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Evening star., 1946-02-26

IN many moon. There are fewer
limitations to the fashionable die
tates Of hair styles this season
The rage to clip of hair short as a
minute and fuzz it with curls has
passed. The great high pompadours
are over. The fashion to draw the
hair straight back from the brow
and knot 1t tightly at the back of
the neck has become modified. So
now for the hair styles that ask only
that you be your prettiest, natural
self.
Many Of the new coiffures are
modelled along Grecian, classical
lines, for. after all, simplicity is be-
coming prettiness for most women.
However, there's no harm, II the
classical, in the strictest sense Of the
word, is too severe for your features,
to soften it up bit with wide waves
or a mild form Of the pompadour.
Anything goes in this regard, so long
as 1t is nothing that adds so much
height or fuss that 1t doesn't 20
well beneath your new hat.
Many hair-do's as you may have
observed, have been dreamed up this
season explicitly for the purpose OF
being fetching under your Easter
bonnet. If your head of hair doesn't
conform to this ruling, it's time tc
take steps. Get to work with brush
and comb and hand mirror-and ex-
Evening star., 1946-02-26

make you pretty under hats. They
will smooth up your hair-do idea
into correctly styled plan. They'll
teach you how to comb and brush
your new coiffure between sham.
pooing sessions. Be sure, though
that you have their undivided at.
tention and that they have you,
best interests at heart. Don't be
talked into a fancy, much becurcled
hair-do, that turns out to look
scarcely like hair at all, and that
surely would never go under any
hat you ever saw.
Remember, that with many hats
this spring, your hair plays q part
IN the very design Of them. There
are open-crown chapeaux which ex-
pose your shining pate or bright
curls. Here's a hat season when
It's dire necessity that you keer
your hair radiantly clean, brushed
within an inch of its life and into
a dazzling sheen. It's a season
when every hair on your head must
be kept neatly in line. This is
easily done if you smooth a bit OF
hair lacquer around the edges. Garry
a baby brush tucked in your bae
and when you comb your hair
sweep this soft little brush up your
back hair to make it neat ane
smooth. Even the smartest hal
on earth will be overlooked If /,
rides. atop a messy, careless-look
ing coiffure.
Evening star., 1946-02-26
What Is
Wrong?
By A neelo Pafri

Something Is wrong somewhere
Jackie gets low mark In spelling
every day, every single day. It can't
be possible. Every night hear him
spell every word In his list until he
has them perfect. The next day he
comes home with the same failure.
What Is it?"
The trouble Is that Jackie spells
orally at home and in school he
must spell in writing, two different
things. Children must learn to write
their spelling words as well as spell
them aloud. We spell words SO as
to be able to write them. We don't
spell words as we talk to people. In
teaching spelling make sure that the
child recognizes the words by sight,
that he pronounces them clearly
and correctly, and then that he
writes them correctly from dictation,
then from memory. Any child
should be able to remember five
spelling words and write them per-
fectly. That is the way he should
know them.
Home teaching is not always done
the best way. Mothers who have to
teach their children at home, or feel
that they must, should get in COM
Imunication with the teacher and
learn how she does the work and do
lit that way lest confusion he bred in
the child's mind. "She don't do It
that way" is SO often the child's
lament when father or mother
tries to help with his homework. It
Is easy to find how "she" does it and
so make life happier for the child
concerned.
Teaching reading is one practice
that demands the cooperation of
the child's teacher. The reading
must be taught from the book the
child uses in school and by the same
method the teacher follows or there
will be trouble, time lost, and no
progress worth the trouble.
Reading involves more than say
ing the words. With the beginners
the method must include practice
in phonetics, sight reading, recogni-
ton, Of sight words, phrases, SEN
tences, each as wholes. These are
then woven into the reading lesson.
After that the child must be asked
to state the meaning of what he has
read. Let him use his own words,
accept the simple, even crude, ex-
pressions, but make sure he has the
correct meaning. This ability to get
the ideas that are in the printed
words is the sole reason for reading.
Failure in that respect is failure
indeed
There should be few occasions
calling for home teaching, but when
they arise, the teachers help is es-
sential to success.
Evening star., 1946-02-26

Any day now thereU come that
moment when you find yourself
wandering through a store and sud-
denly your eye lights upon the mil
linery department spring hats
Everything looks gay as flowers and
breathes of spring. You won't be
able to resist. First thing you know,
there you'll be, seated before the
mirror, trying on spring bonnets.
The chances are two to one that
right then and there the blow will
fall. Those darling, springy looking
hats look better OFF your head
than on. And, the fault is all be-
cause your hair Is just all wrong!
Well, whose fault is that? FASH
ions, you say? But you ask for
fashion and then when you get it,
what? Why is it that women who
cater to the dictates of fashion,
maybe even to the extent of a new
dress every month or SO, still per-
sist In crying out when fashion
asks that they change the way they
wear their hair? Feminine psy-
chology is strange thing-no one
Is going to analyze it here and now,
but here and now is the time to look
into this hat m hair situation
quick before spring hits town for
good!
Having leveled our sights on what
we choose to think are the facts
about spring hair styles, we'd say
they're prettier than they have been
Evening star., 1946-02-26
Dorothy Dix Says

The common belief is that only
women suffer from heart-hunger.
Men are supposed to be immune
from it and to be 50 absorbed in
their careers or their amusements
that they do not bother about the
state of their affections and can
take love, or leave it, without its af-
fecting their temperatures, whereas
women starve to death if they are
not fed on tenderness and apprecia-
ton.
However this may be, it Is certain
that women make the loudest out
cry over their feelings. In particu-
lar, the chief crouch of wives Is that
their husbands have dropped all the
technique Of courtship and no longer
send them flowers and tell them how
beautiful and wonderful they are or
even give them q kiss that isn't
favored with ham and eggs and that
Is Just as likely to land on their
back hair as on their lips.
Because husbands have not beaten
upon their breasts and called for a
vote of public sympathy when their
wives discontinued all of their blan-
dishments at the altar, it has been
assumed that they didn't mind just
being taken for granted and being
regarded as meal tickets instead of
romantic heroes. Probably not one
wife in q dozen ever realizes that
what her husband Graves more than
anything else in the world Is for
her to fuss over him and baby him
and make him feel that he is the
greatest thing in the world to her
instead of just household con-
venience.
Yet husbands do feel that way,
and to this column come an un-
ending stream Of letters from des-
perately unhappy men who are mar
ried to women who have ceased to
love them, If they ever did, and who
show them no tenderness or affec-
ton or never even pay them a COM
pliment: who do not disguise from
their husbands that they bore them
Evening star., 1946-02-26
NUTRITION CLASSES.
From Mrs. r. B. NJ, Jr.,


The RICH fills very great need
OF homemakers, both experienced
and those who are just starting out
Many times I have benefited by
household hints and recipes con-
tributed. I would like to pass on
some information for those inter-
ested in learning how to feed their
families with the most nutritious
food possible. Last fall I attended
q nutrition class given by the Nu-
triton Service, D. G. Chapter of the
Red Cross, and found it most in
teresting and instructive. Like
many homemakers, with some
years of experience, I had fallen
into somewhat of a rut, regarding
meal planning and marketing, and
these classes helped me to form
a new pattern which I am sure
has benefited my family and myself
1t occurred to me that perhaps
many women do not know of this
opportunity for instruction, and
would like to avail themselves of the
classes offered. I have been ad-
vised that new class is starting
on February 81 and will run un-
til March 20, classes will be held
at Walsh House, 2020 Massachusetts,
avenue NV. on Wednesday and Fri
day mornings, 10 to IL O'Clock. For
those who are unable to attend day.
time classes, there is one to be held
in the evenings at Walsh House,
starting today and ending March
%. These classes will be held
from 7:30 to $50 pm. Tuesday and
Thursday evenings. All classes are
free of charge. A phone call to
Hobart $500 will bring you any ad-
ditional information desired.
Evening star., 1946-02-26

pertinent for the new and right ef-
fects. If you've been wearing your
hair long and mane-like for ages
try 1t swept up and knotted on
top now that spring Is almost here
II you've worn your hair up and
in curls on top for ever so long
then brush all that down and try
the eject Of 1t smoothly waved to
frame your face and drawn down
into a smooth roll behind your ears.
When you finally hit on a new ap-
proach to this hair-do business,
check to make sure that it looks
equally well from ALL angles, II
it looks well from the front, but
ruins your profle-that's not IT.
II your face looks round as the
moon, that's no good either. Work
away until you get just the right
effect. Sweep ribbons of your hair
simply of your brow and anchor
them at the nape Of your neck in
smooth puffs, braids or loose curls
Pin those dangling curls right on
the crest Of your shining head
la Venus de Milo.
When you finally arrive at some
thing that looks just right for you
take that notion to the beauty shop
and get some expert advice. Ex-
plain to them that you love hats
and that what you're after is a
way OF wearing your hair that will
Evening star., 1946-02-26

A trio of gay and CHEEKY aprons
to brighten your tasks. You can
have tie cover-up bib style or a
short tie-on, whichever you like.
Use pretty dowered or dotted fab
RIGS and trim with cherry appliques
made from scraps.
BARBARA Bell Pattern No. 1455 is
designed for sizes IA, 16, 18, 20, 40,
AZ and A. Size Is, ric-rac apron,
requires IA yards of IS or SO inch
fabric; binding trim, 15s yards; tie
on, yard.
For this pattern, send 20 cents in
coins, your name, address, pattern
number and size wanted to Barbara
Bell, The Washington Star, P. o.
Box SO, Station G, New York 10,
N. Y.
Evening star., 1946-02-26

and that the only interest tney nave
in them is In the money they earn.
Probably most Of these wives who
are crucifying their husbands by
their indifference to them are not
intentionally cruel. They think
that their husbands don't care, that
their husbands don't mind being
left alone for months at a time
when they go off to pleasure resorts,
that their husbands don't feel cut to
the quick when they are the only
ones who fail to congratulate them
upon some success.
And, anyway, the average wife
who neglects her husband generally
drifted into it when the first baby
was born and since then, she never
has seen him as man, but as the
slave who provides comforts and
luxuries for her and her children.
All of her time, her interests, her
kisses and caresses go to the young
sters and Papa doesn't even get a
pat on the head for bringing home
the bacon.
Women bring on themselves many
of the sorrows from which they suf-
fer by their failure to be lovers after
marriage. For marriage does not
any more eliminate a mans desire
for praise and appreciation and
some evidence that his wife still
thinks him a world wonder than it
does a woman's craving to have her
husband continually assure her that
in his eyes she is still Miss America.
Few men ever wander away in
search of the other woman whose
wives make them daily and hourly
conscious Of their affection and who
feed them on the home flattery that
is the headiest brew in the world.
Nothing is truer than that love
makes the world 60 round, espe-
cially in marriage, and there would
be less divorce and not so many
middle-aged men with stomach
ulcers II women realized that before
marriage men do the courting, but
after marriage wives have to do it.
Evening star., 1946-02-26
Why Grow Old?
BY Josephine Lowman

Slowly lower legs and arms to fiool
to starting position. Continue. Keel
the knees straight and stretch out
making yourself as long as you can
when you return arms and legs to
floor.
4.Sit on the floor Lean back un-
til your body weight falls directly
over the largest part of your hips.
Lift both legs and roll from side to
side, catching yourself with your
hands on each side.
II you think these are sissy, try
them and see what happens!
If you wish to have my short rou-
tine, especially planned for men,
leaflet No. 20, send a stamped, self
addressed envelope with your request
for it. If you want calorie chart
too, ask for leaf1et No. 36. Address
Josephine Lowman, in care of The
Evening Star.
Evening star., 1946-02-26
Readers Clearing House


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must be accompanied by the
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We will withhold both and use
only initials. Please address
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House, Woman's Page, The
Evening Star. Washington 4.
Views expressed in the Clear
ing House are not necessarily
those of The Star, and as it is
obviously impossible for us to
test all recipes submitted, we
cannot assume responsibility for
them.
Betsy CasyeH
Evening star., 1946-02-26

The most annoying and familiar
figure fault Is the well-known bay
window. Today, just to help the
men who read why Grow Old" (or
whose wives read it,, am going to
outline three exercises. These make
a splendid short routine.
/. Stand tall. Raise the arms
sideways, shoulder height. Keep the
elbows straight as you make small
circles with your arms. Circle for q
while forward and then backward.
2. Arms in same position. Lower
the arms slightly. Raise them again
Continue down and up, straight
elbows. Arms should move only q
distance Of about 6 inches.
3. Lie on your back with your legs
straight and your arms on the floor
overhead. Raise both legs and both
arms at the same time. Touch the
hands to the feet or legs if possible
Evening star., 1946-02-26
By Peggy Roberts

These charming kittens, posing fol
their pictGfe, in filet crochet, COM
bine beauty with protective useful
ness and will prove very easy and
interesting to make.
Pattern envelope contains flet-
crochet diagrams of easy-to-see dot
in square method; also full direc-
tionS.
Send Is cents (coin) for Pattern
No. R2370 to Needle Arts Dept, The
Washington Star, o. Box 172, Sta
ton D, New York 3, N. Y. Please
include your postal zone number.
Evening star., 1946-02-26
BETTER MASHED POTATOES;
LEMON CHEESE.

fFrom Mrs. B. D., Arlington.)
The flavor of mashed potatoes Is
increased If a medium sized onion
Is cooked with them and mashed ur
in them when they are done.
use the liquid from the potatoes and
onion to make Tny gravy because
IT gives 1t better flavor. I flno
that additional seasoning is rarely
needed and thf gravy is tastier
especially when il is made from pork
Evening star., 1946-02-26
STORING FOODS.
FUDGE RECIPEP

From Miss E. A. B., SilDer Spring J
Here is my suggestion to Mrs. R,
B. L. about storing food after ii
has been opened. Raisins are kept
well in the refrigerator. Honey and
sirup are kept very well in cup
board and are much easier to USE
as they do not become hard.
I have a scrapbook that I an
keeping recipes in. Most Of those
I have are from the RICH. ] woulc
like very much to have a recipe
for good chocolate fudge. Coulo
any one help me?
Evening star., 1946-02-26
LEATHERETrE COVER?

(From Mrs. r. A., Wdshington.)
Could some one tell me how to re-
move the discoloration from a burn
on a cream-colored leatherette seat
cover? I have tried to cover it with
white shoe polish, but this was not
very effective
Evening star., 1946-02-26
CHINESE EGG ROLLS.
From Mrs. B. B.,
Tnko711n Park Md

To make 10 of them. Beat "a cup
water, 8 ggs, l teaspoon salt with
rotary beater. Sift one cup flour
into a bowl, and gradually pour the
egg mixture into it, beating until
smooth with rotary beater. Light
ly grease a frying pan about
inches in diameter with oil or fat
Heat over moderate flame. Pour
in enough batter to make a very
thin layer on the bottom of the pan
Cook on one side only, over a mod
crate flame for just one minute
merely enough to hold 1t together
Remove from pan and cool thor
oughly on a fiat surface. Repeat
until all batter is used.
The filling may vary according to
what you have on hand-but shrimp
and some meat and vegetables are
always included. You might for IL
rolls use about tablespoons each oi
Evening star., 1946-02-26
which usually makes a very bland

which usually makes a very bland
gravy.
Here is an Old English recipe I
got from my mother. Although the
amount of the ingredients needed
sound rather extravagant now, 1t is
very nice to make when things be-
come more plentiful. It is called
lemon cheese, although it has moth
ing to do with cheese. It is a very
nice filling to put in tarts made
from leftover pie crusts. I often
make a whole batch of pie crusts
into lemon cheese and raspberry
jam tarts. It can also be used in
place of the jelly in jelly rolls or
spread on toast, although I think
it tastes better If it is cooked a
second time as 1t is when used in
tarts. When making the tarts, the
pastry shell should be very shallow
and cooked before the filing is
put in, then put in the oven for a
short time again. Lemon Cheese !:
Five or six eggs, beaten, large or
3 small lemons, grated rind and
juice; "a pound butter, l pound
sugar. Put all ingredients in top
of double boiler and cook until thick,
about the consistency of prepared
puddings when done, stir frequently.
This makes about / quart and may
be kept about a month If stored
in the refrigerator.
Evening star., 1946-02-26
CAKE FOR FIFTY;
SOIIR CREAM RECIPE

From Mrs. T. C. L., BethesdaJ
For Mrs. c. A. K, who requested
sheet cake for so persons:
One cup shortening, 6 cups su-
gar, 8 egg yolks, cups -four, 21a
teaspoons salt, tablespoons bak-
ing powder, cups milk, 8 ounces
unsweetened chocolate, table,
spoon vanilla, 9 egg whites.
Cream shortening, sugar, and egg
yolks together. Mix and sift flour,
salt and baking powder, and add
alternately with the milk to the
first mixture. Add melted choco-
late and vanilla and beat thor
oughly. Fold in stifily beaten egg
whites. Pour into creased shallow
pans and bake in moderate oven
$50 degrees 20 to 80 minutes. When
cool, cover with any desired frosting.
Serves so. The above is copied from
cook book, and I have never
tried it.
Several days ago a reader re-
quested recipes using sour cream.
The following cake was in great de-
mand by all our friends. Few
guessed that it was quite economical
Gin pre-rationing days, that Isl.
One-half cup shortening, IL
cups sugar, 4 tablespoons cocoa, l
cup sour milk or cream, or butter
milk (evaporated milk soured with
lemon or vinegar works, but not as
we'll as the real thing, N cup
strong hot coffee, teaspoon baking
soda, rounded slightly, 2 cups -four,
/ teaspoon salt 1--WE used less about
II teaspoon, teaspoon vanilla.
Cream shortening, sugar and cocoa
together Add the sour milk and
beat well. Dissolve the soda in the
hot coffee, let foam up and pour
over the sugar mixture, gradually.
Add the -four and salt which have
been sifted together, beating until
smooth after each addition. Add
flavoring, and pour batter into two
creased layer cake pans. Bake
about Is minutes in moderate oven
$50 degrees. The soda always
seemed to work better If rounded
(not heaping) measurement was
used instead of level. My mother
also added about " cup Of flour, as
she liked a sitter batter, however,
have had better success with Just
two cups of flour. I am including
this information, which may seem
indefinite, for the benefit of those
people who may think the batter
looks runny and thin for cake.
With this we used emergency or
powdered sugar frosting and the
preferred f1avoring was lemon Juice.
OF course, chocolate frosting, or
vanilla are good, too, but the lemon
frosting somehow seemed to taste
best
Evening star., 1946-02-26
Chest Cold Misery
Relieved by Moist Heat
Of ANTIPhLOcI

....>. The N o1sf Reaf OF an
SsssrLe ANTIPHEOCTSTlN
CHEST COLD poulties relieves cough.
eonc ruooar tightnsss u ekssst, msascls
JUNE thHVHt soreness due to Ghost
BRONCHIAL cold, bronchial irritation
,pc,rAr,nn and simple sore throat
.,..,.s Apply ANTIPHLoCIS-
SsMPtt TINE poulties just hot
spRAlN eRljlSE enough to b. comfort.
eo.r .s,,cc, r. abls-then feel the ntolst
eOMe ""s'1.S hest 90 right 10 work on
yo9S that cough, tightnsss of
ehest, muscle sorsnsss.
Ooss GOOD, fssls good fer several hours.
The n,sist heat Of IN ANTIPHLo oClSTINE
pouItics .lse relieves pain -. reduces
swelhng, limbsrs mp sti6 aching muscles
lus to . simple boil. sprain, bruiss, similar
Injury or condition. Get ANTIPHLOCIS
FINE (Aunty Flo) In suks OF can ae IN,
lvsae assrs NOW.
Evening star., 1946-02-26
COOKER RECIPES

Some one asked for recipes to use
In a heavy aluminium waterless
cooker. No special ones are required.
Simply prepare the vegetables or
fruit as you would to cook with
water, but omit the water and allow
about double as long to cook, over
very low flame. No peeking-it
allows the steam to escape which
helps the cooking. Potatoes are
best cooked in the skins, then may
be mashed.
Evening star., 1946-02-26
DOLLS FOR EURoPE2

From, Mrs. C. B. T., Alexandria J
Can any one tell me the name
and the address of the woman who
dresses dolls to send to Europe:
In moving I am discarding severa
dolls, though not in very good con-
dition, and some doll clothes.
X X X
REAL ITALIAN SPAGHETTI?
From Mrs. A. r. w.,
Yorktown Village, Md)
Can some one supply a really
good recipe for Italian spaghetti
Not the sweetish sort of sauce
one so often encounters, but a rich
rather tart and flavorfu sauce
with meat. Also some suggestions
for a supper menu when spaghetti
Is the main dish. What about some
ideas for antipasto. for instance
and perhaps good Italian des-
Sert?
Evening star., 1946-02-26
JUNKET.

From Mrs. F. L. M, Alexandria. J
I believe Mrs. w. H. DeL.'s trouble
with her junket Is that the milk Is
not the proper temperature. Junket
is very temperamental and the milk
must be good and warm-not hot
I found If I didn't get the milk
really warm it would be watery
The finger test Is the safest way to
tell, although not so sanitary.