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luf GUamb*>U Christmas Baking Begins With Luscious Fruit Cake! (See Recipes Below.) Holiday Fare Christmas is something pretty special. I’m sure you’ll agree, and as such deserves something pretty special in the way of food. To my notion the fruit cakes and plum pud din’s are that special something with their handsome brown, fruity richness and delectable flavors. The charm of both these kinds of delicacies lies in their ripened. mellowed flavors which comes only with proper aging when the spices, fruits, nuts and butter blend themselves Into mysterious good ness. So bake the fruit cakes and puddings in ad* vance and give them a chance to acquire their best in flavor. While you're about the big busi ness of making a fruit cake, bake several small cakes in small glass or pottery dishes to give as gifts. Gaily decorated with sprigs of holly and mistletoe and holiday ribbons they make a perfect gift Dark Fruit Cake. (Yields 10 to 12 pounds) 12 eggs 4 cups sifted flour 2 cups butter 1 pound brown sugar 2 pounds raisins 2 pounds currants 1 pound pecans 1 pound citron 1 pound almonds 1 teaspoon each, nutmeg, cinna mon. mace Vi cup lemon juice y« cup canned peach juice 6-ounce glass jelly (blackberry, currant or grape) % cup cream Wash and dry raisins and cur rants. Blanch almonds, drain and cut with pecans into quarters. Cut citron into thin slices. Place fruit in large mixing bowl. Sift flour, measure and sift with spices and mix with fruits until well-coated. Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs and jelly. Stir in flour and fruit alternately with fruit juice first, then cream. Line pans with heavy waxed pa per and butter slightly. Fill pans almost to the top. Bake small loaf cakes 3 to 3V4 hours at 275 degrees. Bake large loaf cakes 4 to 4Vi hours at 250 degrees. Cool. Cool cakes on a rack. When cool, wrap in heavy waxed paper and store tightly. If you prefer the lighter fruit cakes, why not try this less rich but just as elegant cousin of the Dark Fruit Cake: Light Fruit Cake. (Makes 3Vfc to 4 pounds) lVi pounds mixed crystallized fruits (cherries, pineapple, etc.) Vi pound mixed lemon, orange, citron peels Vi pound blanched, chopped al monds 18 maraschino cherries H cup diced preserved ginger 2V4 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder LYNN SAYS; Christinas wouldn’t oe Christ mas if you didn't have good things like fruit cake and plum puddin' on hand. But since these take lots of time to make, plan to be in the process of making them for several days so one day won’t tire you out Fruits and nuts can be cut and chopped several days in advance since they usually involve consid erable time. When putting the batter in the pans be sure that the corners are well filled with batter so you’ll get a nice looking cake or pudding Store the cake or pudding in a cool dry place. Have it tightly covered preferably in a tin con tainer. Sound apples may be kept in the container itself to keep cake or pudding moist, but must be replaced if they become de cayed or shriveled. THIS WEEK’S MENU Clear Vegetable Broth Lamb Shanks Lima Beans Mashed Potatoes Grated Carrot-Pineapple Salad Muffins Beverage Queen's Bread Pudding % teaspoon salt 1 cup margarine 1 cup sugar 8 egg whites 1 tablespoon lemon juice Cut fruits and peels in thin slices. Mix cherries and ginger with 1 cup flour and toss lightly. Cream margarine with Vi cup sugar. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and beat into batter. Add floured fruits and nuts and mix thoroughly. Add lem on juice to egg whites and beat until stiff. Add remaining sugar and beat until smooth. Fold into batter. Turn into greased tube pans lined with waxed paper and bake in a slow (32S degree) oven for 3 hours. To my mind there's nothing quite so festive as the plum pudding brought flaming to the table, and served with a rich sauce. Plum Pudding. (Makes 3tfc pounds) 1 cup suet 1 cup molasses 2 cups bread crumbs 3 eggs, unbeaten 1 cup raisins 1 cup currants 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon each, cinnamon, nut meg. cloves 1 tablespoon flavoring 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon soda Mix well the suet and molasses. Add bread crumbs and mix in eggs one at a time. Add raisins and currants mixed with the flour and spices, then flavoring. Mix in milk and soda dissolved in 1 cup boiling water. Grease mold, put in pud ding % full and seal tight. Place in kettle of boiling water on a trivet or a rack and have the water come half way around the mold. Steam for three hours. Serve hot An excellent dessert for Christ mas time or winter time is this old fashioned suet pudding much akin to the plum pudding: Suet Pudding. (Serves 10) 1 cup suet chopped fine 1 cup molasses 1 cup bread crumbs Vt cup evaporated milk, mixed with V4 cup water lVfc cups flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup raisins or currants or pre served fruit Mix all dry ingredients together, add fruit then suet and milk. Turn into greased pudding mold, cups or cans, cover tightly with greased pa per or fitted covers. Place on a rack in a kettle of boiling water which comes half way up to the molds. Cover kettle and steam 3 hours if in a mold, or 1 hour if in cups. Serve with hard sauce or Plum Pudding Sauce. Sauce is to pudding as stuffing is to the turkey so make it good. For steamed puddings a hard sauce fla vored with what-1 ever you desire is excellent If you’d like a hot golden-hued sauce meltingly dell* cious here’s one that’s tops: Plum Pudding Sauce. Vi cup butter 1 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoons cider or 1 tablespoon other flavoring 2 eggs Vi cup rich milk Cream butter and powdered sug ar. Add cider or flavoring, then well-beaten egg yolks. When well mixed, stir in milk. Cook in double boiler until thick as custard. - then gradually pour in beaten egg whites, beating constantly. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON i IConaoHdatetl r**lur*S- WNU Servlet.) NEW YORK.-On the bestowal end of the Maria Moor* Cabot Latin-Amerlcan Journalism award, recently presented, is the 80-year old Dr. God Dr, Cabot Injecta frey Lowell Hia Bankroll and Cabot of Self Into Progreaa BoaUm' a,ao a generous contributor to democratic enter prise. For many years, he has been a steady ground-gainer against the disturbers and trouble-makers, not in political theory, but in his activi ties in the field of science and the humanities. He not only bankrolls progress, but helps it over the hur dle by his own resourcefulness and inventiveness — the true Yankee genius here. South America ought te be particularly Interested In Dr. Cabot's now successful and working scheme to bottle sun shine and keep It In the cellar, like Jelly or preserves. His 1937 grant of 9616,773 to Harvard uni versity was a great help In storing solar energy and today, In Florida and other southern states, household hot-water rigs, fuelled by trapped sunshine are almost as common as oil burn ers up north. The next year. Dr. Cabot gave a similar amount to the Massachu setts Institute of Technology, for the same purpose. His many contribu tions to the useful arts of peace, including his enthusiastic co-opera tion with aviation, may well be put down as an antidote to war. He learned to fly a seaplane in his late years and invented a system by which a plane can pick up fuel in flight. He attended M.I.T. two years, finished at Harvard In 1882 and, after laying the foundation of his fortune manufacturing lamp black In Worthington, Pa., branched out In gases and car bides. He has always Insisted that democracy, to survive, must plow a lot of Its gains back into the business—which he steadily does. His Latin-Amerl can Journalism awards are In honor of his late wife. IN 1913, Carlos Davila covered murders and fires for El Mercurio of Santiago de Chile. He was a good reporter, telling what happened, rather than Prize Journaliet what he Expoundm Faith in thought Militant Democracy °u«ht to happen. Later, as president of Chile and am bassador to Washington, he main tained much of this same detach ment. One thing that he observed In 1936 was that the world was go ing to hell in a hand-basket un less there could be a successful collective “organisation of peace.” He also observed that it would be foolish to think that treaties would be an effective stopgap against the oncoming apocalypse. He was away out in front in urging bold affirma tions and aggressive action, in stead of paclfistic negations as the survival technique of democracy—in which he is a fervent believer. One of the four Latin-American recipients of the Marig Moors Cabot prize in journalism. Dr. Davila has exemplified his faith in a militant and crusading democracy, which faith he expounds in the public func tions attending the prize award. As editor of the Editors Press service, he is possibly the most important journalistic liaison in the new cul tural and, to a degree, political entente between North and South America. After becoming editor-in-chief of La Nacion, he came to Wash ington as ambassador, In 1923 at the age of 34. He became president of Chile in 1932, in a period of political upheaval, helped incline his country to Its present liberal trend and land ed back In the United States where his daughters were edu cated and which he considers the world's hope for democratic leadership. It is doubtful wheth er we have in South America any U. S. A. citizen who can match Dr. Davila's penetration of the mind and institutions of another country. Living in New York off and on for quite a few years now, he mixes around casually, knows a lot of peo ple, speaks quite a lot of our idiom and demonstrates hemisphere sol idarity in his small, compact, alert person as few North or South Americans have ever done. Bombs and bullets were some times an obligato to his rapid rise in Chilean statesmanship. He helped build the Chilean state and knows that democracy is not easily come by. He says we were soft, but are toughening up and getting back our | “crusading spirit and stoic fiber.” I NATIONAL AFFAIRS fey CARTER FIELD V. S. to flu ild If li ge Concrete Barge* to Aid Emergency Shipping Situation . . . Health in Britain Reported Better Than Before If ar . . . I (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) WASHINGTON —The size of the new concrete barges Just contracted for by the U. S. maritime commis sion staggers not only the layman, but old-time shipping men. They are to be approximately 350 feet long, with 54 feet beam. When it is con sidered that none of the interiors of these huge hulls will be occu pied by the engines, boilers, etc., which take up so much room in an ordinary ship a better picture of their carrying capacity can be ob tained. Fifteen of these huge barges are to be built. The contracts call for their delivery in 1942. In explaining the awards, the maritime commission says: “These contracts are the result of the com mission's decision to adopt an ex perimental program which would provide additional bulk cargo bot toms without using shipbuilding steel. Reinforcing steel will be used so that the regular shipbuilding steel supply will be reserved for construction of cargo ships, tankers and naval vessels. “The program was adopted as a form of insurance in the interests of future exigencies and overall na tional defense.” Idea It Not New There is nothing new about the concrete ship idea. It was tried enthusiastically during World War No. 1, though not with particularly happy results. However, the wooden ships built in that war also received plenty of criticism, and were burned, after years of being guarded—rather in effectively, for everything of value apparently had been stolen when the final decision to burn was made. Now the government would give a great deal if those ships had not been burned. They could be made very useful, for, strange as it may seem, good wooden bottoms deteri orate very slowly. One element, as has been told in these dispatches, has been clamor ing for concrete ships—or barges— since the realization that shipping was of the essence in this war, as it was in the last—but without much success. The new feature about concrete ships, since the last war, is a process which results in very much greater strength and greater speed in construction. It is contended that, once con struction has been started, and the government is sure just what it wants in the way of these huge barges, there is no limit to the con struction possibilities. The great ad vantage, assuming that they are found to be practical, is that their construction would interfere prac tically not at all with the construc tion of more orthodox ships. Skilled steel workers and machinists would not be needed, importantly. Even more vital, steel would be used very sparingly, and not, as the commis sion points out, of a quality suited tor regular ships. The vessels, if they can be called that, would also not clog up existing ship yards. They would not clutter up a single way on which other ships could be built War Conditions 4Aid’ British Health With the "Four Horsemen" in mind, people have been expecting some sort of pestilence in Europe as a result of the war, with under nourished bodies unable to fight dis ease. Reports from Spain indicate that the expected has happened there, thus increasing the forebod ing for other parts of Europe. In contrast, we have the cheering fact that health in Britain, far from having sagged as a result of the war, has actually improved as com pared with the year immediately preceding the outbreak of war, 1938. This is not the impression of some casual visitor. It is not the mere impression of anybody. It is based on cold statistics—health reports covering every community from Land's End to the Tip of Scotland. Resistance to disease, beyond any doubt, has increased with war con ditions. Just why is a matter for debate. There can be no argument about the number of deaths per thousand; there can be very little about the percentage of any given disease reported, nor the spread or failure to spread of epidemics. But > there can be plenty of difference of j opinion over what CAUSED the | change, whether it be improvement or otherwise. The best obtainable opinion, dele- I gates to the International Labor con- | Nference recently held in Washington j seemed to think, is the fact that reduced rations has brought about certain social reforms—for example luncheons for school children. With the whole country, as well as the government, worried about the ef fects of the necessary rationing on health, there has been more atten tion paid to particular cases where lack of proper nutrition might in vite disease. i PATTERNS •SEWONGOPCLE^ TF YOU have been admiring * peasant frocks—here’s one for fall which hits a new high in charm and smartness. The long bodice buttons up the front to a round, high neckline which is to be trimmed with bright colorful braid. Repeat the same on the three-quarter sleeves and around the top of the hem of the swirly skirt. And if you dare to wear red—it’s a perfect style for this brilliant shade—or a bright green. Then it will be one of the most cheering-up dresses you have in your new season's wardrobe l • • • Pattern No. 80*4 Is in uneven sire* 11 to 19. Sire 13. three-quarter sleeves, takes 4 yards 35-Inch material, 5 yards braid. For this attractive pattern send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 311 W. Warker Dr. Chlcafo Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No.Size.... Name .... Address .... Fill Her Up Swiggle—When you get tired of a girl’s empty conversation, what do you do? Spoof—I give in and take her to a restaurant. Choice Spot Jackie—Oh, Dad, I’ve got the best seat in the classroom. Dad—That’s great—where is it? Jackie—Next to the radiator. Slowed Up "How old are you?” "Just passed twenty-seven.” "What detained you?” Some girls rather like the strong, silent man — especially when his money does the talking. The Source Native—That fellow Hewitt has a big net income. Visitor—What is his business? Native—Catching fish. ASK ME 7 A quiz with answers offering ? another: information on various subjects | | *** I— V— •— »— »— The Questions 1. What state’s capital is the largest in the United States? 2. Approximately how long is the period of the moon’s revolu tion about the earth? 3. What great actress had a leg amputated in 1915 but returned to the stage afterwards? 4. Can dolphins swim at birth? 5. Who made famous the adage: “Speak softly and carry a big stick”? 6. What amendment to the Con stitution includes the important “due process” clause? 7. In what sport does the par ticipant rarely see his quarry until after it is captured? 8. In Spanish America, what is meant by a hacienda? 9. When was the United States flag first used in warfare in Europe? 10. What American’s career, achievements and contributions to literature are studied as an entire college course leading to a degree? The Answers 1. Massachusetts (Boston). 2. Twenty-seven and one-half days. 3. Sarah Bernhardt. Our Imagination Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.—LaMartine. 4. Dolphins are expert swim mers from the time of birth. 5. Theodore Roosevelt. 6. Fourteenth (“Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law”). 7. Fishing. 8. A country estate. 9. The first time the United States flag was used in warfare in Europe was by the American Ex peditionary Forces of the World war, but it was not taken into the zone of the advance. 10. Abraham Lincoln’s. The course is offered by the Lincoln Memorial university in Harrogate, Tenn. I mfp$i *r A giant V-shaped forest of ftr trees, which stands on a hillside of southern England and measures more than a half mile along each side, was planted in 1W*T to com memorate the sixtieth anniversary of the reign of Queen Victoria, says Collier's, Today it is considered a "V for Victory" emblem and, as such, is the largest in the world, Christmas givers who want to be sure their gift is well received have been turning more and more to cigarettes and smoking tobacco as gifts most appreciated by any smoker. Their welcome is alwavs far greater than the modest cost involved. Naturally, Camels, as America's favorite cigarette, and Prince Albert, the world's largest selling pipe tobacco, head the smoker's gift list. Camels have two gift packages—the carton of ten packages of “20's" specially wrapped, and a gay package con taining four “flat fifties." Prince Albert is featured in the pound tin and the pound glass humidor, both handsomely Christmas packed.—Adv. ■7m Bigger value when you buy; Better results when you bake .. . No wonder Clabber Girl is the enthusiastic choice of millions of women. It belongs in every thrifty home. It belongs in the cupboard of every proud baker. For Clabber Girl’s absolute de pendability adds to the pleasure of home baking, and its remark able economy stretches the food budget. You Pay Less for Clabber Girl . . . but You Use No More . . • Misled by Reason Reason misleads us oftener than nature.—Vauvenargues. T(UkDr%j When a cough, due to a cold, drives you mad. Smith Brothers Cough Drops usually give soothing, pleasant relief Black or Menthol—5f. Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the only drops containing VITAMIN A j Vitamin A (Carotene) raises the resistance of h mucous membranes of nose and throat to ,?* ^ cold infections, when lack of resist- -k V ance is due to Vitamin A deficiency. f (S MARK Liquid Sand Silver sand is believed to be the only dry matter that behaves like a liquid. Any object that sinks in water, such as a bullet, will likewise sink in this peculiar sand. SAYS ARMY TANK TESTER, (Zhu/estJ f EVERY TIME. THEY’RE EXTRA MILD AND THEY’VE GOT THE FLAVOR THAT ALWAYS HITS THE SPOT" ★ THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS 28% LESS NICOTINE 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! THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS I