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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-09-21, Page 6TABLE TALKS Bar. AT\C1;007$. HE LIVES TO AID THE POOR & HELPLESS 0, Hardee Warren WA., MA Malachi Calls for Righteous Living Malachi 3:1.6, 13.18 Memory Selection: Have we not oil one father? Hail net one 094 created. us? Why do we deal trgacheroesly every malt against his brother? Malachi 2:10; ""Malachi, the last of the minor prophets in the order in which they appear in to Old Testa- ment, wrote his little book some time during the period of Ezra and Nehemiah et a time of re- declension, It may have been during Nehemiah's absence from Jerusalem, (See Nehemiah• 13;6), Malachi predicts the com- ing of John the Baptist and the coming of the Messiah, Malachi's first rebuke is di- rected against the priests, They have given their service grudg- ingly. They wanted pay for ev- ery little task they did. They offered polluted , bread a n maimed beasts to the. Lord; such they would snot offer to their governor, Then Malachi reproved the people. He predicted judgments upon them for their sorcery, adultery, lying, oppressing the' hireling, the widow and the fatherless and turning t h e• stranger from his right. More- over they did not fear God. They robbed him by withholding the tithes and offerings. But in every dark age there is a faithful remnant. "They, that feared the Lord spalae often one to another; and the Lord heark- ened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written be- fore him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name." These are as precious jewels in the sight of God. He will protect them. Malachi's message is timely for today, One clergyman when called to conduct a funeral re- minded the bereaved of the money it was costing him. Min- isters must have money the same as other people. But if their ser- vice is given with money in mind it isn't worth 'much. They do not have 'the spirit of Jesus. He said, "Love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping ,for nothing again; and your re- ward shall be great, and ye shall be called the children of the Highest." Luke 6:35. Mal- achi's rebukes to the people are timely, too. JEAN IPATOU EXPRESSES. his 'straiglfoupele eine in this beige jersey 'suit dress of acryliefigre.''Thie 'shoulder padding gives width at the fop to emphasi;e the narrow slimness of the skirt: The fabric's draping quality molds readily into a natural sil- houette with just a hint of waistline. Ten. Years Search For Lost Sister With Old weather here or on, its way thoughts turn. to heartier main, dishes; and what. Mild be more heart-warming also mouth-watering than the eight end smell of a geed, hearty pat roast? Whether you serve your pot roast with Potatoes, rice, or durnplings, or cook it with fruit, Vegetables, or spices, remember That the most Important guide to, follow in cooking it is a low temperature. This keeps the juices and flavor in the meat, cuts dawn shrinkage, makes the meat more tender, and prevents burned fat drippings. * Pot roasts — rump, round, or chuck -- are best when roasted In moist heat. The general rule is to season, meat, dip in flour, then brown in, a small amount of fat. Cover and cook slowly On top of stove or in a 350° F. oven, in juices from meat or in a small amount of added liquid (liquid is usually water, but it may be milk, cream, tomato juice, or soup). Cook until fork-tender. A pot roast weigh- ing three pounds (at refrigera- tor temperature) will need *bout 3 hours after browning. Fpr this pot roast with vege- tables, thicken the cooking liquid for gravy. If, serves 6-8. BEEF POT ROAST 3-4 Pound beef arm pat roast 2 tablespoons flour 2 teappoons salt teasppon, pepper 3 tablespoons lard or drippings le cup water 6 medium potatoes 6 stalks celery Dredge roast with seasoned liour and brown on all sides in lard or drippings. Add water, cover and simmer on top of stove or in 350° F. oven for 2 hours, or until tender. Add vegetables and continue cook- ing until vegetables are done. ;Serve on platter or chop dish 'Surrounded by vegetables (pic- tured). Garnish with parsley. * * If you'd like to omit vege- tables and serve pot -roast with dumplings, try these Dumplings /or a new look. The trick in Cooking dumplings is to cook them in eteaming. broth - and serve them as soon as possible, It is emportant that the lid of the , kettle remain on tightly throughout the cooking period. There's no peeking allowed! If you're in doubt about your lid fitting tightly enough, cover kettle first with a clean cloth, then put on the lid. (Tuck cor- ners of cloth up on lid to pre- vent burning.) SWEET-SOUR POT ROAST 3-5 pound beef roast 2 tablespoons fat ale cup sliced onion 1 cup vinegar * 14 cup brown sugar, firmly- packed lei teaspoon nutmeg 8 medium turnips 2 cups cooked peas Butter Brown roast in fat in heavy kettle. Add onions and cook until transparent. Add vinegar, sugar, and nutmeg. Cover tight- ly and simmer 3-3'/z hours or until fork tender. Thitken liquid for gravy. Serve with the vegetables. Swiss Steak A Swiss steak is cooked in the same manner as a pot roast. Usually it is round steak but it may be cut from the rump or chuck. Season the meat with salt and pepper, sprinkle with flour, and pound meat with edge of a heavy saucer. Brown, cov- er with tomato juice or toma- toes, and simmer. Add diced onions for the last half hour of cooking, if desired. Serve the gravy over the meat. ed some 10,000 homeless tramps, young workmen, married cou- ples with children. Tons of clothing and blankets, millions of francs poured' in, Last year he received £400,000 for his campaign for homes for the poor., ' A Magnificent triumph for the Samaritan who, from the start of his great work, asked no questions, made no demands for himself, said simply, "The same soup for them all, believers or not," and is now honoured in a splendid book no one should' miss readthg. his ship had docked, he picked up local telephone books and directories and spent hours scan- ning them vainly for their names. In the summer of 1948 he de- cided to take a long look through the New York and Chicago di- rectories. It was then that he found them. Brother and sisters spent the rest of his holiday to- gether and when he left to re- join his ship they all agreed to have an annual reunion for the' rest of their lives. the Open, scorning even a tent, confessed to a fellow-worker: "Thin is the first time in my life that I've done any building „ , You see, until now, I've only been taught the exact opposite ---to destroy and kill. I never learned anything else; not since, I was fifteen, I was the regi- mental maecet. I was twenty- two when France fell. Then I went underground with the Maquis, thee the lere, (Free French Resistance Movement) -Alsace, Germany, Occupation. Why didn't I get demobilized? I've told you, all I knew was fighting , Indo-China, that the last straw." They were well paid, and de- corated, he added, but the money went fast on drink, drugs, women. He got malaria, his rating as killer went down, his outfit threw him out, he was repatriated, weleome d with other "heroes" at Marseilles by a brass band, went back to his family in Normandy. His brothers, who had got rich on the black market during the Occupation, said: "You should have done what we did." He smashed all the crockery, went off tp Paris, ran through his bonus, became a down-and-out with but one way of esaapp: 'suicide. A woman in the Red Cross gave him the Abbe's name, . . . "But now I know that war is the greatest evil," he said. "Liv- ing near him perhaps. I can still learn to do something useful, to build instead of destroying . . ." Inspiring indeed is Boris Simon's account of all this in "Abbe Pierre and the Ragpick- ers" (Harvill Press, 15s.), ably translated by Lucie Noel. To help his scheme of rehabilia- tion, the Abbe organized rag- pickers to comb the dustbins, dumps, sewers—and he` sold the salvage. He bought land, put up more huts until he could house 180 families who had -been evicted f r o m overcrowded rooms. To get money he begged in the streets, worked in a circus, took part in a double-or-quits radio quiz and won £250. Once when money ran out for cheap flats he was building he exchanged his car for an ancient, "high- built relic with spoked wheels and trailer. It created a sensa- tion whenever he parked in the courtyard of the National As- sembly. During a bitter January night of 1954, when the Council of the French Government had just re- jected a bill demanding funds for emergency housing of the poor, a' three-months-old. baby died of cold in an abandoned shell of a Paris bus. The Abbe at once drew attention to 'it by writing the Minister of Recon- struction an indignant letter, in- viting him to attend the child's . funeral. Unprecedented though it was, the Minister came, followed the coffin on foot, and decided then and there that the Government should intervene. At its next session the Council allotted funds for building several emergency centres. Three weeks later the Abbe found men sleeping in the open, huddled in doorways, under bridges, over Underground vents, trying to keep warm on an icy night ten degrees below zero. Helped by his ragpickers, he pitched a tent on an empty site in the heart of. Paris, then launched a heart-rending appeal on the radio, saying: "Last night we found a woman who had died of exposure holding evic- tion papere in her hand. Such abominations must stop." . All France responded. A Champs-Elysees hotel Offered him office apace and store- rooms. The police opened era to the destitute warm subways, police stations and railway ter- minals after hours. Public foue- dations, private hostels, shelter- LeOis the Kftegeree Was a, fine middleweight, but his box- leg career in Paris didn't last. long. A young woman side- tracked him from it. He toured the provinces as sparring par-, tner. Tbell came the wart and prison camp, On hip return he'd, lost both his girl friend and his famous footwork, se he roamed frOm one boxing ring to an- other, teaching beginners, then sweeping the arena and looking after equipment. hirn,roouete.epHeenwisnegapae'ro; uhn: sbpeograt.n taking dope,.The club threw ing cafes, meeting other has- beens like himself who were available for any kind of match, Then came a fight in which he knocked out his opponent, fought the police like a mad- man, and got six months' jail. At forty-three, with raucous voice, broken nose, red face, thick eyelids, low, deeply fur- rowed forehead, he looked much older. But his great body had muscular reserves, despite all the drink. He still wanted to do sit-nettling useful, so went along the Abbe Pierre's house called Dramatis in a Paris suburb and asked for work. "Stay with us," said the eroil- ing, blaek-bearded Abbe, "But remember, for the sake of the others, 1 do not went you to be seen when, you have been drink- ing." "I promise you, Father." He was one of many down- and-oots helped by this remark- able priest and. Chamber De- puty—Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre and Medal of the Resistance—who took a ruined house, converted it into a social centre, then bought empty huts from prisoners' camps on the instalment plan arid erected them in the grounds to house homeless, destitute families. This at a time, just after the war, when Paris had 200,000 adults and more .than 600,000 children packed into, hotels, furnished rooms, insanitary slums — and there were seven million badly housed 'people in 'France. Another who found refuge at. Emmaus was an ex-convict, Bastien, An orphan at fifteen, he lived with his uncle near the Belgian border, on land he Would inherit when he came of age. Ile loved a Gravelines girl, Lucie; walked the windy dunes With her on summer evenings; wanted to' marry her. Then the old uncle married' a vulgar, stingy widow 'with two sons. They hated Bastien because one day he would own the estate, and wanted to get him Out of the. way. All their gossip and mischief-Making were aimed at provoking a quarrel between the young couple. One day a rafter fell, and the woman said it was an attempt at murder. This so horrified Bastien that he reached for his uncle's old revolver hanging in the hall,' loaded it to frighten 'her, and accidently shot the uncle dead. Trumped-up evi- dence got him twenty years' hard labour at Cayenne. When he came back, an old man,Lucie was married. Be- wildered, disgusted, he ren- ounced ownership of the estate, and in, a small hotel close to Emmaus took out his razozr to end his life. By sheer chance the proprietor came in in the' nick of time ,and rang up the Abbe,. whom he knew, who rushed over and offered Bastien refuge. Slowly, 'with work, friend- ship, Bestien regained courage and the deaire to live, but some- times despair overcame him; he would sob like a child and, tell- ing his story, say: "No, no, I swear I didn't aim at him. Why should I want to kill him, my uncle?" He could never forget the tragedy that had made him an outcast. Baptiste, another Emmaus misfit who always slept out in LUCKY THIRTEEN The number 13 holds no fears for Mrs. Betty Hansford, of. Kingsford, Australia. Mrs. Hans- ford lives at No. 13, 13th Street, and on April 13 she had been there exactly 13 months. On that date hse bought a ticket in the New South Wales State Compe- tition and was given ticket No. 1313. Many would have discarded the ticket there and then as 'the ultimate in ill-luck, Not so. Mrs. Hansford, She put the ticket aside and when the prizewinners were announced' recently, ticket No. 1313 won the first prize of £4,800. CHOW TIME — Mrs. Shirley Wardlow handles formula by the gallon on her job. She fills 2000 bottles at a time for feed- ing the 315 visitors at the Los Angeles General hotpital, 38% MORE PUDDING POWDERS PRODUCED Last year Canadian Manufac- turers made 16,123,562 pounds Of pudding powders, 4,476,573 pounds more than in 1953, Raindrops Rain is good for the skin and circulation. There is no finer complexion wash than splashing raindrops, uncontaminated by city dust and grime. One of Britain's greatest-ever rainstorms swamped a vast area bf Norfolk in 1912. In a night and a day 60 million tons fell upon an area of 3,500 square miles. And nobody has ever properly explained why, at Geneva on May 31st, 1838, rain fell heavily for six minutes from a complete- ly clear sky. Superstitious people in Mexico believe that the "Rain God" lives in a deep well at Yucatan, Hun- dreds 'of years ago, lovely girls were sometimes sacrificed to the god by being thrown into it. During a heavy rain shower at Gibralter in May, 1915, a cloud belched forth millioris of tiny frogs Which had been sucked up from a lake twenty miles away. Black rain fell in London in 1913, staining all it touched with soot. Some of the drops were found to contain pieces of carbon an eigth Of an leech long. World's rainiest place is Cher- rapunji, iii Assent', India, where 600 inches of rain a year is not, unusual, PRICE OP BACON HAS 'TRIPLED SINCE 1939 In 1953 the average price of bacon and sides at meat pack- ing plants reached e record 59.1 cents per pound, more than three times the average price of 18'.8 cents fit 1939. The bulk bf the increase has (Manfred since the war, the 1045 Price averaging 21.5 cents per potted, It took Mrs. Florence Stevens, now sixty-three, thirty years to save 28,000 -threepenny bits in jam tins. Everytime the tins be- came full, She took the money to a bank. Finally she had saved £350 needed to pay for a visit to her four married sisters in Califor- nia. And the other day she left, London Airport by Stratocruiser to meet them for the first time in nearly half a century. Mrs. Stevens, whose home is in Walsall, Staffs, plans to spend six months in the United States as the guest of her sisters. She says she thinks the reunion well worth the 28,000 threepenny pieces. The truth about reunions of longaparted relatives is often stranger than the most imagina- tive author could devise in a novel. Take the case of the two bro- thers who were united in Sydney through a dispute in a taxi after having not seen each other for thirty-one years. Edward Bell and Robert Bell, Scotsmen, had, lost track of each other before the first world war and neither had the least idea where the other lived. Edward Bell, who had been farming in Queensland, went to Sydney and hailed a taxi to take him to a certain hotel, where he had stayed some years earlier. In George Street he felt sure he was going the wrong way. He declared — irfearrectly—that the hotel was in Elizabeth. Street. The pair argued. The driver asked his passenger to .show him his room ticket to see if the ad- dress of the hotel was on it, When he examined it he found that the 'passenger was his bro- ther. Stepping on to a Brighton bus in March, 1638, a woman was startled by a cry of "Laura!" At the same moment a passenger jumped up and einbe-ced her. The stranger proved to be her younger brother who had been missing for folie-One yeare. had recognized his sister by their Mother's locket which she was wearing round her beck, For ten years Larry Dolineki, of the 1I 8. Merchant Marine,. had lost- frank of three of Iris Osiers. In city after city, after PLEASANT mirror` reflects Karin (Delman, 22, •ad the Swedish beauty from the 'forest proVinte of Hcietiedalen liatks on the beach at Falsterbe. Soene movie scout tould took tip ti mess Of le teaest over the form-grown charmer., GRIM 'PIES"-aldokirig like a fray of pie's fresh Out of baker's twee are the still-glowing ttart-1 dard Oil kefinery Storage tanks at Whiling, Ind., five days offer fire drid ekplosions efarted tiiari There: Retideets evacuated from` 2500 hornet hove returned to the area. Aerial "view taken froth frotr a low-flying plane'. DUMPLINGS e. cups sifted flour teaspoons double-acting baking Powder teaSpeen, eel( 2 tablespoons shortening 31, cut) Wilk (about) cup chopped beets Sift together dry ingredients, Cut in shortening, Add milk and beets quickly to dry mix- ture. Stir just until combined to very soft dough. Drop by spoon- fuls into boiling broth, Cover tightly •and cook over low heat 15 minutes, Serve at once. * * * Rice with pot roast is good, too. Prepare the rice this way; RICE TO SERVE WITH POT ROAST 41/4 cups hot, cooked rice can (114,C4Ps) condensed cream of mushroom soup le cup water 1 pimiento finely chopped Mix together the mushroom soup and water, Heat to boil- ing. Add chopped pimiento, Stir in hot, cooked, rice. Serve on one end of platter with roast on other end, or arrange in a cir- cle around the roast. * * Dried prunes and apricots add a piquant flavor to pot roast. Here's a roast that is both spiced and cooked with fruit. SPICED POT ROAST 3-5 pounds chuck or rump roast 2 tablespoons fat 2 cups water 3 tablespoons mixed pickling ' spices tea cup each, dried apricots and dried prunes 1 teaspoon sugar Brown meat in hot fat in heavy skillet; add water and spices. Cover tightly and sim- mer 3-31/2 hours or until fork tender. During last hour of cooking add apricots, prunes and sugar. * * * Serve this sweet-sour pot roast with buttered, cooked peas and turnips. This "serves 6-8. ors MI Itn, Fr "FIV4 DOLLARS?! 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