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Evening star., 1938-11-14
BY HELEN VOGT.

At the bottom of our well I De-
clare!" department, appears this
choice little morsel: "86 per cent of
the women in the United States
wear colored nail polish"
Taken at first glance, this seems
an ordinary statement, but a little
investigation into the subject shows
1t to be quite an amazing thing.
Recently we had long conversa-
tion with one of the leading expo
nents of care of the hands. This
lady who for many years has been
one of the foremost experts in this
line, told us some very interesting
things about nails, nail polishes,
and lovely hands-and her years of
experience in this field we'll qualify
her as an authority on the subject.
Fashion, she told us, "is the
thing that interests women most.
They want to attract attention with
out being bizarre or peculiar, and
fashion is how to do new things that
aren't bizarre because smart women
everywhere are doing them"
This, she explains, is how the
vogue for tinted nails first began.
This expert introduced the first
colored nail polish into our country
in 1916, when only 20 per cent of
American women went to beauty
salons for manicures Smart women
who wanted to be different" adopted
the idea of tinting their nails and
noW-only % years later-the per-
centage of women who have mani
cures has grown to 86 per cent.
Fantastic to think that out of every
100 women only IA do not color their
nails!
The things that make fashion in
hands, she told us, are new shades
of nail polish-or sometimes new
combinations of colors. AS an ex-
ample there are all the new shades
of polish to go with the new favorite
colors this season. When women
adopt the grape, vintage, wine and
Evening star., 1938-11-14

with the pickles, seasoning and may
onnaise. Stuff the crab shells with
the mixture, mounding high on top.
Cover top thinly with mayonnaise,
and garnish with strips of green
pepper, and a slice of green stuffed
olive
CRABMEAT IN GREEN PEPPERS.
6 peppers
l cup cooked crabmeat
y teaspoon lemon juice
"A teaspoon onion Juice
Pepper and salt to taste
tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Parboil the peppers for 10 minutes,
to soften them. Let them cool. Cut
OF tops, and remove pulp and seeds.
Mix the ,crabmeat and other ingre-
dlents together, and fill peppers with
the mixture. Top with breadcrumbs
and little grated parmesan cheese.
Bake in a moderate oven for 20
minutes.
CRAB CAKES.
cups cooked crabmeat
Il teaspoon salt
1s teaspoon black pepper
egg
Flour
Mix the crabmeat with the salt,
pepper and the egg, we'll beaten.
Shape mixture into small cakes, and
dredge with flour Fry in hot deep
fat until golden brown, drain on
absorbent paper. Serve with sauce
tartare.
DEVILLED CRABS.
Flake IL cups cooked crabmeat.
Melt l tablespoon butter in sauce
pan and add to it IL tablespoons
cracker crumbs, and q cup milk.
Boil mixture until thick. Remove it
from the fire, and add eggs, which
have been we'll beaten with Il tea
spoon salt, ll2 teaspoons prepared
mustard and few grains of cayenne.
Blend mixtures we'll, and pack into
crab shells or ramekins Brush tops
with melted butter, and brown in
quick oven or under a broiler. Serve
very hot, with sliced cucumbers and
tomatoes in French dressing.
Crabmeat may be used in many of
the ways in which lobster is handled
"a la Newburg, la King, curried,
creamed, in soups. cold in salads with
celery and mayonnaise, also cold
to stuff raw tomatoes-and so on;
your imagination is the limit!
Evening star., 1938-11-14
Dorothy Dix Says
Women Have a Right to Work;
They Are Not Hindering Men

Mr.. John D. Biggers, who was
the director of the Federal Unem-
ployment Census, has informed the
President that the main reason
why men can't get work is because
women have glutted the labor mar
ket. He says that there are H.
100000 women in the United States
engaged in gainful pursuits out
side of their homes and that auto
matically deprives that many men
of work that they might, could,
would or should have.
So what? So nothing. For what
are you going to do about it?
Neither Mr.. Biggers nor any one else
has any remedy to suggest for this
social headache. Not even Uncle
Sam has money enough to support
100000 daughters in idleness,
buy them pink silk lingerie and pay
for their beauty treatments. You
can't corral 100000 women, who
have committed no offense except
in being born of the wrong sex,
into a nice lethal chamber and put
them painlessly to death. You can't
expect 100000 women to be altru-
istic enough to give up their jobs
just because men would like to
have them.
Besides which, women feel that
they are just as much human
beings as men are. That they are
lust as much citizens of their coun-
try as are men. That they have
just as much a right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of a pay envelope
as have men. And, if we wait for a
logical answer to these arguments,
there is no immediate prospect of
women being driven out of industry.
OF course, those who most loudly
object to woman taking what
they call mans place in the labor
market always represent her as q
selfish f1end who starves some poor
lad to crafty her mania for luxuries.
She is never supposed to work be-
cause she needs the money she
earns. On the contary, it is assumed
that she is child of wealth with
an indulgent and generous father
or husband who gives her all that
any reasonable person could ask,
but she goes into business because
she wants few more pearls, or
can't be happy without Paris con-
fections. She never has any respon-
sibility. Never any one dependent
upon her. No wolf ever howls at
her door.
Now I've been a working woman
for many, many years. I've known
intimately thousands of other work.
ing women and among this vast
number of toilers I have not known
hundred women who have for
saken lives of ease and comfort to
punch time clocks, stand behind
counter, pound tyrewriters or bend
over looms or sewing machines
just for the fun Of It..
Evening star., 1938-11-14
School Hours
Should Be
Barbaric Handling
Of Children Not
Allowed Today "A
BY ANGELO PATRI.

There are still people who tell
us that our schools are not doing
the good work the old schools did.
Those were the fine old schools.
Those were the fine old teachers.
In that fine day children we're able
to mind or they knew what dis.
obedience meant Yes stree.
why, remember when I was
lad, going to school, we used to
have men teachers. None of these
pretty ladies you have these days.
We had one that was holy ter
ror. I remember once when Stubby
Baker-he suffered some, and he
couldn't spell-Well, sir, one day
he missed his spelling lesson and
Old Man Ready grabbed his ruler,
long, thick, brass-edged ruler,
and he made Stubby bunch his
fingers together and he came down
on thera. Bang! Once for every
word he missed. I can hear Stubby
scream yet.
We'll sir, when he got through
the blood was streaming from
Stubbys fingers and the girls were
all yelling and crying and some
of the boys, too and he Just laid
round him with that stick until
the whole place was crying. Stubbys
mother took him to the doctor,
and then she hauled the old man
before the magistrate. Moo, noth-
ing happened. The magistrate just
told her to go home and make her
boy behave himself.
They were the tough old boys,
but they taught us. I'll say there
was no fooling in their classrooms.
Some of them were a little too
rough. One I remember used to
swing back and slam child with
I the fiat of his hand, right on the
ear. One little girl had a broken
ear drum and had running ear
all her life. A couple of boys were
| deaf in one ear, because of him.
They got rid of him at the end of
the term, though. Yes sir, in those
days there was no fooling."
And yet there are people who,
knowing those stories, knowing the
children that were treated that
way-maybe had been treated that
way themselves-will tell us that
we don't know how to control chill
dren because we don't beat and
main them. We don't have to.
and we won't. We believe that the
best control we have lies in our
power to interest children in their
growth. their joy, their ability to
work and to serve happily. We
believe that our work should be
directed toward developing the in
telligence of children, and we know
that fear and pain and the dread Of
them kill intelligence.
We have the best schools in the
world, here in America. We have
the best teachers obtainable, the
best trained, the best paid, in tho
world. No other country has as
fine a system of public education
as We have. We are never going
10 treat children in the barbario
fashion of the old school of mis-
cradle memory. We are going to.
year by year. do all we know how
to do to help these children be-
come intelligent, useful happy men
and women.
| A happy childhood is the best
! start child can have in life. The
hours in school should be happy,
carefree hours devoted to learning
in the ASSOCIATE with scholarly
ladies and gentlemen-of the new
school, if you please.
/ (Copyrisht. 1889
Evening star., 1938-11-14
Bv BARBARA BELL.

Something decidedly new and
charmlng-a suspender skirt that
you can wear with your own blouses
and sweaters, topped by a snug
little tuxedo-type jacket. Isn't the
jacket charming? 1t buttons up
to the throat with military precision
and great chic Fitted in snuglv,
1t pauses just above the tiny waist
line of the suspender skirt, making
you look even smaller round the
middle! Two crescent shaped pock-
cts and a tailored collar complete
its charm!
The other half of this pattern
is equally attractive-a skirt cut on
beautiful princess lines and finished
with a pointed edge at the top.
Best of all, this new fashion is easy
to tailor (thanks to the detailed
sew chart accompanying your pat
term. Make this of wool crepe,
thin tweed flannel or velveteen.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1646-B
is designed for sizes IL, IA, l6, l8
and 20. Corresponding bust meas
urements 30, 80, "a, So, and 38.
Size IA (32) requires rs yards of
54inch material for the jacket;
2l4 yards for the suspender skirt.
Send Is cents for the Barbara Bell
Fall and Winter Fashion Pattern
Book. Make yourself attractive,
practical and becoming clothes.
selecting designs from the Barbara
Bell well-planned, easy-to-make
patterns.
Evening star., 1938-11-14

On the contrary, virtually every
one of them have been driven by
necessity into the business world.
They had to make their own bread
and butter, or starve. They had to
stand on their own feet, or else be
crushing burdens on some one else
And 1 cannot think now of any
working woman I have ever known
who did not have some one else
clinging to her skirts. There were
always old parents, or little brothers
and sisters who had to be educated
and given a start in life, or a sick
husband or no-account one, or
children of their own.
Whatever else you may say about
women. you must admit that they
are more loyal to family ties than
men are. 1t is the girls in the family
who stand by and help far oftener
than the boys. 1t wouldn't help
father and mother as much for
John to have a job as it does for
Mary to have one.
1t is often said that the working
women is responsible for the de-
cline in matrimony, and that the
reason men don't marry is because
they have no jobs. The girls have
taken them away from them. There
is no truth in this assertion, because
every young woman who is self
supporting has set her brothers
free to marry. This they could
not do in the old days when youth
with a lot of sisters dependent upon
him could not even think of taking
wife until he had passed his family
burden on to some other man.
AS a matter of fact the working
girl promotes marriage instead of
hinders it. She helps make the
living. That enables many a poor
couple to marry while they are still
young and ardent and the bloom
is on their romance, instead of hav-
ing to wait until they are old, tired
and disillusioned and their wedding
cake has grown so stale with long
waiting that it Is dust and ashes
in their mouths.
But there is small use in blaming
the working woman for the lack
of employment of men. She feels
that she has just as much right to
60 out and get what she wants as
man has. Who can gainsay her?
Moreover, she is here to stay. And
it does look as if the only answer
to the problem is for men to find
avenues of employment that are
not suitable for women, even in
shorts. DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1938-11-14
For Sunday Night.

Did YOU ever hear of scrambled
eggs with chives? They can also
be a favorite standby for Sunday
night suppers and do they taste
good when served with grilled
bacon sandwiches. Make the sand
wiches by removing the crusts and
toast bread on one side only. Cover
untoasted side with slice of cheese
Spread cheese with chilli sauce, and
place two thin slices of bacon on
the chilli sauce Broil lightly Or
bake in hot oven until cheese has
melted and bacon is cooked. Gar
nlsh with Watercress and pimento
stuffed olives.
Evening star., 1938-11-14

grades of crabmeat offered to the
consumer. The beSt-and most ex-
pensive-is the "chunk-lump, which
is taken from behind the two back
fins of the crab. AS this meat is
carefully kept intact, there are only
two large Jumps to be got from each
crab-hence its higher price.
Special" crabmeat is less costly,
and consists of the next largest un-
broken portions of meat taken from
the crab.
Ordinary. or straight picked
crabmeat, which is still further down
the price range, is made up of the
small pieces and shreds that are left
over after the two top pickings are
accomplished.
Last on the scale comes the claw
meat-which is very inexpensive and
yet has sweet, delicious flavor. One
reason that the claw meat cannot
command higher price is because
it is dark In color. and many people
prefer their crabmeat as white as
possible. For mixtures, and in
dishes covered with heavy sauces,
however, the claw meat is entirely
satisfactory as to both flavor and
consistency.
In buying acknowledgements
the old tobacco advertising slogan,
Your nose knows and don't hesi-
tate to take a good sniff when the tin
is opened for you. Crabmeat doesn't
take long to impress a waiting world
with its sad secret if it has become in
the least spoiled
Many people like shell-shaped bak-
ing dishes, or fancy ramekins for
various crabmeat recipes-somehow,
I still like serving such mixtures in
the real crab shells, which may be
had, clean and unbroken at any of
the fish markets.
CRABS RAVIGOTE.
ID. cooked crabmeat
2 hard-boiled eggs
l tablespoon chopped mixed pickles
Pepper, salt, paprika to taste
y cup mayonnaise mixed with
lemon and onion juice
6 crab shells
Chop the eggs fine, pick over the
crabmeat, removing any bits of shell.
Mix eggs and crabmeat together,
Evening star., 1938-11-14

- " - y ~ ~
number caught
in our OW n
Chesapeake Bay.
L a t er, I a m
told. when the
weather really
becomes terribly
cold, and the
crabs can't take
it. they burroW
down into the
mud, and have
to be dredged up
to supply our
tables.
T h ere re,
rNuP lY. four
Evening star., 1938-11-14

FOR Christmas gifts designers went into hudde and pulled
this lovely handkerchief
be used for handkerches stockings
include the making the
simple.
The pattern envelope contains
lions Tor box and with
what crochet hook
work Editor Of Evening Star
Evening star., 1938-11-14

To do justice to the lovely, feminine jezvelry of
this of elegance, your hands must be as aveH
groomed as you possibly make them. Proper
care of the nails, exercise to relar and smooth the
skin and polish to complement your zcardrobe all
combine to put the avorld at your fngertibs'
Evening star., 1938-11-14
Nieht.Sewina Help.

If you do much sewing at night
a bridge lamp with arm extended
right over your sewing will give
you the best light A shade of Off
white or pale amber gives the most
restful light.
Evening star., 1938-11-14
Saving Time.

To shorten the baking time for
apple pie 20 minutes. first cook the
apples minutes in a small quantity
of water, then cool them and proceed
as usual.
Evening star., 1938-11-14
Lamb for the Salad.

Diced cooked lamb mixed with
diced celery and minced parsley
makes tasty filling for mint gela-
tin salad. Serve on lettuce and top
with boiled dressing or mayonnaise.
Evening star., 1938-11-14
Four Grades of Grab Meat Offered Suit Various Bug
Most Expensive Comes
From Behind Back Fins:
Claws Dark, But Good
Many Savory and Nourishing
Dishes May Be Concocted
With Less Costly Types
BY BETSY CASWELL,

The other day reader asked
crabmeat column a
Tor crameat seems to be especially good
afford the cooked fresh
variety to fall back ~
chasing it. OF now is taken.. r.
Evening star., 1938-11-14
Coral Lily.

The coral lily of Siberia, Liliumten-
uifolium, is the earliest and brightest
of the lilies, beautiful coral red.
Evening star., 1938-11-14

To Add Snap.
A little lemon juice gives snap to
sandwich and canape mixtures
Evening star., 1938-11-14

CidoAA6 ~. Moot VI ~ IlOW ID tdkcn
from crabs coming from the Gulf
of Mexico and of course there
Evening star., 1938-11-14
Three Simple
Hair Styles
For Today
New COntriVanceS
Designed to Help
Keep Locks Up
By PATRICIA LINDSAY.

A prominent Fifth avenue salon
Of New York has imported mas
ter mind of coiffures. And If
you do not think the art of hair
fashioning requires a 4laSter mind,
then you should see the hordes of
women who flock to this one dailyl
1t appears that numerous women
need expert help when it comes
to Transforming page-boy bobs to
coihures of upswept elegance.
Convinced that doing the hair
high is no mere whim of the cur
rent season, but fashion here to
stay This expert presents three
simple but chic coiffures which he
mas named Versailles, Boldini and
LAiglon.
Supple curls lightly drawn back
from the face, with high ringlets at
the back Of the head as we'll as high
over the forehead is Versailles. This
was inspired by the romantic coif-
fures of the Louis XIV period, and
is especially becoming for the older
woman who finds too severe hair
do not to her liking.
Boldini is best suited to the young
girl with lovely neck and exquisite
profile. Curls are piled high in front
and the hair is drawn up smoothly
and simply in back and anchored
with perky bow or one of the
newer barrets. It's simplicity of style
was inspired by the old French
paintings in which graceful, languid
ladies are serene in beauty. The
last, L'Aiglon, is a prophecy for
the future. 1t emphasizes gracious
fragility of the new woman. And
it is definitely for the lass who has
already trained her hair to stay up!
Short hair curls upward and for
ward around the temples and fore
head in a free. classic manner, and
a soft fluffness outlines the shape
of your head in back.
1t is this experts belief that
square headdresses have seen
their day and the effect of the
oval" with a natural head outline,
is the style you should strive to wear.
L'Aiglon is a compromise between
the American woman's desire for
freedom and the Partisan woman's
insistence upon being chic. 1t Is for
old and young providing the hair is
in good health and its roots have
been trained to grow up" So If
you have been tagging behind the
hair fashions, you had better get
busy and brush your tresses upward
and anchor them there with one of
the new contrivances designed to
help you.
X X
Before going on this reducing
diet 1t is essential that you get
your physicians approval. While
reducing follow Miss Lindsay's
Diet Health Rules, which may
be had upon request. -Inclose a
self-addressed, stamped (3-cent
envelope. Address me care of
this paper.
Evening star., 1938-04-17

record holder in the District. praised
swimming as a sport, healthful exer-
else and safety measure.
Naming water bicycle riding water
polo. swimming races. diving, surf
riding, sailing and canoeing as en-
Joyable,' Miss Strohecker said: Most
OF these cannot be enjoyed unless one
knows how to swim, and all are dan
gerous for non-sWimmers."
Last year" she said. there were
many serious canoe accidents which
might easily have been avoided had
there been. in each instance, a good
swimmer nearby
Aids Muscular Development.
Pointing out the good muscular and
all-around physical development
which one acquires from swimming,
Miss Strohecker said: 'At the beach
the most popular person is the life
guard, at least with the girls" This
popularity she attributed to the
guards handsome physiques-acq cquired
by swimming.
Miss Strohecker. who thinks every
boy. at least, should know how to
swim, was taught how herself by her
grandmother almost before she was
able to walk. Actually. learned
so early that forgot how and had
to be taught over again the follow
ing summer" she related
Miss Strohecker taught herself the
backstroke. in which she is 50 pro-
f1clent, after seeing some one using the
stroke at the beach. little realizing at
the time that she later would be using
1t IN competition. Miss Strohecker is
president of the Roosevelt Mermaids,
the first swimming club at the high
school and organized this year She is
a native Washingtonian. the daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs Brevard D. Stro-
hecker, 1913 Longfellow street NV.
Registrations Close Tomorrow.
Registrations for the free course in
swimming will close at 10 am. tomcr-
row. The registration Office in the
Central ~ Boys Department. 1892
G street NV, will be closed today,
except for registrations to be received
in the regular Sunday mail delivery at
the ~" Glasses will be held each
day, through April %, from 9 am. to
pm. Boys from 9 to 18 years of
age are eligible. Two additional SWIM
ming instructors, besides the large
corps already on hand. were an
nounced yesterday. They are John
Hoffschildt and Lawrence Gunther.
A swimming course for colored boys
at the Twelfth Street Branch Y. M.
c. A., 1916 Twelfth street, also will
open at the latter place tomorrow and
continue through next Saturday
Evening star., 1938-04-17

domestic servants. At the same time
highly trained cooks and household
helpers will be made available to
their communities.
The committee will be asked to in
spect the experimental project which
has been under way for some three
months at 400 South Capitol street.
Here 80 women are receiving train
ing in domestic science from college
educated teachers. And lot applica-
tions have been received for the serv-
ices Of these 80 when they complete
the course, Mr.. Brown reported.
The Government Is maintaining
with a dole great numbers Of these
colored women all over the country,
he explained, whereas If they were
trained, they could find jobs at once,
regain their self-respect and perform
an invaluable service to the families
hiring them.
Cooking is profession" Mr.. Brown
pointed out, land there are not any,
thing like enough trained cooks to
fill the need. Other household serv-
ices also require skill and training" 4"
The courses at these training schools
require five or six months and stu
Evening star., 1938-04-17
MILLION T0TRAIN
DOMEST|CSU
U. G. &. Will Ask House Body
to Divert Sum for
Project.

The House Appropriations Commit
tee will be asked to earmark $1,000,-
900 Of the huge new relief fund for
household service projects all over
the country, Edgar G. Brown, presi-
dent of the United Government EN-
ployes, announced yesterday.
Mr.. Brown said his organization
would urge establishment of these
projects as a means OF taking of
relief and providing permanent en-
ployment for thousands Of colored
Evening star., 1938-04-17

dents will be taught to use the latest
appliances. Dietetics, marketing, cater
ing and other phases OF domestic
science will be covered Graduates will
be required to pass q physical ex-
animation, and their certificates will
attest that they are healthy and free
from communicable diseases.
Evening star., 1938-04-17

from Henrico County Jail to the State
Penitentiary about the first Of next
week."
Pingley, farmer Of near Winches-
ter. was convicted Friday. He was
brought here from Frederick County
last night.
Evening star., 1938-04-17
OPEN FORUM PLANNED
AN Adequate Traffic Court to Be
Wednesday Tonic.

An open forum on AN Adequate
Traffic Court" for the District will be
sponsored by the Association for Ade-
quate Parking and Recreation Facili-
ties Among Government Employees at
8 pm. Wednesday at the Willard
Hotel, D. E. McQueary. association
president, announced yesterday.
Another discussion on ADEQUATE
Parking Facilities will be held May
10, he stated,