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i M o d e rn Etiquette

BY Bllberlaliee

Can a runny letter be u» That all depends upon the

tontents of the letter. Between inti- Inste friends, a long. newsy, inte {sting letter is always welcome, etter relating troubles, aches, ills and‘ accidents is always too ion-g, whether two 11688.; or ten.

Q. When a woman guest comes to visit for a week or two, what is the best way to introduce her to D!l€'5 friends?

A. The afternoon tea. party is very popular for this purpose.

Q. Should the sexton of a church where a wedding is held be paid, and if so, by wihom?

A. Yes; by the parents of the bride.

Q. A.

How Can I!!!

By Anne Ashley oo-oo-o-o-o-ooon

. How can I clean-‘a white wool sweater?

A. Rub the sweater well with flour, About three cups will be re quired if thoroughly rubbed until it

etrates each fold. Shake out well and hang on the line while a iff breeze is blo g.

Q. w can I treat a. bruised ﬁnger which has been hit with the hammer?

A. Hold the ﬁxiger in water hot as can be box-re for a few utes. This will draw out the inflam- mation almost immediately.

Q. How can I prevent raisins lrom going to the bottom o! a

cake? A. This can be prevent-ed b the raisins in butter

Inc placing them in the batter.

iIIOME LIFE I01" 00 °/o PEBFEET!

EoSevvlcemen Find Rich Food 1nd Lack of Exercise Bring Penalty After the strict routine of army hf many servicemen ~ women "too -- ﬁn themselves “out of condition soon alter returning to civiliarrllfe. The)’ 1"‘ "m-aw“ and "slowed-down until they "Q1119 ‘that rich home food and lack of exercise ore clogging the system with toxic waste. Now, like thousands oi others who dia- covcrcd a favourite British method 0f keeping ﬁr. and trim despite rich, heavy Mood, many take vBile Beans nightly. For allwegetnble Bile Beans tone up the oyelcm by stimulating the liver. So take g tip from those who know-—ssk your ~ he Remed a ‘ » "" , , . . - sbsclling liver pills in (mint Britain ——ovcr 7 million boxes used last ymr. 55

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Cook 's Corner

FISH CIOQUETTES

4 tablespoons shortening

l6 cub flour

2 cups milk

‘>6 tee-spoon salt

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 2 eggs cooked ﬁsh

1 t lespoon butter

-1 tablespoon flour

‘A cup milk 1 so’ c"

L shortmirig or cooking oil

METHOD: Melt the 4 tablespoons {gr diortening Ol‘ lard Bud blﬂld ill the. gty? Under {ﬁe heading o!

flour. Gradually add the 2 cu s milk and cook, stirr constanty until tihe mixture is t ick. Season with salt and Worcestershire sauce and add the cooked or canned ﬁsh, which has been boned and ﬂaked. (lﬁuxgﬂlg colcgland set.

e e ts espoon but/Let and blend in the tablespoon flour. Add the ‘A-cup milk, and cook. stirring frequently, until thick,

Add a dash of salt and than the Peas. Set this aside until cold and thick also,

and ﬁrm. cakes. Placed. creamed pea mixture on one of the ﬁshcakes and cover with another of these. Press into a ball and fli into bread crumbs. then in sllgh ly beaten egg. and again in crumbs.

Fry these cakes in deegn, hot fat. Ha/ve the fan. heated to 90 deg. F, or uriil hot eno h to brown a day-old 1-inch cu of bread in 40 seconds. You will notice that the fat is hotter in this than with the ﬁsh fried in butter. The reason for this is that with the croquettes t-he ﬁllira is already cooked, and that has to be done is to brown the outer coating

When the cakes

are icelv

1 them. But if it

iiEilfen"'s Diary“

Inn of bird song h the snow in Dis-return to hi: work at

to down‘ the magi-fraud, wtiixen h ti;

sunae will y s s est which W51‘, reﬂected and below. h lamp- lng James came in- doors to announce "that old one there in the plggery, is plan- us all night." And so

spend the Meek-end at his home

iar pastime recently, offered to "stay a spell" and evidently took his departure sometime during the early hours of the Sabbath.

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There had been added chores for James. He told me about them, with a neglected air, for at the time I had gone easily via the stairway dovwn sleepy lane with‘ out the necessity of any sedative

nor of counting frisky ewes lea l-‘l saturated with sleep. James.

lng any imaginary fencesMy p low was it was, who numbered and called sheep, but wide-awake and about. midnight. He recounted this in

able sliver of skin missing from the bridge of his nose. In the dark- ness he had come in contact with a gate "all on account of you, El- len—I'd let them eat every con founded rose bush about the lace." There was also, he said a sit to the stable to milk Mary, the jer- sey, to obtain a warm supplemen- food for the wee pigs, in the "things for the house" l had bought a sturdy feeding nipple for just such an occasion, cm our recent trip to the city. There was also, after the waiting erlod~had elapsed, vthe matter o removing the new-c m- er's baby teeth not all of them ut only the most sinister» All, I sus- pect by the light, of the kitchen lamp, and not one protest, came upstairs to disturb my dreams.

O O O "Seventeen!" Jamie repeated sf-

“ “ml ter me when I told him the num- 1mm“ ber of' them by

‘phone and he chuckled so heartily that both Jeanie, who happened to be in the kitchen at the tme, and I laughed as well, Jamie's counting does not extend so far, and we wondered at his amusement. Two of them have bestowed upcu me, I suppose, in recognition of long service as fe- male asslstant at several phases of husbandry at Alderlea. These in the light o£_my busyness, I am thankful to relate have what James calls "an unearthly look" about should happen that they survive and develop to cine day reach "the weight" then we will be assured of our pork

n . . browned, remove from the fat, and supply. I may say. mine invariably

drain on unglazed paper

or a tomato- sauce, or you serve with tartar sauce.

If you like you may leave creamed pea ﬁlling, and form the ﬁsh mixture ir-‘o cone shapes like ordinary croquettes.

00L. BATTEN BITIBES OTTAWA, April 15

Pacific Command

quarters.

Col. Batten was first colmnission- ed on leaving London University in 1917 and served with the Royal Garrison Artillery in the Fir Great War, lie was appointed toa commission with the 15th Field Brigade at Victoria in 1923 and ist- er commanded the 5th Medium Battery

He was employed st Pacific Com- mand headquarters at the outbreak 3f) war and served there in various

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‘. - -, ,1 m . u ' l ILAIASTINI, ' ' a‘ to ovepieeiw I

. These B" are nice served with a white sauce only We g up to

-—(CPl—Re- river up to Alderlea. tirement of Col. C.T. Batten. 50, of- bared some ficér in charge of fixed defences at greet, lgzy

destined for the barrel with alternative. If they corne certain requirements they may then be added to the herd of

Dug the younger matrons.‘ o

white see gulls with wide spread wings and weird,cries came inland today to remind rne that of late, I had been wondering about their absence. Boring could not come as it ordinarily does tc The Tsland, if the sea gulls did not follow the The hill tops

ln the sun's rays and drifts of nearly-white

Slime 1944. W55 clouds floated In the blue of the announced today by Defence Head- sky, Summgry

shadows rams back

the pond and the westerlng sun lit up the weathered grey of the mlll‘s gables. Trees waited quietly cri the hills for the week- old moon that presently hung

br t tb inn

do) ouch e s ‘loaf. the

hoiueecroso the lane. He had gone

hi llillgetleus Too Fralgltﬂflti llnlm

cl-l dent sadly for there was a notic-l

, truth than

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Youthful Marriages

For Icy-of 17*

brim mes Dlx: I am 1'! higvhilschoohl am mldiy in love tend to be married n couple who love they are. young so o! their youth rather than

ANBWE z I certainly do 11¢

yours old and have just gzuouateo from with s girl of miyown age and we in- at once. I think tint each other to be married end have children while; tint they may endoy wait until I>on't you agree with me in this? \

there is nothing better than for

e. happy family in the flower they are middle-aged.

AN UNDIUIDED YOU'D-I.

. 1 think that these a nothing mei- than the old proverb that “a young a young man amen-ed,"

_ manmarriedis endthatforsboyollltp

take unto himself n. wife is for him to commit a

it crime not only against himself. silly little girl who accompanies

but against the poor, him l0 the altar.

SIJJOM SUCCESSFUL

0f course, miracles happen now and then, and

once in s blue moon. but statistics

on the rocks.

a child-marriage escapes going show that young marri-

ages are rarely successful. They end in divorce far

oftener than do the letters cyear from the them begins‘ "1 rimmed too young

Ami and girls are still as much as they are they

| if they develop along the some | in their ' wit

any way of supporting a family.

mrrlages of mature unbappiiy married and

people. I get thousands of pramically every one of

that is perfectly logical and inevitable because teen-age boys growing and changing, physically, and they V are going to be when they are adult. Nothing is farther from the that when boys and girls uisrry I end have the some tastes and habit-s and points of view. It is purcJuck

lines, Of the two who seemed on, s pa teens one may be a star in the twenties and the other s dim

mentally and spiritually. just do not know themselves what

they will grow up together

‘M50, thele is a pmctical- side to consider.» Few boys in their teens have and no marriage can be happy in which

incapable children are wrestling with the problem of how to make a

living. And many a. boy who mediocrity because he is sunk

ilor does the early marriage insure

Very young parents husbands and wives

merry.

DEAR IWISS DIX: My

had it in him to go far never rises above by the wife and

babies tied around his

the happy Ja-rnily you vision.

are seldom good parents and they are seldom good because they lack the DON'T DO IT, SON. WAIT untilyou

discipline that life gives us all. are grown up before you

husband has returned from overseas and

here is the trouble with us: While he was in the service I was tied down

with our baby. and now him when he comes home from should take the baby with us.

that he is back I feel that he should take 08m 0K work, and that when we go out we But my husband wants to visit with

the m folks and I am supposed to chase after the child. ls that fair? ' BEWILDERED l

ANSWER: ant outing While he was martyred in having

You seem to think that your husband was on a pleas- in the Army and that you were being simply to‘stay at borne

and look after the baby. Let me

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assure you, in case you haven't read anything about it in the papers, Q ‘on; Xe

that Guam. and lwo Jima were sleeping in foxholes and sloshing danger. The men~who have had

no picnic and that it wasn't any fun . through jungles and facing death and

three.or four years of that have

come black tired and worn and nerve-racked, and their wives should

have some synmathy for them and give

stead of trying to tum them into

them a chance to rest up in- i nurse maids.

DEAR MISS DIX: Here is a problem that confronts many of us

teen-agers: How can evening with us and stay and stay welcome?

I ANSWER: Iif the boys cant take a hint when the talk slows down ' and you begin to yawn behind your hands. why wt appeal to Papa for help? When your Mother was your

we get rid of the

boys who come to spend un and stay until they wear out their I

SLEEPY Turin-Acme. l I .

age, fat-hers had a system that

wmikcd. ‘Ihey would ring a bell that indicated a lad had best be on his way, or they would call down the stairs: "Daughter, is the young man ' staying for breakfast?" And that would start theprocession moving. '

; Household ‘ Scrapbook

By, Rhberll IAQ

graciously above ‘the earliest stars. ‘r l

Life about the place followed "the even tenor" we have adopt.- ed for the time. Jock went wt Rob to the woodlands and James picked up the‘~odds and ends of work about the buildings and mad; a satisfying an mug pattern of them by night fall. There were minutes out for a brief nap, to make u for recent wakeful nights and to ook ln on Mr. D. He has taken it up on himself to decorate the new stairs in the wee bit house across the lane. He came over to join mine husband at lunch "lf you can cell it that" James apologized to Mr. D. “breed 'n butter n moles- ses and a few ecu of cake. lil- ien’; getting qu to shameless. bout the meals she offers now. ‘You know" he went on leming n el- bow on the table and looking eu- neltly toward m». D. “there's not a deal you can do with a penal who has loot his sense of shame.” But they forgot my abort-

ln u tlaey began to chat {f e

d o! toes :nd laws unt?!‘ m.

‘lhwhom on!

Ind than polished wn

Gloves

New kid gloves should mt be ﬂit on the hands for the first a e when in a. burr . If they are care- fully put on, e kid will stretch gentl to conform with the lines of the fingers and hands. Do this the first time and all other times will be easy. -

Grease Stains 1f reuse is spilled on e dress, rub the nds together unti gated. Pings one “wilt-gilt m“ ﬂl l Q 0 new make the stein disappear. ‘Um of Clrmnbl ilhscrianbethet are left over kom breed. coke. or muffins are

encelien crust! unsui- "sit-ass... °' ”"

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drums festival luv. held in

will t. revived here Hey 1 noimoed today.

our of a

doom" mo. oetn

Orou eom in thimﬂeeb

rn u‘ with M!" L-

e o f , s. T. White of ll Mindles- tor. '

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Morning Smile t MISINTERPBETED ' \ l

The electricians were making some re rs on the local school, ‘Sscllgigo Boy—-What are you doing,‘

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Electrician - Installinfan elec-i trio switch ‘

Boy-Wail, I don't care. Our fem-i lly is moving today and I won't be‘, going to this school any more. ,

RIGHT GIRL ‘l

A lovesick Scotsman, winhi$lto'

know his fate at once, tele r ed lief montage to t e lady 06.

After spendin the entire dayl hauvrlng about t e telegraph office! he was ﬁnally rewarded late in the, by receiving on ans-war in ve. -

, twice be- 1 fore a girl that kept ma‘ waiting dayfor an answer,’ said:

magnolia-tester.

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even the

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not lar. _ thrustin

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y}? :_ 2 ymirohﬂasse words deceive.‘

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