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The Washington times., 1931-01-27
WASHINGTON TIMES FOOD PAGE
WHAT To SERVE
WITH DUCK

Instead of making a brown
gravy as for chicken, serve roast
duck either with orange sauce or
current Jelly.
Roast Duck
Dress and clean duck. Stuff
with two or three apples to absorb
flavor, or, If the stuffing is to be
eaten, use a potato peanut or plain
bread stuffing such as would be
used with turkey. Truss and place
in a roasting pan. Dredge with
flour and sprinkle salt and pepper.
Cover breast with thin slices Of
salt pork.
Put in hot oven $500 degrees F0
and when flour begins to brown,
pour one cup of water into pan.
BaSte every is minutes until done.
Allow from one and three-fourths
hours for a domestic duck or 80 to
40 minutes for wild duck. The
meat of wild duck should be rare.
Orange Sauce
One-fourth cup butter.
One-fourth cup flour.
One and one-third cups brown
stock or water.
One-half teaspoon salt, pepper.
Rind one orange, cut in shreds.
Juice two oranges.
One teaspoon lemon Juice.
Brown butter, add flour, salt and
pepper. Stir until well Drowned.
Add stock or water gradually and
cook until thickened. Just before
serving stir in orange rind, orange
juice and lemon juice. =
The Washington times., 1931-01-27
OYSTERS HALF.
SHELL POPULAR

Oysters on the half shell are
a popular first course, served on
a bed Of crushed ice, on a soup
plate, on a service plate.
A small glass Of cocktail sauce
may be set in the center of the
plate, the ice around it, and
lemon cut in quarters on the
half shell at home, but a garnish.
It is not much trouble or work
to prepare and serve oysters on
the half shell at home, but we
find few people who attempt it.
OF all the dishes prepared from
oysters, fried oysters undoubtedly
find favor with the greatest num-
ber of persons. However, unless
care is taken in frying the oysters,
they are likely to be somewhat
indigestible.
The Washington times., 1931-01-27
ECONOMICAL DISH

This is as economical a dish as
we know of-and it's good, too:
One and one-half cups noodles
1a-inch Wide); 2 tablespoons but
ter, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons water.
Cook noodles in boiling salted
water 10 minutes. Drain, add
melted butter. Thoroughly beat
eggs and water and add to
noodles. Place in buttered ring
mold, put mold in pan of hot
water and bake in a moderate
oven $3.50 degrees FD until firm
and top is lightly Drowned. Un-
mold on hot platter and put lamb
stew in the center.
The Washington times., 1931-01-27
CANNED CORNED
BEEF HASH IS
DELICIOUS
Tasty Recipes For Use of
Labor Saving Food Are Now
Available

Canned corned beef hash, all
ready to brown, Is one Of the
newer time and labor saving
foods now available, and this
delicious product may be pre-
pared in a number of interest
ing ways.
De Luxe COrned Beef Hash
Fry one onion chopped and
one green pepper chopped in a
small amount of butter until a
delicate brown. Add one can Of
ready-to-brown corned beef hash
and heat thoroughly. Serve with
chilli sauce.
COrned Beef Hash Cakes
Turn out the contents of one
can Of ready-to-brown corned beef
hash. Form into flat cakes and
sprinkle with a little flour. Fry
on both sides until a delicate
brown in a small amount Of fat.
Hash CrOquettes
Turn out the contents Of one
can Of ready-to-brown corned
beef hash. Form into oblong
shapes. Roll the croquettes in
sifted cracker crumbs, then add
one egg diluted with one table
spoonful of cold water, then
again in cracker crumbs. Fry
in deep, hot fat until delicate
brown.
Hash With Eggs
Turn out the contents Of one
can of ready to brown corned
beef hash into a frying pan. Add
three eggs and heat, stirring oc-
casionally to mix the eggs with
the hash and cook until the eggs
are set.
Hash With Baked Eggs
Turn out the contents of one
can of ready-to-brown corned beef
hash into individual baking dishes,
slip an egg on top of each. Bake
in a slow oven until the eggs are
set.
Hash Baked in Tomatoes
Turn out the contents of one
can of ready-to-brown corned beef
hash into a mixing bowl and mix
with it two teaspoonfuls Of finely
chopped onion, two tablespoon
full of, finely chopped parsley.
Cut off the tops Of tomatoes,
scoop out the centers and fill
them with the meat mixture.
Prick the skin Of the tomato on
both sides with a sharp knife.
Put the tomatoes in baking
dish and sprinkle the tops with
fine buttered crumbs. Pour one
fourth cup of water in the bot
tom of the pan and bake in a
hot oven until the tomatoes are
tender.
Pepper Hash
l can ready-to-brown corned
beef hash.
3 tablespoons finely minced pi-
mentoes.
6 stuffed olives, chopped fine.
3 tablespoons tomato juice or
chilli sauce.
l tablespoon curry powder.
Mix ingredients together. add
ing a little grated onion and salt
if desired. Remove tops from
mediumsized sweet green peppers.
Parboil 10 minutes. Stuff with
above mixture and bake In hot
oven about 10 minutes.
(The curry powder may be
omittedO
Prudence Luncheon
can ready-tobrown corned
beef hash.
2 eggs beaten stiff.
y cup sweet milk.
11a, tablespoons butter for
crumbs.
Mix all ingredients well and
put into well-buttered baking
dish. Cover with buttered bread
crumbs and bake 20 minutes.
Serve with tomato sauce. A fine
ly minced onion is a nice addi-
The Washington times., 1931-01-27
CARE OF LETTUCE

To separate a head of lettuce
easily cut out the stem end and
allow cold water to run with some
force into the cavity.
The Washington times., 1931-01-27
ADD VINEGAR TO POTATOES

To attain the lovely, golden
brown tint in the potatoes that
are cooked in a deep fat, add a
teaspoonful of vinegar when they
are nearly cooked.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Recalling the Delights
of Community Singing

Music, after all, is the finest sort
of sport, of personal recreation.
Looking back to the days of a cen
fury ago, when art was closer to the
people, perhaps. than it is now, we
find that music belonged to every
body, not as mark of social or in
tellectual superiority, but as com
mon heritage of beauty.
Families grouped themselves into
small Orchestras or ensemble units.
Mendelssohn got his first taste of
music directing the orchestra that
was formed by his family members
and their friends who met in his ia
theirs house. Communities took their
pleasure by singing in societies. Peo-
pie went visiting for an evenings
fun with their flutes or their fiddles
under their arms in green baize
bags.
Those people of the Eighteenth
century were happier for their mu-
sic and have handed on to us an
enviable tradition of musical par
ticipation. That is the sort of thing
we need to recultivate today if mu-
sic is to occupy the place it merits
in our personal lives and our ma
tional development.-Harold Bauer
in the Etude.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
KENT COUNTY FIREMEN HOLD
MONTHLY MEET IN GHESWOLD
PRESIDENT j. e. HADDAWAY
PRESIDENT, AT THE SESSION
Number of Companies Made Re
ports on Results of Visits to
Schools in Lower Delaware

The monthly meeting of the Kent
County F'iremen's Association was
held in the Cheswold fire house
Thursday evening with President
y. E. Haddaway presiding. The
roll call disclosed that four COM
panies were not represented at the
meeting, Smyrna, Clayton, Milford
and South Bowers. Guests at the
meeting were j. N. Jordin, presi-
dent of the State Association; Jul
ian G. Morgan, president Of New
Castle County Association; Chief
James v. Campbell of New Castle
fire company and several others.
President Haddaway read a paper
sponsored by National Retirement
Club advocating a National Fire
mems Day in the early Fall. VIC.
Boyer, Jr., chairman of first aid,
spoke briefly, submitting some
rates on public liability and prop
erty damage insurance for the
dIlNEIS VI 1IG II I1CIAGos liz e1A5O oclAA
that each new member of the Do
yer Fire Company was required to
take a course in first aid. A num-
Der of the companies made reports
on the results of visits to the var
ious schools in the county in regard
to fire drills. A resolution was
passed that the reports be forward
ed to the county secretary who
would later forward a compiled re-
port to the secretary of the State
Board of Education. Heber F.
Scott, of Houston, was awarded a
five pound box of candy given by
the Cheswold Fire Company. A
cigarette holder was awarded to
Harry c. Tee, of Harrington. The
next meeting will be held at the
Camden-Wyoming fire house.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Town Claims Many Records

There is a little town in South
Africa which claims to lick creation
Name most any record you like, and
this little place will go one better
Volksrust they call it in South At
RIGA. and it certainly does live up
to that reputation. Sunflowers-
they grow from % inches across in
VOlksrust. Snakes, pumpkins, fish.
pigs filters and everything, right
down to the daily milk output of the
average cow-all these things mean
records for Volksrust. 1t is doubt.
ful, however, if all or any of the
claims would stand investigation,
but they certainly do keep Volks-
rust on the map, which is apt to sur.
prise anybody who has seen the
plnce.-Washington Star.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23

AT Strand Theatre, Smyrna

Women only will be admitted to-
day to see ROAD TO HE'LL, thrill
ing, daring and sensational stage
and screen presentation now being
shown at the Strand Theatre,
Smyrna. Road to He'll is said to
be in its every scene a bitter docu-
ment justifying the title. Girls in
the screen production are shown
being offered for purchase to the
highest bidders - but never with
the girls consent. They are all in
nocent victims of an organized
band that through tricky adver-
tisements in female help wanted
columns of newspapers in big cities
attract their prey, and after they
have won them over by glib prom
ises and assurances of the legiti-
macy of their employment, ship
them to bagnios of shame in other
cities or countries. Today is the
only day for women. Men only
will be admitted tomorrow, at
which time, special added features
of unusual interest to men will be
presented. Persons under 16 not
admitted at any time.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
DELEGATION BACKS HOOVER
Senator Townsend Chairman of
Audit and Control Committee

Delaware's Congressional delega-
ton has stood pat behind President
Hoover during the turmoil of crit
icisn in the second week of the
Seventy-second Congress ended
Saturday. Representative Houston
supported the debt moratorium
while both Senators Hastings and
Townsend had stood behind party
leaders in their chamber. They
have also been found supporting
Senator George H. Moses, the Re-
publican nominee for president pro
tempore who the Progressives have
been trying to GUST from office.
Senator Hastings has been made a
member of the Republican Steering
Committee of the Senate, a place
that will give him much experience
in legislative matters from the Re
publican side of the chamber. Sen
ator Townsend was made chairman
of the Audit and Control Commit
tee and also a member Of sub
committee to study Senate bill No.
1 having to do with a part Of the
Presidents financial program.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Use of Whales

Practically the entire whale is
used for commercial purposes.
Whale oil, of course, is the chief
product and is used principally at
the present time in making soap.
Occasionally it is used as a Iubri-
cant in combination with mineral
oil, and recently new use has been
found for it in an animal oil for
making margarine. Little whale
oil is now used for heating and
lighting purposes. Fresh whale is
ground into whale-meat meal for cat
tie feed, and both the flesh and
bones are ground into fertilizer.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Amt Nature Grand?

They were seeing America first in
the family automobile. Thanks to
the wonderful variety of bilIboards
in travelling from Detroit to Ann Ar
Dor, they were able to see Niagara
falls, the Grand canyon, the EiffeI
tower, the Mediterranean, the Gold
en- gate, three camels and a de luxe
steamship crossing the marshes,
Pixies peak, and the headliners in
a three-ring circus. Hungering for
a bit of natural scenery, little sister
looked at the sky.
"Oh! See the pretty Clouds" she
cried.
"Them's no clouds" Bobby scoffed.
That's a sky writer an them
clouds would spell dads favorite
shirt if it wasn't so windy."-De-
troit Motor News.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Under the Stone

Passing through a village in
western India" writes a lady mis-
sionary, followed by a friendly
crowd, we stopped at a small way
side altar. the god being represent
ed by four fiat stones decorated
with red paint. We said, There is
no god here. These are only stones
oh said the man, the god is I'M
derneath.' We promptly lifted one
of the stones to discover beneath
it three large, alternating frogs,
whereupon a great laugh went up
from the crowd, in which we all
joined"
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Shakespeare's Test in
Life Shown in Writings

Shakespeare's enormous zest in
life makes his earlier comedies a
paradise of delight. writes Prof.
Walter Raleigh. in My Magazine.
The love of pleasure, if it be gen
erous and sensitive and quick to
catch reflections, is hardly distin-
guishable from wisdom and tact. It
has no respect for the self-tortur-
ing activities and energies of a
vengeful and brooding mind, or for
those bitter thoughts that spend
themselves in a vain agony upon the
immutable past.
Shakespeare's villains and evil
characters are all self-absorbed and
miserable and retrospective. Jeal-
ousy bSsa Of deprivation is a pas
sion as common as mud. Depriva-
ton sweetly taken, with no thought
Of doubling the pain by invoking
a wicked justice, love that does
not alter when it finds alteration
but strengthens itself to make
amends for the defects of others
these are the materials of the pin
nacle whereof he raised his high
est examples Of human goodness.
His own nature sought happiness
as plant turns to light and air
he pays his tribute Of admiration
to all who achieve happiness by
ways however strange.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Lakes Depth Varies

The depth of Lake Titicaca, the
largest lake in South America. in
some places reaches 700 feet. but
large portions Of it are shallow, and
the shores, especially in the south
are lined with marshy tracts GOV
cred with reeds. The lake receives
a number Of streams from the sur.
rounding mountains and discharges
through the Desaguadero into Lake
Aullagas, whose waters finally evan
crate in the great salt marshes in
the southern part Of the closed
basin.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Evolution of the Quilt

The history of quilts is involved
In a tradition Of long centuries of
slow but certain progress; in fact,
the origin of all domestic arts is
shrouded in mystery. No positive
reference to patchwork or quilting
is found in western Europe prior to
the time of the Crusades, but from
the Eleventh century these arts be-
came more and more conspicuous in
the needlecraft of nearly every
country in western Europe. Notice
able progress was made in the de-
sign Of quilts during the Middle ages
in Spain. Some Of the finest spe-
cimens Of quilts Of this period have
been preserved in Persia.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
First American Flag

A standard with 10 alternate blue
and silver stripes, carried by the
Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse
in ITO. is the first known attempt
to provide a national flag. At Cam
bridge, Mass, on January 2, 1776,
General Washington, acting on his
own initiative, raised a flag consist
ing of Is alternate white and red
stripes with the crosses of St.
George and st. Andrew in a blue
field in the upper left-hand corner.
Under various designations, this
was employed until displaced by the
Stars and Stripes, adopted by the
Continental congress, June IA, 1777.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Colonial Mail

Massachusetts was the first Of the
colonies to establish a post office
IN 1889 the General court issued tbo
following statement: 1T is ordered
that notice be given that Richard
Fairbanks, his house in Boston i
the place appointed for all LETTERS
which are brought from beyond ia
sea, or are sent thither, to be Iafr
with him, and he is to take caro-
that they are IA be delivered or
sent according to direction and ba
is allowed for every letter a penny
and he must answer all MESSAGES
through his neglect of this kind .
Other colonies sent mail bv mos.
sengers with some regularity ~
Virginia every planter forwarded
mail from his plantation to tic aeyt
one.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Not Serious Error

A preacher and a lawyer who
were travelling together fell to dis
cussing mistakes In speaking.
what do you do" asked the
preacher, "if you have a slip of the
tongue and say something you didn't
intend to say?"
THAT depends" replied the law
yer. IF it is a serious mistake !
60 back and correct it; if only a
slight mistake / pass on and do not
notice it. What do you do?"
Il follow the same rule" respond
ed the preacher. "For instance, last
Sunday in the course of my sermon
intended to say that the devil was
the father of liars, but by slip OF
the tongue said that the devil was
the father of lawyers"
"What did you do?" asked the law
yer.
1T was such a slight mistake that
] went on without noticing It."
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Musical Taste Matter
of Matrimonial Bliss ?

''If music be the food of love, play
on"-but first make sure that the
bill of fare has been satisfactorily
arranged. Another nerve specialist
has been pointing ont that in his
experience an astonishing number"
Of marriages come to grief over in
compatible musical tastes. In their
case the result seems to be some
thing like
Jack Spratt could stand no Bach,
Whereat his wife would droop-
So that with Wagner versus Jazz
They landed in the soup.
According to the specialists in ques-
ton a difference of this kind can
definitely lead to the divorce court
if not to serious mental disease. But
up to now there are no cases of any
one getting a marriage dissolved
as the result of citing a Beethoven
sonata as OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ter (England) Guardian.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Eye for Values

A collector of manuscripts and
first editions of early Americana
found a sermon in pamphlet form
in a secondhand book shop. 1t
was the only known copy of the old
sermon except the one which the
collector already possessed. He paid
$500 for the second copy. then took
it home with him and threw it into
the fireplace. The destruction Of
the second copy added several times
its purchase price to the one the
collector originally held, he ex-
planned.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Electric Light Invention

1t was a Northumbrian English
man, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, F. r.
s., native Of Sunderland, who first
invented electric light. More than
20 years before Thomas Alva Edison
took out his patent, Swan had DEM
onstrated in the presence of the
great scientist, Michael Faraday, the
possibility Of illuminating the South
Foreland lighthouse by electricity ;
and in 1862. lighting by carbon fla
ments was officially installed in
the lighthouse at Dungeness. Swan
left to his country and to the world
three great bequests-electric light
ing, artificial silk, and bromide
Exchange.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
One More Success Recipe

I. d. writes with regard to a
joke recently printed in this column:
THE threat of the merchant to an
employee who had asked for a raise
that if he wasn't careful he would
be made partner, and so get moth
ing, recalled to my mind a bit of
advice once given by a successful
man:
work faithfully for eight hours
a day, and don't worry. and in
time you may become a boss, and
work twelve hours a day and have
all the worry. Boston Transcript.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
"Quit-Rents" in Britain
SuryiyaIs of Old DAYS

The number of properties in Eng
land and Scotland still held for
"quit-rents" is as surprising as the
character of some of the rents them
selves. From the duke of yelling
ton the king receives each year a
small silken banner on the anniver-
sary of the battle of Waterloo. This
banner, French Tricolor, is rent
for Strathfieldsaye. the estate voted
the dukes great ancestor by parlia-
ment. The duke of Marlborough holds
his estate by presentation to the
king of another tiny silken banner
on the anniversary of the battle of
Blenheim, which his famous forbear
won.
The Scottish duke of Atholl must
furnish the king of Great Britain
with a white rose in respect Of his
estate, Blair Atholl, on the occa-
sion of every royal visit thereto, and
the marquis of Aylesbury is similar
ly bound to present his sovereign
with an ivory cup whenever the lat
ter goes hunting in Savernake for
est.
Kidwelly castle, one of the Oldest
and strongest ones in Wales, is held
on condition that the king, when
visiting the vicinity, is furnished
with the services of knight in full
armor.-Exchange.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Origin Of Yankee"

There are several theories abo0t
the origin of the word Yankee. .
DR.. William Gordon said it was Il
cant word in use at Cambridge
Mass, as early as 1913, denoting ey.
cellence. He supposed it was orig
inally a by-word in college. Thierry
says it is a corruption of Jankin
a diminutive of John. Anbury saws
it is derived from a Cherokee word
''eankke," which signified coward
slave" Another theory is that the
Indians, in endeavoring to pro
nounce the words English and Eng
lais, made it into Yengees, which
the English char ged to Yankee.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
DOVERITE'S NOMINATION
ID. v. Anderson of Dover, Mention
ed BY President Hoover

ed BY President Hoover
President Hoover included the
nomination of Daniel V. Anderson,
of Delaware, among nominations
of foreign service officers, vice con-
suls of career, and secretaries in
diplomatic service, sent to the Sen
ate on Thursday. These are the
first nominations to be presented
to the Senate during the present
session, and included a number of
departmental appointments, affect
ing various departments of the
government service. Mr.. Anderson
is the eldest son of former Lieuten-
ant Governor j. Hall Anderson.
He is a graduate Of the University
of Virginia and was born and rails
ed in Dover.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Education

consider a human soul without
education like marble in the quarry,
which shows none of its inherent
beauties until the skill of the pol
Usher fetches out the colors, makes
the surface shine and discovers
every ornamental cloud, spot and
vein that runs through the body of
it. Education, after the same man
ner, when it works upon a noble
mind, draws out to view every lat
ent virtue and perfection, without
which such helps are never able 20
make their Experimentation
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23
Gayly Colored Moth

The tapestry moth is not so COM
mon in the United States as the
case-making or the webbing clothes
moth, and is larger than either Of
them, having a wing expanse of
about three-fourths of an inch. It
is more strikingly colored. The head
and basal third of its forewings are
black, while the outer two-thirds of
the wings are creamy white, though
more or less obscured on the mid
die with gray. The legs are uni
formiy pale gray.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1931-12-23

saying: ooh, Rodger, dear, you've
missed hearing the most dramatic
reading over the new radio that ia
Their sent us today. Darling!
you look as pale as DEATH"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-02
Hecht Month

Black or brown with the
wanted Wambo sheep collars. At
this price, every boy should have
one of these grand warm coats!
f to 18.
(Second Floor)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-02
Hecht Month

Stunning boucles and suedes in
individual styles; with superb
furs; an extra special offering.
II to 20; SO to 81; 35H to 45H.
Third Floor)