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The Questions
1. How many times has the title
Progressive party been taken by a
third party movement in the Unit
ed States?
2. Who was the last of the
French monarchs?
3. Back in 1845 what city made
the use of bathtubs unlawful ex
cept on the advice of physicians?
4. What is the ratio of gasoline
used in this war as compared with
World War I?
5. You are most deeply asleep
after how many hours of sleep?
6. How many acres does the
great pyramid of Gizeh cover?
The Answers
1. Two-1912 and 1924.
2. Napoleon HI.
3. Boston.
4. Eighty to one. '
5. After 1% hours of sleep.
6. Thirteen acres. •
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Savory Dressing Extends the Ham Slice
(See Recipe Below.)
Spring Notes
'Tia the season for foods to don
spring dress—to try on new colors, to
keep Mrs. Home
maker cool while
the sun becomes
warmer and
brighter, to perk
up appetites that
lag because ‘‘it's
too warm to eat.”
I’m not advo
eating any sulphur and molasses
diet because you can do a better
Job in a much smarter way, that is,
by serving foods keyed to the season
and making the most of them.
The first rule to follow in pepping
up menus is to take foods which are
choice and fresh. In the vegetable
group you'll find asparagus, peas,
carrots, radishes, lettuce, spring on
ions, beets, string beans, spinach,
endive, chicory, dandelion greens,
escarole and wild greens.
In fruits, there is not as much
variety, but the quality is lovely.
You can have delicate pink and ten
der rhubarb, apples, pears, pine
apple, cherries, strawberries and or
anges.
Keeping Cool.
It’s the smart homemaker who
cooks her food quickly and stays
out of the kitchen
J during the hot
weather. Use the
refrigerator as
much as possible
and plan meals
that cook in an
hour or less. If
it’s possible, make ready in the cool
hours of the morning, and then just
before dinner, pop foods into the
oven, broiler or surface units to cut
down preparation time. It’s a good
recipe for remaining cool and crisp.
Here is the first suggestion for to
day. The ham is cleverly extended
with a dressing and may be baked
with the garnish and dessert.
MENU I.
Ham on Dressing
Raked Pears Green Salad
Rolls
Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie
Ham on Dressing.
(Serves 6)
1 ham slice, I inch thick
1 cup chopped celery
2 cups soft bread crumbs
1 teaspoon salt
M teaspoon pepper
% teaspoon thyme or marjoram
H medium-sized onion, minced
H cup bacon or meat drippings
Toss together celery, bread
crumbs, salt, pepper, thyme and on
ion. Add bacon drippings. Put into
slightly greased baking dish. Top
with ham slice. If desired, spread
slice with thin layer of prepared
mustard. Bake in a moderate (350
degree) oven for 1 hour.
Sore Used Fats!
Crauberry Baked Pears.
Pare, halve and core large, firm
pears. Place in baking dish and fill
j hollows with cranberry sauce. Cov
er bottom of pan with water and
bake covered in a moderate oven
about 20 minutes or until tender.
Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie.
2 cups strawberries, washed and
hulled
2 cups rhubarb, cut in 4-lnch pieces
1H tablespoons quick-cooking tapi
j oca
Lynn Says
The Score Card: Egg supplies
are at an all-time high, so scram
ble them, poach, fry, boil them.
Use them in custards, puddings,
or pies, but use them for econo
my’s sake and for health.
Cheese production is in for an
other cut, and there will be less
cheese, except cottage cheese, of
course. Use it wisely.
Fat supplies and oils for civilian
use are getting smaller. Use them
sparingly, and salvage what you
can to turn in to your butcher for
points and money. On the Also
i Save list are tin cans aid waste
paper. Salvage all that you pos
sibly can.
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SAVE VITAMINS!
When you’re preparing vegeta
bles for summer meals, observe
these cautions for conserving vi
tamins:
As soon as food comes in from
the garden or market, wash and
refrigerate. Don’t prepare vege
tables ahead of time for cooking
and let stand In water, as this
destroys vitamins.
Prepare fruit cups and salads
just before serving. Cut surfaces
exposed to air destroy vitamin C.
l’/i cups sugar
% teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 pastry recipe for 9-inch pie
Mix strawberries and rhubarb to
gether. Blend tapioca, sugar and
salt together. Mix with fruit. Add
melted butter. Let stand about 10
minutes while pastry is being made.
Make pie crust and line pastry tin.
Add filling, cover with top crust, cut
ting slits in top to permit steam to
escape. Bake in a hot (450-degree)
oven for 15 minutes; decrease heat
to 350 degrees, and bake 30 minutes
longer.
Save Used Fats!
Springtime is the best time to
start getting plenty of those health
giving salads into
your menus. It’s
true that during
cooler weather,
you usually use
salad as a side
course, but when
warm weather comes along, try it
as the main event of the meal.
Here's a menu that’s planned to
keep the family as well as the cook
delightfully cool:
MENU II.
Supper Salad Bowl
Bye Bread Sandwiches Olives
Lemon Sherbet Sponge Cake
Supper Salad Bowl.
(Serves 6)
1 head lettuce
t tomatoes, quartered
4 hard-cooked eggs, cut in halves
4 green onions, chopped
V4 pound sliced luncheon meat or
leftover meat
14 pound American cheese
Shred lettuce coarsely, place in
salad bowl. Over it arrange toma
toes, eggs, chopped onion, luncheon
meat and cheese, cut in squares or
strips. Just before serving pour over
french dressing enough to moisten.
French Dressing.
(Makes % cup)
1 teaspoon sugar
V4 teaspoon salt
H teaspoon dry mustard
4 teaspoon paprika
Dash of cayenne
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons vinegar
Vs cup salad oil
Put all ingredients in a bottle;
cover and shake well.
Save Used Fats!
Here is a grand recipe for making
that best liked of all sherbets. It
may be used as a dessert, or if you
like combination salad plates, serve
it with that. It’s refreshing and de
lightfully cool:
Lemon Sherbet.
(Serves 6)
4 cup sugar
Few grains of salt
1 cup water
H cup rich milk
H cup lemon juice
2 egg whites
Vs cup sugar
Combine ¥4 cup sugar, salt and
water; cook 5 minutes. Cool. Add
milk, then lemon juice. Freeze firm
in automatic refrigerator tray. Turn
into chilled bowl; beat thoroughly.
Beat egg whites, gradually add re
maining sugar; continue beating un
til stiff and sugar is dissolved. Fold
into frozen mixture. Return to
tray; freeze Arm.
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THE STORY THt'S FAR: Forty-four
year-old Wilbert Winkle, who operates an
auto repair shop in back of bis home, Is
notified by his draft board that he Is In
1-A. He breaks the bad news to his dom
ineering wife, Amy, and tramps off to
work without kissing her goodby. Neigh
bors call the next night after seeing his
picture on the front page of the Evening
Standard, and commiserate with him.
The night before leaving, Mrs. Winkle
tells Wilbert she Is worried that he may
take up with other women but he tells
her she has nothing to worry about.
Mr. Winkle takes the lead In the draft
parade and on arriving in camp Is given
bis “physical." He Is ashamed of his
skinny physique.
CHAPTER VI
J —
At the desk of the Chief Medical
Examiner, he was informed, casu
ally, that he had been accepted for
General Military Service.
It was a little difficult to realize
it. He was dazed. He felt that his
dyspepsia had been insulted. He
still suffered from chronic indiges
tion no matter how lightly it was
regarded.
All except three of the Springville
contingent were accepted. Freddie
and Jack were among the successful
ones — or unsuccessful — whichever
way you looked at it, a matter de
pending on how far your patriotism
went.
After retrieving their clothes and
hiding their nakedness, they were
marched outside. Lined up in the
open, they took the oath of enlist
Mr. Winkle saw what his future
bedroom was like.
ment. Mr. Winkle felt very solemn
about swearing to bear true faith and
allegiance to this country.
In the clothing depot they were
turned over to a little Sergeant no
larger than Mr. Winkle. He had a
wizened face and a great many serv*
ice stripes on his sleeve. In a dry
good-humored voice he instructed
them to change into something more
appropriate to their surroundings
and new standing.
Sergeant Czeideskrowski took
them, with more new soldiers from
Dther contingents, to a receiving bar
racks in the Reception Center. Here
they would stay for several days,
and here Mr. Winkle saw what his
tuture bedroom was like.
He was appalled.
Not that the quarters weren’t
good. Indeed, they were better than
those any other Army in the world
could boast.
Even in his somewhat depressed
state Mr. Winkle ate more than he
usually did at home, which he knew
would not please Amy. He didn’t
mention anything about this when
the Alphabet, in motherlike fashion,
saw to it that they filled out post
cards to their families announcing
the good news of their being in the
Army.
Finally, for that day, came in
struction in bed making. After an
hour of experimenting, during which
most of them believed he could make
his bed perfectly in the dark, Ser
geant Czeideskrowski observed that
none of them would pass inspection,
but their efforts would do for them
to sleep that night.
Lying in the darkness, with some
of the men talking back and forth
in whispers, Mr. Winkle felt unnat
ural. He was no longer Wilbert
Winkle, captain of his own soul or
body. He belonged to an immense,
fearsome, mysterious organization
called the Army whose purpose was
to fight other men to the death.
• • •
Mr. Winkle fell in line with the
other men on the company street.
It was barely light. It was cold.
All about were the dim outlines of
buildings. A vast rustle of men and
their movements and voices spread
in all directions, ghostly and weird.
Shivering, Mr. Winkle wondered
if this could be only a bad dream.
Surely he would soon awaken in hi*
own warm bed with Amy beside
him, telling him it was time to get
up after a good night’s rest instead
of the fifteen minutes’ nap he felt
he had.
Instead, he heard Sergeant Czeid- j
eskrowski calling his name in the
roll.
"H-her£,” Mr. Winkle quavered.
"Tindall!*’
‘*1 guess I’m here,” Freddie an
swered. "I’m not sure.”
"Answer ‘here’ only," the Alpha
bet ordered. "We’ll try again. Tin
dall!”
“Here,” Freddie replied. In a low
mutter he added, "What’s left of
me.”
The Alphabet strode over to stand
in front of Freddie. He took out a
little black notebook from his pock
et, wrote in it, and said:
“Private Tindall, because it’s you,
and you ain’t had the Articles of
War read to you yet, especially Ar
ticle Sixty-five providing punishment
for insubordination to a noncommis
sioned officer—which is me—we’ll
just set a record for the camp.
You’re getting K P duty on your
second day. You will become fa
mous for this."
Mr. Winkle was almost glad to
see how wrong Freddie was in his
attitude, and how painful this was
going to make it for him. Then he
felt guilty at having such an un
worthy sentiment.
"Pettigrew!”
Teeth chattered. Between clicks,
Jack called that he was present.
Mr. Winkle had a sense of float
ing through the rest of that day.
He remained in a daze from the
shock of entering the Army. He
supposed it was the same with the
other men, but he didn’t notice them
very much.
At the dispensary Mr. Winkle was
inoculated for so many things that
he couldn’t keep track of them all.
The faintness induced by being
pricked on one arm was counter
acted by being pricked on the other
arm immediately afterward. He en
joyed only one of the examinations.
Thfit was the Mechanical Aptitude
Test. He was happy to wade right
through this, answering nearly ev
ery question with ease and certain
ty, while others scratched their
heads.
In the afternoon, when they were
given individual interviews, he
hoped to learn what might be done
with him. The interviewer drew
him out about the work he had
done in civil life. He showed a
mild interest in Mr. Winkle’s his
tory as an accountant, but mostly
he asked Mr. Winkle to talk about
himself as a repairer of anything
and the fact that he had his own
shop.
"I think we’ll have a place for
you,” he said, quite as if Mr. Winkle
only now had been accepted for the
position, and hired.
The late afternoon was given to
them to do as they pleased—within
the confines of their barracks. That
is, all except Freddie. An emis
sary of Sergeant Czeideskrowski, in
the form of a Corporal, arrived to
Instruct Freddie to get into his fa
tigue denim and follow him. "We’re
going bubble dancing,” the Corporal
said.
Freddie, snorting and grumbling,
decided to agree.
Jack was with two of the younger
men, boys like himself. Solemnly
they thumbed through their copies
of The Soldier’s Handbook, reading
the instructions about what was, for
most of them of their age, their first
job.
Mr. Winkle looked about for com
panionship of his own. A few men
looked as if they might be old enough
for him, but he couldn’t be sure.
One of them passed by his cot, and
Mr. Winkle, catching his glance,
and for lack of anything else to say
on the spur of the moment observed:
"Well, here we are.”
"Hah?” the man asked, staring
blankly.
Mr. Winkle didn’t pursue it, and
the man passed on.
He realized just what an outsider
he was going to be. He wrote a let
ter to Amy. He informed her that
his bag would arrive home by ex
press collect; it contained his rub
bers, which she had better give to
the scrap rubber drive. He instruct
ed her to tell the Pettigrews that
Jack was getting along fine—right
now he was having a roughhouse
with another boy. He assured Amy
that he was all right. He just felt a
little funny in his new life.
Sitting there alone on his cot, Mr.
Winkle reflected that he felt more
than a little funny.
There was an additional thing con
nected with what was going on,
which he couldn't exactly analyze or
express. It was connected in some
way with the broad, general struc
ture of the state of human affairs.
It went beyond the possibility that
man was a warring animal in spite
of all his civilized refinements. Nei
ther was it to be found in the con
current theory that at certain inter
vals man needed to make war in or
der to pull himself down to his nat
ural level, which he had made the
mistake of exceeding.
Perhaps, thought Mr. Winkle, what
he felt was contained in the fact that
man had a will to die as well as a
will to live, and that the present
war was merely a grand expression
of this. The world was bent on a
mass suicide-pact, whose impulses
would be spent only when mfllions
had done away with themselves by
the oblique methods employed.
Yet not even in that did he dis
cover an explanation of the thing he
felt. It was to be found in some
thing much more simple than any
such objective ideas, which were
perhaps a little crazy, anyway, or
at least too dangerous to entertain.
But he was sure there was some
thing to express the situation in
which he found himself, and that he
would ultimately run across it. He
decided to be on the lookout for it.
Private Tindall came in shortly
after five, looking hot and not cut
ting a very attractive figure in his
soiled dungarees. His thin line of
mustache did not seem to fit this
garment at all. Several of the men
wanted to know what he had had
to do.
Freddie glared at them disgusted
ly. “I washed floors,” he snarled.
“Me!”
Jack led the laugh that followed.
Freddie strode over to him and
without a word, drew back his fist
and hit him. ,
Jack sat down on a cot, not hurt
but angry.
Mr. Winkle had time to think that
it was a good thing he had finished
his letter mentioning Jack before
the boy rose, again to battle Fred
die.
From the doorway the voice of
Alphabet was heard: “For fighting
you’d be surprised what there is,
Private Tindall. But this time we’ll
make it just the garbage detail for
tomorrow.”
After the Alphabet had written in
his notebook and gone away, Fred
die promised, “I’m going to kill
him. From A to Z.”
"If I don’t get you first,” Jack
muttered.
“You,” Freddie demanded, “and
what other part of the Army? You
and Pop, maybe?”
Mr. Winkle reflected that this was
not the right outlook at all. It was
hardly the true spirit of the reason
they were here.
Mr. Winkle did not find a friend of
his own age until he was shipped on
.a train to his Replacement Training
Center. Camp Squibb was a thou
sand miles away from home. Mr.
Winkle understood that this great
distance was for the purpose of get
ting him away from family ties.
He was no happier at this than
was Freddie Tindall when it was
learned that Sergeant Czeideskrow
ski was to accompany and stay with
them. It seemed that the Alphabet
had been champing at the bit for
having been put in what he re
ferred to as the “desk job” of re
ceiving draftees. He wanted active
duty, and now he looked at it as a
step toward this when he was as
signed to new training troops.
Camp Squibb was a great deal
like their first camp, except that it
was much larger, stretching for
miles across the flat bare land. It
was the general belief that no one
knew how large it was, nor where it
began and ended. It had simply
“For fighting you’d be surprised
what there is, Private Tindall . . .”
continued to be built until there
were no boundaries at all. Men, it
was said, had become lost in it and
not yet found. Another rumor had
it that in case of invasion the enemy
was to be lured to Camp Squibb
where, once caught in this trap, it
would never And its way out.
On the first afternoon in their new
barracks, Mr. Winkle discovered Mr.
Tinker. He was among those mak
ing up the platoon quartered on
the ground floor. Mr. Winkle eyed
the thickset man with a scowl on his
broad face sitting on the next cot,
and saw that here was a man of his
own age.
They eyed each other. Mr. Win
kle smiled briefly, and was given a
frown. That wasn’t encouraging.
Nevertheless, Mr. Winkle spoke, in
troducing himself. He gave his age,
glanced around, and observed, “I
guess we’re sort of two of a kind
here.”
“Yeah,” the other man said in a
deep voice.
Mr. Winkle offered the informa
tion that he was a married man.
His look inquired if the same situa
tion held true with his acquaintance.
“Naw,” the man said.
There the matter rested for a mo
ment, until the man suddenly an
nounced his own name, which was
Tinker, and his age, forty-two. He
said he was a plumber.
Mr. Winkle asked him how he felt
about being in the Army.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
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