Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 29, 1915, Page 13

PART TWO EDITORIAL ONE TO TWELVE VOL. \l\ ()\l \H.»\ \I\D\\ \IUI-\l\h \l(vl\l 29, .ome .of - the-Entries- -from-Omaha-and- nearby-towns-for-the. .BlueRibbon-Award- By ELLA FLEISHMAN. OWN AT THE STATE FAIR {n Lincoln next week the biggest attraction is go- ing to be the baby show. And the big- gest feature of the baby show will be the contest for the prize winning baby, the most perfect, nearest-the-100-mark baby. Maybe you think it's easy to be a judge in & baby contest and would like to apply for the po- sition. Just close your eyes and picture yourself surrounded by babies of every size and description wuntil all look alike to you. Then people the back- ground with the mothers of each of these precious infants, each one of them imbued with the con- viction that no other baby in the universe can hold a-candle to her own darling precious and then, hold —you're not going to be let off so easy—and then try to plcture what would happen to you if you had to render a decision in favor of only one of these undisputed potentates, Well, take it from us, the judges in a baby con- test are about as popular, especially with the par- ents of the contestants, as an umpire who has given a rotten decision is with the losing team, “Isn’t him the sweetest, prettiest, ‘ittle toot- sums in all this wide world? And, John, I do be- lieve he looks just like you!” From the moment of his advent into this world, John Junior, although to the impartial eye noth- ing but a red-faced, wrinkled, weasened little per- son resembling nothing so much as an Indian pa~ poose, assumes such pulchritudinous claims in his mother’s eyes as to warrant the stranger’s bellef that inveterate Puck has dropped some of his magic potion in her eyes. And John, remembering that he had been quite & beau in his day and judged to cut some figure as men go for his good looks, can #ee no resemblance beween his own Adonis-like cast of features and that of the red-visaged newcomer. But knowing that discretion is the better part of valor, he keeps his peace. When the infant grows a little older and begins to manifest some interest in this terrestial sphere, enough so that his mother exclaims in awe at his wonderous precocity, then John clears his throat, thrusts back his shoulders, puffs out his chest and admits that his son takes after him. From henceforth, father and mother are in league to contest the claims of any other infant in the class of the most beautiful and smartest baby in existence, The first baby contests I ever heard of were contests to decide which were the most beautiful bables. However, so dire were the consequences on the judges, who were forced to flee from the anger of irate mothers who insisted that any one with half an eye could see that their baby was far more beautiful than the prize winning baby, that these contests were given up. In all recent baby shows, therefore, not beauty but health, size, welght, proportion, measurements and other new-fangled ideas are the basis on which baby contests are judged. Imagine if you will, then, how much chance Julius Caesar, “the lean and hungry Cassius,” Will- ifam Howard Taft, Napoleon Bonaparte, Johhn Ev- ers, Bllly Sunday, or anybody else you please, would have to walk away with the prize if baby contests were popular in their day, Nary a one. But do the mothers, and sometimes the fathers, display any more satisfaction over the decisions of these judges than they did over the results in the beauty contests? No, sir, They do not. “What a thin, sickly-looking infant that was that won the prize!" exclaims the mother of one that gives promise of some day qualifying as a “white hone.” “What there is prize-winning about such an .at-the-comin -Otate Fair- . a{-I.incolr\.: overgrown, overfed hulk of a child is beyond me,” is the vice-versa, and so it goes, To hear some of the doting mothers talk, you wonld {magine that their infants were so precocious that they cut their first tooth immedistely upon arrival on this mundane sphere, And as for walking early, why my own dear mother tells me I walked unassisted when I was elght months old. Having developed a fondness, however, for softly purring motor cars, I am tempted to qualify her statement as to my avidity for walking. Why are baby contests always such a success despite the rivalry among the parents? That is just it. When “all-his cousins and his uncles and his aunts” congregate to see a child carry off all honors, of which nary a one has a doubt but that he will, and when there are several hundred en- tered, the answer is easy. ‘While it may be the parents and relatives take kindly to the baby contests, 1 know full well the Elizabelh Jane Sheld: NENAWNA Bohemian Cobkei‘y»Unexcelled-----Siic Sple Réépes hemian dishes are acclaimed everywhere as notable contributions to good living. The Bohemian cooks and bakers, however, have usually kept their art to themselves, and the re- cipes for special Bohemian confections are not al- ‘ways accessible. To let others besides native Bohemiang have a taste of Bohemlan cookery is the object of a cook hook compiled by an Omaha woman, which has Just been put out in printed form, and in the Hng- lish language, to accomm odate the American-born daughters of Bohemian families who do not read the Bohemian language well, and also to serve American housewives who may wish to try foreign dishes. This particular cvok book is made up of the recipes used by the late Mrs. Mary Rosicky, one of the pioneers of the Bohemian colony in this eity, and edited and translated by her dsughter, Miss Rose Rosicky: A few sample recipes of the most characteristio- ally Bohemian culinary achievements are here glven. The use of baking powder, it is interesting to note, is entirely unknown in Bohemlan kitchens. Roast Beef, Bohemian Style Wash a rib roast, BOHEH’IAN cookery {s world-famed, and Bo- salt, stick whole ginge «loves of garlic here and there into the meat, place ]B)@]bnes that- Challen THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE 1915, pe- flhe PART TWO SOCIETY PM‘F< ONE TO TWELVE SL\'HH-Z CENTS. World S e COPY FIVE :Dorofl\y Louise * Nelson SHOGLUND PHoTo E GorZ]oIz .7?0-551' ns E ) bables themselves do not. I remember approach- ing the Auditorium, where the baby show was held in Omaha last year, and such Comanche Indian war-whoops, squalling, yelling and screaming, 1 never did hear before. A passerby, ignorant of the goings-on inside, would surely imagine that the children were being murdered, to say the least. No, indeed, they do not submit passively to all the weighing, testing, measuring et cetera, with which the doctors and attendants regale them, Omne or two parents I have met who will tell me without batting an eye that they have entered their Johnnie or thelr Sallle in the contest, not because they thought their offspring would win a prize, but because of the instruction and examina- tions that they recelve, That may be all very well, but I have me doots! I do know this: There are two persons the Judges can count on to stand by their decision, The father and mother of the prize baby agree that the judges are fair and impartial, Catkerine Truman WELIING WATER will freely’ WEEPING WATER | Raymond LOVISVILLE in a baking pan, add several small onions into each of which you have stuck a clove, several bay leaves, one small gliced carrot and a little water. Roast three or four hours, turning and basting it fre- Guently., If the meat dries out, add water When the meat is done, place on & platter, surround with boiled and peeled pota- hot from time to time. ————— toes, pour over the meat the strained gravy and ®cmon Julce and the remainder of the herring. perve, Potatoes—S8kubanky. Boil about a quart of peeled potatoes, add a teaspoonful of salt, and when nearly done add a small cupful of flour and boll five minuteg longer. Theu drain, salt the potatoes, add a piece of butter and mash smooth. Take out by the spoonful, ar- one next to the other and pour over them butter and sprinkle with milk cheese or seed range melted poppy Poppy Seed Puffed Pudding. Pound or grind fine four tablespoonfuls of poppy seed, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of almond paste, the grated rind of powdered, five yolks, and cream or beat fifteen minutes; then add five whites beaten stiff zud pour into a dish that has been but- tered and sprinkled with crumbs, Steam one hour, Serve with chocclate sauce. Chicken with Herring, Wash two chickens and stew in beef soup until half done; then take them out and cool. Wash and cut in fine strips one herring, interlard the breasts of chickens with it, then cut them in halves, place them Iin a saucepan, pour over them the liquor in which they stewed, add a plece of butter, a dash each of mace, grated lemon vnu and one lemon, seven cloves Mince the milt of the herring and add it to the rest, then dust with flour and stew until the chick- ens are tender. When done take them out, strain the gravy over them and serve, Bohemian Tarts. Cream one cup of butter, add four to six yolks, one at the time, one cake of compressed yeast dis- rolved In tepld milk, four whites beaten stiff, one quart of sweet cream, a handful of sugar, the grated rind of a lemon, a dash of salt, one quart of sifted flour, and beat until the dough does not stick; then set fn a warm place. When it has risen to doubie its bulk take out by the tablespoonful on o floured bo roll each into a ball, then roll out like a cooky, about half an inch thick; arrange in a pan, brush with melted butter, spread with truit jam, cottage cheese or other filling; let them rise again in the pan and then bake in a hot oven, Anise Pretzels, Rub two tablespoonfuls of butter with two cupfuls of flour; add.-two eggs, half a cup of pow~ dered sugar and two teaspoonfuls of powdered anise seed; mix into smooth dough. Form pret- zels by rolling long, thin rolls, and thea forming these into pretzels; place on a tin rubbed with beeswax, brush with a beaten egg and bake s lght brown. t ard, —Aptp—-—_—