Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1935, Page 28

1 B— Hunting Season Opening Brings New Problems to t 0 WOMEN’S FEATURES. Some Timely Recipes For Quail and Rabbit Are Fea To Keep the Domestic Waters Untroubled Care Must Be Taken in Preparing Tro- phies Brought So Proudly Home. Betsy Caswell | pepper. tured Today to which minced parsley has been added over all. SMOTHERED QUAIL. Truss birds neatly and cover with thin layer of bacon. Melt two table- spoons butter in a saucepan, add quail, and put into the pan half of one onion and of one carrot, minced. Cover and let quail brown well. Then add half cup water, and set pan in oven, covered with buttered paper. Cook for 20 minutes, and serve hot, garnished with parsley. * ok % % DOVE.S may be prepared in the same manner as quail, always keeping in mind that if the birds are very small they should not have the entrails removed, as little will be left | except a charred mass after roasting. Another good rule to remember when cooking game is that dark meats should be cooked rare, and light meats well done. The season locally for rabbit is also open, and for the many lovers of the agile bunny here are a few somewhat unusual recipes: HUNTER'S RABBIT. Skin and clean the rabbit. Wash well, draw and cut into pieces at the joints. Rub well with salt and Place in a saucepan with one tablespoon melted butter and let brown. When nicely golden add | one slice of ham, minced fine; one onion, chopped; one clove of garlic, two sprigs of thyme and two bay leaves—all minced. Stir well and let all brown for two or three minutes, add one tablespoon of flour, let brown some more, and then add one pint of consomme. Cook slowly for one hour, season well to taste. Add one can of mushrooms chopped fine, the rind of a lemon, and cook for 30| minutes longer. This sounds com- plicated, but the savory result is well worth the effort. RABBIT WITH ONIONS. Prepare rabbit as above, cut into| BY BETSY CASWELL. ITH the opening of the hunt- ing season for birds in this locality, many housewives are faced with the prob- lem of how to cope with the limp bun- dles of feathers brought home so proudly by the head of the house Any woman who has been through the hunting season routine of rising at 4 in the morn- ing to cook break- fast ... and plenty of it for a gun-toting husband with his mind already miles away in the covey-infested thickets, knows that she must be prepared to praise his skill and hang his kill on the kitchen porch while he devours Pplatefuls of food and tumbles wearily into bed after a perfect day. » But her troubles don't end there! Not at all! She still has the business | of plucking, dressing and cooking thows | trophies, and unless they are done just exactly right, serious domesti complications may ensue. No success- ful hunter wants the examples of his prowess spoiled during the cooking process! So, to smooth the troubled connubia! waters, the column today devotes itself to the proper methods of making the most of the final appearance of the | spoils of the chase. * K X % UAIL may be either broiled or roasted, depending on the size of the birds. Select fine, tender bircs (probably you won't have much chance | to do this—you'll have to cook all that | vour husband brought home anyhow!) | pick, singe, clean and wipe them weil. | ROASTED QUAIL. Rub birds lightly on the outside with butter, truss, and bind the body | with a strip of bacon. Put one table- spoon of butter in roasting pan, add | the birds, and cook for 20 or 30 min- utes, depending on size. When done, place on hot dish. add a little butter to the gravy in the pan, with one tablespoon water and the juice of one lemon. Cook for five minutes, strain, | set on the stove for two minutes to | reheat, and pour over the breast of each bird. Garnish with molds of | currant jelly and watercress. BROILED QUAIL. Split quails down the back without | separating the breast, and break leg | bones. Rub well with salt, pepper an melted butter, and broil under mod erate flame for 15 minutes, turning frequently. When done, lay on but- tered toast, and pour melted butter My Neighbor Says: House plants should not be kept too close to the window pane dur- ing very cold weather. They may be injured by freezing. ‘To cut marshmallows easily, dip a dry scissors used for cutting into powdered sugar. It apples are pricked with a fork before putting into the oven | | to bake skins will not crack open in baking. Strips of orange peel coated with melted dipping chocolate are delicious. (Copyright. 1935.) the young idea iy o~ Pups Aas uisitors. - 7he {.(?J/ 75 with ,ouff sle collar is pped a brown desipn 7here is a pear/ button on erther J/'o’ep of the little front qoenzhda. Z;mmy.'r sultfv /s blve broad c/of/), clouvble breasted with a white collor. It pieces and place in a saucepan, with | water to cover. Cook until tender. | Peel and quarter the onions and cook for 10 minutes in boiling water. Drain, squeeze the pieces in cheese- cloth until dry and chop fine. Fry with & little butter until light brown, add one tablespoon flour, one-half cup cream and season well. Stir until thickened. Set rabbit on hot platter and pour sauce over all. Garnish with parsley and lemon slices. —— Steak and Mushrooms. Have 1!, pounds round steak cut 1y inch thick. Pound flour well into both sides of steak, then cut into one | nch squares, Saute in 2 ublespoonsi | butter until brown, stirring often. | | Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt. Let| ‘sknkt partially cool (very high heak; | may cause soup to curdle), then add | 1-16 oz. can cream of mushroom soup. | Stir over low heat until soup reaches | boiling point. Serve between hot bis- cuits or over hot corn sticks. Espe- | clally good for children’s supper. THE Sunshine, Green Growing Things and a Good Game! To bring Summertime indoors on Winter days is an achievement which will give pleasure to the entire | household. Snake plants, cyclamen, African violets, cacti, begonias, berry-filled bowls and hardy ferns provide a lush and charming decoration for a corner of the living room, where the children may play on bitter after- noons. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, =d Takes Bright Light to Set Life Course Academic Training Should Cater to Child’s Talent. BY ANGELO PATRIL T IS possible for a child to go through school, become & high school student ready for training for his lifework without finding the reason for his education, without discovering his motive power. He is the one who says, “I'm going to college. I haven't decided yet what I am going to be, so I'm taking & general course.” That means & tragic waste. Most of the children who graduate from elementary and high school are intelli- gent above the majority. Most of them long for work that they feel to be their peculiar expression. But search as they may they do not find it. Why is it that boys and girls have Scotch Meat Pie. Melt 2 tablespoons butter, add 3| tablespoons unsifted flour, and blend | well. Add 1-10 oz. can Scotch broth, | 1-10-o0z. can vegetable soup and 2 cups | diced left-over roast meat. Cook, stir- | ring constantly, until thickened. Pour | into & casserole and cover with biscuit | dough which has been rolled to 3 inch and cut into squares with a sharp knife, or into rounds with biscuit cutter. Bake in & hot oven (475°F.) for 10 to 12 minutes, or until biscuits are golden brown, fittle ouls dress reen ond white | eves. Her white in brown with | on the edpe | such a difficulty? I think that it is mostly the fault of the schools. Grown people are har- ried by cares and anxieties. They cannot attend to what goes on in schools. Tradition settles heavily on institutions that are set apart from the life of the people as schools are set apart. There are schools that are teaching the same courses of study they used in the beginning of the nineteenth century. Changing them meant trouble for somebody, and as long as trouble could be avoided, why | not avold it? This is true all over the world. | BY LUCIE EBERLY. AST Saturday we discussed the matter of choosing bulbs and their potting—and we promised to cover the subject of green plants this week. So here we are with plant and trowel! When you plan for green plants, buy glazed pots—it is now contended that they are much better than the old- fashioned clay containers. It has been discovered that plants seem to thrive better in non-porous pots and botanists say that the reason for this |is that the glazed receptacles keep | the moisture in the soil longer. The absorbing and porous quality of the old clay pot allows the moisture to escape before the plant can drink up the water it needs. plants that do still thrive best in clay pots—so you need not throw them out if you already have them— or eliminate them entirely from your proposed indoor garden. Ferns and |the quaint old snake plant will be | very happy in the old-fashioned con- tainer. The soil that comes with the plant | when you purchase it is generally of good quality and remains healthy for quite some time—but it is wise to supply it with a fertilizer tablet once in & while—they can be bought at any florist or nursery. Aereation comes ‘mrough the top soil, therefore it should be stirred and loosened every week or so—and sometimes it is neces- sary to add a little new soil now and then. (If you have raised plants be- fore, you will know that the seeming “evaporation” of the soil is caused by the leaf mould in the dirt gradually pulverizing and settling and you will not be alarmed by the apparent “mys- tery” as some amateur botanist may be!) L QINCE all plants need moisture and *7 humidity, this should be provided, D. C, ™ —Star Staff Ph - It you think you do not have ! enough sunshine in your house for plants to thrive, don't give up the idea of having them entirely, for there are many species which grow best in the shade. Almost any of them will grow | with just ordinary window light—if the necessary moisture is provided they will grow beautifully. Creeping fig (Ficus hepens), angeltear or babv tears (hexline) and various types of hardy fern will be happy in the shady window. Ivies, wandering jew and as- pidistras will grow anywhere, so you may have those, too. The Winter flow- ering primrose and cyclamen, by the | way, that come around Thanksgiving and Christmas time will prolong their life and beauty in a shady nook. It was, however, | brought out that there are a few| * X x % MIDGET Japanese gardens of va- rious cacti will grow anywhere and are the least of trouble to raise. | Cleverly arranged in attractive shal- low bowls, they are fascinating and interesting to have around the house. They are perfect apartment plants— !and lend themselves obligingly as the ideal table centerpiece when unex- pected company drops in for dinner! The miniature plants grow in gravel and water, or rocks and water. An | attractive combination seen recently was an arrangement of striped leaf ! pepromia, grape vine, and dainty Philadelphia ivy, stump of cork bark, and species of cacti and hardy fern. A tiny Japanese figure and bridge com- pleted the picture. Another group consisted of a midget umbrella tree, variegated vine, Japanese evergreen and California redwood burr which had tiny shoots of bright green. | * ok ox % FASCINATING old-fashioned straw- berry jars of gay pottery planted | with tiny-leafed ivy and cacti are al- | ways & joy and they, too, can be used Now teaching reading and writing | and s good way to conserve needed | anywhere in the house—some of them and arithmetic with the elements of | moisture is to place the pots on trays may be hung in the window or placed composition and & trace of history | or pans fllled with pebbles or gravel.. on grilled wall racks. If it is a stately with a dash of geography is & rote The water that seeps through the hall plant you are longing for, you task, It can be taken into the memory, A drainage holes will collect at the bot- | will find the drecema ideal—it grows checked with & passing mark, be|tom of the trays and supply & moist | quite tall and has broad, waxy leaves. considered an education and & quali- | atmosphere. If you are successful in | Old-fashioned rubber plant is good, fication for the next step in the course | creating and maintaining the necessary ' too, for the hall and blends particu- and still leave the pupil precisely | moisture, you will find that hitherto |larly well with the ultramodern set- where he was when he started as far | coveted tropical plants such as aglao- | ting. as the growth of personal power, personal purpose and self-will are concerned. The spark that sets them crackling into flaming life has not been set off. The creative self of the child has not been touched. Until that self is reached and set afire, there is no worthy growth, ‘The basic subjects are essential. They must be taught so thoroughly that they become second nature to| the pupil before he enters secondary school. But along with the funda- mentals, the other essential, the crea- tive power of the pupil, must be re- leased. You cannot teach creative force as you can teach tables and lists. This all-important force is re- leased, not imposed. It is never im- posed, never bestowed. It is innate in the pupil and is waiting for the touch that sets it free. There must be provision for this release or the school does not func- tion. Art, music, crafts, experiments, the enjoyment of dramatics, the feel of the orchestra as it sings ideas of unutterable beauty, the reverence that fills the soul in communication with the stars. the sea and the sky. Any— every—experience that touches the inner being should be offered by a school to its pupils in the hope of reaching that hidden spring which controls the creative spirit. A child is a complex creature, He can leave his body on the school bench and take flight across the universe. His tongue may reply to you, but it was only his tongue. He was riding & winged steed, or scaling Everest, or sleeping on & lotus leaf. Before you can start the creative life in & child you must catch him. Is there enough bait in the course you are using? (Copyright, 1935.) o Steak Mounds. Have 1! pounds steak ¥3 inch thick and cut into six pieces. Dip well in flour and fry in 4 tablespoonfuls hot fat until browned on both sides. Pare 6 medium beking potatoes, sprinkle with salt and slide one under each piece of meat and secure with & toothpick. Pour 12 cup water around meat anc sprinkle with 113 teaspoonfuls salt and 3 teaspoon pepper. Cover and bake in a moder- at> oven (375 degrees F.) 45 minutes, or untii meat and potatoes are done. Blend one 10-ounce can cream of mushroom soup with 2 tablespoonfuls flour and nour over meat. Re-cover and eontinue baking 15 minutes. Serve on large platter and surround meat with gravy. > | nema, which has varlegated oval leaves; anthuriums, which often has | gay red or orange callalike flowers; | nephthytis, the arrowhead philoden- | dron with triangular leaves—can be | added to your indoor garden. The best temperature for these plants, however, is around 65 to 75 degrees, and should never go below 55. Even the kitchen window sill may sport & few gay potted plants— jone of real use would be a pot of chives!—and if you want an inexpen- sive vine with personality, put an| ordinary sweet potato in a jar and watch it sprout and grow—in a week's | time you will have a graceful running | vine ready to compete with any of your more sophisticated plant “pets”! Housguow Aars PATTERN 5400 ‘This cute little black scottie looks your hearth or beside your bed. He is far less expensive than a live pup for | in moderate oven. you can make him yourself from all sure to have on hand. The rug may so wistful because he wants & home on the old cotton or silk scraps you are be made in any desired size, since the corner designs are separate; they may be adapted for chair seats, too. There are any number of spots in your home where Scottie will be welcome, so get to hooking right away! In pattern 5400 you will find & transfer pattern of a Scottie 13x20 inches, and four 6-inch corners; material requirements, directions for hook- ing, & color chart and key. £ To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coin to the Woman's Editor of The Evening Star, Please print name sud ~ which climbed a | several | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 193 < | Naturarl HLIe 'Retained by Shampooing Daily Correct Brush-| ing Helps Keeps the Tresses Lustrous. BY ELSIE PIERCE. I\IRS. S. A.: It's quite natural for | light hair to become darker as| the birthdays add up. And it is Na- | h e Hunters’ Wives Dorothy Dix Says' | business | 8o at night to a home that h: WOMEN'’S FEATURES, EAR MISS DIX—Why do you) think it is so terrible for a | man to ask a woman to give | up her career when he| marries her? Certainly being a wife and mother and homemaker is a career in itself, and a man-size job if one is to be successful. I am a stenog- rapher and I would be glad enough to give up my career for a husband, but perhaps I was born just “30 years too late.” LONESOME FOR A HOME. Answer—You read me wrong daughter. Never have T said it was terrible for a man to ask a woman to give up her career when she marries On the contrary, I think it is just exactly what a woman should do when she marries, provided her career in- volves work that takes her outside of her own home, and it is what she must do if she is a successful wife and mother and homemaker. | R YOU cannot serve two masters. You cannot do two things at the same time. To have a successful carcer a ‘woman must give to it the best that is in her; her thoughts, her time, he energies, her ambitions. It must come before everything else with her. To be & successful wife and mother and homemaker, she must give to her task her thoughts, her time, her energies her ambitions. It must come with her. And no sophistries can reconcile the two opposing aims in her life. ‘The woman lecturer must be away from home much of the time. So must the actress. So must the woman who follows any public career. The woman doctor must be at the beck of every patient. The woman lawyer must be absorbed in her cases. The woman must have her thoughts on her job and not give it one lobe of her brain while the b: D of her mind is wondering if lttle Johnny's fever has gone down, or the cook has remembered to order the roast for dinner. No man's idea of a home is a place run by servants and to which a wife comes too tired and nerve-exhausted after & hard day's work in an office to even speak amiably. He wants to made by the loving hands of a wife and not by the hired hands of servants, and where a woman, whose object in life is to make him happy, has catered ture’s way of testing our fortitude and our ability to hold on, to preserve | beauty. In the past it was not nearly so easy as it is today—keeping light | hair light. But now, with shampoo ! tints, with splendid rinses, not dyes, the task is really a very simple one Strained lemon juice in the last rinsing | water is good. Caustic soaps, extreme heat of marcel irons or artificial dry- ing, inferior permanents all tend to! discolor the hair, and these should be voided. I have a bulletin called “Blond Beauty” which I do think will interest you. Please send for it, and inclose a self-addressed, stamped (3- cent) envelope. i * * K % Mrs. C. T. A.: Women are under the | mistaken notion that brushing de- stroys the wave. Far from it. Actu- ally, brushing makes the hair more pliable, alive and encourages the hair to fall into the wave. The hairs you speak of as coming out are most likely dead hairs that are better out any- way, so don't fear that brushing is pulling the hair out. Not if you are using & good brush and brushing cor- rectly. Indeed, there is a right tech- nique in hair brushing. That is de- | scribed in my hair care bulletins, for which please send a return, stamped (3-cent) envelope, if you wish them. * ok K % 4 Seventeen: Actually you are only 10 pounds above the average weight for your age and height, but that isn't really overweight at all, since at 17 | physicians prefer to have young folks about 10 pounds above the norm. I certainly wouldn’t advise you to re- duce. Avoid the “candy orgies,” as | you say, but don't go on a “will- | power” diet. (Copyright. 1935.) Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. MEALS SERVING FOUR, LUNCHEON. Oyster Soup. Crackers. Celery. Gingerbread. DINNER. (An Oven Meal), Beef a la Mode. Escalloped Corn. Bread. Butter. Neapolitan Salad. Grapes. Coffee. BEEF A LA MODE. 1 pound beef 1 tablespoon round chopped parsley 14 cup flour 1, teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons fat % teaspoon paprika 1 cup water 1; cup cooked 1 cup diced raw carrots potatoes 24 cup crumbs 1 tablespoon *3 tablespoons chopped onion butter Wipe off beef with damp cloth, sprinkle with flour and brown in fat melted in frying pan. Place browned beet in shallow baking dish. Pour water into frying pan, boil 2 minutes. Arrange potatoes and seasonings on | top beef, add carrots and cover with| crumbs mixed with butter, melted. Add water in frying pan. Cover and bake 45 minutes in moderate oven. ESCALLOPED CORN. 114 cups corn % teaspoon celery 1 cup crumbs salt 1 egg or 2 yolks 3 tablespoons % teaspoon salt butter, melted 14 teaspoon pepper 14 cup mflk' Mix ingredients and pour into but- tered baking dish.. Bake 20 minutes Tea. NEAPOLITAN SALAD. 1 cup shredded 1 tablespoon 1, teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon salt 1; cup salad dressing Combine and been | That Old Controversy of Marriage Versus A Career Bobs Up Again. to all his whims and tastes and loved doing it. R D nobody on earth can take a mother’s place to her children. Nobody but a mother has the infinite patience, the understanding to deal with a little child and guide its feet into the right paths £ That it is a great sacrifice for the woman who has some especial talent | for the career she has espoused and for which she has spent years and vears in preparation, to give it up when she marries, no one will deny. That many women are forced to keep on with their work after mare riage because of financial necessity is also true, but the fact remains that careers and marriage do not mix for a woman, and that the woman who undertakes both falls between the stools * MISS DIX My brother i3 cated. Do you think that visable for him to m: class? about it is ade into a lower ey and edue 1 a marriage either? family SISTER. we disapproves of her? Answer—Much good the girl that she will be the family will do sapprove of her. N er likely to listen to your All that family opposition gene ¢ does is to hurry on a marriage, * * ings DON'T think there is much chance for happiness in a ma side of one's own class, because cone ge oute been brought up vironment with differ habits seldom hit it Especially should an el never marry an ignorant one because there can be no companionship bes tween them. in a differ t tastes and oft A certain amount of money ion are certainly desirable in & No doubt about that DOROTHY DIX. 5.0 Soldier Influence Again Gallant Fashion Appeals To All Modern Women. BY BARBARA BELL. O one can resist the military | influence. There isn't a! woman born who doesn't palpitate to the gallant fashion which s predominant in this season’s mode. 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