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Show SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Kathleen Norris Says: Find Your Own Cure HOVSSiWld ej)a it timer J4a5 SldeSwept oCl inei Bell Syndicate.- WNU Feature!. J fC&W7WDlf I frlTCr Mill 111 MUUilZXZ 1. "She gave his first bath to a husky hours earlier in a garbage can." By KATHLEEN NORRIS A FEW years ago there was in our town a young woman, healthy, 35, well-married to a faithful, good man and the mother of sons of 11 and 9. Yet she fell a victim to despair. She didn't know it was despair; she was not a weak or self-pitying woman. She only knew that, by Blow degrees, her life fell into a state of vague blankness, of frustration, frus-tration, of doubts and dissatisfactions dissatisfac-tions that were entirely new to her own normal nature. It wasn't the war, although that did cast a shadow over everything and she felt it. It was far more pergonal per-gonal than that. It was that Peter and the boys, while really needing her no doubt of that still seemed to be escaping her more and more. Peter had his weekly poker, his golf, his business lunches, his business busi-ness trips. The boys were absorbed completey in their own school and , club life, gym and skating. Saturday Satur-day movies, scout activities, comic papers. She could win Peter occa-ially occa-ially to an affectionate and com-F.rionable com-F.rionable mood; she could snatch Wsses from the boys when she personally per-sonally superintended their baths, but that was about all. Molly Pemberton began to have dreadful feeling of the futility and waste of life. Time was rushing too fast and bringing too little. "Oh, what does it matter and what's the use?" her thoughts began drearily to reiterate. She fought on as well as she could, concentrating on good meals, fresh rooms, homework, Peter's magazines, the boys' boots and sweaters. She went conscientiously four afternoons a week to the Red Cross and, of course, there were friendships, talks with other women about ways to cook broccoli and what color to paint the sitting room walls. Went to Psychoanalyst. But the fright, the sense of nothingness noth-ingness went on, and finally Molly sought the advice of a psychoanalyst. psycho-analyst. She cried so violently during dur-ing the first sessions that she couldn't get anywhere at all, but she went again. In all, she went three times. Then the silliness of lying on a leather couch, trying to remember remem-ber whether or not her mother ever was unjust to her, overcame Molly and- she went home. But the crying went on and she could not seem to pull herself together. The doctor said that a change would help her; she must go away to a sanitarium for a few months. A few months! Molly laughed in his face. Peter couldn't afford the money, she couldn't afford the time and there was no one to care for the boys, anyway. It was' then Molly met a tired busy nurse from the children's home. They were overworked and understaffed at the home. Molly admitted ad-mitted that she had free time in the middle of the day and she went to work that very afternoon. She climbed stairs with armsful of linen; she folded great heaps of didies; she made up cribs. She sat for hours with one willful baby after another on her lap and spooned tons of cereal into rebellious little mouths. She held one lovely yearling year-ling in her arms, while life and light went out of the blue eyes; she gave his first bath to one husky youngster who had been found a few hours earlier in a garbage can, with nocovering but a paper bag. f Ally saw many a girl weeping in t ipair because a baby was com-in com-in she saw many a woman agonizing agon-izing because a baby would not ! come. Because this was an Italian djft IPS i Tbi futility of lift," youngster who bad been found a fiu BE A NURSE'S AID In middle life many women feel a sense of futility. Life seems to have lost its purpose, its bright promises. The daily round of caring for her children chil-dren and providing a comfortable comfor-table home for her husband no longer satisfies. When this oppressive feeling of useless-ness useless-ness comes on, she scarcely knows what to do. Molly Pemberton drifted into in-to this unhappy mental state. She was 35, the mother of two boys; her husband was faithful faith-ful and a good provider. She fought against this mood of frustration as long as she could, being a sensible, courageous woman, but at last she realized she would have to do something. some-thing. She consulted a psychoanalyst. psychoana-lyst. At first he seemed to help her, but after the third visit she realized that he could do nothing for her real trouble. Her doctor advised her to go to a sanitarium, but she said the expense would make this impossible, and that she had to care for the boys. Then by a happy accident, she met a nurse and found out bow much in need the hospitals hospi-tals are of volunteer help. Molly Mol-ly became a nurse's aid, working work-ing afternoons. This new interest in-terest now absorbs all her effort. ef-fort. She also has come to appreciate ap-preciate the peace and comfort of her home in a new way. quarter, she began to study Italian and discovered that she had a gift for languages. She knew from the beginning that in this hard, hot, thankless work lay her salvation, so she never missed a day. Home Became Luxury. To get home to her fresh clean house, her gay little boys and her tired husband became a luxury. Comfortable meals, her white soft bed, her book and her lamp were so many miracles. Molly was the life of the dinner table. Every day brought her a new short story, right from the heart of life. Peter got interested because she was so interested herself. Her house, her boys, her man had satis-fled satis-fled for a time Molly's need to be loved, useful and interested. But after aft-er a few years, life had taken them somewhat away from her and all the activities that kept her grandmother grand-mother busy the spinning and weaving, weav-ing, the baking and sweeping, the fire-building and the boiling of soap and even the washing of clothes had been largely taken away, too. Molly didn't have to seed raisins and make over dresses, feed chickens and iron her husband's shirts. She would have been a fool to do these things the day for them is long past. But the day when a woman can find active, essential work to do for the less fortunate nev er will be past. When every woman with time and energy to spare finds work as Molly did, we shall live in a new world. It will be a world of good neighbors, neigh-bors, who come in when there is need, when there is a crisis, and give the most precious gift that can ba given friendship. In that day many more women than Molly will discover dis-cover that to spread love and service serv-ice a little further than the confines of home is to make them all the more secure in home itself. Leather Bags Return Women are hailing the return of real leather bags, which are as serviceable serv-iceable as a good piece of luggage and much more constantly used. This spring smooth, shiny calfskin handbags top the popularity list, with boxy shapes well out in front. Designers now make bags more util- itarian without having them ap- proaching the size of trunks. The shoulder bag is still a favorite : with busy women, who found during I the war how pleasant it was to have both hands free. AS THE lid of a new baseball sea-! son is pried off, it seems to bei about time that Ford Frick. presi-j dent of the National league, and Will ! Harridge, president of the American league, did something about the umpire situation. We are referring to the matter of umpire baiting including profanity, invective and shouted insults from too many managers, and too many players, who use umpires as alibis for their own mistakes or dumbness. dumb-ness. We agree 100 per cent with Wilbur Wood, sportswnter, that such actions in the future should be suppressed sup-pressed under drastic dras-tic penalties. It has been said that umpire baiting has a big crowd appeal ap-peal and that it is now an accepted iddition to the na tional game. We don't believe this is true. It may have its appeal to a few, inclined to the mucker side, but not to the mass of spectators, who go out to get their thrills from a hard fought battle bat-tle on the field, not to hear a salvo of billingsgate directed at some man in blue. If this has become a tradition, tradi-tion, then it is a tradition that should be ended. Fight and aggressiveness are a big part of the game, but they should be directed against the opposing op-posing team, not against an able arbiter, whose average of ability is too often well above the average aver-age of the ball player's skill. Umpires today are carefully se-! lected and well trained. Their rec- ord for honesty in the last 40 years surpasses any other record in sport. Proud of Profession They have an amazing pride In their work, in calling each play as they see it. Pride in their profession profes-sion is something that not all managers man-agers and ball players have. Many have but too many do not. Otherwise, Other-wise, many more ball players would be in far better physical shape both before and during the baseball season. The managerial or player squawk is usually an alibi, either for lack of physical skill or a cover-up for missing brain cylinders. No smart fan ever falls for this corny hokum, this attempt to shift the blame. The umpire's decision Is final. A fyzen profane Babels can't change it. Right or wrong. It is the way he saw it. And the umpire is in the spot to see it better than anyone else. He is certainly in a far better bet-ter spot than howling tans, 150 to 200 feet from the play, looking on at deceptive angles. A short while back, we asked several sev-eral National league umpires what managers and what teams gave them the least amount of trouble. The vote came for Billy South-worth, South-worth, formerly of the Cardinals now directing the Braves, and Eddie Ed-die Dyer of the Cardinals. Cardinals Don't Argue Neither Southworth nor Dyer will stand for any such rowdy tactics. And what team has been the most aggressive outfit in baseball for the last 10 years? You know the an swer. The Cardinals. But they take out their aggressiveness in hustle hus-tle and scrappiness on the field. Their opponents are the other teams not the umpires. No umpire ever heard Waltr Johnson make any sort of kick. "In a sudden lapse, I called a pitch that almost split the plate a ball against Walter Johnson," Billy Evans told me. "Johnson never even frowned. I apologized later for my mistake. 'Yes, 1 knew it was a strike,' Johnson said, 'but we all make mistakes.' " I was sitting on the bench with Ted Williams. He went to bat with two on and took a third strike. No squawk. "Was that a good one?" I asked him "Yes," Ted said. "It cut the outside out-side corner by an Inch. It fooled me. It was a sSvell pitch." That's the way baseball should be. The great majority of the big names in the game are that way. They aoii i nave to uiruw uieir auuis m the umpire. Cy Young Mathewson. ; Alexander. Johnson-four of the; greatest of all pitchers, never had any umpire trouble. If ball players want to show their aggressiveness, why not score from nrst on a .g.e rar k w'n;fully ripe berries through a food f T S"eS' 1S 7u SJ?u!r 'chopper; or. crush completely, one ICI um: .u,, ulc v-iui- nals run bases? Rare in Other Games What fun can a crowd get from seeing a swarm of players surround some umpire, holding up the game, howling about a decision that won't and can't be changed? They don't Run Home Smthly see anything like this happen in foot- ,.,. ,. .. . j With These 1 ips ball, an even more rugged competl- j tlve sport. They rarely see it in j To dry lettuce af ler it fias been any other game. washed, place in a small cloth bag Dmpire baiting isn't aggressive- and shake jt thoroughly. The bug ness. Too often It is cowardice, and :wiu absorb the water but the shak-thls shak-thls also goes for the stands, where wl11 not bruIse the let,uce 'eaves, the odds are only 30,900 to 1. ; To assure even Drowning of pan- The umpire can take care of him- cakes on the Saddle, rub the griddle self. Being human, he will make with sma11 ba8 ol sait- Th's ellm-his ellm-his share of mistakes on split-second lnates moki"8 an" simplifies cl-an-oi split-irrh decision? j ' 88 we 1- , 4 r v w , " ' s.-. J- B. Southworth rrf TV- 4- . I'! " I T . l Make the Most of Your Strawberries! (See recipes below.) Strawberry Favorites Those luscious ripe red berries of Which we are so fond have a mighty short season, but today's recipes should help you make the most of them. Eat what you can get now, but put up the red ripe strawberries so you can enjoy them next winter. If you want to have fresh strawberries straw-berries all the year around for very special occasions, you may want tn frpMA thpm t vnn ATP for. ! tunate enough to have a freezing unit. Otherwise, can them whole, or put them up as marmalade. Jam or jelly. If the berries seem a bit expensive, expen-sive, you can stretch them by using us-ing fruits that go well with them in jams, such as pineapple or rhubarb. Budget your canning sugar now, too, io you'll have enough for all your needs of the season. Strawberry Marmalade. (Makes 12 6-ounce glasses) 2 oranges 2 lemons H cup water teaspoon soda . 1 quart strawberries - 7 cups sugar H bottle fruit pectin Remove rind from oranges and lemons. Cut off white membrane. Force rinds through food chopper. Add water and soda, and bring to boiling point. Cover and simmer 10 minutes. Add orange and lemon pulp with juice. Simmer for 20 minutes. min-utes. Add crushed strawberries. Measure 4 cups of prepared fruit; add sugar. Bring to boiling and boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in fruit pectin. Let stand 5 minutes. min-utes. Skim and seal in hot, sterile ster-ile glasses. Another strawberry straw-berry favorite for the season is jelly, jel-ly, but in this recipe the precious fruit is extended with young, strawberry-pink rhubarb. rhu-barb. Strawberry-Rhubarb Jelly. (Makes 12 6-ounce glasses) 4 cups juice 8 cups granulated sugar 8 ounces liquid pectin To prepare fruit, cut about 1 pound of fully ripe rhubarb into one-inch one-inch pieces and put through food chopper. Crush thoroughly and force through the food chopper 1 quart of strawberries. Combine fruit and place in jelly bag to extract the juice. Measure sugar and fruit juice into saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil over high heat and add liquid pectin at once, stirring constantly. Bring to a full, rolling boil and boil hard minute. Remove from heat and skim. Pour into sterile glasses and cover with paraffin at once. Strawberry Jam is an old favorite favor-ite with hot biscuits on every special spe-cial occasion. If you can spare the three pounds of sugar necessary to make 10 glasses of this delicacy. then here are the directions: strawberry Jam. ,Make to 6H,unce glasses) 4 prepaled beTries js dg . sucar ij 0 an 8-ounce bottle liquid peelin To prepare fruit, place 2 quarts of ,,ayer at g time Measure sugar and fruit into saucepan, mix well and bring to a full rolling boil. Stir constantly con-stantly before and while boiling. ; Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from LYNN SAYS: I LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU Creamed Chicken and Mushrooms Mush-rooms in Croustade Cases Slivered Green Beans Potato Chips Avocado-Grapefruit Salad Beverage Strawberry Sherbet Recipe given. heat and stir In liquid pectin. Stir and skim fruit by turns for 5 minutes. min-utes. Pour into sterile glasses and cover at once with paraffin. Strawberry-Pineapple Jam. Combine equal parts of strawberries strawber-ries and shredded pineapple with sugar equal ir -afffivs. weight to tin tniit Roll linti' thick and clear, as for jam. Pour into sterile jari and seal at once If your taste turns to cool, re "i::: frpshinff desserti Xm that make use o: -.-.v.v.. " strawBerrjes jm mediately, then you'll want to hang onto these two which take It eas) on the sugar supply. Both of these may be made easily in an automatic refrigerator tray. Strawberry Ice. (Serves 4) cup granulated sugar )i cup light corn syrup 1 cup cold water 1 quart washed, hulled strawberrirt Cook sugar, corn syrup and watei until mixture spins a thread, or until un-til thermometer registers 228 degrees. de-grees. Mash strawberries, and add to syrup; mix well and chill. Tuir. into freezing tray and let freeze until un-til firm, stirring the mixture oner or twice with a fork. Strawberry Sherbet. (Serves 4) VA cups strawberries 2 tablespoons lemon juice cup canned sweetened condensed milk 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten Press measured berries through a sieve. Add milk and lemon juice, then chill. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into freezing tray and chill in automatic refrigerator until frozen around the edges. Turn mixture into bowl and beat thoroughly thor-oughly with egg beater. Return to tray and freeze until firm. If you are lucky enough to have one of the crank freezers, then you'll want to make a share of strawberry straw-berry ice cream for the week-end. Truly there is nothing more tasty and delicious than the pale pink ice cream made with crushed, fully ripe berries. Serve it plain in all its splendor and you won't need a lliing to go with it. Do be sure to have enough for seconds, because there's nothing better than home made, crank freezer type, straw berry ice cream. Strawberry Ice Crearn. (Makes V,i quarts) Hi cups milk, scalded 2 eggs, slightly beaten l!a teaspoons vanilla extract Dash of salt li tablespoons granulated sugar cup corn syrup (light) 154 cups heavy cream 1 quart washed, hulled strawberries , eup sugar Stir milk into eggs in top of double dou-ble boiler. Cook until mixture coats the spoon. Stir in vanilla, salt, 6 tablespoons sugar and corn syrup; Cool, then add cream. Mash strawberries straw-berries and add to them Vt cup sugar. sug-ar. Fold in custard mixture. Freeze in a two quart freezer, using 8 parts of crushed ice to one part of salt. Released bv Western Newspaper Untcm Kever cook soups with herbs for a long period of time, as the herbs lose their delicate flavors. Sprinkle the herbs in the soup just a few minutes min-utes before serving to get the most out of them. To save heat and keep the kitchen clean, use pots and pans that fit neatly neat-ly over burners so that all heat will be utilized. Do not attempt to remove grease in its liquid form from floors. Pour ice water on the spots, then scrape the fat off with a knife Prevent Cannibalism By Good Management Keeping Chicks Active Real Secret of Success By W. J. DRYDEN Chicks will seldom be cannibalistic cannibalis-tic if provided with proper brooder and range space, correct temperature tempera-ture and air control and a balanced ration, properly fed. They must bt kept alert and active. Only the mistreated, mis-treated, sluggish chick will turn to cannibalism. While the chicks must be comfort-able, comfort-able, the temperature should be reduced re-duced gradually. Use a good starting mash. There Is no substitute for the best for start- Baby chicks must be managed right to prevent cannibalism. i ing baby chicks. Give them all they will eat at all times and provide l plenty of eating troughs. When the i chicks are four to five weeks old they I may be given grain, and made to I scratch for it. ! A good range and shelter should be provided. Pasture such as blue-I blue-I grass, alfalfa or lespedeza will low-i low-i er the feed cost and make the chick- ens take on economical gain. Swiss ! chard, kale, Chinese cabbage or rape may be planted and the leaves pulled and fed to the chicks. Alfalfa, clover or other grasses may be chopped and fed fresh, or alfalfa leaf meal utilized to aid In proper health and growth. BUILD FERTILITY AFTEB EXPOSURE TO WEATHEB i'jIi! v" tr: u Ft Careless handling of manure causes serious losses of fertilizer and organic matter needed to help Increase crop yields and rebuild soil structure. One hundred tons of manure contains con-tains 25 tons of organic matter, 1,000 pounds of nitrogen, 200 pounds of phosphorus and 800 pounds of potash, one-half of it in the liquid part Piled outside and exposed to rain and weather for several months, this 100 tons may shrink to 50 tons and lose half its fertility and organic matter. Losses may be reduced by using us-ing enough bedding to soak up all liquid manure, cleaning stalls frequently fre-quently and hauling manure directly to fields, or storing carefully. Baby Rides Tractor j Those who have youngsters who : like to ride the tractor will be In-; In-; terested in this improvised baby : seat designed by A. J. Matyui for ! the Lincoln foundation contest. The seat consists of two auto leaf springs, pieces of one-inch round iron 24 inches long for stationary steering column and an obsolete steering wheel. The main leaves were bent in the forge and holes were punched to conform to the cultivator cul-tivator fittings and to give shock absorbing ab-sorbing effect. The footrest was welded to the spring leaves. All work was done with -inch mild steel electrodes. Thick Stand Helps in Boosting Corn Yield Farmers who would boost their yields of corn should plant thicker stands than they ordinarily do, advises ad-vises University of Kentucky. Improved Im-proved soil and the use of hybrid corn seed makes It possible for most farmers to have thicker stands. About 10,000 stalks can be grown on better-than-average land, and 12,000 to 14.000 stalks on very fertile land with good moisture-holding moisture-holding capacity. wwroywyawpwwwiwaww j f r I I iH I fill Jl I I v v TT WO TONS OFMANUBE-- j 8030 ! i Clever Two-Piecer YOUTHFUL and completely cap-1 cap-1 tivating frock in two parts. The wing-sleeved blouse ties in a loft bow in front requires little fabric. The full dirndl skirt is a "must" in every junior wardrobe. Pattern No. 8030 is designed for sixes 11. 12, 13, 14, 18 and 18. Size 11 blouse, lft yards of 35 er 3S-lnch skirt, 1 yards. Fashing a child in its carriage provides a form of outdoor rest, but should never take the place of a child's real nap. Apply liquid floor wax with a fly spray. It does not leave spots and can be' polished in half the time. Let your youngsters draw slips for their tasks of the day. Less irksome for them this way. A little vinegar added to the water wa-ter in which table glasse are rinsed will make them shine and shine. 50 Showboats on Rivers At One Time ; Now but One Between 1817 when the first showboat was built in the United States and 1940 when all but one had disappeared, about 50 of these floating theaters gave performances perform-ances in river towns, chiefly along the Ohio and the Mississippi. ' The only one still operating is the Goldenrod which, since 1938, has been docked at St. Louis where she has entertained more than 1,000,000 patrons. GNAPl CRACKLE! PA Be sure you get America's favorite rice cereal, .0. the one and only Kellogg't Rica Krlspiesl WANTED Green and Dry Prairie Bones Truckloads or Carloads HIGHEST PRICES PAID Write to: UTAH BY-PRODUCTS CO. 463 South 3rd West 1620 12-42 With Diagonal Lines DIAGONAL lines are smart and new on this handsome daytime day-time dress. It will be stunning made in a bold striped fabric, with stripes going this way and that Finish with unusual novelty buttons. but-tons. Pattern 1620 comes In sizes 12, 14, 16, 18. 20; 40 and 42. Size 14, 3 yards oi 35-lnch. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 709 Million 8U, San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 25 cents In coins for each pattern desired. Pattern While doing close work with a flashlight it often becomes necessary neces-sary to use both hands. So if there is nothing nearby on which to rest the flashlight, a simple expedient is to insert it in your shirt collar. Store felt hats, well cleaned and aired, covered with paper in a dry place. Dampness may cause mildew. mil-dew. Freshly Ironed shirts hung on clothes hangers until time to wear should have plenty of free space between them, especially in warm damp weather. Decorator's rule on glass curtains: cur-tains: Allow the curtains to reach the sill, to cover the base of the apron of the window of to the floor, Just touching. In between lengths never look right so gauge your curtain cur-tain lengths as above and allow for shrinkage and your windows will look well dressed, 1 Wiping up grease or liquids immediately im-mediately after spilling may prevent pre-vent many a nasty fall. Make it a habit to turn the handles han-dles of saucepans toward the back of the stove, so that they are out of reach of little children. AND TOP! SAY Salt Lake City 4, Utah RICE i(RISPJESffi i |