Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1933, Page 38

WOMEN'S. FEATURE As Spring Comes Into Its Own BY EDITH M. BARBER. ERE before me are several ques- tions about fish. The first two have to do with shad, which is coming into the height of its season, and with the roe, fresh and canned; the last concerns crab meat, which, fresh and canned, is in season all the year. “What is the best way to cook shad and shad roe?” “And what do you think of canned shad roe?” writes a reader. Broiled shad is perhaps the best form of this delicious fish. The broiling may be done on the rack of the breiling oven or on a plank, if you have one, un- der the _broiier. Fish planks are made of well-rea- soned oak and give a delicious flavor to fish. The plank should be well greased, the fish put on it with flesh side up, seasoned and brushed with oil or butter, and the fish is not turned during the cooking. When the fish is broiled on a rack it should added, and boil slowly five minutes. The plank should not be put close to the flame. To cook shad roe, cover with boiling | water to which a tablespoonful of vine- | gar and a teaspoonful of salt have been | added, and boil slowly 5 minutes. The | vinegar keeps it firm while it is cook- | ing. This is always the first way to| treat shad roe, whatever is to be done | with it afterward, whether it is to be | broiled or baked or creamed or made into salad. For the last two purposes, it may need a little longer ccoking to be tender. The smaller the eggs the | shorter the cooking needed. Another | good way to cook any fish is by the Spencer method. Dip it in milk (one tablespoon of salt to each cup). and in | ground cornflake crumbs before baking | in a very hot oven, 500 degrees Fahren- heit. It should be sprinkled with oil before putting in the oven. Shad roe is dry and needs plenty of fat, however it is cooked. It may be dipped in oil or melted butter or it may be covered with sliced bacon for | either broiling or baking. It is also good | sauted in_butter, very quickly. A de- | licious way to serve it is to dress it with | a real or mock Hollandaise sauce or with special sauce. With mayonnaise it makes a good luncheon salad served with Jettuce or endive. Minced celery may be mixed with the roe. Canned shad | roe is one of the newer canned prod- | ucts particularly appreciated for a quick meal. It is, of course, all ready ! to be used and need not be parboiled. ‘There are other canned roes of less precious fish which make good cro- quettes. Now for the next question concerning crab meat! What is the difference be- tween Japanese crab meat and other crab meat? Japanese crab is firmer, although not quite so sweet as our local | crab, It is ideal for canning. as_the pieces hold their shape so well. It is | one of the staples which every house- wife will do well to keep on hand for the innumerable creamed dishes and | for salads and sandwiches. There are | long pieces of cartilage which must be Edith M. Barber, The O0ld Gardener Says: | It is not necessary to hurry the work of planting dahlias, for the roots can go into the ground any time up to the first of June. Nevertheless, it is preferable to divide the clumps early, this work being done when the first eyes show. If no eyes have started, the clumps may be divided into halves or quarters and left for attention later. Roots, which have become shriveled during the Winter, may bs made plump again by spreading - them on boards laid on the ceilar bottom, but never on a cement floor, and then sprinkling them with water every day or so until they have started to sprout. Covering them with earth or peat moss may make them rot. When the clumps are divided there should be one or two eyes to a root. (Copyright. 1933.) picked out before it is used, but this is an easy matter in comparison with picking the small pleces which. come with our Eastern crab meat. For & quick meal or an after-theater party, creamed crab or crab Newburgh or au gratin, is always welcome. Served in patty shells or with small pieces of pastry, or with small baking powder biscuits, it makes & good luncheon or supper dish. With minced celery and mayonnaise, we make a salad Wwhich, garnished with hard-cooked egg, will be a meal. It also makes a good stuffing for tomatoes to use as a luncheon salad. Another delicious crab dish is a cream soup which is one of my favorities. It needs a dash of table sauce to give it piquancy. (Copyright. 1933.) NATURE’S CHILDREN Chimney Swift. Chaetura Pelagica. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. ARK, sooty chimneys are in great demand in the early Spring and Summer for the swift family. Who would think that even a bird would want to sleep, much less rear a family, in such a gloomy place? It is another one of Nature's unexplainable mysteries. In the Spring, after the fires are out, you will see great muititudes of these marvelous flyers, circling about over a church, school or home chimney. Hav- ing located one, the flock darts down into the deep cavern and remains there all night. In the early morning, at the crack of dawn, they pour forth like a heavy cloud. Chimney swifts are not perchers. They must seek a hollow tree, rafter, or chimney on which to cling. Their feet are weak, but they are equipped with sharp claws. The tail is a most efi- cient support, as it is supplied with sharp, elastic quills. The wings are about 5 inches long and the body is |51, inches. The swifts are wonder- fully strong fiyers, and can cover 1,000 miles in 24 hours. Sunlight seems to disturb them. They sally forth in the early morning hours to seek their breakfast, returning for rest until the late afterncon. In cloudy weather they remain on the wing all day. Even their best friends know they cannot sing. It is their incessant CHIMNEY SWIFT- Bam twittering that has brought so much wrath upon their heads. As consum- ers of millions of insects they are im- portant friends. In April or May the swift mothers build the lattice-like nurseries. They get the twigs by dashing against them. With saliva or tree gum they fasten the twigs to the inside wall of the chimney; shallow brackets without a lining. Three or four white elongated eggs are laid and the mother shelters them with her breast. head against the wall above her. There are two broods a year, and the infants remain within 3 feet of the opening of the chimney until they are a montnh old. If disturbed, they show their dis- pleasure by hissing. A continued rain or a fire will loosen the nursery from its moorings and “down will come cradle, baby and all.” Many baby swifts meet untimely death in this way. Careful housewives insist that webbing be placed over their chim- ney openings. Mother swifts are devoted to their offspring and will go into a smoky and burning chimney to die with their babies. Swifts are known in North America east of the Rockies, and from Labrador to Panama. thought sh criefl, poor her skin was was stupid to for the clothe but Ivory to wash touch her ten Nurses will tell you to bathe your baby every day with Ivory Soap. Ivory is pure. Ivory is safe for a baby’s skin. That’s why doctors and nurses'advise it—why great hospitals use it. (Copyrig] irril s use anything her bath and der skin.” OF THE MOMENT UNCLE RAY’S CORNER African Adventures. Battles With Rhinos. N COMPANY with Arthur Dugmore, noted photographer of wild ani- mals, & big game hunter named James L. Clark entered a stretch | of “rhino country” in Africa. | One day they caught sight of two full-grown rhinos. Dugmore snapped & picture, and then began to change his | plates so he could take another one. | At this moment, birds which had been | eating “ticks” on the backs of the ani- mals rose into the air. This gave warn- | ing to the rhinos that something was | wrong. They raised their heads and‘ caught ‘sight of the men. Then they started to charge. | Clark had a double-barreled gun. There was only one bullet for each‘ beast. The first rhino dropped at a distance of about 50 yards, but the sec- | ond was not brought down until it was | She presses her | within 11 yards. | Fortune was with Clark that day. A hunter is not always able to kill a rhino with a single shot; in fact, the | chances are against such a thing. l At a later time, Clark, Dugmore and a negro guide caught sight of a rhmo leeping in the grass just 20 yards | head of them. Dugmore made His | camera ready; but somehow the beast was awakened, and with hardly a mo- ment’s delay charged toward Clark! Clark fired both barrels of his gun How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. Haste Makes Waste. ‘We have an inquiry for the origin of | this old proverb with which we are all | so familiar. Our reader remarks that | she has not found its source in any of | the old fables from which we have de- | rived so many of our maxims and pro- | | verbial sayings. “Haste makes waste” was not born in a fable. It comes to us out of that old | English work, the “Proverbes” of John | Heywood, first printed in 1546. (Copyright, 1933.) And for your own skin too, you could not buy a safer soap—even if you paid a dollar a cake. Yet pure gentle Ivory costs 50 little today that you can use it even for dishes to keep your hands smooth and soft. IVORY SOAP 99 44/100 0/0 PURE ¢ *IT FLOATS” at the rhino, but failed to bring him down. Then he drew a rovolver and fired into the face of the animal, side- stepping at the same moment to avold the lunge of a great, sharp horn. It took the rhino a few seconds %0 wheel his body around and renew the attack. Again Clark jumped to the side as he fired his revolver. With more charging and more side- | stepping the battle was kept up until Clark's revolver was empty. At this point the rhino turhed his charge toward Dugmore, who leaped to safety just as the negro guide drove a spear into the beast’s side. You can never be sure what a rhino will do next. The spear wound seemed to make this one feel that he haa fought long enough. With six or eight | CLARK SIDE-STEPPED AFTER FIR- ING THE REVOLVER. bullets in his body, he trotted away. The men did not pursue him. They, too, felt that they had had enough for one day. “Adventure” section of your scrapbook.) If you want the free leaflet, “Ques- tions and Answers About Europe,” send a stamped, return envelope to me in care of this paper. UNCLE RAY. (Copyrisht, 1933.) Now at the lowest prices in 17 gears D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 4, .1933. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. o= of Washington, or, Tather, in those laces that the average person doesn’t oW how to reach, that one encoun- ters dramatic in- cidents in this g into the tragic dis- aster that befell the airship Akron in the early morn- ing hours of Mon- day, April 4, off the New Jersey coast. A naval court of inquiry always is | impressive. Gold- | braided admirals, captains, com- manders and lieu- tenants abound. It was the setting for the Akron in- quiry, however, rather than the ad- mirals that impressed observers at this particular court. Beyond the Navy Yard, in the south- east section of the city, a barnlike structure wholly out of keeping with the dignity and pomp of the partici- pants was the setting. Nattily dressed Marines guarded the entrances. Interested observers could get in, but first it was necessary to satisfy these Marines that you were an interested observer. Seated b=hind a green-covered table, resplendent in his gold braid, was the president of the court—that affab'e but stern old sea dog, Rear Admiral Henry V. Butler. At his right was Capt. Harry E. Shoemaker, and at his left the third member of the court and the lowest in rank, Comdr. Sidney Kraus. Off to one side was the judge advocate, and to the other the only surviving officer of the Akron, Lieut. Comdr. H. V. Wiley. Wiley knows more, perhlg&. than any living man about what happened the night the Akron went to her doom. the same fin IN CARTONS Guarantee-- Snowdrift is a 100% pure vege- table shortening made by the Wesson Oil People. If you do not find that Snowdrift makes the nicest biscuits, cakes, pastry and fried foods you have tasted your money will be refunded. it is in the little known places | But he sat there, apparently listening v.o“ev!rythxn(, but taking no part him- self. The day we witnessed the court of inquiry in action, two of the most dis- tinguished witnesses were heard. One was Capt. Alger H. Dresel, who now commands the Macon, sister ship of the Akron, The other was Dr. Karl Arnstein, designer of the Akron. Dresel's task was the hardest. The court wanted to know of him what he would have done that night had he been in command of the Akron. Slowly, weighing every word, and often asking the stenographer to read back what he had said, he told his story. He was the man who recommended that Comdr. McCord, who lost his life in the dis- aster, be put in command of the Akron. It was a situation tense at every moment. Everybody in the room seemed to sense it, even the Marine doorkeep- ers. That is, everybody but the court. Grim countenances of the admiral, the captain and the commander seemed never to change. 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