The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-17
Efficient Housekeeping
 By LAURA A. HERMAN.

Reader Friend: Thank you for the recipes you recently sent me. Here is one of mine which you may think good enough to print in your column:
 Macaroni Milanese: (An old Ital- ian recipe, handed down from my ancestors ). Boil half a pound of macaroni for half an hour; rinse it in cold water and drain we'll. Put 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a small saucepan, and add to it, when hot, 1 red pepper finely chopped and 1 me dium- sized onion also finely minced; shake the pan while these cook till onion Is soft. Then add 1 pint of solid stewed tomatoes (the canned will do), l teaspoon salt, and 1 table spoon Of sugar. Cover the saucepan and let this sauce simmer gently for 20 minutes. then add the macaroni to it, turn all out onto a serving dish dust thickly with grated cheese Gus ing about one-fourth pound) and serve at once. It is fine, and nobody will want to eat macaroni plain after once cooking it in this way.'
 Married F'un-Lover: T want to tell other readers of your column about the party my husband and l gave last Christmas-and which we are going to repeat, with changes. this December. We asked all our friends to come prepared to do a
 conjuror's trick. And it was such fun! One after the other of us stood up in the living room on an impro- Vised stage and tried to baffle the
 others with sleight-of-hand art!
 Some of the guests had an accom- plice in the audience'-generally a wife Or husband, who was part of the trick-and this made it all the more fun. We all had to guess how each trick was done, before the next per son got up to do his or her trick.
 Here is the one I did (and there are books in the public libraries giving many others):
 Broken Match Trick: Ask one of l T., %r rrf,- a--If | match. first marking this match for l Identification. Wrap this match in l your Handkerchief then ask one of l the audience to break it up while it is l thus wrapped in the handkerchief. ! Now take the handkerchief, wave it about you in the air. then open the handkerchief and show the specta- | tors that you have restored the match 1 to its former whole state. The secret | of this trick consists in having a du- plicate match hidden in the hem of the handkerchief from the very be- | ginning. The marked match is sim 1 ply lodged in a, fold of the handker- | chief, and the one in the hem is l brought up to the centre and put int 1 the hands of the spectator to be broken to bits, the hem serving to re- 1 tain these pieces. The marked match l thus remains whole, ready to fall out | when you finish your mysterious in
 Mrs. P: Here is very good re-
 cipe for an everyday sponge cake:
 My Sponge Cake: eggs. cups su-
 gar, cups flour sifted with tea | spoons of baking powder, % cup of l hot water and l teaspoonful vanilla extract. Beat the eggs light. add the sugar. then gradually add the flour | and hot water. Bake as any sponge cake"
 All inquiries addressed t1 Miss | K!rkman in care of the "Efficlent | Housekeeping department will be answered in these columns In their | turn. This requires considerable time,
 however, owing to the great number
 received. So if a personal or quicker
 reply is desired, a stamped and self | addressed envelope must be enclosed | with the uuestion-The Editor