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FESTIVE TRIUMPH FOR CHILDREN’S PARTY
(See Recipes Below)
Children Need Parties Too
With all the holiday festivities for
grown 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, j oiliest, 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
gamfes 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
Va 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 bowl
and beat with a rotary egg beater;
then return to tray and complete the
freezing.
Little Silver Cakes.
% cup shortening
IVz cups granulated sugar
2% cups cake flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
Vi 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 powderfand 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 cups cake flour
Vz 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 goft 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 paper.
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 colun^n next week.
Have you sent for your leaflet
of “Holiday Recipes,” by Elea
nor Howe? Plum puddings, cakes
rich with fruit and nuts, cockies
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.
Star I)list
★ A Western Well Done!
★ Ascending Stars
★ Irresistible Invitation
By Virginia Valo
T HE people who insisted that
all Marlene Dietrich needed
to restore her to favor was one
good picture have been proved
right. “Destry Rides Again”
has done it. Paramount, after
letting her go, has engaged her
again, this time to appear in
Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘‘North West
Mounted Police.”
She will have a role for which
Dorothy Lamour was slated before
“Destry” —
and Marlene
—rode again;
the fact ihat
the charac
ter is named
“Loupette”
suggests that
provision has
been made
for the for
eign accent.
As for the
picture,
“Destry
Rides Again”
you might
call it a super- Marlene Dietrich
Western and
not be far wrong. There’s nothing
super about the plot; it’s one of the
good old standbys. But Producer Joe
Pasternak, who is largely responsi
ble for Deanna Durbin’s success,
defied precedent when it came to
casting, and gave the leading roles
to two people to whom they wouldn’t
seem to belong.
James Stewart, fresh from the
laurels won as the Mr. Smith who
went to Washington, and Miss Diet-
rich, who was over-given to posing,
have turned in beautiful perform
ances.
And don’t forget that a very able
man named George Marshall direct
ed it; no matter how good the ac
tors were, a less capable director
could have made a mess of things.
M/
An inside picture of the New York
Stock exchange is to be presented
over Columbia’s network Saturday,
December 30. The on-the-scene
broadcast, coming dramatically at
the end of the year’s trading, was
said by stock exchange officials to
be the first radio program to origi
nate on the floor of the world’s
greatest organized stock market for
securities. The broadcast will trace
the steps from the time a customer
puts in his order to the time he
receives his receipt.
*
Allan Jones is sitting pretty; his
contract with Paramount has been
renewed for
three more
pictures.
“The Great
Victor Her
bert” gave
him the right
opportunity
to show what
he could do,
and also add
ed a rung to
those that
Mary Martin
has success
fully climbed
since she
sang “My
Heart B e-
theatrical pro
hit overnight.
Mary Martin
longs to Daddy” in a
duction and made a
Hollywood didn’t want her at first;
couldn’t see that she had any pos
sibilities. Now she’s being pushed
along as fast as she can go. Her
next picture will be “Miami”; after
that she’ll
Goodby.”
star in “Kiss the Boys
-36-
Toss bouquets at Greta Garbo, not
merely for her performance in
“Ninotchka,” but for being so quiet
about bringing her family to this
country; they flew from New York
to California, and she’s bought a
home out in the country for them.
It doesn’t seem possible, but Jane
Withers has started her sixth year
on the Twentieth Century-Fox lot.
She’s being co-starred with Gene
Autrey in “Shootin’ High.”
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A piece of wedding cake reached
this desk the other day, in a little
box bearing the name of one of
New York’s smartest caterers. The
enclosed card read “Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Davis,” and in one corner,
“At Home, CBS 12:15 P. M., EST”
“When a Girl Marries.” Who could
resist a radio program that has so
attractive an announcement?
1 "" '"
The polls show that from 10 to
12 million people in the United
States tune in on the Ford Sunday
Evening Hour each week; others in
Canada are tuned to American sta
tions to catch it, and recently seven
stations in Mexico were linked to
the broadcast network.
ODDS AND ENDS—ff'hen Dorothy
Lamour sinus over the air she has a vio
linist playing so near to her that his bow
grazes her ear . . . Ilona Massey, who co
starred with Nelson Eddy in "Balalaika,”
is following his example and going on a
concert tour; she starts the first of the
year . . . "The Housekeeper's Daughter'
isn't half so had as Joan Bennett's protest*
would make it appear.
by Western Newxpjoer Union.)
AROUND
y 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.
SUCCESSFUL DEMOCRACY
“nrHE 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.
HCWJq SEW
4*— Ruth Wyeth Spears
Patchwork border for lunch cloth.
npHE new uses for crazypatch
-*■ 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 1 / fc
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 %-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
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
signs selected from her favorite
Early American quilts. You may
have these patterns FREE with
your order for four books. Price
of books—10 cents each postpaid.
Set of three quilt block patterns
without books—10 cents. Send or
ders to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10,
Bedford Hills, New York.
PffMlgfflPlBP|IIIH«II III
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Re/iefforRains of
3 simple steps begin amazing
relief in a jiffy
1. To relieve headache,
body discomfort ana
aches, take 2 Bayer
Aspirin Tablets and
drink a glass of water*
Repeat in 2 hours.
2. For sore throatfrom
cold, dissolve 3 Bayer
Aspirin Tablets in %
glass of water and
gargle.
ASK ME O
ANOTHER r
A Quiz With Answers
Offering Information
on Various Subjects
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.
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.
3. Check temperature.
If you have a rever and
temperature does not
go down — call your
doctor.
Just be sure you get genuine fast*
acting BAYER Aspirin.
At the first sign of a cold, follow the
directions in the pictures above—
the simplest and among the most
effective methods of relief known
to modern science.
So quickly does Bayer Aspirin
“take hold” of painful cold symp
toms, welcome relief you can really
feel often starts in a short time.
It’s amazing how fast it works.
Try this way. You will say it is
unequalled. But be sure
you get the fast-acting
Bayer product you want.
Ask for Bayer Aspirin by
the full name when you
buy.
GENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN
VESPER TEA
PURE ORANGE PEKOE
50 Cups for lO Cents
Ask Your Grocer ,
Camels proved 25% slower-burning than the average of the
15 other of the largest-selling brands tested. •.
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
EXTRA SMOKES
PER PACK!
for more mildness, coolness, and flavor
CAMELS
SLOW-BURNING
COSTLIER TOBACCOS