Hoiiday Tea With Its Menu By JANE KDDI M.TON. The t<*a wagon, convenient for haul Ing laundry to and fro, for wheeling dinner# in and soiled china out of the dining room ha« Inet Ita preaTigs, If It ever had anything besides ltg con Sentence to recommend It! Everything •reept the food la brought In on a tray the little plate# piled up with layer* of napkins, ete., the holing kettle. Ihe spirit lamp, the slo# bowl. The The food may be on tha tea table, on which Its tray Is set, or on the shelves Cf the '‘curate.'’ Mrs. Emily Post in Iter "Blue Book of Social Usage" clings to this rather facetious name for a charming piece of furniture, alt hough many a pos aeabor of this portable piece have never ceased to give It the old and more dignified and suggestive name "muffin stand." It Is no such gen •rnl purpose piece of furniture as tin tea wagon Is, but It does give'a man nt a tea something to do—passing It. In the hands of a pretty maid it seems right also, for she may Instantly put It down and attend to something else, as she cannot a tray. Menu Is IJmlted. And under the headings, "Thing* Deople Eat nt Tea,” Mrs Post tells us what should he on the "curate." She says that the top disli should he a covered one, and hold hot bread of some sort, but you know the napkin Is considered quite us suitable by many people for holding hot breads and ‘‘things,” and nowadays the most dainty linen and the coarser laces ar* mad* for every conceivable food ser vtee, serviettes and holders, and so on. Ths middle or second shelf usually holds sandwiches, and the third cake "Or perhaps all the dishes hold cake: little fancy cakes, for instance, and pastries or slices of layer cakes. Many prBfer a simpler diet, and have bread and butter, or toasted cracker#, sup rleinented by plal ncookles. Others ptle the 'curate' until It literally stag gers, under pastries and cream cakes and sandwiches of pate de foie gras or mayonnaise. Others, again, like a marmalade, or ,1am, or honey, on bread and butter, or on buttered toast or muftlns. This neeessitates little butter knives and a dish of Jam added to the already overloaded tea tiny." Buns in Cycles. And. further: "Selection of after noon tea food Is entirely a matter of whim, and new food fade sweep through communities. For a few - months at a time everj’one, whether In private house or In a country club, will eat nothing but English muffins nnd Jam, then suddenly they like only toasted cheese crackers, or Sally I.uiin, or chocolate cake with whipped cream on top. The present fad of a certain group In New York Is bacon and toast sandwiches and fresh hot gingerbread." And so the description goes on, making tha statement so often made that a party sandwiches pot the sort of sandwich to eat when you are hungry. (The shape or cut of sandwiches gets full attention.) And one more paragraph must he given in this laying down of rules: “Afternoon tea at a large house party or where especially invited people are Invited to tea, should Include two plates of hot food such as toast, or hot biscuits split open and buttered, toasted and buttered English muffins, or crumpet*, corn muffins or hot gin gerbread. Two cold plates should contain cookies or fancy cakes, and perhaps a layer cake. In hnl weather, In place of one of tha hot dishes, there should he a pate or lettuce sand wiches, and always s choice of hot or Iced tea. or perhaps Iced coffee or chocolate frappe. tut rarely if ever anything else.1' All the above hns been given be cause not infrequently I receive questions for just such Information as is here given, and especially at this time of year. Women are most com monly criticized by men because they cannot "present" food. There is, In deed. a great deal of etlquet in the matter. In fact, you can see that even In this matter of tea a whole treatise can be written. There are books of tea recipes—printed In the greatest land of tea drinking and tea giving—England. But if one thing shines out more ‘han another In all these lists of foods, it is the fact that good and simple breads are always appropri ate, correct, Indispensable. For true entertaining with foods, dainty to ex quisite, breads are about three-quar ters the whole refreshment. They may be plain, nr given a meat value with cerialn sandwiched fillings, or given a cake value with others or a dessert value with jams. Simplest Quick Muffins. There aro endless adaptations of the baking powder muffin and all charming if we choose to make them so, but to my mind many of theee muffins are made with too thick a batter, so that they have a rough sur face Instead of a smooth one like that of a cup cake. Therefore I scant the flour which is standard for the batter of one cup of liquid to two of flour, and my formula reads: One egg, one cup of milk, one and three fourths cups of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder—no more—one scant teaspoon salt, one to fout tablespoons sugar, one to three table spoons of melted butter, added last and thoroughly beaten in. Regard less of funnels we do beat this battei exceedingly well, and when there is not too much flour in It there can hardly be funnels. ‘ Date Muffins. The plain muffin bafler, with foui or five ounces of dates, Is brought Up to exceeding fineness, unless the batter is too stiff, when the whole becomes quit# plain eating, whereas a small date muffin may be as exquisite as a | perfect bonbon. Thers ars various ways of adding the dates. Ons way to prepare them Is to wash them thor oughly, rub off loos# skins, open and Inspect In removing seeds, roll up again, cut in three parts, and use these large pieces on top of the muf fin or press them down Into the batter just before It goes Into the oven. Finer cut dates may be stirred into the bat ! ter. Hot Chocolate. A number of Items of late have brought to my attention that home hot chocolate Is poor. It is not cooked enough. It is not as thick as French and Spanish chocolates. Sweet choco lutes may be seemed In superior fit vors—in the more expensive sorts—but in most cases more than of the bittei must bo used to get a thick beverage. In some, but not all bases, nor with all chocolates, an excellent beverage may be made as follows: Add one-half cup of water to an ounce of chocolate, stir over the fire constantly for lii minutes, add a half cup of rich milk, and cook two minutes. Sweeten to taste. Serve with whipped cream. This may be thinned to taste. Russian Chocolate. Some people call a chocolate in which coffee replaces the water used in making plain chocolate Russian chocolate. Unless made with great care this may be bitter, but sugar al ways modifies thk). but if the sugar and chocolate are not well cooked to gether the sugar makes the whole In stpid, and there are always the uncer tain elements to be considered. CofTees differ enormously In flavor, and chocolates almost as much. At gny rate, cream will be needed to soften the harshnesses, and there 1s always (he milling to do the same—milling Is beating with something comparable to I x ENGLANDER Sfmtbh-flaSals /ere souqhb bu mart hoimkapars TVt« *r. "Mrs. Baum Makes Amends," a comedy In two -v-tg, will be presented by Kate Goldstein, Elsie Hurwltz. Bertha Kushner and Gertrude White Dr. Victor E. Levine of the Crelgh ton Medical school faculty, will spenlc on "Hospital Needs.” Dundee Woman Compiles Attractive Cook Book. An attractive cook book which would make an Ideal Christmas gift. Is being sold by the women of the Dundee Presbyterian church for the benefit of the church fund. The book has a washable cover and contains 1.000 choice and prac Ural recipes which have been tested by member* of the woman's aid society and their friends. It was compiled by Mrs. Fred Larkin and may be obtained from her at At. lantic 5815, or Walnut 2285, or from Mrs. Elmer Thomas or any member of the aid society. It Is also on sale at downtown stores. Business Women to Hear Noted Organist. The Omaha Business Woman’s club will meet as usual at S:15 p. m. next Tuesday, but will adjourn Immediate ly after dinner so that the member* may have an opportunity to attemj the organ recital by Marcel Dupre, organist of Notre Dame, Parle. The concert will be given at the First Central Congregational church under the auspices of the Young Woman’s Christian association. Christ Child Society. Four hundred guests attended th« tea given by the board of directors of the Christ Child society at the Center last Sunday afternoon. The Christ Child orchestra furnished tho music. The annual Christmas party for the children of the Center will be given Tuesday afternoon. December IB. Omaha Walking Club. The Omaha Walking club will bike from Crescent, Ta., to Council Bluffs this afternoon, leaving the North western passenger station at Eleventh and Rroadway, Council Bluffs, at 1:15 p. in. (not 2:5B as scheduled In the Walking club bulletin), on the North western train #to Crescent. Paul Hummer, leader. I., 0. E. Card Tarty. The h. O. K. club will entertain at a card party Tuesday, 2:15 p m., in the Elks' elnb rooms. A Worry Saver. Smear the bottom of the preserving kettle with butter before putting in the fruit and sugar. It will prevent the lam from burning or boiling over. Sawdust In IJeu of Ashes. Sawdust sprinkled on the slippery front walk is not nearly as Injurious ‘ to the parlor rugs as the customary ashes or salt. Problems That Perplex Answcrvd ky BEATRICE FAIRFAX_ By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. "I am troubled with a peculiar mind disease,'1 writes Discouraged. "Ever since I can remember 1 have felt a certain fear of crowds. At school the teachers never expected me to recite like the other children—I grew too , xcited and forget my part. Now that I sm CH crowds actually make mo feel miserable. “In streets, st parties (when I attend them, which is very seldom). In fact even in street cars or wherever there are crowds of people, 1 am numb with self consciousness. My features twitch with nervous apprehension and T cannot control them. Can you Imagine a state of mind like mine? it Is really a 'condition' just like not being able to walk straight, or being stoop shouldered.” 5)-— A mind disease like this occurs i more frequently than the unhappy i writer of this letter guesses. Many j people have it in some slight degTee j —and suffer from some form of shy ness. But the point is that it is all in the mind, and since It does not be long there (or anywhere else) It can be driven out. * Perhaps Discouraged w;i3 terrified In some way when a child. Maybe a herd of cows or a flock of geese came her way when she was a wee child and terrified her. And she was ashamed of her "silly fear” and tried not to acknowledge to herself that she could be so “scnlrt.” So she pushed the terror down into her subconscious mind—and it bobs up all the time to annoy her. I wish that you, Discouraged, and all who suffer from shyness or self conseiouness would first of all realize that your trobule is fight in your own mind and has nothing to do with cir cumstances outside. Then you have only to make up that same mind that such a foolish error doesn’t belong there and need not stay. 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