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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1918)
Coftduded by Ella Fleishman s A. t HOUSEHOLD ARTS VEPT CEfTTfAL HIGH XCHOOt , What Shall We Have for Dinner? Sometimes let's dmit it we get so tired of wondering what to have for d:nner. We get especially tired during the first - warm spell, when . eyeryone's appetite is a- bit jaded, and the busy tired housewife1! is equally - jaded, only her job is to go ahead and forget herself to keen, -her family well and happy. She knows health--f& so important and she does want to do the best possible for her John and the chil dren; but she doesn't have time to keep tip with the new food ideas (at least she thinks she hasn't) and all she can possibly manage is to keep the bills down somewhere near the amount they used: to be and learn how to vie the new flours. 1 , What Every Dinner Ought to Include. Because dinner V the main meal ia the . home of most city dwellers, . that meal should be planned with es- - pecial care. Many people get half . the food value of the day in the one meal. If it does not contain the right things that make for health, it is a ft serious matter , Any dinner, no mat- Jter how simple, should contain one disli that is mainly body-building. ,The body-building foods include meat, eggs, fish, milk, cheese, dried peas and beans Any dinner should contain alo some body-regulating food, snch as fruits or green vege tables. Fortunately the season is ap nroaehins when fruits and vegetables .are the regular rule on every dinner table. In recent years, nutrition experts are telling us that we require some raw foods in the diet. This raw food mafr be fruit or vegetable; and while cooked fruits : and -vegetables will answer the purpose of body-regulat-t ing, only the uncooked will satisfy this very important and little under- Stood need. Uncooked milk will answer this same need. What We Want a Dinner to Include. No matter how "scientific" a din- ner may be, unless we like it, it will not satisfy our needs in the highest degree. But it is equally true that we do not need to; indulge our food likes and dislikes to the extent that most sf us do. There is a great deal in mental atti tude toward food. A few things, however, will always add to (he en joyment of a meaL Dinners " should : present variety from day to day, and variety within the meal. Any careful housewife will have the outline (per haps the details also) of her menus planned ahead of time, and then she does not "happen" to have the same foods twrTdays in succession or even a day apart. Variety within the meal means no repetition of similar flavors or tex tures. We do not want strawberries in the fruit Salad and strawberries 2J36J65 Mothers Enlist in Baby-Saving Campaign Thirty-four states have asked for 2,336,565 of the weighing and meas uring cards to be used in the baby saving campaign with which the be ginning of the. children's year haa been celebrated. This means that more than 2,000,000 mothers will strip, weigh and measure their babies 1 and . write the. resulting figures On a card so that the information may be used td safeguard the health of children in all parts of the country. Dr. Jessica B. Peixotto, head of the department of child welfare of the woman's committee of the Council , for NationaUPefense reports that 932 I working programs have been asked " for by chairmen of local committees, together with 15,623 copies of leaflet ; No. 1, entitled, "Save 100,000 Ba bies, and 19,533 copifs of leaflet No.- 2, which gives directions about weighing and measuring. Wheatlessness at Dinner "No croutons, macaroni or spaghetti In soup. Use barley, tapioca, sago, peas, beans or eat with it wheatless and ryeless wafers- , , No bread. Double aervlngi of po f tatoes or two kinds of potatoes (sweet ,and white) or potatoes and , hominy or potatoes and rice. Crackers (if any), wheatless and ryeless. Use rice flour, corn flour, cornmeal, oatmeal, i .. , . Pie, crusts of corn flour, barley flour, cornmeal, oatmeal Other wheatless desserts, such as tapioca puddings, rice puddings gelatin . dishes, frozen .desserts, custards, blanc manges, fruit compotes, fruit sponges, potato, flour desserts, steamed puddings of cornmeal and barley, baked, puddings of cornmeal . and barley wheatless cakes. 'i Cora Flour Biscuit. Two and two-thirds cups eorn flour; I teaspoon salt; 6 teaspoons baking flour;, 3 tablespoons fat; 1 cap liquid. ' ' . " f , , Sift xdry materials' together; work in fat well; combine liquid and dry , materials, handling lightly; roll or pat half inch thick and cut as bis cuits; bake in a hot even, 'a " Rice Flour Sponge Cake. Four eggs; 2 tablespoons lemon - , juice; 1 cup sugar; teaspoon salt; ; Yt cup rice flour. . Separate the whites and yolks of eggs; oeat toe volks until thick and temon colored; beat sugar into yolks, add thi lemon juice and salt; fold in alternately the stiffly beaten whites and flour; bake in ungreased pan for jj io iu minutes. - 1 Potato Water as a -. . 'l Substitute for Soap Soap is almost unobtainable in oc cupied Belgium, and the housewives are accordingly seeking possible sub stitutes. To them a chemist, through the medium of a Brussels newspaper, " gives this advice: "Pour the hot water in which peeled potatoes have been 'boiled over the Jinen to be washed. .' Allow it to soak until the following day, then rub it as you would in a .. lather, but without adding soap or anything else. The linen will come out of the tub perfectly white. To help meet the wartime demand for trained women chemists, an emergency course . fa agricultural chemistry will be given a 1 Penn rtflvania state odllege this summer. . j in the dessert even in strawberry sta son, and neither do we want several creamed or soft tinners at one course. Many housewives make the mistake of thinking that they can secure sat- isiaciory menus oniy oy inciuuwg many things at one meal. No greater mistake could be made, because the more things you have at one-time, the fewer different foodsyou have with which tn huild the next meal, The three "dinners given below are all equally satisfactory .from the standards suggested in the foregoing paragraphs, but one is built of three dishes, the next of four and the third of five dishes. It is easy to see how much the housewife can save herself if she will serve simple meals to a family that she has trained to appre- uiic simplicity in toou. Menu No. 1. . Hainbttrf.r baked with Carrets ae.4 Peas. Baked Potato. Barley Oaraflour Strawberry Shortcake. . . Mean No. t. , Vegetable Chowder with Meat ; Potato Bye Biscuit Jelly. Spring- Onion Salad. Rhubarb Cornstarch Mold, with Cream. . Menu No. $. , Cream ot Asparaaua Beoo. '- Mashed, Potatoes. Caaserole ef Mutton J with Celery and Onions. ' Lettuce Salad. Coffee Oelatln with Whipped Cream. Hambarger Baked With Camti and Few. Grease a baklftg dish and fill with layers of cooked carrots, peaa and raw hamburger steak, talking hamburger the top layer.' Season each layer with salt and penper and oleomargarine. Bake In a moderate oven one and one-half hours. . Vegetable Chowder With Meat. 14 lbs. stewing e. each finely cut meat onion and celery. 2 T. barley. 2 e. tomatoes. 1 e. each diced car-1 T. aalt. Pepper, rota, potatoes and 1 T. cut parsley, finely cut cabbage. Boll meat In foua quarts of water for one hojr, then add barley. Boll one-half hour longer, then add carrots, cabbage, celery, onlona, potatoes and tomatoes last Boll slowly one hour: add the seasoning and parsley. If the chowder Is too thick It may be thinned before serving. The meat should be cut Into small pieces before serv ing. Potato Bye Biscuit. Use any good biscuit recipe, substituting one-half mashed potato and one-half rye nour for the ordinary flour called for. The liquid must be very much scanted. Bhobarb Cornstarch Mold. S e. stewed and 1-S c. cornstarch, sweetened rhubarb. t. nutmeg. t Heat the rhubarb, reserving one-half c. of the liquid from it. Mix this liquid with the cornstarch and add to the hot sauce. Cook five mlnnutes, add nutmeg and turn Into a wet mold. To make a fancier pud ding, one or two stiffly beaten egg whites may be folded In after the pudding has been removed from the fire. Question Box MRS. VACLAV, WESTERN, NEB.: MISS SOPHIA RASMUSSEN, FREMONT, NEB., AND MRS. M. Ik M'CUIXOUGH, ELSIE, NEB. Bo many requests have come In for further Information about the vbooks re cently discussed la this column, - that I am republishing the facts. These books may be abtalned through any local book store or by writing to the publisher direct, v Every Day Foods in War Times Mary Swartx Rose Macmlllan company. New fork. Price 10 cents. War Time Breads and Cakes Amy L. Randy Houghton Mifflin company, Boston, Mass, Price 76 cents. Something Just as Good in Sea Food The following substitute fish are suggested by the New England Fish exchange for saving money as well as meat: Instead of haddock, blue fish or smelts at 30 cents a pound, use whiting at 8 cents. Instead of hali but, cod steak or swordfish at 20 to 50 cents, try shark at 10 cents a pound. Instead of scallops, try squid at 8 cents a pound. Instead of mack erel, salmon and other fancy fishes, use ray at 8 Or 10 cents. These sub stitute fish are all , considered deli cacies abroad and bring high prices therev They are on sale at the fish stores In foreign sections of our cities and reported in good supply, with no indication of an immediate increase in prices. Savannah, Ga.,. was the birthplace of the Girl Scouts-ofiAmerica. . CHEESfiT r " q 1 .jjtj CREAMERY jMl I Girls Men Like Sweet Unaffected Girl Wins Out ' in Long Ruji. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Masculine sincerity seems to be at stake 1 ) Any number of my girls have writ ten to me recently and begged me to reconcile .the sweet, modest, home loving girl men profess to admire with the gay and giddy creature on whom they bestow their attentions. Here is a little letter from an anxious maiden which fairly duplicates dozens of other puzzled girls: "Dear Miss Fairfax: Are men just a lot ot talk or wnatf Recently an ac quaintance of mine said that he didn't like a? girl to use even powder. That he had very little use' for a girl who flirted ana tnat ne, even he man cared little or nothing for chance ac quaintances. But when I introduced him to my friends Sweet refined girls -he almost ignored them. And he has been seen out with girls he would hardly meet in -his own circles arrd yet has seemed very devoted to these questionable looking, made-up crea tures. How do you account for it?" If I could entirely account for this situation all the peculiarities of hu man nature would be revealed to me. There are explanations of our own inconsistencies, but they do not gloss over the fact that inconsistent we hu mans are. Men do like sweet, re fined, natural srirls and when they are thinking about it seriously and sanely, their good judgment makes them realize that they not only like K.. "c, ...... c:,i:-:.'' .-A "Miss Modesty" to "Paint and Pow der." So much for sane, human judg ment. We all know the story of the man who swore off drinking, marched proudly and bravely by three glitter ing saloons and then took himself into the fourth to treat himself for the strength of character he had just shown. Human beings are like that. Men like modest, refined girls, but they have a "hankering" for the forbid den trfe corn-silk cigarettes they smoked behind the haystack, in their teens, the circus they sneaked off to when supposed to be doing the chores, the runaway trip to the pool parlors on prayer meeting nights! The spirit of adventure, the desire for change, curiosity jbout the for bidden all these make it possible logical even for men to prate of i their high ideals and then gallivant off after that which is most complete ly unrelated to the ideals of their preachings. Men philander about with pretty painted dolls. Some weaklings marry them. But real men may go wander ing off after glitter and tinsel for a while, and yet insist on purchasing sterling silver for the home. When the sweet, fine girl gets desperate aboub the good times little painted ladies are having she daubs an unbecoming flicker of rouge on her cheeks, brushes back her silky eyelashes with ugly, unbecoming black paint, coarsens her pink lips into an ugly red and makes herself into an imitation of the sort of girls who seems to be likes by some of her men friends. And the net results are a ruined complexion, a heartache or two and less popularity than ever. It doesn't pay to compete with experts in a field where they have ail the data and you know nothing. It doesn't pay , to make yourself over into a still cheaper imitation of something that was cheap in its original form. Perhaps some day men will be sufficiently sure of . themselves and' sufficiently impressed by the fine qualities in women so that paint and tawdriness will always fail to appeal to them. In the meantime it pays to remember that a man may amuse himself with a bit of tinsel but that Use Dairy Foods Now Plentiful and Economical This is the time when hens are laying regularly, whejr green pastures end fresh cota combine tot heaviest milk prod action. ' Nature not only provides thcs foods now v in abcocJanea, bat also at thalr beet. AnnoatTrith ncurpa34d facilities far eeiactlon at th. eoarca of aopply, brings yori, under Ideal temperature, the choicest faim and dairy products their high quality guaranteed by the Armoor Oval label Try theset Ooerblootn Cramry fiaffcr chntnad in the - country rweet, pur., freeh parchmaot Sealed. 4K355Trr lectad fol quality sod eztta stae. fCtiSHf Chen dallclotia la Ca-ror fafl cream cheese from rhe country's eaaet fismoos dairy regions. WW PoaBhy mflk fed choeen for teoder : ness and sweetness of meet r Under the Armoor Oval Label, yon are eaeored the best whether ft be dairy product, " . meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, coffee- ores 300 foods Id ell, ot top-grade ssiecuoo. ASK ' your dealer for Oral Label products. armovrAcompany Robt. BuJatz, Mgr., 13th A Jones Sts, Omaha. Doug. 10S5. H. P. Laffarta, 29th and Q St.., South 1740. "College Woman's ' Plattsburgh" American college women are an swenng the government's call to war service by enrolling for training at the '.'College Woman's Pittsburgh, to open at Vassar colletre in Tune Established under the ausoices o the Council of National Defense -nd the Red Cross, the training camp for nurses at Vassar college will be de signed to prepare women to fill the gaps in the nursing.profession left by the drafting of American nurses for service at nume anci aoroau. .' The grounds, buildinirs and equip ment of the college.were offered to the government for use during the sum mer to train students in the theory of nursing, lhe Red Cross accepted the offer on behalf of the government, and appropriated from its general fund the sum of $75,000 to cover the operat ing expenses of the school. The course of study is belnsr ar ranged by the experts of the national emergency nursing committee of the Council of National Defense. The faculty of the camp will include Prof. riorence babin, John Hopkins; Prof. C E. A. Winslow, Vale; Dr. William H. Park, department of health, New York City; Frof. I. M. Stewart Co- 1innfiSa anil Dsan lTrKrf IT lfil!- Vassar. The course will be followed at once by practical hospital experi ence for the students, the immediate effect of which will be the release of registered nurses for service abroad. Many well-known hospitals have agreed to readjust their programs of training to receive training camp groups of 10 to 50 students: These women will be permitted to complete their courses and receive the degree of registered nurse in the shortest pos sible time. Only college women of sound health who have graduated during the last 11) years are being accepted for en rollment in the course. " he buys the wearing qualities of ster ling stiver lor nis nome. There is no reason why the sweet. refined girl'" should be prim, prudish, or preaching. he doesn't have to be goody-gOody or to fail of sympathy and understanding for a man's big moments and of comradeship for his play time. The girl men like is a good pal, a friendly soul, a sweet and winsome woman and an attractive individual who makes the best of herself and offers that best with royal generosity to her tnenas. The Senrk Hag aVa unknown young woman wrote these llneti Little flag In the window there. Hung with a tear and a woman's prayer. Child of Old Glory, born with a star O what a wonderful flag you arel th.' htohwbo'rTS fight, Dlue Is your star la Its field of white, Born of the blood our forbears shed To raise your -mother, the flag p'erheaS. And bow you have com In this frenaled day To speak from a window, to speak and says "X am the voice of a soldier son, Gone to be gone till the'vlctory'a won. "T am the flag ef servloe, slri The flag ot his mother -I speak for her Who stands by my window and walta and ' fears, But hides from ethers her unwept tears." tlttl flag la the window there. Hung with a tear and a woman's prayer, Child ot Old Glory, born with a star O what a wonderful flag you arel NMSJ THE BEST rinumuiu Try These Oval Label Products: fau&j Package Foods fauJd Frankfurt Sausage IZuXaZ" Grape Juice Stockinet Star Ham Star Bacon fSZSSt Coffee eJafelfioi . 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Specially priced Saturday at $19.50 Gabardine, Poplini, Poriet Twills, fine Serges, Light Weight, Veloura, Trlcotines, straight, high waist line and. belt effects all the popular colors. Silk bretset, ,$13.75 Beautiful patterns and textures'. , of Taffetas, Foulards, Crepe de Chines and Georgettes in all fashionable col-,' on; apron tunic and bustle styles. Valnts worth to iq 7f ISO, riDWPlO.D 1621 Frnam St. in- 'w - 1 " 1 " - FOOD PLUS But Hams are more. , ... "'.'""". To high food value they add the ap petizing qualities of a delicacy. This is because Puritan Hams are selected for fineness and flavor from ten times their number of merely good Hams. dealer ' has Puritan 1 and. Bacon or can get for you; Ask for them "The Jaste Tells" THE CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY If your dealer doesn't hand!. PuriUn, Istepnime F. W. CONRON, 1321 Jones St., Omaha, Neb. Phone Douglas 2401 Puritan Hams, and Bacon aaa smoked daily in our Omaha plant, insuring fresh, brightly smoked meats at all times. New Silk Sport Skirts $7.50 to $25.00 Stripes, plain colors, changeable silks, p o p 11 n , taffetas, erepe de chines nd silk ginghams. ' 11 1 1 t 1 1 3 T i i saaaa sss Puritan I ,1