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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1955-02-03, Page 3"The Rue TrOM Acrosr The Seas" Housewives of more than a hundred years ago were using a blue pigmei.t known as ultra- marine to make their white clothes seem whiter. The same ancient blue is whitening clothes today, but it is also giving its brilliant hue to such modern materials as plastic housewares, linoleum, and the coated fabrics used in bookbinding. The history of ultramarine stretches over many centuries, The Egyptians and other ancient peoples prized a blue- semi- precious stone called lapis la- zuli which was found in China, Tibet, Persia and Afghanistan. In medieval times, it was dis- covered that the blue stone could be ground and refined as a color pigment. Caravans from the 'East brought lapis lazuli to Eu- rope. There it was known as ultramarine blue - "the blue from beyond the seas." Ultra- marine pigment illuminated me- dieval manuscripts and bright- ened the canvases of Flemish and Italian. masters. This blue was valued by artists above all other blues. However, with in- creasing demand, supplies grew scarce and fabulously expensive. Chemists in the early 1800's analysed the stone from across the seas and in 1828 they dis- covered the secret of a process. to make the pigment artificially. French and German factories began commercial production and ultramarine soon became even more familiar as a common washday aid than as an artist's color. Unlike a bleach, ultramarine doesn't whiten clothes by chem- ical action. It creates an opti- cal effect of whiteness by re- flecting the blue waves of light to neutralize the yellow light which- white surfaces reflect. In- dustry takes advantage of this effect, too, in the whitening of paper pulp and paint pigments. In the 1850's, Isaac Reckitt, a starch -maker with a small busi- ness in Hull, England, entered the blueing business. He began to import the pigment from the Continent to sell to the house- wives of Britain. Reckitt's side- line made his name a household word and his company the world's largest supplier of ul- tramarine, Records show that the com- pany filled its first Canadian order 90 years ago, when 25 hundredweight of laundry blue arrived in Montreal. The same sort of blue is still whitening Canadian clothes today. To us, Ultramarine is still, literally, "the blue from beyond the seas." COMMEMORATIVE- Italian pos- al authorities have just issued. this stamp honoring the Marian Year. The stamp features "The Madonna of Pity," from a mar- ble group by Michelangelo, now in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Round Steak Served This Way Makes Tasty Square Meal BY DOROTHY MADDOX Here is a tasty and hearty recipe for preparing round steak in combination with dill pickles and vegetables. There's a full -flavored goodness to round steak which is enhanced by long, slow cooking; prepared this way, you have a "company" dish to add to your menu selections that will be a most -any -day treat for all the family. In purchasing round steak, allow approximately i pound per person. After purchasing, store in refrigerator, wrapped loosely in waxed paper. Plan to use the round steak within three to five days. Round Steak, Dills and Vegetables (6-8 Servings) Two pounds of round steak, cut 1/2 inch thick; flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 8 carrot strips, 8 celery strips, 4 dill pickles, cut in half length- wise; 3 tablespoons fat, 1 cup beef bouillon, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, 1/4 teaspoon onion salt, Cut round steak in 8 pieces about 3 x 4 inches, Pound in flour with edge of heavy saucer. Sprinkle on salt. Lay 1 strip each of carrot, celery and dill pickle on each piece. Fold meat in half. Fasten with a pick. Brown meat in hot fat in heavy skillet. Add remaining ingredients. Cover. Simmer 1% hours, or until tender. Thicken gravy, if you care to. Hearty meal with party flavor la on your table when you serve round steak prepared with dill pickles and vegetables. Thirty Years In Steaming .bungles For a white man to spepd over thirty years in the steam- ing Jungles of Brazil and to re- turn to civilization sound in mind and body is by way of be- ing no mean achievement. Both the record and the inevitable adventurous living crammed tightly into half a lifetime must be unique. Sasha Siemel is unique; not only as a hunter but as a man, for he combines the ingenuity of the white hunter and the cunning of the Indian whose senses match those of the ani- mals they trail. Such was the ice -cool courage of Siemel that he preferred to fight the fierce jaguars armed only with a spear - animals weighing twice as much as the average man, and about equal in size to the Bengal tiger. In an exciting and thrilling account of his adventures, "Jun- gle Fury" Sasha Siemel writes so vividly that the reader prac- tically lives, camps, and hunts by the side of the adventurer. Rough -Stuff Wrestling Apart from being a hunter of note, Sasha Siemel owns quite a reputation as a boxer and wrest- ler. Earlier in his career Sasha, together with his brother Ernst, were making their way to the diamond fields of Brazil. En route to Sao Paulo was a Turk- ish wrestler, Leon Beduino, who decided to break his journey at Passo Fundo, and was here that the brothers met up with him. Beduino, hoping to acquire a few more milreis, issued chal- lenges to all and sundry. Sasha accepted, but on one condition; that if he wrestled with the Turk one night, the man would consent to a ten - round boxing match the follow- ing night. The wrestling match proved a fiasco, for after the Turk had bitten through his opponent's ear with a full set of gold teeth, gunplay from the spectators caused a diversion and Beduino disappeared from the ring. The challenger was all for leaving town, but was persuad- ed to stay for the return match after an official had promised there would be no further gun- play. Simnel won the boxing con- test with a blow that floored the Turk and left him with a hand too badly damaged to permit of hand -shaking for some weeks after. With his share of the purse the winner bought a mule, and with rather malignant humour named it "Beduino"I During their travels the two brothers - later they parted company' - learned of a dia- mond strike on the Rio Manso. They decided to go there. From out of the blue came an Ameri- CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Goddess of d(scord 6. Quick to learn 8. Iden Goal 12. Largo volume 13: Alan's name 14. Level 15. Black (rr.) 10. Dainty. 13. Garret 20. Mark of an Injury 21. 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Suppe 51, Tight brown 02, 71111100 ee :8 9 l0 11 14I 15 le 26 27' 36 40 44, 49 54 57 5 Answer elsewhere en this page. can, complete with sea -diving kit, who also had heard of the diamonds to be found in the rivers and streams of inland Brazil. The Siemels looked goggle- eyed at the outfit strapped to the American's pack mule. He reasoned that if a few diamonds (as had been reported) could be dug from the banks of the rivers, then more and bigger diamonds would be found in the middle. Diamonds were indeed found, but the .simple-minded diamond- diggers scratching and panning for stones believed that the Am- erican was poaching on their claims by walking underwater to their stakings and helping himself. The idea was ridicu- lous, but the angry diggers wouldn't have it so. The situation was beginning to look ugly and blood looked - likely to be spilt before Sasha Siemel took a hand. The .American was prevailed upon to accept ten diamonds for the diving outfit. After the transaction the new owner promptly took an axe and smashed the helmet, slashed through the hose, and left the wreckage as a testimony to peace. It is said that there are many old hunters, and many bold hunters; but that there are few old bold hunters. The author of "Jungle Fury" is one of the few. HARD OF 'EARING-Carl Nelson demonstrates the durable qual- ities of new plastic anatomical models before the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science. Infinitely more rug- ged than their organic counter- parts, the models are for use by medical students. Alyce - "There goes poor Marge. She walks with a decid- ed jerk," Butch - "Yes, isn't het" TILMN FR john NT Most columns regarding farm- ing, these days, are either fac- tual or gloomy - often both. So, for a change of pace, here's something a bit more cheerful, taken from an editorial by Wheeler McMillen, Editor -in - Chief of the Philadelphia Farm Journal. Whether Mr, McMillen makes his living by farming, or solely by writing about it, I cannot say, Anyway, here's what he writes. " * r Farming is one of the few businesses in which a whole family can share actively. To do their daily work most men must leave home. Their wives and children can take no part in planning or doing it. In thousands of families man and wife go separate ways to their separate jobs each day. In a farm home the sense of real partnership can grow. A .can and his wife and his children can see each day's work and its results. They can plan together and really live together. Farm- ing is a privilege, because the home is genuinely its center. * * a Nowhere else can children more surely grow into good and competent adults. Millions of times it has been truly said that farm children benefit from their early opportunities to assume responsibilities. Farm young- sters can find wholesome vari- eties of gaiety that no city child knows about, They share in the care of animals, and in affec- tion for them. They have chanc- es to get into business for them- selves, and to learn early that faithful work pays off, e a * Farmers do not have to jam themselves into packed subways, busses, or elevated trains, twice a day, nor drive tong distances to and from their work. They seldom have to eat from a lunch pail. They rarely punch a time clock, and do not have to wear numbered badges. They do not have to pay dues to hold a job, nor go on strike at the order or some leader. No 'fellow. worker scolds a farmer for do- ing too much, and no boss be- rates him for doing too little. Farm work is neither repeti- tive nor monotonous, The sea- sons, even the hours, vary the tasks. The man who plows, plants, and cultivates can see the tangible result of his indi- vidual effort. He knows that the more wisely he carries on his work, the greater will his return be. He can enjoy a kind of per- sonal pride that is denied to millions who work in a mech- anical routine. c e a Those who deal with the gen- eral public, and those who are cogs in large organizations, envy a farmer for his personal inde- pendence. He may never in his life tell anyone to go to hades, but he knows he can do so with- out losing his customers or his job. He can buy where he pleases, and sell where he gets the best deal. He enjoys more real freedom than almost any- one else. * o :n A farmer's work is creative. He produces from soil and seed, from sun and rain and atmos- phere, new wealth that is necessary and useful to his fel- low humans. The true farmer finds much of his work thor- oughly fascinating, because he can always observe, always learn, and always improve. He deals with fundamentals. On the farm one may not grow lyrical every day at the beauty of sunrises and sunsets, the ex- citement of storms, and the purity of the air. Yet all these clo count among the compensa- tions of country living. A bird song is never so annoying as, a blaring radio from a nearby apartment. The antics of young animals are more entertaining than noisy streams of passing traffic. A landscape that varies day by day offers more charm than unchanging vists of brick and cement. Is not the privi- lege of living in the country- side all asset? 0 e s Editor's Comment - A really nice piece of writing, Mr. Mc- Millen! Now, let's go out and see if the pump is frozen up, and if the snowplow has been along so the kids can get to sehool, Along With Alexander A fellow can never know when some trivial act of his is going to make history. Maybe it's nothing more than parking his car on the street somewhere, and bingo! he has wrought for the ages. James L. Wilmeth, a living example of the above truths, thought nothing of it when he parked his automobile in front of the United States Treasury in Washington one day 40 years ago. While the old buggy was sitting there, some one snapped a picture of the Treasury Build- ing, with the Wilmeth Ford parked alongside. Years later, that picture was exhumed and put on the $10 bill, where it is located at about the same point on the back as Mr. Hamilton's cravat on the front. The story came out only a ew days ago. A second cousin of Mr. Wilmeth (Mr. W. now lives near Philadelphia) works in the classified advertising de- partment of the Memphis Com- mercial Appeal, And as that newspaper says with rare in- sight: "You can't go around be- ing the second cousin of a man whose Ford is on a $10 bill with- out people eventually finding out about it" And so Mr. Wilmeth, by no more than scooting up to the curb and cutting off the engine, parked in a niche in history - maybe a small one, but who's to say it is abscure when it's right there back of Alexander Hamilton? - St. Louis Post - Dispatch. May Soon Solve Ice -Age Mystery How did our ancestors survive when Arctic glaciers covered Europe 15,000 years ago? From Santander, Spain, comes word that a priest, Father Jesus Car- ballo, aged seventy-six, may soon solve this mystery. Father Carballo has spent most of his life crawling through a maze of tunnels and caves somethirty miles south- west of Santander on Spain's north coast. He has discovered arrow- heads, bone implements, paint- ings on walls and other clear indications of a vast under- ground Ice Age City. Some of these tunnels descend for more than a mile Into the bowels of the earth. Father Carballo believes that some 13,000 years ago wander- ing human beings found the caves and went into them for shelter. While the women re- mained in the depths below to tend the children and to make hunting weapons, the men went foraging for food. AY SCII001, LESSON By R. Barclay Warren ' The Grace of God 1 John 4:10; Ephesians 2:4-9t Titus 2:11-14. Memory Selection: Herein Is love, not that we loved God, bel that He loved us, and sent Hie Son to be the propitiation fin? our sins. I John 4:10. Man is sinful; yes, dead in his sins. But God loves us in spite of our sin. So great is that love that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to save us. We didn't deserve it but God is rich in mercy. This is grace; the unmerited favor of God. We are not saved by joining a church nor by any works we may do. We are saved,by be- lieving on Jesus Christ. It's as simple as that. Yet the change is radical. We turn our back on ungodliness and worldly lusts and live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. We do not live as those who feel they are missing a lot. We have an upward look. "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto him- self a peculiar people, zealous of good works:" To be one of God's peculiar people does not imply less intelligence. It is an echo of what God said concerning Israel; "Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all peo- ple." Exodus 19:5. Jesus Christ forgives and purifies to Himself a people for his own possession. We are peculiar in the sense that we are his particular property. He has bought us by his own blood. Do you belong to Jesus Christ? .He died that you might be His Faith makes the contact. Good works will follow. As word spread of the caves, others came and joined these men and women until there was a vast population living under the mountains. Kings who sat upon stone thrones ruled the population and regular meetings took place to decide the future moves of these primeval people. Artists decor- ated the walls of the caves with bison and wild horse drawings. With the melting of the ice cap, the caves tell in after the dwellers had moved out. The caves were first discov- ered more than 100 years ago, but lost sight of until 1880. No one took much notice of them until Father Carballo came to Santander as a young priest in 1905 and began his explorations. In April, 1952, Father Car - belle stumbled by accident on the ancient king's throne room near Mount Castillo. Now he is going to re-enter the maze of caves in search of further proof that our ancestors sheltered here when the world was a block of ice. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking PET PROBLEM -Little Bruce Duggan, 2, .is mighty proud of his pet duck and pet dog. The Mallard duck, named George; and Smokey, the pooch, roam the suburbs chasing cats and running after automobiles.