Loading...
Zurich Herald, 1950-04-06, Page 3ff Teacher's Got a Full House—The second grade teacher at Sutherland School sees double and triple when she faces this quintet of 7 -year-olds. The triplets are Diane, Daren and Elizabeth Quist, and the twigs are James and William Owen. "Checkmate" Means "The, Kung Is Dead'!IBLIE Y TALKS yet unsolved problems that scien- the air' distort the horizon moon. are now trying to explain is She first chess' champion c.f the t�a 1-izi� ew5. world was a Spaniard. Ruy,Lopez, explanation and he will give the lie the night sky. They know quite well who was awarded the title about the .that the moon is practically the seems to be just as great, even middle -A the sixteenth century. ` Few cities are more famous for veal with the onion until well done. Chess,. is a very ancient game "special dishes" than Philadelphia. One of the best knowni of course, Put all through a food chopper• Parboil the cornmeal in bailing . which isllielieved to have started in India all�, lit three thousand. years is Pepper Pot which, many. years ' salted water. Add the meal to the before G}e birth of Christ. One ago, used to be hawked through the 'niatyo- mush. Place in greased bread pan , thoroughly. Slice about theory of its origin is that the game streets of the -'Pennsylvania and cool- /inch thickand Bila 1 ane, served . was invented to amuse a king • of polis. Perhaps you'd like to.try.it.some with eggs. India wlio,tired of waging war.and. time. It's a really hearty dish of # z wanted something to occupy fits the••"stick to the ribs" kind, QUICK',SAUSAGE SCRAPPLE, mind. • Se" PHILADELPHIA PEPPER POT Method—Cook bulk pork sausage It was•.then known as "Chatur-until anga," rje(ning the game of four 2 pounds honeycomb tripe, dorWe and'poi;r off the grease. ' armies r, four t � s' types of forces— 2 me8ium sized onions, chopped 2 'potatoes, cubed Make cornmeal niush, and when smooth add the cooled bulk saus- ele harit'ihorses, chariots and foot p ' • medium sized 1 'level tablespoon ground allspice age which has been run through soldiers.'The elephant was equiva- lent to: tie piece now known as a 'I level tablespoon sweet majoram a fine grinder. Cook mush -sausage mixture in double boiler 45 min - r astle ori t ook. 1 level tablespoon black pepper " sites to 1 hour: Pour -into greased From India the ganne spread to Salt to taste ',bread (loaf) • pan • and,. chili thor- :Persia; ..where it was known as Method—Cover tripe with water, Wlten tripe is al- oughly in: cool place. When ready ' " r « „ Chatsing. TIie wtertrY` chi kmat� is in chess to -day --=is add seasonings. , . most' done remove from pot, cut � to use, slice about .9 in :l. thick, dip each slice into flour .rnq brown —which used derived om the Persian "schach in %-inch squares and return to the in skillet in -bacon fat. Serve with mat," rti ing "the, Icing is dead." n liquid. Add onion and potatoes. When the potatoes are nearly done, ;syrup, x :f take From; the game was taken add dumplings made asQollows: Getting sufficient vegetables into up by the Arabt who were th t to play it blindfold. They, in turn, the family if isn't much of a task, brought ttiegame to Europe during " DUMPLINGS you happen to live where the the eleventh century. Spain being "1 cup flour 1 level teaspoon bakingpowder fresh kind. are available all. the year 'round. But when you have to de - the first country to play it, teaspoon salt pend on what you have canned or It was no however, until the t• 1 level tablespoon shortening (fat) stored away, around this time, of nineteenth century that England be- Water a r, ' ,�. l;�ey$re g(il� t9 -he _!+ hit stn-' carne the. leading' 1- ,;s- Iayjng ;• country of the world, when I�owai tp ethor7—•y. __ Cu m shortening.: Then add ways to "pep them up". !\Text time Staunto:ti avis recognized ar ivorid enough water to make a dough that you think bf serving beets, try them champioli until he was defeated in can be easily handled. Put on ;a as 1851 by Professor Anderssen of floured board and pat.out. Cut into BEETS IN ORANGE SAUCE Breslau.strips, then in /-inch squares. Roll 2 tablespoons butter or margarine One of the earlier champions was each square in .the . palm of the to make a small-sizerl marble. 2 tablespoons flour 3/4 cup water Andre Datrican Philidor, who. re- tained the title until his death in hands Put"on a floured plate and drop 1% teaspoons grated orange rind 1795. He was able to play blindfold, one by one into the boiling pepper 3/4 cup orange juice and created quite a sensation in pot. Cover and cook 20 minutes, V4 teaspoon salt London in 1783 by playing two then serve. * k f er games simultaneously without see- Scrapple is another dish the folks 2 teasp000n ons s sep 33/2 cups cooked beets, sliced ing the board. Anewspaper of the time report- down in Philadelphia ate -partial to, Method—Melt butter, stir in flour "It in the served either at breakfast—in fami- and add water slowly. Adel orange cd: is a phenomenon history of Man, and so 'should be lies where they take time to eat for Sunday rind, orange juice, salt, pepper, and hoarded among the best samples of a real breakfast—or First I'll give you a tradi- sugar. Cook until smooth, stirring constantly. Add beets and heat. 8 human memory; till memory shal l slipper, tional method of making it, then servings. „ be ono .more.. a quicker_ . and less bothersome :• : Singe those days, however, the recipe. Ilere, too, is a style yuu may number of games that have been PHILADELPHIA SCRAPPLE never' have tried for serving that played blindfold has increased con- 1 pound calf's liver other standby, carrots. sidembly. It has been known for as as thirty-four to be conducted 3/4 pound pork shoulder CARROTS many simultaneously V4 pound vealSOUR-SWEET I large onion 2 tablespoons butter or margarine -- 2 cups yellow cornmeal 2 tablespoons flour Sign in New York bar: We do 1 teaspoon salt z2 teaspoon salt not serve women. You have to Y. teaspoon pepper liver, and Pepper 7 tablespoons sugar-.; bring your own. Method—Boil pork, 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 cup hot water -- am 4 cups cooked carrots - Method—Brown butter, blend in flour, and continue. browning, stir- •� ext •��ree STARUNG�L �'� �9 ring constantly. Add seasonings.' Combine sugar, vinegar, and water• and acid to first mixture gradually; t�A A �7 j ', SERI t A®.1.' � cools slowly until thickened, stir- ring constantly. Pour over hot car- .1 rots, 6 to 8 servings, No Co-operation sot tl?. Riderg Discussing his tennis technique, a stout, amiable, bald man panted, 1 "My brain immediately barks out a °� command to my body. `.Run for- ward, but fastl' it says. `Start right •- • now 1 Drop the ball 'gracefully over - the net and ten walk back slowly'." e -s "And then what happens?" he by G. H. SHARP was asked. "And then," replied the stout • man, "my body says, 'Who—me" Packed rilt'li l>4$101 and thrills—.A C016,r ; Warning note from newspaper. _ nxl, 5't ,A ll►i�'li fling ''S xxal Wind, plc Se To avoid confusion, Possibly pain- fol, it should Be explained that lovers Of, Weit411R fic Ron at Its best "pickled blonde" inn' the furniture busiiness means a.kind_ of tiiliah-- a: 4" not what you thine. . it�•oas & WON'T ANT T SS A 'M SINGLE 'IE Thought Readimigg On. The Air Some of the most. successful BBC,, •. Broadcasts in years are coneernedl . with thought reading Something so silent and intangible appears ttnlikely to maice an effective broad cast but two young Australians,' Sydney Paddington and his wife Lesley, have been. front page news in the British press whenever their "thought transference" programme has been on the air. It mystiftes a: ' large section of the listening public but whether it is genuine or a. very clever trick is a problem which the Piddingtous themselves do nothing to solve. "Listeners must decide for themselves," is their ans- wer" Le,Iey's apparent ability to read her husband's wind is uncanny. In their first broadcasts they were in the 'same studio and ,he was blind- folded but was able to identify with -ease such things as cards her hus- band picked otit of a pack. In later broadcasts She ivas in another Outiio, another building or another toiwri but wherevt-r she was she was able appareutly to communi- cate with her husband, to identify objects and to quote lines out of gooks chosen haphazardly 'by ,the audience. Later on independent judges were brought in, and before.*. transmission both Mr. and Mrs.' Fiddington werestripped and searched by detectives, who made , sure that'no transniit't'ng sets,rvere concealed about, their persons. Fv- ery possible nrecaittion was taken and still the .Piddingtons seemed ,able to eomnnuricate `with each other without difficulty. Por their latest broadcast Syd- ney Piddington and faun' -judges 'Were irn'a Blit' studio in•-Ldnddn. Lesley was a Jiundred and twenty mites away in Bristol. She 'fook off in a B.O.A.C. Stratocruiser, ac•, cornpairied'by about forty hardened reporters anti a BBC commentator, Before the programme began the plane climbed through thick fog to . fifteen hun6red feet and then com- mentator Gilbert Harding. wbarhlf, ' .earphones, matte contact Nyith. the London - studio, although •Lesl6y could hear nothing • of what %vas going on. Members of the audience placed personal ,•liossessions int{ . env,el,ppa,R, .these. were carried to., tlie, judges, 'who, selected five, ,. openied, tbem and passed the roll- tetrts to Sy' aney. N e, without speak-, ing, "transmitted" the articles ;to Lesley in the plane: and within a 'few seconds $he hadl.tok1 listeners whrit they were,. giving correctly the number oni'a pound note and the, clines in a half-ti;risked ' crossword. Even the reporters there astonished at this seemingly miraculous per- forniance. Is it telepathy, or is it a clever act? The Piddingtons' aren't telling and the BBC is satisfied .to oroadeast programmes that are of •first rate entertainment ` -value, is genuine or not. Cold. Diver Will Warm, Conice.rt l-le,ll An ingenious system •of pipes a,nd 'pumps will be used to extract natural warmth front the Riven Thailies and provide free heat for the $8,000;000 concert hall now be -,r•. ing built neat• Waterloo Bridge `for the 1951 Festival of Britain Exhibi- taott. After extracting the heat- from` ' the apparently cold Thanes, scien- tists will generate high temperature with it. The plant they use will be oti show .at the exhibition. , The Thames water will, be pumped by two aircraft engines, running on coal gas, to pipes.con- .: veying a refrigerant liquid: As',th6 warmth in the river water. passes to .the liquid, it will be tra:isfoririecl into a vapor. This vapor will be compressed in a pinup. Its tempexature will be tre- mendously increased in the same v;ay as heat is generated in a bicycle pump,, Advice to after-dinner speakers' If you don't strike oil in five min- utes, 'stop boring. JkNOR CIBC00 CLOCK CHARMING OLD-WORLD TIMEKEEP?ER , No, 2 (as pictured) Price 25.00 tvitn% roll rnEM PROSPECTUS To MANUFACTURERS MERCHANDISING (CANADA) LTD. 2067 Stanley Street, Montreal 0, ow The Moon -.lists • Fools -The Eye###a* ereatiite 'd<idcrj t `b� ,coon, dogs .near Mount Enterprise. The. �tiniirial'.st:head resemUles;,that.:D a fox' and it has a tail like an i. one of the most baffling and as Others said that dust particles in yet unsolved problems that scien- the air' distort the horizon moon. are now trying to explain is and make it appear larger. But ask aIle apparent alteration in the size any sailor what lie thinks of this ,of the moon as it rises and crosses explanation and he will give the lie the night sky. They know quite well to it, .for at sea the moon illusion .that the moon is practically the seems to be just as great, even same size when it first appears as though there are no trees or dust h is when directtly overheard. They on the horizon, also know that the shrinking in Astronomers have discovered that size is an optical illusion, but exact- the size of a big harvest moon can ly how that illusion is caused re- be brought down to normal by mains a mystery. looking at it through a tube or Everyone knows that the moon circle made by one's thumb and on the horizon looks about three forefinger. The same thing happens times the size of the moon over- if you bend down 'and look at the Bead, but though the moon can moon through your legs, Similarly if one eye is covered fool our eyes it can't fool the cam- and the observer looks at the rising era, and a film of the moon rising shows it to be practically the same moon for a long time the illusion size all the time it is visible, gradually disappears. A man who came down. I really didn't do so badly.—Frani "Our Alaskan Win - has lost an eye docs not have any Actually, when the moon is over- illusion at all. head it should look bigger than When the moon is overhead it when it is on the Horizon because can be made to appear a.- big as it is about four thousand miles a horizon moon if the observer lies nearer to 'us. . on his back. In that position his ... But when eye check this with our eyes are in the same position as. own - eyes we find just the opposite, when he stands erect looking at the , Astr pomers have been trying to horizon moon. .explant., this illusion for centuries. What is the solution to the riddle? Sonne thought the horizon moon Sc_entists will not commit them - seen -is larger because we compare it selves beyond saying that it has wiill trees.aitd buildings also in the something to do with the raising ^line of sight, whereas when it is and lowering of the eyes. high in the sky no such comparison Perhaps you have some ingenious Can 4)e made. ideas on the subject. What`, N;6`F-e'dtl e'rs?'—"One of'riature's oddities is this-sfrange ereatiite 'd<idcrj t `b� ,coon, dogs .near Mount Enterprise. The. �tiniirial'.st:head resemUles;,that.:D a fox' and it has a tail like an opossum and feet like a.raccoon. Stranger yet is the complete abselice of hair and •an,extra tail starting to grow on its bacic.' Charles Hudson, shown holding the animal above, -. • ., a `�BkY8IlpI1CH1 dine tigli`er'"a 'l`t r��kiLto.bojd Itis bal- About the highest we saw dancers go on..the hide was fifteen feet into As the darkest part of night carne the air. With a walrus skin and ort *the inclination of everybody was more ,hide holders the dancer can towards some kind -of celebration or reach much greater heights. Many iiitertainnient •for tfne visitors;'and of our party had. never tried this here Connie and I tried'"our luck game before and one or two couldn't yxith the others at the famous Es- be induced to try. kimo jumping game. The game looked easy, so upon Beside one of the tents the game' being coaxed to join in, I gave it a had begun, W -e understand' that 'origilpally a walrus hide was always try. At first I tried to jump as the used 'for the jumpers, but in this of the ocean there are no wal- skin came taut, but the people ex - plained that I had only to stand part and these people extemporized straight and land on my feet, The rus, with a moose hide. The hide had a the for hide holders would always try to keep the dancer landing in the exact rope sewed around edge handholds. fifteen people center of the slain, and would run .About took hold: of thg skin, stretching it with the hide to catch him when he .tight like a, fireman's net. They chanted an jerked the skin taut and came down. I really didn't do so badly.—Frani "Our Alaskan Win - then slackened off in unison, • ter," by Constance and Harmon, Thp dancer stood in the'center of Helmericks, if you sutler from ARTHRI- TIS or RHEUMATISM and the pain is so great it just seems to you you cannot stand it another day, you should know that DOLCIN has helped many, many sufferers to COME OUT TROA.I UNDEr THE SIiADO1V OF PAIN! DOLCIN is a tried and proven preparation which usually relieves, promptly and effectively, the pains of ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATISM and kindred disturbances. 1DoLCTN will not harm the heart or any other organ. Grateful men and women from all party of the world have sent unsolicited letters of thanks to the makers of DOLCIN for the relief from pain which DOLCM has brought them. DOLCM is today probably the world's lest -known, product for the relief of the paino of ARTHRITIS and RHEUMATISM. There's a 'T" on every genuine DOLCIN Tablet. DOT,CI\ isobtainable throughout the British Commonwealth. 11l •s4 are, of those who offer you mutations, usually at higher prices. Try a bottle of DOLCIN '.TODAY—DOLCIN is reasonable in cost, 100 tablets for $2.39-200 tablets for $3,95-- also available in bottles of 500 a tablets,DOWN y; DOLCIN is available in all drug r%,, stores, Dot.CiN Limited • tiOPOntlP 1>atear�R 1�•f:>, nnr< r 4hr •1f, let tars tfedf m<n9a to 6 Ontario of this gr."Wet.