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Walks in ' e,. Woods ,
rw dIr ai ven when
the weather is cold. And how can
anyone keep abr ast era things
tltqutt alckig tae; oellsfaMal ram -
d s . dgtghseol s talar! roads and
tlfis' 11+blob w e first trod, it
t gray be, in the lifetime of Washing -
to ft
e irertt hat. trace (oia #azg in the
air'kt at `i's generatc'dla apparently,
for the sake of our lost youth,ec
many winter days are golden and
eryst, j . Tf te, le'ol4 is'j pa\f acid the
s u n1 i 6 h e setfding' dolvn shafts
• ie through the woods in• althpst'hori-
zontal, sloping onlygraelualty, The
Iupre� arsiireshly fallen; ;and crisp
ao)d •#he3','•lig everywhere, deeply
covering tide ground and hiding the
patina from kali eargcept the knowing.
,The, ''trcc,-h•tinkst stand clear and
barn' and the light goes, in among
them. and at' the tops"shnte oaks
stili' have 'torn brown 'tassels of
lciu•rsr '.i
Mete is never anyloneliness in
the wbeds; for Clic-'4hickgdees and
nuthatches preserve a modern s4
ciety andttlib tyhote ageutnulation
of tl a east -presents 4itse f on every
1'sir't Underfoot,' too, m,athcr roads;rt
so long unused, , �.... t
Dklgr•genoration used, to require
1 more 'roaclsf partly 'because *short
Fu wm t
ere,lcfrtairt, mid %partly be
I tame' the ;entice -they 'Mid was dif-
ferent fetflts'rtbur4,t Sainte of this
year's woodland was in open field 4
long ago,,rt tint et L maze o
stone wilts still t`eses, and th s
*stett.
r dsr'th 't went across the fielda
of the past may often be traced in t,
,the syoodtand of the present. It is f
cltrious how epdufingtwAteeltracks .
andjootpxints, both Omen and ani-
maI's1 can be, But krill of the t
tracks are hold indistinct to the
vanishing' point, marked only by aj;
slight depression fir*an ;occasional:
straight line ttf olc4, etttbankment
showing through .the, headed leaves.
the reWl*hiting of These,
forgo en to keep ,.one,
hbreast of world affairs is a little-
difficult to explain, but' the truth
remains. One has to go walking in
the old ways of the woods to under-
stand the current comment that tl"tee-'
woods contain, •,J'crhaps it is ,pe -
cause the abaJfdi?,tl'ed .@cath o.ftamt2
no starting point to no destination,
and the walker w».. fc�llwyi thprfi,
makes the greater -journey in his
mind.—Froin "Singing in the Morn-
ing," bi Henry Beetle Hought
fin;
f:: , :Miraculous Dust
fnylsible to the naked eye, the
miraculous, potent pollen dust is
ij gitn ingg. to fly from the early
ii igg-ilbwers and plants Scoaped
lig fix the wind, each pollen grant
1 egins a' journey which may be
ne°�tnth or one hundred pules long
ln fs search for a female llower .
of se ¢alnp.li.foa44
hes lt pgilen g liths, are as frag-
.,i,ile{as' se w kes ail range in size
fro`ne liutjdrei'.jrtht`,;to ten thou-
sa, dtha of an 'Bell ,bid diameter.
\• nthout them no 4e4 would set
anywhere in the word, grass would
',wither and fruit"trc s become bar-
ren , r
t
Sfome grainsrare smooth, others
rough; some spherical, others en-
gular, They are all alike, however,
le this: they have a thick wall with
a thin membrane under it, the whole
etsclosing a mass of life-giving'pro-
tdplasni which can start the miracle
of a new flower or plant.
This is the time of year when
.- there tare millions of pollen grains
floating in the air over every square
'fide. -of ground. They are sol fra-
Ale,j,ltowever, that less than' one
,. tliouskndtb of them survive i and
ca'ity''{out the purpose for which
eyl.,t`vere created—to fertilise a
emale egg and start new life;
e. Flower to Flower.
1
�r lt,dery kills millions of them,
fol' t moisture causes the thick
swell up and split, ad-
ults•a-violet rays from the
Resigndtion Near — Infortndd'
sources close to Mohammed--
M.9ssadegh, above, say he has
deb heed to resign his position,•as
prime minister of Iran. R,easjg;
nation is expected after he Arne;.,,
ents Iran's case Against Britain
in the oil nationalization dispute'
to the Worrld Court at The Ha 0e
The Nettherlands. '
nR,
Change Of :;Attitude
Ol�,'Drialk'i>ig Drivels$
A few monflis 'age rthe Lord elflef'
Justice sail!, l 'Dl•unlfbn drivers,nare'
as Illatirea.uunacc'las mad dpgs,tt
For many yeare,the,adsninistration
of the law haslsltotyn rented:Rb%
tenderness towards•, drunken ttflisi-' h
ers. Theirs' sliis'illave been whiter•
washed, tly8f$`*`hhve'"lfeen' fned.trif-
ling amounts, ant shey,`have been
allowed _.tp Strive;- again (with their
period Or suspetnsionitreduced from
12 months to sin tnonths) after the
Second or ctmti'Hut third conviction.
But recently 'Mere "9tak• certaiplyy,s
been a grefit..change,,.The intlu'?nTe
of tlse Jighcr coyrlst the punglttb n
and he dline-bitting .comments of
Lord Goddal'd,'t th'e'''' debates and
canfeneecas and`'i ttliries . , , have
all had a powerful . offect on pub-
lic conscienee,,ptid .magisterial pro-
nouticement,
And there 'ale few people today
who would 1stste Milli, if any sym-
pathy with de'unkeri drivers, Ent
now the n pihasis,,,;si shifting. It
is almost as rlf stip , influences
shaping public opinion, (which is
the real foustt)tatidh ' cif law) have
gained their pbint about drunken
drivers awl. are .now concentrating
on drinking drivers, The spotlight
is nown the driver, who is not
"drainer'.in' the the accepted sense of
the word but Ord flae had a little
drink which, atoording to much
scientific evidence, interferes with
his ability to ,retain 100 per cent of
his normal control. ---Front the Post
Magaiiite of 'tendon as quoted in
The Weekly' Underwriter, New
York.
170154'
ittiii
@arty°+t Mich destroy the male germ,
1'61fciit,can, die of thirst or starve -
„tion. I1 has no reserves to fall back
cihrli a seed.
The flower manufactures its pol-
len an', little tubes called anthers,
from Which the powder shake; out
to' -be' eaught up by the wind, or
adheres to ,the bodies of insects
searching for nectar. Bees some-
. dates carry as much as half their
own weight of pollen as they fly
fFom one flower to•,another.
•
; , Vise Bx'ide,G hose
Long -Lasting Orion
• HZ EDNA NILES
FASHION, for the June brides of 1952, will„he balanced
between the long and- the short lengths in weddinfl
gowns. The girls who puck the short length are those who
, want a dress to wear dancing or to parties when. the wed-
di1;g's over. The brides who walk down the aisle in thet..
flaorrlength gown_ with train are those who prefer tradition
to practicality,
t For the formal brides, there are still gowns with many
practical aspects. Most brides who choose the traditional
wedding gown want to pack it away for a daughter and
possibly a granddaughter to wear on her wedding day.
Therefore, this bride will look for a fabric with staying
qualities, one that will resist damage from mildew, sunlight,
heat and abrasion, 'She'll.find it in a man-made fiber such
as- orlon, .
She will also find that orlon has a luster and texture equal
to that of any fine silk or satin. Further, it's comfortably
lightweight, drapes, gracefully without stiffness and has a
luxurious "hand." °
For her June wedding, the bride in the picture wears a
formal bridal gown with a train in orlon fiber. A Murray
Hamburger design, it has a full skirt with inverted double
box -pleat at center front, . There's a molded bodice with
long, tight -fitting sleeves that are pointed, over the wrists. ';'-
t`\ •,
When the pollen from the male
flouter has: been deposited on the
f
stigma, oremote pgan,..
r „begins iit .i1Cts ,
to,t> erminate, and, little tubes grow
out of it- and pass 'down to the
ovary and .penetrates one of the
ovules or egg cells. This is called
fertilization, and a seed results.
Experts, using a microscope, can
identify every type of pollen, and
are always on the look -out for
"storms" -or ragweed, plantain*,and
certain grasses which give rise to
hay -fever. The tiny pollen grains
have even been found in the top-
most rooms of New York's sky-
scrapers.
'TABLE TALK
S
elate Andrews
COCONUT VELVET
CHOCOLATE PIE
2 squares Unsweetened Chocolate
's/s cup sugar
%, cup water
6 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups mills
1 egg slightly beaten
2 teaspoons butter or
other shortening
154 teaspoons vanilla
154 cups Coconut, toasted
1 baked 9 -inch pie shell:
Combine chocolate. % cup of
the sugar, and water in a saucepan.
Cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Combine flour, remaining sugar,
and salt in top of double. boiler.
Add milk gradually, stirring well;
then add chocolate mixture. Place
over boiling water and cook until
thickened, stirring constantly. Then
"continue cooking 10 minutes, stirr-
ing occasionally. Pour small amount
of mixture over egg, stirring
vigorously; retain to .double boiler
and blend. Remove from boiling
water, add butter, vanilla, and 1
cup of the toasted coconut. Cool.
"Turn into pie shell. Top with
sweetened whipped cream and
sprinkle with remaining toasted
coconut..
To toast coconut,spread thinly
tin shallow baking pan. Place in
moderate oven (350 F.) and toast
5•to'7 minutes; or until delicately
beowned. Stir coconut or shake pan
often to brown evenly.
* * *
BROWNIE PUDDING
21/2aquai•es Unsweetened Chocolate
2 tablespoons shortening
1 'cap sifted flour
r 2 teaspoons baking powder
r 1ti.t,eaapopn, salt. . .
1/ can sugpa,r
chip mflk r , •
-.,.
1''teTispil8fi `'vdlIilla''
1/2 cup chopped nut meats
2 cups water
11/4 cups sugar
1 square Unsweetened Chocolate
Melt 2/ squares chocolate and
shortening • together. Cool. Sift
Sour once, measure, add baking
powder, salt, and '/a cup sugar, and
sift again. Add milk and vanilla;
mix only until smooth. Stir in
cooled chocolate mixture. Then add
nuts. Turn into greased 8 x 8 x 2"
baking dish.
Combine water, 1/ cups sugar
and 1 square chocolate in saucepan.
Place over medium heat and stir
until sugar is dissolved and
chocolate is melted. Bring to a boil.
Pour over top of batter. (This
makes a chocolate sauce in bottom
of pan after pudding is baked).
Bake in moderate oven (350° F.)
40 to 45 minutes. Makes 8 to 10
servings.
* * *
CHOCOLATE MINT COOKIES
2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
11/2 teaspoon salt
cup butter or other shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg, unbeaten
11/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 squares; gnsweelened,chogolgte,
melted
1 tablespoon milk
Mint Filling
Sift flour once, measure, add
baking powder and salt, and sift
together three times. Cream short-
ening, add sugar gradually, and
creast tegether>ut>tit ,118ht an
fluffy. Arita e);gjanfi l at;1ll4a f an
mix thorduglily.Add' dhocolate and
beat well. Then add flour, a small
amount at a time, mixing well after
each addition. Add milk and blend.
Shape dough into 2 rolls, 2 inches
in diameter. Roll each tightly in
waxed paper. Chill overniit. Cut
.t,
.PIGEON — •
Bobby,,fassoti, 10, has a genuine carrier's pigeon. "Prelty Baby"
accompanies Bobby as -he makes the rounds of his newspaper
route, left, aod.helps (?) him play baseball, right. The pigeon is
the boy's constant companion, and even follows the school bus
when his ygung master leaves home each morning.
Tough Eating In Wartime
Christmas menu from' the famous VOISIN RESTAURANT in Paris
during the siege of that city by the Germans .,, . Franco-Prussian War,
1870. Unable to•:get food from outside the city, the people were forced
to kill and eat the animals from the Paris Zoo.
25 December 1870
99th Day Of The Siege
APPETIZEP,S:
Butter, Radishes, Stuffed Donkey's' Read, Sardines
SOUP:
Cream of iced Beans with Croutons
Clear Elephant Broth
Fried Gudgeon, Roasted Camel a I'Anglais
Kangaroo Stew
Roast Rack of Bear, Pepper Sauce
ROASTS;
Leg of Wolf, Game Sauce
Cat garnished with Rats
Watercress Salad
Antelope Pie with Truffles
Cepes a la, Bordelaise
Peas in Gutter
SWEETS:
Rice Cake -with Jain
DESSERT:
Gruyere Cheese
in thin slices and place on ungreased
baking sheet. Bake in moderate
oven (350° F.) 10 minutes, or until
done. Cool. Spread Mint Filling on
half of the cookies. Top with re-
maining cookies. Makes 3 dozens'
double cookies,
Mint Filling. Cream 34 cup
butter. Add 2 cups sifted confec-
tioners' sugar gradually, blending
well after each addition. Then add a
dash of salt, 1 tablespoon milk, and
teaspoon peppermint extract;
mix thoroughly. Makes 11/2 cups
filling,
* * a,
CHOCOLATE POMPADOUR
PUDDING
1 square unsweetened chocolate
6 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons milk ,.
ya cup sugar
11/2 tablespoons cornstarch
Dash of salt
2 cups milk
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1' teaspoon vanilla
2 egg whites
Melt chocolate over hots water.
Add 6 tablespoons sugar and 2
tablespoons milk. Set aside.
Combine !'s cup sugar, ••orn-
starch, and salt in to ., o . litibre
r:,bpiler; Adel m'i and b fill. ['.lace
v r ' oiling a er and soli: and
f i
k
t
• 5c
CC## -h i siii:ct'he thick n =ani ut
�f Ll tI l O
15 minutes. Pour small amount -of
hot mixture over egg yolks. stirring
constantly. Return to double boiler
and cook 2 minutes longer, stirring
constantly. Remove from heat. Add
vanilla. Pour into custard cull,
tilling -1i50 thirds full �• r ..
Rea w11ifet# ,si 0 sir ,t t
not LI' i-al,l yt idlts 1pje) ix¢u
Pent ftEP lktrlti ' et Au rd
cups' in hot water. hake in moder-
ate oven 1370° 11,1 25 to 30 min-
-.rites I:pot., st1it - riafll.. A nkeg e-
servinFr.
PILL BROWNIES
1/2"cup'sifted flour'
f teaspoon'' baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt. •
1/2 cup butter or other shortening
2 sq9uares tirsyveetened chocolate
' 1 c15p' sugar
' vete. well beaten
14 cup broken :walnut meats
1 teaspopn -vanilla
Confectioners' sugar filling
Sift flour once, measure, acid
baking rat>;der .and salt and sift
again. \felt .lan't•nin¢ ml,'•. ,
oo$i'h6t wattlr.rAdtl'sukeir gradually,
tb Iggs,-beating thoroughly. Add
cltocolato miasture and 'blend. A i 1
flour anti mix well; then ,add huts
and vanilla,_ Balte in greased 8 x
8'x 2" pan in hsbdcrate oven (3511'
1+'.)'25'Ininutes or 'until done, C sal
- in ;pati, then' cut into situates. Split
•.•tach brownie, in 31aif, then out
s,layerss toae,ther lyith a confection -
era' sug'•.r filling, such as Pepper-
mint,' Mange, or 1.i',sunt'Pilling.
'Makes about 2 ,lonen ftlit+l
brownies.
PePperniint ,,Filling. Cream 2
tablespoons butter, and blend in
gradually dash of salt and a/. cup,
sifted confectioners' sugar. Add 1
unbeaten egg white. Then add
gradually about 1/2 cup more sifted
confectioners' sugar, beating well
after each addition until of right
consistency to spread. Blend in '4
teaspoon peppermint extract. Add
a few drops green coloring, if
desired.
Orange Filing. Use recipe for
Peppermint Filling, substituting 1
teaspoon grated orange rind for the
peppermint extract and orange
coloring for the green.
Lemon Filling. Use recipe for
Peppermint Filling, substituting 2
teaspoons 'finely grated lemon rind
for the peppermint extract and
yellow coloring for the green.
* * *
EVER -READY FUDGE
FROSTING OR SAUCE
10 squares (11/2 packages) un-
sweetened chocolate
1/2 cup water
cup light corn syrup
1 cup evaporated milk
3,s.ups sugar ..
?•� teaspoon salt
rk cup .shortening
3 s
Vanilla
teaspoons
p
3ia clips s sifted confectioners; ,
sugar (aBput) • ''
Combine chocolate, water; syrup,
MIT ,milkill saucepan. 'Cook loid •
stif over medfuiir heat until choco-
late is melted and mixture is blend-
ed. Add sugar and salt and bring to
a boil, stirring constantly. Cool to
lukewarm. Aad shortening and
vanilla; !lend. Arid confectioner 'q,
sugar gradually, mixing well aftet'
.•nch addition, until frosting is o .=+t
right consistency to spread. Makes'
6 cups frosting or sauce, or enough
to frost 4 two layer cakes, 8 inches
*n tlnttneter.
Use the blencl,at once if desir+ 1,"
or turn into howl, cover, and store
in fefr;:'stator,'Keeps well for 3 or
, 4 week,.'
Por Frosting:' Place about 1i-5
cups of the blend in top of doable
boiler. heat over boiling water until
of _right .consistency to spread. Of
frosting becomes too soft, beat until
it'slitiens ertoigh to spread.) Covers
tons and sides of two 8 -inch layers,.
For Chocolate,sauce: Place about
1 cup of the blend in top of double
boiler, jleat over boiling water until
mixture begins to soften, then add
tablespoons water and blend well.
!teat until soft enough to potty
Serve hot or coley.
Note: Tq stake,: only 3. cups
'5,19 ros1, t0. orsauce, use about 11a
etips sifted confectioners' sugar. and
1,ttd' rii the other ingreilicnts.
Piling suit"fol $28,000''agaisist a
*driving school because she beaked
Iter car into a trice,. -a C'oiunihus,
5)ir,io, woman declared: "They
should !lave l ti,;wit before they
took my Inmrty that 'I could nevus
{ (earn to drive_ a car."
Wild Ducks Flying
As the golden spangle of the
distant lake tipped aver the world's
cprt*ed rim behind and dropped out
of siglrt,` the pintail drake uttered
a loud:, fluting whistle. It wailed
through• the immensity of the air,
and other birds took it up and
echoed and flung it on so that it
ran, wild',;and forlorn, right across
the flying regiment and floated
plaintively: down to where the earth
below was spinning itself silently
into the light- of a new day.
The wild ducks were crying their
farewell.. • .
They were 'flying purposefully,
still travelingat almost a mile .a
minute,: They shared such exulting
-excitement that sonietimds, doe br
r:an
two, sometimes a grottgd some-
times almost all of them -together
would play on the sliding air waves
as swimmers play in the sea. Here
and there, a bird would lean side-
ways on the flick -df a striking pin-
ion, glide like a fish under a neigh-
bor while closing wings suddenly
to avoid collision, then stretch them
again in a vacant yard of space
amidst strangers whose craning
necks and brilliant eyes were shin-
ing with this new northern desire.
Another would soar suddenly, miss-
ing other fliers lay a feather's width
in inconsequent artistry, while those
nearby adjusted with coordinated
and careless perfection as though
this aerial ballet leap had been re-
hearsed a thousand times... .
From the moment -that the wild
ducks leaped from the lake on this
first lap of their great flight into
the -north, tl:ey seemed to have be-
come •footless, :belonging only to
the air and, knowing -of nothing but
Kings....
They did not fly high—not more
than a thousand feet above the flee-
ing fields. 'Sometimes„at the .rush
of their corning, the foreshortened
figure of a laborer would turn its
white blotch of face upward for a
moment to watch them pass high
overhead. They flew for the most
part very silent, except for the
great drowsy= swish of iving .and
the'aerial‘wkiiper of fbathered hod%
lets piercing ;throargbsthi ,air.:
•'itrl'hty'ii+ef 'f1j+liig 3o'steadity Jthat
ail were enclosed .within a general .:
and intricate pattern of air waves
created by their wing strokes, which
most perfectly with the least
p y and
,possible a r s�staf[ce cbofe,, tjie ti ' 1'
and on,..,—V%am
Frank S Sfuart.
Keep Eyes Open' For
•V.4luabla,..$taxops
The postmaster at Bury St .id -
rounds ran out of "postage due'
stamps so he over -printed some
blue penny stamps and unwittingly
doled out a small fortune.
A postman bought eighteen of
the stamps as curios at the face
value of le, 61 and soon sold them
through a friend to .a stamp dealer
at £5 apiece. : £90 for eighteen -
pence was a windfall! -Yet, the
dealer .sold the stamps for up to
£40 each , , and' when a school -
bey found yet another of the
stamps on a discarded • envelope it
brought £55 at auction.
Stamp watchers are rubbing their
hands. You never can tell when
mistakes will creep into the best -
printed "stamps and the coming
issues for, Queen Elizabeth, experts
say, .are bound to mean errors at
first.
Just look at what can happen.
A London Civil Servant who
bought a 5s. hook of stamps in a
post office noticed that the second
sheet of 21/2d. stamps was unper-
forated.
Quickly he took the book to a
stamp dealer and sold it for 4200.
In as many minutes the dealer re-
sold it for £275.
With equal speed a stamp col-
lector noticed that some 21/2d.
stamps at a post office were of a
slightly different shade frons the
general issue and he promptly
bought all the remaining 319. A
single stamp from this sheet has
been sold for £200.
Another lucky customer bought
a 5s, book with one page mutilated,
the 2d. stamps running diagonally.
It, too, recently fetched £55 at an
auction,
A Devonshire `postmaster com-
plained., toTO' philatelist customer
that ttasiipsi-from' one of his sheets
would not stick. The philatelist
bought them the instant that he
noticed the, printing was on the
g'uht and the other side plain.
Stamps of the wrong color similar-
ly 'crept into circulation when a
printer's -test sheet' became mixed
with- the -.others +•Six 1/d. stamps
once soared in vakire 'because the
watermark was ;sideways. Two
others sold for $26. They lacked
perforation(
Last year a block of Festival
stamp's contained one blank stamp
and three incompletely printed.
They now repose in a safe-deposit
vault and their value advances
from year to year.
Only last month a dealer left a
Pali Mall auction with a King Ed-
ward VII sixpenny stamp of 1902
for which be had paid £800.
"Worth every penny of it,” he
said. "I've been chasing that stamp
for thirty years."
Mint officials had withdrawn it
on the day of issue and put the
Inland Revenue mark on it. It
the only unused copy outside the
royal collection and museums, yet
a Swiss financier once threw it
away, thinking it a forgery.
So watch outl The coming
stamps of the new reign give us
all an extra chance in this freakisl-
Post Office lottery.
MERRY MENAGERIE
1i odthere goes George on his
'returif trip!"
• 'Akrptists"',Beware=Asrputrishment for turning in false alarms,
these Cortland, N,Y.,.jaoys get busy scrubbing floors at the.loced
jlrsi,1tatlon, .W.or.k on fire trucks or other glamorous equipment
was ruled out because firemen deeideg' sdtth `"punishmcni''k might
make false alarms a favorite sport.
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