Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1935, Page 29

WOMEN’ S FEATURES. THE EVEN VG_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1935. WOMEN'’S FEATURES. Automobile Concern Issues Valuable Pamphlet on Care of Upholstery L2 Following Directions Will Prolong the Life Of New Car’s Interior Certain Stains Require Special Type of Re- mover—Much Damage May Be Done by Using the Wrong One. BY BETSY CASWELL. Y THIS time you have undoubt- B edly seen the auto show, and practically lost your mind and your heart over the glorious new cars! While the men of the! family discussed the respective merits | of different motors—you have, I am | sure, climbed in and out of dozens of ears to acquaint yourself with the : sleek, pale-colored upholstery and perfection of tai- loring that dis. tinguishes the new models. Perhaps you have even said to 3 yourself, if you are the mother of A large and ob- 3 | &treperous family, “Oh! how I would love a car like this—but even if we could afford it, it wouldn't be prac- tical—the children would wreck the upholstery in no time!” and sighed regretfully as you turned away to look | at a less elegantly finished vehicle, | Having heard this plaintive wail an | uncounted number of times at past Betsy Caswell the darker colors leave damaging marks—little children who kneel on the seat to look out of the window, are frequent offenders. For spots from white polish, it is best to let the mark dry, and then brush vigorously. Usually this is all that is necessary, but if the spot seems persistent, moisten it with cold water, allow it to dry and repeat the brushing. Care~ bon tetrachloride is recommended for | the black and tan ‘polishes, as they have a waxy base, which water does not affect. Prompt action and energetic meas- ures will insure the life and looks of the interior of your car for many, many moons! e Teai Versatile As Dessert Method of Prepara- «uto shows, the salesmen, always ontion Influences Flavor their toes to glean any information that has to do with the saleability of | their particular car, passed the word along to the big concerns. One or{ these picked up the challenge im-ly mediately, and has issued a little | pamphlet dealing exclusively with | caring for the interior of the modern | automobile. There is hardly a pos- ribility left untouched, and the sug- gestions struck me as so valuable and interesting that I thought I would pass a few of the most practical ones | along to you. | &K : F COURSE. pride in your pos-| session is one reason to keep the eppearance of the car “up to scratch” ~but there is another very important point—that is, that a well-kept car 1s a far better sales possibility than one which has been allowed to go to wrack and ruin. Therefore, it will more than repay you Lo keep the up- holstery spotless and like new. All upholstery should be brushed thor- oughly at least once a week, and, | where possible, a good vacuum clean- | ing will do wonders. | Stains from battery acids should | be removed immediately before the | acid has had a chance to eat through | the material. Pour enough household | ammonia directly on the spot, so that | the mark is well covered. Leave on for about two minutes—then rinse the spot well with cold water. Bloodstains may be removed by eareful rinsing with cold water—if this does not suffice, ammonia may be called into use as for the battery acid marks. Hot water or soap should not be used, as they are liable to unset the stain, and its complete removal will be rendered impossible. Candy stains other than chocolate ean be removed by rubbing with a cloth wrung out in very hot water. It this does not do the job completely, sponge, after drying, with a little carbon tetrachloride. Cream and fruit filled chocolates require a soft cloth that has been soaked in lukewarm soapsuds, together with scraping while wet with a dull knife. Rinse with cold water and pat dry. Chewing gum—that bane of metic- uleus housekeepers—shculd be well moistened with carbon tetrachloride and scraped off the fabric with a knife while the gum is still wet. * x X% X REASE and oil leave ugly marks, and are difficult to get off. As much surface grease as possible should be scraped off with a knife, and then the spot should be well rubbed with some solvent such as carbon tetra- chloride, benzine, ether, etc. To lessen the possibility of grease rings, start working just outside the spot, and proceed towards the center with a cir- cular motion. If the children have dripped ice eream from cones all over the new cushions—don’t be down-hearted, says the little book. Rub well with a eloth dipped in very hot water, and after drying, rinse with a clean cloth wrung out in carbon tetrachloride. If the stain persists, scrub with warm soapsuds and rinse with clear, cold water, Another source of upholstery dam- age is shoe polish. Both white and Considerably. BY EDITH M. BARBER. DURING the Winter months the wise housekeeper will always keep on hand some kind of cooked dried fruit such as prunes, apricots, figs or peaches. With a dish of one of these in the refrigerator you will always be sure of fruit for breakfast or for lunch ready to serve. These fruits are also convenient to have on hand to use as a flavor for a quick dessert, | such as prune whip, which is so easily prepared. All dried fruits should be carefully washed and then covered, not too generously, with water. Soaking a few hours will shorten the time of | cooking, but you will have just as good results. if you cook the fruit at once, if you keep it closely covered and use a low fire. And here is an- other important point—be sure to keep the fruit covered while it cooks. Fruit cooked in this way will be plump and will have a thick sirup even in the case of the California prune, where no sugar is necessary. This method of slow cooking and eooling seems to develop the natural sugar in the fruit. Oregon prunes 1usuflny need a little sugar. Pigs us- | ually need no sugar, but apricots and | usually peaches will be the better for | & small additional sweetening. Just another word about figs. Do not soak them more than two or three hours. A long soaking seems to take flavor from the pulp. Either the California figs which come in packages or the Italian figs on a string, which are available throughout the Winter, are satisfactory for cook- ing. Remember that the latter need an exceedingly thorough cleansing, | while the native product is usually | elean. | Another very good way to prepare | dried fruits is to bake them in a covered casserole. If you are using the oven for other purposes it is a good time to make it do double duty. Fruit whip is a combination of beaten egg whites and fruit pulp which is particularly good when made with | one of the dried fruits. Perhaps apri- | cots or prunes are the most popular flavor for this dessert. | Fruit souffe is this same mixture | baked in a mold which is set in hot water in a moderate oven (375 de- grees F.) for about 45 minutes. This | may also be served with a custard or whipped cream. Another very quick dessert is made like the fruit whip, substituting one cup of cream for the egg whites. The | cream should be beaten stiff before the fruit pulp is folded into it. Sometimes chopped nuts are added to this mix- ture. PRUNE WHIP. Rub one cup of cooked prunes through a sieve, add sugar to taste and heat enough to dissolve the sugar. Beat the whites of three eggs, add the pulp and a few grains of salt. Place in molds set in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) 30 minutes until firm. (Copyright, 1935.) Houseuow Ars Milky Way—a charming name for a charming quilt. It is e that it gets it from the feathery-looking patchwork stars that make pattern. But looking further, you will find that the design is oh, It is made of strip-like pieces of the same width, which means up your material into strips and then them! ©Only two materials are required. just snip off the In pattern 5059 you will find the block chart, an illustration sewing and finishing, together with yardage chart, disgram of arrange the blocks for single and double bed size, and & which serves as a guide for placing materials. To obtain this pattern send 1 Bditor of The Evening Star. P) the patches and cents in stamps or coin to the Woman's print name and address, A Dinner Sétting to Grace the Snow Queen’s Palace! For the formal dinner. the beauty and dignity of crystal and fine lace is not to be denied. Glistening candelabra, supporting tall white tapers; cloth and napkins of Point de Venise, and green-and-gold service plates are set off to perfection by the twinkling glasses and the center arrangement of poignantly white gar- ~8(ar Staff Photo, Courtesy Woodward & Lothrop. denias floating in a crystal bowl. - Bulletins in Many Fields For Readers Recipe Offered for Sachet and Potpourri Rose Jar. | | BY ELSIE PIERCE. I MR.S, B. E—My bulletin on “P"'i fume” contains a few recipes | for home-made sachets which would | make very inexpensive yet welcome | gifts for Christmas. Since you lrei planning so far ahead you have ample | time for experimentation. I also have | directions for making a potpourri rose jar which any one would be more | than thrilled to have. Send self-ad- | dressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope for both bulletins, please. * % x % T. S. P—The beauty operator was right in refusing to treat your scalp if the condition is really ringworm | (and from your description I judge that it is). In the first place, this be- longs to a physician and cannot be treated satisfactorily or successfully in the beauty shop. In the second place, it is highly contagious and it would really not be fair to all the other clients patronizing the salon to run the risk of spreading the condition. I would advise you to see your phy- sician at once. * ok k% Mrs. N. F.—The older woman with gray hair should avoid high shades, particularly red, but since your hair is prematurely gray and you say your skin is so youthful and Jflawless, I do think red would look very “stunning.” Blue should be lovely, too. For eve- ning the black velvet and lame com- binations should be ravishing. As a matter of fact, the only shades for you to avoid are the sallowing or yel- lowish shades that would detract from the beauty of your hair. I have & bulletin called “Growing Gray Grace- fully” which I should Hke to send you if you will send for it and inclose a self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) en- velope. N. A. P.—Dandruff and acne very often go hand in hand. Flakes of dan- druff are carried to the skin by the hands or fall there when the hair is combed and aggravate the skin condi- tion. Both conditions need the same basic care. By that I mean the same strict adherence to s sensible diet, with fatty foods eliminated, oil foods ditto, sweets and starches cut down. Limit yourself to a wholesome diet with plenty of fresh vegetables and roughage. See to it that the process of elimination is unimpaired. It is very important to regulate the elimination of waste from the system. Get fresh air, good food, drink plenty of water, rest. In health lies the foundation of beauty. (Copyright. 1935.) For Hot Breads. Honey butter tastes ever so good served with hot biscuits, corn-bread or other hot breads. To make it use: honey. Let butter stand at room temperature to soften. Mix with honey, stirring well. Put mixture in small jar, cover tightly and keep in refrigerator. turpentine ink marks from white fabrics. (Copyrisht. 1935.) BY LUCIE EBERLY. AISING bulbs and Winter plants is one of the nicest kind of hobbies to ride—espe- cially if one has a fondness for outdoor gardening and misses the | pleasant days spent pottering in the Summer garden. With a few hours of bulb potting in November, the other- wise flowerless house may be redolent with indoor bloom from December | through April. Fern, ivy, cacti and! other varieties of green plants lend | additional color and interest and are | very easy to raise. The delicate scent | of narcissus and hyacinth is always | soothing and restful—and what could be more cheering than an interesting | group of bright green plants potted in gay receptacles and attractively grouped by a window? The darkest of rooms and dreariest of days can be brightened by these symbols of Mother | Nature's indefatigability. * x * x Tfl'l secret of keeping up a succes- sion of bulb bloom lies in the | selection of proper varieties and knowing just how long to keep them in the dark ecold-storage room or corner. The amateur botanist will find paper-white narcissus, French hyacinth, grape hyacinths, crocus, daffodils, Dutch hyacinths, early double tulips, Darwin tulips—named in the order of their blossoming—an interesting sequence. There will be a continuous supply of blossom if this variety is planned for and potted. * x % x ’I‘H! potting process is very simple. Bulb pans or three-quarter pots are preferable to the larger sizes, as they are sufficiently shallow to set into decorative containers when the bulbs have sprouted. Soak the new pots and pans in water for several Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. INFLUENCED BY MAINE. (A Delicious Brown Bread Recipe.) Maine Brown Bread. Baked Lima Beans. Chilli Sauce. Buttered Spinach. Pear Sauce. Chocolate Cookies. Frosting, Orange Flavored. Coffee. MAINE BROWN BREAD. 1 cup flour 1 cup bran 2 tablespoons molasses Mix ingredients and half-fill but- tered mold. Cover tightly and steam three hours. Unmold and serve warm, cut in slices. BAKED' LIMA BEANS, 4 cups cooked % cup molasses beans % teaspoon % teaspoon salt ‘mustard % teaspoon pepper 3 cups water or tablespoon 1 bean stock chopped onions Mix ingredients and pour into bak- ing dish or bean pot. Cover and bake two hours in slow oven. Remove lid and bake 15 minutes to brown top. CHOCOLATE COOKIES. 25 cup fat 2 eggs or 4 yolks 2 cups sugar 3% cups flour % cup cocoa 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vanilis % teaspoon salt % cup cream Cream fat and sugar. Add cocos, vanilla, cream and eggs. Beat two minutes. Add rest of ingredients, mixing lightly. Drop portions from tip of spoon onto baking sheets. Flatten cookies with back of spoon. Bake 12 minutes in moderate * days—this will help to keep the bulbs moist longer after they have been planted. Keep the bulbs in a cool | place until you are ready to plant them—the sooner you pot them, though, the better. The soil used should consist of nine parts sand loam or gravel and one part leaf mold. Some seed stores, nurseries and flor-| ists keep a bulb fiber which is an excellent soil substitute for bulbs that already have the flower bud formed inside. Paper-white narcis-| sus, crocus, daffodils, hyacinths and tulips are among this lot. Hyacinths, | some florists contend, should be, grown only in water—though they have been successfully grown in gravel and soil. If you use bulb fiber, sosk it thoroughly in water and squeeze out before using. * x X ¥ BULBB should not be pressed into the fiber or soil. but should be placed in the pot and then covered. Set the bulbs at such a depth in the pot or pan that the tops will not pro- | trude above the border. Water tHor- oughly after potting and set in a box of moist sand in a dark, cool room, where the temperature will not rise above 40 to 50 degrees. During the rooting period the bulbs should be kept moist—that is all the attention they require. It generally takes eight weeks for them to root and they should not be brought to the light un- til the end of that time. Hyacinths and tulips should be left in the dark until their tops have grown at least 11, to 2 inches. Chinese sacred lily and lilies of the vallpy require only four weeks to bloom, and if started now will tide over the waiting period for the other bulbs. Next Saturday we will go into the matter of green plants and the mid- get Japanese gardens for the Winter house. | Courtesies And Ethics Considered BY EMILY POST. DlAR MRS. POST: When taking several other women to lunch, how can I show courtesy to them? At home, of course, I would not have myself served first, but what can I do in & restaurant if the waiter in- sists on passing everything to me first? Answer: Tell him, “Please serva me last,” or “Give that to this lady next to me,” or else let him put it down and then give the plate yourself to the guest on your right and the next one to the guest on your left. * % % % Dear Mrs. Post: We would like to call in a certain doctor to help with mr husband’s illness, but we don't want to hurt our own family doctor, who has been very kind to us. How can we go about it? Answer: You should ask your own doctor to call in Dr. Eminent for con- sultation with him. It is always proper to tell your own doctor that you would like the advice of a spe- cialist. But it would be very unethical to send for the specialist yourself. In fact, it would really be a dismissal of your own doctor. * % ¥ % Dear Mrs. Post: My ni live with me recently study, and her mother charge, as she is only 20. haved very badly indeed moved to take a hand packed her things and m same house at which flance ( ha. meanwhile come i Eggggu Beagfalizle: Dorothy Dix Says Sometimes It Is Better to Condone Un- faithfulness Than to Divorce. EAR MISS DIX—I have been married 16 years. My hus- | band has just one affair after | another with women, but| when I tell him I do not want to| stand in the way of his happiness and that I will gladly give him his free- | dom if he wants to marry one of a divorce. Says that he does not want me to leave him and that I am the only one whom he loves, and that he would not treats me with the utmost considera- tion and kindness, shows me all kinds of affection, yet he is unfaithful to me. I cannot understand the contradiction. What would you advise me to do in this case? As far as money is con- that does not have to be considered. In spite of all that he has done I love my husband with all my heart and soul, but the worry over him is break- ing me down physically. However, I am trying to keep that from him for and that I do not want. MRS. BROKENHEARTED. * x * ¥ Answer: For some women who are afflicted with unfaithful husbands, tion that cures. It cuts away the canker in their lives, and when they are no longer tortured by the pangs of jeal- | ousy that gnawed at their hearts, they | are well. They can put the past behind these women, he begs me not to get | want to live if it were not for me. He | cerned, I can take care of myself, so | fear he might stay with me out of pity, | divorce is like a major surgical opera- | doubt him. No wife can understand how her husband cdn break her heart with his unfaithfulness and still love her, yet it is true that many a man who has a hundred light loves never really loves or respects any woman but the one to whom he i8 married and whom he treats so cruelly. There are men who are just born | philanderers. It is not possible for | them to be true to any women. If | such a one was married to Venus he would forsake her for some woman whose face was homely enough to stop a clock. If he were married to a woman who was a compendium of every feminine charm and virtue, he | would teave her for any little dull | girl who crossed his path. | Why i@it? What is it? Pickleness? The love of adventure? Vanity? The | desire to see if he can win a woman’s { heart? Any, or all, of these things probably motivate him, but in it all there is seldom any real feeling. It is just a pastime, and it may ease many a poor wife's hurt heart to realize this. Whatever small amount of genuine affection he has is given to her, and in the end he will come back to her if she is willing to wait | and feel that he is worth waiting for. DOROTHY DIX. * x ox ¥ | J)EAR DOROTHY DIX: I have | promised to marry a young man the first of next month. I am really in love with him, but as the time them. Forget the husbands who have | draws near I wonder if I am doing neglected them and be gay and happy, | the right thing. He is the main sup- and perhaps find solace in another port of his widowed mother. There husband. divorce is death. They do not sur- vive the operation. They have no lives outside their husbands and if they separate from them they are the most forlorn, miserable, purposeless crea- tures in the world. I think that you belong to this latter type of one-man woman and that you doning his neglect, enduring the shame he puts upon you, than you would be if you left him. As it is you see him But there are other women to whom | will be happier with your husband, | putting up with his infidelities, con- daily, you have a part in his life, you | | with this and that. Childhood Should Be Treasured Letter Admonishe Children to Make Most of Youth. BY ANGELO PATRI DEAR CHILDREN: It is great to be a child, great to be young. You have your troubles, I know, and they are hard to bear, but you have that priceless gift—youth. You are that| wonderful bit of creation, a child. I don't expect vou to understand that, but I hope that you will accept your | childhood, that you will not try to be grown up in dress and diet and | habits and manners. It does not work out well. You have this one chance to be a child. Take it gladly and be a good child, not an imitation man or woman. I see lovely young girls whose skins are like silky flower petals, the envy | of older women, plastering their faces It does not make | them lovely. It spoils the beauty that their youth gives them, the one real beauty they can ever possess. Their skins will fade and coarsen in time; then they may need all those things that come in boxes and bottles. Cer- | tainly they do not need them now. | They are silly enough to trade their youthful loveliness for something that makes them look like cheap imitators | of something foreign to themselves. I hear boys complaining because their fathers and mothers have the good sense to say that they canpot drive cars, that they cannot go out | evenings while they are attending | schools. “Everybody else does it. I don't see why I have to stick in the | house and go to bed like a kid.” Those boys are children. They are growing bodies and minds so that some day they can be men. Men are able to carry their own responsibilities and pay their own way. They learned how by serving an apprenticeship to life as good boys. A boy ought to be s boy and be glad of it. Imitating men gets boys nowhere except into trouble. An imitation is never much good. Placed beside the real thing it looks cheap and shoddy, and it is. Children, accept your childhood and youth. Enjoy it. Do the work, wear the clothes, use the manners of child- hood and youth because they belong to you. Be a thoroughbred child. You can have more fun and much greater happiness in that way. Cigarettes are not good for you. Strong drink and late hours are not for you either. You are in training to be somebody. Instead of com- plaining about the discipline, the re- strictions that are placed upon you, accept them as mArks of the loving care your father and mother are of- fering you. Just remember that they were like you a few years back and they know how you feel. They know too many things that are hidden from you even when they happen in your sight. Experience is the eye of the mind, and you have not lived long enough to gather enough experience to ‘help you to stand alone in a strange world. Be proud of your family back- ground. It is a privilege to have a home, a family behind you. It is a privilege to be protected and loved and reared as a child should be. It Enjoy it as much as you can. Leav the grown-ups their toys and stick to your own that suit you so much better. Affectionately, ANGELO PATRL (Copyright. 1935.) And she has great hard feeling to- ward me. Answer: Even though I agree with mother and handed the ty over to her. 1988 have the interest of making a home | for him and you are not so lonely as| you would be if you went away and | never even heard from him. ! * o * Ol’ COURSE, he doesn’t deserve that you should love him after the way 1 he treats you, nor that you should | | are two married daughters, but for some reason she doesn't go to stay with them except for an occasional week end. The mother expects my fiance to take care of her. He makes a very small salary. I don't mind that, but I don't like the thought of | having his mother with us all the | time and having to take care of her in.s she is sick a great deal. What about it? NANCY. Answer—I think you should decide this matter very definitely before you marry and have it thoroughly under- stood whether the man's mother will make her home entirely with him, or if she will divide up her time between her daughters. Don't wait until after you are mar- ried and then consider yourself a martyr because you have to take care of a poor old sick woman. Either don't marry him, or be a sport about it I don't think there is any other one bear with him and forgive his sins against you. but the love of a wife for 1 thing that is a meaner characteristic an erring husband has nothing to do | in human nature than the way the S with justice. It gets to be the divine | members of a family wish off an old ‘pl!_v that a mother has for her child | father or mother on some son or who is a weakling. | daughter who is less selfish and has { more heart than they have. If each | one did his or her part it would be a | hardship on none, but it often bee | comes a burden that crushes the one Your husband does not want a divorce. He does not want to marry | any one of the women after whom he chases. He tells you that he still loves you and that you are the only woman in the world to him. No wonder you | who must bear it alone DOROTHY DIX., (Copyright. 1935.) of the Mode The Darling Classically Simple Shirtwaist Dress for Spectator Sports. BY BARBARA BELL. F YOU go to & smart sports event in the colorful Winter season l you'll see a lot of dresses that come under the general heading of “shirtwaist” frocks. If you see & good many business women, or women who are engaged in activities that may { not keep them in offices, but are ac- tivities, none the less, you'll observe that they wear frocks that come un- der this same categorical grouping. ‘They are not all the same dress, for there are a good many versions of this simple style. You'll recognize them by their perfect tailoring, the nice atten- tion to detail and their appropriate- ness to the informal setting in which they are always worn by discriminat- ing women. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1718-B is WASHINGTON STAR. Inclose 25 cents in coins for pattern No. 1718-B. Sise. Name .. AdAress ooeeeccmcmcccccacannnne (Wrap coins securely in paper and priny name and address clearly.) requires 3% yards of 54-inch material. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which 1s easy to understand. Barbara Bell Fall and Winter pat« designed in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 4 bust measurements 2. Corresponding 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Bize 16 (34) tern book available at 15 cents. Ade dre-mim(tammmsm Al