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Helpful Suggestions in the Busy Lives of Modern Washington Women
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Washington Acquires
New Furniture Types
That Really Delight Eye
“
Examples of Beauty Provide Well for Bride
Who Is Making Choice of Equipment
for Home.
BY BETSY CASWELL.
MORE and more the good type
of modern furniture seems
to be invading the shops of
Washington. In place of the
old angular horrors commit
ted in the name of Modernism, we
have placed before us, for our choice,
piece after piece of household equip
ment that is truly a delight to the eye.
The very simplicity of line and color
tone is restful and charming—I was
reauy surprised:
and Immensely
pleased to see the :
many evidences
of beauty and
good taste en
compassed by the
new chairs and
sofas, tables and
ornaments, just
being unpacked
and set out for
display here and
there. Certainly
the 1935 bride has i
many things to |
help her in mak
ing her choice of
Betsy Caswell.
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her new home.
Brown and fawn seem to be the most
preferred for living room arrangements
at the moment. These harmonizing
tones combine so smoothly with the
copper-banded furniture, and copper
accessories, as well as with the many
delightful knick-knacks made of cop
per-colored mirror glass, that a room
done in this manner is easy to as
lemble to suit the individual taste.
For instance, in the living room
Illustrated, where the furniture and
general decor is distinctly modern
in feeling, the sofa is In brown
and fawn striped chenille. The arms
are completely covered in brown, and
the welting is in brown. The chair
repeats the color scheme, and the
glass-topped table, with a copper base,
harmonizes perfectly with the general
ensemble. All the accessories about
the room are of copper, or in coppery
tones, and the effect is warm and gra
cious to a degree.
Such a room would always be In
good taste, for neither the coloring nor
the pieces themselves are so exagger
ated as to be "faddy'' in any way.
Silvery white, combined with either
palest green or heavenly blue, is muen
favored for bedrooms just now. White
slatted blinds, with either white or
contrasting bands, give a charmingly
diffused light, which is restful to the
eyes and yet do not give the room such
a pall of gloom as do the darker, solid
type of blind. White rugs—very im
practical, of course, but oh, so pretty!
are much in evidence. One way of
solving the white rug problem and
combining utility with beauty, may
be found in the white goat-hair rugs,
which are thickly embroidered with
pastel-hued tropical flowers and birds.
These do not soil so easily, are small
enough to be taken up and shaken
well and wear surprisingly long. On
a dark, polished floor, in a white-toned
bed room, they produce a delightfully
•ilvery and delicate effect.
White-carved cornice* conceal the
poles supporting ethereal white, chin
kled organdy curtains, lush with ruf
fles, which I saw in one model bed
room. They were as dainty and airy
as a moonbeam, and would be charm
ing in a young girl’s room. The wall
paper here was also on the pastel,
delicate tone, carrying out the fresh,
youthful effect.
Another point which I have noticed
recently Is that accessories are being
chosen more and more with care and
thought to their position as an in
tegral part of the room in which they
are to be. The old haphazard idea of
‘‘anything goes," as far as a vase or
lamp is concerned, is rapidly disap
pearing. Clever brides and housekeep
ers are becoming ruthless in weeding
out unnecessary ornaments. Even if
they cannot afford at the moment to
repiace them with some more appro
priate piece they do without either,
rather than spoil the effect of a lovely
room by one jarring note. In this they
show wisdom, for a room rarely suffers
from what it lacks in the way of or
namentation—but oh, how some of
them do suffer from an overabundance
of it!
You know how, if you see a hat
that does not go with anything else
in your wardrobe, and temptation
triumphs over commonsense, you
either never wear the hat, because
there is nothing to go with it—or you
spend a lot of money to purchase a
dress and accessories just on purpose
to set it off. Unfortunately, a whole
room is not such a simple matter to
settle—but the offense is just as great
in introducing the discordant note.
And, most of us, when we have made
such a mistake, have to stick by it,
until the furniture wears out, the
article breaks and the paint peels off
j the walls! So do choose wisely and
| well, down to the littlest ash tray,
i that your four w'alls may hold nothing
within their confines that you in
stinctively rebel against.
In a modem room beware of too
] much metal tubing and sharp angles.
S A little is good, when handled with
judgment and restraint—too much
looks like a so-called futuristic play
room of the roaring 20s. Leather
coverings are beautiful and practical,
unless chosen In too light a shade.
They are expensive, in the initial pur
chase, of course, but give splendid
service in the long run. However,
here in Washington, thought must
also be given to Summer weather, and
if you buy leather chairs and sofas
plan to get straw matting seats and
backs for them for the dog days.
Otherwise, both your friends and your
furniture will suffer!
And, by the way, did you ever try
the tropical trick of putting thin
straw matting on your bed for the hot
nights? It is so much cooler to lie on
than sheets, and will thus insure you
more hours of relatively comfortable
slumber when Summer really decides
to descend upon us.
If you wish adviee on your indi
vidual household problems, write to
Betsy Caswell, in care of The Star,
inclosing stamped, self-addressed en
1 velope for reply.
Ice Is an Aid to Beauty
Young Girl With Normal or Oily Skin
Benefits Most.
BY LOIS LEEDS.
THERE is a difference of opinion
in beauty circles about the ad
visability of using ice as a
facial astringent. But different
viewpoints among experts are
hot unusual. You have to use your
own common sense in the debatable
matters or else follow the advice of
the specialist in whom you have most
confidence.
I. myself, am a believer in cold
water for the complexion and ice,
too, under certain conditions, but I
do not advise everybody to use them.
The young girl with a normal or
oily skin benefits most from this
aort of treatment. She should be
In good health, too. I don't recom
mend Ice or too much cold water
for women with dry skins and deli
cate health. The woman who is not
healthy enough to get a good, warm
reaction from the use of cold ap
plications should avoid them until
her circulation and general physical
tone are Improved.
Ice. when used, should never be
rubbed directly on the skin. A film
Of facial cream wiU afford a cer
tain amount of protection from the
cold, but the Ice should also be
wrapped in a handkerchief. A bet
ter way to use ice for refreshing
and refining the skin is to rub it
over a cotton mask. This treatment
is for oily, tired skins with en
larged pores. The face and neck
are first thoroughly cleansed, mas
saged and wiped with a skin tonic.
Clean absorbent cotton is moistened
in witch hazel or other astringent
lotion and molded over the face and
throat like a mask. The ice rub fol
lows for several minutes. The mask
is then removed and the skin thor
oughly dried. The treatment may be
given once a week.
One objection to the use of ice
on the face, according to one writer
on the subject, is that there may
be a tendency to encourage red veins
on the wings of the nose and cheeks,
such as are seen on faces of out
door workers and sportsmen. This
does not seem to me a valid objec
tion, however. The use of ice and
ice water on the face for, say, three
minutes a day or less frequently, is
not at all comparable to the con
tinuous hours of exposure to the ele
ments for days and months that
produce that weather-beaten look. Of
course. If you already have these red
veins in your face, It would be foolish
to expose them to unnecessary ex
tremes of temperature.
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Quickly
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PATTERN 5161
Here are some cutwork motifs that will be just the thing to use on those
imall linens that make such nice pick-up work in warm weather. Pillow
eases, towels, tray cloths, scarfs are a few of the things you can make. You
can do the motifs in one or varied colors as you wish.
In pattern 5181 you will find a transfer pattern of a motif 5x11 inches,
two motifs. 514x814 inches, two and two reverse motifs each of two 414x514
Inch comers; detail instructions for cutwork with illustrated stitches; material
requirements and suggestions for the use of the motifs.
To obtain this pattern send 10 cents In lUmp# or coin to thi Woman s
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Fawn, Broivn and Copper Tones Stand High in Favor
Brown and fawn striked chenille, welted in brown, cover the sofa and chair above. Brown material also
entirely covers the arms of the modern sofa. The glass-tof>fred table, with its cofrfrer base, repeats the metallic
note of the andirons, and the stnf> on the end table of Oriental wood. _court«*r of th* H«ht co.
Mother 111,
Work Done
By Children
Patient Teaching* by
Parent Results in
Practical Good.
BY ANGFXO TATRI.
J^ACHEL got home from school and
found the house darkened and
still. Mother was in bed, suffering
from a severe headache. "I’m so ■
sorry, Mother. I'll put the ice cap on !
it and make you a cup of tea. Don’t
think about anything. I will take
care of the children and get tea for j
Daddy and them. Do try now tc
get to sleep.”
The two younger children, David
and Moilie, came racing up the walk,
to be suddenly hushed by the sight of
Rachel standing at the side door with
her finger on her lips. Softly the
two tiptoed to her. “What is it,
Rachel? Anything the matter with
Mother?”
"She has a headache. We must be
as still as we can. I have your milk
and cookies on the back porch. Go i
up the back way to change your j
clothes, and try not to make a sound.'’
So said, so done.
When father came home the house
was in cheerful good order. Three
trim, cheerful children met him at
the door, and, to his hasty inquiry,
"Where is Mother?” Rachel said,
"Mother is lying down with a head
ache, but she is better now. She has
been sleeping. I have dinner ready.”
Seated about the table, the children
told father how they had managed.
Rachel prepared the vegetables and
broiled the chops. Moilie had set the
table, David had guarded the tele
phone bells and the door bell, and
watched to see that nobody made any
noise, himself included. As a last
duty, he had prepared mother's tray
against the time when she would
waken and perhaps want something
to eat.
"You’ve done well,” said father,
"very well. Mother will be pleased
tn lrnntr hfiir nionltr tViinirc want ulrttwr
without her It will pay her for all
the bother she had teaching you to do
things. Remember your first burner,
Rachel?”
‘‘Yes. I boiled the potatoes all to
squash, and I forgot to serve the
dessert, and I didn't put any salt in
the spinach, and David cried, and it
was pretty awful. It was mighty good
of you not to throw me into the ash
can that night, Daddy.”
"Lucky Mother had something Jn
the ice box. you mean. We would
have starved. I can do pretty weU,
oan’t I, Rachel?” put in Mollie.
"Oh, splendidly, Molly. She did
the salad all alone. Daddy.”
“You’re three mighty good children,
that's all I have to say. And Mother
will be as proud of you as I am. Let’s
wash up now and be all ready when
Mother wakes up.” said Father, pre
paring to do his bit.
“Oh, no, no. That wouldn't do at
all,” said Rachel. “You just go sit
in your big chair—David has the
paper ready for you. and your slip
pers—and watch us clear these things
away. And we won’t make a sound.
You see.”
Years of patient teaching had gone
into this job. Many a day Mother
had been tempted to say, “Run along,’
all of you. and leave me in peace and
quiet to get this work done.” but she
had restrained herself, taken a long
breath, and once more cheerfully di
rected Rachel and Molly and David to
carry on the household. Not so much
that the household might go on for
a time without her presence, but that
the children might go on when occa
sion demanded.
(Copyright. 1935.)
Croustades.
Cut crusts from day-old bread and
slice about 1 Vi inches thick. Shape
into circles, diamonds, hearts or tri
angles. using cooky cutters and a
sharp knife. With the point of a
small knife, cut around the top y4
inch inside the edge, then carefully
dig down with a fork and remove the
center to within Vi inch of the bot
tom. Toast these bread shells a
golden brown, turning frequently so
that they will brown evenly. Or they
may be brushed with melted butter
and browned In a moderate oven. To
serve, dip the edges in melted butter,
then in finely chopped parsley and
fill the centers with toy creamed or
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Smart Women’s Choice
Tailored Shirtmaker Frock Has
Innumerable Uses.
BY BARBARA BELL.
SMART women the world over
love the shirtmaker frock. They
wear It all day long. In linen
or cotton for active sports, and
in plain or small-patterned
silks for lunch at the country club, or
those hours of shopping when they
must be comfortable, but very smart.
It has innumerable uses and infinite
possibilities as to color and material.
The dress Illustrated is one which
gives all the nice details of perfect
tailoring. Inverted pleats in front
and back of the skirt insure perfect
freedom in walking and give a sug
gestion of flare, which is new this
season. The blouse has a back pleat,
too, and a very becoming notched
collar. Included in the pattern are
big, roomy pockets which you will
want if you are to use the dress for
sports.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1584-B
comes in sizes 14, 16, 18 and 20, 40
and 42. Corresponding bust measure
ments 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size
16 (34) requires yards 36-inch or
39-inch material for dress as illus
trated; % yards of contrasting ma
terial for vestee.
BARBARA BELL,
WASHINGTON STAR.
Inclose 25 cents in coins for
Pattern No. 1584-B. Size.
Name ...
Address .....
(Wrap coins securely in paper.)
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Send for the Barbara Bell Pattern
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tical and becoming clothes, selecting
designs from the 104 Barbara Bell
well planned, easy-to-make patterns.
Interesting and exclusive fashions for
little children and the difficult junior
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for the mature figure; afternoon
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The Old Gardener Says:
Some garden makers complain
that it is impossible to grow nas
turtiums because of the black
bugs which collect on the under
part of the leaves. These bugs
are reaUy plant lice and are not
at all difficult to control if taken
in hand early. If neglected,
however, they will multiply with
exceeding rapidity and will do
much damage. Sometimes, in
fact, they cause the leaves to turn
yellow and perhaps to fall before
their presence is suspected, be
cause of the fact that they work
out of sight under the leaves
The one sure method of extermi
nating this pest is to spray the
under side of the leaves fre
quently, using some nicotine
preparation like Black Leaf 40, to
which a little soap has been
added. A tin spray pump, which
costs less than $1, will do the
work satisfactorily. Spraying
should be continued at frequent
intervals.
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Diet Order
Gives Need
For Health
NTancy Page Records
Call for Milk and
V egetables.
BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.
gLEANOR was not being too ener
getic these days. She had been,
so her physician said, an almost ideal
patient with but one exception. She
did not want to follow his dietary
orders. She said she did not like
green vegetables, she despised cod
liver oil and she had no love for
milk.
If she were given her way she would
have lived on bread, jelly and other
spreads, meat, candy and nuts.
“I hate to be so insistant, Eleanor."
This was her husband speaking. "But
you must drink more milk and eat
these green vegetables. I know I
sound like a doctor, but I have read
enough to know that you need extra
supplies of mineral salts, especially
calcium. Just remember the way
you have had to go to the dentist's
year In and year out and you won't
want to have any child of yours re
peat the performance. And I know
you need more roughage than you are
getting.”
Eleanor promised to do better. Her
own reading had proved to her that
the fate of first or baby teeth and
even second teeth was settled largely
before ever a child was born. The
diet of the mother-to-be was largely
responsible for strong white teeth.
She knew, too. that any human
body which Is having an extra amount
of waste material needs to pay espe
cial attention to a method of carry
ing off that waste. The cellulose or
woody fiber in vegetables offers a
splendid broom or cleaning device for
the human body.
So spinach, green peas, green beans,
carrots, raw cabbage and lettuce were
accepted and. when she forgot her
prejudices, honestly liked and en
joyed. She would take a cup of cocoa
and cress sandwich in the middle of
the afternoon as she rested on her
chaise longue with sunshine, flowers
and book beside her. the was a sen
sible person, at that.
Cook’sCorner
BT MRS CRORC.R.
SERVING SIX.
Salad Bowl.
Cheese Strips.
Olives. Pickles.
Radishes.
Strawberry Sherbet.
Gold Cake with Creamy Frosting,
Iced Coffee.
SALAD BOWL.
S slice* tom*toe* V« cup chopped
1 cup diced pimientos
cucumbers *4 tea spoon salt
2 tablespoons '« teaspoon oaorlka
chopped onion '4 cup French
3 tablespoons chon- dressing
ped green peppers 8 crisp lettuce
Mr cup diced celery leaves
Mix all Ingredients excepting lettuce.
Cover and chill two hours.
CHEESE STRIPS.
2 cups pastry flour *4 cup milk
4 teaspodha baking ra cud grated cheese
powder 4 tablespoons soft
4 ir.blescoons fat butter
Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
Cut In fat with knife. Mixing with
knife, add milk. When soft dough
forms pat out until one-eighth inch
thick. Mix butter and cheese and
spread on half the dough. Fold other
half of dough over and on top cheese.
Press well. Using sharp knife out into
strips 2 by % Inches. Bake seven min
utes on greased pan in moderate oven.
GOLD CAKE.
V* cup fat 1 teaspoon almond
Mi cup sugar extract
4 egg yolks Mi teaspoon salt
■a cup milk Mi cup sutar
1 teaspoon lemon 1 teaspoon baking
extract powder
Cream fat and sugar. Add rest of
ingredients and beat two minutes.
Pour into greased shallow pan. Bake
20 minutes in moderate oven.
CREAMY FROSTING.
3 tablespoons butter ',« teaspoon lemon
1 tablespoon hot extract
cream '« teaspoon salt
1 egg yolk 1% cups sifted con
1 teaspoon vanilla fectloner's sugar.
Mix ingredients. Beat well. Let
stand five minutes. Mix until creamy
ud frost cake.
Dorothy Dix Says
Are Women Spiritually, Mentally, Phys
ically Inferior to Men?
Dear miss dix: i win prove
to you beyond a doubt that
women are spiritually, men
tally, morally and physically
Inferior to men. No one will
deny that woman has less physical
strength than man, so I will pass
on to the question of her mental In
feriority. This Is easily proved by
listening to a group of women talking.
They are gossiping about their neigh
bors, backbiting their friends, talking
scandal, clothes, bragging about their
children. If women wish to be con
sidered intelligent, why don't they
show intelligence when they are
together?
Women are certainly inferior spirit
ually to men. They have been the
cause of all the evil and trouble since
the world began. The Bible tells how
the first woman forced the apple
onto a poor trusting man, just as the
modern bride forces her cast-iron
biscuit, leather pancakes and other
gastronomic atrocities onto her goofy
victim.
Men are superior to women In being
fair and honest. When a woman
gets married she expects her husband
to be good-looking, a good worker and
intelligent. No man can possibly be
three men in one, and that shows how
unreasonable a woman is.
But a man is fair. He well knows
that no woman can be perfect and
he doesn’t expect perfection In his
wife. He takes her as she is and
makes the best of it.
Don't you think I have proved my
point? A MAN.
A NSWER—WeU, no, Mr. Man, not
’^v conclusively. I agree with you
that in the higher brackets, so to
speak, men are superior to women.
No woman, for instance, is as strong
as Jack Dempsey. There has been
no woman Shakespeare, no woman
Edison, no woman Raphael, no female
Chopin. About the only really notable
creative work woman has done has
been to produce man and, taking men
by and large, that’s nothing for her
to be chesty about.
But when you get down to the com
mon or garden variety of human
beings, it seems to me that women
average up physically, mentally and
morally pretty well with their hus
bands. True, we have no women
prize fighters, but we have millions of
women who have the strength to get
away with 18-hour-a-day jobs, while
i their husbands and brothers consider
themselves overworked if they labor
| for 6 hours a day.
—
, when women gather together
over their tea the conversation
is pretty piffling and mostly runs to
personalities and diets and reducing
and what little Johnny did and little
Mary said. But over their highballs
don’t men discuss their golf scores
and the stock market and tell the
stories they heard in the sleeper,
rather than discourse about weighty
policies of state or the last trend in
literature.
And as for men playing the matri
monial game fairer than women and
being just enough to stand by their
bargains, oh. brother, brother, how
can you? Isn’t it the men who expect
their wives to be both parlor orna
ments and kitchen utensils: who ex
pect their waves to keep perpetually
young and beautiful: who expect their
waves to cook and baby-tend and pinch
pennies and still be able to dance the
rhumba and look like a million dol
lars and be gay and glamorous, while
a wife is satisfied if her husband is
just a good provider and reasonably
domestic? Isn’t it middle-aged men
who get divorces from their wives be
cause they have got fat and grizzle
headed, but did you ever hear of a
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woman divorcing her husband because
he developed a bay window and had
got bald-headed? Be fair, Mr. Man.
Women have plenty of faults, but
so have men. Both men and women
were cut off the same bolt of cloth.
DOROTHY DIX.
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r\EAR MISS DIX: I have been mar
^ ried eight years. Have two chil
dren, a girl of 6 and a boy of 2. My
husband la sensible. Makes a fair
living. Doesn't drink, gamble or flirt.
Is devoted to the children. We have
a nice home and he stays home most
of the time. So far so good.
The trouble is I am careless by na
ture and my husband is very exact
and punctual. He has tried to teach
me to be careful, but no matter how
hard I try I simply can't do it. At
my first sign of carelessness my hus
band starts picking on me. He scolds
me, insults me, calls me names and
has got me so miserable that I am
seriously thinking of leaving him. The
only thing that keeps me with him
is the children. If not for these argu
ments we would have been as happy
a couple as could be found, but when
he begins insulting me I actually go
crazy. Would you advise me to leave
him? THIRTY-ONE.
Answer—I would advise you to meet
the situation with intelligence instead
of hysterics. Why don’t you use a
i little sense In solving your problem?
Why don’t you say to yourself: "I have
: a fault, a serious defect in my char
1 acter, one that is about to ruin not
only my life but the lives of my hus
band and children, and I am going
to correct It. I am going to overcome
it. I am not going to let the peace
and happiness of my home be wrecked
by my propensity for procastination
and my habit of strewing things about
and never doing anything accurately.”
■You say you have tried to cure
yourself of your carelessness, but
you haven’t tried hard enough. You
haven’t put your whole determination
J into it. You haven't brought every
bit of will power you have to bear
on it. You haven't used your brains
in figuring out ways to outwit your
personal devil and get the better of
him.
You are like the drunkard who
swears off drinking and then takes a
glass to celebrate his good resolution.
Or you are like the drug addict who
indulges in a few shots on the sly
when he Is trying to break himself of
! the morphia habit. The only way to
reform is to reform. Just to shut your
teeth and say to yourself you *ill
overcome a fault or die In the attempt.
■ YOU will commit a crime against
j your children if you deprive them
' of a good home and a good father be
cause you resented his scolding you
; for your slopplness. When they ask
j you: “Mother, why haven't we any
! father like other children? Mother.
| why did you leave father?'* it will
I seem a mighty poor excuse when you
have to tell them that it was because
you wouldn't have dinner on time or
; sweep under the beds or put the top
on the toothpaste tube.
And remember that when you try
to support your children you will fhjd
that employers are not more toleratt
of carelessness than your husband is.
and that it will be just as much a
bar to your success in business as it
is to your success in matrimony. Of
course, nobody likes to be scolded, but
if you will try to correct your care
lessness your husband will be so
pleased he will meet you halfway and
try to encourage you, and you will
get pats on the back instead of the
; hammer. DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyritht, 1935.1
Vegetables
Need Color
And Flavor
Dinner of That Type
Gains Standing in
Food Realm.
BY EDITH M. BARBER.
A VEGETABLE dinner has come to
*"*■ have its place on almost every
restaurant menu in the last few years,
j It is popular either as a luncheon or
a dinner main course. Its success de
j pends upon the quality of the vege
i tables, upon their combination, upon
the proper cooking and upon the ar
rangement upon the plate. For the
home meal all of these points are just
as important.
It is hardly necessary to say that
fresh, crisp vegetables should be
chosen. In selecting the kinds to
combine, vegetables of contrasting
texture, flavor and color should be
considered. While boiled vegetables, |
buttered and seasoned well, will form
the mainstay of such a dinner, a more
attractive and savory platter or pleu
will have at least one broiled or sauted
vegetable. In one of New York's best
restaurants, the following combina
tion is an appreciated dish. The veg- |
etables are served on large. Individual
plates. In the center Is a poached
egg. topped with Holla ndaise aauce.
It is surrounded by green peas, potato
balls, rolled in minced parsley; but
tered string beans, glared carrots, but
tered spinach and broiled cauliflower. I
The cauliflower is probably cooked as j
usual, split into flowers, buttered and
slipped into the broiler a moment.
The result of this varied treatment
of the vegetable Is most appetizing.
At another restaurant, a broiled
vegetable dinner is famous. Mush
room caps, tomato halves, celery
stalks and sweet potatoes are ar
| ranged In individual oval casseroles.
; The sweet potatoes have undoubtedly
1 been parboiled before being arranged
in the dish. Butter is generously
spread over the vegetables, and they
are either baked in a hot oven or
broiled under a low flame. Some
times stalks or canned asparagus are
substituted for the celery.
A good combination of 4he inex
pensive vegetables and canned vege
tables can be made to advantage also.
Place a mound or mold of rice in the
center of the plate and garnish with
a round of pimiento. Surround with
glazed onions, sauted parsnips, but
tered oyster plant, buttered lima
beans (canned) and spinach (canned
or fresh).
Glazed Onions.
Peel onions and cook in a small
amount of water with a dash of sugar
and salt in a heavy, covered utensil
until tender. When tender place in
a saucepan with two tablespoons of
sugar and two tablespoons of butter.
Cook over a low Are until sugar Is
melted. Baste with ■ the sirup and
serve.
Ticket Rule
And Proper
Bridal Gift
Problem of Meeting
Parents of One’s
Fiance.
BY EMILY POST.
'•nEAR MRS POST: My mother in
sists that it is improper for a
girl to buy tickets and ask a boy to a
dance given by a girls’ school other
than her own. She claims that the
girl who is inviting me first ought to
invite the boy I’d like to go with, and
then he would buy the tickets and
ask me. And, of course. I don't agree.
What is your opinion?”
Answer: I am afraid I am some
what bewildered by this question, but
let me see. If your friend Mary goes
to X school and you go to A school,
can you then buy tickets for the X
school dance? Or does Mary buy them
and give them to you and your boy
friend Tommy? Or can Tommy Just
buy them at the stationery store?
After all. If the tickets are on sale,
why couldn’t your mother buv them
and then let you invite Tommy? That
sounds all right to me. Or does your
mother think that Mary ought to sell
tickets to Tommy? This might not
help you very much unless you can
count on his inviting you, and not
some other girl, to go with him! As
I have already said. I see no impro
priety in your “having tickets” (no
matter who gave them to you) and in
viting him to go with you, provided he
Is a boy who has given you similar in
vitations, or at least made his friend
ship for you unmistakably evident.
“Dear Mrs. Post: I can’t find any
advice to help me meet my fiance's
parents. Thev live in a distant town
and have written to me, but I am to
meet them for the first time. Please
help me to say the right thing.”
Answer: Such greetings can only
be friendly and warm if they are said
spontaneously. But the m-aning
would be: “I am so glad to see you at
last," or "Jim has told me so much
about you I feel as though I’ve known
pou all along,’’ or whatever Is true and
;herefore natural for you to say.
“Dear Mrs. Post: My brother, who
is well established in life, is marrying
a widow who also has no end of pos
lessions. and any wedding present of
diver or linen or furniture would be
useless to them. What could you
luggest to send them?”
Answer: I don’t know what you can
io except to ask them to tell you
lomethlng they would like from you.
[f they have no Ideas, then you will
lave to make the best choiee you can.
(Copyright. 1935.)
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