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That character I have sometimes
referred to in these columns—my
husband, if you must know the facts
—.says that the correct name is "pie -
plant", lint then he thinks that a
"rhubarb" is when six or seven
hockey players start slinging
punches at one another and only
stop when one of them gets his
permencm wave massed,
Bet he'lt eat it—and ask why 1
didn't anise another --even if T insist
on calling it,
Rhubarb Pie
2 cups cut rhubarb
'I cup sugar
tablespoon flour
2 cgr yolks
1 tablespoon melted butter
Method—Cook the rhnllarb until
'tender, Mix the sugar and flour,
and add gradually to tine rhubarb,
stirring constantly. Cook until
thick. Beat the egg yolks and add
to the mixture, and cook three min-
utes. Remove from the heat and
add the butter. When cool, dour
into a baked pie shell, Top with a
meringue made from the two egg
whites and three tablespoons of
sugar. (Beat the egg whites until
I'm 'working from dessert back-
wards. However, I don't think I
need apologize for giving you this
veal recipe, But first, just a word
about that particular kind of meat,
Veal comes from a young animal,
and the muscle is tender, but lack-
ing in fat, To make up for this, you
should ask the butcher to "lard" a
roast of veal. And it will be an im-
provement, as well, If you lay strips
of salt pork or bacon over the top
before it goes into the oven. So
here's
Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Veal
Veal shoulder
3 tablespoons bacon fat
34 cup chopped onion
34 cup chopped green pepper
cup chopped celery
2 quarts day-old bread cubes
1 teaspoon salt
3/ teaspoon pepper
34 teaspoon marjoram
'A cup milk
Method — Have bones removed
from veal shoulder. Melt bacon fat,
add onion, green pepper and celery
and gook till soft, but not brown,
Add mixture to bread cubes. Add
seasonings and milk and mix well.
stiff, add the sugar, and heat until
the mixture thickens again.) Pile
lightly on the filling, then return to
the oven until slightly browned.
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"Chicken Every Sunday" is the
title of a very fine book—which, of
course, I don't need to tell most of
you, because you've already read it.
But whether you have chicken
every Sunday, or just "once in a
while" there are generally some left-
overs, which can be made into a
really tempting luncheon dish if you
serve this
Chicken and Celery Casserole
2 cups chopped celery
4 tablespoons chicken fat
4 tablespoons flour
2 teaspoons salt
dash pepper
1 cup chicken stock
cup milk
C cup water drained from celery
2 cups diced, cooked chicken
1 cup corn flakes
2 teaspoons melted butter
or margarine
Cook celery until tender; drain,
saving water. Heat chicken fat; stir
in flour, salt and pepper. Gradually
add chicken stock, milk and water
drained from celery. Cook until
thickened, stirring constantly.
Spread layer of chicken in greased
casserole. Add layer of celery, an-
other of chicken and so on. Pour
sauce over top. Sprinkle with corn
flakes which have been crushed into
fine crumbs and mixed with melted
butter. Bake in a moderately hot
oven (400°F.) about ten minutes or
until thoroughly heated.
Yield: 6 servings.
* * *
Sometimes I think they, should
print my stuff like they do the
answers to those puzzles and quizzes
—upside-down—because once again
Spread veal open, spread with stuff-
ing and roll like a jelly roll. Tie
roast firmly with string (about seven
strings around the roast will hold
it firm). Place roast on a rack in
a shallow pan and bake uncovered
in a slow oven (300 degrees to 325
degrees F.) till meat thermometer
registers 170 degrees F. or about
thirty-five to forty minutes per
pound. Serve with gravy made
from drippings in pan.
Yield: twelve to fourteen set vings,
or leftover roast to slice cold next
day.
How Ariirna]is Hear
Because human hearing stops
short of the highest ranges, there
are some sounds in the everyday
animal world which are beyond us.
On the other hand, we caa hear
things that animals and birds can-
not,
If you doubt this, just strike
the bottom key on a piano, the
sound will be audible to you, but
not to your dog or cat. But dogs
can hear sounds an octave above
our top limit, and rats two octaves
higher. Birds have an even higher
level of hearing; the lowest sound
audible to a canary is the highest
C which a soprano can reach with
her voice. So if you are inclined
to taik to your pet canary, you're
just wasting your time; the bird
can't even hear you,
While we tan hear no sounds six
octaves above middle 'C, bats pro-
duce and hear sounds in the 'eighth
and ninth
octavesbo
.above that at point I
It is quite possible that some ani- 1
mals communicate in tones that we
can hear no better than the canary
can hear our conversation.
Unseeing, i3tit Happiness In Sight—Blind since birth, 5 -year-
old Bonnie Lee Kirshen, of Grand Ledge, started saving'the red
"tear -open"
stripfrom cigsTet packages when she heard a false
tumor that a tobacco company would give: her a seeing -eye dog
if she collected 40,000 of them. When Michigan residents heard
of her plight they donated a puppy. When Bonnie is 12, they
will give her a real seein-eye dog. Put until that, Tionnie is
',eying a w&nderf�ul time with her playful pup,
Dreamer, Awake!
An elderly gentleman who cone
aistently went to sleep during
church services became quite a
challenge to his minister, Surely,
Thought the pastor, there must be
a way to cure him.
The following Sunday the old
gentleman fell asleep during the
sermon, as was his custom. Imme-
diately, the minister went into ac-
tion. "All those who want to go
to Heaven," he whispered, "please
remain seated." They did so. Then
he shouted, "All those who want
to go to HELL, STAND UPI"
In a flash the old gent awakened
and jumped to his feet, looking first
at thee congregation, then at the
minister.
"I don't know what we're voting
on, Reverend," he spluttered, "but
whatever it is, we two sure are in
the minority!"
Some Facts About
Rheumatic Fever
You're worried about your boy.
He'isn't sick, exactly, but he isn't
eating well, is losing weight. Some-
times he cries, and you can't figure
out why. Ile may even run a tem-
perature now and then writes a
well known Child Specialist.
You have been reading warnings
that such vague symptoms could
mean rheumatic fever — a disease
that kills live times as many children
as diphtheria, infantile paralysis,
scarlet fever, measles, meningitis,
and whooping cough, a 1 i put
together!
If it is rheumatic fever, early
diagnosis may' prevent permanent
heart damage. But how do you know
-- '•n'. ,•;;n et tin a doctor tell —
r.n=t.. •u.h-el em- 1 ,•au the
re:1 tlu'n,t,?
1 bed lit;e letter nut long ago, "My
10 -.ear -old buy was kept in bed
most of the time for six months,
while nut's' treatment for rheu-
nuuic fever. t)ur doctor finally sug-
gested that we consult a specialist,
When the specialist had finished all
the tests, he said our child didn't
have rheumatic fever— that he
should lead a normal life."
This mother was relieved, natur-
ally, but she couldn't help regretting
the school hours and play time lost
from her child's life. She wanted to
know:
"Is this disease so hard to diag-
nose that the average doctor may
make a mistake? What should a
mother do if she thinks her child
may have rheumatic fever?"
The prevailing worry over rheu-
matic fever is understandable. For
this disease is deceptive as well as
dangerous.
Many mothers have learned to be
on guard for the;vell-known symp-
toms: persistent, unexplained fever;
fleeting pains, and swelling of the
joints; or St. Vitus dance (awk-
ward, jerky movements of the face,
arms and legs).
Fewer have learned to suspect
rheumatic fever when their children
display less typical symptoms: fail-
ure to gain weight; vague, fleeting
pains in the muscles and joints; loss
of appetite. Indefinite as they are,
these may be the only signs that a
child has rheumatic fever.
What to do about it? What should
you, as a parent, know about rheu-
matic fever, in addition to the symp-
toms that I have listed?
Well, you should know that this
'disease is likely to run in families;
that it tends to attack its victims
more than once; that the age at
which it is nnost likely to strike first
is between 5 and 35.
You should know what kind of
tests a doctor must make, to prove
rheumatic fever or rule it out. And
insist on these tests if your child
shows symptoms.
First, your doctor should make
a complete examination of the child,
He, or a heart specialist, must stake
a careful examination of the heart,
including an .electro -cardiogram, be-
cause the heart is so often affected
in rheumatic fever. He must make
a blood sedimentation test, to show
the rate at which the red corpuscles
separate out from the blood serum
when allowed to stand; a hemo-
globin test; and a count of the
white corpuscles.
These tests should prove or dis-
prove the diagnosis of rheumatic
fever.
So, if you think your child has
symptoms, take hint at once to your
family doctor. If ile is not equipped
to do the necessary tests just des-
cribed, don't' be afraid to ask him
to refer you to a child specialist.
There is no specific drug to cure
this disease; but complete bed rest
du01�itrtg its acute stage helps prevent
furtlur. attacks, and lessens the risk
of hear' damage. Further attacks
may alto'' be prevented by small
.daily doses oaf t4.Attlfa drug, given as
soon as the first, acute attack Is
over,
What about the chances of re-
covery? If the heart is not damaged,
or is only affected during the acute
attack ()homes are good. Many chil-
dren escape permanent heart damage
altogether. Even children who grow
up with rheumatic heart disease,
often can have active, useful careers.
But this cheerful outlook is made
possible only by early and sure diag-
nosis, and by careful medical super-
vision during and following attacks
of rheumatic fever.
Heavy, Heavy, Heavy?—Guess .Again—Mary Toohill is not a
lady weight lifter. What she's holding over her head is the
world's lightest solid, weighing only eight pounds. It's a big
chunk of the new plastic foam developed.by scientists as an
insulating material. It's made by baking a molasses -like resin
until it expands to 100 times its original volume. Even lighter
than sone gases, the new material weighs from 10 to 20 times
less than fluffy pie meringue.
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Gwen-dolin.e P. Clot vl1,e
I have just been getting into hot
water, so maybe I had better stay
put and get on with this column.
You see it is such a lovely day—
and we ,have so few really bright
days—that, according to Partner, I
have been trying to do a week's
work in one day. I haven't done
quite that rnuch but I have been
busy because, as I see it, it is easier
to do a lot of work on a nice day,
than an ordinary amount of work on
a bad day—especially when it comes
to the family wash. Dear knows
there is plenty of work of all kinds
at this time of the year with the
sun peering into all the corners and
showing up the cobwebs. And the
windows so dingy you can hardly
see through them—to say nothing
of what needs doing outside, As for
the work at the barn—it gets me
scared. I mentioned calves last
week—and they are still coming,
It seems every time Partner conies
in for a meal he announces the ar-
rival of another calf. We keep
shipping thein out but we never
get any less in number because as
fast as one calf goes out another
gets itself born. Not only that but
the. cows Partner specially wants
(heifer calfs from. promptly produce
bulls; and the young cows he wants
belle from, someliow manage to
beget heifers.
Last Monday we sent out two
cows with their calves at foot. One
cow, by the name of Jean, was evi-e. a particularly Loyal citizen
of Canada. She strenuously objected
to the idea of migrating to the
U.S.A. and it took four amen to con-
vince her that, while they respected
and admired her loyalty, her objec-
tions were of no avail. So Jean was
provided with free, comfortable
transportation and was allowed the
privilege of taking her slaughter
with her, but in spite of all tinese
concessions Jean was as "ornery" as
a cow knows how to be—and that's
saying plenty! She wasn't at all
violent—she didn't ruin around the
yard, or throw herself. And she
didn't get tangled up in the rope.
In fact site didn't give the men mucin
of a run at all. No, she teas just
what you might call a passive
resistor.
A loading chute was lowered from
the truck and it would have been
easy for Jean to walk quietly up the
chute and into the truck where her
daughter anxiously awaited her com-
ing. But nol The men would get
her front feet on the chute, and then
push and shove from the rear, but
not one inch would that cow move—
unless it was backwards. Then they
would try again . . . same thing
would happen. All this I was able to
watch from my pantry window as I
washed the breakfast dishes. And do
you know, all four men seem to
have so much patience with our
Jean, in spite of her contrariness.-
There
ontrariness;There was no shouting or rough
talk; no raised sticks or impatient
prodding. What tate men finally did
was to lift jean's front feet, one at
a time, inch by inch, up the loading
chute. Finally Jean must have said
to herself—"Oh well what's the use?
Four men to one cow is too much
for any self-respecting bossie. So
I guess it's good-bye, Canada." And
then—"America , .. here I come!"
It was evident Jean must have
thought something like that because
she tools the last two steps of her
own volition — and landed in the
truck. The calf said "Ma -a -al" Jean
said "Mo-o-ol" And that was their
farewell to Canada,
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Partner has just come in after
"walking the farm" I hnmediately
asked what he thought of the wheat
—how had it come through the win-
ter? Partner answered that one field
was surprisingly good and the other
field far better than Inc expected to
find it. So that is reassuring—al-
though we are not so foolish as to
count our bushels until they are
safely in the bin. There are still
plenty of things can happen to
that wheat to queer our chances .13f
a ood crop.
fi
Wheat—or any crop for that mat-
ter — is an awful gamble. We know
men to buy farms for the wheat
crop they thought would be on
them—only to discover at harvest
time that returns were barely enough
to cover expenses. Maybe that ac-
counts for the short time some
"city -farmers" stick to the farm even
after they have bought it. Farm
occupants have almost become birds
of passage. We hardly get time to
know our neighbors these days
here today, gone tomorrow. Change
of ownership is sometimes good for
a farm—but it takes a few years for
a man and his farm to become
acquainted; for each to get the best
from the other. Too many changes,
and tate farm is bound to suffer, But
that is what is happening—more and
more ever year,
Remove Hazards—.
Save Lives
Here's the story of a farm acci-
dent that actually happened. It
comes from the files of a College
Safety Specialist.
"Bang! You're dead',"
Junior, the six-year-old neighbor,
announced his victory proudly. But
young Timmy didn't agree. "You
didn't hit me," he called from be-
hind the pile of old machinery, "You
can't shoot through my fort."
Timmy and Junior often played
war around the old machinery and
other junk.
It was all right to play there,
Mother had said, but they were to
be careful. Timmy thought of that
word "careful" now as lie figured
a way to get out of his "fort" if
Junior attacked.
"I'm almost out of shells," Timmy
called. They always told each other
what was happening so they would
know what to do next. Junior came
charging around the pile of old -
machinery,
"Bangl Bang! Bangl"
Timmy jumped up. "Bangl No
more shells.' Up onto the old disk
he climbed, with Junior shooting
all the time.
Timmy slipped as be was climb-
ing. He fell into the trash below,
and lay. still Junior came running
up.
"Surrender! I win! I win" Then he
noticed that Timmy wasn't mov-
ing. He saw blood on Timmy's face.
Firs. Bennett!! Mrs. Bennettll"
Timmy wasn't badly hurt. A cut
on his forehead. He was sitting up
when his mother got there. But
he will always have a scar over his
left eye, where the doctor toolc six
stitches to close the wound. Sonne
sharp point did it, the doctor said. A
wonder it didn't hit his eye.
Old machinery and accumulated
junk don't make a good play -yard
for children, Telling children to be
careful doesn't solve the problem,
either, Maybe Timmy was careless
about climbing over that old disk.
But he thought he was being as
careful as possible.
With spring here, it's time to
clean up, paint up and fix up. A
little labor now will do wonders.
A spring cleaning of house and
farmstead can remove many hazards
that could hurt, maim or kill,
Let Well Enough Alone
Friend—"Dpt2't you hate to be as
old as 96, Uncle Joe?"
Uncle Joe—"Heck, no, bub—if I
wasn't this old I would be dead."
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