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HER . i wratAd Bi TET, ad ¢ THY, , ' ; Bank Where Human | SHER, Eyes Are Stored Among the most recent offers of eyes that the New York Eye Bank for Sight Restoration has received is that of film actress Gene Tierney, who explained, in a letter bequeath- ing her eyes to the Bank, .that after her death she would like to be in: strumental in bringing the joy of sight to someone who is blind.' > This was a characteristic: gesture, for Gene Tierney is one of 'those rare people who has not allowed. : 15 screen fame to. go to her head. One wonders: what effect. it may have' on some child, perhaps blind from birth, or some adult whose - eyes areqinjured in an accident, sud- denly. to wake and find himself (or herself) gazing at 'the world through the famous and incredibly . beautiful eyes of 'Gene Tierney! "Will it mean a passport to fanie for "vv some otlierwise ordinary individual? The story of how New York's Eye Bank came about is. in itself an inspiring one, It begins.one sum- mer afternoon back in 1922, when Aida. Breckinridge, tired from a hard week "of selling bonds, was . _ sitting on the beach at Long Is- 3 : land, 'when a stabbing pain shot 3 ; through her eyes. Everything went blurred and dim, so she groped her way home and went to bed. Next morning, she went to a specialist. "You've got tuberculosis of the eyes," he told her. "I. can do nothing." 5 Soon -Aida's right, eye became completely blind and her left had 3 less than twenty per, cent vision. Tt was while she was depressed at the thought of goiitg completely blind that she met Lord Grey, who had : "cross the Atlantic -to cousult the" i ¥ . famous Dr, Wilmer. "In Europe : we consider Dr.- Wilmer one of the greatest eye specialists in the world," he told. her. Aida had never heard of him, but made 'an appointment with all possible haste. When she 'entered Dr. William- Holland Wilmer's tiny _ clinic he made a thorough "diagnosis: ther looked gluni. "Glau- a4 . .. coma," was his verdict "there is no I Se hope for your right eye. But if you Xs let me operate at once I 'can save CL SER RIL SR | TR | SER ha Ww ® - ; ing convalescence did some had thinking. Why, in a country like America, with all its vast resources, was the study of. Ophthalmology - so neglected? . Why no research ; clinics? When her left eye was safe again' she went to Wilmer and put to him the questions that had troubled her so. "To train eye doctors," he 3 explained, "would need hospitals voi] and staffs. To establish clinics for : research would" nced expensive SE equipment. How do you propose to : raise such vast sums?" - To Aida Breckinridge the matter "seemed simple. "The people whose sight you've Testored "must be grateful," she reasoned, "why not ask them for subscriptions?" Wilmer was horrified at so un- ethical a suggestion. . But Aida Breckinridge had other ideas. She 5 sought' out Wilmer's 'secretary, : made a list of his patients and" wrote to each, explaining her plan. The resflonse was startling. Then she wrote to multi-million- fight aire Andrew Mellon, renowned for his numerous. benefactions, When he" had investigated her project, he told her: "I'll give you 50,000 s ; dollars and my brother Avill donate : a similar sum." § Next, she tackled the Rockefel- lers who offered her 1,500,000 dol- ge lars if she could raise an equal amount. By 1929 she had raised 5,000,000 dollars and the "Wilmer Institute for training eye specialists i 7 -- was founded: ---- -- But Aida wasn't finished yet. In oe, 1944 she had another dazzling idea, Se A common type of blindness is duc - to injury of the cornea. Nearly twenty years before a famous Brit- ish surgeon had grafted z living' cornea on to a blind man--and so restored his sight. The operation t had since been performed in every orf SCL great hospital in the world, and : -Aida. Breckinridge got the idea of establishing an Eye Bank--where human eyes could be stored and used for grafting. . + The idea appealed to eye sur- geons, though they 'explained that eyes cannot be preserved almost in- definitely. The Tornea--must-be--re--- moved and grafted within seventy- 'two hours. But a woman of Aida's tenacity was not easily beaten, : Within a year, she had raised \ 4 enough to establish' and equip The\ ie Eye Bank, for Sight Restoration as. ¢ a branch of the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Today Bi ; 300 hospitals in the States co-oper- : age in her plan, r : So long as the cornea of an eye -8 LE ; is uninjured the Eye Bank can fi make use of it. The eyes of the blind, eyes that have been removed : . because of injury, the eyes of dead people--all can be used, provided te : the coriieas are intact, As soon as lean "the Eye Bank. bécare established, . : , 5; : offers~of eyes rained "in from all 4 Re "over America. Captdin Eddie Rick- ; * -enbacker,air ace of the First World $f . Wat, organized a rapid service to bring eyes from the farthest cor- ; ' 'ner of the country to New York. Seatiyt The Sightless Wait In spite of the numbers who be- 85 'queath eyes, there is always a long on queue of sightless people awaiting SAREE «coritéas. In 'one day as many as . "thirty-six "appeals for . eyes came from doctors, but Aida Breckin-. La - h ERY - ten feet at her widest heam.: Low stocked - "her . with . four - months' provisions, 'took © two . playful kittens" for company, and Aida bad the operation; and dur- | on their_haunches, wet and scared .|~ped on to the deck. "Had To Eat Lipstick (Also Face Cream In May, 1946, a young American, John Caldwell, was in Balboa, Panama, longing for the bride he had married on war service in Australia, 9,000 miles away. He tried to get a ship to Sydney, but ships were scarce. Very well, he would have to sail his own boat' across the Pacific. He knew :noth- ing of .sailing or navigation, but "with a little practice . (. 0 « 'He - bought *" a - sailing cutter, Pagan, twenty - nine-feet-long and -in the water, she was like a canoe with-a forty-foot. mast, "* "A Boxing Fish! He . tootled about the Perlas islands in Panama Gulf - until. he "got confidence." Then he headed out' on the figst thousand miles strefch to the Galapagos Islands. : The antics of those kittens ivith a.flapping fish which he landed were certainly entertaining. . They would jump viciously, growling for a tooth-hold.- With a violent flip the fish sent them bowling across the deck. Back they cane, creep- ing, cautious and crouching low, to pounce athwart the fish and cling for a few wild jumps before scurrying away again, spitting and tumbling over each other. But soon Caldwell had other things to think about -- his pitch- ing bunk, for instance, the rattle _ and clank of gear gone adrift in "a gale, the terrifying whine of the wind, the flash _ of lighting and crash of thunder: Scared, he put on" his life-jacket and squeezed the kittens inside it. But such confined quarters didn't please them; so he took. them out cut open an old-type=life-preserver, removed its cork floats, attached a string to two of them, and -at ) the end of each string tied a kitten by the hind leg. 4 Suddenly, , close on daylight, - came a sledge-hammer blow on the keel which hurled him to .the floor. "The cats yowl&d ~ There was a rattle of displaced gear and ~rending--- timbers, -- "like. Satan's-- |. pitchfork pounding the cabin." At first, he thought he had rin on to rocks; then he t'qught it was wha-' les. He finally discovered that he# had been hit by a gigantic tree which had been washed out to sea. -Big, Fat Stowaway So, baling fiercely, he ran for an. uninhabited islet of the: Perlas group, and grounded in the dark. ~The kittens swam out of 'the flooded hatchway into the cockpit, towing tlieir. cork blocks. . He tossed them on to the cabin, doused the headsails, made fast to the shore, then grabbed the kittens and towed -them to the beach. There they squatted back on CHRISTMAS SURPRISE for a little girl and her dolly! These identical ANNE ADAMS out- fits of blouse, skirt and reversible jumper-tops that jumpers in green wool with their tops lined in red and green plaid gingham. Dolly's ; pattern _has ruffly slip, panties---plus w= » real square-dancing costume! Simple sewing-- thrifty, too. When you choose fabrics for child's. outfit, add just half a yard of each fabric for dolly's matehing jumper set. These patterns have step- by-step directions, but if you're a beginner and feel the necd of some personal guidance on these or other ANNE ADAMS patterns, your local sewing center will help you. Child's Outfit, Pattern 4711, comes in Sizes 2, TT blitfon on are, $6 adorable. Girl's set is Pattern 4; 6,8, 10. Size "6-jumper-takes-1ig -yards-84-inch..- - 4711; Dolly's--is Pattern 4751. We made the plain wool, 3% yard 35-inch plaid gingham; blouse 1 yard 35 inch, Doll's Outfit, Pattern. 4731, is cut for dolls 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 inches. To match child's outfit, add 2 yard to each of above yardages. For other requirements, see doll pattern. Send TWENT-FIVE CENTS (25¢) in coins (stamps cannot be -accepted) for each pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE - NUMBER.. Mail your order-to Box 1-123 Eight ecnth Street, New Toronto, Ont. his cabin that he had himself to his bunk. The Hurricane i "There is only one: safe way. to . ride out a hurricane on a small ,boat: flat on your back, lashed to strap by the towering jungle -- "poor - little sea - weary blokes." On the island he repaired leaks, reset the damaged rudder post, pieced together -and patched the battered mainsail, and sailed . off again, undaunted. : And what's this, pray, "that has. smuggled aboard . without his noticing? _.-A_ big fat black rat! A stowaway. He didn't pitch it overboard, however, but built a little house for it to protect it from the kittens! ---- : + Later a huge sea-bird joined them. "A school of dolphin accompanied them all. the way across the Pacific, diving after .the flying fish the Pagan started up: He, the kittens and the rat fed on those that hit the sails' and plum- Each time he opened a tin it was a "lucky dip," for all 'the. labels had 'been washed off in the flooding before ke beached. » . ; At Caroline Atoll, beyond the Marquesas, he decided to part with the kittens. They'd had enough of sea-voyaging. With tears in his eyes, he left them in the care of natives, most of -whom had never seen a cat before. It was as well, for the next day he was hit-by a hurricane and so flung about in dogged, -and everything strapped down," he writes in a dramatic, forthright account of his great ad- venture, "Desperate-Voyage.," "But lying there strait - jacketed to a __mattress is, depressing; you always wonder what's going on = in the rest of the boat. You wonder if _ somewhere a leak is breaking, or a _ repair needs attention . , . " He knew something was seri- ously amiss "when Pagan broach- ed to and refused to come up into the wind. Great seas, ramming against ler beam, were. coming athwart her decks. She scudded before each tumbler, creaking loudly, lunged as though hit by a mammoth hand.: The boat could not take such punishment for long Dismasted > . Then 'he found. that she was dismasted. For something liké five months: -he had. sailed her through thick and thin. - Now, for 'another thirty-six days, he had: fo sail her udder jury rig fitted up in. a rough - and - ready way, as best he could. Weak irom starvation and lack of water, he even ate a lipstick and face: cream which he = had aboard, The cream left an oily taste in his mouth for hours, and made him slightly squeamish, but Height Of Production--In -the Republic, better known as Whi Byelorussian Soviet Socialist te Russia, these peasants: are almost completely hidden by the tall wheat that will soon be harvested. The chief wheat-producing section of the Soviet Union is the Ukraine, with its famous belt of black soil. This Soviet ridge and the Eye Bank Supplied Lad itheme alles oy rot iE! Ld /{ eat Al © methods "have greatly increased the arable area of ° Russia's marshy land. oto, however, attests to the fact that modern drainage + White inthe bunk with ports and hatches | < at least the inner twistings of hun- ger ceased, and he was at peace. He managed to spéar-a sea-bird which alighted on the sternpost, coated it with machine oil, put it on the fire, and gobbled it for breakfast: Cutting the upper out. of an old army shoe, he made an effort to chew the tongue. But it was too tough cven to be dented, so he soaked it in salt water, beat it to "tenderize" it, greased it with hair-oil, and- fried jf It only turned black and was just as .incdible; so he boiled the whole shoe in bis precious water . ration, drank the "soup," cut the leather into strips and swallowed them whole to have something un- der his belts to allay the terrible hunger, - ~ : Dreams and New Faith At night he dreamt hé was in a monster grocery store, running berserk among corridors of food. Once he dreamt he was wrecked on a beach, and happy. A huge grey whale. had been _stranded-- there. Re He grabbed it by the tail and began cating it alive -- then woke up, clawing and growling at his bunk boards. All the time he had to pump the bilges to keep Pagan afloat; and now he had 10 compass or navigating instruments to guide him. : -- "Strangely," he says, "I never once really believed 1 was going to die. However, I will admit T used often to stare stolidly over the rest- less floor of blue ocean and ask, 'Am T going to perish alone out here on the sea?" If I thought of "death seriously it.is because I toyed with an idea new to me. It never depressed me. MP desire, my | strength to go on living, was too strong . . . . My new faith in God and prayer -- thus my new faith in. myself -- made life «something I wanted badly enough, like want- ing- to see Mary," 3 : After 6,000 Miles And eventually he did sce her! After six thousand miles of it he made ga coral reef off Tuvutha, in the Lau group of the Fiji Is- lands, lived native for a time, then reached Suva and Nandi, and flew from there to Sydney by Army bomber. g "I remember. her coming toward me -- and I believe I moved to -~meet'her, . For a second I saw her unfathomable blue eyes . . . . then she was in my arms and a thousand dreams had come true. My trials on the:sea were far away , ,: I was back with the one pgrson who counts in this world." A. great, 'simple story. It is impossible to read it without catch- ing-one's breath and rejoicing at the ultimate" deliverance. SEVENTY « EIGHT - YEAR - OLD Jénnie Culbertson Powers of Philadelphia has attended church -cvery Sunday for seventy-five years, a City Of Flowers Fruits And Perfumes A more old-fashioned city than Camies or other more centres along the sea, Grasse lives by its own industry rather than its hospitality. Beyond its ald walls rises the smoke of modern industry, for Grasse- is manufacturer of per- fume. It is soft unobtrusive smoke, --with-a reek of decaying roses, melt- ing away into a pure atmosphere The life of the town goes on at foot pace, in its old human pattern, unmarked qvith the geometrical speed of wheels. . . Below in the: market place lies the garden harvest of the country- side. ) 3! "The fruits rise in pyramids-- coloured like butterflies=full bas- kets of oranges--and branches of cherries," said Aubanel, It another feast, but the market on a. May morning is not different. 'touristic | was of' a {! In last week's column I gave a while it undoubtedly belongs right up at the top of the list, might possibly 'be just a trifle tog am- bitious for a lot 'of home cooks. . So'now here is a simple type of Fruit cake which doed' not need + sort requires, and yet will prove to bea fine answer to-the question of what to serve during the festive 'season. Quantities given make two 9 x 4 x.3 inch loaves, RAISIN FRUIT CAKE cups seeded raisins tablespoons grated lemon rind tablespoon cinnamon tablespoon allspice cups liquid : cups chopped nutmeats cups_sifted cake flour teaspoons double "acting 4 2 1 -- 204 2 4 5 2 teaspoons salt 114 cups sugar ', 14 cup butter or shortening 2 eggs, well beaten 2 teaspoons vanilla METHOD; Combine raisins lemon rind, spices and water in a saucepan, Cover and simmer gently for eight minutes. Drain, pressing. out. as much liquid as" possible. Measure liquid and add water or coffe¢ to make one and one-half cups, and reserve. Grind raisins with nutmeats. . .. Sift flour once, measure and add baking powder, salt and sugar; sift three times. Cream butter' thorough- ly, and add flour mixture, eggs, vanilla and reserved liquid. Stir until all flour is dampened. Beat vigorously for two mmutes, = Add raisin-nut mixture and mix thor- oughly. Turn ito two 9xix3 Inch loaf pans which have been greased, lined with brown paper and then greased again. Bake in a moderate (350 deg.) oven for one hour and 15 minutes, or until done. Let stand five minutes on cake rack, then remove from pan, leaving paper at- tached until ready to: serve. Cool. tin container to kéep moist. *The liquid may be water.or left- - over coffee. + - > % These Santa Claus Cookies are \. a réally tasty concoction of - nuts and.dates, and if stored in a 'tightly covered" container--and safey liid- den' away from youthful hands-- will _keep moist for quite a time. I'm suré you'll enjoy them. SANTA CLAUS COOKIES (Make8 30 balls) - 1 cup butter cookie crumbs 14 teaspoon salt ' 14 teaspoon baking powder 13-cup-sifted-all-purpose-flour ------ 1 cup finely chopped, pitted dates 3 1 cup nut meats, chopped T4 cup sugar : 2 eggs, beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla . %4 cup confectioners' sugar METHOD: Combine cookie crumbs, salt, baking powder and flour. Add dates: and nuts-- Add sugar gradually to beaten eggs. Blend in cookie crumb mixture and vanilla." Bake jn a greased aid floured ninc-inch * square pan and bake in a slow (325 deg.) oven for 30 minutes. While still warm, cut into 30 squares. Roll each square into a ball, turning the top, crusty portion inwards as you roll. Place confectioners' sugar in a bag. Shake the balls in the sugar to coat even- - ly. ~-- a "Sunburned - peasant women-. are "a . « FH H ¥ v M "Q > H y 1 a . . weighing cherries, selling artichokes After reading the column in tied in bunches like radishes, and measuring out the mountain honey, . Around them are, buckets of roses, iris, wallflowers, bridal-wreath, pinks. At one end of the square is 'the merchant of pottery with cups and saucers, earthenware pots and cruches spread out on the walk before him. . . . "Sweet cherries, Madame, three francs a kilo," says a tall sparé woman, dressed in black. Nearby on a box sits her husband, cating the big pink cherries. \ "One kil, please," says her cus- tomer, peasant woman. "If you shouldn't like them it would be a pity.to spend the money." ©. 2 A loud blast is blown on a horn; 'every one stops to listen. 'The town ceier announces at length that a market" basket has been lost; con taining green peas; leeks, radishes, and a pair of scales. Whoever finds the basket should 'return it to the town hall, . . . In the middle ages Grasse was an iidependernit republic like: the Italian cities of the gpoch. She was wealthy and industrious, she had a bishop and a cathedral. The Sara. cens came, the 'Grassois heroically, 'but. the city was cap- tured _and pillaged in 972. One of her alleys, the stréet without fear, or La Rue Sans Peur, is so called i memory of the courageous fash- ion in which the Grassois once de- fended their .icty. hoes The foreigner finds. himself. of little importance in Grasse. The old town. is pre-occupied with her flowers, and the distillation of the flower essence which she sells to the great perfumers of Paris.--Froni. "Beyond th€" Riviera," by Helena Maxwell, __"No, taste them first," says the fought which I told how to make dough- nuts of the "Down Fast" variety, a relative asked why I hadn't also included a recipe for another great favorite with countless thousands --the glazed- potato sort. So here Joes. GLAZED POTATO DOUGHNUTS 1 cup lukewarm water 1" cake yeast recipe for a Christmas Cake which, .' the, ageing which the "traditional" - baking powder > Wrap ina clean cloth anid store fu ABLE TA dane Andrews, "frost 2 ayers generously, 1 cup mashed potatoes 14 cup sugar ! 1 cup fat : 1 cup scalded milk 2 eggs, beaten Flour : i METHOD: Dissolve yeast cake in lukewarm water, Mix all ingred+ ients in "the order listed, -and .add enough flour so dough will not stick -to fingers. Cover add let rise _ until "doubled in bulk. Roll out on floured 'board about - 35-inch thick. Cut with doughnut cutter. and_ allow to rise until doubled in 1. size, about 1 hour, Fry in deep hot fat. Dip in following sirup and al- low to .drain on absorbent paper, Sirup: Boil 2 cups sugar, 4 tea- spoon cinnamon and 1 cip cold water for 5 minutes, or just.before it spins a thread. ¢ ' * * ¥ Now, to conclude, here is what will be the answer to many a house- wife's prayer--a very choice white icing which is easy to make, yet will not turn to sugar. You cafi™ make a batch of it and, if you don't use it all on the cake or cup cakes you're making ,you can put the - balance in the refrigerator or other cool place, and use it at a later: date. ; 17 BOILED WHITE FROSTING 2 cups sugar Ya cup light com sirup Ya cup water 2 egg whites d 1 teaspoon vanilla ; METHOD: Cook Sugar, sirup and water together, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Boil without stirring to 244 deg. T. (or until sirup forms a rather firm ball when tested in cold water). Pour thls sirup slowly over the stiffly beaten egg whites, - beating constantly, - Continue beating until mixture holds its shape. Add vanilla, : This frosting will keep in & covered jar in a cool place. If {¢ becomes hard on standing, add a very small amount of hot watoe and beat well. Makes enough to Gloomy Talk Won't Build A Community Canada would be a happier, healthier and safer country for fue ture generations if we had fewer great cities and far nore prosper ous towns. But we are not going to get very far, at least in building up the towns, unless many business leaders 'in these smaller places sharply chaige their tunes and get a little more faith in their own conmmunities. - In its "Canadian Sample" the Midland (Ontario) Free Press Herald makes this charge: "Very often he (the visitor) finds that the majority of merchants' would rather grouse than do anya "thing else. They suggest-that busl- ness is as good as it might be, that . the industrial outlook is gloomy, "that it is_not like the good old days, "There are exceptions, and when there are enough of them, you find an exceptional town or city. : "But unfortunately too often the grousers, who watch Toronto or some other neighboring city or town growing. at what they think "is a faster pace than his municipal- ity, are in the majority." That attitude on the part of local busimessmen can ruin the. growth chances of even the best situated town, Sometimes visitors are look= ing for a likely place to set. up a new business, or they know some-', one who is or will be looking, Sometimes they may represent a financial institution interested in investing funds, One doesn't nced to be told what their opinion will he of Blankville's future after Main Street's pessimists are through with . them. From "The Financial Post." % funds. All a student must do to a piece of paper and Saved By The "Buck-Board"--David Riggs of the YMCA at the University of Kansas stands before the "Buck-Board" which he runs for the benefit of stiidents who are temporarily short of to borrow a bucks sign his name put it where the dollar was.