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Much Depends on the Sauce When Serving Vegetables as Main Course
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Fast Days Bring Many
Problems to Homes
Where Meat Is Liked
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Eggs and Cheese May Be Used to Lend
Flavor to Gravies—“Sweet and
Sour” Sauce Is Popular.
BY BETSY CASWELL.
IN HOUSEHOLDS that are accus
tomed to eat a great deal of meat,
fast-days present really serious
problems. What to serve instead
ef the beloved steaks, chops and
roasts? Eggs, cheese and fish are
usually first choice—and then vege
tables are called'into play.
As a matter of
fact. except
among the peo
ple, who, for re
ligious or per
sonal reasons
never eat meat or
fish, the vegetable
main dish is not
particularly well
known. It is,
however, possible
to have a delici
ous middle course
composed entire
ly of vegetables,
or of vegetables c„well
combined with
fish, eggs or cheese if these are to be
Included in the diet. A great deal de
pends upon the sauce used—because
of it the aspect of the dish may be
Varied completely!
One hotel here in Washington, that
is famous for its delicious food, fea
tures a Lenten luncheon dish called a
“vegetable plate.” The ingredients in
clude baby lima beans, cauliflower,
apinach, carrots, peas, string beans,
corn, celery, beets and one or two
others that I have forgotten. They
are all cooked perfectly, of course,
daintily served, and topped by the
most luscious of hollandaise sauces.
It occurred to me that such a main
course was well adapted to the private
home—such a variety of vegetables is
not absolutely necessary, of course, but
often leftovers could be used in this
manner. The important point is the
sauce, which changes the dish from a
rather dismal “review of reviews” into
aomething truly epicurean.
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f/V NOTHER substantial meatless dish
which comes to us all the way
from Italy is
ARTICHOKES MODENESE.
4 globe artichokes.
12 anchovy fillets <in oil).
6 large onions.
2 tablespoons chopped parsley.
4 carrots.
1 stalk celery.
Juice 2 lemons.
4 tablespoons olive oil.
4 large mushrooms.
Salt and black pepper.
Trim the artichokes neatly and boil
for 10 minutes in salted water. Drain
Cook's Corner
BT MBS. ALEXANDER GEORGE.
SPRING RELISH SALAD.
1 package 14 teaspoon salt
lemon flavored 1 cup chopped
i gelatin mix- cabbage
ture ?3 cup chopped
1*4 cups boiling raw carrots
water 14 cup choped
t tablespoons celery
sugar 14 cup salad
34 cup vinegar dressing
Pour water over gelatin mixture and
•tir until dissolved. Add sugar and
vinegar, cool and allow to thicken a
little. Beat in rest of ingredients and
pour into mold. Chill until firm, un
mold on crisp lettuce and surround
With more salad dressing.
CHERRY COOKIES.
, (Using Candied Cherries.)
*4 cup fat 2 tablespoons
& cup sugar cream
1 egg Vs cup chopped
1 teaspoon cherries
vanilla 14 teaspoon
34 teaspoon cinnamon
lemon 2 14 cups flour
extract 2 teaspoons baking
14 teaspoon salt powder
Cream fat and sugar. Add egg and
beat well. Add rest of ingredients,
mixing lightly. Break off bits of stiff
dough and flatten down 2 inches
apart on greased baking pan. Top
with bits of candied cherries and bake
10 minutes in moderate oven.
wen. itemove me center reeves »nu
the “choke” with a sharp knife. Stuff
the cavity with the anchovies, which
have been pounded with the lemon
juice into a rough paste. Cap each
artichoke with a large peeled mush
room—secure with a toothpick. Place
the vegetables, which have been peeled
and chopped fine, with the oil and
a little water in a saucepan. Set the
artichokes carefully on the layer of
vegetables. Cover and simmer gently
for three-quarters of an hour. Baste
about five times during the period.
When ready to serve, place the arti
chokes carefully on a hot platter,
strain the contents of the pan over
them and garnish with grilled to
matoes.
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AN EGG SAUCE is often welcome
when one is searching for some
thing to dress up the menu a bit. It
is equally good with either vegetable
or boiled fish:
EGG SAUCE.
4 hard-cooked eggs.
Vi cup cream.
1 tablespoon butter.
Salt and paprika.
Place Ingredients in double boiler.
Heat through, and just before serving
add three tablespoons finely chopped
parsley and a little lemon juice.
Another old and tried favorite ac
companiment to a vegetable mix
ture is
SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE.
/2 cup granulated sugar.
1 tablespoon flour.
1 cup boiling water.
V* cup vingear.
1 cup vegetable stock.
Salt, pepper and paprika.
Melt the sugar in a hot skillet and
add the flour. Stir constantly, while
very gradually adding the boiling
water and the vegetable stock. Last,
add the vinegar and the seasoning.
Blen well and your over hot vegetables.
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( 'kjsami cneese sauce auus uengia
'“4 ful flavor and color to tempting
hard-cooked eggs and generous stalks
of celery. The sauce is made with
butter, that’s important. The recipe
calls for American cheese, but Swiss
or Edam cheese may be used.
A double boiler is ideal for making
sauces. Melt the butter In the top of
the double boiler and stir in flour
until well-blended. Stir in hot milk
gradually to prevent lumping. If cold
milk is used, add all at once. Stir
slowly but steadily over direct heat
until sauce thickens. Season, place
over hot water and simmer 20 min
utes. Add grated cheese, stirring until
it is melted.
Cover tightly until ready to serve
so that a crust will not form on the
surface. Otherwise the top crust will
give a lumpy appearance to the sauce.
If sauce becomes too thick, thin to,
proper consistency with liquid- left
from the cooked celery.
For serving four to five use:
6 eggs.
3 large stalks celery.
SAUCE:
4 tablespoons butte-.
1 teaspoon salt.
2 tablespoons flour.
2 cups milk.
1 cup American cheese, grated or
cut fine.
Cook eggs about 20 minutes in sim
mering water; cool and remove shells.
Trim tops from celery, wash carefully
and cut stalks in halves lengthwise.
Cook until just tender in as little
boiling salted water as possible. Mean
while make sauc*, following direc
tions given above. Drain celery and
save the cooking water to use for thin
ning the white sauce, if necessary.
Arrange hot celery and eggs, halves
or quarters, on platter; pour sauce
over or into one end of platter. Gar
nish with buttered toast points and
serve at once.
Frosting Cakes.
To frost a cake evenly to the very
edge and prevent the icing from run
ning down the sides, double a piece
of stiff paper and pin it closely about
the cake, letting the paper extend
about an inch above the top of the
cake. Spread icing, and do not remove
paper until icing is set.
INIeeiplewcim Arars)
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This pullover is made of the simplest knitting stitches, combined to form
an interesting pattern of stripes. The soft fingering yam is fine enough to
give an interesting effect, yet it will produce six stitches to the inch, thus
avoiding that “life-work" feeling that fine yarn gives because of the snail’s pace
at which the work proceeds. The directions cover three sizes, 38, 40 and 42
ehest measure.
Full instructions, illustrations, diagram of stitches used and materials
required are in pattern envelope.
To obtain this pattern, send for No. 250 and inclose 15 cents In stamps
or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to ths Woman’s Editor
of Tbs evening Star.
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A Combination to Please the Most Fastidious!
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Hard-cooked eggs and stalks of delicately steamed celery gain added succulence when served with a
creamy cheese sauce. Tender broccoli might be used in place of the celery if desired.
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Prevention
Still Better
Than Cure
Old-fashioned Motto
Boasts Sound
Logic.
BY ANGELO PATRI.
AN OUNCE of prevention is still
worth a pound of cure. If we
put a small part of the energy that
we now put into cures into preventions
we would soon save enough to pay the
national debt and all the bonuses
besides. But we continue to fumble and
flounder among our mistakes Instead
of trying to head them off.
Sick children are a great expense to
the community. Many illnesses could
be prevented if mothe felt that they
could be and set to work to see that
they were prevented. We are assured
now that diphtheria can be prevented
in almost every case. Tests have been
provided, preventive methods settled
beyond a doubt. Yet there are chil
dren who are not given preventive
care. Imagine having prevention of
diphtheria just at the end of the tele
phone, as many mothers have, and
not using it to protect the children.
Think of the waste in time and
energy spent on the food-fussing chil
dren. Mothers have to give up hours
to forcing down the food that unwill
ing children swallow. More hours in
preparing special kinds of food for
each of the family group when one
wholesome dish would do for all. By
training each child as he comes along
to eat his food as a matter of course,
as he draws his breath, all this could
be prevented, and the warped habits
of thinking and behaving that come
in the wake of poor eating habits
could be prevented as well. Teaching
children good eating habits would re
duce the health costs of the Nation
considerably, to say nothing of the
saving of the mothers' health and
Good school*, properly equipped to
meet the needs of the children who
are sent to them, would save us a lot
more. Not only does wasted youth
cost us money, it costs us spiritual
power. Pain and anguish beyond
words are suffered by the mothers of
delinquent children. And these chil
dren, most of them, could be saved
from the institutions that finally re
ceive them if they had been given the
right educational opportunities. All
children are not potential judges, doc
tors, scientists, bankers and captains
of industry. Some are. Some are
potential hewers of wood and drawers
of water, and they would be happy
workers had they been given a chance
to find their happiness in useful and
respected work in their community.
It is pitiful to regard the vast sum*
we spend upon educational gestures
when great groups of children must
remain untouched by "them. Un
touched if not really hurt by them.
Trying to make a child take an educa
tion for which he is not adapted hurts
him so much that he usually runs
away from it and runs headlong into
trouble. Then the penal institution
gets him and we pay and pay, and so
does he. So does his mother.
There are so many ills we could pre
vent if we were alive to the need and
to the means. Illness, crime, poverty,
social revolt in one form or another,
are costly. We have the means to pre
vent much of the waste and the suf
fering. Instead of thinking up ways
to cure the evil conditions, why not
center on the ways of prevention? In
stead of asking, “Who is to blame for
this condition? What punishment is
to be given him?” we would better
wony about removing the cause of the
condition. Prevention in medicine,
prevention in crime, prevention in all
social ills, is saner and safer than cure.
(Coprrltbt, 1936.)
Household Tips.
In making rhubarb, cherry or any
berry pie that is very juicy, beat an
egg light, and mix in the sugar
required by the fruit; add a little
flour, mix thoroughly and then bake
as usual. In this way excess of juice
will be in the pie and not in the
botton of the oven.
When using molasses and it is not
as dark as desired for ginger bread
or cookies, add a tablespoonful of
melted chocolate to molasses and
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Chic Afternoon Dress
Model Charming in Printed Crepe, a
Novelty Cotton or Plain Material.
BY BARBARA BELL.
THIS clever afternoon frock feat
ures a comfortable fullness
pushed to the front In soft
folds.
A pleated panel extends from the
neckline to the waist, and more pleats
are inserted in the sleeve. Notice the
••edge” stitching around the pleats.
. . . hand stitching is the sensation
this season. The straight skirt with
a front-kick pleat, and the soft flap
ping collar adds to the daintiness of
this lovely dress. Choose a patent
leather belt with an arresting buckle
and a small leather bow to ornament
the frock. Pointed crepe, novelty prints,
cotton or crepe de chine will be flat
tering in this design.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1855-B is
available for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40
and 42. Corresponding bust measure
ments 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size
16 (34) requires 3% yards of 39-lnch
material.
Send for the Spring Barbara Bell
pattern book. Make yourself attrac
tive, practical and becoming clothes,
selecting designs from the 100 Barbara
Bell well-planned, easy-to-make pat
BARBARA BELL,
Washington Star.
Inclose 25 cents in coins for
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Facial at
Horizontal
Angle Tilt
New Method May Be
Adapted to Use
at Home.
BY ELSIE PIERCE.
JUST what is the correct angle to
assume when receiving or giving
yourself a facial? One authority says
“horizontally.’* The explanation fol
lows:
When the body is tilted at this
angle, with feet above head, you have
a reversal of the blood stream. Thus
fresh supplies of blood are sent to
the upper portion of the body, reach
ing those vulnerable points that tend
to age soonest.
Slapping the face, according to this
authority, builds up the circulation
only locsilly.
This horizontal-angle facial has
been given in the Fifth avenue New
York salon of the sponsor for the Iasi
year, and upon its success is based
the theory that the home facial should
assume the same angle.
In the salon specially constructed
chairs are used. At home the positior
is duplicated if you place pillows undei
the hips and rest the feet on the foot
board of the bed.
You take the first and last steps oi
the facial, sitting up, before you:
mirror. The first step is cleansing
The last, of course, make-up. Aftei
you have thoroughly cleansed the skir
with cleansing cream and followed
with skin tonic you lie down, assum
ing the position described above. Ther
you apply tissue cream and musclf
oil. The idea is: While your skir
is being nourished from within, anc
you know that many physicians con
tend that is the only way the skir
gets any nourishment, it is beinj
lubricated from without.
The next step: While still lyinj
dow-n, you apply a mask of thin cottor
soaked in astringent, permitting 1
to remain for a few minutes to hell
close the pores and firm the skin.
When you are ready to sit up, yoi
make up.
Z feel that this horizontal facia
Is well worth trying. If nothing else
it certainly has distinct value for thi
relaxation it induces. Even if yoi
find it more convenient to sit up a;
you apply all the other preparations
you’ll increase the beautifying effec
of the facial tenfold if you lie dowi
In a darkened room and apply tb
astringent mask over your face witl
little witch hazel pads over the eyes.
Whenever you feel tired after i
strenuous day at home or office, giv
yourself a quick clean-up facial am
by all means lie down. I firmly be
lieve that a 10-minute rest will d
more for you than an hour's putterini
with cosmetics.
(Copyrleht. 1 938.)
Dorothy Dix Says
Divorce Is Not Always the Panacea for
a Hurt Heart That Women Think.
Dear miss dix: a youn?
woman with whom my hus
band has been having an
affair thinks I should di
vorce him so that he and she might
marry. I have offered him his free
dom repeatedly, but he insists that he
loves only me and that if I will be
patient this young woman will eventu
ally give him up. He tells me that he
would not marry her under any cir
cumstances. We both love our chil
dren and our home very much and
aside from this trouble we are quite
congenial, but our life together is far
from being peaceful. What would you
advise me to do? UNHAPPY.
Answer—Well, one of the things I
would not do would be to turn over
my husband to the impudent hussy
who wants to marry him, although he
deserves some such drastic punish
ment for the way he has treated you.
For, believe me, nine times out of
ten a discarded wife could ask for no
more bitter revenge upon her husband
than the agony of disillusionment and
loneliness he suffers when he finds
that he has exchanged his faithful
and devoted old wife for one whom
he cannot trust, one who has no af
fection for him and whose only inter
est in him is centered in his pocket
book. Many and many a time a bad
woman avenges the wrongs of a good
woman.
* * * *
IVO OUTSIDER can tell you what
to do in the complicated situ
ation in which you find yourself. Your
own heart and conscience and com
mon sense must be your guides. It is
folly even to advise you to take the
course that will make you happy, be
cause whichever road you elect to fol
low will be filled with thorns.
No woman married to a philanderer
can ever know any real peace of mind
because she is always smarting under
the indignity he puts upon her. If
she loves him, she is filled with jeal
ousy. On the other hand, neither will
she find peace of mind and happiness
if she leaves him. Often a half loaf
is better than no bread at all. At
least it keeps you from starving. And
many a wife is happier keeping her
husband's house, ministering to him,
seeing him every day, even if most of
his time and attention are given to
other women, than she is if she puts
him altogether out of her life.
Divorce isn’t the panacea for a hurt
heart that women believe it to be.
A decree absolute isn’t sc£ie sort of
a magic that changes love into in
| difference, that blots out torturing
memories, that changes one into a
gay, carefree girl again. All that it
does is to fill her with a sense of
frustration and to break up her life,
wreck her home and throw her out
into the world to grapple with prob
lems for which she is untrained and
unfit.
So I think a woman should think a
long time before she gets a divorce,
even from a husband who is far from
coming up to her ideal. For as a
married woman she has at least many
consolation prizes where the divorcee
has few.
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r^ONSIDER these in your own case.
You have your good home, .a
comfortable living, your place in so
ciety, your pleasant circle of friends.
He is congenial and companionable;
in fact, a desirable husband, except
for his one fault. If you leave him
you leave all of these material com
forts behind you and you must accept
a lower scale of living. For the money
that supports one family comfortably
will be a meager income for two fam
ilies to live on. Of course, if you
divorce your husband, he will marry
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My Neighbor Says:
Seeds of castor oil beans If
started in the house in April will
make good-sized plants by the last
of May or first of June, when it
will be time to put them in the
ground.
Stewed prunes, stuffed with
cheese, nuts or celery’ and ar
ranged on lettuce leave*, make
a suitable salad to serve with
chops or roasts. French or may
onnaise salad dressing may be
used with it.
Plain or figured colored silk
dresses should be washed and
rinsed quickly. Keep the garment
moving and prevent color-streak
ing by drying without hanging
j up the dress dripping wet. Such
dresses should not be soaked
before being laundered.
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When ready-cooked or un
cooked cereals such as oatmeal
are added to cake or cooky rec
! ipes, the flavor is greatly im
l proved if the cereal is browned in
: a slow oven.
(Copyright. 19BB.)
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again. Take it from me, my dear, <
that when you have to count your
pennies and walk instead of ride in
an automobile and eat poor food, and
especially when you find how hard
it is for a middle-aged domestic
woman to get a Job, you will wonder
why you ever let your husband's
flirtations drive you to Reno.
And there are the children, who,
after all, are most to be considered.
Even if you could buy your own
happiness by divorcing your husband,
do you think wrecking their lives is
worth that price? Their father is
good to them. They love him. You
can’t break up that relationship. You
oannot tear them up hy the roots
from their home without doing some
thing terrible to them from which they
never recover.
What Shakespeare says about it
being better to bear the ills we have
than to fly to those we know not of
is true of nothing so much as of
divorce. DOROTHY Di::.
(Copyright, 1936.)
Psychology
BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS.
Why We “Wait.’'
'T'HE big difference between animals
A and human beings is that animals
do most of their behaving in the pres
ent, while human beings do a great
deal of theirs in the future. That is,
they can postpone their activities.
Postponed activity is due to three
big psychological capacities. One of
them is commonly called intelligence—
foresight. Another usually goes under
the name of revenge. The third is
called cowardice.
Very few types of animals have any
intelligence worth speaking of. Of
course, you may train a dog or horse
to behave in a fashion that smacks
of intelligence. But such behavior is
by no means an indication of general
intelligence. The term habit will ac*
count for practically all the animal in*
telligence of which you have ever 1
heard.
You never knew of an animal’s
harboring and getting revenge. The
family dog you think so intelligent
doesn’t seem to remember personal
slights very long. Never does he show
revenge. Of course, you have heard
of the elephant that waited 10 years
to ’’get” the man who gave him to*
bacco instead of a peanut. But that’s
only a story. A human being will *
some times spend a lifetime getting
revenge.
Cowardice is intellectualized fear.
At times it is a good thing. It should
bear a better name, at least a more
liberal interpretation. For it signifies
a human capacity that now and then
means the conservation of fame, fort*
une, pride and even life itself.
(Copyright. 1036.)
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