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Meat fed by

bottle now

Meat fed by bottle, a new idea
for young babies, proved success-
ful in’ tests with 18 infants, made
recently by Ruth Leverton of the
Nebraska Experiment Station in

WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES
Housewives’ tea draws 200

bers when they hold their first
meetings in the New Year. :

Winners of the 50 prizes in-
cluded:

Mrs. Gavin Hamilton, 20
pound turkey, donated by
Woodward’s depaxyiment store.

Mrs. R. Smith, ham, do-

Members of the Housewives
Consumer Association and their
friends made the most of the
occasion to exchange experi-
ences in interesting and ongan-
izing women in their campaign
against high prices when some
200 of them attended a highly

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successful Christmas tea held at} nated by Spencers depar : ” . igh
John Goss Studio there on| men; store. copperarion with the babies’ phy-
Thursday last week. : Mrs. Marian Parkin, cottage sician.

Among the convenors of th roll, dozated by Monarch Gtistnan tect vent: ocd. ka
tea was Mrs. Lily Phelps, past} Meats. lamb—one kind each week in

Mrs. Core, Phillips, $35 cold
wave, donated by Hudson’s
Bay Company.

A. total of $75 was raised by
the tea for the Housewives
Consumer Association’s treas-
ury, Mrs. Marian Parkin, secre-
tary, reported.

rotation—were added to the babies’
formulas for a period of eight
weeks, beginning when the babies
were six weeks old. The amount
of meat used was just enough to
increase the protein content of
each formula 25 percent, averag-
ing about an ounce daily.

The tests were made
adoption institutes with normal
healthy babies. For comparison,
records were kept of 15 babies
who received no meat.

Then infants readily accepted
the formulas containing strained
meat and showed no adverse
symptoms from it, Dr. Leverton
reports, thus disproving the old
theory that meat is hard to digest.

The nurses reported that: in
general the meat-fed babies were

president of the Toronto Con-
sumers Association, who is now
residing on Vancouver Island.
Her appeal for non-members to
join the Housewives Consumer
Association brought a ready re-
sponse and many city branches
will be welcoming new mem-

in two

Working mothers want nurseries

Working mothers whose children are now attending the few
established day nurseries and day centers in Vancouver are the
first to support demands that more of these institutions should
be provided. They know from experience that their children, -

Old favorites made new
r first “patients” soon after

pre-Christmas rush is un-

Doll hospitals like this get thei
Is and other toys beyond

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more satisfied and slept petter
than the others, and the physician
in charge considered them ip
better physical condition. Most
significant, however, is the fact
that none of the meat-fed babies
developed the anemia characteris-
tic of their age, and that the
meat apparently promoted the for-

mation of hemoglobin and red
blood cells.
“There is reason to _ believe,”

says Dr. Leverton, “that increased
protein in the diet may be effect-
ive in preventing anemia in young
infants.” Meat is a rich source of

high-quality. -protein;~- iron,;~~phos-:

phorus and B_ vitamins. This
makes it a desirable addition to
the customary infant diet of milk
with cereal and vegetable supple-
ments, which often does not meet
the baby’s high protein needs.

In the past meat has rarely been
used in infant feeding because
commercially strained meat in a
smooth liquid form, convenient to
add to the formula, was not on
the market and because of the
prejudice that it was hard for
babies to digest.

Scientist predicts
steaks from corn

Seant consolation for ‘house-
wives who find prices curtailing
their meat purchases butt never-
theless a tantalizing prospect for
the future is the belief expressed
by Dr. Gerald N.. Wendt, editor
of Science Illustrated, that atomic
scientists may soon be able to
produce such choice meats as
steaks, chops and chicken from
corn and other grains.

Research work already done by
scientists at Oak Ridge, he says,
offers increased hope that spinach
and cotton can be made from car-
bon dioxide and sunshine.

Predicting revolutionary devel-
opments in production of food-
stuffs, he points out that “the
meat animal is not the only one
that can successfully make high
quality protein and vitamins out
of the crude feedstuffs.”

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WELL, CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES are in full swing
and for the moment the unfailing current of good cheer dis-
‘pels the worries of high living costs-and uncertainty over the
future that nag at our existence.

I always look on- Christmas as
the special time for the children.

As soon as the Christmas tree has
been put up they gaze at it with’
eyes that match the sparkle of:

the tinsel, asking a dozen times
a day how much longer it will
be.

a new war fall into a perspective
that even the least politically in-
terested parent can sense as a plot

‘|against their future.

It was of the children I thought

this week when I read about A.,
R. Mosher and Pat Conroy of the:

Canadian Congress of Labor order-
ing Vancouver Labor Council to
end its attempts to prevent Cana-
dian arms from being shipped to
China.
might just as well have been a
death warrant for those Chinese
children’ who will perish in the
aftermath of the war the arms are
destined to spread. And, if. we
allow war to be spread in other
parts of the world, how long will
it be before our own children
suffer?

We have come to expect such
callous policies from the parties
now in power at Ottawa, but that
leaders of organized labor should
support them to advance their
own politics and ambitions is a
crime against the people.

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FOR THE small tots who easily
become over-excited and exhausted
by the goings-on, it’s a good idea
to let them enjoy Christmas Day
a little at a time. Little Katy, of
course, is On her best behavior,
but this year she will get her

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Beside their happiness all the
sordid intrigues of politicians and
profiteers to fan the flames of.

The telegram they sent

presents at intervals during the
day. Those of you who have
watched a youngster with a score
of presents strewn around the
floor will appreciate the purpose
of this. .

It’s best for children, who wili
thus enjoy the gifts to a greater
exittent, to delve first into the con-
tents of their stockings. Perhaps
a. big gift or two left beside the
bed will help to keep them amused
for a while, if you have any ideas
about sleeping late. After break-
fast another gift or two may be
given and during the day you
can “remember” other gifts. In
this way you can prevent the
house being littered with discarded
toys and at the same time help
the: children to get the most from
their presents.

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TIME NOW for a quick recipe
for those crisp crunchy little sugar
cookies which come in so handy
at the holiday season when one
gets the feeling that any more
heavy Christmas cake will be the
last straw.

Cream % cup shortening with
one cup sugar until very light.
Add - one well-beaten egg, one
tablespoon cream and one teaspoon
vanilla, Sift two cups flour with
% teaspoon salt and one teaspoon
baking powder. Add to creamed
mixture and mix as if you meant
it. Chill dough and roll out in
small quantities making it very-
very thin. Cut cookies in various
shapes and then you can cook
as is‘or add a sprinkling of nuts
or other decoration. Bake on
greased cooky sheet about five
minutes in moderate oven. This
makes about 10 dozen—B.G.

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