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f ibmbbuy miam m mm tub acton free press luemnunbdowl hallo haratnaktrt cooperation and working together for a cdtnnw cause are more important today than ax amy time during the last decade and the women of ontario are tistna to the occasion an analysis of our mall will vouch for that good oldfashioned nelahborilhaa and willingness to share with others are expressed in your letters they are reminders of those days when neighbors everywhere exchanged a loaf of bread for a jar of preserves over the back fence suggested by mrs c b 1 hctip shortening cup sugar 2 tablespoons honey m teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 cups sifted hour i p water cream shortening add sugar and cream together add honey mix cloves cinnamon baking aoda a flour add water alternately with the flour and spices stir well and pour into greased cake pan bake in a slow oven of 325 degress f for 1 hour serve hot with grape sauce suggested by mrs i m 8 cups crapes 6 cups granulat ed sugar wash and crush grapes of any var iety cook slowly jon electric ele ment turned low for 13 minutes press through a coarse sieve to the pulp add the granulated sugar mix well nd cook for 15 minutes stirring fre quently to prevent scorching or stick ing seal in sterllxed jsr for future use serve with pudding or ice cream gifwucles ol ginger farm wrattssi aeeeasstr la 1 cup melon cubed 1 cup diced watermelon 1 cup sliced orange 6 tablespoons powdered sugar mix all ingredients and chill thor oughly pile into sherbert glossed and serve batalied with fresh mint leaven yield 6 servings damson plum conserve requested 2 pounds damson plums 1 chopped orange 1 pint water cup rnlslmi 2 cups sugar m cup nut meats if obtainable pit and halve the plums put through food chopper or cut in small pieces cook the chopped orange with the 1 pint of water for 20 minutes add plums and raulmt and cook until about onehalf the liquid has evapor ated add sugar and cook rapidly until mixture will heap up on a spoon add nuts and pour into hot sterilized jars paraffin and cover varieties of apples good for cider are baldwin golden husset and gravensteln- varletles of apples good for bilking an tolman sweets northern spy mcintosh bed baldwin wealthy and baxter coddled apples 2 cup boiling water 1 or wf cups sugar g apples make a syrup by boiling water and sugar together for 5 minutes core and pare apples lower into syrup and cook slowly cover and watch care fully when tender lift out apples add a little lemon juice to the syrup and pour over the apples take a tip 1 to plant slips of geranium etc put some lumps of charcoal in the pot wood ash charcoal keeps the earth sweet 2 por potttd plants on the widow- mill use glass gliders that you buy t tor furniture the are convenient to use on a harrow ledge 3 always water plants with a little warm water pieferably at night 4 do not forget to pot some itarslcy it grows easily and supplies a summer green for winter salads the question box mrs c s asks how can the flut flavor of ftsh be prevented answer sprinkle well with salt and let stand a few hours then rinse off soaking freshwater ash in water destroys flavor mrs b j asks recipe for boiled salad dressings without eggs answer i tap mustard 1 tip salt pinch pepper up celery salt i tb flour 1 tb sugar 1 cup cream 3 tbs vinegar mix dry ingredients together add cream and itlr until blended then add hot vinegar and cook until smooth and creamy cup milk and 14 cup melted butter may be used imtead of cream mrs n m asks why do meringues liquify on some pies and not on others from the same beaten egg whites answer filling should be cooled slightly before meringue is put on or meringue will liquify underneath beaten caw whites should be kept cool and should not stand too long before being- xrays photograph propulsion powder gnitt to pkfcut prsatlaw owendouboe p 4 the war news has been good this week very good success all along the line but to us the very best piece of news was that which promised lights up- in the old country on september it a prelude to victory lights of london after flva years of deep depressing gloom you cant imagine what it means unless you have experienced it next time you walk at night through a resident ial street in any part of ontario take look around you dont you find there 1 a particularly friendly and cheerful atmosphere surrounding those brightly lighted homes homes where there is hardly a shaded win dow at all and along the street there are street lights glimmering dimly maybe but still showing little bit of light imagine that same street with no street lights and with not so much as a chink of light show ing from any of the house windows try to realise what such utter and complete darkness can mean and then you may get some conception of what lights up will mean to the people of the old country but back to the farm we too have had our own personal reason for thankfulness we have finished harvest yea actually rain and storm notwithstanding we could sing a te deum for a week only there isnt time its off with one job and on with another as v write i can hear the tractor warming up that means partner is getting ready to plough for fall wheat as for me x still hardly know which job tobe ot first this morning i was canning peaches and plums and thorw are still pears awaiting my attention how i am going to make the sugar stretch out x dont know imagine what it will be like to buy as much sugar as we need again not that wo have suffered but lack of sugar does mean n lot of fruit wasted x have just been listening to mr donald gordohs address to the can adian club there seems soma hope of a greater proportion of raw mat erials being released for the manu facture of civilian goods although textiles are still pretty tight i would like to aik mr gordon is thore any chance of getting lightweight warm underwear this winter and would it be poslble to acquaint man ufacturers with the fact that all wo men dont wear n size 18 f only we could nibble at some sort of magic cake like alice in wonderland and reduce or expand to fit the garment we wanted to buy it would bo so much easier than trying to make the garment lit us and tlnd that it wont truly life has its problems what a huge following n fortune toller would imvo if she could read your cup your palm or your bumps and tell you hot what your future lovelife would in but whore you might tlnd that certain type of dress you urv looking for or those drapes to harmonize with the rug in your liv ing room well i suppose you might say wo have had our llrst touch of real fall weather at any rate it was cool for few days how did you like it i heard a few people complaining that it wan too cool personally i was very well suited a little bit of lire was quite comfortable in the kitchen and it was such a after cooking on the oilstove for so long t would nt be without my oilstove for any thing but for good retiults give me the old fashioned cookntove any time with it you can at leant put things on one side when necessary but an ollstove if the telephone or the doorbell rings you romo back to and milk has boiled over and put the stove out or fruit juice has boiled over ami the stove hus mitred up on the other hand if you take time to turn the wick down before you leave the stove the chances ore you turn t too low and the blessed thing goes out of course with the sweet dispositions that i know most of you possess that sort of thing doesnt bother you hut well i k im not in that class i just heard the tractor starting again and i ran out to rescue tippy poor tippy is a nervous little fellow after the tractor started this morn ing we coutdht tlnd tippy for about an hour afterwards i sat on the step with him this time and he wos trem bling so i could hardly hold him even dog has his troubles for lepers quebec cpvslx missionary sis ten of the franciscan order left here for australia where they will found a noviciate at brisbane and work in a hospital for leprosy victims at phantom island k new york cp women work ing in shifts around the dock are x- raytng separately each single gram of rocket powder made at the sunflower ordnance works near lawrence kas operated by hercules powder co for rocket propulsion it is declared a report approved by the united states war department every grain has to be perfect otherwise there would be uneven burning of the pow der and risk of premature explosions taking a picture of each grain u something unique the site of the grains however is kept a military sec ret the wornen take each grain and place an identifying mark on it the grain is placed on a photographic film and she film is shoved into a lead box in which xrays shine through the film and the powder grain potjstissy business the only way to make a satisfact ory living out of poultry is to have enough good birds to provide that liv ing the attempt to make a living out of too few hens is the most lm practical thing in the industry the greatest wastage of labor and the least efficient factor in the business are the result of the number of people who try to make a living from 400 to 300 hens they could just as well look after 3000 or mere say of ficials of the poultry services dom inion department of agriculture nascopie carries arctic survivors dm wfcue pcagla churchill man cp the first sunday in august was a red day at ssanitobas only seaport hudsons bay boat naseopte do the entire churchill population white lnhiw smdivkimutunmm2 mm passengers aboard were mainly but there were a few women included in the list were mr and mrs w heslop and xkarcy siunre the three white people who were rescued by an american plane from port boas last winter when the naseopte couldnt get through and post supplies dwindl ed the story of their rescue read like a piece of adventurous fiction iso at the lonely outpost on somerset island about 2j000 miles north of winnipeg and 400 miles inside the arctic circle they were literally snatched from starvation the first flight of the american douglas c47 made november 1st 1943 failed to locate port ross on novem ber 4 mrs ifelsop saw capt j l stamwellplelcher make a parachute jump followed by dozens of yellow parachutes from the plane carrying 2000 pounds of supplies three days later the plane returned and took its human cargo aboard people wondered at the time if the ileslops would ever risk the north again were ready to go back any time they said now they are head ed for another northern post htbike lee peat cent st vincent de paul cp the roads department both mem bers of thlsmontreal suburb went on strike for a ten cent increase in the hourly rate of 40 cents aqullas pelletler and paul cyr the entire staff lert an unfinished sidewalk when they declared their strike ale yof mel oswf imu fna ke upt wham fot up m hdn mtnr aa i ym uuc i hear ta wilhmt strata jm iwmwi talk tt mmtmjot urmomy lift jut frnlm ml mb ttmf mtmf khtmsr consistent advertising pays iij wwarfii the ztolo of children wderlvear obviously babies and children must have underwear so the wartime prices and trade board has given special attention to the production or these garments the problem has not been so much one of n lack of raw materials but of getting the raw materials wool cotton rayon spun into yarns nnd then knit into garments canada has never produced all tni incftfasio dimand tfsihmd the wool cotton and rayon ynm she requires have always had to get a substantial part of our requirements from other countries even in peace time dut since the war there has been an acute shortage of underwear yarns everywhere there has been a greatly increased demand in addition to production difficulties the efforts of the board to meet the problem are given below mofff undfffwfajl bur 9tttl not mnovghl the mi u that m utl he net keen sottislc te fceew w4i the shuud west sed methin evausue t the unheal m nsusjh yem ml itwti te wi hw iwo what has bun donf about it first of all the board found out the kind anil quantity of garments canadian children must have vthta showed that the public is asking for more than is actually needed so plans were made to sec by directing production all down the line if we could meet the swollen demand as nearly as possible xeach manufacturer was told to produce an increased number of garments va constant check is kept on mills to see that they arc producing the required number manufacturers not pre viously making childrens underwear were induced to go into its production an the swiss k epsty sf c wwast best smm emetts i shew by she wllht stss 1mi laaa additional 600000 garments will be provided this year from these sources vnegotiations were conducted with production authorities in other countries for supplies of yarn to canadian knitters for use in childrens underwear vprimary cotton mills were required to divert spinning facilities from fabric manufacture to the spinning of underwear yarns v arrangements were made through national selec tive service to direct more labour to the underwear mills a special campaign was launched to enlist part time workers distribution to retail stores was organized to en sure equitable supply to all stvav t ftt oil fwk autmt 6