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How Can I?
By Anne Ashley
Q. flow can I quickly remove
white wash?
A. One of the easiest methods
is to scrub the whitewashed sur-
face with vinegar and water,
Q. How can I prevent custard
from curdling?
A. Custard will not curdle if
it is put into a pan half-filled
with cold (instead of hot) water.
It heats more gradually and will
be firm and smooth.
,Q,, Hew can I keep the sink
pipe free from grease?
A. By pouring clean, hot wa-
ter down the pipe every time
dishes are washed.--
Q. How .can I make a cheap
waterproo dressing for shoes?
A. By melting tallow and mix-
ing with neatsfoot oil in the pro-
portion of 7 parts' of the oil to 3
parts of tallow. In cold weather,
use less tallow, about 1 part to
3 parts of oil.
'OpOball Vows
Al Schaeht bra bad many Imi-
tators, but thwe are few persons
lgound who don't prefer the
original, Schacht is a delightful
little fellow who has parlayed a
keen love for baseball and a
talent for elowring into a modest
tortune,
For a fee, occasionally in four
Itglires, Al travels thousands of
miles every year entertaining at
baseball parks throughout Can-
ada and the U.S., It IS doubtful
If anyone who has ever seen
Schacht — his baggy pants, out-
tize glove, top hat and tails
could ever completely forget
him, Even the ballplayers, who
have watched his act dozens of
times, still laugh at Al's goofy
pantomimes,
Al conservatively estimates
that he has travelled at least
525,000 miles by auto to his ball
park commitments and the fi
gure becomes astronomical if
you include train, ship and plane
trips, He has entertained at 27
World Series.
To hear Schacht tell it—he
was born into baseball, As a
boy, Al lived on the approxi-
--*mate site of what is today Yan-
kee Stadium. Over the same
area where Mickey Mantle now
chases flies, he says, Mrs,
Schacht's little boy Alexander
chased goats—and vice versa.
Al was on his own-at an early
age, but he always remembered
his mother's advice that a
newspaperman has a great fu-
ture., "So I sold as many pa-
pers as I could," Al said. He
hawked them near the _Polo
Grounds, and it wasn't long be-
fore the sound of bat meeting
ball brought Schacht close to
his boyhood heroes—the New
York Giants.
In his book "Clowning
Through Baseball" Al writes
entertainingly about his early
life. "After my fourth year in
public school I realized that no-
thing the teachers could do
would teach me the necessary
facts of baseball life. Arid so I
hid my books and reported in
class with my lunch under one
arm and a baseball glove under
the other. It was not contempt
for knowledge that made me
discard the books, but rather
Any limited strength. I coldn't
carry all three—glove, lunch,
and books—and a baseball play-
er loves to eat."
Bttt if Al had his heart set on
baseball—his mother had other
ideas. Mrs. Schacht's ambitions
for her son ran more along the
lines of Carnege Hall. Al took
piano lessons at 50 cents- a
thrdw, but it was money wasted.
"I just couldn't seem to go to
my right," he said.
However, it probably will
surprise a lot of people to know
that Al Schacht actually did
make the big leagues as a pitch-
er with the Washington Sena-
tors and that he never had a
losing season. A spring training
Injury cut short his career and
got him into the clowning bus-
iness for keeps.
Washington let him stay on
Is a coach, where he teamed
with Nick Altrock in some of
the zaniest antics ever seen on
baseball field. Schacht and
Mtrock entertained. before the
games, between double-headers,
tad any other time they thought
they could get away with it—
whether a ball game Was on or
sot. 'In 1921 they were offered
4,000 apiece to perform at the
liforld Series.
Eventuary Schacht deserted
iltroek and struck out for hint-
elf. Soon he was getting offers
if one-dav or one-niobs stre,4 9
h.orn club owners all over.
Nmerica. Somehow Al was-
ible to work them all into, his
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Great estates are broken up,
huge fortunes dissolve in death
duties and taxation, but 'for
nearly 600 years the lords of
Muncaster Castle have kept
their lands and their prosperity
— and they say it is all due to
a lucky glass bowl in their
drawing-room.
Back in the Year 1461, when
King Henry VI was in flight af-
ter the battle of Towton, kind-
ly shepherds guided him to the
castle, where he was welcomed
so hospitably that the king de-
cided to give his host„ his dear-
est possession.
As long as the family kept the
bowl intact, he explained, they
would prosper and never lack
a close male heir.
The king had no sooner part-
ed with the bowl than he met
disaster. His wife was made
captive, his son stabbed to death
and Henry himself died in the
Tower of London.
But whenever the lords of
Muncaster went to war they
were seldom scratched. They
piled up fortunes; married rich
heiresses; couldn't go wrong.
Even in 1957 the present own-
er, Sir John Ramsden, is living
into a serene old age, owner
of 150,000 acres and landlord
of four country estates.
Scientists and scholars have
studied the Luck of Muncaster
— as the greenish glass bowl
is called — without discover-
ing its inward secret.
A Muncaster heir once drop-
ped the casket containing the
bowl, and "feared he had brok-
en it. And for forty years the
family did not dare to open
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itinerary. Today his extensve
traveling exhausts automobiles
with about the same regularity
that most men throw out Old
socks.
There have been others from
time to time who have tried' to
duplicate Schacht's dugout full
of 'routines, but never with any
lasting success.
"How can you imitate a man,"
one club owner said, "who half
the time doesn't know what he's
going to do next?"
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COMINSTS
Every garden should have
compost heap say the expertS
but they never explain how we
can squeeze this valuable asset
into a tiny garden where we are
already cramped for space. A
compost heap is valuable and
if there is room, we should
have: one down at the back by
all means. But it can be a bit
of trouble and mess where the-
backyard is small. In that,ease,
the thing to do' is simply to bury
weeds, grass clippings, and any-
thing else that will rot quickly
between the rows of vegetables
or flowers:We do not bury deep-
ly, but with a few inches, of
soil.. Anything that will rot has
some fertilizer value and it
makes humus which keeps soil
open,
If we have a bit more room,
then we should haye a regular
compost heap.,,liere we simply
pile in shallow layers anything
that will rot quickly and we
cover with soil to, help the rot-
ting and keep away flies and
neighbors' d o g s, Rotting or
breaking down can be speeded
by adding commercial fertilizer
and possibly some of the special
chemical preparations to assist
nature in the breaking clown pro-
cess. The top Of the heap should
be kept flat to absorb rain and.
Prevent drying out and in dry
weather it is a good plan to
soak occasionally with the hose.
After a few months in the com-
post heap all this refuse will
break down into excellent fine
garden soil.
AVOID THESE
Two of the commonest mis-
takes in gardening are planting
too deep and too close together.
The general rule for depth is
three times the diameter"of the
seed. For tiny seed like that of
portulaCa or alyssum or lettuce,
this means simply sowing on top
of the soil and pressing in light-,
ly. To spread more evenly, we
may mix seed with sand' before
we sow. For bigger seed say the
size of peas or corn, half -to an
inch deep will be about right.
Potatoes, gladiolus and dahlias
go down from •six to twelve
inches.
As for spacing, the size of the
seed has nothing to do with' it.
Even tiny seeded things like
alyssum or portulaca, or onions,
require space to develop proper-
ly. The safe rule is at least half
as much space between sprouted
full grown. With small flowers
least a couple of inches between
plants as they will be high when
and vegetables this means at
and with say zinnias, peas, beans,
etc., four to six inches. With
dahlias, corn, tomatoes, this
should' be at least 12 to 18- inches.
NO HURRY
If the spring is late, one should
not fret. In the first place, fret-
ting will not help bring the
warm days any faster' and sec-
ondly there is still plenty of
time anywhere in Canada to
have a fine garden, even if. we
can't get a spade in the ground
Until late May. Indeed there are
several quick growing- things
which will make abundant bloom
or fine meals for the table even
if planted in June. The experts,
incidentally, always warn 'the
beginner to take it easy, to pre-
pare the soil well, and wait until
the spring weather has really
arrived. Of course, one should
get, nursery stock and some of
the hardier sorts of flowers and
,vegetables _planted as soon as
possible, but the main sowings
are best postponed, until around
this time or even ater.
Spreading the plantings, too,
over a fairly long` period, right
up to July in the warmer parts
of ,Can‘da, always advisable.
In .this. way - harvest of
i,;flowers and vegetable's- is spread
Out too. ' ,
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peratiori offered• to- pay thin
sum if they could keep the coin.
But the offer was refused. ,
• Even in this present .century
the :penny proved its curative
properties. A member of a
shooting party at Lee gashed
his hand badly while• struggling
to open a bottle, and came down
,dirittei that' evening
plaining • he could riot :stop, the,
bleeding, ,
Ms host Opened the safe, pro-
'ilticedthe penny and placed it it
basin of 'water: Then he made
• •The• guest- plunge his handl barid...;
lige& as it was,, into: the. water
Nd rest rit there for some time..
kt day the' Wound We§ dein-
pletelY • healed except for a
Small scar.
The:. properties of the Lee
Penny have never been Seim,
tihcally investigoated, In MO&
ern tithes the family have re,
• .fused fortunes for the talisman:
And. the lucky penny rests in
gold casket Presented king !ago
by the impress Maria, of Ana,
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the casket in case they found
their Luck in fragments!
In the same way, the `Lyon
Cup, a goblet fashioned like a
lion, is said to ensure the• luck
of the Bowes-Lyon family and
is now in the treasured posses-
sion of the young Earl of
Strathmore, the Queen Mother's
nephew,
Family curses have sometimes
carried doom or disaster
through generations. But for-
tunately there is also this hap-
pier side of the picture — the
family luck that has inexplic-
ably guaranteed good fortune.
The Luck \of Edenhall, for in-
stance, is said to have brought
the Musgrave family a heaped
measure of good luck since the
Middle Ages. 'The legend goes
that the family butler surprised
a group of fairies at a 'drink-
ing party at a near-by well.
They scattered at his approach
but left the cup behind them
and fairy voices on the wind
seemed to whisper the words
"If this cup should break or
fall
Farewell the Luck of
Edenhall."
At one time the Duke of
Wharton 'used to amuse himself
challenging their fury by drain-
ing the goblet and then fling-
ing it high in the air. Now
Eden Hall has become a girls'
school but the luck is reputed
to extend to its pupils.
What happens to all the lucky
pennies in the world? Nobody
knows; but perhaps when they•
accidentally change hands they
impart good fortune to new'
owners.
In one case, where a lucky
penny was watched through the
years, its power lasted six cen-
turies — and it's still going
strong. •
The saga, can be traced to the
days when a band of Scottish
knights- took an Arabian chief
prisoner in the holy wars and
his aged.. mother eaine• to their
camp to' redeem her son by pay-
ing ransom.
As .she fumbled with the gold
coins
,
in her purse, the penny ,
fell out — and 'she showed such
haste to recover it that the
• canny knight guessed at its
value and astutely added it to
the ransom. '
The, mother not only agreed,
but explained' that the coin, had
magi' preperties. If it was • dip-- -
ped in water "three times with
a Swirl," the lotion could cure
not Only all' diseases in cattle
but was equally effective
against the' bite rota mad dog.
' Sir Simon Lockhart of • Lee
took the ,penny' home to. Clyde.
Side. ;Sure "enough Whenever:
Cattle,, or even neighbours, were •
sick itr brought tibdUt -swift
ctires. • and; `soen, achieved a.''t
natiOn.,wid•vel reputation.-
The fainily, waxed rich, by,
selIilig: f3agans •? cif water in
which the been
swirled. Farmers hung: bottles
Of " it from the rafterS' .of their,
eciWiftecia.'. 'The' 'Church Asem-
etiteri 'investigated.. the mat.
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'ter "and decided.:;that the penny
,peSsibly fell i• inte ,ithe Categorr
Ot •:"herbs with, many
Meanwhile, the fardiff' found
that,!, the • penny-, ;• hot t
achieved' enres and brought
them prosperity, 'but also .ap-
peared to ward off misfortune.
When tattle plague' threatened
the prosperous markets: of NeW4
• Castle,. the car asked if
they' could borrow the penny.•
Before Lparting With the pen-
ny Mt' lames Lockhart.,:—,
rrien'a descendant = demanded
that, it 'should be insured for
£6,000. 4
NeWeaatte dote
l':''',•:, dakaLVALSAm:,-
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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST' —: Kokomo; the celebrated . painting
thimPanzee, lumps• in exultation after finishing his latest Work,
tying bn the table. He may heVer 'Challenge the Master% lobt
Ai VA-year-old chimp, is apparently delighted at his efforts
Make monkeys out of his fellow artists.•
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