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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ MARCH 26, 1943 ■‘■FIRST-AID* to the AILING HOUSE By ROGER B. WHITMAN ^ Roger B. Whitman—WNU Features. Tea may not be able te replace worn or broken household equipment. This is war. Government priorities come first. So take eare of what you have . as well as you possibly ean. This column by the homeown er's friend tells yoa how. PLACING A GUTTER A SHEET-METAL gutter along the edge of a roof should be set far enough out from the edge to catch the water that runs down from the roof; if it is too close to the edge, water will run over it, and if it is not far enough out, the water may go between the edge of the roof and the gutter. At the same time, the outer edge of the gut ter should not be higher than - the slope of the roof. If it is higher, it will act as a dam to catch snow and ice. When correctly placed snow and ice will slide over it; when not cor rect, water will back against the dam and flood upward. The pool that then forms may work its way under the roofing and leak through to the inside. The sizes of the gutter and of the leader pipe, of course, should depend on the area of the roof that is to be drained. Chimney Sweats Question: The chimney in my old house sweats in the upstairs part of the hall, ruining the paper and making the wall unsightly. A con tractor advised gypsum wallboard over furring strips, v/ith an air space between. What do you sug gest? Answer: If beads of condensation appear on the surface of the wall, the chimney may be too large for the furnace you are using, causing a downdraft of cold air that chills the wall. Check the furnace manu facturer’s recommendation for the size of the flue. If yours is too large, reduce the size of the opening on top of the chimney. If there is an ac cumulation of creosote that seeps through - the brickwork, your only remedy is to build a new chimney. However, if the trouble is only with condensation, the contractor’s idea may be satisfactory. Covering a Steam Boiler Question: Our steam boiler is bare to the iron, and we should like to cover it with asbestos. How should we go about it? Answer: Mix asbestos cement thoroughly in a tub or similar con tainer, using only enough water to make a workable mixture. At least two coats should be applied. Put on a one-inch first coat and a half inch second coat. Apply the first coat with your hands or a plasterer’s trowel, leaving a rough surface. A trowel would be handy for scratch ing the surface. When the first coat is fairly dry, stretch and fasten chicken wire netting over the sur face to hold the first coat. The sec ond coat should be troweled down hard and smoothed as it dries. Spot Cleaning Question: What is the best spot remover for men’s garments? I of ten spot my suit and I don’t always want to have the entire garment cleaned merely for a single bad spot. Answer: The ' kind of remover would depend on the nature of the stain; egg, coffee or ink, for in stance, would require different treat ment than grease spots. You can get excellent preparations, even for taking out lipstick stains, at a good drugstore. Many tailors and dry cleaners can “spot” clean a suit; that is, take out a spot without cleaning the entire garment. Poplar Roots Question: I have three 12-year-old poplar trees in my yard. Their roots have grown about 30 feet to ward the house, and I am afraid they soon will cause damage to the house. I plan to cut off these long roots close to the trunk of the tree without taking them out of the ground, then drive a copper nail into the root to kill it. Do you ap prove of this idea? Answer: Cutting the large roots close to the trunk may damage the tree. To get first hand information on this question, I advise you to write to the Department of For estry at your state capital. Sticking Valve Stem Question: The radiator valves in my hot water system stick and are hard to turn. In fact, I snapped the stem of one when turning it with a pipe wrench. Can you suggest any thing? Answer: A new packing, the kind that contains graphite, may ease the valve stems. Your local plumber should be able to supply you with it. Sap Spots on Car Question: My car had to stand out doors for some time, and sap from trees dripped down on the roof, leav ing spots. How car I take off these spots? Answer: You may be able to get them off by light wiping with tur pentine. If this does not work, use the well-known auto finish cleaner. Oil on Garage Floor Question: I have considerable oil drippings on the floor of my ga rage. How can I remove that oil? Answer: Cover the oil stains with a thick layer of dry Portland ce ment or powdered whiting, allowing to remain for several days. After the powder has become saturated with the oil, scrape it off and re peat two or three times. Later, scrub the floor with a strong solu tion of trisodium phosphate or wash ing soda, about a handful to each pail of hot water. Rinse well after ward. Crisp, Cool Salads Bid Spring Welcome Use a lemon Juice dressing for these orange slices, salad greens and tomatoes, thus saving oil for other household uses. Outdoors it may be little tufts of groen grass and tender shoots on the trees that let you know spring is on the wing, but indoors you can do the trick by bringing fresh vegeta ble plates and crispy salads to your table. Salads and vegetable plates are truly the first harbingers of spring when it comes to menu - making. Oh, yes, I know you’ve been serv ing salads and vegetables during winter, but with spring you have many more choices and fresh colors from which to choose. Several attractive combinations of vegetables on a single platter—or salads—can tide you over many meatless days. Then, too, they’ll bring life-quickening vitamins and minerals to your diet to help get rid of whatever winter’s cobwebs you may have accumulated in your system! Speaking of salads brings up the problem of dressings, and with that the scarcity of fats for salad oils. There are several alternatives, the first of which is lemon juice either alone or with a bit of sugar as dressing for fruit salads. Many of you perhaps like simple vinegar dressing with just a touch of salt and pepper. This perks up flavors in vegetables, inexpensively, too! Your french dressing of course can be made with mineral oil in the ab sence of other oils. Long used in reduction diets, mineral oil makes a nice dressing for light spring salads. It is not absorbed by the body, so if you’re trying to gain weight, be sure to include other fats for body use. If it’s mayonnaise you like, here’s a recipe which requires only a half cup of oil and a single egg yolk. Cooked Mayonnaise. 1 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoons flour Vz cup water Vi teaspoon salt Vs teaspoon pepper V*. teaspoon mustard Vi teaspoon paprika 1 egg yolk cup salad oil 1 tablespoon lemon juice Melt butter, blend in flour. Add water slpwly and cook until thick ened. Cool, then add salt, mustard, pepper, paprika. Beat in egg yolk, then add oil slowly, beating all the while. Last add lemon juice. Vegetable Plate. Stuff tomato with cottage cheese and chives and place in center of platter. On either side place a mound of crisp carrot strips and asparagus, cooked or canned, with a ring of lemon rind. Potato salad and crisp cole slaw complete the plate. Cole Slaw Dressing. (For 2Vi cups cabbage) 94 teaspoon salt Vs teaspoon pepper 1V4 tablespoons sugar Lynn Says: Vitamins Plus or Minus? It all depends upon how you handle them. To retain maximum amounts of vitamins in cooked foods, use as little water as pos sible—just enough to prevent from sticking. Get on your mark, start quick ly. Not a track race, but a vita min race. You start with boiling water for cooking, and cook rap idly—thus cutting cooking time to a minimum and saving precious food values. Covered utensils without stir ring are prescribed. Stirring and uncovered utensils put air into foods and destroy vitamins. Avoid violent, furious boiling. This is modern, streamlined, pro tective cookery—to preserve val uable vitamins. This Week’s Menu Vegetable Platter: Tomato Stuffed with Cottage Cheese, Carrot Strips, Asparagus, Cole Slaw, Potato Salad Hot Biscuits Honey Cherry Pie Beverage 6 tablespoons cream 3 tablespoons lemon juice Combine ingredients in order giv en and mix thoroughly with cole slaw. If hot slaw is your favorite dish, here is the ideal dressing for it: Hot Slaw. 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 94 cup vinegar 94 cup cold water 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon sugar 94 teaspoon salt 3 cups shredded cabbage Combine egg yolks, water and vinegar. Add butter, sugar and salt. Cook on low heat until thickened, stirring constantly. Add cabbage and reheat. With the absence of pineapple of ten these days, we like something to use to give tartness to salads. In the following recipe you can use grapefruit to good advantage: Grapefruit and Carrot Salad. (Serves 8) 1 package lemon-flavored gelatin 1 cup hot water 94 cup grapefruit juice 94 cup vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 194 cups grated carrots 94 cup chopped grapefruit Add hot water to gelatin and stir until dissolved. Add fruit juice and vinegar. Chill until slightly thick ened. Add carrots, grapefruit and salt. Pour into mold which has been rinsed with cold water. Chill until firm. Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise or french dressing. A heavy dinner calls for a green leafy salad with loads of crunchi ness: Lettuce-Spinach Salad. (Serves 6 to 8) 1 head lettuce 94 pound spinacji 1 teaspoon salt 94 teaspoon pepper 2 hard-cooked eggs 1 cup sour cream 2 tablespoons vinegar Chill and chop spinach and Jet- tuce. Add salt, pepper, vinegar and chopped hard-cooked eggs to 94 cup of the sour cream. Just before serv ing, add to spinach, lettuce and re maining sour cream. This vegetable plate tastes as de lightful as it looks and adds plenty of spring color to your table. Stuffed tomato, carrot strips, asparagus, cole slaw and potato salad are used. The cottage cheese in this salad contributes calcium to the diet, the apples and celery give vitamins and peanuts are a surprise in flavor and in their contribution to nutrition: Apple-in-Cottage-Cheese Salad. 3 apples, coarsely diced 1 cup diced celery 94 cup diced cucumber 94 cup sharp french dressing Lettuce 1 pint cottage cheese 94 cup chopped, salted peanuts Mayonnaise Wash and dice unpeeled apples. Toss apples, diced celery, cucum ber in french dressing, until well coated. On each salad plate place crisp lettuce, and then with a spoon shape 94 cup cottage cheese into a ring. Fill ring with apple mixture, and sprinkle with peanuts. Top with mayonnaise or a fluffy salad dress ing. Carrot, Cabbage, Peanut Salad (Serves 16) 4 cups carrots, shredded 3 cups cabbage, shredded 3 cups diced, unpeeled apples 2 cups peanuts Cooked salad dressing Have all ingredients cold. Com bine in order given and add just enough salad dressing to combine lightly together. Garnish with sprigs ef parsley and chopped peanuts. Lynn Chambers welcomes you to submit your household queries to her problem clinic. Send your letters to her at West ern Newspaper Union, 210 South Des- plaines Street, Chicago, Illinois. Don’t forget to enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for your reply. Released by Western Newspaper Union. — The Ghetto In Warsaw By Tosha Bialer (WNU Feature—Through special arrangement with Comer's Weekly) My husband, my son and I are the only persons in America to have es caped from the ghetto set up by Germany in Warsaw. The amaz ing set of circumstances by which we escaped cannot be told, because it would mean death to all who aid ed us. Of those whom we left behind, I can say little. This is the third win ter they will have passed through, and how many will survive I cannot say. There can hardly be many left now of the 600,000 that were once there. I, who lived with them through dark years, who shared their bitter fate, humbly bear witness to their martyrdom. Anything I may say or write about it is in memory of those who died, a tribute to the courage and determination of those who are still living. I join with them in a prayer for a new world in which they will resume their place as free human beings. Location of the Ghetto. The ghetto, as set up by the Nazis after they took possession of War saw, included the oldest and most deteriorated sections of the city, a district that had been an eyesore for years and should have been torn down long ago. It comprised many blocks completely destroyed by bombing, without a habitable build ing left standing. With intentional foresight, not one park, playground or public garden was included behind the high ghetto walls. There was no access to the river banks. The modem Jewish hospital, the Liberal Jewish Synagogue and the Old Peo ple’s Home were left outside. The Germans were set on our destruction. With cold logic they concluded that overcrowd ing, inadequate housing, malnu trition and reduction to subhu man standards would save them the trouble and ammunition re- qufted to' massacre half a mil lion people outright. Against this situation, the Jewish Council, a religious committee, took over the responsibility as best they could. The president was a Mr. Czerniakow, a fine man. I say “was” advisedly, because a few weeks ago we learned that he committed sui cide when the Germans directed him to draw up a list of 100,000 peo ple for deportation. Business With Outside World. All business with the outside world had to be handled through the Com missar for Jews of the German gov ernment. I never saw him. He was a remote personality, but his shad ow fell deeply across our lives. A court building was the only place where our world met the outside world. Here Jew and Christian were allowed to see each other for the last time. Here men terminated old partnerships started by fathers or grandfathers. Here husbands and wives met to say good-by, to see each other no more. For the Nu remberg law has been applied in Poland, and marriages between Jews and non-Jews had to be dis- sdved. We had no electricity, no radios, no telephones, no musical instru ments, no street cars. The post of fice would handle nothing but post cards, and every card was exam ined by a German censor. Our of ficii bread allowance was five pounds per month. One morning we woke up to find a number of Jews lying dead in Kupiecka street. They had been caught outside the wall, shot down, and then the bodies thrown into the ghetto. We never knew whether they had passes or not. The Ger mans never bothered about little technicalities like that. For our own sake and that of our families, we were always terrified at any harm coming to our jailers. Day after day we saw friends and relatives murdered in retaliation for deeds in which they had no share, no knowledge. On one occasion a Po lish policeman had been killed while on duty. The Gestapo carried out an extensive search, in the course of which a building at 9 Nalweki street put up a stubborn resistance for several hours. When the defend ers were finally overcome, 53 male inhabitants of that building were dragged out and shot. Early in 1942, batches of deportees from Germany began to arrive, five or six hundred at a time. After be ing despoiled of whatever they had, they would be moved on. We were told they were to go to a “reserva tion” near Lublin. Actually, most of them left in charge of “Extermi nation Squads.” According to the stories, these squads had several ways of disposing of their charges. One was to shut 50 or 60 of them up in a truck and then fill it with poison gas. Another was to leave them starving by the roadside. Or, simply machine-gun them. * Here's Easy Way to Make Draw Curtains f T IS easy to make draw curtains with the fixtures you have, plus a pair of large screw-eyes, some wood or brass rings, and about five yards of cord. The screw-eyes are placed just under the hooks for the curtain rods; then run the cord through the screw-eye at the right; then through the rings, knotting it to the left ring at center; then through the rings and the screw- eye at the left; and back through the rings, knotting it to the right ring at center. Now pass the cord through the rings and the right screw-eye and then make the tassels; raveling the ends of the cord after making the knots. Sew safety pins to the back of the curtains so that they may be fastened quickly to the rings. • • • NOTE—The curtains shown here are from BOOK 1 of the series available to readers at 15 cents each. BOOK 1 also contains directions for making curtains for various rooms; also cutting and mak ing directions for bedspreads, dressing table skirts and slip covers. To get a copy send name and address direct to MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Book 1. Name Address The Hope of Death Kept Spark of Life in Recruit The army medico was making his cheerful rounds of sick bay on the huge transport that had been working for several days through the long, oily swells of a rough sea. One case was nothing more (or less, depending upon the indi vidual point of view) than an old- fashioned attack of seasickness. “Well, Private Jenks,” boomed the doctor heartily, “it looks to me like you’re not going to die aft er all.” Private Jenks opened a horrified eye, to stare at the doc. “Not going to die!” he wailed. “Gosh, doctor, I thought I was. That was the only thing that kept me alive.” N°«SG5Mi[3 St. Joseph /V S F» 8 Fl I f%J World s Largest Seller at IQ 1 Double-Purpose Laxative Gives More Satisfaction Don’t be satisfied Just to relieve your present constipated condition. Meet this problem more thoroughly by toning up your Intestinal system. For tills Double-Purpose, use Dr. Hitchcock’s All-Vegetable Laxative Powder—an Intestinal Tonic Laxa tive. It not only acts gently and thoroughly, but tones lazy bowel muscles—giving more satisfaction. Dr. Hitchcock’s Laxative Powder helps relieve Dizzy Spells, Sour Stomach, Gas, Headache, and that dull sluggish feeling commonly re ferred to as Biliousness, when caused by Constipation. Use only as di rected. 15 doses for only 10c. large family size 25c. Adv. MUSCULAR RHEUMATIC PAIN Soreeess and Stiffness You need to rub on a powerfully soothing "COUNTER-IRRITANT” like Musterole to quickly relieve neuritis, rheumatic aches and pains. Better than an old-fashioned mustard plaster tohelpbreakuppainfullocalcoogBstion! MUSteroIE IRRITATIONS OF EXTERNAL CAUSE ugly miseries with simple home treatment. Goes to work at once. Direct action aids healing, works the antiseptic way. Use Black and White Ointment only as di rected. 10c, 25c, 50c sizes. 25 years success. 1 Money-back guarantee, cv Vital in cleansing is good soap. Enjoy famous |Black and white Skin Soap daily. / Medical officers have long rec ognized tobacco as an aid to mo rale among our armed forces. Surveys among the men them selves have shown that tobacco is their favorite gift. If you have a friend or relative in the Army, Navy, Marines, or Coast Guard who smokes a pipe or rolls-his- own, nothing would be more ap preciated than agpound of his fa vorite tobacco. Prince Albert, the world’s largest-selling smoking to bacco, in the pound can is rec ommended by local dealers as an ideal gift for men in the service.— Adv. 'Xr^COLD us, TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS, COUGH DROPS. Try "Sub-My-TUm"—a Wondwftil Uninraat s. m CAMELS ARE THE REAL THING IN SMOKING PLEASURE! FOR MY TASTE AND MY THROAT THEY SUIT ME TO A Mora Schell, who works on automatic control devices at a Sperry Gyroscope Co. plant the'T-zone- WHERE CIGARETTES ARE JUDGED The *T-ZONE'—Taste and Throat—ia the proving ground for cigarettes. Only your taste and throat can decide which cigarette tastes best to you ... and how it affects your throat. 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