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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1950-01-26, Page 6Salad,,, Tea Bags are handy for afternoon tea "SALAD' Z 1 G E HR N L S 1NGERFARM. Coworniol use P Cl a.rke Early in the year I had reason to feel I Was like the old Quaker --.you remember -the one who said to his wife -"Everyone is out of step except me and thee --and thee is out of step most of the tithe." Why did I feel that way? Just because the radio, and every paper and magazine I picked up spoke of 1950 as the beginning of the second half -century, whereas I had said in my column two weeks ago that 1950 is not only the 'beginning of a new year, it is also "the closing year" of a half cen- tury. And you know I gave that little matter quite a lot of thought before I wrote it. I also sought ad- vice from my menfolk and we were all agreed that the second half of the 20th century does not begin until January lst, 1951, Then carne the papers and I thought to my- self -"Well, either they are all all this second half century talk in crazy, or I am". Even MacLean's Magazine jumped the gun in one of its editorials, at which I was very surprised because I thought MacLean's prided itself on being almost ' infallible. However, in a few days, J. V, McAree, in his col- umn, backed me up -not that he knew it, of course -later a letter in the Globe and Mail, and another in the Fancily Herald, all pointed out the error of calling 1949 the end of the first half century. So now I feel very much better, de- spite the fact that Don Fairburn said that while those who think as I do may be technically correct yet the popular opinion is that Father Time has closed hie books on the first half of the 20th century. Oh well, everyone has a right to his own opinion -but on one point I am sure we all agree -that 1950 is bound to be an eventful year. When I started writing this we were having a little bit of sub -zero weather, but by the look of things it will be like spring again before this gets into print. Personally, I would rather have it a little on the' cold side -except that we are grate- ful for what the rain does to the SIZES 3-14--16 14-I s -2o s*. -er.»es ONE yard of 35 -inch for the small size! Little more for the larger. As shown in diagram tide apron ie ONE piece plus ties and pockets. It whips up very quickly! Pattern 4718 comes in sizes small (14,16) and medium (18,20) Small size one yard 35 -inch. This pattern, artily to use, aim• pie to sew, is tested for Rt, Has complete illustrated instructions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS MSc) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern, Print 91ainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NIIidilZR, Send order to Bou 1, 123 Eight 'wrath St., New Toronto, Ont. steatetweeseeteneentemeeset= ISSUE: 4 .- 1950 wells. The coal bins have also ben- efitted by the mild weather, which is just as well because the coal nowadays is like the old grey mare -"it ain't like it used to be", We have one bin of Alberta coal and one of American anthracite, and both kinds burn away far quicker than they should, And, oh dear, the dust in the house is worse than I ever knew it. I wonder if other housewives find it that way. Daughter was almost in despair when she was home, Had she been here very much longer the vacuum cleaner would have got worn out. The poet was right who said "Dust will keep but violets won't", Dust will keep all right -for the simple reason that you can't get rid of it. But I imagine Daughter won't be worrying much about our dust from now on -she will have enough of, her own to look after. he has al- ready rented all the rooms in her nine -room house -and two of the roomers are young couples with small children, so Daughter has probably been the means of solv- ing one of their major problems - for which I am very thankful. Mar- ried couples with small children must often be just about desperate. The sun is shining and icicles are dripping from our windows right now, but the other day when it %vas cold the windows' without storm sash were frosted over, Just to look at them made me think of the west -especially since 1 have read several letters in the papers recently about the loneli- ness of women on the prairie. Reading them I thought of our own life in Saskatohewan and I remembered that the only thing that really got me down was some- times living for weeks at a time without being able to see through the windows at all. We had no storm windows and there was frost on the outside and frost on the in- side. Sometitnes I would clean off a eniall patch with salt but it would soon freeze over again. We lit- erally saw nothing beyond the four walls of our own house during stormy weather -except, of course, for the times wheat we had to go out. Partner had a few chores at the barn, and water to draw from the well. And he generally went to town with team and sleigh once a week for mail and supplies, no matter how bad the weather. 1 remember one time he could not see to drive through the blinding blizzard so he fastened the lines to the sleigh and left the horses to find their way home by instinct - and that is more than anyone could do with a cart Our faithful team came home alt right and I heard them stop at the back door. But when I looked out I found Partner huddled on the floor of the sleigh, his back to the storm, and in a semi-conscious condition. It was well he had no further to go. But it was not always stormy weather. Ons remembers things like driving home front a party on a still, froety night, with the Northern Lights hanging a fringe of coloured strea- mers across a cloudless sky. At such times one hardly dared to breathe, it was so beautiful -like a winter fairyland. Lonesome on the prairie? May- be ... but it had its compensations. From parish magazine: You are helping to improve our churchyard. Will you add to this help by bring- ing your own clippers and cutting the grass round your own grave? CROSS `ORD PUZZLE ACROSS a, NoS&ed 1. Little maaaaee . Unite 4. Kind of aced Sppotted 8. Civet. fish 0. W'atcl,ee Chinese Do 18. st eeorotly 18. Indlaa 0� Smell Louses 14. Minute orleae 15. Grlevert 1T. Virginia willow 18, Statois 19. Leaf of a corolla N. Pheasant brood 81. Loltengrin'te wlte A8. $eleaauermeet 25. Brother 20. Vaper 29, 2 I8comattare. 38. Ana aeoaitag 33. Electrified particle 34. Savory 1G. Set gee 3T. Sea a�et l0. Stalks 40. Early neer England settler 44. Dltnnesa 40, Interrtrst 40, So be tt 41. 'Winer 4a, Ventilates, 40, cattle drove 10, And not "ut, Afrtnan worms L Hornet 3. Cunid 9. (Mgt's name 4. tinclt orange Her Night Out -Charles Kane, of Windsor, Ontario, anxiously clutches his daughter, Noreen, 7, after the missing child was found following an all-night police search, Noreen had spent the night with a girl friend, without telling her parents. Vane spotted his daughter in the street, as she strolled with friends. AN E WPST Vow:. Couos.42Art, MEDDLING MOTHER-IN-LAW A mother-in-law who tries to separate her son and his wife must. be stopped in her efforts. But how? She cannot be disciplined like a chi 1 d, though she deserves to be. She cannot be shut out com- pletely from the family life, though she is n of welcome. Yet something must be done to prevent her ac- complishing her vicious purpose. One plagued trife relates her ex- perience: Her mother-in-law tells actual lies about her son. She informs her daughter-in-law that he is being un. true to her, which the wife, thank goodness, know is not so. She exaggerates his faults, even advises the girl to leave him! Of course she is jealous, eager to have her son to herself. Added to the faults she interferes with their children's training, to the point where they actually fear her. THIS MUST STOP * Of course this wife sees through * these machinations. But it is hard * nut to become upset and nervous * under their influence. * She should talk the matter over * n' 't her husband, and enlist his * support. (This °f, does not men- * tion what his attitude is,) He * must stand behind her, give Iter * his entire loyalty, * For the wife will tell her other -in-law, calmly but firmly, * that from now on elle will not 4' listen to attacks upon her nus- * band. It is not loyal, and site has * too much respect for him to sit * quietly by, without protest. Even * if they were true, it would not be * proper. -And she will have no * more of it, * She will also remind her * mother-in-law that she and her * husband agree completely on the * way they are bringing up their * children. They, and they alone, * are responsible for the training, * and they cannot brook interfer. * ence front anybody. * When this mother-in.law comes * to see them (as she does regular. ly) the wife will make a strong 0' effort to keep their conversation 10. Open court 1/, Haraain 2e. Beds for raining wnlb 12..1Daubs 1.or retell88. th111 em 24. Young devilM 84. lnam* 0. Wilmslow T. Emmet S 30. 4arr 0. ta 81. Relating to marriage 34. Make oorreatione AT. Or the moon 88. Persian ruler 8A, Not exciting 40. Horseback game 41. Sot of three 48. Subtle emanation 48. Cape 45, Put an 8 0 40 u At ewer sl earliere on this page. • impersonal. If the older woman * offends again, the wife will rise * from her chair and refuse to 4' listen. ,; * A HOME OF HER OWN "Dear Anne Hirst: I've been mar- ried almost a year. I want a home 'of my own, "We've been living with my hus- band's parents, and we have a big and noisy dog. My husband makes the dog an e .;use for not moving. "Of course nobody wants to rent us an apartment with this dog, but my husband's parents are willing to keep the dog for us until we can get a house. (1 would be willing to move into one rooms) Yet my hus- band refuses to move! "1s a man's dog supposed to mean more to him than his wife? "I do love him, but I've even thought of leaving him because of this, WONDERING" a Of course you will not leave '• your husband for such a reason. * That would be childish. " It is hard to believe that your " husband refuses to move on ac- * count of the dog. It is more likely * that he feels comfortable where * he is. He has less responsibility * in his mother's home than even * a small apartment would entail. * I suspect this is the real reason * for his wanting to stay, * Few hien have any idea of what * a home of her own means to a wife. In it, she reigns supreme. * She manages It alone, and it be. t' comes the foundation of her fam- ily life. No matter how kind and * thoughtful her in-laws are, she * cannot relax, completely in an- * other woman's house, * Husbands who lack imagination * do not realize this. Yet if a man 4' loves his wife as I expect your * husband loves you, he will provide * her with a place of her own. Um * til he moves in there with you, he * will not understand what joy he, * too, will feel living, there alone with you. • r hope your husband will find * a good place for you soon. Every wife deserves 11. * 4, * When older people offend, oall on your patience and your tact. It takes a great deal of bot' but if you do not lose your composure, you can win, Anne Hirst will help, if you write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St,. New Toronto, Ont. He Builds Planes He Never Sees Ninety -mile -an -hour model planes perfect to the thousandth of an inch, are being built by a 46 -year- old blind man, Mr. Robert Jones, of Brighton. This is how he does it. His wife and son spread the plans of a plane on the table and put pins in the outlines. Theft Mr, jottes's wonder- ful sense of touch comes into op. oration. By letting hie fingers go round the pins, he gets "the feel" of the model-to•ho. Then he gets busy. Deftly he builds the planes, using ordinary materials, including fine- gauge wire. When they are fin. ishan his son files them. Recently his sou entered one of the modelsin a controlled flight competition, 1 t did 81.6 miles an (tour and young Mr. Jones felt sure he had won a cup, But its hadn't. The trophy went to 'a friend who won, at 90 tulles an hour, with tut - other aircraft which had been built from Mor. Robert Jesie's piens, Katharine Cornell Got The Part 1 think It was the advent of Maude Adam's Peter Pan in my fa- ther's theater that first made the know that I wanted to devote my life to the stage. I had looked tor. ward to Maude Adams with such eagerness that, tv1teu the time cattle I hid my face in the curtains of the box because I couldn't bear to look, Then, afterward, utter en- cltantnlertt1 particularly the flying part. After that the theatre -everything about it: backstage; front of the house; performance titne--that mar- velous hush just before the curtain goes up; the clutter and clatter of rehearsals; the glamour of the theatre's great stars -Bernhardt, Sothern and Marlowe, Tree, Sir 'Henry Irving, Mrs, Fiske became an intimate and realistic part of my life, Naturally,1 saw more plays than the average child would see. - Jessie Bonstelle, who even then cause to Buffalo for a season of stock each year, was alwayslovely to me, She would let Inc sit all day, day. in and clay out, and watch her rehearse her plays. 1 never got tired of it, "Hurry and grow up atld play Jo for me," she said one day, I was thrilled, of course -but never dreamed it would conte true .. . Miss Bonstelle played leads, of course, and did her own directing. She uad that rare gift 'of getting a smooth production together In a week -week in and week out. She -was not a great actress but an ex- traordinarily good one for that par- ticula'• job, She could manage any kind of stage... In September-tha was the Fall of '19- Miss Bonstelle had decided to do Little Women in London with an English cast. Marian de Forest wrote the play (in 1912, • you re- member), and after fifteen managers turned it down, Brady bought it for his daughter, Alice, who played Meg -beautifully, they say. I never saw her performance. "Who for Joe?" asked Miss de Forest. "Kath- erine Cornell!" answered Bonstelle, -Froth "I wanted to Be an Act- ress," by Katherine Cornell. Poor Prophet Back in the stills, just out of sight of Manhattan's night -glow, an elderly character with a prophetic beard is sulking in a little house in . a valley. Beside ,the house, handy to a snow -bound Householder, is a large pile of fireplace wood, neatly stacked. The house itself is stoutly banked with last fall's leaves. In the larder is a store of canned food and cured meat. But all last week the elderly character himself sat on his front stoop in his shirtsleeves and glared at the sky. Last fall, he forecast a heavy winter, an old- fashioned winter full of ice and snow and bone -chilling cold. The week before Christmas he said the turn was at hand, On Christmas Day, he said the new year would come in with a howling wind and two feet of snow. It is obvious what happened. The lilac bushes in his front yard looked, a few days ago, as though they might burst into. leaf at any moment, There wasn't enough ice on the near -by pond to cool one long drink. The elderly prophet hadn't been able, try as he might, to burn one full cord of wood; in fact, as he sat there and glowered • the other day, the doors of his house were wide open to the balmy breeze. And he knew that if he • went poking through the woods, he might find hepatica in bud. Maybe even ehadbush on the verge of color. Winter isn't over yet, by any means. But it is January, and Groundhog Day is going to be here before you know it. Then February will fray away into March. And the January that should have started off snowbound started off with a burst of 60 -degree weather, Those who know the elderly character best say now that he is about to. lock up his house and take a trip. He wants to get away from this awftil winter, they say. He talks of going to Northern Canada. -N.Y. Times, Jan .8, • Chairman at church gathering "We welcome tonight the Rev, Mr, Jones. This 19 the first chance he has had to speak since he married." They Had Sausage 2000 Years Apia Sausages have briti a populait dish since the fifth century, B.C. The Greeks had a word for Mont The Romans, too, aro known to have indulged in fried sausages made from fresh porh, chopped pine nuts, muslin seri, bay leaves and black pepper. They are also t:toegltt to have introduced the haggis to England, where it was very popular at the time of the Contntoune:tith, Since then, the delicacy weals to have retreated over the border into Scotland, and many us would not recognize a 'tenni:, tf we saW one, No doubt many of to have chuckled over the story of the housewife who, receiving one as it gift front her husband in Scotland, planted it in her rockery and proud- ly displayed its flourishing condition on his return. In the Middle Ages, the "Saus- age -Makers' Guild" produced a pop- ular delicacy consisting of ground pork flavored with eggs, powdered pepper, and spice, encased in trite neck of a capon. When sausage are cooking, there is often shrinkage due to loss of fat and water; this may be reducgif by dipping in boiling water. before frying. - Fine Idea • Gerry; "Don't you think it good idea to rate all cars according to their horsepower?" Bili: "Not as good u rating drivers according to their horse sense." 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Mix and elft together 234 Dupe sifted flour, 1 teaspoon Magic Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon Magla Baking Soda, 1 teaspoon cinna- mon, 1 teaspoon ginger, 3d teaspoon cloves, jf teaspoon salt, and add alternately with ft( cup hot water. Bake in 24-2)" cup cake pans in moderate oven (8109 for 80 minutes, Then blond one 8 -on. package of oream cheese with enough milk to make or sauce consistency, !Cop oar nerving with a siwnnIad.