HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1948-04-01, Page 3TEEN TOWN TOPICS
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Ey BARRY MURKAR
Susie=T5ifined into the kitchen
with more than her usual amount
of vigor and vitality. "The gang are
going into town
roller skating
i¢Y and, want us to
go. How much
money have
you ?"
"30 cents", I
replied, "Any-
way 1 don't
know how to
roller skate,
Only kids go in for that stuff."
"Here is two dollars for helping
with the dishesfor the past month,"
offered mon. "You go along. You've
been dragging around here all day
and the excercise will do you good."
"Oh super'," purred Susie, "the
gang will call at seven. See you
then."
As we entered the roller rink, 1
felt a little nervous down inside. A
guy can get hurt at this business, I
thought. Imagine having four steel
wheels run over your neck, especially
with 200 pounds on top of them or
worse still, if some galoot suddenly
lost balance and planted his skates
in the middle of your bread basket.
Oh horrors, what have I let myself
in for?
The man taking tickets, stopped
me with, "you can't • wear braces
in here son."
"Well how am 1 going to keep
my pants up?" I asked.
"Run home and change," he re-
plied.
"But 1 can't, it's twenty miles
away."
,'Well we'll let you off this time,
but remember in the future - no
braces."
"Oh gosh, I'm so excited," cried
Susie, "listen to that swell music,
and "look at all those people."
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Above the roar of steel on wood,
I could hear the faint sound of an
organ, Yipe, 1 thought, if that herd
of • galloping madmen ever broke
loose a person would be mincemeat.
"1 think I'd better go around alone
first," 1 said to Susie. "Sort of
get my bearings, We can have the
next skate."
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1 slithered out onto the floor and
headed for the wall, so I would
have something to hang onto. Some-
body gave me a push from behind
and 1 crashed. into the wall, landing
in a heap on the floor. Dazed and
shaken, I felt helpless as an instruct-
or picked -me up and gave me a little
shove to get me moving with the
throng.
In a few minutes 1 had the hang of
it and was gliding around the rink,—
well anyway 1 was on, my feet again.
Nearing the south corner, 1 could,
see Susie watching for me. As I
came around in front of her, I waved.
With that some horse shoved his
skate between my legs. My feet
went up in the air, I lunged out and
Trabbed a fat girl in front of ate.
he guy behind grabbed my braces.
I could feel them stretching - stretch-
'ing. Then there was a snap like a
gun report. Smack! and something
hit me full force in the back of The
neck. I lost balance, tripped.tbe-. fat
girl and we went down together with
me on the bottom amidst gales of
laughter and shouting.
* * *
Minutes later, a nurse was bend-
ing over me with smelling salts or
something. As I came to, the laugh-
ter and applause was still 'audible.
"Let me through here" came a
man's voice. "Let me talk to that
boy.'
Looking up, 1 beheld a well dressed
man of about 55. "I'm the manag-
er here," he announced. I saw that
act and could use you in my new
"Roller Review".
"Oh how simply super," cried a
faint voice. It was Susie. "You were
wonderful Barry. Anything for a
laugh, that's you."
"That's what I want him for,"
stated the well dressed man. "He'll
lay them in the aisles."
"But —" I started to ,argue, "that
was no—"
"A hundred a week, while the
show's on," said the man. "Good. I
cc... see you never turn down a good
thing."
* * *
1 felt my head, my stomach where
the fat girl landed and my you know
what. Jeepers I have to take all
this punishment, night after night? I
thought.
Susie helped me off the floor. I
limped to a chair and started to take
off my skates.. "I've had enough for
one session," I announced.
"Oh there you are," said the well
dressed man, pushing his way
through the crowd. "Say son that
deal is off. One of my instructors
just told me you can't skate with
tw., people holding you up. He saw
you go out on the floor tonight. I
thought that act was for the benefit
of the onlookees."
"I tried to tell you it was no act
Mr." I replied.
On the way home, I rubbed .ny
sore spots which seemed to multiply
every five minutes.
"41?c11 never mind," consoled Sus-
ie." There was no one else there
tonight who got an offer like you
did - even. if it only lasted for four
minutes.
The British Admiralty in 1840
decided that oak was superior to
iron and refused to accept the
metal for shipbuilding.
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"As the Twig is Bent, So Is the Tree Inclined," goes the ancient
saying. Badly bent in a storm of many years ago, this tree on
the Milton -Acton Highway refused to give up. Instead of grow-
ing downward, back to Mother Earth, it made a new start, and
now stands, twisted but sturdy, against any wind that blows.
CHRONICLES OF GINGER FARMS
By Gwendoline P Clarke
I never knew it to fail ! Not so
much as a sniffle do I ever get when
I stay around home but let me go to
the city and it's another story. Some-
time last week when I was travelling
around in those crowded street -cars
I picked up a very active little germ,
brought it home with me and it had
me by the throat all day Monday
and Tuesday, leaving Partner to
manage as best he could in the cap-
acity of house -keeper.
* * *
Wednesday morning I was pushing
myself around when the phone rang
and the message I received was that
Bob had been hurt and was in hos-
pital. It wasn't long before I was
down there. He had been loading logs
on his truck. They were extra big
logs and in loading one of them the
chain broke and the log dropped
from the height of the truck down
on to Bob's foot. Three bones are
broken but they can't be set nor the
foot put into a cast yet because of
swelling and bruised tissue. And
Bob has been given fair warning that
he will wave to wear a cast for at
least two months. However it will
be a walking cast so he hopes to be
able to get around to a certain ex-
tent. Of course it will be a great in-
convenience and a )lig expense but
it could certainly have been a whole
lot worse. The man who was with
Bob said he didn't know why 3m
wasn't killed.
•* * ,y
Yesterday 1 took him down his
radio after inquiring what the hos-
pital rules were regarding its use.
"Oh yes, he can have his radio but
only on certain conditions," the nurse
told me. "And what are they?" I
inquired. "It must be kept low • and
no modern music!" 1 laughed. Bob
I knew would comply with the first
order but not the other. After all
what's the good of a radio if you
can't listen to "A Four -leafed Clov-
er"? Personally I can listen to that
any time.
* * *
With both the boys away Partner
and I had a nice little chore to our-
selves this morning. It was the day
of the first spring ram. And what a
rain ! At our place it rained inside
tense
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aetingl Geta bottle today.
as well as out. The kitchen roof de-
cided it was high time it was re -
roofed, patched, or something, and it
put on a demonstration to prove its
point. A gentle rain doesn't affect
it but with a deluge like we had to-
day it seems there is a leak in every
square inch of room. We had wash
tubs, dishpans, preserving kettles,
boiler, wash basins and pails on the
kitchen floor and up in the attic. We
mopped floor and table in turn, em-
ptied pans and hunted new ones as
fresh leaks developed - and that
seemed to be about every five min-
utes.
fig* *
I set dinner on a card table in
the living -room - the dining -room
TABLE TALKS
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Steamed Puddings
A steamed pudding is simple to
make, satisfying to eat If you
haven't a quart mold, use a 1 -pound'
coffee can or baking powder tins
and cover with waxed paper held
in place by rubber bands. For a
first try, Steamed Fruit Pudding
or Steamed Carrot Bran. Pudding
will reward your efforts.
Steamed Fruit Pudding
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons sugar
1 egg, well -beaten
/ cup molasses
1% cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon soda
teaspoon salt
/ cup All -Bran
/ cup boiling water
/ cup seedless raisins
34 cup currants
Blend butter and sugar thor-
oughly; add egg and beat well, Stir
in molasses. Sift flour with soda
and salt; mix with All -Bran. Add
to first mixture alternately with
boiling water. Stir in 'raisins and
currants. Pour batter into greased
1 -quart mold, cover tightly and
steam about l/ hours. Serve with
Hard Sauce or other pudding sauce.
Yield: '6 Servings.
Steamed Carrot Bran Pudding
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup 'grated raw carrots
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons melted shortening
was too close to the kitchen for com-
fort. We were both tired and maybe
not in the best of humor but when we
listened to the news and heard of
the flood damage in other areas we
couldn't even begin to feel sorry for
ourselves. We haven't even got wat-
er in our cellar. At the same time
it was a great relief when the rain
stopped. I said to Partner as we
mopped up water in the kitchen -
"This is the time when prospective'
buyers should be around and inspect
any property they might be thinking
of buying." Almost any property
looks all right on a nice bright day
in spring but a rainy clay has a way
of revealing things that an agent
doesn't think to mention. After all
You could hardly expect him to point
out disadvantages in what he is
trying to sell. That is what the new
owner finds out after living on a
place for about six months.
Do you know what? There is a
red, red robin hopping around on our
front lawn!
1 cup All -Bran
1 cup fine dry bread crumbs
/ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
34 teaspoon cloves
1 cup seedless raisins
X. cup chopped candied 'citron
/ cup chopped candied orange
peel.
Beat eggs until light; add sugar
and beat until fluffy. Add carrots,
milk, shortening, All -Bran and bread
crumbs which have been mixed
with salt and spices. Add raisins,
citron and orange peel. Mix well.
Fill greased 1 -quart mold or '1 -
pound coffee can three-quarters full,
cover tightly and steam about 3
hours. Serve hot with hard sauce or
any desired pudding sauce.
Yield: 8 servings.
Note: Pudding may be steamed
in greased custard cups for about
one hour.
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Skin Troubles
Marco up your' mind today that you are
going to give your skin a real chance to get
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The very firsbAinilleation will give you
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a very few days. The same Is true of
Robing Toes. and Feet. Barber's Itch, Salt
Rheum, skin troubles.
Remember that Muune's Emerald 011 Is a
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that does not stain or leave a greasy resi-
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