HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-08-15, Page 2Pawned Husband's
False Teeth
On three occasions when a
smart and pretty but very ex-
travagant young wife wanted to
buy an expensive new hat . and
had no ready cash to pay for it,
she crept out of bed just before
dawn and stole her husband's
false teeth, which included
several gold ones.
The exasperated husband final-
ly sued for divorce, alleging that
by taking his teeth from the
bathroom she had not only prov-
ed her unworthiness as a wife.
and wrecked their marriage, but
had also helped to ruin his busi-
ness career.
"She always pawns the teeth
at a different place and I have
to spend the best part of a day
when I should be working trying
to trace them and redeem them,"
he complained to the U.S. judge.
He got a divorce.
Queer reasons often secure die-
solution of marriage in the
United States and some other
countries. A few weeks ago a
woman in Pittsburgh was grant-
ed a divorce after she had testi-
fied that her husband had made
ber sleep in an unheated attic
for ten years—because she snor-
ed "loudlyand incessantly".
Sixty cats were why a worried
New Jersey man sought, and
obtained a divorce from wife.
He alleged that he was never
allowed to have dinner until all
sixty of them had had theirs!
He said, too, that when he gave
his wife money to pay taxes and
bills she spent it instead on
delicacies for the cats.
.A divorce was won by one
woman whose husband tore a
piece out of the middle of their
marriage lines and ate it at
breakfast time. There was also
a Memphis wife who got a di-
vorce after complaining that
when she accidentally blocked e
her husband's view of the TV
screen one evening he was so
annoyed that he threw a chair at
her and held her head under
water.
It would be useless for a wo-
man in Canada to attempt to ob-
tain a divorce simply because
her husband had his hair perma-
nently waved. In San Francisco,
however, this was considered
good enough to secure one on
the ground of mental cruelty.
Similarly, a Newark wife ob-
tain a divorce because of the
violent quarrels between her and
her husband over the way she
ploished her finger nails. And
a Boston housewife asked for a
divorce because her husband
poured a can of shellac on her
head, saying he did not like the
color of her hair.
WILL VISIT MOTHER— Jennie
Lindstrom, daughter of Academy
Award winner Ingrid Bergman,
pictured above during a visit
Ia Salt Lake City, Utah, will fly
Fa Paris to visit her famous
mother. It will be their first
meeting since 1951 when they
saw each other in London.
A poet in ;Hollywood some
years ago was divorced by his
wife because the jingles he dedi-
cated to her jangled. her nerves.
One of these ran:
• 'When you're. away, I'm rest-
less, lonely,
Wretched, bared, dejected;
But here's the rub, my darling,
dear.
I feel the same when you are
here."
Another woman had nothing
definite to offer as divorce evi
dente—but she got her decree
nisi all right'. "My hdsband never.
actually struck me," she explain-
ed to the judge, "but he would
go round slamming his .fist
against doors and saying; "I
wish it were you!"
A 6 -foot tall St. Louis wife
sued for divorce some time ago
because her 4 -foot, 2 -inch hus-
band stood on a chair and gave
her a black eye. It was granted.
In Lubeck, Germany, a tear-
ful middle-aged wife got a di-
vorce after complaining that her
husband gave her magazine de-
tective stories to read, but al-
ways spoilt her enjoyment of
them by writing the name of
the murderer on the second page.
In Prague, a man divorced his
wife because she had "a mania
for cleanliness" which left her
little time to look after his
meals. A Frenchwoman's reason '
for wanting a divorce was the
fact that her " husband had a
twin brother.
„This twin brother used to go
out with his girl friend, but as
I could never tell the twins apart
I never knew whether it was
my husband who was going out
with the girl," she explained.
One day she confided all her
troubles to her brother-in-law,
by mistake. As a result, she de-
cided that divorce was the only
way out and took it.
A striptease dancer in South.
America filed a suit to divorce
her husband because, her lawyer
explained, "She resents the fact
that her husband does not resent
the fact that she is doing this
kind of work." The judge grant-
ed the divorce.
Two years ago an American
woman living in Brazil got a
divorce because of her professor-
husband's extraordinary absent-
mindedness. She said that he al- •
ways wore odd socks and shoes,
forgot to shave or wash for
weeks on end and frequently
went to bed wearing all his
clothes, forgetting to take off
even his muddy boots.
Can Bees Make Us
Live Longer ?
Scientists in Germany and
Russia are probing the secrets
of "royal jelly." They believe
it contains substances which may
help human beings to live lon-
ger, and attain a greater pitch
of health and happiness.
"Royal jelly," valued at more
than $700 an ounce, is the sub-
st a n c e issuing from the tiny
head glands of bees, whose duty
in life is to nurse and nourish
the Queen Bee in her hive. Liv-
ing on this substance, she per-
forms her stupendous egg rais-
ing feats.
Experiments with the jelly al-
ready suggest it may have al -
m o s t miraculous properties.
Hens, injected with it, have per-
formed remarkable laying feats.
Fruit flies, given a taste under
laboratory co n d i t ion s, have
grown far bigger than their nor-
mal size and stronger.
The elixir of life, a virtual
food of the gods for Queen Bees,
may before long play an equally
vital role in reinforcing the hu-
man family's stamina.
Add a quarter teaspoon of
PAPRIKA to that pound of
ground BEEF you are planning
to shape into hamburgers.
CERTAIN SIGN—The rising sun, centered in the channel of this
this canal, is a certain sign of summer's start in Wilmington,N.C.
The canal 1s on the Clarendon Plantation owned by Cornelius
Thomas, who says documents reveal Indians built the canal
leading to the Cape Fear River so they could tell when summer
arrived. The sun is centered in the canal's channel for three
straight mornings before beginning its northward drift.
•
NEW PLATEAU—Hal March, who attained fame on television's
"$64,000 Question" as a quizmaster, has reached a new plateau.
He's In the movies now—a goal he's aimed at since he was 17.
He rehearses a scene here for "Hear Me Good", in N,hich he
teems up with. Joe .E. Ross. Ross plays Mess Sgt. Ritzik on Phil
Silvers' "Sgt. Bilko" TV show. March and Ross play Broadway
sharpies who fix a'beauty contest for a gangster's girl friend.
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`.BLE TALKS
Canning days .are with us' once more, and before you start
canning fruits you may want to know how many cans you can
expect from a certain amount of fresh fruit or vegetable. The
U,S. Department of Agriculture has issued this chart which will
give you this information. Legal weight of a bushel of fruit varies
in different states. These are average weights:
Food Fresh Canned
Apples 1..bu. (48 lbs) 16 to 20 gts.
21 to 3 lbs. 1 qt.
24 -qt crate 12 to 18 qts.
5to8cups . Iqt.
1 bu. (56 lbs.% 22 to 32 qts.
6 to.8 cups 1 qt.
1 bu. (48 lbs.) 18. to 24 qts,
2 to "21 lbs. 1 qt.
1 bu. (50 lbs.) 20 to 25 qts.
2 to 21 lbs. • 1 qt.
1 bu. (56 lbs.) 24 to 30 gts.
2 to 21 lbs. 1 qt.
Strawberries 24 -qt, crate 12 to 16 qts.
6 to 8 cups 1 qt.
Tomatoes 1 bu. (53 lbs.) 15 to 20 qts.
21 to 3 lbs. 1 qt.
* * *
Berries, except strawberries
Cherries, as picked
Peaches
'Pears
Plums
If you would avoid having
your peach pickles shrivel, add
the sugar in'small amounts. This
recipe tells you how. Clingstones
are best for pickling, but free-
stones may be used.
PEACH PICKLES
24 peaches
5 - 6 cups sugar
1 piece ginger root
2 sticks cinnamon
1 tablespoon allspice
1 tablespoon cloves
3 cups vinegar
Wash, drain and peel hard,
ripe fruit. Add 2 cups sugar,
spices tied in a bag, and 2 cups
Of water to the vinegar. Boil
until sugar dissolves. Add 1
layer of peaches; simmer until
heated through, then remove
from syrup. When all peaches
are heated, bring syrup to boil-
ing. Pour over peaches. Let
stand 3-4 hours. Drain syrup
into kettle; add 2 cups sugar.
Boil until sugar dissolves. Cool.
Add peaches. Let stand 12-24
hours in a cool place. Pack
peaches in hot jars. Add remain-
ing sugar to syrup. EOi1 until
sugar dissolves. Pour, boiling
hot, over peaches. Process pints
and quarts 10 minutes in boil-
ing water bath.
* * *
CRAB APPLE PICKLES
1 gallon crab apples
5 cups sugar
2 sticks cinnamon
1 tablespoon allspice
tablespoon cloves
4 cups vinegar
Wash, rinse and dram crab
apples. Do not remove stems.
Run large needle through each
apple. This will not keep the
skins from cracking but will
usually prevent cracking but will
bursting. Add sugar, spices tied
in a bag and 3 cups of water to
vinegar. Boil until sugar dis-
solves. Cool. Add apples and
simmer until tender. Let stand
12 - 18 hours in a cool place.
Pack apples into hot jars. Heat
syrup to boiling. Pour it, boiling
hot, over apples. Process pints
and quarts 10 minutes in boil-
ing water bath.
* * *
When making watermellon
rind preserves, soak the rind in
either salt or lime water before
preserving. Lime makes a crisp-
er preserve. Trim green skins
and red flesh from thick rind
either before or after cutting
into pieces of shape and size
wanted.
WATERMELLON RIND
PRESERVES
2 pounds prepared rind
4 tablespoons salt or 2 table-
spoons slaked lime
1 tablespoon ground ginger
2 pounds sugar
2 lemons
Dissolve salt or lime in ecups
of cold water and pour over
rind. If salt is used, tsoak rind
•5-6hours; if lime is used, soak.
rind 2-3 hours. Rinse rind. Let
stand 30 minutes in fresh .water.
Drain. Sprinkle ginger over
rind. Cover with water. Boil
until fork tender. Drain. Add
sugar and juice of 1 lemon to
07 cups 'water. ` Boil 5 minutes.
Cool. Add rind to syrup. Boil
30 minutes. Add the other
lemon; thinly sliced. Continue
cooking until rind is clear. Pack
into hot jars. Process pints and
quarts 20 minutes at simmering
(180-185° F.) in hot water bath.
* * *
Use 'your favorite canning
recipe for your home canning
of ruits and' vegetables; but,
before preparing them, do these
things and' you'll find your
job easier and your 'results more
successful:
Read recipe and check in-
structions for filling and seal-
ing jars.
* * *
Set out all equipment and
clean cloths needed, and put
everything not needed out of
the way. If you are a "splashes
and spiller" spread newspapers
On your floor.
* * *
If canning fruits or tomatoes,
pour a little water in the can-
ner and set it over heat; then
add snore water to fill canner
half full. (You may need to add
more water after jars are in
canner.) Put cover on canner.
Wash jars, caps, lids, etc.
* * *
If fruit is to be canned, mea-
sure sugar and water for syrup,
into pan ready to heat. If vine-
gar -salt water is needed, get this'
ready now.
* * *
Wash, rinse, drain, and prepare
only enough produce for canner
load.
* * *
The right way is the easy way,.
so process for the right time and
by the right method for the foodi'
being canned.
Set jars upright, far apart and.
out of a draft to cool.,
Rash Of 'Trash'
The current brand of populart
- music is far from popular with
some experts:
At his Chapel Hill, N.C., home,
retired bandleader Kay Kyser,
51, whose "Koilege of Musical
Knowledge" was one of the first
radio -quiz giveaways of the '30s,
observed: "A solid 85 per cent
of the American public still like
music With a melody ... I don't
understand this bop and rock 'n'
roll stuff, I doubt if more than
a handful of people do." Kyser
believes that the tunes he popu-
larized, such as the zany "Three
Little Fishes" and "One-zy Two-
zy (I Love You-zy)" would be
just as contagious today as they
were 'way back when.
In a letter to a Senate com-
mittee investigating monopoly
charges against music publishers
and broadcasters, crooner Bing
Crosby, 53, commented: "It just
galls me exceedingly to see so
much trash on our air lanes and
TV screens. There is much to be
said about the influence ofpopu-
lar music on public taste, morals
and ideals, and what people are
hearing these days h a r d l y
achieves a salutary result. It's
just not too good."
MacPherson had entered a fa-
shionable restaurant with a
friend. "D'ye ken, Jock," he said,
"I'm told that it's common for
folk to tip the waiter two dol-
lars in places like this."
"Ah, weel, Mac, Mac," replied
Jock. "We'll do naething com-
mon."
BROILED FRANKFURTERS—Without the help of a divining rod, one
expert has found water, strange as it seems, in a Frankfurt,
Germany, swimming pool packed with broiled Frankfurters.
The expert, whose leg can be seen jutting from water at lower
right, was just one of thousands in the area seeking relief from
the oppressive heat.
IT'S NOT THE BEACH, BUT IT'S COOL -�-
For many lads in the teeming city of New York; the closest they
come to a beach is an open fireplug on a neighborhood street
corner and this youngster is enjoying every minute. When
millions of the city's residents turn to water in one Way or an-
other during a heat wave, the water department doesn't get
as much pleasure from the activity. On the left is demonstrated
the more natural way of beating New York's heat. Sixteen -
month -old Jonathan Weider isn't one to let a little thing like
clothes hamper his comfort. Oblivious to a more sophisticated
world, Jonathan stops for a drfr,