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----_ i --" Table Talks Easy - On - Sugar Dessert Recipes Today the Consumer Section, Dominion. Department of Agricul ture, offers some practical recipes which are easy on sugar, and a timely pamphlet, "Wartime Sugar Savers." This publication has re- cently been «revised and enlarged. It is free- for the asking and can be secured from -the Publicity and Extension Division, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Chocolate Crumb Pudding 334 cups milk 2 cups soft bread crumbs 1/3 cup cocoa 1/3 cup sugar Viteaspoon salt 2 egKs 1 teaspoon vanilla OR 4 teaspoon cinnamon Heat milk to scalding point. Add bread crumbs and let stand until soft. Combine cocoa, sugar anj salt, add to beaten eggs. Add this to milk and crumb mixture, stir- ring well. Add flavouring. Turn into a greased pudding dish, set in a pan of hot water, and oven poach in a moderate oven, 350 F or steam about 1 hour, Six sery- ings. Spiced Coffee Cakes 14 cup sugar 1V%2 cups pastry cups less 3 purpose flour 14 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking powedr 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 egg V4 cup nilk v4 cup muld=flavoured drippings Mix and sift dry ingredients, Combine beaten egg, milk and melted fat and add all at once to dry ingredients. Stir vigorously just long enough to mix. Half-fill greased muffin tins and sprinkle with topping (sce below). Bake in a moderately hot oven, 375 FF, for 20 to 25 nmunutes, Makes 12 medi iim cakes, ' flor OR 134 tablespoons all- \ Topping qi, thfespoon sugar Vi cup tlour 4 teaspoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon drippings } Miy dry ingredients, Cut in fat until mixture resembles fine bread crumbs, Use as directed above, Fruit Crumble 4 cups cut rhubarb or other frit 2 to 3 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons mild: flavoured fat V4 cup brown sugar V4 cup sifted all-purpose flour 34 cup quick cooking rolled oats Arrange fruit in greased baking dish and sprinkle with sugar. Cream fat, add brown sugar and cream well together. Blend in flour and rolled oats and sptinkle mixture on top of fruit. Bake in moderately hot oven, 375 F, until fruit is tender and top is golden brown, about 40 minutes. Six serv- ings. : How Can I? By Anne Ashley Q. How can I mend a coat lining that is worn at-the cuffs? A. Buy. ribbon in the same colour or in a contrasting shade, and stitch over the worn part. The cost and labour will be small, Q. How can I avoid confusing window screens? . A. Before packing the screens away, paste a label on each one, on which it belongs. The labels can be removed easily when cleaning the screens and much effort in fit- ting can be avoided. "Q. How can I remove the lime that -accumulates on the inside of a teakettle? "ATTo remove it, boil a strong solution of vinegar in the kettle, Rinse thoroughly before refilling with water. Q. How can I clean hair brushes and combs? v A. By washing them in water, to which a small quantity of ammonia has been added. Q. How can I easily mend torn curtains? A. Torn curtains can be darned by laying a newspaper under the holes and stitching back and forth- on the sewing machine until the hole is covered. Then the paper can be torn off. Q. How can 1 make a salad? A. Stuffed prunes make a delici ous salad when stewed, then chilled and sceded, Stuff with cream cheese and nuts, prune Tails and 'Bosoms' Of Old Shirts Useful Spars x The versatility of the repul ki Mend" campaigii 'in the United - ingdom Is highlighted by the: omen's Voluntary orvices' S05 to all owners of old dress shirts, They have a variety of uses. The otiff fronts are used to nd books that have become so recions through blitz and the - er shortage, The tails dare used maldng children's blouses. VOTE 4s you tke... --wr VOTE! SAL JA TE A CHRONICLES of GINGER FARM ~~ By Gwendoline P. Clarke After several days of fine weath- er, complete with warm, drying winds, our thoughts were hopeful- ly turning once again to spring seeding--only it 'would seem more like summer seeding at this lawe date. However call it spring or summer--it doesn't make any dif--- y ference--for it is raining again, just another good old soaker. So that's that. Yesterday we had a bows cful of family week-enders and we all went for a drive. It is said that misery likes company but 1 can assure you it didn't make Partner or I feel the least bit better to pass farm after farm in no better condi: tion as to field crops than our own. Some of the wheat wasn't too ball but we didn't see one field of spring grain that showed any promise at -all. + x » Our drive took us to Malton air- port--a place tht we like to visit about once a year anyway. We re: member it from the time when construction work was first started --when there was nothing there at all other than a corner store, a few farm houses, and construc- tion gangs and machinery at work. Now the runways, the various acroplane plants, Trans-Canada sheds. and dwelling houses cover acres and acres of land. Any time we went there during the last few years we always found the place secthing with activity, planes of évery description coming and go ing all the time. Yesterday it was very different--in fact the seemed dead. It certainly looked as if the .avar was over, Trainer planes were conspicuous only by their absence. A lone Lancaster took off, circled around a few times and then landcd again. One Trans- Canada Airliner was pushed out of its shed, given a warming-up and then left alone. Around five o'clock a plane came in from Chicago. Ten passengers alighted--as non- chalantly as if they were stepping off a street-car. The plane was re- fuelled, mail and baggage put aboard and in about twenty min- utes she took off again, this time for Ottawa and Montreal and with only. six passengers, And how I wish 1 had been one of them. 1 hope it may yet be my good for- tune to go up in the air at least once before 1 go underground. 0% To review events further back in the week: We had a letter from son Bob, at present stationed in HARNESS & COLLARS Farmers Attention -- Consult your nearest Harness Shop about Staco Harness Supplies. We sell our goods only through your local. Staco Leather Goods dealer. The goods are right, and so are our prices. e manufacture in our fac: tories -- Harness, Horse Col- lars, Sweat Pads, Horse Blan. kets, and Leather Travellin Goods. Insist on Staco Bran Trade Marked Goods, and get satisfaction. Made only SAMUEL TREES CO., LTD. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE 42 Wellington St. E,, Toronto RHEUMATIC PAINS? = | ALLENR with Lemon Juice Men and women who sufler nagging aches and pains caused by Rheumatism, Neuritis, 61 Lumbago wam to relieve such symptoms. promptly. To ger such relief . . . iry ALLENRU! Mix 2 table. spooris of thiy fine medicine with: one: = tablespoon ol Jemon juice inh a glass of 'water; Umrold thousatids of folks we! ALLENRU..Gé ALLENRU dag , 75 8% a1 any drug store. ¢ Write for Informative booklet - "Here's Good Health You Rafford-Milien (of Canad "10d t. 5 172 John BL, ISSUE 291048 place "they got the guy or not, Germany--and if you think the Nazis are completely subdued take note of this--and remember it was written 8 days after peace was de- clared. I quote from the letter, "So far 1 carry on, dodging mines as usual--and bullets too. A Jerry sniper put a bullet into my instru ment panel yesterday, I got away pretty quick I can tell you and told the M.P.'s. I don't know whether 1 sure hope so as he had shot four of our guys that day already. It happened as 1 was driving through a Ger- man town. The bullet through the back of the cab--and I'll swear it made a detour around my head before it smashed into the instrument panel. Now I have another hole for fresh air anyway. Half an hour later I nearly piled my truck up because I had to take to the ditch to avoid hitting a Jerry civilian. Today a Jerry asked me for a cigarette. I opened my case, took out a smoke, lit it myself and just looked "at him. I never said a word but he caught on pretty darn quick." When one gets a letter like that and realises that our boys are still at the mercy of death-dealing snip- ers onc gets rather disgusted at the verbal sniping that is going on in our own country, particularly in political circles. Inner Meaning re A Toronto Collegiate classroom (about 16-year-olds) was this week diverted when a student went to the blackboard, wrote: CCF -- Carefully Fascism, Concealed --Financial Post. Dainty floral embroidery makes a simple little frock a "best bib ana tucker." Big sister and little sister will be equally proud of it. Pretty as a picture! Pattern 621 has transfer of embroidery and com- plete pattern for dress; sizes 1, 2, 4, or 6. State size desired. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps cannot: be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept, Room: 421, 78 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly pat- tern number, your name and ad- dress. ELECTRIC WATER HEATERS! improvement In Compact, copper Wonderfal new water heaters! construction, immersion type, sturdy and durable. Will work on any kind of eurrent hod ple volts, 26 or 60 oyele AC. D.C, 660-watts, Measn- ures FRAP seven preHey long by am, abd h aa bsfoot ot Tuber Bp ¥.) cord an ih ns plug. Will boll han of water In ew minutes; host of uses in the kitchen, bathroom ie. Just the thing Wy IAvIng in hot weather, save AT RAR RAE came - . lovely, so serene. LOUIS ARTHUR CUNNINGHAM CHAPTER 1V "We had to run--run quickly-- more planes were coming over this time, a bomb set fire to the cottage and men were parachuting down. All that night we ran when it was safe to do so. Then we met an old peasant with his cart and he start- ed us on the road to Paris and there Meridel found us.:It- was God who helped her to find wus aml bring us here," "Yes," said Roger softly and his eyes were steady on Rudolph's, "It was indeed God who helped." "And He will take care of Bon- homme Fricot up in heaven," said Rosine. "And punish the one who killed him, Bonhomme Fricot was bent and his beard was long. He would harm no one." "It is murder to kill. like that," said Pol Martin. "Then to laugh, to smile as this one did after--" "It is done with now. Finished, eh, Rudolph?" said Roger. * * * 4 "Madame requests that you be' ready within the hour--you, too, M. Roger--you are all going to Montreal." "The princess, up eagerly. But madame, during the pleasant ride to the city, made Roger sit up front with the chaffeur of the an- cient ar. Her bright black eyes glittered impishly, "Later the prin- cess may wish to ride up the Mount in a barouche and perhaps you'd like to go with her." "Would you like that, Roger asked. "It is beautiful." "But yes. 'I should love that, monsicur, I have not been on a real mountain since I left Gratzen. I shall look forward to it." And so, in the warm, languorous evening they drove up the moun- tain and Roger told her of Maison- neuve, of the golden history of the great city whose countless - lights glittered in the dusk. "You will be happy, Meridel--here among us. It is a friendly land, a friendly peo- ple. too?" Roger sat Meridel?" » * * But they were at the top of the Mount now and the barouche hal stopped and the obsequious coach- man was 'waiting to help made- moisclle alight. For a long while they stood looking down in silence at the city, at the blue distance, the star-spangled sky over the Adirondacks. she said, "so Nothing. will ever come to shatter the peace of "It is so lovely," ~ those skies?" "Not in our time, my dear. None of us have yet learned to' thank God sufficiently for that; I am so 'glad -- so glad you are here, Meri- del, safe and cared for and happy. You are happy now, aren't you?" + "Happier than I ever dared hope in those days--" "I -- I should like to make you happier still. If I may hope-- « 2% She smiled at him, looked up at the broad shoulders that bulked above her, at his face, dark and really very lean-jawed and so wise for one so young. Strange, swift world. They hai met only last night and now he spoke to her of love. She could see it in his earnest eyes, read it in the rough tones of his voice. But her heart was not yet receptive to love and she wondered if it would ever be again--and then she thought of the night in Gratzen so much like this, when she anf that other youth, so young and gay and glad of heart had cimbed the mountain road to the castle. "You make my heart glad, Rog- er. But you lo! What you would say is always sweet to hear, but | --it is too soon for me. It seems of small importance--our own loves and hates, when hatred has become a tide of the sea and love a van- ished army." "It is one of the things" we can cling to--so it seems to me. Cling to hungrily, But it is perhaps too soon, Meridel. After a little while perhaps--" "No. 1 have never before met anyone like you, any girl who made me feel as you have rlone. And -the princess part has little to do with it." -"I am glad of that. You would have found me the same if I'd been a scullery maid?" "Yes, the same." « © She thought of Michel, who had been sal because she had changed from a peasant girl to a princess. As if it mattered, as if that should discourage him and drive him away on his lonely road! But it had been different then, even though the old castle was already tottering on its rocky buttresses and the winds of change were rustling around its keep. They drove down the mountain and somehow he was not unhappy, though he had been unable to say the things that were clamouring to be uttered. They wandered about the city, into paces where Roger had never been before. Doors and windows were open; the night was sultry the air charged with the threat of thunler. From a little basement restaurant the music of a violin and a piano came liltingly up to them and Meridel's fingers closed hard on his wrist as she stopped, chin lifted, eyes bright, like one lost in a dark wood who hears the winding of a golden horn, "It is a song of Gratzen!" she said. "It is a song of my people! Come--come quickly, please!" « * 0% Roger sharing her eagerness, fol- fowed her down the steps into the little taproom. It seemed to be three-quarters filled by the huge man in a white apron who came forward to meet them, a wide smile on his ruddy face. He stopped suddenly and his little shoe-button eyes all but popped from their cushions of fat. "Gracious lady! Highness! Tt is you I see here-- here!" And, by some miracle, he bowed low until they saw only the shiny bald pate fringed by long white locks. The boy and girl left piano and "It does taste good in a pipe" fiddle and came to stand behind him and bend 16w in an' Old-World curtesy. "My friends!" Meridel's voice was gentle, her eyes shone. She stretched out her hands to them and they kissed the white fingers reverently, "Jules Goujon--Jules of the Coq +or, and little Emil and little Magda," She looked fondly . on the old man and his grandchil- dren. Their mother was dead their father would be fighting if life was in him yet. "It is so good--so good to find you here, my friends, my own people." * & & "It is like seeing heaven, High- ness. You will sit, yes, please, and this gallant airman--here in my inn." p "Gool--it is good, this.Canada," he said. "Here we can hope to build our happiness once again. You, Princess, are well here?" "Well, indeed, Jules--and Pol Martin and little Rosine. We live at a grand chateau. Philibert which belongs to Uncle Ruwli, who is a very great man here and very rich, You will remember the Baron Rudi, my friend?" "Well I remember him, High- " ness," said Jules thinking ony brief- ly of the long, unsettled score chalked behind the bar of his inn in that far-off land. "He was a gay young man, the baron. I am happy that the world has used him well. Tell him he is always welcome at my inn, which I call to' the Coq- d'or in memory of old times." "Old times--do you recall, my good frien, the time I came to your tavern--on fair day--with the tall, red-headed one, and we had linner together--roast goose it was--" EE Lo (To Be Continued) - normal again, says the the: per C.N.R, STATION ~~ = World Sugar Stock Lowest In Years Canada's Sugar Ration cut a fur- ther five pounds. for the remainder of 1945 is a reminder of the vast adjustments that have to bé made before world economy becomes Ottawa Citizen: "The lower ration will bring capita consumption of Britain, the United States and Canada. to an annual rate - of 70.8 pounds. The 1944 averages were: U. S,, 89; Great Britain, 71.5; and Canada, 85.5 pounds per per- son per year. World sugar stocks at the beginning of 1945 were 4.1 million tons, lowest in many years. Last year the carry-over was 5.5 million tons, and in 1943 it was 6.5 million tons. Last year, according to the St- Catharines Standard, Southwestern Ontario alone produced 40,000,000 pounds of Leet sugar, and one au- thority states that the amount could be doubled this year, if the growers had priority. on farm help, = The third largest refinery in the world, at Chatham, was idle last year. It is an important subject, in view of the recent reduction in the sugar ration. And sugar will be short un- til Europe gets back to beet pro- duction. eg HOTEL METROPOLE All Beautifully Furnished With Running Water. Rates: SLo0 up NIAGARA FALLS OPPOSITE Smart Girls always carry PARADOL URLS RUR HT RTE [0]: 8 CHASE'S Paradol FOR QUICK RELIEF Of HEADACHE & Other Pains DONATE YOUR BLOOD = A soldier's life may depend on it