Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1937, Page 31

WOMEN’S FFEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937. WOMEN’S FEATURES. B—11 Question of Masculine Preferences in the Matter of Food Interesting Mixed Grill Is < Making an Entire Meal Welcomed Off One Favored Dish |[T ™ g*® ¥ = . : & | Particularly Enjoyed |.¢ Ga § W ARSI | < | | | D kept secret for two years. He | | 1s very jealous, and after one occasion when he came into the office where I | work and made a scene and demanded his wedding ring back, my mother | Dorothy Dix Says Jealousy Is the Greatest Stumbling Block to Happiness in Marriage. EAR MISS DIX—I married a divorced man and at his by the Sterner Sex gestions about how matters can be helped? J. C. “Hot” Foods, Piquant Sauces, Simple Serv- ice Are All Required by the Exacting Gentleman. Answer—I am afraid not. finding woman can never be re- formed, because she is always so self-righteously cqnvinced that her persecutions are all for the good of A fault- HAT do men like best to eat? If the answers to that question were laid end to end they would probably circle the earth and start back again. It is a favorite topic the world over, particularly with brides and jovial men wear- ing tall hats, but near things, while others like something else. However, of all that has been w items stand out seem to be generally accepted as keys to the riddle of masculine tastes These are some of them: Men like foods so simply prepared that old mother nature herself would recognize them. Men like meat, prefer it to fowl or to the best red herring. The less mixing, mingling and mangling the better—and little or no garnishment, thank you, Men do like salads if the salads are simple and not made to resemble flowers, flappers, or other forms of un- edible life. Vegetable salads on the preferred list Men like pickles, yes, indeed, crisp fat, sour, sweet-spiced, and warty. But they prefer them plain and whole and not cup up or mixed with things Men like stews, hot and lusty, and rich meat ples, but they like them Wwith greater fervor if the ingredients are not over-done and mush-like and there is no hint of * vers” about them. Men are really fond of desserts provided they are good, honest des- serts without froth or frill and not too sweet, They prefer fruit pies to cake and apple pie to almost anything else. Men dearly like foods that can be picked up intact and eaten with the fingers. They are fond of making meals off one favoreq dish. ‘They want their portions man-size! * ¥ % x entire 0}‘ ALL these likes and dislikes and | many others too lengthy to men- | tion, we can nearly be sure of the last. Discover, if you can, the food affinities of the menfolk of the family, then make the most of them. Follow- ing are suggestions for good dishes, both of them blessed with the mascu- line vote of confidence, simple and man-size MIXED GRILL. (Individual.) lamb chop. lamb kidney. slice calves’ liver. pork sausages, mushrooms. slice bacon. tomato, bread c: Season the fresh me: salt and pepper Brush chop, kidney with butter. Place bacon on liver. Cut top from tomato, season, dot with butter and top with bread crumbs. Arrange on grill and cook under flame until nicely browned and well done The simplest form of greenery ghould accompany the mixed grill Serve it with an individual bowl of iced ocelery curls and whole spiced gherkins. STEAK AND KIDNEY PIE Cut 1 pound round steak in cubes, roll in flour and saute in butter. Cube My Neighbor Says: Cultivate strawberry plants until flowers open, then spread straw or grass under the leaves and flowers. The dust that arises when cultivating often destroys the fertilization of the flowers, resulting in poor strawberries. When running rods through your curtains put a thimble on the end of the rod. It will run through more easil: Nut meats may be removed from the shell without breaking the kernel if hot water is poured over the nuts and allowed to re- main through the night. Never wash a tea strainer or 4 teapot in soapy water. Wash and rinse in clear water always. (Copyright, 1937.) A A S RS FOTORB S iy i wamt B bbb ke e s from the rest ande C touchingly | always the final verdict is that some men like some And that, of course, is as it should be, ritten and said on the subject, a few 1 beef kidney, soak in cold salted water 1 hour, then saute in butter, in same pan used for steak. When brown, return steak to pan with kidney and pour over 1 cup of water. Add 4 bay leaves, salt and pepper. Cook slowly until tender. Place in baking dish and cover with a rich biscuit dough about 14 inch thick. Bake until dough is nicely browned. Serve with assorted relishes, sour pickles, olives, celery, radishes or with a plain salad of lettuce, LR OMEHOW the idea of a bowl of chili appeals to most masculine palates. The idea itself comes out of the great Southwest, where, according to rumor, men are indeed men. We hear it said that in those parts they never tire of chili and frijoles and tortillas (peppers, beans and corn cakes to you), and that these with their tasty variations solves many a puzzle for the cook. And what an inspiration! o Most of us know chili as a peppery powder which we buy to flavor that famous mixture of chopped beef and small dark beans we call “Chili con Carne,” meaning chili with meat. While it is probable that the dish is not strictly of Mexican origin, but an adaptation by epicureans of our own American West, we do find our Mexican neighbors mingling the es- sence of those flavorsome “pimientas” in any number of native dishes—and for that matter, so may we. So let’s have chili con carne more | often than not during these last weeks of Winter. It is more American than Mexican, anyhow, the way we are most familiar with it and like it best. * %k x |"THE average American's dream of this savory dish is one in which | the dark frijoles or | honors with the meat. Authentic or | not, beans make for flavor and | substance and for complets satisfac- | tion under the belt. Ho :, beans |are left out of the West . version and chili con crane it is. Both are delicious dishes and appropriate ones {for informal, masculine meals and late suppers. | CHILI WITH MEAT AND BEANS. 2 cups beans. Ibs. Coarsely ground beef. | 2 cloves garlic. | 2 medium onions, 2 tablespoons chili powder. 134 cups tomato puree. Season beans with salt, add a little | beef suet, and cook until nearly tender. | Cook slowly and avoid stirring as much as possible. Put about i cup olive oil or other fat blended with butter in skillet, add minced garlic and onion and saute gently until | clear, but not brown. Add beef and brown lightly. Add to beans. 8tir in chili powder and tomato puree. Simmer until beans are tender. If desired, add more chili powder, & |little at a time and tasting after i each addition to avoid getting mixture |too hot. Serves six. Serve with cucutber pickles, car- rot cur and either cole slaw or a cabbage salad with a sharp dress- ing | CHILI WITH MEAT. 1bs. beef, ground or cubed. large onions. garlic cloves. tablespoons chili powder. cup olive oil. tablespoon paprika. 2 teaspoons oregano. Brown the beef with a little of | the suet in the olive oil. 'and garlic and cook gently until clear. Add chili powder and other seasonings and stir well. Add 1 to 2 cups water and simmer until mest is well cooked and flavors are blended. Serves four. Color, color everywhere—Yes, even in the dining room. With a simple, floral design, you can alter your tablecloth immeasurably. cludes transfer designs for two motifs ners of the cloth, as well as two smaller motifs for the other corners. ‘The pattern in. like the one pictured, for opposite cor- The directions include suggestions for color, but you can follow your own ideas if you want the cloth to harmonize with other furnishings. The design can be used on luncheon or dinner cloth, and can be applied near the edges of the eloth. ‘The pattern envelope contains a genuine hot-iron transfer pattern for two motifs 14x14 inches and two, 8x8 inches; and complete, easy-to-understand llustrated directions, with diagrams to aid you; also what material and how much you will need. To obtain this pattern, send for No. 442 and inclose 15 cents in stamps or coin to cover service and postage. ‘The Evening Star. Address orders to the Needlework Editor of (Cbgfilhl. 1087.) beans vie for | | behind them. They are relying upon | us. Add onions | A i This one, so temptingly pictured, is composed of lamb mushrooms, bacon and a tomato. A feast very decidedly “fit for a king”! chop, lamb kidney, calves’ liver, sausages, Strength Admired by Children They Rely on Their Parents for Their Own Power. BY ANGELO PATRI. HILDREN need to feel that their fathers and mothers are giants of accomplishment. “My father can drive & car bettern anybody in this whole town.” “My mother is the prettiest in our church. And she can 8ing best, t00.” These are the boasls of proud children who feel strength in their parents. That feeling makes them stronger, gives them courage and a feeling of power. They must have that feeling of reliance upon their people if they are to thrive and function as healthy children ought to do. That is why we should not let children know when we are worried. That is why we never let them hear us complain, see us cry, or hear us say: “I just can't go on.” We must g0 on, and we must look ss thougn we were succeeding at it, because our children have to feel our power It is a great mistake to say to & child, “I don’t know what to do with you.” Or, before him, “I can’t do a thing with that child.” This is con- trary to what a child feels his parents should be. He wants to think that they always know what to do and are able to do it. Oftener than not they are pretty well advised as to what to do, and quite able to do it. But the children consider what one says as important, 50 it is better to say nothing and 1ook much when there is a hard problem waiting solution. Never ask for pity from & child. That way failure lies, for he de- spises anyone he has to pity, es- pecially if he is a grown person. “He is foolish,” is his decision, and lacking other words for his feelings, let's it go at that. Never say, “You will bring my gray hairs to the grave if you go on like this.” “You are making a nervous wreck of me.” “My heart is broken to think I have & child who would do such things.” These speeches only serve to drive the child further awsy. Weakness 1 grown up people is something chil- dren hate to see. They always tum from it in disgust touched with fear. The strong tower upon which they were leaning has fallen and betrayed their faith, Children admire strength. They like to look at the big policeman just because he is so big and so strong. They like to look at the elephant for the same reason. They like to see the pictures that show strong men doing impossible feats. They like to picture themselves as bold and daring and all-powerful. They have no feeling of pity for the oppressed until they have first rejoiced with the op- pressor. They learn to pity and sympathize only after experience, backed up by teaching at home and in school has brought that feeling to their minds. They admire strength and power even when they are the victims. Have you ever wondered at the string of little boys following the bully of the neighborhood? Be strong for the sake of the little ones who are drawing strength from your strength. Be strong for the fal- tering adolescent. Show him that when material things appear to go against him, when he appears to Le failing, he still has the infinite power of the spirit, the same spirit that sustains you in time of need, to fall back upon. “Be strong in the Lord,” 15 the strength that you cultivate in the adolescent child. There are times when the stoutest heart quivers. But will quivering help? Call on whatever strength you know, and for the children's sake an’ for your own, be strong. Appetite-Tempter. Sausage and fried apples make a good combination to serve during cold weather. Allow two sausage cakes or links and four slices of apple for each serving. Young_DEytime fiFrock Grosgrain Ribbon More Popular Than Ever This Spring. BY BARBARA BELL. ARIS is using grosgrain ribbon more and more this Spring, as on this youthful daytime frock. There's something so neat and final, truly sophisticated, about gros- grain trimming, that it's no wonder the frock looks the height of smart~ ness. The collar is wide and sporty. The belt overlaps the front panel seams and allows the row of small, neat buttons to parade undisturbed up the front. A gentle flare to the skirt and jaunty puffed sleeves finish a model perfect for daytime and in- formal wear—a real “in-between” frock that fills a definite need in your wardrobe. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1262-B is available for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Corresponding bust measurements 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 14 (32) BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1262-B. Bize ___ (Wrap coins securely in paper). requires 3 yards 54-inch material, plus 12 yards of ribbon for trimming as pictured. Every Barbara Bell patern includes an {llustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the Barbara Bell well-planned, easy-to-make patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little chil- dren and the difficult junior age; slen- derizing, 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. (Copyright, 1937.) o Bake Your Biscuits on a Pan- cake Griddle. ‘Try baking your biscuits on a pan- cake griddle. And serve honey or maple sirup with them. To Select Avocados. An avocado is ready to be eaten when the outside surface ylelds to a slight pressure from the fingers. The pear may be cut in half, freed of the seed and served. Or it may be pared and slicedgy, Make-Up for| A Long and Round Face; {Study Photograph of| Yourself for Best Results. | ELSIE PIERCE. \ JE'VE before. rtical and how the yor up and do Now, let's turn advanced a 3 have a photograpr S fuli-faced take it out of the album. self a dozen sheets of tracing red pencil. Ready, ed about optica We've pointed to s izontal lines and another. Is your face very long? viding your features are fair, draw in the hair with a center part. Now pen- cil in the red, for the rouge area, well |out on the cheeks. If your brows are short elongate them a little. Blend rouge lightly on chin and lobes of ears if you can do it artistically (all this with the red pencil, of course). Red pencil your lips well out to the | corners. | Want to prove that the above pic- ture will make vour face look ever so | much ? Then on another traced | tissue part the hair on the side, rouge | cheeks nearer nose and in an up-and- | down triangle—and you'll see a mighty | long face. I The center part invariably makes the face look wider. But it also em- phasizes the features so that if they | are irregular keep the part a little off | center, but gquite high. Rouge calls | attention to the area it covers. So, if | there are high cheek bones or hollows keep the rouge just a little beneath the cheek bones and a little above the hollows. If you rouge outward the eye is carried outward, and the face seems wider. | You can carry the eye tricks fur- { ther with wide, round collars, round high necklines, turban hats are good, hats with round and round brims are | good; avoid tall crowns. | | Now if your face is round you can, | | just for fun, follow the above and see | | how much more like a moon it looks. | Now pencil in the hair, brushed back, | piled high and kept close to the head | | at the sides. Now the rouge in an up- and-down movement under the eyes, nearer the nose. See how much | closer together it seems to bring the | round part of the cheeks. Don't fluff your hair out at the sides, or rouge the cheeks in wide area or elongate the brows for they all cafry the eye out- | ward giving a fecling of width. Don’t wear round collars—deep V or U shaped necklines are best for you. High crowns for hats are good. Anything that carries the eye up and down. Hospitality Is Repaid With Gift BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: I have stayed | over several week-ends in the country with dear young friends of |mine who have been married not quite a year, and I have never been able to return their hospitality. I cannot invite even good friends to our house as my mother is a semi- invalid who is greatly upset with people in the house. Can you sug- gest something I might do for these friends which would not cost too much? Answer: If you haven't sent them a wedding present, then do this by all means. If you have given them one, then I would suggest sending them something in paper on their paper wedding day, which is the first anniversary. As a particular sugges- tion, why not have some good-looking note paper marked with their address. A box of assorted sizes would be especially useful to both on a variety of occasions, Or if you don't lke this ides, send the wife flowers. | marriage. forced him to announce our marriage and take me to live with him. I adore my husband, and except for his jeal- ousy he is nearly perfect, but there are many things in my life that keep me almost on the point of leaving him. One is that his mother lives with us, and Heaven didn't mean for a man's wife and mother to call the same place home. Another reason is that he lets his son by his divorced wife use his car, and I am supposed to beam with joy when he brags about the boy. Another is that the first wife still uses his name, and I want to be the only Mrs. Jones. Another is that my husband does not resent my being called “Miss Smith” by the people I am assoclated with in business, as I was before I was married. And another is that my husband con- stantly compares me with Wife No. 1, and says she did so and so, or didn't do this or that. What do you think | her victim. In a thousand years you couldn’t make her see that that is nothing but overweaning self-conceit | that makes her believe that she is | an oracle who knows more than any |one else and that she is a paragon upon whom every one should model themselves. Why women don't marry men of | whom they approve in the first place, instead of marrying men who are | apparently everything they disap- |prove, is a mystery past finding out. |It can only be explained on the | theory that they get a kind of | sadistic pleasure out of tearing their | husbands apart as they do their dresses and hats and making them over ac- cording to their own tastes. But it is |an agonizing process for the poor creatures who have major surgical operations performed on their habits |and their conversation and have all I should do? OONBTANT READER. Answer: Try to cultivate a common sense, in which you seem to be abnormally deficient. Accept the situation in which you find yourself and which you deliberately chose, and make the best of it. After all, it isn't so bad. 1 agree with you that it is unfor- tunate when a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have to live together, for no two women can live under the same roof without getting on each other’s nerves, but even that is what you make it. You can make her a friend or an enemy, as you will, for there are very few old ladies who 4 be won over by a young woman who will take the trouble to be kind and considerate to them, who will make them feel welcome in their sons’ houses and who will not respond to a little affection. After all, a daughter-in-law owes much to the woman who has given | her a good husband. You might think of that a little. And you might also remember that perhaps some time you will be the unwanted mother-in-law in your son’s house, and so treat your mother-in-law as you would like to be treated. As for your other troubles, when you married a divorced man you must have wn that you would face com- plications arising out of his previous You knew that you could never possibly be the only Mrs. Jones, | because there wes another one who | had as good & right to the name as have, so why make that a grievance now? And surely you are not heartless erough and selfish enough to wish your husbend not to love his son and have pride in him, when he is his own flesh and blood. And you are silly in objecting to being called “Miss Smith” i business, when it is the common custom for women to keep their names as 8 sort of trade-mark if they succeed in business or a pro- fession. Don't go out of your way to borrow trouble. Plenty of it will come to you as you go along. * % ok X EAR DOROTHY DIX—As soon as we were married my wife set herself to correct what she consicered my faults and blemishes and to make me over according to her own ideas. She found fault with everything I did and said. My dress, my table manners, my accent and modulation of voice, the statements I made, the phrases I used all came in for bitter censure, and for me to transgress her code brought a scene. If I protest at all my wife declares that she will “just let me go, and never try to help me again,” “let me make a fool of myself if I choose,” etc., etc., until she makes me feel that I bore her to death and that she is ashamed of me. The situation makes it impos- sible for me to show her the little attentions I would like to. I dare not send flowers because they are sure to be the wrong kind, or get there at the wrong time, or nobody is wearing flowers. I cannot even carry on a conversation because I speak too abruptly, or am too positive in my statements, or I am argumentative, so all that is left for me is to keep | silence and then be accused of being dumb. We are both young enough to have many more years of life, and it is a dreary prospect if we must live it together. Can you make any sug- WISH | BELIEVED IN SIGNS! DO YOU THINK THAT ONE IS REALLY TRUE 2 - POOR CHILD! YOUR PAINS MUST BE AT B, THEIR HEIGHT MOTHER, MY PAIN HAS STOPPED! | HEAR THE PHONE, AND IF IT IS PAUL, IM DON'T let the calendar regulate your activities! Don’t “favor your- self” or “‘save yourself” certain days of every month! Keep going, and keep comfortable — with the aid of Midol. Modern women no longer give-in to functional periodic pain. It’s old- fashioned to suffer in silence, be- cause there is now a reliable relief for such suffering. Some women who have always had the hardest time are relieved by Midol. Why not try it? little | of their pet stories and ways re- moved from them. No man is more to be pitied than the one who has a critic on his hearth. The only remedy I can sug- gest for dealing with the past is to give her a dose of her own medicine, Criticize her as severely as she criticizes you. Show up her faults .and foibles. Turn the spotlight on | her peculiarities and you can frighten her into silence. She will be afraid | of retaliations. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1937.) Manners | of the | Moment 1 IT‘S a bit disturbing to have one of | your departing guests pick up a | tea napkin and stuff it into her hand- |bag. It's especi disturbing if the | tea napkin is one of a set, and you | really like it. If it had a hole in it, | you wouldn't mind. But it's awfully | hard to spot your napkin swiper early enough in the game to see that she gets a napkin with a hole in it | | | When "your guest starts to | walk off with one of your tea | napkins. | Of course she doesn't really mean anything by her little act. 8She thinks it's just her handkerchief. At | least that's what you hope she thinks. And if you go on that assumption, | you're all right. Just tell her she (has made a mistake, and then help her to find her hanky But if you start getting funny and suggesting that she is really trying to walk off with your tea napkin, you'll | not only lose a piece of linen but a friend. All of those bright remarks |about how many others are tucked | away in her dress may sound awfully | cute to you, but they don’t sound so cute to the girl who made the mistake. And another thing . .. however !you decide to retrieve the napkin, don't do it in front of the entire tea party. Do it when the audience is small and pretty intimate JEAN. i (Copyright, 1937.) . Footnotes. “Narrow and high heels do not give the feet proper support,” an orthopedic specialist states. A built-up heel, broad at the base and about 133 fnches high, is desirable for foot comfort.” MO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT? THE SUFFERING SECRETARY EXCEPT § WOULD LIKE A GLASS OF LUCKY | CALLED UP AGAIN, LOU. THANK GOODNESS FOR THE FAIR SEX BEING SO CHANGEABLE ! THANK GOODNESS FOR WHAT LET ME CHANGE MY MIND Many who use Midol do not feel a single iwingp of pain, or even a moment’s discomfort during the entire period. These tablets provide a proven means for the relief of such pain, so why endure suffering Midol might spare you? Midol brings quick relief which usually lasts for hours. Its principal ingredient has often been prescribed by specialists. You can get Midol in a trim aluminum case at any drug store. Two tablets should see you through your worst day. h