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Page 2 OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL D e s i g n e r s E m p h i s e S l i m L i n e s F o r S p r i n g F a s h ii o n s Thursday, April 30th, 1953 s | Paging The Women ^ Want An Outdoor Fireplace? Here's How To Get One By ELEANOR ROSS Bright spring sunshine, and An area against a stone fence can with it all sorts of suggestions, be framed in with additional ideas and actual plans for mak stone on two sides, and a grill in g living more pleasant, with added at the proper height. emphasis on outdoor activities But, usually, these simple and al fresco dining. expedients end up by being Now's the time to get all replaced by larger units once the steamed up about building an pleasure and ease of cooking and outdoor fireplace. Must be so, for eating out of doors is experienced. that's the project under discus Then comes the real, more elab sion or actually under way among orate, larger fireplace with metal so many of our friends. grids, doors, covers and such. First, there's the proper place Quarried stone is a favorite ma for that big outdoor fireplace. Ex terial for the big barbecue fire perts have discovered that it place. ^ v w should not only be near the Whatever the type or size of the house, but as near as possible to the kitchen so supplies will be al proposed fireplace, the support ways at hand without all that and sub-bed are of the greatest dragging and toting that can de importance. Where winter brings lay things so much. Then there's freezing temperatures and a re a word of caution anent the ele sulting heaving of the soil, either ments, with the thought that the of two supports may be the location should not be one sub choice. The foundation may be ject to blinding sun in the after carried below the frost line, or a noon, with poor smoke dispersal concrete slab somewhat wider due to lack of shelter from pre than the structure and six more vailing winds or with incorrect inches in thickness, may be used drafts. for the base. Different Types Time to Settle Outdoor barbecue fireplaces As to the sub-bed, the soil may be built of any number of materials in any size that is just A ould be thoroughly tamped and right for the household. A smudge fill given ample time to settle. pot equipped with a grill may The masonry must be tightly prove to be the easy and entirely (Continued on page 7) satisfactory answer for some folk. BUILDERS! - HOME OWNERS! SAVE ON SEPTIC TANKS USE " FCS" PRECAST THE ONLY TANK MADE IN ONE PIECE NO JOINTS OR SEAMS -- WATERPROOF AND LEAKPROOF We Deliver Anywhere On Short Notice CALL FOR INFORMATION FABRICATED CONCRETE SPECIALTIES LIMITED 785 3rd Street, Lakeview Ont. Phone CR. 8-7801 Get $50 to S1000 fast at HFC on your own signature. No bankable security needed. Up to 24 months to repay. Phone or stop in at Canada's largest, most recommended consumer finance organization. M O N E Y WHEN Y O U N E B } IT 0USEH0LD FINANCE 25Hi year in Canada ft. G . H a rrim a n , M a n a g e r 98 Colborne Street East, phone 2 4 6 0 OAKVILLE, ONT. M ILK .... the Best The trend toward a slimmer silhouette is evident in the latest spring designs. Typical of the new fashion line is the New York dsigned suit, left, of silk shantung imported from Italy. It features the " cylinder skirt" and wide notched collar jacket. The three-piece costume, centre, also in shan tung, has neat skirt with high midriff waistline, and Bolero jacket, lined in polka dot to match halter. The black sheer dress, right, also New York desi gned, has shirred skirt, halter bodice and brief white organdy bolero. Spring Tonic Just poppin' full of the vita11 mins and good ness a child or grown-up needs these days of early spring! So-o-o good! And just about the most economical health food you can buy. Journal YOUR MENUS By ALICE DENHOFF Vegetable roundup today, start ing off with a spinach notion that is really good. To serve 4, cook one lb. spin ach, drain and chop. Serve with mushroom sauce. To prepare sauce, cook, but do not brown, 8 oz. mushrooms in 2 tbsp. butter. Add one pt. rich milk. Blend tbsp. butter with 2 tbsp. flour. Add to milk; cook 8 minutes. This should be prepared while spinach is cooking so that the whole dish can be finished within 10 minutes. Cauliflower and Lobster Not strictly a vegetable dish, of course, but since this lobster dish requires a cauliflower, perhaps we can make an exception this time! To serve 4, wash and trim a ".Sail of cauliflower, leaving it whole. Soak in cold water with juice of a lemon. Put pint of wa ter in saucepan, add Vz tsp. salt. Stand cauliflower erect, flower side up. Steam for 30 minutes. Remove to chop plate and pour the lobster sauce over it. To prepare sauce, heat 3 tbsp. butter. Stir in one c. lobster meat When hot, stir in 3 tbsp. flour. When thoroughly blended, add 2 c. milk and Vz tsp. salt. Dust with pepper. Potato Puffs are really good and for 18 of them, sift once Vz c. sifted flour, measure, add IVz tsp. baking powder, % tsp. salt, dash of white pepper; sift again. Com bine one c. mashed potatoes and 2 well-beaten eggs; add dry in gredients. Drop by tsp. into deep fat (390 deg. F.) and fry until golden brown. Cooking LET'S EAT By IDA BAILEY ALLEN Good, homey American type food is still the basis of the meals served in the majority of the homes of this country. Tomor row's menu has been planned by Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale, who, in addition to her duties as home maker and mother is a vice presi dent of the National Council of Churches, and takes an active part in the work of United Church Women. Mrs. Peale's delightful menu is a typical family dinner planned to suit all tastes. Monday's Dinner Pineapple Juice Cinnamon Toast Sticks Chicken Fricassee with Rice Green Limas Spring Salad Bowl Deep-Dish Plum Pie Coffee Tea Milk Note: The chicken fricassee is a "planned-over" from Sunday's dinner. Cinnamon Toast Sticks To make this almost forgotten taste-treat, decrust slices of en riched bread and cut in strips %-in. wide. Brush with melted butter and toast Dust thickly with powdered sugar and cinna mon and bake 5 min. in a slow oven. Use 1% tsp. cinnamon to Vz c. powdered sugar. Forum MIXING BOWL By ANNE ALLAN TOWARD HAPPIER FAMILIES you are brave, you won't mind it" "I especially commend Madame Peale's recipe for the spring sal ad bowl," observed the Chef. "It calls for shredded carrots, lettuce and other miscellaneous greens cut in bite-sized pieces; diced to matoes and green peppers, and Cabbage au Gratin thinly sliced radishes. Add salt Cabbage as is may not prove a and pepper and chill. Just before hit but when served au gratin, serving toss with a tart French it calls for seconds. dressing." To serve 6, cut 4 c. cooked cab bage in small pieces. Place in Deep-Dish Plum Pie greased casserole. Add 2/3 c. grat Quarter and remove the pits ed American cheese to 2 c. hot from 1 (No. 2) can plums. Trans white sauce and stir until melted. Pour over cabbage; sprinkle with fer the fruit to a buttered baking Vz c. buttered bread crumbs. Bake dish about 2 in. deep. Stir in 1 at 350 deg. F. 25 to 30 minutes, tbsp. quick-cooking tapioca, V 2 tsp. or until well browned. sugar, V 4 tsp. nutmeg and Vz tsp. cinnamon. Cover with American pie pastry; press it onto the edges of the dish with the tines of a fork. Cut the top in 3 places so the steam can escape. Brush with milk and dust with Vz tbsp. gran ulated sugar. Bake in a hot oven, 400 deg. F., for about 30 min. "Tops in Taste" ICE CREAM With the young child over two or so, having ready a toy for Hello Homemakers! A shower him after the "ordeal" is over at for a bride is a special kind of the doctor's or dentist's can have By Garry Cleveland Myers, Ph.D. party. You see, it is a part of that good effect. Give him the toy aura of Romance, good wishes, Drug manufacturers have made "such a baby." Say as little as whether he cries or not, and thus gifts, flowers and trousseau that many medicines for children necessary and keep the voice soft build up in him pleasant associ surrounds her wedding -- that palatable. Most pediatricians, too, and low. To divert the child's at ations. treasury of memories she will ) ^ done sQ ^ their QWn ways tention immediately afterwards cherish all her life The party can j know one bab doctor who can prevent vomiting. be quiet and simple but we try crushes aspirin, for example, and Practically every youngster and add a touch of novelty. / mixes it with honey. FOR As the hostess, you set thei But good-tasting medicines can will get "shots" and will need time after making the date with ,lbe hazardous. Youngsters may first aid occasionally. At this the Q u a lit y M e a ts the bride on some pretext. Decide eat them for candy and take too physician is very nonchalant and skillful. Try to emulate his seren on the number of guests, all I r F ru its & V e g e ta b le s ity. Then there usually will be friends of the bride and the j .... , . , , theme. Plan for the presentation1 , Many \ chAd' ev® n at e^ t o r no expression of fear in the Groceries of the gifts and fcr refreshments.'(*?· ^ ha7 e £ oublf swallowing youngster. Even if you say not a Garden Shower: For the bride tablets, and all sorts of scenes word, your movements and way who will have a garden, appropri may arise over trying to get him of breathing can betray your PHONE ate gifts will help her develop a to take them. Usually, it's not fears which the little child easily " green thumb." Two girls may be the taste he objects to, but the senses. the purchasing agents for the unfamiliar experience involved. (P ro m p t D elivery) Wise Reply group and buy seeds, gardening Consult Physician tools, gloves and gardening books. The same principle applies in Phone 51 Dundas at Church Sts. Yet parents who are serene and Linen Shower: For quality and patient don't have much trouble ,1 his preparation for an operation lasting loveliness, linens are as over this matter. Mothers who or visit to the dentist. We can't welcome as ever. Present the gifts have great difficulty in getting | afford to tell him it won't hurt on a decorated clothes rack. or to warn him that it will. But if Laundry Shower: Use an indoor the young child to take medicine , he asks if it will hurt we can should consult their physician, R. E. H arris, Prop. clothes line as a gift and on it ' reply, "It will hurt a bit, but as peg pressing cloth, a peg bag, sometimes asking him to show | them how to proceed. starch, bag of soap and maybe a There still may be instances note as to ironing board and iron when a child of two, six or ten gift. Condiment Shower: Select will have to have medicine in the sauces, seasonings, spices, relish form of a solution forced into THE ST O R Y OF THE K IN G S L E Y SU fTO N es, a mustard jar, mayonnaise him. If quiet, persuasive meas ures fail then, put the me^cine dish and relish dishes. Wrap 'f t l LARGEST them separately and put them in away and map a plan for action. IS SET IN THE Have an assistant. As one of one large box. Label this boldly SOVEREIGN'S SCEPTRE IT WAS DECIDED BY EXPERTS, THAT, AND THE NEXT IN with such witticisms as "Sauce you pours out the medicine into FOLLOWING THE NATURAL CLEAVAGES, THE STATE CROWN. for the Goose" or "Spice of Life." a spoon out of the child's sight, THE DIAMOND SHOULD BE CUT INTO FOUR THE TWO REMAINING Kitchen Shower: Turn a table the other will hold him in the PARTS. THE WORK WAS ENTRUSTED TO STONES ARE SET IN into an old-fashioned brick oven. most effective manner. Then the CELEBRATED DIAMOND CUTTERS FROM THE CROWN MADE FOR Cover the sides to the floor with medicine will quickly but gently AMSTERDAM. SO GREAT WAS THE SKILL THE QUEEN CONSORT. brick-designed crepe paper. Cover be put into him. Don't squeeze REQUIRED FOR THIS OPERATION, THAT IT IS DIFFICULT TO ONE TREMOR OF THE MALLET OR CHISEL the table top with black paper on the poor child's nose. Merely put ESTIMATE THE VALUE WOULD HAVE: MARRED THE GREATEST which stove plates can be sketch the spoon back far enough on his OF THE STARS OF STONE OF ALL AGES! AFRICA FOR NONE ed by tracing plates with chalk. tongue to cause swallowing. THE FOUR PORTIONS ARE KNOWN AS BUT ROYALTY COULD Make a stove pipe by covering Sometimes a child from three THE STARS OF AFRICA . WEAR THEM. pablum boxes with black paper. to six will take any kind of medi -- -- E* Arrange the gifts on the top of cine or submit to first aid or to the stove--frying pan, tea kettle, the application of a spray if he saucepan, double boiler with egg can pretend he's an Indian or lifter, ladle, slotted spoon in the soldier, when he would refuse to utensila. You may also include a do so otherwise. 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