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The Brussels Post, 1949-7-6, Page 7Mistakes other Folks Have Made I married at 17, and although I had finished high school, I was thoughtless and pretty immature in my outlook on life. After we had been married about a year, I be- gan to question whether or not I was in love with my husband and I decided that I did not love him the way I thought I should. I told him about it and we were going to sep- arate, My husband was very much hart, but didn't want to keep me ,against my will, But the more I thought about it as time went on, the more I didn't want to leave him after all. I had been taught that marriage is serious and not lightly taken, so I made up my mind to try to build a good life with hint. Now 1 have grown up, and through the years my love has grown, too. We are a happy fancily. 1 wish I could get this double thought over to young girls: Look before you leap into marriage—but look, think, and pray before you leap out of marriage. Marriage takes co- operation and responsibility, and you •can make it a success if you try. Happy marriages don't just fly to you out of nowhere, — Mrs. D. P. J. , * * * Listening to malicious gosaip about nay husband was my mis- take. Since he was the quiet type, not given to 'defending himself from unjust accusation:, the matter finally ended when I fed the lawyers with my frugal savings and got a di- vorce. After two years 1 learned the truth—he was absolutely blameless. I hotfooted 200 miles to the town where he'd moved, forgot there was such an item as pride, admitted my mistake, and we were married over again. — Mrs. M. J. H. * * * My greatest mistake was marry- ang a man 19 years younger than I was. I deceived him about my age and now I have a constant worry on my mind for fear he will learn the truth; and the'effort io try to look young only makes me look older than I really an. So, all you lonely widows, take it from one who knows— don't marry a man younger than you. It just won't work t — Mrs. M. J. * * * I left my baby girl standing on the bench beside my washtub. When I returned, she had fallen in the water and was almost 'drowned,— Mrs. S. S. G. * * . * I should have had my cow's milk 'tested for Bang's disease and tuber- culosis. I was stricken with un inlant fever and have suffered for over three years the ill effects of this disease. —P. el. Q. * * * v I ignored the spot of hard dirt on my horse's collar. After I had worked the horse a couple of days I noticed a terrible sore on his shoulder. Now 1 can't work him. — W. C. J. THE SOLUTION An Associated Press dispatch from Moscow relates that a cham- pion long-distance swimieier set a new record by swimming 7414 miles in the Volga. A second story reports that a Soviet scientist drifted a hole 20 miles into. the earth. Lcs Finnegan, writing in the So- cialist Call, gives the ending of the story: "Fact of the matter, of course," he says, "is that both men were caught and bad to go back." ,I?ashion Pointer—Highly original, if nothing else, is the pointed hat worn by this young woman while strolling through London's .Hempstead Heath, It attracted match attention, ex- cept from her escort, who ap- parently sees something more interesting on his left. • To Defrost That Home Freezer With more and more Ontario families installing home freezing outfits, some advice as to their de- frosting may not be amiss, as it is n job different in many ways from defrosting the ordinary automatic refrigerator. An expert gives the following hints as to the best method for removing the powdery frost and solid ice. "Defrost before more than one- half inch of frost forms over a considerable area of the refriger- ated surfaces, Ordinarily, once a year is often enough, but in humid surroundings, or if the freezer is • frequently opened, the job may need doing two or three times a year. Defrost, if possible, when rel- atively little food is in the freezer. "Remove frost unmixed with ice by scraping with the freezer in operation. If the freezer is not too full, move food packages from one part to another as you work, rather than taking them out. "Use special scraping tools sold for the purpose, or a broad, stiff spatula, a putty knife or a sharp - edged wooden paddle. "Catch frost on papers, cardboard or cloths as it is scraped from vertical dividers and walls; or col- lect it from the bottom with a dustpan and whisk broom. If pans and broom are kept cold, the frost will not melt from contact with them. "If ice is mixed with the frost, or "a complete cleaning job is needed, remove food packages and discon- nect Vhe freezer, Put the packages on - trays or in baskets that have been well cooled in the freezer. Pile pacicages compactly and cover with chilled blankets, newspapers or other insulating material. Then work as follows: "Scrape as much frost as pos- sible from the surfaces, to lessen need for mopping up melted ice. If the freezer has a drain, speed melting by running cold water over ar She Musta Been A Beautiful Baby—Frances jean Lupe holds up her baby picture to show how she looked in 1934 when she won a $3000 insurance policy as the prettiest baby in Chicago World's Fair competition. She collects the proceeds on the policy on her 18th birthday this month. refrigerated surfaces. no not use hot water because this would cause difficulty when starting the com- pressor again. "Speed defrosting by removing loosened ice from the surface. An electric fan can help melt the ice if placed so that it blows room air into the freezer or cold air unit. "if the freezer is upright, set the fan on the floor or on a chair, to blow air directly into the freezer, . T KS )TABLE . elate Andrews. BINGO SQUARES 1 8 -oz. pkg. whole wheat flakes 1 cup salted peanuts 3 cups brown sugar eup corn syrup cupbutter or margarine. Pour cereal /and peanuts into greased large mixing bowl. Cook sugar and syrup over low heat, stirring constantly until sugar is melted and mixture boils. (about five minutes). Add butter or mar- garine;, mix well. Pour hot syrup over cereal, stirring so that each flake is coated. Press into greased shallow pans. Cut into large squares when cool. Yield: 27 3 -inch squares (three 9x9 -inch pans). * * * And now that- I'ye started it, 1 guess I might as well continue along the sante line, and give you a couple of more recipes I've been treasuring—both for the sort of - - confections that are mighty handy to have around, especially in the warm weather, when something light and tasty, served with a cup of tea or coffee, hot or iced, tastes so well. Chocolate Macaroons 2 egg whites 2-3 cup sugar % tap. vanilla 2 cups corn flakes ee cup chopped nutmeats 34 cup semi -sweet choeolete bits Beat egg whites until stiff lent not dry. Fold in sugar. Add flavoring, horn flakes, nutmeats 'and 'chocolate bitse mix easefully, Drop by .spoon - fele onto well -greased balling sheet. Bake in moderate oven (350 F.) 11 to 20 minutes. Remove iron! pan at once. Yield: 2 dozezt macaroons (2 ins. in diameter). * * Cream Cheese Cookies ie cup shortening 1 package (3 -oz.) create cheese if eup eugar 1 tsp, lesson juice 1 Garp sifted flour 2 taps, baking powder 7/ hap. salt 1% ceps oven- popped rice cereal, Blend 'shortening, cheese and sugar; add lemon juice. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt which have been sifted together; mix well. Shape dough into small balls, roll in finely crushed oven -popped rice cereal. Place on ungreased bak- ing sheet; flatten with fork. Bake in moderate oven (375° F.) about 15 minutes. Yield: 3 dozen cookies (lee ins.' in diameter). SIP if the freezer opens on top, the fan may be placed on the bottom of the compartment and tilted up- ward slightly, to blots against a side wall; or the fan may be put on the freezer and tilted down to blow into it. "While ice and frost melt, wipe up the water with cloths, and clean the non -refrigerated surfaces of the freezer. When defrosting is done and the freezer clean, connect the freezer and let ie. run half an hour or so to lower the temperature somewhat before replacing the food. "When returning food packages to the freezer, take time, if pos- sible, to make an inventory. It is a good opportunity to bring She older packages to the fore, and mark them plainly for first use.e News of "The Ex" Here's best news in a long while for women Who do not sew, but are smart buyers when it comes to outfitting thmselves and young daughter. This is it ... this year at the C.N.E., the clothes for the Mother and Daughter "Cover Girl" competition need not be home sewn. They must be smart, suitable to the wearer and as close as pos- sible to what the typical Canadian woman and daughter would wear. Daughter must not be older than 10 by September 1, to be in the winning line-up. First prize will be $50; second, $40; third, $30, and fourth, $20. Mother with daughter by hand will look their prettiest for the judges the adternoon of Sep- tember 1 with the winners' parade in Woman's World in the Coliseum that evening at eight. Write todlay to Kate Aitken, women's director of the C.N.E., for your entry form. When the white man discovered this country, the Indians were run- ning it. There were no taxes, there ning it. There were no taxes, there was no debt. The women did all the work. And the white man thought he could improve a system like that! Helpful Hints For Home -Makers Tint chenille bedspreads pr shag lugs in the washing machine. Add t'he coloring to the final rinse, mix with the agitator, then put in the article to he tinted. Stir with the agitator for a few minutes, rinse in clear water, dry in the shade.— * * * Shower the bride-to-be with con- fetti as she begins to open the gifts at her shower. Fill balloons with confetti before inflating them. Hang them over the gift table. Puncture balloons with a pin to start the stinker. * * *r When we buy equipment, such as lawn mower, sprayer,, washing ma- chine, iron, or refrigerator, we tack the pamphlet on the garage wall, or file it in a special drawer in the ki.chcn. A handy reference for the name and address of manufacturer, or sketches showing repair parts or directions. * * * Cooking spices arranged alpha- betically on my cabinet shelf save me a lot of hunting. 'rhe shelf for spice cans should be very narrow; yon can have more than one shelf if necessary, but stand the cans single file. Ottawa Youth Wins Sisr Ener Ski Meet 1•Ilthng almost a mile a minute clip, two Ottawa.eyouths recently shared top honors in the annual James I. Brewster memorial ski race at Columbia Icefield. George Grossman, 20 -year-old son of an Ottawa buliding contractor, cap- tured the trophy by turning in a time of 1.37.1 for the mile and a half slalom course, while Ron Car- wardine, a student of Carleton Col- lege, secured second place with 1.39 minutes for the descent. The two Ottawa lads, both members of the Ottawa Ski Club, were triumphant over 19 other contestants from Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Ed- monton, Jasper and Vancouver in the gruelling run over the rugged course down the face of Athabasca 'Tongue of the Great Dome Glacier. The first half of the run was prac- tically sheer ice, while the latter half was wet, with the snow surface in a late stage of firnification and with many small crevasses to be hurdled. The ladies' section of the event was won by Lois Woodworth and Lorna Pirie placed second. The junior boys' section was cap- tured by 16 -year-old Jack Bruce, while Milton "Sonny" Kaine, also 16, was second. The meet was witnessed by more than 200 persons, and the trophies were prgsented in the chalet by Mrs. L 'Brewster and Mrs. Fern Clarkson, G. H. L. Dempster, superintendent of Jasper National Park, presided. In a brief address, Mr. Dempster expressed the belief this annual race will soon become a Canadian ski classic, and prom- ised the full co-operation of Jasper Park authorities in future runnings of the event. Answer to Crossword t"uzzle grafi 11215 -MAO U QUI UuIi Li ME�a cl ones© eflcj121r 'if U M AU ©LIEWrai. 1F J 1 MIMEO rav&4U 1U urv�r� ar :ANEW 4 iERI C 1 El JLI61CluJ CINE] 1 WEI WmUOU FCIG,I clam liJr7r rit.'t k , �.-.._ HRONICLES j INGERFARM Gv e dolime P. Clavice The drought is with us yeti Thf radio speaks of this as being the nineteenth day without rain. That may be true of some districts, but here, in Halton County, the dry spell has been much longer. Except for one or two very brief showers, we have not had a real rain since the middle of April. Sometimes there would be rain in Toronto and Hamilton and we naturally hoped for our share, but it was hardly a drop we ever got in this district. And the result is all too obvious . and in so many ways. Everyone knows what is happening to the crops, the pastures, fruit and gar- dens, but here is something that I don't believe has been mentioned at all. Just this: The cattle and horses are getting very sore feet from walking on the dry, rough ground. The poor things do so much wan- dering back and forth looking for green feed, a bit of shade, or run- ning water. They are walking around far more now than they would be in normal times = and the dry pastures are also having an effect on their digestive systems. So, even though it would be too late now to help the crops, we still pray for rain to make life more bearable for our live stock, But, according to the weather "probe," there is stili none in sight. How - et er, it sometimes helps if we re- member "the darkest hour is just before the dawn." Maybe by the time this column is printed we shall have had some life-giving rain, Wouldn't that be wonderful! If Inc do get rain, we may have some garden stuff even yet. Most of our seeds actually managed to struggle through—all they need is a little encouragement. In that, we are lucky as some of our neighbors tell us none of their garden seed hassprouted at all. That is the way with our clover. Partner spent over $100 on clover seeds of various kinds, He might better have left it in the bags. Really, the weather does seem to have taken a crazy streak. The last two days, it has been around 90, and yet, only a week ago n'e had a small fire in the fur- nace to keep our visitor comfort- ably omfortably warm. She is in Toronto again now—uncomfortably warm, without a doubt. We did a bit of shopping last Thursday and I had an idea the stores were not quite as busy as usual. Coming home on the bus, I was chatting with a friend, at present living in Toronto, who told me that during the last few weeks there have been quite a number of peddlers going from door to door. If that is a sign of the times, it le one that nobody welcomes — un- employment, with the cost of living so high would be terrible. But per- haps that is one instance where the International Federation of Agrl- cuhural Producers would get e chance to prove its worth. When I got home from Toronto Met Thursday, I just had time to get a bite to *at and then Partner and I went off to see a show. We specially wamted to ase it because It was "Scott—of the Antarctic" We Shought it wan something that was informative and should be seen. Not only that we were partienlaaly interested in the story of the ex- pedition because Captain Oates came from Gestingthorpe — a lit- tle village near our home in Eng- land. Some time after the 11I -fated expedition, Captain Oates' personal effects were sent home, and I re- member they were put on exhibit, the proceeds, I believe, were used for some charitable purpose. 1 was just a school girl at the time and can't remember very much about it, except that, even at that age, the tragedy of tree whole affair seemed so terrible. The picture, of course, is a won- derful production, but neither Partner nor -I really liked it. The suffering and privations that the whole party endured seemed so use- less—that is, according to the story. We would have liked it better had there been an epilogue—just some- thing to show in what way the expedition had been of value to scoientific research. Perhaps there were many things in Captain Scott's diary that proved to be of benefit to future Antarctic explorers, but that is a point that the picture did not bring out. If it had, one would have come away with a different feeling. In most pictures, no matter how much tragedy is shown on the screen, one always has the con- soling thought—"Oh, well, it is only a picture—it didn't really hap- pen!" But with "Scott of the Ant- arctic," you remember, all the way through, that what you see actually did happen. As a result, one auto- matically assts the question, "What was the good of it all?" Brave sten suffered and tied — and for what purpose? If anyone knows the answer, 1 would be glad to hear it Well, even typing is hot work these days so this is where I sign oft and hunt a cooling drink. GAME GUY The print old lady was given the first glass of beer she ever had. After sipping it for a moment, she looked upwith a puzzled air. "How oddl" she murmured. "It tastes just like the medicine my husband has been taking for the last 20 years!" - DOES INDIGESTION WALLOP YOU BELOW THE BELT? 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