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TIIE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 29, 1917. tors of the United States Department of Agriculture. It is, however, quite difficult to obtain at this time. The Department of Agriculture experts are recommending "cold pack canning in a wash boiler or ordinary steamer as being more practical for domestic use than the pressure cookers. The latter are, I believe, recommended for com munity canning centers, on account of the time-saving element, but excellent work can be done with the home-made water-bath outfit. You should write for bulletins on canning and. food preservation to the United ' States Department of Agricul ture, and to Oregon Agricultural Col lege. As another source of informa tion don't forget the "canning schools" in different neighborhoods in connec tion with the Portland public schools. PORTLAND. July 23. Kindly give direc MOHAIR IS BEING USED MOST EXTENSIVELY THIS SEASON IN PRACTICAL TROT-ABOUT DRESSES One Frock of Dark Blue With Sailor Collar of White Washable Satin and Flat, White, Pearl Puttons at Bodice . Closing Is Much Admired Dancing Frock Has New Turkish Skirt. " WOMEN PROMINENT IN MANY WALKS OF LIFE CROSS PATH OF NEWSPAPER CAMERAMAN Mme. Frances Alda, Wife of Manager of Metropolitan Opera, is Summering at Country Home at Long -Island. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt Is Most Picturesque Actress on Stage. -k - if I , , j . I? ' 111 i ' I I ' v III'' I ' -? : ft. i W "AV- - '1 ' J - l lit!; I'-'AivW 5-; I I ' hi f I 1 5 teMA I ft Mllr; I It ' AM. VV I ' t r ZL : i if 'i.ti . ilJt Vir r t - ? -' i v ? ? ' 1 JE"' wi y -"lIi'r - ill ?Vtr - xgCr- . . ' A GREAT deaf of mohair is being used this season in practical trot-about dresses, and there are new and beautiful shades obtainable in this always dependable . fabric. The rock described here is of d&rk blue mohair with - a. sailor collar of -white washable satin and flat white pearl buttons at the bodice closing;. 'A smart belt of patent leather holds in the straight lines of the ' model at the waistline, but the feature of the cos tume, of course, is the embroidery on tunic, breast pockets and cuffs. . This is wrought with black and white silk floss in a simple but effective design. The alterations of pleats and gathers In the skirt is a modish detail. Here is another of the clever svelt-llne-inspired frocks which become large, as well as slender figures. ' The bouffant draperies are alternated with flat pleats: the pleats blending, also flatly, with the elongated bodice, and the draperies flowing gracefully down ward from the shoulder line of the frock. So beautifully conceived are the lines that the color of the cos tume scarcely matters or the ma terial; but. as a matter of fact, the frock is built of navy blue satin with bodice of blue chiffon over white satin, the soutache pattern being in gray. The upper sleeve i3 of blue chiffon over white chiffon and the deep collar Is of blue chiffon. Straight from shpulder to hem falls a costume of old gold satin, but the narrow belt makes all the difference in the world in the line of the silhouette, giving a bodice and skirt suggestion. Below the cartridge-pleated flounce, which divides the frock at the hip line, there is a tunic of gold embroidered net slashed at each side to show the satin skirt, and this skirt is Satnered into a narrow cuff, the ma terial at back and front being draped downward and caught to the cuff underneath. giving the fashionable MurKisn effect. Protect Bedroom Curtains. The lower part of the curtain be comes badly soiled by blowing against the screen or by dragging across the sill when the window is open. This may be avoided by taking the -inch cotton tape and stretching it tight across the lower part of the window casing, about five inches above th sill. The ends of the tape should be Answers to Correspondents BY LILIAN TINGLE. HILLPBORO, Or.. May 22. My Bear Miss Tingle Will you kindly publish a recipe for prune cake in your colmun and oblige. MRS. E. L. P. A NUMBER were give letter was NUMBER of prune cake recipes ren shortly before your is received, so I have had to wait until the time limit expired. Following are a few typical recipes. Write again if this collection does not include the kind you had in mind, as I have quite a number of different recipes. Don't forget prune bread, made like raisin bread from whole wheat flour, or mixed cereal meal and flour, is ex cellent for picnics and "carry lunches" and has a slightly laxative effect that makes it often quite desirable for sed entary workers and growing young people. Prune Layer Cake One cup brown sugar, half cup shortening, two cups flour, one cup steamed, stoned and chopped prunes, three eggs, three table spoons .sour milk, two tablespoons hot water or prune juice, half teaspoon salt, one teaspoon each soda, cinna mon', nutmeg and vanilla (the last may be omitted). Mix like any cake. Bake in layer.s and put together with a boiled frosting, either with or without & few chopped prunes and nut meats; cr use an uncooked cream frosting made by beating together two table spoons creamed butter with about two cups sifted confectioner's sugar and four or five tablespoons thick sweet cream. Or, if cream is not available, a little prune Juice might be used with a sprinkling of chopped nuts. Prune Cake without eggs. One cup sugar, half cup shortening, quarter cup molasses, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon soda, half teaspoon salt, half pgr i If i turned under and fastened neatly with small tacks or thumb-tacks on the outer edge of the casing so the face will not be marred by small holes. CHARLOTTE E. CARPENTER. Colorado Agricultural College. teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon cinnamon, two and a half cups sifted flour, one and a half cups chopped prunes, half cup currants; sift the dry ingredients together, then mix and bake in pans lined with greased paper. A plainer cake may be made by omitting all or part of the nuts, raisins and currants. The mixture may also be steamed and served hot or cold as a dessert with a sauce or sweetened cream. By mix ing twice the amount given above three loaves of convenient size may he made at the same time. Store like any fruit cake. The prunes should be steamed, stoned and chopped, but not mashed for this cake. Prune Nut Cake. One half cup but ter, one cup sugar, one-half cup. milk. one-half cup cornstarch, one cup flour. two level teaspoons baking powder, three egg whites, one-fourth teaspoon almond or pistachio flavoring. Mix in the ordinary way for butter cakes, bake in a loaf. Cut in half crossways, fill with one-half cup white frosting mixed with eight steamed or soaked stoned and cut-up prunes, mixed with one- fourth to one-third cup chopped wal nut meats. Cover with white frosting and decorate with walnut meats. Prune Cake (Mrs. R. S.) One and one-half cups stoned, stewed and chopped prunes, H cups sugar, 1 cups flour, teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoon soda, l4 teaspoon salt, five tablespoons sour milk or cream, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon nut meg, lA teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon grated lemon rind, two egg yolks, one whole egg. Cream the sugar-and but ter. add the eggs well beaten, with the prune pulp and sour milk, alternately with a little of the flour. Beat well. Add the rest of the ingredients sifted together. Put Into layer-cake pans and ibake 30 minutes in a moderate oven Put together with boiled frosting (made with the two egg whites) or with whipped and sweetened cream. Stiffen the cream with a little dissolved gela tin if it has to stand any length of time before being eaten. Half cup roughly chopped walnut meats may be added If .liked to either the cake or the filling. PORTLAND. July 23. Will you send me a receipt for making "beef tea from fresh beef?" What part of the beef should I buy to make beef tea? I do not like the tea made from cubes. Will you also tell me how to make chicken broth? I am Just gettinK over ulcers of the stomach, therefore will you tell me what I can eat and drink be sides milk? C. K. . Beef Tea. Use solid lean beef from the round' piece. Remove any skin or gristle and scrape the meat into shreds.. Mix one pint cold water with one pound meat and place in a jar or double boiler. bet aside for 30 min utes, then set in a pan of water and heat very gradually, keeping it for one hour Just below coagulation point (167 degrees F.). Stir from time to time. At the end of one hour raise JuBt to boil ing point and remove from the fire at once. Pour off the liquid, holding back the coarser portion of meat with a coarse strainer or fork, but do not put it through a fine strainer. Squeeze the meat to get all possible Juice from It. Set aside to cool quickly. It will cool in two layers. The lower floccu lent portion contains most of the nu tritive part of the preparation and this would have been removed if a fine strainer or cloth had been used as in the "old-fashioned" recipes. Any fat may now be removed and a small amount of salt added to taste. In. re heating, do not let the beef tea reach boilinir point. Beef tea, if well made, is a pleasant change In a restricted diet, but it nas a comparatively low . nutritive value. In some cases the rooa value is some what increased by adding a slight thickening of baked . flour or patent cereal foods, or by adding some of the meat, that has been cooked below boil ing : point for four or five hours and then passed several times through the food chopper until it is reduced to a smooth, finely-divided paste. In regard to what you may take besides milk I can only say that you must be guided entirely by your doc tor. Do not take anything but milk until he gives permission for a more varied diet, then follow his directions clowely: It would be -worse than use less for me to give advice when 1 know nothing of your particular case or the stage of your recovery. Usually following th milk diet, raw eggs, beaten with milk or broth, beef teas, broths and bouillon, barley rarlna and rice gruels are allowed; then soft cooked eggs; strained well cooked ce real mushes or puddings; crackers or rusks' softened ' in milk, and later a little. scraped meat. .Then broiled meat, roast chicken, delicate white fish not fried) with fresh vegetable purees, cus tards, well cooked cereals and purees of cooked fruits. Ask your doctor. Then follow his orders ery closely. Chicken broth. Clean the chicken thoroughly, removing skin and fat and separating at the joints. For a 2-pound bird cover with about 2 quarts of cold water. Heat very slowly and simmer very gently for three hours or until the meat is tender. When the meat has cooked two hours a little rice and a small onion may be added, unless dis liked or forbidden.' At the end of three hours strain, let stand so that the fat may be removed, season to taste, reheat in a double boiler and serve. Some of the rice may be served in the soup, if it is allowed. In some cases the doctor may prefer to have the rice omitted altogether. Of course, the beef, chicken, rice. skin, fat, etc discarded in preparing broths r.nd beef teas should be saved and utilized in various ways for other mem'-ers of the household, otherwise a quantity of perfectly good nutritive material ''will be -wasted.' PORTLAND. July 20. Dear Miss Tingle I am enclosing stamped envelope, hoping that you may be able to give me the ad dresses of some -pressure canning outfits, suitable for' home canning. Have investi gated the one In this city, but am not al together satisfied with the same. Is there any you care to recommend? Any Informa tion you can give me will be gratefully re ceived, as I wish to ran most of my vege tables this Summer from my garden. L. J. M. D. The "Denver Pressure Cooker" is. I think, the one used by the demonstra tions for . making old-fashioned hominy or I hulled corn, ualng wood ashes. Also a good i chocolate cake, using brown sugar. Thank- ! lng you in advance. MRS. L. H. C. The following directions for hulled corn were given me by an 'old-fashioned" housekeeper, famous for her hominy; but I have not tried it per sonally. Possibly some reader may add other details. Old-fashioned Hulled Corn. (Mrs. S. M.) Put 6 quarts wood ashes (prefer ably from hard wood) into an Iron kettle with 3 gallons water. Boil S minutes, then pour in 1 pint cold water (to "settle It-like coffee), then -pour off and strain this "lyewater" (which should fael "slippery'.' to the hand.) Put it Into a large iron kettle with 6 quarts shelled corn and boil briskly about one half hour, or until the outside skins of the kernels will slip off. Stir and skim while the corn is boiling. Strain off the lye when the skins will slip easily, and rinse thoroughly in several waters. Then pour the corn - into' alarge pan (a disnpan will do) and rub thoroughly with the hands. Rinse and strain until the water is clear. Then put back into the kettle with water to cover and let boll up. Then pour off the water and add fresh. Change the water in this way three or four times, finally letting the corn cook until quite tender, add ing more water as it is absorbed by the corn and stirring to prevent stick ing to the bottom, of the kettle. This should give about 12 quarts hominy when finished, but. of course, a smaller quantity can be made in the same Way. Finish by stirring in two or three level tablespoons salt. Serve hot or cold with milk or cream or with butter and sugar or syrup as a breakfast food or dessert. Or serve in place of potatoes, as a meat accom paniment, or in soup, or in a vegetable stew or curry. Cold hominy, either whole or put through the food chopper, may also be combined with milk and eggs in a sweet custard pudding, or in a savory custard or soufflee to take the place of meat. Chopped or ground hominy may be used also in pancakes. Below Is a brown sugar chocolate nake recipe, sent me by a correspond ent some time- ago. Please write aKain If it is not what you want: Devil's Food Cake (Mrs. A. M.) Part 1. Vi cup chocolate, H cup milk, cup brown sugar. Part 2. y cup butter, cup brown sugar, Vi cup milk, 1 level teaspoon soda, 2 cups flour, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons vanilla. Cook part one until just discolored and.' set aside to cool, ream, butter, sugar and eggs of part 2, dissolve soda In milk and add min. and flour altern ately, then the vanilla and last add part 1. Bea and bake in layers in a moder ate 1 oven. Filling:- Three cups brown sugor, cup boiling water. Set en stove and let boil very slowly until it becomes brittle when dropped in a cup of cold water, then pour over the whites of three eggs which have been beaten stiff, and beat well. If Inclined, to run set aside awhile before putting on cake. This cake is inexpensive and will keep for-many days and still be as fresh as when made. This recipe will make a four-layer cake. PORTLAND. July 24. The following meat substitute has been tried at my table and pronounced good, and because of its ease of preparation 'the cook has also pronounced it good. MRS. M. S. M. Many thanks for your recipe. Cheese .Souffle (Mrs. M. S. M.) Melt 2 tablespoons butter, add 2 tablespoons flour, Va. teaspoon each salt, soda and paprika, and when well blended add Va cup strained stewed' tomatoes; boil b minutes, add 1 cup grated cheese and very gradually the beaten yolks of 4 eggs. When well mixed, fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the 4 eggs, then turn into a buttered baking dish, set in LITTLE SEWING KITS EASILY MADE FOR U. S. SOLDIERS Considerable Amount of Comfort Can Be Furnished at Little Trouble and Expense to Women Workers. . I - " -s v. DO VOIR BIT r F YOU cannot knit Army sweaters or make bandages, you can cer tainly fashion these little sewing kits by the dozen and many dozens will be needed. Or If not actually needed in the soldier's equipment, the sewing kit will furadsh a considerable amount of comfort and most' women' "Nck'' W:' Xl.a rv, ' W ' fruiJ j J- y -ii i - , - Til " 1 M' ME.1 FRANCES ALDA. of the Metropolitan Opera, wife of the manager of that institution, is spending her Summer at her country home on Long Island, and there she puts in a great deal of time working in her vegetable garden. She promises a fine crop of war vegetables. i i '. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is the most picturesque and famous figure that ever appeared on the stage. She looks considerably younger than .72, despite her serious illness. To Mme. Horn hard t's already large collection of honors, medala and deco rations, another war medal of gold is to be added. Themedal is a duplicate of decorations presented to Marshal Joffre, President Polncare, of France, a pan of hot water, and bake until- well puffed, firm : nd delicately browned. About 25. minutes. - Milk may be used instead of the to matoes; but for those who need coax ing to get them to eat cooked cheese the tomatoes would probably be: the more palatable. Of course the soda is omitted with milk. Ornamental Veils Liked. - The woman - who prefers her hat plain and her veil ornamental has her desire granted this season. Many of the new veils have a large, beaded- me dallion which can be cleverly adjusted over the right spot on any plain hat. WITH SEWIXi KIT. would rather donate a comfort than a necessity to the man in the trenches. The Army sewing kit is no dainty affair of pink silk and ribbon: such a pretty trifle, perfumed mayhap with milady's favorite sachet, would very likely be treasured inside a khaki jacket and '' kept - intact "in- all ita :'l'... m S and ex-Premier Vivlanl. The medal Is a commemoration of the entry of the United States into the war and was conceived by the American fund for French wounded. Mme. "Bernhardt Is one of the very few women to be presented with the Legion of Honor decoration. -Her work in behalf of the French war reliefs has earned for her a reputation equally as great as her actress fame. Mrs. Helen Hill Weed, daughter of the Connecticut Congressman, by her cleVer defense of herself and her 12 sister-suffragettes, has won the ad miration of the court and all members of the bar who followed with Interest their trial for "obstructing traffic" In front of the White House recently. This ardent suffragist took upon her- daintiness for remembrance's sweet sake, . but the real service sewing kit must be made for -service of sturdy fabric with no fripperies of trimming. The outer side is of striped canvas (tan and brown is a good combination, or gray and green) and the inner side is of white canton flannel. The strips are put together, with braid and secure ly stitched. As you see by the pic ture, the "kit" is a long strip of ma terial about - six Inches wide,- with pockets or compartments for the sewing utensils. The "kit" may be folded or rolled up and fastened with snap-buttons or strings of tape. Quick aid to masculine wearables is the purpose of the sewing kit and since man Is no adept with mending tools, everything must be arranged to afford his clumsy fingers the greatest help. There are safety pins of various sizes' and long, strong pins the only kind men seem to be able to manipu late. Scissors are attached to a tape which is sewed to the kit so that they cannot stray far from their compart ment. Another pocket contains but tons and several pairs of extra boot laces are included in the outfit. But the cleverest contrivance for the as sistance of bunglesome masculine fingers is shown at the bottom of the kit. Spools of thread are placed in the lowermost ' pocket and ends of the thread are brought up through several needles, thrust in the canton flannel lining above the pocket. The soldier need not struggle . frantically with needle's eye and elusive thread: all he has to do Is to draw up a loop of thread snip it off leaving sufficiently long loose end beyond the next needle. One spool of thread should be khaki colored for mending the uniform the other white for underwear. And it will be best to provide- silk thread especially for the uniform. Men's clothes when well made are always sewed with silk thread which does not fade off-color in the sun, or shrink up, making puckery seams when wet, as cheap thread does and the silk thread will probably .match the sort used in tailoring the uniform most satisfac torily. TWINS LEAP FROM TRAIN Escape Attempted While Traveling 40 Miles an Hour. MINNEAPOLIS, July 16. Elmer and Ellis Dasey, 17-year-old twin brothers of Minneapolis, sentenced to three years in the St. Cloud reformatory, for automobile thefts, escaped from a Hen nepin' County Deputy Sheriff while on the way to the institution, it became known In Minneapolis the other night. The lads were captured late yesterday at Robbinsdale. As their train neared Albertville, traveling 40 miles an hour, Elmer sud denly dived head first through an open window, dragging with him his twin brother, 'who was handcuffed to him. The boys tumbled down a sand em bankment and fell Into a marsh. Later the boys, their clothes torn to shreds as the result ot their leap from the train and walks through brush, limped into Robbinsdale, where they were arrested and turned over to Min neapolis deputies. They said they had intended to walk to Minneapolis, slip into their home unseen. take their navy uniforms and go to Chicago to re join the navy. They are deserters. Try Frying Radishes. If short of potatoes and you crave more vegetables try frying radishes. Take them when either young or old, put them through the food grinder and fry like cabbage. ' Add a little water, butter or meat drippings and cook until soft. Season with pepper, salt and vinegar. Hammond. Wis. MRS: B. SEARLE. self .the duties .of counsel and won great favor with the lawyers by her skillful cross-examinations. Mrs. Weed never studied law in her life, but she certainly made things hum. some in the Washington courtroom. ; "Despite her strong defense, the suf fragists were adjudged guilty. Miss Margarctta P. Blair, daughter of Thomas S. Blair. Jr., is' one of the most beautiful and . popular society girls in Chicago. Her engagement to James Middleton Cox, Governor of Ohio, lias just been announced. The announcement was somewhat of-a sur prise to her friends. Miss Blair is a golfing enthusiast and a horsewoman of skill. She was first introduced to Governor Cox at the Virginia Hot Springs a little more than a year ago. She has been actively engaged in vol unteer Red Cross 'work- since the out break of the war. Governor Cox is a widower and Is 4T' years old. He is-serving his' second term as Governor. The daughter of Kngland's -great I Premier. Lloyd George, who was re cently married, has us one of her favorite activities the care of children of munition workers, at Woolwich. She has spent much time in helping run the nursery for these children. Many of England's most prominent people are sponsors for the nursery. Lemons Whiten the Skin Beautifully! Make Cheap Lotion The juice of two fresh lemons strained into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white makes a whole quarter pint of the mcst remarkable lemon skin beautifler at about the cost ona must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams. Ca: e shoulc be taken to strain the lemon Juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and remove such blemishes as freckles, sallowness and tan, and is the ideal skin softener, smoothener and beautifier. Just try it! Make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage It dally into the face, neck, arms and hands. It should naturally help to whiten, soften, freshen and bring out the hidden roses and beauty of any skin. It is wonderful for- rough, red hands. Your druggist will sell three ounces of orchard white at little cost, and any grocer will supply the lemons. Adv. Removing Ugly Hairs Entirely New Method Actually Remove the Hoots) The question is often asked whether a really permanently efficacious hair remover exists, and the answer has heretofore been very unsatisfactory. Fortunately, there's a new and remark able process that really removes every hair entire, root and all. It is different from and far - better than electricity, depilatories, the razor, or any other method. If you'd like to try it. Just get a stick of phelactine from your drug gist, follow the simple Instructions and with your own eyes see the hair roots come out: Roots are removed in stantly, 1 easily, leaving the skin per fectly smo'oth and hair-free. Phelactine is non-irritating, odorless, and so harmless you could eat it! It in eo reliable that every. stick, is sold .on a satisfaction - or - money - back basis. Adv. ' ' h I t&z" it I " Vs? ij f - ---. j
