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Readers'
Clearina House
Conducted bv BETSY CASWELL
DAMP BASEMENT?
(From. Mrs. E. C„ Riverdale.)
I have a basement apartment
and though there is no leakage,
the furniture smells damp and
mv books and clothes are a little
moldy. I cannot afford an electric
dehumidifier and wonder if any
one can give me hints on how to ,
keep the basement dry. I have '
been using calcium chloride
flakes, having some in several
pans throughout the basement, i
and I gather about a pint of ’
water every two days—it used to
be almost a quart a day before i
this. I’ve been told that windows
should be open only at night when -
outside air is cooler, but this i
eliminates chances to get sun- i
light. I’ve been told to use an
electric heater, but another pcr-;
son said it is much better to use
a fan, so I am perplexed. I have
a concrete floor with linoleum
(not asphalt tile' and I also have
concrete walls. The walls do net
sweat at all, but the air seems
musty. What to do? I must live
here until w-inter, so would ap
preciate hints of how to make it
livable for myself and two small
children.
* * * *
CALADIUM PLANTS?
(From Mrs. R. R., Bethesda.)
Could some of your readers
please nelp me by telling me how
to care for my tw-o caladium
plants? I purchased these two
healthy plants about three weeks
ago and now the leaves, which
were white with green veins, are
turning a whitish-yellow and wilt
ing. Some of the stems bend clear
over. 1 have tried not to give
them too much water as I under
stand that too much water will
make the stems soft. I have also
given them more light (they
weren’t getting any sun), but that
doesn't seem to help.
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WORDS TO SONG.
(From Miss M. B. R.. Remington.)
Boll Shenandoah, proudly roll
Adown thy rocky glen.
Above the lies the grave of one of
Stonewall Jackson's men.
Beneath the cedar and the pine.
In solitude austere ,. . .
Unknown, unnamed forgotten, ilea
A Georgia volunteer.
This is the only verse I remem
ber, and we used - sing it to an
old Southern tune. If you ever
get the other verses will you please
send them to me and I will try to
learn the name of the air we used.
* * * *
MARBLE-TOP TABLE?
(From Mrs. H. H. H., Washington.)
Will some one please come to my
Bid? I have a very old marble-top
oval table that is supposed to be
white. Is there anything I can
use on it to bleach it without
harming the marble? It is used
as a “coffee table” and has many
stains that I cannot remove witn
a household bleach. The RCH has
been so helpful to me in many
ways, and now I’m hoping for
more help. Thank you very, very
much.
* * * *
PEN FRIENDS.
(From Mr. W. L., Washington.)
J. E. L„ Rockville. I can recom
mend two organizations which will
gladly furnish you a list of worthy
correspondents. I write to over 50
people, all over the world, and
have recently helped one couple
come to America. The addresses
are: The Caravan of East and
West, Inc.; 132 East Sixty-fifth
street, New York 21, N. Y., and
Youth of All Nations, Inc., 16 St.
Lukes place, New York 14, N. Y.
I would be glad to answer any
one’s request for information rela
tive to these pen friends.
COOKIES FO~ KOREA.
GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST.
From Mrs. R. K. R., Arlington.)
To the person requesting
:ookies for Korea: During World
iVar H, my husband was in Eu
•ope and Asia and the most ap
oreciated and longest keeping
:ookie recipe I used was Russian |
Socks. It takes 1 cup butter, 2 |
:ups brown sugar, 3 cups flour, 3 |
veil beaten eggs, 1 pound raisins, i
. pound pecans, 1 teaspoon cin
lamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, and
teaspoon soda in V* cup hot
vater, Sift flour and spices to
:ether. Cream butter and sugar
intil fluffy. Add eggs. Add
;ifted ingredients alternately
vith soda water in small
imounts. Add nuts and raisins
ind mix thoroughly. Drop by
mall spoonfuls on greased pan|
md bake in moder: te oven (350
legrees) until brown. These keep
ilmost indefinitely, if sealed in!
i syrup bucket, lard can, coffee
:an, etc. I lined the can with
vaxed paper, and then packed
he cookies in the can, sealing
he can and cutting cardboard
,o fit the bottom and top and
me long piece to go around the
can, fastening it together with
cape. I then wrapped this in
reavy brown paper and tied it
vith heavy string. Of all the
nany packages I sent, not one
was damat d or spoiled I found
if I lightly greased the cans go
ing to Asia there was less danger
of rust.
Now, to the person whose gra
ham cracker crust falls apart,!
here is a recipe she might like:
22 graham crackers (1 cups. '
sacked), 2 tablespoons sugar, V%
teaspoon salt, V* cup shortening,
and >4 cup milk. Sift graham
crackers and add sugar and salt.
Blend in shortening with pastry
blender or fork, add milk, mixing
well. Press firmly into 8-inch pie
plate. Place in i moderately slow
oven (325 degrees), bake about 15
minutes. Cool on cake rack. I
like to add l/4 teaspoon nutmeg,
>4 teaspoon cinnamon and V*
teaspoon cloves to my graham
crackers and then top pie with
whipped cream. r
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SEATTLE?
(From Mrs. R. L. M„ Langley L
Park.) jy
I would greatly appreciate any y
information any one could give c
me about iving conditions in Se
attle. Wash. We art planning to s
move there within a month or so ■ *
and with two small children we'3
are especially interested in com- *
parative costs of renting a small c
house or two bedroom apartment!,
and advice as to the preferable ‘
suburban districts where we3
might begin looking. I have al
ways felt that RCH performs a _
valuable service in such a com- |
munity of transients, and hope
jthat we too may profit from some '
one else’s experiences.
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QUERIES? 1
(From Mrs. J. E. S., Falls Church.) \
I never saw an answer to the 1
request for polishing fine
scratches out of a windshield.
Perhaps I missed it, but I need
the information. Could some one!
help me?
We have hot wax treated floors
in our new home. What is the!
proper care for them? Do you
remove old wax before applying
paste wax, mop with hot soapy '
water, etc.?
v mm mmmmmmms
Avoid Style Extremes
By Josephine Lowman
“Shades of Godey’s Lady Book!”
That is the thought which oc
curs to my mind when I look at
today's bathing suits just after
doing some research concerning
the history of the bath and bath
ing. With today’s modern equip
ment, the daily bath has become
an enjoyable habit. But we still
swim, too, and look what’s hap
pened in that department.
This quotation is from ‘‘Godey’s
Lady Book” which was published
in 1882. “This bathing dress is
made of navy blue flannel, with
a long blouse, shirred on the
shoulders, full pants, scarlet
stockings and sandal shoes.”
Well, the scarlet stockings give
us a hint of hope and things to
come.
Another from the same book:
“Costume for the beach: Dress of
striped satin trimmed with narrow
ruffles, wrap made of very light
cloth, shirred at the waist and
around the neck and at the
sleeves, ribbon bows upon sleeves
and the neck. Hat of English
straw, trimmed with a scarf of
gauze and a wing.” The wing was
not there to help one swim but
to make one look more stunning,
or stunned.
Do you see what I mean.'’
Sometimes I think that both eras
lad their advantages. The cum
bersome swim suit of the past,
inhibiting free motion, was a sad
commentary on the beauty of the
figure. However, today’s concoc
tions leave little to the imagina
tion, which is almost always better
than reality.
I do not think the extremely
nude swim suits are alluring.
Too few women have good enough
figures to' look attractive in them,
regardless of moral standards.
Do not be led astray by extremes
in any style. Today’s wise and
chic woman selects styles which
flatter her particular figure and
compromises with fashion in or
der to look her best as an indi
vidual, with a certain type figure,
a certain type coloring and indi
vidual features.
Unless you are very slim
through the torso do not wear a
two-piece suit. If you are high
busted and long waisted wear a
two-piece suit, if you are slim
through the middle.
If you have large hips wear a
suit with a short, full skirt. If
you are long and slim wear a two
piece suit, if you are short and
slim wear a one-piece suit, if you
are fat, get rid of the extra pounds.
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Taste-Tempting Spreads for Winter
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Luscious homemade spreads will taste mighty good next winter. And when the
short-boil pectin method is used, you can have finished jars of spreads just 15 minutes
after the fruit is prepared. Peel and pit the soft ripe peaches and grind or chop very fine.
By Violet Faulkner
Food Editor
Berries, melons, cherries, cur
ints, peaches, grapes, plums,
pricots . . . the long list of
jmmer fruits . . . come along
1 such swift succession it leaves
ou little time to procrastinate if
ou want to replenish your fruit
upboards for next winter.
Many fruits have a natural
ffinity for each other. Grapes
nd peaches add up to a taste
»mpting combination when they
re used together for jam. Cherry
nd blackberries, cherry and cur
ant, cantaloupe and peach, apple
nd grape are still more whose
lavors combine successfully.
Yes, summer fruits are just
waiting to be turned into jellies
ind jams, marmalades and con
erves. If you want to make
ipreads and have fun doing it,
ry some of these recipes using the
:hort-boil pectin method. You’ll
ind that a little bit of spice makes
hem even nicer, too. Remember,
leaches have a special kinship for
doves, cinnamon and allspice.
GRAPE AND PEACH JAM.
4 cups prepared fruit
5V2 cups sugar
1 box powdered fruit pectin
To prepare the fruit: Stem
ibout 1% pounds fully ripe seed
ess grapes. Crush thoroughly or
;rind. Peel and pit about IV2
jounds soft ripe peaches. Grind
ir chop very fine. Combine fruits
ind measure 4 cups into a large
saucepan.
To make the jam: Measure 5V2
;ups sugar and set aside. Place
saucepan holding fruit over high
beat. Add 1 box powdered fruit
pectin and stir until mixture
;omes to a hard boil. At once stir
in sugar, bring to a full rolling
boil and boil hard 1 minute,
stirring constantly. Remove from
heat, skim, ladle quickly into
glasses and paraffin at once.
Makes about 9 6-ounce glasses.
BLACKBERRY AND
CHERRY JELLY
3 cups juice
4 cups sugar
1 box powdered fruit pectin
To prepare the juice: Crush
thoroughly about 1 quart fully
ripe blackberries (not black caps).
Stem and crush (do not pit) about
iy2 pounds fully ripe sour cher
ries. Add y4 cup water; bring
to a boil and simmer, covered, 10
minutes. Add a few crushed
cherry pits during simmering.
Place fruits in jelly cloth or bag
and squeeze out juice. Measure
3 cups juice into a large sauce
pan.
To make jelly: Measure sugar
and set aside. Place saucepan
holding juice over high heat. Add
powdered fruit pectin and stii
until mixture comes to a hard
boil. At once stir in sugar. Bring
to a full rolling boil and boil
hard ONE MINUTE, stirring con
stantly. Remove from heat, skim
pour quickly into glasses. Par
affin at once. Makes about sever
6-ounce glasses.
CANTALOUPE-PEACH
CONSERVE
4 cups diced cantaloupe
4 cups diced peaches
6 cups sugar
y2 cup blanched almonds
4 tablespoons lemon juice
' y2 teaspoon nutmeg
y4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon grated orange fine
Cook the cantaloupe an<
reaches together 20 minutes. Ad<
rugar and lemon juice. Boil rap
dly until thick. Add other in
gredients. Boil 3 minutes. Poui
roiling hot, into hot mason jars
seal at once.
PEACH JAM
4 cups prepared fruit
y4 cup lemon Juice
7 y2 cups sugar
1 bottle fruit pectin
To prepare fruit: Peel and pi
Stem the fully ripe seedless grapes. Crush thoroughly
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effectively.
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about 3 pounds soft ripe peaches.
Grind. Measure 4 cups into a
very large saucepan. Squeeze the
juice from 2 medium-sized lemons.
Measure Y* cup into pan with
peaches.
To make jam: Add sugar to
fruit in saucepan and mix well.
Place over high heat, bring to a
full rolling boil, and boil hard
ONE MINUTE, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and at once
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stir in bottled fruit pectin. Then1
stir and skim by turns 5 min
utes to cool slightly, to prevent
floating fruit. Ladle quickly into
glasses. Paraffin at once. Makes
about 11 6-ounce glasses.
Spiced peach jam: Add Va to 1
teaspoon each cinnamon, cloves
and allspice or any desired com
bination of spices, to peaches be
fore cooking. Proceed as directed.
By Betty Miles
THE WOMAN’S HOME COM
PANION salutes the medical corps
in general, and the “airevac”
nurses in particular, in its story of
their superb work in Korea.
Says Clive Howard, in “The
Bright Side of Korea’’: “We gave
our soldiers the finest and most
successful medical care known in
World War II. Yet in Korea the
death rate among our wounded as
compared with the experience in
World War II, has already been
cut hi half!
. . . “Once our medical staffs
have reached a wounded man—
and they reach most of them in a
hurry—the chances are ninety
eight out of a hundred that he will
be saved. No matter how badly
hurt, no matter what kind of med
icine or surgery he needs, he has
a 98 per cent chance of recovery.’’
He cites the case of M/Sergt.
Francis Edelen, the first man
to be called back to service
from the Washington area. Ten
days after he lay near death ip a
North Korean ditch, he was in
; Walter Reed Hospital. Thanks to
medical care that was not avail
able in other wars, he has his life
before him.
♦ * * *
GLAMOUR’S annual all beauty
issue tells with word and picture
of the busy days of Beauty Editor
Helen Van Slyke as she plans
stories designed to help make
milady irresistible.
Washington readers will re
i member Mrs. Van Slyke as Helen
I Vogt, who for five years turned oul
I sparkling, witty copy as The Star’s
! fashion and beauty editor frorr
s ’38 to ’43.
The point Glamour is making
: with this issue is that any womar
i can be lovelier, and proves it b;
selecting three already attractive
women, for which its readers are
archtypes, as it were, and sug
gesting a few additional beaut;
tricks and techniques that wil
make them lovelier still.
* * * *
Expert Ruth Hopkins Reed ad-‘
vises TODAY’S WOMAN readers
>n selecting a good beauty shop.
At your first appointment, ac
cording to Mrs. Reed, ask only for;
simpler services—a manicure, a
shampoo and finger wave. That
will give you a chance to judge the
shop’s sanitation, regard for its
legal obligations to customers,
pricing system, efficiency and the
skill of its operators.
Learn about the services a good
shop offers, Mrs. Reed counsels, so1
you will know the uffus-wuffus
treatment when you see it—the
uffus-wuffus treatment being a
dishonest sales technique.
This is Today’s Woman’s special
baby issue, too, with 36 pages of
practical ideas for new mothers
included.
* * * *
‘‘I Live With My Parents and
Like It,” says Beryl Archer in
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and ex
plains her position about a way
of life that is something of a
novelty today for a 23-year-old
woman after she has lived away
from home at college.
In the case of this young lady,
who also lived a year in Paris, she
stoutly contends that she prefers
home with her wise, unclinging
parents to any other version of
'the bachelor girl’s life. Among
iher reasons is the opportunity she
ihas had to know her parents on
an adult level, she declares.
“ ... In these years between
school and marriage, I do have
leisure for . . . hours of adult
talk . . . never possible before I
was an independent person, with
a life of my own,” she feels. “These
years probably are the most en
joyable for parents,” she adds.
“After they have gone through all
the aches and pains of bringing up
; kids, they should be able to relish
comfortably the almost-finished
product.”
Good Housekeeping also reminds
l that magazines are ammunition
j for waging peace. When vou have
read your copy send it to a United
States embassy abroad.
* * * *
If you’ve been looking for a new
way to make the most of a dra
matic window or window-wall
! HOUSE BEAUTIFUL has interest
ing things to tell you about the
new translucent, but not trans
parent, curtains. An interesting
departure from the overworked,
heavy traverse drapery, this.
One such fabric, for example,
made of shantung textured, ace
tate rayon taffeta, filters natural
light from outdoors, while under
artificial light indoors it appears
opaque. Another, lace net, lets
[you see into sunlit areas but not
[from outside in. Another, case
ment cloth of mercerized cotton
and rayon boucle, is especially de
signed to prevent sagging in the
Imost humid climates. Among
| others discussed — wool filigree,
[natural linen weave.
These same curtains “disappear”
into thin folds when you want to
Itake complete advantage of those
[glass areas.
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Cave men were “cry babies” ac
cording to modem standards ot
behavior, says Elsieliese Thrope
in McCALL’S. As a result, she
goes on, these same cave men
felt better, slept better and had
I no stomach ulcers.
Her article “Is Your Husband
Ashamed to Cry?” is concerned
with the recent discovery of
scientists that an enzyme called
lysozyme is abnormally present in
the stomachs of ulcer patients.
Lysozyme is the stuff that tears
are made of, a powerful antiseptic
which, among other things, pro
tects the eyes from infection
[through the eyeballs.
When we cry we create an
unusual amount of lysozyme in
our tears, and women and chil
dren, who can cry with social
sanction, simply let their tears
wash away. Men on the other
hand, seldom permitted the lux
I ury of crying in our society,
swallow their tears and their
lysozyme, and when enough of
this enzyme gets into the stomach
it may work on the stomach wall,
laying it open to erosion from the
[digestive juices.
Weeping is not the cure for
ulcers, of course, any more than
tears are the only cause, but tears
are good for the system as well
[ as the soul. We must keep this in
’ mind. Miss Thrope advises, and
illow our sons to express their
feelings of hurt, anger, and grief,
is well as joy, as openly as their
sisters do.
Remember McCall’s Ginger-!
Dread House on the December
:over? The same pattern, cookie
bough and bright new summer
trimmings turn it into a summer
bouse, ideal for children’s birth
day parties.
* * * *
“I Hate My Own Child,” writes i
an anonymous young mother in !
PAGEANT, as she describes an
emotion most women wouldn’t
dare admit to themselves. With
a psychoanalyst’s help, she has
learned to accept the truth about
herself that ended in jealousy of
her 3-year-old daughter, and is
waging a war to conquer it.
Also in the same magazine, ex
pert swimmer George Shaw de
scribes his drowning exactly a
year ago.
Administration of artificial res
piration restored Mr. Shaw’s
breathing in time. But he remem
bers the agonizing, horrifying de
tails of his drowning and explodes
the theory of those who claim it
an easy, painless way to die.
Most drownings occur among
reasonably good swimmers who
take chances poor swimmers
wouldn't dare take, Mr. Shaw
points out, and cites his almost
fatal error—he went into the
water alone. Nine other rules for
those who would live through a
'summer of water fun are given.
* * * *
HOUSE AND GARDEN has
created a House of Ideas, which
stands on a two-acre lot in Upper
Brookville, Long Island, and will
be open to visitors from June 15
to Labor Day. No dreamhouse of
tomorrow this, they claim, but a
house incorporating features that
f.
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For July Reading
Miracle of Medical Corps in Korea
can be used today in your own
building and remodeling.
The house, which of course uses
the principle of “enlarging” you-*,
rooms through fusing the ioucor*
and outdoors, also makes tnese
interesting points for creating
privacv through good planning:
“Our House rf Ideas, which
gives you a thoroughly extrovert
living-dining room and patio,
provides a private bedroom wing,
far enough away so that the two
can’t coniflct. The bedroom wing
turns its back on the main wing,
opens windows and doors on a
peaceful terrace secluded from
the rest of the house. So that
each of these rooms can have its
share of morning sunlight and
grassy terrace, they are strung
out like beads: First comes the
study-guestroom (which is also a
family sitting room), next comes
the children’s room, finally the
master bedroom and bath-dressing
room (forming a separate unit of
its own). As the children grow
older, you might want to divide
the terrace to give each member
of the family his own outdoor
room. We have left it open so
that the children can have a spa
cious outdoor playroom where
they may romp freely.”
* * * *
THE WOMAN selects the 25
best vacation bargains in America
—its choice based on those most
accessible, most reasonably priced
and offering the tops in family
holiday fare.
Described are the charms of
these 25: Lake Winnepesaukee,
N. H.; Long Trail, Vt.; Nantucket,
Mass.; Adirondack Mountains,
N. Y.; New York City; Mt. Po
cono, Pa.; Atlantic City, N. J.;
Shenandoah National Park, Va.;
Fontana Village, N. C.; Miami
Beach, Fla.; New Orleans, La.;
Corpus Christi, Tex.; Hot Springs,
Ark.; Great Lakes Steamship Ex
cursion; Chicago, HI.; Wisconsin
Dells, Wis.; Yellowstone National
Park, Wyo.; Colorado Springs.
Colo.; Sante Fe, N. M.; Grand
Canyon, Ariz.; Boulder Dam Rec
reational Area, Nev.-Ariz.; Sun
Valley, Idaho; Coeur D’Alene,
Idaho; San Francisco, Calif.; Los
Angeles, Calif.
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