Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1962 — Page 2

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BRIGHTEN UP DARK CLOSETS Any large closet or one that doesn’t get sufficient room light should be lighted electrically, advises the Construction Research Bureau, national clearing house for building information. A switch in the door jamb, similar to that on a refrigerator, will turn the light on automatically when the door is opened. A 25 - watt bulb is sufficient. It should be placed close to the ceiling, away from the contents of the closet, to avoid fire danger. Flooring in a light color, such aS a pastel shade of Kentile solid vinyl tile, will help children locate objects which have fallen to

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the floor. For decorative unity between room and closet, use the same floor covering in both ueas. This makes both room and closet appear more spacious. Tips for Boat Decks ’ For deck covering, many boating enthusiasts and boat builders, too, are installing tough Masonite ¥4” Tempered Presdwood with the screen side up. The screen impression, similar to canvas in texture, provides traction and is anti-skid. Apply this rugged hardboard w-i t h marine glue and counter-sunk screws. Trade in a good town — Decatur.

They've Got a Secret Carefree Cooks Make Gourmet Meals In U. S. A. on Christmas Day

Around the world on Christmas Day drift the tantalizing odors of millions of meals in the making. As the sun moves westward, countless women awake and begin the traditional, daylong kitchen bustle — whipping, stirring, watching, waiting, probing, adding fuel to rustic ranges or jockeying the temperatures of city burners. . But here in this country, many a woman will be found, not chained to the kitchen, but with extra time to spend with her family and friends. And yet the savor of Christmas dinners as succulent as any in the world is wafting from these kitchens, too. The secret lies in both the American supermarket and the modern super-kitchen. It’s a combination of convenience foods and automatic electric appliances. Today’s homemaker can buy many foods of excellent quality that are ready to serve with a minimum of at-home preparation. These include cranberry sauce, frozen vegetables, packaged turkey stuffing, brown-and-serve breads and rolls, oyenready turkeys, canned puddings, frozen pies, and gourmet sauces. If she has a food freezer or one of the new electric units that combine both generous freezer space and a large-capacity freshfood section, she can do all of the shopping and much of the cooking well in advance.

MIX CONCRETE ON 'MASONITE* For small concrete or plaster patching jobs around the house, ready - mixes are the easy answer for the home owner. The craftsman also needs a mixing surface, such as Masonite ¥» Tempered Presdwood, 3 or 4 feet square, for concrete and a small-

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V'f f < ft ■ 1■- WnHW iPWrbi. I / I While the turkey’s being roasted on a spit and the . pies are baking, this homemaker is free to spend time with her family on Christmas Day. Both ovens on this new electric range are automatically controlled for perfect results. *

At the heart of the extrahours kitchen is an automatic electric range. Even with most of the food prepared ahead of time, the housewife will still be kitchen-bound if she has to watch constantly as food cooks. With a modern automatic electric range to do the watching, testing, heat controlling and timing, the cook no longer must hover over a hot stove on holidays. Accurate controls on elec-

er piece for plaster patching. Put the mix on the hardboard as a mound with a crater and add water until the proper consistency is reached. On a sidewalk project, a 2x4 board will be fine for preliminary finishing. As a finishing “float” use a piece of the guar-ter-inch ‘Masonite’ attached to a wooden hand grasp. A convenient size is 6”x15”, Make your own breadboard of Masonite ¥4” Tempered Presdwood, which is strong splinterfree and readily cleaned.

Plain or Fancy - 1 * Food Fixed Ahead of Time Turns Housewife Into Hostess

What homemaker isn’t a hostess at Christmastime? And what hostess wouldn’t relish the chance to relax and join her guests before dinner, not only at Christmastime, but all year long? The gift of a new electric re-frigerator-freezer will help her do just that. Because it has generous storage space for both fresh and frozen foods, she can always be ready in advance for planned parties, unannounced callers and family meals on busy days. = For instance, as Christmas approaches, she can make pies, cookies, breads, sauces, and soups to be kept in the zero-zone freezer section. Even the stuffing can be made ahead and frozen, provided it’s not tucked into the turkey until roasting day. Other treats — egg nog, cranberry sauce, hard sauce, plum pudding, carrot curls and celery — can also be made in advance and stored in the roomy refrigerator section. Among the features of today’s combination refrigerator-freez-ers that help make hostessing and just plain home-making easier are automatic ice makers, compartments that keep butter spreadable, big crispers to keep salad greens and vegetables fresh a week or more, and specially cooled compartments to hold lunch and dinner meats for days without freezing. Many of the new electric re-frigerator-freezers never need defrosting, even in the freezer

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trie surface cooking units, ovens and broilers now give her freedom for activities outside the kitchen. At the same time, they provide better food automatically cooked at even temperatures to exact doneness. That’s why the American homemaker can spend less time in the kitchen on Christmas Day —or any other day of the year, and yet produce meals that are among the world’s finest.

Home Uplift: Shutters Appearance of a home may be improved by installing simulated shutters. Form each by making a rectangular framework that’s half the width of the window and cover it with Masonite Tempered Presdwood or X-ninety Panel-Sid-ing. ■ Prime, paint and fasten the shutters with rust-proof screws at the sides of each window. The shutters will add distinction and beauty to the home.

JI : i The turkey’s ready in the freezer section and there’s plenty more room in this new electric refrigerator-freezer for everyday family meals as well as special holiday fare. section. This saves the time and drudgery of scraping, collecting pans of water, and mopping up afterwards. It also makes frozen foods easy to identify and to remove from the freezer. The homemaker with a bountiful refrigerator-freezer wellfilled with both delicacies and daily fare will enjoy the holidays more this year, jight along with her family and friends.

Electric Housewares Ease Woes Os Puzzled Christmas Shoppers

Christmas shopping "electrically” can cut down pre-holiday exhaustion and step up your M gift-giving successes. A small electric appliance that you’ve chosen carefully will show the receiver that you like Lhim or her well ■ enough to give something useful as well as attractive. You’ll see when you shop at the housewares counters that today’s small electric appliances are newly designed and colorstyled to be as handsome as other contemporary home furnishings. They are equipped with improved automatic controls, they operate more efficiently and are easier than ever to use and to clean. ii' s a R°°d idea, after listing all the P eo " P le to whom Wp > f r.’.il you’re giving , J ;'’j| Christmas gifts, to J t° make anoth- ’>• .JJji er list of all electric house*wares you can think of, from blankets, blenders, bottle warmers and broilers, to skillets, shavers, toasters and waffle irons. Chances are when your list is complete you'll have decided on. the right

All Hands Will Rejoice At Gift of New Dishwasher

This Christmas you can give your wife one of the most precious gifts of all—the gift of time. A housewife can cut dishwashing time in naif with an electric dishwasher, homemaking experts say. Since a woman spends an estimated 10,000 hours of her married life washing dishes by hand, the bride or young wife who gets an electric dishwasher for Christmas also gets the gift of 5,000 extra hours. That’s the equivalent of 125 40-hour weeks to devote to worthwhile activities, with time to spare for some well-earned relaxation. One time-saving feature of the new electric dishwashers is the fact that dishes no longer have to be hand rinsed before being washed. Just brush off loose foods and place all tableware in the easy-to-load racks. Many of the ' flew models have a pre-rinse cycle that prevents food from sticking stubbornly. Breakfast, lunch, and in-be-tween-snack dishes can be stored out of sight until after dinner, when the whole day’s dishes will be done at the push of a button or the twist of a dial. Powerful

FUN OF GIVING ..Children learn to enjoy giving as well as receiving when they make the presents themselves. Even little girls can bake simple cookies, decorate and box them at Christmas time, with Mother’s help, of course.

Long Lasting Western red cedar dugout canoes made by Washington coastal Indian tribes are still intact after 500 years of exposure. Cedar is today widely used in home construction as siding lumber'because of its long life and beauty. NO STAINS Paint or vanish will prevent copper, brass or bronze from staining adjacent wood siding or masonry. These metals should not be painted until they have weathered long enough' to become dull. First apply a zinc - free prime coat; and when this has dried, brush on house paint or .exterior enamel. If you want to keep the metallic color, do not wait for the metal to tarnish but apply a coat of spar varnish; » “ —“ —-—— —JMIX WELL Here’s how to mix house paint to assuro complete dispersion of the pigment. I%ur most of the liquid into a clean, larger container. Using a paint paddle, stir the solid portion with the remaining liquid until it becomes creamy. Add liquid from the larger container a little at a time and stir it in. Then pour the paint from one container to the other until it is homogenous. This step is known as boxing. New Treats Research is uncovering all sorts of treatments for wood. One chemical hardens wood, another- makes it impervious to fire, and still another makes it resistant to water. Saves Taxes Tacoma, Washington, school board has saved as much as $200,000 in construction cost of a single school building by using wood instead of non-wood building materials.

gift for ’most everyone. After that shopping will be easyHere are some suggestions to help you choose . perfect pres> . ents: For homemakers: electric HW blender, broil- ■ I er, can opener, V W coffee grinder, SO coffee maker, W fo° d grinder, food warmer, jiriCTCT rotisserie, gridI die, saucepan, skillet, steam iron, toaster, waffle iron. For a man: electric blanket, clock, knife sharpener, shaver, hair cutting set, meat slicer, ice crusher, dog clipper. . For senior citizens: electric blanket, fan, heating pad, hair dryer, massager-vibrator, heater vaporizer, or any of the electric housewares that make cooking Bor other housework easier. For young people: electric blanket, clock, corn popper, ice cream freezer, shaver, and if they're in college, an electric iron, portable heater, hot plate or coffee maker.

For baby: electric baby food warmer or bottle warmer. Parents of young children also appreciate electric vaporizers, portable heaters and hair dryers. ....

a M X.' M ■' Wj PrEp The young mother who finds a new electric dishwasher under the tree on Christmas morning receives a gift of countless extra hours. If it’s a portable or convertible model like this one, it can be put to work right away, washing action, strong dishwasher detergent, and extremely hot water combine to get dishes, pots and pans thoroughly clean. They’ll be rinsed and dried to a sparkle, ready to be put away or left in the dishwasher until needed again.

PARTY PEP-UP Parties will be peppier if the air’s fresh. Turn the room air conditioner on to “exhaust" during holiday parties to rid the room of stale, smoky air without freezing your guests.

PAINTING ASBESTOS CEMENT Two different kinds of paint will give satisfactory results on asbestos cement shingles and siding. One type is made from synthetic rubber and is similar to swimming pool paint. The other type is exterior latex made for use on masonry surfaces. The first is sol-vent-thinned and can be applied only to dry' surfaces; the latexes are water-thinned and can be applied to a damp surface. If the surface is chalky you should first apply a surface conditioner.

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BOOK OFFERED: FIX-UP IDEAS A planned guide to P™®** 1 J* modeling has been issued by Masonite Corporation as a colorful booklet "Home Improvement ’ Presented tn a problemsolution style, the Isl-page guide in B>4 x 11-inch format gives the home owner practical Information on improving Ids residence. Illustrated in full color, the booklet concludes with two Illustrated pages giving tips on paneling with Masonite factory-finished woodgrained hardboards and other interior panels. Included is an easy way to measure a room for panelFor a copy, send 25 oents in coin to the Home Service reau, 29 North Wacker Drive, Chicago 6, 111. To store tall platters and cookie sheets easily, install Masonite hardboard panels in a kitchen base babinet as dividers. Fasten them to metal tracks or small wood quarter-round. Heavy-duty %" Masonite Pegboard panels in the garage will get lawnmower, outboard motor, garden .tools and heavy equipment off the floor.

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