Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-28

Strawberries.
Cereal and Cream.
Crisped Bacon. Scrambled Eggs.
Cornmeal Gems.
Coffee.
This week comes Decoration day, follow
ed by the advent Of June-month Of perfect
days, bobolinks and meadow larks, clover
and roses, cherries and strawberries. sweet
girl graduates and sweet June brides. No
sitting down with folded hands for the
housewife here.
Decoration Day Observances-The keep
Ing of Memorial day, in its true signifi-
canoe, is a beautiful custom that we as a
people are too apt to overlook To those
who have their own soldier dead 1t is ever
day of tender memories. but to the rank
and file of younger folk 1t means simply
another holiday and days outing.
chaplain's wife, who has spent many,
many years among the different army posts
in the far west, has her own original way
Of keeping this "lest we forget" day. which
may appeal to others who find year by year
that the roll call of loved ones gone be-
FORE is far greater than Of those still
among the living.
On Memorial day she brings out the pic
lures and treasured keepsakes, not only Of
her soldier dead, but of other friends "loved
long since, and lost while. and grouping
them about her with the flowers and vines
that the season affords. gives the day to
writing letters to mutual surviving friends
of those whose memory she still keeps
green.
Another mother makes 1t special point
on every Decoration day to give little
lawn fete In the afternoon to the children
of the nefghborhood, arranging beforehand
a simple program of patriotic and old war
songs, readings and Rotations. Nearly al
ways she has been able to get some veteran
of the civil war who Is willing to come In
and tell the children personally of some one
of the great battles-Bull Run, Gettysburg,
Antietam, Shiloh II not, she furnishes up
her history and does the best she can. Tea
Is served on the large piazza, lavishly hung
rated with tiny hags and forget-me-nots
The menu Is simple, including usually lit
tie sandwiches cut in fancy shapes and fill
ed with minced chicken or lamb, cups OF
chocolate with whipped cream, orange jelly
served In fancy paper cases, or orange
baskets, to be eaten with tiny spoons, little
cakes and bonbOnS.
Decoration Day Picnic Sandwiches.-If a
picnic is in order for the afternoon, here
are three new sandwiches that can be used:
Pineapple and Cream Cheese.-Chop the
pineapple fine and drain off the juice. Cut
thin slices of white or whole wheat bread
spread thinly with cheese, sprinkle with the
minced pineapple and press together. After
the sandwiches are made cut in thin strips
or triangles. Crusts may be trimmed off
or not as preferred. Where they are deli
cately Drowned and tender many think
occasions as being both toothsome and eco
nomical. This is good Quaker tenet, by
the way.
Another wholesome and popular sand
wich is one made of ripe olives and cream
cheese. For one loaf of bread-preferably
whole wheat-allow one pint Of ripe olives
stoned and minced, one cream or Neuf-
and one of mayonnaise. Beat to smooth
paste and spread between thin slices Of
buttered bread.
Use long French loaf for this sandwich
and II you prefer 1t without crust use
cooky cutter to stamp the slices in circles.
Blend a cream cheese with two or three
tablespoonfuls of currant jelly to q pink
cream and spread round Of the bread
with this. Spread a second circle with
chopped pistache nuts and press together.
Either of these sandwiches may be used
for wedding refreshments or at school re-
ceptions, as well as picnics.
Cream Cheese Combinations. - Cream
cheese, by the way. which rides the top
wave of popular fancy for sandwich HI
lngs, Is used in any number OF combina-
tons. Among those lately noted were
cream cheese and crispy lettuce leaves,
cream cheese and sliced tomatoes cream
cheese and olives, cheese and chopped nuts
with or without mayonnaise, cheese and
chopped dates or figs, cheese and chopped
spinach seasoned with lemon Juice and
mayonnaise, cheese and the yolks of cold,
hard-boiled eggs put through ricer or
sieve, cheese and sliced cucumber or cheese
and preserved ginger chopped fino
Clear Up the Debrfs.-And Just here be-
fore we leave the subject Of picnics behind.
a plea for the amelioration of picnic
grounds. Every person of refinement or
delicacy might be supposed to hate the
Idea OF having his line OF march blaxed by
trail of egg shells, fruit skins, emptied
sardine tins. olive bottles, old boxes and
greasy papers, yet that Is what people are
continually doing. adults as well as chill
dren. When luncheon is finished, gather
up the debris. and II you have q camp fire
burn 1t. II there is no chance for that.
pack 1t compactly and bury or hide It as
securely as may be from tho eye Of man.
II every child could be taught that It was
his privilege to try and leave the world q
little better, the earth Nttle fairer for
having lived In 1t. the need for organized
societies for the preservation Of scenery,
the protection of the public health and the
abatement of all sorts OF nuisance0 made
necessary by the thoughtIessness or self
ishness of others, would soon be done away
with.
The Children's Farm Echool-one OF the
steps forward In this direction II the Chill
dren's Farm School in New York, where
hundreds of the children Of the middle
West Side. with its Helrs Kitchen. its Ten
derloin and race problem, are being taught
by large-hearted Christian woman how