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By Paschal (Let Ppdur�
Julia Warren looked up from her
pie -baking soddenly, and thought
it had happened.
"Bud," she called, "Please try to
keep Pinky by your side, He'll get
hurt if he keeps chasing ears the
way he does,"
She watched Bud through her
kitchen window as - he scolded
Pinky by waving a fat finger at
hint, "Mustn't do, Pinlcyl Mont
says you're a bad dogs" Then he
pushed along the sidewalk in his
wagon, Pinky at his side,
Julia went back to balding her
apple pie, a worried look on her
face. Pinky was towable, but his
habit of chasing cars through the
streets of Collinsville made Julia
dread the event which must inevita-
bly occur, Julia had urged her hus-
band Mark to persuade Bud to
give up the dog, but Mark was
too soft-hearted,
"It will break the boy's heart,"
he would say.
Not nearly as badly as it would
if something dreadful happened to
Pinky, Julia always thought, That
could be something Bud might
never get over. That might be
something he would always re-
member like a sharp continuous
pain. Julia knew well it would be
that way.
She tried to cast thoughts from
her mind that were like jagged
glass. She opened the oven door,
saw that the pie was almost brown
enough to take out.
Then she heard it -heard it like
she knew she would, like she had
heard it once before in the recesses
of her mind, Bud's scream, a car's
futile brakes, Pinky's agonizing
bark.
All she could hear then were
Bud's sobbing words: "Pinky!
Pinky I"
They buried Pinky in a small
woollen box in a corner of the
liXusn't do, Pinky! Mon says
you're a bad dor!"
back yard among the flowers, Julia
put a marker with Pinky's name
into the ground while llud just
watched and said nothing,
Julia did not know whether there
there was more sorrow than relief
in her heart. Maybe it was better
that it happened now when Bud's
love for Pinsky would have been
too hard for the boy to forget.
Bud could forget Pinky now as
she had learned to forget , . .
At dinner that night there were
not manly words spoken. Mark
patted his son's curly head, and
tried to console him, "Pinky would-
n't like to see you so sad, son,
He'd want you to remember him
with a smile on your face, and
forget what. happened today,"
Forget . forget, Julia looked
at Bud's face tutu knew he would
never forget, Young minds don't
forget easily. They don't forget•
the most bit pori ant things Julia
•knee'.
After dinner when the•fautily was
in the living roots, Mark reading
his paper, Bud playing listlessly
with his blocks, Julia suddenly put
down the sweater she was knitting:
She got up from her chair and
went towards the door,
"What's ' wrong,. Julia:" Mark
asked alarmed.
"Nothing, dear. 1 must get some
aid. 1 think , I'll see Helen Rey-
nolds for a few minutes."
1t did not take more than a few
minutes; Julia was surprised how
little time it actually took. If only
other people had realized what
little time it took,
It was sot until Julia had step-
ped into the living room that Mark
.realized what Julia had clone, He
,rose:to.meet her, proud of his wife.
Julia knelt down beside Bud and
•showed hint what her hands held.
Bud's eyes brightened, It was a
tiny bundle of fur, A month old
cocker -spaniel with sleepy eyes, alis
pink cars,
"('inky the Second," Julia said
with a snmile. Bud reached out
chubby fingers for a new Pinky, a
new hope,
• Julia was glad site had remem-
bered Helen Reynolds telling her
about the litter of pups, She was
.glad she had rentembered one day
many years ago when she herself
was young with important things
-in her life,
Julia watched the sadness raft
from Bud's eyes as he fondled the
pup. She remembered herself as a
$ittle girl on the day her own dog
Jtad been hit by a car, They (hought
she would forget, They had not
Understood , . , for site never for-
got.
1'
eia Andrews.
It isn't so very long ago that 1
gave a recipe for pastry in which
vegetable oil took the place of 'Ye-
gular" shortening, and I ant sure
those of you who tried it found it
highly satisfactory. However, a re-
cent bride has written asking for
instructions on how to make pas-
try "like grandmother did" and of
course I ant glad to oblige -and
also toss in a few of the sorts of
pie fillings which "grandpa" un-
doubtedly used to relish,
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The quantities given in the pastry
recipe will yield enough for a two.
crust nine -inch pie. And please re-
member, no matter what type of
shortening you use, the secret of
successful pastry is that "light
hand."
PLAIN PASTRY
2% cups sifted flour
/ to three-fourths teaspoon salt
/ cup shortening
(4 cup cold water, approximate-
ly,
(1) Sift together flour and salt,
(2) Add about half the shorten-
ing and chop in with a pastry blend-
er or two knives till mixture re-
sembles coarse yellow corn meal,
(3) Add remaining fat and chop
till mixture is the size of small
peas.
(4') Sprinkle water over the top
about a teaspoon at a time, while
tossing the dry mix up frau the
bottom of the bowl with a fork.
Use only enough water to make the
particles of dough stick together,
Remove dampened portions as they
forst and press together. Chill
briefly,
(5) Divide dough into halves, pat
lightly with rolling pin until flatten-
ed and roil each to an eight -inch
thickness on a floured board or
pastry cloth, rolling from the cent-
er out -not back and forth. Use as
directed for pies. Yield: pastry for
a two -crust nine -inch pie.
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PLUM CREAM PIE
/ recipe for pastry
/ cup sugar, approximately
54 teaspoon salt
3/ tablespoons cornstarch
2 cups scalded milk
2 egg yolks, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
154 pounds plums
/ cup cream, whipped,
(1) Fit pastry into a nine -inch pie
pan without stretching. Trim off
pastry from edge with scissors leav-
ing pastry one -fourth -inch wider -
than rim of pan. Crimp edge with
fingers. Prick bottom and sides
with tints of a fork. Bake on the
lower shelf of a hot oven (450 de-
grees F,) till brown, fifteen minutes
or longer. Leave in pan to cool,
one-fourth ,Mix ne fourth cu> of the
(2) I
sugar, the salt and two and one-half
tablespoons of the cornstarch in a
double boiler. Add milk, stirring,
and cook, stirring tirrin g till thickened,
Add gradually to egg yolks. Return
to double boiler and cook over hot
water, stirring, till mixture thickens.
Flavor and cool. Turn into pastry
shell
(3) Pit plums, add remaining
one-fourth cup sugar anti a tables-
poon water. Cook, stirring occas-
ionally, till plums are just soft.
(4) 13leud remaining tablespoon
cornstarch with a little coick water,
add to plums and cook, stirring, till
thickened, Add more sugar if de-
sired, Cool, Spread over cream ntix-
tttrc in pastry shell,
(5) Cover with whipped creams or
float spoonfuls of whipped creast
over the surfaces -
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CRAB APPLE CUSTARD PIE
/ recipe pastry
2.cups peeled,. cored and sliced
crab apples
3d cup sugar
1 tabledpoen flout
3 egg yolks
/ teaspoon vanilla
2 cups milk (may be part
cream).
(1) Line a nine -inch pie pan
with pastry and crimp edge or press
to pan with tines of a fork, Fill
with apples,
(2) Mix sugar and flour. Add egg
yolks, vanilla and milk and blend.
Strain over apples.
(3) Bake on the lover shelf of a
hot oven (450 degrees F,) fifteen
minutes. Reduce beat to slow (325
degrees )?,) and bake about thijrty
minutes longer. Cool, i
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APPLE PIE
1 recipe pastry
1 to one and one-fourth cups
brown sugar
2 tablespoons flour or one
tablespoon either cornstarch
or quick -cooking tapioca
1 teaspoon cinnamon
teaspoon nutmeg
2 cups very thinly sliced
green tomatoes
2 cups thinly sliced, peeled,
tart apples
2 tablespoons butter or mar-
garine.
(1) Prepare pastry, wrap in wax-
ed paper and chill while preparing
filling materials,
(2) Mix brown sugar, flour and
spices,
(3) Line a nine -inch pie pan with
pastry. Fill with two layers each of
tomatoes and apples, sprinkle each
layer with part of the sugar mix-
ture, Dot with bits of butter or
margarine,
(4) Moisten edge of pastry, cover
with top crust and press together.
Trim off excess pastry and crimp
with fingers or press with tines of a
fork, Cut gashes in top for escape
of steam,
(5) If a glazed top is desired
brush the crust lightly with milk or
with beaten egg, diluted with an
equal amount of water, Bake on
lower shelf of a hot oven (450 de-
grees F,) fifteen minutes. Reduce
heat to moderate (350 degrees F.)
and bake about thirty minutes long-
er or till apples are tender and
crust is brown,
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GRAPE PIE WITH CRUMB
TOPPING
1 quart Concord grapes
3/ cup sugar
1 to two tablespoons lemon
juice
1 tablespoon quick -cooking
tapioca or cornstarch or two
tablespoons flour
/ recipe plain pastry
%s cup flour
A cup brown or 'white sugar
IA teaspoon cinnamon, optional
254 tablespoons butter or mar-
garine,
(1) Slip the pulp out of the grape
skins. Set skins aside. Cook the
pulp till the seeds loosed and strain
to remove steels,
(2) Mix sugar, lemon juice,
tapioca, grape juice and skins. Let
stand, stirring once or twice, while
preparing pastry,
(3) Mix flour, sugar and cinna-
mon. Add butter and chop till mix-
ture forms crumbs,
(4) Line a nine -inch pie pan with
pastry, Trial off excess pastry with
scissors, leaving a rim about a
quarter -inch wider than pan, Turn
this rim up and crimp with fingers.
(5) Turn grape mixture into
pastry and sprinkle crumb mixture
over top. -
((1) Bake on the lower shelf of a
hot oven (450 degrees 17,) ten
ntittutes. Lower heat to moderate
(350 degrees F,) and bake about
twenty minutes longer.
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draughts intoxicate the• brain, and
drinking largely sobers us again.
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Purr -Is -It is said that "a cat may look at a king;' but in this in-
stance it looks in a mirror at a "princess" in a bonnet of matched
cultured pearls valued at thousands of dollars. The pedigreed Si-
amese cat, "Princess Imperial Mooky," got the chance to model
this fabulous headgear at the National Retail Jewiers Association
show,
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Inquisitive crowds followed a
tall and elderly Norwegian as he
toured the South Bank Exhibition
recently, I -Ie looked like Ring
Haakon; but welcoming officials
learned that he was merely an
Oslo business man. Even in Nor-
way Mr, Olav I3egstad is often
saluted for the King just another
case of double muddle.
Arrested 300 Times
And pity Albert Pankler,, a re-
tired Ruhr miner who wears a
hanging forelock to conceal a dis-
figuring birthmark on his fore-
head and has been arrested for
questioning 300 times since the
war because he resembles Hitler.
Asked why he hasn't shaved off
his moustache to lessen the resem-
blance, he complains: " grew nine
first, In fact, I'm not Hitler's
double, He happened to be mines"
Mrs, Mary Knoll was mobbed in
New York because she was mis-
taken for the Duchess of Windsor,
In Switzerland, two or three y cars
ago, Mr, Victor Jones, a Surrey
licensee, was hailed everywhere
he went as the late Ernest Bevin.
From Peru -Soft durable llama
is used for this coat which
features large carry -all pockets
with button emphasis. It has a
high little shawl collar. The
fabric is woven from the fleece
of the Peruvian llama.
With thick rimmed glasses and
black hat, Mr. Jones was Mr. Be -
vin's double - and the former
Foreign Minister was holidaying in
Switzerland, too, As Mr, Jones
changed trains at Lucerne, eager
crowds demanded his autograph,
At Interlaken the telephone in Itis
hotel roost had to be disconnected
because there were so many incom-
ing calls. Onc newspaper even pub-
lished Mr, Jones's picture and an-
nounced he was hfr. Bevin incog-
nitol
An Oxfordshire head waiter, Mr,
Peat, had lots of fust, too, be-
cause he looks like a certain Mr,
Churchill, The resemblance was
heightened when he smoked cigars,
but now he says he cannot afford
them, And both Mr, Peat and Mr.
Churchill had a double, as it hap-
pens, in Dudley Malone, an Ameri-
can actor,
When the real Churchill went
to Washington during the war,
Malone donned a spotted bowtie
and harried there, too. Though
cigars made hint sick, he gallantly
stuck one in his mouth. Crowds
followed hint everywhere. In the
opulent Carlton Hotel he ordered
cocktails before a hushed audience.
He strode through the Press
Building while reporters tailed hits.
Some people thought that the
real Churchill Was his impersonator.
Evenutahy Malone landed himself
a job --playing time part of Church-
ill its a movie:
Seeing Newfoundland
It is not fair to New- foundland to
arrive by air, Early in the morning
we flew out of the great wall of fog
over the Ranks and, sleepy-eyed,
saw a senlit sea at last. But I look-
ed back at the fog, an awesome
spectacle, It was indeed a great
wall, blue -grey, nearly black, as
nicer -cut as a cliff, . , .
This is the view lantiliar to trav-
ellers between Britain and Ameri-
ca who stop for a day or an hour or
two at Gander and say: 'What a
country!' Brit if you conte in from
the sea to any of the innumerable
fishing villages (or "outposts") on
a sunny clay, you would ,:ay you
were in Norway, or Cornwall, or
(except for the • whale rolling and
blowing in the bay) a Swiss or an
Italian lake, Every. (mouse is of
wood, and every church: and,
since you can paint wood in any
colour you like, the distant view is
varied rind gal. , . ,
Many of the coves and waters
villages are enchantingly pretty,
and the Ray of Islands, ou time west
coast, is an estuary with a gracious
beauty of which any country might
he prourmd-Froth "Independent
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Is The Color Fast?
If you have any doubt as to whe-
ther a fabric is color fast, test
it before using. An easy and sure
way of doing this is to stitch a
sample of the material on a piece
of white cloth, then wash and iron
it, If the color is not fast, time
white clout will be tinted and
streaked.
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A good deal less than a century
ago -in fact there are probably
people alive who remember the inci-
dent -the great British scientist,
Sir William Crookes, threw a real
scare into millions of people. He
announced that the world was fac-
ing a terrible food shortage unless
new sources of fertilizer nitrogen
could be discovered quickly -some-
thing which, at that time, seemed
highly improbable.
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Sir William had arrived at this
frightening conclusion by adding
up the known supplies of Chilean
nitrate of soda, guano deposits, and
a small number of industrial by-
products which could be converted
to fertilizer, and had balanced this
total against the nitrogen tonnages
required to produce sufficient food-
stuffs for the increasing population,
* 4< *
Sis William's prediction never
came to pass, however, because
chemical science stepped into the
picture in most impressive fash-
ion,
* * *
Approximately 20,000 tons of
nitrogen are present in the atmos-
phere above every square mile of
the earth's surface. The problem
then resolved itself into otte of ex-
tracting nitrogen from the air in
a commercially feasible manner.
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The electrical discharge from a
flash of lightening causes some of
this atmospheric nitrogen to com-
bine with oxygen to form nitric
oxide. As this cools, more oxygen
atoms are extracted from the air
to product nitrogen dioxide, which
combines readily with water to form
nitric acid, This process takes
place during every thunderstorm,
with the result that a substantial
portion of the rain falling upon the
earth during such a storm is a dil-
ute nitric acid. Thus Nature has
her own way of replenishing the
earth's supply of nitrogen necessary
for plant frowth. But this assis-
tance from Nature is hardly enough
where larged commercial farming
operations are constantly depleting
the the fertility of the soil.
* 4' *
At the early part of the 20th
century, two Norwegian chemists,
Birklattd and Eyde, obtained nitric
acid from nitric oxide and, with the
use of an electric arc, were the
first humans to succeed in the fix-
ation o f atmospheric nitrogen.
Since that time, many processes
androducts have been developed
p v oped
for the purpose of enriching the
soil sOd contributing to the ever-
increasing abundance of the world's
farming areas.
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By heating calcium carbide with
nitrogen in an electric furnace, an-
other nitrogen fertilizer is produc-
ed which not only supplies a readily
absorbable plant nutrient, but pro-
vides a plus value by helping to
eradicate weeds. Potassium fertil-
iters, derived from potash deposits,
improve the shape, color, and sh)lr-
piug and packing qualities of frtiits
and vegetables. They also strength-
en stalks and stems and increase
the plant's resistance to disease,
drought, frost, and incest damage..
Phosphatic fertilizers, which were
originally produced from bones
treated with sulfuric acid nary are
obtained primarily from phosphate
rock, Alone, or in combinations
determined by precise chemical
analysis, these fertilizer compotiitds
are playing an essential role In
the feeding of the world's expand-
ing population,
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What with their atum and hy-
drogen bombs and one thing or
another, scientists. have been getting
something of a bad name lately.
That's why I thought it mightn't
be a bad idea to pass along to you
the above reminder that -without
the scientists -by this time farmers
would be in a bad way. And every-
body else, when you come right
down to it,
Rockets Aren't New
ROCKET RECORD: A rocket
operates on the principle of a New-
tionian law -that every action (in'
this case a backward rush of gas
from the rocket's tail) produces air
opposite reaction (forward move-
ment of the body of the rocket).
The Chinese used rockets as wea-
pons in the thirteenth century. The
British used thetn in the War of
1812; rockets were the "bombs
bursting in air" in Francis Scott
Key's 'The Starspangled Banner."
In World War II all major powers
developed rockets for firing from
ships, tanks, planes, bazookas. Re-
cently at the rocket proving grounds
in White Sands, N.M., a rocket
called the Viking set a world's
altitude record for a single rocket
-135 miles, This was far short of
the over-all record set at White
Sands in 1949 when a captured
German rocket, at the peak of its
speed, launched a smaller rocket
which reached 250 miles. These ex-
periments are part of research on
guided missiles for global war -
such as rockets with atomic war-
heads- The research has a long way
to go. The Viking used up its. fuel
in seventy-five seconds,
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking.
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