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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-11-10, Page 2Droplpecd Fork. Means • A Visitor's. Coming Friends aro where you malts+ Ythem, and one of mine is resident manager of the famous old Poland Spring House, Known to the hotel trade as "white etc.. Tthants," these ancient 'V ictorian Sestorts poses a perennial cotton.. drum as to their success, for while they were money-makers • back in the other times, the Iteration habits of the nation have changed. It seems. now, to be something of a challenge to people like Rod Johnston to see if they can make the places hum again. And one of the means is to snag all the conventions they ,tan get filling the rooms - that seem not to fill so well as they did back when Grarnpie was a ,lad, Rod has been doing all right, and the day I dropped in on him with foresight enough to arrive at mealtime, he had two con- ventions going simultaneously, and the dining .room was a hearty place. Somehow, because of the vast size of this old re sort, two conventions can meet without disturbing each other. 1 believe something like 850 people were -thus •enjoying their meals ashen we went in. What happened seemed amus- ing to me at the time, for a waitress dropped a fork right at my back. I saw her coming, tray piled -high with the remove, on her way to the kitchen. Limitless- ly, the fork slipped just so, 'fngled to the floor, and bounc- ed around. Without the slightest pause, this -girl stooped, held the loaded tray in perfect it€alapce, seeoped the fork up in her free hand, -and kept on going. As.she gathered it in, I heard her say, 'Cops! Company's coming!" As tar as Poland Spring Hotel matters, the. company coming would turn out to be the Maine Retail Lumber Dealers Associa- tion, which was booked two years ago, and several other simi- lar organizations. It was the Hearing of this old adage in this place which made it amusing. Dropping a fork has always been considered a sure sign, in Maine anyway, that some guest would arrive, Mr. grandmother, who had many• -such folklorish ideas, used to sit around after she dropped a fork and wonder who it ,•nuld he. She'd run thrnueh rltn family and friends, au ssin : which had any reason fn :.rrivc. <mrl sometimes would earn gur,.c ivhn it might be. 'It w•cmld b, Alice," she said ane time. "Alice hasn't been here in ages, end shed be the one to come without notice," So, of courts, ,lice arrived the next d>.y. g Crs.ndmothor said, "I l: n, o you ;herr cretin~ — drop- ped ,, fort;." I do ronember - one time Grandrneaher dropped a fork, and nobody Frame. After a couple of days went by, she used to go over to tit window and look down the road. expectantly. She car: positive she'd see a buggy coming, with.somebody in it to fulfill the omen. But nothing happened, and some doubts must have crept into her mind. I re- member she seemed preoccupied, and forgot to pour the froth off the milk for the cats. But then it happened. It was a tramp. A real, old- fashioned tramp of the kind we used to get. The kind who, in the first place. tramped. They chute O'and.ThI ; up tiler road in complety leisure, never in the slightest hurry, willing to be wherever they were when they got their. They had a respectable philosophy, granting one or two things, and were not resented. Perhaps the times were more agreeable, and the tramp was ac- cepted as some kind of link with the rest of the world. Not too many people did come by. A tramp would clean up a shed, or split some wood. They frequently showed considerable ALB in some of their chores. They knew how to handle an axe, anyway, and lacking any- thing else for them to do a farm always had a woodpile to be manicured. A tramp knew just about how much wood he ought to split for his supper, and he'd do twice as much again if you let him bed down in the haymow with the expectation of breakfast, Afterward, they'd move on up the road. They never stole anything that I knew about, or abused us. Grandmother used to judge them one frr.m another by the way they washed up. She couldn't abide a dirty tramp. If One splashed water about a good deal, and used plenty of soap, he attracted her charity accord- ingly. Once a tramp asked Grandma for a cake of her home- made soap, saying he meant to wash his clothes at the next brook. She was delighted, and regarded him as a high type of tramp sure to make a place for himself in the world and amount to something. Anyway, the poor tramp show- ed up just as Grandmother's dropped fork was about to ex- pire as a reliable augury. Ac- customed to sitting beneath the trees in the dooryard, and laying his dishes on the back step when he had finished, this tramp was bewildered at the reception he got. Grandma brought him right into the kitchen, where she pour- ed hot water for his ablutions and set him a place at the table. He didn't get any handout on one of the old dishes — he got the full meal, right through to pie. And when Grandfather came in from the barn and found this disreputable character sitting in state at the family board, as good as one of the family, Grand- mother answered his quizzical look by saying simply, and end- ing the matter, " l dropped a fork!" By John Gould in The Christian Science Monittor. Human Heads Are Changing Shape How du yeti look these days? Have a peep in the mirror --still the same old familiar face? Now have a look at your offspring—. aren't they better looking. It's .a fact that we are slowly becom- ing better looking •than the people of past centuries. In the skulls of our remote ancestors the forehead sloped backwards. Today that form of head is becoming rare. The long head—not the "big-head"! — is becoming more usual nearly - everywhere in the world. - The high cheekbones and sharp features that used to char- acterize many aristocratic Eng- lishmen are "toning down" into the modern face type. Less than 300 years ago aquiline noses were very common in Britain. Since then our noses have grown longer and straighter. MAN 111 THE CENTER -- Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru relaxes on rhe balcony of bit New York hotel suite. He le 0 leader in the U.N. neutral nations' blot attempting 14 oil Ea.t•Weire friction, AFTER THIS, PLEASE THIMK — Detroit drivers get strange instructions at Cadillac Square and Randolph Street. T14. i LE 1 e i'. er Jam Andrews. If you want to bake sandwich- es in your oven for lunch or din- ner, try these cheese and bacon ones. They need about 40 min- utes to bake just right. BARED CHEESE SANDWICHES 8 slices bread Butter ii pound bacon, diced 1/2 cup chopped onion 14 cup chopped celery 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper teaspoon salt 8 slices Cheddar cheese (1 lb.) 4 large tomato slices 2 eggs, beaten i cup mills 1 teaspoon prepared mustard Spread 4 slices bread with the butter. Place in bottom of greased 8 -inch square baking dish. Toast lightly in 350 °F. oven -- about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, brown bacon, onions, celery, and green pepper. Season with salt. Place slice of cheese on each toast slice in baking dish. Ar- range bacon mixture over cheese. Place a tomato slice on each and top with a slice of cheese. Cover with remaining bread slices. Combine eggs, milk and mus- tard, mixing well. Pour over sandwiches. Bake at 350° F. about 40 minutes. Serves 4 If you are in a hurry, here are sandwiches you can bake for only 10-15 minutes and serve hot. BAKED CHEESE SANDWICHES Cold sliced turkey 4 slices bread Cheese spread 1 can cream of chicken, mush- room or celery soup cup milk ' cup crushed potato chips or cornflakes - Spread bread with cheese spread, Arrange close together in baking dish, Top each with a slice of turkey, Combine soup with milk; pour over sandwiches. Tap with crushed chips. Bake at 425° F. 10-15 minutes until light• ty browned. Garnish these hot tuna sand- wiches •with tiny green peas and you'll have a whole meal ready. HOT .TUNA SANDWICHES 1 7 -ounce can tuna • 3 tablespoons mayonnaise 2 tablespoons minced onion 12 slices bread 11/2 cups grated Cheddar cheese 3 eggs 3 Clips milk 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon salt Mix together tuna fish, mayon- naise, and minced onion, Spread on 6 slices of bread; cover with remaining slices and -fit into a casserole: Top with •hall the grated cheese. heat eggs until light: stir in mil)', Wot'ccster- :hire sauce, and salt. poor over sandwiches, Bake at 350` F for about 40 ;ninules, then add re- maining cheese and hake until pu11y and coldcn brown -- 5-10 minutes. Serves 0. i ICICLE-STh.%E BA11111:(li?ES 1 cup chili sane(' IS carp water• 1 teaspoon brown sugar 3 tablespoons vinegar 1 mediums -sized onion, viewing( 's cop chopped green pepper - 'z (asp chopped sweet t'ocnm- her pickle 'S tenspooll sal( !-1 teaspoon pepper 3 tablespoons bolter 4 beef cube steaks 4. hamburger rolls, split • Extra slices of sweet pickles Cele bine 'hili :;hose, water, suer, vinegar, onion, green pep- per, chopped pickle, salt and pepper; mix well Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes. Melt butter; add cube steaks. Cook over low heat for 4-5 minutes on each side, or un- til browned on both sides. Serve on one half the roll; top with chili sauce mixture and garnish with pickle slices. Top with other half of roll, • ' I don't know if any of the readers of this column grow per- simmons. It is so long since 1 tasted them that I had almost forgotten that they existed, Still, in case you live in a persimmon district, the following item from the Christian Science Monitor may interest you. • ' • Autumn is inthe air and per- simmons will soon be ripening here in Indiana, Our fruit is much smaller than the Japanese variety grown in California, but is very delicious. I was once given a pie recipe from the Mo- ravian community in Hope, In- diana, MORAVIAN PERSIMMON PIE 1 cup ,persimmon 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 cups rich milk (I use a tall can of evaporated mills (11/2 cup), plus t/a cup plain milk) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1,4 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon melted butter 1 teaspoon lemon juice Makes pastry for 9 -inch pie pan. Pour in filling. Bake at 350" F. for 45-60 minutes, PERSIMMON ▪ *PARFAIT PIE 1 cup cold milk 1 teaspoon (1 envelope) plait gelatin is cup brown sugar 1 cup persimmon pulp 1. pint vanilla ice cream 2 egg whites 2 teaspoons sugar Few drops maple flavor Mix milk and gelatin in up- per part of double boiler. Let stand 5 minutes and then heat over hot water until gelatin dis- solves. Add brown sugar and persimmon pulp, Remove hot mixture from stove. Add ice cream cut in chunks and stir un- til melted. Fold in meringue made from last three ingredients, Pour into a belted pastry shell. Garnish with nuts, coconut, ci cherries. Chill until firm. is 15 Minutes Worth A Billson? On a barren peninsula high in the northwest corner of Green- land, the icy, rocky terrain is broken by a crescent of four grant steel fences. Each of them stands fifteen stories high and stretches more than the -length o'.' a Tomball field. Lust month, from one of site low buildings nearby, 4hur', powerful bursts of electrical ere c"g,y weir sent out pulsing against the arc -shaped tenet's, With this, the free world'. Bret missile -detecting radar station went info lull operation. The ;'425 million inslaliaiinu, near Thule, is part of 'Jit ?MEWS nelt'ork -- Ilaileeic Tviissile Early Warning System. The • four fences, in reality re- flecting antennas, are designed to. bounce the multimillion-w:d.t bursts nt radar waves high ovr:i 11)0 North Pole. Ilclween pulses, the 'ntennas reverse their role and lisl.en for reflections that tcoulcl reveal intercontinental missiles rising from Russian territory 3,000 miles away. The Thule station is one of three links hi the TIMIa1WS chain. The second, being built at C1e.r, Alaska, will be finished next summer, In 1962, a third statior, will be completed at Fylingdales Moor, 'Yorkshire, England, - What will the U.S. get for the $1 billion these sentinels will finally cost? At the most, fifteen minutes warning of a Soviet missile at- tack; just time enough to give the Strategic Air Command a chance to get its bombers oaf the ground and ready to retali- ate — scarcely time enough for anyone to do much else. But while BMEWS stations are being built, the U.S. is develop- ing a system that will make them obsolete — the Midas satel- lite, By late 1963, the Air Force hopes to have orbited a series of these snoopers which could spot a missile when it is launch- ed, extending warning time to e half-hour. The ultimate answer to the missile is, of course, an anti- missile missile. Sometime next summer, an Atlas missile will be launched over the Pacific from California, From 3,000 miles away, a U.S. Army Nike -Zeus missile will take off to try to intermit it. Put .et ess.it eoo tr•. in d'elwnirtg the Atlas, the missile', future is duubilul. The Ntlte-yens system would coat $15 billion. yet it would be tut-. able to handle a massive hart's€;e of -ICBM's and would also be open to all sorts of decoying and dodging tricks. As one Washington observer • putt it: "The question is whether it is worth $15 billion to develop an anti-missile system that night not even work." -- Front NEWSWEEIK, Teenagers And Charge. Accounts Charge accounts for teen age customers is the newest wrinkle in retailing — and one of the most eoniroversial. A recent survey by Seventeen magazine of 217 department and, specialty stores reported that 82 per cent had some form of credit plan for teen agers. In 1959 the figure was 32 per cent, The Wall Street Journal notes that stores have both immediate and long range reasons for pre meting credit among young buy- ers, who in some cases need be only 12 but usually must be 1a or 16. Grabbing' a bigger spare of the already big teen age mar- ket is one reason. Getting young people in the habit of buying at a particular store is another. "Educating" young buyers in the use of credit Is a third. One blue eyed 17 year old. Charlotte (N,C.) girl finds a charge account "wonderful" be- cause it enables her to buy things "right quick" when she wants them. She says that a charge account has taught her how to manage her part time job money, Maybe it has, But of aur mid- dle aged way of thinking, re- quiring a teen ager to wait and save is a better way to teach money management than encour- aging buying "right quick". We believe, too, that parents should be the teachers rather than cre- dit managers. Or is it the parents who allow their teen age sons and daugh- ters to have charge accounts who should be given instruction in the proper use of credit? — Mil- waukee Journal. ISSUE 45 — 1900 FASHION HINT 001111,11111,- • llllllll 11111 til i pi lII INrII �I tl q ilp!II� I I IIIIII llMullln tl I of I�nI���U Tall u�ll� IIlgillUull°1