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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-12-11, Page 2a. Borth American Nymphs—Three beauties from the three North American nations of Canada, Mexico and the United States make up this inspiring pyramid on water skis at Florida's Cypress Gardens, At left is Yankee, Jannette Burr; on top, Amparo Batani of Mexico.. and at right, Carol Ann Duthie of Toronto, Canada. Strange Creatures That 'live 'Down Under" A mere century or two ago Europeans used to think of Aus- tralia as a part of the world where everything stood upside clown. Those who landed there found so much to amaze them that its reputation as an Alice - trough -the -looking glass world increased. Now a well-known writer and broadcaster on the "oddities" of Australian life has published Unique to Australia, a book that will add to such legends. Bill Beatty, the author, shows Aus- tralia as a country full of aston- ishing paradoxes. Here may be found earth- worms more than six feet long, whose groans can be heard from underground; lizards that bark, fly, change colour, and run on their hind legs like their prehis- toric ancestor, the dinosaur; spi- ders that ish with line and bait for moths, others that live un- der water in a bubble of air like a diving -bells butterfly fish walk- ing with rear fins on the sea floor, fish that climb trees and have two lamps under their eyes to attract their prey, archer fish that shoot insects with a drop of water six feet above the surface. There is the dugong, or sea cow, with. the face of a pig and body like a miniature elephant, suckling its young by holding them to its breast with nippers. (The Dugong is supposed to have originated the mermaid myth.) The Tasmanian devil or tiger turns out to be neither devil nor tiger, but a harmless wolf. The dingo or native wild dog be- comes savage only when crossed The average Canadian tarnils3 doesn't eat nearly as much honey 'ea it should. Some of us have it fairly regularly -on ori -tables, mil to' else eiti in cook`in'g to" the extent they do in other lands. The firm, sweet honey cookies 0f Germany — tebkuchen — are perhaps the most famous Christ- mas cookies of a country that can boast many famous Christ- mas cookies. Then there's the rlebrated honey cake of Holland, and dozens of other delicacies I haven't the time or space to mention. So here are a couple of simple :recipes that make use of this very fine food most delightfully. Give them both a trial. I'm cer- tain you'll be glad you did. HONEY CREAM CHEESE FILLING Q1t'or layer cake; also may be used as a dessert sauce) l three -ounce cake crease cheese Dash salt tablespoons neil.d-flava eea (money Vanilla, orange or lemon extract Cream the cheese with the salt Yid Tioney. Flavor as desired, eld: enough to fill an eight -inch layer. cake. HONEY FROSTING (Also may be used as a pudding sauce) 1 cup mild -flavored honey 1 beaten egg white 1 teaspoon vanilla. Boil the honey to 240 degrees F. (stage when a drop in cold water forms a firm ball). Add it in a fine stream to the egg white. Whip till stiff and add vanilla. This frosting is marshinallow-like and remains spreadable for hours. Yield: enough for tops and sides of two eight -inch layer cakes. m x "'Way Down East" in the United States they call this an "Election Cake." It was, and still is—if skilfully made—a round, rich raised loaf, with a delicious buttery taste. In the early days it took more 1,; :ru 41.101 d0 Artt7At GROSS 70hd MO! PFteGto ., Fenuows) see 44.91AGE REVM.14: her. ION *LE (Ours) ,..' mi'( PAIONGS se:tlk! 1NCOMC 7.61 {hrntIONs CP $CHAFFS) es rf ti to 1446 1 SPI' , 19{R , (OAR 1 .:450 1141 aANAOIAN FA(IFIE tAILWA>I COMPANY —[ASTERN REGION --PRAIRIE NiAPACIFIC REGIONS Est vs. West—In Canada --The charts shown above were used as (exhibits by the Canadian Pacilc Railway at recent hearings before the Board of Transport Commissioners at Ottawa to refute argu- ments that the burden of freight rates is borne largely by the western provinces. The first chart for gross ton miles shows that the railway's service in western Canada is substantially greater that that in eastern Canada, The second shows that average nevenue per ton mile is much greater in eastern Canada and that the dierence has been increasing since 1946, The third chart shows that the net earnings of the company, before income tax, deice higher in western Canada than in eastern Canada, have been lower since mid -1940 despite the fact that two-thirds of the C,P.P, mileage is in the west. 3A 7, 140 with that white mean's a omestleste ted dog. The emu cannot fly, but will race a galloping horse; the female does the courting, but the male looks after the chicks. Astonishing All the world today knows about the platypus, that queer furred creature that is part rep- tile, part bird, part animal, with its duck's bill, webbed paws, its habit of burrowing to lay soft- shelled eggs like a lizard's, div- ing under the water for food, and suckling its young, but the paradox of all paradoxes is the lesser-known spiny ant -eater. This does something even the the kangaroo cannot — by growing a pouch for its young only when they need it, There are some astonishing birds, like the lyre bird, which mimics any bird or even human sound in the bush, or the tall and solemn brolgas, which performed square dances a million years be- fore hill -billies ever thought of them. There is a great deal about the customs and way of life of the aborigines, the teeming marine life of Queensland's Great Bar- rier Reef, and such strange nat- ural features as the treeless Null- arbor Plain, the immense Ayer's Rock rising out of flat desert in Central Australia, and the Great Artesian Basin, which has the world's largest underground stor- age of water. MERRY MENAGERIE ",lie takes king-size cat naps! Twelve hours each!" than a day to make. The fruit had to be prepared and the dough allowed to rise. But commercial- ly prepared yeast works a lot faster than the old, homemade sort, and nowadays the risen dough is ready for the oven in just a few hours. And so, even if we in Canada don't happen to have an elec- tion looming close—or have we? —I'm going to give you the recipe. Election or no election. it's well worth giving a trial, ,, PA ELECTION CAKE 1 yeast cake tie snip lukewarm: water:, 2 cups milk, scalded 1 teaspoon. salt 6 cups sifted flour 2 cups raisins, chopped Y/2 cup sliced citron % cup butter (at room temperature) 2 culls brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon x/2 teaspoon. nutmeg 3 large eggs or four medium eggs Molasses. (1) Sprinkle yeast on luke- warm water. (2) Cool milk to lukewarm and add salt and softened yeast. (3) Add a third -cup of the flour to the chopped raisins and. sliced citron. Mix well. (4) Add yeast mixture to re- maining flour and beat with a wooden spoon till well blended and "stringy." Set in a warm place (80 to 90 degrees F.) to rise till double in bulk. Setting the pan of dough in water of 90 to 100 degrees F. in temperature helps to give rapid rising—forty- five to sixty minutes. (5) While dough is rising, cream butter, add sugar gradually and cream till fluffy. Add cinnamon and nutmeg. (6) Add eggs ane at a time and mix thoroughly. (7) Add creamed mixture to dough and beat till no spots of white dough show. Add raisins and citron and mix. (8) Let dough rise till double in bulk (thirty to forty minutes). (9) Cut down dough and stir till smooth. (10) Turn into three one -quart round pans or casseroles, well greased, and let rise till dough reaches tops of pans (forty-five to sixty minutes). (11) Bake on lower shelf of a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) thirty minutes, lower tempera- ture to slow (325 degrees F.) and continue baking thirty to thir- ty-five minutes longer. If tops brown too fast, cover after first thirty minutes with aluminum foil. Glaze when done with molasses, return to oven for five minutes to set glaze. Yield: twenty-four servings, FISHING TIP Nylon leaders are sometimes hard to straighten out. This can be accomplished easily by draw- ing them through a piece of rubber. A boot strap will serve the purpose well. What would many fishermen have given to have known this when nylon leaders were first introduced! teranall o i Preview England Prepares For its Most Splendid Ceremony 50,000 Silkworms Spun the Yarn for 'Queen's Purple' Robe for Elizabeth Hy . ROSETTE ilIA.RGROVE NEA Staff Correspondent London --Thousands of people in England already are busy pre- paring for what will be recorded net June in their country's his- tory as the most splendid cor- onation of all times. The crowning of a soverign is always a sensational event. But this time every man, woman and child in Britain is taking a deep- felt, affectionate interest in it because the Queen is a young woman whom they have follow- ed since her birth and the first Queen to be crowned since Vic- toria. Elizabeth II is beloved of her people because she has convinc- ed them that she is not only beautiful but courageous and deeply conscious of her duties, in spite of her youth. Further - snore, she is the daughter of a soverign who died at his task, the wife of a prince charming and the mother of two beautiful children. The robes of state which the Queen will wear when she is crowned on June 2 will be the most fabulous yet seen in West- minster Abbey. Fifty thousand silkworms have provided the yarn for the 20 yards of the richest silk vel- vet known as the "Queen's )Pur- ple" which will fashion her trail- ing robe and the satin for the gown she will wear beneath it. Both will be all -British and both will be encrusted with the most gorgeous embroidery ever executed by the Royal School of Needlework and representing the Royal Insignia. k 5 s The raw silk has been pro- duced on Zoe, Lady Hart Dyke's silk farm at Lullingstone in Kent. Started 20 years ago, the farm supplied bolts of silk for the coronation robes of George VI and the Queen Mother. Big worry of middle-aged Miss )Lally Lee, who will soon go to work at the Warner mills at Braintree, Essex, is that "my knife doesn't slip." Her job is hand -weaving the 20 yards of velvet for the Queen's corona- tion robe. So just in case of mis- hap, Mrs. Hilda Calver will weave a duplicate length of 20 yards. Both are skilled crafts- women in the hand -weaving of silk velvet. p it .4 The silk has to be looped over e ujiatted wire and cut by hand. The two women cannot produce Command Portrait of Elizabeth II by Dorothy Wilding shows her wearing the diamond and pearl tiara worn by queens of Britain since Queen Victoria. Sash and star is the Order of the Garter. Diamond necklace was a wedding present from the Nixam of Hyderabad, the bracelet from her husband. more than 18 inches a day, so it will take three months to com- plete the yardages. A director of the mills says "theirtask will be one of the utmost responsi- bility. The knife has only to slip once and the whole thing is ruined." Nobody knows what style dress the Queen will elect to wear under her purple robes. It must necessarily be a formal evening gown with a deep de- collete to prernit of the cere- mony of .Anointing and also to set off the magnificent crown jewels she will wear. It is presumed that Royal Dressmaker Norman Hartnell will be entrusted with the mak- ing of the coronation robes. * A. * According to the office of the Earl Marshal the Duke of Nor- folk it has as yet not been de- cided what headdress the Queen. will wear to the coronation. It she :follows the example of her father, she would wear a Cap of State of purple velvet edged with ermine. Nine youths of noble birth will be appointed to carry the Queen's; train. Four peeresses have to be chosen to hold a pall of cloth of gold over the Queen when she is annointed with the Holy Oil. This precious oil usually is made in sufficient quantities to last several coronations. But the reserve supply was destroyed by bombs during the war and the Queen's chemists have been commanded to make more. It is a fragrant oil distilled from orange flowers, roses, cin- namon, musk, jasmine, flowers of benzoin, civet and ambergris. The formula dates backto the 17th Century. ee (esrext.eeek ,Ehe peeeeesses d et ett ;x �icu�_ax4. � fiy ess <s Thousand -Year -Old Ceremony at which Elizabeth will be crowned Queen of Britain includes spec- tacular procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminister Abbey and back again. Here the Inst coronation procession, in 1937, passes through Parliament Square. KEEP TOOLS FROM RATTLING The best way to keep tools from rattling around the luggage compartment of the car is to fashion a rubber kit having a separate pocket for each tool. One can make it out of an old inner tube, sewing one piece onto another to form the pockets. When the tools are placed the tube is tied in a roll and there'll be no more rattling. TAA.LL TALES Herb Shriner, a television comic in the Will Rogers tradi- tion, observes, "A man will soon be able to get clear around the world in two hours: one hour for flying, and the other to get out to the airport." "We didn't need a plane in Kansas one day last summer," he adds. "Wind blew so hard it got a hen turned clear around the wrong way. Before it could get straightened out and headed into the wind again, it laid the same egg six times!" MAKE YOUR CHOICE A senior in the Pulitzer School of journalism observed, "Even barbers make more money than authors do today; I don't know whether to take a job in Gre- co's barbershop when lgradu- ate, or write novels." Dean Ackerman suggested, "Toss coin° my boy. Beads or talesi" Thousands Die In Battle For Honey STORY of a strange battle be- tween insects comes to us from Nyeri, Kenya, tvhere bees invaded the inner and outer walls of an old house and established a thriving hive. One day recent- ly a large number of ants "on safari" arrived and invaded the hive, hungry for the large amount of honey in it. The an- gry bees joined battle with the ants at dusk, and as the ants sent reinforcements the bees came out to meet them. All night long the battle raged, while the worried owner of the house, wearing a gas mask to protect his face, watched and listened. At times the grass was black with insects as the two sides struggled for supremacy. The house , owner thought at first that the ants.would win, but he was wrong. When daylight came the lawns were littered with the bodies of hundreds of thou- sands of ants. If any had es- caped alive, they had vanished. And the victorious bees were back in their hive with their honey cafe. REAL RELIC Then n there was the man who had a car so old that he asked the License Department for both upper end lower plates this year! Highball I — Charles Fleischer, 2, is Having the time of his young life being chief engineer of the model railroad system on dis- play in a department store. Toy department officials, wise in the ways of boys of all ages, have designed the display so that vis. itors can operate all the trains.