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'HANDY DINTS
Sew 'Calle to the four Corners of
your ironing blanket and tie them
firmly tothe table legs; it saves auy
annoying wrinkles on the blanket.
Make sure the feathers won't
work tdinough your new pillow
ticking by waxing the inside of the
cover, ironing it with a hot iron
rubbed over beeswax and ironing the
`beeswax every .tome before pressing
the material.
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Straighten bent knitting needles
that halve done overtime for the
-troops by plunging them into boiling
water or holding them in hot steam,
straightening with the fingers and
''then leaving in cold water to harden!,
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-The duidkest way to blanch al
motes is to put them in cold water,
'bring it toa boil and then pat them
Into cold waiter again at once; the
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skins will rub of In a twinkling.
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If you slop hot fat on to the
kitchen table or floor, d:asli cool
water on t at came; this sets it
before it has time to penetrate Lhe
wood and makes It easy to scrape
off later,
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.A. lump of sugar put into the tea.
int with the tea prevents it from
staining the tea cloth; any spilt ':a.
will came out in the wash quite
easily If youdo this.
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Avoid any risk of burning acci-
dents by making thin cotton or
flannelette artuteriale used for'
kiddies' fancy dresses or decorationi
pu,poses non-lnflamana:ble in this.
way. Wash and rinse the material
and squeeze it dry, then soak for a
few minutes in 1 ons. alum dissolved
in 1 quart of boiling water and used
when cool; ,hang out to dry without
whinging or mangling.
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If your ewe cellar has a windoev
or an oultside door, leave it open;
the more fresh air coal gets, the
less of its. gas it loses and, conse-
quently, burns longer and brighter.
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Fashion Flashes
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,Slips and petticoats for spring
are colorful dm prints;, dots, stripes,
floral prints and dots, more bold In
outline and in color mixtures, while
the range of pastels is used in dots
against drab grounds, navy, black,
deep red .. The shops show caniy
striped tageta petticoats , doteti
taffeta slips . as well as bright
colors i ntaffeta slips and petticoats.
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Cik<SNAPSNOT GUILD
r "PROBLEM" PICTURES
'Problem" pictures—showing amusing situations at home—add interest
to your album. Think of such situations that have occurred at your
house—then re-enact them for the camera.
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HOW a subject in an amusing
"fix"—a problem situation—and
yeti have an entertaining picture.
All mercer of simple everyday
problems can be used for picture
purposes --and If you just show the
situation clearly, these snapshots
never fall to be interesting.
If there's an old, worn-out alarm
clock in the junk box or the attic—
fish it out, let Johnny take the
works apart, and then get a, shot of
him trying to make everything•go
back in place.
If there's a puppy at yourhouse,
pose him with a couple of cans of
= dog food, and a can•opener on the
floor in front of him. Scold him a
• bit, and you'll get a doleful expres-
eion that makes the picture perfect.
here's another, Once I tried to
bake an angel food cake, and It fell
. so flat we tried to use it for auto.
atobile tire patches. Now, why' tot
get hubby to don an apron. Then
haste him held a cake pan, and pie -
titre him lifting a big brittle anger
cookie out of it, That's; the cake—
. tie his batted expression will reveal
-and you'll have a shot' that really
"rings the bell."
Again—,how about pictures of
x hubby or Uncle John struggling
. into a full-dressshirt, and losing
the collar button? It has happened
to everybody. And it is worth sev-
eral pictures—a sequence—
conclud-ing with the final triumphant recov-
ery
econery of the elusive button. Just
try it!
Often, in the comic strips or bit'
morous magazines, you find situa-
tions that will make good snap-
shots, with real people in them.
Some time ago, one comic strip
showed a man trying to even up the
legs of a tall kitchen stool, so it
would stand level. Bit by bit,, he
sawed small sections off each leg—
until he wound up with nothing
more than a footstool. If you have
an old, broken-down stool around
somewhere, try this—it, too, will
make a marvelous snapshot se.
quo* with five or six pictures all
equally funny.
Just it down and recall amusing
things that have happened at home
In the past. Does the kitten get hint -
Self all tangled up In Grandmother's
Yarn—beyond escape? Did you ever
thump your finger' With.a hammer,
trying to hang a 'picture? Note
down such things -^•then put them.
into "situatlon" anapabets. It's a
splendid way' to have lots of tut
with your camera.
820 John van Guilder
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LOOK OUT FOR
YOUR LIVER
Buck it up right now
and feel like a millions
Your liver is the largest organ in your bods
and most important to your health, It pours out
bee ta rgy,digeallowst - gets
noun ehmenrid of t'to reaach
lies
newenerg P P
Your blood. When your liver gets out of order
food decomposes in your intestines. You be-
come constipated, stomach and kidneys can't
Work properly. You feel 'rotten"—headachy,
backachy, dizzy, dragged out all the time.
For over 35 years thousands have won prompt
relief from these miseries—with Fruit -s -lives.
So can you now. Try Fruit-a-tives—you'll be
simply delighted how quickly you'll feel like a
new person, happy and well again. 25c, 50c.
FRU ITAII V ES Canada's
C largest Selling
Liver Tablets
with ,the following given p2eference
in the monotone: Dusty rose, deep
Minks, opaline, tea, rose, ligbt and
Clark blues, bright greens and blapl .
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'5limuess with movement is ex
pressed in pleats iu skirts, . with
wide box versions noted, also in
concentrated front fullness, with
soft gathers stud fine tucks register-
ing, Frequently fulness develops
front elow the waistline, from a sec•
tion suggesting a yolk, with this
,same curved or painted outline re
peaaen in the bodice, in a ' shoulrlet
yoke.
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New jackets are sometimes boxy,
-sometimes easily fitted, and skirts
show definite approval of pleats, but
always with accent on smooth bile
lin es,
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•Separate dresses have an import-
ant look sometimes all over tucked,
with ns lefty tuobings, and especial-
ly atraotive in sheets, extending
from neckline to hem, and the nest
sort of tucks make decorative de-
signs ea crepe afternoon' dresses.
aT,he twin•print idea is carried oat in
+costumes with the sheer print veii-
aing the crepe.
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The necklace silhouette; hats of
shimunering plastics; sombreros;
wide, - off+the+face brims on wool
dace crowns; plaided taffeta hate
are seen.
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Winghatn Mas worst
Fire In Many Years
Plant of Western Foundry
Company Partially Destroyed
Loss Estimated • at $50,000
Wingtiam, April 10—The plant of
the Western Foundry Company was
pantdally destroyed by fire early to-
day with en egtimated loss of $50,-
000. The cause is undetermined,
but the blaze is believed to have
scanted in the black lead room, with
Its large stock of lead and benzine.
A large warehouse stock of stoves
end furnaces, ready for polishing
and crating, was a total loss.
It was the worst lire in this
distract in many years, and the glare
was visible twenty miles away at
the Royal Air Force school at Port
Albert. R, A, F. fliers: droned over
the scene as firemen fought the com-
flegration.
The foundry firm has a payroll of
seventyytllree men, and some return-
ed to work as the moulding room
and manufacturing depatitmeete
were sawed.
The warehouse, hlaok lead room.
end a recently.built sspray.'painting
section were destibyed. Several ex-
plosions rocked the building as the
fames swept through the spray
room, but no firemen were injured,
Expensive patterns in .the mould-
ing room are believed undamaged.
T1te foundry was established to
1904, amd bad been working at aasr
oapaci.ty in• recent months. General
Superintendent Fred W. Spray said•
an earlry decision would be made
about rebuilding.
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Work-manship
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Wednesday, APPil 23rd 1941
In The Garden
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Netlloing tete be gaited front wgj'k'
1104 •wail beano it is ready. In fact
with heavy ground, aecor'diug to gate.
dee authorities, loo early digging is'
about the worst possible thing one
can clke Not auiy is it a messy Job,
in the first place, but take sticky gray
is (Pulte likely to 'bake hater into
9hai'd luthpsl, suitable peiUiops for
temporary buiLdsiug material, but
reit for growing flowers and vege-
tables'
Asa matter of fact gardening is
not olaseed: as: heavy nark, and car.
Mainly lifting mud ie. One should
curb ntbe netual impulse to be out
diggingin early Spring and wait
until the ,surface water has cone
pietely disappeared 'and one rail
walk and work in the garden 'with-
out getting the shoes muddy. When
the soil reaches this stage 11 Is fit
to work, amd net before. Good
garden soil in 'the right working
eprtyclielon crumbles and breaks into
fine, tiny pieces'; it does not pack
into lumps.
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Don't Plant Too Soon
This warning against working soil
too soon also applies to planking.
Mo•ny more flowers and vegetables
are lost through planting ;tea soon
than too late, and In war time es-
pecially we cannot afford• such
waste. Tbere are, it is true, a few
things that are not hunt by sowing
early, plants *het naturally repro-
duce tb,tmeelves in Canada. Ln this
category will be onions, garden peas,
parsnips, lettuce, radish, etc., among
the vegetables, and in the flowers—
rcosrmes batohelor's buttons sweet -
Pelee, alystem. All of 'these end
some more will stand moderate
Yirost and throughout most of Canada
can be sown juot as 50001 as the soil
ban be wonted. But there are a great
many more flowers and vegetables
that will not survive frost. These
must not be sown outside until the
weather really turns, warm Aotually
they sail not make any growth until
the soil is warm, usually in mid-May
or later. There is nothing to be
gained by rushing these in too soon.
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Spread Out Sowings
Experienced gardeners nowadays
spread their sowing over ,two or
three weeks. The old habit of put-
binag in the whole garden on the
Queen's Birthday was'snot a, good
one. Mlany things planted too soon.
and the entire garden going in at
once resulted in the feast of treat
garden peas, norn, carrots, beans,
etc„ lasting only a few weeks aLa.
A properly planted garden, with sow.
ing spread fromi early aSpring to
early Summer should provide steady
supply of the freshest garden vege-
adasbles from the first week in July
until weeks after killing frosrt. This,
of coulee, is a general statement
and does not apply to those extra
balmy areas of .Southern British
Columbia and. Ontario where the
first vegetables are ready in June
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The 'Prebent Jungles
One can do wonders with flowers
alone, but still more amazing re
sults, will fallow where we combine
flowers .skillfully, with grass, wind-
ing walks, shrubbery and bits of
stione'worlc, Tn this combining
however-, we must take care to not
reproduce a jungle. A little prelim-
inary planting and a tough sketch
drawn o promtmately to scale will
il5lp wonderfully. Flowers and
shrubbery must not be so crowded
that they become spindly and wean.
There should be a generous fore-
ground of good lawn,
Little hewers must not be hidden
by tall ,tluings like full size marl -
guide cramps or zinnias, Beds ,Aust
be Bios &ren'ngedthat we eau keep
down weeds and remove fading
foliage,
'nr this age of invnnihjon and mass
aprodudtton nthere is little need for
baok•hreaking drudgery,' and cer-
tainly not In gsrdetehg, A few
simple end inexpensive tools: will do
most of the work, : Timing is alto
hnpooitanat According to the old
gardener, vale ,maintains that it 1*
ten times' easier topul1 weeds just'
a sivlon as. they ,start to *grout in-
stead of waiting until they are well
eit',abeeheds Other chores of gaol'•
ienlatg, like thinning and cultivation.
are in exactly the same category.
Done et the proper time and with
good ethane thole, 1't is tie jab at all,
but teat a week or two then there is
a real burden In catching up,
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Tools Are Important
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you get the quick service provided by
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Brussels
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Public Liability, andother general insurance. Head Office, Toronto.
tools. In the fleet place, as auy
ceaftasman will confirm, they .shoals
be in flnst-class working order. This
Means that hoes, spade, weedersl
spttdders, etc., should be shanp and
clean', An old file will do the, trick,
Lawn mowers must be kept in the
same condition if they are to leave
neat work and not grass pulled right
out by the roots or left =out.
Then, there should be some selac•
kion. A little =hand -drawn cultvator
will help speed the work in a fair -
'sized garden, while a wheel hoe will
soon pay for itself in labor saved it
one goes in for a larger supply of
vegetables. For getting under bona
flowers and vegetables and ki111ae
the weeds under shrubbery, a sharp
Dutdih hoe Is one of the most use.ul
implements. There are different eiz_
ed rakes and different width hoes.
There is an edger for trimming
lame along driveways and flower
beds and wallas. There are soados
of various widths and handie
length's. For line work, in clo'sei,'
planted tower beds, and for trans -
placating, etc., a small trowel and a
three or five -toothed, hand cultivator
are useful chore savers.
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For Pruning
For punning, there are various
types of good clippers, which are
much handler than a jackknife and 1
do a cleaner job breaking off a
branch. There is also a special type NEXT WEEK—Continuous
of pluming saw with a reinevable in Flower Gardens; Dona
. blade. This is easily set to saw at Vegetables.
any angle, leaving a clean-cut, easily
grown -over wound.
The cost of this sort of equipment
even in war time is, like all other
gardenacceslaarles, extremely mod-
erate. About a dollar will' buy
most types of hoes, rakes and spad-
es, a little lees for the small culti-
vators
ulti-vapors and; trawls, and a .little more
for the hand -drawn cultivators,
Flowers in window boxes or hang-
ing ports represent the most highly
intensive sort of gardening, This
memos that very rich soil should be
used, and, in addition, a fairly fo,e-
quent application of chemical ferti-
lizer dinning the season. Being
exposed on all sides to drying winds.
a thorough watering once a day of
the windrow box is advised,
The box or pot must have holes).
in the bottom to provdde drainage,
and also a layer of gravel, cinders,
•hrro--pn crockery or similar material
for the same'pnrpose,
Along tate front of window boxes
are planted trailing Nasturtiums,
German Ivry, Lobelia. Alytssium simi-
lar plants, with Petunias, Ages -
atoms, Begonias, Ferns, Geraniums
anti other plants especially recom-
mended for this purpose farther
lvrok, Shelter from the sum for a
day or two shonld• be provided until
the plants get established.
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Chicks aid Pullets
Barred Rocks, White Leghorns'
Light Sussex Red & Rock Cross Breeds
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phone 132 — Box 57
WOMEN RAILWAY PORTERS IN EIRITAIiN
Smnartly untformed women porteip re now nt work on British raiL
ways, replacing roe who have bean allied up. Tihis picture eh0ws
It Is 111100'110M to have the right women porters at work at a London ternrtaus. 1