Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1936, Page 59

w OMEN’S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘More Good Things That Can Come Out of < Special Hon ey Cakes And Holiday Cookies Always Appropriate Old-Fashioned Favorites Never Lose Their Charm, in Spite of Many Revivals. BY BETSY CASWELL. from where we left off yesterday when space rang down the curtain. Cookies are always prime favorites, and several varieties of them TODAY ‘we take up our story of Christmas gifts produced in the kitchen are, through custom, always making these tempting sweets I woul wonderful new metal cookie presses th connected with Christmas time. In d advise you to invest in one of the at turns out the little cakes in artistic and beautiful shapes—with no troubles: o on your part! These presses are also good for doing fancy frosting, and come with a great number of different appli- cators to vary the designs. Let's get off to e flying start with that tradi- tional sweet, be- loved by old and young— CHRISTMAS COOKIES. 2 cups yellow sugar. 1, cup strained honey. 3 cup butter. 114 ounces citron, ground very fine. 2% cups flour. 1 tablespoon baking powder. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 1, teaspoon cloves. 1, teaspoon nutmeg. 1 egg. Juice and rind one lemon (small). 2 tablespoons milk. Add the sugar to the honey and cook until the sugar is dissolved. Add the butter and let mixture cool. Mix and sift the spices and baking powder with the flour. Add, with other in- gredients, to the honey. Add just enough more flour to make mixture easy to handle. Roll one-fourth inch thick and cut with fancy cookie cut- ters or use press. Bake in greased pans in moderate oven for about nine minutes. Pack, when cool, in tin box lined with waxed paper. PFEFFERNEUSSE. 1 pint corn syrup. 1 pint molasses. 12 pound shortening. 1, pound brown sugar. 212 pounds flour. 1 teaspoon soda. Betsy Caswell. Manners Q= Put on a fainting act when you want your evening wrap in a hurry. WE'VE been work on the problem * of how to get our evening wraps after one of those big formal dances, without waiting for hours and hours while every one in front of us carries on a long post-mortem of the party. | At last we have a solution. ‘We offer you the faint. Fainting hasn’'t been in use for so long that we feel it could be brought back right now with effect. Choose a couple | of nice, wide, soft backs—women who | seem to be standing solidly in one | spot, with all the appearance of re- | maining there for an hour. (They | will be between you and the coat | racks, so you'll have to startle them | into moving somehow.) Place your- | self in such a position that if you | fall backwards you will fall on them. | Then close your eyes, put an innocent expression on your face, and faint. Be sure that your coat check is in your hand where any one can find it. Then all you have to do is to stay fainted until some one comes with your coat. JEAN. 2 teaspoons cinnamon. 1 teaspoon nutmeg. % pound citron, chopped fine. 3 pound chopped almonds. Juice and rind of 1 lemon. ‘Warm the syrup, and add the short- |ening. Add the lemon juice. Add | molasses, sugar, soda (sifted with the flour), flour, citron, cinnamon, nut- meg, almonds and lemon rind. Roll, when well blended, into little round balls, brush with white of egg, and bake in moderate oven until brown. Pack as directed. MUERBE. 1 pound butter. 112 cups sugar. 6 cups flour. 3 whole raw eggs. 3 hard cooked egg yolks. Rind and juice !2 lemon. Cream the butter and the sugar, then add the cooked egg yolks,"which have been rubbed through a sieve. Beat the raw eggs lightly, and add them alternately with the flour. Mix well. Add the lemon juice and rind. Roll out te -inch thickness, and | cut in rounds. Sprinkle with chopped | almonds mixed with lemon, sugar and | cinnamon. Bake in a moderate oven, | in greased tins, for about fifteen minutes. COCONUT DROP COOKIES. 1 pound powdered sugar. 4 eggs. 12 pound coconut. 3 teaspoons baking powder. 1%, cups flour. Beat the eggs until light. Add the sugar. Beat again. Mix the baking powder and the sugar and add them. Stir in slowly shredded coconut. Drop by spoonsful on well buttered pans, rather far apart. Bake in a moderate oven for about fifteen minutes. Pack in a covered jar. CHRISTMAS HONEY CAKES. 3 ounces citron. 3 ounces candied orange peel. 3 ounces candied grapefruit peel. 1 cup chopped blanched almonds. 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind. 3 tablespoons cinnamon. 1}z tablespoons cloves. 31 cups powdered sugar. 6 eggs. 1 pint strained honey. 1 tablespoon soda. % cup orange juice. 6 cups flour. Cut the fruit peel into small pieces and combine. Mix it with the al- monds, lemon rind, cinnamon, cloves and sugar. Add the eggs, beaten until light. Bring the honey to the boiling point and then cool until luke- warm. Add it to mixture. Dissolve the soda in 2 tablespoons hot water, and add it with the honey. Add orange juice. Sift and stir in the flour, blending thoroughly. Let it stand 12 hours or more. The mixture should be stiff emough to roll easily; more flour may be added if necessary. Roll out on a floured board to -inch thickness. Cut into squares. Place squares on a greased tin, and bake in a moderate oven. When cool, dec- orate with lemon icing, made as follows: Whip 2 egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff. Add sifted powdered sugar—enough to make the icing the proper consistency to spread—and the grated rind and juice of 1 lemon. | Mix well, and spread over the cake squares. PRUNE SPICE CAKE. 1 cup sugar, sifted. 3 cup shortening. 2 eggs. 1% cups sifted cake flour. 1 cup prune pulp. 1Y, teaspoons soda. 1Y, teaspoons cinnamon. 12 teaspoon cloves. Y2 cup sour milk. 12 cup chopped nutmeats. Sift the sugar, and beat the short- ening until it 18 creamy. Add the sugar gradually, blending until light. Beat the eggs in one at a time and then beat in the prune pulp, made from one pound stewed prunes, seeded | and put through a ricer. Resift the flour with the soda, cinnamon and cloves, and add to the mixture in three parts, alternating with the milk. Beat well after each addition, and finally stir in the nutmeats. Grease a nine- inch tube pan, pour in the batter, and bake in moderate oven for about one hour, Spread the cake with any desired icing. ® ving Heart to Cause It’s Better to Teach Child Self-Control Bad Idea to Make Excuses for Il . Behavior. BY ANGELO PATRL ! Bmmo was visiting his cousin. | Things had not been going very well. Cousin Peter was 2 years older | and many years more experienced He did everything very well that Bruno did very badly. He threw a bail true and straight and far; Bruno | sent it everywhere else but the right | place. Peter could run like a streak, | Bruno panted far in the rear. Where Peter led in the games, Bruno sat on the bench and scowled darkly at the proceedings. Seeing that scowl and the hunched shoulders, the other chil- dreri left him severely to himself. None offered to share the bench, none offered a bite of his apple or the half of his gum. In the afternoon, when the visit was drawing to a close, the two boys were in the play room together and Peter was proudly displaying his new airplane. “Im going to race her next Saturday, and I bet she’ll beat every- thing in sight, said he. Then it hap- pened. Bruno snatched the plane and }wnh extraordinary accuracy of aim, | seeing that he had hit nothing he aimed at all day, sent it crashing through the window. Next day when mother could speak without choking she said to her vexed sister, Peter's mother, “I know it was dreadful of him, but I know just why he did it. You see Peter does every- thing and he feels he isn't anybody beside him, so that's why he did it. I know the reason, you see, so I can't be 50 hard on him. He felt so out of things. That's why he did it. Of course, he shouldn’t, but you can see why.” One can see that & child might feel helpless and jealous in the presence of ability greater than his own, but while that caused an outburst of tem- per, it is not the cause of the diffi- culty. The reason for a mistake goes deeper than the surface and touches the cause, which is far more forcible than any reason. A reason for weak- ness and lack of control is not enough. It cannot excuse it. It cannot cure it. To accept a child’s feeling of in- adequacy as an excuse for destructive and futile behavior is to make a very grave mistake indeed. When an 8-year-old child, rather helpless for his age, plays with a competent 10-year-old, he needs some self-control, and some appreciation of his situation. His mother, knowing his weaknesses, ought to have trained him to control his temper, deaden his Jjealousies, and direct his attention toward strengthening his own weak- nesses. And she might have taught him to cheer for the good players and hope to be in their class by and by. Good sportsmanship, the term for self-control, comes by slow stages. It must bé started early and kept to the fore throughout the formative years. We have to be careful about ac- MRS. RAYMOND T. BONNIN. (Zitkala-Sa.) Chfldf_s Snow Suit Perfect for Coasting and Tumbling in the Big White Drifts. BY BARBARA BELL. GOOD, strong snow suit solves every play problem for the rough-and-tumble girl and boy and can be worn into the first windy days of Spring. Today’s model is a simple sport style closing with a zipper in front for real pro- tection against cold and for ease in getting dressed. Sleeve and ankle close snugly with knitted bands. There’s ‘even a pattern inclosed for the cap! The jacket has raglan sleeves to give greater room for move- ment. And the knees have protecting patches for the inevitable sledding and sliding. Directions for making syspenders to hold up the trousers are included. Any strong, heavy woolen would do, closely knit so as to act as a wind-breaker. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1965-B is available for sizes 4, 6, 8, 10 and 13. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an {llustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. Send 15 cents for the Fall Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the Barbara Bell well-planned, easy-to- make patterns. BARBARA BELL, Washington Star: Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1965-B Size...... B Address ....... (Wrap colns securely in paper.) THURSDAY, DECE N ) ER 10, 1936. WOMEN'S FEATURES. D-§ the Kitchen for Christmas My Neighbor Says: Cut a few branches from the forsythia bush in your garden. Bring them into the house, place in a vase or jar of warm water and you will soon have blossoms. Hardwood fioors can be cleaired with wood slcohol, then shel- lacked and waxed, or they may be varnished and waxed. Badly- worn floors should be machine sanded all over. They may then be refinished as new wood. A delicious turnover for the lunch box is made by wrapping & strip of leftover pastry around a date that has been stuffed with crushed nutmeat and a bit of canned pineapple. ‘Wash milk bottles in pure water and do not wipe with dish towel. It is better to scald bottles in clean water and set away un- wiped to dry. (Copyright, 1936,) Toys More Charming Than Ever Old Santa’s Popular- ity Hits New High Peak. BY LUCIE EBERLY. ITH the trend leaning decidedly toward constructive and instruc- tive toys, what to give “Johnny” and little “Mary” becomes more compli- cated than ever. Mechanical toys for the boys and dolls for sister still head the list, of course, but when one sees the large display of educational play- things, miniature work sets and com- plete little sport set-ups, it's diffi- cult to choose. To delight the young feminine heart we find a clever array of play 1urpi- ture—tables and chairs, etc., just like mother’s—all in juvenile size. One of the most fascinating of all these midget pieces was a “life-size” kitchen cabinet that is equal to any culinary demand. The cabinet is one of the most complete little affairs we have ever seen—is constructed along stream lines, has shelves and drawers, a real flour bin and a condiment section. A work table is built onto the cabinet in horseshoe fashion, making a com- plete little kitchen unit. Kitchen utensils, a small electric stove and a breakfast nook ensemble consisting | of two benches and a table make the | perfect culinary department. The | stoves are equipped with heat regu- lators, just like mother's, and a real oven to bake [ittle pies and cakes makes them ever so desirable to the little miss. Electric irons and ironing boards to do up “baby’s” clothes con- tinue to be popular, and you will find this year’s models more cunning than ever. Doll carriages reflect the mod- ern streamlining, too, and are perfect replicas of the real baby carriages. this year than ever before. The “Shir- ley Temple” continues to lead, but “Mickey Mouse” is close behind, as beloved of both boys and girls. Tyrol- ian character boy and girl dolls in vivid costume dress are being featured everywhere and we were amazed to find one about 7 inches high, com- pletely clothed, even to hat and shoes, priced at the modest sum of one dol- lar! We understand these new dolls are gaining in favor and little girls are having a difficult time choosing be- tween them and the old-fashioned baby dolls. A set of six dressed in cos- tumes of different countries proves to be an educational gift as well as an amusing one. Gardening carts completely equipped with all the necessary garden tools are among the newest items to arrive. The carts come in two sizes and are two-wheeled, looking very much like fruit vendor carts. The wheels are rubber tired. Not only should these be just the thing to induce children to learn the art of gardening while playing, but should also be a perfect gift for the grown-up garden enthu- siast who likes to putter around a small town house “patch.” The tools are all of practical proportions and even pruning scissors are included in the set. Small hothouse boxes for the child are interesting, too. The set contains 12 tiny flower pots and saucers and 12 packages of flower seeds, with directions. A tiny sprink- ling can, hoe and spade completes the ensemble. Beadcraft sets seems to have staged & comeback—having been popular girl—and are attractively boxed with guide and pattern books. Midget looms, exact replicas of large ones, that enable the enterprising youngster to make colorful scarfs for dolly, and tiny table mats are proving to be good i will find the ever-popular erector and chemistry sets more fascinating than ever, Books are always popular for holi- day giving, and the juvenile book counters are piled high with colorful volumes of old favorites. Among those seen for the tiny tots was a set of three “Peter Rabbit” books, packed in a box with a toy Peter Rabbit. This should make the story reading doubly interesting to the youngsters, since the character of the beloved story is actually at hand. Electric locomotives, having ac- quired “whistling power”—tooting at the turn of the station bend, makes the train set-up just about perfect. Tricycles and coaster wagons have many new features, too—in fact, the whole toy display at local shops has made ‘it evident that old Santa's workshop has been very much on its toes during the past year injecting & goodly portion of realism into the make-believe world. Novel Cards for Money Gifts. many years ago when mother was a | sellers this year, too. For boys you | ° Feminine Descendant Of Great Sitting Bull Works for Her People Zitkala-Sa Has Done Much to Aid Tribes by Constant Writing and Lecturing in Their Behalf. BY BLANCHE SYFRET McKNIGHT. Z progress. She is in Washington not my husband and I visit my tribe nearly every Summer. There I relive my childhood days at the clan’s gatherings. My grateful people us- ually plan a feast in our honor, which always includes ‘tipsina,’ one of my favorite dishes. When I return home I bring sun-dried beef, pumpkin rings, and a string of tipsina, a tuberous plant which grows wild over the plains.” She laughed as she displayed her scanty supply of tipsina, which had been depleted by frequent raids on her exhibit stock, which is braided in long strings for display. She uses this tuber, which has been previously soaked overnight, to give a piquant flavor to a stew or soup made of dried pumpkin rings, sun-dried beef and wild rice. She says that she would prepare more Indian dishes if she could get the ingredients. * ok ok ok Hm living room in Lyon Park is Indian relics. One of her prized pos- sessions is a pipe made by a 90-year- old Indian woman and presented to her and her husband in recognition of their service for the Indians. handle is exquisitely decorated with porcupine quills. Another treasure is a gayly decorated bag which has a flap something like an envelope. Zitkala-Sa explained that in olden days the Indians made these bags of dried skins in which to store their food. Wall decorations consist of a photograph of Sitting Bull and several brightly colored rugs and blankets. Zitkala-Sa says, is like a poem to her, for each has its history and tells a story. An interesting one is a small | square with double swastikas, which, | she explained was first blessed and then presented her by a Ute chieftain | at the close of the Utes' sacred sun | dance. She showed us a princess’ robe of buckskin elaborately beaded and heav- | ily fringed, also the beaded moccasins | | that are worn with it. She wears this | native costume when giving public | lectures, also for feast occasions when i among her own people. She laughing- ly remarked that Indian women do not have to worry about changing fashions, for their dresses never go out of style. Asked if she observed | any ceremonial, her reply was in the negative, but she and her husband converse in the Sioux language in the privacy of their home. Adjoining the living room is her study, furnished with modern file cases, unobtrusive desk, typewriter Zitkala-Sa_and her husband, Capt. | Raymond T. Bonnin, also a Sioux, of Indian and French descent, study | and write constantly on behalf of | their people. | * ok x x | T ARGELY through their efforts the | *~ General Federation of Women's | Clubs acded an Indian welfare de- partment and assisted them in gain- | ing full rights of citizenship for the Dorothy decorated with many beautiful | The long | Each of these rugs, | ITKALA-SA, & Sioux princess, and a direct descendant of Sitting Bull, is one of the greatest influences today in Indian legislation and because she has broken away from her people, but because she can be of more service to them here. ‘When asked if she was ever homesick, & smile lit her kindly face, and she replied, “Oh yes; sometimes, bute American Indian. In this cause Mrs. Bonnin toured the country and gave many lectures. About 10 years ago she helped to found the National Council of American Indians and be- | came its first and, thus far, only | president. She also led the opposi- |tion fight in several States and be- fore committees in Congress for the abolition of the traffic in peyote, a | deadly drug extracted from cactus and comparable in its effects to opium. She believed this was responsible for much of the suffering among her peo- ple. Partial State regulations against | this traffic resulted from her efforts. Talking with Zitkala-Sa about her people one realizes the power of her devotion to the cause of her race; for her road has been a long and thorny one. She has met indifference and many rebuffs. Once when her heart was heavy with discouragement she dreamed she was climbing the white marble steps of the United States Capitol and suddenly a voice spoke to her. “Press on!” it said, “You are consecrated to the cause of your peo- ple! They need you!" * x x % BORN in an Indian tepee, on the plains of South Dakota, she was christened Zitkala-Sa, which means |Red Bird. In early childhood she came in contact with Christian mis- sionaries who inspired her to seek a | modern education. Against her | mother’s wishes, she enrolled in a | school in the East and later entered | Earlham College in Indiana. Today she has won a foremost place among musicians, lecturers and writers. { Many remember her as the author of a number of vivid stories that have appeared in leading publications. She has also written “Old Indian Legends,” which is used as a collateral reading text in many public schools of the land, and “American Indian Stories,” an autobiographical account of her | childhood days. A lesser woman would have been | content with these laurels, but not Zitkala-Sa. Her heart was with her people, and she was ever eager to pass | on what she had learned. She taught | twdo years in the Carlisle Indian School and later was sent (by the | Interior Department’s Bureau of In= | dian Affairs) as a school teacher to | the Ute Indians. Here she lived in | the hospitable homes of the Utes. She remembers this period as the happiest | of her Nfe. She loved these people and shared their poverty and, al- | though at times the larder was bare, | there was always the contentment, Character dolfls are more popular | and table, for it is in this room that | Kindness and hospitality which re minded her of her own childhood | teachings. | Just as certain story tellers, or one might say historians, of the tribe «~)ntinue the repetition of the old | legends, Zitkala-Sa, too, loves to [ tell the stories of her forefathers. Many of the tales stress miracles that have occurred in the past to aid her people. Perhaps she herself will be instrumental in bringing about an- | other! Dix Says EAR MISS DIX: I am very much in love with a girl and D think she loves me. How- ever, nothing has been said | about love, as I have four years of schooling ahead of me. My friend |says that I should tell her how I | feel about her, but I think it would not for me, especially as we shall be sep- arated for three of the four years. I feel that in that time either she or I be bound by a promise if we became engaged now. What do you think about this? A STUDENT. Answer—I think you are taking the wise course and one that will make for the happiness of both you and the girl. Any young man who starts off | for a long term in college burdened | with a long engagement lays a heavy | handicap upon himself and so jeop- ardizes the girl's future. * Xk X % }IF COLLEGE does anything for a man it changes him. | broadens, refines him. It changes his tastes, his habits, his outlook on life. |He is thrown with different people | from the ones with whom he has been accustomed to associate. He meets a different type of girl from the ones | he went with at home. So it happens oftener than not that | when the boy who has been away four years at college returns to the girl he left behind him that he doesn’t want | her at all. He has outgrown her. His taste has changed. Sally doesn't look as pretty to him as she did four years ago. Her manners that seemed so fascinating to him later appear provincial. Her artless conversation bores him. But if she has waited for him and been faithful to him he hasn't the heart to break her clinging arms away from him and refuse to marry her. *x %% AN‘D no marriages are more miser- able than those entered into from a sense of duty and because a man “Sweeten it with Domino’ Refined in USA. | be fair to ask her to wait that long | | might change our minds and we would | It educates, | College Students Should Not Be Pre- occupied With Engagements [Ieels in honor bound to marry a girl |of whom he has grown tired. Such & husband always feeis that his wife | has forced him into marrying her and unless he is a singularly noble char- acter he takes it out upon her in | neglect and surliness. It is far better when a man cannot ask a girl to marry him to leave her free if they must be separated for a long time. Then he is not keeping her from making a marriage if some man she | fancies comes along. Nor does he obligate himself to marry her if his taste in woman changes. If they both really love each other their | affection will survive and their mar- | riage will be one of volition and not i compulsion. Anyway, it is not good for a student to be preoccupied with an engagement. | He should be giving his attention to | his books and not to a sentimental | affair. Baked Eggs in Tomato Sauce. Grease small ramekins or glass cuse tard cups and place 2 tablespoons of thick tomato sauce in each. 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