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THE LAMPASAS LEADED
SMy aJS[eighbor
^ v Says: ▼ ▼
r INGERIE must be tinted occasion-
JL/ ally to preserve its dainty appear-
ance. A faded blue garment will tint
a delicate orchid with the aid of a
pink dye, a pale yellow will shade into
a delicate green if dipped in blue dye,
and a pink dye will change the yellow
to a shell pink. Be sure to use small
quantities of the dye for these pastel
shades.
This is a delicious and an unusual
sandwich to serve with the afternoon
tea: Mix one-quarter cup of finely
chopped preserved canton ginger and
one-third cup of chopped pecan nut
meats. Add two tablespoons of fine-
ly cut candied orange peel, one table-
spoon of ginger sirup, one teaspoon of
vinegar, and a few grains of salt.
Spread between thin unsweetened
crackers. .
* * *
A popular salad is made by putting
a fairly thin slice of onion between
two slices of orange. Serve on let-
tuce with . mayonnaise or cooked
dressing.
(©. 1933, by the Associated Newspapers)
WNU Service
Dedication of Schiff Boy Scout Reservation
View during the dedication of the Schiff Boy Scout reservation, at Mendham, N. J., which stands as a memorial
to the late Mortimer L. Schiff, president of the Boy Scouts of America at the time of his death two years ago. The
property was accepted on behalf of the Boy Scouts of America by John Sherman Hoyt, vice president of the organiza-
tion, who received the keys from John M. Schiff, son of the donor.
LIGHTS OF NEW YORK
L. L. STEVENSON
New York.—In Greenwich village, 1
saw a battered old truck that seemed
to be conveying a colored picnic some-'
where. A colored man was at the
wheel with a colored woman, evidently
his wife, at his side, while the body of
the truck seemed to fairly swarm with
children of assorted ages and sizes
but all of the same shade. Tony, the
garageman, explained that it was not
a picnic. Tony was born and raised
in Greenwich village. He has never
lived anywhere else. So he knows the
village and its people. The truck, he
said, is a business enterprise. Its pas-
sengers constitute one family. The
family carries on the business. So
the number of children instead of be-
ing a detriment in the struggle for ex-
istence, is really an assistance. In
fact, the more children, the greater
the gross income.
* * *
The battered old truck is the officia1
waste remover of the village. A num-
ber of apartment house, owners are
also willing to make small contribu-
tions. With a wife and a flock of chil-
dren, the truck owner doesn’t need any
HOOF AND MOUTH
“He’s got the foot and mouth dis-
ease.”
“Never heard of it, what’s it like?”
“Whenever he opens his mouth he
puts his foot in it.”
assistants. Thus he has no pay roll.
The trash is taken to the family home,
which is a Morton street cellar.
There it is sorted. Practically all
of it is salable in one form or another.
Much furniture, in various states of
repair, is collected. That which is
salable is trucked up to Harlem and
sold there either to individuals or to
dealers. The papers are baled and
sold, the market for old paper being
decidedly bullish at present. The
stuff that can’t be sold either is trucked
to dumps or is used to supply heat.
And after Tony had told me that, I
agreed that it wasn’t any picnic.
* * *
Speaking of junk, there is the old
German, an ex-member of the navy of
his country and a jeweler by trade,
who has a shack up on the Hudson
near the shack colony known as Hoo-
ver city, which Riverside drive resi-
dents tried hard to eliminate but
which is still very much in existence.
Near the shack of the German a sail-
boat is moored. It is only a small
craft which he constructed in spare
time with whatever materials came to
hand. But it furnishes him a living.
In the little boat, during the summer,
he cruised up and down the Hudson,
sometimes going as far up as Albany.
While cruising, he keeps a sharp look-
out for junk ashore, his specialty be-
ing brass. And because of the little
boat and through his industry, he now
has no fears for the winter even
though he isn’t able to find work at
his trade.
* * *
Mention of Riverside drive causes
me to recall that the woman who feeds
the pigeons at One Hundred Fourth
street and the drive is not deterred
by weather. No matter how hard the
rain may be falling, she comes out
with rice and wheat and spreads a
banquet for the birds. The pigeons
do not seem to mind the rain, either,
as they collect in great flocks and wait
patiently until their benefactor ap-
pears. They are so tame and lazy
they won’t get out of the way until
AMERICAN ANIMALS
SEA LION
QEA LIONS live on barren shores;
^ They shake the rocks with savage roars.
And if you heard this frightful din,
You’d think their throats were made of tin.
The natives hunt them for their coats,
And use the skins to cover boats.
They eat the fat and use the flippers
To make new soles for boots and slippers!
This old bull climbs upon the boulders
To stretch his massive neck and shoulders;
He’s fifteen hundred pounds in weight,
And twice as heavy as his mate.
He dives and swims with wondrous ease
Through foaming surf and stormy seas.
He doesn’t mind the
wintry gales,
And only fears the
killer whales.
©, by the P. F. Votland Co.—WNU Service.
actually forced—by the feet of irate
pedestrians. I’ve been told, or read
somewhere, that officially all the pig-
eons in a city, not privately owned,
are the property of the mayor. But
I’ve never seen Mayor O’Brien feeding
pigeons, though City Hall park has
one of the largest colonies in the city.
* * *
Leaning over the wall of the obser-
vatory at Inspiration point, I watched
a long string of barges being shep-
herded down the Hudson by two small
tugs. One of the captains waved and
immediately the old desire to be a
barge captain arose within me. Soon
there will be barge colonies at Coen-
ties slip and elsewhere and the cap-
tains won’t have anything to do ex-
cept keep ship and sit around and
yarn until spring.
©. 1933, Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
!H
OW IT STARTE
By JEAN NEWTON
D
To “Bite the Dust”
TF EVER a phrase bore all the ear-
1- marks of 100 per cent American
slang, certainly “to bite the dust”
would seem to fill the requirements;
yet, it would be hard to find one more
rooted in antiquity or the classics.
Among the earliest recorded uses of
this expression, which we understand
to be a reference to a person who is
killed and falls to the ground, or to
one who is knocked down—are in
Homer’s “Illiad,” book two, and Ovid’s
“Metamorphoses,” book nine.
It was the translation of these fa-
mous works that popularized the
phrase “to bite the dust”—put in
tongues the world over.
©, Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.
Coeds in Texas Bring
' Food to Pay for Food
Canyon, Texas.—When coeds arrived
at West Texas Teachers’ college here
this fall, many brought traveling bags
and trunks filled with canned goods
and other foods to offer as part pay-
ment for their board and room.
Randall hall, one of the dormitories
on the campus, announced a co-opera-
tive plan of operation. Each girl is
being charged approximately $13 per
month, $6 of which may be paid in
commodities brought from their homes
and farms.
Housework at the dormitory will be
done by the girls themselves under the
direction of a supervisor, who also
will be purchasing agent.
Irish Potatoes Yield
New Industrial Alcohol
Dublin.—An industrial alcohol to be
used as fuel for motor cars as well as
in dyes, heating and lighting, has been
developed from potatoes, it was re-
vealed here.
Its production will be made a
monopoly of the Irish Free State gov-
ernment.
Old Dutch Custom
Among Holland’s quaint farming
customs is that of baptizing calves
before they are sent out to the fields
to graze, the idea being that the sprink-
ling with water will keep the animals
away from the ditches which surround
the fields.
Game of Checkers
to Last for Year
Sandusky, Ohio. — The world’s
most patient checker players be-
gan a game recently which may
require more than a year to com-
plete.
Clarence Coombs, Sandusky,
mailed a letter to T. MoLaven, of
Durham, England, In which he in-
formed the latter he had made the
first move on his board here.
When McLaven receives the let-
ter, he will make the first counter
move, and notify Coombs by mail.
If the contestants don’t run out
of patience—or postage stamps—
the game should be completed
about this time next year.
GRAPE JELLY IS
GREAT FAVORITE
Has Tang and Flavor That
Always Satisfies.
By Edith m. barber
O ED, white and blue—American
grapes—what an array of color!
How tempting they are to use when
we see them in. their big clusters rn
their baskets. Perhaps we will buy a
basket of mixed varieties for table
use and then, when we find a large
basketful, perhaps Concords, at a bar-
gain price, we will hurry home and
start our supply of jams, jellies, but-
ter and possibly juice.
There are so many different “pre-
serves” which we can produce with
grapes as foundation. Concords, by
the way, are usually the most practi-
cal to use for cookingpurposes because
they are so plentiful, and thus are
usually the most economical. Remem-
ber, if you make grape jelly, that
the greener, firmer grapes should be
chosen unless you plan to combine
the juice with pectin, when, of course,
it makes no difference. While we sel-
dom get unripe—green—grapes in the
city, if we find a supply in the coun-
try, we can make a tart, piquant Jel-
ly which is especially good to serve
with meat—almost as good. In fact,
as the famous wild grape jelly, which
ranks with wild plum and wild crab-
apple in my estimation, and I can
give it no higher praise. Perhaps you
know wild grapes under their country
title, “Fox” grapes.
I wonder if you have ever made
grape jam, using the skins as well
as the pulp. You" will get the most
amazing number of glasses and you
will have a marmalade which is more
than delicious. If you like to add a
further touch, put in a few cut wal-
nuts five minutes before the jam is
thick enough to put in the glasses. You
may also vary this jam by cooking
whole cloves and stick cinnamon with
the fruit and adding as well a little
vinegar. Then there is the more elab-
orate conserve which contains raisins,
orange or lemon pulp and rind as well
as nuts.
Another use that is made of cooked
grapes in their season or of grapes
canned in a light syrup is for a sauce
to serve with duck. Sometimes a bit
of spice or a bit of vinegar is added
with the sugar. Then there is grape
pie, usually made by cooking grapes
until the seeds will pop out and then
rubbing the pulp through a sieve be-
fore sugar mixed with a bit of corn-
starch is added.
Sometimes these skins and a little
grated lemon or orange rind are used
as well for a filling for an open-face
pie, which may have a lattice of strips
of pastry if you like. The fruit bowl
filled with dark-colored grapes makes
a lovely fall centerpiece, which, how-
ever, must be replaced practically
every meal, as no one can resist taking
a bunch or two even when there is
another dessert.
Ripe Grape Jelly.
4 cups (2 pounds) grape juice.
1 bottle pectin.
8 cups (3% pounds) sugar.
Stem grapes and crush thoroughly.
Add one-half cup of water, stir until
mixture boils, and simmer, covered,
ten minutes. Drip through jelly bag.
Measure juice and sugar into large
saucepan, stir and bring to a boil. At
once add bottle pectin, stirring con-
stantly and again bring to a full roll-
ing boil and boil half minute. Re-
move from fire, let stand one minute,
skim, pour quickly. Cover hot jelly
with film of hot paraffin; when jelly
is cold, cover with one-eighth inch
of hot paraffin. Roll glass to spread
paraffin on sides.
Spiced Grape Jelly.
6 pounds stemmed grapes.
1 cup vinegar.
Sugar.
1 tablespoon cloves.
5 pieces stick cinnamon, 1 inch long.
Cook the grapes, vinegar and spices
together rapidly until the grape seeds
show, and stir constantly. Strain
through cheesecloth. For each cup of
juice add three-fourths of a cup of
sugar, and boil rapidly until the syrup
jellies when tested. Pour into hot
glasses. Cover with a light layer of
melted paraffin and when hard add
more paraffin, rotating the glass so
that a high rim will be formed. Cover,
label and store in a cool place.
Grape Conserve.
4 pounds Concord grapes.
2 pounds sugar.
1 cup seedless raisins.
1 orange, seeded and chopped.
1 cup finely chopped nuts.
Wash and drain the grapes. Stem,
remove skins and reserve. Cook the
pulp ten minutes, or until the seeds
show. Press pulp through a sieve to
remove the seeds. To the pulp add
the sugar, salt, raisins and orange,
seeded and chopped. Cook rapidly un-
til the mixture begins to thicken and
stir frequently to prevent sticking.
Add the skins, cook for five minutes
longer, or until thick. Stir in the
chopped nuts and pour at once into hot
jelly glasses. Cover with hot par.
affin.
Grape Preserves.
4 pounds grapes.
4 pounds sugar.
Pick over, wash and stem grapes,
press the pulp from the skins. Heat
pulp to boiling point and cook' slow-
ly until seeds come to top. Rub
through fine sieve. Return to kettle,
add skins and an equal measure of
sugar; cook slowly thirty minutes, stir-
ring occasionally to prevent burning.
Put in hot glasses and cover wit1 hot
paraffin.
©, 1933, Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
WATCH OUT FOR ZERO
“We had a terribly hot summer,
didn’t we?”
“Yes, the worst I can remember.
Even our afternoon bridge club was
obliged to suspend meeting for three
afternoons.”
New Instrument Measures
to Millionth of an Inch
Leipzig.—A high precision instru-
ment has been invented of such sensi-
tiveness that it will measure the one-
millionth of an inch. This marvelous
advance in the delicacy of measure-
ment is made possible by magnifying
the slightest movements of the meas-
uring device and making it visible to
the eye by a stereopticon device on a
large screen. It was exhibited at
the Leipzig fair and checks the ac-
curacy of measurements to a few sec-
onds of the arc.
Proving That Everybody Loves Marie
When Marie Dressier received her mail on her sixty-second birthday,
November 9, she got a huge scroll or felicitations signed by hundreds of
the country’s important persons, from the President down. In the photograph
Ahmet Muhtar, envoy of the Turkish republic in Washington, is seen aftixiiMf
his autograph.
Leg Rulers Are Used by
Spiders in Making Web
Although the most symmetrical web
ever made by a spider is not really
perfect, according to human standards,
scientists marvel at the accuracy with
which angles and distances are “meas-
ured,” observes a writer.
The spider starts her geometrical
web with perimeter lines connecting
objects around a space large enough
for her purpose. From these lines she
suspends a few threads which con-
verge at the center of the future web.
Now begins the process of spacing the
radii.
She attaches the end of a new radius
at the center and runs along a spoke
already laid down, spinning out the
silk for the new one as she goes. When
she reaches the perimeter line, §he
takes a fixed number of steps along
it and attaches the new thread. This
process is repeated until alL the de-
sired radii are in place.
If the foundation lines should chance
to form a wheel rim accurately circu-
lar, the distances between spokes
would be equal; but, since the peri-
meter is usually an irregular quad-
rangle and never a circle, the spacing
varies somewhat.
The spiral turns of silk, which com-
plete the net, are more accurately
spaced than the radii, since the spin-
ner lays down each new turn with her
foreleg touching the last one. Thus
the length of the forelegs and the size
of the spider determine these dis-
tances.
“Scout stepping” and use of the
“leg ruler” are instinctive in spiders.
Even when isolated from its kind
from the moment of its birth, a spi-
derling will produce exactly the same
web design as its mother and in ex-
actly the same manner.
Chihuahua Breed of Do^s
Loved by Queen Isabella
To the very throne room of Queen
Isabella of Spain, who was born in
1474 and died in 1547, we must go for
the real beginning of the Chihuahua
breed of dogs. Always a lover of ani-
mals. the queen surrounded herself,
historians tell us, with a great num-
ber of pets and would allow no one
to harm them, especially a breed of
dogs which were small In size and
pure white in color. These, perhaps,
were the offspring of the Spanish
pointer, which existed in Spain at
that time. At any rate, when the
queen popularized this breed it be-
came very common in Spain and most
every family had one or more.
Jean Grijalva, who discovered Cuba
and Mexico, and later Hernando
Cortez, who in about 1498 landed in
Mexico with several boat loads of
soldiers and their families, brought
many of these dogs from Spain.
These were crossed with the dark or
all-black Mexican dog, which was
much smaller than the Spanish dog.
This get. it is claimed, was one of the
ancestors of the modern Chihuahua.
The Spaniards upon their arrival in
Mexico seemed to center about the
country of Chihuahua in Mexico and
made it their headquarters. From
this the dogs got their name.
Meteors Small Planets
Meteors are probably themselves
small planets. They literally infest
space, being almost infinite in num-
ber, and the variety and extent of
their orbits around the sun is prac-
tically unlimited. It has been com-
puted that 20.000,000 enter the atmos-
phere of the earth every day, notes
a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
They come from every conceivable di-
rection and travel with speeds vary-
ing between seven and 70 miles per
second. Traveling through the atmos-
phere at this velocity they quickly
become incandescent and burn up, so
fierce is the heat generated. The frag-
ments that survive this fiery ordeal
fall upon the earth as meteorites,
where men may study them and sub-
ject them to chemical analysis in cru-
cible and test tube.
Wedding; Cake Lore
The origin of wedding cake goes
back hundreds of yeflrs. In ancient
Rome marriage was effected by the
simple process of the bride and bride-
groom breaking a cake of bread and
eating it together. This, in time, de-
veloped into the bride cake. The bride
cut it because it was the duty of the
woman' to prepare food for the man.
Everybody knows the superstition
about sleeping on wedding cake.
Girls, even in this age of cynicism,
' look forward to the weddings of their
friends, so that they may get a piece
of wedding cake, which, if placed un-
der the pillow, some believe, has the
power to produce in dreams the vision
of a prospective husband.
Water Used
Imperial Rome used some fifty gal-
lons of water per capita daily. Me-
dieval Paris used but one quart. To-
day, Naples uses about twenty gal-
lons; Paris, Berlin, and London about,
forty-five, and larger American cities
range from about forty-eiglit gallons
daily, at Fall River, to 430 gallons at
Tacoma, averaging some.140 gallons.—
Scientific American.
Turtle Fishing
In East Africa the natives fish for
turtles with a large eel-like sucker-fish,
from two to four feet long, putting an
iron ring round the tail. The hold is
enormously strong, and quite a small
fish can support a bucket of water.
They are difficult to detach even in
death, although they can let go their
hold voluntarily very quickly.
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