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CLEANING BURNERS;
FIREPLACE.

(From Mrs. C. P. L., Arlington.)
For Mrs K. M. D., Takoma Park:
Remove burners, trays and all re-
movable parts from your stove
Place them. including your frying
pans in the laundry tub. Cover all
parts with hot water, adding one can
lye, Leave or 4 hours. Pull stop
per, being careful not to get hands
in solution. Rinse. Then wash off
in soapy water. There may be a few
obstinate spots, but these can easily
be removed with a piece of steel
wool. This does not damage the
trays in the oven.
I dislike the black look on the
inside" of the fireplace so in the
spring I clean it by washing and
securing; then give it a coat of
ivory water paint. I have no lovely
summer screen and I think this
gives the room a cool clean look dur
ing the summer months. When one
again starts fires, there is no odor,
and it blackens up "gracefully." This
takes but a few minutes time, and
worth the effort.
Evening star., 1946-04-30

These good-looking sandals will
add glamour to your slacks, hostess
gowns and breakfast coats. The
firm soles add comfort and will last
indefinitely.
Pattern envelope contains COM
plete easy-to-read and easy-to-fol-
low directions for the above.
Our 60-page multicolored book of
needle arts containing five free pat
terms and many other suggestions
for dressing up your home and your
self is now available. Send your re-
quest for this book to the address
listed below, inclosing 20 cents, in
coins, to cover the cost and mailing
charges.
Send Is cents (coin) for Pattern
No. R2330 to Needle Arts Dept, The
Washington Star, P. o. Box 172,
Station D, New York 3, N. Y. Please
include your postal zone number.
Evening star., 1946-04-30
BRIOCHE::
BABA.
BABA.
From Mrs. L. K, WdShinotou,

From Mrs. L. K, Washington.
Brioche is a kind of light bun
mixture much used in France. One
cake compressed yeast, 4 cupful of
lukeWarm water, l quart of -four,
7 eggs, q pound butter, p teaspoon
salt, teaSpoonfuls of sugar. Dis
solve yeast cake in a cup of luke
warm water. Stir it until thorough
ly mixed, add enough flour to make
q very soft ball of paste. Drop this
ball into pan of warm water. CThe
water must be warm, not hot, or it
Will kill the yeast plantsD Cover
and set 1t in a warm place to rise,
which will take about an hour. This
is for leaven to raise the brioche.
The ball of paste will sink to the
bottom of the water at first, but
will rise to the top later, and be
full of bubbles. Put the rest of
flour on platter, and make a we'll
IN center of it. Into this well put
the butter, salt, sugar and 4 eggs.
Break the eggs in whole, and have
the butter rather soft Work them
together with the hand, gradually
Incorporating the flour, and add
ing more eggs, one at time. Work
and beat it with the hand until it
loses its sickness, which will take
some time
When the leaven is sufficiently
light, lift it out of the water with
a skinner and place it with the
dough. Work them together, add
one more egg, the last of the seven,
and beat it for a long time, using
the hand. The longer it is beaten,
the better and finer will be the
grain. Put the paste in a bowl,
cover and let it raise to double its
size, which will take to S hours.
Then beat it down again, and place
1t on the ice for II or "a hours. AS
beating and raising the paste re-
qulres so much time, the work
should be started the day before
1t is to be used.
After taking the paste from the
ice, it will still be quite soft, han
die it delicately and quickly. It
Softens more as it becomes warm.
Baba: Into 3 cupfuls of brioche
paste, mix l cupful of currants, raj
sins and chopped citron, which have
soaked for an hour in maraschino.
Half fill buttered baba molds (Which
are cups holding about z spinO
let 1t rise to top of the mold, which
will take about q hour. 1t must
not rise in too warm a place or
them in moderate oven z hour,
let them absorb hot sirup at 80 de-
grees, favor with Kirsch or sherry.
Evening star., 1946-04-30
BY Jane CLARK

crisply. and the only time he would
eat another sort of meat was when
he was promised bacon after he
ate his portion of meat, a tiny one.
How he lived to adolescence I don't
know. When he changed over to
eating and sleeping and behaving
like an ordinary human child, I
don't remember. He gradually
changed. After that he was the
healthiest of the lot and the least
trouble. I think this one takes
after his father"
Evening star., 1946-04-30
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Information sent in by the fol-
loUi11g has been forwarded to the
indiUidualS for 1Dhom it 1Uds in
tended.
Mrs. G. w. G., 5r. Bo1iuar,
w. Va, Mrs. NJ. F. H., Arlington );
P. ON, Falls Church; Mrs. I. S.,
Mrs. r. E. L., Alexandria; Mrs.
D. L. E., Mrs. C. de j., Mrs.
L. H. v, Washington.
Our thanks to these readers,
1Uhose contributions 1Uere similar
to others previously received::
Mrs. D. M. Med, Leesburg;
Mrs. H. j., Silver Spring.; Mrs.
w. E. D., Mrs. S. O., Mrs. S. G.,
WdShinqtOn.
Evening star., 1946-04-30
TORTEN RECIPES.

From Mrs. r. A. F., Washington. J
Recipes in answer to B. G.. K, Ar
Gngton, Finger Torte: Two cups
sifted flour. 3 teaspoons baking pow
der, l cup shortening, l cup sugar,
3 eggs, l teaspoon grated lemon ripd,
tablespoons lemon juice, Y pound
blanched almonds, grated; l glass
Il cup) tart red jelly, Y cup
heavy cream. whipped. Sift. -four
and baking powder together or 6
times. Cream shortening until
smooth and fluffy. Add sugar, eggs,
lemon rind and juice and beat for
5 minutes. Add almonds, fold in
flour mixture and pour into creased
pan. Bake in moderate oven $3.50
degrees IS minutes. Garnish top
with jelly and whipped cream.
Makes g inch) torte.
Omit jelly, reduce baking powder
to l teaspoon and add l tablespoon
brandy Separate eggs and fold in
Stiffly beaten white last. Roll out
p of the dough and line a spring.
form pan. having dough for bottom
thicker than the sides. Fill with
2 cups jam or preserves. Roll re-
naming dough, cut into strips and
place criss-cross on top. Bake as
above, increase to IS minutes. Fill
in hollows with more jam, before
serving. also have recipes for
Blitz Torte, Heavenly Torte if re-
quested Also Almonds -Schaum
Torte, Sherry Cake with Sherry
icing.
Evening star., 1946-04-30
SUGGESTIONS WANTED?

T O7V w y % 1T 117t9 VO7p'7
Greetings to all you who have
contributed so many helpful ideas
How about helping hand to me?
Can any one suggest recipes OF
suggestions for the preparation OF
dishes for person who can eat no
sugar, starChes, fats, very little meat
and potato and nothing fattening
He loves salads, but without oil OF
mayonnaiSe, can they be made?
Evening star., 1946-04-30
Contributions and

Contributions and requests
must be accompanied by the
sender'S full name and address.
We will withhold both and use
only initials. Please address
mail to the Readers Clearing
House, Woman's Page, The
Evening Star, Washington 4.
Views expressed in the Clear
ing House are not necessarily
those of The Star. and as it is
obviously impossible for us to
test all recipes submitted, we
cannot assume responsibility for
them.
Betsy CaSzoeH.
Evening star., 1946-04-30

Hay Diet System: I suggest the
reader buy or borrow from a library
another publication of the Hay
System, The Hay Cook Book" This
is a very large and we'll arranged
book, classified by the main divi-
sions of alkaline or neutral protein
and carbohydrate meals. By using
this book even for a week, one be-
comes very familiar with the system
of meal planning.
Evening star., 1946-04-30
SUMMER COOKERY?

From Mrs. T. NJ, Washington
We like broiled steaks, but living
in an apartment makes it a scarce
dinner for the summer time would
like to hear from some one who has
an electric broiler. Do they heat
the kitchen as much as a gas stove?
Evening star., 1946-04-30
WASHING UNIFORMS,

MILDEW FROM CURTAINS?
From Mrs. D. T. D., Arlington.)
I wonder if Mrs. J. w. D., Wash
tngton, means the cotton khaki uni
forms when she asks about washing
and ironing an Army officers sum-
mer uniform. If So I believe she
will find her salvation in using a
light starch with piece Of special
wax melted in it. Use the starch as
hot as possible. I dip both shirt and
pants in this.
If you have adjustable pants
creasers, you'll save yourself lots
of trouble, too. They are available
again and are real work savers. You
may find them in either the house
ware department or a closet shop
downtown. You'll need 2 or pairs.
Can some one tell me how to re-
move mildew from the bottom OF
shower curtains?
Evening star., 1946-04-30
BATHING CATS.

To M. B., Washington: According
TO all advice have had from veter-
1narians, it is dangerous to bathe
cats. Their skins are porous and not
even flea powder should be used. I
am cat lover and have tried to get
the best information about their
care
Evening star., 1946-04-30
CORRECTION.

(Fronl Mrs. H. S. l., Siluer Spring. J
In sending in the recipe for "Ap-
ricot Souffle." I absentmindedly
wrote 4 teaspoon salt when I
meant 1/l6 teaspoon salt. The salt
is in the custard Since the recipe
was published, dried apricots seem
to have disappeared from the stores,
so I have an idea no one has been
able to follow the recipe at present.
Evening star., 1946-04-30
BUTTER MAKING.

(From Mrs. C. S. D., Washington.I J
This is in answer to Mrs. J. E. c. S
query about making butter in the
electric mixer: Allow heavy cream
to become room temperature and
beat on medium speed until cream
turns to butter particles. Then drain
off liquid, press out remaining liquid
with spoon, then salt and store in
refrigerator
Evening star., 1946-04-30
HARDENED COCONUT?

From Mrs. E. D. R., Arlington)
1 have some shredded coconut
that has hardened. Is there some
way of moistening it without harm
inc it?
Evening star., 1946-04-30
OVERSEAS PACKAGES;
MARLBORO PIE


From Mrs. G. F. G., Greenbelt, Md
, Replying to Mrs. A. D. H, who
asks where addresses can be OBJ
tanned for sending overseas packages
to needy families. Ask the Secre-
tary at First Congregational Church,
Tenth and G. streets NV, Wash
ington, or probably other regular
churches can tell, and would be
glad to.
/ An old-time and very fine use for
applesauce is marlboro Pie Strain
! the sauce and if "tame-tastlng," add
lemon juice and rind. Make it good
with sugar and a little butter, and
add 3 eggs, beaten. Bake with lat
tice of crust strips on top or put
dabs of whipped cream on top when
serving. 1t is fine for individual lit
tie pies for outdoor eating. Old-time
folk always season this with vanilla
From Mrs. J. F. NJ. Arlington.)
In reply to a request by Mrs. A.
D. H, Washington in the RCH, I
hasten to give her what information
I can in regard to names of Euro
pean families who need help. There
is a committee Of women, wives of
scientists of Washington, who for
the past year or SO have contacted
families of European scientists, and
are acting as a clearing house for
this purpose. The secretary of this
group is Mrs. E. r. Smith, chemistry
department, Bureau of Standards,
Washington, D. c., and l am sure
she would be able to supply name
or names of people who need help.
I have received many grateful let
ters in acknowledgment Of pack
ages sent to Holland and Czecho-
slovakia. The committee has names
from countries other than these two
and am sure would appreciate any
| help Mrs. A. D. H. could render.
In communicating with Mrs. Smith,
Mrs. H. might specify any particular
feature, such as, if she has children
she might desire to send some of
their clothing in which case she
would wish the name of a family
with children. That was an after
thought on my part.
I From Mrs. S. NJ. S., Arlington.)
If the American Relief for France,
1920 I street NV, phone National
$685., cannot give you a family q
believe they do), the Red Cross has
a list and assigns families. I hope
Mrs. A. D. H. does send packages,
My sisters rations for January were
1892 calories per day, per adult!
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COOKING CIACCES
Evening star., 1946-04-30
COOKING CLASSES.
(Fron, A G.. Wnshinoton.

From A. G., Washington.)
In answer to Miss B. D., cooking
classes are held at the Washington
Gas Light Co., Eleventh and H
streets NV, each Tuesday from 10
to 11:45 am. Next Tuesday closes
this series; she might phone for
Evening star., 1946-04-30
Readers Clearing House

more information. Glasses are also
held at the Potomac Electric Power
Co., Tenth and E streets NV, each
Wednesday at 1890 am. The last
one for this season will be May 20.
If Mrs. A. D. H., Washington,
would care to call me, I will give her
the address 1 intend to use for mail
ing overseas packages. My number
is Taylor 6143
Evening star., 1946-04-30
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HAY DIET SYSTEM.
(From Mrs. L. A. s., Washington.
To the inquiry re menus for the
Evening star., 1946-04-30
TURTLES.

From Miss L. c., Washington.)
If Mrs NJ RS turtle is one of the
small painted turtles, she will have
to remove the paint from the shell
or it will die do not know whether
one could use turpentine or not to
remove same, Perhaps some of
the readers could enlighten us.
Evening star., 1946-04-30
MAKING BUTTER.

(From Mrs. d. G. j., TGkO1nG
Park, D. c.
Someone asked if butter could be
made with an electric beater. I
make all of mine in that way and
have had all 1 could use, even in
cooking for more than year.
I take the top off ordinary milk,
(pasteurized), put it in a warm
place to sour quickly, beat with an
electric beater until it separates
USUALLY only few minutes, if the
cream is clabbered. I strain that
through a fine strainer, saving the
buttermilk for drinking or cooking
and the curd I put in the iceboX
to get firm, Then 1 pour ice water
over it (the ice is importanO and
work it with fork, pouring the
water off and adding more until it
comes entirely clear. Then salt it
and press it into a glass molder,
which can be bought at any ten-cept
store. This presses any lingering
water out and it will be as firm and
as yellow as any butter. Sweet
cream can be made in the same
way but takes much longer, needs
richer cream and is no better if this
butter is washed with the ice water,
and if the cream is quickly soured
IN order to avoid a rancid taste.
Evening star., 1946-07-19

The demands by Russia for repara-
tions from Italy were compromised.
The Soviet's justification for this de-
mand was that Mussolini's soldiers par
ticipated in the attack on Russia. Rep
arations are to be paid, but over a
period of seven years and with a
moratorium for two years.
In and between the lines of Mr.. Van
denberg'S speech is no small ground for
optimism. He does not charge that
the Soviet government is intent upon
a career of conquest. either theological
or territorial. He points out that the
trouble is misunderstanding, rather
than clash of power. And he believes
that there is common ground" where
democracy and communism can meet
and that we must not draw back from
the quest for understanding into new
isolation. 1t was not possible to say
this of Hitler and the Nazi government.
The forthcoming peace conference
will be long and, in many respects, dis
turbing. But Mr.. Byrnes is showing
himself to be capable of seeing it
through.
released by the Associated Newspapers, Incl
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Grounds for Optimism
By Raymond oley

It is only by comparing the recent
speeches of Secretary Byrnes and Sena-
tor Vandenberg with those made after
former meetings of the Foreign Min
isters that we can have measured
optimism about what happened in
Paris. Problems were settled there
which looked exceedingly grim two
months ago. In a slow, inexorable man
ner Mr.. Byrnes is contracting the area
of difference between the Soviet Union
and the western nations. The American
Secretary of State deserves the nice
things said of him by Mr. Vandenberg.
MIR. Byrnes' performance was, Mr.. Vanf
denberg said, "in the finest American
tradition
The eternal chattering of Pravda
makes it hard to realize that there are
so many issues upon which agreement
was reached with Russia. The gruff
manner of Molotov and other Soviet
statesmen makes even agreement seem
disagreeable. But good stretch of the
long road to peace has been covered.
1t was not believed, two months ago,
that general peace conference could
be agreed upon. But it has been set
for this month. There are limitations
upon this conference, such as the So
Wet proviso that the Council of For
eign Ministers shall have the last word
after the conference is over. This re-
fleets the Soviet fear that, since Russia
and its friends are a minority, they
would be completely trimmed in gen.
eral conference.
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Peace has been made with five
enemy states: Italy, Hungary. Romania,
Bulgaria and Finland. That once
seemed remote.
The Soviet withdrew its claims to
italian colonies That lessons the fear
of large Russian influence in the Medi-
terranean.
Germany will probably be recreated
as political and economic unit. Two
months ago, people who returned from
Germany said it was almost sure to
be split at the Elbe River. The final
form of the new Germany will not be
known for long time, and many stiff
decisions have to be made. But the
principle has been agreed upon.
Trieste has been internationalized,
which was the only peaceful solution.
This was done despite the screams OF
both Italian and Slavic partisans.
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Crusader TuImudqe

It is evident that Eugene Tai
madge knows his Georgia we'll
knows it's racial prejudices, its re-
sentiment of interference by "out-
siders," the potential anomalies of
it's unit system of voting. He made
the most of these factors in winning
the right to serve a fourth term as
Governor of his State.
No great national or international
issues were involved in the Georgia
primaries. Mr.. Talmadge's oppo-
nent, James V. Carmichael, sought
unsuccessfuly to center the atten-
ton of the voters on one issue, good
government, but, as he remarked
during the height of the campaign,
Mr.. Talmadge refused to be diverted
from his crusade for white su-
premacy" and against the invasion"
or threatened invasion of equality"
carpetbaggers from the North. He
pictured himself as a sort of Horatio
at the white supremacy" bridge,
holding off hordes of FEPC advo-
Gates, among whom he mentioned
Secretary Wallace and Governor
Ellis Arnall. And the Supreme
Courts action in overturning Jim
Crow laws undoubtedly added fuel
to the racial flames which he sought
to keep at white heat until the
votes we're counted.
The Talmadge supporters were
not mistaken in believing that the
county unit voting system, patterned
somewhat after the national elec-
toral college plan, would benefit
their candidate if the race were
close. AS it turned out, Mr. Car
michael received more popular votes
than his opponent, but the unit
votes were what really counted and
Mr.. Talmadge received a substantial
majority of them. This was possible
because Mr.. Talmadge's greatest
strength lay in the rural districts,
where even the most sparsely settled
county was entitled to at least two
unit votes While more Negroes
voted than ever before in Georgia's
history, the more than 100000 of
these votes were cast chiefly in
urban counties where they were not
especially needed
The Georgia campaign, like that
in Mississippi, shows how easily
racial passions lend themselves to
effective exploitation in Southern
elections. AS long as that is so, the
Evening star., 1946-07-19

work unless the relationship continues
on some other basis. What an oppor-
tunity for the Italian Communist party!
only through integration with the
Soviet Union can Italian workers con-
tinue to have work and bread" will cer-
tainly be their cry. And it will be true
This picture also explains the Soviet
demand for the preposterous sum of
$40 900 ,0000 reparations from Ger
many, to be taken in goods. Germany
cannot produce the goods without i'm
ported raw materials and food She can
not buy these in the Orient, the United
States, Canada, or elsewhere in the nom
Soviet world, except by borrowing money
or sending exports obviously welcome.
The Potsdam agreement specifically
prohibits such external assistance" as
loans would be. But the Soviet Union
and its eastern satellites can furnish the
raw materials-we may even require"
them to do so-and the economic inte-
grafton of Germany and the Soviets will
thereby begin, and, again, on it will de-
pend the functioning of the entire Ger
man economy and the lives of German
workers. This will not be external as
sistance" but Preparations" 1t also will
be jobs for Germans. What an oppor-
tunity for the German Communist
party.
For, of course, as Mr.. Lippman also is
slowly and reluctantly coming to realize,
he Russian concept of security" is the
domination OF the Eurasian continent
That requires the control of Europe
the control of Europe requires the con-
troll Of Germany. And for that control
the Russians have two trump cards:
The possibility of furnishing German
workers livelihood, however meager,
in industries supplied with Russian raw
materials and designed for the Russian
market started under the banner of
"reparations;: and the hope of German
nation reunion through the fifth parti-
ton of Poland-and Czechoslovakia.
<x*x
The Potsdam agreement, providing
for the partition of Germany and the
evacuation into the Reich of the Ger
man inhabitants of all Eastern Ger
many and the Sudetenland has created
within Germany what will become the
greatest irredentist movement in Euro
pean history. by the waters of the
Elbe We sat and wept. aye We wept
when we remembered Zion" The
new Zion is in Pomerania and Pomorze
Silesia. Brandenburg, East Prussia, and
the Sudetenland, and whatever power
promises these refugees their lost lands
will get the whole of Germany!
The only power that can give them
back-when Germany is really "democ-
ratized," ie, Sovietized-is the power
that took them in the first place and
holds them, under phony titles. Polish"
and Czech" as hostages
CReleased by the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1946-07-19
Monument for q Sinoer

Perhaps it might be argued that
the writer's of songs need monu-
ments less than other men. In any
case, the members of the Lions
International have made it their
business to provide a granite marker
for the grave of James A. Bland,
the gifted Negro minstrel to whom
the Old Dominion owes the haunting
words and music of the song Garry
Me Back to Old Virginny." His
final resting place in Merton Gene
terry at Bala-Cynwyd near Philadel-
phia was discovered through the
efforts of the late Professor Kelly
Miller of Howard University in 1899.
Washington residents naturally
are interested in the matter because
Bland lived here as a boy and as a
young man. He was descended from
a well-known free colored family of
South Carolina. The date of his
birth is given as October %, 1854,
and the place as Flushing, New York.
His father, Allen M. Bland, was a
student at Oberlin College and sub
sequently was graduated from Will
berforce and Howard. In 1869 he
was appointed to a clerkship in the
Patent Office. There is legend to
the effect that he and his more
celebrated son attended Howard at
the same time.
Garry Me Back" was copyrighted
In 1875, when it's author-a natural
born troubador-was only twenty
one years of age. Bland produced
altogether about seven hundred
compositions. Fifty-eight of them
are in the Library of Congress and
search is being made for others.
Some may be found in Europe or
even in the Orient. The singer spent
most of the last two decades of his
life abroad. He earned large sums
as a star artist touring the world
with a white company, but the
money was not saved. Discouraged,
he returned to America and died,
May S, 1911.
People continue to play and sing
his songs. many of them believing
that they are the works of Stephen
Collins Foster. The list includes,
besides Garry Me Back" the beau
tiful ballads: "Oh, Dem Golden
Slippers" "In the Morning by the