THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 18, 1915.
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perplexities that
presents Itself to
the young and
inexp erienced
housekeeper la
the aft of serv
ing a formal
meal. This is
especially true
where she is doing her own housework
or hawing the assistance of but one
maid.
During her ilrst year of married !ife
she makes' a desperate effort to wel
come her friends into her new home
by giving a formal luncheon. After
a number of efforts, some of which
are only part successes, she learns
how to entertain at luncheon. Still
the has not even the courage to try
her skill at a formal dinner.
Not Difficult If
The planning and the giving of a
dinner Js not much more difficult than
the serving of a luncheon if a hostess
will bear certain things jin mind.
Though you prepare the dinner your
self it is well to get somebody to help
you serve it. It is very hard for a
housekeeper to set the table alone,
give the last i ouches to the table end
to take dishes and be ready to receive
her guests when they arrive.
She will do well to limit the number
of her quests to six without herself
and her husband instead of having
twelve or fourteen. A small number
of people are more easily served and
entertained. This is especially true
where the house or apartment Is none
too large and the service is limited.
It is well to set and to decorate the
table late in the afternoon instead of
delaying this important task until you
are in the midst of preparing the meal.
Plenty of time and attention should
be given to this work. The table
cloth should be spotlessly i white and
ironed with' exquisite care. In the
center of the table is the lace center
piece or a lace runner laid across vhe
table. The table decoration Is always
placed right in the center, j
Matter of Taste.
It is a matter largely of individual
taste whether the flowers i should be
placed in a tall vase or be gathered
in a- low mound. A simple and novel
way of combining these two ideas is
to have a large fernery in the center
and to place two slender silver or
glass vases on both sides of tha fern
ery and to fill the vases jivith single
roses or lilies. Candlesticks do much
to enhance the beauty of a table and
help to carry out the color scheme
of a dinner, though they are not abso
lutely necessary. Small i dishes for
DO NOT" save only for a rainy
day. lo better and save for to
morrow. This Is a bit of advice
as valuable to the American woman as
it is to the American man; They are
naturally extravagant. Monev, once in
their possession is hard to save.
This statement is as pertinent for
the 'working woman as for the one of
untold means. Ifis mor so, because
the one who earns the dollars she
spends should give the most careful
thought and consideration as to their
use.
However small your weekly salary
you should try to set apart a small
amount each week. It wl$l certainly
be worth your while, for It will help
vour character as much as your ma
terial resources. It means so much to
hold on to that extra dime when you
wanted to spend it for a soda, for
candies or a moving picture show.
When you see the dimes swell into
a dollar and the dollars into fives you
will be glad you made the moral effort.
If the "dollar burns In t your pocket"
fut ' it somewhere else so it cannot
make a hole. The best place is in a
"dime savings bank at home. As soon
as you have the first dollar saved open
a bank account.
This will net you a number of things,
you will be happy because you have
something more to count on than your
weekly salary. You are drawing in
terest on that money, so-you are a
rapitalist as well as a wage-earner.
You nre looking toward and helping
yourself in the future as well as In the
present. As your salary Increases let
Meal
BY DOROTHY DOLAN.
KG of the great, bonbons and nuts can be placed on
either side of the candlesticks,.
Each plate should be provided with
a service plate that is kept as the
under plate throughout the meal. The
silver, bread plates and napkins are
placed as for a formal luncheon. There
is one difference and that is the din
ner napkins are a larger size than are
the luncheon napkins. The butter
plate should, be at every plate, and
the roll can be put on it.
It is a question of individual taste
whether butter shall be served or not.
Three sets of doilies can be used. The
largest are for the service plates, the
second size for the water glasses atd
the third for the bread plates. The
knives, spoons and silver needed for
the first course are laid at the right.
The forks are placed at the left.
The arrangement of the glasses be
gins with the goblet at the point of
the knives. The water goblet comes
first "and whatever other glasses are
used are placed at the right. It is only
when the last touches are given that
the water glasses are filled and the
candles are lighted. Place cards at
each plate are of great assistance in
placing your guests.
Not Too Elaborate.
It is a mistake to have a great va
riety of courses. This results in tar
ing the guests and wasting the food.
A far better plan is to have a few
carefully selected dishes served with
much nicety. The first course is usu
ally a' fruit or a canape and can be
arranged on a small plate laid on a
service plate. The olives, celery and
nuts may be passed after the 'first
course. Soup or a fish course comes
next." It is only at a very large dinner
that both courses are served. One
meat, such as a roast, a chicken or a
turkey is plenty. Between the meat
course and the dessert there is a salad
and two or three vegetables. The
care given to these dishes is as im
portant as that given to the soup and
the meat. Toasted crackers or fancy
sandwiches add much to a salad
course.
The desserts are the accessories of
the dinner and enhance its taste and
success. The dessert can be ice cream
sherbet or a parfait.
This is to be supplemented by small
cakes, candies and either fruit or
fancy cheese. The small coffee can
be served at table or in the drawing
room. This is an important part' of
the whole success. The remainder de
pends xm the congeniality of the guests
to each other and the tact the hostess
exercises 4n placing her friends. The
final flavor of the meal is the talent
you have of making guests feel at
home by creating a feeling of warmth
and comradeship.
your savings increase. It may take
much time and patience, but if you
persist long enough you will finally
save enough to buy some small but
safe security. This question of saving
is as important as is your salary, the
kind of clothes you wear and your
daily food. That this is an economic
factor is shown by the fact that many
business houses keep banks for their
employes and under their control. They
are broken once a year and often net
their investors from f to 10 per cent.
Everybody is given a chance to invest
some money irrespective of salary.
The lowest paid worker can buy shares,
while there is a limit to the number
anyone can buy.
All the savings banks realize that
many persons with small salaries want
to Save, and that many millionaires
commenced their careers with small
bank accounts. Therefore they wel
come investors who ha.ve saved a
dollar.
Nearly all the savings banks pay
some interest. Three per cent Is an
average. If you are one of the young
women who would like to save, but
find it hard to tuck money away some
where so it will not annoy you, ask
your mother to take charge of your
savings until you put them in the bank.
The follong incident well illustrates
this point: A young woman com-,
tnenced work at ?S a week. Though
she gave little thought to saving, her
mother did. Her mother Insisted on
1 her paying $3 board Two dollars were
laid aside each' week and were taken
to the bank. She was allowed $3 a
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a room that will delight the heart of the housekeeper who abhors cracks and dust.
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Home Decoration
By MADAME MAISON.
HOW this modern bathroom will
delight the heart of the house- j
keeper who loves cleanliness and ;
tbhors cracks where dust may accum
ulate.; The walls are creamy white ;
tiles and the floor is of tiling that is
'.specially made for bathrooms, the
edge where wall and floor meet being
rounded so there is no division where
even the slightest particle of dust can
adhere. The tub is built in with no
space underneath and oftentimes the
outside is tiled the same as the side
wall and floor.
Mirrors and glass shelves are put in
where needed and ell the faucets and
fixtures are of porcelain, no nickel
being in evidence any place, so clean
ing is reduced to its lowest terms. Of
course, such fittings are more costly,
but as one little' housewife said: "I
would rather economize some other
way and have my bathroom as sani
tary as possible and as easy to keep
immaculate as it can be made."
A bathroom treated in this way is
usually all white, but one may have
bath mats of pink, blue, yellow or
white, with colored monograms done
in French knots or a heavy chain
stitch. Make wash cloths and bath
tovelsrto match, and I assure you the
result will justify the extra expendi
ture. If tiles are too expensive have a
WHO
week for luncheons and car fare. The
girl's salary increased gradually. She
did not have to pay more board, but
she was asked to increase the amount
given to her savings account. After
eight years of hard work she is about
to marry with $500 in the bank, and $500
which is part of the money she paid in
board to her mother. This part of the
savings wi'l buy her trousseau and
linens.
Be up and doing, you homemakers
who hear the glad, sweet song of
spring. You say you cannot make
smart' gowns and chic hats, nor even
copy them from models. This need not
worry you. Try your hand at some
thing that requires less dexterity but
as much enthusiasm.
Appetizing Menus sos-y&ur
BREAKFAST.
Cereal and Cream.
Rice Waffles. Sirup.
Eggs in Shell.
"Bread and Butter.
Tea, Coffee or Cocoa.
DINNER.
Tomato Soup.
Roast Fillet of Beef. Baked Potatoes.
Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce.
Crab Salad.
Raspberry 'Ice Cream. Coffee.
! , SUPPER.
"Welsh Rarebit on Toast.
Ripe Olives.
Angel Food Cake. Coffee.
good inlaid linoleum on the floor and
imitation tiled walls.
Doing Over a Kitchen.
Your advice is always helpful and I'd
be so glad to have you help me. My
kitchen is an old one. The woodwork
was varnished pine and the walla fawn
colored. There is a cupboard Bet in
and wainscot three feet deep. It Is all
too dark. Shall have the floor var
nished in light and wonder what color
the woodwork and walls should be.
Should the kitchen cabinet be painted
to match? j C. O. B.
Perhaps you can afford to get a
pretty blue and white "tile effect"
linoleum for the kitchen floor, paint all
the woodwork, including the cabinet or
built-in cupboard, a very light gray
or creamy white if you live in a clean
place and do not burn soft coal. Do
Do You Wish Advice?
pO THE housekeeper who
thinks :
The purposej tns PaSc s
to lighten your burdens by
giving you the aido numer
ous experts in solving the
knotty problems of your
home. . '
Would you like advice as to
the most artistic means of
decorating ' your . house ? Are
you puzzled by some problem
of the kitchen ? Are you plan
ning a house party and seek
ing information concerning
entertainment?
Write to the editor of this
page for help on any or all of
these problems. It will be
freely given.
Address all communications
to the writers whose names
appear here,;' care of this
newspaper.
I Roast Fillet of Veal Select a good
sized fillet and take out the bones. Fill
with a bread and sage stuffing. Truss
it a good shape by drawing the fat
round and tie it up with a piece of
tape. Cook rather slowly at first and"
baste with butter. Roast from three
(to four hours, according to size. Pour
Smelted butter oyer when ready to
serve. Veal, like all other meat, should
be washed in cold water and dried
thoroughly with a clean cloth.
t -Welsh Rarebit Mix four tablespoon
,fuls flour, the same amount of butter,
one-fourth teaspoonful 'salt, one
: eighth of soda, the same amount of
mustard, paprika . and mace. Add one
cupful milk and two of cheese. Melt
Furnishing
the walls light gray or pale yellow if
you have the white paint, and I am
sure you will find your kitchen a very
much more attractive place in which
to work.
What the Bride Furnishes.
If.it comes within your province will
you please tell me what a bride in
moderate circumstances marrying a
man also in moderate circumstances is
expected to furnish for the new; home?
I wondered especially about the cur
tains. , Evelyn.
It has been the province of the ride
elect to provide the bed and table linen
for the new home, but I think curtains
would come under the head of house
furnishing" and should be purchased
afterward and the bridegroom would
pay for them.
Reply to A. R. K.
FROM time to timo schemes for rais
ing money for churches apppear in
this column, and many ideas may be
adapted to the neeeds of individual
cases. I am sorry not to reply "in next
Sunday's paper,'.' but that is an impos
sibility. There are several books that
contain such suggestions as you wish,
but I am not permitted to give names
or addresses-or prices in this paper:
neither do I answer any beauty ques
tions. Contributions of original en
tertainments will be printed In this
column as benefit to all our readers,
but they are not paid for; a mutual
exchange of party ideas will help us
all.
VIVIAN'S
DEAR VIVIAN: I have been going
with a young man for some six
months. Though he knows that I am
fond of him I have never shown the
least sign of affection. He has told me
time and again that he loves me. He
wants me to tell him the same old
story. His argument is that spring-,
time is made to love. What do you
think? ONB in Doubt.
Yonr question Is not easy to answer
because opinion is divided as to when
is the right time to love. There are
those who say that two souls can be
drawn to each other at any time. I am
of this opinion, believing that love has
more to do with personal attraction
than with the season.
Sunday Meal
butter, add flour and mix gradually.
Add seasoning and soda- Flavor with
cheese and a fish sauce. Serve at once
cn hot toast or on heated crackers.
Crab Salad Boil three dozen hard
shelled crabs twenty-five minutes.
Drain and cool gradually.' Take off
the upper shell and tail. Break the re
mainder apart and take out the meat
carefully. The large claws should not
be overlooked, as they contain a dainty
morsel. Line a large salad bowl with
mall white lettuce leaves, . add the
meat and pour over a rich mayonnaise.
Garnish with crab claws, hard boiled
eggs and little mounds of cress, leaves,
which may be mixed with the salad
when served. . - - !
Novelties in Horn e
Entertainment
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BY DAME
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HE oUl custom
of keeping the
first -day o May
ls being re-
v l v e d, espe
cially by people
who live in the
country,, who
make a prac
tice of sending baskets filled with wild
flowers to their friends who are so un
fortunate as to be debarred from gath-
ering them personally. The city people
observe the day by sending baskets of
fruit and flowers to the sick or toi their
friends who may be In sorrow, and the
children have revived the English
method of hanging "May" baskets on
the doofknobs of their friends and then
running away before the ring is an
swered. These baskets may be made
at home or may be 6f an inexpensive
kind purchased for a trifle, j They
should contain preferably wild flowers,
fruit, a simple gift; and one young
hostess delivered her invitations in
this novel way, hanging the baskets
to the door by a loop of ribbonj.
For a centerpiece at a May party
bave a pole some thirty inches high,
supported oh a firm, flat base -about
twelve inches across. Fasten Inch
wide ribbon of the delicate pastel
shades at the top of the pole. Give
these a few twists and then carry them
to each place, where they are tied to
the handle of miniature baskets bear
ir.g the name of the guest, also hold
lug the salted mits.
To choose partners for any
jenter-
ainment scheme the hostess may have
in mind, or for cards, make a "tulip
bed." Fill a shallow wooden boc with
-sawdust or sand, covered with
green
crepe paper,' and place It on a tabouret
or stand. .Then realistic tulips can be
made from crepe tissue paper, f real
ones cannot be procured. On the end
of each stem wire a half of som? well
known quotation, or the title of a
book; the other half of the quotation
and the name of the author of the book
must be wired to other tulips, j Each
guest pulls a flower ana proceeds to
hunt Tils partner. The end of one of
the tulips will have a drawing of a
crown on it; the person gathering that
one must be "crowned" with a garland
of flowers, either real or artificial, and
have some one read Tennyson's j'l Am
to Be Queen of the May, Mother,'
A Spool Party.
This party was certainly a novelty
for the twelve little guests who were
invited to spend the hours from. 3 to 5
with the 6-year-old hostess. The old
est child asked had passed her ninth
birthday, and she proved a decided
"help in assisting to amuse the younger
ones. This mother said she had been
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There are many who believe that all
things love, and somehow spring Is the
time when this love bursts forti like
a great ody of water that has been
dammed in)
TEARXlVIAN: I am 19 years old
I' and u have never gone Into society.
I was graduated from high school and
went to a finishing school for aj year.
I have many girl friends, but jl am
timid in meeting young men. Mother
says that I ought to meet young people
by going into society. I am such a
home body and I have such a iiappy
home life that I do not miss it. Do you
think it is necessary?
your honest opinion.
Please give me
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A Timid Gmr..
My dear little girl, believe me, r sym
pathize with your feelings. I j shall
never forget the evening I was expected
to go to my debut party. I had a very
pretty gown and a. handsome young
man for a partner I was invited to a
splendid party given in a lovely home.
I expected to 30 until the eleventh
hour, and then I backed down and re
fused to budge. It was not stubborn
ness, but Just a good case of stage
fright. . .
Because I was unworjdly t took me
; some time to overcome this weakness.
I want you to profit by my experience.
' This fault shows that you have lived a
home life and not a worldly one. I
think there is some vanity mixed with
this feeling. If there Is cast this feel
ing of personal sensitiveness 'aside.
Accept the Idea that you are as good
CURTSEY.
caving spools for months, begging
them of her friends, and had even done ;
an xtr amount of sewing to get suf .
ncient spools for this party. First dolls
were made by inserting a pasteboard
nose in a slit and doing the face with
a tiny brush and black paint (ink will
do). Toothpicks were stuck in slits for
arms, and the children were greatly
Interested in the construction of these
wooden men.
Then a bowling alley -was made by
Inverting one end of an ironing board
and arranging spools at the other like
tenpins, A prize was given to the
child? making the best score. Coarse
needles and colored twine were pro
vided for a spool-stringing contest.
Questions and Answers.
Dessert and Bread and Butter
'. Plates. . t
1 read your answers to questions In
- the Sunday papVrs and get eo much
godo from' them. I come with two
questions for answers, please. When
you hav a friend .for supper by
that I mean hot supper, nothing
formal Is It just the thing to serve a
dessert? Also will you please tell me
tbout the use of bread and butter
plates? Are they used at every meal
when only biscuit are served? I thank
you very much. V. M.
Desserts are served at suppers, a
nomething sweet to top off with, per
haps Just some nice canned fruit with
little cakes or-a gelatin. Bread and
butter plates are especially nice with
hot .biscuit; a butter ball is placed
on them and the bread or biscuit when
passed Is placed there. It Is quite tliq
fashion to omit them at formal din
ners as bread. If served, la placed In
the dinner napkin or wee buttered rolls
are passed. ,
Name for a Girls' Club.
I have been e constant reader of
your little column and like it very
mUch. As I have found several hints
In entertaining and serving, I would
hke to aak you Jf you couid help mo
out In the selection of a name for a
girls' club?
There is a limited number namely,
fifteen and the ages runng from 13
to 24. We plan on little outings, thea
ter parties, etc., and would like a name
suitable for same.
Hoping I haven't asked too great a
favor and that you will answer "soon,
A Reader.
As your organization seems to be on
pleasure bent, I think the name of.
"Pleasure Club" would be a good
name. How do you like "The Merry-Go-Rounds"
or "The Happy Hearts"?
but no better than anybody else. I
hope you will profit by my advice.
DEAR VIVIAN; I have five chil
dren and my husband died beforo
any of ray little ones could help me.
The othen day a lady saw one of rny
youngest children. The woman had no
children of her own. She had great
wealth, everything, in short, I lack to
make my children comfortable and
happy. She wanted to take my little
one as her own, but I did not feel that
I had the right to part, with my little
girl. Did I do right? ' "
A Worried Mother.
Tou certainly did right, mother. Two
hard working hands and a courageous
heart will do much to take you over
the rocky road.y However many chil
dren you have, you love and prize
them all. I know-it Is hard to bear v
at .times, . but if you are coura
geous your courage will be amply
rewarded. The child you prize too'
much to part with will appreciate your
fforts when she has grown. How
ever hard and trying your burdens
are, do not lone heart, but look to a
bright future. Somewhere behind these
dark clouds there are angels' voices
whispering to you to be brave, to
march on. They kiss yourwarm lips
end bathe your tired eyes when you "
do not see them. Jt means much to be
a noble and self-sacrificing mother and
the burdens you are carrying will teac h
you this great lesson.
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