Page 8 The Guardian

WOMEN

rilul-silly, Fob. 10, 1955

Prevent Home By Discarcling

By ELEANOR B055

EVERY now and then. your at- tic and cellar-if they're like most attics and cellars-need a good. thorough cleaniiig and "weeding out." Accumulated clutter is not only unsightly. but also unsafe. an accident and fire hazard.

This needn't be a formidable job if you first organize your working schedule and make sure that all necessary cleaning tools are at hand to save steps and time. Then set a day for cleaning when you are fairly certain that inf! interruptions will occur to dis- rupt your routine.

CLASSIFY TASKS

A good plan is to divide your tasks into categories. and do them i that order. rather than just ttplunging in "

You might start by going through all the articles of cloth- iml which are stored in trunks. vsardrobcs, boxes and the like. Go oier them. and see what is to he kept and what is still in xii-arable condition still. If some things have grayed. or yellowed. put them through a quick sudsing and rinsing, and let dry com- pletely before repacking. They won't need ironing.

CLEAN TRUNKS, T00

.' And there's no point in storing clean clothes in dilsty trilnks or wardrobes. Metal trunks can be easily cleaned with a sildsy cloth and rinsed with a damp sponge.

Just be sure they're dry.

Fires Junk

Leather comes clean with thick aoapsuda on a sponge or cloth and little water.

WHEN STORING CLOTHES

If clothes are being packed to ill"? IWBY. be sure they're freshly washed and ironed or given a dry-clea ' . if not washable. It's good manners on the part of the donor. and will do a lot for the morale of the recipients.

Plastic sheeting is a great asset in attic or cellar for covering furniture or miscellaneous items. Then. periodically all that's need- ed is to whisk the sheeting through soapsuds and rinses, and it will shake almost dry.

A -roar" SHAMPOO '

If some of your furniture pieces are upholstered. give them a "dry" shampoo. Accumulated soil will weaken and deteriorate the fibers. even in the case of furni- ture not in constant use.

Preserve wood I u r fa c e s by washing with a sudsy cloth. rinse and wipe dry. Finish with a light coat of wax or polish.

WALL AND FLOORS

Floor and wall areas. too, should be clean as a whistle. Use a long-handled mop or the at- tachment of your vacuum cleaner to dust the walls, then go over them again with a sponge and thick soapsuds. working from the floor up.

If walls are cement. scrub them with s siidsy brush. then rinse.

LET'S EAT

What Helped

You To Sta rt?

5! IDA BAILEY ALLEN

I takes a bit of doing to get started on a diet. particularly when there is it sizable number of pounds to be lost. When read- ing the daily mail. so often I wish the writer of some particular letter were sitting across the desk from me. When a reducer writes. "I have been reading your column for years and have finally made up my mind to take off 40 pounds." I want to know what finally prompted her to ac- tion. and why couldn't I have in- spired her sooner! I need the in- formation. not so much for my own satisfaction but to be able Io pass it along to our reducing family at large.

course. many reducers do point out what helped them get started . "Something you wrote is one column hit me right between the eyes. You said that overweight: who are always go- Iig on a diet tomorrow. or next week. or at some convenient lime. but never finding a con- venient time. will probably never reduce. Worse, on the same food habits. weight creeps up. It was as though you were writing di- rectly to me. That suddenly made me see that for years I had been Iubstitutiag good intentions for action . . . . all the while adding I few more pounds." She ex- plsined this after she has re- duced 25 excess pounds. Her only regret was that she hallnit done

it years ago. .

Another dieter. s newspaper gal. reported that it took I shock to get her into action. When she met a colleague she hadn't seen 'in years. she ventured to ask: "Do you think I've changed much?" The friend didn't pull her punches. but answered frank- ly: "You certainly have changed you must have put on 40 pounds. I-low could you let yourself get in this shape?" Our overweight confided that she knew she had gained. but had secretly thought no one noticed. That honest answer from a friend did the trick and she buckled down and took off the weight.

So the purpose of today's shar- ing session is to find out from you successful reducers what prompted you to action. The very thing that helped you get started on the road to happy normal weight may be the incentive that will start someone else.

This applies to all successf ' reducers. but is particularly to those who went along for years carrying considerable excess . . . then one day made the inner de- cision to get down to desirable weight. What helped you to finally make up your mind . . . what psychological or dietary tips helped you stick with it . . and are you happy that you did? This information will help others to

lighten the load.

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Nervously lll Due To Parents' Behavior; Asks What To Do

DEAR MARY IIAWORTH: I am a girl ill. and as far back as I can remember my mother has been ill with a nervous condi- tion. We never knew what day she would be up, or in bed.

I have always worried about her. in childhood never quite un- derstanding why she was always ill. But the one thing that wor- ried me most of all was my nagging father. who seemed to

take pleasure in finding fault with my mother and us three children.

I have religious faith and have asked the Lord's help many times -- to change my lather and teach him to do his duty as hus- band and father, and to give my mother strength to endure what she must. I have tried in every way to bring my parents closer together, but nothing avails.

I had thought of leaving home when I reached l8 - but I know it isn't a good idea for a young girl to be out in the world on her own. Also I have had mar- riage proposals. but I didn't love the boy and didn't want to leap from the frying pan into the fire.

Feels She Can't Leave Her Mother

All this was bothering me more than I realize, for two months ago I had a nervous breakdown and am still suffering the effects of it. The doctor says I am still unable to work. which I know to be true from the way I feel. If I ever get well. what should I do then?

Father seems sorry about my illness, and in his way is trying to make up for it. But it's his treatment of mother, not his treatment of me. that has wor- ried me all these years. I can't bear the thought of leaving her, after I get back on my feel- not that I am tied to her apron- strings. as many people seem to think. I simply realize how much she has done for me and I can't walk out on her now. Yet the doctor indicates that family con- dltions have brought me to this. If you have any suggestions as to how this seemingly problem can be helped. even in the slightest, they will be deeply appreciated. V. 8.

She Can't Help Neurotic Parents

DEAR V. 8: You are as much a victim of your mother's he- hevlor. as of your father's nag- ging of her. You may find it hard to believe. and so would she. no doubt a but her nervous invali- diam is her unconsciously chosen way of ”holdlng her own" against your father's chronic griping. He torments her neurotlcally, and she gets his goat in kind-tak- ing refuge in martyred injury. as if to an "Look. you are killing me."

As you've already learned at painful personal cost. you can't help your mother, in relation to your dad - for the amazing rea- son that. basically. she isn't a candidate for the good life. She is compulsively addicted to mor- bidity. rsther than disposed to be happy and healthy. She is so conditioned to the practise of negativism that she would ac- tually resist tinvoluntarily) the keenest expert attempts to give her a positive philosophy and self-help program of action - designed to revolutionize her ex- perience for the bettter. Moreover. your parents have a neurotic affinity for each other. an attachment that welds them together. despite their mutually inflicted wretchedness. Thus their nextof-kin. including you. can't really get between them. to act as buffer. or ease their strife. Emotionally they are closer to each other than to anyone else in the family; but unfortunately they've never learned to love and live constructively; hence

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MORNING SMILE

Two men were hotly discussing the merits of s book. Finally. one of them, himself an author. said to the other:

First-No. John, you can't ap- preciate it. You never wrote a book yourself.

JohnaNo. and I never laid an all. but I'm a better judge of an omelet than any hen.

Montreal's Negro Women Find U. 5. Has More To Offer

MONTREAL (CP) - Montreal's Negro women are drifting across the border for education. jobs and husbands.

Stanley Clyke. director of the Negro community centre here. said

their hapless effect on each other in intimacy.

Anxiety Complex Wears Her

Down

Only they can help themselves: and only if they choose to solve their common problem - either by cooperative effort. or separ- ately. along independcnt self-re- llant lines. So you aren't helping matters by sticking around. And it is s foolish waste of your life to wreck your health. breathing the foul atmosphere of their sick relationship. which they aren't willing to cure

Obviously you ought to move out in self-defense. as the doctor indicates. You say you aren't tied to your mother'si apron- strings, but at heart you are afraid to leave. You've been nur- tured on fear and melancholy. emanating from your mother's person; and you feel guilty, un- consciously. about her unhappi-

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ness and your failure to solve her problems; all of which add up to an anxiety omplex. that fills you with dread at every turn. Ask your doctor. or the local Family Service Agency. where to find good psychiatric help in stouily lwlganlzlng your scat- tered forces. M. H

Mary Haworth counsels tlirougli.

her column. not by mail or per- sonal interview. Wrlte to her in care of The Guardian. Charlotte- town.

Negro NOBTO men by three to one in Montreal.

"This means a girl's chances of getting married aren't particularly good. The girls are ambitious and unwilling totmarry beneath them- selves."

He said women are getting ahead of men professionally.

"Only a few years ago. it was virtually i possible for a (Negro) girl to h ome a nurse. Now they are welcomed into hospital train- ing schools.

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profession. at a lower level. is still a firmly-closed door. but this is not applicable at the university level. where colored people of both sexes are accepted as faculty members.”

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ELLEN'S

by an Island Farmer-'s Wilt

Moonlight floods the niglit-ileum

eLiVIl'. lor sdueo .. i insinua- .lig cool sliauows by me ever- .leens lino in use yarns inaluug lace neyuuc ule olrclies anu la use yards making lace beyond liie anu -maples. Woere lne ligni touches the iroat-crys- I-Ill, there the snow is richly Jew- elied. on Jun such a nisni as this in me long ago. me youngsters would be gauleieo to the mul- ponu to allelic ilnu gainer lovely. lssllng memories at me winter. memories to treasure, like lnose still kept by an lslonll gnu of once who recently cciellrsleu lier nine- lieu: oirtnuuy. one was one who

preliy iarni oy ms bi.l'Blli tater becoming ll lai-nlwue on one at some ulstance llum were and ing in Alberta. lameu lor the "muck gold of its on.

rnls iauy knew me oareness anil lliscoililolu oi attending I pioneer islano school, ruled over oy stern masters of old. Utten nalll lasaniaslels inese were. ex-

sirlci oeyonu any notion oi mod- ern disciplining and llightening when metlng out punishment. lei we have otien heard their scho- lars look back to bless their memories; to say "How well he instructed us in history and gram- mar! What a mathematician he was and in latin. he had few equals!" lzlencnes of seats were along the walls in that school she attenlled-pupils facing in to study and work, turning out to recite.

So this woman learned her les- sons from these men and, we suppose, passed along their classes without so much as a reprimand. llater she herself join- ed the protession to teach in im- proving Island schools. And if 1 she too in her turn must exact' from her pupils obedience and respect, it would be gained we are sure. in more kindly ways.

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How extremely interesting her life-story would be! What marvel- our changes in every direction of living she has witnessed! From the little farm-girl of once. through her schooldays and " ge to the .eaching-years. Leaving those then when Romance came to anchor; her by love's chains to a farm.'

Then came the children-daugh-l ters and sons to bless the home.: to some of whom she was not only mother but teacher. Smalll wonder. it comes to mind. that: with such excellent tuition theyi went on to win signal honors in: the field of education. to do welll in their chosen walks and cal-1 ings.

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There are many instances of the great courage and will and uve of those women of her day. .low unselfishly they worked . ..

CHERRY AND NUT QOOICIES

Va cup shortening

Vi cup white sugar

I tbs. water.

is tsp. sods

V: cup brown sugar. .

1 egg.

2 cups flour

V: tsp. salt.

Sift. flour. soda and salt togeth- er. Mix ingredients well and add small bottle of drained and cut up marachino cherries. Add Va cup chopped walnuts. Put in re- frigerator for I hour. Spread 2 tsps. on cookie sheet and press

-----Good-iiight.....

DIARY H -

the mothers. the pirenie of oldl; l-low they shaped wen the ties- tinies o! tlielr children. giving them often 'at the price of mucu sacrifice the advantage of an education more difficult then to

obtain; building better than they IO! course not. Yet many home;

knew. often better than their food- eat hopes, while bearing to the very limit of human strength and endurance, the trying rounds. the wearing burdens of those earlier days. 0 U 0 .

"Could I ever forget "she wrote to us today in a clear firm hand. and with concise wording "the sparkle of the Strait of North- umberland and all the associations connected with it! The walks along the shore to The Rocks. the bath- ing snd boating in its waters and other joyous times that we know. The layout of the old farms in that district that was Home. are as clear in my mind as it was in the days of my girlhood. There have been many changes in the ownership of the farms since; I believe there are few. if any of my generation left."

New generations of south shore farm-girls to those of her and our own. gather now their beloved young memories to treasure and forever keep.

Until tomorrow - - - - Diary

HOUSEHOLD HINT

Books should be kept well dusted. which may mean atten- tion every few months. The soft

rmilk solids. 1 c. enriched flour

Would you like to spend eight- on hours stirring up white sauce?

makers do that very thing. ,

l.At's figure it outt. White sauce is used in some form in the aver- age home about once a day. It takes at least 8 minutes each time in set out the ingredients. meas- ure them. melt the fat. and blend in the flour.. (Stop here and count 8 minutes x 385 days a year-1095 minutes or 18V; hours.)

But if you could avoid constant- ly repeating that preumlilary white sauce mixing time you'd save many hours. You can do Just that. and have a quick and easy sauce that's smooth and without lumps. simply by mailing up the basic mix for white sauce In quantity. with a blend of enriched margarine. enriched flour. and the new instant non-fat dry milk solids. Hares how to prepare enough mix to make I cups of medium white sauce.

White sauce Mix: Blend to- gether 2 c. non-fat instant

and 1 c. enriched margarine with a fork or pastry blender. until like fine crumbs. Store in a covered container in the refrigerator,

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amount of mm Into a sau then stir in required miifiliimii cool (not MC) water. Cook hilt stir over low heat until thickened smooth and boiling. n ,5 do WW WW1 II": POPDGP. herbs oif spices. . Use enouah, mix to make . sauce of the correct tlilcki-less rm creamlng vegetables. meat, fish 0! 9355; in prapwmg 30'-'P. escsllups or a la kings; I sauces. and a. rblnder for on such as rm quettes. meat or mil leaves; 0.. In other words, in preparing I," hundreds of savory dishes call”, for white sauce listed in any stand? ard cook book and cuini. .. served on almost all home tables

SUNDAY DINNER

Fresh Fruit Cocktail

Baked Smoked Ham

Mustard-Chill Sauce

Escalloped ' Potatoes Green Beans

Tossed Lettuce Bowl oda Pie

Coffee. Tea .lilk

Nesselrode Riel Bake s 9 iii. pie shell of American ple pllalil. then make the filling and finish as follows:

Nesselrode Filling: To 1'. i- mm water add 1 envelope iiiitlai-or.-it gelatin. Let stand I lnlii. Meantime. scald 192 c. milk, Beat 3 egg yolks light and stir in V: c. sugar. Stir into scaldcd niilk Cook and stir over boiling slim until mixture coats the spoon, Add gelatin. When dissolim,

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