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COLD WEATHER — A crew member stands on the deck of the
ice-coated schooner Halwawk as the vessel unloads in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, on returning from the North Atlantic fishing
grounds, where the worst weather conditions• in years are re-
ported .One fishing vessel has gone down and two others
with 48 men aboard were reported missing.
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recipe For A
'Scripture" Cake
Real winter set in for us be-
ore Christmas, this year, Now
he earth is frozen iron-hard,
end the snows follow each other
in what seems a timed regular-
ity, The sun, when visible, is ear
lo the south, At night the stars
twinkle icily in the dark blue
py, flashing jewels displayed
lin a great swatch of velvet.
Careful Amish housewives see
to it that layers of newspapers
ere put between their potted
lents and the frigid WiriclOW-
panes. There are days when the
frost patterns on the glass are
never entirely melted by the
heat from the roaring stoves,
Yet each season has its charm,
and these are the months for
living in, The focal point of farm
life on cheerless days is the
kitchen. Cosy, warm, and corn-
lnodious, it is the heart of the
home, the busiest spot during
the daylight hours and beyond,
At the Zaugg's one can always
find Anna in this common room,
gentle and pretty in her house
cap and apron, working indus-
triously alongside her mother,
already knowing most of the
housewifely arts Emmeline pos.
fames, yet eager to learn more.
Ironing, sewing, churning, bak-
ing, hooking rugs, and piecing
quilts, they spend the days in
felicity around the fire. Amos
comes in to sit a spell, but never
In idleness. While he warms him-
self, a man can crack hickory
nuts and walnuts gathered on the
farm, and pick out enough ker-
nels for the baking of cakes and
cookies to keep the women sup-
plied for days to come. Only
Hilda goes to school new.
Dropping by after a trip to
the pcstoffice and village store,
I try to steer the talk in the di-
rection of those early days when
Amos' ancestors lived in what
were then the trackless reaches
of William. Penn's woods. And
without a hint of boastfulness he
relates how even then the econ-
omy of the German settlers was
extraordinary. Other colonists
destroyed the forests by gird-
ling the trees, and after they
had fallen to the ground, burnt
them in huge outdoor ricks: To
his speople this seemed a wicked
waste. They cut down each indi-
vidual, tree, and preserved each
stick as though it were gold.
"Chimneys the others had," he
says, wedging the flatiron tighter
between his overalled knees,
"and chimneys to spare—one at
each end of the big room, and
two big fireplaces in which in
winter they built mighty fires
with huge logs—and there they
bat, faces burning hot and their
acks cold like ice."
"But those were the days of
great cold. What else could they
do?" we ask,
Then he tells how the Ger-
spans had only one chimney to
fave expense in building, and
that they heated their houses
with stoves to save wood and the
time and labor of cutting it.
°Even temperatures they had
with the stoves, so that their
womenfolk could work at vari-
eus useful occupations in the
long winter evenings. While in
the homes of other settlers, the
wives and daughters passed the
time in idleness, their fingers
dumb with cold unless they
stayed by the wasteful fires in
the great fireplaces."
Emmeline's eyes twinkle at
this. "Useful we are yet, h'm',
Poppa," she asks, "as in the old
days a'ready?"
And Amos answers gravely
and with great sincerity, "The
wife is more than half." It is
saying in this region, one in
which he devoutly believes,
Christmas was quiet in our
valley, but as always it was a
joyous time. And the seeable,
believable part was the togeth-
erness of families,
A blizzard had piled the drifts
high two days before, leaving the
old familiar landmarks — wood-
pile, picket fence, and, the pump
house which shelters the elec-
tric motor for our well — garbed
in stately white robes shot with
silver,
We had guests in our home for
Christmas; yet we kept an eye
on the doings of our nearest
neighbors and dearest friends,
And were rewarded by the sight
of Eli driving his family across
the meadow in a horse-drawn
pung. This was really the old-
fashioned way of traveling, and
we rushed outside to wave. Eli
returned. our greeting with a
will. Katrina, rosy and smiling,
held a baby on each arm,
Even in this region where chil-
dren are counted a priceless as-
set, as well as a joy and blessing,
no one would say other than
that the twins were a special ex-
tra gift from the Great Giver.
But Emmaline's attitude at times
bespeaks her feeling that in
some degree they are also the
result of good management on
her daughter-in-law's part. And
it is true that Trina is a wonder-
ful manager in all ways. Not
being forewarned as to the size
of her issue, she nevertheless..
took two babies in her stride,
writes Mabel Slack Shelton in
The Christian Science Monitor.
Born in early spring, Molly
and Melvin spent the summer
months on the screened porch
of their parents' home, from
where their baby eyes could look
out across a sweep of tidy fields.
Thus the love of the land is
early instilled in the children of
these master farmers. And by
next summer, they will no doubt
be prattling of the twelve acres
of potatoes their father is rais-
ing, rather than of fairy-tale and
television characters.
At nine months of age, they
still wear dresses. When they
reach the toddling stage, Molly
will still wear them, but they
will come to her ankles, with the
skirts gathered. full on a waist-
band. And her little sunbonnets,
woolen in winter, cotton or rayon
ones for summertime, will be
made exactly like the ones the
other Zaugg womenfolk wear.
And Little Mel will have jackets
that button to his chin, with
miniature broadfall trousers such
as his father and grandfather
wear, and on his flaxen head he
will have a tiny black fiats
crowned hat, the like of which
can be found in any store which
stocks Amish apparel—and prob-
ably nowhere else on earth in
that mize..
They are sturdy, healthy ba-
bies, and just now at the cuddly,
roly-poly stage when it is such
a joy to hold them. Trina never
lacks for sitters when she wishes
to leave them behind for a few
hours. How she manages to do
all the work required of a farm
wife, tend her children and make
Christmas presents, too, is a
mystery—at least to anyone not
trained from early childhood in
these arts. Yet she does it with
grace and much gaiety.
When we donned heavy wraps
and galoshes for our Christmas
call on the family, we found she
had captured 'the 'loveliness Of.
her June garden in rose petal
beads for me. "To make them is
so- simple," she protested at my
misty-eyed thanks. And since I
am the only one on her list who
wears beads, perhaps she en-
joyed the novel task.
But "Look once!" Emmeline
cried, and we paused to admire
her gift from her son's pile, the
like of which we had never seen.
Framed to hang by her pastry
table, it was a recipe for Scrip-
ture Cake, which goes like this:
1 cup Judges 5:25 (butter)
2 ceps of Jeremiah 6:20 (sugar)
31/4 cups of I Kings 4:22 (flour)
3 tsp of Amos 4:5 (baking pow-
der)
A little Leviticus 2:13 (salt)
I Kings' 10:2, to taste (sweet
spices)
1 cup boiling Genesis 2411
(Water)
1 alp of Numbere 17:8 (almond, ls
1 large epooriftil Proverbs 24:1
(honey)
6 Job 39:14 (eggs)
2 cups shopped I Sari-mei 30:12
(raisins)
2 cups chopped Revelation 6:15'
(figs)
Take Take SOlorhon's advice for Mak-
ing a good boy (beat well), and
you will make a. good cake. Pro-
Verbs 23:14.
And to another Christmas
pessed, quietly but leaving us
Content and happy in the rich,
tieSS of friendship.
A Mali was telling ti heeled 'of
his narrow deedetie iii the war,
"the, bullet went in thy chest
end came' out of my back," he.
, "Viet was a needs thing," said
his. Mend, "It etield have gone
through your lidert nad kilted
yaw'
heart was in my' Mouth
at the the lucky Mae re-
plied.
More Homework Ancl
Longer Hours ?
A longer school day, a longer
school year and more homework,
These are among the "seven
musts" listed in an article by
Dr, Lawrence G, Derthick, U.S.
Commissioner Of Education, pub-
lished in Parents' magazine,
Dr, Derthick believes children
need more time in school be-
cause there is so much more to
learn in many fields than there
was 25 years ago. He bases his
recommendation for more home-.
work on a survey of more than
1,000 high school principals.
Some other Derthick ideas:
Scholarship funds for worthy
students to be set up by com-
munity organizations; consolida-
tion of one-teacher elementary
and small high schools; more ap-
titude and counseling services;
more funds for education to alle-
viate the classroom and teacher
shortage,
One hears so much these days
about education and the need
for greater emphasis on it there
is an inclination to -rebel and
recall that our grandathers and
fathers did well with much less
in the way of formal schooling
and educational facilities.
This is true. But they grew up
in a much simpler, slower soci-
ety. Today the youth who does
not get as much education as he
can—or the parents who don't
see to it that their youngsters do
the same—are being foolish.
Strengthening. American edu-
cation is an important part of
building and, maintaining the
free world's steength.:yor as
surely as we are here tciday, the
tomorrows will belong to edu-
cated men—and the world will
belong to the nations that master
the knowledge of the ages. —
Wichita Eagle.
WHO? — The "Mercury Astro-
naut" who will man the U.S.
Project Mercury satellite is to be
chosen from a group of 12 men,
the cream of a select group of
110 individuals.
Biggest Jig-Saw
In The World
Wonderful progress has been
made during the past few years
on what has been described by
stained-glass experts as the
greatest jig-saw in the world —
at York Minster.
This is the resetting and re-
assembly of the Ministre's pride-
less stained-glass window. ee
thousands and thoueanes' .of
pieces, many of them very tiny,
With the exception .of a few
unimpotant Pieces,- all the Men •"
sterie stained-glass was removed
to safety during the' war. After
the War the Dean of York, Dr. ..
Eric Milnet-White, who is. a
learned antiquary, decided. to
supervise- the coloSsal task of re-..
-inserting 'all the glass.
Why? Becattse he had hotieed
that the glaziers eif past eentnes.
les had only haphazardly' ree ,
Peired the' wonderful windows
'from time to time and had slip: '
Red in many pieces where they:
fitted holes rather' than a pet—
tern. The glaziers had thought
more about obtaining striking
eclairs than in seeing that the -
various designs were Complete.
For instance, a man'S,head had
been plated on the Shoulders of
St. Margaret: Fourteenth-century
pieces from the nave had gerie
into fifteenth-century lights iii
the choir vestry. -A figure of
Noah had received an invetted
cow in lieu of a Batt
The Dean' .is So familiar with
mediaeval lore that he is able,
titter studyihg the Wrong pieces
laid Out on long tables, to tense
pebblenis that would utterly baf-
fle most scholars, The tables are
electrically lighted from tiridete
neath so that the glass can easily
be teen.
In 1922, Caleeleting on the
Price 'Obtained for English inedi-
aeval stained glass iii she United
Stateee an assessor reckofied that
the ,glass in York Minster. was
worth at least ei8;666,000.,
NMY htiabatid it a itietion
sinters"
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tvriterl"
"N'o His head ikbOttt
Married life."
German's chocolate cake has
become a highly popular dessert
during the past few months. It's
a moist, rich, three-layer cake
with a delicate flavor that comes
from the sweet cooking choco-
late that is used as an ingredi-
ent.
There are many and varied
stories about the recipe's origin,
One is that a serviceman sta-
tioned in Germany brought it
back to his wife. It is more likely,
however, that the name came
from the sweet ingredient—Ger-
man sweet chocolate—which has
nothing to do with Germany but
is named for Samuel German, an
Englishman who went to the,
United. States almost 100 years
ago. This man started life in the
new country as coachman to a
famous chocolate manufacturer
and gradually worked into his
employer's business and finally
developed the formula for the
sweet chocolate that bears his
name.
If you have missed this recipe
or mislaid it, here it is again.
It takes time to make and it
isn't expensive, but if you want
a reputation for cooking skill
and a new "specialty of the
house," try this delicious and
lovely-to-look-at chocolate cake.
GERMAN'S CHOCOLATE CAKE
1 packae sweet cooking choc-
olate - % cup boiling water
1 cup butter or other shorten-
ing
2 cups sugar
4- egg yolks, unbeaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
21/2 cups sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk,
4 egg evlateisegiltly beaten
Coconut-Peceit Filling and.
Frosting
Melt chocolate in % cup of
boiling water. Cool Cream but-
ter and sugar until light and
fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a
time, beating after each addi-
tion, Add vanilla and melted
choc'olate%and mix until blended,
Sift'flour with soda and salt. Add
sifted drseeingredients alternately
with, buttermilk, beating after
each 'addition until batter is
smObth. Vold in' stiffly beaten egg
whites. Four batter into three 8-
.
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Trlpp'swt pitsen from carefully`
tiralea.
or 9-inch round layer pans, lined
on bottoms with paper. Bake in
moderate oven (350° F.) for 30
to 40 minutes, or until cake
springs back when lightly press-
ed. Cool. Frost top and betWeen
layers with. Coconut-Pecan' Fill-
ing and Frosting.=
Coconut-Pecan Filling-Frosting
Combine 1 cup evaporated
milk, 1 cup sugar, 3 egg yolks,
1/4 pound butter, and 1 teaspoon
vanilla in a saucepan. Cook over
medium heat, stirring constantly,
until mixture thickens, about 12
minutes. Remove froni heat. Add
1% cups (about) tender-thin
flaked 'coconut and' 1 cup chop-
ped pecans. Beat until cool and
of spreading consistency. Makes
enough to cover tops of three 8-
or 9-inch- layers. Makes 2% cups, * *'
• SOUR CREAM
APPLESAUCE CAKE
1/2 cup heavy sour cream
a/i to 1 cup sugar
% cup unsweetened thick apple.
sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
% teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1 cup chopped raisins
1 cup chopped nuts
Mix sour cream, sugar and
applesauce. Sift dry ingredients
together and add to the first
mixture with the raisins and
nuts. Mix well. Pour into an 8x8
well-greased square pan- or into
your favorite loaf pan. Bake at
350° F. for about 1 hour. *
If you like an easy chocolate
cake, try this devil's food with
the baked-on frosting. '
DEVIL'S FOOD WITil
' BAKED ON.FROSTING
1/2 cup water
3/2 cup cocoa
11,4 teaspoons soda
3 ,?3 ccutipps shortening 13,4
2,eggs
'2 1 cups sifted flour
% teaspoon salt
cup Sauk -Milk
11/2 teaspoon vanilla
Mix Water, cocoa, and soda to,
gethere •allo* to stand::. While
mixing other ingredients.. Cream
Shortening and 'sugar well. Add
cocoa mixture. Add, eggs one at
a time, berating Well after each
addition,'. Sift flour and salt, and
add alternately with the sour
milk and vanilla, Pour into 12%
x9x2-inch pan—Bake preheat-
ed 350°`F. Oven For 45 eniniitee.
Herr:bee from even-':and spreed
with frosting, Return to oven
and bake 15 minutee longer.
BAKED-ON FROSTING
T egg whites, beaten stiff
eelepoon baking powder
eitei 'brown Shear 1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chopped Mite
Add dry' ingredients and Yee-
ilia to beaten egg, whites and
beat again, Spread tit' cake,
sprinkle With chopped nuts and
bake at directed above. e e
tt, you ever plait to- have si
"buffet style" patty, perhaps
you'd like to Make a bake eithe
Peer than a fruiteakei but one
that, eivoula be fleet right for''
• handling in one's` fingers, Heft
IS such a cake, you cart
fnake yOurSelf. ,Gut it in thin
sheet for Anger eating. If yott
Want to use it for a dessert
aK eit-doWn dinneer serve it, warm
with a hot lemOrt sauce.
ORANGE IIAISII 'CAKE-
1.4 cup het
1: cull 'seediest; taielrik
-nip shortening,
litip Miler
ergo WOO liiiittea
How To Make A
Million A Year
"The best thing that ever hap-
pened to me was when. I met
Jerry Lewis," recalled his ex-
partner Dean Martin in Holly-
wood reeently, "The best thing
that's happened to me since then
was when we split up."
The breakup of the comedy
team two years ago has since
given the lie -- in a loud way,
of course to the classic rule
that whenever a famous comedy
team splits, both halves fall
abruptly into obscurity. Rubber-
faced Lewis has become finan-
cially (if not artistically) suc-
cessful as a producer - comic.
Martin, the crooner and former
straight man, has established
himself as a dramatic actor of
steadily increasing finesse and a
big moneymaker in his own
right. His income in 1958 was
in the neighborhood of $1
million,
He- was preparing recently for
his fifth movie venture in the
29 months he has been unattend-
ed by Lewis — playing a Broad-
way director in the film "Career"
for Paramount. Between re-
hearsals he talked to a News-
week reporter in his Beverly
Hills home, an English field-
stone - and - wood affair with.
seven bedrooms (the Martins
have seven children).
"When I was making pictures
at Paramount with Jerry," he
said, "I'd skip off and play golf
all the time because I was un-
% cup applesauce
1/2 cup fresh orange juice and
pulp
2 cups sifted flour
ee teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
ee teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1 cup chopped nuts
1 tablespoon grated' orange rind
Pour hot water over the raisins
and set aside to plump, then
drain. Cream shortening with
sugar until light and fluffy. Add
beaten egg and blend- in apple-
sauce and orange juice and pulp.
Add flour sifted twice, with six
dry ingredients that follow, and
beat smooth. Stir in the drained
raisins, chopped nuts, and grated
peel.
Bake in 10-inch greased angel
cake or spring-form pan, for
about 11/4 hours at 350° F. or
until done. Cool on rack. If you
serve it warm, use the following
hot lemon sauce.
HOT LEMON SAUCE
1 tablespoon cornstarch
34 cup sugar
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 cup cold water
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons butter
Sprinkling of nutmeg
Mix first four ingredients and
boil 5 minutes. Add lemon juice
and butter. When you've spoon-
ed it over the cake, sprinkle
with nutmeg.
happy. Even the -ride to the
studio every day was boring,
because I knew that nothing
Would happen when I arrived at
work, It got so I didn't 0110,
bother -to read any of the scripts,
I always knew what my lines
would be: Jerry would say
something like 'I think go
to the drugstore.' Then l'd have
to say: 'You're going to the
drugstore?' "
"So I would tell the writers to
write me ,out of the pieture as
much as possible, I had no in-.
centive. It was always; Sing
to the girl and sit down; sing
to the girl again,, sit clown again.
"When I finally left Jerry I
had no idea what 1 was going
to do, I had no idea if anyone
wanted me, Well, M-G-M put
me in a little throwaway musical
called '10,000 Bedrooms.' Then
'The Young Lions' happened.
MCA got me the part (that of
a potential draft dodger who
finally proves himsel in combat),
and my being with Marlon
Brando and Montgomery Clift
started things moving."
"My gambler role in 'Sonic
Came Running' was a snap for
me.. I just played cards and
talked Southern. But next came
Rio Bravo' (to be released in,
April): Before I went to work
on it, I asked Brands to read
the script and tell me what ideas.
I should have in mind, lie didn't
tell me how to act the part. He
just told me what to think about,
I play a drunk with des 's, I'm
fighting the bottle, the bad guys,
and John Wayne, the sheriff
who makes me his deputy. It's•
a very good role, more dramatic
than anything I've ever done.
"After 'Career', I'm scheduled
to do two comedies for Colum-
bia: The movie versions of 'Who
Was That Lady I Saw You Withr
and 'Bells Are Ringing'. I've
also been °leered the role
Sinatra refused opposite Brigitte
Bardot in 'Paris by Night'. lens
reading the script now. It
doesn't look so good, but maybe-
they can fix it up.
"I'm more fortunate than
many other actors because, like
Sinatra, I don't have to rely on
movie work. I can do night,
clubs, television, and records.
That gives me a cert:;Th amount
of security, so that 1 don't have
to take every picture that's of-
fered me. Every picture can't be
good. I get a 18200;000 allowance
for each TV show I do fbr NBC
(two a year), I'm an• active
partner in Dino's Lodge (a rest-
aurant on Sunset Strip) and in
the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas,
which is like an oil well —
pays every. month, The only
night-club work I do now is two
weeks a yeat-at the Sands. I had
my fill Of nightclub smoke in
my early years with Jerry."
Would he ever reunite with
Lewis?
"Sure," he said,
Under what circumstances?
"When see get to the moon."
e —From Newsweek,
ISSUE 9 — 1959