Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1935, Page 47

w No Matter What the Season---Fruits for Jams and Je OMEN’ 8 FEATURES, Gayly Decorated Jars And Colored Glasses Hold Christmas Sweets Commercially Bottled Juices May Be Used for Jellies With Great Success. BY BETSY CASWELL. OR generations in this country, attractively “put up” jams and Jellies have been a traditionally welcome Christmas gift. In New England kitchens the steam from boiling cranberries mingled with the aroma of mince meat and fragrant pastry—in Florida the sharp tang of cooking oranges rose high upon the air. Nowa- days, thanks to o ur efficlent transpor- tation systems, North, East, South and West may all be pre- paring the same fruits at the same time. Ard even where the fresh fruits are unob- tainable at cer- tain seasons, with the new boon to housewives— bottled pectin—canned and dried products may be used with unquali- fied success. Of course, for your Christmas sweets, ordinary jelly glasses are too prosaic. Look around the shops for little pottery jars, gayly colored and decorated—or perhaps you have saved one or two handsome ones sent to you during the year. A pretty teacup with matching saucer, filled with clear, delicious jelly, would de- light any one—the gift would be doubly valuable as the cup could be used long after the jelly had gone the way of all goodies. ¥ oo INY glazed flowerpots with no holes make charming jam jars, ornamental egg cups, small pitchers and really pretty ramekins may also be pressed into service. And, of course, there are always the ridiculously in- expensive, rather thick water tumblers 1n all colors of the rainbow to be found 4n all the dime stores and housewares departments, Six of these, filled with varied jellies, would make a real gift, for the six would come in very nicely &s extra drinking glasses. GRAPE JUICE JELLY. 8 cups sugar 2 cups grape juice (ready bottled kind). 13 cup pectin Measure the sugar and the juice Betsy Caswell into & saucepan, then stir well, and | bring to boiling point. Add the pectin, boil hard for two minutes, pour into sterilized container, cover with paraf- fin, and set to cool. MINT JELLY, 112 cups water. 1 cup vinegar, 1 cup pectin. 21, teaspoons spearmint extract. Green coloring matter. 612 cups sugar. Mix the water and the vinegar and add coloring to desired shade. Stir until all is well dissolved. Add the sugar, bring to a boil, add the pectin and boil hard for one minute longer. Remove from fire and add the spear- mint extract. Let stand for two minutes, skim well and pour into sterilized glasses. Seal with paraffin. PRUNE JELLY. 4 cups prune juice (bottled com- mercial variety). My Neighbor Says: If an apple tree is broken by Winter storms, pare off the splinters with a sharp knife or chisel and treat the wound with creosote, then give it a coat of linseed ofl and lead paint. Do not let the creosote touch the live bark. Chocolate cake scorches easily on the bottom and sides because of the large percentage of fat it contains. It is therefore neces- sary to bake it in a moderate oven, Add one-eighth teaspoon of cream of tartar to cinnamon and sugar used in applesauce. It gives it a delicious flavor. Houstuou Aat 3 cups sugar. 1z cup pectin. Juice of one lemon. Follow directions for making grape Jjuice jelly above. AMBER MARMALADE. 1 orange. 1 grapefruit, 1 lemon. 1, teaspoon salt. Sugar, ’ Select smooth, thick-skinned fruit, free from all blemishes. Wash, re- move the peel, and slice it very thin. Parboil the sliced peel as follows: Add one quart cold water, bring to & boil, | cook for five minutes and discard the | water after each cooking. Do this three times. Cut the fruit pulp into thin slices and remove all seeds and | membrane. Combine the pulp with the parboiled, peel. To each measure | of this mixture add three times the | measure of water and boil hard for 40 minutes. Then measure the mix- ture and add to it the equal measure of sugar. Add the salt. Boil all together rapidly for 25 minutes or longer, until it thickens and becomes amber colored. Watch carefully for sticking and scorching. Let cool in kettle, stir and pour into sterilized | containers. When cold, cover with | paraffin and store in a cold, dry place. APRICOT AND PINEAPPLE JAM. 1 pound dried apricots. 2 No. 2 cans crushed pineapple. 11, pounds sugar. 13 teaspoon salt. Wash the apricots and soak them | overntght in the juice from the drained canned pineapple. In the morning chop the apricots and com- bine with the pineapple pulp. Place this mixture with all the juice, the sugar and the salt, in a kettle, and heat slowly. Cook for 25 minutes, stirring frequently. Pour into steri- | lized jars, seal and store. CRANBERRY JAM. 2 pounds cranberries. 1 cup raisins. 2 oranges. 3 cups sugar. 1, teaspoon salt. 1 pint water. Pick over the cranberries, wash them and also the raisins. Peel oranges and remove seeds. Combine fruits and chop. Add sugar, salt and water, cook for 30 minutes, stirring often. | Pour into sterilized glasses, cool, | paraffin and store in cool place. | Cook’s Corner BY MRES. ALEXANDER GEORGRE. DINNER. Lamb en Casserole. Browned Sweet Potato Cakes. Biscuits. Currant Jelly. Head Lettuce. Thousand Island Dressing. Cheesed Gingerbread. Coffee. LAMB EN CASSEROLE. 113 cups cooked 2 tablespoons macaroni chopped celery 4 tablespoons 1 tablespoon flour chopped parsley 13 teaspoon salt 1 cup cocked % teaspoon lamb, diced paprika 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons 2 tablespoons chopped onion butter Blend flour and seasonings with macaroni, add rest of ingredients and pour into buttered casserole. Cover and bake 30 minutes in moderate oven. Uncover and bake 10 minutes to brown top. . CHEESED GINGERBREAD. ¥3 cup fat 13 cup molasses 1 cup sugar 1 cup buttermilk 1 egg 214 cups flour 2 teaspoons 1 teaspoon soda cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking 1 teaspoon cloves powder 1 teaspoon ginger 3 cup cheese, 1 teaspoon salt Cream fat and sugar. Add all rest of ingredients, excepting cheese, Beat well and pour into shallow pan‘, lined with waxed paper. Bake 20 minutes in moderate oven. Carefully pull to edge of oven, sprinkle with cheese and bake 10 minutes. Serve warm or cold cut in bars. o o “Love’s Old Sweet Song”—how fond we all are of this lovely ballad, éne of our best-known melodies! Here in this new embroidered wall hanging, your needle will stitch a charming Victorian scene inspired by the song. Simple stitches carry out all the quaint details of the old-fashioned parlor needlework and the costumes of the sweethearts. This is the sort of “you will find much pleasure—both in In pattern 5489 you will find & transfer pattern of a in which the making and after. . picture 15x20 inches, material requirements, illustrations of all stitches needed, eolor suggestions. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coin to the Woman's Baditor of The Evening Star, Please prinf name and address. 2 » i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Cs THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935, An Array-to Satisfy Even the Most Ardent Sweet Tooth o T All sorts of goodies may be packed in odd and charming containers for holiday giving. With bottled fruit pectin at her command and the wealth of dried and canned fruits available in all the shops, the ambitious housewife may do much toward helping out the Christmas list. Mo deleilllie’ LylWciti v e, Helping the Student With: His Spelling Should Be NeatlyWrit- ten Exercise, Slowly Executed. BY ANGELO PATRL 'HE school program does not, s 8 usual thing, allow much time for spelling. The teachers are hard ] pressed to get each child to master | the grade list. They use many devices | to overcome the spelling peculiarities | of the pupils and still stay within the time limits of a crowded program. One of the most common is having "“i class write each word a number of times for homework, for busy work.‘ for drill, for punishment, for any rea- | son. This practice is not helpful. | ~ Spelling is a written exercise. One} learns to spell so that one may write. | Oral spelling does very little to help | children write words correctly. Accu- | rate vision, hearing and memory | backed up by good control of the| hands, are largely concerned with good spelling. All children who | make mistakes in spelling should be | examined to discover, if possible, the cause of their difficulty. Eye tests, ear tests, memory tests, muscular co- ordination should be tested by experts | in an effort to find & remedy for the difficulty. But repeated writing of the same word is not to be empha- sized. . | In studying spelling the poor speller should be instructed to write his spell- ing list twice, saying each letter aloud as he shapes it. He does this slowly. Then some one dictates the list and he writes them once. He corrects his work by reference to the printed list. Now the helper takes his paper and checks the corrections to make cer- tain that the child has seen his work correctly. It is not easy to see one’s own mistake, and the child is quite certain that he has spelled the word correctly. The next step is to write each misspelled word twice as in the | beginning. Then write them once from dictation and correct the list, submit the correction for checking and write, once, the final mistakes. Nothing more is to be done about it at this time. Next morning the helper goes over the misspelled list with the child, standing by while he writes just once each word that bothered him. Writing & word more than twice is a waste of time and energy. The chil- dren do not see, they do not heed the form of the word accurately from that point on, and their inaccuracies pile up the longer they dwell on the word. Their writing degenerates into a scrib- ble; they become fatigued in body and mind. They feel a hatred toward spelling that is difficult to overcome. Much harm and little good comes of this business. I believe that all children should learn to spell correctly. I know there are some wise people who say that spelling is unimportant- “You know I mean house even if I do leave off the ‘¢’ It's just a convention.” It is more than a convention, to my mind. It is & matter of form, of knowing the accepted standard and maintaining it in one’s own right. I always suspect the sincerity of people who scoff at such ordinary routine matters as spelling and correct speech and rules for dancing classes and good form for sports. They are either too lazy to work for good form and style and per- fection or they have not the power to achieve any degree of perfection. But the point is: Don't make chil- dren lose what form and what taste for form they have by the killing proc- ess of endless rewriting. (Copyright. 1935.) Fashion Flashes. PARIS (#).—“Wild horse” prints are a novel fabric for advance Spring wear. Schiaparelli lJaunched them at her mid-season collection in black crepe splashed with white and rose- colored horses. They were used 0 fashion simple dinner frocks. Christmas Basket. A Christmas basket filled with small jars of marmalades, pickles, relish spreads, canape mixture, fruit peels, |’ salted nuts, cookies or small fruit cake makes & charming gift, Military Type Tunic For the Right Figure, No Style Is More Becoming or Chic. BY BARBARA BELL. HERE are certain types of women that wear the tunic dress with great chic. Some women don’t, so the first thing to do is to study your type. Perhaps you have. Perhaps you know that you look perfectly stunning in the broken length of a skirt topped by a tunic blouse. If you do you are one of the lucky ones, and should simply grab this dress in a hurry, for it is a beautifully designed thing, smart as the military mode can make it, and grand for the light-weight wools to be worn under a coat now, and without one later, when warmer days come. ‘The blouse is fastened in a slanting line by braided frogs. Another frog fastens the wide, tailored belt, and it doesn’t matter what medium the belt is fashioned of, the frog should be the same as that which fastens the blouse. If you want a leather or suede belt, just take off the buckle that came with it and affix your own particular little frog! . The collar is narrow, close about the throat, and on the place where the top of the blouse is fastened. Sleeves are qu'te tailored, fitted enough to make them look trim and neat. The tunic mwmn‘%ufl-’h o BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. d Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1757-B. Size.. NEBME ceccccnce-. P eI S (Wrap coins securely in paper and print name and address.) designed in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 42, Corresponding bust measure- ments, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42, Size 16 (34) requires 2% yards of 54-inch material, and % yard of 39-inch ma- terial for belt. Every Barbara Bell pattern in- cludes an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. The Barbara Bell pattern book fea- turing new designs is ready. Send 15 cents today for your copy. (Copyright. 1035.) Cooking Hint. Prunes should be stewed in the water in which they have been soaked. Let them simmer gently in & covered pan until tender and plump. Sugar may be added as wanted after the prunes are cooked. Household Tip. Heating s knife will help in cutting - | netic, fume can be all these things at once. Perfumes Should Be On Gift List ‘Scores of New Sweet| Scents to Be Had This Year. BY ELSIE PIERCE. THIS is meant for masculine eyes and, if necessary, clip and slip this “word to the wise” where they will surely see it. Perfume speaks as eloquently as | flowers, and its loveliness lingers in- finitely longer. Haunting, subtle, mag- illusive, exotic, delicate—per- Paradoxical? Perhaps, but isn't per- fume just that? Perfume has a vaguely enchanting effect on others, but if it is a part of the wearer (as indeed it should be) it does very definite things to her, makes her pull | up taller, makes her more assured and poised and glowing. Perfume is the ideal gift. It con- veys a compliment as surely as those three little words. Therefore, for “the her” at the top of the list, give | perfume. Again the beauty mart offers an unlimited choice. If the purse strings | can stand straining there are per- fumes in precious bottles that cost a King's ransom and would surely thrill any Queen. For those who have to watch their pennies there are still perfumes (that's the nice part of living in this age of miracles), and in charming bottles, too. Imagine exact minia- tures of lavish larger bottles, and they cost the same small part of a young fortune. Indeed, there is a set of three, encased in a small gold box and the odors can take the most sophisti- | cate through the day—a floral odor for daytime; & bouquet odor for tea- time or the cocktail hour and .an exotic perfume for formal occasions. There’s a new rich, spicy perfume— worldly, mysterious, sophisticated— ideal for the regal, oriental type. With eiegance and luxury stressed 50 much in fashions, the exotic type of perfume has once more come into its own (for formal occasions, of course). And what can be grander than such a perfume with an effect of brilliance rather than heaviness, quite an appropriate companion with glimmering metal and rich furs. A perfume gift that can come from you to you is & purse vial with a lea®- proof stopper that releases perfume drop by drop. Perfumes and perfumes, but mere words can’t do them justice—perfumes with a single floral odor (the gardenia is particularly popular), perfumes that remind one of an English gar- den, perfumes with a touch of incense to make it sophisticated and inter- esting. A few hints as to the application of perfume in my bulletin on the subject. Send self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope for it. (Copyright, 1935.) Christmas Giving. Self reliance, generosity without carelessness, can be fostered in quite young children who are allowed their own Christmas spending money. A little supervision may be in order, but for the most part let the children do their own Christmas giving. One. parent we know gave her two children, aged 4 and 6, 50 cents each to spend for Christmas presents. They bought 10 cents’ worth of colored string and paper, wrapped their own gifts and went around the neighbor- hood delivering. Approximately eight presents were bought by each. Some of these gifts were a pencil for the father, a set of blotters for the mother, some colored chalk, a ball, & whistle, presents if you can afford it, ways inculcating a sense of fulness and appeal of a gift of its monetary value. Gingerbread Men. WOMEN'’S FEAT llies Are Available: L4 URES. Cc—7 ’ Dorothy Dix Says Consider Own Characteristics First When Choosing EAR MISS DIX--What are the characteristics that a man and woman should have to make marriage & success and to insure their happiness? A GROUP OF YOUNG WOMEN. Answer: They should have the ro- mantic love of Romeo and Juliet, the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job, the unselfishness of a saint, the sacrificial spirit of the early Christian martyrs, the humor of Will Rogers, the ability of Joe Louis to take it on the chin, the fair play of a judge, the thrift of a Scotchman, the culinary talent of s Prench chef and the money-making qualities of a go-getter. And even if any young couple could have these headliner characteristics and were models of all the domestic virtues, and then some, it would not insure their making a success of their marriage, because their very good qualities might antagonize each other, and the attribute for which they should most admire each other would be the very thing that would get on the other’s nerves. how little * ok Kk * IMAOIN‘E. for instance, kick 8 woman who is & spender gets out of being married to a saving man who has a lock on his pocket- book and whom she has to chloroform before she can get the price of a new | dress out of him! pleasant conversation there wouid be between a wise-cracking husband and & wife who possessed no funnybone! Consider how bored a gay husband would be if he had to spend every eve- ning by his own fireside because his wife was as domestic as the house cat! Reflect upon how discouraging it is for a woman to spend hours cooking a superlative dinner for a dyspeptic husband who lives on crackers and milk and whose favorite dessert is| bicarbonate of soda! Yet economy and intelligence and | domesticity and the ability to play are all most desirable characteristics in a | husband or wife. If you happen to| like them and your fancy runs that way. And that's the catch. Virtues are | virtues or they are vices in another, according to the appeal they make to us, and it really doesn't make any difference what sort of characteristics our husbands and wives possess, pro- vided they are along the lines of our own. Whenever you hear a husband | and wife quarreling or complaining | about each other, you will invariably find that it is because of a conflict of tastes and desires. One wants to Market Tips BY LUCIE EBERLY. ERKY little Jerusalem cherry trees, gay pepper plants, large and small; bright and red Winter berries— deep green laurel and the ever quaint bittersweet—the season’s colors in living array! A few wreaths were seen, too—large, beautiful, full ones— we learned that orders are taken now for them. It is a very good plan to order them in advance—they will be much fresher and more attractively made. Orders for trees are being taken now, too, and if you give the size and shape desired one will be cut for you from a certain merchant’s “Christmas tree woods” and delivered | to you the day you specify. * % ¥ X REENS are plentiful this week— spinach is extra fine; artichokes, the potato or Jerusalem variety, are being received in large lots and are moderately priced at 25 cents a quart basket, Baby limas, dainty and fresh, are being rushed from Florida to local markets for the holiday demand— they are, of course, high, but it is & comfort to know they are available! ‘They are such & perfect dinner party vegetable! Lettuce was scarce last week—but is normal again and is exceptionally large and firm. Cucum- bers are crisp and firm, celery is at its very best just now, and the hearts are deliciously sweet and good. Small garden carrots and beets, turnips, egg- plant, savoy cabbage from Texas and | oysterplant are coming in good lots and are among this week's vegetable | specials. * x * * DAINTY little Lady apples—from Missouri—“steal the show” this week in the fruit stalls. They are unusually symmetrical and colorful this year and are sensationally lower in price. Last year they brought 75 cents a dozen—this season they are only 30 cents per dozen! Not only are these midget apples perfect for the dinner table fruit decoration—but make delectable tidbits to nibble. Tan- gerines are much better than they ‘were 10 days ago and are considerably cheaper. Luscious strawberries—fully ripe—the first from Florida, and New York State Greenings—those vivid green eating apples, round out the list of new additions to the fruit stands. * ok ok % THE fish stalls are adequately sup- plied with sea food this week end— smelt from New England, drumfish from North Carolina, live lobster from Maine and bluefish from nearby shores, frozen whitefish from the Great Lakes and cold packed kippers from Newfoundland (which, by the way, are smoked by some local merchants and are sharper than the English smoked kipper, because they are fresh- er). Crabmeat and lobster meat— clams and oysters—in fact, everything that is in season is available and extra fine. x ok K X M!AT stays about the same, though pork loins are somewhat cheaper. Breast of lamb (for stew) and short ribs are the best buys. Ham is high— as it generally is around the holidays— though the Smithfield stays about the same and some places are planning to run a special on cooked Smithfield this week end. They are cooked in the real Virginia manner and are sold Think how little | D a Mate. do one way, the other another. Hence these spats. * % % % SPENDTHRIFT couple can have a gorgeously successful marriage throwing money to the birds, but a penny-pinching couple can have equally as thrilling a time hoarding every nickel and watching the bank account grow. The trouble comes in when one wants to save and the other wants to spend. We all know chummy hus- bands and wives who spend happy- days together on the golf links and fascinating evenings holding post- mortems over their games, but woe betide the couple where the wife calls for public sympathy because she is a golf widow, or where the husband has to get the children’s supper because wife is away on the links. So in making your selection of & mate don't consider his or her char« acteristics so much as your own. Exe amine yourself and see what your tastes and habits are and then match them up as nearly as you can in & man or woman. Marry some one who likes to do the things you like to do, who believes in the things you believe in and who was brought up in the same school of cookery you were. DOROTHY DIX. * x * X EAR MISS DIX: Does an em~ ployer expect an employe to ash for a raise in salary, or does he vol- untarily, on the merits of the em- ploye’s work, give a raise? It seems to me that if an employe’s work has proved satisfactory over a period ot years that he or she deserves a raise. T have been working for & man for & number of years and have every reason to believe that my work has been up to the mark. I have been faithful and efficient and always on the job, yet I have only had two vaca- tions and only get $2 a week more than I made when I first started to work. I have to support my mother and my salary is so inadequate for our needs that by the middle of the week I can't buy even a 15-cent lunch. I could get work in another city, but my mother would never consent to leave home and I'd hate to leave her alone. If I had a dollar or two more & week, I could make the ends meet. I am 30 years old. PEGGY. Answer—I would certainly advise you to ask for the raise you need so much and deserve 5o well, but do it tactfully. Don't make your demand pre-emptory, a sort of hold-up. Give your reasons why you think you are entitled to more money and appeal to your em- ployer’s sense of justice and his gen- erosity. Be careful not to put your demand in a way that will leave him no alternative but to either give in or fire you. Jobs are hard to get these days. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1935.) Wrappings Add Charm To the Gift WRAPPmGS may not make the Christmas gift, but they go a long way toward expressing the spirit of the giver and emphasizing the gayety of the Yuletide season. And the wise shopper who looks to her Christmas papers and ribbons early enough to have a choice before stocks run low will have cause for congratulation when her packages do credit to her originality and &rtistry a8 & wrapper. Doing up Christmas packages can be lots of fun if you are among tha wise ones who do their Christmas shopping early and have plenty of time to wrap up their gifts leisurely, fuss with them a bit and take pride in making them as beautiful as possible. Christmas gift wrappings have never been so gay as this year and all sorts of amusing conceits have been devised to make them decorative and exciting. Among the newest papers being intro- duced by manufacturers exhibiting in the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, are designs which are more than faintly reminiscent of old Italian canvases with tapestry patterns in rich hues of blue, magenta, russet brown high- lighted with gilt and deep green. These colors are replacing the traditional scarlet and green this season, although the latter, of course, will always be ood. Other designs show a strong mod- ernistic influence, among the wore in- teresting in the latter group being the cellophane papers with reindeer and ‘Winter scenes which suggest Japanese etchings. The polka dot pattern which has been featured in china as well as chintz this season also has in- vaded the Christmas wrapping fleld and these papers have matching rib- bons. Manufacturers have given a good deal of thought to the outside cover- ings for children’s gifts, as is evident in papers that portray the adventures of Mickey Mouse, the three bears and other nursery favorites. There are also wee little replicas of Mother Goose favorites in cotton which may be tied to the gift to give it futrher charm. Special papers have been designed for wrapping men's gifts, among the latter being tissues which depict hunting and other sports scenes. Ready-tied rosettes are available in bright colors and there are also gay little bunches of fruit to replace the customary spray of holly or mistletoe on a Christmas package. The gold of Florida citrus fruit and sunshine was responsible for a prige- winning package in a display of Christmas gift wrappings at the Chi- cago Mart. The package was wrapped in golden-hued cellophane and tied with green cellophane ribbon and rosette, with a spray of kumquats to add a further Southern touch. by the pound or by the whole ham. "~ CATCHING COLD? At the first wam- ing sneeze = quick - a few drops up each nostril. Its timely' use helps DOGS-J(ATSI N prevent many colds. Vicks VATRO-NOL