Evening star., 1920-06-25
How They May Easily
Be Arranged = What
to Take for Lunch.
To Avoid Trouble
som e Preparations.
Handy Contrivances.

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| sary, for it is not the blaze you cook
| with. but the Goals. Never build a
nre against tree, and do not fail to
scrape away the dead leaves. twigs
and everything. else that might catch
! on fire. Never leave a fire unmatched,
no matter how small it is. and never
go home until the fire is absolutely
out.
| good picnic kit consists of tin
| spoons, iron knives and forks. a light
frying pan with a hole in the handle.
| through which to pass a string. so
that it can be slung over the shoulder
tin cups slung on a string and carried
| IN the same way, and wooden picnic
plates. long handled corn pepper
IS treasure when camping. 1t is fine
for broiling chops and other things
over camp fire. or for toasting
crackers that have lost their crisp
ness.
The daintiest of picnic lunches can
be packed so that there will be no
| receptacles to carry home. Individual
! salads can be packed in lemon ski
! cases, thus doing away with the large
receptacle. Eggs. sandwiches, chick en-,
pickles and other things can be wrap
ped in oiled paper and placed in berry
boxes, and several of these can be
packed in a good sized pasteboard
box Use paper napkins and table
| cloth and individual drinking cups
| For Sandwiches.
! Corned beef or plain boiled beef run
through the meat grinder and mixed
with salad dressing will make deli
| c1ous sandwiches. Fresh lettuce leaves
around sandwiches will help to keep
| them moist. Estimate the utmost
| amount of bread and butter that can
| De eaten and then put up twice as
| much. Never pack cheese or bananas
| in the same box with bread or cake,
especially If put up overnight for an
early start The bananas will impart
| strange flavor that will spoil the
choicest luncheon.
Potted meats are always tasty in
sandwiches, and so are ham, tongue,
chicken and cheese sandwiches, but
those filled with cold beefsteak are
received with greatest favor, espe-
cially by the male members of a party.
To make them, select tender steak and
have the butcher cut it in slices about
half an inch thick. Fry these and sea-
son them with pepper and salt and
then place each slice of meat between
two slices of buttered bread.
Time -honored stuffed eggs are a
most agreeable addition to the picnic
riety of ways. The eggs must be
boiled hard dropped at once into cold
water, and when cold shelled. The
whites are then cut off in length
wise halves, the yolks mashed and
seasoned, mixed with mayonnaise,
shaped into balls and replaced in the
whites. For stuffed eggs with meat,
add to the yolks half the quantity of
finely chopped ham or the same guam
tity of finely chopped chicken. Cream
or melted butter may be used instead
of mayonnaise. Salt, pepper. lemon
Juice and cayenne are used for season
ing
II the cry of "Picnic!" comes when
you have no cake on hand, try corr
orange marmalade; Boston brown
bread thickly spread with butter
with plenty Of small seedless raisins
bread in jelly sandwiches, or spread
with butter and sprinkled with brown
or maple sugar. Peanut butter. also
makes good filling for sandwiches.
bottle in order to have warm coffee
or cocoa for an outing. Stand pre-
serve jar in boilings,water and just
ng nssoee eeee. sa WITH milk mix and sugar u s adGed
The jar must be filled full or the
steam may burst it, and it should be
sealed as in canning ., fruit Wrap it
the sides and over the ends, then in
thick newspaper, and lastly tie it up
in one of the heavy paper bags such
put up, the liquid in the jar will keep
hot three or four hours. Similar
wrapping will keep the drinking
water cool.
TO Sarry SOlO OrlnkS.
Ell! FIJI ,tW;o,auart ;cs jar + With small
wrapping in several layers of news
papers. Ice will keep this way at
least twelve hours. Garry iced tea,
tightly sealed to be made when need
ed. A large. cake of ice covered with
burlap win keep for two weeks. Dig
srss aff In II the Ee9end ana Raass the With
leaves. An old ruber cover will pro-
tect from rain.
A pretty and appropriate punch
the center of a large half water
melon. Place it in a dish of sand and
conceal the sand with flowers of some
kind.
A square of chicken wire and few
staples will be very useful When
the campfire is made, drive in four
stout sticks at the corners of the fire,
stretch the wire across and tack it
firmly to the sticks. This will give
the same surface as the cooking
stove. and several articles may be
cooked at one time upon it. When
ready to return home, the wire and
staples can be detached and used
again. This makes a cheap outdoor
cooking stove.
A roll of rather heavy wire is
very useful article to take along.
Short pieces may be bent into shape
for clothes hangers and serve the
purpose much better than a nail,
which is So apt to tear or soil clothes.
If nails are used. take along a num-
Der of empty spools to slip over them.
The comfort that fly swatter and a
pocket electric flash lamp will bring
cannot be estimated.
A flexible waterproof cement is of
great value to one on an outing or
picnic 1t is not affected by acids nor
heat up to 800 degrees. 1t is not
| fish or animal glue and requires no
heating, SO that it is always ready for
use 1t permanently repairs tents.
| fabrics, shoes, wading stockings.
leaks in boots, fishing tackle, cooking
utensils, wooden articles-in fact. al
most anything in an outing para
phArnalia.
Make some wall pockets out of
scraps of oilcIoth. cretonne, canvas or
any heavy material Pin them to the
| walls of the tent or other temporary
abode. They make convenient re-
ceptacles for comb and brush, hand
glass, bottles and such things.
The Picnic Clothes.
| Clothes of bright colors for chill
dren and grown-ups are best to wear