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mm mmmmm m^^. ft. 1 Jk i i' - V m < TEEN-TOWN TOPICS By BARRY MURKAR Susie bounded into the kitchen with more than her usual amount of vigor and \ itality. "The gang are going into town roller skating and want us to go. How much money have you?" "30 cents", I replied. "Any- way 1 don't know how to roller skate. Only kids go in for that stuff." "Here is two dollars for helping with the dishes for the past month," offered men. "You go along. You've b«en dragging around here all day and the excercise will do you good.' "Oh super'," purred Susie, "the gang will call at seven. See you then." As we entered the roller rink, 1 felt a little nervous down inside. A guy can get hurt at this business, 1 ttiought. Imagine having four steel wheels run over your neck, especially with 200 pounds on top of them or worse still, if some galoot suddenly lost balance and planted his skates In the middle of your bread basket. Oh horrors, what have I let myself in for? The man taking tickets, stopped me with, "you can't wear braces in here son." "Well how am 1 going to keep my pants up ?" I asked. "Run home and change," he re- plied. "But 1 can't, it's twenty miles mway." "Well we'll let you off this time, but remember in the future - no braces." "Oh gosh, I'm so excited," cried Susie, "listen to that swell music, mnd look at all those people." Waiting for your first baby to arrive? Like other mothers-to-be, you're probably a bit overwhelmed a the prospect for caring for a tiny, helpless mite. No wonder â€" being the guardian of another per- â- on's health, happiness and general well-being is quite a job! It's much •asier if you know the facts. How to interpret the baby's cry- ing, for instance. The trend is away from the let-him-cry-it-ont idea. Baby's crying it a definite sig- nal that something needs to be done. He may want to be turned over, to have his diaper changed, to be given a drink, or maybe just to have some companionship. If he continually cries near meal- time, chances are his schedule needs to be revised. If he continues to ciy after all hit needs are tended to, consider the possibility of ill- ness. Rear a healthy, happy baby with the help of our Reader Service booklet no. 203. Covers diet, bath- ing, clothing, development, toilet training, accidents, illness. From birth to one year. Send THIRTY CENTS (in coins) to Reader Service, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print NAME, ADDRESS, BOOK- LET TI*^ 13^ and NO. 203. Above the roar of steel on wood, 1 could hear the faint sound of an organ. Yipe, I thought, if that herd of galloping madmen ever broke loose a person would be mincemeat. "1 think I'd better go around alone first," 1 said to Susie "Sort of get my bearings. We can have the next skate." • * • 1 slithered out onto the floor and headed for the wall, so 1 would have something to hang onto. Some- body gave me a push from behind and 1 crashed into the wall, landing in a heap on the floor. Dazed and shaken, I felt helpless as an instruct- or picked me up and gave me a little shove to get me moving with the throng. In a few minutes 1 had .the hang of it and was gliding around the rink, â€" well anyway 1 was on my feet again. Nearing the south corner, I could see Susie watching for me. As I came around in front of her, I waved. With that some horse shoved his skate between my legs. My feet went up in the air, I lunged out and grabbed a fat girl in front of me. The guy behind grabbed my braces. I could feel them stretching - stretch- ing. Then there was a snap like a gun report. Smack ! and something hit me full force in the back of the neck. I lost balance, tripped the fat girl and we went down together with me on the bottom amidst gales of laughter and shouting. • • • Minutes later, a nurse was bend- ing over me with smelling salts or something. .As I came to, the laugh- ter and applause was still audible. "Let me through here" came a man's voice. "Let me talk to that bo}-." Looking up, 1 beheld a well dressed man of about 55. "I'm the manag- er here," he announced. "I saw that act and could use you in my new "Roller Review". "Oh how simply super," cried a faint voice. It was Susie. "You were wonderful Barry. Anything for a laugh, that's you." "Thpt's what I want him for," stated the well dressed man. "He'll lay them in the aisles." "But â€" " I started to ^rgue, "that was no â€" " "A hundred a week, while the show's on," said the man. "Good. I ci.. see you never turn down a good thing." • • • 1 felt my head, my stomach where the fat girl landed and my you know what. Teepers I have to take all this punishment, night after night? I thought. Susie helped me off the floor. I limped to a chair and started to take off my skates. "I've had enough for one session," I announced. "Oh there you are," said the well dressed man, pushing his way through the crowd. "Say son that deal is off. One of my instructors just told me you can't skate with twj people holding you up. He saw you go out on the floor tonight. I thought that act was for the benefit of the onlookers." "I tried to tell vou it was no act Mr." I replied. On the way home, I rubbed .ny sore spots which seemed to multiply every five minutes. "Well never mind," consoled Sus- ie." There was no one else there tonight who got an offer like you did - even if it only lasted for four minirtes. The British Admiralty in 1840 decided that oak was superior to iron and refused to accept the metal for shipbuilding. U. S. Senator HORIZONTAL 1,6 Pictured U S. 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Symbol for cobalt • • • TABLE TALKS • • "As the Twig is Bent, So Is the Tree Inclined," goes the ancient saying. Badly bent in a storm of many years ago, this tree on the Milton-Acton Highway refused to give up. Instead of grow- ing downward, back to Mother Earth, it made a new start, and now stands, twisted but sturdy, against any wind that blows. CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARMS 8? Gwendoline P Clarke I never knew it to fail! Not so much as a sniffle do I ever get when I stay around home but let me go to the city and it's another story. Some- time last week when I was travelling around in those crowded street-cars I picked up a very active little germ, brought it home with me and it had me -by the throat all day Monday and Tuesday, leaving Partner to manage as best he could in the cap- acity of house-keeper. « * * Wednesday morning I was pushing myself aroimd when the phone rang and the message I received was that Bob had been hurt and was in hos- pital. It wasn't long before I was down there. He had been loading logs on his truck. They were extra big logs and in loading one of them the chain broke and the log dropped from the height of the truck down on to Bob's foot. Three bones are broken but they can't be set nor the foot put into a cast yet because of swelling and bruised tissue. And Bob has been given fair warning that he will have to wear a cast for at least two months. However it will be a walking cast so he hopes to be able to get around to a certain ex- tent. Of course it will be a great in- convenience and a big expense but it could certainly have been a whole lot worse. The man who was with Bob said he didn't know why he wasn't killed. * * * Yesterday 1 took him down his radio after inquiring what the hos- pital rules were regarding its use. "Oh yes, he can have his radio but only on certain conditions," the nurse told me. "And what are they?" 1 inquired. "It must be kept low - and no modem music!" 1 laughed. Bob I knew would comply with thej^irst order but not the other. After all what's the good of a radio if you can't listen to "A Four-leafed Clov- er"? Personally I can listen to that any time. ♦ • * With both the boys away Partner and I had a nice little chore to our- selves this morning. It was the day of the first spring rain. And what a rain! At our place it rained inside ^^COLD? as well as out. The kitchen roof de- cided it was high time it was re- roofed, patched, or something, and it put on a demonstration to prove its point A gentle rain doesn't affect it but with a deluge like we had to- day it seems there is a leak in every square inch of room. We had wash tubs, dishpans, preserving kettles, boiler, wash basins and pails on the kitchen floor and up in the attic. Wt mopped floor and table in turn, «m- ptied pans and hunted new ones at fresh leaks developed - and that seemed to be about every five min- utes. » ♦ » 1 set dinner on a card table in the living-room - the dining-room Steamed Puddings A steamed pudding is simple to make, satisfying to eat If you haven't a quart mold, use a l-pound coffee can or baking powder tins and cover with waxed paper held in place by rubber bands. For a first try, Steamed Fruit Pudding or Steamed Carrot Bran Pudding will reward your efforts. Steamed Fruit Pudding 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons sugar 1 egg, well-beaten )4 cup molasses 1J4 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon soda % teaspoon salt yi cup All-Bran yi cup boiling water ^ cup seedless raisins yi cup currants Blend butter and sugar thor- oughly; add egg and beat well. Stir in molasses. Sift flour with soda and salt; mix with All-Bran. Add to first mixture alternately with boiling water. Stir in raisins and currants. Pour batter into greased 1-quart mold, cover tightly and steam about IH hours. Serve with Hard Sauce or other pudding sauce. Yield: 6 Servings. Steamed Carrot Bran Pudding 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 cup grated raw carrots 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons melted shortening was too close to the kitchen for com- fort We were both tired and maybe not in the best of humor but when we listened to the news and heard of the flood damage in other areas we couldn't even begin to feel sorry for ourselves. We haven't even got wat- er in our cellar. At the tame time it was a great relief when the rain stopped. I said to Partner aa we mopped up watar in the kitchen - "This is the time when prospective buyers should be around and inspect any property they might bt thiniclng of buying." Almost any property h>oks all right on a nice bright day kt q>ring but a rainy day has a way of revealing tliingf tliat an agent doesn't think to mention. After all you eould hardly expect him to point oat disadvantage* in what he is trying to tell. That is what the new owner finds out after Hving on a place for about six aaonthi. Do you know what? There la a red, red robin hopping around on our front lawn I 1 cup All-Bran 1 cup fine dry bread crumbs H teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg }4 teaspoon cloves 1 cup seedless raisins J4 cup chopped candied citron % cup chopped candied orange peel. Beat eggs until light; add sugar ind beat until fluffy. Add carrot*, milk, shortening, All-Bran and bread crumbs which have been mixed with salt and spices. Add raisins, citron and orange peel. Mix welL Fill greased 1-quart mold or 1- pound coffee can three-quarters full, cover tightly and steam about 3 hours. Serve hot with hard sauce or any desired pudding sauce. Yield: 8 servings. Note: Pudding may be steamed in greased custard cups for about one hour. 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