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ture should be accompanied by in
structions on how to cope with the
traffic problem.
When your child begins school,
find the safest route for him to
take, considering the route by
which he must cross the least
number of streets, the least busy
streets, or the route by which most
streets are protected with traffic
signals, school patrols or police
officers. Accompany him to
school by the chosen route, ex-
planning the traffic problems at
each intersection. until he can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-15
BLACK CAKE.
TRY THIS!
fFron w. B. s.. Affirmation

fFrom w. B. S., Arlin1ton.)
I wish to thank all of the good
friends of the RICH for their con-
tributions. Like many others I
look forward each evening to our
column. Especially wish to thank
the ones contributing regarding
yoghurt. We are getting along finei
Here is an answer to the lady who
recently asked for a black cake.
Several of us tried this recipe re-
Gently and had quite a thrill out Of
it. Black Cake: No eggs, butter,
cream. It is a miracle cake.
Passed on by Wythe County Home
Agent Irene Martin.
One cup salad dressing, 2 cups
flour. measure after sitting; 2
teaspoons soda, 2 teaspoons vanilla,
l cup sugar. l pinch salt, 6 heap.
ing tablespoons cocoa, ! cup cold
water. Blend sugar and salad
dressing together. Sift dry in
gradients together three times and
add alternately with water and
vanilla to salad dressing mixture.
Mix well, but quickly. Bake in
two creased 9-inch layer pans for
30 minutes at $50 degrees. For a
filling. we compromised on this
one. We took half a package of
seeded raisins, put them through
a grinder, added brown sugar and
lemon juice and it was wonder
full. Icing would be a matter Of
preference.
Ever try this one? For cleaning
out the vegetable bin. Take large
frying pan, use couple of table,
spoons Of fat, oleomafgine or but
ter. three or four onions, slice
them roughly, also tomatoes, green
peppers, section of garlic (grate
the garlic). You can use any
green onions you may have also.
Let the mixture simmer for about
10 minutes covered, then take of
lid and cook for another 5 or 10
minutes until moisture is reduced
and you have delicious vegetable.
This also makes a nice base for
shrimp. In that case you add
about pound of fresh shrimp or
a can of shrimp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-15
By Alice Ropp
Pedestrian Analyst,
American Automobile Association

American Automobile Association
Guest Columning for Betty Miles.
If you are the mother of small
children you know how often you
feel a shiver of fear as you pick
up the evening newspaper and see
the photograph of a child about
the age of yours killed by an auto
mobile, or a truck, or a bus. You
read every word of the account
with terror lest this happen to
your child.
You read that the child in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-15

tasks for several days or weeks if
required to watch him carefully
from the window. AS soon as he
goes beyond these borders he must
come into the house. The borders
will be widened gradually until
there are none, but each new VEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-15
CANDY CANES:
REQUESTS.

AsA-~< ~ Ao 49,
(From Mrs. c. J. X, Camp
LIE Jeune, N. c.
Mrs. M. c. G., WASHINGTON,
requested recipe for candy canes.
The following was clipped from a
well-knoWn woman's magazine
last Christmas season. I thor
oughly enjoy keeping folders on
all such good and interesting
recipes. Peppermint candy canes:
Two cups sugar, y cup light corn
sirup. u cup water, "a teaspoon
cream of tartar, "a teaspoon pep
permint extract. "a to l teaspoon
red food coloring.
Combine sugar, corn strip, water
and cream Of tartar. Stir until
sugar dissolves. Cook without
stirring, to very hard ball stage,
265 degrees. Remove from heat
and add peppermint extract. Dr.
vide into two portions. add color
ing to one part. Pour out on
creased platterS. When candy il
cool enough to handle, pull each
part separately. Form in ropes
and twist red part around white.
Cut in 8-inch lengths and form
in shape of canes. Makes 10
canes.
Here in North Carolina I find
that the peanuts, locally grown
and displayed in all the stores on
the vegetable stands are not roast
ed. Will some kind person tell
me how go about roasting them?
Also, how can I prevent
draperies and Venetian blinds and
woodwork from mildewing during
our very hot humid summer?
Is there some reader who would
supply me the name and address
of reliable health food store in
Washington where I may send for
such products as wheat germ and
other ingredients required In a
very fine cookbook on proper and
healthful eating, Lets Cook It
Right" by Adele Davis. Thank
you.
THANK YOU" NOTE.
From Mrs. J.W.M., Chevy Chnse.)
Buttons" has been found!
Thanks to kind hearts here and
there. we have located a doll re-
placement. Until you hear from
me directly, may I say, thank
you" through the column, to all
who responded.
X 4
PECAN CAKE?
(FrorI Mrs. J. F. M,
Kedrneysuille.
Does any one have a recipe for
pecan cake? The nuts are put
in the cake batter as in fruit cake.
need the recipe Immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-15

POEM.
From Mrs. w. L. d., Washington.)
To Mrs. H. ", Washington: I
am glad to furnish you with the
Christmas poem you requested.
My copy of the poem is entitled.
1.-THE Boys of the Orphan School,"
They sat at supper. on Christmas Eve.
The boys of the orphan school.
And the least of them all rose up to say
The quaint old grace in the old time way.
Which always had been the rule:
Lord Jesus Christ be Thou our guest,
And share the bread which Thou. has
blest."
The oaken rafters holly bedecked.
And grave in their Christmas guise.
Cast Gas, shadows on the fair young face.
And the reverent and wistful eyes;
And for moment as the voices ceased.
Unheeded smoked the Christmas feast.
The smallest scholar he sat him down.
And the spoons began to clink
But one little fellow had scarce begun
When he stopped and said, II thing
AND then he paused with Redeemed cheek
But the kindly master babe him. Speak"
Asked the child in 2 shy. soft way;
Would make one OF our company.
Just as we did today;
By b. be h as SSa lE vi ss Rn
chair?"
Perhaps. who knoweth?" the master said.
AS he made the sign Of the cross
And the Jealous little one gladly sped
And drew a chair to the tables head.
Meath the great ivied boss.
Then turned to the door as in sure quest
OF the entrance Of the Holy Guest.
Even as he waited, the latch was raised
The door swung wide. and lo
A pale little begger bay stood there.
VIII Al I posdsIed feet white aad Az yng sb hSr
II have no food. have no bed.
For Christs sake take me in" he said.
The startled scholars were silent all,
The master dumbly gazed;
The shiveTing begger he stood still;
Bewildered and amazed
At the strange, hush and nothing stirred
And no one uttered welcoming word.
Till, glad and Joyful. the. dear child
Upraised his voice and said,
He could not has cones nssra US: nov snd
His chair to aii, His place to taxi.
For US to welcome for His sake"
Then quick and jealous every one
Sprang from the table Up.
!1ie CHd4E lUE Jesus ready SET
RECEIVED the begger.- cold and wet;
Take mine. take mine" they urged and
The beggar thanked them, half dismayed
And as he Toasted and quite forgot
His woe In the new content,
The ivy and holly, garlanded
Round the old rafters overhead
Breathed forth q rich. sweet scent.
And IT seemed as II in the green-hung hail
STOOD a Presence unseen. which blessed
them all.
o Lovely legend Of old time,
Be thou as true today!
T2'e Lord Jesus stands BY every door,
Fe.ed in the person Of His poor,
And all our hearts can pray:
Lord Jesus Christ. be Thou our guest
And share the bread which Thou has
blessed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-15
COOKING ROAST.

From E. w., Washington.)
For E. E. M: Authorities agree
that moderate oven Temperatures
are best to conserve flavor and
juices. Use oven at 300 to $50
degrees. An oven thermometer
will tell you accurately. With
high oven temperatures as much
as Is to 80 per cent of your meat
is lost by shrinkage, and unpal-
atable food results. Best roasts
are produced by keeping meats
uncovered in oven, eliminating all
basting and soaring" This is from
instructions on an oven ther-
mometer box.
We put all roasts and poultry
in cold oven. At 800 degrees they
brown perfectly with no smoke
or grease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-12-15
EXERCISE BOARD?

IRON Mrs. W.CM., Falls Church,
Would some one please advise
me where I can have an exercise
board made to order?
Locally diet shop does handle
one particular style, but it does
not fold in two. therefore I have
not the storage space for one 6
feet long in present apartment.
Possibly some one has had the
experience of having one made up
to specifications. Would greatly
appreciate any information along
this line as to type of board and
cost of materials. Would like one
made up, possibly two, as Christ
mas gifts. Thank you now.
X X
BAYBERRY CANDLES?
From Miss c. ~, Washinoton.)
Can some one tell me how to
make bayberry candles? I have
many candle scraps and some dry
bayberries but do not know how to
proceed. Any help will be ap-
preciated.
X X X
REFINISH LAMP?
Iron, Mrs. H. S. H., Chevy Chdse.)
Does any one know of a way to
renew or refinish the base of a
bronze floor lamp that has be-
come blackened or furnished?
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PECAN CAKE?
(Front Mrs. J. F. M,

hedTHeySUtLIe.
Does any one have a recipe for
pecan cake? The nuts are put
in the cake batter as in fruit cake.
I need the recipe Immediately.
Evening star., 1950-07-09

''What?" said Ellery, frowning at his type
writer.
About their horseback riding" snapped
the Inspector. THE Senator used to ride, but
he had bad fall ten years ago and now he
only Furnishes saddle in the gym - the elec-
trical kind Moneybags hasn't been on the
back of a plug since he walked out on Grandpa
Millard's plowhorse in '88, in Indiana. Only
reason Piers Millard allowed himself to be
jockeyed into those plushlined jodhpurs this
morning, I'm pretty sure, is so he, Kregg, and
Stevens could have nice dirty skull session
in the Park out of range of the newsreel CAM
eras'
And Stevens?"
THAT bar insect?" snorted the old gentle
man. 'Only horse he knows how to ride is
dark one. This mornings the first time Stew
ems ever set his suede-topped brogans into
stirrup.'
''WELL, well," said Ellery, sounding sur
prised. Then what did Shakes mean?
Sugar 80. Is one of them tied up with sugar
legislation? Is Millard a director of some
sugar combine? Or maybe Stevens owns some
sugar stock. Try that line, Dad"
His father said YEARLY, Il don't need you
Evening star., 1950-07-09

for that kind of fishing, my son. That's in
the works"
Then you're in," said Ellery; and with
out enjoyment he went back to his novel
which, like Shakes Cooney, was advancing
on its hands and knees.
Two days later Inspector Queen telephoned
his report. mot one of them is tied up with
sugar in any way whatsoever. Only connec-
tion Kregg, Millard, and Stevens have with
the stuff is what take it they drop into their
coffee"
After moment the Inspector said. Are
you there?"
''LUMP of sugar." Ellery mumbled. "And
Shakes evidently thought it would be clear"
The humble ended in glug.
'Yes?" said his father, frightening.
"Of course" chuckled Ellery. dad, get
medical report on those three. Then," he
added, ''let me know which one of 'em has
diabetes"
The Inspectors uppers clacked against his
lowers.
Audt uy DdOy: Audl IL, SUI! IL dS
good as wrapped up!" he said
The following day Inspector Queen phoned
again.
Whose father?" asked Ellery, running his
fingers through his hair. "Oh! Yes, Dad?
What is it?"
About the case, Ellery :"
Case? Oh, the case Yes? Well? Which
ones diabetic?"
The Inspector said thoughtfully: "None.
Not one"
None! You mean"
II mean"
Hmm" said Ellery. 'Hnh!'
For some time Inspector Queen heard moth
ing but little rumbles, pops, autters, and other
ruminative noises, until suddenly the line
was cleared by sound as definite as the
electrocutioner's switch
you've got something. Ellery?" said
Inspector Queen doubtfully.
Continued on page II
Evening star., 1950-07-09
IF 1T were not for
Il the fact that
NEz-Al


Mounted Patrolman
Wilkins was doing the dawn turn on the
bride path, where it goes by the Park Tavern,
the Shakes Cooney murder would never have
been solved. Ellery admits this cheerfully
He can afford to, since it was he who brought
to that merry -go-round some much-needed
horse sense.
A waiter with hot date had neglected to
strip one of his tables on the Tavern's open
terrace at closing time the night before;
steak knife had been left in convenient reach.
Whereupon the question was: Who had done
a carving job on Cooney's so-called heart
about six am. the next morning?
Logic said nearly eight million people, or
roughly the population of New York City,
the law-abiding majority of whom might well
have found Shakes Cooney's continued exist
ence bore But Mounted Patrolman Wilkins
collared the three gentlemen who, curiously,
were in the neighborhood of the deserted
Tavern and Cooney's corpse at that ungentle-
manly hour.
The collars were attached to very impor-
tant necks, and when Inspector Richard
Queen of police headquarters took over he
handled them, as it were, with lamb 's-wool
knuckles. 1t was not every morning that
Inspector Queen was called upon in homi
eide to quiz Senator. financial titan, and
an organization politician; and the little
Inspector rose to the occasion.
SENATOR KREGG responded loftily, as to a
reporter from an opposition newspaper.
Piers Millard responded remotely, as to
minority stockholder.
The Hon. Stevens responded affably, as to
party worker.
Lofty, remote, or affable, the three distin-
guished suspects in riding clothes agreed in
their stories exactly. They had been out for
an early canter on the bride path. They had
not addressed or seen any fourth person until
the mounted policeman gathered them in.
The life and death of Shakes Cooney were as
nothing to them. Patrolman Wilkins act in
OBTAINING them had been "totalitarian" -
Senator Kregg; ''ill-advised" Financier
Millard; "a sucker play Politician Stevens.
Delicately, Inspector Queen broached GER
tain possibly relevant matters, viz.: In the
national forest of politics. it was rumored that
Senator Kregg Ex-senator Kregg) was being
measured as great and spreading oak, of
such timber as presidents are made. Financier
Piers Millard was said to be the Senator's
architect, already working on the blueprints
with his golden stylus. And smallsouled
political keyholers would have it that the
Hon. Stevens was down on the plans as sales
manager of the development.
Under the circumstances, said the Inspec-
tor with cough, some irreverent persons
Evening star., 1950-07-09
Illustrated by Ben Prins

might opine that Shakes Cooney - bookie,
tout, gambler, underworld slug, clubhouse
creep, with the instincts of a jay and the
ethics of grave robber - had learned of the
burial place of some body or other, the ex-
humation of which would befoul the Senator's
spotless person.
1t might even be surmised, suggested
Inspector Queen apologetically, that Cooneys
price for letting the body stay buried was so
outrageous as to cause Someone to lose his
head
Would the gentlemen care to comment?
lHE Senator obliged in extended remarks,
fortunately off the record, then he surged
Millard paused long enough to ask reflective
ly, "And how long, did you say, Inspector
Queen, you have been with the New York
police department." 1t sounded like the coup
de grace to an empire. The Hon. Stevens lin
gered to ooze few lubricating drops and then
he, too, was gone.
When Ellery arrived on the scene he found
Ills ldGlCI LII q kOOQs ulOuSlIlkul, lCluPCls
The hide, remarked Inspector Queen, was
pretty much cut-and-dried the question was:
To whose door had Shakes been trying to nail
it? Because Shakes Cooney hadn't been a
man to take his murder lying down.
The evidence on the Tavern terrace showed
that after his assailant fled Cooney had strug-
gled to his hands and knees and crawled -
kept alive by sheer meanness protested the
Inspector - to the table which the preoccu-
pied waiter had forgotten to clear off the
night before; that the dying man had then
reached to the table top and groped for GER
tain bowl; and that from this bowl he had
plucked the object which they had found in
his fist - single lump of sugar.
Then, presumably with satisfaction, Shakes
had expired.
He must have been one of your mystery
readers, Ellery," said the Inspector. BE
cause that's dying message, or I'm the
Senator's uncle. But which one was Shakes
fngering?"
Sugar" said Ellery absently. I'm Coon
ey's dictionary sugar means money"
"SURE. But Millard isn't the only one of
the three who's loaded with heavy sugar.
The ex-Senator's well-stocked, and he re-
Gently doubled his inventory by marrying
that greeting card millionaire's daughter.
Stevens has the first grand he ever grated.
So Shakes didn't mean that kind of sugar.
What's sugar mean in your dictionary, SOM"
Ellery, who had left page 81 of his latest
whodunit in his typewriter, picked the lint
off his thoughts Finally he said, Get me
the equestrian history of Kregg, Millard. and
Stevens" and he went back home to litera-
ture.
That afternoon his father phoned from
Centre Street.
The Nome nugget., 1950-02-03
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Evening star., 1950-12-21
By Violet Faulkner
Food Editor

The story on the egg situation
seems subject to frequent changes.
Earlier in the month reports in
dicated the egg supply was que
for a substantial increase. But
bad weather conditions which af-
fected many important producing
areas has now changed the egg
supply picture for January. The
outlook is for smaller supplies
than were anticipated.
In order to get as clear a pic
ture of the story as possible. ]
talked to the experts over in the
Department of Agriculture. Since
price support for eggs is due to
end December 81, wondered what
effect, if any. this would have on
present high prices. They said
that actually the price support
ended in late November because
the price of eggs rose above sup
port levels. There will be no sup
port next year unless the prices go
too low in the spring and unless
the industry asks for it. Then the
department will consider buying
shell eggs. They will limit the
purchase of eggs to the outlets
available, such as the school lunch
program. There will be no stock
pile. It looks less and less likely
this will happen for two reasons
Cd high incomes will mean more
purchasing power: (2). modest re-
duction of laying flocks will de-
crease supplies somewhat. So
with the population of the coun-
try increasing with each passing
year, plus extra buying power
plus extra military buying, plus
slightly. reduced supply, and plus
more eggs to be placed in cold
storage, it adds up to look as
though come spring. there will be
slightly higher consumer prices
than prevailed in the spring
of 1850.
However, don't lose sight of the
fact that eggs are still the cheap
est protein food in the whole list
even If they do go up cents a
dozen In a dozen large eggs you
get "a ounces of protein with prac-
tically no waste attached
that's a pound and a half
compare it with many Of the
meats you buy and it doesn't seem
so high.
This is the time of year we all
like to have a well-stocked larder,
ready for any and all emergencies
So the household budget doesn't
take too much of a beating,
choose foods that are low priced
because they're in good supply
Four fresh fruits on the list of
December plentifuls are cram
berries, apples, Florida oranges
and grapefruit. California navel
oranges are in light supply and