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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-3-11, Page 7r//i, i/EE Q/ I�idMI is,r/ , •„- I fierier Smi.Ch An Iziexpenelve Robby 'Like bird watching, hiking or bumping,gardening is an inex- pensive hobby. Golfing, yachting, or even picture taking require • lot sof costly equipment and they take doe a long piece from home. But gardening is just as healthy as any ofthese other recreations and the initial cost mild the upkeep amount to only few dollars. Moreover when vegetable growing is included there is a 'nice dividend in the freshest kind of food, right at the kitchen door. Equipment One can do wonders with a few cents worth of seed, a spade mad a rake. For all the technical hssormation necessary the direc- tions on the seed packet and in the seed catalogue will suffice. These directions tell the gardener when to plant and how deep, and how big will grow the things he Mas planted so he can allow sof- tirlent room. Of course those are minimum acquirements and for just a tiny plot A few extras like a culti- vator or two and a little more variety in the seeds and plants will increase the satisfaction and enjoyment. For extra and de- tailed information too, there are excellent gardening books and xovernment bulletins available. If one is really ambitious, one can expand almost indefinitely. There are literally hundreds of different flowers and vegetables at one's disposal, and more hun- dreds of perennials, shrubs and vines and trees. There are spec- ialties like rock gardening, per- ennial borders, rose gardens and harden pools. There are also power gadgets for cultivating, rimming, spraying, clipping, leaf gathering and such jobs for the ccmrson who is mechanically in - aimed or who has a really big plece of ground. Better Than Ever Not so many years ago one could not grow corn, squash, roses, fruit and dozens of other plants except in the very warm- ed parts of Canada. These things were not hardy enough, or they took too long to mature in our )relatively short season and the early frosts struck them down. Now over the greater part of the country the gardener has hundreds of flowers and vege- pensive Miss—Princess Marijke, youngest daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of She Netherlands, appears to be in deep thought in this charming photo. It was taken for her sixth birthday. tables ,from which to choose. And net only have we been given earlier maturing and hardier var- ieties, but also better quality, or inoz'e vivid or striking colors, In the old days, too, the gar- den was sort of a feast or famine proposition, a few days when the peas, Born or beans Were ready, a few days of vivid bloom, then nothing else. Today with improv- ed varieties and by using several sorts with different maturing pe- riods of flowering dates one can have a wonderful and producing garden from a few days after frost in the spring until far into the fall. In ordering seeds and plants for the coming season one should remember these changes and im- provements and by selecting carefully insure more satisfac- tion and a fuller return, The Eng- glishman with his flower garden and the Frenchman with his plot of vegetables expects results al- most 365 days in the year. Our 'climate is a bit too severe in the winter for that sort of contin- uous ontinuous production, but even in the cooler parts of the country there should be six months use and pleasure at least. From the tiny snowdrops and eroeusses, which bloom right after the snow, until the chrysanthemums in October and November, there should be almost continuous bloom. And in the vegetable line by starting early and storing the surplus in the fall, there need be hardly a •week without something from one's own garden. They Start Young A. golden plover in the flesh was the thrill of a lifetime to me. The female, running anxiously about some forty feet away (it was probably the male farther off—the two sexes are so alike you can't determine them at sight) was infinitely more gor- geous in actuality than in the pictures. . Its upper parts are all finely patterned in black and white and a greenish -yellow —tills last predominating so that, at a distance, the black appears to be ,gold. All the underparts, cheeks, and throat, down breast and belly, are the densest of black velvet. A broad band of pure white stretches -,over the forehead, above the eyes, and down sides of the breast. When the bird turns and rims with its quick flurried steps directly to- wards you, it reminds you exact- ly of a little old lady dressed in black, surmounted by ter white - wool kerchief, . two ends falling gracefully upon black -clad shoulders. Both plovers came nebr while I was there. They circled the mosses in a series of little runs, disappearing and reappearing be- hind low hummocks, uttering the most strangely sweet and melo- diously metallic alarm notes, spaced distinctly one upon the other. The two precocious babies, hatched the day before, of which we caught glimpses through the glasses and tussocks, were small fluffy balls of black and white and golden dots. Here was a per- fect example of precociai young (characteristic of most shore and water birds), born of those par- ents who make little of no nests upon the ground and give. their offspring scant protection. The babies are able to get about and feed themselves almost as soon as they emerge from the eggs, and require only occasional par- ental brooding for warmth. — From "The Tundra World,” by Theodora C. Stanwell -Fletcher. While. a sick, jobless and broke family man stood despondently on a street corner in Dallas, an anonymous woman who passed him suddenly thrust $80 into his hand. "Messing Front St. Anthony—Six-year-old Paola De Patti, of Rome, Only, brought his pet,cat, Mit retao, to the Church of St. Anthony Ito be blessed in honour of St. Anthony, patron saint of animals, who started the custom 800 years ago. Hobbies for the Handicapped—Giving handicopped children interests as well as treatment is important in the work done by the Ontario Society for Crippled Children. Here three kiddies and their instructors are busy at a hobbycraft table. The Society seeks $475,000 in its Annual Easter Seals campaign March 5 to April 5. TABLE TALKS aJate Andrews, What to do with left -over mashed potatoes—except to make them into patties—is a problem that puzzles many home cooks at times, But it won't be a prob- lem if you try using them in some of the ways I suggest herewith. They're fine for thickening a savory stew or creamy soup; mixed into a yeast dough they give a light, feathery textpre to your rolls; and when blended in- to the batter, they even add good- ness to a cake. Indeed, instead of worrying about mashed potato left -overs, I often wish I had more of them on hand. e e e BEEF -POTATO POT PIE • Cut in 2 -inch cubes 2 lbs. stewing beef • Combine in paper bag 14 c. flour , 2 tsp. salt • Shake beef cubes in bag until thoroughly coated with flour mix- ture. • Melt in Dutch oven, or other heavy kettle 2 tblsp. shorten- ing • Brown beef in hot shortening, • Add to beef slowly 1 e. vegetable stock or water 3 medium onions, quar- tered • Cover and cook 1 hour. Add more water if necessary. • Add 1 c. mashed po- tatoes IS tsp. marjoram • Cover and simmer gently for 1 hour. The mashed potatoes will thicken the stew so that no other thickening is necessary. • About 15 minutes before stew is done, add 3 carrots; cut in strips 1 c. fresh or frozen peas 1 c. chopped cel- ery cut in 1- incle pieces • Pour into 2 -qt. casserole. • Cover with rolled pie dough (recipe using 1 c. flour will be sufficient) or biscuit topping. Brush with melted butter. • Bake in hot oven (450°) 15 minutes. Serves 8. e ® a CREAM OF POTATO SOUP • Chop 4 large stalks celery and leaves '2 medium-sized onions • Add 1'l.: e. water • Simmer 30 minutes. • Strain through sieve 'or food mill. (Should be about 1 cup.) • Stir in 2 chicken bouil- lon cubes • Pour hot stock over ...„1!1 c. mashed potatoes • Stir until dissolved. Rub through strainer to make sure no lumps remain. • Add 1 tblsp. batter 2 e. milk clash of paprika • Heat through. Serve with chopp& chives or parsley, Serves 4 to 6. POTATO PUFF'BTTNS • DIssolve 1 pkg. dry gran- ular (or 1 cake compressed) yeast in ,S e. lukewarm water • Scald 1 e. milk • While milk cools to lukewarm, cream ingather well "fl. c. shortening 1 �• e. Sugar 111! tsp. salt • Blend in 2 well beaten eggs 1 c, mashed po- tatoes • Add dissolved yeast to luke- warm milk; then stir into cream^ ed mixture. • Stir in 6 c. sifted alt - purpose flour (Should be a stiff dough.) • Place on floured board and knead thoroughly. Place in large bowl; cover and let rise in warm place until doubled in bulk, about 2 hours. • Punch down; knead again. • Brush with 1 tblsp. melted" butter + Cover tightly and place in re- frigerator until ready to bake. (Will keep over night, but be sure bowl is large and well cov- ered, because dough rises again jn refrigerator.) • About 21/2 hours before baking time, pinch off dough and form into small loaves or pan rolls. Place two inches apart in pan (9x13x3 inches). • Cover and let rise again in warm place until doubledin bulk, about 2 hours. • Bake in hot oven (400°) 20 minutes, or until lightly browned, Makes 21ii dozen rolls. 0 e e POTATO CHOCOLATE CAKE • Heat l,_ e. milk • Add and melt 3 (1 oz.) squares unsweetened chocolate • Set aside. • Cream 1 c. shortening • Add gradu- ally 1't c. sugar • Cream until light and fluffy. • Add some of thehot chocolate mixture to 1 c. hot mashed Potatoes • Blend into creamed mixture. • Beat in well 4 egg yolks • Sift together 2 c. sifted cake flour 3 tsp. baking powder 1a tsp. salt 1 tsp. vanilla • Stir into batter, mixing well. • Beat until stiff 4 egg wliltes • Add gradu- ally ?,, c. sugar • Fold roto batter and pour into 3 greased, waxed -paper -lined 8 - inch layer cake pans. • Bake in moderate oven (350°) 30 minutes, or until toothpick in- serted in center comes out clean. • Turn out on rack, cool, and frost. ONE OF VS An orthodox Jewish lady on Delancey Street was deeply dls- tressed when her only son fell fn love with a girl with red hair, a turned -up nose, and an .Irish brogue. She grumbled about the situation for weeks, but one day turned up for her weekly pinochle game in high good humor. "That girl my boy is making eyes at," she anounced, "is Jewish after all, I got a look at her compact last night when we all went to themovies together, and there was her name plain as day: HELENA ItUBINSTEIN,' i:: T ask what's good for a COUG ASK FOR LE FM- A SINGLE SIP TELLS WFJY Amp Trap — Dr. Harry Sher - bough sets his electronic rat trap to catch some "amps." Once sprung, the trap operates so as to sweep across a series of contacts seen at left. Am- peres of current are thus meas- ure by the scientist in General - Electric's laboratory to study ef- fects on certain insulating materials. Mammoth Pies For 164 years Denby Dale has been famous for its mammoth pies. In 1928 no fewer than five bullocks were baked in one pie, • which weighed just over five tons, and in order that their reputation will not b tarnished by niggling economies, the people of this famous Yorkshire vilage intend baking an even bigger pie for the Coronation. Because of rationing, a com- mittee of six have decided to ask the Ministry of Food to waive regulations for this one occasion. The custom of baking mammoth pies began in Denby in 1788 to celebrate the recovery of George III for a serious illness. The de- feat of Napoleon at Waterloo gave the villagers another glorious chance, though that pie contained Only half a sheep, twenty fowls and half a sack of flour. But their pies increased in size, and on the night of Queen Vic- toria's Jubilee one weighing two tons and costing $1,000 was baked. The dish was eight feet in diameter and weighed fifteen cwt. The pie of 1928, the biggest, had a crust that weighed half a ton and 28 pounds of lard powder and 224 pounds of lard went into it. Served to 20,000, it raised funds for a Huddersfield hospital. Incidentally, such pies take two or three months of planning, mix- ing, and designing; for a special dish as well as the outsize oven must be made, YOUR CHILD MAY BE A VICTIM Sleepieosmn nighlo, o,ness and fidgeting any be Signs of pinworms and Intestinal worms . , ugly parnslice that Infect children of ell ages, leaving them rum down and uervona. Merman t -tasting MIILVENEY'a MOrsutIt'S Mesas 'linnets theeo peels .. , restore, appetite,, children soon foot bettor again. MULVENEY'S B'WELI, (For sduks) A natural herbal teak that millea tweet atnmech, tonna up the liver and kidneys, also expels pinworms end Inteetinnl warms. MULVENEY'S RE14IEDitee Available at All brarggtsfs Have You Booked Your Trip To The Moony Cat? if Not, There Are Plenty Ahead of You In the Hayden Planetarium, New York, are twenty-five Wet - Rand completecj, applications for interplanetary journeys by rock- et ships to, the Moon, Jupiter, Batumi, and Mars. They come Strom all over the world. It started two years ago when the Planetarium presented "Con- quest of Space." This was an izna- demonstra ed with the Plto the antar' ium's projeeti0n unit. To strike a realistic note "Interplanetary Tour Reservation" slips were printed. The response was immediate and startling. Within a short period of time 25,000 of those slips had been returned to the Planetarium, duly completed. About a thousand letters also arrived. "Curiosity, adventure, insecurity, and all three blended together are reflected in these letters," writes Mr. Frank 31. Forrester, t h e Planetarium's Supervisor of Guest Relations. Those reservation slips and the letters remain on the files, point- ers nevertheless to the future. And week by week more corres- pondence arrives from others .eager to be on one of the first rockets to leave old Mother Earth for outer space. Incidentally, intending passen- gers for the Moon were given a few details about their personal comfort and security. "Prior to take -off," the information sheet read, "passengers will be strap- ped into standing positions against the especially designed take -off supports. "Passengers will experience, a gracluel diminution of earth gravity. A't 2,000 miles from the earth, loose objects will 'float' in the air. "Upon arrival (on the Moon) passengers will fad, due to the vacuum existing on the Moon's surface, conversation impossible, absence = winds, 'weather' and clouds. . Walking will Abe made more difficult since the Moon's surface is covered to a depth of two or three feet with dust -like pum- ice." No commercial company has Yet set construct that will take men to the Moon, but obviously there will be no shortage of potential passengers wheni they do. When will interplanetary tra- vel be possible? A Russian maga- zine, "Ogonek," recently pre- dicted that the national flag of the U.S.S.R. will be flying on the moon in fifty years time. Dr. Wernher von Braun, the man who developed Hitler's V-2, and who is now in America, has predicted that ''within the next ten or fifteen years the earth can have a new companion do the skies, a man-made satellite which will be a man's first foothold in space." This man-made satellite would be over one thousand miles above the earth. It would move in an orbit around the earth and provide the launching ground for rockets en route for outer space. The cost? Von Braun's esti- mate for the satellite is four bil- lion dollars. The satellite would circle the earth in such a way that every, inch of the earth's surface would come into view periodically. It would have a crew of scientists who, with a 100 -inch telescope, could distinguish objects on the earth only 16 inches apart. This is a tremendous thought. But there are many who pour cold water on Von Braun's en - WHY YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE SODA It If youaffer from o acid indigestion, g, heartburn, pa lentiete say baking 004a can add to your upset, destroy vitamins, cause alkalosis, acid rebound. • After meals t had indigestion and gas pains, and 1 practically lived on belong oda," eeys Peter George; Lethbridge, Alta "Then 1 started taking •r. Pierce's .Golden Medical Discovery and the pains went away sad 1 could eat and enjoy my meals again. I gained 30 pounds and felt much better." Thounaada who suffered ouch distrait?, due to no organic nooses, tried Dr. Pierce'. Golden Medical Dkwovery with sassing motto. Over 30,000,000 bottles of Luis great eon -alcoholic medicine, with its wonderful stomachic tonin action, hnve been sold to date. And no wonder. 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Notley back 1t not completely enti,Md. Duet nvellable at yaw dreg store, rend $.1.00 for retina for 1 plate. WILDROOT IID., PORT 15IE, ONT. Dept. TIV BR1.11MI1MM8.Ptkk-I'l UN'E snit t, YIcIfNTURPIl LIKito tllusiattm, Colonlzation of the ul:enets yqu see most nights would be almost impossible. The Moon has no water. Mercury is burn-, *fly het on the side facing the swz and intensely cold on the other. Venus is "always blanket- ed In brilliant white clouds," Tet there are men determined on the project, In Britain, the Interplanetary Society is a flour- ishing concern, composed of sci- entists and engineers who know ,just hose' to get away. frorn the earth and who are eager 80. learn what lies beyond the earth's at- mosphere. One day, it seems certain; they Will get there. In fewer years, perhaps, than some of us ex- pest, rockets from this old earth of ours will be soaring through the skies -- outward bound, And 25,000 people are. hopeful of be- ing passengers. DISAPPEARANCE Renowned World War I Gen- eral, Marshal Foch walked in- to a Paris night spot late one evening and listened to a young songstress singing "The Marseil- laise." He was so touched that he presented her with his Croix de guerre, saying, "My heart has never before been hurt by a song." A week later, every news- paper in the country had the story, and every agent and man- ager in France was looking for the young singer, but she was never found. WATCH FOR NEXT WEEK'S PAPER FOR MORE ' DETAILS ABOUT PUTILE 501000 MILES GUARANTEED FUEL PUMP FOR ALL FORDS - $4.98 Order Today and Than Forget About Future Fuel. Pump Troubles $1.00 Deposit on All C.O.D. Orders If ERIE ENTERPRISES BOX X FORT ERIE, ONT. SAFES Protect your COWLS and CASs from VIRE and 'rn1L.wl:R. We have a, she and type of Safe. or Cabinet. for any pur- pose. Visit es or write roc price, rte., to Dent. w. —1.6CJ.TAY LEI R LIMITED TORONTO SAFE WORKS 140 r'ront St. E.. 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