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Appetizing Menus for the Week Foods from the Deep, in Lent or Out of It WEDNESDAY Tempting the Flagging Appetites By Mary Lee Swum, The WeU-Knowa Writer Mai Lecturer oa Cooling. Breakfast Berriet, Oatmeal, Top MJk, Freack Taut. LI iUJJN WJJitaUMC I'lCUCilkA, The Distinguished Authority on Household ECcieacf. Anpl Butter, Swbetiruk Luncheon Foil Salad, To Bbcvrt, Nut Owaeal Cookie. THU15DAT Ft ID AY Breakfast Breakfast Grapefruit, Baked Prune, Foamy Omelet, Muth, Potato, Top Milk, Tea Bitciula, Broiled Baeeo, Coffee Subititul.

Cora Muffin Luncheon Coffe SuSititut. Fried Sauiage Luncheon Buttered Samp, Creamed Codfiah, Caramel Paprika Blancmange, Potato, Rautien Tea. Radiihet, Dinner One-Twe-Three Chicken, Deitert. Swoet Potato, I Dinner Steamed Ric. Frail Cocktail, Canned Cora Stuffed Turban Salad, Founder, Pineapple Butterscotch Cake Potato Bah, with Whipped Buttered Celery.

Cream. Apricot Tapioca. Cap Coffe. mnner Iroouoi Steak, Potato Caaeerol, Lettuce Salad, Dmuag. Favorite Pudding? Golden Sane.

knife or a pumice scraper. Be sure no entrails remain to give unpleasant taste. Wash quickly, drain and dry on paper toweling. Never leave fish soaking, as it removes flavor and makes the flesh flabby. Use scissors to remove tail and fins, or, if to be baked whole, remove only the eyes.

Froien fish can be utilised safely, and if first-class Is preferable to indifferent fresh fish. To de-frost or thaw fish, place in a covered kettle and allow to stand in a cold place or on ice overnight, but do not UBe warm water or heat; dry well and use as soon as possible after thawing. For broiled fish it is usual to split the fish lengthwise down the belly and extend flat on the grid to insure uniform cooking. For frying, "boned" or "filleted" fish is often preferable, and easier to serve as well as cook. Since it usually costs considerable extra to have the dealer "fillet" it, many housewives will prefer to do it themselves, which is not difficult to one having deft fingers.

First cut a strip of skin about one-half-inch wide down the full length of the back, and also cut around the head, dipping your fingers in salt so they won't slip. Second, loosen the skin below the head and draw off from one side by pulling gently with one hand while pushing with the other, as in pulling a glove off the hand inside out; repeat on the other side and the fish will be entirely skinless! Now to "bone" it, begin at the tail and insert a very sharp knife between the flesh and the backbone down the entire length of the middle of the back; this will give you the fish in two halves. With the cut surface of one side uppermost, start at the head and shave away the rib bones along the inside of the belly. Repeat on the other side and the fish will be In two large ready for eook-lng "as is." Or these may be still further cut into strips lengthwise, and these smaller slivers may be rolled and skewered with toothpicks for use in many fried and other fish dishes. It will pay to closely watch your fishman several times while he "fillets" before your eyes, as it is a matter of deft practice better learned from observation than from textbooks! I have often heard both individuals and families exclaim that they "don't like fish," and I re- Cheese, Radish and Lettuce Salad.

CUT cream cheese In dice and arrange on a bed of heart lettuce leaves. Garnish with Serve with well-seasoned French dressing. Canned Corn Salad. DRAIN 1 can corn and season with mustard and onion juice, Sprinkle with well-seasoned French dressing and let stand an hour. Drain and arrange on a bed of heart lettuce.

Serve Immediately Celerj and Cabbage Salad. REMOVE withered leaves from a small, solid, white cabbage and cut off stalk. Cut out centre and with a sharp knife shred fine ly. Let stand in ice water an hour or longer. Drain and then squeeze dry in a dean towel Mix with equal part finely-chopped celery.

Moisten with cream dressing and refill cabbage shell. Arrange on a serving dish and garnish wUh crisp sprigs of parsley and celery tips. Cold Asparagus Soufflef (Small). HAVE ready 1 eup of thick asparagus puree. Soften tt package gelatine In tt cup cold water and dissolve by setting the dish in a pan of boiling water.

Add to the asparagus puree. Season with tt teaspoon salt, a few grains pepper and a little paprika. Set in a pan of Ice water and stir until beginning to congeal Then fold In 1 eup of cream, beaten until stiff. Add tt cup of tender asparagus tips. Have ready paper or china cases with paper bands pinned around them to increase the height Fill the cues with the mixture, taking care to have the tops perfectly smooth.

Set in icebox to chill. When ready to serve remove the paper bands and sprinkle with finely-chopped, blanched, pistachio nuts. Serve with or without well seasoned mayonnaise dressing. I AT more fish" is a good motto to follow, not only in Lent, but throughout year, because fish la a nutritious and delicious meat-equivalent which may be used with Eat advantage to give variety to menu. Indeed, the abundance "seafoods," both in fresh and t4her forms, is so varied that the home manager may prepare a fish meal every day in the week with- out allowing her table to become Monotonous.

Fish from salt waters, fish from fresh, oysters, Clams, scallops, crabs, shrimp a detailed outline of fish would be almost as exhaustive as an outline Cf history, and equally interesting! Not only are our seaboards and Gulf States particularly fortunate la the wide choice of fish food offered the consumer, but, thanks to modern canning, salting and "reserving methods, wholesome in some form is obtainable in most inland sections. Seafoods, however, are not "telephone-f or-it" products, and must be shopped for personally and with skill. Demanding fish several times weekly, even out of Lent, will help increase and diversify (and thus cheapen) the supply. For if housewives allow the dealer to do rood business only on Friday he WW have to charge higher prices In order to "carry" his expenses en his five dull days. Furthermore, not all housewives may know that fish has "seasons," just like fruit and vegetables.

Thus the wise economical buyer purchases When "the run is on" and when Certain kinds are lowest in cost because most abundant In selecting fish, the most Important point is to determine its freshness, which can be ascertained by simple tests like the following: Fresh fish has bright red I ills; firm, elastic flesh, which oes not retain an indentation when pressed with the fingers: bright eyes, which are lustrous ana bulging, not sunken the fish sinks when put into water, does not float In buying, estimate that one pound of solid fish flesh will serve three persons, or that one-half pound should be allowed per portion if tail, head, are Included Id the weight Dealers should always be made to scale and clean thoroughly. In case scaling must be done at home, dip fish in boiling water, begin at the tail, and scrape with blunt Poisoned (Continued from Double Page.) only be compared with the pain caused by a dentist drilling on a live nerve hour after hour, day after day, month after month. Her weight has gone down from 130 to about 100, though she is gaining again now. Her face once unusually pretty, is now pinched and drawn with suffering, and her chin shows that some of the bone under the skin has been removed. The suspense and suffering and worry have undermined her spirit Shi Is fighting the danger of a nervous SATURDAY Breakfast Apple Sauce, Corned Beef Hath, Fickle.

Corn Cake, SUNDAY Breakfast Fruit, Poached Eft, Currant Buns, Battered Toast, Marmalade, Coffe Subiritule, Coffe Substitute. Luncheon Favorite Soap, Pulled Bread. Bread PudJuig, Cocoa or Tea. Dinner Rout Flat of Veal. Fraaconia Potato.

Buttered Spanish Onion, Romaia Salad, French Dretiing. Dinner Tomato Bouillon, Broiled Shad. Baked Potato, Buttered Peas. Meringue Pie, Half Cups Coffee. Mupper Succotash (Dried Lima Beans and Komlet).

Spiced Beets, Cinnamon Toast, Cocoa, Rhubarb Tartlet.1 other method. And to such as dread the usual awkward grid and unwieldly drip-pan, I commend the improved one-burner top-stove broiler, easily used and still more easily cleansed. Again, baking is a practical method, because It, too, retains the best qualities of the flavor and value of the fish itself, prevents fish odors from permeating the living room, and is economical of oil or fat, besides removing the need for the housewife to watch the work so constantly as in frying. Pre-heat the oven, lay the fish on oiled platter (preferably of glass, so that it may be cooked and served on the same dish), brush with oil or butter, season, and cook only ten minutes to the pound or an average family serving. Also do not forget to classify it first If oily-meated it will cook in Its own fat and require no basting and keep its shape without cracking, while if dry-meated the skin will split unless frequently basted and oiled.

Never use water in baking fish, as this makes it steam and causes the juice to run out, leaving behind a tasteless fish with flavored gravy a dish the wrong way round, most certainly 1 I could also ting of crabs, of shrimp, yes, and of snail, cold and served as a salad with lemon juice and seasoning, but my space is up. Truly, I have the salt of the sea in my long line of New England ancestors, and it is my sincere wish that many, many more housewives get acquainted with fish, demand it frequently at their local markets, and, above all, that they learn to prepare fish as a fine art one branch of cooking where men often outshine us! chine that supplies tha body with red blood corpuscles. That irritation continued hour after hour, year after year. The machine began to wear out. Fewer and fswer red cells were coming from' it.

Anemia began to set In. Still the tired machine continued to be driven to greater and greater exertion by those constant rays. Finally even the production of white corpuscles was affected. This caused lukemia, and was the beginning of the end. The bones in the meantime had begun to decay, especially in the mouth, where the infection had been steadily growing worse.

Finally a disintegration which can only be compared with leprosy set in because, fundamentally, that infinitely small bit of radium had finally reduced the blood production to the point where the body conld not continue Cold Meat with Jellied AVE ready thin slices of cold. cooked meat Soak 1 table spoon gelatine In tt cup cold water and dissolve in 1 cup boiling water. Add tt cup each sugar and virfegar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice and 1 teaspoon salt Strain, cool and, when beginning to congeal, add 1 cup of finely-chopped celery, cup finely-shredded cabbage and itt finely-chopped pi-mientoes. Turn into a mould and chilL Remove from, mould and put in centre of serving platter. Arrange the thin slices of meat around the mould of jelly, having the pieces of meat overlap each other.

Garnish with celery tips. Serve with well-seasoned French dressing. Tomato Mousse. SOAK tt package of gelatine la tt cup cold veal or chicken broth. Add 2 cups tomato puree, juice of tt lemon, 1 teaspoon onion juice, tt teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon finely-chopped parsley and 6 drops of tabasco sauce.

Set in a dish of ice water and stir until beginning to congeal. Then cold in tt cup cream, beaten until stiff. Turn into timbale moulds which have been rinsed with cold water. Turn out on crisp lettuce leavei and serve with French dressing. If little variety is desired sprinkle with finely-minced chives just before serving.

Chicken Mousse. HAVE ready 1 cup of cooked chicken and puree made by chopping eold, cooked chicken and then pounding and pressing through a sieve. Decorate a mould with small faney figures cut from a truffle. Soften 1 tablespoon gelatine in tt cup cold chicken broth and then dissolve in 1 cup well-seasoned hot chicken stock. Cool a little and add the sifted chicken pulp.

Set in a pan of ice water and stir until beginning to congeal. Fold in 1 eup of cream, beaten until stiff and chill; turn out on serving dish and slice then. Serve with any desired green salad. Use well-seasoned French dressing. its work of throwing off impurities and reconstructing decayed tissue and building bones.

Death could be the only end. Unlike most diseases the symptoms In the case of radium poisoning are of little use in giving warning of what is really wrong with the patient. By the time outward signs begin to show, the damage inside the body has progressed so far that usually there is not much the physician can do. But iu all the cases that have been treated in the New Jersey epidemic the symptoms have been practically the same. All the sufferers have complained in the beginning of pains in the feet, and many have suffered from fallen A second complaint which has accompanied the disease, though it is not necessarily a symptom of it, has It.

1 As They Chatted Merrily at Their Work MONDAY Breakfast Orange, Corned Beef-Tomalo Toet or Creamed Shad Roe ea Toait, Coffe Subtlilut. Luncheon Souther Macaroni Cuatard, Goldea Cora Bread, Frail Trill, Tea. Dinner Kernel of Pork, Savory Potatoet, Glazed Onion, Raduh Salad, French Drearing, Apple Dompliag, Lemon Sane. TUESDAY Breakfast Dried Apricot, Scrambled Eft, Muffin. Broiled Bacon.

Coffoa Substitute. Luncheon Mock Biiqua, Croat, Bread Crumb Griddle Cake, Maple Syrup, Tea. Dinner Frail Cap, Mutton Dock, Potato, Ten Half Buttered Spinach, Tomato JeJlr and Minced Celery Satad. Che Wafer. gret that the blunt truth is that in the average home fish is not prepared and served to the best advantage, nor its peculiar nature taken into consideration when cooking.

How often is it not fried to a crisp, soaked in grease or its delicate flavor and moisture allowed to evaporate? Often, too, the housewife makes her family tired of fish because she always buys flounder or some one invariable kind, and even cooks this one kind in the same monotonous way. No wonder you hear that "all fish tastes alike," or see persons destroying its subtle taste with strong bottled sauces! Before we can rightly prepare any seafood or fish we must study each variety as to its composition, the coarseness or tenderness of its flakes, it flavor, moisture and suitability for a particular cooking process. It is certainly easy to see that we can no more treat and cook all fish alike than we can expect to quickly broil rump beef and have it taste like porterhouse. All fish proper (not shellfish or crustaceans) can be broadly divided into two classes: (1) Those which are "red-blooded" and oily-meated. and (2) those which are "white-blooded" and dry-raeated.

In fish of the first class the oil is evenly distributed throughout the body, while in those of the second class the oil is concentrated in the liver. That is the chief reason why fish included in the first group (such as salmon, bluefish, mackerel, etc.) should never be prepared by frying or any process which will increase their fat and richness. They are most suitably prepared by methods which will sweat out and remove some of this excess fat, such as baking and the unusual task, pointed ber brush by moistening it In her mouth. One girl said that her day's pay depended on how many watch dials she painted, and that only by keeping her brush pointed could she make an)peed. The factory, however, cannot be too severly blamed.

It did not suspect the danger, since science itself had never encountered It before. The factory also insisted that It was impossible to absorb enough radium into the system to be harmful, since the amounts of this substance, or of mesothorium, used In the paints were so small, Dr. Martland, however, discovered the girls were accustomed to lick their brushes, sometimes, as often as fourteen times for each dial face. One girt said she moistened her brush twice for each figure. If this Is true, it was possible for the girls to get as much as 2 grams of the paint in their mouths in the course of one day.

This amount would contain from 3 to 43 micrograms of radioactive substance. Thus, working Ave days a week for only six months, it was possible for a girl to take into her system more than 360 micrograms of radioactive substance. One hundred micrograms of radium element, It has been demonstrated, is enough to kill an adult within sixteen days. Remembering that, with radio elements, it doesn't matter whether the dose is given all at once or whether it is spread out over a period of years, it is easy to see why the authorities believe that poisining was caused by the work in the radium plant. How thoroughly impregnated the workers may become was demonstrated by Dr.

Martland when he strapped a dental film, such as is uaed to take X-ray photographs of the teeth, against the hip bone of one of the girls who had died. A knife blade was placed between the film and the bone and was left for six weeks. At the end of that time a shadowgram of the knife blade showed on the exposed film, just as it would have done had they been exposed to regulation Roentgen rays In a dentist's office. This showed that the bone, even after death, was still throwing olf the fatal rays. Also some of the when placed In a dark room actually glowed luminously like the watch dials they had painted.

This may have been caused by radium dust particles clinging to their skin and clothing, or it may have meant that they were so saturated with the substance that their very bodies glowed with it. The discovery that radium may be the cause of a new and wicked type of poisoning while seeming to benefit a patient was made under decidedly tragic in this slow-working New Caaaed Coffee Hot la French Bread steaming. On the other hand, dry-meated fish, of which cod, haddock, flounder, are examples, are preferably cooked or served with fat "or oily sauce to introduce more fat as needed contrast. It does not follow that because one is a good meat cook that one will also make a success of fish dishes without studying the peculiar characteristics of the product she is preparing. The connective tissues in meat are tough and must be broken down during cooking, but in fish the tissues holding the! fibres are very tender, quite gelat-' inous, and soften rapidly under heat And because those preparing fish do not know or take this fact into account, we find a common fault to be that fish is generally over-cooked and the juices extracted and fried out I suggest estimating only about half the usual cooking time given in most recipes, and noting how much more moist and delicate will be the finished dish.

I insist that one must "know one's fiBh." so to speak, just as one must distinguish between tough cuts and tender ones, watery vegetables and starchy, before deciding on a definite method or recipe. Is this fish oily-meated? Then we must not fry it, but bake it or boil it Is it dry-raeated? Then let us deep-fat or pan-fry it Possibly you will agree with ma that boiling is the ideal cooking process for all fish, and that laying it over a bed of rosy coals or equivalent flame, and turning or basting requently until it reaches a perfection of toothsome (and never greasy) deliciousness, which only the word "broiled" conjures up to smell and taste, cannot be improved on by twice the fuss of an Jersey epidemic. But there Is a bright aide, for these discoveries are of the utmost value and importance In medicine. They will save many lives in the future. Radium is being used more and more widely in Industry.

It is also coming to be relied upon with more and more frequency in the treatment of disease. Yet, according to Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, there is no reference in all medical literature to radium poisoning, or radium (mesothorium) necrosis, to u-e the scientific term. This is surprising because radium, and its derivatives and "relatives" have been used in industry in this country for about 12 ytara, and before that It was used in Kurope.

There can scarcely be any doubt that In the past there hare been many cases where death was caused bf lis action. But the effects of the poison are so deceptive and have taken so many years to show themselves that the existence of the disease apparently has not been suspected until now. This is to be explained by the fact that pernicious anemia, necrosis of the bones, and the other after effects of the poison may be caused by other disorders and may have misled the doctors in their diagnoses. How radium, which has been blessed ever since its discovery for its stimulating and curative effects on the human system, may become one of man's worst enemies is one of the paradoxes of present-day medicine. The secret lies, as has been suggested, In two of Its peculiar properties.

First, its long life of undiminished actiyity. Second, the fact that It travels straight to the centers where red blood cells are produced, lodges near them for the rest of its life, and constantly exerts its powerful influence on them. In the case of the girls in Newark, it is possible now to reconstruct exactly what happened assuming that the lnrestigators are correct in their conclusions. The minute particles of radium or mesothorium were taken into the mouth embedded in the sticky paint. Bits of radium remained In the cavities of the gums after the mouth fluids had carried away the other elements of the paint.

The action of these bits combining with the Impurities naturally to be found in the mouth started a slow infection. Other particles of the radioactive substance, being attracted to the blood-making centers, found their way Into the marrow of the bones, into the liver and the spleen. At first the resulting stimulation greatly improved the general health. That Is because more red blood cells than 'before were being manufactured and poured into the blood stream. But the stimulation soon turned into irritation, for there was never any rest for the hard-working ma- HANDIWORK.

BOOTIES PATTERN Doctors Prescribed It Long Before the Public Read what doctors write then you will have fullest confidence in the prompt and undoubted tonic power of Gude's Pepto-Mangan. At all druggists in cither liquid or tablet form. been evidence of "dropped wrist," such as appears in cases of lead poisoning. Patients thus afflicted find their wrists so weak that It la hard for them' to raise and lower their hands by bending the wrist Joint. A third effect has been extreme sensitiveness of the sciatic nerve.

A fourth the general emaciation which accompanies anemia; and a fifth, the looseness of the teeth and decay of gums and jaws which leads finally to complete disintegration. Such disorders as these, however, can scarcely be regarded as symptoms, since they are diseases in themselves. They confirm a diagnosis after, but not in advance of the danger-point. That is the worst of this ultra--modern form of leprosy; It does, its work in secret until the damage Is beyond repair. Knew It Years collapse as well as the mesotho-rium in ber body.

The radium plant has denied that It is In any way responsible for the deaths, past and to come, of their employes. They innlut that they warned the girls not to put their brushes in their mouths, and had no way of seeing tn.it the rule was obeyed. It Is true that there are signs on the walls of the workroom, now, warning the employes against this practice, but, according to former employes, the instructor herself, when teaching them the rather exacting tricks of Too Hooeful. An ancient car chuftged painfully Up to the entrance of tho race track. "A dollar for your car," demanded th g-atekeepor.

'Sold," cried the driver with a pa-thetlu smile of IONQ before the general public knew the virtues and effectiveness of Oude's Pepto-Mangan, it was prescribed by hundreds of physicians to patients in need of a good tonic Since i ts introduction to the public'doctors still prescribe it. The fact that It has had the confidence of the medical profession for over 33 years is the best proof that it is a quick and efficient iron tonic. But Oude's Pepto-Mangan is more than an ordinary iron tonic, for with the iron there is scientifically combined manganese and pre digested albumin, the value of which is well known to physicians. i jS I 1 What Doctors Write "I have been prearrib-big Oude't Pepto-Maa. gan bow for Qui ten num.

ber of bav alwajraroundiroo a valu. abl tonic and the treately pteatant and palatable form la which Pepto-Maog aa la prepared, combined with it aay eatlmilatioo, haa rendered it iavatuabi to me in mr "I bar had remit to alrnpl Anemia with Pepto-Maagaa and am recommending It to all any patient. "I have wed It for IS yean wit wajr the uniform good result." By RUBY SHORT McKIM 1 the cnanlnn; bootlra cnaaot then manlng nootlea cnaaot a THE pattern, for it to traaafer, for (hat depend oa the aot leagta at (he preHeaa little fort. The nolo ean le rut from one of ala own ahoc aolea, then the taper la similar to the drawing here ahowa, only of roarae It rnaat aa a Ha from the center of the kitten aoaa to the back aa around half tha frle. First rat a taper pattern that SI from a square folded diagonally fclderdowa mar be uaed with the edges rlbboa boon, or felt with a nhallow llaakrt Mitch.

Mainmast JPfepto.r Didn't Have To. "It took nearly It) years to learn that I couldn't write stories." "I auppoa you give It up then? "No, no. By that time I had a reputation established and didn't have to." PrescrthedTry Physicians for 35.