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ST TTT---- Of Thunderstorms If ammonia' is sprayed into thun- der clouds from aircraft, .in the same way as dry ice or silver iodide is sprayed into clouds to produce rain, thé chance of lightning flashes during a storm is considerably' re- duced, according to Dr. E. J. Workman, of the New Mexico 3 School of Mines. Every time 'there is a thunder storm, Dr.. Workman conducts ex- * periments, Basing them on the fact that electricity is generated when "water freezes, he claims that he has -been "successful 'on three occasions in taking the lightning out of thun- 'derstorms, The ammoma he sprays into the thunder clouds "prevents + the raindrops in them from freez- ing, There. has been disagreement: "about rain-making experiments be- cause, while some people wait rain, others don't," but Dr. Workman's experiments are not likely to meet with any opposition. Nobody, it is pointed out, is ever likely. to want lightning! Ei Meanwhile, Swedish = scientists have discovered that an old: pros: pector's. belief that mineral depo- sits in the soil attract lightning: is partly true. The" scientists experi- mented with four - million - volt flashes: which they found were de- finitely 'attracted by 'iron ore when - the flash was of positive electricity, But they found that negative light aing flashes were not affected. Experts say that most of it is negative, although positive flashes are not uncommon, especially in Africa, which has the highest light-_ ning death. rate in the world. Six hundred deaths occur every year. . A: lightning flash may be any length from 1,000 yards up to 20,000 yards, yet it never lasts more than the hundredth part of a second. From Lace To Leopard--Ten- - nis star Gussie Moran, who recently 'made her profesional "debut, has added a pair of leopard-skin underpanties to a wardrobe already bulging with abbreviated lace things, Neither 'Gussie or the lebpard ~seém to mind the fact that the customers will be seeing spots before their eyes. Autumn Leaf-smoke : Leaf-smoke, pungent, spicy, 're- dolent leaf-smoke, hangs in the air these evenings, hazing the sunset and making the red old moon a little more romantic. 'The whole effect is as romantic as an old balfad, and we all love it. For once, there's no excuse whatsoever even to try ° to be rough, tough and hard-boil-- ed about such evenings, They are . lovely and beautiful, and if you don't watch out they will .make your heart sing. . ' Scuffle. of féet in: the heaped" __Yeaves along fhe gutter, a sound like no other sound in this world, Slow song of aging katydids which escaped the first frosts and sound properly jubilant about it. Hickory nuts, sought out at dusk in the ° crisping grass where the bustling squirrels overlooked them. Simple things that twang old memories, - not of the good old days but simply 'of other autumns when the heart leaped just as it is leaping mow. The moon there in the sky at sun-. set, fast approaching its fullness and deepening from white to gold to ruddy orange as the darkness comes. Stars lit carly, twinkling already with a bit of frosty glitter, stars that are like the love-light in somebody's eyes, and you don't care who hears you say it. A breeze that is soft and cool and sweet, and maybe has a trate of wood-. smoke from a happy hearth. Simple things that belong 'to everybody and don't cost a penny, and can't be bought 'at any other .season of the year no fatter what you ocer them. = = Sentimental? Sure, as sentimental by a hig and as sweet as a kiss, nd all misted over with leaf- smoke, incense distilled from crisp flakes of ruby and garnet and opal ° "and topaz, We love it! anh \/ | 1 ' tn avie Tea Probably I've told you before 'about the small boy 1 know whose mother was coaxing "him to - eat some food he disliked. "Mom," he said solemnly, "when' you tell me something is good for me, it makes me want to dump it on. the ' < * floor," {2 p * oo * - i Y'll 'leave it to the child psycho-; logists to figure out' whether such a remark betokened , something -deep-seatedly. wrong with the lad's ~ inner nature. and there are lots of youngsters 'like him. But few of them, thank Goodness, neéd to be coaxed to eat honey; and. honey is definitely , good for most of us. The Hindus, in ancient times, believed that eat- ing - honey made people "strong, wise, happy, rich, even that it made them good-looking. That's cover- ing quite 'a stretch of territory, Still, it's a fine food, and.cone that far more families should eat far more of, : f > * J For baking, the ability of honey to absorb and retain extra moist- ure adds a lot to the keeping qual: ity of the product. Cakes, cookies, "desserts and candies dry out slow- ly, and may even improve with standing. * + * That's what he said, : To replace sugar with honey in "cooking, here's a simple rule. In cake or cookie recipes calling for sugar, use the same amount of -- honey --= but reduce-the-liquid bya quarter-cup for each cup of honey used. For example, in a recipe calling for 1 cup sugar and-a half- cup liquid, .use one cup honey and a quarter-cup liquid. * * * Fig and Apple Crisp 34 cup dried figs 4 apples hs . - * 2 tablespoons lemon juice 14 cup honey 2-tablespoons sugar 14 teaspoon cinnamcn \ | 14 cup brown sugar T4 teaspoon salt i 134-qup butter Method: Pour boiling water over figs. . Let stand 5 minutes. Drain; cut coarsely with scissors. Slice apples and spread apples and figs in shallow. baking dish. Pour lemon juice and honey over them. Add 2 tablespoops sugar and cin- * namon. Make the "crisp" part hy working flour," brown sugar, salt, and butter - together until crumbly. . Spread crumbs over apples and figs and bake 45 min- utes at 350° JF, Serve warm with top milk. * * a Honey Hermits 2% cups sifted flour, - 1 teaspoon baking. soda -}. teaspoon salt: 4% teaspoon allspice 14 teaspoon cinnamon "14 cup shortening 14 cup honey 14 cup brown sugar 2 eggs, well beaten" 3 tablespoons milk . 1 cup seedless raisins 1 cup 'dried currants ~ 1 cup chopped: dates v4 cup chopped nuts : * Method: Sift.flour, soda, salt, and spices together 3 times. Cream shortening with honey and brown sugar. Add eggs. Add milk, dry ingredients, 'fruits and nuts and mix thoroughly. Drop from tea- spoon on greased baking sheet and bake at 400° F. 10 to 12 min- utes. 'Makes about 4. dozen. Keep very well, ; EY NTT TTT Honey Hard -Sauce Ya cup butter or margarine 3% cup honey Beat shortening until soft. Beat honey in gradually. Mix thor- oughly. Especially good on gin- gerbread. > * ee Honey Date Bars 14 cup shortening 34 -cup flour ---- ee tioners' sugar, - Makes . 3 dozen I' x 3-inch bars. phe » ra Li \ - Honey Frosting 1 cup honey ! "14 teaspoon cinnamon cook umtil browned, basting "with ~These-Atom Secrets _ towards the end of the 19th cene papers were sent for safety' to TALKS | dane Andrews. 9 1 cup honey 1 teaspoon. vanilla 3 eggs or 6 egg yolks : 1% cups sifted all-purpose flour: 1 teaspoon baking powder 14 teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped dates 1 cup chopped nuts Confectioners' .sugar Method: Blend shortening, hopey, and vanilla until 'creamy, Beat in egys one at a time, Sift dry in- gredients into egg mixture. Blend. ' Add nuts and dates and stir just to distribute evenly. . Spread in a greased 9 x 12-inch pan. Bake in moderate oven (350°F.) until gold- en brown, 30 to: 35 minutes. Cool... Cut in bars and roll in con fec- 14 teaspoon salt 2 egg whites . Method: Heat honey until it spins a thread when it drops from a spoon. ~ Add salt to egg whites. Pour honey slowly over egg- whites which have been beaten stiff. Beat until frosting holds its shape. - Easiest to do on an elec- tric mixer. J. + ce " Honey Spiced Broiled Ham 1-slice ham, 1-inch thick 34 cup honey 34 teaspoon cloves V4 teaspoon allspice Method: Wipe meat with damp cloth. Place meat on broiler rack, allowing 3 inches between top of meat and 'source of heat, if pos- sible. Sprinkle with spices, and the honey occasionally, When brown, turn. Sprinkle other side with - remaining spices and "con- tinue cooking, basting occasionally with remaining honey. ------ Are 50 Years Old New light is likely to be thrown on the structure of the atom .by British Museum experts who are now {trying to decipher a manu- script half rotted by mildew, mud and soot. i Much of the abstruse formulae . contained in the manuscript is ille- gible. It was the work of a mathe- matical genius, eccentric and curly- haired: Oliver: Heaviside, who lived a hermit-like existence and of whom scientists now: say: "He was born a century too soon." After publ'shing _.hree volumes on electromagnetism, he set to worle' tury on a vital fourth volume deal- ing with atomic phenomena which would have startled the world of -science--had it ever been published. It is the half-legible manuscript - of this work that is now under close scrutiny in the British Muse- um. In 1927, two years after Heavi- side's death, a collection of his papers was bought by the Insti- "tute of Electrical Engineers, and when the war came in 1939 the Noi'th ~Wales, Shortly before the centenary cele- brations of his hirth- wee to be held (he was born 1850) someone chanced to. remember {he docu- ments and 'they were retrieved. A cursory study revealed that they included notes for Heaviside's fourth volume. : These dealt in detail with his important research on what is sci- entifically described as "a unified field theorem covering electromag- netic and gravitational phenomena." And this research, so far as it re- lates to atomic phenomena, is said to be even more complete than the latest and much publicized . dis- coveries of Einstein, the famous exponent of relativity, CROSSWORD - 10. Kind'st tree : © 11, Footlike part 37. Athtetie 9. Stand fora 14. Oriental word for fate a "35. Age pleture : PUZZLE : 19, Salamander ~~ assemblies EE 2 21, Taverns 38. 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Bnded / Answer Elsewhere On' This Page - What's All That Stuff?--Jumbo, a five-year-old Mexican hair- less, investigatés the unfamiliar foliage of Electra, a Maltese lap dog, two years younger, Both canines were selected as champions -in their class at the 23rd International Dog Show. . - held recently in. Paris. Slept In Coffin Wore Black Pyjamas, Ever since the 'mid-thirties, when the popular and somewhat syrupy song, "The Isle of Capri," was first launched, most people have dream- ed of yisiting that- romantic haunt off the Bay. of Naples. Mr. Charles Graves calls it the answer to the psychiatrist's prayer-- the cure for frustrations and inhibi- tions, where you can behave In a way that would get you locked up-- or certified anywhere else, An Italian princess he saw there - always wore a black skull-cap, black pyjamas, black sun-glasses, and slept every night in a black coffin, Daily, to the Piazza, came a man in red cummerbund with red cap tassel, blue canvas trousers, smoking a ludicrous meerschaum and carrying three embroidered baskets over his shoulder. A youngYink gn leave from the U.S. sector of Austria walked the Piazza -for two days _dressed up _as a _Tytolean_ peasant, ~ feather and all. When no one took any notice of that, he thanged into full cowboy costume. Lo A man who came from the main- land six months ago, shaven and apparently normal, first grew his hair long, then his beard, and now parades. the Piazza in straggling black beard and locks, hoping he * will be photographed. That's what Capri did to him. One oldgirl still plays her tambourine and' dances the tarantella--though she's eighty if she's a day.! | The island has a suicides' ceme- tery, well patronized by people who jump off the precipitous cliffs that yawn over the sea, cspecially -on Mount Tiberias. "An artist," Lucy Flanagan, who . won a travelling art scholarship at Boston, U.S.A, liked Capri so much that she refused "to go back homie and lived for thirty years in thes Hotel Webber, whose dining-room is still hung with her pictures, Only during her last illness did she ever visit the mainland. : When the news reached Capri that she had died in Rome, the local peasants raised a subscription to bring" her 'body back to her spiri-' tual home. But the cost of trans- porting the coffin proved too great, . so .they had her cremated, the urn being sent by parcel post more cheaply: -. Everyone, however, had forgotten that the Roman Catholic church disapproved of cremation. The local priest therefore refused to. bury her ashes, the local C, of E, representa- tive also refysed to perform the last rites because of the R.C. priest had been asked first. So for months the ashes. stood on a shelf until the priest relented to the extent of giv- ing her an unconsccrated burial, as if she had been 3 suicide. Visiting the many grottoes for which Capri is famous, Mr. Graves found that the most entertaining spectacle was a series of floating junk shops selling - postcards, coral necklaces, pocket knives, scarves, and so on. Entrance tg.the.celebra- ted blue Grotto--sixty yards long, thirty Wide sixty decp--was throngh a narrow opening so low that the boatman had to pull his boat in by a hawser, with himself and" passen- gers lying almost fiat on their backs. One visitor had dived into the fan- _tastically blue -water==which turned" to an- uncanny phosphorescence. when an oar dipped into it--and his body looked like a pale blue iega- tive, A lovely spot is the night club of the Hotel Caesar Augustus at Ana- capri, with pine, 'fig, and pepper trees and oleanders lit with conceal- cd lighting round the dance floor, "On_a breathless "Jude night with the perfume of jasniine in the air it. is a great place for lovers. 'I'he or- chestra is first-class and the singer _Js_as.gay.as-a-lark-as-he-sings--his--|- Neapolitan songs. With the full moon "overhead, a bottle of cham- pagne at the table and the crickets chirping, it is more glamorous than any scene out of Hollywood," writes Mr. Graves, in a first-class illus- trated book, "Italy Re-visited" which tells the traveller all he wants to know of the country from the Lakes in the north to Capri. : "Say," he- heardta Yank visitor ask, "are there any snakes on .this island" a. "Sure, replied a New York girl, "andsthey've "all .gét lovely villas." High Priced Fish $3,000 Per Pound Every morning a quiet bowler- hatted man enters Buckingham | "Palace" carrying a small leather bag full of fish food. Mr. Charles Schiller is. Curator of the 'Tropical Aquarium at the Palace, and tends the inch-long tropical fish, some - of them Amazon rarities worth le- tween $300 and $600 cach. Leaf fish that can give a remark- able imitation of a dead leaf, and hatchet fish, so thin as to be al- . most invisible, are among the royal favgrites. With a special powdered fish food containing fourteen in- gredients, plus English earthworms and tubifex worms, the fish feast royally. Three times a week, too, English water-fleas' are ;taken into Buckingham Palace as a nieans of giving the fish both food and: ex- erciseé, - -- . At one time Britain was strictly on the importing side of the tro- pical fish trade, but today British- bred tropical fish. are among. the dollar carners. A Barnet breeder who began with eight fish costing him $2.00,, bred $9,000 worth from of several dozen, for the fish breed < watch, the latter spend their lives « in an ostiilatory »daze, kissing: cach F aaaaemammnn a yy 1] this original outlay, Every year horns into fairground sideshows in Britain sends thousands of inch- the "nineties. Experts say that fish long guppies to America' by air at values are built up by distance. On up to $12.00 a pair. Buyers invari- one occasion, Charles Schiller ar- ably get a bargain. By the time | ranged the passage of a supply the pair arrive there is a family of sticklebacks to Australia, When they reached Melbourng, they fet- ched $3.00 each! "Among other stars of the tro- . Pee IE pical fish world are fan - tailed gold- in ape ERE EE fish, pugnacious Siamese fighting ; In political dis¢ussion heat is fish which kill cach other on-sight, 4 verse proportion and---their 'very reverse!--the: af- ledge." fectionate - kissing fish. Fun to very quickly, N --J..G. C, Minchin, to know- other far. hours at a time, Left: 10 himself, a kissing fish will: kiss his refleftion in a mirror! Not long avo, a British * expedi- tion went (0 Squth Aiherica in quest of new specimens and re- turned with a ten-pound catch esti- mated to be worth $30,600. © Among them was a "little fellow with a big name --- the Hyphessobrycon- Your Bahy's Shoes THRecsh ur 50 Tht that SOU can. ACO : Be Ts Yu that yon. vin Preserved the highly transparent glassfish, |- © in "which has to be watched very close- GLEAMING BRONZE ly to be seen. . or 3 The transparent fish trade, how- COLORFUL PEARL-KOTE ever, has nothing in common with Ash Tray, Book End and Pic- the "invisible Brazilian goldfish" ture-Frame Mounts, An ideal gift For descriptive literature and special which packed suckers and green- An 'everlasting reminder of baby's first toddling .steps . offer, write a THOMAS ENTERPRISES SALLY'S, SALLIES BOX 525, AMHERSTBURG, ONT. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 4 Ait "I met you just a8 month ago, Richy; but this makes me feel I've known you forever." _--= y Joey No Pal!--A South Korean soldier of the ROK First: » Corps, expresses his opinion-of-the political situation in general and Marshal Joseph Stalin in particular in sure terms. Trampl- «ing and ripping of the Red dictator's portrait took place in : Togwan, Korea ; Paper Work Yields Time for Beauty : MANY homemakers shrug their : hopelessly when they compare the well-groomed look of career women with their "~own ""thrown-together'" appear- shoulders: Tet ance. They tend to excuse themselves by pointing out the' emergencies that steal from.a housewife the been de- time that might' have voted to prettying up. No oné"who has ever kept house would deny - this, but there are ways in which to help, if not rem- edy, those 'situations that reach a climax with: the despondent wail, "If I only had time. .. .)" If you'd like to improve. your grooming, take a tip from business girls and start doing a little paper work. Keep a grooming list in the same way that you do your grocery list. J When you notice your Sunday shoes need re-soling, write a note to yourself so you won't be caught short the next time you .plan to If the button pops off your coat or your finger goes through the end of yout glove, add these items in nced of miend- wear them. Ing to your list also, It's best to keep a permanent place for these jottings, since loose scraps of paper tend to get mis- nptebook or a {4 school composition book will serve |" - placed. A small the purpose admirably, x Et Try keeping a calendar of your can be better planned. For this, use a day-to-day appointment book or even an ordinary wall calendar, { = This will eliminate-such emer- gencies as suddenly remembering on Tuesday afternoon that you've activities, too, so that your days!promised to bake a cake for the B CR RARE RI) AEE 50 INTE 0% FX This wise young homemaker keeps & oalendar of her activities, in order to eliminate emergencies that arise through lack of organiza- tion, Through planning, her outlook is more serene and her appearance. more beautiful, church supper that right, ments straight, qtoo. You'll avoid such pitfalls as accepting. an in- vitation to a tea on the same. after- noon that you'd arranged to_visit the dentist, p Having scheduled a busy day to allow herself ample time. for dressing, this young homemaker emerges from her home as well- groomed as any career ywoman, She gives hér purse a last-min- ute check-up (above).as a part of her beauty routine, -- you'll find that you have time to attend, those' lact-minute routines With such advance planning, [that add up to good grooming. IIL help keep your appoint- LAO ei ed | RINE py Ha BREE 1 AY t NERA Eg IEA Lf ve Ca re ® rr --- ie "gr