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There's' room for one more on this colorful merry-go-round ingeniously made by James MCKeag.
McKeag inspects the insides of his con'trivance.
TAKES-THE ,PRIZE—This. picture :of 'a collie in a field of daisiei
won the top prize of $500 ire a recent photo contest. Taken
by George Sure, the picture was judged {or human appeal as
well as photograptilc Contest wee sponsored by tile
Gaines Dog Research. Ceritein•
TABLE TALKS
dam Andrews.
During recent years. "eating,
tut" hoe become Mere and more
popular in many Parts of the
eeuntrY; and with the epening
iap of literallY hundreds of new
eating places, many of its have
learned to like dishes which,
formerly, we only read about,
One of these is the Italian
reSt,remi, — or pastrami, — which
actually only a sort of glori-
ded corn beef, And I know that
many Of you will be interested.
In the f011Owing letter to The.
Christian Science Monitor giv-
ing instructions tor making
both these meats right at home. * * *
Corned Beef
"Se many people have asked
me for my recipe for pastromi
That I would like „ to share it,"
writes Mrs. Myra Perry, Los
Angeles, Calf. "The meals I
think best suited for corning or
pickling are large pieces of
brisket, boneless rump, or even
the sides of the quarter round,
deboned. Pastromi, in its early
stages, is corned beef. *
"To corn beef place a slab of
tide beef (with some fat run-
, ming through it) in' a crock or
deep-well 'kettle: o 'Cover with
water to which you have added
1 cup vinegar, 1 cup salt (smoked
malt is best), and 1 ounce pick-
ling spices. Hold meat down in
liquid with a weight (a brick
will do). Cover and let stand 3
days. Then: yeti have corned
beef.
Pastromi
"To make pastromi of this
earned beef, cook for 1/2 hour
10 the pound. Add to the cook-
ing water, which must cover
meat, 1 clove garlic, minced,
11-4 bey leaves and a few small,
bet, red peppers.
When tender, but still firm,
remove from liquid and cool.
New preparena miXture, 50 per
'lent black pepper, 35 per cent
allspice and 15 per cent corian-
der. (For a 10-pound piece of
beef, nse..about.3 teaspoons pep-
, 11/2 ' leaerioonkealtSpice and
teaspoon, enrian4et.); When
meat is cooled, spread over it
come liquid smoke, then sprin-
kle with the above spice mixture.
Bake at ,t7fit'l "-',,';for Abcante 1/2
tour. We like it served sliced
thin, with boiled potatoes, dill
pickles, cabbage or cauliflower." * * 1; it r 2,
Toast, hot, crisp, acct golden
Is always 04 4,4 itself; How4
ever, it has many delectable
00usirisnitea1rior tingeenaeCa-
*Iona 'When something special is
indicateden7Fors, instance, . you
might suiRisel, yout ^WeekeAd
guests some Sunday, morning
with thipabligtatf6' version:2- '
FROSTED TOAST
1 tablespoon soft butter
3Y2 cup sifted, powde r d sugar
11/2 tablespeens ligilt ,' ream -,,
1 teaspootrainhaVo ,
, .e. ,, 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
6 slices buttered toast
Blend together butter, sugar,
and cream; add cinnampn, and ,
'Canilla, and spread off least. if
place in a moderate oven for .
three or fourInifiutes'eo warm
trough. Serve at once. Serves
three,' tcy four. -,e *.t — a * * •
A side hilt delibious COncOo
elon.js;
CREAM`-CHEESE TOAST
SOftersx One l three-ounce`pack-
'Age of cream cheese with suffi-
cient CrearnIfef e'lsy spreading.
Spread on het buttered toast
and sprinkle with paprika.. Or
grated maple sugar, Heat under
broiler to serve at its best.
Serves three to four.: * *
Fora delicious, piquant toast,
try
GLAZED ORANGE TOAST
lei cup batter
Grated rind of two oranges
1 cup sugar
2 ta" lespoons oraege juice
Thoroughly blend these in-
gredients, adding more orange
juice if necessary for a pod
spreading consistency, and
spread on unbuttered toast.
Glaze a minute under hot broiler,
Serves three to four.
*
PARTY CHEESE FINGERS
V2 pound Canadian cheese,
grated
V§ small onion, minced
le! green pepper, minced
4 tablespoons butter.
Blend ingredients well in a
large bowl or with electric
mixer. Spread on strips of un-
buttered bread — four inches
long by one and one-quarter
inches wide is a good size — and
place under broiler two or
three minutes until cheese is
melted and lightly browned.
Onion may be omitted, if desir-
ed. A substitute or addition
would be two slices „of bacon
snipped into biits and added to
the mixture, Will serve six.
* * *
ANCHOVY TOAST
3 tablespoons anchovy paste
3 tablespoons softened butter
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
le teaspoon minced parsley
;I teaspoon minced onion
Blend ingredients and spread
on hot toast. Place in oven a
moment before serving. Serves
three to four.
Dutch Treat
A Dutch calendar with a pic-
ture on its front page of cows
grazing on wide, green pasture-
land, and with a background of
flowers and blue skies, brought
domance to a Dutch maiden and
Mr. Hugh Flanagan, citizen of
Pittsburgh.
The calendar was sent to him
by a Dutchman from Delft,
whom Flanagan had met during
the last war. The American
liked the picture so much that
f he felt he wanted to marry a
girl from the country with such
, ,attractive landscapes.
So he immediately wrote .to
7" leIynheer de Zoete to be on the
look-out on his behalf for a ,
p jetty Dutch girl.
Itet/as not difficult for the
tylan om Delft to find such a
maiden, and soon a correspond-
ence developed between Mar-
geletje van der Kist and Mr.
Flanagan.
1After' eiehanging letters for
several months, Mr. Flanagan
decided that it was about time
he arranged a meeting with
Margrietje.
He flew over to Holland, and
Margrietje's deep blue eyes fin-
ally did the ,trick. He proposed
'to her and she accepted. They
were married soon after, and
the "match-maker" was best
man.
Put together an " washing
machine and some' Ingenuity
and you get a working merry-
go-round. At least, that's what
veteran railroad = brakeman
James McKeag got. Photo at
right shows how. One qt top
shows the results. He, built a
metal cylinder with a plywood
bottom, and into it he inserted
the washing machine motor and
a large pulley to slow down
its speed. The plywood top, con-
nected to the motor shaft, re-
volves on casters placed- on -up-`
rights. These support the 'cyl-
inder. Two brightly painted
plywood horses, a chair and a
colorful umbrella' attract neigh-
borhood youngsters to •McKeag's
three - passenger merry-go-
round. In the top photo, McKeag
is sitting in*a garden chair and
holding the electric, extension
and switch which controls the
ride. Going round and round
are his 21/2 -year-old grandson,
Chucky Stultz, 'and playmate
Larry Wilcox.
Power From The Sun May Give
Greater Results Than Atomic Energy
For countries like Can-
ada where cooking -fuels are
cheap and abundant, these little
solar cookers 'will never be
more than a novelty. But, as
was . pointed out 'by- John A.
Duffie of the• University of
Wisconsin, the solar stoves can
help break the self-defeating
food cycle in Asia, where fer-
tilizer that could be used to
increase crop yields is burned
in home kitchens.
Right now, , such stoves cost
anywhere from $15 to $45 each,
and are too expensive to be of
much help in areas where they
are needed. But Mr. Duffie and.
other speakers told of research
developments that promise to'
take the price below $5. "'This
would be cheap enough for in-
terested governments to begin
distributing the stoves where
they would do the most agricul-
tural good.
Other areas where sun power
is beginning to be used are the'
heating and cooling, of houses
and the heating of water. At the,
moment, these and other direct
uses of solar heat are largely
experimental or ate in only
limited use. The most to be said
for them is that Much mare re-
search is needed to make them
economical on any sizablescale.
However, as a vision of the
future, all of these things are
overshadowed by the prospect
of unraveling photosynthesis
and of using sunlight to turn
water into fuel for power.
To date, natural scientists
have traced through many of
the Subsidiary processes of pho-
tosynthesis, Only the key light-
using process is still unsolved,
and this too, is under intense
research attack,
Delegates there said they are
unable to guess %vitae the final
solution of this mystery will
mean to the food induetry. Pere
haps, some of there say, it Will
be found more efficient to Pro,
duce food in a chemical plant
Others say that they doubt this:
Greee. plants, to Ahern, still seers
have an adeantage over the
ti
an
capital equiptheilt which
Would be needeed in any future
food faetbry, although green
plant agriculture
doubtedly be revolutionised.
However, whatever turn the
food industry takea, the time is
approaching. when Men will title ,
derstand completely how to Use
sunlight to Make their feed. It
seems axiomatic to the delegatei
herd that thiS understanding'
will be developed eventually
wipe food shortages filen thiS
planet
The second process; in whith,
sunlight is used id split Water'
frith hydrogen and oxygen gaSeS, 6
is as Startling in 16 poSsibilities
as atomic power. The sunlight
that falls on the United States
alone during one year has the
energy' equivalent of 1,150 bil-
lion tons of coal.
Already, there_ has b e e n
enough success with limited
laboratory experiments to just-,
ify large-scale research along
this line. Ie., fact, Jesse E. Hob-
son, director of the Stanford
Research 'Institute, said indus-
trial scale research is what he
would most like to see come
out of the present conference.
The sun is free, he said, and
water is the one of most abun-
dant of raw materials. If a way
can be' found to use sunlight
to break up the Water into its
gases 'inexpensively, On inex-
haustible source'of .power would
be found, since hydrogen is a
compact high-grade feel, that
burns with an • intense heat.
Mr. Hobson's own instiiite has
been carrying out 'experimenie
along this• line. Evidently: they-
are encouraging, for, he has
been enthusiastic in recom-
mending this as one of the big-
gest solar energy prospecte"for
the future and worth the im-
mediate research attention of
industry. Certainly, he .eaid,„
there is a much clearer road
for development here than in
trying to harness the hydrogen
bomb.
Love Tonic
.4
Huge Eberhardt, stout,
double-chinned, beld-pated pro-
prietor of< the hotel Rad, at Tett-
nang, not far from Lake Con-
stance, •is West Germany's
patagus king..
lie specialises` in -the prepar* •
lien Of aSparague" dishes; aied
has studied them all* over the
world and collected many
strarige recipes. Resolt: li,i e'
menu card shoWs rio less than
50 different 'dishes of asparagus,
revelicloarliehe claims is "Weed
He serves their in the Gethi,
en, British, Italian, Freriell, Rel
glen; et Swiss Way, with green
tips, yellow tip's; with or With, ,
out eheese, roasted bteade
&UMW, eggs, tomatoes, trililleS,
lemon juice, onions, in Combina-
tion with &db.,. tails, 'halt? 'el'
tongue, of as %Oen, vegetable,.
pudding, salad or pie.
The teal eeeret of his art lies
in the preparatiofi of 'the punier';:
ous sauces which he adds to his
dishes.
:Samples of *the Jere has
collected: the ancient Greek's
used to Seek ninth-Qua' ire Water,
then waslied 'face and hands in
it' as a protection against the
"evil eye."
Apparently there is also a
tradition that in older days as-
paragus Wee, the Printery hied-
client of Nave Ptitieti§
Reeking Riches "
LiverpOol was packed with
11 0 p eless, starving pailormen,
British shipping w a s going
through a bad slump, Silent ships
lay anchored to the empty
wharves. Shipowners were glad
to embark on any wild gamble
to keep their ships in commission
Then word went round the hat-
hour taverns "Get to Ichaboe
and your fortune's made!"
Soon ships were streaming out
to the remote little island off
South-West Africa. In this year,
1843, what did they hope to find
— gold or diamonds? No —bird's
manure.
But it 'was a, special kind of
bird's manure called guano and
worth over $6,000,000, It Cover-
ed the island, which is only a
mile in circumference, to a depth
of twenty-five to forty feet, In
good seasons it is estimated that
20 million gannets roost there
every night.
A Linerpool businesarnao, An-
drew Livingstone, first realized
the guano's value. He found
partners to charter three small
sailing ships and sent them out
with sealed orders.
'Ichaboe was then uncharted,
the whole south-west Coast a no
man's land known only to a few
whalermen and sealers Only
one of the three, Captain Farr's
brig, Ann, located the island.
They loaded the guano by send-
ing boats through the surf and
brought it to England.
In a graphic survey of the
islands — "Panther Head" --
Lawrence G. Green says that
Livingstone and his partners paid
Farr and his officers to keep
the secret of this fertilizer, so
rich in nitrogen and phosphates
and worth $30 a ton. The crew
they shipped away in other
vessels.
But they didn't know that at
Ichaboe the crafty steward had
copied the island's position from
the logbook. He sold the infor-
mation to the highest bidder and
the secret was out.
First of the fortune-seekers to
reach Ichaboe was aptain Wade's
Douglas, and when others ar-
rived the. masters clubbed to-
gether, sending spars, booms,
topmasts ashore for erecting
stages and loading devices.
By the end of the year twenty
ships were there, Competing.
Wade, who had taken possession
of the.island in the name. of
Queen Victoria, was elected
"apportioner and arbitrator."
With the arrival of more ships,
hundred's of men lived• on Shore
in canvas shelters. Claims were
staked as if Ichaboe were a gold
or diamond field. When a gale
blew up most of the fleet had
to run for the open Sea, and there
were collisions.
• Worse, masters and-crews who
had once' worked together be-
came crazy with greed. Stages
and pits abandoned during •the,
gale were seized by newcomers.
All semblance 'of ol'cler, Vanished.
Men fought for' the' guano 'with
spades and picks, were buried in
it, dug out, buried again, It. was
a "free for, all' among the cling-
ing filth.
Someone 'bronght liquor' in,
and the' "men ,grew ttuculent. A
Liverpool Irishman, Ryan,, who
had deserted from the Navy,
held a meeting, declared Ichaboe
a republic and himself ruler. No
master or mate was allowed to
set foot on it, any officer at-
tempting to land was pelted with
deEd penguins.
Ryan's -"republie" ended when
the shipmasters corriplained to
the British 'naval authorities' at
Sirnenon,stown, and the' frigate
Thunderbolt arrived in May,
UM, followed shortly after,
wards by, Admiral Sir John,
Marshall, in his fifty-gun flag-
shiP Isis<
"Imagine," he recorded in his
log-book, "a fleet of about g25
sail < many with masters of
irregular habits and insubordin-
ate crews, seamen and labourers
amounting to about 3,500 men of
the lowest and most drunken
class, crowded together in car
tainly the most boisterous an-
chorage in the world."
By October 6,000 men were
in tents at the northern end,
pitched, eo elose together that it
was impossible to detect truants
or liquor-sellers. men skulked
there by • day, rioted by night,
holding orgies.
Behaviour at last became sb•
bad that the admiral ordered
every tent to, be struck, every
man to return to his ship, and
landed a strong force of armed
seamen and marines to ensure
obedience.
A strange discovery at this
time was a coffin, eighteen feet
below the surface. The inscrip-
tion revealed the well-preserved
body of, a Dutch sailor buried in
1689.
Allowing six feet for the
grave, the guano must have risen
about twelve feet in 155 years,
On the lee side of .the island ,at
the north end where the birds
sheltered from southerly winds,
it was forty feet deep.
By May, 1845, 300,000 tons
had been shipped to Britain and
sold at an average of $21 a ton.
Great firms sprang up in Liver-
pool as a result of the .reeking
riches which had saved British
shipping 'at a critical time.
One firm — Gibson,Linton —
sent Captain Tompkins in .their
ship Heroine in 1847 to see if
fresh guano had been deposited.
He realized that if the birds were
guarded Ichaboe and the other
islands 'would' again become val-
uable, so he left a few men on
shore at each.
Granger, a Cape Town ship-
owner, also sent a ship tonIch-
aboe. Others who entered the
trade included the brothers
Aaron and Elias de Pass. Wood-
en huts were erected, the birds
protected, the annual guario
crop gathered.
But harmony did not last for
long. Tompkins had in his em-
ploy a seafaring man, George
Murison, who was dismissed and
left Ichaboe swearing that he
would get his share Of the stuff
Or die in 'the "atternot. He, his
brothers and influential friends
in Cape Town, fitted out an ex-
pedition to. take the island by
assault, and „ as part of the
Scheme engaged two Professional
"pugs" ae $100 'each, one 'the
brother of the famous ; Tom
Sayers who fought Heenan in
the greatest prize-fight of ring
history. o • —
From the Schdener Flibbetty
they landed nine men, all armed
with revolvers. But -the, de Pass
brothers, getting wind 0 their
plan, had sent a "garrison" of
forty men to the Aland.* '
Murison found "e"Sandbag fort
on the beach, and-when he off• -
loaded his tents and equipment
the defenders pitched everything
back into the boat and hurled
so many stones that it nearly
sank. The "pugs" never had a •
chance to strike a blow.
Incidents of the kind occurred
for years. One season the men
on Plumpudding Island killed
all the birds rather than let ri-
vals seize it. It was the law of
fist and gun again.
Lawrence G r e en recounts
many other stirring stories in
this vivid„, first-hand account of
the islands and their lone ad-
venturers.
files. Surprise significant additional effect of the experiment
Is"thaf Marketing date of animals can be speeded up. ,Brolleri
far example, are: said to" be 'ready for the "market' after nine
Instead of ten weeks' of feeding. Period necessary to bring
"villa and swine up to Weight is also said to be shortened:•
Power from the sun may ,well
be practical long ,before ,the by:
drogen bomb is 'converted for
peaceful use: So" the ' world's
first solar energy conference
has heard as it travels along
one of the most promising fron-
tiers in natural science today.
0 Sunlight may be as useful to
mankind as atomic power., Al-
ready natural scientists have
come close to' unlocking the
mysteries of photosynthesis —
the process by which green
plants use sunlight to produce
food. At the same time, labora-
tory processes are being .de-
veloped in which - sunlight is
used to split water into hydro-
gen and oxygen gases and thus
turn earth's most'common liquid
into a high grade 'fuel.
This is why delegates to the
first world conference on solar
energy, organized? ill' Tucson,
Arizona, by tbe Stanford ' Re-
search Institute, seemed convinc-
ed that development-of solar pow- ,
er has more immediately prac-
tical prospects than trying to
harness the hydrogen bomb.
; I Like the hydrogen bomb, so-
f.;lar energy comes from atomic
reactions involving hydrogen.
But, unlike the bomb reactions,
the processes which power the
sun are "controlled" by nature
to give a steady flow of ener-
gy, rather than letting it go in
a "One-shot". explosion.
At the moment, no one has
more than a vague notion of
how to go ahead to try and con-
trol the bomb reactions. The so-
lar reactioris, on the other hand,
are already under control and
the problem is the simpler one
of learning to use the vast poW-
et they radiate to the earth
daily, This is a field in which
experts have some very definite
ideas en. hcnv to proceed and
lave diveloped some of them to
the point where they are
i
be-
-
inning, to,find limited practical .--
pplications,
One of the beet indications of
d.potential of solar energy is
the large nurribere of industrial
elegefes at this conference, a&
i
h
_
&ding to Henry A. Sargent,
airman of. the Association fee,
pplied Solar' Energy.
l' "Up to now," he said, "great
Strides` rave 'been made in. solar
energy, but the scientists ' have
been talking largely ,rte Ahern-
selves. Novel` they arb talking
across thetable to indushabsts.
CHICK CHECKS CHICKEN CHECKER,—No dumb Ciu-Cc -this' jiick As a result, I expect that out
keent Up-to,date on her weeklip'vieight)report of the Pfizer titi thil cOtifereriee a new inn= „,
being raised on feed whichkontains dntibiOticstMold-proAuc cl
griCtlitural Research Center, the'sdhe af mcilly fc(rm anima
jpnergt science its practi c Intel . I, ..urn „, ca
0 us 4will be •ijgivert„ to .: solarf
' 4, o ercia , applications." - Ci`ganiStris Well known for disectte arid irrOectidn-fidliting' ejuat. ' At the Mortient, the most sige
nificarit practical development
in terMe •ef, the: `World as a,whole
are the solar" stoves that are
beginning to &nee oil the Mere
ket in limited rittinhers,