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Much Depends on the Sauce When Serving Vegetables as Main Course _ «——---— -♦ r i Fast Days Bring Many Problems to Homes Where Meat Is Liked w~~ --- 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. * * * * 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. * * * * 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. * * * * ( '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) k A 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. A t A Combination to Please the Most Fastidious! !‘ f 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. -1-A | ■ I ♦> 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 ViOMk 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 Pattern No. 1855-B. Size Name___........ Address ...___.... (Wrap coins securely in paper.) * 1855-E? terns. Interesting and exclusive fash, inns for little children and the difficult Junior age; slenderising, well-cut pat. terns for the mature figure; aftemoor dresses for the most particular young woman and matrons, _ (Copyright. 1B3S.) 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. * * * * 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 r" " i 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. i _ 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.) ^mMmtm■■■ 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.) • .A. • 4 ► < ► < ► < ►, n ► H ► < ► 4 Wife loses { happy home \ ^ But no wonder he put her out! 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