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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-08-21, Page 2Moments They'd Like To Forget Two very wealthy American businessmen, cousins, had long. and ardently wooed the same girl—a .,proud, but very desir- able platinum blonde. Her prettiness and gaiety cap- tivated both men but their rival- ry remained friendly, They took it in turn to take her out and she was quite content for a year or two to let them lavish money ori her in their efforts to win her. Each bought her costly jewel- lery; each drove her to luxurious parties, flew her on expensive holidays- abroad and sent her huge bouquets'%f flowers almost daily. Finally the younger suitor, .who was forty, persuaded her to say "Yes" after proposing to her dozens of times. The wedding day was fixed. There was to be a spare -no -expense ceremony "in a flower -banked church to which some hundreds of guests were invited. "You must look especially smart and handsome on our wed- ding day," the young bride told her husband -to -be. "Don't for- get that Sam — the rejected suitor — will be there and he always looks well dressed." On the great day the bride wore a wedding dress — paid for by her generous groom — which cost $750. And the bridegroom, who had -never worried much about his appearance, certainly looked smart in a well -cut suit. His bride had never seen him looking better. She smiledhappily as they met at the altar, and the service be- gan. A few moments later some- thing happened which caused her to blush crimson with embar- rassment. Her groom's trousers began to sag and then, in full view of the large congregation, they fell -down, leaving him standing in his coat and under- pants. The worst had happened. The old pair of braces he had hur- riedly put on that morning had broken. The groom turned pale and nervously hitched up his -trousers with his left hand, hold- ing them in position until the end of the ceremony. The priest pretended . he had not seen them fall. The congre gation, including the rejected suitor, could not refrain from tittering, although everybody felt sympathy for the embarrassed pair. We can only imagine how they felt when they faced their rela- tives and friends as they emerg- ed from the vestry. The bride- groom had borrowed some braces from the verger. Embarrassing incidents can oc- cur to mar otherwise happy oc- casions. It was also a pair of braces which caused a man's face to go red when he got up tc speak a short time ago at a dinner for old age pensioners near London. They broke sud- denly. He was given two safety pins by a woman present, made a quick adjustment and went on with his speech. An attractive woman says she will never forget what happened when she was invited to join a dancing party of young people at a Mayfair night club. During the evening an elderly waiter came along, stood behind her chair and murmured some- thing to her. She rose automatically, think- ing it was one of the men in her party and continued to think so until she had practically pro- pelled the astonished old man on to the dance floor and begun to try to waltz with him. Then he told her who he was and repeated what he had mur- mured to her earlier - that she was wanted by a friend on the telephone! Waiting for an interview with a" prospective employer a pretty young Barnes typist wanted to look her best and so powder(.) her nose. Then she went into his office. "Unfortunately there was a rouge puff as well gs a powder puff in my handbag," she reveal- ed afterwards. "Only when I got home later, did I find out that my nose was as red as a rose. What'the man who interviewed me must have thought, I daren't guess, but I -got the job." An awkward situation in which an absent-minded, good-looking Manchester bachelor found him- self led to romance some years ago. He had moved into .a new flat where he was living alone. One evening, returning late after a busy day at his office, he walk- ed into a flat two doors below his, after opening the front door successfully with a key of his own flat, which chanced to fit the lock. He hung up his hat and coat, sat down, helped himself to n glass of wine from a bottle on the sideboard, took off his collar and tie and was beginning to look round for his slippers when the young woman tenant of the flat came into the room from the bathroom, wearing a dress- ing gown. T h e embarrassed bachel, stammered his apologies. He we: so confused that she realized he had made a genuine mistake and forgave hint. The pair later fell in love and married. In a Spanish cinema a young man was so bored by the film That he fell asleep and dreamt that he was at home getting ready for bed. The large audi- ence were startled when he sud- denly arose from his seat -and started to undress, stripping quickly down to his underwear. An outraged usher jerked him fully awake. Amazed and em- barrassed, he had great difficulty in convincing the manager that be really had been dreaming. It's not likely that a young girl would go to a big seaside resort for a holiday and then lose her hotel. This, - however, was the recent experience of a lovely Swede. She spoke perfect English .but had arrived at the resort without booking a room. At the siiation she asked a taximan to . drive her to a good private hotel. He did so. Next morning she left the ho- • tel to go for a swim. Returning later she realized that she did notknow the name of the hotel and could not remember the rather complicated way back to it. Embarrassed, she went to the police. At first they would not believe her story, but later it was clear that she was teling the truth and that her wallet and luggage were at the hotel. The police rang up nearly 40 private hotels in the resort be- fore they found the right one. JUST CALL ME JOSH At his .appearance in a Lan- caster, Pa., court, Joshua Hietize Baussloipezkuffbergarzime con- fessed to the presiding magis- trate that he also used an alias. A somewhat bewildered mag- istrate asked the offender what it was, Came the answer: Joshua Hietize Baussloipezkuffbergl STONEHENGE RECONSTRUCTED -A giant lintelis lifted into place atop the Druid's Circle in Stonehenge, England. The Circle, popularly supposed to have been the worshipping place of the ancient Druids, is being reconstructed as a monument. BEHIND THE SCENES—Expert cutters transform modern Canadian textiles into authentic Shakespearean costumes for the Stratford productions. Here Ottalie Douglas (left) gets ad- vice from Barbara Gray (centre). Miss Gray and Pat Scott (right) left their own thee tried I • costume business in England to work at the famous Canadian Stratford. 1 '7� TABLE TM KS Jam' 6 •. irk ,.. eQ i 4 \th e.wss. What a vast difference the salad dressing makes—and here are some hints and recipes that will help to make your salads a success. First of all— The Basic French Recipe: Into a screwtop jar put a 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pa- prika, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/4 cup. vinegar or lemon juice, and % eup olive oil. Shake well. Keep in refrigerator and shake well before each use. Some of the possible additions are: 2 tablespoons finely chop- ped anchovies; 1/4 cup finely chopped chutney; 1/4 cup tomato catchup; or 4 tablespoons cruor bled Roquefort cheese. You can use tarragon vinegar and add 1 hard -cooked egg chopped 'very fine; or, for chiffonade . dressing, add 2 tablespoons chopped pars- ley, 2 teaspoons chopped onion; 1 chopped -hard -cooked egg and e/4 cup chopped cooked beets. For a dressing for fruit salads, reduce vinegar by 1 tablespoon and add 1 tablespoon liquid honey and ye teaspoon paprika; for piquant dressing, add ,% teaspoon prepared brown mus- tard, % teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, % teaspoon ordain juice and 2 drops Tabasco. Or, to make up your own dressing, add chopped stuffed olives, chopped green pepper, chopped red pepper, chopped celery, in the proportions you like. a • • Many restaurants have partly built their reputation for serv- ing good food with their special blend of salad dressing. One famous eating place uses tomato soup French dressing. Here is the way to make it. Tomato Soup French Dressing 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons dry mustard 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon pepper 1 can (114 cups) condensed to- mato soup 1/2 can each vinegar and salad oil (1/ cup plus 2 table- spoons each) 2 tablespoons minced onion Combine dry ingredients in order given in a 1 -quart jar; add remaining ingredients and shake well. Store in refrigerator; shake well before using. Makes about 2% cups. 1.� • A "creamy" French dressing contains no cream but is prob- ably so named because the white of 1 egg is beaten in as the dressing is mixed. Creamy French Dressing 2 'cups salad oil 1 clove garlic 2 teaspoons grated_ onion r4 teaspoon dry mustard 1,4 teaspoon ground black pep- per '1 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon salt cup tomato catsup -- 2 tablespoons sugar cup eider vinegar 1 egg white Combine first 6 ingredients and let stand 1 hour Add re- maining ingredients. Beat vigor- ously with rotary egg beater (or beat • with electric beater) Makes 3 cups salad dressing. • e * Chicken salad, vegetable .sal ad, coleslaw, fruit and molded salads, as well as summer's fa- vorite, potato salad, are good with cooked dressing. This dressing, too, may have other ingredients added to it to form interesting variations. Basic Cooked Dressing: Put into the top of a double boiler 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon pre- pared mustard, 11 tablespoons flour, 1 egg, s/.e cup milk and 4 tablespoons vinegar (add vine- gar slowly, blending). Combine • in the order given. Cook over hot water, stirring constantly, until thick. Add 1 tablespoon butter and blend thoroughly. Cool. If you want to use this dress- ing for fruit salad, add 1 table- spoon sugar and substitute 1/4 cup pineapple juice plus V4 cup orange juice for the milk, Omit mustard, if you wish. If you like your fruit salad dressing fluffy, fold in a/4. cup whipped cream. For coleslaw, add 2 table- spoons yellow prepared mus- tard to the basic dressing. For a peanut butter dressing — good either on mixed fruit or vege- table salad -add to basic dress- ing, when cool, 4 tablespoons. peanut butter. Or add 1 chopped hard -cooked egg, 1 'chopped pi- miento and 1 tablespoon chop- ped sour gherkins—good on egg or lettuce salad. • • • A different taste is obtained in cooked dressing by using sour cream and lime juice. This is the way to make it. Sour Cream' Cooked .Dressing 2 teaspoons salt 11 'teaspoons dry mustard 2 teaspoons sugar Dash cayenne 2 tablespoons flour 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup scalded milk eup' lime juice 1 cup sour cream Mix dry ingredients and add to beaten eggs. Add milk and lime juice and cook in double boder, stirring constantly until mixture thickens. Cool. Add sour cream, blending well. Store in covered jar in refrigerator Makes about 3 cups. * •' • Homemade mayonnaise ' used to be considered almost a neces- sity for party salads, especially for chicken or fish salads. It is rich and, some new cooks think difficult to make, but here is an • easy .recipe. Basic Mayonnaise 1 teaspoon prepared mnstard 5 ;oaspoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper Vs teaspoon paprika 1 egg (or 2 egg yolks) 2% tablespoons vinegar 2 cups salad oil, Mix mustard, salt, pepper and paprika; add egg and heat well. Add oil gradually, by teaspoon- fuls at first, until 'Fe cup is used, beating all the time Add 1 tablespoon vinegar and beat well Add more oil, thinning as the mixture thickejas, anti] . al) oil and vinegar are used, Kitchin Hint Ever try tocut a heisted cake— or an angel cake ---and have the frosting get messed up by the time you 'reach the second cut7 If you don't know this trick, try it soon Run a sharp knife under very hot water shake to remove excess` moisture, then cut once. Run the knife under the water again before' making each in- cision, and you'll have no more r issy frosting. Study In Browns Bob Addie, a Washington sportswriter, was itting in a restaurant shooting the breeze with Lyall Smith, of the Detroit Free Press; Red Smith, general manager of Toledo; Joe . E. Brown, movie comedian; Joe E. Brown, Jr.; and young Joe's wife. Later they were joined by a Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Jones- and still later along came Bobo Newsom, then , pitching for the Athletics. Addie made • the in- troductions: "This is Mr. Smith, Mr, Smith, Mr. Brown, Sr„ Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Jones." Bobo hesitated for a moment, then said, "If- nobody is going to give their right name, I ain't tither." Drive With Care Squirrei Prefers Indoor Living. There has been a progressive deterioration in my relations with Nutto, a female gray squir• rel who has lived in my house since last '`autumn. When she first arrived she was small and lived in the nursery. "Just like a little ornament)" Nanny would admiringly exclaim when Hutto sat bolt upright on the mantle- piece, eating a grape, in her fore. paws; she was affectionate and liked being played with. But as she grew larger, the squirrel, always bold, became positively imperious. A succes- sion of thefts and breakages led to her exile to a large wired - in balcony outside my dressing zoom, from which she can be allowed earess by unblocking a rainwater drain. She pops through this onto the wisteria and one would expect her to go off into the woods which come down close behind the house. But Nutto is deat to the call of the wild. She pines for the great indoors and seldom fails to effect an entry. She has practically destroyed. a valuable pair of curtains; she has totally destroyed -by using them as interior decoration in her nest—four of my best ties, and the other day when we came back from a point-to-point all that remained of half a pound of cheese was a lacerated morsel, contemptuously sited half -way up the staircase. How does one disembarrass oneself from a situation this kind? . . , If I take her to a distant part of the woods and let her go I make myself liable to prosecution under the Gray Squirrel Act (1947). Our des- tinies seem to be inextricably interlocked as though we were characters in some ghastly play. A Month Later. Hutto still uses my house as a sort of pied a terre, but apart from stripping the wisteria and on two consecu- tive mornings stealing the but- ter off the breakfast table she has not done a great deal of harm. She seems, however, bent on establishing a reign of terror in the neighborhood and has af- fected an entry into several cot- tages within a . radius of a mile Or so of us, to the consternation of their inhabitants. "Hutto," I said, "one of these days you will go too far." —From "My Aunt's Rhinoceros," by Peter Feming. FASHION HINT ,ti