Loading...
The Seaforth News, 1947-12-18, Page 2AT NIUSTMAC By HELEN PETRONE Janet opened the door to her apartment, .thinking as she did .. so that it had been only a week since Craig and she had shared this apartment they called their "Ivory tower," named that be- eauae, of its odd shape. It bad been s storage room until the hous- ing shortage became prevalent, 'hen Old Mrs. Root, feeling sym- pathetic toward the plight of Janet and Craig Norris, newly married and homeless, bad cleared it out, partitioned it of; into two small roosts and rented it to them. That was just 13 months ago, Janet remembered, dropping her gloves on the table and lighting the lamp with the same gesture. They had been married only three weeks, just long enough to realize they were imposing on Craig's family who were cramped for quarters themselves. * * * Just a week ago they had the quarrel that had sent Craig from the apartment- It had been a blow to his pride from the day of their wedding that Janet should con- tinue working. She enjoyed her position in the advertising firm where she had risen from a clerk to copy writer in just two years. Since she left the hoz:.,e after Craig in the morning and return- ed before him at night, site never felt her working interfered in any way with her household duties. But friends had spoiled everything with their snide remarks about "poor Tattet rill asking," and it was more than Craig c aid bear. "They think I can't su[tert your' he'd storm at her, but the more he pleaded the more adematte she had beensi,e. Anel now Le was gone i .t w i;h t.di'tg seemed so un. intporta::t now. She glanced at the telell:elite half -inclined to call him home, but her own rt:ealei- traut nature refustel to ., .;w such a move. She turned on the radio instead and pretended the tears that welled in her eyes at the strains of "Silent Night were merely tear, of weariness after the preparation of the office party that morning. Deliberately site opened the dresser drawer to put sway last night's ironing, Her Wave/lir box Monied temptingly before her. Lifting the cover, she stared at the items she had col- lected: Craig's class ring, ex- changed for a diantand after their graduation from college; a press- ed orehid, one of those she had carried at bee wedding: carious cards Christina s, annivereary, birthday, valentine. She picked up a small gift card and read again, "To my dear wife, Janet on our first Christmas." It was the card with the watch he had given her last year. * * e Trembling, she closed the box and turned quickly from the dress- er. She had been a fool, she de- cided. Without Craig, Christmas could never hold the sante mean- ing for her as it once had. She didn't stop to lock the door for there was nothing of value any- one could steal from her. Even her $100 Christmas bonus lying on the table went unnoticed. The one thing she must not Io,e was happiness, and that was no longer in her home with Craig gone. She hurried into her coat as she started breathlessly down the 3f4 flights of stairs. Tears coursed down her cheeks and she prayed with fanatic zest that she was not too late. As she reached the last flight of stairs, she crashed into a figure who was hurrying up, as oblivious of his surroundings as she. She gasped at the impact, but the man quickly regained his balance and caught her before she could fall, "Janet!" he cried. * * * She looked at him almost in dis- belief. Then, throwing her arms about him she gave vent to her tears. "Oh, Craig! Darling, I was just coming for you. He kissed h er and held her tightly. "Janet, I've been such a fool. I didn't realize until tonight what an awful thing pride can be. Will you ever forgive me?" She sighed. "There's nothing to forgive, Craig. I was the one who was wrong. I'm going to quit my job right away," "No, you mustn't. I don't want to deprive you of any happiness and if you want to work, I'm not going to stop you." She laughed shakily. "Well ar- gue that out later, shall we?" Arm in arm they climbed up the fairs, Different "They tell me she makes people happy wherever she goes." "You mean 'whenever'I" CHRISTMAS (DINNER MENU Tomato 'Juice with Parsley Garnish Roast Turkey with • Rice Staffing Mashed Potatoes Giblet Gravy Buttered Green Peas Cranberry Christmas Mold Fig Pudding Beve -a * ge 'Tie the season to be jolly and the airhums with festive plans for the coining yule- tide, but the big event will be, as always, Christ- mas dinner. You'll have tra- ditional turkey, or goose maybe, or chicken, or per. haps a roast of • beef. You'll in- clude all the family favorites, of course, and here are some new ideas for trimmings for your Christmas dinner. * * * Rice Stuffing f cup diced celery 54 cup chopped onion lefi cup fat 1 cup cookeed rice 2 tablespoons minced parsley 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning 1 teaspoon salt j cup water $ cups over. -popped rice cereal Brown celery and onion hi fat stir in rice, parsley, seasonings and water. Crush cereal into coarse crumbs; combine with rice mix- ture. Yield: 2;x cups stuffing. Cranberry Christmas Mold 1 cup cern syrup 1 cup auger 2 cups water 1 2 -inch stick cinnamon 1 teaspoon whole doves 4 cups fresh cranberries (2 lbs.) 2 envelopes plain unflavored gelatin • cup cold water Boil syrup, sugar, water and spices together for 5 minutes, Re- move spices. Add cranberries, cooly without stirring until cranberry skins pop open. Add gelatin, first softened in cold water; stir to dis- solve. Cool. Pour into 1/ quart star-shaped mold; chili in refriger- ator until firm. Unmold, garnish with holly sprigs, if desired. Honey Fig Pudding • cup shortening 3'3 cup honey 1 egg i cup milk 4 cup bran 1 cup sifted flour 1.1! teaspoon soda r teaspoon salt 1 cup finely cut dried figs Blend shortening and honey, Add egg and beat well. Stir in, milk and bran. Sift flour, soda and salt to- gether and add to first mixture with figs, Mix thoroughly. Fill greased 1 -quart mold ?3 full, cover tightly and steam for 2 hours. Serve with hard sauce or other pudding sauce. Makes 6 servings. Note: If figs are very dry, cover with boiling water and let steam 10 minutes; drain thoroughly bee fore cutting into pieces. CANADA DES it INET FOR LARGER WORLD ROLE—GEORGE SPINNEY (BANK OF MONTREAL PRESIDENT URGES VOLUNTARY CURB ON PRICE -RISES B of M Depositors Reach Record 1,600,000, Reports B. C. Gardner, General Manager Montreal, Dec. 1.—"Destiny has inexorably cast this country in a larger role," stated George W. Spinney, in his presidential speech today to the 130th annual meeting of the Bank of Montreal. Tempering his confidence in Canada's future with immediate considerations, IeIr. Spinney made two urgent pleas in his address. One was directed to management and labor for "self-imposed restraint from charging what the traffic will bear," as an aid in curbing high prices, and the other was in favor of a "vigorous. imaginative anti highly selective" immi- gration policy. Speaking at the same meeting, B. C. Gardner, genera! manager, reported a year of greater activity in all phases of batik operation, with depositors in Canadian branches toppiug the 1,600,000 -mark, their funds in the B. of M amounting to an all-titne high of $1,783,000,000. Commercial loans in Canada amounted to $352,000,000, showing a marked increase over last year's monetary manipulation and state figure of $277,000,000 control. a community may iudefin- Self-Restraint Needed itely consume more than it is able "The year has seen production or willing to produce." and employment at high levels," General Manager's Address Mr. Spinney declared. "Anything In his address to the meeting, more unlike the widely feared post- war period of deflation and unem- ployment B. C. Gardner, general manager, re- ployment could hardly be imagined, marked on the 13. of M.'s expanding ''Indeed, many of our immediate post-war activities, He referred to and pressing problems are of an the opening of 28 branches and sub - entirely different nature, arising as agencies, the increasing of staff to they have out of instabilities char- about 5,900 mot and women, as acteristic of a boom." compared with 8,400 last year and Urging management and labor to the adoption of improved operating help check swiftly -rising prices both techniques in handling routine In the individual and the community transactions, self-interest, Mr. Spinney said that Enlarging on the B. of M,"s part at a time like the present, self- in the unprecedented expansion of imposed resraint from charging Canadian peacetime trade abroad, what the traffic will bear, either for Mr. Gardner said, "We have found goods or the skill required to pro- by experience that in utilizing the duce them, is as necessary, as prat- services of banks which have been tical and as prudent as fire insur- long established in their respective ance on a highly inflammable strut countries, we are able to provide tut`." No group, representative of our customers with unexcelled fa - labor or industry, could afford to eilities for conducting their import ignore this safeguard, he added, and export trade. Up-to-date in - Urges More Immigration formation and reports on condi- "If ever there was a time when tions and regulations abroad are Canada should press forward with fully at the disposal of our custom - an immigration program, that time ers and are being increasingly is now," the .presidentmaintained. availed of to facilitate their foreign "An influx of new skills will be operations," of immeasurable aid in bringing In his closing remarks, Mr, about the further development of Gardner paid warm tribute to the our industrial capacity, and thus staff. Noting that numerous re - helping to overcome some of the turned veterans on the staff alread. y instabilities that are the inevitable occupied important posts, he added consequence of our present relative- that many new entrants engaged ly small home market and our over- since the WP were also veterans. dependence on external trade," Mr. Gardner paid, special tribute Referring to the slowness of re- to the women employees who cont. overy abroad, particularly in Bri- prise some 56 per cent of the total tain, Mr. Spinney observed, "It is staff. difficult Inc us in this comfortable "The organization and arrange. country to realize the weariness and menta, relating to the development, the frustration that are the legacies the progress and the welfare of our of ever deepening austerity. It is staff are tinder continuous and care - necessary, I think, to remind our- ful study;' Mr. Gardner said. "I selves that economic isolation is no know of no feature of our business more possible than its political that has required more care and counterpart. All of us on 'this conti- consideration over the past year," nent may well pray at this juncture for deliverance both from blindness of vision and from blindness of heart." Another factor retarding recovery was the practical consequences of popular fallacies, the speaker main- tained, particularly "the doctrine that, by some magical formulae of CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARM By Gwendoline :P Clarke Subconsciously I suppose we all realize that every home is a com- plete unit and every member of. the family apart of that unit; what affects one affects the whole; and f whole 1 as important to one as the other. We realize this more clearly when . someone in the family is called away nexpectedly; becomes ill' or has to attend to business away. from house, Then there has to be a readjustment 'within the unit; other 'members of the family tak- ing over duties which the file or absent one has been 1 the habit of doing. If one knows beforehand that such a change will take place preparations can be made to take care of it, but if it comes as a bolt from the blue then the degree of disorganization depends upon the ability of those concerned to rise to the occasion, * * * All of which leads up to the fact that Partner 1 still on the sick list and we have had a little experience along the lines' I have mentioned. Normally Partner and the boys do the barn chores between them — the boys the heavy work and Partner the feeding; In the winter Partner also figures. on looking after the poultry unassisted. And that, in case you don't know, 1 no small job! When the boys are busy with a trucking job Partner Will often say — "Never mind the night. chores — I can manage. You go ahead with your trucking." But last week he took to his bed — only not that quick. Fon a day or two he insisted , on going to the barn thinking like the rest of us do, that the heavens would fall if we don't throw in our two cents' v.orth to.keep 'ent up. In the end he had to give in and the feeding of the cows and poultry depended then upon the tender mercies of the boys. One day the young cattle did quite a bit of jumping around much to Bob's bewilderment — until he realized he was still wear- ing his driving cap — a khaki colour service cap which the heifers felt had no business in their do- main, * * ro The poultry was another worry. Bob looked after them before break- fast but he didn't realize how much attention they required during the day, so I was always shouting from the backdoor — "Pick up the eggs before you come in," One night the boys forgot to take a last look in the henhouse before supper — and I forgot to remind them — so there were six eggs frozen and cracked. If Partner had been on the job that wouldn't have happened. * * * As for nee I have been busy in the house — busy with my usual work, plus caring for Partner. But as soon as he was able Partner was anxious to do things to help me. So yesterday I said "All right, I'm going to make some pies -- you can peel the apples," It wasn't long before I saw Partner sort of straightening his back, even though he was sitting. Presently he said --- "Good-night, how many pies are you making — haven't T peeled enough apple!: yet?" I laughed as I answered — "Now maybe you'll understand why I think there is quite a bit of work to making apple pies. And you will notice they take far less time to eat than they do to make." * * * Cance that night and I was busy darning socks fine socks and ovcrsocks. Partner watched for awhile then he said — "I used to darn my own socks in the army, let me have a shot at those heavy ones." So I handed him a pair of socks and he got along very nicely, His only comment was — "I don't know how you tell when to stop darning — after you get through with the holes it seems there are thin places all over the sock!" So with each doing a little of the other's work we learn something of each other's problems. That 1 the way it should be, but. being Martian I know that As the way it won't be -- not around here any- way! Partner will be out again next week and I expect he will take over the feeding once again; the boys continue their trucking, and the heavy chores and I shall be left to battle alone with my pies and socks, LIFE'S LIKE T; -IAT i WIN 1 y' �l. _ _ kii/ L' C /#�,0h 10°, "I'd like to put two dollars on the winner!" Ohio Governor HORIZONTAL 2 Class 1,7 Pictured 2Assert governor, 4 Nickle -- (symbol) 14 Gorge 5 Knight (ab,) 15 Hercules 6 Sneer (corruption) 8 Eternity 16,Ear (comb, 9 Vase form) 10 South Caro - 17 Sinew lina (ab.) 20 Independent 11 Muse of Labor Party history (ab,) 12 Retained 21 Cry 33 Glimpse 23 Shower 18 North Amer - 24 Physical part ica (ala,) 25 Bone 19 The gods 27 Bushel (ab,) 22 Slackly 28 Manufactur- 24 His state is ing city in his known as the state -- state 31 Pungent 35 Stop 36 Glide on ice 37 Typified 38 Judgment '39,Left side (ab.) 40 Grandchild (Scot.) 41 Simple 44 Wan 48 Terminals 52 Abyss 53 Nearly 55 Out (Scotch) 56 Fancy 58 Character 60 Columbus is the -- of his state 61 Ancestral founder VERTICAL I Out of 5 Ammer to Ve*vleun i'uttnl•. Mill Ls911116iii►7 1161187[Ill51 MU Igill;301g4 MIAriai ae tgl- �7IGV se illi 17.7. INNE ®®®� M C=I - r55NGf010� ! © 0111100 511513111 a10 5 NAVAL. p®�' 00 AVIAtic Igilli 1®kil OEDEMA Qb*1 1l 121C1138t1J©0 26 Prunes 44 Entreaty (Scot.) 45 Exist 27 Bass yoice 46 Behold! 28 Feign 47 Serf 29 Lock opener 49 Speech part 30 Knock 30 Rowboat 32 Sped 51 Stalk 33 Belongs to it 53 Attorney 34 English river (ab.) 41 Heroic 54 Touch 42 Opera by Verdi 43 Pace 57 Three -toed sloth 59 Toward 30 0 WHEN VISITING TORONTO MAKE lO1 R THE WARWICK HOTEL Every avow with batt.shower and radio. Rates. from $2.00 single, Veettimteat aaents tm3ted, Excellent Ctrelne. Cor, Jarvis and Dundas Sts. CENTRAL HOME AT MODERN 189 Dundas St, E, The 11 ew "IMPROVED" Walkie-Talkie RADIO PHONE Operates anywhere. Indoors, outdoors, or from room to room, Precision built Microphone and Earphone units, Operates on 3 flashlight cells. The Ideal Gift for Girls or'Boys ONLY $5.95 Complete set. (less batteries) 1tI-DER NOW for limas De- livery Direct from EDWARD JEANNE & CO, 80 Yonge Street Toronto THE GIFT THEY'LL KEEP ON ENJOYING a r DV, MO Sure, Crown Brand Corn Syrup is good for ine. Sure, the doctor recommends Crown Brand Corn Syrup as part of my diet. BUT—why tie it down to me? How about the way you use Crown Brand, for wonderful baking? For a sweetener? And why not mention how delicious it is with pancakes, .cereals and hot waffles? You can't kid me, mom. Crown Brand Corn Syrup is good for all of ucl I111111lllll(Illl ":I::Illlll11 s tf EDWARDSeURG. GROWN ORAI% CORN SYRUP �. idIIIIIIIII i—' !llllilil� Reg For years doctors have recommended the use of Crown Brand Corn Syrup as a satisfactoty•catbohydrate acting as a milk modifier for bottle-fed infants. CROWN BRAN® CORN .SYRUP Also Manufacturers- of Canada. Corn Starch THS CANADA STARCH COMPAhiY.LIMITED -- MONTREAL —TORONTO eve