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Popular Ham. And Eggs Cooked To Perfection

Iy Ida Bailey Allen

..Ham'.nd eg s is one of the mo... popular shes. Madame. Yet 1 find unit its preparation in not always understood. The barn gometimes comes to the table dry and chippy. or insufficiently cook- ed. The eggs are often over-fried. so they are tough on the under- side. and occasional-I1 ""3 V011" have been broken."

"To make the lab perfect, chef. I agree that e cooking should be carefully no. But, first of all. the lnlffdlwu Ihwld be the best of their kind - ten- derized raw or ready-to-eat ham sni-ed thin. and fresh grade A eggs. It is iiinppointins to im- pare ham and ens from delicates- sen tboiled ham' and grade B or C eggs the yolks of which often hi-eak."

Perfect Ham at Ell.

In preparing perfect ham and eggs. both ingredients are cooked separately. The slices of ham are then arranged on a heated platter, ringed with the fried eggs and garnished with parsley or cross, n:- with French fries if the platter is large enough.

Pnnned or Fried Ham: Cut 1 lb. tenderized raw or ready-to-eat ham into slices 56" to V4" thick, then into serving portions if de- sired. Sprinkle Vs tsp. sugar on bottom of a fryln pan; melt over low heat. Add 1 tbs. butter and when melted. "pan" or slow-fry the ham on each side until fork- ti-nticr and slightly browned. and any fat is iianslucent and slightly golden.

"Paaned" sr Fried Eggs: Malt enough butter or margarine in bot- tom ofa heavy frying pan to almost cover; add 1A tbs. bot twister to prevent too rapid cook-

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Break cut into a saucer, one at a time. and slide into frying pan. Cover and slow-cook until firm throughout. Dust sparingly with salt. and generously. with pepper. while cooking.

If to be cooked on both sides. turn with a pancake turner and cook a few seconds longer.

TOMORROW! DINNER

Split Pea Soup Crackers Ham and Eggs Pickles Browned Sweet Potatoes Broccoli Cherry Crisp Coffee Tea Milk Cherry Crisp: To cont nts I (1 lb.) can unsweetened ch rrles, or 1 (10 oz.) pkg. thawed frozen cherries, add Vs c. brown sugar and V4 tap. cinnamon. Arrange in buttered shallow baking dish. or 9" pie-plate. Sprinkle with IA tbs.

lemon juice.

In small bowl, combine Vs c. uncooked rolled oats. ll! c. brown sug . Vi tsp. salt. Vi tsp. nutmeg and N c. melted butter. Spread over the cherries.

Bake 30 min. in moderate oven. 375 degrees F.. or until top is browned and crisp. Serve warm or co d.

TRICK OF THE CHEF

Garnish split pea soup with

crisp-fried onions.

ELLEN'S

"We've been having pretty good weather" Jsmas remarked st sup- per. "that is" he added "as far as the livestock are concerned.

in arrive now. and a fellow does not want it too cold for the like of that. particularly in the pig- gerles. When the weather is mild. the litters. well, one can fairly see them grow and do well" he smiled "but when it's cold. it'a Jusl against Nature" . . .

A visitor, we had then. one who had come to Alderiea walking through the bit of blustery March snowfall, so dense at the time we could scarcely make out the outline of the mill in the depths of the valley. through the falling flakes. A guest for the night and for ii longer stay. we hope this will be.

And hearing, James' words we were again reminded that the weather is always of much mo- Illfllll and interest to humans. On farms. not only when an ill wind blows some chprished plan aglsy but ever the subjac is with us. Our past is full of it. "I know PXRNLV. because that was the dry summer. do you remember. El-

iime of some happening. "The winter of the deep snow" aomes back to lips from out the young years; and to encourage the Fam- Hi In be sure to be betimes with lasl harvestings we are bound to weak of that bleak fall when 'iho freeze-up came in early Nov- ember."

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DIARY

by an Island Farmer's Wife

"it is customary at the and of ,the year for newspapers to list the biggest naws features of the past twelve months" someone writes in an editorial in a farm magazine. "but it is seldom if ever recognized that for continu- ous interest. hour by hour. day by day. and week by week. noth- ing is quite so important to so many people as is the weather. Our going out and our coming in are all the time influenced by the weather. Journeys long or short. by land or sea or air are determined by the elements. Harvests in the primary indus- tries are regulated by tempera- tures, wind, rain. snow and ice. For Church-going the weather is either too dirty or too nice. and itisiuattoobadifsun doesnot shins in the bride. From dawn till dark. and with many. all through the night, we are weath- ar conscious and after digesting the staggering naws. of the day we turn to the northeast and wonder how the weather will af- fact on plans and our fortunes."

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This morning a little wind 0' March patterned a design of rip- plaa on the mlllpond-a nice trout- lng-ripple. which told that lads like Jamie and Gage now steep- ed in affairs of hockey and the like, will before long 'be storing skates and hockey sticks and in s new month turning some at- tention to favorita fishing rods, putting them in order for the first of the angling.

We too after an absence of Springs from Aldarlaa, will steal away alone we thing. N) wet a line somewhere along the stream when April gives us a sunny wind ad warm. to dream upon.

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No dream this-but pleasant: Lunch-time for three to mark the end of our day.

Until tomorrow - - -- - Diary

L ANNE ADAMS PATTERNS

ONI-YARD WONDER!

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THE EABTIPB GREEN DREAM!

In Winter's heart he little rough green catkins.

And snowdrop balls and bright gold jasmine stars.

And yellow winter aconltas in waiting.

To march across the snow like bright lfuazars.

In Winter's baart lia little songs

of roblns.

And silken blue spools ready for

spring skies.

And pale green dreams the

brown earth to surprise. -Jean Morton.

Lovely Princess Elizabeth tulips and Grape I-lyacinths in yellow bowls were enjoyed last week when visiting at a good garden- er's home. Have you noticed that bulbs placed in suitable contain- ers are so pleasing? Many of the smaller unfamiliar bulbs are very attractive and I am enjoying some of them this ispring. The Dutch Iris is a long-lasting flower in a beautiful blue and many of the smaller type of Daffodils are frag- rant and easy to grow indoors. These bulbs are almost always very moderate in price, so many of them can be planted at "little cost.

I have been reading about a garden which has been made for the blind . . . .

A GARDEN OF FRAGRANCE FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT SEE

The City of Brighton on the south coast of England has" de- signed a garden for the special enjoyment of the blind. Led by Curtis Wilson who has been total- ly blind since World War I. many organizations and individuals have helped to make this garden of perfumes. The guide rail border- ing the paths was given by the

Soroptomist Club; teak tables and chairs by the Rotary Club. An- other organization presented the shelter. Its roof consists of tiles four hundred years old which were collected from the bombed church at Lymlnster. and was built as a labor of love by a re- tired seventy-four year old brick- layer.

At the entrance a visitor takes the handrail. which leads to the stone shelter. and on past six- teen seats. each set back from the path among the flowers.

At intervals along the rail hang tablets that give the names of the flowers in Braille and raised letters of brass. The rail-edged path. whose gravelled surface an- nounces anyone's approach. guides the stroller to a small flagged terrace. Here in the centre of a round stone table grow J geraniuma. whose leaves, when crushed. release the odors of pep- permint, lemon. orange, and cinna- mon. They are pleasant to touch and easy to reach. Between the flagatones are patches of camo- mile and thyme which give off their fragrance as they are crush- ed under foot. g

on past this table of flowers the path leads under the shelter of an old flint wall, from the top of which hang honeysuckle and roses. All in all, this fine acre-and- a-half garden has been planted with the greatest number of frag- rant flowers avar collected. This English garden for the blind caused such widespread oniment in the United States that plans were made for a similar garden in that country. The Women's A - illary of the Brooklyn Bots c Garden assumed the sponsorship of the project and accepted" the task of raising the necessary . Thousands of dollars have been received for the garden and the selection and dedication of the site took place on June the fifteenth. Twenty thousand blind people live near the site of this garden and how wonderful for them to have this scented gard-

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The bulletin from the Inter- national Geranium society . . . . C aniums around the World has been received and it is most inter- esting and helpful. I look at my collection of these flowers and wish that I knew the names of them. Happy Thought is a very old geranium and I grower from South P ” California writes in the b " ” . . .

Wall I remember the handsome plant of the old Happy Thought which graced my mother's plant stand. for avary pioneer wife put it in a place of honor and cher- ished it above all others. It was a token of good luck and was never allowed to freeze.

The ordinary geraniums and pelargoniums have been grown in California from about the time that California became a state

1850. the climate is so favor- a le that they are very easily grown.

Perhaps the first double geran- ium aa an accidental seedling appeared in the garden of Henri Lecoqinrranceandlnldsx. an Oakland nurseryman sent for a plant and soon had many varieties of single. double. ivy and scented in nine varieties. Now then are also. the Cactus and miniatures so suitable for special places. he rose garaniums are prob- ably the most important group of the scented-lea.:d class. and within this coup are many shapes and various characteristics. one of the moat interesting stories

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A COUNTRY GARDEN

concerning the rose geranium tells that it was rasponafbia for the founding of the first seed house in New York City.

Grant Thorburn. a lcotaman and wrought-nail maker. found himaalf unemployed with the ad- Lent of evzlre nails: With his wife

open a shop handling sun- dries-tape. ribbon, naadlaa. flow- ers pota, etc. Competition being keen. be painted some of his pots green and found this readily im- proved his pales. Then in April. ind. he bought a rose geranium to better display his pots. and he found that the geranium sold the pot.

In Ills, Grant Thorburn bought fifteen dollars worth of rose ger- anium sesd from another Scots- man. and this wus quite a sum in those days. This was the start of the first seed house in the United States. More seeds were imported from England and soon Tborburn issued a seed catalog of his own. In the one hundred and fifty years since then there has been steady progress in Horti- culture ln the "New World”.

Most of the rose geraniums have fine lemon or minty scents. The term "roae-scented'' " " a- rises from the commerclalluse of the plants. which are grown in large acraages wherever moder- ate temperatures prevail and a supply of cheap labor exists- Southern Europe, the Balkans, Africa, and to a lesser extent America. The high grade oils that are extracted from these plants are practically a must in the manufacture of rose and other natural flower perfumes. If the leaves are gathered just before the plants bloom, the oil will have a rose-like odor. The reward. is one pound of oil to eight hundred or a thousand pounds of foliage. or about a tablespoon from a well-grown outdoor plant.

A simple idea-a window box filled with geranium b bright- ened the lives of the people of Europe and has given cheer to many a traveler from a distant land. The old gray walls of the cities become alive and bring out the picturesque beauty of the archlteture.

The multiplied effect has given color to Europe from Stockholm to Paris. and from Amesterdam to Berne. Visitors to these coun- tries have told us of this beauty and lovely colored slides have been brought home to show us how lovely geraniums can make any city. In some cities of Switzer- land, street lamps have a con- tainer fiiled with geianiums a couple of feet below the light In some Canadian cities we have seen them and more places will be made more beautiful in this way.

The L . Ind ... .. of Berne realized the effect of the geranlums a number of years ago. They organised ontests be- tween homeowners, and between business houses. for the most beautiful displays. They felt that by increasing the beauty of their cities they would attract tourists and would help to improve the prosperity of the land. This is exactly what happened. What traveler has visited beautiful Berne and has not admired the colorful windowboxes

In the center of the city. build- ings four stories high have gar- aniums and other flowers hanging down over the walls. This is the result of a planned competitive program to beautify colorful Berne.

Along the canals of the old sec- tion of Strasbourg. the waters re- flect the color of hundreds of windo boxes filled with geran- iums and other flowers. Blended with the picturesque structures of the old houses the window boxes give a new appreciation of the architecture of mother era.

In beautiful Copenhagen, the geranium again makes its appear- ance in a planter box dividing two sidewalk cafes. u- in front of a small shop.

An English tea garden colored with potted geraniums is not an uncommon sight. in old Cam- bridge a terrace overlooking a backyard garden is lined with flowing geraniums. The predomin- ant color is red. Ask a Dutch- man why he likes this color. and he will say that it cheers him in the days when the sun is hid- den by fog or clouds.

In the commercial flower grow- ing sections of Holland. the ex- portation of geranium: has be- come an important business. Mile after mile of , eanhouass in Als- meer near Amsterdam grow ger- aniums and other flowers that are sent to the flower l markets throughout Europe. Gernniums play an important. part in the beauty of Europe and now in America. many thousands of these plants are being grown every year.

is svu' country the beautifica- tion of parks and gardens is grow- ing and in our own Province we are happy to know that a new park is in the making and com- mlmlly ' ' la ” Dro- gress in the different villages and country places. ,

"The wonders of the visible crea- tion are in the footprints of our Creator. Himself as yet we can- not see. but we are on the road that leads to vision. we admire Him in the things ifs has made." Gregory the Great.

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Winnipeg Little Theatre Awarded Besi Play Trophy

WINNIPEG, (CF)-The Winnipeg Little Theatre presentation of "I Remember Mama" was awarded the trophy for the best play in the Manitoba regional trials of the Dominion drama festival which concluded here Saturday night.

Helene Winston who played the title role in that play was chosen best actress by adjudicator Andre Van Gyseghem. "Best performer was Robert Trudel who played Sgnarelle in the presentation of Moliere's comedy. "Le Mcdicin Malgre Lui" by Le Cercle Moli- ere of St. Boniface.

IALMON PATTIES

1 medium-si. d can salmon

1 egg 4

1 large onion. chopped fine

dash of salt and pepper.

rolled oats

Blend salmon. onion. egg. salt and pepper in a bowl. Roll into balls and flatten with spatula. Press patties into rolled oats. Fry in well greased pan until brown. Serves 8.

BAKED WHITE FILLETS

Put a fillet in a greased utility or loaf pan. Top with a small onion and sliced tomato (canned tomatoes will do.) Sprinkle with pepper and salt and pour cup of milk or more around them. Sprinkle with grated” cheese and dot with mar arins. Bake in a 385 degree oven or 35 minutes. I al- ways bake potatoes for same meal or pepper squash.

Cook's Corner

DEVILLED SPARERIBS

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6 slsad , 211. pounds pork-spareribs

0 medium slsed onions

Peel potatoes and onions and place is a large master. Cover with spararibs which have been cut into servings.

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in cup ketchup

1, teaspoons salt

1 ' brown sugar

! tablespoons vinegar

I tablespoon prepared mustard

1 cup water

hllx ingredients for sauce and pour over all. Cover and bake in moderate oven at I50 degrees for 196 hours, until vegetables are fancier. Basie three or four times during baking and remove. Cover the last so minutes to allow meal to brown.

MORNING SMILE

"How did you compile the dic- tionary you've just finished?"

"Oh, it was like having a row with ibe wife. on word lad tel aaeshsa."

flannel are combined in this eye-catching two-piece dress wing sleeves, novelty tab pockets, flannel skirt with a black pleat for walking ease.-(CF Photo).

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Household Hint

Drain cleaners are usually caustic soda which are harmful to skin. Wash such cleaners down with cold water only; never add water to the can; store where children can't possibly reach it.

CHERRY VALLEY W. I.

Mrs. Ivan Docharty was hostess to members of Cherry Valley W. I.

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DEAR MARY HAWORTH: I am married 36 years to the most wonderful man in the world. We have one daughte and two grand- children whom we adore. No wife and mother has ever been the ipiant of more love and tender- ness. But my problem is, I just don't understand myself. I am extremely self-conscious; inwardly I shrink and withdraw from a glance. This is true even with my own dear family and closest friends- an awful feeling. If I don't improve I won't have any friends, for I am ill at ease everywhere, always anxious to get home, as if it were my only refuge. I think Ilve always had this tendency, but it is get- ting worse of recent years. I am in excellent health and happiest when gardening and keeping house. My social activ- ities have to do with church ser- vices and meetings, and paint- ing lessons..My husband and I never miss church services; but at times I am so anxious I can't act naturally; and if I could fol- low my impulse I would fairly dash out the door for home.

Books. Prayer Ilave Failed Iler

Some years ago I tried teach- ing a class - but "myself" gava me so much trouble that I step- ped aside. I paint with a class and enjoy it. as there I can keep my eyes on my work mostly; but when I look up I quake inside. Have you ever heard anything like this? They say nobody's prob- lem is unique, however.