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Art of “Icebox Cooking” Will Prove Boon to Kitchenette Housekeepers --* Vagaries of Youth Need Forbearance Characteristic of Adolescence Since Time Began. k BY ANGELO PATRI. TT WAS the hour after dinner when, If ever, peace reigns in the house hold. The telephone bell rang, a sharp Irritating interruption to father and mother reading by the fireside. "Better answer that, Gordon. It is probably for you,” said mother, trying to keep the edge off her voice. Gor don, red about the ears, went across the hall to the telephone, closing the • door behind him. "It’s that girl again,” said mother. "She calls him every evening, rain or shine. Hasn't her mother any sense, any pride at all?” "Maybe her mother doesn’t know anything about it. He is at the age. *o we may as well make up our minds to meet the girl friends. When I was his age I remember, I cluttered the house with them. As fast as one dropped out another came in. It didn't hurt me any.” ;'But they didn t can you every night on the telephone.” "We didn't have any. We you hoo-ed before each other’s houses Instead. And had post offices in. the . stone walls, things like that. That I was before you came into my life. Of course after that-.” "You're his father and you ought to know. But I do think that for a girl to call a boy night after night, and talk and talk such talk, such gibberish. It makes me so im patient “It’s nothing more serious than a you-hoo over the fence. It is bet ter to let them talk it out. If she is the wrong sort she will soon prove • it to him and he will be off to another love. We'd better begin bring ing some of them into the house. Mary. We haven't been giving enough of our time and company to him. The house is his as well as ours. We’ll just have to shake ourselves out of our armchairs and light up and be merry for the next five or six years.” "I suppose so. Why boys and girls have to go through this annoying stage is more than I can see. Still I did drop notes in the wall post office, and the boys did carry my books home. • and I remember that mother made them all welcome, afternoons and evenings. She must have been a sorely tried soul at times. If she liked quiet evenings she must have suffered tortures." "There's nothing for it but to step up our pace a little and make things lively for the boy. That girl will have to be invited over and some more along with her. Better stage a party right off and see if we can't make ourselves like it.” it is the only way to do. When the telephone begins to ring evenings, when there is a marked delay in coming home from school, when the color and set of ties becomes a mat 1 ter of grave concern and much con troversy. when lipsick is more impor tant than chocolates, brighten up the home, bring in the boy friends and the girl friends and make this stage of growth as much your happy concern as your ability permits. j It is a mistake to allow the vagaries ! of youth to irritate us. They are the signs of coming maturity, the last ! signals for help that, in all likelihood, fathers and mothers will get from their children. Too soon now. they will be gomg their way. Then the evenings Will be quiet enough. (Copyright, 1936.* Mother's Surprise Box. Long motor trips are trying on ! young children. They become rest- ! less and wear}7. Instead of nagging them into a possible quietude you can entertain them with little effort by a “surprise box.” Before leaving home pack a small container with cheap little toys, cookies and other things dear to child ish hearts. Call It the hidden box. wrap the gifts in paper and at inter vals treat the children to a surprise. ----- < Shopping in Washington June Week Sees Youth at Its Gayest and Frocks Must Be Planned Accordingly. 5 Left: W hite organza, dotted in red and trim• > med with narrow white bias handing, has star buttons studded with brilliants. Right: Floral 5 printed mousseline with slashed skirt showing pleated godet in white underslip. Sketched in a Washington Sl op. BY MARGARET WARNER. 1 N INVITATION for June week at the Naval Academy is a delightful thrill for any Wash • I - — ington girl who is fortunate enough to receive one and immediately i starts her off in a frenzy of excite > j ment as to what she will wear, for, of • course, she "won't have a thing in ‘ her wardrobe that is fit to be seen ■ in”—this modern daughter of Eve! ‘ And what fun it is gathering these frocks together for such a happy occa i sion. She will need a smart dress . for her first appearance when she steps l out of her car. This might well be a i knit frock that you can depend upon to arrive without being WTinkled and out of shape. In the pastel colors these Summer knits are wonderfully > attractive and will do excellent duty ; for watching the drills and attending . some of the other events scheduled. White string knits with lacey tops are awfully good, allowing you to choose your most becoming color for hat and ■ bag. or maybe a white panama w’ith a white bag. A jacket suit of hairline striped maize silk would be equally good for making that first impression. One we found has one of those longer, fitted-in coats with wide-at-the-top, elbow-length sleeves. Between the revers you catch a glimpse of the dress top with its two splashy white flowers at the neck. With white or contrasting bright accessories of hat. bag and gloves, this would undoubtedly delight : the masculine eye. * * * * . COME sort of a spectator sports frock will be necessary. A very smart one is of white linen in two-piece ver sion with rich Dubonnet red outlining the shoulder seams, armholes and front closing. Covered red linen but tons down the front of the blouse and a shoulder flower of the same color make a very snappy design on the plain white Lnen. This also romos with navy blue trim, which might fit more appropriately into the nautical pictuie. In dusty pink there is a good-looking pin-striped alpaca with well-tailored lines, using a navy blue belt and bow at the neck, that sug gests a blue felt hat or one of dusty pink. If you have the slightest idea that you will be asked to go out sailing, you had better be prepared with some white slacks and a sport, shirt. Be sure to have some sneakers, too, for skirts and high heels are entirely un suitable for sailing and not nearly so much fun to wear. For afternoon festivities there is an adorable wispy pastel pink sheer frock with a pleated lacey frill at neck which is also used for little sleeves. The top of the blouse is extended over the shoulders and two rows of inserted lace give added interest and lightness. This, of course, is a street-length frock and lovely for any afternoon party with a wide-brimmed picture hat, or a cunning smal’"- one for dancing. * * * * JJUT the choicest gowns of all are those for the starlit hours climax ing in the final ball, when every girl | must be her loveliest to enjoy the spell of June romance to the full. Some thing filmy, fluttery, dainty in texture and color that will float out in billowy clouds from dancing feet. For such a frock white is always a charming choice, and furthermore is economical, as it may always be varied by flower and belt accents in different colors ! from time to time. A fascinating dancing frock that we have just seen is of white mousseline with a large flora! pattern widely spaced using soft blue and red violet tones, very delicate looking over a white slip. Large puff sleeves and a i very full skirt that opens part way down to reveal a fan pleating in the slip underneath are responsible for the beauty of this frock, as well as the high neck that ties at the front and the row of small buttons from a slashed neck opening to the tip of the skirt slash. Another junior dance frock is of white organza with small dots of red. ; It has an intriguing row of silver stars studded with brilliants on the ■ shirtwaist closing at the front of the high round neck. It is very wide at the shoulders and very full at the hem. In aqua blue lace and mousseline de sole is another beauty. This one has an extra cape with shallow round lace yoke and lots 8t fluffy ruffles to widen I Jt so that It covers the upper arms at front and reaches to the waist at the back. This frock is more slimly fitted than the others described, but fluffs out at the bottom with four mousseline ruffles. Pale yellow organza is enchanting ; with Its large cape collar trimmed with rows of yellow soutach braid, and a voluminous skirt with rows and rows of tiny yellow braid that go round and round, becoming more widely spaced at the bottom. Then, too, there is the very summery white brocaded crepe ] evening coat with ripple back and shoulder yoke that Is so exactly suited to accompany any of these frocks. For Information concerning items mentioned in this column call National 5000, Extension 396, between 10 and 12 a.m. My Neighbor Says: Climbing roses may be pruned any time after they are through blooming. Cut out the old wood. Corn and peas should be canned as quickly as possible after they have been picked. Instead of pouring liquid para ffin on top of jelly, put a small piece of paraffin in bottom of glass and pour In hot jelly. When jelly has cooled, parafln will be on the top. If new enamel saucepans are placed In a pan of warm water and allowed to come to a boll, and then to cool, they will be found to last much longer before either cracking or burning. (CopnKbt. 1930.) h —— — - ■ - 4 Dishes May Be Prepared Early in the Morning Before Leaving for Office Summer Meals Pleasanter When Whiffs of Cool Air Replace the Heat Waves Over the Stove. BY BETSY CASWELL. WE HAVE been so busy sug gesting silverware, linens, and kitchen equipment for the bride's new home lately that we have shamefully neglected our usual subject of kitchenette recipes. With the warm weather creeping up. our thoughts turn once again to those dishes that may be prepared early In the morning before leaving for the office, and left to reach per fection in the re frigerator during the day. One of the greatest les sons Washington housekeepers can learn is that of "icebox cooking" during the hot. Summer months! It is indeed a joy when you return home to get your dinner in whiffs of cold air from B,t,y the refrigerator, rather than in blasts of heat from the stove! Jellied dishes are always to be relied upon for this type of food. Quickly made in the morning, they have plenty of time to “set" firmly through out the daytime. And they have a cool, sparkling appearance that is stimulating in itself! Such a dish is: STUDIO SALAD. 1 package orange gelatin. 1 cup hot water to dissolve gelatin. 1 tablespoon grated orange peel. cup boiling water. 34 cup orange juice. 1 alligator pear. Dissolve the gelatin in the hot water. Extract the flavor of the j grated orange peel with the boiling water—throw away the peel. Combine ; orange-flavored water with the gela- j tin. cool, and add orange juice. Pour ! half of the amount into a pint-size ring mold, and set on ice for a few minutes until partly set. Peel the alligator pear and remove the stone: cut in half lengthwise, and then slice thinly through each half, so that the | slices will be crescent shaped. Sprin kle them well with lemon juice, and arrange on the layer of gelatin. | Pour on the remaining gelatin, and place in icebox to set. When ready * to serve, unmold on shredded lettuce and watercress, fill center of ring with mayonnaise to which a table spoon or more of chili sauce has been i added, and serve very cold. This salad, with some cold sliced ham. toasted English muffins and a sweet would be an ample supper for a very hot Sunday evening. * * * '4 T TSING the prepared aspic gelatin now on the market, one could make another molded dish of the same type by using tuna fish or salmon, mixed with mayonnaise, baby peas and bits of cucumber for the filling. Place a mixed green salad with French dressing in the center of the jelly mixture when it is unmoldefl on a platter, and there, presto, is practically a whole dinner! There is a delicious madrilene soup that comes in oens, and that jells all by itself when set in the icebox. As you know, this is a combination of clear tomato and chicken consomme, and is pink in color. Use this for your jelly; place a layer in the bot tom of the mold, and put a layer of minced chicken (cooked, of course) that has been mixed with mayonnaise, baby peas, asparagus tips and diced carrots; top with remaining madrilene. Set In refrigerator for several hours, and serve with watercress. * * * * A NOTHER good supper salad is ** this one; TOMATO AND CHEESE SALAD. 1 envelope plain gelatin. U cup cold water. 1 >2 cups hot thick tomato soup. 12 cup cream cheese, or cottage cheese 1 tablespoon onion juice. 1 tablespoon butter. >4 teaspoon salt. *4 cup mayonnaise. 'a cup stuffed olives, chopped. ’i cup cream, whipped Put the soup in a double boiler, add the cheese, butter, salt and onion juice. Heat until cheese has softened. Pour cold water in a bowl, and sprinkle the gelatin on top of the water; add to hot mixture, and stir until dissolved. Cool, add mayonmise and whipped cream, and the stuffed olives. Turn into mold that has been rinsed in cold water, and chill in icebox. When firm, unmold, and serve with mayonnaise, and a plain lettuce salad. Whipped evaporated milk may be used instead of the cream if desired. I have a small leaflet containing several simple and good recipes for "Hot Heather Dishes." which I shall be glad to send you if you will write me in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, self-addressed envelope for reply. Tips on the Food Market BY LUCIE EBERLY. THE market continues to show improvement every day due to the fact that the produce is coming from farms "closer to home.” Though we still depend on the Far West for a number of items, the larger shipments are now coming from Florida and the Carolinas. Nearby farms are yielding more each week, too, and merchants expect the 1st of June to find local markets prac tically independent of even the hot house produce that generally tides us over the season. * * * * gABY turnips, young and tender, with crisp green tops, that make for another vegetable dish, are the latest contribution from nearby farms. Unusually sweet and tasty when so small, these new turnips should find their way, diced, into the salad bowl; or sliced paper thin and used as tea sandwich filling. Small garden carrots and tiny red beets are at their prime, too. plentiful and cheap. All the greens—spinach, turnip and mustard greens, baby kale, new green cabbage and watercress—are excellent. Home grown asparagus continues to come in large and good batches and is more reasonable now than it has been since it appeared this season. A number of the places are featuring the large jumbo stalks that are so perfect for the dinner party menu. Lima beans, shelled, are still scarce, but have dropped a few cents. Artichokes and mushrooms are definitely on the wane. If you are fond of these two aristo crats of the vegetable family you had better enjoy them while they last.; Cauliflower, small snowwhite heads, look very delectable this week. Texas corn Is Improving daily and is drop ping In price. Mammoth cucumbers, the Boston hothouse variety, are ex ceptionally fine and the large beef steak tomatoes are also more plentiful this week end. A bumper crop of the large green peppers must have been received, for every stall has huge mounds of them featured at special prices. Stuffed with ground meat or pot pourrl of vegetables, or seafood, they help to make an ordinary dish take on a party air. Summer squash, both white and yellow, is in again (it was scarce all Winter) and appears to be a favorite at the vegetable counters just now. DR WILEY" strawberries, those un usually tasty ones, are now avail able in local markets. (The seed for this variety is very hard to procure, that accounts for the scarcity of this type of berry.) Just why they seem more flavorful than some of the other species, no one seems to know, but there is always a clamor for them the minute they appear on the market. California cantaloupes are coming in steady shipments now and are more normal in price. Honeydews, how ever, are scarce. Pineapple is at its prime, say merchants, and so it would seem, for every stall has an unusually large supply. Perfect for fruit cup tidbits, or luncheon dessert, enjoy this succulent fruit while you may. Cran berries are still available and offer a good warm-day treat via sherbet or juice. Bananas are also at their best and are selling both by the pound and dozen. Bing cherries are plentiful and seem to have reached their normal size and flavor. Garden rhubarb has attained its peak of excellence, too, and should certainly find its way to the preserving kettle and luscious pies. * * * * 5OFT-SHELLED crabs are among the week's bargains at the sea food counters. Carolina waters are yielding ui early large supply and consequently these delicacies are reasonably priced. Butter fish are plentiful again this reek. The delicate flavor aid mm preparation feature should make them popular as the breakfast dish as well as for a dinner or luncheon dish. Trout and croakers and Boston mackerel are coming in good lots. Bluefish is about the only item that is scarce, though shad is dropipng off. Sliced sturgeon, fresh salmon and large striped bass, weighing from 3 to 8 pounds, are con sidered the perfect dinner party fish. Fresh frog legs. too. are in now—com ing from nearby frog farms—and are exceptionally tasty. ^ • ■■ — F ormality Of Wedding Ceremonies BY EMILY POST. £)EAR MRS. POST: When a daughter of one faith marries a son of another, and the latter's fam ily refuses to recognize their marriage and will of course not be present at their wedding, would it be considered in bad taste for this bride to have a wedding with bridesmaids and wedding veil? She has always dreamed of having such a wedding. Answer—Under the circumstances. I think a very big and elaborate wedding would be in very bad taste. But a simple wedding that is entirely conventional, at which she wears a bride's dress and at which she may have attendants, would be above criticism. * * w * Dear Mrs. Post: My husband holds a high position in a local club, where it seems best to hold the reception after our daughter’s wedding. We are sending engraved invitations to our best friends to the church and the club both, but would lik. to know if there is not some way we can invite all club members to the church with out sending invitations. Answer—If the club is a small one, so that all members are your friends, you could, I suppose, post an invita tion on the bulletin board. This, however, would be a very informal thing to do and not approved by people who are inclined to be conven tional. The alternative is, of course, to send engraved Invitations, or else notes written by hand, to each family. * * * * Dear Mrs. Post: There are no men in my family and my fiance is the only man in his family. At our wedding I will walk up to the alter alone. This means that our mothers will have to walk out of church alone, or with sisters of ours, which I be lieve is perfectly all right. A cousin of mine is very emphatically sure that this would be all wrong. Answer—The usher- always hurry back after the recessional to escort the mothers out of church and as many other members of nearest fami lies as there are ushers. Others in the front pews simply rise and follow without waiting for the ushers to return. Guests back of the ribbons remain at their seats until those who were seated in front of the ribbons have gone out. * * * * Dear Mrs. Post: Are long white kid gloves essential for women guests to wear at a formal evening wedding? I don’t know why my mother has a feeling that this is convention. Answer—Long white kid gloves are not really necessary any more. Wear whatever gloves you think look best with your clothes. (Oetmaht 1M&> ^ , \ > ---— Dorothy Dix Says Every Woman Should Cultivate Many Interests Outside of Her Home. THE ideal wife of tradition has always been the woman who, like the snail, carries her house on her back. Even to day the most opprobrious epithet you can apply to a married woman is to call her a gadabout. Somehow the belief has always persisted that there is some peculiar virtue in a wife and mother being so altogether wife and mother that she is scarcely human, and that she ac quires further merit by having no interests outside of the four walls of her home. Nothing is more common than to hear people speak applaud ingly of Mrs. So and So being such a homebody that she never goes any where or does anything except look after her family. And for women to boast that since they have married they have given up all the clubs they used to belong to; that they have dropped out of their old social set and never go to parties; that they never read anything any more except the baby book and the cooking recipes in the newspapers. Of course, inasmuch as keeping the home fires burning and making her family comfortable is the woman's part in the domestic partnershio, it is obvious that she must necessarily give most of her time and attention to her job. But the theory that she must let this absorb her to the exclu sion of everything else, that she muot have no interest outside of her home, no individual life of her own outside of her husband’s and children’s, is false and misleading propaganda that is responsible for half of women's faults and has wrecked innumerable women's lives. ▼ » ■e -w chief trouble with women is that they have not enough inter ests in life, and that is what makes them wear the fewr they have thr’e.d bare. They haven't enough things to think about and that keeps their minds in a rut. They haven't enough things to amuse and divert them and that makes them melancholy and lacrimose. Consider how many of the weak nesses of the feminine character are attributable solely to women's lack of outside interests. Their lack of philos ophy. Their inability to take it. Their passion for making mountains out of molehills. Their threshing over of old straw. You see the effect of this narrow range of interests in women's lives il lustrated in a thousand ways. In their inability to get over a sorrow, for instance. When by death a man loses some one he loves, his heart is just as much tom with anguish as a woman's, but he has his work that he is bound to concentrate upon; strangers to whom he has to turn a smiling face; a thousand things that take his mind off of his sorrow, and so he adjusts himself to what must be borne. But the woman, as she goes about the round of domestic duties, which she does automatically, has nothing to keep her from dwell ing upon her loss and so her thoughts go their weary round and round until her grief becomes an obsession. * * * * JT IS because women make their homes the center of the universe that they take marriage so badly. If a wife doesn’t come up to all her husband's fondest fancy painted, he generally shrugs his shoulders and makes the best of Mary being a good cook, or a thrifty manager, or what not, and he takes up golf in a serious way, or gets so absorbed in making money that nothing else counts much. But when a husband proves not to be a Prince Charming, wife just sits down and bemoans her fate, and the only consolation she gets is in ap pealing for pity as a misunderstood woman who is all soul while her hus band is all clod. And what's nagging except the re sult of a woman having so little out side interests that she has nothing to think about but managing her fam ily and seeing that it does exactly as she wants it to do? She has noth ing to divert her mind from some mis take her husband made 20 years ago, or from Johnny’s diet and Mary's dates, so she hounds them about them until they flee from home to get away from the sound of Her voice. * w * * one of the tragic figures in life is the middle-aged woman whose children have grown up, got mar ried and gone about the business of life for themselves. Generally she has been so absorbed in her chil dren that she has lost all touch with her husband and there is no com panionship between them. She has no interests of her own. No friends. No occupation when her job of rais ing a family is over. And she is the loneliest and most forlorn of all crea tures. Often such women, who have lived their children's lives so completely that they have no lives of their own, break up their homes and go to live with their children, where they in variably make trouble. The moral of all of which is that every woman should cultivate as many outside in teres's as possible It is good for her own soul and for her husband's and children s. DOROTHY DIX. tcoprrignt lyso.j To Thicken Eyelashes. Melt together over the lire one teaspoon pure clive oil. one teaspoon caster oil and one teaspoon white petroleum jelly. When well blended, pour into a small jar and allow to cool before fastening the top. when ready to use the consistency will be like that of the petroleum Jelly. Apply to lashes and brows before retiring. If shiny eyelids are desired, a little of the mixture may be touched to the lids in the daytime. >.— Five New Hues Make Their Debut More Vivid Coloring Decreed by Dame Fashion. BY ELSIE PIERCE. IS YOUR vegetable bln filled with waxy yellow beans, red cabbages, fresh green parsley, stalks of rhubarb? Look long and lingeringly at these | vegetables for they, according to ! fashion's forecasts, hold the secret and the inspiration of Summer's cos (tume colors. Oh, yes. fashion is a “swell little swiper." The smoothness with which she steals ideas here and there to concoct an altogether amazing and satisfying picture is uncanny. The four vegetable colors above mentioned and Texas bluebonnet blu-. we are told, will moke the five-star final for Summer shades. And here’s what to wear with them in the way of make-up harmony: Rich ruby red at nails and Ups with Texas bluebonnet blue and many cl the grayed tones, which become sud denly softer and more mysteriou when accented by the ruby magic. Would you suspect that ruby wouir also be recommended with red cab bage? The effect is striking and stim ulating. but not discordant. Rhubarb pink, however, is to be ac companied by rose on fingert.ps and lipstick in a natural rosy shade Th soft, delicately balanced tones of ros’ are recommended, too. where ruby might be discordant or too obvious. Ru‘t. the newest, smartest and most exciting of the polish shades, is a col or you have prcbably heard much about and will hear more as the run shines stronger. The warm colors, it is explained, call for cosmetics which are also warm in tone, and warmth derives from yellow undercurrents. Thus the soft-sunned quality of this rust shade provides the perfect accent with wax-bean yellow, parsley green and chaudron. On a sun-tanned hand rust is lovely; on a sun-kissed face a lipstick to harmonize provides just enough emphasis. In the choice of rouge, powder, eye shadow and cosmetique one's own perronality and coloring must be taken into consideration as well as the color of one’s costume. Blonds wearing rhubarb pink, for instance, are urged to use silver blue eyeshadow, brunettes wearing the same shade, silver green, and titians, silver mauve. And new. if yeu are at all in doubt abcut the make-up to wear with your favorite co tume, and so many wise women have concentrated on the smart and thrifty "Sp'ing into Sum mer" type, why not let a reputable saleswoman in a reputable depart ment store show you how well you will look in the proper cosmetic shades. My bulletin on “Make-Up,” together with special color notes, will cheerfully be sent to you on receipt of self addressed, stamped i3-cent) envelope. Be sure to describe the color of your skin, eyes and hair. If you like fussy designs, this won't appeal to you, but if you like an air «*f formal dignity about your dining table, here is just the design for you. It is done in mercerized knitting and crochet cotton and it works up more quickly than any other design you could find. The table center measures approximately 11 by 27 inches, the place doilies 13 by 16 inches and the glass mats 4 by 31/* inches. 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. 237 and inclose 15 cents in stamps or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Woman’s Editor of The Evening Star, (Ooorriaht ie»e.) < 4 i h WITH A KITCHEN "PRIMA-DONNA" THE stage is always set for "kitchen artists," when Esskay pure lard ie in the house. Flakier pie crusts-lighter biscuits ••fluffier cakes-all are more easily prepared, and better results are. assured with Esskay Pure Open Kettle Lard. Good cooks have never resorted to lard substitutes, for none offer the results, the uniform quality, nor the purity and flavor that Esskay guaran tees. And even more important, no lard substitutes are as digestible. 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