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Evening star., 1940-11-15
American Regency

American Regency Of the pre-Vic-
torian era arose when there was
great wealth and elegance in the
Southern States of the Union
Styles were Influenced both by the
elegance of England, under the
young Victoria, and by the grandeur
of the Napoleonic empire. The most
outstanding motif of this period is
the three plumes Of the regent, also
called the Prince of Wales feath-
ers." Others are the Tyre and swan
Stripes were used excessively. Ma
hogany and rosewood were the pre-
ferred cabinet woods in the popular
current movie, Gone With the
Wind" American Regency was
used for the setting of Scarletts s
marriage at Tara.
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to do that depends largely upon
their being disciplined, yet a dis
ciplined child in these days is such
a rarity that it is almost a museum
specimen.
You don't see fathers and mothers
teaching their children obedience
and respect for the law and regard
for other peoples rights because
that is going to be first aid to pop
ularity when they are grown and
thrown out on their own.
You don't see parents training
their children in habits Of industry
because the boys and girls who are
not afraid of work are the ones
that every employer is looking for
You don't see parents teaching their
children how to save their money
and spend it wisely because every
fortune is founded on thrift.
Nor do parents teach their chill
dren how to control their appetites
in order that they may not be
drunkards when they grow up: or
to finish every job they undertake
because it is only those who have
the grit to carry on, when the sled
ding vets hard and the work tire
some and one is tempted to change
who ever win success. 1t is the
cutters who always fail.
Nor do you often see parents tax
ing the trouble to teach their chill
dren good manners, yet they are
the magic that will open every door
and carry q girl or = boy farther
than anything else in life.
All parents expect their children
to marry, yet they do nothing to
prepare them for marriage. You
never see fathers and mothers
teaching their children anything
about the responsibilities of married
life and how to make a success Of it.
And queerest Of all, although par
ents know that their children are
going to have to be Self-supporting
when they are grown, they do not
bother themselves to fit their young
sters for the occupation for which
nature intended them, though they
know that most of the failures in
the world are the result of the
people who are round pegs getting
into square holes.
When Tom and Mamie get
through school and ask: where do
we go from here?" Father and
mother are generally Just rs bewil-
dered as they are.
Tom and Mamie have been under
their eyes every instant since they
were born, yet their parents have
never observed them closely enough
to see what aptitudes they have
And so for all the help their par
ents can give them they might Just
as well have been orphans.
Parents are keen enough about
giving their children . formal edu-
cation, but what they need far more
than being sent to college is more
home work. DOROTHY DIX.
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Just because the college gals have
been 50 loud in their praise of covert
cloth is no sign that the boys aren't
equally enthusiastic. Suits, top
coats and separate covert slacks are
being worn by the more youthful
masculine enthusiasts and they
couldn't be better looking.
Incidentally, all this talk Of de-
sign for town as well as country
wear is an interesting feature. Being
recommended at the moment are
Glen plaids for city street wear.
Also available in q great variety OF
patterns and colors are plaid sax
onies and tweeds. Stripes are spaced
wider, plaids are bigger and colors
more intense.
We hear that boys who anticipate
q year in the Army are essentially
the reason for increased simplicity
In the cut of clothes, too. Seems
they want styles that will be just
as good a year from now as when
(and IL they are put into mothballs.
It's . practical thought that the
manufacturers have carried through.
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Dorothy Dix Says >>>
Parents Must Prepare Children
To Face Real Tests of Future

One of the strangeSt things in
the world is that SO few parents
make any intelligent effort to fit
their children for life. They know
that the race is to the swift and
the victory to the strong, but they
do not train their youngsters to be
runners, nor develop in them the
mental and moral muscles that
would enable them to fight their
way to success. With a sublime opti-
mism they trust their sons and
daughters fate to luck and pray
that some miracle will happen that
will make them grow up into be-
ing fine mer and women, instead
of hoodlums and criminals and fail
ures. No phrase is oftener on the
lips of fathers and mothers than
"you can't tell how children are 60
ing to turn out" Yet every human
being above the grade of a moron
knows that this is not true and
that, 80 times out of a hundred, how
a child turns out depends absolute
ly upon the way it is reared. Bring
up a child in the way it should go
and when it is old it will not depart
from it" is just as true now as when
Solomon said it. Every parent
knows that there are certain traits
of character that can be developed
in children, certain habits that can
be formed in them, a certain polish
that they can be given that will
almost inevitably secure their hap
piness and prosperity. Yet how few
fathers and mothers ever take the
trouble to develop these qualities in
their youngsters.
All parents, for instance, wish
their children to get along in the
world" as the phrase goes, and they
are perfectly aware that the ability
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By BARBARA BELL.

All it takes to make this a merry
Christmas for your friends and fam
lily is little advance planning and
this pattern, with which you can
make four usable gifts. There's a
laundry bag, powder cape, hanger
cover and boudoir slippers. You
need not make all these for one per-
son, but you can make up sets that
have a lot of individuality.
For instance. slippers and powder
cape make q pretty ensemble, the
laundry bag in different fabrics is
good for several names on your list,
and the hanger covers in sets Of
three are very usable.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1279-B
is designed in one size. If you use
50 or 80 inch material, hanger cover
requires " yard, laundry bag X
yards, slippers q yard, cape is
yards. To line slippers requires %
yard and to bind yard tape; to fin
ish neck Of cape with bow requires
III yards ribbon, for drawstring
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Manners
of the
Moment

There are certain persons who just
love to go in for mimicry. And
sometimes it's very funny. But, my
man. metimeS it isn't.
When you start mimicry on your
wife, for example, by saying in a
high falsetto, "Oh, my dear, don't
you think q silver fox scarf would
look adorable with this jacket?" your
wife is going to burn-up.
You do it plenty Of times. and
you know it. You ape your wife
or her friends in some catty re-
mark they have made, or in some
designing gesture. You think you're
being awfully funny and that you
are kidding your wife out of her
bad habits.
But I want to warn you right
now that you are building the
foundations for a huge and hand
some fight. It's no fun to have
some one mimicking you all the
time and the wife isn't going to
stand for it.
II you must 60 in for mimicry
pick subject whom both you and
your wife dislike. Then she can
laugh with you. But don't, above
all things, pick her. JEAN.
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FROM THE MEMO PAD:

For q small apartment or cottage,
where every inch of space counts,
. combination vanity and hamper
would make an ideal piece for the
bathroom. The top lifts back re-
vealing a large mirror and there is
also q deep drawerlike compartment
for holding your cosmetic jars. .
An aluminium food mixer makes
perfect gravy. AL one has to do is
place flour and milk or meat essence
together in it and with a few shakes
Of the wrist the gravy is well blended
and has no Jumps.
Large layer cakes with thick FROST
ings should be cut with one of the
new glass knives. These have a
razorlike edge, and would also be fine
for cutting fruit or anything that is
likely to turn black when metal
touches it.
The next time you have occasion
to give your girl corsage be sure
and give her one Of the new holders.
1t not only adds charm to the fiow-
ers but helps to protect the dress
from soiling. The blooms fasten to
holders in the center of the pin and
there are glass leaves that reflect
the colors. ..
Dress up" your home with new
musical door chimes. One style has
beautiful, unbreakable plastic
cover that is carved in a cameo-like
design. You may secure it in either
an ivory or walnut finish, and the
brass tubes are tarnishproof. :.
For people who like to smoke in
bed there is an article now on the
market that makes the procedure
fairly safe. 1t consists of a metal
ashtray with cigarette holder at
tached; extending from this is a
long tube which is covered with a
silk fabric. On the other end of the
tube is a bit used for inhaling the
smoke.
When planning your Thanksgiv-
ing Day dinner remember that de-
licious ice cream, nodded In forms
Of turkeys, cornstalks and pumpkins
makes a delightful dessert. Sug-
gested to 60 with this are small as
sorted cookies. They come neatly
arranged in a box which is wrapped
in cellophane.
In the past few years various
stores around town have been sell
ing turkeys cooked to order. We
find that several are going to repeat
it again. Better place your order
as far in advance as possible. . .
Speaking of turkey, have you
ever tried the smoked turkey sand
wiches that are prepared by local
store? They are sold by the dozen
and are very delicious. Serve these
at your next bridge or cocktail
party.
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Plum Puddngs and Mnce Pies Are Synonymous With Thanksgiving
Youngsters
Like Good
Books
Encourage Reading
Club by Donating
Used Volumes
BY ANGELO PATRI.

ny ANUEAO 1A40xs
Books are q necessity for all sorts
Of people. They stimulate infancy,
inform and entrance youth and COM
fort old age. From infancy to old
age books teach. No book that Is
properly read is without its teaching
power. It is impossible to read .
book without being changed in some
way by that experience. One is
either wiser or sillier, more informed
or more ignorant. more excited or
more anesthetized at the end Of the
last chapter. There are books Of
all kinds for AL kinds Of people. One
has but to choose his own.
Young people who read for in
formation and pleasure are the
group In greatest need of good read
ing. Theirs is the most critical
time Of life when an influence may
direct their lives for good and all.
And our young people read con-
stantly. Some OF the reading Is
worthless, II not worse.
you like that magazine?" I asked
. boy who was reading q worthless
paper.
mot SO much"
"Why don't you read one OF the
others? I think you'd like it much
better. It has an article on avia-
ton that's great"
Eyes, know, but it costs more. /"
Good books do cost more; good
magazines, too. But they must be
had. Borrowing and lending, pass
ing books and magazines from hand
to hand Is one way the young people
manage. The book club is another.
BY pooling their funds they buy Q
book Is often as they collect the
price. They draw lots for first read.
ing. In that way more good books
come their way than If each saved
and bought his own.
The school, college and public
libraries serve well, but they do not
reach far enough. 1t is simply i'm
possible to supply the young people
with all the books they want at the
time they want them. I have known
students to wait a year and more
for a book on the required list while
the instructor took for granted it
had been read and asked for recita-
ton and report on it. The best
way out under such circumstances
is the group buying-the book club.
Reading for pleasure is about as
good way Of spending leisure hours
Of quiet as can be found. Young
people ought to be encouraged to
read. but encouragement and no
books is not exactly helpful Older
people who have books could pass
them along to these younger ones
more often than they do. Libraries
and attics and bookcases in many
houses overflow with books that are
not to be read again by their owners.
These could be passed on through
the school librarian to the students
who would love to own them.
Please don't make the mistake Of
passing on only educational books
that Is, texts, which may be dull
and tough reading. Young people
who read are looking for pleasure.
Information, culture. any form Of
improvement is not in their minds
as usual thing. But pass along
the good stories. They will enjoy
them and they will learn from
them. What is better still, they form
the habit Of reading, and that will
force them into searching for ma
terial in libraries and reading rooms.
Encourage reading clubs and book
clubs. Pass along your used books.
Our young people must read.
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ding in q buttered mold for 3
hours. Serve hot, with hard sauce,
or ice cream.
ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING.
u pound butter.
u pound sugar.
3 eggs.
2 cups flour.
~ teaspoons grated nutmeg.
u teaspoon ground cloves.
"a teaspoon ground cinnamon.
a teaspoon ground mace.
TX pounds currants.
IL pounds raisins.
"a pound citron, cut in thin pieces.
u loaf bread.
! pint milk.
l cup sherry.
Cream the butter and the sugar,
add the eggs, and beat well. Sift
the flour and the spices and mix
we'll with the fruits. Add to first
mixture. Crumb the bread and let
it soak for a little while in the milk,
then add it to the fruit mixture.
Stir in the sherry slowly, turn into
q well-buttered pudding mold and
steam for 21z hours. Serve with
hard sauce or ice cream. This pud-
ding is best when made ahead of
time, put into . crock and allowed
to age. 1t should be reheated by
steaming just before serving.
WASHINGTON PLUM PUDDING.
n loaf bread.
l cup scalded milk.
\ pound sugar.
4 eggs, separated.
u pound raisins.
4 pound currants.
4 pound chopped figs.
4 pound chopped dates, pitted.
Small piece citron, sliced thin
u pound suet.
! cup currant jelly.
u teaspoon nutmeg.
II teaspoon cinnamon.
4 teaspoon cloves.
4 teaspoon mace.
l teaspoon salt.
Soak the breadcrumbs in the milk
until cool. Add sugar and lightly
beaten egg yolks. Flour fruits well,
and add to the mixture. Chop suet
in small pieces, and work well with
hands until soft and creamy; COM
bine with fruit and egg mixture, and
add the melted currant jelly, spices
and stifiy beaten egg whites. Steam
for 6 hours in a buttered mold,
store in a crock, and reheat before
serving.
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house you are buying and the way
you like to live should indicate the
furniture style. After this, you may
consider the latest mode. Be sure
to select furniture which expresses
your way of living. For instance.
if you live in the country and have
children, pets and out-of-door in
terests, use sturdy country-type
furniture in most Of your rooms,
with the possibility Of . little more
elegance in the living room and
guest bedroom. In town, II you live
a busy social life in civic or oficial
affairs, the formality Of polished
mahogany and lustrous materials
might please you. Eighteenth CEN
tury traditional furniture is good
for the formal house. Good mod
ern furniture is also very fashion,
able. Make a list and a plan for
your house first, then shop in the
stores and see what you like and
what fits your needs. Keep some
uniformity throughout; do not
change period, style or materials
in each room. Select furniture and
rugs at the same time. choosing
draperies after the furniture Is in
place. Select all Of these with re-
gard to the interior, color scheme
and style Of your house, and then
consider your selections in the light
of how they are to be used. and
whether you, must be really practi-
cal and economical.
Libraries, house and furniture
magazines, as well as the stores,
have many suggestions to o1er. Find
out what you like and then see
if it goes well in your house.
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DEAR MISS NOVEL;:

am inclosing q picture OF the
front of the house we have just
bought. We debated the purchase
for many months before making up
our minds because the facade Is
uninteresting, but the interior Is SO
nice and 50 well arranged for our
needs that we finally bought it.
Have you any suggestions Of what
might be done to improve the front
of the house with an investment
in remodeling, good planting or
whatever it seems to need?
J.Y.
Answer-1 think you need = more
interesting entrance door. The
house is in excellent proportion and
would Immediately gain Importance
with q lovely doorway, possibly with
a fan light above or some other
improvement to help it to "lve up"
to the rest Of the house. An archt-
tect might help you on this or you
may be able to find just what you
want in some of the better factory
made designs. After that the plant
ing should be rearranged to give
more pattern and reason to the
whole effect. It appears pretty
straggly now and may need some
new shrubs or some cutting and
rearranging.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
I hear so much about washable
wall paper, washable rugs and up
holstery, yet mine always seem to be
only about half as nice once they
have been washed. Is there any
secret or trick to this that I should
know?
8. D. @.
Answer-The secret, If there is one,
might be care and gentle handling.
but there are no tricks rs long Is
you purchase truly washable fabrics.
Most fabrics are 80 marked. when
they have been preshrunk, or the
salesperson win tell you to what de-
gree they will shrink. Also, be sure
about color fastness to water and
sun. If you shampoo your upholstery
follow the directions minutely about
"suds" and small area ut q time"
and "wiping dry" For curtains use
the mildest soap, lukewarm water
and handle them as gently as pos
sible. Instructions come with the
soaps and upholstery cleaners and
give most explicit directions. You
cannot put things into . washing
machine and forget them for half
an hour without having them turn
out Ike rags. Do each texture and
article according b IL nature ana
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Ice Cream Stains

You can remove ice cream stains
from unwashable materials by rub
bing them well with cold water and
then applying carbon tetrachloride.
Sponge until the stain has disap-
peared. The regular wash method
IS effective for stains on washable
articles.
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and when the rest of the family is
settling down to their plum pud-
ding or pie I manage to get called
to the telephone!
However, those of you who haven't
been scared into such a complex
will still enjoy the lavish ending
to an all too lavish feast. You may
like to serve ice cream to eat with
the pudding or pie, as an extra
touch, and, if you do, the delightful
molds offered by caterers and ice
cream companies will furnish at
mosphere as well as epicurean en-
joyment. Be careful, though, in
choosing fiavors, that you obtain
those that will complement the
stronger taste of the spicy pudding
or pie and not conflict with 1t un-
pleasantly.
There are excellent puddings to
be bought ready-made in Washing
ton stores, and fine mince meat
comes in jars, tins, and in dried
form as well. The war has seriously
depleted the supply Of plum pudd-
ings from England which used to be
imported by many of the specially
shops, but fortunately for us, so
many good ones are made here that
we shall not suffer unduly! For sew
eral years an exceptionally fine
pudding has been on sale here
packed into bags; this year the same
brand will also be available IN
crooks at no extra cost. Almost any
plum pudding, If heated according to
directions on the container, doused
with brandy and served in a furry
of blue flame, will be more than
satisfactory in both taste and ap-
pearance. The same holds true OF
mince meat-there are many quail
ties to be found, ranging from mex
pensive types to very expensive ones,
complete with brandy and mellowed
by age-but if the budget denies you
the high-priced edition, you can
dress up the less costly version with
little trouble when you get it home.
If you are one of the individuals
who like to make your own plum
pudding, here are few recipes that
you may care to try. The carrot
pudding is included because it is
50 digestible, and so delicious that
1t has won many friends among
people who find the heavier type of
pudding a bit hard to take.
CARROT PUDDING.
2 cups grated carrots, raw.
cups grated white potatoes, raw.
2 eggs, well beaten.
/ teaspoon flour.
l cup seedless raisins.
! cup currants.
l cup brown sugar.
u cup butter.
u cup brown molasses.
2 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
2 teaspoons ground allspice.
l teaspoon baking powder.
Pinch salt.
Mix ingredients, and steam pud-
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Baked Rabbit

Clean young rabbit and dry care
fully. Rub inside with salt and
stun with any desired stuhing-
onion stufing is good, and 50 Is
sausage stufing. Sew up cavity,
truss as you would fowl, brush
with bacon drippings, sprinkle with
salt and pepper and place on side
in roaster. Roast uncovered In .
moderately slow oven for about 1x
hours, basting often with melted
fat and turning when half-donc.
eofvo with pan raw.
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Horseradish

Horseradish sauce makes good
ham taste better. Mix Y teaspoon
salt and 3 tablespoons Of grated
horseradish into "A cup stin whipped
cream. Add . teaspoon of lemon
Juice and serve in q small dish.
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and binding on laundry bag you
need "a yards tape, to finish hanger
cover you need 2l2 yards binding.
Are you wishing you could sew?
Wishing you could create new and
individual dresses, that fit to per-
fection-out of the beautiful fabrics
now Haunted in the shops? You can
sew! Just try it! Send Is cents for
the New Fall and Winter Fashion
Book! Pick your patterns! Pick up
your shears and start!
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Potatoes

Keep leftover cooked potatoes In
q shallow dish in the refrigerator.
The potatoes must have air and
should not be heaped. They should
b used up within two days. Pots-
toe0 sour eaSily.
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Ready>Made Versions Are
Time and Effort Savers
For Busy Housewives
Some, However, Still Prefer
To Make Their Own Goodies
Just as Grandmother Did
BY BETSY CASWELL,
Woman'S Editor.

No matter which 1hankgvng elect celebrate the menu is
include plum pudding mne both
living Boston, FOUR
ice pudding minc and pumpkin pn order uphold
England tradition This horrfed such extent that
Thanksgiving
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Select Furniture Best Suited
To Your Type of House
And Mode Of Living
Follow Directions Faithfully
In Handling Washable Wall
Paper, Rug or Upholstery
By MARGARET NOVEL;.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:


have house and planning to into the first the
going funifi with
considered style How
make expensive mistakes?
DIX.
information seek is simple that think
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follow directions, and I think you
will come out all right.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
I have a spool bed, high bureau
with shaving glass and small drop
leaf table of mahogany in Federal
style that would like to use in my
daughters room. She feels that
she would like something lighter,
but We feel We cannot discard this.
Can you suggest q color scheme
that might make it less heavy?
MRS. E. D. F.
Answer-Select a soft blue, small
patterned wall paper, with an all
over floral carpet of beige with pink
and blue flowers. Sheer white
curtains with ruffles Of rose-pink,
plaid tissue gingham will set the
color scheme at the window. Use
plain plaid made without ruf1les
for the bedspread, with white dresser
and table lamps. You might arrange
a dressing table with a skirt which
would make her personal furniture
frilly enough SO that she will not
feel the heavy quality of the tall
mahogany chests. Place the dresser
before one Of the windows and
repeat the curtain material in the
skirt.
Address queries on home deco
ration and similar problems to
Margaret NOVEL;, in care Of The
Evening Star. For personal re-
plies, include = stamped, SELF
addressed envelope. Other ques-
tions will be answered in the
column ~ quickly n space per-
mitS.
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follow directions, and think you
will come out all right.