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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-06-26, Page 3Modern Etiquette 13v Roberta Lee Q. How can I give a buffet supper? A. Anytime between five and eight P.M. Mot dishes, salads, rolls, appetizers, dessert and bever- ages • are served. The dishes, napkins and silverware are placed on the table with tate food, and the guests help themselves. This is a good way to entertain a large gathering without maid service. Q. What kind of entertainments are appropriate for announcing a wedding engagement? A. Engagements are announced by parents or older relatives of the bride-to-be, and this may be done at formal or informal dinners or luncheons, dances, card or cocktail parties. Q. Is it considered improper to use the knife in cutting the lettuce in a salad?. A. There is no ban at all against cutting the salad with a knife. Q. To settle an argument, will you tell me the correct way in which to eat rens? Is it ever proper to eat them with a spoon? A. It is customary always to• eat vegetables with the fork. This ap- plies to peas, too, Q. If a couple know that their engagement is to be a long one, should a .public announcement be made? A. Yes; but the announcement should include "that no date has been set for the wedding," 'Q. Is it proper to name the second son "junior" after his father, or is this title always sup- posed to be conferred on the oldest son? A.. The 'junior" in a family need not be the first son. Q. My husband and I have been invited to a double wedding ceremony, The one couple are very good friends, but the other we know only slightly. Are we obligat- ed to give wedding gifts to both couples? A. A gift to your good friends is the. only requirement. Of course, a little gift to the other bride would not be improper, but it isn't expected. Q. Is the prefix "Mr." ever omitted from a man's card? A. It is omitted from a man's business card, but never from the card which he uses socially. Q. Is it proper to sip your coffee or tea wit}m the spoon? A. Not the entire cup. The spoon may be used for tasting only, never for drinking. After stirring your beverage and tasting, lay the spoon in the saucer and let it remain there. ANSWERS TO INTELLIGENCE TEST 1—Bowling. 2—Spain. 3-13ritain. 4-700 yards, 5—Milton. 6—Aaron Burr. 7—(A) United States; (B) —Rome; (C) Turkey; (D) Britain. C iorful aper `.' ate Ease Duties of S pi!huller I . sLess BY EDNA MILES [1O entertain with the least effort and the greatest results t•i• is the aim of Lllrnost every woman during the hot suns- mer months. She wants her guests to have a good time. But she doesn't want to spend long, hot hours in the kitchen before they arrive nor does she want to return to the kitchen for another session when they've gone. One of the simplest and most pleasant forms of party - giving is the buffet using paper -plate' service. It leaves the hostess free to enjoy her own party, to talk to her guests and to eat without feeling harried. As the buffet moves out-of-doors for warm weather, the hostess inay utilize almost any open space, from a small terrace in a city apartment to a back porch or a lawn. Color, in a buffet, can be gained through the striking pastel shades of the paper plates—jonquil yellow, avocado green, paradise pink and blue—or in patterns on white grounds. The hostess can use a dark cloth for contrast or she can let the wood of the table top set off the plates. Table decorations need not be elaborate to be attention - getting. Flowers in an unusual arrangement, an interesting candelabra, a functional relish ferris wheel—any of these will turn the trick. When the buffet is over, neither guests nor hostess need feel obliged to ruin the balance of the evening by doing dishes. The paper plates and rematching paper napkins can he thrown out, thus getting rid of most of the clean-up work. Gay paper; Plates add to the friendly atmosphere of the outdoor buffet. •Rostps relaxes, free from visions of stacks of dishes. Note relish "ferris wheel" at /eft. Itt the latest issue of that very interesting American Magazine "The Farm Journal," there's an article by L. C. Boggs which I'm going to pass along to you poultry raisers. These roosting "islands," as he calls them, sound like a really good idea—one that I'm sure many of us could adopt to otir advant- age, * * * A hen scratching around on the floor looks industrious—says Mr. Boggs—and most of us have thought "that's good—she must be malting money." * * * But some of the poultrymen in the state of Washington now have a different idea. They are trying roosting "islands" that run down the centre of their houses, with feed and water troughs mounted on the roosts. Their hens spend most of the time on the "islands," not on the floor. The advantages are: * * * You can keep more birds in a house; Your litter stays dryer; You get more clean eggs; C.P.R. VICE PRESIDENT MEETS DIESEL PIONEER: A college thesis was responsible for a long delayed meeting in Montreal recently between the Russian scientist who designed and built the world's first diesel-electric locomotive (shown above) and the vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, The story began when N. R. Crump (right), now vice-president of the C.P.R., was studying for his Bachelor of Science degree at Purdue University,. Lafayette, Ind„ and was renewed in 1936 while Mr. Crump was locomotive foreman at Moose Jaw, Sask., and was working on his thesis for his Mechanical Engineer's degree, His subject, "Internal Combustion Engines in the Railroad Field," was one that required a study of facts that were almost unobtainable at that time. Mr. Crump turned to the reports of Dr. George Vladimir Lomonosoff (left), a Russian mechanical engineer who had designed a diesel locomotive as early os 1909, and had one in operation in 1923, to get the information he needed. The 76 -year -ofd Dr. Lomonosoff, whose ton is ct resident engineer with the Montreal Locomotive Works, has been living so quietly in Montreal for the past two years, Mat it was only recently that Mr. Crump learned of his presence in the city and arranged an interview. Modern C.P.R. diesel locomotive built by the Montreal Locomotive Works is shown in the picture behind Dr. Lomonosoff and Mr, Crump. Your birds are more comfort- able; And best of all, you save work, m * * A typical roosting island is 12 feet wide, with a 10 -foot alley on each side. It's built up 2 feet off the floor. * * You' put the feed" hoppers on the outside edges of the island, for easy, no -stoop' filling from a- feed cart. The water. trough runs down the middle. • * * * The 'sides are closed down to the floor, of course, so the birds can't get under the rack. All the water the birds shake off their wattles, or bill out of the trough goes under the rack, where there's no litter to get wet, * * ,)< • So do most of the droppings, be- cause the birds spend nearly two- thirds of their time on the islands. That means fewer droppings in the litter, which stays dryer and clean- er and lasts longer. * *• * Harry Lochner of Redmond, Wash., says his roosting island lets hint keep more birds. He figures that he needs only 2 square feet of floor space per Leghorn hen, He used to use 3 square feet for Leghorns and 4 square feet for heavy breeds, * * .* • Ifow about this labor=saving angle? + * * I watcl ed _ Everett Peterson • of Langley, Wash., drive into his lay- ing house with his tractor and field cultivator, and stir the litter in a pen 36' x 100'. It took hint just 10 minutes to nmalce two rounds around the island, and the job was clone. Ile didn.'t have to move a feeder, or dodge a waterer, * * �: What happened to the 1,00 hens in the house? They just ran ahead of the tractor, or jumped up ou the island. Peterson does the chore once a week, and the birds are used to him. Another poultryman using an island says that it takes -hint just 10 minutes a day to feed smash out of a. wheel -barrow to 1,200 birds, It takes him another ten minutes a day to scatter grain in the litter and pick up floor eggs, a< * * Automatic feeders will rvork with this systema, too. Those who use them amount the hopper and motor on one corner of the island, to leave the alley clear all the way around for cleaning. * * m The dryer, cleaner litter is the thing that produces more clean eggs, What's more, you've got more roost for nests, because you've got time whole back wall free for nests, now that time roosts have been moved ,away front the wall. Mighty Mouthpiece — With the aid of tiny ew electronic parts called, "Jed'Sitars," this newly- dev hvgephone enlarges the ie.:O,^ ithout exter- nal con'rmectitths: Powered by small battm�lte`s" the. "transitors" do the words of vacuum tubes, eliminating the use, of bulky high-voltage batteries and the need for an external power supply. There's another saving, too. Reed Hanson at the Western Washington Experiment Station says that it takes only three-fifths as much time.. to keep built-up lit- ter in good condition in island houses as it does in ordinary houses. * * A. number of folks rising islands tell me that their birds are less flighty, because they've got a place to go when ;you come in to feed, or to gather . eggs, They're more comfortable,, too, especially in hot weather, because there's more air space overhead right above the is- land than any other place in the honk. There seems to be advantages than disadvantages in the system. A lot of folks with 1,000 birds or more are switching to it. Alt of them I've talked to like it. BEER -PROOF PIANO A beer -proof piano Inas been au display at •the British industries Fair, The piano is built of solid oak. There are no sharp edges to bruise souses who fall against it. Beer mugs and cigarettes slide oft sloping lids. Keys are covered with a fireproof (ilastic that cannot he picked off. Neither money nor food can be thrown into the works. The • string assembly is so fastened in place that it cannot be removed to he played on. as a harp in some Bacrhic outpouring of song. "Care umast he exercised in making the holes for seed planting, It naturally follows that the gardener can, by indulging in a mad orgy of hole -making, practically wipe out his garden." —Frank Sullivan. JITTER iDoes a Curve Curve? A new and awesome electronic calculator says a common besehall, of the shape baseballs are supposed to he, weighing what official base- balls are supposed to weigh, pro- pelled at the speed and with the spin any good pitcher can put on it, actually curves. All of which May appear as merely superscientific laboring of the obvious to several millions who have (a) sat behind the plate any- where from the Polo Grounds to Sportsntans Park or (b) fanned the air with a willow themselves. .But some—surprisingly few—will recall the stroboscopic pictures in Life magazine 11 years ago which showed that Carl Hubbell's and Cy Blanton's best twisters didn't curve at all—just dropped. There they were: A string of white circles right down a straight chalk line. No optical illusion here. A camera can't lie—or can it? Anyhow, if two marvels of tech- nology are going to stand up and call each other liars, why not seize the baseball by the seams and see if it won't curve around something solid? The answer is, it's already been done—long ago, Sporting News (baseball's fountainhead of know- ledge) says star pitcher Fred Gold- smith did it eight tines in 1870. Ile and a catcher stood on the same side of a line of three stakes. The ball left the pitcher's hand to the left of the first stake, traveled to the right of the second and smacked into the catcher's hands (no mitts then) at the left of the third Bi11 Ito:sedei and Lenny Levy did it again in 1950. Who's right? Well—anyone who has twisted himself into a pretzel as he swung at a big "round house" and missed for the third strike knows that .if that curve was an optical illusion then his hat had an -invisible hole in it, — From The Christian Science Monitor. Save Labor Cultivators, spudders, spades, rakes, and practically everything we use to dig, cut or prune are much more easily operated if they have long handles. Even the little single -pronged cultivator is han- dier with a three -to -five-foot han- dle. Thus equipped it will save a lot of stooping. Another point in this labor- saving business. The average per- son is inclined to plant rows far too close together. Of course one can grow beets, carrots, beans, etc., in rows only. 12 inches apart if space is very limited, but it will be much easier for cultivation if these are two feet or more apart, and with a garden cultivator they should be at least 30 incites or bet- ter still, three feet. * * * Be Prepared A very necessary piece of equip- ment for most gardeners is a small sprayer or duster and the materials to load it. Nothing is more dis- couraging than to get flowers, veg- etables or shrubery flourishing and then to discover some fine morning that bugs or disease have started to attack thein. If one counter-at- tacks promptly, however, there is little difficulty about control. For every pest, fortunately, there is some chemical or other treat- ment to keep it in check. Usually a spray or dust is used. For in- sects that eat holes in foliage the usual remedy is a poison of some kind, such as arsenate of lead, DDT, copper sulphate, nicotine, etc. For the pests that suck out the juices a burning spray or dust incorporating sulphur is recom- mended, or sometimes special soap and water or some of the tobacco solutions. Use sprays when the foliage is dry. With the dust, best results are obtained on a day with- out wind and just after a rain or before a dew. With all chemicals one is well advised to study and follow directions carefully and make sure that the proper mater- ial is used for the particular pest concerned. * * * Pinch 'Em Most beginners are too gentle or tender. They hate to do some very necessary surgery. Take the handling of what the trade calls bedding plants. These are well - started annuals in both the flower and vegetable- line- which are grown from seed, sown indoors or in hot- beds, or are bought from the seed - amen or florists, usually about a dozen to the box or flat. The be- ginner is inclined to set these out without any pinching back, or without even removing buds or flowers. If just before or after planting one pinches off quite a lot of the growth, and especially all flowers or buds, one will get much sturdier growth and in the end more flowers or fruit. Water peonies frequently and thoroughly to fill out the buds, Don't worry about the ants run- ning around on the buds for they do no harm. Legend has it that the ants nibble at the bud cover- ing, enabling them to open more easily and perfectly. TEST VO Score 10 points fur each correct answer in the first six questions: 1."Spare" i, a term used in: —golf —baseball ---badminton 2. The Llalearic .Islands are off the coast of: -pain --Korea —Ethiopia —Maryland 3. Joan of Are led the French army against the: —Polish —British —Germans --Algerians 4. The greatest distanr•• a nnulern archer could .shoot with a bow and arrow would be about---. -100 , ards---,i00 yards---50ti yards —700 yards ., The epic poem, .Paradise Lost, was written by: --Myron --Shelley—Goldsmith —Milton ti. Alexander Hamilton fougl t a duel with: —Thomas Jefferson —Aaron Burr -Tom Paine —Patrick Henry. 7 Listed below are four wars and opposite them the victors, or one of the victors. Match theme scoring 10 points for each correct ttmlswer. —bowling (Al SVar of 1812 (13) Punic Wars (C) Crimean (D) Boer War ---Britain —Turkey —United States --Rome Total your points. A score of 0.20 is poor; 30-60, average: 70 80. superior; 90-100, very superior. TEACHIN' TNU Mol g s To SkATE.14110.1 FUNNY A8Oue THAT z WAOI.L 1 BOOK YOU AS A NiGNT CLUB ACT 0R, SOMEP'N..'SW WON'T LAUGH '1115N? MN YOU sKATBAck-WARDS 8l CARSI-UL NOT ro gUN INTGr THE .. . 13y Arthur Pointer .-sTos2An WINDOW5'1 • eg