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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Cooking for Two.

These recipes are from a well
known authority. Our readers may
send a stamped and addressed en-
velope if they wish to be put in
touch with this authority.
Sour Milk Biscuits.
One cup -four, one teaspoonful bak-
ing powder, one-quarter teaspoonful
salt, one teaspoonful shortening, one
quarter teaspoonfuI soda and one
quarter cupful sour milk.
Sift -four, baking powder and salt
together. Rub in shortening with fin
ger tips. Dissolve soda in sour milk
soft dough. Turn out on Toured
thickness Fold together and roll
again. This process should be repeat
ed twice. Cut with biscuit cutter
and bake in a quick oven.
Meat Loaf.
Three-quarter pound veal, one
eighth pound ham. one-auarter cup
full bread crumbs, one egg, one-quar-
ter teaspoonful salt, one-eighth tea
spoonful pepper, one-half onion and
one-eighth pound fat salt pork.
Chop veal and ham fine. Mix in
egg. bread crumbs, salt. pepper and
ninety CuOppcN MOIu III iOdI
form. Place in baking pan. Bake
in moderate oven about one hour.
Basic with melted fat pork. Serve
hot or cold.
Onion Soup.
One large onion, slice and stew
with one pint water, season with salt.
pepper and butter; serve with crack
ers same as oysters.
Swiss Eggx.
Take q shallow baking dish and
put one large tablespoonful of but
ter in a little bit of milk, then layer
of grated cheese; break a number of
eggs carefully and put them in the
dish, being careful to keep them sepa-
rate, season with salt and pepper,
sprinkle cheese on top, put in oven
and as soon as cheese is brown. serve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Mock Wild Duck.

To make this use one flank steak
or one and one-half pounds of round
steak cut half an inch thick, two
lamb kidneys, one-fourth cupfuI of
butter or drippings, half a cupful of
cracker crumbs, one tablespoonful of
minced onion, two tablespoonful of
flour, one tablespoonful of sugar,
three cupfuls Of water or stock, and
salt, pepper and powdered thyme,
sage and savory to season. Trim the
kidneys of all fat, cords and veins
Cut into small pieces and spread
evenly over one side of the steak. to-
gether with the crumbs, onion and
seasonings. Roll and tie with a cord
Brown the roll in fat. then remove
and make gravy by heating the
flour in the fat and adding three cup
fuls of stock or water and the sugar.
Put the meat into the gravy and cook
slowly until tender in a covered bak-
ing dish, a steamer or hreless COOK
er If steamed or cooked In a freless
cooker. tho roll should be Drowned in
the oven before serving
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Nutrition Nuggets.

AgricuIturaIists know that weeds
may be supplanted by useful crops;
food specialists know that harmful
bacteria in the intestines may be put
out of business by the simple process
Cf eating foods which produce harm
less or even beneficial bacteria
Among the fruits which provide
delicious and wholesome juices to be
used as beverages are: Apples,
grapes, oranges, peaches, pears, pine
apples, raspberries, Strawberries.
lemons and blackberries.
When dried fruits are largely used,
% sure to add tomatoes, fresh milk
POTATOES and other foods rich in the
.,rowth- promoting vitamins. other
use the diet will be very onesided.
Remember that there is slight rela-
ion between the bulk of food eaten
nd it's nutritiye value. Learn 10
.stjmate the true value of foods, so
nat YOU will neither distend the
tomach by an excess OF bulky ana
latively not nutritfve food nor err
IN the other side and consume TOO
much concentrated food.
Use spinach and other greens
freely. They may be served as
simple vegetable or in the form OF
1urees or cream soups. This dietary
nractice insures a plentiful supply OF
lime to the tissues and is a great ala
treating anesnia and heart weak
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
WHAT TODAY MEANS
TO YOU.
Taurus.
A Simple Set.
By MARY BLAKE,

Taurus.
Today's vibrations indicate that ir-
ritable and nervous tendencies will
predominant, and all haste or force
should be carefully avoided. There
arc several adverse aspects. and more
than ordinary care should be exer-
cised.
Everything YOU do should be done
deliberately and calmly. Do not take
any chances. stop, look and listen.
A child born today will have a very
contended mind, not ambitious, and
satisfied with whatever conditions it
may find.
If today is your birthday, what a
truly remarkable character you would
have if you could overcome the
vengeful spirit that so often actuates
you. Your disposition is animated
and cheerful; your character is an
excellent one, but for the streak of
getting even" You are extremely
intelligent and bright You have a
natural amplitude for brilliant con-
versation and quick repartee; you are
strong, without being disaGreeable or
fanatical, in arguments. The love of
paying off scores obsesses you,
however, and often prevents your
clear thinking on other subjects. To
secure your ends, you are even will
ing 10 overturn and destroy some
thing of your own creation, if there
by you can compass your enemy's
downfall.
In your business, you have the
reputation of being a good friend, but
a bad enemy. You are not as sue
cessful as you should be, as the time
you spend and the energy you en-
ploy in evening up" detracts from
the efforts that you otherwise would
make in the pursuit of your legiti-
mate enterprise.
Your social life is full of oppor-
tunity for enjoyment and pleasure,
owing to the ability that YOU possess
tertaining. Your friends. however.
are wee bit afraid of you. and you
rarely see them at their best, as,
knowing your proclivities to take Of
Tense quickly and your implacable
taste for revenge, they are always
on their guard, and do not treat you
with that frankness which they other
wise would.
In your home life you often make
yourself ridiculous by your misinter-
probation of family quips and jokes,
you adopt.
Bitter, ere long. back on itself recoils.
Revenge. at first thought sweet,
date are: David Hale, journalist;
William Deering, manufacturer; Fee
liX Morris, actor; Mrs. Burton Harri-
son, author; Thomas S. Clarke, sculp-
tor; Edwin r. A. Seligman, political
economist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
a Novel Border.

One mother says:
For our nursery. instead Of the
usual Mother Goose or sunbonnet
baby frieze painted on. we have a
changeable border. Around the wall
we placed two rows of moIding with
glass between and with grooves GO
ing through in the top piece SO that
pictures can be slipped in under the
glass. I cut out pictures to put in
here and when my children are older
they can cut out and select their own
pictures. so that we will have 4 fresh
border whenever they wish, and one
III keeping with the interests Of their
ages.
Copyright. 1924
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Distorp of Dour Same.
BY PHILIP FRANCIS NowLAS.
PROUSE
;vARlATloNs-Prince, Prussne.

: VARIATIONS-Prin Prussne.
RACIAL oRIGIN-EngIish, French and
German.
SoURcE-A nationality.
Some people pronounce this sur
same to rhyme with mouse and
since family names quite generally
appear to be exempt from the usual
laws of pronunciation and people call
hem what they will, you can't go SO
, FAR as TO say this pronunciation is in
correct.
1t is not, however, the original pro-
nunciation, which would rhyme with
loose"
Again, it is virtually impossible TO
Iell from the name itself, whether it
: English, French or German in the
Individual case.
The spelling Pruce, for instance,
Certainly has French flavor. Yet in
some cases this spelling traces
straight back to a form "Pruz."
1t means, of course, "PrusSian," and
n its 6rst use was generally prefixed
n England and France by the word
&C." meaning "the."
Prussen appears to be a German
I.orm. and undoubtedly it is in many
instances but though documentary
evidence does not happen to be avail
able the study of language develop
Inents and changes proves that even
his form could have developed in
England.
(Copyrght.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25

gard TO pimnies and blackheads. my
hrst suggestion is that as YOU are
"hty nineteen years old you probably
heed not worry about these Young
pHeoPie are very apt 70 be troubled in
TINS way and while indigestion NAV
possibly be the cause and proner diet
VIII certainly be beneficial; yet, as !
said before. this is very probably a
condition which will pass
No doubt you have already formed
good food habits. This means eating
regular meals Of simple we'll cooked
1000, drinking milk instead Of tea
ana coffee, being very careful 10 eat
one raw and one cooked vegetable
every day, fresh or Steyved fruit once
ana often twice a day, leaving out
Tried food and heavy desserts The
S"od habits would also include a two
Or tnree mile walk daily. special at
t"ntlon to frequent bowel movements
ana living and sleeping in as much
fresh Air as possible
IL you are doing all of these things.
the kiRd of diet which you require
tor the next few years depends very
largely on your occupation. If Won
are working at vigorous nnusc,;1ar
work you will need more food than
II you are sitting at a desk or fol-
lowing some trade where it is pos
sibie to sit down.
Perhaps lunchtime is one of yor1r
problems; Don't get into the habit
or Snatrhing 4 hasty lunch at a
soda fountain; but 20 to a good cafe
terra or other lunchroom where you
can get food plainly cooked.
l think If YOU will follow these
suggestions for Il year or so YOU will
ind that your skin trouble will grad
uatIy disappear. Let me hear from
YOU aga ii there are any other uues-
lions which YOU would like to ask.
] am nifty eight years old and have
ear trouble which is not from earwax
have been taking treatment Of tivc
different specialists and they sand il
comes from physical trouble That is
why 7 knew l needed a building UP.
S. r.
As to the food specialists, I know
something of their work. These men
are all sincere and no doubt il YOU
are able-to1alk with them they might
give you some helpful suggestions My
feeling in this matter is, however.
that since you are SO for away and
since one at least OF those spec iaI.ets
has a special interest such as raw diet.
you would do better to study the mat
ter by yourself so that YOU would he
able to think OF no NAL mixed diet.
Often 4. seven-hour period between
meals will work wonders in Fighting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25

inside the sugar house. And there ne
made a comfortable bed. To Jimmy's
way of thinking it was a very salts
factory home. And SO he curled IN
TO sleep and dream of heaping plates
of good things TO eat.
1t wasn't until evening that Jimmy
came out. 1t was strangely still
about that old sugar house. He
in vain for sounds to tell him
that Farmer Browns Boy was there.
He went over to the door and stamped
his feet iInpatiently. Then he stamp
ed them a little angrily. But M
amount Of stamping brought his
friend. So Jimmy decided that he
would have to do little hunting II
he would have a dinner that night
Copyright 1924. by T. W. BurEesel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Rose Cookies.

plain cooky mixture. favored
with rose extract, is best for these at
tractive little cakes. Roll the dough
very thin and cut the roses out care
fully, using a patterns cut from card
board and buttered to prevent stick
ing. When they are baked and cool,
spread with pale pink rose-davored
icing. Tint the outer edges a deeper
pink, make the centers with bit of
yellow icing and set away to harden
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25

When Thelma saw some OF the
teachers talking one day and looking
in her direction, she was just sure
they were discussing whether or not
she was TO be the May queen. Then
one OF them called to her. ''They
must have decided on me-" she
thought
"Thelma," the young woman said,
We want you to take very i'm
portant part in the May day pageant.
Would YOU like to be the butterfly
who dances before the queen"
The little girl was SO surprised she
just stood there with her mouth open.
But her teacher laughed and sa id.
Don't be 50 modest Tholma. | know
you didn't expect TO get one of the
big parts, but I'm sure you'll do ii
WELL"
The dress and hose of the butterfiy
costume are Lavender. The wings are
yellow and blue like the butterfly on
the gold beadband. Tomorrow. an
other costume.
tCopyrirht 1924
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
BEDTIME STORIES
BY THORNTON
W. BURGESS

| guess you'll have 10 go back to your
old home" Then Farmer Browns
Boy started home
But Jimmy Skunk didn't give his old
home thought. He liked this place
Of course, he didn'G know that Farmer
Browns Boy had left for good So
Jimmy decided that he would stay
Not being able to get into the sugar
house, and not being afraid of a little
work, Jimmy dug a hole under the
sugar house. 1t really suited him in
there quite as well as if he had been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Conversations Between Famous

People
Artie AliXanderz-0 is that an' Well
I Jest dare you to mock this chip on
of my shoulder.
Leroy ShCoSter-tio on. there amt
eny chip on your shoulder.
Artie A-WeIl you wouIdent have
the nerve to mock it off if there was.
Leroy Saw shut UP.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Littercry Notes

unknown authors have rote new
sentences on the brick wall next to
the bakery. one being. ed Wernick
is 4 big stiff and the other being.
Lew Davis is another and lie can't
back it I'D or down"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Sissiety Page

Mr.. Sam Cross is still taking dane
ing lesSins every .sSa ttiday, saying the
main trubble is that the, music don't
keep in step with him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Spoarting Page.

SHOdrLIhB PdBe.
Sam Cross is slitely disfigured err
round the face and nose as the result
of spending all his spare time trying
to learn to stand on one hand, witch
he cant stand on yet but he says if
a thugs werth doing its werth doing
well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25

Intristing F'acks About Intristing
People
Sid Hunt is still thinking OF beng
a animal trainer and is now training
their cat by trying to ts~tch it to
Stsrd on one hine leg and look cross
eyed and different things. He also has
a idecr of training his mothers gol
ishea by making them jump out of
the waiter after their food. but none
of them haven't jumped so far.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25

Often q seven-hour period between
meals will work wonders in Fighting
digestive disorders
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25

I have been troubled now for near
ly two years with pimples and black
heads. Will you kindly advise me as
to whether or not it is due to my
food or way of eating, as have tried
every external remedy obtainable?-
h s.
Replying to your question IN -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25


struggle OF life
Y.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-17
WORCESTER ROBBERIES
Two Hold-Ups By Armed Men and
 One Robbery is Week-End Rec ord in Mass. City.

Worcester Mass, Nov. 17.--With two hold-ups by armed bandits in as many days and ore safe robbery over the weekend, Worcester police last night doubled their efforts to obtain clues to the identity of the men involved in the crimes. Hyman Waxler proprietor Of store at 29 Fifth avenue, is the latest victim of bandits. While a third armed and masked man stood guard. two men, their features concealed by masks, nourished revolvers menacingly and backing him and two customers in the store into corner, took the days receipts, amounting to $500 from the cash register late last night he reported today.
 Louis Kramer, storekeeper on Plantation street, was held up Fri day night but escaped the robbers who fired at him and then disap- peared in sedan as did the men in the Waxley robbery. The safe at the Soulliere Motor company on Main street was broken open with a sledge hammer late last night and s2o0 taken but s1,ooo was over looked.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-17
STRANGELY SHOT
Cambridge noct0r Wounded--Had Received Anonymous Threats Be- fore Assault,

Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 1.-Two anonymous threatening letters had recently been sent to Dr. John H.. smith, found Saturday mint sitting in his ofiice at the Middlesex hos pital in dazed condition with a bullet wound across his forehead, he told the police, Dr. smith is head of the MlddIesex College of Medicine and Surgery and of the hospital.
 One letter received by him last Monday was q story of the killing" Of Dr. smith, manufactured by piec- ing together words clipped from newspapers under the heading, "Dr. Smith. found Saturday night sitting ter told him to leave town. Dr, SNith told the police that the second letter bore hand and dagger in place of a signature while the first was Hn- signed,
 Yesterday Dr, Smith told the of- ficers that he was fired on when a few blocks distant from the hos pital and that he remembered noth- ing after that, Hospital attendants said that the doctors car was found parked and locked in it's usual posi- ton near the building. Two bullet wounde were found in the windows of the car doors and the doctors felt hat was also penetrated by two bull lets.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-17
Fathers and Sons Eat
 At "Y" Festive Board

The annual Father and Son" banquet will be held in the banquet hall of the Y. M. c. A. Friday night of this week. The address of the evening will be made by Rev. Frank B. Haggard, Baptist minister of Hartford MT. Haggard created mild sensation in this city last Thursday at noon when he told members of the New Britain Rotary club that he saw in Rotary a new religion, minus the forms and rituals and dogmas upon which there is so much controversy. He is known as a modernist of the new school and Is in demand to speak to gatherings of men and boys. In Hartford he is a man of wide influence and is chap lain of the Hartford Rotary club. He will take as his theme, Makers of Men"
 The Y. M. (. A. boys orchestra will furnish music. This orchestra. recently organized, is making a hit in Y. NJ. C. A. circles The follow ing boys are members: Lewis Cher
New Britain herald., 1924-11-17
WAR HERO MAY BE .DEP0R7ED FROM US.
American Took Oath of Anegi- ance to England and Is Alien

New York. Nov. 17.-Becsuse he took an oath of allegiance to Canada and the king of England when he joined the Canadian expeditionary forces, Omar L. Macklem of Adrian. Mich. whosegancestcrs settled in the United States in 1707, may be de- ported, the American Civil Liberties union announced. A habeas corpus action seeking to prevent his depor- tation will be heard In federal dis trict court tomorrow.
 Macklem was wounded, pensioned and returned 10 this country to sell Liberty Bonds after the United States entered the war, the union re- port states. Later he was arrested by federal authorities as an alien who had entered the country with out inspection" After his deporta. ton to Canada had been ordered he was kept on Ellis Island three months without a lawyer, according to his counsel,
 On November 12, 1917, he was brought into court on a warrant is- sued March 8. 1915 charging forgery of q check for s150. Canadian army officials were notified and the Cana dian munitions offices in Ottawa, Ontario, teegraphed that Macklem was an imposter. Late advices from Ottawa and London. England, denied Macklem was colonel or that he had been paid $1o0.0o0 for the in- vention of a hand grenade, but con- f1rmed the mans story of conspicu- ous bravasy at Ypres and in other engagements.
 BecasSe of his war record, Mack lem was released by intervention of Mayor Oscar B. Marx, but the case was brought 10 the attention of i'm migration authorities. It was an- nounced the man would be deported as an undesirable alien, but the case then was appealed to the secretary of labor, by Macklem's attorneys, who asserted the man had not been given sufficient opportunity to prove his statements.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-17
RESIGNS AFTER 30 YEARS
Burritt Grange Secretary Leaves Af- ter Long Period of Active Service A. F. Marsh is Reelected.

Deputy '. s. Marshal A. P. Marsh was elected master of Tsurritt Grange for the fourth consecutive term at the meeting Saturday eve- ming. Mrs. Nathan c. Avery was elected secretary to take the place of Mrs. r. S. Sharp who resigned that office after 30 years of service.
 Other officers were elected as fol- lows: OFerseer, Leo Hennessey; lec- turer, Miss Florence Alden; steward, William Poppel: assistant steward Lester Vibberts; chaplain, Mrs Ed ward Spencer; treasurer, Charles McKirdy; gatekeAper, William Sem mems; Ceres, Miss Rotherforth; Pomona, Miss Fife Carlton; Flora, Miss Gretchen Larson: woman as- sistant steward, Miss Florence Bran hall. A. c. Knight was added to the executive. board.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-17

lost a cuff button and a search of tn esdewalk where the assault occurred resulted in the lost button being found. ..
 All Deny Being Implicated
 Pelegrino denied in court that he had my part In the assault, saying that he had not struck Carrier, He claimed, as did tho others. that they were walking along tho other side of the street when they saw 6 fight going on, They went over to see what 1t was about and after watching 1t until 1t was over, went to their homes.
 Milewski told the court that he went across the street to see what was going on. and that when the crowd saw him coming, they all started to run. The testimony caused laugh as Milcwski Is un- dersized and was the smallest man involved in the scuffle. Seeing Carrier run Into the hallway. Milew- ski said that he ran in after him. Asked why he ran after him if he didn't know him and If Carrier hadn't done anything to him, Mi- lewski said that he didn't know.
 Medrick denied having any part In the scuffle when hc first took the witness stand, but afterwards ad- mitted that 1t was he who asked for the money. He could not tell the reason that prompted him to chase Carrier into the house.
 Theodore Makula. who witnessed the affair, identified the three as the ones that had attacked tke Carriers and their friend.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-17
RUB RHEUMATISM PAIN FROM SORE,
 ACHING JOINTS

What is rheumatism Pain only. St. Jacobs Oil will stop any pain 50 quit drugging.
 Not one case in fifty requires in- ternal treatment. Rub soothing. pen- etrating St. Jacobs oil directly up- on the tender spot and relief comes instantly. St. Jacobs oil Is harm- less rheumatism and sciatica lini- ment, which never disappoints and can not burn the skin.
 Timber up! Quit complaining! Get small trial bottle from your drug gist, and in just moment you'll be free from rheunatic and sciatic pain. soreness, stiffness and swelling. Don't suffer! Relief awaits you. Old, hon. est St. Jacobs Oil has cured millions of rheumatism sufferers in the last half century, and is just as good for sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, back ache, sprains and swellings.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-17
H. K. RETURNED.
Germany Again Controls Lines IT
 Former Occupied Territory.

By The Associated Press.
 Essen, Germany. Nov. 1.-The railways in the occupied area were turned back to Germany at midnight last night by the Franco-Belgian railway administration, according to program as arranged in the carrying out of the Dawes plan, without a hitch or untoward incident
 Most of the French officials had already left for France. thereby en- abling many of the German officials to return to their former quarters The money changers offices at the stations were closed, as German money will again be accepted in pay ment for tickets, The railway book stands likewise have been turned back to the German concessionaries.
 The time tables will remain ss they have been under the alleged ad- ministration until Dec. 1, after which extensive changes In the pas senger and freight schedules will be put into effect.