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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-01-08, Page 6Hand Froze Solid inside His Glove In 1922, Cyrus Lord Bryant set out with his wife and four children to drive his wagon and nix horses nearly 1,000 miles from Washington into the heart of British Columbia. It was a tough trip, lasting many .months. Win- ter, with all its viciousness, hurl- ed itself upon them without warning. A biting, stinging bliz- zard raged on the little family before it reached Alexis Creek. Driving into the teeth of the blizzard, Cyrus's left hand froze calmest solid inside his leather glove. In the growing darkness Sae swung the leading horses around a narrow bend high up eia the edge of a deep ravine. The rear wheels of the wagon slip- ped on the icy road, and for one 'heart -stopping instant a rear wheel was suspended over space as the outfit slowed round, Forty Below Zero The horses struggled gamely en. Inside the w:.gon, huddled R/irs. Bryant and the children, trying to keep warm with the said of a coal -oil lantern. The temperature had dropped to for- ty below zero --seventy-two de- grees of frost. Their limbs were almost past the hurting stage and a sleepy eumb feeling was slowly dulling their senses before the driver pulled the horses to a stop near the cabins of Alexis Creek, ]8ryant's wife and children were :rushed into a house for frost -bite treatment, The f r o s t- covered :horses were given attention, and the lantern was left burning be- meath the wagon to keep their good from freezing. Life Savings Lost The fifty -below -zero dawn of the following day revealed trag- edy. The lantern had set fire to the wagon, and all that was res- cued of their possessions—inclu- ding their life savings -was a *Towbar, an axe -head and a few horseshoes, The position was eaitieal. A friendly rancher lent them good and what clothing could be spared. In a month Cyrus had backed enough logs out of the 'mush to build a two -roomed cabin for the family. Later they shoved on to Tatla Lake. For years—as is vividly des- sxibed by Richmond P. Hobson, e modern frontiersman, in his book "Grass Beyond the Moun- RCAF Looks Back ---As 1952 drew to a close, the RCAF could look back on a year of achievement and expansion. New operational squadrons were formed, new training stations came into being, and new aircraft and equipment were brought into use. Personnel strength rose from 29,552 at the close of 1951 to an estimated 38,500 at the end of 1952, and for the first time Canadian fighter planes were based in Europe in peace -time. The following pictures give an indication of the activities and strength of the RCAF. (1) The RCAF continued its search and rescue and mercy flight programme, and many humanitarian, flights were carried out by air force crews. Here an RCAF helicopter takes aboard a sick patient. (2) A recent addition to the RCAF is the C-119 or "Flying Box -car," which is invaluable for carrying heavy freight and equipment. (3) The departure of 439 Squadron from Uplands airport for North Luffenham, England, typifies the extent of the R.C.A.F.'s commitments overseas. Two fighter wings are already based in Europe, building toward a 12 -Squadron air division on the Continent. (4) The Minister of National Defence, Brooke Claxton, right, announced that Air Marshal W. A, Curtis, Chief of the Air Staff, centre, will retire at the end of January, 1953, and will be succeeded by Air Vice -Marshal C, R. Slemon, left. (5) Symbolizing the importance of women in the modern RCAF, this picture shows an airwoman directing a Sabre pilot to a safe landing. (6) The maintenance and expansion of an efficient air force calls for a vast construction programme, including new barracks, runways and hangars such as this massive concrete structure. (7) Another important aspect of Canada's contribution to NATO is the training of air crews from other member countries at RCAF stations. Forming a camaraderie which bodes well for the free world, two French and two Danish students examine navigation instruments during their training in Canada. tants" every member of the fam- ily worked from dawn till dark. Cyrus was able to hire out his horses in return for cash, cows, sheep, or vegetables, His wife sheared sheep, spun woollen gar- ments for the family and neigh- bours. The children worked with axe, saddle -horse and rifle; and altogether four years of unremit- ting toil, courage and privation passed before the courageous little family were outfitted again. ei.TABLE iaie Andrews, MOLASSES HAD ITS PLACE Writing in The Christian lelence Monitor Laura E. Blod- gett has an article about the use of molasses in cookery which starried me back to my younger day so fascinatingly that, with sermission, I'm reproducing It Mere. e ° « In Grandmother's day molasses was used by the jugfui. It was :spread on slices of home-made tread for the children, it glazed the sweet potatoes and the ham, it sweetened the baked beans and the apple pie and, Oh, how the dlelightful odors floated through the house! Hardly a day passed that Grandmother did not use moles - nes in something that she was preparing for healthy young ap- petites, I can see her yet sliding e gingerbread into the oven or *severing over a pan of molasses cookies while the Sunday pud- ding steamed away on top of the stove. Blustering winds and chilly allays conjure up memories of 'these good things and set us to searching far the old cook book KS that held so many of her favorite recipes. When the book is found we turn the stained and yellowed pages and, in: memory, we live again in Grandmother's wonder- ful kitchen. A worn and bat- tered section reveals a recipe for popcorn balls and another for molasses candy. We dream for a while of taffy pulls and Christ- mas trees hung with globular confections and wonder if ever there were more delectable good- ies than these. MOLASSES TAFFY 2 cups molasses 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon vinegar Flavor if desired Boil ingredients to 260° F. or until a little of the mixture be- comes bright when dropped into cold water. Pour into buttered pans to cool. Butter hands and pull until candy becomes light in color and hard. POPCORN BALLS 3 quarts popped corn 3^s cup molasses She's Got A Fur Coat—The penguin at right seems to be the topic of jealous conversation for her more formally -clad companions at London's zoo. (The very idea. Wearing a fur coat and putting am airs!) Actually, the furry bird isn't being a high hat. All young penguins are covered with down before acquiring their soup - 'n' -fish suits of feathers. TEST YOUR INTELLIGENCE Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions. _ 1. Find the word below which does not match the other three. —Hour —Day —Minute —Wristwatch ` 2. Which country was the first to use gunpowder? —Russia —Holland —China —India 3, Which of the following documents is credited with being the foundation document of Great Britain's democratic government? --The Stamp Act —The Corn Laws —The Magna Carta The Exclusion Act. 4. The smallest state in the United States is listed below. Can you find it? —Delaware —Vermont —Rhode Island —hong Island 5. if a tie vote occurs in the United States Senate, who is permitted to cast his vote and break the tie? --The President —Chief Justice of the Supreme Court —The Vice President —The Secretary of State 6. Puppets are operated by inserting the hands inside the doll, Marionnettes are operated with —Magnets —Weights—Levers —Levers '7. Match the following national symbols to their. particular coun- tries. Score yourself 10 points for each correct choice. (A) Bear England (B) John Bull —France tC) Uncle Sam —America OD) Cockaded hat —Russia Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior. , ANSWERS TO INTELLIGENCE TEST •aeuaag (a) :eoiaauty (0) :pue(9ua (a) :eissnIt (V) --L `2u1.115-9 lueplsaaa eeIsk ate' --9 puttlsl epogg—es '53.r53 eufispe atir,-9 'euRiO —7 'tlalemisla —I 14 cups sugar cup water rr5 teaspoon vinegar 4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon vanilla With the exception of the but- ter and vanilla, boil ingredients without stirring to 270° F. or until a small amount becomes brittle when dropped into cold water. Add butter and vanilla after removing from the heat. Pour the sirup over the popcorn and mix well. Form into balls. Makes about 36 balls, 6 inches in size. ° M Another page discloses a recipe for gingerbread and beside it is a penciled note: "This recipe took a prize." ?r11 BEST GJNG1iRBREA,D 4 cup sugar r� cup shortening 1 egg 1 cup molasses. 24 cups sifted flour hall -par pose or bread flour). Ili?, teaspoons socia 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ginger 4 teaspoon cloves J.� teaspoon salt 1 cup hot water Cream the shortening and sugar, add beaten egg, molasses and the dry ingredients which have been sifted together. Last of all, add the hot water and heat until smooth, Bake in a rnodts'- ate • oven 325° to 350° for 35> minutes. The batter will be thin, but this recipe makes a delicious old-fashioned gingerbread. When baked in layers and put together with sweetened whipped cream and sliced bananas or when spread with boiled frosting and moist coconut this gingerbread becomes a party dessert. * 6 G The recipe for a pudding at- tracts our attention, for beside it we find this notation: "This was John's delight." IiENIIWORTII PUDDING 2 cups bread crumbs 4 cup suet 1 cup raisins 1 egg 1 cup milk ?s teaspoon cinnamon !a teaspoon soda 4 teaspoon cloves !;i teaspoon salt 4 cup molasses Mix spices with the sugar and add to th.. crumbs, suet, and raisins. Dissolve soda in milk, beat egg and mix all ingredients together. Pour into ' greased double cooker and boil for 2 hours, Serve with orange sauce, * a 8. ORANGE SAUCE !s cup sugar l tablespoon corn starch Juice and grated rind of 1 orange 1. cup water 1 teaspoon lemon juice Mix sugar and corn starch• to- gether, add ethor ingredients. and boil far Ove minutes. Serve 'tot. Grandmother's cookie jar was always being refilled with de- lightful surprises but we always decided on the gingersnaps as our first choice. AUNTY'S GINGER SNAPS 114 cup shortening ?z cup sugar 1 egg 1 wip molasses 1 iabiespoon vinegar 2 tablespoons cold water 44 cups flour 1 tablespoon soda 1 teaspoon ginger Cream shortening and sugar, add beaten egg, molasses, vinegar and water. Sift dry ingredients and stir into first mixture. Some may have to be added by knead- ing. Roll out and bake in a mod- erate oven, 350° to 375°. Rolling the mthin makes a fine ginger- snap but by rolling them thick, cutting out stars, crescents or other shapes, and sugaring them, we have a Christmas cookie that delights young and old. No household should be with- out molasses, no-sir-ee, not by a jugfui. UNSAY O, LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., B.D. Confessing and Fotlotoing Christ Matthew I6:13-25 Memory Selection: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the liv- ing God. Matt. 16;16. Mohammedans believe that Jesus was a prophet. Nearly all people believe he was a good man. Christians believe as Peter confessed, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." It is one thing to have a mere in- tellectual acceptance of this great truth; it is another to know Flim by revelation of the Father, Only as we yield our hearts to Him, do we. really know Him. It is on this rock- like confession that Peter made, that Jesus is building his Church; or, if you wish, it is of people like Peter who hay.. received this Divine revelation that Jesus Is building his Church.'I'lat man who does not believe that Jesus is the Son of God has no place in His Chureh. The Church will prevail. She does not always appear victori- ous, but ultimately, she will emerge as the abiding Victor while sin goes down to defeat. Peter was granted great au- thority in forbidding and al- lowing; an authority shared with the other apostles as seen in Matt. 18:12, From the statement regarding prayer in the verse following, the challenge of pre- vailing prayer and hence author- ity, seems to be thrown out to all the Church. After Peter's great confession, Jesus began to predict his own sufferings and death. The cross was looming up before Him. ' There is a cross for all His dis- ciples, too. "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." No won- der selfish people are unhappy. They lose their life in saving it. But he who loses his life for Christ really finals it, The way of confessing and following Christ is the best way, no matter how you look at it. And that goes for the life that now is as well as for the life which is to come, It is a pity that men continue in their blindness when the Gospel is so near and so precious. What Shakespeare Really Looked Like What may be the only auth- entic portrait of Shakespeare in existence has been discovered in Capetown by Professor G. Wilson Knight, who is Reader in English at Leeds University. It was probably painted in the poet's lifetime by G. Paulus van Sourer, court painter of James 1. It shows Shakespeare wearing a . white collar and a black doublet. Scholars all over the world ars excited by the discovery. If the portrait is really of Shakespeare it will give therm the best impress' sion of what he looked Iike that has yet come into their posses- sion, Hundreds of spurious portraits of Shakespeare have been "dis- covered" at various times, but this one has every appearance of being a genuine contemporary painting, a Tit -Bits man was told, The Chandos portrait in the National Gallery —presented to the nation in 1856 by the Earl of Ellesmere—is the most familiar of Shakespeare likenesses and the best authenticated. The late Sir Sidney Lee, expert or, Eliza- bethan literature, declared that there was no portrait o:: Shakes- peare which could be said with certainty to have been painted in his lifetime, and only two por- traits were known to have been produced within a short time of his death. But even in 1952 we still have only a slight idea of Shakes- peare's true physical character- istics, although the Capetown dis- covery may help to throw light on them. It has been seriously suggested that Shakespeare's re- mains in he church at Stratford - on -Avon should be exhumed in the interests of Shakespeare scholarship. Then there could be a scientific examination of the remains and his bones could be measured. But some superstitious people recall the lines above the, grave ending with "curst be he that moves my bones." Others in favour of exhumation believe the "curse" could he avoided if women did the work! Fit for A Icing—Beaming royally over his culinary triumph, Sweden's Crown Prince Gustav Adolph exhibits a gingerbread man which he fashioned with only a little assistance from his sister, Princess Christina. The royal baker spread more flour over himself and the king's kitchens, in Stockholm, than he managed to introduce into the gingerbread dough, but cookie connoisseurs claim the confection was a princely treat.