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THURSDAY. AUGUST 18, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Resourceful Southern Cooks Portrayed in 'Receipt Book7 By JEANNE LESEM United Piesi International New York UPD The re. sourcefulness of southern cooks during the Civil War is : demonstrat e d eloquently in a modern re print of a rare . "C o nfederate Receipt Book." f They made apple pie with out apples using crackers, i- tartaric acid, Jeanne Lesem butter and nutmeg. Artificial oysters were a mixture of grated green corn, one egg, (a preci ous item in those days) flour, butter, salt and pepper. Pump kin bread, made of pureed pumpkin and flour, was called "excellent." Another indication of tolerant tasting standards was evident in coffee substitute, parched Women Keep U.S. Patent Office Busy By HELEN THOMAS United Presi International ; Washington - Female imag- . lhations keep the U. S. Patent Office busy. . The office said that the in ventive genius of the girls runs mostly to home conven iences and beauty aids., But some also delve into highly technical fields. ; The first woman to get a patent was Mary Kies of Kil lingly, Conn., who in 1809 de veloped a new way to combine wearing straw with silk Or thread. The office likes to point out that patents are on file from Lillian Russell, a turn-of-the-century beauty, and movie star Hedy Lamarr. Actress Russell in 1B12 patented a dress trunk. Miss Lamarr's patent issued in 1942 was for a secret communica tion system-controlling re mote craft by radio. More typical of what wo men invent is a patent on file from Margaret Rogers, Brook lyn, N. Y for a new type foundation garment with stif fening that won't "cut or dig' into the wearer. ' Nellie Fidel, Great Neck, N..Y., came up with a reclin ing chair with a simplified means of locking the back to any adjusted position. Fitted Sheet Bertha B e r m a n, Forest Hills, N. Y., patented a new fitted bed sheet, while Mar garet Cullen of Minneapolis has a claim on an adjustable holder for recipe cards. From holding her own in fants, Susan M. Mahoney of Salem, Ore., got the idea for a new bottle supporter in which the mother wears the bottle strap around her neck. Women always are thinking up now quicker ways of ap plying make-up. Clara J. Alt man, Detroit, Mich., patented a new type of mascara stick shaped like a conventional lip stick, but with a built-in brush. Margaret Grieve, Glenridge, N.. J., co-invented with Ben jamin' Wisner, N. Y., a new style jewelry display contain er. It is particularly adapted for the retailers' mounting and display of bracelets and watches. But all is not "girly-girly" stuff at the patent office. Mar garet Bassett, Boston, Mass., has been issued a patent for a "filament positioning means for electron discharge de vices." y"WWWFSWIW'M,i f- f t Hi Dear to (he heart of every woman, and an Ideal gift for the bride of this or any other year, is the powder table. Tho unusual Triune "poudre" in mahogany need not stand : against the wall like a bad boy. It has a curved completely. finished back and can face into the rrom. (7) Drexcl Furniture Company, acorns ' and bacon fat, de scribed as "splendid." This look into kitchens of the war-torn South comes from the University of Geor gia Press. The university li brary's DeRenne Collection owns one of the five original volumes known to have sur vived the four-year conflict, The others are in the Library of Congress, the Boston Athe naeum, the University of North Carolina Library and the Confederate Library and Museum in Richmond, Va The "receipts" gathered from newspapers and other sources have sketchy direc tions by today's cookbook standards. To make Republi can pudding, "Take one cup of soft boiled rice, a pint of milk, a cup of sugar, three eggs, and a piece of butter the size of an egg. Serve with sauce." Do you mix all ingre dients at once? Separate the eggs or add them whole? Cook on an open fire or in a double boiler? Apparently, Civil War cooks did not need such ele mentary guidance. - Substitutes were the chief ingredients of many recipes. Rice flour was used so widely to replace scarce wheat flour that the appendix contains eleven recipes using the rice product for bread, cake, cook ies and pudding. Cooks also produced a yeast substitute for bread making, using flour boiled with brown sugar, salt and water. They made raised bread without yeast, mixing powdered sub cardonatc of soda and powdered tartaric acid with flour and water. An "excellent paste for fruit or meat pies" was whipped up with wheat flour, boiled potatoes, butter or drip pings, water and yeast. This dough also was suggested for breakfast cakes, with or with out spices and fruit. : Butter was so precious that directions are given for "curing" it after it went bad. It is melted in hot water, skimmed off "as clean as pos sible" and reworked in a churn before salt and fine sugar were added. Non-culinary "receipts deal with soapmaking, candlc- making, dressmaking and cleaning probems and medical matters. They include a treat ment for dysentery (salt and vinegar solution in boiling water), cures for corns and warts, and a "Chinese method of rendering cloth water proof" by dipping It Into, a mixture of melted white wax and turpentine. SLKKK MAILLOT Tiillorcnl for HwhtiminK mill fully llnt-il tu kcop its shnne Ik thin itleek one lilccii suit by White Stun. The Milt fi'nlurt'H a ai-Mly cotton print nrcrntcd hy tiny buttons at the dwp nrcUllno. DITTO, pw-wi n 1 vitw l'H$ A t 1 . i Paris - Chanel's easy lines take plenty of glitter by night as the designer does a theater costume in brilliant red and gold brocade. The semi-fitted princess dress, with low kick pleats, is topped by a short. easy jacket lined in scarlet. It is stressed that Chanel de signs are all copyrighted, and copying is forbidden. (UPI Telephoto) Farewell Parties' For Mrs. Maddox Phoenix - Mrs. Ray Mad dox, Phoenix, was recently honored at a surprise shower and farewell party. Mr. and Mrs. Maddox and their three children moved to Eugene last week to make their home. Mrs. Maddox, a member of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, was honored by Gamma Rho chap ter of Phoenix-Talent area, at the home of Mrs. Bill Knips, Oak Grove road. Attending were Mrs. Dean Dorman, Mrs. Pete Hughes, Mrs. Ray Hansen, Mrs. Wil liam Kldson, Mrs. Gordon Logan, Mrs. Robert Myrlk, Mrs. Clinton Neeley, Mrs. Charles Rhodes, Mrs. Harold Sloper, Mrs. Wayne Turpin, Mrs. David Taylor, Mrs. Jack Wheeler, and the hostess, Mrs. Knips. National Honors In Camp Fire Go To Blind Girls Great Falls, Montana Memory books kept in braille have won national honors for two Camp Fire Girls, Dorothy Dunn and Janet Kessner, of the Great Falls council, both blind since birth. Although It is unusual for a memory book to be kept In this medium, their volunteer leaders said that tho national Memory Honor would have been awarded the girls because of the quality of the work, even if they had not been in braille. Both girls lake an active part In their Camp Fire Girls group program along with the other 18 sighted members, and will participate In the Golden Jubilee celebration of the na tional organization November 1, 10(10, through March, 1901. Camp White Club Announces Winners Camp White - Players who gathered for the last Friday night session of Cnmr) White Veterans Bridge club used the Howell movement, or one winner type, for the evening. The Howard Boyds scored 80 points to take top honors. Other winners were Mrs. Frank R. Baker and Paul Hat ton, second, 78 Vi; Eugene Rickcr and John Shortridge tied with Mrs. Berg Marten and Thomas Randall for third and fourth, each pair scoring 76,! points. Group Fishes At Brookings Gold Hill - A fishing and picnic outing was enjoyed by a group of Gold Hill and Mod- ford residents who spent a day at Brookings, Ore. They were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boye and two children, Patty and Bobby Boye, Arnold Boye, Nancy Meister, Freddie and Louise Vorsatz, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Sether, Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Compton, and son, Dave Compton, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wascr and Mrs. Agnes Wcstlund. Three Are Guests In California Miss Elaine Johnson, Cen tral Point; Miss Sherrl Bcatty, Medford, and Ray Johnson, Jacksonville, Ore., are visiting at tho home of Walter Lindell, Palo Alto, Calif. They plan to return home this week end. Women's News Come election year, we wonder again how the candi dates and their families, manage to survive the campaigns. Elmo Smith, Republican candidate for the United States senate who spoke for Republican women Monday noon, says he has already traveled about 18,000 miles by plane, in addi tion to trips by ear. The Smiths have owned a plane for several years, and Mr. Smith and his son, Dennis, take turns at the controls. Dennis, back at home after his stint in the United States Air Force as a jet plane pilot, says his father finds it relaxing to pilot the plane. Both Mrs. Smith and Dennis were with Mr. Smith Mon day. Mrs. Smith is always most attractively dressed. For the luncheon Monday she wore a summer suit of the new "no color" tone which some call green and others call grey. At a party later in the day she wore a beautiful blue and green print frock with green crystal beads and earrings which were extremely becoming. When Potpourri asked Mr. Smith if he didn't find cam paigning pretty hard on the constitution and nerves, he said it was tiring,' but that he was enjoying the traveling and meeting so many voters. During his speech at noon Mr. Smith said that he was reluctant some times to intrude on the privacy of citizens, but that in most instances he found both men and women eager to talk about politics, govern ment and the coming election. Mr. Smith believes that a far greater number of adults are interested and concerned with government than some political leaders realize, and this year particularly voters are anxious to meet candidates, and discuss the nation's problems. As the luncheon hour drew to a close Monday, and ques tions continued to come from the group, Mr. Smith at length looked at John Crawford, the local chairman for his cam paign and inquired if time was growing short. Mr. Crawford indicated that it was and said "we better get going." "That's the watchword of with a smile. "Let's get going!" When we were commiserating with the Smiths for their hectic schedule Mr. Smith 'I'll bet you lead a busy life. I en, and I often wonder how they do." Mr. Smith, you might just have something there. If any one is interested in a count down, the women's editor of The Tribune covered the Shakespearean festival concert Sunday afternoon we didn't quite manage the annual art show in Lithia park but it didn't matter because 3,000 or so did attend Monday we did the usual stint at the office, covered the Republican women's luncheon at noon, went to a party for the Smiths in the late afternoon, snatched a hasty dinner, went to Ashland to see "Julius Caesar", and retired late after doing both the breakfast and dinner dishes. Tuesday morning we were hardly awake but there, for a Women of Jackson County, late, set forth at 10:30 a.m. Photographer Bob Vroman to do a page of Girl Scout day camp pictures, arrived back in town at 1 p.m. and at 7 p.m. guess what we were back at the Country club, this time for a dinner meeting of the newly organized Medford unit of the Women's Council of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Our day ended about 11:30 p.m. The only difference between this schedule and the one laid out for a candidate for a major office is that we have an occasional quiet day and the candidates won't that is, not until after election. We heard the other day that Presidential Candidate John Kennedy planned to give major addresses in seven states in a period of four days. There's another im portant difference between a reporter's day and a candidate's day the reporter just records what goes on and sometimes "interprets", while the candidate is making the news. As a matter of fact, Mrs. T. K. Oliver jokingly asked if Potpourri planned to run for office "you can campaign for mosquito control" she said. "Think of the support you'd get." The women's section once had a story which said that when packing for a vacation, one should "pack for where you're going and not for where you're leaving." At the breakfast of the Insurance women Tuesday morning, the committee was wishing they could have looked into the future and planned for what was coming, and not been so influenced by what happened the day they made the plans. Jacqueline Walker, president of the group, explained that the day the committee met tho blazing sun was scorching Jackson county. So the gals decided to hold an outdoor breakfast on the terrace at Rogue Valley Country club, thinking with pleasure of the cool, early morning breezes. Came the night before the event and it wasn't cool it was cold. The capricious thermometer fell to 45 degrees, and it didn't seem much warmer than that on the terrace when the women assembled. But the coffee was hot and good, the company congenial and the conversation lively, so members and guests didn't really mind the chilly atmosphere. Back to Candidate Smith and his newspaper publishing the paper is called the Albany Democrat-Herald, a name which it has had for many years and which right now is causing Republican Candidate Smith a little embarrassment. -O.S. Parents Here Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Whipple, Santa Rosa, Calif., are spending a vacation with their son, Steven Whipple, 503 King street. The Whlpples plan to return to their home next week. Painting Pots Flowerpots can be painted in one operation and without getting splashes on the paint er if a cord with a large knot is pulled through the hole in each flowerpot and they are suspended upside down from the clothesline. When paint ing, it is necessary to use just one finger on the inside of the pot to steady it for the brush strokes. They will dry easily without further handling. Stauffer GUARANTEES RESULTS Only $10 for new four-week studio visit course. Lose pounds or inches or money back! That's only 50 cents per visitl RE-DUCE-REPROPORTION - LOOK YOUNGER - FEEL BETTER. For details telephone SP 3-7551 or stop in at our temporary offices, 208 Crater Lake Avenue. (This Offer for a limited Tims Only) STAUFFER HOME PLAN STUDIO Virginia Wickersham, Distributor this campaign," said Mr. Smith a newspaper publisher said know many newspaper wom they cover as much ground as at the Country club by 7 a.m. breakfast meeting of Insurance arrived at work only a little for Tomlin Forest along with Defends Toilers Burlington, Vt. - flJPD -Should women work? Dr. Dal ton Vernon, University of Vermont human relations spe cialist, says "if they packed up and went home our na tion's industry would stop." "Historically, women al ways have worked. The dif ference is that today about 21 million work away from home for a salary," he said. i Cheese Sauce Use evaporated milk to make a creamy smooth and rich cheese sauce for vegeta ble dishes and hearty casser oles. Mix 3 cups Cheddar cheese and 2 tablespoons four in the top of a double boiler. Add 1 cup evaporated milk and cook until sauce is smooth and thick. Makes V,i cups. Social Events Band Concert Set Tonight Ashland - The Ashland City band will play its final con cert of this season tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Butler Me morial bandshell, Lithia park. Soloist for the concert will be Virginia Cecil, soprano. Mrs. Cecil will sing -"Sweethearts" by Sigmund Romberg and "When You're Away" by Victor Herbert. Other selections on the pro gram have been chosen by members of the band from concerts which were played earlier in the season. "The con cert will conclude with a ren dition of Sousa's immortal march "The Stars and Stripes Forever." Dr. Herbert Cecil directs the band. The public is in vited and there is no charge. . ' Children Return From California Gold Hill - Patricia, Carol and Larry Washburn, children of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Wash burn, have returned to their home here following a ten- day visit at Red Bluff, Calif. where they were guests of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin C. Lanham. While in California they ac companied the Lanhams on a camping trip to Battle Creek. Visitors Leave Mr. and Mrs. John V. Mar tinez and daughter, Lisa Ma rie, from San Francisco, Calif., have returned home after spending a weeks vaca tion at the home of Mrs. Mar tinez parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Graham, 175 Jeanette street. Ask Relatives Visit At Pierce Home Week end guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Pierce, 3126 Madrona lane were their oldest son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Pierce, Weott, Calif., and their sons, Ronny, Jonny and Tommy. Another recent guest of the Pierces was Mrs. Hudson Reeves, Renton, Wash. Mrs. Reeves formerly lived in Med ford. 1 OSC Announces Rushing Plans Corvallis - Students enroll ing at Oregon State college this fall and wishing to join one of the 31 fraternities or 17 sororities will come to the campus several days prior to New Student week. Sorority rushing will be from September 13 to 18, opening with a general meet ing September 13 at 5 p.m. Fraternity rushing will begin September 15 with an assem bly scheduled for September 16 at 1 p.m. New Student week will run from September 18 to 25 and fall term classes will start September 26. Fraterni ties and sororities house more than one quarter, or 2,200, of OSC's 8,000 students. Residence halls will be opened early to accomodate students participating in rushing. Coeds will be as signed to their permanent dormitory rooms for the year at that time. It is possible for freshmen men to pledge and live in a fraternity during the first term here provided they do not have other hous ing reservations., Downtown Medford mill iVAn I if fif-f-f-f-frjrj.. NOW... THIS IDEAL SEAMLESS STOCKING SOLVES YOUR WEAR PROBLEM! IDEAL BECAUSE: it's more snag-resistant, it wears and wears. IDEAL BECAUSE: it's flatteringly sheer. IDEAL BECAUSE: you can wear it for all occasions in the height of fashion. Perfect forjOffice. Daytime Activities for Seamess Style 650 only $f.50 per pair V 3 pairs $4.35 mi Congratulations and Welcome Home! MISS ROSEMARY DOOLEN Miss Oregon of 1960 Your Charge Account Invited! MAIN AND BARTLETT STREETS PHONE SP 2-6428 Nursing Students Give Recent Tea For Supervisors Students of the Southern Oregon School of, Practical nursing recently gave a tea at Rogue Valley Memorial hospital' in honor of their nursing supervisors. Super visors from Rogue Valley Memorial hospital and the Jackson- County Farm home were guests. Mrs. Wanda Hansen, pres ident of the class, was in charge of the tea. Mrs. Janice Hasler poured at the punch bowl while Mrs. Lepha Ev ernden -: and Mrs. M u r e 1 Thompson served the coffee. Others on the various com mittees were Miss Gloria Ford, Mrs. Ethel Nicodemus, Mrs. Betty Patch, Mrs. Del phia Schmelser, Mrs. Ella Rea Smith, Mrs. Clara Peary and Mrs. Marion Wonser. Miss Linda Dysinger was in charge of the guest book. This was one of the activ ities planned by the practical nurse students in the closing five weeks of their year's course. Manager Plans Show of Jewels Mrs. Walter Simons, area manager for Judy Lee jewels, has arranged for a fashion show Friday, August 19, at 8 p.m. at Girls Community club. Mrs. Simons states that the event is open to the pub lic; prizes will be given and refreshments served. About 15 models will show jewelry for fall and winter wear. 4 Meeting Slated ' By Jolly Stitchers Jolly Stitchers club will meet at the home of Mrs. Jes sie Stagg, 611 Berrydale ave nue Friday,, August 19, at 7 p.m. ss ..,.....,.s s .p Duchess " Modil. SPECIAL PURCHASE IMPORTED COTTON PRINTS reg. 1.79 yd. All new fall patterns and colors. Exquisite newly styled prints and colors specially priced sew and save value for you right at the beginning of the season. New col ors .. . new combi nations so striking, so rich. 100 cotton that actually looks like silk. i nr . I
