Household News
THE HOLIDAY SEASON APPROACHES!
(See Recipes Below)
One of the most important occa
sions in the year's schedule of holi
days is the Christmas dinner. As
homemakers, it behooves us to
crown it with a superlative dessert.
Cakes, fragrant with spices, and
rich with fruits and nuts, are tradi
tional Christmas fare, and are more
than satisfying as a finale to the
feast.
Fruit cakes improve with age.
They become mellow and more fla
vorsome as the days go by. So,
make them early and let them ripen
until the holiday season arrives.
Proper storage prevents fruit cakes
from molding and drying out. Wrap
the cooled cakes in wax paper, and
store in tightly covered tins. Pour a
little wine or fruit juice over the
cakes, every week or so, and when
ready to be served they will be mel
lowed to the proper degree.
Make out your Christmas list now.
I’m sure you will find a few friends
and relatives to
whom you may
send fruit cakes.
They will make
charming gifts,
especially for
those away from
home, and who
have neither time
nor the facilities
to bake their own. Wrapped in cel
lophane end tied with a bow, or
fastened with colorful Christmas
seals, the packaged fruit cake is
indeed "lovely to look at. and de
lightful to eat.”
A box of Christmas cookies of va
rious shapes, sizes and kinds will
be an appreciated present for some
one on your list. Perhaps it is the
kindly little old lady next door, or
the lonely old man down on the
comer, both of whom will thank
you for your thoughtfulness.
Christmas Fruit Cake.
(Makes 10 pounds)
1 Vi pounds currants
3 pounds seedless raisins
1 pound citron
1 pound mixed candied fruit
1 pound candied pineapple
1 pound candied cherries
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
6 eggs
4 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon nutmeg
Vt teaspoon cloves
% teaspoon salt
1 cup fruit juice or wine
Cut fruits. Cream butter and add
sugar. Add well-beaten egg yolks.
Mix and sift dry ingredients and
add alternately with fruit juice or
wine to the butter mixture. Add
fruit. Fold in beaten egg whites.
Place in baking pans lined with
wax paper. Cover pans with wax
paper and steam 5 hours. Then
bake 1 hour in a slow oven (275
degrees).
Gum Drop Cookies.
4 eggs
2Va cups light brown sugar
2 cups flour
1 cup nutmeats
(chopped)
18 large gum ^
drops (cut in
small pieces)
Beat eggs thor
oughly. Add sug- *
ar and continue beating. Add flour
and beat until smooth. Fold in nut
meats and gum drops. Spread even
ly in 1 large or 2 medium-sized
greased baking pans. Bake in a
moderate oven (350 degrees) for 20
minutes, or until firm. Sprinkle with
powdered sugar and cut into bars.
Glace Finish for Fruit Cakes,
cups water
% cup granulated sugar
*/* ounce Gum Arabic (4V4 tea
spoons)
Place sugar and water in a sauce
pan and boil to the thread stage
(230 degrees). Add Gum Arabic
and heat again just to the boiling
point. After fruit cake has been
baked, remove from the oven and
garnish with nuts and fruits as de
sired. Then pour the Gum Arabic
mixture over the fruit cake in a
thin stream, and manipulate as lit
tie as possible in order to avoid
crystallization of the glace.
White Fruit Cake.
(Makes 5V<i pound fruit cake.)
*/* cup butter
2 cups sugar
7 eggs (separated)
2V4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
% teaspoon salt
1 cup sweet milk
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 pound white raisins
% pound figs
Vi pound blanched almonds
Vs pound citron
Mi pound candied cherries
Vi pound candied pineapple
Cream butter and add sugar. Sep
arate eggs, beat egg yolks and add.
Mix and sift together dry ingredi
ents and add alternately with the
milk. Add lemon extract. Cut fruits
and add. Blend well and fold in
well-beaten egg whites. Place in
pans lined with wax paper and bake
1 hour in a very slow oven (275
degrees); then increase heat slight
ly (300 degrees) and bake 2 hours
more.
Yuletlde Cookies.
(Makes 60 cookies)
Mi cup butter
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs (well beaten)
2 cups flour
Vi teaspoon soda
y« teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon nut
meg
Vi teaspoon cin
namon
2 tablespoons of
sour cream
1 teaspoon vanil
la extract
Vi cup seedless
raisins
ft cup candied cherries (cut)
ft cup citron (cut fine)
ft cup dates (cut fine)
ft cup pecan nut meats (cut)
Cream butter, add sugar slowly
and beat thoroughly. Add eggs. Mix
and sift all dry ingredients and add
alternately with cream and vanilla
extract. Fold in fruit and nut meats.
Chill thoroughly; then break off in
small pieces, form into balls, flat
ten. and place on greased cookie
sheet. Bake in a moderate oven
(350 degrees) for approximately 12
minutes.
Orange and Lemon Christmas
Cookies.
(Makes about 5 dozen cookies)
1 cup sugar
ft cup orange juice
ft cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon lemon peel (grated)
1 teaspoon orange peel (grated)
3ft cups flour (sifted)
2 teaspoons baking powder
ft teaspoon salt
ft cup butter (melted)
Mix sugar and fruit juices well.
Add grated peel, dry Ingredients
and melted butter. Stir well Dough
should be firm enough to roll. Roll
very thin and cut with fancy cutter
In Christmas shapes. Bake on a
greased sheet in a moderately hot
oven (375 degrees) for about 10 min
utes, or until lightly browned on
the edges. (The dough may be
chilled in the refrigerator for about
a half hour to make the rolling sim
pler).
Feeding Father.
Don't let father down when the
holiday season catches up with
you. You may be busy with the
holiday tasks before you. but Dad
will still be around for the eve
ning meals, and during the week
ends, and the family must be
fed, regardless of the amount of
work to be done.
Miss Howe's cookbook "Feed
ing Father” will help you im
mensely in preparing the family
meals. It contains recipes for
simplified dishes to serve which
will delight the family because
they are so good to eat.
You may secure your copy of
the cookbook by writing to "Feed
ing Father,” care of Eleanor
Howe, 919 North Michigan Ave
nue, Chicago, Illinois, and enclos
ing 10 cents in coin.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.'
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Opinion in Washington
divided on how to speed
up production to aid
Britain . . . Effective op
position foreshadowed
by Democrats voting
with Republicans to de
feat adjournment move.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
WASHINGTON.—Everything now
depends on the very point that Wen
dell Willkie tried so hard to put over
during the campaign—production.
Particularly, of course, production
of planes, munitions, ships and oth
er war supplies for Britain.
President Roosevelt is being told
by several of his advisers that his
place in history will depend very
largely on what happens to Britain
in the remainder of the war. If
Britain goes down, he has been told,
there will always be historians who
will blame America’s failure to sup
ply Britain with the necessities of
war. If she survives, America will
be given the credit for having saved
her by furnishing these necessaries.
This advice is not being given the
President with a view to overcoming
any reluctance on his part to help
Britain. There is no doubt about the
President’s desire to do that.
INCREASE PRODUCTION
Nevertheless there are various
theories about what could be done
to increase production of the things
Britain so vitally needs. Some of
these ways are very distasteful to
important figures in the administra
tion. Some of them are, to put it
mildly, distasteful to the President
himself.
There are people in the adminis
tration, on the other extreme, who
would like to abolish the national
defense commission. These include
people with widely varying reasons
for wanting to get rid of it. Some of
the more radical resent the occa
sional outbursts from individuals in
the commission which seem to curb
freedom for labor to fight for im
provements. Others disagree with
this criticism, but would like to see
the whole process of procurement
revert to the war and navy depart
ments. These departments do the
buying for our own national defense
now, of course, but there are those
who would like to see the advisory
function of the defense commission
eliminated.
There is also the question of more
power for the defense commission,
whether it should have a chairman
who could function without running
to the President every whipstitch.
On this point the President has giv
en no sign of yielding his present
tight control.
• • •
ADJOURNMENT DEFEATED
The most significant thing about
the refusal of the house of repre
sentatives to adjourn, when every
body knew that President Roosevelt
wanted congress to go home, is not
the majority of 43 against the ad
journment resolution, but the fact
that 45 Democrats voted with the
Republicans. And this despite the
impassioned appeal of one Demo
cratic member, in the discussion be
fore the motion was put, that it was
an “insult” to the President to op
pose adjournment.
If that gentleman was right then
45 Democratic members of the house
voted to ’%‘insult” the President.
Of course, their votes did not
mean anything of the sort. Very
few of them would want to “insult”
the President, even if one studied
their private views. But these 45
were perfectly willing to oppose
something the President wanted, and
to do so in public. Most of them, for
that matter, were perfectly willing
later to subscribe to the President’s
own comment that if congress want
ed to stay in session it was all right
with him.
Comitig so soon after Roosevelt’s
tremendous electoral vote victory,
and considering that Roosevelt has
four more years of power, the fact
that 45 Democrats in the house vot
ed against something he wanted
does not foreshadow a maximum of
co-operation between the White
House and Capitol Hill.
•INSURGENTS’ IN CONTROL
On the contrary there is every in
dication that congress, and especial
ly the house, may become as inde
pendent as the proverbial hog on ice.
This adjournment vote demon
strated that the new leadership of
the house is no more able to per
form miracles than when Speaker
William B. Bankhead was alive. The
chief difference is that in Bank
head’s time there was no certainty
that Roosevelt would not retire to
private life next January. When the
house voted against adjournment; it
KNEW that Roosevelt would be in
power during two more congresses.
While the Democratic majority
will be slightly greater in the next
house of representatives, this in
crease is not important. Forty-five
Democrats are plenty, when joining
the Republican representatives in
any vote, to become a majority.
So that in a way what might be
called the independent Democrats,
though as a matter of fact most of
these “insurgents” are old-line par
ty men, will control the house from
now on certainly for the next two
years.
Bu\*6 %
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Department
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Y/lAKE this adorable frock for
■*-Y* your own little girl, tie a rib
bon round her head and send her
off beaming to her next important
party date! You may be sure
she’ll have a good time, and be
the smartest little girl there!
Correctly simple, with waistline
slimmed in by inside tucks be
neath which the skirt flares and
ripples, it’s trimmed with frills
and ribbon at sleeves and neck
line. You can see from the dia
gram sketch how easy this design
(No. 8827) is to make. Just cut
out four pieces, make the tucks
Pull the Trigger on
Lazy Bowels
With herb laxative,combined with syrup pepdn
to make it agreeable and easy to take
When constipation brings on acid in
digestion, bloating, diazy spells, gas,
coated tongue, sour taste and bad
breath, your stomach is probably "cry
ing the blues" because your bowels don’t
move. It calls for Laxative Senna to pull
the trigger on those lazy bowels, com
bined with good old Syrup Pepsin to
make your laxative more agreeable and
easier to take. For years many Doctors
have used pepsin compounds, as agree
able carriers to make other medicines
more palatable when your “taster" feels
easily upset. So be sure your laxative
con tail .s Syrup Pepsin. Insist on Dr.
Caldwell’s Laxative Senna, combined
with Syrup Pepsin. See how wonderfully
its heio Laxative Senna wakes up lazy
nerves and muscles in your intestines, to
bring welcome relief from constipation.
And see how its Syrup Pepsin makes Dr.
Caldwell’s medicine so smooth and agree
able to a touchy gullet. Even finicky
children love the taste of this pleasant
family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell’s Lax
ative Senna at your druggist’s today.
Try one laxative that won’t bring on
violent distaste, even when you take it
after a full meal.
Confidence
Confidence is that feeling by
which the mind embarks in great
and honorable courses with a sure
hope and trust in itself.—Cicero.
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Narrow Minds
Narrow minds think nothing
right that is above their own ca
pacity.—La Rochefoucauld.
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LIQUID
TABLETS
SALVE
NOSE DROPS
COUCH DROPS
Strength in Solitude
When is a man strong until he
feels alone.—Browning.
6627
and the darts, and sew it together.
Even the least experienced moth
er or doting aunt can do it!
For the coming holiday parties
this frock will be most appro
priate in velveteen or taffeta, with
organdy or very fine lace for
trimming. Simple as it is, this
pattern includes a step-by-step sew
chart.
• • •
Pattern No. 8827 Is designed for sizes 3,
4. 5 and 6 years. Size 4 requires IT* yards
of 39-lnch material; 1*/* yards trimming
and l'.i yards of velvet ribbon. Send
order to:
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Room 1324
211 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago
Enclose 15 cents in coins for
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Progressive Indians
Between the years 1841 and 1852,
the Cherokee Indians living in and
around Tahlequah, Indian territo
ry, now a part of Oklahoma, es
tablished a national newspaper, a
Masonic lodge, male and female
seminaries that taught three for
eign languages, French, Greek and
Latin, and three temperance or
ganizations, one of which was
called the Cherokee Cold Water
Army.—Collier’s.
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Good Actions
Do you act as if you had 10,000
years to throwaway? Death stands
at your elbow. Be good for some
thing, while you live and it is in
your power. What remains but to |
live easy and cheerful, and crowd
one good action so close to an
other that there may be the least
empty space between them.
INDIGESTION
may affect the Heart
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hatr-trtacr oa the heart. At the drat aten of rtiifrma
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actln* medicinet known for acid Indication. It fee
FlHflT DOSS doesn't (roue Bell-ana better, return
bottle to iu and recelra ibh ri.m Mokj Back, fie.
Active Nature
Nature knows no pause in prog
ress and development, and at
taches her curse on all inaction.—
Goethe.
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Always a Duty
There is not a moment without
some duty.—Cicero.
Greatest Gift
He gives double who gives ui>*
^ asked.—Arabian.
THE GRAND BUY IN ^
ROLLING TOBACCO IS PRINCE ALBERT, J
NO SPILLING OR SIFTING OUT—NO WASTE.
70 PINE 'At AKIN'S'CIGARETTES TO THE
POCKET TIN—CRIMP CUT TO ROLL FASTER,.
EASIER FOR MILDER, TASTIER SMOKES.
THERE'S NO OTHER TOBACCO UKE
PRINCE ALBERT
20 YEARS of railroading and 10 years smoking
Prince Albert sure show that DeWitt T. Smith likes
his job and his tobacco, too! Trainman Smith buys
EA. by the pound tin —the size so popular as a
Christmas gift! (A swell gift for pipe fans, too!)
In recent laboratory “smoking bowl” tests,
Prince Albert burned
00 COOIER
than the average of the 30 other of the largest
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