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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH WOMAN'S WORLD Proper Techniques Yield Results in Hand, Nail Care By Ertta Haley BUSY hands, whether they work home, office, garden or club, need care to keep them looking ( lovely, feeling comfortable and able to do their various jobs ef-ficiently. Hand or nail beauty, just as facial or figure beauty, doesn't just hap-- : ;' pen. Because hands are busy, they need just as much, if not more, care than hair, figure or clothing. They are almost constantly in use during your waking hours. If your hands and nails happen to look nice without much care, chances are that you're pretty lucky, or that you've adopted cor-- . rect techinques in caring for them without much thought. If they don't jp look as lovely as you want them to f be, then it's a relatively simple mat- - ter to get them into proper shape as most hands yield quickly to some attention. Certain jobs and conditions pe-culiar to the hot weather demand ' that you give extra attention to the hands to keep them at the peak of condition. If you're gardening, for example, hands can easily be-- ; come coarse and rough, with nails broken and uneven. Then, too, if you're active in sports, you may develop certain Keep Cool! is ,. ;.;:; 4 V . i I t ' Hit iM:m:i r f :t Os.i fia 11111 ::. 4 : r;:J? :.r J: .. 1;. ':;::;:.; ;j j::.ss ? v. f;:. V'iii-v- : :V Sf ii;'i; I :':1 ; O'O. p iiU I ? li 11:i1 ;ii,i;; j''A Jf:mp UWli I ' j ing can usually be removed by rubbing the hands lightly with oily polish remover on cotton balls or pads, kept conveniently near the wash stand. Polish remover is an excellent solvent for most types of stains, and it's not harsh. If you've been picking berries or doing some dyeing and the hands are stained badly, try lemon juice and water, or a mild bleach made of hydrogen peroxide and water. Follow either treatment by thor-oughly washing and rinsing the hands, then an application of lotion or cream. Certain kitchen tasks leave the hands with odors on them, such as cutting onion or garlic. In this case, rub the finger tips with salt, and the hands with a slice of lemon. Lather the hands under cold run-ning water. A deodorant soap is also good for eliminating odors from the hands. If rings leave stains on the fin-gers, as often happens with cos-tume jewelry, it's a good idea to treat the ring rather than the fin-gers. Wash the ring thoroughly, then coat it with colorless nail polish. This keeps the acids of the fingers from acting on the metal of the ring which causes the stains. Nail Care Requires Proper Technique Nail troubles are common when the hands are1 required to take abuse, but many of them can be avoided. Take hang nails, for ex-ample, which can be avoided with sufficient care to the cuticle. The cuticle should be kept soft by massage with hand cream or lotion. Afater the cuticle has been properly softened, push it back very gently with an orange stick. When soft, the cuticle does not break, so it should be pushed only after an oiling or creaming. Hangnails can also be prevented by shaping the corners of the nails no closer than 116 of an inch from the skin. Nails that sf"i and break easily should be treated internally as well as externally. The diet should contain plenty of calcium, vitamin C and D. This means sufficient orange juice and milk daily. The hands should be oiled (with cuticle oils) especially at the cuticle to prevent dryness. Avoid shaping the nails too sharp-ly or too closely at the corners. If they are shaped short, and to a neat oval, they will fare better. Several coats of nail polish, either colorless or colored can prevent any of the splits from catching as you work with the hands. Those who do much work with their hands can increase the life of their manicures by keeping the nails a short oval shape. Picking up things with the balls of the fingers rather than the nails helps avoid snagging them. Special Band Problems Need Attention Those who have jobs which re-quire the use of a pencil for most of their working hours frequently find they develop a bump on their finger. These are not only painful but unsightly. If a finger guard doesn't help, it's a smart idea to get In the habit of massaging the affected finger deeply. If more strenuous measures are required, gentle rubbing with a pumice stone will help keep the bump down. j You can keep cool and look lovely at the same time with this dressy bright blue-gree- n silk organza plaided with a thin line of black. This New York dress Is designed over an underslip of green crepe, fastened In jet in double-breaste- d effect and belted in black patent. Gloving the hands is another good way of protecting them, not only for the rough tasks which they must perform, but also when going out. For gardening, use canvas gloves after a generous massage and application of cream or lotion. For dish washing, laundry and other such tasks about the house a pair of rubber or plastic gloves will give nice protection. Eliminate Stains On Hands, Fingers It's poor practice to let hands become stained when gloves can be worn to protect them, but there are some tasks that cannot be done with gloves, such as many types of Wash oily hands frequently . . . ! sore fingers or even bumps on " " some of the digits that are not only uncomfortable but also unhappy looking. Canning, cleaning, laundry jobs around the house as well as grimy office jobs may well take their toll of both hands and nails. Given proper care, even for such stren-uous activities, hands can continue to look beautiful in spite of all they have to do. Give Hands Protection With Creams, Lotions One of the most important things to learn about hand care is to pre- - vent damage before it's done. If you're about to plunge into work which is guaranteed to take its toll on hand beauty, don't wait until :j the hands look bad before doing something about it. Take precau- - tions to prevent whatever damage you can. Lotions or creams applied to the hands before doing office work such as filing, gardening, canning, laun dry or cleaning, act as protective agents and prevent a great deal of damage to the actual skin and nails. Naturally these should be ap- - plied again after the task is over. If hands are dry, use the more gentle of the creams and lotions available. If they're too oily, they should be washed as frequently as possible. Hands which have already be-come rough and coarse, should have frequent applications of hand cream and enough massage to stim-- ; ulate the circulation, thus helping to rejuvenate the skin more quiek-- ' ly. apply polish to protect nails. office work. Harsh stain removers and bleaches will clean the hands, but they may also roughen them. First step toward keeping the hands and lingers from becoming too stained is to apply a cream or lotion which is but which will coat the hands lightly. Then, as soon as you're finished working, wash the hands thorougly in lather and water. Difficult stains left after wash-- SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Princess Lines Are Sew--f Sun Dress, Jacket for Grs ' Cool Sun ; - vJil886fil Yyoungd 1 lighted with thiscooi. - Lsiw jff&iEft Summer Frock eyelet. For cover up then bolero. A PRETTY summer frock that's marvelously easy to sew with Pattern No. 1976 is a m waist insets to insure a neat, trim year! i?Lslw, hA fit. Try a bright cotton and accent bolero, v. yard. with unusual novelty buttons. I sewing circle patteT 367 West Adm, SI., Cta, Enclose 30c in coin lo, . &edAdd 5C C" Pattern No. 1886 is a sew-rit- e perfo- - Pattern No rated pattern in sizes 11, 12, 13. 14, 16. 18 S and 20. 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Yet skillful blending iti 1 makes every puff a pleasure; oCl I PLEMrNG-HAI- x TOBACCO CO., ma will" ll j'r?0?11? Mm" DARKNESS F - 1 IS Ui QAIIGEIiOUS 3 ou! of 5 fatal motor-vehic- accidents happen $ after dark. And darkness is even more dangerous mJsm when streets are icy; it takes 3 to 12 times more cjCy,,- - distance to stop. Be extra cautious night and K, day. Be able to stop when you have to. I Be Careful-t- he life yoo save may be youro"- - shopper!! CORNER By DOROTHY BARCLAY THAT SWEET TOOTH YOUR sugar supply? HOW'S be needing plenty for the canning season that now looms on the horizon! Remember what hap-pened last summer with all that scare buying at the last minute? You thought your r I grocer was respon- - A sible for the short- - MAifJ ase-- but poor man had nothing t0 STHSSI do with it. The large shipments of late .; FEATURE ". summer were go- - " ing, not to your canning uses, but to sudden mili-tary use, and you had a hard time getting your sugar for canning! That won't happen again, if you're the thrifty, patriotic, wise shopper we know you to be. No . . . you'll stock up now, while supplies are flowing freely to your grocers' shelves, and you'll save some for your canning, by an occasional use of a substitute, and still have plenty to satisfy that family sweet tooth! Let alarmists warn that the American sweet tooth is public ene-my number one to good nutrition! Let 'em fear that in sweets may crowd out more wholesome foods! But I ask you, what youngster, after a long day at school, doesn't have a yen for a candy-ba- r or a large piece of cake, or that after-scho- pickup of an earlier day, bread and butter and sugar? There you've got something! Bread and butter to repair the day's fatigue, and sugar to stimulate that quick energy for playtime! It is well to remember when you buy sugar not to buy more than you can possibly use. Over a long period of time it will cake and become dif-ficult to use. As to substitutes, what's the mat-ter with honey, which you can find in plenty in both clear and comb form, very reasonably priced? Honey is a natural, food, rich in all the simple sugars from levulose to dextrose, easily digesti-ble by the youngest little stomach. Even the baby's formula accepts it as a milk modifier, say the pedi-atricians. Honey is a safe and wholesome food, too, because bac-teria to which humans are prey, simply can't grow in it. Honey looks good, it tastes good, it is good, and children especially love it. And it's plentiful almost the year around just ask your grocer! It's not for naught you say "busy as a bee." Many homemakers combine honey with other foods. Honey-butte- r, for instance, is delicious on toast or pancakes or waffles. Honey-mil-made by warming the two together, your whole family will love on their breakfast cereal. Honey has a way of bringing out the flavor of fruits, too, especially the citrus variety so plentiful right now. Lemon, as the tartest of the citrus fruits, combines ideally with honey in many ways. Lemon juice and honey in water make a pleasant and healthy to start the day; and a honey and lemon sauce on tonight's cottage or bread pud-ding, ends the day with complete satisfaction. That sweet tooth will be so wholesomely appeased, it couldn't even spell public enemy! FRUIT BUYS As the berry-fu- l summer ap-proaches, we can look forward to lots of choices among the fruits. But while we wait, the citrus fruits, rhubarb, pineapples and pears are growing more plentiful and are moderately priced at your store. And to tide you over, your grocer has plenty of canned fruit. Pears, for instance, have a larger pack each year, and various size cans are at your fingertips on the store shelves. The most common size can is Vk, containing about 2 pounds or about SV4 cups of fruit. Other sizes are No. 303, measuring about 1 cups, the No. 1 tall. No. 2, and the little 8 oz. cans for combination with other fruits for salad or compote. So look 'em over, and stock up while the supply is good! KATHLEEN NORRIS Service, Sacrifice Bring Joy worthwhile. I think of the agonies of fear I've gone through over the children's accidents, or this one's possible polio or that one's threat-ened eye trouble, and the trays carried upstairs and the toys mend-ed and oh, well!" Eliza finishes her letter, "that's enough of this, and tear up my letter and don't an-swer my commonplace, everyday problems!" But I do answer, Eliza, and I re-peat that I think your letter, and you, remarkable. And I hope, for the sake of this mighty nation, that what you are doing is really every-day and commonplace. Yours is a magnificent story ol service, sacrifice, and I know, joy. I know there are hours of deep satisfaction and pride along the road of such a life as yours, pride and ' satisfaction such as no trips and furs and ease and dignity ever could give you. Yours is life as I truly believe God meant women to live it, undoing the wrongs and in-justices to which we all are heir, binding up wounds, putting happi-ness and health into children's lives, holding not one but several families together. You see only the roughness and the loose ends and the failures and the fatigues now. But when you are old, you'll see differently. ELIZA HARRIS, of Plainfield, sends me the following let-ter, which I consider remarkable. "Does my name sound firm and New Englandy and business-like?- " she begins. "If it does, it fits me. I'm 38, tall, married to a nice fellow for 10 years, mother of four children. Girls of 8 and 4. Boys of 9 and 6. Income, about $5,000. Health, at the moment, good all 'round. Home, 10 rooms and two porches. One car, four radios, one video. No domestic help. "My story is one of responsibility, responsibility, and more responsi-bility. I've always loved my life, but it never has been easy. At 14, with a delicate mother, three broth-ers, and not enough money, I was cooking, making beds, marketing, trimming Christmas trees, stretch-ing money, sewing, mending, plan-ning. And I'm, doing just that now, 24 years later. Prolific Family "Two younger brothers were still at home when I married, and Moth-er still frail, so my dinner on my wedding night was cooked for five persons, by me. A year later John was born, and my sister joined us to have her baby at home, 'where Liz could take care of her.' When my child was three months old and hers three weeks, our home burned down. We moved into the barn. Mother going to an aunt's house for awhile. Both brothers married girls who had no home connections near- - IwiilMI ". , . moved into the barn . . by, and my sister, Rose and I gave them their weddings. We are a prolific lot; there are now 12 chil-dren in the three families. "We bought two houses, next door to each other, and the deadly seri-ous years began. Mother came home accompanied by a crippled brother; he was with us 10 years. Rose's husband died. We adopted a half-grow- n girl who helped with the children until she married. "Oh, there was plenty of fun. Win and I have had a trip or two; the families have some cabins up in the mountains where we all go for summers. We're great picnickers, we love games, we all pitch in and help when a bride is to be fitted out or a baby is coming. "But what about the measles, the money scares, the poor marks in grammar school, the shabbiness of chairs and curtains, the winters when everyone has colds, the lost car keys, the rising prices of every-thing, the adolescent problems and expenses and expectations ahead, the endless line of muddy shoes, lost rubbers, noise all over the house, tearful little girls, rebellious little boys, plans that don't mature; and what of all the trips and fur coats and beautiful rooms and ease and dignity of living that I know I'll never have? I'm 38. Tired and Doubtful "This morning I'm somehow tired and doubtful. Everything I've ever done seems d and not When talcum powder is spilled on a rug, don't try to sweep it up. That spreads it. Hold you vacuum cleaner over it to draw off the loose powder. What's left :an oe removed by rubbing the spot very gently with a damp cloth. Rinse the cloth frequently so the powder that sticks will not go back on the rug. If an overdose of laundry bluing results in a stain, wet the spot with alcohol and launder the article again. Should sterner measures be in order, use oxalic acid, but rinse it out immediately. The table for a buffet supper should be arranged in logical fashion so that guests can pick up food in sequence, the drink last. There's something everybody should know about removing stains from taffeta materials. They will respond readily to clean-ing fluids ; but poor quality taffeta has a strong tendency to "crack up" after treatment. So proceed with caution and at your own risk. Untouchable The periicillin molecule resembles a watch-sprin- g which suddenly un-coils when tampered with. ONCEOVER Great Grief Over Beef Ceiling j I By H. I. Phillips THE latest OPS beef ceilings , be interlocked with Na- - tional Laugh Week, Toothless Tues- - 1' day and Confusion Month. Under the DiSalle-Jonnsto- n regulations tender cuts go up and the ones so tough they fight back when cornered go down a little. Or vice versa. Even the butchers ' are confused. And the shoppers are too groggy to talk authentically. All anybody can be sure of is that the vegetarians are the only Americans getting a break. The butcher now asks, "Do you ; want this meat for eating or for wrestling?" If the housewife an- - swers correctly she wins five sets of OPS directives and has a chance to go for the big jackpot question: ' "Should Mother Hubbard now sue the dog to recover possession of the bone?" There Is something new on the American dinner table: The Mike Disalle Platter or Rip and Tear Blue Plate Special. (Try one and be convinced that the rumors of a rubber short- - age are false.) Washington pre pares and issues the new meat rules, but refuses to commit it-- 1 self on what the public should j use for knives and whether each one should have a double handle so two people can work on the same cut at once. The OPS has labored and brought ' forth a tougher hamburger. In fact there is a new hamburger on the market. Instead of putting a thin hamburger between two pieces of toast they now acknowledge the 11m-- : ' " ' of the American jawbone and put one slice of toast between the two thin slices of hamburger. This gives the aspect of a treasure hunt to the routine act of appeasing hunger. Meat is so high, since Mike DiSalle and Eric Johnston began protecting the public, that there should be time payments and a trade-i- n allowance on a used chuck roast. Before the OPS started con-trolling meat prices it took luck to acquire a tenderloin steak. Now it takes violence. Porterhouse and sirloin are up 12 to 15 cents a pound, aviordu-poi- s, ad valorem and If you want chuck, rump, or worse you save a few cents. But this is offset by the fact no ceiling prices have been put on the larger-siz- e hatchets and hammers. Or are we still , balled up? Markets are now required to exhibit the cuts in trays with ceiling prices attached or nearly so. The effect of this is to frighten the housewife sooner than usual and steel her against future rulings. The butcher-mark- song of the hour is "When You Come To The End of a Perfect Tray and the Prices Begin To Lower." The more we look into the matter the more we are satis-fied that the OPA gave us the cold cut, the OPS gives us the deep freeze. But maybe nobody should kick. The ceilings help the war effort. If you can bite into any meat you get for less than a dollar a pound you auto-matically become physically eligible for the draft, regard-less of age or dependents. Sturgeon Catch Dwindling Away Caviar Disappearing From Gourmet's Table "JiHE STURGEON, old aristocrat ol the earth's salt and fresh water-ways, is swimming toward extinc-tion. A lone sturgeon recently boated off England's southeast coast was the first caught there in 50 years. The catch only serves to emphasize the fact that the giatn fish has be-come so rare today as to be a novelty in a large part of the world. Only in Russia along that nation's cold northern rivers and in the Black, Caspian, and Azov seas are sturgeon fisheries still of greal value. In North America the few remain-ing sturgeon are caught largely foi sport. Their eggs, from which the finest caviar is made, are seldom found on the commercial market. Waste brought on the scarcity, fo: the continent abounded with stur-geon the Atlantic, lake, and white or Columbia River varieties prioi to the 20th century. The Chesapeake Bay sturgeon catch of 1890, for example, was estimated at 900,000 pounds; by 1920 it had dropped to 22,000 pounds. In New England, where the first sturgeon fishery was established ir 1628, the catch dropped from pounds in 1919 to a mere 5.00C pounds in 1935. Today the status oi the fish is closely watched by con-servation authorities. Most species of the big fish which range to 12 feet and ever longer live in salt water much 01 the year, leaving it only to voyage up fresh rivers to spawn in spring or early summer. Some of the known species, however, cai live entirely in fresh water, lik those of the Great Lakes. Leitchfield Quads Seek MacArthur's Autograph LEITCHFIELD, Ky. Four of the most eager seekers of General and Mrs. MacArthur's autographs when the couple visited Mrs. 's home town of Mu'rfrees-bor- Tenn., were the Lashley quadruplets. The quadruplets, Martin, Beulah Mildred and John, drove from their father's 131-ac- farm to Murfrees-bor- o to see the general and his '.ady. |