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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-05-21, Page 6e -TABLE TALKS clam Ancttiews. ‘auft HALO — That lucky old sun beams down on pretty Shirle) Myers. And Shirley beams right back in' her neW Halo hot. She'i one, of the. famed Aquamaidi of Cypress Gardens: • WM tail of the PthiCeae$ movements. When you see what care and diligence are taken to give 5rit- 1sh ,renders the mniutiae, topoludo that millions must be fascinated. Every •detail. of the dress she -wore when she arrived was duly apported (red and white flowers petal hat, pink and white chiffon tires*, white gloves, a double strand of pearls, white handbag, and open-toed white shoes). And. the reporters were avid to dis- cover that her airplane coin- pa.rtment was decorated in pea, cock blue and red, More, the dining compartment was bright- ened. by orange lilies, pink roses, and orchids, To . top it off Mighty Striker composed a welcoming calypso. which chorused: So now let's shout out, "Wel- come Princess"; we are glad To see you again here in Trinidad. Maybe You Didn't Know WATER-SKIING ELEPHANT—"Beatty Hamid", the world's only water-skiing elephant, gives folks a , thrill by zipping up and down the Hudson R iver on high-speed skis. The water- loving pachyderm is featured with the Clyde Beatty and Horrid-Morton Circus. Marge Rusing, riding on his back, helped train the animal. A Village Weekly In New York City Air4011700. Gossamer If If you have ever itretched out theupon your hack in upon st one o.f Indian summa o of those brilliant crispy morn- ings in early fall, you may have seen,, ;,s you gazed- upward, to- ward the blue, what looked like. bits of silken thread occasion- ally Failing past far above your head. Likewise, if • you have. leoked toward the sun where. hemlock or other trees produced. a darkened hackgrOupd„ you may have found the air ailed with shining' gossamer threads, all travelling in the same direction In'Such 'cases, if you might see. with the eye of a telescope, you would find a tiny spider holding fast to the ,end of each gossamer streamer, ' sailing along through the sunshine to strange homes far from where they were born. This is many a yowig spider's, way of distributing its kind, I have seen, hundreds of these young ones, sometimes standing almost aipon their heads, spin- ning out long threads behind them when • there was a gentle breeze. The youngsters assemble upon stones, upon the limbs of trees, on fence posts, and on buildings on these bright fall . days to go "ballooning." • The thread is spun out slowly, foot by foot, until the breeze becomes too strong for the young spider to hold on any longer. Suddenly' the flight is on, and the youngster is off, maybe along, with hundreds of others, on the one great advena ture of its life. — From "Hand BOok for the Curious," by Patti Griswold Howes. of sugar and rind. Let stand 20 'minutes. Bake in a 375-degree oven for 1 hour. z FIG BREAD 11.4 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp. baking powder cup brown sugar A/2 tsp. salt .34 tsp. soda 1)/2 cups whole-wheat flour 1 egg, beaten 1.1/2 cups milk 1/2 cup honey 2 tbsp. Melted butter 1 cup figs, chopped %, cup pecan meats, chopped Sift all-purpose flour before measuring. Re-sift with baking powder, sugar, salt and soda. Add whole-wheat flour. Combine egg, milk, honey and melted butter. Stir into the sifted ingredients and knead in figs and pecans. Place the dough in a greased. 6-x-10-inch pan or in two 4-x-7- inch pans, Allow to stand 20 minutes and bake in 350-degree oven 1 hour. JELLY LOAF tien. Dees. 'a r.eV the community c" Om U. a en- munity make a' newsreNr?.. Those . who w,:ked with hg. $VYaXIS' recall that they often. said: .'"rho Villa,i;er succeeded, because of its good friovis." Their successors on the paner say that the reason The Villager has continued to be a prosperous and widely respected newspaper, read far beyond the boundaries of New Fork City, is largely due to the firm foundations the i3ry- ans laid a quarter of a century ago. The foundations were these; The Villager was to be e home newspaper, without sensation,. ahsrp and eschewing all that, is indecent and degrading to family life and good community rela- tions. Second, it was to practice. absolute honesty in all business dealings end in all that appears in its news and advertising col- umns. Finally, it fostered a quiet, conservative, basically American approach to all men and women. regardless of race or creed, rank or station, as simply neighbors, writes Mary Hornaclay in The Christfar, Science Monitor. Another characteristic of The Villager has been its hominess, or what Dr. Carroll V. Newsom, president' of New York •Univer- sity, described at the dedication as a "delightful flare for the trifling but human detail." This • has gone hand-in-hand with the coziness that typifies the Green- wich Village community, Regu- lar features of the paper are its "Town Crier," detailing the ac- tivities of village residents, and its "Scoopy Mewses" - literary column, originally by-lined by the office cat and now signed by "Scoopy Ill." As for. crusades, The Villager has a "hot" one just now — so. "hot" in fact that some of its. anniversary writers turned their pen to it instead of to reminis- cences and congratulations. It concerns the cutting of a through. traffic road across Washington Square, to many "the symbol of The Village." It was just five years ago that the first of a series of battles was waged to save the Georgian .hotises on the north side of the Square, Both the houses and the Square are still there. Wherever newspapermen gath- er today, they mourn the advent in America of the "one-news- paper town." Today The Villager has a competitor, the up-and- coming arty Village Voice. From a craft point of -view, this should mean a healthy situation for the more venerable The Villager, 11. unique American institution now entering its second 'quarter- century, PHOTO FINISH It was one of those raw mid- April days and the manager, needing a pinch runner, looked down the bench for his third, string shortstop. The fellow sat in the corner, completely cov- ered by, a horse blanket. "You'll 'have to wait a minute, Skipper," piped the club wit, "he's developing some pictures." TEAK TIME—Mrs. Helene Feld- man of Santurce, Puerto Rico, models a dress than won't ap- peal' to moths but may be both- ered by termites. It's made en- tirely out of, teakwood and vera. The dress 'and hat are made by a new process de- veloped by Mrs. Feldman's hus- band, David. It gives wood - veneers the durability of metal and flexibility of fabric. That life does add up. At 70, for example, you'll have eaten 75,000 meals and slept 200,000 hours. • * That the average weight of the three ships with which Christopher Columbus discover- ed American was only 60 tons. YOu have got a good memory if you can still recall their names: the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, * That one of Benjamin Frank- lin's most unusual inventions was a bathtub shaped like a shoe. (He sure put' his foot in it that time!) That packs of wild African dogs on occasion will attack a lion and eat it alive . . . Even the king of beasts has to beware the mob. • That the average Canadian spends 20 minutes a day on the phone. The figure definitely doesn't apply to teen-agers. * * That more than 1,000 persons were killed and 100,000 injured `last year in accidents caused by drivers swerving from objects thrown on the highway. * * * That even the names of post offices can make a dieter hun- gry—such as Lamb, Ky., and Chicken, Alaska. * * That, according to the Catho- lic Digest, 10,000,0000 Russians are studying English, but fewer than 8,000 Americans are study- ing Russian. * * That a department store in Allentown, Pa., is now selling .22-caliber pistols in three colors —blue, gold and pink—to ladies who wont to pack their own after-dark protection. * That a recent survey showed dandruff, as well as ulcers, is a high-tension occupational ail- ment among actors, newspaper- men and advertising executives. That another survey disclosed 66 per cent of the admen who carry briefcases' home admit they don't open them until they get back to the office the next Morning. Strange Reunions * * That, although' the Old West seems to get tamer every year, wild burros have become a nui- sance in California: Yep, that's right—wild burros. BUY GAS STOCKS? NUT LOAF eggs 1 cup sugar rlet cup shortening, melted 3°1 cup molasses 1 cup sour milk 11/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp. Halt 1 tsp. baking soda 11/2 cups whole-wheat flour 1 cup raisins 1 cup walnuts, chopped Beat' eggs with sugar. Add shortening and molasses. Mix thoroughly and add sour milk. Sift flour, salt, baking soda, Add whole-wheat flour. Pour dry ingredients over li- quid ingredients. Add raisins and nuts and mix well. Pour into loaf pans and let stand 20 min- utes.eBake in a 350-degree oven 50 to:66aminutes. 'SPICE BREAD egps;:all-purpose flour 1 tsy.:Jiaking powder 1 tsp. soda 1 tap. salt V2 tsp. cinnamon . 1 tsp. ginger .1/1 cup strained honey 1 egg, slightly beaten 1 cup milk Mix and sift dry ingredients together. Add honey, egg and milk and beat hard 15 to 30 minutes. Butter a 5-x-9-x-2-inch bread pan lightly•and dust with flour. Fill and let stand for 20 minutes before baking„ Bake for 50 minutes in a 350- degree oven. Let rest 4 days. • * ,CHEESE-DATE LOAF 1 cup boiling water • 1/2 lb. dates, chopped fine lalt cups all-purpoSe flour VI tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking soda 34 cup sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 cup mild cheese, shredded Pour boiling water over dates and soak for 10 minutes. Sift flour salt, baking soda and sugar together: Add dates, egg and cheese and. mix thor- .OUghly. Pout intellOaf pans, let stand 20 minutes and bake in. a 325- degree oven for hour. HAND TAILORING "What," someone asked a par- liamentary candidate, "will you do if you're elected?" "Good gracious!" exclaimed the impecunious candidate. "What will de if I'm not?" Ale,5.sage From Trinidad Simply put, the people (4 this gIeen island lust off the north 4„*Oast of South America ere charming, In the alassie man- nor or newsmen I've been inter- viewing taxi drivers regularly Indians and Negroes as it happened. They have a wry sense of humor and are uni- formly articulate on all aspects of politics. Trinidadians are a gentle people with a quiet dignity. This is a happy time for them as Princess Margaret has been vis- iting here, and another step has been taken with the inaugura- tion of the legislature of the West Indies Federation. Bunting abounds. Flags. of the nation- tosbe sprout from every' window an the business district — ata orange sun against a field wavy white lines across blue. (The sun and the sea dominate the life and, character of the ten islands that make up the fed- eration.) What is inescapable to the eye as you travel through Port of 'Spain are the people — Indians, Chinese, and Negro, Trinidad has much in common with Ha- waii — the same polyglot so- ciety with racial lines blurred. Mac, my favorite taxi driver, puts it this way: "The only race we don't have are Eskimos." Driving from the airport, after helping to welcome Princess. Margaret, we passed goats nib- bling at the edge of the road, tethered cattle blinking in the brigh sun, dark faces under spreading straw hats, and. rick- ety wagons drawn by tiny bur- x:.os. And the ,flowers and trees! In Port of Spain purple bougainvil- Lace, red hibiscus, the white "Lucky seed" as they calla it, and trees — almond, poui, sea- man, banana, wild plum. All of this is set against plaster walls' of dark red, light green, or white, The birds too have screaming color — in the palm outside my window they dis- play their yellow breasts and they whistle and cry rather than sing. Flowers, trees, and birds — like the dress of the people in orange, red, and green — are heightened to the eye of a Norteamericano. Trinidadians also love vivid sound, lots of, it. The calypsos and the steel bands made of oil drums epitomize this. These sur- prising songs with a shrewd twist are turned out at the drop of a palm leaf for you, and the rhythm is inescapable — you bounce in your chair almost im- mediately. I met this year's Calypso King. Mighty Striker is the name (really Percy Oblington); and there are others just as famous —Mighty Sparrow, Lord Su- perior, and Attila the Hun. The writing of the livid and topical jingles is almost a national sport writes Robert R. Bruno in. The Christian Science Monitor. It is hard to believe that the music made ,from slices of oil drums has such character and precision. The instruments are the "ping pong" or "piano pan" which carries the melody; the "time boom" or "guitar pan" for the harmony; the. bass, simply ' the "boom"; and last are the "kittle booms" for the rhythm. For percussion? A metal bar banged against an old brake drum! Joy certainly reigns un- confined. London must be delighted by the stories that have been ceen- klg back horn the Caribbean on 'Princess Margaret—with all the color the covey of reporters has been able to dish up. As usual a tribute is being made to the Royal Family merely by the fact Of blanket coverage of every de- Joe Sugden was a catcher in days of yore, and his fingers are gnarled' with the trademark of his profession. One day he was introduced to a writer who ask- ed, "Mr. Sugden, did you get those hands from catching base- balls?" "No, sir,," replied Joe. got them from not catching base- balls." A country weekly in the heart of New York City! This is the distinction of The Villager which has just cele- brated its 25th anniversary and whose founder's, the late Walter G. and Isabel Beyan, have had a bronze plaque dedicated to them in the Washington Square heart of Greenwich. Village, their adopted community.. Natives of Fulton, ,Missouri, and reared in a small Midwest- ern town, this unusual brother- sister team built up a valuable newspaper property in a great metropolis already served by long-established and powerful dailies on the theory that many big city folk yearn for the neigh- borliness 'and identity with com- munity life 'they formerly knew or wished they had known. "Greenwich Village glories in a personality that has, stirred all America," declared Louis H. Solomon, president of the local Chamber of Commerce, at the ,dedication of the plaque. He was referring to the lit- erary men and artists who lived, at various times, in the vicinity of Washington Square -- Wash- ington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Walt Whitman, 0. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, John Singer Sargent, Vachel Lindsay, Frank Norris, John Sloan, Wal- ter Lippmann, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Wharton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Thomas Wolfe, William Dean Howells, and Sherwood Anderson. But there are others who hail the community because it has the same groups, clubs, and as- sociations and the same com- munity spirit found in thousands of villages from coast to coast. Take, Rol. instance, Curtis Roose- velt, grandson of F. D. R., once known to the country as "Buz- zie," who is currently Regional Director of the National Citizens Council for Better Schools and a village resident, "I have been very impressed by 'the thought- ful community spirit," he 'wrote in the 25th anniversary edition of The Villager. "When we are no longer. willing to stand up and' fight if our community is threatened, Greenwich Village will cease to be a community. It will then be merely another designation for a 'Section of Man- hattan." On the platform at the plaque dedication, besides the Chamber of Commerce head, were the counterparts of personages who might have been gathered at any similar ceremony in the Green Mountains of Vermont or the plains of Nebraska. Speeches were given by a leading Repub- lican 'arid Democrat Carmine DeSapio 'of 37 Washington Square, West, who has had a finger in, picking some recent presidential candidates. The chil- dren's choir, like any other New York Pollee Athletic League choral' group, was made up of several races and nationalities. All Of which raises the clues, • / cups all-purpose flour, sifted IA tsp. salt 1/2. tsp. baking •soda 11/2 tsp. baking powder )/4, cup sugar 1 cup chopped nuts, raisins or dates Grated rind and juice of 1 orange Boiling water 2.tbsp, shortening 1 egg, beaten 1 cup firm cold jelly (cran- berry, strawberry, apple), cut into small cubes. Sift dry ingredients. Stir in ' nuts, 'raisins or dates. Combine orange rind and juice in a measuring cup and fill re- mainder of alp with boiling water. Pour over shortening and stir until melted. Add •egg•to slightly-cooled li- quid and blend well. Add liquid to dry mixture, mixing together lightly. Blend until flour is just dampened and carefully fold in jelly cubes. Turn at once into a greased and floured 8-x-4-x-3-inch bread pan, let stand 20 minutes and bake in a 325-degree oven for about 1 hour. ORANGE LOAF 4 cups all-purpose flour 5 tsp: baking Powder 34 tsp. salt 2 cups milk 3 whole eggs 1 tsp. butter, melted Juice and rind of 1 orange 1 Cup mixed peel OR candied - cherries tbsp, sugar Rind of 1 orange Sift flout with baking powder and Salt. Mix 'milk; eggs, butter, orange Juice 'and rind, beat vigorously 'and fold: in peel or cherries. Pour into -small loaf pans and sprinkle the top with mixture When Oscar Wilde learned that he was to be prosecuted, he was told that the barrister opposing him would be the' famous Ed- ward Carson who had been a fellow-student of his in Dublin. "No doubt," Wilde commented, "he will perform his task with all the bitterness of an old friend!" It is amazing how the law brings .old antagonists up against each other, In 1910 a young de- tective arrested a lad Who seem- ed determined to embark on a career of crime. The lad was sentenced at the Old Bailey and afterwards the police lest sight of him. Fourteen years later, the de- tective, now a Superintendent, was called in to help solve an outbreak of mysterious burglars in London. The superintendent, who had a fantastic memory,. went away and thought hard. As a result, detectives followed a man to Eastcote one night. They seized hint just as he was approaehing a millionaire's house, In his pockets Were forty- Seven different sorts otkeys, two torches and a Set of housebreak- ing tools. Taken to:Police II,Q,, catne fate to face with the first man Who had ever arrested him• the superintendent. But quite the 'most pleasant reunion of those who had " en at variance with the la* was tte- ;y1sed by the late judge• Tudor Rees. He sought out men whom ftd had sentenced, helped them td find jobs, and invited therti to Parties at his Mine., barber ti8halci 11atgroi%'e plies,.h'is electric '6110i:fees,•44111 while MaUride't Mrs. 1-tt!tald tatiiMayr toOthes her *ailing' ,bay, at tight el small on the face of shorn 'Mthitite at he adjusts to this new idea at SHAGGY 'WV ttditio-bne,year,okt''Mciiitiee. Tommey loses. that Meetly .poet .look in Oh. adatfiiietti. visit to 'the' 6oebee, At-„ left lone .MaUtICO- tilt iedeitrofit of on Alt eehttei Obey,the tratfle --they •iire 'placed there fot YOUR SAFETY" . WAPPX:pEW-.'YEAR—ceOW40,,,-Otithee,:a round :orchatiot.fille0.toolfh. #illdr n. at ,thatiOfzlif-the • • itibotoutii.: N10.4. Yea6 •I koVer the. country New Year