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I know he loves me--but I'd still like to hear him say sol I get up at four to pack his lunch and get his breakiast; does he say 'thank vou' and kiss me good-bye? o'clock No. "You work hard all day cleaning ~ the house, taking care of the chil- dren, fixing a nice supper. He comes in, picks on the children tilk they cry, then raises cain because they aren't quict while he eats. He talks only about his job. Never a word about how nice you look, or how the house shines, or h ow things went that day! to yourself, "You say 'Oh well, he'll talk to me after supper! You're: only kidding vourself. Then he wants the paper, and the children and 1 aren't supposed to talk out loud, or laugh, or sing. He reads the paper from front to back (in- cluding vour column, so please print this; mavbe he'll realize how much we all miss his love.) "You think, after he's through, maybe he'll talk a while, or take you out. You guessed wrong. He goes to bed. How long live like this? like to visit our a show. But I without those. Tt is the lack of love I feel. Why is a man so dumb that he can't say so? I can wear a new dress for a month before he even notices it! Some day I'm going to forget to clean up the house and the children and see whether he knows the diference. (I doubt it.) "1 guess there' no use in hop- But at least I feel better to chest! Thanks a reading it." (Signed) Loveless * TO "LOVELESS": Women * blossom under appreciation. A * little word of thanks, a kiss given * as though the man means it, an * awareness of all you have done * during the day--these small * things are what. keeps a wife * * * * * * cant you a woman I'm not old yet. I friends or go to could get. along lot for young and alive and attractive. Your hushand is selfish, with- out meaning to be. He takes everything that you do for grant- ed, assumes that the home cléans itself; he pays no attention to * his children -- those youngsters I have always who would respond with love and confidence if he would only let them know he cares about them. How much such a husband and father misses in lifel . . . I hope your husband reads this today, and examines his attitude toward you all. He does love you, but, as you say, why can't he say * * * LE EE EE EE EE I EE Brief Answers TO "A LONELY MAN," "I.R, "A. JL E)" "T. A, Pp": 1 am' sorry, but it is never possible to reveal the identity of anyone writing this column. *TO "OBEDIAH": I'm afraid only a lawyer's advice can be really useful now. [ am terribly sorry, and I do hope that. things will straighten out for you soon.. TO. "HEARTBROKEN B': If you haven't done so already, write this lad a nice apology for your rudness, and say that you hope he will forgive you and be friendly again. More than this you calnot sensibly do. To men readers; How long. is it since you told your wife how you appreciate all she is and does? Do you realize that is what she lives for? Think {t over--and if you want to know how to cherish a wife, ask Anne Hirst, Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth 8t. New Toronto, Ont, CEE EEE TE EEE EE EE SE Modern Etiquette ; by Roberta Lee ranged at the plate, when setting the table? ) A. The fork to be used first is placed at the extreme left of tha plate; this is usually for fish or ap- petizer. Second, towards the plate, place the meat fork; third, nearest Q. When writing a brief social letter, may one use the first and fourth pages? A. Yes, either the first and fourth or the. first and third, leaving the other pages blank. Q. Is it all right for a woman, who is dining in a restaurant, to place her purse on the table? A. No, never, The purse should be kept in her lap. Q. When introducing two per- sons, is .it proper "to say,. "Mr. ted with Mr. Smith?" be called improper, but the prevall- ing introduction and the easiest is merely, "Mr. Brown, Mr. Smith." Q. Is it permissible for a business or professional woman, who mar- ries; to retain her maiden name for business purposes? A. Yes; this is often done, when the maiden name has become estab- lished and has advertising value, Q. May a woman retain her coat in a restaurant, instead of checking it? A. Yes; it may be slipped over the back of her chair. Q. Should all members of the family remain at the table until the meal is finished, even if there are no guests. A. Yes; this is good training. The person who is not well-bred when at home is likely to display the same manners when in public, CROSSYORD PUZZLE DOWN . Dried grasa . Beverage Pronoun "ACROSS 1. Sunken fénce 6, Sour 9. Opening 12. Hebrew lettar 13. Rodent 14. Sold waiter 1s Jifonpua . Jixista 18 Hong 4 20. Undven ' 32. Inactive 2 23. Style 25, And (Lats RU AW a Anger = = 8. Fragile #8. Pertaining' 9. 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There is no known cure for leukemia, or cancer of the blood as it is some- times called, but research workers are hoping that -- WITH YOUR HELP -- eventually substances will be obtained that can control or cure this dread disease. As I think IT may have told you before I'm the sort of person who can take my peanyt butter or leave it alone--preferably the latter. However, that by no means Indicates that there aren't plenty of others who do like it very much, in fact it seems to become- more and more popular every year. So perhaps ya'd like to have this recipe for easily made: PEANUT BUTTER MUFFINS 2 cup sifted all-purpose flour or 2% cups sifted pastry flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 3 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 egg : 3% cup peanut butter 2-3. qug' milk 34 cup walter 1 tablespoon shortening, melted Mix and sift flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Beat egg until light then add peanut butter, milk, water and melted shortening. Add liquid to flour mixture all at once, stir- ring only enough to combine. Fill greased muffin tins bake In a hot oven over 400 F, for 20 minutes. Yield: 12 muffins. VARIATIONS: To make a de- licious sweet muffin to serve for tenor supper, fill_muffin tins 1/8 full with the above mixture, Add ¥ teaspoon jam or jelly to each muffin, then add more batter untll muffin' tins are 2-3 full, * * LI You've probably heard of the small boy who was taken to a museum where they had an exhibit of many different sorts of fish--= stuffed and mounted. Pausing be- fore one labelled "SALMON" he - sald scornfully, "Whoever put that - sign up must be goofy; I thought everybody knew that salmon -comes: in cans." And although the development of the Frozen Food business has made fresh fish far more easily avall-: able, there are still a lot of us, who live inland, who still get most of the fish we eat out of cans. Here's a way of serving it.that may be new to some of you. SALMON ROLL ) 1 pound can salmon (or any other flaked and boned) fish, 2-3 full and ) TABLE TALKS ig Andrews. 14 cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 34 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon minced onion dash of pepper. . Biscuit dough. METHOD: Mix all the ngredi ents together until well blended, then make your favourite biscuit dogh. Roll out into a 7x15 inch rectangle and transfer to a lightly greased heavy baking sheet. Spread salmop mixture down centre of dough to within two inches of either "end. IFold over the edges. Roll over 30 lengtwhise seam is underneath. Tuck the ends under the roll. Make slashes along top for steam to es- cape Bake 12 to 15 minutes at 42% degrees. Place on hot serving dish. Garnish - with lemon wedges and parsley, Serve hot with creamed vegetables, such as peas or aspara- gus. Serves bi to eight. * * There "are probably hundreds of different types of Cookie Jars, but they all seem to have 'one thing in common. Especially in homes where there are youngsters around, ~they all have a way of getting empty in amazingly little time. Next time --it happens in your home, try these: MOLASSES DROP. COOKIES 1 cup fat or shortening cup sugar eggs, beaten cup molasses cups all-purpose flour tablespoon * ginger teaspoon salt tablespoon soda, cups chopped raisins or dates. cups chopped nutmeats (optional) 1 cup warm water, METHOD: Cream fat and sugar; add eggs and molasses, Sift flour with' ginger, salt and soda. Al- ternately add flour and water to the fat, sugar and egg mixture, Mix well. Add raisins and nuts. Drop by teaspoonfuls on lightly greased baking sheet, Bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes, or until cook- les spring, back when lightly touch- . ed. When cool put in cookie jar and try and think of new.place to hide NN me n= BD GENTLE SPRING Watchmakers have their own sign of spring--the mainspring. When a watches - with broken they know the vernal season is at hand, Spring thunderstorms and showers bring an abrupt change in temperature and air pressure, and tax the brittle steel ribbons' until they snap. ¥; * Cox * An obstetrician should be able to tell the arrival of spring by observ- "ing the size of the babies he delivers. Infants born in the spring are taller and heavier, on the average, than those born in other seasons, accord- ing to statistical studies made at Johns Hopkins University. * * - It's a common belief that many people suffer from extreme fati when spring arrives < so-called spring fever. But a biologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic reports that these beliefs are in error. Sorlag' \ fever is only a mild form of scurvy, diet in winter months -- particular- ly, vitamin C deficiency, J * LJ] bother to watch for a robin. When they begin to 'receive complaints that baby carriages are interfering with pedestrian traffic on Main Street, they are sure spring has arrived, CORRECT - . 4 Heedless of an impatient queue behind © him; 'a Scotchman at a Grand Central ticket window 'count- ed his change very carefully three times. The ticketseller watched him sourly. "Well," he said, "are yau finally satisfied it's right?" < "Aye, mon," said the Scot angrily, "but only just right" he declares, due to vitamin-poor. Police in Whte Plains, N.Y., don't | COCKER SPANIELS Of all the dogs that are so sweet, The spaniel Is the most complete; Of all the spaniels, dearest far The little Cocker spaniels are. They're always merry, always hale; Their eyes are like October ale; They are so loyal and so black; So unresentful 'neath the whack; + They never sulk, they never tire; They love the field, they love the fire; They never criticize their friends; Their every joy all joy transcends. The Aberdeen is quaint and sly, -A harvest of the anxious eye; The Bedlington is blue and true; The Airedale fights till death for vou; Yet why compare? All dogs oa earth Possess some special charm and worth. But Cocker spaniels? Every way, They are the canine angels, they. ANNE ADAMS Stretch your wardrobe with this stunning extra skirt! Newest and sew-casiest, it has an Empire waist, hip-flaps, straightish silhouette with gentle back-flare. ~ Pattern 4812 comes in waist sizes 24, 26, 28, 30, 32. Size 28 takes 23% yards 39-inch fabric. This pattern, easy to use, simple to sew, is tested, for fit. Has com- plete illustrated instructions. . Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (25¢) in coins' (stamps. cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER! Send yotir order to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont." "This is no day on which to pull down Anything green!" ISSUE 15 -- 1949 filled shell to the oven. . Ten minutes saved shorten washing Helpful Hints For Homemakers When baking custard or pumpkin pies, place-the empty pie shell in the oven first, then pour the liquid fill- ing into it. Not a drop will be spill- ed, as might happen in carrying a * * * To get rid of the smell of fish on your hands, wash them i in hot, salty water -- before using soap. When you rinse off the salt, the fish smell : goes with it. Do the same with . dishes and pans that have been used for fish. : * * } A Attach a paper bag to the "de- livery end" of the food chopper. This will catch bread or cracker crumbs, nuts, and similar foods, and keeps Jem from scattering. When otie clothes, make an extra amount of starch and store It | in a sealed jar in your refrigerator, Then if you wash out anything by hand during the week, you'll have the starch already made. * * * When you carry Baby, wrap a piece of clear plastic material (a small-sized tablecloth would work fine) around the outside of the blankets. This prevents lint and blanket fuzz from rubbing off onto your clothing. * oo. When sewing a dress for your little girl, make a hanky to match. If lost at school or play, the hanky is easily identified and returned. « $e Time yourself when you're doing the washing. Bring an alarm clock or kitchen timer to the laundry and * set it for the time required for each batch of clothes. Many of us let the washer run longer than necessary. time. i » * Open a can of whole asparagus at the bottom instead of the top. This | will prevent breaking the tender tips when Jemoving it. * * "To keep. pencils, buttons, and other small articles from falling through the floor register and being lost, tack a piece of fine screen wire under the register. x * * If you send a letter to a sick child, write it on cardboard or heavy paper, then cut it up like a puzzle. This will keep him busy putting it together, then reading it. * * i» Some stain-removal procedures call for steaming the spot over the spout of a boiling teakettle or flush- ing some liquid through the ma- terial. This can be done handily by locking the stained, portion 'of the cloth in a pair of embroidery hoops, as shicwn below. WATCHI'UL News item rom 'the Phoenix Flame: "Miss Fay King was over- come by gas w hile taking a bath. She owes her life to the watchful- ness of the janitor of her apartment building." nAUBLE SHELLCRAFT KIT DOES INDIGESTION WALLOP YOU BELOW THE BELT? ee Yo an Kid O ore Sigestion lad Ki ERE hs ae Carter's Little Liver t you may to that "forgotten "of t you have Tia of relief that your head to oa ab od on most a bere Be temize Cu Economical -- made with Magic Mince 1 Ib. frankfurters and mix fo drained pickles or pickle relish. anh chop; Fyre - celery and 1 sliced Steal} Shion 1 2 tha. to frankfurter chopped ot fat. with salt and pepper. Let stand while you make ' 3 MAGIC BISCUIT DOUGH: Mix and sift together onoe, then sift into bowl, 8 e. once-sifted pastry flour (or once-sifted hard-wheat flour), 4 tsp. Magic Baking Pow: §{ tsp. salt, }{ tsp. dry mustard. Cut in finely 6 tbs. shor- tening, Make a well In centre, pour in 1 ¢. milk and mix Lightly with a fork. Line greased loaf pan (434 x 814 Inches) th two-thirds of dough. Fill with meat mixture and top I slash to allow escape of steam. Bake in a hot oven, 450°, about 80 maiutted, Serve with tomato sauce. Yield--4 or 5 servings. It MAcGIe BAKING! *owpE, RICH, SPICY 18 dough. Brush with melted butter or CINNAMON BUNS 12] Sprinkle with dry yeast. Let stand 10 minutes. Recipe Measure into large bowl, 1 e. luke- warm water, 2 tsps. granulated sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved. Sprinkle with 2 envelopes Fleischmann's Royal Fast Rising Dry Yeast. Let stand 10 # min., THEN stir well. Scald 1 c. milk and stir in 3 0. granulated sugar, 13 taps. salt, 6 ths. shortening; cool to lukewarm. Add to yeast mixture and stir In 2 well-bogten eggs. Stir in 8 o. " once-sifted bread flour; beat until smooth. Work in 8 0. more once-sifted bread flour, Knead until smooth and elastic; place -in greased bow! and brush top with melted butter or short- ening. Cover and set in warm place, free from draught. Let rise until . doubled in bulk, While dough is rising, - combine 114 ¢. brown sugar Qightly * pressed down), 8 tsps, ground cinna- , mon, 1 c. wastied and dried soedleas raisins, Punch down dough and divide Into 2 equal portions; form into smooth balls. Roll each piece into an . oblong }{" thick and 16'* long; loosen margarine; with raisin mix-, ture, Beginning at a long edge, roll up + each piece loosely, like a jelly roll. Cut fnto 1" slices. just tonching "each other, a cul up, in greased 7" round layer-cake pans. (or other shallow pans). Grease tops. Cover and. Tet rise until doubled in bulk, Bake in ~ moderate oven, 360% 20-25 minutes. Serve hot, or reheated. NEW FAST-ACTING DRY YEAST NEEDS NO REFRIGERATION! Stays fresh and full-strength on your. | pantey shelf for weeks! Here's all you do: In a small amouat (usually specified) of lukewarm water, dis- © solve thoroughly 1 teaspoon sugar for each envelope of yeast. or _ THEN stir well. (The water used with the yeast counts as | part of the total liquid called for in your recipe.) fa? Get a omonihs spol] & .