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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-07-24, Page 2044 3 UNIFYING 'WALLPAPER—The many angles and irregular wall space in this attic room are somewhat con- cealed by the all-over effect of wallpaper. A bonus is the gay, colorful atmosphere that wallpaper helps create, as it has in this little girl's room. DECOR SCORE Wallpaper unites attic room By BARBARA HARTUNG Q. We have an attic room which ...we are considering using for our 6 -year-old granddaughter when . she comes to visit which is often. The room is filled with many angles, including dormer windows. Perhaps paint would be the best think to use although I thought wallpaper might be nicer. However, I don't know where to put the wallpaper and where not to.. Also will wallpaper make the room look even more angular? - W. L. A. You certainly could paint the walls but I agree that wallpaper would be exciting. If you choose wall- paper, why not wallpaper the ceiling, walls and every nook? This way you will have a mo a invited vffect4and the, angles won't seem so pro- nounced. Recently designers Greta Cohen and Louis Sones cre, ated a Memorable little room for lrlington House in an at- tic hideaway. They started with cranberry red shag car- peting, painted the Victorian wicker furniture bright white, splashed the walls and ceiling with bouquets of pink, sky blue and marigold, and added red' and white gingham at the windows and on the bed. Q. We have added a break- fast nook onto our kitchen and now we are searching for in- ' expensive chairs. We need six for our family of teen-agers. ,q. The table is a big old oak round type. The room has wallpaper with red, green and blue circles and squares on a white background and the floor is white. What would be serviceable for young people? — B. E. A. I recently saw some di- rectors' chairs which had iron -on tape used to per- sonalize chairs. It'strikes me thatperhaps six white framed directors chairs with red, green and blue canvas seats and backs would be great looking. • Then with white iron -on tape put on each teenager's name. I think it would be fun and in keeping with the gay sounding wallpaper you have put up. Directors' chairs are great chairs because they are inexpensive and, bract} I. When the canvas gets just ,toss the covers in the washing machine. CHILD'S PL'Y Wine bottles have other uses By BUROKER & HUNTSINGER Travelers are always warned to carry a water bottle with thenk, whether it is a hiking canteen, picnic thermos, or canvas bag in the car. Even at home, it is a good idea ' to save handy, large empty containers for storing purposes. They can be deco- rated for a number of uses and are less expensive — as Well as more available — than buying extra pitchers for . keeping fruit juice or other cooling beverages. In fact, empty juice bottles from the supermarket can become excellent water jars, as do big wine bottles or thor- oughly cleaned plastic bleach containers. You can decorate these with cut-and-paste pic- tures from magazines, scraps of wallpaper or contact paper. Kept outside near, your play area, many trips to the kitchen sink are saved, and a thirst -quenching drink is handier than from the garden hose. Ittzeems wasteful to throw out articles so easily changed and given other uses. Cover small wine bottles with mosaic -like designs by pasting on colored cloth scraps glued into an abstract pattern. Such bottles beagle pretty candle holders, and no two will look exactly alike. Often there are not enough' flower vases on hand when nature or a neighbor have been extra generous In sup- plying decorative blooms. But almost any empty jar or bottle can be made attractive with aluminum foil or other additions to the outside sur- face. Plain one-, two- or three - pound coffee cans change into appealing cookie jars when their outsides are covered with white or pastel colored paper to which magazine cut- outs of pictured cookies are pasted. Not only pretty, these t • it. �R moots� jor indts; flyer a eat deet l+o, peie on kate" , which tioir tieproduct is wrapped. So for convenient howl** objects (and for eft giving) ) use idesor 1 pie. Bottles andl a sen easily change boti�►, 'pwpgee and appearance merely with the addition of a few imagine, Live and artistiq touches. PRETTY—Jugs and jars prove both pretty and functional When decorated and recycled. QUESTIONS WOMEN ASK Breast feeding aids immunity. By ELEANOR B. RODGERSON, M.D. Q. Why does breast feeding keep a baby healthy? A. Not only does breast milk provide nourishment, but it gives the nursing baby 41 41 • TRYIT... You'II like i • Anyone who was able to get their garden in early should soon have cucumbers ready for, pick- ling. Not everyone has time for preserving, but I have found a recipe for bread and butter pickles that is a cinch to make. Cherries and raspberries are also in season now, and I have includ- ed recipes for a cherry pie. and frozen raspberry jam in this week's column. BREAD AND BUTTER PICKLES 6 cucumbers. sliced (medium to large in size ) 4 onions, sliced 'a cup salt (non -iodized) 1 pint white vinegar 'a cup sugar 1 teaspoon celery seed 1 teaspoon mustard seed Place cucumbers, onion and salt in a crock. Let stand 1 hour. Then, drain thoroughly in a colander, but do no rinse. Pack in sterilized jars. not the vinegar, sugar, celery seed, and mustard seed in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, and boil for 3 minutes after the sugar is dissolved. Pour this hot mixture over the cucumbers in the jars, to overflow. Seal immediately. Let cool and store in a cool, dark place. CHERRY PIE 212 cups frozen cherries (thawed) 3 tablespoons cornstarch 34 cup sugar Dash of salt .,. 4 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 tablespoon butter Drain juice from cherries. Heat 34 cup of juice (add water if necessary to make up the amount of juice needed). Mix cornstarch and sugar. Add ', cup cold juice or water. Stir until smooth. Gradually add this cornstarch mixture to the heated juice, and stir until thickened. Remove from heat, and stir in salt, lemon juice. butter and drained cher- ries. Pour into unbaked pastry shell. Cover with lattice top and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. FROZEN RASPBERRY JAM 1'2 quarts raspberries 5' , cups sugar 34 cup cold water 1 box powdered fruit pectin To wash the berries, put them in a sieve or colander, and lower them into a large bowl of cold water. lifting them up and down gently to wash. Drain well. Put into a large flat-bottmhed pan and mash. You should have 3 cups berries when mashed. Stir in sugar and let stand. In a small saucepan combine the water and powdered pectin and bring to a hard boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir into the berries (stir for 2 \minutes) . Ladle into sterilized jars. Cover tightly and let stand at room temperature for 24 hours before storing in freezer. some immediate immunity against the diarrhea that is so hard on infants. Recent studies from Texas and Sweden point to the impor- tance of a mother nursing her own baby, even for a short time. It seems there are blood cells (lymphocytes) in the milk that carry antibodies. The baby does not have anti- bodies of its own and these, from its own mothe,, give it some protection. The baby has to be nursed by its own mother, though. Antibodies from other mothers will not help. Although much work has gone into developing substi- tutes, nothing has evolved thus far that is superior to breast milk. Q. Why is it important that I have iron and protein while I am pregnant? A. The food you eat is im- portant not only for your health but for that of your baby. Adequate iron and a regular intake of protein are especially valuable. Iron keeps up the hemoglobin in the blood which is increased m volume with pregnancy, and protein is involved in many of the body's biochem- ical processes and is neces- sary for the proper develop- ment of the baby's brain. This protein in the baby's diet con- tinues to be important after birth also because the brain almost triples in size during the first year of life. There are many other parts of the pregnant woman's diet that are essential, but the two you mention are two that are commonly slighted. Iron pills are cheap, but protein means meat, eggs, dairy products, and beans and these are all expensive. Twenty years from now, the damaged populations that have grown froth the famine - stricken areas of today's world will be evident Missing widow found — in bed NORTHAMPTON, Eng- land - An intensive four-day . search by police for a 76 -year- old widow was calledoff after she was found to have been in a hospital bed all the time be- ing treated for a fractured leg which she broke in a local park. Embarrassed hospital offi- cials arc trying to find out who failed to notify police of Mrs. Louise Harris' where- abouts. . nun 'SUFFRAGE' On June 24, 1647, Mistress° Margaret Brent, niece of Lord Baltimore and perhaps the first "suffragette" in, American history, appeared before the Maryland arylEand Assem- bly to demand/both voice and vote for herself in that body. c*for Picnics,. for ;Family Roti. and Mme" Yes, �t,�tlnnlortltitr!! Is pis, • Outdoor Gatherings. Solve ' your table covertly problem with Paper Tablecloth by the roll.. 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