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Zurich Herald, 1956-02-16, Page 2TABLE TALKS teeteesesteeel Via A ll . ''`This meat dish is not only detectable to taste, but it also emits an appetizing fragrance while cooking," writes Mrs, Mary Foster, of her Swedish ham balls. "I want to share this bit of goodness with the ladies and men who like to don kitchen aprons and lend a helping band." Swedish slam Balls 1 pound ground smoked ham 1% pounds ground pork 2 cups bread crumbs 2 eggs, well beaten 1 cup milk 11/4 cups brown sugar 1,4 cup vinegar ifs cup water 1 teaspoon dry mustard Combine sugar, vinegar, wa- ter, and mustard. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Combine meat, bread crumbs, eggs, and milk. Mix thoroughly. Form in small balls. Place in pan and pour first mixture over balls. Bake in slow oven. The balls may be basted and turned. Two types of marshmallow fluff were sent in by readers of The Christian Science Monitor in response to a request, one a pudding and the other a regular Ruff. Here is one of each type. Mrs, Eunice Benjamin, sent this one which she says she has found satisfactory and which keeps indefinitely. It makes 4 cups. MARSHMALLOW FLUFF 2 cups white corn sirup 2 egg „whites J/s teaspoon salt le teaspoon vanilla Cook corn sirup over medium heat until a small amount will form a soft ball in cold water, Beat egg whites, salt, and va- nilla until stiff. Add hot sirup in 4 parts, beating after each addition. As mixture becomes stiff, use a wooden spoon. For eater mixture, add hot water. * * "Any frozen fruit, thawed and poured over this fluff is deli- cious," says Linda V. Wendt, of her pudding -type fluff, * * MARSHMALLOW FLUFF PUDDING ?A teaspoon unflavored gelatin 1 tablespoon cold water 2 tablespoons milk 134 tablespoons sugar 1/4 teaspoon almond extract 1 cup heavy cream, whipped 4 cups miniature marshmal- lows Soften gelatin in water and dissolve over hot water. Add milk sugar and almond extract. Fold gelatin mixture into TODAY — No spaceman, he. The mask protects this maintenance worker at Air Force Base from bitter winter gales as he keeps road facilities open with his road grader. whipped cream, Next, fold marshmallows into the mixture. Pour into one large mold or into individual molds, Chill in refri- gerator 2-3 hours, * * Many fudge recipes came in response to a Canadian reader's call. Some called for corn sirep, some for marshmallow creme, some beat the candy as soon as it was cooked, others allowed it to cool before beating. "Twenty minutes from start to finish," is said to be the time required for making one recipe for fudge, sent by Mrs. Mary Klinedinst. "Those eating my fudge say it's the best, and I've been making and sharing it for 35 years," she writes. TWENTY -MINUTE FUDGE 3 cups sugar ? s pound butter Se cup milk 2 tablespoons cocoa 2 tablespoons marshmallow whip Combine sugar, butter, cocoa, and milk. Boil, stirring, until it reaches the soft ball stage. Stir in the marshmallow whip. Stir until creamy and pour into but, tered pan. * * x A recipe for drop fudge was sent by Mrs. E. E. Wall. "This fudge is easy to make and is the most delicious I've' ever eaten," Mrs. Wall writes. "When I serve it there are always re- quests for the recipe." Fudge 274 cups sugar 4 heaping tablespoons cocoa 34 cup white corn sirup 34 pint cream 34 pound butter 2 teaspoons vanilla Combine sugar, cocoa, sirup, and cream. Cook to soft ball stage (238° F.) When done, add butter and vanilla. Let stand until cold, then beat and add nuts if desired. Drop by tea- spoonfuls on greased paper. * * Giblet Gravy If you prefer giblet gravy to the cream type for fried chicken here's the way to make it according to Mrs. Alberta Sandford, who writes: "My mother taught me to make this gravy when serving fried chick- en. It is especially useful if no one in the family likes the neck or giblets. Boil in salted water to cover the tipe ends of wings, the neck and giblets. Pour off liquid and use for gravy mak- ing. Cut up giblets and add." * For Fried Fish If you aren't a stickler for rolling your fried fish in corn meal, try this suggestion: "Roll your fish in pancake flour next time you fry it," writes Geneva Eldredge. "The pancake flour improves the flavor and gives the fish a delightful brown." A Man's Dish Unless you've collaborated with a squirrel under the con- ditions described below, you haven't eaten a real Brunswick stew yet ! Start it off this way : 1 small can corn (6 ears); 1 pint lima beans; 4 potatoes; 1 onion; 1 quart sliced tomatoes; 3 tea- spoon sugar; ee ib. butter; 1 tea- spoon salt; 1 teaspoon pepper. Clean squirrels (two or three of them) and cut into pieces. To four quarts of boiling water, add salt, minced onion, beans, corn, potatoes, squirrels and pepper. Cover and simmer for two hours. Add sugar and toma- toes. Simmer an additional hour, Add butter. Simmer ten minutes, bring to boil, and re- move from fire, Add additional salt and pepper to suit taste. Brother, she's good 1 CHAIRING NEWS -- History repeated itself at the George Adiard home when two -and -a -half -year-old Gail, left, got her head wedged in the back of a child's rocking chair. Mrs. Adiard knew lust what to do. hive years ago sister Terry, now seven, had a similar mishap with an identical rocker, Not knowing what to 4o at the time, Mrs. Adiard caped her husband home from work. He freed Terry by sawing. out the back slat. So when Gail got stuck, her mother just ran for the trusty saw. Above, the sisters. show there is no more danger in putting their heads through the Chair backs. "COME TO ME" -- The lady eager, at right, isn't longing for "Mr. Basketball." She just wants to snatch her opponent ball - headed. Obsecured by the ball is the pretty face "of Erlanger Hospital's Nurse Jaynet Pruiett, playing in a Civic League game. SchooI Health Examina fions in the February issue of that exceedingly interesting maga.. sine "CORONET," there is a thought-provoking article en- titled "The Sham of School Health Examinations" by Wale ter A. Garden, Director of the Division of Physical Welfare in Paterson, New Jersey. While the conditions described do not exist everywhere, some of the facts brought out seem to be worthy of widespread attention. * * $ Toward the end of the sum- mer, a five-year-old New ' Jer- sey child began to complain of etomach pains. He seemed tired,,.. listless and unhappy. "Ought to take him to a doc- tor," the boy's father said. His mother agreed, but add- ed, "Let's wait. He'll have a medical examination before he starts kindergarten." A few weeks later the child, along with other kindergarten- ers, was examined. "Nothing the matter," the doctor report- ed. "Just see that he has plenty of fresh air, rest and affection. Don't give him any sweets be- tween meals. He'll be all right." The parents paid little atten- tion} after that to the boy's con- stant whining, his stomach up- sets and listlessness. Not un- til two years later did they fin- ally take him to the family doc- tor. There they hear a frighten- ing diagnosis; cancer of the stomach! Fortunately the cancer could still be treated successfully, but the parents looked back bitterly on all the time their son had had to suffer pain and unde- served scoldings. Too late, thousands of un- happy parents are realizing the shocking truth about school medical examinations. Medical and educational authorities con- demn the situation as a national disgrace. Though we are spending $30,- 000,000 a year for school exam- inations, conservative medical estimates indicate that only one pupil in 15 gets an adequate examination during his entire school career. The basic trouble is this: what has been passing for a school medical examination isn't one at all. In thousands of schools nei- ther doctors nor medically trained personnel administer the tests. Instead, the principal, a teacher, or even an older pupil, officiates. The children line up, one steps forward, the tester says, "Say ah," and peers into the throat. A crude whisper test for hearing and the good, but very limited, Snellen test for vision complete the "physical check- up." Yet on the strength of this almost meaningless examina- tion, the parents receive a re- port that, physically, all is well with their child. Or suppose the examination is made by a doctor — probably by an overworked public health officer or a private physician taking needed time away from his own practice to do this work for a pittance. The chances are that the children go through an assembly line processing which is little different in its results. One doctor remarked in disgust, "I -low can you call glancing over 40 kids in a morning ses- sion giving medicals?" The AMA states: "The physi- clan can perform a good screen- ing examination and counsel with the child and his parents et the rate of four or five per hour, providing certain screen- ing tests that can be perform- ed by a nurse or teacher have been completed earlier." Yet, of 600 medical societies answer- ing a nationwide AMA ques- tionaire, less than one third de- voted 15 or more minutes to an examination in the schools; 163 admitted spending five to nine minutes; 89 as little as one to four minutes! In addition, the AMA says the child should be checked for height and weight and ques- tioned for complaints suggestive of illness. He should be given special vision tests, a hearing test with an audiometer, a den- tal examination by a dentist or dental hygienist, a tuberculin test, and a chest X ray. The majority of school exam- inations are conducted right in the schoolroom, where there is no privacy. The result is that the doctor fails to spot troubles that can only be revealed when the child removes most of his clothing. It has been estimated that only eight per cent of the pupils strip for examination. In fact, sneezy cities actually have local rules or customs which prohibit the removal of : cloth- ing for a school medical exam- ' ination. No wonder doctors miss com- pletely cases like that of a girl who had a spinal deformation that was concealed by her clothes, or of the boy who had a hernia that would have been seen had he stripped. Chest X ray examination should be part of adequate diagnosis, but it is doubtful that. one student in 20 routinely gets one. When parents of a first - grader in an eastern suburban community had her X-rayed by a private physician, it was found that she had TB. The en- tire class was the X-rayed and three others were also found to have tuberculosis. Moreover, so did the young teacher, who was identified as the source of in- fection. Millions of school children are still given hearing tests by the crudest methods, when 'we have available an excellent de- vice for testing hearing, the audiometer. Millions more get only a simple test` of their vis- ual acuity, in spite of the fact that we have modern machines' that provide tests of all phases of vision. But do we need physical ex- aminations in the schools at all? Can't the whole thing be done by private physicians to whom parents might take their dell - siren? Medical authorities say "No!" mainly because most par- ents would not take the time and and trouble to do so. The plain fact, as stated by the Sec- ond National Conference of Physicians and Schools, is that, on all economic levels, "It is uncommon for children 'who seem healthy to be taken to the doctor after their second year of life." The need for school examina- tions has been dramatically proven by cases where the ex- aminations have been thorough. When the Board of Education of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, had the entire student body of 1,575 take special vision tests, there were 307 failures. Inci- dentally, only 132 of these would have been discovered by the sketchy methods usually used in school vision tests. The state of Pennsylvania in- stituted a program of thorough examinations, and found that out of approximately 1,000,000 children examined in one year,. some 400,00* had medical de- fects. What can be done to snake the medical examination sys- tem in your school work? Abandon the force of annual examinations The ,SMA be- lieves that four thorough ex- =ivaations, given at regular in- tervals, the first before the child starts kindergarten, will reveal health difficulties. In a special study in Roches- ter, New York, where three such ekaminations are given, it was found that during the year following the admission exam- ination only one child out of 997 had developed a serious condition which had not been and could not have been ob- served by the teacher. Organize community forces, Perhaps the best way to do this is to follow the example of com- munities like Bronxville, New York, Here standards are set, and a watchful eye kept on school health problems bi' ac- tive health committees which include not only the official school physicians and school nurses, but the scl;ool princi- pals, five general practitioners, five pediatricians, and several representatives of the PTA. Have parents present at ex- aminations. In the first place, 'says the AMA, this increases the likelihood that the exam- ination will be complete; if it is incomplete, the parents will at least not receive the false im- pression that it was. Also, parents can give vital information that will often not turn up in examination. In Elizabeth, New Jersey, a par- ent told the examining physi- cian that her child sometimes lacked' bladder control. Acting on this information, the doctor ordered tests, which revealed diabetes. Provide adequate facilities. All schools where examinations are to be made should have rooms which insure privacy. Children should not be embar- rassed by having possible ail- ments brought to the attention of their . classmates. Give examining doctors more help. That means, in the first place, teachers better trained in medical matters. Too many schools expect teachers to play some part in observing the phy- sical condition of children, yet do not give them any sort of training that would help them spot ailments. Scores of communities have used volunteer helpers with gratifying results. In Phoenix, Arizona, parents learned to use .the audiometer and tackled the giving of hearing examinations in teams. One mother operated the machine, another took the readings and a third sheperded the children. All this may take time, for sweeping changes cannot be made overnight. While your community is working toward decent medical examinations for its children, you owe your own children the protection of a proper examination by the family physician at least once every three years. We live in times of great medical achievments. Yet, won- derful as they are, we can make an equal contribution to the health of America's children by wiping out the scandal of our inadequate , school medical ex- aminations. Hungry Owl Nelson Crebassa was driving down a moonlit road in the state of Washington recently when he witnessed a most unusual sight. A dark shadow swooped down out of the heavens, touched a speeding car ahead, and made off with something in its claws. Both Crebassa and the driver of the other car stopped their vehicles to see what the bird had stolen. It was a squirrel • tail, snatched from an aerial on the lead car by a hungry owl! THE DARK CONTINENT. T Africa is three tinges the size of the ITnited States and is• in- habited by 200 millions of peo- ple whd speak at least seven hundred different languages, The principal characteristics .of the continent are: immense compact shape, a very *ruler coastline, .and scarcity of navi- gable rivers, Five thousand miles long from north to south, four thousand five hundred miles wide from east to west, Africa has room within its coasts to accommodate the United States, Australia, and India; and this would still leave room for France, Spain, Italy, England, and a number of other European countries? Generally speaking, Africa is a great plateau whose average height above sea level is about 2,000 feet. It has a smaller pro- portion of low-lying lands than any other continent. The escape- ment,, or edge of the plateau, does not reach the seacoast but is divided from . the sea by a strip of lowland which varies greatly in width, being narrow- est in Algeria and South Africa, and widest in Mauretania and Somaliland. No matter where the traveler lands in Africa, his progress in- to the interior of the country will always be barred by this escarpment. Trains must labori- ously ascend it in zigzag grades, and vessels that attempt to sail up any of Africa's rivers sooner or later find their passage blocked either by rapids or by enormous waterfalls. This is the major cause of the delay in ex- ploration which resulted in Af- rica's being known the world over as the Dark Continent. Although averaging 2,000 feat above sea level; the great con- tinental plateau of AfricaSsby no means level; and while there are ne great mountain ranges such as the Rockies or the Himalayas, there are a number of isolated masses of lofty mountains, some of which are snowcapped all the year round, such as the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and the famous 'Moun- tains of the Moon (Ruwenzori) in Central Equatorial Aerica, Some of the peaks of Ethopia are also snowcapped. The high- est of Africa's mountains are Mount Kenya, 17,040 feet high, and Mount Kilimanjaro, whose summit looks very much like an inverted saucer floating in the sky nearly 20,000 feet above the surrounding plain. , . The African plateau is also distinguished by ' several im- mense basins in which the drainage is toward the interior .rather than toward the sea, The Sahara itself is such a basin, north of the equator, while the Kalahari Desert is another but smaller one in`the south. It has been estimated that about half of Africa is made up of such internal depressions, drained or undrained, among which are swamp and lake regions as well as desert basins. — From "intro- ducing Africa," by Carveth Wells. "I came 'here looking for position, Is this it?" •"NEITHER SNOW NOR RAIN . . . "--.,.or a washed out, fooRr bridge keeps Postmistress Pauline Luck from delivering the moat* When the Hooding 'Kaweah River recently swept away the bridge, the persistent postmistress and her assistant, ridged u a cable buoy across the river to replace the bridge. Postmistresll and her mail ride high and dry hi the tradition that the mog mulct go through,