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Show VT ' ' TIIE LEHI SUN. LEW, UTAH Tokyo Lying in Ruins Struggles Back to New Life Kathleen Norris Says: j The Wonder -Women of Long Island SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Party Frock for Little Girls 1 I A I. Alllntf Is required In filling orders for a few of tha most popular pattern numbers. Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK 709 Mission St., San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 16 cents for Pattern s No. Name- Address- Cut Chopa Fast When the meat-packing industry begins production of packaged frozen foods, they will use power machines ma-chines that cut a whole pork loin into chops in 30 seconds. It takes a butcher at least 10 minutes to do the same Job. H" Sa SI SS SSS M 1 i Srf' mm m m T If l I , 3 icmtm uWM A 1 HS I "Certainly there are baby toy$ about, but the place it neat and clean, and I mywll am alwayt dretsed in a clean, cheerful costume." By KATHLEEN NORRIS SOME months ago I wrote an article filled with sympathy sym-pathy for today's young raothers. I dwelt upon the dfficulties they encounter in marketing, washing, cleaning, clean-ing, cooking, baby -tending, with so little help. I recalled the fact that we, who are mothers, in our young days could always secure the assistance as-sistance of some competent woman, who managed kitchen kitch-en and nursery, stood by us in dl domestic crises, and left us plenty of time for occasional evening amusements, for theater, the-ater, dancing, dinner parties. The drudgery of today's mothers, their struggles In the markets, the steady care of restless, exacting cWldren, the monotonous round of preparing meals and clearing them away, washing and ironing clothes, only to have them thrown into the tubs to repeat the process, well, altogether it summed up what seemed to me pretty strenuous living. liv-ing. But a certain young wife of Sea-ford, Sea-ford, L. I., vigorously disagrees with me. She writes me a scathing letter let-ter about it i"I am 22," she says. "Before my marriage I was a show girl, and I am more supple and better looking now than I was then. I have two babies, 22 and 7 months old. I do all the housework, cooking, washing, wash-ing, cleaning, mending, ironing, bak-tog, bak-tog, cutting the lawn and shopping, with stores five miles away. I help in' the garden, do all my own preserving pre-serving and canning, and make all mine and the children's clothes, from hats to winter coats and bathing bath-ing suits. I keep up my acrobatics, reading and organ playing. J Time to Go Out With Husband. "Certainly there are baby toys about, but the place is neat and clean, and I myself am always dressed in a clean, cheerful costume, with costume jewelry and hair bows and so on. I am always willing to dance, at home, with my husband in the evenings, go for long walks with and the children on his days off, and dance the night away when we can get someone to mind the babies. i"I also," the letter continues, "Wake all our rag rugs, curtains, afghans. quilts, ..blankets and pil-jows, pil-jows, and still have plenty of time left over. I am not bragging, for ray neighbor on the left does all fcis with eight children, from 6 months to 16 years, and all my neighbors have from four to six children, chil-dren, and are still beautiful wom-. wom-. wearing sizes 12 and 14. 1 "The women you quote," the letter let-ter ends, "must be slatterns and idiots." I .... 0"e ean only respectfully agree i-n this fiery little housewife, and warmly congratulate her husband ar.d the husbands of her clean, capa-we. capa-we. cheerful - yet undersized neighbors. They must have some se-j-ret that many other women have ot yet mastered. Preserves, oancing, kng walks and the making f P"lows take time, and eight children chil-dren mean 30 meals a day, and 30 rssv IDEAL HOME-MAKERS Many young mothers have been complaining bitterly about the difficulties of car-ing car-ing for one or two children during the last four years. Scarcities of almost every necessity, ne-cessity, slow laundry service, and a hundred other vexations made the always trying tasks doubly hard. Besides that, it has been almost impossible to hire any household help. To add to all this, many service-men's service-men's wives have had to work when they' could, to add to their small income from the government. ' Even with peace again over the land, these war-born problems prob-lems are still here for the most part, and will be for many months. Some women, however, how-ever, have such courage, energy en-ergy and pride that they refuse re-fuse to be downcast by hardships. hard-ships. Today's article contains a letter from a group of New York mothers who take everything every-thing in stride, and seem to have a good time doing it. These young women have from two to eight children. They do practically all their own work, including a lot of sewing and gardening. Yet they somehow have time for dances and parties occasionally. Except Ex-cept for such mechanical helps as vacuum cleaners and washing wash-ing machines they have no assistance as-sistance in their daily chores. Miss Norris calls them "wonder-women." meals mean at least 60 cups, 180 plates, 60 spoons to wash every day, 50 little garments to wash and iron every week to say nothing of the babies' pin-ups and the bath towels, the boys' jeans and some 70 pairs of socks. No, the imagination staggers at it, and one can only bow respectfully to such efficiency. Modern Devices Help. Our own nursery was well filled, half a century ago, and the older members did help, and were expected ex-pected to help. We peeled potatoes, set tables, tended the younger children, chil-dren, ran errands, made ourselves our-selves useful in dozens of ways. But the woman who wrote this letter let-ter has no such help. Her children are babies; her daily baby wash runs to 50 articles. Her children spatter mush on their high chairs, demand daily baths, wake her at unearthly hours, need complete changes of crib bedding and their play aprons every day or twice a day, and still she has "plenty of time left over." Certainly she has a thousand helps earlier generations of women didn't have. She can get coansn cases auu biscuits all ready to cook, ready-made ready-made bread and cakes; she doesn't have to fill lamps or stoke coal stoves; hot water runs in her bathroom; vacuum cleaner works miracles; she doesn't have to walk that five miles to the store as her grandmother would have done. But just the same those must be wonder-women down in that little lit-tle Long Island town. Beady-Made Dresses Shop with an eye on possible alterations when buying ready-made garments. Some ready-made dresses dress-es are difficult to alter, and clothing is still too scarce to warrant gambling on a misfit Whether a garment is to be altered al-tered at the store or at home, you are advised against buying one that requires complicated changes. If a dress that fits throughout cannot be - nn that fits the upper . part of the body, as the skirt is This bombed-out area in the heart of Tokyo, near the imperial palace, American fire bombing attacks. Each section of the city is responsible and the Jananese have been ordered to do a rood Job. Defense lines, Bases Desired by PACIFIC OCEAN . OKINAWA BONIN V FORMOSA LJiWO w --MARIANA IS. rr HOrLULU , t A.?ri W JOHNSTON -n I IMAKILA n- f ' -Q- y CUAML." " i tJWEIOKM 1J,i tip. YAP. .MARSHALL IS MALOEIAP X i JS PAIAU " V ' U " 0.Le,1 l .Cjtf , 'II CAROLINE IS. ' PONAPE JMUlf OMAJURO f TAWI TAWl KUSAIE X - i'.V . GILBERT IS. KST ARORAI. JU D7klAV NEwJ SOLOMON IS. NAURU . -.. AMBOINA, ,GU,NEAm CANTON rw-frS....' 'AnaX'A EIIICEISA A lJguadalcanai Proposals by Air Gen. Henry H. Arnold for maintenance of a aeries of defense lines in the Pacific for future national security Is receiving growing support in congress. The latest proposal would provide major fleet bases at Pearl Harbor, Guam, Saipan, Manus and Noumea, with a main naval air base at Mactan island In the Philippines. The whole would provide chains of security far from the United States shores. The bouse committee said the bases are needed to maintain peace. Hurricane and Fires i ifiip;: '" 1 J&3: liliilllilll More than 200 persons were reported injured in a fire at the Richmond navy blimp base as a tropical hurricane reaching a peak velocity of 143 miles per hour swept across the Florida Keys. More than 50,000 persons were driven to seek emergency shelter in South Florida alone. Hundreds of homes were reported damaged and destroyed in the Keys. Promise Delivery7 of 5 Sawoff,. sV" Tires, thousands of them, are shown moving out of the huge plants of the Firestone Tire and Rubber company, Akron, Ohio, to civilian users everywhere. The reconversion from military to civilian tire production .imost Immediate, and first line tires will flow, in ever-increasing quantities, to the civilian market. 1 Strike Florida Keys Thousands of Tires 55y -. -A v. lit " 4 IIIBpil i r J shows the devastating results of for clearing away its own debris Army in Pacific Back to the Islands Paul V. McNutt, shown as he was sworn in as commissioner of the Philippines, a position that he held before the fall to the Japanese after Pearl Harbor sttack. His appointment appoint-ment met with the approval of the Philippine government and people. Recruiting Head To Brig. Gen. Harold N. Gilbert,; USA, has been entrusted the direction direc-tion of the greatest recruiting cam-palgn cam-palgn in the history of the army. e -i, i A .' j , i l" - I , -i f , i ' j - ' ' v..; -.-: 4 , , t , J f ,v s ,. i , ' I . !, r ! : .. ( - V V 8883 ( 5 . Frock With Bows OERE is an adorable party 1 1 frock for your young daugH ter. It's so easy to make cut all in one piece with drawstrings at neck, sleeves and waist. Make it in a pretty floral print and add gay velvet bows. Pattern No. 8883 la designed for sizes 1, 1. 3. 4. 5 and yean. Slz i requires ltt yards ot 33 or 39-inch fabric; S yards ribbon to trim. Dua to an unusually large demand and the current conditions, slightly more time Alternate your shoes. Keep two pairs in use. Keep the shoes clean. Shine the leather regularly, and replace heel lifts promptly, before they wear through. A piece of umbrella rib that has an eye in it can be filed to a point and used as an upholstering needle. A gum eraser is excellent for removing spots from dark suede accessories. Brush thoroughly after aft-er using. A geranium leal dropped in a Jar before pouring in apple jelly will help flavor it. It's a good idea to cover labels on medicine bottles with a coat of colorless nail polish. Then should medicine spill over the labels, directions di-rections won't smear. easy way to (JIJCORII STUFFY NOSTRILS Whan nostrils ara clogged, and your nose feels raw, membranes swollen, reach for eoolinj, toothing tooth-ing Mentholaium. Spread it inside nostrils , . . and snuff well back. Instantly it Starts to 1) Help thin out thick mucus; 2) Soothe irritated membranes; 3) Help reduce swelling; 4) Stimulate Stimu-late local blood supply to "sick" area. Every breath brings quick, welcome relief. To open stuffy nostrils, get effective Men tholatum today, the Medicated Nasal-Unguent. Jars, tubes ZOt. Keep Posted on Values by Reading the Ads r- -- . Get this fast, welcome relief from muscular pain and ache! Soothing, gently warming Ben-Gay contains up to 2Vi times more methyl salicylate and menthol famous pain-relieving agents your doctor knows about than five other widely offered rub-ins. That s why if s sq fast... so soothing. Always insist on genuine Ben-Gay! Copm'l. 1M. by Thot. Lecming a Co.. Inc. T W W i . 1 1 t . Cook Sweet Corn Fast Sweet corn should be cooked as soon after it is pulled as possible, nutritionists of the extension service advise. The sugar begins to turn to starch in a few hours and the flavor changes. Substitute Dishes Some suggestions made by the National Na-tional Restaurant association to its members include: Vegetable nut patties, soybean croquettes, cottage cot-tage cheese croquettes and vegetable vegeta-ble salad sandwiches. Use Soap Scraps Place soap scraps in the "pockets" "pock-ets" of one of those new cellulose sponges which are excellent for washing woodwork, tubs, sinks and dishes. Train Speedometers Some of the newer passenger trains will be equipped with speedometers. speed-ometers. They will be scattered throughout the train enabling passengers pas-sengers to note the speed. Shield Shafts Keep shields over revolving power-take-off shafts. Many accidents occur oc-cur at these places on machines when left unprotected. Biological Desert A virgin forest has been called a biological desert because it does not produce enough feed to support animal ani-mal life in abundance. 3 VBBE 0 ."77TTrr r Many doctors wcommend aood-tastint aood-tastint Scott's Emulsion b-cauu b-cauu it's rich In fwturoZ A&D Vitamins and energy-building; oil children need for proper growth, tronu bones, soun4 teeth, sturdy bodies. Htlp$ build t0 rtnittane to coldn too it diet is A&D deficient. Buy Scott'a today All drurgists. 'f i 7: rrzttJTrrsTr .V sMSiini ifi '--Z "" y.j "W tance the night less diftv.uit to aner. away. |