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How To Make
Bottle "Pottery" i'!!'14.01:9"
3 tahlesPnells Pure #naple
Unit)
11/2 teaspoons salt
• teaspoon pepper
teaspoon dry mustard
1 clove garlicnpaineed
(optional)
cloeingbginwellintCgredients with ro-
t.arY beater, until thoroughly
beetled,
,
YOU CUD TITLE THIS 'BOVINE CONTEMPLATION'—
Grade A appreciation of art is expressed in the attitude of this cow as she gets in the m000d
of the Geauga County Artists, Assn. annual Barn Art Show. Some 15,000 person saw the show.
Proceeds of several thousand dollars went to the Geauga Historical Museum.
Saved From Gallow his father had been: but, a much
greater one.
Yet first it was necessary VS,
make the acquaintance of the most
powerfulApersons- in the-land., •
The leader of the Smart Set in
the Paris of that day, was the gay,
,witty, good-natured and dissolute
Duke Philip II of Orleans, nephew
of the King of France.
-Soon news of the extraordinary
Scots' gambler who had descended
on Paris in order to win a fortune
reached the Duke's ears. He sent'
500 livres .to 10,000 livhes (about
32,000). And when, on Jenuary let,
1720, five years only after he had
returned' to Fiance, Law"declared a.
dividend of forty per cent., the
shares rocketed to the 'fantastic
ceiling 'Of 18,000 Ewes.
But the crash was near. It came
when those Who had made fortunes
out of the rise wished to cash
their "paper." The bottom dropped
out of the market, there 'Was a run
on the bank, financial collapse, and
national panic. The Regent could
MAMA ICE CREAM FIZZ
let cup maple syrup
1/2 cup -cream
1 cup cracked ice
44 pint vanilla ice cream
1 small bottle charged water
Mix maple syrup with cream,
add ice, and shake well, Pour
into glasses. Place a seopp of
ice cream in each glass and fill
with charged water, Makes four
servings. Chocolate and nut ice
cream may be substituted for
vanilla.
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MAPLE CORN MUFFINS
11/2 cups flour
% cup cornmeal
3 teaspoons baking powder
Vs teaspoon salt
2 eggs
% cup milk
1/2 cups pure maple syrup
cup melted fat
Sift hour, cornmeal, salt, and
baking powder together three
times. Beat eggs; add milk and
maple syrup. Add dry ingre-
dients. Add melted fat. Put in
hot greased muffin irons. Bake
20 minutes at 425° F. Makes 12
muffins.
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Fussy Sleepers
Bottles, empty but too, pretty to
threw out, are cifileeting duet on
the top shelf, of many kitehett ettp-
:board,
An elegantly plumed bottle can
easily he transformed into whe*,
passes for decorative heed-meds
pottery. All you need is lit-
tle paint and plastic 'Weed, This
putty like materiel is used. for
filling enteka toid,holge in wood and
can be obtained from any pitint
dealeri, hardware or variety etore.
The only tool- you geed to make
your own "pottery" is a knife,
The trick is to plaster the bottle
with the plastic wood, Use only
little et it time and elikootli it op
with a knife. Don't worry About
getting It too smooth — half the
beauty of this pseudo-pottery is its
roughness,.
When the whole bottle is covered
from base to neck with an eves
coat, let it stand for en hour c)
so to harden.
While it is drying, you can pre
pare paint for decorating the het
tie. Any odds and ends of color.
and mixtures of paint can be used
for this jolt, but the earthy colon
— browns and greens — are Most
effective, Just dab away to yowl
heart's content — any color you)
fancy decrees. You can add "an'
tique" interest by letting some of
the paint drip down the side in
the vase, Of course, if you don't
like the results, yOu can easily rein
edy the situation by starting ogait
ivith a fresh cent.
It's remarkably easy to aehlevi
an effective transformation. As
conversation-piece, bottle "pottery'
is unexeelled!
Just a word of Advice — plastb
wood sticks to the fingers. Thit
can be prevented by using a Mini
cream called "Pro-Tek" (availabil
in the Same store) white, keep.
paint — and plastic wood — fron
sticking to the fingers. Nail polish
remover is effective for the clean.
up job.
The sugar maple trees., native.
9 the Furth. Arnericatt centirt-
int and found nowhere else in
he world, no sooner yield their
tweet crop each early spring
Wan grocery stores around the
tountry fill their shelves with
fresh etc*.
Folks who live in syrup-pro-
ducing Areas have long been
familiar with a wide variety of
uses for this flavorsome syrup.
To educate the rest of us, the
I(10% Pure Maple Syrup In-
stitute collected some of the
best recipes. they could find this
past spring, The results show
that our maple sYrUp can and
should be used for more than
waffles.
Here are just a few of maey
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MAPLE SUGAR TWISTS
2 cups all purpose flour
1,4 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 pound hotter
Milk
Maple sugar
Sift flour into bowl; add aalt
and baking powder. Mix well
into this % of the butter which
is at room temperature but not
Melted. Wet with sufficient milk
to make into a biscuit dough.
Spread, on a slightly floured
board and pat down with fin-
gers to about % inch thickness.
(Do not use rolling pin.) Melt
the rest of the butter and
spread on dough. Sprinkle on
this, to about 1/2 inch thickness,
maple syrup tub sugar or that
grated from. a cake of maple
sugar. Roll up tight and cut
crosswise,' lay on a buttered tin
and bake at 400° F. Serves 4.
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MAPLE FRENCH DRESSING
1 cup salad oil
4 cup vinegar The bill .was steep and the loaf
heavy.
The doakey did its best, but al
last it stopped and would not budge
another inch,
Tile driver saw a man passing,
"Excuse me," he said, "but could
you help me to get this load to the
top of the hill? It's too Much for;
one donkey."
If Only there woo* opiate truth in
the old saying. that "mu .4; brain
food," what a nation of qttia
we would bet For, the fact of the
matter Is, Canadiens are canes
more fish these days.
A connotation of Onetime, Is re-
placing, the ',peer man's Mei that
used to be associated with fish tied
fish dishes. This. Is reflected .not
may la the Increased Canadian con-
suntialoli but also in the seafood
specialty restaurants which have
sprupg up in most large cities.
Annual, per capita, consumption
of fish increased four pounds dur-
ing the period 1044-154, raising the
rate from fLS to 13,S pounds, More-
over, the fishing industry hopes to
boost this figure considerably over
the next generation.
Perhaps the most specteeular ac•
ceptanee of a fish product is the
overnight rise to fish sticks. Sales
in Canada last year exceeded
5,000,000 pounds and estimates for
the United States for 1055 run as
high as 80,000,000. Xneouraging
from the Canadian point of view
is the fact that a large pert of this
-volume is represented by Canadian
fish supplied to U. S. processors in
block form.
-A peculiarity of fish sticks is.
that the characteristic flavor Of
fish is so modified' that the food
appeals to people who don't ordin-
arily care for fish. Between the
bread crumbs, cooking ell and the
seasoning it hardly seems to mat-
ter what fish Is used. -
The industry believes that Cana-
"' diens will eat more fish if they are
assured of at product of consistently
superior quality and freshness.
Hence, the attention being paid to
this aspect of consumer require-
ments.
In the early stages of fish mar-
keting the most critical phase now
is stowage time at sea. The Atlan-
tic fisheries scientists feel that the
most important thing being done to
raise the quality of the fish in
retail stores is to have a higher
percentage of better quality fish ar-
rive at the fish plant. In all of the
research board's work the underly-
ing thought has been to diseourage
holding the fish aboard, trawlers •
or fishing schooners for any per-
iod longer than absolutely es-
sential
Homemakers, too, should remetu-
ber that most fish is tastier -when
cooked just as it ^lines from the
water, It Isn't n^sessary to tend-
erize fish or to cook'it in a slow
oven tei bring out the best in flavor.
A few minutes in a hot oven or a
quick fry in deep fat is the best
advice ,to follow 'in cooking fish,
Its flavor is inherent in its fresh-
ness end tenderness is natural, not
induced.
Nevertheless, the development of
packaged frozen foods offers the
brightest new opportunity for the
industry. It permits properly 'fro-
zen and handsomely packaged sea-
food products to enjoy the same
economy of mast • distribution as
as related frozen food items. Fish
and chips is the, newest dish to
join such innovations as fish sticks
and fish cakes.
To 'retain' the quality of 'frozen
fish, Packagh4,protectien must be
.provided. le must -„guard against'
moisture losses as well as the loss
of vitamins and volatile flavor.
It must prevent exposure to the
air which results in oxidation, ran-
cidity and changes in color and
flavor. Good packaging can guard
against these harmful physical '
phanges.
"You don't look as tired as I ,
thought you would," remarked
a little boy to a bride during
the wedding reception.
"Really, Richard? Now, why
do you think I should be looking
tired?"
"Well, I heard someone say
you had been running after Mr.
Black for months and menths."
HERE'S 'HOW WE SEE OUR WORLD — Newschart, above, shows
how the sight of Americans, stacks up as expressed in national
averages. Data are from American Optometric Association,
which points*,out that those persons suffering from uncorrected
eye problems and others peering about with obsolete or im-
proper corrections, make up a whooping 38 million who need
vision care. Typical Wearer of glasses has his eyes examined
once every 34-months, says the Association, as compared to its
recommended yearly examination for children and' once-every-
24-months inspection for adults.
First thing attractive, twenty-
five-year-old Miss Olga Deter-
ding does when she is preparing
to make one of her frequent
tours of Europe from her home
in Paris is to see that her fa-
votinite pillow is packed with
Set. luggage.
It . is about twelve inches
square and encased in satin, and
lace. "It's really my old pram
pillow," she revealed the other
day. "I have had it ever since
I was a baby and somehow I just
can't sleep without it."
She is not the only person
who has found that the choice
of just the right kind of pillow
is important for sound sleep. A
famous actress confesses that for
years her constant companion
on theatrical tours was a feath-
er-filled pillow, one of her wed-
ding presents. She, regarded it
as a kind of lucky mascdt and
once calculated that she had tra-
velled 65,000 miles with it.
Soft down pillows are speci-
ally popular today, but some
people, dislike soft Pillows of any
kind. An "American bishcip who
died some years ago used IC
•stone for his pillow for more
than fifty years. Wherever he
travelled, to preach, he carried
the stone with him. in a sped
—alrY-made satchel arid' used to
say: "I owe my robust health to
my hard pillow." But once he
got to sleep quicker than he
expected—he dropped his head
on the stone pillow and knocked
himself out.
Many sufferers from insomnia
use pillows filled with soporific
herbs to Woo sleep. The herbs—
sag% thyme, rosemary; lavender,
peppermint and elder—give off
a subtle perfume which is said
to iriduce sleep.
NOT SO RARE — Silver gibbon
who m akes'his home at the
Rare Bird Farm near Miami,
apes humans who get all
tangled up in their work. The
faceful of threads he's trying
to unravel are shreds of coco-
nut fiber. Any day now, he'll
crock the tough nut he's been
working on' and get at' the meat
of the problem. Drive With Care
4,
BRANDED — A four-foot-tall
emperor penguin proudly shows
off the "USCG" painted on its
feathers at McMurdo Sound in
the Antarctic. There's no danger
of popping off the buttons on
his vest — they're painted ion,'
too. The penguin was recruited
os a mascot by crewmen of the
Coast Guard icebreaker, East-
wind, Which was unloading sup-
plies during "Operation Deep-
freeze."
not protect LaW from the fury of
his enemies.
With nothing but a few poSses-
Siens—whiph included the diamond
ring that Priecees Anne had given
him--Law' slipped Out Of France
only a step ahead 'Of a Mob' which
would surely have lynched him,
had they caught up with him.
There were offers from other
rulers—among them the Tsar—to
set Law up in business again. But
he had grown dispirited, and he
wandered, about Europe, playing
the tables for just enough to get
by on.
Yet, thotigli hundreds had been
reboot when LaW's bank and coloo-
iring companies crashed, the
French colonies that the gambler
had founded Were still thriVing.
The Regent .of France had lost
000,000 to Law. Nearly a century
later, another Frenth ruler needed
Money for the State.
So that other ruler, NapOldon,
sold the empire that LaW had
fin-aided. Louisiana was transferred
to the United'States for 820,000,000
in gold.
France had had a good return
for the $t)0,000 that the Regent had
gambled, away a century before.
Without r e t i r i n g, the ,jury
brought in a verdict of wilful mur-
der against the-elegant young man
in the dock.
Not one of the jurymen belonged
to London's Smart Set, and to them
there was no difference at all be-
tween killing an enemy in a wit-
nessed duel—as Law had done -•;•
or waylaying him on a dark night.
So John Law—" Beau " Law —
was found guilty. The handsomest,
boldest gambler in Town was taken
off to Newgate prison, there to
await his last journey — to the
scaffold at Tyburn. "
Locked in his bleak. chill, evil-
smelling cell, he had ample oppor-
tunity to reflect with despairing
bitterness on the appalling mess that
he had managed to make of his
life.
Still 'only twenty-three, John
Law Ilea been born to great ad-
_ vantages. His father was a wealthy
Edinburgh banker, and John had
been left a fortune when the father
had died seven years earlier. Yet
though Law had come to London
only when he was eighteen, he had
got through his fortune so rapidly
that, no more than three years lat-
er, he was forced to part with hL$
ancestral estates of Lauriston,
Even so, he had been living com-
fortably for the past two years
on his winnings at the gaming
table.
And now . .he was awaiting
death at the hands of the public
executioner.
The tragedy C the situation lay
In the fact that Law was no or-
' dinery fop, dissolute though lie
was. As a boy he had shown an
astonishing aptitude for mathe-
matics, and even after having
plunged Wildly4,, into the riotous
nightlife; of London, Law had still
found time to ponder on the econ-
omic problems of the day, and
to write pamphlets advocating
serious measures of commercial' and
financial reform.
iteilut.g.SeotSinitii;••,:.Ptitteraott,
had just persuaded the Engish
government to let him set up the
Bank of England. There were many
Law.inelaitieti—:ho thought that
John Lait finaheial
brain eriTei!sinAnJhe'.'fitmous RObert
PatterSen.-
•:„The difference 'Was that Patter-
son had not wasted his Money and
his, reputation in ScitudalouS liVing.
Law, though, could look back on
his Wasted life, and realize that hp
had used his Matheinatital genies
only for working Out gambling
systems. He had not been unlucky
at the tablet, as soon as he had
begun to apply System to his play.
Bite, the young man thought ileS-
pairingly, he. Could surely have
done better with his life..
"If I. ever get out 'of here," he
murmured, "I'll see that things
are different t"
NOW the bold gambler was to get
the greatest chance of his life,
One night, a womaa, heavily
veiled, Was admitted into his tell;
There Was time for her only to
preae his bawl, and to point to the
open door, She did not dare to
speak, test the jailer shilotild recog-
ttiee the voice of Princess Mule. —
afterwards Queen Atitie Of Great
Britain — who had a Weakness not
only for gambling but for gamblers
as Well.
LaW did not hesitate: lie paused
Jed long enough to take a valuable
diatimind ring that the Prim:nee
paned off her Linger, and 'Intim
her heed briefly to his lips', he
strode out of the door,
A. eiteriage Wets waiting to take
him to Greenwich, and at Greell,
Vetch Mire a yacht was ready to
Salt
Ivy the 'evening of the following
John teen his only capital
ditlitiond ring, Was safe' in telland,
Ete a lerte itionth8 LAW studied
the baulking system of the' Dutch
merchants and goveriiiiient, evtit
While he Pei-totted his analysis of
the tatiotta gate Of delete- TI MM:
With it fair Shill of motley, he set
Out for kakis — eft that tittle the
greatest Jetty in the World
Lent had Make his
piariss tie iitiSs gain' earner
not tiS a gitiishitr or AS a foltr but
its an eeonnellitt,
Ile wished' to' be banker:, au
Ha rdtintes
The Iiotarihn niagaz the has some
fine liliilosoliliy for business and
sales people. s
effect Hint depressive talk nee,
It begins with the Frehell artist
who eat sipping his ivied, in a cafe,
swing a iteadllite "Hard Tithes
Coining" in A hews-paper on Ms
table, he canceled his order toe it
second bottle Of in and eXpittliied
wiiri "ttird tithes?" the elife
owner. "Then my Wife Meet not
order that silk flues,!''
'‘Inted times?'' said the' OW-
hitiken "That I Meat not rethedel
my shop."
"liatd litrie0" Sighed the tote
trader, "then I eitilitet heed' toy
Wife's Portrait painted,"
After receiVitig tile letter froth
the toiltracter dandling' the order
td_ Paint his wife's pertrititi the
Mile( went briek te the trife end'
Dieted up the: Millie neWatiiitier he
had read' there befete Studying
it Mord etosety, he forbid that it
WAS two Tears' 'old
for Law and,. during the course
of One year, lost no less than
$500,000 'to the elegant, polished
youtii Scottish "Iiitren," as Law
now deSeribed himself.", • •
A little later,,'LeW Wits 'expelled
At twenty- feet hours' notice by"
the old, bigoted lung' Louis XIV.
But Law knew that he would not
to Viiit'Ione before the King
and Duke Philip since the
'heir to the throne was mere child-
-would assume absolute porer
Regent of France. •
The time of Waiting Law spent hi
,Scbtland, publishing works on bank
reform, and, as aeon As newt of
Louis XlV's death reached —
Edinburgh, he Went post - liege
to Prance.
Duke Philip Welcomed hiM with •
open arms.
"If your. Royal Highness will
give nie .perinission to lint seine Of
my financial scheines into opera-
tion," said LAW, "I Will not only
enable your Royal HightieSs to re-
Cover his gambling losses I. will
reek& France the, richest and Moat
libieethil. (toiletry hi the world.
Impoverished by the long wars
With. the rest of the Eittoptail
states, Fratite needed help badly,
The Regent lost no tiMe' in niakiitg
peace with England„ Then he iii=
vited. taw to set about enriching.
reined Preece,
Law got to work uicltly. First.
he established a bank end gave
France the first banknotes that the
country had ever bad. (The iteg ,
eat'S losses had peoVided the dna-
tal for the blink]) Then, the
hank Was firmly established; Law
Went ii101. the More ambitimia
business of empire-handing,
13ticized by the itegenti.Laiv
finieded the Preheis West bidet.
Company, rind acrlttkreti sovereign •
rights over a Vain area Of North
Arnerlclt Louisiana, and the- en-
tire iraiteyA: of the three great
3 ivets, the Tillifaisaiptiii. the Miseetiti
Slid the
Soon the Preneh Africa Ooliipiiiiy
•titathePretielt find Nitta Cottinaiiy
WOO added to. titni'V. "eittetion,'
lie Witii made- tomptralide, .genotat-
nt the. Militias— l'filitincellor of
the, .amt ii inatritlia
The public ,etibeeribed.
Hf5Vatietie eilleepriSeS, and the
'bar& Mee .ittid edge VOW.-
tbifiikii 11, ;eelie of theft issue the
t able' •-of eiteh Shiite lied Hen
LUCKY 1'O BE ALIVE -Anatole nykov; 9, wlia suffered a broken
thin in -etiVe4in which tlUltive4 the lives of silt C141dren is
terniorted b deuede Collor who first discovered t40 tragedy,
and On Ltidetitified Were 4Aect under
ions of: 'earth while pluyllig- ti deep excCi"Veit d' in
aideklyhe N.
Adis. ELSA JENKINS gets sortie pointerS 'on the'heindlitig Of the
new ship Bonovista from Captain A, 0. Elliott, While en a four
Newfoundland to assertible- tin exhibit of handicrafts fdr taps
foie 4latitseialiart National #xlillaitiOni