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ow'ow'd Y1" A'. u Like To
Eat oiled Owl?
There are plenty of cookery
books published in different
countries every year, but up at
FOrt Yukon, Alaska, there has
just been produced a cookery
book which must surely be some-
thing out of the ordinary. It deals
exclusively with Eskimo cookery.
Published by an Alaskan ChiI-
dren's Orphanage, the book con-
sists of recipes supplied by Eski-
mos themselves, and the authen-
ticity of each item and the suo-
cess of each dish is vouched for.
It is doubtful whether the book
will circulate among high-class
hotels, Its appeal may be said to
me decidedly specialist. How-
ever, some of the dishes, if popu-
larised by stylish ,restaurants,
might become fashionable.
In every ease the instructions
are simple, and the dishes them-
selves appear highly original - to
gourmands outside Eskimo cir-
cles, that is. They include bears'
feet, seal flanks, walrus tails,
caribou hooves, and boiled owl.
The editors of the book warn
readers that they may find some
of the ingredients difficult to ob-
tain. You have just shot an owl
and want to eat it? This is what
the book says: "Pluck the feath-
ers, clean .the owl wit,. a knife,
and put in a cooking pot - have
lots of water in the pot - add
salt to make it taste good." How
long should it boil? Unfortu-
nately the book does not say.
The Eskimos do not need milk
to make ice cream. "This is the
way they do it. "Grate reindeer
tallow into small pieces. Add
some seal oil slowly while beat-
ing with hand. Afterwards add
a little water until the .mixture
is white and fluffy. If you have
some berries handy you may add
them to the ice cream. If you
have not, do not bother. The ice
cream is perfect as it is."
Kee Swedish Delicacy on Hand for Coffee -Tie
DY DOROTHY MADDOX i
plRIElIDS of ours just back from Sweden, report' on e wonderful
" soft •spice cake they ate there.
"The aroma was familiar; spicy, like American gingerbread, but
the 'face' was different. Instead of a ;gat square, there was a high
and handsome calve which had been baked in a tube pan (the kind
we use for fancy gelatin desserts).
"The cake wasn't frosted as ours usually are, but it didn't -feed'
t nishing with frosting. Lining the buttered pan with fine dry cttke.
crumbs made it come out beautifully smooth and pretty.
"The Swedish people call our American cakes frosting cakes,
, They're a little aweet for their tastes."
Aa the cake slices fell, we could see chips of candied orange peel.
and citron. "We put those in especially for the holidays," said our.
hostess, "and the rest of the year, we serve the carie plain.
"It's so quick to stir up, and keeps so well that most people
always have it on hand to serve when friends drop in for coffee."
Home economists of the Pillsbury Test Kitchens adapted this
recipe for us. They lined the pan with chopped nuts instead of
cake crumbs, believing the flavor and texture of nuts would appeal
more to American tastes than a plain crumb finish.
Good Soft Spice Cake
(God Mick Pepparkaka--]Pronounced God Meyook Pepper-te)
Melt t/z cup butter or margarine; cool, Sift together 1.1 cups
enriched flour, 2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder, 1 tea-
spoon salt, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 teaspoon ground cardamon, 1
,teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon ginger,
i Beat3 eggs with 1/2 cup sugar and 1 cup firmly packed brown
sugar until very thick. Stir in 3 tablespoons finely chopped citron,
g tablespoons finely chopped candied orange peel, 14 cup blanched
almonds, chopped fine, and half of the dry ingredients. Mix' well,
Blend in 1/2 cup light cream. Add the remaining dry ingredients;
Mix well.' Add the cooled, melted butter; stir just until blended.
* Treats
Soft Swedish Spice Cake, set•ve'A with coffee, Is a treat that's wel-
come at any hour oft the day or evening.
Turn into n- or 10 -inch tube pan whloh has been generously
greased and coated with finely -chopped almonds or other nuts. ,
Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees 1['.) 50 to 60 minutes. Cool in
pan 15 minutes; invert on wire rack. Serve warm or cool,
Note: If desired, cake may .be baked in 9x5x3-inch bread pan.
Citron and candied orange peel may he omitted, it desired.
SWEET REVENGE
A chap in. England .,night have
rushed into court to prove dam-
ages to his reputation. But he
chose a more effective method.
An English lady, self-appoint-
ed supervisor of village morals,
accused a workman of having re-
verted to drink because "with
her own eyes" she had seen his
wheelbarrow outside a public
house.
The accused man made no ver-
val defence, but the same even-
ing he placed his wheelbarrow
outside her door and left it there
all night,
EFA
M FR
With the advent of mechanical
methods of harvesting potatoes,
the general use of insecticides
such as DDT, and organic fungi -
aides which promote growth and
delay maturity• of- potatoes,avine
killing has become'- increasingly
popular with potato growers. The
reasons for killing potato vines
prematurely are to help growers
spread their harvest season, to
prevent secondary growth of
tubers, the oversizing of tubers,
and the development of late
blight. Also, the killing of vigor-
ous vines prevents the clogging
of diggers and speeds harvesting
operations.
The methods most generally
used for killing potato vines at
the present time, says N. M.
Parks, Division of Horticulture,
Ottawa, are chemical sprays or
dusts, or the use of mechanical
shredders_, or beaters. Each of
these methods has certain advan-
tages and; -disadvantages, depend-
ing upon circumstances. Until
further research work has been
done no one method can definitely
be recommended as being super-
ior in efficiency.
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The chemicals now most fre-
quently used for vine killing are
the dinitros in spray form, either
with or without activators, and
aero cyanamid as a dust. Other
chemicals such as copper sulphate
and common salt in spray form
have proved effective, but certain
hazards attend their use, Copper
sulphate in the absence of lime
and copper sulhpate and common
salt mixtures should be used with
caution unless the spray machine
p resistant to such corrosive
materials.
Vine killers are sold under
various trade•names such as Dows
66 Improved;' Sinox General;
Adams Handy Killer; Green Cross
Top Killer, etc.; all of which if
used in accordance with direc-
tions on the container will effec-
tively kill potato vines. Aero
cyanamid special grade in dust
form, applied when the plants are
wet 'with dew or after rain, has
proved very effective for potato
vine killing or plant defoliation.
It produces a gradual and com-
plete k`" of the foliage within a
few days after application; giving
much the same effect as a light
frost or natural maturity. With, a
gradual killing of the tops the
danger of discoloration of tubers
usually asscciatet: with a rapid
killing of the vines is lessened.
d: * 8
Aero a analnid contains 21 per
cent nitrogen; therefore in one
product it offers the two -fold ad-
vantage of a vinekiller and fer-
tilizer. The residual nitrogen will
be available for the succeeding
crop.
, ..
The pre -harvest killing of
potato vines is a practice which
is recommended and can be em-
ployed by most growers to ad-
vantage. While n must be recog-
nized that killing vines pre-
maturely will reduce total yields
considerably, it usually increases
the percentage of marketable
potatoes. It improves the
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
ACROSS
1. Legume
4. Distinctive
Marls
9. r'TCadplCCe
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wonder
L8, Day window
t4. Guido's
highest noto
t6. (4o over again
L7. Attempt
LO. lnxpression
of disgust
00. Send out
21, Scorches
23, Get ready
26. Cereal
27. Farm
buildings
28. ourselves
20. Insect
30, Mark of
emission
31, Likely
82, New England
state (ab.)
38, Drilled
04. Large knife
86, Jett�eh
seceded
37. Ghats
81, Tie 11y
unsucoeseful
40. Musical
instrument
40. Faithful
45, Eehavo
46. French river
48. Female riff
49, Golf terns
f9, Go in
f.. Salt
DOWN
1. Face value
2.13e indebted
3. Divert
4. Watercrefi
6. Portions of
curves.
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6. 1;xi/ire
7. Symbol for
germanium
8. Constituent
part
•9. Seed covertly
10. Armpit
11. Is possible
" 16. Scarce
18. Small
swallows
20. Was wrong
21. Long for
22. Reminders
23. Pee s
24. Coin of lnufa
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26. .hrfauvor
27. Exposes
30. Comfort
31. Deer's horns
33. Edible seed
34. Levan dna
sailing vessel
86. Flood
37, More ratiorntt
30. Discharge
40. Suitable
41, Frozen water
42. Take a seat
43. Turmeric
44. Fish
37. About
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Bleewliere on This Page
Why Tramp and Tote? -Don B. Alexander, right, introduces
George Chalmers, Chagrin Valley Country Club pro, to the joys
of "easy chair" golfing via the new "golfmobile." The electric
tricycle, propelled by storage batteries, is large enough :fo carry
two passengers and their dubs.
maturity, size and general quality
, of potatoes; all of which are so
essential in supplying consumers:
with a quality product.
3.
To measure the effectiveness of
various treatments recommended
for prevention of bloat in cattle,
the Experimental Station at
Summerland, B.C., needed a pas-
ture that could be depended upon
to produce bloat.
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Pasture fields seeded to recom-
mended mixtures cannot be re-
lied upon for this purpose so a
"bloat" pasture containing a high
percentage of Ladino clover and
Ladak alfalfa was established at
the Station. Approximately 50
per cent of the animals grazed on
this pasture will bloat daily.
d'•
The Station reports a product
consisting of detergents in alco-
hol, prescribed by veterinarians
as a restorative and a sister pro-
duct in powder form advertised
as a preventative were tested.
The preventative was added at
the rate of two grams per cow
for the morning grain feed of
half the Summerland milking
herd. The remaining half were
considered a control group., The
treatment of two grams per cow
was ineffective, so the rate was
increased first to four grains and
later to six grams daily, without
any apparent control. Cows
bloated within five hours of the
time of treatment.
Another attempt to control
bloat featured the use of straw.
The cattle were again divided in-
to two groups and straw placed in
the field containing the treatment
group. Tl'1e;`'cattle ate very little
of the•straw• and bloated as usual,
It wag..suggested that a molasses
spray -added to the straw might
have induced greeter consumption
and resulted in some reduction
in the bloating.
Placing the treatment group in
a field of fall wheat that had been
saved for pasture, for three hours
from 6 to 9 a,m., showed the' most
promise but the supply of fall
wheat soon became exhausted.
QUITE TRUTHFUL
In an interview with the press.
a famous operatic tenor stated:
"I never smoke. Smoking des-
troys the control and the quality
of the voice." '
"But didn't you endorse a ci-
garette?" a newsman inquired.
"It seems to me I remember
some ads -"
"Ah," said the tenor. "Do you
recall what I said? 'These ciga-
rettes do not irritate my throat.'
Quite true. I never smoke them."
akes Big Profits
Maki: g Dummies
Terrence and Clarence, the
two ventriloquist's dummies who
caused Danny Kaye so much
trouble in "Knock on Wood"-
' and looked so absurdly like him
-are, according to Kaye, "ahnost
human," and cost about 800 dol-
lars each to produce.
Their eyes and eyebrows move
in all directions, their ears wig-
gle, their eyelids open and shut
and, since the lower lip is made
of rubber, you don't see the
crack that's visible in most dum-
mies on both sides of the chin.
They were made by Glen
Cargyle, who is in his late twen-
ties and is still a student working
for his M.A. degree. He was ap
amateur ventriloquist as a child
in Independence, Missouri, but
gave up actually operating the
dummies to design and mechan-
ize them as a hobby.
It has turned into a most pro-
fitable business for Cargyle, who
produces the figures for many
of America's 1,000 professional
ventriloquists, making an aver-
age of sixteen a month for his
world-wide clientele, each one
being an original model and
quite different from all the
others. •
It tools him 164 hours to design
andmechanize the first model
for "Knock on Wood," using
sponge rubber, plaster and wood
and carefully moulding the fea-
tures to resemble photographs of
Danny Kaye as a lad in his early
'teens.
Once the prototype was finish-
ed and approved seven dummies
had to be made, only two of
them fully mechanized. but all
looking alike. -
The other five were used tor
the rough scenes when Danny
threw them to the ground and
smashed them and when the
foreign agents ripped them ruth-
lessly apart in their search for
the stolen secret plans.
Cargyle's trade is a highly skill-
ed one, and its secrets are as
closely guarded as the mysteries
of the Magic Circle, There are
be-lieved to be no more than
four craftsmen throughout the
world who design and fabricate
custom-made dummies for ven-
triloquial use. One works ex-
clusively for L. Davenport and
Co. of London, but his name is
never revealed to anyone, he
himself being pledged to silence
about his fasciating and unusual
job.
From the hands of this skilled
craftman, who has been making '
models for nearly fifty years,
came probably the best - known
dummy in Britain: Archie And-
rews. There are, as a matter of
fact, now two Archies.
Both were awaiting the atten-
tion of the mystery man who
created them whets • I called.
"Just in for minor repairs and
a refit."
I was assured, Dummies ap-
parently, require maintenance at
regular intervals. The only im-
portant difference between the
two Archies is that the newer
one can stick his tongue out. But
they each took about fou r
months to make and cost some-
thing in the region of $250 each.
Archie's creator has made
dummies that cry real tears, sit
on a chair and smoke a cigarette,
look like Farmer Giles (complete
with bald head and white whisk-
ers), Donald Duck, Popeye the
Sailor, a Chelsea Pensioner, a
koala bear and a cat.
Orders for these hand - made
models come in from Egypt,
Sweden, Holland, Australia and
there are many from the United
States. Perhaps the strangest
was from a clergyman who . re-
gularly preaches' his sermons
with the assistance of a dummy%
CHANGING FASHIONS
IN BABIES' NAMES
There's a revival in Britain of
the so-called Victorian 'names for
children, especially those of girls.
Sarah, Jane, Katherine, Feli-
city, Henrietta -these were fav-
ourite names when Queen Vic-
toria reigned. John and William
were the most popular names for
boys.
When Queen Elizabeth came
to the rone in 1558, John was
the leading name for a boy,
closely followed by William,
Thomas, Robert ;and Richard.
Charles, George and Arthur also
Became popular before the end
of th. century. ''-st until nearly
200 years later did Joseph, Sam-
uel and Frederick begin to rival
their popularity.
Mary, Elizabeth and Margaret
have always been consisten+
popul names for girls through
many centuries.
BLOOD WILL TELL
A lady who needed transfu-
sions found that her blood type
matched that of a renowned mi-
ser. She received three pints of
his blood; for the first, she sent
him fifty dollars; for the second,
twenty-five; and when she re-
ceived the third, she acknow-
ledged it with a short note of
thanks.
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llNUAY 1II(OL
LESSON
Qty Rev, R, tiarclaY Warren,,
B.A., Ball.
Growth Through Christian Ser-
vice, Galatians 6:1-2; James 1:22;
26-27; 2:14-17; 1 John 3:16.18.
Bemory Selection: Bear ye one
another's burdens, and so fulfill
the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2.
If one is to develop as a
Christian he must have exercise.
A vital part of that exercise will
come in serving others. We must
be doers of the word and not
hearers only. We are eager to
help those in need in a practical
way. Sonne are advocating that
we give part of our surplus
wheat to those countries where
people are starving. It is a
noble thought. ' But we must
not ask the farmer to pay the
bill. We must reimburse him for
his toil and then the wheat will
be the gift of Canada. Present-
ing what we do not neea must
not blind us to another and
more exacting obligation. India
needs and wants agriculturalists
who will teach the people how
they can produce more them-
selves. The missionary is need-
ed though not so much wanted.
When the gospel is received the
sacred cows will cease to roam
the streets living off the products
of the land instead of producing
for the people. Let us send more
missionaries, as well as doctors,
nurses, agriculturalists and tech-
nicians of various kinds.
We can only fulfill Christ's
law by bearing one another's
burdens. When someone stum-
bles we should have sufficient
of the spirit of Christ that we
can go to such a one and help
him to fellowship with Christ.
If you want to be happy -
and who doesn't? -make others
happy by helping them to know
Jesus Christ.
NOT APPRECIATED
The lady was taking a First
Aid course, and she,d never had
a chance to show off her
knowledge. But one day as she
was walking home from class
she spied a man lying prone in
the middle of the street.
Her lessons came back to her
in a flash. This was her big
opportunity. She rushed out
and knelt Over him. Then she
began to give him artificial res-
piration. She pressed down ort
his chest, then up, then down,
then up... -•
Finally the man stirred. "I've
cured him," the woman thought.
"Look, lady," the man told
her tiredly, "I don't know what
you think you're doing, but I'mrr
trying to get a wire down this
manhole."
DTJMB (MENTOR
A drunk in the Empire State
Building stepped into an opera
elevator shaft and plunged 36+
stories to the bottom. Miraculous-
ly, he landed unhurt and, ris-
ing, he shook his fist at the air
above him.
"I said up, not down!"
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FALL SEASON --- In hospital, four-year-old Judy Combs recovers
from her second serious fall in less than three weeks, Judy fell
from the fourth -floor window of her mother's apartment and
landed in a dirt courtyard. She suffered only a head cut, body
bruises anki a dislocated spleen, In her previoul fall, from thl
same window, she hit a clothesline. It bounced her lo safety
on the second floor fire escape,