ws. STRATFORD MIRROR _ 1945 THIS VERY MINUTE IF the needy and destitute of war-torn lands could stand -at your side in their rags and poverty--and look in your clothes closet with you... ie that could happen, and you saw the plea in their sunken, death-hounded eyes, you would give half of your clothing to warm them. *THIS VERY MINUTE, I will go and look. They won't be at my side, but their voice of thanks will be. Sponsored by THE BREWING INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) in aid of NATIONAL CLOTHING COLLECTION, Oct. 1 to 20 RECIPES, T--Tablespoon. t--Teaspoon. PUMPKIN PIE Mix 1 cup brown sugar, % t ea. cin- namon and cloves, % t ginger, % t each nutmeg and salt. Add 1% cups sieved cooked or can- ned pumpkin, gradually add 1 ¢ scald- ed milk. Beat 2 eggs and 1 egg yolk, add, mix. Beat 1 egg white stiff; fold in. Pour into 9" unbaked pastry shell. Bake in hot oven, 425 deg., 45 min. BAKED SQUASH Select a ripe knotty Hubbard. Cut in half and scoop the seeds out. Place on pie tins and bake in moderate oven. When done remove from oven and scoop pulp into a saucepan. Re- turn to stove, add % ec good sweet cream or in lieu of that, a good-sized lump of butter and a scant %c milk. Season with salt. Let it cook up; stir well. Serve hot. PERFECT SHORTBREAD ~- (Without Shortening or Sugar) 1 3-oz. pkg. cream cheese 1 c molasses 2 eggs 1%, ¢ sifted, all-purpose flour % t baking soda 1% t baking powder 1 t cinnamon 1 t ginger %4t cloves % t salt *, c boiling water. Beat cheese until soft and fluffy. Gradually beat in molasses, Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Sift dry ingredients and spices together. -Add to cheese mixture, stirring until batter is smooth. Stir boiling water in gently. Pour into greased 7%' x 2" pan. Bake in mod. oven 350 deg., 40-45 min. Cool on wire rack. Cut in square while hot. Grated nutmeg sprinkled on ginger- bread before baking does things for ie CONTINENTAL APPLE PIE Tart Apples % ¢ flour % c sugar 1-3 c sour cream Line a 9" pie plate with pastry. Lay in, side, by side, tart quartered apples. Sprinkle this with the blended flour and sugar then with the cream. Bake in hot oven--425 deg. F for 10: mins., then reduce heat to 375 deg. and con- tinue baking until a rich brown, COFFEE CREAM PUUFFS (Without Sugar) ¥% ec strong coffee brew ¥% ¢ shortening % c sifted all-purpose flour % t salt 2 eggs *Cream Puff Filling or 1 pkg. prepared SButterscotch or chocolate pudding 2 ¢c milk. Bring coffee brew to boiling point. and salt; add: eggs 1 at a time, beat- ing hard after each. Drop by table- spons on greased baking sheet 2" apart. Bake in hot oven 450 deg., 10 mins., reduce to moderate heat 350 deg., bake 20-25 mins. Make slit in the side of each; cool. Make filling or pre- pare pudding according to directions on package, using 2 c¢ milk. Cool. Fill Puffs. Makes 6 large puffs. * Cream Puff Filling: 1-3 e¢ flour % c honey 2 eggs 1% c milk % t vanilla Dash of Salt Stir flour into honey. Add well-beat- THANKSGIVING Add shortening. Sift together flour -- FRIDAY, 2CLIBER 5, 1945 THE STRATFORD MIRROR Just Among Ourselves A regular department conducted for Mirror readers by Ina St. John. WILL SHE WAIT? Dear Miss St. John-- For some years we have read your column with interest. Today I decided 'to write to you about our son. He is coming home after two years over- seas. He has lost a leg. Before he left, his girl friend prom- ised to wait. She does not live in Ont- ario and I have not seen her since he left. He writes that she is still wait- ing. I have had some experience with amputation cases. I know how long it will be. Do you think that I should write her perhaps mentioning the length of time it may take for him to learn to use an artificial leg well enough to work again? I dread hav- ing him build false hopes for happi- ness. Hoping to see your answer next Friday--J.M. Answer: We sympathize with your natural desire to shield your hero son from further hurt, J. M., nethertheless, there is little that anyone can do at this time. The girl will wait if she loves your son. Otherwise, it is well to find out how matters stand. We hope it will not be too long until your son is able to get around again. Ina St. John. LIFE'S GRAVEST DECISION When I was out west in July I met an R.C.A.F. man. We fell in love and I wear his ring. He is an Englishman. I have just had a letter saying he is going home in a month. He wants me to marry him and-go back with him to England. I want to do so. I am unhappy without him. My family are against it. I did not know him long, and they say I have no right to bur- den England with another mouth to feed. Can you advise me? Thanking You-- bod 3 2 8 3 ed Answer: Well Judy, you have a serious de- cision to make. Are you sure that you know this man well enough to leave all you love, and to go so far away with him? It will take real love to face loneliness and deprivation, We hope that you will not decide hastily. Ina St. John. STRICT RULES Dear Miss St. John: We have a room in town now it is coming near winter. The lady makes us send our boy friends home at eleven. They are just school friends who come up to study with us and then have some fun for an hour or so. Don't you think eleven is too early? Girl Friends Answer: You are fortunate in getting rooms where the landlady is particular, ' Girl Friends. We do not think eleven is too early for your student boy friends to leave. Ina St. John DIFFERENCE IN AGES Dear Miss St. John-- I have been going with an airforce officer. He is thirty-five. I am nearly twenty. Do you think he is too old for Seriously, some men are as old in manner at twenty as others are at thirty-five. However the airforce blue makes most men look younger than they are. In "Civies" he may look the whole fifteen years your senior. If he is young at heart, the difference in your ages may not make any differ- ence now, However, you must consid- er the future. When you are twenty- five and still expecting to enjoy life with young people, the man will be forty. He will be tired of dancing and gaiety. When you are middle aged he will be elderly. Many have been happily married though of widely different ages, but a man of your own age would be a safer assurance of happiness. Ina St. John At a reception one evening, lexico- grapher Samuel Johnson was discuss- ing his dictionary with several guests. "T have seen your dictionary," re- primanded one prime old lady, "and I found many words I thought were im- proper." "Tf you found them, madam," re- plied Johnson, "I guess you must have been looking for them." A colored mammy was introducing her children, Eenie, Meenie, Minie and Rastus, to a visitor. "Why," queried the friend, "did you name him Rastus?" 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