Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1935, Page 37

WOMEN’ S FEATURES. THE EV NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1935 WOMEN’S FEATURES. B—17 Bananas Contribute Valuable Food Values as Well as Variety to Diet Selling by the Pound Latest System Adopted By Some Local Shops Unusual Recipes Present Succulent Fruit in New and Very Tempting Versions. BY BETSY CASWELL. OWADAYS they sell bananas by the pound! Some enterprising mer- chants have adopted this method of vending the golden fruit in order that every purchaser gets a fair deal on the size and quality of each banana. Under the “piece” system, first - comers got all the large, choice fruit, while the later shoppers fared badly —or the shop was left with a batch of less perfect ba- nanas on its hands. Selling by the pound “plays no favor- ites” and the distribution of choice fruit is thus made surer. Bananas are said to have originally come from the East Indies or Malay Archipelago, but were introduced at a very early date, either by accident or design, into the tropical regions surrounding the Carib- bean Sea. Large quantities of the fruit are now grown in Central America, in some portions of South America and in the West Indies, these Tegions being the main producing centers for the American trade. The cultivation and raising of bananas has thus come to be one of the most important industries and large tracts of forest have been cleared to make way for the plants. The fruit 15 always plucked when full develop- ment is approaching and is not allowed to ripen on the tree. Each cluster is called, technically, “a hand,” while the individual fruits are known as “fingers.” St kS BANANAS stand high in the list of nourishing foods. They contain & large amount of starch and sugar and are, therefore, valuable for build- ing energy quickly. They also con- tain a high percentage of alkaline salts and some protein. Their caloric Betsy Caswell | Sift the flour, sugar and salt to- [ gether and pour in heated milk grad- | ually, stirring all the while. Cook in |a double boiler until slightly thick- | ened, then add the beaten egg yolks |and cook slowly for 20 minutes. Re- | move from the fire and add the butter and vanilla. Set aside until cooled. | Alternate layers of sliced bananas and | cream filling in a baked pastry shell. | Cover with meringue made of the | egg whites, six tablespoons sugar and | one-half teaspoon vanilla and return to oven until delicately browned. | SIMPLE BANANA ICE CREAM. Skin four bananas, scrape them and force through sieve. Add to one quart | of vanilla ice cream mixture, flavoring |with a pinch of salt and 1, table- spoons lemon juice. Freeze by usual | method or in mechanical regrigerator, |according to directions for your par- ticular make. BANANA FRITTERS. Skin and scrape four bananas. Cut in halves lengthwise, and cut halves once crosswise. Sprinkle with pow- dered sugar and one-half tablespoon lemon juice. Cover and let stand for half an hour. Drain, dip in batter made as follows: Mix and sift 13 cups flour with two teaspoons baking powder and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Gradually add two-thirds cup milk and one egg well beaten. Fry in hot, deep fat from | 3 to 5 minutes, drain on brown paper, and serve immediately with chicken or roast beef. 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. < A Square Meal on a Round Plate in Concentrated Form s, o Dorothy Dix Says Think Seriously About Divorce if There Are Children. EAR DOROTHY DIX—My D make a go of it. She is a fanatical church worker. Gives all of her time and thoughts to that. Cannot see anything else. I like to see shows, go to parties now and then, play cards and do other things with fun in them. Nothing wrong. No excess. My wife has no desire for those things and refuses to go with me. to go alone or take some one else. We have talked over our differences in taste & number of times and she says there is nothing that will change her mind. Summing it all up, I am not satisfied with my married life and don't see why we should stick together under such conditions. We are both still young, so don’t you think it would be best for her to go her way and me to go mine? Is there any reason why two persons should live together and | be miserable when they could be happy apart? There is one child. B. M. Answer—Well, B. M, and that is a reason for not breaking up your marriage that simply fills the universe and blots out all of the little differences of taste and tem- per and temperament between you and your wife and that turns them into good of the helpless little creature that you have brought into the world. x k% THE victims of every divorce are the children. It wrecks a little child to be torn up by the roots from its home, to be deprived of a mother or father entirely, or else to be made to feel like an unwanted package that 1s shifted from one parent to another and that has no settled abiding place. Children need permanency in all their relationships. They need the same father and inother, not a couple of steps. They need the same room, the same school, the same children to play with. And they need love and peace between their parents. Now children don't ask to be born ! Their parents thrust life upon them. Market Tips BY LUCIE EBERLY. THE demand for eggs has increased with the cooler weather, and since production has fallen off, as it rating is about the same as green‘usually does this time of year, cold corn—higher than any other fresh | storage eggs are appearing in the fruit and slightly higher than the | local markets. So—if you want strictly calorie count of potatoes There are so many delightful ways in which to prepare and serve ba- nanas that only a few of them may be encompassed in this short space. I have chosen the more unusual reci- pes for this reason. BAKED BANANAS. Arrange the bananas in a baking dish, in their skins. Cover and bake until skins are dark brown and the fruit is soft to the touch. Serve in the skins, after peeling off one sec- tion, sprinkle with a little lemon Juice. BANANAS JEANETTE. Skin six bananas and cut in half, lengthwise. Place in a baking dish. Mix two tablespoons mielted butter with one-third of a cup of sugar ands/ two tablespoons of lemon juice. Baste the bananas with half of this mix- ture. Bake for 20 minutes in a slow oven, basting during baking with the remainder of the mixture. EANANA CREAM PIE. 5 bananas. 1%, cups milk. 11 cups cream. 12 cup sugar. 14 cup sugar (caramelized) 3 tablespoons flour. 1, teaspoon salt. 3 egg yolks. 1 tablespoon butter. 1 tablespoon vanilla. Caramelize the sugar in an iron skillet. Add the milk and cream to the sugar, and stir until dissolved. My Neighbor Says: Siberian wallflower seeds may be sown in' the Fall. Sow just after & heavy frost. When frost melts it will cover seeds with moisture and dust and protect them until they germinate in the Spring. Slip a thimble into the finger of a glove when mending it. It makes mending much easier. If a light-colored woolen dress is scorched when pressing, coat scorched place with French chalk and set dress away for a few days. Then brush off starch and you will find scorch has disap- peared. (Copyright, 1935.) | fresh eggs, be sure to make plain to your grocer that it is fresh eggs you | want! Fancy eggs are bringing a | premium, as they always do when there is a shortage, but they are still | within the reach of the modest budget and with the increasing prices of meat make & good substitute for the meat dish at dinner. We suggest Spanish omelet as first choice—using ! fresh tomatoes and onions, of courss! X K Kk 'HERE are 24,000,000 more pounds of butter on hand than at the | same time last year. Strangeiv enough, the price is a fraction higher | —but remains steady. Saltless butter, | or sweet butter, as it is sometimes | | called, is especially good just now, tub | butter from Towa and Wisconsin is | coming in regularly. know, it was hard to get. One of the stalls at our large retail market in- vites orders for any of this type of the city. They have fine cheete, tov: New York sharp, and mild. The au gratin dish is bound to be tastier when a good cheese is used—Welsh rarebit, too, has a better chance, x & ok ok IN SEA FOOD we find sea bass, mackerel, bluefish and trout the best buys. Chowder clam® as well as Cherry Stone are plentiful, too. In | breakfast fish — English herring or smoked fish of the season. * x X X 'ORN is still good, though a little higher. Tcmatoes, green and red, for canning and eating, are stiil being received in larze lots (your last chance to can or preserve some). Parsnips, the Winter root vegetable, and large red peppers are in. Small red beets, sweeter than ever, are plentiful. Spin- ach and kale are the conly greens avail- able just now, it seems. * k% * EACHES are slightly cheaper. Green gage plums are high, but the German prune plums for stewing or for plum cake are cheap and very good. Damsons, firm and sweet, are plentiful (still time to put up a sup- ply of jam and preserves). Genuine Rocky Ford cantaloupe, from Colorado, the cantaloupe country, are a timely relief from the poor local product that has been flooding the market. PATTERN 5434 Do Chese In B\ Gloplique s utline These “poke-bonnet girls” have a different chore for each day of the Last year, you | butter and will deliver anywhere in | the half-shell variety, Little Neck and | | Kiltie kippers, and Labradors, the first | ‘week, but work so well together they're always through early. Why not invite them to come and work in your kitchen, and beautify your dainty tea towels? They're very quickly and easily done in applique or outline stitch—you can take your choice—each motif is just one applique patch. You can be as bright as you wish about the colors which you choose for their hoop skirts and cun- ning poke bonnets. They're such fun to do—even a junior could do them— and we know any number of young brides-to-be who would welcome just such s shower gift. Nice to donate to a bazaar, too. In pattern 5434 you will find a transfer pattern of seven motifs averaging about 5% by 7 inches (one for each day of the week), material requirements, color suggestions and illustrations of all stitches needed. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps cr coin to the Editor of The Evening Star. \ Woman’s Guidance in 115-Year-Old ' Associations Luck in Numbers Has' | Emphasis as Youth Gains Friends. BY ANGELO PATRL | A GIRL of 15 is fretting because her father says that boys who stay later than 9 o'clock in the evening ought to be sent home. If they don't know enough to go they have to be told, and the girl thinks father is pretty close to awful. Can't she have | a boy friend? Can't he take her to the movies? Can't she have a little fun like other girls who haven't such | awful fathers? | I am afraid not. I am afraid she will have to put up with this father | who thinks that high school freshmen | ought to have their social occasions | over by evening, study a while, rest a | | while and get to bed by 9 o'clock. I| | bave a great deal of sympathy with | that father, and with all fathers and | | mothers who are trying to get some sense into their children’s heads about | this boy-friend and girl-friend idea. Fifteen-year-old children grow fast. ‘They use so much of their energy in growing that often they have little | enough left for study. They fall back | in their work. Many a freshmaa fail- | ure is caused by this overdone boy- and-girl association. When a couple of children of this age sit side by side, as close as they can get, in a darkened room, whispering together for hours, they exhaust their nervous energy to an alarming degree and are unfit for work next day. They lose a lesson, then another and soon are on the failing list. It is right enough for boys and girls to associate happily. to work and play together, but for two of them to seek each other's exclusive company is not so good for them as they imagiae. To excite and stimulate nervous cen- ters without adequate expression is a dangerous practice at best, and, in this situation, dangerous beyond measure. It cannot be done with safety to the health and happiness of the boys and girls. ‘This group of 15-year-olds, and the general group of high school fresh- men, are in the half-way stage where childish impulse and adult desires struggle for mastery. The balance is not within the power of the children. The adults must weigh the scales on the side of sanity, health and growth. These young folk should have clubs in which they gather to develop mutual tastes and interests. Once during each term they should have a grand spread and a dance that lasts to midnight, with teachers and parents as onlookers. At all times they should be encouraged to take each other for granted as good com- rades and playfellows, not as boy- friends and girl-friends in the present day meaning. There is luck in numbers at this stage. Each boy and girl should be merged in the group, not singled out. ‘These groups, if they are functioning normally, will shift and reform so that the members have a wider asso- ciation. That wider association is the ideal condition among these children. ‘The' parents’ attitude can influence this to a great extent. If they assume that the 15-year-old son and daugh- ter are children to be protected and guarded and reared in healthy appre- ciation of themselves and of each other, that this and train- ing is the right of all children, the young ones will accept that idea and come nearer to solving their difficul- ties than they do at present by the pairing-off plan. Tomato Stuffed. Drain and fiake one 7-ounce can tuna fish, breaking it up only & little and leaving it in good-sized pieces. Add % cup chopped fresh cucumber Slightly Draped Neckline Charming Version of the Afternoon Mode. BY BARBARA BELL. HE slightly draped neckline is emphatically the most popu- lar in the afternoon frocks of the Fall season. There is much interest in draping nowadays, both for afternoon and evening things, that seeming to be the best way of in- troducing the added fullness and width, without sacrificing the slimness of the silhouette. What will happen if the designers begin to loop and swirl fabrics about the figure remains to be seen, but the cowl neck is certainly a step in the recognition of the im- portance of the draped line. The dress today is an excellent ex- ample of the afternoon mode. It is the kind of thing young women will love for tea dances, or important Sun- day luncheons. The blouse is very simple, depend- 1750-8 gold of honey from the comb to the darker, richer tones from bees that have beén feeding in strange pas- tures. It is a most flattering color and will look well with brown or black coats, or some of the high shades, deep wine or cactus green. This shade is marvelous in velveteen and in jer- sey. Silk jerseys will be good for both afternoon and evening and in the fine soft wool types will go into the mak- ing of many “little” frocks like this one. Black is grand, accented with accessories of gold, a gold-studded belt and clips at the neckline. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1750-B is designed in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. ding bust measurements 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 16 (34) re- quires about 3% yards of 39-inch ma- terial. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. Barbara Bell pattern book available at 156 cents. Address orders to The Evening Star. BARBARA BELL, Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for pattern No. 1750-B. Size........ NBME ceeeemceccnmncaaccaeaaae U1 S —————, (Wrap colns securely in paper.) :Bleach Must | 'Be Slow and ’ Expert Task| Bespeckled Efforts of | | Summer Offer Triple i Problem. }‘ BY ELSIE PIERCE. \\'ELL, Summer is just a memory | (and a pleasant one, 1 hope) but its souvenirs linger on. And in a| frantic effort to route them in double- quick time, women are going to ex- tremes. Which, as you need hardly be told, invites danger. They are rushing into beauty shops (particularly those with a very abun- dant freckle crop) begging to get bleached quickly. Conscientious own- ers and operators tell them it can't be done, that the process to be safe | must be slow. Those who are sensi- ble, listen. Those who aren’t, go to a beauty salon less conscientious. Anyway, the sensible ones have their salon facials and supplement | the good work with frictioning and | creaming at home. get rid of the bespeckled effect with- | out getting rid of surrounding skin, too. The worst of tan is the uneven, | | checkerboard appearance. Even if the | coat does go on as evenly as Joan Crawford's, it comes off in shreds and patches. Recondition as You Bleach. Just changing the color of the skin is noy enough. Yesterday we dis- cussed the oil facial as a good pre- liminary before starting the bleaching. Now let us see how we can combine bleaching with reconditioning work. The texture of the skin doubtless needs renovating, too. The sun’s rays have not only discolored the coat, they have coarsened its quality, made it tough and leathery, rough to the feel. The combination of soothing creams, fric- tion and bleaching agents will do & triple job. The bleaching lightens the skin, the soothing creams soften the texture and the friction helps to hast- en nature's work of shedding the dead outer layer of skin cells. Normally, you know, there’s a constant process of renewal, the dead cells are scuffed off (the naked eye scarcely perceives this) and new cells being manu- factured to take their place. Start the treatment by cleansing the skin thoroughly with cleansing cream. Remove with tissues. Apply towels wrung out of quite hot water. These hot compresses will help the skin to shed the dark, dead cells. Next fric- tion lightly with a good soothing, emollient cream, just a thin layer of it. Over that comes the bleach. The bleach is allowed to remain for about a half hour (according to the direc- tions that come with it, mind you). Then remove and pat on more of the soothing cream. There are innumerable bleaches on the market—creams, lotions, unguents —excellent ones. But my advice if you've never used one before is: Start with a mild one.. (Copyright. 1935.) Salmon Piquant Sandwiches Drain and flake one can salmon. Add one tablespoon evaporated horse- radish which has been soaked in two tablespoons cold water for 10 minutes, four tablespoons mayonnaise and one- half teaspoon salt. Spread between buttered slices of white bread with a leaf of crisp lettuce. Garnish with fresh cucumber pickle. This is also delicious when toasted. BabyNeeds Cuticura for that Rash ‘Why let him ery when an applica- tion of Caticura Olntment will quickly soothe that irritation. Cuticura Ointment is a helpfal friend to millions of babies through- out the world. It is gentle in action - ‘heali Su-phhu'.' Address: *‘Cuticura,” Dept. 2Ly Gradually they | Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE DINNER SERVING FIVE, Baked White Fish. Escalloped Potatoes. Buttered Spinach. Biscuits. Currant Jelly. Cabbage Salad. Sour-Cream Dressing. Chicago Hot. Raised Doughnuts. Coffer Milk for Children Daily. SOUR CREAM DRESSING % cup thick sour ¥ teaspoon cream a 2 tablespoons v oo inegar opped U4 teaspoon salt ¥4 teaspoon celery salt Mix ingredients and beat 1 m with fork. Chill. Beat well and CHICAGO HOT. 1 peck ripe 13 cup ¥ fomatoes T 3 cups (}:mnnl‘fl on 1 teaspoon suga; onion 1 cup chopped Ted peppers 2 cups chopped green Deppers %2 cup white mustard seed add rest of ingredients and boil 25 minutes. Pour into sterilized jars and seal. RAISED DOUGHNUTS. 1 cake com. % cup sugar pressed veast 1 cup_scalded esgs mi % teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon | cinnamon Crumble yeast in bowl, add { cup milk cooled to lukewarm. Add salt, cin- namon, sugar, eggs, fat, 2 cups flour and rest of milk, beat 3 minutes. Add rest of flour and mix thoroughly. Cover and let rise until doubled in | bulk. This will require about 4 hours in room of moderate temperature. Roll out dough on floured board until | dough is ¥ inch thick. Cut out, using | regular doughnut or round cooky cut- ter. paper on flat surface and let rise until doubled in size. Fry in deep hot fat until well browned. This will require | about 4 minutes. Drain and serve | plain or dusted with sugar. 4 tablespoons fat. meited Gherkins in Blankets. Select small sweet pickles. Wrap each pickle by rolling in a strip of bacon and fastening with a toothpick. Broil under hot flame until bacon is crisp. ...You Wheat wife and I do not seem to | Therefore, I either have | there is the child, | nothingness in cofiparison with the | Chop tomatoes and let drain 1 hour, | Place cut doughnuts on waxed | | And so0 it seems to me that men and women who have taken this great re- sponsibility upon themselves should consider the child’s welfare and hap- piness before their own. I think they should endure almost anything for the | sake of the children. Certainly I don't think that you have any right to jeopardize your child’s whole future because your wife won't step out with you. There are plenty of others who will. So meet the situation with philosophy and common sense, and keep your home intact. That is, if you and your wife can keep from quarreling, but if you | have to have a fight every time she | goes to prayer meeting and you go to the movies, it is kindness to the child for you to separate. Better nc home at all than one that is filled with discord. Better no father or mother than parents who are eternally scrap- ping. CONUENIAI ITY between a husband and wife is, of course, the most important factor in making marriage a success. Any two persons can be happy together who like to do the same t! nd are interested in the same t and have the same tastes and habits, and young people should consider whether they have the same likes and dislikes more than anything | else in picking out their mates. When, however, after marriage they find out that they differ in their tastes, they should save their mar- riage by compromising and by adapt- ing themselves to each other. Reading, staying at home, going out, bridge, golf, automobiling, dancing, are all things that we can learn to do and like, just as we have acquired a taste for caviar and olives. The very best housekeeper I know is a woman who learned to cook after marriage because her husband was an epicure. I know another woman who has learned to pl cards because her hus- band was a bridge fiend. And so it goes. We can change our tastes and | habits if we will and it is better to | do that than it is to break up a home. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1935.) | T e Proprieties In City Life ‘And Country BY EMILY POST. DEAH MRS POST: (1) Is a gen- | tleman expected to lift his hav | when passing on the street & lady | he knows well, but with whom he does not stop to talk? (2) Also, is he today, as always, expected to stand bareheaded. with hat in hand, when talking with a lady? This might be the means of contracting serious ill- ness in cold weather.” Answer—(1) A gentleman lifts his hat whether he stops or does not stop. (2) In a city, yes. In the country not unless he | young. When a gen! | bareheaded in a Wintry street a lady is supposed to be considerate enough to walk on a short way, so that he may put his hat on. “Dear Mrs. Post: parative stranger in this town, | have met many of the young men | my age through the daughters of | mother’s new friends who have asked me to parties at their houses. I should now like to give a party and ask some of these new friends, but may I ask the young men, since none of them has actually asked me to go anywhere alone?” Answer—To a party you can, of course, invite every man, as well as girl, whom you know and would like to include. On the other hand, you could not make a conspicuous point of inviting one man to come alone to your house, unless he had shown | some particular interest in you. (Copyright. 1935.) I am a com- but HEALTHFUL FOOD tor DOGS and CATS “HERE’S THE WAY I HIT THE TRAIL TO HEALTH! can’t miss it! Fresh air and exer- cise start you on the health trail. But a well-balanced diet keeps you going. That’s why I always pack my kit with plenty of Shredded Wheat!” Shredded Wheat is packed with the vital elements you need. For Shredded is whole wheat — nothing added, nothing taken away. It gives you the full nutritive value of whole wheat in its most delicious and digestible form. Ask for the package showing the picture of Niagara Falls 10d the red N.B.C. Uneeda Sea |