Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-03-27, Page 3nEw and USEFUL oo Summer Cottage Item Now you eau have a dock for your sunnier cottage especially designed for your favorite water- front activity. Pier is made in sec- tions, said to slip together easily Without the use of bolts, screws or nails. Adjustment controls height of dock for changing water levels, Structure. rests on supports applic- able to any type of lake bottom, Installation and dismantling said to be great cost-saving feature. Ac- cessories available, * * Floor Patch Material Made of metallic and rubber latex, new floor patch material is said to have great strength, with- standing heavy truck loads com- mon to industrial plants. Can be applied to damp or dry concrete, asphalt, brick or mastic floor by single handyman. No plasticizer is required. $aid to harden 10 minutes after tamping, * * * All -Purpose Washer Hose attachment consists of brush with detergent in the han- dle, Fits on all standard hose to wash cars, windows, and floors, * * * New Heating Device Burns liquid fuel in the form of. gas; maker claims it saves 20% on fuel bills. Hot water heaters utilizing this unit will burn heavier fuel more efficiently—leaving no carbon and needing no chimney or draught. Operates on / hp. motor, measures 4 in, width with 6 in. diameter. F ying Warehouse—World's largest commercial cargo plane will resemble this preliminary sketch of Lockheed's projected giant transport. It will be designed to carry a pay -load of 36,300 pounds, cruise between 330 and 340 miles per hour, andapproach 400 miles per hour with lighter Loads, Two cargo doors allow simultaneous loading and unloading. It is hoped that the aircraft will operate at an all-time low cost for cargo planes of 5 cents per fon mile. Rust Remover This wrinkle not only chepmically cleans the surface of steel, iron, aluminum, zinc and cadmium, but also forms a phosphate coating which acts as a base for organic finishes, Several types marketed for various applications, * * * Nix Slip Wax Said to be safe for application on all kinds of flooring materials, this self -shinning wax gives a hard, wear and water-resistant sur- face. Claimed not to need frequent buffing. Made of yellow carnauba wax with colloidal silica as the anti -slip ingredient. t 'r Sit• + _. eJane Andrews There are few persons better equipped to talk with authority about food than Miss Jessie Alice Cline. She is the holder of several degrees in household economics; she has lectured all over this con- tinent on meat selection and meat cookery; and has written literally - hundreds of art des, brochures and books on the same subjects. * * * "The most important thing about cooking meat is to cook it at low temperatures -300' F. for roasts and 350° F. for steaks and chops," Miss Cline maintains. "This meth- od saves shrinkage. Meat is more tender and juicier and there is more of it when cooked this way." Slowly c 00 k e d meat always browns, and there is less cleaning up afterwards because there isn't any splatter—therefore there are fewer dishes to wash, she said. Her. is her recipe for the ham- burgers she serves at the Ingle- nook—"75-cent hamburgers in a 25 -cent hamburger town— and they go like hot cakes," she said. HAMBURGERS 1 pound ground meat 1 cup milt 1 small onion, chopped 1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper • 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Mix alt together in a bowl. Bake, broil or fry—but do it slowly. * * * A pie that she describes as "really good," is her Dixie Pecan Pie DIXIE PECAN PIE 3 eggs 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tab'espoons flour 2 cups dark corn syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla woo salt 1 cup whole pecan meats 1 unbaked pie crust Line pie pan with dough and crimp e Iges. Pour in this filling: Beat eggs until light. Mix sugar and flour and add to eggs and beat well. Add syrup, vanilla, salt and pecans. Mix well, Bake at 375° F. 45-50 minutes. * * MISS Cline says that leftovers can always be made attractive by combining treat with several bright colored vegetables—then you can serve t',em as stew, pie, a casser- ole, with dumplings, or any . way your fancy leads you. • Here is her recipe for meat stew or pie. OLD-FASHIONED BEEF STEW OR MEAT PIE 2 pounds beef neck or shank (or that amount of leftover meat). 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons lard 6 small onions 6 carrots 1 pound frozen (or one No. 2 can) peas 3 teaspoons salt TA teaspoon pepper Have beef cut in 1 to 2 -inch tubes. Dredge with flour and Brown in hot lard, Season with halt• and pepper, cover with hot water, cover kettle tightly and sim- mer until tender—tw'• or three hours. One hour before serving, add whole onions and carrots, Moil frozen peas in so rate pan. Fifteen ntinut.s before s.rving, re move meat and place on a hot plat- ter with vegetables around it, Place peas on top. Make gravy by thickening the liquid with flour smoothed in cold water. Add sea- soning if needed. Serve gravy from geavy boat. This stew can be served individually by placing portions of the meat and veget- ables on steamed cabbage leaves. For a pie, place meat and veget- ables in casserole pouring gravy over it and covering with pastry. * * * An easy, plain calve and an easy chocolate icing which are "excel- lent," were desc-il-ed by Miss Cline. EASY WAY . EVERY DAY CAKE 3 cups cake flour, sifted Ye cup (% pound) lard 1% cups sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup !Mir 1 to 2 teaspoons flavoring • 3 eggs, separated Place lard and / cup flour in mixing bowl and cream together until light and fluffy. Si,t together remaining 234 cups flour, 1 cup of the sugar, salt and baking powder. Add these to creamed mix- ture with 1/3 cup of milk. Beat smooth and light. Add remaining milk in 2 portions, adding vanilla (or other favoring) with last por- tion. Beat smooth after each ad- dition. Add egg yolks, one at a time, and beat smooth after each addition. Make a meringue of the egg whites and the remaining cup sugar. Fold into batter. Bake in three 9 -inch layer pans lined with waxed paper, 35 minutes at 365° F. Ice, when cool, with the following ',Mg. EASE CHOCOLATE ICING 1 pound confectioners' sugar 1 egg cup soft butter 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 squares chocolate or 3/4 cup coma - cup (or more) milk Put all ingredients except milk in mining bowl and beat together. Add milk gradually until right consistency to spread. The mix- ture should stand in peaks. Cortisone Cures One Form of Baldness Drs, Stephen Rothman :and Cal- vin J. Dillaha, two dermatologists of the. University of Chicago, pre- sent preliminary findings of pati- ents treated with cortisone for forms of baldness technically called alopecia areata and alopecia totalis. These are not to be confused with the ordinary baldness or thinning of the hair that overtakes most men in middle age. Alopecia areata is a kind of baldness that attacics both sexes with about equal frequency. It may appear in childhood as well. The hair on the scalp may fall, out in patches, or from the entire body. Some cases are cured spontaneously, es- pecially if the first. attack does not occur before the age of 11 or 12, but relapses are frequent. Earlier observations by Roth- man and Dr. Sheldon Walker in- dicated that the course of the disease may be influenced by the action of the body hormones. Fol- lowing up this clue, Rothman and I)illalla tried cortisone. The first results were disappointing. Not until treatment had been continued over a period of four weeks did hair start tp grow again on three out of four patients. The cortisone was administered in the form of tablets. Now Rothman and Dillaha are trying to establish the minimum dosage needed to start and maintain growth of hair. Eat Your Hat —And Like It If you've ever said you'll eat your hat, watch out. You may soon be doing it; for wool waste from fac- tories and old woollen clothes can now be turned into food for human beings and cattle. Looking like a coarsely -ground cereal, it's actually ready for use as a breakfast cereal or a relish. Containing all the amino acids— the nutritive elements necessary for human growth—it has a piquant flavour. And since it speeds up the growth of fur, feathers or hair in animals, it may even prove a tonic food for baldness. Botanein-P, indeed, is probably the first step in converting old felt into foodstuffs. Hats that have pass - "Would you explain that 'For better or worse' clause'?" ed out of fashion may be served up Chic and appetizing. Wool waste from the Bradford sewers is al- ready selling sweet and clean as cosmetic cream and skin foods. Queerer food transformations are reported to -day from all parts of the world, The bark of the giant sequoia or redwood tree, for instance, has been found rich in amino acid, which, in its turn, builds valuable protein. At a laboratory in Philadelphia, sequoia sawdust waste, dissolved in' acid, is washed over a synthetic resin which traps the amiuos . ready for turning into food. It's a case. where the bark proves no worse than the bite. Two scientific investigators, Drs. W. C. Rose and L. E. Holt, discovered that rats would thrive and grow when amino acids were the sole source of pro- tein in their diet ... and now every waste product is being critically ex- amined for amiuos. When you eat your Sunday roast, for example, your digestive pro- cesses break clown the protein into the constituent amino acids; and scientists foresee a build-up for food the other way round. Nobel Prize Winner Harold Lundgren has spun a fine thread, strong as silk or nylon, front egg white. One egg can yield as much thread as one hundred hardworking silk- worms in a season. When eggs glut the world again your stockings may thus provide a useful snack! We read that the Institution of Chemical Engineers are holding a "Conference on Mixing and Agi- tation • in Liquid 'Media." Is this scientific jarg8n for a Cocktail Party? LAUGHING HE COULDN'T HELP MADE HIM A FORTUNE Bob Mitchinson was a sailor with a sense of humour. Looking through a comic paper one Sunday morning when he was home on leave , he began to laugh—and couldn't stop. His family gathere.. round to see the joke, and pounded him on the back. Still -Bob laughed. His bro- ther Max threw a basin of cold water over him. The laughter ceas- ed abruptly, then began again. From then on, red in the face, Bob laugh- ed incessantly and gained only an occasional respite for breath. Doctors called in to stop the mirth confessed. themselves beaten. Bob became the talk of the medical profession.He laughed his way out of the American Navy and into hospital. Specialists examined hint, talked of mental lesions and abnor- mal stimulus of the phrenic nerve, and subjected Bob to a throat operation. But still he laughed. He was silent only when he slept. His longest periods of day- time control were barely fifteen minutes. He was forced to gulp his meals and sometimes the laugh- ter overtook him and Ile almost choked. After. weeks of intensive investigation the doctors discharged him as incurable. Yet Bob Mitchinson didn't let the joke get him down. He had been about to marry when the laughter began, and his sweetheart stood' sturdily by him, "Bob may laugh a lot, but he's not laughing at me," she said. So Bob chuckled his way through the wedding cere- mony. Bob Mitchinson acquired the habit of writing while he giggled. Ile successfully carried on a con- versation while laughing by using paper and pencil like a dumb man. And—here's the odd touch. ---the mirth that was marring, his life made his fortune. Bob' made laugh- ing records which sold in thousands —broadcasting networks paid him heavy fees as a "sound effect." His' unnatural amusement sounded so natural that advertising sponsors booked him to add to their pro- grammes. ,Audience Joined In Stage producers sent him free seats for comedies and musical shows, asking hint to laugh at ally they paid hint to go to the theatre, In serious moments he had to stifle his laughter and shake silently. When required he could let himself go. Then the whcle audience would share his infectious mirth. Until, quite suddenly, he stopped laughing after he had kept it up for over five years. "Too much of a joke," he said, and tried to get back in the Navy. The doctors„ however, refused to accept hint. Nowadays, Bob Mitchinson can hardly bear to laugh. But his mirth records are still a stand-by to sound effect technicians in movies and radio. THE ANCIENT ART OE TATTOOIN( 4 Of all the arts practised by man, few are older or stranger than the art of the tattooist. I'or centuries the craft has been handed down, often front fatherto son, and al- though its popularity is waning in the West today, there are many corners of the world where tattoo marks still exercise a strange and powerful influenee over the minds of men. Tattooing had its origin in Polynesia, and the word itself is derived from the Tahitan tateu, meaning a nark or design. The real reason for its introduction is the subject of some controversy but it was probably first used for ornamental purposes by mien aim- ing to attract the opposite sex. It is said that the custom at one time was almost universal, but gradually disappeared with the spread of civilisation. References can be found to tat- tooing in the earliest recorded his- tory' We know, for example, that the ancient priests of Attis, the Tree Spirit, were covered with permanent representations of ivy leaves; and mention is made in Lev,uciti itscivil tan isehOt Leviticus, in the Old Testament, of a ban on tattooing. Certainly it was not unknown to the earliest inhab- itants of this country. It may well be that some of the very beautiful and primitive designs found on the cave walls in France were actually represented on the skin of pre- historic man, Subsequently, as with so many customs of pagan origin, it assumed a social and religious significance. In Polynesia a large proportion of males are tattooed when they reach the age of twelve, or there- abouts, and so it has become a mark of puberty. From earliest times the Kabyles of Arabia have tattooed their babies at birth, In- credible as it may seem, the reason given for this practice is that it helps the soothers to recognise their own children! From maturity, Am- erican Indians bear the mark of the tribal totem enabling them to be recognised by friendly tribes. Among the earlies Maoris the scar- ring of the distinctive mark, or kobong, on to the thighs signified adoption into the family or tribe, There are two main methods of Wooing. The light -skinned races much prefer to tattoo with a needle or similar sharp point, with inks or powders for the colours. Darker skinned peoples gash the flesh and rub in cinders or clay to form rais- ed scars. This latter method is very popular among the Kaffirs, who regard it as a mark of courage. When a Kaffir has a long line of successes as a warrior he has the privilege of making a long incision in his thigh, which he rubs with cinders until it is sufficiently discoloured. It is an offence for someone who has not earned this distinction to tattoo himself. There is an extraordinary variety of the interpretations given to tat- too marks. In some. parts of the world tattoo marks signify deep mournings, while the Eskimos and s are wont to regard the un - tattooed as risking their happiness in a future world. Fijian brides were also tattooed to show their wedded state, and used to be lock-. ed up for several days away from the sun to improve the brilliance of their- markings. * * * The very early Greeks used tat- tooing to identify their slaves and prisoners of war, and from old Greek tablets we learn that these marks could be removed, even in those far-off days. The New Zealand Maoris used to tattoo the head exclusively wit' some very fearsome and beautiftp designs, For many years, thong li it seems incredible today, stuffe4 Maori heads were very much sought after by Eur op earn Museums. Today, tattooing is most com- mon among the North and South American Indians, the Chinese, Japanese and Burmese. in Japan the incidence of tate tooing is somewhat paradoxical, The upper classes are tattooed for symbolic, ceremonial or purely so- cial reasons, while the desperately poor members of the lower classes sometimes wear tattoo marks in lieu of clothing. Here the colour most used is black, which appears blue, and is obtained from a kind of Indian ink. Red, the second most popular colour, is available in a whole variety of shades, and is obtained from cinnabar. * W * As might be expected, the meth- ods of tattoo artists differ widely throughout tate world. The Jap- anese use as their instrument twen- ty fine sewing needles fastened to- gether in a piece of wood, The only antiseptic for the poor patient is a soaking in near -boiling water after the operation is complete. The Polynesian method-- the orig- inal one—must surely be the most painful. Pieces of sharp bone with the edges cut into teeth are fasten- ed to a handle. This fearsome in- strument is , then dipped in char- coal, and driven into the body with the aid of a mallet, Quite natural- ly, the victim does not take this at all stoically, and the female rela- tives (classed as 'assistants' for this function) sit round him in a circle, and drown his cries by sing- ing and by beating on a drum. The Eskimos have what appears to be the simplest way of tattooing, but its permanency is questionable?? They dip a thread in soot, and draw it across their bodies to make seared lines. HARD TO UNDERSTAND We are told that religious so- cieties often experience difficulty in making translation of the Bible which foreigners will understand and when, for example, the time came to translate the Scriptures into Eskimo language, all sorts of problems cropped up. How, for example, to render "lion" in Eskimo? So one famous text became "Your adversary the devil as a roaring polar bear walk- eth about seeking whom he may devour." "A land flowing with milk and honey" was translated as "A land flowing with whale's blubber", and "Lamb of God" became "Little Seal of God." Incidentally, the Es- kimos just could not understand why Jonah, instead of allowing himself, in cowardly fashion, to be swallowed by the whale, did not take advantage of such a heaven- sent opportunity and set about the creature with his harpoon, OBEDIENT BARTHOLEMEW By Allan M. Laing Bartholomew, depressing lad, Was much too humble to be bad: Indeed, he outraged common sense By literal obedience. Though fellows swore that he would rue it, What he was told to do, he'd do it! So slavish grew this moral trick, In time it made his parents sick; And when the lad, one tragic day, Was going All Out to Obey, His dad cried: "Oh, go boil your head!" And so Bartholomew is dead. G Folks who like musical programa Are just out of luck for awhile. Baseball blooms in the springtime, Wipes everything else from the dial, Give thought to„the cough -syrup maker He has right to be gloomy, you know. The arrival of birdses and beeses Deals his business a sickening blow. The showers of April won't water The flowers of May near so well, As the tears of the once -happy fellows Who've succumbed to a romantic spell, I'S GOOD OUT IT? Spring flowers aren't very fragrant For the wretch with the sensitive nose. There's no joy in life for this fellow, He just scowls es he sniffles and blows. Grandpa, asleep in the sunshine, Has naught in his heart but pure hate. For springtime kills his best story, Of the blizzard jn March, '88. The guy that's most to be pitied, The sorriest victim of all, Is he whose spring suit has been giving The moths a free -lunch since last fall.