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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1953-9-16, Page 2How To Battle 44Tettie:rale Grey" Housewives who feel they are battling "tattle -tale grey" all alone every wash day have a helping hand in an ingredient hidden in most of the new sen- thetic detergents. Today's "whiter -wash" discov ;, ery is a chemical with the jaw- breaking name of sodium ear- ' boxymethyl cellulose, known in research labs as sodium CMC. When synthetic detergents were first developed their great- est advantage was their efficiency in washing fabrics in hard water. However, chemists were not en- tirely satisfied with their cleans- ing properties. An ingredient or two seemed tobe missing, The early synthetics were ef- fective dirt removers but were not as efficient as soap in keep- ing soil suspended in the wash water and preventing it from being redeposited on the fabric. After numerous washings this soil accumulated on the garment giving it what housewives called a "tattle -tale grey" appearance. The search for better synthetics was spurred by a shortage of soap -making fats in Europe. Af- ter much testing, sodium CMC proved to be the "tattle -tale grey" antidote the chemists were looking for. Like many new chemicals, however, it was found to be more versatile than was at first apparent. Repeated tests have shown that it increases a detergent's ability to keep a fabric white and ob- tains the same degree of white- ness in about half the washing time. It is also an enemy of heavy, deeply -ingrained soil. The percentage of sodium CMC in a box of synthetic detergent is generally small, varying from one-half to two per cent. Since natural soaps are superior to synthetics in their dirt -suspend- ing power, the addition of sodium CMC is not necessary as a "tat- tle -tale grey" preventive. • However, sodium CMC has been found to improve other properties of some soaps, such as their washing ability and whiteness retention, In the soap - and - water conscious Nether - Blueberries, Rice Mold Make Tasty Desserts B7( DOROTHY MAtfO2C ,USCI(JUS, firm, cultivated blueberrles served in a sauce over a rice )Bavarian pudding make a delicious, eye -appealing dessert. Beat of all, in these hot days, -it can be prepared in advance, and the pee -cooked rice used gives added texture to the pudding, RICE BAVARIAN ' (Makes 8 servings) • One -halt package (la cup) pre-cooked rice, 1 tablespoon gelatin, 1% Cups milk, % cup granulated sugar, l tablespoon brown sugar, % teaspoon nutmeg, % teaspoon salt, 1 egg, slightly beaten, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, 1 teaspoon lemon rind,, ' cup cream, whipped. Prepare pre-cooked rice as directed en package, Co*, Combine geletin and y cup of the milk in mixing bowl Mix well. Combine ,sugars, salt and nutmeg in double boiler. Add remaining 1 cup of milk and egg and mix well. Place over hot water and cook, stirring constantly until mixture Coats spoon. Pour over gelatin and stir until gelatin is dissolved, Cool, Add vanilla, lemon juice, and lemon rind. Chill until slightly thickened. Then fold in rice and whipped cream. Serve with Blueberry Sauce. BLUEBF,,RRY SAUCE (Makes 21/4 supe sauce) Two cups fresh blueberries, I cup water, 4 teaspoons flour, ea cup sugar, y4 teaspoon salt, dash of cloves, 2 teaspoons better, 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Bring 2, cup ,of the berries and water to a boil and .simmer 3 minutes. Combine flour, sugar, salt, and cloves. Add to hot fruit. Add remaining berries, bring to a boil and cook.'3 minutes. Remove from heat. Add butter and lemon juice. Serve warm, if desired. Try this quick and easy crunchy blueberry pie for Sunday dessert: CRUNCHY TRUE BLUE PIE, Crust: Twenty graham crackers, finely rolled (11 cups crumbs), 'C cup softened butter or margarine (bs stick), ya cup sugar. Blend graham cracker crumbs, softened butter or margarine and auear. Pour mixture into 9 -inch pie plate. Firmly press into an This refreshing dessert, a rice Bavarian pudding •With 'plump, cultivated blueberries; can be prepared in adyauce, a, lifesaver on these hot days, even Layer against bottom and sides of plate. Bake in moderately hot oven (375 deg,- F.) • about •8 minutes. Cool. Pilling: Two and otic -half tablespoons cornstarch, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 cup water, 1 quart cultivated blueberries,' 1 ' teaspoon lemon juice. Mix cornstarch and sugar, Gradually add water and stir until cornstarch and sugar dissolve. Add to' berries and cook over low heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and becomes cleat Remove from heat, add lemon juice. When thoroughly cool, pons into graham cracker crumb crust, Chill. Just before servings garnish with whipped cream. lands, the addition of sodium CMC to soap compounds is now compulsory as it was discovered that the chemical cuts down the amount of soap required and im- proves its efficiency. The chemical is also employed as a warp -sizing by textile mills to protect the yarns from the abrasive action of the looms. Oil men use it in drilling, paper makers as a coating and farmers as a soil -conditioning agent. Some researchers are convinc- ed that a teaspoonful of sodium CMC added to the xinse water will act as a soil resistant by keeping clothes clean longer and making them wash more easily. Housewives have yet to verify this. Sodium CMC is still only manufactured for industrial use and as the un seen agent in boxes of synthetic detergents. TllEFA1N FRONT Jok1: Wheat likes cool soil; and you can grow more wheat per acre by taking the temperature of your fields this fall. So—out with those thermometers! I don't know it it would do any good to take along a stethescope and blood - pressure tester as well. But that's mere foolery—the temperature thing is strictly on the level. You can grow more wheat per acre by taking the temperature of your fields this fall. "For top yields, don't sow win- ter wheat until- the soil stays at 65 degrees or lower for several days," say Colorado researchers. • * • More and more wheat growers in the Plains states are using a thermometer to decide when to plant. In late August and Sep- tember they take soil tempera- tures thre inches down, in the middle of the afternoon. • • * As soon as soil temperatures drop to 65 degrees and stay there, they start putting in wheat. * * Later -seeded plants use less moisture than wheat that comes up in August. They aren't as apt to dry out and winter -kill, either. • • • That cool soil keeps root rot out of the picture, and it's usual- ly after the Hessian fly -free date. • * • When you plant early, the rank fall growth saps moisture out of the soil. This, along with root rot is usually too much for the wheat. You lose part of the stand through winter drying. Some scientists say that you can lose a fourth — or more — of your crop, Once in a blue moon you may come out ahead with early seed- ing, because you get earlier pas- ture. But moisture is usually the big problem, and you don't get much extra pasture in a dry fall. For the past seven years, re- searchers at Colby, Kansas, have harvested an average of seven to eight bushels more per acre '47 , Cagey Kids—Justice triumphs at the Buffalo, N.Y., Zoo as two youngsters, aged 10 and 12, find themselves behind bars. The boys were kept in the monkey cage ford short period to teach thein and other mischievous children not to throw stones at the animals. from mid-September wheat than from wheat seeded August 20. The September -seeded wheat weighed about two pounds more per bushel, too. r, • • "Even without drought, there's something about the make-up of an early plant that makes it more likely to winter-kill,",explains Agronomist H, H. Laude. a • "Wheat planted too late mins the same risk, so it doesn't pay t0 wait longer than October 1," adds Laude. ' ' • Tests show that it takes 7% inches of moisture to make straw. Then you get about two bushels of wheat for each additional inch of moisture up to 17 inches. That moisture includes rainfall stored in the soil at planting time. Wheat growers, working with researchers, have discovered that soil temperatures above 65 de- grees—especially from 75 degrees to 90 degrees—give root rots a chance to take hold early. Even though you plant late, it will still pay to get your seed- bed ready early. In 11 years of testing at Lincoln, Neb., wheat from land plowed in July aver- aged as much as seven bushels more than wheat on ground plowed in September, In 23 tests under 'continuous cropping near North Platte, Neb., late plowing resulted in 11 fail- ures. Earlyplowing, with only seven failures, averaged seven bushels better. Have You Got A Lucky Number? Are you dominated by a num- ber? Xs there a number which is linked with almost every im- portant event in your life? Many people dd have a lucky number, but very few can be said to be so haunted by one as Longfellow, the poet, was haunted by 9's. He was born on 27-2-1307, 11 you add the figures together, they total 27. Add those two figures and the total is 9. All through his life that number was to follow him. He was 18 when he •cit col- lege — 1 and 8 total 9. Nine years later, when he was 27—P again —he became a professor at Har- vard. He was there for 13 years, and during his lifetime published 18 volumes of poetry, The year he was appointed to Harvard was 1836, which when you bring it down to a singe dig- it, is 9. He resigned his position in 1854—again 9. The exact date of his resignation was 16-2-1854 —which still adds up to 9 The date of his first wedding was 14-9-1831, and his second was 13-7-1843. Both these rets of figures add up to 9. His second wife died when he was 54. They were married for 18 years, ' His most monumental work was his anthology. "The Poets And Poetry Of Europe," which was first published in 1854 (9). 27 years later it was reprinted and a supplement added. The to- tal number of pages in the new edition was 1,118 — again the 9 W, E. Gladstone, the Virterian Prime Minister, was haunted by number 5. He won his 'first Par- liamentary election in 1832, when he was 23. The number of votes recorded at that election was 887, which totals five. His appointment as Colonial Secretary was confirmed on the 23rd of the month, and hr was made Chancellor of the Ex- chequer on the 23rd of the month, When he was 59 he was made Prime Minister. The year Was 1868, Be- died on 19-5+1898 and was buried en 28-5-1898. Beth these sets of figures, brought down to single digits, total 5. TABLE TALKS Here's the recipe for a Sweet Pepper Relish which you'll find really tasty when used "as is" and which — mixed with mayon- naise—makes a mervelous Thous- and Island dressing. SWEET PEPPER RELISH 12 green. peppers 10 sweet onions (medium) 12 red peppers 1 pint vinegar 3 cups sugar 3 tablespoons salt 3 tablespoons mustard seed Grind green and red peppers and onions with coarse blade, in your meat grinder. Pour boiling water over mixture. Let stand 5 minutes; drain. Make 'a so- lution of vinegar, sugar, salt and mustard seed. Put pepper -onion mixture in vinegar solution. Let come to boil and boil 12 minutes, Bottle and seal. * • * It is interesting to remember, when preparing or eating onions, that they belong to the lily family—close kin to the flowers so much loved at Eastertimc. While "onion" is the universal name for this bulbous vegetable now, it was not always this way. Ancient names for it in Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek and Latin were apparently unrelated, showing the widespread culture of onions during prehistoric times. Onions were introduced by the Spanish into the West Indies and soon spread to all parts of the Americas. Leek and garlic are forms of the onion. There are so many ways of preparing onions for your dinner table that you should have no trouble finding ways for suiting all your family with this versa- tile vegetable. Here are some suggestions for preparing this plentiful vege- table, GLAZED ONIONS 1 quart sliced, raw onions 2 tablespoons butter or margarine ti cup brown sugar Melt butter in heavy skillet; Scheohune'Togs-A fashionable back-to-schodid'r is this youthful artist wearing a smart checked Eton jacket by Chips and Twigs. Made of wool and orlon, the jacket is washable and comes With contrasting trousers. add brown sugar and blend, Add onions and cook over low heat, turning frequently until tender (20 to 30 minutes). Serves 4, • 4. When you're stuffing onions, they should be in the form of little cups when you put the stuffing in. If you want to use them as cups for peas or cubed carrots—they make a lovely ring for your roast platter fixed. this way—you needn't put them in the oven but cook them longer on top of the stove, STUFFED ONIONS 6 large onions 34 cup corn chips, lightly crushed 1 teaspoon cbopped parsley 2 tablespoons butter or mar- garine 34 cup hot water 34 cup ground, cooked meat 3 tablespoons finely crushed corn chips for topping Peel onions, slice off tops and remove centers. Boil gently for 10 minutes; drain. Combine corn chips, ground meat and season- ings. Fill onions with mixture. Combine hot water and butter in baking dish. Bake at 350° Fs, basting occasionally. When al- most done sprinkle with crushed corn 'chips and brown. • • • • Perhaps you like the zippy taste of cheese with your onions; here is a bake that lifts this vegetable into the luxury class! Cheese -Onion Bake 1l./ cups thinly sliced onions 134 cups shredded cheese 6 tablespoons butter, melted 114 cups .coarse salt -cracker crumbs A :teaspoon curry powder 1?5 cups hot milk 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs, beaten Few grains cayenne Place sliced onions with 2 tablespoons butter in 8x8x2 baking dish. Cook in 325° F. oven until onions are transpar- ent. Combine remaining butter, cracker crumbs, and curry pow- der. When onions are cooked, re- move from baking pan. Press 1 cup of crumb mixture against bottom and sides of pan. Ar- range onions on crumbs. Com- bine - milk, salt, cayenne, eggs, and- cheese. Mix well Pour over onions. Cover with remaining '!a cup crumbs. Bake at 325° F. 30-35 minutes or until mixture is set. Dreams Cance True Dreams come true — some. times, Take the case of two Ita- lians, Claudio Nuoci and Fausto Marinelli, 'who dreamt' they could make a fortune by going to the. races in Venezuela. Off they went from Rome, af- ter telling their fiancees that they felt sure they would return hone quickly with sufficient money to marry. How right they were, Within thirty-four days of their depar- ture from Italy the two men had won 100,000 dollars. They seem- ed to know exactly the right horses to back. Resisting the temptation to spend the money, they packed their bags an the last day of the races' and fiew hortr'. They are planning a joint wedding later this summer. Then they will return to 'Venezuela and buy a farm which they 'hope will yield another fortune. ree Power From Earth's Centre We have broken the sound har- rier;. we have discovered the atom bomb; we have harnessed the world's biggest rlyevs for the immensely - increased production of electricity, We have even har- nessed+ Niagara; we have gone a considerable distance toWards the conquest of space with our strato- sphere 'planes; we are seriously contemplating a rocket trip to the moon or Mars, Who, then. can reasonably fix a limit to the fu - titre achievements of scienee? Not so many years ago seien: tists had a dream — a fantastic one in those days — of harness- ing the earth itself. The idea was to drive a tunnel miles in length straight down into the ground, broad enough for men to work in and wrest from nature much of her stored -up power. Yes -. the earth itself harnessed to the will of man. • It has long been admitted that there is great heat in the earth's centre — an everlasting fire cre- ating enormously .high-pressure steam, The difftcglties of sinking such a shaft would not prove in- surmountable With modern me- thods. The proposed tunnel would be lined with steel and concrete to withstand earth pressure, and this matter would have to be ap- proached cautiously, because it has been shown that, at below thirty miles, granite itself softens with the terrific heat and weight of the earth. The tunnel would necessarily be sunk in sections — say, half a mile at a time. Then would come the problem of ihereased air -pressure as the work pro- gressed and the shaft. lengthened. This would have to be countered by the construction of air -locks every two or three miles, and breathable air pumped down to the workers, The terrific heat would have to be tackled by some method of cooling glowing rock and boiling water in advance of the tunnel's progress; then this heat would be conducted to the surface in quantities sufficient to create steam power from vast water -tanks. When once this "t a p p i n g" was accomplished, there wotiId be no limit to re- serve supplies. But there is another- question. Suppose, for argument's sake, that science did succeed in har- nessing the earth's power for use, the continual demand and con- sequent temporary loss of heat might cause the earth's crust to shrink, buckle, crack and finally sink, with the inevitable result of devastating earthquakes here, there and everywhere. So should science leave Mother Earth alone? Want To Bet? When a coin is flipped 10 times and a head comes up 10 times in succession what would you say were the odds for a head on the eleventh throw? The answer here is important because many gambling systems suggest that when you don't see a certain number for a time on a roulette wheel or a certain number on the dice your chances are better that it will appear. Not so. Ely Cul- bertson says otherwise:' "The fallacy lies in failing to realize that every new deal, every new toss, is an independent event of- fering exactly even chances, What happened in the oast has no bearing upon the probability of the next event" In other words the odds for the llth toss of the coin are still exactly even, PRIZED LOOSE The birthday party was getting on mother's nerves. She walked over to a bunch of particularly noisy children a n d announced: "There will be a special prize for the one who goes home first!" UNDAY SC11O01 LESSON By Bev. R. Barclay Warren B. A., B. D. Courage for Christian L1vliil; 2 Timothy 1144 Memory Slleetiont God hath pot given us' the' Spirit of fear; but of pewter, and of love, and of a sound- mind. 2 Tiniothy Paul writes to Timothy: "13e not thou ashamed of the testi- mony of, outLord, nor o£ me Bis prisoner." A little later he added: "I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed." Paul w a s ever using that Word: ashamed, , For Paul was, unem- barrassed with the gospel he pro- claimed. To him the gospel was an experience of the inner con- sciousness, a miracle operating OA the heart, awakening the spiritual life witihin, It was the power of God unto salvation, And no man was excluded. The worst man could - rise' to ''the level of, the best, Fear dogs ,the steps, of men with its • trinity of worry, in- somnia, and 'failure. As a stroke may paralyze the normal.fune- tions of .the body,' so fear par- alyses human effort in any, out- reach of life. To meet this spec- ter of fear and its reactions the field of ¢sybhiatry has been de- veloped. It is a man-made sys- tem of having the patient. talk , out his, obsessions with ..their background to the psychiatrist. By thus turning his mind inside out, the psychiatrist endeavours to help .• him. ' But -let it be re- membered -that there is no funda- mental ,conquest of fear ,,that is not based on God. The famous philosopher, Dr, Joad, who died on April 9tH, vias for many years an agnostic, He went so far as to say that "The present generation has shown religion to be fiction," But world - war No, 2 completely shattered his illusions as to man's inherent goodness, Later he declared: "I had thought that' evil was not endemic in human nature—that economic reasons were respon- sible for it. But 1 have since become forced to accept the Christian doctrine of original sin, Only a religious creed can counter this evil." Only Jesus Christ can meet the need of this frustrated age The sooner we realize this and act accordingly, the better. Marriage Odds I£ married, it's 2,600 to 1 you' did not elope and 2,300 to 1 you met the girl you married through. an introduction. The odes are 11/2 to 1 in your favour, you can dance (whatever your sex), says Arthur Murray. Three to 1 that, if a girl, you will have n better chance to. marry by leaving the town you now live in. But 7,- 200 to 1 you will never win any kind of beauty contest, if a girl the chances are 2 to 1 you will permit a kiss at the doo- after your first date (and if a ratan, 1,000 to 1 you'll want one . The odds are exactly even your en- gagement will last a year, 17,- 000 to 1 you will not marry a relative, 17 to 1 that your en- gagement ring will cost less than 50.00. BULL.SEYE—IN BARREL One of the oddest rifles in exi- stence can be seen at the Small Arms School, Hythe, Kent. It has a damaged muzzle and a blown -out breech. Why? Because as it was being fired by an unknown British soldier from a trench in 1916, a Ger- man bullet entered the barrel from the other end. Say experts: "Chances of such a thing happen- ing again are many millions to one." nt+hio8t iir<,,;^, He ping Hantrs—Volunteer,workmen swarm avtier rho-snew home they are kfuild!ng in a. race against time at,rlint; Mich: This is part of a 3;000 -mon project to rebuild tornado -torn' Vliet its two days, The city was ripped by high winds during June.