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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1942)
(JhamhesU Garden—Fresh Vegetables Bring Health to Your Table (See Recipes Below.) Summer Salads Salads with summertime meals form a perfect alliance bringing your family pre cious pep-giving minerals and vi tamins. Vitamins A, B, and C are well represented in crisp celery, golden skinned carrots, rosy cneexea tomatoes, green glowing cucumbers and let tuce. Dress them up with a light liquid salad oil blended with season ings to bring out the hidden flavor ing of the vegetables, and you have • perfect warm weather meaL 'Tossed Garden Salad Wash and drain dry your favorite salad greens—such as lettuce, ro maine, watercress or endive; a com bination of two or more may be used. Cut or break into pieces and combine with portions of diced cel ery, cucumber, green pepper, rad ishes and minced onion. Chill thor oughly. Then place in a salad bowl; add Basic French Dressing and bits of tomato. Toss lightly until well blended. This type of salad may also be served with Just an oil and vinegar combination as a dressing. Basic French Dressing. (Makes K cup)_. teaspoon salt r” H teaspoon sugar K teaspoon paprika Vf' K Dash white pepper * H teaspoon dry mustard H cup mild salad oil K cup cider vinegar * or lemon Juice *'**“ Combine first five ingredients in a J«r and blend well. Add vinegar, cover and shake; add oil and shake again thoroughly. Just before using, shake again. Or simply mix ingre dients together in a bowl and beat with mixer until well blended. Leftover meats and vegetables served daintily in lettuce cups make templing main dishes for lunch or supper. Have • a hot soup, potato chips, thin bread and butter sand wiches and fresh fruit to serve wun saiaa. ine next mree saiaas •re perfect as a main course. Veal Salad, Summer Style. (Serves 6) 3 cups cold veal, diced 1 cup string beans or celery or both 6 hard-cooked eggs Salt and pepper 4 tablespoons salad oil m tablespoons vinegar 3 tomatoes Mayonnaise Lettuce and parsley Chop eggs coarsely, combine with veal, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. Let stand 30 minutes. Add mayon naise to moisten. Arrange salad in • mound and garnish. Jellied Green Pea Salad. (Serves 6) 1 tablespoon gelatin 94 cup cold water 94 cup pea liquor Lynn Says: Save Washing Time: So many new demands are being made on your time these days, it is wise to make the best possible use of each minute. One way is in how you use your washing machine. For instance, long washing is not necessarily good washing, and it wastes time. Soap under goes a chemical change after it has been used a little while, suds "break down" and the soil is actually deposited again on the fabric. Then it is practically im possible to get the articles clean. Only individual experimenta tion can show how short to keep the washing of each load, and yet be thorough. Tests have revealed one woman taking only half the time of another to wa/?h a practi cally identical washing, yet do ing it better. Twenty-minute soaking hastens washing by loosening soil. Then remove water by wringing the ar tides into the first washer full of sudsy water of the right tempera ture. THIS WEEK’S MENU Potato Salad Cold Sliced Corned Beef •Tossed Garden Salad Bread and Butter Sandwiches Chocolate Pie Beverage •Recipe Given 1 tablespoon green pepper, chopped Allspice, cloves, nutmeg Green pepper rings 1 cup tomato puree 154 cups peas 1 hard-cooked egg, sliced 1 teaspoon chopped onion Salt Lettuce, dressing Fix gelatin with pea liquor. Add puree, onion, salt, spices. Let cool and thicken. Add peas, chopped green pepper. Mold and chill. Gar nish with pepper rings, egg, and let tuce. Royal Meat Salad. 2 cups diced, cooked meat 1 cup diced celery 1 cup Bing cherries 4 hard-cooked eggs H cup chopped pecans 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup mayonnaise Salad greens Combine meat with celery, pitted cherries, diced eggs, pecans and salt. Chill thoroughly. Just before serving, add mayonnaise and toss lightly. Pile on salad greens ancj garnish with additional slices of hard-cooked eggs and Bing cherries. Savory Corned Beef Loaf. (Serves 6) K cup cold water 1H cups tomato Juice K teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon grated onion juice 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1H cups corned beef cut in small pieces % cup chopped celery 3 hard-cooked eggs, sliced 54 cup chopped pickle relish (if desired) Soften gelatin in cold water and dissolve in hot tomato juice. Add salt, onion juice, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce. Stir well. Rinse loaf pan out with cold water. Garnish bottom with slices of hard cooked egg and cover with a little of the gelatin liquid. Chill in refrigera tor until set. Cool remaining liquid until mixture begins to thicken and fold in corned beef, celery and pickle relish. Line sides of loaf pan with sliced eggs and fill with meat mixture. Chill until firm. Unmold on platter and garnish with water cress, lettuce or desired greens. Serve with mayonnaise or any de sired dressing. To save sugar, omit dessert and serve a pretty chilled salad with conee and wafers as a last course. You can prepare this in the cool morning hours and keep in the refrigerator until Just ready to serve. Frozen Fruit Salad. (Serves 6) 2 three-ounce cakes cream cheese 2 tablespoons cream H cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons lemon Juice % teaspoon salt 1 cup orange sections % cup seeded and quartered Royal Anne cherries % cup chopped nutmeats H cup maraschino cherries, chopped 2 tablespoons ginger, in 1 cup cream, whipped Mix cream cheese and 2 table spoons cream. Add mayonnaise lemon juice and salt. Combine or ange sections, cherries, and nut meats, and add to cream chees< mixture. Fold in whipped crean and pour into freezing tray and al low to freeze in electrical refrigera tor without stirring. Garnish witl orange sections and cherry halves. Have you a particular household oi cooking problem on which you wouli like expert advice? If rite to Miss Lynr Chambers al if eslern Newspaper Union 210 South Desplames Street, Chicago Illinois, explaining your problem fulli to her. Please enclose a stamped, self addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON ' Consolidated features—WNU Release. NEW YORK.—One fancies that the least of current worries of Col. Julia O. Flikke, superintendent I of the army nurse corps, is involved j in the ques Eaglet in Flight tion whether Can’t Carry Away or not *he ■ f re *• is entitled to Her Qualification. r#tftln the | silver eagles which accompanied ; her new commission as colonel. By the same token the commis sion itself seems to be in danger as a result of the pryings of legal comma hunters who after the man ner of their kind are probably re joicing in a point they have extract ed from their study of the law creat ing the army of the United States. The law says that "qualified per sons” are eligible for commissions. By virtue of this ruling Mrs. Flikke’s colonelcy was sanctioned by the sur geon general, the adjutant general and the judge advocate. High authority indeed; none the less it is questioned on the basic ground that there were no women in the army when con gress passed the law; that, therefore, promotions of women are outside the law. The United States controller general, an im portant official since he passes on all pay vouchers, is inclined to accept the point raised. If, he says, congress meant women to be eligible for army rank, it would have said so. So there we are and so specifically is Colonel Flikke. Even should the nice distinction be upheld, she will still, as major, be the highest ranking woman in tf>e United States army. Command er of nearly 10,000 nurses, she is well-fitted to her responsibility, colo nel or no colonel. A native of Vero qua, Wii., she went to Chicago, mar ried there and was there left a wid ow. She prepared for nursing in the Augustana hospital in Chicago and after a post-graduate course in nurs ing and administration at Columbia university, she returned to Augus tana hospital as assistant superin tendent. When World War I involved the United States she joined the army, serving three years in France, Chi na and the Philippines. Subsequent ly she was attached for 12 years to the Walter Reed hospital in Wash ington and in May. 1937, succeeded Maj. Julia C. Stimson as superin tendent of the army nurse corps. ELEVEN years ago Eugene J. Houdry, a Parisian scientist and inventor, arrived on these shores with his wife and two small chil dren. Estab Great, Varied Are lished in Returns on Our Philadelphia „ r , . the family Free Enterprise eventually moved to Ardmore, a main line sub urb. Then 38 years old, Houdry had been at work in his native country over a period of years on a method for the catalytic cracking of oil by which the crude is converted into vapors at lower temperatures and pressures than had hitherto been used. These vapors, then, are brought into contact with a catalyst and are condensed into their various derivatives in proportions which can be controlled in the operation. In the midst of these researches in France—having already invented a process for obtaining octane gaso line vital to aviation—his money ran out He could get no more and seek ing practical encouragement in the United States, he migrated hither and found two great oil companies eager to finance his laboratory. Some $10,000,000 was paid out in perfecting Houdry’s process and in devising and making apparatus for its use on a large commercial scale. Now Eugene Houdry is cited as having succeeded in apply ing his catalytic cracking proc ess to the commercial produc tion of butadiene—something for which an eager public has been waiting since war began and our supply of rubber was cut off. For butadiene is the main in gredient of a very fine brand of synthetic rubber. Consequently, if all is well with the Houdry process, the present shortage in an essential commodity may be overcome much sooner than had been hoped. In such case a currently dreadec event will be postponed, if not for ever averted — the requisition o: ’ your tires by the government. Immersed since his arrival in thi! country in scientific research Mr Houdry, now a naturalized citizen i found time after the fall of Franc* to help organize here that aggres sively militant organization, “Franc* Forever,” a large national group o Free Frenchmen of which he is th< president and its chief spokesman. “Only here,” he has said, “coulc I have achieved such scientific sue ccss as has been vouchsafed me.” I I I I WASHINGTON.—Russia will still be fighting when winter comes again. That is the assurance high government officials are giving. What is more, some of them are predicting that the Nazis are in tor some very unpleasant surprises be fore another month of fighting on the Russian front. So much has been said about Adolf Hitler's various secret weap ons, from time to time, that it is a relief to be able to state, on abso lute knowledge, that the Russians will be trying out a secret weapon against Hitler. More than this cannot be said, nor can any inkling of the nature of the “surprise” be given, but men who know their military tactics and their weapons, and know as much about German weapons and tech nique as anyone outside Germany itself, predict confidently that Hit ler’s generals will have to revise their entire strategy as a result. This secret weapon, they think, is apt to prove as revolutionary in this war as the Merrimac and Monitor proved in the Civil war, though of course the new weapon applies to land fighting. At first blush it might seem a great deal more encouraging if the new weapon were a sure cure for the submarine, for it is the battle of the Atlantic that is so all impor> tant. Some experts point out, how ever, that while the submarine menace to shipping is the vital factor right now, so far as the news is concerned, the new weapon, which, by the time it gets into wholesale operation, will not only bold the Germans, but drive them back, may prove to be more timely than if it were what now seems so much more Immediately necessary—a submarine care. Harmful to the Nazis The theory of the experts on this is that for the present, and for per haps another year, the submarine in the Pacific is more important to us than to Japan. So that if a per fect cure for the submarine were devised, and the Japs were able to imitate it, the result might be to impede our mopping up of Japan rather than to aid it. Experts believe that once the new weapon which is so confidently ex pected to aid Russia becomes known —as soon as it is used half a dozen times—the Germans will know pre cisely what it is, they will be able to imitate it without much trouble. But this factor is not as impor tant as It sounds. The net result, if BOTH SIDES had the weapon in quantity today, would be enormous ly harmful to Germany. It would neutralize what at present is a very real superiority on the part of the German armies. • • • Old Timers Eager To Man Sailing Ships The suggestion that a big fleet of amateur motor boatmen maintain a chain of protection along the coast against submarines has started a lot of thinking in Washington on an en tirely different tack. There are now some enthusiastic advocates of small sailing vessels— not to chase submarines; they would be useless for that—but to carry cargoes from near-by ports. Now obviously an old-fashioned schooner, or smaller sailing craft, has passed into the discard so far as freight carrying is concerned simply and solely because it was cheaper to haul by power. Why was it cheaper to use power than to use wind, which cost noth ing? Because the sailing vessel required so much longer to make any given round trip. In the old days, at the rate of pay then in existence for sailors, this made little difference. But with modern requirements both as to wages and as to living conditions aboard ship a condition was produced where if the little vessel were becalmed a week the total profit on the voyage would be lost. But, as in the case of spending the additional money to get oil and gas to the Northeast, it may NOW : be profitable, aside from any neces sity. to use sailing vessels. There is another important ad ' vantage, in view of present condi ’ tions, in using sail, if only small vessels are used. No one of them would be worth a submarine's time, shells, and, least of all a torpedo. An old-fashioned Chesapeake Bay “bugeye." a type of sailboat pointed at both ends, having a large for , ward mast and a short mast behind, ; operated with a centerboard so as to make the fullest use of contrary winds, with only two men aboard [ and some 60 to 100 tons of sugar, would present little temptation to a submarine captain unless he were ( running short of sweets. rPATTERNS ) SEWQNG CflPCLE’ ~ 8157 f N SPITE of record heat—relax 1 and enjoy life in this open top princess line frock! It has straps only over the shoulders and is cut to emphasize your slim waist. Hemmed above the knees this style makes the smartest of tennis dresses! Regular length, it is a wonderful heat defier, and, worn with a jacket, is a smart costume for any daytime occasion. • • * Pattern No. 8157 Is in sizes 12 to 20. Size 14 dress and jacket requires 9 yards of 39-inch material, 12 yards ric rac. «*■ o- o- p- r- o- o- e- o~ o- o- <v. o- o- o. <v. o ; ASK MR O ? ? ANOTHER f l | A General Quiz " l (v. (v, o- fv. (V. (v. (v. (v. (V. fv. fv. (v. fv- fw. o-. fv< The Questions 1. Which are the world’s tallest people? 2. Who was Atalanta? 3. What is the meaning of the stage direction “omnes exeunt”? 4. How many states were ad mitted to the Union during the Civil war? 5. What are the heaviest things known? 6. What is a touchstone? 7. How did January get its name? 8. Has any Negro’s portrait ever appeared on a U. S. postage stamp? 9. What is the meaning of the Latin expression “in toto”? The Answers 1. The Shilluks, living in the Egyptian Sudan. They average nearly seven feet in height. 2. A beautiful mythological crea ture, fleet of foot, who challenged her suitors to a race, death being the penalty of defeat, her hand the prize. 3. All go out. 4. Two—West Virginia and Ne vada. 5. The very faint stars in our sky called ‘‘white dwarfs.” One cubic inch of a ‘‘white dwarf” may weigh 500 tons. 6. A stone used for testing the purity of gold or silver. Any stand ard or test for determining the quality of something. 7. From an ancient Roman god Janus, who was supposed to have two heads, one looking forward, one backward. 8. Yes, that of Booker T. Wash ington. 9. As a whole, entirely. 8141 I ONG straight lines running L/ from shoulder to hem of this dignified frock give it a smooth silhouette which is flattering for every wearer. The detailing of the side piecings and the soft gath ers at the waist add style interest too, to a model which is ideally suited to the season’s smartest cotton materials—printed pique, linen, lawn or rayon prints. It is easy to decorate the neckline, too, with clips, a flower or a pretty necklace! • • • Pattern No. 8141 is in sizes 36 to 52. Size 38 requires 4>,i yards 39-inch ma terial. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 111C 211 West Wackcr Dr. Chicago Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No. Size. Name. Address. JUST’1 ___._ Same Result "Are you a college man?" 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