The Seaforth News, 1961-06-22, Page 2Got Your Tinted
G/gasses Yet?
The sunglasses set -- a net so
exclusive group that includes
nearly half the nation -- will be
out in force when the summer
season gets under way. They'll
be sporting a sometimes Weird
assortment of sunglasses, the
harlequin, classic, aviator. Con-
tinental, and even the butterfly,
Nearly 80 million Americans
wear sunglasses, and more than
halt a million others who don't
seem to, wear sun -filtered con-
tact lenses,
Sunglasses are as common as
sunburn just as colorful —
and nobody is happier about it
than the men who make them.
Howard Barelift, head of Ameri-
can Optical's sunglasses division,
says in wonder: "Vlore and more
people are buying them every
year. Our slogan is 'Add a pair
for outdoor wear.' And, by Heav-
en, they're doing it by leaps and
bounds."
Unfortunately, as far as Bar-
elift and other makers of qual-
ity lenses are concerned, too
many sunglasses are bought
"strictly from the cosmetic point
of view," Dr. F. W. Jobe of
Bausch & Lomb warns that "an
amazing number of people base
their selection on frame style —
completely ignoring the most im-
portant part of the sunglasses, the.
lenses."
While their main function is
protective, sunglasses certainly
owe a good deal of their popular-
ity to the fact that they are dec-
orative, Possibly 80 per cent have
green lenses,although cognac
and smoke are gaining favor. But
most of the "cosmetic value" is
delivered by the frames which
come in every hue and a startling
range of shapes. This year's fa-
shion leader is the wrap-around,
nearly all glass from ear to ear,
but the top novelty may well be
the Pancho, a Mexican import
that features large, semi -square
frames and heavy temple bars. If
there's any trend, and merchan-
disers are doing their best to
start one, it will be toward
matching sets of sunglasses for
boys and girls, husbands and
wives.
Trends or not, the industry
plans to sell a record $170 mil-
lion worth of sunglasses this
year at retail prices ranging from
29 cents to $25. The price can go
much higher. A Miami Beach
dealer recently made up a pair
of sunglasses trimmed with plat-
inum and diamonds. Price: $1,000.
The huge majority of the 89
million pairs sold will pass over
drugstore counters at $1.50 to $4
each, a class that features plas-
tic or molded glass lenses. In bet-
ter quality glasses ($6 to $10 or
more), lenses are ground and pol-
ished in the same way as optical
glass.
Ophthalmologists say good
glasses should have matched
lenses that transmit no more than
a third of the visible light, are
free of color distortion and sur-
face defects. In addition, special-
ists say the lenses should absorb
ultraviolet (sunburn) rays and
infra -red (heat) rays.
Sunburn and heat rays are no
problem, however, with a special
"in" group of sunglasses wearers.
In the jazz set, it's the vogue to
wear sunglasses — the darker,
the better — while sitting in a
smoke-filled bistro listening to
cool music.
ON THE BEACH If stylists
hove their way, gals will be
showing their shirt toils at the
beach, come summer. Model in
model "ocean" shows off denim
shirt which is sleeveless, with
tiny mandarin collar, tucked
front and deep side slits.
FISH DAY IN CAMOGLI — Two enormous frying pans dominate the colorful port of Camogli,
Italy, on the Italian Riviera as the annual mass fish fry gets under way. The cooks will feed
50,000 persons from these two pans.
TABLE TALKS
ti dome Andrews
Generally speaking, the Alas-
kan homemaker serves her fam-
ily the same kinds of food and
prepares meals quite similar to
those of herstateside sisters.
But no Alaskan recipe book
is complete with out the sour
dough, and the Extension Serv-
ice at the University of Alaska
has always included recipes for
sour dough pancakes and varia-
tions of those in its pamphlets,
a a a
The rugged prospector of the
Gold Rush days at the turn of
the century knew how to sur-
vive in the Arctic. One of his
aids was the sour dough, He car-
ried a bag of dough around his
neck to keep it from freezing.
No matter what the circum-
stances, his sour -dough starter
would always permit him to have
a. batch of hot pancakes — more
often than not cooked over an
open fire = and all he had to
add was a little flour, sugar, fat,
a dash of salt, and baking soda.
The egg had, of necessity, to be
omitted, o *
There are several Alaskans
who possess a sour -dough starter
said to date back to -the Klon-
dike days of 1898. They are al-
ways glad, just as the old sour-
dough was, to share it and the
recipe with others.
For example, Mrs. Lydia Fohn-
Hansen, who for several years
headed the woman's department
of the University of Alaska Ex-
tension Service, has a pint jar of
1898 sour -dough starter in her
refrigerator. It was given to her
by a friend who had received it
from an oldtime miner and trap-
per in 1920, after it had been in
use by him and his wife for
more than 20 years.
When Mrs. Fohn-Hansen wants
pancakes for breakfast she takes
her jar of sour -dough starter out
of the refrigerator the evening
before. She fills the jar with
lukewarm water, pours it into
a bowl, and adds one cup of
flour. This is kept overnight in
a warm place. In the mcrning,
Mrs. Fohn-Hansen takes one-
fourth of it out and puts it back
into her pint jar which goes back
into the refrigerator. To what is
left in the bowl, she adds 1 tea-
spoon of baking soda, 1 or 7 eggs,
1 tablespoon of sugar and 2
tablespoons of melted fat or oil.
As soon as she has baked her
pancakes, she sits down to a
breakfast of them with butter
and syrup.,, «
For most of us who can't lay
claim to a pancake starter which
goes back half a century, the fol-
lowing recipe will serve to make
our own pancake starter, and we
may keep it going as long as we
wish and give some to our daugh-
ters when they are ready for
housekeeping, writes Ingeborg
Wilson in the Christian Science
Monitor,
Make a starter as follows:
2 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 yeast cake
You will need to use yeast for
your first batch only, Dissolve
yeast in lukewarm water, add
flour. Set in a warm place in
closed cupboard overnight. The
following morning, take out 1/4
cup of it and put it in a scalded
pint jar. Cover and store in re-
frigerator, This is your starter
for future use,
To the remainder in the bowl
add:
1 egg
s teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons melted fal or oil
1 teaspoon baking soda.
1 tablespoon sugar
Add eggs and dry ingredients
to yeast mixture, then 'stir in
melted fat, If batter is too thick,
add a little milk se it may be
poured more easily. Bake on hot
griddle, turning to brown on
both sides, Serve hot with syrup.
Never add any left -over bat-
ter to the starter. This mould
spoil the starter, However, left -
NAMED PREESIDENT Mrs.
Mary Lee Gough Nay of Boston
and Chicago was named President
of The Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston, Mass., at the June 5
Annual Meeting. A native of
McKinney, Texas, she has been
a teacher and practitioner of
Christian Science for many years,
a
over batter may be stored for a
day or two by :itself ,and then
used. In July, when'. Alaskan
homemakers are busy picking
blueberries, they may use the
left -over pancake batter for a
quick afternoon snack of blue-
berry muffins. They may also try
Blueberry Buckle as a treat for
the neighbor ladies who drop in
for a visit.
BLUEBERRY BUCKLE
34 cup sugar
2 .cups flour
21/2 teaspoons .baking powder
1 egg
74 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
?a cup melted fat
1 pint fresh blueberries (or the
equivalent of canned, drain-
ed blueberries or any berries
easily available)
For the topping:
ee cup sugar
74, cup flour
e cup butter
'ii teaspoon cinnamon
Sift the flour, sugar, baking
powder, and salt together into a
large mixing bowl. Make a well
and break in the egg, Add milk
and melted fat. Beat liquid in-
gredients in center, then stir
slowly just enough to mix with
the flour. Pour the batter into a
shallow baking dish. Cover with
blueberries and top with lightly
mixed topping. Bake 40 to 50
minutes at 350° F.
a s s
Whatever size your family is,
you probably want ideas for fix-
ing vegetables in new and dif-
ferent ways. An original recipe
for corn and apple sauce and
bacon follows. Flavor is height-
ened with crumbles of bacon
mixed through the dish — it's
a one -dish meal—and needs only
a salad or relish to go with it,
BAKED APPLE CORN
WITH BACON
1/2 pound bacon strips
I eggs, separated
2 cups canned apple sauce
1 17 -ounce can cream -style
corn
lie cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
74 cup diced pimiento or to cup
chopped stuffed olives
Saute bacon strips until crisp;
Check fore and Aft
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drain on paper towel. Beat egg
yolks; add apple sauceand corn,
Sift together flour, salt, and bak-
ing powder; add to apple sauce
mixture, Crumble part of the
bacon; reserve several strips with
which to garnish the casserole
just before serving, Add pimi-
ento or olives. Beat egg whites
stiff with a rotory beater; fold in.
Pour. into 2 -quart baking dish
and bake at 350° F. 60-70 minutes,
or until set. Serves 6-8.
« e «
For a colorful 2-vegetahle dish,
try this carrot ring with buttered
green beans. You'll find the ring
makes carrots taste like a differ-
ent vegetable.
CARROT RING WITH
BUTTERED GREEN BEANS
3 -cups soft bread orumbs
Ph cups milk
5 eggs, beaten
1 pint mashed cooked carrots
'h cup chopped celery
3 tablespoons chopped, toasted,
buttered almonds
1%s teaspoons salt
14 teaspoon each, pepper and
marjoram
1 pint hot, buttered cut green
• beans
Combine soft bread crumbs,
milk, beaten eggs, carrots, cel-
ery, almonds, salt, pepper, and
marjoram. Pour into a well -
greased 1 -quart ring mold. Set in-
to shallow pan of hot water and
bake at 350° F. for 1 hour. Let
stand 5 minutes before loosening
around edges. Unmold onto warm
serving platter. Fill center of ring
with hot buttered, cut green
beans. * «
Whether you want to serve
your beets sliced or whole, here
are a couple of ways to fix them,
BAKED SLICED BEETS
1 can (1 pound) sliced beets,
drained
2 tablespoons flour
el cup sugar
74 teaspoon salt
'/s cup orange juice
Preheat oven to 400° F. Place
beets in a buttered 1 -quart bak-
ing dish. Combine flour, sugar,
salt, and orange juice, Pour over
beets. Dot with butter. Cover
dish tightly. Bake about 30 min-
utes,
Bachelors Worth
Weight In Gold I
Bachelors are worth their
weight in gold in parts of India
these days. The scarcity of good
prospective husbands there has
resulted in the few elegible ones
asking for huge dowries from
their prospective spouses before
relinquishing their single status,
A man with a good steady job
can demand more than $3,000.
Pt he doesn't get what he wants,
all the lucky man has to do is
advertise that he is open to of-
fers and the bide will flow in,
A publicity -minded bachelor
advertised himself ' in all the
local papers, then told the spin-
sters who inquired after him that
he'd just had a better offer. They
topped it and he eventually fin-
ished up with a small fortune.
So serious has the bachelor
inflation become that the gov-
ernment is considering stepping
in and imposing a ceiling on the
amount of dowry asked.
At the moment the bachelors
are making hay while the sun
shines. Some even demand a trip
to Britain — on the wife's par-
ents — before they enter into
married bliss.
TIT FOR TAT
"Dear Alice," wrote the young
man. "I'm getting so forgetful
that while I remember propos-
ing to you last night, I forgot
whether you said 'Yes' or 'No.' '
"Dear Bob," Alice replied. "So
glad to hear front you. I know
I said 'No' to someone last night,
but I had forgotten just who it
was;'
ISSUE 24 —1901
His Own Family
Had No Doubts
My family's reception of the
news, when I stood in the door-
way and announced in ringing
tones that I had sold the play, in
no way matched my own tri-
umphant glow. They received the
news with an air of amazed dis-
belief and infuriating calm, Even
the check, which I unfolded care-
fully and placed in the center of
the dining -room table to be ad-
mired by them and by myself
all over again, was viewed with
an irritating detachment and a
quite evident distrust,
"I suppose you know what
you're doing, taking all that
money," said any mother warily,
"but I wouldn't touch it until af-
ter you've worked with this
Mr. Kaufman for a while -- in
case he asks you to give it back,
I certainly wouldn't go around
spending it With Eddie Chodor-
I know of no group of people
as idiotically confident of sue -
cost as a playwright's family
while his play is still in its try-
out stage, In spite of everything
I had said over the telephone to
my mother from Atlantic City,
in spite of my insistence that they
must all think of the play as still
"trying out" aped not as a assured
success, I was welcomed home
on a note of unqualified triumph.
Everything short of a flags and
a brass band greeted a returning
hero, whose own,doubts about
the play jangled like sleighbells
Sp his ears as he listened to the
neighbors' fulsome oongratula.
Bons and their repeated assn
awes that they could hardly wait
My mother could barely wait
to get me Inside the, apartmelt
to proudly'parade for my inspeos
tion the two new dresses she ha
bought to celebrate. These twin
purchases were explained by the
Pact that since she expected to -
attend every performanci
through' the week, as well as the
opening one, it was hardly to be
expected that she could appear
all week In the same dress, My
father and brother had settled fol'
new ties and shirts and would
wear their best blue suits every
night, but 'since different neigh -
hors would be attending the play
on different nights it was no.
more than seemly -that she be
dressed as the occasion merited.
I could only gather that she
meant to alternate the dresses, as
alternate neighbors attended the
performance, for at the end of
an,hour of listening to lighthead-
ed plans and dreams of the rich,
full life we were going to live,
I nodded "yes" to everything. It
was plainly hopeless to try to
persuade her or my father or
brother, for that matter, that
"Once in a Lifetime", might turn
. out to be a little less than, the
shower of gold they had already
concluded it was.
To do them justice, this convic-
tion, which seemed so firmly
rooted and fixed in all of their
minds, was not entirely without
a basis in reality. - From "Act
One," an Autobiography by Moss
Hart.
British Folks Are Resentful
Over "Thatched Roof" Stuff
By TOM A. CULLEN
Newspaper Enterprise
Association
London—(NEA)— Many Brit
ons . are unhappy about putting
up the "thatched roof image" for
the summer, for the benefit of
the biggest summer invasion of
American tourists. that Britain
has ever seen.
The thatched roofs are project-
ed in glossy American' magazine
advertisements which try to in-
duce tourists to drop a good
share of their travel expenses in
British coffers.
The Guardian complains that
the ads show the British "as a
parcel of local yokels busy quaf-
fing tankards of ale outside
thatched inns under an uncloud-
ed sun while the pink -coated
hunt clatters by."
This image doesn't square at
all with the 1981 Britain of
belching smokestacks, brave new
towns, atomic energy plants and
gleaming sports cars.
But the thatched cottages are
raking .in the dollars, the British
Travel and Holidays Assn. re-
ports. Last year's total of 426,642
over to portray the city through
the rose-colored glasses worn
by tourists. They are 384 offi-
cial men and women who are
proud of the fact that they are
seldom, if ever, caught in a
wrong answer.
They can rattle off,the number
of: diamonds in the Imperial
State Crown (3,000) - and the
height of St. Paul's Cathedral
(365 feet). They know where
Pocahontas is buried (in Graves-
end) and the depth of London's.
deepest underground subway sta-
tion (181 feet).
They have worked hard to
correct a bad image of Britain
which Americans got 'until the
1953 Coronation Year. The im-
age was not one of thatched
cottages in the country but that
of being swindled by Soho
crooks and touts posing as
guides.
"The result was disastrous,"
says Charles W. Price of the
Holidays' Association. "Ameri-
cans were leaving England with
the vownever to return again."
So a register of reputable
guides was set up. Guides were
given a three-month lecture
Britain's thatched roofs.
American visitors to Britain set
an all-time record.
And the Americans do not
come to Britain to see the steel
mills of Sheffield or to take
snapshots of the suburbs of Man-
chester, "We've got those at
home" is the typical American
response.
No, mostly they come to see a
glimpse of the peaceful British
cour.' c' side, walk in Cottswold
villages with ducking ponds and
quaint inns, and talk to vioars in
gaiters,
And when they come to the
city, it's London, not Birming-
ham or Liverpool, they want to
see. They want to peek at the
Crown Jewels, watch the Chang-
ing of the Guard, eat at the
Cheshire Cheese pub on Fleet
Street and go to the theater.
(London has nearly twice as
many first-rate theaters, as New
York, You'll get one of the best
seats at the Old Vic for $2;38 )
In London the guides take
course with practical, oral and
written examinations to ascer-
tain whether they were suffi-
ciently steeped in •English his-
tory, geography, topography, art
and architecture, national and
local government, and local hor-
ticulture (for the benefit of vis-
iting farmers) to . go into the
field.
Only 16 of 200 applicants for
guide jobs qualified this year.
(Price says retired businessmen
make the best guides, students
the poorest' ones "because they
are too young to have acquired
the necessary knowledge,").
By beingabsolutely ruthless
in weeding out bad guide ma-
terial and properly placing its
advertisements, the association
has created the image of Britain
that the Guardian complains
about, But regardless of the cri-
ticism, the British tourist in-
dustry once again this year will
put their best thatched cottages
forward-