The Seaforth News, 1953-04-09, Page 6M4N€,RIR SST
"Dear Anne Hirst: I have a
son who will be 17 next month,
when he hopes to go into the
armed forces. He has caused me
such distress!! He has no con-
sideration at all; he says I have
to give him a place to sleep, and
do his laundry and cooking. He
tells me if I want any help, to
get married again.
"I have never had any help,
I've worked since he was a baby.
I've been under the doctor's care
for eight months, but I can't
afford to stay home.
"My son has worked for a
year now, and gone to school four
hours a week. He never gives me
any of his wages, just says he's
taking care of himself. He is
nice to me only when he wants
something.
"Is there anything I can do to
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Pattern 4696; Women's Sizes
34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. Size 36
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NI yard contrast.
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teenth St. New Toronto, Ont.
change him now? People say I'm
too easy with hint.
H. N. C."
WAIT ANI) HOPE
Discouraged as you - are bout
your bay, a lad of 16 who holds
a job and gees to schoel, tOA,
must have his good points. If
he spends all he makes on him-
self, that is natural, for he has
been raised to depend on you
for all his physical needs; it is
rather late to expect him to
change that attitude. Your friends
are probably right, but this is
no time to censure you for in-
dulging hint; it is foolish to ex-
pect a mother not to spoil her
fatherless child, He might have
been trained in responsibility,
too, but he was not, so his pres-
ent arrogance is not unusual.
It is good news that he wants
to join the service. There he will
get the discipline he has not•
known. Army discipline has
grown a backbone in many a
spineless youngster, and if your
boy has good stuff in him it
will bring it out. Association with
hundreds of other lads will show
his place -in the group, and should
develop sportsmanship and recog-
nition of the rights of others, I
have no doubt he will soon grow
a sleep respect for Home -and -
Mom, and breed a new apprecia-
tion of all you have done for
him. All this is not, I think, what
he expects to find in service, but
it is what he will get.
His living expenses will be
covered, and that burden removed
from your tired shoulders, As his
mother, you are entitled to his
monthly allowance, remember,
and that will ease your circum-
stances, too.
Write • him regularly --loving
letters packed with neighborhood
gossip, send him homemade
goodies as you can—and hope. I
think you safely can,
If you must bring up an only
child alone, try not to spoil him,
but instill a sense of responsi-
bility and manliness. It pays , . .
In any trouble, write to Anne
Hirst, addressing her at Box 1,123
Eighteenth St., New Toronto. Ont.
Rival Diamonds
The Koh -i -nor diamond—most
famous jewel in the world—is
to have a rival. It is being cut in
Hatton Garden, London centre of
the diamond industry. As big as
a saucer and weighing four times
as much as the fabulous Koh -i -
nor, (which is 185 carats) it will
be sliced into three small pieces
and a larger one. The king size
goes to the Queen as a `Corona-
tion gift.
No bids are asked for the rest
of the stone. It is priceless.
The Koh -i -nor, which now
takes second place among the
Queen's jewels, has a. history go-
ing back six hundred years. It
once belonged to 'an Eastern
prince who tried to hide it from
thieves by putting it in his turban
—but 000 of his wives gave the
secret away.
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FLAKY COFFEE CAKES
o Scald :;.; 0. cream, 2 tbs. grana.
sated sugar, 1 tsp. salt and +t c.
shortening; cool to lukewarm.
Meanwhile, measure into a large
bowl 1,', c, lukewarm water. 1 icp,
granulated sugar; stir until sugar
is dissolved. Sprinkle with 1 en-
velope Fleisclllnann's Royal Fast
Rising Dry Yeast. Let stand 10
mins, 111E\ stir well.
Athl cooled errant mixture and
stir in 3 well -beats -n eggs. Stir iu
2 c. oncc•sifted bread flour; beat
until smooth. Mork itt 21., c.
(ahbu) once-illed bread flour.
]mead on ligblls.tlonred hoard
until smooth. and' clam ie. Place it,
greased bowl and grease top rat
dough. Corer :Intl set in a wan in
place, free from draught. Let rise
1101it doubled in blk. 1sic :);, c.
granulated' sugar and 2 tsps.
ground cinnamon; sprinkle halt
of this mixture on haling hoard.
Divide dough into 2 equal poi..
rings' and turn out one pillion
onto prepared board. Roil out
into a 12' square; fold front back
to front :utdirom one side to the
other. kep eat rolling and folding
3 more times, flouring board
lightly if it becomes sticky. Seal
edges of folded dough alai place
in a greased 8" .square cake pan
and pat out to fit the part; butter
top lightly and press walnut
!salves well into the dough.
Sprinkle remaining sugar and
cnmamon mixture on board and
treat second portion of dough
same as first portion. Cos it and
iet rise until doubled in bulk,
Bake in a moderate oven, 850°,
15 inmv while preparing the fol.
lowing syrup; shunter together
for 5 mins, 1 e, granulated sugar,
11/ tsps grated orange rind, 1/1 -
c. l utter or margarine and 1/q c.
orange juice. htkkly pour lint
syrup over the 2 partially -baked
cakes and bake cares about 15
mins. longer. Stand batted cakes
on cake 'coolers for 20 minutes,
then loosen edges and gently
shake from pans.
Anti -Smear Campaign—Parents who hate to see their tots eating
smeary chocolate rabbits while wearing their new clothes were
happy to learn that a Bay Village drugstore had a remedy,
Among the store's home-made candies are "white chocolate"
Bunnies which taste exactly like the, conventional brown ones,
lean -faced Harriet Oberg, two -and -one-half, with a white bunny
n her hand, smugly watches Robert Moore get his face smeared
up eating the old-style chocolate bunny.
la NIMES
1NGE FARM
ray (man.t%rirsis„ n ri rs ,.' r•
We shall soon be living on the
outskirts of our county town—
close to a new industrial plant.
That is, unless present plans are
drastically changed. Not our
plans—I don't mean we are mov-
ing off the farm, far from it—
it just is that the town is stretch-
ing its boundaries and coming
out to meet us. Not immediately
of course, things like that don't
happen overnight. There will be
arguments and counter -argu-
ments; annexation by - laws and
all that sort of thing. But the
change will come eventeally—
you can't stop progress, even if
you happen to be "agin it'.
Our small county town of Mil-
ton has been practically at a
standstill for years and years,
and now suddenly it looks as if
we might see a bit of mushroom
growth. And why not? The huge
Ford plant is only about 20 miles
away; Mallon airport and' its in-
dustries 15 miles; two railways
by-pass the town; a big factory,
which, until now, was Milton's
main industry, can supply every
type of screw -nail likely to be
called for; and there is all kinds
of farm land that can probably
be bought for industrial sites and
building projects. One of our
neighbours recently sold his farm
to a steel company, to be the
site of a new factory. No doubt
there will be more farm land
going the same way. And there
will certainly be plenty of farms
sliced up when the new Montreal
to Windsor highway goes through
this district, crossing No. 25 at
an, at present, undetermined
point.
Perhaps you think it is a shame
so much good farm land should
be taken up that way. I quite
agree. It seems like economic
suicide to thus undermine, in one
of its most productive areas, what
it has been generally agreed is
Canada's basic industry -agricul-
ture.
But perhaps it is just as well.
I guess we have reached the stare
when many farmers think the
proverbial worm knew what it
was doing when it turned.
So, when farmers in this, and
other industrial areas, are given
a good offer for their property,
it is usually accepted. 01 course,
any farmer worthy of the name
hates to see the old place go; to
have factories itnd storage sheds
built on sir fertile fields, but then
on the one hand he remembers
the price of cattle and hogs; the
glut of milk on the market: the
threatened decrease in the price
of that same mills to the farmer
—t0Stay nothing about margarine
and the possible inroads of syn-
thetic dairy products. Very tow
farmers, however, wan. 1., see e
ban on edible oils.
On the other hand the taster
thinks of the fellows who work
in industry; of the returns for
their labour, and short working
day as compared with his own;
and he figures he might just as
well be getting'a share 01 the big
wages himself instead of making
a bare living, and, by his hard
work adding to the surplus that
already exists, Many farmers'
sons have already got on the in.
dustrial band -wagon so that the
greater number of farms are now
owned and operated by older
men, and it is those same men
that we find only too glad to
dispose of their farms if the price
offered is good enough.
What will be the result? May-
be ten or fifteen years from now
a middle-aged remarried couple
Mr, and Mrs, Rip Van Winkle—
ISSUE 15 — 1953
will decide to take a run out to
the country "to get away from
it all". They will drive for utiles
and all they will see is huge
chimney stacks and flat -top fac-
tories. Nies. Van Winkle will turn
to her husband and exclaim in
distress—"But, Rip, I thought
we were to take e drive through
the country! Where IS the cotmt-
ry, Rip. . . where are all the
lovely farm places we used to
know; the contented cows graz-
ing on tree -shaded pastures? I
was even hoping we might find
a farmhouse where we could buy
some real milk, or perhaps a little
cream. I am so tired of synthetic
products, Why is it so hard to
get real dairy produce now, Rip?"
"Well, now—that's a long stony.
A story of supply and demand.
Synthetic products caused many
farmers to go out of business.
There are still dairy farms far-
ther out in the, country but dairy
products are now in the luxury
class. The general public has to
be content with synthetics. They
wanted them in the first place
because they were cheaper. Now
they have what they asked for
and don't like what they have
got too well."
"Well, then, we might as well
go home, Rip—we haven't time
to drive any farther. And 1 was
so hoping we could have gone
home with some real milk," said
Mrs. Van Winkle with a sigh.
"And, oh my, wouldn't it have
been a treat?" she added,
Rats Drink
Highballs!
A select colony of white rats is
drinking highballs for science. Dr.
Ralph W. Schaffarzick and Bev-
erly 3. Brown are setting up the
drinks at Stanford School of
Medicine in San Francisco. Object:
A better anticonvulsant drug to
aid victims of epilepsy, Such
drugs are known, but before any
of them can be prescribed for
human beings, exhaustive studies
of their effect on the rats must be
made. Dr, Schaffarzick and Miss
Brown report on their work in
Science. There they say an
alcohol, methylparafynol, was
declared to be a safe anticonvul-
sant, but they found that it im-
paired the function of the liver.
Alcohols closely related to
methylparafynol are now the sub-
ject of investigation. Of these the
most promising are tertiary but-
anol and diethylcarbinol. Both are
more effective than phenobarbit-
al, .one of the most potent anti
convulsant drugs known.
Wedges Under Their Beds
They Can Sleep "On The Levels.
The inhabitant of Luneberg',
an ancient town in Lower Sax-
ony, escaped being bombed out
of their homes during the war,
but now they face the prospect
that the relentless forces of na-
ture will succeed where the war
failed, The heart of the town,
about two-thirds of a mile
square, stands on an under-
ground salt deposit which is con-
stantly being washed away by a
subterranean river. The surface
has been sinking an inch or two
a year for the last 70 years, and
the rate now is increasing.
Houses le?in in all directions,.
with cracked walls and sloping
floors.
The Town Council .has an-
nounced that evacuation of at
least some houses will be in-
evitable this year, and a relief
home-building program is being
pushed ahead.
But the councillors adamt that
it will not be easy . to turn the
people out. The law, as it stands,
gives the council power to or-
der evacuation only if the foun-
dations of the house give way,
and most of the Luneburgers say
they will wait for that.
They know that the center of
Luneburg has been subsiding
ever since the town was found-
ed nitre centuries ago, and they
believe that their homes will
stand at least for a while yet.
The men are most adamant
in this attitude. The women, who
have to cope with the effects of
the sinking, are less sanguine
about staying put. The lure of
new homes with all modern, con-
veniences may yet persuade
them — and that, councillors
think, will win the battle.
The women have plenty of
reason to grumble. Pictures sud-
denly fall from the walls, smash-
ing glass and chinaware on the
way. A. new crack in the ceiling
will produce a gentle rain of
plaster and flakes of whitewash.
In winter, with icy. winds
coursing over the heath, a house-
wife may awaken any morning
to find that her windows and
doors will not shut. Six times or
more each year, window and
door frames of the affected houses
must be recut to make up for
the new angle ofthe walls.
A common occupation for the
family handyman is putting
wedges Larder the beds so that
the family can sleep on an even
keel
Cooking on a sloping stove or
gas range is a special art. It pays
to have tall saucepans and pots
—and to have them only half
full.
Some of the streets are like a
big 4ipper. Parts have sunk &bout
4%teat in the last 70 years.
The latest expert opinloat
whlgh the Town Council Obtain.,
ed from the Hannover Teehnl.
cal College contained the grim
forecast that the surface date-.
rloration is likely to get worse
this year, and more rapidly than
ever,
Luneburg's salt deposits have
not always been a source o
trouble. Once the salt trade made
Luneburg an important com-
mercial center — until in the
middle of the 17 century, Then
its salt deposits—and wealth--
began to wane. '
SPLITTING
And the
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CINNAMON SANDWICH BISCUITS
Mix and sift once, then sift. into a bowl, 2 c. once -sifted
pastry flour (or 19.f c. once -sifted hard -wheat flour), 3 taps.
Magic Baking Powder, as tsp, salt and 34 c. fine granulated
sugar. Cut in finely 4 tbs. chilled shortening. Combine 1 well.
beaten egg, 34 c. milk and j tap: vanilla. Make a well in
dry ingredients and add liquids; mix lightly with a fork,
adding mills if necessary, to make -a soft dough. Knead for
10 seconds on lightly -floured board and roll out
to ;y" thickness; shape with floured 134" cutter.
Cream together 134 tbs. soft butter or margarine,
3a c. lightly -packed brown sugar, >a tsp. grated
orange rind and 34j tsp. ground cinnamon. Using
only about half of the creamed mixture, place a
small spoonful of the mixture on half of the cut-out
rounds of dough; top with remaining rounds of
dough and press around edges to seal. Spread bis-
cuits with remaining creamed mixture and ar-
range, alightly apart, on greased cookie sheet.
Bake in hot oven, 4600, about 12 minutes. Serve
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