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THE BEE: ' OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1916. Personal Gossip : Society Notes .- Woman's Work : Household Topics ofoUefotefr (7 Timely Fashion Hint ByLaRacontewse November 21, 1916 When the Board of Ak-Sar-Brn Governors added a grand masquerade ball to the usual calendar ol carnival festivities they "started something." Svaryone present so patently enjoyed himseit that others have been moved to follow their lead. The question as to whether the Junipr club will have its first party ot the season at Thanksgiving time a fancy costume affair is. still pending. At a noon meeting some time this week the officers and board of direc tor will decide the question. , In the meantime, however, about fifty of the younger set will frolic at the masquerade dancing party which Miss Dorothy Bingham is giving at he Metropolitan club house Saturday evening. v Hovering around in the diiUnc. tnere lurks another event which :n view of present interests we ar in clined to forget. This is the big ex clusive Mardi Gras ball which ti e Omaha club announced when the mercury was flirting with the 10) de gree mark. The, date was set for Mon day, February 19, 1917. Following the dance, masques will be removed for the midnight supper. For Collegiate Alumnea Head. Mrs. Gertrude F. Martin, national executive secretary for the Associa tion of Collegiate Alumnae and for merly dean of women at Cornell uni versity, spent a few hours in Omaha today enroute to Lincoln and was entertained at luncheon at the Uni versity club by Mrs. H. E. New branch, local president; Miss Euphe mia Johnson of Browned Hall,, Miss Myrtle Roberts of the vocational bu reau, Mrs. Philip Horan, members of the executive committee and heads of departments. Mrs. Martin is a pioneer in the work of vocational guidance and it is along these lines she will talk Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock to local alumnae in the south dining room of the Hotel Fontenelle on ac count of the Fine Arts lecture there. Wednesday evening there will be a dinner at the Fontenelle given for Mrs. Martin, at which covers will be placed for;i .,,., Headline ; Karl F, Adams, Ifesdamea H B. Newbrailoh, Walter Abbott, W. r. Crook, Mine 1 Kuphamla Johnson, Her Wallace, Non Pranslah. Myrtle Roberta. Patricia Nauffhton, Mary Mcintosh. Iluth Thumpaon, Burton, Philip Horan. Misses Cella Chaao, . Beat Dement. Loulae Sterner, - , Jeeete Town, Ruth McDonald, Juliet Qrimn, Elisabeth Mitchell Hurd-Deemi Wedding. , The marriage of Miss Maud Deems, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Robert Sherman Deems, to Mr. Vera Louis Hurd, took place this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of the bride's par- ' ents, Dr. R, N. Orrill, pastor of the First Methodist church of Fairbury, Neb., officiating. The living room, where the ceremony was performed, was decorated in greens, bride's roses ' and white chrysanthemums. Master Robert Deems, brother of the bride, was ring bearer. Miss Irene Mason played the Mendelssohn wed ding march. The bride wore white chiffon taffeta, draped over point lace after a Worth model. Her tulle veil was held in place with tiny bows of ribbon and she carried a shower bou quet of bride's roses. A reception followed the ceremony. at which the assistants were: Mes dames Fred Leader, Floyd Shepherd, Misses Mary Amnions, Hilah Fisher, Florence McHale, Laura Hurd. After a wedding trip in the east, the young people will e at home In Coun cil Bluffs after January 1. ' Out-of-town guests at the ceremony were. ' ' , Meetra. anS Heed am ee ' J H. Deem of J. W. Hard of 'Crete. Neb.: Dumfrlea la.; Calhoun Oraham of Charles Wataon of Crete, Neb.: . : Dumfries. ..t FloM Shepherd o( Walnut, la.; Meednmee P, J. Oarnett of Cleveland, O.: Anna Townaead of l.lnroln, Mastor Janus Harry tooml of Crete, Mesdames A. Eislcr, T. Spiglc, M. Newman and Jule Schonberger. .' Notes of Interest. Recent arrivals at the Hotel Snapp in Excelsior Springs included Mr, Robert O'Reilley and Dr. and Mrs. Beck of Omaha. Mrs. R. M. Shrum. a member of the class of 1912 of Omaha High school formerly Miss Maud Craig, has been seriously ill at her home for two weeks and little hope of her recovery is expressed. Mrs. S. Katz left Thursday for Sioux City to spend four weeks with Mrs. L. J. Herzog. On her return to Omaha she will move into her new apartments at the Blackstone. Events to Come. St James' Orphanage Sewing club will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Patrick Kelley. Regular dancing parties will be given at the Metropolitan club house this evening and Friday evening of this week. The Tulip club will hold a dancing party at Rustling's hall this evening. The marriage of Miss Onie Krell to Mr. William Craighead will take place December 5. Meedamea David Downs of Neola, Ja.; Tea for Misa Calvin. f In honor' of Miss Nell Calvin, one of the recent arrivals in Omaha social circles. Miss Mary Furay entertained at tea at her home this afternoon from 4 to 6. About sixty guests were pres rnt. Decorations throughout the house were in yellow chrysanthemums and in the dining room a gold basket, filled with daisy chrysanthemums, was the centerpiece for the tea table. Assisting the hostess were: Meedemeo Mesdames Edward Crel(hton, B. A. McUemvott. Louie Merer, - . MIe ' " Misses Clatre Helen -I Nan Murphy, Woodard, Mary McShane. Margaret McShane, . Luncheon at Blackstone. Mrs. C W. Russel gave a pretty luncheon at t o'clock today at the . Blackstone for Mrs. John E. Burke and Mrs. George Lunt of California, who are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Burke.. Killarney roses in cluster vases were used on the table. Covers were laid for: Mesdames Meedamea , John B. Burke." Oeorto Lunt. Kdtasrd I- Burke, Warren Rlaekwell, A. W. Jelferi. C. K. Johannes, Q. W. Holdrefe, . Arthur Crittenden Clement Chaae, Smith, Whltcomb, . Robert Lsavens, For Hist Dows. Miss Irene Carter entertained at luncheon at her home today for Miss Margaret Dows of Cedar Rapids, la., who is the guest of Miss Regina Con nelly Pink snap-dragons formed the centerpiece for the table and covers were laid tor twelve. Entertain Musician. Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Graham en tertained Mr. Oscar Seagle at lunch eon Sunday. Mr. Graham studied with Mr. Seagle in fans. For Oregon Guests. .. For Mr. and Mrs. Jule Schonberger of Portland, Ore., who are visiting Mr. Schonberger's mother, Mrs. Y. Schonberger, a number of informal affairs are being given. Friday aft ernoon Mrs. I. Herkowitz and Mrs S. I.- Zimmerman entertained at the " Imttie of M rs. Herkowitz for Mrs, : Schonberger,-1 Prizes were won by Everybody Does Kitchen Work By ADA PATTERSON. "I am so tired of kitchen work. I hate it I" . She is a pretty, blue-eyed girl, but at this moment she didn't look pret ty. Her eyes seemed black instead of blue. She looked down at the hands reddened by their association with hot water and the dishpan. The girl wasn't having an attack of the blues. So delicate a hue would not fairly represent her mood. ' She was in the blacks, fathoms deep in them. She was pitying herself and pity ing herself most of all because of those reddening hands. "You're wasting time," I told my unhappy little friend. "Wasting time? I haven't sat down for five minutes today, before this." The blue eye flashed indignantly. "I am thinking of your hands, as you are." "They'll get all chapped," she moaned. "They will," I agreed, "if you don't thoroughly dry them. You might be doing that while we talk. Nothing invites chapped hands as cordially as half drying them." , . She sulkily went to the bathroom and returned with a hand towel. "And a softening lotion,1 or cold cream?" I said. "You remember that Mine. Lina Cavalieri savs the best time to apply cold creanr-or a softening lotion to the hands is directly after you have washed them." She made another trip -to the bath- room ana came oacK wun a uotuc oi rosewater and fflvcenne. "Now take care of those hands while we talk. Did it ever occur to you that everyone in the world does kitchen work?" "How can you say such a thing?" That beautiful girl in the movie I saw last night? Do you mean to say she does kitchen work?" "Of a kind, she does. And it's hard kitchen work. The hardest is getting her job. And when she has got it there is a hard painstaking exhaust ing work, the kitchen work of her oc cupation to be done every day. The pulse of every cirl outside New York beats faster (when she hears the name "Broadway." The girl who lives in Ne,w York knows it too well for that She knows its beauty is that of night blooming flower. By day it is a slant, ugty street, irregular buildings, crowded with hurrying per sons, most of them unattractive. This motion picture actress has had to thread her way through these crowds. has had to visit the cavern-like offices in the nig buildings, the oldest ot them as ill lighted as some East Side tenements. She has met rebuff and insult.., "I'd rather die than make the rounds of those offices again,," an actress said to me. U never know whether 1 am to sit there for hours, until I'm faint with hunger, or whether 1 will be bundled out of the place as though I were a tramp. Sometimes I am so heartsick and disgusted that I can't go back for a week. It takes that long to get over my nausea of it." "Isn't that kitchen work? And when at last she ha her job, which she calls an engagement, she has weeks of rehearsal in the back part of a theater, reached by an alley. The big, dim stage is a less cheerful and comfortable spot than your barn. She rehearses all day, and as the open ing of the production nears, she works part or all of the night. She doesn't work all the time. She would be glad if she did. But, having rehearsed her own scenes, she has to sit hour after hour while others rehearse theirs. Every actress loathes rehearsals. They call it the prose of the stage, or some thing worse. The little girl, half cry ing over her red hands, hates kitchen work no more than a player hates the weeks of preparation for the play, i But every occupation, be it art, pro fession, business, trade has its kitchen. The sculptor, before he puts forth his dream in marble, must work in mud. He calls it making the first cast. I found a woman sculptor weary after such a day and asked her for advice to girls who wanted to be come sculptors. , " She looked at the soiled, tired hands as my little friend in the , sunny kitchen had looked at hers. "Tell them to get married," she said, "and let a man work for them I" v7 V at :t 3J ffirti-. A tremendous amount of fur is to be worn on all occasions this season and as a result comes this pcarf of badger fur, which winds ''about the shoulders and the waistline twice. Of particular note is the,"cuffed glove" with its odd design and edge of fur. The tall hat of tan velvet is also fur trimmed, the old wing arrangement accentuating its height. Advice to the Lovelorn i By Beatrice Fairfax Wife of a Tired Business Man Who Changed By JANE M'LEAN. A Boys' Allowance, Dear Miss Fairfax: Havtns helped m In th past with your kind advice, I am again seeklns your aid. 1 have a' boy sixteen years of as who Is earnlnt ttO a month, 11 le carfare Is 10 cents a day, and then I allow h m unch money. Now and then we hav araumenta as to how much ha should be allowed for himself, so ws have decided to abide by your declalon. will you pleass let this matter have your full attention, and you will greatly oblige A STUADT HBADBK. I uave discussed this situation with a particularly bright and promising lad who is about your boy s age. Hi mother allows him a dollar a week for spending money. He buys his own neckwear, gloves, etc., and pays for such pleasures as skating in winter ana occasional trips to ine ocean for a swim in summer. This lad works hard all day for a smaller salary than your son's and takes courses at the Y. M. C. A in the evening, so you see the feeling of manly independence his mother s taith in him engenders is not making him a spendthrift or a foolish little "sport instead it is arousing his ambition. Try the same method with your boy. You Owe Her an Explanation. Dear Mlsa Fairfax: About four months ago I was Introduced to a young, lady whom I learned to love dearly. We attend ed a dance, and during the evening I left her to go with some friends. When I came back ahe had another gentleman friend who danced with her the not of the eve ning. ' I thought I was not wanted, so I let him take her home. Do you think my behavior could he queatlonedT I love the girl dearly and would like to regain her friendship. D, K. Probably it was pique. at your leav ing her which caused this girl to flaunt her conquest of the other man. But that did not mean that she wanted vou to humiliate her by leav ing her fairly on his hands for him to escort home whether he liked it or not. An apology and explanaton are due her. A tired business man to me always means a jaded type of individual who goe,s to the lightest of musical come dies and is amused for a brief space of time, and who wears a perpetually weary expression- I never knew that Clyde was that kind of a man until he married. It's strange how men develop these unde sirable traits as soon as they feel that they can be natural. It's like the re version to the primitive that we read about in sociology. Even I, and 1 am rather hard to deceive, never sus pected Clyde of stodgy qualities. Father used to say: "Yes- I like Clyde; he's a good fel low. Of course, 1 don't think he'll ever amount to a great deal." And then it would be my cue to become indignant and to ask what he meant. That was when I, was rather young. Clyde was paying me a great deal of attention and bringing me a great deal of very good candy. 1 discovered that 1 didn't want Clyde when he began to make love to inc. That changed everything and Clyde went his way and I went mine. Then 1 heard that Clyde was to be married. "Such a nice girl," people said, "and so well suited to him." And I just kept still, because I knew that if she were suited to Clyde she would have to be a different type of girl from me- And now Clyde is married. He and the "nice girl" live in a little apart ment up on the Palisades somewhere. The nice girl thinks it is the sum and substance of her life to' cook three meals a day for Clyde, and every night she darns stockings on one side of the table and he sits in his slip pers with his coat off and reads the paper. They never go anywhere. Clyde is always too tired. They will always have enough to live on com fortably, for Clyde is one of those who makes money and saves it. Some girls don't require anything more. I really believe that this girl is happy. remaps sne snouia oe. Well, Clyde is married, and has a nice girl, tather said tne otner evening at dinner. Ye she makes htm a good wite, mother agreed. Yes, it must be thrilling to live with Clyde," I observed loftily. "Of all the stagnant kinds of existence, commend me to a life of three meals a day with Clyde." Why Anne, observed lather, sly ly, "you're not jealous, are you?" And i just kept still- now was he supposed to know that I might have married Clyde? , oHonw Ocononucb ( Edited bt Irma Jf. 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Of the many desserts which have high food value, custards are particularly desirable because they are easily prepared, easily di gested and may be easily varied, so that we have several different des serts from- the one basic recipe. As to food value, an ordinary serv ing of custard equals in heat units two small potatoes, or two slices of bread, or a serving of macaroni. Since custards arc chiefly eggs and milk, they contain the very valuable body building foods so especially neces sary to children and invalids. If a young child does not like milk plain it is quite possible to induce him to take the food in the shape of custard. Whether custards are baked or cooked in the double boiler the same proportions of ingredients are used. To one cup of scalded milk allow one egg. two tablespoons of sugar, one-eighth teaspoon salt, one-quarter teaspoon of vanilla. Instead of one whole egg two egg whites or two egg yolks may be substituted. VThis amount makes two rather large Serv ings. Directions for preparing baked cus tard: Beat , egg lightly, add sugar, milk, salt and vanilla. Strain into a baking dish or individual custard cups and bake in a very moderate oven about one hour. To test if done insert a knife into the custard. If the blade comes out clean the custard is done. The only secret of a success ful custard is a low temperature. If one is using the oven for other things requiring a hotter temperature the custard dish should be set in a pan of -hot water. Cor' A Custard Mix-as above, re serving vanilla (no straining is nec essary), and cook in a double boiler until the mixture is just thick enough to coat a spoon. Add vanilla at the end. It must be stirred constantly and the watefcjn the lower part of the utensil should be simmering rather than boiling. If, in spite of all one's care the custard should curdle, it should be poured into a bowl and beaten vigorously with a Dover beater. This treatment will usually make it smooth again. Use of Cornstarch as Part of the Thickening For a cooked custard when eggs are as expensive as they are at the present time, it is possible to use one egg and one tablespoon of cornstarch to two cups of milk. ' Heat milk in the double boiler. Beat ! egg lightly, add sugar and cornstarch stirred to a smooth paste witn one tablespoon cold milk. Add mixture to milk and cook as above. A corn starch custard is less apt to curdle than a straight egg custard and is' very satisfactory in flavor. Variations for Custards. Chocolate Custard Add one-half ptablespoon grated chocolate or cocoa to one cup milk. With baked custard the chocolate may settle to the bot- torn, but cooked chocolate custard is very satisfactory. Caramel Custard Put two table spoons sugar in a pan. stir constantly over tire until melted to a syrup of light brown color. Add gradually o milk. Use same amount of sugar ex tra as for plajn custard. ' Caramel Sauce for Plain Baked Custard One-half cup sugar, one half cup boiling water. Melt sugar as for caramel custard, add water, simmer ten minutes, cool before serv ing. Coffee Custard Scald milk with one tablespoon ground coffee. Strain and proceed as above. Floating Island Allow three eggs to two cups milk, or two egg yolks and one tablespoon cornstarch. In either case reserve two egg whites. Prepare a cooked custard and be fore serving make a meringue ol the egg whites and two tablespoons pow dered sugar. Put the meringue on the custard' in spoonsful to -represent islands. Garnish with chopped nuts, cherries, tiny candies, cocoanut, etc., or springle lightly with cinnamon. Fruit Custard Pour cooked cus tard over fruit arranged in a serving dish. A meringue may be used on top if desired. Peaches are particu larly nice,' or banana and pineapple mixed. Slices of stale cake or lady fingers may also be used as a foundation. 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