Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1937, Page 50

1937. Finds for the Pantry Shelves Include New Friends and Old Favorites i . . Q__& Shopping Around Washington Poor Tools Accessory Shops Are Brimful of New and Delightful Ideas H a rmful for Summer. | To Child | There Is a Cheapness That Is Too Costly in Everything. ‘D—4 WOMEN’S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, MAY 7, WOMEN’S FEATURES. ¢ Aroma of Peppermint Brings Back Memory Of Childhood Visits Sand Tarts for Summer Beverage Compan- ions—Pickled Apricots Challenge More Familiar Peach. Dorothy Dix Says Humor and Praise Better Than Criticism in Guiding Adolescent Son. ] BEWILDERED mother,“Who realizes that she knows as little about how to manage her adolescent son as she does about lion taming, asks me if I| can give her a few suggestions about | how to handle this strange and un- | With an adolescent son is to put on her predictable ‘creature into which her | Velvet gloves when she handles him. adorable small boy has suddenly | Don't let him see that you are manag- of steadying and guiding him at the most important crisis in his life, but only too often do they estrange him besides. So my first suggesaon to the mother BY BETSY of my job consists of trotting 8 newcomers that have made their CASWELL. VERY ONE likes to learn about “something new under the sun.” Part around from place to place, looking, tasting, testing and forming an acquaintanceship with any worthy appearance in the shops and markets. It is great fun, but a little trying for my household, for I am constantly bringing home foodstuffs and gadgets of every description for approval— BY ANGELO PATRL 'ONY was making & box for his wagon. He was trying to nail it together and making a poor job of it. His hammer landed anywhere but on the head of the nail. With turned. 8he is passing through an experience which every mother who has boys has to endure. It is an ordeal that turns mothers gray and makes them old before their time, but there are no ing him. Suggest instead of com- manding. Quit treating him as if he | were a child. Don't tell him to do this | and not to do that as you did when he | was 6 years old. Pretend that you | think that he is a man and that he | will act like a man, and the chances and sometimes it isn't always ap-«e a muttered impatience he let go the set rules for dealing with the situa-| are he will do it. proval! I'm thinking of starting | something along the lines of the radio | program that features the week's win- ners among the ropular tunes — maybe the family would take more kindly to their Job as censors! Anyway, the last group of sub- Jects to be looked over was almost unanimously ap- proved. There was one item that didn't get any- thing but the gong from the start—we don't mention such dis- asters. It went into the garbage pail without even one dissenting vote! So here are the successes. And I hope that you will find them as pleas- ant new friends as we did! * ok ok % FXRST, there are some extra de- licious sand tarts, which are home- made, and a wonderful cookie com- panion for iced Summer beverages. Sand tarts keep longer and better, under adverse Wweather conditions, than almost any other wafer, and these, that are paper thin, are de- lightfully crisp and crunchy. They are made by a special old family recipe, the secret of which is jealously guarded, and are sold by the dozen in a local shop. They'll take you right back to the kitchen of your childhood days, which was always fragrant with the aroma of cinnamon, baking cakes | and hot, fresh bread. The trouble with the kitchens of today is that | they don’t smell enough—they are too | blamed sanitary! LR ECOND, as an aid to the most amateurish of cooks, who wishes to give her dishes a professional look, | and also for the convenience of the | great masters of the culinary world, an | enterprising manufacturer has placed | Betsy Caswell. Manners of the Moment HAVE you ever noticed how officious some persons get when they are in a foreign restaurant? They like to pretend that they know what is the real thing. You take people who have been to Mexico—or even just to California—and you can’t hold them in a Mexican restaurant. They start telling the pretty Mexican girl who waits on the table just exactly how to make a real Mexican tamale. And they grow obnoxious if they don't get a tamale just like the one they ate in Agua Caliente once. It’s the same way with the man who used to know a Chinese chap in col- lege. He's incorrigible in a chop suey restaurant. He knows it all. The rice isn’t right, and the way it's served Isn't right, and there's some dish which the waiter can't seem to recog- nize from his description, which only proves that the waiter is a Russian instead of the Chinese that he ought to be. Personally we think world travelers ghould learn to take their local foreign restaurants quietly and with gratitude. But until they do, we advise their friends to steer them into steak din- ners. It's much safer. JEAN. | name, on the market & small jar containing npimentos cut in tiny fancy shapes— stars, hearts, diamonds, crescents, thin strips and so on—all ready to garnish a dish with the least possible trouble! * X ¥ % "HIRD, we approved a new kind of short appetizer cracker—excellent | with the tart beverage or cocktail, which resembles a small puff ball in appearance and tastes like an espe- cially good Scotch short bread. These little dears have a rather unattractive unfortunately—but, after all, one doesn't eat the name, and their looks and flavor are very decidedly on the attractive side! * oK X 'OURTH, having been pretty much opposed all my life to canned fruit cocktail or salad, I have dis- covered a new variety that really does taste like fresh fruit and is put up in small and very dainty dice and cubes. When thoroughly chilled and sprinkled with lemon juice or perhaps a little Kirsch, it would be difficult to find a better ¢solution of the cut-up fruit problem for the emergency meal or for unexpected guests. ok ok X TPTH—and made by the same can- ning concern—are pickled aprie cots, which make a nice change from the more familiar pickled peaches to serve with roasts and cold cuts. The apricots are large and pickled whole, with the stones left in. The sirup is nicely flavored and is sharp enough to be a splendid foil for a mild-fla- vored meat. * x x % S!XTH is a wee bottle containing a gentle-looking liquid, which turned out to be garlic juice. you like your garlic in a fairly mild form, and don’'t want the reek of the real McCoy romping through the halls when your | guests come to dinner, try the bottled variety, for it is practically odorless and gives a delightful savor to various dishes when used according to di- rections. Onion juice has been a stand-by in the kitchen for some time now, permitting cooks to season their dishes without crying their eyes out, but the garlic essence is new—at least to me—and I think bids fair to become as great a favorite as its older brother. * ok * % | SEVENTH and last—but by no means least—comes an item that will be irresistible to those who remember their childhood and that china box kept on the whatnot in grandma's parlor that was always mysteriously full of tiny, pink-striped peppermint drops, whenever you came to visit! The spicy odor that met childish noses when the lid was lifted will always bring back the “good old days” with surprising clarity. So if you want to indulge in a little sentimental day-dreaming, go and buy yourself some of these self-same pink-and-white candy drops that may be had right here in this oh, so modern Washing- ton. And if you don't drop years off your shoulders with the first nibble— then you must have lost your streak of sentiment completely! My Neighbor Says: A mixture of three parts garden loam, one part leaf mold and one part well decayed manure should be used in window boxes to ob- tain best results. As soon as your furnace fire is out and cellar thoroughly cleaned, whiten the walls with a cold water paint or whitewash. (Copyright, 1937.) (Copyright, 1987.) are a few of the new BY MARGARET WARNER. ROUPING accessories has be- come almost & fine art. Matching shoes and hand bag, and finding suitable gloves to wear with both of them, used to call for a lot of foot work, as well as head work; but now our up- and-coming shoe shops are so com- pletely “accessory conscious” that they are bedecking their windows with de- lightful combinations of good taste, that also include handkerchiefs, scarfs and jewelry. Your shoes are the most expensive accessory to any costume and there- fore it is only logical to buy them first and match, or harmonize, the other items with them. When they are all in the same shop it is much easier to do this. Take, for instance, that tricky new idea, the tipless glove of perforated kid presented alongside the toeless Summer may not be the time you use an afghan, but it's the time’to make one. This afghan consists of & number of hexagons, each about 5 inches across. If you always have you crochet hook with you—and a bit of yarn— you'll be surprised how quickly a lovely piece will be finished. The design is most simple. Reversing the colors on adjacent motifs forms an unusual patt- ern. The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand illustrated directions, with diagrams to aid you; also what crochet hook and what material snd how much you will need. To obtain this pattern, send for No. 332 and inclose 15 cents in stamps or ooin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Needlework Editor of ‘The Evening Star. r (Coprrishs, 20879 ) perforated sandal, such ideal team- mates for Spring and Summer after- noons! These dainty gloves need not be removed for fear of soiling the finger tips when refreshments are passed, for there aren't any finger tips there, and the pull-on gauntlet type of thin kid or washable doeskin is quite cool enough. These gloves and sandals come in high shades of Spring green, pansy purple and other colors, as well as white. * K % % THmE was & timely suggestion in a new hankie of white linen printed in a repeated pattern of three dainty royal plumes, like a crest. And the loveliest white bags that you have seen in years! This season they are using a great variety of white processed leathers—alligator, pigsiin calf and patent, all equally interesting. And newest of all are straw bags, light as a feather and smartly casual. Have you seen the chapeau bag, made from the unblocked body of & white Panama hat and gathered up with bright cords passed through large eyelets around the top like a sewing bag? Little flower sprays are painted on the outside and the white cotton lining is printed in the same Dolly Varden design. Imported crocheted gloves are going to be worn again this Summer, and some of the most attractive ones were found in a shoe shop with the white shoes. The pattern is new and fascinating, and the price not too high. They also come in black, navy and beige. Another shop is showing some cobwebby thin mesh gloves that you will hardly know that you have on, These are in white, navy, black and brown and are only $1.00 The matching shoes and hand bags of natural linen, trimmed in brown leather are going to be very popular and with them the beige crocheted lace gloves would be perfect. * Kk k% COBTUW Jewelry in a shoe shop does scem to scale the very peak of the accessory ides, but why not? There's an intriguing little bauble of & necklace with seven vari-colored pendant stones. The first letters of the names of these stones spell out the word “dearest,” and it is all very nice and romantic for Summer eve- nings when the conversation is made up of “sweet nothings.” The necklace starts it off by prompting the ques- tion, “Why all the different colors?” ‘Then comes the little story about the seven letter word made from the names of seven precious stones, and that will carry you along besautifully for balf an hour at least! In another shop they are matching up those new rough straw hats with new straw bags in the same roughish brald, fashioned l!mwm like folded- Summer accessories. < White grained leather bag with shell handle; a sheer mousseline scarf gaily striped; crocheted lace gloves and tipless perforated kid gloves with matching perforated toeless sandals, and a bag mada from a Panama hat —s8tar Staff Photo from a Washington Shop. over bonnets. They come in natural color and toasted shades and are bound around with different colors of grosgrain ribbons. They are quite the latest idea of a prominent bag designer. They are very commodious and of course light in weight, and more serviceable for general wear than the white leather bags. Watch to see the first one swinging by on the street. * ok Xk % AND one sugegstion for mother! | ‘While we were passing a florist's window we saw such a beautiful Gay Frock blossoming out in & dashing lit- tle daytime frock such as this one. For achool or street wear, at home or in the office, it is one of those perfect complements to a young woman’s charms and vivacity. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1303-B is available for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Corresponding bust measure- ment, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 14 (32) requires’ just 3% yards 35-inch material plus contrasting %, yard. SPR.ING’I'IME is for variety, for Every Barbare Bell Pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which, uuu_.hrl'm“- lovely lilacs with & few yellow rose buds peeping through. Surely it would make a mother catch her breath for Joy at seeing such a basket next Sun- day, Mother's day. To many people lilacs mean Springtime more than any other one thing. Their entrancing fragrance often calls back memories of a small home in a little village far removed from bustling city streets—a little house more acquainted with hap- piness than wealth, with lilacs bloom= ing in the dooryard. Orchids make wonderful gifts, but simpler flowers lavendar basket brimming over with ' will carry an equally welcome message. | for Misses BARBARA BELL, Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for pattern No. 1303-@. Size.... Name ceceecmmcaecncacmamomanan handle and grasped the hammer head by the claws and beat the nails home. “That’s a funny way to hammer nails, Tony.” “Isn’t {t? But this hammer fis no good. You can't hit a nail with it.” “That’s right,” said the teacher. “It is badly balanced. It should carry downward on its own weight, but it doesn't. Try another one, ‘Tony.” | Poor tools are expensive things. | They teach children the wrong idea. Tony's hammer gave him the wrong feeling in his hand and arm. Unless he gets a good hammer at once and this feeling that has been registered in his muscular memory regarding hammers is corrected speedily, he will use a hammer the wrong way. Even when he gets a good one he will use it badly because he has been trained wrong. It is customary to buy the cheapest possible materials for school children’s use. That is necessary in one way. Public money for schools is scarce and must be made to go as far as pos- sible. But there is a grade of cheap- ness that spells expense, and it has been reached when we buy paper that tears under the pencil, blots under the pen, blisters under color wash. It has been passed when we get chalk that cuts the blackboards and fails to make clear marks. ; Aside from the fact that little | service can be had out of such tools there is the more important fact that children get wrong impressions by using poor materials. “Please give | me a paper of needles,” said a child to the millinery teacher in a big trade school. “A whole package?” “Yes. Some won't have points. | some will break, some will have eyes that cut threads, so I need 2 whole package to start with so as to save | time coming after them.” “You won't find these needles like | that. They are good ones. One of them ought to last you for six weeks or more.” “A needle? For six weeks? I never had such a needle. Where I came from we had to bring our own needles from home if we wanted good ones. My that's fine to have a good needle.” “You don't need to push on that saw, son. Just shove it along gently and it will do the cutting. Don't put your weight on it like that. Here, lightly, just enough pressure to let the teeth catch.” “I can't saw that way. I have to push the saw or it won’t cut for me.” The boy had been used to handling a poor saw, one that had not been set right, or that could not be set right. He had learned to saw the wrong way, and it would take a lot of doing to teach him the right way now. Buying books for children is an- other investment that calls for care. Don’t buy the books that have poor paper, poor type, narrow margins. Such books strain the eyes and form bad reading habits. The eye habits that a child learns while reading are what make reading easy for him or a strain on him. Buy books that have good paper, not shiny. See that the type is clear and is large enough. If you buy one with the name of a good publishing house on it you are very likely to get the right kind. There is a cheapness that is too costly. Muc—h‘i);sier Now To Be Beautiful BY ELSIE PIERCE. ICTURE yourselt going through the contoritions of lacing yourself, or being laced, into the steel harness of grandmother’s time. Then com- pare that breath-taking ordeal with the ease of getting into your cleverly- cut, perfectly-fitted, feather-weight undergarments. And, say you are not happy to be part of this genera- tion. I dare you! Picture yourself way back when a permanent meant winding the hair on sticks, packing it in clay, baking in the sun for days. Then think of getting your permanent today—a mat- ter of two hours, perhaps, from pre- liminary shampoo to final setting. Think of getting a permanent, in fact, without electricity, without ma- chinery, without wires or heaters— just a gentle, chemically-heated sachet putting the wave in by a vapor process. Imagine being able to walk about, do your telephoning, catching up on that short story (you probably won’t fin- ish it before your wave is finished) while the permanent is “taking.” It is easier now, isn't it? Think of the time, and not so long ago at that, when powder was either a dead white or a deep pink and heavy as flour. It may have accomplished its mission of “toning down shine.” Right through the ages women have feared a shiny nose. But it must have showed up every little flaw, wrinkle and imperfection, since it seldom matched the skin it covered. And it must have clogged and enlarged ever so many pores. Contrast that with the special powder textures of today, prepared for either the dry or the olly skin, powders that are fine and powders that are superfine. And the long line of shades, ready-prepared or specially and individually blended to harmonize perfectly not only with the delicate nuances of your skin, but meant to change, darker or lighter, as your skin changes with the season. Isn’t life and beauty easier now? Think of the concept and standard of beauty & few decades ago. The baby who wasn't beautiful at birth started with a handicap. She never stood any chance of becoming & beauty because beauty at that time tion. There couldn’t be, because not only does every hobbledehoy differ from every other hobbledehoy in try- ingness and unreason, but also he does not himself present the same line of aggravations two days in succession As soon as his poor mother flatters herself that she has got him house- broken and to eating out of her hand he reverts again to the wild. Hence, about all the advice you can give the mother of an adolescent sor is to bid her pray for patience and cultivate her funny bone, for this affliction will pass. Johnny will grow up into being John. His voice will settle down to its destined register. Instead of landing in jail or the insane asylum he will adorn some doctor’s or lawyer’s office, or be an up-and-com- ing young man in business. And the mother’s salvation, as well as the boy’s, depends upon her being able to laugh off his youthful follies instead of making tragedies out of them. * x % % 'OW, no one will contend that an adolescent boy Is easy to get along with. On the contrary, he is about as pleasant a companion as a fretful por- cupine. He bristles with feelings. He is abnormally vain and self-conscious. He is as full of foolish notions as an egg 1s of meat. And he is so drunk with his first draught of fredom that he resents the slightest suggestion of control. His case should be treated with as much finesse as if it were a League mother are at loggerheads, and father and mother not only lose the chance Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. DINNER Fresh Vegetable Salad Spring Lamb Parsley Potatoes Buttered Spinach Currant Jelly Frozen Custard Peanut Cookies Coffec or Tea SUPPER Tuna Salad Sandwiches Cream Cheese and Olive Sandwiches Radishes Stuffed Celery Choeolate Ice-Box Cake Coffee FROZEN CUSTARD. (Rich and Velvety.) 6 egg yolks 1, teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons 4 cups milk flour 1 cup thin cream 1 cup granu- 2 teaspoons lated sugar vanilla Beat the yolks. Add flour, sugar and salt. Add the milk. Cook mix- ture in double boiler until it thickens slightly, stirring frequently. Cool. Add rest of ingredients and freeze until stiff. PEANUT COOKIES. 3 egg yolks 23 cup chopped 1 cup granulated roasted peanuts sugar 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon 1 teaspoon bak- vanilla ing powder 1, teaspoon 3 eggwhites, salt beaten Beat yolks and sugar. Add rest of ingredients and mix lightly. Pour into a shallow pan lined with waxed paper. Bake 25 minutes in a moderate oven. Cut in bars while warm and roll in granulated sugar. TUNA SALAD SANDWICHES. 12 slices white 1g teaspoon bread, buttered paprika 12 cup tuna 3 tablespoons % cup minced mayonnaise celery 1 teaspoon 1 pickle, rninced lemon juice Vs teaspoon salt Place the bread slices in pairs on a flat surface. Spread with the rest of the ingredients combined. Arrange sandwich fashion. Discard crusts and serve. “Sweeten it with Domino’ Refined in US.A. Bread was limited to perfection of features. Today every baby of the falner sex is born with an equal right and equal of Nations problem. But, alas, few | parents waste diplomacy upon their | children. So Johnny and father and | Just remember that he will never be as old again, not even if he lives a hundred years. When he is 70 he will like to be called Johnny and to boast of how young he is, but now you must address him as Mr. Smith and not mention the youth of which he is ashamed. He wants you to think he is very, very old and very, very blase And never, never, never be guilty of humiliating him by kissing him public, or making him go out with h little sisters and brothers. That’s a degredation not to be borne. * ok ox x | CL‘T out the questionnaire that the | adolescent boy considers suc | reflection on his manhood. The w mother I know says that her tongue is a half inch shorter than it used to be because she bit that much off of it in keeping from asking her sons when | they were 18 and 19 where they were i going and what they were going to do. Because, she said, if they were going where they should not go they would lie about it, and if they were going where they should go it didn’t make any difference whether or not sha [ knew about it. Imitate her example. Don't get into a panic every time your boy goes to see a girl. That's the surest way to drive him into an early marriage. Don't ridicule his taste | in dress and poke fun at his passionate | neckties and socks or his exaggerated clothes. That is his strut to attract the attention of the girls who are ju:t as silly as he is. Don't think he is lazy and no-o-- count because you can't get him up the morning and because it wears y | out to try to get him to do a chi | about the house. Don't take him seriously. Few of the things that seem | to mean so much in an adolescent boj mean anything at all, except that is 17. Most important of all, pile on the flattery. Your adolescent boy needs to be encouraged, made sure of himself, instead of criticized and blamed Though he would die rather than acknowledge it, he values the praise of his family above all else DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1937.) e B To Prevent Soda Taste. The soda taste commonly found in foods in which that leavening agent is used is often the result of the use of too much soda or the fact that it is not properly mixed with the other in- gredients. The soda first should be dissolved in a small amount of liquid called for in the recipe. Or it may be thoroughly stirred into the rest of the dry ingredients before they are added to the liquids. . Muffin Hints. Add half a cup of any of the fol- lowing ingredients to your favorite muffin recipe Cranberries, nuts, raisins, currants, dates, cocoanut, |drained crushed pineapple, grated cheese, chopped prunes, candied fruit or grated sweet chocolate. " HE FOUND ALL-BRAN BROUGHT REGULAR DAILY ELIMINATION Get rid of half-sick days—with the headaches. the listlessness. the “alway tired feeling.” Frequently, they come . common constipation . . . due to meals low in “bulk.” All you have to do is eat & delicious cereal regularly: “Every morning, for years, I have had & good helping of your ALL-BRAN, and it means regular, da elimination.”—Mr. E. N. Kring, 312 | Hickory St., Fairbury. Illinots. 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