Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1917, Page 7

DADDY’S EVENING Poean ied DUCKS’ DINNER PARTY. “I would like to have you all to din ner,” said Mrs. Duck, “We'd love tc come,” said th rest of the Ducks “Then come to- morrow,” saié Mrs. Duck, as she wobbled off to her pond. “We'll be there,” quacked the oth- er Ducks. The next day it It was fine and sunny. All the Ducks had gath- ered near the pond. “What a fine day you have for your dinner party,” sald the Ducks, “Quack, quack,” said Mrs. Duck. “I thank you very much. I also thank Mr. Sun very much for coming out so fine and strong.” Mr. Sun laughed to himself as he heard that, for he had never thought about Mrs. Duck’s dinner party. But he was glad, of course, to give pleas- ure, “We must start,” said Mrs. Duck, and all the Ducks wobbled after her. They arrived at the Farmer’s garden and there Mrs. Duck stopped. “Here is my dining room,” she said. “Did the Farmer lend this to you?" asked some of the very little Ducks. “Nousense, Duckling,” quacked Mrs. Duck. “When you are as old as I am you will know that it is not wise to ask folks to lend you their gardens for the purpose of a dinner party. Somehow they don’t take kindly to it. But it’s such a fine dining room—so full of good things to eat, that I just decided to have it here. So here we are, quite simple, eh?” “What shall we begin on?” asked the Ducks. “Anything you wish,” said Mrs. Duck politely. “The garden is yours. 1 picked this one out because it is such a good one. I am glad you all look as if you were pleased.” “Quack, quack, quack, quack,” came from ail the Ducks, and they chat tered away as they dug up the garden goodies and ate and ate and ate. Pretty soon, however, the Farmer came out, and saw all the Ducks in his garden. “Shoo—shoo—shoo, you naughty Ducks,” he cried. And the Ducks went wobbling back to their pond. They were all out of breath when they got there, but they had had quite enough to eat before the Farmer had caught them, “Isn't it strange,” said Mrs. Duck, “how inconsiderate some Folks are?” “Yes, quack, quack,” said the Ducks in chorus. “You would think,” continued Mrs Duck, “that we would haye been wel come in his garden instead of being driven out. Besides we showed him we thought it was a nice Garden. “We paid him a very high compliment. And he didn't appreciate it—that's all.” “He certainly didn’t appreciate our compliment,” said the Ducks. “And gardens are so Delicious,” said Mrs. Duck. “There is nothing that makes a nicer dining room than a good garden in my opinion.” “We all agree with you,” quackec the Ducks. ‘ “But,” said little Whitney Duck, “we van't grumble as we had all we could possibly eat. We had a fine din- ner.” “I am so glad,” said Mrs. Duck, bobbing her head politely. “And now do let’s take a nap on the bank,” said Mrs. Brown Wings, “Mr. Sun is out, and it's fine and warm.” “If only Mr. Sun Coe eee eae Mr. Sun Laughed Whitey Duck to Himself. “He couldn’t very well,” said Mrs. Duck, “without driving himself away first.” - “That's good,” quacked Whitey. One by one the Ducks squatted down on the ground and had a fine sun bath. How they did enjoy it. The Farmer strolled down to see if they were safely back by the pond, and when he saw them dozing so happily he sald to himself, “Well, I can’t scold those Ducks for stealing food from my garden. They feel it belongs to them as much as to me, I suppose. And while I can’t let them make a rule of doing it, still once in awhile if it's just @ party I will not scold.” And so the Farmer walked back to his garden again, trying to decide how he could tell a party from any other sort of a meal! : Boys Awfully Scarce. “Mamma,” queried small five-year- old Elmer, “do only the little boys that are good go to heaven?” “Yes, dear,” replied the mother. “Well,” the little fellow, Although a skillful tlatterer is a most delightful companion if you can keep him all to yourself, his taste becomes doubtful when he takes to compliment- ing other people.—Nicholas Nickleby. DRINKS FOR CHILLY DAYS. A hot beverage after a chilly ride or @ weary day is most soothing and alto- gether comfort- able. Never serve hot drinks in sil- ver receptacles, as the heat is re- tained so long that it is almost impossible to en- joy the beverage without burning the lips disagreeably. Ginger Cordial.—Stew slowly to- gether one-half pound of figs, one-half teaspoonful of allspice, a pinch of gin- ger, a saltspoonful each of cinnamon, mace, ground cloves, and sufficient cold water to cover the ingredients. When the figs are tender, remove from the fire and press through a puree sieve, returning the sirup thus obtained to a clean saucepan and adding three pints of ginger ale; allow this to heat grad- ually and then beat In a teaspoonful of cornstarch mixed with cold water, stir- ring until It boils, Flavor with a few drops of lemon juice and serve in small cups capped with a little chopped, candied orange peel. Mulled Grape Juice.—Soak for half an hour the grated rind of an orange in the Juice of a lemon, adding a cup- ful of boiling water and two table- spoonfuls of sugar; then place the In- gredients In a granite saucepan, adding a quart of grape juice, four whole cloves, a pinch of cinnamon, and sim- mer slowly for 15 minutes. Prepare a meringue by boiling together two table- spoonfuls of water with a cupful of sugar until {t spins a thread, then pour this gradually upon the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs; now add the boiling juice, dust Nghtly with nut- meg and serve at once. Coconut Milk Chocolate.—Heat a quart of milk in a double boller and when hot stir in a quarter of a cupful of grated chocolate, moistened with a ttle cold water; allow it to boil and thicken; have ready nearly a pint of coconut milk, into which has been stirred half a cupful of sugar and the whites of two eggs; add this to the chocolate and cook for a few minutes, but do not allow it to boll, Remove from the fire and serve In chocolate cups, adding after it is poured Into the cups a tablespoonful of sweetened whipped cream, which has been mixed with a little of the grated coconut. A kindly deed, is a little seed, That groweth all unseen; And lo, when none do look thereon Anew it springeth green. SWISS AND ITALIAN DISHES. The Swiss people are most. frugal, nearly everything costs more, some- times twice and three times as much as they do in England. As ev- erything is imported they find it necessary to be especially economical. Nothing is wasted; the bones from joints, stews and steuks are carefully saved for soups. Veal Roast With Stuffing —Put the following stuffing in a pocket, cut in breast of veal with one onlon and a few slices of bacon: Take a quarter of a pound of rice, carefully washed, a little parsley and a small quantity of meat, salt, pepper, nutmeg and but- ter, and a little scraped onion. After stuffing the veal, pour some very hot bacon fat over it to sear the mcat and hold in the juices; dredge with flour and roast until well done. Flour Soup (Mehisuppe).—Take four tablespoonfuls of drippings, a half cup- ful of flour; cook together until smooth, then add one and a_ half quarts of stock, one egg, mixed with a Uttle milk; salt, pepper and grated nutmeg to taste. Italian Sausage With Spinach.—Pigs feet are used for cases instead of the usual skins and the sausage highly #easoned, with no bread crumbs. The spinach is “Dolled until tender, then squeezed dry, then cut in slices, then fried in bacon fat for 20 minutes. Then add a bit of garlic and butter be- for it {s ready to serve. The great national dish of Italy called polenta, is made as we do corn- meal mush. Quenelles,—These are small pieces of pastry filled with a small mound of minced meat and the pastry tiuted around the edges, then they are cooked in the soup as dumplings are and served with the soup. The poor peo- ple make these guenelles larger and serve them as q main dish with to- mato sauce. For the paste eggs and butter are used. Fonduta—Slice cold polenta corn- meal mush in thin slices and arrange fn a dish with layers of grated clieese, pour milk over; add a little butter, and bake until the milk is absorbed. Foods to be .cooked in a small amount of fat are so much more tasty: if olive of? is used than butter, and THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE e KITCHIIN INE TS=6 stock to which has been added a ta- blespoonful of tarragon vinegar, add egg, butter and flour mixed together. Remove the fish, sprinkle with crumbs,- add the sauce and bake brown. It would be a jolly good thing for a great many couples on their way to be marrléd, if they could only be stopped in time and brought back sep- arately.—Dickens, SEASONABLE DISHES. During the winter months while eggs are costly it frequently becomes neces- sary to do entirely with- out them. Eggs are not indispensable to a well- balanced diet, other foods furnish fat and albumen. Suet puddings, pies and pastry of all sorts may be used to take the place of egg dishes, Buttermilk with flour and soda makes a light, whole- some gem or biscuit; one egg improves them as it improves griddle cakes and dumplings, but we can enjoy them without. Buttermilk Gems.—Add a teaspoon- | ful of water to a teaspoonful of soda, and when dissolved. stir this Into a pint of thick, sour milk, adding flour jto make a batter that will drop from the spoon. Grease gem pans and fill them partly full of the mixture, then place in a hot oven to bake quickly. Buttermilk may be used with baking powder and a very little soda to make baking powder biscuits; they are espe- elally short and fluffy. Bachelor’s Buttons—To a pint of flour add two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a half-teaspoonful of salt; mix and rub into this two tablespoon- fuls of shortening, two tablespoonfuls of sugar and enough milk to moisten, Roll, cut into small pleces, brush with milk und dust with sugar; bake in a quick oven 25 minutes. Sweet Potato Pone.—Pare and grate sufficient sweet potatoes to make a pint; add one cupful of sweet milk, a teaspoonful of ginger, two tablespoon- fuls of butter, melted, and two table- spoonfuls of sugar; beat thoroughly. Sift two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder with one and a half cupfuls of flour; to this add the potato. Beat well and turn into a buttered baking “sh and bake in a moderate oven three- quarters of an hour. Serve in the dish in which it was baked. Quick Cinnamon Roll.—Sift a quart of flour and four teaspoonfuls of bak- ing powder, rub in two tablespoonfuls of shortening and milk to moisten, Roll into a sheet and spread with but- ter; sprinkle with chopped nuts, rais- ins or currants and cinnamon; roll up, cut in slices and bake in a hot oven. Serve hot. Nice for pudding with a fruit sauce. It would be diMficult to overstate the intensity and accuracy of an intelli- gent child's observation.—Dickens. USEFUL BISCUIT DOUGH. It is surprising what a variation one may make with the simple biscuit reci- pe. This is also true of a plain cake. With the addition of vari- ousspiceand fruits it becomes o fruit cake; baked in layers, with different fill- ings, almost any kind of cake. Take the recipe for bis- cult: Roll out, spread with chopped meat and seasonings; roll up in the form of a seaf and bake; served sliced | with brown sauce this will nicely re- place a meat dish. ° Chop a dozen oysters or clams, using some of the liquor in place of the milk in the biscuit; stir into the dough and fry in deep fat. Any chopped vege- table like salsify, squash, corn, peas or parsnips may be used instead of the meat or fish. Use two cupfuls of flour, two tablespoonfuls of shortening, a half- teaspoonful of salt. a cupful of milk for the biscuit mixture. If wanted for dumplings, use equal parts of milk and flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, with one egg, instead of the shortening. Drop by teaspoon- fuls into the boiling hot stew, and keep tightly covered ten minutes. They will be light as a feather. The same proportion of flour and milk, one ten- spoonful of baking powder and a half cupful-of cherries, put by tablespoon- fuls into butterec cups and steamed in hot water, tightly covered 15 minutes, makes an ideal pudding Serve with crenm and sugar. For an entree to serve with cold meat salad or with the main dish, sliced apple dipped in the batter and fried In deep fai ase most delicious fritters. “Bananas, eranges, peaches or other fruits are equally good. For cinnamon rolls, roll out the bis- cult mixture, spread with butter and brown sugar, with cinnamon; roll up and cut in slices... Bake in a hot oven. For fruit roll, add nuts and raisins; roll up, place in a deep pan, add boti- ing water, a cupffl of brown sugar, two tablespoonfuls of butter and bake for an hour. Apples with the raisins make a well-liked combination. Try these and more ways will occur to you to use the useful biscuit dough. foreigner dees the White louse 69 Samuel Howe The President's home, @ part of the magnif- cent park system of the National Capital, ts compared with some oficial residences of the old-world cities ‘(Editor's Note—The following matter is taken from an elaborately iNlustrated article, published recent- ly in “Country Life,” one of the leading weekly periodicals in Eng- fand.) In spite of Its Intimate history whereby the White House enters 80 essentially into the life of the people, it Is rative setting that first appeals to the visitor. It is the man- ner in which Major L’Enfant’s century- old dream has been realized that Is so wonderful. The cafital is famous the world over for ‘its avenues and vista its ecanopled foot-paths, stately bulld- ings, parks, and splendid monuments. The White House is essentially a part of the general lay-out of Washington, It ts to it; it belongs to it. No sympathetic visitor would isolate it for one moment. It is a part of the Wash- ington park scheme, as much as the palaces of France or Italy or any oth- er old-world official residences are a portion of their setting, of their sunk- en or walled gardens, thelr fountains or terrac Nature has done little for London and hardly more even for Paris, but much for Washington, It is interesting to see to what fine use a remarkable site has been put and the way in which the best bas been made of the opportunity. The charm inspires every visitor. He is forced to recognize how well it all goes to- gether. However often we may look at the quaint old woodcuts for the detail of “the White House when it was a build- ing isolated and alone, destitute of trees or shrubbery, the site outlined in a primitive fashion by a wooden paling, we are compelled to see that the.jden was right. That ts to be seen today, now that the White House 1s tied to Washington and to its won- derful park scheme, Just as it is to the history of the people by a wonderful network of policies, the ebb and flow of ambitions, and by the change of of- ficers, who, like figures in a great pageant, arrive at intervals, dominate things for a time, and then pass on. Viscount Bryce in his own gracious fashion voices the idea of the fathers when he says, “Washington ts the em- bodiment of the majesty of the whole nation, and the man from Maine and Minneapolis and Florida must feel that Washington belongs to him.” Con- tisulng, that distinguished ambassador compares this ideal city to Constanti- nople and Calcutta because of thelr park systems. He calls attention to the beauty of Rock Creek valley, re- cently set aside as a park, joining the woods that stretch along Potomac river. He says, “Washington seems consecrated to soclety, to the delight of human tniercourse.” We hear a great deul today.of Amer- ica as commercial, material. Is not this an oceasion for congratulation? May Americans not well be proud of the success which gives happy homes to so many thousand families? In this it follows closely the history of the dim eastern empires of Athens, of Rome, and in our own time, of Eng- land, Still, the republic claims a uni- versal salutation to the thought that idealism is still the characteristic of the American people as it was In the colonial days. To dispose of the sub- ject in a colloquial manner, the great heart of the people Is sound, though it-has flirted at times with false gods, We have but to look at Washington for « moment to realize In the courte nance of the avernge citizen the de- light In a great ideal. He ts proud of the city. A vislt to the District of Columbia will remove in an instant any element of doubt as to American veneration for the spirit of imagina- tion and ambition. Like every country house the execu- tive mansion grew from the ground up and not from the drawing office down, and yet, In’ this particular Instance, the drawing office played oa very es- sential part in the general arrange- ment of things ; for the scheme, ts so its dec FACTS WORTH KifOWING "Whe cork oak of Spain is sald to grow best In poorest soil. The ann has rea mark, The longest river in Japan {fs the Tone, its main course being about 200 miles long. English street rail ays are experi- 1 rice production of Japan the 250,000,000-bushel blg that the drawing office and all for which it stands needed to be very much in eyidence The aren Is large, in- volving several miles, with problems that challenge and perplex. The White House ts not the work of one man; rather is it a compilation of ideas to which many have contribut- 1 In their own time and way. The history in brief shows that it was built after the fashion of the villas of Italy from designs made by a resourceful architect, by name James Hoban of Dublin. We see the stately simplicity of the Georgian style. The White House is substantially built, the walls feced with Virginia limestone. The cornerstone was laid in 1792 in what was then o bare fleld sloping to the Potomac. The cere- monies were graced by the presence of Washington, who came over from Mount Vernon. Resisting the sugges: tion of many that it should be called the palace, it was known first as the president's house, then the executive mansion, and later the name, like so many other things concerning this tn- teresting building, nundevent a change, and the White Louse it be- came, It is literally the White House, the white paint being used to eliminate the black caused by the fire of the British on the occasion of that un- timely visit on a late afternoon in Au- gust, during a severe thunderstorm which added no little to the excite- ment; the attack following the de- struction of the capitol upon the hill. Twenty-six presidents have known ‘it as a home, and two died tn It—Har- rison, after a few brief days of power; and bluff, honest Zackary Taylor, the “Rough and Ready” of the Mexican war, as he was called. Ltcoln, leav- ing the red room one evening with a group of friends, never returned, dy- ing in a strange house, after the assas- sin’s bullet in the theater. And here in the East room his body lay in state that those who wished to pay their last homage to a, great and good man might do so, Here, Garfield, shot in a railroad station, and carried In by way of the serpentine approach of the southern entrance up the rich vine- clad stairway, languished during days of agony, and finally breathed his last in a seaside cottage. Here Lin- coln signed the Emancipation Proc- lamation, freeing the slaves; here Nel- ile Grant, the dnughter of the presti- dent, married the ambitious young Englishman, Sartoris, a ceremony of great brilliancy. Here, Cleveland, twice president, married Frances Fol- som, and here his second child was born—the one baby born to a presi- Emery L. Barnes of Lebanon, N, H., has put his automobile into practical use by cutting his hay with it, In- stead of using borses to Craw the mow- ing machine he hitched on his sauto- mobile and dragged the cutter over the fleld rapidl, Z Hamilton, 0. has celebrated its one hundred and twenty-fifth birthday. . Battles in human blood . between white corpuscles and disease germs nenting with a compound rail, the} have been photographed with the mo- tion picture camera by two French sci dent, The White House has always been the home of children, for nearly every president has had a substantial family. The winged cupid with his poignant arrows and tireless smile is not here merely a decorative emblem, but a Iiv- ing reality. The blue room has been the # of nine weddings, and the East room, originally devised asa ban- queting hall in memory of the aristo- cratic planter days ef Virginia and South Carolina, of two. The human-— had we not better say the family?— appeal of the White House, with tte ramifications reaching through many channels, extends in all diree- tions. On five occasions have invita- tions been sent to the fortunate few to weddings here, the marriage cere- mony of daughters of presidents, ‘This includes one of the duughters of Presi- dent Wilson, who could have no super- stition In becoming the thirteenth White House bride, when we consider that such was the number of the orig- inal colonies and that there were thir- teen stars upon the first American banner. _ fhe White House as we know it today shows the energy of Theodore Roosevelt and his general conception of the demands of the occasion, That dominant personality not only aroused the inner consciousness of the peo- ple, setting up new standards, or sweeping aside encroachments upon old ideals, but he set to work so to arrange the executive mansion that & would be more fit for the service of the people. This meant tmportant change to the building, including the construction of an independent office with accommodation for secretaries and typists and assistants. New means were arranged whereby the publie could visit the executive with some degree of comfort and In large num- bers on certain occasions, Yet the original building was preserved Intaet, so that it is today Iterally the home of the president, and so far conventent and sufficient for his family that he can invite a friend to stay overnight without embarrassment, and even, when oceasion permits, entertain fo & proper and dignified manner a guest of distinction. All thig entailed a re- adjustment of the buil@ng in many ways; an extension, practically a re building of the origins! wings, which in their own fashion provide few en- trances, so that what Is called the ef culation of the house is equal to the demands of festival nights and other receptions; and so that anibassadors and ministers from foreign powers can be fitly received. many December {s the wheat harvest month in New South Wales, Because of the war Switzerland has incrensed Its acrenge under culiivation ‘in grains by more than 20 per cent over the 1014 figures. Eugene Dynner, age sixteen, Aua- trinn by birth, is the youngest wireleas operator In the United States, He ta employed on a freight steamer run ning between New Haven and New York. He is the heir to his uncle’s @s- a