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Evening star., 1940-10-18

40 NAoSSbS w my Li-ul u obO llS NSOlll
making a real bid for fame. so we
must give them a chance, too, to
make friends!
All sections of the United States
have their favorite method of max
ing pumpkin pies. These are really
lust variations on the original theme
that produce a slight difference in
flavor, but still adhere to the ira
ditional ingredients. A brand new
1910 version Of pumpkin pie in gen.
eral includes gelatin. orange juice
and pineapple along with the pump
kin and spices. A 16th-centurv
recipe from England adds apples
to the mixture.
We thought that you might be in
terested in trying out the various
filings from time to time. either in
one large pie, or in small indi-
vidual pastries.
In following any of the recipes
given, except the last, cooked mashed
fresh pumpkin or canned pumpkin
may be used. as you prefer. The
canned variety is of course, simpler,
but with pumpkins glowing in their
harvest colors in every market, It
seems a pity not to make use OF
the fresh-grown vegetable at this
time. If you choose to do this, wash
the pumpkin and cut it in half
crosswise. Remove all seeds and
strings carefully. Place the pump
kin, shell side up, in a pan. and
bake it in moderate oven until II
is tender and begins falling apart
Then scrape the pulp from the shell,
put it through ricer-and 1t Is
ready for use This is quicker than
the old method Of steamine.
OLD VIRGINIA PUMPKIN
PIE.
from "The williamsburg Art OF
Cookery."J
take one Quart Of Milk, two
beaten Eggs, one Teaspoon Salt
one of Ginger, one Of Cinnamon,
one half Cup of Sugar, three Table
spoons of Molasses, and one pint
Of mashed. steamed Pumpkin. Beat
yell together. Pour into partially
baked Ple.CruSS. This Will make
two Pyes.'
MIDWEST SUPERB
PUMPKIN PIE.
(Fron1 the "NeU York Worlds Fair
Cook Book."J
n cup pecan nuts.
Il cup brown sugar.
u cup white sugar.
2 cups stewed pumpkin.
2 esss. beaten.
| teaspoon salt.
2 cups rich milk.
III teaspoons cinnamon.
Il teaspoon nutmeg.
II teaspoon allspice.
u teaspoon ginger.
2 tablespoons flour.
cup heavy cream.
z tablespoons sugar.
Stir the pumpkin in tn. milk
with the sugar, eggs, flour, salt,
and lastly. the spices. Beat briskly
for five minutes or mote. Bake in
. rich pie pastry in hot oven 400
degrees F. for several minutes,
then moderately 1925 degrees F.
until done. Mix together the 2
tablespoons Of granulated sugar and
heavy cream and beat until 1t
stands. When the pie is cold,
spread the whipped cream over the
Evening star., 1940-10-18

Address queries on home deco
ration and similar problems to
Margaret NOVEL;. in care Of The
Evening Star. For personal re-
plies, inclose a stamped. self
addressed envelope. Other ques-
tions will be answered in the
column as quickly rs space per-
mits.
Evening star., 1940-10-18

tall during hunting season.
J. X. H.
Answer-Yes, it would work we'll In
your situation. 1t is quick. direct
heat, and with plenty Of wood at
hand you would have little difficulty
getting fuel. The fact that this
type of heat is very dry and dusty
would not be an item in hunting
lodge as it would in town.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
I need filing cabinets in my writ
ing room and also a desk that will
give plenty of top space. There is
very little room for large furniture
and 1 wondered If a built-in desk
would serve the purpose. If so, what
shall l do about space for files?
EMILY s. c.
Answer-You might purchase two
drawers Of steel filing cabinet, or four
If you need that amount OF filing
space. Place them in your room
where you get the best light for
working Build your desk top over
these and frame it with as much
heavy plywood as necessary to make
it solid. You will then have your
desk and filing drawers at hand in
the smallest amount Of space.
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
Can you suggest furniture for a
room for a 12-year-old boy whose
sole interest in life is cowboys and
horses? He spends his summers on
a ranch in the West and tries to
duplicate the West when he returns
to Washington to school. As we are
Just finishing a new house We would
like to get him something that will
please him now and be good enough
to last until he grows up. Also, we
would appreciate any suggestions for
decorations in the room.
DONALD A. G.
Answer think you will find your
specifications in downtown
store showing a bedroom set OF the
California Spanish type but which
is trimmed in leather. The head OF
the bed has a saddle bag of leather,
big enough to hold couple Of books.
Drawer pulls on the dresser are Of
leather, with the metal fasteners
in the shape of horses hooves. Chair
seats and arms are of leather laced
on. The wood is natural antique
finish. I can see this in room
with Navajo rugs on the floor, explor-
alton and Pony Express maps for
wall decorations and other acces-
sories from the part of the West
your son so dearly loves. This Is
not inexpensive, but 1t Is very
we'll made and handsomely finished
DEAR MISS NOVEL;:
1 have noticed in the stores lately
that there are many pieces OF milk
glass shown. Is this antique glass
or is it being made after the old
patterns? It is so much like some
of my old glass that I thought I
would get it to I'LL in where mine
has been broken. I would appre-
ciate any information you have on
this.
DELLA F..
Answer-One of our best-known
glass making companies makes re-
productions of milk glass after the
old patterns. They are very well
done and many times are so like
the old ones that the only way to
tell the difference is by noticing that
the edges on the old glass are not
as sharp where the design has been
cut in. You might very we'll fill out
your set with reproductions.
Evening star., 1940-10-18

brimming over with smart fashions
and clever ideas for gifts 10 wear
and to use-more than 100 fasci-
mating designs, Every one of these
carefully planned, accurately cut
patterns Is easy to make. Each is
accompanied by step-by-step sew
chart to guide beginners
Evening star., 1940-10-18

purely uiarian They
setting Those shown above
choice table against marks from hot
Immediately beneath the service dish So make
finished
for mailing before the Christmas
for No. 1880 ncose is Address the Needle
O. Evening
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Library Suggests Books
To Aid Stamp Collectors

wish to turn from the general sur
veys listed above to such books as
80 You're Collecting Stamps" by
Mannel Hahn; The Beginners
Book Of Stamp Collecting" by
Stanley Phillips, and the Leisure
League booklet, Stamp Collecting
by Henry Renouf These discuss
mechanical and financial details
including the equipment needed
methods OF stamp identification and
definitions and technical difficulties
likely to be encountered.
A number Of authors have turned
their attention to the needs of the
young stamp collector. Among the
most satisfactory books of this type
are Ellis P. Buffers The Young
Stamp Collectors Own Book,
Archie F. Collins Collecting Stamps
for Fun and Profit" and Kent B
Stiles Stamps: An Outline OF
Philately." There is likewise a
volume by Leon w. Perkins entitled
The Stamp Club. Its Organization
and Management written for high
school students who gain additional
enjoyment through group discussion
Of shared hobby.
No stamp collector can 60 far
without consulting stamp catalogues
Copies Of the outstanding current
ones are available both for consul
tation in the library and for circu-
lation. Also available are the lead
ing stamp magazines. which are kept
on file in the Central Library refer
ence room and may be borrowed for
home use.
Evening star., 1940-08-25
When the Bouqh Breaks.
By Adeline RumSey. Ne10
York. Simon & SchuSter.

This novel displays a slender but
definite talent and easily estab-
fishes its author as one of those
who in the critical cliche, will bear
watching" Miss Rumsey has pub
lished stories before this, but When
the Bough Breaks" is her first novel.
1t is mature and complete, though
overlong for its actual content. There
Is enough genuineness in it to make
one feel that 1t may be a forerun-
ner of better things, as said. But
there is also bright obviousness. a
shallow profundity which might in
dicate that we have merely another
commercial success, a la Bromfield
Any way, the possibilities are inter
esting.
The story is that old, old one
which tells us that Time is the only
reality, a truth which has preoccu-
pied the races artists since before
the days of Homer "All that stands
is for his scythe to moW," observed
young William Shakespeare in his
day, and it was far from being news
then. Miss Rumsey, in hers, does no
more, but what Shakespeare said
in IA lines she extends to 300 pages.
(After which, to their gaudy shame,
her publishers announce, on a page
set apart for the astonishing pur-
pose, that her hobbies are sailing,
swimming, dogs, and painting" Who
knows how far Shakespeare might
have gone if he had but been en-
dowed with the services of a modern
publisher for his PUBLICITY
But as to her story. 1t is the tale
Of three sisters who have a perfect
childhood. In an old brownstone
up in Eighty-flrst street, West, they
live under their charming mothers
charming care until they are all
young ladies. BY that time the old
est one has become completely de-
pendent on her parent, the second
one has timidly experimental with
the flesh and the devil with the usual
all too f1eshy result, and the third
is in love with a poor man and
sure that love without riches will
he happiness enough.
The years move on. The Oldest
girl becomes a typical New York
spinister, with little "shoppe" in
the village and a woman friend.
The second marries In necessary
haste a boy whom she has always
despised and lives unhappily ever
after. The youngest likewise mar
ries and. though her young man is
the choice of her heart, she lives
equally unhappily because poverty,
after all, Is not made the less CALLING
by love. And so 20 years 60 by.
And at the end of those 20 years
the young daughter of the second
sister, fruit of her mothers early
experimentation, is starting out to
experiment for herself with the
same flesh and the same devil, while
the three aging women sit together
at home explaining to one another
the reason for the failure OF their
lives. But there is no particular
reason, says Miss Rumsey. Lives
are just made that way.
As said, there is something to it
1t may be real talent. Or again. II
may be just smart understanding OF
what real talent produces. Anyway
It's book worth an evening Of your
summer. NC. r.
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Brief Reviews

Novels.
MOON TIDE. BY Willard Robert
son. New York: Carrick 8, Evans.
Story of the love of an uliterate
Swedish bargeman for harbor
woman, told with much waterside
scenery and tragic ending.
Worthy.
THE WAY TO SANTIAGO. BY
Arthur Calder Marshall. New
York: Reynal g. Hitchcock.
Romance woven on theme of NaZi
plot in Mexico. Lively
BROADSIDES. BY r. w. DAILY. New
York: Macmillan.
Story Of the adventurous life of
British naval officer in the late 18th
century. Interesting and well
written.
ACTION IN HAVANA. BY Elinor
Rice. New York: Duell, Sloan e.
Pearce
Romance of American girl in
Cuba Average thing of It's kind.
LIGHT OVER RUBY STREET.
BY Edward Harris Heth. New
York: Smith e. Durrell.
Story Of life in an urban COM
munity of Negroes. Colorful and
lively.
ENOUGH TO LIVE ON. BY Mar
garet Culkin Banning. New York:
Harper.
Story of young couple trying to get
along on insufficient income, and
how they fell out and made up. Very
trite.
CHUCK MARTINEZ. BY Priscilla
Holton. New York: Longmans,
Green.
Thriller about abduction by Mexi-
can bandits and so on. Average thing
of its type.
SO YOU'RE PUBLICITY CHAIR
MAN. BY Frances Fiske. New
York: Whittlesey House
Practical but laugh-making ad-
vice to club ladies who contact the
press.
ROOKIE. BY E. Flagg. jr. Illus
trated by James Montgomery
Flagg. Chicago: Albert Whitman.
Funny story about a little terrier
pup.
ITs NO FUN TO GROW UP. BY
Horton w. Reed. Illustrated by
Monnie Dunlop. Boston: Merry
mount Press.
Funny cracks about politics and
dictators.
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Best Sellers

The following list of best
sellers is compiled weekly from
information obtained in Wash
ington by The Star and in New
York. Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco by the North Ameri-
can Newspaper Alliance:
Fiction.
How Green Was My Valley"
Richard Llewellyn; ITO the
Indies" C. v. Forester; STARS
on the Sea-" F. Van Wyck Ma
son; Night in Bombay" Louis
Bromfeld; Quietly My Cap
tain Waits" Evelyn Eaton:
Doctor Dogbody's Leg" James
Norman Hall; The Mixture
as Before" w. Somerse
Vaughan: worlds End" Up
ton Sinclair; Cabbage Holiday"
Anthony Thorne; Kings Row."
Henry Bellamann.
Non-Fiction.
Mrs. Miniver," Jan Struther:
IT Married Adventure" Osa
johnson; "As I Remember
Him" Hans Zinsser; They
Wanted War" Otto D. Tolls
chus: Country Squire in the
White House." John T. Flynn;
Richard Halliburton" his life
story in letters; 'M-Day and
What 1t Means to You"
Leo M. Cherne; Country Edi-
tor Henry Beetle Hough;
Why Europe Fights" Walter
Mills; why England Slept"
John F. Kennedy.
Evening star., 1940-08-25

The stamps which We affix to our
letters and packages derive their
importance, in so far as most of
us are concerned, from the fact that
they give assurance that our mail
will reach its destination in safety
But for many people postage
stamp is more than a mere tax
receipt. 1t is the KEY to a hobby
whose fascination and endless va
riety yearly attract thousands of
new adherents. These philatelic
enthusiasts, whether young. middle
aged or old, will find helpful books
at the Public Library, Eighth and
K streets NV, and at many of its
branches.
Both the layman and the sea-
soned philatelist should obtain en-
joyment from Alvin F. Harlow's
Paper Chase" a recent book trac-
ing the development of stamp COL
lecting as hobby. "All About
Stamps" by Mauritz A. Hall
gren, has been of the press only
few months, but it is recognized
already as the most all-inclusive
work yet to appear on the history
of stamps and the art Of collecting
them. Other books as informative
as they are interesting are Stanley
Phillips Stamp Collecting" an
especially well-illustrated compan-
ion for the collector, and The
Stamp Collectors Round Table" a
symposium edited by Foster w. Loso
When ready to get to work on
the serious business of building a
stamp collection, the beginner may
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Brother, Here's q Man
By Kim Beattie. Neu

By Kim Beattie. NeU York.:
Macmillan.
Quite in the tradition Of Paul
Bunyan" and other heroes of the
North Woods is this story Of Joe
Boyle. But, whereas Bunyan is
q legendary character, Boyle was
man whose feats gained for him
reputation that can vie with that
of any f1ctional hero. His career,
we'll authenticated by the author,
included such incongruous chapters
as prize fighting, horse racing, gold
mining in the Yukon, engineering,
railroading in Russia during the
World War, and saving Rumania
practically single-handed. Side ex-
cursions into smuggling Rumanian
crown jewels out of Red Russia,
acting as uncle to princes and prin-
cesses, escaping from riot III wag-
on full of typhus victims, all were
taken in stride by q man who left
for Alaska during gold-rush days
with a total capital of 80 cents for
himself and his partner and
emerged from the Yukon with over
$13, 100000.
While this book makes fascinat-
ing reading from the viewpoint OF
romantic biography, it is equally
interesting as a historic document,
especially in view Of present world
conditions. 1t is somewhat star
Ting to be reminded that the same
tactics which took the Germans so
close to victory in the World War
are being effectively used today.
Incidents described and funda-
mental differences explained as be-
ing the cause of trouble at that time
are evidently still at work and still
having the same effects. German
fifth column tactics, Russian un-
reliability, muddle-headedness and
ruthlessness, and British red tape
evidently are among the things
that endure.
r. r. TAYNTON.
Evening star., 1940-08-25
TosseIs on Her Boots.
By Arthur Train. NeW York.
Scribner'S.

SCflO7te| ).
In this novel of old New York
Mr.. Train demonstrates how knowl-
edge of a period and use of a few
old props taken from the common
storehouse of all fiction writer's can
be put to service to produce highly
entertaining book. For the work has
few other ingredients. 1t has plot
as hackneyed as villain -still-pur-
sued-her. But it is set in the New
York of Boss TWeed's era, and Mr.
Train knows that time very well,
indeed All he has done is to re-
tell the story of the stupendous
crookery of the day and add a couple
of lay figures for hero and heroine
lovers kept apart by fate until the
final chapter. And it is good read
ing. far better, indeed, than most
of the current output of our fic-
ton factories.
1t gives us the Boss, Jim Fisk,
Jay Gould, Josie Mansfield, Ed
Stokes, slippery Dick" Connolly,
Mayor Elegant Oakley" Hall, Pres
ident Grant, Black Friday, Sara
toga, Long Branch. and finally the
fatal shooting Of Fisk. 1t shows us
the Americus Club and Twenty
third Street Opera House, where
Fisk boasted that he could stand
"siege for a year." 1t describes the
Susouehanna war" It gives us the
story of the trimming of Daniel
Drew. 1t takes us to a session OF
the Century Club, Henry Adams
leading. With all this action, one
might think a novel sufficiently sup
piled. But Mr.. Train Is no mig
gard, and he throws in for good
measure the love story of Barry
Carter and Katherine O'Carroll-
almost the only imaginary char
acters in the whole book. Barry
is a handsome young Southerner;
Katherine is lovely little Irish girl
whose stepfather has sold her to
a crooked politician in order to
save himself from prison. But Barry
comes to the rescue, and it is Barry
indeed, who inspires the movement
which eventually leads to the Tweed
downfall
Lots of action, lots of melodrama
One cannot help but be amused by
Mr.. Train. He knows how to write
a better book than this. But he
also knows exactly what the pub
lie taste requires. NC. r.
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Rosscommon

By Charles Allen Smart. New York: Random House.
Mr. Smart who made farming pleasant life in book called
D. several years ago turns in this short new novel to the JOYS
eccentric who lived the naaos farm in Southern Ohio
CThere blend book of fiction fact Mr..
in
community who feels
hopey stranded there call the the night before
the sale.
Now the ordinary farmer Ohioan
He David Macdonald who wrote two precious books
society when his
callers formally
has been dismanled Over bottle of bourbon the old
would
carefully selected inhabitants
little less erraic and little less religious than thebut the details
essential thing
capital probably wouldn't work if tried and not the
stimulated
contributed something
easy, informal and of making
like believe his They greatly they
Macdonald hecal
place Rosscommon. EDWIN TRIBBLE.
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Big River to Gross

Ben Lucien Burman With Drawings by Alice Caddy Ne1O
York John
Mr. Burman, with two novels Mississippi River life behind him,
padded his material to fill it out to full book length.
According his the old days of the river
Indeed he stream carries freight today than
history While the picturesque packet boat OF
and has largely disappeared from Its rolling waters the modern
filled writes Mr. Burman and he
which
muddy undertakes 1dea
those crafts and the kind Of life they live
subject still be- But then,
doubt it will always that
ddges boats barge
light
supetons legends Likewise included in his volume the
AL giant alligator who king of the
and whose rverman dares defy The river
decks steamboats, its workers graded in classes from
humble its steady population
and its folklore and history
substantial This not hard believe Indeed
picture fascnangy persuasive There to be
dreamike paciousne
merely
Huckebery Finn But
Burman quite often forcedy sentimental and
that old feeling
Miss Alice Caddys
drawings, they are q pure delight NC. r.
Evening star., 1940-08-25
There Are No Islands, Any More

Lines en and deep England France
and country by Edna St Vincent Miay Ne1o York
Harper.
beautiful poem Mlay here
published without
all sale relief
the
capuaion France the Allies
well distinguish beyond that detail
very thing it is Milay almost her best MGR
Evening star., 1940-08-25
he Literary World of Current Publications Various Fields
Former Hitler Associate
Has Only Contempt for
Nazi Leaders Ability
Otto Strasser Says Fuehrer
Caused Murder of Priest
Who ReWrOte 'Kampf
By Charles NJ. Eean.
Hitler and !
By Charles NJ. Epan.

Hitler and !
By Otto Strasser TRANSLATED by Gpenda Dautd Eric
MosbacherJ Boston: Houghton Mif1tn.
for the fact that the Hitler and
all hs the os
instance than Hermann Rausennss The Voice Of Destruction
War who three the ranks then lieu
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killing himself after the girl died. but her officially listed
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Strasser formed the nNa Black Front at least years
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for the blamed him the assassination demanded his
extradion Bern officials took the easiest by getting him
Of the
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Evening star., 1940-08-25
WiIIkie and American Unity

BIZ Joe Mitchell Chapple. NeW York: Chappe
biography; is merely tract In it Mr. Chapple tells
outstanding Wendell Wikie
good measure proceeds the thing
Of our Presidents Republicans and Democrats alike.
credit pointed out that he
I'm this volume he explains Il
activities of Wendell Wke to the beginning of his
presidency He has done however
his picture Republican nominee glowing
written for And this
openly predicts Mr.. Wilkes election In November
PHILIP q. LOVE
Evening star., 1940-08-25
The Bloody Mohawk


By Dr. 7. Wood Clarke NeW Y0TE. WdCMWdH.
nevertheless highly appropriate
historical Bloody Mohawk
Clarke tremendous amount Of research has turned
valleys times blazing inferno and
bloody shambles.
Clarke details the long
muddng and of petty politics times
the between 1900 and 1900
But it not the reading of history such which brings the book
immediate Rather 1t is the possibility Of invasion
which might result
British which makes this book vital reading The path
indicated
Courcel Fontenac Demon
vile and Butler.
That the defense forces of this country recognize the possibilities
Northern New
history "The Bloody Mohawk" offers
exceptionally which has been interpreted
writings romantics and the
asaying of the historian For those inter-
desire background for future which not i'm
possible THE Bloody Mohawk" is valuable book
HOWARD p BAILEY.