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M WON‘T BE IN TODAY‘ â€" Main reasons that persons stayed away from work last year are shown in Newschart. Vacations accounted tor greatest time out, with a peak of nearly six million persons in July lliness was second with a peak of 1 202,000 in February. Bad weather also kept more off the job that moith than during any other â€" 708,000 industrial dis putes idied 206 000 dur‘ng the high month of Octobe when many labo: contracts were up for renewal. Based on U.S Deâ€" partment ot Commerce figures. Sauce for the hoose is sauce for the hander, by holly.â€"Boston Herald. A counter weapon, gappily, is available to our side at the fourâ€" power talks. Mr. Gerter can inâ€" sist on calling Foreign Minister Gromyko "Mr. Homyko." Secretary Gerter should not feel too badly, gowever. It gapâ€" pened before to notables like Cordell Gull, Garry Gopkins and Averell Garriman. Some Ameriâ€" can leaders, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, escaped gumiliation, but not many. Garry Truman and Dwiggt Eisengower must still wince every time it gappens. The Russians, lacking a preâ€" cisely similar sound in their own tongue for the English letter "h," have taken to calling our new sccretary of state "Mr. Gerter" at the current foreign ministers‘ meeting. Meanwhile, the industry began research to learn whether the plastic can be made safer, Polyâ€" ethylene has a tendency to pick up electric charge when the air is dry. At other times, the elecâ€" tricity is "bled off" by droplets of moisture in the air. Chemists believe it may be possible to reâ€" duce the electrical properties by a slight change in polyethylene‘s chemical makeâ€"up that would not affect its value as a wrapping material. But industry spokesmen voiced doubt this would be a complete answer. "Fundamentâ€" ally," said Langdon Williams of the Society of the Plastics Indusâ€" try, "parents must realize the cleaner‘s thin, fAlmy bag is not a mattress cover."â€"From NEWSâ€" WEEK. The accidents were distressingâ€" ly similar, the National Safety Council reported. Time after time the material was used to cover a pillowcase or a mattress in a baby‘s crib to prevent the cotâ€" ton from soiling. As the baby moved, the friction between plasâ€" tie and cotton produced static electricity causing the plastic to stick to the skin. The little hands flailed about and tore the fAlmy stuff. Some covered the child‘s mouth and nose, blocking air passages, and a few minutes later the death toll had increased by one. Most of the victims have been babies less than a year old. They are but a small fraction of‘ the 1,200 tots up to 4 years old who die of accidental suffocation annually. 1 Kordite Corp., a supplier of plastic bags, distributed the first of more than a million leaflets burinr the message above, to be hung on every garment delivered by. a cleaner, Placards with the same warning will be posted in Plastics manufacturers, dry cleaners, and the National Safety Council began a massive camâ€" paign recently to alert parents to the dangers of the filmy, transâ€" parent bags used for delivering clean garments, Since Jan. 1, about 30 children have died beâ€" cause the polyethylene containâ€" ers were put to unintended uses. Canger Threatens Your Children! "You‘re so uclud.'luwy, y carried me in andâ€"out!" JAN. FEB, MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG, SEPT. OCT. MNOV. DEC It‘s a Gassle They met again and again. Then, during a holiday, he proâ€" posed. But she felt she could not say "Yes," because of warâ€" time uncertainty about the fuâ€" ture. Th he went he went sadly home Fifteen years passed, without a word or a letter between them. Then, not long ago, she Their romance began when the doctor was serving in the British Army during the war, stationed in Wales, One night, feeling bored and lonely, be saw â€" the Welsh girl, then twentyâ€"two, dancing a Spanish dance. For him it was love at first sight. Took 65 Years To Pop Question Because of his undying love for an attractive Welsh woman, a doctor living in Pakistan has been happily reunited with hen after fifteen years‘ islence. She has said "Yes" at last and reâ€" cently she set off on a 6,000â€" mile voyage to marry him. © During the first world war soldiers suffering from shellâ€" shock recovered more quickly when placed in rooms where the ceilings had been distemâ€" pered "firmament blue," to reâ€" semble as far as possible the blue of the sky. Blue is today the favourite colour of millions all over the, world, although some psycholoâ€" gists have said it is depressing. Young girls invariably love blue â€"and pink. In one modern Swiss factory the machinery was coloured turquoise blue because "it made the workers feel better." Blue, we are also told by the experts, possesses â€" intellectual appeal. "It is the colour of truth, but it can also represent hardness and cruelty," says one. "Blue makes people more tranquil in business although some women call it a cold colâ€" our," says a London doctor. ‘ Blue is one of the soothing colours, they point out. Blue and violet light are best for indueâ€" ing sleep in nervous conditions. Blue, declare the men wno study the principles of chromnâ€" pathy â€"the art of curing diâ€" seases with the aid of coloursâ€" can help you to get over an illness and assist in keeping you fit. At an Italian mental hospital a patient who spent twentyâ€" four hours in a room fitted with blue windowâ€"panes felt so much relieved that he was able to go home soon afterwards and today is quite his normal self again. Feeling blue? Let‘s hope not, but if you are, try looking at something blue to cheer you up. Yes, it‘s wondertul, say colour scientists, how blue helps to make people happier. Blue Keeps The Blues Away! Some Holiday Drivers . . . They drifted apart and "No", replied an onlooker, "this is the motorist who ran into a boxer." Someone had already sent for the police and at last a conâ€" stable camme running up. "Is this the boxer who was run into by & motorist?" he asked. A crowd of people had gathâ€" ered round a man who looked considerably the worse for wear. His eyes were closing and colâ€" oured, his face was in a terribi« mess, and he could just about stand up. On the other hand, a French Abbé said that when a couple are really in love and plan to marry, their engagement should not last longer than six months. Nine years ago they married. The bride was eightyâ€"five, the bridegroom eightyâ€"six. They had been courting for sixtyâ€"five years â€"â€" since 1885. Five years is not too long for an engagement, he said. In that time a couple can thoroughly study each other‘s character, health and disposition, he addâ€" But the longest courtship on record was that of an American couple who, although they were in love, "talked about marriage frequently, but never quite got around to it" for various reaâ€" sons. How long, ideally, should a courtship last? Dr. Adolf Laurâ€" enz, an Austrian surgeon, sugâ€" gested that unhappy marriages and divorces were often the reâ€" sult of tooâ€"short courtship periods. It‘s on record in Somerset that way back in 1788 a Captain Baxter, aged sixtyâ€"six, married Miss Whitman, aged fiftyâ€"seven, after a courtship of no fewer than fortyâ€"eight years "which they both sustained with unâ€" common‘ fortitude." It is not known why Cupid had to wait so long. A Dublia couple who wed several years ago were oldâ€"age pensioners. They â€" had â€" been courting for fortyâ€"six years. Anâ€" other couple, in Maryland, U.S., became sweethearts when their combined ages totalled only thirteen. They married after a courtship of thirtyâ€"one years. He had courted her all that time because she had refused to give up her duty â€" by the side of an invalid father who needed her constant companionâ€" ship. Only when her father died did she feel able to say "Yes" and marry the man who had so faithfully wooed her. "Better late than never," said a seventy â€" oneâ€"yearâ€" old Kent man when he married the womâ€" an he loved in 1937. Their wedâ€" ding was the sequel to a twentyâ€" fiveâ€"yearâ€"old love match. For instance, a thirtyâ€"nineâ€" yearsâ€"old Californian salesman tevealed on his wedding day recently that he had ‘made up his mind to marry his pretty, blueâ€"eyed bride when she waus still a baby, smiling up at him from her pram twenty years earlier. Hundreds of men have waited moré than twenty years for the girl of their choice. Love laughs at Cupid has aimed The romances of couples prove this They met again and he pro posed. And this time she ac cepted him. got a sudHen call. He was on a medical course in London and had decided to ring the girl ne still loved and had tried vainly to forget. . . Return the Hard Way . . . time, once his arrows. hundreds of Cucumber: Thick slices of cuâ€" cumber between rounds of butâ€" tered bread the same size as the cucumber slice. Openâ€"faced sandwiches are beâ€" coming more and more popular, and are attractive, â€" although sometimes fussier to make beâ€" cause they have to be decorated, in a measure, with olives, piâ€" miento, etc. Also, if you are makâ€" ing them ahead for a large crowd. there is the problem of how to store them, for they cannot be piled on top of one another, yet they must be kept from drying out. Arranging them on large cooky sheets and covering seâ€" curely with waxed paper helps. Sandwiches of fancy shape should be spread after cutting to avoid waste of filling, and, if fancy cutters are used, it is more practical to remove the crusts from the entire loaf of bread and cut it lengthwise into slices beâ€" fore cutting out the smaller shapes. & s & To make pinwheel sandwiches, those dainty bits of intricacy, trim the crusts from fresh bread. slice lengthwise, spread with filling, roll into a cylinder, and wrap tightly, first with wax paper, then in a dampened towel wrung out hard. Cut each cylinâ€" der into slices just before servâ€" ing. | _ There‘s probably never a time |of year when it isn‘t helpful to [talk about party sandwiches JWhether you serve them when |the neighbors drop in, for afterâ€" noon tea, or for a real party, a newâ€"and especially a simpleâ€" sandwich idea is always welâ€" come. Bread should be at least 24 hours old to slice easily. Cooky cutters â€" round, diamond, or heartâ€"shaped â€" speed the task of preparing the bread, and long fingers of bread are simple to prepare, easy to eat, and dttracâ€" tive. Actually, with a little foreâ€" thought and two or three people working like a production line. the job is amazingly simple. Sometimes the sight <of large platters beautifully arrayed with dainty sandwiches of different shapes and sizes causes, first, adâ€" miration, but almost at once the secret thought: "What a lot of work!" !‘ow for fillings, here are just :figéTA BLE TALKS cane Andrews. serve with a cold salad and desâ€" sert, you will find this, a cheeseâ€" rice combination that is good for this purpose. Country Casserole If you hav« leftover ham, domâ€" bine 1 cup of it, diced, with 3 cups soft bread crumbs. Add % cup milk and 2 beaten eggs. For zest, add chopped onion, chopped green pepper, prepared mustard, and prepared horseâ€"radish to taste. Bake in greased 1â€"quart casserole for 1 hour at 350° F. 4 cup milk 1 cup cooked rice # cups cooked peas (canned, frozen or fresh) 1 terspoon finely chopped onion Clean asparagus and cut into 1â€"inch pieces. Cook in 1 inch of boiling salted water until barely tendedâ€"about 10 minutes. Make white sauce of butter, flour, seaâ€" sonings and milk stir in cheese Place half of buttered crumbs in greased casserole. Place alternate layers of eggs, asparagus and cheese sauce . on the crumbs Cover top with the remaining crumbs. Bake in 350° F. oven for 15 minutes. Serves 6. A spring casserole combines fresh asparagus with hardâ€"cooked eggs. Fresh Asparagusâ€"Egg Casserole 2 pounds fresh asparagus 1 cup buttered bread crumbs 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour \& teaspoon salt Cream cheese and dried beef: Soften cheese and add tiny bits of dried beef, taking care not to add too much, as it is salty. Prune and nut: Chop both fine a;@ mix with honey. Herb butter: Stir into butter. thoroughly creamed, enough of one of the following herbs to proâ€" duce the desired color and taste: parsley, _ waterctess, rosemary. mixed herbs. Sardine: Mash sardines to a paste, mix with hardâ€"cooked egg yolk or chopped whole egg, and moisten with a bit of catchup. Chicken: Mince chicken meat. add minced celery and mayonâ€" naise, or ground almonds. Pepper 1 cup grated Canadian cheese GAI!nrd-cooked eggs, diced . . . . Some Never Make It If you like one hot dish to ym The judge added that most people would prefer to live with &A tiger in the house, which was a higher animal, to say the least. However, over in France, it was a "higher animal," a panâ€" ther, that broke up a marriage. "It does not surprise me that the wife was terrified by these and other reptiles," said the judge, "To persist in keeping reptiles of this sort in a tiny flat where the wife had to live. literally cheek by jowl with tb:&\. was a grossly crue} thing." Imagine it â€"â€" sharing a tiny flat with a python, a boaâ€"conâ€" strictor and a crogodile. That was what an Essex mlotfi:t forced his wife to do. And that was the reason she was granted a divorce recently, f No Wonder These Families Split! It was a famous iiii}}iiii; Cheeseâ€"Rice Casserole Only the other day a red carâ€" nation was produced in a Lonâ€" don court as evidence against a man accused of obtaining goods from a famous store with a worthless cheque. But flowers and plants have also helped in the fight against crime. It was some fragments of a rare plant adhering to his trousers which trapped a criâ€" minal and, in a French case, spores from a species of mushâ€" rooms grown in a cellar identiâ€" fied the man who had murderâ€" ed the mushroom farmer. There is another, more deadâ€" ly, connection. Consider what fatal poisons are dérived from plants â€" aconite from monk‘sâ€" hood, digitalis from foxglove, colchicum from meadow saffron, And the drugs: opium and heroâ€" in from the poppy; Indian hemp from which hashish is derived. (Hashish, by the way, made its devotees, so murderous that assassin, an addict of the drug, came to mean killer.) _ Few people connect flowers with crime and the ‘law, but the connection is there. When an English judge comes into court he carries a nosegay of flowers which lies before him while the court sits â€" a relic of the days when judges carried a nosegay against the rank smei\ brought into court by the priâ€" soners and the danger of inâ€" fection from jail fever. 2 tablespoons chopped pimiente 4 hardâ€"cooked eggs, chopped Salt and pepper Melt cheese in top of double boiler. Add milk gradually, stirâ€" ring constantly until smooth Combine rice, peas, onion, piâ€" miento, eggs and seasonings. Pour hot cheese sauce over mixâ€" ture and toss lightly. Place in greased 1â€"quart casserole and bake in 300° F. oven for 25 minâ€" utes. are placed there for Y O UR SAFETY The wife said she played only two or three rounds a week but her husband threatened to put her in a bath of cold water and throw her clubs in on top of her. n The judge, however, dismissâ€" ed the wife‘s petition on the ground of cruelty and the husâ€" band withdrew his crossâ€"petiâ€" tion alleging cruelty. In another .recent marriage breakâ€"up, golf was to blame, but in this case, it was the WIFE who wielded the clubs. The husband complained that she often played seven, eight or nine rounds a week and neâ€" glected the home. de Thunel, 37â€"yearâ€"old Chevaâ€" lier d‘Orgeix, and attractive Michele Cancre, 26â€" yearâ€"old champion horsewoman. Atter a year‘s unl’uu. with hardly :nguuml. went to Africa met Zouma, a playâ€" ‘tul little female panther. But Zoums grew swiftly into a boisterous BIG panther. Tae trouble started when the Cheâ€" valler took Zouma to dine at a Trouville restaurant. The chef objected, the Chevaiier -luoppod the chef and was fined $50. Soon afterwards Zouma esâ€" caped from the couple‘s Paris flat and led firemen a hot chase over the rooftops. Even worse, however, were Zouma‘s antics in private. Hardly a piece of furniture was left intact in the whole flat, and the curtains were torn to shreds. "Zouma;" said Michele, "made life impossible. My husband did nothing to stop the animal. Sne played games with him, jumpâ€" ing on to the bed and licking his face. She destroyed every. thing in the place." too, that between Jean Frangous Foiled By Flowers Obey the traffic signs MERRY MENAGERIE dosin‘t it ?" With the dwindling demand, the Belgians now have only about 50 elephants in the trainâ€" ing stations and the number~of new ones taken from the forâ€" ests each year has dropped to three or four. Some they will in January. Nurse Mrs. Carolyn Acerd warches Even so, their handlers exerâ€" cise more caution with a tamed African elephant than they perâ€" haps would do with an Indian elephant, And with a few exâ€" ceptions, it is generally the Inâ€" dian elephant which the public in countries outside Africa see in domestic capitivity writes John Hughes in The Christian Science Monitor. DREAM YOUR FAT AWAY â€" Mrs. Jone Raulson, a Houston n winks happily as scale indieates she‘s lost 35 pounds. Ravison was among 29 nurses who reportedly dropped pounds in a mass hypnotic reducing experiment which b Officials of the Congo‘s game department say that these bigâ€" ger elephants calm and educate a small elephant in about three months. In a year, the elephant is ready to graduate from the school and many have performâ€" ed useful work, particulatly during World War II, in foresâ€" try camps, as transport animals, and using their giant strength in place of tractors. Over the years, however, tae Belgians have with patience managed to tame numbers of African elephants. The process is generally to isolate young elephants from a wild herd and then lead them off with older previously tamed elephants. Unlike his docile Indian broâ€" ther, the African elephant in his natural habitat generally is fierce and aggressive. He has bigger ears than the Indian elephant and one nail less on each giant hoof â€" though when his ears start to flap and his trunk to curl upward before a screaming charge, few people wait to check on the difference: There is no longer much deâ€" mand from white farmers in the Congo for elephants and apart from an occasional sale to a zoo or circus, and visits by tourists and movie companies to the elephant training stations at Gangala na Bodio and Epulu, there is not much interest in the animals the Belgians have been taming. in Africa to tame the fierce African elephant, undertook the scheme originally to provide elephants as work animals. But today the bulldozer and other machines are edging the eleâ€" phant out. And he never forgets his way home. Some set free in the forâ€" est more than 200 kilometers from their training station in the Congo, for example, have found their way back easily. And contrary to popular beâ€" lief, elephants come in various colours depending on the colour of their last mudâ€"bath. To change the colour, just lead them to mud of the hue desired â€"yellow, rust, bright red, and so forth. Why, then,â€"if they are such a buy, are the Belgians getting rid of them? Because the Belâ€" gians, the only known poopie‘ Average price is around $2,800â€"a bargain when you conâ€" sider some of the advantages. Maintenance costs, / for exâ€" ample, aré negligible. An eleâ€" phant never needs polishing and all models come with builtâ€"in spray on their trunks for selfâ€" washing. Lines don‘t change from year to year and thus an elephant is always in fashion â€" among other elephants, of course. Garaging problems are few, for the African elephant sleeps on his feet and can be left on the front lawn overnight If stolen, an elephant is fairly réadily distinguishable. tame . African hm' llll: They come in k models ’J';...f’ big family mode! weighing beâ€" tween six and eight tons. Want a Model Wi Fourâ€"Wheel Drive? _ Got & transport problem? See nothing in the new cars which takes your fancy? Well the Belâ€" glans in the Congo may have just the answer. .They are selling off their TAKES THE CAKE â€" Fourâ€"year old Mark Ruthe tries out dad‘s underwear while sitting on a 300â€"pound cake of ice Army Maj. H. G. Ruthe had just reâ€" turned from assignment in the Arctie. The victim lost his memory in 1949 and disappeared. Three years ago, he came back with his memory regained and got a shock. For, presuming him dead, his wife had remarried and relaâ€" tives had shared out his estate. The wife solved the problem very simply. She divorced her "dead" husband and remarried husband No. 2. But under a new probate order the first husâ€" band received a small consola» tion â€" his Service Pension was restored. How embarrassing it can be when a man comes back from the dead! Eight years ago, the Probate Court in Sydney made an order w hich presumed a commercial traveller to be dead. But the other day, with the "dead man" present in person, the court reversed that order, and declared him to be legally alive again. Officially Dead Yet Draws Pension And although it uses no gasoâ€" line, it will drain your fishâ€"pond of water in a few minutes and for meals it eats roots, boughs, shrubs, and even small trees, About 700 or 800 lb. of greem food a day, to be exact. So maybe you‘d better not leave your elephant on the front lawn overnight after all. But except for a few ele« phants to keep the scheme tick» ing over, the rest are available at markedâ€"down prices to lower stocks, $ After listing all the elephant‘s advantages, however, it b= ably is only fair to B-IEI couple of snags before the orders pour in. The elephant is not for the longâ€"range commue ter, for its top speed is about 20 m.p.h. keep for research, for other African.animals are kept at the training stations and there is a study program of their habits. SEDICIN® ,'.-hâ€"â€"â€"vâ€"dvv-â€"vâ€"-â€" ""'--zu-:mâ€".' is Sedigin tablats according to direcilons. w snags before the in The elephant is longâ€"range commue top speed is about