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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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