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the georgetown herald wednesday evening november 19 1941 timely topics for women by barbara baines are you having maid trouble in canada there are 1900000 housewives 1800000 women clamouring lor domestic iwd or housemaids nursemaids cooks dav workers or minders to sit with children and invalids it ihe situation werent so serlou it would be amusing to listen to the discussions o maid toublc you hifcr everywhere women get together my hands are ruined i am either going to give tommy a pill or take one myself and le had breakiast in bed or twenty years yes it is amusing but for many women with small children it sometimes spells near tragedy i am thinking particularly just now of janet the wife or a lieutenant in the army she has four little child ren the youngest not yet a year old and has found t impossible to get or to afford at present rates more than the occasional days help she says i do not mind the work so much though i am tired all the time it is the dreadful loneliness if i were onlv free in the afternoons or for the occasional evening to get out and mingle with other women i i dolcve my children but i see too much of lhem and they ore getting on my nerves and i miss adult companionship so much sometimes i think i cannot stick it out until gordon gets back and janet is just one of hundreds of young women too far away from their parents and girlhood friends for them to help most of us are inclined to blame the shortage of domestics on the war on war marrtffges and the need for feminine labour in war in dustries but that is only partly the reason even before the wa- good maids were very scarce perhaps housewives were partly to blarw in too many cases wages were verj low the work unduly exacting vying accommodations anything but inviting and maids looked down ufwisas menial laborers there was little incentive for the ambitious girrwto take ud housework as n career but the chief cause for the shortage of domestic labor is the change in the immigration laws before the last war 400 000 immigrants came to canada jearly half of them women moit of whom went into domestic service upon their arrival in this country but in 1938 the number of immigrants was onl 17 000 and now immigration lias ceased entirely and as immigration dwindled so did thesuppli of domestics canadian housewives have searched evirywhert for hilp in the small towns the rural communities and in the scattered settle ments in the north thev are pajing excelkrtt wages and have betn fore ed into treating their matdi with consideration and respect thue girls may work as domestics for a while but sooner or later iht find a hus band or are swallowed up b the war industries and then is no one to take thur pace suih is the sit in ion odtiv md h ia not an ei v jioblem to iolve but rc ful hoisevvnes ran and irt m kini adjus ments u meet changed rnnditicns some uoiikn vr flnriint tin bv niliin their houstkeepinir dopunt impioiec woik schedule md domt lis lormal entertaining the art ablt to manage thtii liouihojrt riniis ina still have some frtt time for voluntaii w u work other wumn ire dt mandnij uui en nc cuiter heh fiom lit i chiltlrin of renin i lis stuck nl hi e had such i htivv jroknmnu of slides sports dantmf or music lessons eil m tnev have lad littfo time o ht lp mother but horn will not bun it v child evtn joush tluv in n niss a iame of basketball or bast bill and when the whole hmh cooxn the work t lit i for w nn evtn women with oun children ire ilndlntj wtvs of getting along wih little help a fnend in a si iall citv is telling int recent 1 how she manages on he strtet ilitit are 1 rtt mot it i wiui small children and thej each take one afternoon a week to look after urn all and so leave the othr two mothers free for shopping mtttniis or visitinf she sas it s a strenuous af ternoon work to look aftei four children under five vears of age and in addition two others who come in when school is out but it is well worth it to have two afternoons of freedom in another town an older women will look after children three afternoons a week if the are brought to her home and called for before 530 she tells them stories supervisee their games keeps them amused or sees that the get a sleep if the mother wishes it she charges 50 cents each and turns the monty over to her pet war chanty members of some iode chapters are making talent money by staying wfith children in the evening so that the wife and her husband may go out together it is surprising how well we can manage without help if we must when the need becomes sufficiently pressing the means of solving a prob lem is usually found but in this case it requires not only resourceful ness but co operation as well women seek vew fields of work one of our most enterprising voung canadian women is miss 0 esther rider president and general manager of the st cathar ines brass works she is one of 17 women who have received the degree of metallungical engineer from the american institute of mining and the onlv canadian to be so distinguished she is busy 10 hours a da superintending the making of castings used in corvettes and mine sweepers christine dunn an 18 yearold girl is toronto s first post woman her experience as a ball plaer has toughtened her up for the sixtv miles she must walk each week carrying her load of mail and she says she likes the job well over 1000 other women will be used for the first time since the war began by the toronto postal services to heh sou the christmas mall miss helen klnnear one of the few wo men kin s councils in the british empire has been nominated as lib eral candidate for welland in the coming federal b election miss kinnear was born in cavuga in 1894 but has lived in port colborne where she is now practicing law for most of her life forty nurses representing eve v province in canada arc on their way to south africa this brings to 160 the umber of canadian girls enrolled for duty in south african mi 11 tan hospitals the book of the week wakefield s course by mazo de la roche macmlllan 406pp 2 7o to a great man of us the whiteoak family of jalna are old 0 friends iii wakefield s course the eighth book in the series we meet them all again the slorj opens with rennle now the most dominating member or the family leaving for ireland to buy a racehorse he is accompanied by adeline at 9 years old a double for the first adeline her great grandmother in london he finds finch wrapped up in his music and living again with his enstranged wife sarah wakefield has just opened a successful engagement in the theatre and is in love with a young actress a tragic affair which comes to nought because of rennle then comes the war events follow one another quickly wake new playing in new york joins the raj rennle and piers the r old regiments rennies horse wins the grand national all participate in the heroic epic of dunkirk wake wins the dfc at home in canada they wait while young adeline tries to drill her little brother she says well shoot them as they come out of the woods and we wid never sur render miss de la roche writes with a freshness and vigor and a sincerity that delights her readers and i am sure most of us will be hoping for another talna book soon one egg chocolate cake who does not love a chocolate cake that is richly brown moit 0 and soft crumbed and this one is so inexpensive just one egg and verylrttle shortening 11 cups cake flour 1 teaspoon soda cup cocoa i teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup sugar teaspoon salt 1 egg beaten 3 tablespoons shortening 1 cup sour milk i teaspoon vanilla mix and sift dry ingredients combine egg melted shortening mfjk and vanilla add flour mixture and beat well until batter is smooth tad begins to thicken turn into two 8 inch layer pans and bake tn moder ate oven 375 degrees f 25 minutes or until done cool layers and pat together with any frosting desired hint be sure all ingredients es pecially eggs and milk are at room temperature before combining here is a grand garnish for fowl says miss tljd string pine apples chunks and tokay grapes alternately on skewers saute in butter gntll pineapple is golden browns editors note barbara barnes welcomes letters from readers if you have any suggestions comments or requests send them along an communications in care of this newspaper improved uniform intfrnational sunday i chool lesson b hanoi i l l i nutlulst d d dr i lie m xiv 11 tilr irmtllulc fine 1 b writer n p p union i lesson for november 23 prayfr and thanksgiving lesson 1ext matthew 6 5 15 ephe tans 5 20 i thcsb il nlan 5 16 ib gol den text proy with ut ctiismu in very ihlnji ilvt hanks i thissal nl ins bern one with christ the chris mm finds prajer tovbe as natural as on i thing as he walks with the mamr h talks with him praises him thanks him makes his pen ions and hib needs known to him ve ft tl howi vtr like christ s dis iplts win osktd him to teach them to priy luke 11 1 i instruction in prayer appnichmi the subject from tht ntgimc vuupoint jesus told them lhon not lo 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the enemy of our si uls calls for deliverance again god is able and ready to hear mans praer one of the sod things about the study of prayer is that we are all so ready to talk about it discuss it even preach about it and then do so little praying knowing how to pray and admiring a model of prayer will profit us nothing un less we pray good work never fails so then elijah s hf had been no failure after all seven thousand at least in israel had been braced and encouraged by his i xample and silently blessed hirn perhaps for the courage which they felt in jods world for those who are in earnest there is no failure no work truly done no word earnestly spoken no sacrifice freely madi was ever made id vain f w rob ertson n richard fry bqually it home with piano or organ hi hard i rv lias midc fre qucnt appparjitccs on chcs nt tional nctmrk ml is it present being heard mondav tn acurday inelusivi f rn n tin ilthfix studios il f i i i i t im he has been le plinis far tin national sing ones of 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