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ap Top, LS LINE AE per Sins a oe re we bo Sg IA 2 Lr Fortoy RI ALS 3 LSS ERAS SANA SRG A ENA « by [aina Wheeler Embroidery in varied colors or in white or one color can trans- form last year's dress and make you feel it's really new. Easy stitchery, . Be in style -- embroider your dress! These motifs are in single and outline stitch, Pattern 796 has transfer of neckline, sleeve, pocket motifs. Send TWENTY CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. More Sunlight Needed In Homes Apart from a pleasant disposi: tion of the people in a home, prob- ably nothing helps to create a cheerful spirit so much as having bright rooms in which one spends most of hig daylight hours, says the Kitchener Record. Yet a survey made by Lever Brothers Ltd, Toronto, shows that Ontario houses are among the poorest planned in Canada from the standpoint of getting sun- shine indoors. Houses crammed end to end in poorly planned rib- bon development deprive houses holders of sunlit rooms. Over a quarter of the homes in the citidy, and small towns of this province need artificial light in some room of the house during the daytime, On farms one would expect" spa- cious surroundings to allow sun- light indoors. Surprising, there- fore, is the finding that 1 per cent of Ontario farm houses need lights on during the day. Clustered out- buildings added to the main build ing are reported as the reason. Most of this lack of natural lighting ig the result of poor plan- ning. 'British Puddings Same But Costlier It will be an austerity Christ mas in Britain again for the trad- itional plum pudding. Manufactur- ers will not he permitted to in- crease quantity or improve quality and the only difference from war- time years is a price increase of 2d (4 cents) per pound. Only two sizes are permitted--one pound, costing 2s 2d, and two pounds, at 8s 11d. A 2 73 Here's an apron that really "fits you, no matter what size you wear. Pattern 4930 has extra length, snug waist and stay-put straps. A pretty coverall for work or hos- tessing! Pattern 4930: 84); med. (18-20, (40-44); ex. large (46-50). Med, 2 yds, 35-in. Send TWENTY CENTS (20¢) in ceins (stampp cannot be accept ed) for this pattern to Room- 421, 98 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Print plainly SIZE, NAME, 'AD- DRESS, STYLE NUMBER, small (14-16, 32- 36-38); large. THE PICK OF TOBACCO "It does taste qood in a pipe" Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee 1. How and where should a wom- an pay her bill when she has been staying alone at a hotel for several days, and is ready to leave? 2. When a man is eating in a pub- diningroom, and a woman stops to speak to hm, should he rise? 3. How long should a person re- main when making a social call? 4. Should the guests be provided with plates and napkins for their canapes at a cocktail party? 6. When a man leaves a room, and says good-by to a group of girls, should he avoid turning his back towards them? 6. Should a woman show the same regard for her associates as a man, in asking permission to smoke? ANSWERS 1. Ask for the bill to be sent to your room, that the items may be checked and totaled. Then pay the bill at the desk. This will save time in going over the items at the desk. 2. Yes, always. 3. From 13 to 25 minutes is long enough. 4. No; neither plates nor napkins are necessary, as canapes are taken with the fingers and eaten in one or two bites. 5. Yes; this can be avoided very gracefully with a lit- tle practice. 6. Yes. TABLE TRLKS.. Beet Jam, Beet Relish, Beet Pickles This week's recipes from the Consumer Section of the Domin- ion Department of Agriculture in- clude a recipe for jam and two of their most popular recipes for beet pickles. For those who, any day now, will be bringing in beets from the garden to store for winter use, here arc a few reminders. Beets keep best at a temperature be- tween 33 deg. F and 38 deg. F. To keep them crisp in storage, evapo- ration should be prvented, so a covering of sand is called for. Twisting, rather than cutting the tops off reduces bleeding and this helps not only to preserve the col- or but also to prevent decay. Ruby Jam 4 cups peeled, finely chopped beets 2 cups peeled, finely chopped carrots 2 cups boiling water 8 cups sugar pints, 2 lemons, grated rind and juice 3 oranges, grated rind and juice 4 teaspoon allspice 14 teaspoon cloves 14 teaspoon cinnamon Y4 teaspoon ginger Boil vegetables in water for 20 minutes. Add sugar, bring to a boil and boil 10 minutes, Add grat- ed rind and juice of lemons and oranges, and spices; boil until thick, about 15 minutes. Pour into hot, sterilized jars, cool and seal. Yield, about 3 pints. Pickled Spiced Beets 15 'large beets 3 large white onions 1 teaspoon celery seed 1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon mustard seed .Y teaspoon ground cinnamon ¥% cup brown sugar 5 cups vinegar Boil beets until tender, peel and ° slice. Pecl and slice onions and mix with beets. Pack in hot steri- lized jars. Add spices and sugar to vinegar, bring to boiling point and pour over beets; seal. Yield, 4 Beet Relish 2 qts. cooked chopped beets 1 qt, finely shredded cabbage 1 cup grated horseradish (optional) £ cups vinegar 1 teaspoon salt V4 teaspoon pepper Mix all ingredients, put into sterilized jars and seal. Yield about 4 pints. 100,000 New Radios Before Christmas The Canadian radio will deliver 100,000 new radio sets to Canadian buyers before Christe smas "and should be able to meet the full demand within a year," R. M. Brophy, : president of the Radio Manufacturers' - Association of Canada, said last week. He was addressing a joint meeting of the United States and Canadian asso ciations of radio manufacturers, Britain Reclaims Two Ocean Liners The super liners Queen Eliza- beth and Aquitania were ordered . withdrawn from U.S. troop trans port service last week. The order was effective imme- diately and was expected to slow the repatriation of American troops since the liners had a ca- . pacity of about 40,000 troops. The vessels will be used to re- patriate British troops from the Far East. Chrislies | PREMIUM SODA (0: 9:101 44183 CB-1145W A ern Wrenn SR -- Just break a Christie's Premium Soda Ouackae in two . . . see for yourself hoy delightfully crisp it is. And bow thit crisp, tender texture adds to your eating enjoyment! Mmm / Christie's Biscuits COUGH SYRUP WY VENO'S (Ty plief COUGHS - coLDs r BRONCHITIS (0 ASTHMA industry - ALL FOR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS J vim #5 SUKKIGS same) With the $100 clothing allowance after' discharge, former C W.A.C. volunteers can purchase a complete civilian wardrobe that is both practical and attractive, says Miss Eve Trill, stylist and fashion show commentator of Ottawa. .Miss Trill is pictured.left, describ ing the model budget to Capt. Doran McKordy, Victoria, B.C, officer commanding No. 12 Admin Unit C.W.A.C.,, Ottawa. The budget allows for dying and altering Army greatcoat, cape and DARK LIGHTNING By HELEN TOPPING MILLER - CHAPTER 1V Adelaide's eyes were wide and excited, 'Gary -- we could find out, couldn't we? Could you tell if you had a map?" "Not definitely. I know there's a fault that runs through this area -- and you sce this?" He crumbled the bit of frock in his fingers. "Sul- phur in that -- smell it? Where there's sulphur there's oil, usual iy. . "Oh, Gary -- let's get a map! Let's go now. We needn't tell any- one about it -- till you know more about it." Her face was flushed and eager, her eyes burning. He tossed the crumbled clod away and was ab- ruptly sorry he had said anything about it, Probably he was wrong anyway. Every young fellow who had a couple of letters on a degree had a dream of some day finding the biggest oil strike of all. And oil was like lightning -- dark lightning. Where it struck, the peaceful earth was never the same again. "Yes," he said slowly. "We can probably get a map. And an ex perienced geophysicist could praba- bly tell whether there's any de- finite promise here or not. What I've learned was how to get oil out of the ground after someone else located, but I wouldn't want to advise your father to hire geologists -- not yet, anyway -- not just on my word." ° . ° suddenly "Oh, but if there should be oil under this place, Gary, Dad would be glad to hire any number of people. If you should find some- thing -- and it turned out to be im- portant -- we'd be terribly rich, wouldn't we? And you wouldn't have to go to Mexico. You could stay here and work for Dad." "You mean -- you'd want me to stay?" Stumbling along, his feet feeling wooden, he could not look at her. His head was buzzing, Her light answer was like cold water thrown into his burning face. "Oh, but of course! We have fun. I can talk sense to you apd not have to listen to a lot of awful non: sense about my hair and my eyes and all that. dreamy. stuff." "I see. So you want to go on -- talking sense?" "Of course. You've no idea what a relief it is." "All right," he said, a little flat, "Well talk sense, then," "And we'll go straight off and see if we can find a map. Gary -- if it's true -- I want you to tell Dad." It was not easy to find a map. They tried a half-dozen places, and Gary saw the old, avid, half-suspi- -~cious look come into the cyes of the men from whom he inquired. Like the widened nostrils of a wolf on the scent, like the taut suspen- sion of movement that stiffens a crowd when a voice cries "Firel" LJ "They're all alike," he told Ade- faide. "I can walk into any hotel in this state and just say 'oil' to somebody in a low tone -- and every man in the place will watch me after that, and a lot of them would follow me." "I'd follow you, too. Oh, Gary, I'm so excited!" "Ever hear the story of the well rigger who got to heaven and the place was so crowded he couldn't get in?" "No, I'll bite. What did he do?" "He stuck his head in through the gate and yelled, 'They've struck oil in hell" And in five seconds, flat, half the crowd had run out, and the well rigger moved into the best mansion on the golden street." "Maybe they'll have a map at the book store. Let's try, there." But the book store had no map, though the clerk looked at them with quickened interest. "Only man around here who might have a map like that is old Hughey Fothergill, He worked down yonder at Spin- dle top when old man Lucas brought that big gusher in, thirty years ago -- and he's been prowl ing around with a doodlebug ever since, looking for oil. If he has a' map, you could maybe get a look at it, but I doubt if he'd give it up." LJ ° LN "I know old Hughey," Adelaide said dubiously when they were in the car-again. "All right, we'll try Hughey." "What's a doodlebug?" "It's a kind of a SB teAption made out of a twig or something. They walk around with it -- and it's supposed to dip and -tremble when there's oil under the surface." "Well does it?" "I've heard stories from old-tim- ers who claim that oil was found that way. Probably it was luck." "This is his house -- there, where the pig's asleep in the yard. The door of the sooty little shack stood open. Gary banged on it and shouted. "Hello--anybody home?" "Git out," croaked a voice. "If you're one of them reliefers, I _ don't want nothing. I just want to" be left alone." "I'm not an investigator," Gary said. "You're Mr. Fothergill? I'm Tallman -- a petroleum engineer. They told me uptown that you might have a geological map of this county." (To Be Continued) 'Monty's Beret Gift F rom Soldier Field Marshal Montgomery, new colonel-commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment, revealed the sec; ret of his famous beret in a mes- sage to the regiment. He said it was given him by a sergeant com- manding his tank during the Bat- tle of Alamein, CHRONICLES The return of service men to ci- vilian life is becoming more evi dent every day: Not only by the fact that the men themselves are back in circulation, as it were, but by the disappearance from banks, stores, offices and factories of the girls who were carrying on in their absence, How often the remark has been made--"Mark my words, these girls that have been holding down war jobs will never want to settle down and just look after their homes and families." * * * } Perhaps my experience is lim- ited but from what I have seen I have come to the conclusion many of these girls are only too glad to settle down in homes of their own --if they have homes to setttle in, Take the case of the young sales clerk I was speaking to the other day. .. "So you are leaving us and setting up house, are you, Mrs. Blank?" The girl's face was absolutely radiant as she answer- ed--'""That"s right--this is my last week at the store." "I suppose you are glad, are you?" It was really a very stupid question, "Am I ever!" came the reply without any hesitation at all. And then the young wife who held quite an important office posi tion and was so conscientious she felt she could hardly take a day off at all during the war. But yet, as' soon as her flying officer came back from overseas, the two of them----lost no time in starting out on their life together. And, when the girl left her job someone else was found to fill her shoes. There alwayg is someone. Riyht now, after six years of war, one would think people ev- erywhere would 'be glad to live at peace with one another, Instead we have strikes and more strikes, agitators demanding less work and more pay all the time. And into this maelstrom of discontent come the returned service mien, some fresh from scenes of action, others repatriated from prison camps, It is a good welcome home for them, isn't it? Especially" when they, too, are going through a period of readjustment, the difficulties of which it is impossible for us to un- derstand. The best we can do is recognize that it is there and make_ allowances for the restlessness that seems to be a result, * * * With so many problems facing folks everywhere it doesn't seem a very propitious time for floating a new Victory Loan, does it? One hears * so often--"Mr. I1lsley will never make it this time!" And he won't either, unless we all dig in to help put it over. We have an- other war on our hands now--a wa ragainst inflation and, as Mr. Ilsley put it, "It is a time for ac- tion--not reaction." If only people would try to un- derstand! Wild spending now would be little short of a disaster. It would bring on another depres: sion quicker than anything. Don't make any mistake about it -- it's the wise guy that buys bonds. Not only that but every dollar invested in Victory bonds now is one way of doing our bit towards making Canada a country worthy of the of GINGER FARM fens pos sacrifices our boys' made "over there" especially the sacrifices of the boys who will never come back. » » * Buy a Bond? Why not? If you haven't got enough ready cash you have a year to pay for it. This is one occasion when it is quite all right to "buy on time." How Can I? By 'Anne Ashley Q. How can I prevent the break- ing of rice kernels? A. Do not stir rice while cook- ing, because it breaks the kernels and makes them mushy. To avoid sticking to the bottom of the uten- sil, grease the pan before cooking, Q. How can I remove tar from the hands? A. By rubbing with a slice of lemon or orange peel. The oils _in the skin dissolve the tar so that it can be wiped off very easily. Q. How can I make the surface of aluminum look like new? A. By pouring a few ounces of vinegar in each aluminum utensil. Heat it and then scour the sur- face. Q. How can I loosen a clogged sink pipe? A. Dissolve Y4-pound of copper as iti 2 quarys of hot water and pour it down the pipe. Repeat if necessary. A solution of soda and vinegar poured down the pipe will dislodge grease. Q. How can I make a substitute for soap? A. In an emergency, oatmeal is an excellent substitute for soap. Place-a small quantity in a cheese- cloth bag and wash just as if using a bar of soap, Hun Casualties * Premier Attlee told the Com- mons that it is estimated that Ger man casualties in killed and per- manently disabled between Sept. 1, 1939, and May 10, 1945, were 7, 400,000, Men Are Working: To Exhaustion Choris fatigue and nervous ex- haustion are gettin men down . down in health and down in resistence - to cold and other ailments. It is high time for a build up with Dr. Chase's NERVE FOOD, the hi Bi tonic. It will help to slaty 3 your nerves and help you to sleep better. It will help you to digest your food and to regain energy and vigor. Ask for the new econ- [3 omy size bottle of fen NERVE FOOD Dr. Chase's ol THE STEEL COMPANY OF HAMILTON