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Noodle Ring Is Appetizing Container for Creamed Chicken or Sea Food
- —— — ■ .—.
Local Markets Looking
Forward to Easter
And End of Lent
Good Supply of Fine Hams
On Hand for Housewives
Who Cling to Tradition.
By BETSY CASWELL.
Betsy Caswell
WHAT do you like best for Easter? Ham, lamb or young duckling?
This year the ham fans are the luckiest of the lqt, for lamb has
seen fit to elimb a bit in price thus week, and the ducklings aren't
any too reasonable, considering that one duck doesn't go very
far in a large and hungry household. But the hams are fine and steady in
price, which should be good news to all you housekeepers who are counting
on tnem tor taster Sunday dinner—•
and a few meals thereafter! Veal
and pork don't seem to have ehanged
mueh. either, in ease you want to be
original anastray ..
from tradition!
California
fruits and vege- ;
tables are com
ing in slowly just
now, resulting in
a shortage of
produce from
that usually de
pendable source
of supply. How
ever, the South
ern States are ;
sending us good i
shipments,
notably greens
of several kinds.
string Deans, aspaiagus and members
of the cabbage family. Peas are high
and not too good; carrots are excel
lent. Did you ever try varying the
old mixture of carrots and peas by
combining carrots with celery or corn
or chopped green pepper? Beautiful
firm heads of romaine and crisp en
due suggest a refreshing salad bowl,
and all kinds of squash are seen on
every side.
As Lent draws to a close, t.he meat
less meals become more and more of
a problem. It is hard to find a new
combination that will tempt the
wearied appetite. We have planned
the menu today so that those both
who have given up meat and those
who have not, ran enjoy it. The
noodle ring, which acts as the main
dish, may be filled with creamed sal
mon, tuna, scallops or other seafood,
for the abstainers—or it may contain
creamed chicken with mushrooms for
the opposite side. Use ranned peas
If you find the fresh ones are too
costly just now—or diced carrots may
be substituted for the green vege
table if desired.
Glazed Carrots.
1 bunch carrots
2 tablespoons butter.
2 tablespoons sugar.
Dash of nutmeg.
Scrape and slice carrots. Cook in
a heavy pan in as little water as pos- j
sible to which a dash of sugar and a !
dash of salt have been added. Cook
covered until tender, about 15 min
utes. Drain if necessary. Add butter
and sugar, stir gently two or three i
minutes over a low fire until sugar
melts. Season with nutmeg and
serve.
SUNDAY DINNER MENU.
Tomato-Clam Broth
Oyster Crackers Ripe Olwes
Noodle Ring with
Creamed Chicken or Seafood
Peas Pineapple Slices
Romaine and Endive Salad
Cheese Balls
Grape Frappc Macaroons
Coffee
TOMATO-CLAM BROTH.
4 cups clam juice.
2 cups tomato juice.
Pepper, celery salt and lemon juice
to taste. Simmer the juices in a sauce
pan for 10 minutes. Add the season
ings and serve hot in cups, sprinkled
with a little chopped parsley.
NOODLE RING.
’a package of flat noodles.
3 eggs.
1 cup milk.
'-i cup grated cheese.
'a teaspoon salt.
Dash of black pepper.
Cook the noodles according to the
directions on the package. Separate
the eggs and beat the yolks until :
thick and light. Add them with the
milk to the cooked noodles, add the
cheese and seasonings. Fold in the
stiffly beaten whites of the eggs.
Turn into a greased ring mold, set
in a pan of water and bake for about
an hour in a moderate oven. Turn
out on a round serving plate and All
with creamed chicken or sea food
mixture topped with a ring of peas, i
Garnish with pineapple slices.
SAUTEED PINEAPPLE SLICES.
Drain canned sliced pineapple from
sirup and dry carefully on a towel.
Saute slices in butter until deli
cately browned. Place around noodle
ring, fill holes in center with sprigs of
parsley or mint or a maraschino
cherry.
ROMAINE AND ENDIVE SALAD.
Make moderately large balls of
cream cheese, mixed with paprika and
chopped chives. Place one in the
center of each plate and radiate alter
nate leaves of romaine and endive
from it all around the plate. Dress
lightly with French dressing. Serve
with toasted crackers.
GRAPE FRAPPE.
4 cups water.
2 cups sugar.
L cup lemon juice.
2 cups purple grape juice.
23 cup orange or pineapple juice
(the juice from the pineapple slices
may be used).
1 egg white, stiffly beaten.
Boil the sugar and water to a sirup
for five minutes. Cool. Add the fruit
juices. Cool. Strain and add the egg
white. Freeze to a mush in salt and
ice or in mechanical refrigerator.
Tailored House Dress
Straight Lines in This Model
Will Make You Look Slim.
I5I0-B
By BARBARA BELL.
T-IERE'S a house dress that's sure
to be your favorite—a pattern
that you'll use over and over again.
You can make it in a few hours. The
complete and detailed sew chart that
comes with your pattern shows ex
actly what to do. And it’s practically
guaranteed to make you look slim,
thanks to the straight lines, the long
scalloped collar and the trim shoulder
line.
Make it up in plain or printed per
cale (small-figured prints are best),
in chambray or broadcloth. Use
white for the collar, cuffs and vestee,
or a plain contrasting color. In tub
silk or dotted Swiss, you'll find it de
lightfully cool for hot summer days.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 1510-B is
designed for sizes 36. 38, 40, 42, 44,
46, 48, 50 and -52. Size 38 requires
4% yards of 35-inrh material, with
% yard for contrasting collar, cuffs
and vestee.
Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell
spring and summer fashion pattern
book. Make yourself attractive, prac
tical and becoming clothes, selecting
designs from the Barbara Bell well
planned, easy-to-make patterns.
BARBARA BELL,
WASHINGTON STAR.
Inclose 25 cents in coins for
-t.
Pattern No. 15I0-B. Size.
Name_,_
Address _
(Wrap coins securely In paper.)
(Copyrliht. 1938.)
Suggested for Your Sunday Dinner
this ring of tender, well-seasoned noodles may be filled with any creamed mixture you desire.
The cooked or canned peas, and the sauteed pineapple slices add to its portability and appearance.
____ —Photo Courtesy Modern Science Institute,
Record Book
On Infant
Helpful
Gives True Story
To Doctor or
Teachers.
Bv ELSIE PIERCE.
jyjOTHERS are busy people. They
overlook many things. They
must. But there is one job that should
not be overlooked because it is so very
important. I mean keeping the
baby's record book.
A record of the baby's life, set down
from time to time, can be of the great
est help. It is so easy to forget. Con
fused memories are plentiful, so keep
a record. Then when a question
arises about the health or the man
agement of the child and you need
accurate information, you have it. It
is in the record book. It is worth
while to know whether it was John
or Tom w ho had measles at 2; whether
John walked at 10 months or at 2
years; whether he got his first tooth
at 6 months or at 1 year. These
things do make a difference. Some
times they carry a lot of meaning.
All these things are important and
repay you for all the effort it cost to
set them down.
John has a temper tantrum at 10
o'clock in the morning; he refuses to
have his coat and hat put on; he re
fuses to have them taken away; he
cries and kicks and screams; he has
never behaved like this before. Write
that story in the record book. By
and by you will find that you have a
picture of the child as he is, a history
of him as he has been; it tells you
much that you need to know.
And put down the good things, the
happy things. These are important,
too. If the child has an unusually
good day, tell about it. If he was
pleased by something or somebody,
set it down. His reactions tell you
something about his tastes and tend
encies—all very useful when you have
to make a decision about his educa
tion or his training. You won’t have
to guess; you will know.
Read and reread the record every
once in a while. You may discover
that the child is forming an unfortu
nate habit, and you w’ill set to work
to cure it. Or you may find that he
is developing some fine trait, some
talent, and you can begin to encourage
that talent and help to strengthen it.
Any good blank book will do. Fill
one each year and then begin a new
one. Make the entries in ink. Have
a book for each child. If you keep
them until the children are married
you ran hand the books to them as
wedding presents. I ran assure you
that nothing will be more welcome
or more appreciated.
The record may be especially valu
able to the physician in charge of
the child. Sometimes your child
wakens with a severe pain. Nothing
you can do seems to help. You call
the doctor and he asks, “Ever have
any trouble like this before?”
Turn to the record book. In its
pages are set down accounts of John's
having had such a pain. You find
reference to it again and again. “Hm.
I thought so,” says the doctor. “He
has chronic appendicitis. Lucky you
sent for me.” The record has helped.
The high school principal asks you
to come to talk over John’s future
education. “He seems to like me
chanics,” gays the principal. Turn
to the record. Here when he was
very little he made a boat out of a
chip and a match. Here you find that
once he made the washing machine
go when nobody else could, and he
was only 8.
"Good,” says the principal, “then
we are safe in sending him to a school
of technology."
There are endless ways of using the
record. The better you keep it the
more useful it will be.
(Copyright. 1938.)
New Heel Styles.
Significant heel trends for the spring
and summer of 1938 were described
by a well-known stylist as follows:
“The year has seen a sudden lean
ing toward the squared heel for
sportsy shoes of many kinds, a bearing
away from flat heels, popularity of the
built-up heel, and a return to ex
tremes in heels for evening wear.*
I ——————
Dorothy Dix Says—
Bring Your Loafer Husband to
His Senses or Divorce Him.
DEAR MISS DIX: I am 31
years old. Have been mar
ried for two months to a man
who was the only boy in a
family of four sisters and who has
been badly spoiled by them. Here is
the set-up. I work nine hours a day
in an offire doing very difficult work
on financial statements that must be
absolutely accurate, so I am under a
great strain. My husband has no job.
I support the family. He does not
get up in the morning until 10 o’clock
and spends the balance of the day
loafing around. He takes my pay en
velope and refuses to give me back
even enough to buy my lunches, but
w hen he gets any money he never even
lets me see the check. He treats me
with absolute indifference. Reads at
the table. Grouches. Seldom speaks
to me. Never does a hand's turn of
housework and I have to get the meals
when I come home tired from the of
fice. X am getting discouraged and
nervous. What can I do to better the
situation? I have never said a word
to my husband about not working.
A PERPLEXED BRIDE.
Answer—I had supposed that Pa
tient Griselda left no lineal descend
ants. but evidently you are her
daughter and inherited all of her
meekest characteristics. Your place
is neither in a home nor a counting
house. You should be in a museum
of Human Freaks where people could
go and look at you. and wonder how
you got that way and what made you
stand such a husband any longer than
it took you to put on your hat and
leave.
No doubt humility and self-sacrifice,
self-abnegation and the martyr spirit
are all very admirable abstract vir
tures, but when you concretely put
them into action they ran be the
most deadly crimes that any one ran
commit.
* * * *
'J'HEY can sap manhood. They can
kill ambition. They can do away
1 with incentive. They can foster
selfishness. They can develop tyran
ny. They can make a weak person
weaker; a grasping person more
greedy; a mean person meaner, until
they blot out every good quality in
the individual.
That is what you are doing to your
husband by your slaving to support
him and making a doormat of your
self for him to kick around, and by
your taking all of his arrogance and
ill-temper without any protest and by
your encouraging him in his spoiled
baby ways.
I am all for peace in the family:
for a wife making every reasonable
effort to get along with her husband
and biting her tongue half in two to
keep from making a snappy comeback
to a man who comes home tired and
nerve-racked after a hard day's work.
But there is a time for silence and a
time for speech. The psychological j
moment has come for you to stiffen j
your backbone and read the riot act :
to your husband.
Begin by telling him that you are
not going to support him another day
and that he can go back to Mama and
stay with her until he gets a job: that
you are not going to stand for his lying
in bed until 10 o'clock waiting for
work to come and rout him out. That
he has got to get up and look for it.
Furthermore, that he has to look
pleasant while he stays around your
house And, above all, keep your own
money.
You have to use drastic methods to
wake up this Weary Willie whom you
have married in order to make him
make a man of himself, and you owe it
to him to do it. If there is anything in
him, he will thank you for bringing
him to his senses. If there isn't you
are well rid of a bad bargain.
* * * *
J^EAR MISS DIX—Have you any
statistics to show that marriages
made in December and May don't last?
| I have been reading a book by a cer
tain doctor on eugenics and marital
harmony and he says marriages in
those months are rarely successful. I
married in December and I am worried
about it. ANXIOUS WIFE.
Answer—It Isn't the month you mar
ried in that matters, it is what you put
into your marriage of love and under
standing that counts. Our marriages
are what we make them, irrespective
of the time of the year.
DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright, 1P3S.)
YyORKING around and around, you'll soon have a charming motif in this
heavy cotton. When you sew several together, you’ll be startled to see that
where four meet, there’s another attractive pattern appearing. A table cloth,
bedspread, luncheon set, or whatever you wish, will be charming in this design.
The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand, illustrated
directions; also what crochet hook and what material and how much you
will need; also illustrations of stitches used.
To obtain this pattern, send for No. 1008 and inclose 15 cents in stamps
or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Needlework Editor
of The Evening Star.
(Omrisht. IMS.)
Exercise to
Keep Neck
Youthful
Scrub Thoroughly,
Then Use a Good
Heavy Cream.
By ELSIE PIERCE.
^70. YOU don't want a swan's throat,
really. You prefer one that is
not dead white, but has some pink and
yellow human pigment in it. But you
do want it as fair as scrubbing and
bleaching and liquid powder base can
make it. And you see by your mirror
that your neck is shades darker than
your skin. Charge that to fur collars
and cloth collars and confess that your
neck has not had quite the tender,
frequent care that your face has.
Maice up to it by scrubbing a little
longer and stronger when you scrub
your face. Spend a few extra minutes
on your throat. Use a good, bland
soap, warm water and complexion
brush or wash cloth. Work in a rotary
movement until circulation is up and
your threat is a deep pink. Then rinse
thoroughly in warm, then cold, water.
Dry gently with turkish towel. Now
smooth on some circulation cream
or a bleaching preparation or mask.
Follow directions. After this is re
moved apply a rich emollient cream
or a special throat cream or jelly or
any favorite that you know will soothe
and soften the skin and also firm.
You may not want a dead white
skin, but you do want your throat
firm and stretched and poised like a
swan's. That's where the analogy
applies. Patting with astringent and
wearing a tie-up for a half hour a
day will help to keep flabbiness and
sagging at bay.
And exercise will make for poise.
You don't even have to go through
the routine of exercise if you find
that too monotonous. If you're a
young mother, or aunt (or if you have
to borrow a baby because you can't
use y->ur imagination) try blowing
balloons, burst a few. it's good for
you, puff out your cheeks, work. Blow
bubbles, too. Blow feathers. It will
delight the baby, keep your throat
firm, keep you young in spirit and
keep mouth lines' away.
If you can go through the routine
of head bending and neck stretch
ing. send self-addressed, stamped
(3-cent) envelope for my Chin
and Neck Exercises.
(Copyright. 1038.)
Boiled Custard.
Boiled custard is done when It
leaves a light-colored film over a
silver spoon when the latter is dipped
into it. Stir the custard constantly
while it is cooking in the double boiler
to insure smoothness.
Room May Be Lightened
By Choosing Right Color
For Walls, Curtains
Upholstering Old Bedstead
Difficult Job for Novice.
Other Queries Answered.
By MARGARET NOWELL.
DEAR MISS NOWELL: My living room, 19 by 12 feet, needs brighten
ing The exposure is northeast and west, with very little direct
sunlight. My rug is an "American Oriental" in the usual rosey red
with blue and ecru figuring. The woodwork is ivory, but all the
furniture is dark wrood. What color and type of upholstery and draperies
would be most appropriate in a not too formal style? Also, I would appreciate
your acivicp on a wall treatment1
that would lend color interest and
brightness.
MRS. W. R. B , CHEVY CHASE.
Answer—The large figured rug Is
absorbing much of the light in a
room with this exposure. You must
build the sunlight into it. Try to get
a creamy beige shade in paper or
paint for the walls that blends with
the ecru shade in your rug, but does
not get brownish and dull. You cannot
use real primrose yellow with these
rug colors, but you may keep that
sunlight quality in your wall color.
Use the same shade in very sheer
glass curtaine to warm the light as it
comes in the window. Keep the up
holstery as light wuth the beige and
rose tones as is practical, and avoid
large patterns. I would suggest printed
linen for draperies with beige and
rose patterns on a white ground. Ac
cent the room with white and the deep
blue, in lamps, small objects and books.
J^EAR MISS NOWELL:
I bought at auction a chair
which I thought was an old Windsor.
Its lines are good, but I find in re
moving the finish that it is modern
in construction and will not look well
finished in the natural wood. What
do you suggest as a method of refin
ishing?
MISS MARY W„ 29th ST.
Answer—
Old Windsor chairs were painted
always either black or a deep green
This was a very thin, dull paint. I
think the black ones are mod at
tractive.
♦ * * *
J}EAR MISS NOWELL:
I have an old bed that I wish to
upholster like the modern ones shown
in the shops Is this possible to do
at home or should I have an uphol
sterer make the cushions?
MRS. M. R. C , ALEXANDRIA.
Answer—
I would suggest that you get the
advice of an upholsterer, as this is
not a job to be tackled by some one
who has never done anything of the
kind. The puffing should be made on
a buckram backing which fits the
shape of the bed, buttons are covered
to match the upholstery and sewed
through to the back, to give it the
puffed effect. Then it is tacked to the
bed. The finishing is the important
thing, as it must be carefully done to
f-.
get a professional effort. S'udy the
ones in the shops before you start
your own.
* * * *
J}EAR MISS NOWELL:
What, do you suggest for a bath
room curtain that, is cool looking for
the summer and will not get "tired ’
from heat and steam I especially
dislike the usual oiled silk variety
MISS ANNA L , 19th ST.
Answer—
Why not try the sheer material sold
for dresses which is crinkled like seer
sucker? It seems to me it would be
more attractive as it puckered up It
comes in delightful gay designs this
year and of course is shrinkproof and
fadeproof.
Questions on furniture, Interior
decoration and so on may be sent
to Margaret Nowell, care of the
Woman’s Page of The Star, and
the answers will appear in this
column as quickly as space per
mits. For personal replies, please
inclose a stamped, self-addressed
envelope.
My Neighbor Soys:
If lilac bushes are to be used
for a low hedge, they should be
trimmed like pivet and not al
lowed to bloom. Two cuttings a
year will not be too many.
If a little ammonia is mixed
with beeswax and turpentine used
for polishing floors, the wax will
dissolve quickly.
Left-over rice blends well with
cooked meat and can be shaped
into small cakes, browned in
bacon fat and topped with to
mato or mushroom sauce.
A "different" frosting for white
or yellow cake is made, by adding
!2 cup crushed pineapple to 1
cup crumbled macaroons and
then adding !2 teaspoon lemon
extract and 12 cup confectioner's
sugar.
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