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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-09-14, Page 2eteee, KNOWS HOW — Handling a baby is nothing new for John G'nt- ner, 95. He's a veteran. Nancy Ann Ginmer, the baby he snuggles here, is his one hundredth great-grandchild. • Combine in a greaeed:casserelc (6-cup size) 34 c. corn syrup), 1 tbs. grated lemon rind and A c. orange juice. Preheat oven to 315° (moderately hot), Mix and sift once, then sift into a bowl, 14 e. Once,sifted pastry flour (or 1 c. once-sifted all,pUrpOse flour), 2ki asps, Magic )30itikTotvder, IA tsp. salt and jei C. fine gYarnilated sugar: ix ip c. earn flakes, slightly crushed; and Ac. cut-up pitt ed dates. Combirial Well-beaten 4v% tsp. vanilla, and 8 tbs. I . Make a Well in dry liquids; bilk lightly.• siyBake in preheated . Serve Warren with 'servings. kidic BAKING (ways Dependable AN NjE HIRST 177i f,"„4/# cau#0,44. "At MY age (M. know there is an end to eyeeything, Anne girst, so I am trying to bide my time in e frustrating situation,' Writes Mather who tried to disprove an old adage. Six ' months ago, during a housing shortage, she invited her son, his wife and their baby to move into her lime, At first every- thing worked out so well, that the couple turned, down a remu- nerative offer to stay on; but the classic rule about the impossi- bility of two Women living in the same house again has been proven true, "Now •everything has gone wrong!" she cries. "The girl is really a rough housekeeper, and she is destroying my home. She has banged, my furniture to ruin, slamming the baby carriage in- tq every piece, and she makes a sloppy job of everything she touches, I cannot tell her any- thing about how to fix the meals or use the washing machine; she resents it, and. completely ig- nores my suggestions. Nor twill she listen at all to my son when he tries to tell her about caring for the baby. Yet she complains to him about everything my young girl and boy do, expect- ing him to fight with us. He doesn't, and this makes her madder than ever. "The baby is no longer the quiet, well-sleeping child he was when he came, and we have to creep around the house and whisper to avoid waking him. "They are saving to buy a house, and it will take a year How ,can I stand it (or end it), Make this attractive cover for any size TV set! Its pretty grape pattern — asmart combination of filet crochet and regular cro- chet! Pattern 600: Crochet TV square 25 inches in No. 30 mer- cerized cotton; smaller in No, 50; larger in crochet and knit- ting cotton. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box, 1, Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS- LOON FOR smartest ideas in Needlecraft in our Laura Wheel er Catalog for 1955, Crochet, knitting, embroidery and love- ly things to wear. Iron-ons, quilts, aprons, novelties — easy, fun to make! Send 25 cents for yoUr copy of this book NOW! You will, want to order every new design in it. 'Without hurting my geed son?" A MOTligR" This troubled mother can- * not hasten the end of the * present difficulties, she should * present difficulties, she has * make up her mind to accept * them, as something she cannot * change, and, to, bide her time. *. The cheering fact that a dd.- " elite day is coming when all * this confusion will cease * should comfort her and bring " the patience to endure what * cannot be cured, * Her chief concern is that * her son shall not be hurt. If * she stops trying to direct his * wife, let, her alone to commit • what damage she will, that is the simplest way out. Let the * girl complain about the chil- dren's behavior, for she can- * not be stopped; her husband e is too well-bred to resent it * audibly, and for that his * mother can be grateful. It is * her own disappointment that * the girl will go her own way * (regardless of any guidance) * which really distresses her, " and. I hope she, will take her * son's cue and calm her hurt * feelings, * In such a situation it seems * best to expect these annoy- * antes to continue and to arm * herself against them. When * her home is again her own is * time enough to repair the de- * struction and put her house * in order. * TO "A MOTHER"; For your * son's sake, be philosophical * and try to hide your displea- " sure. Then when all this is * over, what a consolation it * will be to remember you did * nothing, said nothing, to cause any outburst, but submitted * with mature grace to a ten- * sion which many another * mothers would find unbear- * able. * Living just for today will * help. You know tomorrow will * bring its own harassing prob- * lems, but if you do not an- * ticipate them you will solve * -them as simply as you did to- * days. Each dawn brings you * one day nearer your release * from them all. * GOING CRAZY ! "Dear Anne Hirst: Since last fall I have gone with a young man with whom I fell deeply in love. I was sure he returned my affection, for he was never late for a date and never broke one,, and we had wonderful times together. We were so com- patible that we seemed to think as one person. We never argued, and I confess I expected to mar- ry him—until the night he failed to come. That was three weeks ago, and I ha've not heard from him at all. "I am almost crazy. I can't get over it! I hold a responsible position, but I'll lose it if I keep on carrying this torch. Shall I call him, or what? What is a nice girl supposed to do? CELIA" When a nice girl is jilted she is supposed to take the shock like a lady and behave as such. It is a staggering blow, but it is seldom fatal. Your job now is the most important anchor you have. Dig into it deeper than ever, and if you can take a course on the side that will make it • more exciting (and you more * valuable), do that. Concen- * tration along some practical * line is sorrow's great healer; * it leaves less time to mourn, it stimulates our mental energy * and during the hours we give ^' it, lifts us out of the depths. * Hold on to your job, Of course, you will not call * this faithless male nor make * any other gesture, His leaving * was brutal, and I hope soon * you will realize how lucky you * are that you did not get furth- * er involved.. . . Keep in touch * with other friends, too, wheth- * er you are so inclined or not. * It will help. 11: In any in-law difficulties, it is the older woman's place to show tolerance and self-restraint. The ways of youth are not her ways, and she contributes most by overlooking what she can and putting up with the rest. Anne Hirst's studies of family situa- tions have increased her wis- dom, and it is all at her readers' service. Write her at. Box 1, 123. Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ontario. * How Can I ? Q. How can I keep the colors bright in Mese dreeses? A. When a new colored cot- ton house dress is to be laun. dered"for the first, time, use one. tablespoon of salt to each. quart of water. Then in the rinse water use one tablespoon of vinegar to each quart of water. This treatment will keep the col. ors bright. • Q. How can 1 make lime water? A. Dissolve a fresh piece of lime in two quarts of water. Let it stand for two or three hours. Shake occasionally and remove any substance that may 'rise to the top. Q. How can I make attractive desserts? A. Try using vegetable col- orings when making bread pud- pings or custard. It is harmless and will make the dish look more appetizing. Q. How can I remove rusty screws? A. If a rusty screw is obstin- ate and will not move with an ordinary screw driver apply a heavy skewer heated red hot and hold it there until the screw it hot. Then use the screw driver and it will turn easily, Q. How can I clean the dust mop? A. After the dust mop has be- come dirty, put a heaping table- spoon of lye in a half bucket of water and let the mop boil in it. Then rinse well and allow it to dry in the sun, Q. Can you give me a table of comparative measures? A. T cup equals 1/4 pint; 2 teaspoons equal 1 dessertspoon; 4 teaspoons equal 1 tablespoon; 2 dessertspoons equal 1 table- spoon. Q, How can I give a better flavour to coffee? A. The flavour of coffee will be more delicious if it is allowed to stand for a few minutes after removing from the fire Pouring a little cold water into the spout will also have a settling effect. Q. How can I clean carpets? A. To make rug look like new, scrub 'with a Stiff brush moistened in diluted ammonia, and then rinse With the garden hose while hanging on the line, Q. , How can I make the gene ladder seta..? A, Make the step-ladder safer by fastening rubber or felt pads to the feet of the ladder, and also strips of rubber to the steps. Q. How can I keep cork Hears dealt? A. By sweeping with an or- dinary broom or floor brush, then putting a small amount of neutral soap lit a basin of warm, water and washing the floor Stains can often be removed by rubbing lightly With a Ate grade Of sandpaper or steel wool 18811E — 1.95:5 Chemial of Many And Varied Uses The fragile, heroines of old, reputed to 'have fainted at the slightest provocation, were fre- quently brought around with a whiff of "smelling salts" ee sometimes called spirits of am- monia. However, one doesn't have to be in the habit of swooning to recognize 'the pungent, odor of ammonia, since it is one of the most common chemicals that we know. In fact, amonia alone or in its several compound fornis, affects almost everything we Ammonia is by no means a modern discovery, In the middle ages it was obtained by distilling the horns and hoofs of stags — hence its ancient name of "hartshorn". Today, ammonia is mostly synthetic and is usually made from natural gas or fuel oil. 100,000 tons of ammonia are produced to Canada each year, to be used in products that range from wood pulp to perfume. Housewifes keep liquid "house- hold ammonia" on hand as a cleaning agent, while industries use this same chemical in large refrigeration systems. Other in- dustrial uses are in the making of oil, petroleum, explosives, textiles and dyes. However, it is in agriculture that ammonia has its most im- portant use. It is a major com- ponent of many agricultural fer- tilizers and is often applied directly to the soil. We owe more than we realize to this versatile chemical that helps produce much of the food we eat. HIGHER EDUCATION'-The tough job ahead of Peggy Wolverteh, 6, ancrmariy other youngsters begihnirig school this fall is drci- matiecilly portrayed here. Shelt eyeing a pile of 71 basil text- books she must wode through before she finishes the eighth grode. In 'addition,- the will dip ;red or study moray others. More Lives Than The ,Provettial cat At the, age of twenty-eight Mrs. Madeleine Beckett is be- ginning to think she must have more than the nine lives as- scribed to the proverbial feline, Returning to her home in Mel., bourne from a visit to New Zea- land she was standing on deck of a small steamer during a fresh breeze. A wave suddenly caught the ship broadside op and flung her headlong into the stormy sea, Her chance of survival, seemed hopeless. But while she trod water, she tore'. off her shoes and coat, then her dress and petticoat, Relieved of the extra weight, she turned on her back and held one hand up as a guide to a boat that was being precari- ously launched some' distance from whore she struggled in the sea, She was in the water two 'hours before the boat reached her and took her on board, Yet her only coniplaint was that she had lost the new coat that she had bought a few days before! Once she was trapped on the fourth floor of a blazing apart- ment building. There was no way down except by the stair- way, which was already en- veloped in flames, and by the time the fire brigade could get a long ladder up to the window she—and her pet dog—would be burnt to death. Instead of panicking she calm- ly went to the bathroom in her apartment and after running the bath half-full of water, placed her dressing-gown in it and drenched herself with water from head to foot. She then wrapped the gown around her- self and her dog and went to the bathroom window. Lifting it a little—she didn't want to create too much draught —she held her own face, and her dog's nose, at the opening, While flames roared around them they stayed there some twenty minutes, until a fireman on a tall ladder appeared at the window and helped them' both to safety. Neither was burned, although the flames had dried her dres-, sing-gown completely and ac- tually burnt part of the hem! Her courage and coolness had saved her life; while a number of others who had not had 'her foresight, died by jumping or perished in the flames. One of, the most remarkable cases of escape from certain death is that of Mrs. Kathleen McQueen,, of _Brooklyn. She is known to friends as "Calamity Kate," for on no fewer than seven occasions she has faced almost certain death and come off unscathed. She was the only woman sur- vivor when a 'plane.crashed in flames -,in Newark, New Jersey, three years ago; she was the only survivor when a bus crashed down a steep embank- ment into a river; she was the only survivor in a railway coach when her train collided with another in Oklahoma. Mrs. McQueen also survived ptomaine poisoning after she and four friends ate from a tin of fish. Her four' friends died, but she lived. Her narrowest squeak? Mrs. McQueen finds it difficult to say after so many, but she feels that the only time when she was ac- tually kissed by the Angel of Death was when, as a youngster, she was taken with a group of several hundred Sunday school children for an afternoon's steamer outing on the Hudson River. The steamer caught fire and, while everyone else was panic- stricken, the little girl of twelve calmly searched for a means of escape. "I saw a piece of plank about three feet long lying on the deck," she says, "and I took it and jumped overboard, holding on to it." About half an hour afterwards she was picked up by a rescue boat — but more than 100 child- ren and thirty of their Sunday school teachers lost their lives in the disaster. If it hadn't been for her pres- ence of mind even as a child --"Caiatnity Kate" might have perished too. SWIMMING PIG The New Zealand seaside re- sort of Napier has a pig that loves to swim! The pig belongs tei sixteen-year old An d t e ee Jones and is natried -"Siley,''' She, goes for a daily romp in the 86a with her spatter; swimming dog-"style 50 yards out and 'habit. She is claimed by residents' Of Napier- to be 'the cleanest, fieat, est and Most intelligent pig. in N'eyv Zealand. In addition to her •SWitnreitig prowess, Susy herds the Johes's float of sheep expertly Borne- wards at night and after dark acts as `watchdog, grutitieg 'furiously if a stranger veritttres bit the Jones's property': A Royal; Banquet of notion Rohl, Duc nen Princess Marina, ,TIOW hess of Kent, was a few months old, e mountain gipsy called at the Athens villa, of her parents, Prince Nicholas and the Grand Duchess Helen. "This is a child of fortune," she said, "She will be beautiful. "$rie will make a great mar- riage with a king's son, She will lose her husband while she is Still young and at the height of her happiness. Her children will be her consolation." Could any prophecy have been more ac- curate?. E, E, F, Tisdall says in an absorbing account of the Greek Royal Family — "Royal Destiny" — that as a child Marina, named after a famous Greek saint, was the self-willed, obstinate mem- ber of the family. She always knew what she wanted to do, and if forbidden would say; . "All right—then I shall pretend to do it!" In 1905, shortly before Her birth, her parents went on a diplomatic mission to Constanti- nople to congratulate Sultan Ab- dul Hamid "Abdul the Damn- ed" — on the twenty-fifth an- niversary of his accession. Ab- dul drove down the long hill to the great mosque in an open carriage, heavily guarded by lancers. A puffy old man in a black uniform, looking deathly pale and terrified, be jumped nimbly from the carriage, hur- ried into the mosque for his Fri- day prayers, re-emerged, then climbed into a small pony phaeton with his son and drove up the hill again at a fast trot. All his cortiers and servants, Tisdall says, had lined up be- hind him on foot. "They pound- ed behind him, gasping up the hill in 'the scorching heat, fat cheeks glistening, stout bodies tottering and tripping over swords." Nicholas was impressed when he presently met Abdul. Even the rubber galoshes° with holes at the back for gilt spurs, which he wore over his boots, did .not destroy his dignity! But the Yildiz Kiosk, where Nicholas 'and Helen were to spend the night, gave them a shock; its chocolate broWil- interior, with scarlet and blue hangings laced with gold, its brocaded stools, were a nightmare. They were wearily exploring it in full ceremonial costume when an army of nondescript Turks who had jug been hired in the market poured in noisily. The royal pair wandered, hung- ry and thirsty, among ,a be- wildering riot of cleaners, bed- makers, butlers, scullions, and finding at last a long'table' piled with cooked foods, sat down to,. eat . . . with no knives or forks. Beside them sat Turkish serv- ants and stray strangers who chanced to wander in from 'the street. It was like "a railway buffet." Then into the court- yard came a swarm of liveried servants bearing presents from Abdul. An official with a bag presented all of them, Greek servants included, with glitter- ing Turkish Orders. Later, when the royal couple dined with the Sultan And .diplo, ;ratio corps at the Palace, seated either side of him.. Abdul pulled' Iielen beside him at the table- boo. and, relaid, her place him, loudly cursing the, servants,. "The footmen in ill4ittinK scarlet liveries, • bearded, Mee washed, unshaven, with collars, without them, in. 'White ties, in black ties, in dirty white gloves, with hare grimy bands stood e•-, side each chair. The plate Was; golden, the Cutlery tin. 'Nieleolae,„ winking at the Austrian embaae sadoe, wiped the Ted rust • eft knife and fork on the tablecloth, The fish was bed, The footman, fought each other," What a bane quell • Advice is like kissing; it costs nothing, and it is a pleasant thing to do, —H. W. SHAW Half-Size Style 4786 14'/2-24Y i iyA441,, .44.1.1•5 Smart fashion for the half- sizer — cut to fit properly the shorter, fuller figure! Sew-easy —you're sure to want more than one. Select stripes they're slimming, form lovely, chevron effect in front! Popular 4-gore skirt drapes gracefully from , hipline. Pattern 4786: Half Sizes 141/4, 181/2 , 201/2 , 22 3/4 , 241/2 , Size 161/2 takes. :31/4 .yards 35-inch fabric. This pattern easy to use. sim- ple to sew; is' tested for fit: Has complete illustrated instruc- tions. • Send THIRTY. - FIVE, CENTS (350) in coins (stamps cannot be • accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly Slit; NAME, ' DRESS, STYLE 'NUMBER:* Send order' to 'ANNE, ADAMS, Box 1, 123' Eighteenth -Ste New Toronto, Ont. CINNAMON, BUNS Measure into large bowl, ,l, c: lukewarm 2 tsps. granu- lated sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved. Sprinkle with 2 en- velopes Fleischmann's Active Dry YeaSt. Let stand 10 min., TITEN Stir well. Scald 1 c. milk and stir in 1/2 'c.'granulated sttar,11/4 tips. salt, 6 tbs. shortening; cool to lukewarm. Add to Yeast mix- titre and stir in 2 weli,beaten. eggs. 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