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    Household News
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AFTER THE FOOTBALL GAME
See Recipes Below.
If you are entertaining the crowd
after the game, you'll And substan
tial refreshments in favor; for the
same crisp air that puts football
players on their toes breeds keen
appetites.
It’s good social strategy to ar
range everything buffet style and let
the guests help themselves. You’ll
want a tame tnat
? is festive, easy to
handle, and yet
casual. You may
even want to set
up card tables in
the living room to
make your guests
comfortable after
they have helped
themselves from the buffet.
Natural colored linen, or rough
homespun cloth will make a smart
background for your serving table.
Candles are often used very effec
tively, when serving buffet style, for
they add both atmosphere and light.
If you double as hostess and chief
cook, you’ll enjoy the game twice as
much if you plan a menu that can
be prepared beforehand. Sandwich
makings and a hot steaming bever
age are a wise choice. Then wind
up the feast with ice cream and
chocolate cake.
Frankfurter Sandwich.
Boil or steam large frankfurt
era until tender
and Juicy. Slice
thin on white or
rye bread and
serve with mus
tard sauce and
hot potato salad.
Garnish with
pickle.
Hot Potato Salad.
(Serves 6)
6 medium-sized potatoes
4 slices bacon (minced)
1 medium-sized onion (sliced)
2 tablespoons bacon drippings
y« cup water
% cup vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
Vt teaspoon salt
y* teaspoon pepper
' Cook potatoes in jackets. Cool,
skin, and slice. Pan broil minced
bacon, then saute onion in bacon
drippings until brown. Combine and
heat water, vinegar, sugar, salt, and
pepper. Add to mixture in frying
pan, and mix with potatoes. Place
in baking dish and heat in moderate
oven (350 degrees) before serving.
Egg Meringue Surprise Sandwich.
(Serves 6)
6 slices bread
y« cup butter (melted)
Vi pound sharp cheese
6 eggs
Salt and pepper
6 slices bacon
Trim slices of bread and brush
one side with melted butter. Place
buttered side down on a cookie
sheet. Cut cheese into strips about
Vi inch in thickness. Arrange them,
side by side, or fence-like on the
bread. Separate eggs and drop one
egg yolk in the center of each slice
of bread. Sprinkle with salt and
pepper. Whip egg whites until stiff
and dry, and pile high on top, com
pletely covering the egg and cheese.
Cut the slices of bacon into halves
and place two halves on each sand
wich right across the egg white.
Place in moderate oven (350 de
grees) and bake for 10 to 15 min
utes, or until the egg white is brown
and the bacon is crisp.
Silver Cake.
(Makes 1 loaf cake)
Vi cup butter
1% cups granulated sugar
2Vi cups cake flour (sifted)
3 teaspoons baking powder
Vi teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 egg whites (stiffly beaten)
Cream butter, add sugar and beat
welL Sift the flour, baking powder
and salt together, and add to sugar
and butter mixture. Mix well, and
place in refrigerator. When desired
for use, remove mixture from re
frigerator. Break up lumps with
fork. Add milk and vanilla, and
beat until mixture is smooth and
creamy. Then fold in the stiffly beat
en egg whites. Pour into greased
loaf cake tin, and bake in a mod
erately slow oven (325 degrees) for
about 50 minutes.
Chocolate Peppermint Frosting.
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1V4 cups (1 can) sweetened con
densed milk
8 marshmallows (cut in quarters)
Few drops oil of peppermint
Melt chocolate in top of double
boiler. Add sweetened condensed
milk, stir over rapidly boiling water
5 minutes, or until (he mixture thick
ens. Add marshmallows, and stir
until they begin to melt Remove
from heat and add peppermint. Cool.
Spread on cold cake. This frosting
covers tops of 2 9-inch layers or top
and sides of loaf cake generously,
or about 24 cup cakes.
Vanilla Ice Cream.
(Makes 1 quart)
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
V« teaspoon salt
2 egg yolks (well beaten)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup whipping cream
Scald milk, reserving % cup. Mix
and blend the sugar, flour, and salt,
and mix to a smooth paste with the
cold milk which was reserved. Add
this mixture to the scalded milk and
cook, stirring constantly until thick,
in a double boiler for 15 minutes.
Add egg yolks which have been well
beaten and cook, stirring constantly,
3 minutes longer. Add vanilla and
chill. Fold in the whipping cream
which has been whipped, place in
ice cream freezer and freeze, using
3 parts ice to 1 part rock salt.
Sausages In Pastry Blankets.
(Makes 8 sausage rolls)
1H cups flour
tfe teaspoon salt
Va teaspoon baking powder
cup shortening
3 tablespoons cold water (approxi
mately)
8 pork sausages
Sift together the flour, salt and
baking powder. Blend in the short
emng. men add
just enough water
to form a dough,
mixing lightly.
Roll out and cut
into 8 oblong
pieces, each suffi
ciently large to
wrap around one
link of sausage.
Place individual
sausages (well pricked) on individ
ual pieces of pastry; fold ends over
and roll up. Place folded side down
on a baking sheet. Prick crust with
a fork. Bake in a hot oven (425 de
grees) for about 30 minutes. Serve
very hot
Better Baking.
The smell of baking cookies
and cakes will soon be permeat
ing the house. Fruit cakes will
be baked, packed and stored
carefully, until the time they are
to be used for gifts. “Better Bak
ing" includes fruit cake recipes
which have been thoroughly test- j
ed in Miss Howe's own kitchens.
This cook book also contains
many good cookie recipes, from
old-fashioned Ginger Cookies to
Fudge Drops.
If you are planning on giving
cookies and fruit cakes to your
friends as gifts, it will be wise to
write for “Better Baking” now.
Start your baking early, and
avoid the last minute rush. You
may secure your copy of this
cook book by writing to “Better
Baking" care of Eleanor Howe,
919 North Michigtn Avenue, Chi
cago, Illinois, and enclosing 10
cents in coin.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Tip on Molasses
Before measuring molasses for
recipes dip the cup or spoon in hot
water and the molasses will turn
out more quickly.
Test for Custard
Baked custards should be tested
with a knife. When knife comes out
of the center of custard clean, then
it is done.
LOCALE
; 8 f ;
By MEREDITH SCHOLL
(Associated Newspapers.)
WNU Service. T
MR. DUMONT laughed heart
ily and looked at his son.
“Stan.” he said, “when I
proposed to your mother,
it was a cold, blustering day in the
middle of January. Snow was fall
ing and Amy’s feet^were wet. Most
uncomfortable. I remember it as
plain as day. We were standing on
the bridge in the Public Garden—”
“Did she accept you—then?” Stan
asked.
“She did. We stayed on the bridge
for more than an hour, and were
late getting home to supper. Her
dad gave me the devil.”
Stan’s brows puckered into a
frown. Presently he asked: "Dad,
you and mother loved each other a
lot, didn't you? I mean, before you
were married?”
“Why, yes, I suppose we did.
Why?”
“Well, listen. Dad, tomorrow
you’re going up to the lake to open
tha camp for the summer, aren’t
you?”
"That’s right.” Mr. Dumont
looked puzzled. “What’s this all
about, son?"
Stan ignored the question. “It
ought to be pretty nice at the lake
now, hadn’t it? I mean, warm and
sunshiny and—and nice?”
"It’s always nice at the lake. Now,
look here. If you want to come up
for a week or so before going to
work, we’ll be only too tickled to
have you.”
mat, said btan, is exactly
what I want to do. But that's not
all.” He hesitated. “I’ve a friend
I’d like to ask up, too.”
"A friend?” Mr. Dumont studied
his son’s face, and presently his own
broke into a smile. The light of un
derstanding was in his eyes. “I get
it,” he said. “O. K., Stan, fetch her
along. I guess if you think as much
of her as that, your mother and I
will approve.”
Stan grinned boyishly. "I know
you’ll like her. Dad. You couldn’t
help but like Helen. She—she’s
grand!”
"She must be,” Mr. Dumont
agreed. He placed his hand on his
son’s shoulder. "Son,” he said, "re
member this: There’s one thing that
hasn’t changed since your mother
and I were kids.”
Stan didn’t grasp the significance
of the remark. But for the time
being he let it pass. There were
too many other things to occupy his
thoughts. He had to get in touch
with Helen at once. There was a
bare possibility that she couldn't or
wouldn’t accept his invitation. The
thought was disturbing.
But that evening the possibility of
her refusal was instantly dispelled
by the dark-haired, dark-eyed,
charmingly demure Helen herself.
She not only accepted, she seemed
eager to go. Inland lakes nestling
down among green mountains, she
said, were exactly her idea of a per
fect setting for an ideal vacation.
Secretly Stan hoped that the in
land lake would prove an ideal set
ting for something else, too, some
thing that he had been contemplat
ing for a long, long time, but lacked
the courage to put into words.
Stan drove Helen up in his road
ster two days after his folks left to
open their camp for the summer.
They arrived in the mellow light of
a perfect June evening. Helen ut
tered exclamations of delight at ev
ery turn in the road. When the camp
itself came into view her enthusi
asm fairly bubbled over.
The Dumonts met them on the
front porch, and Stan knew with a
feeling of relief that both his mother
and father approved of Helen. His
dad took her hand in his and looked
down into her face and smtled
warmly. Stan had a momentary
thought that an expression of under
standing passed between them. But
the idea was forgotten in the excite
ment of showing off the camp for
Helen’s benefit.
The days that followed were, for
Stan, a glorious realization of
dreams that he had cherished for
five long years. There was but one
doubt to mar his happiness, and that
doubt was, he knew, the product of
his own reasoning. It existed only
because of his lack of courage; its
continuance was and would be de
termined by his ability to conquer
a hideous fear.
For six days Stan harbored the
doubt and fear without speaking the
words that would decide his future
happiness. On the afternoon before
the day set for Helen’s departure
he became desperate. They had
gone by canoe to the lake's north
end for a picnic lunch, and were re
turning when it suddenly started to
rain.
It was one of those sudden, sum
mer downpours that are usual to
upper New York state, quick to
come and as quick to go. Before 10
minutes had passed, both of them
were drenched to the skin. A quar
ter-hour later Stan nosed the canoe
into the beach below his father’s
camp. The rain had stepped, but
the sky was still overcast and a
chilling wind had come up.
’’Cold?” he asked anxiously, help
ing Helen to alight. She looked at
him and smiled. “Not a bit." But
her teeth were chattering.
Stan stood looking at her a mo
ment Suddenly, impulsively, he
seized her in his arms. “Helen, I
love you. I want you for my wife
—have wanted you for five years—
been afraid to ask—afraid of ruin
ing our beautiful friendship. Will
you marry me?”
Thirty minutes later they came
up the walk to the camp, came into
the living room where a cheery,
warm blaze crackled in the open
fireplace. Mr. and Mrs. Dumont
turned to look at them with expres
sions of concern.
But Stan and Helen had begun to
talk at once. “We’re engaged!” they
said, breathlessly and laughed.
Stan went on: "Now, I know what
you meant, Dad. I mean, when you
said there’s one thing that never
changes.”
Mr. Dumont looked from his son
to Helen and a twinkle came into his
eyes. “Well, well,” he said. "So
you found out, eh?” He turned to
his wife and took her hand. "I was
afraid, too, son. Afraid if I pro
posed, it might ruin everything. I,
too, thought that the proper kind of
setting would, well, help my cause
along. But, in those days a man
couldn’t select his locale, and after
the day on the Public Garden’s
bridge, J realized how foolish I’d
been to think that anything so im
portant could be changed by a set
ting.”
“Oh, it doesn’t make the slight
est difference when you’re—” Helen
broke off, blushing deeply.
Mr. Dumont smiled. He looked at
her, her hair matted to her fore
head, her lips blue with cold, her
clothes clinging with wetness to her
slim young form. And he looked at
his son, about whose.shoes a puddle
of water had formed, and he nodded
understandingly. "I can see that,”
he said. "Even without my memo
ries of the Public Garden’s bridge,
I can believe that a proper setting
doesn't make much difference when
you're in love.”
Green-Eyed Monster
By THAYER WALDO
(McClure Syndicate—WNU Service.)
IACK gazed steadfastly at her and
sulked. There was. after all, lit
tle else he could do. No use to pro
test—make a scene—only to be hu
miliated by some cutting remark
from her. He suppressed a sigh and
set his mouth in a determinedly si
lent line.
Obvious to this turmoil in the
breast of the male beside her, Aithra
Donovan laughed and chatted airily.
Four men surrounded her, giving
rapt attention to each syllable.
The situation galled Jack cruel
ly. He and Aithra. he felt, could be
so matchlessly happy together if it
weren’t for this constant problem.
Men, men, men—they hovered ever
about Aithra as yellowjacks around
a jam-pot.
“All right!” It was the director
speaking. “Miss Donovan and Mr.
Kilgore, please; we’re ready for
scene eleven, sequence B.”
Aithra left her admirers and went
toward the set.
It was a brief and intimate little
scene, involving just the couple. Ai
thra, as a debutante of the nine
ties, was required to incite by sub
tle suggestion a proposal from her
hesitant beau.
"You comport yourself, dear
friend David, almost as if my com
pany bored you.” The line was spo
ken with a note of tantalizing coy
ness that stabbed Jack; she so rare
ly used it with him.
“I do wish, if only for vanity’s
sake, that you were not quite so
distant."
Jack listened rebelliously to
the fellow’s stammered apology;
watched with mounting hatred as
he crossed the set to sit beside her.
“Ah, then you truly like me?”
Aithra was cooing For answer, Kil
gore pressed his hand to his lips.
Jack’s breathing labored. Love, to
him, meant a devotion so great that
to diffuse it was unthinkable. But
Aithra was an actress; her life con
sisted of endless angling for the fa
vor and notice of those around her.
Yet Jack was incapable of view
ing it so. The cravings and de
mands of his passionate nature
spurned compromise.
He half rose, then sank back again
as someone called, “Cut!” and the
pair separated. The director said:
“Not quite enough fervor, I’m
afraid, Mr. Kilgore. Remember,
you’ve been the bashful suitor a long
while and now that you’ve gotten
started, you give it everything. Let’s
try another take on that last part;
okay?”
Both players nodded, and in an in
stant Kilgore was once again blurt
ing forth his awkward proposal. As
before, Aithra gave an eager affirm
ative and fairly threw herself into
his arms. Savagely Jack fought for
mastery of his rising gorge. But
this time the thing was too strong
for him. Unreasoning fury gained j
control at sight of the ardor those ;
two put into their embraces. He
commenced to twitch all over, j
sprang to his feet, and dashed to- ;
ward them. A cameraman saw him 1
coming and tried to block the way,
but too late. Jack was past him
and lunging at Kilgore. Then Ai
thra’s voice rang out piercingly:
“Jack—stop it!!” .
The command entered his seeth
ing brain like a knife thrust, and
suddenly the madness dropped from
him. Bracing his feet, he pulled up
short with stiff, quivering legs and
head adroop. The hand of the wom
an he loved slapped stingingly
across his face and she cried:
“You bad brute, you! From now
on you’ll stay at home! . . . I’m
So sorry, Mr. Kilgore. It’s odd;
collies are the most insanely jeal
ous dogs. Did you see that green
flame in his eyes?”
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1 Original Names 1
All Are Nobles 1
* Women in the Fore *
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containing 30 villages and 13,000
people, is the only community in
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C. Women constitute 98 per cent
of the pearl divers of Japan, 80
per cent of the dentists of Finland,
80 per cent of the bartenders of
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Transforming a Box
Into Smart Ottoman
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
DAD the top of a box and slip
1 cover it; then add a separate
cushion three inches thick. The
result will be a smart ottoman
that either may match or contrast
with the cover of your favorite
chair. The little feet made of
drawer pulls keep the ottoman
from looking like a box. A corded
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cover joins the top, and an invert
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also give a professional touch.
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top and a bottom piece the size of
the box top; and a straight three
inch piece around the sides. If
kapok is used for filling, this inner
cushion may be made of muslin.
• • •
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