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But not 10 the home market, I'he pepper wis sald to America for 100,000 dollars, = ( picy profit ior the British Lax paves Speculators once tried to corner - the world's pepper stipply man honght "12,000 tons an oa year and they failed 10 find the necessary $3,000,000 cash thi Today's episis, however, when the Japanese overran Indo- uksia and uprooted the pepper vines in favour or shorg tere crops, Cn for purchase began Because the peppers plant takes front five 10 seven years to reach frmtful< naturity, the world has been living on ats reserves Pepper smuggling-hy air has be- come big business between Sumanra and Singapore. Chinese smugglers are cashing mon precious pickles put in hding the Whole families invested in berries as a Salt berore Wr, pickle mvestment, A Sumatra merchant stuffed a mat- tress with pickles has now exchanged the mutiress for a house and car. It's just. 330 vears since the Fast India Company's tirst <hip sailed to fetch pepper, and nutmeg from India, an expedition that proy- ed the first step towards the throne of 1 ndia. Mighty Rome itself--was means ol lid] cloves "once held to ransom for 27 cwt. of So It's pepper the care. handle! pepper with hat to pass ton hecommg Shoulder With A View -- This London lass solved her view problem without the aid of a periscope when the King and Queen of Denmark paraded through on their visit *o England. - | "The Bobby made a perfect re- viewing 'stand from which to watch the visiting royalty. Dying Getting Costlier Too Fiach year the American people spend more for funerals ($700,000,- 000) than for hospital care (come $513,000,000). A recent survey by sociologists | states that there are 25,000 under- takers in the country; 520 casket manufacturers; 'about 40,000 ceme- teries and 24 mortuary colleges where students take degrees in how fo wianage funerals. . Spectacular gangster funerals are evidently a Hollywood fabrication, "but notorious underworld charac- ters and some rich, respectable citi- zens ingist on being buried in coffins made of bronze. Al Capone was taken for his last ride in one. Coffins have a morbid fascination for some people. An eccentric Not- tingham man known as Ned Daw- son was a staunch Tory. He had his coffin made during his lifetime, and painted it true-blue--the Tory col- our. He used it as a cuphoard- for- twenty-three years, but once cach year, on the anniversary of his birth- day he dressed in his best clothes. and lay down in his coffin to see that its dimensions were still cor- rect. The coffin was then filled with food and drink and carried into each room of the house in turn on the shoulders of six of his friends. He followed it as chief mourner with a large jug of ale in his hand, The ceremony always ended with supper served on top of the coffin, Emperor Charles V of Prussia Iso rehearsed his own funeral. Fomb, coffin, black trappings, monks, servants, taper-bearérs--all were sttmmoned, and His Majesty caused himself to be carried on his own coffin, Not only did he hear his own re- quiem sung, but joined .in it him- self. His funeral rites were observed In reality soon afterwards. : Some people seem to -be deter: mined to make merry after they are dead, or at least afford their survivors the means of doing so. Herbert Foster left a bequest to a City Parish on condition that the church bells should ring a merry eal once a ycar, But there was a ark side to the picture, : The peal was to be rung on the anniversary of his wife's death, whereas a sombre tolling was to mark the anniversary of his wedding day! gv 'More Money To See The Circus ' ofa. Once when J, was thigh-high 10. had quarter of a dollar picking Toff onr potatoes at five cents 4 cupful, my father tonk a grass hopper and whale carned a potato-bugs me on his wide knee and told me how he carve los hrst. dolar Father was a small boy then, no bigger than 1 was that potato bug day. But he wore trousers down to his ankles, for that wus a lk 1g tine ago, just "a httle after 1lwy discovered gold in California, Fa- ther, with his. short legs, had wo hope of getting as far ds Cahors "mia and the gold. But soniething more exciting than. all the ore of the. Pacific Coast was going -to be nght in the next town, HIN miles awn vo onh It was the great Phiteas Barnum and show, Broad- Wity. My futher yearned so to po to that circus that he ached and he could not get his Saturday mornmg hulled-corn down, thongh it was covered with He would never have dared to mention to his father his thought of going to see such a wonder, so far away. "William, you have been a good boy all the Spring and lugged in your wood without being told, Here's a silver dollar for you to spend, You take the steam-cars and his fresh trom all over, molasses SO expensive, ~go tothe circus. And have a wool time." William found a shiny brand-new doilar in his hot hands almost as big as he was. ~ He had never had so much wealth in his hands before. He forgot even tq say "Thank you, sir." He grab- bed his hat and coat and bolted for Cousin Trustum's house. \Wil- ham never thought of having a good time without having Trustam along. } To see zebras and Tom Thumb and hear Jenny Lind sing was the Promised Land of Canaan. But to ride to them all on the steam-cars of the brand-new Portland and Ken- Let Bed Star ¥ ay In this bedroom, -- : SER BAA the spotlight of attention is thrown' upon _the bed, : } . : : 4 4 4 y ve ad 3 bp FA HEA 8 Sa TEAS Epi, $3 . 1 Shera RAR AMPLE BRIERE Se TRS PRN SVR SE TT REN A 1] . % [) 3 \ --4 DIES we A hk which gains importance because of ils handsome spread and a furniture gronping planned around ii. in Decorating Dramas By EDNA MILES ~~ OOK at the soom at left]. Like it? Chances are that ils of course, the bed. : Few homemakers realize th rugs and accessories. a sleck low headboard. bolster. on the wall above the bed. at the bed, too often thought of as a necessary hut unwieldy picce of furniture, can be the star attraction in a decorating drama; . 4 - One way, to "build" your room around the bed is' to cover it 'with a handsome and well-fitting tailored spread. clean lines and dark walls will win your approval at once. But what is the center of interest? The answer is, Whether you choose a feminine or masculine pattern, be " sure the colors tie in well with those chosen' for walls, Where. to put the bed, is the next question to arisc.© A plain wall, unbroken by windows or doors, can be ulilized as a particularly effective backdrop. For added dash to the overall decor equip the bed with \ Moderns also. favor a low roll To give the bed that close-to-the-floor look, choose night stands no higher than the headboard. To carry the eye upward, choose tall lamps for cach stand. These will not only provide illumination for read- ing in bed but will serve to frame a grouping of pictures At night, substitute: buoyant pillows for the bolster to ~ aid you in taking advantage of the comfort offered by your decorator-beautiful bed. nebec Railroad was hicaven itsseli, The dust of that slecpy, village street turned to a' baby cevclone as a little boy flew along on his bare | toes, Frostom's_ father could not bet outdone by Ins brother. -He fetched © cup a silver cartwheel from his jeans and gave it to his con "0 the two small boys ran hand m hand to the depot and the won- erful horse that snorted steam and sparks But my father stopped short just at the depot and dog his toes into the Summer dust. "Trustum, vou and nie are going to walk to Brunswick and save our dollar to spend all on Barnums!™ It was the dawn of genius. It was right then and there my fathen started being a man of wealth, -- From "Maine Doings" by Robert P. 'Iristram Coffin, iron They tell mie that there once was a Cookery Column conductor who took a vow that never again would she print a recipe for Strawberry Shortcake. She got through the first season without too much trouble: but when it came to the middle of June, the second year, -and «till no SS. recipe--well, something stoned to death by angry customers or just went and jumped off a cliff, I've never been able to find out. : ¥ * * But before paying tribute to an imexorable custom, 1 think I'll slip Cina little item, entitled "STRAW- BERRIES," which I clipped from the editorial page of The New York Times. 1 only hope vou enjoy it as much as 1 did. There is--an Indian Jegend that the Mighty One created the first strawberries to tempt. an Indian maiden running away from her husband after a quarrel. The ber- ries, says the legend, had to be so beautiful the maiden would stop to pluck them and so tasty she would forget her anger. So the Mighty One gathered sweet mist from the mountains, dew from the sweet grass, honey from the bee, colour from the red bird, bright speckles from the trout and beauty from_the hummingbird. The berries thus created stopped the angry --GHH= TABLE TALKS dane Andrews her sweetened maiden's thighs, temper and led to a legendary re- "conciliation. hie berries, of course, were wild ated -- arc in blossom now, gathering all the clements the Mighty One pro- vided in legendary days. Also in bloom are the tame berries which impatient wen have developed and provided for our gardens and dur tables. Some of them are as good asthe wild ones, and all of -them are much bigger. One gardener we know, uw senti- mental kind of person, some years _ago sought -out-afew wild ---straw-= berry plants and moved them into his garden alongside his domesti- cated strawberries. He didn't really expect the two varicties to set ex- amples for caéh other, though he hoped in a most unscientific way that they might. Instead, he now has two strawberry beds, one for cating and the other for tasting; and he thinks he is fortunate indeed. Which he is. Anybody is fortunate who has wild strawberries taming Garbed Godiva--A modern "Lady Godiva," wearing more clothes thari'the fabled lady of Covéntry, rides a golden palomino horse up to Los Angeles. Municipal Court *o defend herself against charges of doing an Indecent strip-tease. This "Lady Godiva"-- she refuses to use any 'other name--was nabbed by cops at a "Hollywood club. out thetr--hneat descendants themselves in "his pack yard and paying tribute ¢very June for that privilege. : And now for that shortcake. It can be made of rich, crisp pie dough or of hght, tender cake-- whichever you and your family pre- fer--amd, of course, topped off with the red berries with high piles of snow-white whipped cream. It you. happen to believe that the only proper shortcake is made from cake, use any simple cake recipe. But here is one you may like: STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt V4 cup sugar 6 tablespoons shortening + to I cup milk Sweetened - strawberries Whipped cream Method: Sift together Hour, salt, baking powder and--sugar. Cut or- rub in shortening, "Add milk to make a thick batter, stirring only until flour is well moistened. Spread in ungreased 9-inch layer cake pan. ~ Bake at 450 degrees Fo for 20 to 25 minutes. Cut into pie-shaped wedges. Split crosswise. Spread bot- tom layer Hghtly with butter or _margacine.. Cover with sweetened berries and replace top. Cover with more herries and whipped cream. Makes six servings. ¥ _ # * ' Most folks like chocolate dnd here is a change from the. usual chocolate pudding or pie. CHOCOLATE DUMPLINGS ~ Chocolate Sauce: 4 for one minute. "3 cup brown sugar v4 cup cocoa 1 tablespoon cornstarch "Dash salt 2 cups water 2 tablespoons butter or mar- garine Combine brown sugar, cocoa, cornstarch and salt in heavy skillet and stir in the water. Cook until mixture begins to boil and thicken ' slightly, stirring constantly, Add margarine. and mix well. Remove from heat while making dumplings. Chocolate Dumplings: 1 cup sifted flour teaspoons baking powder teaspoon salt cup sugar tablespoons cocoa tablespoons shortening egg cup milk teaspoon vanilla Sift together flour, baking pow- der, salt, sugar and cocoa. Add shortening, egg, milk and vanilla, Stir to blend ingredients, then beat Return skillet to heat -and bring chocolate sduce, to boil. Drop dumplings by spoonfuls on chocolate sauce. Reduce heat, cover and simmer gently for 20 minutes. Serve warm with cream. HNN -- Et La BNO NN Makes six dumplings. "of until the meat is done, Combine * » PICNIC LOAF ' 1 Pound ground pork 1 Pound ground smoked ham 2 eggs cups milk Cup minced 'onions Cup mificed Pimiento teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper cup brown sugar teaspoons dry mustard V4 cup vinegar Y4 cup water : Mix together the ground meat, eggs, breadcrumbs, milk, onion, pimiento, salt and pepper. Form into a loaf and place in a 10x5x3 inch loaf pan, Combine brown sug- 1 1% % 4 1 %- 1% ar and mustard: Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.) one hour vinegar and water and baste ham loaf as it bakes, Ten to 12 servings. This ham loaf packs well for picnic cup breadcrumbs 5 stravelling, Slice it thick for hearty picnic sandwiches. CHICKEN CASSEROLE cup fresh or frozen peas cup chopped carrots cup chopped celery cup chicken broth or chicken Bouillon tablespoons flour cups cooked chopped chicken ounces (Y4cup-raw) macaroni, cooked 107; oz. can of cream of chicken soup cup diced pimiénto cup sliced canned mushrooms teacpoon pepper teaspoon Worcestershire sauce cup grated sharp cheese No - -- NN NN ON -- -- NNN Ww -- - Nw WW Partially cook peas, carrots and celery. Thicken chicken broth with the flour. Combine all ingredients except 14 cup of the cheese, Pour mto a 1% quart casserole. Tap with remaining cheese and bake in a moderate dven (350 degrees FF.) 45 - minutes, Serves eight. Dead Rats Payment For Income Tax The whole thing® appears to have started in A.D.S, when, as the Bible tells us, "it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed" (Luke 2.1) --and, ever since, kings and chan- cellors have been cudgelling their brains to devise new methods of stinging the people, "For vears Briti<h Chancellors have toyed with the idea of taxing cycl- ists, but each has finally by-passed the two-wheeled brigade fpr fear ob losing 10,000,000 votes. Yet, in Vienna before the war, the author- ities imposed a tax of about a dol- lar on cach machine and swelled budget by over $1000,000. In the old Turkey, where the sul- tans were never satished with their wealth, new taxation had to be thought of every vear to fill their coffers. In the eighteenth century when collectors called on the local pasha they were given a free meal, ~ and one sultan -conceived-the idea of collecting "teeth money" for the ~ wear and tear of the officials' molarg , in masticating such meals! In the new Turkey. women were 'westernized- almost overnight, and officials, fecling that' make up and new fashions were sctting a bad example, promptly ordered - that teachers in girls' schools" be fined if they used paint, rouge or even powder. A tax was placed on the wearing of coloured finger nails, 'jewellery--and short skirts! There are numcrous precedents for new taxation, but chancellors must walk warily. Henry VIII tax- ed Dbeards--and beards vanished. Pitt placed a tax on hair powder and another on certain 'styles. of hats, and women defeated him by discarding powdered wigs and adopting new styles of headwear. Mitten were first worn only because leather gloves were heavily taxed. . In Belgrade the town council once imposed a "dissipation tax" of a4 penny for those who stayed on in first-class cafes after eleven, and a halfpenny in workmen's * cafes. This did not deter the customers from "dissipating," but provided a steady trickle into the Exchequer. In many Continental countries taxation of dogs varies with either weight or value of thé animal. In France you can keep a mongrel for a few shillings, but a pedigreed animal may cost $10 or 'more, In somé countries even the lordly cat is taxed. : " Entertainnient tax is by no means, new, for Charles II decreed that " "everyone who resorts to any of the playhouses and sits in the boxes shall pay one shilling, and everyone who sits in the pit sixpence, and *any others threepence." In Bombay, some time ago, the authorities .decided that, .defaulters could scttle their tax in rats--ten déad rats equalling one -rupee (20 cents). If Ottawa adopted this me- + théd it might. clear the country of a lot of vermin. But very likely some sharpshooter would start breeding rats, and cashing in on them, . by the oral method. to teach Maybe You Don't Read Fast Enough Few people read with the maxi- mum of comfort. How are vou holding this paper? If it is farther than "ten inches away from vour eyes, and your eyes are normal, the eye muscles are being strained, for the normal eye sees clearest at ten inches. : : How fast do Jou read? You are much more likely to grow tired if you read slowly. Exceptional people can read at a speed of 1,000 words a minute, but 400 to 500 words a minute is a good speed for efficient reading. The average adult reads at about 250 only, ce When you are reading how often do you move your eyes in the course of a line? Scientists have calcu- lated that most people fake a line of type in_six or eight "jumps." If you can learn to take it «in only three jumps you will read a great deal faster and with Jess strain on' the eye muscles, Reason why most of us read <o slowly is that almost every man and woman over 35 was tanght to read Our teachers made us read aloud tis how, to pronounce, Since we pronounced only one word at a time we learned to sce only one word at a time, . As a result, most of us read about half as fast as we should--and with twice as much muscular work for our eyes. Caught In The Act -- Perhaps" hoping to make his "coming- out" party a private affair, *he little fellow,..above, found that he was the center of attraction as he saw light of day for the first *ime in Perth. "Your true garden-lover lives 'in the present and for the future. There are no backward glances, except for the correction of faults." --C. B. Mortlock. : > { i i - (ieen Folks Scandalized By Awful Dance I he dreamy, aie Vanz the most popular of all was once described as an incitement to dances, sinful passion! born in Vienna as. an expression of reaction from 'the Napoleonic Wars -- just as jazz came ater the First World War and boogic-woogie after the last 'one. And the rest of Europe was scan- cahsed Germay spurned at as irh- Jt was moral and a book was published under phe hedty title of "A Proof that ~the Waltz is a Main Source of the Weakness of the Body and Mind of our' Generation." | Ihe dance reached England jn JES and there was a general out- cry of horror, "Flos fiend, destitute Oi grace, and propriety" one outraged conment., Feeling ran very high and it was uncommon thing when an delicacy Wols vot an ~ orchestra played a waltz tune for 'many people to walk out. . Joanmy Burney, the novelist, rais- ol her hands in delicate horror: at the thought of the daughters of Fuglish mothers with their partner's arms around their waists and re- terred in hushed tones to the way such freedom was encouraged and even returned by some females. Endangered Virtue Joth Church and laity agreed that it endangered virtue and that the homes of England -were in danger. Lord Byron shouted his de- nunciations. He wrote a poem called "The Waltz" and in it showed viv- idly the effects on a good husband who sces his wife with her arms hali round a man he had never seen before, and his arm more than hali- way round her waist, turning round "and round to a "damned sce-saw up and down sort of tune." And so, in good "society, the wallz was banned. Then the world shook when it Was whispered that a man named Strauss had actually played a waltz tune at Ruckingham Palace. SEE That was shocking cnough, but nothing to the shock received by the aristocratic guests invited to Queen Victoria's first State" Ball, when they actually saw, with 'their own eves, 'the young and lovely turn to her husband. and then glide away in his arms--to a waltz, ) The Queen's Ankles The whole Court was scandalised threrathe=Queen's ankles and calves had been visible to everybody, in- cluding the footmen and members of the orchestra. Her action set the seal on the waltz. No longer dare the aristocracy refer to it .as im- moral. _ It was Strauss senior, the father of. Johann, who conducted the. or- chestra on that historic occasion. Johann wrote the "Blue Danube," but by that time---1867=--the waltz was respectable. ee Strauss Ybody wanted a new waltz for every occasion and Strauss used to dash from cafe to cafe and from ball to ball to conduct the orchestras in cach new one he wrote and the strain eventually proved too: much for him. § + The waltz killed Johann, too, for he caught a chill after sweating from the exerfion of conducting a Its very popularity killed pere, for evéry ew waltz in Vienna and died from TiteeIR99 TT « [= ON THE SPOT A bus-driver was trying to inter- est passers-by in his sight-seeing trip at a holiday resort, when a quaint. figure came towards him. An elderly lady, tall and graceful, she wore a black lace dress that almost touched: the ground and barely re- vealed her old-fashioned buttoned boots. A crocheted cape hung over her shoulders, and a large black hat bobbed up and down with eich step. The bus-driver's eyes brightened. "Sce the - sights of the-- town," madam?" She said, with dignity, "I am one of the sights of the town,.! He Says No--Oscar-winner Jose Ferrer, testiying before fhe House Un-American Activities Committee, said that he wads never a Communist. He told the Hollywood Communism investigators that he had been a victim of "Communist big-name hunters."