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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-05-15, Page 7New Hope For Poison Ivy Sufferers , Suffer from ivy, oalc or sumac poisoniug? fake hope. A new ointment made of zireoniuni, a relatively rare metal, has been found highly effective in curing the weeping, creeping, often agonizing itch. Experiments by two research sci- entists at the Syracuse University Student health Service have shown that zirconium salt attacks ancl neutralizes the powet'fte irritant known as "urushiol" carried in the leaves, bark, berries and roots of poison ivy, oalc and sumac. When the ointment was given in clinical treatment to 88 persons, 85 per cent were released with their case histories marked "treatment was effective." As measured by the painstaking doctors who carried out the work, this means that the itching stopped,• the rash stopped spreading, then began to scale off and disappear writes Bob Gilmore in "Country Gentleman," Since all of the patients weren't cured, the doctors warn that zir- conium ointment is not a complete- ly foolproof treatment. They feel certain, However, that it is ". . as good or probably better than any other treatment now available." Nevertheless, this should not be a signal to relax your vigilance against shrub poisoning when you're in the fields or vacationing in strange territory. Since this kind of poisoning can be serious enough to require hospitalization, the wise thing is to keep your defenses high. Learn to recognize all of the poison shrubs. POISON SUMAC likes swampy ground. It grows in a wide strip down the Central States from Can- ada into the Deep South. Its leaves —which can be smooth-edged, saw- toothed or lobed—grow in clusters of from 7 to 13 reddish stems. The shrub ranges in height from 6 to 30 feet. Unmistakable identifying signs of the poison shrub are a faintly sulphurous wintertime odor and tiny, whitish berries that hang in grapelike clusters. Efforts to get rid of these plants are effective only if they're re- -:i peated year after year. Grubbing them out may help for awhile, but the far-reaching rootlets have am- azing recuperative powers. The hormone -type weed killers make a quick kill when sprayed on the leaves. Repeated sprayings into the second and third seasons usually are necessary for lasting control. POISON OAIC has the same small berries and three -leaf clusters as the ivy, but leaves are smaller, more thickly grouped. It grows mostly in the West and Southwest, sometimes in low, shrubby form, sometimes in high -reaching branch- es that vine among the trunks and foliage of trees. Thrives most hap- pily around rocks, trees and fence posts. The leaves turn color like MERRY MENAGERIE M .,, „, „«.. 14.26 (issrVfsueeaa--- "It's my hobby .. I collect them!" TIT FOR TAT The lecturer was a celebrated Doctor of Law, and his talk was to be on "Pools," The chairman who was something of a humorist, food up to introduce 11411. s"Ladies and gentlemen," he said. "We are now to have a lecture on fools by one" -'-he paused, and there was loud laughter before he resumed—"of the wise t men in the country." The lecturer then rose to speak, "Ladies and gentlemen," lie said, "1 ani not half so big a fool as the chairman" --he paused, alit again there was loud langhter-• "would have you suppose." those of poison ivy, the gorgeous Imes . enticing the unwary into flicking an armful, POISON IVY grows all over the East, Middle West and South, can be vining or slireblike. In sum- mer its leaves, which always grow in threes, are bright green and shiny. When they {nal out in spring or die off in fall the leaves may lie deep, dark red or dousing red - orange, Usually smooth, they oc- casionally are hairy or fuzzy. The edges may be saw-toothed, smooth or lobed. Small 'light -green flowers, waxy white berries also help yon identify the plant. Never allow leaves, berries, bark or roots 'of any of the three plants to touch your skin—all four parts carry the poisonous oil, If you burn the dried -out shrubs, avoid the smoke, which can carry the vaporized oil over a great distance, doing as much damage as contact with the Plant. If it's impossible for you to avoid contact with the plants, wear fairly loose, washable garments that cover arms and legs completely. Wear gloves. Don't wear pullover jackets or sweaters or tight trou- sers. Your struggles to remove them may do a thorough job of rubbing the oil into the skin. As a further safeguard, it may be wise beforehand to rub zirconium oint- ment into face, neck and other soft, moist skin areas. When finished handlin gtlie poison plants, have the clothes dry cleaned or wash them with hot water and a laundry s o a p. Rinse them thoroughly, Don't let contaminated clothing touch your skin and spoil all your earlier protective efforts. TABLE TALKS dans Andrews Cereal foods are so highly nutri- tious that we shouldn't restrict their use to breakfast alone. There are many ways in which they can be utilized in delicious main dishes for other meals as well. The easy -to -make recipes I'm giving you today make use of both cooked and uncooked wheat cereal, and I'm sure you'll find them really worth trying. * * * Wheat Fig Pudding 34 cup uncooked wheat cereal 366 teaspoon salt 1 quart milk 2 eggs, beaten 34 cup molasses 1 cup finely chopped figs Scald the milk, shake in the whole wheat cereal gently and cook five minutes. Add figs, mo- lasses and salt and allow to cool; then add the well -beaten eggs. Turn into a buttered baking dish (we like a glass casserole) and bake in a moderate oven (350°'F. - 375° 350°'F:375° F.) for 45 minutes. Serve with a soft custard sauce. Note: If preferred, the two egg whites may be reserved and made into a meringue with 2 table- spoons of granulated sugar and teaspoon salt. Spread meringue on top of pudding after removing from oven and return to oven to set and delicately brown the me- ringue. Six servings. * * * Baked Ham Loaf 14 cups cooked wheat cereal 2 pounds ground fresh lean pork 1 pound ground smoked ham 34 cup milk 2 eggs beaten Combine all ingredients very thoroughly, place in a loaf pan and bake at 400° F., for 35.min- utes, Raise temperature to 450° F., and bake 10 minutes longer. Six to eight servings. * * * Wheat Sandwiches 4 slices cooked and molded wheat cereal 34 cup grated cheese 6 strips bacon 2 tomatoes Uncooked cereal 'Dust cooked cereal with un- cooked cereal and place on a greas- ed baling sheet. On the slices of cereal place thinly sliced tomatoes, baron cut' in small squares and sprinkle with grated cheese. Lake at .350°P,, for 15 Minutes. Four eel vines, Ten Commandments For Safety For Everybody Who Handies A Gun 1. Treat every gun with the respect due a loaded gun, This is the cardinal rule of gun safety. 2. Carry only empty guns, taken down or with the action open, into your automobile, camp and home. 3. Always be sure that the barrel and action are clear' of ob- structions. 4, Always carry your gun so that you can control the direction of the muzzle, even if you stumble. I{eep the safety on until' you are ready to shoot. 0 .5. Be sure of your target before you pull the trigger. 6. Never point a gun at anything you do not want to shoot. 7. Never leave your gun unattended unless you unload it first. 8. Never climb a tree or fence with n loaded gun. 9. Never shoot at'a flat, hard surface or the surface of water. 10. Do not mix gunpowder and alcohol. Tri -Dimensional Wheel—Something new in the projection of third - dimensional movies has been invented by Alberto and Adriano Betti. Instead of giving spectator glasses, the Roman twins syn- chronize a projector with this revolving glass disc which has alter- nating mirrors and transparent segments. Two images are project- ed through the disc, one reaching the viewing screen, left, while the second is reflected by the mirrors to another screen, right, and from this back to the viewing screen, giving a third dimensional appearance to the movie. Pecan Loaf 1 cup hot cooked wheat cereal 1 teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper 1 cup milk 1 tablespoon butter or margarine 1 egg, beaten 1 cup fine cracker crumbs 1 cup chopped pecans Mix the cereal, nut meats, and cracker crumbs, then add beaten egg, milk and seasonings. Turn into a buttered loaf pan, pour melt- ed butter over the top and bake at 350° F., for 45 minutes. Turn out on a platter and pour over it the following sauce. Garnish with watercress or parsey. Six to eight servings. Sauce for Pecan Loaf 3 tablespoons butter or margarine 2 slices onion 3 tablespoons flour 1% cups milk teaspoon salt cup chopped pimiento Cook onion in butter for 3-5 minutes, stirring constantly. Lift onion out, add flour and mix well. Add milk gradually and stir until it thickens. Add salt and chopped pimiento. Serve very hot. * * * Spicy Raisin Pudding 3 cups cooked wheat cereal 1 cup sugar 34 teaspoon salt 2 cups milk 2 eggs, beaten 34 cup seedless raisins 134 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon vanilla Stir raisins into cooked cereal before it becomes cold. Add sugar, salt and cinnamon and place in buttered baking pan. Scald the milk, add beaten eggs and vanilla and pour over mixture in pan, stirring well. Bake at 350° F., until brown—about 45 minutes. Serve with light creast. Eight servings. * * * Wheat Cutlets 134 cups cooked wheat cereal 3 tablespoons fat 35 cup mills or water Bread crumbs 3 tablespoons flour 1 cup cooked meat or fish, minced fine 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce teaspoon salt Dash of pepper Melt fat in pan and add flour; blend smoothly and add liquid. Cook three minutes, stirring con- stantly; add remaining ingredients. Spread on platter to cool. Divide into 12 portions, flatten into cutlet shape and sprinkle with uncooked cereal. Dip each cutlet into beaten egg, roll in uncooked cereal and fry in vegetable oil or vegetable shortening at 390° F. Serve hot with or without marmalade. Six to eight servings. Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee Q. Is it proper for a bride-to- be to write notes of thanks to all the guests who have attended a shower given in her honor? A. Her only real obligation is write a note of thanks to the hos- tess. Notes to the guests are not necessary, although there is noth- ing improper about writing them if she wishes. If she does not write them, she should entertain these friends at a luncheon, or tea, either before or after the wedding. Q. How does one know which name to mention first when intro- ducing two women? A. Always present the younger woman to the older, but if they are about the same -age, it doesn't matter. Q. Is it correct to eat bananas with the fingers, when at the table? A. No; they should be skinned, placed on the dessert plate, and then cut with the side of the fork. Q. Just what is the proper way to eat a chicken leg? Is it all right, after cutting off most of the meat, to pick up the bone in the fingers for the rest? A. Not at the dinner table. The only exceptions are at certain res- taurants where such a practice is encouraged as a feature of the house, and, of course, at picnics. One British Town That Is Boozing Whale high prices and Japanese competition threaten hard times for the British textiles industry, ane branch of it—the manufacture of jute—is enjoying the biggest boom in its history. At Dundee, where the industry is centred, 18,000 workers are now employed in the jute mills, and vacancies exist for many more, mainly as weavers, pa- tent spinners, and spreaders. During the past two years a minor industrial revolution has been going on in Dundee. Hun- dreds of obsolete jute machines have been scrapped, In their place engineers have set up the most up- to-date plant in the world; One mill alone, equipped with new eir- cutar looms, is producing ten mil- lion seamless jute bags a year, Jute is a flbre obtained from two varieties of a plant named the Cor - chores, which grows in India, chiefly in Bengal and Assam. It is a reed -like plant with a yel- low flower, and when the flower withers the plant is cut down and steeped, to separate the fibres from the rest of the stem. After a period of waiting, beat- ing and drying, it is carefully graded and packed, and then sent off by river to Calcutta, another big jute manufacturing centre and a constant rival to Dundee. Dundee cannot compare with India in the manufacture of the coaxer type of jute products—sacks that bold coal and potatoes and wrap up a hundred and one things for export. But her special skill is unequalled when it comes to the making of finer products. Her workers spin the fibre on "flying frames," and then weave it on heavy looms. Prayer Carpets After jute cloth is made it is starched and calendered, with the result that it is flattened and glaz- ed. The yarn or cloth can be dyed or bleached. Millions- of small, brightly -dyed prayer carpets for Moslems are sent from Dundee to the East. In the batching department the 0 p strands of jute are shaken over suction grid to remove dust, atstl tossed on to a spreader which dies entangles tit e raw rnaterial a cleans it in a "bath." It emerge in rolls at the other end, each roll weighing 350 lh. These are passed by overhead railway to the prepay ing department, where the air le conditioned and workers with lore vacuum -cleaner pipes remove more dust. Then to the carding machines, which "comb" the fibre; the draw. ing frames which draw it out iii lengths; and the spinning frame3 which convert it into yarn. In the beaming department thie yarn is wound on to a huge "bob- bin" for supplying the looms. The middle or "bullseye" is tilt finished cloth which passes down through the centre of the loom $f a department below, where it 3y rolled into lengths for cutting aiid bottom -stitching into bags. MORE HOLLYWOOD The malapropisms of Hollywood big -shots are becoming a pretty+. threadbare subject, particularly since the public became aware that most of them originate in the minds of columnists and press agents. Here are three, however, whisk are believed to be authentic: 1. When 'The Best Years of Our Lives' was previewed, the produces assured an interviewer, "I don't care if this picture doesn't make a nickel, just so long as the whole United States sees it." 2. A Vine Street Voltaire ob- served, "Any man who gets him- self psychoanalyzed ought to have his head examined." 3, One producer borrowed a troupe of Indians from another, but when they reported for worst he didn't think they looked fierce enough. He called his friend to protest. "I don't know what yore are talking about," proclaimed the latter. "Those Indians come straight from the reservoir." Is Old Rat Race Starting Again? For the first time since before the war we have had some real evidence in the last few months that prices were easing, that there were hopes at last that inflation had been halted. That was the sort of change most of us were supposed to welcome, including the leaders of unionized labor. Without exception every fresh wage demand these people have been making with monotonous regular- ity since the war, has been based on the argument that they "were only trying to catch up with prices." Actually, of course, if the situation were examined, it would be found that wage rates were usually well in advance of prices. In any case, however ,so far as prices are concerned the race is over. For the time being et least prices are stationary or declining. If ever there were a hope for stabilization since the war, we have it now. But hopes of achieving this desirable stabilization can hardly .be considered very bright. Regardless of lower prices and a three months' decline in the cost of living, another general round of wage increases is in prospect. What organized labor gets out of the current steel battle in the United States will certainly set the stage in Canada. As President Forsyth pointed out at the annual meeting of Dosco last week, "there is no indication that those who formulate the policy of the trade unions have yet become convinced that the interests of their membership may best be served by consolidating their gains rather than by seeking to extend them." H. G, Hilton, president of the big Steel Co. of Canada, in his annual report to shareholders this week in Hamilton said this: "Every time since V -J Day that an important union has succeeded in pushing up wage rates, there has been a general scaling up of practically all industrial wages." And if industrial wages go up, costs of industrial goods go up too. The sequence is as inevitable as night and day. Only of production increases in proportion to wages could it be otl:ersvise and the actual record, unfortunately, offers no real hope of that. So if we have unwise wage demands now, the stabilization hope will quite probably be dashed and the old rat race will start again.— From The Financial Post. New Organd' Can, Take It Yet Look's Fragi E EDNA 1VIILEf: ( iiGANDY has taken a new lease on life. Not that it has ever gone out of circula- tion; it's been here right along. But now, it has new finishes and uses. It's a part of interior dec- milting, it's an important part of fashion; it even goes to the head in ethereal bits of mil- linery. With all of this, mod- ern organdy is constructed to take it even though it con- tinues to look fragile. A permanent finish I'or or- gandy was developed about fifty years ago by the Veber- lein Company, a Swiss firm. It's this finish that takes the fabric, made by this process, through numerous launder- ings with ale need for starch. There are new patterns in the flocked organdies from Switzerland I' or spring. Flocked organdy appears in drapes, in translucent table- cloths and napkins, in high fashion designs for laic -day wear. The pattern slays in through cleaning or hand laundering. Casement organdies that tare wrinkle -resistant snake Gown, tablecloth, draperies and window shades, right, show ,the versatility of modern organdy with a permanent finish. interior decorating and fash- ion news. Smile look like seersucker, others resemble bamboo. Colors are pastel or earthy, the latter including variations on the many bril- liant shades of springtime green. Tallored organdy beilopread, pillow sham and draperies 11rir r 54 - tone texture interest for modern bedrooms, to