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Zurich Herald, 1928-03-08, Page 3More • orne»Made Candies To '1=14)) stuffed prunes select largo. i recipes are for simple centres but •prunes,'ash thoroughly and let soak in cold w?iter for two hours, Remove the stones and dry the prunes on clean cloth. Fill .centres with nuts only, fondant and nuts, candied fruit t tioners' sugar, % ounces (about 1 1/3 or preserved ginger, Rou in. granu- caps) cocoa. Wash and cream the lated sugar. butter, add the confectioners' sugar they make very attractive confer• tions. Chocolate Delights. 1, cup. butter, 11Ja pounds confer= Stuffed Pigs," ?�a Pound dried figs, cup orange juice, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon juice,' Maraschino cherries, Pe can meats. Mix the orau,ge juice; lem- on juice and sugar and cook the figs very slowly in the liquid, turning and basting them often, until,. they are tender. Drain, cool, open and stuff each fig with two maraschino cher- ries cut in halves and five pecan meats, broken. Close, press into shape and roil in powdered sugar, Date Sweets. • 1 pound dates, ea cup walnut meats. 2 tablespoons candied ginger. Stone the dates andput them through a food chopper. Add the walnuts and ginger, coarsely chopped. Knead the; mixture on a sugared board and shape into a roll. Cut in thin Slices with a Unite and roll the slices in powdered sugar, Chocolate Dates. Stone choice dates and steam them fin. five minutes. Remove from the steamer and when cool enough to handle close each date firmly., When cold, coat •with sweet chocolate. As a variation the centres may be filled with a quarter of an English walnut or with a bit of candied ginger, French Date Bonbons. Stone large dates and steam them for five minutes. When they are cool stuff them with fondant. Cut pista- chio nut meats in halves : and press two or three pieces, into the fondant of each date so that the nut meats show. Almonds, blanched and toast-,. ed, may be used in other dates. Place each date in a paper bonbon cup gradually and then add, the cocoa which has boen sifted. Shake into balls, coat with melted sweet dance late and roll in cocoa, • Mocha Chocolates, s/s, pound butter, 33, pound confec- tioners' sugar, ea cup cocoa, 2 table- spoons coffee extract, Cream the but- ter—use unsalted butter, if possible .--and add the confectioners' sugar gradually. Then add the cocoa and the coffee extract, Add more sugar if necessary to melte the mixture stiff enough to handle and shape in balls. Coat with sweet chocolate. Pistachio Chocolates. Flavor fondant with pistachio ex- tract made by combining lemon and almond extracts and mix in one- fourth cup (one ounce) of blanched pistachio nuts. Roll into balls; coat with sweet chocolate; sprinkle the top of each candy. with chopped nuts as soon as it is coated. Almond Acorns. Blanch the •desired quautity of al- monds. Melt a little sweet dipping- chocolate over hot water. With the tips of the fingers dip the almonds Into the chocolate, coating them not more than two-thirds of the way down. Dip them immediately into chopped pistachio nuts. Place on a waxed paper to dry. , Grilled Almonds. Blanch one cup of almonds and dry them thoroughly. Boil one cup of sugar with the same amount of water until it reaches 234 degrees or threads from the tip of a •spoon. Add the al- monds and let simmer, stitring fre- quently,, until they turn a yellow brown color. • Remove from the fire at once, and stir vigorously until the nuts are covered with a sugary coat- ing, Honey Fruit Squares, la pound desslcated cocoanut, 1 pound strained honey, la cup washed currants, milk. Cover the cocoanut with milk and let it stand for a few minutes. Cook the •:honey until it boils, add the cocoanut and continue cooking until it is very thick. Then stir in the currants and pour into au oiled tin. When cold, cut into inch Chocolate Prunes. Wash choice prunes 'thoroughly, cover with cold water and soak over- night. Brlu.g to the boiling point, re- move from the fire and drain. Re= move the pits and allow the prunes to dry. fill each prune with a salted. Deceit meat and die in melted choco- late, Let stand until the chocolate has dried ana then wrap in waxed .paper. There is an almost infinite variety of combinations possible in dipping candies from plain nuts to elaborate centers of creams and nougat. These squares. t answer is, "Not since the stabliliza French Humor tion of the lira." One of the most widely read of French financial writers concludes an article thus: "Unless, of caurse, it isn't like this at all, and other things are happening which will play havoc with theories and calculations." An unfriendly newspaper reprints the sentence with the headline, -'The last word of financial science." It is decided that the soldiers shall have a new form of cap. So M. de la Fcuchardiere imagines the following conversation: Discussions of Weighty Topics are Constantly En- lisetertecl. by the Shafts of a Humor WI-ich Re- mains a "Character- is tic National Trait 2'aith--lo;e and then Frenchmen shake their heads slowly and say that things are not what they used to be --that there are no longer good res- taurants in Paris, that their country- men in general are no longer univer- sally polite, that France is losing many of the qualities for which she has long been renowned. One feels justified by experience in accepting'' such plaints only at considerable dis- count, since the dark mood of a Frenchman is likely to be very dark indeed. „ On the other hand, his gay moods are as gay as one could wish; and one of the qualities that he dis- tinctly has not lost is his sense of humor. It is all tie more piquant and strik- ing, because nothing is, spared. No topic, however grave, is regarded as Inappropriate or jokes. Wit is held to justify itself. It is an end in. •it- Gaif, for which great sacrifices are shade, It, may do harm to its victim, even perhaps to its author, but if• it scores as• wit a great deal will be overlooked, _ King Amanullah To Be Received With Splendor at London Court, SUBMARINES ON LONG VOYAGi H.M.S. Otway and H.M.S. Cixleya giant British submarines, photographed at Gosport ebortly before their departure upon the first unescorted voyage made by submarines from England to Australia. London's Lottery Craze Visit of Afghan Monarch and Queen Expected to Cost British Ruler 110,000; New w Scarlet Liveries, Floral Decov a,tions, State Banquet Among Items London, --More than ordinary pre- parations are being Made at Backing - leant Palace for the reception of King Amanellah and his Queen, Since the Afghan monarch has beers received elsewhere with so much splendor, it Is considered that it would be impolitic if the manner of his reception at the : cotirt ' of the monarch who to Emperor of India should seem to the royal visitor from the East less splendid 'than those ar- ranged for him elsewhere. When King Fuad visited the 'Eng- lish Court last summer, although he' was received' as any European mon- arch would have boen, itbecairde known that he was a little disappoint- ed at what appeared to him to be a lack of splendor at the court of the richest and greatest of living sove- reigns. The oicials at Buckingham Palace are exerting themselves to see that King Ahanuliah shall not depart un- der a similar impression and his visit is going to be an expensive one for Famous "Flutters" of the Past Although the first Westminster' one occasion attempts were made by Madge was built by money raised by I "adventurers," as ticket -holders were a lottery, . it can hardly be said that the method of raising funds was an unqualified suceess.. Indeed, the first lottery failed, and It required a arm- ee. lotteries in all to raise the neces- sary £389,500. and 1824 was• .2344,76,5- Was Leaningl�roanHis Cab One wonders how many lotteries In 1808 a An reported that: An engineer of a Lackawanna Rafl- 000 w is rsgthe totald to raise £27+f►00. ' "The foundation of the latter4 syr- road passenger train, struck down in which is the ommeted cost ten} is so radically vicious that . . •his cab recently, probably saved the of all the schemes recommended er under no system of regulations which lives of a number of persons when, the R"oyer Commission on Cross-River be devised will it be possible for even in death, his hands closed on Parliament to adopt it as au efficaci- ous source of revenue, and, at the same time, divest it of all the evils which it has hitherto proved so bane- ful a source." Since 1826 (writes H. V. C., in "The Evening News") every kind of lot- tery, public or private, °heritable or called, to bribe the boys to draw iu an irregular manner. It was evident that the •evils at- Brakes Set as Lackawanna tending lotteries far outweighed the Pilot is Struck by Pole benefits to the revenue, although the Near Kearny, N.J. average yearly profit between 1793 pts floss, All the Indoor footmen at the' pal- ace are to be provided with new scar- ing. let liveries, the tunics of which will Then there will be the cost of the be specially decorated for the ocea- state banquet, the extra carriages and sion with gold lace. There are sixty horses and motor cars, a special ser - t footmen, when the staff is at full vice of messengers and Scotland Yard strength, and the bill for the liveries "extras" for looking after the safety will average £S0 each, totaling of the Royal visitors. The expenses £ 3,000, and this is but one item bathe of the visit are expected • to be at least expenses of the visit. £ 10,000. In pre-war days e. royal The visitor and his "queen will oc- visit was supposed to cost £3,000. cupy the royal visitors' suite contain• ing eight apartments, The walls of the bedroom, drawing room and writ- ing room in this suite have been re- lined with epic of colors and designs specially liked by the Afghan sove- reigns. The walls of the bedroom will be scarlet, with a gold dado, The relin- ing of the . walls of these rooms has, cost 21,200• The poral dacoratione. probably aril be the most costly eve seen at Buckingham Palace. Two contracts for the supply of floral de- corations for the visit have :been en- tered into, at a cost of nearly £2,000. Theereception will be carried out with the greatest splendor when they arrive. A11 the court officials in their uniforms will attend and the King's guard termed by picked men from the' Life Guards w ll stand three deep around the walls of the spacious hall. King Amauullah is traveling with a large suite of attendants, most of whom will be housed in expensive rooms about St. Tames's Palace at King 'George's expense and they will be suitably entertained every even - Engineer Killed But Stops Train Traffic! It is just over a century since the Englishman was deprived of the pow- er to take part in 'lotteries. In Oct- ober, 1826, at Cooper's Hall, Basing- hall Street, was drawn the last State lotteey. The first public lottery had taken place In 1569, when the Gov- ernment of the day organized oneto otherwise, has been illegal. raise funds for repairing the national harbors, the prizes being "plate and '• certain sorts of merchandises." It could Pit Farming took place at the western door. of St,: . !C Paul's Cathedral. "Yes, of •course," says the Minister of War. "That would be more con- venient, The kepi, having a visor, would be easier to salute." _ "Excuse me, Monsieur lei 1nistre, the soldiers don't take off their hats when they salute." "Ah, really? I hadn't noticed. But are You, sure that this cap is entirely new? It seems to me, though I have never paid much attention, that I have seen something like that_upon the heads of soldiers. Oh, yes, with a little cockade and a tuft -yellow, red or green. There was a song _about that tuft when I was .young." "You are tight, Monsieur le Minis- tre. Formerly the soldiers wore ke- pis, which were succeeded by calots. This is progress. We must encour- age the business of making caps for the army, which is as deserving of consideration as the trade of naval hat -maker. You know that M. Ley- gues (Minister of the Navy) has given the sailors a new cap and made it It would be difficult to finer subjects obligators to wear it, Besides, the as grave as France's foreign 1,ela1Aort,st ,;new cap is very striking because of her finances and her army. Yet it its height," happens to be ,these very ;topics that j "Just what es the advantage of lately provoked uuxueoue lttfrbOrDus'.11.iue'gg•ht in a Military cap?" observations. 'Why, the higher a cap is, the A bill has just pissed the.Chamlle'r i .easier it is to see it from a distance: reducing compulsory minted"- service i *e'must remember that the soldiers', OP "Publick Nuisances" On Business Basis After 1569 lotteries swiftly achiev- ,,We are as far below in bhe busi- ed an amazing popularity. They as inany other were organized for the supply nese end of farmingarbof wet- phase of agriculture," affirmed Hon. er to London, for assisting royalties John S. Martin, Minister of Agricul- and pretenders to the throne, for dis- posing of famous jewels, for the put-- chase of picture galleries. Eventually they must have inter-' fered considerably with the work of the nation. The "Loudon Spy" said; - "The Gazette and Post -Papers lay by neglected and nothing was Pur'd over in the Coffee Houses, but the Ticket -Catalogue, No talking of the Jubilee, the want of Current Trade with France, or the Scotch settle- ment at Darien; Nothing Buz'd about by the Purblind Trumpeters of State News, put Blank and Benefit" And in 1698 Parliament, coming to the conclusion that lotteries were "common and publick nuisances; passed a Biel prohibiting them. But the thirst for a "flutter" caused the State lotteries to be resumed in 17.09. Ohdldren, usually the picturesque Blue -coat boys, were often brought in to do the drawing On more than to one year. Thera elmears a grote- sque drawing of two soldiers doing kitchen duty, one'aaying to . the other, one day, will go to war. "That's true. I hadn't thought of that. ' But then why not adopt tho "It seems that after 1930,e yearshako at once?" will be enough time in which to "That will come later, Monsieur le learn to peel potatoes:A1' et . Miuistre. Progress proceeds by steps. The Briand-Kellogg :discussion. pf . a We shall subzhit in turn for your ap- treaty against war Bazin reached an proval the replacing of the kepi by impasse, there is a drawing depleting the shako, then" of the shako by the " T K more.wars of kepi and finally 6f the kepi by the i,� nailer proposing, lcalot, Far if the kepi is more mar aggression,' while; eljCogg replies.. "No more wars, e'en defensive," The tial, we shall recognize later that the , ironic title says, "Carrying Locarno calot is more practical. The, calot is the new cap of the future. Too Car;" The writer then recalls the opera of . Offenbach, "The Brigands." In it °the soldiers arrive too lata to cap- ;cure . the brigands: Tho colonel is puzzled. Somebody' explains that the •,t4liieves have heard the drums of the. -troops, "Oh, yes," says the colonel "thatl5 trite, 'Iiei'eatter they shall have 'trumpets." Wit Plays Witii. Finance " Shiploads of gold arrive froril Ne* Nolle. One newspaper eemm,entary is an imaginary colloquy between I X. poiucere and Maoihnne; "Theyi'ra hringing unillions.and: miejeone.et, gold dollars;' says the Premier. "What moredo you want?" And Marianna. replies pensively, "A .franc:" •' (That« is, a logally stabilized franc.) The In the Tinted States last year 4',3," essence of the financial "silulstiofif( 512,002 motor -vehicles were registeted thus summarized in e dozen words. We do not remember dodging the tali- Teo difficulties, of Italy in stabiliz• end twe--Westten (Ore.) Leader. in, the lira, with a consequent rise in the, cast of living, are pictured by having One afez orn than say to an - 90.2 r, n-oth:r, "Ti7J4en did you last eats, .The ,;spondee the husband,;"1 fcnind you "You were always a fault-finder!" reeled hie wife, "'Yes, dear," re-, the emergency brakes and stopped the speeding train. The engineer, David Bowen of North Bergen, N.J., was killed in one of the most peculiar accidents in Lackawan- na:records. Earlier two freight cars of the Pen - Turning Wood Into Metal Wonder Material for Air- craft . I examined recently what may pos- sibly prove to be the most revolu- tionary .invention in aircraft design since the Wright brothers first flew a heavier-than-air machine (says a writer in "The Daily Express')' Mr. Wladinuir J. Einstein, who is at present in London, 1s the inventor al' the process, which, in its simplest terms, is to dip any substance in a metal bath. The result is an object which, it isclaimed, Is from five to ten times as strong as the original, is weatherproof, and of three times greater durability- nsylvania Railroad were . derailed on A noted engineer who accompanied me expressed himself satisfied that the project is worthy of further in- vestigation. Duplicates of the_eamples I saw are now in the possession of the Air Ministry. Their experts are the only people in the country in a position adequately to test the new process. the meadows just outside Kearny,N. J. The cars crashed into an electric light pole and bent it in such a way that it •iirojected alightly over the. Lackawanna tracks ; paralleling those of the Penny lvania. When Bowen's train approached, three hours later, the engineer leaned out of his cab. The bent pole struck If the claims made by the inventor his head, crushing it, and physicians are substantiated, it is proposed to who examined him later said he must have died almost instantaneously. construct of this material the envelope Nevertheless, the train jerked to a of the new British semi-rigid airship ,sow being designed, at a meeting of the University of stop, and trainmen found Bowen's Toronto Commerce Club recentiy.1 hand clenched over the set emergency "The farmers must learn to manage brake. ' their affairs in a businesslike way," 1 _ ,yr_ -_- he continued, "and :the old system of everybody rushing his produce on to P03l133 an Service for Germany the market at once, and thereby cans Berlin.—The running schedule for ing a glut, must come to an end. Co Germany's first Pullman train, which operative marketing is the ideal to will be out into service on May 15, ward which all energies should be I bas been made up. The - train will directed, and the importance of this Ileave The Hook of Holland and make is, I think, beginning to be xe ntarstops at Rotterdam, Ainsterdan, for the United Farmers of Ontario io Utrecht, . D' shard Dusseldorf Colo school, and ,are working In harmony Baden -flog, Freiburg and Basle, ' with the Government in bringing, about an improved state of affairs." '`- Salesman: "We have a car that will It is important that one glomal like climb any hill." Motorist: "I don't sincere. things and not flummery and doubt it. The one you sold me last rubbish which blows away at the first year was over -ambitious and tried to touch Lady Oxford. Climb a tree." The Magic Bath Mr. Einstein is flat seeking capital, but orders, with a view to building a factor;: l:ere. He handed me a small spar cf wcorl. I snapped it with my fingers. TI'' me a similar epar _ of the rain. ' :netal'.i::91. It was • little her, but. so isr .. m;, ef- forts were comn.sued, -- ,s un- breakable. Ile showed me fab:'Ic treated in a n o, metallic bath• It was of ordinary . ere Mainz, Mannheim, Carisrulie, ln"�• ee Thin twat ono could have have established a coaperative tee et 44 <^t2'wi^.k? .�,• : s» ,x . �...... Puo kr The Kind of Equipment Sea cling for Flyers Lost in. North ion a :flnipped with side to facilitate landin on snow and ice at C Airplanes in flight foruuuat making practical di Oscoda,• ltidicli, The pilotts are array men stationed at Selfridge kited who ate tarn it to pieces. I tried and failed lo tear the metallized fabric. His invention is not only applica- ble to aviation. He showed me a teapot dipped hi a bath of gold. It is almost unbreakable. Se showed me a set of siphons, worked in gold filigree, which are being made for the acceptance of the Royal Family. "The metal bath is more than a 'dope'," be said. "It becomes mar- s'�d to and an integral part of the ;•ore, hence there is no fear of trinkage or expansion of the •Core causing the metal coating to part from the inner surface or to crack." The truth of the statement ,was de- - monstrated by the fact that the groin of Ina v:'ootl core of a plate appeared plainly through the metal coating. Mr. Einstein clams to be able to build an aeroplane of half the present weight, in a third of the present time, with double the factor of safety at little addiicnnl cost. King Names Prince of Wales Master of Merchant Navy Loudon—The,Loudon—The,Prince of Wales re• en Gtly received a new title specially created for him by his royal father. Ilencefortth he will be known as "Alas - ter of the ?Merchant Navy and Fish: lug Fleets." The appointment being without precedent it will remain for the Prince blmself to decide its duties, "Itis Majesty the Xing," says au announcement recently, "for soma time has been consfering what steps can be taken to bring the merchant navy and fishing Sleets into line with other Ge erumeut services of the em- pire by having as their titular head some member of royal family." Woman resembles the ape more than does man, for her logs are tie, amp Slceel, belly shorter awl her Vries' longer,1 matte tests. P+u`OaSISeT. r'trblxulr 'I`honks•?i'is.