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Show Cooperation From Visitor Is Necessary By BETTY BLAIR Children brought up In an atmosphere atmo-sphere free from prejudice have an opportunity to form their own opinions opin-ions and to make their own Judgments Judg-ments as their experience grows. Heart's Haven Ths Influence of a person or persons per-sons within the family circle can deeply affect their attitudes. Dear Miss Blair: May I sir a grievance through your column? I have always been a tolerant person who felt thst whatever a person believed was his own business. I hsvs tried to tesch my children this and havs stopped their mslirious chatter when another child was the butt f their remarks. Recently my aister-ln-lsw hss eome to visit us. Her stay la indefinite in-definite and everything that wslks and breathes comes under the lash of her tongue. She watches ths grocery bills, for, says shs, in front of the children, the grocers will cheat you if you don't watch them like a cat watches a mouse. Critical Mind Wi have a lawyer friend who romrs to ths house frequently, but shs says in front of ths children thst lawyers are this and that and the other. She has many hates sod mskes fun of people's religion. I don't wsnt to prejudice my children against their aunt, but shs is prejudicing their minds against everything. She Is making mak-ing them race conscious and class conscious. What shall I do? Thanks for any suggestion. "Mother." a e a Tell your sister-in-law that you have endeavored to allow the children chil-dren to grow up free souls, and to allow them to choose their own Values. Tsll her you havs always felt they shouldn't be forced to ride the family fam-ily hobbles, and that particularly have you tried to keep their minds free of prejudice. Ask her cooperation coopera-tion in this regard, without seeming seem-ing to accuse her of doing the very thing of which you have endeavored to keep clear. NOTE TO MARY O. The best way to get rid of fleaa la to destroy their breeding placea. Spray Infested areas with creosote. Cover loos soli containing vegetable vege-table matter with salt and wst down, as this la a likely breeding place. Apply fly spray to your floors after all rugs have been removed and floor scrubbed with soap and water. Flsaa en pet animals may . be destroyed with derrks powder, or with a weak solution of saponified creoaot when giving ths bath. See doctor about rash on human body. FOREIGN FOODS Dear Miss Blair: A crowd of us girls ars going to have a party to which w have Invited soma returned missionaries. mission-aries. Ws would like to serve foada at the various countries whet thee missionaries have been, and each girl serve on course at her own horn In progressive pro-gressive fashion. The boys hav been to Austria. - Franc, Belgium and the southern states. Can you give ua the namea and recipes of foods that are served In each of these countries coun-tries to make a dinner or supper menu? Thank you. Th Eight." e e e Serve Creole canapes with tomato cocktail for the first course, to represent rep-resent th south; puree de legumes, which Is a French vegetable soup without meat: an entree from Vien- are late and I want to make them Into dill picklea. I have a good recipe aa I have uaed It other yeara and they turned out perfectly. Can you tell me how to keep th cucumbers from going hollow? Thank you. "Housewife." Hollow pickles ara due to Imperfect Imper-fect cucumbers, or else too great a lapse between picking and pickling, which causes ths watsr In them to evaporate and leave the watery Inner In-ner portion hollow, - - NOTE TO BALLY Kindly aend a atamped, self -addressed envelope with your requeat for my circular of gamea for adults. You will find a number that will be Interesting to play at a ahower. Ba of aweet potato combined with Vienna sausage; a Belgian casserole dish; Pain Francaia, a French bread: poudlng de bananas, a French pudding with bananas: eau da carle, aa unfermentod cherry beverage, sine of course mission-aria mission-aria wouldn't think of drinking anything fermented, and Petite Gateaux ail Gingembr. a French ginger confection. But on of you must com In to copy th recipes, as their spec would occupy several olumna. PICKLES WENT WRONG' Dear Miaa Blair: Something went wrong with th picklea I made last year. The cucumbers were all hollow. I want to avoid making the aame mistake this year. My cucumbers |