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Once in a while I get a letter
from somebody aslcing for recipes
that give larger ,quantities, suit•
able for serving at a church or
community Mistier,
Well, then, here is such a
recipe, for a plain but very good
'white cake, Which will cut up
into no less .than 54 two-inch
squares. Please note that, like
the two other cake recipes that
follow it, the shortening used is
bard. These should be welcome
s some of your homes, where
yeti have your own "home -
own lard,
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WHITE CAKE FOR >iO
144 e, lard
tls/e e. milk
$N tap. vanilla flavoring
S1/2 o, sake flour
23 tblsp, baking powder
21 tsp. salt
334 o. sugar
5 eggs
Add 5 tblsp. of the milk, and
Ilse vanilla flavoring to the lard.
Whip until light and fluffy, or
about 2 minutes with electric
mixer at medium speed. Sift
dry ingredients together; add to
.lard along with 35 of the milk.
Beat until smooth, about 4 min-
utes with electric mixer at
medium speed. Add remaining
milk and eggs. Beat until smooth.
Pour into greased and floured
123/4 x 18 -inch pan. Bake in mod-:
*rate (350°)'oven 35 to 40 min-
utes. Makes 54 2 -inch squares.
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MOCHA FROSTING
34 e, butter
1 egg yolk
2 tblsp. strong coffee
2 squares unsweetened choco-
late, melted'
.234 c. confectioners', sugar
Cream -butter; add' egg yolk,
,coffee And chocolate. Mix well.
Gradually a d d confectioners'
sugar. Blend until smooth. Frosts
two 8 -inch layers.
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WHITE. CAKE
1 c. milk
3i e. lard
1 tsp. vanilla flavoring
1 tsp. almond flavoring
23/4 c. sifted cake flour
3 tsp. 'lizldng'powder
1 tsp. salt
11/2 e. sugar
$ egg whites
Add to the lard 2 tblsp, of the
milk, vanilla, and almond darn-
ing, Whip until light and fluffy,
or about 2 minutes wilth your
electric mixer set at medium
speed, Sift dry ingredients to-
gether. Add to lard mixture
with ys Of the milk. Beat until
smooth, or about 3 minutes with
electric mixer at medium speed!.
Add remaining milk and unbeat-
en egg whites, Beat until smooth,
Pour into twogreased and flour-
ed 3 -inch :cake pans. Bake in
moderate (350°) oven 25 to 30
minutes.
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Flexor Variations:
Substitute 34 tsp. crushed car-
damon seeds for vanilla flavor-
ing. Substitute 1 tsp. crushed
anise seed for vanilla flavoring.
For a pistachio flavor, add 3's
tsp. lemon flavoring.
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For Gold Cake:
Use white cake recipe, substi-
tuting 3 unbeaten egg yolks for
the 3 egg whites, and 3 tsp.
lemon flavoring for the almond
end vanilla.
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CHOCOLATE CAKE
1 e, lard
it tblap, milk
2 a. sifted cake flour
94 0. cocoa
11 o. sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
s/4 tsp. salt
35 tsp. soda
1 a sour milk
S eggs •
3 drops red food coloring
Whip the Ii,rd and 2 tblsp.
sweet 'milk together, until light
and fluffy, (about 2 minutes with
electric mixer at medium speed).
Sift dry ingredients together.
Add to lard together with ifs of
the sour milk. (To make sweet
milk sour, 'subtract 1 tblsp, milk
and add one tblsp. vinegar,)
Beat until smooth or 1 -minute
with electric mixer at medium
speed. Blend in eggs, remaining
• milk, and food coloring, Beat 1
minute. Pour into two greased
and floured 8 -inch cake pans.
Bake in moderate (350°) oven 25
to 30 minutes.
C
NSERVATlON OF LIFE
Not much is demanded of us in conserving life and health:
merely that we apply to our lives the ideal we mentioned in con-
nection with conserving natural resources: use without using up.
We have about six times more of everything—heart, lungs, kidneys
—than we need; all we are charged with is keeping them in trim,
Right here is the heart of our trouble. Time and again some-
one will say to you that he has just finished reading such and such
a book, or a Monthly Letter, and "it makes sense.” Yet you will
observe no change in his life. We are all too apt to see how advice
applies t0 others, and ignore its application to ourselves.
There is no magic about conservation of life and health.
Disease is not caused exclusively by gremlins, germs and viruses.
Some of it can be averted if only we give over our neglectful
carelessness and take some positive actions. One of these is to
have a family doctor and see h`hn for regular check-ups, thus
spotting troubles before they blaze into emergencies.
Obey the rules, remembering that some of them are different
for various people. Tonics that are good for everyone are hope,
joy and contentment; all of us need good diet and lively interests;
but special conditions may prompt the physician to say to one
man: "avoid hard physical exertion," and to another "abstain from
alcohol," and to a third "increase your sleep period and take a
short rest at mid-day."
The great majority of us can enjoy good health if we will co -
Operate with nature. No ivory-towerism or hand -washing indif-
ference to the consequences of our health. We must close our ears
to the siren voices which say everything is going to be all right,
and do something, instead, to bring about and maintain that greatly -
to -be -desired state,—From "The Monthly Letter:' of The Royal
Bank 65 Canada. .
Ms ening Post -- Patrolman Raymond Beardsworth receives in.
struct!onsfrom headquarters via this. newly developed radio re.
seiverh' It is call'od the "cigaret pack" radio and was developed
by Clifford F. Fraser, police communications supervisor. The re-
*elver is operated by subminiature tubes from low battery cur.
rent and reception is good pp to 40 miles away from the trans -
miner, It is not designed for two-way transmission.
Lost !Key To Safe,
Made A Fortune
NO doubt at some time you
have lost a key --and had all
the subsequent bother and fuss
Of replacing it again, But can
you visualize yourself losing a
key and thereby winning a for-
tune
in 1900, two Polish brothers
living in Paris placed securities
worth $3,000,000 in a Paris safe,
so constructed that it could be.
opened only when five keys were
turned simultaneously. A lawyer,
two trustees and the two
brothers kept One key each—for
safety,
Then, in 1914, when war seem-
ed inevitable and stocks• and
shares began to tumble, the two,
brothers decided to sell Out.
But one of the trustees had lost
his key. A message was sent
immediately to a London firm
of safe-breakers to send an ex-
pert to force the safe open, but
-by the time he arrived and did
the trick the war was on—and.
the securities had doubled them-
selves in value.
The brothers sold out and
netted a cool $3,000,000 profit—
thanks to a lost key.
Sometimes, tragedy threatens
when a key is lost, as in the case
of two Liverpool typists, who
were locked in a strong -room •
by mistake. Some. time elapsed
before they were `missed, then
faint cries were heard issuing
from the strong -room. A search
was made for the key, but in
vain. The local fire -brigade was
hastily summoned and using oxy-
acetylene appliances it managed
to free the suffocating girls —,
only just in time!
But sometimes key victims are
not so fortunate. A story illus-
trating this happened some years•
ago on Lough Boder, on the
River Shannon. Two woodmen,
both non -swimmers, saw a boat
with a solitary occupant 'ever -
turn in rough water, and heard
his cries for help. The men in-
stantly' rushed to a near -by.
boathouse for a boat, but -un-
happily the key could not be,
found, It had been lost the day
before . When, eventually, a
search was made in another boat,
it was too late ..
Sometimes, however, a lost
key affords amusement. An in-
stance of this occurred in•Storchi,
Italy, in May, 19,37.
Burglars disguised as porters
entered a theatre in daylight and
stole a heavy safe, which they
drove away on a lorry. They
spent laborious hours forcing it
open, only to find inside a num-
ber of white performing mice!
Apparently the manager of
the theatre had temporarily lock-
ed the mice in the safe so as
not to frighten the chorus girls
who might come into his office.
As the mice had their home in a
special box, but were not con-
fined to it (they could run in
and out), the manager considered
it advisable to pocket the large
sum of money lying in the safe
in case the mice nibbled and,
damaged the notes.
Later, when he went to put
the money back and restore the
mice to their owner, he was un-
able to find the key, and so was
reluctantly compelled to leave
the Luckless mice inside.
Touch -Me -Not
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There's one blonde who must,
on no account, be hugged, She
might break if she were. Eight-
een -year-old, blue-eyed, golden -
haired Irene Crompton was born
with a rare, brittle condition of
the bones that renders them only
too liable to break.
Once Irene dreamed that she
was running swiftly through the
woods, a thing she had never
been able to do, and the wind was
streaming through her hair —
only to wake up and find that
she had, in fact, broken both legs
as she slept.
When she was a child she was
always fracturing some bone or
other. Now her bones seem
somewhat stronger, but there is
a dainty Dresden china quality
about this . pretty teenager who
would haveliked to have been
a ballet dancer but must be care-
ful how she shakes hands.
"The Glass Princess" some of
the young men of South London
call ,her, seeing Irene sitting at
her window watching the world
go by.
"Despite what people say about
young men being 'wolves'," Irene
confesses, "they're all grand to
me. If I had to count on girls to
take me out and look after me,
I wouldn't get far or see much of
the .world."
Sorge , of the local girls say
Irene ought not to •monopolize
any'ynung man's time and atten-
tion.
"There's one tiling I can do,"
she . says in answer to that,
"without any fear or risk, and
that's smile, and laugh, and joke.
Why should mixed friendship be
denied me?"
Fortunately it is not, The boys
know that nothing can break .
Irene's spirit. That is why they
smile up at her, sitting in her
window.
Casey Tells All? '— Birdie "Tebbeis, manager of the Cincinnati
Redlegs, is an eager pupil' as Casey Stengel, manager of the New
York •Yankees,+ gives him a few tips on how to lead a baseball
team to five straight pennants. The men are shown talking at
the•Basebail Writers Annual Dinner. •
,Blasting For Fish
It was early morning in the
little Italian- coastal town of
Maiori, famous for its lemons -
and lying some miles to the west
of Salerno. Suddenly there was
a strange, roaring sound.
It came from the sea. Visitors
were apprehensive:' Could it be
a • waterspout, a monster, or
what?
Giuseppe knew (that is not
, his real name). He wasone- of
the local' fishermen, who had
been -having a lean month or,
two, and 'together with one or
two companions he- had stolen
out early in order to break the
law.
They rowed to a local rocky
headland where 'fish were com-
paratively plentiful, and let off
an underwater explosion. Re -
suit: Ali fish in a large area
around - were killed, whether
young or old:
But Giuseppe was only a
champion for others. Ile rbwed
swiftly away, before anyone
could, know what ,had happened.
Others, who said they knew -
nothing about it but were "at-
tracted by the noise," arrived
in their boats soon after. They
of course, could gather the fish
with an air of innocence. ..
Local anglers were furious,
and pointed out at 'once that
there would be• lean , months
ahead for the professionals any-
way in view of the slaughter.
One of aliens recalled the days
of -Fascist rule in' Italy with un-
accustomed',approval: "In Mus-
aolini's time • they s would, have
been. punished. Now nothing
will be done about it."
They Make Models
Out Of Matches
Whenever Percy Turner struck
a match, be snuffed it carefully
and saved 11. Whenever he
scrambled into a loft to inspect
water -tanks during his work as
a plumber, there were always
spent matches lying around, good
as gold dust to Percy,
His wife saved up matches..
His friends filled old tins with
matches, ready for Percy, Now
his daughter is getting married
and fifty - two - year - old Percy
Turner, of Dartford, is proving
the best of all match -makers. As
a wedding gift, he is proudly giv-
ing his daughter a coffee table, a
full-size standard lamp, an ocea-
sional table, a tea tray and cab-
inet . . all made of matches --
400,000 Of them.
• Stoker's Fine Art
Another lucky young girl with
— in her eyes — a "matchless"
daddy is eight-year-old Sylvia
Evans, of Islington. She has a1 -
ways admired the church where
she attends Sunday school, and
now het father is building her a
model of it with used match-
sticks.
Mr. Evans, an ex -naval stoker
now doing a similar job with the
police, has plenty of opportunity
to collect used •matches, And he
needs plenty, for already the
model has taken some 35,000 —
15,000 of which went into the
steeple.
Into the clock -face her daddy
has set an old watch, and up in
the steeple is hidden a tiny set
of bells which will peal cheerily.
And now about the feat of Bill
Moir, a retired Bristol builder.
Spending nearly three years at it,
he has built a matchstick Buck-
ingham Palace complete in every
detail. Except for the windows
and the flag, the model is entire-
ly of matches — nearly 40,0001
• Then there's t h e amazing
patience and enterprise of Mai-
denhead's Stan Edmonds, who
has already made three match-
stick models of Big Ben, and
plans the biggest -ever matchstick
endurance feat with an Outsize
model of Windsor Castle made
from half a million matches.
Not content with building e
stage coach in matches, a New
Southgate hobbyist built a match-
stick York Minster, and thee
tackled a seale model of the
Queen Mary. Not that all match-
stick modelling is on the grand
scale, A Bermondsey cold stor-
age worker, George Dunleavy,
warms his heart by carving love-
ly miniature figures of Venus,
Eve, or the Statue of Liberty,
He can lift carcasses regarded
as too heavy for two men of ay.
erage strength. But put a pen-
knife into George's powerful
hands and he whittles his tiny
figures in perfect detail, though
some of his models ere'no mor'
than half an inch high}.
Really A Bird — Italian film act-
ress Lisa Gastoni likes to wear
large, ring -type earrings so her
pet budgereegah (a kind o`}
parakeet) can perch on the gold-
en hoops. That's what you call
getting information straight from
the bird's mouth.
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I NSUaNNC
(fEDOW 0Ol
Every fifteen minutes, a Canadian suffers serious injury in a traffic accident.
Every four hours a life is lost. Every two minutes a fender is smashed.
Insurance cannot restore life or mitigate pain. All it can do is relieve the
financial burden of disaster. Even then, the bill comes high.
Last year, companies writing: Automobile Insurance paid out.zkioxe
than $75,000,000 in accident claims — a part of the cost of Carelessizess and
discourtesy in driving.
ALL CANADA INSURANCE FEDERATI aN
co behalf of more than 200 competing companies writing
Fire, Automobile and Casualty Insurance,