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A byt 38 RTO Virani tad RASS IAS ev 4 pe et As AT AM at HT al we as EELS S Ft] 3 WIT L% die de sir ie en Ue St GAS Ahi s LAE Ea NER RC BN of od figs a Tady!? Leading Lady 'By MARION BOUCHER Danis really a dear and I'd vather have him for.a husband than Charles Boyer, but- sometimes he Is 'terribly forgetful. "It was unpar donable of him to forget the play. We .were having breakiast when he calmly announced: "Won't be home for dinner. I'm going to see Ferris at last about that advertising contract, | wanfgd to bring him here for the evening but he seemed to have other plans. Anyway, | am faking him to dinner and we'll be able to discuss matters." "And that's what you intend to do tonight?" 71 asked icily. "Why yes, hon, why not?' Dan .gulped down his coffee and looked at me with an innocent air. "Sure hope I can swing the deal. "But tonight's 'our Little Theater play! How vould you forget? Or maybe yon can't be bothered with il--maybe vou don't want to see me act!" "Doris, so help me, it slipped my wind completély!. I was so anxious to see 'Ferris that I didn't 'think of anything else. Perhaps "ii we get through early . . . 'but you'd better not .copmt on it" > : I was almost tin tears. Dan was angry too. "And I .am glad it will be over :tonight--I am getting 'tired Let _coming home to a «cold supper, with you rushing off to rehearsals "every night. ' "Why, Dan, you knew you're -ex- aggerating -- it hasn't been every 'night. I thought yeu were proud 'that I was given the lead." "I wm going to be late for my "bus," Dan muttered "and hurried» away without even goodby. We + don't "quarrel very often and -I always deel badly when we do. Burt to think he'd forgotten about ihe play! Our club had been slav- ing over it for weeks and our direc- tor, who didn't hand out many compliments, had told me that I played the lead very well . 1 felt a little guilty when | thought what Dan had said about cold suppers. Perhaps 1 had ne- glected him lately. All day 1 kept thinking uncasily of Dan. I kept hoping he'd phone. The day went by without a word. : "Very well, Mr. Crawford!" I thought angrily as | got.ready to go to the theater, "if you don't care about my activities I_can get along quite nicely without you. Other people appreciate my talents!" Hadn't 1 often been told that I should have gone on the stage? Well, I might yet! Berhaps it was my anger which helped me play my role with more spirit. After the first act; I knew the play was going to be:a-success, knew too that I was-playing my part well. I'here were compliments but sud- denly my success turned to ashe. I didn't care about the play any more --1 was thinking of Dan. Slowly, 1 began to remove my grease paint. "Hurry up, Doris." It was an- other girl in the cast speaking. "We're going to have a party to velebrate our success." - "Sorty, but Doris is coming with me." + tad an 'Was it. really Dan's voice! I whirled, around. Yes, there he was. "You were great, hop, I was: so proud of yon!" : ; : Bu, Ban? I exclaimed, "what about Ferris?! "Of "course, I've been here all evening and Ferris was with me. He's anxious to meet you. You know, it was a funny thing. After _ dinner I decided to tell him that my wife was taking part in a play and 1 wanted to see it. That was exactly what he wanted to do. He's. been keen about dramatics." "Did you get hes contract?" Ky asked. "Ye, and 1 think you helped me put it over. Guess it was because hE was to impressed-with-your-act- » "C0, Dan, 1 am sure ihats not the reason but I am so glad!" Then 1 ealled out to the others" "Sotty, folks, but I am not joining the party--I am going With my hus- band. From now on I am going to concentrate on being his leading ~ Adjust speed to road, wedthe ids and 'traffic. It Use tire chains when roads are snowy or icy. WHEN IT'S FREEZY, TAKE IT EASY 'As the %rt below shows, motorists travel fewer miles in. the Yet; the mileage death rate than any other tine the numb killed per 100,000,000 miles travelled--reaches its highest point of the vear during January and February. Mileage Death Ras ! 5% Billions (Per 100,000,000 Nex) p MILEAGE Sl {DEATH RATE | ' | E 32 po! d -----=112 on "eo | LTRAVEL | Pl p t f : ! o 28 ft -- --110 al © 94 IE J | 20 6 / | Jo 0 . JUL. AUC. SEPT.OCT. NOV. DEC. JAN. FEB.MAR. APR MAY. JUN. When there's snow und ice on the road, it tikes a car longa Even with tire chains, a driver can't stop in the same distance he can when the road is dry Chart below gives distances. 1 siopn exact figures on stopping 2500 S04 754. 100M. 1254 1500 1754. __ ging 2651, Wet Concrete : Sy 2170S Dry Concrete | (41313 INT PACKED Tl Ne | em 69 1. : Choins SNOW_ Sua 40 Ft | Braking Distances | on Various Reod Surfoces ot 20 mph - ! Chains op a i } Reor Wheels 3 DR TT A "161 ru | New Abrosive Tires,--Best Performonce 169 ! ! Noturol Rubber Tires--No Choins ' i | | | i | Lamy i JE ) Synthetic Rubber Tires--No Choins 1197 Fe. cemariiomanas lode. iY 88 rr. ---_ ~ we I | - Cherm * Reor Wheels | 2 l { ire) 4 i The National Safety Council has 'recommended six rules for safety during the winter. The six rules are sketched on the sides. 't may ine a life--and the life may be yours--to follow them. OW, 3S Always keep the windshield and windows clear. Pump, don't lock, your brakes on ice or snow, Follow at a safe distance when road is slippery. '~ The Dominion Department of Agriculture has put through new 1949--with regard to the marketing of cattle that have reacted either to the Tuberculin. Test for Tubercula- sig or the blood test for Brucellosis (Banf's Disease). * » »' © HR Formerly the letter "Blt-was tat- tooed In the right ear for Brucello- sis, and the letter "T"" punched -- also in the right ear--for TB. But now all cattle which have reacted to the blood test must be branded with & "B" on the right hand cheek, this brand to be three and one quarter Inches in height by two and a half inches in width. Reaction to the Tubercitlin test is to be marked by a brand--height two and a half inches and the bar of the "I'" to be the same length--on the left cheek. * * * Speaking of Brucellosis--or, to ; give it the better known name -- -Bang's Disease, there is 8 most in- 'teresting article on this subgect in the current issue of Country Gentle- man. It deals, not so much with the effects of this disease on ani- mals, but on human beings. * * * Brucellosis. today--that is among people--is primarily & farm problem, and no one knows just how many there are who suffer from it in one of its many forms, but-it is re- cognized that four out of five of them live in' rural areas. of . . * It is an undulant fever, and can be a distinctly unpleasant and crip- pling disease. Sufferers from if, in its more acute form, are often niis- erably ill for many months at a time. From a single exposure,.a patient has been known to remain ill for as long as ten years. : * * * All authorities agree that the number of KNOWN cases re- presents only a fraction of the vic: amps of diagnosed human cases noreased sixtyfold in the past 20 years. Another authorily puts the number of cases, in the United States alone, at over 130,000 every year. * * * "7 had to get away--efplained that | Many people have the disease "without being aware of it. The ill- "WILLIE WEATHER Says: » young lady, wind is. blowing at a terrific rate of speed. why YT That's cell Fer my gales friend. regulations -- effective January 3, - tims; and one expert states that the ness is often mistaken for chronic influenza or something of the sort. In some of the chronic cases the symptoms are so obscure that doc- tors decide that the patient is emo: unbalanced, or suffering from neurasthenia. It, is easy to make such a mistake as most vic tims suffer from extreme mental de- pression. Tug - * * * tionally To try and found out just how many people may be suffering from Brucellosis, a Doctor Spink asked university authorities to Jet him make skin tests-on:all patients com- ing to the hospital's out-patient de- partment. These included both city and country felks, and they worked at all sorts of trades and occupa- tions. The only thing they had in eommon was that NOT ONE OF THEM thought that he or she had undulant fever. - Yet, out. of 553 tested, nearly one in five either had, or had at some time been exposed "to, Brucellosis. J * * . * Many pass througlf the acute stage of the disease safely, but still retain it in a milder form for years. "I had an attack of flu, with aches and pains in my body---chills, head- ache, sweats and a little eough" is the way one describes it. "It clear- ed up in about ten days, but ever since I feel weak and tired. I'm nervous, have headaches; feel low in my mind and my appetite is poor." * Ll * o As many of my readers no doubt know, undulant fever may come ftom drinking UNPASTEURIZED milk from cows avith contagious ab- ortion, or Bang's Disease. And be- cause most urban markets insist on milk being pasteurized this form of disease is rare in towns and cities: * * * But because mayy farmers do not bother to pasteurize the milk kept for family use, the disease is ramp- ant in many rural areas. Just how dangerous the milk-borne infection ean be will be'seen from what hap- pened in a small Maryland town where, within a few days, 28 towns- Jpeople were stricken. Caught short of milk during a holiday WE 2 local dealer had "helped out" with a small quantity of unpasteurized milk from an uninspected herd. Examin- ease. ; * * * + There's a new drug, ealled aure- oemycin, which promises to do great things In relleving--ponsibly wiping ut--this menace 10 Numan beings. tit; in the meantime Ht would wi ful. Sorry If this eolumn should ssound lke a medical report--but 1 thought MW important enough. to bring to your attention, Bo, with 'thanks to Alfred H. Sinks, suthor of the article referred Yo at hi Secinning, that willbe aft for this week, ot --ed--Jater--some--of the-cows In this herd were found to have Bangs Dis- well Tor all who may be in the Talightest danger to be extra eare- many calling! G . b} . Traitor's Trial "Lord Haw Haw" v="+ lio «chal? name in Great Britain during te war. It was a name bestowed in derision on the best broadcaster that the- Nazis had. drawl known to nearly British radio -listeper, and as he announces 'Gairms His curious rasping was every calhing! Gair- many calling! Here are the Reichsender Ham: bourg, Station Bremen, and Station DXB on the thirty-one metre band. You are aboiit to hear our news in English', he was to some as a red" rag to a bull, but to most he wae a joke. His, nick-name, 'lord Haw Haw," was given #o him by 4 news. paper and used as the title of « war- time London musical comedy, and imitations of him became part of the stock-in-trade of every mimic. 'Tord - Haw Haw's' real name was as the world now knows, Wil- liam Jovee. He was hanged for treason on January 3; 1946. Treason is the greatest of all crimes, and the trial at Old Bailey in London of this notorious little man, with his razor-slashed cheek apd insinuating voice, attracted wide attention. The whole thing devolved on a question of nationality and the privileges and duties attached to the holding of a British passport. - Though the gnilt -of Joyce was a fact of which no one had any doubt; the only people wha 7 can commit treason are those who owe zllegrince to the Crown, and it was early found that the national- ity: of William Joyee wae arguable. | The case finally hinged on Jovee's I possession of 2 British passport, which he applied for and was grant- , ed when hie left Britain for Germany immediately before the outhreak of | war, and the ludge ruled that be- vond the shadow of & doubt | prisoner at that time owed al | ldegiance ta the Crown, and that no- {thing thereafter happened to alter that fact. At the trial, throughout the long and brilliant regal argu- ne=*r, %ovee sat tight-lipped and absorbed, and he seemed to follow it all with almost profescional ap- preciation. The programme includ- es actual records of passages from some of hic broadcasts, including his ast Scots Thrift The wife of & recentlyv-married Aberdonian had successfully under- gone an operation for appendicitis, A day or two after the operation her husband was having x drink with the doctor, who in & moment of forgetfulness mentioned that the operation should have taken place two or three years earlier. The father-in-law received the bill. i t ' 7 Operation Monkey Wrench Keep your fingers crossed, chum, but it does Took pow as if Yankee nuts soon may be fitfing British bolts by interna- tional agreement. Fhere's a machine-age miracle for you simple as it may seem. Manufacturers of peacetime goods on both sides. of the Atlantic have been®trying to make it happen for 50 years. They couldn't get to first base. urgent by military planning. Department and National But now it's "an objective made So our United States State ureau of Standards have been stirring their stamps, and so have British officials involved in comparable wor Long and complicated negotiations stem about to be crowned with success. y Why this internataional fuss about nuts and bolts? Don't we and the British both use feet and inches? This sounds like the sort of thing a few smart lads could arrange by air mail and settle in an hour by transatlantic telephone. After that, an American who lost a nut off a trunk handle in London could go to the nearest ironmonger--that's a bloke who sells hard- ware--and buy an English-mgde, nut to replace it. The same would -go for nuts and bolts on weapons, aircraft parts, and many other kinds of war goods which this country and Britain - have been trying to put on" a common basis since the start of World War II; It's hard to read about such things without getting red tapitis. seat of our intelligence. That's a dull feeling of utter discouragement in the For half a century; the mechanical brains of two great nations have struggled vainly to hake a wrench" in the same language. British bolt fit an American pump handle. Yet both are eager to get the job done and each can say, "Please pass the monkey Post. --Denver the - { METHOD. | Just the other day I' was talking to § young chap who was leaving for another town to start a new pos- ition. "I think the family are try- ing 10 sabotage my going," he said. "Mother mide & lemon pie that was about a foot across and six inches deep--and it's mighty hard to leave auch things." } Which is true--for there are few things in the line of) "eats" more tepipting, both 10 the eye and the palate, than & really well-made lemon pie. Herd's==ane which, if the directions are carefully followed, should turn cut to be "inet what the fgmily ordered" 8 Lemon Chifion Pie I nmme-inch pie shel) 1 tablespoon gclatin ¢ cup cold water 4 cpg yolks 1 cup sugan ) : teaspoon salt 1, cup lemon quae ) 1 teaspoon grated femon 10d , 4 cpp whites Whipped cream--optional sprmkl velatin over the cold water. Beat egp yolks, add one half cup sogar, salt, lemon juice and rind, Cook and stir in double boiler until thick. Add gelatin and stir till it dissolves. Cool. \When it is beginnig to set, fold in the egg whites, beaten till stiff with the re- maiming sugar. Pour into « baked pie shelll. Call Hf desived fold one hall to one vup of heavy cream wigpped, into the mixture or spread «the finished pie with the whipped ro. Crean 3 - -. 3 a. I ccem to have suarted off "in re verse today begnmmg with a dessert recipe. Now, here's some- thing of a more "solid type. They tell me that Chop Suey ian't oriui- nally a Chinese dich at all 1 really wouldn't know about that. Buoy 1 do know that it's a rasty dich, sand that of all the wyriad thir ic one of the real favorites. varieties, Pork Chop Suey 2 pounds pork houlder 1 cup water 1 large green pepper, cut in strips I Jarge onion «iced 1 enp celery, coardely diced Voopomnnd munshreoms Of 2valabled cliced : 1 teaspoon: salt 2 teaspoons son sance--\orces- ter<hire will do } tablespoon cornstarch Bean <pronts, ¢r canned green beans ccheed) if desired METHOD. Tron ihe fat from the pork. Cut fat into small pieces snd cook in heavy fryimg pan over nie- dium fire unul all fat is rendered from the vscue, Remove lean meat from bones and cut in thin strips. Add bones ta one cup of water in & saucepan and sinner 30 minutes; there should be about three-fourths of a cup of stock remaining. (If very lean pork ic used dissolve one b dane Andrews béulllon cube in thiee-fourths eup of hot water.) Remove fat Mssue and cook ui' well browned, turning frequently. ' Add green pepper, onion, celery, salt, mushrooms, three-fourths. cup stock and sauce, Cook, stirring oc- 'easionally, for 10 minutes. Now add the bean sprouts--or green beans. Add half cup of cold water to corn- starch gradually-and blend in a little of the hot liquid: Returr to chop suey and cook, 'stirring constantly, until all is slightly thickened, Serve with mashed potatoes or cooked vice. Makes six servings--and goes extra well dn 2 chilly day. These PRY | thy ort of Evenings "when most youngsters love to ga- ther mo the Ritchen--or around the i «place it you are blessed with one--und pop corn. Herds a simple recipe for that perennial papeoin favorite Cracker-Jack " 2 ocups nielasses butte One eighth teaspoon sdda 1 tablespoon Gontly boil the molasses and but- ter, without stirving, tll the hard- boil stage. Stir in the soda and pour over the popped corn. When thoroughly nixed press the mix ture mto a shallow greased pan, smoothing the top with a greased cpatnla, When firm, cut into squares with a Jracp hfe dipped into wa- ter. Cool. Weap in waxed pape, and «tare in covered container. (If Tike most families, that Tact is unnecessary---ihev'll just go Cahead and eat) voure- i Friendly Relations "Now and again a telling point in the sermon evokes a grunt of ap- proval from one of the deacons sit- ting in the front there OId John Hicks is 'straining forward a little, hie hand cupped over his ear, for he - ie eighty and somewhat deaf. [It was John Hicks wha Al & recent praver-meeting got down on his kitees 10 pray, and in the middle of wn fervent praver ended it suddenly Shke -- Ow! = Amen," adding by way of explanation 'Cramp, Lord." Bless him!" i Phillip. Phillips talking about "A Village Church in Wales." A Buffered A symphony violinist Was making such terrible faces while playin Brahms that the conductor Ahi the orchestra and demanded, "What's the matter with you? Don't syou like this piece?" "Oh, it lan't that," yeplied the face-maker. "It's just that 1 don't like music." ' ; LBA : Propping Up A Famous Edifice--Actually, of course, it's just A) a trick photo, but it really looks as if the young chap were helping hold up the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, which appears to be in even greater danger of falling than ig usual. EEE PT prs 0 ty Ce an a i - 3 er Yt CN Paes le ne us 3 PARA - lo. " -- ri oa NE " I By Aithur Pointer. a