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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., OCTOBER H, 1945 Having separated the skins and the pulp from three baskets ol grapes; and having on the Istove to i perchance, snatch a few to have a chat,with you. When I was leaving the kitchen just "Come quickly, Mom, before too late . . .see what's on the ' dow-sill.' dining-room sill what did I but a real live hen-pheasant, fortunately the bird and it flew down and Feathered foul around here seem to be fond of finding queer places in which to roost. We keep an egg pail hanging trom a beam in the hen-pen and yesterday what should I find but a pullet making her nest in that same pail. How she i got 1 the know. And every night big chstnut tree at the back of the house there are about twenty-five chickens -- some pullets, some roosters, perched on the highest branches of the tree. We are not afraid of chicken thieves getting them because before anyone could climb the tree the birds would be squawking and fluttering to the ground. Naturally birds that are fond of the high spots are not too particular where they lay their eggs so that we find nests in the most inaccessible places. A favourite place is in the straw mow where Relieve Headache Quick! Take ASPIRIN It's ready to go to work in HP 2 seconds lo prove how fast Aspiri to go to work, just drop glass of water. "Clock" its disin ing action with a stopwatch. two seconds, you'll see disintegrate. It does the s: stomach. That's why it aches so quickly. Get Aspirin today! The "Bayer" cros: on each tablet i your guari that it's Aspi AsPIRIh #VW-NewLo£Prices! Pocket box of 12s. .T"! only 18c Economy bottle of 24 . . only 29c Family size of 100 . . . only 79c Well, how does everybody being back on standard Personally we haven't noticed any difference at all We get up at the time as before, irrespective of clocks--only it just our dinner. Which just reminds me of something I was thinking about the other day. Circumstances drove me to the conclusion that it doesn't pay to be out of step with the rest of the world. It was like this: For the first time in--I don't know how many years--we didn't put in an appearance at our local fair. Partner is still in the hospital and I didn't feel much like going. But still I had to go down town some time to I thought it might be a good idea to get my shopping done while the rest of the folks were fairing. But it didn't work out that way. You see every store I went to had a notice t.tcked up--"Closed until 5.p.m." So you see what I mean when I say it doesn't pay to be out of step with the rest of the world, particularly in one's own com- Now I must fly--my ears and nose tell me that my grapes are no longer simmering--they are boiling over. Bob says it smells like a still in the house. I must make a note of that and ask him what he knows about stills. And now the telephone is ringing. . . The grapes have been pushed to one side, I don't feel much like attending to them now because the telephone call was from Daughter. She had just came from the hospital and left her Dad just coming out from an anaesthetic--an anaesthetic which was necessary for an examination that had to be made. Now I'm wondering whether I should be there. I was at the hospital yesterday, and shall be tomorrow but right now I am here and wishing I was there. Oh dear . . . It's Easy To Soften Hard Brown Sugar Iri this day- when no housewife handles sugar with reckless hands, the bricklike aspect sometimes assumed by brown sugar can be especially baffling, according to the Christian Science Monitor. But there's an easy way to soften it, so that it can be measured just as thriftily as its present value dictates. First, break the sugar up--using a hammer or hatchet if necessary (but carefully!)--sufficiently to get it into a jar or can for which you have a tight cover. Then put in with .the sugar, a slice of bread and cOver the jar. That's all there is to it! In a. few days, the sugar will be in a soft and measurable state. w, uy colour me/cf ILL-FABRIC Tmtex DYES n't kill "Mac," New York kitty, but it top photo Mac pokes around a box and knocks off the out there! Well, we told you, Mac -- and that wasn't any u got; it was "V-J," a turtle, who nipped your nose. TABLE TALKS Sapper Dishes With a golden sunset, an- autumn breeze and a purple haze over the fields we wonder what's cooking for supper. Perhaps Mother will catch the spirit of the evening and serve a typically autumn supper. The three i suggestions given by the Consumer Section of the Dominion Department of Agriculture are for good hot supper dishes. The stuffed peppers have a grand flavor and the meat pancakes are guaranteed to make a hit with men folk. Stuffed Peppers 1 cup macaroni or spaghetti, x/i inch pieces 4 cups boiling water 1 teaspoon salt : red . gree peppers cup chopped 2 tablespoons fat 1 cup ground cooked beef 1 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper 1 tablespoon chopped parsley J4 cup whole wheat bread Cook the macaroni or spaghetti in salted boiling water for 20 minutes; drain and rinse. Meanwhile cook the peppers 5 minutes in salted boiling water. Rinse in cold water, cut in half lengthwise or crosswise, remove the seeds, drain well. Saute the onion in fat until clear, add beef, salt, pepper, parsley, then macaroni or spaghetti: mix thoroughly. Remove,, from heat. Fill the peppers with Sprinkle the bread crumbs on moderately hot c until peppers an shrivelled, about top and bake i fen, 375 deg. tender but n Six- Meat Pancakes 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour OR 2% cups sifted pastry 3 teaspoons baking powder ingeric lovely that will n p - it fits so well! Pattc lcludes matching panties ai l/2 teaspoon salt 1V2 cups milk 2 eggs, well beaten 1 tablespoon fat, melted 1 cup ground cooked beef Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add milk to beaten eggs and stir into dry ingredients; mix until smooth, add melted fat and meat. Pour from a pitcher or quarter-cup measure on to a hot, lightly greasted griddle. Cook until edges are done and bubbles on top begin to break. Turn and cook on other side Serve at once with tomato sauce. Makes 10 pancakes about 5 inches in diameter. Egg Plant Creole 3 tablespoons fat Vz small green pepper, cut in 2 tablespoons chopped onion 1 medium eggplant, peeled and Salt and pepper Melt fat in frying pan. Add chopped green pepper and onion, *aud cook for a few minutes. Add eggplant. Cover ani sceam for jibout 5 minutes. Peel and chop tomatoes, add to eggplant and cook uncovered until eggplant ;s tender, about 15 minutes. Season to taste. Six servings. How Can 11 By Anne Ashley Q. How can I determine the correct time for boiling chicken, fish, and ham? A. A good table is: Chicken, per pound, 20 minutes. Fish, per pound, 10 minutes. Ham, per pound, 25 Q. How can I give a white layer cake a good flavor? A. When baking a white layer cake, a very delicate flavor may be obtained by placing two or three rose-geranium leaves in the bottom of the pan. Remove them when the cake is put together- Q. Should iron utensils be boiled before using? A. Yes; before using new uten-boil the Wh the .< : the A. Wash in one gallon of water to which has been added one table-spoonful borax dissolved in a little boiling water. Q. How can I prevent the linen tablecloth from sticking to the ta- A. A piece of waxed paper or oil-fioth placed under the linen which overs a table will prevent sticking polished surface during hot ■r. It also prevents stains overturned receptacles. Britain Tries Out New Small Thresher lue simple harvester of spe- lall f ■ bcin t Evesham in England. Although it costs no more than a binder the machine threshes standing corn (wheat) and preliminary trials over fifteen acres have shown it does- the work smoothly and speedily. The grain is guided by prongs in the front of the harvester so that the beads tHcshcd and then released. A sacking board at the back carries two sacks of grain. The Yorkshire Post states that apart from the size and cost it differs from the ordinary combine harvester in that it does not cut corn but simply threshes it, leaving the straw standing in the field. IN ACRAfKER ITS THAT COUNTS Crisp, oven-fresh flavour . . . t tender texture... perfect baking... all add up to Christie Quality. No wonder folks Prefer Christie's Premium Soda Crackers! Christies Biscuits iformly ______ DARK LIGHTNING HELEN TOPPING MILLER CHAPTER I Mona Lee Mason was lost the moment she looked at Gary Tall-man, standing there waiting for a ride at the filling station. He had sandy, curly hair and an engaging smile, and he walked up calmly and with naive confidence. "I'm Gary Tallman, from Alabama," he said, in an educated voice overlaid with a southern drawl. "Would you let me ride into town with you? I missed the bus, and it's pretty important that I get into San Antonio tomorrow. I assure you that I'm perfectly safe. You can have this man search me, if Mona Lee looked at him. He was a nice looking young man, with frank gray eyes- His tan riding pants and boots had cost money, and his one suitcase was of good leather. She said as kindly as she could, "I'm not in the habit of picking up "Naturally," he agreed. "I knew that when I looked at you." 'My husband--" began Mona Lee i He': probably a very husband." He smiled at her. "But I'm a petroleum engineer from--" he named a good university--• "on the way to a job." "My son-in-law is in oil. Leases." Mona Lee mentioned the company, stalling for time. "Up with the big fellows, is he? I've been trying to get in there, but they're not taking on any geo-physic men. But there's a chance in Mexico -- if you're willing to work cheaply." Gary Tallman smiled-- For the last seventeen years, Mona Lee Mason had been feeling a sick jerk of agony whenever she saw a tall boy with sandy, curly hair. Because little Phil would have grown up looking like that -- tall and swaggering and audacious, with hair exactly this color. "I don't go all the way to town," Mona Lee told him. "Our place is two miles this side. But probably you can- get a ride the rest of the The boy put his suitcase on the floor in the back. But he opened the front door and got in beside her. the fields?" she asked- "Pretty hard "I've been rigging -- and that is tough. Especially if you're itching to be doing something that you've been trained to do." "My son," Mona Lee went on, "is third year law at the University "Swell school." approved her passenger. Mona Lee thought of Harvey Junior -- dark and lean and tall, dark like her but not like her in other ways -- he was too quick and smooth and sarcastic. Not much like his father, either. Har-' vey Senior was blunt and earthyv and direct. Mona Lee admitted to herself that she was a little afraid of her son. But little Phil would have been like this stranger here. Phil had loved the soil and had always opened his big gray eyes wide and told the truth naively. "The law," Gary Tallman., wet on, "is pretty crowded. Your hu band 'is in law ' "Oh, • he's He grade Brahma stock buys cattle." She felt his eyes move over her and was glad that her new spring suit and her straw hat were becoming. She was forty-three, but the young boys still danced with her at parties, and that pleased Harvey though he wouldn't say so. They had been married twenty-four years, and they had been happy This boy talked well. He had seen a lot of the world. His father, so he said, was in cotton in Brazil and his mother had died when he was seven. Mona Lee felt a chocking lump of sympathy at that. She loved boys so much. She mothered every lanky male creature Harvey hired on the place. The irony was that she had never been able to mother Harvey Ju-all. Nor her young son-in- . Oliv mball. Harvey Junior had always been terribly self-sufficient, resenting authority, reading books that worried his mother. But this boy here in the car was pleasantly easy. He had been around the world on a tramp freighter, he told her. He had worked, rigging wells and wading hot mud in a Louisiana s be i "In ' she said. >rkcd i ilayed football fall, and waited on tables in the dormitory to get through school. My father married again -- and though my stepmother's a good scout, she has three kids of lier own, and I didn't want to take help from them." She ind herself telling him about her daughter, Adelaide, i was fair and calm and quick-minded like Harvey. "She didn't want to go to college. She's at home this year, but I think she's a little bit lost. She has beaux hanging around, but I don't think she cares much about any of them." "You," said the boy abruptly, "have good hands for a horse. In Brazil last year, I rode a lot. Those fellows down there are terrific on horseback." Mona Lee smiled a little. "Son, I grew up in a western saddle. And I can generally make a horse do what I want him to do." "Does your daughter ride, too?" "She used to. And then her father bought her a little car and now she savs horses don't go fast enough. This is our place now -- it begins at this fence." "Good looking cattle," approved Gary Tallman. "Every last head of that herd is eligible for registry. Of course, some of our stuff is just beef stuff.--" "Look out!" barked the boy. HARNESS & COLLARS Farmers Attention -- Consult your nearest Harness Shop about Staco Harness Supplies. We sell our goods only through your local Staco Leather Goods dealer. 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