Cream Mayonnaise. To a quantity of stiff mayonnaise, add an equal quantity— or less-of whipped cream. This dressing should be used the day it is made, and kept in the refrigerator until it is ready to be served. Excellent for chicken, Waldorf or nut salad. French Dressing. Ingredients: 1⁄2 level teaspoonful salt 4 level teaspoonful white pepper 1 tablespoonful vinegar or lemon juice Time: Preparation, 5 minutes. Number served: 4 persons. Add the oil to the salt and pepper; mix well. Add the vinegar or lemon juice, beat until thoroughly emulsified. This may be easily and quickly done by shaking in a bottle, and many prefer to do it this way. Chopped chive or a few drops of onion. juice, or Worcestershire sauce may be added if desired. Russian Dressing. To one cupful mayonnaise, add one tablespoonful, or more, of tomato catsup and nine olives finely cropped. Strawberry Salad. Ingredients: 1 head chicory or escarole 1 box large strawberries. Time: Preparation, 30 minutes. Wash chicory and crisp in ice-water. Wash and hull berries; let stand in refrigerator until cold. Arrange chicory on individual plates, placing a slice of pineapple in the center of each. Cover pineapple with berries, top with cream mayonnaise, garnish with nuts. If berries are sour, sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar before placing in refrigerator. An excellent luncheon or supper salad. 1⁄2 cupful cream; 1 egg yolk 3 tablespoonfuls tarragon vinegar, or 2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice Time: Preparation, 10 minutes. Number served: 4 persons. Mix the cornstarch with the cream; add seasoning; cook over boiling water until the mixture thickens, stirring constantly. Add the egg yolk, slightly beaten, and cook a moment longer. Remove from fire, add vinegar, mix well, cool, and it is ready to use. If it is impossible to get cream, use milk, and add one teaspoonful melted butter after dressing is cooked. Roquefort Dressing. Mash a small quantity of Roquefort cheese and stir through a well-made French dressing. Serve on lettuce hearts. Mayonnaise Dressing. Ingredients: Yolks of two eggs 14 level teaspoonful salt 14 level teapsoonful white pepper Time: Preparation, 20 minutes, about. Have all ingredients and utensils very cold. Put the yolks into a bowl or mayonnaise mixer; add salt, pepper; mix. Add one teaspoonful vinegar; mix again. Now add, drop by drop, and beating all the while, sufficient oil to give the desired amount of dressing. As the mixture thickens, alternate with a few drops of lemon juice or vinegar. With care, almost a pint of oil may be used. By following directions carefully this dressing should not curdle. If it does, start again with a clean bowl and another egg yolk. After adding a little vinegar and oil, add, slowly and stirring constantly, the curdled dressing, and the final results will be good. Ethics. Read at the Granite R. S. Conference by Mrs. Lillian G. Knight. Ethics is the science of human character-or more broadly speaking-it is the study of manners and morals. Ethics deals, for instance, with such virtues as truthfulness, honesty and sobriety. Man is said to possess a physical, moral, and spiritual nature. Faith is a spiritual trait. It is often hard to draw the line between ethics and religion. But there is a real difference. The world, in all ages, has set up certain standards of conduct, and has maintained certain virtues. Even the savage has his strict code of morals. He is often more straightly honest, and more rigorously truthful than his educated white brother. People who study ethics take for consideration what might be called the standard virtues: Truth, Wisdom, Benevolence, Love, Honesty, Obedience, Reverence, Knowledge, Patience, Hope, Courage, and Charity. Many modifications of these virtues. lead to a study of Mercy, Temperance, Kindness, Gratitude, and such other traits as make the ideal man. All men believe these virtues to be good, and most men practice few or many of them. Men have found that it actually pays, in a business sense, to be honest and truthful. Long experience teaches any person the value of the virtues. No profession of religion is needed to qualify men to practice the virtues. All religions, except the true religion of Jesus Christ, are builded on ethical foundations only. Because men have found that the virtues are eternal, they come finally to exalt the virtues into a whole religion. Go into any of the churches today, and you will hear no doctrines, no religious principles referred to except as the virtues are a part-and a very important part of their various religions. It is all ethics, ethics, ethics. Our young people, hearing one such sermon, come away feeling that it was all true then why are not these churches also true, or founded on truth? All worship of God is founded on truth; on some truth, a little truth. For all who name the name of the Lord with reverence and love have a measure of truth and light within them. Then what constitutes the difference between this Church and all other churches in ethics and in religion? It is the priesthood. The power to officiate in the ordinances of the gospel. Men may be truthful, just, kind, chaste, and intelligent, but unless they come in at the door of Christ, they cannot enter his kingdom. The rich young man of the scriptures possessed all the virtues. The Relief Society has been studying the ethics of Gratitude, Industry, Reverence, and Prudence, but with each lesson has gone some gospel message that fastens the virtue up to the chain which links us to the kingdom of all truth and light. We want-not a little truth, nor some truth-but all truth. Not the truths pertaining only to our physical and moral-or ethical-being, but also those truths that concern our spiritual advancement and develop ment. Some one has said that facts-unless arranged in proper order and sequence-do not constitute truth. So with ethicsunless the virtues are held together by the priesthood and are practiced in obedience to true religion, they will not save us. Therefore do we study, practice, and develop, in all the virtues. We want to be honest, chaste, benevolent, and to seek after all truth, holding fast to the Iron Rod. NOTES FROM THE FIELD. Eastern States Mission. Mrs. A. W. McCune, of the General Board of Relief Society, has returned to her home in Salt Lake City, after spending the winter in New York City. While in the east, Mrs. McCune represented the General Board in the Eastern States Mission, and directed the work of the Relief Society, giving weekly classes in Genealogy, in both New York City and Brooklyn. Before returning to Salt Lake City, Mrs. McCune entertained the members of the Conference at a farewell reception, given at the Mission House on 126th Street. Mrs. McCune was one of the patrons of the National and International Council of Women, and with Counselor Clarissa S. Williams and Mrs. Jos. Howell, represented the Relief Society at the recent Council in Washington. Further information comes from the Eastern States in a recent letter from Miss Margaret Edwards, who is in charge of the work there. Miss Edwards states that the Relief Society in New York City has lately been reorganized with the following officers: President, Bertha Eccles Wright, 1st Counselor, Leona P. Monson, 2nd Counselor Nona B. Peterson, Secretary and Treasurer, Janette Y. Easton. An organization has also been effected in Brooklyn, with the following officers: President, Isabella Wingrave, Counselor, Carmen Benson, Secretary and Treasurer, Alice Archibald. There is a thriving organization at Lynn, Mass., which has been running for about 7 months. The members are reported as very greatly interested in the plan of the work as outlined in the MAGAZINE. Query Box. Hazel Love Dunford. Would you kindly give me some simple combination of perhaps turpentine, coal oil or something of the kind. I wish to polish my dining room chairs. I wish something that will remove the scratches the children have made. Thanking you in advance. Mrs. A. W. A., Emery, Utah. I know of nothing better than Vinero for your furniture. It can be obtained from most of the leading furniture stores. The office and factory are at 2640 So. Seventh East St., Salt Lake City. I am building a new house and would like your opinion on wall finishing for the kitchen.—Mrs. C. O., Salt Lake City. Be sure that your ceilings are not made too high. Eight feet six inches is high enough. Paint walls white or cream, giving four coats. Finish with enamel paint. This is rather expensive in the beginning, but as the years pass one soon realizes the economy of it, for the walls can be washed and cleaned so easily and never need re-painting. I have four children between the ages of twelve and three. How can I best get and keep their confidence.-Mrs. E. G. W'., Sugar City, Idaho. From the very infancy a mother must interest herself in the child's affairs. She must be a real chum to every one of her children. I know one mother who has a knack of making each one of her children (and she has five) feel that he is her special favorite. This, I believe, is one great secret in keeping their confidence. DISCOVERIES MAIL BOX. The postoffice authorities sent word that we could aid them by placing a mail-box on our porch. I very much disliked the thought of the customary iron box against our bungalow wall. Finally my husband removed the top of one of the pedestals at the foot of the porch steps, put it back on with a hinge, inserted a wooden box in the pedestal and we now have an out-of-sight and very convenient mail box. He has since hinged the top of the other pedestal and in it the children place. their rubbers or out-of-doors toys.-Mrs. N. F. M., Ore. ECONOMICAL DENTAL FLOSS.-One spool of No. 60 linen. |