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PART TWO
EDITORIAL
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PART TWO
SOCIETY
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VOL. XLV NO. 11.
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By ELLA FLEISHMAN.
DOWN AT THBJ STATE PAIR in Lincoln
next week the biggest attraction Is go
ing to be the baby show. And the big
gest feature of the baby show will b'
the contest for the prlie winning baby,
the most perfect, nearest-the-100-mark baby.
Maybe you think It's easy to be a Judge in
baby contest and would like to apply for the po
sition. Just alose your eyes and picture yourself
surrounded by babies of every size and description
until all look alike to you. Then people the back
ground with the mothers of each of these precious
infants, each one of them imbued with the con
viction that no other baby in the universe can hold
a candle to her own darling precious and then, hold
you're not going to be let off so easy and then
try to picture what would happen to you If you
had to render a decision in favor of only on of
these undisputed potentates.
Well, take It from us, the Judges In a baby eon
test are about as popular, especially with the par
ents of the contestants, as an umpire who has given
a rotten decision is with the losing team.
"Isn't him the sweetest, prettiest, 'lttle toot
sums in all this wide world? And, John, I do be
lieve he looks Just like you I"
From the moment of his advent into this world,
John Junior, although to the impartial eye noth
ing but a red-faced, wrinkled, weazened little per
son resembling nothing so much as an Indian pa
poose, assumes such pulchritudlnous claims in his
mother's eyes as to warrant the stranger's belief
that inveterate Puck has dropped some of his magic
potion in her eyes.
And John, remembering that he had been quite
a beau in his day and judged to cut some figure as
men go for his good looks, can see no resemblance
beween his own Adonis-like cast of features and
that of the red-vlsaged newcomer. But knowing
that discretion Is the better part of valor, he keeps
his peace.
When the Infant grows a little older and begins
to manifest some interest In this terrestlal sphere,
enough so that his mother exclaims in awe at his
wonderous precocity, then John clears his throat,
thrusts back his shoulders, puffs out his chest and
admits that his son takes after him.
From henceforth, father and mother are in
league to contest the claims of any other Infant in
the class of the most beautiful and smartest baby
in existence.
The first baby contests I. ever heard of were
contests to decide which were the most beautiful
babies. However, so dire were the consequences
on the Judges, who were forced to flee from the
anger of irate mothers who insisted that any one
with half an eye could see that their baby was far
more beautiful than the prlie winning baby, that
these contests were given up.
In all recent baby shows, therefore, not beauty
but health, sice, weight, proportion, measurements
and other new-fangled ideas are the basis on which
baby contests are Judged.
Imagine If you will, then, how mucfh chance
Julius Caesar, "the lean and hungry Casilus," Will
iam Howard Taft, Napoleon Bonaparte, Johhn Ev
er, Billy Sunday, or anybody else you please, would
have to walk away with the prise if baby contests
were popular in their day. Nary a one.
But do the mothers, and sometimes the fathers,
display any more satisfaction over the decisions of
these Judges than they did over the results In the
beauty contests? No, sir. They do not.
"What a thin, sickly-looking Infant that was
that won the prize!" exclaims the mother of one
that gives promise of some day qualifying as a
"white hope."
"What there is prize-winning about such an
overgrown, overfed hulk of a child is beyond me,"
is the vice-versa, and so it goes.
To hear some of the doting mothers talk, you
would imagine that their Infants were so precocious
that they out their first tooth immediately upon
arrival on this mundane sphere.
And as for walking early, why my own dear,
mother tells me I walked unassisted when I was
eight months old..'. Having developed a fondness,
however, for softly purring motor cars, I am
tempted to qualify her statement as to my avidity
for walking.
Why are baby contests always such a success
despite the rivalry among the parents? That is
Just it. When "all his cousins and his unoles and
his aunts" congregate to see a child carry off all
honors, of which nary a one has a doubt but that
he will, and when there are several hundred en
tered, the answer Is easy.
While it may be the parents and relatives take
kindly to the baby contests, I know full well the
babies themselves do not. I remember approach
ing the Auditorium, where the baby show was held
in Omaha last year, and such Comanche Indian
war-whoops, squalling, yelling and screaming, I
never did hear before.
A passerby, Ignorant of the goings-on inside,
would surely Imagine that the children were being
..murdered, to say the least. No, indeed, they do
not submit passively to all the weighing, testing,
measuring et cetera, with which the doctors and
attendants regale them.
One or two parents I have met who will tell
me without batting an eye that they have entered
their Johnnie or their Bailie in the contest, not
because they thought their offspring would win a
prize, but because of the instruction and examina
tions that they receive. That may be all very
well, but I have me doots!
I do know this: There are two persons the
Judges can count on to stand by their decision. The
father and mother of the prize baby will freely'
agree that the Judges are fair and Impartial.
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Bohemian Cookery Unexcelled--Six Sample Recipes
BOHEMIAN oookery Is world-famed, and Bo
hemian dishes are acclaimed everywhere as
notable contributions to good living. The
Bohemian cooks and bakers, however, have
usually kept their art to themselves, and the re
cipes for special Bohemian confections are not al
ways accessible.
To let others besides native Bohemians have a
taste of Bohemian cookery is the object of a cook
book compiled by an Omaha woman, which has
Just been put out In printed form, and in the Eng
lish language, to accommodate the American-born
daughters of Bohemian families who do not read
the Bohemian language well, and also to serve
American housewives who may wish to try foreign
dishes.
This particular cook book is made up of the
recipes used by the late Mrs. Mary Rosicky, one of
the pioneers of the Bohemian colony in this city,
and edited and translated by her daughter. Miss
Rose Rosicky:
A few sample recipes of the most characteristic
ally Bohemian culinary achievements are here
given. The use of baking powder, it Is Interesting
to note, is entirely unknown in Bohemian kitchens.
Roast B?ef, Bohemian Style
Vanh a rib roast, salt, stick whole ginger and
(loves of garlic here and there into the meat, place
in a baking pan, add several kinall onions into each
of which you have stuck a clove, wveral bay leaves,
one small sliced carrut and a little water. Roast
three or four hours, turning and basting it fre
quently. If the meat dries out, add hot water
front lime to time. When the n.c-at is done, place
cn a plotter, surround with boiled and peeled pota
toes, pour over the meat the strained gravy and
serve.
Potatoes Skubanky.
Boll about a quart of peeled potatoes, add a
ttaspoonful of salt, and when nearly done add a
small cupful of flour and boll five minutes longer.
1 heu drain, salt the potatoes, add a piece of butter
und mash smooth. Take out by the spoonful, ar
rbnpe one next to the other and pour over them
melted butter and sprinkle with milk cheese or
poppy fceed.
Poppy Seed Puffed Pudding.
l'ound or grind fine four tablespoonfuls of
poppy seed, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two
tablenpoonf uls of almond paste, the grated rind of
one lemon, seven cloves powdered, five yolks, and
ci earn or beat fifteen minutes; then add five whites
beaten stiff tr.id pour Into a dish that has been but
tered and sprinkled with crumbs. Steam one hour.
Bene with chocolate sauce.
Chicken with Herring.
Wash two chickens and stew in beef soup until
half done; then take them out and cool. Wash
and cut In fine strips one herring, interlard the
breasts of chickens with It, then cut them in
halves, place them in a saucepan, pour over them
the liquor In which they stewed, add a piece of
butter, a dash each ct laace grated lemon rind and trowor.
bunion Juice and the remainder of the . herring.
Mince the milt of the herring and add it to the
rest, then dust with flour and stew until the chick
ens are tender. When done take them out, strata
the gravy over them and serve,
Bohemian Tarts.
Cream one cup of butter, add four to six yolks,
ono at the time, one cake of compressed yeast dis
solved In tepid milk, four whites beaten stiff, one
qusrt of sweet cream, a handful of sugar, the
grated rind of a leruou, a dash of salt, one quart of
sifted flour, and beat until the dough does not
stick; then set In a warm place. When it has risen
to doubie its bulk take out by the tablespoonful on
s flourel board, roll each Into a ball, then roll out
like a cooky, about half an inch thick; arrange in
a pan. brush with melted butter, spread with fruit
Jam, cottago cheese or other filling; let them rise
sgain in the pan and then bake in a hot oven.
Anise Pretzels.
Rub two tablespoonfuls of butter with two
cupfuls of flour; add two eggs, half a cup of pow
dered sugar and two teaspoonfula of powdered
anise seed; mix into smooth dough. Form pret
zels by rolling long, thin rolls, and then forming
these into pretzels; place on a tin rubbed with
beeswax, brush with a beaten sgg and bake alight