Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1936, Page 31

w OMEN'S FEATURES. % Lovely Centerpieces Are Easily Arranged, Using Them as a Base “Horn of Plenty” Effect May Be Obtained by Old Farmer’s Hat Spilling Out Goo BY BETSY CASWELL. Tfl! Thanksgiving party table is one of the easiest of all to decorate appropriately. The sentiments the products of the “harvest home” so colorful and ornamental in their own right, that the hostess has a wealth of decorative material from which to choose. For instance, what could be prettier than a golden pumpkin, hollowed out, and fllled with a profusion of< washed and polished fruits and vege- tables? Picture the rich purple of the eggplant, the cool green of cu- cumbers, the vivid red of peppers, the mauve-white of turnips, the or- ange of persim- mons, the pale yellow of grape- truit—all in gay contrast to the somber hue of & great bunch of black hothouse grapes! Red and yellow leaves should be massed about the pump- kin. If your ta- ble is to be very long one, smaller pumpkins, also filled, could be placed at intervals down the middle. A simple wooden bowl—like a salad ‘bowl—may be heaped with fruits and vegetables in the same way. Unless you have tried using vegetables for decorative purposes before, you have no idea how unusual and charming they can be. An old farmer's hat, tilted on one side, with “garden truck” falling out of it in approved horn of plenty fashion, makes a nice arrange- ment for a long buffet table set against the wall. Don't forget the colorful ears of popcorn, the odd squashes, the withered black branches with tiny orange wild persimmons clinging to them, the ruby globules of cranber- ries and the bright orange of cum- quats to fill .in chinks and crevices here and there. * ok ok ok HE traditional epergne, dripping grapes, and supporting & mound of brightly polished fruits with nuts and raisins tucked in all available gaps, still has its supporters in many homes where the customs of Thanks- giving have not been allowed to fade k : Betsy Caswell Manners of the Moment E'VE been wrestling with the prob- : lem of people who refuse to shove over when we want a seat. We've decided that there’s just about one way to deal with them—and that's muscularly. They sit themselves down eomfortably in the exact middle of a space large enough for two. And then they get so interested in the latest kidnap story that you can’t attract their attention by coughing, by kick- ng their shins or by speaking haugh- tily. They are oblivious. The only guccessful method we've discovered yet of getting & seat beside them is to sit down gingerly on the edge and then push. Usually that shoves them over. Once in a while they wake up long enough to grunt and move an inch of their own accord. But it's surprising how far you can push them without their knowing it. Sometimes there are people like that @t parties. They sit in the middle of e love seat and get so involved in a discussion of Proust or something that you can't make them see that you'd like & seat. If you can summon up the courage to say “Would you mind moving over a bit?” that's quite a nice way of doing it. But we're in favor of pushing ourselves in when we can’t make ourselves heard. After all the world owes us a seat, if there's one around. JEAN. (Copyright, 1936.) At last ‘we are keeping our E | come in proper colors and shapes to ¥ |modern school and wish your table d Things. - of the season are so well defined, and 'm any detail. After the feast the diners demolish the centerpiece by using it for a last—and by no means least—course. The shops are full of little turkey favors, as usual, with appropriate place cards and so forth. Candies | suit the occasion, and much may be done with these “boughten” aids to | create the real Thanksgiving atmos- phere, | However, you may be of a very to be as formal and uncluttered on Thanksgiving as it is for any other dinner party. (And, after having lived through many years of “bounti- ful” Thanksgiving dinners with tables |to match, I am almost inclined to lend this attitude my support) In this case flowers, fruit and vegetables | may still be used, only with restraint |and in moderation. | * x X = | Y©OU might, for instance, depend- ing on the general decor of your | | dining room and table, choose a large | center plaque of deep blue mirror glass. On this a shallow copper bowl, | filled with gardenias surrounding' & | great and very perfect bunch of black hothouse grapes. ~ Or set a bubble | globe in red leaves and float within | it one or two enormous bronze chrys- anthemum heads. Or try an ar- | rangement in a pure white bowl of small polished eggplants, yellow | squash and red peppers topped with a purple and yellow lady slipper. The combination of the simple vege- | tables and the exotic bloom is de- | lightfully arresting. | If you intend having “all the fam- |ily” for the great feast, which will | include the youngsters, perhaps they ! will have their special table in one end of the dining room. If so, they must, of course, have their own fancy | centerpiece. For them I suggest the | one pictured, a gay pumpkin charfot drawn by three prancing turkeys. Here is how it is done: Carve the pumpkin in the shape of a chariot, with one side cut low and the back high. Remove the seeds and as much of the pumpkin meat as possible without impairing the shell. Fill with oranges, pears, ap- ples and grapes. Rest the “fruit- filled chariot” on four ~oranges to represent wheels. Using ribbons (three yards are plenty) for reins, | harness three fat turkeys made from oranges to the carriage They are made as follows: Cut fan-shaped tail and side wings | of cardboard or stiff paper. This may | be black or brown or colored with | crayon. FPasten tail on one end of | orange with three common pins; | fasten wings with pins also. Run & toothpick diagonally through | a date from one end so that it comes | out near center of date. The tooth- pick end is stuck into orange to form neck of turkey. From another date | | cut a wedge-shaped piece and usmni to top of turkey's neck, slanting | downward, to make beak. Legs of toothpicks support the | “fat, juicy” turkey. (A third tooth- pick is added at rear to keep him well balanced.) . Hats Have Double Brims. Two are better than one this sea- son, which means that thick edges nd double effects are being featured | again and are the more interesting through a play of color. Berets, tur- bans and brims are developed with | the idea of calling attention to bor- der or edge, by thick coils of contrast- ing hues, by two or three-ply sec- tions, or in the case of brims by & definite double idea, laying one brim on another. ‘You see, we did an oval center plece promise. with s pattern of a basket of flowers not so long ago. ‘That was our No. §22. It was really very popular, and then so many asked for a buffet set to match that we made 373. Since then we've been asked for a runner or scarf for the serving make one, but somehow things came or center table, to round out the set, and we promised that we would along and it had to be put off. Now, finally, we've managed it, and here it is. Crocheted in mercerized crochet cotton No. 30, it measures 16 inches might be made of filet crochet, it could be done with with the filet border acting as an edging running basket of flowers just and, though the whole thing & ceénter section of linen, along the sides, and the ACross; as end panels. The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-follow block-and-space diagram and illustrated and how much you will need. To obtain this pattern, send for No. 304 and or coin to cover service and postage. set, send for Nos. 323, 373 and 394 and inclose 45 cents. Address orders Needlework Editor of The Evening Star. by directions; also what crochet hook and what material inclose 15 cents in stamps nmm‘theutwulumm | all through their school years. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1936. These gay orange turkeys, apparently hauling the pumpkin chariot along by slender ribbons, will prove a welcome center arrangement for the youngsters’ special table on Thanksgiving day. Problems of Younger Generation More Personal Free- dom Is Demand of Today. BY ANGELO PATRL A YOUNG girl of today is beset by many problems. Girls of the older day had theirs, it is true, but they did not have the complicated lives of the present-day girls, and so their solutions came easier. Many of the girls in the upper grades of the high schools come from homes where the fathers and mothers have sacrificed much to make homes for them and to malnfain them in better circumstances than they knew. Many of these fathers and mothers have carried along the principles of conduct that guided their lives in their youth. They do their best to impose those principles upon their modern children and there is consequent un- rest and unhappiness in these homes. The upper class girls, ready to be graduated, have associated with boys They have worked and played side by side with them and their parents did not notice any untoward influence one had upon the other. But the time came when the dances attracted the girls and the boys. Afternoon dances, then the evening dances under the supervision of the school. The girls wanted to go with the boys and the parents were frightened. Girls did not do that 25 years or so ago. That could not be done. “No, no, Marie. You cannot go to a dance with a boy. Well, if your brother will go along with you I'll let you go this time.” “Who? Me? Why should I have to tag along with her? Let her go along with George or stay home. I'm mot " By and by, after much coaxing and persuasion and bribing, brother con- sents to go along. The dance does not begin until half after nine, the band does not play Home Sweet Home until 12:30, and the girl, her escort and her brother do not reach home until after one. Father is incensed and shouts, “Never again.” I want to make a plea for the hap- piness as well as the safety of this young girl. How much thought have her parents given the situation? For instance, how did father and mother come to know each other and to be- come the parents of this girl? Some- body trusted somebody, that is cer- tain. How much training for per- sonal responsibility have the parents given this girl? Is she not responsi- ble for her behavior? When is she going to be? What sort of associates does she have? Are they dangerous or are they just as well trained, just as intelligent and just as responsible as the girl herself? 1t is well to safeguard children, but there is a limit to safety in this world. Shutting girls up in the house, for- bidding them the normal playtimes, the normal associations with boys, only makes their situation dangerous. The normal interest in boys becomes heightened, the acceptance of social restrictions are broken down in an ef- fort to escape confinement. Far bet- ter to accept such social development as this interest in boys discloses than to try to amother it by prohibitions. Know your children. Know the children they associate with. Prepare them for personal responsibility, and then hope for the best. Mr. Patri will give personal atten- tion to inquiries from parents and school teachers on the care and de- velopment of children. Write him in care of this paper, enclosing a three- cent stamped, self-addressed envelope | Clips continue to lead in favor, but bracelets are listed as the item of the New Surprise Trimming Brilliant Detail in Wool Yarn Adds Charm to Daytime Dress. BY BARBARA BELL. ND what a pleasant surprise this daytime frock for 14 to 42 turned out to be! Al through the brilliant detail of using a bright and cheery wool yarn to outline a few seams. The sporty cut of the model is smart enough, but that little trick of a running stitch in a heavy yarn lifts it into even higher favor. It sews like a song, too, with three simple front panels and practically a one-plece back (once you've attached the waist and yoke) and gay princess sleeves to finish it all off triumphantly. Here's a hint: Use a purchased belt that matches the yarn or the fabric to properly ex- ploit the peppy sport effect of the whole frock. ‘With so many novelty woolens on the market you should have no trou- ble finding one that goes well with yarn. Or try a knit woolen jacquard or even velveteen. . Barbara Bell pattern No. 1205-B is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42, Corresponding bust measure- ments 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. With short sleeves size 16 (mflm‘fllfl 4%, yards of 39-i ma . Send 15 cents :::hfiu Fall Barbara Bell pattern book. Make yourself at- tractive, and becoming BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coirn. or pattern No. 1205-B. Size Name ... Address . ...... (Wrap colns securely in paper.) ture figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons and other patterns for spe- cial occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell pattern book. “Sweeten it with Domino’ Refined SA Crystallized b Adant Proces: The Aristc rats of Sugar Tricks of Retouching With Rouge Shading and Coloring Often ‘“Change” Features. BY BLSIE PIERCE. THE optical illusions that many women effect are nothing short of magic. Optical illusions in the line of their clothes, that make them look pounds thinner or heavier as the scales require. Optical illusion in make-up tricks that make a round face-look more oval, & thin face more round, eyes seem larger, deeper and 80 on. Make-up at its best should do two things. It should enhance nature's own coloring. And it should tend to send feature defects into the back- ground by the simple medium of em- phasizing the good points. Your make-up should make the most of your beauty. It should do for you what a clever sculptor would do to your features if he were model- ing your face in clay; or what a clever artist would do if he were painting your portrait, or a photographer when retouching your photograph. Suppose, for instance, that your face is round. You apply your rouge with a light hand, you blend the color blending the color downward into the full part of the cheek you create an illusion of length. By blending to- ward the nose you lessen the high light at the center of the face and make it look more oval. ’ Again, suppose your face is very thin. Apply the rouge high on the cheek bone. Blend it outward. Keep the color away from the nose and the center of the face. By applying the rouge out on the full part of the cheek the eye is carried outward and there you have the illusion of width. If there are hollows in your cheeks avoid rouge there as it will only em- phasize the hollow. If the cheek bones are high, avoid rouge there also. Place the color be- low the cheek bones and blend down- ward, When I say blend downward this does not mean that rouge is to be placed low on the face. Avoid doing Pthat. Tt tends to “pull down,” giv- ing an old, haggard look. Women with sagging muscles siould be par- ticularly careful to keep the rouge high on the face to avoid calling the eye’s attention to the contour. (Copyright, 1936,) Apple Dessert. Prepare apples in the usual way for stewing, place in a pie dish with sugar to taste and the strained juice of a lemon. Cover the top ‘with fine stale bread crumbs, moisten with a little water and dot the top with small pieces of butter. Bake until the fruit is soft and the crumbs on top nicely browned. Serve with a hot sauce made with brown sugar and water, or & hard sauce. END oup THANKSGIVING DINNER ROQUEFORT CHEESE Ideal for cocktail canapes . the perfect last course ) GUARANTEED BY THE RED SHEEP down and in toward the nose. By| ---WOMEN'S FEATURES, B—9 Fruits and Vegetables Lead in Dressing the Table for the Great Day To Delight the Children at the Feast - |Gourmet’s Guide Finds Some Last-Minute Aids No Need to Despair if Additional Guests Turn Up Unexpectedly at Zero Hour. BY LUCIE EBERLY. UPPOSE you have just heard that you'll be having last minute out-of- town guests dropping in on you Thursday, and you have ordered only one turkey from the butcher! Cheer up! No need to be worried at all because your problem can be simply solved. All you need do is put in a telephone call and ordey, your extra turkey delivered to your door on Thanks- giving day already cooked! This special service has been featured for about three years, and will be again this. year. Whatever size bird you will need— small, medium or large, stuffed with any kind of dressing you prefer— chestnut, peanut, oyster or just plain old-fashioned bread filling—can be ordered. Only a minimum charge for the cooking is added to the original cost of the turkey. Giblet gravy comes with every order, This service should not only be in- teresting to the harassed hostess who needs an extra supply of turkey, but to kitchenette housekeepers and bachelors who have been lamenting that there will be no turkey carcass in their refrigerator to pick on during mid- night prowlings! * x ¥ X% LAST minute feast-day shoppers would also do well if they visited some of the stores and markets that pride themselves on supplying good cooked things for busy housekeepers. Cooked cranberry sauce, or nice firm cranberry jelly, delicious homemade rolls and bread—old-fashioned salt- | rising bread—and bread dough shaped into rolls and bread loaves already to push into the oven to bake for dinner (thereby providing honest-to- goodness hot bread fresh from the oven), luscious mincemeat and pump- kin pies, plum pudding and hard sauce, mixed vegetable salad or tomato aspic, clear or with grated vegetables. Delicious beaten biscuits made by a recipe 100 years old, dark fruit cake, heavy with fruits and nuts; rich golden pound cake that is so good with ambrosia, the seasonal dessert. Mo- lasses cookies and gingerbread, all kinds of dainty tea wafers and cookies, large fresh coconut layer cakes and small cupcakes. Rabbit and squab pies that need only to be reheated to serve as a holiday buffet supper or luncheon treat, fresh country sausage and genuine country scrapple, cooked hominy, oven baked Boston beans and Boston brown bread. Homemade candies—fudge, caramels, divinity, peanut brittle and old-fashioned molasses taffy, These are among the carry home for your feasting! * % ok x OP COURSE you will want to have a cooked ham in the house! | With all the young folk running in after the theater or dance for a mid- night or early morning repast! ‘Whether it be just a plain baked ham or the traditional Virignia “Smith- field” you will be wanting, remember | that both can be purchased already cooked. (A half a ham may be bought as readily as a whole, since many merchants have at last realized that a whole ham goes a-beggin’ now- adays in the average family and are |only too glad to accommodate the Dorothy grand array of tasty items you can < ! enterprising housekeeper who still desires to give the family a treat.) The hams sold by one merchant are cooked and prepared by a gen- uine Virginian recipe. The meat is deliciously moist and the flavor per- fect. * % x x ANOTHE:R eleventh-hour shopping tip! If you are wondering what to send your gracious hostess on Thanksgiving day why not consider one of those beautiful fruit baskets that are now being featured by sev- eral of our downtown merchants? The baskets will be delivered any- where in town, filled with your choice of fresh fruits, dried figs, raisins, | dates and other holiday delicacies. A shimmering sheet of cellophane covers the entire basket and a lovely | flufly ribbon bow graces the handle. Surely nothing could be more appro- priate! Don't limit the gift to your | hostess though. “Aunt Sue” might ! be pleased with such a colorful gift, too, and the sick-a-bed person ma- }rooned at the hospital would be thrilled with such a Thanksgiing | day greeting to feast the eyes if not the “tummy!” | If you don't think fruit baskets | would appeal to the recipient, then | why not send a box of those luscious caramels that one of our well-known | caterers makes? Packed in 1, 2 and 5 pound boxes, the caramels are made with rich cream, and chocolate and stuffed with a cream filling. Orders for these sweets come from epicures all over the world. You have really missed a treat if you haven't tasted them. * % x % {"THE nut bowl must be generously filled. If you are looking for mammoth paper-shell pecans we will be glad to tell you where you may find some. Also the giant walnuts, paper-shell, that come from the West Coast. Fancy almonds and hazel nuts have also been received in new ship ments. Any of the above will be shelled i to order for you. Blatk walnut meat, too, freshly shelled daily, can be bought by the pound. Dried fruits are as important as nuts to make the menu complete. You will find dried raisins, the extra fancy {ones, both black and white, seeded, at almost any specialty shop. Large black mission figs, as well as freshly dried California ones, and real smyrnas from Greece are all tasty. Fresh pitted dates, stuffed or plain; dried fancy apricots, prunes and peaches, all go to make a good selece tion and are an integral part of the Thanksgiving dinner—the big feast ! that “comes but once a year!" Dix Says | successful singer and am en- | gaged to be married. If I marry I wish to continue my | career, but my fiance objects. Thinks not continue my career I don't think I will be happy, because I am very ambitious. How can I make him understand that all women cannot be happy with just a husband and home? I am sure that most women would be far happier if they didn't invest all of their happiness in their | husbands and homes, because when we depend on one thing to make us disappoint us. ETHEL M. T am afraid you will find that you cannot have your cake and eat it, too, and that you will have to decide which you care most for—your man or your ambition. Alas, for women careers and marriage no more mix than oil and water for the very conclusive rea- son that no woman can make & suc- cess of being in two places at the same time and holding down two jobs, each one of which takes all of the time and energy and intelligence she possesses. * x x ¥ A MAN may marry and add the inspiration of a wife and the comforts of a home to his career. In fact, if a man marries the right sort of a woman, she helps him to succeed. But when a woman marries, the case is entirely different. She is handicapped by her household duties, child-bearing, by her husband ex- pecting her to be as good a house- keeper and as much of a companion to him as if she had no outside in- ILL NEED DURKEES FOR OVER THE HOLIDAY.IT'S IDEAL FOR SANDWICHES AND COLD CUTS. By D DURKEE’ famous dressing and MEAT SAUCE it will ruin our happiness. If I can-| happy it will often sooner or later | Careers and Marriages Are Hard to Mix Successfully. EAR MISS DIX—I am a rather terest. He resents the calls her ca- reer make upoh her. He becomes Jealous of her success, and infuriated at being called Mr. Mary Smith and being known only as his wife’s hus- band. | Nor can you blame the man. A man marries to have a home, children, a wife's society and to be the center of | their little world. He wants to come 3 home at night to a wife who is fresh |and rested and willing to entertain | him, not to one who is so worn out with | her work outside of the home that she is too peevish to be spoken to. He doesn’t want a wife who is away from home half the time gadding around the country singing or lecturing, or | who has to leave her own, sick baby |to go doctor somebody else's ailing child. Nor does he want a wife who telephones at the last minute that she won't be home for dinner because she is taking a buyer from Oshkosh out to a party. Perhaps these things shouldn’t be, but they are. 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