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COLD-WEATHER HOSPITALITY
(See Recipes Below)
What If the radio weatherman ]
doe* predict a drop to 10 degree*
below zero! That
is do reason to
. put all hospitality
) in cold storage,
too. Not if our
l grandmotbe r ■
' could have get
together* even when they bad to
drive the horses through the snow
and stay the whole day!
And so. no matter bow blustery
the weather, clubs will still have
their afternoon meetings, there will
be cheerful teas is church parlors,
and friends sail drop in informally
to spend the evening. If it is warm
inside and there is fragrant, invit
ing food in the offing, the sharpness
of the wind won’t matter.
You will want to have a few new
recipes at your fingers' ends to
make such cold weather hospitality
easy If you are feeding the chib,
using the bridge table method, you
might serve beef creole in individu
al rice rings, a plate of celery
hearts, carrot sticks and stuffed ol
ives, together with hot rolls of your
own making. Let the dessert course
be coffee and an eggnog pie—a
creamy yellow chiffon pie with a
thin coverlet of whipped cream and
a dusting of nutmeg over the top.
12 you’re planning a tea, remem
ber that hot Russian tea is super
fine with cinnamon doughnuts, split
and toasted. For informal evening
affairs at your own fireside, trot cof
fee cake with currant jelly and cof
fee will be enough to serve. If you
have a wooden cheese board or a
handsome plate, show It off with a
collection of cheese and crackers
ami a bowl of assorted fruit like that
shown in the picture above.
Russian Tea.
(Makes 14 servings)
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 3-inch stick cinnamon
% cup orange juice (3 oranges)
8 tablespoons lemon juice (2 lemons)
1 12-ounce can pineapple juice (1%
cups)
lVi quarts water
1 cup strong tes infusion
1 lemon (for garnishing)
Boil 1 cup of the water, with sug
ar and stick cinnamon for S min
utes Add juice of
oranges, lemons,
and pineapple <
Juice. Boil orange
and lemon rinds <
in ft quart of the j
water for 3 min
utes. Strain and 4
combine with the 1
fruit juice mix
ture. Add the re
maining 1 quart
of water. Set aside. Just before
serving, heat the fruit Juice mix
ture and combine with the tea in
fusion. To make the infusion, pour
one cup of rapidly boiling water
over 4 level teaspoons of tea. Let
steep 3 minutes, then stir briefly
and strain. Serve the tea hot in
tall glasses or cups (%i cup to a
serving) and garnish each with a
slice of lemon.
Eggnog Fie.
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
% cup cold water
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
% teaspoon salt
ft cup milk
% teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla
Vt cup whipping cream
Let gelatin soak in cold water for
5 minutes. Beat egg yolks until
light; stir in tt cup of sugar and
salt. Gradually add milk and cook
over boiling water until it is the
consistency of custard about 5 min
utes. Stir constantly during cook
ing. Add softened gelatin to custaro
mixture, stirring until it is com
pletely dissolved, then add nutmeg
and vanilla. Cbill the Oiling until
it is partially congealed Beat egg
whites until frothy. Add tfc cup of
ragar gradually, beating until the
meringue stands In stiff peaks and
will not flow v/hen the bowl is par
tially inverted. Fold meringue into
partially congealed custard mixture,
pour into a baked 9-inch pie shell
and ehUJ in the refrigerator for 2
hours or longer. When ready to
serve, spread a thin layer at
whipped cream over die top and
sprinkle with additional nutmeg.
8tremel Coffee Cake.
(1 9-inch cake)
1% cups general purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
V4 teaspoon salt
% cup sugar
>4 cup shortening
1 eg*
Vi cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sift flour once before measuring.
Then sift flour, baking powder, salt
and sugar together. Cut in shorten
ing with two knives or a pastry
blender (or rub it in with the fin
gers) until the mixture is like coarse
commeaL Blend in well-beaten egg
mixed with milk. Then stir in va
nilla and beat just enough to mix
well. Pour the batter into a well
greased 9-inch layer cake pan.
Sprinkle with streusel topping. Bake
25 to 30 minutes in a moderate oven
(375 degrees).
Streasel Topping.
4 cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
2 tablespoons flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
4 cup chopped nuts
2 tablespoons butter (melted)
Mix flour, sugar and cinnamon to*
gettoer. Blend in melted butter and
stir in chopped nuts.
Pecan Confections.
(Makes 2 dozen 2-inch cookies)
1 egg white
1 cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup chopped pecans
Beat the egg white until it will
stand in stiff peaks, then gradually
beat in with a ro
tary beater the
brown sugar. Stir
in flour, salt and
chopped pecans.
Drop the mixture
from the tip of ;
a spoon onto
greased cooky
sheets, spacing
the cookies at
least 2 inches apart. Bake in a
very slow oven (275 degrees) for
25 minutes. Cool somewhat, then
remove from the tin onto a caka
cooler covered with waxed paper.
Cheese Beard.
1 3-ounce package cream cheese
1 4-ounce package Liederkrana
cheese
1 8-ounce package Swiss cheese
4 m-owice wedges of Camembert
cheese
12 radishes
Crackers
Arrange as desired on a large
plate or wooden cheese tray.
Rice Rings.
3 cups cooked rice (hot)
Vt teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter
2 egg yolks
3 tablespoons cream
Add salt and melted butter to
cooked rice. Beat egg yolks with
cream and stir into rice mixture.
Grease 6 individual ring molds and
pack rice in flrmly. Place in pan
of hot water for 8 to 10 minutes.
Itemove from molds and ail centers
with beef creole.
BREAKFAST ON SUNDAY
MORNING
If Sunday morning is the oc
casion for a leisurely family get
together, why not make it the
high spot of the week with a
fresh-from-the oven plate of hot
twuflfins? You'll And recipes for
delicious fruit muffins, spicy ten
der cinnamon rolls in Miss
Howe's Cook Book "Better Bak
ing." There are dozens of other
recipes for quick and not-so-quick
cakes and cookies in this booklet,
all of them tested and approved
for their goodness.
To get a copy for your recipe
shelf, send 10 cents in coin to
"Better Baking" care of Eleanor
Howe. 91# North Michigan Ave
nue. Chicago. Illinois.
(Releiird t>jr Western Newspaper Union <
THE DOWN-AND
OUTER
93
Bv JOAN SLOCUM
(MtCure Syndicate—WNV Service.)
IF DOUGLAS WALTON had
asked Kay Bergen to marry
him the afternoon she had told
him she was going to New York
to make good, Kay would have set
tled down happily with him at For
est Station. She’d more than half
expected he would—and a good deal
more than half hoped he would. But
he didn’t On a business trip from
New York to the city where he lived
he had stopped cfT »* small town
where Kay lived to see her.
“Oh, I see.” said Douglas, at first
a bit banteringly. then more and
more seriously. “The small town
cramps your style. Well, if that's
the way you feel—only—I thought
last summer—”
“What did you think last sum
mer. Douglas?" asked Kay softly.
“Oh—” Douglas' voice was a lit
tle hard—“just that you weren’t the
kind of girl who'd think that kind of
thing necessary to happiness. I
thought you'd like—oh, last sum
mer in the mountains I thought you'd
like different things. But if you like
New Yk>rk and think you'll make
good there, why that’s that and
there's nothing more to do about it
I don’t think you're right” He was
irritatingly practical now, accepting
her, not as a woman, but as a co
worker. another struggier in the
fight to make a living. "I think I
have a better chance of success
right borne in Forest Station than
you have in New York.”
He left a little later, after talking
trivialities, and there was no ap
proach to anything like sentiment
between them.
So, decided Kay, if that was the
way he feit about it, she would show
him. She'd be as good a business
woman as she could. She’d beat him
at his own game.
Weeks passed. An occasional let
ter from Douglas. He was getting
along slowly but surely, he wrote,
in the law office where he held a
junior partnership. Not big money
in these times in a small town—
but not bad, either, when you com
pared expenses and income. He was
glad to hear of her success. She
seemed to have struck a great piece
of luck, working her way right up
to the top. Hard work, of course,
but if you like that kind of thing, of
course it was great
Kay had, indeed, done unexpect
edly well, though she hated to have
Douglas give luck all the credit In
spite of depression, she had got into
one of the big stores. And, because
of a real genius for using words
vividly, she had obtained a place
in the advertising department and
had been promised a speedy rise to
a really good job.
But when the first novelty of suc
cess and accomplishment had worn
off, Kay found other visions min
gling with those of her progress to
fame. And, being an honest sort of
a girl, she faced the facts and ad
mitted to herself, after six months
in New York, that she would give
up everything she had gained or
could look forward to for the sake of
life beside Douglas in quiet little
Forest Station. She liked her work.
She found her new friends interest
ing. She thrilled to New York, with
its vivid life and fast tempo. She
enjoyed the few gay parties she
found time for. But her heart was
with Douglas.
His letters lately had been few
and far between. Perhaps he didn’t
care for her as much as she had
once hoped he did. Perhaps he
cared for someone else. She knew
nothing, really, of his friends and
life. She'd never been In Forest
Station, and in the mountains where
she had met him at a resort hotel
the summer before they were both,
at course, among strangers. She
kept reminding herself that he had
never told her anything to make her
know he really cared. Perhaps her
belief that he did was only the nat
ural reaction to what, she now ac
knowledged, was her love for him.
So Kay worked out a scheme to
find out if Douglas cared.
"Dear Douglas”—she wrote. "This
isn’t a very cheerful letter, for I
think I’m going to lose my job. Isn't
that too awful? After I've had such
fun and done so well. But the cruel,
big city seems to be too big and
cruel for me.”
She waited for a sympathetic an
swer. None ctme. She wrote:
"The blow has fallen. I’m just
not a big-city sort of person. I’ve
lost my job. And in this unfriendly
place I don’t know where to turn
for another.”
No answer. In her next letter:
“New York is pretty dreary when
you're down and out. I’ve been
walking the streets today looking
for work. And there isn’t any. Ot
course. I’m all right, for my father
will be only too glad to have me
back home again. Bm I’m ready to
admit that New York’s too much for
me—too big, too impersonal, too
cruel.”
"And if that doesn’t bring some
sort of answer.” thought Kay, “I’ll
give up. and stick to my work and
try to enjoy it”
No letter came, and as she dressed
for a party one evening a week lat
er — she had been really thrilled
when Courtney Brown, brilliant
young advertising manager for the
store, had asked her to go to dinner
and the theater with him—she de
cided that her tactics with Douglas
bad been all wrong. He’s lost what
I *
Interest he might bars had hi her
last summer; was married, frr all
she knew. Her stupid letter* must
seem to him the most blatant bids
for sympathy. Oh. waO. she'd go
with Mr. Brown and have a good
time and when she'd made good in
her job she’d forget all about Doug
las.
She pulled a black velvet dress
over her shoulders and let it settle
softly to the slender curves of her
body, patted her hair in shape, and
sat down to wait for Courtney
Brown. When, in answer to the
bell, she opened the door of her
small apartment and found, not
Courtney, but Douglas, standing
there, the only thing she could think
of to say was: “Oh:"
But Douglas said enough for two.
‘i ve come to take you back to
Forest City.” he began. And that
started things.
Half an hour later, said Kay: "Oh
—I forgot. Where’s Courtney
Brown? He’s my boss—and I was
going to dinner with him. And.
Douglas, I’ll have to explain, I’m
not really down and out—I just
wrote that so I could find out how
you felt about me."
She watched bis face anxiously
for signs of disapproval.
He beamed. “I know. Courtney
Brow., is an old friend of the family
—he’s taking my sister to dinner
and the show in your place. You
don’t think I didn’t know how you
were getting on, do you? Courtney
kept me posted. And I realized that
if I didn’t come to rescue you soon
you'd get away from me for ever—
poor little Down-and-Outer.’’
Cupid’s Code
By DOROTHY G. D AYMAN
(McClure Syndicate—WNU Service.)
_ j
'T"'HE lighthouse stands on the
point where the great ships
steam past to enter the canal, and
there lived Mary Ann and her father, '
who was the keeper of the light.
Mary Ann had kept house for her
father for the five years since her !
mother died, in spite of the constant
urging of Billy Bowen that she
marry him. It was hard, hard for
both of them. Billy wanted Mary
Ann, and Mary Ann loved Billy, and
yet she could not forget the promise
she had made to her mother that
she would look after her father for
her.
This sparkling August morning
her father had rowed across to the
mainland for supplies, and just after
he had gone Billy Bowen had come
to see her. He looked so handsome
with his thick black hair, bronzed
face and white teeth, as he pas
sionately urged her to marry himl
"I’ve waited for you two years. ;
Mary Ann, and I need you!” he de
clared. and when she replied that
her father needed her still, he lost
his temper, and bitterly asserted
that he did not believe she loved
him at all. He vowed that unless
she would promise to marry him
soon he would take the boat for
New York that night and she would
never see him again.
“When the boat goes by the light I
tonight. I’ll be on it,” he said, his I
boyish voice rough with feeling;
“and I’11 be thinking, There’s
where the girl lives who doesn’t
love me!”
And poor Mary Ann, loyal to her
dead .mother's trust, could only
watch his lithe figure striding away
without one backward look, and cry
and cry and cry. Then she must
bathe her face and brush her hair
to hide her sorrow, for father must
not know of her sacrifice.
She beard the sound of her fa
ther’s oars, and soon be entered the
little kitchen.
"Mary Ann,” he said happily,
“you’ve been a good daughter to
me, and it has been hard on you
here all alone with an old fellow
like me . . . but it’s over now.
Jane Hatch said today that she’d
marry me, and I guess I know what
you’ll do next! I've been watching
that Billy Bowen making eyes at
you. Maybe we can have a double
wedding, girl!"
After supper she crept into her I
own little room to sob her heart out
in the twilight of the summer eve
ning. Zoom-m-m-m! sounded the
whistle of the New York boat—Bil
ly's boat He was standing on the
deck, looking at the light
Mary Ann sprang from the bed.
slipped off her shoes, and softly,
breathlessly climbed the iron stairs
to the light. She could see across
the water the lights of the great
ship like a string of Jewels on a
square of black velvet and she knew
that Billy Bowen's eyes must be
turned towards the light.
She placed her little brown hand
firmly on the black-handled copper
knife switch that controlled the
light, and the great beacon's'Yays, j
playing across the water like sum- *
mer lightning, took on a strange sig
nificance.
Dot, dash, dot, dot, dash. In In
ternational code she flashed her mes- ]
sage into the dark. "B-I-L-L-Y
Y-E-S!” Over and over she spelled j
it out.
But Billy Bowen, once a sailor in
the navy, read it only once as he
stood on the deck of the New York
boat. Then hastily stripping off his
coat and shoes, he climbed upon the
rail and dived far out into the warm
waters.
"Where’n thunder are you going?" j
shouted a deck hand as Billy came
up, shook the water out of his eyes
and struck out for the point where
winked the light. He turned his
head long enough to shout back:
"Going to get married!”
HCW.* SEW
4*"" Ruth Wyeth Spears
rFOlD <'STRtf>S OF CAMV4 ‘
AND TACK TO ALL
FOUR SIDES OF I
(SEW RUG TO
CANVAS
\y0
O CLAMP
.CORNERS
I ROLL AS \
WORK IS 1
, COMPLETED
REST FRAME
ON EDGE
OF TABLE
OR THE BACK
OF A CHAIR
'T'WO of the nicest hook rugs I
have were made without a
frame. Many rug makers like to
work this way so that they may
turn the work as they do different
parts of the design. Then, too,
whenever rug hookers meet there
is sure to be an exchange of treas
ured bits of colored fabrics. In
no time at all a rug making group
is meeting and it is difficult to
carry a frame when one goes visit
ing. It is often difficult to find
space to put a frame away in a
small house or apartment, too.
You can see by this that I rather
favor working without a frame
lAsk Me Another
0 A General Quiz
The Queetione
1. What is the population of
Greece?
2. What standards are used by
the Bureau of the Census in com
puting the number of illiterates in
the country?
3. Under what conditions may a
private in the U. S. army wed?
4. What does a panegyric piece
of writing do?
5. “Now God be praised, I die
happy” are the dying words of
what general?
7... Answers
1. The population of Greece is
6,204,684.
2. The Bureau of the Census
rules that any person 10 years of
age or older who cannot read or
write in any 'anguage is an illit
erate.
3. With his commanding officer’s
permission.
4. A panegyric piece of writing
elaborately praises.
5. James Wolfe (after his vic
tory at Quebec).
though I know perfectly well that
it is more efficient to work with
one. Almost all professionals have
frames that rest on a permanent
base. I have sketched here the
type of frame that most amateurs
use. You can buy the eomer
clamps at the hardware store and
put the frame together quickly. It
may be the size of your rug or
smaller. If it is smaller, just part
of the rug is stretched on the
frame at one time.
• • •
SEWING Book 5 tells you exactly how to
prepare the burlap for a hooked rug like
the one in this sketch and gives much
other valuable information on rug hook
ing. There is still another hooked rug de
sign in Book 6; also a braided and a cro
cheted rug. Send order to:
MBS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford HI Us New York
Enclose 20c for Books 5 and 6.
Name ..
Address ...
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Simple Greatness
Nothing is more simple than
greatness; indeed, to be simple is
to be great.—Emerson.
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NOSE DROPS
COUCH DROPS
Expensive Schooling
Experience is the best of school*
masters, only the school-fees ar«
heavy.—Carlyle.
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Eyes Right!
and WRONG!
Choice, ripe, long- \
aged tobacco that
•mokes with de
lightful mildness,
taste, and fragrance
—that’s Prince Alberti
Is the strip between the two fields wider where the
up-and-down line crosses? We’ll admit it looks
wider, but that’s because your eyes fool you—the
strip is the same width from end to end.
HERE’S ANOTHER "AMAZING
, BUT TRUE” FACT...
70 ROLL-YOUR-OWN
CIGARETTES IN
^1 POCKET TIN OFP.A.
SiiWt/yyff
PRINCE ALBERT
MEANS ECONOMY WITH A CAPITAL
’E'—AND P.A. CUTS OUT FUMBLING,
l SPILLING. IT'S A CINCH TO
TWIRL UP HRM, EVEN 'MAKIN'S*
SMOKES —AND THEY'RE
COOLER, MILDER, TASTIER
BECAUSE PA. IS CHOICE
TOBACCO NO-BITE
treated!
In recent laboratory “smoking bond”
tests, Prince Albert burned
DEGREES
COOLER
than the average of the 30 other of the
largest-selling brands tested...coolest of all!
B. J. BiWDoMsToUeceCoinpw. Winston Snlso. M. &
