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Jellies Lend Their Sparkle to Christinas Presents!
(See Recipes Below.)
Christmas Jelly Gifts
Don’t you like the sight of bright
ly colored jelly flirting gaily with
rea, green, suver
and gold Christ
mas wrappings?
There’s not a
nicer present to
give at Christmas
time to many of
your homemaker
friends whom you
have met at Red Cross meetings,
nursing classes and knitting sessions
this past year than a small box of
assorted jellies and jams—fresh
from your own kitchen.
Jelly-making in winter? Yes, in
deed. Chances are that you put up
a lot of fruit juice during the sum
mer—without sugar—and now you
have saved enough from your sugar
ration to make up a few batches of
jelly. It’s perfect for gift-giving
and fine for boosting your fast dwin
dling supply shelf.
You can use winter fruits, too—
{cranberries, grapefruit, lemon and
oranges. Whatever you make, the
results will be received with real
holiday cheers!
Remember if your sugar supply is
•lender, you can use corn syrup and
.honey. Just follow directions care
ifully.
Let’s start the gift making with
this tart, brightly colored marma
lade:
Tangerine Marmalade.
(Makes 0 6-ounce glasses)
4 cups prepared fruit
7 cups sugar
1 bottle fruit pectin
To prepare fruit, remove skins In
Quarters from 8 to 10 tangerines
and discard white
! fibers on inside
of skins and on
peeled fruit. With
a very sharp
knife, cut rind in
to fine shreds.
Add Vt cup wa
ter and Vfc tea
spoon soda, bring to a boil, simmer,
covered for 10 minutes. Dice peeled
tangerines, add with juice to cooked
rind, simmer, covered 20 minutes
longer.
Measure sugar and prepared fruit
kito a kettle, filling up last cup with
water if necessary. Mix well.
Bring to a full, rolling boil over
hottest fire. Stir constantly while
boiling. Boil hard 1 minute.
Remove from fire. Stir in bottled
pectin. Then stir and skim by turns
lor just 5 minutes to cool slightly
to prevent floating fruit. Pour quick
ly. Paraffin hot marmalade at once.
You’ll be dressing up many a
meat extender and meat saver dish
■with pretty accompaniments during
the coming months. Try this bright
Jelly with your lamb dishes:
Mint and Honey Jelly.
(Makes 5 6-ounce glasses)
% cup boiling water
t tablespoons dried mint leaves
Xtk cups strained honey
Lynn Says:
Bcnghs of Holly: Let's deck the
house and the table with ever
green and bright berries. Here’s
how. Weave those extra branches
you trimmed from the Christmas
tree around wire—if you can still
And some—and perk up with
bright colored berries. Hang this
on the front door or in the win
dow or place on the mirror on
the table.
Interesting wreaths can be
made by dipping boughs in soap
suds or white paint. Nestle fruit
or cones inside the wreath for the
tabic and your centerpiece is
ready!
Shape freshly popped white
popcorn into cone shapes and set
on a green pedestal to look like a
Christmas tree—this is lovely for
the table. Stick cranberries or
gumdrops among popcorn trees
for color.
Christmas tree decorations will
be fewer this year than bcfoie,
but you can string sugared cook
ies and cranberries and use fluffs
' of cotton for the tree. Old fash
ioned candles are nice too.
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This Week’s Mena
Brown Onion Soup
•Meat Balls with Sour Cream
Sauce
Green Beans Carrots
Boiled Potatoes
Lettuce with French Dressing
Cranberry-Apple Compote
Cookies Beverage
•Recipe Given
Green food coloring
M cop bottled pectin
Pour boiling water over mint.
Cover and let stand 15 minutes.
Strain and add enough water to
make % cup. Add honey and heat to
boiling, adding coloring to tint a
light green. Add pectin, stirring
constantly. Heat to full rolling boil.
Remove from heat at once, skim
and pour into sterile glasses. Seal
with paraffin.
Poultry of all kinds will be a fa
vorite on your menus during the
meat rationing period. And what is
chicken or turkey without cranber
ries or cranberry and orange rel
ish? It’s like meat without salt, pie
without a good crust, in other words,
incomplete.
Cranberry-Orange Relish.
(Makes 1 quart relish)
2 large oranges
4 cups cranberries
2 cups sugar or cups honey
Cut oranges into eighths and re
move seeds. Force cleaned cran
berries and orange (rind and pulp)
through a food chopper. Mix well,
add sugar or honey and stir until
mixed. Make several hours before
using. Pack in sterile glasses and
seal.
Short on butter? You'll enjoy the
sunny citrus fruit marmalade that
makes toasted breads, muffins and
biscuits really delicious:
Orange-Lemon-Grapefruit.
Marmalade.
(Makes 3 pints)
2 large oranges
1 large lemon
$4 medium grapefruit
1H quarts water per pound fruit
3 cups sugar
Wash fruit and cut into*eighths.
Remove seeds and white core and
cut into thinnest
possible slices.
Weigh. For each
pound of fruit,/
add 1 Vi quarts!
water. Bring slow-'
ly to the boiling
point and cook
to % hour or un
til fruit is tender, bet aside over
night. The next day measure pulp
and juice—there should be 1 quart
for each pound of fresh fruit. If
there is more juice, boil it down.
If there is less, add water to make
it up. Add sugar and boil rapidly
until syrup gives the jelly test
jells on a saucer, or two drops fall
off spoon at same time as it is
held in air—220 degrees. Cool 3 to
5 minutes. Turn into clean, dry
glasses and seal with paraffin.
•Meat Balls.
(Serves 4)
6 slices enriched bread
H cup milk
% pound ground beef
H teaspoon pepper
I teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon minced onion
% cup sour cream
Pour milk over bread and let it
stand 15 minutes. Press excess milk
out of bread. Combine meat, bread,
onion, salt and pepper. Shape Into
round, flat cakes. Fry in skillet
in which a little fat has been placed.
When brown, on both sides, add
cream and simmer 5 to 7 minutes.
Arrange balls on a platter with green
beans, carrot strips and potatoes
Serve sauce from meat.
Does the whipped cream get sulky ?
The cake fall at the crucial moment?
The table decorations look flat and
pointless? Explain your problem to
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self-addressed, stamped envelope for
your reply.
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Farewell, Old ‘Oregon’!
THE USS Oregon is headed for a
scrap again!
But this time it's different—it’s a
“scrap pile’’ instead of a “scrap"
with the enemy that she’s heading
for because the navy department
has issued orders to break her up
for the essential metals which she
contains.
But, as the gallant old battleship
sets out upon her last journey, thou
sands of Americans will remember
another journey which she made 40
odd years ago—a dash through two
oceans which was followed with
breathless interest by the entire na
tion and which ended in her partici
pation in a great naval victory at
Santiago, Cuba.
Back in March, 1898, there were
rumblings of war between Spain
and the United States. At that time
the Oregon was at San Francisco.
When her captain was disabled for
service by illness, command of the
vessel was given to Vermont-born,
Annapolis-trained Charles E. Clark,
who had served under Farragut at
the Battle of Mobile Bay during the
Civil war and who had risen to cap
tain in 1896.
On March 16 Clark received or
ders to join Admiral Sampson’s fleet
in Florida waters with the greatest
speed possible. He had just 48 hours
in which to make his preparations
for the trip and, when he started on
March 18 he was strictly "on his
own." For there was no radio in
REAR ADMIRAL C. E. CLARK
1898 by which he could keep in con
stant touch with his superior offi
cers.
When he arrived at Rio Janeiro
on April 30 he was told that war
with Spain had been declared and
that the whereabouts of the Spanish
fleet under Admiral Cervera was
unknown. There the navy depart
ment placed upon him the responsi
bility of deciding whether he should
remain safely at Rio Janeiro or pro
ceed to Key West, and risk meeting
the Spanish fleet in a battle in which
the Oregon would be hopelessly out
numbered.
Clark was not long in making his
decision. He immediately started
north! Ever since he had left San
Francisco the prayers of the na
tion had followed the Oregon as
she steamed forth upon her lonely
voyage and when he left Rio Janeiro
the national anxiety was increased.
Then on May 24 there was nation
wide rejoicing when the word was
flashed that the Oregon had arrived
safely at Jupiter inlet in Florida.
Here he was compelled to make an
other momentous decision. In or
der to join Admiral Sampson’s fleet
he w'ould have to over-ride the opin
ion of his chief engineer who ad
vised him to go to Norfolk navy
yard to have the Oregon overhauled.
The navy department had .author
ized this action, but again Clark
decided to get to the scene of action
as quickly as possible.
Twice he had been authorized and
almost invited to step aside for the
moment from the hazards of war
and twice he declined to do so.
Had either decision resulted disas
trously it is probable that the na
tion would have been as quick to
damn him as it was to acclaim him
when the event turned out as it did.
On May 26 the Oregon arrived at
Key West. Clark had covered the
14,000 miles of water in 67 days, the
longest and quickest trip of any bat
tleship then afloat. Despite the
strain that had been put upon the
Oregon’s machinery by the killing
pace, she arrived at Key West fit
for immediate service and a few
days later joined Sampson's fleet.
The nation had only a few weeks to
see the result of the efficiency of
the Oregon in both the care of the
ship itself and the training of her
crew, for in the great naval battle
of Santiago on July 3, the Oregon
played a leading part.
U S.$. OREGON
Designers’ Interest Focused
On Varied Neckline Treatment
By CIIERIE NICHOLAS
/"\NE year it’s sleeves, another it I
'-As apt to be pockets; then again
it’s skirts or bodice silhouettes, or
maybe it’s new fangled trimmings
toward which style creators focus
their genius and imagination. This
year it happens to be versatile and
beguiling necklines which are mak
ing front page fashion news. So, if
you would keep pace with the cur
rent mode, watch necklines!
Flattery's the word when it comes
to the necklines that grace new win
ter fashions. What’s more, you will
find the new necklines so amazingly
versatile you will be sure to find a
type individuated to suit just you.
They run the gamut from V-necks
that go to a new low in cut and
U-necks (deep and low round cuts
being ultra smart) to high “neck
lace” necklines; from ruffle
trimmed low cut versions (ruffle
trims are “the latest”) to the grace
ful cowl drapes which have come
back again after several seasons’
absence.
It is also fascinating to note that
yokes are adding to the neckline
story this season. Decorative yokes
of every description are in the win
ter fashion picture, but the yokes
that are most exciting and lovely
are the sheer and transparent types
which at a distance give the impres
sion that there really is no yoke at
all but rather a more or less low
cut neckline. The last word in after
five fashions is the short length
black dance gown that has a deep
yoke both back and front of filmy
lace or chiffon starred with spar
kling beads or sequins. In after
noon frocks fancifully designed
yokes appear in pastel chiffons or
contrast materials.
The fashions illustrated are pre
sented with a view of calling atten
tion to several new and fascinating
trends in necklines. Note the glam
orous dinner dress below to the left
in the group. Here, polished to
gleaming beauty, crinkly black taf
feta falls in rustling, shining folds
to the floor. The perfectly charm- [
_
ing deep and wide-cut sweetheart
neckline is encrusted with rich
Venise lace, gently sprinkled with
sparkling sequins. The tiny Venise
tricone with its cunning black veil
completes an entrancing picture.
Designers are all enthusiasm over
Venise lace, as may be readily seen
in the lavish use they are making
of it with stately velvet or crepe,
taffeta or moire for evening gowns.
Note, above to the left, a striking
black dinner gown. It is styled with
a peplum of glittering sequins,
which makes it outstanding. The
fact that its plunging V-neckline is
cut to a new low gives it definite
style prestige.
Textured crepe of rayon yarn is
used for the stunning street-length
dinner gown shown below to the
right in the group. This dress is
typical of the new vogue for low-cut
square necklines. Important, too, is
the fact that this neckline is repeat
ed in a back decolletage. A girdle
of black velvet gives a smart and
dressy accent.
That most attractive black crepe
afternoon dress centered above in
the picture is convincingly chic in
that it demonstrates the new trend
toward street-length black dresses
that are enhanced with beguiling
yokes. The yoke in this instance is
of baby blue chiffon (it would be
just as smart in flesh-colored pink).
It has, as you will note, a festoon
of bead work across the base of the
yoke which makes it all the more
prettily feminine.
To the right above a sheath of
black velvet, molding the figure, has
a yoke of pink marquisette which
gives a nude effect. Pale pink satin
outlines the deep decolletage and
flares over the shoulder making a
thoroughly lovely silhouette. A
large rose of singular beauty adds
drama. A tiny calot of black velvet
with veil and pink feathers makes
this a charming dinner costume.
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‘Teddy Bear'
Here’s a sweater jacket that will
serve you well during cold winter
days. It is of the white fuzzy wuzzy
teddy bear material that has made
a big “hit” with the ’teen-age and
college girl group. Bound to be a
winner with every outdoor enthusi
ast, this desirable sweater jacket
adds gay color intrigue to its use
fulness with sleeves and waistband
of glowing red knit. The target and
arrow pin in patriotic red, white and
blue is the latest in jewelry. Design
I ers are turning more and more tofanci
j ful costume jewelry for Tight relief.”
Black Blouse Proves to
Be Time and Money Saver
An enthusiasm for all-black
blouses is spreading throughout
style centers. You can get these
blouses in black as informal or as
formal as you wish. A smart type
for practical daytime wear is a but
ton-back blouse in warm wool jer
sey. This type makes a grand foil
for costume jewelry. Then there is
the long-torso black satin blouse or
the waist-depth blouse of black sat
in to wear with your suit
To get much effect at little ex
pense invest in a black street length
crepe skirt and one in a formal floor
length. With the former a sheer
black lace sequined blouse makes a
handsome afternoon costume. Wear
the same blouse with your formal
skirt.
It’s Orders!
Many factories are banning the
wearing of finery, specifically men
tioning high heeled shoes, nail pol
ish and jewelry. According to an
official notice in a leading indus
trial plant, standard feminine wear
will consist of a short sleeved blouse
or jacket, dark slacks and low
i heeled shoes.
Red Shoes
Smooth suede shoes in deep, rich
red have gone on dress parade for
winter. The shoes are often matched
| to the gloves
WHO’S
NEWS
This Week
By
Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
MEW YORK.—Maj. Gen. George
S. Patton, tagged as a two-gun
general, so tough he chews cactus,
is exultant, vociferous and omni
.... -. present in
introducing Two French Mo_
Cun Patton, Tank roccoasthe
Herding Champion ^Tunft
ed States forces there. The general,
who earned his two-gun title, as it
will be explained later, was educat
ed in the Classical School for Boys
at Pasadena, Calif., before he went
to West Point. There he may have
learned of Hannibal’s elephants. At
any rate, he was out early as a tank
specialist, commanded the first tank
brigade in the First World war, was
severely wounded and lavishly dec- j
orated, and thereafter became the
champion tank-herder of the U.S.A. I
He is now commander of the first
armored corps. He was in command
of the landing and mopping up op
erations on the African Atlantic
coast.
At 57, he is bull-voiced, hard, mus
cular and fit, his two guns still in
his belt, and with nothing written
off but his hair. That the Pasadena
lotus-land of the Rose Bowl and the
dolce far niente should turn out from
a classical school the toughest,
rootin-tootin’ general of our high
command is something to put down
in the book.
As to the two guns. Colonel
Patton, with General Pershing’s
punitive expedition into Mexico,
was chasing Villa’s men through
the chapparal. He caught up
with Candelario Cervantes and
a band of exceedingly tough
hombres. It came down to a
close-range shooting match, with
the colonel backed up against a
wall, whamming away at the
mounted Cervantes troop, with
two .45-caliber revolvers. He
emptied them both, and as he
started to reload, bullets came
so close that they hemstitched
his silhouette on the wall. He
got both guns working and
dropped Cervantes. He rode
happily back to headquarters.
He was the first officer assigned
to the tank corps in the First World
war, and organized and command
ed the 304th brigade. On September
25, 1918, at Bogais, he led sue Amer
ican and two French companies into
action—with 22 tanks. He was
wounded. For this and other such
exploits, he was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service cross, two cita
tions, the Silver Star, the Purple
Heart, the Congressional Medal of
Honor and the World War medal.
In the post-war years, he contin
ued as a tank specialist, and in De
cember, 1940, was giving his thun
dering herd a workout in Abbeville,
Ga. A year later, his “hell on
wheels” Second Armored division
was the leading attention-getter
around Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. They
had only 75-mm. field artillery guns
then, but it is noted in dispatches
from North Africa that the general
is all set up with a lot of new 105
mm. self-propelled guns, and that
one of them blew a hole in Fort
Lyautey big enough to let his men
through to capture the fort.
PIERRE PUCHEU, one of the
roughest and toughest of Hitler’s
me-too men of Vichy, was the loud
est in defamation of America and
War Makes More ^t tlfduck
Queer Bedfellows when the
Than Do Politics _right over
to Africa he fled, to string with a
winner in his customary manner. As
chief of the Vichy Gestapo, he had
charge of shooting hostages. It
would appear that, in Africa, he
might embarrass even our state de
partment, necessarily hospitable to
all comers in a wartime emergency.
The Fighting French naturally find
M. Pucheu hard to take.
He is a synthetic strong man, big
and husky, who built himself up with
tough talk and a pair of out-size
rubber-tired spectacles which make
him look ogreish.
His participation in the inside
job which delivered France,
roped and hog-tied to Germany,
began In 1923 when he became
foreign relations officer for the
Comite des Forges, the steel and
munitions cartel organized two
years previously, to betray
France and fatten Germany
from that day to this. Flandin,
in-and-outer in big-time French
politics and on the receiving end
of every big smear of his time,
including the Stavisky scandal,
was a co-conspirator with Pu
cheu from the first, and fled with
him to Africa—a noisome two
some and a double-threat.
Pucheu worked offstage for years,
keeping the French Lorraine ore
steadily routed into Germany, but
in 1936 stepped out into the open,
with the raucous and rotund Doriot,
for Hitler and Fascism against the
French republic. He was a loud
agitator against “putrescent democ
racy.”
One of his dividends from his steel
cartel manipulations was his big
Japy machine and munitions plant
on the border. When his friends,
the Nazis, marched In, they didn’t
lay a glove on his plant, and he
soon had it in full operation again.
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
CREMATION
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CREMATION
of the most modem type
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Most of the pleasure in giving is
knowing that your gift is appre
ciated. For those smokers on your
Christmas list, there are gifts sure
to please. Send Camel cigarettes
either in the Camel Christmas
Carton or the Camel “Holiday
House” package of four “flat fif
ties.” Either way you give 200
mild, flavorful Camels—the serv
ice man’s favorite. If he smokes a
pipe, send him the big pound can
ister of Prince Albert Smoking
Tobacco—the National Joy Smoke.
And if he’s in the service, these
gifts are even more appropriate,
for cigarettes and tobacco are the
service man’s favorite gifts. Both
Camels and Prince Albert are spe
cially Christmas wrapped. Your
dealer is featuring them as gifts
sure to please.—Adv.
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Pleasing One Side
The best way to please one half
of the world is not to mind what
the other half says.—Goldsmith.
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Colleges and books only copy
the language which the field and
the workyard make.—Emerson.
SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
In 749 war production plants, 75
par cant off 434,600 workers
arrive by private automobiles.
That's why war workers must
have tires.
When it is understood that 54,000
communities in this country depend
entirely upon highway transporta
tion, the importance of the rubber
situation will be appreciated.
There were 10.78 pounds off crude
rubber in the overage passen
ger car tire made in 1940. In 1941
the rubber content was Increased
to 10.85 pounds.
The overall weight of the average
passenger car tire in 1940 was 21.55
pounds, while in 1941 it was 21.69
pounds.
There Is e former In Osborne,
Iowa, who still carries as a serv
iceable spare, a tire that came
on his car as original equipment
In 1917. He lacks up the wheels
when the car is not in use.
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YOUR
The manufacture! or
merchant who adver
tises, makes public the
fact that he wants your
good will. And he real
izes that the only way
that he can keep it is
by giving good values
and services.