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Evening star., 1949-11-25
HOME SCHEDULE.


iron, Mrs. c. B. w., Washtnoton.)
T& Mrs. H. L. B.: Your letter
regarding some sort Of schedule
interested me greatly as I have
been trying to find q schedule to
follow for IL years now. I, too,
worked in an Office for a period
of 10 years before marrying and ]
thought I was working very hard
Office work eight hours q day and
little tasks to be done in the
evening. And then I married and
had four youngsters and I haven't
been able to find any sort OF
schedule I could follow since that
time. I am working from early
morning until late at night and ]
am never completely caught up as
I used to be each night at the
Office. Washing, ironing, cooking,
sewing, mending, busting, clean
ing, ETC., keep me exhausted, and
the most amusing part Of the situ-
alton is having q husband who
comes home at night and says, Il
don't see what you find to do with
yourself all day long, your wash
ing and ironing for week should
be done In a couple Of hours" :
+ shall be looking with q great
deal Of interest for a reply to your
note, and I, too, may be able to
benefit from it.
WILLOW WARE" POEM.
(Fron1 Mrs. r. A., Wdshington)
For Mrs. c. s.:
IAN artist in fadeless blue
,se On some remote forsotten re-, ter. dats ,,nc,
A willow plate.
1.-THE house OF the mandarin
Is standing on q waveless khore,
The boatman plies upon the stream
A silent oar.
Its fronded leaves TO- erect the day,
For they are dreaming lotus dreams
On CLASSY clay.
mo hammer on the temple bell
Will ever call the vanished thronS
Nor wake the Buddha doing there
With brazen song.
THE mandarin still msdly seeks
His daughter and the lad she loveS-
A friendly goddess turned the pair
To turtle doves.
"And they are floating evermore
In raptureS 1t were vain to tell,
Nor men nor deities can lift
The magic SPELL"
CLIFFORD Il. NowIM.
Evening star., 1949-11-25
KRuM KAKE.

(Fron Mrs. M. ID. w., HyattsDille.,
For Mrs. j. H. W., jr., Wash
ington: Here are two recipes fol
krum kake.
One: One and a half cups sugar
Is eggs, l cup melted butter. ~
cups flour. u teaspoon vanilla
h teaspoon cardamon. ". cul
water. Beat eggs. add sugar ane
beat we'll. Add butter, water
vanilla, then flour sifted witt
|cardamon. Bake on iron, rol
quickly. Or form into patty
shells. Fill with fruit and tor
with whipped cream.
Two: Six eggs. l cup sugar
l cup butter, 2 cups flour. Beat
eggs until light. add sugar
gradually. Add melted butter ane
flour q little at a time. Bake or
iron and roll as for above recipe
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PERSIMMON PUDDING.
(From Mrs. A. p. E., Alexandra. j
One cup sugar, " teaspoon salt
I cup -four, l teaspoon soda,
teaspoon baking powder, l cuI
nuts, chopped: cup persimmor
pulp. egg. " cup milk, l tea.
spoon vanilla, 2 tablespoons melted
shortening.
Sift all dry ingredients into
bowl. Beat egg and add with mill
and vanilla. Add other ingredi.
ents. Bake in creased. covered
casserole for / hour. Serve warn
with whipped cream.
Note: Persimmons are peelet
like tomatoes and the pull
squeezed into cup or put through
coarse strainer and measured intt
q cup.
This dessert must be servet
warm as it looses its soft texture
and becomes solid and doughy i
left to cool.
Evening star., 1949-11-25

(From Mrs. M. d. w., Hydttsuille.,
Evening star., 1949-11-25
WhyGrow
Old?
By Josephine Lowmon

Our thoughts have . greater in
duence on our appearance and
our happiness than most OF us
realize. We hear this over and
over again and yet few Of US take
this bit Of wisdom seriously. We
believe 1t, but not enough to make
the control Of DUR thoughts a
conscious part Of our everyday
lives.
How can we dash through each
day as though it were some sort
Of a marathon race? Prayer does
this for one. It Is an experience
which provides stimulation for
controlled emotions and thoughts.
Even those who do not pnay in
the conventional sense need min
utes alone In complete relaxation
when the hectic pieces of life fall
into place and one achieves a
semblance of peace and beauty
and symmetry in living.
One must search for such times;
one must plan for them. You
cannot very well come In contact
with the feel" Of life and its
sweep when the pie is burning, a
child Is crying or ones husband
says, 1--WE must leave in 10 min
utes." Probably the best time for
the busy housewife Is late eve
ming. after the last chore is done
and the last child is tucked in bed.
It helps us remain youthful if we
think youthful thoughts. courage
rather than fear, eagerness for
adventure rather than for secur-
tty, laughter rather than tears,
humor rather than hecticness and
new experiences rather than old.
Although contact with youth
sometimes seems to be driving
you to old age, yet it is actually
q revitalizing experience If you
think in youths terms.
This makes me think of Marion
Rosette, the composer and lyricist
of such delightful records as
'Katie the kangaroo" "Rum-De-
Diddle" and "The Runaway Ffd-
die" In planning record enter
tainment for children, Marion
Rosette must think in youthful
terms. She says, Because I have
to keep my thoughts young in or
der to provide enjoyment for
young people, don't think will
ever grow old"
While most of us do not have
such ready-made schooling, we
are associated with our own chill
dren or with some young people.
It is too bad that we can't get our
selves out of our middle-age
thinking ruts to share in the vi
brant enthusiastic thoughts Of
youth! Why not try this? Why
not change your viewpoint a bit?
While youth makes many mis-
takes, yet maturity loses precious
much. What a combination the
two would be!
Evening star., 1949-11-25
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mitted, we cannot assume re-
sponsibility for them.
Betsy Cas,ceN
Evening star., 1949-11-25
ANADAMA BREAD.
(From Mrs. W. o. D.. Capitol
Hei1hts.)

This recipe is taken from the
Yankee Cookbook. edited by 1mo-
gene Wolcott and published by
Coward McCann. Inc, New York
AS . New Englander. I can vouch
for this recipe being as New Eng
land as beans on Saturday night
and pie for breakfast.
Boil two cups Of water and add
half cup yellow cornmeal grad
ually, stirring constantly. Add 2
tablespoons shortening, salt and
let stand until luke warm. Add 2
cakes compressed yeast (crum-
bleO to lukewarm water IA cup)
and add the cornmeal mixture
Stir in about 11a cups Of flour to
make q stiff dough. Knead well
Place in a creased bowl. cover, and
let rise in a warm place until
doubled in bulk. Cut through the
dough several times with a knife
cover and let rise again for about
IS minutes, or until lighta Toss
onto q Toured board and knead
we'll. Add some flour If necessary
Make into two loaves. and place
in creased loaf tins. Cover, let
rise in a warm place until double
in bulk. Bake in a hot oven (400)
for is minutes, then reduce the
heat to moderate (35O and bake
about IS minutes longer or until
done. Brush with melted fat and
remove the bread from the pans
to q cake rack. Makes two loayes.
from B. L. S., Washingt0n.)
One-half cup yellow cornmeal,
2 cups boiling water. 2 tablespoons
shortening, half cup dark molasses,
/ teaspoon salt, l envelope granu-
lated yeast, l cup warm water.
about five cups bread flour.
Directions: Stir the corn meal
slowly into the boiling water In
top Of double boiler and let steam
very slowly for one hour. Add
shortening, molasses and salt.
Cool. When lukewarm add yeast
which has been sprinkled on top
Of the warm water and allowed to
dissolve. Add enough flour to
make q regular stiff bread dough.
Knead on lightly Toured board
for 10 minutes. Form into q
ball, lightly grease the top. place
in a bowl and let stand covered
In q warm place until it rises to
more than double its size, about
2 hours. Shape into 2 loaves and
place In bread pans and let rise
until light. Bake in hot oven
(400 degrees) for one hour or until
done. Yields 2 loaves Of bread.
Being a New Englander and ex-
pecting to 60 back some day and
have q chance to cook again. ]
saved this recipe.
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TO PATCH CANVAS?
:(From A. L. j., Washingt0n.J
Name one or more good liquid
cements to paste q canvas patch
on q canvas awning?
Evening star., 1949-11-25
POPPING CORN;
DINING ROOM TABLE?
/Frovf <. g.. Blndensburo,)

Heat your pressure cooKer
without rack) and put in l or 2
tablespoons of fat. then add corn
about 2 tablespoons (no more).
Put lid on and when you hear the
corn starting to pop. turn gas low.
You do not use the indicator at
all for popping corn. When the
popping stops take OF the lid
and butter and salt as usual.
I found II more than 2 table
spoonfuls of corn were placed in
the cooker, all Of the corn would
not pop and larger popped corn
was produced II the bottom Of
the cooker was not covered with
the uncooked corn. If more is
melted it is better to pop several
more cookers full.
Now for some information in
buying a dining room table, is 1t
better to have a center leg or
table with two sets of legs. Which
is more practical when putting in
extra leaves?
(Fronr Mrs. J. O. M, ArlingtonJ
In reply to Mrs. c. B. s., as
to the advisability Of using her
pressure cooker for popping corn,
I have found my own cooker q
more than satisfactory substitute
for a corn pepper. First, remove
the rubber ring, and be sure not
to set the gauge. In other words,
reduce the cooker to the status
of an ordinary tightly covered
sauce pan. Put two tablespoons
butter in the bottom Of the cook
er, when 1t starts to sizzle. cover
bottom of cooker with corn. Cover
cooker and shake gently, back and
forth, on gas burner or electric
grid.
(From E. G. M, Takonua Park
For Mrs. c. B. S.: For making
popped corn in your pressure
cooker, put in a liberal portion
of cooking oil in the cooker, add
enough popcorn to cover the bot
tom. Put on an ordinary lid
without gasket and weight and
let 1t pop. No shaking or stirring
is necessary. When the popping
stops, remove from heat and
empty at once,
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LASAGNA?
(Fronp L. De L., Washington.)
Having noted and followed your
wonderful recipes offered so often.
I wonder If any of you readers
could offer a true italian recipe
for dish called "I,asagna?" Also
if and where I might obtain a
cookbook on Italian cookery, par
ticularly desserts.
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CANDY THERMOMETER?
fFrom Mrs. v. w., Bo,DieJ
How is a frying or candy ther-
mometer used? I have broken one
by resting 1t on bottom Of the
sauce pan when heating grease
for French fried potatoes.
Evening star., 1949-11-25
Readers .C|eurinq House
lOLD-FAsHIONED FRUIT CAKE;
FRYING PAN?

FRYING PAN?
fFrom Mrs. J. r. w.. Washington.)
For Mrs. e. J. W., Washington:
This is . very good fruit cake.
I have never had . failure and
started making it before I had
ever cooked anything at all.
One pound sliced mixed fruit.
q pounds seeded raisins. 2 cups
nutmeats, broken; " cup molasses
or honey; u cup sherry wine,
l cup shortening. 1H cups brown
sugar. 4 eggs, 2 cups flour,
u teaspoon each cloves, mace,
cinnamon. " teaspoon soda.
Method: Mix fruit, molasses,
sherry in a very large bowl. sep
arating well the candied fruit.
Cream shortening and sugar. Add
eggs one at a time, beating well.
Transfer to fruit mix and stir
thoroughly. Add sifted dry in
gradients.
Bake in pans lined with several
thicknesses of brown paper, at
ats degrees for ~ hours. Lower
heat, rs degrees If baked in glass
baking dish.
Wrap in wax paper when cool
and store in covered tins. Makes
about three loaf pan-sized cakes.
I should like to know what to
do about iron frying pans that
get cleaned the same way each
time they are used, yet every so
often eggs fried In them become
black and ugly. What can I use
to stop It?
SEASONING SKILETS.
Iron, Mrs. L. S. s., WaslingtorJ
From The Star some time dur
ing the past year:
New cast-iron cooking utensils,
even though they have been treat
ed at the factory. usually need to
be seasoned before using. This
helps prevent rusting, especially in
humid climates, and increases the
utensils utility. Scour first with
household cleanser; wash, rinse
and dry thoroughly. With q pas
try brush spread on salted fat
vegetable oil or melted shorten
|ing) on the inside Of utensil and
cover. Place In warm oven (250
to 800 degrees) or on top of stove
over low heat for several hours.
Occasionally swab utensil with pa
per towel, and cover with more
fat. Repeat the seasoning proc
ess, after which utensil will be
ready for use" 49,
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TO CLEAN NICKEL?
(From Mrs. Z. r. p, Hyattsuille.) y
Now can some reader please
help me. I have four-piece cof-
fee set that has been packed away
and has dulled 50 that cleaning
with usual methods doesn't help.
It will cost more than the original
price to have 1t re-nickled. 50 can
some kind reader please come to
my aid. Thanking you in ad-
vance.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-12-29
Paul Had Formula

Back in 1912 the treasury was
casting about for more tax money
and came up with a formula, said
to be the brain child of Randolph
Paul, then a treasury tax expert,
for taxing insurance companies.
Due to the completely of this bust
ness, the companies are required
by law to set aside percentage of
the insurance premiums which
they collect on your policy to pay
the claim on that policy when it
comes due. In addition they are re-
quired to set aside in this reserve
interest and profits from invest
inents Of this reserve f.. ard t.
formula established by congress in
1912 set up an arbitrary interest
rate of 3A per cent to be set aside.
{ Eos4the only taxable income Of the
insurance companies is what ID
termed met investment income"
which is obtained by deducting all
these expenses and policy reserve
requirements. And to make the
formula simple an average Of al
the life insurance companies was
taken, SO that every company paid,
not on the actual income of each
company, but on the average for
the industry as whole.
Result was a tremendous boost
In income tax collections the first
few years. For instance, all life in:
surance companies paid an income
tax in 1910 amounting to $738, 900
but in 1912 under the new formula
the tax collected was almost 27i1
million. This scared to about 348y5
million in 1913. In 1914, however,
due to reduction in actual interest
rates, increase in expenses, the net
investment income began to de-
teriorate until in 1947 there actually
was no net investment income left
under the formula; so, under the
law the insurance industry was tax
free.
Every year, as required, the
secretary Of the treasury issued
the arbitrary base at which the
companies were to figure their
tax and each year warned con-
gress the insurance companies
were tax free. And yet congress
did nothing about 1t.
In the meantime the insurance
companies became the best Gus
toners of the treasury department
for the purchase Of war bonds and
other government securities, so that
today insurance companies hold
about 20 billion dollars worth of
government securities Of which life
companies hold more than 16 billion
dollars. They hold almost billion
dollars in farm mortgages.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-12-29

throughout the country could pro-
fit by Seymour's example:
"A few thoughtful Seymour citi-
zens got a shock in 1916 when a
local farmer collapsed with an
acute case of tuberculosis. When
his six children were examined,
five out of the six had to be carried
off to a sanitarium. The expert
ence shocked John W. Hamilton,
the school board and enlist the sup
the new school superintendent,
very deeply. He Immediately ar
ranged for mass TB checkup.
SEVEN then Seymour might have
fallen back into the rut had not
another man stepped into the pic
ture - a 31-year-old doctor with
contagious smile, named Charlie,
Randall. Among Randal's first pa
tients, after starting his postwar
practice, was the Hamilton family.
Treating the colds of the four
Hamilton kids led to some long
talks between the doctor and the
school superintendent. They al
ways seemed to end up on the sub
ject of child health. By the sum-
mer of 1948 the two had made a
plan.
1t was a simple plan. Randall
would line up all the medical tai
ent in town = the six doctors, the
two dentists and nurses from the
hospital. Hamilton would swing
port of the Parent Teachers AS
ISOLATION. Then as soon as the fall
term began they would call eff
classes for day or two and every
child from first-graders to the
high-school Seniors would be given
thorough physical examination.
"Thus on September II, 1913,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-12-29

1.OO1 Seymour children, went to
class in state of high excitement.
AS things worked out, the parents
and nurses and doctors were far
more shaky than the kids proved
to be. nr
"Of the 1,O01 children, scores
had seen a doctor for the first time
in their lives during the Clinic
Days. Seven hundred and fifty
were found to have one or more de-
fects, major or minor, requiring
medical or dental attention.
"Dr. Balch, for instance, found
more than 100 children with ear
defects. A few were really serious
cases which if allowed to progress
would result eventually in perma-
nent, even total, impairment of
hearing.
when it came to examining
the eyes of the children, 324 =
nearly one in every three = either
needed correction or further ex-
aminations. Seven of the students
showed manifest thyroid condi-
tons. More than a score were
suffering from scabies or other DO
tentially severe skin maladies.
Thirty-four children required fur
Their examinations of their abdo-
mems because of enlarged spleens,
livers, questionable masses of one
sort or another of general tender
ness.
"Twenty-eight had adenoids bad
ly in need of treatment. Thirty
five required treatment of or oper-
alton on their tonsils. Four chill
dren showed pronounced chest de-
formities or abnormal lung fluids.
In sixteen children, previously un-
detected murmurs or other evil
dence of heart disease were dis
closed.
Reports were sent to every par
ent detailing the condition of each
child as disclosed by the examina-
tions. Once given the facts, par
ents fastened to right things.
Without exception all of the more
serious conditions have been
brought under medical care.
Hamilton and his "A teachers
had used the information gained
in the examinations to excellent
effect. Children with hearing de-
fects had been moved to the front
of the classrooms. Children with
eye defects had been put over near
the windows, where the light was
best. When promotion time rolled
around it was found that ''reten-
tons (what we used to call being
left back) had been cut almost in
half from the previous years to-
tall" =l
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-12-29
To All Owners OF
Tangible Personal Property
Within Montgomery County

AS provided for by Article 16,
Section pol of Public Local Laws,
being Chapter 936 of Acts of Gem
eral Assembly, passed at the 1916
Session of Legislature and jas
amended by 1947 Session of Legis-
lature, it is required that all per-
sons or companies Excluding COR
porations, public utilities, banks
and railroads) owning tangible
personal property except household
furniture held for the use of the
owner or members of his or her
family and not held or employed
for purposes of profit or in connec-
ton with any business, profession,
or occupation, sale value thereof
without dedication of any Kind
within Montgomery County, make
return on same during the month
of January, 1850. These returns
shall be made tothe Division of AS
sessments, Court House, Rockville,
Maryland. In accordance with the
law, a severe penalty will be i'm
posed on any person who shall fail
or refuse to file such return.
Blanks for this return may be OBJ
tanned at the Office of the Division
of Assessments, Rockville Court
House, and County Buildings at Sill
yer Spring and Bethesda, or at any
of the following banks:
Gaithersburg, Germantown, Da-r
mascus, Poolesville, Sandy Spring.
By: WILTON T. ALLEN
Supervisor Of Assessments
for Montgomery County
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-12-29
TINE ~
HOME M
TOlUn 81!
REPORTER.
Risk Firms Untaxed
IN WASHINGTON
WALTER WV!

IF YOUR county assessor should
= permit the biggest business in
your county to operate for three
years tax free while the rest Of you
footed the local tax bill, the whole
county would be up in arms about
it.
And yet, congress, which in this
case plays the role of assessor, has
permitted the nations biggest bust
ness, the life insurance industry, to
60 income-tax free for the past
three years without lifting a hand.
Income tax payments by insurance
companies began to fade off in 1916
under the 10th congress. They paid
absolutely no income tax in 1947
and 1913 under the Both congress
and paid none this year, 1949, under
the 8lst congress and will pay none
next year unless the second session
of this congress does something
about it. Het,
Here a few weeks ago Con-
gresham Walter Lynch Of New
York, chairman of a house sub
committee Of the ways and
means committee, did hold q
meeting with a committee Of
the insurance industry and they
agreed to pay 90 million dollars,
at the rate Of 30 million year
for the three years. But this
agreement Of course, is not
binding ON anyone. The indi-
yidual insurance companies are
not bound and neither is the
congress for the agreement
was made under no color Of
law.
No testimony was taken, no evil
dence was heard-merely a con-
ference was held. And what is more
important, several of the more i'm
portant companies, particularly the
smaller companies, plan to fight
the agreement.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-12-29
Notice Of Stockholders

To the Stockholders Of the Farm
ers' Banking and Trust Company
of Montgomery County.
The Annual Meeting OF the
Stockholders Of the Farmers
Banking and Trust Company OF
Montgomery County will be held
in the Banking House, in Rock
vile, Maryland, at 1900 o'clock
noon, on Monday, January 18th,
1850, for the election Of Directors
for the ensuing year and the tran
saction of such other business as
may come before the meeting.
RICHARD F. GREEN,
1861 President.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-12-29
Mayor and Council Of Rockville, Maryland
NOTICE OF HEARING

hearing held the January 1850
o'clock in the office of The Mayor and Council Rockville for the
located that of Bmor Avenue from
England Terrace Howard Avenue H. Ennds Second Addition
Rockville Maryland The hearing is to be held for the of
allowing make their thoughts known
The Mayor and Council of Rockville with reference water line in
Englands Addition Rockville Subject final authori
Mayor Council of Rockville present plan calls
for the construction of the said public at estimated
Nine Thousand Two Hundred Eighty Dollars Eight
Gents ($9e08 The public improvement will be made of
with water valves and fire hydrants 1t
also the following properties which will be specially
benefited by the improvement for all the cost of the
Estimated annual front foot assessment twenty cents
($.20).
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1949-12-29
AZ Real Hen

Wilmington, Cal. A New
Hampshire red hen, owned by Mrs.
William Shanks, began laying at
the age off four, mouths, celebrat-
ing the event by laying a double
yolk egg. She followed this up by
laying a few triple-yolk eggs and,
evidently not satisfied with her
latest prowess, she recently laid an
egg weighing just one otnce less
than a half pound which had four
yolks, measured almost seven and
a half inches in circumference and
almost nine and a half inches
around lengthwise.