Anyway, It's a Living!
,
/t"? true that one
half the world doesn't
know how the other
half lives. Yes, in this
world there are some
very strange profes
sions, and this series
of photographs shows
you a few of them.
The surprising thing
is that the people en
gaged in these un
usual professions fail
to tee anything at all
unusual about them.
Left: Vght We
should imagine that
there are better and
more pleasant ways
of testing soap than
tasting it. Yet Joseph
Strobl of Lot Angeles
prefers this method.
Again, ugh! But i(s
a living!
FISHDERMIST . . . That's tchat Mrs. Charles Parker of Santa Cata
Una Island, Calif., calls herself. With hammer, nails, paint and stuffing,
she mounts the big ones that didn't get atcay.
Samuel Wardlau1, special inves
tigator for Lot Angeles public li
brary, keeps down book mutilation
and thefts by observing the main
reading room with binoculars.
Miss Billie Lam pie of Imm An
geles. only woman in America who
makes a living at eye specialist for
birds and animals. Here the is fit
ting eyes to a dove.
WOODEN POULTRY FARMER ... San Francisco's Frank Mackay
makes hi* living by raising wooden ducks, the kind used as decoys.
She lute*$ to records mil
day long, for m phonograph
company.
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AILING HOUSE
By BOOM L WWTMAN ^
(? Roccr B. Whitman?WNU ferric*.)
Concrete Cellar Floor.
QUESTION: I wish to lay a re
inforced concrete floor in my
cellar, and a wooden floor on top.
Would you advise a three or four
inch layer of concrete? Would a mix
ture of 1 part cement, 2 parts of
small stones or ashes keep the mois
ture from coming through the floor,
provided I put down a thin layer of
tar over the concrete?
Answer: A word of warning:
Never use ashes as a base for con
crete or as mix with concrete; use
clean building sand. Four inches or
more of concrete should be laid for
a basement floor. The following mix
is advisable: 1 part Portland ce
ment, 2Vi parts of clean building
sand and 3 parts gravel or crushed
stone of 1 inch maximum size. Com
plete printed instructions on the lay
ing of concrete floors can be secured
frpm the Portland Cement Associa
tion at 347 Madison Ave., New York
city. (Chicago office at 33 West
Grand avenue.) After the concrete
has dried thoroughly, and before
laying the wood floor, coat the ce
ment with liquid tar or asphalt;
then put down a layer of heavy as
phalt saturated felt, overlapping the
sheets at least half the width. The
wood floor is then laid on an asphalt
cement, which is spread on the felt.
Tiling a Kitchen.
Question: I have several questions
I would like to have your advice on.
One: Do you advocate tile extend
ing to the ceiling behind the stove?
Would the heat from the stove crack
the tile? Two: What materials and
method ot placing the tile should be
used to insure its not becoming loose
alter a time? Do you recommend
the use of straight Portland cement?
Three: Are there various grades of
tile?
Answer: It is not necessary to tile
the wall to the ceiling. II the oven
of the stove is not insulated, the
stove should be moved far enough
away from the wall to eliminate
the risk of fire. Nowadays, most
ovens are insulated. Two: To de
scribe in detail the method and ma
terials used for tile setting would
take too much space in this column.
Write to the Tile Manufacturers As
sociation at 19 West 44th Street, New
York city, and ask for the pamphlet
{hat they issue, covering this ques
tion. The pamphlet also describes
the various grades of tile. It will
be sent without charge.
Concrete on Brick.
Question: We want to cover a
brick paved court with concrete.
What-mixture should we use?
Answer: If the brick are laid di
rectly on the ground, there is every
chance that heaving, as the ground
freezes and thaws, will crack the
concrete. This is not so likely to
happen if the brick are laid on a
foundation of eight inches of packed
cinders?not ashes?or are on a
concrete bed. If this is not the case,
the re"is likely to be trouble. If you
want to go ahead, use a mixture of
1 part cement, 2V4 parts building
sand, and 5 parts finely crushed rock
or small pebbles, with only enough
water to make a workable mixture.
Spaces between the bricks should be
cleaned out to a depth of an inch or
more, to permit the concrete to
penetrate, and at the time of pour
ing, the bricks should be well soaked
with water.
Cement Paint Stains.
Question: How can I remove
stains of a paint made with white
Portland cement from a rubble
stone foundation, and from red slate
surfaced shingles?
Answer: To remove the stains
from the foundation stones, moisten
with a mixture of 1 part muriatic
acid and 20 parts of water; the paint
will quickly soften and can be
scraped or wiped off. Be careful of
this mixture, for it is corrosive.
Wear rubber gloves and old clothes.
You will not need much: ask your
druggist to make up a pint
Anything that will take off the
paint will damage the shingles. The
remedy is to touch the paint with
outside paint of a shade that
matches.
Lining a Basement.
Question: In making a basement
into a clubroom, is it practical to use
wallboard (or the walls? Can the
floor be painted?
Answer: The wallboard that is
like thick pasteboard will swell and
shrink with changes in weather, and
is not practical. You will do better
to use a kind of' insulating board
that has a treatment making it re
sistant to dampness; get it at a lum
ber yard. Ordinary paint will not
last on a concrete floor, because of
the destruction of the oils by the
lime in the cement. At a large paint
store you should be able to get a dye
for coloring the floor, or possibly a
cement paint, intended for that spe
cial Job.
Burlap far Basked Rags.
Question: I have heard that im
ported burlap is stronger than do
mestic. Is this true? I want to use
it as a foundation for booked rugs,
--and the ordinary burlap dries and
wears out quickly. Is there any oth
er stronger foundation for hooked
rugs?
Answer: It is generally conceded
that imported burlap makes a better
foundation for hooked rugs than do
mestic. The fiber la less brittle. I
do not know at anything that may
make a better or stronger founda
tion.
?Household News
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PUDDING FAVORITE AS MEAL TOPPER-OFFER
(See Recipes Below)
DESERVING DESSERTS
6nce upon a time a friendly neigh
bor living close to our house in a
small friendly town used to say over
and over, "But a dinner just isn't a
dinner unless you top it off with a
'deserving dessert.' " And when I
pressed him to explain to me just
what he meant by a "deserving des
sert" he explained that it was a
dessert which was so good that even
at the end of a man's meal it still
deserved to be eaten.
After all, men, bless them, do like
their desserts and so in this column
today?I am giving to you a number
of brand new, easy-to-make recipes
for deserving desserts.
All but one, and that's a recipe
for a deserving salad. And the rea
sons I am featuring this lone salad
recipe with all the dessert recipes
are these: First, it makes one of
the best-to-eat salads I have ever
tasted. And second, I have a theory
that while men like desserts a good
many of them simply do not eat as
many salads as they should.
So, some time, serve this salad in
your dinner menu; then top it off
with any one of these desserts and
not alone will the man of the family
have had his favorite meal topper
offer, but he will have had a health
giving, vitamin containing dish as
well.
Tomato and Ham Salad.
(Makes 10 servings) ?
U4 cups water
I lO'/j-ounce cans condensed tomato
soup
4 tablespoons unflavored gelatin
1 cup cold water
1 3-ounce package cream cheese
4 teaspoons prepared mustard
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
Vi teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup salad dressing
1 pound boiled ham (3V4 cups
chopped)
3 hard-cooked eggs
Lettuce
Heat water and soup together in
1%-quart saucepan until boiling. Re
move rrom neat.
Soak gelatin in
cold water for 5
minutes, then dis
solve in hot soup.
Blend together
cream cheese,
?? ? ? -" musiara, salt,
lemon Juice and horseradish. Add a
little soup to mixture, stirring con
stantly ; then return to remainder of
hot soup, mixing well. Cool. When
mixture begins to thicken, fold in
salad dressing and ham. Rub a
I 2-quart heat-resistant glass baking
, dish with oil. Arrange slices of
hard-cooked egg around the sides,
reserving some for the top. Pour in
tomato-ham mixture. Allow to gel.
Garnish top with slices of hard
cooked egg and serve with lettuce.
Chocolate Fluff.
2 squares baking chocolate
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons general purpose flour
% cup sugar
% teaspoon salt
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 egg whites
Put chocolate and milk in top at
a double boiler and heat until choco
late haa melted; beat with rotary
egg beater until mixture ia well
blended. Place butter in a sauce
pan and melt. Stir in the flour,
sugar and aalt. Then immediately
add the chocolate milk and cook
mixture over direct heat until it
thickens, stirring constantly. Cool,
stir in the unbeaten egg yolks, and
add vanilla extract. Beat egg whites
until stiff and fold the cooled choco
late mixture into them. Pour into a
buttered baking dish; set baking
dish into a pan of hot water, and
bake in a moderate oven (350 de
grees) approximately 1 hour and 15
minutes, or until mixture will not
adhere to knife blade. Serve at once
with whipped cream.
Bed Raspberry Saew Balls.
(Hakes ? snow balls)
% cup butter
H cup sugar
1 cup general purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
14 teaspoon salt
K cup milk
> egg whites (beaten)
More About Deserving Desserts.
Speaking of Deserving Desserts
?I want to tell you about my
small 10c cook book entitled
"Easy Entertaining." From cov
er to cover, it is packed not only
with new and unusual recipes,
but also with menu suggestions
and ideas for entertaining easily
and happily?for making guests
feel they are truly welcome while
the hostess has ample time left
to enjoy these same guests when
they arrive.
To secure your copy just send
10 cents in coin to Eleanor
Howe, 919 North Michigan Ave
nue, Chicago, Illinois.
Cream the butter. Add sugar and
beat well. Sift the flour, baking
puwuer, ana sail
together. Add al
ternately with the
milk and then
fold in the beaten
egg whites. Steam
in small buttered
molds for 30 to 35
minutes. Serve
with red raspber
i J saute.
Bed Raspberry Sauce.
% cup butter
1 cup Confectioner'* sugar
1 cup crushed raspberries
Cream the butter and add sugar
slowly while beating thoroughly. Add
raspberries. To serve, pour over
hot steamed snow balls and serve
at once.
Orange Dessert Squares.
(Makes IS servings)
Vi cup shortening
% cup sugar ? > ?
2 eggs (separated)
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
y? teaspoon salt
^ cup milk
2 tablespoons orange rind (grated)
Cream the shortening and add
sugar gradually. Blend in the egg
yolks. Sift together the flour, bak
ing powder and salt and add to the
creamed mixture, alternately with
the milk. Beat the egg whites until
stiff but not dry, and fold into the
batter with the orange rind. Bake
in a greased 9-inch by lS-inch pan
in a moderately hot oven (375 de
grees) for about 30 minutes. Cut in
squares and serve hot with orange
sauce.
Orange Sauce.
Vi cup sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch
y? teaspoon salt
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon butter
% cup orange juice
2 tablespoons orange rind (grated)
Combine sugar, cornstarch and
salt. Add boiling water, stirring
constantly. Cook, stirring frequent
ly, until the mixture is clear and
thick (about IS minutes). Add but
ter, and the orange juice and rind.
Surprise Dessert.
(Serves 10)
tt cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1% cups graham cracker crumbs
1 cup milk
Vi cup walnut meats
2 teaspoons'baking powder ?
Topping
1 cup crushed pineapple (with Juice)
1 cup sugar
Cream the butter, add the sugar
and blend well. Add the well-beaten
egg yolks. Com
bine the ground ?
graham cracker I
crumbs with bak- I
ing powder and I
add alternately I
with the milk. I
Add the walnut ?
meats and then
carefully fold in the egg whites
which have been beaten until stiff
but not dry. Pour into a greased
8-inch by 8-inch pan and bake in a
moderate oven (390 degrees) for 35
minutes. To make the topping, boil
pineapple and sugar together about
8 minutes or until syrup-like in ap
pearance. Chill and pour over top
of cool cake. Let stand in refrig
erator until ready to serve, (hit in
squares and garnish with whipping
cream.
(IMmmI by Winn m mni VwkmJ
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
' By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Faaturaa?WNU Barries.)
NEW YORK?As Japan sUkaa
out Oceania for her own, Gen.
George Grunert, commanding the
Philippine department of the Amer
Ce?. Granert at ^w^'hU
Philippine* Calmly usual proce
Sit. on the Lid
on the lid. He tells the American
community there, organizing for de
fense, not to get steamed up and
warns against "spreading excite
ment or stirring up alarm." ?
The general knows island soldier
ing, from whacking his way through
the jungle with a machete, which he
did as a private, to running the army
there, which he does as a general.
He is known as a soldier's soldier,
never involved in politics or army
controversy, a skilled specialist in
military techniques, of which he has
been both a diligent student and
teacher in the army schools.
His home town Is White Ha
ven, Pa., and be works hard to
make Manila seem like home,
in spite of threats, challenge and
tension in the Far East. -He was
one of those small-town boy*
who fell in step with the village
band music in 1898 and marched
off to the Spanish-American war
to the tune of "There'll Be a Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight,"
and kept right on marching, In
the Philippine campaign and
even' other major and minor
excitement in which we were in
volved. He was on the Mexican
border in 19ft, with the A.E.F.
in France and with the army of
occupation in Germany, gather
ing chevrons and medals on the
way up.
In between these exercises, he
was teaching military science at the
Shattuck school in Fairbanks, Minn.,
serving as instructor and later com
mander of the Army War college
and commanding the general staff
school at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Whatever we may think of our his
toric little crow-hops in the direc
tion of manifest destiny, they have
trained some good men if we ever
have manifest destiny thrust upon
us.
A
^
O EPORTS about many of the Nazi
tv leaders, including Herr Hitler,
consulting seers and astrologers,
carrying talismans and reading
Talisman Might here back in
Dsfeat the Nazis ' thed?y?7hen
many of our
citizens thought they were nice peo
ple, and were amused by their little
human failings. Hence the dossier
on Gen. Friedrich Christiansen,
when he flew the Do-X to this coun
try nearly a decade ago, was not
inspired by ill-will or propaganda
when it recorded his various devices
to exorcise the demons of ill-luck.
After the blitzkrieg, the general be
came runner-up for Dr. Seyss
inquart, in the ball-and-chain depart
ment in Holland, and just now, as
military commander for that area,
is dealing plenty of bad luck to the
natives. He says he is "taking
steps." That meant executions a
few days ago.
When the Do-X landed here in
1931, one young woman report
er was quite lyrical about the
"handsome and gallant com
mander, with his mischievous
blue eyes, bushy brews, and
warm, ingratiating smile." He
told about Us good-luck horse
shoe nailed in the cabin of the
huge flying boat, and as neces
sary to its operation as a com
pass. It was an English horse
ihoe wUeh he had picked up oa
the battlefield of Moos, in the
World war. Many times, it had
saved him from disaster, he
said, and he could expect trou
ble if he ever let it lose its shine,
and it doesn't work weU unless
be does the polishing.
His adventures .with the horseshoe
led him to a great discovery. When
he was the squadron leader at Zee
bnigge, Germany's first naval act,
he was shot down by an English
plane. That day, he had received
a four-leaf clover, in a letter from ?
friend. When he was downed, he
knew what had happened. The pos
session of more than one talisman
by the same person spells trouble.
He put the four-leaf clover in a cigar
box weighted with iron and sank it.
There's no copyright on the
Idea if the Hollanders want to
sup a rabbit's feet or a four-leaf
clever In Us pocket when he
isn't looking.
Ernst Udet, famous World war
ace and contriver of their parachute
attack, is as full of superstitions
as Frazer's golden bough. Flying n
plane for the first time, he carves
the initials of his best girl on the
back seat. He, and many other Ger
man fliers will not wear a pair of
gloves on a flight unless they have
been flown in another plane. It all
Bounds a bit Jittery for super-man.
Crocheted Chair Set
In Pineapple Design
Pattern No. 2663
TpHE ever-popular pineapple de
1 sign forms this lovely chair set.
Though so effective a design it is
an easy one to crochet. It is done
in No. 30 cotton and can be used
as scarf ends, too.
* * *
Pattern 2663 contains directions (or set;
Illustrations of it and stitches; photograph
of set; materials required. Send order to.*
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82 Eighth Ave. New York
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of praise, and the noblest are most
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