Zurich Herald, 1953-03-12, Page 61113
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An Inexpensive Hobby
Like bird watching, hiking or
camping, gardening is an inex-
pensive hobby. Golfing, yachting,
ex even picture taking require
a lot of costly equipment and
they take one a long piece from
home. But gardening is just as
healthy as any of these other
recreations and the initial cost
and the upkeep amount to only
sl few dollars. Moreover when
#vegetable growing is included
here is a nice dividend in the
freshest kind of food, right at
the kitchen door.
Equipment
One can do wonders with a
few cents worth of seed, a spade
and a rake. For all the technical
information necessary the direc-
tions on the seed packet and in
the seed catalogue will suffice.
'hese directions tell the gardener
'when to plant and how deep, and
how big will grow the things he
Inas planted so he can allow suf-
ficient room,
Of course those are minimum
requirements and for just a tiny
plot. A few extras like a cult -
'Mar or two and a little more
variety in the seeds and plants
will increase the satisfaction and
enjoyment. For extra and de-
tailed information too, there are
excellent gardening books and
government bulletins available.
If one is really ambitious, one
' can expand almost indefinitely.
There are literally hundreds of
different flowers and vegetables
at one's disposal, and more hun-
dreds of perennials, shrubs and
vines and trees. There are spec-
ialties like rock gardening, per-
ennial borders, rose gardens and
garden pools. There are also
power gadgets for cultivating,
trimming, spraying, clipping, leaf
gathering and such jobs for the
person who is mechanically in-
clined or who has a really big
piece of ground,
Better Than Ever
Not so many years ago one
could not grow corn, squash,
roses, fruit and dozens of other
plants except in the very warm-
est parts of Canada. These things
were not hardy enough, or they
took too long to mature in our
relatively short season and the
early frosts struck them down.
Now over the greater part of
the country the gardener has
hundreds of flowers and vege-
tables from which to choose. And
not only have we been given
earliereoanturing and hardier var..
ieties, but also better quality, or
vnore vivid or striking colors.
In the old days, too, the gar-
den was sort of a feast or famine
proposition, a few days when the
peas, corn or beans were ready,
a few days of vivid bloom, then
nothing else. Today with improv-
ed varieties and by using several
sorts with different maturing pe-
riods of flowering dates one can
have a wonderful and producing
garden from a few days after
frost in the spring until far into
the fall.
In ordering seeds and plants
for the coming season one should
remember these changes and im-
provements and by selecting
carefully insure more satisfac-
tion and a fuller return. The Eng-
glishman with his flower garden
and the Frenchman with his plot
of vegetables expects results al-
most 365 days in the year. Our
climate is a bit too severe in the
winter for that sort of contin-
uous production, but even in the
cooler parts of the country there
should be six months use and
pleasure at least. From the tiny
snowdrops and crocusses, which
bloom right after the snow, until
the chrysanthemums in October
and November, there should be
almost continuous bloom. And in
the vegetable line by starting
early and storing the surplus in
the fall, there need be hardly a
week without something from
one's own garden.
k4etasive Miss --Princess Mari'ke,
youngest daughter of Queen
Juliana and Prince Bernhard of
the Netherlands, appears to be
in deep thought in this charming
photo. ft was taken for her
sixth birthday.
Hobbies for the Handicapped—Giving handicapped children interests as well as treatment is
important in the work done by the Ontario Society for Crippled 'Children. Here three kiddies
and their instructors are busy at a hobbycraft table. The Society. seeks $475,000 in its, Annual
Easter Seals campaign March 5 to April 5.
What to do with left -over
mashed potatoes --except to make
them into patties—is a problem
that puzzles many home cooks
at tines. But it won't be a prob-
lem if you try using them in some
of the ways I suggest herewith.
They're fine for thickening a
savory stew or creamy soup;
mixed into a yeast dough they
give a light, feathery texture to
your rolls; and when blended in-
to the batter, they even add good-
ness to a cake.
Indeed, instead of worrying
about mashed potato left -overs,
I often wish I had more of them
on hand.
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BEEF -POTATO POT PIE
e Cut in 2 -inch.
cubes 2 lbs. stewing
beef
es Combine in
paper bag c. flour
2 tsp. salt
e Shake beef cubes in bag until
thoroughly coated with flour mix-
ture.
es Melt in Dutch oven, or other
heavy kettle .,., 2 tbisp, shorten-
ing
e Brown beef in hot shortening.
* Adel to beef
slowly 1 c. vegetable
stock or water
3 medium
onions, quar-
tered
* Cover and cook 1 hour. .Add
more water if necessary.
Add 1 c. mashed po-
tatoes
Y2 tsp. marjoram
e Cover and simmer gently for 1
hour. The mashed potatoes will
thicken the stew so that no other
thickening is necessary.
* About 15 minutes before stew
is done, add 3 carrots, cut in
strips
1 c. fresh or
frozen peas
1 c. chopped cels
ery out in Is
inch pieces
* Pour into 2 -qt. casserole.
e Cover with rolled pie dough
(recipe using 1 c. flour will be
sufficient) or biscuit topping,
Brush with melted butter.
e Bake in hot oven (450°) 15
minutes. Serves 8.
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CREAIIM OF POTATO SOUP
$ Chop 4 targe stalks
celery and
leaves
2 medium-sized
onions
* Add 134 e. water
* Simmer 30 minutes.
* Strain through sieve or food
mill. (Should be about 1 cup.)
sa Stir in ......,.,„ 2 chicken. bouil-
lon cubes
e Pour hot
stock over P,4 e. Inashed
potatoes
,Stir until dissolved. Rub
through strainer to make sure no
lumps remain.
* Add 1 tblsp. butter
2 e. milk
dash of paprika
• Heat through, Ser v e with
chopped chives or parsley,
Serves 4 to 6.
POTATO PUFF DUNS
* Dissolve 1 pkg. dry gran-
ular (or 1 cake
compressed)
yeast in
Se c. lukewarm
water
* Scald 1 c. tank
ew While milk cools to lukewarm,
cream together
well e, shortening
a/2 e. sugar
11/2 tsp, salt
• Blend in 2 well beaten
eggs
1 c. mashed po-
tatoes
* Add dissolved yeast to luke-
warm milk; then stir into cream-
ed mixture.
Stir in 6 e. 'sifted • al
purpose our . .
(Should be a stiff dough,)
e Place on floured board and
knead thoroughly. Place in large
bowl; cover and let rise in warm
place until doubled in bulk, about
2 hours.
* Punch down; knead again.
* Brush with 1 tblsp. melted
butter
e Cover tightly and place in re=
frigerator until ready to bake,
(Krill keep over night, but be
sure bowl is large and well covM
ered, because dough rises again
in refrigerator.)
is About 21 hours before baking
time, pinch off dough and form
into small loaves or pan rolls.
Place two inches apart in pan
(9x13x2 inches).
e Cover and Iet rise again in
warm place until doubled in
bulk, . about 2 hours. Sys.;
*'Bake in hot oven (400°) 20
minutes, or until lightly browned.
Makes 21/2 dozen rolls.
* O. ,k
POTATO CHOCOLATE CASE
* Heat Vs c. milk
60 Add and melt 3 (1 oz.) squares
unsweetened
chocolate
e Set aside.
+� Cream 1 c. shortening
Add gradu-
ally 1s/ e. sugar
* Cream until light and fluffy.
* Add some of the hot chocolate
mixture to 1 c. hot mashed
Potatoes
e Blend into creamed mixture.,
e Beat 'in well 4 egg yolks
* Sift together 2 c. sifted cake"
flour •
3 tsp. baking .44
powder ;
!g tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
e Stir into batter, .mixing well.
* Beat until
st
ff
etAdd gradu-
ally
4 egg whites
ally a/ e. sugar. i
• Fold into battez and pour iiiio
3 greased, waxed -paper -lined 8 -
inch layer cake pans,
* Bake in moderate oven (350°)
30 minutes, or until toothpick in-
serted in center comes out clean.
* Turn out on rack, cool, and
frost.
ONE' OF US
An orthodox Jewish lady on
Delancey Street was deeply dis-
tressed when her only son fell itt
love with a girl with red hair, a
turned -up nose, and an Irish
brogue. She grumbled about the
situation for weeks, but one day
turned up for her weekly pieoehle
game in high good humor, "That
girl my boy is making eyes ,at,"
she anouncecl, "is .iewish after
all. 1 got a look at her compact..
last night when we all went to
the movies together, and there .
was her name plain as day:
HELENA RUBINSTI IN."
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ask.
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ASK. FOR
A. SINE", L IT 'd L WHY
Amp Trap — Dr. Harry Shar-
baugh sets his electronic rat
trap to catch some "amps."
Once sprung, the trap operates
so as to sweep across a series
of contacts seen at left. Am-
peres of current are thus meas-
ure by the scientist in., General
Electric's laboratory to study ef-
fects on certain insulating
materials.
Mammoth. Pies
For 164 years Denby Dale has
been famous for its mammoth
pies. In 1928 no fewer than five
bullocks were baked in one pie,
which weighed just over five tons,
and in order that their reputation
will not b tarnished by niggling
economies, the people of this
famous Yorkshire vilage , intend
baking an even bigger pie for the
Coronation.'
Because of rationing, a com-
rnittee, of six have decided to ask
the Ministry of Food to waive
regulations for this one occasion.
The custom of baking mammoth
pies began in Denby In 1788 to
celebrate the recovery of George
• III for a serious illness. The de-
feat of Napoleon at Waterloo gave
the villagers another glorious
chance, though that pie contained
only half a sheep, twenty fowls
and half a sack of flour.
But their pies increased in size,
and on the night of Queen Vic-
toria's Jubilee one weighing two
tons and costing $1,000 was baked.
The dish was e i g h t feet in
diameter and weighed fifteen cwt. •
The pie of 1928, ,the biggest,
had a crust that weighed half a
ton and 28 pounds of lard
powder and 224 pounds . of lard
went into it. Served. to 20,000,,.it
raised funds for a Huddersfield
hospital.
Incidentally, such ;pies take two
or thvree'months of planning, mix-
ing, and clesigning;., for a special
dish aswell .as the outsize oven
must be made.
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MAY OE A
VICTIM
Sleeplessnights, ,:rosencso and litigating
may be signs of pinworms and intestinal
wormsugly parasites that infect
children of all ages, leaving them run-
down and nervous. Pleasant -tasting
Mt LvuNaY'a MOTHER'S 1'RIEND
dispels those reale , . restores appetite,
children soon feel hotter again.
MULVENEY'S B'WELL
(For (adults) A natural herbal tonic that
settles ' upset stomach, tones up the liver
and kidneys, olio expels pinworms and
Intestinal worms.
MULVF.NES" Si RRMEDIES
Avaallribte7 of MI b taggistiz
Have You Booked Your Trip To The Moon
Yet ` If Not, There Are Plenty Ahead of Your
In the Hayden Planetarium,
New York, are twenty-five thou-
sand completed applications for
interplanetary journeys by rock-
et ships to the Moon, Jupiter,
Saturn, and Mars. They come
from all over the world.
It started two years ago when
the Planetarium presented "Con-
quest of Space," This was an ima-
ginary journey to the planets
demonstrated with the Planetar-
ium's projection unit. To strike
a realistic note "Interplanetary
Tour Reservation" slips were
printed.
The response was immediate
and startling, Within a short
period of time 25,000 of• those
slips had been returned to the
Planetarium, duly completed.
About a thousand letters also
arrived. "Curiosity, adventure,
insecurity, and all three blended
together are reflected in these
letters," writes Mr. Frank H,
Forrester, ' t h e Planetarium's
Supervisor of Guest Relations.
Those reservation slips and the
letters remain on the files, point-
ers nevertheless to the future,
And, week by week more corres-
pondence arrives from others
eager to be on one of the first
rockets to leave old Mother
`Earth for outer space.
Incidentally, intending passen-
gers for the Moon were given a
few details about their personal
comfort and security, "Prior to
' take -off," the information sheet
read, "passengers will be strap-
ped into standing positions
against the especially designed
take -off supports.
'Passengers will experience a
gradual diminution of earth
gravity. At 2,000 miles from the
earth, loose objects will `float' in
the air.
"Upon arrival (on the Moon)
passengers will find, due to -the
vacuum existing on the Moon's
surface, conversation impossible,
absence of winds, `weather' and
clouds.
"Walking will. be made more
difficult since the Moon's surface
is covered to a depth of two or
three feet with dust -like pum-
ice."
No commercial company has
yet set out to construct a rocket
that will take men to the Moon,
but obviously there will be no
shortage of potential passengers
when they do.
When will interplanetary tra-
vel be possible? .'Russian maga-
zine, "Ogonek," recently pre-
dicted that the national flag of
the U.S.S.R. will be flying on the
Moon in fifty years time:
Dr. Wernher von Braun, the
man who developed Hitler's V-2,
and who is now in America, has
predicted that "within the next
ten or fifteen years the earth can
have a new companion in the
skies, a man-made satellite which
will be a man's first foothold in
space"
This man-made satellite would
be over one thousand miles
above the earth. It would move
in an orbit around the earth and
provide the launching ground for
rockets en route for outer space.
The cost? Von Braun's esti-
mate for the satellite is four bil-
lion dollars.
The satellite would circle the
earth in such a way that every
inch of the earth's surface would
come into view periodically. It
would have a crew of scientists
who, with a 100 -inch telescope,
could distinguish objects on the
earth. only 16 inches apart,
This is a tremendous thought.
But there_• aremany who pour
cold water on Von Braun's en -
WHY YOU SHOULD
NOT TAKE SODA
e if you suffer from acid indigestion, gas
ilearthutn, scientists gay baking sods can add
to your upset, destroy vitamins, muss
alkalosis, acid rebound,
"After meals I had indigestion and gas
pains, and I practically lived on bakinat
*coda," says Peter George, Lethbridge, Alta.
"'filen I started taking 1)r. Pierce's Golden
Media;al Discovery and the pains went away
and I could eat and entby my meals again. I
gained 80 pounds and felt much better."
Thousands who suffered such distress, due
to no organic causes, tried Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery with' amazing
results. Over 35,000)000 bottles of this great
non-alcoholic medicine, with its wonderful
stomachic tonic action, have been gold to
date. And no wonder. First, taken regularly,
it promotes more normal stomach activity,
time helping to digest food better so you
won't have gas, heartburn, sour stomach,
Second, with stomach activity improved, you
can est the foods von like without fear of
•iter -distress,
l'ry It. Get O'. t'ierce's Golden Medtasd
Discovery 4t Vonr druggist, t
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EAT ANYTHING
WITH FALSE `ETH
ti you have trouble with plates
that slip, rock and oaum sore gums
—try Brlrnme clash -Meer. One
application makes plates nt met,
miaow powder er parer, because
firlmms rlasti-Liner hardens per -
momently to your plata. it relines and rents loose
Mates in a way no powder or poste can do. elves
ea old rubber plates you get good results slit
months to a year or longer. YOU CAN EAT
ANYTHING) Simply lay soft strip of i'lsst! Liner
on tronbleeome upper or lower, nim and It
molds periectty, rase fe tote, taatelees, odorletg,
harmless to you and your pirates, itenevnble ea
directed. Plate cleaner loolnded. Monty back it
not completely aatioded, If not nvaileblo et yout
drug stere, send 51.30 for reline for i plate.
WILOROOT LTA., FORT ERIE, ONT., Aept. ''rev
A Ntiti;rlNftit
'144,04111Attt7YlYtE°Yrs:LtNCa.1•
thusiasm, Colonization t,i° the
planets you see most nights would
be almost impossible. The Moon,
has no water. Mercury is burn-
ingly hot on the side facing the
sun and intensely cold on the
other. Venus is "always blanket-
ed in brilliant white clouds,"
Yet there are men determined
en the project. In Britain, the
Interplanetary Society is a flour-
ishing concern, composed of eef-
entists and engineers who know
just how to get away from the
earth and who are eager to learn:
what lies beyond the earth's at-
mosphere.
One day, it seems certain, they
will get there. In fewer years,
perhaps, than some of us ex-
pect, rockets from this old earth
of ours will be soaring through
the skies -•- outward bound'. And`
25,000 people are hopeful of be-
ing passengers.
•
DISIli !'PEA DANCE
. Renowned World War 1 Gen-
eral, Marshal Foch walked in-
to a Paris night spot late one
evening and listened to a young
songstress singing "The Marseil-
laise." He was so touched, that
he presented her with his Croix
de guerre, saying, "My heart has
never before been' hurt by a
song." A week later, every news-
paper in tie country hadthe
story, and every agent and man-
ager in France was looking for
the young singer, but she was
never found.
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A Family Remedy For�
Coughs—The Pleasant .
Fasting Finck. Way
When rinyone in your family is
distressed by winter coughs,. use
this favorite old Canadian recipe,
1'lasy to prepare, yet' gives you
tour times as. Hauch for your money.
Get a 23/z ounce bottle of fast -
acting PINEX CONCENTRATE
from your favorite drug counter.
Pour this into a 16 ounce, bottle
and fill up with simple sugar syrup.
That's all there is to do... no cook
ing needed, yet you will have an
ample supply of effective cough re-
lief for the whole family, so plea-
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For convenience, PINTO( is now
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PINEX must help you, or your
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be ready for winter coughs ahead.
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