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SPRING PARADE
'olio,. Homemakers! It's May—a
Itg(With of color and sunlight—sadden&
scurrying showers - . glistening
pavements, and a tender greenness
creeping into the brown earth.
. May, too, is a month :when appe-
tites are sometimes a bit fickle. Prob=
ably it's just good old-fashioned
"spring fever." Anway, after the long'
winter—heavy "meat -and -potato" type
of menu—you may find yourself tak-
ing a new interest in the preparation
of your meals—and your faintly look-
ing forward to your latest effort. Here
are a few suggestions planned to give
you a "lift" both in appetite and nu-
trition. Try them out, today, and let
us know what you think of the novel
ice cream.
* *. *.
Incidentally our column today an-
swers several requests for either sug-
gested
u-gested Sunday dinners or a Sunday -
night supper dish—for company—we
hope that all interested homemakers
will file these recipes.
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Suggested Sunday Dinner
Rhubarb Juice with Celery Curls
Chicken Pie with Biscuit Crust
Buttered Asper sesus
Gra.penut Ice Create
eotoh Tea Cookies
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Chicken Pie
•
1 4 -pound fowl
Boil_a�g water• •
le teaspoon salt
e& teaspoon 'pepper
3 cups sliced raw carrots
1 onione peeled and sliced
a_ cup tour
wj tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons butter
1 egg, slightly beaten
Baking powder biscuit dough.
Cut the fowl in pieces for serving.
Cover with boiling water and cook
slowly until ;tender. adding salt and
pepper when fowl is half rooked. Add
the sliced raw carrots and onions
duriug cooking. Thicken the stock
with flour. Add a little of the stock
to the beaten egg and mix into the
gravy. Add the butter and pour in-
to greased casserole. Roll out tea
biscuit dough and tuck into the ca-
serole over the mixture. Bake at 450
deg. F. in electric oven for about 12
minutes -6 servings.
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Grapenuts Ice
a., cup grapenuts
t_ cup granulated sugar
1 pint whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla.
Whip cream, fold in the, one-half
cup grapenuts and allow to stand one
hou— or until grapenuts begin to soft-
en. Fold in fine sugar. Add vanilla.
Pour into. tray and freeze.
Cream
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Scotch Tea Cookies
1e cup butter
e cup lard
2 eggs
1 tablespoon cream
2L cups flour (all-purpose)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon flavouring. •
Cream butter and lard• add sugar
and beat until light. Add eggs. dev-
ouring and cream and continue beat-
ing: Add in sifted flour and baking
powder. Chill dough until it is stiff
rn, gb to shape (about '. hour in
sleet rie refrigerator. near freezing,
ur.::). Make tw o long .rolls and then
c Lilt again in electric refrigerator. Cut!
in thin slices and bake at 450 degrees
nor s•i minutes in electric oven.
Makes 5-6 dozen cookies. •
.Par; of th.e dough may be kept for
lt.-16 days in the electric refrigerator.
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•
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Theatres, Hospitals,
Wholesale Houses, and
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A.' M. POWELL, PRESIDENT
Take a Tip
1. Wake up and, live electrically!
Where you have a 0 -watt lamp. could
a 60 -watt prevent some of those
eadaches due to eye, strain? •
2. Wash old powder puffs and use
to apply enamel polish on your elec-
tric range or .refrigerator.
* * *
QUESTION BOX
Mrs. J. A. B. asks: What makes
sauces and custards fleck with bits
of cooked egg when I add beaten egg
to it, as quickly as possible?
Answer: Take the, hot liquid from
the range. add a little of it to the
well -beaten egg mixture—then return
to the element to complete the cook-
ing.
* * *
Mrs. M. J. Mc. asks: How can I
prevent bacon from tearing whep I
The March of Science
WARTIME TELEPHONE TRAFFIC PROMOTES
MULTI -CHANNEL CIRCUITS .
As. the national war effort
reaches its climax, government
and industry alike have turned to
the telephone to get things done
quickly. The urgent., need for
more long distance facilities has
promoted the use of methods of
obtaining additional voice chan-
nels without erecting, more wires.
Several conversations are sent
over one pair of wires at the
same time, yet they do not inter-
fere with one another in the least!
Imagine two trains running
abreast on a double track rail-
road. Then imagine, a Ghost Train
running between them, using all
four tracks! Such a feat is in-
conceivable in railroading, but
sending three telephone conversa-
tions at once over two pairs of
wires has been in practice since
1900. Moreover, the "phantem"
channel superimposed on the two
physical channels not . only does
not interfere with them, but is it -
Self a better conductor of voice
currents than they are! This ap-
parent miracle is achieved by in-
serting special equipment at the
ends of the two physical circuits.
This equipment switches the
iihatitom voice current off the
Wires - at the end of the line to
Connect with its'' own telephone.
A standard telephone pole line .
tries. ;2p„airs of wires, provid-
togg: 20 ordinary telephone chan-
nbilsW' ai'e3iii esn Ph
antom
ebeinielgieth the phstctl one
Inore voice Paths provided,
ekintatotalo80. Wonderful?
have still' mote
,tirade,Welidekti in .togs
very+ iadio :ilteex ktielta that a
L{astlltfw Stoir eta't snilt> ht r.
Measured
l e y pts ear one
tle 1 n ire
-:..,, jay, py.�Iy.., /,�y{ yyj �u�yy
trident: 8i;
out. !their pros
grams interfere with one another.
Ordinary telephone conversations
are also transmitted at a certain
frequency ---one kilocycle. If.: an-
other conversation is transmitted
through the same wire, but' at a
higher frequency, ,it will not "in-
terfere with the first conversa-
tion, any more than one radio sta-
tion interferes with another oper-
ating at a different frequency.
These high -frequency telephone
currents are known as "carrier".
currents.
By this means, three more
channels were provided on cer-
tain pairs of wires on the stand-
ard pole line, increasing the capa-
city of the original 20 to 54 chan-
nels. On new Iines, specially de-
signed for the purpose, 68 chan-
nels can be provided on 20 pairs
of wires.
The development of the carrier
system illustrates the extensive
and continuous research carried
out by the telephone industry in
behalf of better telephone service
at less cost. In times of emer-
gency, such as the present, the
value of this research is increased
many fold.
Recently, new carrier systems
have been developed which can
carry still more conversations
through one pair of wires. The
co -axial cable—a wire contained
in ,a tube, ---can carry 480 conver-
sations simultaneously. It is only
its very ,highly= -populated sections
of the country that these systems
are required.r, However, the co-
axaal cabre can also transmit the
comple)t currents - which carry
television images. Thus the•trans-
sif)b' of ser;$iral;' conversations
through
one
wire
has
led
to im-
provements .
hi the new alt of;tele;'.
vision, the uses of 'which open up
i+inntense; possibilitiet'i to the ftnag
' Within
er emir ii0et Gy`1tI'r'G. Clwrrr, `
11 x"'ito` re • apoi, r►iy aj Garuda.
A Fact a Week
About Canada
Frain the Bureau
of Stale**
PAPER IN NEW LIGHTING
Every now and again we hear of
Crew uses' for paper and the public has
ceased to be amazed at the varieties
of commodities that are now made
out of paper produced by- the Cana -
diet forests. '
One of these little known uses has
come recently 't6 shave added import,
Case; --because of the increasing- popu
larity .of the new fluorescent light-
ing. In this new method of illumina-
tion the invisible light -lays of a mer-
cury vapour lamp are transformed in-
t•v visible light and thus give a high-
to- pleasing light with a tremendow,1
reduction in the amount of powt,r us -
el Each unit of such lightiug re-
quires in the lighting fixture au. Cuspis-
once known as a condenser, to most
important part of which is a special
varift} of paper.
This paper is exceedingly thin,
about one-tenth of the diameter of a
human hair; it would take about tatree
thousand sheets to make a pule an
inch thick. In spite of such arra- tug
thinness• the paper must be extren,c-
lv- unitorni and practically air t-yi,t.
Although it is made from the same
wood -pulp as is used for erd'oa-•y
hra,vn wrapping paper, the care need -
e.1 to its manufacture brings the : ost
up to about three times that -of radon
'di l:.
It is estimated that more than a
million dollars worth of this fiu,? pa-
ler will be used this year in C .manta
and the United States.
take it but of the package of sliced
bacon to put it in a hot frying pan?
Answer: The easiest way that I1
know of is to•plaee as many unsepar-
ated bacon slices as you need in your,
skillet on a cold' electric element.
Turn element on 'High." As the skil-
let heats and the bacon warms, you
will find that with a little urging c.t
the fork the slices will separate eas-
ily and perfectly.
*
Mrs. R. H. asks: What is hominy?
Answer: Hominy, a product of
white corn, is a good substitute for
rice.
Anne Allan invites ybu to write to
her c /o The Duron Expositor. Just
sent] in your questions on home -mak-
ing and watch this little corner of
the column for replies.
Canada's
War Effort
A Weekly Review of Developments
On the Home Front.
Following Easter recess, the House-
of
ouseof Commons re -assembled April 28th,
with its main task provision of finan-
cial sinews of war. Hon. J. L. IIVey.
Minister of Finance, submitted third
war -time budget April 29th.
1. Budget reported over-all deficit
for 1940-41 of $385,056.000 which con-
siderably less than estimate -given in
previous budget. For 1941-42, total
expenditures and revenues (on basis
of existing taxation) were estimated:
Expenditures ........$1,768,000,000
Revenues ..... 1.150,000,000
Apparent deficit . • .. $618,000,000
In above figures, war -expenditure
estimated ,.at $1,300,000,000.. Should
war . expenditure reach $1,450 000,000
(wihich government war programme)
apparent deficit rise to $768,000,000.
Adding between $800,000,000 and $900,-
000,000 estimated difference between
Britain's deficit with Canada and'Can-
ada's deficit with United States, addi-
tional sum to be raised by taxation
and borrowing in' 1941-42 approxi-
mates $1,500,000,000.
How to raise this sum was a bud-
get problem. Briefly, budget propos-
als were:
Income and defence • taxes approxi-
mately doubled. Excess profits tax
flat rate increased from 12 per cent.
to 22 percent. making minimum cor-
poration tax •40 per cent. New Do-
minion• succession duty imposed. Sur-
tax on investment income. Domin-
ion tax of three cents a gallon on
gasoline. New 20 per cent. tax on
receipts .of motion picture houses; and
fve per cent, on race track wagers.
One cent a pound additional on sugar
Ten per cent. tax on rail and air
travel tickets. Increase of five per
cent. in excise tai: on automobiles
valued at under 8960. Building ma-
terials made- liable to sales tax. In
creased taxes on mart;wines, carbonic
acid gas for soft drinks, cosmetic and
toilet, preparations, long distance tele-
phone calls, playing cards, pocket
lighters, cigarette tubes.
2. Estimated that taxation, changes
will yield $249,105,000 in 1941-42 and
8300,310,000 in full fiscal year. Total
Dominion revenues for 1941-42 esti•
matted sat aipproximately $1;400,000.-
000. Under budget, Canada pays 73
to 79 per cent. of war and non -war
expenditure out of revenue.
3. Reviewing the war situation,
generally, the Prime Minister (April
28) summarized the significance of the
Hyde Park declarations as (a) it will
it'elp both Canada and the United
States to provide maximum• aid to
Britain and to all defenders of dem-
ocracy; (b) it will increase the ef-
fectiveness- of Canada's war effort,
and ,(4c) through increased industrial
efficiency, it will increase our own
seeUrity and the security of North
Anserina.
4. Thousands of Canadian fighting
men land in Great Britain. Contin
gent included largest group of Com-
monwealth A
weal i
t rL•
�' ai uing Plan gradu-
ates to arrive in Engignd,
5. &enn . now doing fond”' months'
ooinpalSory Military training tinder
Mobllsationr Act; will be detailed for
aetiie service. in denada of corn' le-
tien Of their eourige 'Voluntary'etiy
listrbretiO for,+ebbe'' ervide nVeineas
e
Nature does not appreciate man-
made. straight, unbroken dividing lin
made, straight, unbroken dividing
lines such as backyard fences, abrupt
corners on houses or garages or nar-
row, straight ride -walks.
All of these unduly emphasibe the
confining limits of small city lots.
The latter, however, can be made to
appear many times more spacious if
the fences and walls are partially
covered with vines, if corners are
screened with shrubbery, leading
down to tall annual flowers.
Intriguing Walks
A curve in the walk or driveway
will make it actually intriguing and
will not add more than a few sec-
onds to navigating time between• front
door and the roadway. If we put ill
these curves, however, Landscape ex-
perts tell us. we must be sure to
snake a reason for them, otherwise
the whole effect will be artificial. At
the bend, in the driveway or path,
therefore, it -is well to have a tree or
a group of shrubs or a flower bed.
In screening, it is not necessary nor
desirable to cover the'whole of fence,
wall or garage, unless the same is
unsightly. Much more pleasing re-
sults follow • where the shrubbery,
vines and flowers merely 'break the
lines of the man-made structures be-
hind there, but leave enough showing
for contrast.
For this work the gardener usual-
ly employs, perennial plants, perman_..
ent shrubbery and -hardy creepers.
One can, however, get `very fair re-
sults with ,quick -growing annuals in
1 both the bushy or vine -growing types.
Vegetable Groups
Vegetables divide themselves into
three main planting groups. The first
will stand some frost. In this class
will be the garden peas. carrots,
beets, lettuce, radish, spinacb, and
other hardy types listed for Cana-
dian planting in Canadian seed cata-
logues. In many parts of the Domin-
ion, planting of these will now be un-
derway or planned.
The second group• is- not frost hardy
and is best not planted 'until danger
of cold 'weather is practically over.
1 is group includes beans, cabbage,
pofatoes and corn. -
Finally there are the really tender
things that originally hailed from
Mexico and other Southern points.
These include the •melon family—mel
ons, cucumbers, pumpkins and squash.
Pepper plants, celery plants and to-
mato plants are also in th.e tender
category. There is nothing- to be
gained in planting these before both
weather and soil have really turned
warm.
Because one is advised not to plant
certain types of vegetables before a
certain time, this does not mean that
all the seed should be sown at, once.
Indeed with vegetables that are eaten
in the green stage it is well to spread
sowings over' several weeks so that
the season of harvest will be length-
ened accordingly.
NEXT WEEK — "Still Plenty of
Time"; "Importance of Cultivation.'
Minute
Miniatures
Brief Backgrounds in the Careers of
. Canada's Captains in War.
Ait' Commodore Ernest Walte''
Stedman, O.B.E., A,R.C.Sc., is Air
Member for Aeronautical Engineering
on Canada's Air Council, and had it
pot been for a broken oil feed line
nn a_ commercial aeroplane back in
1919, be might not be serving Canada
in this, key position.
Stedman was born in Mailing, Kent,
and took his early schooling in Maid-
stone. He comes of a family of doc-
tors and army officers. His great
uncle, General Sir Ernest Stedman.
sere ed for many years in India, But
Air Commodore E. W. Stedman,
O. B.E.,, A.R.C.Sc., Air Member for
Aeronautical Engineering on Can-
ada's Air Council.
tom grammar school days on, Eine
cast Stedman, looked straight down a
gun' barrel line at his own future --
he intended without doubts or divers-
ity of interests to be an engineer.
This single purpose remains today.
Stedman trained under 'the "Sand-
wich System" in England, taking jobs
in shops and factories, going to school
two afternoons and three evenings
each week, moving from foundry to
boiler and fitting shop's and drawing
sections. Today all aircraft factories
in England pick their draughtsmen
and designers from this -type of stu-
dent apprentice. After four yeat.s,
Stedman was awarded a Whitworth.
Exhibition Prize and 'Free Student-
ship, in London, Ile took a By.jrliss
cash prize and a Whitworth scholar-
ship that brought him about £125 a
year for three years, one of which
he spent at City Guilds College, Lon-
don. the other two on nominal salar-
ies, gaining experience with industrial;
aggregate almost 200,000. Of these,
practically, 70,000 are serving outside
Canada. Recruiting campaign an-
nounced to secure between 20,000 and
30,000 men for overseas service with-
in next three months.
6. Special Produc Board (Depart-
ment of Agriculture) ann an or-
der for •6,400,000 dozen Canadian eggs
for shipment to British Ministry of
Food during May at' approximate
price of 23 to 24% cents per dozen,
according torade, delivered on
board ship at Montreal packed ready
for export.
7. E. J'. Bruning, Munitions and
Supply Department, appointed by
Order -in -Council Controller in the
Hamilton plant, National Steel Car
Corporation. Mr. Bruning will direct
the plant in the interests of maxi-
mum 'war production.
Appointment of a Government Con -
nailer resulted from ,refusal of the
plant Management to Carry out in-
terim findings f,
o a. board of concilia-
tion a oifited to reconcile differences
pps
between etiuployers and employed.
1 ntptoyees struck work in conse-
gtiefice:
The strike ended on appointment of
they, cloverfl�ttlent Controller. • Threat-
ened sympathetic Strikes `here carted
lot,
firms.
Stedman took his wife for an even-
ing's entertainment to a "Conversa-
zione" at the National Physical Lab-
oratories at Teddington, an institu-
tion that corresponds to our National
Research Council. Fascinated by ob-
serving experimental v<'ork in aero-
nautics, Stedman realized this was
the engineering job of the future, and
arranged immediately to join the Ted-
dington staff with ,, salary no object.
During World War One, Stedman
as a commissioned Lieutenant attach-
ed to' the Royal Naval Air Service,
gave his country distinguished _ser-
vice. He' began at the Admiralty on
'design and inspection of planes, be-
came technical observer for new
types of craft, did test work with pil-
ots bn the first Handley -Page bomb-
ers during their development, -and
went to France with the first squad-
ron as Station Engineer charged with
keeping them in the air. In 1918, in
charge of No. 44 Aeroplane Repair
Depot at •Guines, 'the ,ancient "Field
of the Cloth of Gold," he was award-
ed the O.B.E. for organizing produc-
tion
roducttion and repair work under bad con-
ditions and -for keeping depots going
in the open while they were- subject
to air raids. -
A year after the Armistice. Sted-
man came to Canada .accompanying
Handley -Page's entry in the Daily
Mail prize contest for the first West-
to:East Atlantic flight. Flying from
Newfoundland to New York, the plane
developed, a broken oil feed line and
crashed at Parrsboro, Novk Scotia.
Stedman, who had not gone along
on the flight, was -rushed to the scene,
of the mishap. It' was there, during
the months spent in making the re-
pairs that Stedman came to realize
what a natural "air country" Canada
was, with its vast distances, its inac-
cessible north country and its limit-
ed population. •-
In 192-0, he took Ottawa's Civil Ser-
vice Commission examination for
Technical Director on the Air Board,
came out top, and when the R.C.A.F.
-evolved, Was commisioned Wing Com-
mander. From 1920 to 1935, he did
the work he loves best—peacetime
development of aircraft design and
skill to advance commerce and de-
velop new country. Air Commodore
Stedmanis an author of distinguish-
ed standing in aeronautical journals
of the United States, Great Britain
and Canada.
'Asparagus
'✓•The delicacy of asparagus as it
conies to the market fresh, crisp and
green typifies spring. Asparagus is
often classified as a luxury vegetable,
but newer knowledge of nutrition em-
phasizes the value of green colored
vegetables and therefore it should be
used often during the short season.
Simply boiled and served with butter
asparagus is delicious, but there are
many ways in which this vegetable
may be used.
The Consumer Section, Marketing
Service, Dominion Department of Ag-
rlculture, suggests the following test-
ed recipes:
Asparagus Potato Puffs
' 1 cup asparagus puree
2 cups hot mashed potatoes
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup bread crumbs
3 tablespoons butter.
Mix' asparagus, potatoes, salt and
well -beaten egg. Drop in spoonfuls.
on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle
lightly with crumbs. Bake at 400 'deg.
F. until golden brown.
Chicken and Asparague Casserole
12 -stalks asparagus
1 cup cold cooked dhieken
14 cup's 'water
1/2 cup milk
3 tablespoons butter,
5 tablespoons •deur
1 cup bread dlm'bs..
Gook aspar s 15 minutes) is Wa,4
e'r. , Drain alt eselrve water. Mo t
•
butter. 4d'd flpur. c.Corlk until frothy.
Add asparagus. water and milk. Stir
until thickened, In a baking dish
spread % crumbs,' then, chicken and
asparagus. Pour sauce ,over. Top
with bread crumbs. Bake 20 minutes
at 32 deg. F.
Cream pf Asparagus Soup
2 cups milk
1 cup asparagus water
3t cup asparagus
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and pepper.
Press asparagus through a coarse
sieve. Melt butter. Add flour. 'Cook
until frothy. Add licyuid. Stir until
smooth. Add asparagus puree. Sea-
son and serve at once.
To can asparagus at home use only
freshly cut stalks. •'
Cut off any woody portion.
Scrub 'thoroughly, with a brush to
remove sand and scales.
Tie in bunches of size that will con-
veniently slip into a pint jar•
Stand the bunches upright in a
saucepan with about two inches of
water.
Cook closely -covered for four
minutes.
Pack in jars, allow one-half tea-
spoon - of salt to each pint jar and
fill with boiling water. Use the wa-
ter in which asparagus was cooked,
adding sufficient freshly boiled' water
to fill all jars to overflowing.
Put on rubbers and tops and par-
tially seal. If screw- top jars are us-
ed, seal completely, then loosen one-
half turn. If spring top jars are us-
ed press down one clamp.
Place jars in sterilizer. If pres-
sure 'canner is used follow directions
for the type and allow forty tiiinutes
at fifteen pounds pressure. If water
bath canner is used allow water to
cover jars at least two inches .and
sterilize two hours. Be sure that wa-
ter is kept boiling.
When jars are removed from the
steriilizer seal at once.
Cool, wipe dry and store in a .coo],
dry, dark place. '
It is good for us to study the suf-
fering side of life.
A good name is rather to be chos-
en than great riches.
It cannot be said that he failed who
merely did not achieve.
,00God is loved not onlyfor what He
gives but for what He is.
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come constipated, stoma" attd lousy, silo's
work properly. You fetal "roach"—nett lscbyr
backachy, dizzy, dragged.** til Clip tiara.
For over 35 years I6ousantls bir:e w6nprrulet `
relief group these to es, -with Frwt-a-live..
Socaiiyou now. TryFnrit-a-Rives--yOd'Ubo
a lmply.d$lightdd Motu aidekf " yeu'll.feef bice a
new peraon,.hippy and:wellayain. 25c, 50c.
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FRUITAT
• Nothing valuable can be had with-
out work.
°It is love that makes goodness
lovely.
All that, we do has abiding conse-
quences.
How_ often the worst turns the best
to the brave.
Faces are made beautiful by kind-
ness; it is a divine sculptor.
Gaiety is the triumph of mind over
material obstacles.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so dif
ficult. •
Do not be the slave of first impres-
e1 ons.' .
There is nothing in the world worth
doing wrong for.
CANADA'S ,LEASING COOKERY
.,EX
EAT S�REC,OMMIN D±MAG IC
A True Tonic
for Blood and. Nerves
Invaluable at this season because it
supplies the Vitamin B1 and mineral
substances so necessary to improve the
quality of the blood and help the nerves.
For better appetite, better digestion, -
better sleep and for better health use
Dr, Chase's Nerve Food,
1cTSNAPSIlOT sGUILD
r�aE
This is a simple^ but..Interesting "stunt" shot—fun -to' take on a winter
evening. How to get such shots is explained below.
EVERY now and then, a stunt
picture adds variety to the cam-
era hobby. Of course, you don't
want a regular diet of them. But it's
fun to have a few in the album—
shots . that make people say, "For
goodness sake! How did you get
that one? It's certainly a clever
shot!"
The picture abo'd'e is a fine ex-
ample of a "stunt shot"—and yet,
it was really quite easy to take.
The girls simply stood in a dircle,
then bent over and put their heads;
together, like a football huddle.
The camera was on the floor, fo-
cused for a closeup, and 'pointing
straight upward. For light, a small
flash bulb Wae placed beside the
camera, and the exposure was made.
by the 'simple "open the shutter,
flash the bulb; close' the' shutter"
method. It eetild probably have been
taken just as ;easily by having two
fiiiod light's en inch or so from the
floor, one on either side of the
caiiriera,
'1'hia 1e nit "up angle' Stu It shot,
but
Yon co'uld' . Mee tul'rn ttii.ngs
right arbuud and take a"straight
. down" shot Inayke r'ont the upper
stairway Iandltlg-•'that would be
just as itfterestirig,.
Another stunt that pk*fiies lots
ethitt 10 to halo tart of a.= suibject
too steals to the Catheter SO that tt
shows up too large ..• being care-
ful, of course, not to hurt anybody's._
feelings. Doubtless you have seen
pictures of a person sitting on a
bench, with his feet toward the cam-
era so that they were several sizes
over normal. That's "old stuff" now
—but try it with a,.,subject's hand.
Have him lecturing the camera, or
malting a Speech and gesturing to-
ward the camera—or put 'a boxing
glove on him and have him pretend
to take a poke at the -camera. With
the hand about two feet from the
camera, the subject himself can be
about four feet back, and appear
much smaller. You must use avery
small lens opening, but even if the
hand is a little out of focus, the
effect is still interesting/
One of the inost mystifying stunts
is.:to-show 'an object floating in air.
s is easy indoors. You just 'hang- -
up the object bir a black thread, and
light it with a photo lamp. Then
you place a piece of cardboard a
foot or two in front of the Iight,
high" ei igii- so it .)nrit'shiades the
thread but doesn't'sii'ade the sub-,
sect,. And the thread Ili then `lost"
against the shadow`s In the back-
grou'hd—it Isn't +even there.
TO some of there psi lttits. Tbeq'li
give goat a`•whole e'inetiitiof fun --
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