What opportunities for outdoor picnics the family has when traveling in a trailer! Instead of eating in the trailer the usual way, why not set up a card table outside? Dish up the dinner inside, and let each one carry his filled plate to the table.

As noon approaches, while en route, you may spot a shady grove by a brook, the very place to have the sandwiches and soup that was heated in the morning and poured into a vacuum bottle to keep hot.

Maybe the picnic is an especially planned one, with everything prepared in the trailer before leaving. Or maybe it is a picnic with part to be cooked on the picnic spot. Whichever it is, and wherever it is eaten, the fun is in the eating. So - serve tempting food combinations, neatly prepared. You'll be sure to have a success on your hands.

Before leaving home, do not forget to put the vacuum jug and bottle and any other pet picnic things into the trailer. They will be worth the space they take up.

First, decide what kind of picnic you are going to have.

Second, plan the menu and assemble equipment before preparing the food. Doing so enables you, while getting the food together, to think about necessities - to check and recheck. What a letdown on a picnic to find you've left the salt behind!

In the section that follows, there are recipes aud instructions for making each of the starred dishes.

Picnics Ready Before Starting. Picnic No. 1

Meat and Potato Salad *

Bread and Butter Sandwiches.

Sliced Radish and Lettuce Sandwiches.

Devilled Eggs.

Ice Cream in Cones *

Coffee in Vacuum Bottle.

Iced Tea in Vacuum Jug.

Meat And Potato Salad

1 cup leftover chicken 1/2 cup celery

2 cups potatoes 1/4 cup stuffed olives mayonnaise

Dice all ingredients. Season to taste and mix well with mayonnaise. Place salad in individual paper cups with covers. Line cup with lettuce, if desired. Leave in the refrigerator until the last moment. Any leftover meat may be used in this salad.

Ice Cream In Cones

1 pint ice cream 4 ice cream cones

If the ice cream is very hard, wrap carefully in many sheets of newspaper and it will keep until ready to serve. If the carton is wrapped in this way, then placed in a deep tin with chopped ice packed around it, it will keep solid for a fairly long trip. Ice cream in cones makes dishes and spoons unnecessary.

Picnic No. 2

Cold Fried Chicken *

Devilled Egg Sandwiches.

Cucumber, Onion and Cream Cheese Sandwiches.

Green Olives * Cake with Chocolate Frosting * Chilled Tomato Juice in Vacuum Jug Hot Coffee in Vacuum Bottle.

Fried Chicken

The chicken may be served hot. As soon as it is fried, place in a vacuum container which has been rinsed out with hot water to warm it. Screw top on firmly.

Cake With Chocolate Frosting

1 plain store cake 1 can condensed sweetened

2 squares unsweetened choco- milk

Late 1 tablespoon water

Melt chocolate in top of double boiler. Add condensed sweetened milk. Stir until it thickens, about five minutes. Add water, stir and spread on the plain cake. The store cake, so dressed up, tastes exactly like a homemade one.