Zurich Herald, 1954-07-01, Page 3,r TABLE
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With hot weather here, and hot.
ter still in prospect thought nat-
urally turn to the kind Of meals
thatcan be prepared in advance
and then dished up cold with a
minimum: of trouble.,
So here are a few new versions
oir some old favorites stetting off
with a potato salad that is de.
1lghtfully different from t h e
"standard" kind,
POTATO SALAD
11/a cups potato balls
3 tomatoes, peeled and
diced
34 pound Swiss cheese,
silvered.-
3/%, cup lemon -French
dressing
1 small green pepper sliced
1 small head lettuce
1 quart mixed salad greens—
(Any of the following: beat
greens, celery leaves, dan-
delion greens, escarole, spin-
ach leaves, water cress),
1 small Bermuda onion,
sliced thin
8 radishes, sliced thin
1/ eup grated, raw carrot
Cook potato bails in boiling
:8alted water until barely tender.
Drain and cool.. Place in salad
'Owl; add tomatoes, cheese, and
lemon -French dressing. Mari-
nate for 1 hour. Add remaining
ingredients. Toss lightly and
.serve immediately.
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MACARONI SALAD
4 ounces elbow or fancy
macaroni, cooked, drained
and cooled
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons chopped onion
2 tablespoons each, chopped
green pepper and chopped
dill pickle
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup Swiss cheese eubes
1 cup lightly crushed corn..
chips
(measured after crushing)
Combine macaroni, mayon-
i�tarse, onion, green pepper, dill
Tickle, salt and cheese. Chill.
efore serving, stir in corr chips.
Variations: Add 1 cup shrimp,
dhicken or any child meat.
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CHICKEN LOAF
If you'd like a chicken or fish
;oaf, here are ways to make and
bake then,
3 cups diced, cooked
chicken
1. cup (3 -oz. can) mushroom
pieces
8 cups cooked noodles
1/2, eup, chicken broth or
gravy >;t • _`•.>
2 eggs, beaten
1/ cup finely chopped celery
1 teaspoon salt
1/4: teaspoon curry powder
34 teaspoon pepper
Combine, all ingredients. Place
in oiled loaf pan 9x5x3 inches.
Hake. at 350° F. about 1 hour.
turn out on platter; garnish
with sliced beets and hard -
cooked eggs.
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SALMON LOAF
1 pound can salmon
2 eggs, beaten slightly
1/2 cup milk
2 tablespoons melte - butter
or margarine
1 cup soft bread crumbs
1/2 teaspoon salt
Dash of .aepper
>/ teaspoon dry mustard
Combine crumbs with season-
ing and butter. Add milk, oil
from the salmon, and the slight-
ly beaten eggs; mix well. Flake
rune -110 --- Walter F. Corbin dem-
onstrates a featherweight radio
receiver that allows him to keep
in touch with his office, no mat-
ter where he may be within a
20 -mile radius. Every 15 minu-
tes a list of numbers is culled off
from a central broadcasting
transmitter, if he hears his num-
ber called, he checks with his
office to see where he is needed,
salmon and add to bread -egg mix-
ture, Turn into shallow, oiled
baking dish and bake at 350° r.
about 45 minutes, Or until firm
and browned. Serve garnished
with lemon slices and bunches of
water cress, with egg-white
sauce, Or with j:omaty sauce,
*
Here, now, is a French dress-
ing which I do not recommend
unless you happen to like the
flavor of garlic, paprika and
curry powder, However, it's
easy to substitute something a
little less .pungent in case your
tastes don't happen to run along
such lines,
CURRY FRENCH DRESSING
% cup salad oil
n/ cup vinegar
1 teaspoon fresh lemon
juice
1 teaspoon sugar
1/e teaspoon salt
34 teaspoon each, pepper
and onion salt
i/ teaspoon each gaelic •
powder and paprika
1/2-1/2 teaspoon curry powder
Combine all ingredients and
shake well in tightly covered jar.
How Electricity
Got Its Name
Electricity has always been a
part of nature. Imagine a violent
thunderstorm, with the crash of
thunder and the orackling flash
of lightning. In his shelter, the
cave -man must have cowered in
terror. Then, perhaps a quarter
of a million years later, some an-
cient discovered that amber,
rubbed with a piece of fur, would
attract bits of feathers or wisps
Of straw. This property (we
know it today as statis electric-
ity) was described as long ago as
600 B.C., by Theles of Miletus,
one of the seven wise men of an-
cient Greece.
The Greek word for arnber is
elektron, and since it was the
first substance to show this prop-
erty of attraction, William Gil-
bert (1540-1603), physician to
Queen Elizabeth, called the prop-
erty "electrica." In 1650, Walter
Charlton changed the name to
"electricity," the name we use
now.
IS Electrical Resistance Affected
When a Conductor is Heated?
Yes. For copper and most
other materials there is an in-
crease of resistance to electrzcity,;
when '"ie °temperature Irises, but
the -resistance of these thin car-
bon filaments you may occasion-
ally see in very old lamps goes
down when the wire gets hotter.
Resistance 'generally decreases
as a conductor is chilled; and at.
extremely low temperatures
many metals show what is called
superconductivity. That means
their power of conducting elec-
tricity is enormously increased.
At a temperature approaching
absolute zero, a wire made from
lead, for instance; will offer no
resistance; and once a current
has been set up in a coil, it will
keep flowing for days,
ARE Silver and Gold Magnetic?
Generally speaking, it is iron
and steel and their alloys that
are magnetic, Nickel and cobalt
also show some magnetism. An
alloy of iron, cobalt, nickel, alun-
inuriz and copper can be made so
magnetic that it can lift a thous-
and times its own weight of iron.
A magnet attracts iron and steel
and the alloys that make Mag-
nets.
Gold and silver do not make
magnets, nor are these metals
ttracted by magnets.
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Ribs A' Plenty
There are about seventeen hun-
dred species of snakes distribut-
ed throughout the temperate and
tropical regions of, the world..
They range in size from a bur-
rowing creature only a few inch-
es long to the regal python, near-
ly or fully thirty feet long and
weighing three hundred pounds.
Consequehtlye the number of ribs
varies, though in any case it is
enormous. Soneetimes there are as
many as three hundred pair of
ribs, .loosely tied to the back-
bone. Each. rib' at its free end is
=attached to•a shield of horn ,on
the underside of the body. It is
by this plan that the snake moves:
The ribs ripple forward, p pair
at a time, and in doing so, thrust
forward the rear edges of the
shield to which they are united.
At each movement the shield
grips Some rough spot on the
ground, and so the whole body is
drawn ahead. The wriggling
movement, is always horizontal,
INSECTS' BRAINS
Most insects have a well-de-
veloped nervous system includ-
ing a brain. It is in the head
and has two parts, The brain is
connected with the main nerve
cord, which runs in a double line
the length , of the insect's body.
At intervals along the cord
there are nerve centres called
ganglia, which look like swell-
inge.
"It's An 111 Wind--" — It's just a breeze for Steve Baker, 3, et
basket, and ,cousin Jimmie Connor, 6, to make baskets on the
outdoor basketball court near Steve's home in Fort Scott, Kan.
A tornado which blew into town pounded the adult -size stan-
dard down to goal -scoring freight for little boys.
Near -Sightedness
In nearsightedness, the eyeball
ia•too long from front to back,
and the person can see near ob-
jects clearly, but not distant
ones. When we see an object, it
means that light -rays coming
from it are passing through the
lens of the eye, at the front of
the eyeball. The lens act as a
refractor, that is, light -rays pass-
ing through it are bent. In the
normal eye, light -rays come to-
gether, or are focused, on the
retina, at the back of the eyeball,
from which the sensation of
sight travels to the brain by way
of the optic nerve. However,
when the eyeball is too long from
front to back, the ..light -rays tram
a distant object come to a focus
before reaching the retina. The
result is a blurred image.- • To
correct nearsightedness, the ocu-
list will give, you a' concave lens
for your spectacles. It will
diverge the rays just the right
amount to keep them from focus=
ing too soon.
Under -Cover Fashion Notes -- In
2054, the boys can look forward
to seeing the costume, above,
when their secretaries rocket to
work in the morning. It's a one-
piece suit of light -weight jersey
with button -on sleeves and de-
tachable skirt. It was modeled at
the National Secretaries Associa-
tion meeting by Laura Jane
Holrnes, "Miss Press Photogra-
pher." Below, height of fashion
on Brazil's coffee plantations
demands a straw hat and flow-
ered coverall, as protection
against the blazing sun when
hoeing coffee plants.
'Straw Hat' Players
is ack in Muskoka
On July 5th the Straw Hat
Players return for their: seventh
season of summer theatre in Mus-
koka. The company, which pro-
vides a play a week for vaca-
tioners in Port Carling and Gray-
et/burst throughout the summer,
was the spring -board from whleh
its founders, Murray and Don-
ald Davis, launched into a fulI-
scale season with the Crest The-
atre company in Toronto last
January.
Now Toronto is in a position
to repay the debt to Muskoka, A
vastly improved company with
many Crest Theatre stars and
technicians will serve the sum-
mer companies this year.
Renowned Crest designer, Hut-
chinson Scott, Directors John
Blatchley and Pierre Lefevre,
and a strong company headed by
Murray Davis, Max Helprnann,
Charrnion King, Norma Renault,
Antonia Pemberton, Norman Ett-
linger and George McCowan, will
all be in Muskoka,
Opening on July 5th in Grav-
enhurst with the current Crest
success, Amphitryon 38, and' in
Port Carling with a wild Rus-
sian farce, Squaring The Circle,
the company will present also
Noel Coward's Fallen Angels,
Peter Ustinov's The -Indifferent
Shepherd ,arid .a; Revue to .ba
erete '""''li"+ ed test "tetedr "4 George
McCowan.
Araby Lockhart, a long-time
Straw Hat favourite, who has
not been with the Crest company
• this season (she has, instead, be-
come a mother,) and Richard
Lamb will join the players from
the Crest
Two favourite Straw Hat ac-
tors will be missing from the
company; Donald Davis and Bar-
bara. Chilcott, who have been
honoured by being given leading
roles in this year's Stratford
Shakespearean Festival. Miss
Chilcott is to play 'the Shrew' in
the Taming of the Shrew and
Mr. Davis will play 'Tiresias' in
Oedipus Rex.
The Crest Theatre's other de-
signer, Carolyn Souter, who has
been responsible this year for the
decor. for The Little Hut, Dream
Girl and The Light Of Heart, will
also be designing settings for the
Straw Hat Players, ,and Crest
Theatre General Manager, Brian
Mallen, and well-known televis-
ion director, Henry Kaplan, will
share the direction with Blatch-
Iey and Lefevre,
Murray & Donald Davis, the
Crest Theatre, Toronto, HU, 9-
9427.
Depth of Water
Very Deceitful
When we turn on the water in
the bathtub, and our cake of soap
falls into the water and sinks to
the bottom, a curious illusion oc-
curs, If we plunge our hand in-
to the water to seize the soap,
we find that it is not where it
seems to be. The eye is deceived
into believing that the water is
rnucln shallower than it really is.
Febbles and fish in a pool al-
ways appear to be nearer to us
than they. really are.
The reason is that the rays of
light reaching us from the ob-
ject at the bottom of the water
not come straight to us, as they
would if there were no water be-
tween .us and the object. The
light from the object travels
straight as long as it is in the
water, but it it emerges oblique-
ly from the water into the air it
is bent downward toward the
surface. This bending is k►sown
as refraction, and it occurs when-
ever light passes frorn one trans-
. parent medium into another of
different density --as, for e --
ample, from water to. air, or from
air to glass. The eye, does not
take refraction int° account, but
judges the position Of the object
as if the light came in a straight
llxie,
Why n Became
Woman - Hennes
Girls! 'Meet .ttte bachelor
80,000 weddings, ` a elle
man with a bright smile, dap
Mr. Alfred ,Brewer, who
been Superintendent Regis
at Hackney, London, for 28 ye
This quietlymspoken man
married no fewer .,than 30
couples since he was' a ept:du
to his job, But he's still a bac
for at 85,, though he looks.yo
er.
Has the man who has rein
ed a bachelor so long—end
retiring this year — anyth
.marriage? Not at all.
he likely to marry when he
finally free from the cares
office?tion! Ah! that's quite a qu
Says genial Mr. Brewer, v
wisely: "I'm net committing
self about the future,"
Why a man is a bachelor
his own business, 0f course.
Britain the number of bathe]
has increased since the w
There are hundreds Of thous
of them --and few give any s
of being woman -haters.
But when a bachelor does
come a woman -hater he's apt
express ..his anti -marriage vie
pretty strongly.
An American millionaire w
spends thousands of dollars
year on old books and man
cripts was disappointed in 1
when he was a youth! The pre
girl he was wooing walked
with somebody else, leaving h
so bitter that he now travels
over the world looking for e
dence which justifies his hatr
of the opposite sex,
Many otherwise eligible m
stay bachelors because they h
to support parents or young
sisters and brothers. They a
quire the habit of bachelorho
—and it- sticks. Some have be
badly let down by a fickle gi
Two well-to-do, good -look'
Leeds young men had this e
perience. Two sloe-eyed siste met at a dance during
South coast holiday won the
hearts within forty-eight hour
Each man proposed ane moor
light night towards the end
the holiday; each was accepte
But a shock awaited the you
men. A few weeks later th
learned that.the shapely pal
they were planning to marry
were already married to tw
brothers—partners in busine
who had been too busy to a
company them en holiday!
"We did it for. a lark," w
tear .. fatuous explanation,. ."
must have been the seaside air
So incensed were the youn
men that they vowed solemn]
to remain bachelors for the r
of their lives.
For five years each kept hi
vow. Then one fell violently
love with a slim young Brazili
widow he met in a Paris nigh
club. He flew with her to Lon
don, where they were marrie
inalatera register office three week
.
To ease his conscience he sen
a wire on his wedding day t
his friend, who was spending
three -months' holiday in Naples
It ran: "Was married today
Very sorry to break our com-
pact, but you'll understand when
you meet my lovely bride,"
Within a few hours he was
surprised to receive this reply;
"Don't mention it, I married an
Italian girl here last week, Just
wait till you see her. She's gor-
geouS!"
When bachelors fail to fall for
their charms, some women have
been known to take drastic
action to "beat down their def-
ences,"
Living in a small luxury hotel
at Sain t Etienne Deschamps,
France, was a lovely but unscru-
pulous brunette who for some
time had had her eye on a rich
middle-aged bachelor who lived
alone in a costly apartment not
far from the hotel,
"She met hint "accidentally" by
moonlight, but he ignored her.
She contrived to sit at his table
in a busy cafe, but he merely
glanced up at her pretty face
and then became more deeply
immersed in his newspaper.
At eleven that night the frus-
trated girl called on the bache-
lor as he was preparing for bed
and declared passionately that
she loved him. She brandished
under his nose an unloaded re-
volver, declaring: "I'll shoot my-
self here unless you marry me!"
}ie feared a scandal and per-
suaded her to meet him next
day "to talk things over." But
he got cold feet and failed to
turn up.
Grimly, the girl resolved to
scare him badly. She disguised
herself as a man, clapped on a
false moustache and knocked at
the door of his house about mid-
night, The bachelor, wearing pa-
jamas, nervously opened the
door. Pretending she was a de -
Aerate bandit, the girl flourished
her pistol and demanded trolley
the jewetleey she knew he
possessed,
Badly scared, the bachelor was
about to part with then when
he suddenly seized a sporting
gun hanging in the hall and
fixed point blank. The girl died
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The police made no charge
against the man when the dr-.
cumstances beoame known. They
revealed that she had preyed .on
several other lonely bachelors,
driving one to suicide.
Bachelors have often 'banded
together to frustrate determined.
attempts by attractive women to
lure them into marriage.
At an inaugural dinner of a
Bachelors' League in Italy be-
fore the war, 200 young men
pledged never to marry and
never to flirt,
i°You flirt with a pretty girl
at your peril," their handsome
curly-haired president warned
them, Even waitresses had been
banned from serving at table
during the dinner.
French members of another
anti -marriage league also took
vows of life-long bachelordom,
The bachelor who was false to
his vows had to pay a. fine of
2,000 francs to the league's funds
and perform some act of pen-
ance.
One bachelor found kissing a
blonde typist in a country lane
was condemned to swim twice
across the Seine at midnight in
his pajamas. He developed rheu-
matic fever which nearly rob-
bed him of his bride-to-be --
another girl he had been sec-
retly courting! She was a nurse
and her nursing skill saved his
life.
Years ago, All Souls' College,
Oxford, made a defaulting mem-
ber present the college with a
memorial of his lapse from bach-
elordom—a silver cup engraved
with the words: "Descendit in
matrimonium" ("He backslid in-
to matrimony.")
On the whole, .it seems that
in the end most women who are
determined get their man, how-
ever keen he is to remain a bach-
elor. Even the law is on the girls'
side, for not long ago a famous
judge declared in court: "No
xnan can look after himself,
whatever his age. Every matt
is helpless without a woman's
care,"
Blood Circulation.
Ancient peoples realized the
great importance of the heart,
although they did not under-
stand its real function. We have
known for only three centuries
that, the heart is ecenelly great
"puihp forcing 'the blood' td '
cir-
culate through the body. This
was proved by William Harvey,
an English physician who lived
from 1578 to 1657. He was a tire-
less student, One of his projects
was examining the animals that
had been wounded in hunting.
In various experiments, ha
measured the amount of blood
that passed by a spot in the
heart. He found to his astonish-
ment that far more blood passed
by in an hour than the whole
body contained. Harvey con-
cluded, therefore, that the blood
must circulate, that is, it must
travel round and round in a
closed circuit. As Harvey had
no microscope, he could not
prove the passage of the blood
from the arteries to the veins by
way of the capillaries. Only ten
years after Harvey's death,
Marcello Malpighi, an Italian
anatomist, who had the benefit
of a, microscope, showed this
capillary action in the lung of a
frog.
The heart of a grown man at
rest pumps out into the arteries
about four to six quarts of blood
each minute with, of course, the
same amount of blood returning
to the heart each minute through
the veins,
Disobedient --• Parking restrio•
tions don't bather this swarm of
bees invading downtown Allen-
town. Police couldn't do a thing
with the "lawbreakers," but a
beekeeper solved the situation
by rounding them up.
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