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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1941)
Thursday, April 3, 1941 ITie Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Nine Jlie Unpredictable Iflflrd. Robert (an I d3e d3otliered by, jprotocoi Washington Suppose lt'a a blue chip day for you and you're lunch ing at this town's swankiest lunch spot. About one o'clock you'll see a tall, slim young woman stroll in wearing jodhpurs. And if not a Jodhpur place. You've seen one of the town's cel ebrities: Evie Robert, daughter pf the late Harold (Standard Oil) Walker. And wife of handsome Lawrence "Chip" Robert, the Atlan ta engineer who was treasurer of the democratic party until recently. Evie everyone calls her that a ill, maybe, stop to whisper to aig Uied Jesse Jones. Hell chuckle. She'll say something to tne neaa waiter. He'll chuckle. She'll Join a large party or bring one with her. And all this Is done with a nice, feminine version of the Fred As talre brand of nonchalance. Evie was born to the purple. But, he says, "It Itches." She adds cas ually, "Purple is just another name for people who can't do anything." She's thirty-ish now. Fresh, trl- angular face. Blue eyes and a thick mop of yellow hair she pulls into a smooth knot. Never wears a hat, except as she says, "To weddings In Episcopal churches." She's the town's most unpredic table hostess. Started out that way socially speaking. Made her debut In Pelplng yes, China of all places. She was Interviewed then by a reporter who twitted her, "What Is the idea? I thought girls came Oout where there was some chance of meeting rich men "Yes. I know," drawled Evie In her soft husky voice, "but mother hasn't much hope for me." Jokers In Her Deck She came back to Washington to live and watch and Join the parade of celebrities. Somehow she keeps the Allce-in-Wonderland attitude toward life. People are fun. So peo ple find her fun. She likes twitting. Give or take. Like the very swank party she and her husband gave recently tor dem ocrats. Evie showed up for once In a dress. Looked quite demure to the reception line. One guest Del' lowed, "Why Evie, Where's the rid. tag pants? I thought you'd at least bring a horse." Right there Evie dropped her de. mure-ness. She retorted, "1 didn't have to. Figured there'd be a lot of honecollars here ahead of me.' This twitting business doesn't snare her husband, who takes It with an appreciative grin. But three state governors have "pardoned" 3 her for the "crime of husband em barrassment." She has the pardons gold seals and all, framed on her sturdy walls. You haven't been the rounds here i Evie Robert until you've been to one of her par ties. She picks the best story tell ers from all the social groups, and there definitely Is no social ice by the second course. A Diplomat, Too That has brought up tangles in protocol the gentle are of seating people according to their rank. Like the party the Roberts gave for Sen. Alben Barkley of Kentucky. Evie wound up by Inviting an ambassa dor, a supreme court justice, and eight senators, in addition to lesser fry. Then she called the state de partment to ask, "How do I seat this gang?" "Yon can't. Call the party off,' said the protocol officer. She gave the party anyway. Seat. ed every one happily. Put the am bassador and the justice at the head table. Then arranged eight other tables, with a senator at the head of each. Sometimes she 'admits that the totally worthy search for excite' ment ends up In jams. That re minds her of one small dinner she and her husband gave. A senator, an ambassador, a judge and their ladles. Demi-tasse time arrived and Evie phoned a friend who has snakes, "Can we come over?" The party- stiff shirts and long dresses pop ped into taxis and arrived at the snake house to see a venomous bushmaster. The tempo . definitely quickened when the bushmaster suddenly lashed out of his cage on' to the floor. well, Evie summed up a cage and looked around. There was ev eryone hanging from other cages never saw a crowd go primitive so fast in my lite," she says, chuck ling. You get the notion that she's quite proud they had sense enough to cnmo. No one was hurt. A Very Good Democrat Evie Is not a charity-committee' woman. But she rode an elephant to open a circus here this year. She had made a deal. If she rode me elepnant, the circus owner promised to send a miniature circus the next day to the children's hos pltal. He did. The Roberts have a small daugh ter of two, Alice Birney, named for Evle's mother who was one of the founders of the Parent-Teach er association. Evie Is a superb horse-woman. So when Alice was 14 months old she got her first riding outfit, and rode around the ring at a horse show with her proud Mama leading tne pony. Alice's arrival was a story. Evle's calendar said "Hospital" for the next day. But friends were going to a night club. So suddenly Evie realized that three days hence would be the President's birthday. She announced, "no baby for three days yet. I'm a good democrat." Doctors protested. 3ut when the baby arrived it was eleven the morning of the President's birth day. Evie chuckled as she opened a big box of red roses sent her by President Roosevelt. In the cor ner was a tiny, tiny bouquet of pink ones marked for "The newest democrat." ' Feature New Desserts In Your Spring Meals March Is a tricky month. Sometimes It comes In like a lamb and goes out like a lion. Sometimes the day set by the calendar makers as the first day of spring Is marked by a cold wintry blizzard. Surer signs that spring Is on the way are to be found right around the family dining tame. Appetites droop. Bored looks and polite "no thank you's" greet the dally fare, when that happens it's time to spring house-clean your menu files and to try something new. A good dessert can do more to pull meals out of the dumps than anything else. Try Rhubarb Crisp. If those falling appetites are due to vitamin and mineral shortages, ims ougnc to nx mem. rne caste alone is as good as a breath of spring. Cream Cheese Pudding Is another gold-star winner. It's a good filler upper when the rest of the meal is light. Made with cream cheese, eggs, butter, milk and cream, it tastes like something the angels might have put together. The recipes for these are as fol lows: Rhubarb Crisp H cup butter or minirini tt cup lunar s mt tetspoon niitmtr 4 teaspoon vanilla extract 14 eupa imall toasted bread cubes 3 cups corn flakfi 4 cupa diced freih rhubarb tt cup sugar Blend butter and tt sup iutsx thor oughly; add emti and beat well. Stir In nutmeg, flavoring, bread cubes and corn flakes. Place half of mixturo In buttered baiting dish: arrange rhubarb evenly over top and sprinkle with cup sugar; cover with remaining creamed mixture. Bake In a moderate oven (375 degrees F.) about 39 minutes or until rhubarb la done. Yield: S servings (Btt-lnch easserole). Cream Cheese Pudding S cups oven-popped rlct cereal U cup butter H cup supar cup sugar 1 tablespoon flour pound cream chests (4 t-oi. pkgs.) 4 eggs, separated cup cream 14 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Roll cereal Into fine crumbs. Melt but' ter In ffx9-Inch square bakins dish; add crumos ana sugar; mix well. Reserve cup of crumb mixture, Press remain ing crumbs firmly on bottom of pan. Al low to emu, wniie preparing lining. Mix sugar, flour and cream cheese thoroughly. Beat egg yolks slightly: add cream, milk and flavoring. Ad to cheese and mix welL Beat egg whites until stiff and fold In carefully. Pour Into baking aisn on top oi crumosi sprinkle remain Ingn crumbs over top. Bake In a moder ate ovan was degrees r.) about 46 min utes. Yield: 9 S-lnch squares f&xIMnoh pan). I Roma Wine Compony, Inc., Fresno, Colifornio It New Uses for Junk Jewelry Wondering what to do with all that Junk Jewelry you've been col lecting at random for the past few years? From Hollywood comes a new idea to bring it back from re tirement and put it to work again. Just take the Jewelry apart and at tach one or several gadgets to the zipper on your purse or dress. A celebrated movie star has a zipper pull fashioned of a collection of odd coins, on her pocketbook. Formerly a bracelet, it's causing plenty of favorable comment among the stars. The idea Is especially good for a simple dress that needs an original accent to set it off. Spice Raisin Drops Unique cup fat cups oarx orown sugar cup sour cream eggs, beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon grated orange rind V teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons cinnamon t teaspoon cloves cup raisins 3 ',4 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder Cream fat and sugar. Add rest of ingredients and drop portions from tip of spoon onto greased baking aiieeu saKe iu minutes. Wiy Children "Dislike New. Foods Told The other day a young mother said to me: "I am worried about my child. She la so conservative in her food tastes. She Just doesn't like anything new. What Is the matter with her?" There is nothing the matter with her. She Is Just like most other children. In the first months of life children have little sense of taste They like things that are liquid and warm and therefore easy to swal low. Milk has a very bland flavor, and when It is taken supplies what is needed to quench those hunger pangs which come when the stom ach Is empty. Most babies do like the orange Juice which is diluted with water when It Is first given. And they generally like cod liver oil, strange as it may seem to adults. When more solid foods are given there Is often objection registered by the baby, probably on account of the difference In texture, as well as flavor. We find that almost all children like potatoes, but other vegetables must be Introduced by giving a very small amount at first. Strained peas and carrots are gen erally taken more easily than other vegetables. Among the fruits we find mashed bananas, which actually uqueiy, given approval by young epicures. Vegetables and fruits are always strained or mashed at first. Later they may be chopped. Young moth ers find the canned strained and chopped foods most convenient. Recently potato shreds nave come to the market In package form. As they will cook in five minutes, they have oeen welcomed by moth era when potatoes must be cooked especially for the baby's meal. Of course, they were not designed for this purpose, but rather for general consumption, especially when time presses. It Is something to be able to have mashed potatoes read for the table in less than ten minutes. Soft Costard 1 cvs or 4. set yolks, gllghtlr beaten U cup sugar K teaspoon salt 3 cups milk, scalded teaspoon vanilla extract Combine silently beaten saga or eat yolks, susar and salt In top of double Doner. Ana not mux siowir ana sur umu susar Is dissolved. Cook over hot water, stlrrlna constantly. When the custard coats a metal spoon, remove at once from hot water and place pan In cold water to cool quickly. Add vanilla ex extract. Pour over frulu or sponia caks. Yield: about m cups. Not.: If custard cooks too long and eurdlss, beat untU smooth with egg beater. Applesaaoa Wash, quarter and core eight tart cook ing apples and put In saucepan with Just enough water to cover. Cover and cook over low heat about ten minutes until very soft. Rub through coarse strainer. Sweeten to taste and stir until sugar it dissolved. Cinnamon or nutmeg may be added but not for Infanta. Yield: gut servings. Garnishes That Don't Wilt Garnishes used on a hot platter should be the kind that will not be affected by heat. A wilted garnish does not make an attractive dish. Garnishes should be put in place the very last thing, so do not select those requiring much last minute arrangement. Spring Delight Novel Recipe 9 cups rolled- uuawMttutd awtlback H cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 tablespoons butler, melted Mix the Ingredients, reserve U cup and pour the rest Into m but tered pan. Pat the crumbs well to form a crust. Add the filling. Filling 14 cup granulated sugar U cup flour A egg yolks 2 cupa milk 14 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla tt teaspoon almond extract 4 egg whites, beaten cup granulated sugar Blend the H cup sugar with flour, add yolks, milk and salt V, . At Yonr Grocer Under New Management THE Capital Variety Store featuring complete stocks of all types of variety merchandise. Never before has Capital Variety been so well stocked never before has it been able to serve the public better. EASTER SPECIALS To introduce ourselves to the friends of the store, old and new. BASKETS 5e IOC Novelty Toys (Easter) 10c 15c Featuring Complete Line of Toiletries Notions Stationery Hosiery Lingerie Candies Household Necessities Novelties Chickens Rabbits etc. Sc 10c 25c SST. 15c, 20c Made Cp Easter Baskets & Toys 10c, 15c, 25c to 49c Novelty Candy lc - 5c - 10c Capital Variety Store 1262 S((e St. Arlle R. Anderson, Prop, Phone 4363 Fish for Lenten Meals Fresh Spring Chinook Fresh Filet of Flounder, Red Snapper, Rock Cod and Sole Jumbo Crabs, Cooked Prawns, Razor Clams, Oysters Fresh Crab and Shrimp Meat Complete line of other fresh, f roien or smoked fish FRESH DRESSED )RAWN POULTRY FITTS Market A Complete Line of Monarch Quality Canned Foods FREE DELIVER! - 10 A. M. and 4 P. M. 216 N. Commercial Phone 4424 Cook In double boiler until thick and creamy. Stir frequently, Add vanilla and almond. Pour into crust. Add ' cup sugar to whites and beat until very creamy. Rough ly spread over filling and sprinkle with reserved crumbs. Bake 20 minutes In slow oven about 300 degrees. Cool and top with whipped cream. Easter Candies Come in and buy some of our Easter Candies Jelly Eggs, Marshmallow Eggs, Chocolate Novelties, Assorted Boxes Jelly Eggs 15c lb. Marshmallow Eggs 18c lb.- 2 lbs. 35c 19 c S3 5? .a ca 5 " S5 - r IS2 lis o 51 c? a, I S 1 eg j- rt a a o I IJ DRUGSTORE 1899 Prescriptions Accurately Filled 1941 Original Yellow Front Drag and Candy Store In Salem Sole Agents for Penslar Remedies in Marion County 135 N. Commercial St. Phone 5197 or 7023 J? fi oh.. .the easter time is the time for style . . . AND THE TIME FOR STYLE IS THE TIME TO COME TO SEARS WHERE STYLE COSTS LESSt eastei hats What's Easter Without a Spick and Span New Bonnet? Tour new hat . . . most important of all your Easter outfit ... is here at Sears! So new, we've just barely had time to lift them from their tissue wrappings! Crisp or cute . . . flip pantly frivolous or trimly tailored! Bonnet or Breton; toque or turban; "pure brov,'" or pom padour; pork pie or pQl box. Straws and felts. ASK ABOUT SEARS EASY PAYMENT FLANI ' , Easter flfcOa Spring $tQ.05 Sport MM Dress . . Suit . . Coat . Dress $il).05 Coat . UVri triH severely Plata rayon" I'atri.lle ?m Blewa nary riatona rayaa prints. ItettlnKntea, fnrkpt dreaaeae 13-30 mm4 iw-oa. Maa allr4 or Inn Maker. I'laln or .la 1 4. oajrer Jaeketa, 1-nattaa "hnrV type, ale Med aellaai aklrta. Plac altlnsta. Haas 12-30, ptalds . , mart rHHM ft tea la erary nrwi-wsnby ew far nprtnc- HoiTs fttt4 rasas . U H H mm! M la i "gandtfted" S-H4 barks . Smmacvlste while MM sr Nte t.17 style, jj-mi u-M. 484 STATE ST. SALEM, ORE. PHONES: 9192 - 9193 . 9194 Open Saturdays until 9 P.M.
