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Zurich Herald, 1945-02-15, Page 2THEY LIKE IT CHRONICLES GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P. Clarke • • • • • It is surprising the things one can find to do around the house in stormy weather. For instance, last week Partner and I got our- selves a job of real hard work, lasting for two whole days. It was no Iess than wrecking our old square piano. A black piano that tad long since become a white elephant. There was no other way gietting rid of it, It wasn't worth ving away; no junk dealer would take it in its entirety; its case was of no particular value and none of its "insides" could be used for re- pair work on any other type of piano. * * * This piano, you niay remember, occupied a big corner of the room we moved into when we went "south". So imagine the state of our b•edrooni for two whole days. Almost the first thing Partner did was to unstring the instrument. Have you ever examined the works of a piano? Have you noticed how taut are the wires and how each one is tightly twisted around an iron peg? Those pegs had to be turned by brute force to release the strings—and Partner's hands are still sore from the struggle. * * * My job was dissecting the key- board and in so doing I made several discoveries. Haven't you often wondered what makes piano keys come up again directly your fingers release thein—or worse still, why, sometimes, they don't. Well, I can give you the answer. Away at the end of each key is a tiny brass spring which controls the action of the key. And of course you know what happens when a spring becomes weak or breaks. Really, it was quite fascinating, this job. In fact it seemed almost a crime to deliberately destroy the marvellous and instricate work- manship that had gone into the making of this aged piano. Dear' ' knows. how much glue was used, for glue was everywhere. Not one nail did we find anywhere; nothing but screws, wooden pegs, brass pegs—and glue. 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The only parts worth saving were the lid, the hinges, and the screws —we won't need to buy any screws for years. Of course, the iron frame and brass pegs will go to help beat Hitler, and if from the melt- ing pot there emerge a few shells to go singing through the air in a death dirge for Nazi devils, then the last music from our old piano May yet be its best. TA LE Serve Cheese And Egg Dishes Eggs and cheese are good com- panions and, as with most good companions, they have many things in common. They are both pro- tein or "building" foods and either of them can step into the mealtime role of meat. They react poorly to high cooking temperatures which turn them into "tough guys." They ' like to be cooked over hot water and when they go into baked dish- es in any quantity they ask for a pan of hot water to sit in. Cheese Puffit 12 half-inch slices stale bread, IA ib. cheese, sliced, 4 teaspoon salt, 4% cups milk, 4 eggs, pepper and paprika. Trim crusts from bread. Arrange alternate slices $ bread and•,.cheese in a greased baking dish. Beat eggs slightly, add milk and sea- soning and pour over the bread: Cover baking dish and allow the mixture to become thoroughly chilled before baking. (This is ne- cessary to make the Puffit puff). Set in pan of hot water and oven - poach in a moderate oven 350°F, .until set, about 45 minutes. Six to eight servings. Baked Tomato and Cheese 2 eggs, 2 cups tomato juice, / • teaspoon salt, / teaspoon pepper, 1 tablespoon minced onion, 6 half- inch slices buttered bread cubed, 1 cup cheese, cut in Ve inch cubes. Beat eggs, add tomato juice, salt, pepper and onion. Place a layer of bread cubes in a greased baking dish, pour on some of the tomato mixture, then add a layer of cheese. Repeat until all ingredients are used, having the top layer of cheese. Set baking dish in a pan of hot water and oveupoach in a mo- derate oven, 350°F, for 40 minutes. Six serving. Spanish Eggs 6 eggs, 2 strips bacon, 1 small onion, chopped, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 cups canned tomatoes, 1 green pepper, chopped or 2 tablespoons chopped parsley, 1 cup chopped ce- lery, salt and pepper. Hard -cook eggs: — cover to a depth of one inch with cold water, heat to boiling point, set where wa- ter will keep hot and let stand 15 minutes. While eggs are cooking cut bacon in small pieces and cook until crisp. Remove bacon from pan and cook onion in the bacon fat until clear. Blend in flour, add tomatoes, green pepper and celery and simmer 20 minutes. Add bacon, salt and pepper. Remove shells from eggs, cut in half lengthwise and arrange in serving dish. Pour hot sauce over eggs. Six servings, Dressing Up The next time that there is some dressing left over when preparing poultry or dressed tenderloin you might consider the following de- licious way to use it up. Spread it on bacon strips, roll up, fasten with toothpicks and cook in the oven till crisp, 5018 1. < . �.W ` K.�. While Britishers shiver in near zero weather, polar bears have the time of, their lives biting off ice - at the London zoo with the sante relish that a child Might eat ice cream. Easy Way to Relieve RHEUMATIC P.+4 .4C4i�`a\•• *• �\�. ��y;.•',�4��dAd��",a �wc ? `.C��\\,'Ys�"\.,���`w�sir�"..Y ��"�`\ c N.R'(�"`m By MARY IMLAY TAYLOR CHAPTER IX a moment she said nothing and then she ventured. "Why?" "That's my business," he replied sharply; then, seeing her face fall, he qualified it. "It's not transfer- able; a friend gave it to me long ago, Besides, it's unlucky; you needn't covet in!" His sharpness alarmed her; she peeped at him as they parted to pass through a crowd at the corner. He looked at her shrewdly and knew he had frightened her. "I'm sorry," he said, more con- siderately, "ask something • else, Pam. You can't have that bit of jade! Before I die I'm going to smash it." "I wish you'd tell me all about it, then!" she pleaded. "I expect to tell the Angel Ga- briel," he said, "but no one else." * * * She smiled, shaking her head at him, but she said no more about the jade god. Something inter- vened, too, to sweep it from her thoughts. They had conte to an- other .corner, waiting for the traf- aerie paint did not -reply ..at once; theyfie'o Aden she 1 said caught his "don't ' had come tc 'a crossing and Burle- son• you see that tail man getting into tage of it to hurry him across and observed that she took advan- y the bus? See, he's had to wait for point out the ins nificence of a that old woman and the child to go florist's display. g first. He doesn't see us -- that's "Those are blue carnations. I Stewart Byram." don't like them; they're unnatural:' It was a moment before Burle- "I see that I'll have to 'observe son found the young man in the this blue carnation young man, my- crowd at the curb. Then Mark stepped up and began to climb to self," Burleson retorted dryly. "Uncle Herbert, I want s5me- the top of the bus. Seen in profile thing of yours," said Pam, coax thus, his face showed clean-cut and ingly. "Will you give it? It's not pale. Burleson studied it. much, really!" "Did you see him?" Pam asked He looked at her and his big eagerly. mouth widened into a hard smile. He nodded. "You say he's Lan - "Not to be caught, young wo- don's friend?" man. What is it?" "Archie brought him. You re - "Your little jade god — please, member, don't you?" Uncle Herbert!" Burleson assented, musing. "Yes, "No!" I noticed him. I wonder if Landon * * * always knows his friends?" he add - She had coaxed for it before, but ed dryly, * • * never before had she been refused with such violence. A red streak He did not hear the girl catch went 'up over his thin facel it her breath; she gave him a quick showed vividly between his eyes sidelong glance from under her like a scar, She was startled; for dark lashes, and then looked away. She was angry — the blood rushed up to her hair. "Do 'you mean you don't like his looks?" she asked after a moment 55©\t,y �4iP/� •+;moi -tpf He turned quickly; he had appar- ently forgotten her, "I meant noth- "Who's the pian?" Pani blushed furiously; for the twentieth part of a second she hesi- tated; she had a terrible remem- brance of Fosdick's-"Byram,", and Mark's reply. But she had no hint of its real significance. "It's Stewart Byram. Don't you remember him at dinner that time, Uncle Herbert? The tall fellow with —with the different look?" "I seeiii .to remember quite a number of tall fellows with differ- ent looks," Burleson replied, mus- ing. Pam laughed uneasily, "Oh, you noticed him! I saw that myself. He's—he's not like anybody else." • Burleson glanced down at her quickly and caught only the sweep of her thick lashes on a red. cheek. "Come .to think of it, I do re member the man you mean, he admitted slowly; it occurred to him that it was the one whose face re- called somethng forgotten. It had _ been vaguely familiar "What sort is he, Pam?" * * * Aches and _ai.. its Pa here is a simple, easy way to get relief from the agony of swollen, Mourne tic Joints and muscular aches and pains. Go to any drug store and get a bottle or Itu-Ma. If you are not pleased with the help It gives you—go get your money back. This is. a generous offer you can not salad to ignore. e kind," he `he's {extraordinarily like replied man n ea briefly, I knew once — in profile, that'•s all. But you say Landon brought him, and he's a Byram?" • "That's what he's palled," she was ill at ease. F,osdick's horrid stare came back to her. "Whom does he look like, Uncle.?" e.•y°Rg-,� a -v They had come now t0 a• corner where some taxis were signaling 4•\oee� locm for fares. He called one and put °ri°'eem e,°i�'oo�o"m s• -Obi "}'r' .fi her in it. tatively, "I'm going °Q9ip4,R.y , '0 0 P° a�0b°°m4 o rl o64AOP;mm'veo&t,i,to.;, w ,•�, • You go home," elle said authohe {t rn ri- AvTMym "°a ^� M1t Onw of^tb '1 to stop at t club " S8� N , ./4 '° bw 1�ne!4.40 Invest your spare time and very little money in these sheer, lacy doilies of a hundred -and -one uses. Crocheted doilies you can use as chair -sets, plate doilies, dressesr or buffet sets. Pattern 550 has direc- rts for doilies; stitches. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept., Room 421, '73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly pat- tern number, your name and ad - (hese, OE PEEL uZ T7ERf g VITAMIN TNt3l.CO FLEX s ,q Ali ,oRtrF STORES »iday'peda/. WAR STAMPS.254 at• year GROCERS' 11 But she leaned out, . calling to him. "Whom does he look like, Un- cle Herbert? I've got to know!" Headache Nothi ngismore depres- sing than headaches... 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Thus it happened that Teddy had to make occasional vis- its to the lawyer's office and take — usually — a lecture before he got his money. Nevertheless, he got the money, because under his grand- father's will, he had a right to a fairly large income, paid quarterly. HEADACHE POWDERS_ 14 * * * The day after Pani lunched with Mark happened to be quarter day and Teddy Banks called a taxi and drove down into the swarming street where Fosdick's hive rose imposingly. He found the old law- yer in his usual mood; he looked Teddy over with his lizard eye. "You've been gambling again," he remarked dryly, "drinking, too, I should imagine from your eyes. Of course you're after money." "I'm broke," he. admitted cheer- fully; "stony broke!" "Humph!' Fosdick began to turn over some papers. He had no valid excuse for holding up the legacy, hut he wished he had. 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