Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

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COS. Mother had To BE persuaded When tho
tee room manager suggested at first, and az
sort Of cOme-On, that Miss Converse sub
mat gingerbread as a sample of what she
could do, mother thought apparently that
gingerbread was harmless and decent enough
thing and that highly educated young lady
who was connected with the nobler work OF
literature and education might be permitted
But. Harriet had never made gingerbread
On the other hand; her greatest character
tStic, after art, was courage. Then as at every
time In her life, in her greatest sOrrOws as in
her greatest difficulties she has shown tho
lndemitable qualities of her imaginative will,
She got together every known recipe for gin
gerbread and proceeded to bake them Tho
old-fashOned kitchen was lined with ginger
breads-sOme too soft. some too crisp some too
dark, some too highland none Of them what
her unerring. taste. told her was exactly what
gingerbread should be-
g But she had not baked them haphazardly.
Just as in her teaching Of literature she had
developed q complete scheme an outline to
clarity and group the course Of it's development,
SO in this bank Of gingerbread she had mi
nutely observed the effect Of each VARYING reciDe
upon the finished product
Not biindy but with scientific elimination
she put together her own recipe, made the
gingerbread which met her mental standard
and it was accepted with alacrity
GINGERBREAD led TO the next assignment
chicken salad
Make me up six gallons, said Mr.. Selfridee.
Now, she had always been accustomed Of
course, to cooking In small quantities. She
had always been accustomed to allow the
breast Of one chicken for the required choice
pieces Of white meat for each pint Of salad.
&c. little realizing her inexperienoe that cook
= ing in quantity means sort Of geometrically
descending ratio Of major materials, she fig
ured that she would need 40 chickens for the
six gallons Of salad So she went out and
bought them and proceeded to cut them all
WHEN think Of the weary industry that
young woman showed cutting up those
- chickens in the basement kitchen Of her
old-faShioned home. all the pathos OF AL tho
women Of America who have set their mex
pert hands to saving the family fortune seems
to rush over me.
Sc But make the salad she did-and rs usual,
it was q totally new kind of chicken salad
salad look back upon with reminiscent tooth
. salad 1 used to call for loudly without
glancing at the menu--a salad for which
have sought the world over since those days,
being betrayed In every city by the speciOus
name. . e..
j. The mayonnaise in it was made by hand
and the eggs in that mayonnaise, had been.
vinegar in it. There was the white meat OF
chicken in large quantity and in evenly meas
ured pieces Of tOothsome size. There was very
crisp white celery In it, in just proportion.
There we're capers In it. instead of peas And
what else there was in it L do not know (nOr
shall until read the recipe), and it was light
~ framed in pale green lettuce whose color
harmOnized with the gold Of the mayonUaiSe
and the delicate cOlors Of the Ingredients to
make work Of art to eye rs well rs Ia the
taste. - - 80. '-.
Boiling her forty -eight hens, this glorious
amateur found herself with quarts and quarts
of the most delicious. chicken soup. What
could abe do with most Of IL except throw IL
dat in TIE backyard
:. what she did with It. gives US q peep ct ana:
other Characteristic Of Mrs Moody-her gener.
Osity. She has shown it hundreds OF tlEnes i'm
other matters. Out Of the: fortune. she. was
then beginning to make she has contributed
generously to scores OF unknown persons for
the advancement Of THOSE things in which she
b most: deeply Interested scholarship end
poetry, iTkey however were to happen Later. :
Now the, question was, what to do with tiAas
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established his family In . fashionable section
{ Of the city. The quarter was now no lenger
fashionable. It was in that middle period 50
many city sections know, between the 'rcspecta-
biIity q Substantial residence and the new
resDectabiitty Of business. ,.s... .. ..... s.,
:, :" The old house across the way, In which enc
e ChicaeO's leading physicians had once
AveA, had been converted into saloon. Bus
the C0nverses haa invested too MNch Money IN
. tse region to move away. They had to hang
On and await the next development; and Mar.
rietN was helping them to do It,. Meanwhile
d0Wn their street would drift at night TIE
iObtoSs and discouraged = -''.,I" .st ...-..,'
-" 0lAMchag from her window ut those nNen,
she kaeA what to do with the soup. She sent
word &crosS tlae stfeek that hot chicken soap
WdshA be served every" night to twenty mem.
They oAste 81 course, AnA they had their asNN
- $50 = 80 ''.et" 80. i'>t' ,s. -" .,...-.
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