The midland journal., January 01, 1943, Image 7

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New Year’s Eve
‘Sandwich Bar’
Enlivens Party
“Snack” time at your New Year’s
eve party will be much more fun
if you let your guests make their
own lunch, fill their own plates and
sit wherever they please. Such a
scheme will encourage an informal
spirit, especially among some of the
guests who may not know each other
very well. Moreover, it will be an
inexpensive method of entertaining
them.
The principal requisite for the oc
casion is a Sandwich Bar, holding
all the “makings.” Any well-deco
rated table sufficient to hold a vari
ety of sandwich ingredients will
erve the purpose.
The Sandwich Bar should con
tain:
1 loaf of sliced white bread
1 loaf of sliced whole wheat
bread
1 loaf of sliced rye or pumper
nickel bread
34 pound baked ham
1 pound of butter
34 pound liver sausage
34 pound cooked tongue
34 pound American cheese
34 pound cream cheese
Assorted cookies and cake
The quantity of each of the above
may be decreased or increased,
depending on the number attending
the party. Pickles, olives, relishes,
mustard and mayonnaise should be
included on the table.
Toasted Sandwiches.
Some of the guests may like their
sandwiches toasted. So it will be a
hospitable gesture to have your elec
tric grill or toaster on the table.
The arrangement of the food will
be an important factor in adding to
the snack’s eye-appeal. The follow
ing suggestions may be helpful:
Have a large bread board as the
center of operations on the Sand
wich Bar. Stack the sliced bread
on either side of the bread board
and arrange the various meats on
platters nearby. In smaller dishes,
place softened butter, cream cheese,
relishes and mayonnaise.
As an added surprise, something
new, like “Shrimp a la 1943” will
make a decided hit with your guests.
Here is the recipe:
Mix together 34 cup chopped
shrimp, 34 cup minced celery, 1
teaspoon each of chopped pickles,
olives and pimientos. Stir in 3 table
spoons of mayonnaise, 34 teaspoon
lemon juice and 34 teaspoon minced
parsley. Spread the mixture in tiny
hot biscuits. This recipe makes
enough for about 30 tiny biscuits.
New Year’s Customs
Survive in Scotland
Bonnie Scotland is the home of'
two quaint New Year’s customs that
warm the hearts of all who follow
them. These are the ceremonies of
“First Footing” and of “Hogman
ay.”
“First Footing” is a rite reserved
for midnight of New Year’s eve. A
person who after the stroke of 12
o’clock sets foot inside the home of
a friend or relative is believed to
bring that home good luck for the
remainder of the year. He is ex
pected to bring some slight ottering
as a token of his good wishes. He
is warmly received and is the privi
leged friend throughout the year.
Tradition has it that a tall dark
man is the best “First Footer.”
“Hogmanay” is also a New Year’s
eve custom, reserved for children.
The youngsters go from house to
house chanting:
"Hogmanay, Trollalay,
Gie us your white bread,
And none o’ your gray.”
In response, those who are sere
naded respond by giving the chil
dren gifts of small oaten cakes,
short bread and currant bun.
New Year’s Resolutions
Once Strenuous Affair
Practically every country ob
serves New Year’s, but none more
uproariously than the Scots who
have singled it out as a national
festival.
One old custom which is still ob
served at several towns along the
coast dates to the time when fire
and the sun were the principal ob
jects of worship. A barrel is cut
In half, and the top part is broken
into faggots and piled into the low
er half after being mixed with a
generous allowance of tar. The bar
rel is then stuck on a pole, set
alight and carried blazing through
the village.
When burning faggots topple out
of the burning mass, there is a fierce
struggle for possession, for those
who manage to capture such pieces
will have good fortune for the next
year. After a tour of the village, the
burning barrel is carried to a stone
altar on the side of a hill and al
lowed to burn itself out.
New Year’s Oracle
A curious custom of “dipping” the
Bible on New Year’s morning as an
oracle for the coming months was a
feature of the holiday’s celebration
in some parts of England a century
ago. The ceremony took place be
fore breakfast. The book was
opened at random and the finger of
the seeker was placed upon any
chapter that chanced to be contained
in the two open pages. The con
tents of the chapter were then con
strued as foretelling the seeker’s for
jtjiiMi for the remainder of ft* year*
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Typifying the spirit of a fighting
1943, a symbol of the United States’
determination to wage a unified war
effort, this young gentleman faces
the New Year with complete con
fidence.
fttng ©ut,
Mtlfa Pell*
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
Thy flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the
snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the
mind,
For those that here we see no
more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the
times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful
rhymes,
. But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and
blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of
gold,
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier
hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
—From “In Memoriam” by Alfred
Tennyson.
Resolutions? Resolve
To Keep Them in ’43
Resolutions by the millions will
be made throughout the United
States on Friday, for it will be New
Year’s day—the time designated by
tradition to make vows.
People everywhere will register
solemn promises to themselves to
foreswear bad habits and acquire
good ones. The heavy smoker will
resolve to give up the weed. The
red-eyed tippler will promise to shun
the flowing bowl. Bad-tempered in
dividuals will vow to count ten be
fore exploding with rage. Lazy peo
ple will try to form habits of hard
work. Selfish people will cultivate
generosity. And so on.
Skepticism will meet the promises
of many self-reformers. "I hope he
means what he says,” will be heard
in many instances. “Old staff!”
will be the cynical comment on oth
ers.
But however futile previous efforts
at reform have been, the practice
of making fun of the good resolutions
of others should be discouraged.
Why not make good resolutions,
even if past experience indicates that
some of them will not be faithfully
kept? Why not try to improve our
lives?
New Year’s on Jannary 12
Highlanders in some of the re
mote areas of the Hebrides and Or
kaney and Shetland islands still cel
ebrate New Year’s day 6n January
12. This odd custom is regarded by
archeologists as a survival of the
Julian calendar, promulgated by Ju
lius Caesar. In some districts, both
January 11 and January 12 are held
as holidays, but the tendency is to
fall in line with the modern calen
dar and recognize only the first of
the month. The modern trend is to
ward
MIDLAND JOURNAL, RISING SUN, MD.
Hilarious Games
Are Feature of
New Year’s Eve
Unusual interest in a New Year’s
party can be created by an an
nouncement from the hostess that
there will be a good luck New
Year’s cake.
The New Year’s cake occupies the
position of honor in the center of
the table when the guests assemble
for midnight lunch. Inside the
cake is baked a thimble, a silver
coin and a ring.
Each person present gets a slice
of cake. The fun begins when the
finder of the ring is announced aa
sure to be married soon, the finder
of the thimble to stay single and the
lucky one who finds the coin to have
a future of wealth and prosperity.
New Year’s Puzzle.
“New Year’s Puzzle” is the name
of a game that will find favor with
holiday merrymakers. It calls for
some ingenuity and resourcefulness
and the results are always interest
ing.
The party guests are divided into
four or five groups. Each per
son in a group is numbered. The
leader then calls a number and then
asks a question. The answer must
include a word containing the name
of “New." The person who first
answers correctly is given a point
for his team.
A typical question might be:
“Name a nerve disease containing
the sound of ‘new.’ ” The correct
answer would be Neuralgia.
Other questions and answers
might include: Impartial: Neutral;
A city in New Jersey: Newark;
Pertaining to air: Pneumatic; Per
taining to a number: Numeral;,That
which annoys: Nuisance; Many:
Numerous; A center: Nuclei!?; An
animal: Gnu; A Virginia City:
Newport News; A famous Philoso
pher: Newton; Nourishing: Nutri
tious.
Cardboard Hour Glasses.
Since New Year’s witnesses a sig
nificant passage of time, an inter
esting game called “Hour Glass” is
appropriate to any celebration of the
day.
Before the party group assem
bles, the hostess has hidden all over
the room tiny cardboard hour
glasses. On each of these is writ
ten a different fragment of time—
such as 35 minutes; one hour and 20
minutes; seven seconds; two days.
One guest who is designated as
Father Time announces that con
siderable time has been lost during
the year and that the winning point
will be given to the team whose
members find most of the lost time.
A search lasting three to five min
utes follows, players scouting all
over the room to find the hidden
hour glasses. When the hunting
period is over, the leader calls a
halt and the team with the com
pilation of the longest amount of
time wins.
Homemade Favors
Will Interest Your
New Year 9 s Guests
Party favors are so much fun to
devise that they can often be turned
into a party game. The host and
hostess who try out this novel idea
for their New Year’s eve party will
find a reward in the enjoyment of
their guests. A tray of materials is
passed around and each guest starts
to work.
Each guest can use his or her in
genuity. And if you can invent some
new, amusing favors, using simple,
everyday materials such as button
molds, clothespins, pipe cleaners,
marshmallows, bottle tops, tooth
picks or gum drops, great will be
your triumph in the group.
Here are some suggestions that
may prove interesting when your
guests have assembled to see the
New Year in:
Marshmallow Man—The body is
composed of two marshmallows with
the broad ends together. The neck
is a small gum drop and the head
is a large round gum drop. The
arms are long gum drops of the
same color as the neck and head.
Legs are long black gum drops; feet
are small black gum drops. Mouth
and nose are tiny bits of colored
gum drop. String together with a
very fine wire and large needle.
Peanut Bird—Made of walnut
shell, almond, raisins and toothpick.
Mouse—A fiat gum drop with a
rounded gum drop on each end
forms a fat little body and head.
Ears are halves of a small rounded
gum drop. A bent toothpick, a pipe
cleaner or string makes the tail.
Dutch Boy—Body is a fig and the
head an English walnut. Legs ara
fat prunes. Arms are shelled Bra
zil nuts. Wooden shoes are Brazil
nuts with the top ridges whittled off
enough that toothpicks may be stuck
into file nutmeats.
History Sanctions
New Year’s Visiting
The custom of calling on one’s
friends on New Year’s day to wish
them prosperity and happiness has
the sanction of history behind it.
From Colonial times to the pres
ent day New Year’s has been a day
of great significance. The Presi
dents have received the public at
great receptions on that day and
the custom of visiting friends has
been passed down.
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WB* WHO’S
pm NEWS
frig THIS
N| WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features.—WMU Release.
XTEW YORK.—A corporation may
LN get an “E” pennant now and
then, but there's no Ebbets field
and no cheering mob for the incor-
A Topnotcher but run^SimilTr-
Lightly Touched ly the man
_ _ ... .. behind the
By the Spotlight corporation
may bat a steady stream of steel
ingots all the way to Tunis and still
the bands aren’t playing. A steel
mill and its master don’t fit easily
into any pattern of high romance,
but it may win a war.
Witness the bulky and baldish
Robert W. Wolcott, president of
ihe Luken’s Steel company, who,
since the war started has re
leased more steel and less pub
licity than probably any man in
America. His ingots and armor
plate output increased more
than 400 per cent in the last
fiscal year, while his column
inches in the newspapers have
slumped off, if anything.
At its Coatesville, Pa., plant, his
company rolls individual armor
plates weighing more than 100,000
pounds each. In addition to rolling,
instead of traditionally forging the
plates, it turns out plates 195 inches
wide as against the previous 155-
inch limit. The 1942 output has
yielded enough armor plate for a
dozen big warships and hundreds of
army tanks, and large tonnages for
lighter-gauge armor plate. The com
pany reports, for the 1942 fiscal
year, which ended October 10, an
all-high, all-time record not only in
the production of the rolled armor
plate but in all other types of steel
for this plant.
If he could somehow work Joe
Di Maggio and Rita Hayworth >
into his report Mr. Wolcott |
might get a big cheer, east and
west. He is a man f manage
ment rather than finance, stead- j
ily moving up with the Luken’s
company since 1922, elected
president of the 131-year-old out
fit in 1925.
The First World war interrupted
his college term at Lehigh universif
ty and sent him to Boston wherO
he was a lieutenant in naval aviai
tion. With the end of the war, hi
apprenticed himself in the steel busi
ness with the Bethlehem Fabrication
company of Bethlehem, Pa. He
joined Luken’s as manager of its
warehouse and fabricating depart
ment. When he became president
at the age of 32, he was one of the
youngest top executives in the his
tory of the industry. He has kepi
his mind on his work.
♦
IN APRIL, 1932, the depression be
gan gnawing at the vitals of the
United States congress. Congress
men suffered illness to an almost un-
Drc,„'rK" P . sssra;
Health of Solone quently di-
On the Upgrade
W. Calver, congressional physician,
as worry ailments. While these af
flictions were varied, frequently
marked by a cold developing into
something worse, they were in the
general field of fatigue and frustra
tion, and frequently led to coronary
occlusion, or heart trouble, the men
ace of men who fret too much and
exercise too little—a common dis
ease of the “intelligentsia,” said Dr.
Calver, although that is a fighting
word to many congressmen.
Ten years later, after a year
of war, burdened with perhaps
greater responsibility than any
other, this congress is as fit as
quarter horses. Only three
members died this year, against
an average of 12 during the 28
years in which Dr. Calver has
been attending physician. Trou
blesome, but not fatal illness, is
similarly away down. Dr. Cal
ver attributes this, in part, to
the lowered imminence of high
blood pressure, as incidental* to
heated debates and congression
al milling in general. There is
much less of this now, as the
solons get together easier on
war issues.
Dr. Calver also says the good
showing is attributable to steadily
improving health education in con
gress, with more careful attention
to diet, exercise, rest and healthful
mental attitudes. All this, he has
pioneered diligently, coaching con
gressmen on how to take care of
themselves. _
The tall, genial Dr. Calver is a
captain of the navy medical corps.
Congressmen like him immensely,
but for some reason of their own
they turned down a bill, in 1936,
which would have given him the
rank and pay of a rear admiral. He
is not allowed to charge a fee for
his services, but gets it in his own
way in the form of the autograph
of each congressman whom he
treats. His office is fully equipped
and staffed to take care of anything
that might happen to our congress
men, even the laryngal casualties
of a prolonged filibuster.
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