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Evening star., 1948-07-02
ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

From Mrs. G. w. G., Jr., BoliUar. J
I want to thank Mrs. r. T. G.,
Washington, for her advice on re-
moving the red spots from my dress.
All the spots disappeared and the
dress is as good as new.
To Mrs. r. S. O., Arlington: Buy
tube of iron rust soap at any
drug store. Try some of it on a
small piece of the material first. 1t
will not remove the color unless the
dyes used contain iron.
To the lady asking about chiffon
cakes, they are delicious. At first
I thought it was a lot of trouble
to make one because I have been
spoiled by the one bowl method,
but they are worth the extra time,
because they can be used in so many
ways and are good with or without
icing.
To Mrs. ]. w. G., Falls Church,
in regards to keeping toddlers COW
cred. I have never liked any of the
commercial bags because they con-
fine the child too much, so I made
one out of an old blanket and 1t
has been very satisfactory. The
top of the bag is like gown and
fits snugly almost to the waist. Fold
it over and pin it in the back. The
lower part of the bag is large and
roomy and extends to the foot of
the crib when the child Is lying
down. I suggest pinning the bag
rather than putting in Upper be-
cause 1t can be made to fit the
child at any age and is more COM
Portable. This arrangement allows
the child to turn as much as he
likes, or even to stand up. I have
also found that knitted wool blan-
kets are easier to keep on an ac-
tive child and are warmer than
the average blanket, though lighter
in weight.
While I am on the subject of
babies, I would like to suggest that
all you mothers with problems get
a copy of the book on child care
that is one of the Pocket Books. u
1t can be bought in most dime stores
and is recommended by Parents
Magazine. 1t has such a sensible
and practical approach to child care,
and is written so clearly that any
mother can understand it and apply
its suggestions to her child. There
is also an excellent section on thumb
sucking.
I have taken up too much space
already, but I would like to say how
glad I am that the RICH is in Sun
days paper. Now my Sunday paper
is complete!
X X X X
ALUMINIUM VENETIAN BLINDS
fFrom Mrs. J. R., Arllngton.l
I am thinking of using aluminium
Venetian blinds because of the
choice of colors, but have heard
that aluminium ones are unsatis-
factory
Can some one who has had ex-
perience with aluminium blinds
please let me know whether or not
they have had any trouble with
| thenno
Evening star., 1948-07-02

A handsome two-piecer can be
youthful and smart as this design
proves. Note the unusual button
treatment on the top and the round
neckline that takes so neatly to your
favorite jewelry. Short or three
quarter sleeves are provided in the
pattern.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1914 is
designed for sizes u. IA, Is, 1S, 20;
10 and AZ. Size IA, short sleeve, re-
quires yards of 39-inch fabric.
For this pattern, send Is cents. in
coins, your name, address, pattern
number and size wanted to Barbara
Bell, The Washington Star, P. o.
Box 80. Station G, New York 19,
New York.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Sweet Butter

Sometimes you just can't help hav-
ing cream go sour on you. When this
happens, instead of despairtng, re-
joice. Make your own butter!
Pour the cream into . bowl and
beat it with an ordinary egg beater.
When it whips don't stop-just keep
right on beating, and jill Of a sud-
den you'll find it flattening out and
separating into humps of butter and
buttermilk.
Keep on beating with rotary
beating until all the butter has
formed. and then scrape the butter
of the beater into a bowl of ice
water. Skim out the small humps
Of butter from the bowl with a
SKINNER and put these, too, into
the ice water. Squeeze the butter in
your hands until it is one big lump,
and keep squeezing until all the
water Is out. Then roll the butter
neatly, wrap 1t in wax paper and set
in the icebox. You'll have wonderful
sweet butter and some buttermilk
to drink.
Half q pint of cream will give you
almost q quarter pound Of butter.
Evening star., 1948-07-02

LII l d , IL 1;U lie
For this city,
she says, plays
up its person.
a / i tt S, has
6 la t e t e S,
state functions
and more than
its share Of
beautiful wom-
en- to set of
fashions.
The trouble
with too many
women. how
ever, in WASH
in on. is
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Contributions and requests

Contributions and requests
must be accompanied by the
sender's full name and address.
We will withhold both and use
only initials. Please address
mail to the Readers Clearing
House, Woman's Page, The
Evening Star, Washington 4.
Views expressed in the Clear
ing HoL.se 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., 1948-07-02
Braised Lettuce

If you have too many heads of
lettuce in your garden and are get
ting tired of salads, don't overlook
how good this vegetable is when 1t
Is braised and served hot.
You'll need one head of lettuce for
each person-they cook down amaz-
ingly. They should be cut in half
and then washed thoroughly. Dis
card only the large. tough outer
leaves.
Put a couple Of onions, sliced,
and two or three strips Of bacon in
the bottom of a baking dish, and
put the heads of lettuce On top.
Cover the dish and put 1t in q mod
crate oven for 20 minutes. Then
pour a cup of rich, well seasoned
Evening star., 1948-07-02
By Michel

II " lVA SC"Ck
NEW YORK, N. Y. -. . When I
first started cutting hair short two
and half years ago, the resistance
was terrific. Some of my severest
critics even coined a word for the
short coiffure. They called it mi
chel Shock" Fashion magazines
who first took up the cry had to
plead with models to take the big
step from hanging names to cap
coiffures. The models were afraid
that nobody would hire them un-
less they had long hair. The models
husbands (and, unfortunately, most
have them) were as fierce in their
opposition as any other husbands.
All husbands were pretty adamant
on the subject.
But short hair kept on coming as
fashion inf1uence-not only with
the models but with women every
where. If I had any doubt as to its
popularity. that doubt vanished on
my last trip to Washington. I came
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Recipe Roundup

stock or bouillon over the lettuce
and let cook for IL hours.
Remove the lettuce heads, and let
the liquid boil down to about hall.
Put the lettuce back into the dish
to reheat, and serve with the pot
likker."
Evening star., 1948-07-02
PROBLEM EATER?

From Mrs. E. H. S., Laurel)
My problem concerns my 81
month-old son who refuses to eat
vegetables. However, he loves all
types Of fruit, drinks plenty of milk,
eats lots of bread and butter. He
will not eat cereal for breakfast,
only fruit and milk Eats no lunch
at all except fruit and milk, dinner
is the same. My doctor told me he
needs to be built up and to con-
tinue to offer him vegetables. I
have tried this but to no avail. He
had several spells of sickness during
the winter and since that time he
seems to have no appetite. If any
reader has had this same problem
I certainly would appreciate their
telling me how it was solved.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
STICKING CAKES?

(Fronn Mrs. L. Z. c., Ber10yn.)
Could some one tell me, please,
why part of my cakes stick to the
pan when I turn them out? I have
followed all the rules I can find in
the cookbooks, and although the
patched and repaired cakes are de-
licious, they still come apart. Would
q slightly warped pan cause this?
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Washington
Designers
mo. 6 In a. Series.

mo. 8 IN d SerieS.J
Washington could be a won-
derful fashion center, claims
Trudye Williams. She feels that
Washington has great future
Evening star., 1948-07-02
WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-
TWENTY

From Miss E. Men,, Arington.J
In response to the inquiry from
Mrs. w. C. T., Mclean, in today's
paper, I am inclosing the poem she
wanted. 1t is by A. E. Housman.
When I was one-and-twenty
heard a wise man say.
give crowns and pound and gulneaS,
But not your heart away
Give pearls away and rubles,
But keep your fancy free.
But I was oneandtwenty,
No use to talk TO me.
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again.
THE heart out Of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
"Iis paid with sighs a-plenty
And sold for endless rue"
And I am two-andtwenty.
And oh, It's true, It's true.
The above poem is found in Mod
ern American and British Poetry,
edited by Louis Untermeyer, and
printed in the United States by the
Quinn & Boden Co., Railway, N. j.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
APPLE DUMPLINGS?

From E. C. j., SilDer Spring.
I enjoyed your page so much and
would like to know If any one knows
of a recipe for making dough for
apple dumplings by using boiling
water to mix the dough. I have
seen my mother make it and it is
delicious so tender and light. do
remember she boiled the dumplings.
I wish she was living to tell me
and I was too small then to re-
member. I have asked my sister
but no one seems to know the recipe,
but we think they were cooked in
cloth.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
FUDGY' BROWNIE?

(Fronl Mrs. C. P, Jr., Washington }
Will some one please help me In
getting a real fudgy brownie recipe?
The ones tried seem to be too much
like cake.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Grab Ravisofe

AbHO N"Ss6"e
Crab ravigote is speciality for
Sunday buffet, and here Is how 1t Is
done:
Pick over 2 cups of the best crab
meat, keeping the Jumps as intact
as possible.
Mix together y teaspoon mus
tard, salt and pepper to taste, /
hard cooked egg, chopped fine or
put through q ricer; tablespoon
olive oil, a teaspoon Of minced pars-
sley, a tablespoon of capers and
some of their juice and q tablespoon
Of vinegar. Add the crabmeat and
mix well, but gently.
Arrange the mixture in crab shells
and spread the tops lavishly with
mayonnaise to which a few more
capers, some chopped chives and
parsley, little minced fresh tara
gon and a good dash of lemon juice
and cayenne have been added.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
Garden Broth

~ ~ - - 80 WIZ
That pressure cooker Of yours
comes In mighty handy to make a
wonderful health" drink for your
family. We call it garden broth"
as practically all the ingredients
come right out Of the truck patch"
Put into the pressure cooker Ia
cups Of the chopped stalks and
leaves of celery, a cup Of chopped
raw carrots with their tops, Y cup
of chopped parsley. IL cups shred
ded spinach, 2 tablespoons chopped
onion, l cup chopped tomatoes, and
about 81 cups of cold water. Sea-
son with salt.
Close the cooker. bring 1t to Is
pounds pressure and process for 3
minutes. Strain and chill before
serving.
Evening star., 1948-07-02
SINGEING POULTRY.
QUERIES?

QUERIES?
From Miss M. E. L., Washington J
For Mrs. C. J. E. in Philadelphia
My mother always singed poultry
by making a spill from a piece of
newspaper folding it up fairly
tightly and setting a match to the
end of it,. It's safer If you have
a backyard for this operation, but
if you were to try small pieces at
first SO that you find out how fast
it burns, you should be all right.
Many Of my questions have been
answered in months of reading RICH,
but I have a further one: How can
1 remove q dark stain from an
aluminium pan which was accident
ally left to soak with a household
cleaner in 1t Zone of these non-soap
detergents)?
And another question: How can
an awful mess, caused by letting
fudge burn, be removed? besides
using all my available elbow grease,
that isD
Furthermore goodness, I have
more than I thoughtD what kinds
Of plants will grow on an inside
window sill, with morning sun and
no direct heat? I'm really desperate
for something green, having grown
up in the country, but even my poor
little ivy doesn't seem to do we'll
(From Mrs. H. P. X. Washington.
I should like to tell Mrs. c. j. E.,
Philadelphia, Pa, that use light
ed candle to SINCE poultry. I, too,
discovered that an electric stove
couldn't be used for the job.
X X X X
MOLDY SIRUP?
ANTS IN GARDEN?
From D. A., Washington
Is it all right to use corn sirup
after a mold has formed on top?
How do you keep it from molding?
How can I get rid of some of the
ants in my garden? I have a pet
cat, so it would have to be method
harmless to cats.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
ALIENS:
On the Job

The u. S. is hiring scores of aliens,
many of them in countries behind
the iron curtain, to staff its 27-mil-
lion-dollar international information
program.
Leland j.. Barrows, deputy direc-
tor of the state departments Office
of information and education, told
the senate appropriations commit
tee that the department planned to
add 278 aliens and 60 Americans to
overseas duty by the end of the
1913 fiscal year.
WHAT WILL they do? Barrows
said that the aliens-14 of whom
will be added to the American en-
bassy in Moscow-would be used
primarily as translators, clerks,
messengers and in other work as
ISOLATED with the U. S. foreign in
formation program.
Testimony before the committee
showed that the state department
gained the committees reluctant
approval of its ~foreign-hiring plan,
despite the objections of Chairman
Styles Bridges CR., N. H. who con-
tended that it would provide a fer
tile field for Communist infltration
into government functions.
GEORGE v. ALLEN, assistant
secretary of state, countered that
there were certain jobs that had to
be performed overseas that could
best be done by aliens.
He said aliens could be employed
much cheaper for certain tasks
where they a be watched fairly
easily, wen though Americans may
suspect their loyalty.
This departure from the norm
in the business of hiring federal en-
ployees was a new wrinkle in the
government that very probably will
be attracting considerable public
attention within the next few months.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20

be held in the main Sanctuary
at 7 p. m. every second and
fourth Sundays of the month. The
topics for these meetings are
based upon the Greatest Words
In the Bible" Can you name by
Sunday evening "The hardest
Word In the Bible?" A beauti-
full new Testament will be given
to those who name five in this
series. Come One! Come All!
Tuesday: Junior choir practice
700 p. m.
Senior choir practice 1880 p. m.
Wednesday: Dorcas society meet
ing at 1880. All members are
urged to attend this Halloween
gathering.
Saturday: Prayer meeting.
We extend a hearty welcome
to all who love the Lord to
worship with us. AS we enter
His House let us remember this:
"This is Your Fathers House:
Enter e~xpectantly, feel at home,
breathe pr~ayerfully, relax rest
fully, worship soulfully, greet
others cordially, leave thought
fully.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
DIPLOMACY:
Trip Cancelled

To President Truman, for engi-
neering the abortive deal to send
Chief Justice Fred Vinson to Mos
cow for personal talks with Krem-
lin leaders on the atomic bomb,
went the credit for producing the
most heroically proportioned diplo-
matte faux pas of the year.
1t happened very swiftly and very
simply. Mr.. Truman deciding sud-
denly to try his own hand at
Strengthening out the tangled for
eign mess, started making prepare
tions to send Vinson to Russia.
THEN the state department heard
about it. Robert Lovett, under-sec-
rotary of state, profoundly shocked,
notified George Marshall who came
winging frantically cross the At
lantic from Paris to stop the Presi-
dent from committing what he con-
sidered a blunder of immense
gravity.
The Vinson trip was called off, of
course, and President Truman
backed hastily away from the whole
business after issuing ar abashed
note of explanation.
BUT THE memories fingered on.
MI. Truman, in the minds of those
who knew or thought they knew
about the international situation,
had gone completely beyond the
pale with this momentary, head
strong effort.
His campaign opponent, Gov.
Thomas Dewey, at first wavered be-
tween righteous anger at what he
obviously considered a deliberate
flouting of the established bi-parti-
san foreign policy and citation that
the Democratic candidate had made
such a grievous tactical error.
And although the Dewey camp
was astute enough to realize that
its cause would benefit more if it
magnanimously ignored the affair
than if it leaped in for the slaughter,
it nevertheless rebounds to the New
York governors credit that he did
not take advantage of this interna-
tionally dangerous situation for his
personal gain.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
.ANYTHING NEW
What, No War!

Answers to the question docs
Russia want war;" are a drug on
the market, in informed and unin-
formed circles alike, but now and
then meon comes up with a
reply that is a little more imagi-
native than most.
ONE OF this kind has been fur
nished by an experienced profess
sional diplomat-necessarily anony-
nous lest his identity become
know to the Russians-who is at
tending the U. N. meetings in Paris.
He said:
There will be no war soon. The
reason is that Stain, the head of
the peace party, has just had
Andrei Zhdanov, the head of the
war party, murdered"
CZhdanov, who died several weeks
ago, .yas n of the ranking MEM
bers of the politburo where he was
almost on a par with Molotov in
power and influence. He had been
talked of az a possible successor
to Stain. His demise was mourned
with parades, %pageantry and os-
tentation by Stain, the boys in the
Kremlin and the Russian people.)
HE (ZHDANOV urged immedi-
ate var. He argued that if Russia
was defeated miHtarily she would
win politically, since the resulting
horror and chaos would cause a
new, irresistible wave of commu-
nism.
"As long as Zhdanov was success
full, Stain gave him his head. When
he failed in Yugoslavia, Stain told
him to lay off. Zhdanov defiied the
Soviet generalissimo. So Stain got
his head.
This means that Stalin's waiting
tactics have prevailed. There will
be no war SOON"
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Filth at Penn.
James H. Haueter, Pastor.
Sunday, Oct. "a:
Sunday school 9:45 a. m.
Morning worship, II a. m.
District Supt. A. L. McQuay
will bring the morning message
and present the cause of home
missions.
N. Y. P. S. GAS p. m.
Evangelistic service 1880 p. m.
Monday, Oct. 25:
Evangelistic services 7:45 p. m.
This service will begin a series
of Evangelistic services with Miss
Bertha Pultz of Bethany, Okla.
Miss Pultz is returning for her
second meeting by popular re-
quest and all who heard her last
year will be glad to hear that
she will again be here and speak
ing every night at 7:45 through
November 18th. Don't miss hear
ing this preacher of the old time
gospel. Come the opening night
and every night.
The Friendly Church with a
Vital Message.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
BIG FOUR:
Come Again

While the U. S. state department
was exerting all its influence to pre-
vent a return to direct negotiations
with Russia at this time, the Soviets
were hammering away at the op-
posite course of action by demand
ing that Big Four discussions of the
Berlin issue be resumed.
THE TWO viewpoints, starkly
emphasized by the reception Mr..
Truman's futile mission-to-Moscow
idea received in the U. S., revealed
with extreme clarity the broad gap
now separating the East and West.
Russia's demand wasn't new. 1t
was a repetition of Moscow's now
well-established tactics in East
West relations. What the Soviets
wanted was simply that the Berlin
question be removed from the
agenda of the U. N. security council
and that discussions among the Big
Four be resumed where they were
severed last August in Moscow.
Andrei Y. VlShlnsky, deputy
Soviet foreign minister, handed a
note to that effect to Juan A. Bra
muglia of Argentina. acting presi-
dent of the security council, who
separately informed the U. S., Brit
fish and French delegations.
IT WAS all wasted effort as far
as the western powers Eel con-
cerned. Neither the U. S., Britain
nor France wanted to get within
shouting distance of direct negotia-
tons with the Russians at this point.
One western spokesman COM
mented simply, THE Russian reply
is unhelpful." The Soviets, again,
were making 10 concession to
peace.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
JUST Il FIRE HAZARD
'Suooinq' White House Due for Repairs

commissioner. said a structural
survey is being conducted to de-
termine what repairs are needed.
Large scale Improvements of the
rambling presidential residence will
have to be undertaken, Reynolds
pointed out, because the building
as it now stands is such a fire haz-
ard 1T would not pass the code
of any single responsible city in
America"
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
CHURCHILL:
Grim accents

At the British Conservative
party's annual convention in Liam
dudno, Wales, Winston Churchill,
never a man to deal in fimsy op-
timism when the going was tough,
talked in grim accents about the
worlds peril.
HE WAS the old pre-war, no
appeasement Churchill as he warned
against letting any French breach
appear in the line of western re-
sistance to Soviet drives.
To the United States he said, in
effect: Keep those atomic bombs.
Destruction of the U. S. atomic ar
senal now would be tantamount to
suicide.
IF it we're not for the stocks Of
atomic bombs now in the trustee
ship of the United States there
would be no means of stopping the
subjugation of western Europe by
Communist Vaccinations backed
by Russian armies and enforced by
political parties.
"BOLSHEVIK Russia is already
heavily armed and her forces in
Europe far exceed those of all the
western countries put together. At
the present time the only sure foun-
dalton of peace-and the prevention
of actual war-rests upon strength.
He urged the West to bring mat
tiers to a head and make a final set
Element" before Russia produces a
disable bomb.
Such a settlement, according to
the views of the wartime British
prime minister, could be arrived at
only after the Russians had re-
leased their grip on satellite states,
released the German and Japanese
prisoners they now hold as
slaves" ceased to ''oppress, tor
ment and exploit those parts Of
Austria and Germany they hold and
called a halt to disruptive opera
tions elsewhere in the world.
BUT CHURCHILL would not be a
party to issuing any false hopes of
a friendly settlement with Soviet
Russia" Actually, he said, the Ber-
lin blockade may precipitate a war
at any time.
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
ST.. JOHNS LUTHERAN
CHURCH

"The Church of the Lutheran
Hour"
400 Durland Avenue
Martin H. Juengel, Pastor.
Sunday school at 9 a. m.
English service at 10 a. m.
German service at II a. m.
Confirmation instruction Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday at
4:30 p. m.
Saturday school at 9 a. m.
Walther League Rally at
Bridger Sunday afternoon, Octo-
Der "a, at 8 p. m.
"a kings command does not
extend farther than the boundar-
les of his country, but Christ's
missionary command extends to
the ends of the world"
Laurel outlook., 1948-10-20
Significance

Why was President Truman so
widely and thoroughly castigated
for making what he undoubtedly
looked upon as a sincere, construc-
tive attempt to clear up the Rus
SLAMS misunderstanding of the
problem of atomic control?
Because his intention of sending
Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow rep
resented a serious divergence from
the basic characteristic of U. S. for
eign policy-toughness with Russia.
MR.. TRUMAN'S proposal amount
ed to a softening up of the labori-
ously built "get tough" attitude OF
the U. s.. toward Moscow. 1t was
tantamount to saying in a pleading
voice, Lets get together once
more and try to talk this thing
out"
Current history has proved that
the kind of personal diplomacy the
President sought to institute in the
Vinson trip has been completely I'M
availing in dealing with Russia
since the war. Moreover, insofar as
personal diplomacy always tends to
bypass the United Nations, it usu-
ally has an i'll effect on interna-
tional relations in general.
IN THE final analysis, a personal
visit to the Kremlin by Vinson
probably would have upset the en-
tire, carefully fabricated structure
of the policy upon which the U. S.
is depending to defeat Russia's
aims in E1IrOne.