The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 46, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 December 1970 — Page 7

Senior Mothers Hold Yule Party The Syracuse Senior Mother's club held their Christmas party Monday night at Foo & Faye’s restaurant with 19 members and one guest, Mrs. Josephine Robinson, in attendance. Entertainment was supplied by a choral group from Wawasee high school under direction of Varner Chance. A gift exchange was held and cards sent to Mrs. Janice Baumgartner and Mrs. Eloise Method. Hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Byrum Conn. Mrs. Rebecca Kitson and Mrs. Joe Thornburg The next meeting will be on January 11.

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Two-Year-Old Worthy Successor To Columbus

Behold the two-year-old child! Is he not a worthy successor of Columbus, an intrepid explorer and adventurer on a small scale? Not long ago, he was helpless. Look at him now! He walks, he climbs, he goes upstairs and down, one way or another, and at least once or twice a day he falls on his backside or his head. An independent character, the two-year-old insists upon doing it “all by myself.’’ except when he ventures too far for comfort and comes running back to the safety and love he had always known He opens drawers, throws cereal on the flow, takes off his shoes, and turns on the water faucet. The wise parent who has learned from experience never underestimates either his ingenuity or his energy The most innocent request inspires a display of his independent spirit. “No,” he answers. even if he hasn't really heard the question or the command His iron will betrays itself everywhere . . and especially in public, as in the supermarket, where he can be devilishly ingenious about slipping prohibited items into the shopping cart and can protest loudly at their removal . There he stands, in all his glory, that two-year-old discoverer of uncharted territories. Exasperating, amusing, lovable, he will tax the patience, fortitude, endurance, and mental and physical reserves

of any mother. This phase of a child's development is inevitable and healthy. A mother’s task is to keep cool (when she can), to outwit him (she is slightly smarter than he), and to protect him from his own adventurous spirit (without stifling him). What of the new world this young Columbus must explore? What hidden dangers wait in ambush 9 The toddler's world is his home, his own back yard. For this territory to be made safe, it must be seen through his eyes. To begin with, children of toddler age are more vulnerable to the ingestion of dangerous substances than to any other type of accident. Consider your home for this viewpoint. Begin in the kitchen, where you and your Columbus spend much of your time. What is under your sink? Do you like most housewives, store your cleaning supplies there — lethan chemicals, conveniently located for any toddler to investigate? Like any good investigator, he will very likely taste as well as smell and feel what he finds. From the level of 36 inches and two years' experience of life, what does Columbus encounter on his way from the kitchen to the dining- and living-room areas? Is there a cabinet for wine and whiskey? Can he reach it? It is well to remember that alcohol in any sizable quantity is dangerous to small children. Young Columbus moves to the bedroom. On the dressing table, he finds tempting samples of what American enterprise has produced to enhance the beauty of women. While these products have helped lovely ladies to become lovelier, many of them are hazardous to an exploring two-year-old. It may be funny—at most, exasperating—when he tosses powder all over the floor or writes on the wall with lipstick, but U could be tragic if he sprayed aerosol hair spray into his eyes or drank the eau de toilette. The bathroom is another favorite spot. Things happen there! Water comes out of spouts

at the twist of a handle. The toilet makes a big noise at the push of a lever. The area can be instantly decorated with that paper which unrolls so easily. A wonderful playground for a toddler! But also one of the riskiest places for young children The prime danger spot is that little white cabinet above the washbowl. Aspirin is the drug most commonly ingested by small children, and for that reason drug manufacturers have provided safety caps for bottles of children's aspirin and have reduced the quantity of children’s aspirin tablets sold at one time. Even so. you musn't assume that the intrepid young explorer will not, after a while, learn to master the mystery of the safety cap. Other things are likely to be found in the medicine cabinet, from the pills or syrup left over from Great-Aunt Matilda's visit 10 years ago to the little bit of antibiotic remaining in the bottle from Christopher's ear infection last week. Obviously, all old prescriptions should be discarded (flushing them down the toilet is the safest way), and never used except for the specific illness prescribed. Medicine cabinets with safety closures of several types have been devised to frustrate Christopher’s investigations. Families building new homes should certainly consider a medicine chest with some form of safety closure. There are other spots around the house waiting to ambush our hero in his ventures. What lurks in the basement or garage? What happened to last spring’s fertilizer and the insecticide used on the rose bushes? Is turpentine kept in an old soda-pop bottle? Where is the paint remover that was used to refinish that furniture? All these items are potentially lethal if swallowed by a small child. Yet they are necessary and ordinary items of everyday life. They are so ordinary that we sometimes forget how dangerous they can be to an adventurous two-year-old and fail to treat them with the caution and respect they deserve. I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Treated Fuels Add Color To Fireplace LAFAYETTE - Colored flames in the fireplace can add brightness and cheer at Christmas time. To achieve this, a number of fuels can be treated chemically to produce colored flames, says E. J. Lott, Purdue university extension forester. Evergreen cones, small blocks of wood or kindling, wood chips, sawdust, or even one-inch diameter rolls of tightly wrapped newspapers secured at both ends may be used. After soaking material in chemical solutions and drying, these will give off flames of varied colors when burned in a fireplace. Copper sulfate will produce a green color; calcium chloride, an orange, copper chloride, blue; lithium chloride, carmine; and potassium chloride, purple. Do NOT use chlorates,’ nitrates or potassium permanganate. Lott emphasizes. Chemicals should be kept away from children and pets at all times, he cautions. To avoid storage, purchase only sufficient amounts of chemicals for treatment. , Treating should be done outdoors. Lott adds. Use rubber gloves and take care not to spill the chemicals or solutions. Chemicals should be dissolved in a wooden pail or earthen crock since they will ultimately ruin metal containers. An old five-gallon paint bucket will serve well as a treating vat. Mix no more than two gallons of solution at a time, the forester suggests. Ratio should be one pound of chemical to one gallon of water. Use one chemical per batch. It is not necessary, however to cleanse the bucket before changing chemicals. Material to be treated may be placed in a mesh or porous bag and submerged in the solution Use a weight to keep the material sub-merged. After soaking the material a day or two, lift it out and dram it over the container. Then spread it out to dry. If the material is allowed to dry on newspapers, they may be rolled, wrapped tightly and burned in the fireplace when dry. Burning of treated materials should be confined to a wellventilated fireplace, says Lott. Treated cones and wooden blocks make novel holiday gifts, he adds. Bags to contain these can be made from dyed mosquito netting. KEEP PET HAPPY, WELL DURING HOLIDAYS LAFAYETTE — Digestive upsets in pets are a common occurrence during and following the Christmas holidays, says Dr. Kenneth B. Meyer. Purdue university extension veterinarian. Sometimes pets will eat tinsel or needles from the Christmas tree. Also, owners often feel the pet deserves more food or a series of treats during the holidays. Thus, digestive disturbances are not uncommon. To help avoid these problems Dr. Meyer offers these suggestions: If the pet has a history of eating tinsel and ornaments, leave these off the bottom branches. If the pet eats evergreen needles, try to keep the pet away from the tree. Keep the pet’s diet constant during the holidays. Inform the children of the necessity of avoiding additional stress on the pet during the holiday period By following these simple suggestions, you may have a happier, healthier pet at Christmastime.

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MEANING OF CHRISTS BIRTH IS PROGRAM The “Complete” meaning of the birth of Christ will be presented by the congregation of Barbee Community church on December 20. at 7 p.m., at the Barbee Conservation club building. The program will include skits, poems and scripture reading by members of the Sunday school class under direction of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Koenigshof and Mr. and Mrs. Derwood Coe. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Imbach are in charge of musical selections. Hienz Fussel and Dan Boggs will produce and direct the lighting effects and scripture sequences silhouetting portion of the program. The public is invited to attend. GIFTS OF SYNTHETIC FUR / - LAFAYETTE — Synthetic furs offer a number of possibilities for making Christmas gifts, says Mrs. Jean Goodrick, extension clothing and textile specialist at Purdue university. Just be sure to begin early enough to complete projects well before the final holiday rush. Synthetic furs may be used inside or out — line a coat with a fuzzy fur-like material for a special feeling of luxury. Use them to make a jacket, a cape or poncho, or a skirt. Consider the unusual uses when you want to give a gift that will be remembered: a gaucho pant suit of “pony” or a vest of “vicuna.” For the “best gifts in small packages,” make a beret, muff, or other small accessory items. Fake furs are being made from a variety of fibers including acetate, acrylic and rayon. One company is producing “furs” made of blends of Dynel (a modacrylic) and mohair. These approximate the peltings and marketings of such animals as leopard, tiger, cheetah, jaguar and persian lamb. Retailing over-the-counter at $lB to S2O a yard, the fabric may be used to make a coat for a fraction of the cost of comparable ready-to-wear. As more unusual fabrics are being made available, home seamstresses are gaining confidence in handling them. Although fake furs are easier to handle than might be expected, the home seamstress should be aware of suggested construction and handling techniques. For example, a single-edge razor blade is recommended for cutting garment sections from long haired furs so as to cut only the fabric backing, not the long “fur” fibers. To avoid the clipped off look of fibers caught into the seam, the pile should be pushed away from the seams ds they are stitched. Most pattern companies offer information on sewing with fake furs, either in folded pattern inserts or in pattern magazines or sewing books available at a nominal price. Synthetic fur garments may require special use and maintenance care. Often made of heat sensitive fibers, the fabrics should be pressed only with extreme caution. Press only on the wrong side of the fabric with the pile against a needleboard or several layers of terry cloth. Since the pile may be crushed by simultaneous application of heat and pressure of the iron, finger pressing is recommended whenever possible. Some of the fabrics are washable; others require dry-cleaning. Any special care instructions should be copied from the bolt when fake fur yardage is purchased. Os course this information should accompany any gift made from the fabrics. It will be of benefit to the recipient who wishes to prolong the enjoyment and pleasure derived from the use of the gift.

Wed., Dec. 16, 1970—THE MAIL-JOURNAL

ij >// * • •. I .' 4 UmU k A crisis in the kitchen

Mom’s Stories Inspire Feats

By ANN RUDY Copley News Service When your dishwasher breaks down, don’t look at it as a catastrophe, look at it as an opportunity How else are you going to find out your 14-year-old daughter can't wash a fork 9 Or that your children get along about as well as two cougars? The impasse of the Paris peace talks is not nearly the mystery to me now that I’ve watched my two kids, who have nothing to lose but„ their allowance, fail to agree on who’s to wash and who’s to wipe But I solved it “What is needed here,” I said to my daughter as I handed her a scouring pad, “is a sense of commitment to the job at hand " This opening statement allowed me to launch into a total recall monologue about my own youth — back in the days when kids were kids and the Andrews sisters roamed the range These little talks of mine always activate my children into unbelievable feats Once, when I was telling them how I used to walk three miles to school every morning wearing my sister’s outgrown galoshes, they not only made their beds and picked up their rooms, but packed their own lunches in an effort to get away from me. “So long, mom,” they called over their shoulders as they ran out the front door. “We don’t want to be late for school."

THANK YOU Milford boy scout troop 47 and scout master Robert Vanlaningham wish to thank everyone who has helped so far in the remodeling of the scout cabin at Waubee Lake. Scouts meet every Saturday afternoon and have accomplished a lot on their own but still have more to do. They especially wish to thank Milford Lions for the concrete floor; Bob Wolfer man, furnace; Bob Hall, oil tank: Elmer Zimmerman, fill sand; Kinder Realty, plywood; Dick Widup, electrical entrance box. Thanks go also to volunteer helpers Don Bice, Robert Hoerr. Bill Runge. Hazel and Rick Vanlaningham in pouring the concrete floor on Saturday.

And so it was with the dish washing. I wasn't anywhere near the end of my story before I noticed the kids working together diligently to get. the job done They went so fast they didn’t have time to fight. And my daughter washed three dishes that weren’t even dirty ’’Wait?” I called as they ran out of the kitchen “Don’t you want to hear how I sacrificed for my country in 1942 by giving all my ’ aluminum hair curlers to the scrap metal drive?” But they were gone. Oh well, I’ll tell them about it some other time — maybe when, the garage needs cleaning. MAKE YULE DECORATIONS YOURSELF LAFAYETTE - You don’t have to spend lots of money to have attractive Christmas decorations. You can make them yourself. Wreaths, swags, and table arrangements can be made easily if you have the time and patience. Some people enjoy making yule decorations to give their friends. Others make them to sell, earning extra cash for gift buying. If you have a knack for the . decorative and artistic, you may find making Christmas decorations an enjoyable and rewarding hobby. x

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