego is very sensitive b‘d]yfinb?v.: r::lfi‘cegeh;e-:g;?n';d' his | and will go to extremes in protecting e 8 i itself against insults. That is so easy to say and so hard | 1 it weren't for this universal men- to do. Mother keeps trying to break | ¢5) gattitude called projection, we the bad habit. She talks, ccaxes,|might gl get along better with our ?@m“&fii&fi e lslmlv | outside world, especially with our . = | neighbors. We might understand the tude. What is to be done? He cannot | motives and ways of others. go on as he is because he will have It all comes sbout this way. We "fi:" with ;‘;:mma*"' ?";’)‘yn::m seem helpless in the understanding of — him unha Urse. | ourselves., In order to sidestep this To change a !‘”"“. quickly change | yeakness, we are likely to project self- the environment as much as you can.| jopgrance to things in general or to The child ’0"';:“ cem:in “1‘“‘)““‘3“‘ other persons in particular. As a :’;_“I':‘ m‘;&le‘w‘tunit.n T)‘x)o;emn:n;:‘mmequmo" we never learn or be- - | lieve the truth about others. If you | those people, the familiar place brifl | really had & workable knowledge of back the idea and he acts upon it in | yourself, the chances are that your the familiar way. Put him in strange | misunderstandings of others would Mother would | surroundings and he will be likely to set another habit and, if you are quick, the right one. If a child has bad eating habits we make little headway if the same per- son feeds him in the same way daily. Words, however strong, have little power to change such a strong influ- ence as old associations. Let mother disappear and another attend his meal. Set his place in another room. Change Say nothing about his eating or not eating. And this whole process could be quickened if he went to a strange place, without mother, and fell into the ways of well-trained children whom he met there. This is usually very difficult to do; first, because mother cannot bear to trust the child away from her; and, second, because it is not easy to find people who are willing to be bothered with a child who needs special care. applying the principle, habits can be great understanding. ways unless you change his associa- tions. (Copyright. 1935.) LOOK HOW GREASY THOSE with the old “paper layer” type of has longer tabs that can’t pull loose from the pins. It can’t strike through. That’s why it's called “Certain-Safe.” The old habit is being strengthened. | the hour and the menu and the dishes. | But that is the best way, and, by| changed without & trip from home. | But it takes longer and it requires Don’t expect a child to change his 1 DON'T SEE HOW YOU'LL EVER GET RID OF THE GREASE IN | amount to nothing. Ignorance of oneself is the cause of about 90 per cent of one’s mistakes and of about | 100 per cent of the exaggerated gossip- | ings that travel around the neighbor- hood. | (Copyrisht, 1935.) Fashion Forecast. This will be a gay and colorful sea- son, in spite of the fact that black is still prominent. The tones used are | xich and vibrant. > ills > MOSQUITOES FLIES'.':,PIDERS OTHER INSECTS BEST BY 10,000 TESTS REFUSE SUBSTITUTES THE DISHES ARE. THAT'S THE WORST PART ABOUT DUCK —ITS SO FATTY AND GREASY 272 e 3 FLAT SUDS RINSO ? IT GIVES THICK, LIVELY SUDS THAT WHISK AWAY GREASE IN A JIFFY, M GLAD | TOOK YOUR ADVICE AND SENT OUT FOR RINSO. MY, HOW QUICK IT MAKES DISHWASHING! AND JUST LOOK HOW THOSE DISHES AND PANS SHINE! YOU'LL FIND THAT RINSO 1S EASY ON YOUR seak clothes whiter— gently and safely. That saves the clothes—saves you. Recommended by the makers of 34 famous washers. colors bright aad fresh. Gets