The Huron Expositor, 1944-02-04, Page 6r
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Stemmas
oven 20 miuutes (425 tle'g-).
• Applesauce Gake
1 ,cup sugar
1/3 cup fat
1 cup applesauce
2 cupflour
1/2 cup raisins
1 teaspoon soda
% teaspoon cinnamon •
MI teaspoon eloves,-"
1-4 teaspoon salt
teaspoon nutmeg.
Sift together soda, 'spices, salt and
flour. Cream the fat, add sugar, ap-
plesauce, dry ingredients and raisins.
Bake in moderate oven. This may be
cooked in muffin •tins or cup cake
tins.
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TAKE A TIP ,
1. Make flour paste to use in fas-
tening down a piece of oil -cloth iw
stead of tacking it On. When this is
done it cannot wrinkle or crack when
being washed. Waxing -the cloth will
add to its wear too . . . but do not
spread bread on it to butter or you
may have wax -flavored sandwiches.
2. Open_ your home -canned products
carefully, not to damage the jar tops
or rubber rings. Wask the jars and
rubbers thoroughly ig soapy water
and rinse twice in hot water. When
thoroughly dry, put the rubber rings..
in the jars and -put on the tops, then
place on the cool storage shelf again.
AWNS ARE FACTS
• 4OXILIO1aaktu•s! Within recent
, Word "vitamin" has aasum-
:M.Ilow and Vital significance in the
not so rich in vitamin B-1.
It is highly important te recognize
the value of wheat germ Which can
be served in the morning eup of eof-'
0,eople 'who bad previously 't
giVen it little, if any, thonght.' Pa-
da,X; the great majority of aetive and .1.
M'intelligent homemakers do realize that
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associated with both "a sound
and "a sound body."
While vitamins' 'cannot be seen,
tasted or measured by weight, they
are prlmar, ly food substances which,
in small q4aiititles, are essential to a
regtilar and healthy way of life—a
way of life we are now seeking to
maintain.
Scientific researoh has unfolded a
very enlightening stery in the matter
of vitamins. Today, we know that
People who take the foods which do
not supply adequate amounts, even of
one viamin, may find that they are
' not up to par when on the job, and
that there is a lowering of resistance
to disease. In the case of children
vitamin .deficiency will also cause
their gro4th to be retarded.
Official food rules have been care-
fully planned in such a way as to as -
Sure a balanced. diet. , By observing
these simple rules every day, People
can enjoy a variety of food which
will provide all the vitamins that
build and ma:intain strong, healthy
bodies. Ignoring these basic foods
means ignoring the laws of nature.
To renew acquaintances with' the
various members of the vitamin fain.
ily we point out the ,prominence giv-
en by the air force in their diet to
prevent night blindness or "dimout."
"This. vitamin -A is, .feurtd, in leafy,
'green and yellow vegetables, (car-
rots), liver, fish liver.rals and butter.
Vitamin B-1, *Mph assists in pre-
v_enting_ sueh _distresses -as- pink -eye
'4 and in:digestion, and, at the same time
gives -the appetite a lift is known as
:the "morale" vitamin. It is found in
"whole -grain cereals such as wheat
germ, cracked wheat, rye, buckwheat,
oatmeal and the flour which has been
enriched by these gyrains. Dried
peas and beans and lean Meat are
ee, on top of Cerenla or in quick
bread mixtures. ,
In the next Mixing Bowl article,
vitamins C and I. will be discussed.
RECIPES
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Chocolate Cereal Pudding
2 cups cooked cereal
1/4 cup wheat germ
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons corn syrup
3,4 cup milk
14 cup cherries (candied)
3 tablespoons cocoa.
Mix ingredients and cook in a
greased baking pan set in a pan with
a little hot water 'in it. Bake until
mixture'is set, in oven at 350 de-
grees.
--Rice Muffins'
% cup cooked rice
cup flour
% teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon sugar
1 egg • •
1 tablespoon fat
% -cup milk
Mix and sift the dry ingredients;
beat eggs and add cooked rice Which
has been well drained and -ma,shed.
Add melted chorieningand milk. Fold
Iin dry ingredients. '
The batter is stiffer than ordinary
muffins and may be dropped from a
spoon. on a greased sheet. Bake in
oven 25-30.minutes. Noteff any thick
left -over cereal may be used.
Economical Johnny Cake
11,i cups flour
11/a_reu-ps cornmeal
4 teaspoons baking powder
11, tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons' fat, melted
k teaspoon salt
water.
Mix and sift: dry ingredients. Com-
bine milk, water and fat. Combine
the liquid with the dry ingredients.
Pour into a shallow' pan and bake in
WRITTEN sPECIALI.Y OR "FRS
WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS OF CANAOA-
JIM GREENBLAT, EMU of the SUN
swirl cunnear. a&KATCUEWAN
Parliament Hill is somnolent -look-
ing no more as the -House is in ses-
sion again; there is a fresh lilt to
the, walk of most folks Coning up
Wellington Street and entering in at
the' big ornate gates leading to the
Peace Tower entrance; the members,
from town, city, farm, mine and fish-
ing village are back on 'the Sola ---dem-
ocracy starts clicking again . . pt-
tawa storemen were given a jolt the
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SUGGESTION BOX
Mrs. E. A. says: Make a bottle
brush using a stiff wire about 10 inch-
es long; bend it about half an inch
from the end. Out pieces of soft
string six inches long and tie in bun -
dies of six strands to, the wire,about
half an inch apart. You will find it
convenient -Ito die= vases, electric
toasters and other things.
Mrs. J. D. says: Sew ' old rubber
rings, which cannot be used again, on
-the under -side of floor mats to keep
them from slipping.
Anne Allan invites you to write to
her c/o 'The Huron Expoeitor. Send
in your suggestions on homemaking
problems and watch this column for
replies.
Suburban Resident: "It's simply
fine to wake up in the morning and
hear the leaves whispering outside
your winddiv."
City Min: "It's all right- to hear
the leaves whisper, -but I never could
stand hearing the •grase moan."
plantings greater than lorig-time av-
erage will maintain level of produc-
tion, as will Sdskateliewan. . . . An
increase of nearly one-third over the
1943 output in maple syrup and pro-
ducts is being asked, representing
about three million gallons on a syrup
basis. Marketings of lambs and
sheep off Canadian farms and ranch,:
es in 1943 is also,eypected to be up
five per cent. over 1943. . . orn,
other day When a brisk salesman was however, looks for jump of 53 per
around offering flags and Minting for cent. over 1943 acreage—nearly 400, -
sale, to be used for Armistice Day. 000 acres --which was the estimate
No, he wasn7t a bit early, he explain- 'quoted at the joint agricultural con-
ed, this was the" armistice when this ference in OttaWa. . . There will be
war endb. The next jOlt may be coin- plenty of vegetable seeds , like peas,
ing to the salesman and others think- beans, carrots, onions, radishes, let-
ing the, sae- way. . . . That well- (nee, tomatoes, swedes, etc., available
known Ottawa landmark, the 140,000 for 1944 -spring planting because the
gallon water tower which reared Agricultural Supplies Board arrang-
above the Experimental Farm audi- ed a production program in the spring
torium, crashed to the ground when of 1943. We are informed that about
fire destroyed the building recently. 65 -per cent_ of the Canadian produc-
* * * tion o egetables and field root seeds
We think of_salvage as a civilian were'grown in, British Columbia last
job, but it might interest you to knew season..
that the Army ,goes in for it in a big * e *
way, saving millions of dollars an- Pot-Pourri: Canadian metallurgists
will now be devising new' pleas for
nually. A recent National Defence re --
port showed that 826,000 pairs of eivilian use of magnesium' (Canadian
boots and shoes were repaired and re- produced) restrictions for which have.
stored to service. They operate a been removed by the Department of
boot repairing plant which can pro- Muntions and Supply. Apparently
duce 1,500 pairs each week, using up- we've got plenty for war require-
1 pers stripped from condemned boots. ments: . . . In the same category now
Articles scrapped and reaold, realized
$410,351. Reconditioned by contract,
we noted, were damaged enamelware
and,. galvanized utensils, including
more than a thousand boilers and
taan,iitabtilr04 ,b110colEtt9,. and.'ti.te4
ea,t6.. gen-04-7-7-Bitt, Oen' itt,"war,
Man dee§ net 'live bY dietetic,
itrorte.. ...There eeeitaM 1,Mponder-
able& ,N$10.4 ta!tepato
aceoturt; logfe rana b-teitigi,red. by
a ..,v1Sdc/11a that doer' not disdain to
think in terres of human nature,' and
to recognize, even thoUgh it ablig-
ed to, restrain, the fore() of habit. The
example may seem but it 11-
Inatralesaan iraportant point.
When the p,roductian, 'orcandy,ovas
severely cut 'down, as it irad to be,
thete was at tfirst:aiii.Metliing of .a
scramble. The lucky ones got their
candy as usual, and the otheis' went
Without. Everyene recognized the unr•
fairness of thatt. Ever:One kelt that
if candy was still being made there
goat to be fair shares for all,.not de-
penderfr on chance, or .the layer of
the shopkeeper: It is the business -.of
the department, as a publicssercint,
to see that this British preference for
fair play iSreflected in public policy;
and by putting candy en the ,"pereon-
al points ration" everyone •was ensur-
ed ,a, small equitable, share of the to-
tal Output.
The first sten in food strategy is to
draw up an import program on a
strictly nutritional basis. Allied Ship-
ping is needed to carry troops and
munitions. Requirements must be
carefullyplanned to give the best va-
lue for space. Britain no longer im-
ports fruit, except oranges for young._
children, because she can get the
same food value outofhome-grown
.vegetables: Dried egg and milk are
two products of this constant search
for shipping economies.
All this means planning ahead. We
are interested today, not inthe har-
vest .of. 1943, but in the harvests of
1944, 1945 and 1946. We have to
study, the food production of every
accessible food exporting 'country in
the world. Many of these countries
plan their production and processing
according, to our requirements, and
is poorer grade reclaim and scrap -against-''Contracts placed by the Min,
rubber. . . . Anchors a -weigh! Can-
ada's navy now totals, 80,00. Per-seti:
nel,..including about 4,500 Wrens;
with 250 aghting ships and 400 aux
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Wary' craft. Once we laughed at the
•sol!', -nuts .or cocoanuts . are required from
diers discharged after November let, West Africa, the Africans • must be
1943, are entitled to the newscale encouraged to plant and harvest their
clothing allowance, upped to $65. A crops, by offering then:I:goods they
'new medical research group has been Want in exchange.
formed for examination of methods of Food imports must be packed pro -
treatment .of wounded Canadians, to perly; the Portuguese cannot let Bri-
improve healing techniques; they fol- fain, have sardines unless she provides
low the wounded from front-line to the tinplate to pack them. Refrigerat-
base hosPital, checking all the way. ed space is valuable, and must not • be
. • . Our war expenditures for the wasted on bones; arrangements have.
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LOOSE LEAF RECORD BOOKS
• LEDGER INDEXES
BILTRITE BINDERS
CHARGE LEDGERS
COLUMNER FORMS
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meet thent
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FOR. SUGGESTIONS AND ESTIMATES
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Seiforth
positor
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twenty thousand jugs, bowls, mugs
andp1CthiijTEFafld•
shops made over three million re-
pairs to garments of all kinds.
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One of the interesting people at
the national meeting in Ottawa of
the 14 Regional Consumer -Branch
chairmen of the Wartime Prices and
Trade Board was Mrs. Cameron 'Dow,
lately appointed rural advisor to the
branch. She is national president of
the Federation of Women's Institutes. first nine months of the fiscal year to
Mrs. Dow in plain language said: "If December 31, 1943, totalled $2,782,749, -
inflation is ever allowed to get hold 515. That's why we heed to 'buy
bonds.'
istry.. of Food. - Often -Britain has to
help the producing country. If extra
wheat or rice is wanted from Egypt,
extra fertilizers must be sent there
to ensure the crop. If oilseeds, ground
in this country, we're sunk., I re-
member what happened in .the laSt.
war, and after. Even though -we sold.
some of our stuff at a high price the
things we had to litlY were higher and
in the long run we were wore off
than before. That must not happen
again." Mrsproves her faith in'
the value of checking prices by keep-
ing accurte accoUntof her purchases
in. her "Little Blue Book."
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National incenp is supposed tOiive
a pretty good indication of the na-
tional welfare. The DOminion Bureau
of Statistics points out that for elev-
en months in 1943 it showed an in-
crease of 18.4 per cent ---aa total of
$8,072,000,000—over the similar per-
iod a year before. Production, and
transport of munitions and war sup-
plies, were the ,Main . generators 'for'
this huge amount, putting it at the"
highest level in Canadian history.
Coincident figures are interesting,,,,too.
The index of mineral production up-
ped a little but gold receipts and coal
-production declined. .Manufacturing
production index showed an increase
of 21,5 • per cent. There were ad-
vances in operations of flour milling.
meat packing, and in the tobacco in-
dustries, with a recession in news-
print' output and of steel and iron.
And Canada's domestic and foreign
exports hit the astounding figure of
$3,001 million, three times that of the
pre-war year 1938.
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The Minister of Labour is issuing
an order which will- put .the onus on
aili
employers to heck male employees
of /unitary c -up age to see if they
have complied with mobilization regu-
lations. Aa employer will include Do-
minion, provincial and municipal gov-
ernments, as well as private business
or farmers, even where the employee
is a son or other relative of the
farmer.
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Americans are really big invest4s.
in Canada. A United States Treasury
census reveala that American -owned
property in foreign countries reaches
over the nine billion dollar mark, 34
per cent. of this being in Canada.
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If you sonietimes. -,wonder why
banks have increased staffs, put it
against the large number of cheques
that are issued, for one thing. Cheques
cashed again -at individual accounts
aggregated $53,7971000000 daring 1943
new high point in Canadian his-
tory,, toe. Be sure to read that
amount correctly, becau-se it sure is
passe bucks am, toolm&-
Agriettltural Notes: The depart -
night advises potato growers to or-
der their 1944 seed potato require-
ments viithotit delay, Land ,a list of
growers haring Certified, Foundation
A or Foundation seed can. be at from
Plant Piaiteetion DIVIelett, liePe.rtment
of Agfiettlittre, Otte:Wit. As f�r pota-
to acreage a five per eokt• ineieitEle lo
Wittoti f� i• this yoitc.'''-'0,ntitrie, Mani-
Iti0.0400 ',..4114..48:N eke(
Agr,OteatO"Optegge;
glie`pe# *04; 1)0,iff#,,
Ole dia4, '
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The dental health of Canadians
ranks among the best in the world,
but it will be given a flip after this
war by the' way our Dental Corps is
looking after the men and women of
the Armed Services. Over 1,200..Can-
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action dentists are now serving with
the Navy, Army and Air Force. Ev-
ery sailor, soldier and' airman is
made dentally fit before going over-
seas or on active operations., And
then a dental officer with his port-
able equipment and mobile dental
clinic goes with them wherever they
been made to have most of Britain's
meat boned in .the country of origin.
These examples all point the same
way: to the fact that Britain -as a na-
tion cannot solve- her own problems
without close co-operation with other
eopatries,„ „This international co-op-
eration, the significance_of which goeg
.far beyond the war, and is indeed an
indispensable -basis for the world's
future prosperity and peace, has in-
volved the setting -up in Washington
of a Combined Food Board, to which
the requirements of all the United
Nations are eventually referred.
There is no competition, among the
Allies for the limited Supplies of
food. The requirements of each colln-
try are agreed in the light of what is
go. _ Since the outbreak of the Wava"a.vailable,and-a fair price is.paid. To
over ten and a half million dental ,an ever_ntoreasing degree,. production
operations have been complete& and purchatie are planned according.
to need. Every bag of sugar that
goes from one country to another is
counted: Every packet of pepper
travels whit a purpose.
So much for the getting of supplies.
What of their distribution? i have
already, in the small -example of the
candy ration( touchea on what must
be the governing principle in any
,scheme of distribution: a fair share
for everyone. But that is a very
broad and obvious principle, and its
application is .by no means a matter
of 'simple arithmetic. You cannot, --in
all cases, arrive at a just individual
ration by merely taking the numerical
index of supplies for- any given per-
iod and dividing it by the number of
Consumers to be catered for.
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It is important that this should :be itmhcPatave guaranteed to the public
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their food would be waiting for
understood; for in a democracy suck •
en
as Britain, where the funCtion. of a themeach week ithe stores.
Equality and. security are the fun-
peopleministeris to minister, not to dictate,
&lions_ of the strategic policy, but
rightly wil hiot put up with
that policyitselfis !draped according
regulations unless they are assured
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of their justice. And when we come to the advice of nutritional experts,
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down to cases it is clear enough that on whom I ely to tell me what sortneed
how much of it we,
a fair share of a particular commod-
of food and
to keep us ft.' They are censtantly
lty is not necessarily, in terms
of
fon the watch, to see that ispite of n
bulk or weight, an equal share. When
Dr. Johnson was asked what he would wartime conditions Britain's stand-
ittibnYOU DON?
If moraing'Irmda yraelfahslE liested?'•:44,
'*.Y.Pari!..- • g 7110,40•1710#9,44i,',bliti011
baring and Miran; 7011,(Itiee:s,10
sOle ;town tO .e14ine ';4i4110,10.4nes
Maybe toblamel,P '
•Whenieur Kidneys get ant of. dela, yee5:
ileepumally suffers. To help yormlorhieps
regain a normal medico, to help you gni",
restful sleep,me. Dodd'; a "
favourite treatment for MOTS than • half a
century. Dodirs Olney P015 are easy to
uae and are not habit forinfn. Ask far -
borld's Kidney rilk at any drug" crawler -
Leah for the like boa !Oh the re4 band. in
DadaKi4ney
tion envisaged 14 Boswell in that
ridiculous question of 'his, and if
were lucky enough to have with me
a bottle ef milk and a -can of corned --
beef, it wthild not be good sense to
divide both articles of consumption,
equally between myself and the baby.
Here in a nutshell'is the whole story
of priorities: of which -the most con-
spicuous are the oranges for children
and the as•sured-minintum of milk for
babies and In -others (nursing and ex-
pectant). This Policy, 'I am glad to
Say, has' not merely protected moth-
ers and children from wartime priva-
tions: it has meant, for many of them
a - decided improvement on the pre-
war nutritional standard.'
The British are not the sort of
people to take kindly, at first blush,
to such a -drastic innovation as food
rationing. They are not a•docile peo-
ple. They ..are quick to resent any-
thing that looks like an encroach-
ment on personal liberty. But they
hav-e come to realize That the policy,'
of rationing was adopted, not as an
end in itself, but, as a means to the
end we all desire. ,
As the war progresses it ecomes
increasingly clear that, the people of
this country will go -without many of
the things -to which they are accus-
tomed, so long as they are sure that
the restrictions are necessary and
that their effect is felt by all alike.
What they will not tolerate is 'any
inequality of treatment by which peo-.
pie who have more money, or more
time for shop -crawling, can get more
Strategy Of Food
(By Lord Woolton on "Britain")
In war there is a strategy of toed,
as well as a strategy of fighting. The
two; as any sealer' officer in the field
will, tell us,,,,are interdependent. Ra-
tioning is •of course only a part of
the story, though an important one.
The aim .of Britain's Ministry of Food
has been, to keep the people fighting
lit. In this we have happily succeed -
'ed, though 'we have had to contend
with difficulties even more serious
than those of World War I, which so
nearly caused a collapse of the food
front.
Britain's sources of supply are More
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.severeIy restricted than they then
were; in addition to the old submar-
ine• menace there are aircraft; the
possibility of invasion has made nec-
essary the dispersal •of iron rations
throughout, the country; and the food
brought- in, while awaiting diiiribu-
don, must be.safeguarded against de-
struction from the air. Indeed, our
concern with any' given Piece of mer -
chandise does not end till the food is
actually eaten.
Getting the food from where it is
to where it is wanted is no simple
job, and in the process of tackling it
the Ministry bas become the biggest
food trading concern ever known, buy-
ing fi'om all parts of the world, and
distributing to people in ail parts of
Britain. ' Getting is one problem, dis-
tribution another, Each is enormous;
each requires the devoted service of
specialists recruited from many fields
—each contains the seeds of numer:
ous subsidiary problems, which spring
up day by day and"have to he solved
.oli_Tt9r4...4owe.:444)_44aet.y meta. sop -
try is freed front:Axis cloth:Thal:Ton ex-
Pertset to work to discover what
food
Nthaatl
tioisTat4
co,trY's requirements are, and
whether it can contrihute, anything
to theod supplies of the United
because we must alWaYa
have in ratittithe needs of other coun-
tries, Vire are Oonatanty itt touch with
the other ,niX/tea, Natrona, ready ;40.
elaare With. eM the. fruits ,oi our*
labilenoth - Yr
- As an oxatDle.0f-140.frlhation Pro*
food:
That was why,- having rationed the
basie foods such as meat, fats and
sugar, from the beginning, we after-
wards evolved the points system;
which both ensured that everybody
got a share of the less essential foods
and allowed,,forthe exercise of per-
sonal preferences. Fair dealing, as
always, has created confidence. 'The
public knows that the ration coupon
will be honored, that each will actual-
ly 'get the food to which hie is en-
titled. • But 'not everybody known
what an immense amount of organiza-
tion is involved in Making sure that
one-haltpound of sugar and four ounc-
es of baton are in the right shop ev-
ery week for Mrs. Brown.
, Whatever losses Britain has at sea,
however Much internal transport may
be upset by air raids or by military
demands, a steady flow of food must
(be ensured from the land,' the porta,
the mills and producing plants' • to
meet the coupon. This inevitably
means a great deal. of form-riilling
and bookkeeping, but that is a small
price to pay for freedom from hun-
ger. Not an egg comes to market,
not a can of salmoa. is landed, with-
out being counted by the Ministry of
Food. In Undertaking this job, the
Ministry has relied on the co-opera-
tion- of the' producers an dthe traders
and has always, been able to count
on- it. Without their -help we eould
do if he found himself on a desert
island alone with a baby, he *as con-
tent to reply: "Sir,' I should not
much like my company."
I suggest that what the Doctor
shrank from was the prospect of sud-
denly becoming a Minister of Food.
If I were to find myself in -the posi-
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ards of health are maintained and
wire possible improved. •
The war will end, but the battle of
food gees on. In, the course of it we
are learning valuable lessons in inter-
national co-operation.
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ELEVEN IN A DOZEN?
Ever think how much egg white
you throw away? About one egg in
.tiVery dozen goes into the garbage
tin along With the shells, in: many
households. If you use a dozen eggs
every Week that amounts to over a
alelinr_eatery-yeara-allext time -You
bream -ail --eig; scrape out the -inside
tarfitu,ft with 'a spoon . . . gather up
every drop . . Ws, More egg than
'people in Greece have seen. for a long
time. -
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Mother: "Well, William, did y011
do. anything besides eat at the Sun-
day school picnicr
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:a 'hylain called, ,f1W4 Can Sing, Pull
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