The Seaforth News, 1949-07-14, Page 6'71hvgat
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WEST OF THE
SUN
A serial Story
by
JOSEPH LEWIS
CHADWICK
wralsPleto
The story elm. fart Virginia Amos re -
eaves a letter from Phil Lawrence her
fiance urging her to come to him ut ante
at Santa Bonita 10 the heart of the um
nettled frontier West. By rail and stage
Oho reaches Fort Winfield whore Lt. 31,Im
Bandit% whom Virginia had once fallen
let love with In Washington and who met
the Mace at lainneoft, reports the holdup
in which a money hos for Steve Barron.
gambling czar. and a cameo pin of Vie-
ainia's were otolen. At mention of PhD
Lawrence's name Virginia perceives re-
straint In those to whom site talks, and
Fim finally tells her that Phil and Barron
once quarrelled over a gambling debt. Ils
escorts her woman,' to Phiro ranch, but
they find the mire deserted, with evidence
of sudden deparhere.
CHAPTER V
"Lawrence!" he called. And got
no answer.
He moved inside. and Virginia fol-
lowed at his elbow. The adobe had
but one all-purpose room. It was
tow ceilinged and very long. Three
bunks stood against the wall at one
end. There was a fireplace at the
other. A table and chairs stood
close to the fireplace, and on the
table a meal was spread. A meal
for one person.
Jim's boots made hollow sounds
as he moved to the table. He began
to examine the food on the thick
china plate. He lifted the coffee pot.
looked and sniffed at its contents.
His face was bewildered.
Virginia was at his side. "What
Ip it?" she asked.
He turned slowly to look at her.
'This food has lain here a long
time," he said. "For weeks per-
haps." He gestured with his hand.
"'There's a layer of dust over every-
thing-"
Virginia stared at him with
alarmed eyes,
And he went on. "This place has
been deserted."
CHAPTER VT.
Virginia felt iso great surprise
with her despair. She had antici-
pated something -and this was
what it had been. Phil Lawrence
was gone, His ranch was deserted.
Something had happened to him.
She gripped Jim Randall's arm.
"Jim. what happened?" she de-
manded; yet she knew that he could
not answer that. The bewilderment
on his face showed her that, and
more. He was alarmed.
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He said quickly: "Wait here.'
And he turned and strode from the
adobe ranchhouse,
He was gone perhapa ten minutes,
and when she saw his Uniformed
figure in the dOorway again she
knew he had found nothing.
"Everything is in order," he said.
"But his horse and saddle are gone
ft looks as if he merely rode off,"
"But would a rancher leave his
place for so long a time?" Virginia
asked. "Wouldn't he have to look
after his stock?"
Jim nodded. "I'm as puzzled as
you, Virginia."
"What can 1 do?"
He was thoughtful for a moment.
Then: "We'll see Steve Barron and
have a talk with him."
They headed northwest toward
the distant mountain range whose
jagged peaks reared against the
pale blue sky like sharp wolf fangs.
The blazing sun hung directly over-
head when they rode into Santa
Bonita. It was a tiny cluster of
adobe and frame buildings, seeming
asleep in the sun.
Jim led the way to the cafe and
they dismounted there.
"You can wait inside," he told
Virginia, "I'll go find Barron.'
He entered the little cafe with
her and left her after ordering het
a meal. He stepped from the cafe
and strode 'to the* saloon. He shoul-
dered through the swinging doors
and halted just inside to let his eyes
become adjusted to the gloom,
The room was big. A long bar
ran the length of it At one end
were the gaming tables. Only three
customers were in the place. Jim
crossed to the bar and told the bar-
tender he wanted to see Steve Bar-
ron. He was directed to a door at
the far end of the room.
He knocked sharply opened and
stepped into a small room, Steve
Barron sat at a desk writing. He
looked up slowly and showed no
surprise.
"Well, Randall?" he said flatly.
"I have Virginia over in the cafe,"
Jim said, "\Ve came from Phil
Lawrence's ranch. The place is de-
serted. I thought you'd knowif
anyone did, what happened out
there."
"I don't know, 1 haven't seen
Lawrence for weeks."
Jim took off his campaign hat and
tossed it onto the desk. He found a
chair and sat down, rolling a cigar.
ette. His eyes were saber sharp.
"You ere the only man who had
anything against Lawrence."
"I never had a showdown with
him, Lieutenant."
"You didn't send guuslicks after
him?"
Steve Barron hesitated, A frown
lay over his darkly handsome face.
He said, finally: "When Law
rence stopped gambling here he had
lost 500 blue chips, Each chip count-
ed as one head of cattle. He re-
fused to turn the 500 head over to
me. I sent my boys after them -
and got them,
"You'd know if they had?"
(Continued Next Week)
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to buy a dime's worth of protection against a bad.sunburi. She
gets a spray job from the new sun -tan lotion machine set up in
a beach surf club. Latest bid, in the billion -dollar -a -year slot
machine business, it sprays 30 seconds for a dime.
LekNiNE. 141IRST
"Dear Anne Hirst: I've been
married five years and my husband
is overseas. I work, and mylnoth-
er takes care of my little girl dur-
ing the day. Now, because I like
to, stay out late at night, she
threatens to stop looking after her!
"I like a few evenings to myself,
g.2 I just don't come home. Some-
times Pm in by midnight, some
times by four in the morning. My
mother says this is not fair to her
and Dad, that I'm a married wotn-
an and a mother, and if I don't
stop going to taverns (I do drink
and smoke) she will tell my hus-
band. 1 loved my husband deafly
when he was here, but now I don't
se,em to care for him at all.
"My mother is not in very good
health, and she claims 1 should
stay home every night and make
home for my baby, and for my hus-
band when he returns.
"Mind of My Own"
"Now, Anne FIirst, I have a
mind of my own. I'm old enough
to take care of myself. Don't you
think she should mind her own
business? I'm home three or four
nights a week and every Sunday,
yet she and Dad still are not satis-
fied! 1 ant only being niodern. illy
life is being ruined by my parents!
"Please print this. Maybe then
they'll understand I ant able to. run
my own life, and get in when I
please."
t 'usigned.
* it is shocking, even in these
* "modern" days, that a married
* woman feels she can fling off all
* family responsibilities and live
her own life. Once a girl mar-
" ries, she is supposed to live for
. her husband and her children.
* Your husband gave you his
* good name. You are trailing that
* name in the dust, publicly, when
* you frequent taverns with other
* men. He trusted you with his
* child, What sort of mother do
* you appear to bo, when you leave
* that child night after night? The
" hours apart front your work be-
* long to her to nurture her and
* train her in the way she should
* go.
* Whether you care for your hes.
* band or not, you have no right
* to shame him as you are doing.
* He is being publicly betrayed,
* and by a wife who obviously is
* too blind to see herself as others
* are seeing her.
* You are tucky, indeed, that
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,* your moelter, though in poor
* health herself, looks after your
* little girl while you arsworking.
* To expect her to do more than
* that is utterly selfish. She and
* your father need their rest, and
* to have to sit with a youngster
* until Vile early houts of the morn-
* ing is irrational and inconsider-
* ate,
* Your mother is threatening to
* stop caring for your child, and to
* tell your husband why." She is
* at her wits' end, knowing what
* you are doing to yourself and to
* him. You admit she and your
* father. have been good to you
* (you are living free, in a home
* which they own) and you have
* driven them to this decision. It
* is their last hope that you may
* change your ways and become
* the faithful wife and good mother,
* they want you to be,
* I know that this opinion vill
* not be welcome: Yet 1 give it
* 111 the hope that you will realize
* what you are doing to the bus-
* hand and the parents who love
* you and want only the best for
* yOu,
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An ungrateful child has caused
many a parent to take drastic
meusures. If you fare such prob-
lems, ask Anne Iiirst's counsel.
Address her at -Box 1, 123 Eigh-
teentli Street, New Toronto, Ont.
"Can She Bake .
A Cherry Pie?"
Cherries are ripening, the red pie
cherries which have color and tang
and personality. Now is the time to
make cherry jam and cherry me,
if you really know how, Cherry jam
happens to he one of the best of all
confections, but because it requires
a cook who is also a connoisseur
not a great many people undertake
it. No such good fortune prevails
with cherry pie. The notion seems
to be abroad that anyone with
pie pan and a bowl of cherries can
snake a , cherry pie; and nothing
could be further from the truth.
It takes an artist to make a cherry
pie worth the name. A person able,
willing and patient enough to pit
the cherries, and discriminating
enough to choose the right cherries,
dead -ripe for the most part but with
just the right number still tanged
with aeid. Pitted and oozing their
own undiluted juice, they should
have just the right amount of sugar,
not too much or too little. Then a
clash, the most careful dash, of
nutmeg, '.Chen a bit of flour. Not
cornstarch, but honest flour; too
much flour and the pie will congeal,
too little and it will flow, either of
which is fatal:
There are the ingredients. Build
a bottom Crust which will flake in
your mouth; and, as you will, make
a full top, crust or a lattice. Dab
the cherries with butter before they
go in, dab crust or lattice with but-
ter, sprinkle judiciously with sugar,
an d bake.
It sounds so sinaple. And it in
simple, when the right person dose
it. The result, depending on the
maker, can be magnificeut, or die -
mai. As we said, .it is essentially a
matter of art. And, unfortunately,
there are too few artists around
e hen cherries ripen.
--The New York Sun
Sure, money talks, but nowadays
you caret hold onto it long enough
to start a conversation.
ISSUE 20 11)4P
2 TABLE TALKS -
•elawi Andrews,
I'm sure 1 don' need to tell you
of the importiume of plenty of.
vegetables in the diet, and eepecial-
ly in the. diet of those still young
and growing. But please don't be
like so many, and waste half the
goodness of the vegetables you cook
pouring precious vitamins down the
drain, or by overcooking.
If you want to know if your
vegetables are properly cooked,
look at the color! Those that are
nearly the same color when you
serve them as they were before
cooking have kept the most food
value.
But vegetables that have been
boiled and boiled in too much water,
with the lid off, not 'only look
washed out, but arel The water has
washed away minerals, vitamins,
and color.
Leaf vegetables, such as spinach,
mustard greens, kale chard, new
beet and turnip tops, should be
cooked ONLY IN • THE WATER
WINCH CLINGS TO THEM
AFTER WASHING. Other green
and yellow vegetables should be
cooked --well covered -in about half
an inch of water, which should be
salted and boiling briskly when the
vegetables are put in. Cook on high
heat until vegetables begin to steam,
then finish cooking on low.
Strong -flavored vegetables, usu-
ally white or ;yellow in color, need
more cooking water=aboin in inch
in the pan (covered). for parsnips
and turnips.
*
Perhaps you've heard that one
sort of pan is better than another
for cooking to save minerals and
vitamins. The really important
thing, however, is that if you're
going to cook vegetables properly,
that is quickly and in a minimum
of water, your pan must conduct
heat rapidly, and have a tight fitting
ltd.
And, according to tbe American
Medical Association, you can for-
get any rumor. that food cooked in
a certain kind of pan is dangerous.
That organization says that YOU
DO NOT enda'nger your family's
health by cooking in aluminum
pans, pr in those made of stainless
steel with copper bottoms.
*
Now, as a handy guide, I'm going
to give you the proper time sched-
ule for cooking fresh vegetables.
(The minimum time is for tender
young vegetables - the maximum
for those not so y,oung.)
SCHEDULE FOR COOKING
FRESH VEGETABLES
Vegetable Minutes
Asparagus 12-15
Beans, green lima 20-25
Beans, green snap 20-25
Beets 30-60
Beet greens 15-30
Broccoli 15-20
Brussels sprouts 12-15
Cabbage, Chinese 3- 5
Cabbage, green 7-10
Cabbage, red 15-25
Carrots 15-25
Cauliflower 12-15
Celery 15-20
Chard (le,ayes & stalks) 10-15
Collards 10-15
Corn (on cob, kernels) 5-15
Eggplant 10-20
Kale 15-30
Kohlrabi 25-30
Mustard greens 15-30
Okra - 15-25
Onions, dried 30-45
Parsnips •
Peas,. green • , 10-20 •
Peppers , 5-15
Potatoes, whole, White - 20-30
Potatoes, sweet ' 20-30
Rutabagas 20-30
Spinach . 5-10
Squash, summer 10-15
Tomatoes 10-20
Turnips 25-30
30-40
And now, for a change of sub-
ject, here's something interesting
for those of you who have your
own milk and cream, and can
dulge occasionally in the priceless
treat of real home-made ice' cream
For here's a recipe, worked out
by a Penn State College specialist,
for just about the easiest home-
made ice' cream that ever was -
made in just 15 minutes. Here's
how you go about it.
First, put your ice cream can in
the freezer tub, then pack' the tub
full of crushed ice -four parts
of ice to one part salt, (An old
coffee can is handy for Measuring.)
Now, pour -into the can,
154 quarts light cream
1 quart milk
and stir in
154 cups sugar
A.' teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
Beat and 'add
4 eggs.
Now adjust the lid and crank.
Pour cold water over the ice until
it trickles out the overflow hole,
then finish packing ice and salt
into the tub.
Turn the crank SLOWLY 6 to It
minutes; RAPIDLY for the re-
maining S -ha 7 minutes, adding ice
and 'salt as needed.
Now draM off brine; removesthe
lid. Then -well, use your own judg-
ment los' cream is done when it
dings to a spoon held upside down.
This method takes about .25 pound.
Me, II pounds salt.
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0,006 APPLE CAKE
Recipe
Measure into bowl, 3.4 cup lake.
warm water, 1 teaspoon granu-
lated sugar; stir until sugar is
dissolved. Sprinkle with 1 en-
velope Fleischmann's Royal Fast
Rising Dry Yeast. Let stand 10
minutes, THEN stir well. Scald
% cup milk and stir in 34 cup
granulated sugar, 34 teaspoon
salt, 3 tablespoons shortening;
cool to lukewarm. Beat in 1 cup
once -sifted bread flour. Add yeast
mixture and 1 beaten egg; beat
well. Work in 2 yi cups once -sifted
bread. flour. lfnead lightly; place
in greased bowl and brush top
with melted butter or shortening.
Cover and set in warm place, free
from draught. Let rise until
doubled in bulk. Punch down
dough and divide into 2 equal
portions; form into smooth balls.
Roll each piece into an oblong and
fit into greased pans about 7" x
11". Grease tops, cover and let rise
until doubled in bulk. Peel, core
and cut 8 apples into thin wedges.
Sprinkle risen dough with k cup
granulated sugar and lightly press
apple wedges into cake tops, sharp
edges down and close together.
Mix 1 cup granulated sugar and
134 teaspbons cinnamon; sprinkle
over apples. Cover and let rise
about 34 hour. Bake In moderate
oven, 350°, about 1 hour. Serve
hot, with butter.
New Fast -Acting
Dry Yeast
Needs NO Refrigeration!
Stays fresh and full-strength on
your pantry shelf for weeks !
Here's all you do:
OIn a small amount (nsually specie
fied) of lukewarm water, dissolve
thoroughly 1 teaspoon sugar for
each envelope of yeast
.6)Sprinkle with dry yeast. Let stand 10 minutes.
TRW stir well. (The water used with the yeast counts as part of
the total liquid called for in your recipe.)
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