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is reported to have spread to the Corsican capital of Ajaccid, shown here.
TABLE TALKS I
alaue Ambews.
STEPPING ALONG — Keepihg in perfect step ds they go but
for their evening str011, are Kathy White drid her two
kittens, One of the nice thitigs about liVirfg in a small town,
MO 14-year-old Kathy', is that your tan' walk in the street
you ;sett like it.
•
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Calif.; the SD-2 Will be, launched like et rocket; needing ne airfield, it it scheduled or de,,
livery ih July,
'That 010-Time
Cotton Box!
For SeMe: time I'Ve had a note
here, ,reminding Me to WOW a
• pieee some time about the b*,
ton box, But I've never done it,
And 1. almost doubt if I do:. it
4(msn't• round itself out, some-
how,
You see,. the workaday me-
abanic.s of these dispatches fel, •
low an erratic-hut solemn sehe,
It's kind of hard to tell
-anybOdy how you write anything.
You can tell them how to make
a fair dill pickle, and it seems
CS if writing ought to be about
the same, You take _certain in-
gre.dients• and follow certain:
Vito,. and allowing for blending,
know-how, and touch, you come
op with a • result, good or bad.
You, ought to be able to do it
with a button box.
The way it works with me,
be hunting through the bushes
for an ax I lost oft' the sled last
winter, and I'll see a toadstool,
or oomething, and that puts me
In mind of something else, and
If 1 happen to remember what it
was I make a note when I get
home and stick it behind the
clock. Like this one here — it
says: "Who decided news should
be pronounced knee-youse?" This
is on the back of a feed bill, and
as growing mash was then sell-
ing for S2.37 a cwt, I guess that
note has been there a long time.
So has the one that says, "Sut-
ton box,"
What happened, or did not o
happen. with the button box was
a matter of jell. There wasn't
anything much to go with it, and
it remained a note and nothing
more. This is odd, because the
button box was an institution of
importance, and there ought to
be a great deal to write about it.
At least as much as goes with
gudgeon grease, soap, and buggy.
whips.
For a while I thought about
doing something with button
collectors. They are hobbyists.
They put their buttons on cards
and go to button club meetings
to swap and compare and make
speeches. But they are specialists,
and, take no particular notice of
the button box as an adjunct of
a former civilization. They for..
get that a button box was for
accumulating, not collecting.
Buttons were an asset, not a
treasure. The button box was
ror using, not for showing. I
think it's nice people collect but-
tons, but I. didn't want to • em-
phasize the modern aspects.
The economy was such in those
bygone days that buttons didn't
get discarded. They clipped them
off Aunt Min's silk shirtwaist
• pith the same frugal shears that
;lipped them off Uncle Aaron's
ong-handled underwear. And
they popped both kinds in the
same box to await the unfolding
,of the future, So, you would gain
on buttons because you never
,brew any away, and then from
time to time somebody acquired
iome new ones in a splurge of
style.
I suppose we ought to empha-
Jize the importance of buying
sew buttons then. I can 'remem-
ber how they were shown
Around,. still attached to their
mrci, and opinions were solicited
is to their suitability. The vvo-
ioen would hold the card against
the material, and debate if the
thread matched, The buttons at-
racted much attention even be-
ore the• garthent was cut out on
be big table,
The button box was notewor-
thy in itself, for it was one of
e containers no longer made.
ey were piggin, puncheon, or
firkin style, often wooden. Some
!times a former courtship was
remembered - when a chocolate
box survived far buttons. Tin
biscuit boxes were another fa-
mrite.
Then there was a dovetailed •
wooden box for horseshoe nails,
with a slide ;Over, T remember
One Pretty good fight over such
A box — Grandmother needed,
more room for buttons, and the,
went out in the shop and ac-
quired Grandfather's horseshoe.
nail 1244, It wasn't empty yet, so
she dumped the few nails m a
Maple sap bucket. Grandfather
found his all-important horse-
shoe nails unceremoniously loose,
and suspecting what had hap-
Peoed he went into the house
and dumped the buttons into a
vase and took his horseshoe nail
box back to the shop. Grand-
mother'shouldn't have done that.
The button box was a won-
derful tranquilizer for active
children who couldn't find any-
thing to do. You could spend
hours looking at buttons. One
trick was to fetch a length of
Aunt Lyddie and a needle, and
set the child to stringing all
those that were alike. It would
cheat the tedium of an afternoon
while the older folks visited.
You could dump the buttons out
on the rug and take either the
short string or the long string
tack,
Plain clamshell shirt buttons
were easiest to find, and you
could make a string six feet long.
Or you could go for fancy coat
buttons and hunt all afternpon
for the six you'd finally string.
This was your choice and when
you got all of one kind on a
thread you could tie them off
and put them in the '"other" but-
ton box. There was one box in
which all the buttons were
strung, you see, a kind of record
of Sunday afternoons.
I suppose we ought to mention,
to, the "twister." You could hunt
a big overcoat button from the
box and loop it on a string and
make a toy of sorts that must
have been a forerunner of the
gyroscope and other physical
formulae. On Hallowe'en you
could twist this button against
a neighbor's front window and
put the whole family up on the
parlor organ. It•was an infernal
racket.
I remember one twister that
went afoul in Susie Westlake's'
long red hair, and Susie's yell
of dismay haunts me even now
as it echoes down the corridors
of memory. Susie's hair was
yanked back so she couldn't shut.
her eyes for weeks. I didn't
know how to go about retrieving
my twister, and. I suppose Susie's
mother cut the button from
Susie's hair and then put it in
her own button box.
But there never seemed to me '
to be enough material there 'to
round out aa presentable piece,
and I've left the old button box
as was. We still have some but-
ton boxes, but times have led us
astray and we don't use them the
way folks used to. I don't have-
much use for a twister now, and
buttons probably no longer bear
their former relationship to the
economy. So, perhaps I'd better
toss this note away.—By John,
ould in The Christian Science
onitor.
(Editor's Note: We weren't
acquainted with "Aunt Lyddie"
either.0 John tells us the refer-
ence is to "Aunt Lydia's" thread,
a heavy, coarse product for rugs
and buttons and farm chores—
"A very old trade mark, but you
can still buy,it.")
BRAVES TO THE END
When Dick Culler was with
the Braves he seldom saw any
action. Sibby Sisti was the reg-
ular shortstop.
One day the Braves were los-
ing by a lopsided score and
manager Southworth, deciding to
rest Sisti, told Culler to warm
up and get into the game. Then,
as an afterthought, he asked
one of his coaches what the
score was. •
"It's 9-2," his assistant in-
formed him.
"Sit down, Dick," Southworth
ordered Culler. "We ain't giving
up yet."
Dream Movie Sent
Onlookers Asleep
When we dream, do we use
our sense of smell? Can we in
our dreams detect whiff of per.
fume, the aroma of a cigar, the
smell fo cooking?
Undoubtedly, repLv research
workers who have seen study-.
ing the dreams of a large group
of American men and women
over a Period oil many months,
The sense of smell, as well as
the senses of hearing and touch,
are often acute in dreams, they
report,
One woman, a musician, re:-
produced on a piano the notes
of a rare bird's song which she
had heard in a dream, Another,
an artist, declared that in a viv-
id dedam she saw lovely colours
that could not be seen during
waking hours,
Two other scientist dream.
investigators obtained with eine-
cameras a complete record of a
man's facial expressions during
a long sleep. This shows that
his face muscles were constantly
In action, suggesting speech,
pleasure and fear. Strangely
enough, when this film was
shown, several members _of the
audience found it very soporific
and dropped off to sleep.
Readers' letters recently re-
vealed interesting traces. For in-
stance, a man who had used
crutches for years frequently
won athletic contests in his
dreams. Other very curious
things are being discovered
about our dreams. Eating in
dreamland is a very unsatisfac-
tory affair, for although you
may dream that you are sitting
down to an appetizing meal, you
rarely eat in your dreams, and
even if you dO the food has no
taste.
"We can dance or jump and
we can write or play the violin
with ease in our dreams, but
when we dream that we are
fighting or kicking anyone, our
blows and kicks lack all force,"
says another' scientist. "It is as
if we tried to strike or kick
when immersed in water."
Women dream more vividly
and more often than men. Ro-
mantic girls dream a great deal
about men much older than
themselves. And more than
forty per cent. of the characters
who play prominent parts in
our dreams are invariably total
strangers.
LOVES TO EAT — Looking as
though he'll be busy for quite a
while, a resident of Rome,
Italy, settles down to a hearty
meal of "pane and vino."
Bread, wine and sunshine are
his happy combination.
LOST IN A MAYS
Baseball's latest hero, Willie
Mays, is a simple, lovable, com-
pletely unspoiled bundle of en-"
ergy on whom the Giants keep
a mighty careful eye. As one of
his teammates said, "Willie's
got a heart of gold but a head
full of helium,"
Be it as it Mays, Willie is no-
body's fool. In one crucial series
at Milwaukee last season, Willie
was tied up in the morning and
had trouble getting away to the
park, He hopped into a cab and
gain the driver orders to get
there with all possible speed.
The cabbie puttered with Veri.
bus gadgets, started and stopped
a few and finally got away.
Re crawled through downtown
Milwaukee, stopped for every
light, even though some of them
Were green, twisted and turned
around wrong corners, and fin-,
allY got to the'peelatied late for
Willie to get in arty practice.
Willie was net "You
krfoxVi" he told his robriiie, "I
think the driver recognized me."
Drive With :Cate
"Pudding" has always seem-
ed such a comical word to me
that as I received many recipes
for this dessert from readers, I
looked it up in my unabridged
dictionary. There are several
definitions, but the one that re-
fers to cookery is not a joke but
has dignified and definite mean-
ing writes Eleanor Richey John-
ston.
"Pudding," says Webster, "is
a dessert having flour or some
other cer e al as a foundation,
with added eggs, milk, fruit,
sugar, spices, etc.; as, a plum,
rice or bread pudding. Puddings
see in originally to have been
boiled in a bag or cloth, but are
now mor e often Steamed or
'baked."
*
One of the pudding recipe;
-we have received is a bread
pudding that is cooked in the
top of a double boiler. "It serves
four to six—if they're hungry
children, four," writes Mrs.
Harold D. Reed.
Glorified Bread Pudding
3 slices, any kind of bread,
broken
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup brown sugar
% cup seedless raisins
(optional)
2 eggs
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1% cups milk
Put broken bread an top of
double boiler and put butter on
top, then brown sugar and rais-
ins. In a bowl beat eggs, white
sugar, salt .and milk. _Four over
top of bread mixture, Cook over
boiling water for 1 hour. (Brown
sugar makes delicious caramel
sauce,) "Wonderful hot — still
good cold," Mrs. Reed says.
* 5f, ,,
With an eye to economy, Mrs.
Clara B. Simek suggests that
"next time you have your oven
on for a roast, the slow roasting
way — 300 degrees - 325 degrees
F. — make your dessert in the
,same oven, saving fuel and time.
This is a family recipe and has
been 'tested .by me many times
, . . it is simple and simply de-
'I icious."
Creamy Rice Pudding
3 Cups milk
% cup sugar
1/4 cup rice (scant)
-1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pinch salt
Butter a 1-quart baking dish;
pour all ingredients into it; stir
to dissolve sugar and place in
oven. Stir twice during cook-
ing 'period (2-21/2 hours), once
after first half hour arid once
again as it browns on top, Re-
move from oven and let stand
to cool slightly. Serve With
berries or a large spoonful of
raspberzy jam,
(Note: This is similar to my
own family recipe for rice pud-
ding, but I always serve it with
plenty of thick cream.)
a N
Some of the pudding recipes
received do not contain
"flour or some other cereal as
a foundation," as Mr.. Webster
thinks they should. Neverthe-
less, we do call them puddings,
One of these, from IVIrs, Edith
Moore, can be niarleat a prune
whip or Made with Apricots, or
peaches, or pineapple, "The fa.,
vourite desserts, at our house
are now fruit Whips— I Vary
them all the time," she writes,
"and serve with a custard'
sauce." —
Prune Whip
2 blips prune pulp
% cup, Sugar
hike, of iXt lerheit
egg whites, ,.beaten Stift
Soak prunes overnight;- cool;
slowly in Water to etieete rep
hibtie pits, and mash to maks
N10, Combine" ptutio, pulp; stt,
gat arid letribti juice. POW lq
beaten egg whites. Place in but-
feted casserole; place casserole
in pan Of water;. bake itit minutes
3sti degrees F.
Plnetippli 'Substi
tute 1 cup crushed pineapple for
1 cup prune pulp; reduce
amount of sugar to 2 table-
spoons,
Apricot variation: Substitute
2 cups apricot pulp for the
Prune pulp (make it the same
way). Omit lemon juice.
Peach variation: Substitute 2
cups peach pulp for the prune
pulp; add a pinch cream of
tartar to ,egg whites while beat-
ing.
4 q.
Custard Sauce
2 egg yolks, beaten
1/6 cup sugar (scant)
3/4 teaspoon vanilla (use almond
for apricot and peach whips)
Dash nutmeg
% cup milk
Combine egg yolks, sugar and
-milk; cook in top of double
boiler over hot water until mix-
ture coats a spoon. Add flavour-
ing. S e r v e over whip while
custard is still warm. Sprinkle
top with nutmeg.
*
Everyone seems to like lemon
pudding and a recipe has been
sent by Mrs. Winifred B.,King,
for a baked lemon dessert.
Queen of Lemon Puddings
1 cup• sugar •
5 tablespoons softened butter
1,4 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons sifted flour
3 egg yolks, well beaten
Juice and grated rind of
1 lemon
cups milk
3 .egg whites, beaten until
stiff but not dry
* * •
Cream together the sugar,
salt, and ,butter; add flour, egg
yolks, rind and juice of lemon •
and the milk; mix. Fold beaten,
egg whites into first mixture.
Place in slightly buttered cas-
serole; set in pan of hot water.
bake 1 hour at 300 degrees F.
Serves 6.
* *
"We have used this recipe
in our family for 75 years,",
writes Mrs. Aylmers Hanks
Bruce.
Woodford Pudding
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
% cup flour
1 cup jam
cup butter
3 teaspoons sour milk
teaspoon soda
Cinnamon and nutmeg to
taste•
Dissolve soda in sour milk.
Cream together the butter and
sugare add eggs, floUr, jam, and
milk. Seasen with• spices. Pour
in deep buttered Pen. Bake at
300 degrees F. . (It rises aria
.then drops). Serveauc6 with the fol-
lowing sauce.
Sauce
1 cup sugar .
1 tablespoon brown sugar
3/2 cup water
tablespoons butter
Heat, stirring, until all ingre-
dients are blorided.
"This is a pudding we enjoy
very mu h,, writes Mrs. Ger-
trude Sandbach,
Rhubarb Pudding
4 cups rhubarb cut in 14-Mob
pieces (don't peel)
cups dark brown sugar,
firmly packed
"!:` ctip white sugar
1 small can crushed pineapple,
partly drained
Mix well in glass casserole
cover and bake 30.40 minutes
at 350 degrees F. Do not stir,
but allow rhubarb to remain
whole. Juice should be thick
when taken from oven. Serve
.with cookies or cup cakes,
*
Apricot-Pineapple Ice
Warm summer days will soon
be here when refreshing, ice will
be a popular dessert. This re-
cipe serves 4. Force 1 cup un-
sweetened cooked dried apricots
through coarse sieve, Combine
with lh cup of liquid from cook-
ed apricOts and, 1/2 cup crushed
pineapple. Boil 'together 1 cup
sugar, 11/2 cups water and three
4-inch sticks cinnamon, for 5
minutes; remove from heat; re-
move cinnamon sticks and stir
in apricot mixture. Pour into
refrigerator tray; place in freez-
ing 'compartment set at coldest
point. Freeze until firm (stir
several times during freezing),
When firm, reset temperature
control to normal.
Beauty Secrets Of
Deborah Kerr-
It is often a problem finding a
diet that will keep you slim and,
at the same time, healthy and
energetic.
When I'm working on a pic-
ture I have to get up at five and
be at the studio anywhere from
6 to '73:0 'a.m., depending on the
amount of make-up, hairstyling
and wardrobe I need.
I had no sooner finished my
role in "Separate Tables" than
I had to leave for Europe to
make "The Journey" with Yul
Bry,nner. This, is all very excit-
ing, of course, but it is also hard
work, and it is taxing on one's
nerves, emotions and vitality,
Above all, a star needs physical
health.
I have to watch my weight so
that I remain the same every
day. Losing weight when, I'm in
the middle of playing a role
would be just as disastrous as
putting it' on.
This is the diet my doctor pre-
scribes for me:
Breakfast: orange juice, an
:egg, (me slice of toast, tea or
coffee.
Lunch: steak, or ground meat,
with a small' salad.
Evening meal: meat or 'fish
with, either two tables or one
vegetable and a green salad. No
potatoes or sauces, For dessert,
I have fruit or jelly, but no pie,
cake or cream.
To keep'up my vitality I drink
coffee with sugar between meals
and put extra salt on my meat
and vegetables,
This same diet, minus ' the
sugar and salt IS weight re-
ducing. But 'my aim is to keep
ray weight the same.
ISSUE 24 — 1958
Who Won The
Battle Of Britain?
invasion came close to BriOtilli
in the summer Of 1940. lout Hit-,
ler, marshaling strength, to over-.
whelm the island, never made
the big move, Why? London
newspapers have recently been
firing some heated answers at
that question — most aimed sine*,
cifically at a new British book
titled "The Silent Victory."
In these pages Duncan Grin-
nell-Milne, a 61,year-old writez
and businessman, states flatly
that the Royal Navy was chiefly
responsible for frustrating Hit,
ler's plan, Obviously, this thesit
runs exactly counter to the mor4,
usual view—by now almost I
legend in Britain—that the Bat-
tle of Britain was won and hence
the invasion was canceled, when
the heroic "few" of the RAF's.
hard-pressed fighter squadrong
refused to concede to littler thai
one important element; .Com-
mand of the air. The fact thai
Sir Winston Churchill himself
has given official and oratorical
finality to the RAF claim bothers
Grinnell - Milne not a whit.
Churchill, he says, "is not sup-
ported by naval evidence, either
British or German," some of his
arguments are "entirely inappli-
cable," others "Churchill him-
self has already contradicted,"
What gives Grinnell-Milnees
argument not only fascination
but weight is his thorough re-
search and documentation point-
, ing toward Hitler's neglect of
the naval arm. Germany, he
maintains, was supreme on land,.
strong in the air, but disastrous-
ly weak at sea. Furthermore; he
contends, despite Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goring's boast to the
contrary, strong German air-
power would never have been
able to compensate for the lack
of German seapower, particu-
larly when it came to protecting
the hundreds of Wehrmacht-
filled barges wallowing
across the Channel.
"There can be no question," he
says, "that had Sea Lion (Nazi
code name for the German inva-
sion) sailed, it would have been
reported and attacked either at
the moment of departure or on
passage, or else fatally mauled
upon the beaches and during the
despatch of reinforcements.
Nothing then available to the-
Germans on land, upon or under
the sea or in the air could have
prevented the irruption into the
crossing area of the Channel of
hundreds of armed vessels, of
in all some 60 destroyers and of
at least' eight cruisers backed.
on either flank by heavy- ships."
Reactions in the daily peess to
Grinnell-Milne's salty claim have
ranged, wide. A harmonious mid-
dle ground was located by The
Daily Mail which editorialized
that the. RAF won the victory
while "both services fought with
such fire and elan because they
shared the unbreakable spirit of
a people who refused (to sur-
render)."
Perhaps the most reasonable
military rebuttal to the hie*
came from The Sunday Times,
which powerfully, if not con-
vincingly, restated the ',case for
the RAF. "Grinnell-Milne is
right when he says that naval
weakness made invasion diffi-
cult for the Germans, It forced
• them to modify their plans. It
might have made, a landing dis-
astrous anyway, though that
was a .question not put to the
test. The fact remains that (tae
Germans) were prepared, no.
matter with what reluctance on
Admiral Raeder's part, to make
the attempt if they gained the
stipulated air superiority. Thanks
to. Fighter Command they did
not gain it. Historians are surely`
right ,when they givb credit to
those who won the battle rather
than to those who might have
won ii,"
HEARTFELT
The small daughter o.t the
house, by way of punishment
for a minor Offence,. was made
to eat her dinner alone at as
small table in the corner of the
dining-room.
The rest of the family paid her
no attention until they heard het-
delivering grace over her own.
meal with these words: Piqhaillt
thee, Lord, for preparing a table
for me in the presence of rilihd,
enemies."