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0Y dam Dews.
The only thing lazy about
bis cake is the name. When you
Serve it, every one will ask you
for the recipe,
LAZY. DAIZY CAKE
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
NI teaspoon salt
it tablespoon butter
Ye cup milk
Mix this cake with an egg-
beater. Beat yokes and whites
zeparately, Add sugar slowly to
yokes, and it stiffens, begin to
add some of the whites until
all sugar and whites have been
used. Add vanilla and flour,
which has been sifted with salt
end baking powder.
Bring milk and butter to boil-
ing point, and add all at once
to mixture with egg beater.
Bake in a pan about 7 x 10
inches, lined with buttered
brown paper, for 30 minutes at
550° F.
As soon as you take the cake
from the oven, frost with the
following:
FROSTING
3 tablespoons melted butter
5 heaping tablespoons of light
brown sugar
3 tablespoons cream
Cook until bubbly, .then put
en warm cake. Sprnikle with Y
cup shredded cocoanut. , Toast
under flame. Cut in squares for
serving.
In many suggested menus you
will see "Herb Butter" men-
tioned and there have been
several requests for instructions
is to its making. Well, here's
ene recipe.
Herb Butter: Add to iia cup
soft butter, Ye cup finely chop-
ped parsley, 1 tablespoon chop-
ped chives or green onions, and
1 clove of garlic, crushed, Mix
well.
* * *
Some time ago a reader of
The Christian Science Monitor
asked for a recipe for old-
fashioned sour -cream raisin pie.
MOVIE THREAT — Meet Elsa
Martinelli, latest Hollywood im-
port from Italy. The former
'model's backers expect her to
reverse the trend away from
cool, polite heroines.
I-Iere's the result of that in-
quiry which I'm happy to pass
along. I might warn, you, how-
ever — this pie doesn't keep.
Except under leek and key, that
is!
* * *
A recipe for a two -crust sour
cream raisin pie was requested
in the same issue of the Moni-
tor; more than 30 answers were
received. Except that some
recipes called for nuts and
spices, and some made the pie
without either, they were all
somewhat alike. Space prevents
the publication of more than
one. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and
ground cloves were the spices
most often used. Sometimes a
little vinegar was added to the
mixture.
"This recipe has been in my
family for years," writes Mrs.
W. D. Estes, "We think it is
very good."
SOUR CREAM RAISIN PIE
1 cup sugar
1 cup sour cream
34 cup chopped • raisins
Ips cup chopped nuts
1 egg, well beaten
' ee teaspoon each, cinnamon,
nutmeg and salt
N. teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspon vinegar
Mix well the sugar, cream,
and eggs. Add all other ingredi-
ents, and bake between 2 crusts.
* *
And, to; finish up, here are a
couple of unusual recipes using
honey instead of sugar.
HARD SAUCE
34 cup butter
yl cup honey
Beat butter until soft. Beat in
honey gradually. Mix thor-
oughly. This is especially good
on gingerbread.
HONEY FROSTING
1 cup honey
Ye teaspoon salt
2 egg whites, beaten stiff
Cook honey until it spins a
thread when dropped from the
spoon. Add salt to egg whites;
beat stiff. Pour honey slowly
over egg whites; beat until
frosting holds its shape (easiest
to do with an electric mixer).
This frosting never gets hard or
sugary — it always stays soft.
ON THE GRASSHOPPER
AND THE CRICKET
The poetry of earth is never
dead:
When all the birds are faint
with the hot • sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a
voice will run
From hedge to hedge about
the new -mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper's — he
takes the lead
In summer luxury — he has
never done
With his delights; for when
tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some
pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing
never:
On a lone winter evening,
when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from
the stove there shrills
The Cricket's song, in warmth
increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsi-
ness half lost,
T h e Grasshopper's among
some grassy hills.
—John Keats (1795-1821)
IWO-1N»INE—Mike Clyde, 11, displays what he says is a torna
to -potato vine, which he grew in the family garden plot. In
his right hand are three small, hard, green tomatoes attached
to the end of the stalk. At the opposite end are wo large potatoes.
Mike reports finding three such duplex plants«
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GIANT VERTICAL RUFFLES of embroidered tulle flounce the
skirt of this nylon wedding gown designed for a special showing
of bridal fashions held recently at Niagara Falls, Ont. The
ruffles are caught with twisted ribbon, which also encircles the
neckline and is tied in flat bows at the shoulders to form brief
sleeves. The fashion show was staged by the Asociation of
Canadian Couturier.
esert Silence
To the east rise the blue tips
of the Rockies, to the west enor-
mous orange -flecked tablelands.
Between them, bands on bands of
desert, dotted with gray sage-
brush and chaparral, falling
southwestward. Wallowing over
its quicksands, ruddy brown,
writhing in tumbled eddies, a
straggling shallow river rushes
down endlessly. A few . clumps
of sickly willows line either
bank. Beyond, blank and empty,
but for the interspersing of
parched foliage, sun -blackened •
boulders, and prairie -dog holes,
rolls the desert, mile beyond
mile on either side, an endless
wide space of silence spied upon
by the jagged range of blue
peaks from which the sun rose
this morning, and the long line
of great tablelands to which he
will descend to -night.
Now the sun moves neither to
left nor right; he hangs dead
overhead and fills all the air
with the raging blaze of an Aug-
ust noon. The prairie dogs are
asleep in their burrows; a rat-
tle -snake lies motionless on a
stone; even the coyote that loves
to go slinking alone through the
sagebrush has hidden himself
somewhere and sleeps.
Up above there is Only the
unwearied wheeling of an eagle
from side to side, turning in end-
less wide circles around the sun.
The desert below him seems
burning: ashen -yellow, red -yel-
low, faint blue and rose brown.
Not a cloud flake breaks with its
shadow the great space of sky
and of earth. Only the river
glides on ever fretting with its
shallow brown waters the dearth.
Silence — the silence of noon-
day: not a whisper, not even a
breath... .
To the south the great floor
opens wider till it seems to
crumble away under the blaze
of day into fantastic island -mas-
ses, miraged peaks hanging in
mid-air. To the north it closes up'
again, range on range of moun-
tains staining with faint blue the
horizon. Between these two the
desert rests, without a break,
without a path, without a track.
Up the crannies of the west-
ward canyons are tiny mud -
baked houses, standing on crack.
ed shelves of yellow stone. These
are empty and deserted and
their inhabitants are gone.
Down to the south, the Span.
lard came riding centuries ago,
with his pikemen, mules, and
musketeers, seeking Eldorado.
Northward, French and Brit-
ish traders cease their fighting,
exchange beads for furs again,
Spaniards, Frenchmen, British,
Indians, each have been seeking
Eldorado in their own way Yet
to this day the desert lies empty,
a spot as lonely as when it was
created, roamed over only by
the buffalo and antelope.. ,
Yet the path to Eldorado lies
through this very place. •-- Front
"Breakers and Granite," by John
Gould Fletcher.
DAY'S CARE IN MENTAL
HOSPITAL COSTS $2.70
The cost of a day's care in
Canada's mental hospitals ave.
raged $2.70 in 1953 and provin-
Bial averages ranged from a low
of $1.89 in Quebec to a high of
$4.83 in Newfoundland,
Ancient vice
Helps The NH
Another abyss has been
bridged for the blind. The Asia-
tic abacus, dating back to the
pre -Christian era, and the prin-
ciple of the slide rule, crusty
with honorable age, have been
adapted for use by the blind for
the first time in history.
Julian Calhoun, a native of
the "Low Country" of South
Carolina, is the inventor of these
aids which simplify mathemati-
cal work for the seeing and
blind.
Fire insurance, and the ad-
justment of its claims, one of
the many successful enterprises
which Mr. Calhoun has estab-
lished in Spartanburg, where he.
has spent his entire business
career, introduced him tp the slide
rule and its efficiency in short-
ening the time necessary to ar-
rive at the correct sums for
settlements of claims. But he
determined to make an easier
slide rule, quite an undertaking
for one who has no special en-
gineering or mathematical train-
ing.
The result of his first experi-
ment produced a slide rule six
feet in length, which required
14 feet of wall space in which to
hang and operate it. This was
obviously unwieldy so he went
back to his kitchen and $10
worth of tools to try something
else. Finally he evolved the
Multivider, a circular slide rule
six or twelve inches in diameter,
which is in general use today.
In 1946, a Japanese soldier
using an Asiatic abacus bested
an American with a modern cal-
culating machine in the solving
of several mathematical prob-
lems. Mr. Calhoun read one of
the many articles written about
the contest, bought himself an
abacus, a book of instructions
and went to work to familiarize
himself with its use. He discov-
ered that the Soroban, an abacus
similar to the Asiatic one, was
in use in a number of prim-
ary grade schools.
He soon 'developed an abacus,
however, which required ex-
actly sixty per cent of the moves
to solve an intricate mathemati-
cal problem that were neces'ary
in operating the Asiatic type
abacus. This device he named
a Calculex and immediately saw
its value for teaching the blind
to add and subtract.
Instructions were prepared in
Braille and several of the ir'st.re-
ments were placed in they i.nsti•
tutions for the blind to be used
by children in the fourth. fifth,
and sixth grades for instruction
in addition and subtraction only
They met with immediate suc.
cess, so much so that it wo' difli
cult to get the younger children
to give them up for others to
use.
There is an idea abroad among
moral people that they should
make their neighbours good. One
person I have to snake good:
myself. But my duty to my
neighbour is much more nearly
expressed by saying that I have
to make him happy—if •I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
You Can Grow
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'Aids in
You, too, can grow an orchid,
in fact dozens of orchids, with
Iittle more expense than it takes
you to grow African violets,
Marglobe tomatoes or guppies.
Such is the news from Home-
stead, Florida, where Thomas A.
Fennell, Sr. devotes a 30 -acre
"hammock," or profusely vege-
tated bed of fossilized coral, to
cultivating orchids of practically
any size, shape,' color and species,
Fennell has, in fact, the biggest
outdoor orchid garden in the
world. A part of Fennell's busi-
ness, 'to be sure, is selling
blooms to florists, who., in turn
pass them on, for five dollars and
upwards each, to bridesmaids,
transatlantic voyagers, escorts of
young women about to attend
junior proms and celebrants of
50 years of matrimony. He also
allows visitors, at a dollar a head,
to tour the "Orchid Jungle," as
he calls his hammock, and almost
every day several hundred avail
themselves of the opportunity.
The revolutionary part of his
trade, though, is shipping orchid
plants throughout the land for
householders with sunny win-
dows and elegant tastes to grow
for themselves.
Fennell maintains, and his cus-
tomers appear .to concur heartily,
that the orchid, in most of its
varieties at least, is an ideal house
plant. In its native state it grows
in tropical — but no means equa-
torial - climates, rooted high in
the clefts of trees where it re-
ceives a good deal of sun. It is
not a parasite, but feeds on such
bits of rotted bark and foliage
as are washed down to it. Since
it thrives in the uncertain con-
ditions of wind, temperature,
moisture and food that this airy
location provides, the orchid
clearly is, as Fennell points out,
a tough vegetable, and in almost
any home its wild habitat can
easily be repreduced with
enough accuracy to ensure that
it will flourish. A Cattleya, or
ordinary purple corsage orchid
plant, which, selling for about
nine dollars, is the lowest -priced
item in Fennell's line, may in-
defmitely produce four or five
five -dollar plants a year with a
small amount of care.
The general rule that Fennell
invariably enunciates when he
is asked about home orchid -
growing is: If you are comfort-
able in your home, your orchid
plants are comfortable t o o.
Breaking this generalization
down into the specific kinds of
care an orchid needs, Fennell
will tell you:
1. About temperature: The or-
dinary house temperature of be-
tween 55 and 85 degrees is ideal
for orchids, but it won't hurt
them if occasionally the temper-
ature drops . into the '30's, and
it certainly won't hurt them if it
goes over 85.
2. About sunlight: Orcizids
need just about the amount of
sun they will get most of the
year in an ordinary sotheast to
southwest window — although in
midsummer it may be advisable
to screen them with gauze cur-
tains during the middle of the
day.
3. About water: An orchid
needs one heavy watering —
which means about half a gallon
to a five -inch pot, weekly, The
water should be tepid, should be
applied in the morning, should
be run right over the plant.
The plant should under no cir-
cumstances be w?tered again un-
til it has thoroughly dried out.
(Feel the pot; if it's cool it's still.
moist.)
4. About food: Orchid plants
are not potted in earth but in
Osmunda fiber, which is the root
of a.fern `which drains well and
rots slowly but has practically
no food value. With his plants
Fennell sends out special solu-
ble plant food that should be
given to a plant in the proper -
tion of a teaspoonful to a gallon
of water at each heavy watering.
5. About humidity: The petted.
plants should be set on a shal-
low pan filled with gravel or col-
Dred aquarium stones and then
about . two-thirds filled with
water. The. water should be be-
low the level of the bottom of
the pot. The object of this is not
to water the plant, which it
doesn't do, but to provide hu-
midity in the air around it.
6. About repotting: An aver-
age plant will probably need re-
potting every two or three years.
Those, it seems, are all the
rules. When the flowers come
they will last, if you leave them
on the plant, feer three weeks or
so. If you use them for corsages
they obviously will be fresher
than anything you could buy in
anything you could buy in a
a store. And if you have the de-
sire or the funds for that sort
of thing you can get collections
of plants that will provide you
with blooming orchids, of vari-
ous kinds, all year 'round. A
super -fancy collection of six dif-
ferent and unusual hybrids, for
example, runs to almost $130,
but you can get seven Cattleya
seedlings,r which won't bloom
for four or five years, for as lit-
tle as $11,
79 VOLUMES PPR
STUDENT
There were 179 academic li-
braries in Canada at last count
and they had 7,387,887 books on
their shelves — about 79 vol-
umes per student. Of the total,
90 libraries were English langu-
age and 89 French language,
the former acounting for 59.5%
of the total number of volumes.
WINS "PRIVATE WAR" — Charl-
ton Heston was right. The movie
star spent two years selling his
studio on making "The Private
War of Major Benson." The
story of a stern Army officer's
humorous §�ttruggles in running
a boy's milifary school has prov-
ed a hit in previews,
DOUBLING PRODUCTION—This 2 -year-old White Rock hen may
be a little surprised herself as she contemplates her odd egg
production. in the past two months she has laid nine large
eggs Tike the one at„right. Each contained e yolk and a regular -
sized egg inside. Large egg is 9 inches around the long way
and weighs 9 ounces. Normal egg, from one of the other
giants, measures 61 inches and weighs 21 ounces,
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