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Show 1 EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD of Floors Correct Care By Ertta Haley what floor coverings NO MATTER have In your home, much expense and work has gone into them. For these reasons alone, if not for the pleasure of having beautiful, gleaming surfaces, keeping floors flawless more than justifies the work. Since there are so many different kinds of floor finishes, it's essential to know how each type should best .be cared for. You wont want to use soap on an oiled floor, nor would you apply an oiled mop to a varnished floor. How much water should be used on cement flooring? Should oil ever be used on waxed floors? What can be done to prevent dark colors streaking the unfinished floors? What is the best cleanser for a tiled floor? These and other questions naturally pop into the mind when it comes to floor care. There is both a preferred daily routine for caring for floors, as well as weekly or monthly care outlined below. Faithfully followed, the treatments will give you the results desired, in shining, flawless coverings. The biggest enemy to floor beauty is, of course, dirt or dust. For this reason, its wise to keep after the Depends on Types of Surfaces Refrigerator Cleaner an electric floor polisher to use every so often, this will save you a great deal of 'work. Dry Unfinished Floors As Quickly as Possible Unfinished floors can be beautiful if you can prevent them from getting dark and streaking. Much of this dirty look comes from soaking the floors in water and from not drying them as quickly as possible. Open the windows wide when youre scrubbing the floors so that the breeze will dry them rapidly. While youre washing with brush or mop, warm water and soap, it will help to keep a clean, dry cloth by your side with which to go over the floor as soon as it's cleaned. For an occasional scouring, you can apply fine steel wool to the p floors to keep them in condition. Floors which are badly stained should be given the oxalic acid treatment. Dissolve Yt pound of oxalic crystals in one quart of hot water. Spread the solution on the stain and let stand overnight. In the morning, wash the floor with warm water to which a little sal soda has been added, rinse thoroughly and, of course, dry quickly. These Floors Require Warm Water Washing Painted floors are easy to keep clean daily with a soft, dry floor mop. However, when more extensive care is required, use warm water to which a little kerosene is added. Shellacked floors, like painted ones, profit from daily dusting with a soft dry mop. If vigorous cleaning is needed, dampen a cloth with gasoline and wipe gently. For shellacked floors which have tip-to- Keep the refrigerator sweet and fresh smelling with the old kitchen standby, baking soda. It will remove the greasy film which clings to the walls and fittings that hold food odor, and will thus remove odor. Sprinkle soda on a damp cloth or cellu- lose sponge and wipe Inside surfaces. Then wipe walls, trays and shelves with cloth wrung 'out In clear water. Then rub briskly with a cloth, following the grain of the wood. Use Little Water On Oiled, Waxed Floors An oiled floor requires dally cleaning with a soft brush and an oil mop. If this care is used, little water will be necessary to clean the floor. If you do have to resort to water cleaning, the floor will need a treatment of fresh oil every six months to keep it in handsome condition. Cover a broom with a sofe cloth, or use a dustless mop on waxed floors for daily care. Use water only on rare occasions, and only when necessary. Oil should never be used on waxed floors. Finiib of tb floor . , , . When stringent cleaning measures floors daily, or at least every other are necessary on the waxed floor, day, and thus prevent the dust from wring out a cloth in warm, soapy grinding into the pores of the finish. water, or dampen with tuprpentine. Once lodged, it may be very diffi- For even better treatment, wring cult to remove. a cloth out in liquid wax. This cuts and removes ground in dirt and Use Dustless Mop supplies the floor with fresh wax. On Varnished Floora When using this wax treatment The gleam of the varnished floor can be retained for a long time if with a cloth for cleaning purposes, dally dust is removed with a clean dustless mop or a broom covered with a soft cloth. To prevent dust from gathering in the comers and crevices, use a good vacuum cleaner attachment When more than daily cleaning is essential, use mild soap suds and water, and go over the floor with a mop. After the floor is thorougly dry, go over it with a small amount of oil to restore the gleam. Make certain the oil is rubbed in or it will give a cloudy film to the floor. White spots on varnished floors can be removed rub gently with a doth moistened in kerosene or floor oil. If a light scraping is needed to determines deeming technique. remove the spots, touch up with a bit of varnish. change the cloth frequently or the For varnished floors which have floor will get stubborn dirt streaks been marred and whitened in many on it spots, make a mixture of one tableThree-fourth-s of the battle In spoon vinegar with three tablespoons of boiled linseed oil or olive keeping waxed floors in good conoil and one teaspoon turpentine. dition lies in applying plenty of elCover the spot with the mixture bow grease to the floor to bring out and let stand tor several minutes. the gloss in the wax. If you can get KATHLEEN NORRIS The Little Fox in Your House slUTY WIFE GETS A COLD, and A the tip of her nose gets red, and it's that way all winter, a man wrote me, some years ago. She never cures it up, and youd think she was rather proud of it if you could hear her say, heres my cold again. Now our little Sheila is four, and Gwen is beginning on her. I believe she's going to have my colds every winter, she tells people. Doesn't it ever go through her head that a man hates that sort of thing? Lottie talks poor, another husband also wrote me some time ago. I have saved a dozen of these letters from men, all about those apparent trifles that really do have an important effect on married hapLottie talks poor, writes piness. Fred Green. We arent poor, not by any standards that would hold anywhere else in the world. We own our home and most of our car and a third of our television set, and we have all the rest of it, refrigerator and radio and telephone and gas stove. Of course, we havent as much money as wed like, who has? But that eternal cheerful well, we're poor folks, and fur coats and trips to Florida aren't for us. Don't talk as if you were as rich as the Smiths, Fred, because you know we can't afford things. You get darned tired of ltl this letter ends gloomily. A third letter is from a man who married a pretty wife. ONCE OVER The Great at Home is Ferns business," Shabby Beauty Ticket-Age- Conspiracy nt By H. I. PHILLIPS a com- ARE IN RECEIPT of WEmunication from Thaddeus P. Swonk, Americas leading Second In Line man, with regard to a recent column recording the seemingly endless red tape required to get railroad transportation to any fairly distant point. Have you ever been the man directly behind the first man at the ticket window? he demands. If not you dont know what tough going really is. If you want to pity somebody pity me. I have never dashed to a railroad ticket window In my life seeking a ticket for a trip without finding directly ahead of me, usually by a nose, some guy seeking transportation to Afghanistan via New Orleans and Carson City with a stophe over at Eggplant Creek, If I am not In a continnes. great sweat, he may not be going quite so tar, but let me be in a hurry and I am certain to find In front of me a fellow who has received the orders 'Find Dr. Livingstone! and is making all the arrangements with special attention to drawing rooms, etc. le Is In Mr. Sepswitch charge. Yeah, but be Is always on the phone checking an upper for somebody who cant be intending to board a train this season. Maybe It cant be helped. Perhaps making out and stamping the necessary papers for a trip of any distance Is a difficult job. But the ticket window boys could toss a smile to the Second Guy In Line, couldnt they? Do they have to be' so deadpanny and unconcerned? Would It hurt to throw out a kindly, Ill be with you in a few minutes? Must they always register the mood which seems to say, Brother, if you expect to go out of town today " you're crazy. that f More people are nervous wrecks from being second in line than from any other feature of travel. Within my own family there are horrible examples. I have an Uncle Gidean who went to a railroad terminal in a big city in the spring of 1929; and has not been heard from since. My Aunt Hazel, from Oil City. Pa., left home to get tickets and a compartment to Florida 11 weeks ago and we just got a letter from the Missing Persons Bureau saying she I think the ticket window clerks is still in line at the Number Two and these birds are in cahoots. They Post. I had a cousin, Chidsey, who both have such fun together, it left home to get some railroad seems to me. I suspect they have transportation covering 800 miles signals which are flashed the mo- once. He made it within a month, ment I appear at the station and but had letter from the Presistart galloping for the window. Yes. dent, the mayor and four top politithere are other windows. Sure. One cians. has a little sign Mr. Hasselstoffer. But Hasselstoffer has a great eye. So your recent description ot He sees the customer FIRST! And your troubles as Number One can he grab a bunch of papers, man at a window leaves me rubberstamps, etc., and hide fasti cold. Try being the Number Two Boy. It will be unforgettable, bub. "Another window announces developed slight blemishes, apply gasoline to spots and rub very lightly with steel wool, so that you dont break through the lacker film. Warm water is prescribed for both glazed and unglazed tile floors. The glazed tile floor is simple to clean with just warm water and mild soap. Dry well after washing. For unglazed tile floors, change water frequently, or the tiles will become soiled from dirty water. Avoid flooding the floor with water. An oil soap is preferred to ordinary soap for good cleaning, and a good paste wax helps seal the floors and helps it retain its beauty. Afterwards, you may apply liquid wax from time to time. Oil soap Is also best for cleaning terrazzo floors, and the care should be periodical. Sweep these floors free of all dust before washing for best results. Cement and rubber floorings require water for vigorous cleaning, but even then water should be used sparingly. If either of these types are to be waxed, use whatever the manufacturer of the floor recommends for them. Linoleum Should Have Finish Renewed The best care which you can give linoleum is to wipe whatever spills on it as soon as possible, before it soaks into the finish. To get rid of daily dust and dirt, use a soft, dry mop, and go over the floor thoroughly. When you do have to resort to washing the floor, use a tightly wrung mop after dipping it in mild soap suds and warm water. When the floor is clean and dry, it may be relackered or waxed, depending upon the finishing material used originally on the floor. Kane Choate writes. She never lets up. The only people who see my wife looking pretty now are outsiders. At home she's always plastered and oiled and has her hair done up in little snails, dripping on her wrapper. She always wears shabby washable things around the house Opens November 25 Cattle Class Prizes Largest Ever Offered The 51st International Live Stock Exposition will be held this year in the International Amphitheatre at the Chicago stock yards from November 25 through December 2. Increased prize money for the show should help to encourage the exhibition of top livestock from both the United States and Canada, exposition officials reported. Prizes for all cattle classes will be $61,370, the largest total ever nail-cleani- tooth-pickin- g If honey turns grainy before used up, set the container in a saucepan of hot water, with a couple of sticks of wood under the honey jar so the water can circulate under it, and let it stand its TREAT THE FAMILY for several hours. Keep the water hot, but not boiling, and the honey should return to Cardboard milk and butter containers can be torn into pieces which are handy to use as plate scrapers and sink cleaners. On Friday night, put a spoonful of dry mustard in the dishwater to remove the fishy odor from the dishes. For making roses out of radishes and other fancy gamines, youll be surprised at how much handier youll be if you use a penknife instead of a paring knif$. TO A BATCH OF mcemspies MARSHMAUOWSCm&S,' J Cook together over hot water bowl, pour . . 4 5 cups KsUogs's V cup buffo Vi lb. monhmafluws tics Krispios. l'i doz.)add When Add marshmallow mixture, get 24 pieces from 9 z 13' pan. Even kids can makaemt (about syrupy, and beat in . . . Vi teaspoon vanilla. An International grand champion steer Is shown above with owners, Cleo Yoder of Iowa, I u. Henry W. Marshall, exposition chairman, and Dr. A. D. Weber who is slated to judge steers again this year. offered. Many prize increases made in other breeds to mark the occasion of the golden jubilee show of 1949 are retained this year. Dr. A. D. Weber, of Kansas State college, will judge the steers again this year. He is the only American to judge these classes since the exposition departed from the custom of having foreign judges two years ago. Other features in connection with the international that have been familiar in the years since 1900 include the grain and hay show, recognized as the world's largest competitive showing of farm crops. right at the table. But then when she slowly and comfortably goes at her nails, somehow it makes me sick. Jean and I share law offices together, and she is a great pal, but all this and afterlunch in public kind of goes against me." Ruins His Jokes Another husband represents a large class of the domestically He appears to be a real Farm Expenses Increased mans man, president of more than Five Fold in Past Decade one club and a general favorite. He says his devoted, loved little Farm expenses have increased alover the past decade Lucy spoils all social occasions by most five-fol- d hurriedly putting in the point of his and not many farmers would care to return to the good old days of jokes before he reaches them. Lucy has no more sense of .low expenses if they had to accept the level ot income that accomhumor than our son, he writes. "When I get started panied them. This increase in cost of farm opand everyone begins to laugh, she eration has been accompanied by puts in these little unamused comsome phenomenal changes in the ments, or reminds me that it happened on a Saturday and not a composition of expenses. Machinery expense made up only 14 per cent Tuesday, or she corrects my grammar. What the dickens can a man of the total In 1935-3- 9 while in 1947-4- 9 it accounted for 21 per cent do when he begins to talk, and his wife says that is funny, Dan, but Also, farmers are spending proporI've heard it so often,' or make tionately more for seed, fertilizer this one' short, dear, other people and crop expense than they spent 15 years ago. like to talk? And it isnt, the agThese changes have been accomas if she grieved Dan finishes, contributed anything. Getting anypanied by a substantial increase in thing out of my wife is like getting man labor efficiency on farms. the cork out of a bottle when its IMIW1 GOLDEH AKniYEHOARY ld with word Snowdrift" from strip you unwind with key . t.J 0OI&IEOfiFSRftFYOvAcr mu also eeeate aoh,yw A UOZM k 25t CZTFCAm oa YOiR tfexrpueCHAse OfA 313. CAA OfSAOHoefTj way down in. Smugglers In Snowdrift pura, digeihl 100 pogascolor photographs... method pictures... to troosuro recipss 200 over Big Gold Rush 'Prospectors' Profit By Gold Price Changes PARIS, FRANCE-The- res still a because lipstick and paint and rush in Europe of almost Klongold nail polish get on them. She shoves dike proportions, but the prospectors are men with limousines instead of burros. Their tools are the financial pages of the newspapers instead of shovels. The arrest of a smuggling gang with $100,000 in American currency hidden in the fenders of a big American car led police on an international hunt for a revival of postwar black marketeering. They discovered that the gang had been buying gold in Italy and Switzerland and selling it in Paris for an 8 percent to 12 percent profit, for dollars. The gold price in Paris was higher. ", . . dont wrtnkle mt . . Thus, on a single trip, they could net up to $12,000 for their $100,000 one side of her face up at me to investment, a neat profit in any kiss when I get home and says, country for a three or four day job. dont wrinkle me. The outbreak of the Korean war, "When we go but she looks swell, with resultant large fluctuations in and I'm proud of her. But a man gold prices, is believed to have set likes . a pretty, neat, comfortable-lookin- g off the revival of the smuggling woman in his home, too. rackets. They had flourished preSeven other letters, among those viously just after the war, when all I have been collecting over the Europe demanded gold. A black market artist, for exyears, complain of untidiness and sloppiness at the breakfast table, ample, can buy a Swiss gold franc on the part of busy wives and for between $8.40 and $9 in Zurich mothers, but for these criticisms I and sell it in Paris for just under have less sympathy, for only a $10 at the black market rate for the dollar. woman knows what that He can peddle the same Swiss scramble can be. In Brussels for $9.60. Then there's the husband whose franc In Brussels, police said there was wife cleans her fingernails in pub"considerable smuggling" of gold lic places; when they are lunching together downtown, for instance. into the country from areas where tt could be bought more cheaply. This is most Irritating and embarSwiss authorities claimed there all for present. rassing Ive gotten used, and 1 guess had been a slight decrease In remost fellows have," says this letter, cent weeks, but other sources at"to her taking out her compact tributed it to the fact that gold and doing up her face and her lips can be bought more cheaply in Italy. pre-scho- International Show To keep peanut butter from losing its oil and getting too dry, store the jar upside down. Once it does get dry, though, you can soften it up by adding a little peanut oil, olive oil, or salad oil, and mixing it thoroughly. Or, mix with it and some horse-radis- h have it moist again. In fact, youllhorse-radish the improves the taste of the peanut butter so much, its a good idea even if the peanut butter isnt too dry. easy-to-follo- w chapters on Snowdrift Cakes... Wasson Oil Salads and Dressings.. .Famous Chiffon Cakes. ..New Paslry o Includes Quick-Meth- 254 certificate goat with every cookbook If you acf now I An idea that might be useful when growing next springs plants is the seed box with removable sides as shown in the above illustration. The sides are nailed together and attached to the bottom by means of hooks and screw-eyeWhen the plants are large enough to be transplanted from the flat, the sides are unhooked and lifted up from the bottom, the soil with the plants in it remaining undisturbed on the bottom board. The plants are then easily separated and pulled up. When ready to use again, the sides are hooked to the bottom, and the flat filled with new soil. Very little root disturbance will result when the small plants are cut from the mass of soil with earth clinging to their roots. s. HERES A NEW COOKBOOK YOULL USE EVERY DAY I New inspiration for planning exciting meals. 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Render the lard as promptly as possible after the carcass has been thoroughly chilled preferably within 24 hours. for aoch copy ot lha Now Golden Anniversary Cookbook with Certificate worth 25 on next purchase of 3lb. can of Snowdrift I enclose 25 and the word "Snowdrift" clipped from (PLEASE ftlW NAME AND ADDIIESSI Weston Oil & Snowdrift People P. O. Box 6366A. Chicago. III. NAME f TIE IT metal strip thot unwinds with key frem on of Snowdrift. I size con I CITY STATE I Offer expiree February 25, 195? Offer ffmffed to U. S. end poeBeeirone. -- J |