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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-03-27, Page 19Street people are feet people. They're neat people who meet people. Why not join up? Take a walk. Pr7Rr/CIPa(,IC!7 c Walk a blockabday. > Spring course in Palmerston Continue your university studies this spring at the Norwell District Secondary School. The University of Waterloo will offer a .course on treatment of child abuse starting April 1st. You may attend this course free of charge for personal Interest or register for credit at the first two class meetings. For more Information, call the Palmerston Public Library at 343.2573, or the UW Office of Part -Time Studies, Correspondence and Continuing Education at (519) 8884002. Child Abuse: Identification and Treatment (SOCWK 355R RZ) Mondays, 7.10 pm April 1 -June 24 Prerequisite: SOCWK 120R or consent of instructor University of Waterloo 5-1, DOLLY DRESS -UP: Little mothers will delight in this adorable wardrobe for soft sculpture dolls, quick and easy to knit in Beehive Astra yarn. The rompers and shirt are•suitable for either girl or boy dolls .,.. a headband and shoes are perfect finishing touches. These outfits are easy to knit, even for beginners, and easy for little fingers to handle when dressing their favorite dolly. Interested readers may receive an instruction pamphlet, free of charge, by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Crossroads, Box 390, Wingham, Ontario, NOG 2W0. Ask fqr Dolly Dress -up No. 5-1. Requests will be filled im- mediately while our stock lasts. Crossroads—Mar. 27, 1985—Page 7 Microwave -Magic Yogurt great taste, low in calories By Desiree Vivea I love sour cream, but, I don't love the calories. One cup of this sinfully smooth substance packs a whopping 455 calories. I don't know about you, but such calories I can do without. Luckily, plain yogurt can take the place of sour cream in many recipes — even atop baked potatoes — with com- parable flavor and texture, but with much less danger to your waistline. One cup of plain low-fat yogurt contains only around 125 calories. And commer- cial yogurt made from skim milk contains less than 2 per cent fat (sour cream con- tains nine times that much). Remember, of course, that sweetened yogurt, the kind with added fruit and -or flavorings, will contain more calories than the plain variety. While the yogurt we eat for snacks is of the sweetened, flavored variety, remember that plain yogurt can be a tasty addition to ' many recipes. Tangy in and creamy in texture, yogurt is the featured ingredient in today's microwave recipes. Includes Bouquet Cindy Schaffhauser • Summer Tweed and Nancy, Patons Cotton Perle, Pearl Twist and Splash, Scheepjes Cotton Fantasie and Cotton Colon. OFFER EXPIRES APR. 6/85 Included in the spate of biographical literature now appearing about the late Ernest" Hemingway is an article written by Pietro Donato and originally published in Playboy over 20 years ago. In this Donato describes a meeting with the famous writer in pre -revol- ution Cuba. You may recall that while Hemingway is regarded as one of the greatest writers America has ever produced, he was very careful to live as few of his years as possible in the country which 'was so proud to claim him. He began his career as a young journalist with . the Toronto Star; where he was finally told by the editor that he would never make a writer and was fired. But he didn't go back to the States — not for long any- how. He roved the world over — France, Spain, Germany — and finally settled down in Cuba. And it was here that Donato met him back in 1939 when that sorry island was under the thumb of the U.S. sponsored dictator Batista. It was a time when the en- tire island was groaning for the want of food because only 37 per cent of the good land was in the hands of the people it had to feed. The rest belonged 'to ' multi- national fruit, tobacco and sugar companies, or to a few hundred all-powerful • Cuban landowners. And one of the sports popular with some of these aristocratic landowners was called "Red hunting". One of the rich Cubans who once invited Donato to join him in this red blooded pastime out- lined the rules of the sport thus! "Any bastard peasant that makes a nuisance of himself complaining about conditions, well we just in- vite him to start running. We give him a good start and we let him go anywhere he likes, and then after we figure he's had time enough we start tracking him. And when we flush him out, we shoot him ..." This, the Cuban told Donato with rather vivid profanity, was how they intended to keep their fair island safe . from Com- munism. 'in his interview Donato is shocked to learn that Hemingway is well aware of the existence of this barbaric sport but that he has no in- tention of protesting it. And Small details are what make your wedding special And the complete line of "Forever Yours" wedding sta- tionery by International Artcraft is one of those details. Look through our catalogue and choose from dozens of in- vitations, reply cards and -informals. As well, you may choose accessories such as personalized matches, serviettes and many other distinctive items. We offer a wide range of elegant type styles, including the popular "Wedding Script" to co-ordinate with the entire colour scheme of your wedding. Choose from traditional ,white or ivory, or one of the many hues offered. Look through the catalogue today, at: The Listowel Banner 291-1660 The Milverton Sun 595-8921 The Mount Forest Confederate 323-1550 The Wingham Advance -Times 357-2320 he asks the great writer, "But how can you bear to live in the midst of . such awful injustices and remain so complacent about them?" Well •. Hemingway replies unemotionally, declaring that man has always been the most despicable animal on earth and always will be. "But," he says hoisting an- other drink, "we're all born to die anyhow, sowhat's the difference if it comes today or tomorrow or the day after? . . Perhaps the noblest thing a man could do would be to blow his brains out ." Donato's reaction to that calloused remark is not sur- prising. Here was a man who in his youth had been a towering and fearless, champion of the little man under the whip. He had not only written great literature to plead his cause but had actually risked his life beside him in Spain's civil war. Yet now he had come to the place where he had given up — where he was now convinced that to fight the mighty was not only futile but not partic- ularly noble. All of which makes it a little easier to understand now why some 25 years afterward Hemingway did that sad thing he thought might be the noblest df all solutions — he blew his brains out. Mind over data Since their introduction in the 1960s, industrial robots have been extending human physical abilities and in- creasingly liberating us from hazardous and mind- less work. Today some ex- perts predict that robots may soon have minds of their own. National Geographic's "The Miraculous Machine"., premiering on TVOntario Tuesday, April 9 at 8 p.m. is -a visually fascinating hour- long feast exploring the cutting edge of robotics tech- nology. This special traces the history of robots, beginning with the playful' "auto- mata" of the sixteenth cen- tury. Robotics experts from Carnegie-Mellon University, MIT, and Stanford explain Robots with vision, a sense of feeling, an understanding of language, and ability to move among obstacles. Or try improvising your own recipes substituting plain yogurt for the more calorie - laden sour cream. MIDDLE EAST YOGURT SOUP 1 medium-size onion, thinly sliced 2 tbsps. butter or margarine 4 cups beef or chicken broth One-third cup uncooked long - grain rice 1 slice fresh lemon 1 cup plain yogurt 1/4 tsp. each salt and pepper 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint 1/4 cup chopped fresh par- sley. Place onion and butter in 3 - quart glass casserole. Cover and microwave about 4. minutes, until onions are limp. Add 1 cup of broth, rice and lemon slice. Cover and microwave, stirring every 4 minutes, until rice is tender, 12 to 15 minutes. Stir in remaining broth and microwave 3 minutes longer. Stir little of hot soup into yogurt, then add yogurt to casserole, blending until soup is creamy. Add salt and pepper and serve immediately in indi- vidual bowls sprinkled with mint and parsley. Serves 4. SPRINGTIME CAKE 3/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup hot water 1 tbsp. grated orange peel 1/4 cup orange -flavored liqueur Scant 1 -cup shredded coconut 1 (8 oz.) container plain yogurt 3/4 cup granulated sugar 1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted 2 eggs I tsp. lemdn extract 11/2 cups unsifted flour 3/4 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. salt In 1 -quart glass measure combine 3/4 cup sugar and `phot water. Stir in orange peel. Microwave, uncovered, until mixture comes to full boil, stirring twice to dis- solve sugar, then boil 3 minutes. Let syrup cool about 10 minutes. Stir in liqueur and 0 coconut. Set aside. In large mixing bowl com- bine yogurt, 3/4 cup sugar and melted butter: Stir with wooden spoon to blend well. Beat in eggs, one at a tune,. then add lemon extract, stir- ring until smooth. Combine flour, baking soda and salt, stirring with fork to blend. Add all at once to yogurt mixture and stir just until smooth. (Do not over beat batter.) Turn batter into 8x8 - inch glass baking dish. Microwave, uncovered, 8 to 9 minutes, rotating dish every 3 minutes until toothpick in- serted in center conies out clean. Remove from oven. Let cake stand 5 minutes, then pierce deeply all over surface with fork. Reheat orange -flavored syrup; if necessary, until warm but not hot. Pour evenly over top of cake, then let stand at least 30 minutes before serv- ing. Serves 6 to 9. YOGURT CHICKEN PAPRIKASH 1/4 cup butter or margarine 2 large onions, sliced thin 1 clove garlic, minced 1/4 tsp. , freshly ground black pePPer 3 cups cooked, cubed chicken-' 11/2 cups chicken broth 1 (8 oz.) can tomato sauce 2 tbsps. paprika 2 tsps. lemon juice 1 tsp. salt 1 (8 oz.) container plain yogurt Fresh parsley sprigs Combine butter, onions and garlic in 2 -quart glass casserole. Sprinkle with pepper. Cover and micro- wave 5 to 6 minutes, stirring halfway through cooking time, until onions are limp. Stir in chicken, broth, tomato sauce, paprika, lemon juice and salt. Cover and microwave 7 to 9 minutes, stirring every 3 minutes; until, heated through. Just before serving, stir in yogurt. Serve immediately, over hot rice or riood'les. Garnish with fresh parsley sprigs. Serves 6. I feel good' By REV. LEE TRUMAN Alexander White, a gift- ed teacher, has these words as the motto of his life: "A person is not destroyed or hurt by anevent or by what happens. Rather it is that person's opinion of what has happened that af- fects his life." The point is that our opinion of what has hap- pened is entirely up to us. It is a choice we make, and a very key choice. William James has yet to be topped as a practic- ing psychologist and as a sharp observer of life, and. he wrote: "Action follows feeling, action and feeling are linked together, and by regulating action, which is under the most direct con- trol of the will, feelings can be indirectly regulated which are not under the control of the will." James knew that we could not change our emo- tions by making up our minds to change how we feel. By thinking we cannot ever feel any differently than we do. it cannot be done. But we can change our actions, and make our minds up to change our ac- tions. What takes place after we change our action is that -our feelings soon will"change in the wake of our different conduct. James commented on this in his diary, and the application of this bit of in- sight for himself was that if his cheefulness was lost, he was to act and speak as if cheerfulness were al- . ready there. He noted that this never failed him. Feel- ings followed his acts. You might respond by saying that this is hypocri- sy at its worst. You may even feel that all this is a trick. I do know it works. Try it for yourself. You are blue, discour- aged and despairing. Put an honest -to -God smile on your face; throw back your shoulders, take a deep breath, sing your favorite song at the top of your lungs, and see what hap- pens. Keep your positive side up for a few hours, and your feelings will follow your acts. If you are like me and cannot sing, then whistle. If you cannot whistle, hum joyfully but loudly. You will find that it is physical- ly impossible to remain blue or depressed when you are acting out the symptoms of being radi- antly happy. Feelings fol- low actions every time„ and if you want to change how you feel, this iS the way to do it. Sometimes I wear a but- ton when I feel blue that says, "I feel good." Very seldom does such a day go by but that I get a positive reaction to this from some stranger. It reminds me to count my blessings and to stay on the positive side. acting how I want to feel. I feel good and I do not need to carry around rny.neck the anvil of gloom, despair or other bad feelings. Put a sign on your bath- room mirror that reminds you how to act so your feel- ings will be positive for that day, and then put•one on your car's dashboard. des or toolbox. Your day uld be pretty much in order. My sign reads, "I feel good," and it works. FRENCH ISLE The French took St. Chris- topher in the West Indies on Feb. 13, 1782.