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'ANNE ALLAN
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SHOWERS FOR WARTIME
BRIDES
'Hello Homemakers! The lovely old
:custom of giving showers for brides
May still be carried on in wartime,
;lint remember to keep them practical
and inexpensive as well as dainty. We -
suggest an Initial Chest shower. You
might borrow a big cardboard box,
give it a light coat of paint to harm-
onize withyour decorations, or trim
it . with crepe paper:_ Then turn the
box upside down to house the gifts.
Cut smalls holes in the top to form
the initials of the bride and at the
front to form a heart -shaped lock. In
each hole, put a nosegay of flowers
with string attached below to a gift.
Wild iiowers •or any garden blooms
would be lovely. As the bride picks a
nosega% hor, assistant Clips the string
and produces a -gift.
FULL STRENGTH
DEPElNDABLE
IN THE AIRTIGHT.
WRAPPER
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What to give the bride? Something
she will need, sometk#hing that will
last, something she wants. Useful
articles include a recipe book or file,
mending kit and first-aid kit.
Suggested Lunch
Chicken Salad Bouchees
Assorted Sandwiches
Strawberries with Heart -shaped
Cookies
Chilled Punch
Bouchees
1a cup butter
s,4 cup boiling water
% cup bread flour
2 eggs, . unbeaten. .
Add butter to the boiling water in•
a saucepan that is placed on small
electric element !turned to 'Medium.'
Add flour all at' once and stir vigor-
ously
igorously until ball forms, in the centre
of pan. Remove from range, beat in
eggs one at a time. Mixture should
be very stiff when it is dropped from
a spoon on to a greased cookie sheet.
Bake in oven at 375 degrees for 35-45
minutes, or until done (as it depends
upon size of puffs). Makes six large
or - 18 tiny ones. When cool, split
and add chicken salad.
Initial Sandwiches
Spread a triangle of bread with a
mushroom filling, without seasoning.
With a pastry tube filled with plain
cream cheese write the first initial of
your guests or of the bride.
',Blossom Sandwiches
Butter a oircle of bread and with a
:table • knife . shape pink creamed
cheese into petals with a circular mo-
tion. Sprinkle a little yellow grated
cheese in the centre. • '
Diamond Ring Sandwiches
Use circles of bread with a small
circle taken out of the centre. Spread
with butter that has been creamed
with sliced tomato soup. With a pas-
try tube filled with a mixture of
mashed cooked egg yolks make a
thick circle. Top in one place *ith
a triangle of hard -cooked egg white
dipped in "-salad oil dressing.
Pink Macaroons
1 egg white
Red coloring
1, cup sugar
•i, cup shredded cocoanut
1 cup corn flakes
14 -teaspoon almond extract..'
Add three drops of red coloring to
egg white. Beat until stiff, not dry
Sift in legged- ,and fold in cocoanut
corti•flakes 'and extract. Drop from
tip of spoon on greased baking sheet
.FROM ,
BANKS • POST OFFICES
DEPARTMENT STORES . DRUGGISTS
. GROCERS • TOBACCONISTS
BOOK STORES and ofh.r RETAIL STORES
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of Statistics
Frown the Dominion Bureau s.
of
Another general conadderatien con-
tributing to abnormal development,
more especially in Ontario and the
Western 'Prairies was the recurrence
of speculative booms. These werie
very common in areas being opened
up by the railways, John Howson
found many examples of ungoverned
speculative fever ih h,is journeys
through Upper Canada (Ontario) in
the early 18410'e. He commented up -
one one instance as follows:
"About twelve miles above the
mouth of the Thames, 'I passed a spot
called the town of Chatham. It con-
tains only one house and a sort of
church; but a portion of the land
there has been surveyed into building
lots, and these being now offered for
sale have given the place a claim to
the appellation of a town. There are
many towns like Chatham in Upper
Canada, and almost all of them have
originated from the speculations of
scheming individuals. Often .. while
surveyings these embryo towns, have
I been. shown particular spots of
ground that were to be reserved for
universities, ,hospitals, churches, etc.,
although not even a hovel had yet
been erected within the precincts of
the "anticipated city."
The boom era in Western Canada
followed the opening of a railway
connecting Winnipeg with lines in
the United •States in 1879. From 1880
to 1885 the population increased from
about 8,000 to 25,000 before a tem-
porary reaction occurred. Land booms
followed the railway across the
Prairies and speculation in land be-
came rampant. Embued, no doubt,
with • the buoyant optimism of the
period, F. A. ' Talbot in . 1911 wrote,
speaking more particularly of the far
West:
"Dense forest today, tents next
week, wooden frame houses the fol-
lowing month, masonry 'buildings a
year later, a healthy town in five
years, . a, full-blown hustling city in
ten years, with tramways, telephones
and what not. Within a quarter of a
'century land grows, so scarce and
costly in the heart of the centre that'
;the skyscraper has to be brought in-
to vogue."
Such overstatement may produce a
smile thirty years later, but it was
, sufficiently plausible bait to offer real
estate speculators in that day. West-
ern towns were laid out accordingly
I with the result that when the rapid
• acceleration in immigration ceased,
• the existing population had to bear
.1taxation for the maintenance of
Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 20
minutes.
Take a Tip
A substitute for a pastry tube is
easily made with a small piece of
canvas sewn in a funnel shape.
2. Puff Paste or Bouchees are cook-
ed when the product is free from
beads of moisture. •
Egg -yolk lilting May be surpris-
ingly seasoned with -prep-ared.xn. -
tard on table sauce.'
4.. The bitterness of a chopped sweet
pepper filling •is elim'israted .by
wringing the diced pepper in a
piece of cheesecloth before being
1,
3.
made Into, a- spread.
THE QUESTION BoX
Mrs. S. W. asks: "Recipe for
'Rhubarb Punch'.''
Answer:..
Rhubarb Punch
1 quart diced 'rhubarb
1 'quart water
lee 'cups sugar
1/3 cup orange juice
4 tablespoons lemon juice.
Crushed ice
Charged- water or ginger ale.
Add water to rhubarb and cook un-
til soft. -Squeeze through double
thickness of cheesecloth, add -sugar,
stir until sugar is dissolved, bring to
boiling point, add fruit juices and
salt- Bottle to keep in sterilized con-
tainers. Add an equal amount of
charged water or .ginger ale.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o The Huron Expositor. Send
in your questions on homemaking
problems and watch this column for
replies.
streets and public utility equipment
far in excess of existing needs. This'
has undoubtedly interfered with the
natural course of subsequent, develop-
ment and has tended to discourage
the ownership' of homes.
Fats Wasted
Col. Milton .F. Gregg, V.C., M.C., whose portrait •appears In
bottom photo, is .shown in pietu re ' above chatting with Defence
Minister Ralston, while'at the rear, Maj. -Gen. H. D. Crerar,
commander of the let Canadian Corps, converses with an over
seas 'officer'.
tlen 'rocs C0110014404 0,
Gln that fated, day, Qol O;
a: Bopp, 7).0 .04 'M Cir ()MOO
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"00 0144 TJ e Q4YJ,e4, ' iC .. encu t!f4•
Font Etua'i e toSt4 Tier tat, Royal
Canadian.i egimselet. , , 'r a StOrt tfr2se
aad his pereonal knowledge of the
unexan ieleg, ireepnrceguleese, courage
and iniifiative s'hduvni by Col. ` Gregg,
coupled with five other recommends
tions, won for the young officer the
Victoria Cross,
"Colonel 'Gregg, who is the exempli-
fication of modesty, empresses iircepti-
clsth 'ever statements that there are
mien who are never frightened when
confronted by the 'bright„face of ,dlrn-
Ser. Hd Wake that what has buoyed-
,up good aoiaera in tight situations is
the old pritish tradition of conveying
the impression .that fearis an ellen
'quality tin their makeup, In other
words, the theory is to make the
other chap feel •you are not frighten-
ed.
Returned To Canada
Colonel, Gregg carne ,back to Can-
ada as adjutant of the Royal Cana-
dian .Regiment, and returned to civil
life.. In the, Non -Permanent Active
Militia he held the rank of captain
and„ major in the Governor General's
Foot Guards-,
He has been connected with the
New Brunswick Rangers and was bri-
gade major of the 16th i Infantry Bri-
gade. His military qualifications ate•
of a high order and include a ".pass”
in the Militia Staff Course. He was
among the Canadian winners of the
Victoria Cross who attended the re-
union in London, England, at which
the Prince of Wales took a leading
part -
A pre-war romance, which had its
inception in old Acadia days, culmin-
ated' following the war when he mar-
ried - an old classmate, Miss AmY
Dorothy. Alward.
He has been Dominion Treasurer
of the Canadian Legion and a Direc-
tor of the Dominion Rifle Association.
Brockville Commandant
Sets . Excellent Example
For Student Officers
(By Hal Miller)
If personal example means anything
—and. we all know that it does ---Col.
Milton 'Fowler Gregg, V.C., M.C. with
Bar, will be turning out the finest
crop of young officers ever to be
graduated from the Officers Training
Centre at Brockville.
His exploits during the last War,
and his complete knowledge of pres-
ent •wear tactics gleaned froth over two
years' service overseas, fit him sinus -
t -tally well for his present job.
As. 'Comittandant of the Brockville
training centre, he has important
work on his hands. Just as essential
to success of a fighting force as the
training of the individual private sol-
diers is 'the "business of training ctfft-
cers •properly. If anyonecan do ft,
Col. Gregg is the man. '
Succeeds - Col. Whitelaw
— Succeeding Cpl. R. _ G. Whitelaw',_
:who was appointed Director of Mili-
tary Training at National 'Defence
iteadquarters, Ottawa, Col. Gregg has
e high standard of excellence to aim
at:
One of the Canadian heroes of the
First Great War, he obtained leave
from his position as Sergeant='at-Arnis
of the House of. Conanions when the
Present war broke out. Shortly- after
he was appointed second in -command
of the Royal •Oanadian Regiment, and
'in February, 1940became command-
ing officer of the West Neva Scotia
Regiment 'with the rank of Lt. -Col. In
May, 1941, he was appointed com-
mandaLr't of • the Officer Cadet Train-
ing unit, training school for prosped-
tire Canadian officers }which corres-
ponded to Brockville and Gordon
Head in Canada:
Col. Gregg was born April 10, 1892,
in Mountain Dale, N.B., the son of
George Gregg, a prosperous .farmer.
His mother's maiden name was Eliz-
abeth Myles •and `through. her he is the"
'descendant of the United Empire Loy-
alists who came ,from the Titirteen
Colonies • to Parr Town, now,Saint
John, N.B., with the "Spring 'Fleet"
in 1783.
He was educated at the Provincial
Normal School, Fredericton, and gra-
duated from Acadia with the degree
of M.A. Fora time he taught school
in Carleton County, N.B.
Saving marl conserving what is at-
Ifind "%-relieve pressure on mater-
ials, time and labor directed to the
prosecution of the war is the funda-
mental •note in the whole salvage.
program.
In tests conducted in the kitchens
of the Consumer Section, Department
of Agriculture,- to poultry, beef, lamb
and pork fats, indications showed
that one way in which fat is wasted
is in the failure to recover and use
cooking fats in the home.
.Chicken, fats as well as fresli pork
fats were found to make effective
sbortening agents. Chicken fat with
its. bland flavor and soft texture is
ready for use •immediately on being
rendered, but smoked pork fat could
be used for more purposes if clari-
fied.
In rendering fat for cooking, the
best 'results were obtained where the
excess fat ,,was removed from the
meat before it was cooked, 'Chick-
en and beef fats rendered in this way
could be used without clarifying.
A bulletin on rendering and •clar-
ifying and other . information , •cox%
cerning use of fats available in the
home., in addition to recipes for the
use of each, is. available. from the
Consumer Section, Dominion Delrart-
ment of Agriculture,, Ottawa.
THE RAILWAY AND THE WAR
By Thurstan Topham
"Waste is 5abotager is the s57aTtime slogan of Canadian
Railwaymen.. Canada:s rail systems salvaged and-fecla
irre.. •d
ateris essential, tnthe count rs war effort tothe value of40000,000last year.
Since 1939 the C'N'R Motive
�,•, power department has
recartditidrled 83 freightencjines
which ordinarily would haw been.
replaced by new locomotives.
The() are all gluing valuable
service todaij. Some of there
have served Canada in. four - ik\k,;o;-
wars! 1, SSluage material
from homes otrall=
.,retied tag, men- is Whored
ered
S4udatiese War-Igh6 by rr.enibe'r5 of 'WAY
i e •• !'.. ions.f. riti d.
CN•itrritiinyec Int
txE WaY- 1914 Mealy paYts of Canada.
TT'i'icralstt,raiSe funds'
for mobile, canteens.
ArallgitlandeS over50.85 .
parrrels,`Ilt¢ itdt%ilos4
01.4.other ligr fad.
;Iwo tiC O 14) ,
to the Nova Scotia Reserve and at
once proceeded as a reinforcement of-
ficer to the Royal Canadian Regiment,
remaining with the regiment until
the end of the war.
Col. Gregg was three times vtound-
ed„ in •1915, 1917 and 1918.
He won his first decoration, the
Military Cross, after leading a suc-
cessful night trench .raid at Vimy,
June 9, 1917: The Canadians had in-
troduced the practice of making raids
on enemy sectors to secure prisoners
and documents. This was to ascer-
tain the identity and disiiosition :of
the troops they were opposed and to
break up machine gun emplacements.
Following a three-minute artillery
barrage, Gregg and a handful of •reso-
lute companions went through the
wire into shell -pocked No Man's Land
until the German front line was reach-
ed and the second line penetrated. A
nuni,berr` of ,prisoners 'were- captured,.
and the small :operation was highly.
successful. The'' result 'was the con;
ferrin'g of the white -bordered blue -
centred ribbon and cross on the
young New• Brunswick, officer. -He re
ceived a bar to this decoration at
Menchya during the Arras show in
August, 1918, and the higheet accol-
ade of: courage came with the win -
Ling of the Victoria' Cross at Gambrel.
in ;September of the same year.
Few winners of the Victoria Cross
survive to read citations of their. her-
oism: Col. Gregg, however, has- done
so, and his friends and official, rec-
ords have s1ippiied the details.
*Many Canadian soldiers Will, re-
member the Hindenburg line with its
deep dugouts, It was in the Marcotng
line, a section of this system with .its
subterranean .defences and. -strong
points hitherto considered impreg-
nable, that he won the little bronze
decoration ,for valor •instituted by
Queen Victoria.
Officer Commanding Wounded
The late Lieut. -Col. C. R.' E. Wile
Letts, D.S.O., officer commanding the
Royal Canadian Regiment, w a s,,,
wounded, the adjutant was killed • and
the gallant regiment, ,.suffering num-
erous• Casualties, found its adv'a ee ob-
structed by a heavily defended poli
tion. Nothing was visible but bands
of uncut wire. •
• Col. Gregg saw no• possibility, of go-
ing forward, but his' sharp eyes dise.
covered'anopening in the wire to the
left. Through this ga,p he craveled,
revolver i4 henet and pockets bulg%ng,
with Mills bombs. He reached the
German line, landed in a &hallow
t :; �eh which ;he followed to a strong
t from, which`. German machine
crew of three Were, pouring mur-
derous fire into the khaki-eisci Cate
aliens held! up by the wire. The R:
C.C. offlder killedf one German w-. ;h
his revolver, wounded the •other and
the argument of -business-like weapon,
,proved too overwhelming for the'
third, who surrendered. He 'advanc7
ed to a second menacing strong point
where the, sight of a 'Mills bp.* with
the pin, out induced. 15. tier iiiang ai'
the entrance to a deep dugoitli •til
throw up their, hands.
Enlisted At 20
At the age of 20 he enlisted with
the 13th Battalion, Royal Highlanders
of Canada, and is still partial to the
kilt by reason 'of this association.
Wearing the famous 'Black Watch tar-
tan he was wounded at Festubert in
1915 and convalesced at Edraonton, a
hospital in the suburbs of London.
Apparently Col. Gregg had qualities
:which marked him out for early pro-
motion even in the picked Montreal
r, •,battalion and it oe¢aelotied. no sur-
prise to his friends when he was re -
!commended for a commission before
e became a eastralty.
After recovering from the effects of
his wound he qualified for the rank
:of lieutenant" at tile Officers' 'train.
ing Course at' Cambridge and was
gazetted to th;t rank in_ the Terri-
torials of the ii»iperial Army, his regi-
ent being the 'Ding's Own Laneas-
;ters. He afaed • -for- teed:
-months with the unlit at d"oxu the eye
•A going ,to Preime: eiras ondet ed to re-
INS.
a%: the, ::
eW' by c.
Oncellj
should be esera ted by the kidoays,.
If ki4-
RtYs fair sud mon or* sad re!aaius,
excrpeullig pSms. 'f'reat rhentiierad aic Palo
by:beeping your kidneys in'good coaddion,
Take regularly Dead's Kidney ! 1'il/s-•foe
hollaceubuYt huctitabislinYi'h 17 tiq
Dodd 's Kidney''P .II
tame. Blue ointment le poisonous and
must be handled carefully.
their birds with sodium fluoride or.
flower of sulphur, applying a Finch
scattered through the feathers while
holding the bird., by the legs with
head down -
The detection and destruction of
red mites is a different proposition.
They thrive in the dirt that collects
in. the cranks and 'crevices of the
house, nests and -roosts, from where
they emerge toprey on the birds at
night. The remedy is a thorough
clean-up of the premises and fittings
with' ne or two applications by' spray
or brush bf a mixture of one pound
of Pyrethrum powder to two gallons
of coal oil. An effective though more
essay application of old crank case
oil with equal parts of kerosene will
also..,control mites. •
These pests are dangerous and ser-
ious
erious disorders may follow a bad in-
festation„ Egg. yields may be greatly
reduced, the, flock may be more sus-
ceptible to disease due to a lowered
vitality,. and a, high mortality may be
traced to ,neglect of the simple pre-
. cautions mentioned.
Dangerous
Parasites
Frequently the weak spot 'in poultry
management during the warm spring
and summer is :failure to maintain
clean and sanitary surroundingsfor
the flock. Satisfactory growth and
healthy development of the young
flock is not possible when body dice
and red mites are present. These
dangerourt poultry parasites thrive
mostly on dirty birds and in filthy
shelters. Half the battle to control
these pestsis removal of filth, says
W. T. Scott, Head Poultryman, Do-
minion Experimental Station, Harrow,
Ont.
If' body' lice ,are detected on the
birds one of the most effective mea-
sures for de -loosing is an application,
of blue ointment, 'procured at any
drug store. A portion about the size
of a pea for each bird treated, smear-
ed between the fingers and thumb
and rubbed into” the base of the fea-
thers around the vent, head, and un-
der the wings, will keep the bird free
from the lice for some considerable
Pleked off Huns..
Their morale restored somewhat
when they yaw ,th';emsgWis opposed
by one lone figure, the Gl moan brie=
Finers hart -knot g ho're-ttr-reacli the;
Canadian ,line>1, waitdered off -:towards;
a nearby strong:1y punt but gu'es's seiz
•Pott tor.G'anadltan ImadQuartera lit At' o i a German 'rifle, vib'kdd nirl ✓rr 'twa:
role, Rouse, 1 t tltty kith, the CAP:, :oft and the 0th:pr nit kat
ale 'a t 1ebtenaut;. , . tit the meantinm, 4 strired:'b i,ltlikt,
At' ,this taxon', .0taa ;clOdided ,to d1' t, roggrs gdI1' iiia di ply i►i"'' iii sgS'ii
itkou Roll Them BeftorWjfh
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GETTING SHARPER PICTURES
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�M•uah:of;the; appeal of t ii spleidld snapshot I e's: inn tilie fact that every-
thing from the foreground to the horizon is sharply Ill focus. Strive' for
all-over sharpness in your Snapshots. o'r
eli2AUPIODEIS iii erre picture; with
'r`iilatijirslf few eg tioiis; is 'ex-
treiloiel1+ 1iniortint to its'uuceess. It
is, tillink;•something we shoulit all
strive to attain. And fortuziately it's'
• not: difflt'ult to achieve: '
Tei way I see.it sharpness in a
1lhotogra, •dependsOttincllgally_up-•
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on .three things: Trot, a steady cam -
•0 air secpf d, getrebt focusing; a'nd•
third, correct eicposure: Get• those
down pat: and.you'll -have - little
trouble in Otit;iiieiure :iit'akin,g
But let's take titose.points one by
one g'irsk, the ibt 0rtd tt matter of,
oamere ~Crosti idtiisii:�_x'st. aebethid
-rehab Yon inti t pt'&dtiae handling
y'ottr •camera ulitiLkOTe. tif,e44uotut
ly familiar, sap: ,its oyes.tion, Ors
ibettettiett 0.111e;' ritied.bahits• Y e
eillgeYO# camera • iiia n tripod -every
'tln" e', it '';; ki ',, `i t ilV. .
t� , � _ it d� ate t
in asd'iltiWtf`"11
e e"
Next,. there`.& the matter of cur-
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reit fdgixs xtg. If, yon done 110e at,
range- finder ...on. your caipexa or
among its accesitorles, mea rare the
distance from, camera ,to subjrect
carefutt .es Cls 'l ' s.
eat 1
with c ose'-n
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Or, try pacing it off. 1f youkknow:the
length of y_ojir a rerege-lite# tfou- O►.
griky estiinate distances Whitt eon -
s
on
s tYe'rable accuse§'; V tiii'vtever You
do, don't guess. ' + • .
The third. important point le cor
reef eirposure; • Always choose ;the
smallest lens aperture 00 that you'll
get,maxjmir'm depth 01- geld. And, '
tion,Y.t ..try, oto° .hand coni a orir camera. .
when. using a shutter speed slower
tiicnh x)25: •g,q e�aitil. Most people can,
praet3caf`itnrposes, handhold
teicposures,of 1/` ti. syCoo*.lfii't irntiill,
kg elle c'per..,prcr'tttres ii you use 1/5:6.
orj,f /4y{QO(,'yey'edofr'i' exoB C'$'s t'oiii !
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