Zurich Herald, 1957-12-12, Page 2SKen King Way �'To
Procession
rocession
Queen Elizabeth rarely has the
opportunity to go anywhere in
public without benign recognized,
'Evan she did visit a London theatre
with five friends not long ago,
send not a single member of the
urge audience realized she had
been among thein until after-
wards.
It was different in the days of
Eger great-grandfather, King Ed-
raid VII, w'ho often took walks
• incognito or attended shows
without being recognized, When
U. the country, he liked driving
its dogcart and chatting anony-
mously with his subjects.
While out driving one hot day
be encountered an elderly wo-
man carrying a loaded shopping
basket. He. offered her a lift,
which she gladly accepted. On.
learning that her basket con-
tained eggs, the King smilingly
said he would give her a portrait
Of his mother in exchange for
b.alf a dozen.
The surprised woman began
to think she had been rash in
accepting a lift from a stranger
who made such queer bargains.
"What good would e portrait of
your mother be to me?" she
asked. By this time they had
reached hex cottage. The woman
got down and, before handing
her the basket, the King extract-
ed the eggs. Then he slipped a
golden sovereign into her hand.
"That's my mother's portrait,"
he said, pointing to Queen Vic-
toria's head on the coin.
On another occasion King Ed-
ward was walking down Pall
Mall after dark when he met a
blind beggar who was waiting to
cross the street. The King pilot-
ed him over, gave him some
silver and passed on without
realizing that the incident had
been observed.
Next day he received an an-
onymous gift of a handsome sil-
ver inkstand with an inscription
saying it was "a token of ad-
miration from one who chanced
to be passing and saw your
majesty's kindly action."
On a formal visit to Brighton,
King Edward slipped away from
his attendants and strolled along
the promenade where he met a
14 -year-old boy woh asked him
where the royal procession was
and told him he had been wait-
ing more than two hours to see
the king go by.
"Well, I'm glad your long wait
has not been in vain. Now you
can go home," said King Edward
with a smile,
New Treatme, t
I1' ay z ro ong Lives
An "amazing, startling and ex-
elting" new treatment for high
blood pressure, which may pro-
long the lives of many of the
country's 20 million victims of
hypertension, was described last
eri.onth by Dr. Robert W. Wilkins
of the Boston University School
of Medicine,
For the past year, Dr. Wilkins,
pies' '-nt of the American Heart
Ass. tion, and his associates at
Massachusetts Memorial Hopitals
Piave been using a compound
Balled chlorothiazide on a group
of high blood pressure patients
who had failed to respond to all
other treatments. "The key to
the effectiveness of chlorothia-
zide came through a study of the
kidneys," Dr. Wilkins explained.
"We do not know what the kid-
neys have to do with hyper-
tension, but they are right in the
middle of the picture."
Victims of high blood pressure
often have congestive heart fail-
ure, with abnormally high
amounts of fluid in the body.
For these patients, chlorothiazide
perforins a double duty: It "very
effectively" eliminates excess
body fluids and salts, and it also
reduces the blood pressure it-
self,
Given three pills — each a
quarter of a gram—daily for
eight months, "the patients feel
fine," reported Dr. Wilkins.
"They're smiling; they don't feel
at all 'dragged out' any more.
They can do a full day's work,
and their pulses are clicking
along like fine wrist watches."
From Newsweek
Stogo Crocodile
Wished He } ;`ado"t
Who would want to steal a
golden eagle with a seven -foot
wing -spread and talons two
inches long? It sounds impos-
sible and highly dangerous, yet
some unknown thief forced an
entrance to an American animal
park after dark not long ago,
broke into a cage and went off
with the huge bird.
"It was notorious for its fer-
ocity, yet it has not been traced,"
said an official.
Animal and bird thieves are
usually specialists who are used
to handling all kinds, of crea-
tures. Early one morning some
time ago an alligator was stolen
from an English. zoo. It was only
18 inches long, but one day it
will be 10 feet long. This speci-
men was particularly fierce, hav-
ing spent much of its time bit-
ing, or trying to bite, with its
razor-sharp teeth, the hands that
fed it!
Alligators can be kept as pets,
which probably accounts for
their disappearance from private
and other zoos every now and
then. But what could have been
the motive of a daring thief who
stole two fair-sized lions from a
zoo in Salt Lake City, Utah?
They were carried away at dead
of night in a truck.
A man living near the zoo
said he awoke to hear the roar
of a lion about the time the
theft occurred.
Two camels which vanished
overnight from a• French zoo
must have given the thief "the
hump" and caused him to
abandon them after taking them
a distance of 20 miles or so. They
were found wandering. The
thief apparently found it im-
possible to dispose of them.
Stealing a crocodile sounds a
tricky task. It certainly was for
the thief who took one from a
Hungarian menagerie. His un-
wieldy loot attacked him, seizing
him by the arm and holding him
until his screams and wails
aroused a night-watchman. He
was released from the creature's
grip and later charged with
theft.
Four parrots were once stolen
from their cages in a Berlin
zoo. One was a splendid talker
while another, curiously enough,
was a bird whcih was a favorite
with local children who liked to
hear it utter its one and only
sentence: "Get the police!" On
the night of the theft, this bird
must have called in vain,
H
T STARTED ' ALL—
FROM
LL—
FROM "REVENGE" WEAPON . .
All present-day guided missiles are descendants of the German
V-1 and V-2 introduced near the end of World War 11. One
type is the aerodynamic missile, essentially a pilotless airplane,
patterned after the V-1 "buzz bomb" (see photo above).
m ° . TO INTERCONTINENTAL DESTROYERS e
On Sept. 8, 1944, the first V-2 rocket crashed down an London
from an altitude of 60 miles, having been fired five minutes
before from a point 200 miles away in the Netherlands (see
photo above).
X-RAY'S HER HOBt3Y—I-laving a chest X -Ray taken is just a
game to four-year-old Ann .Rankin, thanks to this hobby -horse
arrangement of the negative holder.
tYdam.,idews.
How hot is hot—or moderate-
ly slow? It's ovens we're talking
about. Although today's cook-
books nearly always give oven
temperatures in degrees Fahren-
heit, you probably have some
treasured family recipes written
in terms of 'scant cups" and
'moderate ovens.' Or it is just
possible that you cook delicious
meals on a coal or wood range
and know by feel just the right
temperature for an angel cake or
custard pie.
In any case, here's a fairly
standardized ehart of oven tem-
peratures to help you translate
casual instructions into Fahren-
heit.
Very slow
Slow
Moderately slow
Moderate
Moderately hot
Hot
Very hot 450°-500°
* o ,'
For the holiday season, you
may enjoy a turkey stuffing
recipe sent to the Christian
Science Monitor by Mrs. Valda L.
Brumagin, Toll House, Calif, She
says, 'Stuff the turkey with this
just before putting it in the oven,
so that stuffing will not be soggy.
I do not sew it in the turkey, btt,
stuff it in 'comfortably and then
let it spill out and around in
the . juices. Her recipe is for a
12 pound fowl.
TURKEY STUFFING
el loaf brown bread
eA loaf white bread
A little bit of corn bread, if you
have it
2 medium onions
4 large stalks celery
Stock from cooking the giblets
3 eggs, beaten
1 stick butter (i/ pound)
SaIt, pepper, garlic salt, and
poultry seasoning
Parsley, chopped
Walnut meats
Olives, if desired
Toast breads in oven so that
they will be dry and brown.
Break into small pieces in large
bowl; add corn bread. Cut up and
boil, just covered with water, the
mien and celery. Cool; add to
bread. Use enough stock to
moisten toast but do not make it
soggy. Add eggs, butter, and sea-
sonings to taste. Add cut-up wal-
nut meats and parsley. Add
olives, if you like.
* * * '
If you are planning to have
roast duck soon you may like
pineapple stuffing sent by Mrs.
Anette Lathrop, Kezar Falls,
Maine.
PINEAPPLE STUFFING
2 cups bread crumbs
3 tablespoons minced onion
2 tablespoons melted butter
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon minced parsley
1 No. 2 can crushed pineapple,
drained •
Cook onion in melted butter
until tender; add bread crumbs
and brown lightly; add season-
ings and drained pineapple, Mix
well. stuff duck, which has been
cleaned and rubbed inside and
out with salt. Close opening by
sewing or pinning. Baste occa-
sionally while baking at 350° F.
Allow 15-20 minutes per pound.
Mrs. Lathrop advises serving
this duck with steamed rice sea-
soned with saffron and combined
with bits of crisp fried onion,
broken bits of crisp fried bacon,
and chopped blanched almonds.
*, 4 D
If you'd like to make a real
English fruit caske, try this
recipe sent from Canada by Mrs.
t. 3. Baker, Vaudreuii, Quebec.
"We feel that Christmas cook-
ing is a real family event. The
children love to cut up fruit and
250°
300
325°
350°
375°
400°
grind nuts -- especially when
they know there is a tasty bowl
to scrape at the end!" says Mrs.
Baker. Her 0 -year-old daughter
painted 1 -pound cans silver and
painted or pasted pictures on
them to hold the gift cakes. This
recipe will make one large and
three 1 -pound cakes, Mrs. Baker
writes.
OLD ENGLISH CHRISTMAS
CAKE
1 pound flour
1 pound butter
1 pound brown sugar
1 pound currants
1 pound each white and dark
raisins
Juice and rind of 2 oranges
2 tablespoons molasses
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoon mixed spices
2 teaspoons each nutmeg and
cinnamon
1/4 pound mixed peel
1/2 pound candied cherries
ee pound ground ahnonds
10 eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons almond flavoring
2 teaspoons baking powder
Prune juice
Cream butter and sugar; add
siftedflour and flavorings. Add
beaten eggs, fruit, nuts, and bak-
ing powder. Mix spices, molasses,.
and orange juice and add to first
mixture. Mix well. (This needs
a good strong arm!) Bake in'
greased, lined, deep cake tins at
250° F. for 3-4 hours.• Do not
open oven door until cakes have
been in for 1 hour. Pour I/z cup
prune juice over each cake 1
hour before removing from oven.
(Cakes cooked in 1 -pound cans
will need only about 2 hours to
bake.)
* * *
"This recipe has been a great
favorite among 'my friends, and
with festive seasons coming it
occurred to me that many folks
might like to try it," wrote Miss
Lilian Wood, Gaithersburg,
Maryland, of her date roll.
DATE ROLL
3 cups sugar
1 cup mills
1 package dates
1 cup broken walnut meats
Butter the size of an egg
Combine sugar, milk, and but-
ter in a tall saucepan. Cook to
soft boil stage. Pit dates and add
to first mixture; stir gently until
dates are dissolved. Remove from
heat. Add walnuts, to which a
Advertising Man
Tells His Secrets
Sophisticates laughed when
John Caples sat down at his
typewriter 31 years ago and
wrote two . of the � best-known
phrases in advertising copy:
They laughed when I sat
down at the piano — but
when I started to play!
They grinned when the
waiter spoke to me in
French-- but their laughter
changed to amazement at my
reply.
But Caples, now a vice-presi-
dent of Baten, Barton, Durstine
ev Osborn, Inc., mildly notes in
his new book, "Making Ads Pay",
those elaborately ridiculed ad-
vertisements did exactly what
they were meant to; they said
correspondence courses for the
U.S. School of Music and Double-
day, Doran.
What's more, Caples insists, the
same formula—"curiosity ... re-
ward—will work today; only the
techniques are different. "Styles ,
in advertising may change,"- he
writes, `.`but not the basic prin-
ciples."
Some of the principles, en-
tangled as they are with unre-
generate human ,nature, sadden
Caples a little but he manfully
faces up to the situation. In
N a v y recruiting ads during
World War II, for example,
Caples learned that appeals to
patriotism weren't nearly as ef-
fective as appeals to self-interest.
"Free training that is worth
$1,500" easily outdrew "Imagine
me steering a destroyer".
Cleverness won't do either, as
he illustrates by comparing ads
for the Late Dale Carnegie's self-
improvement book. The head-
line "How to Win Friends and
Influence People" sold twice as
hard as "How to Ruin Your Mar-
riage in the Quickest Possible
Way". Caples' sorrowful con-
clusion: "Don't force the reader
to think. Do his thinking for
him."
Some other Caples tips:
_ Policemen make good models.
("They don't worry much. So
they have pleasant expressions")
Monday is a good day to run
loan ads. ("Apparently family
emergencies often occur over the
weekend.") Build headlines
around "tested key words"
(samples: Announcing, introduc-
ing, presenting,. today's, modern,
new, now, how, why, you and
yours, this free). Mail-order
little salt has been added. Beat
until firm enough to put in long
damp white cloth and roll to
1 -inch diameter. Tie ends and
hang until cloth dries., Remove
cloth and cut into slices.
catalogues are a good source
ideas. ("There yoll will fin..
copy written by .ad men an
women who have to sell or
starve.")
There may be a small place
for poetry in advertising writing,
Caples indicates. Of Hamlet'*
"Oh that this too, too solid flesh,
would melt" he says:
"What a line for a reducing
ad!"
--- From Newsweek
How An Expert
Makes An Omelet
Men, would you, like to imitate
a. famous chef and become an
expert omelet maker?
You can do it if you'll give
your undivided attention to the
following directions. They are
given by Chef Rudolph Standish,
who was brought from New
York to Chicago during a recent
food conference to show the
country's newspaper food writ-
ers how he makes French ome-
lets. He was "imported" for a
party by the makers of Tabasco
sauce to preside over five
French omelet skillets at the
same time, producing perfect
omelets on each. He used only
an ordinary fork to fold them.
A low flame under each one
kept the heavy aluminum skil-
lets at just the right tempera-
ture, And what is that tempera-
ture? "Just hot enough that a
drop of water spatters in the
pan," said the chef.
Now for the directions: "Ac-
tion is important, as is position
of hands," says Chef Standish.
"Left hand is placed on pan
handle with palm down, moving
pan back and forth. Right hand
holds fork and moves in circu-
lar motion. This motion is re-
peated about seven times. Ome-
let should then be ready to be
turned out. Then, reverse posi-
tion of left hand, placing it on
handle with palm upward. Tip
pan and roll omelet out onto hot
dish. Important: Do not wash
pan, but wipe clean with paper
towel."
Chef Standish had a big bowl
of omelet mixture beside his
pans, plus small bowls of
chopped parsley and crumbled
cooked bacon. Butter went into
the pan (1/4 pound for this reci-
pe using five skillets), then
some of the parsley and bacon,
then a ladle full of the egg mix-
ture — then the "action" started.
Egg mixture: one dozen eg.gs—
break into large mixing bowl;
combine 3 tablespoons water, 1
teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon
Tabasco; add to eggs. Beat' with
rotary beater only until blend-
ed well—not frothy. Use 1 scant
tablespoon butter for cooking
each omelet.
AFTER SENTENCING — At Camp Drew, Japan, U.S. Army
Specialist 3/C William Girard es shown with his Japanese wife,
"Candy", for the first time since he was convicted in a Japanese
court of manslaughter in the slaying of a Japanese woman.
Girard drew a suspended sentence of three years.
SMILE OF WINTER -Ho work to
on a street -widening project in
big machine's headlights have
In the area weren't as cheerful
day for this big bulldozer that smiles under a blanket of snow
Great Bend. W ith a . little help from an unknown artist, the
become eyes a nd its scoop a grinning mouth. Most people
as they 'had to dig out from under a six-inch snowfall,