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* t lit t I* Ik ( If- 1 * *• ~A( * « *. t k- # « » f- f •« * « »• â- *â-  » -• * -* { « »" ^ ? iT »' ^ ^ * â- 9 *< » « « » .*â-  A » ♦• », « > f 't< '^ r \ e <\ TABLE TALKS "What, for instance?" was the cut- ting reply a distinguished author gave to a notoriously ignorant and fushful movie producer who inter- rapted the filming of a very delicate Mcne with the remark, "Right here, ksddy, it the spot for tome smart •rack; aomething really snappy." And "what, for instance?" is the rtaction, sometimes spoken and â- omctimcg only thought, of a whole tet of folks, especially those of the jounger generation, when they hear «t oldsters deplore their drinking habits, and suggest that they should indulge in beverages a little more healthful, and less fraught with dan- gerous possibilities. All of which is just my fumbling and roundabout way of breaking torth with some helpful recipes tor a few steaming hot, spicy brinks. Each is easy to make, or •omparatively so. You start off with a base of fruit juice, milk, coffee or tea; then add good-to-eat garnishes and tasty spices to change those us- «al dnnks into real chill-killers and erowd-pleasers. The tirst is for FRUIT TODDY Serves 6 to 8 ttmmer slowly 8 minutes: 2 cupa apple cider or apple juice 2^ ciqia brown sugar 2 2-inch sticks of cinnamon 6 whole cloves % teaspoon salt H teaspoon mac* Combine and heat while cider sim- mers: 1^ ciipa orange juice %i cup lemon juice Vt cup pineapple joic* (optional) Itrain dder mixture: add fruit juices. Pour into large cups; serve piping hot. Oamiih with orange or lemon alicci. * » * Next comes one that's highly re- commended for children â€" and their yarents. It's a smooth, rich bever- ageâ€"delicious, nutritious, and â€" well the only other rhyming word can ttink of » 'ambitious" but I g(ucss that wouldn't exactly fit CHOCOLATE BGGNOG Haat together: • cupa milk t tablMpoona chocofart* ajrrup Combine: t agga well beaten t t ab l â€"poona cold water S tablwpoons augar Va taaapoona vanilla Add slowly to milk mixture. Heat over low heat 2 minutes; do not boil. Whip S ogg whites Beat in 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar Pour chocolate in tall glasses or mugs. Top each serving with some of tgg- white mixture. SprinUo generously with nutmeg lervc immediately. From the Deep .South â€" so deep that it's down below the e<juator â€" comes this one. It's a strong favor- ite with the teen-age gang â€" that is, when they can get to it before the oldsters have beaten them to it SOUTH AMERICAN MOCHA Serves 6 Heat together: 2% cups strong coffee Sy* cups ricli milk or light cream 1 3-inch stick cirmamon lYa 1 -ounce squares unsweetened chocolate Vt teaspoon salt Remove cinnamon. Add: 6 tablespoons sugar *A teaspoon vanilla Beat to a troth with rotary egg beater or electric mixer. Pour inimefliately into cups. Top each serving with 1 marshmallow or 1 tablespoon sweetened whipped cream Sprinkle nutmeg on top. * * « Our nex: number â€" and you don't have to wait for any commercial an- nouiiceiiieiit â€" is decidedly 'warm- ing". It's easy to tix, and goes well with cake doughnuts, cookies, sand- wiches â€" especially on a chilly even- ing. GRAPE PUNCH .Serves Pour V/2 cups boiling water over % cup sugar 3 tablespoons grated lemon rind Cover; let stand 12 minutes. Add 6 cups grape juice 6 whole cloves Yi teaspoon cinnamon Bring to boil slowly. Simmer 8 n^nutes. Remove cloves. Serve hot in heavy glasses or mugs. Garnish with thin orange or lemon slices. * . ♦ Lastly, here's one that isn't for the children. The folks who like their coffee "black, no-sugar" won't go for it in any big way either, be- cause it's sweet, creamy and spicy. It's a favorite down where the Mardi Gra* is the great event of the year, and that's probably why it's called CAFE NEW ORLEANS Serves 6 Place in bottom of each cup: 1 atick of candied orange or lemon peel 1 clove 1 lump of sugar Fill cup with hot, atrong coffee Stir until sugar dissolves. Whip '^ cup heavy cream Fold in % teaspoon nutmeg % teaspoon cinnamon Soak for just a few moments ( limips sugar in juice of ^ orange Remove immediately. Float whipped cream on top of coffee. H^''*^ F'"i Mm ' Iw^^ /J 0"^, ^^^*s>.. A _ a. mM i. ^1 * ^.^Q u^ oi ^^^ "^ ^ ^H »' #^ L^4 w ^ li^ ^ ^ "What'a New, 01' Sock?"â€" This novel footwear, which may or may not indicate a trend, turned up at a teen-agers' "sock hop". The socks were rigged up with ear muffs and funny faces by Emmet McDougall and Patty Boyle. â€" By NaroW Ariwtt ICE REMOVER FOR RjEAAOVK^ ICC FROM SIDEWALKS, AN EFFEOnV€ TOOL CAN BE AAADE FROM AN OLD CROSSCUT- SAW BLADE ABOUT 4- FEET LONG. ctrr -mE blades in 4 equal mrts, bolt t>4em to«ether with ixc teeix on one ADE, USING fUCr PIECB OF IRON AS SMCSRS. ATTACH A SnaONB HANDLE. SPANNER WRENCH A BOOO BPANNIA WMNCH (CAN Bl MADE BY ALTVRlHO A MONKEY MUNCH SLMIKrLY. A BMAU NOtt IB OWLUP IN -mi iND OP BACH jm AND IHOIKr PIBCM Of BKMA top A^TOBIMN WIQ tNIAA. ^Bm The St. John Ambulance, oi<le~t charitable organization in the world dedicated to the service ot humanity, serves everyone, regardless of race, color or creed. Here a nursing sister in the organization sympathetically helps a young colored lad. To continue and extend its great humanitarian work the St. John Ambulance will conduct a public appeal for S270,000 in Ontario from February 6 to 25. Slip-Co vers For Children's Books "Be caretiil ot that book, Dear. It's a beautiful thing, and you don't want to spoil it." It is a beautiful thing, and he doesn't want to spoil it, but little fingers get smudgy, and how is a child to enjoy his books if he is constantly warned to be careful? One answer to tlie problem is a set of slip covers made from the plastic fabric which is sold by the yard for making mattress protect- ors and other waterproof articles. Being transparent, it interferes very little with the enjoyment of brightly colored covers on storybpoks, yet it offers fine protection. In making the slip covers, it has been found that a complete wrap- around is best, from the inner edge of the front cover to the inner edge of the back cover. Cut it to e.xtend about half an inch beyond while it is still on the book, as close to the edges of the book's own covers as you can manage. Then slip it off and stitch, pre- ferably with nylon thread, com- pletely across the top and bottom, inside the basting stitches. By mak- ing it rather small, and easing it on like a glove, you can get an al- most invisible skin-tight effect. Leave Quarter-Inch Seam After stitching, remove the bast- lag threads and trim the edges, leaving a quarter-inch seam. Turn right side out, and, bending the eovers of the book back a« far as they will go without being forced, begin to work the slip cover over both at once. Be sure to keep the seam toward the inside of the cov- ers. When it has been worked into place, you will find that the seam edges at the top and bottom of the back binding are stretched awk- wardly. Clip them as far as the stitching on either side of this sec- tion, and tuck them in. May Be Able To "Hear" Print It may soon be possible for the blind to "hear" print if the latest experiments with radar are success- ful. Equipment has been designed which, it is claimed, would enable a blind person to read ordinary print more easily than Braille. A tiny beam of lighf. moving along the line of print, picks up re- flections from the letters and passes them into an apparatus which tra;ns- forms them into sound. Each letter has a distinctive sound which is memorized by the blind operator, who, with practice, is able to read the printed word. This is just one of the many mar- Tellous devices being perfected at St. Dunstan's, world famous organi- sation for aiding meii and women blinded on war service. The number of blinded ex-Servicemen under the care of St. Dunstan's is 1600 as a result of the First World War, and 1,200 as a result of the Second. VOICE OF EXPERIENCE A magistrate was discussing bev- •tages with a friend. "Have you ever tried gin and ginger here?" asked the friend. "No," replied the magistrate, "but I've tried a lot of folks who fcave." Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee Q. How should the invitation to act as a godparent be extended? A. Eitiier verbally or by formal note. The request can hardly be refused, and one should consider it an honor to be asked to stand spon- sor for a child. Q. When introducing a person to a group of people, is it necessary to repeat his name to everyone in the group? A. Usually jufit once is sufficient However, if the group is rather large and there is a chance someone did not catch the name, it may be repeated. « * * Q. May a bride wear a wliit* dress and a veil when being mar- ried in a magistrate's oiTice? A. No. The traditional white is reserved for the church and home weddings. She should wear her going-away suit. « * « Q. When a host or hostess is taking six or eight other persons to a restaurant, should the dinner be ordered in advance, or would it be better to let each person choose his own course? A. It is much simpler to order in advance. To have the waiter serve six or eight separate dinners would be very inconvenient. Q. If a bride wishes to wear her engagement ring during the wed- ding ceremony, on which finger should she wear it? A. On the third finger of her right hand. « « * Q. Is it proper to thank a wait- ress every time the serves one a dish? A. No; but one s'.ioiiid acknowl- edge any special service, such as bringing an extra spoon or fork. » « -* O. Why is it necessary for the parents of the bridegroom-elect to call at the home of the bride? A. Because the girl is not wel- comed by the family until they do so. This call should be made just u soon as the news of the engage- ment has been received. Q. Is "I know Miss Brown" the proper thing to say when being in- troduced to her for a second time? A. No. This sounds as if it were trouble to make a second acknow- ledgmen. Say, "I have already had the pleasure of meeting Miss Brown." « ♦ K Q. When a man is making a busi- ness call, isn't it all right for him to place his hat and briefcase on the desk of the man with whom he is talking? A. No; he should keep these articles in his lap. I Was Neariy Crazy With Fiery Itch- 1 1 dlscov«r«d Pr, P. P. Dennis' amuiaf- lat r«lle( â€" P. D. P. Preacri^tion. world ' it. this pur«, I pMic« and • I 07 fOKmi, rlDU__ liar, this pur«, •oollna, liquid nraiUaatlOD ac« and aoiofort from crual n«ttiiis ' fciama, jrimplaa, raah«a, atblata'a t and othar Itch nouuti. Trial bottla, >6< . ji application chscka aven the moat lutaaaa £h or monov back. Aik druRglst for P. P. P. cription i onlinary or extra strcDffth ) , Billions Of Them But No Two Alik« Of »H the billiona of snowflakes that fall in a snowstorm, c«ch is a masterpiece of design; yet no- body has ever discovered two that were exactly alike. Perhaps, they do look irregular in shape as they fall, bat when they ar« examined under a microscope they art seen to be made up of deli- cate hexagonal or sixsided crystals, these being massed together in a multitude of beautiful forms. Behind those leaden winter clouds the miraculous birth of a gnowilake is going on, and the raw materials is invisible water vapour. If the temperature falls, this water vapour condenses into tiny drops of water forming round dust particles. The tiny drops combine and fall as rain. In certain conditions, however â€" and these must be just right â€" snow- flakes are formed instead. The temperature must be below freezing, there must be water va- pour in the air, and also particles of floating dust around which the snow-crystals can form. Even so, it might be "too cold for snow," for when the surface air is three degrees below freezing point the chances are five to one against snow forming. ".\s white as snow" is a common expression, yet snow is really color- less. If a flake is examised tinder a microscope it is seen to be clear transparent ice. But when lying in drifts on the ground the light that falls upon it is reflected in all direc- tions and creates s ptire whiteness. "Health-giving snow" is another popular phrase, and there is some- thing in it. Scientists have proved that the purifying effect of falling snow upon the sir is greater than that of a similar quantity of water falling as rain. "It is rarely t'nat snow is quite dry." says the medical journal, the "Lancet." and thus it presents a more or less moist surface to both the soluble and suspended impur- itiet of the air and so carries them to earth." Lighter Than Rain Snow is much lighter than rain, being alout one-tenth the weight of an equal bulk of water, though this proportion varies according to the compactness of the snow. Sometimes it takes only si.x inches of snow to make one inch of water, but occa- sionally it may take thirty inches. .^ severe snowstorm with a hard frost is disastrous in a civilized country. The snow settles on the telegraph wires, freezes, and adds an enormous weight to the load the poles have to support. Then as the loaded wires are driven to and fro by the wind, they sway and either snap off their poles or drag them out of the ground. "Warm" Snow Snow acts like a warm blanket. On one occasion in America it was found that there was a difference in temperature of 56 degrees Fah- renheit between the cold snow at the surface and the warmer snow seven inches down. This blajiket effect explains why sheep buried beneath the surface often survive. In -Africa, almost at the equator, there is a snowfield on Mount Kenya and another on Mount Kili- manjaro. There is a height in all latitudes, whether tropical or arctic, above which the snow never melts entirely at any season of the year, and this is called the snow-hne. Scientists think it not improbable that there is as much as a million cubic miles of snow and ice now on the land part of the earth. If this were melted and returned to the sea it would raise the ocean level about thhtv feet. From The Pen Of J. M. Barrie VroBB Pater Pan: When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went •kipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies," there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down and dies. To die will be an awfully big adventure. From Sentimental Tommy: The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little and they are always standing open to let ehfldren wander in. To be an artist is a great thing, but to be an artist and not know it is the most glorious plight in the world. From The Little Minister: It's grand and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable. From What Every Woman Knowa: it is a sort of bloom on woman. If you have it (charm) you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. Are You A Joker? If so, write for our free catalogue af Jokes, Tricks and Magic Nov- elties. COLLINS JOKE & MAGIC SHOP »7S Somerset St. W. Ottawa, Ont Wholesale and Retail SpuniNS KUBIm And f/i« RiUEF IS LASTING For remarkably fast relief from head- ache get iNSTANTUf*. 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