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TAKE-HOME PAY

‘It was counted out in dollars and they call it take-home psy." Bald a workman, "but we count it in a very different way. When I hand it to the missus this is how she runs it through: Here's the dress for little Mary and a pair of shoes for you.

"Here's the picture show on Pri- day and the food we're going to eat.

Iere's the home that we are buying with the payments we must meet.

Iere’: that visit from the doctor. and I wonder can there be This week that pretty bonnet I've

had set aside for me?”

‘The master of the payroll every dollar has to count.

it's his duty to make certain he gives the right amount.

It. is money that he handles, but my take-home pay we read

In shocs and frocks and bonnets and the various thing; we need."

—Edgar A. Guest MODERN MANNERS

A \voman wears a hat and gloves when she goes shopping or calling.

FUR DECKS OUT EVEN UMBRELLA

Fur spreads its charms'this win- ter from hats to apats.

Fur trimmings are being used in novel ways to enhance the lux- ury look of various accessories any one of which may be ivorn to add splash and dash to a costume.

A single fur flower nestling in the. black velvet; folds of a hat will accomplish that aim, says one designer. With that decorative idea Ln view, this designer makes lilies of mink, lotus blossoms of seal. roses oi black Persian lamb and orchids oi’ ermine. One orchid of ermine, which duplicates the spec- Lacular loveliness of the exotic jungle flower. adds new interest to a black velvet crush-type beret.

Her tricks with fur don't stop with hats. she makes "Jewelry" of fur. A twisted band of ermine and

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s string of pearls, for example, make an ingenious “bracelet.” 8o that umbrellas can also serve as ‘ladies’ canes." their handles are cased in fur. Sheatha for handles made of Persian lamb are popular. And. oh yes. there are gloves of Persian lamb to match.

Woodchucks and groundhogs are the same animal. They live in bur- rows which they dig themselves and belong to the squirrel family.

Miniature; (finely worked por- traits on ivory or metal) took their names originally from the fact they were painted with min- ium (native cinnabar or lead).

Dry And Straight

The lucky woman who has na- turally curly hair must not forget her I00 strokes with the brush each night to keep those locks wavy and glistening. Inattention is apt to straighten the hair a bit and it certainly does not improve its quality.

Sometimes in city houses, due to poor exposure. the breakfast nook is not as cherry as you would desire. Bright curtains, such as yellow glazed chlntz, or gay cretonnes, will do a great deal to- wards brightening up this nook

PERFUMED SPRAY SCENTS CLOSETS

Does a tell-talc odor of moth balls linger over clothes back from a summer spent in storage? If so. you can cancel wilt the unpleasant scent with a pleasant one released from a perfume squirt gun.

Timed for just such a need is the debut of a special kind of perfumed air mist. This is packaged for per- fect teamwork with a glamorized candy-pink spray gun which ex- plodes a. cloud of scented mist.

There is a. choice of four fra- grances which may be sprayed into a clothes closet or be used in a similar manner to perfume the contents of bureau drawers, indi- vidual garments or even a room which needs to be rid of unpleasant cooking odors.

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P. E. Island

MADAM BWITHEB!

By Uncle Joe

Once upon s time a subtle and evil old witch lived in the heart of the Iona forest. The early set- tlers of the district always referred to her as Madam Swithers, but no- body seemed to know how she came by the odd name or where she originally hailed from.

For a long time she worked her black magic wholly unknown to the seltlersf then one day a party of hunters came upon her tiny log cubln deep in the wood. They started to make an investigation, but were driven off by the old hag with such dire threats that never again could one of them be per- suaded to enter that part of the forest that completely isolated her little dwelling from the rest of the settlers.

When the hunters returned to their homes and told their strange story the entire settlement was ngog with excitement. The super- stitious people now knew why a plague of mice had devoured all their crops that year. Even some of their best springs had suddenly ceased to give forth their yield of crystal waters. Live stock died in the fields, people were stricken with divers ills. Children. too, be- came bad-mannered and hard to discipline. Tribulation followed tri- bulation until the settlers were at their wit's end to know how to remedy the awful curse which, they felt sure, was being visited upon them by Madam Swltltcrs.

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The good folk had plenty of ideas. but no one would volunteer to carry them out. Every man. woman and child among them stood in great fear of this horrible creature. They kncw that all witches possessed great power. This knowledge had been handed down to them by their forefathers, some of whose children had been carried away and changed into beasts of the forest.

To take up arms against Madam Sivithers would, they felt, bring on more serious trouble. perhaps the loss of those they held dear to their hearts.

Days passed into weeks, and weeks into months: and the curse of Madam Swlthers still lay heavy upon the thinly populated land.

Then came the crisis. A beauti- ful child of the settlement disap- peared. The parents were frantic with grief and pleaded with their neighbors to form a posse and try to rescue their little one from the hands of the subtle old witch. Foil- ing in her plea to arouse the set- tlers to act, the mother set out all by herself to find the child.

Day after (lay. shc- wandered about the place. brooding and go- ing ivithout food until she lost her reason and had to be confined to her home for safe-keeping.

Then her husband took up the search. Finally he came upon his daughter. who was gathering moss a short distance from the witch's

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MORE MENTAL PATIENTS DIS- CHARGED FROM HOSPITAL THAN ADMITTED

Just a few years ago it was esti- mated that within 50 years. one- half of the world's inhabitants would be needed to look after the other half. as this other half would require marital care. 'Ilhis was a most discouraging outlook.

Since the above prophecy was made, World War II has come and gone; and large numbers oi veter- ans now require menta/l help. 0n the other hand, since that dire pro- phecy was made has come the great forward step of the treatment of mental patients by the shock method—insulin, metrazol and elec- trio.

What are the facts and figures insofar as our veterans are con- cerned-men who were naturally nervous and emotional and men who were apparently cool and non- emotlonal before entering the ser- vices?

In the Veterans Administration department in the "Journal of the American Medical Association," we learn that‘ more neuropathic (mental) Wlttients now are dis- charged irom the hospital than are admitted. This, we learn, is due to improved techniques in the care of the mentally ill. From July, 1947. to April, 1948, 1.060 more mental pat- ients were discharged from the hospital than were admitted.

One of the great helps in pre- venting overcrowding ot mental hospitals is the establishment of out-patients‘ clinics, where early mental cases can report for treat- ment just as they report for treat- ment. for rheumatism or any other ailment. Thus patients. whose men- tal symptoms though mild are quite active and are pointing to- ward the need of care in a mental hospital, receive the treatment that enables them to live at home untl‘. they have improved mentally to the

point where they can resume their previous employment. Where men- tal hospital treatment is necessary to rehabilitate these veterans. the use of insulin and electric shock treatments. together with the usual methods. now bring brilliant and permanent result}

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Bought Love

Giving Presents To Glrl Friend No Proof Of Love

DEAR MISS DIX: I am a girl of 17. very much in love with a boy of 18. Everything is just fine, but my problem is this: My 111013191‘ “Y! "Vi! when she was a girl of 17 andewas keeping steady company with my Dad. he brought her gifts almost every time he came to see her. He wasn t in a position to do so and had to borrow the money to pay for them. but just so he brought a gift to her Mom felt sure of his love.

My mother thinks my boy friend should do the same thing. She

says that a boy

shows his love for a girl by the presents he give: her. Do you think it necessary for him to bring me a box of

candy, or perfume, or some gift every time he comes to see me in order to prove his affection for me?

ANSWER:

B.A.

Evidently your mother is one of the

gimme sisters who put a price tag on romance and judge a man's love for a girl by how much money he

is willing to spend on her.

This may be good business,

but it sort of takes the halo off of love's young dream if, when Arabella rushes into the boy friend's arms, shc doesn't say “Darling, do you adore me?" but “Sweetheart, what did you bring me?"

I admit to being a sentimental old woman, but it does seem to me that the love affair that is based on the profit motive has a mighty weak foundation on which to stand, and that if I were a man who had to woo n girl with presents, I wouldn't fool myself into thinking that

I was loved for myself alone.

not be the sort that is bought over the counter .

The kind of love that I would crave would

It would be the kind

that gives itself without thought of reward. . N0 SANTA CLAUS

Of course. when a man is in love with a girl, he likes to give her presents because it pleases her and gives him a chance to pose as a big. strong benefactor who always will be showering gifts upon her and who will make her life gay and easy. But the gift-giving suitor is not al-

ways Santa Claus.

Just as often he is a phony who goes in debt for

the presents he has lavished on his sweetie. and many and many a wife has to scrimp and save to pay for the gifts with which her husband

courted her.

So. dearle, don't put too much faith in Mother's theory that presents

are a proof of love.

DEAR MISS DIX:

Sometimes they are, and sometimes they "ain't."

1 was much interested in the letter you pub-

Iished recently from the grandparents who were so discouraged because their grandchildren descended on them, like the wolf on the fold, and

proceeded to practically wreck their home. with grandchildren who like to visit Grandma.

1 also am a grandmother But my walls still have

the paper on them and my furniture is intact, and I attribute this unusual state of affairs to the fact that from their infancy I taught my children and their children self-respect and to respect other people and

their property.

I learned early that there is no sense in letting children be vandals. It is just as easy to make them ladies and gentlemen. and they are so

much happier.

in our old age we are not building walls about us, but

bridges of friendship, of tolerance and understanding; and we all walk happily over them. Children are what you bring them up to be. That is an awful thought for parents, but it is a necessary one.

ANSWER:

ANOTHER GRANDPARENT.

I wish that every father and mother who has young children would take the wise counsel that this grandmother offers. would settle the juvenile delinquency problem.

It it would bring peace

and happiness practically to the world. for there is hardly a hoodlum, or a thief. or a murderer whose crime does not trace buck to parents who were too selfish or too weak to teach children self-control.

DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Christmas is nearly here and I don't know

what to give my boy friend for a Christmas gift.

I need your help. I

already have given him a fountain pen and pencil set, cigarette lighter.

shirts. sweaters, billfolds, neckties, scarves, shaving set and gloves. What would be a proper gift’!

are not sweethearts, Just friends.

We MARIE

ANSWER! Well. 8S you seem to have exhausted the list of strictly masculine needs. why don't you send your boy friend a subscription to

some magazine?

That covers every contingency because a magazine deals with so many different subjects that it is bound to hit

the

reader somewhere. and also it brings to the recipient 12 reminders 01"

your thoughtfulness instead of onc.

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Floor Wax

A good floor wax can be made by melting 1-3 cup of beeswax and 2-3 cup of paraffin wax; to this add two cups of kerosene, Apply with B, cloth. Be very careful when the kerosene is added to the warm wax. It is better to take outside or allow the wax to cool.

Paint Brush

It doesn't matter how hard the paint brush may have become. it can be cleaned and softened by soaking it in a bucket of water to which s little lye has been added.

Plant. Tonic

Save all the egg shells, put. them in a large bottle, fill the bottle with water. and use this water on the plants.

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1 young goose

lit and pepper

2 cups soft bread crumbs

2 cups chopped celery

1 teaspoon salt

l4 teaspoon pepper

‘A teaspoon mules-am

1 medium-sized onion

2-3 cup melted butter

Select a young goose about ten potindr in weight. Binge. clean, and trim off the neck. Wash and dry. Rub ealt on inside and dust. outside with salt and pepper. Pne- psre a stuffing of the remaining ingredients and fill and cavity, al- lowing room for the stuffing to ex- pand. Fold skin over neck and skewer. Sew cut surfaces. Truss and place on rack in routing pan. Prick skin to allow the fat to drain. Roast at 325 to 350 deg. lli. 25 to 25 minutes to the pound. basting at intervals. Add one-half a cup of water after first half-hour of roasting. Serve on hot platter and accompany with giblet gravy.

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lcarolly had this new work dawned before it presented a stiff and exciting challenge to tho brain and brawn of some of the folks at Alder-lea. only recently 11'0"! ‘he!’ bed. Though now I remember. it was not actual strength that was required so much as an agility 0f body and a quickness of mind. We had only commenced the endeavor. I recall now with amusement. when James stopped 1011B Bnllutlh to say with resignation: "It's really no wonder. Euell- "l!!! my hair 15 gray-having had to de- pend on such puny help for so much of my life!" then he lavished and added, “‘pon my Word. E319". ‘that woman we “were reading about in the paper, smart at a hundred and two years would be more nim- ble on her feet than you!" With- out benefit of breakfast. how could one even reply? Our interests at the time were centred on captur- ing a. black hen, the only living creature except ourselves and the two dogs, about the yard, Day- light had lately arrived. in bright glints of promise. set above a hill. The air was crisp and lnvigoratlm! but due to the recent snowfall and resultant dampness the barnyard was muddy and slippery. Ordin- arily James would have been most sollcltoua with: "Now watch your steps, Ellen-you know at your age, bones are fairly brittle!" But not this morning. O O

We must catch this blrd—a chic lady, alert and attractive, gowned in black moire with a contrasting bright red hat set squarely on her head. All the rest oi the fowls were confined in their new quart- ers. had been carried there with loud squawking one night, when l, hearing the noise from indoors. said to myself: "Why, the wild geese must be flying!" until I remember- ed. Evidently this was one that having stolen a. nest out about the buildings, had left It now to search for a meal. James opened several inviting doors and explain- ed the strategy of his plans. "She'll go in one of those-or we'll drive her in, Ellen. and catch llElfi-Bhd put her in with the others. It would be nonsense to allow her to hatch now." This then was our objective-to catch her. "Now" James cautioned as we closed in to her “both together!" But there was a derfslve flapping of wings and a wall-timed escape. "Oh-h-h. Ellen, why didn't you grab her? She was right beside you there— almost flew into your arms and you missed her!‘ Well. this is a lovely situation now isn't it? Here we are. plowing and a hundred things waiting to be done, and we wasting our time here trying to catch a confounded black hen-and I never yet saw a hen that was worth her feed!" However a studied move, a quick turn and he was thrusting her into my outstretched arms to be taken to join her sisters-under- the-skin in the poultry house. and he off then to the feeding at the barns.

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There was a chase too at Rob's this morning when Jamie's parent ducks, that had frlttered the Sum- mer enviably and tionchalantly away along and in the mill-stream according to fancy. were driven from the water with considerable persuasion and fetched to the shel- ter of Winter quarters. What a dny it has been full of suchiike preparations! One saw farmers gathering their young cattle from snowy-edged pastures. leavlnl those deserted and drab. Not long ago. they were luscious, clover-sprinkled places. where happy breezes sport- ed while the cattle grazed at will or were contented to lie chewing cuds on sunny hillsides. At Alder. l“ l-Odly there was the added work of feeding and caring for ours. all so recently stabled. Mr. D. related at supper, laughing about it that he "never before saw a m!" 68")’ lo huge an armful of straw" as that which James had carried between barn and stable for bedding this evening. With the insertion of new windows in here. tofore dim sties in the plggerles, Mr. D. brought the repairing to a conchisl and goes now to some other farm, there to help makg other pet wishes come true. The field work now the continued favor of season and weather took ours and Rob's teams to the other farm to the plowing in a field beyond the "ilk. and among the more distant ones thsra—a quiet peaceful spot, where one might easily forget the Wlffllll. the strikes and general unrest in the world and indeed loss every we in vlowlnr a straight furrow there.