Zurich Herald, 1955-05-26, Page 64
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This is the time of year when
7oungsters --• grown-ups too --
*ho have to carry lunch boxes
Rae apt to start complaining
about "sameness" in the con-
tents. Well, here are some re-
alpes that will help you to add
variety. Of course you can ad-
just the quantities given to suit
thnumber of box lunches you
leave to prepare:
Savory Ham -Vegetable
Sandwich
(8 sandwiches)
14 slices bread
44 cup softened butter
1 cup deviled ham
]i cup grated raw carrot
cup finely chopped green
pepper
ie teaspoon salt
cup mayonnaise
Spread slices of bread with
butter. On eight of the slices
:spread deviled ham, Combine
us;irots, green peppers, salt, and
mayonnaise. Spread carrot mix-
ture on ham and place buttered
slice of bread on top. Remove
axrusts and cut as desired.
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Other fillings for lunch sand-
wiches are given below.
Honey -Orange Filling
94 cup softened cream cheese
it tablespoon honey
31 teaspoon grated orange rind
Combine all ingredients. Fill-
itrag for 2 sandwiches.
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Egg -Ripe Olive Filling
94 cup chopped hard -cooked
eggs
2 tablespoons ,chopped ripe
olives
Yi tablespoons nriayonnaise or
salad dressing
k% tablespoons chopped green
pepper
Sia teaspoon salt
Combine all ingredients. Fill -
hag for 4 sandwiches.
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Snappy Cheese Spread
1. cup (1, pound) grated sharp
cheese, firmly packed
eup chopped stuffed olives
2 tablespoons canned deviled
I f? • ham
1 fghaspoon prepared mustard
IARNYARD FOE — Phil 1'azdik,
42, chomps through his ump-
, leenth chicken leg as he rounds
'rise turn In a fried -chicken gob
biing marathon. He ate 31 serv-
ings, but he wasn't too hungry.
3 tablespoons mayonnaise or
salad dressing
Combine all ingredients. Fill-
ing for 4 sandwiches.
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Perhaps you'd like to make
refrigerator cookies for the
lunch box, slicing and baking
them fresh every day or two.
You may divide the dough in
several parts, seasoning each
differently for variety.
Refrigerator Nut Cookies
Ye cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar, firmly
packed
34 teaspoon salt
ye teaspoon vanilla
1 egg, unbeaten
1% cups sifted flour
14 teaspoon soda
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped fine
Combine first 5 ingredients in
mixing bowl, beating until
smooth. Sift flour with soda and
add to first mixture; mix well.
Stir in nuts. Press dough very
firmly together into a 2 -inch
roll. Wrap in double thickness
of waxed paper, twisting ends
firmly. Chill several hours or
overnight. Cut 1/s inch thick
and bake on greased cooky
sheet at 375° F. 8-10 minutes.
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Spice Crisps
Iles cup butter
Ye cup brown sugar
2/3 cups molasses
1 egg, well beaten
We cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon soda
1% teaspoons each, cinnamon
and ginger
1 teaspoon salt
Cream butter; add brown
sugar and "blend. Stir in mo-
lasses and well -beaten egg, Sift
flour; measure; sift with soda,
spices and salt, Add to mo-
lasses mixture, . stirring well.
Chill for 1 hour. Roll dough to
about 1/a -1/a inch thickness on
floured pastry cloth. Cut with
floured cooky cutter, sprinkle -
top with sugar. Place on but-
tered baking sheet and bake at
375° F. about 10 minutes, Makes
4 dozen cookies.
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Perhaps everyone has her
-own favorite recipe for the syrup
that makes chocolate milk. In
ease you haven't, here is one
that makes 1 cup syrup. To
make chocolate milk, use 2-3
tablespoons chocolate syrup for
each cup milk.
Chocolate Syrup
34 cup cocoa or 2 ounces bitter
chocolate, grated
ye cup sugar
Few grains salt
1 cup boiling water
Mix cocoa or chocolate with
sugar and salt. • Add water.
Bring to boil and boil 1 minute
if cocoa is used, 5 minutes if
chocolate is used. Cool and store
in covered jar in a cool place.
THE IDOL RICH?'
Can an idol possess property
rights? A judge in Delhi has
ruled that it can. He gave judg-
ment in a case brought by the
temple idol of the Hindu god
Krishna against a Kanpur law-
yer for rent arrears on a house
owned by the idol.
The judge said that idols are
"juristic persons" — above the
law --and he ordered the lawyer
to pay. The numerous idols in
India's Hindu temples own
property valued at millions of
rupees. The idols' affairs are
managed mainly by priests.
PETITE MISS Twenty -two -inch -tall Miss Anita is greeted in
Glasgow, Scotland, by the city's lord provost, Tom Kerr. As
;night be expected, she's called "the smallest woman in the,
world."
• HAND-IN-GLOViE WITH DO-IT-YOURSELF — Kidskin briefies come
in pastel fruit and flower tones, have matching pearl -button
closing. Flowers are imported, artificial blossoms in many ar-
rangements, which the ladies may sew on to match their hats
or other accessories.
Secret Romance Of Famous Author
To the eighteen -year-old girl
the stage costume was daringly,
tormentingly brief. In her dress-
ing -room at the Haymarket The-
atre pretty blue-eyed Ellen Ter -
nen wept with bitter shame.
Alarmed "at' her sobs one ofs
Britain's most famous men tap-
ped solicitously at the door —
and so began a blaze of passion
that would have shocked the.
world had its secrets been
known.
Nearly ninety •years later
atcholars and scientists are still
probing the hidden love story
of Charles Dickens and. Ellen
Ternan. When Charles Dickens
died, his relatives hastily snip-
ped tell-tale sentences out of his
letters. Whole passages were
censored and mutilated by being
over -scored with heavy 'black
ink.
But to -day the blacked -out let-
ters have yielded their secrets
at last to the revealing eye of
the infra -red camera.
In the year 1858 Charles Dick-
ens was at the height Of leis
amazing fame. His latest novel
was selling an esimated quarter-
million copies in weekly parts
and he had only to spend a day
or two writing a short story to
earn $15,000—equivalent of to-
day's $3,000.
When he began his famous
readings so many people jam-
med the theatre that they smash-
ed all the glass in the pay -boxes.
When petals fell from his but-
tmnhole, women madly scram=
bled to collect them for keep-
sakes.
Queen Victoria herself attend-
ed his theatrical performances—
and swallowed a snub when he
refused t0 see her between the
acts in his farce costume. Never
before, never since, has Eng-
land so idolized a public favour -
it. Yet all this was jeopardized
when he- fell in love with Ellen
Ternan.
Outspoken critic of social
abuses, Dickens headed the stern
horality of the Victorian era. He
was a married man of twenty-
two years' standing and the
father of ten children. What a
fierce outcry would have en-
gulfed his career if it had been
known that he had lost his heart
to a slip of a girl!
Dickens was then forty-six,
truly the dangerous age, At first
he was merely charmed and
amused by t:he young actress's
innocent tears at "having to
show so much leg " Watching her
o nthe stage, he felt the sway
Of her glamorous and intelligent
personality, But within a few
months there came en irrestible
opportunity.
Sasting the new play, "The
Frozen. Deep." Dickens found
parts both for Ellen and her sis-
ter, Maria. Dickens was both
producing and starring in the
play and, as he coached his
players, little fair haired Ellen
took up such a worshipping atti-
tude and seemed so pathetically
anxious to interpret every line
and gesture exact]y as he wish-
ed that she e mlivetMd him atter-
ly.
He felt a stranga new upsurge
of youth, of bubbling humour.
and fun, The play was opening
in Manchester and the comnany
whiled away a hungry and te-
dious journey inventing riddles.
"Why is the manager's stem-
ach like a butler's panty?" Diet-
ens demanded. "Because there's
a sinkin' there!" Once again, he
was his sparkling. inimitable
soli. At the theatre, his ner4or-
marace electrified the audiences,
as well it might, for he poured
into it his new-found passion.
Irs letters to intimate friends,
Dickens thought of himself as
giving a shining and sanctified
devotion and he imagined
Ellen as a far-off princess on an
unscaleable mountain. But this
swirlingromance carne to earth
with a bump.
He purchased a bracelet for
Ellen and the jeweller sent it to
Dickens's wife in error. Inevit-
ably, the incident flared into a
scene and Dickens responded to
his wife's anger with demoniac
fury.
Nothing would suit himbut
that his wife should call on Ellen
and thus, despite her bitter sus-
picions, demonstrate her belief
in the young actress's innocence,
Kate Dickens wept but yielded.
But the way Dickens's mind was
working was demonstrated by a
momentous decision. He ordered
his bed to be moved into the
dressing -room alongside h i s
wife's bedroom and called in a
carpenter to block up the inter-
vening door.
Nor was this enough. At two
o'clock one morning, in his tor-
ment of heart, he rose, dressed
and tramped all the thirty miles
to his summer home at Gad's
Hill, fleeing from his marriage,
from his wife and her relatives,
from; the shadowing past.
At all costs he knew he had ,
to readjust his .life. "My father
was., like a nnadman," said his
daughter, long afterwards. "He
did not care what happened to
any of us." No matter what the
price, Dickens felt that his world
was lost for love.
The first immediate catastro-
phe was his separation from his
wife. The second disaster came
when one of Charles's personal
letters was published in a New
York newspaper.
"Two wicked people," he had
written, "have coupled with the
separation the name of a young
lady. Upon my honour, there is
not on this earth a more virtuous
and spotless creature...." '
Now the world shook with ru-
mour. It was whispered that the
author of "David Copperfield"
had eloped to Boulogne. Millions
of worshipping readers felt in-
digna'ntly that their idol had feet
of clay. For a time his career
teetered on ruin.
But the truth was hushed up.
And the truth .has been told
since then by Dickens's own
daughter: "The pretty actress
came like a breath of spring into
the hard-working life of Charles
Dickens — and enslaved him.
Who could blame her? He had
the world at his feet. She was a
The Channel Cat Whiskerface"
The name catfish, to distort a
phrase, covers a mutitude of fins.
There are actually more than
1,000 species in the catfish family,
both fresh and salt water!
Sofar as the sport fisherman
is concerned, however, "Old
Whiskerface" can best be 'repre-
sented by the scrappy channel
catfish. Though most everyone
agrees all catfish are homely at
best, the channel catfish comes
closest to being the Liberate of
the outfit. Although it can't play
a piano, the chapel catfish is quite
adept at fiddling with its' -whis-
kers! In fact, it is widely known
as "fiddler".
And while oo the subject, when
fiddling with a channel catfish,
watch those nasty barbs on the
dorsal and ventral fins. As the
catfish squirms in your grasp,
these needle -pointed spines can
inflict a painful wound. Until you
becomeexpert at handling a cat-
fish, hold it with a pair of pliers,
gripping its lower jaw while
working out the hook.
Despite its menacing barbs and
homely appearance, the channel
catfish rates tops in flavor and
high as a sport fish. If you would
catch more of these fine fish
here are some facts worth know-
ing .
Biological Facts — Many good
catches of channel' catfish are
made below dams in the spring.
It is at this time of year these
fish start their spawning runs,
upstream, and swift water is their
idea of a honeymoon site. The
young hatch out in about one
week and grow to approximately
• 4 inches by, the first' summer's
end. Throughout their lives,
channel catfish prefer cleaner,
swifter water than other cat-
fishes.
Identification '— Small channel
catfish are very light in color,
some so transparent that blood
vessels are visible. As they grow
older the color changes to sil-
very slate gray, with irregular
spots on the body. Tail is forked
head is comparatively small,
there are no.ecales, back is slight-
, ly humped and barbels (whis-
kers) are quite tong.
Range -- These fish are found
throughout the Mississippi Val-
ley, , particularly through the
Great Lakes area and adjacent
waters. Also, from southern -
Canada, across to Minnesota,
south into Texas, and through the
Gulf States into Florida.
World Record -Although many
channel catfish experts will cock
an eyebrow at this one, the offi-
cial world record is 55 pounds,
' taken by Roy Groves in the
James River, South Dakota, in
May, 1949. There is one record
which should endure for all time!
Natural Foods—The diet of this
fish is amazing—worms, clams,
insect larvae, crayfish, fish
spawn, dead fish, pond weeds,
algae, frogs, minnows, insects
and refuse - of various. sorts!
Suitable Tackle -- Probably
no fish is taken with a greater
variety of tackle and by more
unusual methods. Ordinarily. a
young girl elated and proud t0
be noticed... "
Yet the startling fact is that
for four years Dickens pleaded
with her .. , and for four years
she was obrurate. Her surrender,
say recent biographers, brought
him little of that shining ecstasy.
In recent .times, too, investi-
gators have probed suburban
ratebooks end discovered the
secret nest Dickens kept •for'
Ellen — the house where he sec-
retly°visited her when he seem-
ed to his friends to step out of
his ordinary life for days at a
time. and disappear
On the day Dickens died, a
June day in 1870, Ellen was call-
ed to his side Perhaps she sat
quickly aside in Westminster
Abbey as the sorrowing crowds
of London filed quietly through
with their tributes,
In the year 1914 a Mrs, Whar-
ton Robinson, a schoolmaster's
wife, died in Margate. No One
knew that she had been Ellen
Ternan.
medium action pal rod and pal
reed with 15 -pound test nylon
line is ideal. From this as a
starter you will find other chan-
nel catfish enthusiasts who use
a fly rod and reel., spinning out-
fits, cane poles, set lines tied to
tree limbs, trot lines, jug lines,
and other devices not worthy of
mention because of their un-
sportsmanlike nature. Most chan-
nel catfish, however, are taken
by rod and reel fishermen using
live bait such as shrimp, liver,
chicken entrails, beef melt, etc,.
The lure is cast out and the an-
ticipation period sets in while
the fisherman waits for "Old
Whiskerface" to swallow his
temptingly covered hook.
..,.Fishing Tip — B 1 g channel
catfish are sensitive to feeders
and usually will "mouth" a bait
before moving off with it. At
this critical point, if anything
suspicious is felt, such as the
weight of a sinker, you will lose
a. customer, So, instead of fas-
tening the sinker securely on
your line, run the line through
the eye of the sinker so that it
will slide freely when the cat-
fish moves off with your bait,
rN;;Ate a Song -writer
Quite a Many Too
Some years ago Johnny Mer-
cer, Hollywood song writer,
wrote a hit tune entitled "Sen-
timental Journey." It would
have provided perfect mood.
music for the trip Mercer made
this week to his old home in
Savannah, Georgia. He deposited
a check for $300,000 in a Savan-
nah bank to pay off 500 persons
who invested in a real estate and
insurance firm owned by his late
father. The , company failed 28
years ago. Before his death, the
elder Mercer cherished the hope
of some day paying off the hold-
ers of certificates of deposit with
the defunct company. The hope
was shared by his son.
Johnny Mercer has been one
of the country's most successful
song writers. But amassing a
fortune of $300,000 to pay off a
28 -year-old debt takes consid-
erable doing, even for a man in
the higher income brackets. A
bankruptcy petition would have
been an easy way out for the
Mercers, father and son. Many
businessmen have done this. The
•investors would have been the
losers. But the • Mercers felt a
moral obligation that is all too -
often lacking in business trans-
actions. Now the investors, who
had faith in the Mercers' firm
will have that faith justified. And
in a world where many persons
do not have a responsibility for
their own debts, say nothing of
the debts of their parents, John-
ny Mercer stands out as a man
apart.—Hartford Courant,
SEEN HER? — A broken-hearted
McKeesport, Pa., dad still uses
every spare moment hunting his
daughter, missing 11 years. Irs
1944 Hele Szoko, then 27, never
got home from her job in a war
plant. Her father, Mike, has
painfully collected $200 in sav-
ings as a treasury for assisting
his unending search.
Fashion Favors
Air -Cooled ees
For Summer
Bermuda shorts in Oxford gray,
left, team with white knee-
length stockings to give this en-
semble a Tyrolean t o v c h.
Matching blazer features white
piping and buttons. ' At right,
Bermuda - length cotton sleep
shorts team with shrink -resistant
batiste shirt in this lazy - days
ensemble. for the men. Shirt is
cut full for wear in or outside the
shorts,