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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-09-11, Page 7C )taffttttllantahi(9! Crafts(timp ani), says the historian, lu the fruit of traditional skills. For ceramics Britain 11as been a sanctuary fol the oppressed peoples of l+.ticope. Religious and racial per- secations and economic diens 'lave di lye') thousands of skilled craftsmen to ltlese islands---carpet- Weavers, potters, glass-blowers, wood workers clock -makers, jewel - lets, t.tltors, silk -weavers, gold+ sndthe and silver smiths, bakers, caudlestic1n11aket', , and their know-how, thek manipulative dex- terity and aesthetic sensibility has become part of our own tradition. But what is this rraftsnlatiship? Is it the thumb -marks on a thrown vase, the dent:] of the hammer itt beaten silverware, the marks of the blhisel on wood, the file on steel, the pluntbruslt on china? Can it be that the hand. as a tool or es a chuck to hold a tool, has some xnysterious advantage o"er the =chine? Is there a harmony be- tween the material and the form and the purpose of an article made by hand that is beyond the power of the machine to imitate?. I was born within a china stone's throw of the site of the Church- yard works where Wedgewood be- gat( itie career; I grew tap among the tuat-lban(ks and shraff-tips• of tate Potteries; I lectured for some years at the Wedgewood Inetitute and studied at the Wedgwood Itiosetim; acid like all 'potters' I became intensely proud of the pot- tery industry and its greatest figure. Yet if I had to assess Wedgwood's genius solely on the strength of his ornamental wares I should not put it very touch higher than that of Bernard Palissy or Bernard Moore. For ate, \\ edgwood's true great- ness rests with,his so-called "Useful Wares,' the table services in 'Cream Colour' or `1�tteell's 'Ware.' These wares, many of them designed and modelled by the master himself, exhibited all the true properties of clay: they were the works of as Original craftsman in complete con- trol of hitt material, an artist con- tent to allow beauty to grow from To els ire 1 IW EDANA XYLEO �NE of the best buys a housewife can get for her money these days is the tow -count, coarse -weave linen dish towel. The reasons for this are many but one of the' foremost is the greater absorbency of the linen towel. 1t thus takes fewer- towels to stock u linen cabinet. Absorbency is,. of course, a primary, factor in any towel. 8ut there are other sound reasons for investing a portion of your household money in linen. Linen was widely used for .bandages before the advent of sterilization because it is a poor breeding ground for germs. This is highly essential in hygenic dish -drying. It's easy to launder, because it requires no bleach and be- comes softer and whiter with age. And linen towels give a high polish to glassware because they are nearly free from lint of any kind. The trick in getting a high gleam ill glass- ware is to polish each piece with a dry towel after it bas been thoroughly dried. Other linen products, such as place ma4 and napkins, shown in picture at left, launder and iron easily. They are durable and colorful, appearing in decorator colors of green, chartreuse, coral, brown, turquoise, cloud pink, sky blue and maize for mixing or matching. These perfect back- grounds for your china and silver are finished with hem- stitching and a fringe. While the linen product costs slightly more than other types, it's an economical, long-range purchase because of its 'great durability. vestal it the perfect saltation to a practical problem and his own unconscious aesthetic sensibility. They were 'extremely simple, neat, contettieut and ,,durable and they became the prototypes of the finest practical wares made by potters throughout the world, Malty of Josialt's shapes and pat- terns are still in production at Barlaston; and they are still hest sellers. Under the direction of Josiah's great -great -great grand- son (another Josiah Wedgwood) the great tradition has been strengthened and enriched. The new shapes and patterns emerging from the Barlaston studios match the. 'Useful Wares' for workmanship, usefuluess and felicitous line and pattern. There can be no lt'gher praise. --Frost "The Craftsuea." TtF 1� S kmeArtctitews, Today's recipes offer fall fruits le tempting desserts. GLAZED APPLE RING CAKE 2 cope sugar ' cup water a apples, pared and cored. i cup purbe of cooked Med . apricots (two cans baby upricote will do) ' 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 nine- or ten -inch angel cake ' Almonds, optional 1 cup apple sauce, chilled 1 cup whipped cream or chilled vanilla pudding %' teaspoon cinnamon. (1) Boilone cup sugar and water. in a frying pan about two minutes, stirring till sugar is dis- solved. (2) Cut apples in half crosswise. Add one layer of apple rings at a time to syrup, lower beat and sim- mer till just tender, turning often. Remove and set aside, (3) Cook together apricot puree, remaining cup sugar and lemon, juice, stirring often, till mixture is thiels. Cool. Place applerings on top of cake. Spread apples and cake generously with apricot puree. Garnish witlt almonds. (5) At serving time fill center cavity with apple cream made by Inking apple sauce, cream. or pud- ding and cinnamon. Serve with remaining apple cream and, if de- sired, garnish plate with additional apple rings. Yield: twelve serv- ings. Note: For a small purchas- ed' angel cake use half the recipe. 5 * OLD-FASHIONED GRAPE PIE 2'pounds concord grapes (four cups` 2/3 to three-fourths cup sugar Yi cup flour or one tablespoon quick -cooking tapioca teaspoon salt Rind and juice of one=half lemon Pastry for a nine -inch two- crust pie. (1) Slip pulp out of grape skins. Reserveskins. Cook pulp till seeds loosen and press through a collan- der or food mill. (2) Mix sugar, flour or tap- ioca, salt, lepton rind and juice, Add grape juice and skins. If tap- ioca has been used. let mixture stand. fifteen minutes. • - (3) Turn ittto a pastry -lined nine -inch pan and cover with pastry. Bake on the lower rack of a very hot oven (450 degrees F.) Lower beat to moderate (350 de- grees F.) and bake about twenty minutes longer. Yield: eight serv- ings, * • d: FRUIT BETTY 2 cups coarse breac crumbs 1/4 cup melted butter 2/3 cup brown or white sugar 1 teaspoon cinnatnon Dash salt 4 cups sliced plums, peaches, apples or pears 1/3 clip water (1 Toss crumbs up in melted butter. (2) Afix sugar cinnamon and salt. (3) Arrange in alleruate layers bread crumbs, fruit and sugar mix- ture, having top layer crumbs. Add water, (4) Bake, covered, in a moder- ate oven (350 degrees ' Fe thirty Min Utes. Uncover and bake till top has brotvned and fruit is tender, CIROSSWOIRI 7. Scarlet 2. Pertaining to a elan e, rrlgntenod PUZZLE- 30. Deep bole hula ly 11. Monkey DOWN 17. Te able AC'1t(ass 19, saran tub. 1, Aspires 1. i8dlhlo sea - U. Marker v�od D. watering plana 2• Arrow poleon 3. drape ruse 12. insect - 4. Spilt down Y0. Across 114, rpt 111. Alr (rows:. form) 10. Hallow 12, Will Incl( •80. Tribunal 01, Crony 88. Chen 50, Military .ntutlea,t. 50. Hntldify 2s, Itseline 130. ttetired 31. Ohl Soldier (collets,) .32. Medical ll utile 32. 'Legal action 34, Our metrial finale 88, Apole 1uhte se. 'talon nttlaw- fu11,V S0. Wog Arthnr'a lance 40: Vnrnlsu to. Irrcdl(+rit 40, flesb'c M14. H)atulered ' 47, Perianths' to time 40. Not nt 41. Uinttu c(tteen • 00:..Wi Witham. 61. 'NAY 65. Olaok 0S. large knits 0. Pattern 0. State noet- tivelY .1 2 3 1p e 22, Wager 23. Ireland 2•l. Balsa 21, whoa ted vehicles 20. Ciucnurage 27. Uniunehited 2l aewc 8" 8t,' eiovlllirtv:. 32. Chir mad• t 3 t. Sate 25, Study 57. Boy 23. French sculptor 40. Light cot: gauze 41. Preaa 40, Part of .0 chi rota 43. Merriment 44. Pull after 45. 'Regret (7 To vi 10. 17 20 fgt 7 37 39 , Z' 8 AA 8 81 Anuwe Elsewhere the 7Ct (4 Patin about thirty minutes. Sore with CCCttnt, that'd sauce .?C ice e ream. Yield: five servings. PLUM KUCHEtif 1 package not roll mix 1 quart halved plums cup or more sugar 1 teaspoon cine tenon 2 egg yolks. 1/4 cup cream (1) Prepare dough front hot roll mix as directed on package and let rise till double in bulk. 121 Roll to fit a greased deep i x 12 -inch pact. Place in pan, grease surface and let rise till almost double in thickness, (3) Arrange plums in parallel rows on dough. Mix sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over dough. (4) Mix egg yolks with cream attd drip over plums. (5) Bake in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) about twenty minutes. Yield. eight servings. Apple or Peach Kuchen: Substitute apples or peaches for plants in the :delve reeine*. The "Royal" Game Chess is an exceedingly old game, No one knows how old, but it ap- pears to have been played itt Hin- dustan in remote tines, and was probably taken from there to Per- sia where the Arabs acquired a knowledge of it. The Arabs then introduced the game into Spain is the eighth century. Thence it spread into all Europe. The main piece of the gauze is the king. The Arabs, taking the name of this piece frotn tate Per- sians, called it shalt, and when the king had been maneuvered by an opposing player into a position from which it could not be extri- cated. thus ending the game, they said. "Shaw mat (The king is dead)." In Old Spanish this be- came xaque nate: in Old French eschee mat, and this in turn pro- ctored the middle English cher mate, conning down to us as check- mate, And when a player notified Itis opponent that his king was ex- posed. the Arabian shave, through the same process; because the Eng- lish check. (All other uses of our word check, and of the British cheque have been extensions of this original sense.l When the game had reached France it becatne known by the Old French name, eschcs, a plural of eschew And when . this terns reached England the first syllable was dropped, like many other simi- lar words of French origin, Thus was produced the name by which we know the game, chess. So. if we go back to original sources. "chess" is another w a rd for ,"kings," The game of 'checkers (British chequers) was originally a modifi- cation oe chess, and its name came from the sante source. (In Eng- land, the game is preferably known as "draughts.") And the Court of Ex -chequer, an English department of government connected with the public revenue, is believed to have taken its name itt the twelfth cen- tury trom the square table which was laid out into square spaces, like that of a chessboard, for con- venience in malting calculations in the system of accountancy then in lase. ---Front "Thereby Hangs A Tale," by Charles Earle Punk. MAY SCHOOL LESSON By REV. R, BARCLAN AY WARREN, B.A., B.D. SOLOMON REIBEGINSGN HIS 1 Kings 1:38.'+0; 3;5-9; 8:27-30 Memory Verse: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding, In all thy ways acklowiedge him, and he shall direct thy paths. - Proverbs 3:5-8. Solomon was the first king's son to ascend the throne of Israel. Ab- salom and Adonijah, other sons of David had sought to secure the throne but were foiled, in their at- tenips, Solomon was Bathsheba's son. His humble request for under- standing to servo the better was abundantly answered, None to this day, save our Lord Jesus Christ, has equalled hint in, this quality. The. people- saw "that the wisdom of God was in hint, to do judg- ntenb" The building of the temple was Solomon's most important achieve- ment It took seven years. Ile made a treaty with Hiram, king of Tyre, supplying him with food in return for skilled workmen and titrher from Lebanon. The timber was taken to the sea and floated down in rafts. Stones, which were made ready at the quarry, and some of which were very large, were so exactly measured and cut for their places in the structure that no hammer icor axe was needed or used when they were assembled. The dedication of the temple was held in connection with the feast of Tabernacles after the ark of the covenant had been brought into the most i oly place. Solotoon knelt before the great altar of burnt offering and spread fortis his hands to heaven and, in the pres- ence of a vast throng, offered a lengthy prayer of dedication which was well worthy of the occasion. Then, rising front his knees he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice. The * service was concluded with the offering of a vast number of sacri- fices. This event inaugurated a new era in the history of the Jewish citurclt and state. The memory section contains a great promise. At every age we tremblingly approach great deci- sions. here toe are assured of Divine direction if ,ee acknowledge the l..ord in all stir ways. CONFIDENCE The crusty president at country ban!: suddenly decided to be candid on his eightieth Birthday when somebody asked him, "How did you get started its the banking business anyway3" "Wasn't nothing to (t," confessed the old mo,tes-bags, "I fist hung out a sign sayin' 'Bank. Fust thing you know, a feller conies along and deposits $100. A little later, an- other 'comes along and deposits $200. By that time 1 was's() con. fident I put in ten dollars of my own looney" AWFUL THOUGHT .Two elderly ladies checked into a sporty new hotel in Miami Beach. The first thing they noticed was a furtive little man circulating from guest to guest in the lobby, whis- pering, and collecting money. They were told he was a bookie --a ntan who took bets on the horses. Lt vacation abandon, they deci- ded impulsively to risk two dollars themselves, They lost. That night one of the ladies tossed around in her bed and sighed so iugubroiusly that the other counseled her, "Becky, you shouldn't cry so over spilled milk. Stop worrying be- cause you lost. It was only two dollars." "It ain't losing I'm wor- rying about," Becky answered. "I was worrying about if we had won. What would we have done wwith the horse?" AbQuit $ »at g Atter tier, dleteat of the Soutistt Armada iii Ilia a naval tournament w 1s arranged for the t,'ictorioUS British seamen. At the request of *sir Franats Drake, Queen Eliza" bens the First couseutetf to come .town front L,rndott and award the prixee. 'fall* ca115271 ;:t611e embarrassment among her counsellors, as it would paean bringing ordinary seamen face to face with Her M:u;esty-- att awkward peecedettt, t`Ie niliecr in charge of the ar- rangeutents Droved. itintself egtval to tits+ (ca'ssi'as, tie issued orders that "on ..edouttt of the olazzling loveliness of Iter ?Majesty, all sea, men, upon• receiving their priIo, should shield their ra es with their tight head." Only for' Slaves 1'heS Was bore tate etcetera forret of military and naval salute. To this day the naval salute is antique in -that the band is held horizon• - sally over the eye instead of the vertical position used by the other Servires. A form of salute with :ut event older history- is the "Fontan sal- tire" of the outstretched arm, which was rtt'.npted by the German and Italian services during the last war,. 'this was used at the suggestion of the Italian poet, D'Annunzia, who discovered the salute oat some statue of ancient Route. ft scents that he did hot realize the . igitifirance of the gesture, be- ceuse in Route ditizens greeted each other by shaking hands ---only slaves used the sign adopted by the tWt.s dictators. • DISOBEDIENT An athletic drunk appeared at a ticket window in Louisville with a companion slung over his shoulder out cold. "Otte seat to Cincinnati," said, "How about that big lug he demanded. The ticket seller you're carrying?" "Hitt," depre- cated the drunk. "7'hass jus' my little six-year-old boy Abner." "Six years old, eh?" said the ticket seller. "Why, he's fully six ffeet tall, weighs about 185, and has a drunk clumped Inc companion 00 beard three inches long." The the platform and grumbled, "Dam - mit, Abner! I told you to shave!° Ontario hug. marketing agency is about ready to function, W.G. Johnson, secretary of Ontario hog producers association, told mem- bers in a recent report. * * 4• itfr, Johnson said, "representa- tives attending the hog producers meeting last March passed a mo- tion instructing Ontario hog pro- ducers marketing board to set up ."a c e n t r a l marketing agency' whereby hogs produced in Ontario and covered by the scheme would be marketed." +: * "Your executive and board has, since that time, continually- en- deavored to implement and con- struct basis for such an agency. Tltis involved considerable detail work such as the securing of suita- ble personnel capable of handling such a large enterprise, after which agreements acceptable to both par- ties had to be outlined. * "We are in a position to advise producers that the commission finny (who have been operating on the Ontario stockyards) stave formed a company to be known as the United Livestock Sales Liut- itel for the purpose of market- ing hogs under the appointment of the Ontario hog producers' market- ing hoard. * * * An agreement has been reached with this company whereby they will art as the central marketing agency. * * f This agreement will be signed by the principals concerned as soon as some return from holidays. "Clauses contained in the agree - meat are: * * 5 I. All hogs to be sold for the hest possible price the law of sup- ply and demand will allow. 2. The producer to receive full "statement of settlement" includ- ing all deductions and price re- ceived. 3. Direction of hogs to processor, 4. Policy to be formulated by a co-ordinating board (three repre- sentatives from the producers and three repreeentatives front the company.) * * 5 "Tire commissions charge,' by the said company will be slightly lower than that reported at coun- ty meetings last Fall. 5 * 5 A further saving to the producer is being anticipated relative to 'exchange charged by the banks on cheques. It may be necessary to charge a small fee on alt bogs marketed to co v e r 'stockyard (larges' as 'price' will be deter- mined and established for all hogs. * . x- * " \\'e are extremely anxious to have the central marketing agency in operation as soon as possible. Ottr information regarding the central marketing agency in the Maritimes is to the effect that sante has netted the producer the full 2fic 'floor price,' • * This means considerable to the producers and we will he pleased to have our Ontario producers re- ceive the sante, benefit. 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