Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1941 — Page 20

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Count on These Candies to Fill] | In Gaps in Christmas

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EVEN IF YOU DISCOVER the deadline on your out-of-town Christ-| |

mas mail at the 11th hour or uncover an embarrassing list, youll still have time to whisk together a batch of Will rival the art of a professional confectioner

Lace Deoily

By MRS. ANNE CABOT This stunning, lacy 19% inch doily is really a rare find! I discovered it at the New Jersey State Fair. It was an exhibition piece made by a woman whose family has been doing this lovely Viennese knitted lace for 150 years. She, herself has been making lace for 25 years. She has worked this exquisite piece out for me and I know

Take your cue from the confectioners and pat them into Christmas tree shapes and give an extra plus of holiday glamour with snips of candied cherries and citron to suggest branches; or decorate round patties with miniature holly ‘wreathes of cherry and citron ships. Cinnamon drops and miniature silver candies or chocolate chips can be counted on for quick and easy tive effects. Co-star the font with short-cut chocolate

nut meats. Whether candy gifts or baskets are delivered next door or

be placed at the bottom and the lighter ones on top; lay waxed paper carefully between each layer. Corrugated paper or other protective wrapping is a wise tion when Christmas candies are

MAGIC CHRISTMAS CANDIES “2 squares (2 om) unsweetened chocolate

1% cups (15 oz can) milk

Melt chocolate in top of double boiler. milk, stir over boiling water five minutes or until mixture thickens. Cool. Drop small spoonfuls of chocolate mixture into chopped nuts or shredded coconut and work into surface. Form into balls. Chill. May be dropped by large spoonfuls into nuts or coconut and formed into rolls. Chill rolls in refrigerator. Cut in slices.

MAGIC SANTA CLAUS FONDANT

% cup (7% oz. can) sweetened condensed milk 1 te n vanila 4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar Blend sweetened condensed milk and vanilla. confectioners’ sugar gradually and continue mixing until smooth and creamy, Use fondant plain between halved nut meats or as a stuffing for dates.

you'll be fascinated by it. It's made of one large ball of size! 80 crochet thread. Use fine steel sock needles to knit it. If you've ever used sock needles you can cer-| tainly do this piece! It will make "an heirloom piece that your family will treasure. Make one for your own living or dining room and another to give as a handsome wedding present. To obtain instructions for knitted Viennese doily (Pattern No. 5262) amounts of materials speci-| fiéd, send 10 cents in coin, your name and address and the pattern number to Anne Cabot, The Indianapolis Times, 106 Seventh Ave, New York,

Sub Debs to Reveal ‘Secret Sisters’

The names of “secret sisters” will be revealed tonight at a meeting of the Sigma Jota Sub Deb Club in the home of Miss Margaret Blats. Gifts will be exchanged.

To Exchange Gifts

The Riverside Kindergarten Mothers’ Club was to hold its annual Christmas party, featuring games, music and a gift exchange, this afternoon in the kindergarten.

Sub Debs Dine

The Bachelorette Sud Deb Club will be entertained this evening by Miss Maxine Kempe, 121 S. Emerson Ave. Following dinner, gifts will be exchanged.

Or form into small balls and roll in chopped nut meats, shredded coconut, grated chocolate, chopped

| candied fruits. Or flavor variously

and form into round flat creams. CANDIED ORANGE PEEL 4 thin skinned oranges 1 cup sugar 1% cup water Wash and dary oranges. Remove

the peel in quarters from stem to blossom end. Cover with cold water,

bring to boiling point and simmer Wouldnt want te go one Sunday

in porcelain enameled sauce pan until soft. Drain, scrape off white portion. Cut rind into thin “strips lengthwise. Make a syrup of the sugar and water, let boil until it threads. Add orange strips and boil five Minutes. Drain and roll in fine granulated sugar. . APRICOT SLICES

1 cup dried apricots raising

Mix apricots, raisins, and walnuts in mixing bowl. Put them through food chopper. Add salt and sugar. Mix well. (If it seems dry, lemon juice) Mold into & roll and dust with sugar. Let stand 2 hours, then slice. \

DeMolay Dance

The annua‘ Christmas dance will w held § house, 101% , Frida p. m. Gordon provide the music. Ten eent gifts will be exchanged.

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DEAR JANE JORDAN — I am staying with some le who are not related to me, ey think I should go out only on week-end! nights and then that I should be in at 11 o'clock. Y am 17 and think I should be allowed to stay out until 12. I go to school and when stay out late during the week nights I dont feel like going vo school. The people I stay with have small children and they think I should stay with the children every other Sunday night and let them go out, but if you were going to church you

night and not the next. Last Sunday night I went t%® church and didnt get home until 31 o'clock. I didn’t feel like gol to school the next day and they I couldn't go to church or anywhere else on Sunday nights. They also said I could have only two nights off, Friday and Saturday.

I may be wrong my but I would like to hear what you have to say about this. ' Should I come in when I want to or Whe they say I should? SEVENTEEN.

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Answer—I cannot answer your questions intelligently without knowing what your status is in this home. If the people you live with are responsible to your parents or legal

you were their own daughter. are working for them in return

You yourself are partly respo ble for the order to come in at o'clock, and for the withdrawal the right to go out on al Sunday nights, Shyice you want that after staying out late you can’ : or othe: and go to school the next day. In that case it stands reason that you should Po bed on school nights. do not

Even if the last Christmas mail goes in an hour or Santa is at the chimney, these tosthsome fondant and chocolate bonbons can be counted on to solve your last minute gift problems.

We, the Women

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The Big and Romantic Not Yet Anyway, By RUTH THE IMMEDIATE JOB facing

We must work at such tasks as couraging our men to take on any

long, hard hours at some job—and being practical rather than sentimental in our attitudes toward the fight we are now in. Of course, there's also knitting for us, and bandage - rolling — and a hundred other small, but necessary, that women can squeeze into their

we gét into this war to the extent to

3 get in iv, unless p it lasts so long Miss Millett that man power has to strengthened by woman power, Men's whole lives will be devoted vo the actual winning of the war. Only part of our efforts will be directed toward that end. With the rest of our time let's turn our thoughts toward the fue ture. How are we going to make sute that this world war is the last, tat the children playing around us will inherit a world in which good sense and decency make war a fantastic rather than logical so-

n lution of the disagreements between nations?

» » = AFTER THE LAST WAR all we did to insure peace was to talk about it in our own little groups. A talk on peace and then tea and those "delicious cookies that matched the table decorations. Well, you don't get peace by talking about it at tea parties. That is one thing we've learned. So let's spend whatever time is ours now in educating ourselves in the matter of national and world affairs. And then let's throw off with one united shrug the old notion that

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women who get into public life are sure to make fools of th ves.

Let's roll up our sleeves and pitch

in to help run the affairs that are

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Helping U. S. in Small Ways Is War Role for Women

help our country in every small, unspectacular way we can. jobs, the exciting jobs, the dangerous jobs aren't for us—not yet anyway.

whether it is going into one of the country’s armed forces or working

which our men

Jobs Are Not for Us— Says Ruth Millett.

MILLETT

us women is clear. It's up to us to The big

bucking the high cost of living, enassignment that is necessary—

| ‘bigger than we are—and that change the whole course of our lives. We're educated and we're smart. {We've just been lazy and irresponsible in the past. But we don't have to be in the future,

IF WE TAKE a responsible part in the affairs of our country while| it is av war and our men have less time than we for clear-headed, unemotional thinking—we’ll be in a good tion to have a say when a peace is drawn up and in all the years after, when peace has to be maintained. If we don’t try to help solve the probléms of the world, we deserve {whatever we and our children get, And it may not be to our liking.

H. A. C, Bridge Group Lunches Friday

A gift exchange will precede the regular tard games at the annual Christmas luncheon of the Hoosier Athletic Club Auction Bridge Section for members and guests. The party will be at 12:30 p. m, Friday in the Pheasant Room at the club, Mrs. Glenn Bertels is in charge of prizes and Mrs, Albert Volpp, reservations.

Christmas Banquet

The Indianapolis Retail Mer chants Coal Association banquet and Christmas party was held at the Columbia Club recently. Among those attending were Messrs. and Mesdames Ernest Marker, Roy Evans Price, Brant Sexon, Harold Leonard, Ray Roberson, Harry Wood, James Fletcher Brown and! Harry Rogers. | Others were Miss Esther Hughes, Miss Blanche DeVault, Mesdames {Jess William, Susan Niblack and Lucille Stanley. Also in the party were Charles Price, Paul Fohl, Ralph Hicks, J. L. Bray, I. E. Parker and Cappy Heller.

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Legion News Memorial Unit Plans Party For Children

Broad Ripple Group Maps Activities

Mrs. Ruth Badders, state Auxilfary president, members of Big Eagle Unit and officers of the 12th trict will be luncheon guests preceding the afternoon party, Members of the unit who have volunteered to serve at the Christe mas Gift Shop at the Veterans’ Hospital are Mesdames Mable Fule ler, Gladys Wilson, Barbara Fuller, Myrtle Noon, Autie McGhehey, 1lla Meyers, June Myers, Clara Hirst, Jessie Pitcher, Mary Burgess and Anna Bray. The annual Christmas sponsored by the Post and Unit for the boys of division 18 at the Knightstown Home will be held Sunday. A covered dish supper will be served. “Mystery mothers” are asked to attend. Gifts of candy and fruit will be presented by Santa Claus... Chairmen of arrangements are Mrs. Lois Chambers and Lawrence Hinshaw. Auxiliary members will meet at the Post Home Monday to bake cookies for Billings Hospital at Ft. Harrison. } Up to Nov. 30, the Red Cross Unit had given 6191 hours of service on 196 knitted articles and 1180 sewed articles. The Unit was started May 20. In appreciation of the work of women in the community, who gave their time to the Auxiliary’s Red Cross work, the Unit will serve a Christinas luncheon Tuesday. Mrs. Frank White will be luncheon chairs man. Mrs. Ethel Vandegrift is chairman of the Unit's Red Cross workers, who meet every Tuesday from 9a m to4p m

At a recent meeting of the HILTON U. BROWN JR. UNIT 85 of the American Legion Auxiliary it was decided to send three Christ mas baskets to ex-service men and their families. The Unit will also send, gifts to a Clermont Girls’ School cottage. The Unit will subscribe for a newspaper to be sent to a hospitalized man at the Veterans’ Hospital in Marion. A Christmas box will also be sent this veteran, Gifts have been sent to the Gift Shop in the Veterans’ Hospital Here,

Surgical dressings for the American Red Cross were made by the INDIANAPOLIS POWER & LIGHT CO. AUXILIARY, American Legion, this morning in the Merchants Bank Building.

jcaramel has dissolved, add 2 cups

Gives | saps are especially good) should be * {cleaned thoroughly before the syrup

L | the stem end of each apple. Dip at once in the syrup and place to

must be eliminated, what substitute gi can be used for salid dressing?

s1Cottage cheese or “applesauce is {A salad, made with beets, raw vege-

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QUESTION

Q—Please tell me how to make the sugar-coated “apples on a stick” that are sold at fairs and carnivals. A—Caramelize «cup sugar and |

add 1 cup boiling water. When the

of granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon of cream: of tartar. Boil until the mixture is brittle when tried in cold water, then set the pan containing the syrup in a larger pan of -hot water, Good eating apples (Wine-

is made. Insert a wooden skewer in |

harden, blossom end down, on well buttered plates,

Q-In a reducing diet where oil

A--Mineral oil, which has no food value.

Q-—How many vegetables should be served in a vegetable dinner?

A-—At least three besides potatoes. often served with vegetable dinners.

tables or asparagus may be substituted for one of the vegetables,

Q-Is there any way to keep sliced bananas from turning dark before they can be served? A-Dip them in pineapple, grapefruit or lemon juice for from -fifteen to thirty seconds. With this treatment they sometimes keep their natural color for several hours.

Q—On a three-day train trip when and how should the Pullman porter be tipped?

AA dollar or a dollar and a half, the larger amount if the porter performs special little services during the trip, is the usual tip, which should be given at the end of

the journey.

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