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RECIPE OF THE WEEK : HERMITS Yield ~ 4% dozen cookies. A fine old-fashioned among the "drop" cookies, . . fruity, muieby , and a cookie which keeps well, Butter a baking sheet. Prepare - --- = 1 cup seedless raisins, washed and dried 1 cup cut-up pitted dates 1 cup coarsely-chopped nutmeats 2 cups Monarch Pastry flour i: teaspoon baking soda + teaspoon salt teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice 1/8 teaspoon grated nutmeg Sift,then meansure- Sift together twice then sift into a bowl; add prepared fruits . and nuts and coat them thoroughly with the dry ingredients, Crean until soft- - 4 tablespoons butter and- -------- 4, tablespoons shorten- ing Gradually bland in- 1 cup brown sugar, - Lightly packed and cream thoroughly. Beat until thick - 2 eggs and add to creamed ° mixture, a little at a time, beating well after each addition. -4+ teaspoon vanilla. Add the flour-fruit. mixture to the creamed mixture, a little at a time, mixing it in thoroughly after each addition. Bake a test cookie @ should it spread too much, mix a little more flour into the (cont. on next col.) Page 6 HERMITS (cont. ) dough. Drop dough by small spoonfuls, well apart, on prepared baking sheet, Bake in moderate oven, 350°, 15 to 18 minutes, 0-0-0 HERE'S HOW- -- To Make a Toweling apron. A sturdy apron that you can wipe your hands on and then dunk in the washing machine is made from a yard-length linen dish tawel and two bath towels. Starting at top centres on the linen towel set quarter-inch pleats toward the edge, Stitch down to waist-line. Then stitch bath towels to the linen towel from the waist down. Sew metal loops at two inch intervals at top of bath towels and string clothes rope though for ties. Sew loops at top corners of linen towel and knot clothes rope through to make halter, To Make a Place to Study If your child has a place of his very own in which to study and: to keep his papers, your life and his will be happier. You can make a desk for him from an old-fashioned serving table or sideboard without too much work, Almost everyone has something like this in her attic. Or if not they can be picked up for a song at a second hand shop. First, you remove the carving at the top, leaving a flat top. Then remove the drawers from centre section, A Little work with a saw is all that is needed, You may, if you like, leave one drawer. If your sideboard has drawers at side and open. space in centre remove the centre door and cross piece, You can paint the finished desk any color your child likes, or remove the finish and wax and' varnish in natural color. Your child will appreciate your efforts and will learn quickly to keep this things in order, 0-0-0 AROUND THE TOWN Constable and Mrs, Jack Stewart arrive! Wednesday from Geraldton, Ontario, and we wish them welcome in our little town. Mr. and Mrs. Scotty Hamilton with Bonnie and Marcia were weekend guests of Marge's brother, Donald Armstron and family of Port Arthur last weekend, _ Mrs, Isabelle Craig visited with Elva McMillan and family of Fort William during the past weekend, (cont. on page 7 )