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THf COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT. MARCH 20, 1952 Hi Help The Red Cross SALADA TEA Pruning Fruit Trees Pruning and dormant spraying Of fruit trees should be completed within the next month or so. They fre inescapable for every fruit tree. While pruning is being done, sucker growth should be cut out. These tall, thin stems that shoot straight up from the branches into the center of a tree should be cut off clean. They are most likely to appear on plum, cherry and old apple trees. Suckers or water sprouts never bear fruit. This is a good time to feed any fruit tree that has been planted a year or longer. A complete balanced fertilizer may be scattered On the ground under the tree at the rate of one pound for every year of growth up to fifteen. Young trees should be protected with •ylinders of wire mesh or guards before spring brings hungry rabbits to nibble at the bark. Wonderful Idea! Wrap and tie! Easy as pie! It's the new Snappy-Wrap 1 As shown, •11 beautiful with pansy pockets irou wear it as an apron round the house. Make it again in wool to wear with skirts! Pattern 844; tissue pattern in medium size; transfer for pansies. •Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Such a colourful roundup of handiwork ideas! Send twenty-five cents now for our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Catalog. Choose your patterns from our gaily illustrated toys, dolls, household and personal accessories. A Free Pattern for a handbag is printed in the book! Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee Q. Is it proper to send a birthday greeting card to a member of a bereaved family shortly after the death has occurred? A. Yes, any thoughtfulness of this kind is never improper. However, the card should not be of the frivolous type, nor should it wish "a happy birthday."' A "thinking of you on your birthday" card would be appropriate. Q. Is it proper for a married woman to use her maiden name as a middle name after she is married? A. Yes, this is the established custom. In other words, Dorothy Ruth Smith marries John Henry Jones, and she then becomes Dorothy Smith Jones. Q. Should the word "dear" be capitalized in the salutation of a letter, as, "My Dear Mrs. Jones?" No; it is written, "My dear Mrs. Jones." Q. What are suitable materials for the wedding gown at an informal spring or summer wedding? A. Organdy, batiste, pique or white cotton net are suitable. A short veil can be worn, or a small cap, lace handkerchief or picture hat. Crepe, linen or cotton shoes are worn, either white or the same color as the dress. Gloves are not necessary. If the wedding to to be outdoors, garden flowers make a suitable bouquet. ' Q. When cheese is served with apple pie, should it be eaten with the fork or the fingers? A. Usually it's more convenient to eat it with the fork. But it's not improper to pick it up with the fingers if you choose. Q. What should a person do when he has completed introducing two persons? A. He should try immediately to draw the two new acquaintances Q. What is the proper way to eat bread at the table? A. It should be broken into convenient sized pieces and each piece is buttered separately. Small pieces of the crust may be used to assist in getting bits of food from the plate onto the fork. Q. Is it ever permissible for a woman to place her purse and gloves on the restaurant table while eating? A. Never; she should keep these articles in her lap. Q. How long before the scheduled time of the wedding should the ushers appear at the church? A. They should be on hand at least an hour beforehand. It is part of their duty to welcome the guests and conduct them to their seats. Q. How much room should be allowed for each guest at a dinner table? A. A space of from 16 to 20 inches. This is called the "cover," and each cover should be definitely marked with a service plate. IT'S A DIG! A man's extremely jealous wife threatened him on her death-bed: "Now Robert, if when I die, you should start chasing other women, I'll dig myself up from the grave and haunt you." The man was very resourceful; he buried her face down. "Dig," he said. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS -„ p,nf I. By way ot ™; |e,.pfn, I. Extend a r>OWN ). Kind of ?i 1! ■ - I. Plnyint < 5. gemaie 1 2. Syllable of childhood 7. Sensitive 8. English ncboo 0. Chare, 1. Articl* ». Ancient Irlsfc city Deceived Egg-shaped carriage Metal 3 4 6 8 0 12 j II 4 16 '3 20 "2 ti il " ' 3! • Ti 3: 37 41 ■ - ■ is 50 "r" 56 :• 59 60 61 Suited To A TEA -- With her skirt a rather unstable table, set with cups for tea for two, Rosanne Bennett was a walking tea party at the Mardi Gras Ball held by New York's Junior League. Besides the table-cloth skirt, the tea-party effect tea-pot hat, of teaspoons, knives and forks, bracelet decorated with tea-strainers rings i the form of tiny tea-cups. Chronicles %ingerFarm <p Gven.doli.rve P Clarke Answer Elsewhere on This Pag« Which would you say is the more sensitive--our sense of sound, or of sight? That is to say which sense makes a better job of carrying sympathetic impulses to the brain? Or is there a difference in different people? What makes me wonder is this: All last week I had been hearing harrowing details by radio of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Of course it worried me to think of the dire consequences to the unfortunate farmers in the affected area. But it wasn't until I saw pictures in the papers that the it affected the cattle, really hit full realization of the tragedy, as me. There was the huge pit; the poor diseased cattle standing there, unknowingly waiting for the 1 slaughter. That really got ir.J| down. And yet, since they hSnP to be killed, how better cou'd it be done? Being herded together would not frighten the poor beasts because range cattle are used to being run into corrals and herded together in just that way. It was just the expression in their limpid trusting eyes that got me down. Foot and mouth disease is a major disaster for Canada--and it will be a little while yet before we know to what extent ;t wi'l affect national economy. The other night Daughter phoned and she was in quite a way about it, partly because it is in the area where we lived when we were out on the prairie. One thing we do know, the people out West will take this disaster in their stride as they have taken others -- drought, floods, grasshoppers and earl<*ftjst. Kxjfept for all this bad news it has gEen a wonderful week--more contShioiis sunshine than we have had.«H-winter. Which he'ped me a lot* because I was experiencing a few troubles of my own. A cold for one thing, and then I left the lights on in the car and.ran the battery down so completely the car wouldn't start at all--just when I specia'ly wanted it, of course. Answering fan mail has also kept me pretty busy. Not in connection with this column but as a result of a recent article in the Family Herald and Weekly Star. Yesterday, to get away from it al!.^ Bob took us over to see the Ford plant near Oakvil'e. That served two purposes--it gave us a bit of battery. When we got home Partner and I were both so happy in the realization that our farm is in a quieter part of the country. Thank heaven industrial expansion has not yet caught up with us. But since we live on a Queen's Highway there is no telling how soon that day will cone. It was strange looking around the Oakville district. Residential Oakville has always been ^ so very be entirely out of character. No doubt some of the older residents are pretty sick about it. There was not much to see 'at the Ford plant--except large areas of good, arable farm land laid waste where huge shovels and bulldozers had been in operation. Activities have been temporarily suspended. We passed the McKendrick farm where the shell of the old alfalfa processing plant stood like a ghost of the past--but a comparatively recent past. For a year or two.this plant gathered up surplus alfalfa from the farmers ior miles around, and then dried and ground the alfalfa into meal which was then shipped for export. It was a new "To be quite honest, you're a fool for even wanting to know it!" venture and showed great promise but falling export prices and winter killing of alfalfa changed the picture. We wondered if at any time this industry would be re- We also passed the King Paving Plant where all kinds of heavy road equipment stood ready and begin again their work of . . . improvement or destruction, depending on how you look at it. We passed a farm where a new combine was sitting out in the field--no doubt it had .been there all winter. Few farms have facilities for housing oversized equipment. We noticec* a small house, crying out for a coat of paint^-with a television aerial that practically covered the roof. We came back to Ginger Farm --and here, too, we saw things that needed fixing--unfinished improvements left over from last fall; painting to be done; wood to be gathered--but thank goodness, it is still our home in the country. Save Yourself Steps, Fatigue Disorder, poor equipment and improper use of equipment cause many kitchen accidents, reports Alberta department of agriculture home specialists. Others are caused by fatigue. When a person is tired, things go wrong. Hands fumble, feet trip and eyes fail to see the possible danger. The bureau of human nutrition and home economics planned and built a kitchen to show homemak-ers how to eliminate fatigue hazards. The kitchen is well equipped, arranged and lighted. Extra steps, stoops and reaches which contribute to fatigue are eliminated. In the bureau kitchen everything is kept as near as possible to the place it is used most. If certain equipment is used in more than one part of the kitchen it is duplicated at each centre to save steps Paring knives are near the sink. Vegetable knives, measuring spoons and cups are near the mix ing dish- Pull-o - the st shelves that used for st-down job; table that carries heavy loads tc the dining room, and counters or one level so that things may b< slid along instead of lifted are al features of this well planned kit- Fame May Hang On Your Family Tree Miss Pearl Watson, a Canadian business woman, went to England recently determined to look up her people. Within a fortnight she had not only proved her kinship to the King, but had discovered she was related to twenty noble families, two of which were graced back through the Norman Conquest to link her descent from the Emperor Charlemagne. Eagerly Miss Watson bought an illuminated script of her family free and ordered oil paintings on wood of the coats of arms of the Watsons. Like 80,000 other overseas visitors last year, she was a satisfied customer of Britain's queerest export trade, the traffic At the offices of the Society of Genealogists, in Bloomsbury, anyone can thumb through a card index of 3,000,000 families for little more than the price of a Canadian movie ticket. For a fee of two guineas a day skilled experts are available, adept in reading crabbed handwriting and archaic script, ready to probe the roots of a family through 11,000 parish registers and over 30,000 volumes of history. A Boston business man was having snob trouble with neighbours who boasted kinship with George Washington. A member of the Society of Genealogists solved his problem by proving his own descent from a much more ancient ancestor, a boy who sailed with the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower. The Boston client was so delighted that he. doubled his fees. In Tennessee a librarian named Wallace Jones discovered that Lady Godiva was his great (29 times) grandmother. He was so proud that he spent over $5,000 to travel to Coventry and pay homage at her statue. Then John Shakespeare Hart, of Illinois, went to England to trace his link with William Shakespeare. Within ten days, so efficient are the ancestor hounds, he found himself shaking hands with his distant cousin, Harold Hart, a West Wycombe engineer whose great (9 times) grandmother was the playright's sister. Nor was this all. He even learned that he could claim family ties with the Queen, who is descended from Shakespeare's great-great-great-grandmother! No wonder there's a brisk mail order business in family trees an a certainty that ancestors offer value for money. Only one Englishman in 10,000 knows his pedigree. One American in 120, however, cherishes a family tree. And, by the.way, do you know that some of your ancestors are now baptized Mormons? The Mormons spend enormous sums in the ancestor trade, for their Church insists that all Mormon ancestors should be baptized by proxy. Hard at work in Edinburgh at present, a Utah searcher is methodically combing through 3,500 ^ Scottish parish registers. In Ealt L*ake City, standing-in as a proxy, one man has already undergone 3,000 baptisms and the queue at the font now extends back 600 years. VERSATILE A famous actor, reminiscing about his early days in show business, related that once he was so hard up he had to eat the performing parrot. "What on earth did it taste like?" asked the interviewer. "Oh," replied the actor, "chicken, wild duck, grouse, turkye -- that parrot could imitate anything." Splitting And ih« RELIEF IS LASTING For fast relief from headache get Instantine. For real relief get Instantine. For prolonged relief get Instantine! • Yes, more people every day are finding that Instantine is one thing to ease pain fast. For headache, for rheumatic pain, aches and pains of colds, for neuritic or neuralgic pain you can depend on Instantine to bring you quick comfort. Instantine is made like a prescription of three proven medical ingredients. A single . tablet usually brings A /mat relief. Instantine 12-TabletTln25* Economical 48-Tablet Bottle 75c Itch...Itch...Itch I Was Nearly Crazy Until I discovered Dr. D. D Dennis' aiasloglj Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking gag BEBOH BOH cnnannnED aura DEED UOB HEDE □□nana dee EBD DEDD EEEB gEDDEH EBaBIIB DEED BOW EDO □n □□□□ □□Jan __□□□ □□□□□□ EKED EEC EEOa BEE □□□OEBHan □ED □□PEG DUE ISSUE 12 -- 1952 Luscious HONEY BUN R.ING- Quick to make with the new Fast DRY Yeast • Hot goodies come puffin' from your oven in quick time with new Fleischmann's Fast DRY Yeast! No more*spoiled cakes of yeast! No more last-minute trips -- this new form of Fleischmann's Yeast keeps in your cupboard! Order a month's supply. Meanwhile, measure into a largi bowl y2 c. lukewarm water, 1 tsp granulated sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved. Sprinkle with 1 envelope Fleischmann's Fast Rising Dry Yeast. Let stand If) mins., THEN stir well. Add c rated 1 oled i 1 well-beater il!: i dough. Cover and. set in \.a place, free from draught Let i until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough and roll out into an oblong about 9" wide and 24" lon>:; loosen dough. Combine c. lightly-packed brown sugar and y2 c. liquid honey; spread over (lough and sprinkle with c. broken walnuts. BesrinninK at 1 lelyrollt " i 1 1, .dl,- .Lift c •efully fted bread flour: beat unit smooth. Work in 2 c. (about! nce-sifted bread (lour, k'nead n lightly-floured board uir.il mooth and clastic. Place in reased bowl and grease top of