Evening star., 1948-01-20

slaw, potato salad, vegetable salad
fruit salad and deviled eggs.
Whole tomatoes, radishes, celery
pickles, olive and carrot sticks add
variety. Try wrapping lettuce, raw
spinach or kale separately in wax
paper to be put on sandwiches just
before eating. Use different bread
for sandwiches now and then such
as whole wheat, rye and pumper-
nickle. s.,. "a
Above all, don't let the person
whose lunch you are packing know
what he Is getting. Surprises often
stimulate the appetite. Keep. q
small salt shaker In the lunch box
fors emergencies.
from Miss X. G., Washington.)
To Mrs. r. M. c., who wrote about
sandwich filings for lunch boxes
With peanut butter, fry bacon very
crisp, crush or grind and mix. Grind
raisins and mix with peanut butter.
Also honey is good mixed with pea
nut butter. These can be put In
canned jar and stored in ice box.
Mash hard boiled egg very fine
Add mayonnaise and salt. Also q
few drops of vinegar and . bit Of
sugar or prepared mustard, If liked.
We like this sandwich with lettuce
leaf.
Grind turkey or chicken, mix with
mayonnaise, season to taste. Other
meats are good. Ham with a bit Of
prepared mustard, beef with garlic
salt or bit Of onion or catsup, lamb
with q bit of worcestershire sauce.
These should have lettuce in them.
(From Mrs. L. p, Takonaa Park.)
Why not try grinding nuts and
raisins and q little lemon, adding 4
little sirup or q little. sugar and put
between two slices Of bread? A
change for the kids and the older
ones!
Il y X
PIANO LESSONS.
(From Mrs. W. r. B., Washington.)
To Mrs. A. p. H. in reply to a
question about piano lessons in the
public schools: My son has been In
one Of the afternoon classes this
year and seems more responsive to
this approach to music with a group
than he was to private instruction,
which he had previously. These
class lessons aim only at an intro
duction to piano study and progress
is also somewhat slower than by
individual lessons, since each child
is given an opportunity to play the
assignment, but the methods are
thorough and presented in under
standable terms. I, too, wondered
how the material was presented and
went to observe the children's re-
sponse. The value Of the notes Is
stressed and the children count out
the next assignment in unison, with
hand motions. If you understand
music yourself, I think it is a dis
tinct help to 60 over the piece with
the child, especially with reference
to finger positions on the keys and
to see that he tries to count for
himself. If your little boy is like
mine, he simply does not want to
take the trouble to count and pre-
fers to make o tune. For instance,
in playing q recent exercise that
featured parts of the scale, he Is
inclined to give the notes values that
make 1t sound like Joy to the
World" which he had been singing
for Christmas.
II II II
QUILTING.
from Mrs. L. L. w., Arlington.)
To the ex-soldier who wants some
one to quilt the crib quilt he has
pieced: Why not do it yourself?
Quilting is even more fun than
making the pieces and it can be
as elaborate or as simple as you
like.
The quilting can be done in the
usual quilting frames, which, can
be improvised Curtain stretchers
will do), but II your space is lin
tied, or you want the job to be
portable, get quilting hoops, which
look like very large embroidery
hoops and are used In the same
way. You can probably set them
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