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MAKING SOUPS THE BACK-
BONE OF YOUR MEAL
Hello Homemakers! Why is it that
everyone utters a big "u -m -m" when
the fancily gathers around the table
where big bowls of soup are steam-
ing. Ts it the aroma and the chim-
neys of steam trona each gay bowl?
And there will be more exclamations:
it your soup is really good, How
satisfying, how delicious soups can be.
savoured with tete simple seasonings
every homemaker can keep on her
pantry shelf. Serving hearty and
wholesome soups often during the
snappy, cold weather will benefit the
health of your family — and your
budget. So let's plan soups as a main
course — an easy and satisfying
Meal,
The' water in which vegetables are
cooked, left over vegetables, scraps;
of meat, meat stock, gravy, left -over
rice, macaroni — these should never,
under any circumstances, be wasted.
Keep them in a jar in your electric
refrigerator overnight,
As a good foundation for many
nutritious soups use 2 pounds of
neck of mutton of shin of veal. Rave
the butcher saw the bones into small
pieces. Cut up the meat and brown
half of it along with a diced onion in
a little fat. This. gives better flavor
and color to stock soup. Soak the re-
maining meat and bones in cold
water about an hour. Then bring
quickly to a boil, using "High" heat,
but' turn back to "Simmer" at this
point to stearal for about two hours.
An hour before removing from heat,
add vegetables and seasonings, using
a cup filled with diced carrot, turnip,
onion and celery; a sprig of parsley,
one bay leaf and three peppercorns.
When done, skim off fat and drain,
The possibilities of using this stock
are endless; add macaroni,, noodles,
ride, barley, .beans, peas, lentilsor
sliced vegetables,
A Nutri -thrift menu suggestion is:
e hearty bowl of soup accgmpa nied
by cheese biscuits or rolls, a dish of
fruit for dessert and milk as the
beverage unless you are selecting one
of the tasty cream soups given below.
RECIPES
Curried Onion and .Rice Soup
2 tbs, baking fat, %/ cup finely
chopped onion, salt, 2 tbs, flour,
r, tsp-, curry powder, 1/3cup
coasted rice, 4% cups milk, few
grains pepper.
Add anion and 1/ teaspoon salt to
melted fat, Cover and cook over low
neat until soft, stirring constantly,
Turn electric element to "Low"; wild
flour, curry powder and rice Mid mix
well, Add stills gradually and cook,
stirring constantly anal thickened.
Season with salt and pepper. Six
servings.
'Cream of Cabbage and Lentil Soup
s/4 cup dried lentils, 1/4 1b. salt
pork, 1 tsp. salt, 1% cups finely
shredded cabbage, 1 tb, baking
fat, 31/ cups milk, few grains
pepper.
Soak the lentils overnight in cold
water. Drain, add the shoed salt pork
and 2%/$ cups fresh water, Cover and
cook until tender, adding more water
if necessary. Acid the salt near the
end of the cooking time. Drain and
boil clown the liquid to about 1/ cup.
Press lentils through a sieve. Cook
the cabbage in the baking fat on
electric element turned "Low," Add
the milk, pepper, lentils and, lentil
liquid, -edit more salt if desired. Re-
heat, Six servings,
Clear Tomato Soup
1 qt. brown soup stock, 21
cups tomatoes, -34 tsp. pepper-
corns, 1 small bay leaf, 3 cloves,
3 sprigs thyme, 4 tbs. baking
fat, 2 sprigs parsley, 1,4 cup each
onion, carrot, celery, raw ham.
, (diced), salt, pepper.
Cook onion, carrot, celery and ham
in baking fat five minutes. Add tom-
atoes,. peppercorns, bay leaf, cloves,
thyme and parsley, cover 'and cook
slowly one hour on small electric ele-
THE SEFPORTII NEWS
ment, Strain carefully, add hot stock
'and season with salt and pepper,
(This recipe may be used for jellied
scup or for salad,)
THE QUESTION SOX
airs. N.'C. asks: "Is it all right to
stake sauerkraut at this time of
year? How much salt is necessary
and how long• should it stand before
using "
Apswer Yes. Use 1 ib. of pure salt
(not iodized) for 40 lbs. cabbage. Be
sure salt is evenly' distributed through
the cabbage, When the emelt is near-
ly full, press cabbage down with an
enamel or heavy porcelain plate.
Keep weighted down and allow to
staid for several daysuntil cabbage
looks grey-white, Set crock in a cool-
er place to prevent any more scum
forming. Melted wax may be poured
over it at the end of a week and the
crock of sauerkraut left for 1 month
before using,
Aurae Allan invites you to write to
her e/o The Seaforth News. Send in
your questions on homemaking prob-
lems and watch this 00i110111 for
replies,
The patient was sitting up for the
first time. "I wouldn't let then oper-
ate on me again for a million dol -
las," he groaned.
"I'm sorry," said the doctor to
the patient, "but I shall have to op-
erate on you again."
The convalescent let out a roar,
"Nothing doing, he cried. "I.
won't stand for it."
"But," argued the doctor, "it is
something that just has to be done.
You see, I made a serious mistake.
When I stitched you up I left one of
my rubber gloves inside of you."
The patient was incredulous.
Is that why you want to open me
"Yes," said the surgeon,
The patient smiled feebly.
"Don't be daft, man," he said.
"Here's a quarter—go and buy your-
self another rubber glove."
"How do you like this dress I got
for my eighteenth birthday?"
"Hmmm, it certainly has worn
welt"
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The Territory of ,
New Guinea
(Frons the Canadian Inatitute
international Affairs,)
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The Territory of New Guinea,
mandated urea administered by Au
tt'alie for the League of Nations,
one of three divisions of the getter
area known as Ne w(iuinea, T1
other two are Dutch New Csuiuea, an
Papua, an integral part of the Austr
liau Commonwealth. since 1906. It
in the Territory however that t
Jape have established their stronge
foothold, and it is to this part
New Guinea that press despatch
generally refer.
The Territory comprises the nor,
east portion of the main island coo
nlonly referred to as the mainland
the Bismarck Archipelago, in whit
are the islands of New Britain, Ne.
Ireland, Lavongai, and the Admil'alt
Islands; and Bougainville and Buk
hi the Solomon group. The total are
is approximately 93,000 square mile
with a (pre-war) white population o
some 6,000, and a native poptdatio
estimated at about 000,000.
The extremely mountainous natur
of the terrain, together with dens
jungle growth make ,revel and eve
existence very difficult. Known a
"The most inhospitable country i
the world," it is not surprising tha
nearly half of the area remains lm
plored by the white man, despite th
fact that three large , rivers affor
possibilities of water transport, Th
whole area is volcanic, with man
active craters. In fact the Territor
has the dubious 1101101• 0f having th
largest crater in the world within it
boundaries,
The advent of war in the Pacifi
has brought front-page prominent
to the towns of the Territory. Rabau
Lae and Salamaua, generally un
known in pre-war years, now crop n
regularly in the news and radi
broadcasts.
Rabaul, administrative capital un
der the Australian mandate, lies a
the north-easterly tip of the island o
New Britain, overlooking a very fin
harbor. The town is in the volcani
zone and has six active volcanoes lit
eraily on its doorstep. Originally buil
by the Germans, and with addition
by the Australians, Rabaul has wid
avenues and streets, good deep -ovate
harbor facilities, a fine botanical gar
den, a good museum, and variou
playing fields,
In pre-war days Rabaul airport
some 20 miles from the town, formed
one terminus of the Australia: New
Guinea air servioe. A subsidized mai
and passenger steamer service also
operated between New Guinea and
Australia while other steamship lines
matte Rabaul more or less regultfi
port of call. A large radio station was
located at Kokope, some 30 tulles to
the south-east of Rabaul.
Salamaua is a modern tropica
town built on a narrow isthmus ap
proximately three to four hundred
yards wide and about a mile in
length with mountains at either end
of it rising to about 6,000 feet. Al-
though quite small, the town was
noted for attractive bungalows and
flue gardens; tennis, swimming and
,social clubs provided relaxation for
the residents. It was the sea and air-
port for Wan, the capital of the Mo -
robe gold fields. which is only 35 air
miles distant.
About 20 miles north of Salamatia
lies the small town of Lae, since mid
1941 the capital of the Territory. Lae
was district headquarters for the
leading oil company in the area and
was also a supply base for the nearby
gold fields. In pre-war years the al-
most complete lack of harbor facili-
ties forced ocean going vessels to
unload into lighters, a procedure
which was considered hampered by
swells from the open sea.
Gold is by far the most important
product of the Territory, with copra
second on the list,
It is reported that the agricultural
reaources of the Territory are cap-
able of considerable development,
hough up to the time of the Japan -
se invasion few such commodities
ere being produced on anything ap-
roaching a commercial scale. Coffee
ave evidence of becoming a fairly
mpot'tant crop, an da few cocoa plan -
tions were just coming into bear -
5. It is said that the, Territory offers
cellent climatic and soil conditions
r both these products. About 1.300
eves had been planted to kap°, and
ere were strong hopes that it might
produced on a large scale, Expet•i-
ents wore in progress in the com-
ercial production of. robber, sisal
<1 rice. 'Sugar cane, tapioca and to-
m, generally grow wild, although
pall quantities are cultivated by the
.fives for their own use. Lumbo'
as produced in small quantities £o'
port, but transportation. Millen!.ea In the jungle apparently preclude
arge-scale development of the in-
sery, ,
The search for oil in Australia
ates back to the early clays of this
Many. Bvidenee of its exiatenee
as given both by seepages and geo-
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"Commandos Strike at Dawn," the vivid photoplay of Canada's Armed Forces produced by Columbia pictures,
portrays' the Canadian Army so well that the film 1$ rated as ono of the best of this war. Based upon Norway's si
resentment of German aggression; and starring Maul. Muni, the movie shows battle tactics of the Canadians above,
as they, storm a "Nazi" airfield, Lower picture was an off -the -set camera -study of Greta Grenstead, one of the star- oe
lets, chatting with A. Gerlock and Dong Allen, telegraphists aboard an auxiliary of the Royal Canadian Navy. w
logical surveys, til slice the first
ephemeral oil boons in 1911 prospect-
ing has gone on intermittently. In 1'e -
cent year's the Australian government
has subsidised the efforts of private
companies and great things were
hopod for,
Australia was the Territory's best
export customer, with England as
second best. In 1954 Canadian exports
to. the Territory 'were valued at 06,-
666 while by 1936 their value had
increased to 813,883. Up to 1939
there were no Canadian imports from
the Territory, but in 1940 Australian
and New Guinea interests establish-
ed a vegetable oil extraction plant In
Vancouver and a small amount of
copra was costing lute Canada from
the Territories,
Il.
During the last quarter of the nine-
toeath century Germany showed an
increasing interest in the South Wes-
tern Pacific, so much so that the
Australian Colonies, fearing that Ger-
man annexation of New Guinea might
constitute a threat to their security,
demanded that tate British Govern-
ment permit Queensland to annex
New Guinea in the name of Her Maj-
esty. I nfect, in 1S83 Queensland rais-
ed the Union Jack at Port Moresby
and annexed the territory, -subject
to confirmation by London. The Brit-
ish Government, however, refused to
confirm Queensland's action, The bit-
ter feeling created throughout Austra-
lia by this refusal forced the British
Government to reverse its decision
and in 1884 to proclaim a Protector-
ate over the coal tof New Guinea and
contiguous islands with the exception
of the territories east of the Dutch
boundary. Germany protested and
England agreed to limit for the time
being her protectorate to the south
coast and islands and entered into
negotiations with Germany regarding
the north eastern areas. But in :De-
cember, 1834, while negotiations were
actually under way, in fact while
Bismarck and a British Foreign Office
official were discussing the question
in the foreign office in Berlin, a cable
was received from the Premier of
Queensland telling of the formal an-
nexation by Germany of the territory
under negotiation,
The Terrtto•ies were under German
rule from 1884 to 1914, first through
the German New Guinea Company to
whom an Imperial Charter was grant-
ed in 1885; the company's rule last-
ed until 1889 when the Imperial Ger-
man Government took over,
On August 6th, 1914, the Australian
Government received a telegram from
the British Government asking if
they would seize certain South Sea
German controlled territories includ-'
i.ng what later became known as the
Territory of New Guinea. Australia
agreed and on September 12th, 1914,
the occupation was completed. In
1919 Australia received a Class "C"
mandate from the League of Nations.
W. L. Siebert Passes
at Zurich
William L. Siebert. postmaster 1t
Zurich, died on Jan. 27, after n
lengthy illness at his home. He was
in his 8411: year. Mr, Siebert was
born near New Hamburg, where he
farmed in his youth, but entered
business in 1887 as a general merch-
ant and was in the following places,
Canada, Kansas; Crediton, Platteville
and •Dashwood. He moved to Zurich
in 1913 and three years later was ap-
pointed postmaster. I -Ie also served
as court clerk for a number of years,
Surviving are his widow, formerly
Anna Kolb, with whom he celebrated
their diamond jubilee in Aprii; three
sons, Edgar and Frank, of Detroit,
and William C„ at home; three daugh-
ters, Mrs. W. R. Major, Toronto;
Nora, a trained nurse in Lansing,
Mich., and Mrs. Clare 'Hoffman, Galt.
One daughter, Vera, predeceased him
in 1939, and one son, Albert "Babe,"
a well known hockey player, was
drowned at St. Joseph late in August,
1939, Two children died in infancy.
Also surviving are one sister, Mi's,
Flora Brown, Crediton; two half sis-
ters and two half brothers and 10
grandchildren and one great-grand-
child. The funeral service was held.
on Friday. A service was conducted
first at his hone and later in the
Zurich Evangelical church, with Rev,
O, B. Heckendorn officiating. later
ment was in Lin.glebach cemetery.
Ib
An intimation to slow paying sus- n -
toners given by a shopkeeper: C
"All persons indebted to our shop s
are requested to call and settle. All A
indebted to our ship and not knowing t
it are requested to call and find out,
Those knowing themselves indebted
and not wishing to call are requested , d
to remain in one place long enough
forus to mita' them." t
Sibie Teaching
In the Schools —
i3ibie teaching in the Public schools
is the livoat' topic for discussion by
public sebool boards to -day.' In the
County of Huron every WW1). bat one,
has Bible Teaching ,taught; in the
schools by the local clergy, at the re-
quest of the Board. Recently the
Board of Education at Goderiail has
requested the Clergy fo give Bible
instruction 141 the Collegiate Institute
as well. Twenty-four municipalities
In the County of Grey have encour-
aged the teaching of the Bible in the
schools, anmany of the town;in
Bruce. Lueknow has had13ib1e teach-
ing in the schools ,.for the past
twelve years, undertaken weekly by
'the ministers, and last week Kin-
cardine schools began similar instruc-
tion. Toronto is conducting classes` in
Bible teaching in some grades as
well as London, and Owen Sound
carries out the plan of teaching in all
sohools and in all grades. Fifteen
counties including Huron have asked
the Department to provide for religi-
ous instruction in both Primary and
Secondary Schools and the cities of
Kitchener, Waterloo, Hamilton,
Brantford, Fort William and Niagara
Falls supported a similar resolution.
In the past six months 40 school
boards have requested the Depart-
ment to provide for Bible Instruction
in the schools each week. All this is
evidence of the recognition by educa-
tional authorities that it is imposs-
ible to teach anyone his duty towards
his neighbor apart front his duty to-
wards God, upon which this relation-
ship of brotherhood ultimately arises.
Groundhog Called Fraud
As a Weather Prophet —
Tuesday, says the legend, we'd
know if winter in on the way out or
if we have to endure another six
weeks of it. For Tuesday, February
2, the groundhog was supposed to
come out of his long winter sleep
and take a look at the world. Legend
also adds that if the little rodent
sees his shadow he goes back into
his winter retreat and we're in for
another month and a half of snow,
sleet, frost, ice and other winter-
equipment.
intei
equipment. If there's no shadow,
winter is ,(unofficially at least) over.
And what a winter — the worst on
record in some parts of Canada. ,
However, with the coming of the
weatherman and his regular fore-
casts, it was found that he and the
groundhog did not agree. So one of
them had. to be proved wrong. Alas,
it was the poor little groundhog. The
origin of the superstition is rather
obscure, but it is believed to have
had its sourct in Germany. The Ger-
mans attributed the prognosticating
powers to the badger, but on this
side of the Atlantic the honor was
transferred to the groundhog — or
woodchuck. Groundhogs have been
called fraudulent weather prophets
! by such authorities as Dr. Raymond
Ditmars, curator of the Bronx Zoo
and Willis R. Gregg, chief of the
United States weather bureau, L. L.
Snyder, zoologist of the Royal Ont
ario museum, asked about the myth,said sometimes the temperature of
the earth where they are hibernating
rises to a point where it has the
sante effect as warm weather and
the little rodents wake up naturally.
They think it is spring and scurry
out of their burrows to the good
earth. Sometimes it is spring when
they come out but if it doesn't seen,
right they scurry right back and go
to sleep again. These appear to be
the facts of the case, With the poor
little groundhog so well debunked,
it seems almost a shame to keep up
this business of consulting hien every
year. It seems a columnist some
years ago, referring to the ground-
hog myth, said: "It would have died
out a long time ago but for the
newspaper humorists."
Funeral of Mrs. J. Torrance
The funeral of Mrs. Joanne Tor-
rance, who died in Toronto early
on Friday at her apartment, Was
held on Saturday from Wesley Will-
is United Church, Clinton, at 3
o'clock in the afternoon, followed by
interment in. Bayfield cemetery.
Mrs. Torrance, formerly Joanna
McDonald, was in her 36th year.
She had been an invalid for the past
five years. Lately she had spent the
winter months in Toronto, attended
y her daughter, Miss Maude Tor
ante, returning to their home at
1108011 for the summer. Three sons
urvive, They are, John, Lethbridge,
lta.; Mervyn, and Alfred, Toronto;
wo daughter's, (Margaret) Mrs.
George Foote, Port Arthur, and Miss
Maud, at home. Services were •con
ucted by Rev. A. Lane, pastor of
the church, The choir was in at-
endance.
The Indian chieftain opened a
speech to his tribe with: ft
"You all know me as Old Chief 11
Trainwhistle, but since I am extreme s
ely democratic I hope that, for short,
you will free to call me Toots."
Auntie --"Belt what has your boy
•ienil'e army career got to do with
im staring at every pretty' girl he
ees?"
Niece—"Oh, he's 911 the observation
covert."
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