thp acton pree press tircnrtsnay may lath lm of interest to women menu hints stoefectf for new an nml spring bailao kre9hingb by jbetty barclay spring days are salad day we crave the ciispness and flavor of all the fresh foods we con corral at this time of year and salad twice a day find favor with most of m ior dinner plan a simple combination of lettuce and other greens with tomato or cucumber added vae luncheon a more substantial combination of vegetables or fruit may be nerved a the mainstay its tlw dressing that makes the salad you can make distinctive dressings in five minutes time with sweetened coiv densod milk just add seasonings iand lemon juice or vinegar with dgg yolk if you want mix altogetlier for a few minutes and you have a smooth creamy dressing that tops off the fruit or vege table aalad to perfection jelly fruit salad drks3ina cup sweetened condensed milk cup vinegar or lemon juloe cup jinlad oil or melted butter 1 egg yolk vj teaspoon salt ipew grains cayenne 1 teaspoon dry mustard cup tart red jelly such ns cur rant or cranberry place all ingredients excopt jelly in mixing bowl beat with rotary egg tycater until mixture thickens if thicker consistency u desjred place in rofrlgera- tor to ohlll before serving just before serving blend in jelly make 1 cups ounnse drebsinq cup sweetened condensed milk m cup vinegar or lemon juice u cup salad oil or melted butter i taa yolk teaspoon bolt few grains cayenne 1 teaspoon dry mustard cn grated canadian cheese place all ingredients except canadian cheese in mixing bowl beat with rotary egg beater until mixture thickens if thicker consistency is desired place in refrigerator to ohlll before serving just before serving blond in grated canadian cheese make 114 cups oranoe date nut salad serves 1 on lettuoeoovered salad plate arrange circle of 5 or more navel orange slices within tills circle make a second circle or cup with 4 or fl orange segments fill up with mayonnaise stuff or 8 toned -dates-wltli- wolnuthalvcaar raneg on orange siloes top mayonnaise with a walnut half milk disiek9 ohtudrffin like milk is natures most nearly perfect food rich in food olements and vitamins necessary for good nutrition vet many mothers find it difficult to in duce their children to take their dally mlut or plain milk or even to devise dishes containing milk that prove pleas ing children seldom rcruse desserts hero are two recipes calling for liberal quan tities or mllkthat x am sure will be eaten no eggs are needed no baking or boiling mako the desserts lnthe morning and servo at tlie evening moal if you can keep them hidden from the children that long golden glow rennet oustard i- 1 rennet tablet 1 tablespoon cold water l pint milk 7 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla y cup apricot pulp 0 stewed or canned apricots 1 egg white cut tlie apricots into strips and divide among dessert glosses make rennet custard according to directions in pack age pour rennet custard immediately overthe dprleoui let stand aintll firm- about 10 minutes then chill in refrig erator when ready toetv beat egg white until atlff add 4 tablespoons of the sugar and apricot pulp beat thor oughly together put apricot whip on top of each dish of rennet custard and decorate with bits or apricot orainqb fluff rennet custard 1 package orange rennet powder l pint milk 1 ti cup whipping cream vi cup sugar 1 targe or a small navel oranges wake reimot custard according to directions on package then chili in re frigerator when ready to serve top with whipped cream and across cream place sections of ornnut if orange is largo use 4 half hcuoiis if small use 4 whole sections for each dish of doner t mot hard to choooe jfllotwcfl to suit tlicflo days hp m ukwnsfflsgsl tim iff kw esi it is not at all difficult to choose lovely bloliaos these days and here are two hat are especially good at tho top is a checked taffeta model in white with dork green a tucked bosom beneath the tiny collar dark green stone studs tho check is used diagonally on the puffed nleevo and on tile bosom tte second blouse in of fine wlute pleated georgette with a band of smocking across tho chest and finishing the sleeves double geor gette peter pan collar and band down tlie front closing dork red jewolled studs close tho blouse the cost of the last wab it is quite certain that war destroys all higher forms of civilization in the lost world war there were 0000000 men killed 15000000 mutilated and 30000- 000 wounded the material losses were 140000000000 dr nicholas murray butler has tried to ahow what the as tronomical figure means with t4o0oo000o000 we could have built a 3bo0 house filled with itftoo worth of furniture and surrounded by five acres of ground at 100 per acre for every family m the united states can ada australia england wales ireland scotland france belgium germany and russia there would have been enough money left over to glvo every city of 30000 population a library worth 0000000 and l university costing 110000000 and with the remainder there would still have been enough loft from our four hundred billions to buy all france and belgium that is all their farms houses factories churchca railways and highways everything in short that they contained in 1014 henri docugu in lo doatln l chronicles of ginger farm written specially for thtt aetata free press gwendoline v cijtttkk bbbejwbffil criticizes expenditures baby king that nkw mat mamma baddys lying in the hall unconscious with a piece of paper lnhla hand and a large box at his side wife joyously i oh my new hat has arrived smiling happily ignorant of ids future responsibilities is bliroeyelirold klng feist il ii of iraq who was proclaimed king immediately following the tragic death of his father king ohakl in an automobile crash a regency has been set up ft rule until the baby king reaches iilb majority t last week i expected to get in a real good weeks work and what happened jusb this on monday my helper came along and we did manage to chose quite a few spiders from their hiding places nut my cleaning activities were short lived during tho week we lost two nelglkbors who were also institute mem bers yheybothdled suddenly and with in twentyfour hours of each other it was quite a shock to the community and naturally such disquieting events db un settle one for a while however timo marches on and we have to march on with time so on thursday there was our onnunl institute meeting to attend- and what a meotingl it mustliave tak en us a halfanhour to elect a president because neither of the vicepresidents wan able to step up wo finally finished up by- persuading one of our capable and pleasing members to aocept the lienor and responsibility of becoming president bo now we are all sot for another year or longer we hope onfriday i took a party of four in- eluding myself to tho annual olrls con ference at ouelph i could not reallyj spare the time but an i had done noth ing worthwhile in tlie way of extra work all week i thought i might as well keep going places how tlie othor women managed i dont know but i know it kept mo on the run frllay morning to got my regular work dono and got away by 010 am dat we wanted to bo at the oac by 1030 am because at that time our own junior airlb were putting on a demon- station we ncnlor members ao very proud of our girls for having been chosen to take part in the program at ouelph and we thought the best way we could ntiaw our interest was to put in an ap pearance at the appointed time wo were there and the girl did tholr port splendidly their demonstration took the form of u regular club meeting which included tho showing and inspection of tho pyjamas housecoats and dressinggowns which the girls had made in their project work and made well there were fourteen girls on tho plat form but there must have been several hundred girls back in the audience ap parently between the ages of fourteen and twenty as koon vivacious and happy a group of girls as one could wish to meet i looked around and marvelled at the bploiidld resulistluitare dally being achieved by tliose responsible for institute work these girls who in an other ago might liavo been shy awkward and uninformed were today capable of taking their place in life with the con fidence and intelligence which is bom of happy social contacts and the trained application of natural inborn talents as i said before i looked around not once but many times and the thought enmo to mo i suppoeo the department of agriculture depends mainly upon tax collections for upkeep but this burcly bff one time when we can feel uure that our tax monoy is well spent wo had lunch at tho college together with some of the iiistltuto officials and also several visitors whom we were so glad to meet it was an informal hall- followwollmet sort of gathering and we lingered over our meal until suddonly someone noticed the dlnlnghall was de serted except for us after lunch i took my friends down town as they had shopping to do so had i as a matter of fact but when i noticed by the program that mbw ethel chapman was scheduled to apeuk i decided my shopping could ao it is never my fault if i miss an opportunity of hearing miss chapman because i would rather listen to her than any other woman speaker i know and thoty say ing a lot because pvo heard a good many fine speakers in my time mus chapmans topic on friday wis reading far tho family she empha sized tho importance of cultivating a good tasty in literature and pointed out how this might be accomplished by hav ing only worthwhile books and magazines in the homo eliminating the confes sion typo of magaslno which can bo such a harmful influence during the im pressionable teen age years of boys and girls rulowngmuui chapman was an ad dress hj dr o elmore reama tor- wepkly gardengraph written 4y deah iiaixiday or cehrrj jvm cjsojh dr a b hyndman conservative oarleton recently bitterly assailed tlie federal oovernment hi the house of commons for inwtse expenditures dur ing tlie preten t economic conditions in connda dr tlyman specifically singled out the 1 500000 national war memorial and the new 3300000 supreme court building as examples of the governments unwlao expenditures photo by paul ilorsdal ottawa nonhknhk about proteins and starches von must not eat proteins and starcliea at the same meal nays tlie faddist if this tlioory were carried out our meals would be inadequate and we should suffer from malnutrition in the midst of plenty yet this fad is pro claimed far and wide byquacka fad dists and lh adverti of isocalled special cures nature has combined proteins and nlnrchoa in many foods used by people from day to day green peas contain about 7 per rent or protein and on the average about tho same of starch who refuses to eat green peas on this ac count potntocm contain about 18 per cent of protein and 14 per cent canbo- hydrato and tlie human nystem still converts 50 per cent of protein into carbohydrate one of tho moit noted of the faddists who warn tin against the use of protein uiul ntarch advocate the use of whole wheat flour and thus swallown himself whole wheat flour in chiefly starch but it also cohuuns about 130 per cent of protein while wheat germ similarly ad vocated contains about equal quantities of protein and ntarch it is remarkablo how the advocates of nonsense continue to promote foldorol ntut with much nuocoflfl evenamong tho more enlightened members of the com- nmnlty the gullible portion of the publlo are much readier to accept the advice of tho charkitnn than they are to believe that of medically- trained opinion in consequence they and their families are tho sufferers mother nature knows more about food combinations than any raddlst there is not tlie slightest ground for believing that a food combination of proteins fltftrchefland carbohydrateii lo proper proportions will do any injury to the user ae a matter of fact the best diets are combinations of these food elements and if we wish to gain tlie highest benefits from our foods tlie diet must bo balanced lniofor as these elements are concerned the public should turn a deaf ear to the oftrcpcntcd nanscuso about proteins and marches j w 8 mcouuough md d4h of tho health league of canadil rush for regent so groat has been tho demand for the new runt resistant wheat regent that the present euply of need has been dis tributed and the names of many farmers have had to be placed on tlie list for unit consideration in tho 1040 distribu tion from tlie substantial quantities to be grown this year at tlie dominion ex perimental farms the seed of regent which has been distributed for this years sowing was grown under the- supervision of tlie cereal division at the dominion experimental farms at indian head bosk mordcn man and at a number of private farms under contract in mani toba and saskatchewan lltiyei lonirer iinarja there is a tiny delicate flowering vine in miniature whloh deserves to imtve linger longer added to its name of llnarla slnoe it is so persistent about living and thriving n crevices between steps or among tlie rocks of a rocfc gar den its common name is toadflax the tlowern of this trolling plant resemble miniature snapdragons and are a bluish- purple and a brilliant orange in coloring llnarla stays in bloom from spring until checked by tho frosta in fall as shown in tho accompanying illus tration the long threadllko stem of llnarla throws out roots as- wellas flaw- cm and therefore at this time of the year it can be easily increased by tlie simple method of division break or out away pieces of the idem that have toots attached ami plant in most cases tlie newly planted pieces will take hold im mediately and grow into thriving planted llnarla grows well in an ordinary soil but it has a preference for a sunny loca tion in tho fall ft can be potted fpr indoor use as a potted plant or in a hanging banket or vane false hopes an irishman tells this story about an extremely mean farmer who had been to a fair and bought a very secondhand horse after stabling it ho gave it some feed tlie animal refused to eat a little later it similarly refused water the fanners eyes gleamed hopefully oy golly he wild excitedly if only tills nags a good worker what a bargain ive made sallys sallies eskimos mioratino nortirward canadas eastern arctic eskimo are moving northward according to statistics compiled by the department of mines and resource ottawa which reveal that approximately one hundred natives have migrated north from southern baf fin inland during the pst five years tlio opening of a trading post at dundos harbour on devon island by the hudsons bay company marked the first i group movement of tho eskimos to the northern arctic attracted by the pos- slbllltloa of better hunting eleven fam ilies of eskimos from baffin island vol- untcered to settle on devon island and hunt in part of the arctic island pre- oervo created for them by the govern ment in 1034 the transfer of these natives was completed in 1034 when tho lmictnrnjlitjn jftoirnl iniulf 1i nnmml crulne aboard the nocople after a two yeam trial the trading post on devon island wan closed and at their own re- t quest arrangements were made to return tho eskimos to baffin island in september 1030- the 11 faihluob ofl homcnlck mon women and children j with 103 dogs boats kayaks tcnta and othor belongings were moved to arctic bay bn baffin island from which point i they woro to bo returned to thpir homes i in dorsot pangnlrtung and pond inlet however large herds of seals flighted during tho voyage down admiralty inlet made tho eskimos forgot their loneliness and they naked to be left at arctic bay whero a plentiful supply of game was evident success crowned tho efforts of the natives to oatabllsh themselves in tho vicinity of arctic bay the result that during tho winter tho wireless oper ator at arctic day sent a message on behalf of two of tho eskimos inviting their relatvles at cape dorset and lake harbour on hudson strait more tlian six hundred miles to i tho south to come north- to the better hunting grounds those nvltlatlonn were accepted and four more families woro taken to arctic bay by the eastern arctic patrol in 1037 new impetus was given to tho emkimo migration la 1037 by tlie establishment of a trading post at fort rom on bellot strait which separates somerset island from boothia beninnila four of tho eskimo romllleh who originally left southern baffin inland for devon island in 1034 offered to aid in the establish ment of the now post and wore trans ferred from arctic bay to fort ross during tlie winter of 1037 invitatloan from the eskimo settlers at both fort ross and arctic bay led to anotjior migration of 0 families comprising m members who wore carrlod north with tho histern arctic patrol of 1038 to join their relatives and friends in- tho new more free afternoons when 3 does your cooking vou really begin to enjoy life even in uia kitchen wlirn you have your modern electric range inntalteil for due to its controlltvl tempera tures meals practically cook tliemnrlvee no need for con stant potwatrliing and oven- pcekng latent fully automatic modcla even let you go out for an entire afternoonand return to a complete dinner perfectly cooked and ready to nerve anil think of the time and ilniiicry ynu nave iincaiiim the electric unripe in no clivm no more lilurkmed potfl and pans to scour curtains and walls stay bright and unsoiled start cooking tlie mmhrn klnctrm way today and enjoy morn time for living morn time to relax ant stay youiig hydro thrift plan stoves connected free and financed at 4 up to 3 years talbots hardware reils electric jtt leishman symon hardware hydro the rervnnt every home can afford slogan contest ends may 30lh leave your entry at the public utilitien office us envoy arrives in ottawa onto on kninn ajhdpnoblaa which i found intensely interesting and instruc tive i hope all tho girls enjoyed tr reunions talk as much as i did much to my regret i hud to miss part of tho program as i had to leave at 415 pm just as the chairman was about to introduce mrs dan mckco latly islltor of the canadian countryman i uas norely tcmptod to stay as i had never heard mrs mdcee speak but a promise is a promise and had i hngircd my friends would have been kept waiting down town it was a great day and we woro all home in time to got supper for out men folk so everybody was happy nettlemeriouttvirttroas and arctic bay not just tiikv jack insinuatingly jiow would you like to lend u friend live del lore torn id be only too glad to old fel low but i havent a friend in tho world mjtmfipif llavf mrs baggs my husband cant bear opera tlie opening bora alone are enough to send him home wtrswaggs well its the closing bars that send my husband home ron dojliel o roper lirft yormer secretary of commerce hi tha roosevelt administration arrives in ottawa with mrs roper to be greeted- by premier mackenzie king as he officially tummtum tlie post of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from united state ta canada