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The Huron Expositor, 1943-05-28, Page 6hj h.: If ANNE ALLAN kt;lr;Hogie:. Eeonomlltt , tioBAR , THE QLD -TIME .A', ..voo i Ffarre ;tS IN SEASON eillok I omemakears! Oar chilly ring weather has retarded lila- " hui. gto#G s,, so perhaps you haven't goltr' sugar "dividend yet! The tea .bound of sugar for use with ithu,1#a,Tl2,.-is, seenred with Blue 'Comma bT. 1 (Share B) in Ration Book No. which expires May 31st. Along iv th, the amount Toil can save out of your weekly ration, this extra pound of sugar will help you to serve the ,family its favourite rhubarb dishes for quite a while. After June first, of course, "canning" sugar will be aifailable to those,,. °.''o sent in their applications. Rhubarb is grand f6L'.aies and des- narts as well as preserves. Do plant one or two roots if you have the space —it's a hardy perennial and easy' to • grow. It's not only convenient and `economical to have your rhubarb and other garden products right at your kitchen door but a. time-saver as well. You don't need to spend time searching for different fobds to get ,variety into -your menus—just learn to serve the foods you have at hand in different ways. Good. wartime psychology, too! Of course, you know •that freshly picked fruits and vege- tables have finer flavour and are rich - or in vitamins. RpCIPES Rhubarb Tarts %2 cups thick rhubarb sauce 2 eggs separated 1 teaspoon grated orange rind % cup fine sugar. . Combine the rhubarb',' sauce, egg yolks and orange peel. Cook in top of double •boiler, stirring constantly, until thipkened. Pour into, tart shells. Beat the egg whites till stiff and add sugar gradually,- beating until mix- ture stands in peaks. Place a spoon- ful in each tart and bake in oven at 350 degrees about 12 to 15 minutes or until delicately browned. :Makes eight tarts of fairly large size. To Can Rhubarb Wash and trim slender stalks. Do not remove skin. Cut into %-inch pieces. Use one cup of sugar - to each quart jar (or le cup to a pint). Put a thin layer of sugar in the bot- tom of jar, then alternate layers of rhubarb and sugar with a layer of sugar on ttop. Pack very tightly, us- ing a wooden spoon or masher. Par- tially seal and process in boiler, gently boiling on element 25 minutes. To Can Rhubarb Sauce _ Add enough water to rhubarb to prevent burning. Cook until soft. Add % cup sugar to 1 quart rhubarb. Fill sterilized jars. Seal tightly. TAKE A TIP: Rhubart4 Dessert 4 cups cut rhubarb .i/ eu.p sugar , Or i/4 cup sugar and i/4 cup :honey. Wash and cut rhubarb into inch lengths. Place in upper part of ble boiler, cover and -cook with erre, Do not stir. Rhubarb Shortcake 2 cups flour ,% teaspoon soda 1 .cup thick sour milk 1 teaspoon salt . 2 tablespoons gb'ortening. Cut shortening into measured flour, *oda and salt. Add liquid gradually teixing with a fork to a soft dough. Owing to the difference in sour milk, it is not always possible to determine the exact amount of liquid. Turn dough on lightly- floured board and pat out. Cut into circles and bake in • oven at '450degrees far 10 minutes. Split and serve with thick nhubarb sauce between and on top. .Sauce Six cups of cut washed rhubarb in saucepan placed on elemeat.turned 'Low' for five minutes, then to `High', and add about two-thirds cup of sugar. Cook only a few minutes, stirring frequently. dou- sug- 1.• To prevent rhubarb pies ing over, use' strips of wet- cheese- cloth or butter -wrapping cut in 2 - inch widths. Press the one edge to rim off pie and let other side fail over fluted pie crust. Overlap ends well. 2. Other ' variations of rhubarb des- serts: Up -side -down Cake, Rhu- • barb Betty, •Rhubarb Steamed Pud- ding, Deep Rhubarb Pie, Rhubarb Sponge. nrazing.e ,... tats Dodging o bs (By Margaret, Bute ier)- Reading, Eng. ---Outside .lawny' window the birds are making experlmente i-0- 6011g nsong ; a trifle hal;# hearted, maybe, for it is still ..cold. But it means that winter is other and I, for one, (hold my breath till that happens. The Allotment is already losing its disgracefully bedraggled look, and one can potter about on it again and resume the battle with the wireworm, (I think we have super-wireworms on our patch for they have absorbed our patent exterminator, apparently with great relish, and are getting along nicely). The Gardening Partner, de- spite complaints of seasonable rhe- matism, has appeared in his cordu- roys again and expressed the usual opinion that things out there are looking worse than ever. In fact, ev- erything is under control. The Hun of course, has also start- ed his 'spring spite raids here and there„ though what he hopes to ac- complish by them I cannot say. -. Go- ing about as I do, I often 'hear little stories,. of these bouts of 'frightful- ness,' and the thing which strikes me most is the tendency to stress the lit- tle human incidents and the touches. 'Of humor. Nobody minimizes the nas- ty part, of course, for every casualty means suffering for some group of people, but folk don't dwell on it. The• main issue, in such cases., is to give all the help one can; but' those other tales are repeated with relish, for we sill see that the really import- ant thing in these sudden tragedies is the extent to which we an over- come them, both physically and men- tally. After all, that is common • sense. from 'boil- * * * THE boil - THE QUESTION BOX Mrs. C. N. asks: "My. sealers are not air tight although I ' have used new rubbers and metal rings. They leak when turned upside down." Answer: Testing sealers by filling them with water is not always a true test. If. your fruit has kept in these jars before and: they are not chipped or cracked, we believe they should be satisfactory if you use new rings. Soh?e' jars are off level and it has been suggested that two rubber rings might help. It is important 'to use force to seal the jars. Anne Allan -invites• you to write- to. her c/o The Hurbn Expositor. Send in your questions on homemaking problems and watch this column for reply. No Rush There is still lots of time in most parts of Canada to have an excellent war garden. Admittedly one gets some personal satisfaction in getting vegetables. planted weeks ahead of the neighbors and, if all goes well, a thrill out of being able to tell his friends that be has bad his first rad- ishes long •before the usual 'season. But extra early planting is a gamble and that is why experts urge that on- ly part of the seed be sown then and the balance reserved for.. plantting at the usual time, and later. When planting is .spf'ead: over weeks in this way there is the solid satisfaction of having the harvest also spread over weeks in the summer and fall. , As a matter of actual statiseics, the beginner almost always Starts to plant his garden too soon and also stops planting too soon. There is tail ample time in most parts of the country for planting all sorts of vege- tables, and in fact the tender things like melons, cucumbers, peppers, tom- atoes, etc., are best not sows} or set out much before this date. Informal is Best The most effective layout of flow- ers, lawns and shrubbery, for the TORONTO Hotel Waverley SiADMA AVE. AT COLLEGE ST. RATES SINGLA - $1.50 to $3.00 DOUBLE` $2.80 to $6.60 Special WeeW9and Monthly elates . A 'MObliiltd .. . titbit .. . WELL CONDUJCTLD .. . CONViNIENVIN LOCAT'ED 1101110.* • td••, Parliament iu'Irlitig4y bilt6tkitkpf Tbi e iteetedple i vireo* ,Paha:ai file .. Sii0kt ig Warta, Wholesale Does uheatwet); Chorales df E'ri4t'9 ettouliuiafidiY. t/ rlitveity•ittvi tittltt t average gardener, is an informal one. That is, curved paths and borders, ra- ther than straight. lines. But when we put in these curves, especially in paths, landscape experts say, we must be sure to make a reason for them otherwise- the whole effect will be artificial: At the bend in the drlaveWay° or path, therefore, it is well to have a tree or a group of shrubs or a' flower bed.' In screening, it is not necessary nor desirable toa cover the whole of• the fence, wall or garagev,unless the same is unsightly. Much'more pleasing re- sults follow where the shrubbery, vines and flowers merely break the lines of the man-made structures be- hind them, but leave enough showing for contrast. For screening, the ly employs perennial ent shrubbery and Had To Hurry Home A woman tells me that just after a recent• daylight spite raid in the Home Counties --counties in the vi- cinity .of London—a- friend of hers met a boy, a youngster of about ten, running along the,road as hard as he could jog. There was bleed on his face, end one hand was tucked(inside his coat. She stopped him, but be protested that he must hurry home. "Are you badly hurt?" she asked. The kid shook his, head, not seeming Co care a hoot about the bleeding of his cheek. "But your hand is injured, isn't it?" she persisted. At that the boy hug- ged his jacket still closer, and his eyes shone. "No; I've got a hot shell here!" he said—and hurried on. Then there was the woman who, she told me, was shopping in her town when three or four raiders started their work. The effect could not be Less than .terrifying, naturally, - and as she recounted her emotions to me her Irish voice ran up and down its musical scale, "I just stood shill;'""-s•he-said- "Fin. ' a•"minute I couldn't move at all. There was I, stock still in the middle of the road, with a huge basket of groceries ip each hand, and that German thing swooping about just over me head. And I've been' through three revolu- tions and two earthquakes in me time too—but there I stood." "And what happened?" I asked. "Oh, I tooved afte4 a while, of course, and caught a bus. Anyhow, I got home—and with all me grocer- ies!" As I pointed out, that sounded, to Me, likefirst round to her. What do you think? An Airman From, Ontario I have. had a pleasant surprise a visit from a young aircraftsman from a little Ontario town. We had a mu- tual friend, but had never met be- fore. However, we* soon forgot all about that, and in less than no time we were drinking tea and talking as if we had known each other for years. Neither of us, I am sure, felt that the other was a stranger; be did not really mind that, having no home' of my own, could not offer him much hospitality; and I, on my side, felt no discomfort about it. We shared what there was in the way of butter ration and rather stale buns, and if the cups happened to be odd . . . well, he tea was none the worse for that. And, talking of tea; maybe some of you could use a hint or two, now that tea has become .ra- ther precious to us all. Quite can- didly, I don't find 'trans-Atlantic tea - making up to the English standard, and I think I leiew why. The secret of success is heat. Personally, I' much prefer your teabags to our use of loose, tea. They are more Aeon- omicel and less messy, but unless you understand this question of heat the advantage is lost. So try my tip and you'll notice a great improvement. First of all, the teapot must be warmed before the tea is put in. Just stand it on one corner of the stove or up -end it somewhere near the fire for a few minutes. Make a habit -of it as all part of tea -tune; it is no trouble at all. A little hot water poured in and then emptied out will do the trick, of course, though most people agree that a dry, warm pot is better. Use Boiling Water If you are making tea for several people use more than one tea bag, Two will go quite a long way I've found, and—as you will see—there is no waste. When you are making the tea use actually ' boiling water, straight from the kettle. Take the pot right tfp'pt•o" the kettle and do not wait for the bubbling to die down. Let it ,sizzle down on to the teabags; then• pots the lid on the pot and leave it for a minute or two, preferably under a tea -cosy, That keep& the whole thing piping heft. After that little intervals, Whem the gardener usual - plants, perman- hardy creepers. One can, however, get very fair re- sults with quick 'owing annuals in both the bushy or vine growing types. Thinning Important An important job that • looks hard- er than it really' -is is thinning. No :vegetable or flower can develop pro- perly unless it has plenty of room. Small things like -carrots need about three inches between, beets about four, corn three sprouts to the hill. With fine seed much drudgery can be saved by sowing thinly in the first place. With -flowers that are grown from seed, thinning is equally import- ant. They must have room or they will grow spindly and break down probably in the first wind storm. Don't Plant Too Deep Generally speaking, the amateur gardener, it is claimed, is inclined to plant too deep. Seed so planted will not germinate well. The general rule is three times the diameter which means mere pressing into the soil -for fine seed like that of radish, poppy, Carrot, etc., and"about one or two (Inches kieep for beans and peas. With bulbs and tubers like gladiolus and potatoes, from six to ten 'tunes deep is recolYlmended, fee, heavier the sell the khal oWer the planting. Ned Week—Common Mistakes and HOW to Avoid 'Them, Summer Care, she felt MisIONtt""! draiggY710At><a•. it W —lower msinks. ' hadn't tbeuab 4l kidneys, Dale a friend suggeste'dDot4'a ,laid ney Pills. At once sht took Dodd's. ` " The "washed out',' icer* w�ls soon re cell' by liar heads . finer an d, mod ate,; Headadke, badiache, lassitude and other signs et built, kidneys disappeared. tiZ Dodds Kidney Pills' e§ concerning Wag 1 #0°44. • • 'R. P ')!;o1 olle, we have.' ao plteltee 'et, all in. •this house; • eve the larder tinder, the staire is nearly all glass, ' and glass is a horror when anything happens.. So every -night, when I go to bed, I make up a sort of secondary bed underneath, •en, the floor, with a cou- ple, ouple of rugs and a pillow. "I only. hope," I told him, "that I could make the move in time, -.if I happened to bear anything whizzing down." (Many a person has been saved, incidental- ly, by dodging under a bed, or a table). He was very comforting. fluid is dark and strong enough, -take the teabags out and put them aside to drain. This does away with 'stew- ed' tea—and possibly the chance of indigestion. Those once -used Ilea bags' can go into the pot later on, for another brewing, helped out with a fresh bag. I am sure you will find this method both an improvement and a great sav- ing. And don't laugh at the tea -cosy notion,- for you'll soon wonder why you never used one before. Tea tepid from the pot is nasty, stuff, far too suggestive of . a half -warmed ,,dinner. "It's surprising how quick you can move when there's a bomib coining," he replied; and maybe he's . right. I know one of four girls who, hear- ing ,that- whining whistle during an alert, dodged under the office table. They all crawled out after without a scratch . . . but the rest of the room —and most "of the house—simply wasn't there any more. May, I be eq- ually agile if my turn -.comes•. Another friend of mine, whose home was in London, and whose hus- band 'was working in this part, came down with her son to spend a week with him. On the Sunday morning she amused herself—and her husband —by reading aloud his birthday horo- scope, which said that he was going You can .make a very practical cosy to!; get 'good -news to his financial ad - out of two, semi -circles of double -cot- vantage.' ton -batting, lined and covered.. with "What bosh it all is!" he said scorn - material and then fastened together fully; and there and their a telegram along the curved portions. Your tea arrived to say that their London pot will stand very snu°gly under this house had received a direct hit. Af- hat-like arrangement, and !you can ter that, needless to say, he waw make it in any good color, scheme to more scornful than ever. It is an old tone with your china, Just' one thing: story now, but we are still grinning beware of a hot teapot handle! So over it. Yet perhaps the horoscope - here's to happier teatimes and tar- merchant :was more truthful, than he tier tea. I knew, for there was an uncanny sug- Lost in Blackout I gestion of `good news' in that extra- ordinary escape, wasn't there? It was I asii,ed my visitor from• Ontario to a pity he mentioned financial advent - tell me what folks liked to read about age, for they lost everything except in such letters as tfese. "The black- a sideboard—and the suitcases they out, for one thing," he answered. had with them. For all that, the re - Well, until a fortnight ago I imagin- membrance of that bit of reading, ed I had said all there was to say adds an' edge to their humor, and so about the blackout—but 1 was wrong. long as you have humor ,you've ;got For the first time I have been lost, I quite a lot. really and truly lost, in one. „And in . my own road, though you, may find it So yMtlin ,g' 1s H dA Jn "' bas had itkeeio re ertlllZ 4 ilk le,•,1 oed> raked and ready for seeds!" Here 15 the advice given in the DOmililien De^ partment of ,l ;gxicli urea pamphlet, The Wartime Garden: . - ?s * * Sow or plant crops in long rows. Take into con, ie:cavaiiow the amount of shade cast by taller growing plants. Tall pleats such as corn, staked tomatoes and polo beans should be planted to the north side of the garden. hard to believe. Perhaps yqu fancy that you know your own road like the back of your hand, but a moon- less, misty blackout night soon puts you right on that. When I . set off formy friend's house, not more than five minutes' walk away, it was dusk. When I came away a couple of hours later, I stepped into a chilly, dank, lightless void: I could not even catch ope glimpse of the trees silhouette against the sky. It was like stumb- ling over the edge of the world. I•had a walking -stick with me,. and a fail- ing torch; and I assure you' that, • a failing torch seems worse than no torch at all; 'tut batteries have now joined the ranks. of the Rarely:if-Ev- er, so there it- was. Waving my stick in front of me I moved over the road, heading for the grass verge. That, I said, would bs a help. But, crazy though it sounds, I must have taken a curve on that wide road. The grass verge .seemed unusually' high and had developed en - expected curves, but on I plodded. The truth of the matter was that I was pawing my way in the wrong di- rection, and after nearly half -an -hour of peering at gate -numbers (when there were any) I thought I mj st have gone clean crazy. - The whole district seemed as still and black as the grave, and ,.there wasn't a crea- ture to be seen. I did not like the notion of opening somebody's gate and inquiring, for there was the chance of falling headlong into a bush or' having an encounter, perhaps, wih an agitated dog. To cut the story short, I eventually arrived home —dazed and towsled, as well I might be, having taken well -over forty min- utes in making port. Tickled By Confidences The visitor was amused by that melancholy story and, having seen our blackout, he knew it was true. He was also tickled- by my confidenc- uu Good seed can be obtained from the local seedsman but beware of thick. sowing! It wastes seed and increas- es the labor of thinning. -Sow only enough seed to ensure a good stand of plants. To make a .row straight stretch a line of string or cord tight- ly to mark the row and make the drill or trench even in depth. •• * * * Large seeds,. such as beans, peas, etc., should be placed individually at specified distances. Small seeds, such as carrots, lettuce, etc., can be sown by tearing off a corner of the envelope, holding the packet horizon- tally and gently tapping it with the finger as it moves along thee drill. Press the soil firmly over the drill after the seed has been sown. The Wartime Garden tells what depth to cover various plants. Carrots, chard, etc., one -'half inch; peas and beans, two inches. * * * Here's a tip: To mark rows of such slow -germinating seeds as car- rots and beets, plant an occasional radish seed in the row. This will come up quickly and act as a mark- er. * * * To extend the season of such crops as beans, peas and corn,two or three aInAt LEAST ISA' WEER`! cl i. r 1ii'cyl :I l` t, ,•Makes baking ,easy and sure_ Loves light, even-- .tlextured, Delicious 1° `LV11AYS DEPENDABLE "►I RTIGHT WRAPPER' ENSURES STRENGTH sowings may be made at intervals of 10 days to insure successive crops. This also applies to lettuce, carrots,, beets' and spinach. NATIONAL SELECTIVE SERVICE Second Coiipnlsory Employment Transfer Order Notice to Certain Employers and Employees that men in specified lines of civilian employment, in classes already designated under National Selective Service Mobilization Regulations, must report for interview not later than June 15th, 1943, at an Employment and Selective Service Office. A. Objeetive: This Second Order makes available for essential employments the ser- vices of men in classes already designated under National Selective Service IClobilization Regulations, who are now employed in speci- fied non-essential employments. B. EMPLOYMENTS COVERED BY THIS ORDER: Men, of the specified categories, are covered if now employed at: (1) Any occupation in or associated 'vitt retail stores; (2) any occupation in -..or associated with the ,manufacturing of feathers, plumes and artificial flowers; chewing gun'; wine; lace goods; greeting cards; jewelry; (3) any occupation in or associated with distilling alcohol for Leverage; (4) any occupation in or assn- . ciated with thefactory production of statuary and art goods; (5) any occupa- tion in the operation of ice cream parlours and. soda fountains; (6) any of the follow- ing occupations: bus boys; charmers and cleaners; epstom fur'rier's; dancing teachers; dish washers; doorman and starters; greens keepers; grodnds keepers; porters {other -than in railway train ser- vice); private chauffeurs. C. ACE. AND MARITAL CLASSES OF MEN COVERED BY THIS ORDER: (a) Every man bern in any year from 191f to 1924 (inclusive) who has,rcashed age 19; (b) every man horn from 1902 to 1916.(inclusive), who, at July 15, 8940. was unmarried, or divorced or judicially separated, or a widower ,without child or children; (c) every man kern from 1902 to 1916 (inclusive) who has become a HUMPHREY MITCHELL, Minister of Labour widower since July 15, 1940, and is. without child or children now living; (d) every man born from 1902 to 1916 (inclusive) who„ since July 15, 1940, has been divorced or judicially separated. ,A). Procedure to he Followed: All men as defined above must report to an Employment and Selective Service Office not later than June 15th, 1943. Men resident outside a city or town having an Empidyment and Selective Service Office, too far removed to call per- sonally, may write to the nearest office, and await further directions. E. OBLIGATIONS OF EMPLOYEES: When directed to accept employment, men referred to is Paragraphs B and G above are requited by the Regulations to follow the direction. F. OBLIGATIONS OF EMPLOYERS: 'It will be illegal for an employer to retain in his employ after June 15th, 1943, any meo referred to in Paragraphs B' and C above, unless a special permit has been obtained from Selective Service. G. Transportation: Provision will be made for transportation of men moved to a new place of residence. H. Appeals: If objecting to transfer to other employment when directed, a man may enter appeal with a Court of Referees within 7 days. ^ •. • • I: Penalties: Penalties are provided for either employer or employees failing to comply with this Order. J. Authority: This Order is issued by the Minister of Labour under National Selective Service Civilian Regulations (P.C. 246 of January 19th, 1943, and amending Orders in Council) . Kt This Second Order is. Additional • to .First Order: Employments listed in Para-. graph B above, declared non-essential in this Second Order,, are,•additional to the non- essential employments contained in the First Order. The First Order, issued on May 4th, 1943, required compliance by May 19th on the part of employees designated under Mobilization Regulations, and also of their .employers, in the following lines of work:— (1) taverns or liquor, wine and•beer stores; (2) retail sale of candy, confectionery, to- •bacco, books, stationery, news; (3) barber shops and beauty parlorlrs; (4) retail and wholesale florists; (5) service stations (gaso- .line-fzllissg stations); (6) retail sale of motor vehicles oz' accessories; (7) retail sale of , sporting goods or musico! irtsnrsments, (8) waiter, taxi driver, elevator operator, Hotel bell 'boy, domestic servant, (9) any occupa- tion in or directly associated with entertain- ment, including' bur not restricted to theatres, film agencies, motidit picture companies,• clubs, bowling alleys, pool rooms; (10) any occupation in or, directly associatedwith dyeing, cleaning, and pressing (not including laundry work); baths; guide service; shoe shining. Men referred to above moat present documents at the employment office, indicating compliance' with Mobilization Regulations IMPLAWLENISHIP 1,21301E1 A. MACNAMARA, Director National Selective Service 0 W-3 • ISN'T IT THE TRUTH � What Happened in 1918! gy LOOK ATALL THE FOLKS SHOPP/NG. - EVERYBODY M(JSr //AVE GOT RA/SEs. WHAT? 700,4 POUND FOR STEAK ? ,98OH///I/0////H/I//!Il/ll////�" 9 y'm SORRY etRE/rD�S'� �� /5 ,Now, me ,BAKERS Carrs.1 GONE' r/g OP, TOO! `rOOODYMOW WELL HAVE A?oRE TO igl!END�.n dw/ arra rl. • t70, �'-' p • yIs, RIY cot$rsA e UP / //AVE To PAY MY HELP MORE. freieeeerefeelargreleseeettee /!%ir ii+r jl/,/. %ser/ n /, Oar•; 'irN nr t r„� ,/////1SF/�, i14,e, ri/1r,�+,11/YG WE' CAN'T 81/Y ANY fMOR( /heNEYYg' ALL GaiP/E'!...:,:. :.w Mak /NCREASeD PAY BO1f/T Lay THAN AVER / fit//S'// TH/NG$ HAD SAW ME NAY T/HEY WERE ;6; AND'IT COULD )IAPP[N THIS TIMI This isn't a guess at what, might happen. It's what actually did happen ; ; : to a great extent in Canada in World War I and to a much greater extent all over Europe. Let's all work to- gether to help protect the ceiling and avoiddlinflationa leeted•vr il/le ,e, a ,