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The Seaforth News, 1946-10-03, Page 7} DOST IN FUN 11 Speed in an American shipyard noted for its bustle and speed the stage was set for . the launching Gere - The distinguished guest, holding the traditional bottle,of cham- pagne, exclaimed in some bewilder- ment, "But, there's no ship." Replied the foreman: "Start swinging that bottle, lady'. There will be." A Long Time "I like that dress you're wear- ing." "I got it for my twentieth birth- day." "Really I It has worn well, hasn't it?" Smart Husband: "Conte back for some- thing you've forgotten, as usual?" Wife (brightly): "No, I've come back for something I've remem- bered," Reasonable Ivlistress: "Why don't you keep the baby quiet, Kate?" Kate: "1 can't keep hien quiet, Ma'am, unless i let him "make a noise." THE SPORTING THING "That one's got me worried." Don't Boast A Scots girl obtained a situation In the South. One day her mistress asked her what particular part of Scotland she came from. "1 come front near Aberdeen," was the reply. "Oh," said her mistress, "1'm sorry you didn't tell me so before. 1 had some friends staying there, and 1 would have asked you if you knew then." "it's like this," retorted the girl: "when 1 was leaving hone my mother said, 'Dinna boast."' More Important In answer to her advertisement for a cook, the housewife received only one reply. "1 suppose I needn't bother ask - Ing for references, John?" she asked, discussing the matter with her husband. "No, my dear," said John, "just ask her to submit samples." THE SPORTING THING ' So! Ben drinkin' black coffee again!" He Knew Smith assured his wife that he could repair the broken window. So he took careful measurements and went to buy the glass—and to ask the dealer how to put it in. "It's quite easy," was the reply. "Just remove the broken bits, fit in the new glass, put the putty around, and there you arel" In a short time Smith was back again. The shopman grctted him with: "Same size again, I suppose?" Tough "Two days without food or water," announced the Commando to an admiring audience in the local; "think of that." "Pretty' bad," agreed a middle- aged man; 'but how would you like to have fought in the trenches in Flanders? Sometimes we were up to the waist in icy water and mud' for a week or more." "Call yourselves soldiers?" snort- ed a very, very old man who had hobbled to the bar. "Pahl When 1 was in the Zulu war, a spear' knocked me down and pinned me lo the ground. 1 couldn't move, and I lay there for over a week without food or drink." "By Jove!" exclaimed the Com- mando hero. "It must have been very painful." "Not very," answered the old man; "only when •I laughed." TA LE TALKS a a Vegeztabde Dishes Egg Plant Creole 1 medium egg plant Boiling salted water 3 tablespoons mild -flavoured fat 1 small green pepper, chopped 1 small onion, chopped 3 tablespoons floor Vi teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon brown sugar 3 large tomatoes (peeled -and chopped) OR 2 cups canned tomatoes • bay leaf, crushed hi teaspoon cloves f/ cup bread crumbs 1 tablespoon buttter OR 3 tablespoons grated cheese Peel and dice egg plant. Cook for 10 minutes in a little boiling, salted water. Drain. Place in greas- ed baking dish. Melt fat, add green pepper and onion and saute 2 min- utes. Add flour, salt and sugar, blend well. Add tomatoes, crushed bay leaf and cloves, and continue coolcing 5 minutes. Pour the tomato sauce over egg plant and top with bread crumbs which have been combined with the butter or grated cheese. Bake in moderate over, 350 deg. F, for 20 minutes. Six servings. Apple and Squash Casserole 2% cups diced, cooked squash 1% cups sliced sour apples Yi cup brown sugar 2 strips side bacon, diced t/z 'teaspoon salt Arrange half the squash in greas- ed casserole. Cover with half the apples. Sprinkle with half the sugar and salt and add half the bacon. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Cover and bake in moderately slow oven, 325 deg. F, for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake until apples are soft and to is browned, about 15 minutes longer. Potatoes in Green Peppers 3 large green peppers 2 tablespoons fat 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk • teaspoon salt dash of pepper 1 cup grated cheese 3 cups diced cooked potatoes Wash peppers, cut in half length wise and remove seeds. Parboil, un covered, in salted water until ten- der but not soft. Drain. \'telt fat, add flour and blend well. Add milk, stirring constantly until mixture thickens, Add. salt, pepper and cheese. Stir until cheese is melted. Add potatoes and heat of er low heat until hot. Serve in green pep- per cases. Sia servings. Many people do not like Jerusa- lem Artichokes because they don't know how to cook them. The artichokes (Jerusalem) should be parc'l and dropped in cold acidu- lated water, that is water (1 quart) to which 1 teaspoon of lemon juice or vinegar has been added. This will prevent the artichokes from discolouring. After being drained they are cooked like other vege- tables in a small amount of boiling salted water, until tender. then served with a cream sauce or sea- suned with salt, pepper, butter and chopped parsley h VOICE OF THE PRESS Nearly Fell Over The fellow who used to get 75c and his dinner for planting corn all day was taken a little aback when' a grocer the othtl,day offered hint half a dozen roasting ears for the same figure. - Christian Scienan Monitor. Sucker Trap Why put in jail, if he is caught,, an imaginative guy like that chap reported to be selling atomic bomb stock around the country? Why not , examine the dopes who buy the stock? — St. Catharines Standard. ,Delicious Proof There are worse places to live in than Canada. Here we pay 25 cents for a high-grade brick of ice cream. In New York the same thing costs 81. —St. Thomas Times -Journal. To Be Heard From As the specifications for a new jet-propelled motor car lists its top speed at 130 m.p.h. and make no mention of brakes, we assume it has an extra -loud horn. —Chicago Daily News. Futility By the way, have you noticed how much it helps to blow your horn in a traffic jam? Of have you? —Christian Science Monitor. New Housing Slogar The U.S. Army is selling gliders at 375. They are packed in crates for delivery and the lumber in the crates is worth from $2,70 to $700. Buy a glider and build a home, should be a slogan over there. . —St. Catharines Standard. Universal Language "The world needs a universal language," asserts a writer. But, mister, the world already has s universal language. It's one spoken when money talks. —Kitchener Record. You Will Enjoy Staying At The St. Regis Hotel 'LOl(ONTO • Every Room With Rath Shover Lund Telephone • Single, 52.50 Int— - Double, 33.50 up • Good good Dining and Dane. Ing Nightly Sherborrne at Carlton Tel. RA. 4135 ser ROOMS RGAUTI FULLY rhRNl.ulan $1.50 up HOTEL METROPOLE. NIAGARA FALLS OPP. — C.N.R. STATION • Restful Runaway Alongside, planes that try to bore through .mountains, and trains that try t0 pass on a. single track, the old-fashioned runaway horse was positively restful. —Edmonton Journal. Distance During the past twenty-five yearsothe world has had to revise its ideas about distance. War and destruction may now travel from one country to, another in less than an hour, as we very well know. But exchange of information and opin- ion can be carried on just as quick- ly. —Peterborough Examiner. The Better Way The best wayto raise the stan- dard of living in this country and provide for the welfare of the chil- dren is to so order the national economy that there may be steady jobs at decent wages for all. There- after, in the cases in which, for any reason, parents are unable to look after their children, specific and effective assistance could be given. —Brantford Expositor. $p�RIN NEA FAST NEW LOW PRICES 12 tablets...1k • 24 tablets...21e 100 tablets..1k Vermont Marvel The maininterest of a city lad who is spending a partof the sum- mer -on his grandparents' farm' in Vermont is a brand-new calf. He wrote his father and mother last week that he wished they were there to watch it grow. "It's get- ting bigger every day," he said, and then, as if despaired of con- veying any sense of the solemn wonder of it all, he added, "Some- times twice a day." —The New Yorker. A Mess, Anyway Canadian mines say they need 100,000 men, .and we are toldat the same time that construction, so vital now, is being held up by lack of workers. Meanwhile we have 50,000 men idle through strikes. Truly this country seems to be doing its best—or worst—to throw away its birthright. —Ottawa Journal. When your BACK ACHES... Backache is often caused by lazy kidney action. When kidneys get out of order excess acids and poisons remain in the system. Then backache, headache, rheumatic pain, dis- turbed rut or that 'tired out' feeling may soon follow. To help keep your kidneys working properly—me Dodd's Kidney Pills. Time -tested popular, safe, non -habit-form- ing. Demand Dodd's Kidney liW, in the blue oz with the red hand. Sold ererrwhere. tls GENUINE ASPIRIN IS MARKED THIS WAY HOLD EVERYTHING "This was the captain's quar- ters -so wipe your feet before you come in!" 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