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Port Perry Star (1907-), 29 May 1952, p. 7

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. Use All The Pig Except The Grunt The meat industry is making un- ceasing efforts to use .all of the cow but the moo, and all of the pig but the grunt. y Pigs 'yield as many as 31 differ- te by-products, cows 27, and sheep Most. spectacular by-products are those now being used in medi- eine. - Science has ended despair for 'thousands of the nation's sick by reclaiming life-giving miracle drugs from animal glands and in- ternal organs. Insulin is one of them, It comes from the pancreas and in the thirty yedrs since its discovery it has been used by millions of people suffer- ing from diabetes. Liver extracts for the" cure of anaemia, cholesterol for the pre- paration of Vitamin D, sex hor- mones, adrenalin used to treat shock and asethma, surgical su- "tures, pepsin, aud cortisone all be- long to the great family of by- products that come from cattle, pigs and sheep. The pituitary gland, a tiny growth in the brain, is the most important of all the medical re- sources that come from the slaugh- ter-house, The miracles contained inside this: gland are still startling scien- tists. Its front section holds hor- mones that speed up growth, stim- ulate 'sexual function, help us to breathe, . The back part contains a drug which is invaluable for ensuring safe child-birth, Another drug sti- mulates the digestion after an op- eration. Another is the "wonder drug," "Cortisone." - WASTED EFFORT A producer of one of the Lassie pictures at MGM swears to the truth" of this story. Lassie had evidently been off her feed for three or four days and her trainer decided that what she needed was a dose of castor oil. Unfortunately, no way could be found to make Lassie take it. The trainer and three assistants spent a full hour devising tricks to lure Lassie into swallowing the medicine, but she was too smart to fall for them, "and it was finally decided. that some other remedy would have to' be sought. Just then the bottle of castor oil slipped out of the grasp of the man who was holding it and crashed on the floor. The trainer - was just about to upbraid him for his clumsiness when Lassie calmly strolled over the spot and licked up the entire contents of the bottle. Incidentally, another rumor about Lassie has been in circula- tion lately. They say the president of the studio came to watch a scene being filmed one day and that Lassie was suspended for two weeks for barking .in his face. ted Hands--One of the stainless iteel hands, which Soviet sources way will be fitted to a giant dlock on Moscow's Palace of Science, is examined by a Rus- sian workman. Electric bulbs on he hands will :render the 20- on timepiece visible from a distance at night. FOR BOUQUETS When you have just a few flow- trs and the vase you want to use has too wide a mouth to hold them firmly, just crisscross its opening with transparent tape. Then you tan insert separate posies and they will stand with dignity, making a graceful bouquet. dane Andrews From "a great many Eiifopeai countries. we have imported the secret of making their favorite delicacies, but few of these have gained wider popularity --in our cities at least--than Danish pastry. But even the best versions produced * by restaurants. and commercial bakeries here usually lack some- thing of the buttery tenderness which marks the crisp, tender sort baked in Denmark--as any traveller to that land will testify. * * » Danish pastry admittedly in- volves quite a bit of time dnd effort in its proper preparation. As a matter of fact Danish housewives themselves buy the pastry oftener than they bake it. But for some special occasion--such as that late Sunday breakfast--it's" well worth the bother, especially if you use this somewhat simplified version of the recipe used in Denmark, which has been devised by Mrs, Ruth P. Casa-Emellos, home economist of ° The New York Times * «= Although the dough used is of the ordinary yeast type, it is greatly .enriched by the butter spread on it while being rolled ouf. It is the repeated rolling and folding of the mixture, together with the dottings of butter between the layers, that make the finished pastry sd delight- fully flaky. * . * DANISH PASTRY 14 teaspoon salt 14 cup sugar 1%4 cups butter 14 cup scalded milk 1 package or 1 cake yeast (active. dry or compressed) 14 cup warm water, lukewarm for compressed yeast 1 egg, beaten . 3 cups sifted enriched flour, approximately. (1) Add salt, sugar and one- fourth cup butter to scalded milk. Cool to lukewarm. (2) Sprinkle or crumble yeast into water and stir till dissolved. (3) Combine milk and yeast mixture and add egg. : (4) Add and stir in about half the flour. Beat till smooth, Add and stir in enough more flour to make a soft dough. (5) Turn out on a floured board and knead till smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl, grease surface and let stand in a warm place (80 to 85 degrees F.) till double in bulk. (6) Punch down and refrigerate one hour. ? (7) Roll dough into a rectangle about one-half inch thick. Dot two- thirds of the dough with one-third of remaining cup butter. Fold dough in thirds, beginning with untutter- ed portion. This~miakes three lay- ers. - TA 8) Repeat step No. 7 twice. Re- frigerate at any time that dough and butter are too soft for easy handling. Chill the finished dough one-half hour "or overnight. 9) If dough has chilled overnight, let stand at room temperature till soft enough for rolling, Roll and shape as directed in following sug: gestions or as desired. (10) Place on greased baking sheets and let rise till double: in size. To glaze, brush with a beaten egg which has been blended with "one-fourth. cup milk and one tea. spoon sugar. (11) Bake in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) till well-browned, about twenty minutes. If desired, frost with. confectioners' icing. Yield: twelvé to sixteen pastries. * . * is a great In Denmark there "variation in the manner of shaping the buns and in their fillings. Here are a few of the many ways in which the pastry may be formed, also recipes for a few of the most poptilar fillings. "HOW TO SHAPE DANISH ; PASTRIES Cock's Combs: Roll dough to "one-fourth inch and spread with a paste made by creaming measure of butter and sugar. Cut into four-inch squares. Place a spoonful of filling across' center, moisten edges, fold into a rectangle and préss edges to seal, Cut four or five deep slashes in sealed edge. Let rise, brush with glaze and bake. Spandauers: Roll dough to one- fourth inch, spread with paste made by creaming equal measure of butter and sugar. Cut in four- inch squares. Place filling in center. Fold corners to center and press down. Let rise, brush with glaze and bake. Drop a teaspoon of jelly -in center. of each and ice. Filled Triangles: Roll dough, to one-fourth inch. Spread with filling and fold in thirds. .Cut into four- inch squares and then cut each square into two triangles. Let rise, glaze, bake and frost. Filled Rounds: Cut large rounds of dough which has been rolled to one-fourth inch. Place filling across center, raise opposite sides of dough and overlap at center. Press to seal. Let rise, apply glaze and bake. Frost, if desired. : Filled Figure Eights: Cut rolled dough into finger-wide strips, twist into coils and shape into 8's, S's or rounds. Let rise, glaze, fill centers and bake. ; * * * CHEESE FILLING 1 cup cottage cheese, sieved 114 tablespoons flour 114 tablespoons sweet or sour cream 2 eggs, separated 14 cup sugar - 1 tablespoon butter, melted 14 teaspoon vanilla or grated lemon rind 3 tablespoons currants or raisins 14 cup chopped blanched almonds, - (1) Mix cheese, flour, cream, egg yolks and sugar. Add butter and vanilla. and mix till smooth. Add - currants and almonds. 2) Fold in beaten égg whites. Yield: two cups. ) * * * PRUNE FILLING Grind or chop one cup pitted . and drained cooked prunes and one- half cup cooked apricots or raisins. Add one-half cup dry berad or cake crumbs and one-fourth cup honey. Heat, stirring constantly, till well blended. If too thin, add more crumbs, if too thick, add lemon juice. - * * + ALMOND PASTE FILLING Cream together one-half cup each butter and sugar. Add and blend in one 'cup almonds, ground. SPY STUFF - In a "top-secret" Nazi espionage school, where the cream of the German secret service operatives received final instructions, the fac- ulty included a Herr Linz. His particular job consisted of teaching the little niceties of behaviour that would -enable his proteges to min- gle freely in English society, pass as one-hundred-per-cent Britishers, and send back vital information to Berlin, One of his last-minute tips always was this: "Open an-account at a well-known bank, and 'acci- dentally' drop the hook before ac- quaintances. This will reassure them as to both your social status and your financial responsibility." A great many of Herr Linz's pupils succeeded in reaching Lon- don, but every one of them was apprehended before sending a sin- gle vital message home. The drop- ping of a bank book was a little signal arranged between the Bri- tish secret service and its highly regarded agent, instructor Linz. The Pearlies Are Comin'--Resplendent in their pearl button-covered duds, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Matthews watch as a London bus is unloaded In New York. Leaders of London costermongers, the Matthews will take part In a good-will tour during which three of the double-deckers will cover 8000 miles. equal Cancer Artillery--Looking through a plate glass water tank, two feet thick, we see a nurse, acting as a model, lying beneath the world's largest radium therapy unit. The huge device, which contains one-fortieth of the world's supply of radium, is used primarily for the treatment of cancer. Fantastic Sums Spent On Tombs Willie Moretti, a New York gangster who was killed recently, left most elaborate arrangements for his own funeral. He was buried in full evening dress made by an expensive tailor, and his 'bronze coffin, specially constructed to his own order long before he met his deatlf, cost over five thousand dollars. Many people would consider $300,000 a fantastic sum to spend on a tomb. Yet when the heirs of the late Alfred Irence du Pont were informed that it was the first bequest in their relative's will they thought it a trifling amount com- pared with the millions he left. ~ So the armament king of Wil- ington, Delatvare, was given a con- crete and granite tomb 210 fect high (about half as high as St Paul's Cathedral), with a tower on which an arrangement of flashing beacon lights and a carillon of bells was installed. A lift built to accommodate six passengers carried visitors to the top. John Milburn Davis, of Hiawa- tha, Kansas, began building his tomb long before he died. When his wife died in 1915, people of the town in which he lived hoped he would perpetuate her memory by presenting a school, hospital or park to the community. Instead, Mr. Davis turned her- mit, devoting all his money to building a tomb for his wife and himself. NEWSPAPER STUFF Three good -newspaper stories are going the rounds, Joe Williams recalls the dodge of a lazy column- ist on th eold Telegraph who took a long editorial of Arthur Bris- bane's and reprinted. it word for word in his own column, contribut- ing one original sentence at the end. It read, "What on earth does Brisbane mean by all this?" Cosmopolitan's promotion shark, M. I. Pitkin, tells about a circus advanceman named Flanagan who dropped in to a small-town news- paper office and asked the cost of a full-page ad. "One hundred bucks," said the editor. "And a half- page?" One hundred bucks." And a quarter-page?" One hundred bucks." "Your rates aren't very elastic," commented the exasperat- ed circus man. "How do you cal- culate them?" "That's easy," the editor assured him. "Your show is due here on July 12th, I've got the only paper in town, and on the 13th I've got a note due for exactly one hundred bucks." During Mark Twain's carly days in the newspaper business in Mis- sdturi, relates Irving Hoffman, he received a letter from a subscriber stating that he had found a spider in his paper, and asking if this was an omen of good or bad luck. Twain replied, "Finding a spider in your paper is neither good luck nor bad. The spider was merely looking over our paper to sce which merchant _ was not advertising so that he could go to that store, spin his web across the door and lead a life of undis- turbed peace ever afterward." HIGH PRICED ---- Louis Sobol is authority for: the story that Miss Beatrice Lillie toy-. ed with: the notion of vacationing in Bermuda after her last play end- ed its run, She contacted the owner of an estate there and asked for particulars by mail, The owner answered, "My place is on a small island, so you will \need my boat- men to ferty you to Hamilton and back. The estate rents for $25,000, but with the boatman's services in- cluded, the price will be $30,000." Miss Lillie cabled, "Kindly rush photograph of the boatman." TRUTHFUL Arthur Kober's daughter, Cathy, attended a birth- day party wlrere the food had been scasoncd too strongly for her lik- ing. Quite naturally she remarked to the hostess, "This is awfull" "Oh, no," corrected her nurse. "It's very good. It's just a little differ- ent. You'll get to like it." "No," said Cathy, "1 won't like it. It's just awful." On the way home, the nurse ex- plained, "When you're eating out, dear, it's all right to say the food is good. if you like it, but if you don't, just leave it on your plate and don't say anything." The next Saturday, Cathy. went visiting again. For lunch, she was served creamed chicken, which she loves, and peas, which she always hated. She finished the chicken, tasted the peas, then looked at the nurse, dnd in her best Emily Post voice remarked, "These peas are delicious--but awful." five-year-old s 4 Ly LB Sh J * U0] A . Helping The ats HALLE. i» y? Bh SEF LRT SI ERE FREES, AES ad Wrigh ts Learn To Fly.... One night after my work- was done, I went over to see the Wrights, Mr. Orville had cooked the supper. Mr. Wilbur was wash- ing the dishes. Their flying machine was lying on the sand. "How does it go?" 1 asked. Mr. Orville picked it up, "It's a glider," he said. "It weighs only about fifty pounds. It has a top .. wing and 'a bottom" wing, like the gliders we have read about. It is seventeen feet between the wing tips. It has runners to land on, , .. "When are you going to fly?" I asked. "The winds are not good," said Mr. Wilbur, "One day it blows too hard. The next day there isn't wind enough. We'll try it out on the first fine day." [ looked up at the night sky. "Tomorrow will be good," 1 pro- mised. "There will be a light wind. Why don't you take your airship over to Kill Devil Hill? Maybe it - will slide down the hill on the runners." [ was trying to be funny. "Yes, let's do it," agreed Mr. Orville. Next morning 1 helped the Wright brothers carry their glider. - It was four miles across the hot sands to Kill Devil Hill. T wanted to see them fly. The wind was blowing just hard enough. They pointed the glider down the hill, right into the wind. Mr. Orville lay down on the middle part of the bottom wing. Mr. Wil- bur and I stood on each side. We gave the glider-a push. It did go into the air! It carried Mr. Orville with it. It went only about three feet above the ground. It stayed up for only five seconds. Then it fell to the ground. "How was it?" called Mr. Wil- bur "It wasn't very wonderful," re- plied his brother. "But 1 wanted to fly in a glider. Now I've done so. It's your turn." : We carried the glider back to the top of the hill, Mr. Wilbur lay down in the big kite. We gave him . a push. This time the glider didn't go up more than two feet. But it stayed up twice as long. "It works!" cried Mr. Wilbur, as he crawled out. "Want to try it, Bill?" I shook my head. "No thanks, Mr. Wright. I shan't try to fly till T grow wings." Day after day those men worked out there in the hot sun, Flies buzzed around them. Sometimes they used their glider as a big kite. They stood on thé ground with string in their hands, They pulled the elevator up and down. They bent the wings when the machine went too much to the right or left. One afternoon they came over to my house. "We're leaving on the boat tomorrow morning," said Mr. Orville, "Thanks for all the. help you've given us." "What do you think now about flying?" I asked. "We didn't do what we hoped to do," replied Mr. Wilbur. "We thought we could glide around in the air for hours. I've counted up the time. We've been up in the air just twelve minutes, all together, The glider is out there on the sand. Do anything you like with it." "Thanks," I said. I held out my hand. "It's been very nice to know you." "You haven't scen the last of us," said Mr. Wilbur. "We'll be back next summer." -- From "Yesterday in America," by Harold B. Clifford. SLIGHT ERROR A favorite picture star who mar- ried well--and often--found it expedient to get a divorce in a hurry a few months ago. Her lawyer suggested Mexico. "But I don't speak Spanish," she protest- ed. "That's all right," said the law- yer. "Whenever there's a pause, all you have to do is say 'si, si!" The star created a great sensa- tion in the little Mexican village, and when she appeared in court, the whole town turned out to wit- ness the event. There was a great deal of emoting and bowing, and the star said "si, si" very firmly on numerous occasiions. Suddenly the crowd gave a great cheer. "Well, T guess I'm divorced," she said complacently. "Divorced, my eye!" cried her perspiring attorney. "You've married the mayor!" KNEW WHICH ONE - Little Wendy set out for Sunday services in her best bib and tucker, equipped with two shiny nickels-- one for the collection plate and one for an ice-cream cone on the way home. She scarcely had left the house when one of the coins slip- ped out of her fingers and rolled into a drain. "Gosh darn," said Wendy. "There goes the Lord's nickel." Sports Car Sports Only 3 Wheels; Another Even Sports a Phonograph New York--The most amazing automobile in a collection of amaz- ing automobiles--the International Motors Sports Show--is a three- wheel job called the Jetmobile. It's either a genuine peek into the future or a one-way ticket to a bad dream. The Jetmobile is the creation of a young designer, Richard Harp The model on display is the second one he built; the first was destroy- ed by fire after it won first prize as the most unusual design in a Washington show. [His friends chipped in to help him build the new onc for $2500. It was finished four: hours before the New York show deadline. "I think conventional cars are too blunt," says Harp, "co | hor rowed aerodynamic line sfor my car." The Jetmobile is decidedly un- blunt. Tt has a long nose; housing the plexiglass - enclosed driver's seat, which looks more like a cock pit. The engine is in the rear and the whole creation is low and sleck. Harp cays he could design a family car on that <tvle if he had the money. The show than 100 cars, ranging from stock sports cars--like Jaguars, Bugattis, MGs afd Siatas -- through conventional Fords and Kaisers and Nachs and Cadillacs with custom hodies and on to one-of-a kind custom cars There are old cars in and among the jet-inspired designs of today. Many powerful Packards and Duesenberg and Rolls-Royces of the '30s are «till handsome travel for sports-car fanciers, But the major portion of the show is given ovér to the real sports cars. Thece are nainally low convertibles with unusual features and strange designs. Some have chain driven. Some have right-hand controls. Some have the instru- ment panel on the floor. There are gear shifts on the wheel, on the floor and on the dashhoard. Some look like mobile peanuts and others seem two blocks long. Most of. them are imported, and it isn't hard to tell which. There was a warning sticker on one Italian-imade Siata, which read: "In the first 100 miles NO EX CEED the limit of 3800 RPM." But "America is producing some new sports cars. Packard unveiled its new Pan-American which is a long, sparkling creation. The con mcludes mare By RICHARD KLEINER vertible top, when folded, is cov- ered with a metal lid, decorated with the radio aerial which juts toward the rear at just the right angle for spearing flying pedes- trians. The instrument panel and white leather, The luxurious custom-made jobs have come fabulous touches. One has an electric phonograph built in, Many are air conditioned. A few have bars concealed in rm rests and other likely places. i One custom car was big enough to include a desk for the travelling executive. Another car on display was the Phantom Corsair, original ly built ac "The Car of Tomorrow" New York World's Fair in for thie 1939 at a cost of $37,000. Tomorrow hasn't come yet for that car; it's still too futuristic for today's tastes. It is practically a hide-out, be- cause glass is minimized. The headlights are almost concealed and so would be any passengers riding in the car. When you open the door, part of tht roof lifts up so you can ¢nter it. Also on: view is the chassis of a sports car first exhibited in 1915. It was made in Ireland. Many of its features are just now coming into general use. Some are still considered advanced by car design- ers, There were no samples distribut- ed. ZADED YOUR WAY here is Richard Harp's "Jetmobile," a three- wheel car with roem for only one passenger--and barely that.

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