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The Seaforth News, 1955-06-16, Page 10Ttib. LE (Jane Ar dDews. Everyone likes to try a new sauce with ever -popular spaghet- tL That's why we think this savory eggplant sauce will be welcome at your dinner table, 5 5 * Spaghetti i'Vitlz Eggplant Sauce (6-8 servings) One half cap butter, 1 me - alum -size eggplant, pared and cat in cubes; le cup chopped onions, 3 8 ounce cans tomato sauce, 1 cup water, le cup chop- ped, canned pimento; 1 naedium- cdzed green pepper, diced; 1 tea- apoon salt, to taste, ?:a teaspoon thyme, 2 tablespoons salt, 4 to quarts boiling water, 1 pound spaghetti, , grated Parmesan elzeese. Melt butter over medium heat. Add eggplant and onions and saute 10 minutes, stirring occa- sionally, Add tomato sauce, wa- ter, pimento, green pepper, 1 teapsoon salt, pepper and thyme. Cook over low heat 30 min- utes, stirring occasionally. Mean- while, add 2 tablespoons salt to rapidly boiling water. Gradually add spaghetti so that water con- tinues to boil. Cook uncovered, stirring oc- casionally until tender. Drain in colander. Serve eggplant sauce with spaghetti and sprin- kle with grated Parmesan cheese, if desired. * * o Maybe you want a soup that is a meal in itself. Served with big slices of bread and a salad" this salmon - and - vegetable soup makes a wonderfully hearty lunch. * ,k +t.'ream of Salmon -Noodle Soup (About 21e quarts) (%ne tablespoon salt, 3 quarts boiling water, 8 ounces wide egg noodles (about 4 cups), le Pup butter, le cup finely chop- ped onion, ?.i cup all-purpose flour, 6 cups milk, 1 7?' -ounce can salmon, drained and faked; en cup rooked Liana beans, salt and pepper to taste. Add 1 tablespoon salt to rapidly boiling water. Gradually add noodles so that water con- tinues to bail. Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, until ten- der. Drain in colander. Melt but- ter over law heat; add onion and eaute until tender, Add lour and blend (.lraclually add milk and cook until slightly thickened, stirring constantiy. Add salinon, Lima beans and salt and pepper to taste Add saoodles. Cook over low heat 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve immediately. k . * Floating island was a favour- ite deesert of past days. Some modern recipes suggest cooking the meringue before serving it on the custard, but hi grand- mother's day this was not al- ways done, * * * FLOATING ISLAND' 4 egg yolks 4e cup sugar le teaspoonful salt 2 tablespoons salad oil 2 eups milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Meringues Beat egg yolks in top of double boiler. Stir in sugar and salt. Add oil and milk gradual- ly, stirring to mix. Cook over simmering water until mixture is of custard consistency, stir- ring constantly. When done, it will coat metal spoon. Cool alightly, stir in vanilla. Cover (sed chill. Serve topped with epoonfals of uncooked meringue. Six servings. MERINGUE 2 egg whites is cup sugar 1e teaspoon vanilla Beat egg whites until loamy, then gradually beat in sugar and vanilla until mixture stands in soft peaks. k * * STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE The shortcake of grandmoth- er's kitchen was usually made with two pie -size layers, Fresh strawberries were between and on top of the layers, and wedge- shaped pieces were served with sugar and cream. The shortcake was biscuit' dough to which, sometimes, a little sugar was added. If you like this touch of sweetness in your shortcake, add from 2-4 tablespoons sugar to a biscuit recipe calling for 2 cups flour" Serve with- either whipped create or vanilla ice eream, if you like, * * :k Grandmother early learned to use what she had in cooking and she had recipes for many types of bread pudding. Often she used molasses or honey in place of sugar. Here is a recipe using honey. * ;v HONEY BREAD PUDDING tae cups day-old bread cubes Le cup liquid honey 2 tablespoons butter IN teaspoon salt 2 eggs beaten le teaspoon vanilla 131i cups hot milk Place bread cubes in baking dish. Combine honey, butter, salt; egg's, and vanilla. Slowly stir in milk. Pour mixture over bread. Set baking dish in pan of hot water and bake at 350° F, 80-40 minutes until pudding is set. Serve with cream or ice cream. Four servings, Challenged To A Duel With Sausages The air has been thick lately with challenges thrown out by ministers of state in France and certain South American repub- lics, none of which, fortunately, has been accepted, In one of these President Somoza of Nica- ragua challenged President Figueres of Costa Rica to a duel with revolvers to settle a quar- rel between their countries. The idea is an excellent one — for it is better that one or two men politicians should die than thousands of innocent citi- zens. But President Somoza for- got the first rule in duelling; that the challenged mans has the choice of weapons. President Figueres might have chosen howitzers — or hockey sticks -- and then where would Somoza have been? Numerous duels have been fought in the past and differ- ences settled without recourse to the use of conventional weapons such as rapiers and pistols" At the turn of the century the swashbuckling writer, Richard Harding Davis, challenged a re- porter of the 'Chicago Sun' to a duel. The reporter knew that Davis was a deadly shot, but he also knew his rights, and when accepting agreed to fight with custard pies at six paces. Davis realized that if he ac- cepted he would become the laughing stock of America, and though it meant a loss of face, there was no option but for him to decline. America laughed heartily and for some weeks the reporter was a national hero, If a challenged man keeps his head he need never fight, for FOOLED YOU, TOO— These two Blackfoot • penguins at the zoo in London, England, are slipping in 0 little beaking despite presence of the (King) penguin. But if you think that the big fellow is hiding his head in bashfulness at such goings-on, take another—and closer— look. The King's white vest shows that he's actually turned in the opposite direction. He's just taking a nap. the weapons of his choice may so nonplus his opponent that he will withdraw from -the contest. This happened when Isaac Putman, a general in the War of Independence, was called out to a duel with sabres. "Sir," he wrote his opponent, "I have been challenged, so the choice of weapons is mine, I suggest that we shall sit in a room in which shall be placed an open barrel of gunpowder. On it shall be placed a burning candle. The first man to leave shall be ad- judged a coward and the loser." hiis adversary's nerve could not stand such a shattering test, so the affair was called Oft. Another bloodless duel was the result of a challenge thrown out by Bismarck to the Russian scientist, Virchow, for some imagined slight, Bismarck was no novice when it came to handling arms" whereas the Professor hardly knew which way a bul- let left a gun. So after a good deal of thought he accepted, ad- ding that as it was his privilege to choose the weapons, he had decided upon sausages. Two sausages would be placed. on plates, ane packed with dead- ly disease germs and the other free from them. Bismarck would select and eat one, after which Virchow would devour the other. Bismarck paled when he read Virchow's letter --- and .declined. One of the first of such duels Oceured at the end of the eigh- teenth century when duelling was taken seriously. Colonel Lennox called out the Duke of York, who apparently had a sense of humour, and chose pistols loaded with corks instead of lead, Early one morning they repaired to Wimbledon Com- mon, then the fashionable ground for such affairs, and at the word, both fired. The re- sult was that the Duke's peri- wig was slightly disarranged, after which the contestants shook hands and drove to White's for coffee. The town of Carlyle, Illinois, was the scene of a most unusual duel in 1986 in which both men were the losers. But as they were millionaire oil men who Acting os commanding officer over her eight sons, all of whom have served In the armed forces, is Mrs. William D. Adams. Their combi ned service totals 34 years. They are pictured during .a family reunion in her home. didn't know how to get rid of the gold that flowed into their coffers, they enjoyed the affair immensely. They met in the street and went into a restaurant for din- ner, a meal priced at one dollar They •sat at the same table. and each insisted on being served by a pretty waitress. When they finished, one of the oil men placed a $15 tip on bis side plate, "Hugh!" snorted his friend, looking disparagingly at the tip and planked down twice as much on his plate. Instantly, the other added to his tip. His friend took up the challenge. "I'11 be darned if I let that skunk beat me!" he de- clared, as his pile of silver in- creased. The waitress looked on with interest. When ultimately both men were cleaned out of ready cash it was found that they had between them contributed $350 in their novel tipping duel. The waitresses were the winners. Unorthodox duels don't al- ways end harmlessly. In 1808 two hot-blooded Frenchmen, M. de Grandpre and M. le Pique, both fell madly in love with a gorgeous prima donna from the Imperial Opera. if de Granpre entered her dressing -room with a magnifi- cent bouquet, he found le Pique waiting with a much better as- sortment of blooms when he emerged. If le Pique gave her a diamond bracelet, he discovered the fol- lowing week that his rival had givin her one of diamonds as well, In the end both decided to fight it out, and the weapons named were two balloons in which they would ascend into the clouds, and a blunderbuss apiece to fire at each other. When some hundreds of feet up, the wind carried their bal- loons within range of each other and M. de Grandpre's discharge tore a huge hole in the envelope of his rival's ballon, sending the poor fellow hurtling to his death. Unfortunately for the victor. the prima donna changed her mind when she heard of the duel — and married an even richer man. In 1937 two swains of Verona quarrelled oyez' ' a girl and agreed to settle their differences with a duel. They chose their owu weapons. So one turned up with a spade and the other a pick -axe. There were no seconds and no witnesses. At the first light of day they started hacking away at each other and continued to fight until they were so badly injured that they could not go on. Their cries attracted passers- by, who took thein to hospital in a serious condition. Eventually both recovered, but the girl had the good sense to realize that life with men so stupid could never be happy and married another, FAIR ENOUGH An attractive young Govern- ment typist made a practice of arriving at the office a few min- utes late every day, Repeated warnings by her supervisor had no effect. Finally he announced: "Miss Brown, I'm tired of talk - ink about your tardiness. I am, therefore, suspending you for one day without pay. When would you like to take the day?" "Well if it's all right with you," she replied, "I'd like to me it up being late." Lost, Her r t'ead Giving Shelter The scaffold that workmen were busy erecting in the mar- ket -place of Winchester was for a woman—an elderly and gentle woman of good family whose only crime was that she had sheltered a fellow creature in distress, It was the first day of September, 1685. Among the hundreds who pass- ed through the market -place that day there was scarcely one whose heart did not go out in pity. But no voice was raised in protest, for Lady Alicia Lisle had been condemned by the Lord Chief Justice of England, and that Chief Justice was "bloody" Jefferies. The rebellion of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, was over. His hopes had vanished at Sedge moor in Somerset where his army had been routed and he himself captured. After the battle two men, John Hicks and Nelthrop, persuaded an acquaintance named Dunne to ask Lady Lisle if they might shelter at her house at Effing- ham, in Hampshire. She gave permission and directed that they should be supplied with food .There is no evidence that she had any knowledge of the identity of either man, or that they were soldiers who had served under Monmouth, An informer by the name of Barter saw the three men in conversation with Lady Alicia's bailiff, and immediately report- ed the matter to Colonel Pen ruddock, who was stationed in the district. He took a body of troops and surrounded Lady Lisle's house. He questioned the beilill who freely admitted the presence of two strangers. A search was made and Nelthrop was found hiding in a chimney. At once the Colonel charged Lady Alicia with harbouring rebels and entertaining the - King's enemies. On August 27th, 1685, the trial of Lady Lisle opened. The ori- ginal charge had now grown to the following: "That, intending to stir up war and rebellion within the kingdom, and to dee prive the King of his crown, and to put him to death, she had traitorously concealed, sheltered and maintained in her dwelling house, at -the -parish of Effing- ham, one John Hicks, knowing him at the time to be a traitor." Lady Lisle, who was not only old and frail, but deaf, pleaded not guilty. She asked the judge to consider her infirmities and allow her to have a friend by her side to inform her of what was passing. With a deceptive smile Jef- feries nodded his consent. Mr. Pollexfen, stating the case for the Crown, exalted Hicks to be the chief instrument in Mon- mouth's rebellion. Lady Lisle interrupted to de - Blare in a quavering voice that she utterly abhorred the rebel - Still in the same suave man- ner Jefferies reproved her. "You shall be fully heard when it comes to your turn," he said, adding: "Though we sit here as judges over you, by au- thority from the King, yet we are accountable not only to him, 1 but to the King of Kings, the great Judge of Heaven and earth. As to what you say eon - corning yourself, I pray Cod ' with all my heart you may be innocent." The chief witness for the pro- ser_ution was Dunne—a wrctsh ed, conscience-stricken witness who knew when he nersuaded Lady Lisle to shelter Hicks that she was ignorant of his identity. "W. do humbly desire," said Pnllsxfen, "that your Lordship would please to examine Dunne a little more strictly," The examination was conduct- ed by the Lord Chief Justice himself. Dunne refu.,ed to ad- mit he had told Lacly Lisle that- Hicks hatHicks was a fugitive from Mon- mouth's army. Jefferies aban- doned his self-control. "It is in- finite mercy that for these false- hoods of thine God does not im- mediately strike thee into heli!" he exclaimed. "How dant you offer to tell such horrid lies in the presence of God- and of a Court of Justice!" Other witnesses came forward, but they could give no informa- tion as to whether Lady Lisle knew that Hicks had fought for Monmouth. But Jefferies knew there was one more witness whose words could be twisted into proof of guilt—Lady Alicia Lisle herself, When she stood up to answer the case against her, Lady Lisle ad- mitted she knew Hicks was a Presbyterian minister against whom a warrent had been issued for non -conformity. l3ut, she de- clared, she had never suspected he had been engaged in the re- bellion. Addressing the prisoner but looking straight at the jury, Jefferies snarled: "There is not one of those lying, snivelling, canting Presbyterian rascals, but One way or another has had a hand in the late horrid conspir- acy and rebellion." Lady Lisle protested that she would have been the most"un- grateful person living, had she been disloyal to the King to whom she owed her estates. Jefferies glared significantly at the jury again. "Ungrateful!" he exclaimed. "Ungrateful acids to the load, and is the basest crime thut anyone can be guilty of." Brushing aside her protests of innocence and ignoring her plea to call ladies of King James's Court to give evidence of her loyalty, Jefferies proceeded to sum up. The proofs were as plain as could be given, he con- cluded, and as avid( nt as the sun at noonday. Even so, Jefferies did not get his verdict without a struggle. The jurymen protested that they had heard no proof that Lady Lisle knew Hicks had sE>rved un- der Monmouth, But the power of the Lord Chief Justice was supreme and his entity notori- ous. The jury knew, perhaps that they could not Few, Lady hisle and might well endanger their own lives. They relined a verdict of guilty, Jefferies smiled again. "If I had been among you and she had been my own mother. I should have found her guilty " he said. Then he passed conte..^.e of death by burning at the stake, and ordered the sheriff to pre- pare for execution that after- noon. He added that a re nite of four days mirht be granted, if the prisoner confessed. Lady Lisle had nothing to con- fess, but her friends hastened to King ,Tames with a petition for clemency. They em•rind also a personal plea from Lady Lisle for a four-day respite and for beheading instead of burning. That most Christian monarch declined to interfere with Jef- feries' decision about the time- of imeof the execution (which had, in fact, been delayed while the messengers went to London), but was eraeiously pleased to allow death by beheading. On September 2nd Lady Lisle was publicly exeeuted in the meeket-place at Winchester. She (lied, sacs the old records, with the resolution that became her rank and her principles: - wLY THIS MAY GIVE YOU A SHOCK—you can generate electricity by stroking the fur of a cat, but it would be a long time before you generated enough to light a 75 -watt bulb for one. minute. Pretty Donna Braun shows the cat and instruments she used to discover that it would take almost four hundred years, assuming you patted the cat once every second. The imagin- ative secretary for an electric company says it would take 1D billion cat pats ' -to the trick. She wired a catto a voltmeter to prove it.