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Good items for, the thousands
who are on low' -calorie diets
conies in the announcement of a
new liquid sweetener. One drop
of it equals a half teaspoon of
sugar in sweetness, yet it keeps
its sweet taste even when you
boil, bake or freeze it. And, ac-
cording to a lady I know who
has been using it for some weeks,
unlike saccharin or other sub-
stitutes, the taste of this product
cannot be told from real sugar,
So here are a couple of recipes
for you who aim at slimness.
First, cookies with a low calorie
count of only 25 calories each !
MOLDED COOTIES
34 cup butter
34 teaspoon sweeta
1 teaspoon lemon extract
3 egg yolk.,
3 tablespoons water
2'/2 cups sifted flour
Cream the butter. Add sweeta,
lemon extract and the eggs and
water, which have been beaten
together. Mix thoroughly Stir in
flour and mix well, Form into a
ball, wrap tightly in waxed pa-
per and chill for several hours.
Pinch off dough in pieces about
the size of a walnut, mold in de-
sired shape and place on an un -
greased cookie sheet. Bake in hot
oven, 400 degrees F. until lightly
browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Yield:
6• dozen cookies.
Those who have been fore-
going desserts in their quest for
slimness can help themselves to
this Chocolate Sauce! It's low in
calories! This recipe makes a cup
of Chocolate Sauce, and because
it's made with sweeta, the calorie
count is cut down by 384 calories!
CHOCOLATE SAUCE
1 cup water
3 cup cocoa •
1 tablespoon cornstach
3% teaspoon vanilla
2 drops lemon extract
ed teaspoon sweeta
Slowly add 3/4 cup water to the
ceocoa, blending well. Cook over
low heat, stirring frequently, for
about 2 to 3 minutes. Combine
and add remaining Ye cup water
and cornstarch. Continue cook-
ing; stirring constantly, ' until
sauce has thickened. Remove
from heat and stir -in vanilla,
almond and sweeta.
And now, let's forget the diet-
ers for a moment and pass along
a recipe that's wonderful for, say,
•a Sunday night .supper dish when
a 'few friends drop in; Served
with boiled frankfurters, it's
hearty enough for the men folks.
And the eggs can be cooked and
shelled on Saturday, and kept in
the refrigerator in a damp cloth
or moist paper towels until you
need them, The chopped egg
yolks, egg whites and parsley
garnish can also be fixed ahead
of time.
Burns Both Track And Cigars —
Sig favorite with the Stock Car
fans at the C.N.E. track in Tor-
onto is Burlington's cigar -smok-
ing Jim Howard.
CREAMED EGGS W TH
CBMX SE
12 hard -cooked eggs
c. bunter
34 e. flour
1 e. light cream
c, milk (about)
les Ib, sharp Canadian
process cheese, cut up
1 tsp. salt
Dash of pepper '
tblsp. chopped parsley
12 frankfurters
8 slices white bread
Use 2 of the eggs for garnish.
Chop yolks and whites separately,
Cut remaining eggs into quar-
ters,
Melt butter, blend in flour. Add
cream slowly; cook, stirring con;
stantly. Add milk to make a
smooth, rather thin sauce. Stir in
cheese, salt, pepper,
Cover pan and simmer, with-
out stirring, over low heat until
cheese melts — 10 to 15 minutes.
Stir to blend and add quartered
eggs. Bring sauce to a boil. (If
sauce gets too thick, add a little
more milk.)
Split frankfurters; and cut in
halves; fry or broil until crisp
and brown.
Toast bread slices. Cut into tri-
angles,
Pour creamed eggs onto hot
serving platter. Garnish with rows
of chopped egg yolk, egg' white,
and parsley. Poke frankfurters
part way into egg mixture around
the edge of dish, alternately with
toast triangles. Makes 8 servings.
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SAVORY DRESSING
4.i c. blue cheese, mashed
1 e. cream cheese
1 clove garlic (optional)
1 c. sour cream
1 tsp, Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. Ieinon juice
Blend b 1 u e cheese, cream
cheese and chopped garlic. Stir
in sour cream,
Add all other ingredients; blend
well.
Store in refrigerator in cov-
ered jar. "' z`
For dessert try this molded rice
cream. It's grand eating served
with a tart, luscious cherry sauce.
You can make both the mold and
the sauce the day before, too.
MOLDED RICE
di c. rice
134 qt. boiling water
1 qt, milk
c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 tblsp. butter
3 envelopes unflavoured
gelatine
'Iz C. cold water -
1 pt. heavy cream
1 pt. heavy cream
2 tblsp. vanilla
Pour rice into boiling water.
Boil briskly 2 minutes. Drain in
sieve, rinse with cold water.
Return to pan. Add 2 cups milk,
1 tablespoon sugar, and salt.
Bring to boil; add butter. Cover,
simmer 20 minutes — do not stir.
Pour into bowl. Add remaining
milk and sugar. Cool.
Soften gelatine in cold water
for 5 minutes. Heat slowly until
gelatine dissolves. Add to rice.
Chill until thick enough so ker-
nels don't sink.
Whip cream, adding vanilla
gradually, as you whip, Fold into
rice.
Pour into oiled, 2 -quart mold.
Cover with foil. Chill over night.
Makes 8 to 10 servings. Serve
with ••-
' Cherry Sauce:
Bring to a boil, 3 cups pitted
sour cherries, 1 cup water, I
tablespoon lemon juice, a n d 2I3
cup sugar.
Mix together 2 tablespoons
corn starch and '•.s cup water.
Stir into sauce.
Cook, stirring, until thick enol
clear; 2 to 3 minutes. Remove
from heat, add butter.
(Sauce should be tart, buta
little more sugar may be added if
desired.)
Chill before serving,
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OH, MY ACHING ARM—it's all J. Fred Muggs can do to keep
from yanking himself away from that hypodermic needle the
veterinarian is holding. The popular television chimpanzee had
to be inoculated against yellow fever prior to making a month-
long 'round -the -world tour with members of his TV studie► staff,
Peeking from behind his nervous paws, Muggs looks like any
scared child.
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IT COULD MAKE PLENTY OF BREAD—More than '4000 bushels of wheat are piled in a Missouri
street after farmers ran out: of storage space. Forecasts indicate some 300,000 bushels of wheat
from this year's billion -bushel crop will add to the storage problem throughout the U.S.A..
• where 875;000,000 hushes';are already in storage.
And Vet They Say
"Respect The •L ”'
Lyman E. Cook, St. Louis at-
torney, is a collector of freak•
laws. -Here are some of his ex-
hibits:
If ,you sing at a bar in Wis-
consin, drive a red automobile in
Minneapolis, eavesdrop in Okla-
home, m ar r y your mother-in-
law in the District' of Columbia,,,
or arrest a, dead man for a debt'
in New York, you may run afoul
of the law.
Legally, according to Cook, ci-
tizens of Barre, Vermont, are re-
quired to take a bath every
Saturday night; every male in
Brainerd, Minnesota,' must grow'
a beard; and the female papule-
tion of Providence, Rhode Island; '
cannot wear transparent apparel
— even silk or 'nylon stockings..
Custom dictated many strange
laws, yet when times changed
no o n e remembered to repeal
them. 'Thus; in Oregon a -girl can*
not legally enter an automobile
with a young man unless accom-
panied by a chaperone. In Utah
,daylight must be seen between 4:
dancing couple. A man in Lewes;,;
Delaware, cannot wear trousers,.
that are form -fitting around the
hips, while 'in Reading, Pennsylf,-
vania, a woman cannot hang une •
derwear• on a clothesline unleed
a screen is present.
Romance, of . course,..; hat,
ways come under the law's s
tiny. Only a few years ago
husband was fined $15 for kiss=••
ing his wife in a Chicago park,
Kissing in public is also taboo its
Georgia, In Massachusetts, a state.
surprisingly lenient with the ten-
der passion, ten kisses are equiv,.
alent to a marriage proposal. A
hug and kiss in the presence of
the girl's parents, combined with.
several gifts of candy, are enough
to announce your intentions in
Minnesota; in Maryland, if you
make six visits to a girl's hone
you are as good as hitched.
Once married, you c an law-
fully direct profanity at your
wife if y o u life in Delaware,
while in Michigan the law says
a husband owns all his wife's
clothing and can take possession •
of her entire wardrobe if.. she
ever leaves him
In matters of health, as welt as
heart, lawmakers have ruled
sternly at times. A San Francisco .
ordieance prohibits Idle spraying
of laundry clothes by water emit-
ted from the Mouth.. Omaha bans
the use of the same finger bowl
by more than one person: and in
Waterville, - Maine, it is a viola-
tion to blow your nose in public.
Indiana law declares that a mus-
tache is "a known carrier of
germs and a man cannot wear.
one if he habitually kisses human
beings." ,
Flowers
."ExamA�ery Cure,
7.t was found that young men
a n d women students taking •
examinations in one of the clans.
rooms of a school in Clausthal.• .•
Zeilcrfield, Germany. were sue
Eering more than usual from
"exam nerves." Some of the
pretty girls due to enter for' ins
portant exams would walk into I)
the room confidently but would
"go to—pieces" before they had
even read the examination ques-
tions. As for the young MOP,
they quickly became depressed
and morose.
Said a teacher: "It's the room.
1t's vinery, depressing. No won- .
der the students aren't passing
their exams.""
Rainbow blinds were intro-
duced, bright flowers were
placed on desks. The blackboard
was covered with humorous and
encouraging verses above Which
were placed three small lanterns
with the words: "See that your
lights shine when you take your
exam."
At the next, ex ens fifteen out
of fifteen passed with credit,
none showing any sign of ner-
vousness,
HAIRDO? — Her don't. This love-
ly model wouldn't think of wear-
ing her hair this way. She's
showing a Kittle straw cap,
named "The Ondine," after a
Broadway play. It's made of
shredded Ieghorn straw, and is
offered in a rainbow selection
of colors.
Where AH n ilnira
Came From
Elsewhere
One of the strangest things
about New Zealand is that orig-
inally it had no land mammals,
no snakes, no fruit trees and no
cereal grains or grasses of the
kinds that animals eat. There was
one poisonous insect, a little spid-
er that lives on some of the beach-
es. When the Maoris carne to the
island., they brought some dogs
and a kind of black rat with
them it their canoes, hut there
are none of these dogs left now,
and the rats are very rare.
When the white settlers came,
they had to bring into the coun-
try all of the cattle, sheep, and
other domesticated animals. They
also had to import clover and
other pasture grasses for the
animals to eat. and then they
had to import bees to pollinize
the clover. Yet to -day New Zea-
land is one of the greatest sheep
and cattle countries in the world,
and has many fruit trees, Deer,
pheasants, rainbow trout. rab-
bits, stoats and ferrets a r e
among the kinds of animals and
freshwater 'fish' that have been
brought to -New Zealand and have
flourished. f i.fnfortunate! y, the
results 'of bringing In these
strangers have not always been
happy. • The rabbits became such
pests, destroying the fanners'
crops, that the government had
to take measures to destroy as
many as possible, The ferrets
and, stoats, and cats which had
becoxne wild. also became a
plague to the farmers in outlying
districts, and killed so many of
the wonderful wingless birds, the
kiwi, and destroyed so many of
the other birds, that refuges had
to be created to protect the bird
life.
There are many levels, spins -
birds in New Zealand, ouch as
the tui, oi' parson -bird, and ma-
komako. The kea, a hawklike
green parrot. has learned how
to be a nuisance himself, for he
has become skillful at killing
sheep, piercing their backs with
.his sharp beak' to get at the fat
which surrounds the kidneys.
Th:ei:e are many sea birds, among
them -the graceful albatross, and
in the outlying islands in the far
south there are penguins. The
kiwi, as we have said, is a wing-
less bird, a small one which still
lives in New Zealand, but the
great wingless moa has gone
ferevet, She kiwi, also called ap-
teryx, is" a relative of the os
triches,;
They Sure S ffered
F ° ` °h it Art
It is said that Sir Alfred iVlun-
nings, who likes a horse on can-
vas to look like the real thing,
was taken to an exhibition by
artists of an - advanced school.
When he had been round his
guide asked, "What d'you think
of them?"
"I think," Munning said, "that
these chaps have at least kept
the Ten Commandments."
es "What d'you mean?"
"I mean that they've not made
to themselves the likeness of
anything that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the waters
under the earth."
Visitors to the Royal Academy
are unlikely to see pictures of
that sort, though Whistler once
succeeded in getting a painting
by. an "advanced" artist hung
there. When the artist beheld
his masterpiece, he groaned,
"They've hung my picture up-
side down!"
"Hush," Whistler whispered,
"the committee refused it the
other way."
Little do those who wander
through the galleries knQV of,
the labour, the sacrifice and the
heartache that goes into some of
the pictures,, They glance at a
picture depicting a frosty win-
ter's .morning without realizing
that the artist -may have been:
up and out at first light, his fin-
gers stiff with the cold, for the
true artist will suffer ahnost
anything to achieve the effects
he wants.
The public examining some of
Turner's wilder 'seascapes Might
well wonder how the artist got
his effets. The question was once
put to him by Charles Kingsley.
"I wished to paint a storm at
sea," Turner explained, "so 1
went to the coast of Holland and
engaged a fisherman to take me
out in his boat in the next storm.
The storm was brewing, so I
went down to his boat and bade
hien to bind me to the mast.
•Then he drove the boat out in-
to the teeth of the storm.
"Not only did I see that, storm
and feel it, but it blew itself
into me till I became part of the
storm. And then I camp back
and painted that picture,"
Sir William Orpen's colour ef-
fects were amazing. Once, an
amateur who had tried and fail-
ed to get anything like the same
results, asked, "How do you mix
your colours, Orpen?"
"With brains, sir," he replied.
The true artist hates to part
with his work, He puts so much
of himself into it that it becomes
part .of hint. Few laymen can
understand this feeling Georgia
O'Keefe, a famous American
artist, suffers agony each tithe
she sells a picture. So xazutcb cans
was taken over a series of filen
flower paintings that when asked
the price for them she nametil
what she considered was the int-,
possible sum of 49,000.
To her dismay. the figure was
accepted at once; and she was
so desolate that it was three
months before she could touch a
brush.
Artists will go anywhere and
brave almost any danger to put
on canvas the subjects they have
chosen. In 1940 Barnett Freed-
man was ordered to board a ship
for England at once, but remem-•
bering that his painting, "Air-
craft Runway in Construction at
Arras," was in his hotel, he dis-
regarded the order and rushed
back through streets packed with'
refugees who were being mach-
ine-gunned by Nazi 'planes.
When he got back to the quay
he found that the ship had sail-
ed, taking eight other pictures
and his kit!
Edward Bawden wo"ked fev•
erishly on the Dunkirk beaches
during the evacuation, and his
pictures now form part of a his-
torical record of the event.
William Frith used 3,000 mod-
els for his famous picture,
"Derby Day," and during the
work lived on Epsom Downs,
was swindled by card sharpers,
had his pocket picked and his
fortune told by gipsies.
Luckily he made a good deal
of money on that work. After
seeing the preliminary sketch a
dealer offered him $4,500 torr
the completed painting, and an-
other agreed to pay $4,500 for
the engraving rights. So, before
he put his brush on canvas he
was $9,000 "in pocket."
The crowd pressed about him
so closely while he worked on
the picture that an iron rail-
ing was built round him for pro-
tection and a policeman stood
guard over him.
Sir s'• illiam Orpen was com-
missioned to paint the "Signing
of the Peace Treaty at Ver-
sailles," and for nine months
worked day and night on the
portraits of forty statesmen and
high ranking officers.
When the picture was finish-
ed he felt thoroughly dissatis-
fied with their smug faces and
rubbed the lot out, Instead he
painted "The Unknown Soldier,"
lying in. the Hall of Mirrors
guarded by two gaunt spectres
from the trenches.
The Imperial War lliuseum re-
fused it and Orpen forfeited yrs
commission of $6,000.
John Skeaping went to Mexico
to study the pottery methods of
• primitive natives and learned
secrets he could not have found
in textbooks or art school. Living
there on a penny a day he heard
that he had been elected an
A.R.A.
Frank Brangwyn, whose pic-
tures fetch high prices today,
was once desperately hard up.
During a financial crisis he tried
to borrow $60 on one of his pic-
tures that years later he sold for
$6,000.
The pawnbroker offered ten
shillings.
"Why, the frame alone costs
that!" protested Brangwyn in-
dignantly.
"I know," agreed the other,
"it's on the frame that I'm.lend-
ing you the money."
ON THE CONTRARY -
Sorne years ago the wife of
one of the new -rich oil million-
aires invited a famous pianist
to give a private recital at her
palatial home.
She knew nothing about mus-
ic. but after the concert com-
mented on one of the selections.
"What a lovely piece," she said.
"Who composed it?"
"Beethoven, Madam," said the
great pianist.
"Ah, yes," she said knowing-
ly, "is he composing now?"
"No," was the reply. "he is
decomposing."
IT'S ROUCH NAVIGATING—But it shouldn't be in the future,
Timothy Vukarat, 2, was crippled shortly after birth by a hip
bone infection. Al one month he was placed in a waist•down cast.
Now he must scoot around a children's hospital on a castered
plywood board. The cast holds his legs spread so proper
growth will take place. Doctors say he has an even chance to
gain complete use of his legs.