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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940
“The Name
Is Familiar-
BY
FELIX B. STHEYCKMANS
and ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Smithsonian Institution
* I 'HE Smithsonian Institution in
Washington bears the name of
an Englishman who never had set
foot on American soil but who left
his entire fortune to establish in this
country what was destined to be*
come one of the greatest storehouses
of scientific knowledge in the world.
James Smithson, bom in 1765, was
the natural son of a widow, Eliza*
beth Keate Macie
and Hugh Smith-
son, an English
country squire.
During his boy
hood and college
years he bore the
name of James*
Lewis Macie, but
after he was ad
mitted to the Roy
al society and had
won some fame
as a scientist, he
applied to the . _ ...
crown for per- James Smithson
mission to take his father’s name.
This was granted in 1802 and there
after he was James Smithson. How
ever, his father’s title as duke of
Northumberland went to his half-
brother, Lord Percy.
Because of the bar sinister on his
name he never married. He hated
the monarchial system and left Eng
land to make his home in Gerioa,
Italy, where his life of tragic frus
tration ended in June, 1829. When
his will was opened it was found
that he had left a" fortune of more
than half a million dollars “to the
United States of America to found at
Washington, under the name of the
Smithsonian institution, an estab
lishment for the increase and diffu
sion of knowledge among men."
Why did he do it? That is one of
the unsolved mysteries of history.
Once he wrote, “My name shall live
in the memory of man when the ti
tles of the Northumberlands and the
Percys are extinct arid forgotten.'*
That may afford a clue!
• • •
Bowie Knife
•DICTIONARIES say a bowie knife
is a stout, straight, single-edged
hunting knife. But more than a
hundred years ago, when hunting
knives were more important as a
means of self-preservation, a Bowie
knife was known as “the kind that
Jim Bowie carries."
History is not certain as to who
invented the knife, but there is no
question that it
was named after
Colonel Jrimes
Bowie, a native
of Tennessee.
There is a story
that Bowie thrust
his butcher knife
into an attacking
Indian and his
hand slipped
down over the
blade, cutting it
severely.
_ _ . However, it
James Bowie W as the Indian
who failed to heal up, not Bowie, and
at his first opportunity Bowie had a
hunting knife made to order with a
guard on it. Soon after he began to
carry it he was attacked by three
desperadoes and killed all of them
with his new kind of knife. The
men of the times began ordering
knives like Bowie’s and soon began
merely to ask for Bowie knives.
Bowie was finally killed himself
in the battle of the Alamo but when
his body was found it was surround
ed by dead Mexicans whom he had
killed first. CoL James Bowie was
the kind of man who, if he lived to
day, would be prominent in the tes
timonial advertisements.
• • •
Volfs
XTOLTS—the units for measuring
▼ electrical force—are named in
honor of Alesandro Volta, Italian
professor who tamed the electric
spark in the early 1800s.
Up until then electricity was pro
duced only by rubbing a piece of
glass, resin or wax with the dry
hand or a piece of dry cloth, making
a spark. Electricity had no prac
tical use—except
as a novelty of
the French draw
ing rooms. There
gentlemen who
wore laces would
shock ladies who
wore hoop skirts
by generating
static electricity
and then touch
ing the ladies on
the cheek. This
pastime is much
howeverlLan Volta
some of the others that history says
went on in French drawing rooms
and perhaps we should not minimize
the importance of static electricity.
At any rate, Alesandro Volta
spent the greatest part of his life
trying to generate electricity with
out rubbing anything. One day he
tried piling silver and zinc discs of
equal size upon each other with wet
pieces of cloth between. He con
nected the first and last discs with
a wire and got—not a shock, but the
first steady current of electricity in
history.
(Released by Weetern Newspaper Union.)
THE TRUTH COMES OUT AT TEA FOR THE CROWD
(See Recipes Below)
At the Tea Table
This is the one year in four when
the bachelor had better put on his
running boots or
else risk getting
caught and de
prived of the free
dom he prizes so
dearly. For it's
Leap year-. . „
girl proposes and
man can’t very
well dispose . . .
at least that’s
how the legend
runs.
There’s nothing
quite so modem as an old-fashioned
engagement tea with which to make
the announcement that Judy loves
John and John doesn’t mind at all.
There’s nothing so modem, either,
as inviting the young man in the
case and his bachelor friends to the
party. Now, in 1940, afternoon tea
is not the “strictly feminine” affair
it has been unjustly accused of be
ing. On the contrary, Mr. America
prefers the invigorating pick-up, just
as long as he can take his tea ex
actly as he likes! This may mean
with clove-spiked lemon, or a touch
of candied ginger, perhaps.
Since the boys hate fuss and frills,
and like a girl to come straight to
the point with
out keeping them
guessing, they
would think * it
pretty clever to
“say it” with
hearts bearing
the initial of the
happy pair at
tached to the
strings of the tea-balls.
Cookies are to the male what
candy is to the baby . . . the most
desirable bon-bon in the world of
sweetmeats. So ... if you know
any girl who has gotten herself en
gaged and is about to tell the world
so . . . suggest that she invite the
boys along with the girls to hear the
glad news and tell her to be gen
erous with the cookies!
Frosted Squares.
4 eggs
2 cups light brown sugar
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
V\ teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup nutmeats (broken)
1 cup raisins or dates (cut fine)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat eggs until very light. Add
sugar gradually, continuing to beat
until the mixture is very light and
fluffy. Sift together the flour, baking
powder, cinnamon, salt, and cocoa.
Add the first mixture, blending thor
oughly. Then add nuts, raisins or
dates, and vanilla. Spread in shal
low, greased pans and bake in a
moderate oven (350 degrees) for
about 25 minutes. Remove from pan
while still warm. Frost with choco
late peppermint confectioners’ sug
ar icing. Cut in squares.
Little Swedish Tea Cakes.
1 cup butter
Vz cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups cake flour
ty* teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Ice cream
Cream butter and add sugar slow
ly. Cream well. Add well beaten
egg and blend. Sift flour once be
fore measuring and then sift again
with salt. Add and blend in flavor
ing. Place a rounded teaspoonful
of batter in very small greased muf
fin tins (IVz inches in diameter).
Press batter up sides and over bot
tom so that there is a hollow in the
center. Fill this hollow with an al
mond filling (about 1 teaspoonful).
Chinese Cakes.
(Makes 3 dozen)
1 cup butter
% cup granulated sugar
2Vfe cups flour
% cup blanched almonds (broken)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup powdered sugar
Cream butter and sugar. Add
flour and almonds. Knead. Shape
into small balls and place on
greased cookie sheet. Bake in mod
erate oven (375 degrees) 20 min
utes, or until done, but not brown.
Remove from cookie sheet with
■
Eleanor Howe’s Cook Book
“Easy Entertaining” gives you
menus and tested recipes for al
most every kind of party; there’s
a menu (with recipes) for a re
ception for the bride; there are
out-door supper menus for beach
parties, picnics, hikes; and there
are countless menus and hints for
planning children’s parties, holi
day parties and bridge parties,
too. Send 10 cents in coin to
“Easy Entertaining” care Elea
nor Howe, 919 North Michigan
Avenue, Chicagq, Illinois, and get
your copy of this useful booklet,
now.
spatula. Add vanilla to powdered
sugar and roll cakes in sugar mix*
ture.
Almond Filling.
2 eggs
Vi cup sugar
% teaspoon salt
% lb. finely ground almonds
Beat eggs until very light and add
sugar, salt, and ground almonds
which have been put through food
chopper twice. Bake 30 minutes in
a slow moderate oven (325 degrees).
Cool and serve with ice cream.
Toasted Almond Sticks.
2% cups flour
1 cup sugar
> % cup butter (melted)
Vi cup milk
1 egg
Vz pound blanched almonds
(chopped)
3 teaspoons baking powder
Vz teaspoon almond flavoring
% teaspoon salt
Sift flour, sugar, baking powder
and salt into mixing bowl. Mix
beaten egg, butter (melted), milk
and flavoring. Add to dry ingredi
ents making a stiff dough. Grease
a 9 by 13 cookie sheet with butter.
Press dough evenly into pan. Sprin
kle almonds evenly over all and
press well into dough. Bake in mod
erate oven (350 degrees) for 20 min
utes, or until firm to the touch. Let
stand a few minutes, and while still
warm cut with a sharp knife into
3-inch strips about one inch wide.
Turn cut side up, leaving a space
between each stick, and return to
hot oven. Toast to a rich brown.
Will keep almost indefinitely.
Queen of Hearts Cake.
% cup butter
1% cuns granulated sugar
2% cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Vz teaspoon soda
% teaspoon salt
1 cup sour milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 egg whites
Cream the butter, add the sugar,
and beat well. Sift the flour, baking
powder, soda and
salt and add al
ternately with the
sour milk and va
nilla. Beat the
egg whites until
stiff and fold into
cake. Bake in two
layers or oblong
bread pans in a
moderate oven (365 degrees) 25 to
30 minutes. Cool and cut cake into
small hearts with a cookie cutter.
Ice with Queen of Hearts Icing.
Queen of Hearts Icing.
2 cups granulated sugar
Va teaspoon cream tartar
1 cup hot water
Confectioners sugar, sifted
(about 1 lb.)
Red vegetable coloring
Cook sugar, cream of tartar and
water in a saucepan until a thin
syrup (226 degrees) is formed. Cool
slightly. Then add enough confec
tioners sugar to make an icing of
pouring consistency. Add food col
oring and then pour over the hearts,
covering them thoroughly with the
icing.
Now that the engagement has
been announced, there’ll be par
ties galore for the bride-to-be. If
you’re planning to entertain for a
June bride, be sure to read Elea
nor Howe’s column next week.
You’ll find, there, tested recipes
and menus especially suitable for
parties for a bride.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
W HEN Columbia decided to
film “The Tree of Liberty’ , ;
they decided to give the public
more than good value. Many
of the scenes of the book are
laid in Williamsburg, Va., at
the time of the Revolution and
just afterward. And since the
Rockefellers have obligingly re
stored most of the buildings
of the town so that they look
as they did then, Columbia sent the
company to Williamsburg.
They also invited newspaper writ-j
ers down to see Cary Grant, Sir^
Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Carle
and others working, under the very;
able direction of Frank Lloyd.
Students from William and Mary
college acted as extras; in a scene,
made in wind and rain in front of
Raleigh tavern you’ll see them,:
dressed as students of the college
were in the seventeen hundreds.;
The wind and rain were artificially!
produced on a beautiful spring eve
ning.
The next afternoon Grant was to
be photographed riding up to the
door of a famous old plantation.!
The governor of Virginia and crowds
of enthusiastic fans assembled to!
watch. When you see that scene, 1
imagine the governor and the resf
CARY GRANT
of us shivering in a chilly wind from
the James river, waiting for the sun
to come out, while Grant patiently
rode his horse up and down until
somebody pointed a candid camera
at it at close range, making it so
nervous that it ran away. Grant
lost his hat and got his wig rumpled,
and by the time order was restored
the sky was too cloudy for any pic
tures to be made.
The following day a mob was to
storm something or other, and a
torchlight parade was to be held.'
So it rained. The picture people
were patient; they’re accustomed to
that sort of thing. The newspaper
people were not, so they went home.
The only news was that the title
had to be changed to “The Howards
of Virginia,” because the other one
sounded too much like a Warner
Brothers patriotic short, and that
Martha Scott, instead of Joan Fon
taine, would play the lead.
It’s going to be a swell picture,
one of Frank Lloyd’s best—that’s
recommendation enough for any
movie.
—*
Director John Stahl, who has been
connected with only two studios—
Metro and Universal—during the
past 25 years, has broken away,
along with such producers as Walter
Wanger and Frank Capra, to enjoy
the freedom of making his own pic
ture selections. You must remem
ber his “Back Street,” with Irene
Dunne, and “Only Yesterday,” with
Margaret Sullavan, to mention just
a few of his successes.
He’s chosen “The Life of Daniel
Webster” for his first free picture,
and has signed with James Roose
velt to direct “The Boy Grew Older”
for him.
^
Spike Jones, drummer in Oscar
Bradley’s orchestra on the CBS
“Screen Guild Theater,” refused an
offer of $200 for a drum head re
cently. The original cost of the
drum head was only $10—but it’s
covered with signatures of famous
Hollywood stars who have appeared
on the program, from Shirley Tem
ple to Bette Davis.
MX
7t\ ' “
Lany Ross was recently nominat
ed as the perfect date by a group
of pretty girls who act as profes
sional fashion models. To show his
appreciation, he invited four of
them to be his guests at a very
smart—and very expensive—night
club. When the night was over,'
Lanny, who was selected as the per
fect date because he knows just
what to do when escorting a woman,
found that he couldn’t pay the check
—because he’d left his wallet at
home. i
%
Many commentators will air their
views on the forthcoming presiden
tial campaigns to be held this sum
mer. To one, however, it will hold
special interest. Many years ago
Edwin C. Hill, “America’s Star Re
porter,” covered the Theodore
Roosevelt convention. From the
time Teddy became President, Hill
was referred to by the Rough Rider
as “the unofficial member of my;
cabinet.” This summer Hill will
again cover a Roosevelt convention
providing Franklin Delano Roose
velt runs for a third term.
OP?. SEW
Ruth Wyeth Spears
/~\NE day a snap-shot came from
a reader showing a half dozen
braided rag rugs spread out on the
grass. No two were alike. I
thought this one with a scalloped
border was particularly interest
ing and the maker wrote me that
the scallops do stay flat on the
floor.
She uses wool rags and fre
quently dyes them the colors she
wants. She cuts or tears them
into strips an inch or more wide,
according to the weight of the
material and then braids them
tightly. The braided strips are
sewn together with double carpet
thread and she keeps the work
flat on the table all the time she
is sewing. For this rug, the cen
ter row is 15 inches long. Sew
around and around this, using the
colors indicated. When the oval
is 31 inches long and 16 inches
wide, divide it evenly around the
edge with pins about five inches
apart. Now, sew a row around
with a 2-inch loop at each pin. Sew
the next three rows around these
S t AROUND
R THE HOUSE
rv
The cookie cutter will not stick
and gum up if dipped in flour be
fore cutting the dough.
* * *
Old-fashioned iron beds can eas
ily be camouflaged by putting at
tractive slipcovers over the ends.
• • •
To keep mashed potatoes hot,
place them in a tightly covered
kettle set in a pan of hot water
over a low heat.
• * *
Wipe off parchment lamp shades
with a cloth dampened with olive
oil. It will remove all soil and
will restore the former freshness.
* * * v
Grease spilled on a hardwood
kitchen floor may be quickly re
moved by pouring kerosene over
the spot. When the kerosene evap
orates, the grease will have dis
appeared.
* * •
Chopped cooked prunes mixed
with peanut butter or cottage
cheese makes a good sandwich
spread.
* * •
Add a tablespoon each of pre
pared horseradish and mustard to
half a cup of whipped cream.
Serve with ham, veal or pork.
* * *
The sun should not be allowed
to shine directly on begonias or
plants that have large, rather soft
leaves when leaves are wet. If
water is left on leaves, they are
likely to burn.
• • *
Washing machine hints: Always
turn off the machine if you are
suddenly called away. The aver
age tubful of clothing requires six
minutes for ordinary washing—
and 10 minutes for badly soiled ar
ticles, such as overalls. Change
the water twice in laundering
soiled articles such as rugs and
play suits. Never overcrowd the
washing machine, since the gar
ments in it may be torn.
loops easing the braiding in just
enough to keep the work flat.
NOTE: “The Rug That Grew
Up With the Family” is another
interesting rug-making idea. Di
rections are in Mrs. Spears’ Book
3, which also tells how to make
spool shelves; streamlining an old
style bed; and many other useful
ideas. Write Mrs. Spears today,
enclosing 10 cents in coin and book
No. 3 will be sent to you by re
turn mail.
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
Enclose 10 cents for Book No. 3.
Name
Address
O-Cedar It, Mother!
Don’t clean and polish/ fool
Do BOTH at once.
Any lovely lady can polish her furniture
and floors as she cleans them. All the work
she used to do to wash and dry AND then
polish her furniture . . . was half wasted.
Instead, use O-Cedar Polish in your damp
cloth and wash and polish at the same time. v
Your neighborhood dealer sells genuine:
MOPS, WAX, DUSTERS, CLEANERS AND
O-CEDAR FLY AND MOTH SPRAY
Better a Jewel
Better a diamond with a flaw
than a pebble without.—Confucius.
WHY
SHOULDN’T
/ STEAL H/M
FROM YOU
LF LCAN?
i
it, but—my stsfehn-
naiea me.
Maybe it was because we were only
half-sisters. Our mothers were dii-'|
ferent; as different as we were our
selves. But, I had promised our
father on his deathbed that I would
see that Gladys got everything
until she was old enough to look
out for herself.
I was faithful to that promise.
Gladys was beautiful, popular—and
in spite of my efforts—wild. And she
envied me the man I loved. Yet sha
might have found real happiness^
but— * ★ ★ b
Maybe you, yourself, are in the
position of Jane Kent, or maybe
you know some one who is. How
would you work out this human
problem?
That there is a way out—a real
solution—is proved by the human,
poignant diary of Jane Kent who
writes her real life story under tbaj
title “Wild Sister” in June
Jiue Sioiy
m—m—mmmmmmm Nome On Sajfe
A treat with
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