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thursday mat iflui imc i the acton free press of interest to women nkmiuneimm spring mxriccta the ten are hegvg to take on a col orful appearance and to present some items we haven in a long time aspar for instancs is coming a every morning it crows cjuicftdy mad as the season la all too short we should make use of it while we can one of the nice waya to serve aa- pr lm tthth m of ham cool the aparajtus stalk sanding them up in a saucepan or with the heads prop ped up out of the cooking water by inserting a small tin at one side of the kettle ii siloes of boiled ham in a small amount of to juice using another saucepan when you are ready to serve lay the slice oi ham on the platter and put a serving of asparagus on it serve with mock hollandalse sauce there are still potatoes on the mar ket this year but lets not waste umto keep them in a cool dark place and prepare them in ways to prevent waste a good- rule is serve baked potatoes three times week 1 cheek the price per pound or can or package of the food you wish to buy and consider nutritive value be fore you buy 2 store the imported vegetables carefully they are accustomed to moist cold atmosphere clean ai store them in your electric refriger ator in the crisping pan or covered pan asparagus stabm welsh rabbits served over cooked asparagus tips placed on toast makes a splendid luncheon dish crisp bacon may be served in addition melt 1 tbsp buttek in the top part of the double boiler blend in flour- add u cup milk stirring it gradually to make a smooth sauce cook until thickened somewhat and smooth crate t lb cheese 2 cups and stir until melted add seasonings 4 tsp salt 14 tap prepared mustard and u tap paprika v pour and serve im mediately asparagus salad cut bread thin remove crusts and spread with butter place in tne centre of each slice a cooked aspara gus tip marinated with french dress ing roll bread around it and sec ure with tooth picks cut in two at an angle after thoroughly chilling the rolls these are favorites at wedding teas ckeamkd potavoeh and aspazagus cook vegetables separately allow one half pound asparagus to six pot atoes combine with cream sauce using half asparagus water and half milk foe liquid mock isolxandalse sauce 2 tbsp butter tap salt 1 cup mv us tbsp flour 1 tbsp lemon lice 1 egg yolk melt butter on top of double bolt- add flour and blend until smooth add salt and lemon jsaoa muk gradually stirring cook over- hot will stir until mixture thickens cockfcr 3 minutes stirring occasionally pour hot sauce over b egg yolk return to top of double boiler ileal thoroughly serve very hot be sure and remove from heat if sauce must be kept kg for a while before serving mrs j m- asks how do you bake klpperst answer the easiest and yet nutril- lous way arrange them on an oven proof platter or pie plate and pour tomato soup over them dot wit butter sprinkle with seasoning and bake in a hot electric oven for 20 minutes serve with a slice of lem on and piping hot toast mrs j- b asks ilow do you make a good crumb pie paste t answer use very dry bread crumbs make fine crumbs- combine with 2 tap sugar and 2 tbsp melted mildflavored shortening or butter- to each cup of crumbs pack into pit plate about oneenghth inch thick and bake in electric oven at 350 de grees for is or 20 minute- then cool and flll mrs a if aays tell folks that their housecteanlng la not finished un til they dean the condenser of their electric refrigerator we dean the fine colls twice a year with the va cuum cleaner attachment or a long handled brush note pull the cord from the con venience outlet to disconnect the r frlgerator before you start the clean ing mrs s mc- asks why do some pieces of horoecomed beef become tough when boiled and other pieces do hot answer you never boll ham or corned beef if the water is kept boiling the fibres of the meat become tough start the meat in boiling wat er and boll it for several minutes so the heat will penetrate to the centre of the meat then turn down the cl ement so the water does not bubble but keeps at a simmering temperat ure the home town toc in many communities there is ct intense feeling of loyalty and affect- ion for the home town people love it they are deeply attached to it and they would not move away unless they got very great inducements in some towns there is less of that sent iment a town where this loyal af fection exists had a great asset ogue blooms outside in january and at good pay or have been prosperous in business ihey usually like the town where they live if they have good advantages in their home town they usually become attached to it a friendly spirit is a great help in pro- fehruary that sounds too good to be cling to a town where they have warm friends and where they meet welcoming smiles on the streets and in the organizations chronicles ol ginger farm owekdoune r iir allies consolidate beachhead following successful seaborne landings jan 22 by the flit army thousands of british and v s troops consolidated their beachhead in the nettuno area about 30 miles south or rome and pushed rapidly eastward to cut the key supply lines of the german troops on the gaiigllano front by feb 2 the allied forces were within 13 miles of rome and the germans gustav line had been pierced by the main 5th army forces picture shows brluah tommy guards first german prisoners shortly after initial landings on italian west coast behind enemy lines the week at ottawa srr dooouui emmmse similarly he warned against changes fan empire consultation meth ods which might give the uuprienwon to people within the corn moo wealth that their freedom of decision was li mited or to peoples outside that the com w states were gangjbig lie referred to present methods of lalraempire consultation as a of unsettled weather led me to look up last years seeding dates and i had we sowed our ursf spring grain on june 12 this la may 15 and we nave one field sown and about two acres in another field so i guess there still hope except that it is ralnlc again it is too bad the weather doesnt stay fine long enough for ho farmers to finish seeding because the men say the land is in ideal condition and any grain that has been sown browing splendidly it is difficult t farmers to know how to work to the best advantage in some cases where neighbors have agreed to work to gether one man has his seeding done while the other hasnt started tltat is likely to happen any time and tlte one who is left has to he a pretty good sport to take it cooperative farming is a fine thing in principle but if the weatherman doesnt co operate too there is just a cluuic the scheme may create a little bad feeling it just depends on what plans have been made beforehand and how willing each man is to take chances and accept the result the country is really lovely these days of course it is always lovely in the spring but this year t honestly believe it i the best yet i dont think there was ever a year when the grass the trees and the shrubs looked so fresh and green nor was there a year when the grass grew so fast or do i just notice it because i have to cutt it takes about three hours to mow all the grass around hereand that is without clipping the edge saturday i had it about half done and theh had to leave it to go to town when i came back partner had finished it after all a shower of rain has its advantages 4 do you mind if i say a word or two about chickens in general and mln in particular t you dont think i had better well perhaps not becoue what h might say wouldnt be fit for publication anyway you see roy chickens ore now even weeks old and high time they were roosting to encourage them i took away their first low roosts and replaced them with the proper ones slanting them in the approved fashion and placing wirenetting underneath to force the chickens to perch on the roosts in stead of going into a huddle on the floor when it was nearly bedtime for the chicks i went out to see whirl they were doing i was very well satisfied because about half of them were roosting and i thought that wns pretty good for a start a little inter i went back to shut them up for the night and every last chicken was 6n the floor some of them were even under the wirenetting how they ever got there is more than i know if only chickens could be trained like dogs and that brings me around to the subject of tippy and chickens tlte other day i thought i heard a suspic ious noise going on outside on in vestigation i found tippy stretch nl out on the grass with a chicken be tween his front paws i noticed he kept giving it a wee bite an if- it amused him to- hear it yip to try surprise the chicken wasnt hurt ut all and jumped up anil ran off as sden as it was released and then it wns tippys turn to yip and yelp since then he has loft the chlckemt alone although i often see him watching them with longing eyes im net taking any chances tippy loves to he with nip when i am working in the gardenand i hnye been out quite a bit lately what with cutting gross and setting out shrub i bought a few new ones innt week and transplanted some of the others one of the new ones u wltfh hazel which according to the catalr ogue blooms outside in january ind february that sounds too good too true but it will be interesting to see what happens but oh dear if one could only be in two places at on time the more i work outside the more my work in the house gets be hind the paper in the dining room is hast off and looks awful it is a terrible wall to scrape i dontseen to make any headway at all wouldnt somebody like a job exchange op canning sugab coupons the ration administration announc es that f canning sugar coupons may be exchanged for preserves cou pons on the basis of one m coupon for one preserves couupon but not until they are declared valid the first five f coupons become valid may 25 and the second five on july ottawa 0 por four days of the past week tlte contentious quest ion of monetary efbrm o the attention of members of the ilouae of common and though the govern ment- bill to amend the bank act has received second reading and now will go to the banking and commerce committee for study it is certain to receive thorough verbal dissection there g cl mcceer liberal member for vancouver burrard and long noted for his advocacy of monetary reform teamed with arthur slaughu liberal member for parry sound to expound the- belief that the dominion should issue money no creating a debt and that powers of chartered banks should be restricted mr slaught set forth the view that inflation wasa bogey which helped to keep the banking monopoly link ed around the taxpayers necks and mr mcgecr said that on the basis of canadas financial experience in the present year with war budget but year five times as great as that which experts earlier said canada could fin ance no future government should ever say it was necessary to borrow abroad to finance the- dominions de velopment mr slaughts views on the function and operation of a commercial bank drew the rejoinder complete nonb- from douglas abbot parlia mentary assistant to finance minis ter ilsley an indication of the div ergence of views which no doubt will see the banking and commerce com mittee the locale of lively rpseuaslon on the merits or demerits of the bill peuueal bnsinasts of interest to those of all political faiths is the acceptance by the com mons radio committee of an invitat ion from the canadian broadcasting corporation toredcflne a national political party for purposes of free network time and the cbcs accomp anying offer made by pr augustln frigon its acting general manager of an increase in network political free broadcast time from a halfhour to an hour each month somof the committee raised con slderablc objection to the present de finition which provides that only lib eral progressive conservative and c c f speakers qualify for free time those most strongly opposed to the current ruling providing that a par ty must have at least 61 candidates to qualify were social credit mem bers who claimed that their parly was excluded from the free time if is udleved now that the clic t willing to accept a new nilparty de finition and to wldep the regulation by providing ertra time to take care of extra party speakers scope of the federal governments draft national health insurance plan laid before a dominion provincial health insurance conference here was indicated by pensions minister mack enzies statement that the draft bill suggested that the federal govern ment make grants covering health in surance tuberculosis mental disease general public health venereal dis ease professional training and crip pled children the minister said the proposed plan would cost an estimated 250000000 annually an amount less than the present annual cost of illness he of fered the estimate based on the as sumption that each day of lllnex costs 91 that the total cost of lllntjtu annually in canada is 24062im historic hpeeeli prime minister mackenzie king in britain for the commonwealth prime mlnliters conference provid ed one of the gatherings highlight last week when standing in the hut- oryiteeped royal gallery of the pal ace of westminster he told a joint koinn of both houses of parliament that future security of the peacelov ing nations will depend upon the ex tent and effectiveness of internation al cookratlnn il urged the british common wealth to provide world leadership in pursuing policies of international cooperation which could embrace all nations the canadian leaders pronounce ment on world policy was j be loved in harmony with views of mr king fellow prime ministers in suggeiting the km pi re thko the lend in policies pf cooperation mr king declared i profoundly believe that both sec urlty and the welfare of nations of the british commonwealth and in large measure the security and wel fare of all peaceloving nations will depend on the capacity of the nations in the pursuit of policies which character are not exclusive hut in conclusive how far such policies can be suc cessfully pursued will of course de pend on the extent to which other na tions are prepared to pursue the same policies but let us at least where- ever that y possible give the lend that is in the interests of the world ns a whole r against isolation from the empires foremost ros trum mr king set himself against any idea of consolidating the empire in opposition to other nations continuing conference in contrast to a single imperial war cabinet meanwhile canadlsn citlaens took another step in their work and save march toward victory by oversub scribing the sloojboojooo sixth vlca tory loan they passed the minim um objective on the second last day of the threeweek campaign fame cosmetics menace london cp english who use black market cosmetics face lifelong disfigurement experts itere warn by adding what is termed rubbish to the small amount of oils and waxes made available by the gov ernment they make in large quant ities cosmetics said to be injurious to the skin suiiying 1 joins the at a- f london cp robert tbomason who went to canada and the united states as leader of the british ad miralty merchant shipbuilding mis- o in 190 to arrange for construc tion of the first massproduced amps has joined the r a f as an air craftsman second class at 37 he win be trained as a mem ber of a bomber crew and thus satis- fy his ambition- fo hit back at the enemy personally the go would not allow him to join up before muse he was judged too valuable to the shipping effort for his work in eauawgf shi to spring up in swamp and waste- lands and in keeping the production rate ahead of- the number of lost hi was awarded the cbe ktiuwt rtodtxmon tip daressalaam tanganyika british east africa cp this territ ory hopes to have full rubber prod uction this year production in the but quarter was 10 times the amount during the same period a year ago sgodvrv as always the salada b9 label is your guarantee of a uniform blend of fine quality teas salada asperate p 3 of waste paper are required every month to make essential containers for military suppues rimtuimcvi srz mm cardboard how to do w j jtirtho little time oo fearisrsii m vlull jhtraill cowmlncr dtrartmiht of hatiomal vak inwu officers escape from italian prison guii ijeu tenant general str richard oconnor lieutenant general phillip neame vc and air marshal o t boyd have escaped from their pow camp in italy and are safely back in algiers air marshal boyd was captured by the italians in november 1940 when his plane made a forced landing while he was on his way to take up his new appointment as deputy to viscount wavell then clnc middle enit general oconnor and general neame were captured hy a german motor cyclist armed with a tommygun while their stn enr was leaving derna for a hew hq the three senior officers took advantage of the confusion among the guards at their eamp when the news of italys capltualtion came through the method of their escape is still secret picture shdws left to right lieutenant general richard oconnor air marshal o t boyd and lieutenant general p neame vc phbtographed fogether after their arrival at algiers fffctttjihy iammmmm