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Zurich Herald, 1956-02-23, Page 2BLE TALKS t 5 :r4 K ,J new. CURRIED TUNA ON RICE This tuna treat, with the zest of curry powder, can be prepared in next to no time, from ingredients almost always en hand. What better time than Lent to introduce this supper dish with Far East flavor — it should prove a year 'round favorite. 1 7 -az. tin tuna, drained 1 10 -oz. tin undiluted mushroom soup '/z cup diced celery �Jz cup diced green pepper DIRECTIONS:—Flake tuna; combine with next four ingredi- ents in top of double boiler. Cook over boiling water about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, cook rice in salted water, at rapid boil. It will take about 15 to 20 minutes. When tender, drain; spread on hot platter. Top with hot tuna mixture. Makes 4 to 6 servings. 1 teaspoon curry powder 1 cup raw rice >3 cups boiling water 1 teaspoon salt The following recipe may be varied by adding, just before placing the batter in oven, 3 slices of diced cooked bacon. In this case, omit fruit and reduce raft to 4 teaspoon. CONTINENTAL PANCAKE 1 tablespoon shortening 2 eggs ee teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar ee cup sifted flour s/s cup milk 131 utter Cooked sweetened cherries, or berries, or applesauce Confectioners' sugar Place fat in deep skillet (10- 12 inches in diameter), and place skillet in oven while pan- cakes are being mixed and oven Is being brought to 450° F. Beat oggs and salt until light. Blend tiugar and flour; add to egg mix- ture and beat until batter is eanooth. . Add , milk . and . beat (thoroughly. Remove skillet from stven and, if necessary, spread melted fat to grease bottom surface. Pour in all batter. Return to oven and bake 15 minutes or until pancake is p�iiuffy, well -risen and brown. Surface should be very irregu- lar and pancake well -risen at the sides. Remove from oven. Dot with butter and fruit. Roll cr fold from opposite sides to venter, making 3 layers. Turn gut on warm platter. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar. Serve Immediately. To make these popovers crisper and larger than the xecipe makes, add 1 additional eagg when mixing them. POPOVERS 1 cup sifted flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon shortening (optional) 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup milk Place flour and salt in mix - big bowl. If shortening is used, cut into flour and salt until mix- ture resembles corn meal. Blend cgg and milk and add to dry Ingredients. r3eat with rotary beater until smooth. Fill greased custard cups 1/s full and place them on a baking sheet. Bake at 275° F. until browned, about 50 minutes. Remove from oven and cut a slit in the side of each to let out steam. Return to oven. for 10 minutes. Remove prompt- ly from cups so bottoms do not steam and soften. Serve hot. * a s RAISIN -APPLE MUFFINS 5/4 cup seedless raisins 2 cups sifted flour 4 teaspoons baking powder ee cup sugar ' P teaspoon salt le cup shortening 1 cup coarsely grated apple 1 egg 1 cup milk Rinse and drain raisins. Sift together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Cut in shorten- ing. Stir in raisins and apples. Combine beaten egg and milk; add to dry ingredients and mix lightly. Fill greased muffin pans ee full. Bake at 425° F. about 20 minutes. Makes about a dozen 3 -inch muffins. * * : There are many variations at the scone. For a special, sweet, breakfast bread or as a hot bread to serve with your favor- ite luncheon salad, try this oven -baked Canadian version of this old.Scottish bread. GLAZED PINEAPPLE SCONES 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt ei cup sugar ri cup shortening 1 egg 1/4 cup pineapple juice 1 cup drained crushed pine- apple Lemon icing Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Cut or rub in shortening until mixture is crumbly. Beat egg and add pineapple juice. Add to flour mixture; add pineapple. Stir un- til flour is well moistened. Using 2 forks, drop batter on greased baking sheet, shaping batter in- to long, narrow bars (about 41/4 x 1 inch). Press sides smooth. Bake at 425°F. 15 minutes. Frost at once with lemon icing. Lemon Icing ae cup confectioners' sugar 1 tablespoon hot milk 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract Combine all ingredients; mix until smooth. NO, IT'S NOT THE ALTITUDE — Thls model's "walking costume"' l a flower -decorated girdle. She's strolling down the aisle of a plane, and the men, all news correspondents, don't mind ne- glecting their food one bit tre ogle at the sight. 'they were 14m/ted aboard for a special press showing of the girdle. SHE PLODS FOR PEACE — A gray-haired woman, who won't tell her name, is traveling over the U.S., "walking for peace." She will, however, tell you why she is walking 10,000 miles over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. She's walking for world peace, and has been on the road for three years. The hiker says she is known only as "Peace Pilgrim," the name lettered on the front of a blue vest she wears. On the back is "Walking 10,000 Miles for World Disarmament." So far the preacher of peace has traveled 7700 miles. She says she averages about 25 miles as day. This is the second half of her tour. On her first 5000 miles she walked from Los Angeles to New York. Now she's making it a point to walk at least 100 miles in each state. After she walks the 100 miles she sometimes accepts rides. Her vow is: "I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace --walking until I am given shelter, fasting until I am given food." • Was it a Curse, Or Coincidence? For nearly seventy years the priestess with the staring eyes has glared balefully from her glass case in the second Egyptian Room 'of the British Museum. Yet still visitors constantly pes- ter attendants with the ques- ion: "Which is the haunted mummy?" Even in 1956 the priestess of Amen-Ra—dead these 3,000 years — has flowers placed at her feet by her devotees. And still there are superstitious wor- shippers who regularly visit the priestess and -fall on their knees in prayer when they think no One is looking. Most people examine her — exhibit 22,542 — with cautious respect. For through the years its amazing curse story lingers. Lady Harlech, mother of a Cabinet minister, cheekily put out her tongue at the priestess. As she left the museum she fell down the steps, badly spraining her ankle. The incident, though trivial, is typical. A Blackpool carpenter, holidaying in London was dared by his sweetheart to challenge the figure. Within an hour they were both injured in a road crash. Museum officials deplore the lurid legends that have gather- ed around item 22,542. Yet the bizarre facts are stranger than fiction. In reality, there is no haunt- ed mummy, no mortal remains of an ancient priestess. The rich- ly painted, dark -eyed beauty that stares with such malignity across the museum gallery is only the inner lid of a mummy case. But perhaps the story began on an occasion in the eighties when a well-known London dandy named Douglas Murray called on Count Louis Harron, who was then already becoming familiar to millions as "Cheiro," -the society palmist. Cheiro gazed in dread at the hand that was extended to him. He could foresee a gunshot shattering it to pieces! "Your hand seems to be call- ing to me to try and save it," he told the visitor. "There is a lottery that brings you some- thing you do not want." And the famous seer paused, for his insight warned him that the lottery would lead to his client's death, What was this fatal prize? As Cheiro studied Murray's hand, the vision of a carved Egyptian sarcophagus swam before him. "Have nothing to do with it," the palmist begged. "It will bring misfortune!" • Events came to pass precisely as he foretold. On the whim of two friends, Murray went to Egypt. The brisk trade in relics was in those days the life of tourism, and one day Murray was offered the lid of a mummy ease for his inspection. He found himself gazing with aversion at the painted fade of the priestess of Amen-Lta, But despite his qualms his friends urged that it should be bought and suggested drawing lots for it. In three successive draws Murray drew the winning num- ber. Three days later, on a hunt- ing expedition, the gun he was carrying exploded in his right hand. His arm had to be amputated. On the voyage back to England both his companions died of septic pneumonia — the illness that killed Lord Carnarvon of Tutankhamen fame—and -•ere buried at sea. With his worries Murray had almost forgotten that he had shipped the case -lid home. But as he gazed at the dry wooden image again he recalled Cheiro's dread warning. Within a week he suffered serious business losses and now was sure that the trail of disaster emanated from the priestess. A woman literary friend laughed at his fears and offered to take the lid home with her. And from that moment mishap after mishap dogged her. On the day that the mummy case entered her house, her mother fell and broke her thigh. Her engagement *vas broken off. Her three prize dogs went mad and had to be destroyed. She did not believe that an old piece of painted wood could cause, these troubles. It was when Madame Blavatsky, the famous mystic, called on her that the apparent truth had to be faced. "My dear," said Madame Blavatsky, "your house is un- der an evil influence. There is something terrible here , .. " So the story goes. Some peo- ple, on hearing such a tale, would be anxious to possess the object, either to prove or dis- prove its sinister reputation. This was the motive of he next purchaser who immediately made the lid the showpiece of her drawing room, The next day' everything breakable in the room — vases, ashtrays — was found shattered. Hastily the Egyptian relic was moved to a room upstairs — with the same result For a few days the house seem- ed to be spasmodically haunted by a poltergeist of the most des- tructive type. Pictures on the walls were smashed, lights were seen, mysterious knocking heard. And an investigator who photographed the mummy case- lid had a shock. The photograph was so evil and menacing that he itnmediately destroyed both the plate and the print. Unfortunately he gained more publicity from this than he would have done it he had al- lowed the picture to speak for itself, Douglas Murray's :4udden death, too, created a greater im- pression than it might have done but tor the stories that had al- ready begun to spread. Was he, too, a victim of the deadly curse? The next owner of the case sold it immediately she fell ill, but even before acquiring the case -lid she seems to have been a life-long invalid. So it passed into the hands of the Egyptologist, Mr. A. F. Wheeler, who presented the lid to the British Museum, explain- ing that it had come from Thebes. The curious episode might have ended there. But as an attendant was carrying the lid to its destined resting place be- hind glass, he dropped it, crush- ing his foot. After this, nearly every illness or death on the Museum staff was attributed to the priestess of Amen -Ra. W. T. Stead the journalist, elevated the legend to new heights. The face on the case, he declared, was that of a liv- ing soul in torment, and he sought the authorities' permis- sion to hold a seance in the Egyptian rooms to set her soul at rest. Permission was refused, and the credulous might add that W. T. Stead was afterwards drown- ed in the Titanic. With a few minor exceptions the authentic story of "the mummy's curse"— as it is always miscalled — comes to an end with this trage- dy. Yet people still sometimes send money from overseas ask- ing that flowers shall be placed at the foot of the exhibit, cash that is merely impounded by the museum treasurer. A Lesson For All If there are any big league ball players who doubt the im- portance of condition it is re- commended that they consider the results of the recent Winter Olympic Games. Soviet Union athletes walked away with the unofficial team championship because, general- ly speaking, they had one obvi- ous edge on the rest of the world. They were in superb physical condition. That is not to say that there were other skaters, skiers and ski jumpers in the Cortina events who were not at the peak Of condition, or that the Soviets did - not occasionally have an edge in technique. Raw condition alone could not have done it. But many times the difference between two standout athletes in any sort of contest testing skill and stamina is condition. The fraction of a second that separates first and second places can be that little extra effort one athlete put into his training. The Soviet team that went to Cortina was probably the finest trained team in the history of the Olympics—perhaps the most hardened group of young men and women in the history of athletics. If that little extra was ever needed in a race, they knew they would have it. It hurts me to say this, be- cause some of my best friends are ball players. But there can be no doubt that the big leaguer, also generally speaking, is the poorest conditioned athlete in professional sports writes Al Rumill. The ball player is not a lazy fellow. If he is in the beginning, the rugged schedules of the American and National Leagues change him. But there is a tend- ency—partly because of the in- creasingly rugged. schedules — for a boy to "save himself." He figures that if he takes it easy today, he will have more left for tomorrow—or will add an extra season to his already recognized short major league career. Experience proves, however, that such an approach is wrong, The players with the longest careers were well conditioned players. Old timers like Ty Cobb and Eddie Collins, who lasted for more than 20 years in base- ball's fastest company, spent most of the winter tramping through the' woods er into the open country to keep their lege In shape. The modern generation has, as a notable example, the veteran Enos Slaughter, now running out his career with the •Kansas City Athletics, Slaughter runts everywhere. He never stops hustling. During the off-season he takes long hikes. Consequent- ly, his legs are always ready and he has been able to continue picking up big league pay check after poorer conditioned players have finished their active careers. Billy Southworth used to say: "There can be reason for a ball player lacking experience or specialized skills, such as bat- ting or fielding. But there never can be an excuse for a poorly conditioned player. In my ex- perience in the majors I have seen many smartly conditioned players win jobs over players who seemed to have an edge in technioal skills. Get in shape and stay there is the advice I give my players." It was disappointing, and si bit surprising, to hear Ted Wil- liams say the other day that he has been just taking it easy since the end of the 1955 sea- son. A man of his age, experience and magnitude in the baseball sun should know how im- portant condition is, and how much easier it is to return to, big league physical caliber' when you have never let your- self stray too far from it. The Russians have taught the: world a tremendously signifi- cant lesson, that should be heeded by every athlete, ama- teur or professional. FAIR QUESTION "I want to paint you," an. artist told a poor Irish dairy- maid. "How much would you charge?"' The girl blushed, but made no reply. "It's easy money," said the artist, encouragingly. "No question about that,* said the girl. "I was just wond- ering how I'd get the paint off afterwards." STREET SCENE —, Like a giant cobra ready to strike is this ultramodern mercury - vapor light being tested in Washington near the Capitol. It's one of six styles being considered to re- place the old-fashioned street lights on Pennsylvania and Con- stitution Avenues. Visitors had been reporting that the streets were dark after sunset. SUBMARINE BRONC BUSTER — British frogman rides a wicked- looking mount in the hydro -dynamic laboratory at Teddington, England, Torpedo, deactivated, is mounted for testing in a rank filled with specially filtered water which allows maximum visibility from observation ports in background. Nearness of windows is an optical illusion. They're nearly '160 feet away, on opposite side of the tank from the camera'.