Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1940, Page 42

Cc—4 Departmental Release Calls Attention.to I Bureau of Home Economics I WOMEN’S FEATURES. Points Out Advantages to Average Housekeeper Veal Seen Good Week-End Buy In Washington Markets; Produce Prices Lower By BETSY CASWELL, Woman's Editor. We have an interesting quotation from a recent release from the Bureau of Home Economics of the Department of Agriculture to give you today, so we'll pass rather briefly over the general market situation, & - Which shows very few changes from last week. ¥ In most instances produce prices are coming down and quality is going up. This is marked in the case of tomatoes, cucumbers and peas especially, Greens are still very popular, and young turnips, with tops attached, are greatly in demand. Cantaloupes and cherries make headlines in the fruit stalls—not found everywhere, hut very good. Bananas are par- ticularly fine just now and are so inexpensive they are a boon to any budget. Meats and fish and poultry stay about the same as last week, although for the i i i Betsy Caswell. be interested in week end we find veal forging ahead as a favorite and selected buy. cut a piece’of roasting veal into steak-size slices for you and roll it neatly—this is a fine way to buy the meat for a small household. Now for the department’s news. Incidentally, many butchers will I'm sure you'll the streamlining undergone by vege- tables in the last few years—all to your advantage! The bureau says: “New varieties, as well as more abundant supply, have been the growers’ contribution to the chang- ing fashions in vegetables. These new varieties are the result of their experiments to give consumers high quality, crisp, tasty vegetables of uniform size and color. “One of the newcomers in vege- table fashions is the green bean with no strings attached. This new ‘snap bean’ is long and slender, and it's much easier to shred than the old- fashioned ‘string bean.’ “Carrots have been streamlined so they can be scraped with less waste. Many varietles now have rounded tops, with smooth sides that taper down to the root. Brighter color and less core also give carrots a higher popularity rating. “A really stylish vegetable is the longer, straighter cucumber. It yields more slices, because it is longer and the ends are less pointed. “Once the tomato was known as the beautiful love-apple. Since then this vegetable has been much im- proved for eating purposes. It is now firm and meaty, smooth and round, bright and shiny. “The new iceberg lettuce is an- other popular style trend in the veg- etable picture. This iceberg, or New York, lettuce has a firm, compact head—almost like a cabbage. It has crisp, tender, about the right size for cups to hold salad. And this lettuce makes a perfect salad by itself, when the hearts are served with a favorite | dressing. “Celery is still another vegetable | in the style news. A new variety, with less stringy fiber, is now being developed. It's crisp and tender all the way through, from its green- ish outer stalks to the heart at the center.” SUNDAY DINNER MENU. Spring Hors d'Oeuvres Platter Veal Birds Boiled Greens Steamed Caulifiower Popovers Romaine and Watercress Salad Barana Cream Pie Iced Coffee With the Meal Manners of the Moment Two executives at the head of the same outfit don’t always collaborate perfectly. There's usually a slip somewhere between what daddy says and what mummy says. But when dad slides out of such unpleasant tasks as making the children go to bed on time, on the grounds that the home is mummy's domain, he's really being mean to mummy. It builds her up into some sort of ogre. My idea would be to have parents take turn about weeks at being fam- ily executives. On Monday morn- ing the family would be told that this is daddy’s week, or mummy’s week, and all momentous decisions were to be turned over accordingly. The same might go for couplés without children who must decide what movies are to be seen, what social engagements accepted, what meals to be eaten out. One week husband takes over, the next week decisions are up to the wife. No fuss. No argument. (Well, maybe you could have just a little argument . . . for fun.) JEAN. -~ curling leaves just | SPRING HORS D'OEUVRES PLATTER. Hard cook eggs, allewing one whole egg per person. Chill. Scoop out the yolk and mix it with well- seasoned mayonnaise and a little aviar—the small, inexpensive kind. will do for this. Stuff back into egg whites and chill thoroughly. Set on a platter with chilled spring onions, radishes, olives; one or two sardines that have been drained, chilled and well sprinkled with lemon juice, and a few pickled beets, also chilled. VEAL BIRDS. 2 pounds veal. 1 cup bread crumbs. 2 tablespoons butter, 13 teaspoon salt. Pepper. Chopped fresh sage and thyme (i1 possible). 1 tablespoon chopped green pep- per. 1 egg, 2 tablespoons milk. Have the butcher slice veal fr shoulder or leg very thin. W veal, remove any bone, skin or fat. Cut meat in pieces 2' inches long by 11: inches wide. Spread each piece with a mixture of the crumbs, butter, salt, pepper, chopped herbs (use dried if fresh are unavailable). green pepper, egg and milk. Roll up like a jelly roll, securing with toothpick if necessary. Dust in flour, salt and pepper and brown in hot fat. Put in a casserole or baking dish and add 1 cup milk and 1 cup water. Cover, bake in a moderate oven for about 1}; hours. One cup chopped mushrooms may be added for last half hour of cook- ing. Thicken gravy before serving if desired. BANANA CREAM PIE. 5 tablespoons cake flour, Y4 teaspoon salt. 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten. 4 tablespoons sugar. 1 cup cold milk. 135 cups milk, scalded. 2 teaspoons vanilla. 3 bananas. 12 cup cream, whipped. 1 baked 9-inch pie shell. Combine flour, sugar and snlt.l Add cold milk and mix well. Add| scalded milk gradually, place in dou- ble boller and cook until thickened, | stirring constantly. Pour small| amount of mixture over egg yolks, | return to double boiler and cook three to four minutes longer. Cool. Add vanilla. Chill. Add slices of one banana. Slice second banana| and arrange in pie shell. Pour in chilled filling: slice remaining ba- |nana over top and spread with | whipped cream. Serve at once. My Neighbor Says: Make cuts in marshmallows, insert bits of butter and jelly. Arrange on crackers and broil or bake until the marshmal- lows are puffy and brown. Scrambled eggs and boiled sausages are popular, even in summer, for evening snacks. Vary the flavors by surround- ing the platter with broiled pineapple rings, apricot or peach halves. | Do not move bread dough after it begins to rise, or it is likely to fall. Select a spot, out of a draft, for the bowl. Cover with a cloth and then let the dough alone. Knit Him By BARONESS PIANTONI. Give a man a sweater to wear when he is puttering about the house or garden or indulging in his favorite sport, and he is happy. Here's a long-sleeved affair that is a delight a Sweater to knit and to wear. ‘The pattern comprises full information and instructions—for sizes 34 to 40 Ask for pattern No. 1468 and inclose 15 cents. Address orders to the Needlework Editor of The Evening Star. 3 < THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940. Just a Touch of the Tropics. .. ———’ Entirely Correct for a Boy | Answering To Bring Candy With Him When Calling on Girl But Establishing Precedent Might Prove Financially If you happen to have a china hippo and a small savage or two in the chil- dren’s old play closet, you could give a tropical air to Sunday’s dinner table to match the banana dessert. Incidentally, such decorations would be fine for a pre-circus buffet supper, too! (Dorothy Dix Says - - - Obedience to Parents Is Required Do Not Be Swayed | By Child’s Tears And Pleading °By ANGELO PATRL “O, dear. Clarette wants to go| to Marie’s party. It means an over-| night affair. The whole week end away from home. She's too young. Girls of 16 can't attend such parties, | but she has made up her mind to go | and I'm worried to death. I do wish she would be sensible about such things, but she isn't.” g “You aren't thinking of letting| her go, are you, Mary?” | “What can I do?” If I keep her| home she 1s going to be perfectly miserable the whole week end.| Crying all the time, complaining | that we never let her have a good time, that she is held like a prison- | er. I never put in such a week as| the one I endured after keeplngi her from vacationing with a group of her school friends.” “Were you sorry you kept her at home?” [ “Indeed not. That vacation party | ended in plenty of trouble. And| she acknowledged that she was glad | I had made her stay home. But she was 8o unhappy. And so were we.” “Let her be unhappy. You know it is wrong for her to go to such places. So she does not go. Make her understand it. If she makes everybody unhappy with her wailing Jjust tell her to stay in her room until she gets over it. It won't hurt her any to find she can't have her own way all the time.” “She’ll rave and storm and cry| and take on. Really, I haven't the courage to tace it.” Better face it. Boys and girls in their early teens are champing their bits, but the firm, steady hand holds them in place just the same. If they get their heads they are likely to lose them and there is only more trouble at the end. Nobody likes to refuse a child happiness, but those of us who are old enough to have children to rear understand that life holds quite as much grief as joy in store for youth. It we rear a child to believe, through experiences with us, that a few tears, a few stamps and howls and threats, force us to put aside our better judgment and yield to their child- ishness, we head that child for fail- ure. Other people, and the hard facts of daily living, will not break down before tears and tempers. They will shrug and go ahead, over, under or around, the childish one and leave him champing his teeth in the emptiness. Home cannot always be sunshine and roses. Children will want what they cannot have, or should not have,\and parents.will have to say no and mean it. Parents will have to be strong enough to stand by their duty to the child and let him cry it out—in the privacy of his own room. When a child learns, by experi- ence, that obedience to his parents’ wish brings him safety and happi- ness and some degree of comfort, he will stop crying. Until then, let him cry and harden your heart. Start Day With Lemon One of the most refreshing ways to start the day is to drink a glass of water to which has been added the juice of a lemon. This is an excellent health rule also. For its laxative effect, many per- sons drink lemon water and soda on arising. Squeeze the juice of a lemon into a tall glass of warm or cold water. Into another glass, put half a teaspoon of ordinary baking sods. Pour back and forth and drink when foaming subsides. Sunbonnets Are Bigger mateh In dotted pique or checked cotton, | and so much sickness that we are ‘the hand treatment. Apply a little and are distinguished by back drap- eries that form walst-long capes. @] Dear Miss Dix—Why do parents wait until they die to help their children flnancially? My father and mother are devoted to us, and they are more than well off, so| that they would not miss any money | that they might give us and it 1:; hard to understand why they don't do something to ease our burden | when they see the desperate straits we are in. We have done the best we could. We have worked hard, but we have had so many reverses losing heart. A gift from them would make new people of us. They cannot help but see how shabby our clothes are, how wornout is our furniture, how badly in need of re-| pairs our house is. Why do they| not give us & little money that would be such a help now when we | need it so very much, instead of waiting to leave it all to us when they die and when, perhaps, we will not need it at all? A A, Answer—The alibi that parents offer for not helping their children get a start in life is that it is good Care of Nails To Prevent Breaking By PATRICIA LINDSAY. Finger-wise beauties are more conscious of smooth cuticle and long sturdy nails. In spring, especially if you live where winters are long and cold, the essential oils so neces- sary to the softness and pliancy of nails are sorely lacking. Your cuti- cles are likely to become ragged as they too become dry. Your nails split or break because they are brittle. Obviously external treatment is needed. If you will follow these tips for finger-tip charm your nail pro- blems will be corrected and your hands will look nicely groomed: | 1—File nails toward center. Don't| file down at corners and never, never cut corners. It weakens the | nails’ support and they are apt to | split. 2—Try not to cut the cuticle. Dip | cotton-tipped orange stick into a cuticle-remover solution and work it around the ragged skin. Never use scissors, as cutting the cuticle creates pesky hangnails. If the solu- tion does not remove the ragged skin use nippers expertly—nipping off only the ragged part—never touch- ing the fiesh. 3—To mend a split nail cover it with colorless tape and apply a deep, opaque polish over it until it has grown out. % 4—Apply a protective, colorless nail base before your polish. Also apply it over your polish (when it has dried thoroughly) and bring it down over and under the nail tip. This gives added support and makes it tougher. 5—Apply polish using it not too freely. Better two coats than one runny coat! Keep your hand steady and have moons and white tips even, 6—After polish has dried well— of nail grooming oil to each nail and massage it carefully around the cuticle. Then cover hands and wrists ' with a rich hand cream and slip on | cotton gloves to steam in the oils while you read, make phone calls, or rest. Both oil and cream should remain on your hands at least one- half hour. It is good to apply both just before going to bed and sleep with the gloves on. 7—Remember to anoint your time after waahing thers, - Keep up time after em. Keep up this practice until the hot. weather sets in and your hands will be smooth, soft and your cuticles will be ruly. : 8—Once every week or ten days’ when you have a free hour heat some olive oil, or cuticle oil. Saturate some flannel strips with it and wrap them around your hands fingered .| and fingers. Wear loose gloves over all for an hour. Remove and wash in warm suds, dry well, and then snoint with a bit of qulckly'blnrb'dhmdbum. discipline for the young to be thrown out on their own and to have to “root, pig or die,” as the homely old country phrase goes, and that it strengthens their morale to have to suffer hardships. That excuse sounds plausible, but in my opinion it is all hooey. It is just a camouflage for the stinginess | of people who love their money | better than they do their children and who cannot bring themselves to part with a dollar until death loosens their tight fists. They wouldn't even give it to them then if there was any way of taking their possessions with them, but fortunately there are no pockets in shrouds. Of course, how much help parents | should give their children depends upon circumstances. It is, for in-| stance, suicidal for a father and mother to turn over all of their property to their children on the children’s promise to cherish them and support them in their old age. Also, it is foolish and wrong to supply a drunkard or a gambler or a wastrel with money to enable him to indulge in his vices. Nor is there any merit in supplying a daughter with enough money to make a life occupation of buying husbands and divorces. But when parents have been blessed with sons and daughters who are fine people, who are in- dustrious and thrifty and hard working and ambitious, they are cruel and selfish if they do not give the youngsters a hand up and save them from -s0 many of the hardships that take so much of the joy out of their youth and make them old before their time. If we saw an old man and woman sitting in a dining room feasting on the most luscious food while their starving children gnawed on a bone in the corner we would think that they were the most unnatural and despicable creatures in the world, but they would be no whit worse than are the rich parents who with- hold all help from their children | think the picture is a completely who need it. DOROTHY DIX. w5 GLORIOUS SUDS IN 3 SECONDS WOMEN'S FEATURES. Embarrassing Later Dear Kay and Alden: ‘Who should be first, the boy or the girl, to invite the other to dinner? Is it all right for a fellow to bring little gifts (chocolates, etc.) when he calls on a girl, when there hasn't the seriousness of their relationship? been an understanding in regard to There isn't any definite rule as to who should invite whom to dinner fAirst. If & boy had taken a girl out a number of times, it would be a friendly and courteous act for her to But it isn’t obligatory. 2 invite him to her home for dinner. A boy can invite a girl to go out to dinner at any time; but if he were inviting her to dine at his home, we think he should know her fairly well. And we wouldn't advise a girl to extend such an invitation on the basis of only one or two dates—unless she is having other guests. There is certainly no reason why a fellow shouldn’t take a girl such gifts as candy and flowers, even when there is no “understanding” between them. Boys should realize how delighted most girls are by such gifts. They are quite all right, even on the young man a girl woul precedent which would be difficult to live up to. Dear Miss Caldwell and Mr. Harrison: My boy friend of many months is about to graduate from high school. ‘We have exchanged gifts the past two Christmases, and I thought my photograph would make an appro- priate graduation present. But my mother is raising objec- tions. She claims, that such a gift shows conceit, and that it looks as though I were pushing myself on him. I don’t want him to get any im- pression like that. Do you think my gift is out of place, or shows conceit? I do not intend to write any silly or sentimental phrases on it. He has asked for my picture several times. I will deeply appreciate your opin- ion, for I have found your answers to my other questions highly agree- able to Mother and myself. 9.V On such questions as this we usually find that a mother’s judg- ment is pretty sound. But in this particular situation we can see no reason at all why your photograph would not be an excellent gradua- tion gift for the young man. Since he has requested your pic- ture, you will neither be pushing yourself nor showing conceit to give it to him. And we're sure hell have no such thought. More prob- ably he will be delighted with the ift. b ‘We never knew a boy going| “steady” with a girl who didn't want her picture and who didn't prize it highly when he got it. After all, your photograph is the | one thing which you can give him | which no one else can. Your mother’s attitude in wish- | ing you to avoid any action which might reflect on you in any way is certainly praiseworthy. But we appropriate gift and that she is unduly concerned about it. | Dear Columnists: | “The other evening a question| arose on w-ich my ‘gang’ and I| debated for hours. As a regular reader of your column I told the boys I could get the correct answer from you. The question is: Is it proper eti- | quette to hold a girl's hand in the theater? You may think this is a | silly question, but the boys want | to know whether their conduct in the theater is right or wrong. “W.E. M.” From the standpoint of etiquette holding a girl’s hand in the theater | is definitely bad form. Good man-| ners frown on any familiarity or| display of affection in public. | But plenty of young people whose | standards are high and whose man- ners are generally very good have broken this particular rule on occa- sions. If a boy and a girl are on & hand-holding basis, and if they choose to indulge in this minor in- door sport in the darkness of a movie, we don’t think the heavens| would be likely to fall. Always prd- | vided that they do it discreetly and make no public display of their fondness for each other. "WATCH ME 60! SPEED UP DISHWASHING. GREASE MELTS! CHINA AND GLASSWARE SPARKLE! Do you think dishwashing can’t be shortest acquaintance. In fact, the ho took along a box of candy the very first time he called on 't be hurting his cause—although he might be establishinng a e POSTSCRIPT ON PROMS ‘We've been asked our opinion of high school girls attending their class proms when they don't have dates. < We're all for it, and we think the committees in charge of such dances should make a definite effort to get both boys and girls who have no dates to attend. After all, it's 8 Cl party and every member of the class should be made to feel welcome, We wouldn’t blame any girl for staying away from a dance that was entirely a ‘“couples” affair. And we think unescorted girls would do well to go in groups of three or more. But if you know that there will be other dateless girls and plenty of stags there, go without hesitation—and have fun! Is_ self-consciousness_ spoiling your good times? For 5 cents in coin you cAn have our “Overcom- ing Shyness” leaflet—and it will be a big help. Just address Kay Caldwell and Alden Harrison in care of this newspaper. Stepped Up Rhubarb Spiced rhubarb puts extra zest into meals. Make rhubarb sauce | in your regular way, then just be- fore you take it off the fire mix in 1, teaspoon of cinnamon and Y, teaspoon each of cloves, nutmeg and grated lemon rind to each 2 cups of cooked rhubarb. Boil for a minute, then serve warm or ed. Curry in Dressing Curry powder in French dressing does a lot for plain vegetable salads. For each cup of French dressing mix 13 teaspoon curry powder, % | teaspoon each of minced chives and parsldy and one hard-cooked egg, finely chopped. mprovements in Vegetables Invitation To a Tea Only Necessary if R.S.V.P. Indicates Reply Expected 2 By EMILY POST. Dear Mrs:Post: We've been having quite a lot of discussion lately as to when it is necessary, or proper, to answer an invitation to a tea. We would appreciate having you explain this with regard to a small tea and a large tea. Answer: If the invitation reads: “Will you come in on Saturday . . . etc.” or even “Tea at 5 o'clock on Friday” and r. 5. v. p. beneath it, it must be answered. The first with a note in the first person, and the second on your visiting card under your name: “Accepts with pleasure for Friday the S5th” An engraved invitation to a tea need not be answered at all unless it includes r. 5. v. p. If it requires an answer, you write a third person note on formal note paper. If there is no answer asked for and you want to be punctiliously correct, you mail your card (or cards) the night before, so that they will be received on the morning of the tea. The object of this is to let the hostess know that you are among those not to be provided for. If you are going, then you leave your cards at the party. If you know the hostess well you don't leave cards at the tea (unless you are old-fash- ioned), and if you can’t go you tele- phone or write a regret on your card and mail it ahead of time. * kX X Dear Mrs. Post: Two of the men in this business office have Ph. D. degrees and every one here calls them Dr. This and Dr. That. I address them this way, too, but T always wonder whether this is not overdoing the use of titles. It seems to me that in general business this title should be reserved for medical men. Answer—The holder of a Ph. D. degree may properly be addressed by the title “doctor” under all circum- stances. But it is an especial re- quirement when the subject in which the person earned this degree applies to his everyday work. In any case, acknowledgement of this honor is a courtesy which should certainly be shown them unless they prefer to be called Mr. in ordinary business life. x K % ¥ Dear Mrs. Post—Is one supposed to write thank-you notes for birth- day cards and telegrams? Answer—Not as a rule. If the message was unexpected, that is from some one who had never re- membered your birthday and whose birthday you never pay attention to, then you would probably want to make this an oecasion for writing a note, or at least for sending a hand-written message on a greeting Amazing 4 PURPOSE Hair Rinse gives bair more Life, Lustre and Color - Your hair nesd mos be dull, or drab, or stringy. Lovalon used after a sham- Poo does these 4 things: 1. Highlights the hair, giving spark- 2. Tints as it rins ling lustre and a healthful glow. Accents satural colar, “blends in" faded strands. 3. Rinses away shampoo film. 4. Helps keep hair neatly in place. Lovalon does not dye, does not blesch. 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