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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940
“The Name
Is Familiar—
BY
FELIX B. STREYCKMANS
and ELMO SCOTT WATSON
‘IPs the Bunk!*
•‘IT’S just a lot of bunk,” is a
* phrase that owes its existence
to a debate that occurred in the
house of representatives in 1820.
This is not to imply that congress
was free from “bunk” before that,
by any means, but the words
“bunk,” “bunkiim” and "buncombe’*
originated during a debate over the
famous Missouri Compromise.
Felix Walker, a North Carolina
mountaineer, represented the West
ern North Carolina district which in
cluded his own Buncombe county.
While everyone else was demanding
a vote, Walker wanted to make a
speech. His political friends tried
Madison S Yancey
Y-BUNCOMBE
Haywood) ^\\\* (
McDowell
Henderson
to stop him but he insisted on mak
ing a long, pointless harangue de
claring his constituents would be
disappointed if he didn’t say some
thing for "dear old Buncombe.’’ The
word came to mean humbug or in
sincere talk. —
And Buncombe county was named
for Edward Buncombe, a wounded
colonel of the Continental army who
died in Philadelphia in 1780. Thus,
the man whose name is used to des
ignate claptrap had nothing to do
with it and had been dead 40 years
when the word came to have its
present meaning.
* • •
Nicotine
N ICOTINE is a common word but
Jean Nicot, French diplomat of
the 1500s, after whom it was named,
is little remembered.
He studied in Paris, was a court
ier to Henry II and envoy of Francis
II to Lisbon in 1560. While in Spain,
he obtained the seeds of the tobacco
plant from a Dutchman who brought
them from Florida. Nicot returned
to Paris with
these seeds and
became responsi
ble for the intro
duction of tobac
co to France.
But the word
nicotine comes
from the scientif
ic word for the
species of the 45
plants and shrubs
from which nico
tine is derived.
They are called
Jean Nicot Nicotiana plants
and that is the word coined directly
from Jean Nicot’s name.
Not all of the Nicotiana plants and
shrubs are used for smoking—some
of them are beautiful annuals and
perennials with attractive flowers.
All varieties bear nicotine which is
used to kill insects and only the
genus Tobaccum is used by smokers
—to kill time.
Why the Nicotiana plant was
named for Jean Nicot who brought
it to France instead of the Dutch
man who brought it to Nicot can best
be explained by the fact that Nicot
wrote a French dictionary at the
time and merely gave himself a
break.
Marcel Wave
LTHOUGH marcel seems to be
the perfect name for the wave
in a woman’s hair, it was chosen
only because it was the name of the
man who invented the first success
ful one. But his name was Francois
Marcel Grateau, so some thought
must have been given to the way
the word would sound or his middle
name would not have been chosen.
Francois was
born in 1852 near
Paris and his fa
ther was a stone
mason. His moth
er’s lovely nat
ural wavy hair
was the admira
tion of all her ac
quaintances and
the inspiration for
her son to put all
his effort toward
inventing an iron
that would imi
tate it.
In 1886, he succeeded and women
flocked from all over Europe and
England for his marcel wave. Only
10 years later, he retired from active
hairdressing, the acknowledged ben
efactor of his profession.
He lived for 39 years more, how
ever, and died at his home, Chateau
Thiel, near Paris, in 1936, at the
age of 84. Yet when he took up an
apprenticeship in his father’s trade
of stone masonry he was made to
give it up because they said he
wasn't healthy enough!
There is another and even greater
paradox in his life: He was also
discharged from his job in a beauty
shop as a young man because the
proprietor said he was not suited to
that type of work!
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CHOCOLATE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE AN UNUSUAL DESSERT
v (See Recipes Below) •
Spring Menus
Planning meals can be fun, if
you’ll let your imagination and your
conscience be your guides! Meal
planning does require imagination
and a bit of originality, too, if you
don’t want the responsibility of three
. meals a day to be
a bore, and three
meals a day with
out that touch of
"something’’ dif-
, ferent can be bor
ing—to you as
well as to your
family! A meal
may be properly
and carefully
"balanced” from the standpoint of
proteins and carbohydrates and vita
mins and minerals—and still be a
drab and uninteresting affair.
That seems to be particularly true
in spring, when appetites are likely
to be jaded, and you seem to be
running out of menu ideas. And
that’s exactly the time to try some
thing different, a little trick to add
newness and interest to soups;
a tasty and unusual meat dish; and a
salad 1 or dessert that makes use of
some of the refreshing spring vege
tables and fruits.*
Just for variety, for instance, when
I want to serve hot soup as the first
course of a meal, I combine > equal
parts of canned consomme and to
mato juice, simmer the resulting
mixture for about 5 minutes with a
bay leaf for flavor, and serve it
very hot with a spoonful of salted
whipped cream sprinkled with
chopped chives or green onion tops.
And I serve green onions and crisp,
succulent radishes in place of the
relishes I’ve used all winter. I use
rhubarb for sauce or for dessert,
just as soon as the price comes down
within reach of my budget; I shred
young carrots, or cut them in thin
slivers, and cook them with an equal
amount of onion, sliced fine; drain
them and season with salt, pepper
and butter. Or I cook carrots and
potatoes together and mash them
just as I would for mashed potatoes,
to serve with the rich brown gravy
of a pot roast.
Here are three spring menus that
I like. >
Menu No. 1.
Corned Beef Hash Patties
Spring Vegetable Salad
Hot Corn Bread
Rhubarb Dessert
Menu No. 2.
Steak Roll
Mashed Potatoes and Carrots
Cabbage and Green Pepper Salad
Hot Rolls
Chocolate Upside-Down Cake
Menu No. 3.
Economy Bridge Menu
Porcupine Meat
Balls
Potatoes au Gra-
tin
Grilled Mush
rooms
Nut Bread
Plum Jelly
Mixed Green Salad
Rhubarb Tarts
Corned Beef Hash Patties.
1 16-ounce can corned beef hash
% cup chili sauce
8 slices bacon (cut in halves)
Place can of corned beef hash in
refrigerator and chill thoroughly.
Open can at both ends. Push corned
beef hash out of can, slicing it in
%-inch slices. Place slices in but
tered baking pan. Place 2 teaspoons
chili sauce on top of each slice and
top with two half slices of bacon.
Bake in a moderately hot oven (400
degrees) for 10 minutes or until
•corned beef hash slices are thor
oughly heated and bacon is crisp.
Johnny Cake or Corn Bread.
(Makes 1 Johnny Cake)
or
(12 Com Meal Muffins)
1% cups yellow (or white) com
meal (uncooked)
% cup general purpose flour
V\ cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon soda
IVfe teaspoons baking powder
1 egg
1V4 cups sour milk
3 tablespoons butter (melted)
Mix and sift dry ingredients into
mixing bowl. Combine beaten egg,
sour milk and melted butter and add
to dry mixture. Stir lightly and
pour into greased shallow pan, muf
fin tins or com stick pans. Bake in
a hot oven (425 degrees) for 25 min
utes.
Steak Roll.
(Serves 6)
1 slice round steak (V4 inch thick)
2 tablespoons butter
Vz lb. ham (ground)
V\ cup thin cream
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
Salt and pepper
% cup bread flour
1 cup canned tomatoes
Wipe steak with damp cloth. Melt
butter in frying pan and brush over
one side of steak. Mix together the
ground ham, cream, and mustard,
and spread over buttered side of
steak. Roll like a jelly roll and
secure with skewers or string. Sprin
kle roll with salt and dredge with
flour. Saute in remaining butter un
til golden brown. Remove roll to
baking dish. Add tomatoes to fat
in skillet and heat to boiling. Pour
this tomato mixture over the roll;
cover with a lid and bake in a mod
erately hot oven (350 degrees) for
1% to 1% hours, or until tender.
Chilled Rhubarb Dessert.
For an extra-special fruit dessert
try the following: To one pound of
rhubarb (cut in %-inch pieces) add
1 cup sugar, V\ cup orange juice and
I tablespoon grated orange rind and
cook in a double boiler 30 minutes
or until tender. Serve cold.
Rhubarb Cream Tarts.
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups rhubarb (diced)
1% cups sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 eggs (separated)
Vx cup thick sweet cream
% teaspoon salt
Melt butter, add rhubarb, and 1
cup of the sugar. Cook slowly for
about 10 minutes
or until the rhu
barb is soft. Com
bine remaining
fourth-cup of sug
ar with the corn
starch, the well
beaten egg yolks,
cream and salt.
Add to fruit mixture and cook until
thick (about 3 minutes). Pour into
bake tart shells. Top with meringue
made from the 2 egg whites, beaten
stiff, with 4 tablespoons sugar beat
en in. Bake in a slow oven (300 de
grees) until brown (about 18 min
utes).
Chocolate Upside-Down Cake.
1% cups cake flour
% cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
Vx teaspoon salt
1 sq. bitter chocolate (1 oz.)
2 tablespoons butter
% cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Vz cup broken nut meats
Topping.
2 tablespoons cocoa
Vz cup brown sugar
\z cup granulated sugar
Vs teaspoon salt
1 cup boiling water
Sift and measure the flour. Then
sift flour, % cup granulated sugar,
baking powder and salt together into
a mixing bowl. Melt together the
chocolate and butter; mix with the
milk and vanilla. Stir into the dry
ingredients. Add nuts and blend
thoroughly. Pour into a well-greased
deep layer-cake pan.
Topping.—Now mix together the
cocoa, brown sugar and the % cup
granulated sugar and salt. Spread
this over the top of the cake batter.
Over all pour the cup of boiling wa
ter and place in a moderate oven,
(350 degrees) to bake 1 hour.
This is a rich chocolate cake with
a chocolate sauce underneath. Turn
it out for serving. It is best served
slightly warm with whipped cream,
Porcupine Meat Balls.
(Serves 6)
1 pound beef (ground)
IVz cups rice (uncooked)
% cup bacon (diced)
1 tablespoon onion (minced)
I tablespoon green pepper
(chopped)
Vz teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
1 No. 2 can tomatoes
Mix all ingredients thoroughly in
order given. Form into small meat
balls. Place in greased baking dish
and cover with tomatoes. Cover bak
ing dish. Bake approximately
hours in a moderate oven (350 de
grees).
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IMPROVED
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S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Dean of The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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Lesson for April 28
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
ISAIAH COMFORTS
AN AFFLICTED PEOPLE
LESSON TEXT—Isaiah 40:1-11.
GOLDEN TEXT—God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in trouble.—
Psalm 46:1.
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"Comfort ye, comfort ye my
people, saith the Lord,” knowing as
He alone can the great heart sob
of sorrow, pain, and disappointment
which arises to Him from His
people everywhere. No study of
God’s Word which omits His tender
word of comfort is in any sense com
plete. No. teacher or preacher who
fails to bring that message to his
people is declaring the full counsel
of God. No more appropriate pas
sage could be chosen for presenting
that truth than Isaiah 40.
The prophet spoke to a people who
were experiencing the bitter treat
ment of their enemies. They were
facing the devastation of their coun
try and the deportation of its people
into captivity. In such a desperate
day one might say that there could
be no true word of comfort, but
there was, and that word may well
encourage us to look up in this our
confusing day. The Comforter of
Israel is ready to be our comforter.
I. The Source of Comfort (w. 1-5).
"God is our refuge and strength”
(Ps. 46:1). "Behold your God” (Isa.
40:9). "Comfort ye, saith your God”
(v. .1). He is “the God of all com
fort” (II Cor. 1:3). The astonishing
thing is that mankind is so prone
to seek comfort elsewhere, turning
to God only when everything else
fails rather than going to Him first
of all.
His comfort is abiding, for it rests
on a removal of the source of all
pain and sorrow, namely sin. The
day of Judah’s comfort is to come
when her "iniquity is pardoned”
(v. 2). That is also the first step
for us to take in seeking comfort,
to repent and forsake our sin, seek
ing pardon in Christ.
The one who brings us God’s com
fort is Jesus Christ. Verses 3 to 5
speak of His coming. John the Bap
tist was the voice and it was Jesus
for whom the way was to be pre
pared (see Luke 3:4-6). Jesus is
the Lord Jehovah, God Himself, the
Son of God, and the bringer of God’s
comfort to men’s troubled hearts.
It is He who is revealed in this pas
sage in all of His glory and grace.
II. The Need of Comfort (w. 6-8).
Man thinks he is great, wise, pow
erful and able to take care of him
self. William Henley expressed it in
his "Invictus,”
"I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.”
But God says, "Man is as grass,”
and declares that when "the spirit
of the Lord bloweth” on him he
fades and withers. We know that
God’s witness is true. Boast as hfe
will in the hour of prosperity and
strength, man knows in his heart
that when he faces the real issues
of life he is utterly impotent, needy
and undone. Gerald Massey spoke
more truly than William Henley
when he said,
"Surrounded by unnumbered foes
Against my soul the battle goes!”
The man who has come to the end
of himself and who realizes that
there is neither in him nor in his
fellow mortals the strength to meet
life’s struggles is ready for the min
istry of God in Christ, forgiving,
cleansing, strengthening and com
forting. He has come to realize that
"the grass withereth, the flower fad-
eth, but the word of our God shall
stand forever” (v. 8).
III. The Way of Comfort (w. 9-11).
Good tidings were proclaimed
even in that dark hour of Judah’s
history. We have good .tidings for
our day as well. Let us declare
them from the mountaintops. Lift
up your voice with strength and do
not be afraid! Here is something
to shout about, "Behold your God!”
The prophet’s holy enthusiasm had
two excellent grounds. First, he
tells us that God is strong. He "will
come with strong hand, and his arm
shall rule for him.” jHere is com
fort with assurance because God is
strong. He is also loving and ten
der. His strong arm is used to gath
er the lambs to His bosom and to
tenderly lead His sheep. Gentleness
is the attribute not of weakness but
of strength. God’s strong men and
women are His gentlemen and gen
tlewomen. They, like their Lord, are
loving and kind, using their strength
not to destroy or to impress others,
but to help the weak, to bring com
fort in the name of Christ.
Faith of the Future
The faith of the future, like the
faith of the present aftd the faith of
the past, will in its essence be sim
ple. It will be faith in the goodness
of things—faith that the world is
governed for good.—Sir Francis
Younghusband.
Everlasting Light
The sun shall be no more thy light
by day; neither for brightness shall
the moon give light unto thee; but
the Lord shall be unto thee an ever
lasting light, and thy God thy glory.
—Isaiah 60:19.
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4-* Ruth Wyeth Spears
-PAD WITH COTTON
BATTING BASTED TO
MUSLIN
■REMOVE MAGAZINE
^HOLDER OR ARM
'T'HIS chair, now so smart in its
A sateen cover, button tufting
and moss fringe trimming, barely
escaped the trash burner. It had
been such .a comfortable chair
that everyone hated to see it go.
Sis said it was out-of-date and pos
itively untidy. Someone suggest
ed it might be covered. Mother
said that wouldn’t be a bad idea
if it could be padded first! That
gave Sis a brain wave. Why not
tuft it? By pushing a long darn
ing needle back and forth through
the cover, padding and openings
in the wicker? She had been
wanting a tufted chair, so work
began at once.
The sagging arm rest, maga
zine holder and frayed-out wicker
around the legs were removed.
The chair was padded and cov
ered, as shown, and a new seat
cushion was added. The tufting
was done by sewing through tight
ly with heavy carpet thread; add
ing a button on each side of the
stitch.
NOTE: Detailed directions for
changing an old iron bed into the
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A General Quiz
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Also Live Well
Such as are thy habitual
thoughts, such also will be the
character of thy soul—for the soul
is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it,
then, with a continuous series of
such thoughts as these—that
where a man can live, there, if
he will, he can also live well.—
Marcus Antoninus.
O-Cedar It, lady!
Then you WON'T raise clouds
of dust when YOU dust
Once upon a time the family joked about
Mom or Sis chasing the dust around. Now,
when they dust, they pick up the furry dusty
stuff; it STAYS in the doth. You add a dash
of genuine O-Cedar Polish to dustcloth ot
mop, let it season a bit, and now your dust-
cloth picks up and keeps the dust. Ask foif
MOPS, WAX, DUSTERS, CLEANERS AND
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1. What official of a national
political convention is called the
keynoter?
2. What First Lady was re
ferred to as "Lemonade Lucy”?
3. Is the bark of the dog natural
or a development?
4. Is the Finnish language a
Scandinavian tongue?
5. What are the reflections on
water made by moonlight called?
6. What is the oldest continuous
ly inhabited community in the
United States?
The Answers
Again Wounded
When time has assuaged tho
wounds of the mind, he who un
seasonably reminds us of them
opens them afresh.—Ovid.
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Any man may make a mistake;
none but a fool will persist in it.—
Cicero. ;
1. The temporary chairman.
2. Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes,
who substituted lemonade for
wines and spirits in serving at the
White House.
3. The bark is an artificial de
velopment. After becoming domes
ticated dogs began barking.
4. No, it is more directly related
to ^Japanese, Turkish and Mongo
lian.
5. The shimmerings are known
as moonglades.
6. It is believed to be Oraibi,
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THE CIGARETTE THAT SCORES
WITH ME IS SLOWER-BURNING
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IS IMPORTANT TO ME. IT MEANS
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—AND EXTRA SMOKING
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Uls
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