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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-07-03, Page 6rt t e . I. I • °Ta. --aaaaea, • ••••aaa •••••••aa ••• AMERICAN. SHIP SAILS THROUGH' CANAL—The American President Lines' President. Jackson passes through' Ihe'-'5Uez CanaLthe first American ship to enter the disputed waterway since it was reopened?. The'vVessel flew the rEgyptiarrfflog qirciccordance with regulations fqr pass- age through.Egyptian Waters. Wrote Greit,NOvel On Wallpaper - too ",4,o weaning' Cliti"a:aaa crotch-. ?-•:SVe acilikit that these are highly controversial times, We agree that. it is tempting to Link:tor an escape hatch of some sort to get: away from., ternational and domestic wor- ?ries,: We are aware that there is great,' nervous `strain in both private,. and governmental :at- "fairs,. ". • Nevertheless, it doesn't seem .that, the best natural..rellef .from races stress; is to he found. in alcohol, Vet there is evidence that many ,of us have come to feel that, meetings can be .successfully opened with any- , thing else • than a corkscrew, And that there is no substitute in thefealm of public relations for a cocktail party. Please, don't •get the idea We're prissy puritans, We don't have the slightest wish to inter- fere with the personal appetites of any individual. „ . . • Still we do get the idea that more and more people feel con- strained to accept the serving of alcoholic stimulants as a sort of socilaanust,"--. • A movie outfits ' signs up a young star—there,amust be a cocktail party to a.aence..,it„. A book publishing firm: iSsties—in- vitations to meet erising young author—there tntiSt,libe a ses- sion of highballs tcx.rpreeede and to follow. ,Ain. Ambitious attor- ney decides to toss leis hat into the political ring—he considers ijr proper toll .0:ossification. The exit. •collepnl,can,. itIng easily fi • oust K chiit"gel! ,ifferW.' type of pp4log confronted chemists :At SecOny, Vaetn method;,They wanted a method; Al:iere§e.epte partl,7 CLOS in .0J. 'Among other things, this would be a great aid 'in helping them, determine the quality of the Oil, • To do that, they drearned up what is probably the. world's. most sensitive scale,• • it consists of a .eonelhaped vessel. 3/501.$ of 44 inch "long. and 1/16th of an, inch 44-, • meter, hanging from a beam Made of strands of quartz much finer than a human hair, And. it can weigh particles as light as 1/4.00,000,90Qth of a gram!: Stop at' the checkout stand, of a supermarket •and you'll see,, one of the most common of all scales, It looks simple enough but it gave the scale designers sleepless nights. That we„,,need," chain store OPeratOrk had ``told tile scale de- „signerspPis a, seele that will fi- gure prices—so that a! clerk can tell just how much to charge for so much of something at so much per pound.” It didn't. sound .toci hard — until the engineegs,,checked and discovered ,the., number of price and' Weight, combinations they'd need addeCtip to a start- ling 129,000. To "'get' that many figures on a scalef;Small enough to set on a counter' you'd need a chart the, width of the scale • and 375 feet long! The researchers ended up with a special aluminum cylinder measuring just 81.. 'by '13 inches.. On it are etched, - with almost microscopic smallness, the ne- cessary thousands,,,of figures. A powerful lens prated over the cylinder magnifies 'them to easy • readability. • The weight. engineers expend some of their most.ingenious ef- forts on scales for., use in the • assembly lines of .foOd, chemical and drug factories:": • • "Scales witli'Vrains," the en- gineers call them:' ,a' And well-,they. may', as witness the contraption they, rigged up for a meat progespr. He was having some trouble packing bacon in the perfectly sliced, neatly wrapped; ":**exabt-Weight packages buyersr-exiaect in su- permarkets, Could they make, Met time he had over set eye4. on the Klondike, He had been In California when the rush 1,10- gan and had, no desire go north, , beerswhen posted. t9 Whitehorse in. 1905. Now he was, transferredservi•ce t w ase .cle ver much of a talker, but he was =good, listener and, lte, got the inspiration for many of his poems listening to old-timers ramble on in White- horse, We now saw him stroll, ing curiously about in the gyring sus hiri dance sunshine, peering shuttered at the halls which . had given place to schools, churches, fraternal houses and even a car- hegie Library. He" wa's a good mixer among men and spent a lot of time with sourdoughs, but we could never get him to any , of our parties. "I'm not a party man," he sed to say, "Ask me sometime when you're by your- selDvye;s. the t•Itinle 13allads of a Cheephako, came:spilt? Service's royalties were paying him,mpre than his salary — indeed' more 'than the salary of the manager of the Bank of Commerce, where he worked. He quit the bank and took a small cabin on' Eighth Avenue under the lit- tle cabin surrounded by willows, withm its lor6g pverhag. reof and its Pair of moose-lions over the door, has since become a Yllyine. Here the poet plunged into his first novel, The Trail of '98. His habits became more erratic and he hipself became mere ,inactes- sible.'"On surndier nights would 'often meet pet], doWn aThillsidertraiii or see him starting out on an all-night excursion r tp athe. ler„eelcs.d,Then he would shut himself up for days while he wrote furiously. He wrote mosPof .hismovel on hugercklia.: of avallpaper and when' he Jan e„),,a,, of wallpaper he iised, balding , paper. g lie"Trused. •broVin wrapping paper. He was a vel- =Mous, writer and decent fool- scap -was not only expensive but sometimes, in the winter, unpro- curable. Service simply took anything that was handy and in that town there was plenty of wall cov'ering. H'e'used td write 'Carpenter's'fiencil a „large -.11and,;` them pin'the results up on,itbAropposite walhaind •stare at his Own work to see if.lt.w,as right. The walls of his cabin were fairly covered with his own writhigs, long since fainda. — From "I Married the Klondike," by Laura Beatrice Berton. ori • i a-- There-was another narne*in the MsangeF List not the Avtrland Stage, that spring, that _caused us excitemant, and that was,,the nalii6 of Robert W. `Service. He slid into town one day without any, 'great fanfare and, was 'soon to be ,,seen • weighing:, oyutT a gold dust, in thei,teller's,„cage of, the Canadian la;iik of Commeirce on Flat 8t'reet. . Miss Haintorf, ,and I, having missed Service in, Whitehorse, imniediately'litiacle 0 hurried ex • - cuse to turn up at the bask* for a glimpse of, the`, man whose poems we, had already committed to memory. We had thought of him as a rip-roaring roisterer, but instead we found a shy and nondescript man in his mid- thirties, with a fresh complexion, clear blue eyes and a boyish fig- ure that made him look much yotriger.' `He had a wort, modulated.voice. and spOke with a alight!-drawl. "An English in- fleeion, an, .Arnerican and Scottish overtones," I told Miss Hainforf.- 'dicOVered' he had' Veen ''born lin 'Lancailiire raised in Scotland, andrhad lived foroa ',number years, in; ”Cali- foania.) 1 , At-that ,time most of Service's readers, took, it, for .granted,-that r a. t. he had been a gold-rush pioneer,. . . But this was ,actually the 'Dissolve' gelatin in' hot veater;_. add fruit juices/Chill 11A cups gelatin mixture )auritil• Tightly thicketied„,•Add cherries.' Turn • into .cold pie shell; chill,,until firM. Place remaining.,slightly., thickened gelatin in bowl of ice. and water; whip With ' rotary egg beater until fluffy and -thick. Fold„in „cream. Pile lightly on firm gelatin„ * * Hard-cooked eggs with celery and olives make this a real main dish, HOSTESSeISALAH 1 package lemon gelatin 2,,cups,ihot water - • 1 tablespoon vinegar `teaspoon salt bash 'Of cayenne liard:;Cooked egg, ' cdarsely cut 1 cup chopped celery cup Thopped• olives 154 'teaspoons chopped' chives or teaspoon„ scraped onion Dissolve, gelatin in hat..water, A,dd vinegar, 1/2 , teaspoon?, salt, and cayenne. Chill until slightly thickened. ,,,,Season, eggs and celery. with Ts .teaspoon salt; add remaining ingredients. Fohi into slightly thickened gelatin. Turn int0 indiVidual Molds Or lOaf mold and chill until'rfirm. Un-' mold, Surround with crisp greens. Garnish with mayon- naise avid olives. Makes 6 serv- ings. 44n- 4 KaA;rP4 9.1114GIA,,itNxr.,. ihey''Tnade was some- . pfaaea the ilicktil•ell'Ottr:f at -a ...ritzy bar,:,a;,,i by, ,...iti,..Waihington, we're 4; it word be inconceivable, pr any large public, gathering_ ,f.o be held without 'IV-least atfi.,,„, hour's time allowed the tonSils in advance 'And -Wee the,, na- We do not 1i tend. ;imply that our /public:: servants go around all day in a sort of alco7 :frolic daze. Many quite properly limit theirfpartmoli.tmtd 6ii0ag offettOurs: Buy kthera iss. till a%Veatioli.•'6Chew' ltaA, may be their perceptions the next morning and how cautious were their public observations on' the preceding ""evening: It a question, we admit, of moral dedadence. And it may be that there are no greater numbers than in former genera- tions, who find .: they must lean uport a 'glass' cratth. Birt jtiSt thezaSarne,-*'e don't think it's very intelligent to try to shake off the day's troubles by immersion into evening stu- por, In fact, even granting that times are •troublesome, that we are in troubled 'international waterS, it never has seethed to us sound judgment to grab a shark to keep yourSelf from drowning! — Reporter Dispatch (White Plains, N,Y.) BABY, I'M HERE!'— Lovely movie actress Barbara Bates' plants, a peck on the nose of,her poodle, Petchulie, after she', arrived ittoEngland ,from Hollywood. The beloved pooch was sent to London by ,air and, had to undergo six "months'' quarantine there. But all is forgotten in this touching..teunion scene. Flitiifi,Aentence Newly elected Police Judge C. 0:t•BrenneWitthl instituted 'a new policy for agegulai'''offenders in city ;police• court this' morning. keading of the. Bible and going to church .were,,parlered instead of the usual One of -the "regulars' was or- dered,today to repOrt 'to:the po- licVeach inclining for 10 days ando*hile there read two chap- ters the Bible. He `was also ordered to attend the ,church of his,,choipe.„,,S:unday morning.. The Bible reading and, church attendance were ordered after (the "defendant) entered a plea ” of guilt t6' thargei of drimken- '."'" "Fines and jail sentences have been ineffective to a number of local offenders so we're going to try something clifferenV the . Judge said. —Republican Times (Trenton, Mo.) ,,, . .., „ ....... ., BONUS BABY C4i1-1ES,';114,—Jarties Christopher Owes 31/2 yeatil'old one i:4 th -yoiiihdest t . i e , 0 Gehetar Electric's "376Ap0 „stockholdei-s, Teceives,y0S:tpArtetly dividend theCk.t fraltt Mits..Jayce 1- Magijire. jiriiiiny has :seen a share owner all al his life lb:ediuselhe Was beta on the company's ' 8'l.11 Ofinivettaryk Oct. '15, 1953. Children. boeri 'to "employees that .clay 'each received five °• shares of GE stotk. The stock has since been Split so Jimmy and iho ether "botius' bahiei each overt IS shales 'and are sharing with other.: StaCkholders Mere tit r ilj milliah dollars ill. dividends distilbuted duiIrid the tetent einnUa I stockholders' meeting A cup of ham re with the right additions — becomes a delicious entree. PIQUANT HAM RING 1 package lemon gelatin 1Y2 cups water 3 tablespoons vinegar Dash of salt 1 teaspoon scraped:onion Y3 cup chopped sweet pickles, 1.1/2 tablespoons diced pimiento let cup mayonnaise , 2 tablespoons Milk -Pi water 1 cup ground cooked' hani, firmly packed. • f. 7/ cup diced celery, 1/ teaspoon Wercestershire sauce ••••i Dissolve gelatili 'iii' slot water. Add vinegar, gait, arid -Orden. Measure 1 cup and . 'add•• tablespoons cold water. Chill. When slightly thickenecla add pickles and pimiento:. Turn, into ring mold. Chill until firm. Chill remaining gelatin ifiitirslight157 thickened. Place in bowl of ice and water and whip With rotary" egg beater until fltiffp'and thick like whopped cream. Combine mayonnaise:` and rnilke-and fold into whipped mixture. Add re- maining ingredients. Turn onto firm gelatin. Chill until firm. Un- mold Garnish with pickle fans, escarole, and' pimiento strips, if . desired. Makes 6 servings. • , ' A.-:few vegetables with a bit of leftoVer ehicken make this light bi:It"'Savory, ' VEGETABLE CHICKEN MOLD 1 patkage lemon gelatin 2 clif)s .1 hot water and 2 Iiiitk.W_bouillon cubes blOpaons vinegar 14ippen salt •q)A.Wgt:elePPer 23'6'000s, minced onion raw carrot sticks :a".•Ctili ltItily sliced celery A...•;t4bleS,pXOtis diced pimiento CupTelitelmed leftover cooked aChieken or veal iSSOlVe Gelatin in hot liquid. i,negar, salt, pepper, and tanion;,i';'' Chill. When slightly thiCliened, fold in remaining in- gredients. Turn into 1-quart ring mold or individual molds. Chill until firm. Unmold. Garnish with escarole arid radish roses, if desired, Makes 6 servings. * * A delicious salad from cooked vegetables and the stock. A bou- illon, cube adds flavor. JELLIED CARROTS AND PEAS 1 package lemon gelatin ;2 cups hot water and vegetable stock and 1 bouillon cube 3 tablesPonns vinegar 4/2 teaspoon salt 34 teaSpeon scraped onion 3/4 cupeit'ooked diced carrots • 3,4 ciiitcooked peas Dash of cayenne Dissolve gelatin in hot stock. Add• vinegar, salt, and Onion. Chill. When slightly thiCkened, fold in vegetables seasoned with cayenne. Turn into individual Molds. Chill until firm. Unmold. Surround with crisp' lettuce, sprinkled with French dressing. Garnish with mayonnaise and parsley. Makes 6 servings. * Self-layering fruit dessert for any season!' LAYERED PEACH AND BANANA 1 Package lime gelatin 2 cups het water 1/2 cup canned Sneed peachea 1 banana, Sliced Dissolve gelatin in hot Water. Place peach sliceS ill mold. Pour on gelatin, being careful not to disarrange peaches: Add ban- ' aria. Chill, Until firm. Muriel& • Seqe. With lime whipped cream. * 4 ' Cherries- Below, cream on top . wonderful pie! 0101:11V BAVARIAN PIE 1 package cherry gelatin „Cuts hot. water • V2 eannut efieityr juke teas-Po:4ns lemon juice - 1 cup drained' canned diaries 1 baked 2-ifich pie Well 4 cup light bream thing no one would recognize as a scale.A side of bacen„.slideeaa ,,,,/,aoiderneath. a whirling:. -.knife •which iifka off !slides '1tr*:-•friait, The sliteig falV"-ento `a x'inoving, belt;' i.vhf.ch •lis rally a.-- scale, in isguiseaiWhen„enough'slides inake.• a pourid ,hay.e:•:•airopped ntoathe; belt 4t ,`tiPs a••balance, • • send an. electrical: impulse to''a 'iydraulic: :device,; '~ihieh stops r. he -'feeding' ' ll° ;this ::happens :iii ;less,;: than "• second, :before the;' knife " has. ;, en-=the 'r-..becjaff-":enathea'belf yesa . , „ c..onto • anotheeAel• an iiipule is flashed tP•••: Ifei? to •z: •• start another ounoVlaro pa'&104„is,eted-: rune ertverght;,anct"4.904,;co'sigiV,Pjg ~y more, than i~5 ,e$erts 'ar:a,Aavi# 'frenble :Afidiggh;dativeigifi4:74,,,, In the days when few persOnsa"! kept daily tabs on their avoir- qrtitigS7an-inacCuracy :of-a, poem didn't ,.matter,. much :. Tit, or :onMk:;.:itis:::crihktp:': .r eel ig acetuate bathrooin A scale design d`'Tor Nveightii6;' ranging up to 250 pounds re- quires a mechanism that has to be quite free of friction to be accurate. That means that when you, step on such a scale the dial will 'Spin freely for a time, but HaTrieSt IpeoPle., want to see the bad or good news right then and "there,; They protest about a dial dig spins too much. -2 So now the engineers are working on new home weighing devices that will give anyone - his weight, 99.99 per cent ac- ,curate, in two seconds fiat. Wisely, the wizards of weight figure it's easier to change the scales than it is to change hu- man nature.—By Reed Millard in CORONET. About the Wender. Of Wei5Ir , 4 " Today, practically everybody jags something he wants weighed „-from, Himself , (to see if z the diet is geally working); do,v,,n Ito ouch invisible microscopic cream titres as the amoeba, and on up to such,` giants, asya hundrect-to4 locomotives Weight engtheerS, though they can already boast of over 45,000 different kinds of, scales, never know when they're going to get a job that will call fOr a weighing gadget that his not yet been devised. Men have been tack ii n'g Weighing prpblems since the dawn of history, and the earli- est scale, :a simple balance, Fob- ably dates back some 5,000 years before the Christian era. The early balance was, a beam with. a scalepan suspended from each end, and this simple device was used with variations and im- provements until the 19th cen- tury when- Yankee ingenuity went to work. For,„ 44.splte_ Its ancient history, 'the modern scale is essentially an American insitutiOn. Back in 1830, for example, young Thaddeus . ,Fairbanks, a rtovemaker and, glib manager of a hemp mill in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, daiii"e'hozne after a hard day, dietUrbecDby the crude method of weighing merchan- dise by suspending the loaded wagon frem,,,one end of a huge wooden steelyard. Surely, he vowed, there raiikt be an easier method of weighing big:objects. Why, for instance' couldn't the whole load, wagon and all, be rolled Onto a patform for weigh- ing? The stove business suffered while Fairbanks spent his time working out a complicated sys- tem of counterbalances that eventually became- the , world's first platform scale, one that could weigh not ;Only wagons but railway dais and locomo- tives. Today's engineers boast that no object ,thate.anybody could want to weigh is,tc?o, big for the descendants of ya,i,gbanke scale, although they find them- selves facing some odd chal- lienges. Take ',zthe•'Icase of a weight puzslemaToledon Scale . Company engineers recently tackled for the American Mu- seum of Natural History in New When Robert Peary returned from one of his trips to the,„,,Are- tic, he brought. • With .him'Ari,, unusual priZe--a•• glint ineteor Re. No one -knew •hcie~v heavy the great mass 'of iron actually Was for oven: half a century.... Then: the Toledo people came up with a uniqUe Solution;,hpist the meteorite , up and 'they' build 'a scale under ip:Thek- just that. and shovrea:Vie'A;elght,„a of the visitor fronUttitera'SPate::' to be 34,4onsy, sized scales li 0:•ethe*rnay•!hatte.. a coup representing~_,, 7,000 ti weight. Recent tackleearq.fonghest.a probleitt in weighingfglintobJ4wlrcs* well they succeeded illyiStral:;. tees by theacaseliilhe'.gaystifie4 trucker sailing "driviii4r8-21:1.0-:: way No. 1 in Virginia a fey/. weeks ago,,with .an overloaded , SuddetaiY ,a,ti.' 7.; 0 screame tiered fe: oYer.'.arid bandect giying the exact weight,of• the true. and its load. This was the trucker's first encounter with the, neat Way the weight engineers found the Answer to the question: How can ou weigh a, tattalra,• in, motion? t• They cracked 'this op,e, with ,elec, bronics—aftWeverY iitheearis weighing Ifailedejheetgiek pis t plate in th&goa:d which sends jai electric eilffent . to -en Ironic device.al The amount of torrent is hastantly :translated tato weight-ernore- weight, morer torrent, • .„.• It is also ,Speeding up traffic. A the tollgates of the ()hie, Turnpike, A' trucker - doesn't, lave to make a stop. His rig is weighed as he approaches the ate and the attendant there sands him a ticket with his rear laWiraeaCtiaat 'Fytiveight ;r engineers practice isn't limate tional capitall". Satisfies show that Canadians are .rriarryifig younger every yeetkiToday, the: average age tif groOfifs 2,71 while the • bride Is Under 240 tWeittYlearsa:. ago, the average age for grooms WaSaOver 29 — and for brides, g5. A. woman; who considers her-. Bel intelligent denial-Ida Se rights as al Man. The *Innen who is really tritelligerit ekes tart not to do 80. (Edwige Feuillere) MAYFLOWER STOWAWAY-.An' UnsUCcessful stowaWCit. BriliSher Bob Lewis, 27, points out the Mayfialofer ll, otiOard I$Ounit.frath Plymouth,. England, to re.tteoie .dhe Voyage Of the Original Pik irimi ship. Discovered about 10' miles Out to sea, Lewis Was spe4 over the side with newsmen into a fishing boat,