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The Brussels Post, 1953-4-29, Page 2HOW CAN 1? Q, Hew tan I prevent adorn in the rofrieerator7 A, If a piece Of charcoal, about two inches square is plac- ed in the corner et the refriger atm', jnelons, ououmbers, banan- as, etc., may be placed together with other foods without making the foods distasteful. This will keep the refrigerator odorless. Q. 'flow can I make a dry shafpoo? A. Mix two ounces of corn- meal with one ounce of pow- dered orris root. Sprinkle this powder in the hair and then brush thoroughly, Q. How can I chop nuts quickly? A. Instead of chopping nuts for cakes of cookies, try placing them in a clOth and running the rolling pin over them. Q. How can I beat the oven more quickly? A. After lighting the gas burners of the oven, wait for about two minutes and then open the oven door for a second. This permits moist air to escape and the oven consequently will heat far more quickly after the ventilation. Q. How can I check nose- bleed? A. Try the following remedy: Sit erect with arms raised and the head thrown slightly back. Apply ice cold wet cloths to the back of the neck and forehead. Do not blow the nose. Q. How can. I preserve patent ,feather shoes? A. A cloth dipped in the white of an egg is good for pre- serving patent leather shoes. Finish the job by polishing with a soft cloth or chamois. Q. How can I keep paint from blistering? A. Be sure never to apply new paint over blistered paint. Always scrape or burn off the surface until a smooth finish is acquired. Otherwise, the new paint will blister just where the old did. Q. Row can I give linens a good color? A. A coat of blue enamel paint on the shelves of the linen Terry Cloth Beach Togs Fill Summer The Turkish Towel Goes Modern BY EDNA MILES rHE things that are currently happening to terry cloth are nothing short of miraculous. For Spring and summer, terry will, decorate the outdoors, beaches par- ticularly, in the shape of stoles, separates, shorts, noddy' tops, beach coats and tapered slacks. Designer Harry Berger uses this homespun fnbrio for a pullover middy -top to team with jeans or slacks for picnicking. This is also a natural towel -top to pull over u bathing suit after a dip. The top has the long .middy look with a turn -up cuff at the .bottom. Beni -and -white terry shorts are worn with this. They zip up the center of the back to insure snug tit, Both pieces are pre-shrunk to wash easily just like' a bathroom towel, This salve designer uses terry for a beach coat that cain also double as a louuging coat with. matching pajamas. One side of this finger -til length coat is pre-shrunk terry. The other side is crisp broadcloth. Fabric from the re- verse side provides color accent and extra large pockets on both sides hold incidentals. The coat is teamed with snatching pajamas. Terry colors are tropseally vivid this year. There are many hot pinks, dear blues and sunny yellows. Terry may even.be striped, but anyway at all it's a fashion first. Combination beach and lounge coat, at left, in finger -tap length is reversible. It's terry on one side and broadcloth on the other, Big pockets hold a lot of little things, The terry top, at right, is a cuffed middy worn over terry shorts in red -and -white stripe. This beach outfit is pre-shrunk, and best of all, it needs no ironing. Just wash and dry f. Needs closet Will not only make the closet more attractive, but will keep the linens a good color. Q. How can I get rid of roaches? A, Dampness, bits of food, and trash of all kinds are the things that attract roacbes. El- iminate these attractions, and there will be no roaches, Q. How can I clean marble most effeetivety? A. Cover it with a paste made by mixing two tablespoons of soda, one tablespoon each of salt and powdered pumice, and some cold water, When the spread paste has dried, rub it oft with a cloth and wash the marble well with soap and water. Repeat this process if the stains are difficult to remove. Your Child's Health And Care By STELLA McKAY FIRST AID WITHOUT TEARS: Whenever you treat a skinned knee or any slight in- jury, it's usually the sight of the treatment or the thought of the "stingy stuff" that frightens a youngster, not the slight injury. Whenever your child comes to you with a scraped elbow, try to be calm. Tell her in a confi- dent but kindly tone that you are going to wash her elbow and make it better. Wash the el- bow gently using soft, sterile cotton and pat dry. Then ex- plain that, "now it's clean I am going to paint a cat on it" and Mart painting the antiseptic on the uncut skin. When your tod- dler is interested in what you are doing to paint over the in- jury, the 'fright" is gone and the sting is scarcely noticed. If the antiseptic is colored she'll boast about her "picture" to her friends, and even if it is color-. Iess she will watch you pretend to paint a picture. Ask your doc- tor about non -stinging antisep- tics. EATING OUT WITH JUNIOR: Eating out with Junior or Juniorette needn't be a problem. In fact, with a little forethought, meals away from home, even with a toddles', can be a family delight. Try to choose a place that is fairly quiet and the ser- vice on the speedy side. No youngster eats wellin hubbub, nor can you expect him to sit quietly through a dinner of sev- eral courses. Most restaurants provide a high chair, and some provide bibs. However, your child is more apt to eat as usual, if you take along his own familiar bib, spoon, cup and even his own plate. It's wise, too, to take his own "canned" dinner and have it warmed for you. This will prevent stomach upset. If you'd rather order Junior's dinner, try to get food as much like the food he eats at home as possible. Get your toddler comfortably seated as soon as you can, if you can get a booth, he can stand an the bench and look around or he can walk around the table. If he gets restless while waiting for his food, take him on a little tour. He'll like this. Most people smile at a small child, butt it is better not to encourage Junior to get too friendly. Too much attention tends to cause even a toddler -size child to show off or it may embarass him and you, Junior may have to wait for you since you will most likely have to help feed him. In this case, don't let him wander about but produce the toy you brought to help fill in this time, JEALOUS OF NE W BABY: Mrs. W. D. writes that her four- year old daughter, Wendy, is very jealous of her baby sister, Janey. "She cries and raises an awful fuss whenever I do any - CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1, Stone 0. 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Propel regret 11 Idle teak Answer Elsewhere on Tisis Page Big Heart -Said to be the third or fourth .largest diamond in the world, this heart -shaped, deep blue gem is on sale for $300,000. Though the owner's name was not disclosed, the 31 -carat sparkler is believed to have belonged most recently to o South American family. • thing for Janey." says Mrs. W. D. "What can I do to help.Wendy like her sister?" The green-eyed dragon, jeal- ousy, is making Wendy's life pretty miserable. So if I were you I'd decide to let -the house- work slide, until you get Wendy happy again. Take time to first do something 'with big sister, such as having a little snack to- gether before feeding Janey. Tell Wendy a story or sit her your knee and cuddle her and help her get dressed. After all she has to be "eased out" of. first- child attention gradually, When Wendy is dressed say: ' "It's little sister's turn for attention now." And ask Wendy to be your little helper. This way you'll get Wendy working with you, not against you. She'll soon get interested in her new sister and be saying: "My baby." If you and your husband give Wendy first place for a while. until she knows you have enough love for both children, it will keep her happier, (baby Janey won't mind), and you'll be hap- pier, too, Mrs. R. A.: Bottle-fed babies get cod liver oil and orange juice es early as two weeks. Parents are invited to post their problems to Stella McKay, Box 1, 123 ,18th St., New Toron- to, Ont. Please enclose stamped, addressed envelope for personal reply, Chrysanthemums In China After birds, Grandfather's greatest passion was chrysanthe- mums. He never failed to get new specimens each autumn. Once, after one of our morning walks with the birds, he suggest- ed taking me to the 'famous gard- en of the Li family, situated at the Yo-ssu gate in the city wall of Kiukiang. It was not far from, the wood, As the blue autumn sky was high and cloudless and it was early for us to go home, Grandfather thought he might look for some new specimens of chrysanthemums, as it was the season of blooming. The garden had long been famous• for the beauty of its structure and the skill with which it was planted. When we arrived I found that the head gardener knew my Grandfather, Leading us to a painted bower he served tea end entered into a discussion with Grandfather on the details of chrysanthemum culture, After a 1,'w minutes my attention was caught by a tall wooden stand bearing different kinds.of chrys- anthemums in pots, arranged in tiers to form a kind of `hill' of flowers. Tlie arrangement is ac- tually called 'chrysanthemum flower hill' - Chu u-hua-shan. Presently the head gardener con- ducted us round the garden, showing us flowers of every shape and colour. Grandfather told me that there were about sixty vari- eties of chrysanthemums -more varieties than those of any other flower... , While we were slow- ly promenading the garden Grandfather made, as usual, some reference to the first Ming em- peror. He mentioned that .this emperor had written a poem on the chrysanthemum, and that it ran as follows: While a hundred flowers blossom; I do not. If I burst into bloom, they are afraid to show themselves. Tussling ass Ing with the west wind all night before the doorstep, The great mass of chrysanthe- mums waves its golden ar- mour, Grandfather went on to explain how the poem conveyed the he- roic nature of the emperor; for the chrysanthemum has always been admired by our poets and scholars for the way in which it blooms in spite of frost and sharp weather, as no other flower does. The first Ming emperor was by birth a, beggar and an illiterate; he ascended the throne by driv- ing out the Tartars. Before leaving the garden of the Li family, Grandfather order- ed the gardener to send a few pots of chrysanthemums to our house, flow- well I remember what care },e took of them and of his other chrysanthemums, • watering them himself and ten- derly, pruning them) It may sound a waste of time, but surely it was a pleasant way for an old man to pass his time? -From "A Chinese Childhood," by Chiang Yee, ABSENT-MINDED Perhaps it was bound to hap- pen sooner or later. Last sum- mer, a surgeon in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, had to operate on his patient for the second time, The first time, six months before durs ing an appendectomy, he had tor-' gotten to remove from the pa- tient's abdomen two surgical sponges about the size of w baby diaper. Signboard Painting In Pioneer Days Since the first known news- paper in the colonies appeared in Boston in 1690, New York in 1725, Philadelphia in 1719, we cannot find any printed adver- tising or intelligence of earlier date. Instead, we must turn to commentaries published or in manuscript, to letters, deeds, and other documents of record. We know, however, that seven- teenth -century advertising of tradesmen and artisans, inn- keeper's, and professions was a matter of signs and signboards placed before the house. This was the traditional way of adver- tising one's business and serv- ice. Also, it provided the first means of locating other houses. "Catty -cornered from the Sign of the Glove" or "Opposite the Sign of the Mortar and Pestle" were quite common Simms of direction. Practically every ar- tisan advertised with a sign, but not always was it a painted sign- board. Often and this remain- ed true up to at least 1860 - the sign was an effigy or sym- bol affixed or hung at or by the door. A large glove, garter, spin- ning wheel, chair, pan, pot, or other suggestive object was used to designate that makers of such things kept shop at that place. As we progressed, in teed e, more and more signs appeared. Of record there were candle- sticks, coffeepots, chocolate pots, ship, mechanical men, hammers and anvils, jugs, dishes, cups and saucers, clocks, watches, reels, chairs, bureaus, guns and pistols, statues of various kinds; ani- mals, sieves, bedsteads, crock- ery, bottles, boxes and barrels used as tradesmen's and arti- sans' signs. Of signboards we had so many and so varied a lot. that one could reconstruct a menagerie, a historical portrait gallery, a roster of crafts. and a collection of strange and mythical things - . Almost every pioneer artist of record once painted signboards. John. Singleton Copley, if he did not paint signboards, had the happy. faculty of painting arti- sans at work. Benjamin West, when just a lad, was encouraged by the famed gunsmith and philosopher, William H e n r y, Henry gave West the use .of a painting room and secured for him commissions ' to paint sign- boards and portraits. West's first painting job was the execution of the portrait of a hat for the Hat Tavern, The history of American art and artists is filled with episodes of this kind, Gus- tavus Hesselius, the Swedish portrait painter, painted sign- boards and crests on carriages, Making signs was in many cases as profitable as painting portraits Furthermore, it was good adver- tising for the artist, "So-and-so painted that grand new sign for Host . . , at the Spotted Cat, or the William Pitt" was more ef- fective than confidential whis- pers that the artist had painted a portrait. And far more people got to see the subject. Tt was publicity displayer, swung to the four winds, -Froin "Pioneer America, Its First Three Cen- turies," by Carl W, Drepperd, ACCURATE'. DOWSING An upstate New York service station owner, seeking an extra supply of water, called in a dows- ing rod expert to recommend a. place to dig a Well, After a cer- tain amount of backing and fill- ing, the dowsing rod - a forked branch that dips to indicate un- derground water supplies -- fin- ally pointed to its chosen spot. The diggers began digging and, ;burs enough, scan brought in a gusher. They had tapped A six- inch water main. ' ,1 TABLE TALKS :Jae ,And.4ews, Because eggs are plentiful in the spring, now is a good time 10 learn mare about this type of cookery and to remind yourself that it Is economical to increase' the use of eggs on the daily menu. It 10 well to remove eggs from the refrigerator about 1/2 to abt of an hour before using them, When eggs are used to thicken or bind or for scrambling, beat only slightly with fork or spoon. When eggs are used to leaven, beat thoroughly w 1211 rotary beater. y 4 a LAYERED EGG -CHEESE. CASSEROLE 8 slices bread, 2.3 days old le pound sharp Cheddar , cheese, sliced en teaspoon salt 1/. teaspoon mustard 14 teaspoon paprika 3 eggs, beaten 22 clips mills Cut bread slices into triangles, rectangles, .ar squares, Arrange bread and cheese in 3 layers in well -greased 12 x 7/ x 11/2, 2 - quart baking dish, putting bread on both bottom and -top. Blend seasonings and sprinkle between layers' Blend eggs and milk and pour over bread and cheese. L et stand 45 minutes. Place baking dish in a pan of hot water, Balce at 350°F about 40 minutes, or until bread is puffy and a knife inserted near the center of the dish comes out clean. Serve promptly from baking dish. Six t0 8 servings. a r a A casserole that may be. con- sidered a meal -in -a -dish is this combination of rice, cheese, and eggs. The eggs form the decora- tion on this come -back -for -more dish. J 81 RICE AND EGG CASSEROLE 3 cups cooked rice 11:s cups cooked peas 2 tablespoons each, chopped parsely and diced pimiento 1 tablespoon grated onion 1 teaspoon salt cup melted butter or mar- garine 1 cup grated cheese Se cup milk 6 eggs Combine rice, peas, pimiento, parsley, onion, salt, butter, and half the cheese. Spread evenly in greased balling dish 10x6x2. Pour milk over mixture. Make 6 w el i s in the rice mixture and drop an egg into each well. Sprinkle remaining cheese over top. Bake at 350° F. for 30 min- utes or until eggs are set. Six servings. rt +i 0 Perhaps you would like egg croquettes for a meatless meal. These may be baked or fried, whichever you prefer. Just be sure they are crisp and golden brown all over. GOLDEN EGG CROQUETTES 1 tablespoon minced onion 1/4 cup minced celery. 3 -tablespoons melted short- ening 6 tablespoons Hour 11/2 cups milk 2 cups cooked macaroni 6 hard -cooked eggs, chopped 1 tablespoon minced parsley Salt and pepper 19. teaspoon thyme or poultry seasoning Dry bread crumbs Cook onion and celery in the melted shortening until lightly brown. Blend in flour and add milk; coolsover lowheat,stirring constantly; until thickeed, Add eggs, macaroni, parsley, and sea- sonings. Spread evenly in a shal- low pan and chill. Shape into croquettes and roll in bread crumbs. Fry until brown an all sides.: Or, place on greased bak- ing sheet and bake at 375°F. for 30 minutes, turning to brown on all sides,. Makes 12 croquet- tes. This unusual bale dish com- bines leashedpot toes with sales ed, hard -cooked eggs and forms a ple with a golden brown po- tato crust, ' EGG POFATO PIE ' 2 tablespoons shortening 1 tablespoon flour 7,4 cup nitik 14 teaspoon salt Dash pepper 6 medium potatoes, cooked and mashed. 5 hard -rooked eggs, sheets, 2 tablespoons chopped parsley „y, cup grated sharp cheese Melt shortening, add-' flour, blend well, and cook over low heat until bubbly. Add cold milk all at once and cook, stirring constantly, until thicltened for sauce. Add salt and pepper. Line bottom and sides of a greased 8. or 9 -inch pie' plate or, shallow casserole witli half the . well -seasoned mashed potatoes. Arrange sliced eggs in potato shell. Top with parsley, cheese, sauce, salt and pepper. Cover with remaining mashed pota- toes. Brush top with milk. Bake at 350°F. until brown. To make it °prettier, garnish with sliced hard -cooked eggs and slivers of. pimiento. Five sery ing§ DIAGNOSIS. S. Tupper Bigelow, of Toronto,, tells the tale of a young doctor who hung up his shingle in a small town and waited for his first patient. Some days later one arrived - covered from head to foot with an angry, dangerous - looking rash. The puzzled young medico hastily consulted his text books but could find no help there. Finally he said to the patient, "Did you ever have this affliction before?" "Oh, sure, Doc," the patient replied, "I've had it twice before" "Well, dam- nation," diagnosed the doctor, "you've got it again." MERRY MENAGERIE "I'm not sure, dear, but I think two or three of the children are missing'!" A cook book cover can be kept clean and in good condition with a light coating of. shellac. This will help keep off food and fin- ger marks. Recipe cards, too, will benfit from a coat of trans- parent shellac. Greasy marks can be wiped off after use with- out smearing the 'ink, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking V9. 4 7l,S 9 N 9 a a N 1 a N O N 3 '1 t a :L 3 b 1 a 9 (V 9 N O 21 1111 a 1 9 1 T 1 a a V 1 `N 0 O . V A -1. 1 5 Gl 3 0 N 3 0 .I 0 1 3 0 21 0 N 1. 1 n 0 b 0. W 3 1 t 9 b b 1 M V' 9 a b a mit 21 a A 3 9' a 0 1 n 9 O 9 a 0071 Hoffer -Back Riders -- Marolyn and Carolyn Yordy, T2 -year-old twins, take a ride astride their unusual steeds, (heir pot heifers. The girls used to ride piers, but now they've g oduated to taller animals.