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With Waterfall The good-looking young man seemed worried as he sat in the train chugging monotonously northwards. The journey seemed interminable to him. The train stopped at every station. Gradually the carriage emptied until the only other oc- cupants besides himself was a matronly woman with a friendly smile, The pair struck up a conver- sation; and the young man sud- denly said: "Since you look so kind and understanding, may I tell you what's worrying me?" Then he told her. He*explain- ed that a pretty girl would be meeting him on the next station and he was uncertain whether or not to propose to her during the week-end he was going to spend in her parents' home. "Although we've been sweet- hearts since I was a boy," he said, "I'm still not quite sure whether she would make a good wife for me. How can I know whether I'm doing the right thing in proposing?" "Y'm afraid I can hardly advise you on such a delicate matter," replied his companion. "Y'ye got it!" cried the young man. "Will you take a good look at her through the carriage win- dow and sum her up swiftly for me? Please help me by giving me the thumbs-up if you think the girl would be a good match for me," he added. When the train stopped at the young man's station, she saw him greet a rosy-cheeked girl dressed neatly in a navy-blue costume. She liked the look of her and thought the pair could make each other happy. So up went the matronly wo- man's thumb as the train con- tinued its journey. The ~young man saw it and smiled happily. He proposed and was accepted that night. There's no end to the odd ways that men pop the nerve-racking question. One of the strangest methods was used in Switzerland a little while ago by an actor who was appearing with an at- tractive girl in an impassioned love scene. The stage love-making between the couple was going well when the actor suddenly realized that he really loved the girl whose lips were so close to his. During a brief pause in the dia- logue, he whispered with ardor: "Marling, I love you. Say that you will marry me." "J will," she breathed; and their stage love scene wefit on. The audience 'litle guessed what had happened. But they were im- pressed by the realism of the couple's love-making. The only man to propose to the woman of his choice by harness- ing a waterfall was an American millionaire named Cyrus K. Finday. The waterfall was the famous Bridal Veil Fall in Cali- fornia and he caused it to make his declaration in Morse code. By means of a big sluice gate which was alternately raised and lowered for the right period, the stream was cut for the fraction of time necessary to make dis- tinguishable 'dots and dashes". "It may seem rather a dotty way to propose marriage," joked a friend of the millionaire, "but he certainly showed her. that he had plenty of dash!" Only a few weeks ago two skifflemad youngsters agreed to marry while dancing at a friend's party. The boy didn't even bother to remove the chewing gum from his mouth as the couple gyrated and he shouted, 'Let's get mar- ried next year, shall we?" She nodded her assent. Fellow skif- fers will provide the music at their wedding reception next June. A pretty girl who was selling poppies on Remembrance Day got talking to an airline steward who bought several poppies and? then, acting on impulse, said: 'I think you are altogether charm- ing, my dear. Please marry me." She accepted him as they stood together on the paverhent and the couple are now happily mar- ried. Sometimes it's the girl who % BRIDGE BLOCK--The best engineering brains probably couldn't design a more effective bridge block than this rendering com- pany truck jammed in a bridge over Blacklick Creek. The driver, William McNamara, was not injured. How the accident to the fully loaded truck hap However, there will be no specu pened is open to speculation. lation for the fish in the creek below as to where their next meal is coming from. Cane ts tet aweneate.a TABLE TALK Andrews. An old, old, new idea is that of drinking soup from cups or mugs. Anciently, coconut shells, gourds, and prehistorically form- ed, handleless cups were used for this purpose. Now, gay mugs to fit your taste or color motif may be purchased in many china departments. If you have a fireplace, let its cheerfulness be the center for your party, and serve hot spiced soup from a chafing dish at the fireside. This can be done whe- ther the soup is to be just your first course or the entire meal. If some special TV program is to be the focal point, it can be watched with a mug of hot soup in one hand! . s s - Whether you like soup but- tered or spiced, start making it by diluting with milk or water as the can directions suggest, writes Eleanor Richey Johnson in The @hristian Science Moni- tor, One can of soup makes 2-3 servings. Before giving you a definite recipe, here are general spice suggestions for use in soup. Soup Spice Tomato Basil Green pea Nutmeg Cream of celery Tarragon Cream of asparagus Caraway Cream of chicken Dill Cream of mushroom Chives Chicken Curry Black bean Ginger Hot chicken soup with al- monds is delicious. It is served with nippy shedded wheat jun- iors (recipe follows). If this is the first course for a_ buffet, serve a covered casserole so that guests won't have to hurry with their soup. Chicken Creme Almondine 3 cans condensed cream of chicken soup ¥, teaspoon grated onion 3 soup cans milk ¥\% cup slivered almonds 1 tablespoon butter Blend soup with grated onion; stir in milk. Heat but do not boil. Sauté almonds in hot but- ter until golden brown. At serv- ing time, sprinkle almonds on each cup of soup. Serves eight. proposes in unusual circum- stances. A North of England girl wrote on the paper of a toffee she offered to her boy friend during an evening out: "Will you marry me?" He was delighted to do so. When, years ago, the German liner Elbe met with disaster and went down, a young man found APPLE DUMPLING--If an apple @ day keeps the doctor away, pretty Sandra Elswick, Pennsyl- vania's 1958 Apple Queen, is all set for a healthy life. hi lf plunged into the sea with the girl he had long admired. As waves threatened to engulf them, he gasped out his proposal of marriage. The girl had had no idea that he loved her, but before she could reply a big wave car- ried her away from him. She survived to tell the story; he was drowned. Mr. Robert Foster proposed to Miss Maureen Atherton on a re- cord which he sent to her from New York. She was in Sussex. She accepted him and after their wedding, in 1954, they replayed the record before leaving for their honeymoon. During the French Revolution a French priest named Duval had to attend to the religious needs of a beautiful young aristocrat. He visited her in prison and fell deeply in love, but could not declare his feelings because her jailers were watching them. On his next visit he outwitted them by writing his proposal of marriage on his bald head. She read it and nodded. She escaped the guillotine and the pair married. Nippy Juniors 4 tablespoons butter 34 teaspoon curry powder 14 teaspoon celery seed 14, teaspoon onion salt 3 cups junior-size shredded wheat Melt butter in large skillet. Add curry powder, celery seed, and onion salt to butter and mix well. Add wheats, stirring gent- ly until cereal is well coated with the butter mixture, Con- tinue to cook, stirring occasion- ally until cereal is golden brown. Drain on paper towelling. Serve with soup. » 5 . Here are some punches to serve steaming hot right from your punch bowl. Tomato Nog 5 cans condensed tomato soup 5 canfuls of milk 5 eggs Nutmeg or cinnamon Combine soup with milk. ahd " heat, Meanwhile, beat eggs right in the punch bowl until frothy. Slowly stir in the heated soup, then sprinkle lightly with nut- meg or cinnamon. It's ready to serve. . * * Broth 'n' Apple Punch 6 cans condensed beef broth 1 quart apple juice ¥% teaspoon ground cloves Apple slices for garnish Heat together the broth and apple juice, then add cloves. Serve in punch bowl with thin apple slices floating on top. * * . Pink Consommé 6 cans. condensed consommé 3 canfuls water 3 canfuls tomato juice Thin lime or lemon slices for & 'Combine consommé, water and tomato juice. Heat and serve in punch bowl with slices of lemon or lime or both floating on it. --/s s s Serve this hot cranberry punch with cinnamon stick stirrers for added fun and taste. This makes 2% quarts. Hot Buttered Cranberry Punch _ %4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1 cup water ¥, teaspoon each, salt and nut- meg ¥%, teaspoon each, allspice and cinnamon % teaspoon cloves 2 -1-pound cans jellied cranber- ry sauce , 3 cups water 1 quart pineapple juice Butter Combine sugar, 1 cup water, salt, and spices. Bring this to a boil. Crush cranberry jelly with fork; add 3 cups water and beat with rotary beater until smooth. Add cranberry liquid and pine- apple juice to hot spiced syrup and simmer 5 minutes. Keep steaming hot over hot water. Ladle into cups and add a dot of butter to each. 4 * * For a cold winter's night snack, serve this hot almond egg nog with thin slices of but- tered nut bread. Hot Almond Egg Nog 6 eggs, separated 34 teaspoon salt ¥% cup sugar 6 cups milk, scalded 1 tablespoon almond flavoring 1 tablespoon vanilla Few grains nutmeg Slivered almonds Beat egg yolks until light; add salt and sugar and blend. Add hot milk and flavorings. Beat egg whites until stiff; fold into mix- ture. Pour into cups. Sprinkle with a few grains of nutmeg and a few slivered almonds. Serves 6. Army Doctor Was A Girl! Senior Inspector-General of the Army Medical Corps, Dr. James Barry, brooked no inter- ference in his personal affairs. Snubbing his brother officers, often ill-tempered and peevish to the point of eccentricity, he yet rose brilliantly high in the Service. Gazetted a surgeon-major at thirty-three, he was soon chief medical officer at Malta. Then he successively took charge of all the military medical units in South Africa, the West Indies and Canada. But everywhere he went he angrily fought duels, swore like a trooper and asserted a super- masculinity oddly at variance with his dyed red hair and flut- ing voice. z He flirted outrageously, too at every garrison ball, always picking the prettiest girls for his partners, heedless of wheth- er they were married or single. On one occasion, an alarmed adjutant sent a note asking if Dr. Barry would be so good as not to call on his wife when he, the adjutant, had to be absent on duty. But just when' ruc- tions seemed inevitable, Jimmy Barry always switched his at- tentions to some other charmer. The fact remains that James Barry cherished a secret so for- midable that it would have led to instant dismissal--and cer- tainly a national uproar--had it ever been known. Even his confidential valet, John, never dreamed of the amazing truth, despite twenty years of faithful service. Determined to take his secret to the grave, Barry ordered that whenever he died his body should be sewn in a blanket and interred immediately. When he died in 1865, however, he had already been retired on_half- pay for seven years and civilian undertakers were sent to pre- pare him for burial. What they found made them hurry to the War Office in be- wilderment, and the horrified director of the Army Medical Department ordered his three best doctors to hold an autopsy at once. Their finding put the scandal beyond doubt. Dr. James Barry was a wo- man. The Commander-in-Chief or- dered an immediate inquiry. Dr. Barry had ranked with the top brass in a dozen military cam- paigns. Those were the days when Florence Nightingale and her pioneer nurses seemed some- what shocking. Yet throughout the Nightingale uproar and the Crimea War e woman had been jllicity running the medical side at military headquarters! It turned out that strings had been pulled to get Barry into the Army in the first place. None other than Field Marshal Lord Raglan had used his in- fluence. Barry was a distant re- lative. Having no idea that it should be "Jeannie" rather than "Jim- my," Raglan instructed that the young candidate should be pass- ed into the Army without phy- sical examination, provided two certificates of fitness from civil- jan doctors were produced. And it clearly hadn't taken Jeannie long to procure, or perhaps forge, these documents. What had led her to under- take her amazingly masquer- ade? Fact by fact, after her death, the story leaked out. Daughter of a Scottish laird, Jeannie as a romantic teenager had fallen desperately in love with a junior doctor. Then he was suddenly order- ed to join Wellington's army in Spain, a posting equivalent in those days to years of exile Vowing to follow him Jeannie knew that a woman in those days could not travel far alone. But she soon hit on a plan. She cut her hair, wrapped bath towels around her body to give her figure the stocky sem- blance of a man, and as "Jimmy Barry" took up medical studies at Edinburgh University. Ob- servant students noticed that she always carried her elbows inward like a girl rather than outward like a man. She took her degree brilliant- ly and entered the army as @. medical assistant. Posted to Gib- raltar, she discovered too late that her lover had been killed, Yet Jeannie Barry had in fact become the world's first womal doctor and there could now be- no turning back. Her agri found solace in her work. In an official report Lord Albermarle stated how deeply he was im- pressed by this "most skilful of physicians." ; With hair-raising luck, Dr. James Barry passed unscathed through epidemics and epic bat- tles to die finally in her bed. Then War Office chiefs decided that at all costs they could not risk exposure of the dynamite fact that the Army's top doctor had been a woman. So the doctor was buried as a man, and the simple tomb- stone gave no clue to sex. In the end, it was Charles Dickens who revealed the amazing facts in his magazine, 'Household Words,' Oe 2) TINY VALENTINE -- The smallest man-made "star" ruby ever produced -- 16-thousandths of a carat-- decorates this quarter- inch heart, a gift item for Valentine's Day, or other occa- sions. The "star" ruby is made by Linde Company, a division of Union Carbide Corporation. Nutrition And Your Arteries By HERBERT POLLACK, M.D. N.Y.U. Post Graduate School of Medicine Written for NEA Service NEW YORK -- (NEA) -- It is now an accepted fact that the basis for good health and well- being is optimum nutrition. As a consequence, one of the first things that occurs to many people when confronted with a non-infectious or chronic degen- erative state is the thought that the disorder may be of possible dietary origin. This is not always true. In the case of atherosclerosis, more commonly known as "hard- ening of the arteries," there is evidence that the food intake may be one of the important contributors. To date, it has not been possible to locate the speci- fic nutritional factors involved. Under investigation by medical scientists throughout the world are several dietary constituents: cholesterol, total fat, soft fats (vegetable fats and marine oils), hard fats (saturated fats of ani- mal origin), artificially hardened fats (hydrogenated vegetable oils), certain vitamins (particu- larly (B6), total calories and the closely associated obesity and exercise, starches, and certain types of protein. Out of this complexity certain facts begin to emerge. Dietary cholesterol, or the cholesterol you eat, plays a very minor, if any role in the development of atherosclerosis. Evidence that tends to relate atherosclerosis to the fat intake is difficult to separate from that which relates it to total caloric intake, obesity and exercise. a Experimentally it can be shown that the soft fats, or vege- table oils when given as a "for- mula diet," can lower the cho- Jesterol content of the blood. Whether this is important in in- hibiting the development of ath- erosclerosis remains to be seen. *_A long time will be required to prove the hypothesis. One very positive fact can be stated: "The diagnosis of heart disease caused by atherosclerosis js made more frequently in the obese than in people of normal weight." Does this mean thaf the obese have more atherosclerosis, or that the symptoms develop earlier in the obese? Possib'y both statements are true The symptoms of atheros- clerotic heart disease are caused by a failure of the blood to carry enough oxygen to the heart muscle. This is due to a constric- tion of the blood vessel which prevents the blood from flowing freely. Fat people must expend more energy than normal-weight people, or thin people, when they move around as they carry more weight. Oxygen is required to burn the food to supply the ener- gy. Hence, fat people need more oxygen. It is common observation that obese people breathe harder and faster than normal-weight people wh as soon as they exercise. Any constriction of the blood vessel will interfere with the flow of the oxygen-carrying blood. The degree of interference will be proportional to the amount of constriction of the blood vessel. When the individual is at rest, the constriction may not be great enough to prevent the small amount of oxygen required from getting to the heart muscle. As the oxygen demands increase, the interference becomes more noticeable. Since fat people re- quire more oxygen than thin people to walk the same distance at the same speed, their harden- ing of the arteries is noticed_very quickly. The same findings apply to thin people with atherosclerosis. When they walk they have no symptoms. If they run, causing a rapid increase in oxygen re- quirements, then symptoms may result. Many fat people need as much oxygen when they walk slowly as thin people do when they run fast. Therefore, regardless of the part obesity plays in the develop- ment of atherosclerosis, it is im- portant for the afflicted indivi- dual to reduce his weight rapidly to spare the heart work. The hormones of endocrine se- cretions may play some part in the development of atherosclero- sis. There is a much higher inci- dence in mortality from heart attacks among males in the age group of 40-59 than among fe- males in the same age group in this country. This difference in incidence de- creases markedly after women NO EGG ON HIS FACE: Experimental animal in Si. Luke's Hos- pital, Chicago, protests offer of cholesterol-rich egg from Dr. C. Bruce Taylor, who has induced hardening of arteries in monkeys with high-cholesterol food. Tie-:n between diet and atherosclerosis in humans has yet to be proved. , have gone through their change of life at which time there is a marked loss of female hormones. It is possible that the female sex hormone plays a role in the prevention of hardening of the arteries. There is some experi- + mental evidence that the concen- tration of cholesterol in the blood of the male can be influenced by the administration of female sex hormones. a It is much too early to say whether this treatment can actu- ally decrease the number of heart attacks in the males or in females during later life. * * * The implications of the rela- tionship of fat to the develop- ment of atherosclerosis have re=- ~ sulted in investigations of the other main foodstuffs, proteins and carbohydrates. The former occurs mostly in meats, dairy products and certain leguminous vegetables. The lat- ter are commonly known as starch and sugar. The result uf these investigations to date re- emphasizes the fact that any radical attempt to alter the diet can result in many problems. The best advice that can be given today is to eat a well- rounded diet that supplies all the minerals and vitamins, pro- teins and sufficient calories to maintain the optimum weight. My suggestion is that you eat daily some meat or dairy prod- uct, green and yellow leafy vege- tables, fruit, and whole grain or entiched flour products. Over- consumption of any one food group is not to be encouraged. Maintenance of desirable weight is essential. Next: Exercise and heredity. =!