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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1916)
THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1916. Health Hints -:- Fashions -:- Woman's Work -:- Household ' Topics hree Cooling Drinks j ; Orange Sherbet t Grated rind of four large oranges, two and one-half eupi Cold water, sne pound sugar, one pint (trained 'range juice, whitei of four eggs. Srate the rind of oranges and steep fen miiuitea in the water; add augar nd boil to a thin syrup. Cool, add Shipped whites of eggs the last half, add orange juice and freete. Ripen for two hours. (Pineapple Sherbet Two eups grated fresh or canned pineapple, two cups sugar, one cup fvater, juice of one lemon, whites of fwo eggs. Make syrup of sugar and ,vater; cool, add pineapple and lemon uice; partially freeze; add the well beaten egg white; finish freezing: jijeen well. -i . 1 . Lemon Ice. J Lemon ice is much better when Jweetened with sugar syrup. A very practical way in preparing Ices is to hake a syrup of 32 degrees. Add Inough juice to dilute it to 20 dr freea. Freeze and pack in salt and fce. Ices do not freeze as hard as reams. - - . i i If one does not wish to prepare ie syrup, the following recipe may e used: J' ; ' .. I Add three cups of sugar to one juarj of water. Boil ten minutes. jii add the juice of five lemons and two oranges. 1 ' 1 1 1 t The Smartest New Blouses of the Midsummer Season & . .. Itg Mng worn I " Pjjijjr .... .- - V'wvw .-, f . on tlu moat In- 1 tjftEr ' "'" ' f wi w " ' -v The "something a little different" every woman searches for is found in a Norfolk waist of Ramie linen. In rose or Copenhagen blue linen with white linen trimmings. Hat of peanit straw with flowers of gay-colored tape. Made by hand and of fine material is this waist It may be had in white batiste, the tiny fluted frills edged with a line of delicate rose or Copenhagen blue batiste. - With a well-designed skirt this waist is dainty enough for afternoon at tea-time. 11 An- excellently cut sports waist of an unusu ally good quality of china silk, and at a rea sonable price. It has a flat collar, turn-back cuffs, and a trim fastening under pearl but tons; white or black china silk, welt made and practical. Exceptionally" good in value is this waist of French voile with a plaited frill of itself for trimming and the almost bishop sleeves for a touch of originality. Something especially rare in a waist of this kind is its good workmanship and fine material. It is plain enough to be suitable for any occasion where a simple well made white waist is desired. PATHE'S raTEST FILM SPECTACLE! By Lomk Tracy Featuring Jackie Saunders and , Roland Bottomley 1 In"TheGrii?ofEv,, you see the most amazing railroad accident that has ever been screened a triumph of realism I You win see Matjorie Howell, daughter of a railroad president, nearly killed as a ipeeding locomotive strikes her. You will see John Burton, laborer, millionaire, . hired into a blackmail plot by a scheming: dancing master and an innocent girl , You will aee the life of the under world exposed in all ha grimneaal You will tee tha evila of society laid bare in a startling faahion. - In this sensational master plot in fourteen episodes show ing the real side of humanity, the first of the wonderful new productions to be released on the new $5,000,000 Pathe Serial Program, you win tee . something entirely new something entirely different something that will, make you pause and THINK. Each : episode tells a complete story. Baqh episode points a . 1 ' moral. Each problem presented has a vital bearing on YOUR life. Beautiful photography, perfect direction, won derful stags settings and an all-star cast make Tha Grip ' of EviT the unusual picture it la. SEE ITI NOW! at These Theatres : t"EHSTf $UJ."lJjJ'l '" OLYMPIC THEATER. Smmui Cits-, U, 1-t GRAND THEATER, July St. CM THEATE. Sleiix City, la, Auf. S AUiASaaRA AMI rAVORITI, Smb. LOTHROP THEATIA Caa&mr Sow. Jtwef (A Stewy in the OMAHA BEE elsaae ky Prodeeed by BALBOA i:iilr4jifjpLLJ Menus for: Little Convalescents Every mother knows how difficult it is to tempt the convalescent child to eat, for at' this time even the best loved dishes are apt to be scorned. But if the childish liking for fun is kept in mind, and various surprises are devised for the little patient at mealtime, (the chances are that the youngster, in the pleasure of the -moment, will cat with unmistakable relish such nourishment as it desirable for him to have. Or if he can be so amused as to think he Is playing t game when in reality he is eating a meal, it will be a wonderful help along the road to quick recovery. Even the busy housewife, with a little imagination and Ingenuity, can evolve surprisingly novel ways, of serving the plainest nourishment, which tht small boy or girl would promptly . decline if served in the or- Yoa , Will t Enjoy . 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Bread" and milk is much more interesting if brought in two tiny uaiiuuwis, inc mux in one ana in the other bread sticks, those tinv hard cylinders of all crust, which chil dren usually like to break into pieces, drop into the milk and fish out, find inc them so rood to eat If the toast to be eaten with the bowl of milk ts cut into stripes and built into a logcabin for one meal and cut into fancy shapes, arranged on a pretty Japanese napkin 'on a plate for another, a surprising amount. will often disappear. The bread may be cut before toasting with a cooky-cutter, and various ani mals as well as hearts, stars and other odd shapes, which will appeal to almost any child, are to be found in these tin cooky-cutters, and they cost but a trifle. Even so common place a thing as a baked potato may contain a bit of scraped beef to sur prise the younester when it is onened. and it would be fun for almost any uttie patient to discover that what seemed to be a hard-boiled egg is in reality a mold of blanc-mange. ' .ureaktast is otten tile meal which requires the most coaxing and brib ing in order to have the smallest por tion of it eaten ,but even the cereal, if a little attention is paid to its ar rangement by providing an odd little sugar bowl, pretty cream pitcher and cunning dish from which to eat it, can be made much more acceptable. The soft-boiled egg will look far more attractive in its egg-cup if a funny face is penciled on it and it is topped with a paper foolscap, or the egg may be laid in a nest o excelsior in a pretty little basket or bowl. A glass tube or a bundle of straws costs Terr little, and yet they will often make a glass of milk, orange albumen or cup of broth disappear. A little, crockery jar is admirable for serving a small portion of broth; the straws sticking up in it insure inves-1 tigation. Children like Individual dishes, and they are often so de lighted with a little covered dish from which to serve the broth, bread and milk and slightly stewed oysters that it is received eagerly, especially if they have a pretty sugar spoon as a ladle and a fancy little shallow bowl as a soup plate. ' A small casserole, slightly high and narrow, or a cun ning little bowl with cover, resem bling a tomato, answers the purpose of the soup tureen. Indeed, small, oddly shaped baking dishes, casser oles and ramekins will all prove use ful I ntempting the convalescent child to eat, for when baked custards, creamed chicken or even simple mashed potato and boiled rice are served in them they look so attrac tive that thev are hailed with delight and eaten,' when otherwise they would be promptly refused. To play hotel and order his meals is 'fun for a small patient, and what he is allowed to have can, with a lit tle ingenuity, be fixed up to resemble what he has ordered. Or a oicnic can be made of the meals, his lunch eon being brought to him in a fancy basket, with picture plates of heavy paper, picture oaoer nankins, etc and if the basket also contains a sur prise the fitful appetite of the child win otten be tempted in spite of him self. Another meal can be served entirely on dolls' dishes, and little girls can otten be amused by bavins' one or more dolls to the spread. An occasional meal prepared in , small cnahng dish where he can watch it will interest a' child in his food and amuse him for some little time. All kinds of egg dishes may be prepared in this wav: the milk for the toast heated, the cocoa made, me on ot cnicken creamed, or a couple of tiny fish boiled, to the great delight of the convalescent child, who will probably tat every muuuuui. t iiuaucipnia Jcuger. Dainties for Hot Weather peg::e tyler icoal II Jut f wtU raaaiva ka amau ositsoiu mrlea aa tkaaffe yaaj vara taUniUf rot WaaUA to CBS asa aide la tansav lipIliiiilBliii 111! - Sugar Cookies By CONSTANCE CLARKE. Among the tweetcakes for lunch eon or plcnirs,. sugar cookies are gen erally liked by the little folks. Tae one-half cup of butter, one eup sugar, two cups of flour, two tablespoonfuls of baking powder, one quarter teaspoonful salt, two eggs, one tablespoonful of vanila. Work the butter and sugar to a cream with one-quarter cup of milk; sift the flour and baking powder together. Beat up the eggs; when alt these ingredients arc prepared, mix them well together and add the flavoring. Roll out on floured board. Shape with cooky cut ters ih any way that may be desired. Bake in a quick oven. In making the above quantity half may be mixed with raisins or currants to make a variety and decorated with sugar or chopped nuts. An endless -variety may be' made is this manner. , In freezing the common types of cream the proportion is three cups of ice to one cup of salt. Jn freezing muttures, which should be more watery or granular, equal amounts of salt and ice may be used. The salt is added m order to make the ice melt quickly. Therefore, it is all the more foolish to make ice cream un der conditions which tend to stop the very process which we have added salt to produce! In order to get best results the turning should be done as rapidly as possible at the beginning, so that the mixture will be whipped and churned while it is being frozen. After the mixture is completely firm the dasher should be removed and the bucket repacked to the top and then set away to allow the contents to "ripen." Various Frozen Mixtures. , ' First. Ice Cream A smooth, vel vety texture of cream and milk or with the addition of eggs, t Second. Water ice Sweetened fruit juice and water frozen. Ihird. bheret Water ice to which whipped whites of eggs or gel atine are added when the freezing is halt completed. More smooth and velvety than water ice. fourth, fartait A frozen fruit or cream mixture, frozen without stir ring, but to which the addition of whipped cream gives a peculiar vel vety texture. Fifth. Mousse Similar to parfait except that it is generally served in a large moid, while the partait is re moved from the freezer and served in small portions, generally tall gla'sses. Sixth. Biscuit A parfait to which egg yolks are added. This is partly frozen in the freezer, then divided and packed into small boxes or paper cups for individual servme. Seventh. Bombe A combination of some water ice and a cream mix ture combined in the same mold, gen erally served ip a large "bombe tbaoe. -sv 1 Eighth. Frappe A coarse water ice, cyily partially frozen,- Sometimes with whole fruit. . In making any mixture,, either cream or water, in which there is to he whole fruit or Dieces of fruit, these should be added after the freeing is half done, or when the mixture is the consistency of mush, . : r This permits of- easier, quicker freezing, as the fruit otherwise makes it difficult for the dashers to revolve rapidly. All syrups used should be boiled well and separately before the addition of cream, eggs or fruit juice. A thirW boiled svruo will make a much smoother mixture than if the same amount of sugar, is used unboiled in the liquid or is simply stirred into Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax Frankoraa la Boat. . Daar Mlaa Fairfax: I have a slrl frland who haa a poaltlon at tha aama plaea whare a youm man Iriand ot ouri la amployad. He foela bound to pay her carfara alx daya In tha- waek. which 1- Kaow na cannei I would Ilka to know: la It proper tor hor to ottar him to oants at tha baslnnlng of tha weak and explain me inins nun In a way not to make the youns man leal out of placet They are both II. . . . MINNII at. The only course for the girf-to nuraue is to exDlain to this young man that aince they are both working be cause of necessity she does not teei it fair to be an expense to him. She must tell him that she enjoys having a companion to accompany her home, but that she will nave to torego mat pleasure rather than be a burden to him. Tht.i she may either pay her own fare, or oifer to reimburse him, as you suggest. ; " Outs at a Fanner tailor.. Daar Mlaa Fairfax: Should aa antatad olrl oontlnue to wear a rlns fflvao her by a former admirer t Doea not the weartne of it amaek somewhat of lndltferenee to the feelings of her Intended t ANXIOUS. An engaged girl should not continue to wear a oie:e of jewelry siven her by a former admirer. Apart from any consideration ot wnai sne owes ner fiance, her own self-respect and dii- nity ought to keep her from tricking herself out in gifts which came from another man. . v, . The Man's Siie of It By BEATRICE FAIRFAX Recently great numbers of my girl correspondents have written me let ters which could have been summed up in these statements: "When John Doe finds at the end of three or four weeks that I'm not going to let him make love to me as a sort of return for his attentions, he loses interest in me and drops me. Don't men like dignified, self-respecting girls any more? Is the only way a girl can have masculine friendship and a social good time the way . of least resisiancer So numerous were these letters, so earnest their writers, that I began to wonder if there were something in the suggestion than men no longer value fineness of character and dig nity in women, but prefer rather the light facility and easy-going adapta bility that permits of promiscuous love-making. At last I have found a man who, , with simple practicality, faces the ' thing, figures it out and distributes the blame fairly and squarely just where it belongs. .Here is his viewpoint, and I ask my girls to think it over carefully. Men do like modesty and dignity they ttill respect it they still want it in their sisters and wives as they take it for granted in their mothers. But because of a certain toleration which the world haa always had to ward lax standards of dignity for men, they do amuse themselves by making a little light imitation-love where they may. What they want and even demand is a definite line of demarcation be tween the girl who is sweet and mod est and the girl who is gay. If the modest girl who wouldn't dream of letting men kiss and caress her were honest and simple in her attitude from the very beginning. sne wouio retain the liking and ad miration of her men friends. Here lies her blunder: She sees the gay and worldly girl ' being entertained lavishly and hav ing a good time. She wants her good times, too, so she slavishly imitates the appearance and manner of the girl of whose conducti she is not go ing to be an imitator. She encour ages her men friends up to a point; she coquettes and flirts and gives them every reason to suppose that she is rather tht "good fellow" type. Said the man whose opinion teemt to me to sum up the case: "No man likes to feel that he is being made a fool of. When a nice girl coquettes and flirts and leads him on and then suddenly 'quits,' he feels a cold fury at her. He thinks she couldn't play the game so well unless she had had ' a little experience. . . He imagines she is tetting tome other fellow kiss her and make love to her, and that the it just leading him on in order to get a good time , out of it, but that she doesn't like him well enough to let him hold her hand. "Why, I havt a lot of wonderful pals girls I see a great deal of and take out and whose society I enjoy, I should never think of trying to kiss one of them.- I'm not going to throw ' over a fine friendship with a worth while girl and have her think me a cad to boot. "All a girl has to do is to make her standards perfectly clear. If she dresses and acts like a giddy little fool and then hauls you up short with an indignant, 'How dare you I I'm not that sort of a girl,' a fellow feelt like an idiot. No man wants a girl to jolty him along and get all the enter tainment she can out of him on falsi ' pretences.' "All a girl has to do is to set up a standard arid stick to it. If she is go ing to be a friend and a pal she wantt to act like one all the way through. If she's going to have a little flirta tion or temporary affair of the heart the has to play that game honestly, too." And there a very splendid, honest man has stated the case simply and as a man sees it. The point is. a tirl must ttav is her own class, know her own mind and stand for what she is, fairly and squarely. Then men will accept her at her own true valuation the one she put on herself and will not of-' fend her by treating her at if the were the consceneless little coquette she is imitating.