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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-03-12, Page 2TABLE TM, dam Andrews. • R. ► R. • LOOK, MA! NO HANDS—Designed for bundle-laden shoppers. this no-hands telephone is being tried out at a public phone booth. The equipment. only such installation in the nation, enables the caller to talk over a small speaker alongside the phone (right) without removing the hand set. The voice of the person on the other end comes in over the same speaker, which also has a volumn control. You still need a free hand to place the call and drop' the coins. If the dialer considers the call not one for "public consumption", the whole system can be by- passed by using the hand set. Lover Proposed With Waterfall The good-looking young man seemed worried as he sat in the - train chugging monotonously riOrthvvards. The journey seemed fnterrninable to him, The train stopped at every station. Gradually the carriage emptied until the Only .,,Other oc- cupants besides himself was a matronly woman with a friendly The pair struck up a conver, sation; and the young man sud- denly said: "Since you look so kind and understanding, may I tell you what's worrying me?" Then he told her, He explain- ed that a pretty girl would be meeting him on the next station and he was uncertain whether or not to propose to her during the week-end he was going to spend in her parents' home. "Although we've been sweet- hearts since I was af. boy,":, he said, "I'in still not quite sure whether she would make a good wife for me. How can I know whether I'm doing the right thing In proposing?" "I'm afraid. I can hardly advise you on such a delicate matter," replied his companion. "I've get it!" cried the young man. 'Intl you take a good look at her through the carriage win- dow and sum her up swiftly for me? Please help me by giving me the thumbs-up if you think the girl would be a good match, for me," he added. When the train stopped at the young man's station, she saw him greet a rosy-cheeked girl dressed neatly in a navy-blue costume. She liked the look of her and thought the pair could make each other happy. So up went the matronly wo- man's thumb as the train con- tinued its journey. The young man saw it and smiled happily. He proposed and was accepted that night. There's no end to the odd ways that men pop the nervetraCking question. One of the strangest methods was used in Switzerland a little while ago by an actor who was appearing with an at- tractive girl in an impassioned love scene. The stage love-making between the couple was going well when the actor suddenly realizerFthat he really loved the girl whose lips were so close to his. During a brief pause in thedia- logue, he whispered with ardor: "Darling, I love you. „Say that you will marry me." "I will," she breathed; and their stage love scene went on. The audience title guessed what had happened. But they were im- APPLE DUMPLING—If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, pretty Sandra Elswick, Pennsyl- vania's 1958 Apple Queen, is all set for a healthy life, pusses! .0 by the realism of the couple's love-making, The only; man t.p propose to the woman of his clultce harness- ing a waterfall was an American millionaire named Cyrus K. FinclaY, The waterfall was the famous Bridal Veil Fall in Cali- fornia and he caused it to make his declaration in Morse code, By 'Means of a big sluice gate which was alternately raised and loWered for the right period, the stream was cut for the fraction of time necessary to make dis, tinguishable 'dots and dashes". "It may seem rather a dotty way. to propose marriage," joked a ;friend of the millionaire, "but he certainly showed her that he had plenty of dash!" Only a few 'weeks ago two skifflemad youngsters agreed to marry while dancing at a friend's party.iThe boy didn't even bother to remove the chewing gum from his mouth as the couple gyrated and he shouted, 'Let's get mar- ried net yeas, shall we?"' She nodded her assent. Fellow slcif- fers will provide the music at their wedding reception next June. A pretty girl who was selling poppies on Remembrance Day got talking to an airline steward who bought several poppies and then, acting on impulse, said: 'I think you are altogether charm- ing, my dear. Please marry me," She accepted him as they stood together on the pavement and the couple are now happily mar- ried. Sometimes it's the girl who proposes in unusual circum- stances. A North of England girl wrote on the paper of a toffee she offered to her boy friend during an evening out: "Will you marry me?" He was delighted to do so. When, years ago, the German liner Elbe met with disaster and went down, a young man found himself plunged into the sea with . the girl he had long admired. As waves threatened to engulf them, he gasped out his proposal of marriage. The girl had had no idea that he loved her, but before sliFtcOuld reply a big wave car- ried her away from him. She survived to tell the story; he was drowned. During the French Revolution a French priest named Duval had to attend to the religious needs of a beautiful young aristocrat. He visited her in prison and fell deeply in love, but could not declare his feelings because her jailers were watching them. On hid next visit he outwitted them by writing his proposal of marriage on his bald head. She read it and nodded. She escaped the guillotine and the pair married. Queen Borrows An Uthbrella There is a story of Queen Victoria's bridal visit to this place that deserves remem- brance, As Princess Charlotte and her beloved Leopold had wandered in its sylvan shades, so did the young Queen and her bridegroom—alone, unattended. And one day, being overtaken by a shower, they sought refuge in a cottage. The old dame who inhabited it 'received them hos- pitably, and told them endlesS stories of the Princess. Charlotte and Prince Leopold. After a time the. rain dimin- ished, and the Prince borrowed an umbrella. of their garrulous entertainer, that they might re- turn home. She lent, it cautious- ly," first exacting a promise that they 'would return,. it, and im- pressing the necessity of so do- ing on them till they were out of hearing. Not lilt some time afterwards did she know that she had lent her umbrella to the Queen.—From "The Queen: Her "Early Life and 'Reign," by L, Vale,nt ne. An old, old, new idea is that of drinking soup from. cups or mugs. Anciently, coconut shells, gourds, and prehistorically form- ' ed, handleless cups were used for this purpose. Now, gay mugs to fit your taste or color motif may be purchased in' many china departments. If you have a fireplace, let its cheerfulness be the center for' your party, and serve hot spiced soup from a chafing dish at the fireside. This can 'be done whe- ther the soup is to be just your first course or the entire meal. If son-' ,special TV program is tO be the focal point, it can be watched with a mug of hot soup in one hand! * • • Whether you like soup but- tered or spiced, start making it by diluting with milk or water as the can directions suggest, writes Eleanor Richey Johnson in. The Christian Science Moni- tor. One can of soup makes 2-3 servings. Before giVing you a definite recipe, here are general 'spice suggestions for use in soup. Soup Spice Tomato Basil Green pea . Nutmeg Cream of celery Tarragon Cream of asparagus DCailrlaway Cream of chicken Cream of mushroom Chives Chieken Curry Black bean' Ginger liot chicken soup with al- monds is delicious. It is served with nippy shedded wheat jun-, iors (recipe follows). If this is the first course for a buffet, serve a covered casserole so that guests won't have to hurry with their soup. Chicken Creme Almondine - 3 cans 'condensed cream of chicken soup , Y4 teaspoon grated onion 3 soup cans milk 1/4 cup slivered almonds • 1 tablespoon butter Blendteoup with grated onion; stir in milk. Heat but do not boil.. Sauté almonds in hot but, ter Until.golden brown, At sery- ing time, sprinkle almonds On each cup of soup. Serves eight. Nippy JurtiorS 4 tablespoons butter Vn, teaspoon curry powder 1/4 teaspoon celery 'seed 1/2 teaspoon onion salt 3 cuwpsh.,ejautnionsii,e shredded Melt butter in large Skillet. Add curry pZwder, 'Celery seed, arid Onion salt to butter and mix Welt, Add wheats, stirring gerit- lycereal is Well Coated With the buttor mixture. Con- tinue to cook, stirring Occasion- ally until cereal IS golden broWn.• Drain on paper towelling. Serve With salt). 'Here are some punches to serve steaming hot right from yOur punch VOW', torilatti Rog 5 aft COndetiSed tomato' SCAM canfuls of iiilk 5 eggs Niihneg or OM:ink* Cornbine soap with hulk and heat. Meanwhile, beat eggs right in the punch bowl until frothy, Slowly stir in the heated soup, then sprinkle lightly with nut- meg or cinnamon. It's ready to' serve. * * Broth 'n' Apple Punch.. 6 cans condensed beef broth 1 quart apple juice 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves Apple slices for garnish Heat together the broth and apple juice, then add cloves. Serve in punch bowl with thin apple slices floating on top. * * Pink Consomme, 6 cans 'condensed consomme 3 canfuls water 3 canfuls tomato juice Thin lime or lemon slices for garnish Combine consomme, water and tomato juice. Heat and serve in punch bowl with slices of lemon or lime or both floating on it. * * * Serve this hot cranberry punch with cinnamon stick stirrers for added fun and taste. This makes 2 1/2 quarts. Hot Buttered Cranberry Punch 3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1 cup water 14 teaspoon each, salt and nut- meg . 1/2 teaspoon each, allspice and cinnamon 3/ teaspoon cloves 2 1-pound 'cans jellied cranber- ry sauce 3 cups water 1 quart pineapple juice Butter Combine sugar, 1 cup water, salt, and spices. Bring this to a boil, Crush cranberry jelly-with. fork; add 3 cups water and, beat with rotary beater until smooth. Add crahberry liquid and pine- apple juice to hot spiced syrup and simmer .5 minutes. Keep steaming hot over hot water. Ladle into cupS and add a dot of butter to each, For a cold winter's,night snack, serve this hot amond egg, nog with thin Slices of but- tered nut bread. - ffot Almond Egg Nog 6 eggs, separated 3/4 teaspoon salt V2 Op Sugar 6 cups milk, scalded, 1 tablespoon almond flavoring 1 tablespoon Vanilla Few grains nutmeg Slivered almonds Beat, egg ,yolks, thtil light; add salt end sugar and b*id: hot milli and .flavorings ,Seat ;egg Whites until stiff; fold into nii)E, ture. Pour into ttipS. Sprinkle With a feW grains of nutmeg and a few slivered ,airriends, Serves 6, • .DIPLOMATIC Art attress had'her photograph taken and tamed at the result, which, was far froth. flattering. "I can't understand it' She said. "Tile last time I poSed for you', the photographs Were heavenly," "Ah, yes," the cameraman sigh- ed, "but you must remember that I Was 'eight, years younger theta? ' A my Doctor Wps A Girl! Senior Inspector-General of the Army Medical Corps, Dr, James,13. arry, brooked no inter- ference in his personal affairs, Snubbing his brother officers, often ill-tempered and peevish to the point of eccentricity, lie yet rose brilliantly high in the Service, Gazetted Et surgeon-major at thirty-three,• he was soon chief medical, officer at Malta. Then he successively took charge of all the military medical units in South Africa,' the West Indies and Canada. But everywhere he went he angrily fought duels, swore like a trooper and asserted a super- masculinity oddly at variance with his dyed red hair and flut- ing voice. He flirted outrageously, too at every garrisdn ball,. always picking the prettiest girls for his partners, heedless of wheth- er they were married or single, On one occasion, an alarmed adjutant sent a note asking if Dr, Barry would, be so good 'as not to call on his wife when he, the adjutant, had to be absent on duty. But just when ruc- tions seemed inevitable, Jimmy Barry always -switched his at- tentions to some other charmer. The fact remains that •James Barry cherished a secret so for- midable that it would have led to instant dismissal — and cer- tainly a national uproar—had it ever been known. Even his confidential valet, John, never dreamed of the amazing trutli, despite twenty years of faithful service. Determined to take his secret to the graVe, Barry ordered that whenever he died his body should be sewn in a blanket and interred immediately. When he died in 1865, however, he had already been retired on half- pay for seven years and civilian undertakers were sent to pre- pare him for burial. What they found made them hurry to the War Office in be- wilderment, and the horrified By. HERBERT POLLACK, M.D. ; N. Y. U. Post Graduate - School of Medicine Written for NEA Service NEW 'YORK — (NEA) — It' is now an accepted ,fact that the basis for. good health and well- being is optimum nutrition. „ As a consequence, one of the first things that occurs to many people 'when 'confronted with a non-infectious or chronic degen- erative state is the thought that the disorder may' be of possible dietary origin. This is not always true. In the case 'of atherosclerosis, more commonly known as "hard- ening .of the arteries;" there is, evidence that the food intake may be one of the important- , contributers. To date, it has not been 'possible to' locate the speci- fic nutritional factors ,invelved. Under investigation by medical scientists 'throughout the world are several dietary constituents; cholesterol, total fat, soft • fats (vegetable fats and marine oils), hard fats (saturated fats of ani- mal origin), artificially hardened fats (hydrogenated vegetable oils), certain vitamins (particu- larly '(B6), total calories and the closely associated , obesity and exercise, starches, and certain types of protein. Out of this complexity certain facts begin 'to emerge. Dietary cholesterol, or the tholesterdi you' eat, play's a very Minor, 'if any, /Tile in the development of atherosclerosis. Evidence that tends, to relate atherosclerosis to the, fat intake is difficult to separate from that whin relates it to total caloric intake, obesity and exercise. Experimentally it can be shown that the soft fats, or vege- table Oils when given as a "for- mula diet," tan lower the cho- lesterol content of the blood: Whether this is important in' in, hilaiting the development of ,ath,. eroiclerosis remains to he' ,seen:. A long time will be required td proVe the hypothesis:: One very positive' fact can: be stated: "The diagnosis of heart disease caused 1)y atherosclerosis is Made enbre frecthently in the' obese than In people 'of tiornial weight." Tides this mean that the obese have More atherosclerosis, or that the symptoms develop earlier it the Obese? Possibly both ataternerits are trtte. The synalitenia therot., dietetic heart disease are caused by, a failure Of the blood-to carry, enough oxygen to .,the heart Muscle. This is due o a chnstric- tip 'of the blood vessel Which pitiretits the blood from flowing freely: Fat people must expend incir5 energy than normal-weight peeple, or thin people, When they MoVe around as they Carry hibre Weight. OXygen' IS teqUited to burn the food to supply the 'die.; gy, Hence, fat People heed•inote. oxygen: It is common Observatibri that obese people breathe herder arid taatit than norrtiat-Weight director of the Army- Medical Department orderpd his three best doctors to, hold an autopsy at once, Their /finding put the scandal beyond doubt, Dr. James Barry was a wo- man, The Commander-in-Chief or- dered an immediate inquiry. Dr, Barry had ranked with the top brass in a dozen military cam- paigns. Those were the, days when Florence Nightingale and her pioneer nurses seerned 4 some- what shocking, Yet throughout the Nightingale uproar and the Crimea War a woman had been illicity running the'medical side at military headquarters! It turned out that strings had been pulled to get Barry into the Army in the first place. None other than Vield Marshal Lord Raglan had used his in- fluence. Barry was a distant re- lative. Having no idea that it should be "Jeannie" rather than "Jim- my," Raglan instructed that the young candidate should be pass- ed into the. Army without phy- sical examination, provided two certificates of fitness from civil- ian doctors were produced, And it clearly hadn't taken Jeannie long to procure, or perhaps forge, these documents. What had led her to under- take her amazingly masquer- ade? Fact 'by fact, after her death, the -story leaked out. Daughter 'of a Scottish laird, Jeannie as a romantic teenager .had fallen desperately in loye with a junior doctor, Then he was suddenly order- ed to join Wellington's army in Spain, a posting equivalent in those days to years of exile, Vowing to follow him Jeannie knew that a woman in those days could not travel far alone. But she soon hit on a plan. She cut her hair, wrapped bath towels around her body to give her figure the stocky sem- blance of a man, and as "Jimmy Barry" took up medical studies at Edinburgh University. Ob- servant students noticed that she always carried her elbows inward like a "girl rather than outward like a man. She took her degree brilliant- as -soon as they exercise: Any constriction, of -the blood' vessel will interfere with, the flow of the oxygen-carrying blood. The d'egree of interference will be proportional to the amount of constriction of the blood vessel. When the individual is at rest, the constriction may not be great enough to prevent the small amount of oxygen required from getting to the heart muscle. As the oxygen demands increase, the interferace behomes more neticeable. Since fat-people re- quire more oxygen than- thin, people tO walk the same distance at the same speed,Aheir harden- ing of the arteries is noticed very quickly. The same findings apply to thin people With atherosclerosis. When they walk they have no symptoms, If they run„ causing a rapid increase in oxygen re- quirements, then symptoms, may result. Many fat people' need as' much oxygen when they "walk slowly. as thin, people do' when they run fast. Therefore, regardless of the part obesity plays in the develop- ment , of atherosclerosis, it is im- portant for the afflicted- indivr- dual to ,reduce his weight rapidly ,.. to spare the heart work. The hormones of endocrine ,se- cretions may play some pirt in the development of atheroacleto- sis. There is a much higher inci- dence in mortality from heart attacks among males in the age group of 40-59 than among, fe- males in the same age 'group in this country. h , , „ This difference in incidence de- , creases `Markedly after women ly and entered .the army' '4: a. medical assistant, Posted to -altar, • she discovered too late that her lover had been killed,, Yet. Jeannie Barry had in fact become the world's first woman doctor and there could now no turning back,. net grief. found solace in herwark,. In an official report Lord. Alhermarle stated how deeply he was pressed by this 'most. skilful of physicians," With hair 4raising luck, 'Dr, James Barry passed unscathed. through epidemics and epic bat, ties to die finally in her bed, Then. War Office chiefs decided that at all costs:, they 'could not ,risk exposure of the dynamite fact that the Army's top doctor had been a woman, 'So the doctor was buried as ...a ,man, and the simple tomb- stone gave no clue to sex, In the end, it was Charles Dickens who revealed. the etnazing''facts. in his magazine, `Household' Words.' TINY VALENTINE — The smallest man - made "star" ruby ever produced — 16-thousandths of a carat— decorates this quarter; inch heart, a gift item for Valentine's Day, or other occa- sions. The "star" ruby is made by Linde Company, a division of Union Carbide Corporation. have gone through their change of life at which time there is a mark,ed loss of female hormones. It is possible that the female sex hormone plays a role in the prevention of hardening of the arteries. There is some experi- mental evidence that the concen- tration of cholesterol in the. blood of the male can be influenced by the administration of female sex hormones, It is, much too early to say whether this treatment can actu- ally „decrease the number of heart, attacks in the males or in females during later life. * * The implications of the rela- tionship of fat to the develop- ment of atherosclerosis have re- sulted in investigations of the 'other main foodstuffs, proteins and -carbohydrates. The former occurs mostly in meats, dairy products and certain leguminous vegetables. The lat- ter are commonly known as starch and sugar. The result ..„f , these investigations to date re- emphasizes the fact that any radical attempt to alter the diet can result in many problems. The best advice that can be giVen today is to eat a well:- founded diet that supplies all the minerals and vitamins, pro- teins and sufficient calories to maintain the optimum, weight, My suggestion is that yoh eat daily some meat or dairy prod- uct, green and yellow leafy vege- tables, fruit, and whole grain or enriched flour products. Over- consumption of 'any one , food' group is not to be„, encouraged. Maintenance of desirable weight is essential. Next: Exercise and heredity. .RIDGE Cg—The best engineering brains probably couldn't design a more effective b'ridg'e blOck .tharrthis rendering corri- PO'ny truck jartinied &bridge over Blacklick Creek. the driver; W!Ilicim MeNarritira, was not injured. Haw the accident to the fully leaded truck happened is open to speCulation. However, there will be ha t pedulatiOn for the fish4n the creek below Eta to; Where their field meal is.Corning franie Nutrition And Your Arteries' NO EGG ON HIS TAtit Experimental briirriol in Luke's Fibs- pita , icago, protests offer Of cholesterol-rich egg'from br, C Bruce Taylor, who has induced haftlening of arteries iri triOn6ys with..high-cholesterol food. Tie-in betWedri diet end atherosclerosis in hutncins, has yet to be proved: 44, W