NOVEL BUT GOOD IS THIS ORANGE VEAL A» MONO SALAD
(See Recipes Below)
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Spring Salads for
Spring Tonics
Time was when we needed sul
phur and molasses, or its equiva
lent, as a spring tonic to repair the
damages of a winter diet which was
quite likely to be lacking in fresh
fruit and vegetables. Nowadays
spring tonics are unnecessary nui
sances, for most of us, because even
through the long winter months, a
plentiful supply of fruits and vege
tables is available.
But somehow this season creates
an appetite for ‘‘something right out
of the garden,"
and it’s now that
we find salads of
fresh fruits and
vegetables as re
freshing as the
first spring ,
breeze.
Serving a salad
is such a simple
means of making
sure that the
day’s quota of fresh vegetables or
fruits is included in the diet.
Salads look so cool and inviting,
and properly prepared they do such
a lot toward perking up one’s appe
tite. But they must be inviting to
look at, cool and crisp, and well
seasoned.
Wash salad greens carefully, then
soak in cold water to make them
very crisp. Remove all brown or
wilted spots. Dry carefully on a
towel or place cleaned salad greens
in a clean sugar sack and shake or
twirl vigorously to remove the drops
of moisture that cling to the greens.
Chill thoroughly.
Simple salads, in general, are the
smartestr—and if they’re to serve
their purpose as spring tonics,
they’re the best. Salads which are
too rich, too elaborately garnished,
or decked out with whipped cream,
defeat their own purpose, and I have
a feeling that it's one reason most
men dislike salads, because too
often they’ve had served to them in
the name of salad, some queer,
sticky concoction, with so many in
gredients, so badly mangled, and so
much garnish, that there’s scarcely
a salad green to be seen or recog
nized. Men do like good salads,
though, and you’ll find recipes for
the kind they enjoy, in my booklet,
“Feeding Father.”
When you’re planning your spring
tonic salads, don't overlook the raw
vegetables—shreds of pared, raw
beets, slivers of carrot, and the ten
der young leaves of spinach, raw
cauliflower, broken into flowerettes
—is an excellent addition to a vege
table salad, and don’t forget that
just a suspicion of garlic in a vege
table salad is as Important as the
dressing! Minced green onion tops
or chives wil lserve as a substitute,
if your family doesn’t approve of
garlic.
Orange Veal Almond Salad.
(Serves 6-8)
Novel but good is this orange veal
almond salad. The orange blends
with and brings out the flavors of the
other ingredients. This is an espe
cially excellent buffet salad.
2 cups orange half slices
2 cups cooked veal (diced)
2 cups celery (diced)
V4 cup lemon french dressing
Lettuce
Watercress
% cup toasted almonds
Blend orange, veal, celery and
french dressing. Put in salad bowl,
lined with lettuce and watercress.
Top with the toasted almonds.
Chicken may be substituted for veal.
Lemon French Dressing.
V* cup lemon juice
*/« cup salad oil
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon paprika
1 tablespoon sugar or honey
Stir or shake thoroughly before
serving. Lemon juice is particular
ly good to bring out flavors in a
dressing for a meat salad, (makes
hi cup.)
Pinwheel Salad.
Take halves of grapefruit and re
move every other grapefruit seg
ment, leaving membrane intact.
Spring Menus.
Menus, in spring, can be some
thing very special—il you'll take
advantage of the grand variety of
foods available! In this column
next week, Eleanor Howe will
give you some of her own favorite
suggestions for dressing up spring
menus.
Prepare cherry-flavored gelatin and
fill empty grapefruit sections with
gelatin. When gelatin has stiffened,
arrange each grapefruit half on bed
of lettuce. Place mayonnaise in cen
ter of grapefruit and top with
chopped green maraschino cherries.
‘Salad Bowl' Fruit Salad.
Toss lightly together in salad bowl,
one cup watermelon balls, one cup
muskmelon balls, one cup honey dew
melon balls, one cup seeded red
cherries, and one cup diced celery.
Add french dressing in sufficient
quantity to thoroughly coat all fruits.
Have ready a supply of chilled,
crisp french endive. Place two or
three stalks on side of each individ
ual salad plate and serve with salad
bowl fruit salad.
May Basket Salad.
Take the desired number of firm
uniform tomatoes, cut out stems and
hollow out the __
center slightly.
Slice rings of
green pepper
about y« inch
thick, cut in half
and fasten on to
mato with tooth
picks to form
handle of basket
Place hearts of
lettuce and rad
ish roses (using
toothpicks for —“'
stems) in the basket. Place basket
on lettuce leaves. Garnish with
mayonnaise.
Spicy Summer Salad.
1 cup vinegar
Vi teaspoon whole cloves
1 teaspoon stick cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups fresh spinach leaves
1 large carrot
1 stalk celery
Boil vinegar, spices and salt to
gether for 10 minutes. Strain vine
gar and chill. Scrape carrot. Chop
all of the fresh vegetables together
until they are fairly fine. Dress with
the vinegar mixture and serve at
once.
Gardener’s Salad.
(Serves 8-10)
1 sliver of peeled garlic
1 head crisp lettuce (shredded)
4 tomatoes (peeled and cut in
wedges)
1 cucumber (peeled and sliced)
3 young onions (sliced thin)
4 radishes (sliced thin)
1 green pepper (cut in rings)
2 carrots (slivered)
6 slices bacon (fried crisp, and
crumpled)
1 cup french dressing
Be sure the vegetables are
washed, wiped dry, and very cold
and crisp before
starting to mix
the salad. Sprin
kle the inside of a
large salad bowl
with salt. With a
fork, rub the gar
lic well in the
salt. Remove aar
lic. Put in the shredded lettuce, the
vegetables and bacon, then the
french dressing. Mix well, so that
all the ingredients are completely
coated with dressing. Serve imme
diately.
Would You Like to Please Father?
If you want to please father, serve
him the foods he really likes—sim
ple green salads, beef roast with
rich brown gravy, and the plain
“family-style'* desserts his mother
used to make. You’ll find plenty of
practical recipes and menus for men
in Eleanor Howe's cook book "Feed
ing Father." Send 10 cents in coin
to “Feeding Father," care Eleanor
Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois, and get a copy of
“Feeding Father” for your kitchen
library.
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NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
McNary says those who
voted against trade treaty
will benefit. . . Carter Field
believes it good policy for
Dewey and Vandenberg to
favor St. Lawrence seaway.
(Bel] Syndicate—WNU Service.!
WASHINGTON —Sen. Charles L.
McNary of Oregon, Republican lead
er of the senate, expresses the view
that members of the house and sen
ate who voted against the recipro
cal trade agreement policy will
benefit in their primary and elec
tion fights, while those who voted
with Cordell Hull all the way down
the line are likely to suffer.
This is probably true, utterly re
gardless of the merits of the recip
roca. trade
a greement
policy, and
even regard
less of popular
opinion on it,
strange as such
a statement
may seem. But
politics is a law
unto itself, not
infrequently
seeming to
have no logic Senator McNary
and certainly
very little mathematics in it.
The politician early learns that
it is often excellent strategy to
fight for something that cannot pre
vail, or to fight against something
that is sure to prevail. If he was
on the losing side, no one can prove
to hi* constituents that things might
not have been better for them if he
had won. But if he won, then he has
to take the responsibility and suffer
perhaps from the disappointments.
Senator McNary is undoubtedly
right in his political analysis as to
results, whether he is right in think
ing a majority of the voters are op
posed to the reciprocal treaties or
not.
DIFFICULT TO TROVE
Men who opposed extending this
power will be able to say to their
constituents that industries in their
sections would have been very much
better off if this threat were not
hanging over them. It will be very
difficult for their opponents to prove
otherwise. It simply is not suscep
tible of proof in most instances.
Whereas the people who might be
supposed to have been benefited by
the treaties will not be excited about
this issue, even if they admit that
they have been benefited, which last
is a violent assumption, because
people do not go out of their way
to concede that it was the benevo
lent act of a government which real
ly created their opportunities, rath
er than their own initiative and en
terprise.
The people benefited will for the
most part be swayed in their votes
for or against senators and repre
sentatives for other reasons than
the trade-treaty argument.
ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY
There was nothing surprising
about the statements of Thomas E.
Dewey and Senator
Arthur H. Vanden
berg that they favor
the construction of
the St. Lawrence
seaway. Every
presidential candi
date of every party
since the project
was tirst agitated
has given it at least
lip service, and
President Roosevelt
Thomas E. nlade a real nSht
Dewey for ^ Pr°iect after
inauguration, which
he is still continuing.
The funny part of the picture is
that if Mr. Dewey were running
for United States senator from New
York, instead of for the Republican
nomination for President, he would
not dare announce his advocacy of
the St. Lawrence seaway—or, if
he did, it would be over the violent
objection of his campaign managers
and advisers. Advocacy of the sea
way by a New York senatorial can
didate would be equivalent to forc
ing a good many thousand voters
who would otherwise be supporters
to vote against him.
This is true in every Atlantic
coast state, from Maine on down.
POWER INTERESTS F. D. R.
Of course, President Roosevelt’s
personal interest in the project has
never really been in the seaway
phase, but in the electric power
phase. But the inception of the
whole thing was when the farmers
of the Northwest became enthusi
astic over the notion of getting
seven cents more a bushel for
their wheat because the freight
charges to Liverpool could be cut
that much—they were told—if the
seaway were built, also the cities
on the Great Lakes, except Chi
cago, strongly favored the seaway
because they figured it would make
them world ports.
The United States doesn’t export
much wheat any more, but the
farmers from Ohio to Montana and
from Wisconsin to Kansas all think
that the seaway would boost the
price of wheat at their railroad sta
tions.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.I
NEW YORK.—For 16 years, un
able to see or move, Edward
Sheldon has lain motionless, with a
black satin mask over his eyes, and
r, . c, , , in that time
toward Sheldon, has dictated
Blind Playwright, several of the
Wins Court Suit 1 * 1 ah y *
which have
established him as a leading Amer
ican dramatist. Calm in his afflic
tion, he found that he had gained
even a larger world, in his New
York penthouse room, as he drew
his friends to him, not in compas
sion, but in eager working partner
ship in the theater. Producers,
actors and dramatists find him an
invaluable friend and consultant.
His tireless and creative mind
knows no darkness or failure.
The United States Supreme court
awards to Mr. Sheldon and his col
laborator, Margaret Ayres Barnes,
20 per cent of the $587,605 profits
from the film “Letty Lynton,” sus
taining their contention that the film
infringed the copyright of their play
“Dishonored Lady.” The decision,
the culmination of eight years of
litigation, marks the Supreme
court’s biggest Broadway hit since
Kaufman and Connelly put it in "Of
Thee I Sing.”
Young Edward Sheldon, wealthy,
gifted and handsome, Harvard ’07,
was a run-away success, with his
first play, “Salvation Nell,” pro
duced in 1908. With the late Sidney
Howard, he had written the play
“Bewitched" when he was stricken
with paralysis and blindness in 1924.
“Years of Grace,” written there
after, brought him the Pulitzer
Prize, in 1931.
Miss Barnes, his collaborator,
overcame similar disaster in find
ing her way into her career. Crit
ically injured in an automobile ac
cident in France, in 1925, she lay
for months in a plaster cast. Her
hands were free to write—some
thing she always had hoped to do.
She wrote a novel, and, recovering,
returned to America, found a pub
lisher and an open road ahead in
authorship. Like Edward Sheldon,
she also is a Chicagoan.
IN THE year 1800, the United
A States Marine band, formed in
1798, had two oboes, two clarinets,
two french horns, a bassoon, a snare
_ drum,but
Bronson Retires they were
As Band Leader stuck for a
After 41 Years bass drum H
took them six
months to promote one. However,
they got it in time to play at John
Adams’ inaugural in 1801, and have
played at every inaugural, at Nellie
Grant’s wedding and at the funeral
of every President who died in of
fice.
Capt. Taylor Branson lays down
his baton after 41 years with the
band, and 13 years as its leader.
The band and the captain together
have paced forward quite a stretch
of American history, to the enrich
ment of the national musical an
nals. The marches which Captain
Branson has composed, foot-ticklers
all of them, include “Tell It to the
Marines," “Marines of Belleau
Wood,” “The President’s Own,” and
“Eagle. Globe and Anchor.” Of
distinguished professional attain
ments, he has delved deeply into our
national musical lore and is an
authority on the various tributary
streams of folk music which have
(lowed into it. Among his prede
cessors as leaders of the band
have been John Philip Sousa. Fran
cisco Fanciulle and W. H. Santel
mann, whose son, William F. Santel
mann now succeeds him.
Six feet tall, weighing 200 pounds,
impressive and commanding in his
respondent uniform. Captain Bran
son has been a conspicuous figure
in Washington and he and his band
have been inseparable from dra
matic moments at the capital. He
was born in Washington in 1881 and
entered the band as a clarinet play
er late in 1898. In recent years
radio has carried his fame beyond
Washington.
THE name of Judge Peyton Gor
don of the federal district court
of Washington, may find a durable
imprint in legal history books, if the
higher courts sustain his finding that
the government may prosecute
labor unions for monopolistic prac
tices. It is the first such decision
ever rendered by a federal court,
in the field of union jurisdictional
warfare
For 20 years he fought fraud and
customs cases for the government,
as assistant U. S district attorney
in Washington. In 1921. President
Harding named him district attor
ney and President Coolidge ap
pointed him justice of the Supreme
I court of Washington. He was a
i hard-hitting prosecutor in the Tea
I pot Dome and later Sinclair con
tempt cases. In the World war he
served as a major in the Judge
Advocate General’s corps. He was
born in Washington, in 1870, and
was educated at Columbia univer
-ity.
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Ruth Wyeth Spears
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* •* table skirt without fullness at
the top, is something worth know
ing. You may be making a
smartly tailored affair of white
pique with pink bindings and but
tons, like the one shown here; or
an under lining for a full skirt of
transparent material.
The diagram shows how to
make a pattern for half of the
skirt. The center front may be
placed on a fold of the goods in
cutting if there is no front open
ing. Cut the paper by the dimen
sions in the diagram. Mark point
A in 14-inches from the upper
left corner. Measure up from the
lower right corner a distance
equaling the length of the skirt
from A to the left edge of the
paper and mark point C. Connect
these points with lines drawn, as
shown.
NOTE: The new 32-page edi
tion of Book 1—“Sewing for the
Home Decorator,” shows three
other interesting styles of dress
ing tables, with detailed directions
for making. Also slip covers,
draw curtains; and numerous
household articles. Write Mrs.
Spears for a copy, enclosing 10
cents to cover cost. Address:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
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Bombarding Clouds
In 1891 congress appropriated
$9,000 for experiments in produc
ing rain artificially. Most of the
experiments were conducted in
Texas under the direction of Gen.
Robert Dyrenforth, as a special
agent of the department of agri
culture. Dynamite and hydrogen
oxygen-filled balloons made the
noise, and a little rain did fall, but
according to meteorologists this
was only that which was due to
fall in the regular and undisturbed
course of the weather.
Strange Facts
Might in Mite
Ream of Love
9 150-Mile Shadow 9
C. The most powerful permanent
magnet of its size in existence is
a piece of sintered alnico, made
recently in a General Electric lab
oratory. This bit of alloy, which
is smaller than a thimble and
weighs less than three-quarters of
an ounce, can lift and hold 200
pounds, or 4,450 times its own
weight.
C. The longest love-letter in the
world is at the British museum.
It was written by one of Queen
Elizabeth’s courtiers to his lady,
and runs to 410,000 words, on over
400 sheets of paper.
CL For more than 250 years, Fin
land has required both men and
women to be able to read and
write before they are married.
CL El Piton peak on Tenerife, the
largest of the Canary islands,
rises abruptly 12,200 feet above
the Atlantic ocean and, at sun
rise and sunset, casts a shadow
nearly 150 miles.—Collier’s.
Real Freedom
The only freedom which de
serves the name is that of pur
suing our own good in our own
way, so long as we do not attempt
to deprive others of theirs, or
impede their efforts to obtain it.—
Mill.
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