Coral Gables Riviera

Gablesgrams

by HELEN REYNOLDS. ● Do you like cold meats these hot days, or do you like good old steak and baked potato and real old fashioned apple pie as one prominent Gables hostess said when queried? . . . Mrs. J. B. Hiers, Jr., who entertains large groups frequently, follows the Chinese custom of serving fresh fruit after a hot supper as she did Sunday night when she and Mr. Hiers, Jr., entertained 12 at a chop suey supper. Ice cold fresh pineapple slices, slightly sugared centered with candied whole kumquats are not only pretty to look at but equally delicious to eat. . . . Mrs. Coleman Nockolds, who has chosen her recipes from her travels to the four corners of the globe, believes the English way of serving “cold” meat or fowl pies for summer dinners best. Mrs. Nockolds chicken pie sounds delectable enough for us. It has a puff paste top brushed with raw yolk of egg and decorated with little egg cut outs. The pie itself is composed of cooked chicken, hard boiled sliced eggs, plenty of salt and pepper all mixed with the broth of the chicken cooked down to the jelly stage. An hour or so in the oven, then gently cooled and this cold pie is good to last crumb . . . Mrs. Louie Lanford, another Gables hostess, who whips up many a delicious dish for her friends, whips up a lot of eggs (four to be exact) into an “Angel Pie” that should be a repeater, once tried. It requires long slow baking in an electrically controlled oven, cooling then covered with whipped cream into shaved or the refrigerated bar of bittersweet chocolate, and we'll wager if you ever ate a piece, you would think it had been made in heaven. ● Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Susong combined a week end trip to Macon, Ga., where they visited at Wesleyan with Jeanne, ending her first year as a student at Wesleyan College, with a business trip to Jacksonville where Mr. Susong attended a druggist convention. Returning they were joined by Charles Susong and Mrs. T. J. Davenport, Mrs. Susong's mother who drove up to Palm Beach to meet them. ● Mrs. Robert H. Freeman, 1203 Ferdinand Street will be a busy person this summer, having contracted by Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.,) to teach a six weeks course, spring and fall, in “charm and development of personality”. Mrs. Freeman will also continue her pleasant work as field representative for the Wesleyan Conservatory of Music in Florida and Georgia. Mrs. Freeman's appointment is a fortunate one for the college. The mother of three lovely daughters, Caroline and Betty the twins just graduating from Ponce de Leon High School, she has conducted radio talks over local stations as well as classes in “personality development” for business girls. If Mrs. Freeman wanted a slogan to champion her favorite subject, it would be this for 1941-42 girl, “Keep the girl old fashioned inside, but streamline and modernize the exterior”. ● And speaking of schools, Miss Mildred Kennedy, of the Ken-Castle who is moving her boarding department to Wilmington Island, Savanah, Ga., will be taking her department “home”. Years ago, Miss Kennedy's rather bought part of land on the island, built a large farm place with rambling country home. Now the island has become one of the more exclusive as far as realestate is concerned, as the islands around Savanah become desirable for home sights. ● A telephone call from Joseph H. P. Klein, whose beautiful poincetia hedge at the corner of Granada Boulevard and Avenue Mariana has made history, informs us the Poinciana Cacti will definitely burst into full forth probably this week end. The exotic blooms of which Mr. Klein has about 150 open up on the stroke of nine just as if they heard the bell when they are in season. Yes, they'll be flood lighted. ● Coral Gables will be welcoming back Mr. and Mrs. Gordon B. Anderson in the very near future. Mr. Anderson, who has been appointed executive general manager of Richard's Department Store in downtown Miami has been associated with the George B. Peck Company in Kansas City, since he left here several years ago. Perhaps it was “sand-in-his-shoes” that has brought Mr. Anderson back, but what ever it was, we hope he and his young wife will again call Coral Gables home. ● Mrs. Hewett Brown of 1100 South Greenway Drive will have as her guest for a week, beginning Saturday Mrs. John Hone, retiring chairman of production for the Dade County chapter of the Red Cross in Coral Gables. Mrs. Hone left on touring for Washington, then New York to fill an appointment by President Roosevelt in the National Defense program for women. Mrs. Hone is severing her residence connections in Coral Gables, for her work will take her away for an indefinite period, and Coral Gables is losing one of its noble women. Holding an important post with the Red Cross in New York during world war No. 1, Mrs. Hone continued on with Red Cross work for rehabilitated soldiers, during the intervening years, at Christmas time she turned her own home into a veritable receiving station for articles to be sent to far away places. When Red Cross began its intensive sewing and knitting program for British Relief, Mrs. Hone again turned her home and her own talents for getting workers interested in this great humanitarian work. ● Mrs. Grant Orr and two children are spending a month at Jacksonville Beach . . . Bill Seepe, nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Seepe, 322 Avenue Navarre, will leave Monday for a summer's stay with his grandparents in Ravenna, O.—will travel to Canada with his grandparents for their annual fishing trip . . . Mrs. Vance Wilson and daughter Suzanne left this week to spend the summer in Pennsylvania. ● Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus Collins returned this week from Berwick, Pa., their former home, where they spent six weeks . . . Mrs. A. B. Morrison, her mother, Mrs. M. C. Ihlseng and Mrs. F. A. Abhe are planning a motor trip to the North Carolina mountains next week. At the same time Mr. Morrison will be attending his class reunion at Cornell University . . . Mrs. C. R. Higgins will leave Tuesday by motor with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Christie for Dayton, O., where she will visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Newcomb! During her absence the Higgins' new home in Coral Gables will be started.