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The Seaforth News, 1950-04-06, Page 7Teacher's Got a Fu11 House—The second grade teacher at Sutherland. School sees double and triple when she faces this quintet„of 7 -year-olds. The triplets are Diane, Itaren and Elikabeth Quist, and the twins are fames and William Owen. "Checkmate" Means "The King Is Dead" The first chess champion of the world was a Spaniard. Ruy Lopez, who was awarded the title about the middle of the sixteenth century. Chess is a very ancient game which is believed to have started in India about three thousand years before the birth of Christ, One theory of its origin is that the game was invented to amuse a king of India who tired of waging war and wanted something to occupy his mind. It was then known as "Chatur- anga," meaning -the game of four armies or four types of forces— elephants, horses, chariots, and foot soldiers, The efcphant was equiva- lent to the piece now known as a - castle or rook. r-- From India the game spread to Persia, where it was known as "Chatrang." The terns "checkmate" —which is used in chess to -day ----is derived from the Persian "schach mat," meaning "the king is dead." From India the game was taken up by the Arabs, who were the first to play it blindfold. They, in turn, brought the game to Europe during the eleventh century. Spain being the first country to play it. It was not, however, until the nineteenth century that England be- came the leading chess -playing country of the world, when Howard Staunton was recognized as world champion until he was defeated in 1851 by Professor Anderssen of Breslau. One of the earlier champions was Andre Danican Philidor, who re- ained the title until his death,in 1995. He was able to play blindfold, and created quite a sensation in London in 178.3 by playing two games simultaneously without see- ing the hoard. A newspaper of the time report- ed: "It is a phenomenon in the history of Man, and so should be hoarded among the best samples of human memory, till memory shall be no more," Since those days, however, the number of games that have been played blindfold has increased con- siderably. It has been known for as many as thirty-four to be conducted simultaneously. Sign in New York bar? We do not serve women. You have to bring your own. TABLE T ,.Ks y eY edam Andrews. Few cities are more famous- for "special dishes" than Philadelphia. One of the best known, of course, is Pepper Pot which, many years ago, used to be hawked through the streets of the Pennsylvania metro- polis. Perhaps you'd like to try it some time. It's a really hearty dish of the "stick to the ribs" kind. PHILADELPHIA PEPPER POT 2 pounds honeycomb tripe 2 medium sized onions, chopped 2 medium sized potatoes, cubed 1 level tablespoon ground allspice 1 level tablespoon sweet majoram 1 level tablespoon black pepper Salt to taste Method—Cover tripe with water, add seasonings, When tripe is al- most done, remove from pot, cut in %-inch squares and return to the liquid. Add onion and potatoes. When the potatoes are nearly done, add dumplings made as fellows: * * ,k DUMPLINGS 1 cup flour 1 level teaspoon baking powder 54 teaspoon salt 1 level tablespoon shortening (fat) Water Method—Mix dry ingredients. Cut in shortening, Then add enough water to make a dough that can be easily handled. Put on a floured board and pat out. Cut into strips, then in 34 -inch squares. Roll each square its the paha of the hands to make a small -sized marble. Put on a floured plate and drop one by one into the boiling pepper pot. Cover and cook 20 minutes, then serve. 5 5 5 Scrapple is another dish the fonts down in Philadelphia are partial to, served either at breakfast—in fami- lies where they take time to eat a real breakfast—or for Sunday supper. First I'll give you a tradi- tional method of making it, then a quicker and less bothersome recipe. PHILADELPHIA SCRAPPLE 1 pound calf's liver 94 pound pork shoulder XI pound veal 1 large onion 2 cups yellow cornmeal 1 teaspoon salt 34, teaspoon pepper Method—Boil liver, pork, and Ir -STA ,TING - Next Week A GREAT NEW SERIAL Riders for the Hoot -Owl Pool by G. H. SHARP Packed with action and thrills—A color• ful, swift -awing serial bound to please lovers of Western fiction at its best. BE SURE AND READ THE FIRST INSTALMENT NEXT WEEK — YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS A SINGLE EPISODE veal with the onion until well clone. Put all through a food chopper. Parboil the cornmeal in boiling salted water. Add the ntea' to the shush. Place in greased bread Pan and cool thoroughly. Slier about ?4. -inch thick and fry. Fine served with eggs. QUICK SAUSAGE SCRAPPLE Method—Cook bulk pork sausage /until done and pour off the grease. Make cornmeal mush, and when smooth add the cooked bulk saus- age which has been. run through a tine grinder. Cook mush -sausage mixture in double boiler 45 min- utes to 1 hour, Pour inti, greased bread (loaf) pan and chill thor- oughly in cool place. When reach- to eadyto use, slice about ?y inch thick, dip each slice into flour ,tot brown in skillet in bacon fat. Serve with syrup. * 5 R Getting sufficient vegetables into the family isn't much of a task if you happen to live where the fresh kind are available all the year 'round. But when you have to de- pend on what you have canned or stored away, around this time of year they're liable to be a bit un- interesting, unless you find new ways to "pep them up". Next time you think of senting beets, try them as BEETS IN ORANGE SAUCE 2 tablespoonsbutter or margarine 2 tablespoons flour 94 cup water 134 teaspoons grated orange rind 9 /4. cup orange juice 54 teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper 2 teaspoons sugar 11,4 cups cooked beets, sliced Method -Melt butter, stir in flour and add water slowly. Acid orange rind, orange juice, salt, pepper, and sugar, Cook until smooth, stirring constantly. Add beets and heat. 8 servings. * * ,k Mere, too, is a style you may never have tried for serving that other standby, carrots. SOUR -SWEET CARROTS 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 2 tablespoons flour .54 teaspoon salt Pepper 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 cup hot water 4 cups cooked carrots Method—Brown butter, blend in flour, and continue browning, stir- ring constantly. Add seasonings. Combine sugar, vinegar, and water and add to first mixture gradually; cook slowly until tihickened, stir- ring constantly. Pour over hot car- rots, 6 to 8 servings. No Co-operation 'Discussing his tennis technique, a stout, amiable, bald mean panted; "My brain immediately barks out a command to my body. 'Run for- ward, but fast!' it says. 'Start right nowt Drop the ball gracefully over the net and ten wall: back slowly," "And then what happens?" he was asked, "And then," replied the stout man, "iny body says, Who—me?'" Warning note from newspaper. To avoid confusion, possibly pain- ful, it should be explained that "pickled blonde" In the furniture business means a kind of finish --- not what you think. ' A SAFE OINTMENT Thought Readings On The Air Some of the utast successful BBC hroaeleaste in years are eonel'.rned with thought' reading Something so silent and -intangible appears unlikely to. -make an effective broad - east but two young Australians, Sydney Paddington and his wife 'Lesley, have been front page news in the British press whenever their "thought transference" programme itas been on the air. 1t mystifies a large section of the listening public but Whether it k genuine rr a very clever trick is a problem which the Piddht'gtous themselves do. nothing to solve. "Listeners most deride for themselves," is their ans- wer. Lesley's apparent ability to read hit• Intsbaud's mind is uncenny. Its their first hrnaticasts they were in the sante studio and she was blind- folded hitt was able to identify with rase such things as canis her hus- band picked out of a pack. in later broadcasts she was in another studio, another building or another tow n but wherever she was site was able apparently to communi- cate with her husband, to identify ob tests and to quote lines out of ho,tk • r1te:en haphazardly by the audience. Later on independen t 'judges were brought in, and before Iran sinissiou both Mr, and Mrs, Pidding,;on were stripped and searched, by detectives who made sure that no transutitt'ng sets were roto e ted about their persons. Ev- ert possible precaution was taken and still the Pirldingtons seemed able to communicate with each other without difficulty. For their latest broadcast, Syd- ney Piu,lington and four judges were in a BB(' sunlit) in London. Lesley was a hundred and twenty miles away its Bristol. 'She tools off in a B.O,.\,C. Stratocruiser, ac• comparted to about forty hardened reporters and a BBC commentator. Before the programme began the plane climbed through thick fog to fifteen hmulred fret and theft com- mentator Gilbert Harding. swearing earphones, made contact with the London studio, although Lesley -could hear nothing of what was going on. Members of the audience placed personal possessions into ,mveinpes, these. were carried to the judges, who selected five, opened theist and passed the con- tents to Sy dney. He, without speak- ing, "transmitted" the articles to Lesley in the plane. and within a few seconds she had told listeners what they were, giving Correctly the number'on a pound note and the clues in, a half -finished cressword. Even the reporters were astonished at this seemingly miraculous per- formance. erformance. Is it telepathy or is it a clever act? The Pidclingtons aren't telling and the BBC is satisfied to broadcast programmes that are of first rate entertainment value, whether the "thought transference" is genuine or not, Cold River Will Warm Concert Hall An ingenious system of pipes and pumps will be used to extract natural warnmth from the River Thames and provide free heat for the $8,000,000 concert hall now be- ing built near Waterloo Bridge for the 1951 Festival of Britain Exhibi- non. After extracting the heat from the apparently cold Thanes, scien- tists will generate high temperature with it. The plant they use will be on shote at the exhibition. The Thames water will be pumped by two aircraft engines, running on coal gas, to pipes con- veying a refrigerant liquid. As. the warmth in the river water passes to the liquid, it will be transformed into a vapor, This vapor will be compressed in a pump. Its temperature will be tre- mendously increased in the sante tray as heat is generated in a bicycle pump. Advice to after -diener speakers: If you don't strike oil in five ruin - rtes, stop boring. MANOR CUCKOO CLOCK CHARMING OLD-WORLD TIMEKEEPER No, 2 (as pictured) Price $25.00 wttei':r ruts ,Fort; PROSPECTUS TO MANUFACTURERS MERCHANDISING (CANADA) LT)h 2067 Stanley Street, Montreal ow The Moon Fools The Cue of the ;Host baffling and as yet unsalted problems that scien- tists are mos trying to explain is the apparent alteration in the size of the ;noon as it rises and creases the night sky. They know quite well that the moon is practically the sante sire when it first appears as it is when directtiy overheard. They also know. that the shrinking in size is an optical illnsinn, but exact- ly how that idloaion is eaused re. mains a mystery. - Everyone knows that the moots on tits horizon looks about three tines the sire of the moon over- head, but though the moon can fool our eyes it can't fool the cam- era, and a film of the inoon rising shows it to be practically the same sire all the time it is visible. Actually, when the moon is over- head it shondd look bigger than when it is on the horizon because it is about four thousand utiles nearer to us. But whco we check this with our own eyes we find just the opposite, Astronomers have been trying to explain tins illusion for centuries. Some thought the horizon noon seems larger because we compare it with trees and buildings also in the Iine of sight, whereas when it is high in the sky no such comparison can be made, Others said that dust particles in the air distort the horizon moats and stake it appear Larger. But ask any sailor what he thinks of this explanation and he will give the lie to it, for at sea the 01¢00 illusion scents to_ he just as great, even though there are aro trees or dust- WI ustoWt the 1tr,rizcm, Astriatum u•rs have clascovcred that the size of a big harvest 140011 can. be brought down to normal by looking at it through a tribe or circle made by one's thumb and forefinger,. The same thing happens if you bend down anti lords -at the moon through your legs. Similarly if one eye is covered and the observer looks at the rising moon for a long time the illusion gradually disappears. A malt who has lost an eye does not have any illusion at all. - When the moon is overhead it can be made to appear as big as a horizon moon if the obsetver lies on his • hark. Its that position itis eyes are in the same position as• when he stands erect looking at the. horizon moon. What is the solution to the riddle? Scientists will not commit them- selves beyond saying thy it has something to do with the raising and lowering of the eyes. Perhaps you have some ingenious ideas on the subject. What, No Feathers? -One of nature's oddities is this strange creature caught by coon dogs near Mount Enterprise. The animal's head resembles that of a fox, and it has a tail like an opossum and feet like a raccoon. Stranger yet is the complete absence of hair and an extra tail starting to grow on. its back. Charles Iludson, shown holding the animal above, The Famous Eskimo Jumping Game As the -darkest part of night came on the inclination of everybody was towards some kind of celebration or entertainment for the visitors, and here Connie and I tried our luck with the others at the famous Es- kimo jumping game, Beside one of the tents the game had begun. We understand that originally a walrus hide was always used for the jumpers, but in this part of the ocean there are no wal- rus, and these people extemporized with a moose"hide. The hide had a rope sewed around theedgefor handholds. About fifteen people took hold of the skin, stretching it tight like a firetnan's net. They chanted an jerked the skin taut and then slackened off in unison. The dancer stood in the center of the skin and tried to hold his bal- ance. If he succeeded he was shot higher and higher into the air, About the highest we saw dancers go on the hide was fifteen feet into the air. With a walrus skin and more hide holders the dancer can reach much greater heights. Many of our party had never tried this game before and one or two couldn't be induced to try. The game looked easy, so upon being coaxed to join in, I gave it a try. At first I tried to jump as the skin carte taut, but the people ex- plained that I had only to stand straight and land on my feet. 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