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.
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