B o lo n e y Household Science By PROBLEMS OF' EVERY DAY LIFE > i By Stage Fright Dr. M. M. Lappin SUSAN FLETCHER orange juice, 6 limes, 2 cups ginger Salad Days A fter the heavy winter diet, salads ale. are the order of the day. Here are Dissolve currant jelly in boiling a few tested recipes: water, chill and add fruit juices. When Nut, Apple and Date Salad ready to serve, add ginger ale and pour into glasses over crushed ice. 1 cup mixed nutmeats, 1 cup dates This makes 10 servings. cut fine, 3% cups tart apples cut fine, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, 1% table spoons sugar, % teaspoon salt. Mix well nutmeats, dates, apples, lemon juice, ·sugar and salt with mayon naise dressing. Chill in ice box. Serve on lettuce then garnish with balance of dressing and nutmeats. m m Combination Salad 1 package of lemon jello, 1 cup o f boiling water, 1 cup o f pineapple, 1 tablespoon o f vinegar, % teaspoon o f salt, 1 cup of pineapple (diced), 1 cup grated carrots, % cup nut meats, 1 cup of diced celery. Combine boiling water, pineapple juice, vinegar and salt, bring to boil ing point and pour over lemon jello, when jello is quite firm, mix in other ingredients and let set-- Katherine I Graham, Rodney, Ont. Shaddock Salad 2 green peppers, 1 head romaine, pulp 1 large grapefruit, 3 tomatoes. Cook peppers in boiling water, cool and shred. Shred the romaine. Re move pulp from grapefruit. Peel to matoes and cut in quarters length wise. Arrange in a salad bowl and pour over French dressing. Potato Salad Take 6 new potatoes, fairly large, cook these until tender. Cool and cut into cubes or slices. Add to this salt and pepper to taste. Slice into small pieces 5 red radishes and mix throughout the potatoes. Mix 1 cup o f salad dressing thoroughly with the ingredients. Place in a salad bowl that is lined with crisp lettuce leaves. Decorate with slices of boiled egg. Jellied Vegetable Salad 1 package lemon jelly powder, 1% cups water (boiling), 1 dessert spoon vinegar, 1 small can vegetable soup. Serve with mayonnaise or oil dressing on lettuce leaf. Kidney Bean Salad 1 can kidney beans, 1 cup chopped celery, 1 cup chopped cucumbers pickles, % cup chopped onions, % 400, or Cocoa Drink cup chopped nuts. 1 cup cocoa, 1 cup granulated su Dressing-- 9 tablespoons vinegar, 2 gar, 1 cup water, 2 eggs, salt. tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon mus Take the cocoa, sugar and water tard, yolks o f 2 eggs, % cup cream Add the or rich milk, 1 tablespoon butter. Mix and cook for 5 minutes. and boil. Add to the other when cold. beaten yolks of eggs, fold the beaten whites in and add salt. Keep in a 1 Cole Slaw cool place. 1 teaspoon o f this in 1 Take finely shredded cabbage, soak cup o f cold milk is ideal for summer. 1 hour in cold water and drain. Mix -- Miss Evelyn Atkinson, Merlin, Ont., hredded cabage with salad dressing. R.R. 1. Serve lettuce leaves, finely chopped green pepper and onions may be add ed. Keeping the Darlingtonia, a meat-eating plant, satisfied, Miss Mickey Flannigan feeds it a>string o f sausages at San Diega Fair, where it is on exhibit. The Darlingtonia, a leafless plant, is 18 inches high and has a folding hood, hiaking it look like a cobra. It exudes honey-like substance attracting insects. Once inside, tiny spikes in hollow tube hold insects w h il^ la n t digests them. Meat satisfies it also. It is remarkable how the problem of one individual will bring to light the problem o£ another. An extract from a letter which I have ju st re ceived illustrates this. "I have just finished reading your article on SelfExpression' ', writes this correspon dent, " and I think you can lie!p me. I am a member of a debating society and take part in the discussions quite often, but every time I speak I get an attack o f nerves and som e times I even feel sick. I have tried to overcom e this, but it seems im pos sible. Yet I like public speaking- Of course my nerves have never been good, for I used to be troubled the same way over examinations when I was in college. Do you think I should give up trying to speak in public or is there any way to overcom e this condition ?" I would not give up trying to speak in public. 1 would continue to take my place in the debating society and make a determ ined effort to overcom e this nervous condition. It can be done! My correspondent is suffering from what is com m only known as " Stage Fright", and this may be due to any one or more of a number o f different things. He may be too anxious to make a good impression and win the corrfmendation of others. That very anxiety would tend to make him over tense and produce exactly the condi tion which he describes. If he would concentrate simply on making a worthy contribution to the discussion and never mind the kind of impres sion he makes, I am sure that would help to eliminate that nervy feeling which com es over him. On the other hand, he says he was troubled the same way over examina tions when he was in college, and that alm ost indicates the presence of another kind of fear. He is afraid or being put to the test. He feels he ought to make a contribution to the discussion, but he fears lest he shall fail to rise to the occasionW ell, o f course, whatever lies be hind his condition, it is undoubtedly due to an inferiority feeling w hich1 he ought to get rid of once and for all. Men who are equal to the de-1 mands whch life makes upon them are not usually afflicted as this young man is. They have confidence in' them selves and in their ability to 1 rise to the demands o f the occasion.' My advice would be to try and de velop a little more confidence in your self. Read up on the su bjects to be debated. Store your mind with facts. Prepare yourself beforehand so that you will know you will be able to speak with confidence when the time comes. If you do that, then you will! be able to tell yourself it is foolish to get all worked up before the time. One word more. Don't think about the discussion until it begins. When* it begins, listen carefully to w lr t others have to say- Compare wiiat they say with what you have gather ed and fram e your contribution ac-J cordingly. And. above all, forget your self and think only o f what you are^ saying. N O T E : T h e w rite r o f this colu m n is a tra in e d p sy c h o lo g is t and an au th o r o f severa l w ork s. H e is w illin g to d e a l w ith y o u r p ro b le m and give y o u the b en efit o f his w ide exp e ri-; e n ce . Q u estion s re g a r d in g p roblem * of EVERYDAY L I V I N G sh ou ld be add ressed t o : D r. M. M. L a p p in ,1 room 4 2 1 , 73 A d e la id e S tre e l W e s t ,1 T o r o n t o O n ta rio .E n clo se a 3 ce n t sta m p ed , a d d ressed e n v e lo p e f o r r e ply . * · W EEKLY CASH PRIZES U. of M. Will Publish Oldest Paper on Canadian Botany OTTAWA -- The oldest existing manuscript on Canadian B otany will be published by the University of Montreal in the near future, Brother Marie-Victorin of the University told the Royal Society recently when he gave a brief history o f the document. Vegetable Salad 1 cup cubed cooked potatoes, 3 cups diced cooked carrots, 3 cups cubed celery, 2 cans small green peas, 1 cup chopped green and red peppers. Mix salt, mayonnaise and vinegar to taste. THIS W E E K 'S WINNERS Pineapple Lime Punch 1 cup currant jelly, 1 cup boiling water, 1 cup pineapple juice, % cup We are offering one dollar for each recipe printed giving the most interesting variation of a salad dish and cooling drink for this time of year. How To Enter Contest Plainly write or print out the ne cessary ingredients and method of your favorite salad and summer drink and send together with name ancl address to Home Hints, Room 42l, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Crowning Her Beautj Mrs. Thomas " Keen O o It" ~ H-- * --------- Found more than 17 years ago among the papers of the library of the St. Hyacinthe Seminary by Msgr. E. Choquette, it was sent to Brother Marie-Victorin. As it was unsigned the Brother, a noted botanist, tried in every way possible to trace its Brother Marie-Victorin eventually authorship, even travelling to France found he had the key to the author and Germany. ship in the manuscript itself. The Finally it has been proved to T)e numbers of specimens recorded in the the combined work of two botanist part sent from Canada to France authors of about 1707 to 1744, correspond with those of the same Michael Sarrazin, King's physician specimens in Vaillant's notes which Quebec, and his friend Sebastien o f Paris, successor of the credited the specimens to Sarrazin. Tournefort at the e f . Serrazin Vollect" I still hope to see India free from flora and notes which he g ",ent to Vaillant, who in turn sent the domination of the foreigner."-- Mahatma Gandhi. information. ist The two sets of notes had evidently r been compiled by one of the early Jesuit priests teaching botany in a college in Quebec, for his own infor mation. He did not bother to rephrase the notes as he copied them and $ 1 5 , 1 0 2 , 8 1 5 E xcess O v er Im sometimes they read as if written ports, States Revenue in France, sometimes as if written in Dept. Report Canada. Exports I April Up Ten Millions O TTAW A, -- The national revenua department recently announced that Canada's April exports showed an in-j crease in value o f more than $10,000000 over those o f April, 1935. Exports o f Canadian produce In! April were valued at $57,422,847 com-pared with $47,313,862 in the same! month last year, while total imports! for consumption were worth $42,320-1 032 compared with $36,636,702 in the month of April, 1935. ^ The excess value o f exports overt that o f imports was $15,102,815. Millbury House, Ferring-by-Sea, Sussex, seen above, the house bought for Right Hon. J. H. Thomas by Alfred Bates, who was a wit ness in the " budget leakage" inquiry was built by Raymond Massey, well-known stage and film actor. It stands in six acres o f beautiful grounds overtaking the sea. There are ten bedrooms and three recep tion rooms, and the house has its own entrance lodge. The house is in Floridaroad and is not far from where the king, when he was Prince o f Wales, stayed. Janet Soostsmith, beautiful 1Gyear-old Portland, Ore., high school girl, selected as Queen o f Portland's traditional Hose. Fes tival, tries on her crown and finds it very becoming. Festival will be held in June. / British School Eoys Touring Canada The second new Polish trans-Atlantic liner, the Batory, ariving in New York on maiden voyage from Gydnia, eight days and one hour after leaving the Baltic port, a new record fo r the run. , In the above picture is the party of English public schoolboys who arrived in Montreal. 'I ' -ey will tour Canada from coast to coast. Capt. W. H. Stevenson, history master at Harrow, is in charge of the party. Left to right are: R. Straker, G. H. S.Toller, Capt. Stevenson, R. D. Carver, J. H. Ruscoe and H. J. Budd. Behind are F. E . W ; Tetley, M. H. Persse, D. C. Keen, G. P. Yarrow, N. H, Gardiner and E. R. Yates. Captain James Haizlip's speedy plane, its wings removeJ, being hoisted aboard the Zeppelin Hinder.burg at Lakehurst for shipment to Europe, llaizlip, his wife and his son wera passengers.