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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-9-22, Page 2RONIC ES NGt1 •)ARM 4:3vFe dottxw 2 Cl ele.e Time was wean ode Women's Institute was thought to be an organization intended mainly for the benefit of rural women who were an•'xidus to get to- gether, primarily for the pur- pose of exchanging recipes, plant slips, knitting patterns, quilt . blocks and for organizing quilting bees, That may be true --.. and still is, for that matter — but to all such domestic pro- grammes there is now a mighty big • "plus"! Yes, country women still exchange recipes and many of them love a quilting party but they are also interested in social studies, literature; inter- national affairs, history and art, in all of , which they are participating more and more. No one can doubt it after the excellent exhibit of original paintings that were on display following a competition that was sponsored by the Salads Tea Company and for which prizes were offered on a pro- vincial level. Entries reached the provincial competition by a process of elimination. The best pictures were Ten, first from the branch, th'11.faxen the Dis- trict, and fine y *ftoin the Con- vention Area, each painting fea- turing a Canadian landscape. The competition may not have brought to light any outstand- ing genius but at 'least it will have done much to satisfy and encourage the artistic and crea- tive urge in many women — talent that may have been dor- Mother! Look! Gy l 1. 4iFtr,s WARDROBE fur Brother and Sister! Overalls, playsuit, blazer, blouse and shirt are for both, Sister.A�r'has a little jumper too. Mister Elephant is a pocket they love! Pattern 4691 in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, for boys or girls. Size 8 blouse 1114 yards 35 -inch; over - ails 21/e yards 35 -inch nap; blazer 1% yards; jumper 14x yards. Instruction for elephant pocket too. This pattern easy to use, ;irn- ple to sew. is tested for fit. Has ootnplete illustrated instructions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (360) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, AD- DRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box I, 123 Elighteenth St., New Toronto,. Ont. IN A MESS—Mike Dougherty, 2, is all tangled up with his goats, en route to the Fair at Pomona. Mike hopes to straighten out the mixed up four -week -olds in time to win a couple- of the blue ribbons and some of the $61,000 prize money. mant for years. How many wo- men, when looking at a beau- tiful sunset, or a particularly attractive garden, have said with a longing sigh -- "Oh, if only I could paint. what a pic- ture that would make." In years gone by a few of them ever made the attempt. But of re- cent years night schools in many country districts included classes in art. The result was amazing. Women who apparent- ly had been interested only in culinary arts came out of the kitchen and went to work with paint and palette. At one night school where classes had been held for three years two en- tire classrooms were given over to paintings one for elemen- tary students and the other for second -year advanced classes. And most of the stffients were from rural areas. One time there war a young lad who was asked if he could play the violin. He replied — "I don't know yet — I haven't tried!" The same answer would be equally commendable corn- ing from a person if she were asked if she could paint a pic- ture. Naturally, only a person with outstanding talent and abi- lity can play or paint without some form of training. but there are hundreds of persons, who, with a little encouragement and rudimentary training are amazed to find within themselves latent talent that was never even sus- pected. So the Salada Tea Com- pany is definitely helping the cultural life of rural Ontario by sponsoring such a worthwhile project. The judges were two well- known artists -- Palmer and Casson. I was interested in one criticism they made — that the artists showed a tendency to copy a Kerte exactly as they saw it. "Sometimes," said Mr. Palmer, "there is more in know ing what to leave out of a pic- ture than what to put in it" That takes a little digesting but if you mull it over long enough it sound: so reasonable. After all a painting is not a photo- graph — although, come t o think of it many photographs would also be improved if a few of the details were left out! But a painting . . . take a shapely elm for instance, its lovely sym- metrical branches sheltering laz- ing cows beside a stream it is a beautiful tree- but it has quite a number of dead, disfig- uring branches. A camera would photograph those branches but an artist would never dream of letting them appear on his can- vas. Isn'i that typic,l of what the critics meant? By the way, I thought Mr. Casson teal a wonderful idea He sugg' tied that the Depart- ment of Educt.' -en set up a truck with an it,..tructor to go out to amateur art groups come Fudgechiffon cake Sift into a bowl, I e. plus 2 tbs. once -sifted cake flour, I! 2' taps. Magic Baking Powder. 34 tsp. salt, 74 c. fine granulated sagas; mix in l c. deeicealed coconut. Make a well in dry ingredients and add in order given (do not stir mixture), t.,( c. corn (salad) oil. 2 unbeaten egg yolks, ly c. plus 2 tbs. water, 1 tap. vanilla, 2% ozs. unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled. Stir liquids a bit, then stir in dry ingredients; beat until batter is smooth. Measure into a large bowl i4 c. egg whites (at room temperature) and sprinkle with 14 tsp. cream of tartar; heat until whites are very stiff—much stiffer than for meringues, etc. Add flour mixture, about a quarter at a time, and fold after each addition until batter and egg whites are well combined. Tun batter into an ungreased 8' angel cake pan; bake in rather slow oven, 328°, about 1 hour. Immediately cake comes from oven, invert pan and suspend cape until cold, Always Dependable throughout the Provinces and show them how to buy and handle material. Now there's a constructive suggestion if ever there was one. Which reminds me, I have a reprint of a beautiful picture by. A. J. Casson, P.R.C.A. It call- ed "Canadian Spring" and fea- tures white trilliums. Early last January when old calendars were being discarded I saw this picture hanging in a feed store. I asked the manager what he was going to do with it. "Noth- ing -- take it if you want it." I often look at that picture and think what a treasure I rescued from the trash can. Well, I seem to have let pic- tures and painting run away with my space. But we're still here on the good old farm. Partner has been getting a pen ready for our pullets, then he dug my flower bed ready for geraniums next spring. The 50 - odd cuttings I set out in the garden appear to be quite healthy — and I keep adding to their numbers. When it • comes time to pot them ready for win- ter storage it could be that my enthusiasm may suffer a slight - set -back. FOOLISH IDEA Betty's mother tried the fam- iliar method of reproadfl. "You know, Betty," she explained, "when I was a little girl I had to do what my mother told me, and when grandmother was a .little girl she had to do what her mother told her." "Hem," said Betty. "I wonder who started that silly game!" J -I -F -F -Y! 658 51115 S-10-12 M-14--16 t.--18-70 Frosting of flowers is delicious touch on this jiffy -wrap halter that tops shorts, slacks, skirts! Easy to sew — easier to em- broider. Little yardage, use remnants. Pattern 858 comes in sizes; Small (10, 12); Medium (14, 1e); Large (18, 20). Pattern pieces, transfer. State size. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in Coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to BOX 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tore Unto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER and SIM your NAME and ADDRESS. Don't niiss aur Laura Wheeler 1954 Needlecraft Catalog) 70 em- broidery, crochet,.color-transfer end embroidery patterns to send for --- plus 4 complete patterns printed in book, Send 25 cents ter your ropy today! Ideas for gifts, bazaar sailers, fashions. When Luck' 11 !find The De't'ective' Luck often enm s to the res- cue of the harassed detective. Sometimes it carnes to the res-, one' Of an innocent suspect when circumstantial evidence is all against him. But one of the oddest cases in my records con- cerns the just punishment of a murderess who had the "luck" to be acquitted;' It was in the year 1861 that Catherine Wilson stood in the dock, charged with. administer- ing One Ounce of sulphuric acid to Sarah Carvell with intent to murder her. Catherine Wilson was a bustling nurse, of hardly attrac- tive appearance, Her chin re- ceded so sharply that her face appeared to end with her lower lip. • She was attending Mrs. Car- vell in her professional capa- city. The doctor had prescribed a soothing draught for the pa- tient who suffered, froin gout, and Nurse Wilson voluntered to fetch the medicine, She was back in twenty minutes and held a glass of •liquid in her hand. "Drink it down, it will warm you, love," she said. Mrs. Carnell took the glass and felt it grow warm in her hands. She took one sip, but it burnt her lips so badly that she spat it out on to the bed- ' clothes and called her husband. "'The doctor's sent the 'wrong medicine!" she exclaiined. Mr. Carnell glanced down • at the bedclothes. Where the liquid had fallen, holes had been burnt in the sheet! Nurse Wilson was charged with attempted murder. She was defended by one of the ablest counsel of his day, Mr. Montagu. Williams, wile called witnesses to prove that the doc- tor had been out when the medicine was collected, and his' assistant, a lad of fifteen, had given the wrong bottle.' This theory was easily re- butted by the prosecution who showed that the acid had been diluted. The judge put this point clearly to the jury. While they were absent, a man tapped Mr. Williams on the shoulder: "A very clever defence, sir," he whispered, •"but if it succeeds you'lI do her a very bad turn." Mr. Williams asked for an explanation. "If there is a con- viction," the man said, "we shan't take any further action. If she is acquitted -- well. , you'll see." Nearly two hours later the jury returned. The verdict was Not Guilty. With an exclama- tion of delight Catherine Wil- son stepped down from the dock. No , sooner had her foot touched the floor of the court than the man who had whis- pered to her counsel approach- ed her. "I am a police officer from Lincoln," he said. "1 ar- • rest you for the wilful murders Of . " The second part of the story opened at Lincoln Assizes in September of 1882. Catherine Wilson was charged with the murder of Maria Soames in 1856. Miss Soames had suffered from gout and it transpired in evidence that Nurse Wilson spe- cialized in such oases. Oddly — or was it? — six other gout patients had died while in her care. The doctor in attendance on Miss Soames had not been sat- isfied with the cause of ,deatle and had had a post-mortem examination carried out, His evidence now was that Miss Soames had shown symptoms of having died from an overdose of vegetable irritant poison, probably colchium. It was not difficult to estab- lish a motive, for Nurse Wil- son had so ingratiated herself with her patient that she stood to benefit considerably by her death. Since the defence was that the presence of vegetable poison could not be detected in the body a short time After death, the bodies of six other patients were exhumed. Colchium was discovered in all of them, and in every case it was found by reference t0 their wills that Thiess Wilson had benefited, The defence was disposed ,of be a brilliant ,exposition of for ensic medicine from Dr. A. S, Taylor, Professor of Medical jurisprudence at Guy's who es- tablished ter all time that vege- table poisons of this nature would certainly be discovered after death, Nurse Wilson was found guil- ty and sentenced to death for the murder of Maria Soames, It was not necessary to proceed with the six remaining charges, Yet, had it 'not been for the strange decisions of a jury against the weight of evident*, Nurse Catherine Wilton wettld have carved -a veleta sentence for attempted murder, and theft been released to continue hat dreadful work, ISSUE 30 —1054 umltr + warned! Lest Junior return to school this fall with the notion that "mechanical brains" have made the "three B's" a dead language, let him be warned: teat least two of them wilt just keep on r -r -rolling along fox' quite a while yet. Why are we so sure? Well, Junior, We got 11right from the thinking machine's mouth -- or at any rate its mouthpiece, an expert in one of the companies that makes those ponderosities, This expert says his company is constantly sending its' office personnel back to school to learn reading and writing, particular- ly of figures, because (how do you like that?) the basic food of;.the complicated calculators is hand -gathered, hand -copied re- cords which are fed to the ma- chine. Yes, .Junior, its disappoinine. It's confusing and disillusioning, too. It is like learning that your 1 a y o rite supergadget, rocket - propelled, remote - con- trolled space -ship of the outer ether has to be kept in a box stall and fed eats in a nose bag just like old Dobbin. Of course, you won't 'learn that—but you'd better learn your hand-writin'. — From The Christian Science Monitor. Hitler Apologized Twice --Too L'ate It was the boast of the late unlamented Adolf Hitler that he apologized to only two men in his life Field -Marshal von Brauchitsch, who had constantly stressed the importance of rocket research, and . Major, General Walter Dornberger, the soldier -scientist itt charke of soldier - scientist in charge of who did more than any other man to develop the V2. Why did the mighty Fuhrer so humble himself? Because he had never had faith in rockets as a war weapon; and when in 1943 he hada dream they would never be operational against England he refused any prior- ity. Too late — he realized his blunder. Hence the apologies. Between September 8th, 1944, and March 27th, 1945, 1,190 V2's were launched against Landon, with deadly effect. Nearly 3,000 people were killed and over 0,000 seriously injured. 13ut in his book "V2" a fascinating ac' count of German rocket devel- opment from its early begin- nings in 1030— Walter Dorn- berger reveals that but for Hitler's blindness it might have been 1842. possible to have launched that number every. month from Would such a barrage of V-. weapons have altered the course of the war? The author believes so, and quotes President Eisen - bower's war history. "Crusade In Europe," lit which he Wret'el "If the Germans had succeeded in perfecting these new weep- 008 six months earlier and put - them into action as opportunty arose, it is probable that our in- vasion of Europe would have come up against tremendous difficulties and might have be- come impossible. "I am certain that after silt months of such action, 'Opera- tion Overlord' --- the attack • 09 Europe from England-- would have had to be written off." 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Cover and set in a 'warm place, free from. draught. Let rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough and turn out on board sprinkled' with oatmeal; cut into 2 equal por- tions and cut coca portion bats 16 pieces. Knead into smooth =balk and arrange in 2 greased 8" square cake pans. Grease tops. Cover and let rise until doubled in bulk. Bake inmoiteratcly hot oven, 373a, about 30 minute, 'Yield -32 small rolls. . LESS SPACE USED FOR LEAKPROO1FINGi Yea you can have both Leakproof Performance and Long Life in one flash• light battery. Secret of this unequalled perfortnancet a new microscopically thin thermoplastic barrier that takes up less space for ' 1eakproofing—leaves room for a full size power cell that gives longer life than ever! Say good-bye to oozing batteries and corroded flashlights ... get a 1.ongec life of brighter light with "Eveready" Heavy Duty Leakproof Flashlight Batteries. MORE SPACE USED !OR POWER! 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