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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-08-25, Page 2MRS MINISTER — Mrs, Masa Nakayama is the first woman cabinet member in the history of the Japanese parliament, She is minister of health and welfare. The 69 -year-old des- cribed as 'motherly type" by the Japanese press, says she'll work for social welfare insur- ance that will cover a person from "cradle to grave." In Praise Of Aunts — God Love Therm Again we put the roses, this year, on the hoewood table, for tints Aunt Eunice cane to make friends with Aunt Helen. We are glad for aunt e, but we aren't much on the family tree stuf., end I can't tell you ex- actly where these wonderful lredie-, fitted into the genealogies, Certainly neither of them has become a statistic, limited to a line of the chart, and doomed forever to wait for attention un- til somebody gets down the re- cords to see where he came from. Aunt Eunice and Aunt Helen hang around. Aunt Eunice was mine; Aunt Helen was not. Aunt Eunice is the nice who lived with the family, since she had nowhere else to live, and made herself useful in ten thousand ways. She was the one who planted roses by the front door, and a per- ennial and everlasting routine was started when somebody first said, "Be careful' of Aunt Eunice's roses!" All down the time that the family has been here, somebody was always eareless and somebody was al- ways mindful of Aunt Etmice's roses. They still grow by the front door. I don't know what kind of roses they are. They don't grow too tall, and they are pretti- est in tight buds. they burst quickly and pass by quickly, fill- ing the brief morning with rich. flavour and shedding before the night. They are red. They are the roses the early settlers had, - and they resist the blights and bugs of modern roses wonder - Everybody else who his roses takes rare of them and worries. We never do anything to Aunt Eunice's roses -except piek them which we always do the first dal• t h e y burst, and a silver bows of them is erected in the front room to adorn. Aunt Eunice ecmes a -visiting, sort _ef, and i< back at the old stand. Or course, I never knew Aent Eunice — she was contemporate with the beginnings. and I've always :rne,fined her a ptini English ]:irefer who came to this cie.te. lable land of hardships aril as;.r;s only to look after h e r hr:ether. O n e brother, seem> -;f. appreeinted it enough :;o he gave her bed and board while she repaid hien a thou- •i%..nrlfold Her rose alone, have, i.dd- d enough to r,tn• rummers so I hone she ;i'r•d butler than tmy' queen. New, :\Ctt lle'en Is quite ai;- cfhcr character. She belong= to Will and Lillian Harding, who are ft lef't's, and Aunt Helen, ton, went a-v'srdcrine in -the pio- neer day:'. She went. to Yokolia-. tna s, fur Tap'.n wit "opened," and w;ir the :'ire force inter. for Wells-Fhr;„“.,. If you thin1; tr'e;!l+-kart,n .:a just a :t.ege•- cn;,c11 r°,rte rm Niondny nisiits yon _ roree7iin Aunt her curl,. it, s:;ilr,_ to the ,:;I led hatiitr• of Ma , and Went to tile: in,cr,ttabb- fir >rck her for!in',e. Maine Iwople had been I, a,,:eryw'hrre in the clays of :;tic! Aunt Helen had the 1, ue kriood in her body. She also heti it bit of the old Yankee : arp- :tere, too, for the vsScls thr:t died between Japan and ttnn.r. brought many a souvenir of her astuteness. It has been sneer,: - and that. while ,,he managed things well for Wells -Fargo, =hr didn't let this duty inters'') with tree enterpri.;e. Al •ono time she sent home a IIoat.lnad of hoewnod tables, nur!- ennlc and cunningly fashioned. They (sow in six piccea —. four legs., a lntver shelf, and a ha'ad: smrle::y hand -took d top. All tht t. 1"411 were contrived so they fitted pre;isely, and the table would go together solidly without any glue or fastenings. The inve.stmeet in Japan was smell, but tete tables were• to fetch a fine figure. here. It ie, therefore, odd that most of thein are now in Will Harding's bate attic. They got mixed up somewhat. Will found that you couldn't just take foal' legs and snake a t: bio. You had to find the same tour the original craftsman tit - ted. Extending six to the Nth power gives you the variables of this close trade,- and shows that at times the. Japanese im-' port businese had its drawbacks even then. - Will, who mneritecl tins dubi- ous treasure from Aunt Helen, would go up in his barn every ()nee in a while and hunt around to see if he cuuld find one piece of a table that would fit sm- other piece of a- table. Oeca- sionelly he would, whereat he would feel like the ancient one who jumped from his bath and coursed Athens shouting Eure- ka! There has passed a consi- derable number of years now, since Will first told ore that someday he would find the fit- ting parts and make Inc a pre- sent of an Aunt Helen table. Conte to think of it, quite a few years have also passed since he did so, Whether or not he shouted Eureka and offered up a hecatomb he didn't say, but he came driving into the dooryard where Aunt Eunice's roses were in full bloom, his Stanley Steam- er heaving, and delivered said prized item. We thus joined that favoured group who belonged to Aunt Ilelen. Her table is sufficiently out -cif -place in our Early Yan- kee living room so people notice it, admire it, and ask where in the world we ever got it, There- by, Aunt Helen is discussed and remembered often, and we have become so natural with her that we seldom explain that she isn't really our own personal aunt. She's just as good as, perhaps. So, what could be more pro- per than placing Aunt Eunice's silver bowl of front -step roses tenderly atop the Aunt Helen table? This is known, of course, as "having roots,” which more and more people now-aways are not having, Right?—By Sohn Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. Ignored Warning —All Seven Died I As seen from Cortina d'Ampez- zo, crowded with gay, fashion- able vacationers, 10,686-f o ot Mount Antelao, or the "Good Mountain," as climbers call it, looks deceptively easy to con- quer. Its snow-covered peak rises gently into the blue Italian sky, and its glacial approaches are hidden from view. Thus, one morning last month, seven young Italians set out to climb the Good Mountain to cele- brate the saint's day of the youngest, Anna Galavotti, 18. All seven were linked by a single 40 -foot nylon cord, in flagrant violation of a basic climbing rule: Three persons are the maximum on one rope. On the way up they passed Gianni Bonafede, one of Antelao's oldest guides. "Separ- ate," he warned. "Don't all go together like that," "We'll make it," shouted Anne. On the second day, Anna and her friends did make it, to the topmost peak. where they basked in the eunshine and the warts glow of the conquest. But m1 the way down, still tied together, one of the seven lost footing and fell over the edge. For a brief moment, the other six clawed frantically at the ice. Then all tumbled to the rucks be- low. When rescuers reached the scene, they found seven broken bodies, still hound together by that single nylon rope. HATS OFF Joy Hebert (Hee- bear), waves his cap after sinking a birdie putt on the 17th hole of the PGA Champ- ionships. He parred the next one to win. BOUND FOR THE CONGO — Four Canadian they will serve in the Congo, octors prepare to leav ram Montreal where Pointers on cooking are legion and here are a few that Cook's Corner readers may find helpful: About rice -- regular white rice triples when it is cooked; so 1 cup of raw rice gives you 3 cups of cooked rice, If you use precooked rice, it approximately doubles when cooked. In order to make a rice ring quickly, from cooked rice, simply add 3 tablespoons butter to 4 cups and pack into a 1 - quart ring mold. Set in pan of water for 1 minute. Invert on a heated platter to unmold. Flavor, color, and variety niay be added to rice by cooking it in liquids other than water: apple, orange or tomato juice, bouil- lon, or milk. Test for doneness — it takes longer to cook in some liquids (tenderness test — press a kernel between two fingers; it should feel soft all the evay through). About prepared mustard in appetizers — spread half slices Of bacon with prepared mustard, Wrap around fresh oysters; se- cure with toothpicks. Bake in hot oven: serve hot. Spread sliced bologna with prepared mustard, Spread with seasoned cottage cheese. Roll cornucopia style and fasten with toothpicks; serve cold. Add 2 teaspoons prepared mustard to small jar of cheese spread. Spread on slices of sa- lami; stack 4 high; cut into wedges. Top each wedge with a small olive on a toothpick. 5 * 5 A Christian Science Monitor reader, Clara K. McDivitt of Petrolia, Ont., writes that when she is asked if her berry jam will keep because it is put in the jars cold, she answers, "Yes, if you put it in a limited cup- board!" Here is her jam. Clara's Jam 1 quart box strawberries 3 cups sugar Wash and hull i fMet at a time (if you intend to make more than one recipe). Cover with boiling water and allow to stand for 2 minutes. Drain well; add 1 Si cups sugar. Bring to a boil and let it boil for 3 minutes, stir- ring frequently. Add remaining sugar; boil 3 minutes. Skim it if necessary. If you intend to make the recipe several times, pour this into a container big enough to hold all the jam you are going to make. Make up one box at a lime and pour all in this same container. Allow to stand over- night, Next day, stir well. Fruit will be at top and juice below, but stirring distributes the fruit throughout. Put this cold jam into sterilized jars and env' r 'Pith sway. If any reader is in 1111 I1100c1 for barley breads or cakes, here are recipes from Dr. E. Donald •Asselin, Falmouth, 'lass., tor several types, "I read about Mrs. Hatch's query about recipes and looked through my files which date batik nearly 50 years -- my mother darted them. 1 hope these are what =tic wants." he wrote. • Welsh Barley Cakes; J eup barley meal 1;teaspoon salt tablespoons batter Skim milk to make a stiff dough, Add butter to dry iegrcdiente and mix in milk to make a stiff dough. Roll out on floured board !?idnch thick. Bake on a greased gricldie. Split and serve buttered, '"l'he following recipe was given to int by a medical mis- sionary," noted Dr. Asselin, Biblical Barley Loaf 1 pint warm water Pe quarts barley flour 1 yeast cake 2 tablespoons olive oil 1l„ teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons honey Make a dough and set in warni place and allow to rise double. Knead and allow to rise double again. Knead and make loaves. Bake in moderate oven (about 350° F.1. Chinese Millet Bread 6 eggs 1 cup confectioners sugar 1 cup millet flour 1 teaspoon salt Beat eggs for 2 minutes. Add sugar and beat 10 minutes. Add flour and salt and beat 2 min- utes, Drop by tablespoonfuls on greased griddle and brown, turning to brown other side, If you do not like it sweet, sugar may be omitted and a little more flour added. * • Scotch Oat & Barley Bread lei cut fat 1 teaspoon salt i cup sugar, brown. sugar or molasses 3 cups finely ground oatmeal 1 cup boiling water 1 yeast cake 11 cup warm water 1 teaspoon sugar 1 cup cold water 4 Cups barley flour Combine fat, salt, sugar, oat- meal and boiling water; cool, Add yeast, warm water and 1 teaspoon sugar, combined. Blend in cold water and barley flour. Knead and let rise. Knead again and make into' Ioaves, Bake at 375° F, "liege is a recipe for potato Pancakes which we enjoy. It is both economical and easy to prepare" writes Mrs. Carolyn Heintzelman. "A touch of grated onion perks these pancakes for a tasty meal with your favorite meas.." she added. Potato Pancakes 4 large potatoes 2 tablespoons milk 1 tablespoon bread crumbs 1 teaspoon salt ',egg, separated Grate potatoes and mix with milk, Drain and mix with bread - crumbs and egg yolk. Add salt, Beat egg white and fold into mixture. Drop into hot grease in shallow pan and fry on both sides. • a Have you ever wanted to bake a carrot cake? Mrs. Emily Kal- berer sent a recipe for one and writes, "This cake is very satis- fying and will stay moist a long time, Delicious Carrot Cake 1s cup shortening' Ile' Cups sugar 2 eggs, separated lie cups grated carrots (about 4 medium carrots) lei cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder '•i teaspoon salt '.3 cup milk 1 teaspoon lemon extract Cream shortening and add sugar gradually; cream until fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time; beat well. Stir in grated carrots. Sift together and stir into creamed mixture alternate- ly with milk. Add lemon extract, Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into cake mixture. Pour in- to a greased and well -floured 6 - inch square pan. Bake 55 min- utes at 350° le. Frost with a but- ter cream icing and sprinkle chopped nuts on top. Coincidence—Or Something Else? At first her body was only x ,-speck in the sky, 5,000 feet shove Biscarrosse field near Bordeaux, She dropped a thous' d feet . another thousand . still an- other. At 1,300 :feet, airfield at- tendants could see that her body was turned en its back — a sign that she alight be out of control. Breattstessly they waited. Per- haps, somehow, she could still re- lease her parachute. But the chute did not open. Claudette Brigillon's body crashed on the same field where, nine months ago, her handsome parachutist - fiance, Jean - Louis Lazurick, died when his parachute also fail - to open. Investigators said officially that Claudette's death had fol- lowed a blackout in mid-air. Others Wondered, At twenty-seven, Claudette was an expert jumper. She had doubled for Brigitte Bardot in the film "Babette Goes to War" and she held the altitude record for w o m en parachutists in France. When Lazurick was killed, it was the only jump he ever made in which site had not personally inspected his chute, Claudette brooded about it and always carried with her, as a talisman, her dead fiance's gloves. Last week when ler body was picked up, Claudette's hands were still clutched tightly about a small leather bundle. Inside were Lasurick's gloves, Dig Rush, To Put Oscar 0111 Films Tow:, dthe 1 `u1..' C:el 11,, ,year, I hitieh,H ',cite t,Rae tr llieliardsisn. We t1 6cd ,;,,;nly e mane autobiI grepite'1'! O'ticlen that he was wrttint, e' reef' time, but near the finih 0 1t,.5 luneak. eon Sit. Ralph pulled eo 1. of his brief tete' a billy ...aept and said, ".Phis is 01-, ..1 ' ee beet parts I've ever :1t 1' it t not partieutarly lune. d t ••very word is gold." As I say, that wt>t i1S !daub, and at the close of lily 1 saw the film of which it teemed an important section. Sir F'.r.11.)11 had actually received the e. vast the very morning of out i:'n.'hects and the fill wets merle in two months and exhibited '1 the West kind. It must he, c le en cne of the fastest films eve r 'Haile. There was reesen ,ea this. Two British- film neaniee, working -quite. Mee peaelernily of each other, decided :e 'lake a flint of Oscar Wilde. 1r; ltvalry they got to work es oei.1ely as possible. The Wile( ::1 .rot fills was to be Robert Morley. in the other Peter Finch; the Edward Carson of the Morley p i•:tuee was Sir Ralph, and cf '! r Finch fells, James Mason, The race between the two be- eseme the talk of Lendcrn, and the filum in which Sir R;'icis ap- peared won by a1 oi'l r. fort- night. It thus secured !eq. first West End showing, teeioey giv- ing it great eonlmereial advan- tage. But on the weole it Was the second picture that won the greater praise, writes Harold Hobson in 1110 Christian Science Monitor. Neverthele c, at i; geeerally agreed that 111e finest fling in either picture is the perform- ance of Sir Ralph es Edward. Carson. Carson was the counsel who defended the Meeeeis of Queensbury in the like suit which Wilde foolishly 1: naught against him. Sir Ralph's per- formance is an extraordinary ex- ample of how to fight a Jiiisked battle. At the beginning, Wilde scores point after point off Cars'tn, All the time, Carson's face 'wears a half smile. He never loses hist temper. He gives Wilde every opportunity to makee speeches, to jest, to ridicule Carson. And they rsf t erose, in the full flood n'' his exuberant eloquence, which Carson has encouraged, Wilde makes a mistake, Carson Is upon him in a flash, and the retribution for everything that has gone before is terribie. The film was shown in London just before the time Soviet Pre- mier Nikita S. Khrushchev was at his most loquacious. Scarcely anyone in the audience failed to notice in what a dangerous po- sition a loquacious lean puts himself, if he has an opponent who is clever enough to _ounce upon his first mistake. Why these films shn,<ld hat e been made at this moment is not very clear. The film industry. feeling strongly the co,npetition of television, is anxiously search- ing for new paths. to Explore, But there is nothing “-:;r new about Wilde. It is not e\,.•11 es though his reputation hail alter- ed much of recent years. His fame in England is still below his fame abroad, where i:e ranks as one of the greatest writers in all English litcraiere. And his plays are, and hay, been. fora long time, familiar upon the British stage. John Gielguil', produ-uon of •'The Importance of Beir4 Earn - .est" is one of the peals of the theatre. Nevertheless, tae race between the two Wilde pictures has been exhilarating and shows that the English can i7 .tory, if They really try. ISSUE 34 — iseu WING OF DEATH — A Trans -Texas Airlines DC -3 taxied into the wing of a parked Delta DC -9.7 et Houston? International Airport, The pilot was killed.