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McCORMTCK MESSENGER. McGORMfCR S C TWITPSH\Y. DECEMBER 28. 1939 Star Dust ^ A Bright Star 'k In Religious Field 'A' Those DeZurik Sisters By Virginia Val© OEVERAL young players at- ^ tained fame on the screen during the year of 1939, none of them more rapidly or deserv- ingly than Louis Hayward. A little more than a year ago his name was practically unknown to movie fans, al though he had appeared on the stage both in England and New York, and had given ex cellent performances in supporting roles in several films. He was about ready to chuck Hollywood and go back to the stage when Edward Small gave him a starring role in “The Duke of West Point.” Next Household News VEGETABLE SALAD BOWL (See Recipes Below) ‘V* Stands for Vegetables LOUIS HAYWARD he was co-starred in “The Man in the Iron Mask” with Joan Bennett— he played twins in that one—and now he is playing “Oliver Essex” in “My Son, My Son” and looking ahead to “Monte Cristo.” In “My Son, My Son” he has to go through four dinner scenes. Be ing a canny lad, he took up the matter of food with Director Charles Vidor, who agreed to order Hay ward’s favorite dish for the four meals—fried chicken. I wonder if the manager of your local movie theater was as clever as mine was. The other day he sent me a little card, in a little envelope—as I opened it I won dered which of my friends had had a baby. The card read “Mr. and Mrs. Thin Man proudly announce the birth of a baby boy. Come and see the whole family at the Stam ford theater starting Thursday.” Across the bottom of the card was a brief advertisement for a shop that sells baby clothes. * We’re about to have a new cycle in pictures—a cycle of religious pic tures. Cecil B. DeMille will make “Queen of Queens” for Paramount. Twentieth Century - Fox recently bought “The Great Commandment,” which was made by Cathedral Films, and will make it over. RKO may give us a film version of “Fa ther Malachy’s Miracle,” and Twen tieth Century-Fox may do “The First Legion.” If the first of these to be released is a success, the smaller companies will lose no time in scheduling religious pictures of their own. Why doesn’t somebody re-do “Earthbound”? *— “Mexican Spitfire” made such a good pre-view impression that its stars, Lupe Velez and Leon Errol, have been signed 'to make three more pictures together. —m— Caroline and Mary DeZurik, the two sisters whom you often hear on the National Barn Dance program, just happened into becoming sing ers. They lived on a farm in Royal- ton, Minn. One day they were sing ing as they did the housework, and Mary Jane picked up a guitar that her brother had recently bought and began plunking on it as an accom paniment. They found that they sang well together, and stuck to it. A short time later they won an amateur contest in Royalton, and were sent to St. Cloud, Minn., to enter an other contest. It was there that radio talent scouts heard them and started them on their way. Caroline was just 15 then, and Mary Jane was two years older. Now they are both expert guitar players, though it’s Mary Jane who plays when they sing on the air. * When Charles Laughton was a guest recently on the “Screen Guild Theater” he upset radio tradition and startled Producer Joe Hill by memorizing his script. Hill wouldn’t believe that he had done it, which seems odd, in view of the fact that Laughton has been on the stage and in the movies for years. Just to humor the producer, Laughton brought the script to the broadcast with him and referred to it once. * ODDS AND ENDS—"Grand Holer re turns to the air in January . . . Joan Blon- dell and Dick Powell (Mr. and Mrs., you know) will probably make a picture to gether in the spring . . . Bob Trout, CBS reporter, contributed his services to the Boy Scouts for their first movie—did a running commentary for it. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Vegetables are not apt to be prime favorites with men; practically ev ery man has a little black list of his own—vegeta bles he just will not accept gra ciously. Father is apt to be as chary of spinach and other vegetables as his own eight-year-old, and to look upon salads as mere woman’s ! nonsense! It isn’t strange, if Jun- j ior, who adores his Dad, begins to proplaim his likes and dislikes in ! no uncertain terms. Like father, like son! So coax father to keep his, “I-don’t-likes” to himself—at meal time. But there are salads and vegeta bles that father really enjoys. You’ll find suggestions in my booklet, “Feeding Father,” for preparing them, and recipes, too, for his fa vorite meat dishes and desserts. But to get back to vegetables, have you ever wondered why the very people who love to nibble on a raw carrot, fresh from the garden, are the ones who need to be coaxed to eat them once they’re cooked? You’ll find one solution to the prob lem of getting Dad and Junior to eat their carrots, right there. Why not serve them crisp, raw carrot sticks for a vegetable? Or make a crisp, colorful salad by combining shredded raw carrots and shredded raw beets with the tender young leaves of raw spinach? Mix lightly with sour cream salad dressing or french dressing, and serve from a salad bowl so that the boys may help themselves. Perhaps just changing the meth ods of preparing and serving them is all you need to do to arouse family interest in vegetables. Here are some recipes that are just a bit out- of-the-ordinary—recipes I think your family will enjoy. Onions Baked in Tomatoes. (Serves 4 or 5) 2VZ cups canned tomatoes % bay leaf % teaspoon salt 2 cloves Va teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon flour 6 onions (small) Combine tomatoes and seasonings and cook for 10 minutes. Then re move bay leaf and cloves. Melt butter, blend in the flour, and add to tomato mix ture. Cook, stir ring constantly, until mixture thickens. Peel on ions, place in a casserole and add tomato mixture. Cover and bake in a moderately hot oven (370 de grees) for 1 hour. Golden Potatoes. Pare potatoes and cut into cubes. Add sliced raw carrots, using about equal amounts of potatoes and car rots. Cook in boiling, salted wa ter. Drain and set over a low flame for a few minutes to dry out. Force through a potato ricer or mash thor oughly. Add hot milk and beat un til the potatoes are light and fluffy. Add a tablespoon or two of butter and season to taste. Pennsylvania Dutch Spinach. (Serves 4-5) 4 slices bacon (diced) 3 tablespoons flour \ l /s cups water 2 tablespoons sugar 3 tablespoons vinegar 1 egg yolk (beaten) V\ teaspoon dry mustard Vz teaspoon salt Few grains pepper 4 cups raw spinach (chopped) 2 hard cooked eggs Cook bacon until crisp. Remove from the pan. Add flour to bacon J fat and stir until smooth. Mix wa ter, sugar and vinegar and add to the flour mixture; cook until thick. Combine beaten egg yolk and sea- We’re Sorry In a recent article on home made bread which appeared in this column, the recipe for Yeast Bread should be corrected to read “seven to eight cups bread flour.” soning and stir into the first mixture. Cook for about 2 minutes over a very low flame, stirring constantly. Combine hot sauce, cooked bacon and chopped raw spinach. Serve warm, garnished with slices of hard cooked egg. Lima Beans en Casserole. 1 pound lima beans, dry % cup brown sugar % teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons onion (minced) 1 tablespoon prepared mustard 1 tablespoon vinegar 2 cups water 1 pound pork sausage Cook beans in boiling water ap proximately 1 hour—or until nearly tender. Pour in baking casserole. Meantime, place sugar, salt, on ion, prepared mustard, vinegar and water in saucepan and bring to boiling pointy Pour this heated mixture over the beans. Make sausage up into small cakes and place on the beans. Bake approximately 45 minutes in a moderate oven (350 degrees). French Fried Asparagus Tips. Cooked asparagus tips (short and thick variety) 1 egg 1 tablespoon water % cup soft bread crumbs (very fine) Va teaspoon salt Fat for deep fat frying Drain asparagus. Beat egg and add water to it. Dip the drained asparagus in beaten egg. Roll as paragus tips in bread crumbs—pat ting them on so as to cover aspara gus tips thoroughly. Place care fully in a deep fat frying basket and fry in fat heated to 370 degrees. Fry until tips are golden brown; drain on unglazed paper. Serve very hot. Busy Day Salad. (Serves 5) 1 cup cooked beets (diced) 1 cup cooked carrots (diced) Vz cup green peas (cooked) 1 cup cauliflower flowerets (cooked or raw) 3 tablespoons sweet pickle (minced) 1 teaspoon onion (mince^) V\ teaspoon salt Va teaspoon pepper Mayonnaise dressing. Drain the vegetables thoroughly and mix lightly. Add pickles, onion and seasoning. Serve from lettuce lined bowl with mayonnaise dress ing. Send for Copy of ‘Feeding Father.’ For just 10 cents in coin you can add to your kitchen library, this very practical and clever book. You’ll find in it recipes for quivery custard pie, for spare ribs with ap ple stuffing, for oyster stew, and rec ipes for all the other good “home- style” dishes that men like. To get your copy of this cook book now, send 10 cents in coin to “Feed ing Father,” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chica go, Illinois. About this time of year the family supply of jams and jel lies runs very low and we begin to hoard the few remaining jars. Next week Eleanor Howe will give you some of her favorite recipes for mid-winter jams and marmalades, which can be pre pared right now, to supplement your stock. She’ll give you, too, a recipe or two for delicious hot breads to serve with them. * "IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for December 31 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education: used by permission. FRIENDS AND FOES OF THE KINGDOM LESSON TEXT—Matthew 13:54—14:4; 15:29-31. GOLDEN TEXT—Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.—John 15:14. Inventory time has come, and it seems that our lesson for today, al though it does come in the middle of our study of the Gospel of Mat thew, comes too to sort of a pause to consider what has been the re sult of that which Jesus had said and done thus far in our study. The answer we find is that He had both friends and foes, both love and hatred. His foes apparently out numbered His friends, and the ha tred was evidently fierce and the love none too warm. So Jesus was defeated? No, far from it. As we know, He won the victory over His enemies. The situation is not different to day. Those who follow Jesus and love Him truly are quite evidently in the minority and all too often it seems that hatred for the cause of Christ has the upper hand. Are we defeated? No, Jesus will ultimately win the victory again. We are on the winning side. I. Dishonored Because of Jealousy (13:54-58). One would have supposed that the people of the little, almost unknown town of Nazareth would have been thrilled at the return of its native son whose fame had also spread its name abroad and whose name was on the lips of thousands because He went about doing good. They were astonished, but they were not ready to accept Him. They could not deny the fact either of His person or His power, but they could and did permit their personal pride and jealousy to lead them to deny Him. “This story teaches us the un utterable folly of refusing to accept fact because it is astonishing, yet there are thousands of people stand ing in that position today concerning Jesus Christ. It is utterly unscien tific, not to say irreligious. Here is an astonishing thing. They say we cannot understand how this man hath this wisdom. Has He the wis dom? Why, yes, we cannot escape it. Then in the name of God and common honesty obey the injunc tion and postpone the investigation” (G. Campbell Morgan). II. Hated Because of Sin (14:1-4). The pride of heart which causes many to hold themselves too good to follow the lowly Nazarene is sin. There is also that which even the world recognizes as sin which sep arates men from Christ. D. L. Moody is said to have written on the fly leaf of his Bible, “This book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.” That is true, and it is also true that sin will keep a man from Christ. Herod, living in sin, had been re buked by John and had silenced his accuser by the simple expedient of imprisonment and ultimately by be heading him. But one does not thus put away sin, and when this man heard of Jesus, he at once assumed that John had risen from the dead to plague him still. So Herod also took his place with the enemies of our Lord. If a man shows his opposition to Christ, whether it be by indiffer ence, or by jealousy, or in outright hatred, be sure there is sin in that man’s life. Those who love right eousness love the righteous Lord. HI. Accepted Because of Serv ice (15:29-31). “The Son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister,” even to the giving of “his life a ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28). We have so overemphasized and misused the word service that one almost hesitates to speak it in con nection with the name of the Lord Jesus. Yet it does summarize His earthly life and ministry. He served the needy with His teaching and preaching, with His provision for their daily needs, with His healing touch, and we read that they won dered and glorified God (v. 31). We said above that the majority of men appear to reject Christ, but that does not mean that He has no friends. “The communion of saints” is made up of a great and almost numberless host, including in its ranks the finest and most distin guished men and women of all ages who gladly stand side by side with the humblest of believers to be counted for the Lord Jesus. As a means of encouraging men and women everywhere to follow Christ as they find Him in His Word, the writer of these notes will send without charge a folder, “The Why and How of Bible Reading,” includ ing a Bible-reading calendar for the entire year. Use the name and address at the head of this column and if possible enclose a stamped addressed envelope or a three-cent stamp. There He Learns When the devil wants to learn something about the difficulties of the Christian life, he makes a visit to some hypocrite. 10P° SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears A gay winged chair for the youngster A GOOD deal has been said about children having to live in a giant’s world where all the furniture is made for grown-ups. Furniture stores are now selling chairs; tables; beds and dressers made for children. Here are all the dimensions needed for making a child’s chair at home. It is of 1-inch material and the sketch shows clearly how it is screwed together after the pieces have been sawed according to the measurements given. The chair is painted deep blue; the back, seat cushions and full skirt are of red and blue cotton print with blue bindings. All dimensions for the cushions and skirt are also given in the sketch. NOTE: If you enjoy making what you want from next to noth ing, don’t miss Mrs. Spears’ new est Sewing Book (No. 4). It is full of information for making useful things. Books No. 1, 2 and 3 contain a fascinating array of things to make for the home. Mrs. Spears has made three pat terns for Early American quilt blocks which she will send FREE with your order for four books at 10 cents each. Quilt block pat terns only—10 cents for set oij three. Send order to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New York. Items of Interest to the Housewife AROUND the HOUSE Fat Side Up.—Put the roast in the pan with the fat side up so it will baste itself. • * * Plan meals in advance, with con cern for the use of leftovers, which will aid in saving energy in prep aration. • * • For Dried Fruits.—Try soaking and cooking a thin slice or two of lemon with your dried apricots, peaches or prunes. * * * When baiting the mousetrap, re member that foods mice prefer to cheese include chocolate, peanuts and pork chops. • * • Chocolate and orange flavors blend well. Add orange extract to chocolate frosting or candy. Try covering a chocolate cake with orange frosting. • * • Stored Potatoes—Potatoes stored in too cold a place change some of their starch to sugar, and when a potato has accumulated consider able sugar it won’t fry well. • * • Cane-bottomed chairs that have sagged can be tightened by be ing well scrubbed with a soapy mixture containing a handful of salt. Allow to dry, then paint with a strong solution of salt and water and dry again, if possible out of doors. Washing Shirts.—To loosen the dirt on cuff and collar bands of men’s and boys’ shirts, scrub them with a soft brush frequently dipped in warm soapy water be fore putting them in the laundry tub. * * • When making a meringue have the egg whites very cold and beat them until stiff enough to stand alone. If baked in too hot an oven meringue will be tough and shrink when set away to cool. • * • When washing a white silk blouse or jumper to which you want to give a little stiffness, add a few lumps of sugar to the rinsing water, roll tightly in a clean towel, and iron while still damp. ,f° r CHEST COLDS TIGHTNESS QUICK..RUB ON SUPER-MEDICATED PENETROL LET IT GET IN ITS GOOD W0RK.FA5TER. BECAUSE IT CONTAINS 2 TO 3 Tl M ES MORE MEDICATION THAN ANY0THER SALVE SOLD NATIONALLY FOR COLDS) MUSCULAR ACHES AND NASAL MISERIES. PENETRO! 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