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The Brussels Post, 1956-08-22, Page 2AY SCHOOL LESSON REDS' LITTLE CONSTRUCTION SCHOOLHOUSE Model home, above, at San Bruno, Calif, which Soviet building experts saw on their tour, prototype of one scheduled for shipment to Moscow some time in August of this year — complete with furnishings, Amtorg, Soviet trade agency, has OK'D purchase order placed at the time for the home, It's a three-bedroom, two- bath dwelling. ••••••••••••••••...01,001.1.0 while deep red straWberries, wieile rio longer cOlefined to a ;short season as they once were, *re at their peak of freshness eesel sun-ripened liaeror at. this time of year, These berries are faverites fOr desserts in many families, with the shortcake VerhaPs holding top place. Shortcakes may be either of biscuit or cake type. Which- ever you use, Prepare berries end sweeten them early enough 'go that all the rare flavor that fa in the strawberry may be 'Drought out. Then use either whipped cream or vanilla ice cream for a topping — and you have a dessert that pleases even the most exacting taste. * * MACAROON NESTS WITH STRAWBERRIES 3 cups thin-flaked coconut cup swetened condensed milk 1 teaspoonful vanilla 2 cups applesauce 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 cup sliced strawberries 1 teaspoon almond extract Combine coconut, condensed milk, and vanilla, mixing well, Drop by heaping tablespoons on brown paper which has been placed on a baking sheet. Shape into 21/2 -inch rings. Bake at 350° F. 17 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from paper at once. Mix applesauce, lemon juice, gtrawberries, and almond ex- tract. Spoon about Ye cup this filling into each serving dish. Top each with a macaroon ring. Garnish with large strawber- ries. Makes 10-12 servings. * * A hurry-up dessert that will serve 6 to 8 calls for slices of white cake on which to pile this strawberry fluff, FLUFFY STRAWBERRIES AND CAKE 1 pint strawberries (very cold) 2 egg whites 7/4 cup marshmallow crème 6-8 pieces white cake LONG WALK -- Blindfolded but staring death in the face, Ger- man aerialist Alex Schack walks along a high wire. In the back- iround is the Municipal Audi- torium, to which the wire, was trung from a 15-storey hotel. hack was making a benefit appearance for the local Junior Chamber of Commerce. Prepare berries and chill Well. Beat egg whites until stiff but net dry, Beat in Marshmallow creme until smooth, Fold in cold strawberries. Serve, piled on the white cake, * * If you're looking fore con- versation desesrt, try thisLteec versation piece dessert, try this strawberry meringue tort. SUNNY MERINQT,116 TORT ;A cup butter cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 egg yolks 1% cups sifted flour Ph teaspoons baking 34 teaspoon salt Meup milk Dash salt e.e teaspoon white or cider vinegar 3 egg whites 1 cup sugar 3e, teaspoon ground mace (optional) 3e pint whipping cream. Sweetened fresh or frozen strawberries Grease 2 9-inch round layer pans. Line bottoms (only) with waxed paper, (Leave 3-inch tabs at opposit sides of liners to make removal from pan easy.) Cream butter, add sugar gradually and continue cream- ing until mixture is light and fluffy. Blend in vanilla. Add egg yolks one at a time; beat well after each addition. Sift to- gether flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to egg mixture alternately with milk. Beat un- til smooth, Spread batter into prepared pans. Add dash of salt and vinegar to egg whites. Beat until stiff and glossy. Gradually add the cup sugar and continue beating until meringue holds a very stiff peak. Spread gently Over batter in pans. Bake at 325° F. until meringue is light- ly browned and crisp — about 40 minutes. Remove from pans to cooling rack. When cool, re- move paper from bottom. Place one layer, meringue side up, on cake plate. Sprinkkle mace over cream and whip until stiff. Spread over layer on plate. Cover with second torte layer. Cut in wedges. Top with straw- berries. STRAWBERRY ICE 1 quart strawberries,. 1 cup water 1/2, cup sugar Juice 1 lemon Cook water and sugar for 5' minutes, stirring only until su- gar has dissolved. Wash and hull strawberries;• mash and force through a coarse sieve. Combine sugar ' syrup, straw- berries, and strained lemon juice. Cool. Freeze in refrigera- tor tray for 3 hours, stirring once after first hour of freezing. * * * As the days grow warmer, you may want to freeze straw- berry desserts. Try this water ice for a cool, refreshing end to your meal. STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM .1 pint fresh strawberries 3/4 cups sugar % teaspoon salt 1 cup evaporated milk (thor- oruoghly chilled) 1 tablespoon lemon juice Wash, drain and hull straw- berries. Put into a bowl and mash thoroughly, using bottom of a glass or bottle for mashing, Let stand. Whip chilled milk until fluffy. Add lemon juice, Continue whipping until stiff, Fold into mashed berries. Freeze without stirring in tray of re- frigerator at coldest tempera- ture. • e PINEAPPLE, RHUBARB, AND STRAWBERRY JELLY Yield: about 6 medium glasses (3 lbs. jelly) 21/2 cups juice (1 small ripe pineapple about 16 lb. rhu- barb, and I pint ripe straw- berries) 31/2 cups (11/2 lbs.) sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin First, preapare the juice. Pare small, fully ripe pineapple. Chop very fine or grind, Cut in 1 inch pieces (do not peel) about 1/2 pound rhubarb. Put through food chopper. Crush thoroughly about 1 pint fully ripe strawberries. Place fruits in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. Measure 21/2 cups into a large saucepan. Then make the jelly. Measure sugar and set aside. Add pow- dered fruit pectin to juice in saucepan and mix well. Place over high heat and stir until mixture comes to hard boil. At once stir in sugar. Bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, skim off foam with metal spoon, and pour quickly into glasses. Cov- er at once with Vs inch hot - paraffin. CHERRY RELISH (using sour cherries) Yield: about 7 medium glasses (3% lbs. relish) 3 cups prepared fruit (about 2% lbs. ripe sour cherries) 4 cups (13/4 lbs.) sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin First, prepare the fruit. Stem and pit about 21/2 pounds fully ripe sour cherries. Chop very fine or grind. Add 1/4 cup vine- gar and 1 teaspoon each cinna- mon, cloves, and allspice, or any desired combination of spices. Measure 3 cups into a large saucepan. Then make the relish, Meas- ure sugar and set• aside. Add powdered fella pectin to fruit in saucepan and mix well. Place over high heat and stir until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once stir in sugar, Bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard 1 Minute, stirring constantly, Remove from heat and skim off foam with metal spoon. Then stir and skim by turns for 5 minutes to cool slightly, to pre- vent floating fruit. Ladle •ierticke ly into glasses. Cover at once with le inch hot• Paraffin. A. Iferley Street doctor coughed apologetkally as one of MS old ,patients Walked In, "f don't like to mention it," he said, "but that cheque you geee Ind has &Mid Meek." "That's funny, Isioctor.,'0 reituirk- ed the pittleht., "So hits shy ache." Silk Topper Traces Killer First hint of foul play came when two bank clerks boarded the tfain at Hackney, The com- partment was empty but, sur- prisingly, it contained a black beaver hat, a walking stick and a small black bag. Then the clerk's surprise turned to shock. One of them lifted his hand from the seat, cushion's and found it was wet and sticky . . . and red. Almost at the same moment the driver of another train had slammed on his brakes and jumped from his cabin to -inyes- tigate a "dark object'' lying near the rails between Hackney. Wick and Bow. It was a man, badly battered about' the head. He died without regaining' con- sciousness. It. was the first time • murder had been committed on a Bri- tish train. In the words of 'The , Times' of July 11th, 1864: "One of the most atrocious crimes that ever disgraced -this country was perpetrated late on Saturday evening in a first-class carriage of a passenger train on the North London Railway, when a gentleman, Mr. Thomas Briggs, was murderously assailed, plun- dered and thrown out of the trai n." body was identified by The body Mr. Briggs' son. Robbery ap- peared to be the motive: a pair of gold eyeglasses and a gold watch and chain were missing. Then came a startling, dramatic discovery. The black beaver hat found by the bank clerks had not be- longed to the dead man. The bag and stick were his, but he had been wearing a topper ("Paris nap of the best quality, with a white silk lining,' said his son) of which there was'no trace. "The curious business of the two hats seemed to have only one possible explanation," writes Belton. Cobb in his absorbing book on the developmeht of our modern high-powered C.I.D., "Critical Years At The Yard." The thief must have hit harder than he intended,• pushed his victim through the train win- dow, jumped out himself at the tiekt station, grabbing the Wrong hat in his panic, For a time matters were at a standstill. Then a jeweller in Cheapside gave the Yaid a Clue when he reported that a Mari had come into his shop arid ex- changed a gold 'Chain for one attached to a ring. Was he the killee, Who had cunningly ob- tained a piede of jeWellery not listed as Stolen property, a chain he could sell without arousing sutpleiori. He was described by the jeweller, as "prebably a 6ernitin, thin,• sallow-faced and hungry looking," But London was full of such types in those days. The trail seemed to be growing cold when Inspector Tanner, in charge of the case, decided to try a new track. He issued a description to the Press of the box in which the jeweller had packed the ring and chain, and offered £300 for in- formation leading to an arrest. The box had the jeweller's name printed on it. A curious name: DEATH. Three days later a cabby named Matthews called at Pad- dington Green police station, He Said that a German he had known for a couple of years, Franz Muller, had given his daughter a boX as a• parting gift before sailing to Ainerica. He had found the little girl playing with it, and he hadn't liked it .; i not with • the word "death" on it At first the police thought he might be a heaxer after the £300. But he was able to. pro- duce, a photo of Muller which was, identified by Mr. Death as that of the man who had ex- changed the gold chaln in his shop. There was also the business of the beaver hat. Some time before, when he was more pros- perous, Muller had admired the headgear of his friend the cabby. He had asked for one like it; and Matthews was able to identify the black beaver found in the train as the hat he had bought for Muller. The hue and cry was on. It was found that Muller had pawned the chain • and ring and left for America in the sailing ship Victoria. He was due in New York , in five or six weeks; and if he was to be caught some- one would have to beat him to it before he "disappeared." At once the Home Secretary approached the Admiralty: and The City of Manchester—one of the "new-fangled" steamships— was soon ploughing across the Atlantic with smoke belching from her funnel and Inspector Tanner aboard. It was a life-or-death race— steam against sail. And steam won. Before he could step ashore at New York, Muller was arres- ted. And among his belongings was a silk topper (Paris nap of the best quality) but of very curious shape. Ingeniously, its crown had been cut down all inch and a half to remove the part bearing Mr. Briggs' name, and the edges had then been pasted and sewn together. It led to a new fashion in low-crowned silk hats, known as "Muller cut-downs," from which the ever-popular bowler is said to have originated. Brought back to England, Muller was mobbed at Euston Station and Bow Street. An en- thusiastic crowd of 20,000 sight- seers watched his execution on November 14th, 1864, Belton Cobb's lively book is full of interesting details about the early days of crime detec- tion. One story concerns the first attempt to use dogs to track a killer—the notorious Jack the Ripper. The idea appealed very much to the public imagination, writes the author. It also appealed to Sir Charles Warren (newly ap- pointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police) who could be seen daily exercising the dogs in Hyde Park. •Their the fateful day tame. Inspector Abberline (in charge of the Whitechapel murders) sent an urgent request to the Commissioner for the bloodhoUnds to be sent to the scene of 8. fresh Ripper killing. But no bloodhounds appeared. The explanation , was simple enough. The dogs themselves Were being tracked. They had bolted during exerciser Children do Make a differ- ence to the house — but it can tituallY be repaired, DRIVE WITH CARE Jealous . Of, Her Own Portrait. A French scientist •Velem • lated that, as most Women epend thirty minutes a day In nu:thing up,. preetthig .and admiring themselves, they Mate 610,070 minutes — g42, days of their lives, Mostly between. the nge$ of twenty and thirty-five —in front of their mirrors. Yet half an hour a slay would not have .sufficed for the toilets of some well.- known beauties, Blizabeth, Empress of Austria, was se vain over her, chestnut hale, Which felt to below her heees, that she once had every hair counted, end used to spend hours in front of - her mirror havieg her tresses tar- ranged in exotic. fasblops. Feeder still of geling at her west reflection was Virginia, Countess of Castiglione, She was so vain that once, after inspecting a full-length nude portrait for which she poMe6, she took the artist's knife, and rip- ped his painting to shreds in ease art lovers should prefer that lihe- ness to herself,* But the most amazing passion for mirrors was that which enslaved .Kate,Horvoath wine merchant. Ile- leg accustomed to spending houes. admiring her own good. topics, she entered a competition in which a prize of $5,000 was to be given to the entrant .collecting the greatest number of ,Inirrors. Kate bought specimens from castles and mftn- stens all over the country, and then travelled abroad .busing still more mirrors. Then when the time came `for her collection to be examined the Turkish millionaire who had organized the contest committed suicide. Now Kate possessed 2,700 min- ors, stored in nine of the ten rooms • - in her home, .and when her husband f died in 1922, they represented her total assets. One by one she sold them to buy food, still spending hours gazing at her reflection in the others. One day, however, she tripped and fell against one mas- sive mirror; sthashed it and cut her- self badly on the splinters. And I when neighbours answered her screams they were too late to help. She died a victim of the strangest mirror mania on record. Only one man seems to have sought mirrors with anything like KAte's • enthusiasm. Sir John Sloane, founder of the Sloane •Hus- eura in London, could never resist them and had hundreds built Into the house in which his treasures are now housed, Strangely enough, a number of women have disliked mirrors. Lady Montague, the once famous English society beauty .who died in 1762, never looked at herself in a glass during the last twenty-two years of her life. Smallpox had ruined the beauty that had once made her the toast of London. However, let it be • said that Charles Worth, of the United States, was -one of the opposite sex who never knew what he looked like— buefor a very good reason. He was a victim of premature senility, and at the age of seven was as grey- bearded• and tottery as a man of seventy. When he should have been playing with boys, his own age he was hobbling round on a stick, for all the world like a bent old man. His 'parents kept him away from mirrors and refused to let him see his own reflection in water. One day, however, he did look into, a mirror in an unguarded moment, and the terrible shock Of what he saw is said to have killed him. BAD TIMES Wife greeting grumpy look- ing husband at the door: "I'll bet your office had a hard day." MERRY MENAGERIE "Now, don't get impatient we've got a search party out for' the honey!" It Barclay Warren. B.A. MD. Jesus is the Saviour of Men Hebrews 2:9.13; 4;14-10; 5:7-9 Memory Selection Being made e erfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him, Hebrews 5:9 1The IIebrew5 were thorough- ly acquainted with ell the de, tails of temple worship, The writer points out that Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of all that was prefigured by the tem- ple and the sacrifices, Jesus is the great high priest, Since he was man he knows our frailities. He "was in all points tempted like as we are, yet with- out sin." Other priests served a few years and died. But Jesus, the Son of God, has passed into, the heavens and has a continuing priesthood. Jesus Christ has the unique position of being both the high priest presenting the offering and being the offering itself. He is the sacrifice. It was the Father's will "that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man." We cannot save ourselves from sin. That is like trying to lift ourselves by our bootstraps. Our works will not do it. We cannot buy our way to heaven with money or effort, The church cannot save us; hence church membership will not suffice. Of' course the church plays an im- portant part in preaching the gospel. ' But if we are trusting in the. church for our salvation we• greatly err. Jesus Christ is the Saviour of Men. He is the great sacrifice. He is the great high priest. He is the Son of God and the Son of Man. He is the only one who can meet our need. "Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under• heaven given among men where- by we must be saved." We must confess our sins and trust in him as our Lord and Savious. He is the author of eternal salvation unto all that obey him. "I feel so embarrassed," Said one glow-worm to another, "I've been talking to a cigarette end for the, last five minutes." SUMMER TIE - UP — Cool; slim and collected that's the summer rendition of this sheath in barley beige or pepper black cotton pique. Collared in sugal white, the whole dress is tied up neatly with a checker-board faur-in-hand. 'A BLE TAI; Qi,,,,,w.A.itiews. powder SAFE. BY A sHAbi trio won't have to, runt far cover dome rain or come shine, Their unique headgear can-:441dt the features both' hats arid oitibtellas, while protecting` the hairdos INDEPENDENCE DAY IN EGYPT — A Soviet-supplied Stalin tank goes on public display for the first time during a parade in Cairo on the occasion of the country's anniversary of Independ- ence. Egyptian Premier Nasser watched the display of tanks, heavy guns and armored cars. . ,Itie REUNION IN ENGLAND -,,, Pbefrier British Prime' Miiihter Sir' Win:,. .,,.. ... ... storm Churchill; and. teenier' ii.,'S',. Pee§rdetit. Hotly' S.,, Teumbeti• . „. ., .., ,,,. ....,.... ... 4401*, 'shake. hdnds as they meet- „for the OW time. since. ,theje left their tioi,e,,,s;.-of .hdtrOhdii fecideetIlto„ They 'hod. a 'rehrikrt at • ditottwetti 'tie Wfiiaiee.'i,. t ouhfil estate, e '