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} •* » n vf& ge Two THE McHENRY PLA1NDEALER Thursday, May 25, 1944 f t:; '* ,, Kathleen Norrjg Says I RINGWOOD Picnics at Home Bell Syndicate.--WNU Feature#. | (by Helen Johnson) I The Happy Clover 4-H club will ! meet at the Roy Neal home Saturday j at 2:30. This will be the first meeting of the year. All girls ten years | old who are interested in joining 4-H ! are urged to be present. Shirley ! Neal will be the leader. | Mr. and Mrs. Webb Blackman and | Joan of Chicago spent several days [ last weeli^with Mr. 'and Mrs. Charles ' Brennan. • . 1 ' i „ Mr. , and ' Mrs. Clayton Harrison of Woodstock were Sunday after-1 family and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest [ Clean Valves i Soybean Curd V? noon callers in the Beatty-Low, Shook and daughter of.Chicago. Safety valves such as relief I soybean curd used in China home. Mrs. Harry Peet and sister of valves protect water heaters against anc* other eastern countries is ap- ^ •mtoraf. Fred Wietfrfch and Mae' Woodstock called on Mr. and Mrs. damage from explosions. It is im- ' parently the only instance of an oil-,;, were callers in Crystal Lake Thurs-; Ed Peet Sunday afternoon. j portant that these valves operate seed grodyct, including .the. protein*-^ day afternoon. "• j Mr.. Roy Neal spent Srtunlay ?,e,Cl)\ f6-' wat,r ru? thr»"6Mhera fraction, btrnj used a> KKtl te Mr. and Mr, Paul Norman of afternoon in McHenry 8,,K^ y , at least tw,ce a yyeeaarr ttoo sseeee tthhaatt tthheeyy ^ v „ T are not corroded and that they will Evanston and Mrs. Rose Jepson were | Mrs. George Bacon of Antioch act in an emergency guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Mc- j spent Monday with Mrs. Jennie Cannon of Woodstock Sunday. j Bacon. • j Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kattner of ! „ Mrs. Alan finger, George and Solon- Mills called on Mr. and Mrs. [ Nancy and Mrs. George Shepard Ed Bauer Friday evening. j were called in McHefiry Friday af- Ringwood young men of the state ternoon. | militia who participated in the mem- Mrs. Charles Peet, Marion j orial services at Greenwood Sunday jan<^ Alice and Mrs. George Harrison were Walter and Robert Low, Dave: were callers in Crystal Lajte Sunday Subscribe for The Plaindealerl (1 Harrison! , """ -- v u - aftel-nomi Mrs. William Harrison and , Eugene Miller Erbin , ^Tnoon Zund'^r ^uSda; anU I Bauer, John Dohe. ty, Jerry Hergott, [ Mrs. Oscar Berg w* :* :«Iter :in X, R^e leiMin has returned! Mrs. Rose Jepson has returned; Howard Fr e^ld' Wa, t e r WSl cox and; Woodstock Saturday. D.„ 'T A J ! Mr. and Mrs. George ! With her at Urbane Derniecamnn ^ia,re ivaeina^r < Mr- a"d . InenXI" Jvoral'mnntha ! Hanaford. Jeanetle and Marilyn | ®fr. and Mrs. George LoTise of Deswith hpr children «t Urbana [ Miller, Berniece/And Claire Raemaker | ^a'nes and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Serer CCaaddeett AAuuddrreeyv MMeericchhaanntt ooff FEllgtifni nj 'and Doris andMlice Mae Low also iSanudn daMya riyn tJhaen eE do f BWauaeurk ehgoamne . spent J and v Rita Mae Merchant pf Wood- { attended % services stock were home for the weekend, j Alic6 and Marion, Peet fif -Elgin 1 Mrs. Harry Anderson and Mrs. Leo,;were home for the weekend. Karls of Richmond called on Mrs. | Mrs. R. C. Harrison and Edyth i Jennie Bacon Wednesday^ afternoon.,were callers in Woodstock Saturday ! Mr. 'and ^Mrs. Chancey Harrison • evening. ' land Carol Spent Sunday in the Henry j Guests of Mr. and Mrs. . Clayton, Marlowe hohie at Huntley. Bruce Sunday ' were Mr. Brace's i; giflCf then fu r mmhrr m Iuh ml! agree, to arr. thing, everything, that $hejngges*S to lighten on almost unbearable loaf,.' ; • M By KATHLEEN NORRIS. ! Y CHILDREN are six, j four and less than one j ears of age," writes j Margaret Fulton from Philadel- j phia. "We have a nine-room j house on a large lot on the out- j skirts of town. We have big I trees and big porches, which ; seem to me, today, to say nothing but the one word 'sweep- j ing.' My husband works hard, is i paid $65 a week. We love each j other, and'we adore Bill, Bruce | and Finn; . j "What I am aski'ng you is, how | can I take care of them all, and the house, and the meals, and I the marketing, and keep myself j always good-natured, sweet and ; fresh? Little Bill is in school; five - blocks away; he can't be permitted ' to cross two arterial streets alone. I I've got Bruce in quarantine because ! she was exposed to whooping cough, j We've all had flu, including William } senior, but light cases. | "With no help, no didy wash, no • granny or aunt to come in and relieve* me, I am tired, untidy, hurried all the time. I should do mending at night, perhaps, but in the evenings I am so sleepy and exhausted I go to bed right after dinner. I'm no company for my husband; I've no time for prettying myself or fixing up my wardrobe. Getting beds made, getting food on the table, comforting sobbing babies, making Finn's formula, spooning prunes into him, telephoning the market--there simply isn't any end to it. Father Gets Tired, Too. "William gets nervous and critical; poor man, he is often as tired as I am. We look at our friends who have no children, and wonder whether we were fools to involve ourselves , in these infinitely worrisome--if infinitely precious -- responsibilities. What am I doing, or not doing, that STREAM! 1ME VOI R 1 HOUSEHOLD DIRIISG WARTIME Mothers cannot expect to run their households as smoothly as in the preu ar days when capable help was easily .obtainable. Particularly tvhere there are seteral children is it necessary to keep to the vital necessities:-- food, shelter and warmth. This is Kathleen Morris' advice to a woman with three small children, a husband and a nine-room house to take care of. The burden of trying to run this menage on a preuar standard is running her ragged.»These are hot normal times and it is impossible to live completely normally. The woman is t.dvised to live as though she and her family were in one of the' H orn-torn countries ahd to consider only the basic requirements of existence. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn . Haupid of Long Lake called on Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Berg attended a wedding ariiiiveisaiy at Genoa City Sunday: • • • •.' • Pfc. Rex Ray arid Mrs. Ray Were : entertained at a post-nuptial shower I in the Beatty-Low home Thursday [.evening. Out of town guests were I Mr. and Mrs. Verne Ray of Delavan, ' Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Wllmer Mon- : tayne, Mrs. Hans Hansen and Vir- ; ginia Messman all of Woodstock and | Mr. and 'Mrs. Nick Freund of Mc- Henry. ' Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich and 1 family spent Sunday afternoon in I the Harold Wiedrich home near Harvard. Mrs. Ray Miller and Geraldine of Waukesha spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.-John Hogan and family. Clarence Larson, seaman second class of Corpus Christi, Texas, is ; enjoying a leave with relatives and Ringwood friends. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Norman of Evanston spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mts. Rose Jepson. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harrison spent Thursday at Franksville, Wis. i Mr. and Mrs. John Smith called on Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Joseph Kattner, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kattner of Spring Grove and August Kattner of Chicago were callers in the Ei Bauer home Wedgrandparents, Mr. and. Mrs. Marion 43hook, Mrs. Helen Piersori and daugh- j t«r, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Culvey and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Merchant and Audrey called on Mr. and Mrs- R. Harrison Saturday evenyt£. Chip Lavatories Don't place heavy articles such as jars of cold crea-n in medicine cabinets over lavatories. Many lavatories have been cYacked or chipped by jars of cold cream which slipped out of greasy hands. - ;;v Help Wanted ' / v : * &.• Maintenance Man "J : V1 • K ; ? . rt 'ye HUNTER BOAT CO.S 5* 'A !:'! 5 i • .u ^ J U U" J- nesday evening. lze that you and your husband are Seaman Robert' Krolowitz of Great carrying on the most important busi- , Mrg Krolowitz and Karen and ness in the world and weather these A1 • „ ,, f w„t, bad years like a ship facing a storm. £llce ^a"!ke °* M f cHe"ry called on You'll find, once you take this atti- Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Harrison Suntude, that imaginary duties and ob-; afternoon. " • ligations drop from you like autumn j Mr. and Mrs. George Martin and leaves, and that every day finds you j Tommy and Thomas Walkington discarding some onerous task that spent several days recently with relyou've always imagined HAD to be atives at Zanesville, Ohio. done. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., is spending a Several young tnothers in rny ' couple of weeks at Albert Lea, Minn, neighborhood have simply moved ! Memorial Day services will be downstairs for the winter, and are held at the church Sunday morning, not attempting to keep the upper 1 Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts and Brownie rooms warm and clean. The chil- 1 Scouts will take part in the service, dren's beds are in the sitting room, Boys and girls please be in church Mother and Dad in the study, the i Sunday at 9:30 and bring a bouquet dining room fireplace has become I flowers. All Sunday school classes the center of the house, and meals j wH1 march to the cemetery. are in the kitchen. A small stove and Mrg ^ Brennan, keeps the bathroom upstairs warm, „ T , ^ „i makes all this so hard? I'm not a j whelQ it is needed. Just making the ; Peggy i^ona, - Morrow natural cook, but I can follow rules, change, ^one pother told me, had i 8Pent Thursday afternoon in the awakened her husband to the des- ! Blackman home at Zion. perate need of the situation; he ac- | Mrs. Delbert Bacon of Crystal cepted it in a sort of picnic spirit, lUake called on Jennie Bacon Tuesday. Mrs. Nick Young spent Thursday For Truck and Passenger Gam FIRESTONE TIRES AND TUBES We have a complete stock of both passenger and truck tires. You can now have your tires retreaded without an" OP A order. Bring them in. ^ * Tlit&~AND TUBE VULCANIZING Trade in your old battery on a new FIRESTONE. We allow $2.00 for your old one. - Walter J. Freund OFFICIAL TIRE INSPECTION STATION MAIN ST., WEST M'HENRY PHONE 294 c 7:30 p.m., sharp Wednesday, May 31 At Gaulke's Sale Barn--Route 47--Woodstock, Illindl* Charles Leonard, Auctioneer 300 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK 50 HEAD OF CHOICE HOLSTEIN AND GUERNSEY COWS Either Close Springers or Fresh 200 HEAD OF FEEDER PIGS ^ 45 HEAD OF HEREFORD STEERS v ALSO USUAL RUN OF DAIRY HEIFERS, BULI& STEERS, BEEF COWS HORSES, VEAL CALVES AND HOGS FARM MACHINERY Call Woodstock 572 or 499 if you have livestock to consign All consignors make arrangements to get your livestock in. either the day before the sale or bring same morning of sale. * • Te^ffisT' 25 per cent down, balance in monthly installment §>vl;fei3v1.6 months time at y2 of 1 per cent interest. Woodstock Commission Sales Company WILLIAM E. GAULKE, Owner ' Phone 572 A S P E C I A L WARTIME SERVICE FOR FARMERS and she says that now he likes it. This woman said her mother-inlaw disapproved of this innovation. But. she left her mother-in-law in charge one day of the twins and the baby, while she rushed off to do some shopping. She says the older woman was a wreck when she returned six hours later, the house a shambles, the children dirty and roaring, dinner not even started, and that since then her mother-in-law will-agree to anything, everything, that she suggests to lighten an aland I try not to fuss and make unnecessary work for myself. Other women must have written you of this problem; what did you say to them?"'- -- My dear Margaret, I have said to hundreds of them what I say to you; that it can't be done. Not in these days of war; not under these conditions. No woman can manage three babies, a large house, cook^ ing, beds, dueting, marketing, serving meals, dealing with nursery illnesses, washing, no matter how strong and capable she is. In the old days there would have been a grandmother and aunts, to say nothing of a good servant or two, to most unbearable load, help. Today she has to fight on alone. Do the best you can, Margaret, and keep first things first. Keep the children in jtough dark overalls, serve most at their meals in sandwich- and-mug fashion; have your own meals entirely in the kitchen. Don't mourn "niceness" and "daintiness" and the "way Mother had things." There is nothing nice and dainty about war, and these are war times. Live as if you were in one of the war-torn countries yourself; anxious only to keep your family together, warm and housed and fed. Nothing more. Your husband, if he is a reasonably intelligent man--most husbands aren't, but perhaps yours is--will quickly realize the basic importance of what you are doing; raising children in these times. He will see, when you point it out to him, that nothing else matters except that we all GET THROUGH these days to better times. Not what you wear, not dust and disorder are important, not flowers on the table and fresh little garments on the children when Dad gets home. Food, shelter, warm beds, baths, and love, love, love all the way, these are what matter. And these, whittled down, to their essentials, will keep you busy enough. Eliminate Finishing Touches. tut out all fancy touches, all show, •U beautifying for the duration; real- Find Russian Tough? Expert Says It's Easy Can you pronounce Zhitomir, Novogrod- Volynski, Lwow, Orel, Velikie Luki, or Novosokolniki? It's as simple as a, b, c--in fact, simpler--to pronounce these Russian war cities, according to Father Konstantine Auroroff, part-time instructor in Russian at Pennsylvania State college. "Russian is an easy language. Anyone can learn to read it in two or three hours," declares Father Au- 1 roroff. "In English there are some 60 sounds. In Russian there are 32 and only two or three of them are not used in English,." To begin with, he^streses, Russian is a phonetic language. There aren't three or four different sounds for the letter a, for instance, as there are in English; a in Russian is always pronounced as in "bar." Other Russian letters represent the English sounds of b, d, long e, f, g (as in go), k, or c, 1, m, n, long O, p, r <with a trill), s, t, long u, v, and z. Combinations of English letters, such as ye, ooo, ch, sh, and ya, are used as one character in Russian. Some of the sounds unfamiliar to English ears are an h pronounced as "hoch," a zh sound like the French j, and a ts combination as in "nuts." Colds Numerous f| estimated that the American people suffer from 400 million colds si year entailing a loss in manpower of 500 million dollars. Influenza'kjjled more than 20 million people dui$g the world wide epidemic of 1918 and 1919, and caused more than 548,000 deaths In the United States: Even in 1940 and 1941 the disease was epitat many parts of the world. Seasons Faster Split wood seasons twice as fast as round wood, if it is more than six inches in diameter. Head the Want Ads Protect Sink Don't let garbage stand in Urn rink. Don't draw pots or pans across tho enameled drainboard of a sink. Don't use an ice pick in the sink without protecting the surface. Ddn't cut anything on the sink drainboards without protecting th* *urf?'ce. Don't 9i*c* hot pan* on t'v «!nk * in Waukegan. Mrs. Hickey of McHenry and Mrs. John Woodward were callers in Woodstock, Wednesday. Henry Wraage of Chicago spent the weekend with Loren Harrison. Pfc. Rex Ray and Mrs. Ray spent Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Low. The Rays were chari varied by a group of friends that evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller and children of McHenry called on Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich Saturday ^evening. Mr; and Mrs. Ben Fout and sons of Spring Grove spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peet. Donnie Fout was celebrating his birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cristy entertained the 500 club Thursday evening. Prizes for high scores were awarded to George Shepard and Mabel Hawley; for low score, Ruby Shepard and Clarence Pearson. Wayne Foss has returned home after speeding the past few months in Richmond. His school closed Fri day. Mrs. S. W. Brown was a caller in Elgin one day last week. Mr. Martin Nimagern of Spring Grove spent Sunday with Mir. and Mrs. Nick Young. Marion Hawley spent Saturday evening in Chicago. The annual Memorial Day dinner given by the W. S. C. S., will be held ats the community hall May 30. Baked hani, escalloped potatoes, buttered peas, spring salad, rolls, coffee and assorted pies--76c adults--25c children. . Mr. Ira' Bruce and daughter of Bluford, 111., spent last week with Mrs. Clayton Bruce and family. Carol Harrison and LuAnn Bauer attended the. 4-H meeting in Wood stock Saturday. Rev. and Mre. H. J. Collins and Rev. and Mrs. John Dickson were entertained at a birthday dinner at the home of Mrs. Earl Barnard Sun». day. Mr. and Mrs. Lunkenhiemer and Boh "of -McHenry called on Mr. and Mrs#. Roy Neal Saturday evening. Viola Low, Alice Walkington, Lena Peet and Mabel Hawley attended surgical dressings class at McHenry* Wednesday. Mrs. D. C. Bacon of Crystal Lake was a caller in the L. B. Hawlejr home Tuesday. Mrs. Hany Peet and Mrs. Snyder When you need help on build* ityourself farm equipment . P U B L I C S E R V I C E Farm Representative You'd be surprised at the number at time and work-savers that can be mad* from the odds and ends of materials % lying around your place. That motor ojf; * yours can be made portable and rigged; |up in a jiffy to a corn sheller, milk stirrer, elevator... those sockets, bulbar and scraps of lumber are just waiting to make a brooder that will save yout pigs, chicks, lambs--even that old was* basin and a bulb can be made into (fc. " dandy poultry water warmer. Here's the point. By building your own farm helpers, you're going to more hours on the chore clock. Your . going to lick the labor shortage, side* step the inconvenience of not being abl§ , to purchase new equipment--you're going to produce more with less labor at lower cost. And one of our Farm Representatives is the man to help you. Many of you may already know some of these men...for years they've been specializing in home-built electric farm aids which have resulted in greater speed and ease where farm chores are concerned. The iictoisory service of our Farm Representatives is your* for the asking. If you have a problem or are looking for a new way to do it easier and quicker, drop a card or phone your Public Service office and a Farm Representative will glad ,to stop out to your place for a chat and offer many worthwhile 'suggestions. It's Simple, made-in-a-minute devices like this water warmer ( just a bulb and a can for protection) that put an end to water warming worries.. Our Farm Representative can show you variations of this one that will work wi& youx hog or poultry waterers. Make It a Portable motor and you've got a hard working helper that's ready to go places and get things done. There are many ways to mount a motor so It will roll right up to an elevator, grinder, hay hoist and do a quicki easier So Important to efficient farm operation is the construction of brooders and other home-made electric aids that they have become well coy^r«4 subjects in high school ag classef. Nothing Complicated about this Farm Life approved milk stirrer... and think of the time and milk that it can save. Chances are that you have all the materials needed for a stirrer--just waiting to be assembled. A card or phone call will bring the plans. 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