Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1948 — Page 18

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all right, but when I Jumed sround to the window I dropped i on its poor head.” 8-Hight Result—not even a leaf whole to salvage. And the column would doubtless be minus a devoted reader except that the pink violet's roots are still lively and Mrs. P's laggard “little blue violet” loved its hot water so much it's now ready to bloom. ” ”

. LAST season's leftover seeds always bring out my economical streak. Quickest way to see if they're still Hvely . . . drop a few in the pot of a housplant. Or, if your mind is like Einstein's, count out exactly ten. Then if eight germinate your seed is 80 per cent as gocd as fresh seed is supposed to be. Plant in the garden 20 per cent thicker than usual and you'll get a 75 per cent stand. (Mathematics off? No. It's just that and

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bugs cent of your crops anyway, s0 the experts say.) - - ” HIGH spots of last week's Purdue garden school: Prof. G.

If Leftover Seeds Still Are in Growing Mood, ; em a “Trial Run’ Next to a H

SEED TESTING—An easy way to test leftover garden seeds « + . drop a few into a pot of houseplants. Mrs, Mason Fordyce, 260 S. Arlington Ave., demonstrates how it's done.

Lehker, bug specialist, says it's nice to know about hexaethyl tetraphosphate and the other new cure-alls, but, rotenone is still the backyard gardener’s standby. To save time, says he,

use dusts rather than sprays. Prof, W. B. Ward says food gardens are more important than ever this year whether for reasons of patriotism or pocketbook. Backyard.garden-

ouseplant

ers, he advises, can save space by closer planting of rows (13 inches) if they fertilize ground before spading. The fertilizer then gets put down right on the receiving line where plant roots arrive.

after my own heart, says take the backache out of flower

Peat moss too expensive? Then raise your own mulch. Portu-

flower beds make the best little ground cover and weed discourager you ever saw.

bler roses, grapes, many shruos now 928 Rochester Ave., roots twofoot branches clear glass jars of water in a sunny window. Try magnolias

same way, she suggests. if

” » - LIKE to raise some nuts in 5% your city backyard? C. K. Calvert, 117 W. Hampton Drive, says Chinese heartnut) tree is decorative. good flavored butternut.

Prof. C. Gordon Milne, a man

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Mrs. Paul Dunbar,

pr plunged into th

and tulip tree branches the

at the Chinese walnut (or

Taste resembles the old-fashioned

» ~ ~ FROSTY nights, sunny days are hard on perennial plants. Strawberry plants in particular keep sticking their heads up to look around for spring. It pays to walk around the garden, step on “eager beavers” . . . Mid-March is the time for tomato and pepper seeds to go into hot-beds, or a sunny window . . . Don't remove mulch from bulbs or beds for at least another two weeks.

Address all letters for the garden column to Marguerite Smith, in care of The Indian- |g apolis Times, Indianapolis 9.

Sugar Types Will Fulfill

here's a current melody for 1948's" homemakers and the sweet refrain is that sugar is becoming more and more plentiful. Favorite recipes which : came war casualties because of sugar now can be put right in the front of the recipe file again,

The market basket and sugar shelf again can be filled with all the various sugar types that will make individual contributions to food flavors, First, there's the sugar tablet. It's grand for formal dinners or refreshments, Verifine ered also

over sliced berries, melons and

other fruits, After it's melted, it 2

leaves a delicate flavor which becomes a part of the fruit's gy ural sirup, nis

v a company at breakfast as a companion for cereals. Granulated perhaps is the most versatile. of the sugar types. excellent for preserving, making, general cooking and baking. T cinnamon toast and apple sauce it's tasty. And you'll find it useful, too, to enhance the flavor of sauces and vegetables. The rich molasses flavor of dark brown sugar is delicious over candied sweet potatoes and apple brown betty. It's also good in butterscotch pie, gingerbread and dark spice cookies, and will add zest to baked beans, baked winter squash and baked ham.

Light brown sugar mixes “tastefully” in caramel iecings, candies, cakes and cookies.

Smooth confectioners’ super-x sugar outdoes itself in uncooked icings and candies, fondants and fillings. i

Furniture Keys Color Schemes

By JEAN TABBERT MOST HOME DECORATORS think the correct way to furnish a home is to decide on the furniture first. That's one way, of course, but it's not necessary these days. One of the bigger fabric firms, Greeff Fabrics, Inc, has put out a line which derives its . color scheme from the furniture itself. Consequently, it's possible te select the fabrics desired before the furniture is bought. The company has designed fabrics for use in rooms furnished with English mahogany

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umn will prove to you the tastiness of this good, old-time food.

14 1b, lentils 2 c¢. water, boiling *

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Let's Eat—

Lentil Stew Is as Savory As It Is Economical

By META

LENTIL STEW is a savory dish and it’s not difficult to make.

It is strange so few persons kno

value of lentils, The legumes are economical and especially popular to include in boxes of food bound for Europe. Persons in Europe were eating lentils long before America was discovered and have developed

GIVEN w about the goodness and food

best methods of

The stew recipe in today's cnl-

LENTIL STEW (For Thursday dinner),

water to cover the lentils inch deep. Cover and let soak

overnight or for three or four

hours. Drain off the soaking water. Measure the boiling water into stew kettle reheat to boiling and drop in the lentils slowly. Then add the vegetables and sausage or chicken. Reduce the heat immediately and. cover. Simmer until tender, for 25 to 30 minutes, Now add the salt, the amount depending on the saltiness of the meat added. Add pepper to taste. If chicken is part of the stew, add more chicken fat or butter to season. Serves four to five. ” » s BUTTER COOKIES (For Wednesday luncheon) All-purpose flour 3, tsp. baking powder 14 tsp. salt 14 c¢. shortening 14 c. fine granulated sugar Well-beaten egg 1 tbsp. milk 14 tsp. vanilla

one-fourth. cups and resift twice more with the baking powder and salt. Cream the shortening until plastic, then add the sugar and continue to cream until light. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Now add the flour mixture and the milk and vanilla alternately, {mixing thoroughly. Place in a bowl in the refrigerator to chill. Roll out a small amount at a time about one-fourth inch thick on a lightly floured board. Cut out with cookie forms dipped in flour and lay the cookies on a lightly buttered baking sheet.

cately browned.

2 tbsps. lard or drippings 1 large onion, sliced 1 tsp. dry mustard 1% tsp, paprika 1 tspisalt is tsp? or 3 tbsps. vinegar 1 c. hot water

servings. flour and brown both sides in hot Wash the lentils through twoilard or drippings'in a frying pan. or three cold waters. Add enough Put the sliced onion over the one meat.

8ift the flour, measure one and,

Bake at 375 degrees F. about

Makes four to five dozen.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES The Doctor Says—

Prematurity High Among Death Causes

‘By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D.

tremely risky. which occur in premature infants are among the 10 leading causes

premature infants.

about 15 premature infants died for every 1000 live births; in 1944 this had fallen to about 11. This means that today infants born

better chance of surviving than

ago.

usually weak and have to be fed mediciné dropper.

Improved Feeding Cuts The Death Rate

sponsible for the improvement in

fants. One is the improved incubators which in many modern hospitals today are alir-condi-tioned cubicles with temperature and humidity kept under control. The second is the greatly improved knowledge of feeding.

the danger period are just as like-

are born with normal size and |weight.

Consequently in a few months or}.

larger infants,

Incubator Credited In Saving Infants

BEING born prematurely is exThose deaths

death in the whole population. 1944, for example, more than ,000 deaths were recorded in

There is improvement. In 1933

ematurely have a 20 per cent

ose who were born 15 years

A baby is treated as premature its weight at birth is less than pounds. Premature babies are

frequent intervals, often with a

TWO things are largely re-

e chances of life for these in-

Premature babies who live past to be healthy as those who

Their rate of growth is ore rapid than full-size infants.

year or two they catch up with

The problem of reducing deaths

A Safety Play Helps Make A Contract

of premature infants is stili present in spite of improvements. Part of the problem can be met by trying to reduce the number of prematurely born infants. Part can be met also by further steps aimed at improving the chances of living for these tiny infants.

By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America’s Card Authority

WHEN the annual meeting of the board of directors of War Orphans Scholarships, Inc, was held in Washington recent-

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Cut the steak into individual

the steak with

Add the seasonings, vinegar and water. Cover and cook in a slow oven (300 degrees F.) for about one hour or until tender. Thicken the remaining liquid for gravy. Serves six.

Scout Leader To Be Guest

Miss Florence Otto, director of the Great Lakes Region, Girl Scouts, is the guest of the local council today and tomorrow. Mrs. H. H. Cummings will meet with Miss Otto tomorrow to plan for the regional meeting to be held in April in Chicago. Miss Otto also will attend a series of conferences tomorrow. There was a board meeting at 10 a. m, today in the Girl Scout headquarters. Reports were given by Mesdames P. R. Pinnick, A. J. Micheli, R. C. DeGraff, M., 8S. Lewis, Charles Brockman, ‘Charles Mason and Vincent Adams.

‘Patriot Daughters

Plan Luncheon The Indiana Chapter, Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots, will have a luncheon meeting at 1 p. m. Saturday in the Propylaeum. Mrs. William Dobson will preside. Miss Margaret R. Waters and Mrs. Mable Warner Millikan will talk.

Card Party Planned The Liederkranz Ladies Auxillary will sponsor a card party Thursday afternoon in the Lie-

and walnut; American maple, pine, cherry and mahogany; French painted pieces; inlaid and fruit woods, and mod rn, bleached and pickled woods. Greeff carries four main lines of fabrics, They include early documentaries, English, French and American; old English prints, contemporary prints and strictly modern ones, The prints are available through your interior decorator.

Harmonizing wallpaper also is. }

put out by Greeff. Many of these designs are reproductions of Greeff fabrics while others are original. The fabrics in: clude both drapery and upholstery weights in harmonizing color schemes.

White Cross Guild Meetings Set

Several units of the Methodist Hospital White Cross Guild are the guild

meeting this week in “sgrvice cemter.”

They are: Today-—West Michigan, New Jersey and Meridian Paul, Degree of Honor, Alpha Omicron Alpha, Office and Triple E; Thurs-

Heights; Wednesday-—St.

Men and Women—

12 to 15 minutes or until deli-

derkranz Hall.

In Ideas of Feminine Beauty, ‘Do Men and Women Differ?

By ERNEST E. BLAU OST MEN and women would agree on any downright beautiful babe. But she's a lot scarcer creature than most people think — advertising art to the contrary! There are more beautiful faces in the advertising and fiction pages of a single copy of- one of our big national magazines than a man would be able to find if he walked the whole length of Fifth Ave. “the street of lovely women” — 136 blocks — and back again!

» o » OF COURSE, if we didn’t limit our search to “beauti-ful”-we'd find ‘a fairly large number of dolls who can be called “attractive” or “good looking.”, But here we get into strong differences of opinion be-

day — Mother, Bethel, . Library| tween men and women reand Blue and Gold, and Fridav—| garding the meaning of “at4 ‘Park, Prentice and| tractive.” Women credit ; , many girls with good looks and Rebekah| when men can't see their

style of oomph at all,

A survey made among men and women shows that the women rated as many as 12 per cent of the gals they looked at, “beautiful” or “extremely good looking” — and 43 per cent, “attractive.” But the men rated only 2 per cent, “beautiful” and only 9 per cent, “attractive.” Sex seems to make men

THE DOCTOR ANSWERS—

By E. P. JORDAN, M. D. QUESTION: What should

Corsages for Easter Suits

Spring Flowers * AN EARLY Easter plus a plentiful supply of blossoms means a wider floral selection for the Easter corsage ... as well as more cut flowers and potted plants. William 8. Horn, president of the Allied Florists Association here, says there will be more flowers around for Easter than in any year since the war ... and that prices won't be any higher than last year—maybe lower in some cases. There should be, he says, more than enough orchids, gardenias, camellias, roses and carnations to meet the demand. As for corsage styles this year, there will be many types, depending upon the flowers used. The Washington Flower Shop, member of the Allied Florists, arranged the three pictured. At upper left is one of spring flowers .. . tulips, jonquils, pink hyacinth florets and a single blue iris . . . suitable for most any color suit or frock. Dainty in coloring and lasting in quality is the corsage

Teen Topics—

Daters Need Parents’ Aid

Young By JEAN MAYBE YOU'RE 13 and want to have evening dates. Your parents will do one of four things. They'll let you go, no questions asked. (That's a big responsibility for you.) They'll put a heavy foot down and say, “No!” (You'll just have to accept it, no fooling!) They'll laugh at you. (Well, try hard to be a good sport.) Or they'll be pleasantly interested and helpful.

» ” » NATURALLY, the last is the best. The question of what? when? or where? will come up, though. You can’t expect to

Carnations

(upper right) of iris and hyacinth florets. This is the type popular with teen-age churchgoers on Easter morning. Always “pretty as a pink” is the corsage of carnations (lower right).

most of the blooms being shredded, with one large single bloom in the center. And this one, too, lasts a long time, Mr, Horn says.

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This one is designed | with Chief Kokomo carnations, .

TUESDAY, MAR, 16, 1948 | :

We, the Women— |

uests Think | As Nuisance

Only One Answer

but tions never include the children. I don’t resent

that. “But it's beginning to annoy me to think that I can't have my children RuthMillett around when I'm entertaining in my own home. “I can’t either. Today friends are frank in saying they don’t think a hostess has any right to inflict her children on her guests. “So the nights when we have friends in, the children are given an early dinner and sent to bed.”

often, the

s = = “MY own parents didn’t do that to me when I was a child,” the woman went on. “The family received lots of invitations as a family, And if there were guests for dinner at our house it was still a family difiner table. That gave ug a ‘feeling of being a real part of the family, which I'm afraid my

don’t quite know what to do about it.”

There’s a lot of truth in what that mother says, Shove children aside often enough for outsiders and the youngsters are bound to feel left out .of things. :

There's only one solution for couples who really want to share their social life with their children: Find other couples who feel the same way and make at least a few of the parties family affairs.

SOCIAL . SITUATIONS

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arships to 50 children whose fathers were killed in action in the last war. The secretary of the organization, Albert H. Morehead, was unable to attend the meeting, so on the way back from Washington I talked to him by train telephone, and he started to discuss this bridge hand, which involves a safety play the average player and the expert miss, The whole question is how to play trump. os - » WEST cashes the first three heart tricks and then shifts to a diamond, which declarer wins with the king. Now almost invariably a declarer with this holding will lead a small spade to finesse dummy’s queen, and the contract is lost. Morehead pointed out that the correct safety play when holding 10 trumps is to lead the jack from the South hand, and if West fails to cover, take the finesse. If West covers with the king, declarer should go up with dummy’s ace. When East shows out, South returns to his hand and leads the nine of spades. Thus he picks up all .three trumps without losing a trick.

Know Your Stuff— About Shoe

Cleaners

Keeping new colored shoes looking their spruced-up best this spring will depend primarily upon your knowing your stuff as to which is the best type of cleaner to use for a particular leather. If you want to keep the color of kid, reptile or calf leather intact, use a dressing which will not darken the shade of the shoe. For that purpose, a neutral cream or liquid dressing is considered best. You have a choice of several cleaners specially devised for sprucing up colored suede, buckskin or shoes of nappy leather. One is a dry powder cleaner, which should be applied ‘for spot and other soil-removal only after shoes are well brushed. A powder cleaner requires a bit of intense brushing afterward to free nappy leather of all powdery dust. Another choice is a liquid suede dressing, which is designed for cleaning colored suede shoes and should be chosen in a shade lighter than the leather on which it is to be used. Shoes should be well brushed after using a cleaner! of this type, 20 as to remove all

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