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Zurich Herald, 1954-12-16, Page 22182924/18011/Aittrif: TABLE nuts &ate Anclmws Now that the time for chin elrensparties is' with us again, mothers will be faced with the problem of what to give the 'young fry" to drink. Milk of course, is the most nutritious, but since a child likes something "different" at a party, it is a good idea to serve a drink which not only contains some valuable health giving elements but is also agreeable to the taste and "different" from the run of the mill beverages. Here are a cou- ple of unusual and tested re- cipes which should go over well with the youngsters. HONEY SPICED TEA 4 level tablespoonfuls tea 2 level tablespoons whole cloves 1. cup of strained orange juice ne, cup lemon juice te to ye cup honey 8 cups freshly boiled hot water Pour 5 cups boiling water over the tea and cloves. Let steep for five minutes, strain, Add orange and lemon juices, honey and re- xnaining 3 cups hot water. Stir until honey is thoroughly dis- solved. * * Here again is a delightful fruit punch which will no doubt please both young and their par- ents too — ARCADIA FRUIT PUNCH 2 quarts strong tea (made with 12 tea bags or 12 teaspoons of tea) 2 cups lemon juice (strain) 4 cups orange juice (strain) 2 cups sugar 1V2 quarts cranberry or grape juice 2 quarts water 1 quart ginger ale Mix tea, fruit juices, water and sugar and chill. Just before serving add ginger ale and pour over piece of ice in punch bowl (makes about 2 gallons). * * * Mothers who find difficulty in getting their children to drink milk might try serving Cambric Tea. This way of giving a new taste to milk but in no way re- ducing its, nutritive value has become very popular in Eastern Canada in inany institutions and tiehools, it has long beenethe stoin c."Taandeetleingetn tateahrett' Mhky ,-Tea' to ;in eiaaffinga s. • - To make Cambric Tea simply add a dash of tea to the glass Meet's Cooking? — Home -baked Dd ideas, oh display at an in- eentors' show ite Paris, France, itnti this electric oven is hot off ihe mind of newspaperwomon lean LeMaire. It features inside fluorination and an elevator- • type table for food. of milk. It can have no 111 itf- fects 'whatsoever and the change in flavour often encourages stubborn youngsters •JO enjoy their milk. Incidentally if you are look- ing for a first-rate pick-up and energy restorer try a cup of clear tea, with honey added and float in it a slice of lemon. It is being used by sportsmen as an energy restorer and is delicious to -taste too., No Cheap Scores 1 This G.Frroe It may not be tactful to men- tion the matter to any past or present pupils of Eton College, but Nov. 30 this year also had something of a significance for rival Harrow School. The most renowned of all Old Harrov- ians, Sir Winston Churchill, celebrated his 80th birthday. And the nation will be as one paying generous tribute to the man internationally acclaimed as the greatest modern Eng- lishman. Old Etonians, among them Sir Anthony Eden and the Mar- quess of Salisbury who rank second and third respectively to Sir Winston in the British Cabinet, will maintain their Eton decorum about the fan- aticism for this hero from Har-. row. The old monocle will be given a seemly flourish as they declare, "Jolly well done, old boy," and all that sort of thing. And that, for the purpose of my story, anyway, will be that. Primarily the thoughts of all loyal Etonians on the last day of November is toward their Alma Mater. Always on this day, from time immemorial, a carnival of fete and football is staged at the most famous of England's scholastic seminaries. The Thameside townlet in the shadows of Windsor Castle goes gay with house flags against a usually gray sky. And parents and old boys, to say mothing of photographers and newsreel- rnen, flock down to watch the football festival, writes Sidney Skilton in the Christian Science Monitor. The day starts shoetlya aftet least tiateewitkaltegipea etee Bata'Antise, 'Cup 'and 'tends in the gloorn of the even- ing with a clash between Ox- ford Old .Etonians and Cam- bridge OE, In between, and highlighting the day is Eton's Wall Game. Like those other peculiarly English institutions, perliam.ent, cricket, and fish and chips the wall game knows no actual origin. And it con- tinues an absolute source of be- wilderment to most people at- tempting to understand it. A theory generally, •and cer- tainly conveniently, accepted is that the wall game just grew with the school which is now more than 500 years old. But those with more probing minds have great respect for the view expressed by a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. It is that the wall game arrived at Eton in 1624 when Sir Henry Wooton became Provost. He is said to have brought it from Italy where he had served in the diplomatic service as the English ambassador in Venice. The same historian further claims that the wall game at Eton comes from a style of football which was played and written about in Italy around the middle of the 18th century. A e wall was azi integral part of the Florentine and Sienuese versions of the game and was described in a number of books printed in Venice more than four centudes ago, In support •of the historian's supposition is the retention of certain Latin phrases in the Eton game like, «C" ISN'T POR '1CHERRY"--It's for vitamin C, and juice of the .4therry.likei Acerola berries which fill these tubs on a plantation itt Sahana Seca, Puerto Rico, is said to yield as much as 80 times Ore Vitamin C than an equal quantity or orange juice, The ce-evild shrubs which produce the berries are now.kbeing cultivated for their hectIth.rich harvest. Safety 44 41inize them accidentally. She cei ' gives her hands care and at - The woman who pope 4Utiful bands doesn't come by tentiOn, keeps them out oirptelatot water, wears rubber glOvee. !Or hOusehOld, tasks and ia about creams or lotions, • Any housewife rnuetc:A ar hands into water frequently during. the day. She $IIQn1d� her favourite hand cream Or lotion handy On a leitchen alatitat she can apply it when she takes her hands out of waste Ili, she should also be consistent In her wearing of rubber gho For women who ha.vezittl ieubber gloves, there are water - 'tight neoprene gloves on' g ',Atet that are lined with an inter- locking knitted fabric to ah. e-'peaspiration, They have a special nonslip grip and can be 'aOt .1e, with the fathily wash when they're ready for cleaning.. ' stsviirmr.surl==azoismomen auty Care Go Hand in Glove in the Home es , • The reasons for wearing: veiebold gloves are sound ones: To protect your hands feetaih igaseaking in water, to prevent cuts and bruises, to keep fit,/f.'.-from chipping and to preserve a manicure, to allow you I • .much hotter water in washing dishes and to cut garlic °X' �nwithout having the odor cling to your hasrds. 1, .. -, for example, "Calx" whi means heel, or foot, and frkire which the Italian "Calcio'ht .• kick) is derived. --., The games are between eWtt. teams of 10 a -side, One is Coni .e4 prised of the Collegers, that ia • the small but elite company of t, residents in the college itself, .t and the other is made up oeiht., Oppidans who are the town ar: boarded out boys. The striking of 12:30 by the old clock in Lupton's Tower is the signal for the start of play which takes -1, place in an area between the wall running along the Slough - Windsor road and a furrow which is the touchline some six, a yards away. Surmounted on this wall, ape ce proximately 12 feet high, are,. all the young schoolboys who can manage to make it plus alien the photographers who must make it if they wish to get any picture at all of the struggling and straining mass of humanity' • locked in combat against the wall. The ball, somewhat smaller than a soccer ball, is, • there somewhere but it does • not seem to matter because goals are very rarely scored with it. To score a goal at Eton's wall brand of football it is necessary first to secure the ball front a a scrimmage 'in a certain regt • •' -(4 -t4.e.a'ar4h, and tberintotahe,4 sat arie awkar&ly placed' targets-__a little old door. at one. end and an old elm tree trunk at the other. The difficulty of this accomplishment may be judged from the goal scoring ,. record since results were first tabulated in 1841. It is three! In an attempt to remedy this Her fabricained rubber gloves protect her from extra-h,oteuptv, give her a nonskid grip and preserve her hands' appeatarice. ,o• • 2.. „ turning It Up — Sculptor Frank Dutt puts the finishing touches a group of "performers" modeled of lord, the medium in ach Dutt is a specialist. He re-created a scene in a television ent studio in which the star is a dimpled piano player. • ea ' „,.'a,t" • eoriag a privilege witnessed by Wend one assembly ayaira,airt• eintaadeetefeele Oty reduce the number a' 'Players from eleven to ten. Thi did have the effect of op- ening up the game and for the Past tine since 1949 there was a result 'other than a pointless • draw. The Collegers won by awe) shies (ten of which count as a goal) to nil. But there was state of affairs and make goal no goa H High is High --.1How Fast is F Up where the sky become space and where the vapor trail appear behind planes, the im possible is becoming the pos sible. To the roar of jet and rocke engines, man - made limitations are being thrust' aside. Ordin ary space and speed concepts are undergoing vast changes. Where in 1906 the first record- ed air -speed mark was clocked at 25.66 miles an hour—set, by A. Santos Dumont in France— the year 1954 finds its fastest plane plefeing space at 1,650 miles an hour (the latest releas- ed figures„ at any rate,) When you stop to reduce that speed down to seconds, it means travelling a mile, or 5,280 feet, every 2 1/5 seconds, Or some- where between 2,000 and 3,000 feet every time -you can say the "Jack" in "Jack Robinson." By the time you managed to utter "Robinson," the plane would be _another half mile away, • The only way you could fon low a plane in flight with your eyes at that speed near the ground (it hasn't been don • tat near the ground yet) would be to look ahead of where you ex- pected the plane to be seconds before you expected it to get there, Then, you might possi- bly see it go by. Actually, you couldn't turn your head or flick your eyes quickly enough to watch it flash ipast, writes Bert- ram B. Johnson an The Chris- tian Science Monitor. But FAST for a plane is as a snail ambling backwards com- pared to FAST for a rocket, American -built rockets have reached turnektous speeds of about 5,000 miles an hour. We'll let you figure that out in terms of seconds, How high is high? These rockets have climbed up to the vicinity of 250 miles from earth. So have some of the Soviet rookets„ we are told. Up that high, far beyond the • blueness of our earth's atmos. phere, space ig almost coniplete- ly dark. Reason: the atmosphere is so thin (no dust) that it eon- tains no particles to reflect the light of the sun. Only objects large enough to reflect light catch the sunlight. 'That is why the space ships and space platform:4 In television ..e st? , programs are made to glow with The rest of space is dark, out about 100 miles from the earth. 'But, interestingly enough, the ;light is passing through space :all the time. Only objects that can reflect light are visible, humanly. Highest that humans have flown thus far is about 90,000 feet, or some 17 miles up, ac- cording to official United States Air Force announcements. These announcements do not, how- ever, disclose exactly when this occurred. One' can assume it was in 1954. The altitude record was made over California by Maj. Arthur Murray, in a Bell Aircraft plane named the X -1A. Airlaunched, from a B-29 bomber six riffles above the earth, it was powered by a Reaction Motors Corpora- tion rocket engine which thrust the 35 -loot -long plane 60,000 feet higher in tour Ininutes. This is the same plane in which Maj. Charles Yaeger achieved the speed record of 1,650 miles an hour. Major Murray, on his altitude flight was not yet as high as the darkness of space. Quite the re- • verse. He became keenly aware of the intense glare of the sun. "I felt closed to the sun than I did to the earth," Major Mur- ray said in describing the ex- perience, to a Harrisburg news- paperman, T. Lunsford, Jr„ "and 1 was lonelier than I have ever been in sny life. • "Then I looked down, and 1. • could see the roundness of the earth — it seemed as if 1 could see 200 miles in' all direction. As 1 looked down, the part of • the earth 1 knew was green had • shelved to olive drab. And the • mountains were almost black." • "I kept thinking, 'if I could • only shut out the brightness of the sun' It was good that 1 had a data pad with a dark background this time, because on thy first flights the sun was so bright, I eouldn't reed tny • knee pad." Major IVittrray found the • plane soinewhat difficult to cons IVA since the atmosphere was so thin at that altitude• , But he swung the X.1A into a glide pattern for the long des. "lent, and 80 minutes later land., ed on the hot sands of the Muroc dry lake bed. - 3 Feentaetie sneeaea of condi- non's' in thee upper.' atmespheee are coming back" from these space pioneers, and thought patterns need to be revised so often, on the basis of new data. Take the case of the so-called sound barrier, which is that point in flight when a plane ap- proaches the speed of sound - 750 miles an hour, at sea level. •First attempts to break through the sound barrier in 1947 met with considerable buffeting for the plane. Some years before 1947 a British natural scientist started what is now called the "legend of the sonic barrier." He said that when an airplane ap- proached the speed of sound (Mach 1) it would shake to pieces from the effect of shock waves. But the barrier is being pierc- ed every day now by United States Air Force interceptors, One pilot describes the punc- turing of that supposedly im- penetrable wall thus: "It's like a tiger going through a paper hoop." • Even the concept that buffet- ing is necessary is changing. We noticed a brief note in a recent issue of Aviation Week maga- zine which said: "English Elec- tric P-1. (a turbo jet fighter air- craft) has exceeded the speed Of sound and gone well. beyond Mach 1 with 'complete absence of buffeting,' reports British Minister of Suppfy Duncan Sandys." We htaught we'd find out whether Supply Minister Sandys could, within the bounds of sec- urity regulations, tell us why there was no buffeting. Our an- swer from the Ministry of Sup-' ply was about as brief as 'the magazine item. It read: "Thank you for your letter about the English Electric 2-1 exceeding the speed of sound, I arn sorry to say that it is not possible to give any further de- tails." But apparently it happened— with no buffeting! As :tor the heat barrier (the high temperatures generated by friction of the atmosphere on the metal and plastic skin of the plane, that's another matter, but not one that is looked upon as impossible of solution, Many aircraft engineers while not overlooking the fact that frictive heat is regarded as a problem, dislike the item heat barrier," Some deny there is such a thing. One Boeing engineer says: "The barrier to speed is not. heat. Atmospheric speed is lines ited by the power plant. We've • always been able, to use the ,s most powerful engines-desiaeed 'Theirf no raison noweto think we won't be able to continue to do so.- We've been designing for higher and higher altitudes. • There's no reason to believe we won't keep right on going up." Some of the problems met in the heat zone are: At 35,000 altitude, gasoline boils at speed Mach 1.4, Plexi- glass melts at Mach 1.7, keroe sene boils at Mach 2, solder melts at Mach 2.4, and glass softens at Mach 3.6. There is still a need. Boeing experts point out, for a lubri- cant that won't deteriorate at high temperatures and tires that won't blow up at high tempera- tures and low external press- ures. Someday, progress in aerody- namics may be so far advanced that we may wonder how people ever got so concerned about what the heat barrier could, do. TRANSIT STORY The lost -and -found depart- ment of the Seattle transit sys- tem reported a telephone call from a woman who said she had left a package containing a bras-. siere on a bus. "What bus" said the transit company employe. "Size 36," replied the woman, Starting Young Seven.year.old Tommy Frisbie leads his Short. shorn steer into Chicago's international Amphitheater. Torettnyo so fen, is the yourigege exhibit0 at the 55th International Live. Stock Show. •