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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-03-26, Page 6to conserve gasoline and a patriotic duty and to in the gasoline ration* which comes into effect ■jmioti -The Missus THIS I REMEMBER BEST English Folks Keep Sanity by Enjoying!wel- the barberry it-MODERNfrom the cedar 2000 Bushels By Margaret Butcherfrost and the the FOR SALE green Ham- liere community Saturday, is spending Johnson, of Gov’t. Approved’ Plant CLEANED, GRADED, TREATED with CERESAN by most modern methods WOULDN’T THE HON. WINSTON ENJOY THIS? t*SY . was telling me of a young girl who had come to board same house. On the Sunday the British Prime Minister My Mother had flowers all through the Winter, on the window ledge, from Notes front A Woman's Workshop Cartier Oats Commercial No. 1 ’T'hwdiay, March 1942 THB EXETER TIMES-APVOCATE GREEN FINGERS There are certain people who seem to have the knack of making things grow, even under adverse conditions. Such are described by the qpaint old term as having “green fingers”. Some way. the words suggest some secret magic power. There may, indeed, be folk who have within themselves some ardent passion for growth that transfers itself into the plants they handle, but one suspects that the secret of their success lies more often in patient, constant care, which develops a sympathy and under standing of the individuals that make up the plant families. After all, plants are a good deal like children: They thrive in the sunshine of love but can easily be spoiled by foolish over-attention. They do not stand for too much interference with Nature’s processes, but at times can do with a little nipping and pruning for syriimetry of growth. The really important thing is to secure for them good healthy roots and then we can leave the blossom to, take care of itself. Speed Limit to be A Canadian Press despatch from Ottawa says: “Munitions Minister Howe, announcing a 40-miles-an- hour speed limit would become gen eral throughout Canada to conserve gasoline and rubber, told Canadian motorists Monday night that “when the tires you have now are worn, out, your motoring is over until some considerable time after the war ends.” Mr. Howe, who spoke over a national network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, said that while confiscation of tires on non- essential cars is not an immediate prospect “the Government will not hesitate to commandeer tires from 40 Miles per Hour private owners of non-essential ve hicles whenever that rubber is need ed.” Mr. Howe appealed to Canadian motorists rubber as co-operate ing plan April 1. He announced retreading of tires would be restricted to commercial vehicles and buses and for trans portation of workers in war plants with no alternative means of trans portation. The conservation of rubber and gasoline was a matter of vital con cern, Mr. Howe said. Little sprigs Drops of red bushes, With bits of hedge. In March when the cold winds loitered, And snow was still on the distant hills, I remember a blue bowl on table, And the earthy scent of the fodils. October roses in siver vases, A lilac sprig from behind the shed, A little glass holding early violets There on the dresser by her bed. The rooms so cool—fresh from her dusting, The sunlight streaming across the floor, A bowl of marigolds on the book case, To greet you when you come the door. No matter how worried, or ill •busy, Winter, Summer, or Spring Fall, My mother could always find flower—• That’s what I remember best all. daf- in or or a of Dorothy Dumbrille # * * SLIP GERANIUMS NOW In order to secure winter geran iums that will blossom early and continuously, slip them now. First of all it is a good plan to select varieties that have proven them selves adaptable to house culture, take slips in early spring and root in sand or water. When planting • choose 5 inch pot. In the bottom put drainage material, then a little fertilizer or poultry droppings and fill the pot with a good rich soil mixture containing plenty of sand. As the growth appears, pinch back to secure sturdy branching and a well-developed root system. About August allow the plant to grow. I have a geranium which has only been without bloom one week since dt was brought into the house in September. It is a cerise color and a very reliable bloomer. The giant rose-pink, salmon-pink, apple blos som and scarlet varieties all pay generously for their keep. Sit * St WHAT ONE CENT WILE BUY Based on average 25 cycle rates in Toronto, for one cent you can run one of these electrical appliances for the time stated below: A clock for three hundred and sixty hours. A coffee-maker for one hour and a quarter. A curling iron for twenty-eight hours. A fan for twenty-four hours, • A food mixer for eight hours. An iron for one hour, A lamp, (60 watt) for twelve hours. A refrigerator for thirteen hours. A toaster for one hour. A vacuum cleaner for one hour and a half. A washing machine for three hours. —Toronto Hydro Electric. System Bulletin. ’ Duty When Duty comes a-knocking at your gate, Welcome him in; for if you bid him wait, He will depart only to come once more And bring seven other your door. —Edwin $ A friend of ours, who lives in De troit, Polish in the when was scheduled to speak, my friend was anxious that there should be no interruptions, so she asked Mary if she did not want to listen to Mr. Winston Churchill. The girl said “No, I do not care to listen to gos sip on Sunday.” My friend thinks that she had confused the name with that of Walter Winchell (if that makes it any * * Learning makes pany for himself. * '-x CORBETT Mrs. Harry Appleton will be host ess at a ten-cent tea and social ev ening in Grace church parish hall on Thursday evening, March 26. Admission 10c. Everybody come. Mr. Charles C. Hodgins, of ilton, visited with relatives recently. Several from this motored to London on Miss Sophia Young a few days with Mrs, D Grand Bend. Miss Eloise McLinchey is spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. John Steeper and family. There will be a quilting as well as the regular Ladies’ Guild' meet ing in Grace church parish hall Wednesday afternoon, April 1. t Fun Despite Bad News from the War Front better). * a man fit com- Nowadays thought for who, owing ments, her,—Punch. Poor Mother! we the modern to should national has no daughter * RATIONING OF TEA AND EXPECTED *# spare a mother, require- to guide COFFEE The Japanese conquests have shut off the major sources of our supply of tea. German subs threaten the precious shipping space of vessels that normally carry coffee and cocoa from South America. When the present stocks run out we may have no more of any of these. If every one is careful not to waste them, we will enjoy these beverages that much longer. In Australia all sup plies have been taken over by the government, A wheat substitute for tea follows—some way it does not sound too much like the orig inal: “Take one pound of wheat, place in a baking dish, sprinkle three tablespoons of sugar, two teaspoons of salt, place in oven and brown, avoiding burning. Store in airtight jar. Use one teaspoon to each per son, making tea in the usual man ner and allowing it to# Ms * KETTLE AND infuse well.” PAN as a thriftyIf you measure up cook you: Heat measured amount of water for coffee—not a kettleful; turn heat low under the vegetables once they start steaming; use the oven for a full meal or several bak ed foods while it’s heated. Boiled Raisin Cake cup of boiled raisins cup -of liquid in which raisins were boiled When cool add: % cup brown sugar I y2 cup syrup 1 tbsp, butter or shortening (softened) 1 teaspoon soda % teaspoon salt Spice, if desired 2 1 1 1 I i duties to Markham Two Groups There seems to be just groups of people in the great world —the people who want the World to be bettei* and see a chance for mak ing it so, and the people who like it as it is and don’t want it changed. The real hope of the world Is in the increase Improve tin. in the grotip it.—-Edward two great that wants to Sanford Mar* cups flour, egg, beaten, added last Raisin Meringue Pie seedless raisins water cup cup egg oup scalded milk a cup is of almost and 1 1 1 1 % cup sugar 2 tbsps. flour % cup nuts Boil the raisins with water until the water evaporated. Mix the sugar flour together, then add the egg. Stir in the milk slowly, so that it will be smooth and raisins. Cook in a double thick. Add the nuts, shell and top with Brown in a hot oven. Birthday Cake Temperature: 50 degrees Time, 25 % cup % cup % cup 2 1 boiler until Pour into a a meringue. minutes, shortening brown sugar corn syrup f.; eggs orange and 1 cup raisins through food chopper.) cups cake flour teaspoon baking soda (PM 'Lackie Bros. Whalen, Ont. Business Phone Kirkton 35rl5 Residence Phone Lucan 38w on #■ * ■Hi * ZION The Red Cross quilting will be held at Zion school on Saturday af ternoon, March 28. Mr. Wellington Brock, president of the Federation of Agriculture for Usborne Township, attended the convention held in Toronto last Tuesday and Wednesday. The community club will be held in Zion school on Friday March 27. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hern the funeral last Thursday Hern’s uncle, Gunning, The Farm Forum Zion school on Monday night. Miss at evening, attended of Mrs. the late Mr. Fred of St.- Marys. was held in end Alma Ratz spent the week- her home. BRINSLEY ofUnder the able convenership Mrs. Jas. Dixon, president of the McGillivray-Mt. Carmel Red Cross Society, a very successful bingo party was held in West McGilliv ray hall on Thursday evening. There was a draw on a quilt which net ted about $34.00. The quill! was made and donated by Mrs. George Hodgins. The total receipts of the evening amounted to nearly $80.00. The March meeting of the Red Cross was held at the home of Wil bert Sholdice on Friday evening. Mrs. Harry Crone of London Township called on old neighbors in this vicinity ovei’ the week-end. W.I. Meeting The McGillivray W.I. met in the hall on Wednesday last with Mrs. Malcolm' Allison, .president, presid ing. Roll call was answered by “Something I did during the winter in my spare, time”. The topic of the afternoon was given by Mrs. Parry Thompson ont “Historical Research.” She also gave a demon stration of some mats she had made. There was a great showing of Red Cross work that had been turned in. A spelling match completed the program. Lunch was then served by the committee in charge. CREDITON EAST Mrs. Leonard Wein returned home Friday aftei' visiting with her sister, Mrs. Alex Hamilton, at 'Grand Bend. Mr. Frank Sweet, of Sarnia, vis ited Friday with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Wilson Anderson. Mr. Jack Sims, of Exeter, spent the week-end here visiting his brother Matt., who has been very 1 pleurisy, his con- GREENWAY The Young People’s Society the Grand Bend United church are presenting their play, “Big Broth er” in the United church on Wed nesday evening, April 1st under the auspices of the Women’s Associa tion. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Brown, of Toronto spent the week-end at the home of Mr. W. J. Brown. Mrs. Arthur Brophey visited a few days last week with Mrs. J. Bro phey, of Parkhill. The Red Cross Society are hold ing a quilting in the United church basement on Thursday. Mrs. Elzar'Mousseau and Marilyn of Kippen and ___ ____ ___ bull, of Grahd Bend, spent a few days last week Mr. and Mrs. D. Miss Marlene Woodburn enter tained a few of her little friends at a birthday party on Saturday after noon. Mr. Ray Eagleson, of Hamilton, spent the week-end with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Eagleson.s Mr. troit home of Mrs. Rufus Turn- with their parents, Brown. Selbourne English, of spent the week-end at here. De- his A visiting pastor was enjoying a round of golf with his host when a great calamity befell him. Taking a mighty swing he missed the little white object completely. ...Pastor— Oh, Muscle Shoals! ' Mystified, his companion asked for an explanation of the expression. Pastor—I mean the biggest dam on earth, replied the minister. p I eer Sales Books are the best Counter Check Books made in Canada. They cost no more than ordinary books and. always give satisfaction. We are agents and will be pleased to quote you on any style or. quantity required. See Your Home Printer First RATES H5C ? to 250 $WGUI» a "ft We still have what fun we can. On New Year’? Eve I went to a children's party, arid there were great doings. I arrived rather late (though, cunningly enough, in time for tea) to find games in progress, with about twenty prettily dressed little girls in the big room. Our friend the barrister had arrived be fore me, and could be dimly seen behind five or six maidens who were perched on his knee. I am not cast ing aspersions on the good intentions of little girls, of course, but I be lieve he is a very fruitful source of half-crowns ’for money-boxes. I have seen, before now, certain sly •transactions of that nature. A kind ly and generous man, our barris ter. Then came the tea which, by some miracle of saving and con triving was a truly splendid spread. In fact,' it was kids got down to nobody spoke a half an hour, heard were those of the grown-ups exclaiming greedily, or saying: “Please pass me another of those.” How the little girls managed to turn cartwheels after all that es my comprehension. I am sure* none of US could have it to save our lives! Then were more games and, as the did not quite meet the case, they sat me down at the piano for ‘Mus ical Chairs,’ assisted by a man who is clever with the drums. It was an impromptu affair alto gether. The drummer and I began to enjoy ourselves so much that we forgot all about the infants, and got them running round for about a mile before a managing sort of woman, looking starkly horrified, hurried over and implored us to stop. So we came smartly down to earth after our jolly experiments with ‘Colonel Bogey’ and ‘Stars and Stripe?’. At the end of the session when I was completely exhausted, by ‘Sir Roger’, and the drummer’s brow was damp, the smallest girl came forward and presented . me with an improvised bouquet of gold en chrysanthemums. I accepted it in a manner which—I flatter my self—would have done credit to a Lady Mayoress, and the party fin ished on a note of general satisfac tion, relied, all, perhaps—nobody showed any adverse symptoms after the gigantic tea. Bad News News over the good, in parts; but we learned long ago, that bad news is not final news. Dunkirk * taught us that. Somebody, somewhere, every day, is getting news that seems like the end of everything; .but people still go on. That young airman’s widow, living just up the foad, looks neat and self-poSsessed, and still has a smile to greet friends. It is only when one really looks into her eyes . . . But she is making a go of it, doing her war-work all day an'd not being a trouble to anybody. In fact, you have to be rather cute at reading behind folks’ eyes to see anything at all. I guess there are plenty more like her. , I have noticed one queer thing: the worse things seem at the mo ment, the more we laugh at our comedians—and the better the co medians become. A good show over the radio is immensely popular, and there’s no humbug about the roars one hears. They work hard, those amazing women and meh, if laughter is what they want must feel pretty satisfied. One turns naturally sense, nowadays, and a reversion to sanity, laugh quite of us circle nonsense a waste of tithe (and I have to count myself among those) real ize, was days, so good that the it right away, and word for at least The, only voices pass- quite done there radio Nobody cried; nobody quar- and—most remarkable of Not Final radio is not too away from too much seriousness that living becomes an actual thing and the bogeys drop back into their proper places, people one can denly seen, in experience, as had so little contact with real life that they saw only one side of it ■—the gloomy and transient side. Troubles, when one comes to think of it, are passing things; for one ache there are a hundred agreeable experiences, if one looks for them. I often think that when All This is over and done with, among the names of our heroes and great men there will be the names of those hard-working souls who keep our spirits up for us. An old friend of mine—an actor I have lost sight of for the past sixteen years oi’ so—is now playing in an amusing series on the radio, and the other day I dropped him a line, care of the BBC. He replied at once, evidently pleased to hear from me^ but inclined to bemoan the fact that, after twenty years of playing romantic heroes, he has now ‘come down to farce’. I soon sent off an answer to that! I told him that he was proving himself a first-rate comedian, and thanked him for many a wholesome chuckle so I hope he feelsJ better about it. There are plenty of dashing, ro mantic heroes in real life nowa days, praise be! Bo maybe we can afford that particular switch-over. After all, when you come to think of it, we’re fighting—for' one rea son,—so that the .kids of today and tomorrow shall be able to laugh as they please, and not be pushed into ■ gaol for poking well-deServed fun at in The most serious remember are sud- the light of richer the silliest! They some overbearing pompous booby high office. The Sausage Joke Our popular stock joke of the moment is The Sausage. I really do not wonder. I should not mind so much if this extraordinary pro duction would only call itself some thing else; for a sausage it certain ly is not. I do not mean that it doesn’t taste good. The truth is that it doesn’t taste at all, by some miracle. But since it is solid sub stance, and not just air, one must put down this entire flavor to the makers’ ingenuity, I gather. At one time it smacked strongly of cinnamon, but this pe culiarity has now ceased. It has all the stolid nothingness of one’s first meal though it the pan. I think Ministry that sausages should be served up in the pan, but not eat en. Rather on the lines of the pap- er-mache. fruit sometinies used as a table decoration. But perhaps the' Ministry has already issued the suggestion, and I have been do ing all the wrong things in attempt ing to make a meal of this stage absence of after a major operation, still looks very nice in I shall suggest to the j 'luii jLi m-w ? u 11 tu / P'PCMES’Trt o - E!R IE. think that MUST be the second thoughts. I read the papers more 6 i property. I answer, on really must regularly. The ‘points’ food i(American can ned goods) however, is very good. I have heard no complaints about it—and no jokes. So perhaps it is as well to leave our rollicking Sausage. Yesterday a talker on the radio was telling us of the time when he had to procure a load of sausage skins and get them stuffed, with sawdust, for use in a film, the idea being that the heat of the arc lamps would turn genuine meat to turn. An enlighteniiig thought came to me in the night: is it pos sible that these articles, by some odd mischance, have now found their way into the market? It sounds as good an explanation as any. HARPLEY Mrs. Hanson and two children, of Hamilton spent the week-end with Mrs. Joseph Hickey; Mr. and Mrs. Will Love enter tained the Willing Workers’ class of the United church, Grand Bend,, on Thursday evening. L.A.C. Hardy and Mrs. Hardy and Helen and, Frank, of Hagers- ville, visited with her father, Mr'.* Mr,-,«ell Hodgins, on. Sunday. Pte, Clarence Stone, of Camp Borden, spent the week-end at home. Mrs. Lloyd Taylor attended the convention of the Federation of Agriculture at Toronto on Tues day and Wednesday of last week. Miss Helen Love spent the week end with Miss Kay Campbell, of Parkhill. Nagging, Dragging Pains In Back r TAaoy women have to do their own housework, and the constant bend ing over, lifting, making beds, sweeping, ironing, sewing, so neces sary to perform their, household duties puts a heavy strain on the back and lddneys, and if there were no kidney wealmess the back would be strong and well. Doan’s Kidney Pills help to give relief to weak, backache, kidney suf fering women. Doan’s Kidney Pills are put up in an oblong grey box with our trade mark a “Maple Leaf” on the ' wrapper. Don’t accept a substitute. Be sure and get “Doan’s.” The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. and they Ford Makes Mines in Australia THE TIMES-ADVOCATEill with heart trouble and There is little change in dition. Mr. Sam Hedden spent the week-end latives. Mr. and Mrs. Wm, London, and Mrs. Wm. Motz. Mr. Murray Neil, who has secured employment in London, spent the week-end at his home here. , of heer London, with re* Heatherley, of spent Saturday with Mr, The World’s Finest Anthracite Trade Marked Blue. 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He apologised. “Ex cuse me, madame,” he said, “but I thought you were my wife.” “You’re a nice sort of husband for any woman to have, your clumsy, tipsy brute,” said the woman angrily, “There,” exclaimed the convivial one, triumphantly, “you talk like her too.” MORE than ever, marine mines are important to the defence of Australia’s long seaboard. Production is being speeded to the limit in the industrial plants of the Commonwealth where these war weapons are manufactured, work which eases from flat sheets of steel. The photo was taken in the plant of Ford Of Australia which, in ad* dition to producing wheeled and tracked military vehicles, is making mines in volume, com pleting components for howitzers, and is supplying machine tools to other industries, I 1*★# ♦ W #« ## # ik ix # KITCHEN KINKS Restore that crisp look droopy hat veils by pressing them over a piece of waxed paper. A is indicated. «■ # * ■# # « to medium-hot iron * #t A. J. 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