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Zurich Herald, 1949-11-17, Page 2iirs earostuarseur Ladies, now's the time Chat calls for extra -special baking know-how, If Christmas baking is important to you, why not send today for your gift copy of my new recipe booklets It's free, and it will help you bake finer, tastier Plum Puddings, Christmas Cakes and other delightful Holiday fare this year. Write to: IPAU1LIPNE HARVEY P.O. sax 6400, Montreal, P.Q. itE /fi P'14,ceo. ?r O14 sfClAFS 'et"e 'a {nnv r FIVE ROSfs for all-purpose baking • "Dear Anne Hirst: 1 am a wo- man with a past," and as such, 1 feel qualified to give you some opinions. Please preach, 'Think twice before you act.' My very im- pulsiveness has brought me to where 1 am - gutter of alco- holism. And do you know that I have reached bhe stage where I no longer care too much? "l have made two marriages, ,which have not been successful $ am living with my second hus- iband, who is a 'good Joe' in every sense, except one: He is a mother's urging boy. I was rather a spoiled Vrat myself, so I can only pity him. ,(His first wife has caused us con- stant trouble.) "But lately we have indulged ourselves in drink and self-pity and 'confessions', until we are about to lose the respect and love tl f both oui families. Lost In Despair "Oddly enough, that fact doesn't ovally bother us. We love each ether deeply (he adopted my son) ANNE ADAMS It's smart to have French As- ttentl Here it is, in that shawl - Flunge collar, the wing -cuffs, the rench -type cuffed pockets t Skirt fulness controlled by pleat! Pattern 4736 comes in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40. Size 16 takes 4% yards 39 -inch fabric, This pattern, easy to use, simple to sew. is tested for fit. Has com- plete illustrated instructions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS •(,25c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, TYLE NUMBP.R. Send your order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. tom+ Upside dr, vn to prevent peeking. ISSUE 47 -• 1949 but we are like two lost souls in the ocean of despair. "Is there any possible hope for us? "We met in that halcyon year of 1940, and our hearts were high with ambition and childlike dreams -only to be shattered by fate - until the day he walked back into my mother's living room, an aged war veteran. He is 30 now, and I am 26. We have two sons by this union. "I started out to give you some opinions. But now I am crying for advice. HOPELESS" * In writing this letter to me. * reviewing the circumstances * which led to your present sad * state, you have seen yourself * more objectively than you have * for a long while. The shame * you feel is the first step toward * hope. * If, through your mutual re- * spect for each other, you have * not succeeded in lifting your- * selves from this slough into * which you have drifted, try once * more - And this time, with 'the help * of Alchoholics Anonymous. * You will find them a group * of people just like yourselves. * who know every step- of the * heartbreaking path you have trod. * They can help you find the * strength to become once more * the fine, upstanding citizens you * .used ;to • They are non-sectarian, and * ask only that you admit your * need for encourkgetnent. Write * for information to the Secretary. *. Alcoholics Anonymous, in your * nearest large city or town. * That information will come to * you in a plain white envelope. * And you two can go on from * yourselves and in each other. * If you are honest in your ap• * peal (and 1 believe you are) you * will do this not only for your * own sakes, but because of these * three sons you have brought into * the world. Whatever you two do * lowers or raises their ideals, and * must retard or forward their be- * coming the good, right-thinking * men you want them„•,to he, * It is never too late. * * * ..If you have been weak, do some- thing about it. There is hope for all who are sincere. Tell your troubles to Anne Hirst, and see how she can help. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont, Helpful Ilints r Housewives To shave chocolate finely, use a potato peeler - .it's quicker and better than a knife or grater. * x: Use a meat cleaver and woo4en chopping board for dividing frozrien food packages. Just chop off i014t you need. Handy when cooking ,r two. a * * Whip cream ahead of time >t will not separate if you add a touch of unflavored gelatin. The gelatin also speeds up whipping. * Bake cookie dough , scraps along with the cookies, nave, to the dough ( which toughen: 1 Children delight in the queer shays of scrap cookies. r: x: * Cover recipe cards with transpar- ent shellac. Greasy fingermarks and food stains can then we wiped 'off with damp cloth. * x: After washing dark -colored sox, roll them up and put them in a large muffin pan - a pair to a section - to carry them to tbel1in . Then they can't fade on bhe otltr laundry. t, R O ICLENS INGERFARM e6\v2tt.d.ottrte P. C10,.x11,.e Did you hear this little item in the news last week? An old gen- tleman, celebrating his 109th birth- day was asked what he thought had been the most wonderful in- vention during his lifetime. His an- swer was -the refrigerator! "Be- cause," he said, "you can buy any food you like and can take care of it after you've got it." That amused me because some women have to be pretty good at the art of convincing before the average man will admit the advantages of a refrigerator make it worth the money it costs. And that is under- standable, too, because it. isn't the .man of the house who has to run up and down the cellar stairs with the butter, and the milk, and the little bit of meat Which you hope will keep all right until tomorrow. But wouldn't it be too bad' if the average Man had to live to be over a hundred before attaining . that much Wisdom? Fortunately the light usually dawns a little earlier than that . . and then again. sometimes it doesn't dawn at all! . Did you also hear of the co- operative enterprise among a group of home -builders who have become tired of the high cost of construc- tion and have decided to form .a • little company of their own and build their own houses, doing the work between them? That sounds like a good solution to our skilled labour problem, and applies to more than building •houses. The same principle is working all right here just now as my menfolk are pretty busy doing a jobon the driving shed for which they have tried to get a carpenter for over a year. As for eavestroughing at the barn - that job has been hanging fire for nearly three years. Could be that when skilled labour has caught up with its waiting list -and has also become a little less independent - maybe it will find that a number of potential good customers have learned to do quite a lot of this extra work for themselves. A few years ago a discussion often arose as to whether it was C OSS OR PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Gifts for the 0o0r 6. Thrust 9. Polling vehicle 12. Vehemence 13. F,dible fern or New Zealand 19. Hurry 15. Slum dwelling, 17. Girl's name 18. Devours 19, Sinned 91. Incentives 24. Notion 25. Mr. Carson 28, ,.ewish month 29. •Y,esound 32. To an Inside spot 84. Artificial language 35. Move 36. Equal 37. Not any 39. Piece out 40. Float 42. Peels 44, Little 46, Of the ear 48. Numeral 49. Like an elm 64. Killer whale 55, Drudgery 56. Increase 57. Tiny 58. Diminutive suffix 6E. Was windy Dow 1. American Indian 2. Shelter 3. Adult boy 9. Pilot 6. Let it stall 9. Browns sun 7. Knack 8. Founded 12 'fir mtet IT. -87p 6ken-. 10. Helper 38. Poem 11, Peruse 41. Sloping water 16. Southwestern channel corn meal 43. Bitter 20. Sandpipers 44. Pack 21. Ointt 46. Simple Zit. Cone -bearing - 46. Leave out tree 17.'Yarn '7,3. Voice 50. Piece of ' 24. Metal ground Et. Force 51. Painting 28. Fuss medium 30. Tramp 52. Peplos• S1. Metal sources 53. Stitch 1I IS - r•. 21 22 23 25 32 36 44 48 I6 0 42 43 4'0 47 Answer elsewhere•on this page. Courageous Scout -Scout Don Lee, 18, who has' had no legs• since he was nine months old, beams with pride as his foster mother pins an Eagle Scout badge on his chest. The youth,„ who lost both legs in an accident 17 years ago, completed all the tough physical requirements for the badge, including a 14 -mile hike. Don is saving his money for the trip to the next - Scout jamboree. better policy .to tackle a job which was outside a person's ordinary line of work or hire a person to do it who had been trained for the job. The idea steadily gained- ground that it was better economy to hire an experienced person to do the job. And it sounds logical. Why should a man try to fix his car when. there are mechanics to do it? Or a farmer spend days, per- haps, trying to uproot a tree that a bulldozer could move in fifteen minutes? Or a woman do her own paper -hanging when there are ex- perts for the job? But that isn't the way our pioneers worked. In those days, necessity drove a man to be a jack-of-all-trades and the only time he called for help was when a job was too big for him to handle alone. Then a community bee was the obvious answer. But we have lost that indepen- dence, and now we are paying the price. On every, side bhe hue and cry goes up -"We can't do this or that because we can't get help, there isn't a carpenter or plasterer avail- able for months ahead, Sure, they promise to come but that's as far as it goes." So I was glad when Is heard'. that • significant little news item about these men getting together to build their own homes; and I was glad when Partner and Bob took over this driving shed job themselves Actually, for that, this grand mild fall is responsible. Until the field work was done big repair jobs had to wait. So it was the time element that made our men feel a carpen- ter was necessary -not unwilling- ness or lack of inihiat,ve. And l suppose that is true of many farms, and the main reason why a lot of farm buildings are in need of re- pair. The field work has to be at • - tended to first. However, I am still not anxious to see my menfolk put eavestroughing on the barn. A bro- ken neck would be mare expensive than a plumber's big. Tlie same applies to women and paper -hanging - or at least for those who have lost the agility to balance themselves on a step -lad- der while wrestling with a contrary piece of ceiling paper, There are limitations -and there are also other jobs to do that help keep down the high cost of living. You don't have to risk breaking your neck to snake your own aprons and house dresses, nor to do your own bak- ing. And where there are childree . - I have 'said it before, and I say it again, the cost of keeping children well dressed can be liter. ally cut in half by mothers making over garments to fit bhe youngsters, A little pair of pants for the wee boy; a play suit or a pretty frock for sister, can be made for next to nothing and ' will outwear any ready-made garment bought from a store, Not only that, whether what you snake or repair is a chick- en pen or an apron, something else is also gained -a sense of achieve- ment, that inner sense of satisfac- tion that comes with a job well done. You can't buy it -you- can only earn it. 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