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Evening star., 1943-11-30
SPECIAL NOTICES.

I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for any
debts contracted by any person other than
myself. Rupert P. Franklin. 725 9th st.
ACCOUNTANT can handle few small
sets OF books evenings. Sundays: withhold
ing tax, social security. etc; expert work
and good service assured; draft exempt;
let me relieve you of your bookkeeping
ToTTifS i NeT Beg 30 Spo1K okfsss1Ns,RE s5sT s.
debts contracted ont @ BY any persons eTS other
A SPECIAL MEETING Of the stockholders
of lie Capitol Park Hotel Corp, of the
District of Columbia. has been called by
the directors to be held on Wednesday
December tst, 1943. at the Raleigh Hotel
18th and Pennsylvania ave. NV. Wash
ingto0, D. C., at o'clock pm, to cor slider
the diminution Of the amount of capital
Of the CAPITOL Park Hotel Corp. from
1915, 900 to S93.375. and to authorize the
directors and ot1cers to distribute to the
stockholders Of record, S75 share as
3O,, 1943. and December 1st, 1e43. pi-
rectors: John ]. Hamilton, president; Ed.
ward l.. Hillyer. secretary and treasurer;
L. Lee Combs and H. Burton Leary. jr
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT coU:
the, Washington Auditorium Corporation
will be paid upon presentation to the
American Security and Trust Company
Washington, D.. c.. on and after Wednes.
WAsHiNGToN AUDITORIUM
CORPORATION.
By B. L. COTTON. President
Evening star., 1943-11-30
By Barbara Bell

When it is time to play, put her in
this rugged overall and jacket set
which you can make in stout cordu-
roy, flannel or some other fabric
woven to stand hard wear! Every bit
of this play set is cute and attrac-
tive.
Barbara Bell pattern 1924 is de-
signed for sizes /, 2, 3, 4, 5 and
years. Size overalls and jacket re-
quire 2as yards of IS or 80 inch ma
terial, rompers y yard.
If you are searching for gifts to
make, you'll find a wide variety of
them in the pages of our new Fash
ion Book, presenting IS patterns
To order a copy, send IS cents, or,
with a 15-cent pattern, send Is
cents, plus l cent for postage.
For this attractive pattern, send
Is cents, plus ! cent for postage, In
coins, with your name, address, pat
tern number and size wanted to
Barbara Bell, washington Star, Post
Once Box Is, Station o. New York
II, N. Y.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
By Evelyn Hayes

looks like q million dollars. Made
Of pale plue plastic, decorated in
pastel painted flowers, and tiled"
with a painted bow, it's a compact
that would make primping a posi-
tive pleasure.
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FOR MEN ONLY-They'd hate
to admit 1t, but men really love to
receive gifts Of cosmetics. Naturally,
they don't want any of your Chanel
No. 5-but they have a great yen
for masculine herman stuff. There
are some soaps, lotions and colognes
as herman as Gable that would
make fine Christmas offerings to
your particular hero. He'd especially
like set Of cologne and shaving
lotion In attractive bottles painted
with colorful species of wild life
and he'd save the bottles long after
he had used the contents.
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BOW-PUFF PRETTY-Give her
a pretty powder box that comes with
be-ribboned powder puff that adds
to the fun-and almost to the fra
GRANGE Of the luxurious bath powder
1t holds. The powder Is scented
with the well-loved jasmin or ge-
ranium bouquet and the box is q
glass-topped affair through which
shows the pretty puff with its two
toned ribbon bow. Here's the an
sWer to the problem of finding a
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Christmas Beauty Treats

SUGAR AND SPICE AND
Everything nice, too-about four
sweetly spicy perfumes that are the
newest for q sentimental Christ
mas Offering. For your dream girl,
choose the one named for Don
Quixote's dream girl-a perfume
that has q light yet inststent floral
bouquet as haunting as dream.
The box itself-most decorative-is
aglow with yellow and gray scrolls
against a crisp white background.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLDING
matter who she s-whether she is
an offlce secretary, a housewife, or
in the service-that girl on your
Christmas list is sure to love q
travel kit fllled with beauty gear
One we're especially excited about
has a full-mirrored case of real
leather that's a nice thing to have
for an overnight case. For the plus
part, 1t holds all girl needs for
a complete cleanup and makeup
including powder, rouge, upstick,
foundation, skin freshener, cleans
ing cream and one for fabrication
almost too much for its modest
price.
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LIGHTWEIGHT AND LOVELY
A compact is one Of those cant
miss" gifts that everybody loves. No
gal ever had enough Of them. We've
tracked down a new one that's not
only pretty-but lightweight, and
Evening star., 1943-11-30

This space Is devoted to an
exchange Of ideas, recipes,
housekeeping shortcuts And
suggestions between the house
wives In Washington and
vicinity. Please send your
contributions or requests to
Readers Clearing House, the
Women's Page. The Evening
Star.
The views expressed in this
"open forum" are not neces-
sarily those Of The Star, but
are simply an exchange Of
opinions between readers Of the
Women's Page.
AS it is obviously impossible
for this department to test all
recipes offered for the column,
we cannot assume responsibility
for them.
We regret that due to the
tremendous number Of letters
received, lack Of space prevents
us from printing all of them.
Also, this is the cause Of some
delay in publishing answers to
queries. We're doing our best
to keep up!
Betsy CasveH.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

little gift that will give q lot Of
pleasure!
ALL THINGS TO ALL WOMEN
If you don't know what scent she
prefers, send her one that's been
a century-old favorite. A widely
initiated fragrance, this perfume Is
vibrant and compelling, yet not so
heavy it offends. The trick Of this
perfume-and its appeal to women
lies in the fact that its mood is
changed by its intensity. In other
words, a dab behind each ear and
drop on the hanky provide WELL
bred fragrance for daytime, while
the perfume more generously used.
sprayed on the hair for example,
causes its allure-and the user's-to
reach heady new heights.
PIT-A-PAT POWDER MITT-
Looking for stocking stufIer? Give
her touch Of luxury for her bath
a pretty pastel flowered mitt with
powder-saturated palm that fiuffs
the powder out pleasantly when she
pats 1t on after her bath.
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BEAUTY FROM WITHIN-The
greatest beauty Is the beauty from
within. So the best gift idea OF all
Is War bond-and both you and
she will glow with the knowledge
that you have contributed another
bit to your country and to victory.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Dorothy Dix Says

clothes, which would be bait on
their hooks when they were fishing
for husbands, camouflage for their
anatomical defects, and an unfailing
source of interest and pleasure dur
ing all the vicissitudes Of life.
mo woman with passable figure
and good dress shop around the
corner need be as homely as Nature
made her, and that is one reason
why women concentrate on clothes
SO much. Another is that clothes do
more than the highest moral prin-
ciples to keep up their morale. No
woman degenerates into a wilmer
and a complainer who has a brand
new swanky frock in the closet. She
puts 1t on and flaunts herself before
her dearest enemies. Many ply
slams now doctor their neurotic
patients out Of Vogue instead OF the
medical books, for they have found
that frills can be as good remedy
for what ails a woman as pills.
Instead Of men turning a critical
eye upon women's interest in
clothes, they should regard it as a
special dispensation of Providence
IN their behalf, for it enables them
to find out what sort of wife a girl
will make in time to take her. or
leave her. For by their dress We
shall know them. If girl is as neat
as pin at 9 o'clock in the morning.
with every hair in its place and
every button in its place and her
skirts hanging just so, she will make
meticulous =housekeeper who will
sweep under the beds, keep budget,
and have meals always on time.
But if she comes down to break
fast without bothering to wash of
the cold cream or comb her hair,
and if her skirts always hike up
in the front and down in the back,
and If she generally looks as if she
needed to be run through the laun-
dry, beware of her. She will make
slovenly housekeeper who will
throw half you make into the gar
bage can and poison you with her
cooking. And so on and so forth.
For a woman may disguise bad
complexion with makeup; she NAV
distract your attention from her I. @.
by her cute tricks, but she gives
herself away by the way she dresses.
For as woman's clothes are, so
Is she. Take the tip"
Evening star., 1943-11-30
By Peggy Roberts

Even swing music will some day
be called old fashioned and people
will poke fun at it, just as today
we look with kindly humor on yes
terdays foibles. These Gay Nine
ties" scenes, for example, are like
little glints of sunshine that you
can scatter around the house, on
towels, cocktail napkins, luncheon
sets-or how about little pictures,
framed in the old-fashioned way by
placing them between glass and
cardboard and running tape around
the edges?
Send II cents (coin for Pattern
No. 1865 to Needle Arts Department,
Washington Star, P. o. Box 172, Sta
ton D, New York 3, N. Y.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

"A man VINO says ne mas q Vile
and daughter (and you can bet that
he not only possesses these treas
ures, but that the bills for fall mil
linery had just come IND asks me If
I can explain why all women, young
and old, pretty and ugly, suffer
from a clothes complex.
Says he: why do men and wom-
en- differ so in their attitude to-
wards clothes? The average man
takes clothes in his stride, so tc
speak. He wants to be neatly and
appropriately dressed and as much
like other men as possible. He Is
satisfied If he has few good suits
but woman wants to have or
something that will knock out the
eye Of the beholder. She would
rather have on a shroud than a
dress that is exactly like what all
the other women are wearing and
no matter how many frocks she
has, she never has enough.
THE papers say that the Duchess
OF Windsor never goes to spenc
even a night at place without
taking along 35 trunks and 40 bags
of clothes, and even then it is dol.
lars to doughnuts that she is always
telling the Duke that she has moth.
ing to wear.
Il often wonder" goes on this
man, pursuing what is evidently
his pet grievance, IF an autopsy
on a females head doesn't show
that woman's brain has appli-
| ques down the middle and is frillec
around the edges with lace ruffles
For how else can you explain the
fact that, no matter what else hap.
pens to woman in life, clothes are
her main preoccupation? They are
the things she thinks about most
reads about most, and that are o1
the most real heart interest to her
Maybe the reason that women
haven't achieved more in the worlo
is because they have spent so much
time trying to decide what they
would wear while they were doing
great deeds that they didn't have
leisure left in which to do 'em. Any
way, why do women put so much
more stress on clothes than men
do?"
"Oh. that's easy to explain" ]
replied. Men don't give much
thought to their clothes because
nobody could get all steamed UP
and excited over the tubular gar
ments they nave wished on them
selves for centuries, but when it
comes to dealing with gay chiffons,
that's another story.
'Of course, the poor things are
making an effort now to break into
the feminine wardrobe in going
about in decollete shirts and pink
and blue and purple suits, but when
you see you see he-man, who looks
like wrecked rainbow, exposing his
scrawny neck or triple chins to ar
unfeeling public, you can't help
thinking that he looks as grotesque
as women do in slacks.
But the reason that women give
so much time and thought to theil
clothes is because they are smart
If you will recall, the very first
thing that Mother Eve did after she
took her first bite of the apple
under the Tree of knowledge was te
60 out and make herself dress
And don't forget it had a skirt. Anc
the secret that she impaired to hel
granddaughter was that while she
had lost them good home, she hao
given them compensation ir
Evening star., 1943-11-30

till light. Add milk and salt and
fold in the stifdy beaten egg whites
Pour into skillet In which the butter
has been melted. Cook slowly till
puffed and slightly Drowned. Put In
slow oven 300 degrees a few mo-
ments to dry the top. Spread halt
of omelet with hot chopped broc.
coli, fold other half over it and turn
onto platter. Melt cheese in top OF
double boiler, add one-third cup
milk gradually. Stir constantly till
smooth. Garnish omelet with whole
heads Of hot cooked broccoli and
serve with cheese sauce.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Readers Clearing House

II get half the response others get
I'll be more than satisfied
I would like to have q low-in-
shortening recipe for cookies to be
put through q cookie press. I've
made them several Christmases ir
the past. but the only recipe I have
calls for q cup Of butter! I do hope
that some one can help me.
I would also like any recipes fol
hard candy. I had a wonderful
one for cinnamon drops, but I can
not find it anywhere.
I have found the Readers Clear
ing House" to be invaluable and
hope I can depend on 1t for many
more years.
WORD OF WARNING.
FAT SALVAGE;
SHEET ECONOMY.
THANKS to Mrs. Z. w., Arlington. J
Mrs. s. j. F.'s ideas for aluminium
rugs and mittens sound well, but ]
must add my personal warning
against cleaning silver by any
process except hand rubbing with a
good silver paste. It Is true the
chemical processes will remove the
tarnish, but 1t leaves the silver with
a metallic chromiumlike finish
Nothing takes the place Of rubbing
rubbing and more rubbing on sterl-
ing; that is why old silver has such
lovely patina. It is the same diff
ference as that between furniture
that is rubbed to a polish, and one
on which polish Is achieved by
painting on shellac. 1 find I can
keep my fiat silver looking well
without too frequent general" rub
bings, by keeping swab in my silver
drawer impregnated with silver
paste polish. When. our breakfast
eggs stain fork tines or spoon,
merely whisk the swab over them
before wiping and 1t removes the
tarnish In q jiffy. The slight damp
ness on the silver is just enough to
bring out the cream on the swah
which dries into the cloth while
lying in the drawer.
I think general household "ef-
flciency" ideas are swell. Let's have
more people following Mrs. S. J. F.'s
lead!
In regard to less waste fat being
turned in, perhaps other women are
doing as do. Previously used to
turn all my fat into waste, but now,
encouraged by propaganda" I save
much of the clear beef fat from my
roasts and reuse it myself, render
ing that for waste which has no
further reuse. I believe that is just
as patriotic, as it avoids having to
buy as much shortening as other
wise.
My own invention for crib sheets
that many of my friends have
adopted: make them out of new
sheeting or our old sheets. Make
them about ~ times the length OF
the mattress. Put the sheet on the
crib with the usual tuck-in at the
bottom and the extra tucked under
the other end. Then. when the baby
stains a small spot on the sheet, it
can be pulled down. With laundry
problems what they are, it is real
saving not to have a sheet a day
for the baby. Even If you do your
own laundry, it Is not any more
difficult to wash the extra length.
Your column is grand.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
(Th1nks to Mrs. J. J. M,
WdShfnut0n.

In response to a request for ways
Of serving broccoli, we like it this
way: Grind or chop the broccoli,
add salt, pepper, onion salt or finely
chopped onion, mix with q raw egg
and add bread crumbs so that mix
ture is moist but not too wet. Bake
for 20 minutes in 375 or 400 degree
oven.
Here are two other easy and de-
licious recipes:
Raw Cranberry Relish: pound
cranberries, 2 oranges, 2 cups sugar
Put cranberries and orange through
food chopper, add sugar and mix
This Is really very good served with
meats as well as poultry. We like
it better than cranberry sauce or
jelly.
Sweet Potatoes in Orange Cups
Cut oranges in half and remove
the juice and pulp. Mix " cup of
the juice with 2 cups mashed sweet
potatoes, u teaspoon salt and
tablespoons butter. Fill the orange
halves with this mixture and bake
in hot oven, 400 degrees, about Is
minutes.
(Thanks to Mrs. A. L. H., Arlington
To the reader who has so much
broccoli, try cream of broccoli soup.
It's delicious! I use the tough ends
and outer leaves from a bunch, cook
till tender, then put through food
mill and add to very thin white
sauce. A bit of beef broth can be
added for flavor
To the reader who cleans her
silver in soda and hot water bath
may I say that the plating company
who replated the family service
which was worn down to the bare
metal said it was the soda bath
which ate the silver away?
ADDRESS REQUESTED.
IT Mrs. v. K. Arlington, ,Dill
send her complete address, We
,Diu be happy to send her the in
formation she reQuested.)
X X X X
COOKIES:
HARD CANDY.
REQUESTED BY Mrs. A. H.,
Washington.)
This is my first request for help,
but it undoubtedly won't be my last
Evening star., 1943-11-30
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
SHEET ECONOMY.

We 1Dish to thank Mrs. M. M,
Vienna, Va, for her gingerbread
recipe, and Mrs. /. J. w., Arling-
ton, for her Brunswick ste,D, both
OF 1Dhich similar to recipes al
ready submitted.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
MEAT SUBSTITUTE;
PINEAPPLE TOPS

| (1HQnES 10 MTS. II. 6. H.,
Washington
In appreciation for the help and
enjoyment I've derived from the
Readers Clearing House, am SUBJ
mitting a recipe that I have found
a treasure since meat rationing.
Mushroom Medley: ~ pound fresh
mushrooms, ~ cups milk, "a cup
American cheese (grated), hard
boiled eggs, 3 tablespoons butter, 8
tablespoons -four, tablespoon
chopped parsley (may be omitted)
salt and pepper to taste.
Melt the butter in a skillet, then
add the mushrooms (peeled and
quarteredD. Saute covered for five
minutes. Now add the flour, mix
we'll, then add the milk gradually,
while stirring, and cook until thick.
Add the cheese, seasonings and the
eggs (cut into eights lengthwise)
Serve over toast, or with waffles, and
then you have a rich, satisfying
meat substitute.
! My recipe book is fairly bulging
these days with the many long
sought-for' recipes CLEAN from the
Readers Clearing House. Was so
delighted with my fruit cake made
over the recipe given by Mrs. w.
w. c., Alexandria, for Shenandoah
Valley Fruit Cake" It's all its
sponsor claimed it to be, so moist
and f1avorful and cuts perfectly
without crumbling. For currants, !
substituted white raisins, used y
cup each of pineapple and cherry
preserves. The latter added lovely
bit of color to the cake. Treasured
also is the recipe for Never Fail
Caramel Icing" submitted by Mrs
N. G. w., Arlington. My husbands S
favorite icing, caramel, yet for years
I've had such uncertain results from
various recipes, I'd about given up
The delight on hubby's face when
served up the Never Fail Caramel
Icing" was a JOY to remember.
fear my letter is much too long
already, but I do so want to relate
my experience with pineapple tops
planted top, complete with cone
IN dirt and placed the pot on a small
table where no sun reached it. It
grew beautifully and resembled a
lovely palm. Then I decided to
transfer it to a larger pot, and that
ended Its career-it died. Now !
have smaller pineapple shoot
growing. 1t was tiny, only 11a inches
tall, when I planted it, but has
grown to inches in that many
months.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

Housewives - Save your bacon
drippings and grease the skids to
launch the Axis on the sea Of
oblivion.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
HELP MEN (Continued) .

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ADply Sidney Lust Theaters. No. Thomas
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mac1 Sunaays; Ix.S GOOD pay and meals Tower Phar-
PoKrER, coiored oEa 50 for NH hlgh-class restsu.
4is si9t; ,afS fSod 4 nay; : good meals. WeaTisys
PORTER, coiored. at once; very good salary
9 t11It fSl 81 sSSe sgSsrs Drug Store $500
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hour: hour: steady work. Shepherd Park Valet.
SOBER. reliable men for pipe filters. help
srs, WORKING 70 hrs. per wk.. paid for IS
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SODA iaE s2s fo2 et5 st sS drug
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HFHoLsTERfsss Hfs LesaaEERsss an aad siSs sp cover
good working conditions: high vases:
steady work now and postwar. j. Eclo&er
UTILITY MAN. white. with some knowing.
Of plumbing, heating and electrical ":
good salary and 2-bedroom ept hpp'y
ave. and Woodley rd NV
vULCANIZERS, experienced on PASSENGER
car and truck tires. essential work: excel
lent salary and working conditions 4O-br.
week; time and a half for overtime: car-
tihcate Of availability necessary Ben
Hrndlpy. 3446 l4th St NV
WINDOW CLEANERS. Nichols and Dan.
bury SIS. s:w. See Mr. Baker
YOUNG MEN free to travel with manager;
good pay. RIM. 424 Bond Bldg
Gas Station Attendants
Service Station. 1905 New Jersey ave NV.
Gal NH-H
Evening star., 1943-11-30
TOMATO PRESERVE;
MERINGUE.
Thanks to Mrs. w. A. ~,
WnShinnfon

1n answer to M. M. c. of Airing.
ton as to tomato preserves beine
dark instead of pretty tomato colol
as they should be: This is due te
making too large a quantity at ont
time or not using enough sugar
You will find that adding a whole
lemon cut in very thin slices OF
coarsely ground in a food chopper
will add to the flavor and also make
it very pretty in the glass. .
AS to beads" forming on me.
ringue, the oven is either too hot OF
too cool. The oven must be 35(
degrees when you put the meringut
in and it should be left to brown
from 20 to 30 minutes without open.
ing the door more than once neal
the end.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
YOTJNG MEM

II you have had some college training.
preferably in civil engineering, and are
interested IN becoming an assistant to a
several hundred men under his supervision.
write, giving your qualifications An inter.
mo- to start, with excellent opportunity
for advancement. Work will involve pay
TOLL record keeping, personnel, ETC. Box
400-D, Star
Evening star., 1943-11-30
TONGUE RECIPES.

TONGUE RECIPES.
(ReQuested by Mrs. E. H. r.,
HyattsDille.)
I would like to see some sugges-
tions on the preparation and use OF
smoked tongue, also instructions for
picking fresh tongue.