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Q. How can 1 make a skin
tonic?
A. Mix 'A pt. alcohol, 2 oz.
spirits of camphor, 2 oz. spirits
Of ammonia, 5 oz. sea salt. Add
enough boiling water to make
1 quart. Put in a bottle and
shake until the salt is dissolved.
Always shake well before us-
ing. Rub with this tonic after
the bath, It is also very sooth-
ing for tired nerves.
Q. What is a good method for
cleaning silver?
A. Mix equal parts of whit-.
ing, ammonia, and alcohol, and
apply with a. flannel cloth. Let
it dry and then polish with tis-
sue paper.
Q. How can I remove white
stains from polished furniture?
.A. If the stains are not too
deep, try rubbing with a solu-
tion of olive oil and salt.
Q. How can 1 clean white kid?
A. Clean with powdered alum
mixed with equal parts of full-
er's earth, Dip a flannel cloth
into this and rub on the soiled
spots. When clean, brush with
a clean flannel.
Q. Should the changes of wa-
ter be the same temperature
when washing clothes?
A. It will be far less hard on
the clothes when washing if the
temperature of the water is the
same throughout the wash.
Q. How can 1 prevent hard-
boiled eggs from cracking and
crumbling when slicing them?
A. By using a knife dipped in
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boiling water and then dried.
Repeat as often as the knife
cools.
Q. How can 1 whiten clothes
when laundering?
A. The ' clothes can be whit-
ened by adding a liberal quan-
tity of saleratus to the water in
which the clothes are soaked.
4ST
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"Dear Anne Hirst: 1 have to
laugh at these so-called inno-
cent victims of married men!
If they were respectable wo-
men, they would refuse to see
thein in the first place. My hus-
band was running after one; he
told her we were separated and
I was suing for divorce at the
next \term of court. She be-
lieved him and, all starry-eyed,
she was making plans for mar-
riage.
"The truth was, we were still
living together, making plans
for our future and the chil-
dren's, Nothing had ever been
said about any divorce,
"When I found out about his
back -street affair, he was so
afraid I would divorce him he
begged with tears in his eyes
for me to forgive him. Needless
to say, he dropped her like a
hot potato. She kept on calling,
begging him to return to her.
He told her he was a happily -
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ISSUE 1958
married man and to stop
bothering him.
EACH GIRL IS FOOLED
"These home -wreckers have
only to refuse to see married
men to save themselves a lot of
heartaches and regret. Each girl
thinks the man she goes with
loves her so much he will leave
his wife and children. . . When
he tires of her he'll go back to.
his wife., or start seeing another
woman and hand her the same
line. So on and on he goes,
fooling one unsuspecting wo-
man after another, each think-
ing she is the one he loves. .. .
"When the truth is he loves
no one but himself, and is real-
ly interested in his own pleas-
ures and desires.
STEADY READER"
' I have seldom seen • the
* extramarital situation presen-
* ted more clearly. If I could
* find space, I'd be temped to
* reprint your analysis every
* three months, if only to re-
* mind wayward girls that
* their affair is not the "differ-
* ent" one they say it is, but
* the old, old story of an ego-
* tist determined on conquest
* with not a shred of pity for
* the foolish girl who drinks
* in his sweet phrases.
* Today I expect thousands of
* girls will read this piece, girls
* who are hesitating on the
* brink of temptation. I could
* pray that every one of them
* will clip the column, to forti-
* fy themselves against the fate
* that awaits almost every
* trusting young woman who
* plans her future on the lies a
* married man invents.
TOO GENEROUS
"Dear Anne 1 'rst: For four
years I've been going with the
same boy, and I am very fond
of him. He likes me a lot, I
know — yet on anniversaries
and even Christmas he has
never given me one single gift.
I have always had something
for him, once a rin,g then a
good razor and such important
presents.
"Am 1 expecting too much to
wish he would give me some-
thing now and then? It is the
gesture 1 want, the knowledge
he is thinking of me„ not the gift
itself.
HAZEL"
* The exchange of gifts be-
* tween a girl and boy who are
* fond of each other is custom-
* ary and usually ' taken for
* granted,. It is the boy, how-
* ever, who should take the ini-
* tiative.
* To continue accepting these
** expressions of your friend-
* ship without making some re-
* turn is not in good taste. Any
* young man, however .small
* his income, can manage a
* modest present now and then •
* to shelve he appreciates the
'Y girl's kindness. Either your
* friend is ignorant of the so-
* dal amenities or he has a
** parsimonious nature.
Discontinue the habit be-
* fore you cheapen ydurself in
* his eyes.
*
If you are a lonely girl listen-
ing to sweet Words from a mar-
ried man, send him briskly off
before you, too, break your
heart over his treachery. Anne
Hirst understands, and ha symo
pathand guidance await you,
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Buried Alive
In olden times a grim method
of execution was to bury the ac-
cused alive, ' If what we hear
about present-day China is true,
the method has been brought
up to date. It is said that ene-
mies of the regime are made to
dig their own graves, then they
are forced to stretch themselves
in the narrow trench and earth
is thrown on top of them. If
the guard is feeling merciful
they may get a • bullet first.
But what of those people who
have buried 'themselves? In
Tsarist times twenty-five mem-
bers of a fanatical Russian sect,
the "Old. Believers," let them-
selves be buried alive when they
heard there was to be a new
national .census which meant
registration for military service.
• But the weirdest case was
that of the eslf-styled "Marquis
de Chainpaubert," an ingenious
French crook,' He had written
his memoirs and thought of a
publicity stunt to help sell his
bOok. He alleged that a secret
society which punished crimin-
als .who escaped the . law was
. after his blood.
In October, 1929,. he arranged
to be buried alive in a newly
made coffin, but a message was
to be zierit to the police in time
to dig him up, still breathing,
and so' create a sensation.. But
something went. wrong — when
they came for him he was dead,
his clothes torn to shreds, in his.
struggles,
Sometimes a brother or a
sister can be a big help in put-
ting the subject at ease.
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Well, was it a good Christmas
at your house? Or were you cel-
ebrating away from home? Quite
likely, As families grow Up par-
ents and married children often
take it in turn to hold Christ-
mas. In our family our young
married folk like to. start Christ-
mas in ' their own •homes and
then come to the old farm House
for noonday Christmas dinner.
But I must tell you more about
that in a later column. Right
now . it is time to wish you a
very Happy New Year, which I
do with al] my heart.
I suppose we are all glad to
greet that innocent -looking lit-
tle cherub whom we have come
to accept as symbolic of the
New Year. Perhaps he is respon-
sible for ' the feeling we get as
we approach the • new year — a
feeling that sort of fills us with'
renewed hope, 'ontimisni and all
kinds of good intentions. After
all, isn't the • New Year like an
unopened book, with twelve un-
written chapters? As time passes
we ourselves shall help to write
those chapters just as we helped
.. to write those of, 1955. Chapter
and verse are not always Written
the way we expect or want them
to be, because so often fate
guides and controls our hand
even as we write. Nevertheless
greeting the NeW Year is a joy-
• ous occasion. Is there anything
lovelier than to hear church
bells ringing • out across the
frosty night, welcoming the new
born year.
"Ring out the old, ring in the
new
Ring, happy bells across the
snow
The year is going; let him go '.
Ring out the false, ring in the
true."
When Tennyson wrote those
charming words people used to
listen for the church bells to
usher in the New Year. But
now, alas, too often the peal of
the s bells is drowned by the
noise Of horns blowing, whistles
shrieking, clappers and other
rowdy celebrations that seem to
be the modern way of greeting
the New Year. Customs in other
lands sometimes seem very
strange to us yet many of them
are far more romantic and cer-
tainly less noisy than our 'own.
For instance, in Spain, on New
Year's eve Alineria grapes are
pulled from their stems and put
into bag S twelve grapes to a
bag. In restaurants patrons are
handed a grape -bag, and they
oat also be bought from ven-
dors on the • street. At the first
stroke of midnight Spaniards
who believe in the old supersti-
tion try to swallow all twelve
grapes, one at each strike Of the
clock. Good luck for the coming
year depends on the number of
grapes a person can swallow.
If two or three are left over it
means that a corresponding
number of months will elapse
before good fortune begins.
In Russia New Year's is the
day on which gifts and greetings
are exchanged. Fir trees are set
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Punch down dough in bowl,
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up in homes .and public squares
by December 24 but gifts for
the children are not placed un-
der the tree until New Year's
Day. Christmas, with the Rus-
sians, is just another day on the
calendar, observed only by the
old people who remember hap-
pier days—or were they? Young
people who have grown up since
the Revolution have never even
heard of Christmas, except per-
haps as a legend. In the USSR
there are no Christmas cards
but at the end of the year
stamped postcards are 'Issued by
the Russian Postal Service and
marked "For the New Year."
Typical' of such cards is one
with the picture of a skyscraper
apartrnent heuse in MOseow
against a snowy background' and
in the foreground the clock -
tower of the Spaski (Christ)
Gate Of the Kremlin. At mid-
night, the hands of the clock
and the great star on top Of the
spire are illuminated.
China has a wonderful New
Year's .custOm. All debts must
be paid before the new year
dawns otherwise a man would
lose face. For this reason there
is great activity among farmers,
merchants and customers to set-
tle every debt before the old
year dies. That is One custom
that our western civilization
might do well to copy. But what
would happen to all the cars
and television sets bought On the
installment plan? There would-
n't be. so many ..around, then
certain.
In Korea, so I've been told,
father makes a brightly coloured
kite in the f orm of a dragon. To
the tail of the kite he ties redl
slips of paper bearing the age,
name and birthday of each of
•his sons. The kite is then re-
leased in the wind. If the paper
children are not torn from thcs
kite then the father is sure his
real sons will be safe from &e -
aster for another year.
And in Scotland there is a
superstition about "first foot-
ing." It is unlucky to have a
fairhaired person to be the first
to cross your threshold on New
Year's: So, for a day at least;
darkhaired persons • are very
popular.
Very few people nowadays be-
lieve in oId-wOrld superstition
We have become far more pro-
saic and practical in our outlook.
We have gained' a lot in knovr-
ledge but perhaps we have IWO:
something too — an idealism
which we are not likely to re-
gain. So, in keeping with flu:
times, I wish you all — not wily
a Happy, but a Prosperous New
Year.
When I write this column next
week it will be 1956 — and the
first chapter started in that un-
written book. One book in which -
we cannot turn to the 'last page
to find out how the gory ends!
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"Corn Starch Makes Smoother Puddings!"
BUTTERSCOTCH CREAM ,
1 cup brown sugar
'A cup butter
4 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons BENSON'S or
CANADA Cern Starch
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
PLACE sugar, butter and 31/2 cups milk In top of
double boiler.
HEAT over hot water to scald milk.
MIX salt, BENSON'S or CANADA Corn Starch and
1/2 cup milk to make a smooth paste.
ADD corn starch mixture slowly to hot milk mixture.
COOK, stirring canstaritly, until mixture thickens.
COVER and continuo cooking for 10 minutes.
STIR in slightly beaten egg very slowly; mix well.
COOK 2 minutes longer; remove from heat and add
vanilla.
POUR into dessert dishes; chill and serve with cream.
YIELD: 6 to 8 servings.
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