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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10

Murals of the Louisiana State uni versity at Baton Rouge the state capital, depict scenes from the Richardson estate.
 The young singer came to New York three years ago to become an actress, and distinguished herself in straight dramatic roles in such summer stock offerings as Dead End" and Idiots Delight" but abandoned this career when she was offered job as soloist with Paul Whiteman's orchestra. It was here that her singing talents were proven for radio.
 Her favorite sport is horseback riding, and she recalls as one of her most triumphant experiences that of riding her own entry in one of the races back home. She lives in a New York apartment hotel spends much of her time studying voice and languages, but finds an occasional evening to have friends in for her favorite Creole Gumbo, dish peculiar to her sec- tion of Louisiana, one in which French and Spanish flavors have been skillfully combined Creole GumbO large chicken 1 slice lean ham | onion sprig of thyme
 bay leaf
 F chilli pepper
 2 tablespoons File powder (sassa-
 fras leaves pulverized into a | powder)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10

the potato when you peel it before it is cooked. You have lost the potassium, which makes tissues elastic and stimulates the liver; and you have lost the iodine con- tained in the potato skin to say nothing of the elusive, de- liciouS flavor that is lost when potatoes are peeled before cooking. So please don't do it. Have your new potatoes as often as you want within reason but prepare them in ways that do not require peeling until after they have first been cooked.
 There is no more appetizing salad than this one made with the first new potatoes and onions in the spring:
 New Potato Salad
 Cook four or five medium sized new potatoes in their skins; peel while still hot and cut into small cubes. To two cups of diced po- tatoes add half cup celery and half cup cucumber cut in cubes, one teaspoon minced green pepper, one tablespoon minced pi1niento, six small spring onions, sliced very thin, six green olives, chopped, and season to taste with salt and pep- per. Mix we'll and add three hard boiled eggs and enough well-sea- soned mayonnaise to make rather moist. Let stand for about IS minutes and serve in large salad bowl garnished with crisp leaves of lettuce and radish roses.
 This was the way in which most families in the gay sos ushered in the first new potatoes and green peas. Cook rather small, uniform new potatoes in their skins and then peel them. Cook new peas separately. Make rich cream sauce and in it reheat the potatoes (cut in halves or quarters) and the cooked peas which have been drained. Garnish with chopped parsley or finely minced chives. Another variation of this dish was new potatoes, peas and diced new carrots in the cream sauce. In addition to the delicious flavor of these three favorites served to- gether in the cream sauce, there was the fact of economy for just few potatoes, small meas ure of peas and carrots make a wonderfully generous dish and one that simplif1ed service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
BY BEATRICE HALL

There is at present a noteworthy movement throughout the world to improve the nutritional well-being of the people. The activity in Great Britain is of special interest because of the emphasis on increasing con- sumption of milk and other dairy products. A definite increase in milk consumption in England is reported as a result of the widespread estab- lishment of milk bars and factory milk service. There are now l060 milk bars in England and Wales, " is the statement made by the Ma tional Milk Publicity Council, Lon don; and this is an amazing figure when it is realized that three years ago there was not one in the coun- try.
 British scientists realize that be- cause most of the people of Britain have lived for generations on a diet which is deficient in many import ant constituents, they are not up to the standards they should have att tained. And they know that If the British diet can be improved, especi- ally the diet of the rising generation, the result will be better physical and even perhaps mental health, with a great decrease in sickness and phy- sical disability.
 Adequate Diet Not A Panacea
 Why does the public interest in proper feeding lag so many years behind the discoveries of science? One important reason is that the ef- fects of an adequate diet are not striking and immediate, and cannot be measured. If a dietetic cure for cancer or rheumatism were found, how quickly it would be seized upon! But the less apparent, though equal ly significant symptoms such as fat igue. faulty digestion, lack of energy and susceptibility to disease, all of whje hmay be due to an inadequate diet, are likely to be overlooked. It is true of course that an adequate diet is more important for children and adolescents than for adults, and the effects of an inadequate diet are most obvious during this period. It is in the years of growth that milk and the other protective foods fruits, vegetables and eggs-are most important, for during that time they are needed to build strong bones and teeth and healthy body. But for adults also, the protective foods arc essential; they will help to maintain health and vigor, and will prolong the period known as the prime of life".
 Increased Consumption of
 Milk Urged
 Increased consumption of milk and other dairy products is being urged by leaders in public health. Sir Edward Mellanby, an eminent English scientist, said recently: There is less mystery in the out standing long distance running and other athletic abilities of the Films when it is remembered that the land per head of population is three times that in Great Britain. Phys ical exercise and proper nutrition are necessary for best development of the body" says Dr. Mellanby, but a badly nourished body may be incapable of taking exercise or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10

of pimiento and stick sprigs of watercress in the ends.
 2. Cut bread in thin slices, re- move crusts and spread with fill ing made of soft American cheese mixed with little ketchup. Roll the slices tightly into cylinder, fas- ten with toothpicks and toast. Re- move toothpicks before serving.
 3. Remove crusts from a loaf of bread, cut lengthwise in very thin slices and spread with pimiento cheese. Roll up like jelly roll and cover with dampened towel. When ready to use cut in slices.
 4. Cut whole wheat bread in 1s-inch slices. Remove crusts and spread half the slices with a thick layer of soft American cheese mixed with a little cream. Top with the remain ing slices and cover with a damp cloth. When ready to use cut in half lengthwise and slice.
 5. Cut steamed brown bread or date and nut bread in very thin slices. Make small "3 decker" sand wiches by putting slices of bread together with cottage cheese filling. When ready to serve cut in quarters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
Recipe For 
 Party
BY CORA BRISTOL

The ideal party consists of a hos- tess (or hosD and five guests.
 Always select guests who will mix well together, because one person that doesn't it can simply ruin a potentially good party.
 The hostess Cor host) should try never to be hostess Cor host) but should be relaxed and just as much at ease sa though one of the guests or the guest of someone else.
 Let guests alone. let them make their own good times.
 At our home we let the guests roam the place at large. In one corner jig-saw puzzle may be in process of solution. In another room an electric device for making phon- ograph records will be working the records later played with results quite deadly!
 At these parties we never serve more than small buffet supper. It may consist of heaps of cold sliced turkey, ham, sausage, much chicken and lobster salad, hot frankfurters and baked beans and spaghetti or any part of 1t. "Just pot luck" we say.
 But the best party of all, we think, is when a half dozen friends get together in the kitchen after the show. The ice box becomes hostess. Food tastes better because it is eaten informally, and people are far more natural than when buffet or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
Pleasing The Man
BY CHLOE HANSON

Bake him a dozen red cherry pies and tarts; make fluffy pink fresh cherry mousse, and next time cherry sherbet but don't for get to make cherry cobbler before the season is out. No other cherry recipe seems quite so luscious, i'll mans sight. Here are old-fashioned directions which will produce a cob bier just like another used to make:
 Cherry Cobbler
 In baking dish put two cups of fresh cherries, seeded, and add one cup of cherry juice. Combine three tablespoons of flour and three quarters cup sugar and sprinkle over the top. Dot with bits of butter, put the dish in the oven and stir the fruit occasionally un- til it is piping hot. Over the top o fthe fruit place layer of pastry rolled one-third of an inch thick, making the dough as you would for biscuits, using one cup pastry flour sifted with one teaspoon baking powder, two tablespoons sugar and quarter teaspoon salt; put in three tablespoons of butter and gradually add enough cold water to make a soft dough. Bake the cobbler in hot oven for about 30 minutes. This recipe is enough for eight portions.
 When you have sponge cake left over, serve it with a fresh cherry sauce.
 Cherry Sauce
 Chop two cups pitted cherries and pour over them three-quarters cup of sugar. Heat in saucepan and cook for 10 minutes. Add a pinch of salt and thicken slightly with a roux of flour and butter. Remove from fire, when of the con- sistency of honey, add two table spoons of lemon juice. This also makes a nice sauce for vanilla ice
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10

A TIER the ceremony, one wants \ a bit of laughter, music. flow CTS, and a bite to eat. And, the we'd ding breakfast or supper should not be too complex! So here is sug gestion well-fitted to the season; simple to prepare; perfect for large or small groups.
 WEDDING BUFFET SUPPER Hot Bouillon Crisp Crackers
 Lobster Newburg on
 Toast Triangles
 Celery and Olives
 Assorted Sandwiches Fruit Salad with French Dressing Ice Cream Wedding Mods
 Wedding Cake
 Coffee with Cream
 Nuts Mints
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
 Slices Regal

When it comes to pastries, the French have way with them! However, many of these luscious sweets can be duplicated right in the home kitchen. One of these is Napoleon Slices-and whether or not Napoleon ever put fork into one, they're regal enough for em- perors and kings! Napoleon Slices are created from flaky Puff Pastry, Lemon Custard and Cocoa Frosting. Here's how to put them together: First, slice of pastry spread with custard; cover that with another slice of pastry and more custard: then top with a slice of pastry spread thickly with Cocoa Frosting. And here are the recipes:
 Puff Pastry
 l 1-2 cups pastry flour
 1-4 tsp. salt
 1-2 cup fat (half butter)
 IA cup cold irridated evap-
 orated milk
 2 tbsp butter
 Sift flour, then measure. Resift with salt. Cut fat into flour until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Add milk. Chill pastry thoroughly, then roll out thin on lightly floured board. Spread with part of the tablespoons butter, then fold pastry over. Repeat until all the butter is gone. Roll out thin in rectangular shape. Place on a bak- ing sheet and mark in 2x3 inch rec tangles. Bake in a hot oven (45O degrees F) until delicately browned. Cut while warm. Lemon Custard 1 egg 6 tbsp, sugar
 Pinch of salt
 1-2 cup irradiated evaporated milk 1-2 cup water tbsp. gelatin tbsp, cold water 1-2 cup irradiated evaporated milk, thoroughly chilled tbsp. lemon juice tsp. lemon rind Beat egg. Add sugar, salt, 1-2 cup milk and water. Cook over boiling water until custard coats spoon, about five minutes. Stir in the gela- tin that has been soaked in the cold water. Chill thoroughly. Whip the chilled milk stiff. Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice and whip until very stiff. Fold remaining lemon juice and rind and the whipped milk into the cold custard. Cocoa Frosting 1-3 cup cocoa 2-3 cup confectioners' sugar
 Irradiated evaporated milk l-2 tsp. vanilla Mix cocoa and confectioners' su. gar. Add sufficient milk to make frost.ng soft enough to spread. Add vanilla.
 Dainty. decorative. delicious Napoleon Slices arc lovely to look ] at and delightful to eat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
Make Salad Dressing With
 Fruit Juices
By WILDA HOYT

We are overlooking a good op- portunity for more minerals and vitamines when we fail to utilize the juices of fruits instead of vinegar in salad dressings. All the citrous fruits-especially lemons blend deliciously with oil and have the necessary tartness of vinegar, but a mellowness which the vinegar lacks. And added to this we have all the special bene- fits of the fresh fruit as com- pared with preserved or processed foods.
 French dressing made with lemon juice will at first seem a bit odd to you, if you have not been in the habit of making 1t with the fruit. But stay with it for a few days and see if your taste is not entirely converted. The pro- portion of oil and lemon juice are about the same as those of oil and vinegar, and the same sea- sonings may be used. This recipe I find a good one for plain French dressing:
 Lemon Juice French Dressing
 Mix together 1-4 teaspoon salt, 1-2 teaspoon white pepper, a few grains of paprika and a dash of sugar. If the flavor of onion or garlic is liked, rub the salad bowl with a cut bud of garlic, or drop little slice of raw onion in the bowl. Add tablespoons of oil, blend with the seasonings and gradually add l tablespoon of lemon juice, beating and stirring constantly. (Remove the onions as soon as the dressing is made.) For a larger quantity, increase the pro- portions
 This is good dressing for fruit salad:
 French Fruit Dressing
 Mix together tablespoons sugar, IA teaspoon salt a few grains of paprike; add 4 tablespoons alive oil and gradually beat into this mixture 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and tablespoons of pine apple juice. Chill and serve over fruit salad.
 If you like creamy boiled dress ing for fruit salad, this is a nice one:
 Boiled Fruit Dressing
 Beat the yolk of 2 eggs, add 2 tablespoons butter and 6 table, spoons of sugar, creamed together, mix well and add tablespoons of lemon juice, teaspoon of olive oil, 1-4 teaspoon each of mustard and paprika mixed with l teaspoon of salt. Cook in a double boiler. stirring constantly until thick. Cool and fold in 1-2 cup of cream that has been whipped.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
FavOrite Recipes of Famous People
LINDA LEE Radio Singer

Linda Lee, 22-year- old soloist on the Robert l.. Ripley radio show, was born Hattie Richardson, whose forebears helped to settle Louisiana and whose ancestral home at Greenwood, a few miles outside of New Orleans, is tagged "the most typical Colonial home in America"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
ASSORTED SANDWICHES

ASSORTED SANDWICHES
 1. Cut bread in thin slices, re- move crusts and spread with cot tage cheese. Roll the slices tightly into a cylinder and fasten with a toothpick. When ready to serve re- move toothpicks, garnish with strips
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10

l large lump of butter
 Salt, pepper, cayenne and rice
 Disjoint chicken, cut up ham and put both in pan with little butter to brown. Add chopped onion and fry to golden brown Add two quarts of water, seasoning herbs, etc. Bring to slow boil anc cook for about two hours. Remove larger portions of chicken, leaving small pieces. Before serving the gumbo, take off the fire and stil in the file. Serve with boiled rice The boiled chicken removed from the soup pot may be sliced and served separately with the dish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
Greater Consumption
 Of Milk World Need
Worldly Movement Started to Improve Nutrltional
 WelI-Being of People Says Beatrice Hall
of profiting by it." Milk the Daily Bleasing


 Milk the Daily Blessing
 Dr. Mellanby deplores the enor- nous consumption of other bever- ages in Great Britain, and ernpha- sizes the fact that every boy and girl needs a quart of milk daily, and every adult at least a pint. Milk is the normal drink e all infants and children, he says in a recent article in the London Times, and should be regarded as the daily blessing. If parents will make use of the new knowledge of nutrition. and build their diet and that of their children around the protec- tive foods-milk, vegetables, fruits and eggs-they can expect better health and an extension of the per- iod of active adult life for them- selves, and optimum physical and mental development for their chil- dren. Wisdom and enlightenment" says Dr. Mellanby, twill have their reward"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
Tested Recipes
SOUTHERN sUCCOTAsH


 Cook separately equal quantities of fresh green corn and fresh li- mas. In two tablespoons of melted butter saute one teaspoon each of finely minced green pepper and sweet pimiento. Add corn and beans and enough cream or rich milk to moisten. Season with salt and pepper, heat for few minutes and serve at once.
 WINTERGREEN ICE CREAM
 A quick and easy way to make a cool and pretty summer ice cream is to scald one pint of rich milk or cream, add a dozen sticks of win tergreen stick candy crushed very fine and let stand until dissol.ed Cool end fold into one pint of whipped cream. Freeze in the usual way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10

plate service is offered ."It.s lots more fun to hear corks pop, make your own sandwiches and sit on a shining waxed linoleum floor, or on kitchen tables and chairs, than to be on dress parade in the living room."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10
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Foods  To Beauty
By RATTLE

By KATHLEEN MARY QUINLAN
 We are eating potatoes with more abandon since curves have come in again, but this declara-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-10

ton of 1ndepend- ence does n o t give us the right to discard t h e m o s t beneficial properties of the potato the minerals W h 1 c h lie just next to the skin. From the standpoint of beauty, you have practically wasted
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06
INSURANCE BILLIONS

1t may be surprising to many to learn
panies in the United States for the year
1896 totalled $50 million dollars, reach
ing new high mark. This was more
than 843 million greater than their in
come for 1929
The total value of policies in force at
the end of 1886 was 1O4, 667 million dol
lars, as compared with 1913, 146 million in
1929 Total assets of the companies were
"a 874 million in 1886, as against 1882
million in 1929
1t is interesting to note that more new
life insurance was purchased by the Amer
lean people in 1886 than the total amount
in force in the year 1900, which was about
1862 million. New policies issued during
1926 totalled 1861 million. 1t is believed
that this amount was equalled or exceeded
in 1887.
Life insurance on sound financial
basis was established less than 100 years
ago, after numerous failures AS con-
Quoted today it began with the incorpora-
ton of the New York Mutual in 1912,
closely followed by the establishment of
the New York Life, the Penn Mutual and
others which are among the leaders at
present.
There are now more than 1870 million
life insurance policies in effect in the
United States, an increase of approx
mately 90 per cent in the last 10 years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06
DEATH BEGINS AT FORTY"
Courier Journal


This is the title Of a book Just issued con-
tanning an analysis of automobile deaths and in
juries in the United States during 1887. The
forty does not refer to age but to speed. The
record shows that in accidents to automobiles
travelling slower than forty miles an hour there
is chance in forty-four of some one being
killed. In accidents to travelling faster than
of every nineteen mishaps.
The law of motion is that a moving body
tends to continue in straight line, and the
energy of moving body is in proportion to the
square of the speed. This means that at twenty
five miles hour car has enough energy to
fifty miles an hour it has developed not twice that
energy but four times, and may turn over four
times, and at seventy-five miles it has nine times
the energy it had at twenty-five miles. 1t follows
that any kind of accident to at fifty miles
probably will be four times as serious as one at
twenty five miles, and at seventy-five miles it will
be nine times as serious as at twenty five miles
There is no getting away from these figures. and
every one who drives automobile should under
stand their meaning
In the year just past 40 300 Americans were
killed and 1,22l ,O90 injured by automobiles.
In the six major wars that our country has waged
since 1776 and which lasted total of fifteen years
the number of soldiers who were killed in action
or died of wounds was 244357 In the fifteen
years from 1923 to 1887 victims of our auto
mobiles numbered 44l,9l2 almost twice the num-
Der Of soldiers who died for their country. The
automobile victims died for nothing
Study of this disgracefu record reveals two
major causes for acknowledgements speed and
lack OF consideration for others both IN cars and
on foot There is safe speed, somewhere be
tween five and sixty miles an hour for every
driving condition. Notwithstanding improve
ment in both cars and in highways and better
quality of law enforcement during the last year
the number of traffic deaths rose to a new high
engineers and the police are powerless to check
the slaughter Sensible driving and walking w.ll
check 1t if the drivers of cars viii remember that
death begins AZ forty"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06
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| AW FOR THE LADIEC
ETHEL ERNEST MURRELL
o osaaasSasAes

Legally. today the married wo-
men of Florida is the OK, the bur-
den bearer, the village idiot. Does
that sound like strong language?
We repeat, married women are
classed with idiots! Worse, they
are classed with lunatics and chill
dren! Don't take our word for
it. 1t is not we who hurl these
insulting epithets at you. On the
contrary, we tell you how the
laws of Florida class you. Go to
the nearest law library and read
there for Observation-Disclosures
women, lunatics, idiots and mi
nors" You'll find it in the
Statutes, you'll find it in the case
books, and you'll find it stamped
like a slave brand across the
brow of every free-bOrn Ameri-
can woman who is married in
the state of Florida.
And gentlemen, we do not
like it, either! We mother you,
and cook for you, and bear your
children! We listen to your jokes
and smile when you dance on our
toes, and even play opposite you
at bridge. We drag our weari-
ness around golf courses after
you, and scorch our threats with
cigarettes and cocktails, to play
up to what you call good sports
manship. The modern woman has
become the grandest little quick
change artist in the world. But
in return, we want acknowledge
ment of the intellect we have UNI
earthed to please you! If we're
going to have to take our medi-
cine before the law the same as
you do. we want our rights be-
fore the laWi
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06
Now that Key West has 'limburger

Now that Key West has 'limburger
cheese tree" it's up to The Key West Citi-
zen to tell folks what sort of odor the
blooms -Times-Union. No authority
on odoriferousness. The Citizen begs all
who are interested in the scent of the him
burger cheese tree" TO drive to Key West
over the scenic Overseas Highway and IN
hale the pungent aroma. to which Shake
speare probably referred in the Merry
Wives of Windsor. when he designated It
as. the rankest compound of villanous
smell that ever offended nostril"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-06

Not being in position to handle large
conventions at the present time, herself,
Kew West should encourage and endorse
conventions for Miami All the conven-
tionsts will express desire to drive TO
Key West over the New Highway and un-
doubtedly motorcades will be formed TO
make the trip. In making its bids for these
conventions. Miami will not be slow in
stressing the charm and beauty OF the
Overseas Highway "a az added attraction
to what the Magic City has to offer.