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Household Hints By BETTY WELLS Vegetables Vital To Perfect Health **'117' E’VE just moved into a » » big, rambling farm house,” writes Mrs. Floyd J., “and it has me down. I would appreciate your help in furnishing it. , The living room, dining room and hall all open to gether through wide arches. They all need to be papered and I want new curtains and draperies for all the windows. Woodwork in hall and living room is varnished—in the din ing room, it’s painted white. “For the living room, I have a piano, a rust sofa and club chair, a blue mohair wing chair, two floor lamps with beige shades, a gray and blue rug. What other furniture would you suggest? What slip cov ers? The room is 14 by 17 feet. It is rather gloomy. I enclose a dia gram. How would you arrange it? “The dining room is bright and sunny. It has walnut furniture with chairs upholstered in blue. What do you think of linoleum rugs for ——OZT to J © ■i ,o i A plan for a room with very little wall space. dining rooms? They are so practical and yet don’t seem quite nice enough for my furniture. What would you advise?” I rather think I’d have all these three rooms papered in a light creamy yellow, with dll white wood work. And then gray rugs for hall and dining room. A good marblized or jaspe linoleum would be all right in the dining room if it is laid for mally with an inlaid border, but I wouldn’t use the oil cloth type of rug. I believe a two-tone all over wool rug would be better. For the curtains, I’d have white ruffled tie backs for both rooms with draperies in a floral chintz on a yellow ground. You could use this same chintz for the sofa slip-cover. Two easy chairs I’d have in plain blue. In the living room I’m sug gesting that the sofa (1) go in front of the double windows with end ta bles (2) for lamps beside it, and a coffee table (4) in front. The two easy chairs (3> I’d draw up to this end of the room. Then add a sec retary desk (5) with chair (6). An other easy chair (7) with hassock (8) I’d add for the radio (11) with floor lamp (9) for reading. The piano (10) I’d place on the other side of the room with another floor light (9), preferably an indirect three- way light to illuminate the room. • * • French Provincial Furniture The gentle charm of French pro vincial furniture dawned on us some years ago after we had learned to appreciate the simple sincere beau ty of early American maple and pine. There is about both a friendly livable quality, a dignified infor mality. But French provincial furniture bears a much nearer kinship to the court furniture of Seventeenth and Eighteenth century Paris than ear- A French provincial buffet. ly American bears to its English an cestors. For in America, the col onists were concerned with stern utility and had to use tools and ma terials at hand. While in France at this time, the provinces had reached a more leisurely prosperous stand ard of living. And so they copied court furniture in simplified ver sions, retaining a certain grace and adding an honest directness to the designs. French provincial furniture, there fore, has a good deal of refinement for all its pleasant domesticity, its respect for its homely role. Its curve and flow of line has none of the ele gant pretense of French court fur niture, though its family resem blance is obvious. The panels and grooves, the turns and pulls have an asymetric rhythm of curve. The hardware is detailed, hearty, but al ways utilitarian. The provincial cab inet makers borrowed freely from Louis XV designs but never took much to the straighter subtler lines of Louis XVI styles. The repertoire of furniture in this style seldom ventured far from the necessaries. Walnut, fnutwoods and oak were the most familiar woods used for French provincial furniture. And usually in natural waxed finishes without elaborate dressing of the wood. Accessories that traditional ly go with this type of furniture are equally ao pleasing as it is. The popular toile de Jouy printed fab rics and wall papers belong to the same time and place. « By Betty Wc!lfc—W1TO Senrtce. Formerly an Accessory Now a Necessity for Diet By EDITH M. BARBER EWS headlines informed us re- cently that life could be pro longed through diet. Of course, the experiments which brought forth this statement were made upon some of the smallest members of the animal kingdom—fleas. While there can scarcely be anybody who is interested, except from a scien tific standpoint in prolonging the life of this annoying insect, we are more than interested in the applica tion of the research work. The attention which nutrition re search has caUed to the relation be tween diet and health has caused noteworthy changes in the food hab its of this country. No change has been more marked than that which demands the inclusion of vegetables in variety and liberal quantities in our everyday meals. Once looked upon as merely a pleasant acces sory to meals, we now realize that the mineral and vitamin content, as well as the bulk, which they pro vide make them an important com ponent to a meal. Some raw vege tables, such as lettuce, carrots, cel ery and cabbage should be used each day. Other vegetables should be cooked in such a way that the natural food value will be preserved. It should be noted that potatoes, which we have always used in this country as accompaniments to meat, are well endowed with min erals and vitamins. Casserole of Vegetables. 3 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon chopped onion 1 tablespoon chopped pimiento 2 tablespoons flour 2 cups canned tomatoes 1 cup canned peas 1% cups boiled rice 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 2 teaspoons salt Vt teaspoon pepper. % cup grated cheese Melt butter, add onion and pi miento. Cook slowly for five minutes. Add flour and mix well. Add tomatoes and cook until mixture thickens slightly, then add the other ingredi ents. Put in greased baking diph and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake in hot oven (400 degrees Fah renheit) 20 minutes. Scalloped Potatoes. 1 quart sliced raw potatoes 4 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon or more of salt Pepper f.,: .* < .a„ 1 tablespoon butter or other fat 2 cups milk Slice the potatoes one-quarter inch thick. Arrange them in a but tered 'baking dish in layers, sprin kling each layer with flour, salt, pepper and butter. Add the milk and bake in a moderate oven (300 degrees Fahrenheit) until the po tatoes are soft. O’Brien Potatoes. 4 cups potato cubes Deep fat 1 small onion 2 pimentos 1 tablespoon butter 2 teaspoons minced parsley Fry potato cubes in deep fat (390 degrees Fahrenheit), drain on soft paper and sprinkle with salt. Mince the onion and cook in the butter one minute. Add the pimento, cook one minute more, add parsley and pour over potato cubes in a hot dish. Split Pea Soup. % pound split peas 3 cups beef stock • Salt, pepper 1 sprig parsley 1 bay leaf 1 tablespoon flour 1 tablespoon butter 1 large onion, grated Minced parsley Soak the peas overnight, drain, add stock and seasonings ana sim mer about two hours. Press through a sieve, return to saucepan. Rub flour and butter together and stir into the soup, stirring constantly. Cook for five minutes and serve with a sprinkling of grated onion and minced parsley on top. Tomato and Pea Soap. 1 can tomato soup 1 can pea soup Dash of nutmeg Open cans of tomato and pea soup and pour contents into saucepan. Dilute the milk if necessary. Add nutmeg and heat to boiling point Serve with toasted croutons. Tomato Rabbit. Vi pound American cheese Vi teaspoon salt Paprika Vi teaspoon mustard Pepper \ 1 can tomato soup Shred the cheese with a fork, add the mixed seasoning and stir over a low fire until melted. Add the tomato soup and stir until smooth. French Fried Onions. Select large, sweet onions, peel and cut in one-quarter inch slices and separate into rings. Dip in milk, drain and dip in flour. Fry in deep fat (375 degrees Fahrenheit) until golden brown; drain on soft j paper and sprinkle with salt. String Beans With Corn. Cook frozen string beans in a cov ered utensil with a little water and a dash of salt and sugar. When tender add one small can of whole kernel corn, or one-half pound of frozen com. Add one-fourth cup of cream, or three tablespooons of but ter, heat and add pepper and more salt if necessary. • Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Adirondacks Give N. Y. State An 6 Air Conditioned 9 Ceiling Prepared by National Geographic Society* Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. Iroquois Indians, seeking beaver pelts in the mountains of what is now northern New York state, sometimes found a dead campfire and traces of moccasined feet lead ing off to the north. A hunting party from one of the hated Al gonquin tribes of Canada had passed this way. The lips of the Iroquois curled in mocking scorn. “Hatirontak,” they muttered, deep in their throats. “Hatirontak” (“Tree-eaters,” or “They eat trees”). This was an insult, a fighting word. For thus the proud Iroquois contemptuously implied that these northern woods rovers lived by grubbing about for roots and bark like famished animals—as indeed they may have done in famine times when game eluded their arrows. The name stuck—but not to a mere Algonquin tribe. White men liked its tripping, rhythmic sound, and they came to apply it, in time, to this whole wide wilderness where wandering bands of “Hatirontaks,” or Adirondacks, once fought the Iro quois. The Adirondack mountains had acquired a name. Is ‘Air Conditioned’ Roof. Today, paleface tribes from the cities pour into this land of ever green and birch, of avalanche- scarred peaks and densely wooded slopes, of bubbling trout streams and clear, cold lakes—the air- conditioned root of New York state. Their heads have stood much higher than they are today. Time, with ice and water, lowered the summits. Glaciers, grinding down the valleys and dumping debris, formed lakes and ponds—some 1,500 of them. Evergreens and hard woods blanket the slopes, for trees thrive in this light, thin soil where little else will grow. In the deep woods the hermit thrush sounds his flute. Deer often wander across the roads at night and from the dim distant shore of a lake rings the maniacal laugh of a loon. Heading into the mountains from the southwest, through Rome, you cross the fertile Mohawk valley, to day a peaceful pastoral in silver and green, but once—during the Revolution—the scene of savage at tacks by scalp-crazy Indians led by greenclad Tory rangers. As the road climbs higher the air grows cooler. And now (wonder of wonders) if it be late August or September when the ragweed hay- fever sneeze is loud in the land, a miraculous change often makes it self felt: the sneezipg, snuffling, and weeping subside, for ragweed in most parts of the Adirondacks is practically unknown. Famous For Fish. Many fishermen come to the Adi rondacks, for the state is continual ly restocking these waters with na tive brook trout, brown trout, rain bow trout, lake trout, whitefish, landlocked salmon, small-mouth and large-mouth bass, pike, pike- perch and muskellunge. On 50 peaks scattered over the mountains, state forest fire observ ers are stationed, with map and tel ephone, to watch for telltale smoke. Above, like a huge restless hawk, soars a state patrol plane, radio equipped. When word of a forest fire is flashed, the rangers, under New York state law, can draft any body they need for 25 cents an hour. Only one who has seen a bad for-, est fire can know the full horror of it—red fury racing through the brush and leaping from tree to tree, 250-year-old pines blazing up like candles and consuming themselves in a trice; fierce, searing flame lick ing up all life, killing the fish in the streams, putting every wild crea ture to panic flight and burning alive the slow of foot; threatening towns, leaving black desolation be hind, sometimes robbing the very soil of fertility for years to come. Nature Versus the Automobile. Wild animals are still fairly abun dant in the Adirondacks, but the gasoline age has brought them new troubles. Each autumn some 6,000 bucks are shot, yet still the deer thrive. As soon as the leaves begin to red den and fall all the graceful white- tails grow suddenly scarce; some thing tells them that the time has come to play the annual hide-and- seek with death. Driving on up the Fulton chain Outdoor camping amid the pine* and birdie* of high Ad irondack mountain lake* i* a popular summer custom, es dally tince the advent of trail travel. from Eagle bay, you enter the big county of Hamilton—population only 2.3 persons per square mile. The Belgian Congo in the heart of Africa is nearly five times as densely popu lated as this cityless county. Above Inlet the road penetrates a part of the state’s 2,170,000-acre Adirondack forest preserve. It took a constitutional amendment to build this road. Before a tree could be cut or a boulder blasted, an amend ment to the state constitution had to be approved by the people in a referendum, for their fundamental law provides that these lands shall be kept forever wild. A busy little metropolis of the woods is the village of Saranac Lake today. But imagination conjures out of the past the picture of a rude, raw mountain hamlet—a col lection of guides’ houses and a store —past which an “old plush horse” is plodding, shaggy Kitty, Doctor Trudeau’s mare. It all began in 1873 when a guide carried young Edward L. Trudeau’s frail form up two flights of steps in Lake Placid, IS. Y., i* tradition ally America’* most popular win ter tporl* retort. Here i* a typi cal January tcene ahowing two skier*, the escort breaking trail for hi* girl companion. Paul Smith’s hunting lodge a few miles to the north and laid him down on a bed, exclaiming: "Why, doctor, you don’t weigh no more than a dried lambskin.” The 24-year-old physician, just be ginning a promising medical career in New York, had been stricken with tuberculosis—regarded as a death sentence then. He came to the Adi rondacks purely by chance, and the climate helped him live a long and monumental life as one of the world’s leading disease-fighters. Monuments to Trudeau. Lasting monuments to the beloved physician are the Trudeau sana torium, the Trudeau research lab oratories, and the Trudeau school of tuberculosis, which exports its learning to the world. To hundreds of people all over the world the Adirondacks still mean Paul Smiths. In an ideal setting on Lower St. Regis Lake this bearded, regal guide conducted the country’s most famous hunting lodge. Its principal asset was his personality, for Paul (originally Apollos) had an endless fund of stories, a ready wit, and an utter freedom from awe of pluto crats or royalty. “When Paul Smith first came to the Adirondacks,” the saying goes, “the woods were full of Indians. When he died they were full of mil lionaires; among both old Paul was equally at home.” Shrewd old Paul died in 1912 a millionaire himself, for he bought not only land but waterfalls, and sold electric power over a wide area as the north country developed. Today much of the Paul Smith empire remains, but its most con spicuous center and symbol is gone —the big hotel on lower St. Regis Lake. It burned in 1930 By f Elmo Scott Watson Unlucky North Pole Seeker O N OCTOBER 25, 1933, an auto mobile in Washington, D. C., struck down and killed a 71-year-old man who, for 20 years, had defied the numerous pitfalls of death in the frozen North and who once just missed sharing in the honors or of discovering the North pole. He was Evelyn B. Baldwin. Baldwin first went beyond the Arctic circle in 1893 as meteorolo gist with Capt. Robert Peary’s sec ond expedition to Greenland. On a previous expedition. Perry found what he thought was a “royal road to the pole,” via Independence bay. Baldwin suggested that a better route lay through Kane basin. But Peary decided otherwise. Ironical ly enough, when Peary did make his successful dash to the pole, several years later it was by the very route which Baldwin had suggested. In 1897 Baldwin was en route to accompany the famous Andree bal loon expedition to find the pcle when Andree, suddenly favored by good weather, decided to start, without waiting the arrival of Baldwin's ship next day. On July 11, the ill- fated Andree sailed away, never to be heard of again until 1930 when a party of Norwegian explorers found his skeleton. But this narrow escape from death did not daunt Baldwin. In 1898 he was second in command of the Wellman expedition which reached the then “farthest north” of 81 degrees and 30 seconds be fore turning back. Baldwin then set off with several companions and dis covered new land, named Graham Bell land. In 1901 he made his supreme at tempt to reach the pole with the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition. It failed because his supply ship did not ar rive in time and only good luck pre vented the entire party from perish ing. Before he could finance an other expedition Peary discovered the pole and Baldwin’s career as an explorer ended. • • • Tenderfoot Triumph I F EVER Americans deserved the title "tenderfeet,” it was the band of emigrants, led by John Bid- well, which left Missouri in May, 1841, for the West. They had heard of the riches of California but knew nothing about the country they must cross to gain their promised iand. Once they reached the Great Salt lake, they believed they could float down rivers that were supposed to flow to the Pacific. So they took a big supply of tools to build boats when needed. Guided by Thomas Fitzpatrick, the fur trader, and Father De Smedt, the missionary, they reached South pass in Wyoming safely. Then, despite warnings against try ing to cross the desert of the Cen tral basin, they turned off from the Oregon trail and headed south west. Soon they were in a bewildering country of salt plain v Food and water supplies ran low. Cruel mi rages lured them on. But some how they managed to survive and reach the Humboldt river in Ne vada. They followed it to the Hum boldt Sink and turned south to the Carson river. By the time they reached the Walker river they were forced to kill the last of their oxen. Six weary months after leaving Missouri they j reached the rich San Joaquin valley. Theirs had been an epic journey. For the success of the Bidwell expedition pointed the way for the first thin trickle of emigration to California that began soon afterwards and reached its high tide in the Golden Days of ’49. • • • Bad Boy of the Mayflower A MONO the Pilgrim Fathers who ** came over on the Mayflower was John Billington, accompanied by his wife and two sons, Francis and John Jr. Early in that historic voyage young John disgraced him self. While playing in the family’s cabin with his father’s fowling piece, he fired the weapon close to an open keg of powder. “Only the Lord’s mercy saved the ship and the entire company from being blown to pieces,” writes a pious historian of those days. After the Pilgrims had settled Plymouth, young Johnny got into another scrape. He wandered off into the woods one day by himself. When he failed to return, a party set out to look for him. After a week’s futile search, it was learned that he was in an Indian village 20 miles south of Plymouth. His mother shed tears of grati tude when friendly Indians brought him back, but some of the Pilgrims were “sorely vexed” because he had put them to all this bother. No doubt, he came by his trouble-mak ing honestly for his father was that kind of man. In fact, John Billing ton, senior, has the unenviable dis tinction of being the first person hanged in Plymouth colony. He quarreled with young John New- comin, waylaid him and shot him down. For this willful murder “by plaine and notorious evidence” he was hanged on September 30, 1630. • Western Newspaper Union. TODAY’S HEALTH C0LUMH Dr. Barton as this roughage will irritate the bowel and cause its muscular coats to contract and | squeeze the wastes downward and out of the body. And, as a matter of fact, rough food—fruits and vegetables—is the best single treatment for the ordinary case of constipa tion due to soft foods and lack of exercise. There is, however, a type of con stipation which alternates with diar rhea in which these rough foods are so irritating that they cause spasm or partial closure of the bowel and constipa tion is the result. Following the spasm and constipation there is diarrhea in which the wastes are covered with mucous. These indi viduals are always “aware” of their lower bowel or colon and the condi tion is called colitis. In order not to irritate the lining of the bowel, these colitis patients are often given soft and liquid foods, with daily doses of paraffin oil to lubricate wastes and enable them to pass readily throughout the length of the bowel. Sufferers Are Emotional. It has often been found that the individuals who suffer with colitis are not usually the lazy type but are active, high-strung and emo tional. And just as the emotions can cause stomach, heart, gall blad der and blood vessel spasm, so also are . they to blame for most cases of colitis. It is therefore only a small part of the treatment to pre scribe diets in these cases. The im portant part of the treatment is to try to have them understand that it is their fears, their anxieties, their worry about their own or their fam ily’s health that is causing the con stipation, diarrhea, dull pain and ir ritable abdomen. Doctors Charles W. Mayo and E. G. Wakefield, Mayo Clinic, tell us that “the cure of these disturbances of the lower bowel (not due to or ganic disease) is not by a rearrange ment of the diet but in attempts to control the social conditions causing the rpsetments. In order to get rid of these disorders the defects in education, morality, religion and even physical heredity have to be corrected.” In other words, these disturbances of the lower bowel or colon can only be corrected when these in dividuals recognize that they have not adjusted themselves properly to their circumstances and to life. And to the extent to which they adjust themselves and acquire poise and calmness, just to the same extenj will their symptoms disappear. • • • Foot Defects Should Receive Prompt Care One of the helpful things that was learned during the examination of recruits for overseas service was the importance of having normal feet—free from pain and discom fort. One may have brains and am bition, but to be unable to be about among others because of painful feet not only interferes with busi ness and social progress but the con stant nagging of the nerves affects the general health and happiness of the individual. As most of these were young men who were presenting themselves for service, it can be seen that their foot defects were not due to any heavy work that was being placed upon them but because as little chil dren and later as growing boys in their ’teens, proper footwear was not provided by their loving but thoughtless parents; the narrow “trim” shoe for growing boys and girls did not allow the proper width for the growing feet. In writing on the subject, “Fitting the Feet for Life,” Beulah France, in Hygeia, states: Business Men Guilty. “Nor are ’teen age youngsters the only ones who are guilty of foot in discretions. While college girls and boys show sense about shoes as a rule, graduates who enter business leave foot fitness behind them. Men as well as women suffer all too needlessly from ^hammertoes, cal louses, corns, bunions and ingrowing toenails due to ill fitting shoes. It is difficult to understand why a woman is willing to ruin her pos ture, her gait, her facial expression and her outlook on life by wearing uncomfortable shoes. Many an im patient gesture, many a hard word spoken, many a lined and wrinkled face, may be traced to the owner’s feet.” Walk correctly. Do not toe either out or in, but straight ahead. If you cannot do this, your doctor will tell you whether he advises a leather lift on one side of your shoe’s heels, or whether he would suggest some other form of correction. Copyright.—WNU Scrvic*. 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