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Zurich Herald, 1934-05-17, Page 7World By Moir M. Morgan Th HOUSE CLEANING If you are a wise housewife you will have started your housecleaning by now. You will. at least, have cleaned out all the cupboards and bureau drawers for that is always pre- liminttry to really scientille work. And, if you are methodical, you take one room at a time and not have the whole house upset at once. Take down all the pictures, brush the books with a stiff brush, wash the glass and go over the frames with a soft cloth. Stack them out of the way, and brush walls and ceiling with a soft cloth tied over a long broom, then clean and polish the !wafture, then wash woodwork, clean and polish floor before restoring rugs. Variety le Spice Some women think they must change the furniture every week be - .cause they "can't abide" monotony in anything, even the arrangement of. rooms. Others place a thing once and never change it. Perhaps the best plan is to move your things around spring and fall, and thus get some of the variaty that is said to be the spice of life, without having the family trip over the chairs in their new places. It is a good idea to get rid of the "white elephants" either by selling them or by giving them to some of the- numerous rummage sales. Too much furniture spoils the look of a modern room and frequently you can put a desk or an extra chair in a bedroom, or change things around so that all the rooms may be improved. Too Many Pictures One of the commonest mistakes people make is to have . too many cushions, too many pictures and too many ornaments around. "Raus mit 'em." If you haven't an attic (or if you have) get rid of them by sale, barter or gift. Less work, and a better appearance to your rooms. Weather Moves. Sometimes you can move chairs or couches to a window Overlooking a garden or some other pleasant view and where you can take advantage of summer breezes. In the bedrooms, too, the bed may be moved to give you more space and air and dressing tables shifted to a better light. ' If you are blessed with plenty of cupboard space, you might even give all your ornaments and pictures a rest for the summer, bringing out two lar three at a time and changing them as you tire of them. Make your housecleaning a mental tonic as well as a "clean-up" for the house and it won't be quite so hard to do. THE GOLDEN BRIDE The newest bridal fabric is a lame, woven with gold or silver and backed with white satin. Gold is the leading vogue for this season, and a golden bride can be very unusual, One important London, England, dress artist makes good use of this lovely fabric for a golden bride. The moulded gown is 'simply fashioned, but suggests medieval splendour. Over the golden train comes a mass Of shadowy tulle which rests on a chaplet of golden leaves. A charming bridesmaid's gift would be one of the newest crystal rings with golden clip. There is a craze at the moment for crystal and go] d. CHOCOLATE CAKE Tho chocolate forms a. hard crus over the icing which tends to keep it soft and creamy and makes an ex- ceedingly delicious whole. Chocolate Cake Recipe Two squares bitter chocolate, 1 cup milk, half cup butter and lard combined, 1 cup granulated sugar, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon vanilla, few grains salt, yolks of 2 eggs. Melt chocolate over hot water. Add halp cup milk and cook until thoroughly blended and smooth, but not a minute longer. Cream shorten- ing and beat in sugar. Add cookeo mixture. Beat egg yolks with re- maining half curs of milk and add alternately with flour. Mix well and add soda disolved in a little warm water. Add vanilla and salt and beat well. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) for thirty minutes. This cake may be baked in two layers or in a dripping pan. Fudge Cake The traditional "devil's food" cake usually is made with a cooked sort of custard which is added to the dry ingredients. This produces a black cake of spongy texture that is Inclined to dry out quicker than the cakes mixed by other methods. Chocolate cakes made with yolks of eggs remain moist despite a cooked mixture sbeing added to the batter. In the following recipe only the yolks are used. The whites are used for the -frosting, which is in turn colored with melted chocolate. Two cups light brown sugar, 2-3 cup butter and lard combined and softened, 3 squares chocolate, 3 eggs, 1-2 cup sour milk, 2 cups flour, 1-2 cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon vanilla, few grains salt, 1 teaspoon- soda. Cream shortening and sugar. Melt chocolate over hot water and beat into first mixture. Add eggs one at a time, beating hard after the addi- tion of each. Stir in sour milk. Add flour and beat until perfectly smooth. Add boili-g water and mix well. Add vanilla, salt and soda dissolved in 1 teaspoon cold water. Pour into two square pans and bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) Put together and cover top and sides with fudge. If economy is necessary and a not - quite -so -rich cake is wanted, reduce the shortening to 1-2 cup and use 2 squares of chocolate and 2 eggs, leav- ing all the other proportions the same. Sour Cream Chocolate Cake. One and one-half cups light brown sugar, 1-2 cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup sour cream, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaepootl baking powder, 1 cup grated choco- late, few grains salt. Cream butter and sugar and add the yolks of eggs well beaten. Melt chocolate over hot water and add to mixture. Mix and sift baking pow- der, soda, salt and flour several times. This is very important because the soda must be thoroughly mixed through the flour. Add to first mix- ture alternately with sour cream. Add vanilla and fold in whites of eggs beaten until still. Bake in two lay- ers hi a moderate oven (350 degrees F.). FASHION HINTS Two sports suits favorites of the spring should, by priority rights, rule for summer. We refer to the bi- swing jackets, with back belts, and pleats like men's sports jackets, which are well represented in linen, and to the reefer coat suit in linen or cotton. * Tie silks with light grounds are coming forward rapidly to assert themselves and take the place of the dark ground tie silks used so much for sports ,dresses. They are still at their best in shirtwaist frocks. * * Fingertip blouses for two-piece py- jamas to be worn on the beach are being underscored with belts or fringed sashes. They are very cas- ual and show the foreigu influence- of the tunic. Hopes To Break Record • v.ieg.v0A-, e At. 1111•1•11.11r Captain George Eyston, famous British racing driver, seen in his new car while testing the bullet-shaped machine on the Brooklands track, Surrey, England, in preparation for his attempt to break the record. he made into a delicious table cream. Bring a pint of milk to tee boil, then sprinkle in three tablespoons of quick -cooking tapioca and sugar to taste. Cook and stir for three min- utes, Pour in jelly, stir well and leave to set. * Transparent bathing caps worn with printed, fabric bandeaux to look as if the wearer is going on the ten- nis court instead of in swimming or else worn with triangular kerchiefs to match other accessories are pro- posed as smart. * * HOUSEHOLD HINTS Even if a jelly will not set, • it can * * . * Smear a little butter under the spout of the cream jug.. This pre- vents drips on the tablecloth after the cream has been poured out. • * * When beating cream add the white of a new -laid egg. This makes it go further. * * * To clean a cloth beret: Wash beret in warm soapflake suds, rinse thor- oughly in two or three waters, and then place a pudding plate inside the hereto slightly stretching the beret over it. Stand the plate on a tall tin in a warm place. The beret will dry quickly and in perfect shape. A Fair Warning To U.S. Golfers The Supreme Court of the United States recently decided that where the assured, while playing golf, suffeTed a sunstroke, from which he died, re- covery could not be had on an acci- dent policy providing for payment if death should result from "bodily in- juries effected directly and independ- ently of all other causes through ex- ternal, -violent and accidental means". The court pointed out that the ex- ternal means were stated to be. the rays of the sun to- which the insured voluntarily exposed himself and tlittt the pleadings did not suggest that there was anything in the sun's rays, the weather or other circumstances external to the insured's own body and operating to produce the unantic- ipated injury, which was unknown or unforseen by the 'insured.—Weekly Underwriter. King Decorates Prince LONDON—Prince George and his comptroller, Major Mick Alexander, who returned recently from a long tour of South Africa, received honors from the Ring. His Majesty's young- est son was invested with the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.) while Major Alexander, who accom- panied the prince throughout, was made a companion of the order. Orange and Black Colors For 1935 GUELPH, On t.—Ontario license plates for 1935 —perhaps not pleas- ant to think of so early in 1934—will be colored orange and blaok, ft was announced recently at the Ontario reformatory, where the plates are manufactured, They will carry black letters on an orange background. "Those who regard the purpose of the New Deal as the restoration of the 'good times' of 1928 and 1929 mis- take its eim."—Nathan Straus Jr. Sunday School Lesson L. Lesson V111. (20).—May 20. The Future of the Kingdom.—Matthew 24:1-25; 30. Golden Text.—The the kingdom of our Lord, and of Kingdom of the world is become his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.—Rev. 11:15. "Then shall the kingdom of heav- en be likened unto ten virgins." The expression is very condensed, and that means that the search of man- kind for the kingdom of heaven is like, in two contradictory aspects, the action of five of these virgins on the one hand and five of them on the other hand. "Who took their lamps." Either like the familiar Roman lamps car- ried in the hand or attached to staves or else torches which were sometimes fed with oil. "And went forth to meet the bridegroom." Christ is the bridegroom and the church is his bride. "And five of them were foolish, and five were wise." We are not to conclude from this that on the judge- ment day half of mankind will be ac- cepted and 'half rejected. "For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with thein." Olive oil was used, drawn up by a floating wick, which projected through a little notch or spout in the side of the bowl of the lamp. "But the wise took oil in their ves- sels with their lamps." They carried vessels full of oil from which they could replenish the supply of their lamps as they burned low. "Now while tht. bridegroom tar- ried." Christ is looking forward to the long period—two thousand years now—that would elapse before his return to earth. "They all slumbered and slept." That does not mean that when the Bridegroom comes he will find none awake. Many a man has died while engaged, Bible in hand, in meditation, upon his favorite theme, the coming of the Bridegroom. "But at midnight there is a cry, be- hold, the bridegroom!" The longer the virgins slept, the nearer was the approach of the bridegroom. The longer we wait unprepared for the coming of Christ, the nearer is his sure approach. "Come ye forth to meet him." Translate this into other words, and it runs thus: Recognize and act up- on, the law of preparation of human character.' "Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps." The wicks had become charred while they slept, and must be cut to burn brightly. "Anc the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out." The foolish virgins are the half-and-half people, people who in any case of difficulty never think of turning to the light within to guide them through the darkness, but they at once turn to seine one who they think is living a Christian life, as if. a borrowed light would do. "But the wise answered, saying, Peradventure there will not be en- ough for us and you. This is a harsh and selfish refusal- but arises out of the very necessity of the case. Girls Sleep More oundly Than Boys Large Meal Before Bedtime Bound to Cause , Restlessness "Go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves" We cannot impart our Christian life to another but we can point to him the divine Source of all life, we can turn him to the Father, the Son, and the Ho- ly Spirit. "And while they went away to buy the bridegroom came." Just at the critical moment, when all was eager hurry to do the fitting honor to the advancing bridegroom. "And they that 'were ready went in with him to the marriage feast." If this is a lesson of terrible warn- ing it is Also a lesson of comfort and cheer. If we are ready we shall go in with our Lord to his eternal feast of joy. "And the door was shut.' These are the most solemn words of this solemn parable. "A new thing it is for that door to be shut. So long has it stood open, thrown wide back, that we for- get there is a door that can shut that entrance. "Afterward came also the other 'virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open un- to us." They wanted to get in. "But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not." One of Christ's most terribly emphatic statements. "Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour." The close of Your earthly opportunity may come today—the very next minute. Now is the accepted time. Australia and Canada VICTORIA—Trade relations be- tween the Governments of Canada and Australia are intimate and cordial, L. R. MacGregor, Australian trade com- missioner At) Canada, declared on his arrival here recently, "While I was in Australia, I dis- cussed the question of bringing about even closer trade relations than have already been established by widening the scope of the present trade agreement," he added. Mr. MacGregor spent two mouths in Australia. Is the healthy child a restless sleeper? New light is thrown upon this ques- tion, 011 which advice is constantly sought by mothers, by Dr. Glenville Giddings in the Journal of the Amer- ican Medical Assoeiation, which con- tains a valuable study of the activity of a group of children -28 boys and girls—during sleep. BATTERY OF PINS To obtain a complete and continu- ous record of each night's sleep a re- markable electrical machine called a "hypnograph was used, The slightest movement of the child in bed caused a small brass wheel to travel up and down a perpendicular strip of metal attached to the bed spring. This caused changes in an electric current, which were conduct- ed by cable to the hypnograph in an adjoining room. The hypnograph consisted of a bat- tery of 28 fountainpens (one for each bed), which wrote on a moving roll of paper in different coloured inks, according to whether the sub- ject was a boy or girl. The tests reveal that the move- ments of a healthy child conform to a definite pattern. The most active part of the night is during the first half-hour. , The most tranquil is in the second -half-hour to 45 minutes, and a restive phase recurs during the hour before waking. Girls, it was found, sleep more soundly than boys. They not only drop off more quickly, but sleep more quietly Among 24 children studied, the most restless sleeper showed an aver- age of 110 active minutes during 15 nights. COLD WEATHER BEST Old Age Pensioners Show Big Increase NEW YORK—The number of old - age pensioners in the United States has increased from 4000 to 135,000 Persons, Mr. Abraham Epstein report- ed recently at the opening of a two- day national conference on social se- curity. Mr. Epstein, executive sede- tary of the American Association for Social Security. characterized 1933 as "the year of greatest achievement in providing security for the dependent aged." "There is no economy In either cheap labor or cheap materiel." — Henry Ford. A drink "of warm milk at bedtime was shown to produce definitely quieter sleep. A large meal, however, even though the food was plain, re- sulted in marked restlessness. Baths, whether cold or warm, it was found, had no constant effect on sleep, while children sleep more peacefully in the cold than warm weather. Dress of Women Will be Simpler Col. H. C. Osborne Forsees. Change in Politeness adSWaywehleln women win r.:41 Ottawa.—A quite conceivably exercise a leadine: influence in the state was foreseen ha' Colonel H. C. Osborne, C.M.G., speak- ing at a luncheon meeting of the University Club on the subject, "Wo- men—Yesterday and Today." Venturing into the realm of the future, the speaker predicted 'that women's dress would become more sober and more simple during busi- ness hours. There will be changes,' too, he daid, in certain forms of politeness now existing between! the sexes. "The myth of weakness as far as women are concerned is all non- sense," he said. "It never was true. In the chronicles of early Egypt we come across a type of civilization where men attended to the lighter tasks and the household, and women did the heiavy wort—even to 'the waging of war. "It used to be thought that a woman was incapable of picking up a handkerchief or opening a door. Indeed, last century they were so bundled and becorseted that perhaps they couldn't. But if you go out oR. our golf courses and tennis courts or along the ski trails you see that they eau pick up all the handkerchiefs in the world and open all the doors Women, continued Col. Osborne, are still in danger of standing in their own light by permitting the spread of ideas that certain subjects fall in the realm of women and oth- ers in that of men. He urged that this idea was fallacious, that the en- tire field of knowledge is open and knowledge is power. MUTT AND JEFF— Alac 104.) PRoFESSoR. Mull; The BeAkirY SPC-CiAtAT? MADAM, You'Re "RiE. (AMONG JOINT: lT SAYS' ON THE DOOP.. 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