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IT COMES UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR . . .
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A CUP OF CHEER!
(See Recipes Below)
’Tls the night before Christmas
and all through the house every
body’* stirring except the wee peo
ple who are wandering in dream
land with Santa Claus. The little
stockings have been filled to burst
ing, the last package has been tied
up in tissue and ribbon, the Christ
mas angel has taken the tree under
the shadow of its wings . . . and
everybody’s hungry!
So . . . when it comes upon the
midnight clear—that glorious song of
old — the family
wish each oiner
Merry Christmas
and gather round
the buffet table
for a snack and a
cup of cheer.
The bill of fare,
1 on such an occa*
sion, is as simple
as the way it’s
served; a platter
of cold meats, served vith hot chili
sauce; soft rolls or French bread
or perhaps melba toast; and cookies
for the sweet tooth are the perfect
accompaniment to hot tea which
quickens the Christmas spirit.
Or perhaps you'd like to serve
bowls of creamy, old-fashioned oy
ster stew, with toasted hard rolls, a
green salad if you like, and for des
sert doughnuts with hot, spicy ap
ple sauce.
Oyster Stew
(Serves 6 to 8)
1 quart oysters
Vi cup butter
2 quarts rich milk
Salt and pepper to taste
Place oysters, strained oyster liq
uor, and butter in a saucepan and
cook gently until
edges of oysters
begin to curl.
Heat milk in a
separate sauce- <
pan at the same I
time. (Caution: |
Milk should be '
thoroughly heat
ed, but should not
boil.) Add oysters
to milk and season to taste. Serve
immediately.
Stir-up Chocolate Cake.
(Makes 1 8-inch square cake)
1 egg (unbeaten)
% cup cocoa
Vi cup shortening
1 Vfe cups flour
cup sour milk
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
Vi cup hot water
1 cup sugar
% teaspoon salt
Put ingredients in mixing bowl in
order given. Stir or beat until the
batter is smooth. Pour into greased
cake pan 8 by 8 by 2 inches square.
Bake in a moderately slow oven
(325 degrees) for about 50 minutes.
Boiled Icing.
2hi cups sugar
(4 cup light corn syrup
Vi teaspoon salt
\4 cup water
2 egg whites (well beaten)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Place sugar, corn syrup, salt and
water together In a saucepan and
cook to the firm ball stage (250 de
grees). Pour the hot syrup slowly
into the well-beaten egg whites,
beating constantly. Add vanilla ex
tract and continue beating until the
frosting will hold its shape when
tossed over the back of a spoon.
Should the icing become too stiff
to manipulate easily, a very small
amount of hot water may be added,
or the icing may be remelted in
the top of a double boiler. Spread
on cake in swirls.
Buttermilk Rolls.
(Makes 3 dozen)
1 cake yeast
2 cups buttermilk (scalded and
cooled)
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
Mit teaspoon soda
4 cups flour
2 tablespoons shortening (melted)
Soften yeast in buttermilk which
has been scalded and cooled to luke
warm. Add sugar, salt, and soda to
the rest of the buttermilk. Add soft
ened yeast and half of the flour.
Beat until the batter is smooth and
full of bubbles Beat in fat and re
maining flour, mixing until dough
forms a ball. Turn onto a welt
Feeding Father.
For the married folk you like
to remember with an inexpen
sive Christmas gift, or for clever
party favors, how about a copy
of Eleanor Howe's cookbook
"Feeding Father”? You’ll find in
it the recipes for the foods that
men like best, tested recipes, too,
for foods like Old Fashioned Navy
Bean Soup, Baked Onions, Stuffed
Pork Chops and Chocolate Cream
Pie!
To get your copy of this clever
book, send 10 cents in coin to
"Feeding Father,” care of Elea
nor Howe, 919 North Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
floured board (using V4 cup flour)
and knead until the dough is smooth
and elastic. Roll out to V4-inch thick
ness. Cut Into rounds and place Vi
inch apart on greased baking sheet.
Brush with melted butter, and let
rise in a warm place until double
in bulk (about 1 hour). Bake in a
hot oven (425 degrees) for 15 to 20
minutes.
Deviled Eggs.
6 hard cooked eggs
5 tablespoons mayonnaise-type sal
ad dressing
2 teaspoons onion (minced)
V« teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
Tabasco sauce
1 tablespoon pickle (minced)
Cut hard cooked eggs in half
lengthwise. Remove yolks and force
through sieve. Add remaining in
gredients and mix well, using addi
tional salad dressing if desired. Re
fill whites with yolk mixture. Chill.
Sprinkle with paprika or minced
chives.
Spicy Apple Sauce.
(Serves 6)
8 medium-sized tart apples
Water
1 cup sugar
Vi teaspoon cinnamon
Vi teaspoon nutmeg
Wash, quarter, and core apples.
Place in saucepan with just enough
water to cover. Add sugar and
spices, cover, and cook over low
heat (or about 10 minutes. Bub
through coarse strainer. Serve hot.
Sour Cream Doughnuts.
(Makes 3 dozen)
2 eggs
% cup sugar
1 cup thick sour cream
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon nutmeg
Vi teaspoon soda
lVi teaspoons baking powder
Vi teaspoon salt
Beat eggs until thick and light;
add sugar and sour cream. Beat
well. Sift remain
ing 5 dry Ingre
dients together.
Add to first mix- i
ture to make a [
soft dough. More \
flour may be
needed if dough
is very sticky
and is to be rolled
and cut Immediately. If not used at
once, chill overnight or several
hours. Roll out dough, small por
tions at a time, V« inch thick, using
as little flour on board as possible.
Cut with floured cutter.
Preheat enough frying fat to 375
degrees Fahrenheit. Fry a few
doughnuts at a time, turning them
only once. When browned on both
sides, remove from fat and drain on
soft, absorbent paper. When cold,
sprinkle with powdered sugar, if de
sired.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
If your kitchen storage space is
limited, make fllelike shelves in a
lower cupboard and use them for
storing lids, pie and cake pans and
other flat utensils. This will be a
time saver.
• • •
Hard-cooked eggs will peel easily
if, as soon as they are cooked, then
shells are cracked slightly mid th»
eggs are Gripped into cold water for
five minutes Tii? egg? may then
be chilled and used.
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WHO’S
Ii'EWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK.—Early in Septem
ber, 1924, the League of Na
tions assembly was in session, on a
sunny afternoon, with every garde
si nia in place |
Popular Candidate on the lapel
For Free Albania of its morn
Modern Jeremiah *fgcoat’wiUl
decorous
murmurs mingling with the bird
song and the hum of the bees, heard
through the open windows. The im-;
peccable and somewhat desiccated
Sir Eric Drummond, who played I
closer to his immaculate white vest
than any living man, was presiding
watchfully against any untoward
procedure, any solecism, any break
in syntax or punctilio, or move to
ward any overt suggestion or act.
There arose among the dele
gates a great, shaggy bearded
man who started the window's
rattling with his booming voice.
He said: “You are just blowing
bubbles. Your talk is hot air.
You have done and will do noth
ing for peace. You know that
the Dawes plan Is doomed. You
know that all treaties are des
tined for the waste basket.”
It was a long, masterful and pun
ishing philippic, delivered in a fin
ished Harvard accent. Sir Eric was
almost a hospital case.
The Jeremiah was Bishop Fan
Stylian Noli, of the Albanian Ortho
dox church, and it is Bishop Noli,
now supposedly living in Boston,
who is named in a London cable
to the New York Sun, as the popu
lar candidate for a liberated Alba
nia. With the aid of the Greeks,
the hope of Albanian liberation is
warming up daily, here and abroad.
The huge, ruddy warrior-bishop, a
medieval man with modern ideas,
never has been caught in the feudal
tensions and confusion of Balkan
politics. He is a genuine libertarian
and democrat, recruiting Moslems
as well as Christians in his long
running fight for modern free state
hood for his country. His League
of Nations speech was shushed in
Europe, but all of it finally filtered
through to American newspapers. It
was the voice of a major prophet,
as startling as the little flickering
cinema spot on the walls of Belshaz
zar's palace.
If the bishop should reclaim and
redeem Albania, America would get
an assist, if not a put-out. He was
educated at Harvard university, en
tering in 1908 and finishing in 1912. In
the former year, the peaceful re
ligious revolution by which the mod
ern Orthodox Albanian church was
established was just getting under
way, and it was in that year, that
he was invested with the robes of
its priesthood.
I got a glimpse of the bishop
in the Commodore hotel in 1931,
a keen-eyed, blaek-bearded gi
ant, purposeful, alert and power
ful in every aspect of his face
and person. lie had arrived just
a jump ahead of certain dissi
dent Albanian gunmen. On this
and many other oceasions, he
blasted Albania’s dude monareh,
Ahmed Zog much as he had
blasted the tit-tat-toc assembly
of the league. But he changed
hotels frequently and mysteri
ously, as for many years he has
had death close on his heels.
And it was in 1931 that he said
that Premier Mussolini would
snatch Albania when he got
ready, and that Zog’s govern
ment was all make-believe.
SIR PHILIP B. JOUBERT DE LA
FERTE, British air marshal,
has had a long and distinguished ca
reer in the army, and in all these
c- bit » cl- years he has
Sir Philip 8 Slip been a model
Gets Approval of of discretion
U. S. New abounds a"d ^pe^?a'
ble official be
havior, Hence it was a most ex
traordinary slip when he broadcast
to the world details of where Ger
man bombs had fallen. The min
istry of information, of which Sir
Philip is a member, had been
clamping down the censorship lid
and British papers were printing
German communiques, as the only
news available. American newspa
per men, sharply at odds with the
censorship about getting news from
Germany, are acclaiming Sir Philip
for a fumble which they think was
in the public interest. It seems to
be his first fumble.
As a flier in the World war, he
gathered both British and Italian
decorations and was mentioned in
dispatches six times. He joined the
royal field artillery in 1907 and
transferred to the royal flying corps
in 1913.
He was in France in first two years
of the war and in Egypt in 1916
and 1917. After the war he was
R. A. F. instructor at the imperial
defense college and commanded the
R. A F staff college in 1930 and
1934 He was given command of the
R. A F. in 1937. He was educated at
Harrow and Woolwich.
Small Town... Big Job for U. S.
W hen most of us think of the great task involved in the carry
ing out of our gigantic defense program, we visualize belching fur
naces and great shipyards where little men labor like ants to turn
out big battle wagons. But we think of all these things as being in
great cities like Chicago, Detroit, New York. However, vital jobs
can be done outside of big industrial centers, as for example, Ha
gerstown, Md^ one of the smallest industrial centers in the United
States. Hagerstown boasts an airplane factory that is turning out
three planes a day for Uncle Sam. It is the Fairchild Aircraft
factory, makers of the training plane that bears the company
name. This series of photos takes you through the plant.
ASSEMBLY . .. In this department of the Hagerstown plant of
the Fairchild company the motors are installed in plane fuselages.
Then the assembled ship is towed to Hagerstown airport where test
pilots take the ships into the t»ir.
MAKING IT STICK .. . Craftsman J. E. Clopper is engaged in
welding the hollow piping used to shape the framework of an air
plane. The piping is of aluminum alloy and each piece must be
welded to its mate with the greatest care to withstand flight strain.
A BORIS BIBBER . . . Rib
bing is the assembling of the
framework of the wings which
is being done here. Then the
wings of the plane are covered
with plywood.
BRAIN DEPT. .. . Before you
can start to build an airplane
there are scores of things you
must know about aero dynamic».
Here are two project engineers
doping out stress, weights, etc.
DEBUT . . . The men who take all army planes made in Hagers
loten for their first trip are shown here in a brand-new ship. In
the cockpit is Capt. C. W. O'Connor, U. S. A., army test pilot;
chatting with him is Dick Henson, Fairchild's own test pilot. Hen
son has already flown the ship and passes it on to Capt. O’Connor.
A Fairchild plane, trim as a hum
minft, bird, makes its bow to the world.
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4"" Ruth Wyeth Spears
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corners!!
FOR
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UNDERWEAR]
CASES
I CUT HAT COVER FROM 4O'50UAREl
T'HERE are fascinating new
transparent materials on the
market now. Luncheon sets and
aprons and rain coats and closet
accessories all take on new glam
our when made of them, and you
will find that every left-over scrap
will be used for something that
is attractive and worth while.
Less than 50 cents’ worth of this
window-pane clear material made
the hat cover, underwear case and
two glove cases like the one shown
here. All the directions for cut
ting and making the hat cover
are given here in the sketch. The
material from two corners made
the square underwear case. The
material from each of the other
two corners was folded to make a
glove or handkerchief case. Bright
blue bias tape was used for seam
binding and the ‘bottom facing and
loop handle of the hat cover; and
Hen, Rooster Motif
For Tea Towel Set
No. Z9160
T'HE romantic story of a print
hen and rooster, aided and
abetted by Cupid in daisy form, is
entertainingly told in motifs for a
set of tea towels. Any bride, or
matron, would welcome clever
towels like these; there is one for
each day of the week. The two
extra motifs are for matching pan
holders to complete the set.
No. Z9160. 15c. brings the NUMO hot
iron transfer giving these nine designs.
Send order to:
—
AUNT MARTHA
Box 166-W Kansas City, Mo.
Enclose 15 cents for each pattern
desired. Pattern No.
Name ...
Address .
Happy Hours Ahead
A gift to make many happy hours
for pipe and “makin’s” smokers is
the Prince Albert Christmas pack
age—one full pound of ripe, rich
tasting, mellow tobacco. Colorful
holiday wrappers put these popu
lar presents in gay Christmas set
ting—and a handy gift card is en
closed. Your regular tobacco deal
er has the one-pound gift tin of
Prince Albert on display. Remem
ber! Prince Albert is the cooler
burning tobacco—the National Joy
Smoke.—Adv.
By Thy Deeds
Such as thy words are, such will
thy affections be esteemed; and
such will thy deeds be as thy af
fections; and such thy life as thy
deeds.—Socrates.
colored zippers to match the bind
ings were used for the case clos
ings.
• • •
Today's article is typical of the econ
omy short cuts that I like to plan for
homemaking budgeteers. There are com
plete working drawings for thirty-two
homemaking projects in SEWING Book 6
—enough exciting ideas to keep you busy
all the rest of the winter. Send order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford HiUs New York
Enclose 10 cents for Book 6.
Name .
Address ...
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The Better Way to
Correct Constipation
One way to treat constipation is
to endure it first and "cure" It
afterward. The other way is to
avoid having it by getting at its
cause. So why not save yourself
those dull headachy days, plus
the inevitable trips to the medi
cine chest, if you can do it by a
simple common-sense “ounce of
prevention"?
If your trouble, like that of
millions, is due to lack of “bulk”
in the diet, “the better way” is to
eat Kellogg’s All-Bran. This
crunchy, toasted, ready-to-eat
cereal has just the “bulk” you
need. If you eat it regularly—and
drink plenty of waver—you can
not only get regular but keep
regular, day after day and month,
after month 1 All-Bran is made
by Kellogg's in Battle Creek. If
your condition is chronic, it is
^wlse to consult a physician. ^
Friend or Foe
The man that makes the best
friend will make the worst enemy.
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.—
Keats.
WHEN kidneys function badly and
you suffer a nagging backache,
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j frequent urination and getting up at
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Doan's are especially for poorly
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Live to Apply
To live is not to learn, but to
apply.—E. Legouve.
TRAD
Soothe that throat tickle which comes from a
cough due to a cold! Quick—get a Smith Bros.
Cough Drop. (Black or Menthol—5 tf.)
Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the
only drops containing VITAMIN A
Vitamin A (Carotene) raises the resistance of
mucous membranes of nose and throat to .
k cold infection*, when lack of resist- }
r ance is due to Vitamin A deficiency. ii
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ARE AN
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PERSON
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The merchant who advertises must treat
you better than the merchant who does
not. He must treat you as though you
were the most influential person in town.
As a matter of cold fact you are. You
hold the destiny of his business in your
hands. He knows it. He shows it. And you
benefit by good service, by courteous treat
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