The Sunday Oregonian., January 21, 1917, SECTION THREE, Page 11, Image 45

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PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION'S PRODUCTIONS
OF THE OPERA-COMIQUE "MIGNON" THIS WEEK
First Performance Is Tomorrow Night, and Second Wednesday Night, at Eleventh-Street Theater Principals,
Chorus and Ballet to Appear in Brilliant Stage Ensembles Orchestra Is Selected From Portland Symphony.
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WHEN the curtain rises upon the
opening Inn-yard scene of the
n," tomorrow and Wednesday nights,
in the Eleventh-street Playhouse, and
produced by the Portland Opera As
sociation, the city's music-lovers will
.gree that the months of rehearsal
NEW YORK SEASON OPENS WITH EXCEPTIONAL
BRILLIANCE IN HIGH-CLASS MUSICAL CIRCLES
List of Performance- Begins With Two Boston Symphony, Two New York Philharmonic, Two New York Sym
phony, Cincinnati and Philadelphia Symphony Concerts Climax Reached In Offering by Farrar and Caruso.
BT EMILIE FRANCES BAUER.
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EW vork Jan so Rneclal
IX For orchestral concerts of glgan
' tic proportions the week of Janu
ary 9 will probably go on record In
musical history. One might go back
to January 4 and give the list " the
tart with the two Boston Symphony
concerts, the two New York Philhar
monic concerts and the two New York
Symphony concerts which made the
first week of 1917 memorable. How
ever, for the record, be it stated Ahat
January 9 the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra, under its director. Dr. Ernst
Kunwald, occupied the attention In
the first part of the week, followed'
Thursday afternoon by the great or
chestral concert of the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra under Leopold
Stokovskt, with no less distinguished
soloists than Fritz Kreisler and Josef
Hofniann.
This concert was given, under the
auspices of the Friends of Music and
the selections were equally out of the
ordinary, including a new violin con
certo for Fritz Kreisler by Ernest
Schelling, a piano fantasy called "Chro
maticon." by one Michelle irvorsky, who
Is unknown to every one In the world
but to Hofmann, who up to the present
time Insists that it is not a pseudo
nym adopted by himself, but that this
aid Dvorsky really has bis being sup
posedly In Switzerland.
The third novelty of the programme
la by Scrlablne,' the late Russian com
poser, whose color schemes, combined
with tone, were exploited a few sea
sons ago by Modest Altschuler and the
have produced well-tralnea principals,
chorus, orchestra and ballet, who work
together as a flexible musical and dra
matic unit. Singing the principal roles
are Mrs. Jane Burns Albert, Miss
Elolse Anita Hall. Miss Catherine E.
Linton, George Wllber Reed. George
Hotchkiss Street. Otto I Wedemeyer
and Harry ScougalL Of these Mr. Reed
I Russian Bymphony Orchestra. His
"Poem Divine" occupied one-tnlra or
the programme. It Is in three parts.
but played without break, the parts be
ing under the sub-titles of "Lulies."
"Voluptes" and "Jeu Dlvln."
New York Phllharmonlo ' series of
concerts started January 17 to cele
brate the 75th season of this venerable
organisation, and there was the regu
lar Thursday evening and Friday after
noon concerts at Carnegie Hall, with
KZImballst as soloist.
Tuesday evening, the one night or the
week when the Metropolitan Opera
house Is unoccupied the Boston Sym
phony Orchestra gave a gigantic con
cert there for the benefit of the vaca
tion fund of that organization. At the
highest prices ever asked for a concert
there was a "sold-out" house, because.
In addition , to the great orchestra,
which has been heard this season with
out soloists at any of its concerts, both
Kreisler and Paderewskl appeared.
Josef Stransky. conductor of the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra, has out
lined a brilliant series of special con
certs with which to mark the 76th sea
son of this great organization. In the
literature that has been issued from the
offices of the society and that which Is
to be noted from week to week may be
noted a great history, one well worth
preserving as annals In . the musical
history of this country.
A long list of great names may give
the fleeting public some Idea of the
Influences brought to bear upon the
musical development of America and
1 the names are about all that could be
0o 7. Wza?z- m t?yc2 r-
(Yz'srrtonJ
and Mr. Street have sunp on the pro
fessional operatic stage abroad and In
the East, while Mrs. Albert and Mr.
Wedemeyer have had musical and op
eratic experience and training In East
ern cities. Miss Hall. Miss Linton and
Mr. Scougall are among the younger
and most promising of Portland solo
ists. Miss Axa Genevieve Paget, as "pre
miere danseuse," Is directing the bal
let. Waldemar Lind will be concert
master of the full symphony orches
tra and Slgnor Roberto Corruccinl is
musical director of the whole produc
tion. "Ml urn on" has not only a promised
excellence of performance to recom
mend It. In book and music. It Is one
of the most charming of operas seen
on the contemporary stage. In the
score are melodies gay and hauntlngly
wistful. The story Itself has all the
attractiveness that marks a tale of
youthful love at last happily requited;
of a kidnaped maiden restored to her
father, and of the frustrated wiles of
a beautiful and wicked woman. Such
musla and such a story, sung In Eng
lish, and against a background of
dark-eyed gypsy girls and men. give
promise of splendid operatic perform
ance. "Mignon" is the third production
which the Portland Opera Association
has given since Its organization three
years ago. For all of these perform
ances Portland musicians have will
ingly given their time and ability that
here on the Pacific Coast opera might
be produced more often than Is en
Joyed by the Infrequent appearance of
professional traveling companies.
The sale of tickets has been large,
but there are still a few choice seats
left. It Is hoped that the theater will
be filled to capacity tomorrow and
Wednesday nights. r
GIRLS TO LEARN TO COOK
Bcaverton High Inaugurates Manual
Training Courses.
BEAVERTON, Or., Jan. 20. (Spe
cial.) The new Beaverton High School
has lust Inaugurated manual training,
under the Instruction of Principal C.
W. Burtt. and domestic art, under the
Instruction of Miss Haines, of Portland.
The local high school was recently
completed at a cost of 124,000 and Is
being thoroughly equipped. It ranks as
one of the first-class high schools of
the state.
i offered In a hurried moment, because
eacn mans reign was a cnapter in 11-
self. Following Carl Bergmann. whose
name Is hardly a memory to the con
cert goers of today. Theodore Thomas
stamped his great musical personality
upon the youth of this country and to
him most of the present-day music
lovers owe their education. Thomas
conducted during the season 1S77-78, to
be followed for a year by Adoiph
Neuendorff, but he returned In 1879
and remained at the helm until the
Philharmonic Society celebrated its
BOth anniversary.
Then came the great Anton Seldl,
under whose administration at the
Metropolitan and as conductor of the
Philharmonic Society, the entire must
cal color was changed. Seidl died in
1898. to be succeeded by Emll Paur,
who had been coveted from the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, and that organl
zation released ' him because, on the
other side, they wanted the return of
Wllhelm Gerlcke, and the New York
Phllharmonlo seemed a nice post Into
which to transfer Mr. Paur. who had
the distinction of presenting Richard
Strauss for the first time In this
country.
Following Emll Paur, Walter
Damrosch had one season, but. as In
most organizations, be did not have
free hand, and was greatly hampered
in his work, proof of which may be seen
by what he has made since that time
of the New York Symphony Orchestra,
which had been organized by his lllus
trious father. Dr. Leopold' Damrosch,
and which lapsed for a few seasons.
Following the season In which Mr.
Damrosch ruled the musical destiny of
the orchestra It was decided to have
a series of "guest" performances and
this formed a very interesting chap
ter In the musical life of the country,
and although perhaps less artistic ef
fects were possible than could have
been enjoyed under one man who had
innumerable rehearsals at his dis
posal, a new phase was brought Into
the society and In the season of 1908-04
were heard some of the greatest men
that ever wielded the baton in their
own countries. . Foremost among these
was the great Bdouanl Colonne, who so
Impressed the directors and the public
that he was brought back the follow
ing season and he might have bad the
post permanently bad it been possi
ble. During the first season of visit
ing conductors New York also made
the acquaintance of Oustav Kogel, of
Frankfurt, Germany; Henry Wood, of
London, who was later knighted; Vic
tor Herbert, Felix Welngartner, Was
sill Safonoff and Richard Strauss.
The following season the same plan
was undertaken, the visitors having
been Kogel. Colonne, Safonoff, Weln
gartner and Pansner. The last regu
lar concert of this series was to have
been conducted by Theodore Thomas
and great preparations were made to
have this a gala occasion, when the
death of the great conductor frustrated
the plan. Gustav Kogel conducted the
concert which was to have been his.
There was a third season of guest
conductors, which brought the noted
Wilem Mengelberg to America. He
made a very deep impression and many
hopes were expressed that he might
become permanent conductor of th
organization. . Others conducting that
season were Victor Herhert. aaronorr,
Max Fiedler, of Hamburg? Ernst Kun
wald and Frits Steinbach, of Cologne.
Safonoff finally. was selected and It
was possible for him to accept the post
of regular conductor of the Philhar
monic Orchestra. He, in turn, was
succeeded by Gustav Mahler, who
made memorable history in the music
of this country, although to the shame
of all be it said that he was never
properly appreciated or understood.
and he had a period of terrible torment
of soul. It was too much for his
weakening body and he fell ill and
never recovered. The last concert
which Mahler was to have conducted
fell to the lot of Theodore Splerlng,
then acting as his concert master and
assistant conductor.
In the next season Josef Stransky
was engaged as conductor of the New
York Philharmonic Orchestra, a post
In which he has the opportunity to
oonduct the 75th anniversary of the
organization.
Geraldlne Farrar, Caruso and Araato,
In their notable roles in "Carmen,
and Polacco at the baton, together
with a cast which Included for the
greater part American singers, faced
one of the largest and most excitable
audiences that has ever been assembled
In the Metropolitan Opera House. Seats
sold as high as 130 apiece and long
before the curtain went up there were
no more "standees" allowed.
In addition to the foregoing Carmen,
Don Jose and Escamillo. Edith Mason
sang the role of Micaela, Mabel Gar
rison was Frasquita and Sophie
Braslau sang Mercedes. Rothier made
the usual dashing Zuniga, Leonhardt
and Bada were the comedian smug
glers. Miss Farrar had already had a
triumphant rentree early In the week,
but the enthusiasm on Friday night
was at white heat. She astounded
the audience by making her entrance
whistling the air instead of singing
it and to use the true vernacular "she
got away with it," as she always does
with everything. Caruso has never
sung with greater beauty and more,
ireecom in cms roie.
(Oon tinned From Pare 10.)
and on her way back to Burns will
remain in Portland two weeks, coaching
on German lieder. English ballads and
French chausons with George Wllber
Reed. Burns. Or., may well congratu
late Itself on having such a progressive
musician, for largely through Mi's.
Gault's Instrumentality this wide
awake little town has already estab
lished Itself as music-loving community.
' Dr. Emll Enna, pianist, assisted by
Mrs. Mabel Ryder Williams, pianist,
gave a most delightful programme of
Scandinavian music for the Monday
Musical Club, at Eilers Hall last Mon
day afternoon. The programme was ar
ranged with such variety and contrast
that there was not a dull moment In the
entire recital. Dr. Enna gave a short
talk, containing many reminiscences of
acquaintance with the composers whose
selections were given, and he discussed
especially Scandinavian - music. Dr.
Enna played In a masterly manner sev
eral selections from the classics. One
number from "Concerta Op 16 (Grieg)
was brilliant and attractive. This num
ber was played by Mrs. Williams. Dr.
Enna playing second piano. Mrs. Wil
liams' piano Interpretation Is brilliant
and reflects credit on her instructor.
The next programme of the club will
be held Monday. February 6, at which,
as Is the usual custom, only club mem
bers will appear.
Merlin Davles, the young Canadian
tenor, recently heard In recital In New
York, Is a graduate of the Royal Col
lege of Music in London the famous
school on the Thames embankment
and the winner of various prizes there.
Including a scholarship. His career in
England Included a term of service as
tenor soloist at the Chapel Royal, Wind
sor Castle, and several "command per
formances before members of the royal
family. He came to the concert man
agement of Haensel A Jones with an
excellent record of six years as the
head of the vocal department at He-
GUI University, Montreal, and the cor
dial endorsement of Dr. Walter Dam
rosch, of the New York Bympony Or
chestra, m w m .
It was a soiree musical. - A singer
had lust finished "My Old Kentucky
Home." The hostess, seeing one of her
guests weeping In a remote corner,
went to him and Inquired In a sympa
thetic voice: "Are you a Kentucktan "
And the answer quickly came: "No,
madame, I am a musician. Pathfinder.
Sllsa Margaret Rwse, Presented
! Ptaao. Recital y Miss
Martha B. Reynolds, at Ellen
Hull.
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OREGON LINKED TO WORLD BY RAILROAD
AFTER LONG-DRAWN-OUT SERIES OF TROUBLES
First Advocate of Line Spanning Continent Ridiculed by Congress as Promoter of Scheme of Rankest Extrava
gance Government Finally Consents to Give Aid for One Route.
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BY EVA EMERY DYE.
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HE first railroad boom struck the
United States In 1830. Asa Whit
ney, away over In China, heard
of It. He collected statistics of our
trade with China, and came home to
present to - Congress the plan for a
railroad to the Pacific He was met
with ridicule.
"A railroad across 2500 miles of prai
rie, of desert, and of mountains? ex
claimed Senator Dayton, of New Jer
sey. "The extravagance of the sug
gestion seems to me to outrun every
thing which we know of modern
scheming."
Asa Whitney made the promotion of
a Pacific railroad from the Great Lakes
to the ocean the business of his life,
traveling, lecturing, writing, year In
and year out, until at last a committee
of Congress did report in favor of a
survey. The Mexican war Intervened;
California was annexed; gold discov
ered. "Not a northern route now,"
said the southern men; "It must go
from Vlcksburg." Asa Whitney had
spent a fortune, and betook himself
to driving a milk wagon.
Rente Search AmttaorlaeeV
In 1853. Congress authorized Jeffer
son Davis, Secretary of War, to find
the best route to the Pacific He sent
out Ave surveys on five parallels
the 82d. 1 5th, 88th. 4 2d and 48th. All
returned favorable reports; all found
paths to the Pacific All five of those
lines arc built and running now.
Where Omaha stands today, the first
engineer crossed on a raft and slept
that night in the tepee of an Omaha
Indian. When all was done Jefferson
Davis said the road must be built on
the 3 2d parallel. "By no means north
of Vlcksburg." Of course the North
would not consent to this; so nothing
was done.
The Rebellion came and stopped sur
veys. California, lp he days of gold,
had leaped to statehood In 1850. When
the peal of cannon could almost be
heard In Washington, Abraham Lin
coln put his finger on the map -and
said. "The Coast is undefended. The
road has become a military necessity.
Build from Omaha." Congress gave a
subsidy over 150,000,000 and a grant
of land. Soldiers who had fought in
the Civil War became soldiers of the
union Paclrlc, some building, some
guarding this greater than any road
of the Romans across the mighty em
pire of the West.
The Californians greeted the work
with Joy. They. too. began to build
from Sacramento east the Central Pa
cific. Five years It took to build across
the plains and Rocky Mountains. There
were dangers, wild times, and dread
ful nights. The tombs of the trail-
Answers to Correspondents
BY LILIAN TINGLE.
PORTLAND. Or.. Dc SO. Will yon
kindly g'vs directions for making tho laxa
tlvo w&fors In which tho liquid paraffin
Is nun. Also a roolpo for swlaback. Thank
ing you, "LNQUIRER."
I hops th following Is what you
want:
Laxative wafers (with mineral oil)
Beat together cup -sugar with 1-8
cup heavy mineral oil "for Internal
use,, add 1H cups each rolled oats
that have been passed through a food
chopper and choice brain; add also 1
cups ordinary white flour, sifted with
one level teaspoon baking powder, Vt
teaspoon salt, 1-3 cup water and one
egg. beaten light. Mix to a "rolling
dough" and roll out very thin. Cut
Into rounds or. Detter, into "aiamonaa
or "fingers," which leave no inm-
mlngs"to reroll. Prick over and bake
In a rather quick oven to an even deep
straw color. Baking on an Inverted
baking tin tends to give a more even
color than baking In the tin in the
Usual way.
Zwieback Two cups scalded and
cooled milk, one yeast cake, softened In
H cup lukewarm water, cup Dutter.
H cup sugar, three eggs, flour as for
bread. A little aniseed or cardamon
flavoring is sometimes used. Make a
sponge and mix like bread or rather
like coffee cake. ' When ready for
moulding shape In long, narrow loaves
and let rise again to double bulk. Bake
about 50 minutes. When cold cut Into
slices about i an Inch thick and dry
in a very slow oven, browning only
slightly. Another- variety of zwieback
Is obtained by drying slices of sponge
cake flavored with aniseed or carda
mom.
Plainer zwieback may be similarly
made by reducing the quantity of but
ter, sugar and eggs. In some ca
where swieback may be ordered for
some forms of Indigestion the butter
and sugar might have to be omitted al
together.
Portland. Or. Wonld roo Inform me fl
irhethar candled charrtaa can be made from
canned cnanrleaT (2) Pleas slvo mifH-
tlon for refreshments for an evening eluo
,nt,rt.lnmenL about t0 or SO Dcopla I set
mn tirMi nf mffM and undlcliL and want
something new that will net be toe diltiouit,
makers lie side by side with those of
the immigrants. Indian battles were
fought, fierce and bloody, and many
a pathfinder, many a builder, sleeps
where he fell the forgotten, silent
hero of civilization's onward march.
Few had faith, when the army of con
struction left the little village of
Omaha. When trains actually reached
the Rocky Mountains, newspapers-sent
their correspondents. The world
watched while daring engineers chis
eled shelves on the granite sides of
canyons, winding round and up and
over the Rockies. The world watched
the raca down the western slope. The
bold Californians, after their kingly
climb of the Sierras, came rushing east
with outstretched arms to meet their
compeers In the Utah desert.
At last the wires of all the principal
cities were connected with that spot on
the desert. There stood the engines of
the East and West. The last spike
was driven; the wire clicked; Chicago,
New York. Philadelphia, rang their
bells and fired their guns. For the
first time Atlantic greeted Pacific
across the Great American Desert.
Ben Holladay beard Oregon call for
railroads In her green valleys. Already
he bad a fleet of steamers trading in
the Pacific; with them he would link
the new Northwest. Already two Ore
gon Centrals had broken sod at Port
land and were battling their "Wars of
the Roses" on the .east and west sides
of the Wlllamettea Both sides were
looking for money abroad when Ben
Holladay came up from California with
reputed- millions in his gripsack.
Tww Roada Are Hercei.
. Bold, ; far-seeing. Imperious as
Caesar, a natural tyrant and a great
leader, Ben Holladay captured the sole
command in 1870. His East Side Ore
gon Central was merged Into the Ore
gon &. California with a capital of
J20.SOO.000. Then, began a rapid
growth. Over the new-laid Irons the
first train went to Salem in October.
1870. In December. Albany was
reached. Holladay got control of the
Willamette boats and started a paper.
He Issued edicts like a czar and lived
like a monarch. Men began to call him
a "railroad king," a "grinding monopo
list." and a "railroad dictator." He
carried the West Side road on up among
the Yamhill farms. Wheat brought ip
at once began to load the grain fleets
sailing out from Portland for the dis
tant shores of Europe. Holladay sold
bonds In Germsny and with $10,000,000
more in hand built the road on down
to Roseburg and stopped.
Scarcely had Holladay gained con
trol of the Oregon roads In 1870. when
Jay Cooke, the great war financier,
took up the old Northern Pacific sur
vey. He switched the main line down
to the Columbia and began building at
both ends. Ho rushed the eastern end
across Minnesota and Dakota to a lit
tle settlement on the banks of the Mis
sourL called Bismarck and stopped.
We serv Just en dish with something to
drink. Thanking yen. X. r.
Homemade candled cherries are not
difficult to make and are usually excel
lent In flavor. I should warn you. how
ever, not to expect the bright color of
the commercial cherries. There Is a
special process for coloring candled
cherries and maraschino cherries which
Is not usually available for the house
keeper who tries to Imitate these prod
ucts. Blng cherries may be used, but
will, of course, be rather dark and dull
In color, though they will taste good.
I have had best -success with large.
sour, Kentish cherries.
Royal Annes can be given a certain
amount of color by candying them in
a syrup wnicb is .Drlghtly tinted with
red fruit Juice, or with "color paste,"
or with the color which comes In some
packages of gelatine. The following Is
an easy method:
Candled Cherries Select large red
cherries, remove the stones and weigh
the rrult. For each pound of stoned
fruit allow H pound (one cup) sugar.
Put the sugar In a-' pan with Just
enough water or fruit Juice to dissolve
it. If the cherries are quite sweet, a
little lemon Juice or citric acid will
be an improvement. A few kernels
from the cracked pits may be added to
the syrup for flavor. Cook the syrup
to the "heavy thread" aa for Icing,
then add the fruit- Bring to the boil,
boll one minute, then set aside over
night. Repeat the boiling up and set
ting aside until the cherries are semi
transparent and saturated with sugar,
then drain on a sieve. Let dry a 'little
and roll In granulated sugar.
Would fruit punch (either hot or
cold) and cake or sandwiches get
equally tiresome? There are so many
possible varieties of punch, cake and
sandwiches. Hot chocolate with whipped
cream Is usually attractive. Or a to
mato or chicken boullllon of fine flavor
might be served In cups with simple
sandwiches (such as nut and olive, let
tuce, or grated cheese and watercress)
if you are tired of sweet things. "Salad
rolls" are good tf carefully made so
as to be easily eaten, and they con
trlve to combine In one "dish" the salad
and sandwich accompaniment barred
out by your rule of "one wet and one
dry..'
Cream puffs or patties filled with
The western end. from the Columbia, .
branched over toward the 8ound. and
fell, dead broke, near a sawmill and sv
few houses called Tacoma. The North
ern Pacific had swallowed up more
than $30,000,000. This was In 1878.
Men said. "It Is that Northern Pa
cific Railroad, from nowhere into no
man's land, that has caused the panic
It has caused Jsy Cooke's downfall,
and all the rest grew out of that." But
wiser ones knew that In our ambition
and ov&rspeculatlon we had lived too
fast, and run too fast, and must stop
to take breath again.
But Wall Street kept Its sleepless eye
fixed fast on Oregon. Another and a
younger than Holladay came up the
Columbia. His name was Henry Vil
lard. Commerce Seat Fereseem.
With the eye of -a prophet Henry
Vlllard looked on Oregon. He saw the
Columbia breaking - through the Cas
cades and ramifying far up into the
Rockies. He saw Its Wlllatnotte
branch sweeping down toward Cali
fornia. He said: "This must forever
be the seat of commerce." He set a
foroce of men building the railroad on
from Roseburg south to California.
Out of the Oregon Steam Navigation
Company he organized the O. R. A N.,
and sent his engineers along the Co
lumbia, blasting a road to radiate like .
a fan into the wheatfields of Eastern
Oregon. - Washington and Idaho, and
swing a long arm out to meet the
Union Pacific '
"Vlllard planned to make his O. R. &
N. the western terminus of the North-
ern Paciric But the Northern Paclflo
was roused from her long slumber and
was building again. She might get
away from him and find another out
let to the sea. Vlllard started straight
for the money center of the Western
world New York City. There he said
to the bankers and financiers of Wall
Street: "Give me $8,000,000 and ask no
questions." They gave him $8,000,000.
Then he told them what It was for, and,
they gave him $12,000,000 more. With
that he bought great ' blocks of the
Northern Pacific and h who had been
refused a seat as director now came in
as president. With mighty energy
Vlllard set to completing the Northern
Pacific, building from both ends at
once. .
In September; 1883, CO miles west of
Helena, the old war chief of the Crows
handed Vlllard the last spike. "This ...
is the end of it all! said the old chief "
sadly, as he handed over forever the .
key to his country. Vlllard took tho -i
spike of gold and drove It home. At
that Instant fireworks and illumina
tions and booming cannon flashed from .
Superior to the sea. The dream of Jef
ferson, of Benton, and of Asa Whitney
had come true, the trail of Lewis and.
Clark had "crystallised into a track of
steel." and from an Isolated corner by
a distant ocean Oregon was linked with,
all the world.
chicken salad or. If a hot dish Is liked,
with creamed chicken, or oysters or
sweetbreads, would be another way of
s"1" 0.1 u u uu id' rnie. csweet land
wlchea. made of chonned itrieri fn.it.
or Jelly or marmalade combined with,
cnoppea nuts or made with nut bread
are a useful 'half-way house" between
sweet cakes and savory things and
would go well with chocolate.
I am afraid there Is nothing very
"original" about these suggestions; but
In serving a large number of people o
Vr.r,T,n t"t"' "originality" Is not only
difficult, but often dangerous and dis
appointing. , watch The Oregonlan every day and
look tor nni of your sood cake recipes.
This U the first tlmo that I have written
to yo. Wo had soma cake from ona of
th lax bakeries, baked to order, called
Rum cake, and also would .Ilk recipe for
all kinds of fruit, preserved In rum. X
think this must b a Oerman reel pa. ob
' aa Oresonian subscriber for over 40
years. MRS. C. C
I am sorry that I cannot give you
proprietary trade recipe. Describe the
cake In detail and I will give you th
nearest thing I know.
"The "Rum Preserve" Is often known
aa "Tuttl Fruttt'' I learned to make It
In Germany. ' ,
"Tuttl FruttL" Take 'any preferred:
variety of fruits, aa they come In sea
son, allowing one pound sugar for one
pound prepared fruit, and one pint rum
to every five pounds fruit- Put rum
Into a large Jar. Arrange In alternate s
layers In the Jar the fruit and the "
sugar, always having sugar on top
when you put In new fruit- Stir well
between the additions of new fruit. No
cooking Is needed. From 6 to 25 dif
ferent kinds -of fruits can be combined
in this way. Most people begin with
strawberries and add other fruits as
they come along. Avoid bananas and
grapes, aa they seem to encourage fer
mentation. One poand each strawber
ries, stoned cherries, red raspberries,
stoned and sliced apricots, and cut up
pineapple, with five pounds sugar and
one -pint rum Is a favorite combination,
but as I say. there la little limit to
the number of different combinations
that you may make.
I must ask other correspondents to
wait a little longer for replies. Earlier
replies can sometimes be given in the
dally Instead of The Sunday Oregunian.
I so correspondents may state their pret-
erance.