Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1935, Page 21

WOMEN'S FEATURES. _— " Poultry Prices Definitely Higher This Year Despite Some Predictions < Expensive Text Books Need Care "Abusing Taxpayers’ Property Is Bad . Business. BY ANGELO PATRL DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: There is one mistake that many of you are making every day, a mistake that many of us older people would be glad to have you correct. I mean your careless use of school supplies. You are given a set of text books, very expensive ones indeed. They have to be paid for before you get them. The bill is a big one. You and your fam- ily have to share the cost of supplying these books and the other things you use. The more of them that have to be bought the more we must pay, and the more you, too, must pay. Taxes touch every man, woman and child in the community. Taxes pay for every- thing you get in school. Not long ago I saw a group of chil- dren set their books along the side- walk even distances apart and play hop-scotch over them. Every now and then somebody would miss a hop and kick a pile of books into the gutter or over against the fence. Ev- erybody laughed at the good joke. I did not feel like laughing when I hought of the cost that such a game ust mean. Torn and dirty books cannot be used again. New ones must be bought and the people taxed again to buy them. I have seen pupils take a clean sheet | of paper, begin to write on it, crumple it up and toss it into the basket and | ask for another. This practice costs | money, more than should ever be paid for the paper needed. Pencils are | bitte®. whittled down, thrown away | and an immediate request for a new | one is made with all the assurance that righteousness supplies. Again the | costs mount. . | On the way home from school some | boys think it is great fun to throw | their books at the street lights and break the globes. The books fly through the air, hit the globe and | then land on the street with a crash. No book can stand that for any length of time. No community can afford to pay for globes at the rate they are broken in such games. Boys say: “They don't belong to anybody. They belong to the city. ‘The city pays for them.” And who is the city? Has the city pockets? It has tax offices that call for the money that is in taxpayers’ pockets. And the taxpayers are yourselves, your families. Every time you add to the tax bill by your careless use of public property you add to the costs of your own living. What you pay in taxes you cannot eat, you cannot go to the movies with, you cannot use for any personal purpose. You have to pay the bill that you helped pile up. Taxes are heavy enough without adding a penny to them, as your own people will fell you. Just remember next time you feel like throwing books around or eating | pencils and tearing up paper that the bill will be added to your rent, your movies, your clothes and your food bills. If you do not pay your tax directly you pay it indirectly in these ways. Stop wasting your own money. You are the city. Save what you can and begin now to study the use to which your money is put when you do pay your taxes. Waste is bad business. Yours truly, ANGELO PATRL (Copyright. 1035.) . Mock Drum Sticks. Mock drum sticks are rolled pieces of veal, beef or pork fastened with a skewer. They resemble chicken legs. 2 cups corn flakes. 1_tablespoon salt mock drum sticks (about 1% Ibs. meat, cut inch 4 cup water. thick). Roll corn flakes into fine crumbs. Dip drum sticks in crumbs, then in egg to which milk and salt have been added. Dip again in crumbs. Saute quickly. Place in casserole, add V4 cup water, cover and bake in a mod- erate oven (350° F.) for 45 to 60 min- utes, basting when necessary, Yield: Bix servings. Fashion Trends. New evening gowns confine their drapes to horizontal body molding shirrings around the hips or bodice or to long twin panels drawn from the hemline back to the shoulders. Shopping in Washington | [Tender THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTO Gay Modes for Festive Holiday Moments That Will Not Strain the Budget. | Left, soft pink with | Dubonnet flowers. Right, thinestone banding and a white formal gown with shirred bodice and an interesting back BY MARGARET WARNER. | HE Thanksgiving holidays re- | quire plenty of formals. Col- lege girls home for a few days | will be anxious to take back | another new party dress for some special occasion, and every one is liable to have an unexpected invitation that | | seems to call for an extra frock at | the last moment. For the holidays, both Thanksgiving | and Christmas, white is a great fa- | vorite for formal evenings and ap- pears in many materials. It is youth- ful and a perfectly charming choice | for the college girl. We have found it in a new material called satin eclat with & diagonal crepy effect that | shimmers elusively. It is used for both | of the dresses sketched above. At right is a white gown with that important shirred princess silhouette, so flattering to the tall, slender figure. | | This frock has a very interesting back. The narrow folded shoulder pieces continue in folded form to the waist- | line, where they are held in place under | rhinestone clips, and from there fall freely to the bottom of the dress,| producing lovely, long, sweeping lines. | This frock speaks definitely to the | person with young ideas, and while| | having all the halimarks of a very ex- pensive gown, is moderately priced at | $19.95, together with its companion in | the sketch. These frocks are confined | exclusively to one shop in a city, so that when you choose one, you will be pretty safe in not finding yourself duplicated. There are several colors to choose from, but only one of each. This model comes in tropical blue, aqua and copper, in addition to white. The frock at the left is a luscious soft pink banded with rhinestones at the top of the decolletage, and carries three stunning velvet flowers in rich Dubonnet, a most pleasant color com- bination. This frock also has back in- terest obtained by a graduated panel of pleats, quite narrow at the waistline, which widens out toward the hem. "I'his delightful formal also comes in | turquoise with brown flowers, and| white or black with flaming red. Put Crocheted Gloues Under The Christmas PATTERN S480 ‘Wool gloves are really a necessity on wintry days, but just because they are practical, they need not be drab. Here's a new pair for you to practical, yet so attractive as to be a decorative addition to your costume. ‘The zigzag pattern of the unusual cuff uses single crochet for a ribbed effect, with & few stripes of a contrasting color. The hands are in plain crochet, ‘We're sure you'll want to make more than one pair—you couldn’t find a more welcome Christmas gift. em and of all stitches used; pattern); fllustra- haterial ts. ture and In pattern 5480 you will find detalled directions for making the gloves | Josr oy shown in a small, medium and large size (all given in one requirement Sketched in & Washington Shop. WE SAID that white is important, and we add that it is very lovely in crepe or sheer. In one frock with shirred bodice, the skirt is entirely pleated, making a marvelous dancing dress. It has flowers in fuchsia shades at the base of the V neck. A white sheer, equally suitable for | dancing, has rhinestones all over it to catch the light. There is a square neckline, little shoulder caps and much skirt fullness. Both of these dresses are under $20. A bit more sophisticated is a heavy white crepe cut on princess lines, with center front seam. The halter neck is the meeting place of two crossed bands of crystal beaded crepe ac- cented with blue and gold. k¥ x NOTHER shop is proclaiming tango red as a holiday color and believes that gleaming jewels and sparkling metal threads make it everything that it should be. They show a red frock diagonally striped in silver, and another one with sunbursts of red jewels worked into the ma- terial at intervals to illustrate their point. Very long fringe is also good, and makes the trimming for another eal formal. * % x % N A RECENT exhibition of smart models from the expensive dress salon of one of our large stores there was shown an intriguing white eve- ning gown of crepe with high-waisted pleated bodice outlined with rhine- stone bands in Grecian fashion. A very lovely pleated train was a new back feature. One of the handsomest gowns shown was & rich sapphire blue velvet well molded to the figure, with a rather wide V neck, which was built up with three strands of fair-size pearls. This fashion show went further than the immediate needs of the mo- ment and exhibited a number of Southern resort models. The evening gowns were very large floral prints in rich colors on white or light colored backgrounds. Some of these had long capes to match. The daytime dresses showed dark accessories with bright prints in interesting combinations, making use of gray, Dubonnet and dark blue in many frocks, For information concerning ~the items mentionsd in this column eall National 5000, extension 342, between 10 and 12 am. Varying the Main Course -At Dinner BY EDITH M. BARBER. “QTEAK, chops—steak, chops,” said a business woman housekeeper to me the other day. “Seems to me that is all I can ever think of for dinner. Of course, I have to have something which cooks quickly.” Although there is nothing more gen- erally liked, it is possible to alternate with other meats. The cubed veal steak and thinly sliced ham cook just as quickly. Then there are the deli- cate sweetbreads and the more highly flavored liver and kidney, which will cook in & short time, but which must not be over-cooked. Sweetbreads should be soaked for half an hour or 80 in cold water before their actual cooking, which can be done, however, In & few moments, They may then be broiled, fried or creamed. Kidneys may be broiled or stewed. Liver, which is the most popular of these three meats, is perhaps best when cooked in the easiest an est way—that is, saute in bacon fat, Either bacon or both seem to give the cont vor, While chol expensive, although delicate or in I H : Ee 8 H beet not vor. g i D. . _C., WEDNESDAY, N Young Roasters And Inexpensive Fowl For Stews BY BETSY CASWELL. HE Bureau of Home Economics of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture has some very interesting data on this year's poultry supplies. Coming just at this time when our feathered {friends hold high place at formal and informal dinners, the information is well worth passing along. At the top of their season from now unti January are the young roasting chickens,hatched last Spring, and g now five to nine months old, These are older and heavier than the fryers, but still have delicate, tender, fresh- tasting meat. In December will appear the Betsy Caswell capons, plump and weighing a great deal more than the ordinary roasters. Capons have particularly fine-grained | meat, and more of the white than other chickens. Most of them are | milk-fed, and they are relatively ex- pensive—however, for “parties” they are hard to beat. | If you are looking for less costly | poultry, there are at this same time | good, tasty stewing chickens—usually | called “old fowl” by the butchers, These are unsurpassed for stews, cur= | ries, pot-roasting, chicken pie, chicken | casserole, fricassees, creamed chicken, chicken a la king, and so on. They have the added advantage of helping | the budget in two ways—for the liquor in which they are stewed makes the | most deliclous and delicate soup, | which, when served with the addition of a little rice, barley, or milk, is a nourishing and savory first course, or forms most of a very young child’s supper menu. =y T}fls year, unhappily, the prices of all poultry are higher than here- | tofore. 1In spite of predictions to the contrary, turkeys are 'way up in the price scale. But if you will buy poul- | try when it is at the height of its par- | ticular season you will find that the cost is not so prohibitive as when that | scarce on the market. course, always a supply of cold storage birds, but it is only in season that the | average buyer can afford to purchase “fresh-killed” or “fresh-chilled” birds. the birds have been killed just before they are sold—probably only a day or two. Fresh chilled poultry is chilled immediately after Killing, and held under refrigeration until sold—usually in some distant market. According to the bureau, the gen- eral procedure is this: The farmer sells his poultry alive to some local dealer or ships it alive in coops to & Dorothy A young man says: “People are always telling me that I should marry, but why? I live in & club where I eat food that is cooked by a chef who is an artist instead of by a girl with a can opener. A valet service takes care of my clothes. Nobody questions my right to my latchkey and I do not have to lis- ten to a lecture when I come home late at night. I spend my money on myself instead of buying imported hats and gowns for a wife with a clothes complex, or paying for having her little brother’s adenoids taken out, or sending her mother off on a pleasure trip. So I see no percentage in marriage as an investment for me. What's the good of a wife, anyway?” ‘Well, son, if you get a good wife her price is above rubies, as the Good Book says. You've got a gift that your guardian angel has sent right straight down from heaven to you. You've got somebody to love you even when you are unlovable; somebody who will put up with your cantankerousness in- stead of giving notice and quitting; somebody you have fooled into believ- ing you are a hero and a sheik; some- body who will save your money, take care of your health, cheer you up when you are downhearted, stimulate your ambition, work her fingers to the bone for you, and who will feel herself amply repaid if you give her an occasional pat on the head and throw her a kind word. * % ok % BU‘I‘ even when a wife isn’t a perfect domestic jewel she still is a valu- able asset to a man, whether she is a parlor ornament or & kitchen con- venience. A woman has many other functions in marriage besides being a good wife and mother and housekeeper and sock-darner, and perhaps the most im- portant of these is being a scapegoat for her husband. On little Nanny's head he lays all of his sins of omis- sion and commission. She is the standing excuse for all of his blunders and failures. ‘The bachelor falls or stands by his own acts. Not so the married man. His wife is to blame for everything that goes wrong. If he wallows in the gutter his wife drove him to drink; if he is a philanderer it is because his wife did not understand him; if he fails in business it is never because of his laziness, or his spending all of his time on the golf links, or his general incompetence; it is because of his Capons for Parties Will Soon Be In; Advisable | to Buy Birds According to Season for Economy. I special kind is purchased when it is | There is, of | Fresh killed means, naturally, that | Good Wives Are Worth All They Cost a Husband—and More. HAT'S the good of a wife? at Best Now poultry dealer or packer who is lo- cated at some concentration point— usually & railroad junction. At the packing house the birds may be sorted out for carlot shipments alive to the final markets, but most are held on the feeding floor for a week or two, then killed, dressed, chilled, graded, packed and shipped in refrigerator cars to the large consuming markets. There they may be sold at once as “fresh chilled” or may be placed in cold storage to be sold several months later. * ok ok % A FAIRLY new development in the poultry business is ‘becoming more and more popular with the deal- ers and shippers. The birds are frozen hard at low temperatures while fresh and kept hard frozen until they reach the ultimate consumer. By this method the birds are drawn and dressed before freezing and the actual | thawing takes place in the home kitchen just before cooking. The rea- sons for the adoption of this procedure are many. It is considerably more economical, takes up less space in | shipping and does away with inedible parts. The consumer, however, is warned that it is better for him to buy the frozen bird and thaw it out at home, rather than take it after it has been “defrosted” by the dealer. This eliminates any chance of a bird’s having been returned to the refriger- ator after thawing, in the event of no sale. ROAST CHICKEN WITH STUFFING. One roasting chicken. Olive oil. Salt, pepper, flour, Wash, singe #hd draw the fowl (unless it is one of the ready prepared | | ones). Rub well with salt and pepper, gznsxde and out, and stuff carefully. | Truss and tie. Grease well all over | with olive oil, dredge with flour, and | place in a roasting pan in a hot oven (480 F.) to sear quickly and seal in the juices. After 20 or 25 minutes, when well seared cover the pan, reduce heat to 370 F. and cook until the breast is tender. Allow about 20 minutes per pound for roasting. Serve with giblet | gravy, and guava jelly. Garnish with | parsley. ONION STUFFING. 6 small peeled onions. 3 cups soft stale bread crumbs. 1 egg. 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning. 12 cup soft butter. Salt, pepper and celery salt to tate. Parboil the onions for 10 minutes. | Add the poultry seasoning and cook | for two minutes longer. Drain, chop | fine, and add to crumbs with butter, | and the egg, which has been lightly | beaten. Season to taste, and stuff chicken. ¥ you wish advice on Yyour in- dividual household problems, write to | Betsy Caswell in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, seif-addressed en- velope for reply. Dix Says plausible lies to tell about why he | can't go to the A.'s ghastly week ends | or the B.'s poisonous dinners. Heaven | | pity the poor bachelors who have to do their own lying! * X x X wrvm are invaluable as press| agents. A man can't go around | tooting his own horn without looking like & fool and rousing general resent- ment and suspicion, but a wife can ballyhoo all over the place about how great and wonderful her husband is and we listen to her and believe her. Many a doctor gets a good practice through his wife’s telling, in season and out of season, what a shark he is at appendicitis operations, and how he cured old Mrs. Doofling when everybody else had given her up. Many a merchant’s success is built up on his wife’s praise of his wares. And not the least of the good of a wife is that she is a safety valve that prevents her husband from blowing up and busting up-his career when things go wrong at the office.” He can vent on her all the irritation that he has been bottling up all day and say to her the things he didn’t dare to say to the boss or a client. He can sputter out his grievances about office politics to her and take his anger out in talk instead of throwing up his job as he intended to do. And she makes & safe audience before which he can strut and pose and boast without making himself a figure of fun for public derision. Oh, wives are good for a lot of things—to give a man the glad hand and cheer him up when he is down and out, to protect him from.other women, to give him what he likes to eat instead of his having to hunt up something on a menu; to look up to him as an oracle and even when they are s0 dumb they can't do anything else just to love. Wives are all to the good, else ‘widowers wouldn't be in such & hurry to remarry. (Copyright. 1935.) My Neighbor Says: If leaves of flowering begonia plants drop you are giving plants too much water. Don’t water begonias too frequently and oce casionally give them a little fer- searfs. (Copyright. 1935.) OVEMBER 27, 1935 Distinctive Unusual Features Lend Exciting Interest to This Frock. BY BARBARA BELL. ILLIONS of little wool dresses | M are created in a season. And | then once in awhile one | comes along that completely | bowls you over with its newness and freshness and complete smartness of | line and deteil. Even those whose busi- | ness it is to dash off wearable dresses | will say, “Now that is a good dress,” | and those who look at all the parade of frocks, and perhaps write about them, get a bit of a sparkle in the eye and a realization that here is something different, a dress that clicks | with all ideals of chic, of suitability, & really smart dress! And that is what we think about this dress! The neckline of this dress is perfect. It comes up high about the throat, but the effect is achieved with some subtlety. There isn't a collar, but the fabric that goes into the making of the narrow front panels, | and the shoulder yoke is shaped in such a way that it stands up around the neck and continues on down the | entire length of the sleeves in a nar- row band. Two buttons, linked together, finish the top of the panels | and hold them together, and the same buttons are repeated in th fastening of the tailored belt. Then there are most unusual pockets perched on each hip. You look at | them, for we can't give you an ade- quate description of their shape. They are sort of like an envelope flap, only not entirely so, and each one has a button to make it more in- teresting. The skirt has a seam down the front and a wide, inverted pleat that starts at the knees, so Cook’s Corner MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. BREAKFAST, Grapefruit. Scrambled Eggs. Broiled Bacon. Bran Gems. Coffee. . LUNCHEON. Oyster Stew. Crackers. Celery and Pickles. Fruit Cookies. Apricot Sauce. Tea. DINNER. Baked Ham. Escalloped Potatoes. Cranberry Jelly. Bread. Butter. Vegetable Salad. Grapes. Pound Cake. Coffee. BRAN GEMS (9). 1 cup bran 1 egg 1% cups flour ¥, teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons 1%3 cups milk baking powder 3 tablespoons fat, Y3 cup sugar melted Mix ingredients and beat well. Bake 15 minutes in greased pans in mod- erate oven. Serve warm or cold. BAKED HAM. 1% pounds sliced ~ % cup brown sugar ham ¥, cup vinegar 12 whole cloves 1, cup water Stick cloves into ham and fit in small baking pan. Add rest of in- gredients. Cover and bake 112 hours in moderately slow oven. Turn ham several times to allow even cooking. BY chopped pickles 15 teaspoon salt teaspoon Do not “peek” at steaming dump- lings for at least 10 minutes or they are for WOMEN’S FEATURES B-7 ° L4 Day Dress | Building Up Resistance to WinterColds Outdoor Exercise and Protective Diet Advised. BY ELSIE PIERCE. IN MORE ways than one, this is the “cold” season. And it's hard to be cheerful when your nose is running and your eyes are tearful. Like as not you know all the rules for prevent- ing a cold. And like as not, you pay no attention to them, which makes you typically human, but not very wise, You know enough to cover up coughs and sneezes, and if there are any around you who don’t have the com- mon decency to do 5o, shun them as you would the plague. Here it is, the season when colds seem to be common, | here is an ailment that is highly cone | tagious, yet it is treated all too lightly. Healthy living is just about the best way to build up the body's resistance against colds. Hunger, improper food, | fatigue, loss of sleep, insufficient out- | door exercise, exposure and sedentary | habits in general are said to be con- | tributing causes to “the cold.” Water, glasses and glasses of it, helps to keep | the waste materials on their way. | Water, gallons of it, when you have . | & cold will help you get rid of it. During the Winter months milk, fruits, oranges, lemons, grapefruit and | apples help to counteract the tend- | ency to acidosis which the inactivity, | heavier meals and lack of sunshine bring during the Winter. When you | have a cold your doctor will tell you | how important it is to be alkaline. That'’s where the sodium bicarbonate helps. And more water. Keep comfortably warm when sleepe ing, but be sure the room is well venti= | lated. Avold chilling the body, par- | ticularly when sitting or riding in a train or automobile. When exercising | the body is not in much danger of cold. Dress sensibly. Women are getting a little more sane in that re | spect, and fashion has given us woolies | that cling instead of bunching under | ing about. | BARBARA BELL, | Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1774-B. Size. ! Name ... P00 1T R —— N (Wrap coins securely in paper and print name and address.) that it will be comfortable for walk- | You should see this frock in ink- blue wool, fine as wool can be, with silver buttons, or black wool, with the same metal. Or you should see it in green, with buttons that are made of the cups of acorns. You'd know then how really smart it is. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1774-B is designed in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Corresponding bust meas- urements, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 (34) requires 2% yards of 54-inch material. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes n illustrated instruction guide that is easy to understand. The Barbara Bell Pattern Book, featuring Fall designs, is ready. Send | 15 cents today for your copy. (Copyright, 1935.) . Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Reading. EADING is in some respects a mere mechanism. But it is a mechanism of very fine movements. Movements of the mind. The average fourth-grade pupil will silently read about 40 words a minute, depending, of course, on the words that a fourth-grader should recognize at sight. The average fifth-grader will come pretty close to reading a word a second, same conditions pre- vailing, and the average sixth-grader will approximate two words a second. In the days of our fathers oral reading was the fashion. This method required & longer time, of course. Today the theory is that reading should always be silent. We live much faster nowadays. We read less for the sake or satisfaction of others. The big idea is to acquire speed for the sake of economy. Children trained to read under the old system acquired the habit of wasting about half their reading time. Generally speaking, adults read about as fast as they learned to read in the seventh | or eighth grade of school. Suppose you accept the plain fact that reading is movement. This means that oral reading is a handicap to the pupil. | (Copyright, 1935.) To CHEER HIS MORNINGS | of us. even the snug-fitting type of dress, Sixty-eight to 70 degrees is the ideal room temperature. Don't work or sleep in overheated rooms. Be sure the air is moist, not dry. And don't overwork. Fatigue undermines the body’s resistance. Instead of using handkerchiefs when | you have a cold, use paper tissues and throw them away, or bef yet, burn them. Use paper napkins when eat- ing. Have any glasses, dishes or eat- ing utensils which you use washed in boiling water before being used by the others. If you have a cold, the best thing to do is to isolate yourself from othe ers. Get into bed, have your water and bicarbonate handy. And pretty You'll feel less miserable if you Apply your make-up very care- fully. Read something light or hue morous. Wear a quilted bed jacket and booties. Have your hair neatly ar- ranged. Think of it as a few days’ luxurious rest. You'll get well the quicker for it. (Copyright, 1935.) Procedure At Wedding Reception BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: I've followed your instructions word for word in arranging for my coming wedding, but I can't find that you have men- tioned anything anywhere about what the bride does with her bouquet when she leaves the receiving line at the reception to go to take her place at the bride's table. Answer—She takes it with her and puts it down on the table wherever there is room. If the table is small, space may perhaps be left for it in the center, or possibly she leaves it on a chair placed nearby for the purpose. * K K X Dear Mrs. Post: My wedding can include only our immediate families and four very closest friends of both Does this fact make it un- suitable for a dear friend, who ean't be invited to the wedding, to give a party to announce my wedding date? I had a party at which my engagement was announced almost a year ago. Answer—In the first place, a party to announce the date of an approach- ing marriage is utterly unknown to convention, and in the second place, it would certainly be very improper to give the date of your wedding par- ticular prominence because it would only serve to exaggerate the fact that the majority of those present are not to be invited. Apart from this, any friend may give you what- ever party she likes. (Copyright, 1935.) ight a Cold ? To help end it sooner, rub throat and chest with VAPORUS for months to come! 0 MATTER how long you shop—no niatter what you get him N at anything like the price—nothing can give him than this attractive gift carton real pleasure “Blue Blades.” Your dealer has more i of 50 Gillette it or can get it for you quiekly. GILLETTE BLIE BLADES