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T ,i -i m 1 1* 11 CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke I called at a nearby farm house this afternoon and there was a lady sitting outside on the lawn in a deck chair busily engaged wii'i her sewing. It really was too ri- diculous â€" that is, when one re- members that this is the 25th of October I Of course we all think it is just grand to have this pro- longed Indian summer, but are the farmers ever praying for rain I Pastures are withered and brown, wells running dry, and fall plow- ing just about impossible. Unless we get rain soon â€" and plenty of it â€" the outlook is pretty grim. And yet, at this inauspicious time, the Royal Commission on Milk brings in its report recommend- ing that no increase in price be allowed to the producers! Dear knows we don't want to see people asked to pay more for their milk â€" the cost of living is too high as it is. On the ether hand feed gr^in and commercial feed is both dear and scarce fol- lowing this year's poor harvest. And it should also be remember- ed that it costs more now to feed cows, pigs and poultry than it did when the Commission first began its inquiry. So what is the an- swer? Some farmers will find a solution by keeping less livestock and poultry. After all what is the sense of working twelv? hours a day just to get enough money to board your livestock? It is the same old story â€" some worlc too much and get too little; others work too little and expect too much. * * * And that reminds rne: There was a large advertifeincnt in a Toronto paper today. It was a well-drawn advertisement featur- ing an average family group list- ening to a "Pop" cqncert abroad. The picture was good all right, and very true to life. Unfortun- ately all too true. If you noticed it maybe you wonder what I am driving at â€" what I found to ob- ject to in it. Well, I'll tell you. In the group was a father and son â€" but we will not concern ourselves â-  with them â€" they seem to be a privileged class anyway. There was also a mother and daughter. The mother, if you remember, was caning back in her chair, relaxed, arms folded. The daughter sat, chin on hand, pensively lookmg into apace. The point I want to em- phasize is this: There were four adult people in that group â€" and not one of them was doiif^ any- thing other than listening to the radio. Their hand.': were idle. Idle â€" when the Red Cross is almost begging for knitters and sewers to work on garincnls for overseas. When the need is so urgent why, oh why, cannot you and I work with our hands while we listen to programs over the air. Think of the work that could be accomplished if every woman made the best possible use of her spare time. Perhaps I am a bit of a crank in that respect but 1 must confess I have reached the stage when it worries me to see women just sitting and talking. Of course I am sometimes guilty in that re- spect myself. One evening just re- cently I was visiting soir>e friends. I didn't really mean to stay but I couldn't very well get away without being rude. You know how it is. We sat in the living- room until about 11 o'clock â€" just talking. And we were worse than the picture in the advertise- ment because there were five of us in our group, not counting the men â€" who as I said before seem specially privileged. Five women with idle hands for over three hoursi You do see what I mean don't you? Surely we could all make a practice of having some kind of "pick up" work on hand and thus prevent so much wasted time. « * * Don't let us say "I haven't time!" when asked to knit for any welfare organization. We all have the same amount of time. To each is given 24 hours in every day. It isn't time we lack â€" the trouble lies in what we do with our time. Even if we have only our work to do wouldn't it be more profitable to have some pastime â€" some hob- by â€" to occupy our hands. Listen- ing to soap operas wouldn't then be altogether a waste of precious minutes. Surely, the higher the cost of Uving, the more it behoves us to make the best use of our time. We cannot lose. It has been said â€" "Show me what a man does in his spare time and I'll tell you what manner of man he is." MOUTHS WATER wheu the fragrance of Maxwell House fills the air. This wonderful blend of coffees is Radiant Roasted to develop to the full lil its txUru goodnes*. U, S. Governor Aim^wr to Prrviuus I'uRilr HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured governor, 13 Still H Rounded 15 Recent (comb, form) 16 English statesman 18 Facility 19 Genus of maples 20 Carmine 22 Mountain (ab.) 23 Anger 24 Street (ab.) 26 Limb 28 Individual 29 Sun god 31 Rip 33 Short jacket 36 Disfigurement 38 Girl's name 39 We 40 High card 41 Pair of horses 43 Poker stake 44 Waste allowance 45 And , (Latin) 46 Mystic eyllabla 48 Negative 49 From 50 Peer 51 Eternity 53 Peel 55 Jump 58 Bustle Bl Noto in Guide's scale 62 Chairs VERHCAL 1 Stain 2 Marry 3 Roman road 4 Height (ab.) 3 Golf device 6 Chick-pea 7 Pause 25 Doctrine 8 Native (sufRx) 27 Myself 9 Compass point 28 Upon 10 At one time 29 Sped 11 Sheltered side 30 Mountain 12 Drone bee - . 17 Close to 19 War god 21 Doctor (ab.) 23 Within 24 He governs the of Nebraska crest 44 Implement 47 Mine 48 Symbol for neon 50 Canoe 52 Require 32 Collection of' 53 Dance step sayings 34 Huge tub 85 Hops' kiln 37 Vehicle iZ Qreater quantity 54 Late ' Ameri- ' ' cah humorist 56Nfitlt drink 97 Golf term 5^Wke 6Q Rough lava TEEN-TOWN TOPICS By BARRY MURKAR The old saying, "give a man enough rope and he will hang him- self," has been knocked into a hun- dred pieces. By whom? By you, the teeners of On- tario. How ? By realizing that the teen - age situa- tion, as far as our moral code of living was concerned, had hit an all time low. And also realizing that if something wasn't done about it, the next generation, which would be us, would have things in very bad shape. There is no use denying the fact that the juvenile crime wave has let up tremendously during the past few months. Those kids that used to hang out evenings at the local drug store are at home. Many of them busy at their studies, many of them just staying at home because they realized in time that that was the place for them to be , Several nights of late we have visited the local restaurants around 11 at night. Where wc used to find a group of teeners drinking cokes, necking in public, smoking and making a lot of noise, we now find older people, quietly having a cup of coffee, before going home. This column is being written in a hotel room, many miles from the home port. The time is 10.30 p.m., and we have just come in from a tour of restaurants and local hang- outs. We mentioned that this was a town. That is wrong. It's a city. We saw no drunks, wc saw no teeners loitering around anywhere, and that certainly was not the picture a few months ago. There are fewer juvenile crimes ^ reported in the papers, fewer cases of car accidents involving teeners at night. This must be very encourag- ing to police, to school teachers and above all to parents. The situation, as we see it, is simply this : The war is over and we are getting back to a pre-war stand- ard of living, even if prices are still sky-high. ^Now don't get us wrong. This column is not being written just to make you kids out there believe you are a bunch of angels. Far from it. There are still a good many stinkers among you ; many of you will never be anything else. But for the most part, juvenile delinquency is on the downhill slide, and let's all keep it going in that direction. Several weeks ago, we ran an item in this space about the young Jewish lad who was insulted and molested in a city restaurant by a small group of so-called young men. We heard quite a bit about that particular item. It seems, and we are not surprised, that many do not care too much for the Jewish people. A minister friend once told us that the reason the Jews are persecuted is because they are Jews. I believe this but, if we teen- ers are going to make this country a better place in which to live, we will have to accept all our brothers THERE'S ONE THIN6 FOR ^stantine a TABL£TS FOR 2St as one of us, regardless of creed or color. This feeling that we have for some of the other nationalities that cross our path is wrong. One of the main reasons for this feeling of superior- ity is not that we are right, or better than they, but nothing more than jealousy on our part. We cannot deny that our foreign brothers work hard to gain their ends. They con- trol much of the money, many of the better jobs that normally would be at our disposal â€" if they were not here. Don't you think that it gripes us just a little to know this? On the other hand, you must admit that we have only ourselves to blame. This is a free country where all men are equal, and if we want to get to the top, then we will have to work a little harder. As you have noticed from the re- ports appearing in this space, teen clubs are starting up again. Most of them are run under adult super- vision. The kids are having a lot of fun. They admit that, and I think that teen clubs can do a lot to make juvenile delinquency a thing of the past in Canada and everywhere else for that matter. In conclusion, we say hats off to you young people for the way you have sliown the country that, under- neath it all, you are not as bad as many of us would have you appear to be . How Can I? By Anne Ashley Q. How can I make • good starch? A. By putting three tableBpooni of wheat starch in yz-cup cold water; put this in one quart of boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. Add a half-teaspoon of lard to make the starch smooth, and' then stram through cheese- cloth and use while hot. Q. How can I treat a rug that already has moths in it? A. Try covering with a wet tow- el, then applying a hot iron until the towel is dry. This will kill both the moths and the eggs. Then sprinkle, with salt every week be- fore svyeeping. Q. How can I remove acid stains from marble? A. Try rubbing with ammonia. But one should avoid allowing any acids such as lemon to come in contact with marble. Q. How can 1 clean a suede jacket? A. It can be washed in warm water with pure soap-suds, in which one teaspoon of household ammo- nia is added to each gallon of water. Rinse lightly and stretch to the desired shape and size to dry. Q. How can I clean steel? A. A good way to clean steel is to rub it with a paste made of emery powder and oil, mixed to the proper consistency. Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee Q. When making a social call and you find your hostess just ready to leave her home, what should you do? A. Enter her home, if the host- tess insists, but do not stay longer than ten minutes. Q, Is it considered improper to add a. postcript to a social letter? A. "There is nothing improper about it, but it is far better to include everything in the body of the letter. Q. Should a girl light a man's cigarette for him? A. If she has just lighted her own and the match is still burn- ing, it is all right. Otherwise, he should always light hers. Q. Is it the man's or the girl's privilege to suggest how the even- ing should be spent, when no pre- vious arrangements have been made? A. It is courteous for the man to ask the girl where she would like to go. But a girl should be considerate where expense is con- cerned. Q, May a bride wear a white dress and a veil when being mar- ried in a magistrate's office? A. No. The traditional white is reserved for church and home wed- dings. She should wear her going- away suit. Q. What is the customary tip for a checkroom attendant? A. Ten cents is the usual tip. . . . TABLE TALKS . . . Biscuit Mix For Biscuits! For Pancakes! For Muffins! Here's a homemade mix that is always ready to help out on nearly all your hot bread needs. It will save precious time and energy. How? Well, recently a Great Idea was born. Why shouldn't women be able to keep on hand a big quantity of basic biscuit blend â€" everything in it but the milk? The idea was tried out so success- fully that now it has expanded and grown until it is the basis for many other things besides biscuits â€" muffins, coffee cake, pancakes, waffles â€" all from the same recipe that only takes a few minutes mix- ing time once every few weeks. 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