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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-05-21, Page 3Lflome aids sy , eatitICASIN BEST Asparagus Time It wasn't so very long ago that asparagus was considerer) a luxury, but now nearly every gardener who boasts any kind of a garden has his little asparagus bed, from which such thick, juicy stalks spring as quickly as the mushroom.. The housekeeper is wise who uses seasonable vegetables when they are cheapest to bring down the high cost of living. They are always best when cheapest, too, because they are cheap- est when they are the most plentiful. Of course, coning right from the gar- den to the table, they are their best and taste very different to the vege- tables which have been standing in the air all day long. One can prepare asparagus so many different ways that it can appear in some form each day throughout the season without monotony, Cream of Asparagus Here is a place where the tougher stalks can be used from which the tops have been removed. To make• a delicious soup cut a bunch of aspara- gus stalks into one -inch pieces, Boil until tender and put through a sieve; adcl to it and the liquid that goes with it a quart of milk. Season with salt and pepper. Heat, then pour slowly into it two tablespoons of flour cream- ed with the same amount of butter, stirring constantly. Allow to come to boil and serve with croutons. Asparagus and Peas Cook canned peas and ael)aragus in separate saucepans, drain and use two cutis of asparagus tips and the tender part of the stalks, cut in half-inch lengths, to this add one can of peas, a quarter cup thin cream and butter, pepper and salt. Boiled Asparagus Perhaps it is best served all by Itself either with a white, rich sauce or a dressing of melted butter and sea- soning after it is cooked tender in water. Never cook it longer than the required time to make it tender. Serve without breaking the stalks. A good way to cook it to avoid breaking the tips is to staud a bunch on end in a dish. Since the tips do not need much cooking fill the dish' with water tlp to three-quarters of the way, and the steam will cook the tips. It should always be boiled in salted water. Af- ter it is carefully removed to a platter melt: one tablespoon butter, to 'which acid one dup bread crumbs. Stir over the fire until brown then cover aspara- gus ou plate. Asparagus With Eggs Cut asparagus in 2 -inch parts and bo`i1 in salted water till tender, drain, Put in a casserole, sprinkle with melt- ed butter, seasoning and add 3 well beaten eggs, bake until brown in a hot oven. TWILIGHT HOUR STORY Chapter 22 About Wee Chicks and Other Little Friends I'm sure you remember last week we named one of the little chicks. We called her Squatty, didn't we? Because the was so short and fat and had such funny short bill. Then, of course, we named Jimmie Chick a long time ago, didn't we? Wen, how about the other two? Since they haci grown so much bigger they certainly did Iook.very different for, do you know, one of the other two sisters left wasn't like Squatty one bit. She had a long neck and long legs and, instead of her beak being short litre Squatty's, it was long and pointed. SIIe was a little cross, too, and bossed all the others around. Ilow would it be if we all her Bridget? She ate just as much, even moren sometimes than Squatty, who was so at, but she just stayed thin. I wonder why that is, don't you? Are you fatter than your little sister? Or perhaps you are the thin kind. Well, anyway, we have only one chieky lett, haven't we? We haven't said anything about It, but you know I wanted to leave the best till the last for Oh, she was a lovely chicken. She wasn't too fat or too thin. She was just right, and she had suck a pretty head and then she had especially beautiful white feathers. I don't know where she got all that beauty, but there site was. Mamma Lady loved to show her off and now she picked her up and said to Billy, "Isn't she a beauty? and son, besides being so beautiful her body is made just right, so she will lay far more eggs than Bridget or Squatty, perhaps more than both of them put together. How is that for a chicken.' In fact, Billy, she is such a fine chicken I believe we will show her too, along with Jimmie, at the show when she grows a little bigger." Billy looked at. her with admiring eyes, then said, "Well, wa will need to have a pretty nice name for her. I tell you, Mammy, she's so white let us call her "Lily,. white as a lily." "That is a fine name, I'm sure she'll be a good chick with a name like that," smiled Mamma. "But now I'm',' sure I know a little boy wilo is very,; very sleepy, for he has done so much" to -day. How about your good old bed that has been wondering where you have been for such a long time?" Sonnet for a Day Wasted indoors Lord, I have missed so many things today; The birds' first splendid song across the dawn Reaching to greet Thy rose -flushed joyous dawns • That crept 'soft -footed from night's fading grey; I did not see the silver sunbeams play On rippled water and on wind- swayed lawn, Nor yet the tree -spun shadows, quietly drawn Where dew -hung, wildflower -pattern- ed carpets lay; I did not see the sure returning tide Stretch out to clutch again the pebbled sand With those swift waves of jade which one by one Came tumbling shorewards; and I missed the wide Cloud -stippled sky above the day- green laud. And, .Lord, I lost the setting of the sun. —A, R. Ubsdeil, in the Fortnightly Review. French Births Exceed 1930 Deaths by 100,000 Paris.—There were 100,000 more births than deaths in France during 1930, government statistics published recently revealed. There were 342,- 698 marriages in 1930, against 833,- 841 in 1929, but there were 20,403 divorces last year, against 19,353 the year before. The Paris press hailed the margin of births over deaths as indication that a long period of a declining French birth rate was pact. "I want a plan with calling." "Then you'd better chimney sweep." a higher marry a MUTT ANI JEFF— —By BUD FISHER. LE.MCN, T M TAkiNG Tt1E CENSUS. Alpe. sou T140 peoPLG. OR ONE? ANsweo.YttAT WE'RC, °NE' What New York h Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking, Lesson 1+ ur- nished With r''z'et'p Pattern. Perhaps you'd like a youthful cape- let one sees on so many of the smart frocks these days. However be certain you choose the right capelet. This one is a beauty and suited to miss or matron. Fasten- ing at the front as it does with a but- ton, gives it a sportive air. Its scal- loped bound edges furnishes a lovely theme for contrast. The buttoned belt and circular hens smartly agree with the scalloped cape. The hipline also favors scallops to narrow its breadth. The frock was originally carried out in pale blue eyelet batiste with blue binding. Style No. 3050 may be had in size 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and .38 inches bust. Peach -pink linen with brown bind ing, yellow shantung print with plain yellow, pale blue flat ,"washable sill. ..repe with pale pink, red and white batiste print and green pique print with white pique collar andbinding are charming suggestions. Size 16 requires 3% yards 35 -inch or 39 -inch. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Verities 'Don't cry over spilt milk; call the cat. Gossip is the Mother-in-law of in- ventiou. Never hit a pram when he's got you down, The unfairness of the fair sex is proverbial. The redeeming feature of a pawn- shop is the ticket, Women with the most cheek don't always do the most blushing. Character is what you are; reputa- tion is what people think you. are. Valor God of amen who fail And face the foe of fear, Help each and everyone Bravely to persevere. God of nen who trust When clouds of gloom obscure, Help each and everyone Bravely to endure. —Grenville Kleiser. You Look Ltke TWO iU ME., ANT) DOWN `ldU Go re, AS TWO1 e -o Sunday School Lesson ilia�+ 31, Lesson IX ---Jesus In Get- hlsemane--Luke 22: 39.54. Golden xt--Father, if thou be willing, re- ove this cup from me; neverthe- dssI. not my will, but thine, be done. uke 22: 42. ANALYSIS. l The Agony on the Mount of Olives, 22: 39-46. Il, The Arrest, 22: 47-54, 1. The Agony on the Mount of Olitres, 22: 39-46. 'What is meant by saying that Jesus went, "as his custom was,;' to the Mount of Olives? It might be that he *as wont to retreat thither for prayer and meditation, but more prob- ably it was not, safe for him to sleep in ;the city. Jesus did not refuse to die„ when i he time carne, but he re- fused to be assassinated before his hour; Whether he slept in the open air 'or with friends, perhaps at Beth- any is not quite certain. The disciples are to pray that they enter not into "temptation.' We are reminded of the conclusion of the Lord's Prayer. The word translated /°temptation" seems to mean rather "fiery trial," such a searching test as Peter underwent when accused of be- ing a disciple, or as many Christians underwent in times of persecunion. How do we know the words of Jesus' prayer? The disciples, apparently were asleep. Who, then, overheard the prayer of Jesus? The only pos- sible person seems to be the young man of Mark 15: 51, whom some have ,supposed to be Mark himself. This is interesting guess -work, but we cannot tell The prayer itself is reminiscent of two other passages: First, the question, "Are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink?" Matt. 20: 22. Second, the petition in the Lord's Prayer, "Thy will be done," Why should the disciples fall asleep through "grief"? v. 45. Grief tends to keep people awake. No doubt the dis- ciples may have been more or less aware of the storm that was about to burst over their heads, but it looks as if "front grief" was put in by the Evangelist as some sort of excuse. It is, on the whole, more likely that the disciples, assuming that Jesus propos- ed to spend the night on the Mount of Olives and to sleep there himself, had simply lain down in the ordinary way, and fallen asleep. What was it that caused the great distress of Jesus? We' see very. much out of our depth ver. we attempt to define the its and feelings of Jesus at this tlllli�, We may not know, we cannot tell 1Vhat pains he had to bear. We can but indicate some of the ele- ments which may have entered into his desperate distress. No doubt Jesus, who was but some thirty years old, may have shared plan's natural shrinking from death, and the death to which he must look forward was one peculiarly painful and normally very slow. But others before and since have faced a painful death bravely and quietly, and we may be sure that this does not account for Jesus' "Agony." It may well have come to Jesus with overwhelming horror that he, a .Petr, the lover of his people, was to be executed by the Ro- mnans. Better far, perhaps, that lie might die like the prophets at the hands of his own people. Moreover, ,death by crucifixion, the "hanging upon a tree," seemed to bring with it the curse of the Law, and therefore of God, the Divine Author of the Law. of the Law. Could l.e really be the Son of God, if God allowed this to be- fall him? Again, if he were handed over to the Romans, it would mean that he bad failed. His religious re- volution, symbolized by the cleansing of the Temple, would have collapsed, and he was to be done to death as another political fanatic, misunder- stood, contemptuously removed, In the dark, dark hour of Geth- semane we may see "desperate tides of the whole world's anguish" (aucl the whole ' world's sin "forced. through the channels of a single heart." It was usual for men to lin- ger two or three days upon the Cross. It has been said that Jssus died quickly because his heart vita broken. Finally, it must be reme bared that Jesus walked by faith, .as we also are called to do, His arrest and death, just when he seemed to be succeeding, must have been utter ly baffling to faith. It is easy for us after the event to see how through his death, he triumphed, bu we must not assume that this wa easy for hint to see. Jesus is set be fore us, in the epistle to the Heb rews, 'as the great example of faith the leader of the faithful. His faith in God was tested to the, uttermost as alone he faced absolute disaster We dare not think what it would have meant for the world if Ms faith had failed, but it held firm. II. The Arrest, 22: 47-54. Luke says that chief priests and ei- ders came to arrest Jesus, but they would surely have recognized him, and there would have been no need for the traitor's kiss. The arrest was more probably effected, as Mark in- dicates, by servants. Exactly what happened is not clear. There seems to have been some sort of a scuffle, but Jesus did not attempt to escape arrest. It is rather surprising to find one at least of the disciples armed, but Jesus knew that "two swords" would be of no avail, once Pilate was invoked. ms� America inhabited Long Ages Ago Early Man in Arizona Lived in Pleistocene Age --- New Evidence 8 Cleveland, O.—Discovery in Arizona - of a "butcher shop" more than 20,000 - years old was reported at the resent ; meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by Dr, Harold J. Cook, of the Cook Mta- • seum of Natural History, Agate, Nebraska. Bones of the huge elephant -like mammoth that had been hacked with flint knives by t'he ancient butchers, and some of the knives themselves, have been found in Yuma County, Arizona, by Perry and Harold Ander- son, nderson, Dr. Cook said,. The knives buried with the bones show men must have lived there at the same time as the mammoths, Dr. Cook believes. Some of the mammoth bones showed evi- dence of having been hacked while still fresh, or tough and green. A bison bone evidently used in flaking off par- ticles of flint in making the stone knives also was discovered, "Some of the bison and mammoth bones found here also appear to have been gnawed," Dr. Cook said. IN PLEISTOCENE AGE. The dry Arizona plateau where the bones and knives were discovered was a well watered flood plain when the ancient butcher shop was in operation, Dr. Cook explained. Streams were flowing across it from the mountains toward the east. All evidence indi- cates the flood plain existed in the pleistocene age, which extended front about 1,000,000 years ago to within 20,000 years of the present. There is no probability that the flood basin is more recent than that, he declared. The flint knives were similar to those found at Colorado, Texas and Torrington, Wyoming. They are well made indicating their makers were comparatively far advanced toward civilization. "The constantly increasing evidence of this character makes it appear that early lean not ...ray existed at a much earlier date in America than has been, until recently commonly believed, but that he had reached a relatively high state of advancement, at least in cer- tain directions, in pleistocene time in this country," Dr. Cook said. Organ Industry Grows The great number of motion pio- ture theatres that have sprung up ea Germany have furnished a welcome extension of one of the country's in- dustries, ndustries, though but a comparative- ly small one—that of organ building. The yearly output is about 400, al- most trouble the number ' of pre-war time, but the greater part of these instruments are commissioned for the ,cinemas, writes the Berlin cor- respondent oprespondent of "The Christian Set since Monitor." An average -sized church organ takes four to five months to build while one for the pic- ture theatre takes half that time. Al- though many organ building firms have amalgamated with large Indus• trial concerns of late years, a good- ly number of smaller firms have re- mained independent, the reason be- ing that, while in the manufacture of the instrument and the tuner, this is not the case in the organ indus- try. The mechanism of an organ is so complicated and delicate that only one who has thoroughly learn- ed the construction is able to tune that instrument. Wind -Whipping By Plane Believed Good For Alfalfa The wind whipping given au alfalfa field in full bloom by au airplane flying low over it is thought to have resulted in an increased yield of 140 pounds of alfalfa seed an acre. This test was conducted on the farm of Jay Larkin, Cook County, Oregon. In July when the alfalfa being left tor seed was in full bloom the coun- ty agent arranged with Charles E. Hahn and Jonas Bass to demonstrate the effectiveness of the airplane pro- peller blast in tripping the alfalfa blossoms. A strip forty feet wide the entire length of the field was selected. The county agent and a group of farmers counted blossoms tripped and not tripped on marked areas previous to the airplane treat- ment. The aiplane was then flown over the strip at a low elevation al- most lmost clipping the top of the alfalfa with the landing gear. The blos- soms were again counted and it was found that 30 per cent additional blooms were tripped as a result of the airblast from the ship. Yields at harvest time proved that the strip thus treated yielded 200 pounds of seed an acre in compari- son omparison with tate yield from the untreat- ed portion of the field of only 60 pounds an acro. New Combinations Vegetable meals are becoming more and more popular., Although they have the drawback of demanding that several vegetables be cooked indi- vidually and served simultaneously, they can be managed, and there are many combinations besides the mound - of - spinach, mound - of - carrots and mound -of -mashed potatoes one. These plates offer more variety and are but little more trouble to prepare. 1. Cauliflower with Hollandaise sauce, string beans, baked potatoes, buttered beets. 2. Fresh broiled mushrooms - on toast, broccoli, creamed potatoes, grill- ed tomatoes. 3. Baked green pepper stuffed with tomato and rice, beets, creamed celery, green peas. 4. Spinach with cheese sauce, but- tered oni0118, fried egg -plant slices, celery heart. I.' "What snakes Smith 5i) supe i• 'r in )manner?" "Ile leas bought a new encyclo- pedia and can't help thinking about how wise he will be when he has react some of it." .you 11 AAV Be oNC-. ppCG 4o.J 'U3 `lout. OMCLt BvT sAY TWO— AND TWO I'Ve GoNNff Britain and India Calcutta aluglisllntau: A huge con- cession was made in 1917 on certain conditions. Since that date Great Bri- tain has gone on giving one concession after another, although the original conditions were never observed by In- dian politicians, and as time has pass- ed have been totally jettisoned. Had the abandonment of the conditions laid down in the preamble of the Government of India Aet been followed by political peace and prosperity, there would have been much to say in -''i,vor of abandonment, but the state of Tudia during the last ten years and the alluring prospect of a "civil war for a little titne" held ont by Mr. Gandhi suggest that perhaps a mis- take has been made in malting so many advances without security, Where the Flying Fi.i z's 17-117. _. x KNOW Title,( vueR.G. couLDN"r 1&(t' MG mkt' MANY TIMES: • r