Sister Mary's Kitchen BY SISTER MARY, NEA Service Writer. Dried apricots have a pleasant? tart flavor that is particularly ap petizing in early spring. And there are so many ways of using them that it behooves the alert house wife to give them her keen atten tion. Along with many other fruits, apricots have been studied by food chemists and hau” been found to be good source^of copper, that mineral which goes hand hi hand with iron. This characteristic alone _rpakes them, a valuable addition to 'the family dietary. Carelessly handled dried apricots lose in flavor, appearance and vol ume, yet a few simple rules which any cook can understand make them a delicious, attractive and inexpen sive fruit. The first rule to keep in mind is to soak the fruit 12 hours or over night in water to cover. Of course the apricots are washed through many waters before cooking. The second rule is that very slow heat for a long period is the best means of restoring the fruit to its natural state of juiciness. At the same time the fruit becomes Lender and its flavor is developed. Fut the fruit hi water to cover over a low lire and bring slowly to the boiling point. Do not let boil tout keep just below the boiling point until tender. The third rule is never to add sugar until the fruit is tender and ready to remove from the fire. After dried apricots are stewed, they can be used in any way canned ones would be used. Deep dish apricot pie is very good made with dried apricots. Brown Betty Is especially “tasty” made with this fruit. Bavarian cream uses dried apricots to excellent advan tage, fer the sifting removes the skins of the fruit. Apricot ice is refreshingly piquant and will be found particularly appetizing to serve after fish. Apricot icc-box cake is equally -9-f-T-TVVTTT TT-r-r-rr-T-rT 4 4 4 MONDAY'S MENU 4 4 Breakfast: Grape juice, ce- 4 4 real, cream, eggs poached in 4 4 milk on graham toast, milk, 4 ♦ coffee. 4 4 Luncheon: Macaroni cro- 4 4 quettes, celery and apple sal- 4 ♦ ad. rye bread, apricot dainty, 4 4 oatmeal cookies, milk, tea. 4 4 Dinner: Filet of flounder in 4 4 tomato sauce, potatoes in pars- 4 4 ley butter, beet greens, salad 4 4 of cottage cheese and apricots 4 4 in green pepper rings, maple 4 4 cup cakes, milk, coffee. 4 4 4 44444*444444444-4*4 good for the family Sunday dinner or vour next dessert-bridge party. * * * Apricot Ice Box Cake One cup dried apricots, 2 table spoons flour, cup granulated sugar. 1-8 teaspoon salt, 1 egg, 1 cup milk, 2 teaspoons granulated gelatine, 2 tablespoons cold water, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 cup whipping cream, % teaspoon va nilla. Cook apricots and drain from juice. Rub through a coarse sieve. Mix and sift flour, sugar and salt. Add to egg well beaten and mix thoroughly. Add milk and cook over hot water until custard is thick and smooth. Soften gela tine in cold water for five minutes and add to hot custard. Stir un til gelatine is dissolved and re move from heat. Add apricots and lemon juice and let stand un til cool. Whip cream until stiff, add vanilla and fold into custard mixture. Line a mold or pan with waxed paper and cover with a lay er of sponge cake cut about an inch thick. Add half the apricot mix ture and cover with another layer of cake. Let stand in the refrigerator over night. When ready to scrv® cover with whipped cream. An Ideal for Congress. From Editor and Publisher. If the aspirations of the presi dent and Congress are to be realized in the nine months’ celebrations of the Washington bicentennial, name ly, to rekindle the fires on the al tars of liberty, tolerance and jus tice, it v.ill bo necessary for the leaders of public opinion to empha size those qualities of heart and mind of Washington which made him transcendently the man of the hour in the days of the nation 5 birth. Washington was essentially a re ligious man. He was a devoted churchman. He believed that the Almighty had a part in the affairs of men. He took an active part in the community life. He was one of the vestrymen, master of his Ma sonic lodge and in every way ex emplified the sterling characteris tics of the devout Christian gentle man. "Let it simply be asked,” he wrote, ‘ where is the security lor property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the couits of justice?” Enmeshed in the complexities of today's international civilization, we often regard the problems faced by Washington as comparatively sim ple. They were not to his nor his '’ompatriots, larking the suprrb ma chinery we now have lor the gath ering of information, and they de manded from Washington and frnn our own times the same funda mental human qualities and the «me realization that human rr .sources, unguided by Divine Provi denrr, are inadequate to most ini* portanl affairs. MARKED PROTECTION Washington — Senator Bingham, of Connecticut, has introduced a bill providing that all Icdrrnl build Inga be marked to serve ns guides to aviators. If pasmf, such build ings all ovrr the country would be no marked If the secretary of com merce ronsidf red tills on essential ■id to aviation. “TO! R nVTIt'K READY. SIR" Liverpool—(UPl- A quarter of ■ •milieu baths have b.-n prepared by Peter Jamer, bath.-onni tirrs’d. during J9P Atlrnti.' rou.nl t-lpa in the liner Eftltfj Out Our Way By Williams -f t, TJ- 1 -' /nO-TmEQ GO'm' \ / HEntT^/ 4ERE, \ / ^“2^ 10 \ -JeoM^ecovY-TA^AM- \ A _ J MOLD MV \ HOLD TlESE -fo GET ThV WHOLE -- SWEATER I FEW ME-AN SHOP OUT . SO TH' J an' CAPl A COUPuE Bull, o' Th' woods . AN’SOMteODV O'GvJVS COmE / WILE MISS evervQoov, COME ALONG ALONG FEF? J \ AN-STOP TH' FiGHT J \-TO REFEREE. • JoOGES. / \ BEFORE IT STARTS.^/ • k__7:—( ^ >rfrfi \_-- AOveRTi&Ma _. Now They’re Both in the Same Boat The navigating abilities of an automobile proved to" be nil when it tried to strut its stuff in the soft sand and loam on Carson Beach, Boston*. Due to a conspiracy of the sands and a high tide, the car found itself stuck and far from home. Not only that, but when the truck at the right of the picture came to render assistance, it, too, became mired. It looks as though they’ll have to charter a tugboat after all to tow the car and truck back to their osra ■tamping ground on terra firina. FAMILY DIPLOMACY. I thought my wife knew everything About preparing food; But now I find she’s treating it In manner rather crude. Today I read an article A woman writer wrote. Then rend it to the better half, To loose for fair her goat. For she had fixed our grapefruit raw, And then became unnerved To learn it should be baked, before It ever should be served. But you can bet I fixed it up. And frankly I confessed, (Though never had I seen one baked) I liked them her way best. —Sam Page. PLANS DRIVE TO BOOST STATE Ten Year Plan of Develop ment Outlined by Leaders Raleigh, N. C. — (UP) — In the midst of depression the state of North Carolina is proceeding with a sound economic formula to im prove present conditions and to lay foundations for future economic soundness and stability. An organization composed of the state’s leacUrs has been formed to further projects of the "Ten-Year plan for the economic development of rehabilitation of North Carolina.” North Carolina is one of the most diversified states in the country, economically and geographically. It is outstanding in both agriculture and industry with great textile mills all over the state and with its farm ers raisins the bulk of the world's tobacco crop. In the immedalc ruture. me irn Yenr corporation will be incorpor ated. Several committees already have been appointed to proceed with various projects to briny the Old North State to the front. The en-Year plan was originated by Tvre C. Taylor. 33-year-old ex ecutive counsel to Governor O. Max Gardner. Taylor has been elected president of the corporation for pro motion of the plan. The Ten-Year plan hr.s the fol lowing three main projrrts: Project A: A program lor attract Slump Fail* to Halt Swiss Auto Travel Geneva —tUP)— The worldwide acononmle depression and especial ly that of Europe has In no wav de creased the luxury of aut->mobi!e ‘ouring in Switzerland. Statistics Just completed by the federal government show tha‘ dttr ni the first half of 1P31. foreign automobiles entered sw itz i stand In companion with 4*931 for ire corresponding six months of 1530. 't is also pointed out that tins ( British Empire Trade Parley V__/ From Journal of Commerce. London — With Prime Minister MacDonald’s announce ment here last week of the British government’s delegates to the imperial economic conference at Ottawa in July, the deck is cleared for what undoubtedly will be the most important and the most difficult conference of the component parts of the British commonwealth of nations since this euphemistic title was substituted for that of the British empire. For the July meeting is expected finally to prove—the British do minions now being independent nations in everything but name—whether it is possible to substitute binding but volun tary economic allegiance for what once was an involuntary political tie. All, certainly, is not going to be plain sailing. For in stance, Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade, who will be a member of the British delegation, has confessed that the Beaverbrookian ideal of “empire free trade’’ is a i wonderful but impracticable ideal, since the dominions have their own ideas regarding the working out of their respective fiscal policies. He added, however, that there is a large amount of good feeling in this country in regard to the idea of imperial preference and that the younger generations in the dominions are enthused with the idea of imperial eco ; nomic unity. Whether these two enthusiasms eventuate into actuality, however, will not be certain until the conference itself is con cluded, and two recent developments here give ample indi ! cation of the difficulties ahead. First was the editorial in the London Times—which on imperial affairs usually is con i sidered to speak with authority. The editorial advanced the thesis that there are likely to be two agreements reached at Ottawa. One will be the general arrangement including, pre sumably, all the dominions, India and Great Britain. The paper pointed out, however, that such an agreement would be limited by the extent to which the least willing dominion was prepared to go in accepting the principle of reciprocal tariff preferences. The second sign post toward the difficulties at Ottawa encountered here on the road to Canada was the announce ment that a company formed for the purchase and distribu tion of Russian soft woeds in Great Britain and Ireland had completed their contract to buy 450,000 stands of timber from Russia this year at an approximate cost of £4,500.000. ing additional tourists and desir- ] r.ble permanent residents to Nortli Carolina. Project B: Industrial and agricul tural research. Mobilizing nil E.ien tilic facilities of the state in an cl lort to find new and commercially profitable uses for natural resources. Project C: A country life pro gram. Increase continued to be main tained even during July when t e Omnan lluanctal crisis war great est. — ■ «* MAN TIIE PIMPS Nrw Oilcans, located in n natural bowl with no outlet tor rain water to tlow by Rrav.ty to the Mississippi, has 10 punvpa removing 60,000 i tthlc lut of storm water each every min ute ct the day. • • ASBESTOS WAS THEFT CM E Wenatchee. Wash. — (UP) — As bestos tibir found under fingernails . of Ted McClure. 19. led to his s it oil AIRSHIP NAMED PALO Al.TO Palo Alto, Cal. — tUP) — Palo Alto, home of Stanford university, wants its name adopted for the navy's View dirigible now under con struction. A petition by the city, signed by 11 California chambers of Commerce and Governor Jam?i Ralph, Jr., will be sent to naval authorities, it Is planned. on a charge of safe robbery here. The safe of an auto height depot was robbed of $40 and McClure was expected. It was lined with as bestos. —♦»- . .. - Lola of Fun. Travelers iwith hours to wait at small count;v atatiom: Any pletm• show here, or biihard hall or li b ary ? Po. ter: No—nothing like that here. Traveler: Well, how do you spend the evening*? Porter. Wg go down to the itore. They've got a new bacuu sheer— — a aoodatiui. | OF INTEREST TO FARMERS j - ■ — ■„ WHY HATCHERY CHICKS Almost any hen can lay eggs '.n March and April, and when we get ;hicks from eggs laid by an un luiled flock, we get chicks from the ate maturing or otherwise poorer sirds, as well as from the best. One )f the biggest advantages In getting ■hicks from a high-grade hatchery Is that we get eggs from flocks culled during the fall or early win ter. Pullets that will mature and produce fall and early winter eggs are the kind we want. Otherwise we had better quit raising chickens and keeping hens. Of course, others besides hatchery operators could and do cull the pullet flocks closely at the proper season for culling. But the average farm flock, the owner of which debates whether to buy chicks or hatch her own, rarely Is culled. And even if some culling Is done when the pullets are housed in the laying house, it is not done as thoroughly and intelligently ; s the hatchery operator and his skilled men do it. Hatchery chicks live better than those hatched at heme. At least, more than 1100 suc cessful flock owners, representing a majority of the counties in Iowa, gave that as one of the chief ad vantages of hatch.ry chicks in let ters written us in a contest about success in chick raising two years igo. And why shouldn’t they? In spite of the much praised advan tages of nature, a skillful, intelli gent hatchery operator man more nearly furnish ideal conditions for incubation, with resulting strong chicks, than can the hen. Granted that the hen does the best she can. she usually is handicapped with a great variation in the temperature oi ner surruumunga — with eariy chicks everything from near zero to 80 degrees within the three weeks of incubation. Whether this has a serious or little effect depends on the location of the nest, the nesting material and how long the hen is off the nest. Broken eggs, lice, trouble with other hens, and other complications may ipad to the production of puny, under sized, late-hatched chicks. Hatchery flocks are the best we have in free dom from bacillary white diarrhea. The hatchery operators have been leaders in testing and culling to re duce this disease. Probably there is not t high-grade hatchery in this section that has not dropped good flocks from Us egg-furnishing list because this disease made the chicks "hard to raise." Well estab lished hatcheries, through their in telligent combating of bacillary white diarrhea in their communi ties, have done more than all others in reducing losses on farms from this disease. They have taken the biggest uncertainty out of chick raising. An advantage of buying all or at least part hatchery chicks that is overlooked frequently by those who are debating whether to buy or raise their chicks, is the real ad vantage in having a large group of chicks of the same age. The saving in labor in caring for 250 or 500 chicks all of one age of two ages, as compared with the same number as hatched and raised at home, tvpically scattered over a couple of months, means a daily difference of two to five hours of labor. And the hatchery chicks will produce a much more uniform flock of chicks and pullets. After all, it isn't a case of whether we can afford to buv hatchery chicks. Rather, the question is: If we can't of won't buy hatcherv chicks, enn we afford to raise anv more than the number we need to supply plenty of fried chicken and eggs for fam ily use only? .. ..♦ ♦- ■■ ■ » - HANDLING FRUIT Anv method of handling apples that hastens the ripening after ihe fruit is packed shortens the period of commercial value. Any treat ment that checks the ripening pro longs the marketing period. The value of wrapping apples in paper has been tested in both seasons by the experiment station of a wes tern college of agriculture and me chanic arts. The comparison was made with duplicate quantities of fruit that were grown and handled in the same way. One lot was not wrapped, and with the other each apple was wrapped in unprinted newspaper. With some varieties like the Gano, Roman Stennn, Salome, Winesap and other hard, late ripening sorts the advantage of wrapping in paper was not very apparent. But with tender varieties like the Clemons, Jonathan and Wealthy a wrapper was a distinct advantage in extending the life of the ftiiit, preserving its natural brightness and lessening the amount of decay. A wrapper serves to re duce the bruising that may result from poor packing or from rough handling in transportation. It re tards shriveling and adds to the value of the fruit by preserving its attractive appearance. The wrappers cost about 20 cents per thousand for newspaper 9 by 12 inches. CONTROL OF LICE The toll taken by lice is a heavy one. No herdsman can watch the frenzied rubbing of an infected dairy cow without realizing the dis comfort that is assuredly going to be reflected in the milk pail. Lice are most prevalent in dark, damp, dirty, badly ventilated stable*. No treatment will be lasting in its ef fect until such conditions are im proved. When the weather is mild, infested cattle may be washed with a solution of stavestcre or larks pur seed, made by boiling l ounces of the seeds in one quart of water Tor CO minutes. A solution of coal tar dip. made ar.d used according to diif.t ons given nv the niattu* fac.wri. Is ai;a effective. This treatment has to be repeated at in tervals to kill lice hatched from nits. Powdered sabadilla. dusted on Infected pnrts. is popular as a PROTKI l ING l NBOftN PIGS The good results obtained from feeding legume hay to fall pigs also applies to pregnant grood sows though not for the same reason. Instead of preventing rickets In the brood sows we want to give them the best opportunity to develop drong. vigorous litters of pigs. The tack of suitable and sufficient pro teins in the piegnant brood sow ration is freautntly the cause of dead or weak pigs at farrowing time. It U mlrnty discouraging to carry a herd of brood sows through the wuni*r expecting on average of 7 or a strong, healthy pigs siul |’t lega than an average of live pigs. louse killer. If may be used nknc or mixed with equal quantil lea of powdered tobacco and flowers of sulphur. Blanket the animal (or , a lew hours after treatment, (Inn thoroughly brush the skin, puiVi obly outdoors. The operator olu ni<| cover his noae and mouth wills a double cheesecloth to prevent lui tation when applying sabadiha powder. Other threatments that have been successfully used In clude a mixture of one part sedition flouride and 5 parts of flour or *0 parts each of flowers of sulphur and sodium flouride and 40 pints of finely powdered tobacco leave* or snuff. Raw linseed oil. rubbed In with a siiff brush, is also effec tive but it fouls the skin. Many 'dairymen clip the hair where ilio infection is the greatest; along the neck, the beck, and the tail setting. Be very cautious in the use of ■ m h compounds as mercurial ointment In treating lice on dairy cal He, a* it Is extremely poisonous and m y be licked off with disastrous te rcsults. I _ IVCI1B V'OIt TE.IIPERATUBES Those v. 10 continue to hatch their own baby chicks must nc« cs sarlly be very much cone* Mini about the proper temperature ter running the incubator. Ootv lik e able work lies boon done on It is temperature problem. Following ;o i some of the conclusions reached ,>s a result d •; end years of work with email in ibators: 1. Die opti mum temperature for the Incuba tion of hens’ eggs was bctwim i"9 degrees and lt*3 degrees F iner.s I uiru by standing thermoro* I* *s In ! a hot air type incubator, with !h» ] center of thr bulb one and < ic-* half Inches a'ove the ryg tmy 3. A temperature of 101 de". eg F. throughout the p°iiod of loud; - tion, mcaruicd with a standing thermometer, gave the best hatch ing remit The optimum li.ri-’ perature ft . (he incubation tl Voile and brown epgs wag the name.' 4. White ft" usually pipped . *t hatched a few hours earlier lh; a brown cg.i : nt the came tempi.a-, ture. 5. 7 c i ere turn below lie optimum tc .led to delay the bah it and gave a 'nrge number of no— 11 drable i ks. 0. Temperature, above the c, lrnum brought <1 r hatch oif cr.i.urr, but gave n cimUr number of undesirable chlean Uv.hi optimum or lower than option >a temper.itu' i r. 7. Standing the tono meters with the middle of the ).nib. one and onr-hnlf Inches nl'ffvo the egg tray a wl rear to but mt tow fl ing (ho rt r pave the moct «1. pi '"V able temperature for Incubation. -— ♦ » MAKE THIS “ME” TC P Me? I’m tii'd of talk ami i\a going to act. ? ow? Well—I’ve h <1 the secret of farm prospei ty vi>> Is. me all the time—right undi i nivi nose. It’s i re by no secret nt isjoJ For years ho government, tfyAi state and 'he schools have h. • on preaching dlvi trifled farming— Udk-f ing about Mn eased soil fortuity * and proper rotation of steebn nr.* crops. 1 gif , like a lot of. o.thiTi folks. I heard about theft' thing* so often—that I soot of get < to them—and lot it go at that. Bull —I’ve doim a Vt of thinking lairlyf —and a lot of ’ooklng tin t )»* noticed that, irally put pnt.qqj farms lake advantage of eviiy] means for o productive a. icv f I’ve noiitod too, that pi i d f< n<<» plays a mighty Important ]i;itJj where more/ V Icing made. iVin-j ally, good fenc ing's as mo. nsm y twf profitable farming as pigs nn»l low it and chicken'. And so—win n yc* put the two together—piespeir'Uf farms and fencing—you ran '.-vi(t seo how any cf w. can make fa. idl ing pry. Mr? ini go'ng to make my own p G.src.dy. I’m olaitlhg out by piecing fence lines wh'ir# they’ll do the mwt good. Wlvt— I’ve stalled yu thinking? Well, when you’ve really studio! nny angle ‘ like I have—yi n II •"•«y thought in' o dollars by I .he ijnlcW est kind of action. USING INFIilMATJON If a dairy fari/wr buys a pltw.’ puts it in hi; im.clilntr chid an« >4 inclined to try to < or»ut the fi v.ltj or get a plow that will do the »>« »e ic| os he wants It done, .it a daUj farmer rets come Vnfo; motion feeding his live stock tlu t v/cuM improve bis feeding practfres lb* information will not oc whi»h x nickle to 1 in unlor-J he puts Hut information to w.;k V/o lup/o pointed out tc dcnctoB toward ivHlt| places in midwinter dr by fan* feeding practice). Th>s Info*math », like the plow, will net be worth any thing unlew it •» used, ilic uuuk < t moat successful dnhv fiumeis Is lh: t they aro “doers" of good pva< ike. BAI ANTING TKfE EU'TADMfl The hin 5*; rpuite m m il We to oh- , vlroumtnt. Tho best indication » ,■ roundings Is <*g pi eduction. if coo docs not tt-bc e this, 1* t him In*** his hens out 'n the *eUl shwh a*>4 .snow for a dry or tevo rod * »»* «» count the eggs. Oy* * < u w*Ung, drafty henhouses filthy biter, sud den changes In fads and feeding may do r it of tlrinage. A1 >*lr> fn * the ability of the 1 •n, netlihm more Impcrtrnt In the ommd; c-t ture of pus the. i mint feeding. This Is jvet as certain as two a* <| two make four. A well bud he* canncr make n large musket >t pRgs unlc«; jve s f. n seeds needs rn 'e.nu n » n ftnnibllnjf — he Is sure to )rn.« <>y loss, A a is kept xomi ’’fSy l« gumc I ny ft t the sows will i O v. t n; tvny In |,ie I- > . > i « > . . i*. br ing dhestrc.ia .e* U IF VOU A'APi r If 'cn rrs t is i’*fwifn, gn sr medium rtd ■’tn*v, If yen r;i«i r,row medium kiow uutm moth. If m i i.j * g.t I .1 . .■ .< t grow als'ir • ‘i«» tut in i.cea and u.t’.e to town. ROW ABE WlfKHt flog treoghr r.e o think out *»#, not to >\ 11:* tJtrm ro t!«w hwgs trie u w.th lu tlum