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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-04-06, Page 19By Louisa Rush A few weeks ago I men- tioned that a neighbor of mine makes doll clothes all year round as they are so easy and quick to do. Come the first week of December, without advertising since she has built up quite a reputa- tion over the years, she com- pletely sells all that she has made. Mothers with small girls who perhaps do not have the time are delighted to buy several outfits in time for Christmas. Talking about this idea has brought a flood of requests for doll clothes patterns, so here they are. No. 6851 is a crocheted doll's dress, the type which sits as decoration of a bed. No. 6868 is the complete Rag- gedy -Anne doll to be cro- cheted. No. 6960 is a bikini outfit and jacket in crochet. No. 7306 is a complete Cra t t I wardrobe of knitted clothes for three sizes of doll from 13-18 inch. No. 7361 is for cute dolls fashioned from the old fashioned men's work socks. No. 7364 is for a little girl's crocheted poncho and mat- ching doll's poncho. No. 1269 is another knitted wardrobe for dolls 13-17 inches, seven pieces in all. No. 1173 is a Hansel and Gre- tel outfit for boy and girl dolls 13-18 inches. You just might want , to know of toys to make, there are three on No: 1170, Clown, Pussey Cat and Teddy Bear, cat and bear are knitted and the clown crocheted. Twin Panda Bears, Mr. and Mrs. in knitting are on Leaflet No. 0873, complete with knitted clothes. A lovely knitted Scottie Dog is on Leaflet No. 0874, while a crocheted turtle suit-, YOUNG DRIVERS OF CANADA Canada's Most Comprehensive Driver Training Course Your course fee is income tax deduct- ible and you may save up to 40% in insurance premiums by presenting our course certificate. MONDAY APRIL 11 8:30-11:30 a.m. (Monday thn Thurs.) MONDAY MAY 2 6:30-9:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday TUESDAY MAY 3 6:30-9:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday For Information on next course phone • Kitchener Centre 579-4800 • Cambridge' Centre 623-6730 • Waterloo Centre 579-4800 II ,\ man able as a cushion on which children can watch TV is on No. 0678. Knitted mice and they are cute if in pink, along with spiral little "book worms" are on No. 1078. No. 6703 has instructions for knitting Snowie the Artie Owl from mohair and very realistic he looks! Hand-knit fashions for Ken and Barbie are on Leaflet No. 6809. Knitted ducks and ducklings along with cro- cheted poodles are on No. 6822, while a knitted Kanga- roo and baby in pouch are on Leaflet No. 6823. If you are not sending for any of these leaflets right away, but may need them in the future, might I suggest that you clip this column for future reference. 0-0-0 -0 This week's pattern is a charming pullover for the "Outdoor" girl with just a Easy a pi* wasim" from print fabric little fair -isle design to make it interesting and pretty! Knitted with Patons Beehive Double Double it will knit up fast, yet light and popular wear. Sizes given on the instruc- tion sheet are for bust sizes 76-91 cm or 30-36 inches. To order this week's pat- tern No. 83106, or any other leaflet mentioned, send 75 cents for each, plus a stamped self addressed re- turn envelope. If you .do not have a stamp or envelope, please enclose an extra 50 cents to cover the cost of handling and print your name and address. Send to: Louisa Rush, Craft Talk, 486 Montford Drive, Dollard des Ormeaux, P.Q., H9G 1M6. Please be sure to state pat- tern numbers correctly when ordering and to enclose your stamped return envelope for faster service. By ELLEN APPEL It's easy to applique a bouquet, especially when you start with a floral printed fabric. You simply cut out the flowers, ar- range them in a bouquet and stitch them to a con- trasting background. For extra interest, you can make a vase, basket or bow from a contrasting fabric scrap. Machine stitches create all the stems you'll need. The appliqued bouquet is ideal for a throw pillow. With matching print fabric for a ruffle, the pillow be- comes even more beauti- ful. Here are the directions for the ruffled, appliqued pillow: MATERIALS: 7/8 -yard print fabric for appliques and ruffle; 1/2 yard solid - color fabric for pillow front and back; 18x18 -inch section of polyester fiber- fill; sewing supplies; zigzag sewing machine. Optional: fusible webbing. CUTTING: 1. Cut one 18x18 -inch square each for pillow front and pillow back. 2. Cut 18x18 -inch square from batting. 3. Cut 18x18 -inch square for back- ing. 4. From print fabric, cut three 7x36 -inch strips for the ruffle. APPLIQUES: 1. Cut sev- eral flowers from remain- ing print fabric. 2. Cut leaves, or anything else de- sired from print fabric. 3. If desired, cut a vase, bas- ket or bow shape from con- trasting fabric. 4. Optional: Using your shapes as pat- terns, cut 'corresponding "NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEERE. EXCEPT MY TOYOTA TRUCKS:' -Garry Smith John Deere Dealer, Maxville "We've got 3 Toyota trucks for deliveries and service wor;;. They just keep on running. In fact, they make money for us in our business. Economical. Good load capacity. l highly recommend them." t P r OYOT WATERLOO Waterloo Toyota Limited 21 Weber Street N. Waterloo, Ontario N2J 3G5 (519) 885-2000 KITCHENER Heffner Motors Limited 1620 King Street E. Kitchener, Ontario IN2G 2P1 (519) 744-3391/2 Get the Feeling from your TOYOTA PICKUP PRO shapes from fusible webb- ing. ASSEMBLY: 1. Arrange flowers and other ap- pliques on right side of pil- low front. 2. Slide fusible webbing beneath ap- pliques. 3. Following direc- tions on webbing package, fuse appliques to fabric with an iron. BASTING: 1. With right side of pillow front on top, sandwich batting between pillow front and backing. 2. Baste a large X -shape through all three thicknesses. STITCHING: 1. Set zig- zag machine for a medium stitch. 2. Stitch around ap- pliques, one at a time, with matching or contrasting thread. 3. If desired, for added interest, stitch extra lines on a vase, basket or bow. 4. Add lines of zigzag stitches as needed for stems. RUFFLE: 1. With sides facing, stitch short ends of ruffle together to form one continuous circle or fabric. 2. Press open seams. 3. Fold ruffle in half length- wise, keeping seams inside. 4. Sew two rows of long, gathering stitches at raw edges of ruffle. 5. Gather stitching to fit around pil- low front. 6. Lining up raw edges of ruffle with outside edges of pillow, baste ruf- fle to right side of pillow front. PILLOW: 1. With ruffle inside and right sides to- gether, baste pillow front to pillow back. 2. Machine stitch around pillow, leav- ing small opening for turn- ing. 3. Clip corners, trim batting close to seam; turn pillow to right side. 4. Stuff pillow with polyester bat- ting or fiberfill. 5. Sew opening closed with tiny hem stitches. Did You Know Energy source By PHYLLIS WEAVER Did you know that even in her fury, Mother Nature ex- hibits her funny side? Just one second of energy in the circulating winds of a hurricane is equal to 10 Hiroshima -type atom bombs. One hour of this un- believable energy is equal to all the electrical power gen- erated for one year in the United States. The destructive Galveston hurricane of 1900 had enough energy to drive all the world's power stations for four years. Yet this same power sometimes causes astonishing and freakish accidents. A hurricane can blow away an entire home yet leave a bowl of unbroken eggs on the table. One torna- do snatched thy" blankets and mattresses from the beds: leaving the surprised occupants shaken but unharmed. Another tornado lifted a telephone pole from its site and carried it along like a pogo stick. When nature unleashes her terrifying storms. she usually tempers it with astonishing humor Now you know. 11. GORDON GREE AMMON Are you fond off veal? Are you especially fond of the so- called "milk -fed" or "white" veal which is now offered so proudly at our more fashion- able eating places? Did you marvel at how incredibly tender it was - so tender you could cut it withyour fork? Now let me take away any appetite you may have to order another such feast. The piece of veal on your plate that day was so tender because the calf it came from was never allowed to move more than a few inches in all its miserable life, and it was so white because the man who raised that calf did his best to make it anemic. Here briefly, is the life cycle of that calf. His first misfortune was to be born to a dairy cow. The calves born to cows of the beef breeds are allowed to stay with their mothers and live a natural life on pasture until they are weaned at about six months of age. The calf from a milk cow however is taken from his mother almost at birth and is generally sold off the farm when is a few days old. And according to a survey just completed by the Cana- dian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, in nine cases out of ten this calf will now be confined by the new owner in 'a wooden crate which is ap- proximately 26 inches wide, four feet long and four feet high. The floor of said crate will likely be solid in the front and slatted at the back and the head of the calf will be tied to the front. The calf will be forced to remain here until the crate is no longer big enough to con- tain him, and then he will be transferred to a similar crate of a slightly larger size. The purpose of depriving the animal of all exercise is of course to produce that re- markable tenderness which is a prime reason for his meat being advertised as a gourmet's delight. Even the free swinging of the calf's head is forbidden to him, as most crate fronts will pre- vent him from moving his head more than six inches either way. The softness of muscle thus being ensured, the other goal of the modern veal pro- ducer is to turn out a calf whose carcass will be as colorless as possible. Red meat in a veal chop is no longer fashionable, though no one can tell you why. In taste it is as palatable as white veal in every respect. It may in fact be even more tasty, but it is the white or milk -fed veal which is now commanding the top market price. And how is "milk -fed" veal made so white? Well he isn't allowed milk at all. Not a natural milk, at least. Instead his diet con- sists of a milk substitute composed of powdered milk and animal fat, but deprived of iron. And the absence of iron in the diet of a calf pro- duces the same effect as it does in humans. The calf be- comes anemic, or nearly so. A couple of years ago I told my radio listeners about the enterprising young man who came to my farm with the proposition that he rent a va- cant barn of mine. He was a clean-cut youngster trying to work his way through college and I was on the point of making a deal with him until I noticed him fingering the nail heads on one of the stalls. "I could make these stalls over, all right," he said. "But it would be a bit of a job to cover up all these nail heads." It wasn't till then that I tumbled to the fact that the cattle which this lad intend- ed to house here were not only calves, but calves destined to go to the white veal market. And it was then that I decided that the barn wasn't for rent after all. The thought of having calves on my farm so hungry for iron that they would lick the heads of old nails was just too much. There are of course other ways to induce anemia in a calf. In his book "Men, Beasts and Gods" G. Carson describes how New York dairymen would sometimes bleed their calves up to six times before slaughter in the belief that a slow death pro- duced a whiter meat. Other practices which may or may not still be resorted to are the keeping of the calves in as Crossroads -April 6, 1983 -Page 7 dark a place as possible, and to muzzle it if there might be any chance of it picking up a wisp of hay or straw. In Hol- land where the white veal industry originated about 30 years ago, some producers were even adding large quantities of black pepper to the diet. It goes without saying that any animal raised . under such conditions should be especially susceptible to dis- ease, and that to counteract disease or to avoid it, various anti -biotics are included with the diet. This is hardly the place to discuss what effect the eating of the meat of an animal so fed has on the human animal, but it seems to me that one thing about this so-called "milk -fed" veal is certain. It is the meat from a sick animal, and only a sick society could relish it. Bees' preference vary As they fly from flower to flower, bees -prefer those of ., a certain species and disre- gard neighboring blooms that differ in color, shape , and scent even though other bees make a beeline for those. We pay 14P per pound for animals over 500 lbs. 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