Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1936, Page 15

w - Unwelcome Strangers From Insect World Often P Particular OMEN’ S FEATURES. Quartet May Be Encountered Too Much for Comfort Silverfish of Both Kinds, Book Lice and Centipedes Like Dark and Undis- turbed Privacy. BY BETSY CASWELL. HE price of a bugless home is eternal vigilance. That may seem a pretty | 5 sweeping statement, but the | harassed housekeeper will realize that It is a true one. No matter how scrupu- lously clean you keep the premises—no matter how carefully and thoroughly you sweep and dust — with the Insect world as deternined as it it is to gain & foothold 1n our houses, unwei- come strangers are bouna T Put 1n occasion- a1 appearances. And when tnat happens the pertect nouse- ¥ keeper 1s apt o o o A be thrown 1ntwo R & panic of mor- tincation, ana embark upon an intensive warfare| that may or may not be permanently successful. The chances are that it won't, because in the case of an in- sect pest “there are plenty more where that one came from.” The only thing to do is to become familiar enough with the looks and habits and weak points of our creepy- crawly visitors so that we are able to rout them in the quickest and most lasting manner that science has been able to discover. And, of course, to do this, recognition must be a primary necessity. Today we have with us four little pals that, while not usually given to mob activities, can cause quite a little destruction and damage in the home in one way or another. And these four are encountered in the best of families, far oftener than one woula imagine. By the way, did you know that this type of household pest is known as a “social insect?"— which, somehow, I find very amus- ing. Betsy Caswell * x X x FIRST. allow me to present to you that glittering after-dark lover, Mr. Silverfish, alias the “Slicker.” He 18 & silvery white affair, sporting three long tails, and is often seen, wraithlike, when books, papers, cloth- ing and so on are suddenly moved and light shines upon him. With his gliding movement he slides quickly into a crack or cranny—it is diffi- cult to catch him when he is really on the run. A close' cousin to the book-loving silverfish is the “fire brat,” which has different markings, and likes to spend his time hanging out around brick fireplaces and bake | ovens of the old type, where it is warm and cozy. Silverfish are usually found in the Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. TIMELY LUNCHEON SERVING EIGHT Summer Cocktail Fresh Shimp and Crab Salad Mayonnaise Cheese Bars Watermelon Pickles Currant Jelly Blueberry Tarts Hard Saucc Mint Candies Coffee SUMMER COCKTAIL. 1 cup raspberries. 1 cup diced fresh pineapple. 1 cup seeded red cherries. 3 teblespoons lemon juice, 25 cup sugar. . If desired this can be served par- tially frozen by pouring into tray in mechanical refrigerator and chilling about one hour. CHEESED BARS. 2 cups flour. 4 teaspoons baking powder. 1% teaspoon salt. V4 teaspoon celery salt. Vs teaspoon paprika. 4 tablespoons fat. 23 cup milk. 3 tablespoons butter. 14 cup grated cheese. Mix flour, baking powder, salt, celery salt and paprika. Cut in fat with knife, slowly add milkk. When soft dough forms, pat out until %4 inch thick. Spread with butter and cheese. Fold dough half-over, so that the cheese will become filling. Press well. Using sharp knife, cut into 14-inch by 3-inch strips. Bake seven minutes on greased baking sheet in moderate oven. HARD SAUCE. 1}, cup butter. 3 tablespoons hot cream. 1 teaspoon vanilla. 1, teaspoon lemon extract. 1, teaspoon almond extract. 1z teaspoon salt. 114 cup sifted confectioner’s sugar. Mix ingredients and beat until creamy. Chill and serve. | to control. greatest numbers in libraries, attics, and storage rooms in houses or apart- ments. Dampness, either cool or hot, attracts them, and due to their ability to keep out of sight, they may multi- ply to a really serious number before they are discovered. They eat gold lettering and bindings from books— apparently they just can't resist the flavor of the glue used in book-bind- ery; heavily glazed paper is another bait, and starched materials or those stiffened with sizing also prove a temptation not to be resisted. Some: times they even go after the back ef ‘wallpaper! * ox x x | ‘SILVERF!SH eggs are laid in the Spring. usually in cracks or crev- ices, or in the folds of laid-away cloth- ing. They are easily dislodged by brushing, and should be burned. Lar- vae are hatched in July, and the in- sects look just like Daddy and Mummy immediately. Fortunately, they are not difficult The Bureau of Entomol- ogy of the United States Department of Agriculture recommends using a poison-powder Which may be made at home from the bureau’s prescription, if desired—and which should be placed wherever the silverfish are found— except, of course, where a child might get at the poison. Other powders may be used, and dusted along the tops of books and shelves. These should us- ually be renewed frequently, as they are apt to lose strength upon contact with the air. In basements, if silver- fish are found staging a ~mob scene, they may be sprayed with a poison, and thus destroyed in great | numbers. | As in the case of moths, one of the | best protections against clothing or | material damage, is frequent airing and handling of these articles, and | destruction of any insects or eggs found on them. kR ‘NEXT we have that charming fel- | low, Mr. Centipede. Happily not as great in size or ferocity as his trop- ical cousin, this gentleman still ! causes a squeamish feeling to most |of us who encounter him sitting proudly in the center of our clean bath tub of a morning. He is, in truth, an unpleasant-looking job at best. He travels insanely, | all speed laws, and is not in the least | afraid to leap to the attack. an approaching foot has, apparently, an irrisistible fascination for him. He likes darkness and moisture: is found | oftenest in damp cellars, in bath rooms, | He is a dainty | and conservatories. creature—and cleans his whiskers after every trip across the floor. He has his good points, in that he | likes to eat other insects, such as roaches, houseflies, and so forth. He does not eat household goods and woolens. He does bite, if cornered by a human, however, and the bite may cause some little discomfort from the poison which he injects into it. This may be remedied by the application of ammonia to the wound. The best way to keep him under countered, dust around the water pipes and moist places with a poison powder, and inspect his hiding places as often as possible with the hope of catching him napping. ko est whatsoever in humans are the tiny, tiny, grayish white, almost transiucent insects that scurry for cover from the pages of an old book. They appear in the greatest numbers during the late Summer and early Fall, and like damp, darkness and un- disturbed privacy. Many exist out of doors, in trees, woodpiles and so forth, and get into the house through screens, cracks, etc. They do not be- come very abundant, and the damage that they do, except to books and pa- pers, is relatively small. Cleaning, airing and drying of the room where they have been found is usually enough to finish them off. The objects which have sheltered them should be cleaned and sunned. Prolonged dry heat will toll the bell for a book louse every time! The Old Gardener Sa.ys: Privets are used so univer- sally for making hedges that their value as specitnen plants or in mixed shrub planting is often overlooked. There are many per- sons, even among amateur gar- den makers, who are not familiar with the flowers of the privet. although they have seen miles of hedges. When allowed to grow without hard cutting, the privet becomes & shrub 8 or 10 feet <high, producing in June large conical-shaped flower heads, the blossoms being an attractive creamy-white, but having a rath- er unpleasant odor. (Copyright, 1936.) E DOESN'T look like a stowaway, but the stag is guilty on all counts. He stowed away ir a note book at the British Museum in London and now, here in America, he’s willing to decorate your linen. The filet band, crocheted In No. 30 mercerized crochet cotton, measures 18 inches arcoss, so that it can be used admirably to finish the ends of table runners, bureau scarfs or buffet covers. Besides that, four of the bands could be used effectively to form a hollow square at the center of a dinner or refreshment cloth. The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand illustrated directions, with diagrams to aid you; also what crochet hook and what ma- terial and how much you will need. To obtain this pattern, send for No. 325 and inclose 15 cents in stamps or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Woman's Editor ©of The Evening Star. { (W}Ilfiht. 1936.) breaking | In fact, | control is to kill all individuals en- | BOOK LICE which have no inter- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1936. Four Gentlemen Who Are Sociable to a Fault KeepingCool. During The Hot Weather Light Colors Can Create Pleasant Illusion. BY ELSIE PIERCE. | FRIEND of the family who has always had a “spot” at shore or mountain resort for the Summer | months felt that she could not af- | ford it this year. So, being of sunny disposition, she decided to make the most of things. She took up rugs and heavy draperies, replacing with cool, thin curtains and equally cool colored covers, which she made her- self. One day while I was visiting an- other friend dropped in. “I don't blame you a bit for want- | ing to stay home this Summer,” she said. “After all, there’s no place like home for cool comfort, particularly if home is like this. How on earth | did you change the place s0?” i Color has a psychological effect on | us. The blues and greens invariably | lower one’s temperature. But red, | orange, henna, certain shades of vio- let have quite the opposite effect. Imagine flimsy curtains in theatrical gauze with green figures in them, and ice green and blue furniture covers— makes you think of the sea, makes you actually feel & cool breeze. And neutral color scatter rugs, or no rugs at all, just the bare floors sparkling clean and waxed, and the furniture | | rearranged to make the room look | | more spacious. And a few plants here | | and there, notably ferns. The blinds | drawn because light has a way of mak- | ing a place look cheerful but warm. | And you, looking cool as the pro-! verbial cucumber, a simple little shirtwaist frock in a cool green print hair swept off the face, the face it- self properly powered and very little | rouge and just a suggestion of lip- | stick. The materials you wear and sur- | round yourself with are important, | too. Woolens or heavy woven ma- terials definitely belong to the win- ter scheme, no matter how light- weight they may be. Chintzes for decorative purposes, light crepes or printed crepe for dresses are cool looking. Sating are heavy. Linens are summery. Organdies, dotted swiss, batiste, net, and chiffon, all of | these are easy on the eyes and on | one’s temperature during the Sum- mer. After all, this business of being hot id not entirely physical. It's pretty much a mental matter. And everything you can do to make your- self and those around you fall into a “cool” mood is helpful—keeps the blood pressure down to normal. My bulletin, “Laws for Looking Cool,” will cheerfully be sent to all readers inquiring for it and inclosing a self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) en- velope. 1 1. Adult book louse, greatly magnified. 2. Variety of silverfish, known as the “fire brat,” magnified. 3. Adult silverfish, often found in books and papers, magnified. 4. Common house centipede, little more than natural size. —Photos courtesy of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine of the U. §. Department of Agriculture Shirring Is Youthful < Embroidery Details Also Lend Charm to Little Girl’s Dainty Frock. BY BARBARA BELL. deal to say about what they will wear and ‘they ‘ . invariably choose a clever outfit like this with a simple and pretty dress and even more simple panties to match. Shirring in front and back accents the delicately pointed yoke that cuts Formal Cards For Garden Reception When Guest of Honor Receives With Hostess. BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: Wil t{-n:“ please suggest an invitation it I may send to several hundred people to an evening party in my garden in honor of the members of a local club? I would like to make sure that they reply and as well that some mention of the date to which the party will be postponed in case of rain. Can this all be included on the invitation, and if so, will you please write the proper wording? Answer: Have invitations engraved: Mrs. John Henry Black requests the pleasure of (name to be written in) company on Tuesday the twenty- eighth of July from 8 until 10 o'clock 23 Hillcrest Road to meet the members of the X Club. The favor of an In case of rain answer is re- the party will be quested. postponed until (add date). * x % x Dear Mrs. Post: At & formal re- ception recently many of the. guests merely bowed to the receiving line and others shook hands. What is the \ I3 l4 customary procedure, or, as at this reception, isn't there any? Answer: At aftermoon receptions one usually shakes hands. At a ball one always bows. A Dear Mrs. Post: Will you explain just when a party is large enough for the hostess to receive with the guest of honor? I've been to some really large parties where she re- ceived rather informally and the guest, whom the people were invited to meet, was sitting elsewhere in the room. Then again, at other parties both hostess and guest of honor stood and actually “received.” Answer—I would say that a party of 50 is the smallest one at which the hostess and guest of honor would be likely to stand side by side receiv- ing. If there are fewer people than this, the guest of honor would sit or stand near the hostess so that the latter could easily take strangers to her and introduce her. If the room is very small for 50 who arrived together, it would be better for the guest of honor to stand next to her hostess. ® x * % Dear Mrs. Post: I am a widower and would like to give a dinner—the first one since I've been a widower, which has been for many years. A lady, whom I hope to marry some time, but who will be a stranger to most of the other guests, is to be the guest of honor. Should I seat her opposite my place, or at my right? Answer.—The only place to seat this lady is on your right. The proper person to put in the seat opposite you is she whom you know longest, who has been most often to your house— possibly & relative of your wife or, best of all, a relative of your own. In other words, the opposite place is for the lady ‘'Who assumes the role of hostess; the one on your ‘t me‘s'. of honor. temporary right is for the (Copy¥ight, 103§.) EE moderns have a great | | embroidery adds distinetion. in one with the sleeves to lighten mother's sewing, while deinty floral Best of all, there are two patterns for the price of one, for it includes cunning knickers, so neat for small people, and wearable with this or other frocks. The little knickers are cut in one piece and held in place by an elastic inserted in the hem at upper edge and bottom. Small daughter will love this set and look adorably sweet in it. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1896-B is available for sizes: 2, 4 and 6. Size 4 requires 2% yards of 39-inch ma- terial. Every Barbara Bell pattern in- cludes an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell pattern book. Make yourself attrac- tive, praétical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the 100 Bar- bara Bell, well-planned, easy-to- make patterns. Interesting and ex- clusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slender- izing, well-cut patterns for the ma- ture figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons, and other patterns for special occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell pattern book. BARBARA BELL, ‘WASHINGTON STAR. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1896-B. Name ........... Address o loeeeeeeceemneaan (Wrap coins securely in paper.) O More Built-Up Heels. The build-up heel continues to gain | ground in future footwear fashions. Now largely used on smart spectator sports shoes as well as on shoes de- signed for walking and active sports, it has been accepted on the basis of |\ . 3 ¢ Recording The Years Good Idea Family ‘Bookkeeping’ | Compiles Fine Documents. BY ANGELO PATRIL OOKXEEPING goes with business’ and there is no more important business in life than rearing a family. A new book should be opened at the birth of each child and a faithful record of his growth, behavior and important experiences set down. This sounds like a lot of work, but even busy mothers can do it once they determine to make the effort. In a few minutes after bedtime, the few minutes of quiet every mother has, | the record for the day can be made. The book ought to be sturdily bound and have leaves enough to allow for some 20 years of recording. As each day's record is brief, this is not im- possible. The books should be kept in a secret place and the children should not know of their existence. It would not be good for an adoles- cent, perhaps, to read what his mother thought of him when he was 3, and a WOMEN’S FEA TURES. A—15 nic Housekeepers Dix Says Worthless and D D moral, but a man who just EAR MISS DIX: What should | can't make a living and support her a woman do who is married | |or can’t even support himself? He There Is No Remedy to a man who is kindly and | | isn't especially lazy, just has no initia- along. What is a wife to do with a husband like that when she knows he will never be different? Should she divorce him and marry some man who would give her a decent living? Or should she just stick to her bad bargain? What hope is there for her? NOLAND. Answer—There isn't anv hepe for her in her husband and the sooner she recognizes the fact and adjusts her life to_meet it, the better for her. It is a better thing for a woman to realize that the man to whom she is married is a weakling who cannot do a man’'s part in the world and provide fooling herself into believing that somehow, someway, he will change into a go-getter. He never will. He can't, just be- cause it isn't his nature to. Inef- ficiency is bred into his very bones, and why some people can never do anything just right; why their judg- ment is always al fault and they always make the wrong decision in every mat- ter; why they always get cheated in every trade they make; why they are always just too late to get the job they have applied for; why they will work like beavers at something in which there is no profit, and be simply inval- uable at a picnic or church supper and be worthless in a store or office, nobody knows. It is just that they are, and their wives have to accept them on that basis. | * %k x WHI‘:I‘HER a wife should divorce a husband merely because he can't make a living is a problem beyond my ability to solve, because there are so | many angles to the situation. Cer- | tainly no one could contend that she is under any obligation to starve with him. Still more certainly she commits | a crime if she brings children into the world to whom she cannot give de- cent food and shelter and education. But there are men who cannot make money, yet who are so tender and understanding and devoted that they feed their wives' souls on angels’ food | even if their stomachs lack bread. What a wife does with this sort of | a husband is so manifestly her own af- | fair that no outsider dare interfere. | Many a woman loves such a husband well enough to support him and to | think herself lucky in having him. to be better nate than | Men, somehow, scem sports about the no-account women are. There are thou thcusands of men who are ma trifling women who make husbands get up and get their cwn breakfasts while they lie abed and snooze of mornings; who are too lazy to keep themselves clean; who never make the | then what she thought of him when | he was 9. Adolescents are sensitive and likely to get their feelings bruised on hard facts, especially hard facts of record. ‘The book records the date of the child’s birth and anythi about it that the mother cares to down for the child to read, in later years. Then his feeding formulas, if any, and their | changes. The date and the emotions that heralded the first tooth. The first word should be recorded and the cir- cumstances, also the first step. A de- scription of his clothes is always in order and afforas delight to the grown- up child whose record and special property this book becomes. Especially should the mother record her feelings, her joy, anger, fear, hope that centers in the child. This will be a great source of strength for the young mother who reads it and sees reflected there the same experiences she undergoes from day to day. It will help her to keep up her courage when she finds that after all the naughti- ness, the willfulness, and the wrong- doing of childhood and adolescence, she came through a normal human being, still loved by her mother. Such a record means a great deal to the mother as she makes it from year to year, and if there are several children, one record sheds light on ihe other. Not that the children will ever be alike, they will show shades and degrees of differences over the entire scale, but always there will be a fundamental likeness. All children have hungers, all have ways of satis- fying them. The pattern they weave | as they set about this business of liv- ing is what we call behavior, and this varying behavior with its queer simi- larities becomes a basis for the moth- er’s understanding of Rer family. ‘We all forget much of what hap- pens and when occasion comes to remember we make mistakes. Often in considering children a correct record of their growth and experiences helps parents to make sound decisions. An experience with one child often helps to interpret an experience with an- other. and the record furnishes a cor- rect recital of the matter in question. Memory cannot play tricks with the written word. Nor can emotion alter the facts. ‘When such a book can be handed a daughter when she is setting out to establish her own family there is true cause for congratulation. And the times comes when the books for the boys can be passed on with ad- vantage. . A family record becomes a priceless inheritance, worth all the trouble it took to make it. (Copyright, 1936.) ‘tive, no pep, no faculty of getting| for his family, but she only wastes | time if he is that type of man, in be- | for a Fundamentally reamy Husband. effort to cook a decent.meal and whose houses are like pigstys, yet who go along putting up with this slackness and without ever dragging them into the divorce courts. Yet every man should like to have a tidy, thrifty wife who was a good cook and a good man=- ager just as much as every woman would like to have a husband who was a good provider. Rk ¥ UT the one certain thing in all this welter of doubt about what to do about the no-account husband is for the wife to face the situation squarely | and realize that somebody in the fam- {ily has to work, somebody has to sup- | port the household, and if her hus- | band won't do it, she must do it. | No use in deluding herself with opti- mistic hopes that something will turn up, or John will get into something, or Uncle Tom or Cousin Peter will make a place for John. Nothing of the sort is going to happen. John isn't going to win a sweepstake and he isn’t going to work. No earthly power could hold him to a job. So it is up to the wife to fit herself for some occupation by which she can make a living for them both. * 5. EAR MISS DIX: To what extent should a mother expect or de- mand financial aid from her children? y mother is in splendid health and when my father died he left her a iarge house, a new car and $15,000 in cash. In a year's time not a cent was left and neither house nor car. She started a business of her own and | should be doing very well, but she is | always demanding money, sometimes | as much as $500 at a time. If I can- | not furnish it she has tantrums and says I am not a good son. She bor- rows from every one and holds up my sisters and brothers, too, and refuses to account for any of the money we give her. The problem is becoming a terrific strain, draining my savings to the dregs. What shall I do? WORRIED SON. Answer.—1 thing you are foolish to let yourself be impoverished by a spendthrift mother. If you don't stop her demands upon you, you will ruin your entire life and be nothing but a slave who toils to supply the insa- tiable demands of a wasteful woman. Stiffen up your backbone and have a showdown with her. Tell her that if she is in real need you will pay her board in some comfortable hotel or boarding house and that you will give her a definite amount of spending money, but that you will not lend her another cent. nor will you pay any bills that she may contract. That will save you and be best for her because she s really getting no good out of the money she throws away. It is 2 son's duty to see that his es not want. but it is not his duty to ruin elf for a mother who is a gold-digger and who loves him so little that she is merciless in her demands upon him DOROTHY DIX. Gourmet’s Guide for the Hostess BY LUCIE “PEPPEED Beef!” Just as pep- pery and sharp as it sounds, too. A brand-new type of meat for your cold cut platter. Pungent and | spicy, it brings a reviving taste sen- sation to our indifferent palate. The meat looks very much like the ordi- nary pressed beef i bulk. It is d paper thin for you and is sold The flavor is achieved through the curing process. The out- side of the meat is thickly covered with a peppery sauce at intervals dur- ing the smoking and curing. This penetrates into the meat, giving it its | sharp and spicy flavor. There is very | little fat to this cut, so there is no | waste. You'll surely want to order some for the family—or for your next buffet supper. Be prepared though, and order plenty, because there will be second helpings to provide for—and maybe even a third! Use the meat also as filling for rye bread sand- wiches, or cut into thin strips, roll and fasten with toothpicks for a novel canape. * x k% sl sli by the pound. | ¢¢] JOCHSCHINKEN" is another new | item that has just arrived at the cold cut counter. If you are fa- | miliar with German, you will trans- |late the foregoing to mean *smoked ham or pork.” It is called ham be- | cause it looks very much like our all- American boiled ham. It happens, however, to be pork loin, rolled and | | smoked German style. Coming from Milwaukee, where it originated, it | brings to us just at the right time a bit of welcome variety in our “ham line.” Sold by the pound and sliced sliver-thin. Perfect as an appetizer | snack as well as a cold cut and sand- | wich filling. “Philadelphia ham” is | another version of our Summer fa- vorite. It is also new, is similar to a luncheon meat loaf. and made only with different portions of ham—no other meat is combined with it. This is an ideal luncheon and sandwich meat. | L | IOTATO CHIPS are another typical Summer favorite. Those on the | reducing schedule, however, you say, must shrug their shoulders and pass this delicacy by. That is true, per- | haps, if you are thinking of the reg- ular variety, but—we have found a new kind that is called the “greaseless i non-fattening” chip. Dry and crisp as | paper, and oh, so tasty. The potato | slices are fried by a special process to | .| & delicious shade of brown and each | To Wash Chamois. Your smart chamois sports jackets and gloves will wash as soft and pliant as when new if you put a little glycerine in the last rinsing water. The glycerine will act to absorb and retain enough moisture to keep the chamois from drying out stiff and hard. Remember, too, the water in which you wash chamois must be just hot enough for the hand to bear comfortably. - chip is uniform in color. Each is cooked just the right length of time and thoroughly drained of all grease. Order them by the pound! (They come in bulk.) The merchant who is | EBEELY. | featuring them gets a fresh supply daily, sometimes twice a day—as they are fast becoming popular. Don't limit them to the supper table—serve them as appetizer tidbits or snacks with cold beverages at the bridge table. Another crisp for Summer entertain- ing are delectable celery pretzel sticks which look exactly like the dutch pretzels—being knotty and rough—but taste entirely dif PXCKLE’S‘ relish and mustard are three essentials in the hot- weather cuisine. Little burr gherkins make you cool even to look at them, and those crisp sliced cucumber pickles are real appetite teasers. Mustard pickles are the perfect complement to the cold meat cut ensemble and al- ways a masculine favorite. Little pickled onions, sharp and spicy, are | equally popular. Any of these may be bought by the quart, pint or half pint. The merchant who specials them, and many others, has been established in Washington many, many years, and claims that grand- mother, and even great-grandmama, favored his father with their patron- age in the old horse and buggy days. That was before the carton and paper bag era and customers had to bring their own little pickle jars to be filled to carry home! Aside from find- ing a complete assortment of pickles— you will find homemade mustard— German_style—on the counter. P o Norwegian sardines are delicious, nourishing, useful in many ways. Always have some on hand. Deli- cately smoked, packed in pure olive cil. Buy some today.