HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-02-15, Page 6SALLY'S SALLIES
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(me Andrews.
"Thia meat dish is riot only
(electable to taste, but it also
twits an appetizing, fragrance
while peeking," writes Mrs,
_rail restela ;of :14er ,Swedish
lull: hails, "I want to share this
t of geodness with the ladies
and, men who like to don kitchen.
Wens and lend a helping
and."
Swedish Ham Balls
1 pound ground Smoked Liam.
it34 Potinds ground pork
2 cups bread crumbs
2 eggs, well beaten
1 cup milk
1134 cups brown sugar
34, cup vinegar
34 cup water
1 teaspoon dry mustard
Combine sugar, vinegar, wa-
ter, and mustard. Stir until
Lugar is dissolved. Combine
meat, bread crumbs, eggs, and
milk. Mix thoroughly, Form in
amall balls. Place in pan and
Bour first mixture over balls,
ake in slow oven. The balls
may be basted. and turned:
Twotypes of marshmallow
puff were sent in by readers of
e Christian Seienee 'Monitor
In response to a request, one a
pudding and the-other a regular
Suff. Here is one of each type,
Mrs. Eunice Benjamin, sent this
One which she says she has
found satisfactory and , which.
keeps indefinitely. It makes 4
sups.
MARSHMALLOW _FLUFF
2 cups white corn sirup
2 egg whites
343 teaspoon salt
Iii teaspoon vanilla
Cook corn sirup over Medium
le
eat until a small amount will
orm a soft balflin cold` Water.'
at egg whites; 'salt; yid va-
pilla until stiff. Add hot sirup
$31 4 parts, heating: after each
additio.n., ., As :stir-Ntttre.ibecornes
atiff, use wooden spoon. For
totter mixtitre, add hot water.,
"Any •froleri ' fruit, thaWect" and
Fo
lared over this fluff is, deli-
us," says Linda IT:' Wendt,' of
apudding*Pe fluff
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MARSHMALLOW •
FLUFF" PUDDING
34 teaspoon, ,,unflayored ,' gelatin
1 tablespoon cold water
2 tablespoons milk
Xi tablespoons sugar, ., .
44 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup ,heavy cream, whipped
4 cups miniature marshmal-
lows
Soften gelatin in water and
iiissolve over hot water., Add
sugar and almond extract.
old gelatin mixture into
Dog Detectives
of Gern3p,u
Doberman It
00th-coated
ilmal with''
n uncanny
Abandon the force of attrissa
examinations, The. AMA be,
-lieyee that four thorough, ex..
aminations, given at regular in-
tervals, the first before the
Child 'Starts kindergarten, will
'reveal 'health difficulties,
In 'a special, study in Roches-
ter, New York, where three
such examinations are given, it
was found that during the year
following the 'admission exam-
inatioh pnly one child out of
997 had developed a serious
condition which bad not been
and could not have been ob-
served by the teacher.
Organize community forces,
Perhaps the best way to do this
is to follow the example of com-
munities like Bionxville, New
York. Here standards are set,
and a watchful eye kept on
school health problems by ac-
tive health committees which
include not only the official
school physicians and school
nurses, but the school princi-
pals, five general praetitioners,
five pediatricians, and several
representatives Of the PTA. ,
Haye parents present at ex-
aminations, In' the first place,
says the AMA, this increases
the likelihood that' the exam-
ination will be complete; if it
is incomplete, the parents, will
at least not receive the false im-
pression that it was.
Also, parents can give vital
information 'that will often not
turn up in examination;' In
Elizabeth, New Jersey, a par-
ent told the examining physi-
cian that her child sometimes
lacked bladder* control. Acting
on this information, the doctor
ordered tests, which revealed
diabetes.
Provide adequate facilities.
All schools where examinations
are to be made' should have
rooms whiCh insure privacy.
Children should n'ot be ember-
rassed by having • possible' ail-
ments •brought to the •attention
of their classmates.
Give examining doctors more
help. That means, in the' first
place; teachers better trained 'in
medical matters. Too many
schools expect. teachers ;to play
some part.in.observing the phy-
sical ,condition of children, yet
do not give thein any sort of
'training that would help them
spot ailm'entS;
Scores. of co'mmunitie's • have
used volunteer helpers with
.gratifying: results.. In Phoenix,
Arizona .,parents learned, to use
the audiometer and tackled the
giving of hearing examinations
in teams. One mother operated
the machine, another took the
readingsaand, a third, sheperded
the children. „
All this may take time, for
sweeping changes cannot be
made overnight. While your
community is working toward
decent medical examinations
for its children, You owe your
own children the protection of
a 'proper examination by the
family physician at least once
every three years.
We live in times of great
medical achievments. Yet, won_
derful as they are, we can make
an equal contribution to the
health of America's children, by
wiping out the scandal of our
inadequate school medical ex-
aminations.
Whipped cream. Next, fold
marshmallows into the mixture,.
Pour into one large mold or into
Individual molds. Chill in refries
gerator 2-3 hours. * M 1,
Many Ridge recipes 'came in
response to a Canadian reader's
call. Some called for corn sirup,
some for marshmallow creme,
some beat the candy as soon as
it was cooked, others allowed it
to cool before beating. "Twenty
minutes from start to finish," is
Said to be the time required for
Making one recipe for fudge,
sent by Mrs, Mary Klinedinst,
"Those eating my fudge say it's
the hest, and I've been making
and sharing it for 35 years," she
Writes.
TVVENTX-MINUTE FUDGE
3 cups sugar
pound butter
34 cup milk
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 tablespoons marshmallow
whip
Combine sugar, butter, cocoa,
and milk. Boil, stirring, until it
reaches the soft ball stage. Stir
in the marshmallow whip. Stir
until creamy and pour into but-
tered pan.
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A recipe for drop fudge was
sent by Mrs. E. E. Wall. "This
fudge is easy to make and is
the most delicidus I've ever
eaten," Mrs. Wall writes. "When
I serve it there are always re-
quests for the recipe."
Fudge
21/2 cups sugar
4 heaping tablespoons cocoa
1..4 cup white corn sirup
3/2 pint cream
pound butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
Combine sugar, cocoa, sirup,
and cream. Cook to soft ball
stage (238° F.) When done, add ,
butter and vanilla. Let stand
until cold, then beat 'and add
nuts if desired. Drop by tea-
spoonfuls on greased paper. * • *
Giblet Gravy
If yoU prefer giblet gravy
to the cream type for fried
chicken here's the way to make
it according to Mrs. Alberta
Sandford, who writes: "My
mother taught me to make this
gravy when serving fried chick-
en. It is especially useful if no
one in the family likes the neck
or giblets. Boil in. salted water
to cover the tipe ends of wings,
the neck and giblets. Pour off
liquid and use for gravy mak-
ing. Cut up giblets and add."
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For Fried Fish
If you aren't a stickler for,
rolling your fried fish in corn
meal, try this suggestion: "Roll
your fish in. pancake flour next
time you fry it," writes Geneva
Eldredge. "The pancake flour
improves the flavor and gives
the fish g delightful brown."
Africa is three times the size
of the. United States and is In-
habited by 20 millions Of pee
pie Who sneak at least seven,
hundred different languages.
The principal, characteristics Of
the continent are: immense size,
compact shape, a very regular
coastline, and scarcity of navi-
gable rivers. Five thousand
miles long, from north to south,
four thousand five hundred
miles wide from east to west,
Africa • has room within its
coasts to, accommodate the
United States, Australia, and
India; and this would still leave
room for France, Spain, Italy,
England, .and a number of other
tiropean. countries!
Generally speaking, Africa is
a, great plateau 'whose average
height above sea level is about
2,00Q feet. It has a, smaller pro.,
portion of low-lying lands than
any other continent. The escape-
merit, or edge of the plateau,
does not reach the, seacoast but
is divided from the sea 'by a
strip of leavland which varies
greatly in width, being narrow-
est-in Algeria and South Africa.
and widest° in Mauretania and
Somaliland.
No matter where the traveler
lands in. Africa, his progress in-
to the interior of the country
will always be barred by this
escarprnent. Trains must labori-
ously ascend it in zigzag grades,
and vessels •that attempt to sail
up any of Africa's rivers sooner
or later find their. passage
broCked either by rapids or by
enormous waterfalls. This is the
major cause of the delay in ex-
ploration which resulted in Af-
rica's, being known the world
Over. as. the • Dark, Continent.
Although averaging 2,000 feet
above sea level, the great con-
tinental platean of Africa is by
no meansleVel; and while there
are no great 'mountain ranges
such as the Rockies or. the
Himalayas, there are a number 0
of isolated masses of lofty
mountains, some of which are
snowcapped all the year round,
such as 'the Atlas Mountains of
Morocco and, the famous Moun-
tains of the, Moon (Ruwenzori)
in Central Equatorial Africa.
Some of the' peaks of Ethopia
are also' snowcapped: 'The' high-
est of Africa's mountains are
Mount Kenya, 17,040 feet high,
and .Mount ,:Kilimanjaro, whose
summit looks ery much like
an' inverted saucer floating in
the Sky nearly 20,000 feet above
the surrounding plain. .
The 'African• plateau' is 'also
distinguished by several im-,
mense basins in which the
drainage is toward the interior
rather than toward the sea. The
Sahara itself is such a basin,
north of the equator, While the
-Kalahari Desert is another but
smaller one in the south. It has
been estimated that about hall
of Africa is made up of such
internal depressions, drained 01
undrained, among which art
swamp and lake -regions as wet`
as desert basins. — From "Intro
ducing Africa," by Carveti
Wells.
"COME ,MEn",-7 'Thie lady gager, at :right,'isnft longing for
"Mr. Sasketticll.'f She just wants to 'snatch :her' oPpOnent ball-
heoded. Obsecured by the ball is the pretty face of Erlanger
Hospital's' Nurse Jaynet Pruiett, playing in a Civic League game.
School Health
Examinations
In the February issue of that
exceedingly interesting, maga-
zine "CORONET," there is a
thought-provoking article' 4' en-
titled , "The Sham - -of,- School
Health .Examinations" by Wel:.
ter A. Garden, Director of, the
Division of Physical Welfare
in Paterson, New Jersey. While
the conditions described do not
exist everywhere;.some-of, the
facts brought , seem to be
worthy• of •widespread attention.
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110
Hungry Owl
"I came 'here looking for a
position, Is this it?"
Nelson Crebassa was driving
down a moonlit road in the state
of Washington recently when
he witnessed a most unusual
sight. A dark shadow swooped
down out of the heavens,
touched a speeding car ahead,
and made off with something in
its claws.
Both Crebassa and the driver
of the other car stopped their
vehicles• to see what the bird
had stolen. It was a squirrel
tail, snatched from an aerial on
the lead car by a hungry owl
hour, providing certain, screen-
ing tests that can be perform-
ed by' a nurse'or teacher have
been completed earlier." Yet,
of 600 medical societies answer-
ing a. nationwide AMA ques-
tionaire, less than one third de-
voted 15 or more minutes to an
examination in the schools; 163
admitted spending five to nine
minutes; 89 :as little as one to
four minutes!
In addition, the AMA says
the child should be checked. for
height and weight and ques-
tiohed' for complaints suggestive
of illness. He should be •• 'given
special vision tests, a hearing
test with an audiometer, a den-
tal examination by ,a dentist, or
dental hygienist, a tuberculin
test, and a chest X ray;
The majority of school „exam-
inations are conducted right in
the .schoOltoom, where 'there is
no privacy: The• result is that
the- doctor fails to apot troubles
• that ,can only be, revealed when
the child' removes most of his
.:elethinga' It his" been -estiniated
that only eight Per Cent of-the
- pupils strip for examination. In
fact, many, cities , actually have
local rules or custorns. which
prohibit-the removal. °Of cloth-
ing for a school mediCal exam-
Inatien. ,
No wonder doctors 1111.5 com-
pletely cases like that of a, girl
who had a spinal deformation
that was` concealed by her
clothes, 'or 'of the boy who had
a hernial that would have been
seen had he stripped.
Chest ' X ray 'examination
shpuld be part of ,adequate
diagnosis, but it ie cloallatful that
one student in, 20 'routinely gets
ohe. Wheh parents: of , first-
grader in an eastern suburban
community had her X;:rayed,,by
a priVate pbysician, it was
found that ahe had T13: The en-
tire class was the X4ayed and
three others were also found to
have tuberculosis. Moreover, so
did the young teacher; who was
identified as the 'source ef ,in-
fection.
Ofa school children.,
are 'still given; hearing' tests by
the crudest methods, when we
have available en excellent • pie-
vice, for ,testing heating, the
audionieter, 1Vlilliairs more get
only a simple test of their vis_
tial acuity, spite. of 'the fact
that we nave Modern Machines
; that provide tests of all phases
Of Vision,
But do' we need physical ex-
' athinatforia in 'the schools- at' all?
Can't the whole thing' be done
by private physicians -to whom
parents might take their chg-
. afro? Medical authorities ,say
"NO!" mainly bedause most par-
ents would riot take the time
' arid and trouble to do so: The
plain fact, as stated by the Sec-
ond National Conference of
Physicians and schools, is that,
on all economic levels, "It is
Uncommon for children who
seem healthy to be taken to the
doctor after their second year
of life."
The need for school exartilha,
tiOns has beeti dramaticallY
proven by cases where the ek-
arniriations have been thorough,
When the Board of Education
of Shrewsbury; Massachusetts,
had -the entire student body of
1,575 'take sheCial vision tests,
there were 307 failures,
detitally, only `of these
ationlet have been :discovered : by
the sketchy methods usually
Used in school vision testa.
The' State Of Pertheylikaiiia ill
Stitutect a program Of thorough
examinations, arid fotitid that
out of eivroxiniatelV• 3.,000,606
children examined in one yeata
athrie .400,000 had medical
feats:
Whet can be done to make „
the Medical eXamiriatien eye,
rem Irt your school workt
6NEitHER. tfkletW,NOR: RAIN . ., —.„ or a washed-out foot,
bridge keeps Postmistress Pauline lucIT from L delivering the mall,
When the flooding Kaweoh River recently swept away the
bridge, the pe'r.Sitent peatehistrest arid her dssisforit,• rigged up.
a cable buO actors the river to replace the bridde. PosimistreM
and her mail ride high and dry fo the tractitioo'that the Molt
Must 46 through,"
Toward the end of' the sum,
mer, a five-year-old Nevr4Jer-
sey child began to complain of
stomach pains. He seemed tired,
listless and' unhappy.
. "Ought to take him to a doe-
,. tor," the boy's father said.
His mother agreed, but• add- -
ed, "Let's wait. He'll have a
-medical examination before he
starts kindergarten."
A feat *weeks later the. Child;
along :with other kindergarten-
ers, was examtpeda. "Nothing
the matters : the, doctor, report-
ed. "Just see that he has plenty'
of fresh air, rest And affection.
Don't glare him any'. sweets be-
tween meals: He'll: be all right."
• The parents paid little Atten-
tion after, that to .the, boy's .con-
;dant whining, his stomach, up-
sett and listlessness: Not ' un-
til two years later did 'they fin-
ally take him to the family doc-
tor. There they hear' a ,frighterra
ing diagnosis; eeneera of the
stomach! ,
Fortunately' 'the cancer"could
still be treated successfully; but
the parents looked back bitterly
on all the,, time -their son had
had to, stiffer, pain, and unde-
served scoldinge. ,
Too late, thoUsands of un-
happy parents are realizing the
shocking' truth ahout 'school ,,
medical .examinations. Medical
and educatienai a3itherities,acon-
dernn the §ituation,as, a national'
disgrace. " '
Though we are spending`.$30,'4„,
000,000 a year for school exam-
Mations; conservative medical
estimates indicate an enlay, one.,
pupil in 15 gets an ,aaalequate"
examination during ,:his ,eantire
school Career.
„The haaic ° trouble akakhis:
what has been• passihg-Ifor of school medical examinationaisn't
one at all.
In , thousands ,of scbools, net=
ther dOctors •not medically
trained personnel' administer
the -tests, Instead, the principal,
a teacher, or even an older
pupil„ officiates. ff
The children line up, one
steps forward, the tester says,
"Say ah," and peers into the
throat. A crude whisper test for
hearing and the good, but very
limited, Snellen test for vision
complete the "physical check-
up." Yet on the strength of this
alinost meaningless eXernina-
tion, the parents receive a re-
port that, physically, all is well
with their child. •
Or Suppose the eitarnixiation
is Made by a doctor% — probably
idji overworked public health
Officer or a 'private physidian
taking 'needed away -froth
his own practice to ti.o, this work
fora .pittance. The, chances are
that the ohildren through an
assembly line processing which
As little different itf Its results.
006 doctor remarked• iri di§gtisk
"How can you call glapoing.
over 40 kids in a morning' ses- a
lien giving medicals?"
the AMA state-St "The physl-
elan tan perform a good screen,.
Ink examination and Counsel
with the child and his parents'
it it the rate of four or five tier
po4
lic4e original',bth
reed
Pinscher, is a sr
black and tap a
steely muscles and
lin4tFeoltihri gene: ;inasc;ieiti, •7:41,,pl, ,41,4,4,. , 4s fIlr c 4a s ..
served
o i 1 e e ,
where he'llas
bp to
).a.spleliclid repOid::,.
;cent which is sometimes
as a trail; deg He avll follow' a '
forty hours old and till illid0110
quarry. i
It is suggested the he ii, We)
JO do this because he foiiOare
scent, not on the gr and like,a .
blood-hound, .but in ie airs film"
advantage of this is hat 119 has
been known to pick up a seent
from across a strea, and ihark
has climbed a ,ledder and palled'
ri
near a high wall w ere a Ithiffea
it up after :WM. But a attong
breeze can baffle even this ,doga f
He is at his best in hot dam-
tries, and because of the success
of his breed in South Africa
their descendants were sent to •
serve in the Palestine police.
Before the dogs could be taken
to Palestine, however, it was
necessary for Palestine police
officers to travel to Pretoria to
study their language, for the
Dobermann only understood Af-
rikaans. Once he had settled
down in his new surroundings
the Dobermann speedily proved
his value.
After a hold-up on the main
Jericho Road in 1937, one of
these dogs was given scent from
a foot-print seventeen hours old.
He took up the trail at once
and continued f or twenty-five
miles over extremely difficult
country. Now and then, as
though to encourage the police
and to assure them that he,
knew his job and was on the,
right track, the dog turned
aside to indicate where a couple
of cartridges had been careless-
ly dropped beside the trail.
They kept on and eventually
came to Maukhmas .village
where the hunt ended drama-
tically. In the village was a man
still armed with a rifle who
could have Proved dangerous to
arrest,' But before he could do
any damage the dog flew at him
and pulled him down.
This is one of the charaeteris-
tics of the Dobermann which
'Might keep him from police ser-
Vice in more populous commu-
nities: He •is very highly strung
and when excited by the chase
..... during , which his tempera-
ture. may rise several degrees—,
he is. ,apt .to maim a, Jugitive,
especially if the ,man resists,
Police officers handling them
have to be partieularly careful
because these dogs become so
devoted that. they, can be , fero-
ciously jealous if the handler
so much, as talks to another
dog. One policeman had his
front teeth' knocked out when
a big dog, 'w h'i eh was very
fond of him, resented his pat-
ting another dog! ' . 1
But the ,Dobermann is not al.;
ways aggressive. Here is an ex- '
ample of how he pointed out a'
guilty man
' A thief broke into the Tala-
vera military barracks, near
Jerusalem, and stole some Mills
bombs. The dogs were brought
to the scene, and atter sniffing
at a cloth found on the spot one
of them made 'a bee-line for an
Arab village. He selected .a
house and went ,in. to find an
Arab sitting cross-legged on a
straw mat. The dog went up
to him, placed his fore-paws oh
the man's shoulders and gave
thtee short barks.
The Arab jumped up, quiver-
ing. He was accused of the theft,
but swore he was innocent, He
was taken into custody and
placed in a line with other Ar-
abs for a canine identification
parade. A second dog was given
agent from the scene of the. ,
crime and then t a k en to the
identification parade where he
unhesitatingly picked out the
same man. "The hound must
have seen me!" declared the ,
Arab and confessed.
In another case Arabs had
made a night attack on a Jewish .
settlement in. Lower Galilee. The
pair of police Dobermanns put
on the job had only a sniff at
an abandoned rifle, but they
found a ttail which led them out
into the sandy wastes of Galilee
Eventually they halted and
gave tongue near a cave in the
hills, It.. was a real rabbets',
cave. In. ait were eight fierce-
looking bandits. Ever' they cow..
ered away from the dogs, which
in e ha ed cl. there -with fangs
gleareihg, eyes. blazing, But the
bandits' fear atein riled from , a -
More deep-rooted,., Superriattirel
tense
All the time, as they shuffled
out of their cave arid alloWed
themselves to be disarmed, their
eyes; with a sort of fearful feat-;
einatiorii followed- the shifting.
Circling intiverrients Of 'the do&
patrolling round them, As One
of them passed' near Mit; On
Arab drew back with a' shad--
der.
"Rath& of Satani" he Startle
Meted, "Only Satan could
know what We didi atid send
thdhi la' ,htid tisl"
A Man's Dish
Unless you've collaborated
with a squirrel under the con-
ditions described below, you
haven't eaten a real Brunswick
stew yet I Start it off this way:
1 small can corn (6 ears); 1 pint
lima beans; 4 potatoes; 1 onion;
1 quart sliced' tomatoes; 3 tea-
spdon sugar; 1/2 lb. butter; 1 tea-
spoon salt; 1 teaspoon pepper.
Clean squirrels (two or three of
them) and cut into pieces. To
four quarts of boiling water,
add salt, minced onion, beans,
corn, potatoes, squirrels and
pepper. Cover and simmer for
two hours. Add sugar and toma-
toes, Simmer an additional
hour. Add butter. Simmer ten
minutes, bring to boil,' and re-
move from fire. Add additional
salt and pepper to suit taste,
Brother, she's good !
TODAY.— tato spaceman, he. The
masks protects this mciintenance
Worker at Air Force Base`.' from
bitter winter:gales as he keeps
road facilities open with his
reidd grader.
tHAiif isfo_ry eeiSeated itself 'at the Gedr# Adlard
home when two-cinci ,a-holf-year-old left; got, her- head
vlie dg -Ie& W. of ir child's rocking Chair: Mrs. Adlard knew
juStsviti80,i,..deicrive years ago sister Terry, how seven, had a
srrtilar With On identical rocker: Not knowing' what to
Rio at the time, Mrs. Adlard Ccille4"•her husband' home from
work. He freed Tetni, by viwring: out the bdtk slot, So' wheil Gail
got 'stuck, her mOther 'rti for the (rusty tdW. Above; the
MOW "theee, is no ittOre danger in putfing their heads
through The chair backs.
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