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The Huron Expositor, 1943-11-12, Page 6ITO Vi 43 PP h.1 Sy ANNE.d4LLAN Hydro HOMO Economist - THE VALVE OF AN APPLE Hello Homemakers! "An Apple a 4y keeps the doctor away," is an old d'age. The apple cannot be moutir- in monetary value when You con - der the satisfaction of munching a mood Ontario eating apple, and as a x'uit it rates high in nutritional va- lue. Raw apples contain amounts of minerals needed for good bones and teeth and' red blood. • One apple doesn't provide the total amount that we need daily, but when cooked and combined with such foods as milk, meat dishes, cheese or eggs, we may be assured, of eating health -providing dishes. RECIPES Rice With Apples 2 cups rice It' cup sugar ik cup milk ' 3 eggs 7 Canadian -grown apples, steamed Pare and core the Canadian -grown apples; cut in eighths and cook until soft. Steam the rice; add the well- b.eaten yolks of eggs and sugar; mix well; add cookedapples; fold in the stiffly beaten whites and bake 30 min- utes in electric oven at 350 degrees in a well buttered baking dish. Serve with cream. Spiced Apple Pudding 3, cups bread crumbs 1 cup sugar r/4 pound raisins 2 .tablespoons fruit juice % teaspoon •ground cloves 3 cups chopped apples 2 cups milk 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon mace 3 eggs (beaten separately). Scald the milk, stir in the crumbs and scald for two minutes. Remove from fire, mix together all the ingredi- ents, adding lastly the whites of eggs beaten stiff. Butter pudding dish, fill with the batter and bake for about 40 minutes• in a moderate oven. Serve with custard sauce. Custard Sauce 44, cup milk ITCH STOPPED duaItwi -or Money lick Weelpoektera aomilebltsd Ve�bplse, tle- lete'eloot.�ee1ee.cells.eris austeraeYs caused alta baubles, os feet-esi g, aeobs&, mai. *mid D. D. D. Prwaipticei. Geoesles, enialn4.Sooe6sinitaris,onda AMYepopskategm itchiog.35aodalbott , .k.usmme b&ck Ae! Your demist cider lar D D D. P1 1lPllON. Y©U MAKE THF MST MEAD/ / (ISE THE MST Mgr blokes delicious SATISFYING Bread 1 No big holes! No doughy lumps! No sour taste! 7 OUT OF 8 CANADIAN WOMEN WHO USE DRY 'FEAST USE ROYAL! CJbeSNAPOT..GU 1 W VIEW FINDERS 40 For well composed pictures like this one, carefully study your view, finder before clicking the shutter. D ECENTLY a friend of mine said you simply need to move closer. Or, it tali me, "How can .I• make my pictures show, just what I want them to show? Sometimes pictures I take include a whole lot more than I ex- pect or want and. 'sometimes they (Iona' include enough. Sometimes the pictures . come out with buildings not straight and sometimes .part of the subject is cut off." • The answer to this question is very simple. My friend is -not using the view finder of. his camera_prop- erly-- . . The view finder is put on your camera fdr a very, definite reason: It is not just a "peep sight" for you, to use in locating• your subject—` rather, it is a frame for the picture you are going to get. You might call _... _the scene in the view finder a pre- • view of your final. picture. The finder, if yr use it properly, will show - what you are going -to 'get, and it will guide you in changing your position and viewpoint to improve your 'picture. • ' Yoh: should always study your pie- ture In the finder before shooting. '1 raiti the camera on the main sub- ject Zn your picture, and then ex- ' •-aliiitai the scene in the view' finder tri bee What else aI ears•in the back- graw 1, the foreground, and at the ilfdea t lktaybethere le' too ninth sur- plttis ?alerial included—that is, per- hati 's'ubjebt is too small in relati'*r to. the atnotfnt 01 back- gg tat that. ease `3Fo11. '0 :t egg t0bieePOSIle nu Salt Few drops vanilla. Peat yolk of egg alightly, add auger and salt; nix well a; then gradually add hat milk. Cook Over hot water, 'stirring constantly, until it' thickens. Strain and, when cold, add flavour- ing. Dride Apple Ple Wash the dried apples thoroughly; soak over night in cold water; stew until tender. Rub through a sieve, add sugar, a little lemon rind and.. about crone teaspoon butter. Feil and bake as any other pie. Serve warm with sweetened cream. Apple and CTheese Salad Mix browned soya,• beans with twice their bulk of cream cheese, adding a little cream to blend the mixture. Season with pepper and salt and make into tiny balls. Pare mellow tart apples, core and slice ?arose the centre into rings about one-half inch thick. Arrange rings on lettuce leaves and place several cheese belle in the centre. Serve potato salad and dressing. TAKE A TIP: Apples and vegetables ' from the small gardens must be carefully stor- ed this year, since imported vege- tables are expensive and processed vegetables are •not available at pres- ent. ' 1. The storage space is most im- portant. A separate room in the basement of your home with a win- dow in it is advisable. 2. Do not hang cabbages upside- • down unless the temperature is close to freezing, because moisture collects" in,the leaves causing growth. 3. Store •pumpin and squash by wrapping well in two folds of paper. Only dry and well matured ones will keep. 4. Dry onions should be stored in a temperature of 50 to "50 degrees just a)ove freezing. 5.' Carrots, beets and turnips should not .be washed. Dry and pack in leaves or sand in a dark but ven- tilated room; keep at 38 degrees. Use a thermometer to check tempera- ture of lower part of storage room. 6. Store apples and winter pears in slatted crates in a cool, dry place. THE QUESTION BOX • • L, trove's .of e..Statt.tese irw,ings (Condensed from The Kiwanie Maga- zine in Reader's Digest) All of us rhaye heard about the orig- inal Siamese Twins, but how many of would be guilty? Could the other be tried as an accessory?" And if one was innocent how could you ;punish or imprison the other without mak- ing the innocent party suffer? No one us could answer such •questions as: could argue lack of knowledge on the Were they legally two individuals or part of the other—for the Twins al- a partnership? If one committed a ways fell asleep at the same time, woke up at the same time, were hun- gry simultaneously, ate the same food in similar quantities, each smok- ed and chewed tobacco when the other did, and though many people had tried, 'it had been proved impos- sible to engage the two of them in separate • conversations or on differ- ent subjects. While they disagreed violently about many thongs they could talk only on the mane subject at the same time—each 'finishing the other's sentence as in childhood. rCnriously enough; ithey seldom spoke to each other. , They explain- ed this once by saying they both saw the same things at the same time and felt the same way about them so there was nothing to discuss. For the same reason they disliked playing games in which they were 'pitted against each other, such as chess— at which they were quite good—ex- plaining they took no more pleasure playing competitively "than you would in playing your right hand against your left." Politics was some- thing else again. During a local Con- gressional election in 1847 they dif- fered so violently that they voted for different candidates. For by now these three-fourths Chinese were American..citizens, by special act of the Legislature of North Carolina. They had learned to speak English .pretty well, to read and write. They had adopted Ameri- can dress except that each wore his hair in a queue (old Chinese style) three ail'd a half feet long, wrapped tightly around his head. They were prosperous -farmers, too. Somewhere in their travels the Twins had 'another romantic adven- ture. This time two sisters fell in love with them. Contemporary mean- ies were ungallant enough to say the $60,000 estate Thad something to do with it. Anyway, on April 1, 1843, in Wilkes County, North Carolina, crime was the other a party to it? Did they get hungry and sleepy at the same time? How did they get along- with each other? Which died first -and why? How many widows were there? And how many children did they leave? To begin with, Chang and Eng, lat- er known as Chang -Eng Bunker (af- ter a New York lady . who treated them kindly), were born in 1811 in a tiny fishing village on the Mekong River . not far from Bangkok, Siam. Their father was Chinese, and their mather half Chinese, which made them only one quarter Siamese—or to he quizzical, one-eighth Siamese apiece, They grew to the height of five feet one inch 'for Chang and five feet two inches for 'Eng (Chang wore special lifts in his shoes so his Twin ;would- n't top him) and they made them- selves useful, raising ducks and ped- dling eggs—and everyone remarked how smart they Were at driving bar- gains, for they both talked together, each 'finishing the other's sentence, and the ordinary haggler was no match for them. One day, when the Twins were 18 years old, a Yankee skipper dropped anchor in the harbor and accidental- ly met the Twins. He immediately shanghaied them and brought them to Boston. They created a sensation, not only around Boston but in Eur- ope where their protector next jour- neyed with them.. We are told he toured 2,500 miles in the British Isles alone, exhibiting the Twins to 300,000 Britishers. Even the august Royal College of Surgeons invited the Twins 40 tea, and After discreetly ex- amining them' pronounced them "an extraordinary Lusus Naturae." They were' all of that. Joined as they' were, "they could run and swim, take walks of eight and ten miles, play battledore ' and shuttlecock, and on many occasions went bunting." They could walk Only side by side. They slept face to face, changing pos- itions by the simple expedient of rolling over, which ` they learned to do automatically without awakening each other. They were normal' in ev- ery way except for 'a small flexible band three and a half inches long and some eight inches in circumference connecting them from the extremity of the breast bone of each and ex- tending downward' to the abdomen. There was a great difference of opinion among medical 'experts of the time concerning what went on inside this connecting band and they never did find out until thepost-mor- tem, which was a world event, but all agreed that surgical divorce would have proved ,fatal. Meanwhile, it was an intriguing fact that a ,pinprick in the exact center of the "band"' was felt by both Twins but a puncture to the right or left was felt only by the Twin nearer the injury. As children the Twins contracted measles and smallpox at the same time and re- covered simultaneously, but as adults one Twin %vas a periodic souse while. the other Twin was a complete tee- totaler—and the alcoholic ecstasy of the one brother- in no way affected the, pious sobriety of the other. They came back to America front' their first trip, richer only in experi- ence, the skipper- having skipped (with" the booty).• But the Twins, who were of age now, made, other connections, including the immortal Baznum—with whom "they sojourned in New York City for five years at the Corner of Anne Street and Broad-_ way (The American Museum)"—and finally accumulated an estate of $60,- 000. 'Now if you were„a Siamese TWin you might think romance was not for you. Certain baffling complications and situations would of 'necessity arise to give you pause. So the Siamese • Twins must have thought— and then they had• a most, curious ex- perience. In London a 'Miss Sophia, a young lady .of "respectable connec- tions," fell violently in -love with both Twins --to their mutual consternation. Unhappily she found, in the delicate prose of the day, "insurmountable impediments in her path — for' the Twins had been pronounced distinct individuals by eminent British medi- cal men, and had her passion been fully returned she would scarcely have been disposed to encounter the risk of defending an action for big- amy. which a might naturally follow such a marriage." Thwarted and tor= mented by these unfeeling legal quib- blers, Miss Sophia turned to the poets for comfort, selecting a poign- ant and pertinent, couplet to bid them farewell:" Mrs. S. W. 'asks: "Would you re- commend malagra grapes to substi- tute for expensive oranges?" Answer: No, oranges contain Vit- ainin C which the grapes do not. A better food to ,substitute is a glass of tomato juice or raw grated turnips. Mrs. J. H: asksk: "How to cook liver without frying it?' Answer: Liver may sauted (that is, cooked in a frying pan with a small amount of fat) or browned in a hot pan for only a minute, then place in covered pan and bake for 10-15 minutes. Liver may be minced and shaped like a loaf pan and bak- ed. Baked Liver • Put in bottom of dripping pan or baking dish slices• of calf's liver, cov- er each slice with, a strip of bacon. Put hot water about one-quater inch deep in bottom of pan and bake in a moderate oven, 375 degrees F. from 40 to 50 minutes. - perhaps you are already too close and part of your subject is missing —for example, the head in a picture of a person; or possibly, if it is a group picture, one person on the it end does- not appear. In that case, your view finder`. tells you to move back or to the side until your sub- ject and an appropriate amount 'of background are included. Toomany ofus are. quite careless, in using the view finder. I've seen a picture taker ]orate his subject in the finder and then look up and look straight at the Subject, ignoring the finder when he snapped the picture. Frequently, in a case like this, move- nient changes the camera position and the picture is quite lost. There are different types of find- ers. Some are of the open frame or eye -level type and these are very simple to use. Others are the "bril- liant" or reflecting type, used with • the'eamera at waist level. When you are using a brilliant finder, itis very important to have your eye directly over the finder. If 'you hold your eye slightly to one side instead of directly above it, you do not see the exact scene at which the camera is aimed. Be careful on this 'point and see that your picture is carefully framed in the finder. Trust your view finder. Study what you see in it, and, make sure you actually see what you think you see. John ears Guilder Anne Allan • invites you to write to her c/o The Huron' Expositor. Send in your suggestions on homemaking problems; and watch this column for replies. How to Serve Fuel It's going to be a long, hard win- ter. Those cold-blooded individuals who are tempted to light up their furnaces these Fall mornings, should remember that it's going to get a lot colder before it becomes warmer. That precious store of coal will be more welcome and certainly come in handy next January. Heating engineers have pointed' out that •more fuel is wasted in the early Suring and Fall than at any other time of the year. If the furnace is lighted on a cool morning, chances are that by noon the house seems more like .a Turkish bath and win- dows and doors have to 'be opened wide to cool it off. It has been estimated that half a million tons of coal are burned in Canadian homes, during the last two weeks in September. If a large pro- portion' of this, coal could' be saved. it would go a. long way towards easing the current situation. Here are a few tips from heating engineers -that will help Canadians save their coal during autumn days: Instead of lighting the furnace, use the fireplace to take the chill' off the house., In the rural districts, a good fire in the kitchen stove, with the doors left open throughout the house, should do the trick., When sitting around the house in the evening, wear warmer clothes. An extra sweater now will save coal for later on. If the furnace must be lighted, 1311 half"the fire bed with bricks, then build the fire in the other half. This will cut the amount of 'coal used by half. WORN GLOVES Chang married Adelaide -Yeats and Eng married her sister, Sarah Ann— and we would like to add that they lived together happily ever after, but they didn't, For the sisters didn't get along- and the brothers weren't too congenial about their sisters-in- law. A working solution was finally arrived at—the Twins built separate houses •for their wives three miles apart near Mount Airy, North Caro- lina, and lived three days at a time in each house—a design for living. that intrigued the countryside. The Twins were married for more . • than 30 years and between them had a total of 22 children, all of them ex -1 •ceptionally bright. Eng was the champ, with seven boys and five girls --all normal. Chang had seven girls! and three boys—and they, too, were normal except that one boy and one 1( girl were deaf-mutes. The Civil War camealong and the Twins, sympathetic to the Confeder- ed, they came to New York to recoup their finances and exhibited alt Wood's. Museum, but the public had lost in- terest. Despondent, neglected, they faded ,out of„.public ,view and spent their last days on their farms—faith- fully going back and forth -Co each other's house every three days re- gardless of the weather. Some of the old chronicles ,say, this was the death of them—that Chang caught a severe cold riding in the rain. Other accounts have it ' that Chang went on -one alcoholic spree too many. In any case, on Friday evening, January 23, 1874, in the 63rd year of their amazing lives, they re- tired to a small room by themselves and went to bed._ But Chang was restless. Sometime between midnight and daybreak they got up and sat by the fire in a special chair which bad been made for them. Eng was sleepy and wanted to go to bed. Chang complained that it hurt his chest to lie down. They argued about it while Eng smoked his pipe. Finally Eng 'knocked out his, pipe and they went Ceeinlos 0ik1M l i7 teritI isenllbll Foal. Minerals +catensivelyusedfor headache, loss ofJeep, nervous indigestion, irritability,- anaemia, chronic fatigue, and exhaustion of the nervous system. 60 pigs, 60 cis. Economy size, 180 pills, $1.60, e to bed, and Eng fell into a deep sleep. And now the curtain — surely as macabre a scene as was ever conceiv- ed: "Eng waked up and asked his son, `How is your Uncle Chang?' The boy said, `Uncle Chang is cold. Uncle Chang is dead?. Then great excite- ment took place.- Eng commenced crying, saying to his wife, whom they called in, 'My last hour has come.' As he turned in alarm to the 'lifeless form by his side he was seized with violent nervous •paroxysms. In two hours he was dead, although he had been in- perfect health when they went to bed." The autopsy, held at a special meeting at the College of Plhysicians in Philadelphia, settled a number of questions for -the medical world with words like teratology, omphalopagus, Xiphodidymus, and duplex bilateral- ity. It also showed that any -attempt to separate the Twins in life would have been fatal. It showed that Chang died 'of a cerebral clot. But no cause could be found for the death of Eng. It was generally believed he died of fright. Straw Brooms • fresh,. -and free of all harmful sub- stance that might cause it to ro - A broom that is hung up or stood up- side down when not in use, will last much longer than one left with the bristles resting on the floor. To make a new broom last longer, soak it in hot strong salt water be- fore using it. This toughens the straw and makes it more durable. Mustard Pickles 3 quarts pickling cucumbers 1 medium cauliflower 1 quart pickling onions 2 sweet red peppers 4 quarts water 2 cups cooking salt .1 cup flour 6 tablespoons mustard 1 tablespoon turmeric 1 cup sugar 2 quarts vinegar. Prepare vegetables by peeling on- ions, cutting other vegetables into de- sired sizes. Make a brine of salt and water, pour over vegetables and let stand overnight. In the morning, bring to boiling point and drain. Make paste of flour, mustard, turmeric, sug- ,ar and a little vinegar, add remaining vinegar, stirring until well blended. Dust cloths an mops often get a Bring t.o boiling point and cook until good scrubbing,but 1n some homes sauce is slightly,thickened, about 10 :one neglected member of the kitchen minutes. Add prepared vegetables; household ' is the ordinary , straw bring to, boiling point, pour into hot, broom which never gets a bath from sterilized jars and seal. Yield about e e year to the next. four quarts. To renew an old broom, soak it in hot suds. After this, clip the ends off evenly. When the broom has thoroughly dried out, it Can be put away in the kitchen closet, clean and ICOBAC [Pipe T 1 zcca►J FOR;;A MILD, COOL, SMOKE CURTAIN CALL , Some people living in the country block up their front door • in winter- time with tar paper, and hang a heavy curtain inside. It may not look pretty but it keeps them warmer. Hoeever, as a compromise .between beauty and comfort, hang a heavy curtain over the garden or sun porch door. This is especially important for doors facing north or west. That's where the prevailing winds come from in the winter. Whenthe palms or undersides of your gldves,. wear out land the backs are still good, what do you do with them? There ,.are two suggestions for these- shabby accessories. They carr either be put back- into use by mak- ing new unde>;rlides of thin, toning or contrasting felt or woollen fabric and stitching on the leather baoka Or the seanis. ,can be rirOe-d and the godd part sewn together; to .make' snug leather vests, - How happy could I be with either Were tother dear charmer away. The Twins provided ,plenty of legal puzzles for our own American Mayers who used to argue about how,Ltins, whom the medicos bad said, were in- dividuals, could own property as in- dividuals." Weren't they inevitably partners in ownership as they were in life? It was finally legally decid- ed that they could, hold property and 'sign contracts either as . individuals or "aS joint partners,one signing for the other, but they tnu'st"marry as itt- -dittdeals and their children would In- herit separately., fl t if One cnmsrsitted n critneY �arli'ich As crack Canadian troops advance in Italy with the British Eighth Army, other thousands of young Canadians.are in training at Camp Ipperwash, ,orated near Sarnia, Ont, close to Lake. Huron. Officially A29 Canadian Infantry Training Centre, Ipperwash has been in. operatibn for about a year and is tihe newest of the Army's advanced training centres. It enibodies,the latest ideas in camp con- struction and training, and its sprawling acres offer terrain ideally suited to strenuous battle practice. In this picture assault boats are carried to a river preparatory to crossing stream as charges explodes realistically in foreground. Live ammuntion is sometimes employed y,in such schemes as this. NURSERIES -.CARE FOR CHILDREN Welt -equipped, teitipete'ntly frUn Canadian wartime n,Urseries help keep children he'elthy,'ifappy'end busy While "parents are hard• at work produol.1i'g' supplies for •United i'a-tione; • , 4