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WE 4 ; It r ir If! - -- f" I I I I I XW ' The words "I wish, spoken during the year, are often ihe magic words that make dreams come true at Christmastime dreams of hoped for gifts to add year round comfort and pleasure to family living. Among gifts to choose for the whole family's pleasure is a small electric organ with the drawbar tone alphabet that lets you spell out the kind of music you want. Beautiful as a piece of furniture, and easy to play even without any previous knowledge of a keyboard, the small electric organ Christmas gift can be a source of continuous family enjoyment, guest entertainment, and an open door to a new appreciation of music. Other thoughtful family gifts to choose from your music dealer's display might include sheet music or a collection of favorite records. 'Hattnted' Civil War Fortress Home for Former Decorator By RON LEVITT United Press Correspondent Key West, Fla. (U.R) Living in a "haunted" Civil War fort which was used as a distillery during the Prohibition era off hand does not seem like the ideal home. But to Mrs. Jeanne Tay lor, "there's nothing like it." "It's like living in some castle all your own," said the 63-year- old Mrs. Taylor, "even though you know it's like any other home, everybody looks on you as a Holiywood-type mysterious caretaker." Mrs. Taylor, a widow from Hol ly Springs, Miss., is curator of the Key West Art and Historical Society museum. The museum is in her home, East Martello Tower, a weather - beaten . but well preserved 100-year-old citadel. Mrs. Taylor does not own the Fort. She was hired five years ago as curator-housekeeper. She keeps it open to the public from November 1 to September 15 each year. "Thousands come to see the relics," she said, "Some of them may think I'm one of the relics( but I'm quite up to date." Mrs. Taylor has kept her fortress-home "as realistic" as pos sible to hold the 19th century feeling, but admits that a 20th century refrigerator, stove, and plumbing "were a necessity." Formerly an artist and interior decorator, Mrs. Taylor said the most enjoyable part about living in a fort-museum is to watch the reaction of Visitors. "When you tell people this was a Civil War fort and then was used by bootleggers in the 1920's as a distillery, they immediately get the idea the fort is haunted," the soft-spoken curator said. , "Of course, it isn't but every one likes to think so. It does provide a fascination." Mrs. Taylor said that several months ago a car "obviously young lovers" parked alongside the fort almost directly under the kitchen window. She said when she heard the car she went to the kitchen to investigate. ' The couple, thinking the fort was abandoned and that only ghosts could be present, were startled as the kitchen light went on. "They took off faster than a hot rod driver," she said. But, Mrs. Taylor is too busy to worry about spooks. "I've got too much housework to do," she said. Leaves Mrs. Charles Underwood, Eastland, Tex., left last week for her home after visiting her mother, Mrs. Nellie Morehouse, 1063 Court street, and her fath er, Sherman Wooley, Edwards street. She also visited other relatives as well as friends here. Card Party A pinochle and canasta party for the Mistletoe club will be held at the home of Mrs. Elsa Walker, 129 North Oakdale ave., at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Refresh ments will be served and the public is invited. , VERSATILE" MUSHROOMS New York (U.R) Keep can ned mushrooms on your staples shelf for dressing up any meal from breakfast to a midnight snack. Scramble mushrooms with the breakfast eggs, serve them broiled on toast for lunch, or spike them with toothpicks for company canapes. Add them to meat pie or turkey stuffing. Saute them in the sauce for meat patties. Add a few of the chop ped mushrooms to vegetable salad. Or, broil them with steak or ham slices. - HAMBURGER BUN TREAT New York (U.R) Here's a hearty mixture for 'burger buns. Saute chopped peppers, onion and celery. Add beaten eggs to the mixture and when the eggs are at the soft cooked stage, stir in a can of deviled ham. Pile the hot mixture on split buns and toast for a few minutes. Serve hot. After the holiday has ended and the turkey has been served in so many ways, don't forget the old favorite, turkey hash. The whole thing hinges on that in tangible taste known as season ing. Herbs, advises the Gas Ap pliance Manufacturers Associa tion, should be used with care. Hot coffee and a salad served crisp and cold combine well with this standby. P fGirl Friday Notes: Everybody Likes LENTHERIC'S Tweed Bouquet l.5p Tweed Perfume from 2.25 pocti pta tat "Tweed is the most popular fragrance around our office. For Tweed is the one fragrance you can wear anytime, anywhere." .Our old house will never be the same again. In fact, Potpour ri won't ever be quite the same again. All because we had a wed ding, and the one and only child and daughter has left to make a home of her own, as is the way of the world. Last month the house and home were just as usual, but as the days sped by the rooms with their comfortable, slightly down-at-the-heels look, underwent a bit of refurbishing and before the big day came and went, the family domicile was shaken right down to its cracked foundation. Wonder if any family is really ready for- a wedding when the day actually arrives. There's so many decisions to make, so many telephone calls, so many errands to run, so many packages and messages from interested friends and relatives the days go by so swiftly and all of sudden it is the day before the wedding. Where did the time go, we said to ourselves in something of a panic. We meant to finish washing the windows, and to wax the dining room floor,' to make a last-minute check' of the corners where the everlasting cobwebs are always to be found and to pick all the dead leaves off the house plants and a hundred and one other little chores. But the hour approached, whether anyone was quite ready or not. The bridegroom and his family arrived, the rehearsal was held, the bride was dressed in her white gown and filmy veil, the flowers were unpacked and we were in the church, listening to the service which we had heard so many times but which now took on new meaning. We discovered something during "oar" wedding. Attending dozens of ceremonies and receptions doesn't prepare one for plan ning and participating in one of your own. We didn't really know, for instance, at what point in the Episcopal ceremony the father leaves his daughter's side and takes his seat by the mother. We thought we did, but we didn't. We discovered something else, too. A wedding is the time when you suddenly remember how the bride looked when she was a little girl with long" curls and brief skirts, when you discov er what really makes three people a family, and when you find out again, how wonderful are your friends, old and new. It's the presents, especially from those you reluctantly left off the list, its the coworkers who take over your duties at the office, the church secretary who interrupted her typing to help carry the wedding dress and to give the veil a last-minute pressing and the neighbors and friends who cheerfully washed dishes, brewed cof fee and helped out during the wedding festivities. "Not everything will be quite like you planned it," said Mrs. Verne Brophy, a few days before the wedding, ''But never mind everything will be all right." Some of the things, of course, were just like we planned and wanted. The bride had calla lilies in her bouquet, which was just what she wanted, and she was de lighted with a tiny glass bluebird which the florist tucked into the satin ribbons at the back. The music was what she wanted Bach selections which the organist chose with great care, and which were just right for the simple family ceremony. Some things we sighed about the absence of the godmother and other relatives and friends who could not attend because of distance and duties, and the fact that a house will hold only so many people and no more. Some things practically ruined our composure, too. Imagine the shock of realizing, half way through the reception, that we'd forgotten to hang fresh towels in the bathroom. Of course, we put out the dainty little guest towels, the kind no one ever dares to use, but the family towels were in the same state as they were after everyone had used the bathroom while dressing for the wedding. Too, we invited a good friend to pour, or "assist or something and when she arrived on time and willing, we were in such a tizzy at the height of the party that we never did give her anything to do. She just guested. We know now why so many newlyweds and their families say "the wedding was over too quickly; we were so excited that we don't know what went on. Some of it we do remember though. We'll remember how almost everyone at the wedding had tears in their eyes when the ceremony was over, we'll remember how a grandmother and a great-aunt came all the way from Wisconsin to see the bridegroom and take part in the festivities and we'll never forget how sweet and dear the bride and bridegroom looked even at 9 p.m. after a day that had included gettting up at an earlv hour, rushing through appointments at the courthouse and bank, rehearsals, dressing, ceremony and reception with the hours of standing. Come to think of it, the bride didn t stand all the time. She sat on the kitchen stool, with the rippling folds of her wedding dress spread out around her in full glory. "Did you have any special pictures in mind?" asked patient photographer Phil Brainerd. And after all our experience we couldn't think of anything new or original just then. We did later though. After everyone had gone and we went upstairs to take off the wedding finery, we wished for a camera. In the cor ner on the big cedar chest was the bride's saddle and hanging on the pommel were the hoops which she had worn under her full-skirted wedding dress. Now we will go home to the piles of tissue paper, the almost empty rooms where the wedding presents were so neatly and lov ingly arranged by the bride until the last-minute hectic rush. We will rearrange the books and the chairs put out of sight for the big day, we'll gather up all the mounds of dish towels and napkins, we'll store away the tall memory candle which will be burned on each anniversary of the wedding. We'll put the old house into some sort of order and let it settle back into it's comfortable, slightly down-at-the-heels routine again. Then we'll try and remember not to address our weekly letter to Miss Robene Starcher, but to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Coon. O.S. Here's one way to save time in preparing meals with ready-to-use canned meat balls and gravy. A quick, oven meal is made by spreading 3 cups cook ed white rice in the bottom of a greased shallow baking dish. Add 1 can meat ball and gravy. Top with 2 cups cooked and seasoned mixed vegetables. Mix together 1 can tomato sauce and 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce. Pour over the vegetables. Top with 1 cup grated American cheese. Bake in a preheated 350' degree oven until hot through The preparation of food is the largest single activity in the homemaker's busy day, a recent home economics study reports. The importance of having an effi cient kitchen with easily cleaned surfaces, automatic gas appli ances, and ample storage is recognized, according to the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Asso ciation, in the fact that a mini mum of an hour and a half a day is spent by the average housewife in getting meals alone. and the cheese browns. Add some water if the mixture becomes too dry. WAINSCOTT'S PHARMACY 322 E. MAIN, Comer Riverside PHONE 2-6440 ARABS WERE THE FIRST TO FILL PRESCRIPTIONS! The first apothecary shop known to history dates back to 754 A.D. It was in fabled Bagdad. We don't go back that far, but we have been filling prescriptions for many years and we have won the confidence of the medical profession of this city. Our Registered Pharmacists use only the finest, purest drugs. They exercise the same scrupulous care your Doctor demands of a hos pital laboratory. Make our store headquarters for your prescription filling. Quick, efficient service you'll appreciate I Medford Pharmacy, Inc. We Are Open Today PHONE 2-6253 1 1 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. 127 EAST SIXTH Expert Predicts Housework on Way To Welcome Demise By REY W. BRUNE United Press Correspondent Detroit (U.R) The day when housewives will be freed from the drudgery of keeping house is not as far off as most people believe, says Roger Kyes, for mer deputy defense director. Kyes, who now heads theGen eral Motors' appliance divisions, said he believes appliance engi neers are on "the eve of a ma jor breakthrough" in completely emancipating the American housewife. The gadgets that might do the job are excitingly different from anything now on 'the market. "I am certain that a genera tion hence people will no more understand how the housewife of today got along with. all the drudgery she had to endure, than we today understand how our grandmothers managed with a woodburning stove and a wash board," Kyes said. No Dust Here are some of the labor savers Kyes believes might be coming: A 100 per cent climate-controlled house, providing a home environment of agreeable tem perature and moisture content at all time, and even more import antly, providing a house which is free of dust, dirt and undesir able odors. A central refrigeration sys tem similar to central heating systems that would have fur storage closets, and a refrigerat ed cabinet for cosmetics and perishable medicines. Electronic refrigerators, which besides freezing foods, would thaw them in seconds, removing the worry of a housewife forget ting to remove the roast in time- A device that would make it possible when away from home to close the windows in event of rain by merely dialing the home number on the telephone. Or, automatic window closers so sen sitive to rain that ihe windows would close them at the first raindrop. No Lugging Freedom from the weekly trips to market and lugging home and putting away the gro ceries with food storage being put on a permanent revolving in ventory basis. A delivery man .would replenish food stocks by reading a "meter" attached to the outside of a house. New automatic laundry equip ment, replacing today's auto matic washers and dryers, that not only will wash and dry clothes, but will convey, sort, clean, iron and fold them. Dishwashing machines using ultra h i g h-f requency energy waves instead of water. And mechanical mopping sys tems that will wash the kitchen floor and then rinse and dry it all automatically in a matter of minutes. Sunday, November 27, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Use Tribune Want Acta PUT STARS IN HER EYES WITH A RIFT BY "Dorothy Gray WHITE LILAC GIFT SET jf Cologne, Soap and ' Hand Lotion i Nicest Spring bouquet she'll receive all Winter! i All three gift-packaged !in a white and gold box; all with the heavenly fra grance of White Lilac. ANOTHER PERFECT GIFT SET While Lilac Cologne, - Hand Lotion, and Dusting Powder. ..$2.00 WE GIVE NORTHERN STAMPS Double Stamps on Prescriptions PHONE 2-7113 FREE DELIVERY I WsCPIPTIONs DRUG CENTRE OPEN WEEKDAYS 8:30 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. Sundays 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. When dinner time rolls around, you can let your imagination have free rein. The results will be new, exciting desserts such as this Dutch Pearadise Pie or old-fashioned tried and true fav orites such as Gingerbread Up sidedown Cake. Dutch Pearadise Pie 6 to 8 canned Bartlett pear halves, drained Wz cups sifted all-purpose flour - - 1 teaspoon salt Vz teaspoons sugar Vz cup salad oil 2 tablespoons milk Mix and sift flour, salt and sugar into baking dish (8x8x2 inches). Combine oil and milk in measuring cup. Whip with fork. Pour all at once over flour mixture. Mix with fork until dampened. Press evenly and firmly with fingers to cover bottom of pan and push dough up along sides to depth of about 1 inch. Arrange pears, cut side up, over pastry. Spread topping over fruit. Bake in hot oven 425 degrees, 35 minutes or until edges of pastry are well-browned. Makes 6 to 8 servings. Topping Mix 3A cup light brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, Vt teaspoon salt, Vz teaspoon cinnamon ' and Vz teaspoon grated lemon rind in mixing bowl. Cut in 2 table spoons butter or with pastry blender or fork until crumbly. Stir in 1 slightly beaten egg. Having several cans of Bart lett pears on hand is as good as extra help in the kitchen, be cause no matter what the menu emergency, canned pears can help solve it. If your family is lackadaisical about breakfast, a serving of canned pears will give them a good start on their day's supply of vitamins and minerals, and the simple sugar in the pears will give them that extra energy boost everyone needs in the morning. rv . . -i S lit nP'W Ethel Says: SHE'LL SEE DOUBLE and not mind it a bit when she opens jp the Cologne Duet. It's one 3f' Prince Matchsbelli's most jlamorous Christmas gifts. Two colognes Wind Song and Stradivari are nested side by side in a swirl of white net. It's so elegant and costs only $2.50. When you stop by Hud son's Bfriarmacy, why not see all of Prince Matchabelli's gift suggestions. Just ask for me, Ethel Lockard. FREE PARKING! 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