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Evening star., 1924-09-02
Potatoes Alphonso.

Wash and pare three potatoes, cut
In quarter Inch cubes and put in a
pan with onion finely chopped. Add
one teaspoonful of salt, one small
green PEPPER cut in quarter-inch
squares, discarding the seeds, and hot
water to cover. Cook for IL minutes.
Mix two tablespoonfuls of -four with
one-fourth cupful of milk, and when
smooth add half a cupful of milk or
cream and pour over the potatoes.
Stir and boil for two minutes. being
careful that the mixture does not
burn. Add one-fourth pound of
cheese cut in small pieces and cook
gently until the cheese melts. Add
more seasoning If necessary.
Evening star., 1924-09-02
FauOrite Recipes Of
Prominent Women
BY EDNA M. COLEAE,
Blueberry Pudding.
MRS. LARZ ANDERSON,
Librarian General of ID. A.


Mrs. Larz Anderson's work as Ii
brarian general of the Daughters Of
the American Revolution certainly
provides her with congenial atmo-
sphere, since she is the author Of 16
books and several plays. Although
famed for her writings. it is by her
splendid war work that she Is best
known, and she began that as bride
during the Spanish War. when her
staff at Camp Alger. When Mr.. An
derson was American Minister to Bel
gium and Ambassador to Japan, Mrs.
Anderson gathered data for books
and experiences that made her later
tasks easier. In the World War, after
organizing and running the big can
teen in Washington at the railway
feeding the thousands >of soldiers
passing through, she answered the
call for overseas volunteers, and soon
found herself in an American unit in
a French hospital at the front. where
she remained all through the Spring
drive OF 1918. Her tireless and fear
less service brought her the Croix de
Guere and the Queen Elizabeth
Medal. She did notable work for the
Edith Cavell memorial, and during
the influenza scourge she served as
district nurse. She is one of the
George Washington University has
conferred the degree of Lift. D.
Preferring simple foods. Mrs. An
derson recommends a plain blueberry
pudding as most satisfying and also
economical:
Place thin slices Of buttered stale
bread in the bottom of a plain but
tered mold. Stew one quart of blue
berries. sweeten to taste and add a
pinch of salt and a grating of nut
meg. Pour the hot berries over the
layer of bread in the mold. Repeat
with buttered bread and hot fruit.
having plenty of fruit juice to mois-
ten the bread. as it absorbs a great
deal. Raspberries make a nice COM
bination. Set away to cool and serve
with plain or whipped cream.
Copyright. 1924
Evening star., 1924-09-02
Mistakes.

Everybody makes mistakes some
times on account of it being impossi-
BILE for everybody to be rite all the
time, some hardly ever being, espe-
shilly in arithmetic. People that never
get arithmetic rite in, skooi should try
to grow up not to be bookkeeperS
or cashiers.
Some mistakes are meerly pane
fill, sutch as asking for cents
worth of mixed chocklits in a candy
store and then finding out you only
have 4 cents in your pockit. wile
others are reely serious, sutch as
swimming out about mile in the
ocean and then suddinly remember
ing you can ony swim good enuff to
swim one way.
Spelling Is easy to make mistakes
in on account of all the letters. You
can never tell how a persin would
spell a word by the way they. pro-
mounts it, meny' Of the most perfeck
pronountsers being some of the werst
spoilers.
History Is easy to make mistakes
in on account of all the dates. The
ony date everybody knows for sure
| is 1892 wen Clumbus discovered
America, proberly being the easiest
date to remember he could pick out
at the time. Adam and Eve had a
cintch because they ony had to re-
member their own dates on accounts
OF that's all there was yet, and be-
sides nobody elts was there to know
IL they got them rong enyways.
II you rite in pencil it is easier to
rub out your mistakes, besides not
being eny danger from b1ots, vile
on the other hand ink lasts longer
and looks more intelligent. Proving,
if you want eny results you han to
take chances.
One Of the best mistakes you can
make is to think you are going to
have rice pudding without raisins in
it for dizzert and then md out its 2
diffrent kinds of pies insted. One
Of the most diskusting mistakes is
to kick q male and think IL was ut
'leest a cent
Evening star., 1924-09-02

woolen materials are providing US
with goods woven or colored length
wise in two distinct manners. For
instance. one-half may be in plain
while the other half is in checks, or
half may be in diagonals while the
other half is in some other fancy
weave. With wide material of this
sort it is possible to cut the garment
so that the top or waist comes in
one pattern while the power part or
skirt comes in the other pattern.
The coat in the sketch is inter-
esting for another reason-it is dis
tinctly of the wrap-around genus.
And the prediction had been made
that we were getting away from the
wrap-around idea! True there were
many smart coats and frocks that
buttoned down the center, and there
still are models Of this sort But
you will find that the wrap-around
idea prevails in furs, in sport coats
and in evening wraps. Women ap-
parently are still as willing as ever
to hold their coats together and to
put up with the rather informal
closing at the hips.
Copyright. 1924)
Evening star., 1924-09-02
A Line.

There's no use talking, this world
is a very full place, and lifetime
grows shorter the longer it is. We
cannot learn all that there Is to
know, even about what concerns us
most, much less what mainly con-
Germs our neighbors. Sooner or later
we have to sigh little and decide
that for us there is one line Of work
to follow. and If we do that we
won't have very much time or energy
to spare.
We sigh about it because there is
a gypsy in the heart of each of us,
and he wants very much to go wan
dering about following the spring.
mers toll. But beside the gypsy is
the wiser stay-at-home. and he usu-
ally wins the day. We settle down
to our line.
1t is better for the day of settling
if we have been trained to follow a
line from little up" Better for us
If, during our childish gypsying,
some one has had the courage and
the good sense to hold US to one
steadying aim day by day.
Sometimes. in trying to give chill
dren what we term a liberal educa-
tion, we miss the fact that the sup
eFstr ucIuIe must iesI oh Soio iouH-
dation. which has no room for grace
full meandering lines, however lovely.
The lines of the founding stones are
straight and severe, and speak of a
scientific, religious economy. / would
have that principle observed in the
education of children.
II make it a practice to have the
children use many texts" said the
modern history teacher. Il like to
have the children get broad view.
I remembered how, in the elementary
school. ! studied a brown-and-gold
bound history OF the United States.
shut my eyes and saw plainly the
maps with the colored explora tion
lines, the settlements, the dates. l
could see plainly printed in fine clear
Evening star., 1924-09-02
Ny Neighbor Says:

We have heard our grand,
mothers tell Of the good old
days when they used to spend
hours melting and molding odd
bits of soap into cakes. We up
time for that, but we want to
utilize the stray bits just the
same, so we put all the little
pieces Of toilet soap into q
cheesecloth bag and use it for
the bath, just as one used the
bran bag. The kitchen soap
we handle in the same way
and have the bag hanging in a
convenient place hear the sink,
where we may use the soap bag
to make a good, thick lather
for our dish water.
When pressing black ribbon,
put it in cold water, then
straighten it out and press inn
mediately with hot iron. The
stiffening will remain almost as
if the ribbon were new.
An easy way to curl ostrich
plumes when they are damp is
to put them in the oven for a
few minutes. But be careful to
+ leave the door open and to see
that the oven Is not too hot or
they may burn.
To remove iron stains from
wooden articles, dip the stained
part in q saucer or bowl con-
tanning little warm hydro
chloric acid. Allow. it to soak
for q minute then wash the ar
ticle and rinse in strong soda
and water to remove all traces
of the acid.
Gas stoves require a great
deal more cleaning and polish
ing than they often get. A
dirty stove 10 the cause Of Q
disagreeable smell In the house.
When the furniture looks
sticky or smeary, too much poll
fsh has been used.
Evening star., 1924-09-02

feel very badly about it, excepting
Mrs. Blacksnake. l suppose Mrs.
Greensnake and Mrs. Garter Snake
and Mrs. Rattlesnake lay eggs just
the same as Mrs. Blacksnake. 1t is
queer ! never have found any of them.
l guess it is because 1 never have
thought to look for them and
wouldn't have known where to look
\ for them if had thought of it. From
now on I'll keep my eyes OPEN"
Thereafter whenever Peter came to
a fat stone he examined. it very care
fully to see If there were any signs
that one of the snake family had been
under it. Now Peter had taken 1t
for granted that because Mrs. Black
snake had laid her eggs under that
big, Fat stone on sunny bank all
members of the Snake family would
look for similar places in which to
hide their eggs. What Peter didn't
know was that this was the first
time Mrs. Blacksnake had chosen just
that kind of a place. Usually she had
put her eggs in soft, moist soil. and
other members of her family do the
same thing. So Peter didn't think of
looking anywhere excepting under
big, fiat stones.
He knew Mr.. and Mrs. Garter Snake
VERY we'll. They were harmless little
,nsighbors. Only small toads and
frogs had reasons to be afraid of Mr..
'~lend Mrs. Garter Snake. Peter knew
where ti~: spent most of their time,
so he began to hang around there.
He didn't tell them why he was
spending so much time there, and
they didn't guess. Once in a while
he would see Mrs. Garter Snake glide
Evening star., 1924-09-02
HOW 1T STARTED
BY JEAN NEWTON.
"Getting Rise Out Of Him.

To succeed in getting some one in
terested or concerned or agitated over
something is, in the parlance of every
day, Ito get a rise" out OF him. One
feels a vulgar strain in the express
sion and puts it down as slang, come
up like a weed, with no foundation
in interesting fact or fancy.
Slang 1t is, though not, as generally
supposed, American slang. For it has
been used for centuries in England
And when the fact in which it takes
it's origin is discovered it might al
most be ranged as a metaphor N
stead of slang.
1t is from the vocabulary of, the
fisherman who throws his bait into
the waters and waits for the fish to
rise to it that the phrase ito get a
rise out Of some one takes its origin.
Copyright, 1924.)
Evening star., 1924-09-02
Time Wasted.
Alas. that time should wasted be
In idle curiosityla
Old Mother Nature

Peter Rabbit declined with thanks
the invitation of Jimmy Skunk to
join in feast on the eggs of Mrs.
BlackSnake which he had just dug
out from under the big. fat stone on
sunny bank IN the old pasture.
Peter does not eat eggs. Jimmy
Skunk says that Peter does not know
what is good. Jimmy never refuses
an egg when he can get one, and he
isn't particular what kind of an egg
1t is.
SO Peter left Jimmy to his feast.
and went on his way. He had
learned something. He hadn't known
before that snakes laid eggs. Il
plight have guessed it, though -
Thought he. THE babies of Spotty
the Turtle and all his relatives come
from eggs, so why shouldn't baby
snakes come from eggs? 1t seems
too bad for Jimmy Skunk to take all
those eggs. but l guess no one will
Evening star., 1924-09-02
Chicken Cream in Aspic.

Put through fine chopper l pound
Of chicken meat uncooked, preferably
the white meat, and one slice OF
cooked ham. Add one-fourth cupful
Of softened butter, three beaten eggs
salt to taste> and half a teaspoonful
of ground mace. Lastly beat in one
cupful of heavy cream, whipped to a
stiff froth. Steam the mixture in
buttered molds until firm. and serve
with any good sauce, such as tomato
celery or oyster.
Evening star., 1924-09-02

"A-choo" sneezed Betty. who was
up in the attic.
What are you doing, Betty?" CALL
ed Mrs. Cut-out.
I'm hunting around in these dusty
books for some Of Billy's old books
that 1 can use this year. Maybe
you've forgotten school begins to-
morrow, but 1 haven't"
Betty. Betty" called Billy. "come
down and see the Labor day parade
with me" Down hoped Betty, and
school hoped out of her mind.
Betty has yellow hair and pink
checks. She In wearing 4 white dress
with . pink apron and pink socks.
Color her. mount her on lightweight
cardboard, and cut her out.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1924-09-02

One Mother Says:
The Fall is a better time than
Spring for bird Identification. In the
Spring the young bird often differs
in coloring from the adult. I take
the children to the park or woods
in the early morning or at o'clock
in the evening-the feeding time OF
the birds-and with the aid of my
opera glasses and a simple bird book
we recognize many kinds together.
Copyright, 1924.)
Evening star., 1924-09-02
Copyright, 1924.
Spiced String Beans

Saute one cupful of chopped onions
in four tablespoonfuls of butter or
fat until tender. Add this to one
quart of cooked green string beans
with one cupful of cream, one-half
teaspoonful of nutmeg and one tea
spoonful Of salt. Simmer for 10 min
utes.
Evening star., 1924-09-02
DELMoNIco POTATOES

Pare potatoes and cut them
into bits the size of a pea.
Keep them in cold water until
all are ready. For each scant
pint of potatoes make a pint of
white sauce, seasoning with
onion juice or celery salt. Stir
the potatoes into the hot sauce,
turn into a we'll buttered agate
saucepan and cook in the oven
until the potatoes are tender
and the sauce is absorbed, with
the exception of just enough to
hold the bits of potato to-
gether. Fold one part over the
other as an omelet and turn into
a hot dish. The potatoes should
not brown above or below. II
necessary set them on the
CRATE and cover the pan.
Evening star., 1924-09-02
Half-and-Half in Goats and Gowns
BY MARY MARSHALL.

The woman who is faced with ths
problem of having old frocks or
wraps made over is really most for
tunate just now. So is the woman
who happens to have on hand short
lengths of materials that have hith-
erto puzzled her. For this is a sea-
son when half-and-half effects are
distinctly smart. When this idea
Evening star., 1924-09-02

interesting brlm.
Pompons, three of them, form a
smart decoration for this velvet hat.
One is dark and two are light. The
brim of the hat is cut at intervals OF
three inches, and strikes a new and
interesting millinery note.
Evening star., 1924-09-02
CARAMEL CUSTARD

Three-quarters cup of sugar,
melted slowly in frying pan;
keep stirring, SO 1t won't burn.
In double boiler heat pint
milk to boiling point. Mix to-
gether l egg, 2 tablespoons
cornstarch made smooth and
pinch salt. Stir into hot
milk, cook until thick. Into
this stir the melted sugar
When cool flavor with vanilla.
Serve with whipped cream. Be
sure the melted sugar is the
same temperature as the Gus
tard. otherwise it will harden
when mixed with custard.
Evening star., 1924-09-02
Menu for q Day.

Menu for a Day.
BREAKFAST
Grapes
Dry Cereal with Cream
Fish Cakes. Chilli Sauce
Popovers Coffee
LUNCHEON
Jellied Tongue
Potato Salad French Rolls
Caramel Custard
Tea
DINNER
Tomato Bouillon
Baked Slice Of Ham, Delmonio.
Potatoes
Baked Summer Squash
Cucumber Salad
Mock Mince Pie Coffee
POPOVERS
One cup of -four, u cup Of
milk, u teaspoon of salt,
eggs, !. teaspoon Of melted
butter. Mix salt and flour, add
milk gradually in order to OBJ
tain a smooth batter. Add eggs
beaten until light, and butter.
Beat 2 minutes. Turn into hiss
ing hot buttered iron gem pans
and bake 20 to 35 minutes in a
hot oven.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-23
HARDSHIPS FACE
 FAMILIES HERE
Scarlet Fever Adds to Suffering
 Where Help Is Needed

Miss Cora Beale, secretary of the Welfare association has received a letter from a little grl which she has investigated and which she feels requires some outside assistance. The letter is from d F year old child whose father is dead and whose mother is i'll and unable 10 work. The family gets help from the city and other agencies and seems barely to ward off starvation. Miss Beale will provide the Christ mas dinner but asks that underwear. dresses, shoes, stockings and other things to wear be sent to her. Toys for a baby boy also will be vel Comed
 A rather pathetic phase of the gloomy Christmas faced by some families is one wherein sick father and II children are in need of help. Efforts were being made to help and [ 1t was learned that there is one and possibly there are two more cases Of scarlet fever in the same family. Bed e~0thing, sheets and pillow cases are needed here
 Investigators say there is more suffering and actual poverty in the city this Christmas than last. The Salvation Army reports that funds are coming in more slowly than ever before and as the funds decrease the need for more money increases.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-23
City Items

Visit Bosco's new barber shop, lsI Main street, over Kresge's store. sis barbers. Hair bobbing a speciality advt.
 Every eleventh Christmas Greet. ing Card customer gets their entire purchase free Of charge. Upstairs ohrnstedt's. 70 W, Main.-advt,
 There will be a rehearsal of the boys choir Of St. Mary's church to. night at 8 o'clock.
 A nine year old boy was arrested today by Policeman Feeney and ad- mitted robbing gas meters on Wash. ington and Lafayette streets.
 George W, Kerr and Miss Leon nore Elliot Of 4?5 West Main street have been granted a marriage H. censo.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-23
British Papers Protest
 Suggested Tax Changes

London, Dec. 23,-IlG HOtIdl dH'I- protection newspapers take ur arms today in opposition to the rumoref intention Of the government 70 dtS- criminate against foreign meat and' while declarinfi their Skep'ic}Sm concerning the whole story. argue that if the suggested scheme ls start ed 1t IS bound to fall,
 Argentina's position as principal exporter Of beef to Great Britain Is unassallable, they say, not only be- cause Argentine meat Is better than the Australian but because the Brit ish trade with Argentina Is too valn- able for any government 10 attempt 10 discourage,
 Australian dispatches express great satisfaction al the reported lopuon of the preference scheme, winch they say is identical with that sub mitted to the British government on behalf of the Australian meat coun- ell last May. The dispatches give rosy predictions of meat Hr.ce re- auctions to be expected in Great Britain when the plans Is put into effect.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-23
POLICE MOP UP
 ALCOHOL SUPPLY
50 Gallons Seized in Garage
 On Overlook Avenue

About 50 gallons of alcohol in five gallon cans that the police believe was for holiday consumption was seized by the police in a garage on Overlook avenue this afternoon after Chief William C. Hart received a tip that 1t was to be delivered there.
 A squad of police was rushed to the garage, but they were too late to see it delivered. They found a. ma chine in the garage. with the ra- diator hot. They believe the liquor was transported In this machine.
 The garage Is located in the rear of a house occupied by a family named Fisk, according to the police. No arrest was made at the time of the seizure, as the driver of the ma- chine or the owner of the garage had not been located,
New Britain herald., 1924-12-23
DOUBTS ASTOLSH ALIBI
Judge Marvin Not Impressed With Claim Prisoner Was Not fin New Britain on October 5, 1928.

Affidavits introduced by tho de, fense in an attempt to show that Anthony Astolsh of Detroit was not in New Britain when he Is alleged to have been a partner of Alexander Borowitz In swindling Frank noman- N failed to impress Judge L. F. 5aldo Marvin, according to his re- 'arks upon the closing of the argu, tents on the case by Atty. Nathan 0. riedman in superior court yesterday ternoon. Judge Marvin said that 3 did not think much Of the alibi stolsh had attempted to establish. ut he was not ready to pAss upon le technical points brought out by riedman in his argument. so de- ion in the case was reversed until
 cember 20. Friedman claimed that even If 1t re true that Astolsh was with ,rowitz as claimed by Domanski in s story. the defendant had not ade the misrepresentation that re- lted in the securing of Domanski's oney. or he had not taken money.
 Domanski North street shoe re- ,airer, positively identified Astolsh as one of the men who succeeded in getting s4,0O0 from him on October 5, 1923, by means of a confidence game.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-23
CRASH AT NEW LONDON

New London, Dec, 23.-Groping through the heavy mist which shrouded the Thames the Central Vermont freight steamer, New Lon don bound in from New York, ram med the coal laden barge lIar:ord, as it lay at anchor in mid-stresm of the New London Ship and Engine co, at 1:?O this morning The freighter sustained severe damage 10 her bulwarks in the crash and imp cd into the Central Vermont pier where she Is now tied ID. The dam age is estimated at from ooo0 to $$,ooo. The barge was damaged 10 the extent of about, $500, although neither Of the vessels was alcak as a result Of the accident.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-23
Drattra
Mrs. Catherine Crowley

Mrs. Catherine Crowley. age 59 years died about 9 o'clock this morning at her home on Wilson street, after long lingering illness. She was the widow of Patrick Crow ley
 Surviving her are four daughters, Mrs. Joseph Maley Of New Britain, Mrs. William schniok of Wallingford and the Misses Anna and Mary Crowley of this city and three sons, Francis of Middletown and George and John of New Britain.
 The funeral will be held Friday morning at the Church of St. John the Evangelist Interment will be in St, Mary's cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-23
Foreign Exchange

New York. Dec. 25.-Foreign ex- changes irregular Quotations Gin cents): Great Britain, demand 469 S-4, cables 40, 60 day bills on banks 467; France, demand 5,3s, cables 5.3S 1-2; Italy demand AT 1-4, ca b.es AZ 3-4; Belgium, demand 4.97 1-2, cables 49S; Germany. demand 23.Nl; Holland, demand 4o.3I: Nor way, demand i501; Sweden, demand "6.92: Denmark, demand l7,62; switzerland, demand I9.37; Spain, demand l3.N2; Greece, demand 1S1. Poland, demand l9 1-4, szecho-Slo- vaAia. demand 5.02 I-9; Jugoslavia, lamand i.50 3-4; Austria, demand ..ul4 I-4: Rumania, demand .52; Argentina demand 3930; Brazil, de- :. and ll50; Tokio, demand 5S 1-2; Montreal, % G-l
New Britain herald., 1924-12-23
oIT OF TOWN MARRIAGEs

Return certificates have been re- ceived al the office of City Clerk Alfred L, Thompson in a number of marriages performed out of the city.
 Arthur ESner Of Providence, k. |, and Esther F. Shotender of this city, were married December 2, at Nashua, N. H., by Samuel Dearborn, justice of the peace. AIr, Esner is a civil engineer, The bride is a divorcee.
 Cyril r. Glavcs of 1 Lincoln street. and Mary Kolibczynski of Bristol, were married November 26 in Bris- toL by Rev George Bartlewski. Arthur J. Rajunc of l9 HigN'and street, and Adele l. salocks of Bris- fol, were married in Bristol, Novem Der 26, by Rev. O. T Magnell