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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-06-05, Page 6TRADITIONAL RITE — Eight-year-old Ahmed Rashid washes the feet of his Sister, Sultana, 7, in a cleansing rite before enter- ing the Muslim Shah Jehan Mosque at Woking, England. Wear- ing the Pakistani national costume, the pair took part in the festival of Id-Al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, Islamic month of fasting. About 100,000 Muslims live in 'England. ar TA LE TALKS i 6ate Ara m/5. 4756 tiZES 4014tels, eieedee, aaaaa aaaaaaaraareao No, ko4 .4 sr PRICELESS PAGODA Hiroshi ICume, 44;resenicilive of the Mikirrioto Pearl Farms of japan, examines a priceless scale Madel of a pagoda which is on displa in a department stare, Entirely hand-wrought of platinuM, silver and wite gold Cie Well as mother-of-pearl, it is a Model of the Horyaji Pagodpr itt Mara, Japan. It is decorated with More than 1,000 pearls: EPIC 00-fitilitTRATION-,,It may look like these gentleffiell of Palle, FearCe, Ore vigirodelae a" "l thettieeteet to peertee cleinking.builf lest ieel it they're working'--eteielirig write; The Wine-tasters ate sampling -tipt, Of Votivtay Wine from the banks of .f the Loire, And fasting is ell '14y teiCe. the sample tnatt itrY/ be. swallowed lest if leciVe'd lingering taSt which' might: affect Igfer ladgifient: English As he. Is Spelt The great advantage of be- Jag English and writing for- a newspaper published in the 17nited States is that one's • Isecullarities .of spelling stand a chance of being charitably (Cased .by the editor as British rather than personal ielesynerae VieSe. Which they will then .cor, ;let with a benevolent peal .eo Aet..yOur shame, never appears • Net but what .1 cannot spell Atoheie ana phenomenon -and grirezi pharmaceutics as maculately as the next 'man, .and rhododendron causes me no. .more than a passing pucker of the brows. The difficulty is aeuch subtler than that, and lies • .J.n those words which 'hag be spelt in many different ways to !Mean many different things, Nvrites Rosemary Cobham :in The Christian Science Monitor., ker instance, it is always un- wise 'to repeat oneself, but if .iene is going to on paper, and. Basic Beauty ' Basic beauty — the star of Sew spring, summer wardrobe! Sew twO sleeve versions of this shirtwaist dress; you'll love the battery of its simple, classic lines. Have it in gay cottons, linens for daytime; a glamorous shantung or surah silk 'for dressy occasions tool Pattern 4756: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 40. Size 16 takes 3% yards 35-inch fabric. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instruc- tions. Send FORTY CENTS e (40e) ((stamps` c-aebibteelie accepted, Use postal, note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plain- ly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE AQAMS, /lox 1, 123 Eighteenth St.,, New Toronto, Ont. w4hcS to Pecellee oneself for the. lapse, it le safer to write that one is, doing eo• at the risk of being a nuieance, rather than a boar (or was it bore? boer? boor?), "I cannot really think you believe yourself in danger of becoming, an animal with a tusk •on its nose," commented the recipient of this letter, 444 It was true; I did not, There is one group of words which have at last managed to master over the years except when l am in a hurry, which is nearly always, An inspired companion once wrote them out for me thus, and left them pin- ned to my desk:- The Telephone RING Clothes WRING On your finger RING Curtains (up or down) ... RING (or was it WRING?) Hands ...,....— ,„. WRING. (She thoughtlessly forgot to Mention how it is with a heart, so clearly I must live 'happily ever after.) It is, unfortunately' not'. 'al- ways possible to find this scrap of paper (which pride forbade" me to leave on my desk for' ever) in the heat of letter writ- ing, and I am told that a scrawled "If you do not wring me first I will wring you" gave a new acquaintance quite a turn, Also in future I must stay British and receive letters or post, never the American male (or mail?), "If your letter box is really as big as •that," replied a correspondent severly when I had written that a nice fat male( or mail?) had just shot through it, "it's time you got the carpenter to see to it." It is possible also, of course, to have a whale or a wail of a time, although so far I have not had occasion to have either, my .life having flowed heretofore in a temperate and orderly fa- shion. But one never knows, and I must try to be prepared. And one could be in a maize or a maze, but whichever it was it would be a bit unusual and I'm sure ' that one's spelling would be forgiven in the cir- cumstances. Then there are fearful perils in connection with waste and waist, and doubtless also with plaice and place, and I have more than once floundered on the dreadful possibilities of tale and tail. I have never remotely ex- plored the snags Of draft and draught, but knowing my mother tongue I am sure they exist. And what more shall I say of alter and altar, station- ary and stationery, meet and meat (and, for good measure, mete), pair and pear and also pare, not to forget such triviali- ties as veil and vale, sale and sail, cocks and cox, and even coming and cummin, though this last will pass you by un- less you are a huntin', shootin', and fishief type. I will merci- fully forbear to confuse you with road, Rhode, rode, and rowed, although I could, quite easily. I have often heard our con- tinental allies, comment that the English as they come are a sim- ple people; but I am sure I have written enough here to convince you that English as she is spelt is a very compli- cated affair indeed. So if you have never tried righting it be- fore, ;and think you can do it the write way wright away, you will very likely find you have maid a grate mistake. When a woman says she hasn't yet seen forty, perhaps her vision isn't twenty-twenty. As promised last week, I con- tinue with more well-tested re- cipes for jams and jellies: Why not clip and save them for fu- ture use? Cherry, Currant, Raspberry , and Strawberry Jelly Yield: About 11 medium glasses (51/2 lbs. jelly) 4 clips juice (about 1/2 lb. each ripe sour cherries and cur- rants and 11/2 qts. each ripe red raspberries and straw- berries) 71/2 cups (VA lbs.) sugar 1 bottle liquid fruit pectin First, prepare the juice. Stem and crush thoroughly (do not pit) about 1/2 pound fully ripe sour cherries. Stem about 1/2 pound fully ripe red currants and crush thoroughly. Combine fruits. Add ee cup water; bring to a boil and simmer, covered, 8 minutes. Crush thoroughly about 11/2 quarts each dully ripe red raspberries and strawber- ries. Add to hot cherries and currants and simmer 2 minutes longer. Place in jelly cloth •or bag and squeeze out juice. Mea- sure 4 cups into a very large saucepan. Then make the jelly. Add sugar to juice in saucepan and mix well. Place over high heat and bring to a boil, stirring con- stantly. At once stir in liquid pectin. Then bring to a full rol- ling boil and boil hard 1 min- ute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, skim off foam with metal spoon, and pour quickly into glasses. Cover jelly at once with 'Vs, inch lbotl?paraffin. * Black Currant Jelly Yield: About 11 medium glasses (51/2 lbs. jelly) 5 cups juice (about 3 lbs. ripe black currants) 7 cups (3 lbs.) sugar 1/2 bottle liquid fruit pectin First, prepare the juice. Crush thoroughly about 3 pounds (3 ceiarts) fully ripe black cur- rants. Add 3 cups Water; bring to a boil and simmer, covered, 10 minutes. Place in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. Measure 5 cups juice into a very large saucepan. Then make the jelly. Add sugar to juice in saucepan and mix well. Place over high heat andbring to a boil, stirring con- stantly. At once stir in liquid fruit. pectin. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard 1 min- ute, stirring constantly, Remove from heat, skim off foam with metal spoon, and pour , quickly into glasses. Cover jelly at once with 1/2 inch hot paraffin, .Almond Cherry Jam (Using 'sweet cherries) Yield: About 6 medium glasses (41/2 the. lath) 4 tripe prepared fruit (abed 3 lbs, ripe sweet cherries) cup`' lemon juice (2 lernouS) eupS' (234 lbs.) sugar 1 box 'poet/tiered fruit pectin 11/2 teaspoons almond extract 1 cup slivered blanched al., nionds First, prepare the fruit. Stem And pit about 3 pounds fully ripe sweet cherries. Chop fine- or grind and measure'• 4 cups itite a very WO satidenati. Sgtieetie the juice froth niedioni,eiied lemons. Measure 1/4 cup into saucepan with cherries. Then make the jam. Measure sugar and set aside. Add pow- dered fruit 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 OFF - STREET PARKING Any port is good enough thinks three-year-old Susan O'Brien as she parks her three-wheeler in a curbside telephone booth. Like many of her elders, Susie finds out that her bike is a little too long for the garage, 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. Stir in al- mond extract and almonds. La- dle quickly into glasses. Cover at once with ei inch hot par- affin, * * Cherry and Gooseberry Jelly (Using sour cherrieS) Yield: About 11 medium glasses (51/2 lbs. jelly) 4 cups juice (about 2 lbs, ripe sour cherries and 11A lbs., ripe gooeeberries) 7 cups (3 lbs.) sugar 1 brittle liquid fruit pectin First, prepare the juice, Stem and crush (do not pit) about 2 pounds fully ripe sotir cherries. Crush about 11/2 pounds fully ripe gooseberries. Combine , fruits. Add 1/4 cup water; bring to a boil arid simmer, covered, 10 Minutes. Place in jelly cloth Or , bag and squeeze out juice. Measure 4 cups into a very large saucepan. Then Make the jelly. Add, sugar to juice in saucepan and Mix well, Place over high heat and bring to a boil, stirring con, stantiy. At once Stir' In liquid fruit pectin, then latint to till rolling' bell and boll hard 1 uiiiitite, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, skim off foam with metal spoon, and pour quickly into glasses, Cover jelly at once with inch hot pnr- affin, * * „,* Gooseberry And Raspberry Jam Yield: About 10 medium glasses (5 OS. jam) 4 cups Prepared fruit (about qt. each ripe gooseherriee and red raspberries) 6 is cups (2% lbs.) sugar lee bottle liquid frult,pectin First; prepare het Crush ;,thoroughlytrind '('about mart ,each..'fully ;I:kr.gooseber- ries and red rasnberpes, Com- bine fruits and meaktte 4 cups into a very large saucepan. Then make the jam, Add sugar to fruit in saiteenen and mix 'vvell e plape overt tigh heat, bring to a 1yll rolling( boil, and boil hard 1 minute, spring con- stantly. Remove front/heat and at once stir _in licttkid pectin, Skim off foam with metal spoon. Then stir and skim by turns for 5 minutes to cool slightly, to prevent floating fruit. Ladle quickly into glasses. Cover jam at once with 3/4 inch hot par- affin. • * Blueberry and Currant Jam Yield: About 10 medium glasses '(5 lbs. jam) 4 cups prepared fruit (about 1 lb. each ripe blueberries and red currants) 7 cups (3 lbs.) sugar 1/2 bottle liquid fruit pectin A. First, prepare the fruit. Crush thoroughly about 1 pound (3/4 quart) fully ripe blueberries, Stem about ,1 pound (3/1 quart) fully ripe red currants and crush thoroughly. Combine fruits and measure 4 cups into a very large saucepan. Then make the jam. Add sugar to fruit in saucepan and mix well. Place over high"heat, bring to a full rolling boil, and boil hard 1 minute, stirring con- stanly: Remove from heat and at once stir in liquid fruit pec- tin. Skim off foam with metal spoon. Then stir and skim, by turns for 5 minutes, to cool slightly to prevent floating fruit. Ladle quickly into glasses. Co- ver jar; at once with 1/2 inch hot paraffin. Some Recipes' for Speedy arriage Girls! Do you want to get married this year? If you do, it's quite simple — all you have to do is to throw an apple into the lap of any good-looking male who appeals to you. It will, according to an old Greek legend, cause his heart to mel- low in the direction of the thrower! That's just one of the many courting and marriage super- stitions that still enjoy popu- larity even in these hectic days. And quite a few people from all over the world place a '1ot of faith in them. Chinese girls believe that if they pluck their eyebrows it will bring the man of their dreams to their side all the quicker. And some girls on the Isle of Man swear that if they carry a pinch of salt around with them their eventual marriage will be a happy one. ,DEADLY STUFF He was enlarging on the dan- gers of certain foods, and with a dramatic gesture he pointed an emphatic finger at a rather harassed-looking and inoffensive listener and demanded: "What' is it?. We nearly all eat it at some time or other, yet it's the e worst thing in the world for us. What is it, I say. Do you know?" There was a moment's silence before the little man replied -rather nervously: "Wedding cake!' Olsole ,Mackenzje Catches The :Boat By DICK KLEINER NEA Shell Correspondent NEW YORK--"There comes a time," says• Gisele MacKen4le, "when you have to jump on board, Or else the boat will sail without you," This is Gisele's year to jump on board. And what she's jump- ing on is the chance to star in her own show next fall, after four safe and secure years on "Your Hit Parade," On. Awe 8, she'll sing her hit parade swan song. Gisele MacKenzie, according to estimates of Broadway stu- dents, has everything it takes for big-time stardom. She is beautiful, of course. She sings well, She is an accomplished violinist ,and pianist, She has a fine sense of comedy. And, for the final touch, she has Jack Benny in her corner. It was on a personal appear- ance tour—and, later, on his TV show—that the great comedic . talents of the pretty, dark- haired Canadian girl were first exposed to the pnblie: On Hit Parade, in some of the little pantomime stories, she showed flasheS of her humor. But Benny gave her some .good lines and GISELE MacKENZIE: She lets things happen as they will.. situations and she overnight be- came a name to reckon with. Jack has kept his eye on her, He's actively interested in the success' of her show next fall, a show she describes as "having no format at all." Some weeks there may be a story line; other weeks none. Some weeks there may be guest stars; other weeks none. Benny figures it should be like his own in that the audi- ence won't know what; to expect from week to week. All this, to Gisele, means ex- citement and a little bit of ap- prehension, too. It's the fulfill- fate in store, From Toronto, she• ment of a lot' of 'work for her. went to Hollywood to sing with You can't say the fulfillment of Bob Crosby on the old radio. a dream, because she's not the show, "Club Fifteen." Then kind of girl to dream or plan '" came ....reededsa nour Hit Par- ahead. She works away, letting ade," Jack Benny — and now things happen as they will. "The Gisele MacKenzie Show.' What almost happened to her, It couldn't have worked out using that philosophy, is 'that racer heel she 'planned it that• she almost became a concert'vio- way..- e- linist against her will.Gieele,--,--.her.harne, has been It was the dearest wish of her misprOhouncael as everything. parents that she study the vio- from GaZelle to Seashell — does lin. So she studied. And studied." :hot .takerthifigs:'`seriouely. Ex• - And became expert. ' -r4.-cept ;her,. work.; ahe ,enjoys life, "From trio 'tithe I Was 7 until,. - ,sieglneare heSs t^vt4P Angrhaired I watt 20;".rehe ",says;0"I stuAie,d, ..t'iclrh,unelsi,oNew„,„YetTkreCalifor- I used to,vnactice four or.,,fi,ve „ni Oohing, televieion t amoviese hours a day. But it was allays 'fad,7q-Res'echlrereithiric a chore — something I did for Aiidarelfe &ijoyVelbeietilig for- mer, parents: My teacher never ntward to7he.tribigrtbiloWnext fall, to it. Sheeeel- eeefee,Thaeboa6Woriheeepele veWeout het nroa. et- ways said there was something in my eye, some gleam or some- thing," What it was, perhaps, was the gleam of life, Gisele was a nor- mal kid and leered the things normal kids love. She went to a' conservatory for advanced train- ing and found the life ',mon- 8$""The other kids would work all day," she says, "and then sit up all night reading the life of some composer, I couldn't live with such a single-minded- ness of purpose. I always say r would have made a poor nun." She liked popular Music all this time, She taught herself to play the piano and she liked to sing. And she was offered a job doing both in Toronto. This was the first time she had to jump aboard, lest the boat sail without hee. It meant turning her back on 13 years of violin training and it meant, which was infinitely worse, dis- appointing her patients. "I didn't hesitate a .second for myself," she says, "but I knew it would hurt them. They were heartbroken, It took them a year to get over it," Even to this day, Gisele resists efforts to add violin numbers to. her performances. She never practices — "Once you've played so much, you never forget" — and will only rarely show off' her fiddling skill. "If I'd kept up with the vio- lin," she says wryly," "perhaps. tOday I would be in the third chair of the first violin desk of the Toronto Symphony. And I'd be bitter and frustrated — the kind of person who drops the• rosin to get attention," Fortunately, life—and her own determination — had a kinder