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wo aa y-- ~' 'gerous) can form. } Better Lighting For Your Home Whether. you are building a new home or redecorating. an old one, do plan your lighting .as carefully as any other feature of the house. It is one of the most important, If you have already completed your decorating but fgel that it falls short of your expectations, inade- quate lighting may be the trouble, There should be an éven distribu- "tion of light in the room so you: are not aware of, too-bright spots or areas of darkness. These faults can ruin your eyesight along with your decorating.' Make sure you have enough outlets and check the height of your 'lamps. Table and desk lamps should measure 25 to 30 'inches to reflector top. Floor lamps, 56 to 60 inches in over-all height depending on their use. The Lighting Institute mends generous-sized ceiling fix- tures or lighted valances for gen- eral iJlumination. Tall floor, junior, or bridge size make good chair- side reading lamps. Table lamps with reflector bowls are advisable: for reading or sewing and large shades with white lining should be used for visual work. When you go shopping for lamps, look for those which have tags+ stating they were designed to meet requirements for good lighting. You will find they have good design ' too. Valance boards and equipment to give an over-all lighting effect are available at a reasonable cost, For best results, consult a repre- sentative from your local ;eleetric company, . Many companies 'have free service and will be glad to send someone to help you in your home, Informative booklets on lighting are also available without charge. Gracie To Wed -- Gracie Fields, famed British : music hall star well known to millions of Can- adians, announced she will marry! Romanian architect Abra- "ham Boris Altorevich on the Isle of Capri late in January. The 54-year-old comedienne is the widow of the late Monty Banks, . _ moyfe director. Pays To Keep Your Pantry Clean The things we eat and drink are responsible for untold thousands of deaths a year.-Born in the kitchen, food poisoning can send a family to bed, if not to hospital for a week. Bred in a works canteen, a single . outbreak can lay low hundreds of workers, oi . True food poisoning occurs when bacteria gets" into norfhally healthy food and releases poisonous sub- stances known as toxins.' Those Toxins Although the bacteria might be originally present in the food, they usually enter during its preparation. This can be prevented by observing strict (sanitary measures in prepar- 'ing meals and seeing that no one with 'a infection goes near a kit- chen or food to be prepared. Once the bacteria is in the food it can release toxins only in temper- atures: below freezing and above boiling. : If we keep)foods at temperatures below freezing = nutoxirs (with the excepy f the one called * botulism, whic rare and' dan- "If we boil the food well before eating, all toxins present will be destroyed. : ' By far the biggest criminals 'among food poisoning bacteria are those called Straphylacocgus and Salmonella. The first, which grows in_ a microscopic cluster. like a bunch of gtapes, is universal, : When it comes into' contact with i custards, puddings, cake fillings, and other "dainties it thrives and multi- plies, and in the process produces a'toxic substance which causes the 'majority of cases of food poisoning. It cannot be detected in food, and is therefore impossible to avoid 'by taste or smell UNBELIEVABLE The elevator girl always had a "question or two for everybody, "Do you ever see strange sights?" she asked the window cleaner, "Yes," teplied the man with the : buckets, belts and sponges, "there's an office on the foufth floor where everyone's always working." » recoms- HE oad i a -- Blow' Up Building Monks are usually quiet and re- tiring, a fact which made doubly surprising the recent threat by the members ,of a Corinthian, Greek, monastery that they would blow up «the building unless the police re- scinded An order that is should. be evacuated: to : This was only one incident in what might well be called "the war of the two calendars," a weird struggle which began in the spring of 1923 when the Greek Prime Min- ister - ordered that the Gregorian calendar should succeed the Julian calendar throughout Greece, Thus Greece was brought into line: with the rest of the civilized world after more than three hundred years; for it was in October, 1582, that Pope Gregory XIII corrected errors in the Julian calendar. 'At that tine Greece was under Turkish domination. But even when she gained independence, in the nineteenth century, the opposition of religious. elements prevented, the old -calendar from being super- seded. Even after 1923 that oppo- sition continued, with the result that holy festivals were frequently icelebrated- on two different dates. Much of the resistance centred in convents and monastries' found- ed by the "old calendarians." The Greek authorities were worried by stories of the treatment of monks and nuns in these establishments, and eventually forced an entry into the convent kept by a certain Mir- iam Soulakiotis. There they found the wretchedsnuns living in appal- ling* conditions. Yet when proceed- ings were taken - against Miriam Soulakiotis they failed; for her victims were the ones who. testi- fied most strongly in her favor! Early this year a eertain Sister - Antigone was involved in a similar case. In her convent in Keratea. police discovered underground: cells in which unfortunate nuns, most of them gravely ill and almost de- pEived of light and air, were living. - These 'women seetned to be wrap- ped in a fervent trance and put up with their existence in the be-' lief-that-they were expiating sins. The police even found a number of young girls, probably daughters "of some of the nuns. Yet little hope- is held of a successful prosecution; for once again key witnesses will no doubt speak up for the defence. Paid 15 Shillings 'May Be Worth Plenty | You never know when a long- forgotten art treasure will come to light. Not long ago a Kensington 'artist bought a painting.at an auc- tion for 15s. The picture, which showed St. Thomas putting his finger into the wounds of Christ, was. seen by a. Spanish historian from Madrid who declared it was a work by Paul Veronese (1528-88), who- in his youth came under the influence of Titian: Yer The picture was so covered with dirt that only the heads of Christ' and St. Thomas were visible. But + after a fortnight's careful cleaning by the buyer and five week's re- novation by a French artist, the picture's lovely colors were dis- closed. Many: of- its features are identical with those of a Titian painting in the Paris Louvre. The man who found it is con- vinced that it is a masterpiece, and he sleeps: beneath it on a couch in his study. His 15s. painting may be. a £10,000 old master. New. Woven-Glass Curtains Are Trouble-Proof and Versatile BY EDNA MILES k i Being fireproof, these rodless curiains of woven glass especially appropriate for kitchen windows of almost any size and They come in various designs suitable not only for the shape. ; . kitchen but for other rooms in the house, fiber are | pretty nard to imagine something really new in curtains, but it's here. It's a curtain woven of glass fiber (which makes it fireproof), that can be washed and rehung in less than five minutes and that never loses its crisp appearance despite the fact that it never needs to be ironed. : You'd never know these curtalns are made of glass. They look just like marquisette--which really isn't surprising, because the weave 1s a regular marquisette weave. They need no curtain rod, being attached to the window frame with special hooks and rings that come with the kit: And you don't even have to worry about measuring the window you intend them for, because they have an elastic-band back that enables them to fit any window, from standard single size to double-width ones. v J, AUNDERING is just about as simple as washing your hands. -All you have to do is to unhook them from the window, wash them out in warm stds, rinse them and roll them in a towel to remove excess moisture." Then you just re-hang them damp and they'll dry out in pristine beauty. Being glass, they never require ironing nor _ do they ever stretch or shrink. These new curtains are versatile, too. In addition to serving as conventional curtains, they can be used as trimming for vanity tables, Hollywood headboards or 'bedspreads. They will easily conform to the outline of odd-shaped windows. They can be used to give a soft, decorative outline of Venetian blinds, to give a shadow-box. effect over conventional curtains and to achieve other decorative effects limited only by your own ingenuity. The fact that they are fireproof makes them particularly appropriate for use in the Kitchen, especially it your kitchen window is near the stove. +* They come in white ground, trimmed with solid-color chintz bands and in three pastel colors, powder blue, maize and green. - - ...Cream dane Andrews / AB You've probably been reading about that California woman who won $25,000--think of it!--in a cookery contest. No doub; you'd like to have the recipe she. used for her prize winning entry which she called: a STARLIGHT DOUBLE DELIGHT together 2 packages (3 oz. size.) cream" cheese, '2 cup shortening, ¥2 teaspoon vanilla and, 14 teaspoon peppermint extract urd til fluffy. Measure 6 cups (112 Ibs.) sifted confec.ioners' sugar, . Blend half 'of sugar into creamed cheese mixture. Add 4 cup hot water al- ternately with balance of sugar, Blend in four squares (4 oz.) melt- ed chocolate. ture (2 cups) as frosting for baked cake. 3 Sift together 2!'j cups sifted en- riched flour, 14 teaspoons soda and 1 teaspoon- sali, : shortening and remaining choco- late-frosting mixture; mix thor- oughly. Glend in J eggs, one at a time. Beat for 1 minute. Measure 3 cup milk; add alternately with sifted dry ingredients to creamed mixture; beginning~and ending wiih dry ingredients. - (With electric mixer use low speed.) Pour. into two well-greased and lightly flour- ed 9-inch round layer pans. Bake at 350° F. for 30 to 35 minutes. Cool; frost with reserved choco- late frosting. All should be at room temperature. * * .* Now, io get' back to a little "solider" cating, here are a few dishes I feel sure will" find favor with: your family especially in old weather. ak POTATO AND SMOKED PORK CASSEROLE . 8 cups thinly sliced, peeled potatoes 114 cups thinly sliced onion 8 -- = ee forgiven for not doing a.double-take £5 Gootness, Nothing But Girls' Legsl--Well, Michasl Adcock must be on what surrounds him be- » cause he's only two years old. In this Pidtute, he's sweating It out in the wings during a fashion show wa nig for his cue to go on stage. Gals behind him, which he completely ignores--but we don't-are preparing to go on, also, to model new-style bathing suits, Reserve half of mix- Combine 4 cup ingredients J. moderate, 350° F, 12 thin slices boneless smoked pork butt, about 1 pound 14 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper 6 cups hot milk Set oven for moderately hot, 375° F. Arrange alternate layers of potatoes, onion, and meat in a greased 1134" x 174" baking pan. Sprinkle layers with flour, salt, and pepper. Pour hot milk over all. Bake 12 hours or until potatoes and nieat are tender and top is brown. Maked 12 servings. NOTE--Two 3-quart baking pans or casseroles may be used in place .of the large one. Allow the same baking time. - * » * CHICKEN NOODLE LOAF 4 cups cooked, medium-wide noodles 3 cups cooked, shredded chicken 1/3 cup finely diced green pepper 1/3 cup finely diced celery 34 cup butter or margarine 34 cup flour 314 cups milk 314 cups chicken broth 2 eggs, slightly beaten Set oven for for moderate, 350° F.Combiné the noodles, chicken, green pepper, and celery in a large bowl. Melt butter in a large sauce- pan. Blend in flour and salt; stir in milk and chicken bro.h, and cook until thickened, stirring con- stantly. Slowly add 3 cups of the hot sauce to eggs, stirring cofnstant- ly; add to chicken nrixture and-mix thoroughly. Reserve remainder of sauce for gravy. Pack mixture into a well-greased 1014" x 512" x 3" loaf pan, and bake 1 hour or until a knife inserted in cen.er comes out clean, Unmold onto platter, slice and serve with Chicken Parsley Gravy. Makes 12 servings. Chicken Parsley Gravy: Heat re- served sauce; add }2 cup chopped parsley just before serving. * * * LIMA BEANS AND CORN 174 pounds dried lima' beans 3 teaspoons salt cup- thinly sliced onions 3 teaspoons bacon drippings or fat ' 3 12 ounce cans whole kernel : corn ' 5 cups tomatoes OR 2 No. 2 cans tomatoes 14 teaspoon tabasco sauce 114 teaspoons chili powder * 6 strips bacon, cut in halves Wash beans well, then cover with water and soak overnight. Add 112 teaspoons of salt and cook over low heat, uncovered, until soft, about 1 hour. Drain. Set oven for Sauté onions in bacon drippings in a skillet. Com- bine .beans, onions, corn, tomatoes, the remaining 134 teaspoons salt, tabasco, and: chili powder, Pour in- to a greased 1114" x 174%" x 214" baking pan and arrange bacon on top. Bake about 1 hour or until -- bacon brown. Makes 12 servings. NOTE--=Two 3-quart baking pans or casseroles may be used in place of the large one. Allow the same baking time. . ' TESTING The clerk in a men's-wear store did a painstaking job of showing the mother of a teen-age lad the . full range of young men's hats. The woman didn't seem too concerned about color. or style, but as soon ag the salesman got the fit just the door with a "Thank you very much--we just wanted to check the size before ordering from the mail " order house." 5 LE TALKS 1- tablespoon' salt > ' mixture is thoroughly heated and * right she whooshed her. son out . Taking Photographs Of The Queen . ~ One gvening in July 1939 a cheer- ful voice on the telephone asked: "Is that Mr. assured, it continued: "It's the lady Beaton?" When re- in waiting speaking, and the Queen wants to know if yvou_will photo- graph her tomorrow afternoon." This honor came most-unexpected- ly. Next morning 1 got out of hed _ carlier than usual, shaved myself a little more carefully, put on a dark blue suit with a quiet, formal tie, and set off for the palace to make arrangements for the great sion. It™"was still' quiteearly in the morning when 1° arrived; were being carried about in bowls, and housemaids were still busy with their dusters. Through the windows could 'be heard the changing of the guard... occas Ry early afternoon there was major activity "in the yellow and blue drawingrooms, where screens had Teen put into the semicircular bay over which were hanging my old familiar backgrounds -- the Piranesi ruined arch, the Fragonar trees, the architectural vista. A mass _ of flowers from Windsor Castle were banked about, and an army of men were fixing lights and mak- ing .various preparations. Soon | became anxious about the time they took." At any moment now, -the Queen might be ready, I did not wish to waste a precious minute, especially as the superintendent had told me that I would not he:permitt- ed much time with Her Majesty that in he late King George's reign no photographer was ever allowed to take pictures for more 'than twenty minutes. A hustle in the corridors, a rush of pages, and the Queen appeared in a richly encrusted crinoline of gold and silver, for which the yel- low drawing-room made the ideal setting. At once | started frenziedly clicking the camera. This seemed to amuse and delight Ter Majesty, for from the moment I began the pho- tographic attack on her she showed that she was enjoying herself. . . . Then the sun shone for the first time that day to give me new in- spiration. We took: many more pic- tures with shafts of light pouring down from the frigh windows onto the small figure that stood in the distance looking like an illustration of a fairy story. Again we ran out of filins, This became a joke. The Queen looked incredulously at the stock of used plates and then again at the Rolli- flex. "Is it empty again?" And. when once more another roll of films was finished, she remarked: "Never have I known such celer: ity!" . .. The somewhat awe-struck super- intendent came up and said: "Do you realize you arc the most fortun- ate young man I've ever known? Why! You've had three hours of 'the Queen's time already."--From "Photobiography," by Cecil Beaton. SALLY'S SALLIES "Forty per cent off dresses! They must be television atylea!!" flowers fathers and "any crocodiles Is Colder Weather Coming Our Way? Get ready for colder weather in the next 50 years--shorter growing seasons, June frosts, widespread crop damage. That's the long-range prediction of © Dr. Raymon 11. "Wheeler of the Weather Science IFoundation. The past 50 years have been rela- "tively mild, but we're due for an- other: 100-yvear low in the 1960's, he says, pointing to signs such as later frosts in spring, carlier in fall and the severe cold "waves that shivered .the Deep South last year. "This is only the beginning," he forecasts. "It will be harder to ripen corn" and mature melons. Fruit crops will be more likely to be damaged at blossom time. Not every year will be bad, but the trend will get worse, and prepirations should be made." ) Along with increasing through the 1970s, believes Wheel- er. "We're at the peak of a 7-year rainfall cycle, headed into an 18- vear dry cycle, and a longer one on the order of 90 or 100 years." What does. the Weather the 'cold will "come Jurcan say to this? Ivan R. Tannehill, says, ' "In some parts, the growing season definitely averages longer than in the early part of this centiiry. A swing back to the weather of our grandfathers might come as a shock to those who have adopted practices based on recent warm years." ) But there's good Thews too. "In- ternational wars decrease as it turns cold," observes Wheeler. "I -pre- dict the decline and collapse "of Communism as it turns cold." NO DANGER? A tourist arrived at a holiday resort in fhe tropics. "Are there around here?" he asked a local before he went in for his first swim. "Oh, no, sir," was the reply. The tourist dived in and swam around for some time. Then doubt set in. Ie called out to the local who was still on the beach. "Are you sure there are no crocodiles?" "Definitely not!" shouted back the man on the beach. "They never v cockleshell droughts till we "get "Thar She Blows"! Eighty years ago the first 'explo- sive harpoon shattered the silence of the Antarctic and reawakened a dying industry. Before that time whaling had ex- perienced varying fortunes. It 'was born among the hardy Basques, who hunted their quarry in little boats in. the Bay of Biscay. irl Han Then other people began to re- cognize the possibilities of whaling, and blubber became.liquid gold to the adventurers of a dozen nations who competed against each other - in an orgy. of "destruction, These days of happy hunting took their "inevitable "toll, and by- the nineteenth century the whale had "been exterminated in many. parts "of tlie world," But there are still prizes to be won in the massive Blue and Fin-whales, who easily eluded" the little boats -with their hand-thrown harpoons, The _ explosive harpoon, allied to fast little steamships, proved to be the answer, and the whaling in. dustry took on a new lease of life, Today. it continues to flourish, and this season, the greatest in: ternational whaling fleet the world has known is scouring the Aptarc- tic for the ocean giants. Whaling is no job for the squeamish, but for those who are willing to suffer the discomforts and dangers of the trade there are rich rewards, According to Mr. Douglas Liversidge, who accom-- panied a recent expedition in the far south, a gunner's salary is of- ten comparable 'to that of a Ca- binet Minister. In his book "White Horizon," he gives a graphic description of a whale-hunt. He sailed in the Sig- fra, a Norwegian three-hundred tonner. } : : . For several hours they searched the grey expanse of sea, which seemed completely desolate and empty. And then suddenly the man on watch on the mainmast cupped hig ens and bawled. ; Cat-and-Mouse "His words were carried away by the wind, but we knew what he meant. His arm pointed "slightly to starboard, and there--almost. a mile away---shot a burst of spray that appeared to curdle in the frosty air." eo ° "Thar she blows!" shouted the mate, and the little Sigira heeled over and was off on the chase. But the whale wag outside the harpoon's range, and there follow- ed a Jong period of cat-and-mouse while Sigira stalked her prey and the whale spouted and dived and spouted again, unaware of the dan- yer. . <khe whale appeared to be an old "bull" who had been driven away from the herd, and even when the ship came within a few hundred yards of him he made no attempt to escape. He was swimming leisurely along a slightly zigzag course, div- ing every few minutes, while the Sigfra circled in the area where they thought he would rise. Sud- denly he appeared hard aport? "The Lelmsman crouched behind the wheel, The gunner crouched behidd the gun' Two hundred yards --ofic hundred yards--fifty yards-- With _a deafening crack the har- poon streaked out over \the water to tear into the mighty bit2-- The waited tensely for his next move. He might have dived straight down to a depth: of two or three hundred fathoms, straining at the cable which trapped him. But al- though the old-bull fought valiant- ly for survival, he stayed on the surface and 'thrashed helplessly. about while life ebbed from him, Silently the crew watched him die, the hauled him in and hitched him ot the cide like a massive balloon. come near here. They are too afraid of the sharks." ~~ ~ UN-DRESS - IN PARIS This Pqris model Is we ring a French designer's blue satin tribute to the United Nations complete with the UN flag ~ motif. The inspiration is carried into the matching ° tulle stole "which completes the ensemble, | { Fh Se A 2) re