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Delicate Flavor of Lamb Enhanced by Well-Chosen Accompaniments Certain Vegetables Seem to Blend Better Than Others With Meat Proper Cooking and Seasoning Essential m Procuring a Roast That Will Please Epicurean Palates. BY BETSY CASWELL. TO CONTINUE yesterday's dis sertation on the subject of meats—so clearly dealt with by the Bureau of Home Eco nomics of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. We have dis- ’ cussed beef, veal and pork; today the I subject concerned Is lamb. Spring lamb is one of the deli cacies of this day and time. It was not very much used in this country about 50 years ago—due, I suppose, to the ancient idea that very young meat w as apt to be in digestible. like new potatoes! Mutton, of Betsy Caswell course, was tairiy popular, dui in uie main the sheep in those days were raised for wool rather than for slaughter purposes. Lambs were thus allowed to "grow up" without finding • a sudden end on Springtime dinner tables. We have all now learned to appre ciate the delicate quality and flavor of Spring lamb, to such an extent that at the beginning of the season a leg commands a very high price, and the meat is very definitely In the "luxury class." As the weeks slip by the price slips down somewhat, and. whenever possible, at least one leg of Spring lamb should find its way to each family during the height of the season—the meat is so wonderfully good and tender. These milk-fed lambs will be on the market, now, for • several months. Then, of course, there are the “fed" lamb3 also on the market, which were shipped about six months ago from the ranges, where they were born, to be fed through the Winter in some • — i Cook's Corner BY MBS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. dinner serving four. Brotcned Fish Steak French. Fried Potatoes Creamed Beans Bread Plum Butter Tomato Relish Salad. Cottage Cheese Pie Coffee TOMATO RELISH SALAD. I slices toma- 1 tablespoon toes chopped 1 cup sliced cu- onions cumbers 1 tablespoon cup diced sweet pickles green pepper cup French $2 cup cooked dressing asparagus teaspoon salt Mix and chill ingredients and serve On crisp lettuce. COTTAGE CHEESE PIE. (Creamy custard dessert.) 3 baked pie shell ** teaspoon 1’2 cups cottage nutmeg cheese 23 cup raisins 8 3 cup sugar 3 egg yolks 1 i/3 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon teaspoon flour cinnamon 1 cup milk Blend cheese, sugar, salt and spices. Add raisins, yolks and flour; beat well. Add milk and pour into pie shell. Bake 25 minutes in slow oven. Spread with meringue and bake 10 minutes to brown top. Cool and serve. MERINGUE. S egg whites ’3 cup sugar Beat whites until stiff, add sugar »nd beat until creamy. Roughly •pread over filling. section of the com belt until they were ready for marketing. Another crop, bom this Spring, will be turned out to pasture until Pall, and come on the market for consumption in the early Winter. * * V * T EG of lamb Is excellent meat, whether "Spring” or "fed”; from the loin comes tender roasts as well as chops. The rib section furnishes chops and roasts, including the din ner party crown roast. The shoulder may be cut into roasts and chops, and into small chunks for stews, meat pies, etc. The breast may be stuffed and roasted, or used as stew meat. Neck of lamb Is also adapted to stewing, and from the haunch may be cut those succulent lamb steaks, of which we wrote some time ago. Leg of lamb, roasted to a turn, and served with colorful and tender vege tables, will make any main course lit erally “fit for a king.” Have the butcher "french” the meat when you buy it; that is, remove the meat from the end of the bone, so that after it is roasted a paper frill may be set over the bone, to give it a "dressed up" appearance. It used to be thought necessary to remove the thin, papery covering of a leg of lamb (known as the fell), before cooking; nowadays we find that the meat cooks more quickly and retains its shape and flavor better if the fell is allowed to remain. Roast leg of lamb at a low tempera ture—about 300 degrees—for best re sults. Place the meat fat side up on a rack in an open roasting pan, sprin kle with salt and pepper, stick a clove of garlic into the meat near the bone, and roast slowly for 30 to 35 minutes. Do not cover, and do not add any water during the roasting process. You will find that lamb cooked in this manner is juicy, tender and delicious to taste. * 4c * * TV/IINT sauce is the time-honored ^ partner for Spring lamb. Mint jelly has also retained its wintry pop ularity. and in many households both the jelly and the sauce are served, so that the diner may take his pick. Some epicures declare that currant jelly brings out the best in lamb; still oth ers like it best when served with only its own juices, to which a very little chopped parsley and lemon juice have been added. As for the accompanying fegetables —well, almost anything goes! Tra dition, of course, demands new peas and new potatoes to do honor tc Spring lamb, but there is no reason why succulent asparagus, baby car rots. cooked whole, tender string beans or stewed Spring onions with drawn butter won't do just as well! One hostess, noted for her unusual food combinations, always serves wild rice with lamb—the blending of flavor is subtle and very delightful. Another good friend of lamb is a green pepper stuffed with corn. So is cole slaw, served very cold and crisp, while the lamb is smoking hot. Pre served limes, heated, also complement the delicate flavor of the meat in a very unusual way. But no matter what you serve with the lamb, remember that the cooking of the meat itself is the basis of the success of the dinner. Meat that is cooked to a dry, tasteless mass cannot be lifted into epicurean heights by the addition of a whole garden of vege tables and quarts of sauce—but the simplest of dinners becomes a gour met's delight when the leg of lamb makes its appearance prettily ar ranged, juicy, tender and flavorful!’ If you wish advice on your individ ual household problems, write to Betsy Caswell, in rare of The Star, inclosing •tamped, self-addressed envelope for reply. These aren't reahy snowflakes Tney are made with a very common place crochet hook and mercerized crochet cotton, but they give a very good imitation. And what could be more welcome on your buffet or as a table ecloth on a dining table, during the warm weather? For daintiness the squares could hardly be equaled when sewn together tc Blake a bed room set or even a spread for the bed. The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand illustrated directions, with diagrams to aid you; also what crochet hook and what material and how much you will need. To obtain this pattern, send for No. 390 and inclose 15 cents in stamps or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to tbs Woman’s Editor Of The Evening Star. (OoorTishU iBSSJ _ _ * 4 Paper Frills and Parsley Furbelows Dress the Roast Baby lamb and baby carrots, with finely shredded string beans, green and tender, form a main course fit for a king. Add mint sauce and a good gravy—what more could any one ask for a Springlike combination? i When Youth Insists on Dramatics .Situation Is Difficult to Combat With Success. BY ANGELO FATRI. ‘ PUNICE. I do wish you would not be so friendly with Lilybelle. She | Is not the sort of girl I'd like for your j friend. The less you see of her. the : better I'll like it. It is all right to be friendly and all that, but don't be intimate with her.” “Now, mother, what is the matter with Lilybelle? She’s pretty and bright and has a word for everything and everybody. She's got some life and sparkle in her. You'd like me to go with Cora. She hasn't an idea be yond, ‘Isn't that sweet?’ or ‘How at tractive!’ She is a lady, of course, but what good is that if it leaves you stranded?” I “Better be stranded than marked ! as loud and forward and vulgar.” “That's your age talking, mother dear. When you were young it was j a crime for a girl to send a come-! hither look at a boy. Not so today. | j If you can't master that look you might as well give up and go home to I your knitting. If that is all you have against Lilybelle it is nothing.” “Words are only sounds, my dear, until meaning is put in them. I have meaning in the words I used. Loud, vulgar, forward means to me that this girl has gone beyond the limits of behavior set by decent people. There are stories going about—and from what you have told me yourself they are likely too true—that I should hate to have circulated about a child of mine. Mud sticks to a girl for a lifetime. A boy can shake it off, but not the girl. What’s this I hear about Lilybelle’s being mixed up in a scene at the road house on the long hill?” “Well, that wasn't exactly pleasant for Lilybelle. but she is not to blame if a boy takes too much drink, and all that. She won't go out with him again. That’s all.” "The boy's mother says that it is Lilybelle's influence that made all the trouble. This is not the only instance j of it. You will have to drop her. I am not going to have you mixed up in her affairs. She is not our kind. I hoped you would see it for yourself, but as you are blind to everything un desirable about her I shall forbid her the house and your association with her. I'm responsible for you yet a while.” All very well, but it rarely works out. Orders, bans, denunciations alike fail in the presence of the at tractive. dramatic child. It is too true that goodness often appears very drab to young people. Too often it is nega tive. inactive, colorless. The wayward child is dramatic. He dares and does and rarely dies. There is always one or two of him in any adolescent group, and leadership is undisputedly granted him. Like sheep, the others follow. It is idle to talk against him. Idle to ban his company. The only thing to do is to beat him at his own dra matic game. Make goodness more at tractive than daring lawlessness. That is very difficult because goodness is usual while the lawlessness of the dramatic child is extraordinary. It makes some one's task difficult and delicate, this combating dramatic be havior of the wrong sort with dra matic behavior of the good . sort. But it is not an impossible task, and cer tainly it is a worthy one. v Plan entertainments, train leaders, learn to laugh with youth, adjust your ways and your surroundings a bit to meet the gayety they extend toward 11/e. Save the words and put drama into your activities, and you will win. Asparagus and Egg Salad. Vi cup cooked 1 teaspoon minced asparagus tips parsley 2 tablespoons Tart salad dressing chopped nuts Whole asparagus 6 hard-cooked tips eggs Shell eggs and cut in half length wise. Mash yolks through sieve. Add chopped nuts, V2 cup chopped aspara gus tips, parsley and salad dressing to moisten, mi egg halves with this mixture. Arrange on lettuce leaves and garnish with asparagus tips, minced parsley or whole nut meats. The eggs may be prepared in advance and stored in refrigerator to chill thor oughly. Serves ala, i A Dignified, Slim Lines Distinguish This Charming Gown for the More Mature Type of Figure. BY BARBARA BELL. HE mature woman demands certain qualities in clothes. They must be constructed along slimming and becoming lines, they must render dignity that is suitable for her, and they must be practical as well as attractive. Here is a frock that embodies all these requirements, with an added feature of out-and-out economy. A soft bodice is gathered to the yoke in front and back and bloused by the belt, while a slenderizing front panel escorted by inverted pleats leads up to a most cool and delicately styled col lar. Inverted pleats are repeated In the sleeves for active arms. The frock is so adapted for business, informal teas, street and afternoon wear that you can’t possibly resist. Send today for Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1885-B, available in sizes 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 34 re quires 4% yards of 39-inch fabric. Send for the Spring Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Make yourself at tractive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the 100 Barbara Bell well-planned, easy-to make patterns. Interesting and ex clusive fashions for little children and 1885-B the difficult junior age: slenderizing, well-cut patterns for the mature fig ure. afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons, and other patterns for special occa sions are all to be found in the Bar bara Bell Pattern Book. Send 15 cents today for your copy. Practical Purse Kits Save Time Make-Up Ensemble Easily Transferred From Handbags. BY ELSIE PIERCE. CVERY day in every way life is made simpler for us, minutes are saved, leaving us more time for leisure and beauty, I hope. One of the new est blessings in this business of being beautiful is the removable cosmetic purse-kit. Its very name tells the story and it is such a “natural'' one wonders why nobody ever thought of it before. If you are one who changes your purse every time you change a cos tume color, and most women do match or harmonize accessories these days, you know what precious minutes are wasted transferring separately the many, many little personal cosmetic | necessities from one handbag to the other. The cosmetic purse kit is a swell little organizer. It is compact, yet roomy enough for your compact, lip stick, perfume, comb, and so on. It is available with or without a flap. The one with the flap can serve as an evening bag in a pinch and when used inside the purse the flap can be turned back so that every item in the purse kit is plainly visible. Now, in stead of transferring the dozen arti cles separately, you merely transfer the purse kit and presto chango! It can also be conveniently carried in a coat pocket. It is available in moire in black, brown, navy, green and wine and in linen in white and pastel colors. A mighty neat number for Summer and a fine idea for bridge party prizes or birthday gifts. Forgetful ones will be spared the agony of finding the most necessary beauty aid missing at the least de sirable moment. There's less likeli hood of forgetting the entire purse kit than a single compact or comb. And women whose purses are in a constant state of chaos and con fusion will have to look for a new excuse. The purse kit does away with, “But I have to carry all these little things for make-up repair work.” It isn't amiss, if you are a very orderly soul, to keep one of these kits at home, too, making your beauty homework that much smoother and quicker. And if you are a 'specially efficient createure you will want to line up the items in their exact order of use or appearance. One thing we do predict that these little purse kits will make purse in sides that much more presentable. (Copyright, 1938.) Pockets Are Novel. PARIS (/Pi.—Pockets of alligatoi skin add a novel touch to a black tweed skirt worn by Mrs. Reginald Fellowes. With the suit goes a black and white printed satin blouse. BARBARA BELL. WASHINGTON STAR. Inclose 25 cents in coins for v Pattern No. 1885-B. Star Name .........__—...... Address ....................... (Wrap coins securely in paper.) 4 Keep Children's Clothes Fresh and Colorful! Just use eosy Tintexl 41 long lasting colors. 15^ a package at drug and notion counters. Ask to seetheTintex color chart. PARK & TILFORD, Distributors * Dorothy Dix Says A Mother’s Greatest Mistake Is Trying to Prevent Her Son’s Marriage to Right Girl. DEAR miss DIX: I am a man, 35, living at home with my widowed mother, who Is a middle-aged woman in fine health and financially independent. My trouble is that my mother insists that 1 must never marry, but must always stay with her. Every time I have ever gone with a girl she has had hysterics over it. Now I am In love with a splendid young woman and we want to be married, but when I try to talk the matter over with my mother she works herself into a pas sion of fury and cannot abuse the girl enough. I love my mother very much and want to do everything I can to take care of her and protect her, but I also love this girl and she loves me. What can a man who Is an only son do under the circumstances and still do his duty all around? W. P. L. Answer—He can act with some courage and common sense and the part of a man instead of a fraidcat little boy. You can refuse to let a selfish and tyrannical old woman ruin your life and that of your fiancee by the utterly unreasonable position she has taken. Your mother married when she was young. She had the happiness of having her own mate, her own home, her own child. She must have found these experiences very sweet, since she clings with such tenacity to what is left of them, and that makes it al most inexplicable that she is willing to deprieve you of them in order that her old way of life may not be broken up. Certainly no real mother love could ask such a sacrifice of you. Nothing but self-centered egotisrg prompts it. 'T'HERE are many of these possessive mothers who keep their sons from marrying and who, instead of being ashamed of the crime they have com mitted, boast of it and make repulsive jests about being their sons’ best girls. Everywhere you can see old bachelors dancing attendance upon mother, trotting her out to symphony con certs and the theater and parties, fetching and carrying for her and tied down to her far more than they would be to a wife. And a pitiable, bored-looking lot they are, too. Why any mother should be mean enough to want to keep her sons from marrying passes comprehension, be cause every woman knows that no matter how much a man loves his 1 mother it isn't with the same kind of love he gives his wife, nor does her love take the place of a wife’s love. And she knows that every normal man wants his own home: that he wants children and that if he is deneid these his life is never fully rounded out. No one believes more than I do that children should honor their fathers and their mothers and show them every proper respect and considera tion. But when parents impose unjust conditions upon their children and demand needless sacrifices of them, I think the children should refuse to submit to such tyranny, just as they would to any other oppression. Being a parent gives no one a right to wreck their children's lives. * * * * CO MY advice to you is to go on and marry your girl, no matter how much your mother opposes it. You have your duty to the girl and you have no right to break her heart by jilting her. or wear her out in endless waiting for your mother to change her mind, which she will never do. She will never let you go. Have no more arguments with your mother on the subject. Just step out quietly some day and marry the girl and from the train, when you start on your honey moon, send your mother back a letter telling what you have done and why you did It. Probably she will throw fits, weep and moan and call for public sym pathy, which she won't get, but when her hysterics are over she will settle down and be just as happy as she would be if she were making you mis erable. And when the first baby is born she will think she engineered the match herself. The most doting grandmother I know, and one who has found a new Interest in life in her grandchildren. Is a woman w'ho kept her son from marrying for years by threatening to die with a bad heart if he so much as thought of marriage. * * * * r\EAR DOROTHY DIX—I have a friend who should be happy as the day is long. Has a lovely home a good husband, two beautiful children, scores of friends, yet she is so miser able she is contemplating suicide. And what do you think she is brooding about? She wants to be the thinnest person going, starves herself, hasn't eaten a square meal for ages and is so snappy she can't speak a kind word even to. her little girl. I know this is a mental state, though what brought it on I couldn't say. If she could only be jarred out of it I would be glad to do the jarring, but I don't know what to do. Can you suggest something? MONICA. Answer—Of course, what’s the mat ter with her is hunger. People on a diet are always as irritable as sore headed bears. Semistarvatton has the same effect on humans as it does on other animals. It makes them snappy and snarly. We have to be well fed in order to be amiable. Your friend seems to have an aggra vated case of the living-skeleton com olex and I doubt that there is any cure for that, since once a woman gets ob sessed with the mania for reducing herself to a bag of bones she is deaf to the warnings of her physician and the pleas of her family, and blind to the ravages that malnutrition is mak ing of her looks. ★ * * * /~)NE glance at her haggard face, at her sagging cheeks, at the lines around her eyes and mouth and at her pasty complexion and one would think that she would make a grab for the ' mayonnaise jar and the whipped { cream pot and gorge until she had | filled out all her hollows ar.d angles, j and once more looked like the bloom ; mg health and youth instead of a | corpse that had just been dug up for ; the second autopsy. But no. The reducer is wedded to her calories. When you point out to | her how much older her face looks she says "behold my strir.gbean fig ure." and there you are and nothing is to be done about it. The only suggestion I can make to you about dealing with a woman who is willing to wreck her health and her family in order to be thin is to send for an alienist and have her head ex amined. Perhaps the idea of sending her to a home for the feeble-minded might jar her into using a little in telligence, If she has any. My Neighbor Says: Do not sprinkle all your linen napkins when preparing for iron ing. Dip every third napkin into clear warm water, place one be tween two dry napkins, fold and roll together. Napkins dampened in this way are easily ironed. Attractive spreads for the Sum mer cottage are made one of blue plaid gingham with a ruffle of plain blue gingham which has a band of the plaid, another of white gingham with bands of red and white polka-dotted, glazed muslin and a monogram in the center made of the polka-dotted material which has a red ground with white dots. Almost any other color scheme could be fol lowed with equally attractive re sults. If you like to crochet, try mak ing a luncheon set of dark brown raffia and crocheting it in a lacy stitch just like those done in cot ton or linen. After the center mat and smaller place mats are finished brush them with light yellow shellac. This makes them stiff and keeps them flat. (Copyright. 1936.) I Demand Domino Package Sugare-clean pure cane-refined at horn* I l II ' > There s a double reason ^ ( why children love Kel ^ logg’s Rice Krispies. » First, this cereal is so crisp that it actually > i crackles in milk or cream. ^ , Second, the charming ^ Mother Goose story on the ' back of every package. ' ^ A The more Rice Krispies i. y you buy, the more , ^ ^ your children will have. ^ I \/M|| 1 jjJB JT At all grocers. Made by \ j Kellogg in Battle Creek. V Quality guaranteed. ° 2~ jS SO CRISP uSSSukM K**hps f th B^KM RICE wS&mltmiA krispies * crack,(m ^ mjlkor cream A 4