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Evening star., 1926-11-19
Thanksgiving Day Plans
Families Are Advised to Make Early Preparations
tor Food Supplies and Incidentals to Assure Sue
cess in Ultimate Product-Selecting Recipes.

At the upper right hand of the
service plate, at the tip of the knife.
place the glass of water. A salt-and-
pepper set should be placed between
each two covers. A covered asbestos
mat or a carving cloth should be
placed before the hosts place. The
carving knife is placed at the right
of this, with the cutting edge toward
the center and the carving fork at
the left of the cloth, guard up and
tines down, and the spoon for the
gravy at the right Of the knife.
Spoons for the vegetables are placed
above and to the right of the hostess
plate. The celery, olives and cram
berry jelly should be placed on the
table where they will appear to the
best advantage. Just before dinner
is announced fill the glasses three
fourths full of cold water. Fill the
water bottle and leave it on the
table.
Bring from the warming oven the
required number Of dinner plates
when ready to serve the main course,
and place them directly in front of or
at the left of the host. All soiled
dishes should now be taken to the
kitchen, and this time the turkey is
brought In. Place the gravy at the
right of the host. While the turkey is
being carved, bring in the vegetables
and place them in front of the
hostess place. After the host has
served the turkey, dressing and gravy.
the plate Is then passed on to the
hostess, who serves the vegetables
and then passes the plate on to the
person at the right Of the host. When
all on that side are served, the order
is reversed to the opposite side of
the table. In this way the host and
hostess are the last served. The
hostess should see that hot rolls and
cranberry jelly are now passed to
the guests.
The salad, kept until this time in
a convenient place, together with the
salad dressing, cheese crackers and
the salad plates, are set directly in
front of the hostess, and then served
by her Ice cream is necessarily
served from the kitchen. A dish of
ice cream and at least two kinds of
cake should be on each plate. The
plates are brought in two at a time
and placed in front of the guests
fro mthe left. Then the coffee should
be served.
In the matter of entertainment,
music is always pleasing and ap-
propriate. If it is a l o'clock dinner.
card playing may be the form OF
afternoon diversion. If it is
o'clock dinner, dancing is a delight
full way in which to pass the eve-
ming.
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will put considerable effort on trying
to think of new ways to vary these
vegetable meals.
Now that eggs are becoming more
expensive the average housekeeper
must think of different ways of using
them more economically.
There Is an almost endless variety
Of combining the eggs with vegetables
and also with cheese. Scrambled eggs
with kidneys, chicken livers or ham
or cheese make delicious hearty dishes
for cold lunches or suppers. Then
there are, Of course. endless variety
Of omelets. We are not so knowing
as the French about sweet omelets.
For example. a jelly omelet or one
served with fruit sauce makes Il
delicious luncheon dessert. If des-
sert as hearty as this Is served the
first part of the meal should be very
light, consisting chiefly of some let
tuce sandwiches or salad.
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Nutrition Nuggets.

Improper diet is only one cause of
undernourishment,o or malnutrition, as
it is sometimes called. Other causes
are intense fatigue. physical defects,
such as poor teeth or soft bones or
f1abby muscles that make healthfui
posture impossible, insufficient fresh
air and general insanitary home con-
ditions.
Even if a child or adult is noticea-
bly, plump, he may not be properly
nourished. Certain fat-forming foods
may be in the diet out of all pro-
portion to others that are just as
necessary. An example of diet that
is unbalanced in this way would be
one in which cereal, bread and pota-
toes figure very largely, with few or
no green vegetables and very little
or no milk.
Learn to think of each recipe that
you consider for your menus for the
day as carrying various food elements.
For example, take hot vegetable and
cheese dish. When you plan such a
dish as this. you must realize that you
are adding not only mineral salts and
vitamins through the vegetables. but
that in the cheese your family will
have body building material In con-
centrated form. The ability to analyze
a recipe along these lines will do more
than any other one thing to help
carry out your determination to pro-
vide only a we'll balanced diet.
The time has gone by when good
housekeeper talks Of canned foods as
something to be apologized for. So
carefully has the work of canning
progressed that high grade products
insure good food. Canned tomatoes,
for example, have been found to con-
tain all of the principal vitamins, and
other canned products are also to be
thought of as valuable food. Not
that canned foods should be expected
to take the place of fresh ones. That
is a cardinal principle In diet plan
ming that no food, raw or cooked, Is
to be expected to take the place of
any other. The point is to know how
to combine the different products In
such a way as not to do an injustice
to any one group Of foods or class OF
products.
Remember that It is quite possible
to eat theoretically sufficient food and
yet not have your requirements met.
You may, for example, eat enough at
any one meal to cause you to feel
that you have overeaten and all the
while your body will be needing some
thing which it has not received. On
the other hand, you may feel that the
ordinary mixed diet that you are
consuming is perfectly all right, and
yet you may be scanting your por-
tions so much that you are not well
fed. The mere feeling of 2he sensa-
ton of hunger is not the only guide.
Next time you feel that your efficiency
is not up to mark, that you are not
accomplishing what you would like
and that you are generally just
little below par. examine your diet
very carefully. Why not make q spe.
cial study Of what you can accomplish
in relation to what you have eaten?
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Answers to Food Questions

the note for breakfast, another slice
Of bread and butter or buttered toast
and q dessert or two or three table
spoons of baked apple or some SINH
lar fruit and another glass of milk.
There may be several causes for
your child's irritability. One might
be lacking sufficient sleep. Another
might be lack Of play and exercise out
Of doors. Still another might be from
Indigestion, because Of the fact that
she has been having too much food.
This latter contingency will be taken
care of If you will carefully follow the
diet plan I have given. So many
mothers feel that when the children
Of this age have begun to branch out
they must have the same portion as
grown-ups. Notice that especially
say two or three tablespoons for such
foods as cereals, vegetables and
desserts. 1000.
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Crumbed Potatoes.

Boil in salted water some potatoes
the size Of an egg. or quarter some
larger ones. until tender, but still In
shape. When cooked, take out the
potatoes, lay them on a clean dry
cloth, and leave to drain for a few
minutes. Then roll them in stale
bread crumbs, brush over with egg
well beaten, and give them another
coating Of bread crumbs. Fry a
golden brown in plenty Of smoking
hot fat. Drain and dust with salt.
Serve hot.
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String Beans au Gratin.

Drain one small can of string
beans, or freshly cooked beans, and
place on a clean cloth. When we'll
dried, place half the amout in a
creased baking dish, season with one
teaspoonful Of salt and a little cay
enne pepper, and cover with one.half
a cupful Of grated cheese. Pour over
one-fourth cupful Of heavy cream.
Repeat the layers, having the top a
layer Of cheese. Place in q moderate
oven to heat until the cheese melts
and browns q little.
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CRULLERS.

One cup sour cream. one cup
sugar, one egg, small teaspoon
soda, little salt, spice to taste.
Mix soft. Fry in boiling lard.
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FLOATING ISLAND.

Cut into little slices leftover
coffee cake or any plain cake.
Arrange in deep glass dish.
Heat one cup milk in double
boiler. When boiling stir in one
tablespoon flour mixed with
little cold milk and let thicken.
Take from fire and add one-half
cup sugar, one teaspoon vanilla,
two egg yolks. Pour over cake
while hot. Before serving, heap
on top the beaten whites, sweet
ened and favored. Dot bits Of
red jelly over top.
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printed to resemble tiles. This limo
leum is waxed to deep luster and
makes a beautiful as we'll as practical
fioor-covering. The wall behind the
sink is tiled-the tiles having dull
blue flowers on an orange back
ground.
The little shelf over the door has
a scalloped edge to keep the bright
Spanish peasant pottery from falling
off. This edge is painted the same
bright orange as the tiles.
Evening star., 1926-11-19
FOOD AND THRIFT IN THE HOME
MENU. FOR A DAY.

BREAKFAST.
Orange Juice.
Farina with Cream.
Bacon and Eggs.
Hot Corn Cake.
CrullerS. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Jellied Tongue.
Potato Salad.
Hot Baking Powder Biscuits.
Preserved Peaches.
Fruit Cake. Tea.
DINNER.
Tomato Soup.
Calves Liver and Bacon.
Boiled Potatoes.
Creamed Cauliflower.
Coleslaw.
Floating Island.
Coffee.
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Apricot Dessert.

One cup apricots. or the equivalent
of cooked dried fruit; lemon juice of
one-half lemon, one and one-half cups
sugar, one.half cup hot water. Mix
the sugar and water and bring to a
boil. Mash the fruit through a strain
err and add the apricot juice and lemon
juice to the sugar and water. Stir
and strain again. Place in q freezer
and freeze for three hours. Serve IN
glasses with whipped cream.
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BAKING POWDER BISCUITS.

Sift together two cups flour,
one-half teaspoon salt and four
teaspoons baking powder; cut
in with two knives) two table,
spoons butter and wet with
about a cup milk to make stiff
dough; turn on well f1oured
board, pat and roll lightly to
an inch in thickness and cut
with biscuit cutter. When in
a hurry, do not bother to turn
on board and roll, just take a
piece of dough the desired size
and roll between the hands,
put in buttered shallow pan, let
it stand 10 minutes; when done,
brush over with melted butter.
Serve hot. They will melt in
your mouth.
Evening star., 1926-11-19
HOME NOTES
BY JENNY WREN.

This charming kitchen and break
fast room are the, crowning delights
of little house we know in which
the Spanish note has been carried
out consistently through the decora-
tionS.
The walls in both rooms are poly
chrome yellow The floor is covered
with dark red linolnIIn, which is
Evening star., 1926-11-19

My little girl, years old, is very
active and until recently has been
very healthy. She was a le.fed
baby and l planned her diet very care
fully and she hardly had a sick day.
Now, however, she seems to be getting
nervous and irritable. I did not
realize that SO young a child could be
what we call nervous. Can you help
me?-Mrs. X. I.
This is the toddler age or, as it
is sometimes called, the runabout age,
which is one of the most important
periods of the growth and develop
ment. Oh, yes, indeed. it is possible
for children Of this group to be
nervous.
1t is vitality important that the little
girls health plan be made so carefully
as to take all Of her health problems
least IL hours of sleep at night and
should take a nap every day, at least
an hour.
There should be a good warm break
fast consisting of fruit juice, crisp
cereal with top milk, egg at least three
times a week for breakfast, and on
the days when there is no egg at
breakfast there should be fine at sup
per. Returning to breakfast, this
meal should have slice Of crisp toast
lightly buttred and a cup of milk.
varied occasionally by a cup of cocoa.
Out.of door exercises are important,
and both the morning and the after
noon play period should receive care
full attention.
Dinner in the middle of the day may
have two tablespoons Of scraped lean
beef, formed into a cake and lightly
broiled or the lean part of lamb chop
with two tablespoons of some fresh
green vegetable and a glass of milk
and a dessert Of two or three table
spoons Of rice or tapioca or similar
custard pudding.
Supper contains egg, according to
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24
Method Of Speeding
UD Brings Progress

"a city should first be sold to its
own people," once said Mr.. George Z.
Smith of Baltimore, nationally
recognized authority on the industrial
possibilities Of a community.
Once realtors, bankers, railroad men,
department-store owners and mana
gers tell the same consistent story
about the industrial advantages. Of
their city, the cumulative effect is GER
tain to make itself felt.
Growing industries offer the best
opportunities to city's business prog
ress. When plant attains certain
capacity the directors will consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of building branch
elsewhere instead of risking the likell-
hood of overexpanding the old plant.
Thus a city that has called on this
industry with personal representation
is more likely to- get consideration
than many other cities which have
been content to circularize.
New enterprises are always possible.
The man who knows business or the
man who is able to finance business
is Indispensable. Such men in city
will usually solve the bulk OF the
problems incidental to securing new
industries and developing the city's
present industries.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24
Dislike for Cats
HERITAGE of Man?

The instructive dislike which all nor
NAL men feel toward cats is explained
by Albert Payson Terhune, the famous
writer of animal stories. ''This feel
ing" he says in an article in Liberty,
"goes back to the Dark ages Of the
cave jewellers, an era from which more
of our instructive feelings date than
we realize.
''When night came on and darkness
brought forth from the jungle the
beasts Of prey to prowl around the hut
or the cave or the treetop house of our
ancestors. then it was the cat, great
and small, that those ancestors most
dreaded.
'That, think, was when and how
man learned his instructive hate for
the cat tribe. Just as that was the
era when he learned to fear the dark
in which his feline foes could see to
attack and in which he could not see
to protect himself and his mate and
his brood"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24
CAR INSPECTION
is WINTER NEED
Overhaul Battery, Brakes,
Tires and Radiator.

Winter is the most exacting time of
year on automobile performance. 1t is
during this period that the little things
about the car which ordinarily would
60 unnoticed during the spring, sum-
mer and fall months develop into seri-
Gus trouble. Motors get cold and hard
to start, with the consequent drain on
the battery, valves do not always func-
ton properly, oil congeals in the
transmission and differential and
makes gears hard to shift as well as
cars hard to get under way; the clutch
shifts harder, and down through the
thousand and one things that, co-ordi-
mating, make for the satisfactory op-
GRAFTON Of an automobile.
Profits by Experience.
The experienced motorist remem-
bers troubles Of other years and sets
about to profit by it. He takes his
car into the service station and has 1t
checked over and whatever work nee
essary done. Next he visits his bat
terry man, IL the service station does
not operate battery department, and
sees that his battery is in good con-
dition. A good battery is more essen
tial during the winter months than
any other time Of the year.
Cars are harder to start and lights
are burned more hours day, with
the consequent greater drain on it.
To offset this there are not the long
trips over week-ends or even the drive
at nights to help charge the battery,
as in the summer months. It is esti-
mated that in ordinary service the
battery is called on to do so per cent
more work than during the summer.
In the matter of oil care should be
used. A lighter oil is recommended
for winter. Likewise it should be
changed more often because the fire.
quent use Of the choke in starting a
cold motor means that there is going
to be more or less crankcase. dilution,
which destroys the lubricating quail
ties Of the oil.
Use Antifreeze Mixture.
Every motorist puts one Of the nu.
merous antifreeze mixtures In his ra-
diator. Before doing so he should
flush it out, thereby removing any ac-
mumulation of sediment or rust that
may have gathered, thus insuring a
freer circulation of water. It is we'll
at this time to examine the hose con-
nections, and If the car has had con-
siderable service it might not be bad
idea to replace them, because the rub
Der has tendency to disintegrate.
thus impeding the circulation.
Brakes should be adjusted, for dur.
ing bad weather more dependence
must be put in them than at any other
season.
Tires, If worn, ought to be replaced.
for the water. snow and ice will work
into the tread cuts and perhaps cause
trouble at most inopportune time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24
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Conditions in Alabama
Will Apply Elsewhere

In no part of this country is it easier
to have beautiful gardens than it is
in Mobile county, whether in the city,
Or in outlying districts.
( The lay and general character of the
land Is favorable, and the season for
flowers and shrubs is all the year.
Nor is handspring difficult. 1t is new
er difficult where the land rolls, or
In fiat areas even where the soil Is
right and climatic conditions are ia
vorable to the growth of plants. All
these favorable conditions are to be
found in this city and county, and that
Is one reason why we have so many
attractive gardens here.
Probably we are not making the best
possible use of our exceptional nat
ural opportunities in all cases; but
gardens, here have long been prime
assets, and they are likely to become
even more important as we make prog
ress in identifying plans and work.
There is not a home in the city or
county of Mobile that ought to be
without a garden Of rare beauty, for
it does not take much work or great
expense to keep gardens in first-class
condition in this part of Alabama.
Certainly nothing adds more to the
attractiveness Of the home setting than
beautiful garden.-Mobile Register.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24

Many Wild Creafure.

That industrious little architect, the
muskrat, 1t has now been learned,
builds not only for himself, but for
numerous other inhabitants of the
wild places Or, to be exact, he builds
house for himself and the other
creatures volunteer to assist him in
using. it. Observations made at the
college OF forestry at Syracuse uni
versity prove that several kinds Of
wilk ducks and geese and the green
heron frequently find a nesting place
In musl1rat houses. But more sur
prising is the fact that swapping tln'-
ties and painted terrapin nest III
these ready-made lodges, laying their
eggs there and even retreating to the
rnhskrat burrows for their long win
ter sleep. The observer also noted
the case of water snakes that had
moved in with the animals and were
using its water-filled plughole as a
domicile. The astonishing thing is
that the intruders are seldom mo-
Tested, but appear to live in friendly
relations with the owner. Il
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24
Stamps Record History

Americans have become so accus-
toned to special postage stamps COM
memorating historic events and ami
versaries that they often overlook the
extent to- which, all over the world,
the postal system is recording history.
In this country the next special series
will commemorate the Battle of White
Plains. Portugal Is bringing out Sc
ries in honor of the tercentenary OF
her liberation from Spanish rule. Bull
garia will commemorate the fiftieth
anniversary of her freedom with d
new series, and Poland proposes to
honor Nine Curie, the discoverer OF
radium, with special stamp. Spain
plans to issue stamps concentrating
the achievements of it's aviators in the
air post service, and Canada is tc
have new portrait stamps to remind
its people of some Of the great names
in the history of the Dominion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24
Champion Tree Planter

T. c. Luther of Mechanicsville, N.
T., celebrated his sixty-third birthday
In an unusual celebration. because Lu-
Their is an unusual man. The record
of being the champion tree planter in
America was already his. But he
started out on his latest birthday to
break that record. He began on a
program to plant a million more pine
trees. President Pack of the Ameri-
can Tree association voiced the opin-
ion that Luther is putting more idle
land to good use than any other man
in this country, and that by so doing
he is setting an example to the Amer
lean people by leaving birthday pres
ent for succeeding generations to share
and enjoy. 1t is an example that
should prompt emulation in all parts
Of the country in which forestation
on large scale is feasible.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24
A Mixture

The best mixed metaphor, the most
deliberately mixed metaphor in Harry
Leon Wilson'S large collection is
taken from one of the novels of Gill
bert Frankau, whose recent Ameri-
can lecture tour failed lamentably.
The metaphor runs:
1.-THE cloud that tried to stab their
happiness was only a false rumor
whose bitter taste could not splinter
the radiance, dim the effervescence or
blacken the fever of their joy"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24
Roadside Markets

There ought to be corking good
suggestion to the average thoughtful
farmer in the fact that last year In
this country the roadside markets Of
fering products !. to passing motorists
did a business aggregating a little
matter of $25,OO0,OO0. Why not more
roadside markets? Why not go at the
thing systematically and in construc-
tive way? Why not standardized
roadside markets handling compre-
hensive and specifically advertised
lines? Why not a systematic effort to
please the public in place of cunning
attempt to skin somebody by unload
ing inferior or impossible goods on the
stranger at the gate? The filling sta
ton is bound to give good service and
honest goods and honest prices. The
roadside market Ought to build upon
standardized honesty and popularize
instead Of discrediting the farmers
roadside stand.-Lafayette Journal
and Courier.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24

road pace. As result, long lines of
cars have been blocked. Traffic au-
thorities have found that nine out of
ten accidents of the road occurred as
a result Of cars attempting to pass
slow-moving vehicles in the face of a
stream of traffic in the opposite dlrec.
ton.
Maintenance of Pace.
Many truck manufacturers, there
fore. believe the heavy four and FIVE
ton trucks are passing, both for in.
terurban and urban traffic. Trans
porters of freight by motor are sub
stituting lighter vehicles Of more
speed and feasibility which can keep
the pace" 1t is significant that the
cost Of operation does not seem to
count in comparison with speed.
Companies operating lines of freight
trucks between cities say they would
rather be able to offer speedy delivery
than cheap delivery. 1t is this tend
eney which has brought about deyel-
opment of the six-cylinder bus now go.
ing into quantity production.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-24

Rules Of the road" are revolution
izing the truck industry and truck
traffic Trucks now must keep up
with the procession. This has become
obligatory because of the demand for
speedy transportation Of goods and
as measure Of safety affecting mo-
florists of all kinds. As result there
has come greater demand for lighter,
trucks, with more engine fiexibility
and greater ease in handling in heavy
traffic.
Roads are becoming more and more
congested, both with freight and pas
senger travel. State, county and mu-
nicipal authorities are speeding up the
pace. 1t is as much an error of driv-
ing today to run slower than the traf-
fic stream as to run at reckless speed.
The motorcycle officer who draws up
alongside car on well-traveled road
Is as likely to shout "step on it, or
keep moving as to hand out sum-
mons for exceeding the speed limit.
Cause of Accidents.
Trucks have not been keeping the