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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18

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laundries will probably get in on the
Laundry, prices, according to
regulation, were held at March, 1912
levels. until new wage increases
made prices rises necessary.
KNIT-WITS
Under hosiery rules, manufac-
turers wit hthe wit to think up a
special feature and prove that IT
adds extra wear, can ask OPA LOT q
higher price to cover costs.
So far, two such features nave
added to prices. One Is a welt, or
top band, with a special reinforce
ed block making sturdy garter
hitching post. The other is a RIB
bed welt. with more than usual
stretch. useful If vow have trouble
with stocking upTerS @otch are TOO
tight.
ANY manufacturer gets better
price for putting all-cotton toes and
heels in rayon stockings. They have
proved to wear better than rayon,
or a rayon-cotton combination.
ODDS AND ENDS 90.
You can get factory second"
or imperfect tire tube without a
ration certificate after April II So
More linseed oils allowed for GER
tain types of house paints may
give you better paints later in the
wear Another stay-at-home
argument for the coming vacation
season: there will be no limits on
resort rents, or hotel roms rented
only during the summer season
Your soldier abroad is not al
lowed to send you such fine tea-
theirs as aigrettS or bird-of-para-
disc plumes New ceiling prices
are coming on fresh strawberries.
It's the first step in a 1914 pro-
gram to control prices on most
fruits and berries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18

machine to meet
increased costs Of
hig her wages.
Some wage up
ping has b e e n
necessary to help
workers in an in
dustry with q
enc orally low
scale Of pay.
Laundrymen and
OPA officials
have just gotten
together on plans
for m akin g 1t
easier to raise
laundry ceilings
when necessary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
, MCKINNEY
ON BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

The finals OF the Eastern team
of-four championship this year
brought together two remarkably
strong teams. The winning team
consisted of Waldemar Won Zedt-
WITT, Harry ]. Fishbein, Lee Hazen,
Charles Lochridge, and Pvt. Tobias
Stone, all of New York. The run
ners-up were Mrs. A. M. Sobel,
Peter Leventritt, Bertram Lebhar,
Jr., Robert Won Engel and Sam KATE,
who lost first place by TAO points.
Here is one of the swing hands
from this event. The bidding OF
Hazen and Won Zedtwitz was very
fine, particularly the bid of four
spjales, which showed not more
than two red cards in the hand.
With this information Won zedt-
WITT was able to make the winning
bid with his meager holding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18

her achievement when they are
thinking in terms Of babies coming
in threes or fourS or fives?
And how can she expect her
husband to stick out his chest as
he hands around cigars, when the
world is busy congratulating IA
theirs made suddenly famous by
multiple births? Why, the poor
man won't even get his picture in
the local paper-while If she had
produced quadS it might have
been sent to every newspaper in
the country.
TWO SURPRISES
No, the women who are having
one baby these days just picked an
unfortunate time, If they expected
to impress their friends and fam
lies.
Having one baby at a time has
become so insignificant that along
with the newspaper accounts Of
all these multiple births werer two
stories about women who didn't
even know they were going to
have a child until 1t was born.
Most mothers aren't taking
single births that lightly, Of course.
But unfortunately their friends are.
Any proud father who says these
days, "Have a cigar. I've just be-
come the father Of seven-pound
boy" is likely to be met with a non
chalant, What, just one?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
Beauties Hints
Soap And Water Beauties
MAY Sacrifice Allure

DUNG influence Of foundation and
powder. That eyes can be mounted,
like pictures, when you take the
pains to use colored shadow on your
lids and mascara on your lashes.
That redder lips give her skin the
appearance Of heightened pallor,
which is most to her liking.
So, before you take a stand as
soap-and-water girl-and nothing
else-be certain that a busting on
of beguiling powder and clean
coat Of red lipsticks won't make
you more ravishingly beautiful.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
TOMORROW'S MENU

BREAKFAST: efruit,
ready-to-eat cereal, toasted oat-
meal bread, butter or fortified
margarine, grape jelly, coffee,
milk.
LUNCHEON: Casserole Of
dried lima beans with green
peppers and tomatoes, en-
riched toasted French or italian
bread. sliced oranges and bana-
mas, tea, milk.
DINNER: Sausage main dish
cobbler, seven minute new cab
bage, enriched bread, butter or
fortified margarine, green salad,
leftover cake with fruit sauce,
coffee. milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18

must seem to
t II cir parents
and as interest
ing as they are
to read about,
they must be
pretty hard on
the average new
mother, who in
midst of all this
stepped-up pro-
dudction, bears
Just one child.
How can she
expect to i'm
SIS h er
friends W ! t h
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
SUNG WAY TO FAME

Stanley "Stash" Clements, the
seventeen-year-old Brooklyn born
youngster who scored a hit as the
leader Of the neighborhood rough
necks in Paramount's "Going MY
Way" with Bing Crosby and Rise
Stevens, first won fame on Major
Bowes' amateur hour as a singer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
FORrY-TwO OF. wORDROBE

The complete wardrobe worn by
Dorothy Lamour in Paramount's
Rainbow Island" Technicolor mu-
steal, weighed exactly So ounces. 1t
consists Of six changes or sarongs.
Other headIiners in the cast are
Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb and Bar
~ Sullivan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
ROUGH CLOTHES

Paulette Goddard, who wore COW
erals in 80 Proudly We Hail,
now wears a leather suit is ship
yards welder In Mark Sandrich's
new Paramount picture, Il Love a
Soldier"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18

the first long
hike Is another
blister hazard
to be considered.
Blisters som e.
times can be pre-
cented by cover
ing the exposed
spot with a piece
Of adhesive tape.
But just in case
S o m e member
of the family
c o m e S home
with such an
afliction, be sure
to have a vial
- n
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
4j;; 3; inr'Iall !.
-
Simple Blister Requires
Care Against Infection
Nv MARY REARD
by MARY BEARD
Director, Nursing Service,
American Red Cross

Written for NEA Service
With the garden and golf sea-
son approaching, soft hands unac-
customed to the hoe and club are
likely to be afflicted with a dis
tressing crop of blisters. The rub
bling of shoes on sensitive feet on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18

At the other table the bidding
was as follows:
South: club, spades, 4 spades;
West: (Fishbein), pass A diamonds,
5 hearts; North: spade, pass,
double; East: (Stone), double, 4
hearts, pass.
Thus their teammates, Fishbein
and Stone, were allowed to p'ay
the hand at five hearts dou.....
dow none, for a penalty Of 100
points.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18

ing 2 each of sausage and aspara-
gus for each piece Of toast. Sea-
son white sauce with mustard /;
serve over sausage and asparagus.
Serves 6.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
Single Birth
Seems Small
Event Today
by RUTH MILLETT

AS wonderful as all the recent
multiple births (quintuplets in
South America, bankruptcies in Eng
land, bankruptcies and triplets at
the same hospital In New York;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
HOME FRONT FORECAST
HOME FRONT FORECAs
.Laundrymen
Wiring Raise
Out OF OPA
BY ANN STEVICK
NEA Stan COrreSpOndent

Washington, April ID - You may
have to md ways to keep down
the laundry bundle if you want to
stay within your laundry budget.
Price rises have been given
some laundries which wash by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
How Waste Paper
goes TO war

The waste paper you collect, bundle and turn IN
10 rapidly reprocessed into war paper for our
fighters They use it in over 100000 ways. They
must have it. So never burn or throw away waste
paper-turn it all in-now! Here's how it's used:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18
BIGGEST SCREEN STAR

The screens biggest star Is about
to make her appearance In Me-
Ms Let A Lady Up"
She weights 10000 tons, is 1923
feet long and II stories high.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18

What O pal the Marine Corps
censor at q certain Central Pa
cific base turned out to be! A
private in the Fifth Amphibi-
Gus Corps, with a dual affair Of
the heart. looking over the OUT
fits bulletin board, spotted q
note from the censor, addressed
to him II said. "Private Blank
Letter at mail desk. Name on
envelope Dorothy. Name on
letter Bettye. Check, and il
correct, mail"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-18

WE, THE WOMEN
Evening star., 1944-03-16

From an interested reader comes
this letter: Some years ago, in
Tuscany, in Italy, we found won-
derful sauce for spaghetti. 1t was
rich and brown, and I understand
it took hours to make. But it was
very wonderful and in it were de-
lightful little meatballs. What is
the recipe?"
Of course, I do not know the
home in Tuscany in which this dish
is served, but her letter suggests
that what she enjoyed was not
spaghetti with good sauce, but
rather the great dish "boeuf la
mode" properly done and served
with either potatoes, noodles or
spaghetti.
This is no dish for the hurried
amateur to toss together. Still, it is
by no means difficult, providing one
has all the ingredients and the pa
tience. So suppose we go to work
and cook this grand culinary Gre
alton.
The primary objective in pre-
pairing boeuf la mode is the sauce
Evening star., 1944-03-16
AhVays Nev
Problems!

Dried milk, shortening, wax and
paper are all problems to bread
bakers these days, the baking in
dustry has reported to the War Food
Administration. Supplies of dried
milk used in making white bread
have been 20 per cent shorter during
the past year than they were the year
before. The War Food Administra-
ton is now arranging for larger
supplies during the coming year A
number of new dried milk plants
have recently gone into operation
and more are being built. More of
the good SKINNED milk that has
been fed to animals on thousands
of farms will now go to these drying
plants and eventually into bread.
In the meantime civilians should
understand that they have not been
short on the riboflavin that milk
supplies to bread, because synthetic
riboflavin is being added to bread
under the Governments enrichment
program. Ribof1avin was ordered for
all bakery-made white bread in Jan
uary, l943, and larger quantities
have been added to bread since the
second order last October.
Because such large supplies OF
lard are on hand at present the
War Food Administration has rec
commended to bakers more use OF
lard for shortening and less use OF
the scarcer shortening fats.
Because of short supplies of both
paper and wax for wrappers bakers
which requires less wax than the
thicker wrappers formerly used. The
new wrappers have proved generally
satisfactory except that they do not
always hold together so well at the
end of the loaf where the wrapper
is folded. Housewives who find ar
occasional loaf on the grocery shell,
with wrapper unsealed at the enc
should understand that this is no.
from careless wrapping and that The
bread is not damaged goods" L
is the result of wartime conservation
OF paper and wax.
Evening star., 1944-03-16
The Pipes of St. Patrick

Frosting: Use plain boiled icing
and frost top and sides of cup cakes.
Filling: Centers may be filled with
pistachio ice cream at the last min
ute. If this is not available make
a lime gelatin dessert and set to
harden in large, shallow pan
When firm criss-cross gelatin with
a sharp knife to make tiny cubes
Then pile cubes into cut-out CEN
ters of frosted cakes. They sparkle
like emeralds
Stems: Green and white candy
canes make nice stems. If these are
not available wrap ordinary soda
straws with strips of green crepe
paper, securing ends with sirup
Other suggestions for stems: Wood :
en- meat skewers brushed with green
food coloring. Or, If available, two
bright-colored pipe cleaners, twisted
together to give candy stripe eff
feet,
Evening star., 1944-03-16

possibilities are infinite, as main
dish, combined with one glorifed
vegetable and crisp fruit salad,
they are highly satisfactory. If you
possess some cheese, try eggs
benedict to enthrall the family. If
you are timid about fragile souffle,
try "fondu' instead. which obvi-
ates the danger of falling Eggs
baked in the top of stuffed potatoes
with broccoli hollandaiSe is a. COM
plete meal. Mushrooms are also
plentiful, and mushrooms and eggs
have a natural affinity.
You will find few new touches in
the way of fresh green's for salad
with tiny new radishes from the
Carolinas. Oranges, grapefruit, ap-
piles and celery are available for
light spring salads of the fruit
variety.
Though the menu for the week
end may take a bit more of your
ingenuity than usual. a change to
new recipes will be a welcome invi-
tation to spring
Evening star., 1944-03-16
Blueberrv
Pies

Blueberry pie is suggested for
March meals by the War Food Ad-
ministration-or blueberry mullins,
or any other blueberry dessert. The
reason is that stocks of frozen blue
berries in family-size packages are
large this spring and the storage
space they occupy is now needed for
other perishable foods. Though it
has been an old American custom
to keep blueberry pie as seasonal
treat and serve 1t only during the
part of the summer when the berries
are ripe, frozen berries have for
some years now made it possible to
serve this pie at any time of year
After the berries have thawed they
are used exactly like fresh berries
in making pie.
Frozen apples for pie making are
also in large supply in storage but
these are packed in large containers
for the use o: the baking trade.
Blueberry pie, like other pies made
from juicy fruits, often gives trouble
during baking by budding up ano
running over in the oven. AS every
housewife knows, this not only
wastes juice but makes a scorcheo
mass on the oven floor, difficult tc
clean off, and an unpleasant burned
Iodor in the kitchen. Home econ
omists of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture suggest ways te
make fruit pie that will not rur
over. First. thicken the juice slight
ly. Second, have enough openings
in the top crust to allow the steam
to escape, or make the pie without
a top crust. Third, build up or re.
inforce the edge of the pie.
To thicken the filling blend l to :
tablespoons cornstarch with a little
juice, then mix with the berries ane
add sugar as needed. The mixture
may be cooked on top of the stove
until thickened, or may be cooked
in the crust during baking. Many
cooks bake the crust first, then ado
cooked filling, and leave the tor
open. Others use lattice top made
with strips of pastry. If the pie i.
to be open top or lattice, high.
fluted edge makes a wall to hold il
the juice. If a, top crust is usee
several Sits should be made in it
and reinforced edge may be made
by trimming the pastry about ar
inch wider than the edge of tn,
pan, then folding this overlap unde,
the moistened edge of the lowe,
crust and pressing the three layer
gently together with a fork.
Evening star., 1944-03-16
It's More Than
Skin Deep

The value of potato skin, long a
subject of dinner table discussion
has recently had some scientific
light thrown on it. AS a result of
recent tests OF the mineral and
vitamin content or potatoes, nutri-
ton scientists at the New York State
Experiment Station and the United
States Department of Agriculture
back up the mother who cooks po-
tatoes in their skins and who urges
her family to eat the crusty skins
of baked potatoes. However, they
do not entirely agree with the
familiar arguments that "the best
part Of the potato lies just under
the skin" and that "all potato skins
are rich in goodness"
Tests at the New York State
Experiment Station show a high
concentration Of iron In the whole
outer portion of the potato rather
than in the skin or just underneath
Therefore the thick crust on a
baked potato, which takes in con-
siderable of the flesh, as well as the
skin, is valuable for the iron it
contains. The thin peel of boiled
potato, on the other hand, has little
iron to offer.
Cooking potatoes in the skin is
recommended not SO much for the
value in the skin as for the pro-
lection it gives to soluble nutrients
in the potato. The skin of the
potato holds in the iron and vita
min c that would otherwise dis
solve In the cooking water and be
lost. The New York State tests
showed that potatoes pared before
boiling lost about 10 per cent of
their iron in the cooking water, but
potatoes boiled with the skin left
on lost practically no iron and rated
as high in iron cooked as raw.
Evening star., 1944-03-16

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them.
Please do not be impatient if
1t takes a few days for your
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The great number of letters be-
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Evening star., 1944-03-16

submit one that my husband and I
are. particularly fond of.
Pare l medium eggplant,
slice and run through meat grinder
into shallow or soup bowl at least
half to one hour before dinner.
Sprinkle half teaspoon salt and place
plate with heavy weight on the
ground eggplant to remove as much
liquid as possible. 1t will turn dark,
but this does not hurt. Make bat
ter of u cup flour, teaspoon bak-
ing powder, y teaspoon salt, egg, l
tablespoon melted shortening and
enough milk to make fairly stiff bat
ter, then add half of ground egg
plant, stirring thoroughly. Drop
with spoon into deep, hot melted
fat, brown and turn only once. They
will puff up and be very light and
criSpy. This will serve two persons,
and remainder of eggplant can be
stored in covered dish or jar in
icebox for one or two days. Fat
can be used over and over.
The same batter may be used for
corn fritters, which are especially
delightful.
MY mother uses ground eggplant
in griddle cakes. Grind and let
stand as above. Make batter of
cup flour, Y teaspoon salt, tea
spoon baking powder, l egg, / cup
milk, tablespoon melted shorten
ing, then add ground eggplant and
fry as any other griddle cake.
I also have way of "doctoring'
canned beans which makes a very
good imitation of Boston Baked
Beans in only Y hour. Rinse out
bean can with about 4 can water
and put in heavy frying pan on top
of stove. Add a teaspoon dry mus
tard, medium onion (sliced), sprin-
kle of salt, cover and cook over low
heat on top of stove for 20 min
utes, stirring frequently to prevent
sticking. Add 2 tablespoons black
molasses or heaping tablespoon of
brown sugar, whichever you have,
and cook 10 more minutes, stirring
frequently.
Evening star., 1944-03-16
Report to the Housewife

With most of us running a bit
short on ration points the low-point
and no-point foods are featured
this week. Bit of bad news is the
fact that there is very little poultry
and that available rather poor in
quality, so chicken will not be much
help over the week end. But with
eggs good, plentiful and cheap, the
nsh supply varied, and pork low in
ration points the outlook isn't to
dlsheartening. However, this might
be the time to whip out some of
your unusual recipes to glamour
lie the old standbys.
Pork, veal and chuck roast of beef
will be the headliners. Fresh hams
will be featured among the pork
cuts. Instead of preparing one as
you would the usual roast of pork,
try your best baked ham, tech
nique on it. When the roast is with
in half an hour of being done, lift it
from the oven. Place rounds of
pineapple over the Drowned surface.
Sprinkle then with brown sugar and
q bit Of Glove and tuck it back into
the oven. Basic every 10 minutes
for the ensuing half hour with the
Juice from the pineapple. The tart
flavor Of the fruit brings out the
sweetness of the meat as we'll as
making 1t appear at its Sunday best.
With this serve stuffed sweet pota-
toes and diced beets in spinach
ring for both color and vitamin in
terest.
Dress up a saddle of veal with
stufflng, or do a chuck roast of beef
in the French manner with carefully
prepared vegetables cooked ''in the
pot" to which you have added
cupful of wine.
Haddock fillets, which may not be
one of your delights-are delicious
done in casserole with an herb sea-
soned cream sauce. When you can't
find the necessary onions for sea-
soning don't forget the green tops
of the spring onions have a gentle
flavor. Cut them fine and either
cook them with sauces or use them
for q top garnish with both fish and
Evening star., 1944-03-16
BOeuf a la Mode

needle, 1t is an easy matter. II no
needle is available, then push the
strips of bacon through, using a
wooden skewer as "pusher." Then
season the meat we'll with salt and
pepper and place in an earthenware
jar. Cover with mixture of half
dry red wine and half water or use
one-quarter vinegar and three
quarters water. Into the liquid add
a large onion in slices, carrot or
two cut in rings, some parsley,
few bay leaves, some thyme and
some celery green's. Let stand for
"a hours.
Saving all the liquid, put the piece
of meat into a casserole in which
a tablespoonful of butter or bacon
fat or olive oil is heated. In this
casserole fry the meat until 1t is
dark brown on all sides. The sauce
depends on real browning. Re-
move the meat for a few minutes
while into the fat in the casserole
you rub two tablespoonfuls of flour
until it is we'll Drowned and fat and
flour are in smooth mixture.
Now replace the beef and add
enough liquid from the pickle to
cover the meat. Add half to a
pint of fine dry white wine (op-
tionaD and then add No. Q can Of
solid-pack tomatoes and two cups
of tomato paste. If there is not
enough picking liquid to cover the
meat use broth Canned chicken
broth is good. If the liquid dries
out in cooking add tomato Juice or
more broth. Keep the cooking dish
well covered and simmer in a low
oven for three to five hours de-
pending on the meat. When fork
may be inserted and removed with
out resistance the meat is done.
Then remove the meat. 1t may be
eaten hot or cold, sliced against
the grain.
Strain the sauce and carefully
skim off the fat. There should be
| about pint to pint and a half
of good, richly favored reddish
brown sauce. Season this with a
wine glass of sherry or madeira
wine-but again the wine is optional
if one does not care for the flavor.
If the sauce is not thick enough
thicken with a dark butter-and-
flour mixture. If too thick stir In
little broth.
Parenthetically, even though wine
is used for flavoring, it will be found
that, what with cooking and dilut-
ing, there will be less than the
proverbial one-half of l per cent of
alcohol. In fact. there is probably
less alcohol in all this seasoning
than in the vanilla or lemon extracts
generally used. With this meat and
sauce potatoes, noodles or spaghetti
go well-but If meat balls are de-
sired they may be made separately
and used with the sauce, keeping the
meat to be served at another meal.
Grated hard cheese Is served in q
side dish to sprinkle over the spa
ghetti. A salad Of mixed green's Is
a happy addition.
This is one of the great meat
dishes and in the making of the
sauce the individuality of the cook
and the gentle coaxing along of the
casserole with the meat and the
sauce count for even more than
the written recipe. Like a great
piece Of music, what counts is the
Interpretation which the artist pro-
vides. That Is why there are great
cooks just as there are great mu-
sicians.