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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1954-12-16, Page 6TABLE TALI(S JaMws. Now that the time for ohil- drens' parties is with us again, mothers will be faced with the zoblem et what to give the; young fry" to drink, Milk• of course, is the most nutritious, but since a child likes something "different" at a party, it is a good idea to serve a drink which not only contains some valuable health - giving elements but is also agreeable to the taste and "different" from the run of the mill beverages. Here are a cou- ple of unusual and tested re- cipes which should go over well with the youngsters. IIONEX SPICED T1tA 4 level tablespoonfuls tea. 2 level tablespoons whole cloves 1 cup of strained -orange juice cup lemon juice Si to S'4 cup honey 8 cups freshly boiled hot water Pour 5 cups boiling water over the tea and cloves. Let steep for sive minutes, strain. Add orange and lemon juices, honey and re- maining 3 cups hot water. Stir until honey is thoroughly die solved. - +k b Here again is a delightful fruit punch which will no doubt please both young and their par - ants too — ARCADIA FRUIT PUNCH 2 quarts strong tea (made with 12 tea bags or 12 teaspoons of tea) 2 cups lemon juice (strain) 4 cups orange juice (strain) 2 cups sugar 1?'2 quarts cranberry or grape juice 2 quarts water 1 quart ginger ale Mix tea, fruit juices, water and sugar and chill. Just before serving add ginger ale and pour ever piece of ice in punch bowl (makes about 2 gallons). * ' ok Mothers who find difficulty in getting their children to drink milk might try serving Cambric Tea. This way of giving a new taste to milk but in no way re- ducing its nutritive value has become very popular in Eastern Canada in many institutions and schools. It has long been the Custom in "Tea -drinking" Bri- tain to serve "Milky Tea" to youngsters. To make Cambric Tea simply add a dash of tea to the glass What's Cooking? Home -baked sd ideas, on display at an In- i'entors' show in Paris, France, Ind this electricoven is hot off Ole mind of newspaperwoman lean LeMaire. It features inside fluorination and an elevator - type table for food. of milk. It can have no 111 ef- fects whatsoever and the change in flavour often encourages stubborn youngsters to enjoy their milk. Incidentally if You are look- ing for a first-rate pick-up and energy restorer try a cup of clear tea, with honey added and float in it a slice of lemon, It is being used by sportsmen as an energy restorer and Is delicious to taste too. Nay Cheap Scores in Tiffs Game It may not be tactful to men- tion the matter to any past or present pupils of Eton College, but Nov, 30 this year also had something of a significance for rival Harrow School. The most renowned of all Old Harvey - lane, Sir Winston Churchill, celebrated his 80th birthday. And the nation will be as one paying generous tribute to the man internationally acclaimed as the greatest modern Eng- lishman. Old Etonian, among them Sir Anthony Eden and the Mar- quess of Salisbury who rank second and third respectively to Sir Winston in the British Cabinet, will maintain their Eton decorum about the fan- aticism for this hero :from Har- row, The old monocle will be given a seemly flourish as they declare, "Jolly well done, old boy," and all that sort of thing. And that, for the purpose of my story, anyway, will be thee, Primarily the thoughts of all loyal Etonians on the last day of November is toward their Alma Mater. Always on this day, from time immemorial, a carnival of fete and football is staged at the most famous of England's scholastic seminaries, The Thahneside townlet in the shadows of Windsor Castle goes gay with house flags against a usually gray sky. And parents and old boys, to say mothing of photographers and newsreel - men, flock down to watch the football festival, writes Sidney.. Skilton in the Christian Science Monitor. The day starts shortly after breakfast tine with the Anal of the Lower Boy House Cup and ends in the gloom of the even- ing with a clash between Ox- ford Old Etonian and Cern- bridge OE. In between, and highlighting the day is Eton's Wall Game, Like those other peculiarly English institutions, parliament, cricket, and fish and chips the wall game knows no actual origin. And it con- tinues an absolute source of be- wilderment to most people at- tempting to understand it, A theory generally, and cer- tainly conveniently, accepted is that the wall game just grew with the school which is now more than 500 years old. But those with more probing minds have great respect for the view expressed by a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, It is that the wall game arrived at Eton in 1824 when Sir Henry Wooten became Provost. He is said to have brought it from Italy where he had served in the diplomatic service as the English ambassador in Venice. The same historian further claims that the wall game at Eton comes from a style of football which was played and written about in Italy around the middle of the 16th century. A wall was an integral part of the Florentine and Siennese versions of the game and was described in a number of books printed in Venice more than four centuries ago. In support of the historian's supposition is the retention of certain Latin phrases in the Eton game like, "'C" 15N'T FOR "CHERRY"—It's for vitamin C, and juice of the sherry -like Acerola berries which fill these lobs on a plantation cot Sahana Seca, Puerta Rico, is said to yield as much as 80 times more Vitamin C than an equal quantity or orange juice, The onc' wild shrubs which produce the berries are now being cultivated for their health -rich harvest. • Safety and Beauty Cape Get Hand in Glove in the Home aY NONA MU.ES The woman who possesses beautiful hands doesn't come by them accidentally. She consistently gives her hands care and at- tention, keeps them out of very hot water, wears rubber glovers for household tasks and le faithful about creams or lotions. Any housewife must dip her hands into water frequently during the day. She should keep her favourite hand cream or lotion handy on a kitchen shelf so that she can apply it when she takes her hands: out of water, But she should also be consistent In her wearing of rubber gloves. For women who haven't tried rubber gloves, there are water- tight neoprene gloves on the market that are lined with an inter - lacking knitted fabric to absorb perspiration. They have a special nonslip grip and can be tossed in with the family wash when they're ready for cleaning. The reasons for wearing household games are sound ons$,: To protect your hands front long soaking in water, to prevent' cuts and bruises, to keep fingernails from chipping and to preserve a manicure, to allow you to use much hotter water in washing dishes and to cut garlic or onions without having the odor cling to your hands, Her fabric -lined rubber gloves protect her from extra -bot water, give her a nonskid grip and preserve her hands' appearance, for example, "Calx" which means heel, or foot, and from which the Italian "Calcio" (s. kick) is derived, The games are between two teams of 10 a -side, One is com- prised of the Col)egers, that Is the small but elite company of residents in the college itself, and the other is made up of Oppidans who are the town or boarded out boys, The striking of 12:30 by the old clock in Lupton's Tower is the signal for the start of play which takes place in an area between the wall running along the Slough-. Windsor road and a furrow which is the touchline some six yards away. Stumounted on this wall, ap- proximately 12 feet highs are all the young schoolboys who can manage to make it plus all the photographers who must make it if they wish to get any picture at all of the struggling and straining mass of humanity locked in combat against the wall. The ball,, somewhat smaller than a soccer "ball, is there somewhere buts it does not seem to matter because goals are very rarely scored with it. To score a goal at Eton's wall ;brand of football it is necessary first to secure the ball from a 'scrimmage in a certain region of the wall and then to shy it at one of tine awkardly placed targets—a little old door at one end and an old elm tree trunk at the other. The difficulty of this accomplishment may be judged from the goal scoring record since results were first tabulated hi 1841. It is three! In an attempt to remedy this state of affairs and make goal Hamming It Up — Sculptor Frank Putt puts the finishing touches on a group of "performers" modeled of lard, the medium in which Dutt is a specialist. He re-created a scene in a television studio in which the star is a dimpled piano player. scoring a privilege witnessed by more than about one assembly every 40 years it was decided last year to reduce the number of players from eleven to ten. This did have the effect of op- ening up the game and for the first time since 1949 there was a result other than a pointless draw, The Collegers won by two shies (ten of which count as a goal) to nil. But there was still no goal. How High Is High — How Fast is Fast? Up where the sky becomes space and where the vapor trails appear behind planes, the im- possible is becoming the pos- sible, To the roar of jet and rocket engines, man -made limitations are being thrust aside. Ordins ary space and speed concepts are undergoing vast changes. Where in 1906 the first record- ed air -speed mark was clocked at 25.86 miles an hour—set by A. Santos Dumont in France— the year 1954 finds its fastest plane piercing space at 1,650 miles an hour (the latest releas- ed figures, at any rate.) When you stop to reduce that speed down to seconds, it means travelling a mile, or 5,280 feet, every 2 1/5 seconds. ?Or some- where between 2,000 and 3,000 feet every time you can say the "Jack" in "Jack Robinson." By the time you managed to utter "Robinson," the plane would be another half mile away. The only way you could fol- low a -plane in flight with your eyes at that speed near the ground (it hasn't been done near the ground yet) would be to look ahead of where you ex- pected the plane to be seconds before you expected it to get there. Then, you might possi- bly sec it go by. Actually, you couldn't turn your head or flick your eyes quickly enough to watch it flash past, writes Bert- ram B. Jahnsson in The Chris- tian Science Monitor, But PAST fora plane is as a snail ambling backwards cam• pared to FAST for a rocket, American -built rockets have reached tumultous speeds of about 5,000 miles an hour. We'll let you figure that out in terms 01seconds. How high is high! These rockets have climbed up to the vicinity of 250 miles from earth. So have some of the Soviet rockets, we are told. Up that high, far beyond the blueness of our earth's atmete phcre, space is almost complete. ly dant. Reason: the atmosphere is so thin (no dust) that it con- tains no particles to reflect the light of the sun. " Only objects large enough to reflect light catch the sunlight. That is why the space ships and apace platforms in television programs are made to glow with light. The rest of space is dark, out about 100 miles from the earth. But, interestingly enough, the light is passing through space all the time. Only objects that can reflect light are visible, humanly. Highest that humans have flown thus far is about 90,000 feet, or some 17 utiles up, ac- cording to official United States Air Pone announcements. These announcements do not, how- ever, disclose exactly when this occurred. One can assume it was in 1954. The altitude recordwas made over California by Maj. Arthur Murray, in a Bell Aircraft pldne named the X -1A, Airlaunched from a B-29 bomber six miles above the earth, it was powered by a Reaction Motors. Corpora- tion rocket engine which thrust the 35 -loot -long plane 60,000 ` feet higher in four minutes. This is the sante plane in which Nlaj, Charles Yaeger achieved the speed record of I,650 miles an hour, Major Murray, on his altitude flight was not yet as high as the darkness of space. Quite the re- verse. Ile became keenly aware of the intense glare of the sun. "I, felt closed to the sun than I did to the earth," Major Mur- ray said in describing the ex- perience, to a Harrisburg news- paperman, William T. Lunsford, Jr., "and I was lonelier than 1 have ever been in my life. "Then I looked down, and I could see the roiindn(:ss of the earth , It seemed as if 1 could see 200 miles in all directions. As I looked down, the part of the earth I knew was green had shanged to olive drab. And the mountains were almost black," "I kept thinking, 'if I could only shut out the brighinoss 01 the sun: It was good that I had a data pad with a dark backgroundthis time, because on my first flights the sun was so bright, I s'ouldn't read soy knee pad." Major Murray found the plane somewhat difficult to eon- tral since the atinoepitere was go thin et that altitude. But he swung the X -IA 0150 a glide pattern for the long des. cont, and 80 minutes later land. ed on the hot sands of the Muroc dry lake bed. Fantastic stories of condi- tions in the upper atmosphere are coming back from these space pioneers, and thought patterns need to be revised so often, on the basis of new data. Take the case of the so-called sound barrier, which is that point in flight when a plane ap- proaches the speed of sound - 750 miles an hour, at sea level, First attempts to break through the sound barrier in 1947 met with considerable buffeting for the plane, Some years before 1947 a British natural scientist started what is now called the "legend of the sonic barrier." He said that when an airplane ap- proached the speed of sound (Mach 1) it would shake to pieces from the effect of shock waves. But the barrier is being pierc- ed every day now by United States Air Force interceptors. One pilot describes the punc- turing of that supposedly im- pepetrable wall thus: "It's like a tiger going through a paper hoop." Even the concept that buffet- ing is necessary is changing. We noticed a brief note in a recent issue of Aviation Week maga- zine which said: "English Elec- tric P-1 (a turbo jet fighter air- craft) has exceeded the speed of sound and gone well beyond Mach 1 with 'complete absence of buffeting,' reports British Minister of Supply Duncan Sandys." We hteught we'd find out whether Supply Minister Sandys could, within the bounds of sec- urity regulations, tell us why there was no buffeting. Our an- swer from the Ministry of Sup. ply -was about as brief as the magazine item. It read: "Thank you for your letter about the English Electric P-1 exceeding the speed of sound. I am sorry to say that it is not possible to give any further de- tails," But apparently it happened -- with no buffeting! As for the heat barrier (the high temperatures generated by friction of the atmosphere on the metal and plastic skin of the plane, that's another matter, but not one that is looked upon as impossible of solution. Many aircraft engineers while not overlooking the fact that frictive heat is regarded as a problem, dislike the item heat barrier," Some deny there is such a thing. One Boeing engineer says; "The barrier to speed is not heat. Atmospheric speed ist lim- ited by the power plant. We've always been able to use the most powerful engines designed. There's no reason now to think we won't be able to continue to do so. We've been designing for higher and higher altitudes. There's no reason to believe we won't keep right on going up." Some of the problems mot in the heat zone are: At 35,000 altitude, gasoline boils at speed Mach 1.4, Plexi- glass melts at Mach 1.7. kero- sene boils at Mach 2, solder melts at Mach 2.4, and :lase softens at Mach 3.6. There is still a need, Boeing experts point out, for a lubri- cant that won't deteriorate at high temperatures and tires thet Won't blow up at high temp 'a - tures and low ex -let -nal press- ures. • Someday, progress it: avrodv- • namics may be so far advanced that we may wonder how people ever got so concerned about what the heat barrier could do. TRANSIT STORY The lost -and -found depart- ment of the Seattle transit sys- tem reported a telephone call from a woman who said she had • left a package containing a liras siere on a bus. "What bus" said the transit company employe. "Size 36," replied the woman. S;atving Young — Seven-year-old 'Tommy Frisbee reads his Short. shorn steer into Chicago's International Amphitheater, Tommy, so far, is the youngest exhibitor at the 55th International Live- stock Show,