New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Asparagus and French Dressing
Individual Baked Custard

Asparagus ana french dressing
Individual Baked Custard
The asparagus salad was the only
addition 10 her usual menu, Mrs.
Hoppin explained. But many of the
menus are even simpler. Here is one OF
her luncheon menus:
Corned Beef Hash Spinach
Tapioca Pudding
And dinner consists of the follow
ing:
A Chop Macaroni
Salad
Cream Cheese
81 make a strict rule not TO take on
my plate more than | intend to eat, b"
Mrs. Hoppin said. 1T is better 20 have
things passed twice. Bread is cut only
as it is needed Ny bread problem
works out in alternating corn bread,
rye, graham and bran. which makes a
pleasant change and can be made
either as gems for breakfast or in the
loaf. | try 10 limit myself 10 one slice
of bread a meal"
Mrs. Hopkins ordinary dinner con-
sists OF a thick soup (pea, bean or
lentil, perhaps, a roast, 4 vegetable
and rice, macaroni or potato, with a
simple dessert, such as apples or pears
or pudding of some simple and mex
pensive kind, such as rice, tapioca,
custard or floating island. Her lunch
cons are usually of only two courses.
Il assure you that is enough for any
normal being" she said.
Another woman of Oyster Bay who
is doing an unusual bit is Mrs. Robert
B. Lee Sewell, portrait painter, better
known as A. Brewster SeweN, who,
since we have been involved in the
present war, has been painting pictures
for the Allies in her studio here. ANY
one who wishes may sit 70 her for
portrait, and when it is finished need
only send a check IF a size that seems
d nplc from his owA point Of view 70
Frederic r. Coudert, at the head OF the
Joffre War Orphans Fund. Day by day,
hardly stopping while there is light for
her to see, Mrs Sewell paints on, never
knowing or caring what price her
pictures bring, so that it goes TO the
needy in France.
q wanted to help, OF course" she
said, standing b. her easel and work
ing with swift, sure strokes at por-
trait of little Lucy Gurnee. This little
blond haired girl was a patriot, too,
standing very still through the sittings
because it was for France.
Patriotism Helps Child Model
81 wanted 10 help, but it did not
seem TO me that could be Of much use
sewing or cooking or scrubbing All my
life. might say, have been a portrait
PAINTER. So il seemed 20 me that the
normal thing 20 do wss 70 keep on
with my work, but 70 turn over the
proceeds TO the Allies. fixed no price
for the pictures, because | did not want
any one 10 feel embarrassed II he
could not pay as much as another;
every check helps the French orphans
Just that much, and ! felt sure that
people would send as much as they
could afford to Mr.. Coudert."
Pictures Of men in khaki looked out
with the others from the studio wal Is
one of them Mr.. Coudert's son, who has
lately received his commission.
81 hope 20 be kept just as busy as
possible until the end of the war Mrs.
Sewell said. MY time isn't mine now
I don't want II 70 be-
There is no organization IN oyster
Bay Of which the people OF the village
are prouder or which is doing more
red! wartime aeEN4Ce NAdH viz ~
Cross. Colonel Roosevelt IS a member
and has added TO its funds by lecturing
at its entertainments. But then almost
every person Of importance here is
member and has done what he could.
Since February 20, 535 articles have
been made for the Red Cross. BY tne
OYSTER Bay members, among them oOD
babies kits, with thirty-nine articles IN
each, perhaps the most de!ightfuI lit'le
wardrobes that have ever been sen,
over TO France for the needy small
persons there.
Mrs. T. L. Clark is the chairman OF
TIE organization, and Miss z. F. Swan
TIE former chairman, under whom
much of the work has been done.
mong the women az work in the