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Evening star., 1947-07-21
Midsummer Pickles
By Violet Faulkner

Pickles may add little in the way
of nutritive value to your meals but
they more than make up for 1t in
the way of the flavor, zip and spice
they contribute. There's nothing
that can dress up a skimpy meal or
round out midnight snack like a
jar of pickles you've made in your
own kitchen.
Just why I always think of pickles
in terms of cucumbers I don't know,
perhaps it's because you can make
so many different kinds from Gu
cumbers: sweet or sour, a crock of
dills, mixed, or those thin, crisp little
bread and butter ones. Unless you
grow your own cucumbers, it might
not be a bad idea to make arrange
ments with truck farmer to get
them at just the right size, particu-
larly if you plan to put up some
small sweet gherkins.
And those watermelons you're eat
ing all through the summer-don't
forget what good pickles you can
make from the rinds. Tiny, baby
beets are another thing to keep in
mind: use the tops for greens and
pickle the baby beets whole.
Tuck these recipes away (some-
where handy, though, where you can
find them and as the vegetables
start to come in, fill those storage
shelves in the fruit cellar for next
winter.
CUCUMBER OIL PICKLES.
1 quart sliced medium cucumbers
"a cup olive oil or other salad oil
112 cups vinegar
l tablespoon mustard seed
l teaspoon celery seed
or 4 small onions, sliced
Cover the sliced cucumbers with
weak brine (1a cup salt to l quart
water) and allow to stand 2 or 3
hours. Drain off the brine and rinse
in cold water. Pack the cucumbers
lightly into clean jars. Distribute
the sliced onions through the jars.
Proportion the mustard and celery
seeds to the jars, mix the vinegar
and oil, heat to almost boiling and
pour into the packed jars to fill
them to the level of the rubber ring.
Evening star., 1947-07-21

Adjust the covers and process In
water bath at boiling temperature
for 6 to 8 minutes. Cool and store.
BREAD AND BUTTER PICKLES.
2 quarts small cucumbers
6 small white onions
2 green peppers
4 cup salt
21z cups mild vinegar
21a cups sugar, white or brown
~ tablespoons mustard seed
11a teaspoons celery seed
u teaspoon tumeric powder
Wash vegetables, slice cucumbers
paper thin, slice onions, remove
seeds from peppers and slice. Mix
vegetables, add salt and let stand
overnight. Heat vinegar with the
sugar and spices. Drain and rinse
vegetables and add them to the
vinegar. Place over low heat, stir
ing occasionally, and heat to scald-
ing, but do not boil. Stir in tumeric
powder. Pour into hot sterile jars
and seal. Makes about 3 pints.
WATERMELON PICKLES.
21a quarts pared watermelon rind
Cold water
Salt
~ quarts vinegar
11a cups water
3 pounds sugar
6 pieces stick cinnamon
2 tablespoons whole cloves
Remove green skin and pink flesh
from rinds and weigh. Cut rind in
desired pieces. Place in large kettle
and cover with water. Add salt in
the proportions of u cup salt to
each 1 quart water and simmer Tor
30 minutes. Drain off salt water; !;
cover with fresh water and COOK
10 minutes; change water again and
boil gently until the rind is tender.
Cover and let stand overnight. In
the morning, drain off the water.
Combine vinegar, water, spices and
sugar and stir over low heat until
sugar is dissolved. Add the rind and
simmer for hours or until the
sirup is thick and the rind is clear.
Remove the spices, pack in hot,
sterilized jars and seal at once.
Makes about 8 pints.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
SALAD DESSERT:
BABY PHOTO CONTEST?


From Mrs. E. B., Arlington.)
Being a steady reader of the
Woman's Page feel it is my duty
to contribute something. I have
gotten many helpful hints and some
wonderful recipes from it.
I have a very good recipe for a
marshmallow salad and would like
some of the readers to try it. Right
now while the weather is so warm I
am sure they will enjoy it:
Marshmallow SaIad-One fourth
pound marshmanow, l small can
crushed pineapple, y pint whipping
cream. 4 bananas, package cream
cheese. Cut marshmallows into
quarters, then take the juice from
the pineapple and pour over the
marshmallows. Let stand for at
least l hour or until marshmallows
get very soft. Take cream cheese
and mash in a large bowl and then
add your marshmallows and juice,
which has set at least an hour. Cut
bananas into quarters. Whip your
cream and add all ingredients to-
gether. Let stand overnight for best
results.
This can be served as a. salad on
leaf of lettuce or eaten as a des-
sert. We usually like to eat it as
dessert.
I wonder if one of the readers
could help me with my request? I've
been trying to find out where I can
enter my baby's picture in a con-
test. I have been unsuccessful SC
! far. have the picture of my baby
and most places won't enter them
unless the picture is taken right at
the studio where the contest is run
ming.
1 know there are contests that
take them no matter where the pic
lures were taken, but haven't found
any just now.
/ My baby is 9 months old and the
picture was taken recently.
REBUTTAL.
From Mrs. c. T. B., Arlington.)
To M. H B. of washington re my
reply to Mrs A. C. H. of Washing
ton.
Heavenly days, yourself! 1t is
perfectly obvious that even though
you have been head nurse in Local
institution devoted to the care o1
infants for the past five years, you
Evening star., 1947-07-21

Tnere are some people VINO 1eel
that real entertainment is derived
from interesting conversation ex-
changed among a group, rather
than food consumed in quantities. !"
I'd like to leave a thought with
you that I found on card that I
rescued from some ones discard.
It was written by William Ellery
Charming and he called it MY
Symphony:
ITO live content with small
means; to seek elegance rather than
luxury, and refinement rather than
fashion; to be worthy, and respect
able, not rich; to study hard, think
quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to
listen to stars and birds, to babes
and sages with open heart; to bear
all cheerfully, do all bravely, await
occasions, hurry never, in a word to
let the spiritual, unbidden and un-
conscious, grow up through the
common :. This is my symphony
II
SWEDISH RECIPES.
From Mrs. M. P. M, Washington.j
For Mrs. j. D. W., Washington:
Swedish Pancakes: Two eggs, l
teaspoon salt, tablespoons water, l
cup flour, cups milk. Beat eggs,
salt and water together. Add flour
by sitting it in as you beat. Add
milk and beat until smooth. Pour
about 3 tablespoons batter into we'll
creased iron skillet and spread it
out thin by tipping pan. Bake until
edges turn brown. Then fold over
twice and remove to plate. These
thin pancakes are baked on only
one side They are delicious spread
with jelly and rolled up. We loved
them AS children, and now my own
youngsters "go" for them.
Swedish Rye Bread: One-half cup
milk, Y cup water, tablespoons
shortening, tablespoons molasses,
l teaspoon salt, cake yeast, cup
rye flour, cups white flour, l table
spoon caraway, anise Or fennel
seeds. Heat liquid. Add shortening,
molasses and salt. Let cool. Then
crumble yeast into it. Add rye flour,
l cup white flour and seeds. Let
rise until double. Stir down and
add other cup of flour. Let rise
again. Put y cup flour on board
and knead it into the dough. Knead
until the dough is elastic. Shape
into loaves and let rise again. Bake
| hollr in moderate oyen
Evening star., 1947-07-21

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 Cas,OeU
Evening star., 1947-07-21
BUDGET.

From Mrs. B. w. E., Washington. J
To Mrs. r. w. L.: The other
night, among the many interesting
items on our RICH page, I found one
from you asking about household
expenses" and I have felt impelled
to sit down to my type writer and
say few things to you on that sub
ject, inasmuch as I believe I have
learned much along that line since
] came, stranger, to Washington
during the: last days of the first
World War. I was so thankful for
that first experience as it helped
me to face these worse days of this
World War, and not feel terrified at
the terrific problems which so many
of us have to face in trying to feed
our families good nourishing meals
on what may seem an inadequate
allowance.
You must realize that your state
ment and question involve so many
angles, and family situations, that a
straight answer would be simply
impossible; that is if we are to be
really helpful to each other in this
matter. Your question seemed to
imply that you could have more
adequate allowance but were not
receiving it. Whereas it might be a
real challenge to your own intelli-
gence and ingenuity to meet the
situation and conquer it, provided
you could Get your family group to
cooperate with you in making
some necessary changes in their
diet, and you could intelligently
explain to them the necessity fol
the change 1t Is far better to
secure intelligent cooperation from
people than try to force necessary
changes on them, without explana-
ton. Every life experience is q
challenge to our intelligence and
our will to overcome, not to be over
come.
I note the last of your question
contains these words especially il
we do any entertaining, which
presume implies some rather expen-
sive serving of food, cocktails per-
hapS, etc. I believe we have to face
hard cold facts many times in life
and perhaps this is one of the
times for you to ask yourself which
is the most important thing for me
to do-feed my family intelligently
and willingly accept the challenge
to my own intelligence and careful
nlanninp or shall 7 bIlV nv friends
by feeding them entertaining ex-
pensive foods, ETC.? In other words
shall I cultivate friends who value
me for what I am and not for what
I am going to feed them? Friends
whose very presence is stimulation
to the very best that is in me
friends who in my hour of trouble
and distress are always close by me
with words of courage and help
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Wife Wins Relief
From Neuritis Pain

Thousands Of sufferers from the torturing
pains due 10 rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago,
neuralgia and neMitis-are mighty happy over
their discovery Of NORITO. Now they have
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very first three doees do not relieve that cruel
pain to your satsfaetion-your money will be
refunded. Don't suffer. See your druggist today
and get NORITO on this guarantee.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
From Rags to Riches

tured. Red, yellow, turquoise,
green, gold and touch of softening
gray were used in the points.
Discarded stockings play the
major part in the rug with the dice
motif. A field of green is used as
the background for the dice. The
latter, and the playing cards, appear
in black and white. 1t takes IL to
Is hours to make one rug.
A lobbyist of long standing, Mr..
MacDougal formerly devoted him.
self to woodworking, making tables,
desks and wall brackets (the latter
from empty spools of thread. His
Scottish ancestry has nothing what
ever to say about his giving things
away. Hundreds of his wall brackets
have been given to friends in South
Carolina and his native Tennessee.
and the bulk of his 300 rugs are now
in the homes of friends.
What's YOUR hobby? Call
Evening star., 1947-07-21
HELP ON GLASS WASHING

From Mrs. H. M. B., Washington. }
A while back reader complained
of a film" left on glasses when
washed in an electric dishWaSher
I think she will find if she rinses
in cold water, any glass, dish, or
cooking utensil that has contained
milk or egg, before washing that 1t
will help. Warm water cooks" them
and is harder to remove. I also
rinse any bowl that has had batter
or dough in cold water first.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
ITALIAN COOK BOOK,

ITALIAN COOK BOOK.
From H. w., Saranac Lake, N. Y
For Mrs. r. NJ, Washington. S.
F.. Vani, publishers, of 80 West 18th
street, New York City, sell very
good italian cookbook in English. !
know it will be most pleasing.
Evening star., 1947-07-21

Onions done in the Creole
-Westng nghouePh
TUESDAY.
LiUer and
Creole Onions Mustard Greens
Corn Bread Fresh Peach Pie
Onions.
IL to IS small onions tablespoon chopped pepper
canned tomatoes teaspoon salt
tablespoon butter 4 teaspoon black pepper
CASSEROLE add other ingredients Bake
minutes until onions
tender. BY W.
Evening star., 1947-07-21
CONTRACT BRIDGE?

From 3. W., Washington
Could some one please tell me
how I can get contract bridge les
sons? I play bridge but do not feel
that my game is as good as it should
be, and would like to learn from
an expert.
Evening star., 1947-07-21

What's YOUR hobby? Call
Betty Miles, National 5000, En-
tension 396-she'd like to hear
from you!
Evening star., 1947-07-21
Readers Clearing House

have not kept up on the latest ideas
of child care and feeding. Early this
year there was convention
of the American Orthopsychi-
atric Association where the new
theory was expounded. According
to the new theory, it is now believed
best to feed a baby when he is hun
cry, as much as he wants, and stop
when he is full. This is based on
the belief that infants differ in de-
velopment, and the care should be
synchronized to the development,
that an infant made to respond to
the clock Is often frustrated. To
give him what he wants when he
wants it is only matter of giving
him relief and satisfaction when he
is completely helpless and depend
ent upon those caring for him. A
baby made to cry it out when he is
hungry has every right to feel sus-
picious, unfriendly, antagnostic and
insecure. If he receives help when
he cries, he will be happy and sat
tsfed, feel secure and confident.
X
| OILLESS DRESSING
From Mrs. H. w. p, Washington. J
To H. G. M, Upper Marlboro.
You asked for recipe for salad
dressing which doesn't need salad
oil. I use a salad dressing very sell
dom but have one that my family
enjoy and it is easy to make. You
only need ketchup and mayonnaise.
Just combine the two until salmon
colored. Use. as much as you think
you'll need. This dressing brings
out the full flavor of the contents
of your salad. I hope you will
like it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-22
TOP O. THE MORNING
He stands best who kneels most.
FUND FOR CHANNEL JOB

The announcement Of Colonel George
W. Gillette, head Of the South Atlantic
Division, Corps Of Engineers. thai $4,000
has been made available for Immediate
use in dredging and maintenance opera
lions in The Cape Fear river channel will
be welcome news 10 the ciiy's shipping
Interests and, because commerce is on the
upgrade again after The long suspension
during the wal, 10 all residents who
recognize the pori as among the citYs
greatest assets.
The fund is 10 be used 10 restore the
channel 10 a depth Of thirty feet and widths
Of $50 10 zoo feet. When this project is
completed, ships that are arriving and de-
parting in greater numbers than for some
years will encounter fewer navigation
problems from the rivers mouth TO Will
mington's docks.
This temporary relief, however, must
not be confused with the need for a thirty
five foot channel which would open the
port to deeper-draft craft on which the
port must in some measure depend for
competition with other Atlantic ports now
able 10 accommodate the largest cargo
carriers. The effort 10 obtain funds neces-
sary for the deeper channel, and more
ample turning basin is not 10 be neglected.
This need must be kept forever before
the states congressional delegation, thai
II may be spurred TO redouble its effort
for the channel depth essential in the
ports commerce volume.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-22
RUSSIA AND WAR sPoILs

1t may go back TO Caesar, or beyond,
the old saying that TO the victor belong
the spoils." The origin, however. is moi
so important as the practice.
While the Western Allies in the recent
war, recognizing that the vanquished
should do what they can in reparation,
have RETAINED from confiscation. the Rus
slams were quick to. seize whatever was
removable in their zone Of occupation in
Germany and ship it TO Russia and {
little later did the same thing after theil
brief invasion Of Manchukuo. They cas-
themselves in the role Of victor and ate
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-22
TIME TO STEAM UP

Now that the Board Of County Commits
sioners has given the green light 10 an
election for a junior college the organiza-
lions thai supported the project in the
first stage have especial incentive to sup
port it in the second Stage, 10 wit, a large
and favorable turnout at the polls.
The election, says Addison Hewlett,
Commission chairman, probably will be
held in March. In the meantime the sup
porting organizations have the best Of op-
.portunities TO take on more steam, as ii
were, for a flourishing finish.
1t would be vastly TO the credit Of the
city and county voters if they flocked TO
Inc POLLS On election day and piled up an
overwhelming majority vote for the col
lege, which represents one Of the most
forward : looking undertakings ever
launched here.
This can be done only with the same
sort Of cooperation that characterized the
preliminary campaign for presenting the
project with strong public support TO the
County Commission.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-22
FARLEY'S PROPHECIES

Jim Farley (t seems too formal 10 in
troduce him as James A." is out Of poll
Tics officially, but his voice still carries
weight. Long practiced in the ledgerde-
main Of The most tricky profession Of
mankind and trained in the wiles of cam
%paigning, Mr.. Farley will command an
attentive audience as long and as often
as he chooses TO indulge in public utter
ances.
Thus, when he declares that President
Truman is not the Strongest" possible
democratic candidate in l948, but might
have The nomination if he wants it, the
statement assumes the proportions Of an
oracle. What interests US, and without
disputing the fact, is why Mr.. Truman
should covet the nomination.
His administration has been under a
heavy handicap, first because he follow
ed the executive policies Of his predeces-
sor, TO his own harm and the country's
distress. and secondly because, having
started on the wrong foot, he was Iona
unable TO get in step and so helped the
republicans TO sweep the congressional
elections last November.
Even though Mr.. Truman has at last
set his own course, and for the most
part ii appears safe if not inspired, he
is a greater glutton for punishment than
Primero if he aspires TO the democratic
presidential nomination in Two years
Mr.. FarleY's views on republican pos
sibiliiies are interesting. We must as
sumo they are based on chance rathe,
than merit. He thinks Governor Dewe,
stands first in the line. with Senate
Taft second, and Senator Vandenber
Trailing in third place. We believe Their
IRE a great many voters, having follow
I'd the public careers Of the three, wi
agree that this is one Of the times ii
last should be first.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-22
ARCTIC ISLANDS
COAL ISCOVETEn

WASHINGTON, D. c.-Tba ~.
jestic, coal-veined mountains a.
form the Norwegian island. :.
Spitsbergen, where the so,;.,
Union is reported seeking bas..
rise from Arctic waters at ~
"sop of the world" points cut ~,
Geographic Society. '1'
The group. officially know !.
S%valbard, is about ZOO miles ~, as
the North Pole and 400 miles w..
of Norway. The northern nart t' 1,
Greenland is $50 miles to W VI
west. Thus Spitsbergen was t%s Wv
logical base for polar e~xpediti,n.
of Rear Admiral Richard F p,"s
and other explorers. a
Despite their ia~hospitabIe l..
cation, the islands are II o. ~
few Arctic regions that have ou ~s
piled minerals to countries in ~.
t e m perate zone. Deposits a,
iron ore, copper, and zinc wv VI
largely uadeveloped, but the w.t.
coal Observation-Disclosures as bi-.
as eight billion tons - have besn
mined for a half century.
Coal mining is simplified BY fl.
fact that the veins often cron o,.
on the mountainsides. The Inv,
summer hours of midnight snrss
also h e p production. Altbono,
mining continues throughout n.
year, the coal can be sbin,as
abroad only from June Or .Iu,U
until October, while the harhor.
are ice free.
Norwegian and Russian miner,
and their families have constitut.
led virtually the entire populate,
of this land the size Of West Viz.
ginia. n prewar winters the nyr,.
Der of residents usually dwindlss
to little more than 1000.
Fishing augments the larder q,
the frugal, hard working psnn'e
Once Spitsbergen waters we1 th.
worlds greatest whaling grounds,
but the catches were 50 eXtensiv.
that whales and walruses have ba.
come nearly extinct in the region.
A few polar bears and seals Re-.
main.
Few of Spitsbergen'S mountain,
are more than a mile high. bt
their sharp spires Or cones, gIit
tering with snow and ice, max,
the islands scenically beautiful
Many fjords indent the Shore.
and glaciers fill valleys and often
run down into til e fjords them.
selves.
Two-thirds of West S~pitsbersea
largest Of the five islands and ,
number of barren, rocky islet,
that make up the group, is GOV.
cred with ice all year. There are
no trees, but hardy flowers bios.
som quickly in midsummer. A
warm current from the North At.
lantic washes the western shores
and moderates the climate,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-22
Editorial Comment
TRUE DEMOCRACY

A great many employed men failed to vote
in the last election for this reason: The cleo
ton was held on a work day. The men had TO
leave for work in the morning before the polls
opened and when they returned from work al
though the polls remained open, they were too
tired to visit them.
Manifestly, this is wrong. 1t is un-American
and undemocratic. No man should be put in
such a situation with regard to the franchise
by the fact that on election day he is working.
1t has been suggested, therefore that we adopt
the European plan of .-olding our elections on
Sunday.
Then, instead of not voting because he is at
work, a man with a whole Sunday at his dis
posal can exercise the right, which should be
every free Americans. of not voting because
he has gone fishing.-Jackson (Miss.) News
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-22
THE BOOK OF
KNOWLEDGE

(arrow - which enters the bottom
of the drop.
This light, shown by arrow 6, is
bent upwards when it enters the
drop. It is then reflected twice as
/ shown by arrows 7 and 8. When ii
leaves the drop it is again bent.
1t is this ray, shown by arrow 9,
which reaches the eye. This light
comes to the eye at an angle diff
ferent from that of the light
shown in OUR first drawing. Hence
there are two angles formed.
WHAT Makes A Nettle Sting?
The leaves of a stinging-nettle
are coveded with small hairs with
sharp, hooked points that will
break off when they are lightly
touched. But the nettle does not
merely prick-it stings. This is be-
cause the hairs are filled with an
acid which gets under u skin
through the hole made by the
point of the hair.
Fornis is Latin for "ant," and
this acid is called formic acid be-
cause it is found il the bodies Of
ants. There it probably prevents
other animals from eating the
ants, because it is not nice to
taste. This is one of the thousands
of ways in which animals and
plants are protected from their
enemies.
What Makes Me Wake Up?
We do not sleep in just the
same way all through the night.
At first we sleep deeply. But for
some hours after this we sleep less
and less deeply. We can easily find
this out by noticing how loud a
noise is required to wake n up at
various times in his sleep. And we
find that when a person has had
nearly enough sleep he will be
wakened by a noise which, a few
hours before, he would not have
noticed
That is the sort of thing that
happens when we wake. We have
been sleeping less and less deeply
for some time, and out brain has
almost awakened OF itself. Then
there comes a sound or a light, or
perhaps we move in bed. The sound
or the light or the movement wakes
us.
Copyright, 1916, BY The Grolier Society
Inc, based upon The Book of knowledge
Distributed by The United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.
TOMORROW:
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