Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1942 — Page 17

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inside insulation of electric cords—

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Longer Wear for Electric Cords

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of Care in Using Them

THE “LIFELINE” of many a home appliance, the electric cord, is Lone more article that deserves special care in wartime. “Por copper and rubber—used in such cords—are needed by the fight-

Tog men.

Copper and rubber go into the very implements that can

make the difference between lite and death for our armed forces—suc-

cess, or failure of the war. - 80, though it seems a little thing, make the electric cord last as long as ‘possible. The good care that makes the cord wear longer also ‘makes it serve better. Much of the wear on cords comes when they are being co ted or disconnected. plug or cap at the end of the cord when it is taken from the wall outlet—never pull on the cord itself. If the cord is jerked, one or more

wires may Be pulled loose inside the

cap or plug. Either wire, loosened, may cause a broken connection or a short circuit.

Connecting Them

WHEN A CORD is used with a switch, or an outlet controlled by a switch, make all connections and disconnections with the switch turned off. By doing this, the metal prongs and outlets are saved from the ‘sparking that sometimes take place when connections are made with the current on. Sparking eventually wears away the metal —and metal is hard to replace now. If the iron has no thermostat and there is no switch control, the temperature may have to be controlled by disconnecting the iron frequently during use. Make these disconnections from the wall outlet, i from the iron itself. Watch for signs of wear on the outside covering of an electric cord. Repairing the first frayed place may save a lot more trouble later on.

Hard use or rough handling canon in letters without making him

wear off the covering, may even wear off the inside insulation so that one or both wires are exposed.

If the bare wires touch while cur- our age, but he might think so if rent is flowing, a short circuit is|y 4g not express myself correctly.

The result—an excessive|yq, helped me once; so please help flow of current that may result in again’ now by telling me a blown fuse, a cord burned in half, express myself.

formed.

or even a fire. Heat can injure both covering and

so keep them from touching hot surfaces. If a cord is permanently attached to a heating appliance, make sure the appliance is cool before wrapping the cord around it for storage.

Storage Hints

. AND ABOVE ALL, don't let an he will wait for you and not get inelectrio cord get wet—unless, of - course, it's a rubber covered type

for use in wet places. If water soaks through the covering and inside insulation of a cord and reaches the wires, this can also cause a short

circuit. Even a rubber covered cord, if the rubber js defective or cracked, may let water seep in and cause the same trouble.

Extension cords often call for par-|ré8ard him as a prospective husband

ticular care. Best way to run.this

other is to attach it to the baseboard with special fasteners. This keeps it off the floor. It it’s necessary to cross doorways, run the cord up around the casing, never across the opening. : * When cords are “off duty,” store them with care so they will work longer. Always remove separate cords from appliances. This preserves tension in the plug clips that fit over the appliance prongs. Hang the cords over large, round wooden pegs—or over two or more metal hooks. It's better to hang a cord over two pegs because the bend will not be so sharp. A sharp bend weakens the wire and may eventually cause it to break. Cords also may be coiled loosely and stored in a drawer. However, make sure the drawer doesn’t hold anything sharp enough to do dame. pio cords need a clean, dry storage place. If they are rubber covered, put them where it’s dark and

any type of cord, be sure it’s free of kinks and knots before it is put away. » ” 8

Good Meals for

Good Morale

. BREAKFAST: Orange. juice, dry cereal and top milk, scrambled eggs, toast, jelly, coffee, milk. LUNCHEON: Consomme soup, moulded vegetable salad, hot fruit

and nut tea biscuits, chilled canned].

pears, honey spice cookies, tea,

DINNER: Cranberry cocktail, braised pork chops, buttered Brussels Sprouts, applesauce, spice cake, tea, milk.

Today's Recipe ~ HONEY SPICE COOKIES

Two cups sifted flour, % teaspoon salt, % teaspoon soda, % teaspoon nutmeg, % teaspoon allspice, 1 tea-

spoon cinnamon, % cup" butter, al cup sugar, % cup honey, 1 egg.)

beaten.

Sift flour and measure. Add soda, |’

salt and spices and sift together three times. Cream butter and add sugar. Beat until light and fluffy.

Add honey to butter and. sugar]

mixture and lastly add the beaten egg. Then stir in the flour and spices. Chill and shape into rolls about 1% inches in diameter. Wrap

thoroughly in the refrigerator. “Cut

into thin slices and bake on an’ un-|.

greased cookie sheet in a moderate oven (350 deg. F.) for about 20 min- _ Utes.

‘Appetizer with Punch

Here's an appetizer packed with plenty of punch; roll sweet or sour pickles in thin slices of salami. Fasten with toothpicks, arrange on broiler tray, broil until lightly own. Serve with onsp. cocktail

and neither do you whether your

- laround handles or ridges if liquids

Always gr the |=

DEAR JANE JORDAN—I am a

high school girl and I have gone places with a particular boy for| two years. I have not gone steady, but he always asks me when there is something important to attend. He is in the service now and although I have gone with other boys I know he is the one I love.

At 16 I am not interested in being married and since he is only 18 he isn’t interested in marriage. It is hard for me to express myself in letters and let him know that 1 consider him more than a friend. I know he considers me -his best] girl, but I don’t want to make him believe that I am afraid he will get away from me, I know he is bound top meet other girls; so if I don’t let him know that I consider us more than friends, then a friend is all I'll ever be. He has told me how much he likes me and almost begs for me to express a little affection for him, but I am afraid I will scare him off. How can I express my affec-

think I want to rush into marriage? Of course I know he does not think I am considering marriage at

ow to SALLY.

jAnswer—Intellectually you know you're too young to marry, but emotionally marriage is what you want and you've probably done so much day dreaming about it that now you're as self-conscious as if the boy could see into your mind and read your thoughts. What you want is for him to feel the same way you do and you want to be assured that

volved with some other girl, There is no way that you can get this assurance for he does not know

youthful attachment will last or not. The sole danger to your friendship does not lie in ‘the fact that he may meet another girl. You may meet another boy whom you prefer to him. . 2 When you write the boy. try not to

and write simply and naturally as you feel. Do not be so afraid to tell him that your friendship means more to you than any other which you have had up.to date. You can do this quite. easily without sounding possessive, and this is all he wants from you at present. Try not to take it all so seriously. He may not be the boy you'll want in a year or two from now. If he is it will be because your friendship developed naturally through your letters and through further companionship when he is out of service. At the moment I think you're a little too anxious. - Let go and let things take their course. You have plenty of time. JANE JORDAN,

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer your questions in this column daily.

Tips on Washing Sticky Pans

Soup pots and stew pans have an undeserved reputation of being “hard to wash.” They present no real problem, however, if filled with warm soapy water immediately after using. On the other hand, if they are left standing and food particles stick to them, real scouring is then required. It is through neglect of prompt soaking after use, that pots and pans acquire their undeserved reputation. When soaked in warm soapy water, they need only to be emptied and given the usual washing. Perhaps occasionally a rubbing with- steel wool may be. necessary

make a brown stain. But this is not difficult, and after rinsing with clear hot water, a properly washed stew pan is as clean as a whistle antl can be dried on the finest tea

towel without leaving a mark.

By MRS. THEODORE HALL Times Special Writer WHAT A LIFE! We mothers work and we slave, and what do we get? Most likely a mouthful of cereal blown square in our faces! Yes, you've guessed it—Timmy has started on solid food. One tablespoon of pablum mixed to a paste with boiled milk is what the doctor ordered. But he forgot to mention how to get the child to swallow the stuff.

“Don’t worry if he pushes it out.”

wass all the doctor said, and left Tim and me to sink or swim in our tablespoon of mush. Came the fateful day to begin. Mother put a wee mite of pablum on the end of a dull-edged butter spreader and brought it warily to

Tim’s mouth, in full view of two .

curious blue eyes. Those months of dishing him orange juice with

a spoon were not in vain. Tim's .

mouth opened automatically and the first round of the cereal contest went to mother. : But the second round was another story. The bit of cereal was quickly slipped onto the roof of Tim’s mouth. What a red face! Gags! Splutters! Angry struggles! All the cereal landed back out on the bib. Second round to Tim. The next bit of cereal went in by the identical route, only to be pushed out onto Tim’s chin by a very efficient tongue. This time, to ‘mother’s anxious eyes; even more cereal came out than went in. Third round to Tim! One last try. Same gags, same splutters—and victory. One tiny swallow went down Tim's throat! Mother sat back fo gloat over her triumph when Tim took a deep breath and “PFFFFFFFFF” went. the rest of the mouthful, straight in mother’s eye. : Knock-out for Timmy, and the match was over for the day. Score for mother: Two grains of cereal swallowed. And what is this we see? - At least fifteensixteenths of the tablespoonful of cereal the doctor ordered still in the cup. 2 8 8 NINE DAYS have passed since the first decision on cereal went to Timmy. Somewhere along the line mother began to win a few rounds of her own. Today Master Tim swallowed, without gagging, one whole tablespoon of cereal. The process took exactly one-half hour. Keeping her fingers crossed, mother is tempted to call that good going—until tomorrow. Here is what she learned from Tim about teaching a baby to eat solid food: A baby needs manv chances to feel cereal in his mouth before his mother tries to

Mother should seat baby ‘come fortably on her lap, hold the cereal in full view—and wait patiently.

get him to take all the doctor ordered. She should seat him comfortably on her lap and hold the cereal out in full view, bring it to his mouth slowly and wait patiently for him to open it, then leave it quickly on the roof of the mouth. Never sneak up on him when he’s not looking. Talk quietly as he makes faces and gags. At the first good swallow, sound happy and pleased. Wait between tries while the baby catches his breath and looks ‘around. If he: .turns his face away at the next approach of cereal, wait even longer. In other words, take plenty of time .the first few days, allowing even onehalf hour extra in the schedule for this feeding. Serve cereal of the same thickness every day, and keep it lukewarm for the whole feeding. Babies who struggle and cry over their first few mouthfuls should not be allowed to get into this habit. If baby’s face turns red at the very sight of food, stop serving it for a day or so, then start carefully from the beginning again. Never play a game to see how much cereal you can get down him, nor how fast. Quantity and speed are not‘ important. The great point now is teaching him to like to eat solid food. .

In New York

by Helen Worden

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Mrs. Herbert Lehman said today she wouldn't have missed the last 14 years in Albany for anything in the world. “I'm delighted over the governor’s appointment as director of foreign relief.” she declared, “but I wouldn't give up the experience of those

past 14 years. tails a sacrifice. garded the executive mansion as our home. It was during the happiest period of our lives. ‘Our children grew up there. It has known our joys and sorrows.” She sat on the rose-damask covered couch in the walnut-paneled living room of the Lehman apartment at 820 Park ave. Her dress was a simple black crepe. Her prematurely white hair, though becomingly waved, showed the results of the flurry of last-minute packing. In another few hours she and the governor would be leaving for Washington. “It’s like beginning life over again,” she went on. “We're starting out on a new adventure. While we're very happy to begin another chapter it’s sad to finish the old one.” She looked info the fire. “Sometimes when you read a chapter in a book you've enjoyed, you hate to finish it. I felt that way about Albany. We had so many friends there. So much happened. Good and bad, but that’s life. “I was thinking only today of the Auburn prison riots. Of the morning that the phone message came to the executive mansion. My hus-

band rushed over to the capitol to,

direct things. I spent the whole day with him in the executive chambers. It was terrible and exciting. You could hear the noise in the prison through the telephone.”

” » 8 SHE PAUSED for a moment. “I got so I could tell early in the morning if there was a capital punishment case pending. I could read it on my husband's face. Such cases troubled him. He never let a man go to the chair unless he was completely convinced of his guilt.” Those moments she remembered as the saddest in the executive mansion.

“I think the happiest to me was when my husband was re-elected,”

For a Lucky Baby's Christmas

The traditional silver-spoon-in-the-mouth baby has: nothing on the lucky youngster who receives any or all items in these sterling dinner and dresser sets for Christmas. They include the essentials for keeping the infant well fed and well . With a Sliver combination ou mitle a ring,

They entailed sacrifices, but anything worth while enLeaving Albany was a tremendous wrench, We re-

she said. “When the people expressed themselves as satisfied that he was doing a good job.” But she said that she had never made a secret about her opposition to his running for the governorship again. “Our children were small then,” she explained. “I wanted my husband to withdraw so that he could be with the children.” She folded her hands. “Today it is different. Nobody is thinking in terms of what they want to do. All that concerns my husband now is devoting himself entirely to the war effort. We're both intensely interested in rehabilitation and reconstruction problems. Wherever he goes, I'll go, if they let me.”

2 ” ” AS SHE TALKED the impression grew that she had deliberately kept herself in the background, yet maintained her individuality. “You have to decide what you want to give the most of your time to in life,” she said. “I've always felt that my husband was much more important, as far as I was concerned, than anything else.” Asked if she had any words of

advice .to pass on to Mrs. Dewey she shook her head. “No. Every governor's wife has her own point of view.” She smiled once more. “But I hope Mrs. Dewey does get an appropriation to paint the halls in the executive mansion. The legislature

voted a generous appropriation for|

remodeling the mansion, but my husband vetoed the bill.” She admitted that it might be vetoes like this, many times multiplied, which enabled the governor to leave office with a surplu# of $75,000,000 in the state treasury. When it was suggested that such good business housekeeping might lead to the presidency she grew very emphatic. “I never want to see my husband in the white house,” she declared.

“Rehabilitation of foreign countries|: -—yes. But president of the United |:

States—never.”

Nightcap

A good nightcap is a tall glass of warm milk to which two tablespoons of honey have been added. Or try it as a mid-afternoon drink

with cookies for hungry children

after school.

Care in Cleaning Many non-inflammable cléaners are being diverted to. war use, and removing clothing spots requires extra caution. Don’t light the stove soon after. using cleaning fluids. in the kitchen.’

|For Sandwich rea

Extra refrigerator dishes in a square shape, with cover to permit. easy stacking, are useful for storage

of sandwich spreads, peanut butter,

DRESSER SETS WITH

CRYSTAL HANDLES 2.50

Oval beveled mirror in pastel colors with center decoration. Brush with natural bristles,

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DRESSER SETS WITH LUCITE HANDLES

3.50

Round beveled edge mirror with simulated cloisonne center. Brush with natural bristles, and comb. Blue, black, eggshell and rose.

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CRYSTAL DRESSING TABLE SET

2.75

Mirrored tray with crystal . border, plus a pair of matching perfume bottles and a powder box.

ROUND THE NECK MIRROR 2.35

Make-up mirror that fits around your neck, leaving the hands free to fix your coiffure. Double faced mirror, magnifying on one side.

DRESSER SETS WITH CRYSTAL HANDLES

3.98

Beautiful beveled edge mirror with a dainty Dresden design. Brush with natural bristles, and comb. Blue, white or rose.

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Unusual mirror surrounded with a Lucite scroll. Brush with natural bristles, and comb, Ivory with pastel flow= ers,

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