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Evening star., 1938-12-26
Proper Food Is Way
To Art of Living
FRENCH COOK BOOK, By Andr,

rNENCn COOh bOOh. BY Andre
Simons; illustrations by Nancy
Dyer. Published by Little, Brown
& Co., 1888.
Well known for their culinary per-
fection, the French have done it
again! This time they speak to the
lovers of good food through the
medium of Andre Simons and his
new French Cook Book"
Mr.. Simons' first chapter explains
his theory of proper living. Aptly
he titles it "The Art of Good Liv-
ing and proceeds to applaud the
well-thought-out meal and condemn
what he calls "gastronomical here
sies." This first part successfully
embodies his entire principle of pur-
pose.
Coming in complete and under
standable succession, the next six
parts take in 1.-The Good Earth" a
description of various meats, fish
and vegetables; "Seasonable Menus" :"
in which meals are planned accord
ing to the time of year, and Recipes
for Seasonable Menus"-in which
excellent and unusual recipes are
offered. The final chapters deal
with culinary terms used in the
book and the uses, origins and de-
scriptions of various wines.
The author has successfully COM
piled volume of helpful and logical
cooking lore. He endeavors to ex-
plain that good living is the right
of every man-and good cooking
the means to that end. Most ap-
propriate and true are his def1ni-
tions of food preparations in which
he states that cookery is the theory
cooking Ia the practice.
Evening star., 1938-12-26
BY BARBARA BELL.

Few outfits exactly fill the bill in
so many different ways as does a
two-piece jacket style like the de-
sign shown today. Under your fur
coat it's grand for business and
shopping on cold days. Nothing
could be smarter for week ends in
the country, when you want TO feel
warm and look smart. The skirt
is plain and tailored in line. The
jacket, buttoned straight up to the
throat, is fitted in to a slim waist
and trimmed with four flap pockets
Make this In tweed, flannel, wool
crepe or plaid for immediate wear,
as a dress. Later on, when the
weather turns mild. you'll enjoy
wearing it as a suit. Use fancy
buttons to march down the front.
1t is amazingly easy to tailor; your
pattern includes detailed sew chart.
Barbara Bell pattern No. 16O3-B
is designed for sizes IL. II, 16, 18
and 20. Corresponding bust meas
Evening star., 1938-12-26
BY HELEN VOGT.

So you think that beauty care
is a great deal of trouble? You fuss
and fume to get the right shade of
powder and rouge, you search for a
lipstick that won't cake and you
test madly the different types of
cream. When it comes to per-
fume, you can't find the right aroma
to suit your personality-and in
general you probably get a little
ver-wrought about the whole
thing. -.
Well, lady, rejoice. Be glad that
you didn't live in Colonial days-or
even in the early 10Th century.
Those were the days when beauty
care was something to fuss about.
No dashing to the cosmetic
counters, no running to beauty
salons-and definitely no choice
when it came to creams and pow
ders and scents. -.
A little research into history and
a few contributions from informa-
tion-laden sources have made us
thankful for the conveniences of
our modern day. For here's
what your ancestors did. :. (And
we don't advise you to follow the
recipes.
Old Recipe
For Soap.
Soaps, of course, have always
played an important part in skin
care, but along about the time of
white wigs and plantations the
ladies were compelled to compound
their own brands. One recipe
recommended ito make the face
fair" was known as a wash BALI
and concocted in the following man
ner, according to our information:
Take 40 pounds of rice in fine
powder, % pounds of starch powder,
II pounds of white lead, and 4
pounds of orris root in fine powder,
but no whitening. Mix the whole
well together and pass it through
a fine sieve, then place it in a dry
place and keep for use. Great care
must be taken that the flour be
not musty in which the balls will
in time crack and fall to pieces.
To this composition may be added
Dutch pink or brown fine damask
powder, according to the color re-
quired when the wash balls are
quite dry"
Another, used during the same
time, was no doubt less harmful
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Many Uses of Herbs
Described in Book
HERBS FOR URBANS-AND SUB
URBANS. BY Katherine van der
Veer. Published by Loker Raley,
1920

HERBS FOR URBANS-AND SUB
URBANS. BY Katherine van der
Veer. Published by Loker Raley,
1888.
Discovered-a cook book whose
contents live up to the fascinating
title. This is the distinction of
Katherine van der Veer's new
volume, Herbs for Urbans-and
Suburbans"
The book is arranged in alpha
betical sequence according to the
names of the herbs. Almost every
imaginable type is listed, with a
short summary about the plant
itself-its habitat, description and
history-and under each heading is
offered one or more recipes in which
the herb may be successfully used.
For much of her information, Miss
van der Veer has delved into the
past, examined and pored over old
recipe books and even brought out
family legends.
However, while the author sug-
gests many dishes and combinations
of herbs with meats and vegetables,
she warns against the indiscrim-
mate use of these plants.
"The practice requires study and
conscientious art to add just the
right amount that will lend piquancy
and individuality without Destroy
ing the original flavor of the dish,"
she explains. And, beg Of you,
don't have a dinner of herbs from
soup to dessert"
This very helpful volume offers
wealth Of unusual dishes that
should be both tempting and de-
licious. Miss van der Veer has gone
into the subject in complete and
yet thoroughly understandable man
ner. In addition, her book is espe-
cially apt at this time, for the pres
ent interest in the use Of herbs has
not been equaled since the early 10Th
century.
Evening star., 1938-12-26
ec Casserole Recipe Offered Response Many Readers
The Holidays
Can Rob You
Of Beauty
An Excellent Plan
To Care for Diet
And Complexion
BY PATRICIA LINDSAY.

"Whew! Thank heaven, Christ
mas Is over for another year!"
Legion are the women who are say
ing that today-or thinking 1t. But
even If Christmas Day itself is
over, with all its gift exchanging
there is still week of festivities to
face until the holiday season comes
TO an end-and that week will get
you, If you don't watch out!
Perhaps without realizing it you
used up lot of reserve energy
getting ready for Christmas and
you have not yet had time to ''un-
lax" But If you are a clever beauty
you will take time out today to
unwind, and give your body and
mind opportunity to rest. For there
is nothing like fatigue, caused by
over-taxing your nervous system,
to destroy your attractiveness.
1t would be good thing for
you to make today or tomorrow a
liquid day-that is, do not eat any
bulky food. Drink quantities of milk
and fruit juices (some coffee or tea)
and give your digestive organs a
much needed "time-out." Such a
procedure will also help your COM
plexion and if you need sleep, you
will rest much more comfortably
after day on liquid diet than you
would if you ate normally.
Take relaxing bath your first
free hour, and dump into 1t either
your favorite scented preparation
or couple of pounds of epson
salts. Stretch lazily in 1t for about
20 minutes and after you have
dried your skin, douse yourself with
a refreshing cologne or body powder.
eve hope you got both for Christ
masD
Your eyes next. Battle them In
q solution of boric acid or a good
prepared bath, and place pads of
cotton saturated in cooling witch
hazel over them just before you
lie down in darkened, quiet, we'll
ventilated room. Give up yourself
to sleep, forcing all thoughts from
your mind, making it blank OF
course before taking your tub I ex-
pect you to brush your hair we'll
and to clean your skin with cream
and lotion.
With this simple but effective
ritual completed, you will be sur
prised how we'll you rest either
for the whole night long, or for
Just couple of hours before your
next gay party.
Take the precautions to rest like
this between festivities. and to watch
your diet of food and drink the week
long. Have you ever seen those
beauties called blossoms" which
come from too many holiday egg
nogs? Well. don't say I didn't
warn you!
Evening star., 1938-12-26

biscuit in her face and ask if she
has a Government contract for max
ing cannon balls, or tell her that
her coffee has enough grounds in it
for divorce. Just mildly remark that
the bread and the coffee are not
quite up to her usual standard and
she will break her neck to live up
to her reputation. If you want her
to be economical, praise her thrift.
II you want to cure her bad temper,
just tell her how beautiful she looks
when she wears that Mona Lisa
smile and she will be afraid to say
Jack Robinson lest she break it up.
Soft soap literally applied will 60
further toward keeping wife happy
and contented and believing she
drew the matrimonial prize than
town and country houses and mink
coats and for her husband to pos
sess all the cardinal virtues.
Fifth. Chum up with your wife.
Little as you may expect it, your
wife married you to get a COM
,panion. She wanted a steady date.
Somebody who would like to do the
things she liked to do, who enjoyed
the things she enjoyed. Somebody
to play around with. But, more
especially, somebody she could talk
to endlessly about what she thought
and felt and who would talk to her
about the things he was inter-
ested in.
If you are not going to be that
sort Of husband, don't marry, son.
If you are not ready to settle down
to be fireside companion, stay
single. 1t is cruel thing to take
a girl out Of a happy home and
dump her down in a little apart
ment and leave her to spend her
evenings by her lonesome. Don't
do that. Don't be one of the hus-
bands who drive their wives to find
ing companionship in other men
and having to go to the movies to
get a picture of real home life.
Dear Miss Dix: I have a mar
ried son whose wife has never called
me mother" which hurts me very
much. She treats me well, but never
says the one little word that would
make me feel so happy and have
a different feeling toward her. She
expects to be a mother soon, and
what worries me is that after the
child is able to talk I know she
will call me grandma herself, and
I don't want that. I want her to
call me mother. MY son calls her
mother MON" and other girls call
their mothers -in-law mother" How
can I get her to do it?
A MOTHER.
Answer-Perhaps If she reads
your letter and knows how much
stress you put upon her calling YOU
Mother she will do so. Certainly
it is dittle thing to do II 1t will
make happy the woman who has
given her a good husband.
1t is small matter, but I think
many other women besides the one
who writes this letter would like
to have their daughters-in-law
claim kin with them, and the fact
that their daughters -in-law ALWAYS
call them Mrs" keeps them from
ever having q real mother feeling
toward them. DOROTHY DIX.
tcopsrisht. 1sSsJ
Evening star., 1938-12-26

urements, 80, 80, "a, SO and SO. Size
IA 1922 requires 3 yards of 54-inch
material, ~ yards of 39-inch ma
terial to line jacket, 1/3 yard for
collar.
Send Is cents for the Barbara
Bell Winter Fashion Pattern Book
Make yourself attractive, practical
and becoming clothes, selecting de-
signs from the Barbara Bell we'll
planned, easy-to-make patterns.
(Copyrisht, 1889
Evening star., 1938-12-26

The modern girl has every right to loneliness
foday-and every Advantage at her disposal. I'm.
like her predecessors, she need not ,Corry about
strange and harmful formulas or absurd recipes
for beauty, for modern science and research has
givem her the best cosmetics known. Above, Ann
Morriss starts her beauty routine ,vith the apbH.
cation of cold cream. This is only one of the many
aids available to every modern ,voman.
Evening star., 1938-12-26

If you want your wife to stay In
love with you, son-and, believe me,
it is money in your pocket and peace
in your life to keep her thinking that
she married Prince Charming-take
these tips:
First. Don't alibi your own stu
pidity and laziness and excuse your
blunders by saying that women are
a mystery that no one can unriddle
and that no man can tell before
hand which way the cat is going to
jump.
Study your wife until you know
all of her moods and lenses No
time is better spent by a husband
than in getting his wife's number.
For it is never what husband does
or says that matters to his wife. It
is the way he says or does it that
lets him in for tears and reproaches,
or the glad hand.
Second. Keep yourself easy on
your wife's eyes. Don't think that
marriage gives you the right to cut
out shaving and go around looking
like something the cat brought in
and that ought to be buried. If you
don't enjoy looking at a woman in a
soiled wrapper and with cold cream
on her face, think how much less
thrill a woman gets out of having
to look at slouchy man with a
three-day's stubble of beard on his
face.
The old rule that if you want to
be kissed you must keep yourself
kissable holds just as true for men
as 1t does for women. Many a wife
first begins to wonder what made
her do it when her husband starts
to sit around home without his COL
lar and in his stocking feet.
Third. Don't cut out the love-
making. Marriage does not auto
matically extract a woman's sweet
tooth and make her prefer roast
beef to chocolate creams. She still
has an Unsuitable appetite for soft
talk and wants to be told how beau
tiful and wonderful she is and how
you would die of grief If anything
untoward should happen to her.
Bear in mind that before mar
riage your wife had many suitors
who f1attered her and cajoled her
and made love to her. Now she
has only you, so you must pinch-hit
for all of the others. So you should
increase the fire and fervor of your
love-making instead of letting it
die out. And great will be your
reward If you do so, for you can
stop a wife's fault-finding with a
kiss, and with a kiss shut her eyes
so tightly that she will be blind to
all OF your shortcomings.
Fourth. Use the salve-spreader
instead Of the hammer in dealing
with your wife. No husband can
drive his wife an inch, but he can
jolly her into going wherever he
wishes her to 60. Criticism acts on
woman like a mordant does on
q dye. It sets her In her opinions
and ways.
So. II you want your wife to be
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Other Queries Answered
In a General 'Clean>Up'
Of Odd Matters TODAY
What to Serve with Eggnog
Is an Annual Problem for
Every Holiday Hostess
BY BETSY CASWELL,
Woman'S Editor

column bids fair clearing house for various odd
much to discuss and write about that perorce
neglected-and should
asked again
the recipe special"
Evening star., 1938-12-26

This round luncheon dolly which this
ago is among the many OF designs win the national crochet
championship and display in the New exhibition
handy for do which Yu
yourself much these do
of They're 8, 10 and IA inches in diameter
envelope complete
how much will need.
To obtain this pattern send for
In stamps to service and postage Address
Needlework Editor Of Evening
Evening star., 1938-12-26
Dorothy Dix Says
Five Rules for Husband Who
Wants to Keep Wife's Love

Editors a confusion in the release of this
yndated MATERIAL the other halt this published
this page last tuesday,
Evening star., 1938-12-26

So, II you want your wife to be
. good housekeeper, don't ding her
Evening star., 1938-12-26

If you want your wife to stay In
love with you, son-and, believe me,
it is money in your pocket and peace
in your life to keep her thinking that
she married Prince Charming-take
these tips:
Evening star., 1938-12-26

First. Don't alibi your own stu
pidity and laziness and excuse your
blunders by saying that women are
a mystery that no one can unriddle
and that no man can tell before
hand which way the cat is going to
Jump.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-01

the belt. Size 4 requires rs yard
of 35-inch material for the apron,
and 21a yards of ruffling.
1476 is designed for sizes SO, SO,
40, AZ, A, As, 48, SO and So. Size
38 requires 5 yards of 35-inch ma
terial without nap.
Spring. Pattern Book.
Send IS cents for the Barbara
Bell Spring and Summer Pattern
Book which is now ready. 1t con-
tains 100 attractive, practical and
becoming designs. The Barbara
Bell patterns are well planned,
accurately cut and easy to follow.
Each pattern includes a sew-chart
which enables even a beginner to
cut and make her own clothes.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, 247 w.
Forth-third street, New York,
N. Y. Price of patterns, is cents
Tin coins) each.
g Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
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1Xa2wusd W. IGckGtd
~ SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK
@ Western Newspaper Union.

with peaceful nations, military pre-
paredness, and opposition to the
"seclusionist" viewpoint.
"It is my considered judgment
that, in the present state of world
affairs, to do less than is now pro-
posed would lay our country open
to unpredictable hazards" he said,
referring to the naval expansion
program.
1.-THE momentous question:" he
said, 'is whether the doctrine of
force shall become enthroned once
more and bring in its wake, mex
orably, international anarchy and
relapse into barbarism."
He did not refer to any nation
by name, but his implication with
regard to legal recognition of Aus
trials absorption by Germany and
Japan's expansion in China was
clear when he said:
''The catastrophe developments
of recent years, the startling events
of the past weeks, offer a tragic
demonstration of how quickly the
contagious scourge of treaty-break-
ing and armed violence spreads
from one region to another"
He disclaimed "the slightest in
tention to entertain any such notion
as the use of American armed
forces for policing the world "
He specifically opposed the pro-
posal the United States retire from
the Far East.
In the Far East crisis, Hull said,
the United States has consistently
collaborated with other peace-seek-
ing nations"
The triumph of the "seclusionist
viewpoint" he said, 'would ines
capably carry the whole world back
to the conditions of medieval chaos,
conditions toward which some parts
of both the eastern and the western
worlds are already moving"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-01

a HOUSE dress with long slen-
"A der lines, a dress and apron
for little girls, and a popular bo-
lero frock for slim young figures!
You will certainly want one OF
these, and more likely will want
all three. With each pattern, you
receive complete and detailed
sew chart specially planned to
help beginners, so that the max
ing will be easy, and save you
money besides.
Popular BolerO Frock.
Make it up of silk crepe or a
pretty print, and see how expen-
sive, how fattering, it looks! The
short bolero and wide shoulders
make the slim lines of the frock
even more graceful. Notice how
cleverly the dress is shirred into
the front panel at the waistline.
This is one of the prettiest after
noon dresses you could choose for
this spring.
Dress and Apron for Tots.
Your little girl will be so proud
of having this heaft-shaped apron
to put on over her best dress when
she plays house! And the puff
sleeved, square-necked dress is
adorable. You can make the two
of them in no time. For the
dress, choose dinity or organdy
for dress-up; Bingham or percale
for every day. Dimity or lawn
for the apron.
House Dress for Large Figures.
This is such a becoming, COM
Portable, good-looking dress to
work in, round the house. The
lines are so straight and unham-
pering, and pleats in the short
sleeves give plenty of room for
stretching and reaching. 1t takes
inches off the figure, too. Make
it up in seersucker, Bingham,
linen or percale printed in small
designs.
The Patterns.
1478 is designed for sizes IA, 16,
18, 20, 40 and AZ. Size 16 requires
65s yards of 39-inch material.
1863 is designed for sizes 2, A, 6,
8 years. Size 4 requires 1B yards
of 35-inch material for the dress,
with yards of narrow ribbon to
trim and / yard wider ribbon for
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-01

and Polish warships were cruising
off Memel. So there was nothing for
the Liths to do except give in. Pol
ish troops that had been concentrat-
ed in Wilma paraded in celebration
of the bloodless victory, but in
Warsaw the celebration was dis
torted into a "pogrom" in which
riotous throngs attacked all the Jews
they could find, killing several and
wounding scores. Hundreds of Jew
ish-owned shops were smashed be-
fore the police could restore order.
The mobs were made up largely
of National Democrats, opposed to
the government, who protested that
the settlement with Lithuania was
too lenient. They demanded that
Poland invade and annex Lithu-
ania. &
Col. Joseph Beck, Polish foreign
minister, declared that Poland
would guarantee Lithuania's indie
pendence. The Liths, however, were
extremely bitter over the conces-
sions they had been forced to make
to their more powerful neighbor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-01
House Passes Navy Bill

MYTH only a few votes in oppo-
w sition, the house passed the adj
ministration's billion dollar navy
bill. The measure authorizes con-
struction of the largest battle fleet in
American history by adding 46 COM
bat ships, % auxiliaries and $50 air.
planes.
The War department announced
that army and navy officers were
about to study plans for an enlist
ment program that would put more
than two million men under arms
within four months of a declaration
of war. For this the army would
require 1,250,000 recruits and the
navy 100000.
The first 100000, under existing
plans, would be sought as volunteers
in the first month, before selective
draft machinery like that of 1917-'18
was put into operation. Already
prepared for quick submission to
congress is a draft Of selective
service law.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-01
Mexican oil Seizures

president CARDENAS of Mexi-
co announced the expropria-
ton of oil properties belonging to
American and British companies
and valued at some $500, 1000, 900.
Wells, refneries and tankers were
seized and workers took control of
all company offices in the repub-
lie. The American and British
employees and their families fled.
For the present the oil industry in
Mexico was paralyzed.
The companies concerned began
legal action attacking the consti-
tutionality of Cardenas' decree, and
it was said would carry the case
to the highest court. Both the
United States and Great Britain
were expected to challenge the
seizures and similar action threat
ened in the case of mines as vio-
lation of treaty obligations.
The action of the Mexican gov
eminent was not entirely unexpect-
ed for it was the elimination of a
long and bitter controversy between
the oil companies and Mexico's
board of labor cancellation and arbi-
tration over a $1,000, 600 wage in
crease ordered by the board.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-04-01

fusing to surrender the organiza-
tion's private records to the lobby
investigators.
Condemning as infamous" the
committee formerly headed by SUI
preme Court Justice Hugo L. Black
and now directed by Senator Sher-
man Minton, Democrat, of Indiana,
Gannett charged that its renewed
activities are prompted by desire
to "smear and intimidate" his and
other organizations fighting the gov
eminent reorganization bill.
Minton, in a radio debate with
Representative James Wadsworth,
Republican of New York, struck
back at Gannett, declaring that he
directs his propaganda machine
from his sunny villa in Florida"
and that she hasn't any more idea
of saving you and your Constitution
than the Liberty League had" He
cautioned listeners not to be mis-
led by press dispatches on admins
tration activities "since SO per cent
of all the metropolitan newspapers
are opposed to the administration
and do not hesitate to misrepresent
it."
Quick work by administration
leaders saved the reorganization bill
from emasculation in the senate.
Six senators shifted and brought
about the defeat of the Wheeler
amendment requiring congressional
approval, by joint resolution, to
make effective all executive orders
transferring, consolidating or abol-
ishing bureaus and independent
agencies.