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Modern Etiquette
By Roberta Lee
1. Ilow and where should a wom-
an pay her bill when she has been
staying alone at a hotel for several
days, and is ready to leave?
2. \Vhcn a loan is eating in a pub-
diniugroont, and a woman stops
to speak to Ion, should he rise?
3. How long should a person re-
main when staking a social: call?
4. Should the guests be provided
with plates and napkins for their
canapes at,a cocktail party?
t,. \Vheu a ratan leaves a room,
and says good -by to' a group of
girls, should he avoid turning his
back towards their?
6. Should a woman show the
sante regard for her associates as a
Man, in asking permission to smoke?
ANSWERS
1. Ask for the bill to be sent AO
your room, that the items may be
checked and totaled. Then pay
the hill at the desk. Titis will save
time in going over the items at the
desk, 2. Yes, always. 3. From 15
-to 25 minutes is long enough. 4.
No; neither plates nor napkins are
necessary, as canapes are taken
with the fingers and eaten in one
or two bites. 5. Yes; this can be
avoided very gracefully with a lit-
tle practice, 6. Yes.
TABLE TALKS..
Beet Jam,
Beet Relish,
Beet Pickles
This week's recipes front the
Consumer Section of the Domin-
ion Department of Agriculture in-
clude a recipe for jou and two of
their iuost popular recipes for beet
pickles.
For those who; any day now,
will be bringing in beets from the
garden to store for- winter use,
here are a few reminders. Beets
keep best at a temperature be-,
twcen 33 deg. F and 38 deg. F. To
keep then crisp in Storage, evapo=
ration should be 'prvetited, so 'a
covering of sand is called for.
Twisting, rather than cutting the
tops off reduces bleeding and this
helps not only to preserve the col-
or but also to prevent decay.
Ruby Jam
4 cups peeled, finely chopped
beets
2 cups peeled, finely chopped
carrots
2 cups boiling water
3 cups sugar
2 lemons, grated rind and juice
3 oranges, grated rind and juice
• teaspoon :allspice
• teaspoon ,cloves
teaspoon cinnamon
• teaspoon ginger
Boil vegetables in water for 20
minutes. .\dd- sugar, bring to a
boil and bail 10 minutes, Add grat-
ed rind and • juice of leptons and
oranges,' and spices; boil until
thick, about 15 minutes,, Pour into
hot, sterilized jars, cool and seal.
Yield, about 3 pints
Pickled Spiced Beets
s5 large beets
3 large white onions
1 teaspoon celery seed
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon mustard seed
teaspooa ground cinnamon
34 can brown sugar
5 cups vinegar
Boil beets until tender, Peel and
slice. Peel and slice onions and
mix with beets. Pack in hot steri-
lized jars. Add spices andsugar to
vinegar, bring to boiling point and
pour over beets;' seal Yield,
pints.
Beet Relish
2 qts. cooked chopped beets
1 qt. finely shredded cabbage
1 cup grated horseradish'
(optional)
2 cups vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
teaspoon pepper
Mix all ingredients, put into
sterilized jars and seal. Yield
about 4 pints.
100,000 New Radios
Before Christmas
The Canadian radio industry
will deliver 500,000 new radio sets
to Collodi-- buyers before Christ-
mas "and •ad be able to meet
tate full , _ . and within a year,"
12• 111. Brophy, president of the
Radio Manufacturers' Association
of 'Canada, said last week. 1-te was
addressing a joint tweeting of the
United States and Canadian asso-
ciations of radio manufacturers.
Britain ec1aiins
Two Ocean Liners
The super liners Queen Eliza-
beth and Aquitania were ordered
withdrawn front U.S. troop trans-
port service last week.
The order was effective imme-
diately and was expected to slow '
the repatriation of American
troops since the liners had a ca-
pacity of about 40,000 troops.,
The vessels Will be used to re-
patriate British troops front. the
Far East.
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CHAPTER IV
Adelaide's eyes were suddenly
wide and excited
"Gary — we could find out,
couldn't we? Could, you tell if you
had a map?"
"Not definitely. I know there's a
fault that runs through this area —
and you see this?" He crumbled
the bit of frock in his fingers, "Sul-
phur in that —smell it? 'Where
there's sulphur there's oil, usual-
ly..."
sual-
ly.,."
"Olt, Gary — let's get a map!
Let's go now. \Ve needn't tell any-
one about it — till you know more
about it,"
Her face was flushed and eager, -
Iter eyes burning. He tossed the
crumbled clod away and was ab-
ruptly sorry he had said anything
about it. Probably he was wrong
anyway. Every young fellow who
had a couple of letters on a degree
had a dream of some day finding
the biggest oil strike of all. And oil
was like lightning — dark lightning,
Where it struck, the peaceful earth
was never the same again.
"Yes," he said slowly. "We can
probably get a map. And an ex-
perienced geophysicist could probe-
hly tell whether there's any de-
finite promise here or not What
I've learned was how to get oil
out of the ground after someone
else located, but I wouldn't want to
advise your father to hire geologists
— not yet, anystay — not just on
my word,"
t * 5
"Olt, but if there should be oil
under this place, Gary, Dad would
be glad to hire any number of
people. 11 you should find some-
thing — and it turned out to be iat-
portant — we'd be terribly rich,
wouldn't we? And you wouldn't
have to go: to Mexico. You could
stay here and ,work for Dad"
"Poli mean — you'd want Inc to
stay?" Stumbling along, his feet
feeling wooden, he could not look
at her. His head was buzzing.
1 -ler light answer was litre cold
water thrown into his burning face,
"Oh, but of course! We have fun.
I can talk sense to you and not
have to listen to a lot of awful non-
sense about my hair and nay eyes
and all that dreamy stuff."
"I see. So you want 10 go 011 —
talking sense?"
"Of course. You've no idea what
a relief it is."
".411 right," be said, a little flat.
"We'll ll talk sense, then."
"And we'll go straight off and
see if we can find a Wrap. Gary
if it's true — I want you to tell'
Dad.'
1t. was not easy to find a map.
They tried a half-dozen places, and
Gary saw the old, avid, half-snspi-
cious look come into the eyes of
the men from whom be inquired.
Like the widened nostrils of a wolf
on the scent, like the taut suspen-
sion of movement that stiffens a
crowd when a voice cries "Eire!"
- • s r
"They're all alike,"' he told Ade-
laide. "I can wall: into any hotel
in this state and just say oil' to
somebody in a long tone — and
every man' in the place will watch
sic after that, and a lot of them
would follow sic,"
"I'd follow you, 100.'0h, Gary,
I'm so excited!"
"Ever hear the story of thewell
rigger who got to heaven and the
Place was so crowded he couldn't
get in?"
No, T'il.:.bite, What did he do?"
He stuck his head in through the
gate and yelled, They've struck oil
in hell!' And in five seconds, flat,
half the crowd had run out, and the
well rigger moved into the best
mansion on the golden street."
"Maybe they'll' have .a map at
the hook store, Let's try there.
But the book store had no map,
though the clerk looked at them
with quickened interest. "Only man
around here who might have it map
like that is old Hughey Fothergill.
He worked down yonder at Spin-
dle top when old pian Lucas
brought that big gusher in, thirty
years ago — and he's been .prowl-
ing around with a doodlebug ever
since, looking for oil, If he has a
map, you could maybe get a look'
at it, but I doubt if he'd give it
up"
* a 5.
"I know old Hughey," Adelaide
said dubiously when they were in
the car again.
"All right, we'll try. Hughey."
"What's a doodlebug?"
"It's a kind of :a - contraption
made out of a twig or something.
They walk around with it — and
it's supposed to dip and tremble
when there's oil under the surface."
"\\rell docs it?"
"I've heard stories from old -tint^
ers who claim that oil was found
that way. Probably it was luck."
"This is his house — there,
where the pig's asleep in the yard.
The door of the sooty little shack
stood open. Gary banged on it and
shouted "Hello—anybody hone?"
"Git out," croaked a voice. "If
you're one of them reliefers, I
don't want nothing, I just want to
be left alone."
''1111 not an investigator," Gary
said. "You're Mi-. Fothergill? I'm
Tallman — a petroleum engineer.
They told me uptown that you
might have a geological !nap of
this county,"
(To Te Continued)
1VIonty's Beret
Gift From Soldier
Field Marshal Montgomery, new
colonel-eommanclant of the Royal
Tank lte.ghnent, revealed the sec-
ret of his famous beret in a Ines.
sage to the regiment. He said it
was given him by a sergeant com-
manding his tank during the .Bat-
tle of Alamein,
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'SALADli
TEA
CHRONICLES
of GINGER FARM
The return of service men to ci-
vilian life is becoming more evi-
dent every day. Not only by the
fact that the sten 'themselves are
back in circulation, as it were, but
by the disappearance from - banks,
stores, offices and factories of the
girls who were carrying on in
their absence.
How often the remark has been
made—"Mark my words, these
girls that have been holding down
war jobs will never want to 'settle
down and just look after their
homes and families:'
*- *. *
Perhaps- my experience is lim-
ited but from what 1 have seen I
have' conte to the conclusion many
of these girls are only too glad to
settle down in homes of their own
—if they have homes to setttle
in. Take the: case of the young
sales clerk I was speaking to the
other day. .. "So you are leaving
us and setting up house, are you,
Mrs. Blank?' The girl's face was
absolutely radiant as she :answer
ed—"That's right—this is my last.
week at the - store."
"I "suppose your are glad, are
you?" It was really a very stupid
question,
"Am I evert' came the reply
without any hesitation at all.
And then the young wife who
held quite an important office posi-
tion and was so conscientious she
felt she could hardly take a day
off at all during the war. But yet,
as soon as her flying officer carte
back from overseas, the two of
them lost no time fn starting. out
on their life together. "And, when
the girl left her job someone else
was found to fill her shoes. Thera
always is someone.
Riyht now, after six years of
war, one' would think people ev-
erywhere would be glad to live at
peace with one another. Instead
we have strikes and more strikes,
agitators demanding less work and
more pay all the time. And into
this maelstrom of discontent cone
the returned. service Wren, solve
fresh from scenes of action, others
repatriated from prison camps. It
is a good welcome home for them,;
isn't it? Especially when they,
-
too, are going through a period of
readjustment, the difficulties, of
which it is impossible for us to un-
derstand. The best we can do is
recognize that it there and make
allowances for the restlessness
that seems to be a result,
With so many problems facing
folks everywhere it doesn't seem a
very propitious time for floating a
new Victory Loan, does it? • One
hears so often—"Mr. Ilsley twill.
,never stake it this tune!" Aiid he
won't either, unless we all dig in
to help put it over. We have an-
other war on our 'hands now—a
we ragainst inflation and, as Mr,
Ilsley put it, "It is a time for ae:
tion—not reaction,"
If only people would try to un-
derstand! Wild -spending not'
would he- little $hort of a disaster.
It would bring - on. another depres-
sion quicker than anything. Don't
make any mistake about it — it's _
tits wise guy that boys bonds. Not
only that but every dollar invested
in Victory bonds now is one way
of doing our bit towards staking -
Canada a country worthy of the
sacrifices our boys made "over
By
Gwendoline P. Clarke
5 * 5 5 5
there" especially the sacrifices of
the boys wlio will never come
back.
* * *
Buy a Bond? Why not? If you
haven't got enough ready cash you
have a year to pay for it. This is
one occasion when it is quite all
right to "buy on time."
How Can 1?
By Anne Ashley
Q, How can I prevent the break-
ing of rice kernels?
A. Do not stir rice while cook-
ing, because it breaks the kernels
and makes them mushy. To avoid
sticking to the bottom of the uten-
sil, grease the pan before cooking,
Q, How can I remove tar from
the hands?
A. By rubbing with a slice of
lemon or orange peel. The oils
in the skin dissolve the 'tar so that
it can be wiped off very easily.
Q. How can I make the surface
of aluminum look like ncty?
A. By pouring a few, ounces of
vinegar in each aluminum Utensil.
Heat it and then scour the sur -
Q. How
ur-
Q.-I3ow can I loosen a clogged
sink pipe? •
A. Dissolve j4 -pound of copper
as in 2 quarts of hot water and
pour it clown the pipe. Repeat if
necessary. A. solution of soda and
vinegar poured down the pipe will
dislodge grease.
Q. How can I make a substitute
for soap?
A. Ili an emergency, oatmeal is
an excellent substitute for soap.
Place` a siusll quantity in a cheese-
cloth bag and wash just as if using
a bar of soap.
Hun Casualties
Premier Attlee told the Com-
mons that it is estimated that Ger
ratan casualties in Killed and per-
manently disabled between Sept.'
7, 1035, and May 50; 5015, were 7,
-100,000.
Men Are Working
To Exhaustion
Chronic fatigue and nervous ex-
haustion are getting men clown ...
down in health and clown in resistence
to cold and other ailments.
Itis high time for a buildup with
Dr. Chase's NERVE FOOD, the
Vitamin B1 tonic, It will help to
steady your nerves and help you to
sleep better, '
It will help you to digest your food
and to regain energy and vigor.
Ask for the new econ-
omy size bottle of
Dr. Chase's
Nerve Food
60s.--60ets.
18Os—$1,50
ISSUE 44-1945.
! THE STEKI. ( OMPANY OF CANADA. i.!MITED
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