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Tomatoes,Mushroom*, Eggs and Rice Cakes Make Good Lunch A tomato treat that’s hard to beat U this one In which cottage cheese le used for stuffing. Frilly sand wiches can be made by rereading thinly sliced bread with mayon naise, seasoning tha lettuce and roll ing up the bread. ' Lunch is often one of the most neglected meals of the day because the whole family is not at home to eat It. Then, too, many homemak ers feel they just don't want to both er fixing something palatable and attractive. But, let’s look at It this way. Lunch, according to nutritionists, should contain at least one-third to one-half the day’s calories, and the proper balance of proteins, carbo hydrates, vita mins and miner ■ Is. This doesn’t mean that you .have to spend a lot of time prepar ing this noon-day snack, because, ichances are, there are plenty of (things in the refrigerator, ready to be made into satisfying, nourishing lunches. i Now that food rationing has eased, Jft might be a good idea to invite friends in for a quick lunch; or, bet ter still, have a plan whereby you Invite four to tix people.over for noon-time, and then have everyone take turns having each other lo luncheon. It's a neighborly way, and you will be sure to get Into bet ter luncheon habits this way. Here is a colorful salad plate that makes a quick and easy lunch. It looks pretty, too, on gay, informal plates. Stuffed Tomato Salad I’late. (Serves 6) ( Urge tomatoes H pound cottage cheese 1 cup chopped cucumber S tablespoons real mayonnaise Parsley Scallions Lettuce rolls Section tomatoes to within Vs inch from bottom. Mix cottage cheese, cucumber and real mayonnaise. Fill tomatoes. Serve with scallions and lettuce rolls. TTie rolls are made by spreading thinly sliced white bread with mayonnaise and then placing a lettuce leaf on each slice. Sprinkle this with salt and pepper. Roll up and fasten with a toothpick. Occasionally we all have some leftover rice in the refrigerator, pos sibly after a chop suey dinner the night before. What about crispy, golden brown rice cakes for lunch, served with apricot jam or marmalade, and some spinach made delectable with a cream sauce. There you have nourishment plus in addition to a colorful and contrasting menu. Rice Cakes. (Serves 6) t cups cooked rice (H cup un cooked! 1 beaten egg t tablespoons flour Lynn Says Hints far the Hume: Sugar bags make good dishcloths Cut, hem and launder before using. A dishwashing apron is easy to make out of oil cloth. Cut to pat tern, bind the edges and you will have a water-resistar.t apron. Old pillow cases are excellent for protecting the tops of clothes while they hang in the clc ;et. Use this tip for putting awaj out-of season clothes. Odd bits of linoleum make nice covers for kteben or laundry ta ble and may even be used as shelf covering. Old socks are excellent for ap plying wax to furniture; they may be used for cleaning silver ware, too. If you are crowded for space, build a blanket bin across the narrow end of a hall, underneath the windows. This is good to use in storing clothes, too. Fold the latter in clean tissue paper to prevent wrinkling. Lynn Chambers’ Menu* •Country Omelet •Swiss Spinach Rye Bread Asparagus Salad With Cheese Dressing Prune Cake Beverage •Recipe given. 1 tablespoon melted butter 1 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper 1 teaspoon sugar Mix all ingredients together In or der given. Drop by spoonfuls onto hot, greased griddle. Saute until golden brown on each side, turning only once. •Swiss Spinarh. Into 2 cups of finely chopped spin ach, blend Vi cup very thick, well seasoned white sauce {flavored with onion and a dash of nutmeg), Just enough to hold spinach together. Eggs can always pack a nutri tional punch into lunch and still keep a meal on an economical plane. You'll like both of these suggestions, one served hot, the other erispy cold! Sunshine Egg Salad. (Serves 6) 8 hard-cooked eggs I cup finely diced celery Va cup salad dressing 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon scraped onion Salt and pepper Celery curls 6 thick slices of tomato Salad greens Chop eggs, but not too fine. Add celery, dressing and seasonings. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Press Into molds, and chill before serving. Unmold each on a slice of tomato in a bed of salad greens. Garnish with celery curls, paprika and additional salad dressing, if de sired. •Country Omelet. (Serves 5) 2 . cups diced, cooked potatoes 8 slices bacon !4 cup minced onion 4 eggs, separated 2 tablespoons top milk 1 teaspoon salt Ya teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon chopped parsley Brown potatoes, bacon and onion together In a frying pan. Cool. Beat egg yolks slight ly, add milk, salt, pepper and chopped parsley. Beat whites until stiff and fold into egg yolk mix ture. Heat frying pati, add 2 table spoons shortening into the pan. Pour in egg mixture. Cook over low heat until lightly browned on bottom (about 15 minutes). Brown top slightly under broiler and serve. There’s a surprise in store with mushrooms de luxe that will make guests ask for more. An all vegeta ble luncheon like this is served with a smooth, creamy mayonnaise sauce made by mixing mayonnaise and milk and heating together. An easy, point-free luncheon is mad* with mushrooms and served with vegetables. It takes only about 20 minutes to bake. Mushrooms De Luxe. (Serves 6) 12 large mushrooms *4 cup dry bread crumbs 1 tablespoon chopped green pepper 1!4 tablespoons chopped onion I teaspoon chopped parsley II j teaspoons salt % teaspoon pepper *4 cup real mayonnaise W cup milk Wash mushrooms, remove stems and chop. Mix chopped stems, bread crumbs, green pepper, onion, parsley and seasonings. Brown in 2 tablespoons of the mayonnaise. Fill mushroom caps. Bake In a moderately hot (400-degree) oven 20 minutes, or until tender. Serve with vegetables and mayonnaise sauce, made by beating remaining mayon naise with % cup milk and cooking until smooth. This is cooked over low heat, stirring constantly, 5 min utes or until hot. A dressing for tomatoes, equal to none, is made by merely sieving well ripened avdeado and seasoning with lemon juice and garlic salt. This will reduce the pressure on hard-tq-get salad oil, ordinarily used | for dressings. Released by Western Newspaper Union. jcTbmcvuow BRISTOW DiflCVt/l THE STOUT THUS FAR: Spratt Her long, motion picture producer, met and married Elizabeth, whose first husband, Arthur Klttredge, was reported killed In World War I. Arthur, badly disfigured and not wanting to live, had the false report sent out. When he came to Amer ica be was employed by Spratt and soon became acquainted with the entire fam ily. Elizabeth thought that she had met him some place, but his change and the name of Kessler made It Impossible for her to place Kessler. He showed keen Interest In Brian's collection of mounted Insects and promised to get and mount a bat for him. All the children became fond of him. CHAPTER XV Elizabeth turned to the desk and began writing an order for some tools needed for the Victory gar den. She had finished this and sev eral other notes when she heard Dick and Cherry come in. Going to her doorway, she watched them scamper up the stairs, enjoying the healthy windblown look of them. "Did you have a good time?” she asked. “Oh yes,” said Cherry. “The sea was just beautiful and we all had a hot dog and Dick ate two egg sand wiches besides.” "Meat shortage,” Dick explained. "They wouldn’t give us but one hot dog apiece.” "I don’t know why you don’t kill yourself,” Elizabeth exclaimed. Dick said he felt fine, which he evidently did. They said good night, and Elizabeth went down stairs. Spratt and Kessler should be finishing up their conference by now if they expected to go to work in the morning. They did appear in a short time, Spratt saying he didn’t icnow why Kessler insisted on taking a taxi when he’d be glad to drive him home. Shaking his head with good natured insistence, Kessler 3aid, "I’m sure Mrs. Herlong will agree with me. I can’t drive, but it’s one of my principles not to let my friends drive for me if I can help it. It may be convenient tonight, but there will be times when it isn’t. Am I right, Mrs. Herlong?” How sensible he was, Elizabeth thought, to accept his handicaps so frankly. “Yes,” she answered, “though either of us would be glad to drive for you, in principle you’re quite right.” “Thank you. And now, since I don’t know where the telephone is, will you stop arguing and call a cab for me, Mr. Herlong?” Spratt chuckled and complied. Kessler turned back to Elizabeth. “Mrs. Herlong,” he said earnest ly, "I can’t tell you how happy you have made me.” It seemed a great deal to say in return for a pleasant evening, but he sounded as though he meant it. “We were all glad to have you, Mr. Kessler,” she answered. “You have quite won the hearts of the chil dren.” “They are delightful, all three of them. What a joy it is to see a home like yours. Your mode of liv ing is so clear that it leaves no room for doubts. No one who spent an hour here could go away asking, ‘Are they happy? Are they free? Do they love each other?' The answers are obvious.” Elizabeth stood up to face him. “Are we really like that? Would you say it just to be pleasant?” "Indeed not. You should be very proud of such an achievement.” "It hasn’t been all mine.” She glanced at Spratt, who was return ing from the telephone. “I've had a great deal of cooperation." Kessler’s eyes followed hers, then came back to her. “Yes, that is easily seen. I congratulate you both." Elizabeth and Spratt both smiled back at him gratefully. Elizabeth wondered at their talking like this to a stranger. But just now Kessler did not seem like a stranger. From being a newcomer among them, he had subtly changed into a friend who made her comfortable with the secu rity of mutual understanding. What ever memory he had stirred within her, it must be some old experience of peace. Since overhearing the children yesterday she had felt un sure of herself and of them, but now, hearing him speak, it was as though she had slipped back into some for gotten period of long ago when ev erything was safe and right. He was saying to them. “Your children can afford to be cynical about themselves because they don't know how superior they are to most of their fellowmen. They believe in the obvious because they've found it good. When you see people deliberately clinging to a belief in abstractions they don’t know anything about, you can be pretty sure they need to do it. be cause everything they do know about is unsatisfactory." "How cheering you are!” ex claimed Spratt. Elizabeth was looking up at Kess ler. She asked. "Mr. Kessler, have you and I ever met before?” He started. For a moment he looked down. She looked down with him, and saw his hand tighten on his cane. She was to learn that he did this often, making an unconscious gesture toward his physical means of support when tvs spirit felt un defended. But he hesitated only for a mo ment. His self-discipline had been learned in a long hard school. He answered, "Before tonight? If we had, Mrs. i Herlong, I can’t believe I could have forgotten it. No, I am sure we have not.” He had looked up and was re garding her steadily. Elizabeth did not know that letting his eyes meet hers just then was one of the hard est achievements he had ever ac complished in his life. He did it so well that she nearly believed him. "Maybe I’m wrong, then," she said. “But tonight, as soon as you came in, it seemed to me that I had seen you somewhere and I couldn’t think where it was." "Maybe," suggested Spratt, sitting down and taking up the cigarette box from the table, “you two saw each other at one of those big cock tail parties where you see hundreds of people and don't get to know any of them.” "Very likely,” Kessler agreed readily, turning toward Spratt as though welcoming his suggestion. “I have seen him before tonight." 'Tve been forced against my will to attend several of those. Or possi bly," he added, "you saw me at the studio. You come there now and then, don’t you, Mrs. Herlong?” He glanced at her an instant as he spoke her name, and then became occu pied with watching Spratt blow smoke-rings. “You might have caught sight of me walking from my bungalow to a projection room— chance glimpses like that sometimes tease our memories unmercifully." “I suppose it must have been something of the sort.” said Eliza beth. But she was stiU not satisfied. She continued, “But do you know. Mr. Kessler, when you came in I thought I knew you, and I thought you gave me a sort of startled look, as though you knew me too. You didn’t?” "If I stared at you rudely, 1 hope you will forgive me, Mrs. Herlong.” He spoke lightly, almost humorous ly, as though it were a trifling mat ter. "I hope you will remember that I had been looking forward to meeting you, more eagerly than you realize. Attractive women have not been a great part of my life recent ly, or happy homes either. In the life of an exile they assume an im portance that you do not understand, and I hope will never have to un derstand" Elizabeth thought, "He protests too much,” but Spratt was agree ing, “Yes, I should think they would. Is that yoV taxi pulling up, Kess ler?" “I believe it is,” said Kessler “Good night, and thank you both again.” Spratt walked out to the taxi with him. Elizabeth took a cigarette from the box on the table and stood looking down at the remains of ‘.he Are. When Spratt came in she turned around. "Spratt, I don’t care what that man says I have seen him before tonight.” Spratt shrugged. "Wherever it was, you went there without me. I’ve been with Kessler every day for the past couple of weeks, and it never entered my head I’d seen him be fore. Probably a cocktail party. Elizabeth, or rambling about the studio." "It wasn't. I tell you, I know him.” "All right, all right, you know him. He doesn’t know you. He said so. I'm going to sleep on my feet. We talked and talked, and didn't get a thing done.” "You didn't? I'm sorry.” "His mind wasn’t on his work. He kept bringing himself back from a great distance and repeating some thing he'd said fifteen minutes ago. I never saw him like that, he's usu ally sharp as a whip. Tired. I sup pose—working all evening after working all day never Is a good idea." For several weeks Mr. Kessler did nothing about getting a bat for Bri an, a reticence that both Spratt and Elizabeth admired. They had had experience of persons who wanted to mbve In on their lives and had started by trying to load the children with attentions. As they all liked Kessler she invited him to dinner again, and Spratt brought him in two or three times to have a drink on their way from the studio, so when Kessler had had time to be quite sure the Herlongs were accept ing him as one of their friends, he brought up the subject of the bat again, to Brian’s great delight. Two days later he telephoned that he had obtained the bat, and made a date for Brian to come to see him. It was very kind of him, Elizabeth thought, and she was glad to see her children's increasing friendship with him. Kessler never patronized them, and he had a great talent for minding his own business. He rare ly mentioned the war unless some body else brought it up, and when he did refer to national affairs he refrained admirably from making adverse criticisms of the President end from telling them what he thought Americans ought to do about anything. In fact, he listened to them a good deal more than he talked, though none of the children realized it. "He’s swell,” they said of him. Kessler said to Elizabeth, with a touch of wistfulness, "There is a great deal of you in all your chil dren.’’ Occasionally she wondered why he seemed more interested in finding her characteristics than Spratt’s. He and Spratt were good friends and Spratt frequently said his work on the picture was proving invaluable. But when he came to their home it was primarily to see her, a fact that Spratt observed with a sort of proud amusement. He liked other men to admire his wife. Brian and Peter Stern visited Kessler so often that Elizabeth was sometimes afraid they were going to be nuisances, though Kessler insist ed they were not. Brian saw little Margaret and'announced grudgingly that she was not bad, so Elizabeth suggested the party. The next time Brian went to see Kessler she went by to get acquainted with Margaret. Kessler’s modest street-floor apart ment was kept for him by a moth erly woman who came in leading Margaret by the hand and telling her to speak nicely to the lady, which Margaret did. She was an intelligent-looking child, with big blue eyes and two fat pigtails, shyly polite; as Elizabeth rarely had any trouble getting along with children, their acquaintance began without difficulty. Margaret had learned the English language very well. Oh yes, she said, she went to school and she was learning to swim, and when asked if she would like to have a party with her school friends she nodded eagerly. When they had got that far in their conversation Kess ler came in, having left Brian and Peter blissfully occupied with the bones of the bat. “I’m going to have a party!” Margaret announced to him. Kessler looked down at her and smiled fondly. Again Elizabeth felt a flash of recognition. ‘Tve seen him somewhere, I know I have,” she thought. “Maybe he doesn’t remem ber, but I’m sure of it.” However, she did not mention the subject, for Margaret was talking, and by the time they had arranged the date of the party and other details she felt it was time to go. On the way home she made up her mind that though he might think her foolish for persisting, the next time she happened to be alone with Mr. Kessler she was going to ask him to rack his brain and figure out where it was she had met him. There was no good reason why it should seem so important to her to remember, since it must have been a very casual meeting to have es caped her so thoroughly, but these occasional twinges of recollection teased her. Just for the instant when he had looked down at Mar garet with a tender little smile, not only the expression of his face but his whole attitude had been so famil iar that she had felt as though she was watching someone she had known for years. Then it was gone, and now she could not remember at all. Since Margaret’s party was going to strain their already overtaxed problem of household help, Spratt suggested that he bring Kessler over that evening, leaving him there while he drove Margaret and some of the other guests home, and then that he. Kessler, Elizabeth and the two older children go out for dinner. Elizabeth agreed gladly. She had managed to keep servants so far, but she wanted to give them no grounds for complaint. The party went very well, for Margaret was not shy among friends of her own age. They played in the pool, gob bled sherbet and cake without no ticing that war exigencies had made it impossible to get ice cream, and were happily tired when they were finally coaxed back into their clothes and their parents began to arrive to take them home. Margaret came over to Elizabeth. "Thank you for the party, Mrs. Herlong. We had a very good time.” (TO BE CONTINUED) Pretty Vestees for Classroom Wear 5 289 5 6 9 4 T OTS of warm sweaters are ‘-'needed by high school and col lege girls, they say, for campuses and low temperature classrooms. Each of the vestees shown is not only warm but exceptionally smart looking. The under-the coat vestee at top is knitted of soft wool—the “hearts and flow ers” model is crocheted in white wool and embroidered in glowing colors. 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