HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-01-26, Page 2Making Patches
Fhat Really Patch
The modern woman is no
longer a drab little stay-at-home
with hours to darn and mend
the family apparel, It's a speedy
age and with so much living to
be done, it is no wonder that
women everywhere are looking
for a fast patch.
The fastest patch is the press -
on, This patching material can
be purchased from your variety
or dry -goods store in various
forms. There are round jersey
patches for knitted wearables,
The same, material comes in
strips, packaged in several colors
to a card. Mending tape in
heavy cotton or percale is also
available in many colors, Denim
patches for . jeans come ready
cut in patches just right for knee
and seats. Denim is available in
nearly every color seen in jeans
and in a variety of sizes,
"My press -on patches don't
stick," is a common complaint.
A patch that is applied with
heat will loosen if you use ex-
tremely hot water. These patch-
es can be easily pressed down
again with a hot iron. If you are
in the habit of using extremely
hot water for your laundry you
will save time by stitching down
the edge of the patch with a
simple running stitch,
Patches applied with the iron
will be more durable if you first
apply the heated iron to the
surface to be mended. Then ap-
ply the patch and press in place
with the hot iron. The press -on
will adhere longer to the heated
fabric than it would to a cold
fabric. Also, be sure that the
garment is thoroughly dry be-
fore applying a press -on patch.
For mending overalls, jeans,
shirt sleeves, and other hard to
reach places, without ripping
seams, you cannot beat the old
two - minute sewing machine
patch. To use this patch cut
away the wcrn fabric, making a
neat square or rectangular hole.
Be sure to cut with the grain of
the fabric if you want a neat
patch. Then slit each corner,
cutting in 'h inch or whatever
you plan to make your seam al-
lowance. Next, turn the gar-
ment wrong side out.
Cut a patch from matching
fabric, making it an inch larger
In length and width than the
hole. The back of overall legs
makes good pieces to make new
fronts for the worn ones. Often
a piece of material can be cut
from a shirt tail to mend a
sleeve. Cut the patch with the
straight of the fabric to avoid
stretching or puckering when the
garment is mended.
Now, place the right side of
the garment to the right side
of the patch. Place the straight
edge of the hole you have cut
directly overthe edge of the
patch you have prepared. With
your sewing machine, stitch the
edges together, sewing around
the patch. Sew the cut edge of
the hole to the patch, keeping
right sides of fabric together.
Sew to the slit and then turn the
garment, sewing along the other
side, keeping the cut edge of the
garment with the grain of the
patch. When the patch is sewn
in, break your thread and turn
the garment right side out.
You may press the patch to
make it nearly invisible. With a
little practice you will be able
to match stripes and prints to
make the patch inconspicuous.
The patch can be made more
durable by stitching around the
patch twice instead of just once.
Trim away excess material of
the patch but 1lnsa a generous
seam.
This patch h ,'the advantage
in being less t, r,iceable because
there is no stit .firing to show on
the right side t,t the garment. It
is a speedy way to mend and the
garment doesn't grow heavy.
with the added weight of patch-
es because this patch is but a
single thickness of fabric,
If you sew your own clothing,
try stitching a small piece of
fabric to an inside seam. This
fabric can be used for mending
and will match perfectly be-
cause it will have been laun-
dered as many times 'as the gar-
ment. -Ey Eileen Mittasse in the
Christian Science Monitor,
How Huck, Finn Was
Almost Destroyed
Late in August, 1883, Samuel
L. Clemens — more accurately
Mark Twain, since that was his
nom ale plume—wrote the last
page of Adventures of Huckle-
berry Finn. He was on a farm
near Elmira, New York, where
he worked in a one -room house
built as his study nine years be-
fore, Photographs show a room
cluttered with a sofa, assorted
chairs, and the two little antique
statues which stood on the fire-
place mantel. There he sat writ-
ing on a small round table heap-
ed with books and papers.
These photographs and others,
and friends' descriptions, picture
a presence whichwas impressive
even in that era of majestically
bearded authors, . . He was
slightly above average height,
but his thin figure and small
delicate hands and feet made a
few who saw him briefly con-
sider him small. His arresting
head, however, was dispropor-
tionately large, or perhaps its
features gave that impression—
the great cockatoo swirl of dense
gray hair, the high forehead, the
feathery eye -brows, the long
aquiline nose, and the big droop-
ing moustache. Many have men-
tioned the piercing quality of his
eyes, which glinted sternly or
quizzically from beneath lower-
ed lids. His dress for the time
was dazzling; though other
American men wore dark suits
the year round, in summer he
wore suits of spotless white.
As he finished each page his
habit was to drop itto the floor
to join others written 'that day.
Late in the afternoon he gather-
ed and stacked the pages, prob-
ably counted them (since he was
always interested in the day's
output), and carried them over
to the farmhouse where his wife
and daughters awaited his ar-
rival.
On the last page of the novel
Huck In his role of narrator ex-
pressed vast relief upon finish-
ing his story, His creator must
have shared this sentiment as he
did many others of this charac-
ter, for he had composed the
novel haltingly and slowly. He
had started it rather more than
seven years before, had written
about four hundred pages, and
had wavered between burning
and pigeon -holing them. Luck-
ily he had put them aside. On
returning to them now and then
he had found that he could add
pages. Finally that summer in a
great spurt of creation he had
completed the manuscript.
There is no evidence that be
felt that the moment was an•
unusually important one. In re-
trospect, however, it is possible
to see that it• was a climax in
Mark Twain's long career and
also in American literary history.
—From "Mark Twain & Huck
Finn." by Walter Blair.
THE FINAL TRIP - A Chesapeake and Ohio steam locomotive,
weighing 425 tons, moves along a temporary track leading lb
a playground in Richmond, Va. As in many places,. the 'iron
horse" was donated by the railroad as a permanent display,
Railroad brotherhoods donated labor and railroads gave me-
terials fat the project.
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HOOKS RIDE — AND FISH — Actor Jack Lemmon proudly shows
off his first deep-sea catch — a whopping. 100 -pound sailfish
— while on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico, Jack hooked his
trophy while a guest on the yacht offormer Mexican President
Miguel Aleman.
TABLE TALKS
For some people, apples must
always go with pork, Here is a
way 'of cooking them together.'
PORK CHOPS AND APPLES
4 pork chops, •4 -inch thick
2 teaspoons salt
s teaspoon pepper
Ye teaspoon caraway seed
2 apples, cored and cut in half
3/4' cup brown sugar
as cup water
Sprinkle half the salt and
pepper on chops. Brown chops.
in skillet. Place chops in a 11 -
quart casserole. Place apples,
skin -side down, bn top of chops.
Sprinkle with sugar. Add cara-
way
araway seeds and remaining salt
and pepper to water and pour
over chops and apples. Cover
.and bake in preheated 350°F.
oven for 30-40 minutes. Serves 4.
* *
Just a touch of curry powder
may be added to pork chops for
a new, elusive taste. Try it comp
bined with several dried fruits
with your next chops.
FRUITED PORK CHOPS•
4 pork chops, 1/2 Inch thick
1 cup dried prunes
1 cup dried apricots
1 cup orange juice
iia teaspoon curry powder
(optional, of course)
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Brown chops .on both sides in, a heavy skillet. Add prunes and
apricots. Combine juice, curry
powder, sugar, and salt... Pour
over chops. Cover. Cook over
low heat about 1 hour: (If you
prefer to bake them, put cov-
ered skillet in a 350° F. oven.)
In either case,, keep enough
juice or water oh chops to pre-
vent burning; when finished,
there should be just enough
sauce to coat the fruit.
*
Would you like to try a cas-
serole of macaroni, corn, and
pork chops? All you need in
addition to your main course is
a tossed green salad.
PORK CHOP BAKE
4 ounces elbow macaroni
4 pork chops
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons chopped onion
la cup chopped green pepper
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoons brown sugar
la teaspoon salt
rA cup water
t 4 cup chili sauce
1 tablespoon vinegar
VAcups cream style corn (No.
2 can)
Cook macaroni in boiling
salted water until tender, about
8 minutes, Drain and rinse.
While macaroni is cooking, trim
fat from chops; season with salt
and pepper. Grease heavy skil-
let with trimmings. Brown pork
chops and remove from skillet.
Add onion and green pepper to
skillet and brown lightly. Stir
in flour, . brown sugar and '
teaspoon salt. Add water, chili
sauce, and vinegar. Cook, stir-
ring constantly, until thickened.
'Add macaroni and corn and' mix
well. Pour into 2 -quart cas-
serole. Arrange pork chops on
top. Cover; bake at 350' F.
about 1 hour, or until chops are
tender,
Does your family Like Lots of
spices? Here is a way to cook
pork chops, using • orange juice
along with several spices, -writes
Eleanor Richey Johnston in the
Christian Science Monitor.
Serve with this casserole, if
you like, spinach, green beans,
sweet potatoes, baked potatoes,
or. creamed ]potatoes.
SPICY PORK CHOPS
6 rib or loin pork chops, cut
thick
I canfrozen orange juice
concentrate
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2.3 medians anions (cut in
taj•lnch slices)
>i tablespoons brown sugar
134 tablespoons powdered ginger
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1/2-1 teaspoon marjoram
1/2-1 teaspoon salt
34-1 teaspoon monosodium,
glutamate
Wipe chops with damp cloth,
Brown on both sides in heavy
greased skillet, If you do not
have enough fat trimmings for
skillet grease, use 1 tablespoon
fat for browning.) Arrange
browned chops in a 2 -quart bak-
ing dish, having a tight -fitting
cover. Combine fruit juices and
water; mix well; pour over
chops. Arrange onion, slices, 1
per chop, on top. Mix thoroughly
together all remaining ingre-
dients; sprinkle over chops and
liquid. Cover casserole and bake
at 350° F. 1 to 11 hours or until
meat is tender and thoroughly
cooked and onions are tender
and translucent. Six servings.
• * •
SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE
?1s cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar'
x eggs -
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup 04 pint) sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
For Topping, combine
14 cup brown sugar, firmly
packed
34 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup pecans, finely chopped
Preheat oven to 325° F. Cream
butter and sugar, Add eggs, one
at a time, beating well Sift dry
ingredients' together. Add to
creamed alternately with sour
cream, beginning and ending
with flour. Stir in vanilla
Pour half of batter into buttered.
9"x9" baking pan, cover with
half of nut topping, pour remain-
ing batter over filling and top
with rest of nut mixture. Bake
approximately 40 minutes.
Dirty Filters
Cost You Money
Homeowners can save money
by checking their furnaces fil-
ters. Dirty filters can waste fuel
dollars. If you have recently
purchased a new home, chances
are you'll need to change the
filters,
It takes several months before
all of the dust and grit from
_home construction works its way
out. And fortunately most of this
dirt . is trapped in the filter. If
you' have a new home, check
your furnace filter at least once
a month.
Normally your new home's
first winter will require about
three to four filter cleanings or
changes during the ,first heating
season.
If your home is more then a
year old, check your filters and
humidifier.
If your humidifies' has porous
plates in' it, they can be eco-
nomically replaced with a fresh
set,
Orange Vitamins
Feed •A Cold War
A startlingstaiisic came to
' light this month. In 1980, the
countries of the Soviet bloc
bought 39 per cent of all exports
from Greece, a key member of
the NATO alliance. Six years
ago, the figure was only 10 per
cent,
One reason for the increase is
that Greece is not a member of
the European Common Market,.
where the Greeks used to sell
most, of their citrus fruits. As a
result, nearly 75 per cent of all
Greek orange exports now go
behind the Iron Curtain, a fact
that led Greek Foreign Minister
Evangelos Averoff to say: "We
have reached the point where
oranges are a factor in the cold
war,"
Wooden. Figure
Has. Strange Power
In the Italian'Naval Museum
of La Spezia, a port town near
Genoa, is a, woman who has
brought unhappiness to any
men andcaused the death pf'
two.
Her name is Atalanta and she
once decorated the prow of a
nineteenth-century sailing ship.
A golden -haired beauty, she is
dressed in a gown that has slip-
ped from her right shoulder to
reveal her bosom,
Atalanta's story begins in 1866
when a sailor an watch in an
Italian frigate spotted what he
thought was a human body float-
ing ,n the Adriatic, The body
was pulled aboard and was
found to be a wooden figure-
head. The name Atalanta was
carved on the. wooden pedestal.
On -the journey back to Italy,
sailors of the frigate spent hours
gazing at Atalanta's provocative
beauty. She was so alluring that
the men quarrelled over her and
one was knifed.
The captain locked Atalanta.
out of sight and, back in Genoa,
•gave the figure to the naval
museum to exhibit With thirty
other ship figureheads, As most
of these were; of muscular, war-
like women armed with tridents
and. wearing helmets, Atalanta
was easily the most feminine and
attractive figure in the museum,
In 1924, a museum cleaner-
guard named Madrigo became
infatuated with Atalanta. He
spent hours gazing at her and
dusting her. His infatuation be-
came the talk of La Spezia.
People began to say that he was
mad.. •
The museum curator advised
him to ignore Atalanta and gave
him other duties in the museum,
but always Madrigo returned,
fascinated by the figure.'
Then one night after leaving
the museum he went down to the
waterfront. Next morning his
body was found floating in the
harbour.
His action was dismissed as an
unfortunate incident, and nine-
teen years passed before Atalan-
ta caused further notoriety.
In 1943 the Germans control-
led the La Spezia naval base.'
One of the officers stationed
there was a Lieutenant Eric,
Kurz of the submarine service.
He frequently called at the
museum to see Atalanta. After
a month he told the curator that
he wantedthe figure and would
senda truck for it. The Germans
were in control and,the curator
could not refuse the request.
,For several weeks after that it
was noticed that Kurz was silent
and moody; he stopped inviting
friends to his quarters.
On October 13th, 1944, Kurz
failed to report for duty. Soon
afterwards he was found at the
foot of the statue, a revolver
clutched in his hand and a bullet
hole in his head.
Pinned on Atalanta's body was
a farewell note: "Since no wo-
man can give me the life of
dreams that you have given me,
Atalanta, I offer my life to you.
Eric Kurz."
For some time after the war
Atalanta was kept in a store-
room, then she was put on view
again. Despite constant letters of
protest she remains there,
Objectors say that there is
something, witchlike about Atal-
ante, that she is brazenly Immo-
dest.
Her defenders point out that
she is, afterall, only a carving '
out of wood. Atalanta is inter-
esting, they, say, but any man
who falls in love with a wooden
figure when there are so many
very much alive ones around La
Spezia is crazy,
Pearl Wear Now
Collectors' Trove
For many years Pearl Satin
Ware, sometimes called Pearl
Ware, or Mother -of -Pearl
glass, has proved to be one of
the most popular collectibles of-
fered to a glass -conscious public.
The various patterns in which
this ware can be found, plus the
many shades and combinations .,
of color which may be encoun-
tered, make it to many collectors
the most interesting of all the
glasses fabricated in the nine-
teenth century.
The earliest use of the syrn-
metrical or controlled pattern of
air traps in a glass body as a
decorative feature — the basic
principle of Pearl Satinglass, was
made manifest In the \renetian's
intricate Vetro Trina, Theair
traps, were formed by the criss-
crossing df opage whitegl.ass
threads imprisoned between two
walls of glass.
Benjamin Richardson, wbo was
considered the father of the
English flint glass rindustry in
,his day, took: out what we be-
lieve to be the earliest patented
process descriptive of Pearl Satin
Warein the nineteenth century.
His invention for "An Improve-
ment In The Manufacture Of
Aritcles In Glass, So As To Pro-
duce Peculiar - Ornamental Ef-
fects," was filed July - 27, .1857,
and sealed January 20, 1858, The
process- for manufacturing this
peculiar ornamental effect in a
glass body was quite simple. A
gather of glass was blown into
a mold which carried the pattern
in projected form. The result
was a piece with surface inden-
tations. The parison (the piece
still in its molten state) taus in-
dented was dipped in fluid metal
to coat the exterior surface. The
air traps preserved between the
indented molding and the glass
skin provided the ornamentation,
Another method for achieving
• this result was to place the
molded piece in a cup of glass
blown to receive it, the worker
then blowing anal shaping the•
mass further into the article de-
sired. The several layers in each
ease could be the same color or
of different colors, according to
the desired effect the worker
wished to obtain. Nowhere 3k
Mr. Richardson's patent enumer-
ations did he allude to giving the
article- a lusterless finish either
with acids or sandblasting, as is
usually found in the later prod-
uction of Pearl Ware. — From
"Nineteenth Century Glass," by
Albert Christian Revi, Copy-
right, 1959, by Albert Christian
Revi.
Wife to her husband, "you
don't seem as well dressed as
when you married me.". "I don't
see why not, I'm wearing the
same suit."
ISSUE 3 — 1961
GETTING INTO THE ACT — President-elect John F, Kennedy
amides as daughter Caroline, 3, barges in on his news con-
ference wearing a pair of her mother's shoes, After showing
her shoes to bad and newsmen, Caroline, wobbled aft" and
the men returned to the business at hand,