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MIRROR Of Your MIND ^ ^ Problem Of Absenteeism By Lawrence Gould Is absenteeism a medical problem? Answer: Not primarily, writes A. W. Pennington of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Sc Co. in Industrial Medi cine. The employee who continually stays away from work gives illness as his excuse, and thus has to be “cleared” by the medical depart ment, but the fact is, people with real physical disabilities are likely to be the ones who are “always on the job.” Many chronic absentees are people who give in too easily to minor complaints, but the really decisive factors are the personal incentive that the worker has for working, and how he feels about his job. < . Can psychoanalysis cure allergies? Answer: Yes, I have seen it do so, though I do not claim that if would be effective in all cases. A young man once came to me with a list of more than fifty allergies certi fied in writing by one of the coun try's leading clinics. I referred him to a psychoanalyst, who was also a doctor and in less than six months his symptoms had com pletely disappeared. True, his be ing allergic to so many different substances suggested at once that his trouble was psychosomatic, but most allergies are at least worth psychoanalytic study. Will your “interests” guide you to the right job? Answer: No, writes Dr. Charles K. Taylor of the Vocational Re search Bureau, New York, in Col lege and University. “With one group of about 500 high school boys registering their interest, we found a corresponding aptitude in less than one in five cases.” Conscious interest in a given kind of work may be due to parental influence, “the success talk given by a visit ing speaker,” a desire for prestige, and so cm. A young person’s actual record or “case history” tells more of his real aptitudes than any “test” can reveal. 'The church at amtioch was the one where jews GENTILES FIRST WERE UNIFIED IN THE CHRIST/AN RELIGION. IT WAS THE FIRST CHURCH TO RECEIVE THE NAME CHRISTIAN, AND THE FIRST TO SEND MISSIONARIES TO THE HEATHEN WORLD. KEEPING HEALTHY Saving Childhood From Disease By Dr. James W. Barton E ITHER NEGLECT or ignorance at the facts is to blame tor Canada's 281 deaths from diphtheria and whooping cough in 1849, it was charged by the Health League of Canada last October, in sponsoring the nation’s eighth annual observ ance of National Immunization Week. Both diphtheria and whooping cough are preventable, the league states, through diphtheria toxoid and whooping cough vaccine re spectively. Public health officers and family doctors/ throughout the nation are able and willing to provide protec- tion against these two diseases, yet both continue to take annual toll among Canada’s children. Ibe Health League of Canada is a voluntary organization which is helping parents and the public generally to understand the “sweet reasonableness” of trying to follow the advice and regulations of their local board of health. Immunization, which prevents deaths from the two killer diseases. diphtheria and whooping cough, as well as against smallpox, is pro vided by* most health departments free of charge. The Health League points out that as medical science provides the means to wipe out these diseases, it is up to the gen eral public to take full advantage of the means of preventing them. While all of us are aware that smallpox has been wiped off the face of the earth, despite occasional cases with serious complications, and most parents are aware of the value of diphtheria toxoids with which large communities are kept entirely free of diphtheria, we may not realize the seriousness of whooping cough during, and many years after an attack. In children under two years of age, whooping cough causes more deaths than diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, and polio combined in Canada. This is the statement of Dr. C. EL Anglin, Toronto. Yet whooping cough can be vir tually eliminated by a vaccine which protects the victim. HEALTH NOTES childbearing mother must seeive extra iron to give her child te proper start in life. A large percentage of tubercu losis patients do not handle starch [bods in a normal manner. o< thyroid extract may vine* 1 tel and physical slow- Regular, useful work will pre vent us from becoming old before our time. KATHLEEN NORRIS Marriage Income A TENNESSEE WOMAN, Alice Marble, writes me of her dis tress over her 18-year-old daugh ter’s determination to marry. She says that a recent article of mine gave Gwen such encouragement that she has become quite unman ageable. “You said that couples could be married on an income as low as $100 a month,” write? Mrs. Marble. “You certainly can know very lit tle of conditions today if you can advise young people to take any such risk. Gwen’s fiance is just past 19; he gets $25 a week. The way rents are here now they couldn’t rent more than a room for that. Gwen’s father and I are di vorced; he cannot help, and my present husband and I have two small girls to care for, and an un certain income. Gwen is very pret ty, dainty about her clothes and the care of her room, but she has had no training in cooking or house work, and* knows nothing of the value of money. “We used all the arguments and pleading we can think of, but Gwen is determined to ruin her life and jump into marriage without the slightest id da of what she is doing. I would like to ask you how many youngsters of these ages you have known who did marry on such an income in these days of high prices? Do you know what you’re talking about?” Daring Beginnings For one answer to this reproach I would like to show Alice Marble some of the scores of letters that that article brought me. Not in years have I had such a rush of re plies. Most of them come from mid dle-aged couples who took the chance years ago, and enjoyed the adventure of working their way up from daring beginnings to success and plenty. ' And by success and plenty I don’t mean the sensational toplin- " . . marketing at pushcarts . . " Repressing strong emotions and suffering frustration are causes of dermatitis—inflamation of the skin. Putting alcoholism in a class with other diseases is a great step for ward. ers who accumulated great for tunes, I mean the hundreds and thousands—yes, millions among us who started with nothing and had all the fun and excitement of con quering poverty and uncertainty, all the trials and disappointments and humiliations that, rigid finan cial limits impose. Yes, and all the fun, too. The two-room home high up long flights of stairs in a big city; the market ing at push carts with every toma to and half pound of lean beef precious; the museums and con certs and galleries, all free; the long walks, the happy associations over dinners of spaghetti in base ment restaurants; the long walks along crowded piers and through 1 bustling streets, or in the green shade of the parks. And then the beginnings of suc cess. The poem or the story sold; the understudy part secured, the humble job of correcting proof in a magazine office, the miracle of selling the radio serial. “All aLonce,” said a bushy-head ed friend of ours years ago, “All at once Sara’s got a backer for her play and I’ve sold my patent' that you all thought was so crack pot for sixty grand.” “Sounds like the beginning of good times!” someone said, after we had all gasped awhile. Never Recovered Happiness “Sounds like the end of them,” he predicted firmly. And he was right. Sara couldn’t stand success, and he couldn’t stand wealth, and neither ever recovered happiness* They had had eleven joyous impe cunious hard-working years togeth er; perhaps that’s as much felicity as any of us deserves. To be sure, not all such couples achieve world fame or great riches. But gradually, energetic, ambitious men and women win their places. These places may be in kitchens making jam for the market, in lofts making aprons, in publishing houses reading manuscripts, in big firms directing advertising art; incon spicuous success is nevertheless success, and the fruits of it are sweet. So the truth appears to be that there is no income upon which the right man and woman may not marry. Gwen’s mother would do better to concern herself with regrets that she didn’t build in Gwen a stronger character. She would do better to start now to teach her how to cook and let her run the family finances for a month or two. GWen has been badly spoiled, and no matter how angelic a nature her 19-year-old husband can claim, he can’t possibly make a success of this marriage. Not with Gwen, very dainty about her personal ap pearance, but entirely ignorant of the method of making necklamb into a stew or using up sour milk. SEWINB CIRCLE PATTERNS Junior Two-Piecer in Contrast Dress-Up Style in Large Sizes Serve Tarts Delicious Enough to Tempt . ' (See Recipes Below) Glamorous Desserts WHEN YOU’RE CALLED upon to serve dessert and bever age combinations, do ^ou have to rack your brain and mull over a whole stack of recipes? Keep a few of these glamorous desserts at your fingertips, and you’ll solve the problem easily! Dessert-and - beverage parties, held in the afternoons and evenings, are very much with us these win ter days and call LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Pan-Boiled Ham Slice Creamed Potatoes Buttered Mixed Vegetables Pear-Orange Salad Hot Rolls Beverage *Miniature Cherry Tarts •Recipe Given X ^ ^ ^ for delicious fare such as pies and cakes. They may be small and • toothsome such as the cherry tarts with a r o s e t te of cream cheese; some will like an upside-down cake, others will pre fer a rich and satisfying cream pie or almond torte. into a small greased muffin tin, brush them with melted butter and bake hi .a hot oven (450*) until 'golden brown. Heat the cherries, add the sugar, and thicken with the cornstarch; cooL Put several cherries in each of the baked shells, and garnish with rosettes of the cream cheese slightly softened with milk and forced through * pastry tube. Chocolate Cream Puff Pie (Serves 8 -10) Pastry: K cup water 34 cup shortening 34 cup flour 34 teaspoon salt 2 eggs Filling: 2 envelopes (2 tablespoons) un flavored gelatine % ? 2 cups freshly-made cold cof fee brew 6 tablespoons cocoa 1 cup sugar 34 teaspoon salt 134 cups milk $ eggs, separated Frosting: 1 cup confectioners' sugar Milk 2 drops peppermint extract Yellow vegetable coloring Green vegetable coloring To make pastry, bring water to boiling point. Add shortening; stir until melted. Bring .again to boil ing point; quickly add flour and salt. Cook, stirring constantly, about 2 minutes, or until mixture forms smooth, compact mass. Cool slight ly. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each. Beat 5 minutes, or until mixture is thick and shiny. Using 34 teaspoon for each, make on greased baking sheet 24 puffs, 34 inch apart Spread remain ing batter in greased 11-inch pie pan or plate (or greased '8-inch pie pans or pistes). Bake pie shell and puffs in hot oven (450°) 12 to 15 minutes. CooL To make the filling, soften gela tine in 34 cup coffee brew. Combine cocoa, 34 cup sugar and salt. Add remaining coffee brew and milk. Beat egg yolks; add with gelatine to coffee mixture. Cook over hot water, stirring constantly, until slightly thickened. Cool slightly. Beat egg whites stiff; gradually add remaining sugar, beating con stantly. Fold into coffee mixture. Allow filling to stiffen partially; pour into pie sheU. ChilL •Miniature Cherry Tarts Bread Butter 1 can red cherries 34 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch Cream Cheese ' Milk Cut thin slices of fresh bread into 234 inch squares. Press each square LYNN SAYS: Tempting Foods Should Stay Within Budget Split pea soup, whether home made or canned, can be enhanced by the addition of two slices of bacon, fried and crumbled, and a few ripe olives, pitted and cut into pieces. An easy, economical dip for po tato chips uses a cup of sieved calavo seasoned with 34 teaspoon curry, powder, 2 teaspoons of vine gar, a few drops of tabasco sauce, salt and pepper to taste. Washington Cream Pie 34 cup butter * 1 cup sbgar 34 cup milk 134 cups sifted cake flour 234 teaspoons baking powder 34 teaspoon salt 3 egg whites 34 teaspoon lemon extract 94 teaspoon vanilla , Cream butter. Add sugar and continue creaming until sugar gran ules are dissolved. Sift flour with baking powder and salt. Add flour and milk alter nately to the but ter-sugar mix ture, beginning and ending with flour. Fo}d in the stiffly beat en egg whites and add the flavorings. Pour into 2 pie tins that have been lined with waxed paper and bake in a moderate oven (350°) 25 -minutes. Almond Tortfc 34 cup butter 34 cup sugar 4 egg yolks 1 cup sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 34 teaspoon salt 134 tablespoons evaporated Milk and ' 1 34 tablespoons water, mixed * 1 teaspoon vanilla ' 4 egg whites 94 cup sugar 34 cup blanched, chopped al monds 34 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 tablespoon sugar, mixed i Cream butter until smooth and plastic. Add 34 cup sugar grad ually and beat until creamy. Add egg yolk? and continue beating un- ell til welf blended. Sift flour with baking powder and salt and add al ternately with the diluted milk to the first mixture, beginning • and ending with flour. Add vanilla. Turn into two 9-inch spring form or cake pans that have been greased and lined with waxed paper. Whip the egg whites until stiff. Fold in the 94 cup sugar, then spread over the top of the unbaked mixture. Sprinkle almonds over top, then the sugar- cinnamon mixture. Bake in a mod erate oven (325*) about 40 min utes. Spread the following cream filling between the layers: ■ 34 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 egg ^ 2 cups Evaporated Milk 1 teaspoon almond extract Blend sugar and cornstarch, add egg and stir until well blended. Add jnilk slowly to blend well. Cook over 'boiling water, stirring constantly, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add almond extract. Cool before using. 'Bag-Worm' For Bream Despite the fact that many ang lers have been going a stream or fishing in lakes or ponds for years, they have* not yet heard of the fish taking qualities of the “bag-worm.” The bag-worm, as its name im plies, is a worm that lives in fuz- zy-looking bags which are found on most cedar trees. Naturally, the worm feeds off the tree and does it no good, therefore, the angler searching for bag-worms will us ually find any cedar tree owner whose trees are infested with the worms eager and willing for them to be taken. The worm-sac may be pulled from the tree with comparative ease, but when time comes to use the worm, it is best to have a t small pair of scissors handy to split the .cocoon and get at the worm. Trying to get at the worm by open ing the sac with the fingers is try ing and sometimes painful work. The worm, once freed from the sac and ready for use, is hooked once through the center of the body and may be fished either “on bottom” or with| a cork. We personally saw the effective ness of this lure in a pond recently wjien two anglers, using this bait and none other, took dozens of bream weighing up to a pound— and these from a pond where the angleworm and fly-rod angler felt they had had a big day if they came up now and then with a half- pound bream. . We have had no word concerning their effectiveness on bass and haven’t tried them as yet for this gamester. AAA Why Not? Postage stamps have been issued commemorating just about every thing—yet there never has been is sued a stamp to center the public’s attention on conservation of the country’s natural resources. This fact has been emphasized by Claude D. Kelley, president of the national wildlife federation. Kelley has called upon the nation’s stamp collectors, sportsmen and conserva tionists to demand of their congress man the issuance of such a stamp. “Our natural resources have helped make this country the strong est nation on earth,” Kelley de clares, “and yet very little recogni tion to such towering strength and stability is depicted in our postage stamps.” Official criteria for postage stamps designs are supposed to be distinguished Americans or notable historic events, and even the barn yard rooster became eligible for a stamp issue, Kelley points out. By any true measure, he adds, conservation deserves a stamp is sue, and he calls upon the more than two million members of ’or ganized conservation groups * to make their demands known. AAA Fur Prices Up In a preliminary grade price list recently received from one of the country’s leading fur buying com panies, trappers of the nation can expect a great improvement in the fur market this winter, says the North Dakbta Game and Fish News. According to this list, prices will be higher and such furs as skunk, badger and raccoon are again salable. Based on actual sales in the world’s fur markets during the last few weeks, it says muskrat No. 1 extra large raw furs of fine quality are bringing from $2.60 to $3.00. 'These prices range downward to around 65c to $1.50 for No. 2 lightpelts. No. 1 extra large raccoon skins are bringing from. $6.00 to $7.50. The remaining quotations are all for No. 1 extra large pelts of good quality:- Red fox $3.5t)-$4; i grey fox; $l.25-$1.50; skunk, $2.25-$2.*50; badger, $0.25- $2.50; white tail jacks, 55-75 cents per lb., and black tail jacks, 50- 65 cents per pound. Skins grading No. 3, 4, or lower, al » kits dam aged, etc., will be priced at v$lue. AAA Yep, They Can! Can fish smell? The answer in a safe Any casserole takes on an ele gant look and flavor when you re place the humble buttered bread crumbs with cooked, drained noodles fried in a bit of butter or drippings until just crisp. Corn and canned tomatoes placed in pimientoe halves or green pep pers are a choice, but budget-wise accompaniment to a steak dinner. Do something different with creamed salmon: used canned as paragus tips as the vegetable to add green to its rosy red, and serve on. toasted English muffins. 8658 11-18 t V. Smart and Wearable D ESIGNED for juniors who like smart, wearable frocks that are easy to sew. A handsome two piecer with contrast to finish the shaped peplum. Pattern No. 8858 la S sew-rlte perfo rated pattern In sixes 11. 12. 13, 14, IS and 18. Size 12. 4% yards of 39-lncb; 1 yard contrast. . « i Send 25 cents today for your copy of the spring and summer FASHION.' our complete pattern magazine. It’s filled general is yes. Catfish come up the current after baits which give o: odors, offensive at times; we chum for blues and other fish with chopped up menhaden, which un doubtedly give the fish the idea there is something good to eat .from the * smelL The Fisheries News Letter, from Sydney, Aus tralia, . September, 1950, reports two totally blind fish caught on hook and line; one was an 8 pound jewfish, the other a 134 pound cod; both fish were in excellent condi tion; they must have depended largely on their sense of smell. 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