Friday, Feb. 21, 1941
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HIG CITY BLACKOUT
The move for a blackout test of
New York continues, but this de­
partment Is against it. More people
would get hurt by the blackout than
by any enemy attack
New York­
ers, as Elmer Twitchell pointed out
today, can't even get around safely
with ail the lights on.
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•
And then, too, there's the question
of morale. What would a New York-
er do if he couldn't be seen by
anybody?
■al----
Agreeable
Prof. Bjorn—Mr. Dzudi, what is
your idea of civilization?
Dzudi—It’s a good idea, Prof.,
and I think somebody ought to
start it.
Still Feeling
First Draftee—You know, I feel
like I’d like to punch that hard-
boiled top sergeant in the nose
again.
Second Draftee—Again?
First Draftee—Yes, I felt like it
yesterday.
quickly and simply you can finish
it.
Design No. 8840 is easy for even
a two-year old to get into all by
herself, because it goes on like a
coat and buttons all down the
front. Its princess lines are ac­
cented by sweeps of ric-rac up and
down, the neckline is finished with
a little notched collar, and panties
are included, of course.
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Pattern No. 8840 la designed for sizes
2, 3. 4, S and 8 years. Size 3 requires,
with long sleeves. 3 yards of 33-Inch ging­
ham, percale or linen; with short sleeves,
I1, yards; 8 yards of ric-rac. Send or­
der to:
What would happen to a genuine
Manhattanite if he suddenly found
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there wasn’t a
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
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light on him or
119 New Montgomery Ave.
San Francisco
Calif.
near him? "No
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Enclose 13 cents In coins for
■ir, it would nev­
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er work in a city
Soon to Know
Name ......................................................-•
like New York.”
Sergeant -Hi, you can’t go in there.
i
Mr. Twitchell in­
Address .....................................................
Private— Uhy not?
;
sisted. “Think of
“Ilrciuat thal't the generaTt hut.”
0
what would hap­
“I h<-n uhy hat hr got private on the
—
pen to the stamina of those thou­ door ?”
1 î
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“Stop atking uhy. Do you think I’m
sands of New Yorkers who live in
Ba 0
night clubs If this blackout comes! S fool?”
*1 don’t know yet, I only came here
If they couldn't find the night clubs,
THE ANSWER TO A HOSTESS* PRAYER
I
yetlerday."
they
’
d
be
in
a
bad
way.
And
what
(See Rtilpes Below)
The housewife was showing her
would be even worse, suppose they
new maid through the upstairs
For
His
Comfort
TAKE A PERK AT YOUR PAHTRY en stiff with sugar. Brown in mod­ got into a night club and then
rooms. Finally, they came to a
Stranger (savagely)—You’re sit­
erate oven <325 degrees Fahrenheit) couldn't be seen in ’em by the col­
staircase leading down.
ting on my hat, sir!
Many a cook who shines brightly for about 15 minutes. Decorate top umnists!”
"Now, Mary,” said the house­
Old Gentleman—So I feel, sir!
wife, stepping on to the landing,
at cake-baking sadly admits that of pie with sections from orange.
And
I
hope
in
the
future
you
will
Mr Twitchell was terribly worked
she doesn't have Peel fruit with sharp knife, remov­
“when you wish to pass down to
"Take the matter of photo­ wear soft hats, and not these hard-
the knack of mak­ ing skin and inner membrane down up.
the garden, go down this way.”
brimmed
abominations.
“Pictures
ing flaky, melt-ln- to juicy meat Cut out on each side graphs," he continued,
At that moment she slipped, and
thc-mouth pastry. of dividing membrane and lift out can’t be taken during a complete
with a great bumping noise she
Wading
In
blackout, There must be a coupla
She feels that it section by section.
was precipitated to the bottom.
“Can I tee Mr». Dobton?" atked the
million New Yorkers who lose
Is something she
"Good gracious, mum!” gasped
Orange Pastry.
charity
collector.
weight and go into a decline if they
can’t help, like 1 cup aifted flour
the maid, "Are ye hurt?”
“I’m tarry” replied the maid, “but
ain’t photographed wherever they Mrt. Dobton can’t tee you now. She it
the color of her 2 teaspoons sugar
"No; it’s nothing,” replied the
go.
eyes or her hair.
in the middle of a plate of toup.
dishevelled mistress as she arose.
4 teaspoon salt
Uut a careful look 1 teaspoon shredded orsnge peel
"Then ye’ve got down it fine,
"If they have to leave their apart­
at her pie crust fl tablespoons shortening
mum!” declared the girl. “But if
More
Carefully!
through a magnifying glass or mi­ 2-3 tablespoons orange juice (about) ments without being seen, travel to
that’s the way I’ve got to go down,
He was rather small, and had
the theater without being seen, and
croscope often gives a clue ns to
the job’s too strenuous for me!”
Sift flour, sugar, salt. Add orange even enter it and leave it without been used to sleeping with a night-
what ia the matter.
light in the room, but his parents \’O WONDER there's a prideful
peel. Cut shortening in coarsely.
Flaky paatry is made up of many, Add gradually just enough orange being noticed or photographed, can had decided that he must start ■L ' prance in this youngster’s
you
imagine
what
would
happen
to
many thin layers of dough separat­ juice to bind dough together. Roll
sleeping in the dark. When his step as she goes forward to more
ed by long, thin air pockets or spaces pastry out thin and line pie plates. their morale! • • •
mother put out the light, he asked, and better playtimes. It’s the
formed when the layers of fat and Bake in hot oven (450 degrees Fahr-
frock she’s proud of—any little girl
"I tell you there are tens of thou­ plaintively:
flour are separated by steam dur­ enheit) for 15 minutes. (Makes B-
will be proud of it, and there's no
"Must
I
sleep
in
the
dark
to
­
sands of New Yorkers who can't
ing the baking.
reason why your own daughter
inch pie shell.)
even sit at a dinner table and have night, mummy?”
f p £>M£0'*
shouldn’t have half a dozen just
Part of this flakiness dej>ends
“
Yes,
darling,
”
was
the
reply,
Individual Chess Pies.
a cocktail in complete happiness un­
such, because it’s so easy to make.
upon the manner in which the fat
"you
are
getting
a
big
boy
now.
”
less a snapshot is taken. Ask al)
(Makes 7 tarts)
POPS ih
ia cut into the flour and part upon
"Well, may I say my prayers Take a look at the small diagram
these classes to go a night in com­
gMORMOUSi
4
cup
butter
drawing,
to
convince
yourself
how
the handling of the dough. If a
plete oblivion, and what will they over again?”
VOLUME
1 cup sugar
part of the fat Is rubbed in with the
do?
Revolt, that's what. And there's
• egg yolks
Angers or a pastry blender, until it
NO hard
no telling how far a revolt in New
1 whole egg
tit wets.
is in very small particles and Is
York by people who demand the
1 cup raisins (coarsely chopped)
A
Quiz
With
Answers
evenly distributed throughout all of
spotlight might go. It might spread
4 cup nuts (coarsely chopped)
the flour; and if the remainder of
all over America.
Offering Information
2
tablespoons
lemon
Juice
A Good Name
the fat is cut in so that It ia In
3
egg
whites
fairly large pieces about the size
Good name, in man or woman,
on
Various Subjects
“
And
there's
the
matter
of
some
of
4 teaspoon salt
of navy beans or peas, then the
is the immediate jewel of their
our big personalities. What would
fl tablespoons sugar
crust has an excellent chance of be­
souls
—Who steals my purse steals
be the reactions of Elsa Maxwell,
Cream butter until soft and light.
ing both tender and flaky. The large
8. How does the moon compare trash; but he that filches from me
The Queationa
Billy Rose, Jimmy Walker, Dot
pieces of fat aeparate the flour into Add sugar gradually, creaming until
with the earth in size?
my good name, robs me of that
Parker. Tom Dewey or Mayor La­
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layers, while the small particles mixture is fluffy.
9. What was the highest price which not enriches him, and
Guardia in a blackout? They'd curl
1.
Who
fixed
the
mean
length
of
tend to make the dough more Beat together egg
per ton of gold ever paid?
makes me poor indeed.—Shake­
right up and expire.
the year at 365% days and de­ 10. What are the three theological speare.
yolks and whole
tender.
creed that every fourth year virtues?
If all the fat is distributed in egg with rotary
"The same thing goes for the rank should have 366 days?
small particles the crust is apt to beater. Blend with
and flic. What do New Yorkers live
2. How much of the world’s rail­
creamed mixture
be "crumbly" rather than flaky.
The Anauiera
on? Delicatessen
way mileage is in the United
and
then
add
raisins,
walnuts,
and
To this fat and flour mixture ia
products. Where
States?
added the water, a procedure which lemon juice. Place mixture in top of do they get ’em?
1. Julius Caesar.
3. Who holds the record for the
ia best accomplished with a fork. double boiler and cook over boiling Delicatessen and
2. Thirty per cent.
longest cabinet service?
water, stirring constantly until thick,
The dough ia worked lightly to­
drug stores How
3. James Wilson, who was sec­
4. How large was the Continental
about 25 to 30 minutes.
gether into a ball so that it can be
would they find
retary
of agriculture from 1897 to
army
in
the
Revolutionary
war?
When Alling has thickened All in­
rolled out. Overhandling at thia
these stores with­
1913, under McKinley, Theodore
5.
How
many
Presidents
died
on
dividual baked pastry shells (34
point foreshadows a tough crust, yet
out all those red.
Roosevelt and Taft.
inches in diameter across top). Beat
July 4?
the dough must be kneaded enough
green and yellow
4. Army records show that 528,-
egg whites until foamy, then add
6.
Does
the
starfish
travel
far?
lights on ’em? Why. they’d starve
so that it will stick together and
274 regulars and volunteers fought
salt and sugar gradually, and con­
to death in 48 hours. Blackout of
form a smooth sheet under the roll­
7. Which of the following is a in the Revolutionary war.
tinue beating until meringue will
New York! It’s a crazy idea. Why. prime number—7, 10 or 22?
ing pin. A slightly richer formula—
5. Three Presidents—John Ad­
stand in stiff points. Place tarts in
the enemy could locate the city by
a proportion of 4 cup of fat to 1 cup
ams, Thomas Jefferson and
moderate oven (350 degrees Fahren­
of flour instead of the usual 4 cup of
the loud squawks, wails, protests
James Monroe.
heit) for about 10 minutes or until
flour to 1 cup of fat, makes it pos­
and letters to the editor.”
6. The farthest distance ever
lightly browned.
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sible to handle the pastry dough
traveled by any starfish is ap­
Make pastry using one cup flour
more without toughening it appreci-
Tent poles and broom handles for proximately 5,000 feet, and this
OUT OF WORK
for tart shells.
ably.
Silken frills and all their glory
the British government are to be trek took 10 months’ time.
Horn o' Plenty Pie.
Deep Dish Apple Pie.
Have changed their former cate- made square in the future—not so
7. Seven. It is divisible by no
(Makes 2 B-incb pies)
that they can be put into round number except itself and one.
gory.
(Serves fl)
1 9 ounce package mincemeat
For now milady's lingerie
holes, but because the experts as­
8. The moon is one-fourth in
14 cups sugar
14 cups water
Is
made
of
fiber
from
a
tree.
sure
that
this
will
save
the
coun
­
size.
Its diameter is about 2,000
apples
(sliced
thin)
2 cups
3 tablespoons sugar
try at least $8,000,000 a year. The miles, the earth’s about 8,000
4 cup water
1 cup canned pumpkin
Her stockings, too, from top to toe, timber controller of the ministry miles.
% cup raisins
4 teaspoon salt
Are coal and air and H2O;
of supply says that round handles
9. In 1907 the Selby Smelting
1 teaspoon ginger
4 cup orange Juice
Alas, the erstwhile busy worm
and poles waste about 10 per cent Works of San Francisco paid the
4
teaspoon
cloves
1 teaspoon orange rind (grated)
Has nothing left to do but squirm. of wood, and require special ma­ Mohawk Mine of Nevada $574,958
Feast-for- the - Least
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon cinnamon
—Kathryn Walter.
chines for shaping.
for 47% tons of gold ore, this price
3
eggs
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4 teaspoon cloves
Recently all matches in Japan of $12,041 per ton being the high­
1 IS-ounce can condensed milk
1 cup walnut meats (chopped)
Uncommon Sense
“
WANTED
—
Musician, teacher, ar­ were shortened by 0.029 inches, ef­ est ever recorded in the history of
4 cup water
Common sense is not so com­
% cup general purpose flour
ranger. I compose songs daily. Pop­ fecting an economy of $240,000 gold mining.
Break mincemeat into pieces, I
mon.—Voltaire.
10. Faith, hope and charity.
ular, patriotic, sentimental, sweet, worth of timber in a year.
1 teaspoon baking powder
place in saucepan, add water and I
hot, sad. glad, comedy, unlimited
4 teaspoon salt
sugar. Bring to a
variety. Offer small part home,
1 egg
boil
boil
and
meals, for spare, time. Beautiful
Combine 1 cup sugar, the apples,
1 minute. I Cool,
private estate exchange arranging
water, raisins, orange juice, orange
Thoroughly mix
my music. Male, female or couple
rind, cinnamon, cloves and cook
pumpkin,
salt,
may form band, opportunity, near
over a low flame for about IS min­
spices, eggs con-
Brooklyn, 6001 Neck Road.“—Ad­
utes, Remove from Are and add
densed milk : and '
vertisement in Down Beat Maga-
nuts, Pour into a shallow greascu
water. Add cooled
zine.
baking dish. Mix following ingredi­
mincemeat
and
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ents lightly with a fork: the flour, blend thoroughly. Pour into unbaked
Would you mind running over it
remaining 4 cup sugar, baking 0-inch pie shells. Bake in hot oven
again on the zither?
SWELL TO GET THAT
powder, salt, and the egg and sprin­ (450 degrees Fahrenheit) 10 min­
• •
kle over apple mixture. Place in ■ utes, reduce temperature to moder­
SUBWAY HATES
moderately hot oven (375 degrees ate (350 degrees Fahrenheit) and
I’d turn the heat
IN A SMOKE AS TASTY
Fahrenheit) and bake for approxi­ bake about 35 minutes longer, or un­
Upon the guy
AS A CAMEL. THERE’S
mately 30 minutes.
til filling is set.
Who keeps his seat
Toasted Coconut-Butterscotch Pie,
Orange Meringue Pie.
But gives the eye.
NOTHING UKE
14 cups light brown sugar
1 cup sugar
—Evelyn Bligh.
r
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1
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B tablespoons cornstarch
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4 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoon salt
Ims Dodo thinks that “Random
% cup cold milk
1 tablespoon shredded orange peel
House” is a story of a five and ten
2 egg yolks
2 cups orange juice
cent store.
24 cups scalded milk
3 egg yolks
• * •
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon butter
THESE CHANGING TIMES
Coconut
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Mussolini now feels so small that
than the average of the 4 other
Orange pastry pie shell
Mix sugar, flour and salt. Add he stands on a table in order to
largest-selling cigarettes tested —less than
3 egg whites
cold milk slowly.
Blend until whisper in King Victor Emmanuel’s
any of them — according to independent
fl tablespoons sugar
smooth. Beat egg yolks slightly and ear.
scientific tests of the smoke itself.
1 orange
• • •
add to first mixture. Add the scald­
Mix sugar, cornstarch and salt. ed milk slowly. Place mixture In
A rabbit was found scampering
add orange peel and juice and cook double boiler and cook, stirring con­ around London in an air raid the
in double boiler until thickened, stantly, until the mixture thickens. other day. That's easy to under­
THE
about IS minutes. Add beaten egg Remove from heat Add vanilla ex­ stand. Al) the underground room
yolks and cook 2 minutes. Remove tract and pour into baked pie shell. was occupied.
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from heat and add butter and lem­ Cool. Just before serving top with
BURNING
on juice. Cool. Pour into B-lnch whipped cream and sprinkle with
Mussolini is reported thinking of
Orange Pastry pie shell. Cover with toasted coconut
CIGARETTE
undergoing an operation to have big
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.) strut removed.
meringue, made of egg whites beat-
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Another Way Out!
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