Mrs. Earl Shennett, nurse
of the Sitka Public Schools,
flew south to attend the fun
eral of heb mother who pas
sed away suddenly Easter
Sunday. Funeral services will
Ik1 held in Lincoln, Nab..
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WOMAN'S WORLD
Women Can Choose
Many Silhouettes
For Spring Wear
aCHIFT for yourself can be a
^ pleasantly literal fashion
phrase this season because of the
many silhouettes available for fig
ures. There are as many variations
of the theme as there are figure
types to wear them, so the so
called "major hift’' becomes sev
eral more ways to fit the figure.
There’s first of all the chemise
or saekor shift which is dramati
cally simple, oval and tapered
done in shoo* wool, cotton tweed
or linen for this season Many
women like this fashion because
it’s so easy to wear, but the fig
ure underneath it should be well
girdled or have a foundation gar
ment properly fitted so the fashion
looks becoming
Thi fitted-in chemise has a sug
gestion of the princess line, usual
ly with bodice or hemline interest.
This fashion is effective in linen
weave and silk shantung.
Bloused, Shirt Fashions
The olouson dress has been very
successful and continues popular.
Tin skirt has a very slim look
with soft, deep fullness at the top.
Deep-toned silk prints, solid color
shantungs and printed cottons are
popular fabrics
Tiie v verbioure is fitted and
semi-filled, shown over a dress,
siin. skirt or a pleated skirt It
The bubble skirted silhouette
is interpreted by Suzy Perette
in this dress of red shantung
with white dots. It features an
open neckline, seif-fabric at
tached cummerbund and a
puffed out skirt
may be baek-zime'd. front '>•'
toned or m&de into one with the
dress.
The overshirt fashions is a tegu
lar shirt with buttons down the
front and at the cuffs with a nar
row, hip-hugging band at the low
er waist.
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'TpO repair ruts made in floors by
* moving heavy furniture, sand
the ruts to remove paint, shellac
or wax. Fill ruts with plastic wood,
building them a little higher than
remaining floor surface. When dry,
sand down and touch up with paint
or shellac.
Use your favorite wallpaper for
covering lamp shades if the latter
THIS WEEK S RECIPE
Cheese-Vegetable Bake
•Serves 12)
4 cups cooked rice
2 packages quicken frozen
green beans
2l/2 cups shredded American
cheese
4 eggs, beaten
V\ cup minced onion
1 tablespoon salt
V\ teaspoon pepper
Mix rice, beans and 2 cups of
cheese. Combine with remain
ing ingredients. Place in 3-quart
buttered casserole. Sprinkle
with remain ng cheese. Bake in
i moderate (35.) F.) oven for 40
« 45 minutes or until firm.
have become dingy look ng. This
is effective in a room where one
w'ljl is papered Coat the paper
covering with two coats of lacquer.
Before pa.n mg outside stairs,
fill ;n all cracks with caulking ma
te:!1! Let dry and go over that
po turn with the paint before paint
ing the whole stairs.
If you have patched cracks and
holes in plastered walls, build the
pa1 ;h out a little more than the
wall so it can be sanded with fine
p e: to be smooth and level when
it dr es.
Install attractive glass or metal
shrives in the bathroom to hold
jars of cosmetics if you lack space
in the medicine cabinet.
When sewing a very lightweight
fabric like silk or organde you can
(ire cut puckering by placing a
P coe of < issue paper underneath
the me f erial and sewing right
t., » .gii it It's easy to tear off
when the sewing is completed.
Give Your Morale
A Lift Into Spring
When the slushy weather, blus
tery rain or dreary days b fore
Spring tend to give you that
dragged-down feeling, then it’s
time to do something at once to
give yourself a lift!
Winter wardrobes may oeconu
just a bit boring, too. so why not
get a head start into the lew sea
son by buying a bright •••ini t<
wear on the gloomiest days9 Or a
fresh blouse for that winks skirt
you’re going to have to wear bit
longer?
Flowered hats do wonders to;
morale, and so does a crisp straw
You might be planning to buy one
for Spring, so why not now'' Doi
it recklessly befote anyone is
wearing hers it you want to have
a real tonic for course!r and thos
around you
A tiny fresh 'flower for a :•<>•
sage, gay plants for d< k .or r
room can make the beam o->;
with joy no matte-! w't;o th
weather They’re snr.. runnel
expensive
Change
Give yourself i !■■■< 1 »u> • <■
ing with a horn* faev.' rid
while the skin r •Lm i.■ .h
go in tor lighte or’- >> n
season to come if y ■ i* ■< ml
liquid make-u»' is !
find this gives >1 < •• .«.*
the outside weathv e- * I
overheated room- !i :i .’■*»>
youthful glow >1 ' o ■ .if: p
squeeze the nc.ii ih- \ *>, a;’* w<
smooth over th rin 'a■ him
buff lightly with ussy.
New lip coh -a: • <>
feel like a new • =• ‘>>t> y.' •>
one of the lighter sh dei vha'h
you'll be wearing rvine ‘hi n
season
This is the time ' Mkt iff th.
pounds that may have beet 'ddet
with wintei mart:- <\ In oh •«
of the sandwich lun :h try dim
derffvedge of cheer e and ar sonic
Plan Warden hi
Start early to atari yout :w
wardrobe whether it’s going » he
a single hat or blouse and chess
Looking forward to son* thing new
is always exciting You can tor
looking ?t what the stores ar
showing with window . 'opping t
take your mind off the drab sea
son, and then you'll km v exactly
what you want
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Woman's Page
Afternoon tea is not a
tradition in these parts, but
we are happy to report that
this friendly custom is still
observed by our Hostess of
the Week, Mrs. Jessica Mat
her, of the Pioneer’s Home.
W e know, for we had the
pleasure recently, of having
her invite us “to tea at
four” in accents unmistakably
English. Although, as we dis
covered later, Mrs. Mather
has been i i this country some
forty odd years.
Promptly at four we were
received by our vivacious
hostess and long before the
visit was over we were cap
tiviated by her charm, de
lightful sense of humour (she
delights in telling people
that she has “two penny
worth of brain”) and love of
life. We were, indeed, quite
unaware of the fact that Mrs.
Mather is almost totally
blind, so graciously did she
serve tea, toast, lemon but
ter and many other good
things to eat. We were im
pressed, too, by the warm,
cozy, home-y atmosphere of
Mrs. Mather’s room but she
was quick to say that “the
English are natural born
pack-rats! Always toting a
long a few treasures from
home and a little bit of Eng
land! “She gave much of the
credit for her comfort to
Mr. Leslie Yaw, Superinten
dent of the Home and added
that “under his supervision.
and that’s no Blarney, this
home is different from any
other in the world for you
can really make your own
home here! ’ to which Granny
Roberts, who makes her
home next door and had join
ed 11s earlier heartily agreed.
And it was Granny who drew
rny attention to “a little bit of
England’ a beautiful draw
ing-room chair that had once
belonged to Mrs. Mather’s
Mother- an exquisite piece
of furniture with original
japanned finish and delicate
pearl inlay on the center
back.
Over an excellent cup of
tea served from beautiful
Grown Derby China, we
learned that Mrs. Mather
was born in Handsworth,
(near Sheffield) Yorkshire,
England, which, incidentally
was reduced to rubble dur
ing World War 11, but at
tended High School and stud
it*d for the Cambridge De
Mrs. S. J. Cucchiari wel
comed her son Ralph Mc
Lawhan on his return to
Sitka last week. Mr. McLaw
han has been working at Boe
ing in Seattle since leaving
the army and now plans to
make his home in Sitka.
A graduate of Sitka high
school, he plans to work in
the city and will bring his
wife and small daughter here
next month.
Mr. Robin Dean, superin
tendent of the Mt. Edge
cumbe Boarding School,
left Tuesday for recruiting
of teaching personel in An
chorage and Bethel. The in
terviews are for teaching
posts anticipated for the com
ing school year. Mr. Dean is
expected back in Sitka on
Saturday.
Mrs. Robin Dean has just
signed a contract with the
Sitka public school system
and will be teaching here
next term. She has been do
ing extensive substitute teach
ing since she and her hus
band arrived just prior to
Christmas.
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Hostess of the Week
by VICKIE ELLIS
Mrs. Jessie Mather serves tea in her room of the
Pioneer Home. She keeps her treasured things with her.
gree in Sheffield. Her family
meanwhile had moved to
Cherry tree a snberb of Shef
field, and bought a house
there that had been built in
1553.
In 1908 Mrs. Mather made
her first trip to America to
visit her brother in California
returning six months later by
way of New Orleans travel
ing from there to New York
by “that funny little stern
wheeler, The Creole” and by
the Lusitania across the At
lantic to England. Three
years later Mrs. Mather re
turned to America with her
parents and, although this
was to be only a visit, has
never returned to her be
loved England. Caught on
this side of the ocean, by
World W ar 1, the family
settled in Eagle on the Amer
lean side of the Yukon and
a hundred and eleven miles
"down river' from Dawson.
Here Mrs. Mather's father, a
physician In profession, had
a couple of mining interests
on Fox Creek and on the 70
Mile. It was from her Fa
ther’s partner that Mrs. Math
er first heard the story of the
truth about Alaska! (When
telling about Alaska, you can
tell either the plain truth or
the scarry truth but if you
stay long enough the plain
truth will be quite scarry
enough!") After a good
ehuckel and another cup of
tea we discovered that in the
midst of the Roaring Twen
ties, 1925 to be exact, Mrs.
Mather met and married
Archie Mather, a gentleman
from New England and a di
rect descendant of Cotton
Mather who “came over” in
the 1600s. Mr. Mather had
followed mining since com
ing to Alaska & continued to
mine until a severe accident
hospitalized him for several
months. The Mathers then re
turned to New England for
his convalescence and plan
ned to remain there but “min
ing was in his blood” and
they returned to Alaska in
the early 30s.
In March of 1939, after a
long illness, Mr. Mather died
of cancer of the brain, at a
Fairbanks hospital. Mrs. Ma
ther then returned to Eagle
taking up gardening and
cooking for a living and main
tained her own home there.
She worked hard, too, to bet
ter the community that had
become her home. Some
vears ago Mrs. Mather As
sisted Mr. j. J. Hillard, for
mer U. S. Customs Officer,
in establishing the Eagle
Public Library, which is still
in existance, and remained
on the Eagle Library Board
until Nov. 1954 when she
moved to Sitka and the Pione
ers Home. Here she spends
many hours crocheting and
making rugs in wool, using
a special canvass. We saw
many of the things made re
cently by Mrs. Mather and
they are beautifully done.
The fact that Mrs. Mather
has cooked professionally is
another indication, we feel,
of this lady's courage and
adaptability for she tells us
that when she arrived in Ala
ska she “scarcely knew how
to cook water!” but learned
quickly from the Sourdoughs
and Pioneers. Methods of
Cookery were quite differ
ent, too. In England, Mrs.
Mather had observed that
bacon, for instance, was cook
ed on a Dutch oven-a kind
of frame in front of an open
fire, with a little pan beneath
to catch the drippings”, but
not so in Alaska-“only the
‘pan' method satisfied the
gold-diggers!” A good cook
she certainly is! We liked
the Lemon Butter so much
we asked for the recipe. Mrs.
Mather very graciously, not
only gave us the recipe but
also gave permission to print
it!
Our delightful visit was
over all to quickly and we
reluctantly took leave of this
wonderful new friend who
refers to herself as “One part
English and Three parts Sour
dough!”
Mrs. Mather’s recipe for Lem
on Butter-from the original
Lady Beeton Cook Book.
Ingredients:
6 lemons
6 eggs
1 pound sugar
6 ounces butter
Mode: Grate four lemons,
add the juice of six, the yolks
of six eggs and the whites of
two. Mix thoroughly and put
all in a jug in a saucepan of
boiling water. Stir one way,
until the mixture is a nice
thick paste. When quite cold
cover closely. It will keep
good for a fortnight. (Ed.
note: we have copied this
recipe exactly as it appeared
in the original Cook-book
however, we suspect that in
this day of refrigeration it
will keep a good deal long
er than a fortnight! Also a
double-boiler will probably
do the trick of the “jug in hot
water”.)
Time: 20 minutes
Seasonable: at any time
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