The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-20
Corn Starch Pudding

iklnuly give me recipe Tor making
cornstarch pudding and jelly tarts.
"READER.'
Dissolve four tablespoonfuls of corn
starch in a little cold milk and stir into
a quart of boiling milk. Boil three min
utes, stirring all the time. Remove from
the fire; stir in tablespoonful of butter,
and set away until perfectly cold. Then
beat four eggs light; add to them three
quarters of cup of sugar and stir into
| mixture; turn into buttered pudding
dish and bake half an hour.
| You may season before cooking with
| spices or with vanilla. Eat cold with
cream and sugar.
| Jelly Tartlets-Make good puff paste
| and cut into rounds like cookies. In
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while, are significant as to the way Bir-
mingham suffragists are conducting their
propaganda; seriously and constantly,
yet not forgetting, meanwhile, the home
duties that are so close to the heart of
every wife and mother 'among them.
A Suffragist Type
| j
the Birmingham suffragist. She said yes
terday: Il am sure | don't know why
| Mrs. Hundley appointed me to act as
chairman of my committee, except that
knowing my interest in the cause, she
wanted to give me employment, and just
created this committee for me-
| There was a good deal of amusement
at this view of the matter from those who
| listened, for actually it is the broadest
| biggest work to be done by any commit
| tee. At any rate, the chairman OF the
| church extension committee is making 1t
| So Asked what she has done since her
appointment, she said: My object is to
get the equal suffrage question before the
members of all the churches in the dis
ltriet. We need the cooperation OF church
people.
1T occurred to me that the quickest
| way to reach them is through the Ladies
| Aid societies, and that the logical me-
fdum is the president of each society,
since that woman is necessarily one of in
huence in her church. | have secured 9
committee member from 10 churches i'll
| this way; they are women who have
promised me the heartiest cooperation.
am in touch with 80 churches, from all Of
whom a member will be obtained for my
committee
Have you met with any opposition. or
|
asked, that you have failed in your eff
forts with any of the churches?"
| NO" she answered at once. II have
| found a most gratifying and to me sur
prising amount Of favorable. sentiment
among the church people. In several
churches the wife of the minister is one
of the most enthusiastic persons to be
found, but for obvious reasons minis
ter's wife capnot consent to act as the
committee member from her church. And
| the same has been true in several in
stances with the president of the Ladies'
Aid society, who will assure me of her
sympa thy and interest, but give very sat
isfactory reasons for preferring that som
other take this position, and for this rea-
son, 1 have not yet finished my campaign
! for members, though I hope to do so very
soon. I have found probably the strong
est evidence of interest among the subur-
ban churches. They are asking for adj
dresses on the subject so that they may
| be prepared for stand either favorable
or adverse to equal suffrage. This, as
| you know, is gratifying to any suffragst.
The man or woman who is willing to give
a fair minded hearing to our cause be-
fore expressing a conviction is valued
highly indeed
A Husbands Opinion
1t is curious thing about woman
what her husband thinks about her views.
Some of them, | find, arc suffragists too,
others indulgingly say, Give 'em the vote
if they want it: don't think it matters
one way or the other.' and still few
others are rampant. rabid, violent, vicious,
almost dangerous in their denunciations--
SO violent that their poor wives and sis
ters don't dare even whisper the word
Suffrage" Maybe they are afraid of
being converted!
| Anyway, true to habit, / asked Mrs
Thompson, How does Mr. Thompson feel
about your being a suffragist?"
And she said, why, Mr. Thompson says
that he would rather l took interest
in any subject whatever even If / were on
the wrong side than for me to be pas
sive, Indifferent know nothing on that
subject" And through my mind fitted
not altogether apropos the story of Bangs
little boy, who said he would rather be
spanked than not noticed at all. Either
viewpoint Is evidence of a wide awake,
active brain.
The chairman Of the church extension
committee gives you the impression al
ways that she is Tremendously Interested
in something See her at her devotions In
the big colonial church that her efforts
helped to build, her eyes bright and AMI
mated, are resting on the minister in his
pulpit most of the time; but If they fash
round at you suddenly you know that
even II her thoughts are far afleld they
are worth more than a penny. and you
wonder irresistibly what they are! And
II you find her at homo, In her lovely.
happy household. looking az pretty and
almost as youthful as one of her girls,
she Is still vivaciously and actively con-
cerned in the complicated details that
make up housekeepers life and again
she enters just as spirttedly into the