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Evening star., 1943-09-20
Equipment Care Is Essential

1t is certainly part Of the home
makers war Job to take the best of
care Of all her possessions. This is
not only patriotic but it's common
sense, too, for we must take care of
what we have or we will be forced
to do without. This includes our
homes, our clothes, our food. It is
especially true of household equip
ment of all kinds.
Many of the things we own can
not be replaced at all and even
when they need repair, we are often
without them for many weeks. With
the manpower shortage increasing,
the situation is apt to be worse be-
fore 1t is better. So we must all
pitch in and do what we can.
There's a great satisfaction, too, in
doing the repair jobs ourselves. It's
a game we must all learn to play.
The better we play. it, the better off
we will be.
Learn to mend and fix things
yourself If you can, but in any case,
be sure to take care of those house
hold helpers you depend on to make
the days work easier. Careless
handling may mean many hours of
inconvenience, to say nothing of the
possibility of doing without for the
duration. Take your electric iron,
for instance. There are very few of
them around these days and It is
doubly precious for this reason.
Handle it with care and be sure to
keep it clean. This is the best way
to do the job. To clean a dirty sole
plate use a damp soapy cloth while
the iron Is cool. Then use a rinse
cloth and follow by polishing with
a dry cloth. If the sole plate is
sticky, clean it while the iron is hot.
If there is starch on the iron, rub
with good grade of paraf11n or
beeswax and wipe with paper or
cloth. If by chance the iron is
scratched, try rubbing it with silver
polish
Your waffle iron and toaster are
other electric appliances that should
never be put in water Use a small
soft brush to remove crumbs from
your toaster and try not to shake or
bang 1t as this may injure the ele-
ment.
AS far as your waffle iron is con-
cerned, you can use a wire brush to
remove any particles that may stick
to the grids. Wipe after use with
Evening star., 1943-09-20
From Betsy CdswelPs Cook Book
Grape Jelly

Use that slightly making jelly
not, add
ters and but do not pare Cook with the grapes
Wash from stems Put into kettle
mash slightly heat slowly smmeng until
soft Do overlook mixture
drip
Prepare glasses.
Measure juice and kettle 3. sugar
Juice measuring both accurately boiling
point stir in the the until
when fork dipped the boiling then held
two drops roll together forming eylke sheet Turn at
into glasses with thin adding
later when the first hardened.
The above just of practical and tempting
gesons be found Betsy Caswe Wartime
ng Book Many Others equally good well directions for
ming and preserving and suggestions lunch
found within pages.
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Betsy Caswells Dept,
The Evening Star,
Washington 4, D. C.
1nclosed please find in coin
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Evening star., 1943-09-20
Menu From Maine
By Arfhnr Fl. Denfe,

canned beef bouillon or made from
bouillon cubes). This must boil
slowly for three to four hours. At
the end OF two hours add Z sliced
onion and two sliced carrots. When
the beans are soft, the soup Is
strained through q sieve, seasoned
with salt and pepper and allowed to
cook down to the desired consist
england then served hot when
wanted.
In the Maine woods the depot
camp" is the main camp and out
from it radiate the sectional CAMPS.
On Saturday nights the lumbermcn
gravitate into the main or depot
camp. And at such q depot camp,
the famous Maine cook, Moody
Tompkins, used to land still does.
for that NATTER, make his veal and
ham pie, as follows:
A sizable baking or pudding dish
Is lined with rich pastry dough.
This Is covered with a layer Of veal.
cut into pieces size of q walnut.
Next comes layer of sliced, hard-
boiled egg. Then layer Of sliced
ham. Salt and pepper are sprin-
kled on. Then q few drops Of
lemon juice. Then another layer Of
veal, eggs and ham and so on until
nearly to the top Of the pan. Over
this is poured a cupful Of beef broth
or two, If the pie is a large one.
Then comes good top layer Of
pastry dough. This Is baked in q
medium oven for about two hours.
A crafty cook will prepare . little
"peephole." which is q corner Of
crust which may be raised and
through which more broth may be
added If the pie seems to be drying
out in the baking.
An excellent appetizer in the way
Of an open-air cocktail-namely, IL
holes Of golf or Smile hike
should be provided to bring about
a true State Of Maine appetite. This
is really very essential prelimi-
naryl
Evening star., 1943-09-20
First School DAYS Hard for Child

The first few days Of the new
year in school are most important.
Watch your child to see If he comes
home from school pleased and as
full Of bounce as he left you in the
morning. If you find him dragging
in, tired and dispirited and with no
glowing tales Of the day, something
is wrong, and it would be wise to
find out whether the difficulty is
with the child's adjustment, the en-
vironment, the teacher-or a combi-
nation OF all three.
The teacher is going to spend as
much time with your child for the
next nine months as you are. She
will have him for the buster part of
his day. You will have him for
meals, and for short bedtime visit.
1t Is essential to his happiness and
education that teacher and pupil be
compatible. As you are closer to
your child's moods and can almost
feel through YOU skin" when h. Is
Evening star., 1943-09-20
By nna Chase.

unhappy, it will be your RESPONSE
bility to adjust the situation.
1t is unusual to find a person in
the teaching profession these days
who is truly poor teacher. There
are also very few entirely incorrigi-
BILE pupils. But it is not at all un-
usual to find teacher and a child
who rub each other the wrong
way" to such an extent that progress
Is impossible for both of them. It
is then that a wise parent steps in
to see If the child can be changed
to another teacher.
Children in the first few years of
school are not old enough to get
over small disappointments, and
these sometimes become major ca
tastrophes. Two little sisters a year
apart in school are a case in point
One child was in Kindergarten, the
other in the first grade. The first
grade teacher was an exceptionally
flne person, q good teacher and so
Evening star., 1943-09-20

What a welcome change this two
piece is from serious, tailored styles!
The blouse has an interesting new
neckline, cut which controls mid
riff slimness and allows ample full
ness across the hips and buttons
down the back.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1877-B
is designed for sizes 10, II, IA, 16, 18
and 20. Corresponding bust meas
urements, %, 30, 80, "a, SO and 38.
Size u 800 with "a sleeves, re-
quires Az yards 39-inch material.
For this attractive pattern send
Is cents, plus l cent for postage, in
coins with your name, address, pat
tern number and size wanted to
Barbara Bell, Washington Star,
Post Office Box IS, Station O, New
York II. N. Y,
Evening star., 1943-09-20

a paper towel and let 1t cool with
the lid up. It's a good idea to con-
meet and disconnect the cord at the
wall socket end. Be sure not to
touch any electrical applience when
your hands or body are wet or II
your shoes are moist.
Your home will certainly run
more smoothly If you keep all elec-
trio appliances and kitchen utensils
in good working order. There's the
coffee pot to consider. Many types
are hard to replace these days .
1t is practically impossible to get
q metal one now, so you'd better
take care Of yours. Whether you
make your coffee at the table or in
the kitchen, half the secret Of a
good brew is clean coffee maker.
Work out a cleaning routine that
suits your own particular type of
coffee pot and then follow it. Use
a brush to get at hard-to-reach
places and give your percolator and
coffee maker a weekly airing. II
your coffee maker is a glass one, be
sure never to let the bowl boil dry.
Evening star., 1943-09-20

good looking and full OF smiles that
her children adored her. The kin
dergarten child had looked forward
to the first grade, to graduate to her
older sisters lovely teacher and had
talked about 1t all during the sum-
mer. Her disappointment was in
tense the first day Of school to find
that the teacher she expected was
no longer there and in her place was
quite different type of person. All
the little girls enthusiasm disap-
peared and she seemed to wilt and
lose interest. She was making no
attempt to learn.
OF course we cannot expect to 60
through the world picking out just
the sort Of people our children like
so that they can be happy. They
must learn to adjust to all sorts Of
people as they 60 along. But the
first year Of school is too important
to a child to have it ruined by any
maladjustment which can be cor
rected.
In the case mentioned above It
was possible to send the first-grader
to another school which was almost
as close to her home Her interest
began to pick up because of the new
environment, as she began to get
over the disappointment. 1t is quite
possible that it would have done
so eventually If she had been left in
the original class. Most of us would
agree that it was wiser to help her
over this first setback. and let her
take on some Of her new adjust
ments more gradually.
On the other hand there are an
equal number Of children who are
SO self-centered that they expect
to have the whole class made over
to suit them. When the teacher
tries to put them in their place
their little balloon of ego is so de-
flated that they trail around with
Evening star., 1943-09-20

Cooking in the State Of Maine was
originally Influenced by limited
transportation facilities. That re-
stricted native cooking to the meats
from the forests, the fish from the
lakes and streams and the ocean
alongside. and to the grains and
vegetables from its fields and or
chards. But all OF these were of ex-
cellent quality and presented quite
an array Of good things to eat.
Over all Of this, the predominance
Of outdoor life in the keen and brac-
ing Maine climate made for hearty
appetites and keen relish in the
sturdy, home-cooked meals.
Because of the nature OF the Maine
industries, much Of the cooking was
provided by men--the cooks in the
camps in the woods, the dishes pre-
pared by the hunters and trappers
and fishermen for themselves, and,
In later years, the culinary skill de-
veloped by the professional guides,
each, in his own right, a master of
the skillet and pot and the long
handled broiling fork.
A gentleman OF my acquaintance
came back recently from a long va
cation at Moosehead Lake. While
there he quietly gathered unto him.
self various recipes for dishes to pre-
pare for the unusual dinners at
which he is a famous host-as well
as cook.
So the dinner which he gave
Thursday night was distinctly State
Of Maine. But one element was miss
ing. There were no well-seasoned
birch logs with which to lay great
open fire from which comes the
sharp and aromatic odor so cnarac-
teristic of life in Maine. However,
the food was on hand in all its
glory:
Bean Soup
Depot Camp Ham and Veal Pie
Baked Squash
Green Tomato Pickle
Bottled Apple Dumplings
Coffee
This is a truly great dinner for q
man to cook-especially a man who
has flare for cooking but not over
much experience. II his wife will
give him hand with the bean
soup, during his working hours,
there will be no trouble.
The bean soup starts the night
before-with (for eight people, four
cups Of soldier or pea beans being
gone over for defects and the rest
put to soak overnight in cold water.
In the morning the beans are
drained of water, washed in fresh
water and put into kettle together
with beef broth to cover, more beef
broth being held in reserve to add
from time to time. Broth may be
Evening star., 1943-09-20
Attention.!

If you would like our leafet
containing 10 suggestions for
lunch box menus, clip this
notice and mail it with a
stamped, elf-addressed en-
velope to the Woman's Page,
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Evening star., 1943-09-20

water over almonds and cover. Let
stand from two to five minutes or
until the brown skins can be re-
moved with the fingers. Pour oil
water.
LEMON CHIFFON PIE.
(Thanks to Mrs. A. L. A., st. George
Island, Md
I enjoy the Readers Clearing
House very much. In answer to re-
quest by Mrs. S. A. j., for recipe for
lemon chiffon pie, I am sending one.
Hope she may like 1t. Whipped
cream topping is very nice on this
pie.
l tablespoon unfiavored gelatin.
Il cup cold water.
4 eggs separated.
l cup sugar.
y cup lemon juice.
! teaspoon grated lemon rind.
z teaspoon salt.
! baked pastry shell.
Soften gelatin in water S minutes.
Beat egg volks and add " cup sugar,
lemon juice and salt. Cook over
boiling water until of custard con-
slstency. Add lemon rind and soft
ened gelatin and stir thoroughly.
Cool. When mixture begins to
thicken fold in stif1y beaten egg
whites to which remaining n cup
OF sugar has been added. Fill pas
try shell and chill. Makes l (9-inch)
pie.
Evening star., 1943-09-20

Your assignment to buy an extra
500 War bond during the Third
War Loan was made for you by your
son and neighbor's son on the
fighting fronts. Back the Attack"
with War bonds.
Evening star., 1943-09-20

wash diapers and shirts as well as
my other little girls clothing and
my underwear, etc, one day during
an hour. The next day I spend
that hour ironing. So far it has
worked beautifully.
Also the diaper" baby is now
entering the crawling stage and
chaps her knees dreadfully, SO to-
day made her a pair of cotton
legs from some scraps OF material
on hand. 1 merely pin these to her
diapers as is usually done with
stockings. They can be readily re-
moved if company comes in or I
want to pick her up for an airing
or walking and she has on her little
dress 1t overcomes my distaste for
coveralls because of the necessity
of their removal for each diaper
change.
Your column is the first I look for
each evening because I never re-.
call for sure which days it will ap-
pear.
Evening star., 1943-09-20
l cup cream.
a cup sugar.
I too cnoor, yopilIo

Whip cream until almost stiff
Add sugar and vanilla and beat un-
til cream holds peak. Sprinkle y
teaspoon gelatin over 2 tablespoons
milk and stir thoroughly. Place
over boiling water and stir until
dissolved. Add to cream warmed to
room temperature. Chill and whip.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Keovy
Continued From Preceding Page }

cause 1t was shown without the dra-
matic embroidery which easily could
have been added, Breen passed it.
One of the tenets Of the code Is
that a wrong never can be shown
as a right. In film laid on a
South Pacific isle, group of Amer
ican soldiers is captured by a Jap
patrol, but some of the Americans
escape. The captors ask which way
the Americans went. One of the cap
tives points south-but the audience
knows his fellows went north.
When Wrong Is Right.
The scripters needed this scene,
but, knowing full well a wrong-a
lie, In this case-never can be made
to appear as a right, they were
stumped. But Breen, being more
than an amateur theologian, remind
ed the writer's that the common
definition Of a 1ie-i.e., the with
holding Of the truth-was not quite
complete. A lie, he said, is keep
ing the truth from some one en-
titled to it. The Japs were not en-
titled to the truth and therefore
the Americans did not tell a lie!
(However, Junior, Mother is always
entitled to the truth)
From one standpoint, the war
has been a good thing for the
movies: 1t gave them some new
heavies. Nazis and Japs and Ital-
ians are today's principal villains
1t got so bad, with protests, that
the movies ran out of heavies. Gov
ernments as we'll as organizations
raised SO much thunder every time
bad man, identified as to race,
nationality or occupation, was on
the screen that Hollywood got thor
oughly on the fence by making the
bad men natural born white Amer
leans without jobs, and no political,
social, religious or industrial affii-
ationsl
Evening star., 1943-07-18

Place = stamp in that vacant
space In your War Savings stamp
book; it will help put the Axis on
the spot.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Employment Scars
As Film Production
Increases Heavily
HOLLYWOOD,

4ASA4A1 l. NSOO/s
Matching the expansion Of the
summer production schedule, labor
employment is reaching new heights
at Warner Bros. A WLB report re-
veals that 1854 workers, exclusive
of contract players, writers and di-
rectors, are on the weekly payroll.
The record number, highest since
Pearl Harbor, is occasioned by the
extensive production schedule set
up by Jack L. Warner, executive
producer at the studio.
Although both Irving Berlin's
This Is the Army" and Saratoga
Trunk" the Gary Cooper-Ingrid
Bergman starrer, have finished and
are now in the cutting rooms, five
pictures currently are in production
and others are in preparation.
Shooting are Destination Toxic
starring Cary Grant and John Gar
field; Conflict" with cast headed
by Humphrey Bogart, Sydney
Greenstreet and Alexis Smith; "In
Our Time starring Ida Lupino and
Paul Henreid; Northern Pursuit.
new Enrol Flynn picture, and "Shine
on Harvest Moon" with Ann Sheri-
dan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson
and Irene Manning.
In preparation for early produc-
ton are Rhapsody in Blue" life
story of George Gershwin: "The
Horn Blows at Midnight" Jack
Benny comedy; Passage to Mar
seilles," with Humphrey Bogart
The Young and the Brave" fol
Joan Leslie; The Story of viii
Rogers" and Battle Cry" which
will be directed by Howard Hawks
Evening star., 1943-07-18

would see headliners 60 out on six
week camp tours, enduring wretched
conditions both in hotels and in
transportation without grumbling,
but they wouldn't 60 again. As you
know, some players have collapsed
from the strain Of these trips. This
is all wrong, because those boys In
camps need shows badly.
Its the squeaky hinge that gets
the oil. I'm hollering for all actors
and for those boys in camps. I'm
only talking to people who can help
cure the situation. I want 1t so
no actor has any excuse not to go
on camp shows.
Her Work Isn't Done.
"As soon as I can travel, I want
to 60 to London, and do all the
things Roy and I planned to do
together. Now, I'll have to do them
alone, and in a different way. I'm
using the name Lorraine Rognan,
and I'd like to make the name OF
the team a little bigger, If I can.
won't dance and sing, but I'll give
those boys what I needed so badly
and didn't get when I was in that
Lisbon hospital. They want some
one from home that they can talk
to. They don't care about your cos
tune, or your act. They crowd about
and want to talk Of home, and what
changes the war has made there.
They want to tell you about them
selves or their folks. Ill be there
listening"
Jeanne Lorraine doesn't know
what her future will be. The con-
tract for two more pictures was for
the team of Roy Rognan and Jeanne
Lorraine; they had been promised
acting parts in addition to their
singing and dancing. Her present
determination to 60 overseas as soon
as she RECEIVERS takes no account of
her own career. She says she is con-
tent to let fate decide that later
after the war.
AS she talks, her agile fingers fly
She is knitting squares for afgans to
be sent to the military hospital
wards where convalescents need
these light, warm robes. She has
squares started on needles, which
she thrusts into the hands of visi-
tors, so that they can help, and not
lose any time.
Evening star., 1943-07-18
|1nterview With an Invalid
By Sheiah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLY WOOD.
Two colored porters were having
an argument. One of them ap-
preached the short, roly-poly man
and said: will you settle something
for us? I say you're Lou Abbott.
He says you're Bud Costeno!"
TITS worse than that sometimes
Lou Costello, who, with his partner,
Bud Abbott. heads the movie box
office champions, tells me. "Once a
guy pointed at me and said, Look,
there's Abbott and Costello I'm
fat, but not that fat"
Now, unhappily, it is only too easy
to know which is Abbott and which
is Costello. Abbott is the well half
of the team. Costello is now enter
ing the fifth month of his tussle
with the rheumatic fever. Come
with me to his amusing and amaz-
Ing home in the valley and meet an
amusing and amazing invalid.
4 I am just about to ring the bell of
the front door when voice, right
In my ear, says, well, what are you
waiting for? Come in!" The only
living thing in sight is dog. And
in spite of those dog stories, dogs
still do not speak. On the verge OF
running away. I hear laugh that
belongs unmistakably to Mr.. Cos
tello. Where are you? I want to
know" as I walk inside.
( But for the seriousness of LOUIS
sickness, the scene could serve for a
comedy cartoon. BY a large, open
window, on large hospital bed, Mr..
Costello is working the loud-speaker
contraption that enables him to
hear the conversation and talk back
to every room in the house and to
hear the warbling of the birds in
the long back garden and the street
noises in front In presick days Lou
tells me he had a lot of fun at
parties with this loud-speaker Now
his loud-speaker system serves him
as an all-day diversion and helps
keep him from brooding on this the
first illness of his life.
1t is a little more than four
months ago that DR.. Victor Kovner
diagnosed LOUIS sudden collapse and
ordered him to bed The illness has
been painful and at times critical,
but the patient is now on the mend,
although there are no predictions as
to the date of LOUIS return to work.
Il can now safely say" Lou tells
me, that I'll be in bed for the whole
month of July and probably August
But then I'll probably get up and it
will take me another month or so to
get right, and then I'll 60 back to
work" The doctor has set no date
for the latter redletter day, but
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Only the Younger
Relish the Chance
To Portray Aged
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
By the Associated Press.
There's curious twist in the
psychology Of actors called upon to
play the roles of older characters.
When they're still young, they don't
mind, but when they're nearing
wrinkles and gray hair, they don't
like such parts. This applies to fem
inine stars, naturally, but it's bit
of a sprprise when the same re-
luctance Is shown by male per-
formers.
Irene Dunno, who went from
youth to old age in her first Aim hit,
"Cimarron," is still doing it. She
plays a bride of the World War I
period, and the same woman Is years
later in "The White Cliffs of Dover" :"
The comely Irene has not yet
started to worry.
Don Ameche Is another; in "Alex-
ander Graham Bell" he went from
youth to age, and In Heaven Can
Watt" his favorite role, he goes
IL OAAA VIC III odAC w Vic IL dtC. LII
his present film. Happy Land" he
is playing a 50-year -old druggist,
with wrinkles, crepe whiskers and
gray paint over his own black locks
Ameche was given the role, after it
had been refused by a prominent
star some years older than Ameche,
who feared the effect on his fans.
Il remember Spencer Tracy didn't
do SO badly for himself in Edison
the Man and Robert Donat made
his biggest hit In Mr.. Chips Orson
Welles established himself as Citizen
Kane Personally, I think that the
aged makeups provide such a con-
trast to an actors natural appear
ance, that it is easier for him to
make an impression as being a ver-
satile actor" says Ameche. II think
it actually keeps player younger in
the eyes of audiences to play these
contrasting roles"