HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-03-27, Page 2HBONICLES
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kIow wrong can one :le? To my
way of reasoning everything points
to an early spring. In fact we seem
to be halfway there already
only a few patches of snow here
and there; plenty of mud, days
lengthening, crows flying and
skunks on the prowl. It is too early
yet to even guess as to bow the
wheat and clover have survived the
winter. A lot can happen to the
fields -and the weather -during the
next few weeks. It is an anxious
time for farmers. As far as the
weather is concerned, what time
isn't, for that platter?
", * *
Another sign of spring is the in-
creased number of auction sales
in tate country. One farmer selling
out, another taking over , . . al-
though it isn't always a farmer who
takes over - sometimes the new
owner is one who just hopes to be
a farther. And everyone in the dis-
trict waits and watches for devel-
opments. Judging by past history
in a little while the new owner will
reveal by his actions whether he
is a practical or a theoretical
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farmer. The practical farmer takes
his time in stocking a farm and
buying implements --he doesn't try
to get everything at once. The in-
experienced elan, who has probably
spent months studying farming
from boolcs, can give you the last
word on modern methods in deal.
ing with cattle and fertilizers, and
the most efficient way of handling
pastures, grain and hay crops.
Sometimes this type of farmer,
after a period of trial and error,
makes good. In other cases he de-
cides to cut his losses, figuring
that if he is going tc lose money
there are less laborious ways of
doing it than by farming. So there
is another auction sale. By which
tithe our theoretical farmer has
developed a certain amount of res-
pect for his farmer -neighbours, who
succeeded where he had falied.
*. * *
Fortunately for agriculture as a
whole, some of these book -farmers
in the past had the right idea in
long-range planning, but they did
not last long enough to see the
results -either they were too im-
patient or they could not afford
t wait. So if a practical farmer
is the next owner of the farm he
benefits from his predecessor's ex-
pensive experimenting by finding
that some of his fields have a good
stand of permanent pasture. To
the ,dairy farmer permanent pas-
ture is money in the bank.
* * *
Another sign of approaching
spring is tired, aching feet. You
hear the same complaint every-
where. "I don't know what to do
with my feet -they burn and ache
all the tithe." Well, don't blame
your feet, blame the weather. For
the last few months there has been
a covering of show on the ground
which acted as a Sort of shock
absorber for your feet. Now the
shock absorber is gone. The wea-
ther is also milder. Rubber boots
and overshoes are too !lot for com-
fort, but yet, in the country, you
definitely can't do without them.
So for the present it is a case of
what can't be cured must be en-
dured. However, any kind of good
skin cream applied generously to
the soles of the feet night and
morning will relieve the burning
quite a bit. It also helps otertired-
"dogs" after a spot of houseclean-
ing.
,. * *
And speaking of remedies .
I wonder how many people keep
tactic -acid jelly in the house. If
you don't you should -it acts like
magic for burns or scalds. And I
should know! One morning last
week Bob left the toaster burning.
An hour later I grabbed it by the
metal part. The thumb and fin-
gers of my right hand was badly
burnt. While dancing w;th pain I
danced towards the medicine cup-
board, got out a tube of tannic -
acid jelly and spread it thickly over
the blistered arca. The pain was
quickly relieved but every time it
started up again I put on more
jelly, The blisters disappeared leav-
ing patches of hard, dry skin which
will eventually peel off. By mid-
afternoon that day I was able to
WS my hand without too much
discomfort -and without bandages,
which wt; ,.pother distinct advan-
tage since I bad a lot of typing to
do.
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Had 1 not used the jelly I am
sure a very painful hand would
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New Roman Torture -A prospective woman driver holds a wheel
which regulates a pencil traveling across a twisting "paper road,"
at Rome's Institute of Technical Phycholdgy. The test is designed
to show the apititude and speed of adjustment of drivers and is
given free by the institute.
have resulted, with tiresome band-
ages adding to the misery.
* *
It is a far cry to days of sun-
burn but if you buy r tube o8
jelly now it will do for present
needs and be ready for the days
when Old Sol makes life unplea-
sant by frying your skin like a
piece of crisp bacon. And, of
course, as you can readily under-
stand, tannic -acid jelly is wonder-
ful for children, because of its
soothing qualities.
A Time To
Come Back To
To appreciate March completely
one should go away for a time;
away to a hospital, say, where
neither wind nor weather, sunrise
nor moonset, can really penetrate.
Then come back to March, and
even its temperamental gusts, its
snow and sleet and slush and rain
are full of wonder. March has a
brand new savor. Its gray skies
are pussy; willow gray, not leaden;
its blue skies are fresh -water blue,
Its chickadee song is as gay, if not
quite as loud, as that of a May
robin. The chuckle of March melt
trickling down the hillsides and
swelling the brooks is the laughter
of spring just offstage,
To see daffodils thrusting blunt
green fingers from the soil is to
sae March actually growing and
greening. Snowdrops always come
to blossom about now, but to come
back and see them in blossom is
to see, suddenly, a lovely facet of
the big miracle that stirs the earth
and opens petals to the sun. Be-
sides a certain wall hyacinths are
coming up, and a few squills are
in bloom. No crocuses in sight,
but some evening soon the slim
sheaths will be seen, and the next
day there. will be deep chalices of
gold and purple. Forsythia buds are
fat. Pays grow longer, and the
tides of sunlight slowly undermine
the dam that holds back the flood
of spring.
These things you see and feel.
And you feel the indefinable pulse
of March, a slowly rising beat that
touches the hillside and the wood-
land and sitrs at the root of things.
it is like feeling your own pulse
again, your own growing strength;
and you know that March, no mat-
ter what its day-to-day tempera-
ment, is a good time. to know again,
a good time to be alive.
-From The New York Times.
The Marrying Kind -A gal who
believes that marriage rates top.
billing over movies is 21 -year-
old Elayne Snyder, a senior at
Miami University. The curve -
some coed turned down a
screen offer to protect her
chances of graduating . with
honors in June and landing a
husband,
AN NE WST
?jo fig akteez4 e.+ r -t,
"Dear Anne Hirst: Six months
ago, when we were both 16, we
got married. T'd only known my
husband for a
short while, and
though 1 loved
him .I begged
him to wait. He
refused, said he
was too anxious
to have ate.
"Now he's
just as anxious
to be rid of mel
"Ile says it's all my fault. He
says he hates me because I nag,
and want to know where he's go-
ing every time he leaves the house.
And I talk too much when lie's
hone,
''This fs all true. 1 did behave
that way, Not because I was jea-
lous, but because I wanted to be
with hint, and only him, all the
time. And there was always so
touch to tell him1
"I have learned my lesson, and
1'd be different now. But he won't
give me another chance, I3e says
I've got to go, and take care
of myself. What ant 1 to do?
"Lonely and Afraid."
GROWING PAINS
* Your marriage is suffering the
s: growing pains that inevitably
* attack a union between two
* people so very young.
You, thrilled with love and
• enthusiasm, cannot bear your
* husband out of your sight.
Wherever he goes, your thoughts
" are with hint. so you can plc-
* ture where he is and when he's
* coating back. When you're to-
' gather, you bubble over with
* childish chatter, But now he is
" a husband instead of a fiance,
r. and it bores him.
* So he escapes, perhaps down
to the corner to see the boys,
* Innocent enough, he argues, so
* why should he have to say where
* he's going? If he were older,
* he would realize that he should
* tell you, to stop your worrying.
* You -say you've learned your
* lesson, All you want " is the
* chance to prove it. He owes you
= that, certainly. No husband has
* the right to tell his wife to leave,
* when he is responsible for her
* welfare.
* I suggest that you stay where
* you are. Try to and a position,
* or train yourself for one, if only
* to widen your .horizon and be a
* more interesting tompanion. Tell
* him so, and add that you expect
* his cooperations '.
* Begin inviting mutual friends
* in for an evening, and return
* their visits. Get back into the
* group you two"' enjoyed before
* you married, Then your husband
* will realize that he and you are
* not separate entities, but a social
* unit that can find pleasure in
* laving a well-balanced life to-
" gether.
* No wife (and no husband) can
* entirely absorb the other's indi-
* viduality. Each has other facets
* of personality to cultivate, As
* they do, they mature normally,
* their characters develop, and
* they become even more neces-
* sary and important to each other.
* So they avoid the boredom that
* saps the spirit of so many mar-
* riages, * * *
People who marry too young
have hard going. They can no
longer have separate lives, but must
live for each other, and together
establish a home fit for children
to grow up in , . , Anne Hirst has
helped thousands of young couples
over the hurdles, Write her at
Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New
Toronto, Ottt.
How To Make Your
Cake Frostings Better
Something new has been railed
to the culinary world in past years .
in the form of cake nixes, and now
we find the cook's ability may be
judged on frostings alone.
Perfection in frosting means
absolute smoothness in texture,
good flavour and a creamy interior.
Frostings can be fluffed up in rip-
ples or grooved butthetexture
must feel smooth without and sug-
ar crystals, whed you bite into it.
Cake should have a smooth sur-
face and be cold before you frost it.
To achieve a smooth surface, you
can grease the pan lightly and give
it a dusting of flour or line with
heavy wax paper. Heavy paper
rubbed with oil also can be used.
Cake even slightly warm may
cause the frosting to slip or soften
next to the cake. If it softens, a
watery streak will appear on the
cake when you cult it.
Frosting must be cool enough to
work with, yet be sufficiently firm
so that it will not run or soak into
the cake. If it is too cold, especial-
ly cooked frosting, it will stiffen up
before you have a chance to cover
the cake.
Frost sides of cake before top,
it is much -easier. Decide how you
want it to look before you, start
and then proceed with quick,
smooth strokes. Frostings which
carry the narks of spatula or back
of spoon are more interesting than
those with a glossy, solid appear-
ance.
For white frostings, many choose
either the old type of boiled frost-
ing of the now famous seven -min-
ute frosting.
Here are tricks to help your
boiled frosting score better;
Have eggs at room temperature
before breaking.
Beat egg whites until they are
just stiff enough to form peaks
when you pull the beater through
them.
Stir sugar and water only until
the sugar is dissolved. For quick
cooking, use a pan that covers your
burner and has sides high enough
to permit the syrup to come to a
full rolling boil.
Cook your syrup until it forms
a long, thin thread when a few
drops are poured from the tip of
a spoon. If using a candy thermo-
meter, cook until the syrup regis-
ters 240 degrees F.
When 'pouring syrup into whip-
ped egg whites, add a small amount
at a time and beat constantly.
If syrup has been cooked per-
fectly, you will have to beat the
frosting at least 10 minutes before
it reaches the spreadable stage.
To cook the frosting quickly,
keep the water in the double boiler
at a vigorous boil.
Frosting is ready to spread when
it begins to form swirls and ridges
in the pan.
For cooked chorolate frostings,
be sure that the chocolate is com-
pletely dissolved and that you cook
to tite correct stage.
Frostings of this type are beaten
until they start to lose their gloss.
If the frosting doesn't thicken
after beating it for a long period,
set the bowl in a pan of hot water
and place over a very low flame.
Then heat the frosting until you
feel a light scraping on sides of
bowl.
Flavoring should he added when
the frosting has become lukewarm
so that it will retain the flavour.
If your frosting -starts to thick-
en before you have finished spread-
ing it on the cake, dip your knife
in and out of boiling water. A few
drops of lemon juice or hot water
added to the frosting alsc will re-
tard thickening.
SLEEP TO -NI TE
SEDICIN tablets taken according to
directions is a sale way to induce sleep
or quiet thin nerves when tense, $1.00
Dru, Stores oni IorSedicin Toronto 2.
HOW TO RiLICVO
SIMPLE
SORE THROAT
Apply warm oil freely
to neck. Rub in well r,
massaging must los'
and glands. At drug-
gists' for 85 years r e
Safe Opened With
A Tinning Fork
bots of people who own state
with combination iocka often set
the entnbiuutiott numbers to corres-
pond with family birthdays or tele-
phone muatbers. That's a great
mistake, according to a safe-utak»
ing company official, "An expert
safe-breaker can easily use hie.
intuition to break the combination,*
he wled.
Safatte breakers were never more
ingenious than they are to -day, but
to offset this safe combinations
have become more tricky, ant
many modern safes are fitted with
cunning devices to sound an alarns.
Some years ago a New Yorlt
bank ordered a safe which took
two years to build. The bank direct-
ors hit on a novel way of testing
it. They asked the police chief to
produce the cleverest safe-breaker
in the city to whom they offered
ten thousand dollars if he could
open the safe, In less than five
minutes he had succeeded-witit.
a piece of wirel
In Britain, an electrician devised
a safe that opened to the vibrs-
tions of a tuning -fork) And in an-
other safe, said to be burglar-proof,
was placed a tiny glass bottle con-
taining liquid gas which stupefied
but did not kill, A rise in temper-
ature (caused by the safe -breaker's
oxy-acetylene torch) caused it to
break and set the fumes. free,
Said an Irish M.P.: "If we don't
make these goods nobody will huY
theta, and are shall have them left
On our hands."
And the
RELIEF IS LASTING
There's one thing for the headache
. the muscular aches and pains
that often accompany a cold , .
INSTANTINE. INSTANTIN& brings really
fast relief from pain and the relief
is prolonged!
So get Irina/arm and get quick
comfort. INSTANTINE is compounded
like a prescription of three proven
medical ingredients. You can depend
on its fast action in getting relief front
every day aches and pains, headache,
rheumatic pain, for neuritic or
neuralgic pain.
Cot Instantine today
and always
koop It handy
ihstantine
12 -Tablet Tin 20
Economical 48 -Tablet Bottle 95c
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
ISSUE 13 - 1952
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MAGIC cake COCONUT FUDGE
CHIFFON CAKE
Mix and sift into a bowl, 1 c. plus 2 tbs. once -sifted cake
flour, 134 time. Magic Baking Powder, 35 tsp. salt, 14 c. fins
granulated sugar; ntfx in 3.f e. desiccated coconut. Make a
well in the dry ingredients and add in Elio order given (do not
stir mixture), � c. corn (salad) oil, 2 unbeaten egg yolks,
,aa c. plus 2 tbs. Wutor, 1 tsp,vanilla,''2 1,¢ ounces answeetoned
chocolate, melted and cooled. Stir the liquids to intermingle,
then stir in the dry ingredients; beat until batter in
swooth, Measure into a large bowl l5 0. egg whites (at
room temperature) and sprinkle with 3a tap, cream of
tartar; beat until the egg whites are very very stiff --
much stiffer than for xneringues, angel cakes, etc. Add
flour mixture, about a quarter at a time, and fold after
each addition until butler and egg whites are thoroughly
combiner!. Turn batter Pato All nng,scssed 8" angel
cake pan; bake in a rather slow oven, 028*, about
1 hour. Immediately cake conies franc even, invert pan
and suspend culla until cold.