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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-01-17, Page 7lid rs: Honks Threaten To Blow Up Building Monks are usually quiet and re- tiring, a fart which made doubly surprising the recent threat by the members of a Corinthian, Greek, monastery that they would blow up 'the building unless the police re- scinded an order that is` should be evacuated, This was only one incident in what night well be called "the war of the two calendars," a weird struggle which Regain in the spring of 1923 when the Greek Prime Min- ister ordered that the Gregorian calendar should succeed the Julian. calendar tltrorghout (Greece. Thus Greece was brought into line tvitlt the rest of the civilized world after more than three hundred years; for it was in October, 1582, that Pope Gregory XIII corrected errors in the Julian calendar, At that time Greeee was under Turkish domination. But even when she gained independence, in the nineteenth century, the opposition of religious elements prevented the old calendar from being super- seded. Even after 1923 that oppo- sition continued, with the result that holy festivals were frequently, celebrated on two different dates. Much of the resistance centred in convents and monastries found- ed by' the "old calendarians," The Greek authorities were . worried by stories of the treatment of monks and nuns in these establislunents, and eventually forced an entry into the convent kept by a certain Mir- iam Soulakiotis. There they found the wretched nuns Eying in appal- ling conditions. Yet when proceed- ings were taken against Miriam Soulakiotis they failed; for her victims were the ones who testi- fied most strongly in her favor! Early this year a certain Sister Antigone was involved in a similar ease. In her convent in Keratea police discovered underground cells in which unfortunate nuns, most of them gravely i11 and almost de- prived of light and air, were living. These women seemed to be wrap- ped in a fervent trance and put up with their existence in the be- lief that they were expiating stns. '---":i se police even, found a number of young girls, probably daughters of some of the nuns. Yet little hope is held of a successful prosecution; for once again key witnesses will no doubt speak tip for the defence. Paid 15 Shillings May Be Worth Plenty You never know when a long - forgotten art treasure will conte to light. Not long ago a Kensington artist bought a painting at an auc- tion for 15s. The picture, which showed St. Thomas putting his finger into the wounds of Christ, was seen by a Spanish historian from Madrid who declared it was a work by Paul Veronese (1528-88), who in his youth came under the Influence of Titian. The picture was so covered with dirt that only the heads of Christ and St. Thomas were visible. But after a fortnight's careful cleaning by the buyer and five week's re- - by a French artist, the picture's lovely colors were dis- closed. Many of its features are identical with those of a Titian painting in the Paris Louvre. The man who found it is con- vinced that it is a masterpiece, and he sleeps beneath it on a couch in his study, His 15s. painting may be i £10,000 old master, New Woven -GI CurtainsAre Trouble -Proof and Vrs h Being fireproof, these rodless curtains of woven glass fiber are espeetaliy appropriate ter kitchen windows of almost any size and shape. They come in various designs suitable not only for the kitchen but' for other rooms In the house. J3) !$DNA 1IULES jT'S pretty hard to imagine something really new in curtains, but it's Isere. It's a curtain woven of glass Aber (which makes it fireproof), that can be washed and rehung in less than five minutes and that never loses its crisp appearance despite the fact that it never needs to be ironed, You'd never know these curtains are made of glass. They look lust like marquisette—which really isn't surprising, because the weave is a regular marquisette weave, They need no curtain rod, being attached to the window frame with special books and rings that come with the kit. And you don't even have to worry about measuring the window you intend them for, because they have an elastic -band back that enables them to fit any window, from standard single size to double -width ones. LAUNDERING is Net about as simple as washing your hands, All you have to do is to unhook them from the window, wash them out in warm suds, rinse them and roll them in a towel to remove excess mois4ure. Then you just re -hang them damp and they'll dry out in pristine beauty. Being glass, they never require ironing nor do they ever stretch or shrink, These new curtains are versatile, too. in addition to serving as, conventional curtains, they can be used as trimming for vanity tables, Hollywood headboards or bedspreads. They will easily conform to the outline of odd -shaped windows. They can be rrad to give a soft, decorative outline of Venetian blinds, to give a shadow-box effect elver conventional curtains and to achieve other decorative effects limited only by your own ingenuity. The fact that they are fireproof makes them particularly appropriate for use in the kitchen, especially if your kitchen window is near the stove. They come in white ground, trimmed with solid -color chintz bands and in three pastel colors, powder blue, maize and green. .BLE 1 JJatvL Ad.rews You've probably been reading about that California woman who won $25,000—think of iti—in a cookery contest. No doubt you'd like to have the recipe she used for her prize winning entry which she called: STARLIGHT DOUBLE DELIGHT - Cream together 2 packages (3 oz. size.) cream cheese, ;4 cup shortening, j2 teaspoon vanilla and r,4 teaspoon peppermint extract un- til fluffy. Measure 6 cups (t% lbs.) sifted conec.ioners' sugar. Blend half of sugar into creamed cheese mixture, Add 34 cup hot water al- ternately with 'balance of sugar. Blend in four squares (4 oz.) melt- ed chocolate, Reserve half of mix- ture (2 cups) as frosting for baked cake, Sift ,together 2?:j cups sifted en- riched flour, 134 teaspoons soda and 1 teaspoon sal;. Combine 3.4 cup shortening and remaining choco- late -frosting mixture; mix thor- oughly; (Rend in 3 eggs, one at a time. Bent for 1 minute, Measure ?:i cup milk; add alternately with sifted dry ingredients to creamed mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. (With electric mixer use low speed.) Pour into two well -greased and lightly flour- ed 9 -inch round layer pans. Bake at 350° F. for 30 to 35 minutes. Coal; frost with reserved choco- late hoco- 1ate fro ting. All ingredients should be at room temperature. :x 5 M Now, ;o get back to a little - "solider" eating, here are a few dishes I feel sure will rind favor with your family especially in cold weather, POTATO AND SMOKED PORK CASSEROLE 8 cups thinly sliced, peeled potatoes 1% cups thinly sliced onion Goodness, Nothing But Girls' i.egsl--Well, Michael Adcock must be forgiven for not doing a double -take on what surrounds him be- cause he's only two years old. In this picture, he's sweating it out In the wings during a fashion show waiting for his cue to go on nage. Gals behind him, which he completely ignores—but we don't -are preparing to go on, also, to model new -style bathing suits. 12 thin slices boneless pork butt, about 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper 6 cups hot milk Set oven for moderately ho:, 375° F. Arrange alternate layers of potatoes, onion, and neat in a greased 1134" x 1714" baking pan, Sprinkle layers with flour, salt, and pepper. Pour hot milk over all. Bake. 115 hours or until potatoes and meat are tender and top is brown, Makes 12 servings. NOTE—Two 3 -quart baking pans or casseroles may be used in place of the large one. Allow the .sane baking time. 9: M +W CHICKEN NOODLE LOAF 4 cups cooked, medium -wide noodles 3 clips cooked, shredded chicken 1/3 cup finely diced green pepper 1/3 cup finely diced celery 3,4 cup butter or margo^ire a/4 cup flour 1 tablespoon salt 3r/y cups milk 3% cups chicken broth 2 eggs, slightly beaten Set oven for for moderate, 350° F. Combine the noodles, chicken, green pepper, and celery in a large bowl. Melt butter in a large sauce- pan. Blend in flour and salt; stir. in milk and chicken bro:h, and cook until thickened, stirring con- stantly, Slowly add 3 cups of the hot sauce to eggs, stirring constant- ly; add to chicken mixture and mix thoroughly. Reserve remainder of sauce for gravy. Pack mixture into a well -greased 1014" x 5/" x 3" loaf pan, and bake 1 hour or until a knife inserted in censer comes out clean, linmold onto platter, slice and serve with Chicken Parsley Gravy. Maters 12 servings. Chicken Parsley Gravy: Heat re- served sauce; add 14 cup chopped parsley just before serving. :K * * LIMA BEANS AND CORN 154 pounds dried lima beans 3 teaspoons salt 1 cup thinly sliced onions 3 teaspoons bacon drippings or fat 3 12 ounce cans whole kernel corn 5 cups tomatoes OR 2 No. 2 cans tomatoes 54 teaspoon tabasco sauce 154 teaspoons chili powder 6 strips bacon, cut in halves" Wash beans well, then cover with water and soak overnight. Add 154 teaspoons of salt and cook over low heat, uncovered, until soft, about 1 hour, Drain. Set oven for moderate, 350° H. Saute onions in bacon drippings in a skillet. Com- bine beans, onions, corn, tomatoes, the remaining 1/ teaspoons salt, tabasco, and chili powder, Pour in- to a greased 1134" x 1734" x 234" baking pan and arrange bacon on top. Bake about 1 hour or until mixture is thoroughly heated and bacon brown. Makes 12 servings, NOTE—Two 3 -quart baking pans or casseroles may be used in place of the large one Ailow the .ane baking time. smoked pound TESTING The clerk in a men's -wear store did a painstaking job of showing the mother of a teen-age lad the full range of young men's hats. The woman dicln't seen too concerned about color or style, but as soon as the salesman got the fit just right she whooshed her son out the door with a "Thank you very notch—we just wanted to cheek the size before ordering from tate mail order house," Taking Photographs Df The Queen One evening in July 1939 a cheer- ful voice on the telephone asked: "Is that Mr. Beaton?" When re- assured, it continued: "It's the lady in waiting speaking, and the Queen wants to know if you will photo- graph her tomorrow afternoon," This honor came most unexpected- ly. Next morning 1 got out of bed earlier than usual, shaved -myself a little more carefully, put on a dark blue suit with a quiet, formai tie, :and set off for the palace to make arrangements for the great occa- sion. It was still quite early in the Morning when I .arrived; flowers were being carried about in howls, and housemaids were still busy with their dusters. Through the windows could be heard the changing of the guard.. , , By early afternoon there was major activity in the yellow and blue drawingrooms, where screens hail been put into the semicircular bay over which were hanging my old familiar backgrounds -= the Piranesi ruined arch, the Fragonard trees, the architectural vista. A mass of flowers from Windsor Castle were banked about, and an army of sten were fixing lights and nuk- ing various preparations. Soon 1 became anxious about the time they took. At any moment now, the Queen might be ready, T did not wish to waste a precious minute, especially as the superintendent had told me that I would not be permitt- ed much time with Her Majesty. that in the late King George's reign no photographer teas ever allowed to take pictures for more than twenty minutes, A hustle in the corridors, a rush of pages, and the Queen appeared in a richly encrusted crinoline of gold and silver, for which the yel- low drawing -roam made the ideal setting. At once I started frenziedly clicking the camera. This seemed to amuse and delight Her Majesty, for from the moment I began the pho- tographic attack on her she showed that she was enjoying herself. , , , Then the sun shone for the first time that day to give me new• in- spiration. We took many more pic- tures with shafts of light pouring down from the high windows onto the small figure that stood in the distance looking like an illustration of a fairy story. Again we ran out of films. This became a joke. The Queen looked incredulously at 'the stock of used plates and then again at the Rohi- flex. "Is it empty again?" And, when once more another roll of films was finished, she remarked: "Never have I known such celer- ity!" . The sotiicwhat awe-struck super- intendent came -up and -said: "Do. you realize you are the most fortun- ate young man I've ever known? Why! You've had three hours of the Queen's time already."—From "Photohiography," by Cecil Beaton. SALLY'S SALLIES "Forty per cent off dresses! They nest be television styiestl" Is Colder Weather Corning Our Way? Get ready for colder weather in the next 50 years—shorter growing seasons, June frosts, widespread crop damage. That's the long-range prediction of Dr. Raynon H. Wheeler of the Weather Science Foundation. The.past 50 years have been rela- tively mild, but we're due for an- other 100 -year low in the 1960's, he says, pointing to signs such as later frosts in spring, earlier in fall and the severe cold waves that shivered the Deep South last year. "This is only the beginning," he forecasts, "It will be harder to ripen corn and mature melons. Fruit crops will be more likely to be damaged at blossom time, Not every year will he bad, hut the trend will get worse, and preparations should be made." .:Hong with the cold will conte increasing droughts till we get through the 1970's, believes Wheel- er. "We're at the peak of a 7 -year rainfall cycle, headed into an 18 - year dry cycle, and a longer one on the order of 90 or 100 years." 'What does the 'Weather liureau say to this? Ivan R. Tannehill. says, "In some parts, the growing season definitely averages longer than in • the early part of this century. A swing back to the weather of our fathers and grandfathers Wright come as a shock to those who have adopted practices based on recent warns years." But there's good news too. "In- ternational wars decrease as it turns cold," observes Wheeler. "I pre- dict the decline and collapse of Communism as it turns cold." NO DANGER? A tourist arrived at a holiday resort in the tropics. "Are there any crocodiles around here?" he asked a local before he. went in for his first swim. "Olt, no, sir," was the reply. The tourist dived in and swam around for some time. Then doubt set in. He called out to the local who was still on the beach. "Are you sure there are no crocodiles?" "Definitely not!" shouted back the man on the beach. "They never come near here. They are too afraid of the sharks." "Thar She Mows"! Eighty years ago the first caplets sive harpoou shattered tine silence of the Antarctic and reawakened a dying industry. Before that time whaling lead ex- perienced varying fortunes. It was bora among the hardy Basques, who !touted their quarry in little cockleshell - boats in the Bay of Biscay. Then other people began to re- cognize the possibilities of whaling, and blubber became liquid gold to the adventurers of a dozen nations who competed against each other in an orgy of destruction. - 'Ihese days of happy hinting took their inevitable toll, and by the nineteenth eenttiry the whale had been exterminated in loamy parts of the world, But there are still prizes to be tvon in the massive Blue and Fin whales, who easily elude,.i the little boats with their hand -thrown harpoons. 'The explosive harpoon, allied to fast little steamships, proved to be the answer, and the whaling in- dustry took 00 a new lease of life. Today it continues to flourish, and this season, the greatest in- ternational whaling fleet the world has known is scouring the Atitarc- tic for tine ocean giants. Whaling is no job for the squeamish, but for those who are willing to suffer the discomforts and dangers of the trade there are rich rewards. According to Mr. Douglas Liversedge, who accom- panied a recent expedition in the far south, a gunner's salary is of- ten comparable to that of a Ca- binet Minister. In his book "White Horizon," he gives a graphic description of a whale -hunt. He sailed in the Sig- fra, a Norwegian three -hundred tonner. For several !:ours they searched the grey expanse of sea, which seemed completely desolate and empty. And then suddenly the man on watch on the mainmast cupped his hands and bawled. Cat -and -Mouse "His words were carried away by the wind, but we knew what he meant. His arm pointed slightly to starboard, and there—almost a mile away—shot a burst of spray that appeared to curdle in the frosty air." "Thar she blows!" shouted the mute, and the 'little Sigfra heeled over and was off on the chase. But the whale was outside the harpoon's range, and there follow- ed a long period of cat -and -mouse while Sigfra stalked her prey and the whale spouted and dived and spouted again, unaware of the dan- ger. The st hale appeared to be an old "bull" who had been driven away from the herd, and even when the ship cane within a few hundred yards of hint he made no attempt to escape. He w• a s stcimmiug leisurely along a slightly zigzag course, div- ing every few minutes, while the Sigfra circled in the area where they thought he would rise. Sud- denly he appeared hard aport: .'The bailsman crouched behind the wheel The gunner crouched behind the gun. Two hundred yards —one hundred yards—fifty yards— \Vith a deafening crack the har- poon streaked out over the water to tear into the mighty bull." The waited lensety for his next move. He might have dived straight down to a depth 'of two or three hundred fathoms, straining at the cable which trapped him, But al- though the old hull fought valiant- ly for survival, he stayed on the surface and thrashed helplessly about while life ebbed from hint. Silently the crew watched !tint die, the hauled him in and hitched him of the side like a massive balloon, UN -DRESS IN PARIS This Paris model Is wearing a ' French designer's blue satin tribute to the United Nations complete with the UN flag motif. The inspiration is carried into the matching toile stole which completes the ensemble.