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Evening star., 1937-02-18
Weather Has
Bad Effect
On Beauty
Changes in Tempera-
ture Often Too Vio-
lent for Skin.

TEMPERAMENTAL weather plays
havoc with health as well as
beauty. We had unusually warm
spells in most parts of the country
this Winter. The effect on beauty of
unSeaSonal weather or weather
changes is marked. With proper pro-
tective care the skin soon builds its
own resistance against chill winds.
Those living in northern cltmes have
to keep their skins fabricated and
have to protect the skin with foun-
dation preparation and with powder
remember that powder has protective
as we'll as beautifying Rowers). Those
living in southern climes need virtual
ly the same care-lubrication and pro-
lection. Sun and wind both tend to
extract natural oil from the skin. leav-
ing it dry, coarsened and prone to
chapping and wrinkles.
Far more devastating than either
sun or wind is temperamental weather.
The sudden adjustment the skin has
to make from a cold, windy day to a
mild, warm day is hard on the COM
plexion. 1t is similar in effect to the
sudden adjustment from cold outdoors
to overheated interiors
If you know your skins needs and
can keep your treatment in balance,
just as you keep your diet in balance
and make changes depending upon
the way you feel, the season of the
year and so on-then you can ward
of the ravageS Of weather changes.
For the average skin the ideal
treatment consists of Cleansing with
cleansing cream, patting briskly with
skin tonic kept on ice. upward and
outward over face and neck. Then
the use of a foundation cream or To-
ton and application of rouge plus a
generous busting with powder. On
cold or windy days avoid washing skin
with soap and water either imme-
diately before or Immediately after
going outdoors. Use cleansing cream
instead.
If the skin looks unduly dull, check
on your diet, get more rest, make
sure that elimination is regular and
get a few minutes exercise before an
open window night and morning.
If the skin is chapped or blotchy
use soothing, lubricating cream. If
the skin is oily, use finishing lotion
before your makeup. to form a bar
rier between your skin and the little
dust particles blown about by the
wind, so eager to settle as blackheads.
If you are at all in doubt as to
what treatment your skin ordinarily
needs send a self-addressed, stamped
(3-cen0 envelope for my bulletin,
How to Tell Your Skin and What to
Do About It"
tCopyright. 1877
Evening star., 1937-02-18

the next midnight.
For two years during this extraordI-
nary diet Dan was playing in The
Belle of New York" doing fine job.
Then he up and died. I've never de-
termined whether he died as a result
of eating, should say offhand, about
20 snails, though your modern scien-
tific dietitian probably wouldn't give
me much room for argument. 1t
can't be true, however, that he died
as result of eating poor snaiS. For
our Snails were of the finest. They
were the true snail of Burgundy, raised
from patrician stock. The Burgundy
snail 1'm not joking has the most
equable disposition of any snail in
the world, and he feeds exclusively on
the leaf of the Burgundy grape. We
treated him like the eXtra-special
delicacy that he was. had him shipped
to us in padded crates, each crate
stuffed with fresh grapevine leaves.
We cooked him lovingly and served
him smiling.
I'M NOT going to bother to mention
a recipe for snails because even
after this bit of snail reminiscence
the chances are you wouldn't be in
terested. To many peoples way of
thinking snails belong in that great
borderland of dubious food culture
which, Just generation ago, included
tripe and calves brains. You know,
you don't mind hearing about some
body making meal on, say. broiled
rabbit. but just the same you'd rather
not. On those grounds I'm going to
hope you won't mind hearing about
one of the food fads that's Just hit
New York. It's nice boiled rattle
snake meat, and it sells for ST 20 the
5-ounce tin at any one of the smoother
delicateSsens. Don't ask me who
started the idea-or why. I'd as soon
come face to face with brother rat
tier behind a piece of sage brush as
dig fork into any can he'd been
preserved in. Incidentally. the
daintiest dishes of the Siamese range
from cobra down to little insects that,
Evening star., 1937-02-18
Timely Dessert.
Washington pie is an espe

Washington pie is an especially ap-
propriate dessert to serve at a George
Washington birthday party. The
recipe for it varies according to the
cook. Some use sponge cake, others
use one-egg cake as the basis for
making it. 1t is frequently baked in
an ordinary pie pan, then cut in two
horizontally and cream filling spread
between the. two slices. Or the cake
may be baked in two layer pans.
To carry out the Washington idea
have hatchet design on the top Of
each piece. This can be done very
easily by laying paper hatchet pat
tern where you want the design to be.
Then sift over the top powdered sugar.
Lift up the hatchet pattern and the
design Is clearly outlined. 4
Evening star., 1937-02-18
I266- B

easy-to-make patterns. Interesting
and exclusive fashions for little chill
dren and the difficult junior age; slen-
derizing, well-cut patterns for the
mature figure; afternoon dresses for
the most particular young women and
matrons, and other patterns for spe-
cial occasions are all to be found In the
Barbara Bell Pattern Book.
(copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-02-18
Yachting Wardrobe.

PARIS CP.-Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt
has ordered a number Of new outfits
for wear on her yacht, Alva. One of
them is a navy blue linen dress belted
with navy blue crocodile and topped
by an Indian silk scarf in blue, red
and apricot. Emerald-green leather
tassels trim another frock-of printed
navy tussah with an emerald-green
belt. A dress and jacket ensemble of
rough white silk are worn with wool
scarf in two shades of emerald green.
The Jacket is fitted and the skirt Is
laid with sun-ray pleats.
Evening star., 1937-02-18
BY BARBARA BELL.

r VEN kindergarten and first
- grade students feel the need of
/ rejuvenation In the Spring,
and no better medium could be
found than today's ensemble. First,
simple Observation-Disclosures combina-
ton, then a slip. The dress has
yoke sleeve affair that allows the
sleeve to fall like tiny capelet. After
that it finishes with a little round COL
lar and buttons at the neck. If you
make the underwear of nainsook or
pongee, the dress can be delightfully."-
sheer dimity. dotted swiss or voile.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1868 is
available for sizes 2, 4, and 8. Size
dress alone requires 17s yards.
Combination and slip require 2 yards.
Every Barbara Bell Pattern in
cludes an illustrated instruction guide
which is easy to understand.
Send Is cents for the Barbara Bell
Spring and Summer Pattern Book.
Make yourself attractive, practical and
becoming clothes, selecting d. designs
from the Barbara Bell well-planned,
Evening star., 1937-02-18

More than ten million Lovalon rinses
were used by women in the last IL
months-used by them because they
could SEE that it gave their hair a
radiant beauty such as it never had be.
fore. Here's exactly what Lovalon does.
HiahIiqhfs the heir. Gives it sparkling
life, cleaning lustre, healthful glow.
1infs as II rinsss. Lovalon is made in
Il shades You can match and enrich
your hairs natural color, or make it a
bit lighter, or deeper. Faded, oH-color or
gray strands are magically offended in.
Rinsss away shampoo film. Prevents
that stringy, straw-hke dullness. Loyalon
makes soft, fluffy, youthful head ofhair.
Keeps heir neatly In place. And you
will see how much longer your per-
manent or fnger-wave stays in. Lovalon
Evening star., 1937-02-18
Sensational new 4 Purpose Rinse gives
Hair thri|Iino BEAUTY, LUsTRE, COLOR

does not dye or bleach-it is pure,
odorless, vegetable rinse. Affects your
scalp or hair in no way, except to make
it more radiantly beautiful.
Do not be satisfied with ordinary rinses.
Use Lovalon, the q purpose rinse. the
rinse approved by Good Housekeeping
Bureau and used by beauty shops every
where. At drug and dept. stores, rs cents
for FIVE rinses. Trial size at l0e stores.
Evening star., 1937-02-18

if they get the chance, bite the citi-
zens first.
don't go to the point of saying
that the time will ever come when
snake meat will be regarded as healthy
or enjoyable by most of the people, or
that the Siamese will dictate any food
fashions. It's nevertheless true that
the time was when foods We take for
granted now were viewed with dark
suspicion in the best quarters. There's
the celebrated case of the diamond
back terrapin, which used to be fed
to the slaves in the South in such
quantities that some of the slave own
ers' contracts carried clauses which
forbade feeding terrapin to the colored
boys oftener than twice a week. You
can't get terrapin now save in the
hottest places, and you'll be lucky to
get it under SIS a portion. Sweet
breads come under this same category,
though sweetbreads have never. I'm
glad to say, become as ridiculously eY-
elusive as terrapin. You probably
haven't thought of serving braised
sweetbreads to the family-but why
not?
COAX one pair of sWeetbreads in
cold water for one hour. Then
duck them into quart of boiling
water, into which you've first put one
tablespoon of vinegar and one teaspoon
of salt. Then simmer them for Is
minutes, drain them. and give them
another dousing with cold water, so
that they're good and firm. Next give
the sweetbreads a good going-over.
taking out any stray bits of windpipe
or membrane. then press them under
a light weight Dot them with but
ter and lay them out in a shallow
casserole and stick the casserole into
a moderate oven. In five minutes
baste them with some melted butter;
at the same time lightly brush each
sweetbread with beef extract. The
best way to do this is put one tea
spoon OF beef extract in a small cup
and put the cup handily by you on
the stove. Put the sweetbreads back
into the oven and bake them for five
minutes longer. Then baste them
again and season lightly with salt and
pepper. When you've got the sweet
breads on hot platter, pour the rest
of the butter and extract sauce which
is in the casserole over them. Gar
nish the platter with green peas and
sprigs of parsley.
There's chance that frogs legs will
appeal to you. Here they are-saute
meuniere:
After washing and drying. season
the frogs legs with salt and pepper.
then dip them in -four and fry them in
hot butter until they're golden brown.
Take them out and brown a piece of
butter in the same pan. Pour the but
ter over the frogs legs that are now
on platter that-you've lightly rubbed
with Glove of garlic Garnish the dish
with Quartered lemon.
Evening star., 1937-02-18
Criticism
Should Be
Put toWork
Children Must Learn
Constructive Com
ment Is Best.
BY ANGELO PATRI.
n DEAR, cabbage salad again. i
hate cabbage"

hate cabbage"
'You might reserve that until after
dinner" said mother, in hurt tones.
It can eat cabbage salad every night
in the week and like it," said brother,
suiting the action to the word.
We'll, I can't" said Beulah petu-
lantly. There are plenty of other
salads to be had. Once in a while is
one thing, but every day"
This is the first time in 10 days
you have had cabbage salad" said
mother. II know because I make out
the menus. You don't even give them
a thought. If you did you would know
that you never get the same dish twice
in the same week"
why not allow Beulah to choose
the menus for a while?" said father.
Il think that people who make criti-
cisms and suggestions ought to be will
ing to shoulder a little of the work
and responsibility. Let her choose
the menu for tomorrow night"
"All right, I will. And We won't
have cabbage salad, either"
But you will have to help cook and
serve the meal you choose" said
mother. I'll do the marketing for
you, and help some, but you must do
your own choosing and most of the
cooking"
TITS Friday night, so that will be all
right with me-" said Beulah conf
IDENTIFY.
Can I go over to Aunt Harriet's
for dinner tomorrow night?" asked
Brother with exaggerated anxiety.
No, you stay right here and eat
what you get like the rest Of u.s." said
father, laughing. And Thursdays
will be your turn. That will give your
mother a break. You can both learn
to cook. 1t will do you good to learn.
I had to when was your age"
What did you have for your first
diner, father? Give me hint" said
the boy. "I'm for scrambled eggs and
frankfurters and cabbage salad and
ice cream"
Terrible" exclaimed Sister with a
shudder. II have to eat, too, remem-
ber. Mother never gives us frank
furters for a home meal and you
know it."
"You will have to select the dishes
from the recipes on file in the cabi-
net" said mother. You father and I
have to eat as we'll as you. I'll help
at the start, but you will both have to
learn to choose your menus and cook
and serve them. Father has given me
a fine idea 1t is high time you knew
little more about diets and dishes"
Adolescent children ought to learn
how to feed themselves. 1t is shame
to see grown-up children at a loss to
get meal for themselves when every
thing they need is at hand. With
the fine stoves, the efficient kitchen
equipment, the multitude of recipes
and suggestions that are in all the
papers today, there is no excuse for 1t.
Choosing the menu, cooking and
serving it, is the finest cure for the
food-fussing boys and girls you can
find. Just try it, and see what hap
pens. Boys like to cook and will II
they have any encouragement. And
girls take to it instinctively.
tcopyriEht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-02-18

not altogether Brilliant ask the
patience Of my readers for just a
little longer-until can get back into
harness in earnest once again!
\ X 4
A NB9hat is that. Now we had bet
ter get down to the serious busi-
ness of the moment-which is dessert
for Washington's birthday. I have
come out of the fog of cough medi-
cines and Group kettles to learn that
this week. in addition to being canned
salmon week, and tea week, is also
cherry week. 1t is all pretty compli-
Gated and hard to handle altogether
maraschino cherries in ones cup Of
tea and eat canned salmon sandwiches
on the side.
But because of George Washington,
We do have to pay especial attention
TO cherries, when his birthday is to
be celebrated next Monday. Although
the tale of his juvenile destruction of
the cherry tree has been doubted by
eminent historians, cherries have come
to be an integral part of his natal day
festivities, both as food and as deco
rations.
Here is the recipe for dessert that
Is simple and economical to make.
Maraschino cherries form the appro-
pirate design on the top and if the
concoction is served on a blue plate,
the spirit of the occasion is perfectly
expressed!
CHERRY REFRIGERATOR CAKE.
can Sweetened condensed milk.
a cup lemon juice.
l cup quartered maraschino cherries.
"a vanilla waters.
Blend together the sweented con-
denSed milk and the lemon juice. Add
the cherries. Line a narrow cake pan
with waxed paper. Pour in mixture.
Add layer of waters, then a layer of
fruit mixture, and so on until
fruit mixture is used; finish with the
layer of waters. Chill in refrigerator
for at least six hours. Turn out on
platter, carefully remove waxed paper
and outline a hatchet on top with
slices of cherries. Garnish with re-
naming cherries and serve with
whipped cream. This will serve eight
people. ,---'-. .s'rs.'r'-
PATRIOTS PIE.
1 baked pie shell, whipped cream,
canned cherries, currant jelly.
Spread a layer of sweetened, stiffly
beaten auQreaRas On st the bottom of
baked pie shell. Top with a layer of
stoned, halved cherries, and pour
melted currant jelly over all. Set in
icebox to chill thoroughly. %Garnish
with whipped cream.
CHERRY TARTS, WASHINGTON.
Fill baked tart shells with drained,
soIr canned cherries. Pour over the
cherries this sauce: Mix l tablespoon
cornstarch with y cup sugar, and
stir into this 1ll2 cups of the drained
cherry juice Cook until thick and
transparent, cool, and pour over fruit.
II desired, a little Kirsch or brandy
favoring may be added to the sauce
before it is cooled.
PINEAPPLE AND CHERRIES.
Scoop the meat from a large ripe
pineapple, and shred it carefully with
a fork. Drain one large can of black
cherries stone and halve them, and
mix them with the pineapple meat.
A few fresh Strawberries may be
added if desired. Let the fruit mix
ture soak in the icebox, in syrup
of sugar, water and Bacardi flavor
ing. When ready to serve, pour the
fruit into crystal dish, garnish with
mint leaves and serve. If the party
is small, and the pineapple has been
left whole, the fruit mixture may be
poured into the pineapple shell, and
served from it at the table.
Evening star., 1937-02-18

If you argue with him he smiles at
you condescendingly and repeats that
you could still call it a crew-neck.
If you tell him that you could call
1t Niagara Falls, but that wouldn't
make it the kind of sweater you were
looking for, he looks at you pityingly
and calls the section manager.
The thing to do-but It's hard to
remember, under stress-is to keep
very quiet with one of these boys,
and to look at him as pityingly as
you can. Then add to your pitying
look remark about, yes, I guess
you're right" And the wind will go
right out of his sails. You'd be sur
prised how fast JEAN.
Evening star., 1937-02-18

find that writing columns is just
another of those things that the flu
dosn't care for its victims to indulge
in Having still a little of the old
fight left, 1 decline to give in entirely
on the matter, and will make deter
mined effort to keep the old editorial
ball rolling. But if the results are
Evening star., 1937-02-18
Manners
of the
Moment

THE salesman who is always telling
us things that are patiently wrong is
getting a little bit on our nerves.
We'd hate to call him liar. But
we've never heard a better word for
1t. There's no sense, however, in call
ing him that to his face. In the
first place it isn't considered nice
And in the second place it doesn't
improve his manners any.
He's the type of salesman who tells
you that you can call a sweater crew.
necked when it Is obviously V-necked
Evening star., 1937-02-18
Dorothy Dix Says
Position Of Being a Stepmother Can
Be Happy as Well as Trying.

in the early teens. when all youngsters
are uppity and hard to manage, I
should think that none but the fool
hardy would tackle the undertaking.
But your case is different. Here the
children are young enough to be PHI
able and helpless enough to want q
mother to love them and pet them and
guide them. and it will be easy for you
to win their little hearts and take a
real mothers place in their lives.
We hear a lot about cruel step
mothers. and no doubt there are wom-
en- who are harsh and mean and tyran-
nical and who are so jealous of their
husbands love for his children that
they try to separate them. but such
women are rare Where there is one
mean stepmother there are thousands
of good stepmothers, noble and un-
selfish women who are real mothers
to motherless little children. who work
and sacrifice for them and whose step
children rise up and call them blessed.
AS for these two children coming
between you and your husband and
making trouble. that it is your hands.
If you are jealous of them and neglect
full of them, and if you make their
little lives unhappy, you will ALLEVIATE
your husband from you if he has any
decency in him. But if you are good
and kind to the children and are
real mother to them, you will draw
him closer to you by every tie of APP
probation and gratitude and admira-
ton. The women who adopt children
love them as their own. 1 have never
been able to see why stepmother
should not be able to feel the same
way about her stepchildren.
Evening star., 1937-02-18

a eAA 80 -
He swore on his
word as a gen.
tlema n "a tor,
and I had no
reason for disbe-
lieving him, that
he didn't e a t
anything at all
during the day;
and he'd come
into Rec tors
after the theater
and order up a
double order of
snails with a pint
of champagne.
That meal did
him service until
Evening star., 1937-02-18

~ EAR MISS DIX: am a
widow, "a years old, finan-
l cially independent, with a
- good job and no children.
I am settled in my ways. good-natured
and have the home complex, and very
fond of children. An old friend of
school days, a widower of 38. has
asked me to marry him. He has a
.1ice home and good business in
small town, and two children, Z and
years old. We are just as romantically
in love with each other as if we were
boy and girl. but if we marry 90 you
think there will be any chance of
happiness for us. or would his chill
dren forever stand in our way? feel
that I could very easily fit in their
lives. but my friends tell me that I
would be making the mistake of my
life to give up good job to be a
stepmother. What do you say?
HELEN.
Answer think, on the contrary,
that you would be throwing away a
great chance for happiness by refus-
ing to marry this man and mother
his children. Certainly it is a fine
thing for a woman to have job and
be self-supporting, as you are, but
it is a better thing for her to have a
tender and loving husband to stand
between her and the world, with
home of her own and man and chill
dren to love and care for and make
comfortable, instead of just working
for herself.
X
T GRANT you that the problem Of
being a stepmother is one to
make even the boldest stop and think,
and in a case where the children are
Evening star., 1937-02-18

Vic 44OIiC 4CN NCAS
and chills and
general discom-
fort that follows
in the wake of
this meanest Of
diseases!
Right here and
now I apologize
to all those that
/ have thought
" ere m a k i n &
noun t ins of
molehillS. T h i S
flu Is very def
nitely no mole
hill. In fact, it
is a pretty ap-
~oll;rr DaoLt
Evening star., 1937-02-18
Cooking Hints.

Candied grapefruit and orange peels
are always tasty additions to liquid
sauces to be used over baked or steam
ed puddings.
Evening star., 1937-02-18

Traditional Red Fruit
May Be Used Either in p
Food or Decorations
Both Color and Flavor Garry Out the
Spirit of Historic Festive
Occasion
Occasion.
BY BETSY CASWELL.

about influenza
OF a and
though Being
pretty noeran about the whole thing
Now all changed have germ
Evening star., 1937-02-18
Rattlesnake Meat Now
Makes Its Bid for Fame
In the GOurmet's World
Dishes That Have Become Familiar to Us
All Through Daily Use Once Were
Regarded With Suspicion
BY GEORGE RECTOR.

USED know who lived snais
didn't furvy digging the
L
meanshe in fact, gentleman Of distinction
comedian
he waspIke starred
Evening star., 1937-02-18

a N
require
attractive unbeevably
directions aid also crochet material
much will need.
To obtain this pattern send for No 4sl and ncos IS cents in stamps
of The Evening
Evening star., 1937-02-18

complaint than any one else's.
I'm cross, I'm weaker than a
rag, I can't seem to shake off all
Evening star., 1937-02-18

upon a time with Edna May in THE
Belle Of New York" the most success
fIII of all broadway ecord-breakerS
Evening star., 1937-02-18

~ EAR MISS DIX: I am a
widow, "a years old. finan-
cially independent, with a
uood ioh and M cbiI6rer7
Evening star., 1937-04-15
Rats and Wasps
Take Ouer Capitol
While IL, Storage
Model Exhibited at Cen.
tury of Progress
Found Damaged.

Rats in the House Of Representa-
tives and a wasps nest over the front
door Of the Capitol!
That's what officials Of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion found today when they took from
storage their model of the Capitol
after they had moved into their new
offices in the Interior Department.
The model was part OF the layout Of
the National Capital which the COM
mission exhibited at the Century Of
Progress Exposition at Chicago.
In the new Interior Department
Building the commission will have its
own model exhibit hall on the seventh
floor. So William T. Partridge, the
commissions consulting architect, who
also makes the models, got out the old
Capitol model and found that wasps
had built themselves a nest over the
east front. In the House chamber
rats had made themselves quite at
home and even chewed away part of
the outer walls. The model was stored
in the prapagating gardens store
house at Fifteenth street and Inde-
pendence avenue.