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Household News A GET-TOGETHER FOR THE GANG (See Recipes Below) Whether it's games for two or the whole crowd, you can flatter the go ing-on-19 set by serving unusual refreshments that carry an air of so phistication. They needn't be a bur den on the chief cook, either, if she masters a few short cuts in pre paring them. Sandwiches, salted nuts, olives and radishes, little cakes and coffee make a spread that appeals to any age, and that is sure to be acclaimed by enthusiastic youngsters. Serve decaffeinated coffee, so that youth ful enthusiasm needn’t be checked in a demand for second cups; and pass lengths of stick cinnamon in stead of spoons to stir this tempting brew. By all means flatter the so phisticated teensters by using your best demi-tasse cups. An assortment of sandwiches can be made in short order if you cut the bread lengthwise, after remov ing the crusts, and buttering. Spread the filling on one big slice, top with another, and cut into half a dozen small sandwiches. You can make attractive little cakes that will look as handsome as the French chef’s "petit fours" by cutting a plain loaf cake or plain layers into small shapes. Then cover with frosting, and decorate with candied fruit. After-Dinner Coffee or Demi-Tasse. (Extra Strength) Use 1V4 heaping tablespoons de caffeinated coffee, regular grind, for each cup (Vi pint) of water. Make by any method desired. If using de caffeinated coffee drip grind, meas ure well-rounded tablespoon instead of heaping tablespoon. Rolled Sandwiches. 1 loaf bread (very fresh for rolling) Y« cup butter (thoroughly creamed) 2 packages cream cheese 2 tablespoons cream Y« teaspoon salt Red and green liquid food coloring Remove crusts from a fresh loaf of bread. Cut entire loaf in thin slices lengthwise. Butter each long slice and spread % of each slice with a filing made of cream cheese moistened with cream and tinted pink with red food color. Spread the other half with moistened cheese tinted with green food color. Roll like a jelly roll and wrap in a tea towel wrung out of cold water. Chill and then cut into thin slices for serving. Orange Jiffy Cakes. % cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1% cups cake flour lVfc teaspoons baking powder y« teaspoon salt V4 cup orange juice Grated rind—1 orange Cream butter and add sugar slow ly while beating constantly. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing thor oughly. Mix and sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt, and add alternately with the orange juice and grated orange rind. Bake in greased muffin tins in a moder ately hot oven (375 degrees) for ap proximately 20 minutes. Cornucopia Sandwiches. Slice fresh bread in y*-inch slices. Trim off crusts, so that each slice is about 2V4 inches square. Spread with softened butter, and any de sired sandwich Ailing. Roll, to form a cornucopia or horn. Fasten with toothpicks. Chill well before serving. Fort Atkinson Ginger Creams. (Makes 3 dozen 1%-mch squares) Vx cup shortening 2 tablespoons sugar 2 cups flour teaspoon soda Vx teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ginger 1 cup dark molasses 1 egg (separated) 1 cup boiling water Cream shortening and sugar to gether. Sift flour, soda, salt and ginger, and blend with the creamed mixture using a pastry blender or • fork. Add molasses and egg yolk If you’re planning a menu espe cially for men, be sure to read Eleanor Howe’s column next week. Whether you’re chairman of the "Eats Committee” for the Busi ness Men’s club, or planning a supper party for Dad or a high school age son, you'll And hints on how to be successful, in this column next week. There’ll be menus and tested recipes, too. and beat well. Then add boiling water, gradually, and beat well. Fold in stiffly beaten egg white. Spread batter in greased jelly roll pan (about 11 by 16 inches) and bake in a moderately hot oven (376 degrees) for approximately 18 min utes. Cool and frost with boiled icing. College Cakes. % cup shortening 1% cups granulated sugar 2% cups cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder % teaspoon soda V\ teaspoon salt 1 cup sour milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 egg whites Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, and beat well. Sift the flour, baking pow der, soda and salt together, and add to the creamed mixture alter nately with sour milk and soda. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into the batter. Spread in shal low, greased cake pan and bake in a moderate oven (365 degrees) for about 25 minutes. Cool and cut cake into fancy shapes with cookie cutters. Ice with pastel tinted College Icing. College Icing. 2 cups granulated sugar % teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup hot water 1 pound confectioners’ sugar (approximately) Cake coloring Cook sugar, cream of tartar and water in a saucepan until a thin syrup is formed (220 degrees). Cool slightly. Then add confectioners’ sugar to make an icing of pouring consistency. Add coloring, then pour icing over the cakes, covering them entirely. Decorate as desired. Old-Fashioned Filled Cookies. (Makes about 30 cookies.) 1 cup shortening 2 cups brown sugar 4 cups rolled oats 1 teaspoon soda Mr cup boiling water 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1V4 cups flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon Cream shortening and add sugar gradually. Add rolled oats. Dissolve soda in hot water, and add to creamed mixture with the vanilla. Add flour and cinnamon, and mix well. Chill, roll out very thin, and cut into rounds. Place a teaspoon of date Ailing between 2 cookie rounds and press edges together with a fork. Place on greased cookie sheet and bake in a moderately hot oven (375 degrees) for about 15 min utes. Dale Filling. 1 cup dates (chopped tine) % cup sugar 3 tablespoons flour 1 cup hot water 1 teaspoon lemon extract Combine ingredients and cook un til thick. Cool. Here’s a Booklet Every Hostess Needs. Eleanor Howe's cook book, Easy Entertaining, will give yeu menus and tested recipes for other “Teen Age Parties.” There are hints for planning picnic lunches, and beach parties, too, and suggestions for for mal and informal entertaining of ev ery kind. Send 10 cents, now, to "Easy En tertaining," care Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, and get your copy of this useful book. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Politicians of both /tar ties question the accuracy of election polls . . . Con gress is not influenced greatly by the attitude of organized big business. (Bel) Syndicate—WNU Service.) WASHINGTON. — There is ex treme skepticism among Washing ton’s politically minded folks about the accuracy of the various polls, partic ularly as to pontif ical statements to the effect that the electorate of such and such a state would vote thus and so as between two candidates. This skepticism is President felt both ?? N„ew Roosevelt Dealers and by Re publicans. The latter profess not to believe the reported strength of certain Democratic can didates other than Franklin D. Roosevelt. Neither do the extreme left wingers. These agree openly on a point which many Republicans concede privately—that Roosevelt is tremendously stronger than any other Democrat who could be nom inated. One recent poll showed that Cor dell Hull would run slightly stronger than the President, as against Sen. Robert A. Taft. This carried no conviction whatever to a great many Washington observers who know their politics. SECOND PLACE VITAL “With a man as old as Cordell Hull especially when his health is none too good, pointed out a conservative Democratic senator, “it would be very important in the campaign who was his running mate. For Instance, the re sult might be very different, even in the ballots of the very people polled, de pending on whether Robert H. Jackson 8ecretary Hull or Jim Farley, or Henry Wallace was the vice presi dential nominee with Hull. “I will deny that I ever said it if you mention my name, for obvious reasons, but if the slate should be Hull and Jackson, I would vote the Republican ticket personally, and I am sure that a lot of my friends would do the same thing. I would not bolt, of course. We saw what happened to the Hoovercrats after 1928. On the surface I would be reg ular—but highly impotent. I could not sleep at night if I though that Hull, no longer young, was all that stood between the country and one of the shrewdest and ablest radicals I have ever known. “And don’t forget that I would like to see Cordell Hull President, if I could be sure that he would serve his term out!” A DEAR DELUSION It’s rather curious how that dear delusion of the soap-box orators— and of many highly placed New Dealers—that Big Business runs this government and this country, per sists. It would be enlightening to any one who has any doubt about the accuracy of this often-made charge to study the proceedings of the convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States— and then to watch the ensuing po litical developments. It would be fairly accurate to call the chamber meeting a gathering of Tories. All of them admit certain social obligations which the New Deal program makes a start toward meeting, but the really solid ap plause always came at a peroration which advocated demolishing one part or another of the New Deal structure. Particularly the chamber dele gates applauded speakers who want ed the National Labor Relations board fired out the window—though they would save collective bargain ing. They screamed their approval of returning control of relief expend itures to local communities. JUST WIIO THEY ARE Now as a matter of fact, the men who attended this convention were a very liberal cross section of the suc cessful business men of America. “Liberal" not in its political sense, so frequently misused, but in the sense that it was a generous sam pling. They represent and are a substantial part of the "Big Busi ness” element which the radical orators tell us run this country. They are the men against whom the anti-trust laws are aimed. This being so, and it would be rather difficult to deny it, one might suppose, if he believed the radical orators, that congress would be giv ing an apprehensive ear to the ut terances of these tycoons. One might expect there would be a rush on Capitol Hill to do their bidding. That is one might expect all this if one were a visitor from Rus sia who had not heard anything about the United States except from left-wing orators. Because, of course, the plain truth is that con gress paid little or no attention to the business men. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK I I By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) "N^EW YORK.—There is a bitter outcry in the press coop as Air Marshal Arthur S. Barratt tells the | correspondents in France that here ki . a . . after they ews Hounds in must feed on France Yelp at handouts —no Ban on ‘Digging’ more digging out their own stories. British newspaper owners retaliate by calling home the news men. It is one of several unfor tunate instances of ineffective co operation between British high com mand and the newspapers. Foreign correspondents I have talked to have told me that the British air service, staffed by younger men than is the army, has been far less encumbered with brass hats and bureauc racy, and that Its higher rank ing officers understood and co operated with newspaper men. Hence the handout order, a sweeping decree in barring Jour nalists from all news sources, comes from an unsuspected quarter. Marshal Barratt was appointed to the command of the newly created unified French-British air force by Neville Chamberlain January 10 of this year. He is 49 years old, a lav ishly decorated flier and air officer of the World war, in India at inter vals since 1931, senior air officer for India during part of that period. He joined the Royal Flying corps in 1914 and fought through the war. He has been commandant of the R. A. F. staff college at Andover. Many of the most effective leaders of the British air force have come from the Colonies. Marshal Barratt was born at Clifton, England, and was educated at Clifton college and Woolwich. IN THESE days, someone is always asking, "Watchman, what of the night?” "Not so good,” says Dr. Alfred V. _ . . . „ * Kidder, the Delver-Into-Past distinguished Is Pessimistic of archeologist. Our Social Order addressinB the American Philosophical society. He thinks the present social order i$ on the skids. As he sees it, “the underlying cause” of our present afflictions is the fact that man has made a “cul tural machine," that is a new complex of living technics, which is out-of-hand, unmanageable and quite generally haywire. Henry Adams predicted that at the turn of the century, when he saw, for the first time, a flock of dynamos. He said, in effect, that there would be power like that. That’s the end of “The Education of Henry Adams.” Dr. Kidder, with a Harvard doctorate, 1914 model, delved as far into the past as any other living man before his current peek into the future. In excava tions in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Egypt and Greece, he brooded over many a “poor Yorick” of forgotten ages. Aside from his gloomy preoccu pations with destiny, or lack of it, he’s a happy man, with five children and apparently a firm belief that the coming smash won’t be the final write-off. He is highly renowned in his pro fession and was president of the Society for American Archeolo gy in 1937. Unhappily Charles F. Schwab Is no longer here to assure us that ev erything is all right. He used to be helpful in times like this. DOROTHY STICKNEY, the ac tress who gets the Barter Thea ter award for the best performance of the season in ‘‘Life With Father,” or j it ao/i was virtually Blind Until 20, blind in her She Reaches Top youth. Reared By the Hard Way °n ® Nort* * Dakota prai rie, the daughter of a country doc tor, she had studied elocution and immediately headed for a stage ca reer when her sight was all but miraculously restored when she was 20. At St. Paul, she and three other girls formed a traveling sing ing and dancing troupe called "The Southern Belles.” It faded quick ly and she came along up in Broad way by the hard road. Her first bell-ringing role was Molly Malloy, the street walker, in "The Front Page.” At Skowhegan, Maine, she met and married Howard Lindsay, co-star in "Life With Father.” npHE London Times scolds A. P. * Herbert, parliamentary gag-man and ironist, for being too funny at a serious time, but he is still at it. u,.s i me in a book, "General Car go." in which he spoofs much oi the visible and audible England, be fore and after Munich It's all typ ically British, however, and seems to stack up with what they’re fight ing for. Frequently his Jokes go through channels, appearing in Punch, but sometimes he explodes them in parliament, frequently With salutary eiTect. -OP? SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels, and Also Pepsin-ize Stomach! When constipation brings on add indi gestion, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste, and bad breath, your stomach is probably loaded up with cer tain undigested foodand your bowelsdon't move. So you need both Pepsin to help break up fast that rich undigested food in your stomach, and Laxative Senna to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be 6ure your laxative also contains Pepsin. Take Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative, because its Syrup Pepsin helps you gain ,'hat won derful stomach com fort, while thv Laxative Senna moves your bowels. Tests {.rove the power of Pepsin todissolve those lumps of undigested protein food which may linger in your stomach, to cause belching, gastric acidity and nausea. This is how pepsin izing your stomach helps relieve it of such distress. At the same time this medicine wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your bo wels to relieve your constipation. So see how much better you feel by taking the laxative that also puts Pepsin to work on that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin icky children love to taste this pleasant family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell's Lax ative-Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your druggist today! Use in Unity Things worthless singly are use ful collectively.—Ovid. KILL ALL FLIES ^ Placed anywhere. Daisy Fly I Killer attracts and kills Bios. ■ tiuaraiiteed, eflectlve. 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