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Show "" J It would happen that it was the very next day that both Lillian and Ruth "checked up" on her to see if the canning was done and the fussy slips all made. "Everything's ready but me!" Anna told them pointedly. "Oh, you'll make it," Lillian assured her, comfortably. Anna wasn't sure that she wanted to. She wished for an excuse to staji at home. There were times when she admitted to a few doubts on whether she had the most thoughtful family, ever. The day that Anna began hauling old suitcases from the attic Jim came home early. Anna was looking at the suitcases with disgust. They were relics. "Kind of old, aren't they?" Jim asked her. "They were old in 1900." Anna told him. She waited expectantly for Jim to say, "Here, take this, get yourself a couple of good bags." But Jim sat down to his newspaper. Neither did the girls make any comment when the- - saw the ancient suitcases. Anna was desperate. From her jewel box she removed the broach her mother had left her years previous and hurried to the jewelry store. Her thoughts were bitter. That she should be forced to pawn her treasured broach to provide just ordinary clothing for her trip! She wondered if old maids really deserved pity after all. The jeweler was an old friend and looked at her in wonderment r W FICTION CORNER I THE FIFTH OF AUGUST I By Helen Longworthy Anna had always been a devoted housewife and mother so it came as a shock to her that her family could be so indifferent to her needs at a time when she felt they should be generous and helpful. There came the momentous day read the letter ANNA FARRANT times. It didn't seem be- that Jim placed a very businesslievable. Nothing, she decided, had like envelope on her plate at dinmade her so happy since the day ner. Anna opened it, expecting the check for her clothes. Instead It the war ended. But it was like Anna Farrant to was her train ticket and sleeping car reservation. Jim gave a hearty laugh, "Just wanted you to be sure you could go," he told her, well pleased with himself. Anna opened her mouth to say she had known all along a ticket was required unless she walked, but how about some money? Then she decided to wait. The family would like to think it surprised her. At least it was comforting to know they were well able to provide for her. From then on every place they went Jim had her take the long ticket from her purse and show it off. Anna's smile began to wear thin at the corners as the family forgot the ?" Anna felt cross for an instant. check in their pride of her ticket. Her memory of Belle Mandrel was Coming home from a movie the girl of their col- around the first of July Anna made lege days. Ruth was thinking of the a big effort to have Jim see a new Belle Mandrel who was an Impor- dress she had noticed in the Bon tant adviser to the politicians and who last week visited the king of fold the letter neatly and go on about the business of getting dinner for Jim, Ruth and Lillian without even so much as taking time to call one of them on the phone to tell them the good news. It was after dinner that she told them. It came all la a happy rush of words. "Belle Mandrel has asked me to visit her. Imagine! clear across the country." There was a long silence. It was Ruth, the librarian, who spoke first. Ruth was as proud of her knowledge of Important People as of she Almost books. reverently breathed, "Not the Belle Mandrel happy-go-luck- y England. "Fuss and feathers," said Anna lightly, "I'm not afraid of BeUe Mandrel. In fact I think I'll." The words hung in the air. "Of course you'll go," Jim finished heartily. "The girls and I will manage. Do you good!" He gave her a beaming smile that after twentv-flvyears still gave Anna a thrill. "Think of all you'll have to talk about, too." Lillian chimed in. It was like Lillian, the teacher to think of that! Anna knew that Lillian's fifth graders would be told the big news early tomorrow. "When is the great day?" Jim jttf A sf I asked. "The fifth ol August," Anna analmost like a pronouncement. It had been easier than she had hoped. They were the finest family ever to be in favor of her going on that long trip. In the days that followed Anna was to retell her plans for the trip dozens of times. Everyone was interested to find that she was a friend of the great Belle Mandrel. swered tn the short write-u- p newspaper about Anna's trip. Lillian worried over what she would da without a big supply of the satin slips her mother made for her. In her competent way Anna told her that she would make an extra supply before she left. Fussing over the. satin, she knew she could have told Lillian to buy her slips at the store but Lillian had been babied too long, Anna told herself with a happy smile. Very shortly Ruth, knowing she would be cook while her mother was away, fretted that she would be left with lots of canning. Anna assured her she would get it in The house, of before she left. course, must be spotless. It was in one of the few breathing spells Anna allowed herself that she rummaged around ia her clothes closet and decided that scarcely any of her clothes were suitable for the fifth of August. They were fine for small town church societies but Anna wanted tc look nice when she started on the trip. The family would want her to look well too. She wondered if one of the girls or Jim would slip her a nice check and suggest she buy a new outfit. It was going to be fun I a Lillian was opening a jewel case to display a pair of earrings. broach," she explained. "To match your good Ton store window. There were but Anna much preferred the with the white collar. Always had pointed out hen wants to and he would say, "Go get it." LIFE lillll jE tlEI h a nsicr Jim But tonight Jim seemed too tired to even glance at the store window. Anna was quiet for a block, waiting for Jim to say, "O. K. Pick it up tomorrow." INSTEAD Jim began talking about fishing trip planned t. Anna almost gave for up hope. On the fifth of July she spread out material on the kitchen table and began pinning a pattern on it. She had always hated making dresses for herself and would not have attempted this time if her family had been cooperative. In an hour Anna was crying softly to herself. The dress was going to be unsatisfactory, and besides what of a coat, hat, shoes and all those extra things? Remembering the many times she had outfitted them all to the last detail, Anna could have shook them, separately or together. She would not actually ask for money if she traveled in a burlap sack, she told herself. Xkt - two one she 'Gutce pmi fflS t .wv . nee. dosed about her in stringe baffling ways. house wa bleak, her heart was sore reft, Yet she learned to glean from ordinary days The golden grain that the passing hours had left. She stored tare beauty deep within her heart To hold against the coming winter cold: The colon of dawn and sunset w ere a part Of her deft gleaning from the fields of gold. t 'i T,.Y. "I don't know how we will man- age without you," Jim said from the davenport. "And only a week until the fifth of August," Ruth chimed in. Anna was silent. Her mind had been scurrying, trying to think of an excuse not to go. She wondered if she should plead a sudden sick spell. The family's thoughtlessness was sufficient cause for a sick spell. Lillian went to the hall and came back with a loud thumping noise. There was a moment of silence and then the three shouted almost in unison, "Surprise!" Anna turned in her chair slowly. Suitcases, the newest kind, were in Lillian's hands. "Open them," The two Lillian said gleefully. suitcases were caiefully packed; full of new dresses, long housecoats, satin slips, filmy underwear. Anna even saw three pairs of new shoes wrapped in towels. She gasped and looked at the label of dress. It was too much the to expect that the things would top-mo- st fit. A letter from a. friend was her delight. The coming of a neighbor to her door. Her long communion with the stars at night. Her daily tasks these sdded to her itore. Remembering her, standing there, One learns life never leaves its fields too bare. i;r ... when she asked to sell the broach. He stalled around and finally offered her ten dollars. Silently Anna put the pin back in her purse. Her last hope was gone. "It's something like the earrings Lillian bought here last week," the Jeweler told her. Anna never knew what she answered. So Lillian was decking herself out like a a totem pole and meanwhile letting her mother go next to ragged on her trip! The fact that she had not shown the earrings at home proved that she was ashamed of her own greed. It was evening, at last, the family sat relaxed and contented after one of Anna's usual good meals. Relaxed, all but Anna. m "Oa. they'll fit," Ruth told her "We certainly checked proudly. and rechecked." She unfolded one dress and Anna saw it was the companion dress to the one she had forced Jim to view. Trust Jim to remember the wrong one! Anna was stunned. She tried to say, "You were wonderful," but the words stuck. Lillian was opening a Jewel case to display a pair oi earrings. "To match your good broaoh," she explained. That brought a tear to Aana'a eyes. They had tried to help. They had been thoughtful, tn their way. The anxiety they had caused ker they would never know. Ruth was preudljr showing her the fussy silk underwear that Aa-n- a didn't like. Jim was beaming al ever the place. Anna still couldn't find words. "We thought we would live you time," Ruth told ber. Lillian felt playful and teased, "Why you wouldn't even have thought of your clothes until August fifth!" c&AAft. i. v tifO IV-.-. - ' v ' - J NEW YEAR'S DINNER Cocktail it Shrimp-Grapefru- Rib Roast of Beef Natural Gravy Yorkshire Pudding Creamed Peas Tossed Vegetable Salad Hot Rolls Peppermint Stick Cake Beverage Recipe Given. Peppermint Stick Cake (Serves 2 envelopes unflavored gelatine 10-1- 2) z Year's buffet supper can be done simply if you serve with sliced assorted turkey breads, and bowls of fresh cranberry relish, salted nuts, popcorn, and if you desire, a molded salad and dessert. A New cup cold water 2 cups milk, scalded teaspoon salt a pound marshmallows, pound peppermint diced stick candy, coarsely broken 2 cups heavy cream, whipped y cup maraschino cherries, quartered Welcome New Year Angel Food Cake Soften gelatine in cold water. With Luxury Spread Dissolve in hot milk. Add salt and Or Simple Buffets s chill until partially set. Fold and candy into whipped IF YOU'RE planning a gay New cream. Beat gelatine mixture until Year's eve party, then be prepared light and fluhy. Add cherries and for the call for whipped cream mixture. Line, botat tom and sides of an angel-- cake refreshments about the stroke pan or a spring form, (oiled) with inch thick and one of midnight when strips one-hathe revelers start inch wide of angel food cake, from which the crusts have been refeeling hunger moved. Fill with gelatine mixture pangs. and chill until set. However, if you're the hostess and want to enjoy your own party, FOR A SIMPLE supper on New plan foods that you can whip out to the table in a minimum of time. In Year's, you may set the table for the number you other words, do the cooking to comare serving or pletion before the party begins. serve buffet style, A big crowd is best handled with making waffles a buffet supper, with all the prepaat the table. A ration done ahead of time. If propfruit censimple erly planned, you can get the food will be terpiece on the table in a quarter of an hour. as appropriate, A small party can have a cozy the want some after may guests waffle supper, and the menu can you have served the waffles. be very simple but still satisfying. Plain waffles with syrup are an Buffet Supper excellent choice, but if you want Sliced Roast Turkey something more, serve creamed chicken or creamed ham and mushHam or Roast Beef rooms on the waffles. If you serve Hawaiian Cranberry Relish caffein-fre- e coffee, everyone can Dark Nut Bread drink all they wish without any 'Molded Cider Salad qualms about staying awake after Peppermint Stick Cake they get home to retire. Use the Salted Nuts Popcorn regular grind for percolator and Beverage for glass coffee makthe BAKE THE TURKEY, roast beef er drip grind or drip type of pot. The instant or ham during the day; or, use type is good if you want quick slices from the meat you've had for service. dinner. This may be served cold. Waffles If you don't have enough meat, waffles) (Makes 4 have sliced assorted cheese on the 2 cops sifted cake flour platter. All the other items can be 2 teaspoons double-actin- g baking made beforehand. powder Hawaiian Cranberry Relish teaspoon salt (Makes I quart) 3 es"K yolks, well beaten 4 cups fresh cranberries 1 cup milk 2 cups sugar 4 tablespoons melted batter r 1 cup canned pineapple other shortening 5 egg whites Put cranberries and pineapple through food chopper. Add sugar Sift flour once, measure, add bakand mix well. Chill before serving. ing powder and salt and sift again. sevwill This relish keep well for Combine egg yolks and milk. Add eral weeks if refrigerated. to flour with butter then mix only Dark Not Bread (Makea 1 loaf) 2 eggs, well beaten 1 cup sugar cup melted shortening cup light molasses 1 cup sour milk 1H cups white flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda 1H cups wheat or graham floor 1 cup seedless raisins 1H cups broken nut meats Beat eggs and sugar until thick. Add shortening and molasses. Add sour milk. Add white flour sifted For those who wish a simple with soda and salt, then wheat spread at the stroke of midnight flour. Fold in raisins and nuts. Bake to welcome the New Year, crisp in wax paper-line- d pan in a modwaffles with creamed chicken, for nbout erate oven turkey or ham are welcome. an hour. Have a simple, but edible, bowl Molded Cider Salad of fruit for the centerpiece, and (Serves 10) top the meal off with cups of 1 package orangt-flavore- d gelatin steaming decaffeined coffee. 1 cup boiling water 1 cup cider until smooth. Beat egg whites until 1M cups diced red apples they hold up in moist peaks. Stir H cup seeded Tokay grapes, quickly but thoroughly into the bathalved ter. Bake in a hot waffle iron. cup chopped nuts, if desired TO MAKE CREAMED chicken or Dissolve gelatin in hot water and turkey, use 2 cups of medium white thickallow to Add cool. cider and sauce to two and one-ha- lf cups of en. Fold in other ingredients. Pour shredded or diced chicken. If you into molds which have been rinsed want the mixture to have a richer in cold water or oiled and allow to color, add a little f the white chill until firm. Serve on lettuce. sauce to one beaten egg yolk, mix thoroughly, then add the remainder The dessert for your gala New of the sauce. Heat in the double Year's buffet is a refrigerator cake boiler so the mixture will not burn. which one and all will welcome for If you don't have leftover chicken its light flumness and refreshing fla- to use, get some already cooked, vor. Make this ahead of time so canned, boned chicken that comes it win have time to chill thorough- ready to use. Relented by WNU Features. ly and thus slice nicely. marsh-mallow- lf e There was Thursday, December 23. 1948 THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPIII, UTAH PAGE SIX (350-degre- Lyn gays: Good Ideas Make Entertaining Fn A cabbage head makes a lovely salad bowl for buffet entertaining Take out the Inside of the cabbage, shred it fine and mix with chopped apples, sliced stuffed olives, shredded Swiss cheese and salad dressPile mixture into cabbage ing shell on a large platter. Add hard cooked eggs to leftover turkey or chicken gravy and serve over toast fir a savory luncheon diKh the tree with gingerbread men which are frosted with confectioner's icing, trimmed with raisins and bright candles. Serve your Christmas breakfast "buffet style" letting everyone wait on himself it you're going to be busy getting large dinner for early afternoon. Sponge cake topped with apricot glaze when cool, and then sprinkled generously with whole walnut meats makes a lovely cake for holiday entertaining. Decorate TO sleep, Dickie. STkESCREENt them again. His mother brushed soft tenerrils of hair from his feverish brow and bent down to kiss him tenderly. "Goodnight, Dickie,; pleasant dreams." He watched her leave toe room, closing the door softly behind her. He lay quietly for some time, then turned to look curiously at the huge tree across the room. In deference to his illness his bed had been moved into the living room so that he could see the decorations and await Santa Claus' arrival. The scene of the Nativity had been beautifully reconstructed by his father and its tiny plaster models now caught the boy's attention. A strange sight met his eyes. The donkey that had been sprawled on the ground was now standing and stretching himself. The lambs were in their same positions but their eyes were glittering with life. "It's Christmas Eve, Dickie, and you should be happy." There was a trace of reproach in the voice. Dickie was bewildered by this time. "How how " he stuttered feebly, and halted. "How do we talk? Why that's simple, Dickie. All animals talk on RADIO Released by WNU Features. By INEZ GERHARD Tomor-ro- is Christmas and you're going to have a busy day." He wondered if he'd be well enough to appreciate his "busy day" and stifled a sob with a heavy sigh for he knew he would be unable to ride the tricycle Santa Claus had promised him. His legs were stiff and painful and they felt as though he would never be able to wall on y r CAREY has MACDONALD plays and doing radio stints in New York on a brief vacation from d Paramount. With fourhimunre-leaseand behind pictures nothing new coming up until January, he returned to his old stamping ground. Radio and the stage prefaced his Hollywood career, which was interrupted by four years in the marine corps. Carey is one of the pleasantest and most interesting stars in the Hollywood -- I ft ' Ix TV MACDONALD CAREY galaxy, as well as one of the best educated and least hammy. Prodded into it, he did mention that his latest picture is "Streets of Laredo," and that he had fun doing "A Mask for Lucretia" "No actor could resist playing Cesar Borgia." m People who haven't cared too much for Sonny Tufts will have a chance to change their minds when they see "The Crooked Way." We're to see a new Sonny Tufts, it seems. He'll play a merciless Los Angeles racketeer. Madeline Carroll's "An Innocent Affair," with Fred MacMurray, is My delightful but in "Goodbye. Fancy," the play in which she is starring in New York, she has really captivated the town. She has realized the ambition of nearly all movie stars. Success in the theater He watched her leave the room, means that they can have anything closing the door softly behind ber. they want in Hollywood. Margaret Christmas Eve. Didn't you know? Sullavan, whose picture career has That night everything comes to waned these last years, may return to the stage in January life. "What seems to be the matter?" probably with Leo Genn. Zazu "I don't know. I'm all burning up Pitts' play seems doomed to indefiinside and I can't move my legs nite postponement. without hurting them." Fredrio March and Florence He saw two of the animals exEldridge, who had such succhange a knowing glance. "You cess on the stage in "The Sklr mean . . ." of Your Teeth," are seen in a "Something has to be done for new picture with a message. him," the donkey interrupted "Live Today for Tomorrow" swiftly. deals with the ticklish subject "You mean you can cure me?" of mercy killing. With a glance at the tiny crib, the donkey said, "I'm sure you will be cured, Dickie." All animals "Hamlet," the Laurence Olivier l, were silent for a moment, then the production released by still heads the list of donkey continued. "Now go to sleep, Dickie, and when morning pictures that must be seen. To comes you will feel better." many of us this is the one great "You mean I'll be able to get up version of the play, beside which and ride my tricycle and play with all others will be inadequate. my other toys?" Dickie asked exWhistling Baritone Jack Berch citedly. But there was no answer. When he awoke, both mommy (NBC weekday mornings) is never and daddy were sitting at his bed- stumped for a song. He has been side and his mother's pretty face collecting carols, hillbilly ballads and hymns since college days and was flushed with happiness. now has a library of more than "Mommy! Daddy!" he cried, "I 4,000 sheets of mi .sic. can move my legs!" Mother threw the covers back and the three watched with fascination as his "The Lassie Show" may not have a high Hooper rating, but it legs moved slowly up and down. Mother began to cry. She. hugged is selling so much dog food that him tightly and then threw herself the sponsor has vetoed going to a half hour for at least six months Into daddy's arms. Dickie was happy, too. But he until back orders can be handled. his legs long That's better than a high Hooper! stopped moving enough to tell his mother gravely, There's too much puppy love "Dr. Benton's medicine didn't help and not enough adult emotion me, mommy." in the movies, according to Di"Oh, Dickie dear, of course it rector Lewis Allen of Paradid. It cured you and soon you'll be mount. He blames it on Immaaround running again!" ture actresses, says any girl He started to protest, but before who wants to Improve her words could come, his eyes fell on technique should watch Mar-lon- e the Nativity scene where his Dietrich, Barbara Stanfriends, the donkey and three wyck, or June Havoc, whom reclined. lambs, Leaning over, he he recently directed in "On stroked the plaster backs of the Woman." June, says he, knows models and made a momentous how the women she portrays decision. would feel. These animals were his friends if had well him made and they again, most his contempoUnlike of but maybe they wanted him to keep it a secret. Next Christmas Eve, raries, Bing Crosby has no plans when they talked again, he could for a trip to Europe. He recently ask their permission to tell every- rejected 10.000 pounds to make a personal appearance in London body about their kindness. Until an offer some Hollywoodltcs would then, he must not do anything that their right eyes for! Ding's might sadden them. With a final give reason was that he was too busy pat, be turned happily to his par- with his new picture, 'Top o' the ents. "Merry Christmas, mommy. and his radio shows and Morning," My, it's Christmas, daddy. Merry he didn't want to go anyway. going to be a busy day." Universal-Internationa- First Poinsettias Came From Mexico Poinsettias owe their name to an American diplomat and scholar Joel Roberts Poinsett. Nearly a century and a quarter ago Poinsett, then U. S. ambassador to Mexico, first brought cuttinRS of the "fire plant" to his South Carolina home. Carefully he tended the transplanted tropical beauty Under his skillful hands the flower thrived and Improved. early ODDS AND EKDSln m scent for "Happy Timet" Gen Loitharl bat ktd sgamii roaring. . stove and hit toot-tai- ls . Danny Kay fame (aught fire. to the tesiue with pail of water and a hn om. , , , 1 he Academy A uavdt uill he bmajcail over AM. again iff March uilh Screen Guild't bill Imiu rence producing the air ihow, ) oh nut Green heading the enuuc and George Jewel announcing. . , , Aloii typed of all ail or l prohahly it Edgar During, uho hat been playing pohteman tft filmt for 2) yean, long enough to rat peniion if h uere really on the force. . . . 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