Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1936, Page 46

C—6 WOMEN'’S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1936. WOMEN’S FEATURES. Uncle Remus’ “Goobers” Pass the Billion Mark in This Year’s Harvest- L4 - > Bad-Weather |Shopping in Washington Clothes for School Age Sensible Wardrobe Should Be Provided. BY ANGELO PATRL ITTLE children are dressed for the weather by their mothers. Sweat- ers and rubbers and leggings are ‘worn according to her judgment. Now if that judgment has been reasonable and administered with an eye to the child's comfort and preferences as well as to his protection, he will be likely to go on accepting sweaters and rubbers as the weather indicates. If his experiences have been to the contrary, he is soon going to fight against all extras, weather or no weather. First, T would have no umbrellas for school children. They are not safe in traffic, pedestrian or vehicular, because the children cover their faces with them and push blindly ahead. They need to see where they are going. If the wind blows hard they have trouble holding the things against the blow and their distress | when an umbrella is blown inside out is pitiable. They need no umbrellas. Give them rain hats and water-shed- ding overcoats and, subbers, Rubbers are a bone of contention always. because they are usually too tight. It takes time to get them on and there are only about two minutes between bells at dismissal time. Then they get lost, kicked around the room. Nobody knows whose is which, and there has to be discussion and delay, snd the teacher hates that. She must be on time or the schedule for dismissals will be all out of order, and that is bad. Dismissals have to be prompt and orderly. Avoid rub- bers when possible. necessary be sure that the child’s name is printed inside them. Give him s small clothespin to pin them together. He may use it, and if he does it will keep his rubbers together. Sweaters are troublesome, too. The school rooms are heated to Summer heat, the halls are cooler, and the yards are cold. take off the sweater in the room, but wear it in the yard. He hates ‘o take it off and put it on. There is 53 little time and so much fuss. He leaves the sweater at home and then his mother scolds. He wears it in the class room after that and then his teacher scolds him. It is small won- der that the school children hate to wear the extras that unusual weather demands. But they have to learn to use their good sense. And the school schedules ought to provide a little leeway for such occasions as stormy days. Things will be easier at home if the children are taught to dress for the weather by consulting the thermom- eter, reading the weather reports and | the like. If a child’s mother says, “It is cold today. Better wear your heavy jacket,” the boy will say, “No, it isn’t cold. I'm all right” If he has been trained to look at the weather for himself, to read the temperature, con- sult the paper about the possible storms or changes, he will not have to be told what to wear. The decision has been made by the weather and he accepts that. Try not to bundle children too | much, especially the little ones, who take all the clothing that is put upon them without protest. They are in- convenienced. They fall easily. They are tired by the weight of the gar-| ments they carry. They store un- pleasant experiences about wearing hard-weather clothes and make life miserable for their mothers on reach- ing the age when they protest. (Copyright, 1936.) ==l To Cook Eggplant. Scalloped eggplant with a sugges- tion of sage is very good. To scallop, mix two cups stewed eggplant pulp, one-half cup tomato pulp, one table- spoon minced onions, salt, pepper,| sage. Spread with buttered bread | crumbs and bake until heatea if necessary, | i School children hate them | When they are | The child ought to | Purses and Bags Are Shown in Great Profusion and Beauty of Design. BY MARGARET WARNER. P YOU are still in doubt, get Her a purse or bag, for we have never seen lovelier collections than the shops are displaying this season. A woman and her purse are insepar- able companions, and in consequence the matter of renewal, or something to break the monotony, as well as hav- ing the right bag for the right cos- tume and the right time of day, gives particular emphasis to the importance of these accessories. As gifts they are sure to please, and when you choose one of those glamor- ous, glittering evening affairs and have it delivered in a smart, clear cello- phane box, tied with red ribbon and a holly spray, it is sure to bring forth exclamations of joy. Loveliest of all the bags and purses are those for evening use. They come in gorgeous antique and modern bro- cades, in jewel-colored velvets, in gold and silver kid, in sparkling rhinestones and in exquisite handmade imported petit point in prices ranging anywhere from $3 to over $100. The highest price does not always mean the most glamour, but it refers particularly to those finest of petit points with stitches so small that you wonder how they could possibly have been done by the human hand and eye. Although the floral designs are most often seen among these bags, they have introduced this season some through. ultramodern motifs in odd and beau- /| Peacocks seem to be born to be decorative, and that may they lend themselves so readily to design. They are sure to tiveness of your armchair, no matter what other pattern figures you have in your living room. You'll enjoy working this pattern if you like to really filet. It is crocheted in No. 30 mercerized crochet cotton, so it isn't too doesn’t take forever to make. The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand illustrated directions with block-and-space diagram to aid you; also what crochet hook and what material and how much you will need. To obtain this pattern, send for No. 268 and inclose 15 cents in stamps or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Needlework Editor of The Evening Star. (Copyright, 1836.) Antique brocade in rich red, beige and gold. 2. White sequins and pearls. brocade in transparent gift box. 4. Bracelet bag to hang on the wrist. 5. Black velvet with rhinestones. 6. Two unusual black suede daytime bags. 3. Black and silver —=8ketched From Washington Shops tiful soft colorings that at first glance suggest old tapestries, but on closer inspection prove to be more like the canvases of modern artists. Petit-point bags start at $5 and increase in price with the fineness of the workmanship and the more complicated detail of $he design. Their blending of many soft colors make them suitable acces- sories for a variety of evening gowns, and their general charm and durability assure them a permanence that is akin to an heirloom. * x * % ANTIQUE brocade bags are interest- ing as well as stunning. Many of them are made from fragments of priests’ robes, some of which were worn in far-off Persia over 100 years 8go. Their beautiful colors are mel- low and rich, and the inweaving of gold and silver threads gives them life. One group of these has hand- made painted clasps like old medal- lions, set in simulated dull gold frames. Others are combined with more mod- ern clasps like huge jeweled bar pins in two colors, against the brocade. Varying in shape and size, they are from $10 up. Usually there are not two alike. ‘The story behind the scenes in one instance is of a man who does not even seek a market for his wares in Washington, but who turns out such beautiful work at such moderate prices that those in the “know” make every effort to secure some of his pieces. We saw one, a lovely pale, dull gold French Bianchini brocade with small pattern in softest blue, rose and beige with a hand-wrought frame inset with real carnelians. A perfect gift for a lady. Plain velvet purses in jewel tones with rhinestone studded clasps and gold frames are nice complements to velvet sandals of the same color, and are fitted with compact and cigarette case. They are very acceptable to the young dancer and are in a less sophisticated mood. Unadorned gold and silver kid in flat envelope types are well liked for the more tailored dinner frocks and by the club woman who drives her own car and wants & practical place to keep her keys, etc. Again for the dancer, is the brace- let bag, a puffy, frilly affair with a bracelet of rhinestones to keep it closed. A loop to slip the hand through makes it easy to carry. * ok Kok JFINE gold mesh bags are again pop- ular after not having been seen for many years. They come in dif- ferent sizes from $10 to $25 and have the advantage of looking well with most afternoon and evening frocks. Rhinestone studded bags are very good and come with both black and white backgrounds. The rhinestones are set in little cups to avoid any chance of catching in delicate fabrics. These cup-settings may be in gold or silver finish, In one shop we found a group of very large and important looking black velvet evening bags with equally large and important rhinestone clasps. The bags were deep and used sections of puffed shirring as trimming. They would easily hold a pair of opera glasses, some emergency cough drops, and anything else that one might be disposed to take along to the theater, and still not look too bulgy! White pearls and white sequins are used together to make a beautiful half circle purse with the design in pearls suggesting the outlines of a cathedral rose window. But the daytime bags, although not 80 glamorous, are equally interesting, and make a greater appeal as prac- tical gfts to a much larger number of A table of these at $5 in a smart specialty shop is well worth your consideration. And the imported ones up to $20 are a revelation of what a really handsome and convenient bag can be, and how durable when made of the best leather. They open so that you can ses everything at & | and Florida—the | from several oth- | feed grains scarcer because of the last Large Percentage of Record-Breaking Crop Will Go to Oil Mills Remainder Finds Its Way to Our Tables as Butter or Gladdens Children at Circuses. BY BETSY CASWELL. ELOVED by Uncle Remus and all the grotesque creatures that peopled his imaginary world was the “goober” pea, or officially, the peanut. In childish minds it is inevitably connected with festivitles—such as circuses, fairs, ball games and so on. and flavor—and the housekeeper depends upon it for ringing many changes on her dietary scheme. gest peanut crop on record in this country has been harvested. More than 1,000,000,000 pounds of peanuts have been pro- N duced. Over half of this enormous crop was raised in Alabama, Georgia remainder comes er Souther n the Runner, the Virginia and the Spanish. A good ® many of the Vir- ginias are salted Dot Crwell or roasted in the shell. Spanish and Runner types are used a great deal for making peanut butter. The bureau says: “Two hundred million pounds of peanuts may go directly to the oil mills. There’s an extra heavy demand for peanut oil for the manufacture of compounds used for baking and frying and for table margarine. With "\ season’s drought, the hogs going to the 1937 market are not as well fat- | tened as usual, and so there is less lard available just now. The demand is also partly due to the light supply | of cottonseed oil. Housewives will doubtless be buying more of the solid- ified or hydrogenated cooking fats | made from vegetable oils, including peanut oil. "A SMALL part of the peanut oil| will be refined and sold as salad | oil, or manufactured into ready-to- | use salad dressings. Institutions are said to have placed rather large or- | ders for peanut oil, because of its| | good flavor and the fact that when used in cooking it does mnot scorch and break down chemically so quickly as some other fats. This makes it excellent for deep-fat frying. The Bureau of Home Economics found in | the course of a series of experiments on potato chips fried in different fats, that the judges rated the chips cooked in peanut oil highest for gen- * x % % | This year the Bureau of Home Economics of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture tells us the big- | with the red skins removed. | them, using the finest knife on the eral desirability. They scored the chips on color, aroma, crispness and | flavor. | “New factories in a great many| peanut-growing localities give evidence | of the continuing popularity of pea-| nut butter. A large part of the| 1937 crop will be marketed in this form. Peanut butter, peanut candies and salted peanuts, in about this order, are the most important out- lets for the peanut crop, in addi- tion to what is crushed for peanut oil. our peanuts indirectly, as peanut-fed pork, ham or bacon. A great many | peanuts are always used as feed for| hogs. “A word of warning from the diet experts to the nibblers of salted pea- nuts at the dinner table, and the boys who like fresh roasted peanuts by the peck. And for the children who love peanut brittle and other Dorothy However, we shall eat some of | or dinner. Grownups like its rich texture peanut candies. Peanuts are a highly concentrated food. They are one-| third to one-half fat. according to| | variety, one-fourth protein, and about | one-fourth carbohydrates and min- erals. If it were not for the high | | proportion of fat we might depend | on them to a greater extent as a | source of protein, for peanut protein | is of excellent quality. But twice as | much fat as protein in a food makes | it very rich. So it's best to eat pea- | nuts in relatively small amounts at | a time, and to mix them with other foods that have less fat. * X X % PEAN UTS are & good source of vita- min B and an excellent source of vitamin G. As to minerals, they are rich in phosphorus, but poor in cal- cium, and only & fair source of iron. Although they are called nuts and included in some of the food defini- tions as nuts, they are really legumes, members of the pea family. The fruit or pod matures in the soil instead of on the vines. “While it is usually more con-| venient to buy peaut butter as sold in glass jars or tins, a housewife who has a food grinder can make her own peanut butter when she has peanuts on hand. She can suit the family as to the texture of the butter, whether smooth or somewhat granulated. For butter, use the roasted shelled nuts Grind food grinder. It may be necessary to | put the butter twice through the grinder, adding salt to taste before the | second grinding. | “The sandwich fillings made by | combining peanut butter with other materials are a matter of the house- wife's invention applied to what she has on hand. Peanut butter with chopped dried fruits, with cream cheese, | with hard-cooked eggs, with sliced mild onion, with grated raw carrots, with tomato catsup.—these are some | possibilities in the sandwich line. * & & “]PEANUT BUTTER 5 good in place of part of the shortening in bis- cuits and cup cakes, and in sauces for vegetables. Peanut butter soup, made like any creamed vegetable soup, is delicious and quickly prepared. Some prefer canned tomatoes as the liquid rather than milk. “A good peanut loaf for dinner is made by combining equal parts of pea- nuts, chopped carrots, bread crumbs | and canned tomatoes, binding the | mixture with one or two eggs and | seasoning with melted butter, salt and | pepper. This will bake in a moderate oven in 30 minutes. “Chopped or whole peanuts can be creamed and served on toast for lunch They are an addition to almost any salad, and to many of the scalloped baked vegetables—for in- stance, scalloped onions with peanuts. They are popular in muffins, cookies, cakes, and even mixed with wa batter. “One way and another. most of us pound crop of peanuts this Winter to enrich and vary the usual menus.” Dix Says MOTHER whose daughter was recently married gave her this advice: “My dear,” she said, “face the fact that your mar- riage definitely and forever closes one phase of your life. It is the ending of your playtime and the beginning of the serious business of life. Your father and I have petted you, spoiled you, indulged you and tried to make everything as easy for you as we could, but your husband isn't going to soft-pad the world for you. He is going to expect you to stand up and take things on the chin. You are going to be on your own now. Your fate is in your own handg and it is going to be what you make it. “Of course, you are going to have disappointments and you are going to get the surprise of your life in finding out that marriage isn't in the least like what a girl thinks it is going to be. Every girl is sure, no matter what other people’s marriages are, hers is going to be a never-ending romance and a perpetual petting party, coupled with a good meal ticket and a steady date. It jars her back teeth loose when she learns that her husband has dropped all love-making at the altar; that he wants to stay at home at night instead of stepping out, and that he expects her to take his affection for granted, which latter is a grand compliment or a cause for tears, according to the way you take it. LI “YOU know that you have always been the very center of my heart and that nothing in my life has ever given me the happiness that your love has. Nevertheless, when you get married you must cut mother’s apron string. Mother mustn’t be the one you love best, the one you turn to for advice and counsel. If you are to be happy and make your husband happy, you must wean yourself away from mother. “There is no other person on earth of whom & young husband can be so jealous as he can be of his wife’s mother. He wants to be first in her life. He wants to be her oracle. And when he finds he is running a bad second to mother and that his bride glance without fishing around end- lessly, and they are handsomely lined and fitted also. Such a bag is a real joy to carry and a pleasure as long as it lasts. For information concerning items mentioned in this column call Na- tional 5000, extension 395, between 10 and 12 am. Young Wives Should Remember They Have Married Men—Not Angels. is forever throwing mother in his teeth and quoting what mother says and what mother thinks about this and that, he simply can’t stand it. If you want John to like us and be on good terms with us, don't feed him up too much on mamma and papa. % kE “CULTIVAT! your in-laws. Make Jjust as great an effort to win the | heart of your mother-in-law as you | did to win that of her son. Every mother is scared pea green when her son marries, for fear his wife is go- ing to take him away from her, and when this doesn’t happen she is ready to fall down in gratitude hefore her marvelous daughter-in-law. “There is nothing that pays a wom- an better than making friends with her in-laws because, in the first place, nothing endears a wife to her hus- band more than getting along peace- ably with his mother. And, in the second place, if a mother-in-law likes her, she has always a friend at court, who will buck her up in any domestic argument instead of an enemy who will always be stabbing her in the back. If mother-in-law sings your praises you will be tops with John, but if she has always got out her hammer for you he will wonder what ever made him marry you. | * X x % | “IONT be silly enough to think | that any amount of beauty or | charm or dieting to keep young and slim will take the place of good housekeeping in holding a husband’s love. There isn't a man living who | won'’t see a dirty floor before a pretty face if he marries & lazy sloven, and who doesn't feel more romantic and tender after a good meal than a bad one. | “When nature made men’s stom- achs many times bigger than their hearts she handed out & tip to wives on how to manage the brutes. Feed cheery, peaceful home, a good dinner to come to and a pleasant wife for company, and you've got him nailed to his own fireside. “And finally, my dear, ne: you have married never have to buy tickets to Reno.” DOROTHY DIX. ’ H Fetchingly Feminine Party Frock Stresses Smartness of Youthful Peplum. BY BARBARA BELL. | ERE is the party frock so clev- erly designed that it will flat- | ter every one from size 14 to 42. The big draped coliar, | edged in bright silk binding or velvet ribbon, just seems to invite compli- ments. Short puffed sleeves end in | feminine bows. But probably the most | charming detail is the gently flared | | peplum. - Nobody can resist it and in| fact it looks lovely on every type of woman. The skirt is simple, in four pieces. The whole frock is amazingly | easy to put together, and the pride | you'll feel wearing it will be more than | | worth the effort. Dotted swiss or BARBARA Pattern No. Name fabrics to use. ments 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 18 (36) requires just five yards 35- | inch material. Every Barbara Bell Pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which | is easy to understand. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell | Pattern Book. Make yoursell at- tractive, practical and becoming | clothes, selecting designs from the; Barbara Bell well-planned, easy-to-| make patterns. Interesting and ex- clusive fashions for little children and Pattern Book. Ca ~ A\ (Wrap coins securely in paper.) | dimity are pretty and inexpensive | the difficult junior age; slenderizing well-cut patterns for the mature figure, Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1209-B is | fternoon dresses for the most partic- | available for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 |ular young women and matrons and | will be taking advantage of the billion- | and 42, Corresponding bust measure- | other patt for special oc S 8ize| 1)l to be found in the Barbara Bell (Copyright, 1936.) ughtaCold? To help end it quicker, rub throat and chest with PROVED BY 2 GENERAT‘ION‘S Hostess Not Responsible. For Mishaps Liabilities Cannot i Be Personally Shouldered. BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: 1Is one re- | sponsible for accidents that hap- | pen while others are one's guests? I | mean, exactly, that I had some friends | out in my car and two of them had to sit out back in the rumble seat. On the way to where we were spending | the week end the weather turned bad | and we had to drive on in a fine dr: zle. The girl's hat was ruined and I don't know whether I, as owner of the car, ought to offer to replace the hat or not? Answer—I can understand your feeling of concern but as an actual fact you can't very well offer to re- place everything that may become your responsibility under like circum- stances. In other words, we all have to take risks wherever we go that something may happen to spoil our clothes or that we may lose our purses, and if hostesses were to be held responsible for such losses, very few people could afford to be hostesses. R EAR MRS. POST: We are mov- ing into a new house soon and would like to let our friends every- where know of our new address. There is 50 much to buy and so many places for our money at the moment that I | do mot want to go to the expense of having visiting cards made with our new address. Would it be permissible | to write such notes on post cards? | Also, we would like to be “at home” one evening regularly for several months to give all those who can come to see us the certainty of finding us in and ready to welcome them. Could I include this information on the post cards? And how? Answer—I would like to be able to tell you that post cards for such pur- poses will do, but really they won't. If it is the engraving that is too ex- | pensive, you cdn have visiting cards printed to include your address and also your day at home, at very little | cost. You can you must) put 113-cent stamps on the envelopes and turn the flaps in | (Copyright [y (if BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for 1200-B. Size_ ... 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