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[or * ® het BY A LL A Weird Remedies For "The Chilblains The chilblain season is upon us again, : In medieval times it was thought ~ that a chilblain was a bite from a 'wicked snow elf which, miraculous- ly enough, could: squeeze between the victim's boots and toes and fasten his teeth' on the delicate extremities, : The elves were. said to have been seen climbing out ofsthe top of a man's boots as he toasted himself in front of the fire, Chilblain sufferers were advised to try all sorts of weird remedies, ranging. from dipping the afflicted toes in boiling mead, to walking barefoot in the snow and placing the feet in the imprints left by a oly man or friar. The Black Prince, Edward, eldest son of Edward III, suffered from wx =chilblains and often- had to re- move part of his famous black armour so that he could scratch himself, : ' Chilblains are localised inflamma- tions affecting the parts farthest from the centre of the circulation-- hands, feet, and more rarely ears and nose, The cause of the intoler- able itch is the escape of a certain serum which irritates the nerve endings. Underlying causes are debility, insufficient exercise, poor circula- tion or poor quality-of the blood. Calcium--which means eggs, milk and cheese--is supposed to be valu- able in treatment, but latest research has produced tablets containing ~ other potent ingredients - besides - calcium, These are Vitamin D, Vitamin K, * Nicotinic acid (which dilates the blood vessels and -so helps circula- tion), and Ferrous Sulphate, Couple Of Snobs -- With their noses tilted skyward, 13-month- old Robin Mace and her French friend prepare to set out on a brisk promenade through Green- wich Village. Robin was tired. of being pushed around and 'Gaby' didn't seem to mind the ride. Cools Cellar While Heating Water Something new in household heating has been reported. The latest device uses the air in a basement room to heat your hot water. And as a bonus:it gives _you cooling and dried air for this same basement room -- or some other room in summer if you choose. This new robot uses less elec- tricity -- the only expense éxcept installation -- than a standard electric hot water heater. * The report was made by M. S. .Oldacre of the Utilities Research Commission, Chicago: The first heater was tried in the home of one of the commission employees' in Chicago. ' The air in the room is blown .by a fan into a refrigerating syse™' tem, using freon the same as most household refrigerators. The heat then passes in a coil up through a water tank about five feet high. The cold air that remains -is blown back into the room, where it both dries and cools. In this home the basement room became a quick-drying room for the laun- dry. The heat of this basement room was around 85 the year round, from the 'furnace in winter and from tM outdoor. heat in sumier. Ft was also humid in summer, The water in the heater. was kept at about 145 degrees. There was no noticeable increase in ex- pense of heating the house in win- ter due to robbing the basement air. The secret of this trick is the fact that, although the air is only at 85 degrees, if you concentrate the amount of heat in a few cubic feet of air down to a few cubic inches it is a Jot hotter. £% This same principle both heats ent're homes in winter aiid cools' and air-conditions them in sume mer using the air from pipes laid deep under your yard. The pipe heaters were described by* five n- gincers, Thy said this system Is still too expensive for sale to the public, 4 NER ~1¢ should be Any Valuable Books On Your Shelves? A dilapidated' book sandwiched between 3,000 others on the shelves of Ripon Cathedral library has 'been identified as the work of Wil. liam Caxton, England's first print- er, who lived in-the 15th century. The-book is estimated to be worth $60,000, and was recognized by a: Leeds housewife, Mrs. Jeair Morti- mer, et For the last 450 years priceless . copies of books printed by Caxton have been turning up in the most odd places, His "Fifteen Qes," now in the British Museum, lay for centuries buried in the dusty attic of an old country house. A copy of Caxton's "Indulgence" was found pasted inside another book in Bedford town library. The famous ahd priceless "Vellum Caxton" was found in a Roman Catholic seminary. Is there any possibility of find- ing any more? Undoubtedly, Only a fraction of the number of books printed by Caxton have been dis-. covered. Not a single copy of many of his publications has been found. We know this because he tells us so in his preface to "The Golden egende." He refers to "XV bookes. of Metamorphoseos in whyche ben conteyned the fables o fOuyde," but of which no trace has been found. There is no known book of his printed in 1486 and 1488, yet it is very unlikely that he ceased print- "ing during these two years. Nothing has been discovered of the book entitled. "The Life of Robert Erle of Oxenford." which he. published. A genuine single copy' of this would be worth a fortune. It is essential to be able to dis- tinguish the genuine Caxton from the spurious one." A genuine Cax- ton, for instance, will have no title- page, as these were uhknown till after 1491. All the text is in Gothic or Old English, and there must be no Roman or italic lettering, though Roman figures may appear, Nor will commas be found. Instead, Caxton used an oblique stroke. Caxton helped us a lot by using only six kinds of type, recognisable by experts. He did not use new "type until the old was pretty well worn out, Hence the print in many of his books is thick and smudged. Even if we find difficulty in identifying a genuine Caxton, a really old book should never be jgnored. It may be worth thou- sands of dollars. = EN EXE HEAR AAAS AANA AAAS \ One proof of its age--providing it is not a copy--is the curious tract right at the end of the book in which the -printer usually unbur- dens his heart to reader and tells him what difficulties and privations he had to go through in order to print that book. - At the end of Caxton's "The History of Troy," for instance, he tells us that his eyes are 'dimmed with overmiich. looking on the white paper; that his courage was not so prone and ready for labour as it had been, and that age was creeping on him slowly and --en- feebling his body." : 180. Was C20 I don't suppose I need to rer mind -you--for the umpteenth time --that every last drop of sour cream hoarded for use. You already know, that, I imagine, so here are a few recipes you'll enjoy trying, all of which make of sour cream. * . KIDNEYS WITH SOUR ¢ CREAM 6 lamb kidneys 1 medium onion, chopped Butter or margarine French. dressing Salt. ; LH Pepper ; Basil (marjoram or thyme many be used) 2 tablespoons flour 14 cup boiling water 1 cup sour cream Method--Clean kidneys and cut into small pieces, removing mem- brane. Marinate in French dressing for one hour, Drain and sauté in butter with the chopped onion. Add seasonings to taste and dust with flour. Add boiling "water and let simmer until reduced, then blend in the sour cream and serve on toast or potatoes. Serve four, ot TABLE TALKS dane Andrews waa BY .SOUR 'CREAM SAUCE WITH MUSHROOMS 1 pound whole fresh mushrooms Butter or margarine 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk 1 cup sour cream Salt Pepper Pinch of tarragon or dill (option- al) . Mthod -- Sauté mushrooms "in butter or. margarine very carefully and gently putting only a few in the skillet at a time and lifting out those which have browned. When all have been taken out, see that two tablespoons of butter remain in the pan. Into this blend the flour and add milk to make a cream sauce. When sufficiently blended, add sour cream and re- turn mushrooms to mixture, add- ing scasonings to taste. This sauce may be kept in the refrigerator and heated as needed. Serve on toast, either plain or with a thin slice of cheese or ham, or it may be used with chicken or seafood. » * . . SOUR CREAM FISH LOAF 3 cups cornflakes 1%4 cups milk 2 cups flaked, cooked fish Peek At The Future--Lookin something like Alice in the Wonder- land rabbits house; a bright-eyed Joungster peers into a model living room designed by boys and g tls of a settlement house. The model was one of several presented by the youngsters to the New York Housing Authority as thelr ideas for the rooms they would like to see bullt In Baruch Houses, a new housing project in the city. fo EESOTATN § "14 cup sour cream 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 tablespoon minced onion 1 tablespoon lemon juice 14 teaspoon thyme 114 teaspoons eit 13 teaspoon pcoper 2 eggs, well beaten Method--Combine cornflakes and milk and let stand ten. minutes. Add flaked fish, sour cream and seasonings, then fold in the well- beaten eggs. Turn into a greased Joaf pan and bake at 350 degrees F., for about one hour. Serves four. * * . LIVER POT ROAST 3 pounds liver (in one piece) 2 tablespoons flour 8 tablespoons melted bacon drip- pings 34. cup finely chopped onions 14 teaspoon salt 14 teaspoon paprika 1 cup sour cream 14 cup water Method--Rub flour into the liver and brown in melted drippings. Remove liver to baking dish and brown onions in the fat, then spread them over the liver. To fat remaining.- in the pan, add salt, paprika, sour cream and water and pour over meat. Cover and bake at 350 degrees F., for one-and-one- half hours or until liver is tender. Serves six. . . . SOUR CREAM ROLLS 1 yeast cake 14 cup lukewarm water 2 cups sour light cream 3 tablespoons sugar ' 2 tablespoons salt V4 teaspoon soda About 5 cups all-purpose flour. Method--Soften 'yeast in warm water, Scald cream in the top of a double boiler; add sugar, salt and soda. and cool to lukewarm. Add dissolved yeast and half the flour, beating to make a smooth batter. Add remaining flour to make a soft dough. Turn onto a lightly floured board and knead until satiny and smooth, Shape into small biscuits and place in a greased baking pan. Brush lightly with melted butter. Cover with a clean towel and let rise in a warm place until double in bulk--one-and-one- half to two hours. Bake at 425 degrees F., 15-20 minutes, * * . SOUR CREAM CAKE i FILLING 14 cup sour cream 1/3 cup sugar Few grains nutfeg 14 tablespoons flour 14 cup chopped raisins Few grainfs cinnamon and cloves Shake of salt 1 egg yolk - Method -- Combine ingredients, - except egg yolk, in -top of double boiler. Stir and cook until mixture thickens, then cover and cook ten minutes longer." Add egg yolk and stir and cook two minutes. + 1 pm - t Foes . Why Not Join Us? Led off by the venerable Ben- jamin Franklin right at the beginn- ing of the United States, a long list of Americans have invited Can- adians to throw in their lot with Uncle Sam. The most recent comes from a congressman from Chicago who would take us over as pay- ment of British depts. Common courtesy demands that we should return the compliment and ask Americans to join Canada. There are good reasons why they should accept. We have had recent experience in enlarging our country, Newfound- landers attest to its success. There might be some problem as to whether the U.S, would come in as 48 new provinces or an eleventh province--but that is something which could be ironed out later. We have the raw materials. The U.S. could supply the factories, people and markets to support them. We have billions of dollars of U.S. money here now--and like it--we might as well have the people too. We have sound governments, and "they are always wanting to take cn more and more duties. To run -- the U.S. would be a real challenge, It might even give our Senate some- thing to do. In addition, particu. larly in Ontario, we have a pool of unemployed politicians, If the U.S, still thinks that we are under Britain's 'hand, they might be willing to trade their country as part paynient for U.S, debts incurred toward Britain be- fore the Revolutionary Wat, These are now <uite large. if reckoned with compound interest since 1776. Incidentally if the "Americans bé- came Canadians they could really claim to have won the War of 1812 and to have been in both world wars from the veryg beginning. . Ottawa would remain the capital, but a winter capital could be built somewhere in the South, small spot like Vero Beach, Florida. Washington D.C. is not warm enough and hasn't any good beaches. The empty buildings there could be used for over-crowded Ot- tawa departments, Canada has additional political advantages. The climate already gives a lot of people a deep-freeze every winter, and we have lots of native-grown mink. By our own admission this is our century, so the Americans had bet- ter get on our bandwagon. Irom The Financial Post. Playing Cards Keep Their Fascination In spite of the rival claims of television, radio, the movies, and other entertainments, the popularity of playing cards remains as great Their fascination never as ever. lessens, The pack was originally designed to amuse a royal madman--King Charles V1 of France. Playing cards had been known for centuries before Charles" reign (1380 to 1422), but since the king had the mind of a child, a special, simple pack was made up in which were depicted pictures of the people and things Charles- talked about. These included kings, queens and jacks, knaves, (now de- based into spades) diamonds, and merchants. One merchant was named Jacques Coeur, and "cocur" in French means heart. Hence the suite named after him. = } Clubs were "trefles" leaves, symbol ot the French peasant, Charles insisted that the pack should be so devised that it would be practically impossible for two exactly similar hands to be dealt, Licuben, an cccentric German, swords or clover medieval some bet that he would succeed in turn- ~ ing up a pack of cards in a certain order which was stated in an agree- ment. He dealt and redealt for ten hours a day for twenty years, repeating the operation 4,246,028 times, and at last succeeded. } The card game with "the longest pedigree is whist. In one. form or another has been played 40 years. Its ancestor was called "trump" and the game was played by four people, each with twelve cards. The remaining four cards lay face down- ward in the centre of the table, "in 1848 when mamma Ordered Cloaks But Got Clocks Instead By 1886, men and women on both sides of the Boundary were old hands with white kid gloves, Officially, the White" Glove Era was inaugurated one March night officers of the de- parting - Sixth Regiment of Foot entertained the. elite of Red River Settlement at a sumptuous Fares well Ball, Though the feet that carried a certain Mrs. Cowan onto the floor. of Fort Gary's ballroom were moccasined, her hands 'were sheathed in shiminering white kid, right off the last boat from Lon- don. , , , Shortly, from early November to carly April, winter was tamed into a social season. , . . Inauguration of Red River, Cart Trains to St. Paul and opening of navigation on Red River en- riched homes of the smart set with brocaded wallpapers, glass and marble lamps, bathtubs, the first apples and--luxury of luxuries!-- tin pans to replace wood.and stone utensils. magazines, pipe organs, art and news of the world provided physical and mental equip- ment for more schools, reading clubs. singing societies, and home theatricals. While the "gentry enlarged its social horizons, farmers, free trad- ers, and others engaged "in trade" had not been standing still, They, too, now ordered "store bhoughten" clothes from London. Not without mizhap. One poor man, year after ) : looks, year ordered a cloak, only to re-~ ceive, year alter hecause of deficient handwriting. or spelling, a clock. Their children now went to school, their wives rarely work- ed in the fields. As plows and other machinery, stoves to replace open fireplaces, and similar time- saving conveniences increased, they, too, had leisure to look about and think -about what they saw. year, © What tliey saw brought Canadian Red River Valley to another me morial date. In the summer of 1857, Henry Youle Hind, Canadian engineer, went out one morning to inspect the prosperous fields of John Gaqwer. Later, when the farmer took his guest to the house for the noon meal, they found that Mrs. Gower had laid but one place. And when her husband asked: "Where is my place?" she exclaim- ed in shocked protest: "Oh, John, you would not think of sitting at table with gentlemen!" -John look- ed from face to face of his son- in-law and children watching si- "lently from a far corner and came ta an historic decision. "Am I riot a gentleman, too?" he said. "Is not this my house, my farm, my food? Give me a chair and a plate." Step by step during the seven- ties, the Canadian Valley's social pattern continued to cvolve. For their biennial balls, Manitoba's new Government House officials, looking with disfavor on men and women in elaborate cvening dress but mocassined feet, made cold fact the American quip: "It's formal; wear shoes."--From "Red River Runs North!" by Vera Kelsey. Subtle Chonges Mark Parisian - New Fashions For Spring Paris \ narrow dine and a dis- ciplined fullness appear to mark the new Spring silhouette from French designers. Translated into terms that any woman can apply to her own wardrobe and her com- ing purchases, this means there's no drastic change in fashion but merely soft and subtle changes that do make a difference in the general picture. With some houses, skirts are tonger. With others the length is static.. Sleeves are focal points of interest and their treatments are many: : In color, the beiges, yellows and grays are all important and in fab- rics, the harsh wools, supple silks and subtle prints take top honors. Generally, to sum it up. "Day clothes will be fashioned of less yardage," as the newspaper Le Figaro comments. Ilere is a fashion preview, house by house: DIOR = Dior's new silhouette is logically constructed and his dresses created for the season, as well as for the woman who will wear them. But there will be a few "follies" among Dior's new -creations--for effect. Sleeves and skirts are more subtly cut, shoulders normal and rounded, waistline normal, but all seams do not converge towards it. skirt No -outstanding ¢hange in lengths, Texture of the fabric de- termines the yardage used. Harsh wools appear in topcoats, which are narrower; greater yardage ap- pears in dresses made of light- weight fabrics, Most of the other couturiers have played beige as the winning color, but Dior will em- phasize gray and navy blue. FATH . . A much narrower silhouette, in- fluenced by Spair, is J. Fath's en- try. Skirts are longer, waistlines normal and shoulders drooping. Depending ripon the hour and fune- tion, bodices range from almost austerely simple to a wealth of de- tail, Fath divides his showing am- ong hareh and <upple fabrics, §0- { | i } LANVIN (CASTILLO) J. FATH JACQUES GRIFFE JEAN BALMAIN DESSES Spring Stuff--These sketches, from the Paris newspaper, Le Figaro, epitomize the new Spring trends from some of the leading Parisian couturiers. ' 50. Beige 1s fath's favored solor, followed by yellow, green, gray and navy. BALMAIN R Balmain launches a narrow sil- houette in which greater length of leg is achieved by a cut, as the Tength of hem remains stationary. The waistline and shoulders are normal and - slender. A feature is sleeves set in wise" at different levels back "step- adorned, with three-quarters sleeves and collarless. His fabrics incinde harsh wools, "wild" wools, silks, -erepe and prints -- the latter in exclusive designs. Wools favor gray, silks, beige, combined with yellow. DESSES This dressmaker has found in- spiratign in the 18th Century, hut shorn of exaggerated fullness, His silhouette is considerably altered by longer skirts, newly-cut shoul- ders, "waistline stressed but with some "displaced" effects and bod ies given importance by the in: troduction of the sleeves at the bustline, There's not one supple fabrics share Tonors, with a definite preference for efilon in the litter eaten I'he gra! long - sleeve in the collection, Harsh and | ! beiges--from kasha to nut-brown --eads in the color card, followed by red and green, LANVIN (CASTILLO) ""I'he line created by Castillo for Lanvin avoids reminiscence. of the past. He has endeavored to achieve a rational equmbibrinm, up-to-date and modern. Silhouette changes in- clude longer skirts, freer and J ttravelling" waistline, return of the and | front. Dodices are simple and un-' cet-in sleeve, Lodices with a leaning to modesty, Fabrics are divided be tween and soft, There's a definite return to prints and the traditional ~ Inxurious Lanvin broideries, Colors and neutral-- sand and honey, or bright vellow, blue and red. GRIFFE His "flowing" cal change in the silhouette, trace- harsh line brines a radi- able to a new treatment of the waistline described by Le Figaro as "mobile" and "fitting." There's difference in <kirt Shoulders are inconspicu- ous, discreet, sleeves set in following a very subtle detail of out. To aid the flowing line, supple fabrics will dominate, These will include many prints, Gray ap- pears in half the collection, follows cd hv. Yor such as 1 non po no noticeable lengths, bodice Ss colors charades. ems. Ri a Ra ey NN a a om a: a . 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