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Evening star., 1937-01-28

plant the traditional nuisance, but I
think it's a step up. You'll always
find people who will aid and abet the
tipping code, not necessarily playboys,
but some people just naturally have TO
tip to express their own importance.
They're the gents who ought to be
spanked. They discourage the owners
and demoralize the walters.
That kindred evil, the cover charge,
came to us via France, where serving
butter in any restaurant Is an extra
item. Our cabaret Buys snatched
over the idea before they got the rice
powder on the dance floor and made
it hide more sins than the original
multitude. It's laughable-or maybe
laugh isn't what I mean-to think
that you're paying SIS for the favor
of eating simple bread and butter
you can pay s25 in convert, as they
call it, on New York New Year eve
and, of course, you're not. You're
paying for the song and dance act,
for whatever souvenirs you're con-
sidering swiping, and for the polish on
the table silver. You're paying for the
humping music and all the CHEEKY
noise you go out to find.
X 4 y
WHICH is fine when you feel like II,
w but If once in great while you
want to stay home, I submit two
recipes that will remind you Of night
nfe-they're for dishes that bang-up
night places go in for-but you don't
have to tip or pay a cover charge
to get them.
This is lobster thermidor, and you'll
like it.
Split cold lobster lengthwise. take
out the meat and chop 1t up In small
pieces. Here's your sauce: Melt two
tablespoons of butter, blend in two
tablespoons of -four, and to the blend
add gradually one cup of cream. Keep
stirring the mixture until it reaches
the boiling point, then put in one
teaspoon of dry mustard, one-fourth
teaspoon of salt and a pinch Of
cayenne. To the sauce add one-half
cup of cooked mushrooms, finely
choppe5 and put in your chopped
lobster Next fill your empty lobster
shells with the delectable mixture.
building it high. Sprinkle some grated
parmesan cheese over the top, dot 1t
with butter and brown under broiler
flame. And serve as is.
Here's fancy dessert easy to make:
Baked apples, f1ambee.
Wash, core and peel baking apples.
Then fill the centers with mincemeat,
put them in baking dish and sprinkle
them generously with sugar. In the
bottom of your dish dissolve q few
cinnamon drops in cold water. Bake
your apples for 40 or so minutes in
an oven of $50 degrees F. and haste
occasionally to make the apples ruddy.
Pour little brandy over each apple.
touch a match to the brandy and
serve while they're on fire.
All you need to make this dessert
perfect is brandy hard sauce. Cream
| ne-half cup of butter with two cups
of confectioner's sifted sugar, then
pour in slowly three tablespoons Of
brandy and stir long and well. Mold
| and chill the finished sauce and gobble
! it up with your flaming apples.
Evening star., 1937-01-28

hours.
Sweet, homemade breads are very
good for children, for they renew their
energy and help to build up their &C
tive little bodies. The craving for sugar
must be satisfied in some way, and
this type of afternoon refreshment
offers one very pleasant solution.
FRu1TED ENGLISH BUNS.
! cup lukewarm water.
2 tablespoons sugar.
2 cakes yeast.
4 cups -four.
"a cup butter.
! cup raisins.
u cup currants.
" cup chopped almonds.
2 tablespoons candied orange peel,
chopped.
2 tablespoons candied citron, chop
ped.
Il teaspoon cloves.
Y teaspoon ginger.
u teaspoon cinnamon.
Soften the yeast in water to which
sugar has been added. Add 2 cups
-four, and beat to a smooth batter.
Cover, and set in a warm place to rise.
When light and bubbly divide the
sponge into halves. To one half add
one-fourth cup melted butter, fruit
and nuts. Sift flour and spices to-
gether and add enough -four to make
q stiff dough. Knead until smooth.
Put into a creased bowl. cover, and
let rise also. To the other half Of the
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Posture Is
Important
To Young
Health and Well Be-
ing Is Often Af-
fected.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

A GOOD posture indicates healthy.
- happy attitudes toward life In
general. Good health creates happy
attitudes, and fine posture is the out
ward expression of inner health.
Lungs that are never really filled with
fresh air, intestines that are cramped
and crowded and weighted by pres
sure Of other organs, cannot function
well, and that means poor health II
not downright illness. Stand up" Is
the slogan for good health.
Good health and fine posture give
q person a feeling of fitness that
shows in every movement. every in
dection of the voice. The person who
has q fine posture and the fine car
riage that goes with 1t commands
immediate respect and attention.
Every one in the room follows the
man or woman who walks with grace
and ease.
This great aid to fine personality
is within the reach of any healthy
young person. He is born with a
straight back, perfect organs and fine
balance. If he is willing to train his
body to preserve the health that Is in
him he can have it in abundance.
The one who slouches along with
head thrust out, hollow in his back,
his abdomen stuck out, has what he
asked for, q slack body that speaks
of the slack habits he has cultivated.
Children ought to be trained early
to carry themselves erect, not stimy.
but easily. with swinging grace.
They can learn this early and form
the right habits and 90 prevent the
Door posture that he sees all about
him on the street, in his home, wher-
ever he goes. He can be man walk
ing among the people merely by learn
ing to hold his head where it belongs,
on the top of his spine.
Little girls often hunch forward.
There Is no more reason for this
than there would be for little boys to
do so. Girls are not weaker than
boys-quite the contrary. They have
great strength and endurance, and
they must learn to sit up, stand up,
think up. and carry themselves high.
So they become people of high achieve
ment in their own fields. Health al
ways brings success.
Dancing Is fine for children. Any
exercise that allows them to Use their
muscles freely. without rigidity, helps
them. Too often the physical train
ing lessons call for rigid, jerky move
ments, What we want are easy.
graceful movements, free from strain.
Rigidity hinders easy, graceful car
rage and Is to be treated until relax
alton takes control.
Carrying q light book on the head
for a few minutes daily Is the best
possible exercise for good carriage.
another term for good posture.
Lengthen the time the book Is car
ried, vary the things carried on the
head ana the movements made while
carrying the object on the head. BY
and by the child will be able to dance
with an orange on his head. I've seen
It done.
Saying Stand up. Why don't you
sit up? Hold up your head. for PHYS
sake" isn't q bid of good. Make q
Job Of 1t. . daily chore. and you Will
get results that are most rewarding
to all concerned.
tcopyrtght. l937J
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Household Hints.

It is surprising what . little paint
or enamel can do to discarded pieces
Of furniture. Try searching through
the attic for odd chairs and tables.
Make the necessary repeirs-gluing
and 20 forth-before you apply the
paint or enamel.
For glazing cookies paint the sur
face Of the dough before II Is baked
with . mixture in which two table,
spoons Of sugar have been added to
one-forth Of . cup Of milk. The
glazing liquid may be applied with .
pastry brush or . clean white cloth
fastened to fork.
A stiff brush dipped In furniture pol
ish Is good for cleaning reed and rat
tan furniture. Such . procedure not
only cleans well. but 1t gives added
gloss to the furniture.
Imperfect electric wires are often
the cause Of seriouS damages. Inspect
the wiring In your home to see that u
Il not worn through. Dogs running
about ~ aptSto loosen q blts Il.
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Few Hint S
On Beauty
For MatrOns
Certain Rules Should
Be Very Carefully
Observed.
Fred z. Korth Photo.
BY ELSIE PIERCE.

YOUTH may err in choosing MAKE
L up or coiffure, but the matron
must avoid mistakes. Youth may err,
NAV even dare and get away with II.
But mature, mellow loveliness must
guard against errors. That does not
mean that mature beauty cannot
achieve individuality. Indeed, 1t can.
It does, daily. I see more and more
beautiful, Notwithstanding middle
aged women in my daily contacts.
But all Of these women have learned
their beauty lessons and are faithful
in their beauty homework.
I'll tell you specifically what mean.
Let us take the matter OF makeup.
Youth either has its fling, applying the
carmine a bit too ambitlousIy, or goes
about its business entirely without
makeup, looking q bit pale, perhaps,
but getting away with It, either way.
Not 30 with maturity. The wise mid
dIe-aged woman doesn't attempt to go
without makeup because she knows
| that lacking color the fac. will lack
interest, because she knows that color
less lips and dull eyes and blanched
cheeks will only make her face look
older. Youth may make its eyes up
! very heavily or not at : Il and the first
calls for a smile or shrug, the second
for profound admiration expressed In
shes young"
And speaking Of eyes, the brows are
very important. Again. youth may
pluck them to pencil thinness. which
Is q mistake; but youth can get away
with it. Or may leave the brows en-
tirely natural and shabby without hav-
ing them detract one whit from the
delicacy Of the face. But the wise
mature woman must avoid either ex-
treme. The pencil-thin line adds
nothing, but subtracts expression from
the face. The entirely natural brow
II it is thick may make the face look
too stern and If few little hairs are
out of line they give the face an un-
kempt air. The best plan Is to keep
the line as near the natural as the
perfectly groomed brow will permit;
shaggy hairs should be tweezed out
A neat brow can take 10 years from
the face.
In the matter Of the couture, too
youth can go to extremes OF simplicity
severity or frlssineSs. While some ef-
fects are fiattering and others don't
do anything for her" none do very
much actual harm. The middle-ageo
woman. on the other hand, should
know her best lines, should strive tor
| snftness avnid too n,anv uaves and
curls; otherwise she Is apt to look not
only older, but sadly out Of person
ality.
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Everyday
COurteSieS
And Fact
BY EMILY POST.

nEAR MRS. POST: What is the
~ most courteous way of telling
formal acquaintances, who come to
call on you and stay longer than ex-
pected, that 1t Is necessary for them to
leave? In the case I am referring to
we hardly knew the visitors and did
not know how to tell them that we
had to dress and drive q distance
through city trafIic into the suburbs In
order to keep . dinner engagement.
Answer: No question Is 50 hard to
answer as that of politely speeding o
not-departing visitor. And we are all
Of us apt to put those with whom we
have an engagement to inconvenience
because Of the fear Of being rude to q
visitor In our own house. To glance at
the clock and become restless Is very
bad. The way would be to say frankly,
II am sorry; wish We could keep on
talking, but we must dress and drive TO
Suburbantown." Sometimes when
time is really limited and someone
comes It Is better to greet her by say
ing II am 30 glad to see you. but am
very distressed to have TO tell you that
We have only . few minutes before we
have 70 ieave for the country"
Evening star., 1937-01-28
I2O5-B

Spring and Summer pattern book.
Make yourself attractive, practical and
becoming clothes, selecting designs
from the Barbara Bell well-planned.
easy-to-make patterns. Interesting
and exclusive fashions for little chill
dren and the dificult Junior age: slen-
derizing, well-cut patterns for the ma
ture figure, afternoon dresses for the
most particular young women ana
matrons and other patterns for spe-
cial occasions are all to be found In
the Barbara Bell pattern book.
(Copyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-01-28

walters for this ancient and pernicious
evil. It's deep in human nature TO
work well for a reward. especially when
the reward is imminent; nor can you
blame the restaurant owner for cut
ting down the overhead when the
public goes on supporting his help.
II it's possible, or even helpful, to
pin down the responsibility for this
corrupt practice. then we'll have to
split it both ways-between John S.
Public and the restaurant employer.
But this Is like blaming Providence for
making us the way we are. Mr.. Pub
lie wants his service and Mr.. Restau-
rant Owner wants, naturally, as high
a profit as he can manage. And Mr..
Owner is not nearly as guilty in this
matter as you might think. In any
case, he's not tenth as culpable now
as he was in the days when walters
were paid salary of 81 cents day and
some of them, who had the best tables,
weren't paid any salary at all. And If
you went to Paris you could find wait
ers who themselves paid for the priv
ilege of waiting.
OF COURSE, that was the great
playboy era. when one Of the
"big shots" used to blow in waving
q nifty dollar bill in his walters face,
tear of half, and tell the waiter he
wouldn't get the other half unless he
gave perfect service. The waiter
jumped and kept on jumping extra
extra special. Another stunt was to
line up the whole staff and let loose
a shower of gold-a $40 piece to the
head waiter. $40 to each of the cap
tains, and IS to all the walters. That
was tipping on psychopathic scale.
but there were other examples just as
giddy. You can't-can you?-splash
abuse on the boss if he shrugged his
shoulders and asked himself how could
he compete with largess like that?
In the last two years or so a few
American restaurants have been fol-
lowing the French custom-thougll
in France you're supposed to tip
anyway-of adding 10 per cent to the
amount of the check. You have tc
pay this extra percentage, but nc
waiter expects your tip. and the
theory Is that he gives consistently
fine service to everybody regardless
It's too early in the game to know
whether so arbitrary q rule can sup
Evening star., 1937-01-28

sponge add the remaining one-fourth
cup butter and enough Of the flour and
spice mixture to make q stif dough.
Knead until smooth. Put in a CREASED
bowl, cover and let rise. When doughs
are both light. spread the plain un-
fruited dough out onto a sheet. Make
a ball Of the fruited dough, and place
it In the center Of the sheet. Gather
UP the edges, and turn the loaf over
onto a creased baking sheet. With
scissors. clip through the plain dough
casing at 3-inch intervals. Cover and
let rise In a warm place. Bake in q
moderate oven for As minutes. When
cool, glaze with uncooked icing, gar.
nish with nutmeats, and serve.
MY GRANDMoTHER's cinnamon
A'A buns were just about the best in
the world-at least we always thought
so, and the opinion still stands! That
is why I am passing along to you her
very own recipe, which Is one OF the
family's most treasured possessions.
CINNAMON BUNS.
Dissolve / cake of yeast in u cup
warm water, with q pinch Of sugar.
Pour / cup scalded milk over
tablespoons sugar, 3 tablespoons butter
and teaspoon salt. Let cool, add
yeast, and enough -four to make .
soft dough. Let rise. pat down, and
let rise again. Roll out to about k
inch thickness. Spread thickly with
sugar and cinnamon, and 1s cup
melted butter. Roll up like a jelly
roll, and cut in half-inch slices. But
ter q pan, and butter between each
roll when placing them in the pan.
Place them close together, and let rise
in q warm place until light Bake in
q quick oven for about 20 minutes.
NUT BUNS.
11a cups milk.
yeast cake.
tablespoons sugar.
cups flour.
2 tablespoons butter.
q cup chopped walnuts.
12 teaspoon salt.
teaspoon cinnamon.
4 teaspoon ginger.
Scald the milk, and when 1t cools
slightly, dissolve the yeast cake in
it. Add half of the sugar and half Of
the -four. Beat to a smooth batter,
and set aside to rise. Cream the but
ter and remaining sugar together and
add this to the batter with the rest
Of the -four. sifted with the salt and
spices, and the nuts. Knead thoroughly,
and set aside to rise. When it has
doubled its bulk, form into small buns.
Let them rise until bulk is doubled
again, and bake in hot oven for
about 20 minutes. Pecans may be
used instead of walnuts, II desired.
II You wish advice on your individ-
ual household problems write to Betsy
Caswen, in care Of The Star, enclos-
ing stamped, self-addressed envelope
for reply.
Evening star., 1937-01-28

our noses buried
in mugs Of milk,
waiting for the
great m o m e n t
when the pan of
spicy bread would
be taken from the
big black oven.
Like the apple
sauce, bro W n
sugar and bread
snacks Of Sum-
mer days. these
luscious buns
form e d a very
important fea-
ture Of the "a
Evening star., 1937-01-28

TINE first hint Of Spring E bound
to bring on Q hankering Tor .
CHEEKY little print dress, and
Il here's just the answer. You
can put this together yourself IN an
evening and blossom like . new-blown
crocus next day. Center panel and
yoke are one in front, in back the
panel is omitted. Short puf1ed sleeves
with cuffs are In high favor now. With
its simple and unaffected cut this
frock Is good for q multitude Of uses,
daytime wear, ONCE, college and for
happy Spring evenings.
Barbara Bell pattern No. l205-B Is
available for sizes II, 16. 1s, 20, 40
and a. Corresponding bust measure.
ments 81. 81, SO. 20 40 and a.. Size
16 go requires ~ yards 80 inches
wide.
Every Barbars Bell pattern includes
an illustrated instruction guide which
is easy to understand.
Send Is cents for the Barbara Bell
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Cotton Laces a Favorite for
Evening.

Cotton laces have been popular
for couple Of seasons past, but most
often these have been associated with
the sports and daytime frocks Tor
Summertime, and In the sturdy types
of laces that suggest fabrics. This
season, however, they are seen in
great quantity and variety for eve
ming, and are competing In favoritism
with the prints and sheer fabrics.
These cotton laces for evening are
the sheer and crisp types, and are
delightfully."- novel and varied In their
patterns. They usually follow simple
classic lines, not too formal In cut,
and are especially nice for young
girls. They are most effective when
worn over rustling tat1eta alps, and
this Of course, makes them the more
desirable 10 the dshs and sub-dsos.
Evening star., 1937-01-28

trenbe
will involve? Then this the time
mind for this lacy cloth entirely composed OF two
like the pattern aren't required
cotton
motif equally well for chair Set
you'll astonshe at how quickly the
pattern
contains complete
what crochet hook and what mate
much will need
pattern IS cents In stamps
the Needlework Editor
Evening star., 1937-01-28

Bul, IllOuSA !
doubt II she'll let
you), or the curly
headed waitress
If in q word.
tipping comes to
you as automat-
ically as tying
your necktie, but
q sight more
painfully - then
you'll know what
I mean when I
say that home
and hearth are
twice blessed.
Don't think
Evening star., 1937-01-28
My Neighbor Says:

Use shallow boxes (cigar boxes
are excellent) for hats in which
to plant seeds. Firm soil well
and make surface level. II there
are depressions in soil, water will
gather IN them.
Always remember to put tea.
spoon of salt into the water in
which you boil eggs. This will
prevent the shells from cracking.
Rub the top Of your stove with
q piece Of newspaper occasionally
and 1t won't have to be blacked 50
often.
To remove ice cream stains,
soak material 80 minutes In cold
water, then wash out in warm
water with mild soap suds.
tCopyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Dorothy Dix Says
It Is Greater Thing to Write "Ma" After
Your Name Than M. A.

value of a college education You
think it is kind of conjure that will
make you wise and witty. brilliant,
poised and self-reliant, and cause your
family and your friends to fall down
in awe and amazement and admira-
ton before you. Look about you and
see whether that miracle has hap
pened to the many people you know
who have been to college.
Can you tell a college graduate by
sight or conversation from the man or
woman Of equal native intelligence
who got his or her education In the
university of life? Aren't most Of the
wise and witty people you know those
who have educated themselves by
reading and thinking and experienc.
ing things and who never saw inside
of college? Aren't the best house,
keepers you know the women who
learned to cook in their mothers
kitchens instead of those who majored
In chemistry and domestic science
courses? And as for it being any par
ticular honor to go to college, good
heavens. everybody does it nowadays.
And 1t is no more distinction to have
been to college than it is to have been
to the grocery.
y + + 4
7 UNDERSTAND, I am not opposing
a college education. It is fine
for those who want 1t and can afford
it, and if you had gone on from the
school room to college it would have
been all right. for then you were not
hampered by other duties and obliga.
tions. But you chose your way Of
life, and that was away from the
school room, and you have no right
to try to turn back. You have given
hostages to fortune and it is more i'm.
portant that you keep your home to-
gether and rear your children and
take care Of your husband than it Is
for you to have college diploma.
Anyway, all knowledge isn't put up
IN school books. There Is no secret
information In them that you cannot
find In libraries.
Evening star., 1937-01-28
With Milk Good for AfterSchoo Refreshments
Easy to Make Delicious
Rich Lobster ThermidOr
Right in Your Own Home
Authority Discusses the Merits and Dement'S
of Tipping and Cover Charge
Custom
BY GEORGE RECTOR.

the for eating at home that don't
mother This
splendid advantage that unless hap
those wandering who took his
Of mixed restaurant nurtured boyhood behind
reaching before jeans full
Evening star., 1937-01-28
Sweet Breads Restore
Energy to Youngsters
Active Little Bodies
Winter Breakfasts May Also Be Enlivened
by Introducing One Of the Old
FavOrites With Butter.
BY BETSY CASWELL.

luscious well fted ones! Spicy
l. them all the deicous-and for
they just about tops as breakfast
- the chndrens lunches ana
hot with butter they not to be resisted
Of the regular afternoon repas In my
Evening star., 1937-01-28

Anyway. all knowledge isn't put up
IN school books. There Is no secret
information In them that you cannot
find In libraries.
DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1937-01-28

months, ana twin QaugnterS,
6 weeks old. When ! was IA eloped
with q man II years older than am,
who promised me the college educa-
ton my parents had planned for me.
He is Yale graduate, and with his
help and encouragement now have
the required credits to enter a State
university. Last week he took me in
his arms and with tears in his eyes
told me he was ready to keep his
promise to send me to college. My
husband has every good quality Of
character, and I realize that I must
develop mentally and spiritually If I
am to reach the high standard Of
living by which he lives. I feel I
cannot see clearly or think intelli-
gently without the aid of further edu-
cation. I want him to be proud Of
me, and our children to look up to
me with the same respect and love
they will show their father. But here
is my trouble-leaving my children.
MY mother-in-law thinks it simply
preposterous to leave my babies. My
husband thinks I should 60 while
my mind is receptive and the children
too young to really miss me. 1t will
take every grain of courage I have
to take this step, but can do 1t If I
am certain it is the right thing to do.
My husband is leaving it up to me.
Can you advise q worried wife and
mother? DIANE.
Evening star., 1937-01-28

cinnamon Dun tfanSpOfCS me merlCdIly
In twinkling back to the old kitchen
at my grandmother we all used to
stand around the scrubbed pine table,
Evening star., 1937-01-28

Answer-And you think that COL
lege degree Is worth practically four
years Of separation from your husband
and your little children? You are
willing to leave your babies to the care
of hired hands, to miss the sweetest
part of their lives. to let some one
else form the pattern of their char
acter, which psychologists tell us is set
by the time they are 4 years old?
Evening star., 1937-01-28

length 70 your shOeS, 70 Shell OUT ulmes
and quarters TO head walters, asso-
ciate walters, walters in ordinary, bus
boys (and don't forget the hat check
Evening star., 1937-01-28

THE trouble with you, my child, Is
that you have romantic, fam
tastic ana preposterous idea Of the