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A quiet-spoken woman, representing the wives of low income earners at the recent
housewives’ conference, summed up for many women when she said: “Health rules have
been thrown out of the window not because we don’t understand them, but because we

Just can’t afford them.”

: his is an arresting statement
ora Canadian woman to make.

TS. Margaret MacLean who
made the statement has five
Sons, larger than the average

family, Her husband's wages are
und $40 a week, which is
above average, (Even in the bet-
ter paid

industries the average
bs today stands at $32.97 a
ees and in others it is far
elow this figure.)

“Thirty-five quarts of milk is
What we really should have each
Week, according to the health
mules accepted by the Dominion
Sovernment,” Mrs. MacLean told
aaa after the meeting.

Instead of that I ‘can only

ford one quart of lactic acid
milk a day for the baby at 21
ene? One quart of homogenized

lk for breakfast foods at 16
Scents and one quart of skim milk
at 11 cents a day, which is only.

ree quarts a day, and four-
ven quarts a week less than we
Should have,

“Although I have to pack

‘lunches for my eldest son and

™y husband,” she continued, “I

y buy one pound of butter
Week, I have to eke it out
Y Mixing some homogenized milk
or Maybe an egg with it, when
pareve them. We have at least
© days without meat. All the
of can manage is four tins
.etapefruit juice each week.”
oat ask "me about clothes,”
Aaa Mrs. MacLean, “because
‘ *yre a nightmare, and so is
edding.» My boys have to wear
an, € over clothes from one to
other, til] they’re nothing but
ee 8. Even though my mother
fo been helpful in making. quilts
* the beds, the children have
© Sleep in kimona and socks in
Winter to keep warm.”

When
Mrs questioned about rent,

a MacLean said that they were |,
very lucky
2 month

in only paying $35
a right now, but that the
ane they live in has been
ee for demolition, to make
~-Y for a new street.

_ she said she was dreading to

“Yen think of what would happen

€n they had to move out. Of
wo thing she was sure—they
a certainly have to pay more
for whatever they found.
* * *
€ are the facts of the case
€ average family today.
© younger generation are pay-

Thes

We & penalty which may cripple
a Physical, mental and social

elopment for years to come.
Oday as Mrs. MacLean stress-
eh insurance, recreation, holidays

other things which make for

: x Well rounded living, and help

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“RIDAY, MAY 30, 1947

Creating security are being left
far behind, as nnbhased parents
bud? to make their inadequate
faeces cover the neds of the

ily to eat, and cannot even

mainly for Women

conducted by Winnie Williams

High prices, cutting into food
pardize health

By DORISE NIELSEN

do that well enough to secure
health.

Only one out of every six work-
ers in our country have had a
wage increase in 1946. Nor is the
present price situation caused by
lack of production, for . workers
and farmers have increased pro-
duction from $5.1 billions in 1938
to an expected $12 billions in
1947. :

On the other hand, enormous
profits are pouring into the poc-
kets of the industrialists.

Rolled oats have gone up, and
a family like MacLean’s must eat
less, but the five biggest milling
companies have made, greater
profits than ever before in their
history.

From the Financial Post comes
the information that 31 Canadian
companies had increased their
1946 profits by 59.4 percent over
profits in 1945. .

Women like Mrs. MacLean are
now beginning to put up a fight.
Through the Housewives’ Consum-
ers Association, they are going to
send a delegation to Ottawa in
June.

This weekend, in Carlton Street
United Church in Toronto, hun-

dreds of housewives will attend
a conference to plan their cam-
paign. Governments will learn to
heed the voice of angry Cana-
dian women as the housewives
organize in every part of the
country.

DORISE NIELSEN

Clever make-up makes
all the difference to you

How many people are there in the world with perfect
faces? Very few indeed—and we should be glad of it. For
how dull it would be if everyone had the same monotonous-
ly regular features. We live in a time when our individuality
is important, when no particular type is considered the ‘only’

true beauty.

Of course, sometimes a feature
that is too large or too different
from the norm makes us feel un-
happy. It is here that modern
make-up tricks step in to modify
and change these handicaps into
assets that give the face qiquancy
and character,

Let’s take a look at some of
the things you can do to play
down your problem feature. For
instance, here’s one that’s used
by the best Hollywood and New
York make-up experts. They’ve
found that a darker shade of pow-
der used on a large or a broad
nose will make it appear smaller.

Use your lighter toned, regular
shade on the rest of your face.
This trick is also good for slim-
ming down a heavy jawline and
for making a jutting chin seem
less prominent.

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Make your lips look fuller by.
drawing the shape you desire with
the brush and then apply lip-
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surface. Using bright colored lip-
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To make very full lips look
more delicate, apply the color
more heavily near the center of
the lips, blending it lightly out
toward the corners. Use less on
the lower lip than the upper and
avoid carrying the color out to
the very edges.

Mouth lines that droop will
make you look sad and unhappy.’
It’s easy to give your face a
happy and more cheerful look by
drawing an upward line at the
corners of the lower lip.

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Talking things over

The daily ‘GUNG

WITH SUMMER apparently here to stay, many ‘a
housewive thinks with a groan of the inevitable picnic
lunches to be prepared. Frankly, it’s a headache packing up
food, chasing around after sun tan lotion (Tan-Gel is good),
and rounding up the family. Oh, well, it’s good to get away
from the house once in a while.

such
Cora
that
milk
wax
and

Preservation of food for
outings is always a problem.
Phillips writes to suggest
by wrapping your bottle of
in a wet cloth and then
paper it -will keep fresh
sweet. Sounds like a good idea,
especially if your one and only
thermos is being used for tea or
coffee. This suggestion might also
be used for lettuce and celery
to keep it crisp and crunchy.

* * *

WELL, THE battle of prices is |.

becoming more intense. I made a
quick trip up to the children’s
wear department in one of the
large stores and spoke fo several
women there. *

They agreed that prices were at
fantastic levels and after looking
at a child’s playsuit priced at
$2.95 which had not more than
half a yard of cheap cotton ma-
terial in it, two of them de-
cided to make their own things.

I wish there had been time
to give them a few facts and
figures I have found most re-
vealing.

A report from Ottawa states
that the bare minimum wage re-
quired to buy food, clothing and

| shelter for an average family in

February of this year was $63.50
a week. By May, however, the
cost of a minimum budget rose
to $40 a week because of rising
prices for beef, vegetables, butter
and cheese, rents, fuel and cloth-
ing.

If you study government wage
wage figures, you will find that 7
out of every 10 workers receive
tess than the bare minimum wage
and that the 3 out of the 10
who receive more do so by work-
ing extra hours.

The only alternative to increas-
ing the family income is for the
housewife to seek employment.
But there again you are frus-
trated, for the government has
decided that, although women did
an outstanding job in filling posi-
tions left open by men joining the
services, they are to be discour-
aged from employment in peace
time. To accomplish this the gov-
ernment is imposing such a severe
income tax on married women
that it will not pay them to work.
° Such discrimination really
makes my blood boil, but when
you know that the big corpora-
tions are receiving a gift of 279
million dollars by the removal of
the excess profits tax, then it’s
time to do more than write a
letter to your M.P.

* Tes A Ae

NOW THAT the canning sea-
son is almost upon us I know
every one is hoarding as much
sugar as possible to avoid having
to buy canned fruit next year.
This means cutting down on cake

making, but here is a tempting

cake recipe sent in by Jeanne
Teather of Kelowna, B.C., which
doesn’t use a bit of sugar. :
Butterscotch Jello Pudding Cake
1 pkg. jello butterscotch or car-
amel pudding.
% cup crisco or any shortening
or butter.

2 tablespoons of syrup (or
honey or brown sugar).

2 eggs.

2 cups flour.

2 teaspoons of baking powder.

Pinch of salt.

1 cup of milk.

Cream shortening, syrup and
pudding powder together. Add
eggs one at a time, beating well
after each one. Sift flour, baking
powder and salt. Then add to
other mixture alternately with
milk. Stir until well mixed. Pour
into well-greased layer cake tins.
Bake in moderate oven about 20
minutes.

When cake has cooled, fill lay-
ers with mashed bananas and top
with a Maple flavored icing..

“This is swell, and easy on your
sugar ration as you can see,”
Jeanne concludes.—B.G.

Buyers’ strike
wins support

By LaVon Tooth

“Our demands—not the govern-
ment’s policies — represented the
people’s wishes,” Mrs. Mona Mor-
gan, told a packed meeting of
housewives at Neighborhood
House, North Vancouver, last
week, referring to the women’s
price control delegation which
went to Ottawa in April.

Despite their cool reception by
cabinet ministers, and the evasive
attitude of Finance Minister Doug-
las Abbott, Mrs. Morgan felt that
the delegation had. accomplished
a great deal in attracting support
for the Housewives’ Consumers’
Association across the country. —

The buyers’ strike campaign in
North Vancouver has been re-
ceived with a great deal of en-
thusiasm by housewives. c

Most of the women to whom
I have spoken while picketting
have assured’ me they are behind
any movement which promises
them lower prices and better liv-
ing standards.

A relatively few enthusiastic
picketers have made North Van-
couver price control conscious, and
at the meeting at Neighborhood
House, the North Vancouver ex-
ecutive of B.C. Housewives’ Con-
sumers’ Association could report
many incidents indicating that its -
efforts were gaining considerable
public support.

‘Already the national organiza-
tion has adopted a petition against
the price and scarcity of diapers
and babies’ shirts which origin-
ated in North Vancouver, and we
need canvassers to help us give

“|this petition wide circulation.

Any woman (or man) in North
Vancouver able to devote time to
canvassing or picketting are ask-—
ed to phone Mrs. Young, North -
2060, or Mrs. Tooth, North 181M.

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