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Household News t ENTERTAINING WHEN THE WEATHER S WARM (See Recipes Below) If the mercury seems likely to pop right through the top of the thermometer, and guests are com ing for dinner, you can still keep cool! Plan your menu to permit as much preparation as possible in the cool er hours of the morning. Remem ber, when you plan the meal, that quality rath er than quantity will please your guests, and that a beautiful, cool, crisp salad will be more appetite-tempting, by far, than all the complicated hot dishes you can name! It’s wise, of course, to Include one hot food in your menu, even though the weather’s torrid. There's some thing about the contrast of hot foods and cold that makes a meal more pleasant to the taste (and to the digestion, as well). A cup of clear, hot soup, which might be prepared the day before and reheated just before serving, a hot main dish that’s not too hearty or Just a hot beverage, if you prefer it, will do the trick. You’ll find menus and tested reci pes for all kinds of summer enter taining in my cook book, ‘‘Easy En tertaining." There are menus (and recipes) for teas, for buffet suppers, children’s parties, and for a wed ding reception, too. Orange-Grape-Pear Salad In Ice Lined Salad Bowl. (Serves 8) Oranges, pears, grapes — sum mer’s juiciest fruits—in an ice chilled salad bowl! What a decora tive answer to every cook's prayer for something tempting to serve on hot weather menus. For a buffet party, serve it in a double bowl with ice to keep the salad chilled to just the right degree. With a sharp knife, peel 8 oranges, removing skin and inner membrane down to juicy meat. Cut in thin even slices. (Cal ifornia oranges are firm-meated and practically seedless, which makes them es pecially suited to slicing.) Peel and core 4 pears. Cut in slices. Halve and seed 2 cups of grapes. Combine fruits and put in salad bowl, which has been lined with romaine and watercress. These two salad greens incidentally give an interesting color contrast of light and dark green that is refreshing and that may well be used in any salad. Serve with sweet french dressing. Sweet French Dressing. % cup lemon juice Mi cup salad oil V4 cup red jelly or honey 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon paprika Shake well before serving. The lemon juice gives a flavor to dress ings that is especially good with fruit salads. (Makes 1V4 cups.) Sparkling Vegetable Soap. (Serves 8) 4 pounds beef shin 2Vi quarts water 1 tablespoon salt 4 sprigs parsley 2 bay leaves 10 pepper corns 3 whole cloves M cup sliced carrot Mi cup sliced onion Mi cup celery and celery leaves Have bones cracked at the mar ket. Wipe bone and meat with cloth. Remove half the meat from the bone, and cut in 1-inch cubes. Brown the meat on all sides, add bones, remaining meat and water. Add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Skim, then simmer for 3 to 4 hours, with the lid of the kettle tilted slightly. Strain through sieve lined wHh cheese cloth, and cool quickly, uncovered. Chill until fat Is solid, then remove fat. To clarify the soup, allow 1 egg white and crushed shell mixed with 2 ta blespoons of cold water, for each quart of stock. Add to cold stock and bring to a boil, stirring con* ftantly. Remove from heat, add % cup cold water, and let settle until cold. Carefully strain through 4 thicknesses of cheese cloth wrung out of very cold water. Just before serving, add vegeta bles as follows: Vi cup tomato (cut very fine) Vi cup carrot (diced fine) Vi cup new cabbage (cut very fine) Vi cup celery (cut very fine) 2Vi cups water Vi teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons parsley (minced) Cook tomato, carrot, cabbage and celery in boiling, salted water, Just until the vegetables are tender. Strain, and add to hot soup just before serving. Garnish with minced parsley. Wafllelxed Strawberry Shortcake. 2 cups pastry flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 3 eggs—separated lVi cups milk 3 tablespoons melted butter Mix and sift all dry ingredients. Beat egg yolks and add to them the milk and melted butter. Stir liquid mixture into dry ingredients. Fold in stiffly beaten egg white. Bake in hot waffle iron. leaving iron closed until steam no longer escapes between the two halves. Rice Rolls. (Makes 3 dozen) Vi cup cooked rice Vi cup liquid from rice Vi cup milk Vi cup shortening 2 teaspoons salt 6 tablespoons sugar 1 yeast cake softened in Vi cup lukewarm water 1 egg (beaten) 5 cups flour Drain the cooked rice thoroughly. Combine Vi cup of the water In which the rice was cooked, with Vi cup milk and scald. Pour over the shortening, salt, and sugar, cool slightly, and add the rice. Combine softened yeast with the beaten egg and add to the cooled milk mixture. Beat in about half of the flour, and mix well. Add remaining flour. Place in greased bowl, grease top of dough sltghtly and cover the bowl. Allow dough to rise until dou ble in bulk (about lVi hours). Punch down, and let rise again for about 45 minutes. Shape into small balls and place in greased muffin pans. Let rise until double in bulk, then brush with milk. Bake in a mod erately hot oven with the thermo stat set at 400 degrees, for about 20 minutes. Jellied Ham Salad. (Serves 6) 2 cups cooked ham (finely ground) V* cup mayonnaise 1 table spook sweet pickle (cut fine) 2 whole cloves 1 bay leaf 2 cups water 1 tablespoon granulated unflavored gelatin 2 tablespoons cold water 1 cup cooked ham (cut in small strips) Combine ground ham, mayonnaise and pickle and blend thoroughly. Chill. Add cloves and bay leaf to water and boil for about 5 minutes. Then strain. Add gelatin which has been soaked in cold water and stir until dissolved. Chill until mixture begins to thicken; then add ham mixture. Pour in individual salad molds and chill 2 or 3 hours, or un til set Unmold on crisp lettuce or watercress, top with mayonnaise and strips of cooitvd ham and serve very cold. Cheese Cornucopias—Salad Accompaniment. Cheese cornucopias are an unusu al, but delicious, salad accompani ment. Make ordinary pastry as for pie and roll out. Make tiny cornu copias (about 3 inches long) from any stiff paper. Wrap pastry around cornucopia and bake 12 minutes in a hot oven (450 degrees). Remove paper and when cool, fill cornu copias with highly flavored cream cheese. Serve with any salad. (Released by Western Newspaper Union. The Brewster Murder 86 ‘ By CARLTON JAMES (McClure Syndicate—WNU Service.) / r y^\Oj«IE on," said Inspector * * | Jeff Carlton, “there’* y j been a murder up at the Falrview apart ment*. This may be your chance for a *tory.” I picked up my hat and followed. We taxied to the Fairview. A butler admitted us to Glen Fer nald’s apartment. The butler’s face was white, and there was a wild look in his eyes. He gestured to a door that opened off the hall. Carlton stepped toward it, beckon ing to me to follow. Inside were three people, two men and a woman. Ope of the former, a young, fair haired youth, got unsteadily to his feet and leered at us. He held a half-filled glass of liquor. “Evenin’, gent’muns,’’ he said thickly. “Thish ish a pleasure. Have-a-drink." Carlton turned away from him and addressed himself to the other man. “Hello, Doc,’’ he said. “What’s happened?” Doctor Jordan nodded familiarly. He was a nervous little man with a red face and spectacles. I had seen him occasionally about head quarters. "Hello, Inspector. There’s been a murder. Man named Brewster. Stabbed. He’s in there.” He nodded toward a door behind the fireplace. Inspector Carlton went through the door. He was gone about five minutes. When he returned he stood near the fireplace and looked around the room. "What happened, doc? Who’s that?” He pointed toward the woman. She was about thirty years old, I judged. Her face was so white that the makeup on her cheeks looked like ghastly blotches. Doctor Jordan said: "That’s Mrs. Brewster. It was she who called me.” "I see.” Carlton looked at the woman. "You’re the dead man’s wife?” "Yes.” Her voice was low, frightened. “Tell me what happened.” She clutched at her throat and looked sidewise at the fair-haired youth, but he had sat down and closed his eyes. His head was loll ing to one side. “Mr. Fernald,” she said, still looking at him, “was giving a party. There were five of us here: Mr. Brewster and myself, Mr. Fernald, and a young couple named Ray mond. Mr. Raymond was a busi ness associate of my husband. They were leaving tonight on the midnight train, and this party was a sort of farewell.” “Where are they now?” The woman gestured helplessly. “Gone, I suppose. When it came time to leave, my husband seemed to be missing. I remembered see ing him go toward the kitchen. The Raymonds couldn’t wait because it was nearly time for their train. They left and we began searching for my husband. We found him in —in there—. Dead!” “Were the Raymonds drunk when they left?” “No. There'd been no drinking. When Mr. Fernald discovered what had happened he became dreadfully upset. I called Doctor Jordan. Mr. Fernald ordered some whisky, and has been drinking ever since.” Carlton nodded. He gestured to Doc Jordan, and the pair of them withdrew into a comer and carried on a low-voiced conversation. I watched them for a while and then gave my attention to the room. It was quite a large room, tastefully appointed. In the center there was a large table, with books and magazines and a cruet of whisky. Besides the door leading to the den behind the fireplace, there was another which, I judged, led to the kitchen. Presently Carlton came back to the center of the room. Dr. Jordan went over to Fernald and began shaking him. “Mrs. Brewster,” Carlton said, "in your opinion, was it the Ray monds who killed your husband?” She stared at him, terrified. “I—I don’t know. It was the first time I’d met them." “Where do they com* from?” She gestured vaguely, “Somewhere in the West. My hus band was a mining engineer. He met Mr. Raymond on one of his many trips to the Coast. They be came interested in some sort of min ing venture, and, I believe, invested together. The venture turned out well, according to what I gathered from their conversation of the past few days.” “I see. How long have you known Mr. Fernald, Mrs. Brewster?" “How long? Why—ever so long. My husband and Mr. Fernald have been friends since childhood.” “I see,” Carlton said again. He turned and crossed to the butler. We couldn’t hear what was said, but I saw the serving man shake his head. Presently, Carlton turned and came back. There was a glint in his eyes. He looked at Mrs. Brewster, j “Very, very nice,” he said. Sud denly he Jabbed a finger at the woman. "Mrs. Brewster," he mapped, "you're a liar!" She caught her breath and drew back a step, staring wildly. Carlton turned from her and went over to Femald. Surprisingly, he reached down and grasped Femald by the coat collar, lifting him clear off his chair. "Stand up, you! You're no more drunk tham I am." Femald’s eyes came open. He leered, but anyone could see that it wasn’t genuine. Carlton was right. Femald was cold sober. "Keep your eye on this jigger," Carlton said to me. "Don’t let him get away.” He swung back to Mrs. Brew ster. "Mrs. Brewster, that story you told about the Raymonds is one of the cutest I’ve ever heard. No one knew anything about them but your husband, and your husband’s dead. They left tonight on the midnight, but you weren't sure of their desti nation. In other words, it would be quite a job to locate these Ray monds. In fact, you knew they never would be located, because they don’t exist. “You know who killed your hus band, Mrs. Brewster. It was Fer nald. And you helped. You in veigled your husband to come here tonight so Fernald could kill him be cause you loved Fernald and Brew ster stood in your way. It was all nicely planned, nicely arranged.” Mrs. Brewster uttered a fright ened scream. Her knees gave way and she slumped to the floor. Fernald took advantage of the moment to make a swing at me; he almost connected despite the fact that I hadn’t permitted my attention to be diverted. The momentum of his blow carried him off balance for an instant and I drove my fist hard into his stomach. Carlton had done a good job but still I was puzzled. I wanted to know how he knew that Fernald wasn’t drunk. “That,” Carlton explained, “is the crux of the whole thing. As soon as I discovered Fernald was play acting I knew there must be some reason for it. So I began adding things up.” “Yes. But how did you know he was sober?” Carlton laughed. "The whisky cruet was nearly full. The amount of whisky in Fer nald’s glass would have filled it to the top. Mrs. Brewster had already told me that no one had taken a drink but Fernald and then not until Brewster’s body had been discov ered.” "Clever,” I said. “And the butler?” “Too late to pin anything on him. He may have been bribed, but now that he knows we’ve apprehended the murderer it isn’t likely he’ll sub stantiate Mrs. Brewster’s story.” Migrant Farm Worker Can Live Cheaply in Yakima Ten cents goes a long way for services in the government’s new farm family labor camp at Yakima, Wash. The migrant farm worker can bring his whole family into the camp and live for 10 cents a day. The dime pays for use of a frame shelter with stove, and if the family requires two shelters they can have them, if available, for the same ini tial rental fee. But that isn’t all the dime buys. There’s a community wash house for the use of the women of the camp, and bathing facilities for men and women. That’s a lot, but there’s even more, including the privilege of using a community center and the services of a camp clinic for every one, and a camp school teacher for all children from the first to the fourth grades. Who gets the money? Not Uncle Sam, who built the camp. The rent fees go into a camp fund administered by a community coun cil. The council uses the funds for whatever purposes it deems neces sary for the best interests of the camp’s occupants. The council has often bought food which is distributed among the campers. It authorized the pur chase of a piano for the community center, and it pays for the enter tainment provided at dances in the clubhouse. The Yakima camp is one of a number established throughout the United States by the Farm Securi ty administration, and is considered one of the best of its kind. There are 200 one-room shelters in the camp area of 150 acres, and 125 tent platforms. In addition there are 48 three-room houses, each of which has a quarter-acre of ground for a subsistence garden. The Yakima camp and others like it were built to improve living con ditions for migrating farm familiei of meager means. Conditions under which some of them lived in the past in various parts of the country were deplorable, according to FSA officials. Government surveys made in many agricultural sections showed that some of the farm laborers lived without hathing ana toilet facilities and without most other conveniences of modern housing. The camp manager can take single persons in at his discretion, but they are admitted only with the understanding that if their quarters are required for married couples, they must vacate. II977-B I T’S smart for mother and daughter to dress alike—and here’s a dashing sports ensemble suggested by the garb in which two popular movie stars — one grown-up and one little—romped through a recent comedy. Design No. 1977-B is an identical copy of 1978-B—pleated shorts, converti ble neckline, pockets and all. Each includes a separate, tailored skirt, Under Orders Jones leaned over the fence and hatched his friend Brown hard at work in the garden. “Been at it long?” he asked. “Yes,” sighed Brown, dejected ly; “since seven o’clock.” “Good gracious!” gasped the other. “I wouldn’t think of such a thing.” “I wouldn’t, either,” Brown ex plained, casting a nervous glance towards his house. “My wife thought of it.” What Mastication “I’ll take off my hat to you oyster eaters. It was all / could do to eat three last night!” “Weren’t they fresh? What did they look like when you opened them?” “O, did you have to open them?” Fresh Eggs “Are your hens good layers?” “Splendid. They haven’t laid a bad egg yet.” Up and Off It “Hey, boy, what are you doing up my pear tree?” “Well, sir, there’s a notice below which says ‘Keep off the grass.’ ” Only Means Jean—I hear you have married a man of means. Joan—Well, if there was ever a man who means to do this, that, and the other—but never does— he’s the man. which transforms the play suit into a spectator sports frock with shirtwaist top. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1977-B is designed for sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. Size 4 requires 3 yards of 35-inch material without nap. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1978-B is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 40. Corresponding bust measurements 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40. Size 14 (32) requires 5% yards of 35-inch material without nap. Price of patterns, 15 cents each. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 211 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose IS cents for each pattern. Pattern No. Size. Pattern No. Size. Name .. Address . ' .. HOUSEHOLD j QUESTIONS I Scorched Linen—The marks can be taken out by rubbing with a cut onion and then soaking in cold water. This takes out both the smell and the marks. • • * To remove mustard stains from table linen, boil stained part in a quart of water to which one tea spoon of washing soda has been added. • • • To keep bread in the best condi tion store in a clean, well-aired, covered, ventilated container and keep in a cool place. • • * Wash the leaves of a rubber plant with warm water and castile soapsuds. When dry, rub each leaf with a cloth wet in olive oil. * * * Try adding a tew raisins to the dumplings you serve with stews. • # * Tumblers that have been used with milk should always be washed in cold water before they are washed in hot. When this is done the milk will not stick to the glass and they will not have a cloudy appearance. 1 WALNUT LOGS CASH PAID FOR WALNUT LOGS OR TIMBER Midwest Walnut Ca.. Council Bluffs, I*. BEAUTY SCHOOL Enroll Now. Nebraska’s Oldest School. 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