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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-11-01, Page 6lI a tlg,;l q,;.,g. as ckness. Having decided to travel by liner to Canada to visit her brother, a pretty, blonde Eng - .Gish girl happily booked a $350 passage, But on the night the liner steamed west, bound for 1V1:ontreal, her cabin was empty. What had happened? Before starting for Canada, the liner had made a one -day voyage, with all passengers aboard, to the Clyde. That was enough for the girl who discovered for the first time that she was prone to seasickness. She decided to get off the ship, fearing she would have worse attacks during the trip to Canada. So she went ashore a+ Grennock with her three new suitcases and her brassbound trunk. Experts are now conducting, for the first time a big -scale in- vestigation into seasickness, Its cause and cure have never been eystematically investigated and it is still not known for certain whether it is linked with the tee question of diet, One scientist says seasickness is unaffected by what we eat, drink or do, or what the sea and the ship are up to. It is due to mental causes, he says. The tossing and rolling actually suggest to ourselves that we annus` be sick! Another maintains that the malady is caused by our ears. Inside the ear are two little tubes filled with liquid which act as a kind of spirit -level. It is thorugh their aid that we keep our balance. If we then rapidly round several times they are thrown out of gear and we become dizzy. Seasick- ness is caused, he adds, by the violent motion to which they are subjected. This gives the brain a shock that is communi- cated to the whole body. Luton doctors were puzzled in 1949 over the strange case of a local woman who, after seeing a sea film in a local cinerea, complained of feeling unwell. She was taken to hos- pitaI where her condition was diagnosed as seasickness. "This is the first case of its kind I have ever known," com- mented a doctor. "Seasickness can be caused visually through seeing tee horizon going up and down and in this case the mov- ing horizon on the screen un- doubtedly caused the illness." oder17 rty�g � +i!.,'' GC. ei hili a an 6 Q. Should hard cheese and pickles be eaten with the fin- gers or fork? A. Hard cheese is eaten with the fingers. Small whole pickles may be eaten with the fingers. Mixed pickles are usually eaten with the fork. Q. When a girl is introducing the roan to whom she is en- gaged, should she speak of him as her fiance? A. Yes. Q. Is it always necessary that st chaperon be a married wo- man? A. No; any woman of mature years may serve in this capa- city. 1ACE-EZ FAIR — Striking sheath of imported black lace was de- rl'digned by Luis Estevez, one of the designers to receive the (coveted C o t y fashion Critics' Award for 1956. Neckline, high In, front, plunges to the waist In back, pauses for a bow, then flares out in graceful floating panel of lace. A lace mask com- pletes the costume, CITY WORTH ITS SALT — Harbinger of winter is the arrival of of 5,500 tons of rock salt for de-icing Chicago's streets, an im- portant phase of the city's traffic safety program. Giant "salt- cellar" unloads a freighter in the Windy City, above, with;Chi- cago's famous landmark, the Wrigley Building, in background. LKS &arve At- .c .sews. While tart fall apples are plentiful, perhaps you'd like to roast pork spareribs with a sweet, tart apple stuffing, For 5-6 ser- vings, buy 2 -rib sections that match and weight about 2 pounds each. Have the breastbones saw- ed or cracked so it will be easy to carve between the ribs. . APPLE STUFFING 1/2 cup chopped celery and leaves 1/2 cup chopped onion 34 cup chopped parsley 2-3 tablespoons fat 5 tart apples, diced 1/ cup sugar 1 cup soft bread crumbs Salt and pepper Cook celery, onion and parsley a few minutes in half the fat, then remove from pan. Put re- maining fat in pan, heat and add diced apples. Sprinkle apples with sugar, cover, and cook until tender. Remove lid and continue to cook until apples are candied. Mix the vegetables, salt, and pepper with the apples; add bread crumbs. Lay one section of ribs teet, sprinkle with salt and pepper and spread with the stuffing. Cover with the other section of ribs and sew the two together. Sprinkle outside with salt and pepper, and flour if desired. Lay the stuffed ribs on rack in shal- low pan. Do not add water or cover. Bake at 350°-375° F. until meat is tender and thoroughly done—allow about 1% hours. Turn occasionally for even cook- ing. Remove strings before ser- ving. Pork tenderloins are all meat and no waste; try them baked with fruit juice for a different meal. FRUITED PORK TENDERLOIN 2 pork tenderloins (1-2 pounds) 1/ cup flour 1 cup orange juice 1/2 cup crushed pineapple 1/3 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon aIIspice 1 cup sour cream Split tenderloins lengthwise almost in two. Open out flat, Cut into 2 or 3 pieces depending on size of tenderloin. Flour meat on both sides and brown in skillet. Combine orange juice, pineap- ple, salt and allspice. Pour over browned meat. Cover and bake at 350° F. 45 minutes or until fork tender. Turn once during cooking. Add sour cream to sauce in skillet; stir ;:;andcook until heated through.`Pour over meat on platter and serve, W VA s It's a good idea when cooking a roast to get it Large enough to have some left over, If you've done this with your pork roast, try this casserole with the meat that's left. PORK AND POTATO CASSEROLE 2 cups chopped cooked pork 3 cups thinly sliced potatoes 2 tablespoons finely chopped green pepper 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion 1 can condensed cream of celery soup (10 -ounce can) 334 Burp milk 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon savory 34 cup shredded cheese (op- tionaI) Combine ell ingredients except cheese in a 1' -quart casserole. Bake rat 350' P, for 30 minutes. Remove from riven. Sprinkle cheese on top. Return to oven sand continue baking for 30 min- utes or until potatoes are dune. Serves 4. m s * You may like to combine ap- ples with your leftover pork. Here is a casserole that serves 4-5. PORK AND APPLE :• CASSEROLE 6 medium -sided apples ;. 1 cup water 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups chopped, cooked pork 1/2 cup brown sugar it s4 cup soft bread crumbs Pare, core, and slice apples. Add water and salt. Simrzier about 10 minutes or until apples are soft. Arrange half the apples in a 1% -quart casserole. Add' seasoned pork cubes. Add •re- maining applesauce. Spread,; the crumbs and sugar mixture, eon top. Bake at 350° F. about .45 minutes. Can't 'aril Walt Because fewer people have been wearing kilts since the war, a society has been formed in Scotland to make them more popular. The society points out that a boy wearing a kilt isa rarity in Inverness and even in Edinburgh, the capital of &O - land, most boys seem to pre- fer trousers. Lectures will be given this autumn on how the kilt should be worn and people are being asked to wear the kilt as their leisure dress. The kilt as we know it today dates back to the early part of the seventeenth century, but some of the oldest sculptures in the world show the ancient Assyrians in "kilts", while many of the conquering Romans and the conquered Britons were also kilted. Attempt after attempt has been made to kill the kilt. All have failed. Parliament banned the wearing of the kilt in 1747, declaring it to be a symbol of disloyalty, but the Act was re- pealed about forty years later. A good kilt story concerns the South African War when a chivalrous Boer commander, see- ing kilted Highlanders in action for the first time, refused tie order his men to "fire ora women". BLEW HIS TOP t Louis Vuilleumier tried hard, but in vain, to sell his 32 -room chateau situated in Poitiers, In Prance. Prospective buyers of the property turned aside when they learned of the high repair costs and heavy estate tax. The exasperated owner finally hit upon a drastic plan to rid himself of the chateau. Ile bought 130 sticks of dynamite and blew the property sky high. SALLY'S SALLIES ND$AGS want a small bag big enough to carry what you see." Queer Places ToE., i e Money People who distrust banks and fear burglars choose astonishing hiding -places for their money. Some times they are so ingenious in finding a "safe place" for it that they forget where it is or that it ever existed. It's hard to believe that a man could wrap 2400 in banknotes round a cistern pipe—and then move away from the house, leaving it behind. A Liverpool man did this. He forgot all about the money until the next tenant discovered it while checking the lagging on the pipes, A strange story of an old man's forgotten hoard .was told ' in Dumbarton police court in 1927 when a petition was presented to have the sum of £98 lOs paid over to him. The son had been digging in the garden at the rear of his house when he unearthed a tin can containing this sum in notes. He reported his find to the po- lice, little guessing that the own- er was hie own father who had lived in the house for thirty years and was now living else- where, The old man's memory had failed and he had forgotten the buried money until reminded by the wide publicity given at the time of the find. The court decided that the money should be paid over to the old man, less ten per cent (the cost of the petition) and a reward of ten per cent to the son who found it. Another thrifty old man, liv- ing in Eire, got the shock of his life when his wife told him she had sold "that grubby old pil- low" in the attic to a feather merchant for is 9d. It contained £400, his life sav- ings. Secretly and systematically he had stuffed the pillow with paper money, never telling his wife. When he recovered from the shock, he hurried in a neigh- bour's van to the feather mer- chant's premises, where he bought back the pillow for 5s, saying he wanted it for "senti- mental reasons." The merchant only learned months afterwards what a fortune he had so nar- rowly missed. Police in Frankfurt, Germany, are still -looking for a thief who stole $150 last year from the re- frigerator of a man who thought he had hit upon an ideal method of safeguarding his cash. What prompted the thief to open the fridge remains a mystery. It always puzzled a South. London housewife that her'shop- keeper husband kept an old dustbin wedged in the corner of a shed beneath a pile of rags and other rubbish. She always used another dust- bin for household refuse and could never understand why her husband would never have the shed bin emptied with it. One morning she decided to have her own way, When the dustman called she asked him to empty the second dustbin as well. How could -she have known that her eccentric husband kept his savings in it and that as the pile of rags went hurtling into the dustcart more than £150 went with them? He didn't discover his loss un- til next day, Frantic with anxi- ety, he dashed cit to the local council's offices and found that the refuse was already at the dump. When the officials realized the situation, they ordered a search for the score or more little canvas bags in which the money was stowed. Hours passed, the owner fev- erishly helping in the search. Just as the men were due to "knock off" for the day, his money vias found intact. He's kept it in a bank ever since. Bank officials say that even today there are still some Peo- ple who firmly believe that once their money goes into a bank they are not likely to see it again. They prefer to have it in hard cash rather than as a figure in a ledger. As a result, these odd folk hoard it in the strangest hiding - places, although some women seemto prefer to carry their savings with them wherever they go. When an elderly woman was knocked down in a Blackpool street and rushed to hospital, some £4,000 was found hidden -in dozens of special pockets she had added to her garments. Bach pocket was either tightly stitched or secured with strong pins. A Bristol woman used to put all her spare £1 notes into a seldom -used electric washer. One day she suddenly decided to use the washer, forgetting it was also her home "bank." By the time she remembered, her £80 worth of notes were churned to frag- ments. She sent them to the Bank of England, but the experts could piece together only fifty-four of the notes. That woman's absent- mindedness had cost her £26. It is well known that coun- try people living far from banks sometimes hoard money. One French peasant concealed his notes by stuffing them down the barrel of a sporting gun which hung on the wall of his kitchen. Early next morning he saw a hare run across his cottage gar- den, forgot all about his savings .and fired the gun at it, blowing his money into shreds. Notes worth £616 lOs were found in a rusty candy tin which tumbled down the chimney of a Yorkshire house in 1946. They were later restored to a widow who had lived in the house for twenty-five years. The notes were hidden during the first world war and then ap- parently forgotten. Even more unusual was the way in which a fortune of £3,000 was discovered. A woman who had inherited a Surrey house from her father swatted a fly one day with extra vigour and made a hole in the thin wooden paneI- ling of a wall. Inside lay the money her father had hidden twenty years before. It had been searched for in vain ever since his death, for he had left no clue as to its whereabouts. In Victorian times, old and disused tea-pots were favourite Lost' aid Found Workmen searched tor eight hours among masses of 'wilted flowers littering Nice's fashion- able Promenade des 4.ngiais a little while ago — looking for a $3,000 platinum and diamond ring. The ring had been accidental- ly- thrown with a buoquew•t in the famous Battle of Flowers by the British -born wife of a Canadian business man. It was not found, but the owner has not given up hope. She knows that lost wedding andd engage- ment rings have an uncanny habit of turning up again sortie - times years afterwards. Whe a Norfolk woman lost her diamond,wedding ring workinon the family allotment at Upwell twenty-six years ago, she did not want to tell her husband, so she bought another just like it. Last year her secret way: un- expectedly revealed. Hex hus- band was working on the allot- ment when he turned up the lost ring with is spade — with an onion growing through it. "If you find any diamonds be sure to let me know," joked Mrs. Gorge A. King, of Provo. one day last summer as an up- holsterer took away her old settee for repair. Next morn- ing the man rang her up. He had found a $250 diamond ring in the settee. It proved to be Mrs. King's engagement ring which she had lost during her courting days of 1943. A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. hiding -places for money. Many a spinster who lived and died alone was found to have used a tea-pot as a secret hoarding niece of slowly accumulated wealth, A thrifty housekeeper who left her old West of England home for Montreal in 1925 visi- ted a bank there in a taxi soon after her arrival and asked their. to count the contents of four ole. pails she had brought with her They were found to contain £3,000 in bonds and 21,600 in cash. She was told that she could renirea safe deposit at the bank quite cheaply but her reply was a firm "No, thank you." Off ehe went to her new home with her pails of wealth. SOMEONE FELT LIKE A DONKEY — Republicans in Joplin had a high old time over the "House of Remnants" sign which 'hung over Democratic campaign headquarters. Democrats were say intent on moving into their quarters that they apparently over.. looked sign put up by a previous tenant, BIG JOKE, BUT NOT EVERYONE LAUGHED --Catsup may pep up the flavor of hamburgers, but put in the hands of young, imaginative pr anksters, it can wreak havoc in a community. That's exactly what happened in Bensalem an d Bristol Townships. Bill Jones, arm extended, daubed his arm with catsup, then hid in a car trunk, letting the red -stained cirm dangle out. Women who saw it fainted, with some requir ing medical attention. One terror-striken mein had to be driven home. Though the local "officers --Jae Gallagher, left, Joe i'icciotti, and 'Geo. Walker, right -momentarily seemed to enjoy the "joke," all was not hilarity. The nine youths involved in the prank were given a sti ff reprimand and a fine for their efforts.