The Manhattan Mercury from Manhattan, Kansas • Page 10

'f i I Friday, November 28, 1975 The Manhattan Mercury B7 Household hints DON Q. Gnniz Nylon net handy for holidays Dear Heloise: I attended a buffet recently and as a favor I received one of your nylon net rosettes (pompons) for scouring. This was all I needed and I started making them during my lunch hour at work. i One of the women saw them and she suggested putting decorations in the centers and using them on top of Christmas packages instead of expensive ribbons. I used bells, cones, tiny plastic foam balls, tiny Christmas balls, etc.

I used two colors of net together. Next I made a net Christmas tree by using a plastic foam cone mounted on a plastic foam base. Using tiny on hand. Heloise Mrs. Sharon Rosengren Dea Heloise: I think it's a good idea for anyone Put the last coffee from your pot with small children.

(cooled, of course) on your plants and Some of the best loved toys are see how they flourish, homemade. Mrs. M.H. Sears Editors' Quiz on- EGRETS HEY 5ANCHO, WAITUR' FEELlMG? ANDY CAPP By Reg Smythe HELOISE I I I 1 hair pins, I stuck green rosettes all over this. Then I stuck the colored Christmas balls, which come on a wire stem, in the centers, sprayed glue over it and shook gold glitter over the whole tree.

It was so pretty that my daughter's boss gave her money to buy material to make one for their office. Also by using a plastic foam wreath, I used blue net rosettes, silver balls, and silver glitter and had an absolutely beautiful wreath. Frances McElwain Folks, this nylon net can be bought at most fabric and department stores for about 40 cents a yard and it's 72 inches wide. Last year people wrapped Christmas packages with net after covering the packages with white tissue paper. The net was later cut up to be used as dish scrubbers.

Heloise Dear Heloise: When cutting up fruit for fruit salad, put it in you colander which is placed in a large pan or bowl. That way the juice wil drain into the pan or bowl and the fruit will not get soggy. Trudy Konkoly And the juice can be saved to be added to gelatin for a delicious fruity taste. Heloise Dear Heloise: I own a refrigerator-freezer which is not self-defrosting. I have found that if I place several sponges in the wells of the drip tray when I start to defrost my freezer, it helps to keep the water from spilling on the floor when I move the drip tray from the freezer to the sink to empty it as the sponges help absorb the water.

D. Franklin Dear Heloise: When it became necessary to apply hot packs to an injury recently, I found the unit of my slow-cook pot very handy to keep the solution hot and ready to use. Wilda Singleton Dear Heloise: I have a very active 20-month-old daughter who just lovest to play in the kitchen when I'm cooking or washing dishes. Invariably out come the brightly colored boxes of rice, cookies, etc. Inquisitive little fingers can easily open the flaps and a mess results.

So I got the idea of giving her her own shelf of "food" to play with. Whgen the boxes are empty, I stuff them with newspaper, so they'll keep their shape, and tape the flaps shut. She loves these and leaves the "real food" alone. This would be a good idea for grandparents who are on a limited budget and can't afford to keep toys I Beer lovers collect CHICAGO only is the world full of beer lovers, but apparently the world is also full of beer can lovers, if one is to judge by the recent sales here of "World Wide Beer Can Collector's Guide," by Robert Dabbs and Davavid Harris of Independence, Mo. The book sold 40,000 copies the first three weeks it was available in the Chicago area.

It will soon be available nationwide. It lists every conceivable type of beer can, from commemorative cans to foreign ones, and tells how to date a beer can, how to trade beer cans and how to judge the relative worth of a beer can. (The book is published by World 'Wide Beer Can Collectors of Independence, and distributed by Wallace-Homestead Book Des Moines.) QUESTION: What is an egret? ANSWER: Egret is the name for several species of herons of the old and new worlds. They are beautiful, long- necked, long-legged wading birds. Seen in shallow water, at the water's edge or in marshes, they feed on fish, frogs and other aquatic animals.

They are graceful birds with handsome plumage, are gregarious and live in colonies. During the mating season, the adults grow graceful plumes between the shoulder.blades and extending down the back beyond the tail. Some of the plumes are straight, others are curved. The silky plumes of the egret have been called aigrettes. Since early times, aigrettes have been used as ornaments by men and women.

Milliners used aigrettes to adorn hats. Plume hunters nearly exterminated the birds before they were protected by law. They were killed for their exquisite ornamental plumage. 11-29 (Lori Drake of Kensington, Connecticut, wins a prize for this question. Yo.u can win $10 cash plus AP's handsome World Yearbook if your question, mailed on a postcard to Junior Editors in care of this newspaper, is selected for a prize.) by THOMAS JOSEPH ACROSS 40 French police branch 41 homo" 42 Ire 43 At that time DOWN 1 Bay tree 2 Printing mistakes 3 Pilot's concern (2 wds.) 4 One of the Joneses 5 Odd thing 6 Prevent 7 Fall behind SHIIHflS 1 Political direction 5 Gleason's Kramden 10 Guthrie 11 Arthurian island and Thummim 14 Entertain; amuse 15 Old dress 16 Douglas 17 Never (Ger.) 18 Biblical verb ending 19 Lawyer (abbr.) 20 Agnew nickname 21 Johnny- 23 The in VHF 24 Bluegrass 25 Ventilate 26 Clarence Kelley, e.g.

28 Handles 31 Coiffure puff 32 Capuchin monkey 33 Flatten the hair 34 Formicary denizen 35 Among 3i Ending for spat or form 37 Trample (2 wds.) 39 Insect flEKB HUB HH0 BHHBtli M1M HBEIHHE ISH Mara sum Yesterday's Answer 9 More sancti- 28 Somer- 8 Tasty beverage (2 wds.) monious 12 Impoverished 16 FDR's dog 22 Eternity 23 Rome's Veneto 25 Dry 26 widow saulting dive 29 Buckingham, e.g. 30 Island in N.Y. Bay 32 Struck 38 Baseball throw 27 Italian city 39 "-lost!" 21 34 40 24 32 35 23 2O 41 33 29 DAILY CRYPTOQUOTE A LONG Here's how to work it: A A FELLOW One letter simply stands for another. In this sample A is used for the three L's, for the two O's, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words -are all hints.

Each day the code letters are different. CRYPTOQUOTES HFBWW HFOCXT SZTH SRC KPTTWTT OL FOT TPZJ MPZJQ YBWRQ, YWRZHE RCQ SRBUFRS Yesterday's Cryptoquote: EVERY CLOUD HAS ITS SILVER LINING, BUT IT IS SOMETIMES A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO GET IT TO THE MINT. DON MARQUIS (C 1975 King Syndicate, Inc.) UXXS LIKE FINISHED MS HOME BAR, CHALKIE WEE PALS By Morie Turner THAT'S ODE WHO'LL NEVER HELP ME MY SPELLING IT STANDS FOR CHANUkAH, NIPPER WHAT'S THE FOR, JERRY ABOUT THE PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz PI AM IS WHAT ALOUSV THOSE STUPID CWOT65 AKE COMPLETELY UNCIVILIZED, THEY EAT 60IN6 HOME I CAN HAVE A 6000 OLP-FA5HIONEPCANOF7 REAL 006.f BUNNIES! I CANT BELIEVE BLONDIE By Young Raymond ITS TO A HAPPIER HOME LIFE" EXCUSE ME, BUT WHERE DID YOU GET THAT BLACK EYE? MY WIFE HIT ME WITH THE THIS BOOK is A MUST FOR EVERY By Gordon Bess BEETLE BAILEY By Mort Walker THE WIZARD OF ID By Parker Hart DOONESBURY By Gary Trudeau 1 DON'T MEAN TO B5 BOTHERING i WU.SON: IT'S PAD, LOOK, WYWfT YOU 20NKER, YOU KNOW AND I Bt- HAVE A 6INNIN6TOHAVEAN PHILOSOPHY OVEKUHEIMIN6 SENSE EXAM.DAP- OF MOR- WHICH I'VE THANKS, PAP; BUTW5 JUST 7HBNMAYM BAREM TOUCHED CAN HELP ON MORTALITY EACH OTHER! THIS SEMESTER. PROBABLY JUST A FIV5 POINT I.