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Show SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1964 By NEAL ADAMS Tell Me Why BEN CASEY I ae) T...1/M SORRY, DR. CASEY. AND How Was Cheese Discovered? By A. LEOKUM Win the 15-Volume Britannica Junior Encyclopedia for school and home. Send your questions, name, age, address to “Tell Me Why!” care of this paper. In case of duplicate questions, the author will decide the winner. Today’s winner is: Helen St. John, 12, Oakfield, N. Y. YOU WON'T DIAGNOSIS, DR.SHANK? OKAY, NARCOLEPSY DOESN'T REQUIRE HOSPITALIZATION... IT'S SIMPLY TOO FABULOUS TO THINK IT ALL CAME FROM MY HISTORY PAPER... AND 'S ALL COMING TRUE J! an eeepc 90 a'soe a a . BUT IM JUST GOING OUT THE YARD AND PRACT: ICE / LHSOs DOGGONIT/ THIS WILL RUIN MY SWING / THER ST! Sou CAN USE! Joe: How can a rabbit fix) You probably wear some eat until long after nightfall. | thing madeof ‘‘Worsted’’. This When he looked into his flats? Moe: It’s a jackrabbit. word, which means a yarn or canteen, he found—instead of Mary: Do you know why the thread made of wool, comes milk—a white, solid mass that .from the name of a town in tasted good and was quite dif- calendar is sad? Sue: No, why? ‘England called Worsted! A ferent from the sour milk he Mary: Because its days are! long time ago Worsted was the had often tasted before. What center of the wool-weaving inhad formed in his canteen was numbered. dustry. WHY WE SAYIT cheese, * * . The reason it formed was Answer to yesterday’s Puzzle that part of the natural digesBox: Haste Makes Waste. tive juices of the sheep had The beginnings of many remained in the canteen. And things are lost in history, and in these juices was a substance sometimes stories are made up called “rennet”. The rennet to take the place of informa- had turned the milk to cheese. tion and facts. Whether or not And strangely enough, rennet this is true about the discovery is still used in the making of of cheese, we don’t know. It some cheeses to this day! may be that this is how it Since cheese was one of the happened. first foods to be manufactured About 3,500 years ago, a by man, there are many varietraveler in Asia filled his can- ties of it. And it is likely that teen with milk and started on |people in various parts of the a journey. This canteen was |world discovered the idea of made from a sheep’s stomach. |making cheese for themselves He had a long, hot trip over in their own way. We make! the desert and did not stop to cheese chiefly from cow’s milk. | But it is also made from goat’s milk, camel’s milk, mare’s milk, and even buffalo’s and yak’s milk. The process of making a Today In History Win the Britannica World Atlas or Yearbook of Events. Send your riddles, jokes to: Riddles, Jokes, “Tell Me Why!” Today’s winner is: Robert Wiseman, Newark, N. ¥. LITTLE PEOPLE'S PUZZLE [ | DOWN i 5 6 = ‘A 4-ACROSS Tl | typical cheese (cheddar) is as| follows. Bacteria (called lactic Today is Sunday, April 12,/acid bacteria) are added to| HELIVES IN~-UH--- TULSAL 7” ~<a} WHAT ; ei NO-SURPRISE, DEEDEE? 44 DO HAVE THIS RICH OH!--2 ALMOST ) HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY) FORGOT!..MRS. n=» ANO-~ JUST YESTERDAY--I) AuwiAys: BEEN GOF A LETTER FROM HIM! uit twvoerte NIECE !+-+ AND-++ WHENEVER I MARRIED HE WOULD GIVE ME--FOR A WEDDING PRESENT=--A-+-AN OIL WELL!+ ALL FATHER 15 ONEOFTHOSE BINGEDONE os gal i UNCLE JACK! B, TEXAS MILLIONAIRES2 nee <All ; WAS TO BE SURE AND INVITE YOU FOR DINNER, TONIGHT! the 103rd day of 1964 with 263 \fresh milk. These bacteria| to follow. |make the milk slightly acid. The moonis at its new phase. | This is called “ripening” of the The morning star is Saturn. milk. When the ripening has The evening stars are Venus | progressed to the proper stage, and Mercury. | enough rennet is added to On this day in history: cause the formation of a| In 1861, Confederate forces “curd”. This is the solid Por] opened fire on Fort Sumter in tion. | the beginning of the Civil War. The curd is then cut to allow) In 1945, President Franklin moisture to escape. Then the Roosevelt died in Warm|{ “whey” (water) is drawn off. Springs, Ga., and Harry S| The curd cubes are then! Truman became the 33rd presi-| matted, salted, and pressed| dent of the United States. into molds for curing. The) In 1961, Russia launched a|curing may take a few weeks) KERRY DRAKE TNESA PS Bee SPECTROCHEMICAL KSSSN : ANALYSIS, MR. = WHILE I WAS TALKING 70 Him, //\ SAW THIS TRAITOR \ WHAT16 THIS PROCESS WELLBORN/ 24 CONVENTION DELEGATE CAME HERE, FIVE MINUTES *- * STORMING LF WAVING A PAPER!) lo = \— man into space, the first hu-|up to two years—depending on| man to orbit the earth and re-/the kind of cheese and the} AC turn safely. flavor desired. Seah Bon (2. INC. * * ° A thought for the day: British Prime Minister Winston _ FUN TIME “dV2 “LL “3SOOD “6 ‘AOBMOD °9 “VURRZ °E "TE3HM ONIN Churchill once said: ‘Nothing The Chuckle Box SNidS ‘t 'SWNVNV8 “t—Umog "31d00d “TL ‘3ILYDAIN ‘OL in life is so exhilarating as to Moe: My father keeps a rab| “ONIM 8 ‘8ANadO NYO 2 ‘did ‘§ ‘1V9 "y—*80.Dy *SuaMSNY be shot at without results.” bit in his car for fixing flats. — 4 By SAUNDER AND OVERGARD 1 RAN AFTER YOU, MIKE, ¥ BUT THE DOORS CLOSED BEFORE I COULD REACH EZ TH i| i a AGO! 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