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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-08-29, Page 6Ugh! Moonlight Has Odd Influences IF you're preparing a gelatin deesert and want it to set in a hurry, here's a useful hint. Just add to the gelatin, already dis- solved in 1 cup boiling water, 4 4-10 geed-sized ice cubes and SNAKES ALIVE-- 'Standing at 'a relatively safe distance, Banker Joe Durham, catches a rattlesnake, thanks to a clever sna'gg- i,ng device. Its alkpart of the annual rattlesnake hunt spOnsored by the local Junior Chamber of -Commerce. This year's hunt brought in 2400 live snakes. Venom is sold to makers of snake- bite serum and best of the snakes go to zoos. a Medical research On a larger seale than ever before will take place this year into the strange, unpredictable influence Which appears 'to be exerted by 'the moon on hutnan beings and plants all over the world, es- pecially in tropical ountries. Some scientists believe it is, posible that the full moon may affect •the vital fluids in the cav- ities of the human brain and spine, French scientists have col- lected ninth evidence to show that most births occur when the moon is near the horizon, Tea planters in Assam during the picking season, study the moon. Experience has taught them, that the growth of leaf increases as the moon grows and that the heaviest crop of leaf, under favorable conditions, is usually gathered when the moon is full. In a court case it was stated by a solicitor on behalf of a man charged with theft that his client was "ruled by the moon." At the time of the, full moon, he added, the man lost control of himself and did strange things. Like many other men, his client was more quarrelsome when the moon shone. Astronomers co - operating at places as far apart as France, Germany and Shanghai, have demonstrated that the land mass of Europe and Asia is stretched about sixty feet' by the pull of the moon which, of course, caus- es tides. Men in Central Africa have revealed that they frequently suffer from severe headaches as a result of moonshine. Some make a practice of wearing a pith helmet when going out on a moonlit night. Moonshine? What do you think? We see by the paper they may take a vote, over in Bun- combe County, on fluOridatiOn of .the public water.supply, The Purpose, of course, is to get, flouride into the drinking water of all the children, so they'll have better teeth. Fluoridation, usually the sub- ject of bitter controversy, is a Subject on which we've found it hard to get worked up — either way, For our guess is the results won't be so miraculous as to put all the dentists out of business; they apparently don't think so either, because most of them are for it. Nor, on the other hand, do we anticipate all the dire consequences some op- ponents predict, Our chief reaction is to won • - der about the waste of fluoride. If the sole purpose is to get fluoride into children; why not just prescribe it for the chil- dren? Why put it into all the water used for industrial pur- poses? into all the water used for washing clothes and dishes? into all the water used for bathing? Why, in fact, waste fluoride on adults, whose teeth already are formed? And why, in the name al all that is sensi- ble, give it to the thousands with false teeth? Wouldri't it make equally' good sense to put the children's cod liver oil into the public water supply? Yes, sir, it would make just as good sense, And since it would, it seems reasonable to conclude that if we ever flu- oridate the public water supply, sometime we might get around to cod liver oiling it. That though convinces us we do take sides in this controversy' after all. Fluoridation? We're ag'in it! Cod liver oil in drinking water! Ugh! — The Franklin (N.C.) Press & Highlands Caconian. Clouted Lion On The Snout. stir for abOut 3 :minutes, or un- til gelatin becomes sirupy and the cubes step melting. Then re- move fee cubes and set bowl of gelatin in refrigerator to chill. It will set in about hour. If you like to accent the flavor of fruit-flavored gelatin, add 1, cup grapefruit juice instead of Old water as called for in the package directions, Or, add 1 cup of gingerale, apricot 'nectar, or orange juice instead of water, For an entirely new taste, mix two compatible gelatins such as orange and black raspberry. • • * Here is a dessert that is fluffy and creamy, yet not too rich. It's a gelatin cream whip which can be made as festive as you please when ringed with whipped cream garnished with mint and served with your fa- vorite fresh fruit. GELATIN. CREAM WHIP 1 pkg. black cherry, grape, or black raspberry gelatin 1 cup hot water 1 cup cold water lee cup whipping cream Additional whipped cream for garnish Sprigs of mint Grapes, red raspberries, Bing cherries or other fresh fruit. Dissolve gelatin in hot water; add cold water. Chill until slightly thickened. Place bowl elf gelatin in ice water, and beat With egg beater until thick and fluffy. Whip cream and fold into Whipped gelatin. Pour into serv- lug dish and chill until firm. Garnish with a piping of whip- ped cream and mint sprigs and Serve with side dishes of the fruits. • * • Banana sponge brightened with gay maraschino cherries is (loud laughter), They would be blown off by the wind (more laughter). And if a strong wind came the fire would become so het that the boiler would burst." At his final sally, Stephenson laughed as loudly as anyone else, but for a different reason. The absurdity of that eloquent mem, leer's argument convulsed him. On another oceasion, a Mem- ber speaking in opposition to the Bill asked Stephenson to assume that one of his engines was tra- velling at 10 m.p.h. when a cow strayed onto the line. "Would that not be an awkward circum- stance?" he asked, "Yes," answered Stephenson in his rich Northumbrian brogue, "very awkward — for the coo!" Few outstanding benefactors of mankind ever stirred up such contempt, initially, as Marconi, the wireless pioneer. When he first came as a "young crackpot" to England, he was subjected to every indignity. On his arrival at the port, customs officers, probing into his suitcases and trunks, were startled by the com- plicated scientific apparatus they discovered. "The man's an an- archist," said one, So. Marconi, seeking peace to develop his world-changing ideas, found himself arrested and his apparatus confiscated. Happily, a British engineer quickly vouched for him. • But, almost immediately after- wards, a London newspaper, which should have known better, commented: "An Italian has ar- rived — with a concertina but no monkey. It is a street organ on which it is impossible to play, but it can make a lot of noise." However, the "concertina with no monkey" shortly afterwards bridged the Atlantic, so' giviiig birth to modern radio's great achievements. Yet hardly had Marconi begun his successful ex- periments before old ladies started writing to the newspap- ers complaining about "all this electric stuff in the air." "It is crippling our health," they cried, in dismal chorus. "The man should be put away, and .his godless contraptions burnt," advised others, itching to blot out a great man's vision and' treat him as a dangeroue criminal or lunatic. These examples show clearly enough that it is not wise to label every inventor's dream as "bilge." One day the Astrono- mer Royal's derision of space tra- vel may make him look just as silly! Fluoridation another delicious dessert for early summer, CHERRY BANANA SPONGE 1 pkg. lemon-flavored gelatin 1 cup hot water 34 cup cold water 2 tblsps. lemon juice le tsp, grated lemon rind 3 bananas 3 egg vvhltes, stiffly beaten le cup chopped maraschino cherries, drained (15 cher- ries) Whipped cream Maraschino cherry halves Dissolve gelatin in hot water. Add cold water, lemon juice, and rind, Mash 2 bananas well and add to gelatin mixture, mixing well, Chill until mixture begins to thicken. Beat well. Fold in egg whites and chopped cher- ries. Pile lightly into serving dishes and chill until firm. Top with whipped cream. Slice re- maining banana. Garnish with banana slices and cherry halves. • * * Sliced peaches and red rasp- berries combine to make this mold that is sliced for serving a festive treat. GYPSY FRUIT MOLD 1 pkg. orange-flavored gela- tin 1 cup hot water 1 cup cold water 1 1Y2 cups sliced peaches 1 cup fresh red raspberries. Dissolve gelatin in hot water. Add cold water. Pour a thin layer into a loaf mold and chill until firm. Chill remaining gela- tin until slightly thickened. Ar- range peaches on firm layer and cover with a layer of slightly thickened gelatin. Chill until firm. Add berries and cover with remaining gelatin. Chill until firm. Unmold and cut in slices to serve. Serves 8. • • * APPLESAUCE SNOW 1 envelope unflavored gelatin % cup sugar V4. teaspoon salt % cup water Yi tsp, grated lemon rind 1 tblsp. lemon juice 1% cups (1 pound can) sweet- ened applesauce 2 egg whites Mix together thoroughly in top of double boiler the gelatin, salt and sugar. Add.mater. Place over boiling water and stir until gelatin is thoroughly" diseolyed.? ;Remoite from heat. Add leniOn rind and juice, and applesauce. Chill until mixture mounds slightly when dropped from a spoon. Add the unbeaten egg whites and beat with a rotary beater until mixture begins to hold its shape. Turn into a 5-cup mold or into individual molds. Chill until firm. Serves 8. * * It seems to us that we must approach the question of fluori- dation from a standpoint of logic. If it is the government's job to see to it that we are all bristling with health, then let's blow the works. The water sup- ply can be made the transmis- sion device of every beneficial substance which mankind can discover. On the other hand, if health is the responsibility of indivi- dual people and not the job of government, let's keep it that way . . This nation was founded on concepts of human liberty. The government was to be the great referee, 'not the universal cor- nucopia. If fluorides are bene- ficial they can be bottled, pow- dered, tableted or otherwise pre- pared and sold over the drug 'counter as needed . . . For goodness sakes, let's op- pose this march towards socia- lized medicine. Let's not remove the right of a man 'to make up his own mind.—Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, PUZZLE — What's the man do- ing inside the machine ? At one time, any schoolboy could, have answered the question. He's a steam locomotive inspector, making a periodic checkup of the firebox of a King Arthur class engine in London, Eng- land. As the diesel pushes the locomotive down the track to memory, this sight will eventu- ally vanish from the transporta- tion scene entirely. Some Prophets Who Guess Wrong MODEST APPEAL — •Hillevi Rom • - bin, Swedish beauty currently reigning as "Miss Universe," models a conservative halter- type bathing suit of lastex. Straps of the jeweled top can be tied around the back for sunbathing. Suit's style is a swing to more suit, less skin, and typifies trend in suits this season. APRICOT SPONGE PIE 1 envelope unflavored gelatin % teaspoon salt 11/2 cups very hot apricot nec- tar (1-ounce can) 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon almond extract 2 egg whites 1 coconut pie shell Combine gelatin, sugar, and salt; mix well. Add hot nectar and stir until gelatin is thorough- ly dissolved. Add lemon juice and almond extract. Chill to slightly thicker than unbeaten egg white consistency. Add the 2 unbeaten egg whites and beat with rotary beater until mixttwe begins to hold its shape. Turn into pie shell and chill. Coconut Pie Shell. Grease a 9-inch pie plate with 1 teaspoon butter or margarine. Empty a 4-ounce can shredded coconut into pie plate and nress against sides and bottom of plate. Bake at 325° F about 10 mins. Cool, NOT FUSSY "Can I go out and play with the boy next door, Mummy?" "No. You know I don't like him." "Then can I ,go out and fight him?" RACY HAIRDO — Usually groom? eel to perfection, Princess Mar- garet sports a wind-blown hair- do as she attends a point-to- point meet of the West Norfolk Hunt at Sorle, near Sandring- ham, England. ab „za VIEW SCENE OF btAII4 Mother St. Paul (tenter), .Mothei tuperior of .tlie brder Of the Grey Cross, and members Of her SteW viclk grounds Of the Villa St. Louis near Ottawa, afte arriving to ihspect the scene of the tragedy. brothers were experimenting with their heavier-than-air mach- ines, Dr. Simon Newcombe, a noted American scientist, scorned the very ,suggestion of mechani- cal flight. He argued that "no possible combination of known substan- ces, 'known form of machinery and known forms of force can be united in a practicable machine by which we will fly long dis- tances through the 'air." And he concluded: "May not our mech- anicians be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of the great class of problems with which man can never cope, and give up all attempts to- grapple with it?" Yes,' flying, so commonplace today, seemed "utter bilge" fifty- "six years ago. , Inventors of all forms of il- lumination have also been caus- tically "bilged." When gas light- ing was first mooted, Sir Walter Scott, the novelist, commented in a letter to a friend: "There is a man here who professes to light the streets of London with •smoke." ' Electricity, when demonstrated in Paris in 1878, caused Profes- sor Erasmus Wilson to write: "With regard to electric light, much has been said for and against it, but •I -think I may say without fear of contradiction -that when the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it, and very little more will be heard of it." No:less an authority than Wer- ner von Siemens, the Berlin physicist and engine e r, once wrote a treatise for experts on the incandescent lampeHe ended by 'stating his conviction that electric lighting would never supplant gas lighting or reach its efficiency. If scientists were so wrong less 'than a century ago, may not today's prophets be equally wrong, perhaps in a far shorter span of time Again, to return to Paris, when Edison's phonograph, a voice- recording instrument that fore- shadowed the gramaphone,' was first demonstrated before a learned French audience, Profes— sor Bouillard jumped up from his seat, seized the demonstrator by the throat, and nearly thek, ing him to death shouted: "You are imposing on us. bo you im- agine we are• to be fooled by a ventriloquist?" Napoleon himself showed piti- able judgement, almost childish- riesS, when he first met Robert Fulton, the steamship piorieer. Inspired by Jetties Watt's steam engine, Fulton wanted to adapt it for navigation. But when he unfolded his plans, Napoleon asked acidly: "Do you propose to drive a ship With, cigar smoke?" The steam engine itself pro- Veked derition and hate at the outset, That bluff north country genius; George Stephenson, fath- er of the "Rocket," foresaw the day When every CiviliMd country would be interlaced by steel. rant; -along which steam-driven aoathee plied for hire. - Yeti when he tried to bring his Bill -before Parliament for the construction of steam railWayei he fOUnd himself a national laughing stock. One MP rasped, "You all kin:AV that loeeznotieeS are driven by fire. If one Of these engines is net, upon the rails arid rain ‘comes the fire Will be put out You eantiOti, of course; Wren up' locomotive in elan§ Space travel enthusiaets will not readily forgive Professor Richard Woolley, the new As- tronomer Royal, for his severe castigation of their dreams. "The future of interplanetary travel is utter bilge," he has said. But let them take heart. Pre- dictions of wise men often prove sheer •clap-trap. Some planet ex- plorers may even be hurtling through outer 'space in Profes- sor Woolley's lifetime. And here are some good reasons why ... If we had listened to the "cold water" prophets of the past, inen of higher epute in their own spheres, we should still living in a semi-barbarian world, with- out trains, steamshipt, aero- planes, electricity, gas, radio, tel- evision, einernas, typewriters, telephones and almost every im- aginable comfort and amenity. The Hon. C. S. Rolls, .himself highly distinguished as a Motor- ing and flying pioneer, once said: "I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in 'Our time' moreover; owing to the lightness of the air, in which the aeroplane has to operate,• i do riot think it will ever be used for carrying either goods or a large number Of pas- sengers." Frank H. huddle, the noted aviator and friend Of Wilbur Wright, said this about flying the Atlantic in 1910. "A Man of thirty may see the feat ticeotre. plished but for myself I think the probabilities are rather against it." Only nine years Jater, John Alcock and ArthUr Whitten BroWn, both Glasgow-born, -con- founded him arid won a $50,000 prize by making the first trent- atlantie flight in hittory. Farlier on, at the century's - turn, just When thti Wright When she saw the lion Mrs. Burger thought fast. Then she shinned up a tree. She expected the lion would eventually go away, but it just sat there wait- ing, despite her shouts. Mrs. Burger, of South-west Africa, began to get hungry and it was very late when she decided that, lion or no lion, she eye.segging to eat. • is:Titatiy;,Shelopped down from her- perch on a branch of a thorny mimosa tree, rushed the lion and gave it a resounding smack on the ear. The shocked lion sprang up and growled, and then the woman let fly again and clout- ed it right on the snout. That was enough for it. Turn- ing tail, it raced off. Some stranger things than cuffing a lion have happened, however. While fishing off the beach at Byron Bay,' New South Wales, John McGuire, aged twenty-three, hooked what he thought was a pretty big fish. After thirty minutes' struggle he got it to the water's edge. Then the wire trace snapped and the fish began to get away. McGuire dashed into the sea, grabbed his fish and, after a grim struggle, dragged it ashore. It was a six-foot man- eating shark! The most unfortunate angler of the past year was Mahmoud, who was angling in East Pakis- tan when he caught a 31b. fish. He was holding the fish in his mouth while arranging his - tackle when the fish slipped down his throat and choked him to death. The only taxi in history that can boast that it was sunk by a North Sea gale was Raymond Sowerby's cab. Sowbery was taking three passengers home in Teesport during a gale when a gust of wind whipped the cab clean off the road into the River Tees, where it sank in deep water. Sowbery and his passen- gere escaped. From Canberra comes an- other very odd story which nearly takes the prize for the past year. Mrs. Verna Walcott, of Bentley, Victoria, was late in rising and she rushed to the kitchen to pet some bread in the toaster: The bread was beginning to char when she remembered that she had put her husband's Weekly pay, $75, in the toaster the previous night for safe,. keeping. The banknotes had been burnt to a cinder! In busy Chicago a traffid Spector saw a cat appear on the pavement with a tiny kitten in her mouth. As the cat hestitated On the edge Of the pavement, the inspector stepped Out and StOPped the traffic: The cat then Crossed the street and entered a shop OPPdsite. A few seconds later it was baek, crossed the street arid fetched another kit, ten. For' tWeritY4iVe minutes the inspector piled up the traffic until ,the cat had carried her four kittens from her hide-away to the shop.. Then the griinibl- ing drivers were allowed to daril brie POLITICS With' A 6014—Me NI- 13;Ve 'Of r.f14/1W6Melitl 1 Press Club act out a Skit entitled "Ike Brushes Off the Farmers" at the WNOC"S annual dinner and Stunt party tn, Waehlenten. President and Wt. .EisenhOwer Were guests of honor at the; affair. Above, Betty Beal;, of the' Washington Star, portrays lictitterriatiiigta hit Cr gaff bait off the naioi;Lo "farther" Mary Ilyne', of the U.S, information, Administration'. the "farmers wife" 1i' -Patricia Wiggle* of Unite&