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The Seaforth News, 1955-12-29, Page 14Corned Beef Boiled Dinner 4 servings 8 to 8 small carrots, cut in halves lengthwise 12 small potatoes, peeled 1 small head cabbage, cut in 4 wedges 1 12 -ounce can corned beef, chilled it tablespoons melted butter Chopped parsley Put carrots and potatoes in a small amount of boiling salted water in a deep saucepan; cover and cook 10 minutes, Add cab- bage wedges; cook, covered, 5 minutes more. Cut corned beef into 4 slices; place in strainer. Suspend over vegetables; cover and cook 5 minutes more, or until vegeta- bles are just tender and meat is hot. Arrange on platter. Pour but- ter over vegetables; sprinkle potatoes with parsley. Sauerkraut and Stuffed Franks 4 tablespoons butter ,A� cup finely chopped onion 34 cup finely chopped green pepper 1 29 -ounce can (3E cups) sau- erkraut, drained 1 cup canned tomatoes x5 teaspoon caraway seeds 2 cups soft bread crumbs 1 teaspoon grated onion r/a teaspoon ground thyme sir teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons milk 8 (1 pound) frankfurters 8 slices bacon Melt half the butter in a saucepan; add onion and green 'pepper. Cook over low heat un- til tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in sauerkraut. tomatoes and car- away seeds. Pour into an 114" by 771/2" by 2" baking dish. Corn - bine crumbs, remaining butter, onion, thyme, salt and milk; toss lightly. Slit frankfurters length- wise, almost through. Spoon in stuffing, wrap each with a slice of bacon; secure with a tooth- pick. Arrange over top of sauer- kraut. Bake in a moderately hot SIGNAL ACHIEVEMENT — Joseph Dolinaj, displays the filet cro- chet -stitch tablecloth which won him first prize In a nationwide crocheting contest. A railroad signal tower operator, Dolinaj began crocheting 11 years ago. oven, 375°F., 20 to 30 minutes or until very hot, Makes 4 ser- vings. * * * Beef and Vegetable Pie 2 pounds round steak, cut in 134" cubes 6 tablespoons flour 3 tablespoons beef or ether cooking fat 1 cup sliced onion 2 teaspoons salt xis teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 2 cups water 1 19 -ounce can (2 cups) tomatoes 6 to 8 small carrots, cut in 2" lengths 4 medium-sized potatoes, cut in quarters ?s pastry reeipe Roll meat in 3 tablespoons of the flour. Heat fat in a deep saucepan; brown meat slowly. Add onion and cook until soft. Stir in remaining flour, salt, pep- per and Worcestershire. Stir in water gradually; cook and stir until thickened. Cover, cook ever low heat 30 minutes. Add tomatoes, carrots and potatoes. Cover; cook 30 minutes more, until meat and vegetables are tender, Pour into a 2 -quart cas- serole. Roll pastry to fit top of casserole; make crosswise slits in center, and fold back corners. Place over top of casserole and flute edges like a pie. Bake in hot oven, 425°F., 20 to 25 min- utes. Makes 6 servings. Corn -Meal Biscuits 134 cups sifted all-purpose flour arc cup corn meal 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt ?:g cup shortening is cup milk 3 slices bacon, cut in 1" pieces Sift first 4 ingredients into a mixing bowl. Cut in shortening until mixture is fine as meal. Add milk; stir until a soft dough forms. Knead lightly On a floured board or cloth for about 30 se- conds. Roll out 1" thick. Cut with a 21/4" cookie cutter. Place on a baking sheet. Lay 2 pieces of bacon lengthwise On half of each biscuit. Fold other half up and over, allowing a bit of bacon to show. Skewer with 2 tooth- picks; brush tops with milk. Bake in a very hot oven, 450°F., 12 to 15 minutes, tar until light brown. Remove toothpicks. Serve hot. Makes 8. * * Ready Refrigerator Rolls Make ahead, refrigerate, bake a batch as needed. 2 packages dry or compressed yeast ?:a cup lukewarm water 3As cup sugar 114 teaspoons salt A cup shortening 1 cup scalded milk 2 eggs, beaten 43/4, cups sifted all-purpose flour Sprinkle or crumble yeast into water. Let stand 5 Or 10 minutes. Put sugar, salt, shortening and milk in a large bowl; stir until shortening melts. Cool until' lukewarm. Add eggs and yeast mixture; blend. Stir in flour gradually; beat until smooth. Turn out on a floured board or cloth; knead until smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl; brush with melted shortening. Cover; let rise in a •warm place until double in size, Punch down; brush again with melted shortening. Cover; store in re- frigerator. When ready 50 use, punch down. Shape into 32 balls; place in 2 greased 8'.' round or square layer cake pans. Cover; let rise until double in size, about 1 hour. Bake in hot oven, 425'F., 15 to 20 minutes, until golder, brown. Makes 32. TOP -GRADE CLASSROOM—Junior might get better grades If his schoolroom resembled this model, built as a special study project. It combines, the latest Ideas on heating, seating, light- ingand decoration. Educators say these things affect Junior's progress in school. tlCouldn t Happen" -But They Did Annually the National Safely Council rounds up odd accidents that have happened throughout the country during the last year Here, illustrated, is a. quartet of the wackiest ones. Animal trainer Robert Beir- wirth had been teaching two baby elephants to step on and off 18 -inch -high pedestals. Bier- wirth blithely tried it himself, slipped and fractured one Of his ankles. He thinks he heard a couple 01 trunkful of snickers. When they named a tavern "Dew Drop Inn" it seemed a harmless, if corny pun. But the pun backfired• during a heavy Wind -and -rainstorm, As waves undermined the shore, the build- ing slipped into Anchor Bay and floated off. One brink too many. Four -year -Old Walter Adams, Jr., in his apartment home, was showing his kid brother acro- batic stunts he'd seen on TV. Glancing out the window he saw several small girls on the 'side- walk, 40 feet below. Deciding to show them something really good, he opened the window, put his hands together like a high diver — and dove. The girls pulled him out of a big snowbank — nothing hurt but his pride. 12 -year -Old David Dahl placed his rifle against a ladder in the barn and started to climb up to the hayloft. His dog, Terry, jumped on the ladder. He struck the gun's trigger with his paw and shot his ascending mas- ter just below the hayloft. "Man bites dog" makes news. So does "Dog shoots boy." Grind Divorces Like Sausages She wanted a divorce. Her friends told her it was about time she got one — after all she'd had to endure from her husband. But when Marylin Hardman (all names used in this article are fictitious ones) put her case to a lawyer, he shook his head. "My dear lady," he explained, "such is the wisdom of the State of New York, that even if your husband, as you say, took drugs, was an habitual drunk, knocked you about, is now in prison, and hasn't supported you or your three children for ten years, you have no legal ground for divorce." When Mrs. Hardman added that she wanted her divorce be- cause she was now in love with a good man who was prepared to marry her, the lawyer gave her this advice: "You can move from this state into another where the divorce laws will enable you to get rid of your husband. You will have to qualify by resi- dence, so that you can claim you belong to that state. Then you can remarry." "And come back to my home in New York?" "Yes", said the lawyer, "but remember the law of this state. That law will say you are still married to your first husband and that your sec- ond marriage is void." In Reno, Nevada, the hotels are always crowded with wo- men. Some are young and pretty, some middle-aged and fading, some elderly and no longer glamorous. They have come to Reno be- cause the divorce laws of Nev- ada are the loosest in the United States, with the wildest range of grounds, from unfaithfulness to so-called mental cruelty and incompatibility, plus the short- est qualifying period of resi- dence. But what is the value of a Nevada divorce? The answer is that in many states in the union it does not count as a valid dissolution of a. marriage contracted in an- other state, All these complications and marriage tangles are due to one single circumstance — that each state makes its own divorce Taws. There is no single divorce law for the United States as a whole. As a result, fantastic situa- tions are occurring all over America. And there will be more and more, for in ten years' time, say the statisticians, more than half American marriages will be ending in divorce. Arnold K. Schmidt married his wife in the State of New York. He divorced her in Reno, Nevada. He next remarried in Connecticut. His New York attorney ex- plained to his client that this second marriage was not recog- nized in New York. He told his "wife," who became hysterical. She was a good Baptist and was very shocked to learn that the union was illegal. If she felt like that about it, said the easy-going Arnold K., he would soon fix up a divorce to end the marriage that was only a marriage in Connecticut. All now seemed ironed -out satisfactorily, and a pretty blonde being in the offiing, Ar- nold K. had another attempt at finding marital bliss. He mar- ried his blonde — in New Jer- sey. ' Asked about his marital situa- tion at the time, Arnold; K. re- plied: "I sure have been. mar- ried before, but the wife I've just divorced in Connecticut was not really my wife at all according to the State of New York divorce law." Well, he was told, that'll do for New Jersey, but it won't apply in either Connecticut or New York. Every time you en- ter those states together, you aren't man and wife. Alice 13, Jones lived in the State of Rhode Island and got married there. To get a divorce she had to qualify in another state, because Rhode Island divorce law, like that of the MERRY MENAGERIE V9,,ryry 47C'0dwr 040 'Pipe down, dear — it's not just little PITCI4ERS that have pig ears:;" State of New York, is exceed- ingly sticky. So Alice B, tried Idaho, where they are fairly easy-going. She then returned to Rhode Island and married again. This second marriage, how- ever, peeved Mr. Jonas, and he applied to the Rhode Island courts for a ruling that the Ida- ho divorce was not valid in Rhode Island — and got it. And where was Alice B. then? Was she a bigamist? Or was her second marriage valid? Though the names are changed, this was the situation in an actual case. And husband No, 2, the legally phoney one, being a public man was unable to stand up to the publicity. He had a heart attack and died of it. And so Alice B. mourned the husband who was not her hus- band, and, though divorced in Idaho, . remained married in Rhode Island to the undesired Husband No. 1, :. Max Lessing was a citizen of the State of North Carolina. That is a state which grants no divorces at all, whatever the ground of complaint by either marriage partner. But Max, nevertheless, wish- ed to be rid of his wife, and, having consulted his lawyer, was told he had better put in some residence in good old Reno, Nevada. All went well, and with his decree in his pocket, the light- hearted Max returned home. You guessed? He wanted to get married again! His lawyer explained the situation. "North Carolina law won't recognize that Reno de- cree. Not only would such a second marriage be invalid in this state, but it would be a crime for which you could be put in prisonl" In the U.S.A., where women feel very strongly about it, the National Association of Women Lawyers has produced a con- structive scheme to end these hardships and scandals. They want to make divorce, not easier, but more sure, so that people know where they stand in whatever state they are mar- ried and divorced. But there is opposition to this Long -overdue reform by the easy -divorce states, led by the notorious Reno, which turns out divorce decrees like a sausage machine. In Reno alone the divorce racket brings that city an an- nual revenue of between three and four million dollars, A fed- eral divorce law would be one based on moderate Iines. It would not include the frivolous grounds that now, in Nevada, Oregon and elsewhere, make a farce of divorce and a mockery of remarriage. BULLISU MARKET A small-time salesman treated himself to a ride on a deluxe streamliner. Excited by the train's luxuries, he went back to the club car, where several big business men were talking. "It was a bad week," he over- heard one tycoon complain. "We netted only $100,000." "Well, things were pretty good for us," said another. "Wheat was hot and we cleared $300,- 000." The smalltime salesman listened in awe as each man spoke of his six -figure profits. All eyes looked his way and one of them asked, "How's your business?" "Not bad," he shrugged. "Last week greens were off half a mil- lion, but yellows were up a mil- lion and reds up five million." Eyebrows raised in wonder, and one of the financiers respectfully asked, "What is your business?" "Me?" said the little fellow. "I sell jellybeans." Tickling k No Laughing Matter It was no joking matter when a noted Heston doctor asked hie patients if they would mind being tickled. Some began to laugh at the very suggestion and only twelve people per 100 failed to respond. The doctor was helping in a perfectly serious nation-wide inquiry into ticklishness under a Harvard special research pro- gramme. Only sixty-nine men . in every hundred proved to be ticklish, against ninety-four per cent of the women tested, But ninety-four c h i l dr en squirmed at the slightest touch. The ticklers used different kinds • of hairs, cork points, tuning forks and electric currents. Tickles are a danger warning, anthropologists explain. When dangerous insect pests were common, ticklishness — espe- cially around the ears ant nostrils—served to protect the victim. Basically, scientists say, the hearty laughter that results from a tickle is•an attempt to shake off the parasites. Monkeys are ticklish in much the same places as men. Kittens, lion cubs and puppies are es- pecially sensitive at. the neck and throat, danger -zones in battle. Oddly enough, few babies re- spond to tickling until they are over two months old. But for the next two years after that ticklishness is one of the main- springs of laughter. Scientists have found that a dentist drilling on a tooth can • often make the nose ticklish, because of the nerves running from teeth to nose. Have a good laugh next time you're in the dental chair — it'll shake the dentist! SHE MADE ITl — Mrs. Ethel Park Richardson, of Los Angeles, Is screaming with joy after win- ning the $100,000 prize on NBC's -TV program, "The Big Surprise." The 72 - year old great-grandmother won the lar- gest cash prize in the history of radio or television. Drive With Care POOHED — Travel sure takes it out of you. Take the word of Wolfgang Zeller, 10 months old, left, and cie-year-old Bela, Molnar, right. Played -out Wolfgang is pictured in a porthole as his ship arrived in New York City. Bela and her twin sister, whin had enough squirm left to get out of camera range, hail from the Austrian Tyrol,