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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1974-06-13, Page 20• E CRAFTY Make puppets for, ailing kids By ALICE MURRELL In preparing craft projects for the stainer recreation programs I've found that When teen-agers assist the preteen group they both gain a great deal. • The older group learns teaching techniques and pa- tience; the younger group thoroughly enjoys helping the older group and did better work in order to impress them, One of the projects our com- bined groups are working on is making toys for children in hospitals. These are small wooden puppets worked by pulling strings. The older group cuts, assembles and makes line drawings, the younger group does the paint trig; gluing pndadds any deco- rative touches. n For a home project these puppets may be made of card- board or sheet balsa wood. To make the puppets, you use:. lightweight balsa board, popsicle sticks, brass paper fasteners, strong thread, heavy cord, white glue, but- tons, scissors, pattern paper, soft pencil, paint brushes, acrylic or poster paints or felt tip pens. To -make the head, trace around a 50 -cent piece and add a tab at the bottom one-half inch wide and one inch long (Fig. 2). To make the body pattern, fold the pa- per in half. The finished body should measure about three inches long and two to two and .one-half inches wide. Legs, arms and hands are cut from popsicle sticks. Cut legs about three inches long, arms two to two and :one- half inches long and hands one to one and one-quarter inches long: ' Shoes are made from bits of balsa cut to the design of the puppet. Trace paper pattern for the body on a balsa board and cut out with heavy duty scissors. Punch holes, large enough to accommodate brass paper fasteners, in the shoulders of the body and top of the arms. Punch two more holes in the top of the legs and the bottom of the body. Make additional small holes at the top of the arms and legs to accommo- date the thread. To assemble, fasten arms to the body using the pronged brass paper fasteners, insert- ing nserting them from front to back, and - fasten the legs in the same manner (Fig. 3). Glue hands to the back of the arms, changing position to match design of the puppet. Glue neck to the back of the body. Glue shoes to the front of the legs. Draw face. and costume de- sign with a soft pencil, fill in all areas desired with acrylic paints, poster paints or felt tip pens. Tie heavy duty thread through the small holes in the arms, allow some slack so the arms can move easily. Do the same with the legs, then knot the heavy cord in the center of the arm threads,. bring the cord down and catch the leg threads (Fig. '3), make anoth- er knot, allow about six inches of cord to hang free, and tie a button to this end for easy pulling. To further decorate the puppets, bits of wool may be glued on for hair, lace and rib- bon added to the clothing, and felt for shoes and buttons. To make frontier. ladies in long dresses, cut body pattern six inches long, glue on feet and have only the arms mov- able. hnR Experiment and have fun. PIG. 1 risalf WHAT'S COOKING?—Actress Barbara Rush gets some e►s istance from her daughter, Claudia, 10, in the kitchen of a hotel. The actress, appearing in the stage comedy "Father's Day," does all of her own cooking while on tour. COOKING CORNER Barbara Rush cooks while she travels By SUSAN DELIGHT Living out of a suitcase for actress Barbara Rush can be a. pretty heavy scene. Her suitcase -- one of them — contains many of the appli- ances ppl -antes found in a modern, well - stocked kitchen. When Miss Rush is travel- ing raveling .around the country and the world doing stage work or television filming, she also brings along a vertical _ broiler, a toaster oven,' a blender, an electric frying •pan, an electric water boiler and her trusty crock pot. "I never eat out because I cook better than trey (restau- rant chefs) 4. I ttdnk eating. out. can. kill you," she says. "Restaurants put too many, preservatives �Ithe " ze c'ir w., zn �a;,,a 1 another reason for doing her ° own cooking in kitchens and kitch- enettes around the world. A hypoglycemic with an ab- normally low supply of sugar in her blood, she must watch her diet. Cooking comes naturally for her, she says, and she has "been interested in it all my life." She.sometimes cooks for the show cast of "Father's Day," in which she has been- appear- ing on stage,•and, each night, prepares dinner for herself and her daughter, Claudia, age 10. Miss Rush, whose Beverly Hills home includes a small herb garden, has brought along 16 different herbs for cooking stints on her tour. While she loves cooking, she emphasizes she doesn't like to spend countless hours at it. She is always searching for new ideas on delicious but relatively fast menu ideas. The actress also feels a cer- tain reverence for salads. "I think a salad should be a NEW SELECTION QF DRAPERY FABRICS Come in and see our large selection at eery- day low prices. Flame Proof Drapery Material at lower than wholesale prices S 1 49 to S2.98 yd Polyester Permapress Pastel Colours 52.98 yd. AND MILL ENDS AMPLE FREE PARKING - SAY IT WITH SEWING treasure hunt," says Miffs Rush. For. a tossed green salad, she's, apt to add some fresh green uncooked peas, grapes,. raisins, pecans and, some- times, artichoke hearts. She then adds .some herbs to a vinegar and oil dressing laced with a bit of Worcestershire sauce. "That is the best salad," she says. In between acting roles, Miss Rush says she Will often take a day or two in her Beverly. Hills home and do a lot of advance cooking., She then freezes the foods for fu- ture use. Below are samples of the actresses quick menu ideas: SOUP TRIO CHICKEN .1 can create of chicken soup 1 can .cream of mushroom soup . 1 can cream of celery soup % cup dry white wine 4 chicken breasts, split • Slivered almonds Lemon -Pepper Marinade Parmesan cheese Salt to taste Combine soups with the white wine. Add salt and lem- on-pepper em-on.pepper marinade. Place Chicken breasts or other chicken pieces in,, a shallow baking dish sprayed with vegetable oil. Pour soup blend over pieces. Add' slivered al- monds and Parmesan cheese. Bake in a 350 -degree oven for one hour or a little longer until chicken is cooked and cheese is lightly btrowned. Might cover with foil for the first half hour. Serve over cooked rice. Serves four to six. (Note: Don't- be afraid to experiment with this. You might add some Worcester- shire sauce to the soups. You might a!so replace the celery soup with a can of creamed asparagus soup or a second can of cream . of mushroom _soup.) LIME PIE .'1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk % cup fresh lime juice (must be fresh) 1 can (131/4 ounces) drained, t' crushed pineapple 2104' ;r a� kSn'e mixfes', ture pal green % pint whipping cream 1 tablespoon powdered sug- ar ,1 teaspoon vanilla Sweet chocolate shavings • 18- or 9 -inch baked pie shell Combine first four ingredi- ents and set aside. In another bowl, whip cream and add powdered sugar and vanilla. Pour the lime juice, milk and pineapple Mixture into the baked pie shell. Top, with whipped cream. Add sprin- kling of shaved sweet choco- late. Chill for approximately three hours before • serving. QUESIIQNS WOMEN Period during menopause 11 By ELEANOR B. RopootsoN, ', D . Leone told me that a postmenopausal woman would feel .younger if .she had pea'„.._...^' Do you think 9 A. I asked, I think moat nen would say they were and tired of having men-. weal periods and, if,, when they reached the menopause, their periods would Just stop. with no other hangs evi- dent, ther would be content. They would not want to return to monthly flows artificially produced. There are medical reasons for causingg periods after the rneause and these depend Upon the kation a woman mo require to relieve 8y111p- toms, If a woman needs estro- gen to combat hot flashes, atrophy of the lining of he va- gina, etc, many ' gynecdio- gists feel she should .also be given aproge.rone now and then to produce sloughing of rile lining of the uterus. This treatment approximates the normal menstrual cycle and helps control irregular bleed- ing that might occur even- tually with the estrogen. Any irregular bleeding has to be investigated in a postmen°. pausal woman to rule out. can- cer. • However, I don't think a woman having an artificial period feels better because of .the period. More likely she feels better because of the ini- tial estrogen. I recently heard a professor say, with -tongue in cheek, that probably menstrual periods were abnormal in the first place, that early woman be- came pregnant as soon as she began to ovulate. Pregnancy was followed by nursing and pregnancy again and, conse- quently, no periods ensued. She usually died young. Well, that's possible. But, now we have menstrual periods and we have to learn to handle them. - Q. What is meant by "steril- ity'? 1.jWhen a worparn;ib unable to get pregnant because of some fault in her female or- gans, or some defect in their function, we say she • is "sterile." When a woman who has dif- ficulty getting pregnant, has a treatable condition before ,pregnancy can occur; we say she is "infertile," and, fortu- nately, a great many of those who come for help to achieve pregnancy have correctable problems. There was a time when the woman was held primarily responsible for failure to con- ceive and her importance in society depended upon her Camping in Saskatchewan By Clarence Hope shore of Lower Fishing Lake. A The Hanson Lake Road's chain of small primitive camp - mundane name belies the rugged sites are also provided free by the and wildly romantic country as it provincial, government. threads through forest and lakes, ' Characterized by typical far traversing miles of swamp and northern scenery, the small free muskeg. It is the rugged wilder- campgrounds are to be found on ness that makes northern the rugged shorelines of many of Canada, the ultimate goal of all the lakes and rivers close to the who seek wilderness recreation. road along its entire length. They It is 225 miles of northern road offer the rare kind of calnping that takes the fisherman to where right beside the water that is the fish still rise to almost every dream of most campers. cast—and the camper to un- As companion to the provincial spoiled wildernesscamping. park and free provincial camp - "The • Road" leaves the pave- grounds, there are many resort went at Smeaton, about 48 miles operators and outfitters along the north of Prince Albert, Sas- road who maintain camping katchewan's most northerly city. facilities and offer services to the Its winding, climbing .and de- campers, such as electric and scending route of hard gravel water hookups and even Some terminates 225, miles away on the with sewer hookups. Several of border of Manitoba at the far these that we visited turned out, to northern mining -town of Flin be not too easily accessible, but Flon. with the added advantage of a Not all campers will appreciate store and snac bar, and usually the kind of camping that the canoes, boats And motors and Hanson Lake offers. The guides for the more ambitious trailerist, to whom the com- fisherman. fortable security of a modern We spent a full week camping campground is essential, is not along the Hanson Lake Road, likely to find satisfaction here. regretting only that we had not But for the camper who wants to allowed more time for this return share nature with wildlife, who to the idyllic camping of past wants to paddle quietly and alone years. We moved from camp - across a northern lake and see ground to campground, thrilling big fish rise to a skillful cast, the to the experience of living close to Hanson Lake Road offers camp- the primitive wilderness. We ing that will linger in his fondest paddled in serene solitude across memories. He is the more ad- the quiet northern lakes and venturous camper who can drive listened to the woeful call of the an extended stretch of ' dusty loon, and gazed on the humbling gravel. He will be the off -pave- grafi of a flaming sunset. We ment wanderer who regards his fished, with a success reminis- camping rig, whatever it may be, cant of a long past childhood, and as accommodation only, and all lavished the table with fresh fish fellow campers as his friends. for breakfast and dinner. We This is the road to Nipawin even got up at 4:00 a.m. to see a Provincial Park with its large warble that painted the ,,and drive through Rites beautifully lake a brilliant crimson. laid out among the trees on the In Ottr walks and drives we dill' • covered that the roadsides and the shores of the lakes and rivers were a carpet of wild raspberries and blueberries, and that the strawberries had in their • season been prolific. With an entree of fresh pickerel and a dessert of wild berries, not to mention breakfast cereals smothered with. wild raspberries, our outdoors sharpened appetites were satis- fied. It is a \long way north to the Hanson Lake Road, and many campers will never venture into that northern primeval wilder - Ness. But there are those who will discover there, as we did, the grandeur of the far Canadian north; they will later recall an experience that was enhanced by the hardships and privations imposed by a stern but gracious northland. YOU CAN FIX4T By Gene Von OLD RAILROAD TIES Old, discarded railroad ties can be utilized to add a very attractive, rustic tipch to your yard ar garden. For es - ample, as shown in the sccompanytn illustration, you can build some of these ties into a retaining wall at the end of a terrace .... or, they can be made into garden steps, or Welt', or wooden walks. C pregnanciee lier whole life ended withthe end of child bearing and, if she had ne pregnancies at all, her pier 'Tillie world was very MIMI indeed. We like to think woman's worth is appreciated in mode ern society, that she can con- tribute something worthwhile whether or not she has chil- dren of her own. But, if she wants to have children, it is good to know there are many ways of helping her and her husband. Continuing research. is opening wide the doors. Q, Does the birth control pill cause more gall bladder di*, ease? A. The effects of oral con- traceptiveson their tapers are continually being studied. 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