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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-12-02, Page 2T ♦"y♦♦ "Dear Anne Hirst: For the second time, my wife has left me because of niy drinking. ... I don't drink every day (and never heavily) but I drive a truck sometimes more than eight .hours and when I'm through I'm tired and on edge, A couple of beers help me re- lax. . Also, my wife accuses me of seeing other women when- ever I've taken a beer. This is not true, and never has been. "We have a baby boy,, and I love these two more than any- thing in the world. I just can- not keep on living if they do not come back home. "Can you suggest any way to get them back?" JOE" UUP TO YOU * Face the truth: Your wife * is determined not to live with * a man who takes even a few * beers. She demands nothing * less than total abstinence. * Knowing how many homes * have been broken up, and * other heartbreaking tragedies * which have resulted from * drinking. she has made up * her mind she will not run the * risk. If you think her cle- * vision fanatical, - remember * that many a man has started * with a few beers and ended * by drinking excessively. It * is this fear that persuades * your wife to take her stand, * and I expect she will stick to * it, fief -Size .dumper efeltnitesliVittAt. Greet Fail in this chill -chas- ing jumper! Wear it with or without a blouse! Use wool or heavyweight cotton remnants! Proportioned for shorter, fuller figure! Pattern 519: Sizes 14%, 16%, 181/2, 201/4, 221/2, 24%. Tissue pattern; transfers. State size. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St. New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER and SIZE, your NAME and ADDRESS. Don't miss our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog! An excit- ing variety of crochet, embroi- dery, and iron -on color trans- fer patterns to send for.. Plus four complete patterns printed in book. Send 25 cents for your copy today! Gifts and bazaar best sellers! * If your wife and baby mean "' as much to you as you claim, "' there is only one answer: self- * control. * Stop taking any alcoholic * drink at all. Other hardwork- ' ing men have found ways to *.relax from exhaustion; your * doctor can help you there. * ... Let your wife know that * you have ceased drinking, * When you have been without * it long enough to show her * you intend to stay that way, * she should believe in you * again — and what a happy day * that will be for you both! * It will take longer this time * to prove she can depend on * your promise. After all, you should have learned that she * meant what she said the first ," time she left you. * It is alcohol — or your fam- * ily. * How can you hesitate? * * * A GIRL'S RIGHTS "Dear Anne Hirst: I am 17, a high school senior and an only child. My parents won't give pie any of the privileges all my girl friends have! They won't let me go to church with the girls, and of couThe I can't have dates. I just go to school, come home and do some work and go to bed. It is a lonely way to live. "They have no reason to treat ire so coldly, and it worries me. Why are parents so strict? I know it isn't love. I've even considered leaving hone, but that is a bad idea and might get me into trouble. Please help me. IRENE" * A girl 17 and a senior. too, * who has never given her par- * ents any concern deserves a * wider social life, in my opin- * ion, than you have. * The discipline that parents * practice is based on their love * for their children (whether * you believe it not) and their * anxiety to protect a daughter, * especially, from the wrong * friends and activities until she * is old enough to use good * judgment. Because you are * an only child you are peculiar- * ly precious to your mother * and father, and they lean over * backwards to shield you from • * any possible harm. * If you have been frank with * ire, I think you should be al- * allowed to visit your friends, * go with them to movies and * sports events, and have dates * with nice boys whom your * parents approve. Your person- * ality will be developed, and * you wil ].earn how to get al- * ong with people, and so ma- * tuart earlier. * Show this opinion to your * parents today. If your mother * would like to write me her side * of the question, I shall be glad * to have it. A husband proves his love not by words, but by living the kind of life which pleases his wife most. --- And anything which contributes to her con- tentment is worth whatever sac- rifice it costs. • . . Anne Hirst is here to help you out in any time of trouble. Write her, frankly, at Boxx 1, 123 Eight- eenth St., New TorontoOnt. She never betrays a confidence. HIS BRAIN 'SPRANG A LEAK' George Hardyman, 66, of Chorkee, U.S.A. drove 18 miles along a busy highway on the wrong side of the road -- and did not know it. He was driv- ing along and suddenly lost the ability to tell left from right ,,.:after a blood vessel in his brain "sprang a .leak." A doctor said that this "leak" would cause a temporary com- plete reversal of sensation about horizontal direction. A case against Hardyman for careless driving was dismissed. "CONGRATULATIONS, POP, YOU'RE A 'MOM" --Tommy Retig, juveniles TV star, congratulates Lassie, perhaps than most famous female impersonator in the entertainment world, on becoming a "mother," The male collie played mother to this litter of • puppies, ; orrowed for the occasion, during a recent sequence of his present television show. Stuff ird With Two Dressings for By DOROTHY MLi DDOX Just to make life mare interesting, why not use two different kinds of stuffing for your holiday turkey? Use one for the chest cavity; another, more exotic One, for the neck cavity. If your family goes in for stuffing, eating lots of it, bake extra. amounts in' greased -individual molds. That's much better than trying to cram too much into the turkey, because turkeys should be loosely stuffed. Some stuffings are simple and straightforward; others are fairly complex. Here are three recipes using enriched, yeast -raised bread as a base—each more than enough to fill the°neck cavity of a 15 -pound turkey, with enough left over for the casserole dish.. Toasted Almond Stuffing Eight cups soft bread crumbs, yZ cup melted butter or marg- arine, 2 cups chopped toasted almonds, 11/4 cups green celery tops, 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning, 2 eggs, 2% teaspoons salt, 1/4, tea- spoon pepper, 1/4 cup grated onion. Combine all ingredients ;thoroughly and use to stuff cavities of turkey. Sausage :Stuffing Eight cups stale brad cubes, 1/2 cup melted butter or marg- arine, 1 cup finely chopped onions, 11/2 cups chopped celery stalks and leaves, s/4 pound bulk sausage, 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning, 3 tablespoons minced parsley, 2 teaspoons' salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, 1 egg, 1 cu chicken stock or milk. Cook sausage. Combine with --remaining ingredients and use to stuff turkey cavities, We used to have oyster: stuffing every Christmas when I was a small girl, and this one reminds me .of the way my grand- mother's used to taste. Oyster Stuffing (Yield: about 10 cups; enoughfor a 12 -pound turkey) • One half cup butter or margarine, 1/2 cup chopped onion, 3/2 ouble Taste Treat Not two -face but twice -stuffed is this turkey, a new taste -treat for you and yours during the holidays. cup diced celery, 3/4 teaspoon Tabasco, 8 cups soft bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning, 2 cups drained, chopped oysters or 1 can (16 ounces). Melt butter, . add onion and celery and cook until onion is yellow, but not brown. Stir in Tabasco. Add to bread crumbs with parsley, salt and poultry seasoning. Mix lightly. Add oysters. T� EF Rikl FRONT �Y Lia SA: Spice the introduction of DDT in 1945, hundreds of pesticides have been introduced for a Wide variety of end uses. After their benefits have been amply de- monstrated. some people in Canada (and the United States) have made claims that pesti- cides are slowly poisoning the human race. Naturally, others became jittery about their use. Just what is the right answer insofar as Canadians are con- cerned? * .* Perhaps the alarmists and the alarmed both can get comfort out of what S. C. Barry, direct- or of production services, De- • partment of Agriculture, Ot- tawa, had to say recently - before; the second annual conference of the Can ad is n Agricultural Chemicals Association in Monte- bello, Que. r,: * * .� Mr. Barry pointed out • that before en industrialfrnx' staff place a pesticide on the market, it must first register it with the plant products division of the production service as called for by the Pest Control Products Act. Before a product is en- dorsed for registration, various scientific sections of the Depart- ment of Agriculture or the gov- ernment are consulted. The Science Services test the ma- terials to see if they live up to manufacturers' claims; guidance of animal pathologists is sought with respect to pesticides in- tended for animal purposes; discussions are held with the Department of Health and Wel- fare and the National Pesticide Committee regarding s a f e ty from the human health factor. k * * Assessing the human and animal health hazard, according to Mr. Barry, is more difficult than determining effectiveness. ' Animals or humans that take in DDT, apparently, store some of the material in the original or less toxic form in their tissues. But it has been well established that even abnormal exposure to DDT results in tissue deposits which are only a very small fraction of the amounts neces- sary to produce any ill effects on health. * A fair appraisal of the situa• tion, he said, is that all pesti- cides registered in Canada are effective for the purpose claim- ed and present no hazard to health if used as directed. With the combination of the serious desire of the agricultural chem- icals industry to fully test and stand behind its products and the safeguards provided under the Pest Control Products Act, the Canadian public has quite adequate assurance that pesti- cides are effective and safe for the purpose for which they are intended. * * * Cattails •– the graceful rush- like plants common to most Canadian swamps and sloughs -- may may soon become a favorite dish on our menus. Two Syra' cuse University scientists have been exploring the possibilities of utilizing this wild plant eeenornically. They have al ready found that cattail roots can be eaten like potatoes. They've made cattail flour from which they've baked cattail cookies. They've 'used the fibro from the stem for caulking bar. Ms to snake theta water tight. Week's Sew -Thrifty! 4623 SIZES S -I4-16 M-18-20 L-40-42 Aeift*M Practical! Thrifty! Beginner- simple -to -sew! 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Other industrial uses for the plant are being investigated. * a, * While the last 40 years have been taken up with adapting tillage practices to the tractor, the next decade will see great- er emphasis on the adaptation of tillage to specific crops and soil conditions, This forecast comes from C, 5, Slater of the U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, who says that present day tillage — plow- ing, harrowing, packing :and cul- tivating — has been applied too extensively and too intensively. From the standpoint of soil structure maintenance, tillage is apt to be more harmful than beneficial in that it sets up ero- sion hazards and exposes the soil to deterioration by freezing and other climatic factors. * * * Mr. Slater foresaw an overall decrease in total tillage to pro- tect the soil. 1V1inimuiri tillage requirements will be establish- ed for different crops. Weed control with chemicals will be more widespread to reduce total tillage, * * Greater we of cheiti foal nitro- gen will help reduce the need for tillage merely to increase soil nitrification. Increased use of mixed fertilizers for higher crops yield will call for better utilization of rainfall in non- irrigated regions. Tillage will have to go deeper in shallow soils to enlarge the root zone and provide increased water storage capacity. Problems of compaction caused by heavy machinery will also call for de- velopment of deeper tillage practices. * * * To meet the food and fibre needs of an increasing popula- tion, more intensive use of land is impending. The future will see more short rotations with summer cash crops. Develop- ments will take place in tillage practices and equipment to solve the problems of growing two or more crops in one year, maintaining the soil at the same time. Do's , : D nt's F:•; r Using Ladders DO'S 1. Work facing the ladder and hold on with one hand. 2: Book leg over rung ifneces-- sary to work with both hands. 3. Face la dder when either • ascending or descending. 4. Secure ladder when on roof so ladder will not blow down. 5. Make sure a step ladder is fully spread and locked with all four legs resting on 'level base. 6. For tree work, be sure top of ladder is supported by a firm limb so ladder is stable. DONT'S 1. A ladder is meant to carry only one person at a time. Do not overload. 2. Never stand on top of a step ladder. 3. Don't climb a ladder when shoes are covered with snow, mud or grease. 4. Test -loading may result in damage to side -rails, so do not test ladders. L Never use in a horizontal po- sition. Extension and single laddersare not designed for such loads. o der -'9969 r rkh� cid One of the miracles of mod- ern chemistry is the usefulness of sulphuric acid. In some way or another, it has had a hand in producing almost every single thing we use every single day. Did you know that each person in Canada uses about a a hundred pounds of sulphuric acid in a year? Not in its pure form, of course. Like so many chemicals, it id - most never appears as a con- sumer product. Instead, it is used with other products to pro- duce new materials, things like synthetic detergents, steel for automobiles, rayon for clothing. The kitchen refrigerator is just about the last place you would expect to find a corrosive acid. But the frig. itself wouldn't be there without it. Sulphuric is widely used for cleaning the steel before the white coating is put on and for making the fertilizer which helped grow the food inside. Even the milk we drink has been tested with sulphuric acid to determine its butterfat con- tent: In clothing, every pound of rayon consumes its quota of sul- phuric acid. And we'd be a pretty drab -looking lot without chemical dyes, which again are dependent on this acid for their manufacture. It is important in paper making, in manufactur- ing colors for paints, in refining glues, in tanning leather and making the alum used to clarify drinking water. But by far the greatest work of 'this powerful acid is in pro- ducing the food we eat. Hardly a food product is grown today without the help of fertilizes and the fertilizer industry is by far the largest user of sulphuric acid. More than , half the sol-• phuric made in Canada today goes into the manufacture off food for the crops of this coun- try and of many foreign lands, Stumbling blocks and step- ping stones are one and the same; it all depends on how you use them. eSiee • • Watch The Birdie -- Peggy Dolan illustrates the enormous size of one of the world's largest cameras, as she sits outside the 135 -inch bellows. It is 25 feet long, nine feet, high,' and eight feet wide. The 42 -inch lens is used to expose a picture four feet by four. feet. It will be used to photograph all types of original copy, art work, photographs, and typeset matter to make printing plates.