Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1935, Page 27

WOMEN’S FEATURES. THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1935. WOMEN’S FEA TURES. % B—Ii Darkly, Luscious Fruit Cakes for Christmas Time May Be Prepared Now Delicacies Are Equally Appropriate for Gifts - Or Home Consumption Recipes Are Given to Cover Wide Range in| Quantity of Finished Product and in Cost of Ingredients -Used. BY BETSY CASWELL. T IS not one bit too soon to begin thinking about Christmas and New Year fruit cake—especially if you are of the old school of gourmets that think a fruit cake must be kept for weeks and weeks and weeks before it is even fit to look at—much less eat! Perhaps you will decide to make your kitchen stove the medium for playing Santa Claus this year, and instead of : *“boughten” gifts, your friends will receive from you fragrant and im- pressively hand- some loaves of luscious cake. ‘With this possi- bility in mind, I am including in ;::J ecill‘g ’f"d‘:; Betsy Caswell. one or two of large quantities. The amounts are easy to reduce, of course, should you not be interested in such & big undertaking. One very important point to re- member in the making of fruit cake is that all the fruit must be well floured, so that it will not stick to- gether, and will be evenly distrib- uted throughout the batter. This also tends to prevent the fruit from settling to the bottom of the cake during the baking process. Where feasible the fruit should be cut with | scissors, rather than chopped with a knife, as this seems to produce a bet- | ter-textured cake. * % X X FROM a famous South Carolina hunting club comes the following to 13 richest, directions for making 12': pounds of the blackest,- | ture. Juiciest fruit cake imaginable: CAROLINA FRUIT CAKE. 1 pound butter. 1 pound sugar. 12 eggs. 1 cup dark molasses. 1 cup rosewater. 1 pound flour. pound crystallized orange peel. cup sherry. pounds currants. pounds raisins. pounds citron (cut in pieces). | 1 pound almonds (chopped large). | 1 tablespoon nutmeg. Cream the butter and sugar slowly. | Add the eggs one by one, and beat | well during process. Add all the | liquids, and then the fruit, which has | been well floured, and add the nutmeg. | (It is best to add the nutmeg to the | flour itself) Place in greased deep | pan, lined with brown paper, which has also been greased. Bake the cake | for three hours in a very slow oven (250 degrees Fahrenheit is not too slow). 'A LESS expensive mixture, which will make from five to six | pounds of delicious fruit cake, is this | one: % 1 2 2 2 * x % % SIMPLE FRUIT CAKE. 1 pound citron, cut fine. 1 pound raisins, cut in piicesA 1 pound currants. 2 cups chopped almonds. 4 cups sifted flour. % pound butter. 1 cup sugar. 5 eggs. 3; cup cider. 13 cup tart jelly. 1; cup sour cream. 1 cup molasses. { 2 teaspoons baking powder. 2 teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 1 teaspoon nutmeg. Prepare the fruit and nuts care- fully, combine, and dredge with 2 cups of the flour. Cream the fat, add the sugar, beaten egg yolks, cider, jelly, sour cream and molasses. | Sift twice the remaining two cups of flour, baking powder, salt, soda, and spices, and stir into the liquid mix- Add the floured fruit and nuts and fold in the well-beaten whites of eggs. Bake in a tube pap, lined with greased paper, in a very slow oven for about three hours. * %k ok x | AND one that will strike a happy medium between these two recipes |15 this: ENGLISH FRUIT CAKE. 1 pqund butter. 1 pound light-brown sugar. 10 egss. 1 pound flour. 21, teaspoons cinnamon. 112 teaspoons mace. 1 teaspoon soda. pounds currants. pounds raisins, cut fine. pound chopped almonds. pound citron, cut thin. tablespoons milk. Cream the butter with half of the sugar. Beat the egg whiteseuntil stiff, 3 2 1, add the remaining sugar to them, and | set aside. first mixture. Then add the egg whites, then the milk, fruit, nuts and flour, which has been mixed and sifted, with the mace, cinnamon and soda. Place in deep buttered pans, | cover loosely with buttered paper, and tie paper firmly in place. Steam | for three hours, then bake for 1!z hours in a slow oven. This cake may be kept over a long period, and im- proves with age. If you wish advice on your indi- vidual household problems write to Betsy Caswell, in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, self-addressed en- velope for reply. Card Tricks. “Pass,” said the lady in green with one eye on the comfortable divan hoping that she would be “dummy.” The chairs were so uncomfortable and the table dis- tractingly shaky. Let her partner glare—score or no score the game was over as far as she was con- cerned. “Card tricks” advises that you have your guests comfortable for the evening if you want a jolly game. The newly designed and solidly made card tables and chairs are a boon to even the most “amateurish game.” Tables the right height, comfortable chairs (some with arms) are now cleverly grouped in suites. The bridge corner may be made gay with a suite of table and chairs of solid wood; bone-white finish, rich red cushioned seats of leath- er; inlaid square of the same shade or white leather in the table top. One would never dream the chairs were the folding kind. Chinese Chippendale in design, they are not only attrac- tive around the card table, but smart as an odd side chair in the small apartment. the young idea h ave new tweed- etoy suits. The sports ackets are wool p[land lined with the s band 15 a m knit cuffs on . leeves. The at the waist s adjustable . Joan s impressed by Jack's foot-ball. She's weari nt much a blue no somulated leather jacket and a blue corderoy skirt. Add beaten egg yolks to | 'Useful Task | Leads Child ToNormalcy Household Material Is Likely to Meet Reg- ular Demand. BY ANGELO PATRI E first demand a child makes after his immediate primary needs have been met is for something lto do. The child of tender years | and the adolescent are happy only | when they are busy at some absorbing | occupation. | Much of the naughtiness that both- | ers young mothers could be preventeds| |by giving the naughty child some- | | thing to do. Sit him on a rug in | his own particular corner daily, with a basket containing bits of colored | cloth and paper, a rattle, a ball, a toy animal and a box with a lid that | can be taken off and put on again | and again. Teach him to amuse him- | self for a period daily, gradually lengthéning the time so that when | he is an independent child he can | get along without asking his mother for something to do. Give each child, right from the beginning, something useful to do, letting him hold the soap or the washrag during his bath, if he can | do no more. As he grows his duties | grow in importance and complexity. | This is what makes him feel wanted, a feeling that is necessary to his mehtal and physical health. The great difficulty about all this is | that the home offers so little real | work that a child can do these days, unless he lives on & farm, or a near farm. But there is always something that a child can do to help himself and others, and so feel himself a partner in the life of the family. In the larger towns and cities the opportunities are fewer. The homes are small and crowded. Children’s usefulness is cut down to the vanish- ing point. School has taken over much that used to be taught in the homes. Again the difficulty arises. The schools are crowded, the teachers are over- worked. There is no room, no ma- terial, no free teacher to offer oppor- tunity for active useful work such as children used to do as home chores. Mending chairs, painting odd Dbits, sorting odds and ends, cleaning house and wards and outbuildings. All that went out when the factory was opened, the new electric machinery set up. Living habits have changed. But the basic need for usefulness is un- changing. Inasmuch as schools have had to take over the duties of the home they should have provided activities that would help the children to be useful- These bits of equipment that could be carried to the school with safety and economy ought to have been placed there and children taught to use them. Electric toasters, irons, vacuum cleaners, washers, kitchen ap- pliances should be demonstrated and the children, boys and girls alike, taught how to use them. They should be taught the principles on which they work. The science shops should be in every school. Here the basic princi- ples of the machinery of today should be demonstrated and taught, and the pupils taken to see the machines at work until they are thoroughly ac- quainted with them. This must be done if the children are to have their hunger for something to do satisfied. With nothing to do they drift aim- lessly about and get into trouble. Such waste of youth is unthinkable. (Copyright. 1935.) My Neighbor Says: Plant parsley now in your kitchen window box, and you will have a supply for garnishing all through the Winter. If the flesh of a turkey is soft o disturbing the rest of the family. |from the attic—the rest had to be | cannot always afford to buy, and with BY LUCIE EBERLY. WISH-SWASH goes the paint brush! Mother has just given the young lady of the house permission to transtorm one of the spare guest rooms into a den or studio—where she may entertain her chums, have knitting bees—where sorority sisters may come and plan the season’s schedule informally—where she may study, or indulge in her favorite | hobby—be it sketching or strumming the ukulele without being disturbed Some furniture was brought down | purchased within a limited sum, but the restriction held no barriers for | this bright young lady! She dashed | right down town and bought a few | odd pieces of unpainted furniture to compjete the room. She had expected to get the large butterfly table, lamp | table, wall book shelves and footstool | —but imagine her delight when she | discovered that she could also have | the darling modern floor bookcase! All this for practically the same amount one would generally pay for cone finished or painted piece! No wonder painting is such fun—who wouldn't swish-swash away? % x ¥ x ITH the many attractive pieces of unpainted furniture available, many of them reproductions of fine dld pieces that the average person the trend leaning toward bone-white and antique finish, it would seem that the enterprising individual could, with a small outlay of money, a little time and ingenuity, introduce any number of them into her home with great success. “Antiquing” is easily and inexpen- sively done and anyone who can rub paint on and off a surface will find that the process is mostly a trick. ‘The material needed is a tube or can of raw umber oil paint which may be found at any paint shop. Raw umber is a dark brown paint which has several relatives in burnt umber, sienna, and so on. These relatives may be used if raw umber cannot by any chance be obtained. ‘The process of antiquing is exactly the same for either furniture or flat surfaces. Dip a piece of cloth into the umber (which should be like thick grease in consistency), - and smear it thoroughly over the painted surface and rub it well into the cracks and corners. You need not be careful to apply it smoothly. The rubbing- off process is the important one. For this use a soft, clean cloth slightly dampened with turpentine and lightly rub the umber off the surface. Rub the high spots and bring out the under paint color, allowing a certain amount of the umber to remain in corners and cracks where the tone T his unbeatable combination will do much to turn that unused little extra sitting room into a charm- ing and colorful retreat. Unpainted pieces of odd furniture offer the amateur decorator ample scope for her abilities at relatively little (;Oil. Star Stal < of age would naturally collect. Well | used partc of a chair, the seat and back, for instance, should have little | tone, while the rungs, spindles and legs should be quite dark. ¥ k¥ x 'HILE you are about it you may want to tackle a few lamp shades, prints or maps. These are just as simply done, though the procedure is a little different. A coat of white shellac must first be applied to the surface. Use a clean, wide brush and paint rapidly, starting on one edge of the surface and working toward the other. Do not go back and re- touch until after the shellac is dry— it dries in a few minutes and if dis- turbed immediately after the first stroke it will roll up and become messy. Some paper and parchments | ar: more absorbent than others, so if | the first coat sinks in, apply a second one as soon as the first is dry. When | the shellac is thoroughly dry, smear the umber over the entire surface of the print, map or shade and rub it off immadiately with a soft, clean, dry | cloth, leaving the necessary coloring | in the corners and borders, of course. Decorative maps and illustrations | from magazine covers pasted on | heavy mounts shellacked and antiqued make clever wall decorations for the studio, den, or nursery. Plaif parch- | ment shades can be made more at- tractive—waste paper baskets, t0o, can be greatly improved. Turpentine will remove all of the umber, so don't be timid about ex- perimenting. If you decide you do not | like the antique finish—just rub the | umber off with a cloth dampened | with turpentine—presto, you have a plain surface again! The Old Gardener Says: Flower growers who live in city flats or in other places where potting soil is hard to obtain or where pots of earth are consid- ered “messy” will get good results by growing such bulbs as hya- cinths, paper white narcissi and Chinese sacred lilies in bowls of fiber. No drainage is needed when this plan is used, but sev- eral large pieces of charcoal should be plaged in the bottom of the bowl, which should then be filled to within half an inch of the top. The fiber should be firmed with the fingers after the bulb has been placed in position, for otherwise the water will run through it too quickly. Excessive moisture must be avoided but there should always be enough so that it touches the bottom of the bulb. This fiber can be obtained at florist shops and seed stores. (Copyright. 1935.) Housguow Ans 'hoto—Courtesy ard & Lothrop. .Light Food, Active Life | CutWeight Perfume Habit, Home ! Pedicure and Need of Medical Care. BY ELSIE PIERCE. RS. T. P.—Since you have had the experience before that Wm-‘ ter is the danger sign for your putting on weight, why not attempt to get more exercise (even if it is just the setting up exercise) and by all means | cut down on the heavy, starchy foods. | Shrinking your stomach and learning to pass up rich dishes will come a little hard at first, but with a little will power you will soon get accus- | tomed to it. Know the compara- ' tive value of foods. I have a chart in- dicating the calories in common foods. | A self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) | envelope will bring it to you, together with my weight chart and reducing | hints. Send another stamped (3-cent) addressed envelope if you wish my complete set of exercises. * x x x About Perfume. Jane—Your sister is probably right. | 1If you use one perfume for a long time you may become so accustomed to it that you yourself will not know when you are using too much. Olfac- tory fatigue it is called. Change to another scent and use just a little of | it. You also say that in dyeing your fur collar the perfume changed from a pleasant to a decidedly unpleasant | odor. That often happens, there is a | peculiar chemical reaction between | the dyes and the perfume. Hang the | collar out in the air and sunshine for | a day or so. Then get some perfume (there are special ones on the market adapted for furs) and spray on lightly. Spraying is about the best way to apply perfume, but spray from a dis- tance, otherwise you get too much. I have a complete bulletin on perfume hints which I should like to send you if you will forward a self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope. * x * % The Home Pedicure._ G. R. 0.—I decidedly disapprove cut- ting bad corns at home. An ortho- pedic specialist or chiropodist should be intrusted to do that. You say the last time you did it the toe bled pro- fusely, yet you are willing to take the chance once more. There is too much danger of an infection setting in and | of your cutting more than the super- | fluous growth. Please go to a chirop- odist. As for keeping the toes “mani- cured,” as you say, you can by all! means do that, filing and tinting the | nails. If you start now your toes| should be in beautiful shape by the | time you are ready for your Winter cruise. I have a bulletin on the home manicure and one on the home pedi- cure. Both are yours if you will re- peat your question and send a self- addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope. (Copyright, 1035.) Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. DINNER. Broiled Lamb Chops. Buttered Lima Beans. Glazed Parsnips. Raspberry Preserves. Celery. Tapioca Cream Pudding. Cookies. Milk for Children Daily. Coffee. TAPIOCA CREAM PUDDING. (Good Dessert for Whole Family as It Is Easily Digested.) 1% cup tapioca 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 teaspoon lemon extract 2 egg whites, beaten milk 20 minutes frequently. Add Cook five min- Bread. Stir and salt. | Dorothy Dix Says Dealing With an Adolescent Boy Re- quires Patience EAR MISS DIX—I am a boy in my middle teens and find it hard to get along with my father. He is 60 years old D | with many silly ideas. For example, when I leave the house in the eve- ning I must state where I am going and must put up with a big fuss. An- other thing, he demands that I give up most of my money when I work for household expenses. He earns a meager salary himself. I graduate next year and am in need of money for graduation and clothes. He is in great need of money for the house- hold. What percentage of my earn- ings should I give him? After I grad- uate and am on my own, would you advise me to leave home and go out into the wide world alone? D. D. Answer—Your father is making a mistake that most fathers make in using force and authority instead of tact in dealing with an adolescent boy. And, believe me, it is a time and place that calls for more di- plomacy than handling a problem in the League of Nations. For at no other period during his whole life is a boy so sure of himself, | so certain that he is embodied wis- dom, so absolutely confident that he is perfectly capable of managing his own affairs without any suggestion from his elders as when he is 16 or 17. Nor is there any other time in his life when he is so jealous of his independence, so eager for personal liberty, so determined to come and go as he pleases, and it's a pity that parents do not oftener recognize this self-assertiveness as just a phase of the hobble-de-hoy stage and do not meet it with finesse instead of doing battle with it and raising perpetual family ructions that very often end in the boy’s running away from home and that always end in bitterness and estranged relationship between the lad and the father who is trying to con- trol him. * x * % ONE of the wisest women I know, and one whose fine sons adore her, often says that her tongue is a half- inch shorter than it used to be be- cause she chewed off that much of it keeping from asking her boys, when they first began to step out, where | they were going and when they would | She said she realized that | be back. they were at an age when it made them feel gloriously manlike and grown-up to be able to put on their hats and to walk out the front door without giving an account to any one Furthermore, she says she realized that if they were going where they should not go they would lie to her about it, and if they were going to Smart Skirt and Diplomacy. places that were proper for them to go it did not make any difference whether she knew or not. So why rile them by asking the questions that bring on a fight? ‘That is a good tip for all fathers and mothers and it works out to the parents’ advantage in the end, be- cause if children feel that they are | trusted it puts them on théir honor | to justify it, and if their parents | don't pry into their affairs they gen- erally tell the things that no amount of questioning could have got out of them. What fathers and mothers forget is that children are human | beings with the same assortment of | human instincts that they have. But D. D, while I appeal to your father to use more intelligence in | dealing with you, I appeal to you to | use some heart in dealing with him. If he does not understand you, neither do you understand him. It seems hard to you that he should take away from you the money you earn and that you would like to spend on nice | clothes and taking the girls out and having a good time. e o BUT have you ever thought of how he works and how much he denies himself to support you? And keep you | in school? Doesn't he come home from work every day worn to a frazzle? | Aren't his clothes the shabbiest in the whole family? Doesn't everybody elss have little treats oftener than he does? JUST what percentage of your earte ings you should pay into the fam= ily fund I don't know, because you *can't figure it out on a cold mathe- matical formula. You can't say you should pay so much for board. because 50 much else goes with it besides food and lodging. So much love is thrown in, s0 much tenderness, so much anx= jety. There would be so much nurss | ing that didn't keep tab on the hours | of watching by your bedside if you were sick. There are such arrears of debts that piied up during the long years when you were little and help< less, that no one can say how much a child owes its parents in dollars and cents. All we know is that it is a debj§ that can never be repaid in full. 1§ would bankrupt the richest. And believe me. D. D., family solis darity is a beautiful thing, and thas is Nothing from which you would get more happiness than in working shoul~ der to shoulder with your parent making their lives easier and giving vour little brothers and sisters advan- tages which perhaps you have never known. Try it. DOROTHY DIX. 935.) (Copyrigh andfi Blouse Both Back and Front Fullness Seem to Be Popular BY BARBARA BELL. HERE has been so much talk about “front fullness,” and then a famous Paris designer decided to use it in back. And the effect was marvelous! Sometimes both ideas are used in the same dress, as in this one, and you can very well see how lovely it is. Hips and sides of the skirt smooth and clinging and then the flattering shirred-in portions, which give such graceful lines. This blouse has a most intriguing collar. Wide and round in back, i turns up in front, like the wings of a butterfly. One of Schiaparelli’s lady bug clips might nestle between the two flaring wings, or a lovely clip of diamonds (synthetic, of course). The sleeves are set in raglan fashion and they are puffed where they leave off between wrist and elbows. Cuffs exactly match the unique collar and it is very nice if they are both stitched with dozens of rows of neat machine stitching. You've heard about the skirt. How it has a shirred section in front and back, how hips are smooth and lmes This Season. 1732-6 long. It is a very lovely skirt and wel) worth trying. | Barbara Bell pattern No. 1732-B i | designed in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 | Corresponding bust measurements, 3 132 34, 36 and' 38. Size 16 (34) rey | quires 5 yards of 39-inch material Every Barbara Bell pattern includey an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. Barbara Bell Fall pattern book available at 15 cents. Address orderg to The Evening Star. | BARBARA BELL, Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents.in coins for UL R - (Wrap coins securely in paper and print pame and address clearly.)