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Easy to Make Good Jelly Modern Housewife Wlio Assigns This Task to Herself Has a Far Easier Time of It Than Did Her Old-Fashioned Sister. Modern Jelly making Is usually no longer an event which keeps the housewife In the kitchen from morn ing until night and which shuts out all other activities. At least this Is the case nround city markets, where one can get usually as good or al most as good a bargain for half a dozen boxes of berries as for a crate. Also It has been proved that a small amount of Jelly can be made with much more certainty of result. Of course. If you find a bargain you can cook your fruit, let your Juice drip, put Into half-sealed hot cans and heat then' ten minutes In a hot water bath, finish the seal and put the Juice away to use whenever you like. The use of commercial pectin has had much to do with the increase In the amount of Jelly made by the In experienced housewife. She finds that If she follows the directions which come with the product she will always get tender but firm Jelly, and that gives her confidence. Just a few boxes of berries, combined with the proper amount of pectin and sugar, are all that are needed for a goodly number of glasses. If you realize that bottled pectin is really concentrated apple Juice you will understand that your final product when made with this will really be a combination Jelly. He cause the method of using this pectin calls for little cooking, the natural flavor of the fruit you are ..using is preserved and you obtain a Jelly of delicate flavor. If you prefer a more concentrated Jelly you may get this by making It according to the orlglnol method, which is made more certain of re sults by testing the Juice for its pectin contents, which dlfTer In vari ous fruits and which depend as well upon the ripeness of the fruit. The less ripe contain more pectin, than the riper fruits. Certain fruits, such as raspberries and peaches, lack this necessary pectin, needed to Jelly by themselves. These Juices must be combined with other juices, such as currant, apple or green grape or with commercial pectin. Whatever method you use, first of all you must prepare the Juice. Wash the fruit well. Cut large fruit and put Into a large, heavy kettle with little water. Put berries In ket tle and smash with wooden spoon to draw out Juices. Then cook fruit un til soft. Pour Into a thick Jelly bag of flannel or double cheesecloth, tie and let drtp. If you are thrifty you will then take the pulp, add a little water and make a second extraction, cooking It again and allowing It to drip. This extraction is not quite as clear as the first and It does not con tain quite as much pectin. You may combine It with the first or cook It separately. You are now ready to mix the Juice with pectin according to direc tions or to test the Juice for pectin to make It by Itself. We no longer use the old jelly formula, "a cup of sugar to a cup of Juice." We take a tablespoon of hot juice and put It In a glass, add an equal amount of al cohol nnd let It stand for a few min utes. If the Jelly which forms Is stifT enough to lift It on the spoon with out breaking, we moy use a cup of sugar to a cup of Juice. If the Juice Is Jellied but separates Into pieces when you pick it up, three-quarter cup of sugar to a cup of Juice. If you do not get either of these tests, don't try to make Jelly without the addition of extra pectin. After your sugar Is added, stir co stantly until It Is dissolved, nnd then cook until you get a good Jelly test. This Is shown by dipping In n spoon, holding It sldewlse and allowing the Juice to drip off. When two drops will remain hanging side by sldo. the Jelly Is ready to pour Into the glasses. It should be skimmed Just before nnd at no other time. If you hove made Jelly with com mercial pectin, you will put It In glasses as you would the other. The next step Is to cover It with o thin layer of scalding hot melted par nffln. When It Is cool nnd set, per haps the next day, add another layer of paraffin, ('over the Jelly nnd do not worry If your tops are loose. The old-fashioned pasted paper covers ara perfectly satisfactory. Now a recipe for apple Jelly. The above Instructions should be fol lowed. The addition of a hit of cin namon or of gome other fruit Juice Is advisable, as apple Jelly Itself In j rattier tint. The Julee cnn also be used as a basis for mint Jelly and do you remember the old-fashioned rose geranium Jelly that your grand mother made? The leaves of the geranium are boiled, as are mint leaves, with the Julee before the sugar Is added. Mint Jelly Is col ored green with vegetable coloring before putting In the glasses. Cherry Jelly. S cups (1^4 pounds) Juice 6V4 cups (2^i pounds) sugar 1 bottle pectin Stem and crush nbout three pounds fully ripe cherries. Do not pit. Add one-half cup water, bring to a boll, cover and simmer for ten minutes. (For stronger cherry flavor, add one quarter teaspoon almond extract be fore pouring). Place fruit In Jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out Juice. Measure sugar and Juice Into larg?* saucepan and mix. Iirlng to a boll over Uottest fire and at once add pectin, stirring constantly. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly and cover with paraffin. Medley Marmalade. 2 quarts raspberries 2 quarts strawberries 2 quarts currants 4^4 pounds sugar Mash the berries, add the migpr and boll about forty-five minutes un til thick, stirring occasionally. Pack and seal. Raspberry Jelly. 4 cups (2 pounds) Juice 8 level cups (3Vi pounds) sugar 1 bottle pectin Thoroughly crush with masher or ! run through food chopper about three I quarts fully ripe berries. Place fruit In cloth or Jelly hag and squeeze out Juice. If sparkling Jelly Is de sired, drip Juice through cotton flan nel bag. Measure sugar and then Juice Into large saucepan, stir and bring to boll. At once add pectin, stirring constantly and bring again to full rolling boll and boll for one half minute. Remove from fire, let stand one minute, skim, pour quickly nnd cover hot Jelly at once with hoi paraffin. Use same method for other berries. <g). Dell Syndicate. ? WNU 8ervlc?. Glass Jars for Canning of Food Success Depends Largely on Containers Used in Process. The success of canning Is In large measure dependent upon the perfec tion of the containers Into which the prepared foods are put. It Is Inter esting and a hit amusing to realize how well established the word can ning has become In the lore of food preservation. No longer are cans used In home canning, and In very many Instances they are discarded In commercial canning of foods. Glass Jars have gradually taken the place of tin cans, ye no one speaks of "Jarring" vegetables and fruits. The word "can" seems to have come to stay. It certainly Is a pleasanter expression to term the articles canned foods, rather than "Jarred" foods, or glassed foods, and pre served foods Is a misnomer. Yet one day In the past the term canned vegetables must have sounded as odd as does "Jarred" vegetables and fruits to our unnccustomed ears. It Is glass Jars, therefore, with which we deal now. These are of two kinds: those with screw-on tops and those with clamped tops. The latter are In highest favor for home use. although they have no better feature of perfection In food pres ervation. By the predomlnence of screw-on tops In commercially canned products, the preference by canning concerns Is noted. Less cost enters Into this consideration. The Imperative matters, whatever the type of cover, are that the tops fit airtight at the right moment In the process of canning, and thnf they re main so Indefinitely. When Jars have screw-on tops the person putting up the commodity must turn each top until It Is abso lutely firm and secure. The rubber between the Jar and cover must be pressed down until there Is no pos sibility of air from Inside escaping or of outside air getting Into the steri lized contents. Either Is ruinous to . food conservation. Much spoilage of > home-canned commodities has been ] caused by Ill-fitting tops. The little ' device which comes for? removing screwed Jar tops Is equally well suited to screwing on the tops; It takes less manual work to secure these tops to Jars when this device Is used. Clamped-on tops are correctly ad Child's First Three Years Character Then Developed Lasts Through Life; Writer Cites a Case Which Would Seem to Prove Truth of Jesuitical Theory. By L. F. IIAMSEY, National Kin dergarten Association. Ursula has Just been to see me. She Is n young composer, In the twen ties, of whom the world will hear. And when recognition comes, as It surely will, no one will be more thrilled than I, who had a share In developing this musical genius, Please notice that I said, only, "in devoloplng." In the beginning, It Just happened. I used to practice the p^ano each morning during the time Ursula's Nannie was having breakfast, and from the age of three weeks the haby was brought Into the room and Iny there while I played. It made no dif ference whether she was awake or asleep; she never cried. When she wns able to sit up I was startled one morning to see her swaying back wards and forwards to the rhythm of the music. At six months old, she sang her first musical Rounds, two notes at (he Interval of n third, In imitation of the sound made by the swinging of a hanging lamp. At eleven months old, she sang the first phrase of a song, of which I had Just played the Introduction ? a phrase which did not occur In the pianoforte part. Ursula now began to show strong likes and dislikes. Mendelssohn's "I, led No. 10" In B minor was a fa vorite and she always chuckled when I played It. Heller's "Studies" ap pealed to her and Handel's "Har monious Blacksmith." Before she was a year old, she surprised every body by anatchlng at a copy of her brother's "Little Folks" which con tained a page of music, shouting glee fully : "Plan', plan'." A pile of old magazines wnr brought and she picked out th? page of music from each one, with the same cry. She now began to Identify me with the Instrument, calling out: "Plan', plan'," directly she caught sight of me. At twenty-two months, she could sing fifteen songs, such as "Since First I Saw Your Face," and other old English songs. She never wearied of listening. One Sunday afternon, I played to her for over three hours, and she sat hy the piano In her high chair listening Intently nnd occasionally volunteer ing a comment: "I)nt welly Jolly!" or asking. "What dat called?" One ot those popular airs that spread throughout the world like an epidemic was all the rage and I played It over one day to Ursula, he fore she was two. She was standing by the piano and had never before In terrupted me, but before I had sung two lines she protested: "No, no." Then, as I paid no attention, she threw herself face downwards on the floor, sobbing out: "Baby not lik'?!" It was Just about this time that her brother had a humming-top that was not In tune and Ursula would howl with her hands to her ears If she heard It. Me thought It a Joke, but It was no Joke to a child with a musical temperament. At two years old, Ursula recog nized any of Beethoven's sonatas and would find the one she wanted In the volume. She began then to rec ITCHING IRRITATION Hven in persistent cases where parts are sore and tender? comfort follows the soothing touch of m Resinol Justed when bought, for the covers to be airtight when one rubber band Is between cover and Jar. With us age, however, the metal expands a trltle, and also gets out of shape. When this happens the hotnyauiker Is aware the pressure Is' Insufficient, be cause even when completely clamped down the covers are perceptibly loose. One way to make them air tight again Is to use two rubbers. An other way Is to put something, a fold ed piece, of paper wi!.' do. over the indented part of the cover, so that when the final clamping Is d<.be, the cover fits airtight. ??. Bell Svnillcdte. ? WNU Service. TRACES DESCENT OF BIRDS FROM FLYING REPTILES All birds descended from flying reptiles with teeth, ncc*ordlng to Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant secre tary of the Smltlisonlun Institution. He has trnced the family history of the birds back to the grotesque archeopteryx and archeornls. nature's first attempts at bird making. At the top of the scale of evolution are the songbirds, while the most primi tive birds living today are the os-_ trich and the penguin. The story of the Wright brothers Is well known. Rut how did the first flying reptile manage to "take off?" There were few airports at that time and those were not equipped with modern safety devices. None of the animals or reptiles bnd made a trans Atlantic flight or a Journey to the stratosphere and there were no birds to soar and glide gracefully through the air. Flying existed only In the mlnd'B eye of the lowly though Im aginative reptile, and while It had a good set of teeth, It could not use them In such an undertaking. This happened about 150,000.000 years ago, and we are frequently re minded that evolution can accomplish wonders In millions of years. Rut It cannot be rushed. The copper heads. rattlesnakes, water moccasins and black snakes of the Ozark s have never sprouted wings, nor has any one of them ever been heard to sing like a mocking bird. Their offspring always lack both the ambition and the ability to fly. Rut that does not mean they will always remain as they are, unless. Indeed, evolution sometimes runs Into a blind alley, a possibility suggested by Doctor Wet more himself. He ventures the opinion that birds | may have reached the end if the evo lutionary road, because he says, civ- i illzed man Is disturbing the natural I conditions of the earth. And if birds will hever become reptiles, perhaps reptiles will never become birds. ? St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ogniie similarities, and once when* I was playing" the "No. 10 Lied," she re marked : "Like 'I'astorale.' " I wns playing burs G7-7.1 and It Is notice able that bars 75-78 of the "Pas torale" are similar. She now began to recognize the , styles of different composers and would remark confidently : "Dat | Grieg!" or "Dat Gounod!" Before j she was three, she was taken to n pianoforte recital and sat through It. one of the most Interested listeners. The .Jesuit who was confident that if he might have the care of a child during its early years he need not fear the Influence of any later en vironment has given us food for thought. Ursula seems to support ills theory. She will always choose the companionship of good music. She is a genius, doubtless, because of inheritance, though we know not from what ancestor or ancestors, but her cultured taste ? who can doubt that such Idealistic discrimination is the result o flier early education? Whitens, Clears The Skin Quickest Way No matter how <^ull and dark your I coinplcxion ; no matter how frcclcled and | coarsened by nun and wind. Nadinoln. ISIeachincr. 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And there you have the paradox of fashion, neatly wrapped in cello phane and handed to the customer. It Is the astonishing feat of modern merchants that they can Induce women to go without their lunches nnd walk to work In order to buy a hat they do not need and would never have wanted If they had not been shamed Into it by the imaginary t.vrnnt ? Fashion. Men are never tired of asking why we do it. And usually they support their contention of man's greater mental poise by proudly showing a tailor's mark In the suit they are wearing, proving that It was made In 102,". So far as we know there Is only one answer to make, and that is to explain to them Vehlen's Theory of Waste and plead guilty to the charge of snobbery It Involves. This theory, mesdames, states that* as soon as a man or woman has more money than Is needed for the regu lation comforts and necessities of a well-ordered existence the unspent Income begins to worry him. He has worked hard for that money, and he wants the world to know he has It. (It Is a vulgar Impulse, but there It Is.) What can he do? lie can buy something he doesn't really need or intrinsically desire, Just to show that he can afford it. Fie will buy slx automoblles, although It is obvious , that he can ride In only one at a | time. He will build n fiO room house , nnd live In one wing of It. He will buy Rembrnndts, even If he does not care for paintings and diamonds that he cannot tell from glass. After a few generations the wealthy usually grow accustomed to the fact that they are rich and are lftss Interested In advertising the fact. They can then shed their os tentation and stop ? buying things they do not want nnd begin to enjoy themselves. Rut in almost every in stance you will still find them con suming a great many-more things than they enjoy consuming because a certain amount of waste Is de manded by the conventions which surround their lives. 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Hut manufacturers devised ways of making silk so cheaply that all classes could afford It, and Its pos session ceared to be a proof of sol vency. Yet the snobbish Impulse remained. How could It be ex pressed ? Well, you and I and fifty million other American women know the an swer ? to our sorrow. Instead of buying one tafTeta dress a year, our grande dame began to buy twenty. And each one was so differently de \ iscd from its predecessor that the onlooker knew it had come smack out of a shop window within a week. I'rett.v soon we were all trying to keep up with her ? panting a little, blinking our eyes, going Into bank ruptcy. but wearing the dress of the month Instead of the very pretty model left over from last fall. And that, grandchildren, Is why there Is no such thing as fashion In any socialist community. | In Ju?t On* Minute [ What happens in a minute? Have I you ever given It a thought? 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