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â- "V â-  Salada Tea Bags are handy for afternoon dea rii I SALAM TEA BABS HRQNICLES r? Gv(7,n.doUr\«. P Cla,rWe Early in the year 1 had reason to feel I was like the old Quaker â€" you remember â€" the one who laid to his wife â€" "Everyone is out of step except me and thee â€" and thee is out of step most of the time." Why did 1 feel that way? Just because the radio, and every paper and magazine I picked up spoke ot 1950 as the beginning of the second half-century, whereas I liad said in my column two weeks ago that 1950 is not only the beginning of a new year, it is also "the closing year" of a half cen- tury. .And you know I gave that little matter quite a lot of thought before 1 wrote it. I also souglit ad- vice from my menfolk and we were all agreed that the second half of the 20th century doei not begin until January 1st, 1951. Then came the papers and I thought to iiiy- •elfâ€" "Well, either they %re all all this second half century talk in crazy, or I am". Even MacLean's Magazine jumped the gun in one of its ^ editorials, at which 1 was very surprised because 1 thought MacLean's prided itself on being almost infallible. Husveyer, in a few days, J. V. McAree, in his col- umn, backed me up â€" not that he knew it, of course â€" later a letter in the Globe and Mail, and another in the Family Herald, all pointed out the error of calling 1949 the «nd of the first half century. So 'now I feel very inuch better, de- spite the fact that Don Fairburn said that while those who think as I do may be technically correct yet the popular opinion is that Father Time has closed his books on the first half of th« 20th century. Oh well, everyone has a right to his own opinion â€" but on one point I â- m sure w« all agreeâ€" that 1950 Is hound to be an eventful year. When I started writing this we were having a little bit of sub-zero weather, but by the look of things it will b« like spring again before this gets into print. Personally, I would rather have It a little on the cold sideâ€" except that we are grate- ful for what the rain does to the "TrHt^^'/M ONE yard of 35-Inch for the small fizst Little mor* for the larger. .As shown in diagram this apron is ONE pieca plus ti«i and pockets. It whips up very quickly I Pattern 4718 comes In sixes •mail (14,16) and medium (18,20) Small iixe one yard 35-inch. This pattern, easy to use, sim pie to sew, is tested for At. Has Complete illustrated instructions Send TWENTY-FIVB CENTS (2Sc) in coins (itamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print Slainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS TYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123 I'.iijht «enth St.. New Toronto. Om ISSUE 4 - t95(> wells. The coal bins have also ben- efitted by the. mild weather, which is just as well because the coal nowadays is like the old grey mare â€""it ain't like it used to be". We have one bin of Alberta coal and one of American anthracite, and both kinds burn away far quicker than they should. And, oh dear, the dust in the house is worse than 1 ever knew it. I wonder if other housewives find it that way. Daughter was almost in despair when she was home. Had she been here very much longer the vacuum cleaner would have got worn out. The poet was right who said "Dust will keep but violets won't". Dust will keep all right â€" for the simple reason that you can't get rid of it. But 1 imagine Daughter won't be worrying much about our dust from now on â€" she will have enough of her own to look after, he has al- ready rented all the rooms in her nine-room house â€" and two of' the roomers are young couples -with small children, so Daughter tias probably been the means of solv- ing one of their major problems â€" for which I am very thankful. Mar- ried couples with small children must often be jtist about desperate. The sun is shining and icicles are dripping from our windows right now, but the other day when it was cold the windows without storm sash were frosted over. Just to look at them made me think of the west â€" especially since I have read several letters in the' papers recently about the loneli- ness of women on the prairie. Reading thera I thought of our own life in Saskatchewan and 1 remembered that the only thing that really got me down was some- times living for weeks at a time without being able to see through the windows at all. We had no storm windows and there was frost on the outside and frost on the in- side. Sometimes I would clean off a small patch with»salt but it would soon freeze over again. We lit- erally saw nothing beyond the four walls of our own home during stormy weatherâ€" except, of course, for the times when we had to go out. Partner had a few chores at the barn, and water to draw from the well. And he generally went to town with team and sleigh once a week for mail and supplies, no matter how bad the weather. I remember one time he could not see to drive through the blinding blizzard so he fastened the lines to the sleigh and left the horses to find their way home by instinctâ€" and that is more than anyona could do with a carl Our faithful team came home all right and I heard them stop at the back door. But when I looked out I found Partner huddled on the floor of the sleigh, his back to the storm, and in a semi-conscious condition. It was well he had no further to go. But it was not always stormy weather, One remembers things like driving home from a party on a still, frosty night, with the Northern Lights hanging a fringe of coloured strea- mers across a cloudless sky. At such times one hardly dared to breathe, it was so beaiilifiilâ€" like „ a winter fairyland. Lonesome on the prairie? May- be . . but it had its coniponsatioiis From parish magazine: Vou arc helping to improve our churchyard. Will you add to this help by bring- ing your own clippers and cutting the grass round your own grave? Her Night Out â€" Cliarlcs Rane, ol \\ indior. Umarid. aii.Mously clutches his daiifjhter, Noreeii, 7. after the iitissinQ child was found following an all-night police search. Noieen haH spent the night with a girl friend, witlKiut telling her patents. Kane spotted his daughter in the street, as she strolled with friends. ANN|£ HIRST MEDDLING MOTHER-IN-LAW A mother-in-law who tries to separate her son and. his wife must be stopped in her efforts. But how? She cannot be disciplined lil;e a child, thougli she deserves to be. She cannot be sliut out com- pletely from the f a m i ly life, though she ts not welcome Yet soraethinp must be done to prevent her ac- complishing her vicious purpose. One plaRui-d wife relates her ex- perience: Her mother-in-law tells actual lies about her son. She informs her daughter-in-law that he is being un- true to her, which the wife, thank goodness, know, is not so. She exaggerates his faults, even advises the girl to'leave himl Of course she is jealous, eager to have her son to herself. Added to the faults she iiuerferes with their chiklrcn's training, to the point where they actually fear her THIS MUST STOP * Of course this wife sees through * these machinations. But it is hard * not to become upset and nervous * under their influence. * She should talk the matter over * u' '\ her husband, and enlist his * support. (This " does not men * tion what his attitude is.) He * must stand behind her, givt lier * his entire loyalty. * For the wife will tell her " othcr-iii-law. calmly but firmly, * that from now on she will not * listen to .iltacks upon her Inis * band. It is not loyal, and she has * too much respect for him to sit * quietly by, without protest. Even * if they were true, it would not be * proper.â€" And she will have no * mgre of it. * She will alio rcniiiid lici * mother-in-law that she and hei ' husband agree completely on the * way they are bringing up theii * children. Thoy, and they alone, * are responsible for the training, * and they cannot brook iiiterfcr * ence from anybody. * When this t»otlier-in-Iaw comes * to see them (as she does regular- * ly) the wife will make a strong * effort to keep their conversation CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACRoaa 1. tatu* mi tKlndotale« Ctsar flah II. Ctilnei* Dort It. Indian 14. Minute nrlllM I|. Orlaveil tf, VIrRlnIa wUlon It. Bxtola It. Leaf o(a ooroIlK tt. PtiaaakM brood tl. liOhitnvrln'a wife It. B«l«acuarni*al :6. Brothar I'S. Vapor tt. Dlaooanatiira it. Any moBkef 13 Blactrifl«4 partlala 14. SarorT , !S. Raquire :i7. Haa stod 15. Btalka 40 Marly New Finirlanil sialllar (4. Dlmnaaa I,',. Intororat M. no bait .?. WInir H. VantlUta* •â- > r^attladrova Ar.r. «!«» • 1 Afrlrnn ^•wmi nOWN I. 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"Of course nobody wants to rent us an apartiiieiil with this dog, but my husband's parents ^re willing to keep the dog for us until we can Kct a house, i I would be willing to move into one room!) Vet my hus- haiul refii?es to move! "Is a man's 'don supposed to mean more to hini than his wife? "1 do love him. but I've even thoiicrin of leaving him because of tiii« 'woxnERixcr ' Ol cour'>c UMi will not leave ' your husband for sucli, a reason ' That would be rliildisii. ' It is hard to believe thai youi * hushaiul refuses to tmve on ac- * count ot the dog.- It is more likely "â-  that he feels comfortable where * he IS. He has less responsiliil ty * in his mother's home than even * a small apartment would entail. * 1 suspect this IS the real reason * for his wanting to stay * Few men have any idea of what * a home of her own means to a * wile. In It, she reigns supreme ' She manages it alone, and it be * comes the foundation of -her fam * ily life. No inatier how kind and * thoughtful her in-laws are, she * cannot rela.\. cumpletely in an * other woman's house. * Husbands who lack iiiiaginaiion ' do not realize this Set if a man * loves his wile as 1 expect youi * husband loves you, he will provide * her with a place of her own. Un * til he moves in there with you, he * will not uiidcrsiaiul what ioy lie, * too, will feel living there alone * with you. " I hope yi'ur luishand will find ' a j;nod place for you soon. Every ' wife deserves it. <. I' • When older people offend, call on your patience and your tact. It takes a great deal of bo' but if you do not lose your composure, you can win. Anne Hirst will help, if you write her at Box 1, 123 EiRhteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, He Builds Planes He Never See* Ninety-mile-an-lrour model planes perfect to the thousandtli of an inch, are being built by a 46-year- old blind man, Mr Robert Jones, ol Brighton. This is how he does it. His wile and son spread the plans of II plane on the table and put pint in the outlines. Then Mr. Jonet't wonder- ful sense of touch comes into op- eration. By letting his fingers go round the pins, he gets "the feel" of the model-tobf. Thru he gets busy. Delily he builds the planas, usiii^ ordinary materials, including fine Kiiuge wire. When they are fin i-ihed his Son tlics them. Kcceiiily his sou entered one of the models in a controlled flight competition. It did 81.6 miles an hour and young Mr. jonet felt sur* he had won a cup Hut h* hadn't. The trophy went to a friend who won, at 90 miles au hour, with an- othet aircraft which had been built frotii Mr. Robert Jonai'a plant. Katharine Cornell Got The Part 1 think it was the advent of Maude Adam's Peter Pa^ in my fa- ther's theater that first made me know that I wanted to devote my life to the stage. 1 had looked tor- ward to Maude Adams with such eagerness that, when the time came . . 1 hid my face in the curtains of the box because 1 couldn't bear to look. Then, afterward, utter en- chantment; particularly the flying part. After that the theatre â€"everything about .it: backstage; front of the house; performance time â€" that mar- velous hush just before the curtain goes up: the clutter and clatter of rehearsals: the glamour of the thca re's great stars â€" Bernhardt, Sotlie^n and Marlowe, Tree, Sir Henr) Irving, Mrs. Fiske became an intimate and realistic part of my life. Naturally I saw more plays than the average child would see. Jessie Bonstelle. who even then came to fiuffalo for a season ot stock each year, was aUvays lovely to nie She would let me sit all day. day in and day out. and watch liei relitarse her plays 1 never got tired of It "Hurry and grow up and plav lo for me." she said one day, I was thrilled. ot course â€" but Jiever dre:inud it would come true Miss Bonstelle played leads, ot cour--e, and did her own directing She I. ad that rare gift of getting a smooth production together in a week- week in and week" out. She was not a ureal actress but an ex- traordinarily good one for that par- ticulr- lob. She could manage any kin I of stage. . . In September â€" tlia was the Fall of '1''- \f iss Bonstelle had decided to do Little Women in London with an F.nglish cast. Marian de Forest wrote the play (in 1912, you re- member), and after fifteen managers turned it down, Brady bought it for his daughter, Alice, who played MeEâ€" beautifully, they say. I never saw her performance "Who for Joe?" asked Miss de Forest. "Kath- erine Cornell!" answered Bonstelle. â€"From "1 wanted to Be an Act- ress,'' bv Katherine Cornell. Poor Prophet Back in the hills, just out of sight of Manhattan's night-glow, an elderly character with ~a prophetic beard is sulking in a little house in a valley. Beside the house, handy to a snow-bound householder, is a large pile of fireplace wood, neatly stacked. The houa.e itself is stoutly banked with last fall's leaves. In the larder is a store of canned food and cured meat. But all last week the elderly character himself sat on his front stoop in his shirtsleeves and ghired at the sky. Last fall, he forecast a heavy winter, an old- fashioned winter full of ice and snow and bone-chilling cold. The week before Christmas he said the turn was at hand. On Christmas Day, he said the new year would come in with a howling wind and two feet of snow. It is obvious what happened. The lilac bushes in his front yard looked, a few days ago, as though they might burst into leaf at any moment. There wasn't enough ice on the near-by pond to cool one long drink. The elderly prophet hadn't been able, try as he might, to burn one full cord of wood; in fact, as he sat there and glowered the other day, the doors of his house were wide open to the balmy breeze. And he knew that if he went poking through the woods, lu might find hepatica in bud. Maybe even shadbush on the verge ol color Winter isn't over yet, by any means. But it is January, and Groundhog Day is going to be here heiore yon knoW it. Then Pebrnary will fray away into March. And the January that should have started off snowbound started off with a burst of 60-degrec weather Those who know the elderly character best say now that he is about to lock up his house and lake a trip. He wants to get away troio this awful winter, they say. He talks of going to Northern Canada â€" N.Y. Times, Ian 8. Ch:tiriiian at church gathering "We welcome tonight the Rev. Mr Jones, This is the first chance lie has had to si)eak since he married." They Had Sausaj;* 2000 Years Aco Sausages have been a popular dish since the fifth century, B.C The Greeks had a word for them I The Romans, too, are known to have indulged in fried tausage* made from fresh pork, chopped pine nuts, cumin seed, bay leaves and black pepper. They are also thought to have introduced the haggis to England, where it was very ponular at the time of the Commonwealth. Since then, the delicacy seems to have retreated over the herder into Scotland, and many ot iis would not recognize a haggis u we saw one. No doubt many of us have phuckled over the story of the housewife who, receiving one as t gift from her husband in Scotland, planted it in her rockery and proud- ly displayed its flourishing condition on his return. In the .Middle .Ages, the "Saus- age-.\lakers' Guild" produced a pop- ular delicacy consisting of ground pork flavored with eggs, powdered pepper, and spice, encased in the neck ot a capon. When sausage are cooking, there 13 often shrinkage due lo loss of fat and water; this maj be reduced by dipping in boiling water before frying. Fine Idea Gerry: "Don't you think it a good idea to rate all cars according to their horsepower?" Bill: "Not as good as rating drivers according to their horse sense." Upside down to prevent peeking. 30 A/F N tin ODMZ dmswi 2VH WMHWll IMMS a\3M o Hy w^ rs]GBB. mum ^umm And the REUEF is LASTING Nobody knows *he cause of rheuma- tism but we do know there'a onu thing to e«se the pain . . . it's XNSTANriNE. And when you take Instantinx the relief is prolonged because INSTANTINK contains not one, but three proven medical ingredients. These three ingredients work together to bring you not only fast relief but more prolonged relief. •Take Instantine for fast headache relief too ... or for the pains of neuritis or neuralgia and the aches and pains that often accompany a cold. Get Insiaiitina today and ilwtys ke4p It ttndy instantine l2-TabtotTin25«l Economical 48-Tablat Bottia 69^ ">^hs m ./} â- /â-  % ^'^<^''&f"Â¥t f^ â- ,«~ Gingerbread Cup Calcos • Combine ^i cup innltifl sltortoning nnd lu cups miilftmra and add 1 Iwuton egg. Stir until well blended. Mix and sift tuguthir -'t, cup« sifted flour, 1 toasiwon M«Kio Baking Powder, 1 teaapoon Maui,; BnkinR So<hi, 1 teaspoon ciniw- mon. 1 IcaspiHin BinRir, X^ teaspoon olovae, M '•"»"»«">» fudl, and add alternately with Ji cup hot walor. Hake in 24 21,' cup oikke pane in moderate o\'en (3.S0-) for 30 minutec Then Wend one 3-oj!. pnckaKe of cream cheoM with enough milk to make of sauce coiwlstencv. Ttop eacli serving with n aixionful. I r