Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1935, Page 37

WOMEN'’S FEATURES, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1935. WOMEN’S FEATURES, To Be an Artistic, Skillful Carver, One Must Follow Certain Rules P - Suggestions Are Given To Potential Masters Of This Very Manly Art Opinions on the Subject Differ Widely; if Practice Is to Be Adopted Perfection Must Be the Goal. BY BETSY CASWELL. | €6 O CARVE or mnot to carve, I humble apologies to Mr. | Shakespeare. But just at earving assumes unusual importance | —doubtless due to the necessity of | There are two distinct schools S | the subject. Some men enjoy the is theirs when they are engaged of dismembering a fowl in a deli- manner — others dislike the effort will undertake the business un- e | stances. | Personally. I like to see a skillful time I am well aware of the dis- comforts of his position. He must | and by the time the last one has gone to its appointed owner the first ones for more—all this before the hard- working host has had time to snatch | seem pretty cruel. and I do think | that the man is justified in demand- pantry, so that he can have his dinner | hot and promptly with all the rest that is the question.” with | this time every year the matter of | dealing with the of thought on | attention which in the gentle art cate and refined involved, and der no circum- | carver in action—but at the same | work and work to £11 all the plates— are emptied and being sent back & mouthful for himself. That does | ing that all carving be done in the | of them! % ok ke HOWEVER, to carve expertly is a distinct art, and, when success- fully mastered, a very delightful | achievement. Many younger men to- | day are taking up the idea again, and 1t lends a pleasantly genial and hos- | pitable touch to the informal dinner. | Of course. for formal parties, carving | at the table is completely taboo. | Thanksgiving, Christmas and large | family dinners are the sole excep- tions | If you intend to have your husband | do a little fencing with Mr. Turkey at the table, here are a few sugges- tions to aid him in his noble effort: 1. Give him plenty of room. He needs lots of leeway. and nothing is | more embarrassing than upset glasses | and bon-bon dishes hurled to the floor | during the performance. | 2. The carving knife should be per- | fectly sharpened and placed, with the carving fork, within easy reach. | ‘There should also be a large spoon | with which to serve the stuffing ’ 3. Place the turkey in front of the | ;aperator—wuh the neck facing to the eft. 4. Now the great job begins. In-‘ sert the carving fork into the middle point of the breast bone, the prongs straddling the bone on either side. | Hold the fork steadily. to prevent the | bird from slipping, skidding or what have you 5. Commence activities on the side toward you. Place the knife behind the leg and second joint of the turkey and cut in a circle all around the joint. Pull the joint toward you, holding the end of the drumstick in your fingers and pressing down on the joint with your knife if you still meet with any resistance 6. Next remove the wing. A little exploring will locate the vulnerable Joint and pressure with the knife at that spot will usually get the wing free in short order. | 7. Start slicing the white meat, cutting parallel to the breast bone. Thin slices are proper, of course, but if cut too thin the meat is apt to crumble and the result be anything but attractive. 8. If certain members of your fam- fly like drumstick “as is,” do not slice | the meat from the bone—simply sep- arate the second joint, or thigh. from the drumstick by placing the sharp point of the knife over the round bone end digging into it from under 9. Divide the wing in half and now you will be able to see how much dark meat is left on the turkey. This may be sliced and served the same as the | white. 10. Place the portions on the warmed plates stacked in front of you, adding a spoonful of stuffing to each | Houseuouw Aars Can’t you imagine how charming dark frock? Thanksgiving bird. | lowed. B Wthe center or the meat, and hold it | Do not one. Send the plates on their way around the table—and now enjoy your dinner! * ok x ok IF ROAST beef is the problem rather than turkey (all poultry may be carved according to the above rules), there i: a special procedure to be fol- Press the carving fork into Holding the knife in the ut down across the grain. w"—that makes jagged and uneven slices. Legs of lamb or a ham are cut much the same way. Press the fork into the center of the leg, and make the incision with the knife also in the center. Slice down, straight and even, until the bone is touched. De- cide how thick you wish the slices, and proceed, cutting to the bone each time. Turn the knife slightly as you “touch bottom” so that the slice will | fall away lightly from the bone. Hot lamb and ham should be sliced fairly thick—cold. the slices should be as thin as possible. So there you are—and good luck to you, your husband, and the table- cloth! there firmly. right hand, If you wish advice on your indi- vidual household problems, write to Betsy Caswell, in care of The Star, closing stamped, self-addressed en- velope for reply. Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. DINNER SERVING FOUR OR FIVE. Beej Stew and Dumplings. Buttered Spinach. Bread. Grape Jelly. Pear Salad. French Dressing. Chocolate Whip. — Orange Sauce. BEEF STEW AND DUMPLINGS. 1'. pounds beef . cup rice chuck (uncooked) 13 cup flour 2 tablespoons 4 tablespoons fat chopped onions 1 teaspoon salt 15 cup diced celery 1 cup diced 1, teaspoon paprika carrots 2!, cups water 1. cup cooked 1 tablespoon peas butter Cut meat into one-inch pleces, roll in flour and brown in fat melted in large frying pan. Add rest of ingre- dients, excepting butter. simmer (cook very slowly) Add butter and mix thoroughly. Drop the dumplings on stew, cover and cook 15 minutes. Carefully remove to serv- 2 | ing platter, topping or surrounding with the dumplings. DUMPLINGS. !¢ teaspoon salt 1, teaspoon paprika 15 cup milk Mix ingredients and drop portions | from tip of spoon onto the stew. This will make about six dumplings. CHOCOLATE WHIP, (Steamed Pudding.) 3 tablespoons 1 teaspoon fat vanilla cup sugar 1 egg « cup cocoa 1 cup cold water | < teaspcon salt i cup nuts Mix ingredients and half fill hut-‘ tered mold. Cover tightly and steam 2 hours. Unmold and serve topped with whipped cream, vanilla or orange sauce. v 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon bak- ing powder 1 1 1 ORANGE SAUCE. 2, cup sugar 1, cup orange 3 tablespoons juice flour 1 teaspoon 1 teaspoon salt grated orange 2 tablespoons rind butter 13 cup water Blend sugar with flour and salt. Add rest of ingredients and ,cook slowly until sauce thickens. Stir con- | stantly and serve warm. —_—— Beauty Tips. Try the new trick of using two face powders, the light shade to ac- cent the best features, the dark to play down others. Rather than a sleek coiffure, a soft one, with curls, puffs, coronets or ornaments, but | keep the hairline smooth and high. FSS o) Paris Flashes. Novelties: The all-ostrich cocktail hat, the vivid tweed hat, and Schiap- arelli model trimmed with a silver fox tail. these collars would look setting off & The pointed one is accented with metallic thread drawn through dfter it is finished; the tab collar is soft in angora, and the bow is lovely in petit boucle. Any of the three would make a delightful Christmas present, or, of course, you may make them for your own dresses—and we guarantee you will want them all! In pattern 5231 you will find detailed instructions for making the neck- wear shown; material requirements; illustrations of the neckwear and of all stitches used. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coin to the Woman's Editor of The Evening Star. Please print name and address. 3 Cover and | hours. | | selves approved their belief in them- So Innocent Let the uninitiated carver be wary of this fellow! without fear, but woe betide if you undertake to wrestle with him without the proper study of the situation! Ducks have been many a strong man’s downfall. Character Grows With Con_ficience |Child Responds Read- ily to Kindness and Praise. BY ANGELQ. PATRI. DAN!EL weighs 150 pounds and fis 5 feet 6 inches tall. He is big and strong. They call him the ox. But he hasn't the mildness of that gentle | beast. Daniel is touchy. He came to me one morning recently. “I want a transfer. I don't like | my teacher, can't stand her. She's forever picking on me.” “What's the matter? Teachers do not pick on boys just for the fun of it.” | “I know it. But this one does. She | has to pick on some one or she isn't happy. This time it's me.” . “And if I transfer you—it'll be somebody else.” “Maybe. But she can't stand me. She sees everything I do.” “Tell me why you were sent out this morning.” “I wasn't. what happened. I have a fountain pen. pencil. so I'm out.” “But you should have a pencil.” “I know. But suppose you forget? Why does she treat me like a baby? I'm no kid."” “And you're not—" “She picks on me, and when one does that to you, you do a little pick- ing yourself. You know how it is.” Yes, T know how it is. Once a child loses confidence in his teacher’s or his parent’s judgment he begins to wobble in his conduct. Children want to be taken seriously. They want to be treated like real people. If we insist upon treating and correcting them as if they were children they do right in behaving like them. Daniel was transferred. When T asked his new teacher how he was getting on, she replied, “Splendidly.” “Any trouble with him?” “None. He's the best - mannered boy.” Daniel was convinced that his first teacher had no good word for him. It she had he never heard it. He felt friendless and unsupported. How could he be happy when he had to be constantly on the defensive? Children need the stimulus of con- fidence. They expand if they feel themselves understood and appre- ciated. Every time they feel them- T just came. But this is ! I have no pencil, but She wants selves is strengthened. There is something in every child a teacher can like if she has the good sense tg search for it and find it. Build on the child’s goodness, and more goodness will flourish. Lead him along with praise, friendly words, kindly actions, and he will follow | gladly, gratefully. Sometimes I think we are so anxious to have children perfect we notice everything that is the least bit out of the way. We are on edge lest they do something that will make some- body talk. We are so busy correcting the faults we let all the good things they do go by unnoticed. Why not change our attitude? Most of us have no idea how far praise can go in mak- ing a child feel good and do good. My Neighbor Says: Cyclamen plants being near rel- atives of other water bulb plants require much water. Water every day thoroughly and allow soil to drain well. Set plants where they will get sunshine only a few hours each day. Maple sirup boiled down and rolled into popcorn makes tasty corn balls. 1t is always wise to buy an extra yard of stair carpet. Fold the surplus length at either end when laying and when it begins to wear push up on stairs. By employing this method stair carpet will wear longer, Put a tablespoon of vinegar into water in which glasses are rinsed. It @ives them a luster. Interesting in Appearance—but Waterloo for the Novice If you know just where his joints lie, approach him Coat Dress Side Closing, Details of Trimming and Smartness of Cut Distinguish Model. BY BARBARA BELL. HE midseason collections have given new interest to the coat dress. change in the silhouette, every T one seems determined to keep that straight and narrow for daytime. And this type of dress comes well within the limitations of those ideas. It pretty well has to be straight, and it certainly should not be voluminous. Interesting details of trimming and cut distinguish the newest frocks. Like the side closing of this nice frock. It might very well have just buttoned down the side in traditional manner; but instead, the front flap is curved towards the side seam with buttons and buttonholep following the half moon effect of the closing. This is very good for the mature figure, for which this design is really intended. And so is the deep V of the neck- line, with notched collar and lapels BARBARA BELL, Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for pattern No. 1712-B. Bize.._- (Wrap coins securely in print name and address 1y:) ‘There is wo definite | 1712-8 finishing it. The sleeves are lcag, and fasten at the wrists with buttons. The belt is trim and tailored, and the whole effect of the dress is that of good cut, becoming lines, and a smart combination of the two. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1712-B is designed in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 36 requires 2% yards of 54-inch material. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an {llustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. The Barbara Bell pattern book featuring Fall designs is ready. Send 15 cents today for your copy. 1 TASTE BEST WITH LAKE SHORE /A S|/ A/ A || .|| .|| A Lake Shote | 'Foundation Creams Are Beneficial | They Aid in Preserv- ing Natural Mois- ture in Skin. BY ELSIE PIERCE. RE you one who has for some time felt that “what this country needs is the perfect foundation, par- ticularly at this season of the year, when the skin seems to get all out of rein and out of balance? you had a hard time finding a cream, lotion or emulsion that does not dry the skin and does not dry in the jar? It is fascinating to watch the strides that our beauty industry is making. One day a cosmetic manufacturer will sit down. list all the attributes | that a certain type beauty aid should | have, say (with a sigh, perhaps) that it is almost humanly impossible to | concoct anything that will “live up” | to all the requirements. And almost | the next day (not too literally) it is | born. So, if one day vou should be on | the brink of despair of ever finding | a certain something, take your beauty nap, or count 10 and go forth once more. Seek and you will surely find for this grand world of ours is bound to have it somewhere. Heretofore women have thought of a make-up foundation as an acces- sory to, not an integral part of their beauty treatment. Now they are be- ginning to demand a foundation that actually benefits the skin all the time it is worn. It is no longer just a coating, but fosters vital natural moisture in the skin, protecting it against lines and dryness, against steam-heated town houses and coun- try winds and weather. Its repeated use should actually improve the skin texture. And last of all, it must per- form the function which is really the first need of a foundation—it must keep make-up lovelier, longer. My bulletin on make-up is yours for the asking. plus the self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope, of course. (Copyright. 1935 Have | Dorothy Origin in EAR MISS DIX: Tam a wom- an 53 years old. As my husband goes to business every day I am very lonely, for both of my children are dead, so I bought a bicycle and was enjoying it very much as it took my mind off my troubles. I was getting a great deal of exer- cise, which improved my health. But to my dismay I have been told by a woman that it is highly improper for a woman of my age to ride a bicycle and that nobody would think that one who did so was “nice.” Please tell me if this is true, for while I enjoy my bicycle I try to use com- mon sense and good taste in every- thing I do and do not wish to be censured by right-thinking people. I. MAC. E. Answer—Don'’t listen to the woman who criticizes you for riding a bicycle at 53. Her remarks were most likely inspired by envy because she is too fat or stiff to mount one herself. As you go along through life you find | that most of the taboos have their origin in jealousy. The things that Gourmet’s Guide BY LUCIE EBERLY. EVEN food takes to streamline! An old favorite in new guise is pine- {apple cut in finger-shaped portions. | Strange how the mere cut of food can give it a little different flavor— one would say that it doesn't make much difference—but it does! These new pineapple sticks have any num- ber of culinary possibilities, too. ! Dipped in batter and French fried they turn out to be fat, luscious | fruit croquettes and are perfectly delicious. Two or thiree on lettuce leaves with a tablespoon or so of cottage cheese (and we know where | to get the best in town—it’s rich and | Just moist enough; not one speck [o( cream needs to be added) makes | an attractive luncheon salad. The fingers also come in grenadine sirup and make an excellent dinner party compote. * * & | T OOKING for new canape spreads? Try cod roe, mildly spiced: liver paste with peeled truffies or only better). If you want to be ex- travagant for a change, use the im- ported pate de foie gras with truffies. (All of these are put up in tubes which keep the contents moist and fresh.) Roquefort cheese mashed with a little cream, a dash of lemon and a little chopped parsley is irresistible— that is, of course, if you use the Roquefort cheese we have in mind! | x % * % 'RY some of the new wafers, too— (it's exciling keeping up with them—it seems that biscuit manu- facturers are working overtime turn- out “new numbers.”) Piquant and racy are those flavored with caraway, poppy and celery seed—the celery pretzel, though an old number, is tantalizing, too. A very good buy are the little cheesette sandwiches, two wafers buttered with a sharp English | cheddar, ready to serve—they come five dozen to the tin. * ok ox % ‘VHY not order your turkey already cooked? Stuffed with any dressing you prefer—oyster, chestnut, peanut, or just plain bread and onion— and a nice jar of giblet gravy ready to reheat! Home dressed and home cooked—a real treat! Kitchenette housekeepers should certainly welcome this service! The bird needs just to be pushed into the oven for 30 or 40 | minutes—and presto! the Thanksgiv- | ing dinner is practically ready. Fresh cranberry sauce and large, spicy pumpkin pies may be found at the | same place! x ik eral weeks ago certainly made a hit with Washingtonians! If you didn't get some you will be mighty the street you stroll sniffing the spicy aroma of pies baking—realizing that portant of all the feast treats! woman who makes the delicious home- made mincemeat we raved about has just made a new batch and is ready to supply another avalanche of orders. And if it is homemade fruit cake or plum pudding (with the hard sauce | all ready to serve) you will find them (at the same place. White fruit cake, which is sometimes difficult to find, may be made, too. For information concerning items call National 5000, extension 396. WHAT'S A GOOD NAME FOR A GOOD bloater | paste (very much like sardine paste, | 'HE mincemeat we wrote about sev- | sorry on Thanksgiving day, when up| you forgot to provide the most im- | The | Dix Says Most Criticism Is Found to Have Its Jealousy. people cannot do themselves they consider just perfectly awful for other people to do, and try to stop them. £k %% NYWAY, a woman of 53 can do anything that is decent that she has the strength and the health and the inclination to do. Many women even older than you take up sports, go to college, go into business or become | globe-trotters, and instead of lifting their eyebrows at them, all intelligent people give them the glad hand. For it is a fine thing for a woman to have initiative enough to find something interesting and enjoyable to do that will make the latter part of her life perhaps the better part of it, instead of sitting down in the corner at home in dull despair waiting for death to come and get her. The greatest modern improvement |is that we have abolished age and have thrown into the junk pile the hampering superstitions about what an old person should wear and what | an old person should do and how old people should conduct themselves. It simply put people in their 40's in a strait-jacket and after they were 50 | they might just as well have been in | the grave for all the liberty they had ;nd all the pleasure they got out of fe. | In those terrible old times a woman | with grown children was looked at askance and thought to be frivolous If she didn't wear black silk and sit on the sidelines at parties. Then a respectable middle-aged woman was expected to get all the exercise she needed by walking to market and church instead of playing golf or rid- ing a bicycle or driving a car. The chimney corner was wished on Grand- ma while she was still hale and hearty and she was expected to enjoy herself by preparing for the end * BUT look at it now. Grandma and Granddaughter buy glad raiment at the same specialty shops, they go to the same parties and nobody cares whether Grandma is 20 or 100 as long as she is gay and amusing. Grandma isn't in the chimney corner, she is on a world cruise. And ske isn't medi- tating on her latter end. she is asking | what's trumps in a snappy game of contract. So next time your critical friend tells you that women of 53 are not riding bicycles, you tell her that they are doing it and whatever else they like. and that if she coesn't know it she is just behind the times. And here is a final tip: Don't let what people say about you worry you so long as your conscience is clear. You will never be happy until you ac- quire the trick of letting your friends® and your neighbors' criticisms go in one ear and come out of the other without leaving even a memory or a resentment behind. Because people are going to talk about you and discuss your affairs and find fault with your taste whatever you do, even as you do theirs. No matter what you do or leave undone they are going to find fault with it, and so as you cannot possibly please the public why not please yourself and do as you like, providing, of course, | you keep within the bounds of proper oonduct? * ok % ox DEAR MISS DIX: I am 22 years old and have been married five months. Before I married I joined a woman's lodge, attended several meet- ings and card parties. al: of which I enjoyed very much. Now my husband refuses to let me go to meetings or to attend any social activities. I have no outside interests and I feel as if I should have something to do to oc- cupy a little of my time after my housework is done. Do you think I am wrong in asking for this little bit of freedom? T. H. 8. Answer.—I certainly do not, and I think that your husband does not un- derstand how cruelly tyrannical he is or else he would not withhold this bit of personal liberty from you. Just ask him how he would like it if the tables were turned and you refused to let him belong to any club or ta spend an hour or two every week or | so with a group of men. Just ask him | how he would like to be shut up in & house all day with cnly his own | thoughts for company and nobody te | swap a bit of gossip with. ‘ DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 19:35.) { Cooking Hint. Cook celery slowly. It is a fibrous vegetable and one that will toughen if cooked too quickly.