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About Arthritis.
• For the 11 million Americans
painfully afflicted with arthritis"
and Its related rheumatoid dis-
eases, there is temporary relief
Through. powerful drugs—but na
eure. Nor is there definite .selenr•
tifie knowledge as to what cause*.
man's. oldest physical
This much the arthritis re-
searchers do know: The blood
of these sufferers contains a my,
steriOne "rheumatoid factor" not
found in normal blood or in -thf
blood of people with other dis-
eases., Exactly • what the facto*
is, however, still' evades the
scientists.
Two, investigators from. the
Rockefeller .institute for Medical
Research, Des, Henry G, Kunkle,
and Edward C, Franklin, recent-
ly hit upon a significant new
clue which May speed the dise
covery of the muse - of these
crippling e .clieeases, Using an
.ultracentrifuge, they chemically
isolated the "rheumatoid. factor"
from the rest of the blood of
these victims. While they have
not yet "seen" this factor, they
know that it is much mailer
than the polio virus, probably
smaller ethane e known Ow ir us,
"Because we know the
'
of -
this factor;'''the hunt 7 'feer the'
cause of the disease is narrowed
down,". - ,T, eph Niatuaim,
clinical director of the National
Institute ,of *.4..rtheitis_end Meta-
bolic Diseases 'a0Bethesela;
said lask we ,elc.i'e"The factor's size.
indicates that might be an anti-
body" (`(a digeaa:fighting mech-
anient)1;,,i„eonies from the frac-
tion of theblood serum in which-
the antibodies reside. If it is an-
antibody, we may be able to
trace the antigen (a substance
capable of causing an antibody
to form) which evokes the anti-
body. The discovery gives us
new insight :irito.-''the cause - of•
the disease. "e- "7 •-
For the .present; arthritis and
rheumatism sufferers must con-
tinue to rely for relief,froutpain
on the steroid hormones (ACTH,,
cortisone, prednisone, and . preci-
nisolone) • and thesyntheti.C.chem-
icals. The latest ,synthetics are,
Medrol (Upjohn), which • went
on the market three months ago,
and Triancinolene (Ledeile); not
available to the • public ase'Yet.
Both appear to be pain-relieving,'
• with a minimum of side effects.
Nevertheless, Dr. Bunim em-
phasized .last. week, these anti-
arthritic remedies "should . be-
- giveneonly under the most care-.
ful and ,'conservative super
vision," All the steroids ..found:
to date • have xitentiai hLarda
and possibly, serious side effects.
Aspirin is still the remedy to use
at first. ' From. Newsweek
• Worth Million
4,0n,ThewCuff't
With a flourish of itis pen.
the Well-dressed, well - spoken
man signed the hotel register,.
then, he followed the porter to
his room, The plush hotel mana-
ger was impressed — it wasn't
every day that the managing
director of .one of South Africa's
greatest oil -companies visited
the town,
• HERE.1,,kirfiPc9P%R„ES,E4,Rckt,qt the taste level. as experts • sample
,foocr,,resermed by .gaMma rays from radioactive material.
13`ut farm .464 .foOd producing, .experts agree United States'
'research to develop better foods is inadequate.,
NEW CAREER A feiV yardi of
filmy- lace ser'Ve for a costume
as curvaceous Debra Paget pre-
mieres a tempestuous dance
routine at a Las Vegas,. Nev.:
hotel. The 24-year-old . actress
has embarked on a free-lance
career after being freed from a
10-year movie contract,
Honey
Goes, Modern
sor, the boy Henry III. 'There
were jewelled sceptres and
swords, great maces "with gold
feet and hands," crowns, wands
and hundreds of silver feasting
cups.
Reepipts given by John to the
monasteries also show that he
bad collects d sixteen staffs
studded with precious stones, a
gold vessel ornamented with
pearls, the gift of the Pope, a
gross of richly jewelled goblets
and chests packed with rarities
each worth a king's ransom in
in modern sale rooms.
Yet there is a theory that the
King faked the accident after
pawning the regalia with the
money-lenders.. Convinced that
the valuables were safely stow-
ed in a secret vault, one trea-
sure hunter spent years explor-
ing the dungeons and secret
passages of Rockingham Castle,
Corfe Castle and elsewhere,
In search of proof, the iKng's
tenth in Wercestor Cathedral
was opened some. years ago only
10 reveal that' the King had
been buried in a monk's • cowl
instead of a royal diadem, as if
proving that royal treasures had
been lost.
A gold coronet was once found
during the sinking of a well
almost at the site of today's
new treasure quest. The discov-
ery of "a helmet of gold sette
with stones" and "bedes of sil-
ver in a potte" are also recorded
in ancient writings.
Since King John's hoard was
apparently lost, and not deli-
berately concealed, it would not
legally rank as treasure trove
and could not be confiscated by
the Crown.
Though salvage costs with
mechanical dredgers and pump-
ing machinery should be high,
conservative estimates are that
recovery of only part of the
glittering" cavalcade could yield
$6,000,000.
Hopes soar as the quivering
needles of the electronic earth-
tester indicate the soil resist-
ance of what' may be the long-
vanished causeway.
After all, it's fifty years since
a man digging for clams in the
mud. hereabouts found "King
John's loving cup" and w o n
world-wide attention.
After cleaning, it seemed to
be of silver with golden han-
dles, marked with the apparent
date 1162. Unluckily, the cup
was swiftly proved to be only
the broken base of an old-fash-
ioned brass oil-lamp. The date
was merely the manufacturer's
pattern number!
1 teaspoon each cinnamon,
mace, nutmeg, cloves
and salt
Simmer beef until tender, put
through food chopper. Add other
ingredients. Mix thoroughly.
Cook for ten minutes; then bot-
tle and' seal,
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Here's the recipe for a de-
, lightful Cherry Cake. It would
be especially pretty for a Val-
entine Day's" party.-
. Cherry Cake.
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 well beaten eggs
1, small cup milk
; 21/2 cups flour sifted twice
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup chopped walnuts
1. cup seedless white, raisins
1 cup cherries
Bake 1 hour, 375 degrees.
•
4
Dusteh Apple Pudding -
2 large apples, peeled, cored
and diced •
3/2 cup finely chopped nuts
1 egg, beaten
• Scant'oup of sugar •
2 tableSpooriS flour' -
1 teaspoon baking powder
Y2 teaspoon salt . ,e
Mix together all, ingredilents
lightly. (If your appies are not
.tart; go' We'sy "On the" sugar; and
add a feW drops of lemon juice,)
Obey the traffic signs — they
are placed there for YOUR.
SAFETY.
There are many housewives
who seldom serve fish just be-
cause they don't feel they cook
it well. It's no more trouble than
a chop and what a pleasant
change its delicate flavor is. This
easy way takes no particular
skill. Just don't overcook the
fish.
Lemon-Broiled Fillets
1/ cup lemon juice
1/2 cup olive or salad oil
1 teaspoon salt
Fresh ground pepper
3/4 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon 'Celery seed -
11/ pounds fresh fish fillets
Combine lemon juice, oil and
seasonings, Pour;. over , fish; let
stand about , an, hour. Drain fish
(saving marinade) and place in
broiler pan four inches from the
heat. (Pie-heatthroiler 10 min-
utes ahead.) Broil for five min-
utes, brushing with sauce sever-
al times and turnover fillets for
another five mintites, when the °
fillets flake (not crumble) they
are done. Arrange fish pieces on
hot serving plate. Dot with -but;
ter. Garnish with lemon wedges.
Sufficient 'for 4 servings. *.
One 'of the recipes' most 'fre-
quently requested Is for- Carrot
Pudding.- Here's one' that eI •can
really recommend.
(, Carrot Pudding
1 cup brown spgar
1 cup groundsnet
1 cup giated potato
1 cup currants
1 cup seeded raisins ,
1 cup bread pninbs, ,
1/2 cup mixed` peel
11/2 cups flour Sifted
1 teaspoon. baking° Soda,
Pinchrof salt - -
Mix ingredients together -and
steam 31/2 ,hours.
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The `boughten' kifid of Mince-
meat is very good; ,but to a
whole lot offolksAit lacks• some-
thing of the satisfaction of, •the
sort you make yourself, Here's
a really fine recipe yoti might
like to try. '
Mincemeat
2 lbs.. lean beef .
1 1h. minced suet
21/2 lbs. brown ,sugar
2 lbs. raisins
2 currants '
1% lb: mixed peel
5 lbs. apples (peeled , and
chopped)
ab
guest," the bOtel manager warn-
ed his staff, "He's worth mil-
lions,"
in a day, Harry George,
the charthitfg oil-'company direc-
tor, had ingiiatiated; himself with!
the hotel manager. W h e ge/eeee,
ordered drinks for some newly-
made efriends... end "dug into his
• pocketptheetatel manager waved
the iclekefewehmelde,eanclitiandle,
ed the _visitoreet a chit. ,sign, • e
wcgd,OWslOr §i3f,Wi" 14i:9Li gh Vereeniging about the affluent
visitor and civic leaders i ode it
their, businees ,to. meet him. He
entertained"lavishly, and, when
he was introduced to Me daugh-
ter of a local company director,
it was a case of love at first
sight for both.
Front a jeweller George oh-
tamed a $1,000 diamond ring —
on -credit. He ordered flowers
and expensive gifts for .his fi-
ancee. No one dreamed of ask-
ing for cash, not from so weal-
thy a man. Everything was "on
the cuff."
George instructed the hotel
manager that nothing but cham-
pagne was good enough for his
400 guests. The party was cer-
tainly an event to be remem-
bered. All George did was to
sign chits for everything..In the
six weeks he spent in-the town
he ran up a fantastic bill run-
ning into many thousand dollars:
Yet he had only twenty cents
to his name t
Then, one morning, the "weal-
thy" visitor vanished.
In half an hour the whole
town Was in an uproar. Trades-:
men rushed to the police wav-
ing sheaves•of bills. The docket
opened by the police against
George, on charges of obtaining
goods and cash by false pre-
tences and theft, swelled until
it was nearly, a foot thick. An
urgent.warrant was Obtained for
his arrest.
Ten flays later a police officer
iin Wakkerstroom, another Trans-
vaal. town several hundred miles
from Vereeniging, heard about a
rich 'diamond merchant staying
at the town's leading hotel, and
obtaining credit everywhere on
the strength of his position.
A quick check-up showed that •
"George' Stevenson" was." in fact
also "Harry George" .and a dozen
other aliases. No sooner had ,the
officer placed hiS hand on
George's shoulder than the 'oil
company director - cum-diamond
merchant grinned:
"Y'Cett can't do anything to me,"
he declared. "I , am an_ escaped `
lunatic! Get in touch with Dr.
Ginsburg at the. Fort Napier
Hospital in Pietermartizburg,
you'll_ find I am telling the
truth." •
THE STING
An old farm tlaborer, retired,
was hired by a wealthy but ex-
• treinely p arsimoniuS, la dY.. to -
her
tor den,and pull up all the. ere wee*
around he noted
that :the -only- fare --on the• table;
in, addition to stale bread,.a
smidgen of hiattir, 'tii& tea, was a.
tiny spet.-p,frlioneyr.M, '(.11.e.
of a large plate.
After eating in silence for some
moments, he looked hard at the
honey and remarked politely to
her:
"I see, ma'am, you keep a bee,"
Still Seeking
Royal Treasure
Over the. ploughed Fenland
furrows a team; young men
drag a sled leaded with elec.-
'eal equipment — and the
World's longest-Sustained tree-
cure hunt Makes a draMatie new
laid for attention. rorty feet deep in the black.
Mud the treasure that King John
lost in the Wash has defied
PeeicerS for nearly 750 years.
The ancient regalia of Eng-
land, King Alfred's crown, the
sword of Tristram, shrines of sil-
ver and gold, loot from. the
Crusades, rubies and diamonds
plundered in the Norman Con-
questc'all, lie buried in the ooze.
Can a modern survey emceed
where earlier attempts have
failed?
Thr'l•baggage train° of Pack-
horses and carts, a mile and a
half long, was crossing the tidal
estuary of the Wash by a nar-
row causeway in the year 1216
only tpoverwheyried in, the
October' Mist by a sudden tidal'
wave. Not a man survived. Soh
diers and horses were swept
from ithe 'causeway, and, engulf-,,
ed in the- quieksands.
But where was the causeway?
The Lincolnshire scene has
changed b ey o n d recognition
since King John fled that way
from his wrathful barons. Wash-
ing down from Midland rivers,
silt has raised the levels little
by little. Generations of farm-
ers and engineers have reclaim-
ed rich land from the sea year
by year.
Today the beaches lie at least
six miles east of King John's
old sea walls. Instead of salty
tides thousands of acres of land
now sprout crops. Somewhere
!beneath this dark loam the site
Of the lost causeway lierhidden..
Scholarly study of old parch-
ments confirms that the King
travelled by a longer inland
route, leaving his convoy to
take the seaward short cut. Now
modern air photography has dis-
closed the probability of a mid-
dle route which horsemen and
wagon-drivers might have taken
during autumnal gales.
A youthful electrical scientist,
George F. Tagg, uses an earth-
tester to measure the electrical
resistance of the soil. Firmer
soil gives a different reading
from adjacent quicksands. Sys-
tematic readings of the subsoil,
he argues, would enable the
vanished. outlines .of the cause-
way to be proved.
A contour map of sand and
aluminum has been built in a
laboratory. Thousands of sread-
-ings, taken every twenty yards
in the treasure area, have yield-
ed signifcanti,ievidence• ofiefieene
ness in a stratum underlying
are orchtafdLind 6iaratigilkevrfreld.
near -tile harnlet ,of Walpole St. acre,... . l•ALLI CA Peter.
One-eof 'the Md,• volunte,PrA - is
the actor, son of a man who
rearclied4or theitreasure under
a Crown concession twenty years
ago. In those days there were
no metal detectors to indicate
the whereabouts of long-buried
suits of armour or chain-mail.
Nor was there any knowledge
of radar or radio-activity to help
hunt for shadowy outlines in the
site.
But was King John's treasure
ever lost in the Wash? Recent
Investigation by historians pro-
vides an appetizing inventory of
royal assets missing at the cor-
onation of King John's succes-
COURTESY
"Does your 'husband ever
quarrel with you?"
"Goodness, no I He's too much
of a gentleman. He just goes out
and slams the door.
FROM TfierteARrrNitTRTK-r-Drrinch6rd-s. MacNeish (above) chief
archlieol`dgist-rofPthe'rHiirrtan -tliStoryeBranch, National Museum
pf etThertja7 inspeectst',one rof ,the -many artifacts he collected
duringTh field-'trip along the "Alaska Highway in the Yukon
Territoryer last summer. ,Dn...MacNeish found archaeologica-I
material,: in-.the Yukonmthat is very,7 similcir to objects found in ,
se,y,iknce„.provides a definit= link be-
tween„the ppop[es p1 r,l‘sia..ctnd.11,q,„earlyA inhabitants of North
Arner.ifa.,
In' ancient times 'honey was
an es-se:tidal tdinmodity 'singe eit
'was almost the only available
source , of sugar. eIt was also
valued-in India, and other-tropie
cal countries ,as a laxative and,
when mixed with yellow wax,
as a mild coating eer ,sedalive
for ulcers. In ancient Egypt" it
was-used assare embalming ma-
terial and= to preserve-fruit. The
Britiah,,,used, ,honey to . make,
mead,,the'Remaris,to make reul
sum' and the Russians liPez
all in'tokicaling `bev-erages.
Honey' Was Ea' ligh&-WE'ard:
ed by ancient civilizatithis -that
it was frequently employed in
religious ceremonies. Mixed with
milk .or water, it was presented.
by the Greeks as a libation
to the dead. A honeycike' was
the monthly food offered to the
fabled serpent which guarded
the Acropolis. Even the abori-
gines of Peru offered honey to
their sun god. It, wee,e howevee,
forbidden as a sacrifice 'in the
Jewish .rifda12' • '
Like -fergiclibi of agri-
culture, bee-keePing- has under-
gone many changes, in the last
half century, Scientific rearing
of queen bees and selective
cross-breeding programs h a ife
resulted in new and Improved
strains of rWorker bees. New
hives, supers and frames have
been developed to improve both
the quantity and quality of the
honey and to ease the work of
the bee-keeper. Better grades of
comb foundation have been per-
fected and improvements made
in methods of extracting honey
from the comb,
In recent years changes have
also taken place in traditional
methods of packaging honey for
the retail market. These changes
were well illustrated by the On-
tario Beekeepers Association in
their exhibit at the Royal Agri-
cultural Winer Fair. The exhibit
was abalze with lights and its'
size magnified by huge.,,rnirrors.
The various honey exhibits
were colorfullydisplayed. Gone
were the cumbersome pails in
which extracted honey was once
offered for sale. In their place
were attractive tubes, and cans
and gleaming bottles. Interspers-'"
ed with the extracted varieties
were many exhibits of comb
honey. •
Most of the individual combs
were packaged in sparkling
wraps of cellulose film, but a
few were shown in cardboard
.containers with clear plastic die-
'cut •WindoWs.
Even beeswax, a valuable by-
,product of the honey industry,
appetrred in wrappings of trans-
parent cellulose,
The over-all effect of the dis-
play; said viewers,• proved the-
value of modern „packaging by
fully displaying the product and
creating an impression of purity
and perfection — the essential
characteristics of geed bendy:
HIS ERROR
A man telephoned the police
to report that thieVet had tamp-
ered with his car. !They've
stolen the steering wheel, the•
brake Pedal, the accelerator, the
clutch pedal and the dashboard,"
he complained.
A polled Sergeant said he
Would investigate, Then the
telephone rang again.
"Don't bother," said the same
Voice with a hiccup. "I got into
the back seat by Mistake."
of irnprisofnnerit linpbsed
you.", • - •
George won't trouble South
Africa for a elong time to .came,
He's , pooling off with a long
term' of imprisonnient,In Pre-
toria!
The.police telegraphed the in-
stitution and discovered that
George had been confined there
after lieing certified insane, but
for more than two years at dif-'
ferent intervals , he had escaped
and, elm South African,
towns, always,. leasing , behind,
him bills for at least $3,000.
It was pointless - bringing
charges against the Man; he was
'returned to' the mental kiern9
ands the' people he` had IMIX4
could do _nothing, but «chalk
their losses up to experience.
George did npt know ii;t, but
the police, the hospital. author-
ities and the cominissioner for
mental hygiene were thoroughly
fed up with his antitS.',0While
he Was in the mental horrie,en
application was.' made to. the -
commissioner for his diecharge..
He had been admitted about,
four yearsrptevioualy and what--
ever symptoms of insanity which
may at that 'time have - been
present, no longer existed. r
One night George: vanished
from the home again after scal-
ing the wail. He went to the
Natal south Coast and 'ran up
enormous bills in about"twenty •
resorts. '
'Geofge 'having 'the *tiree
of his life at' one of his qamoUs
parties when' two detectives
walked, in and clapped hahci-
etIffS en him, He merely grinned
and told them 'they couldn't do
a thing because he Was ds-
Capeci-Itinatict
Next day; in court, he repeat=
ed his aSsettiort that he WaS
.tot teaponsible .! for.
his tietiona.,
':You. are:wrong„ you know,
the Magistrate . •"Yott
*eke discharged from the liOnte
Ott 'the- day after' yoti eseaped.
The commissioner has signed te
certificate that you are corn ,'
pletelY :cuted and that you.cari
stand Hal and Undergo any term
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mental' prototype of a new upenduldatthetiR t
being 'tested fti Paris by the French katiciriciliCilwayS, ficioli
Claim the self-tilting carecan Whiper.drOUrici. :CUrvete.,01,40:
Mites aii hour without spilling food the diner or affecting
tieteri with SeijSitive stomachs. The 32-pattenger,iniedele whiCh
Weighs 37 efarii;etifts a utaniaticcilly, eXtietly OffAef iche..Centrie
fugal force shot would normally' throw paiiefigeri 'toward the
euttide of lb* curve.
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dpercitidn rThe plant can produce enough electricity td light0 50,000 horrids in the area.
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