The Huron Expositor, 1942-10-16, Page 6h'a? VAT ' BOXES FOR THOSE IN
• UNIFORM,
`cl]O 'f•Tomexnakers! High arae to
*Ia4, , '•our Cliriatana 404, boxes far
see in uniform . . . on the land
on the sea . . in the aire-
Teti may also be thinking of the fam-
ilies of the men in the armed forces
1�f and; too, of the folks in the homes of
° Indomitable Britain who so cheerily
"make do."
• /During the next three weeks such
eat numbers of parcels'will be go-
t, ..
tng'through the mails that it is im-
portant to pack your boxes so as to
srpeed , up deliveries and make sure
your parcels will travel well. Here
are some suggestions:
1: First of all, choose a stout 'box—
preferably of the carton type which
combines lightness with strength.
2. Packing or inner lining is neces-
sary for' a light weight box, such
as corrugated cardboard. Cotton -
batting or socks pushed along the,
sides and into the chinks can be
used. Little packages of raisins or
something that will not melt may
be used as fillers.
3. Contents: Foods should be wrap-
ped separately and labelled so that
the recipient may undo things .as
they are wanted. We suggest bak-
ing the fruit loaf in . cocoa tins.
When cooled put the lid on and
you have fruit loaf and container
ready. Cookies carry well when
packed in baking powder tins with
wax paper: There are also many
acceptable packaged goods such as
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University of Toronto.
Leaf Gardner._ Fasbes
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Shopong Distort. W6oieaaie
Howes. Thestre, Cheese.
of Eyre, Dsoor matioe.
A. X. ?boost•; Pla:dsat
powdered raft nod eggs, cocoa,
soups. etc.:
4, i?"it everything Into the bob "as
closely together as possible, Close
the box; tie llrrxrly with twine and
ptht on One set of address and de-
Claration ittlae,la, lustaa thenrilb the
' box were not going to 'be wrapped.
i1. Then cover* the box with factory
coCttxrx (say, a washed dour bag),
fold, the- ands like the back of a
envelope, ttad stitoli, using thin,
strong twine in -darting needle. Tie
the box firmly again and plat on a
second set el' labels, It is much
better to put on an alternative ad-
dress than a return address a
civilian relative or friend in the
old country may be named on the
overseas label.
6. Check on the rates with your post-
master (overseas boxes up to 11
• lbs. cost 12c per lb.). It is advis-
' able not to pack the maximum
weight. Remember, civilian rates
dare different and certain gifts may
be on the dutiable list, a point you
want to check.
• Be sure to send only what is need-
ed—as shipping space is precious.
Lists of general items needed will be
sent upon request.
440.4 tt#44.-hat. water, 04 slfiat
' g ,lagredtelato tu.. Wee- 14-000,43lat�:
l.4144v tven. ghilt tboheug liiy. `LAO
ottt 4P004tale of dough, auk; rR1l 'be.
two04 :, •t . ,palms of the Oao,da cats
e ,o mound; laalle, glace shout two•
WOW apart on, greased 0Q*1ie sheet,
i1 latte.ax kith 04es of forst.' ''Bake in
overt at $T5 degrees for 1.2.7ninutes,.
'
F. Date Squares
OUP shortening
oup ibrown auger
CUP Garn syrup
0 caps rolled oats
214 cups all-purpose 'flour
1 teaspoon • baking soda
1 'teaspoon salt
!4 sup warm water.
,Cream shortening, add Ibrown auger
and syrup; beat till creamy. Add
rolled oats, blend well. 'Add sifted
dry ingredients, alternately with wa-
ter. Press one-half the batter into
greased pan 9'f . x 13.'f. Cover with
fruit fib ng, spread remaining dough
over filling. Bake in oven at 360 de-
grees for 35-40 minutes.
SPECIAL RECIPES FOR GIFT
BOXES
• .Spiced Raisin Loaf
1 cup seedless raisins
i/ cupbrown sugar C
1 cup corn syrup
1 cup boiling -water
1/3 cup butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/2, teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups all-purpose flour
i/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda.
Put raisins, sugar, syrup, water,
butter, salt and spices into saucepan;
simmer gently for five minutes. Cool.
Add sifted dry ingredients. Mix thor-
oughly and pour into loaf pan 9". x
5” lined with waxed paper and greas-
ed. Bake in oven for one hour at 350
degrees. '
Golden Fancies
1 cup shortening
17f,, cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup'lhot water
3 cups pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking soda.
Cream shortening; add sugar; mix
well. Add unbeaten egg; beat well.
Old -Fashioned Taffy
2 cups light brown sugar
3 tablespoons corn syrup
•1 tablespoon vinegar
3 tablespoons water :,
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoon butter
la/Q teaspoons pure vanilla.
Stir sugar; corn syrup, vinegar,
water and a generous pinch of salt
over heat -until sugar dissolves. Bring
to rapid boil, using, element turned. to
,"High"; add the butter, then cook
at moderate speed, stirring occasion-
ally, until a few drops of the mixture
will. form a, brittle mass when tested
in cold water. Add the vanilla, and
turn quickly into a buttered pan.
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in your questions on homemaking
problems and watch this column for
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For Painted Walls
013'.', 1argart t / *.ober) .
•
Home again Mrd how ,good Rt
seems -to -►lisp herd, With Lha end of
the imonth ,,,My" duties in •4110 -country.
ended, and yesterday I oscine back to
"Gran" and "a splendid welcome, i+'er
six.;weeks f,, have been down there,
acti'ttg"'aa, ,,,4,aFetal1er, if YOU Please,
and wondering a little at the strange-
ness of life in a country town.
Now the house is having newitt„n
ants. Ablest as soon as m• foot Weis,
over the doorstep, I have no doubt,
men .and vane appeared and 'purged
the place of every stick. House pro-
perty, believe me, is no drug on the
market nowadays. With the first,
breath of a house for sale they come
flocking around, and it's just a mat-
ter of taking the highest bidder.
It seems to be neara§ everybody's
idea of heaven in these times—"our
own place"; and the new tenants
have been waiting for • two whole
years for their own front door, poor
dears. These sales of furnfiture, too,
are not what they were. People know
that nothing will be manufactured for
a very • long time, and things whim
once went into a job lot now sell 'as
individual pieces. Even odd cups and
saucers mean real money, these days,
fpr china is scarce and expensive.
The chances of being bombed out are
simply not considered, for that is a
chance everybody has to 'lake, and it
is ignored. Of course, "alterations and
repairs cannot be done -as they once
were: there will be no installation of
electric light, or instance, and such
distempering as must be done, I fan-
cy, .willbe got through by the people
themselves. But the relief in their
eyes when they knew, atlast, that
the house was to be, theirs!
• Everything Snapped • Up
Old boxes, once thrown out, now
sell for firewood, and. plants in pots
ge well in a sale—for the sake of
the pots, the auctioneer tells me. Sol-
idly made, furniture, however unlove-
ly, is snapped up; in fact, I am going
back for the sale in order to snaffle
a few pieces as an investment. One
will take •a chance on safe storage
and hope to see one's money back,
later on, with a little welcome inter-
est. Carpets are real, solid value, too.
It is all .a revelation of the strange
percussions of a, war. Nothing can
be wasted now.
Well, I managed . to keep myself
happy and amused down there, even
during- the time when I was alone in
the -house, ttiith night alerts to liven
the dark hours. During the day I of-
ten went out sketching—and, what is
more, I have sold some of my work.
I think folk realize that 'permanence'
is no longer a word with any real
meaning, and they like sonie Sort of.
record of their homes and familiar
surroundings. So I have managed to
make a little money for myself and
give a certain amount of pleasure at
the same time—which isn't a bad com-
bination of qualities, is it? One has
to get all sorts . of permission to
sketch, naturally; police and various
Army authorities go into one's, bona
fides and make sure that one has no•
ulterior motive in squatting about like
that. I was caution itself, but, for all
that, my guess is that there were
plenty of inhabitants who rushed hot-
foot with news,of my goings-on.'Well,
maybe that's better than never hav-
ing anything reported at all. I was
careful .to avoid anything even.re-
motely resemblink a military objec-
tive . just as careful as I was
to avoid those all-prevading small
boys!
Hideous" Proceedi ng
Washable painted walls are worthy
of good care. The wrong way to clean
painted walls is to wash them down
with strong laundry soap or soap pow-
der. The dirt will he removed but
white paint will end up yellowed; and
colored paints ,won't look much like
ttaey were originally.
A washable painted wall should be
rubbed with a cloth or sponge wrung
out of light suds made with! the mild-
est of soap or -soap powder,! using ev-
en up and down strokes. Rinse the
wall with a cloth or sponge wrung out
of clear water, then wipe dry with a
soft cloth. Home economics experts
warn against usifrg coarse scouring
powder or strong alkali on paints. ,
POWER SHORTAGE
THREATENS OUR WAR EFFORT
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9TCRY . . . SAVE ELECTRICITY
IF HYDRO -ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONTARIO
lik
anYthint , else, rain or *o rrairl, 'likre
ietOcce: were ire,ull r 40004d't at
large as Ibeuquete and every, lag Oat,'
t,'
bale-4krougb ;perhaps. totXtoatitital :to
ite,derntred with to bleat' b htilclltct:.
Now the onions are coning Ohlwith
little blaelk jaoltetr" just .for .a,
Prise; arid the balm :Bays ttXrottdy
made me one excale i:t. 4104 tOgcther�
with . the ttarrets, vr1ildh look really
,fine.
Vain delighted with those Canadian,
seeds, and the 'Gardening Partner lila"
.already been ..naught looking at then),
with the jaundiced eye of cavy. 1
shall let .some of the piante ran tn.
shed and see what they will produce.
next year, for they are certainty good
stock.
It was a clever thought on' 'mY
friends' part, and 1 am grateful. How
about ether folk taking the hint ftfr
their English friends? Our allotments,
frankly, are a great part of our lives
now, for the price of vegetables in
the stores has gone up 300 per cent
in many cases, at ", least, and some
things ch.nnotbe bought at all. But
those of us who grow our own food,
even irr'a-bad season, have a measure
of glorious independence: We can go
out and pull our food out of the earth
instead of waiting irritably in a queue.
Corner Pig Buckets
Down in the country there are pig-
Ibucltets at nearly ever corner, wait-
ing for kiteben refuse,and this. must
mean a tremendous s ving in animal
food, for these buckets seem to fill
very rapidly. Most of the citizens, I
noticed, were extremely coy about, the
business, creeping out at dusk; but I
am afraid I walked quite shameless-
ly, even at broad noon, With my little
private' bucket in hand, not,seeing any
reason for coyness.
I think (there should be pig clubs
and pig buckets everywhere, and am'
surprised that we are forced,to waste
so much in this town. But this prom-
iscuous bothbing of country places has
done a lot to wake people up, so it
has not been an unmitigated evil.' A
town not twenty miles away was bad:
ly smashed while 1 was in the local-
ity, and I was surprised to find with
what quietness the news was taken:
There was no panicky gossip at all
—and I can remember the time when
it took little more than a good dog-
fight, that distance away, to a make
talk for a week! Why, they even ran
a Sunday School treat—as previously
arranged—to the place, a few days
after! Even in those places which,
before • the fall. of France, were
thought to be entirely 'safe' the folk
are on their mettle in a surprising
way and refuse to be ruffled unduly.
ct a Yal1• 49i40 ;o to?:•yqi letr
viuwidaviMnk+ * n't�r�n► iotittl Oretgfstaawa h.ekyoittztote!x'r
:,
aiidustry pare '140,,,'''..).4t0; 'iito
r il1iittt ewfetei'ta rod ma le; frog►
apr'e lid; food" fulr or Qat'•
I 'orrr '`.ixr'tsgr'astink Xaata ]t ve been'
Xrir'ftu ut',tcr. ll tat ditr)ng
000 o sllrvyys,
.,Pal; gittallle; 'kit was foani1 that' .. a
klo.tight,, mob, 19: twice as'I11c t ton rate
"nod" as a luuoir' carried 'trox4 home
though the *tit' nitior n ' "fetr" 'iaiaoi en
aro about otluallY' 'tl1vlded' between.
this "�bottghte" bind. tltc `.:'serried'."
t'ctar' Zuu0Iiee, (however, were, twice as
frequent kn the "carried" class,
• The majority of the poor Lunches
belonged to the women workers'!
• YOU• don't have to. work' 'In a war
plant to •learn where- you stand- on,.
the lunch question. Whether you are
at hoarse,• at school, in factory or of-
fide you cant grade yew own; and ,re-
member --a fair lunch just isn't good
enough Whet • good health and maxi-
mum efficiency on the job are so vital-
ly important.
This IA the simple way to grade,
your own lunares as the e,tpel'ts do.
Seasick Passenger on racing yacht:
"I say, what about going back? Af-
ter you've seen one wave you've seen
them .all.”
s'idttreth ,
1, Protein. "foods snob as, meat, fl*,
eggs, cheese or beans 'either in
sandwich or a plate lunch.
3. A vegetable other than potatoes,
or a fruit. '
3. Milk, prefA,rably� ` asa beverage,
though cream soup, a milk dessert: ate
a scalloped dish made with milk will
make the grade.
Your lunch is "good" if it contain*
some food from each group, "fair" if
only two groups are represented, and
"poor" if it includes only one or none
Three categories of food must be con- of the three important groups of foods.
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The m•ost thrilling moment of a paratrooper's training comes with
his first jump. Here a few of the Canadians who took a full parachut-
ist's
arachutist's course with the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, Ga., await the jump'
master's command to take off on their first jump. Ready to lead off is'
Lt. W. Cote, of Montreal, French.Canadian jumper.
The train journey ,home again was
a hideous proceeding; but train jour-
neys are like that in these times, and
one' must expect it. One gets used
to it. And people are all verydecent
and helpfail, snaking the best of
things; Our queer little corridor
trains, with their box -like ,compart-
ments, don't do much to improve con-
ditions, for every compartment is
crammed . and the, corridors, 'too, are
usually full of people standing or try-
ing'to ait"on pieces of luggage. There
is one comfort: no distance in this
country can be very long one—though
slow trains certainly create the illu-
sion that they are!
—One gets taliting ,to other folk and
somehow the times pgs'ses. • I got in
to conversation with an airman who
had only recently returned from Hali-
fax, N.8, and he interested me quite
a lot. I must hand' it to you folks for
.kindness, fciD..he had a wonderful story
to tell. In:' April, poor young fellow,
he heard that his wife had died, leav-
ing two children; and, straight advay,
he was inundated with offers" from
kindly people out there who were will-
ing and ankious to take' the children
and care for them..
"One girl,".he said to me, "even'of-
fered to make the crossing and fetch
them back to Canada for me I've
never known: anything like their
frien,+ilinesi and sympathy --and me
really a stranger,after all. " So you
see, he remetobers; in fact, he will
never forget "his ,trip to Canada, I'm
sure.
Prolonged 401,oug'ht
' This district is 'still suffering ,prem
prolonged xiroiight, though. there 4'as
• a good .hit'of'railf',down in the 'VVeet
:Country, 14,,ko 141otaiient, I gee, is not
at'lts; rbe'stxp ee41.11 ilke ,have either,
Wfltedpslar t•111svt'ar'd,s ino'rdinatelq•
ttnd, OM; btY�ttd fid net, but the
;thottglr ul.41d, d`srtb.4e 'thota,
1 jfv aaltdiadr
d ij ;ills gtsttl5ed ttr
iis�at `teVFibtellKer�' bliait
Canadian Farmers: yoU have done well!
- WARTIME PRODUCTION IS STILL GROWING!
HOGS
During the last
fouryears.(Sept.1
to Aug. 31) —
You produced*
LBS: PORK 838
396 5'51 759
MILLIONS MILLIONS MILLIONS MILLIONS
LBS. PORK
LBS. -PORK
•LBS. PORK
of this amount...
,I Exports to our Allies
(mainly to Britain.)
2 Remaining for
consumption in
Canada."
.170 • 300 485 556
MILLIONS MILLIONS MILLIONS MILLIONS
'226 251 274
MILLIONS MILLIONS MILLIONS
282
MILLIONS
Inspected slaughter. boes not include pork prodaeta used on farm'
or sold direct from farms to consumers, small butches shops. etc.
"Including army camps. ship stores, and general retail distribution
The people of Britain want 20% more in the next twelve months than
they obtained the last, and at the same time .Canadians want more:
CATTLE
During the last
louryears(Sept"i
to Aug. ;31)
You produced''
LBS. BEER LBS. - BEEP . LBS. BEEF - LBsr .gESF
502 482 534.. 3:0
MILLIONS MILLIONS MILLIONS MILLIONS
of this amount...
1 Eiiports to our .Allies
(mainly to the U.S.A.)
2 Remaining for
consumptton. ip
Canada.**
102 I 72 86
MILLIONS MILLIONS
MILLIONS
128.
HILI DONS
400 410 448
MILLIONS MILLIONS :11111t11.101 41
482
MILLIONS
* Insed slsuphtct,plus exports ((dressed Weight bsisia). Doi not
include brei used ilia Wins or sold dirket itota fs M* to con$Wners. •
`" rmall ;britt hs*' sbopa."cte.
•" Including firer dept's ship stores: sad gaits l ;lentil dis rib tion.•,
The Milted States will take your strrplut ,seals anti
-
at the $ame time ' pnatiian cantulners tlt�ol Tndr.
• MR« °FARMER: ')Cosy have .ncteas ".
• ytYiir Reef z4 ductaort py I b per +ctlair.
Nditr i t Canada thbr vt chart cant
,:•cat eoecilrthis eat. 11Mprage prices
z,zahatll.th ' W,elage fir a past y e.
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