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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1951-05-02, Page 9Chevrolet Trucks *Reg'd Trade &ark Same- • How the word kitty came t9 be ap- plied to the bOX into which such Money is placed takes as back to the year 1400, The word "'kit" was used then to signify a vessel case, basket, or other eontainer, It also meant the contents of a case, such as a soldier's kit, meaning his equipment. or outfit. The song lyric "pack up your troubles In your old kit-bag" is an illustration of this usage. Some authorities See- guest that there may be some connec- tion between "kitty" as used in,, card- games and "ldst", an eld Seettish word which Meant a "chest," partic- ularly in the sense of a money box. Musicians have long been using the kitty principle, often exhibiting one to get tips and refreshment money from patrons of the places they play, The expression "feed the kitty" stems from both these uses of a word that is almost 600 years old, Here is THE GIST of the English- man who charted the sciences and shaped much of contemporary think- ing, Sir Frances Bacon, Born in 1561, Bacon died in 1626, after a long, and eventful life. There are countless people today who believe that Bacon was the author of Shakespeare's plays, and there is a great deal of evidence to support this view. Bacon was a philospher and writer. His essays, studied at our most ad- vanced schools, are filled with short pithy sayings which have become pop- ular mottoes and household words. In his philosophical , writings Bac- on's one aim was to seek the truth, Proposing new scientific methods for the advancement of man's knowledge, his writings inspired the formation of the Royal Society, the formal lead- er of much Elizabethean thought. Bacon was a statesman as well as a philospoher. Trained as a lawyer, he took an active part in affairs of state and rose to he Lord Chancellor of England under Queen Elia.ibeth. Al- though his intentions were' honest, he was accused and convicted of accept- ing bribes, but was later pardoned by the king. Whether he did or did not write the plays ascribed to Wil- liam Shakespeare, Bacon still has a high place in English letters, for it was his influence that did so much to advance contemporary man's think- ing and way of life. And that's THE GIST OF IT for this time, Jeanne Lambert's Tea Time Talk Today I talked to a tea taster and watched him at his work. Did you ever wonder what qualifications a tea taster must have—well, here they are! An expert tea taster,can identify between 1,500 and 1,600 different teas telling where the particular tea is grown, what variety it is, at what season of the year it w—a4plucked, how it was processed, how much it should cost, and how it should be blended. All this is done by the use of his highly discriminating senses of taste and smell. And still there's more than this to being a tea taster, he must know the trend of the world tea markets and have a keen business sense which enables him to buy his tea when the markets are right. It's no wonder it takes years and years to become an expert at this art. Blending Some of the characteristics which make up a good tea are flavour and aroma, pungency and strength and body. Teas from any one garden may possess many fine qualities but lack others; rarely is the tea from any one district a perfect "self-drinker." And to make it even more difficult for the tea taster, the quality from any one garden continually varies with wea- ther conditions and the season of plucking. Teas, then, are blended to produce a nice balance of the desir- able properties, to produce a blend at a stable price and to suit the water and the taste of the consumer in the district in which the tea is to be sold. The teas which go into a blend are carefully tasted and then a miniature blend is produced which, in turn, is tasted. The proportions of each tea used are carefully noted and if the blend proves satisfactory, the details are sent to the warehouse where the blend is prepared in bulk. Two Ways to Bigger Egq fro% A GOOD RANGE a046--> RO6 0• -Giviv --%"--111,511A14 e6116 114 cogrAIM" rilf '`6014/71iO4' rAerM"' vo••• 4igik 1161. 41. isrin into Wm wig id... Howson & Howson, Wingham Belgrave Co-op, Belgrave Ross Anderson, Belgrave Bluevale Milling Co*, Bluevale J. C Schorbach, Teeswater THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES k4V.M. 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At that time, when. the world was bigger than it is today because of the later. advances in transportation and communication, the people of Canada had very little interest in the war 11 1 1 1 1 11 • 11 1 01 1 •11 M1 1 •1 23 2 1 1 1 11 1 1 •1 1 1 5 11 •1 1 MI I II I IN I MI l i 1 11 1 1 a a a a a a a a a DT/ two events, however, did strike the Imagination .of Canadians and were much discussed. One of these was the great suffering of British seitlica in action and the resultant work. of Florence Nightingale who overcame opposition, and prejudice, to establish well-equipped hospitals staffed with women trained in nursing. And the Crimean War also intrig- ued Canadian imagination because of the. famous "Charge of the Light Bri- gado." The leader of this ride and the first man to roach Russian lines was Jarnes Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of Cardigan. He was an English major general at the time of the her- oic engagement, which may or may not have been a tacticalomistake. However, the bravery of Lord Cardi- gan and his men made him ,the hero of the hour. It is not known how many things were named in his hon- or, but one thing bearing his name that has survived is the knitted wool- len jacket, still known as the "cardi- gan," In certain .card games the "kitty" is a pool of stakes into which each player puts a share of his winnings. Usually the kitty is used for some special purpose, such as paying for refreshments, or the expenses of the WARREN HOUSE Furnishings DRAPERY SLIP COVERS VENETIAN BLINDS LAMPS - CHINA GIFTWARE OCCASIONAL FURNITURE C. C. McKIBBON Phone 475 Wingham III I WINGHAM MOTORS Telephone 139 Chevrolet, Oldsmobile Cars. ,,, !!iwmsiAliqMitommotAtwow4tillemoit "The Gist of It" TA.SITINTG And now get down to the actual business of tea tasting. Before tasting the dry leaves are examined for twist and general appearance of the leaf. To prepare a brew for tasting, the ten taster places a quantity of tea equal in weight to a dime—about 1110 of an ounce, in a six ounce cup. Boiling water is poured over the leaves and they are infused for six minutes. The spent leaves are separ- ated from the liquor and examined for colour and aroma. After allowing the brew to cool a little, the tea is tasted, without the addition of milk and sugar, The taster sips a little of the liquor from a spoon with a loud sucking noise which is caused by an attempt to distribute the tea all over his palate. He rolls it around in his mouth and then spits it into a special tea taster's spittoon. Were he to swal- low the tea it might affect his sense of taste, as a tea taster may taste as many as 500 teas in one day, From this evaluation he decides what teas would make a satisfactory blend and the process as explained above is fol- lowed, A taster's discrimination makes it possible for him to match blends from year to year even though some of the teas previously used have varied in quantity and quality. Because of this seasonal variation, many packers use as many as twenty-five to thirty teas in any one blend, so that one or more of the different teas used may be omitted or replaced without the change being noticable, So, thanks to the taster's skill, we can buy our favorite blend of tea week after week, without fear of sudden changes in taste or quality caused by vagaries of climate. fi Iso ayallnblo in Rib Tread ►tun:liar! Tougher. Longer VVearin it - , \' .s1 A # d CRAWFORD MOTORS ArarTtrargighier 4.4:701 , algrAW. 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