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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH Louisa M. Alcofi louisa m. alcott The name always had magic in it Tailored Set for Larger Sizes Pretty Frock Has Two Versions for me. Since the long-agdays when her books spread their enchantment over my girlhood she has been a dream and a modeL So that when a new biography appeared by Katharine Anthony a few weeks ago, I could hardly wait until it was in my hands. o you visualized the as quiet, honorable New England folk, the father guide and teacher, the mother quietly gathering her four girls about her to master household arts and keep together the home. Anything less shockingly like the truth could hardly be imagined. To read their story is to become utterly confused, and I believe Miss confused was equally Anthony when she tried to transcribe it. The senior Alcotts were completely irresponsible, drifting from one unprofitable visionary undertaking to another at the slightest setback, and living almost entirely on the charity of relatives and the entirely unembarrassed donations of all and sundry neighbors. No Regular Education The girls had no regular education, their mother frequently slipping off from Concord to Boston to stay with old friends and their father at one crisis lying wordless on his bed for a long interval. Sometimes he chopped wood for a neighbor but this was small support for four girls, one woman and himself. Emerson at this crisis suggested that he go to Europe at Emersons expense, and off he lightheartedly went. Meanwhile the mother and daughters gave plays in the barn, but no pay is mentioned. The father returned with three male disciples in tow, and it was decided to start the celebrated a Utopian experi"Fruitlands, ment that I always thought had gone on for years, but which actually broke up in six months be Perhaps Let Cranberries Grace the Turkey Stuffing (See Recipe Below) Thanksgiving Tips ' WON'T BE LONG now before one of the biggest of the holiday meals will grace your table: golden brown, done to a turn turkey, chicken or other fowl, with the trimmings, topped off with, a dessert of glistening pumpkin pie or spicy mince- JT meat. The market list will be a long one, the preparations extensive and the careplanning ful. Start early and make a n outline of all ingredients tg have, and just what should be done when. Then even a Thanksgiving dinner will be well organized and efficiently executed. .' riR weighing 8 to 18 use an oven tempera- TURKEYS THANKSGIVING DINNER Oyster Soup Roast Turkey Stuffing Cranberry Apple-BreaSweet Potatoes with Oranges Gravy Buttered Cauliflower Green Beans Cloverleaf Rolls d Celery s ' Carrot Sticks Gingerale Fruit Salad Pumpkin Chiffon Tarts Beverage Recipe Given i and heat to boiling point, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; add gelatin and stir until dissolved. When cool, fold in whipped cream and vanilla. Pour into baked and cooled tart shells or a nine-inc- h pastry shell, if one large pie is desired. ChUl until firm. Garnish with toasted pecans. Serve with additional whipped cream, if desired. Hat Freshener Cold All Over SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS KATHLEEN NORRIS Black felts and derbies that The warmth of the Gulf stream become dull looking or rain have ice-frthe makes Murmansk only can be freshened by spattered on Russian port except those over the spout of a them holding the Black Sea. Archangel, five dekettle and then buffing steaming icebound is farther south, grees with a soft brush or piece of in winter. Even Siberias Vladi- them to felt bring up the nap. Murvostok, 26 degrees south of mansk in the latitude of the Riviera, has its weeks of winter U.S. ee Savings Bonds! Buy freeze. ts faUO i H 12-2- 0 Simple, Versatile K SIMPLE yet extremely smart frock thats as versatile as can be. Wear the collared version for daytime, omit the collar and add your favorite jewelry for important dates. Choice of sleeves. So Easy to Sew TAILORED to perfection, and so A Pattern No. 3206 is a sew-rit- e easy to sew is this neat slip perfopattern for sizes 12. 14. 16, 18 and and pantie set for the larger fig- rated 20. Size 14, short sleeve, 47 of yards long sleeve, 5Vfc yards. ure. Waistline darts insure a smooth fit, lace makes a pretty finish. Pattern No. 8517 Is a sew-rit- e perfo- rated pattern in sizes 36. 38. 40. 42. 44. 46. and 52. Size 38. slip, 2 yards ot panties. yards. YoiTll be delighted with the smart new sewing ideas contained In the Fall and Winter FASHION special designs, free pattern printed inside ths book. 25 cents. 48, 50 HEY Workers in American industry were safer in 1948 than in any year in history, the National Safety Council reports. Reports to the council indicate that disabling injuries per 1,000,-00averaged 11.49 for all reporting industries in 1948. This is a 13 per cent reduction from the 13.26 rate the year before, and a new record. An average of 1.12 days were lost per 1,000 worked in all industries last year, a reduction of 9 per cent from 1947 also the best on record. In both years lumbering had the had the men sown 0 man-hou- How to Prepare Turkey ture of 325. For turkeys over 18 pounds, use an over temperature LEAN TURKEY by removing of 300. Plan to "rest the turkey all feathers. Singe and use to 15 to 30 minutes after roasting tweezers on pin feathers, if necesmake carving easier. sary. Wash and drain well. Rub Sweet Potatoes with Oranges with salt. Stuff neck and cavity (Serves 8) cavities lightly as stuffing exbody 8 boiled sweet potatoes, pands during roasting. sliced thin For a turkey over 12 pounds, cause not only 2 oranges, peeled, sliced thin Abba Alcott wrap strips of clean cloth around no crops, but neither 1 lemon, peeled, sliced thin end of each leg nor her girls ever had the faintest eup brown sugar bone and tie idea of cooking. They hated the kitchen. cup butter with string. CovSo the vision of Marmees decup water cloth er with odorous kitchen with her Arrange potatoes and fruit in layliciously This shortening. ers in a buttered casserole. Sprinkfour gay little cooks in attendance prevents lower vanishes le with sugar, dot with butter and with the rest! leg from drying. add water. Cover. Bake in a modTie leg bones Girls Run Wild erate (350) oven until tender. One or two of the English visitors together and Glngerale Fruit Salad fasten string under the tail to hold went away forever, but after a (Serves 8) legs against the body. Rub surface year or two in which Abba ar2 tablespoons unflavored of the turkey with softened butter. ranged for plays in the barn and gelatin Roast turkey in a slow oven fol- Bronson chopped a little wood and 2 tablespoons cold water the girls ran wild, one of them, V lowing the times given here: water cup boiling named Lane, came back and Abba H cup lemon juice asked him to stay. At this Bron2 tablespoons sugar son, generously," says Miss An1 cup gingerale thony, perhaps as stunned as I am, cup red grapes, seeded and retired to Boston for six months. halved After Lane left, Bronson came cup celery, finely chopped back, but thought it would be a K cup apple, cored and cubed good idea to wander westward 14 cup pineapple cubes lecturing and philosophising. Off small more ONE canned tip: plan cup cubed, pears he went, and the five helpless womJUST Dissolve gelatin in cold water; of everything except the en, instead of following the exadd hot water, turkey, because that's what folks ample of thousands of other reon! will fill lemon juice, up sourceful manless households in a sugar and ginOyster Soup dozen ways of hung gerale. When (Serves 8) about in a state of distress and thickmixture 2 tablespoons onion, grated Idleness, Abba finally going to ens, fold in 1 tablespoon celery, minced to try several fruitless Boston fruit. Chill in 1 tablespoon parsley, minced ventures there and Anna going one large or in 2 tablespoons butter away to teach. By this time they individual molds. 1 tablespoon flour were all pretty well grown. Serve with may1 pint bouillon Then came the Civil War. Louisa onnaise. 1 pint oysters as an army nurse, colenlisted Chiffon Pumpkin Tarts Simmer vegetables lightly in butlapsed immediately' and was sent (Makes 8) ter. Add flour and brown. Gradualhome sick. And now Bronson was 1 envelope unflavored gelaly add oyster liquor and bouillon. offered a modest job, which he tin Season and cook for five minutes. actually held for four years, so cup cold water Just before serving, add oysters, that the Abba, the 114 teaspoons cinnamon cook and or either cut whole, only sick Louisadiscouraged and the neglected little 14 teaspoon ginger until they curl. girls actually did live under one 14 teaspoon nutmeg Bread Fresh Cranberry-Appl- e roof together. 1 teaspoon salt Stuffing But Abba had visited a family 14 cup brown sugar, (For7 turkey) with small pox and brought the 1 quart fresh cranberries, firmly packed disease home to the family. They 14 cup rich milk chopped all had it one wonders who nursed 2 cups canned or cooked 1 quart peeled, chopped apples them but all got well but little 2 teaspoons lemon juice pumpkin I cup heavy cream, whipped Betty who died. 2 cups sugar 14 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup finely chopped But Louisa wrote short stories celery 8 baked tart shells 1 gallon bread crumbs and they sold, and then a novel, Soften gelatin in water. Combine not too successful but published. 1 cup water or broth Combine all ingredients in order And then came glorious fame and spices, salt, sugar in top of double boiler. Mix well. Stir in milk and given. Add water or broth and mix .wealth overnight with "Little and at last her generous pumpkin. Place over boiling water Well. Women, heart could do what it dreamed. LYNN SAYS: Turkey and stuffing will both keep May went to Europe to study, better if the stuffing is removed Turkey Talk Will Guide yon Helpfully from the bird before storkig in the Mother and Father had a roof over Bread for stuffing the holiday refrigerator, after the meal is over. their heads, a lovely airy house, a bird is best when a day or two If you are depending upon a garden, and a servant in the old, and is much easier to use if roast meat thermometer to guide kitchen. Louisa had silk dresses broken or cut into small sized you in testing the "doneness of and trips to Europe and a real and cubes. the turkey, it should register at enchanting friendship with a young Pole who loved her as she did him Stuffings will have a more nut- 190f. like and appetizing flavor when When the turkey is done, the and gave her companionship at the cubes of bread are toasted drumstick can be moved up and last. And when Anna angered her by down readily. The meat feels soft lightly before using. Carve an equal amount of light when the thickest part of the drum- marrying, her year or two of reand dark meat so that everyone stick is pressed between the fingsentment were forgotten when Aners protected with cloth or paper. na came home, widowed, may have his preference. with little boys to love. rs man-hou- rs Extra-activ- e . . . always handy! 3 times as many 1948 Was Safest Year For Industrial Workers CHICAGO. Buy 3 packages at a time. women prefer highest accident frequency rate, but it was reduced 18 per cent in 1948 from 59.74 to 49.04. Coal FLEISCIIMAIlirS YEAST mining, with the greatest accident severity rate both years, went down from 7.96 to 7.61, a 4 per cent reduction. IMsvaSfaffy Hose FAST! Quick. Put a few Vicks Nose Drops In each nostril. works trouble right where it. Relieves head cold stuffiness almost instantly I AT you coma through the fun ttonml Inlddlo age period peculiar to women 38 to 52 yrs.) 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