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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-08-30, Page 2Alige TABLE TAILKS eiom.Andeews Two schools of thought arise lrs any discussion about the best hind of chicken salad. One rehool holds firmly to the idea Beat the less that is added to the chicken,, the better the sal- ad will be. The second school declares that adding other ingredients brings out the fine' Savor of the chicken. This group believes the salad is improved by adding mall white seedless grapes, Hard -cooked eggs, nuts, peas, pineapple, tomatoes, cucumbers, neacaroni, rice, green peppers, :avocado, pickle, or spices. This is a question you must deeiede far yourself when you serve. chicken salad. CHICKEN SALAD 'WITH RICE 11 cup packaged precooked rice 34 teaspoon salt 34 cup boiling water 1 cup mayonnaise 11/4 tablespoons diced pimiento 1 teaspoon, salt =/s teasimott pepper 11/4 cups Arced cooked chicken 11/4 cups.dlced celery Isis cups cooked peas Add rice and Ye teaspoon salt lei boiling water in saucepan. Mix just to moisten rice. Cover and remove from heat. Let stand 13 minutes, Then uncover and let cool to room tempera- ture. About 1 hour before serving combine mayonnaise, pimiento, 1 teaspoon salt, and pepper, (nixing well. Combine chicken, celery, and peas in a bowl. Stir in mayonnaise mixture. Add rice and mix lightly with fork. Chill. Make 5-6 servings. * * * JELLIED CHICKEN SALAD 4 cups cooked diced chicken 3 cups diced celery Pitted white cherries (1 large can) 1 cup blanched, slivered almonds 2 cups mayonnaise Juice of 2 lemons Salt 1 envelope unflavored gelatin ea cup cold water 14 cups boiling chicken broth Combine first 7 ingredients and mix well. Spread in 9x13x2 baking dish. Soak gelatin in Bold water and dissolve in hot chicken broth. Pour hot broth mixture over salad, mixing well. Chill. Cut in squares and serve on lettuce, (This salad may be kept overnight before serving.) Serves 16. • SALAD DRESSING If you'd like to mold the above salad in a ring, cepter it with a dressing made by fold- ing 1 can cranberry sauce, diced into 1 cup mayonnaise which has been added to rfa cup heavy cream, whipped. * A layered loaf is often a thing of beauty and a joy to slice and serve, Try this one with a color- ful red layer contrasting with the pale layer that contains the chicken PAP1tU A LAYERED SALAD LOAF Iarst Layer: 1 can pimientos 2 packages cream cheese (3 -ounce packages) 2 cans condensed cream of chicken soup 1 cup chopped cooked chicken 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin =/y cup cold water 34, cup hot water tablespoons chopped almonds Cut stars from pimientos, us- ing small star cutter or sharp knife: Arrange on bottom of greased 2 -quart loaf pan or other mold. Mash cheese until smooth; add soup and chicken, Soak gelatin in cold water until soft; dissolve in hot water. Cool and add to soup mixture. Add almonds. Spoon carefully into mold so as not to disturb star design. Chill until almost firm. Second Layer: 31/4 cups tomato juice 1 teaspoon onion salt 31 teaspoon celery salt 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 11/4 teaspoons sugar 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin 34 cup cold water 34 cup chopped onions 1/4 cup chopped green peppers cup chopped celery lei cup chopped sweet pickle 1 teaspoon paprika Heat tomato juice; add sea- sonings (except paprika), lemon juice, and sugar. Simmer 5 minutes. Soften gelatin in water, then dissolve in tomato juice. Chill until syrupy:: Stir in veg- etables and p efile.and pour in- to mold on -top of first mixture. Chill until firm. Unmold on platter, Dip edges of salad greens into paprika and garnish around mold. Sprinkle top of loaf with paprika. Serves 8-10. * * LIME MAYONNAISE If you like a refreshing lime flavor in the dressing you serve with chicken salad, try this: Beat together ria cup mayon- naise and 1/4 cup lime juice. Whip ,h cup heavy cream until stiff. Add 3 tablespoons honey and blend Well. Fold cream in- to lime -mayonnaise mixture. Chill well before using. Somersault Won Racing Stable Every week millions of hope- fuls dream of collecting thou- sands of dollars in pools, sweep- stakes and things of that sort. Crazy? Not at all — for many succeed. But some crazy things have been done by folk out to win "easy money." In the United States last year a number of people were bet that they could not rock con- tinuously in a rocking -chair for one hour. Some were still awake after an hour of this monoto- nous effort, so the offer was in- creased to one dollar per hour of rocking. Did any manage to last an- other hour? They certainly did! After sixty-nine hours two con- testants were still going back and forth. One collapsed soon afterwards, but Mrs. Hazel Wheeler, aged seventy, teetered on for a total of seventy-two hours, thirteen minutes. Another dollar per hour chal- lenge was made to a woman in New Hampshire. She won $106 by listening to gramophone re- cords for 106 hours before she was taken home delirious. An impossible sounding feat was achieved for a bet by an- other American. He had never played golf but he wagered that he could drive a ball a quarter of a mile, on the level, at his first or second attempt. Even good players rarely drive more than half that dis- tance, but this man won his bet, He made his drive on the ice of a frozen lake! Ingenious interpretation of the conditions can help a gambler to win "impossible" wagers. Many years ago a Captain Ma- chell bet that he could hop from BOAT RAMS BRIDGE — The heavily damager superstructure of a New York sightseeing vessel is shown in the view -The -crowded vessel rammed into a Harlem River bridge, injuring at (east 12 persons, About 200 passengers were on the boat for a cruise around Manhattan Island. A LITERARY FRONTIERSMAN "I could write' you a better book than that myself," said James Fenimore Cooper, and launched a career uniquein literary history. He has been extravagantly praised—notably by Goethe,. Scott, Balazc, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Walt Whitman, Joseph Conrad— yet Mark Twain had more grounds than usual for his ridicule When he called Cooper's dialogue "book -talk," his humor "pathe- tic," and his pathos "funny" No man ever looked—or in his early life, acted—less the artist than Cooper. Physeially substantial: "a very castle of a man," in Irving's phrase—he had grown up during the 1790's as "landed gentry" in Cooperstown, New York; the land in the case having been taken by his father from the Indians. His first book, Precaution, was inferior because the verynature of the bet with himself was to imitate the current English novel in- stead of to originate. Neverthe- less the letters Cooper wrote at that time to his publisher are an engaging record of the growth of an ingenuous amateur into an author of considerable self-assurance. "For the double purpose of you but not an Bunce of cloth- ing. So make ready, my lord, and let us not disappoint the ladies." Lord Cholmondeley forfeited his money. About the same period, Lord Eglindon bet £250 he would have a Letter sent fifty miles in an hour. How was it possible in those days of horse transport? Eglindon had the letter stuffed into the case of a cricket ball. Twenty players stood in a wide circle and threw it from hand to hand until the distance had been covered. the floor on to a mantelpiece and stay there. Ile did so by somersaulting in the air and landing in a sitting position. With the large sum of money he won he started a racing sta- ble and one of his jfimpers won the Grand National. Late in the eighteenth century a little man named Sir John Lade, coaching instructor to the Prince of Wale§, bet the gigantic Lord Cholmondeley that he could carry him twice around the Steine, a big square in Brighton, A crowd turned up to see the fun. Lade staggered a few paces, then said: "I engaged to carry "JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER"—Top gladiators in the Democratic arena at Chicr,.go, Adlat Stevenson, Sen. Estes Kefauver and Gov. Averell Harriman are shown in dos - i Ing weeks of the campaign as they called -a friendly armistice in the battle'for the Democratic presidential nomination to attend a dinner honoring Sen Walter F.. George (Ga) in the na- tion's capital. George left the Senate after 34 years of service to become President Eisenhower's ttersnna1 representative .t NATO 7/. employment and the amusement of my wife in her low spirits— I commenced the writing of a moral tale—finding it swelling to a rather unwieldy size I , changed it to a novel—the per- suasions of my wife and the opinion of my friend Mr. Wm. Jay—have induced me to think of publishing it. , .. What would be the probable sales and at what prices of a respectable moral work of the kind ...7" June 12—"I have finished my labors this day. Mrs. Cooper, who is my tribunal of appeals, says the book is better at the end than at the beginning." July 8—" ... as it is a highly moral Book ... I believe it will sell—do not be alarmed at the shortness of the Chapters they soon grow much longer . " By August 25 Precaution is in the printer's hands, and apology has given way to aggressive pa- ternity: "If the book be printed in this careless manner revision by the author is useless— I wish my own language print- ed—having quite as much faith in my own taste as in that of any printer in the Union— . . if they want to write I will sug- gest the expediency of their tak- ing up a new subject where they can find full scope for their talents...." In October this mood was as surely followed by the pretend- ed modesty incumbent on a man whose book is about to appear: " if I am supposed the au- thor the book will fail in New York—if Washington Irvine (sic) was thought the writer it would be thought good ... al- though I believe it a respectable novel I do not think it a great one—if it were—I should be a great writer indeed—for no book was ever written with less thought and more rapidity—I can make a much better one— am making a much better one— I send this out as a pilot bal- loon.. " Scarcely waiting to see whether his pilot balloon would indeed stay aloft, Cooper devot- ed himself to becoming an ag- gressively American originator. The Spy, The Pilot, The Pi- oneers—all were the first of their kind. * * * In 1826 Cooper took his fam- ily to Europe for a stay of seven years. His fame had preceded him, and he was, in a mild way, lionized. Having early discov- ered that in London the servants made a practice of taking his hat from the drawing -room dur- ing dinner and secreting it, Cooper hid his under the sofa and was nonplused to discover the Bishop of London sitting di- rectly above it with his skirts spread "Mr. Sotheby observing that I was aiming at something there, kindly inquired what I wanted. I told him I was pray- ing for the translation of the Bishop of London, that I might get my hat, and marvellous as it may seem, he 'has already been made Archbishop of Can- terbury!" At this very dinner, Cooper met Scott, Lockhart, and Cole- ridge. The ladies having retired, the conversation turned on Homer, Coleridge was moved to a peroration. "Scarcely anyone spoke .: , and I might say no one could speak" besides Cole- ridge, for over an hour. Scott sat immovable, "evidently con- sidering the whole as an a hi- bition rather than as an argu- ment; though he occasionally muttered, 'eloquent!' 'wonder- full' 'very extraordinary!' Mr. Lockhart "caught my eye once, and he gave a very hearty laugh without making the slightest noise, as if he enjoyed my astonishment." Meanwhile Scott and Cooper were sizing each other up with perhaps more than ordinary in- terest, since Cooper was widely known as "the American Scott." Both had reservations. Wrote Cooper: "The manner Of Sir Walter Scott, is that of a man accustomed to see much of the world without being exactly a man of the world himself. He has evidently great social tact, perfect self-possession, is quiet, and absolutely without preten- sion, and has much dignity; and yet it struck me that he wanted the ease and aplomb of one ac- customed to live with his equals." This opinion was comple- mented by Scott's: "Visited , . . Cooper, the American novelist. This man who has shown so much genius, has a good deal the manner, or want of manner, peculiar to his countrymen." The paradox of the matter was that Cooper, by background nearly the most absolute aristo- crat that America could pro- duce, was very much the con- scious democrat, and never more so than when in Europe. He was most proud of his warm friendship with Lafayette; and his Notions of the Americans, and a number of historical novels, set in Renaissance Eu- rope and long since unread, all expounded democratic prin- ciples * 0 Unfortunately, all the time Cooper was in Europe, he and his native land had been grow- ing steadily apart; and the dis- covery, on returning home, that his property rights in Coopers- town had been infringed by the townspeople prompted a series of libel suits and ill-tempered novels which soured his later reputation. To most people, however, Cooper is simply and forever the author of the Leatherstock- ing Tales. This sequence of five books, with Natty Bumppo, al- ternately called Leatherstocking and Deerslayer, as their hero, was an immediate global suc- cess: in 1852 the historian Fran- cis Parkman remarked, "We are told—but hardly know how to believe it—that they (Cooper's novels) may be had duly ren- dered into Persian at the bazaars of Ispahan." Despite changes in literary fashion, despite colossal defects, the books are still inescapably to be reckoned with in Amer- ican life and literature. And on all levels: school copies are worn with much reading, an ultra -respectable press puts out an illustrated synopsis of the Leatherstocking story for $8.50, the Cambridge History of Amer- ican Literature proclaims Bump- po "the most -memorable char- acter American fiction has given the world." The scholars have their . rea- sons. Some see Bumppo as the counterpart of Daniel Boone, Leatherstocking as a chronicle of the frontier, a chapter in Cooper's life-long obsession with the problems of possessing and dispossessing, his overt sym- pathies with the possessor, his covert with the dipossessed. For a level-headed and delightful summary, nothing can surpass Parkman's review in the North American Review for January, 1852. Parkman first disposes of Cooper's most un -Indian In- dians: "Jointly with Thomas Campbell, Cooper is responsible for the fathering of those ob- original heroes, lovers, and sages, who have long formed a petty nuisance in our literature." He then tackles the difficul- ties of the genteel heroine in romantic wilderness literature: "t seems to us a defect in a novel or a poem, when the heroine is compelled to . sleep out at night in the woods, drenched by rain and scratched by briars—to forgo the appliances of the toilet, and above all, to lodge in a'n Indian wigwam. . . We read Long - fellow's Evangeline with much sympathy in the fortunes of the errant heroine: ...Wl'ien, how- ever, we had' followed her for about two thousand miles on her forest pilgrimage, and reflected on the figure she must have made, so tattered and bepatch- ed, bedrenched and bedraggled, we could not but esteem it a happy circumstance that she failed, as she did, to meet her lover; . . . With Cooper's her- oines, Cora and Alice, the case is not so hard. Yet, as it does not appear that, on a journey of several weeks, they were per- mitted to carry so much as a valise or a carpet bag ... it is certain, that at the journey's end, they must have presented an appearance more adapted to call forth a Christian sympathy than any emotion of a more romantic nature." * • a Nevertheless, Parkman goes on, "It is easy to find fault with The Last of the Mohicans; but it is far from easy to rival or even approach Cooper's excel- lences. The book has the gen- uine game flavor; it exhales the odours of the pine woods and the freshness of the mountain wind. .. . (These word paint- ings) are instinct with life, with the very spirit of the wilder- ness; they breathe the somber poetry of solitude and danger." And again, "For ourselves — though we diligently peruse the dispatches—the battle of Palo Alto and the storming of Mon- terey are hot more real and present to our mind than some of the scenes and characters of The Pathfinder, though we have not read it for hine years." To which generations of read- ers, adapting the comparison to their own experience, have heartily agreed. THE "I" HAS IT Some years ago George Mori- arty was umpiring a Cleveland- Detroit game. An Indian rookies was up at the plate. The rookie took one strike without protest. Then he took another. And then a third. Before returning to the dugout, he turned to the um- pire. "I beg your pardon," he polite- ly asked, "but how do you spell your name?" Surprised, Moriarty obliged, spelling his name. The rookies sighed, "Just as I thought, sir, only one FALLOUT ▪ DETECTOR aboard a specially equipped former Liberty ship was.used to gather data on radioactive fallout from the Cberalr,'a hydrogen -bomb shot of Operation Redwing. The collection platform atop the foremost, or "king post," is loaded with various recording instruments,. The readings were especially Important because Nil' nut is now one of the principal nuclear dangers with which ci ril defense must contend. Civilians will he told to seek shelter fn ham, monis, "cyclone" shelters and the like if fallout from a nuclear qr:oi. plosion is heading their way. M. S. Navy photo from InternationM,,;