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Little Lunches Flatter Wartime Menus. (See Recipes Below) Victory Lunches Mid-day meals with that go-and get-it spirit are those that are prop eriy oaiauccu, and have plenty of eye-appeal. The days are gone when you can make a quick dash to the cor ner grocery and bring home lamb chops to Droii quicKiy. uuhc, are days when you had loads of left overs from yesterday's roast. But, homemakers, you need not be foiled, rather let your ingenuity devise new ways of getting nutri tion requirements into your menus. Use protein foods like peas, beans, eggs, and vitamin B1 foods like ce reals as extenders to make up for meat. Your New Year victory menu parade starts off with a meat loaf “stretched” with oatmeal. Savory Meat Loaf. (Serves 8) 1 pound ground beef pound ground pork % cup oatmeal 1 egg, beaten % onion, grated % cup milk 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 3 tablespoons catsup 1% teaspoons salt Combine ingredients in order giv en. Mix lightly until well blended. Place in a greased loaf pan, pat ting smooth. Bake in a moderate oven (375 degrees) about 1 hour. Makes approximately 2%-pound meat loaf. •Little Luncheons. (Serves 6) 2 cups sifted enriched flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 to 4 tablespoons shortening % to % cup milk % cup ground ham 6 poached eggs Creamy Cheese Sauce Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Cut or rub in shortening. Add milk to form a soft dough. Turn out on light ly floured board and knead Vz min ute. Roll dough out into a long c rectangle 8 inches wide and % inch thick. Cut in half lengthwise and spreau eacu uau wiui nam auu iuu jelly-roll fashion, sealing edges well. Cut rolls into 8-inch pieces. Form each piece into rings on baking sheet. Pinch ends together. With scissors, cut through rings almost to center, in slices about 1 inch thick. Turn each slice slightly on its side. Bake in hot oven (450 degrees) 10 to 12 minutes. Place a poached egg in the center of each ring and serve with Creamy Cheese Sauce. Creamy Cheese Sauce. ,2 tablespoons butter or margarine Lynn Says: Cans and Jars: You will have noticed that your grocery shelves present a different picture than in the past. Instead of all food being put up in cans, some food has been preserved in glass. In those foods placed in cans, the government has decreed three different sized cans. A number two sized can, one of the standard sizes yields 2(6 cups and will serve four to five people. The number 2’6 sized can averages 3(6 cups and feeds six people. Largest food can is number 10, sually used by institutions and restaurants. This large size is not usually practical for a fam ily of less than eight since it yields 12 cups and would last for at least two meals. A few additional sized cans are allowed in the case of canned meats, fish, baby food, and citrus juices. This Week’s Menu Hot Tomato Juice •Little Luncheons Cranberry-Orange Salad Celery Radishes •Date-Pecan Pie •Recipes Given 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk 56 teaspoon salt 56 teaspoon pepper 56 cup grated cheese Melt butler and stir in flour. Grad ually add milk, stirring constantly. Boil sauce until it thickens. Cook 3 minutes. Add seasonings. Add cheese and stir over low heat until cheese is melted. Baked Corn and Sausage. (Serves G to 8) % pound link or bulk sausage 56 cup chopped onion 56 cup chopped green pepper 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt 54 teaspoon pepper 256 cups whole kernel corn and juice 256 cups canned tomatoes and juice 1 cup oven-popped rice If bulk sausage is used, form into shape of link sausages. Brown sau sage in heavy frying pan. Remove sausage and brown onions and pep per in fat remaining in pan. Add flour and seasonings and blend. Add corn and tomatoes and simmer until juice has partially evaporated (about 56 hour). Pour into casse role; arrange browned sausages on top like the spokes of a wheel. Sprin kle oven-popped rice on top. Cook in moderate oven (400 degrees) about 15 minutes until oven-popped rice is golden brown. As golden as sunshine and as wel come is this luncheon souffle. Rich in vitamin A carrots and cheese, this dish will boost your resistance to colds and infection this winter. Rice-Carrot Souffle. (Serves 6) 156 cups of cold cooked rice 2 beaten eggs • 2 cups of milk 1 teaspoon of sugar 1 cup of grated cheese 56 teaspoon of salt 1 cup of cooked and riced carrots Make a thin custard of eggs, milk and salt. Add the cheese and, when melted, add the rice which has been boiled in salted water, drained and shaken dry. Pour into a buttered baking dish, cover with the riced carrots, a fine sprinkling of sugar, and grated cheese. Bake over a pan of water about three-quarters of an hour in a slow oven. •Date-Pecan Pie. (Makes 1 9-inch pie) Pastry for 1 9-inch pie 1 cup unbroken pecan meats 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup sugar 56 cup dates, cut 1 cup dark corn syrup 2 eggs, beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla 56 teaspoon salt Line pie plate with pastry. Ar range pecan meats over the pastry. cream butter and sugar together thoroughly, then add remaining in gredients, beat ing well. Pour into unbaked pas try shell over the pecans and bake in a not oven (45U degrees) 10 minutes, then reduce to moderate (350 degrees) and bake 30 to 35 minutes or until knife in serted in center comes out clean. CooL May be served with whipped cream. I.ynn Chambers can tell you how to dress up your table for family dinner or festivities, give you menus for your meals in accordance with nutritional standards. Just write to her, explaining your problem, at U extern Mewsf/aper Union, 21 n South Despluines Street, Chicago, Illinois, flense enclose a stumped, self-addressed envelope for your answer. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Buyers Will Pay More For Your Clean Eggs Frequent Gathering Also Aids in Reducing Soilage Consumers willing to pay high prices will not readily accept eggs that are soiled. The poultryman who markets dirty eggs must sell to less dis criminating buyers at lower prices. Records show that soiled eggs bring from 7 to 12 cents less per dozen than clean eggs of the same quality. Soilage of eggs can be reduced with only a little care in addition to that usually exercised by good poultrymen. A few simple practices, generally applied, would make ev ery egg produced this year clean and attractive in appearance. A deep litter on the floor of the laying house and roost poles screened with poultry wire to keep them from walking on the soiled dropping Pretty Marteal Oglesby awards an “E” for efficiency to a represen tative of American hendom for their expected contribution of billions of dozens of eggs to the nation’s war effort this year. boards, will prevent eggs from be ing soiled by dirty feet. At least one large nest Is need ed for every five hens to pre vent excessive '‘traffic’* per nest. If the nests are made of good clean material, such as ex celsior, shavings, or straw, breakage of eggs will be re duced and clean whole eggs will not be stained by broken ones. Gathering the eggs frequently—at 1 least three times a day—will reduce the time of their exposure to soilage. If an egg becomes soiled, it can be cleaned by applying baking soda with a damp cloth, and allowed to dry thoroughly before casing. When the eggs are ready for crating, pack them in clean con tainers. It will be found the appearance of eggs makes a great deal of difference in their value on the market. Agriculture • in • Industry By FLORENCE C. WEED Fiber Plants A half dozen fiber plants, growing mostly in the southern states seem to offer some possibilities for indus trial use as stuffings, mattings and brushes. The drawback is in com peting with wild grasses growing on other continents which can be har vested by cheap labor and imported here at low cost. Kapok will grow in the ex treme southern part of Florida. It is much liked for upholstery and pillow stuffing. Palmetto, from this section, will produce a useable fiber. A few thousand tons of Spanish moss, growing on southern trees, are collected each year and sold as a substi tute for curled horse hair in up holstery. The cabbage palmetto is used in the manufacture of brushes. Some slough grass is cut along the Mis sissippi river, dried and used in matting manufacture. Jute will also grow in the southern states and Es parto will grow in southern Califor nia, but these can not compete in price with the cheap jute from India and the wild Esparto from north ern Africa. Eventually, all these less impor tant plants as well as our important agriculture products will be thor oughly investigated at the new re gional laboratories which have been established by the government to search for new and wider industrial uses for farm products. Farm Notes The U. S. crop of soybeans in 1942 is estimated at 14,241,000 acres, as compared with 9,990,000 acres in 1941 • • • One way of meeting the farm la bor shortage is to determine to produce high crop yields. Good seed beds, fertilizer, adapted seed, and excellent cultural practices will per mit higher production on fewer acres. Be'eased by Western Newspaper Union. THE WORKING LIVER For a number of years I found myself writing about the liver al most once every month. I pointed out the various jobs done by the • - ■* wmm Dr. Barton liver such as manu- | facturing bile and j then the various jobs done by the bile; the storing of sugar in the liver for future needs of the body; the importance of the liver in filtering out the harmful sub stances from the blood and the effects these harmful sub stances would have on the body tissues and body processes if they were not filtered out; the coloring and other materials in the liver used to help form the blood; that the liver was the largest organ in the body and had within it about one-quarter of all the blood of the body. There was one point I mentioned once or twice but did net emphasize as I should have done and that was the advisability of having the liver tested for its working ability just as the heart, kidneys, stomach, blood vessels and other organs are tested. A test can be made showing the working ability of the liver by the use of substances taken by mouth or injected into a vein. The liver should remove these substances from the blood within a definite time if it is doing its work properly. One of these substances is hippuric acid. In the Medical Journal of Austra lia, Drs. Margaret Henderson and B. Splatt report their results in 89 pa tients with liver disease, 86 with va rious other disorders, and 25 normal adults or patients recovering from minor ailments. Not only did the results show the extent to which the liver was damaged or unable to do its work, and the extent of heart damage, but it showed also how the damaged condition of the liver was ' allowing poisons to aggravate other i conditions present in the body, such as pernicious anemia, tuberculosis and rheumatic arthritis. In the treatment of a sluggish liver or a liver that is not doing its work properly, the physician pre scribes special diets and various drugs. However, we can keep the liver in good working condition by taking long deep breaths or by bending ex ercises, keeping the knees straight (both exercises squeeze the liver) and by avoiding overeating. ♦ • • Mental Clinics Doing Good Work A few years ago the statement was made that at the present rate of increase in the number of mental cases in any and all communities, within 50 years it would mean that at least one - half the population would require mental care. Natural ly health departments everywhere are trying to prevent this condition by various means. Today mental institutions by regu lar and special forms of treatment, by the help of visiting or resident specialists — throat, teeth, heart, lungs, and others—are able to send back to home and business about 6 in every 10 patients admitted. Where the greatest progress is be ing made, however, is the recogni tion of the “early” symptoms and signs of mental ailments by the fam ily and general physician, and the sending of these early cases to a mental or psychiatric clinic. If the average taxpayer stopped to think of what it costs to keep just one patient in a mental institu I tion, he would gladly pay a few cents extra yearly to prevent it. Dr. Victor H. Vogel of the U. S. Health Service, as recorded by Sci ence Service, states: “It would not cost taxpayers a cent if their local health services added mental hygiene clinics to their child health clinics and other services. Such clinics would pre vent mental breakdowns and so re duce the number of patients cared for in mental hospitals. Mental ill ness is the most expensive kind be cause of its long duration. If only three people a year are saved from becoming public charges in a men tal institution, that means enough money saved to support a mental hygiene clinic for an entire year.” The saving of money is but the least of the benefits of a mental clinic. It cannot be compared with tlje saving of life and happiness. Mental hygiene clinics help peo ple whose lives are threatened by other dangers, too. A divorce can sometimes be prevented, a home kept intact or a suicide prevented. • • * QUESTION BOX Q.—What is the cause of white spots on the skin? A.—Cause of these white spots— vitiligo—is unknown. There is no cure. Your druggist can supply you > with a coloring sub? lance for these white spots. Q.—Is electrolysis a safe method | for removing superfluous hair? A.—Electrolysis treatment by an expert—not necessarily a physician usually gives good results. Patterns SEWBNG CDIRCLE ~ 8268 36-52 | It’s Flattering! U'VERY line of this easy-to-look at dress flatters the mature, larger figure. The deep cut neck line shows off an expanse of throat which makes your face appear younger and prettier. The smooth shoulders and simple sleeves sim plify the top of the dress, gathers through the bodice give the soft fullness which is best for you, the panelled skirt fits flat over the hips. • • • Pattern No. 8268 is in sizes 36 . 38 , 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. 50 and S2. Size 38, short sleeves, requires 4 yards 39-inch material. 2 yards bias told. '8273 7-6 yr*. Child’s Frock. DRETTY frocks for children are 1 easy to come by, even at lowest possible costs, when you sew at home. Today’s pattern suggests an adorable style for two to sixers with a perky scalloped front, curved shoulder yokes framing a flattering neckline and a wide, waist-smoothing girdle which ties firmly in back. • • • Pattern No. 8273 ta In sizes 2. 3. 4. 5 and 6 years. Size 3 takes 1»« yards 36 ineh material. 2<Si yards braid to trim. Send your order to:: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN PEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago. Enclose 20 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No. Size. Name .. Address . Koreans Ignore Wives In Chosen (Korea) if a man meets his wife on the street cus tom requires him to ignore her completely and pass her as though she were a stranger. j <v.p— O- ^•('•(^ C*- O- CV. fv. (V* (v. (V. (v* <v. (v- (v. (V. (V. (V. (v. ASK ME 7 A quiz with answers offering ? ■ANOTHER'. information on various subjects • The Questions 1. What does “recherche” mean? 2. Why did King Arthur’s knights sit at a round table? 3. In architecture, what is an abacus? 4. If England is invaded what signals will spread the alarm? 5. Where does genuine mocha coffee come from? 6. How old was George Wash ington at the end at the Revolu tionary war? 7. Is the slogan “America First” original with us? 8. Who was the “March King” of America? 9. What was the most popular ballad ever composed in the United States? 10. Can you define can-can, beri beri and paw-paw? The Answers 1. Rare or exquisite. 2. To avoid showing distinction. 3. A fiat stone placed above the capital of a column. 4. Church bells. 5. Arabia. 6. Forty-nine. 7. No. Previously an Australian Fascist organization used “Austra lia First,” and the British Union of Fascists used “Britain First.” 8. John Philip Sousa. 9. “Frankie and Johnnie” was the most popular ballad ever com posed here. During the latter part of the Nineteenth century, more than 300 variations of it were sung from coast to coast. 10. Can-can is a dance with plen ty of kick in it. Beri-beri is a dis ease, chiefly in the Orient. Paw paw is a tree bearing an edible, pulpy fruit. Home of Rubber Trees Most of the rubber trees in the world today that produce latex in commercial quantities are located in a narrow belt that encircles the earth and extends approximately 700 miles north and south of the equator. " 5 > Y* T 5 J5 / H 5 Passed It Up Registrar—Age, please. She—I’m around 30. Registrar — I can see that, but how many years is it since yo* got around it? Never the Same Again Teacher — Why ii it that lightning never strikes twice in the same place? Jimmy— Because when it strikes once the same place isn’t there any more. Insistent Fellow A pretty girl got into a bus that was full of shoppers. Immediately a man got up, but before he could speak the girl said: “It’s very good of you, but I’d rather stand.” He raised his hat and began: «<J_»» “No, really, I mean it.” “But-” Again she interrupted him. “I assure you, it’s quite ajf right.” “But,” he shouted, desperately “I’m trying to get out!” He Should Know Dolly—We women endure pal* much better than men. Molly—Who told you that? Your doctor? Dolly—No; the shoe salesman. There are some open minds that ought to be closed for repairs. Man Grounds Dog “Hullo,” said a voice, “is that the police department?” “Yes, madam.” “Well, there’s a nasty tramp sit ting up in a tree in my garde* teasing my dear little dog.” _. PENETRO Many users say "first use is a revelation." Has a base of old fashioned mutton suet. Grandma’s favorite. Demand stainless Penetro. Generous iar 2W, double supply 35<. Youth’s Expression This young man expresses him self in terms too deep for me.— Sir W. Watson. SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER -< i 9,000 miles In 1941, disked ell at the rate of about *,700 miles a yeer In 1943 before gasoline rationing was natlonoBsed. Is sentlal driving Is now pegged at an average of 8,000 miles annu ally and the "A" rationing book allows for 3,880 miles of driving , a year. Don't always be content srith an “on the wheel'' inspection. Have your tiros removed bom the wheels, spread and closely checked. Ton'll be surprised what this inspection sometimes shows in the way ol In ternal carcass injuries. Catch them in time and save mileage. In 1941 u total new supply of rubber amounting to 1,441,000 tons, 310,000 or 11\ consisted of reclaimed rubber. f “LISTEN,” SAYS MIKE, “IT 1 SMOKES RICH*" ROLLS RIGHT!” ^--V v V EASY-PULLIN' SMOKES ARE A CINCH WITH PRINCE AL6ERT. P.A. * ROUS RIGHT AND QUlCK-ITS CRIMP CUT. IT'S SETTER TOBACCO, TOO,- BETTER-TASTIN EASY ON THE TONGUE. NO OTHER > I I