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Ilow would you Pike to bake
a cake -- and then get a cheque
for twenty-five thousand dollars
for it,
Well, that's just what hap-
pened a few weeks ago to a South
Dakota woman! She's Mrs. Ber-
nard Kanago, the wife of a
painter - paper - hanger, and she
was one of a hundred finalists in
a big baking contest sponsored
by a prominent United States
flour -manufacturing concern.
The contest attracted hundreds
of thousands of entries from all
parts of the States, and from far-
away places such as Puerto Rica,
Hawaii and Alaska.
The "bake -off" among the fin-
alists took place at the famed
Waldorf-Astoria in New York and
here is the recipe which took
down the grand prize.
INSPIRATION CAKE
(Makes two 9 -inch round layers)
1 cup finely chopped nuts
2 ounces sweet or semisweet
chocolate
234 cups sifted enriched flour
4% teaspoons double-acting
baking powder
1 teasp,,on salt
1% cups sugar
34 cup shortening
1M cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
cup egg whites (4 large or
5 medium) unbeaten
1. Place nuts evenly over bot-
tom of two well -greased and
lightly floured 9 -inch round layer
-pans.
2. Sift together flour, baking
powder, salt, and sugar into mix-
ing bowl. Add shortening, milk,
and vanilla.
3_ Beat for 11/2 minutes, 150
strokes per minute, until batter
is well blended. (With electric
mixer blend at low speed, then
beat at medium speed for 11/2
minutes.)
4. Add egg whites. Beat for
1/ minutes.
5. Spoon one-fourth:of batter
carefully into each nut -lined pan,
using about half of the batter.
Sprinkle with the grated choco-
late (half in each pan). Spoon
remaining batter into p a n s,
spreading carefully so chocolate
is not disturbed.
6. Bake in moderate oven
(350° F.) 35 to 40 minutes. Let
cool in pans 10 to 15 minutes be-
fore turning out. Cool thorough-
ly and frost layers, nut -side
up, with chocolate frosting.
Spread f r o tin g between.
and on sides of layers, but
frost only lh inch around top
edge of cake and about 1 inch
in center. Decorate chocolate
frosting .with reserve lk cup
white frosting, thinning with
water a teaspoon at a time as
necessary.
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CHOCOLATE FROSTING
2 squares (2 oz.) baking
chocolate
34 cup granulated sugar
1,4. cup water
4 egg yolks
3/2 sup butter or margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups sifted confectioners'
sugar
Method: -
1. Combine chocolate, granu-
lated sugar and water in sauce-
pan. Cook over low heat, stir-
ring constantly, until chocolate
melts and mixture is smooth.
2. Remove from heat. Add
egg yolks; beat thoroughly. Cool.
3. Cream butter and vanilla,
Blend in confectioners' sugar
gradually, creaming well. Re-
serve 1 cup of this frosting to
decorate cake.
4. Add the cool chocolate to
remaining white frosting; beat
until smooth.
LING- LIVING
ANIMALS
Exact figures about the age of
animals are hard to specify,
We know the age to which
men and women live, because
the date of their birth is entered
in an official register, and the
date of their death also is record-
ed. Famous animals that are
kept by men are registered in
books kept for the purpose, so
we know the age of prize horses,
cattle and so on.
The prize for the land animals
has to be given to the tortoise.
This animal is believed to live,
under favourable conditions, for
between 300 and 400 years. The
crocodile, given fair play in its
native wilds can live for 300
years.
It takes an elephant a long
time to grow up, and it takes him
a long time to wear out. , Well
treated, he should live to be a
hundred. That is the age co
which the eagle is supposed to
live, but some people put the age
he may reach at 200 years. Lit-
tle is known about the age to
which whales live, for they are
seldom, if ever, kept or bred in
captivity. They were once be-
lieved to 'reach 500 and even
1,000 years, but 100 years seems
a more likely span. •
In the following table the aver-
age ages are given. For instance,
we give fifteen years as the ave-
rage life of a dog. You may have
known of a dog, however, that
lived to the fine old age of'
twenty. Such a case is very rare,
though not unheard of. One
year of a dog's life is about
equal to seven years of a man's,
so a twenty -year-old dog would
be as old as a man of 140 years!
THE NUMBER OF YEARS
. SOME ANIMALS LIVE
Rabbit
5
Sheep 12
Cat 13
Dog 15
Goat 15
Cow 25
Pig .25
Horse 30
Camel 40
Lion 40
Elephant 100
Whale 100
Crocodile 300
Tortoise 350
Down To The Sea * Ray Tissue of Surfside, Calif,, will be looking
for a new home now that the sea has claimed his old one, Just
before falling into the churning sea, the rear of Tissue's home
leans precariously against the front of the house (top). The roof
of •the house crumbles under the force of the sea as the whole
house lies in the water (bottom). Shortly after these pictures were
taken there was nothing left but a few pieces of wood. This was
the third home destroyed in three days by high seas.
Beauty Tip -p- A double feature for secretaries is this combination
ball-point pen and lipstick. The twin novelty was recently dis-
played at the Hannover, Germany, Fair.
HOW THE KETTLES
"SING"
If you have a glass teakettle,
fill it half -full of water and
watch it as the water comes to
a boil. A small bubble will start
to rise toward the surface of the
water, but suddenly it will col;
lapse. Another little bubble, and
more and more and more of them
will follow. The sudden collapse
makes the walls of a bubble
smack each other quite hard; and
when there are many hundreds
of such smacks, the tone has a
high pitch that makes us think
of singing.
That noise stops when the
water finally boils. Now the bub-
bles do not collapse any more
under the surface, but explode
on the water with a low-pitched
„plop."
How a Great Goalie
Started Ills Career
The little vfflage oY Chicouti-
mi in northern Quebec stirred
with excitement. On the streets,
in the srnall business establish-
ments, in homes, conversation
was inevitably centered about
the coming visit of the great
Montreal Canadiens hockey team.
The Canadiens had accorded the
small town a signal honor by
scheduling an exhibition game
with the local team, and festive
preparations were made for the
celebrated event.
There was, of course, no spec-
ualtion about the outcome of the
contest, It was conceded without
argument• that the Canadiens
would vanquish the local team
with little trouble. There was,
however, a great deal of antici-
pation as to how the Canadiens
would handle the pride of the
Chicoutimi outfit, Georges, the
town carpenter. Georges spent
his spare time tending goal for
the local bladesters, and was
recognized in that neck of the
woods as a competent goalie with
big -league ability.
When the great day arrived,
Georges was probably the only
unruffled gent in Chicoutimi.
His fellow citizens could barely
c on t a i n their excitement, but
Georges -went about his day's
work as usual, ate a light dinner,
and walked unhurriedly to the
local rink. When the game start-
ed, he was a formidable looking
figure in front of the Chicoutimi
goal. He looked as big as a house,
and in a few minutes proved
himself just as invulnerable.
As expected, the professionals
skated rings around the local
boys, and they were peppering
the big carpenter aln ost contin-
ually during the game. Time af-
ter time, Georges turned back
their savage shots with deft flicks
of his stick. When his stick
wouldn't reach, he threw hie
body in front of the puck, block-
ing every tricky shot. He seem-
ed to know by instinct exactly
what the hard -rubber puck was
up to, and his timing was per-
fect. In short, he made more
amazing saves that night than
the ordinary goalie makes In a
lifetime.
The townspeople were amazed
by the fact that Montreal couldn't
whip the local amateurs that
night, but the Canadiens, with
the philosophical attitude com-
mon to,, professional player s, ,
shrugged off the defeat. There
was to come a time, in fact, when
the Montreal management was to
be thankful for the poor show-
ing at Chicoutimi, for the Can-
adiens signed the carpenter to s
contract as their regular goalie' ,
and while they didn't win that
game, they won an even more
important victory.
The pride of 'Chicoutimi not
only made the grade that season,
but became the league's outstand-
ing net tender as well, remain-
ing with Montreal for fourteen
years, piling up record after rec-
ord, and finally giving his name
to a trophy which today stands
as a reward for the league goalie
who comes closest to approxi-
mating his greatness. Today; the
old timers, and the new crop as
well, agree that no more appro-
priate name could identify the
cup awarded to the best goalie
of the year than that of the Chi-
coutimi goalie who made the
transition from small-town car-
pentry to big-time goal -tending,
the Montreal Canadiens' Georges
Vezina.
If you can remember back
when the 5 and 10 advertised
"nothing over 10 cents," brother,
you ain't no chicken.
30 00 les o Goo
NORTH
AND SOUTH of the Equator ... on both
sides df •the Atlantic ... in half a dozen
different languages ... the Seagram Collection
of Paintings of Canadian Cities is snaking front
.Lpage news for Canada.
Spanning three great continents, the International
Tour of the Seagram Collection is telling Canada's
story of achievement as it never, has been toldbe-
fore—interpreting our country to the peoples of
other lands in' the graphic idiom of a language
always and universally understood.
And everywhere this airborne : art gallery has
touched down—for a brilliant' formal 'preview and
a one-to-rwo week public showing—
the response has surpassed the most
optimistic hopes held by The House
of Seagram *hen it conanaissioned
the painting of fifty-two pox, rafts of
will for Canada
Canadian cities by distinguished Canadian artists
and planned to send the canvases on their 30,000 -
mile goodwill .dight.
Hundreds of columns of newspaper comment
and pictures, scores of radio and television broad-
casts, newsreel films and animated public and pri-
vate discussions all testify to rapidly mounting
interest in Canada and friendly receptiveness
towards all things Canadian. Already more than
60,000 persons have studied the paintings and
carried home brochures reproducing the paintings
of the twenty-two Canadian ' cities in full colour.
More important, these new foreign friends have
carried away vivid personal impres-
sions of Canada as a great and grow-
ing country;— a land of tremendous
natural and industrial resources . and
remarkable human resourcefulness.
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Seagram