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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-07-01, Page 7,J TALE T e/ dam, Am ,w5. With hot weather here, and hot- ter still in prospect, thought nat- urally turn to the kind of meals that can be prepared in advance and then dished up cold with a minimum of trouble, So here are a few new versions Of some old favorites sta'rting off with a potato salad that is de- lightfully different from t h o "standard" kind, POTATO SALAD 1% cups potato balls , 3 tomatoes, peelers anal dined 34 pound Swiss cheese, silvered 4 cup lemon -French dressing ' 1 small green pepper, sliced 1 small head lettuce 1 quart mixed salad greens— (Any of the following: beet greens, celery leaves, dan- delion greens, escarole, spin- ach leaves, water cress). 1 small Bermuda onion, sliced titin 2 radishes, sliced thin 34 cup grated, raw carrot Coolc potato balls in boiling alted water until barely tender. rain and cool,' Place in salad bowl; add tomatoes, cheese, and lemon -French dressing. Mari- state for 1 hour: Add remaining ingredients. Toss lightly and. serve immediately. * * 0 1VIACAItONI 'SALAD 4 ounces elbow or fancy macaroni, cooked, drained and cooled 34 cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons chopped onion 3 tablespoons each, chopped green ;pepper and chopped ° dill pickle % teaspoon salt 1 cup Swiss cheese cubes 1 cup lightly crushed corn chips (measured after crushing) Combine macaroni, mayon-.. ielse, onion, green pepper, dill icicle, salt and cheese. Chill.afore serving, stir In corn chips, Variations: Add 1 cup shrimp, chicken or any cold meat, CHICKEN LOAF . If you'd like a chicken or fish loaf., here are ways to make and bake them. 3 cups diced, cooked chicken 3!: cup (3 -oz. can) niusbrootn pieces 2 cups cooked noodles cup chicken broth or gravy 2 eggs, beaten 34 cup finely chopped celery 1 teaspoon salt 3/ teaspoon curry powder % teaspoon pepper Combine all ingredients. Place in oiled loaf pan 9x5x3 inches. Rake at 350' F. about 1 hour. 'turn out on platter; garnish with sliced beets and hard - cooked eggs. * * * SALMON LOAF 1 pound can salmon 2 eggs, beaten slightly 34 cup milk 2 tablespoons melte' butter or margarine 1 cup soft bread crumbs 34 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper 34 teaspoon dry mustard Combine crumbs with season- ing and butter. Add milk, oil from the salrnon, and the leelight- ly beaten eggs; mix well, Flake Tune -in --- Walter F. Corbin dem- onstrates a featherweight radio receiver that allows him to°keep in touch with his office, no mat- ter where he may be within a 20 -mile radius. Every 15 mina- - teo a list of numbers is palled off iron o central broadcasting transmitter, If he hears his num• 'ger called, he checks with his office to see where ha is needed. -salmon and add to bread -egg mix- ture, Turn into shallow, oiled baking dish and bake at 350' 6'. about 45 minutes, or until firm and browned. Serve garnished with lemon slices and bunches of water cross, with egg-white sauce, or with tomats sauce, * a e Here, now, is a French dress- ing which I do not recommend unless you happen ' to like the flavor of garlic, paprika and curry powder. However, it's easy to substitute something a little less pungent in case your tastes don't happen to run along such lines. CURRY FRENCH DRESSING % cup salad oil ' A cup vinegar 1 teaspoon her* lemon juice 1 teaspoon sugar lae teaspoon salt Vs teaspoon each, pepped and onion salt % teaspoon each garlic powder and paprika r/ -i/ teaspoon curry powder Combine all ingredients and shake well in tightly covered jar. How Electricity Got ars Name Electricity has always been a part of nature. Imagine a violent thunderstorm, with the crash of thunder and the crackling flash of lightning. In his shelter, the cave -man must have cowered in terror. Then, perhaps a quarter of a million years later, some an- cient discovered that amber, rubbed with a piece of fur, would attract bits of feathers or wisps of straw. This property (we know it today as statis electric- ity) was described as long ago as 600 B.C., by Thales of Miletus, one of the seven wise Hien of an- cient Greece. The Greek word for amber is elektron, and since it was the first substance to show this prop- erty of attraction, William Gil- bert (1540-1603), physician to Queen Elizabeth, called the prop- erty "electrica." In 1650, Walter Charlton changed the name to "electricity," the name we use new. IS Electrical Resistance Affected When a Conductor is Heated? Yes. For copper and most Other materials there is an in- crease of resistance to electricity when the temperature rises; but the resistance of these thin car- bon filaments you may occasion- ally see in very old lamps goes down when the wire gets hotter. Resistance generally decreases as a conductor is chilled; and at extremely low temperatures many metals show what is called superconductivity. That means their power of conducting elec- tricity is enormously increased. At -a temperature approaching absolute zero, a wire made from lead, for instance, will offer no l resistance; and once a current has been set up in a coil, it will keep flowing for days. ARE Silver and Gold Magnetic? Generally speaking, it is iron and steel and their alloys that are magnetic. Nickel and cobalt also show some magnetism. An alloy of iron, cobalt, nickel, alun- inum and copper can be made so magnetic that it can lift a thous- and times its own weight of iron. A magnet attracts iron and stehl and the alloys that make mag- nets. Gold and silver do not snake magnets, nor are these metals attracted by magnets. Ribs A' Plenty There are about seventeen hun- dred species of snakes distribut- ed throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the world, They range in size from a bur- rowing creature only a few inch- es long to the regal python, near- ly or fully thirty feet long and weighing three hundred pounds. Consequently the number of ribs varies, though in any case it is enormous, Sometimes there are as many as three hundred pair of ribs, loosely tied to the back- bone. Each rib at its free end is attached to a shield of horn on the underside of the body. It is by this plan that the snake moves. The ribs ripple forward, a pair at a time, and in doing so, thrust forward the rear edges of the shield to which they are united, At each movement thees shield grips some rough spat on the ground, and so the whole body is drawn ahead. The wriggling movement is always horizontal.' INSECTS' BRAINS Most insects have a well-de- veloped nervous system includ- ing a brain. It is .in the head and has two parts. The brain is connected with the main nerve cord, which runs in a double line the length of the insect's body. At intervals along the cord there are nerve centres called ganglia, which look like swell- ings. "Its An 111 Wind—" --- It's just a breeze For Steve Baker, 3, at basket, and cousin Jimmie Connor, 6, to make baskets an the outdoor basketball court near Steve's home in Fort Scott, Kan. A tornado which blew into town pounded the adult -size stan- dard down to goal -scoring height for little boys. Near -Sightedness In nearsightedness, the eyeball is too long from front to back, and the person can see near ob- jects clearly, but not distant ones. When we see an object, it means that light -rays coming from it are passing through the lens of the eye, at the front of the eyeball. The lens act as a refractor, that is, light -rays pass- ing through it are bent. In the normal eye, light -rays come to- gether, or are "focused, on the retina, at the back of the eyeball, from which the sensation of 'sight travels to the brain by way of the optic nerve. However, when the eyeball is too long from front to back, the light -rays from a distant object come to a focus before reaching the retina. The result is a blurred image. To correct nearsightedness, the ocu- list will give you a concave lens for your spectacles. It will diverge the rays just the right amount to keep them from focus- ing too soon, 1 Under -Cover Fashion Notes — In 2054, the boys can look forward to seeing the costume, above, when their secretaries rocket to work in the morning. It's a one- piece 'suit of light -weight jersey with button -on sleeves and de- tachable skirt. It was modeled at the National Secretaries Associa- tion meeting by Laura Jane Holmes, "Miss Press Photogra- pher." Below, height of fashion on Brazil's coffee plantations demands a straw hat and flow- ered coverall, as protection against the blazing sun when hoeing coffee plants. 'Straw at' Players ack Lt Muskoka On July 5th the Straw Hat Players return for their seventh season of summer theatre in Mus- koka. The company, which pro- vides a play a week for vaca- tioners in Port Carling and Grav- enhurst throughout the summer, was the spring -board frorn which its founders, Murray and Don- ald Davis, launched into a full- scale season with the Crest The- atre company in Toronto last January. Now Toronto is in a position to repay the debt to Muskoka. A vastly improved company with many Crest Theatre stars and technicians will serve the sum- mer companies this year. Renowned Crest designer, Hut- chinson Scott, Directors John Blatchley and Pierre Lefevre, and a strong company headed by Murray Davis, Max Helpmann, Charmion King, Norma Renault, Antonia Pemberton, Norman Ett linger and George McCowan, will all be in Muskoka, Opening on Jul' 5th in Grav- enhurst with the current Crest success, Amphitryon 38, and in Port Carling with a wild Rus- sian farce, Squaring The Circle, the company will present also Noel Coward's Fallen Angels, Peter Ustinov's The Indifferent Shepherd and a Revue to be staged by Crest actor, George McCowan. ' - Araby Lockhart, a long -tithe Straw Hat favourite, who has not been with the Crest company this season (she has, instead, be- come a mother,) and Richard Lamb will join the players from the Crest. Two favourite Strew Hat ac- tors will be missing' from the company; Donald Davis and Bar- bara Chilcott, who have been honoured by being given leading roles in this year's Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Miss Chilcott is to play 'the Shrew' in the Taming of the Shrew 'and Mr, Davis will play 'Tiresias' in Oedipus Rex. The Crest Theatre's other de- signer, Carolyn Souter, who has been responsible this year for the decor for The Little Hut, Dream Girl and The Light Of Heart, will also be designing settings for the Straw Hat Players, and Crest Theatre General Manager, Brian Mailer, and well-known televis- ion director, .Henry Kaplan, will share the direction with Blatch- ley and Lefevre. Murray & Donald Davis, the Crest Theatre, Toronto. HU. 9- 9427. Depth Of Water Very Deceitful When we -turn on the: water in the bathtub, and our cake of soap falls into the water and sinks to the bottom, a curious illusion oc- curs. If we plunge our hand in- to the water to" sdize the soap, we find that it is not where it seems to be. The eye is deceived into believing. that the water is much shallower than it really is. Pebbles arid fish in a pool al- ways appear to be nearer to us than they really are. The reason is that, the rays of light reaching us from the ob- ject at the bottom of the water not come straight to us, as they would if there were no water be- tween tis and the object The light from the object travels straight as long as it is in the water, but it it emerges oblique- ly from the water into the air it is bent downward toward the surface. This bending is known as refraction, and it occurs when- ever light passes`frotn one tr'ans- parent medium into another of different density—as, for ex- ample, from water to air, or from air to glass. The eye does not take refraction into account, but judges the position of the object as .if the light carne in a straight line, Gide! Mset three bachelor of 30,000 weddings, a charming man with a bright smile, dapper Mr. Alfred Brower, who has been Superintendent Registrar at Hackney, London, for 28 years. This quietly -spoken man has married no fewer than 30,000 couples since he was appointed to his job. But Ire's still a bache- lor at 65, though he looks young- er. Has the man who has remain• ed a bachelor so long—and la retiring this year — anything against marriage? Not at ail. Is he likely to marry when he is finally free from the cares of Office? Ahl that's quite a ques- tion! Says genial Mr. Brewer, very wisely: "I'm not committing my- self about the future," Why a man is -a bachelor is his own business, of course, In Britain the number of bachelors has increased since the war. There are hundreds of thousands of them—and few give any sign of being woman -haters. But when a bachelor does be- come a woman -hater he's apt to express his anti -marriage views pretty strongly. An American millionaire who spends thousands of dollars a year on old books and manus- cripts was disappointed in love when he was a youth! The pretty girl he was wooing walked off with somebody else, leaving him so bitter that he now travels all over the world looking for evi- dence which justifies his hatred of the opposite sex. Many otherwise eligible men stay bachelors because they have to support parents or younger sisters and brothers. They ac- quire the habit of bachelorhood —and it sticks. Some have been badly let down by a fickle girl. Two well-to-do, good-looking Leeds young men had this ex- perience. Two sloe-eyed sisters they met at a dance during a south coast holiday won their hearts within forty-eight hours. Each man proposed One moon- light night towards the end of the holiday; each was accepted, But a shock awaited the young men, A few weeks later they learned that the shapely pair they were planning to marry were already married to two brothers—partners in business who had been too busy to ac- company them on holiday! "We did it for a lark," was their fatuous explanation. "It must have been the seaside air." So incensed were the young men that they vowed solemnly to remain bachelors for the rest of their lives. For five years each kept his vow. Then one fell violently in love with a slim young Brazilian widow he met in a Paris night club, He flew with her to Lon- don, where they were married in a register office three weeks later. To ease his conscience he sent a wire on his wedding day to his friend, who was spending a three -months' holiday in Naples. It ran: "Was married today. Very sorry to break our com- pact, but you'll understand when you meet my lovely bride." Within a few hours he was surprised to receive this reply, "Don't mention it. I married an Italian girl here last week. Just wait till you see her. She's gor- geous!" When bachelors fail to fall for their charms, some women have been known to take drastic action to "beat down their def- ences." Living in a sinal] luxury hotel at Saint Etienne Deschamps, France,, was a lovely but unscru- pulous' brunette who for some time had had her eye on a rich middle-aged bachelor who lived alone in a costly apartment not far front the hotel. She met him "accidentally" by moonlight, but he ignored her. She contrived to sit at his table in a busy cafe, but he merely glanced up at her pretty face and then became more deeply immersed in his newspaper. At eleven that night the frus- trated girl called ou the bache- lor as he was preparing for bed and declared passionately that she loved him. She brandished under his nose an unloaded re- volver, declaring: "I'11 shoot my- self here unless you marry me!" He feared a scandal and per- suaded her to meet him next day "1.o talk things over But he got cold feet and failed to turn up. Grimly, the girl rerolve'd lo scare him badly. She disguised herself as a man, clapped on a false moustache and knocked at the door of his house about mid- night. The bachelor, wearing pa- jamas, nervously opened the door. Pretending she was a des. perste bandit, Vie girl flourished her pistol and demanded money and the jewellery she knew he possessed. Badly seared. the bachelor was about to part with then when he suddenly seized a sporting gun hanging in the hall and fired point blank, The girl died immediately. The police made no nharge against the mart when the Cir-- cutnstlrnces became known, They revealed that she had preyed on several other lonely bachelor% driving one to suicide. Bachelors gave often banded together to frustrate determined attempts by attractive women to lure them into marriage. At an inaugural dinner of a Bachelors' League in Italy be- fore the war, 200 young men pledged never to marry and never to flirt. "You flirt with a pretty girl at your peril," their handsome curly-haired president' warned them. Even waitresses had been banned from serving at tattle during the dinner. French members of anotther anti -marriage league also took vows of life-long bachelordont. The bachelor who was false to his vows had to pay a fine of 2,000 francs to the league's funds and perform some act of pen- ance. One bachelor found kissing a blonde typist in a country lane was condemned to swim twice across the Seine at midnight in his pajamas. He developed rheu- matic fever which nearly robe. bed him of his bride-to-be -- another girl he had been sec- retly courting! She was a nurse and her nursing skill saved his life. Years ago, All Souls' College, Oxford, made a defaulting mem- ber present the college with a memorial of his lapse from bach- elordom—a silver cup engraved with the words: "Descendit ]n matrimonium" ("He backslid in- to matrimony.") On the whole, it seems that in the end mostwomen who are determined get their man, how- ever keen he is to remain a bach- elor. Even the law is on the girls" side, for not long ago a famous judge declared in court: "No man can look after -himself,, whatever his age. Every man Is helpless without a woman's care." Blood Circulation Ancient peoples realized the great importance of the heart, although they did not under- stand its real function. We have known for only three centuries that the heart is actually a great pump, forcing the blood to cir- culate through the body. This was proved by William Harvey, an English physician who lived from 1578 to 1657. He was a tire- less student. One of his projects was examining the animals that had been wounded in hunting. In various experiments, ha measured the amount of blood that passed by a spot in the heart, He found to his astonish- ment that far more blood passed by in an hour than the whole body contained. Harvey con- cluded, therefore, that the bleed must circulate, that is, it must travel round and round in a closed circuit. As Harvey had no microscope, he could not prove the passage of the blood from the arteries to the veins by way of the capillaries. Only ten years after Harvey's death, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist, who had the benefit of a microscope, showed this capillary action in the lung of a frog. The heart of a grown man at rest pumps out into the arteries about four to six quarts of blood each minute with, of course, the same amount of blood returning to the heart each minute through the veins. Disobedient •- Parking restric,. tions don't bodies this swarm of bees invading downtown Allen- town. Police couldn't do a thing with the "lawbreakers," but et Beekeeper solved the situation by rounding them up,