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A friend of mine was saying,
just the other day, "These 'ready -
mix' calces are all very well—
and a great help to women who
ere too pressed for time to do
real baking. But personally I
Tike the kind you sometimes get
et church socials or picnics -the
kind that just make you go look -
Ing for the woman who made it,
to beg for the recipe,"
And there are plenty Of folks
Of the same opinion. So here are
three cakes that — well, I was
almost going to say are guaran-
teed to have your friends "beg-
ging for the recipe."
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WHITE WONDER CAKE
,1/2 c, shortening
11/4 e. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2114 c. sifted cake flour
21/4 tsp. baking powder.
'h tsp. salt
1c.milk
4 egg whites.
.Cream shortening. Add sugar
and vanilla; beat until fluffy,
Elft flour, baking powder and
salt.
Add dry ingredients to cream-
ed mixture alternately with
milk. Blend until smooth after
each addition.
Beat egg whites until stiff
enough to form peaks. Fold into
batter.
Pour batter into 2 well -greased
-inch cake pans. Bake in
moderate (375°) oven about 25
minutes. Cool.
Put layers together with—
Lemon Filling
3 tblsp. corn starch
1 e. sugar
3a tsp. salt
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1 c, cold water
1/4 e. lemon juice
1 tblsp. butter
1 tsp. grated Iemon rind
Combine corn starch, sugar
and salt.
Stir together egg yolks, water,
and lemon juice, Add to dry in-
gredients.
Cook until thick, stirring con-
stantly.
.Remove from heat; add butter
and lemon rind. Cool.
Spread over bottom cake layer;
top with other layer. Frost
with—
Lemon Cream Frosting
e. butter
22 c. confectioners' sugar
1 tblsp, cream
1 egg yolk
1 tblsp. lemon juice
Few drops yellow coloring
Cream butter . Blend in all
other ingredients. Beat until
smooth. (If mixture seems too
Stiff to spread easily, add a few
drops of hot water.)
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YELLOW ANGEL CAKE
6 eggs (about), separated
(you need / e. yolks, 314 c.
whites)
ih c. cold water
11 c. sugar.
ih. tsp. vanilla
% tsp, orange extract
1 tsp. almond flavoring
11 c. sifted cake flour
114 tsp. salt '
3/4 tsp, cream of tartar
Beat egg yolks until very
thick and lemon -colored. Add
water. Beat until thick. Add
sugar gradually, beating con-
stantly—about 10 minutes with
electric mixer at highest"speed.
Fold in flavorings.
Sift flour and salt together at
least 3 times.
Carefully fold into egg yolk
mixture.
Beat egg whites until foamy.
Add cream of tartar Beat until
stiff enough to form peaks. Fold
Into batter.
Pour into ungreased 10 -inch
angel food pan.
Bake in moderate (350°) oven
about 1 hour. Invert and let
cool in the pan about 1 hour.
Frost with Seven -Minute Icing.
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CHOCOLATE ANGEL FOOD
CAKE
314 c. sifted cake flour
Ye c, cocoa
1114 c. egg whites (10 to 12
eggs)
114 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1114 c. sifted sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Sift flour and cocoa together 4
times.
Add salt to egg whites. Beat
until frothy. Add cream of tar-
tar. Beat until stili enough to
form peaks.
Fold sugar int() whites, Ye cup
at at time. Add vanilla,
Fold flour mixture into whites,
2 tablespoons at a time.
Pour batter into ungreased 10 -
inch angel food pan. Bake in
medium (375°) oven 1 hour.
Invert pan and let cake cool
in pan about 1 hour before tak-
ing it out to be frosted. Remove
any loose cake crumbs, so frost-
ing will go on smoothly.
Orange Frosting
1 pkg. (3 oz.) cream cheese
1 tblsp. orange juice
21 e. sifted confectioners'
sugar
ea tsp. grated orange rind.
Blend cream cheese and orange
juice.
Add the sugar gradually,
blending well.
Add orange rind; blend again.
Ever Smoke Moths
Or Drink Beetles?
What has three pairs of legs,
does little walking; wears a fur
coat, though it isn't winter; hes
twelve eyes, but can't see farth-
er than its nose?
It's the cabbage grower's rea-
son for gloom — the caterpillar.
Despite its being endowed with
she intricate eyes either side of
its head, the insect can see no
more than that part of the cab-
bage leaf it is chewing, nor farth-
er than the twig upon which it
may be crawling; all else appears
a blurred and misty background.
No less astounding is the dis-
cevery that certain insects can
walk or fly around without much
difficulty though they be minus
their heads! Harold Bastin, in
his fascinating, vividly illustrat-
ed book, "Freaks and Marvels of
Insect Life", explains that these
wonderful "Look, Mum — No
Head" goings-on are due to the
extraordinary nervous system of
the insect.
While the brain is, of course,
the centre of the nervous system,
the rest of the body boasts a
number of "nerve -knots" which
function as minor brains. Thus,
though it may have had its head
knocked off by an enemy, the in-
sect can still move, although its
course would naturally be some-
what erratic,
How many of us have smoked
moths or drunk beetles? How
many of us haven't! Discussing
the insects which are either
friends or foes of mankind, Mr.
Bastin reveals how tobacco mer-
chants and manufacturers are
finding it hard to keep the cater-
pillar of the tobacco -moth away
from cigars and cheroots, Simi-
larly,
imiIarly, the importers of coffee ber-
ries are sorely tried by a cun-
ning beetle whose presence does
not affect the qualify or aroma
of the coffee.
"Hence," writes the author,
"when buying old coffee one is
likely to purchase also a quantity
of ground -up beetles into the
bargain!"
An extremely entertaining
work.
(Howling Success — That's what 15 -month-old Lrsa Leong does
best, according to judges of the New York Chinese community's
14th annual baby confesf. She's a little young to cry in her beeq,
but lista is"well supplied with tearful "victory" cups, at any rate.
Power cranes, picks, shovels and human muscle went into action recently to clear the way for the construction
of the Canadian National Railways new 20 -storey hotel in Montreal. The busy scene above, left, shows
the demolition of a temporary traffic bridge at the Central Station site, At right is a sketch of what the
large hotel, with its more than 1,000 guest rooms, will look like when it is completed in 1957. Between the
hotel and the International Aviation Building is a 28 -storey office building which the railway proposes to
erect. The area is expected to develop through private capital into a magnificent shopping, theatre,
office and apartment centre larger than New York's Rockefeller Center.
Horsepower
Power is the rate at ,, which
energy is being spent, O+r' the
rate at which work is being doh.
Though it may be expressed In
terms of horsepower, it bears 'no
exact relation to animai::ahbr'se-
power. What we term horse-
power is so called because it
originated from the results of
experiments carried out with
strong draft horses by James
Watt more -than a century ago.
He wished to find out the rate
at which a horse, under average
conditions, does it work, and he
fixed this rate, as a round figure,
at 550 foot-pounds of work a
second, or 33,000 foot-pounds a
minute—that is to say work
equivalent to that needed to
raise a weight of 550 pounds
one foot high in one second.
Watt took this as the value of
one horsepower, although he
realized that it was a higher
rate of work than an average
horse can maintain for a full
day. Of course, a horse, if
stirred by a whip, can exert a
much greater effort, but only for
a very short time.
The expression horsepower is
qualified in several ways. What
is called "indicated horsepower"
is the horsepower exerted on the
piston of an engine. Some of
this power is absorbed•in driv-
ing the engine, and the balance
that rem,ins for doing the work
of driving machinery is known
as actual power given out by
the engine or motor. Electrical
horsepower is the equivalent of
mechanical horsepower; one elec-
trical horsepower is equal to
748 watts, The watt was named
for the great inventor who ex-
perimented with horses. It is
the amount of power brought by
a current of one amprere flow-
ing under a pressure of one
volt, r,
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The Speed Of
Sound
No.. Sound travels four and a
half times more quickly in water
than in air. Through steel it
travels faster than through any
other substance — about sixteen
times more quickly than in in
air. Perhaps you have noticed,
too, that sound travels more
quickly in warm air than it does
in cold air, as temperatures also
affects the rate.
Sound does not travel at the
same speed even through differ-
ent kinds of gases. The lighter
the gas, the faster the sound
travels through it, if the pres-
sure and the temperature of all.
the gases are the same. If the
air we breathe were hydrogen,
instead of being a mixture of nit.
rogen and oxygen, we should
hear a clap of thunder much
more quickly than we do On an
average, sound takes about five
seconds to travel one mile through
air. if a storm is four miles
away from us, we hear the thun-
der about twenty seconds after
we see the lightning. If the air
were composed of hydrogen, we
should hear the thunder about
five seconds after the flash.
In a thunderstorm it is some-
times fun to figure out how far
away the lightning is, For every
five seconds that you can count
from the moment you see the
lightning flash, to the time you
hear the thunder, you must add
One toile to the distance between
the lightning and you.
Here are the speeds at which
sound travels in different gases
when the temperature is at zero
degrees centigrade (32 degrees
Fahrenheit), and when the pres-
sure is the same as that of the
atmosphere at normal times:
hydrogen, 4,163 feet a second; air,
1,000 feet a second; oxygen,
1,041 feet a second; carbon diox-
ide, 856 feet a second.
Very few people are as bra
minded as we think we are.
"Waddle We Do Today?" — Paced by her mistress, Alice Olhau-
sen, left, "Lillibeth" stops traffic on her daily Walk. The duck
doesn't want to cause any "quack -ups," so she follows herrmis-,
tress carefully, and avoids fowl play under the wheels oftruffle.
Clipper Ships.
In the days of wind and sails,
the clippers were the fastest ves-
sels afloat. Their hulls were long
and sleek and rested low in the
water, and their tall masts car
ried tremendous spreads of can-
vas. One, the Lightning, carried
13,000 square feet of sail. The
clipper was designed for speed.
In a way, the China ' tea trade
was responsible for the design
and building of the clippers.
There was -such a great demand
for tea in England and the United
States that the first of each year's
crop brought high prices.
Naturally, the first cargo of each
year's new crop brought the
highest prices.
The clippers reigned as queens
of the sea for approximately
twenty ' years after the launch-
ing of the "first -the Helena in
New York in 1841; Compared
with later, clippers, she was
small, being just 135 feet long
with a 30 -foot, 6 -inch beam.
Two years later, the Rainbow
was built. She was larger and
was followed by the Sea Witch,
a ship 170 feet long, with a 34 -
foot beam, displacing 890 tons.
The 'Rainbow made the round
trip from New York to Canton
In less than six months.
As time went on, these fast
ships became larger and larger,
until some were 314 feet long,
with a 49 -foot beam. They were
so fast that a number of sailing
records were made and broken.
The Sea Witch was the fastest
ship afloat for three years, and
once made a voyage around Cape
Horn to California in 97 days.
The Lightning, launched in 1853,
crossed, the Atlantic from Boston
to Liverpool in 14 days. During
the trip she logged 436 miles in
one day to set an ail -time record
for any sailing ship for a day's
run. In 1859, the Dreadnaught
crossed from New York to Liver -
poet in 13 days, 8 hours, Later,
she sailed from New York to
Queenstown, Ireland, in less
than 10 days.
The reign of the clipper ship
was a brief one. It was doomed
by steel and steam, As early as
1819, auxiliary steam engines
had bean used -in wooden sailing
ships, and the invention in 1856
of the Bessemer converter made
steel abundant and cheap, Wood
and canvas soon lost the race to
steam•and steel, and the era of
the clipper ship was over.
WHAT is air conditioning?
Nobody has, ever thought of a
way to regulate the warmth or
coldness, dryness ar humidity of
air outdoors. The most we can
do is to` find out what the
weather is going to be like, and
then prepare foe it. Indoors it
is quite a different matter. By
means of a process called air
conditioning we can clean the
air, giVe It just the right amount
Of moisture (humidity), and
keep it as warrior Or as coos as
we like.
Air Conditioning is used, not
only in houses, offrees and public
buildings, but also In busses, -
railway cars, airplanes and ships;
in mines 'thousands of feet be-
neath the surface of the earth;
and in 'places where perishable
products are stored. It has a
wide variety of uses in industry,
where it helps to control and im-
prove the quality of products
that are being manufactured.
Properly conditioned air is a
great aid to the health and com-
fort and endurance of people
who work or live indoors or in
enclosed places. •
There are two general types of
air-conditioning systems. For a
large .place with many different
rooms or spaces to be condi-
tioned, there is the central
station type, In this system all
the apparatus is put in one room,
such as a basement, and the con-
ditioned air is carried through
ducts, Or pipes, to all parts of
the building.
Then there is the unitary type.
This can be used to condition the
air in a singleroomor other en-
closed space, such. as a bus.
These units are very small and
compact, so that they take up
very little space: They are in-
stalled with not much more
trouble and expense. than a
modern automatic refrigerator
requires.
Sometimes air conditioning is
wanted for only two or three
rooms and not for a whole'build-
ing. Then the unitary type is
installed in one room, and the
conditioned air . is circulated
through the others by pipes.
,
Winner — Actress Ruth Hampton
won her 100th title when she
was crowned "National Sports
Car Queen," The shapely 23 -
year -old won her" first title at
the age of one, and has been
going strong ever since.
PLAIN HORSE SENSE
1ty tr (BOJM) VON 4411.4tS
The proposal of the.l'resldent
of the Manitoba Farmers' Union,
I, Schulz, 'that the M. F.1.1, and
the Manitoba Federation of
,tagricitltur and , Cooperation
OS ,Agriguleture and Cooperation
shall antalgantate and become
One organization, giving up
their prisserlt name, 'character or
act of incorporation orany
other present identity and re-
organize. . }index the ii e m e
`United Farinef•s of; •Mgnitoba,'
may well ' open one of the most
important chapters•' itt the bis-
tory of Canada's fern move-
ment.
Right Approach.
In his letter of Surto 10th`,
1954„ to. Mr, ,T, A. Weltpri, P�esl�
dent' of M.1+.A,d., Mr, Shulz
says. that "several years ago the
majority • qt farmer's. did not
know that we had.. .a farm or-
ganization and diel }lot care, To
arouse their curiosity' and wake
them tip a new one had to be
started. Now that the economic
pinch is getting tighter and they
need help, they are beginning
to look around and they find two
conflicting groups instead of One
strong organization that could
really do something or them."
Mr. Schulz oilers amalgama-
tion as his "own personal idea"
not coming officially from the
M.F.U. and says that the right
approach would be to submit it
to the membership of both or-
ganizations or decision,
The conditions and principles,
as outlined by the M:F.IJ. Presi-
dent provide for affiliation of
the new 'organization with both,
Canadian Federation of Agricul-
ture and Interprovincial Farm
Union Council.
Grassroots Level
To keep the weight of the or-
ganizationat the ,grassroots
level and give the rank and file
of the members the opportunity
to take ' part in the making of
policies. Mr. Schulz upholds the
union principle that "the or-
ganization shall definitely be re-
quired to maintain at all times
local organized groups through
which producers may join the
organizations, which shall meet
periodically to discuss general
agricultural problems for the
purpose of making proposals on
policies."
Voting delegates for conven-
tions shall be members in good
standing chosen and sponsored
by local organizations.
Accepted in Principle
This proposal has been accept-
ed in principle by the annual
convention of the M.F.A.C. and
committees have been appointed
to discuss the methods and pro=
'cedure under which amalgama-
tion is to be brought about, If
and when accomplished, it will
set a precedent for other prov-
inces, eventually produce what
has been so sadly lacking, an
organization truly representative
of the farmers of Canada,
It will be imperative for far -
OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST
A high-up German governtnent
official was asked the other day
to explain the difference between
•man optimist and a pessimist in his
own country.
"The optimist," said the Ger-
man, "is learning English. The
pessimist is learning Russian. It's
as simple as that."
Which reminds us of the old
Redskin who was asked for his
comments on the present state of
the 'world. They ran; "Big
trouble is, all nations smoke
peace pipe but nobody inhales,"
niers to watch that any new or-
ganiegtion be based on direct
individual membership end that
voting power inannual' meet-
ings and conventions be 'given to
representatives duly elected by
the local groups.
The undemocratic principle of
the Canadian Federation of Ag-
riculture that "delegates entitled
to vote at the annual meeting
aze'the members Of the Board of
Directors," should be done away
with
Most„ eueouregtng is the pro-
posed„naiiae. of ''Vnited Farmers
of Manitoba." Translated to On-
taClb it, inighi t aekiri"tlie revival
of"hhre Old: fighting'44it of LIFO,
This eplumn ;..welcomes criti-
clsrp, , coesti:uctive. ori destructive,
grid spggestions, ,f.5es .or other-
vilse. It will end avour, tp an-
swer all qu`ddstion's XildiWs mall
to BOb v'bn PilliPaWhitby, Ont.
a
Shepherd Bo'rGave
Magnet its,fiame
According to a tale of ancient
Greece,, one. day a, shepherd boy
of Crete,` tending his flocks in the
hills, found himself held to the
earth with what seemed , to be
more than the usual force of
gravity. He discovered that the
iron nails in his shges and the
iron tip of his shepherd's staff
were being attracted by a pecul-
iar mass ib the ground. To him
the mass looked like rock. The
lad's name was Magnes, and so
it came about by association with
this story that the:kind of.°`tock"
he noticed was given a form of
bus haute, "magnetite, • and any
sma7i piece 'of ft. -was :called a
maet,. Magnes could not know,
as' we do today, that the "rock"
he had chanced upon wag really
a special •kind."of iron ore, which
has the property of attracting
other, iron to it — the property
• 0i' magnetism
lvlost of us are fmufliar with
the little horseshoe -shaped mag-
nets that will pickup iron filings
or naffs. Even as far back as the
sixth century B.C., Thales, the
Green philosopher, knew that
magnetite, called a lodestone in
ancient times, would attract
pieces of iron. Probably the most
important and one of the first
practical uses of magnetic iron
was the compass needle. The
Chinese are said to have discov-
ered it as long ago as twenty-five
centuries. Anyhow. it is certain
that the compass needle was
known, in very, early times and
in widely separated countries.
Early makers of compasses
realized not only that the needle
points to the north (in the North-
ern Hemisphere) but that it dips
and the dip increases as one goes
farther north. William Gilbert
(1540-1603), an English physician,
suggested a reason for this be-
havior, that the whole •eaten is
itself a magnet. This theory,
however, had to be discarded as
trio simple. It did, 'not, for one
thing, account for certain slight
variations in direction to which
the compass needle points. The
real answer to the mysterious
behavior of the magnetic' needle
seems to lie in the fact that the
sun affects the magnetic force of
the earth. Variations of the mag.
netic compass needle seem to
keep pace with the eleven -year
cycle of sunspot activity, in ad-
dition to the daily- variation that
appears to have something to do
with the rising and setting of the
sun.
ISSUE 60 1954
Hands, Hands, Hands — They're only ceramic, but they form a
clutching frame about the portrait of Mrs. Fred Richardson.
Making detailed replicas of her friends' and relatives' hands is
only one phase of her ceramic hobby. The hands are flcsh-toned
and perfect to the tiniest scar,