Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1936, Page 45

WOMEN’ = - If Served as 8 FEATURES, Cocktail Beverage Should Be Carefully Seasoned THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., L2 THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1936. % For Summer Afternoon Refreshments Is Also Good as an Iced Soup and, When| Jellied, Makes a Colorful and Delicious Salad. BY BETSY CASWELL. OST American families now- adays are addicted to the tomato juice habit. Big jars of the clear red liquid may *"*be found tucked away in the back of practically every refrigerator, ready for use at a moments’ notice. Especially during the months does the Jjuice come into the height of its popularity. The thirst - quenching properties it con- tains are well balanced by those which stimulate appetitesand provide essential food values. ‘There are excel- lent brands of commercially canned tomato Juice on the mar- . ket —and now Summer Betsy Caswell zeven the yellow tomatoes, with their ; valuable element of carotene have been used for making tomato juice, with healthful and pleasing results. If you prefer to can the juice your- eelf at home. it is very simple to do. ‘Tomatces are plentiful and reasonably - priced just now, so this is an excellent time to undertake the job. For per- " fect results use only the finest ripe fruit—discard any that is blemished in any way. CANNING TOMATO JUICE. Cut the fruit into quarters, leaving the skins on. Boil in a little water, Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. Jellied Tuna Salad. Shoestring Potatoes. Buttered Broccoli. Bread. Raspberry Preserves. Crushed Fruit Sherbet. Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Cookies Coffec. JELLIED TUNA SALAD. 1 cup tuna 4 teaspoon salt 8 hard cooked 1z teaspoon eggs, diced paprika 15 cup diced 2 teaspoons celery lemon juice 1, cup diced 1, cup salad cucumbers dressing 2 tablespoons 1 tablespoon chopped sweet granulated pickles gelatine 1 tablespoon 2 tablespoons chopped *# cold water pimientos. Soak gelatin five minutes in cold water, dissolve over boiling water and ocool. Add to dressing and combine with rest of ingredients. Pour into mould. Chill until firm. Serve on lettuce and top with dressing. RASPBERRY PRESERVES, 8 cups berries 2 tablespoons 14 teaspoon lemon juice. salt 7 cups sugar. Mix ingredients in pan, cook slowly and stir frequently until mixture “jells” when tested on a cold plate. ‘This will require about 25 minutes of cooking. Stir frequently and skim top. Pour preserves into sterilized jars and when cool seal with melted par- affin. CRUSHED FRUIT SHERBET. 25 cup crushed 1 cup sugar pineapple 2 tablespoons cup lemon juice crushed 1% teaspoon salt strawberries 2 cups milk Mix fruits, sugar and juice.” Let stand 10 minutes, slowly add milk, add salt and pour into tray in me- chanical refrigerator. times at 30-minute intervals. It will require about four hours in all to freeze sufficient for sérving. This o sherbet also can be frozen by the reg- e Ular freezer method. 1 A combination of flavors and colors of jellies adds interest to the main course of luncheon, supper or dinner. Mint and current, grape and apple, raspberry and crabapple and other combinations look attractive when served in the same dish. Stir well three | very gently, until the juices begin to flow, and then allow them to simmer for 30 minutes. Strain well, through several thicknesses of cheesecloth, and flavor with one teaspoon of salt to each quart of juice. Reheat to boiling point, and pour boiling het into hot sterilized jars. Fill jars to overflow- ing, and seal at once. * ok ok % ND now that you have the juice— what are you going to do with it? For there are dozens of ways in which it may be served; plain for breakfast; highly seasoned for cocktails; to make iced soup; delicately jellied for salads, and even as a beauty ald—it is said that a famous actress washed her face in tomato juice every day, which accounted for the texture and fineness of her skin! But if you don't feel that a tomato facial is important, you should realize the need for producing a good tomato juice cocktail. This is really an art in itself, and one which more cooks should study, for a tasteless tomato juice cocktail is probably one of the drearicst things imaginable! The fol- lowing recipe, which is used at an ex- clusive club here in ‘Washington, pro- duces excellent results: TOMATO JUICE COCKTAIL. 1 quart tomato juice. 3 tablespoons lemon juice. 1, teaspoon salt. 2 teaspoons sugar. 1, teaspoon black pepper. 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. 1 teaspoon onion juice. Few drops tabasco. Mix ingredients well together, place in a shaker with ice and shake vig- orously until cold and frothy. Pour into glasses and serve immediately. * ok K X NOTHER good tomato cocktail may be made by combining equal quantities of tomato juice and clam juice. Season well with pepper and paprika, ‘add a few drops of tabasco, and shake well with ice. Then there is the LOVE-APPLE COCKTAIL. 115 cups tomato juice. 1, cup evaporated milk. 1, teaspoon celery salt. 1, teaspoon table salt. Black pepper. Pour chilled tomato juice into the milk and stir vigorously. Add the seasonings, place in a shaker with ice, and shake hard until cold. Pour into chilled glasses. And here is one other trick that | will improve the flavor of “long, tall | ones” of pure-tomato juice:+Fill the | glasses with ice cubes made from | lemon juice and water instead of the ordinary ones. This keeps the drink from becoming so diluted that the juice s a pale. and uninteresting beverage: 2 > 1f you wish advice on your individ- ual household problems, write to Betsy Caswell, in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, self-addressed envelope for reply. The Old Gardener Says: Delphiniums, if cut back after each flowering season, will make a new burst of bloom. After they have been cut back, they should not be cultivated or watered for a week or so. Then they can be fed with a commercial fertilizer and given plenty of moisture, causing them to throw up new blooming spikes. Of course, no seed should be allowed to form Delphiniums prefer a rich, well- prepared and somewhat cool loam in an open situation. But they will grow and flower even in sandy soil if given plenty of water and plant food. Bone meal is not the best fertilizer for them, be- cause it is slow-acting, but most of the advertised brands are good. (Copyright. 1036.) Famous Men and How They Cook Li2] Senator Reynolds crgeven; 98y I HAD an appointment with Senator ; * Reynolds but as he was called away for a few minutes, I had a very amusing time waiting for him. His reception room was crowded with constituents and the telephone rang constantly. The engaging young man who answered the calls, greeted each one over the telephone like a long, lost brother. The atmosphere of the office radiated geniality. When I was ushered into Senator Reynolds' office, I was greeted most cordially by the debonair Senator who was wearing a beautiful, brown homespun suit—undoubtedly from the wollen mills of his own State. Senator Reynolds traveled to 500 cities last Summer giving literature to the mayors about North Carolina, the “Land of the Blue Sky.” He had @ car and trailer equipped with a two-burner gasoline stove. He did all the driving on the trip and all of the cooking. He traveled 11,500 miles and gained in weight 11 pounds. said: “About 4:30 in the morn- of North Carolina Likes Plain Foods Simply Prepared. BY HARRIET FRENCI ing we would have a breakfast con- sisting of a lot of fruit and black coffee. I just mixed coffee and water —a tablespoon of coffee to a cup of water—and then let it come to the boiling point in a coffee pot. I al- lowed the coffee to simmer for a few minutes and then would throw in an eggshell if I had one. “My biggest meal is always &t noon. T like & thick steak fried in butter, and then fry the bread in the juice of the steak. My favorite meal, though, consists of three scrambled eggs, three pork chops, fried potatoes and coffee.” . The Senator believes that driving an automobile for 16 hours a day is a great form of recreation and exercise. He recommends it highly for boys who want a good vacation. “If four boys put up $100 each,” he said, “they can pay all their expenses and cover the United States in 30 days. No other comparable education, for the time and money involved, can be found.” (Copyright, 1936.) and easy task. " Chilled and s_harply seasoned tomato juice will be welcomed by guests who linger after bridge on warm days. With a big bottle always on hand in the ice box, the clever hostess will find such hospitable gesture a pleasant Old Adage ‘Health is Wealth’ True | Parents - Should Ap- | preciate Normal Playful Offspring. ... BY ANGELO. PATRL {NOWING that one has a gifted child, seeing that gift develop and watching the child win epplause and | furtune must be a great delight to| the parents. No wonder they beam | with pride and joy. Still, it seems to | me, that the father and mother who | have a healthy, happy, normal child ought to feel equally proud and equal- | ly glad, if not more so. Rearing a genius, or even a gifted ' | child, is a difficult task. Seldom we | find a well-balanced body and mind | when the gift is outstanding. Some- thing has been robbed from Pejgr to | pay Paul, and Paul never takes that | placidly. The highly gifted child| usually has a weak spot somewhere | waiting an opportunity to make trouble. Sometimes nerves are edgy and tem- | per brittle. Sometimes personal char- | acteristics are exaggerated to the place | | where they make the gifted one very unhappy and render association thh] him most unpleasant. I knew one who used to walk the floor, biting his fingers _until they bled. Another in- sisted upon eating one dish, the same thing, every meal. Still another must live in a room of the same tem- perature the year round, and when he | went out there was a great deal of fuss and bother. One gifted individual who traveled a lot had to carry his bed along, and most of his personal belongings as well, until he required a freight car to make a trip of two hours by train. Of course it is great to possess a gift of first magnitude, fine to say, “that is my gifted child.” But it is just as fine, and far easier to know that this normal, happy, healthy youngster who can eat and sleep and play with the rest of the crowd, who| can grow up and take his place among the useful and happy citizens of the community belongs to your family. People do not half appreciate the ordinary child, the normal youngster who plays hard, gets dirty, tears his clothes, quarrels with his brothers and sisters and friends; forgets it in a minute, behaves like an angel and quite the other way on occasion, gets by in school, and generally behaves like a normal human child. He is the salt of the earth. On his shoulders this world rests. On his sturdy legs it moves forward. Upon his sanity it is finally balanced. The genius may shine, the great lead the way, but the ordinary healthy normal man and woman carry them to their goal. And have a good time doing it. | The ordinary, good child is happy. He may shed a few tears now and then over his hard lot. He may want to hold the moon in his hands and raise a member to bring in the milk in the howl when he fails to reach it, but he will not brood over it. He will re- morning and take the dog for an airing just as usual. His day will not be spoiled because he lost an illusion. Parents ought to give their healthy, normal youngsters a smile of ap- proval now and then for being just that. Let them see how glad you are that they can run and jump and shout and shove their way through the play- ground. Smile kindly upon them when they ask for seconds on steak and onions. Give the report that says, B, B, B, your cordial approval and a lolly-pop for good measure. Be plain thankful that you have a perfectly nor- mal child. Let who will, or who must, have the gifted and the genius. You won't shine perhaps in the reflected light of the star, but you will know a peace and content unknown to stars. (Coprrignt, 1936.) q Smooth-Fitting Slip Sleek Foundation Is Easy to Make and to Launder.. M S s S BY BARBARA BELL. 'S sleek foundation slip is your perfect answer to the demands I of sheer frocks. What's more, it is so easy to make you'll want to cut out several at one time, for they require but a minimum of cutting and stitching. You will appreciate the choice of either the narrow or built-up shoulder straps, which cut in one piece with the bodice and are less likely to slip off the shoulders and ruin the effect of your daintiest dresses. If you wish, the brassiere top of the garment may be made of lace. Send for your pat- tern now, so you can be prepared with several of these perfect-fitting foundations. . Barbara Bell pattern No. 1909-B is available for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20; 42, 44 and 46. Size 20 requires 2% yards of 39-inch material. Send 15 cents for mnun:’::n pattern book. Make yourself . and clothes, S Y B 1909-B bara Bell well-planned, easy-to-make patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age, slenderizing well- cut patterns for the mature figure and afternoon dresses for the most particular young woman and matrons and other patterns for special occa- sions are all to be found in the Bar- bara Bell pattern book. BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1909-B. Size. Name ... PUL L R —— (Wrap coins securely in paper.) A Coping With The Annual Freckle Crop No Secret Cure for Skin Susceptible to | Spots. ‘ BY ELSIE PIERCE. ISTORY does repeat itself. Even before the first sign of Summer, the letters about freckles start pour- ing in. ‘The question that the {reckle bri- gade puts before us, more faithfully and frequently than any other, is: How can I remove freckles. The next recurring question is: How can I ac- quire an even tan without freckling— I freckle easily. Just to be different let's answer the second question frst. How can one acquire a tan yet avoid freckles, if one is inclined to freckle easily. Sorry to disappoint; but it cannot be done. Let us see why? ‘The very nature of freckle forma- ticn is such that it is impossible to avold the “spots” when attempting to tan. Freckles are nothing more or less than an irregular formation of the color pigment in the skin. Sub- ject the skin inclined to freckle to light and the freckles immediately begin to multiply. Exposure to light does it. Yet exposure to intense light is the way a tan is acquired. The intense light darkens the coloring matter or pigment in the skin. So you see it isn't the tan but what causes it that also affects frecides. If you don't want freckles, keep away from intense sunlight.4That will mean no freckles and no tan—unless you want the simulated suntan so easily acquired in bottle form. You can prevent freckles by staying out of the sun entirely; or by wear- ing large hats, parasols; or by using & quite heavy type cream and a heavy-textured powder thus forming a fairly solid barrier between old sol and friend face. % And now we come to the question of freckle removal—and here again I am sorry to disappoint. Freckles aren't formations on the skin like whiteheads or minor eruptions. They are in the skin. A good many prepa- stimulate the skin, bleach it and gradually make the freckles less per- | ceptible. Others are quite drastic and some prepartions containing mercury may be very dangerous to the small minority allergic to this chemical. It is dangerous for lay people to use any strong drug that inexpertly used | may harm the surrounding tissue, or in any case painfully frritate the skin. I have a very complete bulletin called “Freckles—How to Deal With and Dim Them.” If you wish it, please refer to thiy title and inclose self-addressed, stamp>d (3-cent) envelope. (Copyrisht, 1936.) Invagt'io_m, Frocks and Ceremony 'Old Family Wedding Dress Always in Good Taste. BY EMILY POST. 5 EAR MRS. POST: “The bride | wore the wedding dress which her | mother wore 40 years ago.” what I read in an account of a very fashionable wedding. Will you pleas® explain whether this bride wore sucn an old dress exactly as it wac one- inally, or whether it is customary to refit an old wedding dress and make it a little more wodern? Also, an- other point: When a hride wears the dress worn by another bride, must this necessarily be her mother's wed- | ding dress? May it be anotner rela- tive's or even a dear friend’s dress? Answer: Usually it has to be modi- fied a little, but if the dress can be worn as it is, so much the petter. It can perfectly well be any wedding dress for which the bride has a per- sonal sentiment. * % ¥ ¥ Dear Mrs. Post: Does the fact that there will be no wedding picture— with our sending out formally en- | graved wedding invitations? We'd | like to send them instead of an- nouncements since we are going to be married in church, and if our friends | want to come we would like to have them. | Answer: I can understand perfectly | your wanting to send invitations in- stead of mere announcements, and there is no actual reason why you may not send an engraved invitation to what is after all a church cexemony. The fact that there will be no wedding picture should be compensated for— certainly to all who care for you—by the fact that you wanted your friends with you on this special nccasion. " (Copyright, 1836.) rations claim to remove freckles. Some | meaning white dress and veil and | WOMEN’S FEATURES. Tomato Juice Has Many Virtues, and May Even Be Used on One’s Face Dorothy Dix Says EAR MISS DIX: I have been married for three monihs to a mother’s boy. We started out fine. We bought nice new furniture and set up house- keeping for ourselves and for the| first week we were happy. Then he| decided he wanted his mothe? and couldn’t live without her. I thought that he would get over his hcmesick- ness, but, no matter how hard T tiry to make things pleasant for him, he still wants to go back to mother. And i now he says he doesn’t love me any more. He loves only mother. I told him that if this was the case we had better break up housekeeping and he could go to his home and I'd go to mine, but he complains that this will make & scandal, and that the only way out is for him to commit suicide. Please tell me, Miss Dix, what I should do. I love him and am willing to sacrifice my happiness for his. MRES.R. N. Answer—Your husband is a patho- | logical case and you should take him | at once to some good psychiatrist and let science clarify his muddled emo- tions. Perhaps a psychiatrist can | | make him see that the two loves, | | the love of mother and wife, do not | | conflict, but each has its place in a | well-ordered life. In the meantime go to your moth- | er-in-law and have a frank talk with | | her. She is the key to the whole | situation. Make her realize that her | | son’s excessive affection for her is not only wrecking his happiness, but | is driving him insane, and ask her | | n;; cut her apron string and set him ree. * ok ok % | IF SHE has courage enough to do this and to make her son realize that his life no longer centers about | her, but about his wife, and that | his greatest love should be given to | his wife instead of to her, and especially if she has wisdom to shut up her house and go away for a while, s0 that there will be no moth- er's home to go to and no mother to run to with a tale of everything that has happened to him, all will be well. He will learn to do without mother | and to depend upon you for the baby- | ing that mother gave him. He will | come to think of the house he has | set up as his home and begin to take | | an interest in it. In a word, he | will get weaned. And he will find that all of his love for you has come back. | The reason that Re thinks now that | he has ceased to love you is because ;his love for his mother is fighting | against his love for you, and somehow | whichever one is away from him has the strongest claim upon him. If he should go back to his mother, he would die for love of you. But what a crime a woman com- mits when she fosters a mother com- plex in her son! Yet many women | do it. They are so anxious to be all in all to their sons that they monopo- lize them, they spoil them, they en- slave them. they never let them grow up, they keep them dependent on them, they never let them walk alone or stand on their own feet. And, in reality, Mamma's petted, white-haired darling never grows to man's estate He remains a perpetual little boy. Fortunately, Mother's darling gen- | erally refrains from marrying because he never finds anybody just like Mother to marry, but, when he does marry, he is unhappy and discontented | and makes his wife miserable. * x % X { | titude is it possible to take toward old people whose ideas seem ugly and DEAR DOROTHY DIX—What at- | | wrong to us and yet who are tied to | us by bonds of blood or marriage? The Bible says: “Honor thy father and That 5 mother,” yet I have found that thes hardest of all the commandments to obey. Our minds expand by studying and reading and contact with life, while the minds of the old are static. How can one honor an outmoded, | narrow and intolerant point of view? | How can one honor a censorious atti- tude and mund that refuses new ideas? 1 have obeyed the command to honor my parents, and the unuttered retort, the meek silence and polite attention for a long, drawn-out dull period have been a veritable torture. It seemed | the only course at the time, yet I wonder now whether it was wise. MRS. H. C. L. Answer—Every kindly act is more than wise. It is a benediction that blesses those that give and those that | receive, and I am sure that the knowl- | edge that you showed your old par- i itability: bridesmaids and ushers, but cnly one | SOl terde e e e Ty attendant and a best man—interfere | | | | After a Boy Is Married His Wife Should Stand First in His Affections. that you bit back the sharp speech, and that you made their last days happy will be among the things that you will like best to remember when you audit your account with life, It does not seem to me that we are Justified in taking any attitude toward | the old except that of infinite patience | and infinite kindness. And this is & hard saying because old age is not always sweet and lovely and appres ciative. It is not even often so. Most old people are selfish and full of cranky ways. They are opin- ionated and dominating, dull and tiresome and boresome. They are critical and hard to please and rarely satisfied. * % X ET all of that does not alter our duty toward them to be kind and forbearing and to do all that we can do to bring a little sunshine to the last dreary lap of the road. And I think this is what the Bible means when it speaks of honoring our ents. It is providing for their ph: cal comforts; taking on our you shoulders the load that theirs are t feeble to bear; listening with apps - ent interest to oft-told tales, defer when possible to their outmoded opi ions. And we may well remember th-* these old fathers and mothers made of their backs a ladder on which we climbed to the heights on which we stand. They toiled and scrimped and saved to give us the education they never had. But for them we might still have the closed mind that re- fuses new ideas; the narrow, intolerant point of view which we deride. They lifted us into a world above them- selves and opened doors through which they knew they could never enter. And so the least that we can do is to make a few sacrifices for those who have made so many for us. To :5\7)' Master Father’s Day Editor's mote: This appealing missive was delivered to an appre- ciative master Sunday morning. We feel that it is not too late to offer it for our readers’ amusement, MY BELOVED MASTER: Could I speak. I would tell you just how much I love you, and how grateful I am for the good home and all the care you have given me You are so gentle, kind and gen- erous toward me always, and while you may not think I am capabic of it, I am very much ashamed to think of the many times when I am such a wicked, disobedient puppy dog. I mean to be good— really and truly I do. Tommy—but it seems. in spite of my good in- tentions, there is always somec- thing deep down inside of me that makes me do so many things I shouldn't—such as chasing the cats and nipping their legs, and barking at every dog I see and at every funny noise I hear. I think it is awfully nice of you to want to fix my ears and eye. when they hurt and itch, but when I see you coming with the fluffy piere of cotton in your hand, be- fore I know it I am under the bed hiding. T know all these things must make you cross with me. but I love you, Tommy, as only a puppy dog can—honor bright. Then there will come the day when I will have to go away and leave you, but please don't grieve. for I'll be waiting at a window somewhere in the “great beyond,” watching for you to come down the road. When I see you coming, I'll meet you with loud barks of joy, for then I'll know that once again the master I loved so well will be with me, and we can take nice walks in the green fields and beau- tiful woods that I know are put there just 'specially for wild puppy dogs like me. NAPPY. SUGAR SHELF RECIPES Important first step . “Thorough creaming of the butter and sugar is the first step toward fine cake texture. Choose a fine, even-grained granulated sugar and your creaming job will be easier, faster...and your cake texture finer.” lln fortte LOUISIANA LOAF CAKE y : cup butter, or other shortening D /fcu Jack Frost less 2 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder V4 teaspoon salt % cup milk , 1 teas; 1cup poon vanil finely chopped pecans Cream the shortening until it is soft and light. Add Jack Frost Granulated Sugar gradually, and cream together until you have a fluffy mixture. Because Jack Frost Granulated Sugar it will give you a perfect blend of sugar and shortening quickly and easily. Add egg toblended butter and sugar, and beat | until thoroughly mixed. Sift flour before measuring; add baking powder and salt, and sift again. Add dry ingredientstotheegg mixture, alternately with the milk, beating after each addition until you have a smooth batter. Add flavoring and chopped nuts. Bake in greased pan 8x8x 2 inches in moderate oven (375°F.) 50 minutes, or until done. If you follow directions carefully and use Jack Frost Granulated Sugar, you will have a delicious, tender-textured cake. There’s a different JACK FROST SUGAR for every need. Granulated, Powdered, Confectioners XXXX, Brown, Tablets is 80 fine-grained and quick-dissolving,