1941-01-31 — Page 7

By BUD FISHER

OH, DEAH- WAIT TIL I POWDER YOUR

NOSE!

12-16

A.PAGE FOR WOMEN

I Bossed My Husband

I looked at myself in the mirror and saw only the ghost of the berson was ten years ago, when my beauty was the talk of the small town where I spent all my early life.

My face was pule and lined. My eyes had sunk in their sockets und lacked the lustre that once char- acterised them.

And I sat down and reflected upon the ten years I have been married to my husband-of ali that had happened in that time, and I concluded rather sadly that I was indeed a ghost.

Perhaps I am the victim of my own ambition--a sort of Franken- stein, who had been killed by her own creation.

I see my husband as he was when I met him, youthful, crude in his manners, but whose mind! was lively and receptive to im- pressions. He was so handsome that the world in which he moved about forgave him all his faults.

And I remember how I studied the material for a man who, with careful moulding, would even- tually become an ideal husband.

I Thought I Could Change Him

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What better mission could voman have in life than to create something useful and beautiful out of such promising material? The thought fascinated me, I used to lie awake at nights thinking about the tremendous possibilities. Maybe in one, two, three, four years I could whip him into such refined shape that even his uwi mother would not know him.

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So I came to a big decision: will marry him, I said to myself. And I did. It was so easy, for, you see, I, too, was young, beauti- ful and possessed of some culture. He responded to me immediately, and very soon he was eager to wed me.

Those early years consisted of much hard work, and sometimes t appeared that I should never make any headway, He had such appalling habits. At night he would return home and take off his boots and sit in his socks. When he blew his nose the very house shook. He sucked his teeth, ate with his mouth open; he sniff- ed, and when he laughed he roar- ed like a jurigle tiger.

As for his education, I found him to be relatively illiterate. He vore his clothes like a yokel, and when he was in company he made every mistake a man could possi- bly make.

But with patience and persever- ance I made headway. There was 20 question of nagging him Everything 1 did I did by sug gestion. Even when his manners evolted me most I would never eveal my feelings.

HOT PIES with Browned Potato Tops

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by Dorothy Greig

AD was a great rooter for hot pies. "My, that smells good!" he'd say as mother set before him one of her tri- umphs crowned with potatoes freshly browned from the oven.

Then, as the serving spoon · dip-;

ped through into the center releas- stir well. Then add turkey gravy, cooked carrots, cooked ing further savory whiffs of meat turkey.

and vegetables, dad would bow celery and water. Pour into a bak- dish And cover top with grandly in mother's direction and ing announce with a flourish. "Chil- mashed potatoes. Put into a hot

Turkey Mushroom Pie-with Potato Cover, made of:left-over turkey, Is -a savory dish for supper."

dren, your mother is undoubtedly oven (425° F.) for 20 minutes or 'the world's finest cook.”

until potatoes are slightly browned.

▶ Well, appetizing aroma dona stim-Serves 6. ulate appetite. On that score, the This next ple is an economy dish pies I give you here will win plenty stepped up in flavor with the aid of of rooters. The first one is made of condensed Scotch broth. The maat left-over Holiday turkey, and vege- part of the dish:ts lambɛfrom Sun, tables, mixed together with turkey day's roast. gravy and condensed cream · of 'mushroom soup, and baked just long enough to blend the flavors to perfection.

Turkey and 'Mushroom : Ple

...with Potato Cover

1 can condensed cream 'of `mush-

· room··soup

1 cup 'turkey gravy

2' cups cooked "turkey, dided

1 cup cooked carrots

I cup cooked-colery

eup water

2 cups musited potatoes, “seasoned Empty the soup into a pan and

creep over his being, so much so that I saw the man I created with such painstaking care and such exhaustion to my own health-be- coming something altogether dif- ferent from what I had imagined. At night I got him to study. Perhaps it was ill-health that Then after a while he was eager made me neglect my own appear- o go to night classes. Very soon ance. I began to look old for my he took an interest in everything years. But I never neglected my

hat promised to help him along task. he path of life.

'Perhaps I might have been con- tented with him like that had he not developed an indifference to-

for granted wards me, taking everything. I did,

And I little knew that cause of his indifference.

1 Refined Him After three years he had ac- uired a decent accent. He no onger dropped his altches, sucked Is. teeth, sniffed or laughed like

Jungle tiger. His whole man-. One night, while I was return- er had indeed become refined. ing home in the block-out, I over-> I took him out to my friends heard my husband talking ton with no fears. He mixed easily girl. She was saying to him:- with men of position... His per- "That's all very well, but every- onalty was likeable, He knew body in the town knows that your when to speak or shut up. Soon wife is the boss, She dominates e web making headway in the you. You know that, too." bb I obtained for him through the I had not the courage to tell offnence of friends,

him what I had overheard. To- Then he developed aptitude for day I walf-I walt for my Fran- ellingi, Two years later he was kenstein Monster to reveal his love haking zweven hundred a year, for this, girl, go

Tow hwns: thebige fellow, and Perhaps I should have left him ne zhudówự of? egoism/bugars" to ban he was,What do you think?,

Cottage Lamb Ple with Potato Top

2 cups cooked lamb, dubed

2 cans condensed Scotch-broth

cup water

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2-3 cups mashed potatoes for covar Cut the famb: Into 1⁄4-inch cubes. Combine meat; Scotch: brothand “water: and, simmer: 5minutes: to heat meat and blend the favors. Put into ausgassorolet dish, cover with the mashed potatoes (and bake †in a·hot ̃(400" F.) oven for 15-mini

utes. Serves 6.

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