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Evening star., 1937-12-09
When Buying
Toys for
A Child
Avoid Purchasing
What You Want
Them to Have.
By ANGELO PATRI.

THE children think that the pres
ents are the best part of Christmas,
and for them. it is. If their presents
are right and given and accepted in
the right spirit, they are the best part
of the day for the children.
Selecting the presents is not as easy
as it ought to be. The children tell us
what they would like to have, and we
make the list and go to the shops.
Brother wants sled, flexible flyer
The sleds are piled high. What kind
of flyer is it to be? Jean wants
doll. Good enough. She says it must
sleep and talk and walk. Easy. Easy
until you see the rows and rows Of
dolls. And so it goes.
The difficulty is that sleds and toys
and presents generally have to be paid
for. And the prices range from very
little to mighty much. Somewhere
between the two We must find the right
answer, and that is what gives mother
a headache and two lame feet Of
course the thing to do is to go early
and often and not try to do it all in
one day. That cannot be done. And
above all, to maintain some sense of
proportion.
You will see all kinds of toys, all
kinds of gifts. Some of them are so
beautiful that they cry out to be
bought. Be careful. Don't buy an
electric outfit so intricate that only
| you can use it. 1t is a beautiful toy
but what about the child who Is to
own it?
And the dolls. Beautiful beyond
words. But be careful. Don't buy
a doll for yourself. Buy one for the
little girl who wants it. She wants to
dress and undress it; to carry it
about and show it to everybody. She
wants to mother this doll. Pick out
the one she can get the most fun out
of, not the one that must sit or hang
in the company room.
| There are books that are simply
magnificent. Their pictures are works
of art. They cost several dollars each
| Be careful. Buy the book for the
child who Is to read 1t. If it has
pictures and pictures only, they must
have meaning as well as beauty for
| the child owner. Don't buy limited
edition for child, or youth. Buy
him the book that has something to
say to him and which he can carry
about with him. There isn't much
sense in giving a boy book that costs
several dollars and will lose it's chief
value when he lets it fall on the muddy
lot. A boys book ought to go dressed
in stout garments and have something
in it. Girls books, too.
Selecting gifts for children takes
time. Start early and go as far as
necessary to get the list completed.
The idea is to get the children what
they want and can enjoy apd to avoid
getting what we want and what We will
enjoy having the children own There's
a lot of that in Christmas shopping.
And please buy some useless, charm
ing thing to delight the child. It is
wise to give him useful, educational,
amusing things, but don't forget that
there is something of fairy magic in
Christmas and provide for it. The
finest Christmas gift ever got was a
paper weight with a picture of snow
storm on 1t. It was mice" and I
liked 1t.
Evening star., 1937-12-09

A GIRL who is susceptive to football
stars, movie actors and ex-kings,
should really try TO keep her suscepti-
bility dark when she is out with date.
It's no fun for man to take girl
to football game and have her spend
the entire afternoon exclaiming over
the lovely red hair of the left tackle,
or the marvellous he-mannishness of
the captain. And it's no fun for a
man to take girl to movie and have
to listen to her extolling the cut of
Clark Gables mustache or the mar
velous manners of William Powell
At least, that's what the men tell
us. We've noticed that they don't
mind so much when girl twists things
there's something about Robert Mont
gomery that has always reminded me
of you" "Or, if she points out the
fact that the captain of the football
team Is exactly the same height and
weight as her date.
Remarks like that will get by, if
they are not made too often, or too
obviously. But for the rest of the
time it's just as well for a girl to
keep her crushes on the mighty of
the world deep, dark secret. That
is, if she wants some attention from
the. not-so-mighty. JEAN.
copyright, 1937J
Evening star., 1937-12-09

STEAMED CRANBERRY AND
BRAZIL NUT PUDDING.
Il cup butter.
"a cup sugar.
2 eggs we'll beaten.
2 cups flour.
2l2 teaspoons baking powder
z teaspoon salt.
IS cup milk.
cup cranberries.
cup chopped Brazil nuts.
Cream the butter, add the sugar
gradually, and cream until light. Mix
and sift -four with baking powder and
salt, and add alternately with the
milk to the first mixture. Stir in the
cranberries and Brazil nuts. Pour
batter into creased mold, cover, and
steam for 3 hours. Serve hot, with
hard sauce, or cranberry sauce.
GINGER PUDDING.
p cup butter.
2 tablespoons brown sugar.
2 eggs.
cup rich milk.
2l2 cups flour.
3 teaspoons baking powder.
IS teaspoon salt.
y cup preserved ginger.
u tablespoons ginger sirup.
Cream the butter and sugar. Beat
the eggs and add them Mix and sift
the flour with the baking powder and
salt. Add alternately with the milk to
the first mixture. Cut the ginger into
small pieces and add it and the ginger
slrup. Turn all into a buttered mold
and steam for nearly hours. Serve
with hard sauce, or whipped cream.
BLACKBERRY PUDDING.
Mix a baking powder biscuit dough
according to your favorite recipe. Add
one cup of milk and one cup of canned
blackherries, rolled in -four. (The
blackberries should be drained from
their sirup firstD Put into buttered
mold and steam for one and one-half
hours. Serve with hard sauce, or with
whipped cream colored and Favored
with the sirup from the canned black
berries.
OATMEAL PUDDING.
y pound dates.
/ cup oats.
2 eggs.
Il cup light molasses.
l scant cup water.
p teaspoon soda.
Pinch salt.
u teaspoon lemon Juice.
Pit and chop the dates Mix all in
gradients, turn into buttered mold and
steam for three hours. Serve with
hard sauce or cream.
X X X X
A FEW remarks on the subject of
steanling seems indicated here.
Pudding molds, large or individual,
may be bought especially for the pur-
pose, or coffee or baking powder tins
may be used. These should, however,
have tightly fitting tops Creased
glaze paper may be tied firmly over
the tops if lids are gone, and will be
fairly successful, but the real top is
the best. The molds should be well
buttered, and they should not be filled
more than two-thirds with the mix
ture. Cover tightly and place mold on
a trivet or rack in kettle of water
already boiling hard. Have the water
come halfway up the mold, keep it at
boiling point and add more boiling
water as needed.
To unmold, remove mold from
steamer, stand it in cold water for a
few seconds, to shrink the contents
away from the sides, and then turn
out. If the pudding seems too moist,
set 1t in the oven for few minutes
to dry out.
Evening star., 1937-12-09
Steamed Puddng Regain Favor Dessert With Advent
Dorothy Dix Says
Brides Must Learn Marriage
Brings Responsibilities.

Evidently your boy friend Is one Of
the many men whose attentions are
without intentions, and who selnshly
monopolize girl and drive all other
men away. Then they get tired Of her
and kiss and ride away, leaving the
poor girl fiat.
Every girl knows that when she Is
young and pretty and gay and full of
life Is her marrying time. It Is when
she Is most attractive to men. and II
she lets that season pass without
making hay while her sun shines shs
Is very apt TO be an old maid. Hence
think that any girl Is Just lacking
in good, hard common sense who
wastes her time on a man who courts
and courts and never pops the ques-
ton. Three months Is long enough
for any man to make up his mind
about how much he likes a girl and
whether he wants her or not, and II
he doesn't file a declaration Of his
intentions in that time she Is wise to
send him packing.
Certainly man who won't marry
a girl himself, yet arrogates to him
self the right to keep her from going
with any other man, has his nerve,
and II she has spark of independ-
ence she will resent it.
X X
DEAR MISS DIX: I am a widow
Of 35. Mother OF nine children.
Am very much in love with a young
man OF 10. Do you think I will be
doing wrong to marry him? DIN.
AnsWer-I think you must have an
overgroWn mother complex if you
contemplate taking another child to
rear when you already have nine. If
you are really thinking Of marriage
to a boy of that age, you are more a
candidate for lunatic asylum than
you are for matrimony, and some kind
friend should lock you up in padded
cell until you come to your senses.
DOROTHY DIX.
(copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-09
Methods of
Proposing
AToast
They Ought to Be
Spontaneous as
Well as Short.
BY EMILY POST.
NEAR MRS. POST: Will you please

1EAR Mis-. Posi-: VIII you please
write something helpful about
toastS? So often 1 go to private and
club dinners at which guests are ex-
pected to propose toasts suitable to
the occasion and I become absolutely
tongue-tied and never know what to
say. 1t seems that other people are
gifted in this respect, or else, and
what is perhaps more likely, they pre-
pare themselves for such exigencies.
Answer-As I have often before
written, it is impossible to suggest
definite toasts, because they ought to
be personal and spontaneous. Usual
ly they are scarcely longer than the
toast at wedding, ITO the bride and
bridegroom" And perhaps it contin-
ues, May their happiness grow ever
greater through long. long years -
TO Col AirWays: A happy and sue
ceSsful voyage and glorious return!"
TO John and Mary-if they have all
the happiness we wish them they will
be blessed, indeed" ITO grandfather
and grandmother, whose own mar
| riage is the most perfect example in
the world" Or better still, ITO
grandma and grandpa-bless them!''
| But whatever the toast, it ought to
express the sentiment of the person
| proposing it. And on general prin-
ciples, the shorter it is the better.
Y X X X
DEAR MRS. POST: When marking
the gravestone of a clergyman, is
not his ecclesiastical title used?
know a professional reference is Or
dinarily omitted, but is not the church
| different?
Answer-No, not even in the case
| of clergyman should title be used.
His name should be given as John
Henry Good. Below it, however, there
could be a line explaining that he
was for 80 years the beloved pastor
of Trinity Church.
(Copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-09

SduCC. L lld We
always had trou-
BILE that way with
my offspring!
The old timers
are always IA
vorites, but there
Is a new steamed
pudding that bids
fair to give them
a real run for
t h e ir m n e y.
This Is ma de
with cranberries
and Brazil nuts
for extra flavor,
and richer tex
tire and he
Evening star., 1937-12-09
To Relieve Bad
Cough, Mix This
Recipe, at Home
Big Saving. No Cooking. So Easv

You'll never know how quickly and
easily you can overcome coughs due to
colds, until you try this famous recipe.
1t gives you four times as much cough
medicine for your money, and you'll
find it the finest thing you ever tried,
for real relief
Make syrup by stirring 2 cups of
granulated sugar and one cup of water
a few moments, until dissolved. No
cooking needed-it's no trouble at all.
Then put 212 ounces of Pinex (obtain-
ed from any druggist) into pint bot
tie. Add your syrup and you have
full pint of medicine that will amaze
you by its quick action. 1t never spoils,
lasts a family long time. and tastes
fine - children love it.
This simple mixture takes right hold
of a severe cough. For real results,
you've never seen its equal. 1t loosens
the phlegm, soothes the infamed MEM
branes, and quickly eases soreness and
difficult breathing.
Pinex is a compound of Norway Pine,
in concentrated FORM famous for prompt
action in coughs and bronchial q
irritations. Money refunded if it "a,
doesn't please you in every Way, -
Evening star., 1937-12-09

to-make patterns. Interesting and ex-
elusive fashions for little children
and the difficult junior age: slender
izing well-cut patterns for the mature
figure; afternoon dresses for the most
particular women and matrons, and
other patterns for special occasions
are all to be found in the Barbara
Bell Pattern Book.
(Copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-09
Yankee Christmas Cake.
Copyright, 1937.)

cup sugar
Il cup shortening.
l cup unsweetened applesauce.
l teaspoon baking powder.
IL cups flour.
Il teaspoon salt.
l teaspoon cinnamon.
Il teaspoon cloves.
Il teaspoon nutmeg.
"a teaspoon allspice.
l cup raisins and nuts, mixed.
Cream the butter, then cream in
the spices and salt. Add the sugar
gradually, then stir in the apple
sauce. Add the nuts and raisins to the
flour which has been sifted with the
baking powder. Add these ingredients
gradually to the first mixture. Stir
well. Bake in pan heavily lined with
creased paper. Use a moderate oven.
Evening star., 1937-12-09
New Recipe for Beets.

Peel shred six raw beets, add to
saucepan with one-half cup boiling
water, one tablespoon each butter and
vinegar, one teaspoon salt, pepper;
cover. cook over high gas flames until
steam appears; reduce flame to sim
mertns: cook nine minutes longer.
Evening star., 1937-12-09
My Neighbor Says:

Waste may be avoided in the
planting of seeds if they are
first mixed with fine sand.
TO wash woolen stockings so
that they will not shrink is quite
easy. First shred some yellow
soap into small tin saucepan.
Cover it with cold water and boil
slowly until it is like a jelly.
Take some tepid water and with
the boiled soap make a good
lather. Wash the stockings in
this, rubbing well and using no
other soap. Rinse in tepid, clear
water, wiring out and hang in the
air to dry quickly.
Always keep honey in a dark
place. It will soon granulate If 4
kept in a bright spot.
ocopyrisht, 1e37J
Evening star., 1937-12-09

cause of its timeliness will fit beauti-
fully into the winter picture. Gram
berries are at their best just now, and
Brazil nuts also have arrived in new,
fresh shipments.
Evening star., 1937-12-09
When Baking.

Oven-baked foods containing mois-
ture should be covered to protect other
foods. such as meats and puddings,
susceptible to steam.
Evening star., 1937-12-09
Nuts and Cranberries
Meet in New Version
Of Substantial Dish
Accompanying Hard Sauce
Sometimes Presents
Childish Problem.
BY RETSY CASWEII.

STEAMED pudding mighty heartenng thing when the wild winds
~ blow cod and the Of
~ which has BEEN with sissy
frosty night
sticking is choice
these trail hard
Evening star., 1937-12-09

Sending Christmas Flowers.
Day before Christmas is an appro-
pirate time for gift of flowers.
Evening star., 1937-12-09

SPLE designs lovely scaoped
pillow slips into chookng articles
designs pillows match
stitches easiest possible
The pattern envelope contains hot transfer
motifs saops
complete understand illustrated directions
color suggestions.
pattern 5ss and nco Is cents in stamps
Editor
Of The Evening Star.
:
Evening star., 1937-12-09
l974-B
By BARBARA BELL.

Z you can make winter hours
" count to the full by making
your own aprons and slips.
Evening star., 1937-12-09

P0PUIE11 NIdoo WIVII tIIt yOUIIgSUtIS Ul
the household. That is, of course, if
you can persuade said youngsters to
eat the pudding as we'll as the hard
Evening star., 1937-12-09

So wipe your eyes and quit telling
your husband that he doesn't lowe
you. Cut out the kissing yourself
Maybe he has got satiated with too
much sweets. Get busy learning how
to be good, thrifty housekeeper and
manager. kissing isn't the proof of
love. Judas betrayed his Lord with
a kiss.
The Washington times., 1937-08-21
|AmerIcan Stuff ReOealS
CreQtiUe Talent IN WPA
Best Sellers

FICTION
And So Victoria
Vaughan wilkins Macmillan
Northwest Passage
Kenneth Roberts Doubleday
Lena
Roger vercel Random
American Dream
Michael Foster Morrow
They Found Him Dead
Georgette Heyer Doubleday
The Outward Room
Millen Brand Simon
NONFICTION
Orchids on Your Budget
Marjorie Hills Bobbs
How to Win Friends
Dale Carnegie Simon
Life and Death Of a
Spanish Town
Elliot Paul Random
Conversation at Midnight
Edna St. V. Millay Harpers
Miracle of England
Andre Maurois HarperS
Present Indicative
Noel Coward Doubleday
The Washington times., 1937-08-21

} clude membership in other unions,<
and would not ne an exclusive
bargaining agency, I would not
object to seeing the idea tried out.
In fact I would favor it, because
it should tend to bring more of
the Forest Service personnel to
grips with the vital question of
labor-employer relationships.
Company unions, however,
have a fundamental weakness,
which should be fully recognized
from the start. In them labor's
representatives are usually en-
ployeS of the very organization
with which they should be in a
position to deal as free agents of
the workers. Of course if a COM
pany union becomes strong enough
to engage independent agents who
are not employees of the firm, this
objection is overcome. Being a
company union, however, it is still
more susceptible of company con-
troll or influence than an industrial
or craft union"
Still another objector to the Or
ganization is M. R. Kennedy, a
division chief, who believes that
employees should rely on the fair
judgment of their employers
rather than join organizations.
Ether Waves
Arthur Cornwall, who has been
working in the office of Repre-
The Washington times., 1937-08-21
Discs
Recorded

Tschaikowsky's famous over
ture, Romeo and Juliet" played
by the Boston Symphony Or
chestra under the direction Of
KouSSevitzky, will probably be
one Of the most popular album
issues of Victor (M34D. The
recording is excellent with dy-
manic contrasts in marvellous
musical color. 1t is sufficient
to say that KouSsevitzky him.
self has expressed his complete
satisfaction in the fidelity of
the set.
In line with the recent BoS.
ton Pops" releases comes a re-
cording of Weber's "Euryanthe
overture by the British Broad
casting Company Symphony Or
cheStra 1203O. This perennial
favorite is played with careful
attention to detail and is alto
gether delightful performance.
Yehudi Menuhin adds another
Bach work, Concerto No. l, in A
Minor" with the Paris Sym
phony Orchestra accompany
ing Q4370-D. This is one of his
best recordings and the accom-
paniment is under the Sympa-
thetic direction of his close
friend and mentor, Georges
Enesco.
A brilliant string quartet is
presented by the Pro Arte Quar-.
tet in the short and modern
Quartet in F Major" by Wit
torio Rieti, a pupil of Respighi
and Frugatta. This quartet is
full of zest and melody and
does not explore the region of
dissonance, which will make a
pleasant diversion from the old.
er popular work of this form. It
Is recorded on two discs, 1922.
The Washington times., 1937-08-21
.DeepMystery
Is Untangled
BV Adelaide

To a great extent the story
of Murder A La Richelieu' is
the story of Adelaide Adams.
Adelaide is one of those per.
sons who has made the best Of
her niche carved out in LIES
progress. Adelaide is definitely
ticketed as one of those busy
body old maids with a little
money who lives in a hotel,
think they know all about every
person who sets foot in the hos
telry and disapprove of at least
SO per cent of them.
SENSE OF HUMOR
The curious thing about the
Adelaide of this story is that
she knows all those things
about herself and yet occupies
such position encased in her
sense of humor that everything
happens to her.
For instance, the first person
killed in the book has his throat
nicely slit in her suite in the
hotel. The second person to
die rather uncomfortably does
it right in front of her and
the third person writhes in
agony at her feet with her own
afghan wrapped around her.
HER FIRST EFFORT
Adelaide is certainly a good
person to tell this story, for she
can be counted upon to rustic
around and stir up all the loose
ends that consistently bother a
reader in such a situation. AIDE
laide is a brick, a peach or
what ever other econiums the
characters in the book can think
of.
This literary offering is billed
as the first attempt of Anita
Blackmon in the realm of mys-
terry and also absolutely the
first appearance of Adelaide
Adams-"The Old Battle Axe"
May there be more and more
and more.
("Murder A La Richelieu,"
by Anita BlGcEmon, published
by The Crime Club.)
The Washington times., 1937-08-21
How to Live
AS aNegro'IS
Outstanding

Have you ever wondered what
workers in the WPA do in
their off time? Well, some
of them write, some of them
paint and some of them draw.
So many, in fact, that the
Viking Press decided to pub
lish the cream of this creative
work. Fifty writer's and 16
artists, some undiscovered,
others widely known, con-
tributed to this end. The re-
suit is thick, handsomely
bound volume titled American
Stuff"
Among it's pages is a va
riety ranging from an explana'
ton Of Gertrude Stein to folk
lore fresh from the black belt.
Yards Fisher, whose name is
already legend, vies with writ
ers whose names are new.
20 STATES REPRESENTED
Convicts songs and Thoughts
on a Tank of Guppies' clamor
for notice. Twenty States are
represented and among them
are names of local residents
including Murray Goodwin, Ster-
ling Brown, Nathan Asch,
Jerre Mangione and John A.
Lomax, of Washington.
BY far the most startling con-
tribution Tin content, at least)
is on photographed sketch
The Ethics of Living Jim
Crow" by Richard Wright of
Chicago. His lessons in How to
Live as a Negro will be reread
and remembered after most of
the other stories are forgotten.
Hearts Desire" by Nathan
Asch, is another story worthy OF
second thought. Ida Faye Sachs
and her Fair Afternoon" will
probably reappear in many a
short-story anthology. c. S. Bar
nett's Hill Country Wonders"
leaps to a new high in tall tales.
NEW TECHNIQUE
J. S. Balch perfects a novel
experiment in short story tech
nique with "Beedlebugs," the
story of a street at night. Hor-
ror and pathos mingle in
Mama, The Man Is Standing
There" by Leon Dorais. Sitter
farce is represented by Travis
Hoke and a rib-tickling traveSty
called "SitWell Improved Fun
noiser With Parents Earpieces.
Jim Thompson astonishes the
unsuspecting by including the
last chapter of proposed novel
and Luther Clark leaves every
body with a pleasant taste with
his "Lookin' Fer Three Fools"
an offering from Birmingham.
%Americdn Stuff" a collection
of creative 1Uork BY people who
hare jobs in the arts project of
the WPA. Published By Viking.J
The Washington times., 1937-08-21
Guiana Stamp

The coronatlon stamps OF
British Guiana are now trav-
cling to the same high level
value as the recent Southern
Rhodesia adhesives. An earth
quake which partially ruined the
building in which the stamps
were stocked is the reason for
the scarcity Of this item.
Dealers throughout the country
have raised the price from SO
cents to $3.50 and So per set.
The Washington times., 1937-08-21
With the Federal Workers By j. Earle D10Ser

will destroy the last hope OF
any nonpartisan protection for
the civil service employe and
for nonpartisan selection Of
Government employees. We be-
lieve that the advisory board
setup would absolutely be I'M
able to function satisfactorily.
We are inclined to the opinion
that the bill is designed to &C.
complish political control over
the selection and retention Of
our Government employees. For
these reasons we cannot lend
our support to the bill"
DDETTU SWELL
The Washington times., 1937-08-21
Post Cards Issued
To Mark Dedication

In connection with the dedi-
cation of the American War Me-
mortal at Montfaucon, France,
August /, 10000 postal cards,
each of five different designs
with a special one franc stamp
were issued by the French gov
eminent. On the day of dedica-
ton a special cancellation was
applied to these cards. It is re-
ported that a 10 franc adhesive
stamp of the same design also
will appear,
The Washington times., 1937-08-21
Front Page

"Headlining America" under
the general editorship of Frank
Luther Mott has just been pub
Iished by Houghton Mifflin and
it tells the stories of the news
stories that have been front
page stuff for the past year and
a half.