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Fashion: Ifinte DERELICT "AULD NOOSE" BEOURES
QUEEN MOTHER'S DREAM HONE
MIGHT BE GOOD FOR
CANADIANS TOO!
geons; now walks hungrily'
through the kitchens, 13,41 her
passion for jam tarts is said to
have subsided when a fat kitch-
en boy was fired, Says Charlie
Tate, the Mey gardener, "I've
slept alone in the castle many
times—and never heard as much
as a fly buzz."
If you want a more elaborate
ehicken sandwich ,that is really
a whole meal, try this one with
asparagus and Cheese sauce.
CHEF'S CHICKEN
SANDWICH
Sliced canned chicken
12 cooked asparagus spears
1 cup cheese sauce
4 slices buttered toast
Arrange chicken slices on hot
buttered toast, Place 3 aspara
gus spears on top of chicken.
Pour cheese sauce over all.
Serve with extra slices of hot,
buttered toast, * *
Serve these "puff" sandwiches
as soon as you take them out
of the oven. This is a real
cheese-tomato treat,
CHEESE-TOMATO PUFFS
6 slices pasteurized process
Canadian cheese
6 tomato slices, peeled
6 slices bread, crusts removed
and toasted on one side
2 egg whites
cup mayonnaise
IA teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
Top untoasted side of bread
slices with slice of cheese and
a tomato slice. Beat egg whites
stiff but not dry; fold in mayon-
naise, salt and pepper, Heap on
tomato slices. Bake at 350° F.
until puffy and, lightly browned.
*
Assemble these sandwiches
before .the crowd comes and
bake them when needed. Serve
them hot, garnished with olives
or pickles.
ROYAL HAWAIIAN
SANDWICHES
For each sandwich, you'll
need:
1 slice bread, crusts removed
1 slice ham, baked or pressed
1 slice cheese
1 slice pineapple; drained
Butter
Mustard.
Spread bread with butter and
mustard. Top with ham, then
cheese, ,then pineapple, slice.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet
and bake in• preheated 450° F.
oven. for 10-12 minutes, or until
cheese' melts and sandwich is
hot. * *
If, there are teeneigers in
your home, try these sand-
wiches for Saturday lunch for
the crowd.
GRILLED SAUSAGE-
CRANBERRY SANDWICHES
AU GRATIN
dozen sausage links
; slices. bread.
Canadian cheese,grated
i cup jellied cranberry sauce,
crushed
Fry sausage links until brown.
Toast bread, on both sideS.
Spread 2, tablespoons cranberry
sauce on each toast slice. Place
3 links sausage on each.
Sprinkle cheese over sausage.
Place on cookie sheet and toast
under preheated 400° F. broiler
,for. •5 minutes, or until cheese
melts.
World. War II and the subse-,
quent widening of the scope of
our international activities have
required many Americans to
learn foreign languages. The
business agent in Latin America,
the director of technical .assist,
ance in, a Far East proVinee, the
cultural-affairs officer of our In
formation Servige in .any. Euro-
pean country, all find it requisite
to, their jobs to be at least bi-
While foreigners hate long
made it a pOint to be able to
speak and write in languages
other than,their, own, the corn-
monaltY of Englishmen and
Americans haVe shown little de-
sire to.'!' acquire a competent
knowledge of ether tongues.
P r e i d,e,n, t Eisenhower has
shown an - ability at the, Geneva
Conference to pase- a few con-
versational phrases in French
and German, but he does not
pretend to a command of either
language, On the.other hand,
Russia's Bulganin speaks excel-
lent German,,, the French Pre-
mier, Faure, Is rePorted to 'be•
fluent in Ruisian, and Prime
Minister Eden, although his Ger-
man is sketchy,, is said to speak
Frendh about as well as he does
English.
It is told of Disraeli that this
empire-making man of letters
was wont to pronounce epicier,
the French for grocer, as though
the word rhymed with overseer.
Small wonder' that when, in
1878, the celebrated Prime Mini-
ster of England sought to address
the Congress of Berlin in French,
his aides, exercising what well
may have been the choicest bit
of diplomacy of the entire con-
ference, hastened to 'persuade
him otherwise by pleading that
he could not deprive the gen-
.gress 'of the treat of hearing a
speech in English "by the great-
est living master of that tongue."
Hartford Courant.
Listen To The Moon
it, Makes Grating
Noitis
JACQUES MICHEL, has chosen jet, black acetate peau de sole
to fashion this dress. The fitted-bodice. is dramaticallY CUt4 to
form slender cuffs over teiAli shoulder which' graduate down
to a V in the back: Tie dOUble skirt draped to, the back 'in
an aprOn effect on'd fihishid with' an oversized, knot., .• "‘
The Queen. Mother likes to tell,
these stories, but she has plan-
tied Mey as a holiday home
which will, be far from ghostly.
The need of the castle to be re-
stored and modernized for a new
lease of life met, an echo in her
widowed need to plan her own
life anew,
Her Majesty listened smilingly
to stories of the 14th Earl—back '
in Queen Victoria's day — who
brought his Spanish bride to
Mey and with her the cream of
4society from London, Paris and.
Madrid. On festive nights the
kilted men guests would drink
their host's, health, one foot on
the table in Highland fashion.
The Queen Mother decided s
that, though comfortably luxuri-
ous, the house should be "just
as it used to be," and she has
had lots of fun these last three•
years hunting for furniture.
Most of the original furnishing
was sold up by auction and
widely scattered some thirty
years ago. Her Majesty spent
days trying to trace the old din- -
ing-room furniture and then
found it in the house next door.
All trace of the old 'family pic-
tures of the Earls of. Caithness
was lost for years. Recently they
were found miles away in a ga-
rage. Now,after careful clean-
ing, they lave been restored to
the walls.
In a local antique shop, the
Queen Mother startled the pro-
prietress by asking, "Please may
I look behind the counter?"
Rummaging at the back of junk-
shops she has Unearthed a series
of beautiful old prints of the
castle and other Caithness land-
marks.
The Castle of Mey was as
tumbledown and forlorn as the
old, slass-houSe—a fragment of
the Crystal Palace—at the foot
of the garden:
To-day it has been transform-
ed :into a dry, centrally-heated
dreamhouse ,with nine bath-
rooms. The fifteen bedrooms
will mean ample space for Prin-
cess. Margaret and her friends,
for the Queen 'Mother loves' the
company of young people. When
she bought the castle. .she
thoughtfully eyed the private
beach. and said what, fun it
would would be'for Charles and Anne..
Some rumour-mongers de-
, clare that the Queen Mother in-
tends to Irialte=-MeY. a 'wedding.
gift to Princess Margaret. The
real truth, I am,sure, is that the
Queen Mother intends .to liVe
there herself .and finds, like- so
"many people,- that
ing 'nowadays takes much• longer
than one, expects!
ALL FOR HIS,,CATS
er.v4el yo along
day
thetb ewenolda cshweespt
thu
rno road.
fromJOhti 9' Greats to the
Castle of Mey and tourists crane
to catch a glimpse of the Queen
Mother's new Scottish home.
Every day new , royal rumours
y
s wTelei el) 1 oacma91 igf e 12th:a t1c5r0e pe t VOi411-t
lagers,
a cookery book to help raise
funds, with recipes from. Mrs,
Alice Waters, the. Queen Mo-
ther's Mey housekeeper, and
from a Mey Castle kitchen-maid,
and it sold like hot cakes. An
enterprising local photographer
launched a set of royal Mey Pic-
ture postcards and these, too
are raking in the bawbeeg
Dollar-paying Americans are
snapping up houses and farm-.
steads in the neighbourheod.
Even rambling Keiss Castle has
been bought—as a hobby—by a
man from Ohio. There's only one
snag in this amazing Mey furore.
The months pass by , .. and still
the Queen Mother doesn't move
in!
Yet at the white-walled vil-
lage post office local -folk say
that the Queen Mother may
quietly install herself alMost be-
fore you can read these words.
They talk of her many visits and
her genuine anxiety to "toast her
toesies" 'in her first real home
of her own.
They discuss the lovely four-
poster bed„ that had to be taken
to pieces before it could be car-
ried up the narrow stairs. They
wonder at, the modern kitchens,
once a warren of stone—arched
rooms and now a marvel of fit-
ted sinks and 'stainless Steel.
widowhood, the "auld • hoose"
'the roof. Candles and oil lamps
flat`, -Caithness countryside ' to-
wards
to gaze breathlessly across the
, south and the gales of the Pent-
up the utifailetV spiral -staircase
john-e' Groats and, across
the grey sea towards the Ork-
neys.
land Firth'had „torn slates from
Draughts whistled across to the
was in danger, of 'becoming
first came" to Mey early in her
derelict. The owner was moving
south
formed the only ' lighting.
great open 'fire-places from un-
der everydoor,
But the ,Queen Mother toiled
thaerethe' Queen Mother
roei4eWysh.h. ,eenAs she watched, a seal r e
dived with 'a, splash from oft a
even Mermaids,"
the Queen Mother laughed. Per-
haps mdre: than anything else
this sWilt .splash Clinched the
those. first •viaits,,the. royal
viewer Went 4:;19w,11 bat0.` the dn./17'
geom.," now , used as wine-cellars,
where a„ stout 'oak
iron grille himg,divbroken hipg-
es,* She' •was Secret -
tunnel built towards ,the sea-
shilre by,the first,orier Mey,
4th Ea rl of 't.a‘itlitieSS, a incite
With Powerat;of.'1Ife °° 'and death
,whd felt 'an'aCtite•needgat
for quick getaways -Ironv the,
Vengeful4riendalofx his victims.
The fUnieel.,had,,'neerlybeen
forgotte,n!Wlken' an "'army' lorry ,
'fell intoriVellitiViithe war!
The'dfig reeskAhe.Qiieen Mo-
ther* did, not ,see is the, heuntedc'
turret roam inf the tower. ,Herei•r
leng ago,, a danghter of the
house who fell in `love with a
`farm. labourer was put on to
bread and water,- but she ' es-
caped indleapt to her death in
the ceurtyard below. Anguished
groans' and cries so disturbed the
castle:tOwards the middle 'of ',last
century that the doorway, of the'
room was bricked up and if, is
not to be reopened;
Another ghost, an , old lady
, who starved to death in the dun-
A venerable French painter
sat in a roadside cafe. in Mont-
parnasse stolidly munching bag
after bag of potato chips. His
luncheon companion .watched
disapprovingly and tinallY, con-
sumed with 0. curiosity, asked,
"Why' do you eat so many potato
The old man carefully shook
out the crumbs, folded the Cel-
lophane bags in which -.the' po-
tato chips had_ coine,* placed.
them in his pocket and said: ".1
do it for my cats. They just love
to play with Cellophane."
of bowl' becathe PoPular. Fancy
claYs 'with embossed- -mouldings
on the bowl, were introduced in
the 18th- .century and a, ,much;
lenger stem -,,became the vague.
Lop:ion clubs arid' in:rig ,kelea'
supply of, long stemmed pipes,
known as 'Churchwardens' or
'London`. Straws'- for their pa-'
trolls. -They were stored in
specially made racks. and "Were
'fired' to "clean,..them so they
could . be pht into circulation
again.
The popularity of clay began
to wane early .in the 19th .century
with: the introductien of the-.
Meerschaum.
' These elaborately .carved pipes.
were imported from Austria and
Hungary where they. had been.
the Vogue for some time.'They
were invariably. fitted'
ber mouthpieces. The hovels; col=
oured beautifully. after use and
pipe smoking, which had for
some time been confine4, to the
middle arid humbler' classes
taken by the more
who, in the meantime, had taken
to cigars. The name 'ineer,
schaum', whiehmeans. sea-foam,,
led to the mistaken,„ belief that
it was petrified foam. Aduilly
it is an alkali, Mined' in Asia
Minor, the main source being
Eskichehir.
More About Pipes
And Pipe Smoking
The first important book di-
rected against it — 'The opinions
of the late and best Phisitions
concerning the Pipe and Tobac-
co' was published in. 1595 and
on his accession to the throne in
1603. James I joined issue with
his famous `Counterblaste to To-
bacco'. He called it - 'an evil
vanitie• and a gluttenous exer-
cise' and that 'it is like hell in
the very substance of%it, for it
is a stinking loathsome thing:
and so is hell'.
His vicious attack failed to
make much impression on the
sale of tobacco' and he therefore
resorted to other means. In Eli-
zabeth's time', tobacco duty was
* * *
Dressing. Variations
You'll need 1 cup cooked
dressing for every 2 sandwiches.
Add ,to it finely chopped- onion,
green pepper, green olives, or
tart pickle. Now, add just one
of the following — curry, pow-
der, chili, powdered tarragon or
thyme (be discreet about
amount!). Next, add a dash of
Tabasco or other hot sauce.
Thin this mixture with a zesty
Trench- dressing. Stir , to blend
well. Pour it over your two-way
Open-face club sandwich and
wait for the comments that in.-
dicate that you're a cooking
genius!
*
Many of the best open-face
sandwiches. are placed under the.
broiler fer, a few minutes until
heated", or:•,brontried. Hein. is 'a
combination of crabmeat and
cheese - ;flit ,treitect this
way. '-
DEEP-SEA -FANCY
1 cilittrabmiie /VA-ounce
) tablespoons -Chopped green
pepper
1 tableibeon eaeh, 'chopped
ripe olives and onions
3 tablespoont mayonnaise
1 teaspoon lemon juice
teaspoon, horseradish •
1/ teaspoon salt
4 slices Canadian cheese
4 slices '
Combine crabmeat, green pep-
per, onion, ripe Olives, and _
,salt. Mix togeAer mayonnaise,
lemon juke. -,and- , horseradish
until well blended. Add to crab-
meat Mixture, mixing lightly.
Spread on 4 toast slices. Top
each -with cheese slice. Place,
under low broiler until cheese
melts and is golden brown.
Canned chicken may- be used
in many ways' in open-faced
_sandwiches. Simplest of all is
to top bread or toast with a
thin coat of mayonnaise and
then with light and' dark meat
set in over-lapping sections
(pictured). Garnish with stuffed
olives, tomato wedges, or strips
of pickle.
Somebody, , affected by the
moon is, believed to have-hoaxed
the life-saVing service in a Kent
seaside town recently dashed
into a coastguard ,Station at the.
time -of a new.moon and gasped
that, while' on. the' beach; he-had
seen a man' drift,by; in, a rowing
boat shouting for help.
When-the coastguard 'turned to'
ask the mari,his' naniei. he had
vanished. Fir sixteen. hours
craft,' coastguards and a lifeboat
„ searched, the,,area, for . a. trace
of 'the boat or than—Without, re
'suit.
-
Another similar false alarm
was• given just before` the time
of. the 'full mobil; This time the
hoaxer 'used' 'red - flares' which
again.led.to a vain search. ,
"Sometkly who is moonstruck
'was very likes -resporiSible,”-
, said, an official.' ""
Science has been trying for a
long time to discover, whether
the actions or health of 'human
beings can be affecte'd by moon- •
light. • One 'British 'scientist. "has
Said that the colossal upheaVal
of ,the Water's of the earfli
the tides — Suggegts ,terrifYing
possibilities of the2?thoonN effeet
on human aclions. -•'
From .Bengal some, time ago
came the story of a' woman who
.always took, Care that the" moon
should hot shine on Sher ",face;'!as
she'had once been "moonstruck!:
Her husband had,. awakened, her
because her face was "strangely
drawn-looking" on one. side, and
continued, so for some hours ,af-
terwards. • •
It will probably continue to
ibaffle scientists — that Strange,
unpredictable influence which
appears to be exerted on the
human brain by the moon.
• In a British police court case
it was said that a man changed
,his character :Completely when
th" moon was. high.
Some medical men believe it is
possible for :the moon, across a
distance of 238:000 miles, to af- '
feet the vital ,fluids in the eavi-
ties of. the human brain and
snine,
A" novel suggestion Was ad-
vanced by a juryman at an in-
quest on a thirty-year-old wo-
man who received fatal injuries
While horseracing in Cheshire
in 1934. The juror asked a Wo-
Man riding 'instructress; "no. 'you.
know whether the 'moon', being
full has a tendency -to make
women giddy?". "I, haVe heard
so," the witness 'replied,
A doctor once made- the odd
discoVerY that more loalilea'are
tern at the 'time Of -full- Moon
tharCat any oth:
Astronomers 'and scientists in
Czechoslovakia succeeded hi
4listening in" to Moonlight by
converting the light rays- into
Set-did rayS.
But instead. of the soft fuga l?
they erpected; they heard "a
• high, gratin# riolSe: which Sound.,
ed as if the universe needed oil,
v
Around 1859,', an accidental
discovery introduced: a material
which was to revolutionize pine
sineking and indeed, make it
More popular than ever: A
French pipe maker made a pil-
grimage to Napoleon's birth-
place in Corsica. During his stay,
he was alleged to save broken
his Meerschaum. Providence led
him to a Corsican peasant Who
fashioned hills another -Item a
local grown wood. This was the
root of the tree Heath (Erica•
Aborea). Delighted with his
new pipe, he obtained Some Of
the wood arid sent it to' St.
Claude, a small village in the
heart of the Jura Mountains,
where he used to buy wooden
stems. St. Claude thus beedine
the centre Of a flourishing
clustrY. Briar pipes Were import- '
ed intoo this country in large
ntinibera and in fact, still are.
The word briar (Or brier) has
rlo etaineetien with the reSe briar
but is a corruption 'of the Frendh
`Brnyere'. The root IS found
principally In Mediterranean
districts, Algeria, Greece, South..
din Italy, Sardiiiiiii Sicily and of
course COrsied. GoOd root is rare
and senietiinek takes from be,
tWeell 60 to 100 years to Matti-re.
2d per pound — he raised it to
6s 10d. He prohibited its culti-
vation in England' and restricted'
the planters of Virginia. -to. a
yearly production of 100 pounds.
Despite all this, smoking flour-
ished. Smuggling, was, rife and.
tobacco leaf was grown secretly
in remote parts of the country.
Curiously enough it was about
this tithe that-• per:Sedition 'of
smokers began to spread in other
parts:of, the, world: In- Turkey,
smokers, had their noses, pierced.,
In liussia they, were, tortured and
in China 'and: persia elaborate
laws and Punishments were. im-
posed. Nciwtiere hoWever• did this.
savage treatment achieve the'
desired result — the people
still smoked.
In .1619 there came a great
step in pipe progress. The Com-
pany of Tobacco Pipe Makers
was incorporated', and granted a
Charter. Adopting for its motto
'Let brotherly love 'continue' it
franied laws fol. the better con-
duet of trade and guarded the
privileges of its members.
Approaching the middle of the
17th century, the industry of
clay pipe making Sprang up all
over England. During the time
of the plague, clay pipes, or
plague pipes as they were called,
were in great derhand to fumi-
gate against infection. Cooks,
bakers, innkeepers and many
others, anxious to take advant-
age of the demand, began to
make pipes. So unskilful were
their efforts, however, that they
brought the trade into disrepute.
Th,en, to the great indignation of
English pipe makers. Holland
flooded this country with pipes
made from imported English
clay. In 1663, therefore, the
Company of Tobacco Pipe
Makers petitioned Parliament to
forbid the export of clay and
asked to be empowered to pre-
vent unlicensed persons from
making pipes. Both requests
were granted and clay pipe
Makers continued to flourish
again.•
The days made in Elizabeth's
time Were small because tobac-
co was so eXperitive, They hacl
a flat base or heel to the bevel,
which leaned forward arid the
stems were about 12 inches toile.
The Makers Were proud to
play their names or marks oh
the Pipet; they Made and many
examples of their WOrk are to
be fOund in museums and pro
Vate dollections in many parts"
Of the' cenintrY,
Towards the erici of the 17th
century S more elongated forth
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suction CUpi Makes quite d 'Splash with'thiS young. 164' OS ,she
squeeies bulb.-which forces *Mee tht-oubh shower head Seinfiit
helpers" the ritition's toy, manufacturers, are hoping that in-play
tests such at, this Will detUreiiely ihdieCife- deinOnd tor ,foyi.
ds Santa prepares for the birittinOt Sliditipind rush.
ELECTRIFYING .LESSON: 41 ElettiethiC blackboard sounded a'-new
note iri rriusic, ectuceiPan at 8. Ahlbbrii demonstrates his inveh ,
Pion ip Frankfort, Gettribriy. Notes ore chalked, Ori, whidi
is wirect•td•CondUCt electricity. 'When` ooihfee makes contact with
note, Opotopriote tope is SaUnded by , keyboard
below bidekbodid is used cidd thdrded effects diirind' the •
fessoii
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When you're itt a hurry to
• prepare a, luncheon, late even,
nig supper or between-meal
smack, try making open-face
sandwiches for the occasion,
Many of the foods you, already
have on your pantry shelf or in
the refrigerator can 'be used,
Cheese, canned chicken or tur-
key, canned salmon, tuna,
shrimp or erahmeat sliced ham,
aausage, bacon and tomatoes are
only a few of the fundamentals
that can be utilized for this pur-
pose.
A club sandwich, for instance,
doesn't have to be a three-layer
affair with the top layer sliding
Off when least expected. It'll be
better than you've ever had
even in your favorite restaurant,
if you make it a two-way, open-
lace sandwich that doesn't have
to be put ,together for eating,
writes Eleanor Richey Johnston
in The Christian Science ,Moni-
tor. * *
Open Club Sandwich.
Start your open-face club
sandwich with two pieces of hot
toast for each person to be
served, Butter them and place
side by side on plates large
enough to take two slices se-
curely. On one slice place a
crisp leaf of head lettuce and
then generous slices of light
and dark chicken or turkey. On
the second piece of toast place
another leaf of lettuce and a
slice of tomato topped by 3
slices of crisp bacon. There you,
have the good-tasting foods that
make up a club sandwich. You
add your own special flavoring
with the, dressing you.pour over
it.
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