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Show iwusuaotd fciiMJiW.VJ6iWVV " Bake Cookies Now To Have Them Ready For Holiday Time I Bake holiday cookies before Christ Sim and store them la wax paper Sued tins to keep them fresh sod moist. A raw, unpeeled apple will prevent them from drying out. Sugar-Shy Cookies Good cookies are always in sea- in, but particularly so at Christmas fune. This year, df course, we are itiH working unto un-to difficulties be- ause sugar is jot easy to ob- in. But that leedn't put a imp in the Yuletide cookie Jar. Corn syrups, honey and unrationed tocolate are all on hand to help ritb the Christmas baking. You will id the recipes for these substitutes good that they're here to stay en when we have plenty of sugar. Cookies made for Christmas are tally prepared ahead of. time to Ave work as the big celebration ap-ttoaches. ap-ttoaches. It's a smart idea to take precautions with them to keep them Jesh and moist First of all, use its and dried fruits whenever possible pos-sible as these ingredients add mois-tere. mois-tere. Second, pack them in waxed Upper lined tins with a raw apple. Aen they won't dry' out Incidentally, when using honey or m syrup in cookies, grease the baking pans thoroughly to prevent sticking. Melted fat brushed on the tjhs usually solves the problem neat- t 'Here are two types of cookies, net-tier net-tier of which requires any sugar at all. One uses corn syrup for sweetening sweet-ening and the other, honey: Fudge Nut Squares: (Makes 16 2-inch squares) 1 cup chocolate pieces 2 tablespoons shortening 2 eggs, beaten H cup corn syrup H teaspoon vanilla 1 cup cake flour, sifted H teaspoon bakinir nowder Hteaspoon salt 1 iotbiv . .... V "eoiate ana snortening C Jar urato, .1 U 1:1 "QO" iy, add corn syrup and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy. Stir in melted chocolate and shortening, which have been slightly slight-ly cooled. Mix and sift flour. X ? ana sail. Ada lo ccolate mixture. Stir in nuts. Pour tm a greased. 8-inch amiare nan e in a moderately hot tttfute. i) oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Honey Drops. (Hakes 4 dozen cookies) cup shortening CUD honpT MKi unbeaten fi teaspoon vanilla caps sifted aU-pnrpose flour LYNN SAYS 'aste Tips: When all h m.ft i. . -" ".ea on me roast, pttte off the pieces from the lnes. erinrt j i .i ... - - wn.au nun ma uiem fim mayonnaise or salad dress- sandwiches. I Tos bone from m k. f?nered with onion, celery . car- S , ew and parsley. This DC is excellent for casseroles. or gravy base. " Prevent the broiler from be- " ury, at it with a wire rack. 18 then the fat win ki.. ,.U to-poijttvoffrnd r-'uer pan is easily svashedr "Den serving oai flavor with sausageT spiced r picxies. "CVer ores m. - .... TOers tato tight loaves or fiat- JiV.? u o tenderv' ' torltt!ftepi -bavs, extra iZ?' J, wrapped -in biscuit "Mrd white iaucfc : juinW ' "' 1 01 1''1"""" ir 1 U bakino -""1WW.T.V.V.-WWX.. ji LYNN CHAMBERS' MENUS Stuffed Baked Potatoes with Creamed Ham Asparagus Salad Glazed Carrots Pineapple Cole Slaw Biscuits Beverage Sponge Cake Custard H teaspoon soda teaspoon salt H cup nuts, chopped 1 cup chocolate pieces Cream shortening and honey together. to-gether. Add unbeaten egg and va nilla and beat until un-til light and fluffy. Mix and sift flour, soda and salt. Add to the first mixture. Stir in nuts and chocolate choco-late pieces. Dron from teaspoon on a greased cookie sheet. Bake in a moderately hot (375-degree) oven 10 to 12 minutes. Using only a small amount of sweetening, cookies in the following two recipes take on extra sweetness because of the molasses that is used in them. Both contain dried fruits to make them moist: Prune Cookies. (Makes 5 dozen cookies) cup shortening H cup sugar Va cup molasses 2 eggs 1 cups sifted flour teaspoon baking soda H teaspoon salt teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup cooked prunes, pitted and cut In small pieces 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream shortening and sugar, add molasses and eggs, one at a time. Sift flour with baking soda, salt and cinnamon. cin-namon. Add to creamed mixture. Beat thoroughly. Add prunes and vanilla. Mix well. Drop by teaspoon-fuls teaspoon-fuls on a greased baking sheet. Bake in a pre-heated (375-degree) oven for 12 minutes. Molasses Eaisin-Nut Bars. Y cup shortening K cup sugar 1 egg H cup molasses 2 cups sifted flour teaspoon salt teaspoon soda 1H teaspoons baking powder H. cup sweet milk 1 cup chopped nuts 1 cup chopped raisins or dates Cream shortening, add sugar and beat until light. Add egg, beat well, then add molasses. Sift flour with dry ingredients and add alternately with milk to first mixture. Add chopped nuts and fruit. Spread thinly thin-ly in a greased shallow pan. Bake 15 to 20 minutes in a moderate (350-degree) (350-degree) oven. Cut in bars. Everyday brownies will take on a festive touch, If they are simply iced with powdered sugar frosting. The cookies should be well cooled before they are spread with icing. Busy cooks know that bar shaped cookies save preparation time. These molasses flavored fruit bars are just the thing for holiday time. Molasses Fruit Bars. (Makes about S dozen bars) cup sugar yt cup shortening 1 egg H cup molasses lii cups sifted flour 4 teaspoon salt yt teaspoon soda 1H teaspoons baking powder 1H cups whole wheat flakes H cup milk 1 cup chopped seedless raisins Beat together sugar and shortening. shorten-ing. Add egg and blend well. Sift flour with salt, soda and baking powder. pow-der. Crush whole wheat flakes into fine crumbs and mix with flour. Add to egg mixture alternately with milk. Fold in raisins. Spread batter bat-ter inch thick in a greased baking bak-ing pan. Bake in a moderate (350-degree) (350-degree) oven. Fear Schooner Dessert. (Serves 6) 6 pear halves ( cupcakes Raspberry preserves Whipped cream Cut each pear half in naif. Split cupcakes and lay a piece of pear on each half in dessert dish. Pour a spoonful raspberry preserves in center cen-ter of pears and top with a spoonful of whipped cream Just before serving. serv-ing. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Wri r ' J "i r "iiffiaWft" -w. - - Advice Is Where You Get It By RICHARD A. McGIVERN McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Features. : A ND SO we can't get married?" I "Now, Jane, don't be like that. We can and will, but not now." "Why not now?" "I've told you a dozen times. We'll have to struggle along and perhaps never get on our feet. If we wait until I'm started everything will be easy." "We are on our feet' now. You have some of your mustering out pay and I've saved a few dollars. How much have we?" "In cash, all together, about two hundred dollars." "That's a lot of money to me. Plenty to get married. We don't need much. I've been thinking of this for two years. If we had any confidence in ourselves we would do it. Ma left me those two acres on the turnpike. We can fix up the shack there. I can keep working for a while." "That sounds all right and all through those months in the Army while the other guys were talking of going back to the bank, the store, or the post office, I kept thinking of the day I could begin an egg route. It's my dream." She gripped his arm. "If that is what you want go after it. It may not sound like much, nothing does at first. Just think, Pete, how lucky we are. There are so few egg men in this town, it ought to be easy. I bet I can get fifty regular customers cus-tomers in a couple of days." Slowly they sauntered toward town. Pete sighed and grinned. "Gee, Jane, I can hardly wait! I can peddle butter and oranges land ..." I "And I've learned to make swell .... "By fall we should be all set" Though his voice was casual, it-broke it-broke the spell. "There are a lot of folks with hens around here. I'm sure they'd be glad to sell you eggs. And with, a cart you could take them into town. It would be tough on your feet but you'd soon harden up. The doctors told you to walk a lot You're not afraid of hard work?" The question was lightly put. , i "No," he said. "It's us I'm afraid of. I don't want to look forward to : hard times later. It's not my pride. 1 I'll pull a cart if that's the test but I'll not take a chance on two hundred hun-dred dollars." I They neared the main street ' Finally she spoke, "Let's ask a few 'people what they'd do. There must be a lot who have had the same problem." I Pete laughed. "Who'll be the first victim?" Jane pointed at a couple. The man rested his hand on the door knob of a long shiny motor car. "Yep," said Pete, "they look likely. One of them probably inherited so much dough from a tightwad uncle that he never had to work a day. Try it if you her best smile which was very nice indeed Jane said. "Pardon me, I wonder if you would do us a favor?" The man opened the door of the car, looked at the dashboard clock and answered, "We're in a bit of a hurry but we'll be glad to help if we can." "Will you answer just one question? ques-tion? How much money do you think a couple should have before marrying'" marry-ing'" The woman was about to speak. But the man answered again. He nodded toward his companion. "Ma !and I got married on her dowry, i eighty dollars in American money. !That paid our passage from Dublin 'to New York. In 189J it cost thirty dollars for each. V. e landed with I twenty-five dollars. Twenty of it was Ma's and five I e-rned on the way over Twenty-five dollars was ! enough, young lady. That and Ma's faith in me." He smiled and patted ' the auto. "The rest came with hard ' work " Pete cut off all further talk by ' saying. "That does it. Let's go home and tell our families that we're going go-ing to take the big Jump." They ; rushed off hand in hand. I The woman turned to the man. ! "Were you ever in Dublin?" He was grinning. "No. lady,'' he replied "I've never been out of this state. But if I owned this auto I'd soon fix that." He looked up the street. "You say this is my bus? Do you take it too?" "No, I live on the other side of town " "Then good day to you, madam. Don't worry. Those youngsters will be ail right " "Let us hope so. Good day to you, sir." She watched the bus disappear, muttering, "And I was just going to tell them what a time me and the ol' man had in Cork borrowing the money for our marriage license and passage over. Well, he'll laugh when I tell him." She opened the door of the car. "I'm glad he left the machine unlocked so I can wait in it." preventing Covered Smut Loss Good insurance against reduced grain yields caused by covered smut is to treat winter barley or wheat seed before planting in the fall with an organic mercury dust The cost of treating the seed amounts to about three or four cents an acre, a small price, compared with the loss of several bushels of grain per acre. Kathleen Norris Says: The Problem of Sally Kent Bell Syndicate. Poefc ck a suitcase with eomfortabU clothe$ and a bos with provitions, and put lha old car. Then soy to him, 'gat in, wa'ra going places,' ami head wast. them in By KATHLEEN NORRIS "M Y HUSBAND has come home 8,0 changed, after two years in active service as a marine." writes Sally Kent, I "that I find myself for the first time in my life with a problem -that is too difficult for me to solve. I wonder if other wom en are facing like troubles, now that the war is over, and if you have helped them and can help me. "I am 31" the letter goes on. "David is two years older. old-er. He was drafted in 1942, and left me with a baby girl of three and another baby com ing. We were both anxious that he should do his share as a soldier, and I tried to do mine at home. We moved to my mother's house, and there my son was born just two years ago. Mother keeps boarders; I had helped her all through my girlhood and took my old place now; planning meals, marketing, making beds, and superintending the changing personnel in the kitchen. "Mother has always prospered, and in crowded war times she prospered pros-pered exceedingly. My weekly budget bud-get to David a few lines anyway every day, and often pages were always cheerful and snapshots of Oi and Jimmy kept him in touch with their progress, fhis was for me as for many wives a lonely lone-ly time, a time with anxious moments, mo-ments, but a time of much deep happiness, too. Mother's life has never been easy she found this interval in-terval refreshing and delightful, and the children were wonderful. Dislikes Boarding-house. "David came home willing to accept ac-cept all this, but within a few days I knew something was wrong, and now everything is wrong. Re doesn't like living in a boarding-house, he thinks Diana is badly spoiled and he seems completely indifferent to the baby. Of course, the children did not know him, and when a dark, thin, nervous daddy was added to their little scheme, they didn't like it "I try to make allowances for the war-worn nerves of a man who has known nothing of home life for more than two years; I try to keep things serene and cheerful, and of course it is understood that as soon as he resumes work and is able to support sup-port it we will have our own home again. "But this is not enough. He wants me to leave the children and go away with him. Where doesn't seem to matter. He wants to go West to buy a farm, to pioneer in the Canadian north, to do anything except ex-cept settle down here, realize how lucky he is to have a comfortable home, no immediate financial pressure, pres-sure, and a devoted wife. "Obviously, this is just what I can't do. I'd like a change myself, I'm not in love with bedmaking and dusting. But you can't pioneer with two small children as companions, and financially any such change would be a desperate chance. "We love each other; there isn't any triangle complication; when we take long walks together, as we do in the evenings, there isn't any quarrelling quar-relling or unpleasantness. But it all comes out to this; David wants me to throw away the security I have built up so painfully and slowly in all these long months. I want him to return to normal he is certainly not normal now. Please advise a woman wom-an anxious to save her marriage, and the man she loves, if she can." e My advice, Sally, is compromise. i ' Ha doesn't Uka bnarding-houte. WND Feature UNSETTLED That strange and frightening frighten-ing change that comet over men after they have hern in military service for two or three yean U a great trial to their wives. Women who have been waiting for weary and anxious months to end, suddenly sud-denly find "their dream of a happy future shattered. Hera is her husband home at last, and for good, but he is so different! dif-ferent! He is not the man who said goodby so sweetly and sadly on that awful day when he left for overseas. No, he is not the same. Be is moody and 'querulous, unable un-able .or unwilling to fit into civilian life. Nothing pleases him. tie is indifferent to his loving wife's best efforts Of 'ten he has some outlandish scheme, like moving to some distant part of the country and trying a completely new business. busi-ness. The story in this issue concerns con-cerns a returned soldier named David. He wants to leave their two children with someone, anyone, just so they are cared for, while he and Sally go W est, to look for a farm, tie also thinks about pioneering in the Canadian northwest. Farming is completely new to him, but he wants to do almost al-most anything except to settle back to his old job in the old town. We American women will have to do a lot of compromising if we are to help our returning servicemen to re-adjust themselves to conditions that seem strangely smug, safe, self-satisfied to them, after the horrors hor-rors and loneliness and abnormality of war. Bead West In Car. v ' Get someone to look after your babies, no matter what you have to pay her. Pack a suitcase with com fortable clothes and a box with provisions, pro-visions, and put them in the old car. Then say to him, "get in, we are going places," and head west. Years ago a nervous husband I knew got this treatmentmy own husband. In fact and before we bad gone a hundred miles he was beginning begin-ning the cure, quiet amused, expectant expec-tant happy. We drove 6,000 miles, the most inexpensive travelling there is, except on foot The most thrilling, for you may stop anywhere, any-where, eat when you like, try anything. any-thing. You'll find your old companion beside be-side you sooner than you dream is possible. You find him rested, soothed and presently eager and alert again. You'll talk plans, explain ex-plain away difficulties, share problems. prob-lems. You'll agree that Diana is a little spoiled; that there is no place for a young couple like their own home; you'll say the baby is exactly exact-ly like his dad. Give him a six-weeks break. Give yourself the same. November is beautiful travelling weather, and a marriage like yours Is worth saving. Medical Care in Rural Areas Is Inadequate In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Rowntree, chief of the medical division of the selective service system writes: "Surveys of the health situation among the rural families in some of the states indicate that a large proportion of fanners hsve poor health, that the facilities for health services are below normal requirements require-ments and that there is a pitiful inadequacy in-adequacy of the care provided regularly reg-ularly for the lower income families. fam-ilies. An analysis of some of the surveys sur-veys indicates that between one-third one-third and one-half of the lower income in-come groups have no medical er dental care whatsoever. Of the 16.-000 16.-000 cases of serious illness reported by farm families in Texas and Oklahoma, Okla-homa, less than one-half had a doctor's doc-tor's care. Only one out of three births was attended by a physleian." Because of the Inadequacy In most rural counties of the public health services and hospitals, the death rate at almost any age level is greater in rural areas than in urban centers. SWfeCREI Released by Western Newspaper Unloav By VIRGINIA VALE CONSTANCE COLLIER helped Paulette Goddard deceive Charlie Chaplin when Paulette was Mrs. C, and doesn't mind telling about it. "Mr. Chaplin preferred that his wife should be the lady of his house and should give up any thought of an acting career," ca-reer," says she. But Paulette was ambitious. So Miss Collier, whose name has long been famous in the theater, coached her at every opportunity. "And we just didn't tell Charles anything about it," she adds. She's seen in "Kitty," in which Paulette stars. Miss Collier has helped many another actress; the list includes Mary Plckford, Norma Shearer, Claudetts Colbert. But husbands didn't have to be deceived in their cases. Larry Brooks took his name from : that of a famous theatrical costume firm walked in to have a costume ; fitted, walked out "Brooks." Now ' singing opposite Jo Stafford on the air on CBS Tuesday nights, he's else singing a leading role on the stage LAWRENCE BROOKS in "Song of Norway"; he's come a long way from the radio station, in Hartford, Conn., where bV worked for three seasons. Between times he's had a movie contract that took him to Hollywood but did no mere for him, and sung in a night club. Teresa Wright says, "It should be my turn next," and means her turn to make a picture based on a book by her husband, Niven Busch. Jennifer Jen-nifer Jones stars in bis "Duel in the Sun"; when RKO makes bis "They Dream of Home," Dorothy McOulre will star. Meanwhile, Teresa is appearing ap-pearing In Paramount's "The Imperfect Im-perfect Lady," opposite Ray Mil-land, Mil-land, and biding her time. After a search lasting for months, Columbia Pictures chose Scotty Becket for the role of Al Jolson as a young man in the technicolor musical mu-sical tentatively called "The Al Jolson Jol-son Story." Becket's last screen appearance ap-pearance was in "Junior Miss." With rain sweeping over . Hollywood, Holly-wood, and attacks of flu claiming one actor after another, Producer Joe Kaufman was lucky. Kane Richmond, Rich-mond, Barbara Reed and Rebel Randall, leads in "The Shadow," which Kaufman is directing, were all bowled over and had to stay home. But Kaufman evidently had a rabbit's foot In his pocket; they didn't take to their beds till the day ; after the picture was finished. Bonita Granville's certainly crew-tog crew-tog up; ahe shoots her first man in Monogram's "Glamour Girl." .It stara Belita, the ice skating ballerina, baller-ina, but this isn't one of the standard stand-ard plots that ice skaters usually draw "Glamour Girl" Is an emotional emo-tional story which ends in violent death. "DUUnger" Is one of Mene-gram'a Mene-gram'a pet pictures; somebody called "Glamour Girl," "Dlllmger on Ice." Bill Gargan returned to Republic's Repub-lic's studio for the first time since 1935 when he checked In for his role In "Murder In the Music Hall," starring star-ring Vera Hruba Ralston. "Last time I was here there was one projection pro-jection room and one sound stage," he remarked as he looked around. Republic has 16 stages now. Orson Welles has expressed mere than polite interest in politics of late the next national election may find him running for senator. Meanwhile, Mean-while, he's heard ss a comments-, tor on the American network Sundays, Sun-days, is producing, directing and starring in "The Stranger," playing the part of a magician in Harold Lloyd's "The Sin of Harold Diddle-bock," Diddle-bock," and appearing regularly with Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. SIS ODDS AND ENDS Howard Pre men spent sis month of dieting, to lota 30 pound then put the weight an again in three week, to play the fit Spanish king in "Monsieur Beauctire." . . . On e "Meet Ma at PerkfC broadcast an actress said one word, No"end got 146.58 for it, regular pay for s long part. . . . Mora than 2.000 musicians, 155 lop name band leaders and mora than 400 singers have appeared on "Spotlight Bands" during the past three years an the air.... 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