Zurich Herald, 1935-02-21, Page 31--
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By Mair M. Morgan
EARLY TO BED
",All school girls should be in bed
by 9:30," declares Miss C. A. Cross,
B.A„ headmistress of East Hain
(England) Grammar School for
Girls, who is retiring after more
than 20 years' education service in
East Ham. She is perturbed .at the
"increasing distaste" 'for homework,
and for real concentrated effrt
school hours.
Miss Cross suggests to parents
that there are three causes: The
lure of pictures and other amuse.
ments which keep 'the schoolgirl oc-
cupied Tong after she should be in
bed; increasing use of Sunday AS a
day for outings which sends her to
school. on Monday morningtoo tired
to take a real interest in her work,
and continuous sound of radio and
gramophone, which engenders the
habit of hearing without a cor-
responding mental effort.
Whether or not you agree that
honiework should be necessary you
must acquiesce in the premise that
no child should be expected to con-
centrate on his lessons when there
are so many outside distractions.
Good students know that they must
have quiet if they are to grasp and
remember the salient points a know-
ledge of which will enable them to
shin in class. Parents who scold
their children for not coming high in
the list of good scholars should ask
themselves if they have done all
they could to help the. youngsters by
at least giving them a quiet place to
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RUSH HOUR LUNCH.,
How to get enough nourishment
into the child in the few minutes he
is home from school for luncheon is
a real problem. The meal must be
satisfying without being; a tax on
the digestion. And it must be- easy
fn wf quickly. A irilk dessert fills
these requirernalts and gives
needed nourishment in a most
'wholesome form. Here 'tire some easy -
to -make, Inexpensive desserts or
this sort, warranlee to appeal to
the youthful taste.
' Orange Meringue Custard
1 1-3 cups (1 can) sweetened con-
densed milk
3 oranges
3 eggs
3 tatIgittliV grannlan sugar.
Blend sweetened condensed milk
a with diced pulp and juice of orang-
es. Add well -beaten egg yolks. Pour
into buttered baking dish. Cover top
with meringue made from stiffly -
beaten egg whites and sugar. Bake
15 minutei'sa or until meringue is
'1,rown, in a moderately slow oven
(325 degrees F.). Serves six.
Bakelees Pudding
1 1-3 cups (1 can) sweetened
densed milk
Juice of 1 lemon
11/4 cups graham cracker
2 eggs.
Blend tpgether sweetened condens-
ed milk, lemon juice and well-heaten
egg. Stir until thick. Add graham
cracker erumbs. Place in sherbet
glasses,. Vfay be garnished with
whipped ,Crearn and nut meats. Serv-
es six.
con -
crumbs
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WHEN' THE YOUNGSTERS
BRING HOME FRIENDS
When the children come home from
school, bringing friends with them,
the housewife's skill and time are
taxed to keep an adequate supply of
food on hand
Here are 'Cookies as nourishing as
they are teriipting—spicy, fruity.
And the cake is,one of those de-
licious fruit loaves that would im-
prove with age ,if you could- manage
to keep any, of it for more than a
few days.
Refrigerator Frudt Cookies
• 1 (9 oz.) package dry mince meat
and 1/4 cup water, boiled almost
dry .
1-3 cup butter or shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg •
3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking po'wder
1/4 teaspoon salt
op '
Break mince moat into pieces, add
cold water, place over heat and stir
until all lumps are thoroughly
broken up. Bring to a brisk boil;
continue boilinr. for three minutes,
or until mixture is practically dry.
Allow to cOol. Cream shortening and
sugar. Add egg and beat vigorously.
Sift flour once, measure, add baking
powder and salt and sift again, Add
dry ingredients alternately with
milk to first mixture. Blend thor-
oughly. Fold in cooled mince meat,
Chill dough four hours. Roll to Ya
inch thickness on slightly floured
board. Cut with cookie cutter. Bake
on buttered sheet about 12 -minutes
in hot even (400 degrees F.). Mak-
es 3 dozen cookies.
Porlc Cake
1 (9 oz.) package dry mince meat
and 1/4 cup water boiled almost
dry
1/2 Potind fat salt pork
1/4 cup sugar ,
stip molasses
21/4 cups flour
1/4. teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4, cup hot water
1/4 pound citron, finely chopped
Break mince meat into pieces. Add
cold water. Place over heat and stir
until all lumps are. thoroughly
broken up. Bring to brisk boil. Con -
tine .boiling for three minutes, or
until 'mixture is practically dry. Al-
low to cool. Cut salt pork into small
cakes, fry at moderate heat until
light brown and crisp, stirring fre-
quently. Strain 'fat and cool. Cream
pork fat with sfigar. Add molasses,
blending thoroughly. Sift flour once,
measure, add soda and cream oftar-
tar and sift again. Fold in citron
and cooled mince meat. Pour into
greased loaf pan (4 by 8 by 21/4
inches). Bake/ 11/4 hours in slow
oven (300 degrees F.).
STUFFED HAM ROLL
Slice of ham 1/4 -inch thick, cut
from center of ham
2 cups moistened bread crumbs
1 tablespoon minced parsley
• 1 cup tomato juice • '
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tie.' Pout over tomato juice, adding
a little hot .water., Place in baking,
pan, basting occasionally during
the two hours usually requiredjor
the baking process.
shortening in watera ,stir flour inte
rapidly boiling, water, Cook and stir
constantly until mixture leaves sides
•a pan in smooth, compact mass.
Remove at°once from fire. Add eggs,
one at a time, beating only until
smooth (20 to 40 . seconds) after
each. Shape on ung3eased baking
sheet, using pastry 'bag or two tea-
spoons to make strips' 5x1 inches.
Bake in hot oven (450 degrees F.)
20 minutes; then teduce heat to
moderate (350 degree a F.) and be'
25 minutes longdr, With sharp knife
snake alit in one side; insert Creamy
Chocolate Filling. Cover eelaIrs, if
desired, with your favorite chocolate
frosting. pikes 12.
C7'00,1722/ Chocolate Filling
3 squares unsweetened chocolate
- 2 cups milk
Fa cup sugar
4 tablespoons cake flour
1/4- teaspoon salt
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Add chocolate to 'milk andaheat in
double boiler. When choeorate is
molted, beat with rotary egg beater
until blended. Combine sugar, flour,
and salt; add gradually to chocolate
mixture and cook until thickened,
stirring constantly; then continue
cooking 10 minutes, stirring oc-
casionally. Pour small amount of
mixture over, egg .yolks, stirring
vigorously; • return: to double boiler
and cook 2 minutes longer, stirring
constantly. Remove from boiling
water; add butter and vanilla, and
tool, Makes 21/4 cups filling.
GINGER PUDDING
Good with lemon sauce.
32 cup white sugar
2 cups flour
% teaspoonful baking soda
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 cup bread crumbs
1 teaspoonful salt
1 cup shortening
11/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup nuts (inay be omitted)
2 teaspoonsful ginger
1 cup sour milk
• 1 cup molasses
,Steam 2 to 3 hours. Serves 6.
SWISS STEAK
2 pounds round or sirloin steak
cut 2 inches thick
cup flour, salt and pepper
mixed
cup ham or bacon drippings
Few slices onion
1/4 green pepper, chopped fine
2 cups boiling water or 1 cup
water and 1 cup strained to-
, matoes
Pound flour into meat with wooden
potato masher or edge of heavy
plate. Heat the fat. Brown the meat
on each side in it. Add onion, green
pepper, boiling water and tomato.
Cover closely. Simmer two hours.
This may be cooked in a casserole
in the oven. Other vegetables may be
added if desired.
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HOME-MADE ECLAIR
Amid all the new arrivals in
recipe books, the popularity of the
old-fashioned chocolate eclair re-
mains undimmed by the years. This
Sunday dessert favorite of our
childhood is a dessert favorite today
—a golden brown crisp shell that
melts in the mouth, filled with It
luscious, creamy chocolate filling.
Here it is ---another triumph of home-
made goodness.
Chocolate Eclairs
1 cup sifted cake flour
1-3 cup butter or other shortening
1 cup boiling water
3 eggs, unbeaten
Sift flour one; measure. Melt
Window Seats For
Gardens Indoors
Ample Room Even For T.4e.
• Larger Types Of
Plants
Flower lovers who seriously devel-
q the possibilities of window seats
in their heroes, can have indoor gar-
dens almost as satisfying as large
ones out-of-doors.
No petterJp,eati*,d01-be: found in
tit'efouSe for It • t ett windowi
.5o9tha; Waves
- en • a enS. a
in watering and caring for plants
there is likely to be an occasional
overflow of water or 'spilling of soil.
A Window seat finished in wood in-
evitably will become marred and water
marked, Therefore, a, surface of some
waterproof material like tile is far
more satisfactoryaaIt will stand abuse
and will clean easilf. In*kesting col-
ors and patterns may also be em-
ployed.
When choosing house plants one
may, of course, include subjects like
aspidistra, palms, rubber plants, hal:.
ly fern, anthericum, or Saint Ber-
nard Illy, dracaenas and pandanus or
screw pine, which will endure much
abuse, as will the now popular sense-
vetia, which is often called "lucky
plant."
The average individual will have
no trouble with other plants like the
Japanese rubber tree. Crassula ar-
borescens, and the, night blooming
cerus, except that they have certain
peculiarities. The crassula, for ex-
ample, has a tendency to produce
drooping branches quite different
froni the bushy tree -like habit that
is to be preferred. This may be the
result of growing the plant in too
large a pot, overwatering or over-
feeding. Stocky growth is net en-
couraged, either, but putting the
plant in a dark corner, Since the
plant is succulent it does not need
a great amount of water in the win-
ter months. One should - always
grow i0 in a pot that appears too
small.
"No woman ever acquired charm
by means of concentrated attention
upon the subject of herself,"—Elmily
Post.
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Father Neptune's weary old eyes brightened when he took an advance peep at what will be worn
at his beaches this summer. These bathing beautie s, each wearing a different type of swim suit, banded
together to show the contrasts in their various cost urnes. Any one of them will be perfectly proper.
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UNDAY
CHOOLESSON
LESSON VIII., February 24.—Peter
Heals a Lame Man.—Acts 3: 1-10;
4: 8-12. GOLDEN TEXT.— Then
Peter said, Silver and gold have I
none, but such as I have give I
thee. Acts 3: 6a.
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING.
Time.—Various periods within the
year A.D. 30 or 31.
Plape.—The city of Jerusalem.
"New Peter and John." ' It would'
prove interesting to make a list of
all the occasions in the Gospel rec-
ords where these, the two greatest
of the Twelve, appeared together.
"Were going up into the tempTe."
While earnestly laboring -for the.
spread of Christ's teaching, they did
not cast off regard, on that school-
maat.....r which had been •appointed to
brin me*.. -at, so`ttpttahechavoure..
eta, .1 the ordinary' Servides oY
the sanctuary consisted of the mor-
ning and evening sacrifices. "Being
the ninth hour." The other • events
recorded in the New Testament as
occurring at this particular hour are
significant (Matt. 27: 45, 46; Acts 10:
3, 30). Peter and John were not so
transported by special eestacies as
to forget their daily and customary
engagements Wpil God.
"And a certain man that was lame
from his mother's womb was car-
ried!! The lame are often referred
to in the Gospels, as a general class
(e.g., Matt. 11: 5; 15: 30, 31; 21:
14), but this is the only one who is
specifically spoken of. "Whom they
laid daily at the door of the temple."
The place where help may be most
confidently expected by huraanify in
need is where God is worshipped.
"Which is called Beautiful." Tradi-
tion does not help in identifying the
exact locatifin of this particular
Temple gate. It is believed to be
however, "the Corinthian Gate,"
which is identical with the Nicanor
Gate, on the east side of the Temple
precincts. Its doors, and other parts
were of Corinthian brass (or bronze)
probably solid, being shut with diffi-
culty by twenty men. "To ask alms
of them that entered the temple."
Even today, in the Orient, the same
class of people are found gathered
about places of worship.
"Who, seeing Peter and John about
to go into the temple, asked to re-
ceive an alms." He mechanically"
Wailed out his formula, apparently
scarcely looking at the two strang-
ers, nor expecting a response.
"And Peter, fastening his eyes upon
him," The verb derives from a root
meaning "stretched," and indioates
an intensive gaze. "With John, said,
Look on us." The comment on this
verse by John Calvin is profound:
Peter cloth not thus speak before he
be certain of the purpose and intent
of God. And surely in these words
he commandeth him to hope for some
singular and unwonted beuefit,
"And he gave heed unto them, ex-
pecting to receive. something from
them." Expectation and receptivity
were being stirred in him, though he
could not divine what was coming.
"But Peter said, Silver and gold
have I none." It is perfectly evident
that having all things common had
not. enriched Peter and John. "But
•what I have, that give I thee. The
ImaraWho uttered those words was a
manti:4110 lived in the positive rather
than fn. the. negative mood. "In the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth-,
walk." Pentecost had not changed
the fact which- Jesus had declared to
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"And .he took 1. m by the right
band, and immediately his feet and
and his ankle -bones received
etrength. The words in the original
are found nowhere else in the New
Testament They are of a technical
character, and their use, together
with the other features of exact de-
scription of the cripple's case, indi-
cate that we have before us the lan-
guage of the physician (Col. 4: 14).
"And leaping up, he stood, and be-
gan to walk." There is no hesitation
in the man's manner; he does not
question the power, but obeys at
once. "And he entered with them
into the temple, walking, and leap-
ing and praising God."
"And all the "'people saw him walk-
ing and praising God." Certainly we
are to proclaim publicly the wonder-
ful things God has done for us.
"And they took knowledge of him,
that it was he that sat for alms at
the Beautiful Gate of the, temple."
His previous affliction now gives
added weight to his present sdund-
ness of body. When one is convert-
ed, it is those who knew our pre-
vious life of wickedness or godless-
ness who are likely to be most
liii-
pressed. "And they were filled with
wonder and amazement." The latter
of these two nouns is a translation
of the Greek word ekstasis, from
which cornea our word ecstasy, and
is defined by Thayer as meaning "the
state of one who, either owing to the
importance or novelty of an event, is
thrown into a state of blended fear
and wonder. "At that which had hap-
pened unto him."
Filially, as a consequence of this
miracle, a great multitude of Jews,
as would be exected, crowded togeth-
er to learn more of what had been
rumored about, in Solomon's Porch,
which "derived its name from Solo-
mon, and was (possibly) the only rem-
nant of his temple. It was situat-
ed on the eastern side of the temple,
and so was sometimes called the East-
ern Cloister, and from its position it
was a favorite resort.
"Then, Peter, filled with. the Holy
Spirit, said unto them." Peter, "fill-
ed with the Holy Ghost," was a man
of war, a mighty captain, a soldier
not to be put down; clothed with
heavenly panoply, eloquent with hea-
ven's thunder, gracious with heaven's
love. I'Ye rulers of --the people, and
elders. If we this day are examined."
The Greek verb here means "to in-
vestigate, inquire into, scrutinize, sift,
question." "Concerning a good deed
done to an impotent man. Cutting
straight through their sophistry, and
coming at once to the real question
involved. "By what means this man
is made whole." The healed man is
thought of as present, although noth-
ing is said of his summons. There
is no dispute about the reality of the
lame .man's recovery.
"Be it known unto,ou all, and to
all the people of Israel." The apostle's
speech :71: fnodoult1iee: own,.
throughout Judaism as quickiy as
news in those days could be earned.
'That in the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom ye crucified. Such. a
arguments ndat. BeT.:bming ataaa a41..
mon with some Jewish scholars and
rabbis, attempting to exonerate the
Jewish nation from guilt in the
death of their Messiah. "Whom God
raised from bhe dead, even in him
whole."
"He
this man stand here before you
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"He is the stone which was set at
nought of you the builders, which was
made the head of the corner." The
council are fitly called the builders;
for on them depended the whole re-
ligious and civil government of the
people. St. Peter, with his mind now
enlightened to apply the Scriptures,
uses the words of the Psalmist (118:
22) as spoken prophetically of Christ.
Christ had already (Matt. 21: 42) ap-
plied these words to himself and to
the way in which he was being re-
Jected of the Jews, in the close of
one of his parables which the Phari-
sees felt had been spoken against
them.
"And in none other is there sal-
vation: for neither is there any other
name under heaven, that is given
among men, wherein we must be sav-
ed." The original question was not
one of salvation, it was merely a
question of healing a lame man. But
let an apostle heal a man's ankle-
bones, and from those ankle -bones he
swings clear off to Christ's world -sav-
ing Cross. Sometimes we find it dif-
ficult to move from our Old Testa-
ment text to our New Testament gas -
Pel; the Apostles never experienced
such a difficulty. See how grandly
Peter stands above the occasion! He
was not a mere healer of ankle -bones;
he was, in the Almightiness of God,
a healer of souls,
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