Zurich Herald, 1951-02-01, Page 3ar date ..news.
As I'r'e 'N'ritte'.rt inure than once,
most Canadian families de, not eat
nearly enough liver for the good
of their health. The trouble is, 01
course, that 'too many housewives
have been in the habit of serving
liver plain fried, in slices or chunks,
without any thought of trying to
make it more appealing to the eye
end taste, especially of the young-
sters,
Served in the form I'm going
to tell you :bout in a moment,
liver );halos a really substantial dish,
savory and good ---a dish which.
with possibly a leafy green vege-
table and fluffy mashed potatoes,
would be welcome on most any
dinner or supper table. 1 do hope
you'll try it --tire addition of the
apple snakes a vast difference,
APPLE -LIVER PATTIES
Yield -5 ,Servings'
1 .poured sliced pork or beef
liver
2 cups coarse soft bread
crumbs
/ teaspoon salt, few grains
pepper
r/ teaspoon dry mustard
2/4 cup finely chopped onion
3/4 cup shredded raw apple
Yi cup chili sauce
3 tablespoons shortening or
finely -flavoured dripping.
heated.
Method: Cover the sliced liver
with boiling water and simmer 5
minutes: drain liver; remove any
coarse membrane and • tubes and
put the liver through the. food chop-
per, using a coarse blade,
Add the crumbs to the minced
liver and sprinkle with the salt,
Pepper, mustard and onion; crnn-
bine lightly.
.Add the apple and chili sauce to
liver mixture and again combine
lightly,
Shape mixture into 10 patties.
Browit patties on both sides in
the heated shortening or dripping;
cover and cook gently for 10 mitt -
cites, turning once;
,s
1f you happen to have company
corning for lunch — perhaps a
Committee from your Women's
Institute or Ladies Aid --here's
something 1 can highly recommend
as the main dish, It's a
HEARTY CHICKEN MOLD
1 lb. can of chicken or an
equivalent amount' of
cooked chicken meat
1 cup celery,'ut
1 small onion
1 small can fine peas
1/2 cup nuts if desired
4 hard. boiled eggs sliced
3 tablespoons sweet pickles
chopped
f small can pimiento
1 cup Mayonnaise
Method: 3 tablespoon, gelatine
dissolved in a little cold water and
then in 1% cups Trot eltielccn broth,
Combine all ingredients and put
in large flat casserole or 16 to 20
individual I.nolds.
Perhaps, instead, you'd like to
try something lila: this
OAKVILLE SALAD
Bring can of tomato soup to
boiling point, Add 3 packages of
cream cheese. Stir until smooth
(to avoid lumps, add soup to cheese
slowly). Next add 2 level tbsp.
gelatine, dissolved in / cup of cold
water, When partly cool add 1 cup
of mayonnaise, 1/ cups chopped
celery, green pepper, a little onion,
nuts and olives mixed. Chill and
mold in one large or several small
molds, preferably over night. Serve
on crisp lettuce, garnished with
rings of stuffed olives or fancy
miniature shapes of pimientos.
Needs no dressing.
As you probably know, there are
almost as many different recipes
for Angel Food Cake as there are
People who like that delicacy—
and that's a whole heap. However,
I greatly doubt if you'll ever come
across a better one than this
CHOCOLATE ANGEL CAKE
11/2 cups egg whites
Pinch of salt'
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/ cups superfine granulated
sugar
1 teaspoon flavouring
(vanilla)
34 cup of flour
cup of cocoa
Method: Add pinch of Balt lo. egg
whites and heat until foamy. Add
cream of tartar and beat until yon
can invert the bowl. (Be careful
not to over beat.) Fold in sugar,
then flavouring. Feld he flour and
cocoa winch have beets sifted to-
gether live times.- ..Put in angel
food pan and bake 1 hour at 350
degrees,
FROSTING
1 cup confectionery sugar
?-a cup cocoa
1 egg yolk
Pinch of salt
Black coffee to dampen
Method: Beat in the mixer or
by hand until smooth and stiff,
\'Vlrip !,ez pt, heavy cream. Mix
frosting and cream together. Frost
cake just before serving. l.f cream
frosting is not wanted, add more
coffee to frosting for spreading
consistency.
Mysterious: Reporting a man's
suicide at Fulda, Germany, a news-
paper stated: "The police can find
no reason for it. The ratan was
unmarried,"
Largest Children's Hospital
Has Stroller Parking Lot
:NM.; taMnisik, 'WAR
Just For Children ---ii this new Toronto hospital. Everything
for the comfort of youthful patients is included it, the st •ttc:ttirc,
:Che world's largest hospital just
for children -- "where no child
knocks in vain" has now opened
the doors of its new $12500,000
building for its first 400 new pa -
The ta•st0ty building was de
signed like a Lilliputian city as
new. headquarters for the Toronto
Hospital for Sic). Chi.idren, whose
'patients have come from all over
the world since it began 75 years
ago.
There is even ant iudo(' parking
lot ---with attendant -.for baby cur-
riages for the younger patients
who arrive on wheels. About the
only facility not 00 a iuidor level
,are the light se itches. They have.
been deliberately p111 at a higher
then usual level so juvenile Bands
can't play with them.
T1re whole ground floor of the
building is devoted to clinics, since
the .hospital leas the largest out-
patient clientele of any hospital for
riiildren, In the crowded old build-
ings, the new structure replaces,
10,000 out-patients were treated last
year.
Much of tic egttiptucut in the
new hospital was designed espe•
natty by the staff, A portable am••
faaalance for the prematurely horn
hiha6ics contain( a compartment for
hot water which is Wal•uted up aS
soots as physician or nurse phones
that the ambulance is needed, '.C1re
ambulance has a little crib and
blankets, a thermometer to tell
the heat of the box, and a screened
ventilating outlet so the Baby can
breathe as soon as it is placed its
the box and the lid has been closed,
'lite hospital has its own bath-
ing pool with' a hydraulic eleva-
tor tee alionn paralyzed children
to receive therapeutic treatments,
and another arm -high pool for ex-
ercise of paralyzed arms.
In the infant ttards and infec-
tious disease wards there are ultra
violet ray light barriers to ensure
full protection for the children,
There are special soundproof
roosts for. treatment of the deaf.
And there are playrooms for the
eonvalesccnts, Baths aro on pedes-
tals to enable the nurses to better
help the young patients, and toi-
lets and washbasins for pre-school
age patients are made in Lilliputian
size and at the right height for
their use. There is even a toy shop.
The hospital has 632 hospital
beds, varying from tiny cribs for
infants 10 1.11014e for older boys
and girls to about 14 years of age.
Visitors to children tinder two years
of age will only be able to see the
patient; from behind glass (wails.
Their Backs To The "Wall—Their feet . firmly planted on nothing at all, the Duke of
.Kent, left, and his younger brother, Prince Michael, sail through the air while braving
the "rideawall" at a London "fust fair." Cyril Mills, at right, unhappily went along for the
ride and seems to be having trouble keeping his stomach M place.
Young Lever's Genius Started
Vast Business That "Floats On Soapsuds"
" Just ninety years ago, when soap
was still a highly -taxed luxury, a
nine-year-old Bolton schoolboy ad-
ded another extension to his rabbit -
hutches and had a brainwave. 1f
he put four inches of soil on top of
the hutches and planted wheat, he
decided, the crop would meati
cheaper rabbit food.
Shortly afterwards tite young-
ster,. William Hesketh :Lever, found
himself cutting and wrapping soap
in his father's. grocery business, and
that gate hien another idea. Soap
'wars their sold ie long factory bars,
which the grocer sliced to suit the
customer. Suppoein;g one could eti
sure (1 pure scr0p and sell it ready -
‘r rapped?
Colossal Development
It's still less than seventy amaz-
ing years since .Lsver went into
business e ilk 11's brother. His first
soap was made in at )tired factory
with at capac:ty of only twenty tons
a week. Yet today the organization
he founded sells over a million tons
of soap a y000, two-thirds of all
the soap sold in the British Em-
pire writer L. W. Phelps — (Won
in "Answers."
On this ocean of soapsuds floats
.13rrtatn's biggest business fern .
a £27,3,000,000' corporation interest-
ed in cverythang from palm oil to
penny candles, from clroc-ice to
cltickett noodle soup, Although ten
per cent. of the world's soap output
is Lever -made, soap represents only
a fraction of their £S00,0011,000 au -
until turnover.
Last year Lever .Brothers tend
Unilever also produced nearly 2,-
500,000 tons of vegetable and animal
oils, 981,000 tons of margar'ne,
£40.000,000 worth of cocoa, and
about £.15,000,01)0 worth of toilet
preparations,
They handled 706.000 torus of pea-
nuts --compare this with the meagre
2,000 toes yield of the Gocern-
• nlent's peanut scheme -- and in
crushing copra, paler kernels and
other oil crops they conjured up
2,000,000 toes of cattle food,.
They shipped dates out of Iraq
and leather across the Sahara. They
sold carpet wool from the tails of
desert sheep and exported rumba
records to the Congo. Incidentally,
they achieved a total of £25,-
000,000 of exports from clic 'Uni-
teel Kingdom alone.
Lord f.everhulnte's rabbit -hut-
ches, in fact, bane developed into an
industrial empire owning or con-
trolling 571 different companies in
more than forty countries,
"I. have an insatiable thirst for
expansion and the trial of novel
methods," Lot'd Leverhulme used
to say. \Viten he built the world's
largest soap factory and the first
model town at Port Sunlight, he
teemed with ideas 11101 we regard
as new even 11020.
He devised profit - sharing and
co -partnership, pioneered the eight-
hour day and actually suggested a
six -)tour clay, its reality a two -shift
clay which would work machinery
thrice as long with lower overheads,
Expanding, amalgamating, 1u020-
evcr, :Leverhulnce. )himself could not
have dreamed of the real future of
the business that began on boards
and trestles in a grocer's top 00001,
Back in 1911, for instance, his
quest for raw soap materials gained
a valuable 1,875,000 - acre develop-
ment concession in the Congo, pro-
vided he paid agreed minimum wa-
ges asd built schools, hospitals, and
houses for the natives. Similarly,
in 1920, he bought up the Royal
Niger Company, a royal charter
business •w11iclt purchased oil -beam
ing crops from the native .growers
and soil European meraltattdtse iu
return.
The African Trail
Today, these gains have resolved
into the United Africa Corporation,
employing upwards of 40,000 Afria
carts in the Congo, another 30,000
in Nigeria and tete Gold Coast, and
maintaining 1,771 trading itationee
throughout West and Centr1i
of Africa.
Some of the Corporation's whole-
sale buyers carry their stocks on
their heads and hike to customers
utiles in the jungle. Others operate
along the Niger or Congo, bringing
fresh custom to the Lever Fleet of
600 craft,
Then there's the Lever logging
bus'niees, hauling" 100.000 tons of
timber out of the Nigerian forests
and stamping out 500,000 cubic feet
of plywood a year. There's an
ocean fleet to bring everything from
palet oil to Cameroon bananas to
Britain. An anthropologist visiting
darkest Africa, the story goes, was
astonished to find a jungle drum,
mer heating out an advertisement
for United Africa beer!
fit Istanbul, the largest depart-
ment store got its start selling
cloth to members of the: Sultan's
harent.
Old Lord. 1,0verliultne, similarly,
once spent a holiday iu the Western
Isles and decided to benefit the is-
landers by founding a fishing in-
dustry, Building bort facilities, or-
_-getaizing a fishing fleet, he tried to
ensure a good start by buying a
chain• of fish shops. The islanders
refused to be converted, but Mac -
Fisheries nolo have a shop for near -
1y every day,of the year and their
sales gross £8,000,000.
Fish and Sausages
At one time fish shops always
sold sausagcis — so Leverhulme
acquired 011 interest in the'('. Wall
sausage company. When he discov-
ered that sausage sales fell off in
1110 summer months, an office clerk
suggested, "Why not snake ice
cream?" Within the Unilever fanc-
ily, Wall's built tip till they had
8,500 tricycles operating as • far as
Gibraltar,
Having side-stepped into the
food business, the Leverhulme dy-
nasty then broke into pea -canning
and froslyd foods. Baby food, tea,
canned steak pudding, tislt and
10001 pastes. soups --- a :vital of over
£50,000,000 worth of foodstuffs a
year—are now all Bart of the story,
as are shaving create and eau de
Cologne; lavender water and linseed
oil, chemicals and paper mills, road
transport, glycerine and starch fad-
t•ories , .. .
There's fragrant honey soap
in China. Himalaya Bouquet in
India, gold deist soap powder in the
U.S.A.. plus a coffee siibstitute in
Germany and a synthetic aroma to
make hooter -grown tobacco semi
like best V103l01an. In Soul
America, too, a Unilever concern
is note the biggest cosmetic • maker,
Coconut (;roves in the Solontous,
whaling fleets in Antarctica, guano
reefs in the Seychelles ..._ all swill
the saga.
Too High A Price
By tate 11111(110 of this sttuttuc1 cele
million people in the United States
will naive: been killed in automobile
arcidents since 1900. That is more
t'hatt died on both shies in the
American Civil War, yet the losses
of that conflict of 85 years ago are
ti11 remembered vividly and bit-
terly. But traffic deaths we take its
our stride, as r0U'tine 1)010:. s.5 a
price ewe should expect to pay for
the privilege of living in this fact
age,
It's about tine every one of us
realized that the current price is
far too high. Most of these people
died because someone, driver or
pedestrian. thought that he was in
a hurry, because a death trap on a
highway had been a11ol}ped to re. -
main, because soMe person thought
he was a. good driver and wasn't
or because some driving Fool ex-
pected a child to be ee ctarefut es
a grown U(5•
This Wail May Stand
For 2000 Years
One roan has changed the face
of London.
\Vhen 44 -year-old John Datson,
a Cornish mason, heard that he had
been chosen to build the fine new
river wall that bounds the Festival
of Britain site on the south bank
of the Thames, he rolled up his
shirt -sleeves. Now he has finished
his enormous task ahead of sclre=
dole.
lca•ery piece of the $1,000,000
worth of ,.Penryn granite facings
used in the wall has been laid by
him, with assistance only from la-
bourers. He worked so steadily
that sometimes he ran out of stone
and had to wait for new deliveries.
Altogether he handled over 3,000
tons of granite.
It took eighty masons to cut
and dress enough stone in the
quarries to keep him going. Each
block had to be cut to fit the
vertical curve of the wall and num-
bered to fit into the predetermined
position on John Mason's working
prints. Even then he had to dress
some of the stones himself—and
the granite is the hardest in the
world.
pee of the labourers fell from
the staging and was drowned. A
would-be rescuer nearly ' suffered
the sante fate when he found he
could not swim against the fast -
flowing ebb tide. After tha tragedy
Mason worked on doggedly. A
_recent test showed the wall to be
dead level and his evork accurate
to one -sixteenth of an inch.
\Viten the Victoria Embankment
was built eighty years ago, backed
against brickwork, it was consi-
dered one of the wonders of the
world. The new south bank wall
is backed by reinforced concrete,
and 130,000 tons of debris from
blitzed builcliirgs fills in the reclaitn-
cd land to a depth of 110 feet.
Most of I)atson's careful and pa-
tient 'wort: was done below the
level of the Thames. For each sec-
tion a coffer -dam was sunk, like a
great metal box driven by powerful
pile ltaiiuners deep through the
river -stud 'to the blue London clay.
The foundations of tete wall are
36 feet below the bed of the river.
John Watson looks with pride
at the bulwarks and stairways of
his river 10a11. Over 1,80(1 years agcy
Hadrian signed orders for a wall
to be built between 1"teglend and
Scotland; and now it is just a
stretch of rubble. But e,-p:rt, say
that Datsou's wail will till he
here and as • good as et ere -aside
front atone bombs and other arcs--
dents! -2,(10(1 years from :love
"Found A. Word" For
Swearing Parrots
One of the strangest societies
in the world hats been founded to
discourage the teaching of se ear
words to parrots. The society
claims to have "aaffected the lives"
of more that( 1811 parrots. It hasp
220 members.
Some people, however, prefer 0
parrot capable of omitting a few
lurid oaths. A London pet shop
owner recently advertised for talk-
ing parrots, and announced that he
was 'twilling to pay &:1 for every
separate swear word the birds could
habitually utter.
He is said to have paid :x'50 for
one bird that swore so fast and
steadily all the doors and windows
had to be closed so that the police
couldn't hear,
Many people consider parrots the
most delightful and entertaining
companions and spend hours teach-
ing them new words. It is best to
get a young but acclimatised bird
about eighteen months old from a
reliable dealer, and undertake its
entire education oneself.
A talking parrot sloes not begin
speaking until the end of its sec-
ond year. Its choice of words and
conversation, therefore remain en-
tirely. in the owner's hands, and
al! fear of a sudden stream of in-
vective or of sentences unfit for
polits ears is avoided.
Not long ago police 111 Durban,
South Africa, rushing into a )rouse
from which arose the cries of
"Murder! Murder!"
They found a quite hysterical
parrot out of its. cage and hope-
lessly entangled with a ball of wool,
clinging to the window edge and
shrieking its head off!
Parrots seem to thrive 00 pub-
licity.
Recently a green and red parrot
escaped from his cage.
He flew into the gardens of Marl-
borough House, Queen Mary's
London residence, and there he
stayed till photographers and ee-
porters arrived.
To have been found in any other
garden 100010! have meant obscuri-
ty, but since it was Queen Mary's
garden the parrot's escape was
paper on both sides of the Atlantic.
An elderly woman was taught
bridge. One evening_ while arrange
ing her cards, she dropped one
and, picking it up, observed: ".Nee
one saw that king, did they?"
"Hush, Granny," said her part-
ner. "you shouldn't mention which
card it was," -
"It's all right. my dear: 1 didn't
say it was the king of diamonds."
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"The Thing" For Future Air-drops—Tr t.tt multi come
upon this great, big box. you Might open it illi and discover
31;1118; ammunition, (e1. .food or (well a squad of lice
;Didier,, I t't; it model of the new all-putpost , metal cots -
taitlet' just developed for parachuting; everything military
including soldiers to earth from cargo planes. t net'
ag't'outarl, the metal boa: tmt_t. double t0 a rescue base.
weather station or survival but.