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FESTIVE TRIUMPH FOR CHILDREN’S PARTY
(See Recipes Below)
Children Need Parties Too
With all the holiday festivities for
frown folks and for older sisters
and brothers, it’s not strange that
the youngest members of the family
beg for a party, too!
Children’s parties must be color
ful, the entertainment simple, and
the refreshments
very light. If the
party is to be a
success (and why
give one if it
isn’t?) the activi
ties of the young
sters must be
wisely directed
from the moment
they arrive, un
til they leave.
Choose, to direct the entertainment,
the wisest, jolliest, child-loving adult
you know. Plan games that are
simple, and make sure that all the
children are included. Remember,
too, that children weary quickly of
any one activity, so plan a variety of
games and get the new one under
way before interest in the old one
vanishes.
Party refreshments, of course,
must be geared to the age of the
guests. If they are very young, it’s
a good idea to serve the feast at
the end of the party, so that it takes
the place of the regular evening
meal.
Decorate the table with snapping
crackers, colored balloons, and pep
permint canes to give a really fes
tive setting for the occasion.
When Five and Six-Year Olds Get
Together
Special Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Raw Carrot Strips
Peppermint Stick Tapioca Cream
Cocoa
Peppermint Stick Tapioca Cream.
(Serves 8)
2 egg yolks
4 cups milk
% cup quick-cooking tapioca
% red cinnamon candies,
crushed peppermint sticks, or
crushed clear fruit-flavored
candies
% teaspoon salt
2 egg whites
Mix egg yolk with small amount
of milk in top of double boiler.
Add quick-cook
ing tapioca, can
dies, salt and re
maining milk.
Place over rapid
ly boiling water
and cook 10 to 12
minutes after wa
ter boils again,
stirring frequent
ly. Remove from
fire. (Tapioca will
be well distribut- **
ed throughout, but mixture will be
thin. Do not overcook.) Beat egg
white until just stiff enough to hold
shape. Fold hot tapioca mixture
gradually into egg white. Cool
mixture thickens as it cools. Chill.
Serve in sherbet glasses. Garnish
with whipped cream and colored
candies.
Special Peanut Butter Sandwiches.
(Makes 1 cup filling)
1 ripe banana
1 cup peanut butter
% cup dates (cut fine)
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Mash banana with a fork and thor
oughly blend in remaining ingredi
ents. Use between slices of whole
wheat bread.
Orange Ice.
1 cup granulated sugar
2 cups water
1 teaspoon gelatin
1 tablespoon cold water
2 cups orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 teaspoon orange extract
Make a syrup of the sugar and
water and boil for five minutes. Re
move from fire and add gelatin,
which has been softened in cold wa
ter. Stir until the gelatin is en
tirely dissolved and then add fruit
juices and flavoring extracts, and
pour into freezing tray of mechani
cal refrigerator. Turn cold control
to lowest temperature for rapid
freezing. Stir three times at half
hour intervals after the ice has be
gun to freeze. When almost frozen,
place the mixture in a chilled bow)
and beat with a rotary egg beater;
then return to tray and complete the
freezing.
Little Silver Cakes.
% cup shortening
114 cups granulated sugar
2% cups cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
14 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 egg whites
Cream the shortening, add the
sugar, and beat well. Sift the flour,
baking powder, and salt; add alter
nately with the milk and vanilla.
Beat the egg whites until stiff and
fold into the cake. Bake in greased
muffin tins in a moderate oven (350
degrees) for approximately 15 to 20
minutes.
Grilled Bacon Sandwiches.
Remove crusts from slices of
bread and toast bread on one side
only. Spread untoasted side with
peanut butter and top with slices of
bacon. Preheat broiler to 350 de
grees. Place sandwiches on broiler
rack, 3% inches from flame. Broil
until bacon is crisp and brown, ap
proximately 7 minutes. Serve very
hot.
Sugared Doughnuts.
4 eggs ,
1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons shortening (melted)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2% to 3 cupa cake flour
% teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Beat the eggs until light. Add
sugar slowly and continue beating
until foamy. Add
melted shorten
ing and vanilla
extract. Mix and
sift two cups of
flour and all the
other dry ingredi
ents and fold into
the egg mixture.
Add just enough more flour to make
a soft dough which can be handled.
Place on lightly floured board and
roll dough out to %-inch thickness.
Cut, and fry in deep fat (370 de
grees) and drain on unglazed pqper,
Hot Spiced Cider.
2 quarts cider
1 cup brown sugar
1 six-inch stick cinnamon
6 whole cloves
1 teaspoon allspice
Add spices and sugar to cider,
place in kettle and let simmer over
heat (not boil) for 15 minutes.
Strain and serve hot in small
glasses. Add a little grated nutmeg.
‘V’ Stands for Vegetables.
To be sure, we all know that vege
tables in one form or another are
an important part of the diet. But
when you’re confronted with the
problem of getting Junior to eat his
carrots, just how will you get around
that? Next week I’ll give you my
suggestions for solving that particu
lar problem. Be sure and watch for
them in this column next week.
. Have you sent for your leaflet
of “Holiday Recipes,” by Elea
nor Howe? Plum puddings, cakes
rich with fruit and nuts, cookies
for all kinds of parties, and con
fections, too—you’ll find recipes
for all of these, in this specially
compiled leaflet. Send 10 cents
in coin to “Holiday Recipes,”
care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illi
nois, and get your copy, now.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Electric Outlets Needed
For Kitchen Efficiency
When electric outlets are being
planned in a new house for lamps,
clocks, and radios, the kitchen is
often neglected. In reality, it has
more uses for plugs than any other
room.
Within reasonable limits, there
cannot be too many appliance out
lets in the kitchen. In this room
electricity is used both for lighting
and for motivating power. Consump
tion of current varies widely with
kitchen appliances, and special at
tention should be given to the load
the outlet is expected to carry.
BAKER COUNT? NEWS T
Farm
Topics
FARM TENANTS
BETTER STATUS
Written Lease Proves Value
As Stabilizer.
The Farm Security administra
tion’s national survey of the prog
ress of farm families it is assisting
shows that those renting their farms
are making decided headway in
their tenure status.
In the past, more than 80 per
cent of farm renters operated un
der oral leases. But 81 per cent
of the 161,395 tenants in the FSA
rehabilitation program covered by
the survey have written leases.
These tend to stabilize them on their
farms, and make it possible for
them to plan ahead.
Many of these written leases are
based on the Farm Security admin
istration’s flexible lease providing
for arbitration of disputes between
landlord and tenant, reimbursing the
tenant for permanent improve
ments, and other features of benefit
both to landowner and tenant.
More than 40,000 of the FSA ten
ants have written leases providing
for more than one year of tenure,
which encourage balanced live stock
and cropping programs to conserve
the soil instead of “quick cash’’ and
soil-depleting crops which tend to go
along with short tenure.
The survey showed that during the
past year 26,800 of the families had
made a difficult step up the econom
ic ladder by advancing from share
croppers to tenants. In addition,
under the Bankhead-Jones act, the
FSA has made loans to almost 7,000
tenants for the purchase of farms
of their own.
Misbehaving Streams
Take Toll in Lowland
Misbehaving streams cause an
enormous amount of damage to fer
tile bottom-land farms, according to
the soil conservation service. Some
times these streams wander out of
their courses and cut new channels
across fields and pastures; or they
undercut the banks and eat back
into valuable farmland or overtop
the banks and leave heavy deposits
of sand on unharvested crops.
At sharp bends streams are par
ticularly likely to kick over the
traces. At the outside of the bend
where the thrust of the flowing wa
ter is greatest they usually gnaw
away at the bank. On the inside
they often deposit soil matter
washed down from farther up
stream. In this way, a gravel bar
is sometimes built up on the inside
of the bend which tends to “shove’’
the stream farther toward the out
side bank and increase the cutting
on that side.
As a part of its demonstration
program of erosion control, the soil
conservation service is helping
many farmers make these streams
behave. On the outside bend of a
stream where a considerable
amount of cutting has occurred,
service engineers assist in building
structures, such as jetties, which
divert the flow away^from the dam
aged area and give protective vege
tation a chance to become estab
lished. Such trees as osier, willow,
or dogwood are recommended for
permanent protection.
Urges Safety of Water
Supplies in Rural Areas
Public health can be bought, espe
cially in regard to the safety and
purity of rural water supplies, ac
cording to Robert Newton Clark,
district engineer of the New York
state department of health.
“It can be bought,” he said, “ei
ther by the use of money, time, or
intelligence.” He pointed out that
the rural situation differs from that
in the city; city water, used in great
volume, is treated. In the country
the use of home water supplies is
not so managed.
“The clearest, coldest, tastiest
glass of water may harbor death.
In many instances the risk is un
warranted.”
He referred to the many chances
for contamination of water supplies
and how pollution may result. The
simplest way to sterilize a well, he
said, is to use a chlorine compound,
liquid bleaching solutions, or similar
laundry bleaches. From one to four
ounces are added to a pail of water
and introduced into the water sup
ply.
Then, enough water should be
pumped or drawn from the system
so that a distinct chlorine odor is
noticeable at the tap or pump. After
this, no water is drawn for a few
hours, which gives the chlorine a
chance to kill objectionable organ
isms.
Grinding Farm Tools
Edged tools in the farm workshop
can work satisfactorily only when
properly ground. The angle at which
to grind a cold chisel depends on
the hardness of the metal on which
it is to be used; the softer the metal,
the keener the edge. A templet con
sisting of a piece of tin with a guide
notch, one-half inch wide and three
eighths inch deep, will help in deter
mining the correct angle. Chisels
ground to fit such a notch will be
well suited for general work.
AROUND
THE HOUSE
Read the labels on canned foods.
Many tell the number of slices
contained in the can. Others give
additional useful information about
the contents.
• • •
Making Muffins.—Muffins should
be mixed just enough to moisten
all ingredients, but should not be
stirred. Stirring develops gluten
in the flour and makes the muffins
elastic and tough.
• • •
Picking Lemons.— Lemons that
have a fine-textured skin and are
heavy for their size are usually
of a better quality and have more
juice than those that are coarse
textured and light in weight.
• • •
Protect House Plants.— Drafts
of cold air or night temperatures
that approach freezing handicap
house plants. It is best to remove
them from windows for the night.
• • •
Attractive Centerpiece.—A wood
en salad bowl of the old-fashioned
chopping variety makes an attrac
tive centerpiece for the holiday
party if it is filled with appetizers
assorted. Surround the bowl with
holly, pine and mistletoe sprigs.
• • •
Ventilate Kitchen.— The follow
ing bad air conditions in a kitchen
may cause fatigue: Not enough
oxygen or an excess of carbon
dioxide, and the presence of car
bon monoxide, excessive moisture
and excessive heat. The kitchen,
more than any other room, re
quires frequent ventilation.
• • •
Clean curtains come under the
heading of health, budget and
time-savers. Soiled curtains which
have lost their crispness or fresh
ness contain dust and grime which
weaken the fabric and make hard
rubbing necessary. Germs are in
variably in with this dirt. Frequent
washings are invariably easy ones,
for surface dirt washes away
easily in a rich and foamy suds.
Quick
uotes
Sentinel Features
SUCCESSFUL DEMOCRACY
**' I 'HE chief problem of democracy, if
it is to be successful and continu
ing, is the moral education and guidance
of the individual, and not the suppres
sion of the individual in the supposed
interest of some mass or group.”— Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler, President of
Columbia University.
ASK ME O
ANOTHER (
The Questions
1. What does being sent to Cov
entry mean?
2. What is the national language
of Brazil?
3. Is there any difference be
tween savor and flavor?
4. What is meant by a country’s
favorable balance of trade?
5. A procurator, a peregrinator
and a promulgator. One is a law
yer, one a publisher, and the other
a traveler. Which is which?
6. Is a silverfish a member of
the finny tribe?
7. Why are macadam roads so
called?
8. Can any person in the United
States obtain a patent?
The Answers
1. To be excluded from the so
ciety of the people to which one
belongs.
2. Portuguese.
THE MIER TOD ARE SLOWER-BURNING
Camels proved 25% slower-burning than the average of the
15 other of the largest-selling brands tested...
for more mildness, coolness, and flavor
By burning 25% slower than the
average of the 15 other of the larg
est-selling brands tested—slower
than any of them —CAMELS give a
smoking plus equal to
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'T'HE new uses for crazy patch
A stitches in Sewing Book 3 have
aroused so much interest that it
set us to thinking of smart new
ways to use pieced quilt block
designs. This border pieced of
small patterned cotton prints of
all kinds and colors put together
with red and blue strips is the
result. It is very striking and
decorative for lunch cloth shown
here which, by the way, is made
of unbleached muslin bags. The
seams where the bags are joined
to make the cloth the desired size
are covered with straight 1-inch
bands of the red and blue mate
rial as shown at the right.
The diagram at the lower left
shows you how to make a pattern
for the blue, red and print pieces.
Cut a triangle of stiff paper 4%
inches high and 7 inches wide at
the base. Mark the blue strip 1
inch wide along the left edge as
shown and then the red strip join
ing it on the right edge. Now cut
away the top and lower right cor
ners as shown. Cut the red, blue
and print sections apart and use
them for patterns in cutting the
fabric pieces adding V4-inch seam
at all edges.
NOTE: Readers who are now
using Sewing Books No. 1, 2 and 3
will be happy to learn that No. 4
i is ready for mailing; as well as
the 10-cent editions of No. 1,2"
and 3. Mrs. Spears has just made
quilt block patterns for three de-
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
3. Flavor refers more specifical
ly to odor and savor to taste.
However, the words are generally
synonymous.
4. More exported than imported.
5. Lawyer, traveler and publish
er, respectively.
6. No. It’s a household insect.
7. For John Macadam, who in
vented the process.
8. The only persons in the Unit
ed States who cannot obtain a pat
ent, or hold a right or interest in
a patent, except by inheritance or
bequest, are the officers and em
ployees of the Patent office.
The Spoken Word
Far more effective (than books)
is the spoken word. There is
something in the voice, the coun
tenance, the bearing and the ges
ture of the speaker, that concur
in fixing an impression upon the
mind, deeper than can even vigor
ous writings.—Pliny the Younger.
CAMELS
SLOW-BURNING
COSTLIER TOBACCOS
signs selected from her favorite
Early American quilts. You may
have these patterns FREE with
your order for four books. Price
of books—lo cents each postpaid.
Set of three quilt block patterns
without books—lo cents. Send or
ders to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10,
Bedford Hills, New York.
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