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Zurich Herald, 1956-02-02, Page 2TABLE TALKS dam AraDews. Here is a pudding that is mixed right in the baking dish in which it is cooked. You can put it together in a hurry and cook the rest of the meal while it is baking. Serve this pudding tither hot or cold with ice cream or whipped cream. MYSTERY PUDDING 1 cup sifted flour cup sugar 11/2 teaspoons soda A/z teaspoon salt Y2 cup brown sugar firmly,. packed 34 cup sirup drained from fruit cocktail 1 egg, unbeaten 11/2 cups drained fruit cocktail (No. 1 can) 1/2 cup chopped nuts 1/4 cup brown sugar firmly packed Sift first 4 ingredients togeth- er into a 2 -quart casserole or baking dish. Add the 1/2 cup brown sugar, fruit cocktail sirup and egg; blend well. Stir in drained fruit cocktail and nuts. Scrape batter from sides of cas- serole with rubber scraper and spread batter evenly in dish. Sprinkle top with the 1/4 cup brown sugar. Bake in preheated 325° F. oven for 50-60 minutes. Serves 6-8. * * :k A new version of rice pud- ding that puts that old favorite ha the company class is this Butterscotch Rice Mold. BUTTERSCOTCH RICE MOLD 11/4 cup uncooked rice 4 cups milk 2 cups dark brown firmly packed 1 teaspoon salt s/.t cup butter 1 teaspoon vanilla %2 pint whipping cream 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 cup chopped maraschino cherries Mix rice and milk in a 2- cuart saucepan and bring to a boil. Immediately turn heat as low as possible; cover saucepan and leave over this low .heat for 1 hour, or until rice has ab- sorbed milk. Stir several times ahuring cooking. Cook brown sugar, salt, and butter, stirring constantly, until sirupy. Add 1 Teaspoon vanilla. Stir sugar mixture into cooked rice. Chill before serving with the whip- ped cream into which has been beaten the 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Top with the 'cherries. To' make this pudding a des- sert masterpiece, press the sugar SALLY'S SAWEs "But I can't let you in to see the Boss, Sir. I'm supposed to keep people out." warm rice -sirup mixture into a well -greased dessert mold. Chill until cold. Whip cream and fold in sugar and vanilla. Unmold rice by dipping mold into hot water, placing a plate under mold and inverting plate and mold together. Arrange the whipped cream on plate around molded dessert. Sprinkle the cherries over the whipped cream, Meringue is as good on pud- ding as it is on pie, so try this applesauce pudding topped with a meringue browned delicately in the oven. APPLESAUCE PUDDING 11/2cups applesauce 1 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon grated lemon rind 1/ teaspoon lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon vanilla 1 egg yolk 1 egg white 2 tablespoons sugar 'Dash salt 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Mix together first 5 ingredi- ents. Beat egg yblk into this mixture. Pour into 8x8x2-inch baking dish. Beat egg white until fluffy; add salt; beat un- til stiff but not dry. Gradually beat in the 2 tablesoons sugar until egg whites stand in peaks; beat in vanilla. Spread over pudding in baking dish. Bake at 300° F. for 15 minutes. * * s LEMON -LIME CHIFFON SQUARES 1 package lemon pudding and pie filling mix / cup sugar 2 cups water 2 egg yolks 1 package lime -flavored gela- tin 1 cup hot water 1 cup cold water 2 eggs white Graham cracker nut crust Combine pudding mix and 1/4 cup each of the sugar and water in a saucepan. Add egg yolks and blend well. Then add remain- ing 14 cups water. Cook and stir until mixture comes. to full boil and is thickened — about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Cool only 5 minutes, stirring once or twice. Meanwhile, dissolve lime gela- tin in the 1 cup hot water. Add 1 cup cold water. Add gradual- ly to pudding mixture, blending well. Beat egg whites until foamy throughout. Add remain- ing 1/4 cup sugar gradually, beating until mixture will stand in stiff peaks. Then fold in lemon -lime mixture. Turn onto graham cracker nut crust. Sprinkle top with part of crumb mixture, if desired. Chill until firm; cut in squares; serve with whipped cream. GRAHAM CRACKER NUT CRUST 11/4 cups fine graham cracker crumbs 1/4 cup finely chopped nuts 2 tablespoons sugar 1/4 cup melted butter Combine crumbs, nuts and sugar; add butter and mix well. (Reserve 3 tablespoons of mix- ture for top, if desired.) Press firmly on bottom of 12x18 -inch pan. e:. HOW FAR YA GOIN'? — Mrs. William Stanton ponders the Permits Kansas State truckers may choose from when buying their license plates for '56. "16 M" above main auto plate is %ample of load — tax tab, in this case 16,000 pounds. 3elow plate are, in order; a tag for farm vehicle use only; commercial carrier permit; tag kr trucks used :within 25 -mile radius of ,Owner's place of business; permit for 6000 -speedometer -mile~ use limit of a truck. CAGEY KITTEN—"Candy the kitten, is a veryfriendly visitor in the cage of "Mickey", the para- keet. The two pets have been on good terms ever since Candy accidentally crawled into the cage in the home of Rev.,Orville Schroer. In photo at left, Candy directs a few playful swipes at Mickey mills perch. At right, the visit over, Candy leaves through the open door. Murder at Large —A Perfect Crime It was the evening of Janu- ary 19th, 1931, and it was freez- ing fast. In fact, it was one of the coldest nights of .that winter in England. But in the smoke - laden club -room beyond - the bar of. the North John Street pub in Liverpool conditions were warm and comfortable. This little room was the head- quarters of the local chess club,. and that very evening there was to be a championship match. Unfortunately, the start was being delayed. One of the players, respectable insurance agent William. Wallace, had not arrived. Chess enthusiasts stood about talking, waiting impatiently. Then, suddenly, the shrill ring= ing of the telephone bell cut through the babble of conversa- tion. The call was for William Wallace. The barmaid took the message. The caller was a"Mr. R. M. Qualtrough." It was his daughter's birthday, he said, and he intended taking out in- surance in her favour. Would she ask Mr. Wallace to call around the following night to 25, Menlove Gardens, East? It was not until fiften utes later that Wallace arrived to receive his message and play his game of chess. The mes- sage was soon forgotten by the spectators as he sat down to do battle over the chess board. Wallace won, appeared delight- ed, and went home happy. So beg an one of the most baffling crimes in British his- tory, a crime in which the kill- er is still at large. It is unique in the fact that a man was con- victed of the murder, then found not guilty because the evidence had been too scanty, It was not until the evening after the chess match at the North John Street public house - that the importance of that telephone call came to light. As was to be expected, that night the 6 ft. tall, timid - looking William Wallace set; out at 6.45 to find Mr. Qualtrough at 25, Menlove Gardens, East. After many tram journeys, he could not find the address. He was seen by s e ver a 1 people wandering through Menlove Gardens, North, South and West. THERE WAS, IN FACT, NO MENLOVE GARDENS, EAST. Policemen, shop -keepers, and others told him they had never heard of any Mr. Qualtrough. Plainly the timid Mr. Wallace had been hoaxed — but why? Finding his journey fruitless, the insurance agent returned home at 8.45. His wife was stretched out on the floor. She had been pounded to death ruthlessly by a weapon that was subsequently never found. Wallace did not lose his head. To the police he was the only possible suspect. They did not believe his story, but he showed no emotion when finally they charged him with his wife's murder. The evidence was, of course, purely circumstantial. But the prosecution's case was quite good. According to the prosecution, it was Wallace who had made the hoax call to the public house in order to provide him- self with an alibi for the fol- lowing evening,. This was back- ed up by the fact that the call had been made in a street -cor- ner kiosk only four hundred yards from Wallace's house. The distance from the tele- phone box to the public house in North John Street took about fifteen minutes to walk .-- the exact time after the message that Wallace had arrived. The prosecution conjured up' a picture of the tall man arriv- ing home that evening with maw': MA 'Mind, He had strip- ped naked — to prevent, blood splashes on his clothes -- slip- ped into the parlour, and; called his wife from its darkness.Then he had beaten her to death. Next he went upstairs for a bath, and then out clean and stainless to make. a great show of, looking for a man who did not exist. On his return he had put on another great act of -finding the body. The murder weapon, the .pro- secution claimed, had been thrown away in the search for- Menlove orMenlove Gardens, East. It was never found, but certainly there was a charwoman pre- pared to swear that there had been a long iron rod in the par- lour, which was not to be found after Mrs. Wallace's death. s It was quite a good case. BUT THE SAME FACTS PROVID- ED AN EQUALLY GOOD CASE FOR THE DEFENCE. First, the hoax phone call. Would Wallace have been fool- ' ish enough to have made that call from within a quarter of a mile of his own house, they ar- gued? Surelyhe would have realized the danger of neigh- bours seeing him? More likely, the defence said, the real mur- . derer had used the booth to throw suspicion on Wallace. The barmaid in the public house certainly testified that the voice which gave the message had been unfamiliar to her, and she had known Wallace for some time. According to the defence there was a reasonable possibili- ty that Julia Wallace was still alive when her husband left the house. Only a quarter of an hour earlier, a milk boy had talked with her on the 'door- step. Could Wallace have killed his wife, bathed,' dressed and walked away in ten minutes? Then, perhaps, most import- ant of all: what motive had ' William Wallace for killing his wife? Neighbours testified that he and 'Julia had always seem- ed perfectly happy, so it could not have been hatred of her. Another woman perhaps? No. Wallace had been faithful at that time and always. He was that sort of man. It could not, surely, have been robbery. Would he have mur- dered her for the few paltry pounds . to be had from her in- surance policy? So it seemed that William Wallace had nothing to expect from his wife's death but lone- liness. However, a jury of ten men \ and two women seemed to think he had. After only one hour out of court, they brought in a ver- dict of guilty and Wallace waq sentenced to death. But their verdict did not stand for long. Soon afterwards the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction of mur- der on the grounds that the jury's verdict had been unrea- sonable and based on insufficient evidence. It was the first time in British legal history that such 'a thing had ever happen- ed. BUT IF WALLACE WAS NOT THE MURDERER, WHO DID KILL — JULIA ON THAT COLD, JANUARY NIGHT? That somebody, whether it was William Wallace or not, committed, the perfect crime, for he never paid the penalty for his slaughter. - BRIGHTEN UP On, these grey winter days add a dash of color to any room with a gaily painted latnp- shade. Coat the inside of any heavy paper or cardboard shade with alumihum paint Then paint the outside any color you like. The aluminum will reflect the light inside the shade and will prevent light shining through the brush maks on the outside, Modern Etiquette... Q. Is there any further obli- gation upon a person who has just introduced two other per- sons to each other? A. Yes; a person who is.' ex- perienced in making intro- ductions will lead the two strangers into smooth, pleasant conversation, as, "Mrs. Roberts has just moved,to our city from Boston." It is when an awk- ward pause follows an introduc- tion that embarrassment is felt. Q. Is it proper for a girl to light a man's. cigarette for him? A. Yes, if' she has just light- ed her own and her match is still burning. Otherwise, he should always light his own. Q. When should a woman re- move her wraps when dining in a restuarant? A. She waits until she is seat- ed before removing her wraps, the waiter or one of the men in her party assisting her. Q. Is. it always proper to smoke in another person's home? A. Not always. It is still con- sidered bad manners to light a cigarette, cigar or pipe in the home of another when no one else is smoking — and espe- cially •at the . table when there is no provision made for smok- ing. Q. I received a number of gifts at a birthday party recent- ly, and I thanked each donor personally. Is it also necessary that I write each one a thank - you note? A. No. Q. What, in general, is an ac- ceptable tip to give bellboys, porters, and others who render you small services in a hotel? A. Usually 25 cents for small services. You should be guided, however, bythe amount or type of work each person does for you, and, of course, by the type of establishment. Q. When the boy with whom a girl has been going for some time invites her to his home for dinner, is it proper for the girl to take his mother a box of candy? A. No. Q. If .candles are not to be lighted, is it all right to have them on the table? A. Yes; candles are consider- ed an ornamental part of . the dinner or .supper table setting. Brides Worth Weight In Halfpennies! Two thousand Italian girls travel to Britain every year to work and save money for their dowries, it was revealed recent- ly. It's still the custom in Italy for every bride to bring a dowry with .hex .. on her wedding day, so when a girl's family is poor she has to earn the money. Average amount of a dowry is $300. One slim, dark-haired. Italian beauty earned this money by sewing red stripes on post- men's trousers M Norfolk. She did this work during the day and then worked in the evening making pretty things . for her trousseau. Another Italian girl saved $300 by getting a job as ,a man- nequin in a provincial store. Her sister -they were engaged to twin brothers in Rome—got her. dowry money in six months by teaching Italian in London. The dowry custom is slowly dying all over the world, but it still lingers, not only in Italy,. France and some parts of Ger- many but also in Russia. In rural areas of Eire farmer -fa- thers sometimes give a dowry of cows and pigs with -their daugh- ters. Dowries were once quite com- mon in Br"itain. Eighteenth -cen- tury husbands delighted totell the world about the fortunes they had obtained with their wives. A newspaper advertisement of 1781 runs: "Married, the Rev. Mr. Roger Waina, of York, about twenty-six years •of age, to a Lincolnshire lady . upwards of eighty with whOm he is to have £8,000 in money, £300 per an. - num and a coach and four dur- ing life only." How long this unequal pair enjoyed married bliss is not recorded. Then there was the eccentric London tradesman who in 1770 disposed of his eleven not-very- 'pretty ot-very'pretty daughters in marriageby offering novel dowries — the weight of each girl in halfpen- nies. He paid out £50.2s. 8d. for the lightest girl, which suggests they were all rather weighty. Alto- gether, ltogether, the dowries •• cost bun £609. Yet another amazing dowry was 100,000 farthings which went to a poor young man who mar- ried the lovely daughter of a well-to-do ,draper. Farthings were- • frequently given with change to customers in those days, so as he handed over the coins the draper always said: "If you don't . want them, please put them in my daugh- .ter's wedding dowry' chest" a box which stood on the coun- ter . Farthings fascinated the dra- per so muchthat after the wed- ding he showered his daughter and her husband with 200 newly minted farthings as they left the church. Wedding guests and onlookers scrambled eagerly for this copper "confetti." A certain west country bach- elor noted the frequent failure of ugly girls to get husbands, so he left a sum of money to pro- vide three dowries of £10 each,. to three girls "who are ill-fa- voured of face," DRIVE WITH CARE HERE TODAY — GONE TOMORROW - That's the way to describe this living -kitchen area. Furnished in the modern manlier, interior, above, is that of a "mobile home" — streamlined name for the house trailer. Experts at the wheel of the recent National Mobile Horses Show say that designs for living -on -wheels provide young married couples with a base of operations in which they may literally pursue their careers. And at the same time they are building an equity which some day may be ap- plied on permanent housing, once the family settles in one spot.