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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1959)
1. I f m i uniocr reasuire IT'S SPRING! Norma Gloason Make an egg-shell garden. It's easy! Ask mother to save a dozen egg shells with the carton they come in. Keep the bigger half of each shell and fill them with earth from the garden. (Ark where you can dig for good black dirt.) Plant two or three seeds in each shell, and put them in a sunny window, right in the egg carton. Mother may have some flower seeds for you pansies, marigolds, or petunias or just for fun try some orange seeds. Keep them moist, and after the seeds have sprouted pull out all but the largest plant in each shell. When these are big enough, break the shells slightly and plant them in the garden. Soap Bubble fum Margaret O. Hyde and Frances W. Keene TO MAKE HALF A CIRCLE. DRAW AROUND A GLASS, THEN CUT IN HALT . TAPE MACARONI Make your own bubble blower if you can't find your pipe. A pea shooter, soda straw, or a piece of macaroni makes the blower part. Poke it into a hole of a cone of paper you tape to gether. Now mix a table spoon of soapflakes in warm water. It is fun to add a few drops of vegetable color ing and a tablespoon of gly cerin or oil (for tougher bubbles). Mix well. Dip your blower into the suds and blow gently. Make up your own game with the bubbles you blow. The one that lasts longest, travels farthest, or is the wggest could get a prize your bubble contest! in cx es live in water, breathe uir t0f both, the whale must nave his share), TRANSFER PICTURES Margaret O. Hyde and Frances W. Keene Here is a way to decorate paper plates, make greeting cards, decorate a letter, or just have fun! Have your tools ready. They are water, turpentine, tincture of green soap, newspaper or magazine pictures (comics?), cleansing tissues, and some plain white paper. Now mix a teaspoon of turpentine and a teaspoon of green soap in one cup of water. Dip the tissue in this solution and wipe it all over the picture. After two minutes lay the picture, face down, on the plain white paper. Rub gently over the back of the picture with the back of a spoon. Lift the picture gently from the paper and the picture is copied in reverse! DECORATE PAPER PLATES MAKE GREETING CARDS DECORATE. A LETTER OR AN OLO HANDKERCHIEF LET'S DRAW A WHALE & Make a Jigsaw Puzzle! Tom Jones Do you have a piece of cardboard from the laun dry? Then paste a large colored picture on it and take a pencil and ruler and make some queer shapes (see diagram) . Cut them out carefully. You will have a wonderful jigsaw puzzle to keep or give away. Toot-Tootle-Do! Nat Bradford You need five or more players for this game. All stand in line at one end of a 30-foot yard with the player who is IT standing in the middle. The safety line is at the opposite end of the yard. Then IT calls one player by name, like this: "Johnny Jenkins, Toot-Tootle-Do! Hurry up, or I'll catch you!" Then IT must catch him. The player has to run to the safety line. He can dodge this way and that to get there. If he is caught, he has to "help IT catch the others. At the end of the game each uncaught player has to try to get back to the starting line when IT calls his name again. The first one caught is IT next game. Ann Davidow Ci) So it appears a whale would feel Less like a fish than like a seal. When up, he spouts and shows his nose. The sailors then shout, "Thar she blows!" Watch out, sailors, or he'll flip And overturn your whaling ship! family Weekly. April 19, 1959 U listerine stops l)ad breath 4timeshetfer than toothpaste! Tooth paste is for your teeth Listeria is for your breath. Germs in the mouth cause most bad breath, and you need an antiseptic to kill germs. Always reach for Listerine after you brush your teeth. No tooth paste is antiseptic, so no tooth paste kills germs the way Listerine Antisep tic does ... on contact, by millions. Listerine stops bad breath four times better than toothpaste noth ing stops bad breath as effectively as the Listerine way. . . . your No. 1 protection , your No. 1 prof action against bad broath SLOW GOING? Horry it HttU...chew Feen-a-mint! It works where a laxative should chiefly in the lower bowel. Removes mostly waste, not good food you need for health. Non-irritating-you feel fine, full of life and energy. So get delicious Feen-a-mint. 16 tablets, 37t also small and economy sizes. FEEN-A-MINT. Th Chcwing-Gum Laxative
