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f McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMTCK. S. C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940 “The Name Is Familiar— BY FELIX B. STREYCXMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON / _ Teddy Bear 'T'HE coy, mild teddy bear, the idol of all small children, was named after the brusque, forceful Theodore Roosevelt, as a result of a bear hunt down in Mississippi dur ing November, 1902. For 10 days “Teddy” and his companions searched in vain for big game. One morning the cry of “BearI” was raised and the Presi dent hurried out of his tent to dis cover a small, frightened cub which had been dragged into camp for him to shoot. “Take him away!” snorted Teddy contemptuously. “If I shot that lit tle fellow I would be ashamed to look into the faces of my children.” When Clifford K. Berryman, a cartoonist for the Washington Post heard about the incident, he drew this cartoon: H>v#, '•A m Overnight the cartoon became fa mous and soon the “teddy bear” be came the subject of innumerable verses and stories. Then the toy- makers took advantage of its vogue and it became a more popular toy for children than the panda of today. * * * Lavalliere 'TP HE piece of jewelry known as a lavalliere has been out of style for many years—but it carried on for two centuries the name of the duchess of Lavalliere for whom it was named. She was born in 1644 and died in 1710, noted for being the mistress of Louis XIV and for her affection for pendant jewelry which hung from her throat by a chain. She was known as Francoise Lou ise de Labaume Le Blanc, and was born at Tours, France, the daughter of an army officer. She did not be come the duchess of Lavalliere un til she bore her third child. The first two died, but the third lived Mme.Lavalliere and was recog nized by Louis as his daughter. In letters-patent he made the mother a duchess and conferred upon her the estate of Vaujours, which gives you a rough idea of how the French tried to hush those mat ters up in those days. The same year, she gave birth to a son, but Louis was interested in someone else then and the duchess finally spent her remaining days in a convent . . . lucky at that that she had nothing around her throat when she left Louis except pendant jew elry. • • • Pompadour E VER since about 1895, Americans have called a straight-back-off- the-forehead hairdress a pompa dour. But the word was in use in France since the early part of the Eighteenth century when the Mar quise de Pompadour was mistress of Louis XV. And the French didn’t confine the word to describing her hairdress. Everything that was in vogue dur ing the time Mme. Pompadour was Louis’ naughty playmate was named for her. Various items of apparel were in cluded, like the long coats the men wore. Long sticks they car ried that looked like Bo Peep’s ex cept that they had Pompadour a silver ball on the top instead of a crook, were called pompadour sticks. A shade of pink was called pompadour pink, too. Even a fish has been named the pompadour, not because it wears its scales straight back or carries a stick but because it is that same shade of passionate pink that flashed across Louis’ court on date nights. The Marquise de Pompadour’s given name—the name she was known by until she made good with the king—was Jean Poisson. Pois son is French for fish, so naming a fish pompadour was merely return ing the compliment. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) College Graduate Study The first president of Johns Hop kins university, Daniel Coit Gilman, is usually regarded as the founder of college graduate work in this country. Household News Hi v* : :: Ate ..x ■■■ •••r. Wi m. m vX-x;- Mm s ' TAKES PLANNING TO PRODUCE MEATLESS MEALS See Recipes Below. Favorite Foods in Lent It takes a bit of planning to pro duce meatless meals that please the family because we’re so accustomed to the meal that’s built around sub stantial roasts, or chops, or steaks. But fish, eggs, milk, cheese, beans, peas and nuts, are excellent protein or body-building foods that should be substituted now and then for meat. Their uses are many and with judicious planning they add in terest and variety to meals. Fish and eggs occupy an impor tant place in meatless meals; less commonly used, but inexpensive and good, are cheese, nuts, peas and beans. Cheese is a concentrated food which gives good returns for the money spent on it; because it is an excellent body-building food and is rich in mineral salts, and because its flavor combines well with that of otner foods, it should be more widely used. A little cheese goes a long way when combined with cereal products such as rice or macaroni. Nuts are apt to be considered a mere accompaniment to a meal, or something to be nibbled on “be tween meals,” but wisely used, they’re an acceptable substitute for meat. Vegetable plates are popular for meatless meals. Where they include peas or beans or eggs (which might be hard cooked, sliced and creamed) they provide a satisfying and “bal anced” meal. Banana Scallops are an unusual addition to a vegetable dinner—hearty and delicious, and easy to prepare. Lenten Feast. Mix together 8 cups soft bread crumbs, % cup fat (melted), 1 tea- ^ spoon salt, % tea spoon pepper, 2 tablespoons onion (minced), 1 tea spoon poultry sea soning, 4 eggs (slightly beaten), Vi cup milk and 1 cup peanuts (chopped). Pack into a well-greased ring mold and bake in a moderately hot oven (375 degrees) for about 30 minutes. Baked Eggs. 12 slices bread % cup butter 6 eggs Salt, pepper, paprika Cut crusts from whole slices of bread and spread six of the slices with butter which has been thor oughly creamed using a small bis cuit cutter, cut the center from the six unbuttered slices. Butter these and place one centerless slice on each of the buttered whole slices of bread. Break an egg in the center, and place on baking sheet. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika, and bake in a slow oven (325 degrees Fahrenheit) until the eggs are set. Serve at once. Baked Tapioca Cheese. 1 pint milk 1 egg (well beaten) 3 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca Vz teaspoon salt Vz teaspoon paprika 1 tablespoon prepared mustard 1 cup American cheese (grated) Mix all ingredients in order giv en. Place in baking casserole and bake in moderate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) approximately 15 min utes—or until mixture thickens. Stir occasionally while baking. Serve on hot buttered toast. Rice au Gratin. Part I.—1 cup rice 3 quarts water 1 teaspoon salt Wash rice and drop into boiling salted water. Boil rapidly (uncov ered) until rice is tender. Drain and place in a buttered baking dish. Cover with Cream Sauce. Cream Sauce. Part II.—3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour cups milk (scalded) Vk teaspoon paprika V* teaspoon salt Dash of pepper Vi cup cheese (grated) 2 teaspoons prepared mustard Melt butter and add flour. Mix thoroughly and add milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Remove from fire, add seasonings, cheese and prepared mustard. Pour over the rice, dot with butter and sprinkle with pa prika. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) for approx- imately 20 minutes. Banana Scallops. (Serves 6) 6 firm bananas 1 egg (beaten) \Vi teaspoons salt % cup fine crumbs (cracker or bread crumbs or crumbled corn flakes) Peel bananas. Cut in slices (cross wise) % to 1 inch thick. Dip in the beaten egg. Drain, and roll in crumbs. Fry in deep fat at (375 de grees Fahrenheit) for to 2 min utes, or until the scallops are brown, Tuna Fish Scallop. (Serves 6) \Vz cups milk 3 cups soft bread crumbs Vi teaspoon onion salt 1 tablespoon prepared mustard Vi teaspoon salt 2 cups tuna fish (flaked) 3 hard-cooked eggs (sliced) Vl cup cracker crumbs (buttered) Scald milk, remove from flame, and soak crumbs in it for 15 min utes. Add season ings. Add tuna . *» fish. Arrange this J mixture in layers in a buttered bak ing dish, alternat ing with the sliced hard-cooked eggs. Top with the buttered cracker crumbs. Bake in a moderately hot oven (400 degrees Fahrenheit) for 20 to 25 minutes. Swiss Eggs. (Serves 6) % pound sharp cheese 2 tablespoons butter Vi cup coffee cream Va teaspoon salt Dash cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon prepared mustard 6 eggs (beaten slightly) Sliver the cheese and spread even ly over bottom of a shallow buttered baking dish. Dot with butter. Mix together the cream, salt, pep- HlYr*) per, and mustard and pour one half of this mixture over the cheese. Beat eggs slight ly and add. Last of all, add the re maining half of the cream mixture. Bake in a moderate oven (325 de grees Fahrenheit) approximately 25- 30 minutes, or until eggs are set, but not dry. This is the season for piping hot soups — thick, substantial cream soups and chowders to “take the chill out of one’s bones,” and serve as the main stay of a noonday meal; or steaming, perfectly seasoned, clear soups to serve as an appe tizer before a hearty dinner. Watch for this column next week. In it you’ll find some of Eleanor Howe’s own tested reci pes for soups that are bound to be family favorites. Better Baking. This practical, usable booklet by Eleanor Howe is, just as the name indicates, a guide to “better bak ing.” You’ll find in it hints on how to improve your technique, and a wealth of reliable tested recipes— recipes for delicious breads and cakes and cookies, and for the flaky tempting pies your families love. To get your copy of “Better Bak ing” now, just send 10 cents in coin to “Better Baking” care of Eleanor Howe, 919 N. Michigan Avenue, Chi cago, Illinois. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Parchment Paper Keeps Fish in Shape in Pan Broiled fish is difficult to remove from the broiler without breaking— just as it is in a frying pan. A piece of parchment paper cut just the shape of the fish, may be greased and placed under each slice of fish. It will not be necessary to turn the fish, as it will broil all the way through. Then the parchment may be removed upon serving. Time Saver Put snap fasteners on cushion tops instead of sewing openings together. It will save much time. When soiled, unclasp the snaps, slip tops off and launder. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL UNDAYI chool Lesson Bv HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Ind.itute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for February 11 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. THE PERILS OF REJECTING CHRIST LESSON TEXT—Matthew 21:28-43. GOLDEN TEXT—I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometb unto the Father, but by me.—John 14:6- Fearlessly facing crucifixion with in a feto days, Jesus stood in the temple, there facing His bitter ene mies and replying to their attacks in words such as no man ever spake. He brought them face to face with the very essence of sin, which is the rejection of Christ. Their own words condemned them, but when they should have repented, they became embittered and hard ened in their sin. Let no one who reads these lines follow their ex ample, but if the Holy Spirit brings conviction, turn to Him in repent ance and faith. Every Sunday School lesson is of great importance, but possibly no lesson we shall ever have to teach will be as important as this one, for it deals very plainly with the awful peril of rejecting Christ. Eter nal destiny depends upon the choices made in response to this lesson. Let every one of us study it and teach it with solemn earnestness. I. Actions Speak Louder Than Words (w. 28-32). All church members, who have come into that relationship by smoothly spoken words of accept ance and devotion to Christ which then have not been lived out in the daily walk, may see themselves pic tured in the son who courteously and glibly assured his father that he could depend on him, and then promptly went his own way. They will see that they need to repent and substitute real heart-moving and life-changing action for their words, lest the harlots and publicans pass them and go into heaven be fore them. Professing church mem ber without any evidence of God’s power in your life, turn to Him now! Note the word of encouragement to repentant sinners. Perhaps some one who reads this paragraph has at some time rejected Christ and has since thought that he could not turn back, that it was too late for him to do the thing which his heart tells him to do even though his lips have spoken unkind words of rejec tion. Friend, consider the one who said, “I will not,” but who did his father’s will. Come to the Saviour now; you will find Him ready to receive you. II. Selfish Unbelief Results in Christ-Rejection (w. 33-41). This parable clearly relates to the Israelites who had rejected the prophets sent to them by God and who were now about to kill His Son. The heartbreaking story of Is rael’s unbelief and rejection of Christ and the judgment which has been upon them all the years since then, is not something over which we should gloat, but rather some thing which should move us to tears and prayer for our Jewish friends. After all, are we any better than they? Are not the appalling ma jority of Gentiles walking in that same road of selfish unbelief which leads inevitably to the rejection of Christ? No man or woman can go on self ishly taking the benefits of God, us ing them for self advantage or com fort, turning a deaf ear to the cries of God’s messengers, and hope to have any ultimate result other than Christ-rejection. It is high time that thoughtless people who perhaps have no deliberate intention to be wicked or to turn Christ away, should awak en to the fact that they are doing just that by their manner of living. III. Rejection of Christ Does Not Defeat God (w. 42, 43). At first glance one wonders why Christ at this point turned so abrupt ly from the figure of the vineyard to that of the cornerstone. “The rea son why He leaves for a moment the image of the vineyard, is because of its inadequacy to set forth one important part of the truth which was needful to make the moral com plete, namely this, that the malice of the Pharisees should not defeat the purpose of God—that the Son should yet be the heir—that not merely vengeance should be taken, but that He should take it. Now this is distinctly set forth by the re jected stone becoming the head of the corner, on which the builders stumbled and fell, and were broken —on which they were now already stumbling and falling, and which, if they set themselves against it to the end, would fall upon them and crush and destroy them utterly” (Trench). God was not defeated by the cruci fixion of Christ. Christ will not be defeated simply because men reject Him in the world. We who are on His side, we who are the followers of the Lord are on the victorious side. Those who oppose Him and speak ill of His name may appear to be victors for the moment, but the judgment of God is yet to come upon them. OP?, SEW 4— Ruth Wyeth Spears 3* 3'/2"- • LIGHT o ° PRINT, • O °A 8LJE S3: PIECE SQUARES OF TRIANGLES JOIN SQUARES IN STRIPS TO FACE CURTAIN EDGES F rov; Piece a border for kitchen curtains. ]"Y O YOU remember this old- fashioned Saw Tooth quilt pat tern? It has been used for the border of many a handsome quilt. It is so effective and so simple to piece that tt should serve more decorative purposes. Here it trims kitchen curtains of unbleached muslin. It surprises one a little to see how modern it looks. Cut a piece of stiff paper in a perfect square and then cut diagonally through the center. One half will make your triangle pattern. The size suggested in the sketch makes a very striking border. If a very strong, bright color is used for the plain triangles, a narrower border in this design will also make a good showing. NOTE: Mrs. Spears has pre pared for our readers a set of three Quilt Block Patterns from her favorite Early American de- AROUND THE HOUSE One pound of loaf sugar is suf ficient for serving 25 persons. • « * Preparing Starch.—To give a glossy finish, use soapy water in preparing starch for laundry. * • • Chewing gum can be removed from washable-material by soften ing the gum with egg white, then washing. * • • Look over dahlia bulbs stored away for the winter. If they seem dry or shriveled sprinkle them with water. * * • White sauce for boiled potatoes, cauliflower, carrots and asparagus can be dressed up by a liberal sprinkling of paprika. * * • Tasty Nuts.—To give a better flavor to nuts heat them for five minutes in a moderate oven. Such heating is especially advisable in the wjnter time when nuts are like ly to be stale. • * • Garnishes.—Thin slices of lem ons, oranges, limes or grapefruit, sprinkled with sugar and broiled 10 minutes, make effective and tasty garnishes for roasts or fowls. Red or green jelly, dotted on top of the slices, gives added color and flavor. • • * Cooking Apples.—Apples are over 80 per cent water, thus in cooking them only enough water should be used to prevent them from scorching or sticking to the pan. signs. Included in the set is the Kaleidoscope, and the Whirlwind. The third is the Ann Rutledge, which Mrs. Spears sketched from an original in the Rutledge Tav ern at New Salem, 111., where Abe Lincoln boarded, and where he courted the proprietor’s daughter, according to the romantic legend so familiar to movie goers. It is an unusual variation of the Nine- patch, and rich with historical background. For set of three com plete patterns, send 10 cents in coin to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New York. THROAT Got a cold? Every swallow seem to scratch your throat till it’s rough and raw? Get a box of Luden’s. Let Luden’s special ingredients with cooling menthol help bring you quick relief from itchy, toudiy, “sandpaper throat!” LUDEN’S 5* Menthol Cough Drops Mark of Prudence Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of pru dence.—Democritus. WEARY DESPONDENT fl|||| O a Crying spells. 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