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
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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.
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Killer attracts and kills Bios. ■
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dealer*. Harold Somers, Inc., ■
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USE ATEE AMO.- -
AN ELBOW AT CORNERS^_
\/JR. AND MRS. NEWHOUSE
; looked out over their back
yard and were in no mood to plant
an acorn and wait for it to grow
up to give them summer shade.
Mr. Newhouse bought some sec
ond-hand pipe for a song and
made a sketch for the frame of a
shelter like the one I have shown
at the upper right. He had a
plumber cut and thread the pipe
so it could be put together easily.
Mrs. Newhouse wanted the shel
ter to be as cool as a dell, so she
avoided all the hot red and orange
colorings. The pipe frame was
painted bright blue. Then she
selected green and white striped
awning material for the top. This
material was 30 inches wide and
12 yards were needed. About 15
yards of bright blue bias binding
were used for the scalloped edge.
The method of fastening the awn
ing to the frame is illustrated.
The fabric loops were made of the
awning material stitched in place
through heavy woven tape.
Whether you have a new home
or an old one, 10 cents to cover
cost and mailing charges on Mrs.
Spears’ Sewing Book No. 1 can
save you many dollars. In it are
complete directions for slip cov
ers, curtains, bedspreads, dress
ing tables and many clever and
original things that may require
the aid of Friend Husband to drive
a nail or two. Write today and
ask for Book No. 1. Address:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
Enclose 10 cents for Book No. 1.
Name .
Address .
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