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Yes, the women of the Canadian Red Cross are the unsung heroes of the war, and they will have a place among the heroes of In the days to come the peoples of the liberated nations will bleas the names of Canadian women for their kindness and generosity in making life a little more bearable. Little children, deprived of homes, and perhaps parents, will be saved from disease and want to help build a better world for tomorrow. Since the outbreak of war the combined efforts for these little gathcrings have meant 39,000,000 articles of comforts and surgical supâ€" plies for the men in the Canadian Armed Forces and military hospitals. Canadian quilts have become famous among the people of Britain, who wrapped themselves in them for warmth when they spent their nights in the airâ€"raid sheiters. _ Throughout the world today in China, Greece, Russia and the other United Nations, there are neighbours who urgently need help. And it is the Canadian women â€"â€" through their Red Cross â€" who will Iabour and toil that the ¢ry for help may be answered. For the women of Canada are the unsung heroes of this war, Day in and day out little groups of workers gather regularly to eut, sew, knit, quilt or perform such various other tasks which spell Although the Canadian Red Cross is a vast organization for the relief of suffering humanity, it is only as big as the women in the cities, towns and communities make it. For the Red Cross is organized neighâ€" bourlinessâ€"what a woman would do for the people next door if they were il! or in distress. Place Women Among T he Heroes One of the special comforts of the car is a kneeling sofa. Youngâ€" sters always kneel on seats to look out of the window and now for the first time that favorite pose can be comfortable by scaling the sofa to the children‘s size and placing it longitudinally along the window inâ€" stead of transverse to it.â€"Christian Science Monitor, One of the highlights of the children‘s car is a curving slide, at the bottom of which an anchored and wellâ€"padded cushion insures a comfortable landing. Entrance to the slide is through a cave and up a concealed stairway. Another feature of the room is a marionette show on a miniature stage. Adjoining that is a huge papierâ€"mache manâ€"inâ€" theâ€"moon with an electrical winking eye. » For youngsters in a writing mood there is a blackboard with plenty of chalk as well as a desk and chairs. Another provision for entertaining tiny travelers is a miniature piano. C t ge Called on the blue prints the "junior club car‘‘ it contains about everything in the way of fun any child could ask. It has a slide, cave, puppet show,.piano, toys and a host of other things that will make & youngsters‘ eyes pop. Although the playroom is designed for children, parents will benefit in that they will be able to have their children entertained in this car under the supervision of an expert stewardess, ® My Darling Clementine ‘There is a woman in Montana who is running her own mine. Her name is Camilia Gage. An extraordinary woman. Camilia was brought up in Paris, luxury‘s child. When her husband, a veteran mining enâ€" gineer and owner died a few years ago, she found that the roof over her head was all tied up in lead and gold mines in Montana. She sat down and thought twice, then threw a few things into a suitcase. All she knew about mines then, was the ambiguous "Yes, dear," she had answered to her husband‘s chat about them. But she learned. She borrowed money and set to work. Now her leadâ€"zinc mine, "Emma," is speedily rallying out of its former decline, paying. Running a mine, she says is a daily 48â€"hour job. Yet, with it; she finds time to collect for Red Cross, county war relief, Russian relief, help boy scouts, ladies‘ aid, be chairman for the American Women‘s Voluntary Services. She has two citations for paper salvaging, putting the county second per eapita for the nation. In addition the miners say she is always "doing things for people," is just as likely to come back from town with a new spring hat for Mrs. X, as with the latest vogue in mine machinery. A Break For Mothers "A fun house on wheels" is the way Pullmanâ€"Standard Car Manâ€" ufacturing Company describes its latest innovation for the postwar railroad periodâ€"a car designed to amuse and entertain children on long A manless Eden is, of course, the reverse of a girl‘s notion of paradise. An Eveless Eden is, ofâ€" course, different. One has been disâ€" covered by Ann Jacobs, a U.S. news writer. It is Ascension Island, an air station in the middle of the South Atlantic, and she was the only woman there amongst all its men. In spite of that, she didn‘t have any proposal of marriage during her fiveâ€"day stay, and that may discourâ€" age girls tired of living alone who otherwise might make a beeâ€"line for Fooling The Government Piling Up Costs Should a marriage license be renewed every year like a car license? A man from Nevada, where divorce is easy, thinks so, for be has taken out a marriage license every year for the last cight years. ‘That doesn‘t mean he has had cight divorces. He has used his license to marry the same wife all over again. He is now in Michigan and is much annoyed because that state will not allow him to add to the cost of maintaining A wife and refuses him a new license. Happy Man Mainly For MILADY other ingredients, cover and cook Cream fat and sugar thoroughly. Add allspice. Mix flour, sait and rolled oats, Add alternately with the warm water in which soda has been dissolved. This makes a stiff dough. Drop by teaspoonfuls into a greased cookie sheet and flatten with a fork. Bake in a moderately hot oven, 375 deg., 10 to 12 mins. Makes 3 dozen cookies. KESWICK BEANS 1%, cups pea beans, 1 cup stewâ€" ed and strained tomatoes, 1 can vegetableâ€"beef soup, 1 onlon (finely chopped), 1 clove garlicâ€" (finely chopped), 4 cup butter, 2 taps, salt. water, drain and parboil untis soft. Put in baking dish or bean pot, add wax paper, make a good accomâ€" paniment to fruit in season, which is always welcome and easily carâ€" ried. Puddings and custards, made to serve at home, may also be inâ€" cluded in the lunch box if packaged in custard cups. These standbys may be alternated with a serving of cake or pie, placed on cardboard, then enclosed in wax paper. OATMEAL CRINKLES 44 cup fat, & cup, brown sugar 1 cup pastry flour, !, tap. sait, 1 cup rolled oats, 14 tsp. baking soda, 4; cup warm water; 4 tsp. allâ€" spice. Melt fat and cook onion in it for 1 minute. Add flour, sugar, musâ€" tard and salt and stir till well blended, Add milk. Cook, stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Add vinegar and cheese. Continue cooking until cheese melts and mixture is smooth. Add eggs and cool. Store in a covered jar in a cold place, Makes 2%, cups filling. TO STRETCH BUTTER Cream !4 pound butter till light and fluffy. Gradually beat in cup milk, using a dover egg beatâ€" er. Store in a covered jar in electâ€" ric refrigerator, CHEESE AND EGG SPREAD 1 thsp. fat, 1 tsp. grated onion, 1+ thaps. flour, 2 thaps. sugar, % tsp. mustard, 2 hardbolled eggs, chopped, !; thap. vinegar, 2 cups m:dwcn. 14 tsp. sait, % cup busy times many of us have added the "lunch box" to our daily tasks; others find themseives preparing two or three every day instead of ‘The lunch box is an important responsibilityâ€" on it depends to a large extent the energy and effiâ€" clency of the school child or war pany a thermos of soup, cocon, tea or coffee, on these chilly days. SANDWICHES You might try these recipes to introduce variety. Whatever the fillings used, be sure to wrap each kind individually in wax paper, BEEF LOAF 1% lbs. round steak, 2 eggs, 1% cups breadâ€"crumbs, 2 thaps. choppâ€" ed parsiey, !; ~tsp. pepper, 2tsps. salt, 1 tsp. celery 1 thap. poultry crumbs, chopped parsley, pepper and sait. Place in a loaf pan and press firmly until it is molded to the shape of the pan. Bake in a moderate electric oven (350 deg. to 375 deg.) for about two hours. Cut in thin slices. ‘Therefore it must be made both nourishing and attractive. Here dressing or onion. Grind the beef. Mix it thoroughly Johnston, Ottawa.â€"(R.C.N. Photo). M.mmmwum. Ireland, four eager sailors are digging into & C88¢ > clothing articles donated by the Canadian Red Cross. Literally Milling of such articles have been despatched by the Red Cross to CaBAGIADtars at home and abroad by the Red Cross since war‘s beginning. Lt to right the seaâ€" going sailors are: A.I.Ndlmm:‘_lwwm Lo d en S es . Lez 2 BSoak beans overnight in cold DESSERTS Sailors‘ Delight THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT in 4 pound fow! (cut in pieces for serving) sait and pepper, !4 small onion (siiced), 1 cup rice (uncookâ€" ©4)â€"boiling water. . Cer fowl with boiling water, add onion and rice, and cook slowâ€" 1y Wtil tender (about 4 hours) addiny 2 tsps. sait when haif done. $ea®h to taste. Take out rice and onlon and brown in a little fat; servéon top of chicken. EGG FRICASSEE 6 lardâ€"cboked eggs, 3 cups stock from soupâ€"bone, minced parsiey, chopred onlon, 3 thsps. fat, 3 thaps. flour, ; cup cream, salt and pepâ€" and you are afraid to launder it try this method â€" sprinkle some powdred magnesia or borax over it th«woughly. Wrap the plece in a tovel and allow it to stand for seven! days, then shake out the powdr and jron over a thin towel. Mrs. C. J. says: An old sofa cushin covered with oilcloth make a good kneeling pad. Dirt can le wiped off the floor as well as the cushion, more easily. pitcher for gravy. These All 59| existence it was printed in Hamâ€" back ip,a large shallow PAD| jpton, ‘The the late James A. Livâ€" in a, ji{¢ bot water in it 9D | ingston purchased an old Washingâ€" the oven aflf to keep the 000| ton hand.lever press and a few hot but not Oried out. ‘TheN| cases of type and it has since been when the next on ©0Me8 In, it# | printed in its own plant in Grimsâ€" easy to lift them 944 WIP® 0ff | by When first published it was a and place back@D th¢e tabl¢.| gyg column format, columns 17 and Oh, and another *BID€. 486 2| ons half inches in length, only four tray to carry themAl) 95, MAK* | pages being printed at home, the ing one trip do. other four being what is known as e * ® "patent inside." After a few years 1. To keep woollens in }. was all home print. ‘Then in the tion longer it is important to E1VÂ¥8early 1900‘s it was increased to a them careful and frequent Clean®â€"six column format ,all home print. ing. Use plenty of water but not Arter the last war it was inâ€" too much soap. Squeeze through; sased to a seven column format &onfi-fim-w“.fl'lmm&mmwd with a soft brush, Rinse well in 3|."_",, Livingston family in 1925. or 4 basins of warm water. Squeeze dry and spread out on clean paper to dry. 2. Perspiration, dirt and grease that are allowed to remain in the fabric of overalls weaken the cloth. Frequent washings are better than severe laundering for very dirty clothes. soaking them over night in water containing boraxâ€"about 4 cup to 1 gallon of water, If the result is not satisfactory, let them freeze in cold weather. This will whiten cotâ€" tons and linens wonderfully. Anne Allan invites you to write to her c.o. (The Independent). Send in your suggestions on homemaXâ€" ing problems and watch this coiâ€" uwmn for replies. * in slow electriC oven .( until beans BAVC nearly Cut the eggs in slices, Make a sAuUce of the stock, fat, flour and seasquings. Add the sliced eggs, the cream and salt and pepper. Mix wel and serve very hot. # / ~® THE LETTER BOX Mrs, K. Mc. says: If yeu have some very old and treasured lace TAKE A‘TIP 1, Here‘s a snack you should try midâ€"morning at home. Make up any leftover coffee to 1 cupful by adding some hot water to it. Put this in a saucepan and add 1 square of baking chocolate, 2 tsps. sugar, a pinch of salt and boil 3 minutesâ€" add a cup of milk and its ready. (You may put it all in the double boiler right after breakfast.in fact, and let it simmer for 15 minâ€" utes then cover and let stand on the element turned off.) » To keep food hot throughout a staggered meal hour use casâ€" seroles for meats, vegetables and desserts and an enamelled pitcher for gravy. ‘These all go back in a large shallow pan mgh.m\olflnmuuu the oven afilf to keep the food 3. Clothes that have become yelâ€" CHICKEN cALIFORNIAN You might say that we are not conserving newsprint. On the conâ€" trary we are, for with this new size we will not be issuing so many enlarged papers. For instance, last week‘s paper was 10 pages of six columns, 60 columns. ‘That same amount of reading matter and adâ€" vertising could have been put into eight pages of the new size of seven columns, 56 columns. Of course there will be times that we will be forced to publish enlarged ‘p-pcr-.butnotuomauhnw fore. One thing we do save is labor and powergbills, as enlarged papers entail a great amount of extra work and with present day labor conditions makes the lead too heavy for our warâ€"time staff. ‘The Independent has suffered al the vicissitudes of newspaperâ€" dom during its almost 60 years of life, * ___ OLD CREEK wuhhm:.hnhu making big hauls. ‘The Village Inn has been serving them as a special dinner feature and the many guests at this popular hostlery over the holidays feasted right royally, Edward Hand who has spent all his life on the lake is at a loss to account for the appearance of the Smelts, as they are naturally a sait water fish. With the exception of last year when a few of them apâ€" pesred, this is the first time that he has ever known them to be this far up in fresh water and he can find no record in the Hand family history of over a century fishing out of the Port of Grimsby, of them ever being here before. It appears that great hordes of Smelts showed up in the Upper Lakes a couple of years ago but the next year were gone, There are 20 inches. ‘There was 936 inches of space in an eight page paper of the old size. There will be 1120 inches of space in an eight page paper of the new size, an increase of 184 inches, which is equivalent to nine 20 inch columns or a page and a half of the old size. | some of them in those lakes this The year 1945 will go down in history as the year that Smeit fishing took the place of Sucker wading in the Old Forty Creek. Do hinking and acting and hm‘ymmm.:.h?h%ll.m arrives, MORE LAND GONE causing the destruction as it is the quick sand base that just gives way and the bank slides into the lake. He believes that a concrete slab, or wall, along the face of the below the water level would be more of a protection or preventaâ€" tive of further erosion than weirs formai. Now it will be a seven column format. ‘The length of the old column was 19 and oneâ€"half jutting out into the lake would be. Had a certain amount of the original timber been allowed to stand it would also have prevented a lot of the erosion, as the bank was no doubt held by the deep We will give you full and comâ€" plete details of everything, and what we wish the public to do, next week, if Eisenhower does not break the good news on us before that. In any event our plans are far enough ahead to make a real time of it anyway. GET PREPARED quick decoration you wish to put on them or to carry people. . CONTINUATONS duced by 1 #¢ of the "patent inâ€" side." On it;PCquisition by Rome ‘Taylor it was 1©"*Qaseqto an all home print and then agairfeduced to a six column format.WBbich it has been for the past ‘V°D years. andvas that size when disposed of .’“.(Jvlnnwl family in 1925. x fow yars after that it was reâ€" Today it is a seve " tw-andumm'“ time and ours will it + ‘® ‘The next change will be" three years when it will be increasâ€" «d to an eight column format the same as the Globe and Mail. This we can foresee because Grimaby will be growing and The Indepenâ€" dent will grow with it. # Another difference between fame and notoriety is that the public reâ€" mambers the latter about only six GROWING WITH ven years. ’“colu- .: in your about NEXT GRIMSBY CLINIC â€"â€" APRIL 25 when Voarding and leaving bus. Get correct informaâ€" uonhadnmt..ll’)onotmnl and even then avoid ynk' hours and weekâ€"ends. Leave children at home. Do everyâ€" thing you can to make room and speed up service. You can coâ€"operate and do much to speed up service. Please h? ‘l:tblls Driver Speed up e Sesvice The Clvistion Science Publishing Seciety Please somple copies One, Norway Street, Boston 15, Moss. D_.g.m:'m-uu: NAME: s a s« «an +« AR NPR ld&ul-bmhlmdw- of wounded sailors, soldiers and airmen. But u-u-uu.-uu.um-.u:j Give a pint of blood to save a lie; Call Cross Blood Donor Service; ; ST. CATHARINES OPTIMIST HOME mmoulmmumâ€"mwh located on the West of Ontario Street, South, near Rockcliffe Road, in St. Catharines, Modern in every detail the home will contain mmwmmamw'm A model home in every respect. Value approximately $7,000. HMolder of ticket purchase house for $1.00. 2nd mnu:o.#nn-rw.mmv:m“ Bond awarded monthly sale. Bond winners are eligible for grand prize. ST. CATHARINES OPTIMISTS CLUB travel. If you have i.l:’nothhmthddv- er, for he has no conâ€" with difficult warâ€"time and only carries out Your bus drivers are 4 for which 1 enclose $..... .