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McCORMICR MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1939
Three Wooden Boxes
For Davenport Frame
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
TpHERE comes a letter from a
reader who says: “Thanks for
the article telling how to make a
chair of lumber and cover it. I
wish there were more things that
husbands and wives could do to
gether. I have made all the cur
tains for our house and some slip
covers, but this chair that we both
worked on was much more inter
esting.”
Here is something that looks
ambitious but is really simple.
Anyone that can make three wood
en boxes and then screw or bolt
them together, can make this dav
enport frame. The center box is
made to fit an inner spring mat
tress of any size desired. All the
other dimensions are given here.
One way to make the cushions
is to bind flat sheets of newspa
pers together and then pad this
base with cotton. Covering ma
terial in a rather heavy, rough
textured cotton goods in. a plain
color or a conventional design will
harmonize best with the modern
lines of this piece of furniture.
NOTICE ABOUT BOOK
PRICES: Book 1—SEWING for
the Home Decorator, and No. 2,
Gifts, Novelties and Embroid
eries, are now 15 cents each, or
both books for 25 cents. Readers
who have not secured their copies
of these two books should send in
their orders immediately, as no
more copies will be available,
when the present supply is ex
hausted. Your choice of ‘the
QUILT LEAFLET illustrating 36
authentic patchwork stitches or
the RAG RUG LEAFLET, will be
included with orders for both
books for the present, but the of
fer may be withdrawn at any
time. Leaflets are 6 cents each
when ordered separately.
Everyone should have copies of
these two books containing a total
of 96 How to Sew articles by Mrs.
Spears, that have not appeared in
the paper. Send your order at
once to Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des-
plaines St., Chicago, 111.
Knew His Peril
A Texan was defeated ignomin
iously when he ran for the office
of sheriff. He got 55 votes out of
a total of 3,500, and the next day
he walked down Main street with
two guns hanging from his belt.
“You were not elected, and you
have no right to carry guns,” fel
low-citizens told him.
“Listen, folks,” he replied, “a
man with no more friends than
I’ve got in this county needs to
carry guns.”
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CRAB SALAD
See Recipe Below.
Salads for Summer Meals
When the mercury soars skyward
and appetites are on the wane, noth
ing tastes quite so good as a crisp,
cool mixture of fresh greens, or
fruits, or vegetables with a tart,
taste-teasing dressing.
Salads are summer favorites.
There’s hardly a dish that’s so sim
ple yet so satisfying to make, and
there’s such a pleasant way of mak
ing sure that we get the minerals
and vitamins we need!
Suggestions on Salads.
Salad ingredients must be clean
and cold and crisp. Contrast is im
portant, too—con
trast in textures,
in flavors, and in
colors. Combine
crisp foods with
soft; sharp, pun
gent-tasting foods
with mild - fla
vored ones; and
pale, uninteresting looking foods
with foods that are vividly colored.
Make your summer salads as light
or as substantial as you please.
Find a few good basic recipes, and
vary them to suit yourself. Here
are some of my own favorites—
practical, everyday recipes that are
easy to prepare and serve, yet deli
cious enough for almost any social
occasion.
Summer Tossed Salad.
Dip edges of lettuce leaves in
paprika and arrange in salad bowl.
Add green pepper rings, cucumber
slices, radish roses and tomatoes,
cut lengthwise in eighths. Toss to
gether with french dressing made as
follows: grate % clove garlic on two
tablespoons granulated sugar. Add
one tablespoon salt, one tablespoon
paprika, one cup salad oil and %
cup lemon juice. Shake vigorously,
chill, and shake again, before mix
ing with salad.
Festive Potato Salad.
(Serves 5)
3 eggs (hard cooked)
4 cups cooked potatoes (cut fine)
% cup green pepper (cut fine)
1 bunch green onions (cut fine)
% cup celery (cut fine)
Ya cup sweet pickles (cut fine)
1 cup mayonnaise-type salad
dressing
Salt to taste
Cut hard cooked eggs in slices.
Combine ingredients in order given,
reserving a few of the egg slices
for garnishing. Chill. Serve in
large bowl lined with lettuce. Gar
nish with radish roses and hard
cooked egg.
Crab Salad.
(Serves 5)
1 13-ounce tin crabmeat
% cup celery (cut fine)
Vi cup sweet pickles (cut fine)
2 hard cooked eggs—riced egg
yolk
Vi cup mayonnaise dressing
1 head lettuce
1 tablespoon capers
Flake crabmeat and remove
membrane. Add
K\; ft
celery, sw#et
pickle and egg
white (finely cut).
Mix with mayon
naise dressing.
Arrange on bed
of crisp lettuce
leaves and garnish with egg yolk
(riced) and capers.
Frozen Tomato Salad.
1 tablespoon unflavbred gelatin
Vi cup cold water
1 No. 2 can tomatoes
1 cup celery and celery leaves
(chopped)
2 tablespoons diced onion
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
6 whole cloves
6 peppercorns
Sprig thyme
1 bay leaf
1 cup whipping cream (whipped)
Vi teaspoon paprika
Soak gelatin in cold water.' Heat
tomatoes, celery, onion and all sea-
Get This New Cook Book.
Who said that Father doesn’t like
salads? Of course he does! To be
sure it’s a sheer waste of energy
to make a fancy creation in the hope
of pleasing him, but there are plenty
of plain, substantial salads that he
likes. In her new cook book, “Feed
ing Father,” Eleanor Howe tells just
how to please him with salads and
other of his favorite foods. Send 10
cents in coin to Eleanor Howe, 919
North Michigan avenue, Chicago,
111., and get your copy.
(Released bjr Western Newspaper Union.)
French Provincial Style
Of Furniture Is Revived
French provincial furniture, now
that it is being revived, is sure to
be with us for a long time for it is
beautiful in itself, it is moderately
priced, and it can be combined so
well with early American styles.
Many women, Who like a little vari
ety in their rooms, will delight to
find that the simple, graceful chairs
of beechwood and of cherry in this
French vein mix perfectly with ma
ple tables and chairs.
There are charming upholstered
armchairs, too, from which to
choose, and many handsome little
occasional tables, some of the tiered
variety, others with sunken recep
tacles for plants, and still others
for bedside use and for service for
afternoon tea or after dinner coffee.
Whether you are doing an entire
room or are merely investing in a
piece or two you’ll have no difficulty
in finding charming furniture in
French provincial styl*»
ASK ME
ANOTHER
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
sonings in a saucepan and simmer
gently for about 10 minutes. Strain
and add at once to the softened gel
atin. Mix thoroughly and chill.
When mixture begins to thicken, fold
in the whipped cream. Pour into
freezing tray and place in freezing
compartment until thick. When fro
zen, unmold and serve on lettuce
with mayonnaise dressing.
Marshmallow Mint Salad.
(Serves 6)
1 package (Vi pound) marshmal
lows
1 tablespoon fruit juice
Peppermint extract
Green vegetable coloring
% cup mayonnaise
Vi cup mixed fruits (cut in small
pieces)
1 cup whipping cream (whipped)
Place marshmallows and fruit
juice in saucepan and heat over low
heat. Fold over and over until
marshmallows are about half melt
ed. Remove from heat and continue
folding until’mixture is* smooth and
fluffy. Cool. Then add peppermint
extract and green food coloring
(these can be omitted, if desired).
Blend in mayonnaise and fruits and
fold in whipped cream. Turn into
individual molds and chill in refrig
erator until firm. Unmold on lacy
endive ring and garnish with a sprig
of mint and halved maraschino
cherry. ,
Cinderella Salad.
(Serves 6)
2 cups cooked lamb (cut in small
cubes)
% cup french dressing
2 tablespoons fresh mint
(chopped)
% cup cooked peas
Vz cup cooked carrots
2 cups shredded cabbage
Salt and pepper to taste
Place lamb in salad bowl, add
french dressing
and chopped
mint. Chill in re
frigerator for one
hour. Then add
remaining ingre
dients and toss to-
gether lightly,
adding additional
french dressing,
if desired. Gar
nish with strips
of green pepper and wedges of to
matoes.
The Questions
1. What was the Holy Grail?
2. What is meant by fiscal year?
3. Does the term dirigible refer
only to aircraft?
4. Do landing or starting planes
have the right of way at an air
port?
5. Are the stars motionless in
space?
6. Why can a fly walk on a ceil
ing without falling?
7. What is the difference be
tween a chuckle, a giggle and a
laugh?
8. Why don’t ducks get wet?
9. A bale of cotton weighs how
many pounds?
10. What is the difference be
tween a buffalo and a bison?
The Answers
1. The platter or cup which, ac
cording to legend, was used by
Christ at the Last Supper.
2. A year which starts at a des
ignated date for financial figuring.
3. No. Dirigible means capable
of being directed, as an automo
bile or bicycle.
4. Descending planes have the
right-of-way.
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5. No. If there is anything in
the universe that is actually mo
tionless astronomers have not yet
discovered it.
6. It has suction cups on its legs.
7. A chuckle is a small noise,
giggling comes in short spasms,
and a laugh is everything.
8. Because of oil in their feath
ers.
9. A bale of cotton weighs 480
pounds.
10. Buffalo is the general term
given to many species of wild
oxen, including the bison. The
American buffalo may properly
be called a bison.
And the Mistress Grew
Red With Indignation
1 •
The housemaid was under notice
to leave, and her mistress sum
moned her to tell her a few truths.
“So I’m a flirt, am I?” demand
ed the maid, after a few prelim
inaries. “Well, I knows them as
flirts more than I do. And an
other thing, I’m better-looking
than you. Your husband told me.”
“That’s enough!” snapped her
mistress.
“Oh, no, it ain’t,” the girl went
on. “I can kiss better than yoti
can, too. Do you know who told
me that?”
“Don’t you dare to suggest that
my husband ”
“Oh, no,” interrupted the maid,
“it was the butler.”
Head Hunters of New Guinea Are
Particular About Child Training
WNU Service.
ZJ EADHUNTERS of New Guinea,
-*■ going without clothing, yet
very particular about training their
children in habits of cleanliness
and modesty, were the subject of
study by Dr. John Whiting and S.
W. Reed, graduate students of Yale
university, who lived for seven
months among a small primitive
tribe of less than 400 persons in a
mountain range far up the Sepik
river.
Spankings and rewards are. the
basis of child discipline among
these primitives, the Yale investi
gators discovered, but early in life
the child learns to recognize a
word of praise or a scolding as an
effective substitute for physical
punishment or caress.
Food taboos and cleanliness are
taught early in childhood and these
“morals” are almost never neg
lected in after life, they found.
Sexual and aggressive activities
are controlled primarily at adoles
cence and later, and the restric
tions in these matters are never so
binding—they are quite often
violated.
The tribe still hunt human heads
and Doctor Whiting participated
in a spear dance which the natives
performed before setting out on a
raid against a neighboring tribe.
No male is accepted as being fully
adult and manly unless he has ac
complished the feat of spearing an
enemy and bringing back his head
as a trophy, Doctor Whiting said.
The tribe live on the produce of
their yam gardens, the boiled pith
of the sago palm, and the roasted
meat of the wild pig. Snakes and
lizards also form part of their
diet, and roasted white grubs are
considered a delicacy. Doctor Whit
ing and Mr. Reed found it difficult
to overcome their pwn food prej
udices when the grubs were served
them, but were surprised to find
that they were “indeed excellent.”
—Science Service.
By Number
Several American towns are
named with numbers, such as Six,
W. Va.; Seventy Six, Ky., and
Ninety Six, S. C., according to
Collier’s. A species of fish in
South Africa is named Seventy-
four after the 74 guns on Nelson's
flagship, the Victory; and a toilet
water is named 4711 after the
street address in Cologne, Ger
many, where it was first com
pounded.
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