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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1940
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNTJ Service.)
^[EW YORK.—In Uncle Remus,
^ Brer Fox said to Brer Tarripin,
“You ain’t seen no trouble yit. I’m
de man w’at can show yer trouble.”
‘Th* Perfect Poor And that goes
^ a , for Ed Wynn
Once Again is and adds to
Fooling the Jinx the public zest
m whooping
It for his new revue, “Boys and Girls
Together,” at its Boston tryout. His
revue sounded extemporaneous, like
everything else he does, and seemed
to make people feel that even these
dire days will end when an old mas
ter, who though he was licked, can
thus improvise a knockout.
Set upon by a blizzard of trou
bles, financial and domestic, two
years ago. Brer Fox Wynn re
tired to bis Park avenue cave
to sit around in his pajamas and
bite his nails. Then something
touched off a giggle or two and
he began trying on funny hats,
and working up a few gags. He
began to feel better, and along
came George Wood and Pat C.
Flick with a bankroll.
That recent mess of trouble was
Mr. Wynn’s twenty-seventh upset, in
the light of which his comeback is
not so surprising. His radio chain
was as fragile as a Vassar daisy
chain and took $300,000 of his money.
A delayed income tax time bomb
blew up a similar amount. Harassed
by lawsuits and whatnot he found
his wellspring of gags had dried up.
He shopped around for new and used
gags, but found none in stock. It
was his own inner resources which
finally reclaimed and reissued the
waggish Mr. Wynn.
Funny hats have figured in his
karma from the first. His fa
ther, a milliner, came from
Czecho-Slovakia and his mother
from Turkey. In the millinery
shop, he banded himself many
a laugh, trying on hats. When
he was 16, his father said it was
time for him to take up the mil
linery'trade, but he had other
ideas. He tied a shirt and a
Sunday suit into a Dick Whit
tington bundle and made his
way to Norwich, Conn.
• He talked his way into a rousta
bout job with a barnstorming com
pany, presently got a small part,
and burlesqued it just enough to re
veal his genius for comedy. Twelve
years of barnstorming and vaude
ville followed. His recurring trou
bles have been such that interview
ers or critics usually stress the
Pagliacci note when writing about
him, but it’s rollicking, sympathetic
laughter which greets his happy
comeback.
\X7 INSTON CHURCHILL stirs
** wide interest and approval
with his demand for simple and pre
cise language, official and unofficial,
More and More in the interest
of national ef-
People T aking Up fectiveness.
Word Gunnery His own re-
v cent a a -
dresses have been models of clarity
and force. He has risen nobly to
the demands of the hour. All the
more credit to him in view of his
previous Ippses. This department
has dredged up an old speech of
Mr. Churchill’s in which he scolded
certain offenders for “terminologi
cal inexactitude,” and deplored the
public trend toward ornate lan
guage.
Perhaps under the pressures
and urgencies of the times pre-
eisionists are coming forward in
the entire field of communica
tions as they are in machine
tooling. War casualties among
pedants and mystagogues may
be heavy. Over here, Charles
A. Collin takes a long overdue
swipe at the mystic word maze
of life insurance policies, as he
addresses the Insurance Adver
tising conference in Atlantic
City. This writer has been
thrown for a loss every time he
* tried to read an insurance policy
and has had to take them en
tirely on faith.
Also in tune with the times is
Judge Pecora’s deep pondering and
long-studied decision in that ques
tion mark or period case. Sixteen
entrants in a civil service examina
tion were sustained against their
examiners when they picked the
question mark as the proper ending
for a certain sentence.
Just getting under way before the
war started there was in England
a society for general word renova
tion and fumigation and the further
ance of good diction. In these en
deavors, Mr. Churchill now gets a
putout, but something more than an
assist should go to the mischievous
and ironic A. P. Herbert, the par
liamentary gag man who was far
ahead of Mr. Churchill in blasting
at over-elegant word setups. Half
Irish, the author of about 20 novels,
and a half-dozen plays, he has
pinked much revered, but preten
tious usage.
HARVEST HOME PARTY
(See Recipes Below)
Everybody enjoys singing a song
of harvest home, even if they
haven’t had a personal stake in
bringing in the crops. At your har
vest home party, if you follow tradi
tion, you’ll have cornucopias filled
with fall fruits and garlands of
wheat or grasses grouped at the
center of your festive board. Little
dolls dressed in overalls and aprons
make.amusing favors.
Farmer in the dell, blindman’s
buff, puss in corner, and the never
to be forgotten game of charades,
in which the participants can give
their all in dramatic acting, are tra
ditional juvenile game favorites that
are likely to give the grown-up con
tingent an equally good time. You
may want to do a little bit of folk
dancing, with the old time fiddler,
the pianist, and even an accordion
ist hitting off “country” songs.
When it comes to refreshments,
you may decide upon anything from
a big picnic spread to cookies and
a refreshing beverage. A fruit pie
is the most appropriate happy end
ing to your harvest home feast. Just
a hint to you homemakers if you
have trouble keeping the delicious
juice in a pie; quick cooking tapioca
may be used as a thickener, thus
eliminating the traditional hazard of
runaway juice.
Doughnuts and
hot spicy cider
are always an at
tractive and fa
vorite combina
tion to serve at a
party of this type.
Or you may like
to use the old
oaken bucket for serving punch.
Cherry Pie.
2 Vi tablespoons quick-cooking
tapioca
1 cup sugar
% teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 No. 2 can sour cherries (2%
cups)
% cup cherry juice and 2 table
spoons water (to make 1 cup)
1 recipe pastry
Combine quick-cooking tapioca,
sugar, salt, butter, cherries, and
cherry juice; let stand about 15 min
utes. Line a 9-inch pie plate with
half of pastry rolled Vi inch thick,
allowing pastry to extend 1 inch be
yond edge of plate. Fold edge back
to form rim. Fill with cherry mix
ture. Moisten edge of pastry with
cold water; arrange lattice of pastry
strips across top. Flute rim with
fingers. Bake in a hot oven (450
degrees) 15 minutes, then decrease
heat to moderate (350 degrees) and
bake 30 minutes longer.
Rich Drop Doughnuts.
(Makes IVi dozen)
2 eggs
6 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons shortening (melted)
2 cups flour
% teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
Vi teaspoon nutmeg
6 tablespoons milk
Beat eggs until very light, and
gradually beat in the sugar. Add
melted shortening. Sift together the
flour, salt, baking powder and nut
meg, and add to the first mixture al
ternately with the milk. Drop from
a teaspoon into deep fat heated to
375 degrees, and fry until well
browned. Drain on unglazed paper.
Sprinkle with confectioner’s or pow
dered sugar.
Hot Spiced Cider.
2 quarts cider
1 cup brown sugar
1 6-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, if desired.
Baked Ham.
1 whole ham
1 teaspoon whole cloves
1V4 cups sweet cider
IVfe cups brown sugar
Vfe cup orange juice
Wipe ham with a damp cloth and
place in an uncovered roaster, skin
side up. Roast in a very slow oven
(300 degrees) allowing 25 minutes
per pound of ham. About % hour
before the han^has finished baking
take from oven. Remove skin and
pour off all excess fat. Cook cider
and sugar together to thick syrup
stage. Add orange juice and pour
mixture over ham. Dot with whole
cloves. Return to oven and bake Vfe
hour longer, basting frequently with
liquid in pan.
Old Fashioned Jelly Roll.
4 eggs
% teaspoon baking powder
V4 teaspoon salt
% cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
% cup cake flour
1 cup jelly
Break the eggs into a bowl and
allow them to warm to room tem
perature. Then combine eggs with
baking powder and salt. Set the
bowl of eggs in a
smaller bowl in
which you have
poured hot water.
With a dover beat
er, beat the eggs,
baking powder,
and salt mixture
until it is thick
and light. Gradu-
ally beat in the sugar and continue
beating until very light and fluffy.
Remove the bowl from the hot wa
ter and, with a spoon or spatula,
fold in the vanilla and the flour
which has been sifted several times.
Line a 10 by 15 inch jelly roll pan
with buttered wax paper, and pour
the batter into the pan. Bake for
about 12 minutes in a moderate oven
(350 degrees). Remove cake from
pan and turn onto a towel which
has been dusted with confectioner’s
sugar. Pull off paper and trim
edges from the cake. Roll, and cool.
When the cake has cooled, unroll it
and spread with jelly which has been
whipped to make it spread more
readily.
Date Nut Cake.
3 cups raisins
2 cups dates (cut fine)
1 cup pecan nut meats (cut fine)
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup boiling water
Put fruit and nuts into bowl; dis
solve soda in boiling water and pour
over the fruit. Let stand while pre
paring the following batter mixture;
% cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2% cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
V4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream butter and add sugar grad-
uaHy. Add egg and mix well. Add
fruit mixture. Mix and sift all dry
ingredients and add alternately with
the milk and vanilla extract. Place
batter in three well-greased layer-
cake pans. Bake in a moderate
oven (365 degrees) for approximate
ly 35 minutes. When cool, put lay
ers together with boiled icing to
which chopped dates and raisins
have been added. Then ice with the
plain boiled icing.
Chocolate Nut Gingerbread.
% cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 ounces chocolate (melted)
2 eggs
1% cups cake flour
1% teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ginger
V4 teaspoon cloves
Vx teaspoon salt
% cup milk
% cup nut meats (chopped fine)
Cream butter thoroughly and add
the sugar slowly. Add melted choco
late and eggs,
one at a time,
beating well. Sift
dry ingredients
and add alter
nately with the
milk, beating be
tween each addition. Add nut meats.
Bake as a loaf cake in a moderate
oven (350 degrees) for approximate
ly 45 minutes. Serve with whipped
cream, sprinkled with cinnamon, or
with chocolate fudge icing.
Magic Fruited Macaroons.
(Makes about 30)
% cup sweetened condensed milk
2 cups coconut (shredded)
1 cup dates (chopped fine)
Mix together the sweetened con
densed milk and coconut. Add finely
chopped dates. Drop by spoonfuls
on greased baking sheet, about 1
inch apart. Bake in a moderate
oven (350 degrees) 10 minutes, or
until a delicate brown. Remove
from pan at once.
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
UNDAVI
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute .
of Chicago.
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Lesson for October 6
lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used bp
permission.
LUKE AND HIS GOSPEL
LESSON TEXT—Luke 1:1-4; Acts 1:1;
Colossians 4:14; n Timothy 4:11a.
GOLDEN Text—It seemed good to me also
. . . to write . . . that thou mightest know
the certainty of those things, wherein thov
hast been instructed.—Luke 1:3, 4.
Reading a book is a privilege and
should be an illuminating and stir
ring experience. What a pity that
so few read good books in our day I
To study a book is a far more fruit
ful and interesting experience. Few
are the books worthy of prolonged
and repeated study. Therein do we
find one of the great differences be
tween books of men and God’s Book
—the Bible. Again and again we
turn to its pages and find its truth
inexhaustible, ever interesting, in
forming, and soul-stirring in its
beauty and power.
In reading any book, we want to
know who wrote it, what kind of a
man he was, why he wrote, what he
wrote about, and what kind of a
book he wrote. We recognize that
the Holy Spirit is the real author of
the Word (II Tim. 3:16; II Pet.
1:21), but He chose and used human
writers. As we begin a six-month
study of the Gospel according to
Luke, we properly ask about both
the author and his writing.
I. The Writer—Luke.
Our information regarding Luke is
found in the New Testament, in the
introductory words of the books he
wrote (Luke and Acts) and in the
writings of his friend and co-
worker, Paul. There we learn of his
1. Nationality and Religion. His
name, “Luke,” is a contraction of
the Greek name “Loukios” and,
since we know from Colossians 4:11
and 14 that he was not “of the cir
cumcision,” we know he was a Gen
tile and evidently a Greek. When,
where and by whom he was won to
Christ, we do not know. We do
know that this intelligent Greek,
versed in all the philosophies of the
perfection of personality, found in
Christ the fulfillment of all his de
sires and dreams.
2. Profession—a Physician (Col. 4:
14. See also medical terms in all
his writings). Luke wrote scholarly
Greek; he was familiar with the life
of a sailor (Acts 27); he joined with
his scientific accuracy an esthetic
culture often revealed in his writ
ings.
3. His Friends. A man’s friends
indicate his character. Luke had
a close friend and possibly a patron,
“his excellency” Theophilus (Acts
1:1; Luke 1:3), evidently a man of
standing and ability. He was also a
close friend and fellow laborer with
perhaps the greatest man of all
time, Paul the apostle.
4. His Activities. Fellow mission
ary with Paul (Acts 16:11; 20:5, 6,
and elsewhere), physician, preacher
of the gospel, and author.
n. The Book—the Gospel by Luke.
To have written a book may be a
doubtful distinction, but to have
been used of the Holy Spirit to write
such a book as this Gospel—what an
honor and privilege! Following Dr.
G. Campbell Morgan, we note:
1. Its Subject. “The Word” (Luke
1:2). He wrote about the perfect
personality of Jesus Christ, but he,
like John (John 1:14), recognized
that it was the divine and eternal
Word which became flesh in the per
fect humanity of Jesus Christ.
2. Its Sources. He doubtless read
what many had written (Luke 1:1).
He also talked with “eyewitnesses”
(Luke 1:2) and “ministers of the
word” who had known the Lord.
His sources were excellent and un-
iir peachable.
3. Its Method. He “traced the
course” (for so does the R. V. prop
erly translate Luke 1:3) of the ma
terial he gathered; that is, he did
original research and investigation,
always under the control and guid
ance of the Holy Spirit. This result
ed in a placing of all things “in or
der.” After gathering, sifting, in
vestigating, the Holy Spirit saw that
Luke put all things in proper order
(see I Cor. 14:33, 40).
4. Its Purpose. Luke wanted The
ophilus (and others who read his
Gospel) to know with “certainty”
(Luke 1:4) those things in which he
was already instructed by word of
mouth. Important matters must al
ways be written down, carefully and
in order. To pass things on by word
of mouth inevitably results in
change, conscious or unconscious.
So desperately vital a matter as
our eternal salvation calls for writ
ings, exact and complete. Luke,
who had a knowledge of all these
things, was moved by the Holy
Spirit to write, and thus we have
this glorious Gospel which we are
to study from now until the end of
March, 1941.
A closing word. A 12-page book
let, Can America Be Saved? by the
writer of these notes, will be sent
free on request. Use the address
above. A post card will do, but if
convenient, enclose postage. Your
comments or suggestions regarding
the lessons will also be appreciated.
AROUND
THE HOUSE
For a little variety bake your
pies in square or rectangular
shaped pans. Often they are eas
ier to cut into equal portions from
such a shape.
* • •
To keep marshmallows moist,
store them in the bread box.
• • *
In making toast be sure the
bread is at least a day old. Cut it
even and rather thin, less than
one-half inch; remove the crust,
then toast slowly. Cut the crust
in half-inch pieces and use as
croutons for soup.
* * *
A novelty container which will
hold several of the handsome vine
plants is a clear glass bowl about
five inches in diameter. Plants
such as the ivy or philodendron
will take root in such bowl filled
with clear water, and the effect
is stunning.
That wholesome, tangy
outdoor taste •••
fusf heat and eat. •; delicious
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Relying on Others
He who relies on another’s table
is apt to dine late.
Foolish Sheep I Time to Give
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