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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
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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.”
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