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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-09-16, Page 2Don't Envy a Good Cook—Be One: they vary in size, but not so much Fortunately for you and me good as cups. However, the bowls of meas- teooks are made, not born. To be sure, uring spoons are round, so when the you know women who have always spoonful is divided into fourths," for been able to add a pinch of this, a hand- instance, there will be no mistake fel of that, and a speck of some other made as there is when the ordinary engxedient and produce the best cake spoon is used, for the tip is narrower you have ever eaten. So do I. But before one achieves success in being able to judge amounts accurate - than the handle end. Scales are helpful also. Frequently recipes give the weight of materials ly, there must be many trials made which •cannot be given well otherwise. and, naturally, many failures, dis- A. straight -edged- knife, called the couraging moments, and waste of spatula, is useful, and then the ordin- food. When the cake contains too' ary vegetable knife comes in handy.. much soda, not enough sugar, and' A speck of material is the amount falls, there is little chance of its be -1 which can be held on the tip of a ing eaten, and the scraps are usually i vegetable knife. fed to the chickens. Looking over) After one has these appliances, the last lists of groceries which you they are useless unless they are used have bought brings home the lesson! properly. The most important pr - that thrift is as vital as it was dur-1 caution which must be heeded at all ing the war. Aviating prices make it tines is that unless otherwise speci- imperative that no food be wasted.; fied, the measurements are level. So learning to cook by training, When one teaspoonful of baking pow - the eye through experience only is der is needed, it is one spoonful level - a costly method to use. led, not heaping. .In measuring dry On the other hand, learning to cook l ingredients, such as flour, spices, soda, ay following good recipes, and meas- and sugar, some of the material is •aring accurately, assures success. Of taken on the spoon and then the blade course, painstaking care .is essential. I of a straight -edged knife, the spatula, The flour, baking powder, lard ---all' is used to push off sufficient material must be measured carefully, But just to obtain a level surface, as the person measures the size of j If one does not have the measuring the room in computing the amount of spoons„ and needs one-half teaspoon - paper. needed to coved the walls to' ful, the spoonful of the ingredients is avoid waste, so needs the housewife' divided lengthwise with a pointed to measure the ingredients she is; vegetable knife; it should not be di - using when following recipes that she i vided crosswise, as the tip of the bowl may secure the results the recipe ; of the spoon is usually very narrow. promises. It's' economical to cook by, One-fourth teaspoonful is most ae- measuring unless the eye ,is already' curately secured with the treasuring trained by long years of experience.' •:poops, of course, but when they are And, more than that, every girl, WO- ` not available the spoonful is divided man and man can cook well if they" into halves lengthwise, and one-half measure and combine foods properly is removed. Then the remaining half To measure accurately the house is divided crosswise, the line of di - wife needs a few utensils which are vision being a little nearer the handle designed for this purpose. Nothing' end of the bowl than the tip. elaborate or expensive is required, I. When the powders such as flour are •In fact, I have a few measuring tools measured care is needed that they not in my kitchen which I use daily; I be pressed down. If ane is measur- consider thein essential in the pre- ing a cupful, the material is piled paration of my meals. First of all lightly into the cup with a tablespoon and then leveled off with a spatula or knife. Flour is always sifted once before being Measured. eikeeup er spoon of liquid is All that the -Cup or spoon will hold. In meas- uring butter, lard, or any other solid fat, it is packed down tightly with a spoon and then made level with a knife. If one-half cup of fat is needed, transparency permits one to see when or any part of a cupful, as far as that the half -cupful line is reached. Metal is concerned, it is easier to measure measuring cups are very substantial,' it by tablespoonfuls, remembering and I believe every household needs a that sixteen tablespoonfuls are equal one -quart aluminum measuring cup. to a cupful. When a few tablespoon - The e measuring 'ups vary in price, fills are needed, they may be measur- of course, but are inexpensive in most ed by teaspoons if one desires, for shops. In my store there is -a coin- three teaspoons hold the same amount as does one tablespoon. • - Recipes frequently give definite in- formation as to how the materials are combined. Perhaps the most familiar terns is stirring. Stirring is a circular one-half, and one teaspoonful. They' notion used to combine •the wet and may be purchased from 10 to 20 cents. I dry ingredients in a recipe, and to Why have then.? That is what the; -keep the food from sticking and burn - housewife asks before making any ing while cooking. Beating is an over purchase. Take the cups, for example: and over notion which introduces air When a recipe calls for a cup of some ingredient, it means one-half of a pint. Few teacups hold exactly this much. In fact, they vary greatly in size. When a recipe calls for a eup of any food ingredient, the best- way to be sure one is using that much is to over and over by sliding the spoon measure with a graduated measuring' across the bottom of the mixing bowl cup. The same is true about spoons; l each turn. are the measuring cups,. Two are sufficient, although four are fre- quently helpful. One is of glass; it holds one ctpl,,..or one:half pint. It is graduated, and one can measure one-fourth, one-half, and three-fourths of a cupful accurately with it. Glass measuring cups have an ac? - vantage over other kinds in that their plete line ranging from 15 to 35 cents. Spoons for measuring also help to insure accuracy. I have a trio of spoons, fastened together by a ring; they are useful. They hold one-fourth, and snakes mixtures smooth. Cutting is a horizontal motion with knives his tenant buy fertilizer, sharing half used for combining, shortening and dry the cost with him. materials without blending 'them. To substantiate his statement, he Cutting and folding is a •combination quoted figures based on the results of of the two movements—cutting verti- actual farm operations, showing that coaly through the mixture and turning on a 160 acre farm—being farmed on the shares, two-thirds to the renter and one-third to the owner—he could pay half the cost of the fertilizer and still receive $170 more for his rental than he would if no fertilizer had been used; and the tenant would be better off by $410. 'Babies' Ten Commands. Thou shalt not kiss me on the mouth, Thou shalt not sneeze or cough my face. Thou. •shalt not give me a •dummy td suck. Thou shalt• give me boiled cold water to drink, Thou 'shalt give idle the right things to eat. Thou shalt` give ale a bat$ eves day, Thou shalt give me elean clothes. Thou shalt give nee my own bed. , Thou 'shalt give lite a comfortable room with windows open wider Thou shalt give me plenty of sleep: in the fresh air. Household Hints. Put all the little left -over pieces of candles in a little cotton bag, Place this on the ironing tabler`anel occasionally pass the iron over it:. You will not be troubled with having the iron stick, - Having the children use paaxee, nap- kins for handkerchiefs when at'home proves a great saving. 'It" en vents pre- vents. a head cold from drifecting whole family. The paper napkins of soft tissue paper can be easily burn= ed, which is the, right treatment for such germs. Germ -laden linen its diff.:- cult to launder properly. Allowing your broom, .when it be- comes brittle .and . hard, to stand in hot water for abqut ten minutes and drying in a shady place prevents on from. carrying germs from room to room and cleanses the broom. At present prices brooms are worth tak- ing good care of,. Rubbing kerosene on boots that have become water -soaked and the leather hardened will make the leather pliable and soft. When gilt braid becomes tarnished; brush it clean and rub a little aluni into it. Leave a few hours and you will be delighted with the results. Keeping a steel crochet needle in the sewing room? It is excellent for ripping and saves much time when there is much ripping to be done. Do you save all old handkerchiefs and small pieces of fine cloth or mus- lin and cut them into squares? Launder thoroughly and put them in a paper, bag in a drawer. When yet wish to strain hot fator any sub stances which need a strainer finer than a wire one, place the linen square inside the wire strainer and pour the CONSTIPATED CUUILDREN. Children who suffer from constipa- tion, indigestion or any of the other ailments due to a clogged condition of the bowels will find • prompt relief through the use of Baby's Own Tab- lets. The Tablets are a mild but thorough laxative which can always be depended upon to regulate the bowels .and .sweeten the stomach;. They are absolutely safe and are sold under a guarantee to be entirely free from opiates or other injurious drugs. Concerning them. Mrs. Thomas A. Boutot, Lake Baker, N.B., writes: "I am pleased to state that Baby's Own ;Tablets , were of great help to me when my baby was suffering from constipation." The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co„ Brockville, Ont. • Stockings of Human Hair. All the hair combings in a Chinese household are saved as carefully as if they were nuggets. In course of time they are spun into long threads and woven into stock- ings. Tlie popular belief is that stock- ings of human hair keep out the wet better then,any others. At one time the Japanese made use of human hair in church erecting. It was the custom for church -going people to give some of their hair as a free-will offering when a temple was being built, Such a structure at Tokio had the beams and rafters held in place bye one , of .these human 'hair cables. Placed end on end, this human hair rope measured. 4,52Sft. long, was 7in. in diameter, and weighed 8,3471b., no fewer than 350,000 persons contribut- ing before a sufficient quantity was obtained. Mixing Leine With Com- mercial Fertilizer. Lime added to commercial fertil- izers, before reaching the soil, may have one or all of several bad effects: (a) The usual practice in the past has beento advise against mixing of lime directly with nitrogenous fertil- izer • materials, such as ammonium sulphate, bone, tankage, dried blood, and similar materials, for the recon that ammonia nitrogen would be re- leased and wasted; (b) The formation of a hard, lumpy physical .condition in liquid through the .linen, Then throw goods containing sodium nitrate or the cloth in the fire. Pin the feces cal him nitrate is likely to take place. together and the paper bag wil _ ;; ection ' re' notso seriou i i;.ulej �-a� s them dean. s ey would' appear: At any rate, there can be no danger when lime Wheat. and fertilizers are added to the soil Present prices of wheat will make separately, especially if a few days. it worth while to use fertilizer, even elapse between the liming and fertil- if it produces only a moderate increase : ization. in yield.• This was discussed at considerable length at a recent gathering of grain Egyptian Cott® • growers in Chicago, and the general Cotton has been grown in Egypt feeling was asgiven in the above since 200 B.C., but it was not until 100 par- years ' ago that Jumel, a French en- agraph.. One man ;in attendance was gineer, suggested the introduction of particularly insistent in setting forth the commercial varieties. Iu 1S82 the the economic value of this plan. He realized that the price of fer- famous Amerioan sea island cotton was the first sown. Five years later tilizer was considerably Higher than a Brazilian variety was introduced. in 1914, he said, but referred to a The two strains were mingled and recent Government report which from them came the fambus ."Ash - shows that an • acre of farm crops mound" plant and the still finer "Mu - could buy more fertilizer last year tafii," which is one of the most pro - than ,it did in the years immediately duative cottons in the world. preceding the war. As a land owner r. himself, he said he believed the land- lord could well afford to insist that Science Baffled by Scents Some time ago there was held in England a "Wonders of Science Exhi- bition" which served to reveal many marvels to the public unfamiliar with the work done with the microscope, the microphone and the micrograph. The microphone magnifies sound as the microscope does things seen, The micrograph is the instrument used by the scientist In taking pictures of things shown by the microscope. More people are familiar, to some extent, with the microscope than with the microphone. They know it is, possible to make objects entirely outside of the range of natural human vision visible by the use of the telescope for great distances and by the microscope for 'ereinuto things close by; but few have any knowledge of the device by which 1t is possible to hear a sly walk or a 'caterpillar crawl. Many other wonders of science were shown. st Surbiton, but neither there 'nor anywhere else has s0ience demonstrated its ability to help the sense of smell. It can do marvels for sight, healzing and torch, but not for the humble and usef+ui nose, In that !field the act ompiishraents of science itia's+e beers nil. Let a man stared two miles, say, to windward of the point where a herd of caribou will cross an open plain over which a fresh breeze is sweeping and it must be apparent that only an infinitely minute particle of whatever matter may be given off from his body or clothing can possibly reach the nos- trils of any one dear in the herd. Yet, if the man is completely screened from sight by a rise in the surface of the ground the caribou will neverthe- less catch the taint in the air. They would be warned of the presence of_a wolf in the same way. Yet science is utteiwiy unable to de- tect anything which the olfactory nerve of the deer senses and identi- fies. It cannot see with a microscope anything in the air which came from the pian. It cannot find any such sub- stance with a chemical test of any kind. Instead of aiding the sense of smell, it is entirely incapable of matching it. Here is another realm for science to invade and subduce, but would the conquest be altogether deb sizable? It is a question whether the average man needs to smell more things or sense more acutely the things he smells already. It;' is thought that the gains would not offset the losses under the p'„evetling conditions of life, Intimate Looks. The dentist has an inquiring way of taking close-up squints at his patient's teeth with the help of a tiny long - handled mirror. An invention recently patented makes it practicable to do this sort of thing for oneself. To the handle of a handglass is adjusted, for the use of the moment, a curved rod that carries an its end a Tittle mirror. The thing is so contrived that the little mirror can be inserted into the mouth and employed for a look around inside, its reflections being returned by the hand - glass to the eye of the person holding the latter. Another idea patented. by the sante,. inventor is a mirror that enables a per- son to make a e^riticgi examination of his own ears. Perhaps there rimy be a bit of soap in one of thorn, •desirable. to remove. For this purpose a hand - glass is supplemented by two branoh• ing rods, each of which effigies on'Ito . end a small, mirror that turns 011 a, hinge. The user, looking into the handglass, is thus enabled to obserye. his awn ears as critically as au anxious relative could. • rine Thrift Stamps. The twenty-six aldermen of the. city of London are chosen for life.l London consumes nearly thirty gal- lons of water per head of its popula- tion every day. Help Prevent Bush Fires. . Be sure your match is out be- fore throwing it away. Don't throw away burning to- bacco. Choose a safe place and make your camp fire small, Put out your fire with water and then cover it with earth. Don't make large brash heaps. Choose a still day for burning and plow furrows to protect nearby woods. BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE, Rings on Fishes' Scales. Several theories have poen advanced to explain the rings that close exam- ination shows on the scales of fishes. The favorite theory is that they denote the age of the fish—a ring to a year, like the rings that show the age of a tree. Ichthyologists in many Euro- pean countries have made a careful study of the matter and have deemed. it of enough importance to make it„the subject of a report published as a British bluebook. They hold that the scales do tell with near approach to accuracy the age of salmon and her- ring; as to other fish they are in doubt. The Norwegians maintain that the rings bear relation merely to the length of th.e fish. It has been found that the food of the fish and the tem- perature of the water that they inhabit ,have an influence on the scale rings. Italy Monopolizes Salt. Salt is a government Monopoly in Italy, and no one can draw a bucket of water out of the sea without per- mission, lest he should seek to evade the tax by extracting the ;,alt contain- ed in the water. LET "DANDERINE9, SAVE YOUR HAIR Get rid of every bit of that . ugly dtlndruff and stop falling hair ad A little "Danderine” cools, cleanses and makes the feverish, itchy scalp soft and pliable; then this stimulating tonic penetrates to the famished hair roots, revitalizing and invigorating every hair in the head, thus stopping the hair falling out, or getting thin, dry or fading. Aftar a few applications of "Dander. ire" you seldom find a fallen hair or a particle of dandruff, besides every hair shows new life, Vigor, brightness, more color anti thickness. A few cents buys a bottle of de- lightful "Danderine" at any drug or toilet counter. 0 eh - Cordor Fabric Extravagant claims and exaggerated statements may sell tires—but they can never make tires give.: ,. mileage or service. Abotz Partridge Tires little need be said. Their reputation for durability and dependability under all road conditions, justi- fies the statement "You can't buy better tires." TIRES Come os Their Name 1250 Heap. Welfare of the School Child, With the re -opening of another, school year every parent becomes ap- prehensive about the needs of the children for the school term. While their clothes, books and clnssroom nec- essities are being looked after, a far more important need requiring the most careful attention •of parents is the physical health essential to a suc- cessful advancement in school studies. Defective vision must be corrected if the child is expected to keep up with its studies and to maintain the same standard as the normal child. Good hearing is also essential to the child who receives oral instruction,.as many cases of backwardness are primarily due to defects of hearing. Diseased tonsils and adenoids are responsible for no small number ,of cases of ill- ness among .children, especially dur- ing the school term. By having them removed at an early date, we give the child a better opportunity to combat the diseases of ,childhood. Of no less importance are the teeth. We .cannot hope to improve the•physi- cal state of the school children unless their food is properly masticated by sound, healthy teeth. Infections through the mouth often have their beginning in carious teeth. The food the children eat is a most important factor in their healt a Healthy, nourishing food makes Ideal - thy bodies; healthy bodies. mean ready minds. We often wonder at the appetite of the growing boy or girl. We say we "cannot see where they put it all." But that is Nature's 'way of supply- ing the material to make muscle and bone—Nature intends that boy or girl to have an appetite: Every father and mother bears a great responsibility—the selection of the food their children eat. Parents are waking up ..to the necessity of a hot lunch at school, and the number of schools where hot dish- es are served at noon is happily on the increase. Feathered frauds. Apar t from the natural camouflage which speckled feathers and patches of color, like dazzle painting on ships, afford birds for their protection, there. is no doubt than birds have little tricks which, consciously of inetinctiveIy, they employ to irigl ten sway iritrlid- ers. Can anyone doubt that the long neck of goose and swan, and the .hiss ing soundethey both make, is a good imitation of the snake in the grass? Of course, it is necessary to think of these birds in their wild state, nest- ing among the reeds. A marauding foe, fox, or wolf, or pine -martin, hap- pens along, intent on eggsfor break- fast at least, or, better still, a tender gosling or cygnet. Suddenly, out darts the snake -like neck hissing like a whole basketful of serpents, and the intruder turns tail and flees from the poisonous spot. The wryneck builds its. nest in the hollow of a tree, and if any prying per- son should thrust a hand into his hole he hears a most menacing hissing, and he withdraws the- hand smartly, lest the adder should bite him, Even the blue titmouse, an inoffensive little bird enough, will imitate a snake, producing a most alarming hiss if her nest is approached by cat or human. The well-known dodge of the lap- wing to lure the egg -gatherer from her eggs is another case of cute trickery. The lapwing, or plover, makes her nest on the ground, and when she sees , a stranger approaching she flies, juat` in front of him, constantly seeming • to fail, as if her wing were injured or broken. Naturally, boy or roan will make some attempt to.cateh her, and that is exactly what she wants! Odd Occupations. Observation of the world's indus- trials reveals some very quaint call- ings, for there are queer habits and strange desires on the part of various races, and always there are those who cater to those customs or undertake to supply the wants. As queer a trade or profession as any is that of "tooth - stainer," which flourishes in parts of Asia, where the natives regard black teeth es a crowning beauty. The tooth -stainer, equipped with little brushes and boxes of coloring matte', calls on his customers at regular in- tervais. In general, the operation is not unlike that of blacking a shoe, and. a high polish is given to the blackened teeth. The pigment used is quite Harmless. In Arabia, the . profession of "gos• • siper" is very ancient anti has Inany followers. The "gossiper" collects ali the news,'Jokes and gossip he can got hold of, and then goes from' house to house retailing has warts. If ho has `a good manner, as many have, he d'an, adapt his meanie to his audiences, and le a welcome visitor, '.Cho exp,onse of tell news -mid -Joke, ncrvice is not great to the stibseriberr, brit neverthe Tess sortie of the more populargee,. Myers uial:p very good tnownes..