The Seaforth News, 1959-07-09, Page 2/TABLE TAINS
There's probably never a time
of year when itisn't helpful to
talk about party sandwiches.
Whether you serve them when
the neighbors drop in, for after-
noon tea, or for a real party, a
new—and especially, a simple—
sandwich idea is always wel-
come.
Sometimes the sight of large
platters beautifully arrayed with
dainty sandwiches of different
shapes and sizes causes, first, ad-
miration, but almost at once the
secret thought: "What a lot of
work!"
Actually, with a little fere-
thought and two or three people
working like a production line,
the job is amazingly simple,
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Bread should be at least 24
hours old to slice easily, Cooky
cutters• — round, diamond, or
heart -shaped — speed the task
of preparing the bread, and long
fingers of bread are simple to '
prepare, easy to .eat, and attrac-
tive,
To make pinwheel sandwiches,.
those dainty bits of intricacy,
trim the crusts from fresh bread,
slice lengthwise, spread with
filling, roll into a cylinder, and
wrap tightly, first with wax
paper, then in a dampened towel
wrung out hard. Cut each cylin-
der into slices just before serv-
ing.
Sandwiches of fancy shape
should be spread after cutting to
avoid waste of filling, and, if
fancy cutters are used, it is more
practical to remove the crusts
from the entire loaf of bread arid
cut it lengthwise into slices be-
fore cutting out the smaller
shapes. a .
Open-faced sandwiches are be-
coming more and more popular,
and are attractive, although
sometimes fussier to make be
pause they have to be decorated,
in a Measure, with olives, pi-
miento, etc. Also, if you are mak-
ing them head for a large crowd,
there is the problem of how to
store them, for they cannot be
piled on top of one another, yet
they must be kept from drying
out. Arranging them on • large
cooky sheets and covering se-
curely with waxed paper hclps.
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Now for fillings, here are just
a few:
Cucumber: Thick slices of cu-
cumber between rounds of but-
tered bread the same size as the
cucumber slice.
Sardine: Mash sardines to a
paste, mix with hard -cooked egg
yolk or chopped whole egg, and
moisten with a bit of catchup,
Chicken: Mince chicken meat.
add minced celery; and mayon-
naise, or ground . almonds.
Herb butter:. ' Stir. intobutter,
thoroughly creamed, enough of
one of the following herbs to pro-
duce the desired color and taste:
parsley, watercress, rosemary,
mixed herbs.
Prune and nut: Chop both fine
and mix with honey. ..
Cream cheese and dried beef:
Soften cheese and add tiny bits
of dried beef, taking care not to
add too much, as it is salty.
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A spring casserole combines
fresh asparagus with hard -cooked
eggs.
Fresh Asparagus -Egg Casserole
2 pounds fresh asparagus
1 cup buttered bread crumbs
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
r/s teaspoon salt
Pepper
1 cup grated Canadian cheese
4 hard -cooked eggs, diced
Clean asparagus and cut into
1 -inch pieces. Cook in 1 inch of
boiling salted water until barely
tended—about 10 minutes. Make
white sauce of butter, flour, sea-
sonings and milk stir in cheese.
Place half of buttered crumbs in
lreased casserole. Place alternate
ayers of eggs, asparagus and
cheese sauce on the crumbs.
Cover top with the remaining
erumbs. Bake in 350° F. oven
tar 15 minutes. Serves 6,
S P A CE STAMP — :California
4tcemp. colleotor Robin Lampson
same up with this design for a
possible apace stamp. He says
it will 130 offered to the first
government established on the
ioon or the first postal service
there. Printed in Denmark, the
stamp is in five colors — blue,
red, black, yellow and green.
Conntry Casserole
If you bay.. leftover ham, com-
bine 1 cup of it, diced, with 3
cups soft bread crumbs, Md 1/a
cup milk and 2 beaten eggs, For
zest, add chopped onion, chopped,
green pepper, prepared mustard,
and prepared horse -radish to
taste. Bake in greased 1 -quart'
casserole for 1 hour at 350° F.
If you like one hot dish to
serve with a cold salad and des-
sert, you will And this, a cheese -
rice combination that is good for
this purpose,
Cheese -Rice Casserole
1/2 pound pasteurized process
cheese spread
Ri cup milk
1 cup cooked rice
2 cups cooked peas (canned,
frozen or fresh)
1 teaspoon finely chopped onion
2 tablespoons chopped pimiento
4 hard -cooked eggs, chopped
Salt and pepper
Melt cheese in top of double
boiler. Add milk gradually, stir-
ring constantly until smooth.
Combine rice, peas, onion, 'pi-
miento, eggs and seasonings.
Pour hot cheese sauce over mix-
ture and toss lightly. Place in
greased 1 -quart casserole and
bake in 300° F. oven for 25 min-•
utes.
A man who was fond of play-
ing practical jokes sent a friend
a telegram, reversed charges,
which read; "I am perfectly well."
About a week later the joker
received a heavy package on
which he was required to pay
very considerable heavy postage.
Opening it, he found a big block
of cement on which was past-
ed the message: "This is the
weight your telegram lifted from
my mind."
"One thing that will cause the
hair to turn grey is a lack of
vitamins," says a physician. An-
other is a lack of youth.
DREAM YOUR FAT AWAY — Mrs, Jane Raulson, a Houston nurse,
winks happily as scale indicates she's lost 35 pounds. Mrs.
. Roulson was among 29 nurses who reportedly dropped 600
pounds in a mass hypnotic 'reducing experiment which began
In January. Nurse Mrs. Carolyn Acord watches.
Want a Model With Four -Wheel Drive?
Got a transport problem? See
nothing in the new ears which
takes your fancy? Well the Bel-
gians in the Congo may have
just the answer.
They are selling off their
tame African elephants. They
come, in various models from
the baby economy size to the
big family model weighing be-
tween six and eight tons.
Average price . is around
$2,800—a bargain when you con-
sider some of the advantages.
Maintenance costs, for ex-
ample, are negligible. An ele-
phant never needs 'polishing and
all models come with built-in
spray on .their trunks for self -
washing.
Lines don't change from year
to year and thus • an elephant is
always in fashion among
other elephants, of .course,
Garaging problems are few,
for the African elephant sleeps
on his feet and can be left on
the front lawn overnight. If
stolen, an elephant is fairly
readily distinguishable.
,And he never forgets his way
home. Some set free in the for-
est more than 200 kilometers
from their training station in
the Congo, for example, have
found their way back easily.
And contrary to popular be-
lief, elephants come in various
Somee h� .,rs ll u N,P7 .anw n Drivers
No Wonder These
Families Split!
Imagine. it — sharing a tiny
flat with a python, a boa -con-
strictor and a crocodile, That
was what an Essex zoologist
forced his wife to do, And that
was the reason she was granted
a divorce recently,
"It does not surprise me that
the wife was terrified by these
and other reptiles," said the
judge. "To persist in keeping
reptiles of this sort in a tiny
flat where the wife had to live,
literally cheek by jowl with
them, was a grossly cruel thing."
The judge added that most
people would prefer to live with
a tiger in the house, which was
a higher animal, to say the
least, However, over in France,
it was a "higher animal," a pan-
ther, that broke up a marriage.
It was a famous marriage,
too, that between Jean Frangois
de Thunel, 37 -year-old Cheva-
lier d'Orgeix, and attractive
Michele Cancre, 26 - year - old
champion horsewoman,
After a year's happiness, with
hardly a quarrel, they went to
Africa and met Zouma, a play-
ful little female panther,
But Zouma grew swiftly into
a boisterous BIG panther. The
trouble started when the Che,
valley. took Zouma to dine at
a Trouville restaurant, The
chef objected, the Chevalier
slapped the chef and was fined
$50.
Soon afterwards Zouma es-
caped from the couple's Paris
flat and led firemen e hot
chase over the rooftops. Even
worse, however, were Zourna's
antics in private.. Hardly a piece
of furniture was left intact In
the whole flat, and the curtains
were torn to shreds,
"Zouma," said Michele, "made
life impossible, My husband did
colours depending on the pour
of their last mud -bath, To
change the colour, just lead
them to mud of the hue desired
—yellow, rust, bright red, and
so forth.
Why, then, if they are such
a buy, are the Belgians getting
rid of them? Because the Bel-
gians, the only known people
in Africa to tame the Pierce
African elephant, undertook the
scheme originally to provide
elephants -as, work animals, But
today .the bulldozer and other
machines are edging the ele-
phant out,
There is no longer much de.
mend from white farmers in
'the Congo for elephants and
apart from an occasional sale to
a zoo or circus, and visits by
tourists and movie companies
to the elephant training stations
at Gangala na Bodio and Epulu,
there -is not much interest in
the animals . the Belgians have
been taming.
Over the years, however, the
Belgians have with patience
managed to tame numbers of
African elephants, The process
is' generally to 'isolate young
elephants from a wild herd and
then lead them off with older
previously tamed elephants,
Officials of the Congo's game
department say that these big-
ger elephants calm and educate
a small elephant in about three .
months. In a year, the elephant
is ready to graduate from the
school and many have perform-
ed useful work, particularly
during World War 3I, in fores-
try camps, 'as transport animals, e
and using their giant strength
in place of tractors.
Even so, their handlers exer-
cise more caution with a tamed'
African elephant than they per-
haps would do with an Indian
elephant. And with a few ex-
ceptions, itisgenerally the In-
dian elephant which the public
in countries outside Africa see
in domestic capitivity writes .
John Hughes in—The Christian
Science Monitor.
With the, dwindling demand,
the Belgians now have only
about 50 elephants in the train-
ing stations and the number of
new ones taken from the for-
ests each year has dropped to
three or four. Some they will
keep for research, for other
African animals are kept at the
training stations and there is a
study program of their habits.
But except for a few ele-
phant's to keep the scheme tick-
ing over, the rest are available
at marked -down prices to lower
stocks.
Alter listing all the elephant's
advantages, however, it prob-
ably is only fair to mention a
couple of snags before the
orders pour in, The elephant is
not for the long-range commu-
ter, for its top speed is about
20 m.p.h.
And although it uses no gaso-
line, it will drain your fish -pond
of water in a few minutes and
for meals it eats roots, boughs,
shrubs, and even small trees.
About 700 or 800 lb. of green
food a day, to be exact,
So maybe you'd better not
leave your elephant on* the
front lawn overnight after all,
... Return the Hard Way . .
nothing to stop the .animal. She
played games with him, jump-
ing on to the bed end licking
his face. She destroyed every-
thing in the place."
In another recent marriage
break-up, golf was to blame,
but in this case, it was the
WIFE who wielded the clubs..
The husband complained that
she often played, seven, eight
or nine rounds a week and ne-
glected the home,
The wife said she played only
two or three rounds a week but
her husband threatened to put
her in a bath of cold water and
throw her clubs in on top of
her,
The judge, however, dismiss-
ed the wife's petition on the
ground of cruelty and the hus-
band withdrew his cross -peti-
tion alleging cruelty.
ISSUE 24 — ln'S9
Took 65 Years
To Pop Question
Because of his undying love
for an attractive Welsh woman,
a doctor living in Pakistan has
been happily reunited with her
after fifteen years' islence. She
has said "Yes" at last and re-
cently she set off on a 6,000-
mile voyage tomarry him.
Their romance began when
the doctor was serving in the
British Army during the war,
stationed in Wales. One night,
feeling bored and lonely,he
saw the Welsh girl, then
twenty-two, dancing a Spanish
dance. 'For him it was love at
first sight,.
They rsnet again and again.
Then, during a holiday, he pro-
posed. But she felt she could
not say "Yes," because of war-
time uncertainty about the fu-
ture. They drifted apart and
he went sadly home
Fifteen years passed, without
a word or a letter between
them, Then, not long ago, she
got a sudden call. He was on a
medical course in London and
had decided to ring the girl he
still loved and had tried vainly
to forget.
They met again and he pro-
posed. And this time she ac-
cepted him.
Love laughs at t i m e, once
Cupid has aiined his arrows.
The romances of hundreds of
couples prove this.
For instance, a thirty-nine-
years -old Californian salesman
revealed on his wedding day
recently that he had made up
his mind to marry his pretty,
blue-eyed bride when she was
still a baby, smiling up at him
from her pram twenty years
earlier.
Hundreds of men have waited
more than twenty years for the
girl of their choice.
"Better late than never," said
a seventy - one - year - old Kent
man when he married the wom-
an heloved in 1937: Their wed-
ding was the sequel to a twenty-
five -year-old love match,
He had courted her all that
time because she had refused
to give up her duty — by the
side of an invalid father who
needed her constant companion-
ship. Only when her father died
did she feel able to say "Yes"
and marry the man who had
so faithfully wooed her.
A Dublin couple whowed
several years ago were old -age
pensioners. They had been
courting for forty-six years. An-
other couple, in Maryland, U.S.,
became sweethearts when their
combined ages totalled only
thirteen. They married after a
courtship of thirty-one years.
It's on record in Somerset that
way back in 1788 a Captain
Baxter, aged sixty-six, married
Miss Whitman, aged fifty-seven,
after a courtship of no fewer
than forty-eight years "which
they both sustained with un-
common fortitude." It is not
known why Cupid had to wait
so long.
But the longest courtship on
record was that of an American
couple who, although they were
in love, "talked about marriage
frequently, but never quite got
around to it" for various rea-
sons.
Nine years ago they married.
The bride was eighty-five, the
bridegroom eighty-six. They had
been courting for sixty-five
years — since 1885.
How 1 o t1 g, ideally, should a
courtship last? Dr. Adolf Laur-
enz, an Austrian surgeon, sug-
gested that unhappy marriages
and divorces were often the re-
sult of too -short courtship
periods.
Five years is not too long for
an engagement° he said. In that
time a couple can thoroughly
° study each other's character,
health and disposition, he add-
ed,
On the other hand, a French
Abbe said that when a couple
are really in love and . plan to
marry, their engagement should
not last longer than six months.
DRIVE W1T17i CARE !
.... Some Never Make it °