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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH S Barnyard Sage ,K Old Hen: Let me give piece of good advice. you Young Hen: What is it' Old Hen: An egg a day keeB$ the ax away. - WOMAN'S WORLD Floors Can Be Repaired or Carpeted Inexpensively Easy Floor Cleaning . .'VV; !! r-- ' If ; l '"' r - 1 V - ? Is "V f . ' 5 i - r' .? " . J I I.'. .tI r""T ' " By Ertta Haley OLD floors are a real problem, anyone can tell you who has lived with them. First of all, they don't look nice, no matter how love-ly your furnishings. Second, they may offer any number of discom-forts, such as snagging you while you walk, squeaking, and Innumer-able cleaning problems. There are many ways to fix old floors which offer problems, and they may cost but little. Much of the work does not have to be pro-fessional as long as one is patient and does it carefully. What should be done to the floors depends greatly upon the type of house and furnishings you have as well as the purpose of the room In which the floors need attention. Some floors may just be worn, and as such need care which the homemaker can give to bring them to life again. It's surprising what paint or varnish or a few lovely rugs used discretely can do to an old floor. It may even be that a coat or two of wax with some polishing can renovate the floor completely. Treat Old Oak or Soft Wood Floors Accordingly If you have oak flooring in your home, no matter how old, how bat-tered or how wide the cracks be-tween the boards, try to retain the original type of flooring. It may be necessary to relay part of a very bad floor of this type with new to use linoleum, especially in halls, bathrooms, children's rooms, game rooms or kitchens. A monotone linoleum can be used as a base for scatter rugs in any of these rooms. Linoleum will wear longer if it is kept waxed, whether it is of the inlaid type or printed type. waxes are good because they do not have to be shined. For the linoleum floor in the kitchen, sweep daily with a soft broom and wipe spilled foods as quickly as possible. For weekly or semi-weekl- y cleaning, use a damp mop wrung out very dry. When the linoleum needs more cleaning, use a mop wrung out in mild soap suds. All strong powders should be avoided, as should coarse brushes. It's not wise to flood the linoleum covering with water, as this may injure the covering. Rinse and dry thoroughly and quickly. When dry, apply a new coat of liquid or wax. In rooms other than the kitchen, linoleum can be cleaned daily with an d mop. Sweep with a soft broom for weekly cleaning, and when soiled clean and x as you do the kitchen linoleum. Carpet Floors For Easy Solution When floors are bad and linoleum cannot be used, carpeting is a good solution as it not only gives a lux-urious look but also hides all sorts of flooring defects. Before carpet-ing, make certain that the floor is even and that all squeaky boards are nailed in place so the squeaks are eliminated. Linings or pads should be used to protect the carpeting, as well as to cushion the rug when it's in use. You'll get lots more wear from the rug if you have a pad. Many of these are decidedly inexpensive. There's a tendency today to car-pet the entire house or apartment in the same colored rug. For this reason, something neutral should be selected as neutral beige or gray. If you desire to use some of the other shades, and your furnishings go with them, select green, maroon or others. Lighter rugs are preferred cur-rently to the darker ones, but they are more perishable, too. If you live in a clean community, light colored rugs are certain to hold up, but if there is soot, it would be wiser to invest in the darker colors. Select good but moderately priced carpeting. If rugs are too cheap they do not .wear well and never look nice. If you purchase too ex-pensive rugs it may be wasteful to change the color scheme once it's necessary. Use Small Rugs For Accent If you do not want to go to the expense of large rugs or ll carpeting to solve problem floors, something can possibly be done with small rugs. One way has already been suggested: the use of a monotone linoleum with scatter rugs on top of that for accent. Hooked rugs can be made at home, and these tliay be made larger than you ordinarily do, if you want to cover more of the floor. They go well with American Provincial furnishings. Small woven rugs can be attached and used in hallways to solve floor problems. Milady can stay as crisp and clean as her chintz apron while doing a grubby chore like mop-ping if she uses this new sponge mop which has a attachment. The mop will ab-sorb up to twenty times its own weight in water. benzine to remove grease. Floors which have been painted before should have the old finish removed with paint remover. When they have been waxed pre-viously, and you want to paint them, take off old wax with gasoline or steel wool. Denatured alcohol will remove old shellac. These are inflammable materials and should not be used near a flame. Old painted floors can also be spattered for good effect. The floor is painted green, brown or black, and while the paint is still damp, use red, green or white paint with a stiff whisk broom attached to a long handle. This will give a effect. and rugs free from all dirt and grit. . . Floors Beyond Repair Need Linoleum If the floors are in such bad shape that they cannot be repaired, or if the expense is too great, it is best Keep linoleum waxed, polished . . . board to close up bad cracks. Use old lumber for this; if at all possi ble so that it will match the original floor. Old oak floors which are badly marred can be replaced, stained and then waxed once a month with an electric polisher. If you like an antique finish, stain after replaning. All wood floors will look better when they're waxed at least once a month, and they're the kind of floors which people notice when they walk into the room. SoE from waxed floors can be removed by go-ing over the floor with a clean damp cloth dipped lightly in turpentine or liquid polish and cleaner. The floor should be allowed to dry before polish is applied. Soft, wood floors, found frequent-ly in old homes of the Colonial and cottage type may also be replaned and waxed for a new look. If, how-ever, they are in poor condition, they may be painted in dark green, maroon, brown, blue or black. If they are being painted for the first time,- the floors should be washed with soap and water. Go over them with a cloth dipped in ttwas&twiD JyH 0$t ffjtjm Cmku j ! ' f lit , V - i il - r 1 Take to the Outdoors for a Basket Picnic (See Recipes Below) Picnic In a Basket WITH ONLY a short time remain-ing for the picnic season, plan one last, memorable picnic before the season is over. A simply prepared menu with family favorites, with the added plus of good eating and carrying ease will bring cheers from everyone including mother and dad. You've probably had picnics al-ready which require outdoor cook-ing, and those were wonderful. Then, too, you've probably had the sandwich, potato salad and deviled egg kind. Now you're ready for something that's different. What about a skillet baked chicken with corn bread Lynn Chambers' Picnic Menu Skillet Baked Chicken Corn Bread Dressing Sliced Garden Tomatoes Carrot Strips Celery Fans Radish Roses Picnic Lemonade Chilled Watermelon Coconut Gumdrop Cookies Recipes Given chicken over top of dressing. Cover and cook in a moderate (350F.) oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until chicken is tender. Remove cover during the last 10 minutes to crisp the crust on the chicken. Crisp vegetable relishes are good accompaniments for fried chicken and corn bread dressing. When you wash and prepare these, put them . . directly into plastic bags so wivJl-- ! that yu can mkmyrm take them "jST7Saf.i3 rectly from the Jt('"hH refrigerator to Mtzinjfo Pu a basket. LZjZm Include a ety of raw vege-tables to nibble with the chicken, such as crunchy carrot sticks, crisp celery fans, radishes and green onions, along with whole plump tomatoes that can be sliced when you're setting the picnic ta-ble. FOR A REFRESHING picnic bev-erage, there's nothing as refreshing as well chilled lemonade placed in a thermos or insulated jug. If you don't have either of these, use a gallon glass jug or jar for it: Picnic Lemonade (Makes 1 Gallon) Fill a gallon container with ice cubes or crushed ice. Pour over the ice cup strained honey or cup sugar, mixed with cup lemon juice. Screw the top on tightly and place the jar in the picnic basket where it can serve as a "refrigera-tor". Surround with relishes and watermelon which you'll want to keep cold to the picnic. By this time the ice will have melted to make the lemonade. BRING ALONG plenty of soft, chewy cookies for youngsters and grownups alike. go nicely other watermelon fruits simple and SThey balanced oatmeal these Like are not only ex-tra tasty but also nutritious: s Coconut Gumdrop Bars (Makes 16 bars) 1 cup sifted enriched' flour teaspoon soda 'A teaspoon salt H cup brown sugar y cup shortening, soft 1 egg H teaspoon vanilla Vi enp milk 1 cup' quick rolled oats, nncooked 1 cup chopped gumdrops Vi cup grated coconut Sift together flour, soda and salt into bowl. Add brown sugar, short-ening, egg, vanilla and milk. Beat until smooth, about 2 minutes. Fold in rolled pats, gumdrops and about half of the coconut. Spread dough into greased 7xll-inc- h pan. Sprin-kle with remaining coconut. Bake in a moderate (350F.) oven for 0 minutes. Cool and cut into bars. dressing. It's a sure hit with all the family. Use young chicken for frying and cut them into serving pieces for picnic style eating. Place a few pieces of the chicken in a paper bag with pancake ready mix to apply a light coating and thus prevent the absorption of grease from the fry-ing. You'll have chicken that retains a crisp and tempting texture. Heat fat in a heavy skillet or chicken fryer, having fat inch deep and brown each piece carefully, using kitchen tongs to prevent from pierc-ing the chicken while turning. Prepare the dressing while the chicken browns, using cooked gib-lets for extra flavor. Place the dressing in the skillet you have used for browning chicken, leaving only enough grease in it to coat bottom and sides of skillet. Top the dress-ing with chicken pieces, cover and bake. Then wrap the skillet in sev-eral layers of newspaper to keep hot while you go to the picnic spot. Here are exact recipes for pre-paring the chicken and dressing: Golden Corn Bread (Makes 1 square) 1 cap enriched yellow corn meal 1 enp sifted enriched flour Yi cup sugar H teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg 1 cup milk cup shortening, soft Sift together dry ingredients in medium-size- d bowl. Add egg, milk and shortening. Beat with rotary egg beater until smooth, about 1 minute. Do not overheat. Bake in a greased square pan or greased muffin pans in a hot (425F.) oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Fried Chicken 2 frying chickens, disjointed 1 cup pancake ready-mi- x 1 teaspoon salt Cook giblets from the frying chicken in salted water to cover. Set aside to use for dressing. Roll chicken in ready-mi- x combined with salt and brown in chicken fryer or deep frying pan. Corn Bread' Dressing Vi cup butter 5 cups corn bread crumbs (made from corn bread) cup diced celery 1 teaspoon salt Y teaspoon pepper 'A teaspoon sage 1 egg, beaten cup chicken broth Cut giblets and butter in small pieces. Add to corn bread crumbs. Add all remaining ingredients and mix well with crumbs. Put dress-ing in deep skillet and lay fried LYNN SAYS: Try New Flavors On Old Favorites Everyone knows with soft custard sauce, but what about flavoring it with some instant coffee? Serve this on chocolate or cottage pudding. Anybody will like spinach when it's cooked and seasoned with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Place in a casserole and make nests in which to break raw eggs. Dust with salt, pepper and shredded cheese and bake until the eggs are set. Baking powder biscuit is a fine topping for leftover meat pie, and it's even more delicious if you add some sage to the biscuit mix. 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It's amazing bow many times Doan s give happy relief from theso discomforts ne'P the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters flush out waste. Get Doan's Pills today! Doners Pills KATHLEEN NORRIS Wife Rues Early Indiscretion problem is this. I don't feel fit to be this man's wife. I feel that one of his sisters would be a better mother to my children. I feel the past staining and spoiling every-thing I try to teach them of charac-ter, purity and l. Now that Gerald may have to accept a high public office, I feel that some-thing about me, and all that old weakness and foolishness, may come up to hurt him. "I want to go away away away from persons and scenes that have always been higher and finer than anything I knew as a girl. I am frightened; a woman has to have some training, some help, to live certain parts in life, and I'm not fit for this one. I'm stamped with sordidness and commonness and associations with boys as ignorant and headstrong as I was myself. Help me to see this in a right light. Help me to find courage to do what is right." Well, of course I wrote this wom-an, who is only 33 now, that she was not different from' the rest of us in feeling that whole passages from the past might well be wiped from our records, and that we had be-haved as stupidly, as selfishly, as blindly, and sometimes as ham fully and wrongly as possible. A GIRL who has been an absolute fool in her teens may grow up eventually to be a wise, unselfish, useful woman. But the trouble is that while she is still acting as a fool she commits herself to various conditions, and when she wakes up to common sense and something like balanced judgment, she finds herself so en-tangled in difficulties that the re-sult is often a state of deep discour-agement and depression. This is Ethel Nevin's case. Ethel writes me from Wilkes Barre, on curiously enough! her husband's advice. Inasmuch as her greatest difficulty stems from this very same husband, the situation is unusual, to say the least. She says that her husband thinks my advice may help her. Ethel writes that when she was a girl she "did what all the other girls did. We went through gram-mar and high school grades together, and at about 13 or 14 began to get pretty intimate with boys. When I was 17 I. already had had lovers I know this sounds horrible, but I am telling you the truth and that year I took my first job and got engaged, and of course got myself into trouble. x Learned a Lesson "Well, Mom and Dad got me through that, and I learned my les-son. The lesson was right there for me to learn all along, my mother was a fine woman, and she did her best to warn me, but nothing could jr- - x vg . . already baa covers ..." keep me from making a fool of my-self. The boy behaved like the little scared rabbit he was, got his aunt to send him west to college, got into the army, and died in an army hos-pital. "I know I had no right to feel so humiliated and so mad, but some-how the thought that he and I really had thought ourselves in love, and might have had a little boy or girl of our own, iickened me. It really sickened me, and for about six years love affairs meant nothing to me, I studied, I had a year at Ox-ford, and I had a book published about cooking. Then I married Ger-ald. We had known each other three years, and he knew all that he would let me tell him about myself long before he asked me to marry him. "So here came what I never dared dream of in my ugly teens. A fine man, admirable and earnest in every way, a fine old home set in a deep garden, a fine family all ready to welcome me. To make the picture perfect Gerald told me of his own infatuation for a married woman in France, and most of the whole bad story. This woman killed herself. He told me this of course to balance what I had told him. He is like that. Feels Unclean "We have a beautiful daughter of 9, and five younger sons, going down to twins of three months. My . ONCE OVER 1 Ignatz Irks Senate Probers By H. I. Phillips Now then, where are we? A. I think we're all tied up and the heat is on me as usuaL Also somebody is stealing the sig-nals. Q. Very well. Do you or do you not believe baseball players need protection by the United States Congress? A. The way things are going there is no telling who will be called in next to help a player. I've seen everybody else called in from the bullpen to help me this week except a Congressman, and now they're waving for him. Q. Do you consider baseball a business? A. It has everything business has except the businessmen's $1.50 lunch. Q. Would you call it a violation of the anti-tru- laws? A. No. It has to sell frankfurters at the same price as others. Q. You misunderstand. I am not considering hot dogs in connection with baseball. A. Baseball ain't baseball with-out 'em, mister. Q. Doesn't the reserve clause prevent a player from leaving the minors and bettering himself? A. All I know is a pitcher don't always better himself by getting out of the minors and joining the majors. Suppose he has to meet the Yanks the first week! I Q. But is it not an unfair practice to let one club keep a good player on a farm team for years when he might well get a job with an-other club? A. Yes and no. Q. What do yon mean yes and no? A. This Is a tight situation and I am mixing up fast stuff with my slow stuff. Q. Do yon not believe there should be a free labor market in baseball as anywhere else? A. I get in and out of the box so often that if there was a free labor market I wouldn't even make the distance from the bullpen to the mound some-times. Q. But doesn't the very spirit of fair play call for a competitive market in which all talent can en-gage? A. The last time I was called in to save a game, I pitched only two balls before the manager, two coaches, the whole infield and four guys I didn't recognize were sur-rounding me and trying to save it, too. If that ain't free labor com-petition, what is? Q. Do you believe something should be done about cartels? A. No. If you get a cartel the thing to do is lay off and let nature heal it. Q. Do you think it is right to trade players like dumb oxen? A. I object to that word "dumb." Some oxen in baseball are as smart as oxen anywhere. Q. What is your opinion of Leo Durocher? A. Why drag Leo into this? Q. It's custom to drag Leo Into anything. Answer the question. A. I think if he had got Laraine Day onto video 11 games sooner the Giants would be out ahead now. Q. Talent and ability are every-thing in the great American game. No game can be won without these qualities, can it? A. Are you kiddin'? Didn't you hear about how Casey Stengel won that one from the White Sox last week with nothing but two thumbs, a monkey wrench and a lot of con-fidence in rain? Are You Another Straight Crook? 'Non-Crimin- al' Crime Is Big Moral Problem 11 ANY "GOOD" AMERICANS have long since entered the vast shadowland of "non-crimin- crimi-nality." In Coronet, author Peter Nelson scores the growing tendency for "easy money" and the "something for nothing" attitude which, he says, is ripping our moral fabric to shreds. As examples of the "non-crimin-criminality" which is on the in-crease, he cites the examples of "padding" the expense account, the parking ticket fixer, the citizen who gets the chance to make his insur-ance company pay for some repairs on his house and earns a few dol-lars to boot. "Although the crime bill in Amer-ica for frauds, burglaries, embez-zlements and similar crimes runs to $7,000,000,000 annually," Nelson writes, "there can be no doubt that petty swindles are astronomically higher." Nelson's article quotes the com-plaints of a warehouse supervisor who revealed that his men annual-ly take home thousands of dollars in valuable tools, clothing and mer-chandise. "They'd quit if I told them they were stealing," said the supervisor, " 'From who?' they'd ask me. All they know is that they work for some big mysterious cor-poration and it's no money out of anybody's pocket." The proprietor of an expehsive eastern restaurant complained that his well-to-d- o customers take home silevrware and dishes. His em-ployees appropriate slabs of bacon, pounds of butter, expensive cuts ol steaks and other foods. "Once I put detectives at the doors," he said, "but they threatened to boycott the place. When the workers found out, they almost went on strike." |