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t- Opera Star, Insurance Executive, Cabinet Minister Support Crippled Children Benefit â€" Marjorie Lawrence, opera star, who made a miraculous recovery from polio and still performs supported by a special stand, sang her first Cv.iadian performance in aid of the Easter Seal Fund for Crippled Children at Maple Leaf Gardens recently, and is shown congratulating Mr. Earl Putnam, (left), President of Canada Health and Accident .\ssurance Corporation. Waterloo, Ontario, for his §1000.00 cheque presentation to the fund during the radio show. Honourable Paul Martin. Minister of National Health and Welfare (right) aLso appeared on the program. CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARBI) By Gwendoline P Clarke Dear Town People, living snug- ly in your conrfortable dwellings. protected from the fi^ur winds oi heaven by other houses, and by shops and buildings â€" I wonder if you know ''at a high wind feels like. you don't and would like to know, try staying in the country (ametime in one of those old farm houses, ma orf which seem to have been built on the very spot where the wind can gp* a clean »w ep at them. Oh, it's a grand and 'arious feeling, I can tell you, to have the wind beating at your doors and windows and to see the odd shingles go swirling by until you wonder if there will be any left on the barn roof at all by the time the wind has dropped. And perhaps you want to hurry the potatoes for dinner, and you pu; an e.xtra stick of wood on the fire. But it crackles and blazes so merrily you get all jittery in case the â-  les should catch fire. So you shut off the drafts again and let the potatoes go hang. A late din- ner is better than a burnt house. * • • And then someone comes to the "door â€" ten to one it's an agent be- cause it is always agents and such like who choose the roughest days ti call. But you open the door and the visitor conies in. And so does tlie wind. It whips the daily paper off the table, scaUcrs it all over the floor, opens up a few doors that haven't been shut properly, gets the dog so e.\cited he barks like fury. This in turn frightens the kitten, so she jumps on top of the sewing machine, where she stands '•ith back arched, ready for battle. By the time you have everything collected and quietened down you are either so mad you tell the agent you don't want anything, and never will want anything, or else you feel so sorry to see him out in such wind you ask him to stay to dinner. • * « Of course with tnc wind we also get the dust. Go where you will, lemon-oil the place as you like, in a hour it is always possible to once again write your name in the dust. Oh yes, it's a great life in the country with a stronjj wind blow- ing, and then Spring at last arrives â€" you go down to tlic cellar â€" you look first at the coal-bin and you try to figure out how long the coal will las at so many shovel-fuls a day. The potato bin is the next thing to catch your eye â€" it too, is dwindling too fast. But the fruit and tomatoes are hanging out prettj' well â€" it may not be neces- sary to live on prunes for very long after all. Prunes^rthey are what Partner callsâ€" "C.P.R. straw- berries." « » • By the way. if you put fruit away last year without sugar and have more fruit than jam, now is the time to mr'.ke use of it. Take one pint jar of fruit, add to it two cups of sugar, boil until it seems ready to set and you have twenty-four fluid ounces of good, wholesome jam. Just lately I have taken to making marmalade and the family seems to like it. I followed the grape-fruit knife, then cut the fruit cipe that comes with bottles of commercial pectin. But I have my own method for preparing fruit. I peel it very thinly with a curved grape-fruit, orange and lemon re- in sections and slip out the pulp. It is much quicker than the ordin- a â-  way. Oi course I use my pres- sure cooker for making the marma- lade so that once the fruit is pre- pared the rest of the business takes no longer than half-an-hour. Starting sciid foods is an entirely new experience for your haby. Be patient ! Begin with a small amount â€" say. two or three tastes the first day, four or five tastes *he second day, and so on. Gradually, the baby will get used to the new food, and make it part of his regular diet. .^s a rule, you can take it for granted that the baby will like a new food. In most cases, he will accept it. but if he tirmly refuses to t;!ste the new food, take it away. Chances are, when you offer it again in a week or so, the baby will have com- pletely forgotten his objection. .Make an issue of his refusal to cat. how- ever, and he may retain his dislike for the food â€" perhaps permanently. Whether you're expecting your first, or bringing up your fourth, there's help for you in our Reader Service booklet No. 203. Contains the latest data on feeding, bathing, clothing, toilet training, recognizing illnesses. Based on the findings of many doctors and nurses, it is n valu- able guide for mothers. Send THIRTY CENTS (in coins, for "Baby Care" to Reader Service, Room 421, 7^ Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print NAME, AD- DRESS. BOOKLET TITLE and NO. 203. CiOSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS I. Tlirlfty 7. Noblemen 13. Complatn 14. Concord 15. Ill 16. S.upH 18. roncerning 19. U.iscb.all slov* it. Attempt ti. Cil.-iclal hUl »4. Ako SS. Thick • 17. Pefuce t8. r>«R . to. Seed Coverings S2. Social alTairs S3.Contlnciit 14. Razor clam ' SS. ShaUe S9. Ulce paste 40. 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Here's a recipe that's really worth wliile. Curried Lamb Stew IJj pounds stewing lamb salt, pepper, paprika 3 tablespoons fat 3 cups water % cup sliced onions 1; j cups celery, cut in small pieces I'/i teaspoons curry powder 3 tablespoons flour 'A cup cold water Vii cup pickle relish 3 cups hot cooked rice Cut lamb into 1 inch pieces. Sea- son with salt, pepper and paprika. Brown in hot fat in heavy skillet. Add water, onion and celery ( if you can get it!) Cover and simmer 1 hour. Mix curry powder and flour with cold water. Add to lamb, stir- ring until slightly thickened. Cook slowly 10 minutes. Stir in pickle re- lish. Serve on fluffy rice. Serves 6. Supper Casserole 1 pound sausages ,'4 cup diced green pepper 3 cups cooked noodles H teaspoon nutmeg. 2 teaspoons lemon juice 1 cup grated cheese 1 cnp apple sauce Lightly brown sausages over slo v heat.. Remove from pan. Cook diced green pepper in sausage fat until tender. Mix green pepper and 4 tablespoons sausage drippings with hot. cooked noodles and place half in a 1-quart casserole. Place app'.e sauce, mi.xed witli nutmci: and lemon juice, on top of noodles. Sprinkle with half the cheese. Cover with remaining noodles. Place cooked sausages on top and sprinkle with reii'.aining cheese. Bake in moderate (350 degree) oven 10 minutes. Serves 6. Queen-Mother Helps Find V.S, Dollars The spirit which has always car- ried the British people along in the face of shortages and adversity is by no means dead. Wanting to help in the battle for United States dol- lars, so badly needed to finance necessary British purchases in that country. Queen Mary decided to do her bit. Not long ago the Queen Mother personally worked a set of si.x tap- estry chair covers, then presented them to the Britisii Women's Home Industries. They were offered for sale to American buyers, and brought the surprising sum of ten thousand dollars. When a woman of Queen Mary's age and e.xalted position takes need- le in hand to ht^lp tiie general cause, it is just further evidence that while Britain may be down temporarily, she's a long way still from being finally cc>untcd out. ."Kbout 4,000 years ago ancient Britons planted crops by pushing a pointed stick in the ground and dropping a seed into the hole. Some Notes From The Farm Front By John Russell In the present troublous times it is encouraging to note that, on the whole, Canadian farmers have resisted a temptation to which many succumbed â€" to their later sorrow â€" after World War One. Only a comparative few have sought to extend their holdings, and no boom in farm land with specula- tive prices has developed. As a result farmers are not near- ly as over-extended as they were in 1019-1920. Instead they are invest- ing in durable goods such as cars, trucks and implements; and with the extension of rural electrification ready markets for electrical appli- ances of many kinds are found in rural areas. • • * One of these days you may be driving your tractor or car with solid gasoline, which you will buy by the pound and handle with as much safety, and in much the same way, as a pound of butter or box of soda biscuits. Solid gr.soline is already a reality; but it is res:ir.leil of such mill ary importance that it is still kept a "top secret" and is not yet avail- able for commercial use. One great advantage of this solid gasoline is that it is â€" believe it or not â€" fire- proof. * • • The farmer is better off than he has been for a long time â€" writes A. P. Pickman â€" but, after all. what other business could or would keep running year after year on the minute return on investment and labor which farming gives? The farmer works from 60 to 75 hours a week. He must be a bit of a veterinarian â€" nutrition expert â€" agronomist â€" mechanic and mete- orologist. He is the executive, per- sonnel, purchasing, sales and ac- counting divisions, all in one. For- tunately he finds his chief reward, not in his scanty monetary returns, but in a way of lite which is satis- fying to him, and which he wouldn't trade for any other. * * * Synthetic hormones are putting a profitable punch into the farmer's eternal struggle for better and big- i r crops. Apple and pear growers arc already getting millions of dol- lars every year because of chemicals which spur fruit production: and within a few years probably a dozen other commodities will be added to the hormone horizons being explor- ed, as scientists beHeve that as yet they've only scratched the surface of hormone rescarcli. * * « According to some authorities, tobacco users would do well to wash their hands thoroughly before set- ting out tomato plants, also before staking or pruning them. Highly contagious plant viruses are some- times present in tobacco, and there is danger of transmitting them if some of the virus is present on the gardener's hands when he works with his tomatoes. • * • Wheat growing in the west is still pretty much of a gamble. In 1919 a prairie farmer got $2.50 for a bushel of wheat, cash in his pocket at Saskatoon. Thirteen years later â€" in IK'2 â€" he got 26 cents a bushel. Fluctuations such as that explain the situation of one Western man who said that, on the whole, he was pretty lucky. He had borrowed $8,000 to buy his farm: paid $10,000 in principal and interest; and now only owed $9,000 on the property. • * * If you happened to be visiting the Belgian Congo and saw Cana- dian apples on sale, you'd hardly believe your eyes. But early this year some 800 boxes of choice Ca- adian apples reached that distant region, and caused much favorable comment beeaufe of their quality and tlie care witli which they were packed. Their early arrival was much appreciated as South .\frican apples do not reach the Belgian Congo market till March or April. • * • A real opportunity to develop a new market for Canadian seed po- tatoes is seen in Italy. Imports of this commodity are estimated at something like 50 thousand metric tons a year, and in the past lias come almost e.xclu.sively from Northern Europe. But much educa- tional work will have to be done before th.e Italians accept the Cana- dian potato, as their taste is for the yellow-fleshed, non-starchy variety to which they have become used in the past. • • • L'nthrifty apple trees have been brought back to health and good yields by one grower who plants from 4 to 8 young trees right close to the old trunk and grafts them right into it .For this purpose he uses almost any sort of voung tree, even crab apples. 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