Zurich Herald, 1955-02-03, Page 3"The a RJue From
Acrosr The Seas"
Housewives of more than a
hundred years ago were using a
blue pigrneet known as ultra-
marine to make their white
clothes seem whiter. The same
ancient blue is whitening clothes
today, but it is also giving its
brilliant hue tosuch modern;
Materials as plastic housewares,
linoleum, and the coated fabrics
fused in bookbinding,
The history .of ultramarine
stretches over many centuries.
The Egyptians and otherancient
peoples prized a blue semi-
precious stone called lapis la-
zuli which was found in China,
Tibet, Persia and Afghanistan.
In medieval times, it was dis=
covered that the blue stone could
be ground and refined as a color
pigment. Caravans from the
East brought lapis lazuli to Eu-
rope. There it was known as
ultramarine blue -. "the blue
'from beyond the seas." Ultra-
marine pigment illuminated me-
dieval manuscripts and bright-
tened the 'canvases of Flemish
and Italian masters. This blue
was valued by artists above all
•other blues. However, with in -
•creasing demand, supplies grew
scarce and fabulously expensive.
Chemists in the early 1800's
analysed the stone from across
the seas, and in 1828 they dis-
•covered the secret of a process
to make the pigment artificially.
French and German factories
began commercial production
and ultramarine soon became
.even more familiar as a common
washday aid than as an artist's
cedar.
Unlike a bleach, ultramarine
doesn'twhiten clothes by chem-
ical . action. It creates an opti-
cal effect of whiteness by re-
- fleeting .the blue . waves of light
to neutralize the yellow light
which white surfaces, reflect. In-
dustry takes advantage of this
effect, too, in the whitening of
paper pulp and paint pigments.
In the 1850's, Isaac Reckitt, a
starch -maker with a small busi-
ness in Hull, England, entered
the blueing business. He began
-to import the pigment from the
Continent to sell to the house-
wives of Britain. Reckitt's side-
line made his name a household
word and his company the
world's largest supplier of ul-
tramarine,
Records show that the com-
pany filled its first Canadian
order 90 years ago, when 25
hundredweight of laundry blue'
arrived in Montreal. The same
sort of blue is still whitening
Canadian clothes today. To , us,
ultramarine . is still, literally,
"the blue from beyond the seas."
COMMEMORATIVE- Italian pos-
A authorities have just issued
this ,stamp honoring the Marian
Year. The stamp features "The
Madonna. of Pity," from a mar-
ble group by Michelangelo, now
In St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Round steak Served This Way Makes Tasty Square Meal
BY DOROTHY MADDOXX
Here is a tasty and hearty recipe for preparing round
steak in combination with dill pickles and vegetables.
There's a full -flavored
goodness to round steak which is enhanced
by long, slow cooking; prepared this way, you have a "company*
dish to add to your menu selections that will be a most -any -day.
treat for all the family.
In purchasing roundsteak, allow approximately ' pound . per
person. After purchasing, store In refrigerator; wrapped loosely
in waxed paper. Plan to use the round steak within three to flys
days.
Round Steak, Dills and Vegetables (.6-8 Servings)
Two pounds of round steak, cut % inch thick; flour, 1 teaspoon
salt, 8 carrot strips, 8 celery strips, 4 dill pickles, cut in half length-
wise; 3 tablespoons fat, 1 cup .beef bouillon, 1/4 teaspoon.: pepper,
% teaspoon onion ,salt.
Cut round steak in 8 pieces about 3 x 4 inches. Pound in flour
with edge of heavy saucer. Sprinkle on salt. Lay 1 strip each of
carrot, celery and dill pickle on each piece. Fold meat in half.
Fasten with a pick. Brown meat in hot fat in heavy skillet. Add
remaining ingredients. Cover. Simmer 11/4 hours,' or until' tender.•
Thicken gravy, if you care t4.»
Heart meal with art flavor is on your Party Y r table when you serve
round steak prepared with dill pickles and vegetables.
Thirty Years In
Steaming Jungles
For a white . man to spend
over thirty, years in the steam-
ing Jungles of Brazil and to re-
turn to civilization sound in
mind and body is by way of be-
ing no mean achievement. Both
therecord and. the .inevitable
adventurous living crammed
tightly into half a lifetime must
be unique. .
Sasha Siemel is unique; not
only as a hunter but as a man,
for he combines the ingenuity
of the white hunter and the
cunning of the Indian whose
senses match those of the ani-
mals they trail.
Such was the ice -cool courage
of Siemel that he preferred to
fight the fierce jaguars armed
only with a spear animals
weighing twice as much as the
average man, and about equal
in size to the Bengal tiger.
In an exciting and thrilling
account of his adventures, "Jun-
gle Fury" Sasha Siemel writes
so vividly that the reader prac-
tically lives, camps, and .hunts
by the side of the adventurer.
Rough -Stuff Wrestling
Apart from being a hunter of
note, Sasha.' Siemel owns quite a
reputation as a boxer and wrest-
ler. Earlier in his career Sasha,
together with his brother Ernst,
were making their way to the
diamondfields of Brazil. En
route to Sao Paulo was a Turk-
ish wrestler, Leon Beduino, who
decided to break, his journey at
Passo Fundo, and was here that
the brothers met. up with him.
Beduino, hoping to acquire a.
few more milreis, issued chal-
lenges to all and sundry.
Sasha accepted, but on one
condition; that if he wrestled
with the Turk one night, the
man would consent to a ten -
round boxing match the follow-
ing night.
The wrestling match proved a
fiasco, for after the Turk had
bitten through his opponent'sf.ear
with a full set of gold teeth,
gunplay from the • spectators
caused a diversion and Beduino
disappeared from the ring.
The - challenger was all for
leaving town, but was persuad-
ed to stay for the return match
after an official had promised
there would be no further gun-
play.
Siemel won the boxing con-
test with a blow that floored the
Turk and left him with a hand
too badly damaged to permit of
hand -shaking for some: weeks
after.
With his share of the purse the
winner bought a mule, and with
rather malignant humour named
it "Beduino"!
During their travels the two
brothers - later they parted
company - learned of a dia-
mond strike on the Rio Manso.
They decided to go there. From
out of the blue came an Ameri-
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
'7. Soft mineral 23. Charles Lamb
8. Hide 30. L:nemies
Y. Topa;
hummingbird 33, tlo before
10. 0ncountered 35. (ler. 10.
11. Compass African coin
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-- 17, Join (Scot,) 08. insets
ACROSS f'OWN 19 Wax 41. Hurried
1, Goddess of 1. Volcano 22. Knot 43. (*rowing out
discord 2. Radix 24, Tearly 45. Notion
5, Quick to learn 3. Copy Amei lean 47. Nobleman
4, )luropean militiamen 90. Sea birds
25, Pieced out 49. Upper limb
20. Air (comb. 60. Supper
form) 61. Tight brown
27. Stuffs fit, immerse
8.Men deal
12, Large volume
13, Man's nnme
14. Level
15. Stack (Fr,)
19. Dainty
14. Garret
20, Mark of en
injury
21. Concerning
23, valley in
Argolis
27. Damp
29. Covering of
a building
E1. Youngster
02. wing -footed
34. Device for
unclosing
30. rashion
designer
37. irencing
sword
89, Tdible
Japanese
plant
40. More rational
42. Item of
property
44, Brother of
Abel
46, Anoint
49, was present
53. Cunt('
54, remise
85. Yale.
U. Gull -like
bird
87. Animal's n4010
covering
3. Serpent
2. Plnishe6
flash
6. Help
6, 9iaglcian'a
command
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Answer elsewhere on this page,
can, complete with sea -diving
kit,who also had heard of the
diamonds to be found in the
rivers and streams of inland.
Brazil.
The Siemels looked goggle-
eyed at the outfit,' strapped to
the American's pack mule. He
reasoned that if a few diamonds
(as had been reported) could
be dug from the banks of the
rivers, then ,more 'and 'bigger
diamonds would' be found in the
middle.
Diamonds were indeed found,
but the .simple-minded dianiond
diggers scratching and panning
for stones believed that the Arn-
• erican was ' poaching on ' their
claims by walking underwater'
to their stakings and helping ,
himself. The idea was ridicua.
lous, but the angry diggers
wouldn't have it so.
. The situation was beginning
to look ugly and blood looked.
likely to be spilt before Sasha
Siemel took a hand.
The American was prevailed
upon to accept ten' diamonds for�
the diving outfit. After the
transaction the new owner'
promptly took an axe and
smashed the helmet, slashed
through the hose, . and left the
wreckage as a testimony to
peace.
It is said that there are many
old hunters, and many bold
hunters; but that there are few
old bold hunters. The author
of "Jungle Fury" is one of the
few.
HARD OF 'EARING-CorI Nelson
demonstrates the durable qual-
ities of new plastic anatomical
models before the American As-
sociation for the Advancement
of Science. Infinitely more rug-
ged than their .organic counter-
parts, the models are for use
by medical students.
Alyce - "There, goes poor
Marge. She walks with a decid-
ed jerk."
itch - "Yes, isn't he!"
I, FARM FRONT
J06,
Most columns regarding farm-
ing, these days, are either fac-
tual or gloomy - often both.
So, for a change of pace, here's
something a bit more cheerful,
taken from an editorial by
Wheeler McMillen, Editor -in -
Chief of the Philadelphia Farm
Journal.
Whether Mr. McMillen makes
his living by farming, or solely
by writing about it, I cannot
say. Anyway, here's what he
writes. * *
Farming is one of the few
businesses in which a whole
family can share actively. To
do their daily work most men
must leave home. Their wives
and children can take no part
in planning or doing it. In
thousands of families man and
Wife go separate ways to. their
separate jobs each day. In a
farm home the sense of real
partnership can grow. A .nan
and his wife and his children
can see each day's work and its
results, They can plan together
and really live together. Farm-
ing is a privilege, because the
home is genuinely its center.
* 4 *
Nowhere else can children
more surely grow into good and
competent adults, Millions of
times it has been truly said that
farm children benefit from their
early opportunities to assume
responsibilities. Farm young-
sters can find wholesome vari-
eties of gaiety that no city child
knows about. They share in the
care of animals, and . in affec-
tion for them. They have chanc-
es to get into business for them-
selves, and to learn early that
faithful work pays off.
* * *
Farmers do not have to jam
themselves into packed subways,
busses, or elevated trains, twice
a day, nor drive long distances
to and from their work. They
seldom have to eat from a lunch
Pail, They rarely punch a time
clock, and do not have to wear
numbered badges. They, do not
have to pay dues to hold 'a job,
nor go on strike at the order
or some leader, No fellow.
worker scolds a farmer for do-
ing too much, and no boss be-
rates him for doing too little,
Farm work is neither repeti-
tive nor monotonous. The sea-
sons, even the hours, vary the
tasks. The man who plows,
plants, and cultivates can see
the tangible result of his indi-
vidual effort, He knows that the
more wisely he carries on his,
work, the greater will his return
be. He can enjoy a kind of per-
sonal pride that is denied to
millions who work in a mech-
anical routine.
4 * *
Those who deal with the gen-
eral public, and those who are
cogs in large organizations, envy
a farmer for his personal inde-
pendence. He may never in his
life tell anyone to go to hades,
but he knows he can do so with-
out losing his customers or his
job: He can buy where he
pleases, and sell where he gets
the best deal. He enjoys more
real freedom than alrnost any-
one •else. * * *
A farmer's work is creative.
He produces from soil and seed,
from sun and rain and atmos-
phere, new wealth that is
necessary and useful to his fel-
low humans. The true farmer
finds much of his work thor-
oughly fascinating, because he
can always observe, always
learn, and always improve. He
deals with fundamentals.
4 4 4
On the farm one may not grow
lyrical every day at the beauty
of sunrises and sunsets, the ex-
citement of storms, and the
purity of the air. Yet all these
do count among the compensa-
tions of country living. A bird
song is never so annoying as
a blaring radio from a nearby
apartment. The antics of young
animals are more entertaining
than noisy streams of passing
traffic. A landscape that varies
day by day offers more charm
than unchanging vists of brick
and cement. Is not the privi-
lege ,of living in the country-
side an asset?
* s *
Editor's Comment-- A really
nice piece of writieg, Mr. Me -
Millen! low, let's go out and
see 0 the pump Is frozen up,
and it the snowplow has been
;(alongdrool, so the kids can get to
Along With Alexander
A fellow can never know
when some trivial act of his is
going to make history. Maybe
it's nothing more than parking
his car on the street somewhere,
and bingo! he has wrought for
the ages.
James L. Wilmeth, a living
example of the above truths,
thought nothing of it when he
parked his automobile in front
of the United States Treasury
in Washington one day 40 years
ago. While the old buggy was
sitting there, some one snapped
a picture of 'the Treasury Build-
ing, with the Wilmeth Ford
parked alongside. Years later,
that picture was exhumed and
put on the $10 bill, where it is
located at about the same point
on the back as Mr. Hamilton's
cravat on the front.
The story came out only a
ew days ago. A second cousin
of Mr. Wilmeth (Mr. W. now
lives near Philadelphia) works
in the classified advertising .de-
partment of the Memphis Com-
mercial Appeal. And as that
newspaper says with rare in-
sight: "You can't go around be-
ing the . second cousin :of a man
whose Ford is on a $10 bill with-
out people eventually finding
out about it."
And so Mr. Wilmeth, by no
more than scooting up to the -
curb and cutting off the engine,
parked in a niche in history-
maybe a small one, but who's
to say it is abscure when it's
right there back of Alexander
Hamilton? -- St. Louis Post -
Dispatch.
May Soon Solve
ystery
How did our ancestors survive
when Arctic glaciers covered
Europe 15,000 years ago? From
Santander, Spain, comes word
that a priest, Father Jesus Car-
ballo, aged seventy-six, may
soon solve this mystery.
Father Carballo has spent
most of his . life crawling
through a maze of tunnels and
caves some thirty miles south-
west of Santander on Spain's
north coast.
He has discovered arrow-
heads, bone implements, paint-
ings on walls and other clear
indications of a vast under-
ground Ice Age City. Some of
these tunnels descend for more
than 'a mile Into the bowels of
the earth,
Father Carballo believes that
some 13,000 years ago wander-
ing human beings found the
caves and went into them for
shelter, While the women re-
mained in the depths below to
tend the children and to make
hunting weapons, the men went
foraging for food.
}MY SCIIOOL
LESSON
By R. Barclay Warren
The Grace of God
1 John 4:10; Ephesians 23-9;
Titus 2:11-14,
Memory Selection: herein fa
love, not that we loved God, hue
that He loved us, and sent (ilio
Son to be the propitiation fat
our sins. I John 4:10.
Man is sinful; yes, dead in his
sins. But God loves us in spite
of our sin. So great is that love
that He gave His only begotten
Son, Jesus Christ, to save us.
We didn't deserve it but God is
rich in mercy. This is grace;
the unmerited favor of God.
We are not saved by joining
a church nor by any works we
may do. We are saved by be-
lieving on Jesus Christ. It's as
simple as that, Yet the change
is radical. We turn our back on
ungodliness and worldly lusts
and live soberly, righteously, and
godly in this present world.
We do not live as those who
feel they are missing a lot. We
have an upward look. "Looking
for that blessed hope, and the
glorious appearing of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ; whogave himself for us,
that he might redeem us from all
iniquity, and purify unto him-
self a peculiar people, zealous of
good works:" To be one of God's
peculiar people does notimply
less intelligence. It is aan eche
of what God said concerning
Israel; "Ye shall be a peculiar
treasure unto me above all peo-
ple." Exodus 19:5. Jesus Christ
forgives and purifies to Himself
a people for his own possession.
We are peculiar in the sense that
we are his particular property.
He has bought us by his own
blood.
Do you belong to Jesus Christ?
He died that you might be His.
Faith makes the contact. Good
works will follow.
As word spread of the caves,
others came and joined these
men and women until there was
a vast population living under
the mountains.
Kings who sat upon stone
thrones ruled the population and
regular meetings took . place to
decide the future moves of these
primeval people. Artists decor-
ated the walls of the caves with
bison and wild horse drawings.
With the melting of the ice
cap, thecaves fell in after the
dwellers had moved out.
The caves were first discov-
ered more than 100 years ago,
but lost sight of until 1880. No
one took much notice of -then;
until, Father Carballo came -to
Santander as a young priest in
1905 and began his explorations,
In April, 1.952; ,Father'-"Car-
ballo stumbled by ,accident osa
the ancient ' king's throne room
near Mount Castillo. Now he is
going to re-enter the maze of
caves in search of further proof
that our ancestors sheltered
here when the world was a
block of ice,
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
PET PROBLEM -Little Bruce Duggan, 2, is mighty proud of his
pet duck and pet dog. The Mallard duck, named George, and
Smokey, the pooch, roans the suburbs chasing cats and running
after automobiles,