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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
By MARIE CLIFFORD

Better be thinking about that Easter parade. And I'm not talking about the new hats and fresh white gloves that make the costume eligible for the March 24th procession, but the Easter dinner that will grace your table and carry out the tradi- tions of Easter day.
 Ham, of course, is the meat selec- ton. It has been traditional as fes- tive meat since festivals were given to the Gooddess of Spring-long se- fore our own Christian Easter. A baked ham, beautifully, but simply garnished, makes about the most decorative dish you can put onto your table, besides suiting every ones taste to a T.
 All kinds of gay garnishes are pos sible for this Easter ham, but we rather go for the easy. ones that look attractive but take no time to prepare. You can use gaily colored
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

3 1-2 teaspoons baking powder
 3-4 teaspoon salt
 1-3 cup orange juice
 2 teaspoons grated orange rind
 Colored sugar.
 Blend butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well. Add all-bran. Sift flour with baking powder and salt and add to first mixture alternately with orange juice. Stir in orange rind and chill. Roll out dough to about l-S inch thickness working with a small amount at time and keeping the remainder chilled. Cut into fancy shapes with floured cutters; sprinkle with colored sugar and bake on greased baking sheet in moderately hot oven (375 degrees F) about 10 minutes. Yield: 5 dozen cookies (various shapes).
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vanilla; stir until nearly stiff. Add coconut and shape into Easter eggs. Place on waxed paper to harden.
 Eggs fin Easter BOnnets 6 lard-cooked eggs # teasp. salt
 M teasp. hlak pepper 1s teasp, dry mustard % teasp Worcestershire sauce. 1ls teaspS. grated onion. 1 teasp. drained horse-radish 2 teasps. melted butter 1s cup mayonnaise 3 tbsps, finely chopped sweet
 pickles
 1-3 jar d-S cup) shrimps, finely
 chopped
 Cut eggs in half, lengtll-wise Remove, yolks and rub through sieve. Add remaining ingredients, except mayonnaise, pickles and shrirnps.
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Add mayonnaise and beet until fluffy. Add pickles and sllrimps Refill egg whites. leaving sur1ace roughened. Serves G.
 Coffee for Easter Brunchl
 A rare bit of entertaining or rabbit day is an Easter brunch, a happy-but-not-drastic departure from time-bound custom. It can be strictly family affair or part Of the seasons festivities that include visiting firemen. Coffee is the star performer, and must come to the table strong, steaming hot, and fragrant as your Easter-Ynorn cor-' sage. Flavor insurance that pays premieums is achieved when you allow a heaping tablespoonful of coffee to each measuring cup ot wa ter and a well-rounded table IS set with coffee go-togethers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
Baked Lima Puree

Baked Lima Puree
 2 cups cooked, dried LimaS 1M cupfuls milk
 l minced onion IF cupfuls bread crumbs
 egg, slightly beaten
 h teaspoon salt
 Rub Liinas through coarse sieve Scald the milk, add onion, bread crumbs, egg, pureed Limas and sea- sonings. Turn into buttered bak- ing dish and bake in a moderate oven (36O degrees F) until firm iu center, about 20 minutes.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15

Blend butter and sugar; add beaten egg yolks and vanilla. Sift flour with baking powder; add nut meats; combine with first mixture. Chill. Form into balls: roll in all- bran which has been crushed slightly. Place on greased baking sheet and flatten with fork. Top with nut meat or candied cherry. Bake in moderately hot oven (400 degrees F) for 10 minutes. Yield: 2 Ia dozen cookies @ inches in diameter).
 Orange Sugar Tarts
 (For rabbits and chickens)
 1-2 cup butter
 cup sugar
 egg
 1-2 cup all-bran
 3 cups flour
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Mint Ice Cream on Angel Cake
 Coffee
 The Amnetfxers

The Appet1ZerS
 Prepare assorted hot appetizers and impale on toothpicks. Stock the toothpicks into 8 large grapefruit pyalced in center of plate and sur- round with crackers. Serve these in the living room with glasses of to- mato juice cocktail.
 For Hot AppetiHers Use:
 l. Tiny cocktail sausages, fried crisp.
 ?. Olives wrapped in bacon and broiled. \ 3. One inch slices of canned to- nlatoes> circled with bacon and broiled.
 The Ham:
 Remove wrappings from 12-14 pound ham and rewrap loosely in the inside glassine wrapper. Place fat side up on rack in any shallow open roasting pan. Do not cover or add any water. Roast in 325 degrees F. oven for IS minutes to the pound. About one hour before done, remove paper and rind and score fat. Dot with cloves, spread with two cups brown sugar and mixed with one half cup of the juice drained from crab apple pickles and return to same low oven. Baste once or twice with remaining apple pickle juice. Serve garnished with the crab apple pickles and watercress.
 The Salad
 Use one of the largest sized canned peach halves you can buy in each salad plate with lettuce underneath. In the nest formed by the peach ar- range whole, stoned cherries, and tiny balls of cream cheese as the Easter Eggs" Serve whipped cream salad dressing separately. The Dessert
 Serve slices of angel cake topped with a scoop of pale green mint ice cream and set tiny little cotton Easter bunny on the edge of each plate. These serve as tiny favors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-15
Green Grows
 The Menu On March 17

Green grows the menus on the good St. Patrick's day and as well try to still Tara's harp and smash the clay pipe as to avoid verdancy in your menus. (But use a wise hand when you add green coloring. please.)
 But all that glitters is not-em- erald. Give thought to shamrock rolls, to "praties," to good 'pig" dishes. Serve up "Boxty" (Irish potato pancakes) with plenty of coffee made strong and black, the way the Irish prefer. And is 1t a party you do be thinkin' long on darlin'p Then acushla mavourneer and begorra and bedad-shurel SHAMROCK ROLLS Irish as Paddy's Pipe) 2 tablespoons sugar 1 1-2 tablespoons salt 1-4 cup mazola cup scalded milk cup cold water
 compressed yeast cake 2 tablespoons lukewarrn water 6 cups flour Add sugar, salt and mazola to scalded milk and when blended add cold water. Dissolve yeast cake in lukewarm water and add to first mixture. Add only enough flour to make 8 sponge which can be beaten until smooth. Cover and let rise in a warm place until double in bulk. Add enough flour to mead Let dough rise again until double its bulk and shape rolls into sham rocks by making tiny balls of dough, placing three balls in each division of oiled muffin pan. Then let double their bulk and bake in hot oven (400 degrees F0 20 minutes. DUMPLINGS FOR IRISH STEW
 "A Tender Bit O'Blarney) Drop this "little bit O heaven atop your stew for Paddy's day. Ia cups flour
 teaspoon salt
 1 tablespoon baking powder
 l egg
 tablespoon melted fat
 1-2 cup all-bran
 3-4 cup milk
 Sift flour, salt and baking powder together. Beat egg until light; add melted and cooled fat, all-bran and milk. Add liquid mixture to sifted dry ingredients and stir only until flour disappears. Drop batter by teaping tablespoons on top of hot Irish stew; cover tightly and let simmer for 20 minutes without removing cover. Serve hot. Yield: 8 dumplings
 KILLARNEY GRAPEFRUIT
 (Set Irish Eyes A Smilin0
 Select firm Florida grapefruit. Cut in halves, loosen sections; chill. Just before serving place ball of mint ice in center and garnish with a sprig of mint. For a fruit cup, serve the grapefruit sections in a glass dish and dissolve ter-dinner hints in the juice. SPINACH SOUP O'MALLEY (For Irish POpeyes)
 1-2 cup finely chopped onions
 4 tablespoons bacon fat or butter
 
 teaspoon salt
 1-8 teaspoon pepper
 3 cups milk, scalded
 2-3 cup finely chopped cooked
 spinach
 l large pimiento, chopped
 l teaspoon Worcestershire
 sauce
 1-3 cup chopped sweet pickles
 Slowly saute onions in 2 table, spoons of the fat until slightly yell low. Stir in flour, salt, asld pepper. Add cup of milk and cook until thickened and smooth, stirring con- stantly. Add to remaining milk ill top of double boiler; add spinach, pimiento, and Worcestershire sauce. Re-heat. Add pickles and serve im- mediately with bread cubes which have been sauted in remaining fat until Drowned. Yield: 6 portions.
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These handsome Easter cookies will be household pets, for they're just as good to eat as they are cute to look at. Cookie cutters or card- board patterns will take care of shaping up" the birds and beasts, and a little egg rolling will produce a 1lestful of eggs to delight the chil- dren. Here are the tried and true recipes:
 Henrecies
 (For Eggs)
 l-2 cup butter
 1-2 cup sugar
 2 egg yolks
 1 teaspoon vanilla
 2 cups cake flour
 l teaspoon baking powder l cup ground nut meats Ia cup all-bran
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Lemon Hard Sauce

Lemon Hard Sauce 1.2 cup softened butter 9 IA cups powdered sugar
 l egg yolk
 3 tablespoons lemon juice
 juice
 Cream together well. Fold in thoroughly:
 egg white, stiffly beaten This makes delicious cake icing also. Serves 8-1O.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-31
HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do not C anper"
SATURDAY, JUNE l

Except in the early morning hours benefic aspects dominate to- day. The stars encourage travel and the vacation idea will be strong in many minds. Women are under adverse planetary influences which encourage restlessness.
 Heart and Home: Under this sway the feminine mind may be attunded to inharmony. Girls may their sensitive natures the female be difficult to manage. Because Of of the species may reflect world discontent and apprehension. The stars frown upon romance. This is a day for completing tasks and putting ones house in order.
 Business Affairs: Continued stim- ulation of many American indus tries is prognosticated. Manufactur- CTS will profit greatly, but they may expect unlocked for troubles. Hotels and transportation compan- ies of every sort will enjoy pros porous season. Travel will be en- couraged by the many temptations for sightseeing. Fairs and exposi- tions should succeed.
 National Issues: In this month of national political conventions there is a sign of widespread dis satisfaction. Surprising develop ments in both political parties are indicated. The stars appear to smile upon men of experience in states manship, but young leaders will gain support. Growth of the , United States in world power will be rec ognized as a factor in choosing can didates.
 International Affairs: Notwith- standing prediction of period of terror in the European war. the month as it progresses should bring better conditions for the Allies. Again the stars presage much that is discouraging for Great Britain. The Empire will be disturbed by uprisings in widely separated do- minions or colonies. Closer relations with Canada are forecast for the United States. Ro nic
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of ad- vancement. Promotion for en- ployed men and women is likely. Weddings attended by much social interest are to be numerous for the young.
 Children vborn on this day prob ably will be quick -witted, studious and affectionate Although fond of luxury, they may be capable of self denial.
 Copyright, l940
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-31
The Hateful Hour
(New York Times)

(New York Tmes)
 The first feeling of the people of this heartsick country must be sheer inability to believe that the thing long feared has actually happened, though the evidence is spread before eyes Hitler has uneashed his total war He has struck on the main front He has staked everything gigantic gamble which if he wins. will mean the end of free dom and democracy and culture throughout all Eu- ropee in our time.
 If ever a war was made deliberately and bru- tally without cause and without justification, it is this war which Germany has made on Belgium and the Netherlands The claim of the Reich GoVern- nent that these small nations had failed to observe
 strict neutrality is beed by the facts in the record It not for that reason that bombs falling now on a gentle countryside, and spreading death and destruction through cities fair any in all Eu- rope It is because Hitler chose to strike where ne thought the Western Front was weakest; because Tn his mad desire to get his hands on the throats oi France and Britain, he had not the slightest scruple about violating the pledges he had given to the Low land countres because these countries in themselves are integral parts of the western world-our world the democratic world the world in which men live under systems of government deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed-and be- cause Hitler to destroy that world if he can do it.
 The American people will know how to evauate the broken German promises, the brazen disregard of treaty obligations the obscene fasity of Nazi self Justification the ruthlessnesS of Nazi war. They Will find in the experience of Belgium and the Nether- lands a moral for ourselves: a moral to put our house in order to strengthen our defenses, to pre- pare ourselves against the consequences of German success which might spread war across the Atlantic or Pacific to our own hemisphere.
 This is the fatefu hour. We in America who live behind the defenses of the Western European nations which are the outpoStS of our own Kind oi civilization must watch with deep anxiety to see whether the line will hold Hitler told his armies that this is victory death for Germany It is also victory or death for decent standards of international conduct and the democratic way of life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-31
Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

WORDS T can not hardly see now if done" Omit hardly see how
 OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED Preferred pronunciation IS with syllable
 OFTEN MISSPEIIED: recess); not MITCH
 SYNONYMS Scarcity paucy deficiency nsuiciency
 WORD STUDY times and is yours Let us mastering word each day ooa word ARDUOUS: fficult Tt is arduous task
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AT JUNEAU'S BACK DOOR

Next time you forget you're living right in the middle of one of the most scenic in the world, take lunch and climb the Mount Roberts trail. Many Juneauites have done and such advice to them is superfuous and comes very late. But by far the greater part of the population here has never got it's feet off the City streets This is pity with so much to see near at hand
 Yesterday there were 25 on the trail. They were women and children well men, for the way is not hard The well located trail leaves Juneau at the end of Sixth Street on Star Hill and pushes gently up through the timber by switchback. A quarter of a mile from town you in a silent wilderness All that remains of Juneau is an occa- sonal tree-frnged vista of streets and wharves far below The forest is enchanted with the pungent odor of evergreens At just the right intervals there are benches for the weary Take deep drink at the first stream, for there is more water below the snoWfeld trckes top. An hours walk brings you to timberline, where the whole panorama of Gastipeau. Channel stretches out below. underfoo' the tangled heather and dozen varieties Of Wild flowers take your eyes from the scenery. Ptarmgan still wearing snow white winter dress, whir away from the trail. A marmot whistles from the rocks and the shadow of silent soaring eaglS slides across the hillside
 On top there is snow, deep and soft on sunny afternoon Now there is breath taking scenery in every direction on the north, Granite and SilverboW Basins with the glory hole of Perseverance and the old mine buildings far below; to the east the high white shoulder of the Mount Roberts Sheep Mountain ridge; southeast Stephens Passage Point Arden and the entrance of Taku Inlet; far to the south, the thousand inlets and islands of Seymour Canal; on the southwest and west the rugged snowy mountains of Admiralty stretching above Douglas Island north west over the Gastineau Channel bar, Aux Bay, Shelter Island and Lynn Canal, the peaks of the Chilkat range. And straight below lying so close to the mountain that it would possible to drop a rock on it. Juneau and the fingers of the rock dump The square of the new small boat harbor is the one pattern of geometry sketched on the wild landscape On the channel arpane taxis to a
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In high attitudes snow frequently turns red and gives off an odor similar to ripe watermelon when crushed underfoot. This is due to growth of vegetable life, algae spirella, on snow at attitudes of l2,- % feet or more.
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20 YEAPS AGO fHE TIT EMPIRE

31 1920
 gathered at the EiKs for program Womans Club Follow proceeded down Franklin Street Peoples Wharf from where the Franklin Street as far as Seward up seward Third Street the cemetery by way of Calhoun Avenue
 Hatchery Superintendent Sprague left for the Westward on with Commissioner A. J. Adams or the time aiding in the sum ners work in Bristol Bay and other sections Casey Jr the office of United States Marshal J M Tanner left O City of Seattle. sf
 the Alameda for months visit 41 Mrs sailed her home in Petersburg on the City or Seattle
 Hubbe Deputy Mineral and Land Surveyor was n the city after surveying the vicinity of Aux Bay
 Explorer accompanied by two tenders was Ill port from the vicinity after drag work there William undoust family going south on the Princess Weather: lowest 40 clear
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tion plans as soon as possible. He said it might be necessary to begin the evacuation of the threatened areas next week. The Health Min ister called upon parents to recog- nize the necessity for the evacua- tion as it will not only safeguard the children, but will simplify the task of providing safety for the remaining population.
 The Minister of Transportation Sir John Reib, announced that highway signposts are being remov- ed wherever it is believed they will aid in guiding an invading force.
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Today's news today Tn The Empire.
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Federal Works Agency. Public Buildings Administration, Office of the Supervising Engineer. Washing ton, D. C., May 2l, 1940. Sealed bids, in duplicate, will be received at this office until 10 a.m., standard time. June l9, 1940, and then publicly op- ened, for furnishing tho materials. and performing the work of altcra- tions. screen line charees Aetc.. at the U. S. Federal and Territorial
 Building, Juneau. Alaska. in strict accordance with the specifications dated SER, April 25, lg4O. and drawings eff any) mentioned there in; and the general conditions dated April l, l940. Specifications and other data may be had at the office of the custodian of the building or Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, Washington, D. c. Neal A. Melick, Supervising Engineer.
 Publication dates: times, May 27, 29 and 31. Aa'''-'--ss<
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CHILDREN TO BE EVACUATED,
 COAST POINTS
Parents in English Towns Informed of Netes-
 sity for Move

LONDON, May 31-Minister of Health Malcolm Macdonald has warned the people of London and Southeastern England that it will be necessary to put new plans for the evacuation of children into inn mediate effect.
 Macdonald said that the Govern ment feels that the danger of early bombing are so real that it must complete new evacuation plans as soon as possible. He said it might
 be necessary to begin the evacus
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LOOK and LEARN A9y c. GORDON

What limit of law allow the Gov the U. S.? leader said, "The world IS my parish 8 What is the O weight for precious stones? How there in leap yearP
 only state in the Union that mas the egai ~ o divide itself a number of states?
 ANSWERS: y-five billion dollars Wesley. g. 366 days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-05-31
MINERS DROP 70
 FEET DOWN SHAFT

GRASS VALLEY, Cal, May 31- Five miners of the Golden Center mine are expected to recover from injuries suffered in seventy foot fall down a shaft. The men dropped to the bottom of the shaft when the cable of the lift on which they were riding suddenly gave way.
 Two of the miners, Frank Thomas and Elmer Troan, suffered broken backs, but physicians said they probably will recover.
 Amnesty by royal decree freed 9,754 convicts from Italian prisons on the birth of a daughter to Crown Prince Umberto.
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Newfoundland is Britain's old est colony.
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Panama Pioneer
Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Cleveland Plain Deaer)
 More than half a century ago a brilliant young French engineer assigned to direct the consruc- tion of the Panama Canal. He Philippe Bunau- Varilla technical aid Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man who had won fame and fortune by the digging of the Canal through the sands of the African desert Bunau- Vara was then only 26.
 Last week when he died in Paris, his name was almost unknown to the vast majority of Americans who today are giving attention to Panama as the vital link in the defense plans for this Hemisphere
 The French effort to build the Panama Canal was disaster But the failure more of fin ancia than an engineering one. Paris bankers thought it was another SueZ They could not vsual- ize the enormous obstacles involved in cutting through a mountain range in the midst of one of the worlds wickedest tropical ungles They scoffed when Bunau- Varia warned them of the engineering difficulties and told them their cost estimates were out of line.
 Bunau-Varlla was right. But his advice was not needed in time to prevent catastrophe. His work began in 1883, when it planned to build a sea- level route rather than the lock type canal finally constructed. The French packers of the canal went into bankruptcy. There graft scandal in the Paris courts
 But when the United States took in 1902 and finally built the canal after conquerng the mos quito it was found that most of Bunau-Varlla's en- gineering work had been well done.
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takeoff dozen pleasure boats leave narrow wakes and the rock barge from the mine turns pretty in white foam when it has been lowed into just the right position
 In other words it is the most enjoyable way imaginable to spend day There is so much to see that we're going back at the first opportunity Why don't you have look for yourself?
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Empire c1asslfieds bring results.