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.