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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1941)
THURSDAY, FEB, 13, 1941 ^Household Neuis TIM ES, WILLAMINA, OREGON In Pinch. Baggageman ff as True to His Trade Along the dark and lonely road plodded a solitary figure. Behind him lurked three shadows, which chose their moment and sprang upon the unwary one. Three to one! The odds were heavily against the victim, but did he falter? Not on your life! One by one his assailants were sent flying, to lie bruised and stunned on the cold, wet ground. Up dashed a policeman. He sur veyed the wreckage, and then turned to the hero, who was coolly lighting a cigarette. “ Jujitsu?” he asked admiringly. “No,” was the reply. “ Railway baggageman.” ASK M E O ANOTHER r ♦ — —------------------------------------------------ T h e Q uestions T h e A n s w e rs 1. What capital letter is used most frequently in English words? 2. What is a Jolly Roger? 3. Of currants, grapes, cranber ries, oranges, tomatoes and ba nanas, how many are classified by botanists as berries? 4 . Without stopping to count, give the number of zeros in one billion. 5. In major league baseball, how often are games won by a no-hit, no-run pitching performance? 6. Are glow worms worms? 1. The letter “ S,” according to Funk and Wagnalls New Stand ard dictionary. 2. A pirate flag. 3. All of them. 4. Nine—count them—1,000,000,- 1)00. 5. Only one in about 1,400 games. 6. No, glow worms are actually beetles. The males can fly, but the females cannot, so they light up to let their lovers know where they are. >W » SEW you YOUR EYES TELL how you RU™EARSETH ■ fe e l inside pet thread double for this and for sewing the braided rows around the edge of the rug. • * • GUARANTEED TO GET THE FAMILY UP IN THE MORNING (See Recipes Below.) BREAKFASTS TO GET THE bled yeast, sugar, and salt. Add 2 FAMILY UP cups flour, beating thoroughly. Add melted shortening and beaten eggs. “The nice thing about breakfasts" Add remaining flour, beating until said one newlywed, “is that you smooth. Add raisins. Fill greased don’t have to plan them, you just muffin pans half full. Brush with serve them.” Although it is possible butter (if desired), cover and set in to get a breakfast with whatever warm place to rise until doubled in there is at hand in the line of toast, bulk (about 45 minutes). Bake in coffee, and fruit juices, a little plan moderately hot oven (400 degrees ning does yield big dividends. Fahrenheit) for 15 minutes. For it is planning that makes pos Bran Griddle Cakes. sible the breakfast specialties that (Makes 15 cakes) get the laggards out of bed in the 144 cups milk morning—and down to eat before 1 egg (well-beaten) they go. And that’s important, be 2 tablespoons melted fat cause they miss the Vitamin C in 114 cups flour (all-purpose) the orange or tomato juice when 14 teaspoon salt they skip breakfast, the Vitamin B 214 teaspoons baking powder in the whole grain cereal, the iron 1 tablespoon sugar in the egg yolk, which aren’t always 14 cup bran cereal made up later in the day. Combine milk, beaten egg and Here, then, are some breakfast menus, and some recipes for new cooled melted fat in mixing bowl. breakfast special Sift flour once before measuring. ties, that are Then add salt, baking powder, and guaranteed to get sugar and sift again. Combine dry the family out of ingredients with bran cereal. Add to bed in the morn milk, stirring until just mixed. Bake ing. Just let them on a hot griddle and serve with but get one whiff of a ter and strained honey or maple platter of shiny syrup. brown sausages Grated Apple Waffles. garnished with (Makes 8 waffles) orange slices, like that in the picture 114 cups flour (all-purpose) above, and no coaxing will be need 14 teaspoon salt ed to get them down to breakfast. 14 teaspoon cinnamon QUICK BREAKFAST 14 cup sugar Chilled orange juice 2 teaspoons baking powder Hot cornflakes over banana wedges 2 eggs Oven eggs in cornbread cases 1 cup milk Pan-fried bacon 1% cups cooking apple (grated or Coffee, milk cut fine) 3 tablespoons melted shortening LEISURELY BREAKFAST Sift flour once before measuring. Grapefruit halves Bran flake cereal with brown sugar Then add salt, cinnamon, sugar, and baking powder and sift again. Sepa and cream rate eggs. Combine milk, eggs, and Apricot omelet cooled melted shortening. Add dry Buttered toast ingredients to milk and egg and stir Coffee, milk lightly until just dampened. Fold in Corn Bread. grated apple. Beat egg whites un (1 8-inch square) til stiff and glossy and fold in, using 114 cups yellow com meal (un a spatula. Bake on pre-heated waf cooked) fle iron and serve with butter and % cup flour (all-purpose) brown sugar. 4 teaspoons baking powder Apricot Omelet. 1 teaspoon salt (Serves 4) 1 cup milk 14 pound dried apricots 2 eggs (beaten) 1 cup wate’ 2 tablespoons fat (melted) Sift corn meal with flour, baking 14 cup sugar powder and salt. Combine milk, 2 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca eggs, and shortening and add to dry 14 teaspoon salt ingredients. Bake in a well-greased 2 tablespoons butter 8-inch square baking pan, in a mod 4 eggs erately hot oven (400 degrees Fahr Prepare apricots ahead of time. enheit) for 40 to 50 minutes. Cover them with water and let soak Eggs in Corn Bread Cases. 30 minutes. Then (Serves 6) simmer until ten- d e r , a b o u t 25 6 squares or slices corn bread minuter. Add sug 14 cup butter (melted) ar and cook for 3 6 eggs Salt minutes more. To make the omelet, Pepper Cut off top crusty portion of corn drain juice from bread. Then remove part of com the apricots and measure. Fill to the 14 cup mark bread from each with water, if necessary. Combine siice, forming a tapioca, salt and apricot juice in top depression. Brush of double boiler over boiling water top of each slice and cook 10 to 12 minutes. Add 1 with melted but tablespoon butter, remove from heat ter. Break an egg and cool. Separate eggs. Beat into each depres whites until they are stiff and will sio n . S p rin k le with salt and pepper, place on bak stay in a partially inverted bowl. ing sheet and bake in hot oven (475 Without washing beater, beat yolks degrees Fahrenheit) for 10 minutes until thick and lemon-colored. Add or until white of egg is set. For egg yelks to tapioca mixture, then quick breakfast, corn bread should lightly fold in egg whites. be prepared the day before. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in large frying pan (10 inch). Turn in egg Raisin Sally Lunns. mixture. Cook over low heat for 5 (Makes 2 dozen 2-inch Lunns) minutes, then place in a moderate 1 cup milk 1 cake compressed yeast (14 ounce) oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) to finish cooking for 15 minutes or un 3 tablespoons sugar til golden brown on top and firm to 14 teaspoon salt the touch. Make a shallow cut 1« cup melted snortening across the omelet at right angles to 2 eggs the pan. Cover half the surface 3 cups sifted flour (all-puroose) with finely cut cooked dried apri 14 cup raisins cots. Fold over omelet, turn out Scald milk and cool to lukewarm onto hot platter and serve at once. (89 degrees Fahrenheit). Add crum iR eU aavd br W estern N e v s c s p e r Union. I A Q u iz W ith A n sw e rs O ffe rin g In fo rm a tio n o n V a rio u s S u b je c ts NOTE: There are two other fascinat ing braided rug designs in Mrs. Spears* Book 3 and the new Book 6 contains direc tions for a hooked, a braided and a cro cheted rag rug. “The Rug That Grew Up With the Fam ily” is in Book 3. Each book has 32 pages of pictures and direc tions. Send order to’ Look In your m ir r o r . See if tem p o rary co n sti p a tio n is te llin g o n y o u r face, in yo u r eye«. T h e n try G a rfie ld T e a . th e m ild , p leasan t, th o ro u g h way to cleanse in te rn a lly ...w ith o u t d ra s tic dri\gs. Feel b e tte r. LOOK BETTER, w o rk better. 10c— 25c a t drugstores. GARFIELDTEA For P ro m p t R e lief o p ia te s o r q u in in e ! F R E E S A M P L E S . G A R F IE L D .GARFIELD TEA C O .,Inc. HEADACHE POWDER IO c -2 5 c MRS. R U TH W Y E TH SPEARS D r a w e r 10 B e d fo rd H ills N e w Y o rk \ 1 AKE one rag rug and you will find yourself a member of an enthusiastic clan that gloats over any soft piece of old woolen goods and who count the days until they fall heir to a dress of a particular color that they want. These en thusiasts bleach m aterials to tone them down; they brighten others with dye; they antique some with tea and they have a wonderful time. The sketch gives all the direc tions you will need to copy this fascinating braided rag rug with a flower medallion in the center. Or you may make two of the me dallions, sew them together and add a braided handle for a knit ting bag. Braid the fabric strips tightly and keep the work flat while you sew the circles for the roses and the loops for leaves ; then sew them together. Use car 'S e e d o c to r i t h e a d a c h e s p e r s i s t ) Enclose 20 cents for Books 3 and 6. N a m e ...................... ............................................ A d d re s s .................................................................... FOR Sweetest Plum In all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums.—Doug las Jerrold. P E R F E C T B A K IN G R ESULTS. . . USE GIRL BAKING POWDER s ta n d b y in m illio n s o f h o m e s Omnipotent Persistence Tide Will Turn Nothing in the world can take When you get into a tight place, the place of persistence. Talent and everything goes against you, will not—nothing ip more common till it seems as if you couldn't than unsuccessful men with tal ent. Genius will not—unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Edu cation will not—the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are om nipotent.—Calvin Coolidge. Density of Fogs I hold on a minute longer, never j give up then, for that is just the i place and time the tide will turn. | —Harriet Beecher Stowe. V IM You needn’i grin and bear a cough due to a cold. Get Smith Bros. Cough Drops! Just 5<*! In 1921, the British weather bu Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the reau set up standards for describ ing fogs which fall into more or only drops containing VITAMIN A less definite categories. They Vitamin A (Carotene) raiiet the reaiitance o f range from “ very dense,” in mucous membranes of nose and throat to which objects become invisible at cold infections, when lack o f resist TRAC 27 yards distance in the daytime, ance is due to Vitamin A deficiency. through “thick,” “ rather thick,” “fog,” “moderate,” “mist or thick haze,” and “slight mist or haze” Wishes »had only one heart; grief, two —in which objects are visible at a Anger wishes that all mankind tear-glands; and pride, two bent distance of 744 miles. had only one neck; love, that it knees.—Richter. 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