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BAKED BEANS—AN AMERICAN TRADITION! (See Recipe Below) CHURCH SUPPER THOUGHTS Cock a weather eye at the next social event on your list. ’Tla a church supper, you say? Mm mm . . . one of those delightful affairs that simply wouldn’t be missed I I know . . . one of my fondest memories is the home town church supper, always famous for its food, especially Parker House rolls and baked beans. Perhaps you are one who thinks of beans as a plain or ordinary dish and, for that reason, hesitate to serve them at a dress-up affair. If you are, I think I can help you change your mind, for properly pre pared baked beans are a delight which deserve a place in the top flight of fine cooking. If you are rushed for time and can’t bake your own beans, there are always the canned varieties at your grocer’s. Their meal-in-a minute possibili ties shouldn’t be overlooked. And then, too, they’re a ‘‘feast for the least - To be really different, you may want to experiment with seasonings until you develop an individual fla vor in the canned product. It’s amazing the variety of “taste treats" you can achieve. One of the flavors so many like in v.-nned beans is curry. While the beans are heating slowly, a tea spoon of curry powder is sifted over the top and mixed gently through the beans. When thoroughly heated, a piece of butter is added and when that is absorbed, the beans are ready to serve. An entirely different flavor is de veloped by adding a tablespoon of vinegar and several tablespoons of brown sugar to two cups of beans * while heating thoroughly. Likewise, the piece of butter is added Just before serving. An adaptation of this latter "taste treat" is featured in this week's ] church supper menu suggestions. ■ Here it is: *Devlled Beans in Buttered Noodles. (See Picture at Top of Column) 2 No. 10 cans beans or 10 No. 2 cans 8 ounces of fat 1 pound chopped onions 2 14-ounce bottles catsup % pound brown sugar 8 ounces horseradish 1 ounce salt Mi teaspoon pepper Heat the fat. Add onion and cook until slightly browned. Add remain ing ingredients and heat thorough ly. Serve in a bed of buttered noo dles. Makes 50 servings. • • • Because cooking in quantities does present problems, it's best to plan a menu of foods that can be easily prepared and served. Guess we all THIS WEEK’S MENU Supper for Fifty •Deviled Beans in Buttered Noodles •Perfection Salad Hot Rolls or Boston Brown Bread •Fruit Whip Coffee Tea Milk •Recipes Given. agree on that. So, with this in mind, here are recipes that will comple ment your very important main dish: •Perfection Salad. Soak 10 tablespoons of gelatin (five envelopes) in 2Vi cups cold water for five minutes. Add 2Wt cups mild vinegar, 10 tablespoons lemon juice, 10 cups boiling water, 2V4 cups sugar, and five teaspoons salt. Stir until dissolved and set in a cool place. When mixture be gins to stiffen, add five cups finely shredded cabbage, five cups diced celery, 10 finely chopped pimientos and 30 small sweet pickles, chopped fine. Pour mixture into shallow pans that have been rinsed with cold wa ter. When ‘‘set,” cut into squares and place each square in a lettuce cup and top with mayonnaise. You will need 5 or 6 large heads of let tuce for 50 servings. •Fruit Whip. 1 quart fruit pulp 1 quart sugar 4 egg whites V« cup lemon Juice Put fruit pulp, sugar and unbeat en egg whites into a mixing bowl and beat until stiff. Chill. Serves 50. (In this quantity, dessert whips should be made with a power beater or mixing machine). • • • When feeding a crowd, the mar keting problem may present difficul ties. You will need six dozen rolls (depending on the size) to serve 50. As to beverages, put these amounts on your list: three pounds of coffee, Vi pound of tea or three gallons of milk — each of these amounts will serve 50. + • • Supper over, what next? Enter tainment, of course. Half the suc cess of a party lies in the ‘‘after dinner” program. And why not a radio party? Ar range the stage to represent a broadcasting studio . . . with micro phones, clocks and other radio para phernalia. The tables where guests are seat ed should represent the radio sta tions of the Amer ican Network . . . a table for each state of the Un ion. Each one should be marked by its call letters (MINN for Min nesota, MASS for Massachusetts, etc.) . . . and each one appropriately decorated—minia ture orange grove for California, wheat field for North Dakota, ma ple sugar trees for Vermont, a large pot of baked beans for Massa chusetts, apple orchard for Oregon, dairy scene for Wisconsin, planta tion scene tor Virginia, etc. Guests are seated at the table rep resenting their birthplace. (This will work wonders in mixing up your crowd). If each group Is small, several states may be combined into one station, such as Station NEG (New England group), or Station NWG (Northwest group). A master of ceremonies, dressed to represent Uncle Sam, invites all stations to tune in for the "coast to-coast” broadcast. The program may be as varied as the talent available. A full hour show, con sisting of music by instrumentalists or an orchestra . . . singing by a quartet or soloists ... a dramatic sketch . . . etc. A novel addition to your program would be a Professor Quiz type. Ask for volunteers to answer the ques tions submitted by the audience. A prize can be offered for the best answers. Commercials and time signals should be interspersed throughout the program. These may be an nouncements of forthcoming meet ings, services, etc. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.* WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Associated Newspapers—WNU Service.* NEW YORK. — Quintilian’s line, ‘‘He abounds In sweet faults,” was meant for James F. Dewey. The quite uniformly successful fed c l ... _ r* _;|_ eral labor Snare a ratling, conciliator Promote Harmony, seems to Dewey'» Method*™*™* are more apt to be brought together by pooling their little redeeming vices than by matching virtues. Share a human weakness with a man and he’s apt to begin to feel the stir of fellow-feeling. That seems to be the idea, although there is no evidence that all this is pre meditated on Mr. Dewey’s part. Here's how he “joins” ’em: He doesn't mind his calories, or worry about his waistline. He likes to sleep late. He smokes cigars so strong they make an Erie freight engine smell like an atomizer. He Isn’t systematic. Taking over as a conciliator, perhaps addressing a big Jittery meeting, he excavates various bulging pockets and discovers he has forgotten his credentials. Then he forgets about all that, opens with a wide nonpartisan smile, delivers bis speech and makes them like it. He dislikes exercise, yet he is a rough-and-ready hoofer who will dance on the slightest provocation— until his tongue hangs out. He wears his hair loosely and casually. All this and more of the same, sets Mr. Dewey sharply apart from the slick and impeccable conformist who is always putting other people in the doghouse and thereby getting nowhere as a conciliator. Sen. James J. (‘'Puddler Jim”) Davis set him up as a mediator, in the depart ment of labor, after he had done some strikingly effective conciliating In Pennsylvania. He was a school teacher, auditor for a coal company and a telegraph operator. At the old home place at Chester, Pa., he spends a lot of time patching things up and making them work. Amateur tinkering always denotes the true pragmatist at work. Maybe that's what all this strike trouble needs. AMONG those ready to affirm that a prophet is not without honor lave in his own country, Leon M. Henderson, director of price stabili , n . . zation for the Here a a Prophet Natlonal De. Given Full Honor a tense com . u. n . , mission, may In Hu Own Land notbeinclud ed. Once he was a farm boy in Millville, N. J., and his hometown folks have just honored him with a banquet and other proceedings, es tablishing him as “No. 1 Citizen" of the village in which he was born 46 years ago. Joined with the citizen ry were not a few government of ficials coming from Washington to approve and acclaim the excellence of Millville's choice. Here is a village Hamden, "inno cent of his country's blood,” who didn’t stay in a village, one who has been in the thick of things, up to his elbow as some one recently said of him, in all sorts of affairs best known by alphabetical designations, as NRA, WPA, TNEC, SEC, NDAC, etc. One of the strong men In the national defense picture—he is the only New Dealer on the defense commission of seven members and its only economist—they called him the nation's outstanding crystal gaz er when he predicted the business boom of 1936 and its drop later, in 1937. Ironically smiling, Hender son has subscribed to the appella tion. His induction into government service came about in rather a curious way. In 1934, as direc tor of the remedial loan division of the Russell Sage foundation, he began sniping at the NRA, and his shots were so accurately aimed as to arouse, not the an ger, but the admiration of Gen. Hugh Johnson who grabbed him as consumer advisor. Very soon thereafter he became director of research and planning, and when a Supreme court broadside sank the NRA he was appointed secretary of the senate commit tee on manufactures. There he was when the 1936 national presidential campaign ar rived. He was withdrawn and made economist for the Democratic na tional committee. It is said of him that the source of information en abling Jim Farley to predict so shrewdly the outcome of this elec tion w’as Leon Henderson. Then Henderson became econom ic counsellor to the WPA and subse quently held various important of fices until the creation of the advi sory commission to the National Council on Defense. His hobbies— smoking cigars and early rising. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Heroes of San Jacinto 'T'HE Battle of San Jacinto, which won Texan independence from Mexican rule, had two outstanding heroes. The Lone Star state claims both of them as her own and, to help perpetuate their fame, has named one of her leading cities for Sam Houston and one of her coun ties for “Deaf” Smith. But four oth er states also claim them. Virginia points with pride to the fact that Sam Houston was born near her town of Lexington on March 2, 1793, but Tennessee is equally proud of the fact that his boyhood was spent within her bor ders, that he fought the Creek Indi ans under her Gen. Andy Jackson, that be was made agent for the Cherokees, who had once adopted him into their tribe, and persuaded them to accept a new home beyond the Mississippi. Then Tennessee sent him to con gress in 1823, re-elected him in 1825 and in 1827 chose him as her gov ernor. She gave him one of her fairest daughters as his bride and was greatly mystified when his young wife left him and he, with re-election in 1829 certain, suddenly resigned his office and left the state. At this point in his career, Okla homa claims him, for he lived with the Cherokees there and married an Indian woman, Tiana Rogers. After spending several years with the Indians, Houston went to Texas to take part in her struggle for lib erty and on his birthday in 1836 be Sam Houston, President of the Re public of Texas. (From a minia ture made in 1837 or 1838.) came one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Chosen commander-in-chief of the Texas revolutionary army, Houston made good that declaration seven weeks later with his victory over Gen. Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Visit the state capital in Austin to day and you will see there a huge painting which depicts "The Sur render of Santa Anna.” At the foot of a tree lies Sam Houston with his bandaged leg stretched out on the blanket upon which he is reclining Standing before him is the slight figure of the conquered and humili ated Mexican leader. Seated on a stump beside Houston is a buckskin clad figure, his long rifle resting across his knees and one hand cupped to his ear to catch his lead er’s words to the defeated enemy. This stalwart frontiersman is "Deaf” Smith. Erastus Smith was the name his parents gave him when he was born in New York state. But by the time he had joined the Texas patriots, deafness h; d already over taken him and so his comrades in arms called him “Deaf’ Smith (only they pronounced it "Deef ”!) As a scout, Smith had performed invaluable service for the leader of the Texans during their retreat. Several times he brought in Mexican prisoners from whom Houston ob tained information about Santa Anna’s movements. Finally, when Houston had maneuvered the Mexi can dictator into following him to a battlefield of his own choice and was ready to attack, he sent Smith and a companion to cut down Vince's bridge across Buffalo bayou. On the afternoon of April 21 Hous ton drew up his line of battle. Sud denly a horseman came dashing up. His mount was covered with mud and foam. Swinging an ax over his head, he shouted: ‘T have cut down Vince’s Bridge—Now fight for your lives and remember the Alamo!” The Texans did both so well that in 20 minutes Sam Houston had won one of the most astounding victories in American history. Out of a force of 783, the Texans lost only six killed and 24 wounded. Estimates of the Mexicans’ losses vary, but the Texans claim 630 killed, 208 wounded and 730 prisoners, a total of 1,568. By this one stroke Texas won her freedom. • • • The soldiers in Houston's army were given grants of land in the new republic which was founded soon afterwards and which elected Hous ton as its first president. Smith was given an additional honor by being allowed to take his pick of "any (public) house and lot in the city of Bexar” and by being ordered to the new capital of Houston to have his portrait painted. However, he died shortly afterwards and, -although Houston made a search for the por trait several years later, it was nev er found. NEW IDEAS eMome-mcdzesU. By Ruth Wyeth Spears PASTE PLAIN FABRIC INSIDE AND FIGURED OUTSIDE „ WITH STIFF PAST®' ■■ SPREAD \\ CUT UBBER CEMENt\\ CARDBOARD' TO ci-r EDGES AMD THE^N OUTSIDE 1 J8ACK Of BIA5 HAT P--xr\ TAPE • LET DRY CROWTT *"£> ™E"PL*?E TAPE OVER EDGE AMD PRESS WITH A WARM IROM L_.... .. _ . J E'EMININE headgear usually r holds its shape best if it rests right side up on a stand that fits inside the crown, but this is not true of a man’s hat. Its dashing lines may be preserved by plac ing it upside down in a holder. All of which is worth remember ing when you are fixing up “his” closet or even when you are gen erously preparing to share a small corner of your own. The man’s hat box, shown here, is covered on the outside with ma roon and blue cotton print and lined with blue chambray. The lid and the front of the box are hinged with adhesive tape before the cov ering is pasted on with stiff paste. The stand is made of cardboard, as shown in the sketch, and is covered to match the box. The maroon bias tape edging of the stand is cemented in place in a way that you may find useful in making many ot'her things. The secret is in spreading the cement evenly on both surfaces, letting it dry, and then vulcanizing the two together with the heat of the press ing iron. TRIM FLOWER GARDEN THERE is much value in keep ing the flower garden trimmed. Wise gardeners pick bouquets of favorite annuals like Marigold, Zinnia, Petunia, Sweet Peas and Snapdragon with systematic regu larity, for the picking promotes continued blooming. Periodic trimming is not best for such small, low-growing edging flowers as Alyssum. A complete cutting, however, will benefit this type of plant. This treatment may be applied to Ageratum, Linaria, Lobelia, and Nemesia as well as Alyssum. Pinks, Cynoglossum, and Dwarf Bedding Rust Resistant Snap dragon are grown both for cutting and for garden beauty, but they too will profit by a thoroughgoing “haircut" such as that prescribed for the smaller, edging favorites. It is advisable to pick the flow ers of certain popular perennials when they are in their prime, to prevent their running to seed, and to promote the production of a sec ond crop of blossoms in a single season. Delphinium, Sweet Wil liam, Coreopsis, Perennial Di anthus, and Pyrethrum should be handled in this manner. Desperate Feud The Tewksbury-Graham feud, which raged in Gila county, Ari zona, between 1887 and 1892, was the most desperate fight of its kind in the history of the West. Starting with a dispute over stolen cattle, it quickly involved all the men and boys in three large fami lies and numerous friends, all of whom, with one exception, were killed. In some of their battles as many as 20 men fought on a side. NOTE: Why not put away Winter things all nicely mended? It will be grand to get them out in perfect order next Fall. Mrs. Spears' Book 2 shows you how to do the most professional kinds of mending, as well as every day household mending. There is a simple, quickly made zipper bag for five garments in SEWING Book 6. Send order to: MBS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford Hills New York Enclose 20 cents for Books 2 and 6. Name . Address .. Delicious down on the farm...no«r«i«a... saves time...saves work...saves money . . . order, today; from your grocer. fOK ™uil ,Qa ■ If ____fan*. 'Ml hy Krilot Compny_ One’s Neighbor The most pious majr not live in peace, if it does not please his wicked neighbor.—Schiller. Idea and Work Success is nothing but a good idea coupled with hard work.— Balzac. I •*' i Dl As Man Wishes Men willingly believe what they wish.—Caesar. A Merry Heart He that is of merry heart hath • continual feast.—Proverbs. Simple Adversity Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand ad versity.—Carlyle. THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS GIVES YOU than the average of the 4 other largest-selling cigarettes tested —less than any of them-according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself i ' ■' * ' ’ ' ‘ T ‘ ^ ‘ I I e !;a-t rSri!f' ' ' "f ■ ’( ' ' ' ’*