Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1929 — Page 5

DEC. 3, 1929_

Posies Bring ■ Winter Joy to Any Home If you enjoyed the flowers from your own garden, placed In every conceivable place about the house during the last summer, you are not going to be content to let the rooms go entirely ungarntshed during the winter. Os course, If you can afford nothcve flowers all the time, your prooiem is no problem at all, but If these are luxuries, you will have to look elsewhere for the freshening touches of color that flowers give E and Japanese lanterns are used during the falj months, effectively. A few sprats, rather than a large bunch, loosely arranged against a suitable background, can be made very attractive. Some of the straw flowers are pretty, too. Then, of course, there are artificial flowers which can be very realistic. The mistake that so many people make, however, in using decorations of this type, Is that they keep them around too long. Just because they do not fade and wither, they let them become a permanent fixture for the winter. It seems to me that when the decorations are hung at Christmas time it is best to discard these autumn “flowers" entirely, and, after the holiday decorations are removed, hunt something else to take their place. Bulbs, planted now, and placed In some Hark cupboard, will be just, about ready to bring out the first of the year. I always think that bulos are worth while, even if they do not blossom, for watching them grow Is so fascinating. If you will visit the florists or greenhouses, you will be able to fin-1 very pretty vines—ivy and such, with which to freshen your rooms

Fifty Years Ago this month Thomas A. Edison gave his first public demonstration of lighting with incandescent lamps. Special trains were run to Menlo Park, New Jersey, to take care of the crowds which wanted to see this wonderful new light. Xo one man has ever given a great people so wonderful a Christmas gift. Today there is scarcely a hamlet so small that it does not receive electric service. There is no Christmas gift so welcome today as some ‘electrical device for use in the home. Their name is legion and there is something within the reach of every home-maker. Let Us Solve Your Christmas Problems Home Service Department Mrs. J. R. Farrell , Director. INDIANAPOLIS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY 48 Monument Circle

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Oven Dinners Dorothy Alden has a number of ideas for salads which vill go particula-rly well with oven dinners which you might plan, and for various other occasions as well. A stamped addressed envelope will bring them to you. Write to Dorothhy Alden, The Indianapolis Times.

Some of the vines grow in water i as well as soil. There is one you can obtain even more easily. Place a sweet potato preferably the yam type, in some ! attractive container, so that the tuber Is at least half under wat“r. Keep this amount of water In the bowl or glass, and before long you will have a sweet potato vine which Is as luxuriant and lovely a house plant as you could wish for. I enjoyed one of these which grew in a glass fish bowl suspended from a hook in my breakfast room window last winter. Os course, the flowering plants that can be bought during the winter are a little more lasting than cut flowers, but most of them are gone in a week or two. Primrose, oxalis, begonias, the stylish cactus, and others of that kind are, among the small plants, more lasting, and from them much satisfaction can be derived. When planning your winter decorations. then, try to make a selection that will last for several months at least and continue to look green and pretty. Also, select with a view to the place where you have to put it. A leafy plant such as oxalis would make a pretty table decoration, while an ivy vine would look better in a high window or on a pedestal. Grape fruit for Vine For a pretty greenery for winter, plant a few grapefruit seeds in a low flower pot filled with rich earth. They will grow a very pretty green vine.

Oven Dinner Is One Good Feature of Winter Days; Easy to Cook, Save Fuel BY DOROTHY ALDEN WINTER really has some advantages over summer, hard as it is to believe, and one of these advantages is “oven dinners." By this I mean that during the cold weather, when we do not hesitate to use our ! ovens, it is nossible to prepare an entire dinner in them, the type of meal

which has Immense advantages, as I shall point out in a moment, whereas, in the summer we usually endeavor to plan meals that will require the oven's heat as little as possible. Now as to the advantages of the oven dinner. In the first place, most appetizing foods can be prepared in the oven; second, the use of the oven for mere than one food at a time is of course a saving of fuel, and if the whole dinner can be prepared in the oven, there is no need to use the top of the stove at all. Another advantage lies in the fact that the food for many of the oven dinners can be made ready long in advance of the meal, in the morning, even, if you are planning to be out all the afternoon. And when once it is in the.oven, it requires practically no watching. Then, too, if dinner has to be delayed, oven foods will remain hot and appetizing for some time. Oh! There are many advantages!

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It is especially advantageous, if you wish to prepare a variety of foods in the oven, such as all your fruits and vegetables, as well as cereals, to have utensils with tight fitting covers. In fact, it is necessary in some cases.

“But,” do I hear you say, “why cook cereals in the oven—of all things?” I answer, "why not? If you are getting your evening meal in the oven, and there is room for one more dish, why not cook the breakfast cereal or the stewed peaches for lunch the next day?” Ii you have an oven with an automatic heat control, your problem is an extremely simple one. However, these dinners can be prepared in ovens without this feature. The menus given here will suggest other possible ones to you. Menus for Queen Dinners Ham Loaf Stuffed Peppers Scalloped Potatoes Orange and Grapefruit Salad Apple Crisp Coffee

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Salmon Turbot Scalloped Corn Buttered Beets Baking Powder Biscuits Date Bars Ice Cream Coffee Beef Birds with Mushroom Sauce Stuffed Baked Potatoes Baked Onions Head Lettuce with Russian Dressing Date Rice Pudding Coffee Fresh Hani Roast Sweet Potatoes Spanish String Beans Cold Slaw Cinnamon Apples with Whipped Cream Coffee Spanish Steak Baked Potatoes Baked Peas and Carrots Fruit Bran Bread Coffee Cheese and Crackers Ham Loaf V 2 pound smoked ground ham. lVi pounds ground pork. 1 pound ground beef. 3 eggs. 1 cup rolled oats. 1 teaspoon salt. Vi teaspoon pepper. 1 cup milk. Combine all the ingredients. Mold in loaf form. Bake in a moderate oven about two hours. To make an extra fancy loaf, place five hard cooked eggs through the center, so that when the loaf is sliced a slice of egg will decorate each serving. StnfTcd Peppers 8 medium peppers. 1 cup raw rice. 4 tablespoon melted margarine. 2 eggs. 2 teaspoons salt. 1 teaspoon pepper. 1 cup bread crumbs. 2 cups prunes, chopped. Grated cheese. 2 cups canned tomatoes. Remove pits from prunes and put through coarse food chopper. Mix all ingredients with the rice. Cut tops from the pepper, remove seed and veins. Place in a shallow baking pan. Fill with the mixture and sprinkle wtih the cheese. Bake in a moderately hot oven for about two hours. Apple Crisp 4 cups sliced apples. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 7 tablespoons margarine. Vi cup water. 1 cup sugar. 3 /-t cup flour. Cut six or eight apples in 14-inch slives. Grease a baking dish, add the apples, and pour over the water and cinnamon. Work together the sugar, flour, and margarine until crumbly. Spread over the apple mixture and bake uncovered. Serve while warm with whipped cream. Salmon Turbot 3 tablespoons margarine. 3 tablespoons flour. Vi teaspoon salt. V* teaspoon paprika. 2 cups milk. 3 eggs. 1 lemon. 1 teaspoon parsley. 1 pound can of salmon. Vi cup bread crumbs. Make white sauce of first five ingredients. Cool and add beaten eggs, lemon juice and chopped parsley. Drain salmon. Remove skin and bones and shred. Place ingredients in greased baking dish in layers, making the top layer of white sauce. Sprinkle with toasted crumbs and bake 45 minutes. Spanish String Beans X can string beans c; - 2 cups fresh cooked beans. 1 can tomato soup. 1 strip bacon, fried crisp and chopped. 1 tab.espoon onion. Vi teaspoon salt. Pepper. 1 teaspoon parsley. Combine all ingredients. Heat well and serve. Cinnamon Apples Core apples and stuff with small cinnamon candies and top with cocoanut. The apples may or may not be peeled. Place Vs tablespoon of margarine on top of each and bake in a covered baking dish. Serve with whipped cream. Spanish Steak 1 slice round steak 2 inches thick. 1 can tomatoes. Vi green pepper. 2 onions. Sear steak well and season. Cover with vegetables, cover and cook in slow oven for about three hours or until tender. Baked Peas 2 cups peas. X cup cream. 3 slices bacon, fried crisp and chopped. 1 teaspoon salt. Pepper. Cover with bread crumbs or com flakes and bake in oven. Scalloped Corn 2 cups cooked corn. 2 cups diced celery. Vi cup ripe olives. 'e tablespoon pepper. 1 teaspoon salt. 2 tablespoons margarine. Vi cup milk. Vi cup rolled crackers. Bring celery to boiling point In salted water. Drain. Place celery, com and minced olives in alternate layers in greased baking dish. Add margarine, seasonings and milk. Cover with cracker or buttered bread crumbs. Bake one hour. Date Rice Pudding Wash V s cup of rice, place in a baking dish and cover with the following: 4 cups milk. • \ cup brown sugar. 2 tablespoons margarine. 1 cup dates. Vi teaspoon salt. Vz teaspon cinnamon. Fruit Bran Bread 2 cups flour. 2 cups bran. ts teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon baking powder. ' X teaspoon soda. 1 cup buttermilk. } 1-3 cup com syrup. 1-3 cup molasses. cup nuts. 1-3 package figs. 1-3 package dates. 1-3 package raisins. Combine all ingredients. Bake one hour in moderate oven, raising the temperature of the dinner for that period

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she had promised to discuss the matter as soon as she arrived. Howell, standing with a group of university home for the holidays, was surprised at the reluctant interest the girls displayed They seemed anxious to explain that they were not there to see Jacqueline. They had various other reasons for coming to the station that raw December night. Relatives to meet letters to mail or packages which were expected on the incoming train. Yet the sole subject of conversation was Jacqueline Bordini. “Do you suppose she'll bring her maid?” “Photoplay had an article about her last month. It said she was educated in a convent. Isn’t than good?” The mayor’s daughter, Eunice Fifield, whispered to Howell,- “Kitty, kitty! They’re jealous. Father is asking the whole family to our Christmas dance. I wonder if they’ll come.” As the lights of the train burse around the curve and swept through the darkness, Howell felt his own heart action increase. Four years since pretty, shabby little Jackie Borden had taken her departure. No one present, save possibly her own family, could remember why or in what circumstances, yet here they all were, for one reason or another, eager to welcome her home. How would that reception affect her? What would she think? What would she do? tt a a WHAT Jacqueline Bordini thought shall remain her own secret. What she did was to jump, unattended, from the train and fly like any other girl into her mother’s arms. “Mamma! Gee, it’s great to see you again!” “My baby!” “Hello, Dad! Where’s Raymond? Oh, there you are. Come here, big boy, and kiss your sister.” With her arm still about him, she turned as if to walk away. Howell wondered if she were really as unconscious as she seemed of the surging crowd about her. Was Jacqueline Bordini acting when she flashed her fascinating smile cn the delegation from the Chamber of Commerce? With radiant, gracious sweetness she responded to their greeting. Promised to appear at their benefit luncheon, and was rushed into the mayor’s sedan and swept away. “As if she were a queen or Lindbergh,” thought Howell. When he turned back to Eunice, she, too, had disappeared. Os course, she would be riding home in her father's car. They might have asked him to go along. There would have been room. Howell and Eunice had been friends for so long that neither of them could remember when it had not been taken for granted that he would accompany her. Yet she had slipped away without even saying good-by. So excited over the arrival of the motion picture star that Howell had been forgotten. Thoughtfully he refused other offers to ride, and strode up Main street toward home. He found his father climbing into the muddy old Ford. Dr. Sheffield smiled in response to his son’s greeting. “Want to come with me, son?” “Not tonight, father.” “It’s rather an interesting case. Blood clot after an operation, and I believe she’s going to make the grade.” His rugged, wind-bitten face was lighted with an enthusiasm which never ceased to astonish Howell. “How can you keep it up, father? Don’t you ever get tired?” “I'm tired tonight,” the doctor admitted. “I’m taking cold and I haven’t had eight hours’ sleep in three days. But what can I do? There are six new cases of flu and three babies.” “Let Matthewson have some of ’em.” growled Howell. “Let him? I’m willing. He’s rushed to death, too.” Again Dr. Sheffield smiled, and the glow of It was like a fire in a darkened room. Howell had basked in the comfort of that smile all his life. It meant fellowship, understanding and a passionate faith in his own future. Only lately it had begun to make Howell uncomfortable. “There will be plenty of work for three of us,” the old doctor said confidently, “by the time you’ve finished your training.” “Yes, when I have,” Howell repeated, frowning. "Another semester at the university and two years in the hospital.” His father drew the moth-eaten fur collar of his coat higher about his ears. “It will pass before you know it,” he prophesied, and drove off into the teeth of the wild. >s n a tTOWELL felt guilty for not hav--1 ing gone with him. Those long talks driving over country roads meant so much to his father, had meant a great deal to him when he first was permitted to sit beside the adored figure and listen to his grave discussions. Ever since he was a small boy. setting the canary’s leg with tiny splints, dosing a sick puppy or putting argyrol on its eyes, Howell had intended to be a doctor. It had been Instilled in him from babyhood by every one in the family, which included his mother and older sister, Agnes, who had played nurse to his surgeon during numberless childish operations. Every doll she owned had been submitted for treatment with sometimes fatal results. The story of the hen which had been compellea to swallow spoonful after spoonful of water was one of his mother's favorite tales. “The poor thing was lying dead under the apple tree, and when I questioned the children Howell said he had given her the water cure.” Howell smiled now, recalling his professional enthusiasm—his dismay when he discovered that murder had been done. Properly remorseful, he gave the hen decent burial, and Dr. Sheffield suggested, with no hint of levity, that they inscribe on the

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; tombstone, ‘Died in the interest of science. | "All of us make mistakes.” he had said, kindly. “But better confine your first practice to inanimate : patients.” A"nes was married now, and expecting her first baby. She had been graduated from college with honors and been more or less of a model child. Every one always said, “How proud you must be of Agnes.” They were proud of her, but both Agnes and Howell knew that it was his career on which the hopes of I the family depended. Howell was to be a doctor as his father had been before him. Howell was to carry on the tradition of a family, whose sons for generations had been honest, God-fear-ing men. Respected and loved in this rural community as well as in Ohio, where the first Sheffield from England had settled. Howell’s mother was the daughter of a missionary, ’ whose declining years had been spent in his son-in-law’s home. Howell had loved the patient, patrician, figure, had listened eagerly to “Grandpa’s” stories. But the fact of his financial dependence had not been unnoted. Many times the boy had resented the fact that although his mother and father went with the "best j people” in Atchison county, they often were hard pressed for funds. Why shouldn’t his father be paid like any one else for his service? If not. why shouldn’t he refuse to offer them again? a tt tt T TIS year' l in college and the resultant contact with more worldly points of view, increased this feeling. He had come home for the holidays in an unsettled frame of mind, questioning the vocation he had chosen. It would be two and a half more years before he would be able ta start practicing. Other fellows his age were already entering business. One or two of them were contemplating marriage. While Howell didn’t feel it would be fair to even ask a girl to wait for him. His prospects were so far in the future. Entering the shabby, old-fash-ioned house he attempted to express some of the dissatisfaction he was feeling to his mother, whom he found at the task of cutting out night gowns for her expected grandchild and not inclined to take him seriously. “What’s the matter with you, Howell. You were glad enough in the beginning to have an opportunity to be a doctor.” "I’m not at all sure that it’s what I want to be now,” he stated, flatly. “Father soon will be an old man and what has he had out of life?” His mother removed the pins from her mouth and said, reprovingly, "I’m surprised at you, dearie.” “Be frank about it, mother. What has he had? Or you, either?” “Your father has made a good living,” Mrs. Sheffield answered with dignity. “We’ve had our home and friends, and have put our children through college.” “You’ve lived in this same house ever since you were married,” Howell retorted, bitterly. "And father’s driven that old Ford until I wonder it doesn’t fall to pieces with him.” “He thinks he will be able to afford anew car this spring, dear. And you know after you’re through school father is planning, to buy the Scamman property. He’s always said he would buy it for me some day.” Howell groaned. "Some day I might buy it for you myself if I were going to be anything but a country doctor.” But neither Howell nor his father was to purchase the beautiful old Scamman home for next day Jacqueline Bordini presented it as a Christmas gift to her parents. (To Be Continued) Tiny Fingers Can Make Match Box Into Nifty Gift It usually Is difficult to think of gifts which the children of the family can give their elders. Os course, they want to have some part in the : gift-giving. They should have, and little presents which they make themselves always are highly prized. One idea for such gifts occurred to me some time ago, and I have been treasuring it to tell you at the appropriate time. Gaily covered match boxes, which are quite the vogue, can be made easily by tiny fingers, and they would be most acceptable to big brothers, uncles and the rest of the gender. Most any homemaker, if consulted, would admit that she did not care much for the homely little boxes of matches which her “men folk” expect to find scattered about conveniently in the living room and elsewhere. So she, too, would find these covered boxes acceptable as a gift. The small safety match boxes are used as a foundation, and they are covered with patterned and colored paper such as that used to line the envelopes in some styles of stationery. In fact, that is a good source of material. Look over your package of unanswered correspondence and see if you haven’t one or two such envelopes, at least. I saved Christmas card envelopes which were gaily lined, for this purpose. Some very good assortments of this fancy paper can be obtained at paper houses and at department stores which go in for fancy drappings. It comes in large sheets at 15 cents each, or thereabouts. Cut pieces to fit top, bottom and ends of the boxes, and paste them neatlv in for gifts, make an assortment of three, four or six, tied together with a bit of Christmas tulle or ribbon Lemon Whitens Clothes' When boiling clothes in soapy water, a slice of lemon with rind included, added to the water will whiten the clotfcfe

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