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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-09
BY WILLIAM ID. CLARK

 United Press Staff COrrespOndent) Copyright, 1938, by United Press)
 Hartford, Conn, April 9.-(UP). Five years ago the towns of Moosup, Danielson and Plainfield were outstanding examples of fourishing Connecticut textile com- munities.
 There were 6,190 workers em- ployed in these three towns and im- mediate suburbs. Production was at it's peak, while other textile areas were feeling the pinch of the de- pression.
 At the turn of the present year, the situation appeared to have re- versed itself. The payrolls at Moos- up, Danielson and Plainfleld has slumped 61.95 per cen to 3,835 work CTS.
 The principal reasons for the slump were the NRA, labor demands and the keen inroads made by com petition from the south.
 The first blow WIS felt in 1881 when $50 workers at the tire fabrics producing plant of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.,, at Goodyear, near Danielson, were thrown out of employment when the mill moved to the south to be nearer the source of cotton supply. Labor, too, was cheaper in the south. The entire town was deadened by this move. The deserted plant, once assessed at $500, ,O0O, is now on the tax books at $.O,000. It has been bought by the Rogers Paper Manufacturing com- pany Of Manchester. The company village went on the auction block to private buyers. It has not been decided when the plant will resume operations.
 Danielson first felt the employ ment slump after the NRA went into effect and the Powdrell x Alexander, Inc, was forced to lay off $50 workers on its third shift because the recovery act prohibited more than double shift. For tunately woolen and cotton mills in the vicinity took up some or the slack when they were forced to ex- pand from one to two shifts. Many
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liquidate, leaving $50 without en- ployment. The $500,000 plant now is assessed for $10,000.
 The last stunning climax came early this year when the Lawton mills at Plainfield, employing 1,250 at capacity, was shut down by strike over a wage readjustment and finally sold it's holdings There were no jobs at all after that.
 Plainfield,s only industry was wiped out. A plant once valued at 5000, ,000 was sold for a little more than $1,000,0OO. The loss in taxes alone to the town was staggering. The loss of jobs was demoralizing to virtually every family.
 General business operating in this vicinity represents an investment of about $150,000 as comparde with textile holdings of $7000,00O. Gen. eral business employs about $50 hands.
 A few smaller mills, employing 100 or more, aided somewhat in re- lieving dire distress but the effect was far from satisfying.
 Town officials fcaed heavier re- lief loads, smaller tax incomes and the possibility of wholesale re- movals.
 (Tomorrow: Norwich, Jewett City.)
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CHOIRS TO OFFER
 EASTER CANTATA
Baptist, Congregational Singers to Be Heard in
 Program Tomorrow

A cantata entitled, "The Seven Last Words" by Theodore Dubois, will be offered by the joint choirs of the First Baptist and Second Congregational churches at the Sec ond Congregational church tomor- row evening at 8 o'clock featur- ing Carolyn Ives, soprano, Mrs. Mar jorie Nuhn, soprano, Harold Sey- mour tenor, Leland Stacy, tenor, Wilbur Allen, bass, Kenyon Cong don, baritone, Frances Beach Carl son, conductor, and Carl J. Jenson, crganist.
 The program will be as follows: Prelude: Good Friday Music, from Parsifal .............. Wagner Hymn 118
 Invocation and Prayer-Rev. Dr. John c. Walker. Reading Cantata: The Secen Last Words Introduction: "Oh, all ye who
 travel"--Mrs. Nuhn.
 First Word: Father, forgive
 them"-Mr. Congdon, MT. Stacy
 and Chorus.
 Second Word: "Verily, thou shalt
 be in Paradise" Seymour,
 sMr. Allen and Chorus.
 Third Word: "See, O Woman!
 Here behold thy son"-Miss Ives,
 MT. Seymour, Mir. Allen and
 Chorus.
 Good Friday Meditation by Dr. Walker.
 Fourth Word: God, my Father,
 why hast Thou forsaken me- MT. Congdon.
 Fifth Word: T am athirst"-Mr. Congdon, MT. Stacy and Chorus. Sixth Word: Father, into Thy
 hands commend my spirit"-
 MT. Seymour and Chorus. Seventh Word: Tt is finished"- Miss Ives, Mir Seymour, MT. AL len and Chorus. Offertory: Choral: 70 Sacred Head, Now Wounded" ....... Bach Hymn 120 (verSes 1 and D. Benediction
 The Sevenfold Amen Postlude-"God, the Father, Ever ldoLIlB DdCIl
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ohm Burger Leads
 Eighth Grade List
EghN-twO Pupils of Five Upper Grades on Sprague
 School Honor Roll for March
WATERVILLE

Thursday first communion service this evening at Grace Methodist Episcopal church at 7:30 o'clock. The public is invited to attend.
 Easter Sunday morning at 6 o. clock & sunrise service will be held at the church which will be fol- lowed by an Easter morning break fast. At 0:15 o'clock the same morn- ing the Everyman's Bible class will meet. At 10 o'clock Rev. Alison J. Smith, pastor, will preach on The Real Significance of Easter" follow ed by baptismal services and a re- ception of new members into the church.
 At o'clock in the evening the choir, under the direction of Charles T. Probert, will render the cantata, "The King Triumphant.
 Next Wednesday, April IS, at 8 o'clock the Waterbury City Fedora tion of Mems Bible classes will meet with Rev. MT. Smith delivering a sermon entitled, Vital Religion. Rev. MT. Smith is also scheduled to lecture over Station WATR next Monday, Tuesday and We'd nesday mornings.
 Duncan Grain Team Leads
 Mrs. James Duncan and Mrs. Ralph Grain scoring 45 match points led the players in the first session of the final tournament of the Cornell Bridge Club of Waterville, which took place this week. The competi- tion was keen, however, with two teams tied at A 1-2 points for sec- ond place. They were Mrs. Justin Clarke and Mrs. John Collins and Mrs George Goggin and Mrs. Clar- ence Hallock. The third place team, only another half-point behind, was Mrs. George French and Mrs. Frank Cookson, who scored A points. The next session will take place on Tues day afternoon.
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Eighty-two pupils from the five upper grades of Sprague school are IAeted on the March honor roll, xeieased today by Principal Mary Congdon. The leaders in each grade are: Grade 6, John Burger; grade z, Betty Hall; grade 6, Ellen Paul: exade s, Martha Finn and grade 1, Jane Cookson.
 The complete list of honr Stu- Geflts follows:
 Grade 8--John, Burger Frank Eeliher. Doris Downs. Catherine Williams, Constance Smith, Rose nary Denehy, Frank Castanheria, Barbara Cookson, Nancy Platt, Vim cent Sang Lloret, Frederick Seidel, Raymond Wilson, Louise Lefevre.
 Grade 7-Betty Hall John Reihl, Elmer Hoethke, Benjamin Bradley, Frances Finn, Mary Donahue, Man. ey Leferve, John Moriarty, Doris @eevens, Edward Higham, Veronica Whalen, Roberta Davis, Donald Torgue, Virginia Meyers, Betty DiIn- Uck, Arnold Blatherwick, Medella 1anouette, Josephine Flores, Dan- 1el Perrillo, Alvin Elsdon, Ellen Mo- 1kahon, Christine Dadario, Andrew Dunne, George Platt.
 Grade 6EEllen Paul, James Nor TOW, Norman Elsdon, Jennie Flores Walter Horman, Frances German, Beverly Northrop, Donald Viall, Ann Darlington, Clarence DiBlasi, Albert Caron, Dorothy Cook, Mar Garet Paul, Marjorie Truelove, Mary Wagner, Harley Henion, Secry Goggins, Donald Baker, Mar 9aret Heaney, Edward Chapman, Nancylou Totten.
 Grade 5-Marhta Finn, Ernest Lanouette, Ruth Batchelder, Wen dell McKinnerney. Virginia Hoad- Icy, Frederick Lefevre, Arthur Sei- del, George Kraft, Santina Cali, Raymond Buckley.
 Grade EJane Cookson, Walter Eaber, Jane Johnson Thomas Kelly, Jane Mcbride, Lloyd Wright, Doris Elsdon, Thelma Elsdon, Pricillia Henchel, Mary Ciaccio, Eleanor Di- Hlasi Joseph Eileen, Barbara Burns, Bevely Davis.
 Service Tonight
 Rev. Murray Hunter of Thomas ton will assist in the Maundy
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TERM FOR
 NARCOTIC PEDLAR

The conviction of John Derosier, 30, on narcotic charge recalled to local authorities the escape of Derosier as he was being taken to the courthouse here from the county jail in January of 1880. Derosier. who was given a one to four year prison term in Hartford Tuesday, made his getaway here by slipping the handcuffs from his hands and running around the corner of the building. He was arrested and brought back from Cleveland, Ohio, in May of the same year.
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small plants, employing from 75 to 200, increased their payrolls.
 The general strike of 1884 was decisive blow to the industry. The curtain factory of the Wowdrell & Alexander closed, throwing $50 out of jobs. From an employment list of 1,700 in 1930 the concvern dropped away to HOO at the pres- ent time.
 In 1884 the Wauregan-Q -Quinebaug mills, with plants at Wauregan and Danielson, shut down the latter mill and merged at Wauregan. Three hundred lost their jobs. The con- cern produces rayon and cotton.
 Moosup received the hardest blow of all during the general strike when Aldrich brothers decided to
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Bowling Banquet

The Waterville Women's Bowling League recently concluded their sea- son with banquet at Patsy Browne Silver Chalet. To Mrs. Peter Corri- gan went the prize for the highest average for the season and Mrs. Raymond Dunlavey took the award for the highest single string rolled.
 Those who were present were: Mrs. Grace Hadley, Mrs. Rita De- CUTS, Mrs. Peter Corrigan, Mrs. Raymond Dunlavev, Mrs. Frank Robinson, Mrs. James Duncan, Miss Lillian Murphy, Mrs. Anne Coffey, Miss Ruth Nichols, Miss Dorothy Axelby, Miss Mae Dillon, Miss Edy thAxelby, Miss Marjorie Coffey, Miss Leah MacLelland, Miss Patri- cia Coffey, Miss Agnes Dunn, Mrs. James Ploaters, Miss Dorothy Burns, Mrs. Joseph McArdle, Mrs. Joseph Seery, Mrs. William H. Dun- lavey, Mrs. William Moore, Mrs. Earl Ericsson, Mrs E. Lester Platt, Mrs. Katherine Malia, Mrs. Louis Daderio, Mrs. George Goggins, Mrs. John Senior, Mrs. George Grenier, Mrs. David Triggs and Mrs. John Maher.
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INJURED FOOT

Samuel Lodarski, of Prospect. was admitted to Waterbury hospi- tai last night after he had severed several tendons in his left foot while chopping wood. His condi- ton was reported good.
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Plan Card Party

The date of the annual spring card party of the Young Peoples Sodality of the Children of Mary of St. Michaers parish has been set for the evening of May 9th. Miss Bernice Ryan, the president, heads the committee on arrangements, and
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Good Friday Services


 Rev. Michael J. Heating will cele- brate the Mass of the Pre-Sancti- fled on tomorrow, Good Friday, at 7:30 am. Following the mass there will be the veneration of relic of the true cross. At 300 p. m. there will be the Way of the Cross, the reading of the Passion of Our Lord, and veneration of the relic. The final Good Friday services will be at 7:30 D. m. when the servises of the afternoon will be repeated.
 At St. Paul's Episcopal church Rev. Raymond D. Adams, the rector, will celebrate Holy Communion at 800 a. m. All children of the church school are expected to attend this service, since there usual Friday afternoon service held for them dur ing Lent will be omitted tomorrow.
 At 800 D. m. Rev. Mir. Adams will conduct the service of evening prayer and preach a sermon on the significance of the Passion and Death of Our Lord.
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Auxiliary to Meet
 The executive board of Unit of Davis Post, American Legion Aux Hilary, will meet at Fraternity Hall at 7:30 o'clock this evening. Report will be made on the district meeting held last night at Seymour, and on the first meeting of the recently organized Junior Auxiliary.
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Assembly Program

At the last regular assembly Of the pupils of Sprague Grammar school, the pupils of the first and second grades, taught by Miss Mary Mo- Gowan, presented the entertain ment, with the following program: Poem: Dear Little Bluebird" - Grade 2.
 Song: 'The Robin a:::.l the Chicken"-Grades l and 2. Recitation: "Billy's Hearing" - Alfred Sullivan.
 Son: John Brown Had Lit tie Indian" - Ten Girls. Recitation: "A Good Boy"-John Byrnes.
 Dance: Little Miss Hollyhock"- Barbara Walsh, Carol Kenney, and Marjorie Cantin. . Recitation: "Septum" - Roberta Mcbride.
 Vocal Solo: "When Am Big" - Rodney Morrow.
 Dance: "The Postman" - Carol Kenney and Marjorie Cantin. Tap Dance Betty Leisring and Jeanne Lefeore.
 Sketch: "The Lion and the Mouse" - Rodney Morrow, John Byrnes, Betty Atherton, John Dillon and Barbara Walsh. Song: "Daffy Down billy" - Girls of first and second grades
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NRALabor Demands
 Contributing Factor
Southern Competition Also Responsible for Business
 Decline in Textile Industries of Connecticut

Note: This fourth series six articles dea of textile industry in Connecticut industry reacted changing conditions of the past five yearsD
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The last session of the Second Congregational church Sunday Noon Club will be held April l2 in the chapel with Attorney Walter F. Torrance reviewing the book, "The Biography of Henry Van Dyke" written by his son, Ter tius Van Dyke. The new officers of the club include President Le- land l.. Stacy, Vice-President Howard L. HoIcOmb, Secretary Walter M. Boyd, Treasurer Rob- ert Kerr, Song Leader Robert Currie, and Organist William E. Mcbride.
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RORsTFnDTN1 I'M TROpIC

BOBSLEDDING IN TROPICS
 Honolulu - (UP) - Bobsledding in the tropics is enjoyed b Hawaiian school children. Reviving an an- cient sport known as holua, the youngsters ride stubby wooden bob
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sleds down a slope covered with dry grass. They whip down their 100- yard course at 25 miles an hour.
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Auxiliary to Meet

Miss Mary Brenneis is the refresh ment committee chairman.
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WOmen's Washable
 Suede Gloves
WOmen's Hand Bags

Genuine leather. In patent and fine grains and doeskin gabardine with patent and calfskin trim. Envelope bags and novelty pouch bags. Back strap and top handle. Navy, Red, Grey, Green, British Tan, Maize, Violet, Dubonette and Light Blue. Price
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Hand sewn and overSeam styles. Wan Raalte make" Beige, Grey, ChamoiS, Navy, Ginger, Brown, Black and White. Price
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-20
GARDEN OUTPUT DOUBLED

Sebastopol, Gal. - (U.P.) - Mrs. Joseph Jerome has . garden that boasts this year of two crops oi cantaloups, cabbage 10 inches in diameter, sunfiowers 48 inches in circumference and l 3.4 pound to- matoes.
 powdered sugar. Squeeze in the
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HOLIDAY HAM

EOR the briefcr modern menu this
 Y Thanksgiving serve . Stuffed
 Turkey Ham,. Less prctentious
 than the traditional turkey, 1t still is festive fare of holiday distinction. Wash and drain Q capacious 8 to 10 ID. ham. Then stuff quite full with . robust dress ing made by combining { cups slightly dry bread crumbs for body, 2 cups crisp Rico Flakes for q binding that will not Do too moist.
 # cup butter, melted, to moisten, 1 teaspoon salt, A teaspoon pepper and 1 finely minced medium size onion for flavor accent. Pull the cut edges of the ham together and fasten them firmly with strong toothpicks inserted opposite each other at one-inch intervals. Skew CTS will do tho trick instead If you have them handy. Then interlace twine string between the tooth- picks to pull the cut edges of tho meat together, tic securely, and the savory stuffing will all be sealed inside. Place in Q roaster fat side
 up, sprinkle with 3 teaspoons salt and pop in . moderate oven, 36Os
 F., to bake. This dish will require about % minutes of baking time per pound, though 1t may take. a little longer depending on the length of time the oven door Is left open during basting. Baste every 20 minutes or so with sauce com- bining small bottle of ruddy Tomato Ketchup, M cup tart Pure Cider Vinegar, 1 cup water, z tablespoons brown sugar and z tablespoons Prepared Brown Mus tard. A little hot water will thin the sauce if it becomes too thick during baking. Arrange on an abundant platter and garnish with a colorful circle of parsley .sprigs, carrot flowers and slices of Fresh Cucumber Pickle. Serve with sauce remaining in ronster. To make the carrot flowers slice c medium sixa- .earret worry thlnly cresAwise.
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America is proud of It's annual days of celebration, especially of what it coi1siderg the original ciiSs
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without discounting the supreme importance of well-roasted tur- key and the right vegetables to go with 1t, let me emphasize two other necessary items on the menu <. cranberry jelly and crisp, clrled cel- cry. Small things. you may think 7. but they have Q very dennite appeal for Thanksgiving.
 Cranberry Jelly
 Cranberry jelly should be firm and clear and tender, yet stiit enough to hold It's shape. Cranber- ry sauce is made with the whole fruit, and some prefer 1t, but to my taste the Jelly Is the finer form.
 To make 1t to perfection, wash and measure the berries, add one- half as much sugar as cranberries and one-fourth as much water: That is to say, for one quart or berries use two cups of sugar and one cup of water.
 Put over Q medium flame and let come to Q boil: skim of the foam that rises to tho top. After the boil ing point is reached, cook steadily (hut not rapidly for 20 minutes. Then, with . wooden spoon, force the berries through Q very fine stralner. When cold, this will give you Q firm, natural Jelly 50 reliable in texture that 1t can be cut into fancy shapes with cutters.
 like cranberry jelly served it' odd shapes, by the way, and very often use 1t In lieu of salad. I feel that Thanksgiving dinner is so hearty that there is little need Tor e salad course; 1t may well be saved until later in the day. - :.
 Instead, I make up e little salad service including cranberry jelly, celery and olives placed on small individual salad plates garnished with 0 crisp lettuce leaf. This ar- rangement B both handy and at tractive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-20
Pleasing
 The Man
Good Ciblet Gravy Is His Strong Point
By CHLOE JAMESON

Whether you have white or sweet potatoes, creamed onions or yellow turnips, or the more elaborate type of green vegetable such as aspara- gus, Brussels sprouts or artichoke 1t doesn't really matter to the men invited, 50 long as there is plenty of good gravy. Preferably giblet gravy. This is q point which no hostess should overlook, for most men are inordinately fond of turkey gravy. 3 f5Nt te
 And 1t should be clear, smooth gravy, except for those delicious particles of chopped heart, liver and gizzard which you put In for the final touch. The best thickening agent for this purpose is to use . little quick cooking tapioca which,. as It cooks up, becomes clear instead of cloudy, after the manner of corn- starch or four roux. The amount to be used depends on the degree of thickness you like for gravy. Add teaspoonful of the tapioca first. let cook for Q few moments and sec the effect before using q larger quantity.
 To make fluffy yellow turnips that everyone will like, cook the turnipa and mash them; to three cups of turnip add one tablespoon chopped onion cooked until light brown In | two tablespoons butter. Season with one teaspoon salt, one tablespoon sugar, e little pepper and cayenne. Add two egg yolks well beaten and fold in the two stiffly beaten egg whites. Put in huttered pudding dish and bake in Q hot oven 20 to 20 minutes.
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------- AT THE CHILDREN's TABLE : Two Dishes That Will Treat
 Your Thanks giving Guests
.-.----By MARY HOPE NORRIS
 Founder -Mothers' Radio Round Table

berries and pumpkin pie for physi- cal sustenance, and Q day of thanks for all our blessings.
 The first Thanksgiving feast, some three h. ndred years ago, yas unique. indeed. The guests num- bered about one hundred and fifty most of them Indians braves headed by that famous old chief, Massaaoit. The gathering was call- cd by Governor Bradford of New England. who. with Captain Smith, felt that Q joint thanksgiving oi red man and white man would make for better understanding and friendship.
 And what @ lavish feast 1t wasl Tho list Of protein foods alone is amazing. There were berbecued venison steaks, wild turkey, geese ducks, water fowls, codfish, clafnf and oysters, with the usual vege. tables and sweets Q collection which would prostrate the present day homcmaker.
 But living to eat B no longer fashionable; we now eat to live Foods are carefully combined witf an eye to normal weight, ilerv' norrishrnent. and Q balancing O. alkine and forming foods fl daily menus. Following this trend you can safely include sweet DO tntoes in orange cups. and frozer cranberrtes in the Thanksgiving menu for children.
 Sweet Potatoes in Orange Cups Beat, until light and fluffy, three cups hot mashed sweet potatoes with one-fourth cup butter, ont teaspoonful salt, one and one.hali tablespoon sugar and three- -fourthi cup crushed pineapple. Halves oranges, remove pulp carefully and reserve for salad or fruit emu. Pile potato mixture in orange shells sprinkle one-third cup chopped salted nuts on top and lightly brown In oven.
 Frozen Cranberries
 Boil one-fourth cup sugar and three- -fourths cup water to . syrul and dissolve in 1t one-half table spoon gelatin which has been sack. cd in two tablespoons cold water. Tt this add two tablespoons orange juice, and contets of Q No. 2 car cranberry sauce or two and one- half cups drained cooked cran' berries, both to Dc sieved befor, adding to mixture. When cool, freez' to muish then fold in ono we'll beaten cgg white. Continue freezing
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Mince-rrleat In .1735
Early American Recipe
 for Thanksgiving, 1856

Now B tho time for all good housewives, if they would make their sons and husbands happy, 10 prepare the mincemeat for Thanks giving dinner.
 Pumpkin pic and plum pudding rim n close second and third, rec spectively, but the Thanksgiving dessert most popular among mef, Is unquestionably mince pie, acc cording to Alex dc Candido, 1or. merly maitrc d'hotel at one of New York's famous hotels.
 There are. .of course, many ex. cellent grades of mincemeat sold 1n tho stores, but 1t is more m Keeping, certainly, with Thanks giving traditions to prepare it n the home, Alex pointed out. Mince- meat recipes have changed little! he said, since Colonial days, and offered, in proof of this contention, one which he had copied from . collection of early American recipes at tho New York Public Library It H called "The Hon. Paul Rich. ards Receipt to Make Excellent Mincc Pyes" and is dated l736.
 Paul Richards Pic
 "rake 0 Meats (cow'D Tongue boil and blanch 1t, chop fine, ado to every pound of tongue two t,o,inds and half of Sewet, two pounds and Q half Of entrants after they are washed and celaned, one ,n,ind of raigins, stoned and chopped very fine, . quarter Of or once each of mace, cloves, nutmegs and cinnamon, . pound Of driec
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Best. Method Recomme ended For Making Cranberry Jelly
tFrom waldorf-A storia, Ne,
BY BERNICE BRETT

For cranberry sauce-a purely New England term--use a little mere water than was specified for making jelly; cook only until berries burst, then pour into @ serving bowl.
 Curled Celery
 Remove coarse strands from the straight outside stalks of celery and smooth rough edges down with q sharp knife. (Never scape celery, as this discolors it.) Cut the ends off square and make two or three long gashes in the stalks. Put them in ice water containing Q little lem on juice (which will keep the cel- cry white), let stand over night Next day every strand will be crisp and white, beautifully curled and tender.