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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-12-04, Page 6WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, December 4, 1941'JMGESIX' Coughing Here’s Easy Time-Tested Way To Get Relief Get after those distressing spells of coughing and ease misery of the cold the widely used Vicks way.. .Boil some water. Pour it Into a bowl. Add a good spoonful of Vicks VapoRub, Then breathe in the steaming medicinal vapors. With every breath you take VapoRub’s medication soothes irritation, quiets coughing, helps clear head and breathing pas­ sages. FOB ADDED BELIEF... At bedtime rub Vicks VapoRub on throat, chest and back. Its poul­ tice-vapor action works to bring you comfort while you sleep THE MIXING BOWL fp AMMff AWMf Homemade Chirstmas Gifts Hello Homemakers! If you intend .to make some of your gifts this year, we have a few helpful suggestions. Make use of materials you’ve “stowed away”, and you’ll have a lot of fun in the doing. Remember your favor­ ite rag doll? * ♦ * ♦ Rag Doll The body of a thirty-inch doll re­ quires one-half yard of 36" wide cot­ ton rAaterial. Brown or yellow yarn will be needed for the hair and brown embroidery thread for the eye-brows and lashes, blue for the eyes and red for nose and mouth. Finely c,ut rags make good stuffing. A dress for this doll requires three-quarters of a yard of gingham and one-quarter yard of white material for the apron. The body and head will have a seam all the way around the sides. The pieces should be cut so that the head is an 8-inch circle and the body is 10 inches long. Stitch together (inside-out) on your electric sewing machine, leaving a three-inch opening. Turn, stuff and sew the opening by hand. Each arm and.each leg is also cut with a seam all the way around. The arm pieces should measure 414 inches across and 12 inches in length. The leg piece should measure 4% inches across and 13-inches in length. Mark the eyes, nose and mouth before you embroider them. Tint the cheeks and hands with crayon. Cut the dress kimono style and gather it together with string at neck and wrist bands. Make a straight cut apron and sew on a patch. Kitchen Book Ends. The automatic electric iron has tak­ en the place of the antique flat iron which was most inefficient in com­ parison with the iron of today. But paint the old irons suitable to your Colour scheme and the children will be keen to put their books back, be­ tween their own books ends. Book Covers For the children’s book, sew an oil- cloth cover using a long stitch. Al- justment of the stitch on an electric sewing machine is a simple quarter turn of the labelled screw. Gay Aprons , The sturdy material from flour or feed bags is well worth considering here. Aprons may be made smart and colorful with a few trimmings. A flour bag 34 or 36 inches wide and 27 inches long will make a waist-line apron and a. bib with a halter around the neck to hold up the bib. Flan trimmings from the odds and ends in your scrap bag. Just a band of print across the bottom of the apron above the hem, and the same width used for the waist band will be enough to please a big or little girl, Appliqued Bibs Make a bib for the baby with a cut­ out of her favorite nursery figure as an attraction. It can be easily shirred around the neck, using the gathering foot attachment of the electric sewing machine. Coloured thread may be used to make any design in a jiffy with the zigzag gadget. Child’s Own Cushion A bright red heart-shaped cushion is a favorite with little girls. They are in style for old and young again. You binder attachment to work whenever can have expert finishes if you put the you use bias binding for trimming. Child’s Dresser Set Such an inexpensive gift (for their own dresser) helps mother in the never ceasing problem—pride in tid­ iness during early training, Use pieces of worn out sheets, or pieces from too-small organdy dresses. Finish with coloured picoting or hemstitching. The hemstitcher of the electric sewing machine i$ a simple device which saves time. * * * ♦ Electric sewing machine are of vital importance these busy days. Many homemakers who have never used the new models have learned how to do good work without erperience. Work­ ing for the Red Cross or the British War Victim groups teaches you the professional tricks and short-cuts. ♦ ♦ * $ Take a Tip When imported citrus fruits are ex­ pensive in winter, serve substitutes. Turnips and cabbage—finely shredded in salads are excellent. Fruits—canned by the electric oven method—apples, berries, cherries, plums, peaches, pears, etc., give you full vitamin content. Make it a rule to serve one raw vege­ table or canned tomatoes, and plain fruit—once a day. * ♦ * * QUESTION BOX Mrs. J. C. asks: “How can we heat our bathroom—without plugging in an electric heater?” Answer: Electrodes, encased in glass. Further details have been mail­ ed Mrs. J. C. iMrs. M. Me. asks: “How can I serve baked onions a new way?” Answer: Take a small piece out of the centre and fill, the peeled onions with catsup, flavoured with honey. Place in an uncovered greased cas­ serole. Bake in an electric oven at 350 degrees (Use 3 tbs. honey to % cup catsup).' , 4s 4-' * 4= Anne Allan invited you to write her c/o Advance-Times. Just send in your questions on homemaking prob­ lems and watch this little corner of the column for replies. I Hints On Fashions I Flattering Grape-colored Beautifully tailored knit frocks are a boon in the winter and this year shops are featuring them in exquisite colors. This attractive knit is in a warm grape color trimmed with braid embroidery and spaghetti fringe at the pockets. There is similar trim­ ming at the belt. Bone buttons form the front closing from throat to hem. It also features a classic collar, rev- ers and long tight sleeves. Household Hints By MRS. MARY MORTON s S Each cook has her own particular way of cooking fish. There are the fried addicts, those who insist a bak­ ed fish is the only proper way to ser­ ve, and the broiled and boiled fish advocates. Try steaming for a change. I’ll give you a recipe. Today’s Menu Steamed Fish French Fried Potatoes Cauliflower Moulded Tomato Apple Dumplings in Maple Coffee Steamed Fish 2 lbs. fish steak or fillets Salad Syrup / 4-' 1 or or 1% or 3 lbs. whole fish Salt solution Cream dressing or Seasoned butter dressing Cover fish with salt solution which should be made in proportion of 2 tablespoons salt to 1 cup cold water, allowing it to stand from 2 to 8 min­ utes, depending upon the thickness and SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK WE ARE PAYING ♦ 3¥2% ON FIVE YEAR GUARANTEED TRUST CERTIFICATES ISSUED IN ANY AMOUNT An ideal authorized investment for individuals, companies/ ceme­ tery boards, executors and other trustees. THE STERLING TRUSTS CORPORATION S7S BAY ST. TORONTO MOLESWORTH (Intended for last week) Mrs. Roy Vogan visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Kock of Gowanstown, Mr, and Mrs. Roy Vogan accomp­ anied by Mr, and Mrs. Charlie Kock of Gowanstown spent Sunday at Nia­ gara Falls. A miscellaneous shower was held in the Community Flail on Thursday evening last for Mr, and Mrs. Norman Bell, (nee Helen Smith) who were recently married, Miss Iris Dickson read an address to which Mr. Bell re­ plied thanking their many friends for their kind wishes, Lunch was served and the evening was spent in dancing. Mr. and Mrs. Bell received many use­ ful and beautiful gifts. . 0 OUR FOOD SUPPLY .ACROSS I. Amulet 5, Strike 9. One 10. Particle II. Nimble 12. Muffler 14. Large cask 15. Wind in­ strument IB. Guido’s highest note. 17. Type si2ie 10. Malt beverage Cl. Strait be­ tween Europe and Turkey • Indian peasants Donkey Earth goddess Siberian gulf Male sheep Unrolls , To Stroll Perform . Sloths L4 25, 26. variety of the fish. Drain, place fish 1 layer deep in well-oiled steamer and cook from 5 to 12 minutes or until tender. Serve with cream sauce or seasoned butter dressing. I you use a cream sauce, make ordinary white sauce with plenty of butter then add chopped parsley just before^ serving. Serve over fish with lemon on the side, or serve sauce irf separate dish with lemon with the fish. For the but­ ter sauce try Maitre D’Hotel Sauce. ' * * * * Maitre L’Hotel Sauce cup butter drops onion juice tbsp, lemon juice tbsp, chopped parsley Salt and pepper Beat butter to a cream, as for cake, add lemon juice a little at a time, and, when well blended, stir in the parsley, onion juice and seasoning. Form into a ball or flat cake and set aside to chill before serving. * * * Apple Dumplings in Maple Syrup 1% 1% 1 3 * * cups flour tsps, baking powder tsp. salt tbsp, sugar tbsps, fat Approx. % cup milk Maple syrup cup sugar tbsp, butter apples with % 1 4 Sift flour, measure and sift baking powder, salt and sugar; work in fat with pastry blender or the tips of the fingers, add milk to make a soft dough. Roll out to % inch thick­ ness and cut into 4 rounds or squares. Pare and core apples, roll each in maple syrup and .place in centre of pastry round. Fill centre with sugar, dot with butter, bring ends of pastry together. Place in small greased bak­ ing dish, pour additional syrup over dumplings to come well up on them. Bake in moderately hot oven (375 degrees F.) from 30 to 40 minutes. Serve with syrup poured over them, With cream, if liked. He: When I see you smile, Miss Buffman, I want to say 'Come to me!” She: Why, sir, I hardly know you— you must be a regular Don Juan. He: No, Miss Buffum—I’m a den­ tist. ’ By R. J. SCOTT Written Specially for C.W.N.A. News­ papers by John Atkins, Farmer- Journalist No. 4—-WORK THAT COUNTS . There is no more satisfying work than the growing 6f war food. There is no better way to shake off the nightmare of war than to harvest the crops. There is reality in a farmer’s work when food is needed—a deep sat­ isfaction that is apart from any other consideration. It is the reason why farm people keep on growing things as long as they have the means of production. Men know in their souls that they are-serving the creative purpose when they fee(d humanity. Food is life. The sharing of it is religion. This fight for freedom will finally be won by food. When it is won, the peace can be pre­ served by feeding thfe hungry and as­ suring them that starve again while exchange for their them .in disaster. No matter how little, he may get for his work the farmer is paid in a sense of fulfillment of the human pur­ pose. How much he can produce is a different matter. The quanitiy and quality depends upon production he derives of it. Every Canadian who making food production possible can share the farmer’s satisfaction for there is no part of Canada’s war pro­ duction more important than food. Food production is not a problem that can be left to farmers alone. Pro­ duction encouragement is an urban problem. A willingness to pay fair prices for food and an active interest in establishing and maintaining a proper balance between city and country are duties of urban Canadians. MR. LAPOINTE DIES RT. HON. ERNEST LAPOINTE Rt. Hon. Ernest Lapointe, minister of justice for Canada and Quebec) Jonjct-time nolitical leader, died in a Montreal hosoitaL fig |||| they need never we have food to labor or to give the means of from the sale contributes to No economic injustice can rob a farmer of the satisfaction of doing work that counts, but if can easily destroy -his ability to produce the food we need. Many city people think that a farm­ er can carry on and produce food to the limit in any circumstances. They know little of the farmer’s need for labor to help him and his wife. They know nothing of modern, farm pro­ duction with expenses which cover gasoline, feed for balanced rations, seed, implements, buildings, fencing, repairs, telephone,1 wages, livestock, and a hundred and one things that make a considerable total. And all of this is aside from the family expen­ ses for all of the things that town people buy, except the food grown on the farm which must be supplemented by much purchased food. Those who were not raised on farms and who have not done a day’s work with an axe and saw, have no idea how much hard work .it takes to cut the farm wood where wood is available. (They fail to see that they trade a few short days of work to the coal man for fuel that a farmer pro­ duces with double the "days of work, work that is much harder than theirs.} ' They do not realize that they get their food, much of it’ ready to use, for less work than it takes farm people to provide the ’same foods for them­ selves. Surely farm people earn the satis- * factions that they get from the know­ ledge that their work counts, from, the beauty of the country, from work­ ing outdoors, from the independence of their life, if they are not harrassed by debts. These things makd farm life worth­ while, but they do not make it profit­ able. It must also be profitable if the food we.need is to be produced. Mak­ ing farming profitable is also work that counts. K. M. MacLENNAN Veterinary Surgeon Successor to J. M. McKague PHONE 196 Wingham, Ontario. i WELLINGTON FIRE Insurance Company Est. 1840 An all Canadian Company which has faithfully served its policyhold­ ers for over a century. Head Office “ - Toronto CO SENS & BOOTH, Agents - Wingham DR. W. M. CONNELL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Phone 19 K J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money To Loan. Office — Meyer Block, Wingham z W. A. CRAWFORD, MJ). Physician and Surgeon Located at the office of the late Dr. J. P. Kennedy. Phone 150 Wingham J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. DR. R. L. STEWART 41. Italian river 43. Child 44. Viper V CROSSWORD PUZZLE 4. American Indian 5. Short for sister 6. Crazy 7. Kettledrums 8. Releases on condition 11.In bed 13. Charges for services 17. Opening in fence 18. Half ems 19. Pronoun 22. Doctrine 23. To tag 27. Musical composition • 28. To claim back 29. Clause in a contract 30. Fetish 31. Innate 32. Charge for keeping goods 33. Agreement 34. Masurium (sym.) 35. Periods of time 40. Fish w»ixY oF C/U.lFOR.Nl*< -<AMES Kmq Cobras 4HEIR . FAH6S/Z PHYSICIAN Telephone 29 0 Bonds, Investments & Mortgages Wingham Ontario r I R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER and SOLICITOR Office —- Morton Block. Telephone 66 HARRY FRYFOGLE Licensed Embalmer and . Funeral Director Furniture and Funeral Service AmbulancevService. Phones: Day 109 W. Night 109J. J. ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191 Wingham e7. 28. 80. $3. 30. 87. so. High, craggy hill 39. Snip j Gentle emanation Silent Tapestry Feminine namd* Concealed obstacle Reward n, 12. H. 15. it .. 18; stick DOWN 1. Vein in the heck Integrated 2. Castoff ...» nnieelinc'li/ COVERED BRIDGE. 1,282 FEE* LOHQ— rt&j Brunswick Frederick A. Parker OSTEOPATH Offices: Centre St., Wingham and Main St, Listowel. Lisfcowel Days: Tuesdays and Fri­ days. Osteopathic and Electric Treat­ ments. Foot Technique. Phons 272 Wingham THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A Thorough Knowledge of Farm Stock. Phone 231, Wingham. % For Life Insurance and Pension Plans consult GEORGE R. MASON representative, Canada Life Assurance Co. ©HE oT 4UB. Sl'RANqtS-f HOUriHA IM Akk CDXArflOK — M* RASPS BODIES OdfaER FisH4 AMD SUCKS 4ta.ui. Cq* i>0. Kmf taw Srndicm, WnrM n»ht> ftM-rwd BLOOD£ MUGGS AND SKEETER By WALLY BISHOP