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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WOMAN'S VORLD .'Spring Cleaning Can Be Eased by Planning, Scheduling Cleaning Basket I " . - Li-f-iji j , ? - s I r .r- I; 1 ''li I; V " A' ' i I Ey Ertta Haley and scheduling work PLANNING will take a big edge ' off your spring housecleaning by making it more efficient. True, ' you will still have the work to do but when it's intelligently planned and carried out according to a pre-arranged plan, the work will flow along more efficiently. How can actual cleaning be 'made easier by taking a pad and i pencil in hand and going over the , work, room by room? In the first place, you avoid a hit and miss 'method which is inefficient; in the second place, you have all duties outlined and necessary equipment provided so there is no time lost once the actual work is started. When you do write things down, i you have less of a tendency to skip Important aspects of cleaning and also less inclination to "let the work go" while you idle away the time on the telephone or over the back fence. The wise schedule time for rest, so the work is planned for your peak energy periods when you can accomplish most. Go through the house with pad and pencil in hand and list every-thing to be done, room by room. furniture polish, various waxes (for floors, windows, etc.) window cleaners, spot removers, starch, vinegar, rug and upholstery clean-ers, as well as soap or detergents, brushes, dust pan, cloths, brooms, floor mops and whatever else you use. Use Time-Trie- d Methods For Special Cleaning Each woman likes her own spe-cial routine for cleaning, but there are certain time-trie- d methods which should be adopted by every-one for the sake of efficiency. Furniture gets lots of wear dur-ing the winter months when every-one is at home more than they are out, and it will need thorough cleaning and polishing to restore its condition. Painted and light woods will take to a mild soap and water cleansing, rinsing, drying, and, if necessary a light coating of wax or special polish. For darker woods, a liquid cream wax will do both cleaning and pol-ishing. Don't spare the elbow work on dark finishes if you want high polish and luster. Liquid furniture polish should be applied with a clean soft cloth. Let it dry, then rub with another clean soft cloth until no polish is visible. As the last step, rub to a satiny finish with a flannel polish-ing cloth. A good cleaner for painted walls and woodwork can be made right in your own kitchen with the fol lowing ingredients: one cup house-hold ammonia, Vz cup vinegar, 'A cup baking soda and one gallon of water. Use a sponge or a rough cloth. This loosens the dirt, dis-solves grease, softens water and saves on soap. No rinsing is re-quired. There are several good cleaners for windows and mirrors. You may like the old stand-b- y of ammonia mixed with water; if you prefer, use a liquid window cleaner or a special type of wax which is ap-plied and rubbed off to give the luster desired. If you like woodwork to have a nice soft finish after washing, ap-ply a cream or paste type wax after cleaning the surfaces. This is considered good treatment for such things as window sills, baseboards and floors since the pores of the wood are closed and a gloss is giv-en the wood. Wax should not be removed on subsequent weekly cleanings. Sim-ply wipe with a damp cloth to re-move soil. Moth-Pro- the Home During Change of Seasons Battling moths is a year-aroun- d job, but most of the work comes during a change of seasons when you are bringing out last season's clothes and storing away winter garments. Since wool is so easily affected by moths, great care must be taken with winter clothes to pre-vent their becoming infested. A basket equipped with clean-ing aids saves many steps dur-ing Spring housecleaning. It can easily be carried from room to room and should con-tain such aids as waxes, pol-ishes, cleaners, spot removers, window cleaner, brushes and cleaning cloths. These "help-ers" when not in use can be kept together in a supply cab-inet as shown above. schedule while at the same time you give yourself ample opportu-nity to finish the laundry. On those days when you have actual cleaning planned weekly, do some of the bigger cleaning on the Spring housecleaning schedule. Doing the big cleaning room by room eliminates having the whole house in a turmoil and makes for peace of mind. Allowing whatever time you deem necessary when making the outline will help force you to adhere to the schedule and thus makes your work more effi-cient. Gathering supplies together helps avoid a lot of time usually spent in hunting for a particular bottle mm Speed housecleaning chores . . . Include all work in each room such as washing woodwork, waxing floors, polishing furniture, clean-ing windows, polishing silver and cleaning rugs, washing curtains and bedspreads, spraying closets and putting away clothes for the season. Next, go over the list and notate all the cleaning equipment and supplies needed for each task. Then you can conveniently make a list of what's needed and compile it all in a cleaning basket that can read-ily be moved from room to room as cleaning proceeds. Your third step is to schedule , the work for certain times. ' Plan Heavy Cleaning For Light Days Most of us have regular duties even though we may embark on a seasonal cleaning schedule, and work must be planned so these days are considered sufficiently to allow for a minimum of discomfort for the daily schedule. On laundry day, plan to do just one of the easier rooms thoroughly so that you can still abide by the with plan. of polish or cleaning cloths. Here is a basic list of cleaning necessi-ties to use as a guide in stocking the basket or supply cabinet: bottled ammonia, gum turpentine, ''X . . ' '' ' , I v ; -a- --.. - 4, v' - ' f !tt:: , ) v v .. - , i - 7 J v:v r 1 j i , A I'--- - - Mint Flavors These Chocolate Ice Cream Puffs (See Recipes Below) Dessert Contrasts YOUR MAIN DISHES for the IFseason are of the lighter variety, then your dessert patterns should be just a shade richer than usual to give the menu variety, balance and contrast. To avoid loss of interest in food entirely, which is so apt to come , at this season of Hf5 Pthe year, select some interesting M.4y0ii desserts such as VLVvUs. are featured in TTJCw today's column. rf- yu have yur choice of ice LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU Braised Lamb Steaks Browned Potatoes Minted Peas and Carrots Apple-Dat- e Salad Rolls Butter Beverage Orange Dessert Cake Recipe Given into a greased 8x8x2 pan and bake in a moderate oven (375) about 45 minutes. After baking and while still hot, cover with the two table-spoons orange juice and sugar mix-ture and let stand in pan until juice is absorbed. Do not dissolve sugar entirely, as it should glaze cream, puddings and cakes, all of the top of the cake. which are unusual and good, too! There's always audible approval from youngsters and grownups alike when cream puffs are served. And cream puff shells made espe-cially tempting with a filling of ice cream are a dessert that really goes places. The cream puff shells are flavored with chocolate and filled with cool mint ice cream. Chocolate Mint Ice Cream Puffs (Serves 6) Yi cup butter cup boiling water cup sifted flour teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon cocoa 2 eggs, unbeaten 1 quart mint ice cream Hot fudge sauce Add butter to boiling water; heat until butter melts. Sift together flour, salt, sugar and cocoa; add to butter mixture, all at once, stirring thoroughly. Cook, stirring, until BUTTERSCOTCH pecan that offers a surprise. Although this luscious pud-ding begins with batter in the bot-fSs-torn and pudding ' L"' mixture on the JS-- f jt.top, it doesn't end $3sf&''i' i pthat way. During TF'tt ' the baking, the Jf: ' batter rises to the . Jj'V tP' a wonderful vSyS-crt- tender cake, with n"x-S- 'ne lusc'ous Dut" Ntrs terscotch pudding on the bottom. There's a generous share of crisp pecans all through the pudding for flavor and texture interest. Butterscotch Pecan Cake-Fuddin- y (Serves 6 8) Batter: cup shortening cup sugar 2 eggs, separated 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup sifted flour VA teaspoons baking powder 'A teaspoon salt M cup evaporated milk cup pecans Blend shortening and sugar. Add beaten egg yolks and vanilla. Gent-ly fold in the beaten whites. Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to egg mixture alternately with the milk. Stir in the pecans and turn batter into a greased 1 quart casserole. Pudding: 154 cups brown sugar 3 tablespoons flour 1- cup evaporated milk Vi cup grapefruit juice Blend sugar and flour. Stir in the milk and grapefruit juice. Mix well and pour gently over batter. Bake in a moderate oven-- (350) for one hour. Serve warm. Burnt Sugar Cake (Makes 3 layers) 2 cups sugar 1 cup boiling water 3 cups sifted cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder H teaspoon salt 1 cup shortening 4 eggs, separated 1 teaspoon vanilla Place one cup of the sugar in a skillet and heat, stirring constant-ly until sugar melts and becomes brown; remove from heat, add boil-ing water and stir until sugar is entirely dissolved. CooL Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Cream shortening with remaining sugar until fluffy. Add unbeaten egg yolks, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each is added. Add vanilla. Add sifted dry ingredients and caramel sirup alternately in small amounts, beating thoroughly after each addition. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into greased pans and bake in moderate oven (350) 30 to 35 minutes. mixture leaves sides ol pan. and cool a minute. Add un-beaten eggs, one at a time, beat-ing until smooth after each addi-tion. Drop by heaping tablespoon-ful- s on greased baking sheet, two inches apart, shaping with wet spoon into rounds. Bake in hot oven (450) 10 minutes. Reduce heat (350) and bake 25 minutes longer, until lightly browned. Cool and cut off tops. Fill with pepper-mint ice cream and top with hot fudge sauce. ORANGE DESSERT CAKE needs since the orange juice and sugar make a wonderful glaze for the top of the cake. Orange Dessert Cake 1 orange, medium size 1 cup sugar 1 cup raisins 4 cup shortening Z eggs, beaten slightly 2 cups sifted flour Yi teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon soda dissolved in milk 1 cup evaporated milk mixed with 1 tablespoon lemon juice Cut the orange and squeeze out 2 tablespoons of the juice. Add to '"iV 01 the sugar and V 1) i M-- yW reserve for glaz-(-F- r )p J inS the cake. Cut -- TV'( Ut and dlscard rTdKy tne central core and the seeds of 7Cs n rvP the orange- - Grind A. the oranSe with the raisins, using the medium blade of the food chopper. Cream short-ening and sugar together. Add the beaten eggs. Sift flour with salt Add alternately to the egg mix- ture with the milk, beginning and ending with flour. Stir in the orange and raisin mixture quickly. Pour LYNN SAYS: Fortify Leftover Foods With Extra Flavor Slices of cold roast veal make an excellent sandwich when treated with a spread of anchovy paste and butter and fresh rye bread slices Extend that bit of grape juice in the refrigerator by mixing with cranberry juice. Serve chilled for an appetizer. Serve that last bit of cauliflower with a tangy cheese sauce and shower with toasted, salted for a genuine flavor treat. Roast beef hash takes on improve-ment when it's served with a smooth, tart hollandaise sauce. You can skip the poached eggs since there's so much egg yolk in the sauce. On the second or third night that you serve spaghetti sauce, try it with slivers of ham, sauteed mush-rooms and a sprinkling of sweet basil. Leftover sweet potatoes take an extra flavor and glaze when they are heated wit a bit of orange marmalade. Planning to Wash " shades soon? The ': are dried the better"'?' Turn an electric fan L soon as they are rin vents colors from r! Window cordTwin and raising and dows will be easier if ' dusted twice a year C with an clJ- - p After an ironing 7f has been washed, it st ' Li back on the board f When it dries, it $ V enough to be smooth f. Pile fluffy "nhed r. to an attractive shafe" I dish, sprinkle with ' brown in the oven serving. If ' you prefer some r- - brand of sand-soa- p Jf. for removing paint-a- ni kind to your skin, add " petroleum jelly to the u you use it. ' J. Stale soap lasts ( fresh soap." Buy in V. remove the wrappers as you get home, so the at at the soap while it's 7 To sprinkle clothes mt tering everything around !' out in the bathtub and': ,! water down on them, t ' they can be rolled up ; covered inside your w;; ,? chine until ready to be i; '', If hankies and other ; " articles start doubling t: Rf the rollers when you tr them through the wringt: some of the water out c; see end of the hanky with yr first, then feed it thro;: "-1- KATHLEEN NORRIS This Mother Needs Self-Stud- y for many a hastily parted young couple have discovered, the hard way, that even a somewhat diffi-cult marriage has its immense compensations. But let me remind you of what you have told me of yourself, and then ask yourself if any man would be wise to put himself in your power again. You are at an age when outbursts of temper occur on-ly in undisciplined characters. You are doing your own work, "which is an impossibility anyway," you say. But the care of a man, a house, and two children is far from being that. The overwhelm-ing majority of our American housewives are doing that, and do-ing it beautifully. Yes, and enjoy-ing it. You speak of jealously of some girl who took Billy away from you, but apparently that was all in your own mind. You've never taken the trouble to meet his sister, who is evidently a pleasant, hospitable person. In the 10 years of your marriage you never said, "Let's have your people in for a Simrfav dinner." "WILLY AND I were divorced J three years ago," writes Elsa Marvin from Reno. "At that time our children were Junior, 6, and Marilyn, 8. Billy had always said he was devoted to them. But he cer-tainly did not prove it. He was crit-ical, irritable, exacting, and as I am naturally was doing all my own work without help, which is an impossibility any-way; nervous, not sleeping, and generally run down, it seemed wisest to us both to divorce. "However, the divorce only brought fresh problems and unhap-pines-as you yourself predicted in a recent article it often would. Billy went to live with his mother, and for awhile ran around with the girl who had originally taken his affection and care away from us. "However, that did not last, and when his mother died, he had her old home made into two apart-ments, and offered them to me in place of $150 a month alimony. The children and I moved into the low-er one, renting the upper. However, the place was run down, and for a year I have been unable to rent my upper floor, as plumbing, roof-ing and rehabilitating are beyond my means. His Mother's Will "Billy's mother and I were not on speaking terms, and she deliberate- - You were nervous and you didn't sleep; two conditions in a complain-ing wife that drive a man to the aforementioned critical, irritated, exacting mood. You aren't smart enough to win Marilyn's affection and obedience, and there's a strong suggestion that you spoil the boy. No, I wouldn't advise you to re-marry under these circumstances. Or rather I wouldn't advise Billy to marry you. You're still an un-trained, spoiled woman, and Billy's best chance for happiness, and the children's, is to wait a few years, when they can spend more and more time with him, without having to put up with your exactions. ly leit ner silver, lurniture ana other possessions to an old friend; leaving Marilyn her piano, Junior, a useless lot far out of town, and myself, $10. The injustice of this angered me naturally, and I sent for Billy and we talked it over. But he is unwilling to break his mother's will. "This talk led to other meetings, when the children immediately re- - was ". . . ran around with the gtrU . turned to their old affection for their father. Last summer we took adjoining cottages at the same beach place, and they swam and fished with him through vacation. This was a good arrangement for me, for I could leave them in his care, and occasionally go back to the city to see my friends or take in a show. "Since we came back .to town he has seen the children constantly, taking them off sometimes to his sister for a Saturday night, and giv-ing me a much-neede- d rest. Now comes the gist of this letter, and my problem. Billy wants me to re-marry him. Would you ever advise this? His sister wrote me about it, warmly urging it, but making me feel it was mostly for the children's sake. Although she lives only 30 miles out of the city we have never met, as I have a horror of interfering 'things-in-Iaw- .' However, I have been lonely, and Marilyn is some-times unmanageable. So I would be glad to have a man about the house again, and, of course, I was once in love with Billy. Other men have sometimes been attentive to me, but I have never felt that I wished to marry them. Please advise me definitely, yes or no." Advice Is "No!" Ordinarily. Elsa, I would say an enthusiastic "yes" to this idea, v HARSH-LAXATIV- E i ONLY A MH! i "Wish I had heard of ALL-BRA- 25 years a;e needed a single, harsh it eating ALL- - ( BRAN regularly!" 0 Mrs. H. B. Taylor, ' 1804 Ridge Avenue, c Coraopolis, Pa. Just one of many unsoiic-,- : iiiji ited Utters from ALL-- '' BRAN users! If sou! suffer from constipa- - ? tion due to lack of I dietary bulk, do this: U j1 of crispy Kellogg's 41 daily, drink plenty of K I completely satisfied afsi k. return empty carton to Battle Creek, Mich, fe- lA YOUR MONEY BACK! J m QUICK tin I TASTyHf H VanCamp'i H Pork and Bef If in Tomato If Choice, plump. M ...a secret M7: jV H Sauce...9weettefc: , ft with flavor llr( : fflAnnifift. OnlyVa. H and beans.. gilt!' H much good eant;' II littlecostoffflooey I cor.:?.'-- 1 from V:&n':: ' such tro,v:; . THE READERS COURTROOM Let Buyer, Merchant Both Beware By Will Bernard, LL.B Should a Merchant Let His Customer Make a Foolish Purchase? An art dealer bought a group of paintings from a famous collector and put them up for sale. One day a society woman became interested in a certain picture, believing it be-longed to the special collection. But as it happened, this particular painting was just part of the deal-er's regular stock. After some study, the woman said: "I'll take May a Man Be Convicted Of Murder If the Motive Is Never Found? A stranger checked in at a motel on a side street. The next morning, the proprietor was found on the floor of his kitchen shot to death. Soon afterward the stranger was ar-rested on a charge of murder. At the trial, the prosecutor produced an overwhelming mass of circum-stantial evidence all pointing to the defendant as the killer. Only one link was missing; a motive for the crime. However, the court de-cided that the accused man should be held guilty anyhow. The judge said that shooting somebody in cold blood is murder, even though the motive remains locked forever in the heart of the killer. May a Judge Preside Over Two Trials at the Same Time? Finding himself with a heavy cal-endar one morning, a judge decided upon an unusual expedient. He called two cases for trial at the same time one in the courtroom and one in his chambers. During this one. If it was good enough for that famous connoisseur, it's good enough for me!" The dealer said nary a word, and quickly wrapped up the purchase. When the woman later discovered her mistake, she tried to back out of the bargain and a court ruled that the dealer must indeed take back the picture. The judge said that, when a cus-tomer buys something under such an obvious misunderstanding, the merchant should speak up. An engineer perfected a new method of insulation, and applied for a patent. Immediately several other men, who had been working along the same lines, opposed his claim. None of them had perfected the technique, but they argued that their efforts had "paved the way" for the final achievement. However, the court decided that only the engineer was entitled to the patent. The judge said that, in a case like this, the patent goes to "the man who takes the final forward step toward success." the proceedings, His Honor shuttled back and forth between the two places, hearing as much as he could of each trial. But when his deci-sions were later appealed to a high-er court, both of them were thrown out. The upper court said that, while the judge did undoubtedly speed things up, he didn't do justice to anybody concerned. Chihuahua Does Gotham Spots Dog Tours Night Clubs On Arm of Cute Blonde NEW YORK, N. Y. The night life of a chihuahua, the hot tamale of the canine world, has many of New York's playboys stymied. This doggy night lifer is escorted to the theater and the gay spots by a luscious blond every night. The stag line frowns. Three's a crowd and Supersonic Sable, the chihuahua charmer, doesn't like crowds. The blond is Janie Stevens, 23, of Aurora, Ind., a pert pint sized singer at the Old Knick, a cafe-theat-specializing in melodrama, red checkered tablecloths and beer. Miss Stevens, who stands 4 feet 11 inches and weighs 95 pounds, chi-huahua in hand, is the star attrar- - tion. Janie, a singer since she was 15, started taking Supersonic Sable to the theater with her each evening. After the show they do the town together. Sable's life, however, was not al-ways one of gay revelry and gad-ding about the gay white way. Be-fore her emancipation she used to remain at Miss Stevens' apartment, and snooze while her mistress was out winning the bread and dog bis-cuits. This prosaic existence ended ab-ruptly when Miss Stevens found that upon returning home after a hard night at the theater Sable would be full of life and ginger. She would enlist all sorts of guises and cute tricks to get her mistress to forsake the sack for a little frisk-ing and good natured play. The result? Janie Stevens got very little sleep. |