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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-09-10, Page 2THIS IS THE ARMY???—Soldiering isn't too unpleasant for these troops of the 51st National. Guard Division at Anniston, Ala. They share the chow with 19-year-old Mary Ann Huff. This Anniston girl is the "official hostess" for this year's summer encampment. TAME TALKS ekmi Andrews. Wolfe's Brigadiers at the siege of Quebec in 1759. The name of the township was spelled Monck- ton until 1886, but.in, that year, through a clerical error, it was changed to Moncton and in 1930 the Monckton City Council de- cided that henceforth the name should be Monckton. The incor- rect spelling, however, has per- sisted. Halifax — When founded in 1749 it was named after the see- and Earl of Halifax, who was. then President of the Board of Trade and Plantations. The*. sec- ond Earl of Halifax is credited with helping the Hon. Edward Cornwallis found the city. Charlottetown — The capital city of the Province of Prince Edward Island was originally named Port La. Joie but was re- named in honour of Queen Charlotte, Consort of George III, when the Island fell into British hands during the Seven Years' War. Avalon Peninsula—The oldest and most thickly populated area of Newfoundland, was named after the ancient name of Gies- tonbuiy by Sir George Calvert,' Lord Baltimore, in 1623 when James I gave him possession of the central part of the penin- sula. In Hillsburg, Ind., Mrs. Burl Carter, operator of a •family- owned furniture store, accepted a used living-room set in part payment for a new set, sold the used furniture for three frogs' legs and a quart of gooseberries. In Miami. Beach, a 1,600- year-old Roman coin was col- " lected from a parking meter. Girl StowPwaY Finds Romance Xt was a night for, leer° and, xoznarice. A inn moon shone as passengers strolled up and down e great liner's prOmenade deck. Among them was a young Amer- ican millionaire who was travel- ling alone to New Yerk. ge Was feeling disappointed, having failed to find a pretty girl friend for the voyage. All the young women who attracted him were either married or had male escorts, Then there suddenly appeared en deck a slim girl of unusual loveliness. She wore jeans and her fair hair was dishevelled. Going to the ship's rail she gazed at the calm, silvery sea, She started when he spoke to her, but the young man had a way with him and soon they were chatting happily, ''Fancy you and I not meting befere!' he exclaimed. "Where have you been hiding yourself since we left England?" She glanced up at him with is look of fear, "What makes you think I've been hiding?" she asked. "Just my little joke," he re- plied, "but you certainly weren't at dinner te-night." His arm crept round her as he spoke. She shivered a little but made no at- tempt to repulse him. Encour- aged, he drew her to him and kissed her. And then the, girl, feeling she could trust him, told him her strange story and how she had smuggled herself aboard twenty- sour hours before the' liner sailed and hidden in one of the life- boats. "My twin brother is seriously ill in a hospital outside New York and I felt I must see him, although. I had no money to pay the fare," she said. "I packed some sandwiches and brought along a Bask of tea and here I am, but I'm afraid I shall be discovered before we reach the )17nited States." The American made up his mind quickly. He decided to pay dor this girl's voyage and accept responsibility for her. He exe 'plained the situation to officials aboard—and eventually the girl was allocated a spare cabin. The story ended happily. With funds provided by the American the brother received treatment from specialists and recovered. And the pretty stowaway Is now Married to the young man. Not all girls who stow them- selves away in liners are as lucky as she was. A headstrong American girl who wanted to reach her lover in London stow- ed away in a liner sailing from New York, but was discovered within four hours of the liner's departure. She was put to work aboard as an assistant stewardess. When the ship returned to New York with her, her father rushed up the gangway, seized his daughter and spanleed her soundly while passengers and crew looked on. Her double trip had cost him about $200. Stowaways cost ship owners tens of thousands of dollars every year and they are often unaware of the risks they run when they conceal themselves aboard cargo boats and foreign freighters. One stowaway, an eighteen- year-old Frenchman, spent a ter- rible two days dodging large. rolling barrels of, cement which had broken loose between decks in a. heavy gale. He was lucky to escape with nothing worse than a broken Hazardous as the game ies, -stowing away is on the increase all over the world, „Fen( Men, with the help of a steward,. staved away in .a seldom-used refrigerator aboard a "cold storage" boat, • It seemed that they would win through, but early one morning the steward arrived with the men's daily food supply to find n the door cold to his touch, Fears f411Y he opened the door, Within lay the four stowaways, all dead, During the night the wrong valve had been turned on in the engine room and as the in, tense cold seeped into the re- frigerator the stowaways were slowly frozen to death. Three bedraggled figures were discovered in a ship bound from, Algiers to London. They said they were deserters from the Foreign Legion, They were locked up together in .a cabin, but during the night an officer heard screams. He rushed to the cabin and found two men fighting savagely • with knives. The ship put into • the .nearest port and the men were rushed to hospital., One - died. Only then, was it discovered that the third stowaway was a native girl over whom the mat had fought. The owners of the vessel had to pay for the burial and for the repatriation of the other two, Girl stowaways are fewer nowadays than they were earlier this century when they often turned' up in Ships, having been -- smuggled aboard by members of the crew. - With only ,dollares in her pocket a Frenchwoman of twene ty-nine .,onte stowed away • in French liner before. it . left the `United- States. Among the" passengers was a .famous male French stage ,and film star.arid when the woman was asked Why she ,•had hidden • herself aboard, she replied: "Sims • ply because I wanted notoriety. I wanted my name :to. be' linked to the film. star's. It was' my only chance of fatne." ROYAL WELCOME The Giants and-the White Sox once played an exhibition game In London. King George V sat in a box with John McGraw serving as a personal commen. tator. The Giant manager made every effort to be informative. Finally a White Sox player laid down a perfect bunt. "That, Your Majesty," ex- plained McGraw, "is a sacrifice bunt. It is called that because the batter sacrificed himself for the other man, permitting the latter to advance from first to second base." The King pondered this for a moment. Finally he shook his head approvingly. "Rawther sporting of the gentleman, eh, wot?" A mother's life is not a happy one. She is torn between the fear that some designing female will carry off her son and that no designing male will do the came for her daughter. The 'Doctors' • Oil TV - -- The National Association of Broadcasters is to be congratu- lated on its clear-cut and deci- sive action 'to take the phony doctors and nurses out of the TV commercials. After January next it will no longer be pos- sible for any actor or announcer to put on a white coat and pose as "science." The new rulings in the code are unequivocal, The broadcasters are honestly trying to clean up a bad situation. There is still some way to go, and some of the other offensive practices will not be as easy to approach, There is, for 'example, still the habit of letting an authentic TV' personality such as, a sports broadcaster — who may even be a renowned former athlete — act as a pitchman for brands of beer or cigarettes. Equally offensive is the practice of using a well-established mas- ter of ceremonies on a news, variety or quiz show to peddle patent medicine. There is also the need to take some of the more repellent aspects out of the standard line for cosmetics, de- tergents and some food products. And the broadcasters still have to get those awful pseudo- anatomical charts into the ash- can permanently. This is not to suggest that all TV commercials are bad, by any means. Many of them, in- deed, are very good. There has been, for example, a conspi- cuous improvement in the use of the cartoon commercial. But' what is needed is that advertis- ing be kept in its place, as ad.' vertising. This cannot be. done by the broadcasters alone. They must have help from advertisers and sponsors:who 'are willing t., display 'fundamental good taste and not make their products and their spokesmen on the air ridi- culous. -- New York Times. HIGH HAT — Barbara McKenna relaxes under her' towering straw. The latest style is beach wear, the 'topper originated in Nassau in the Bahamas. Quick As A Wink Girls! Here's a question which Gray make some of you blink in surprise: when was the last oc- casion that a boy deliberately winked at you? An observer of social customs rays that the young men and women of today wink at each ether much less often than did their counterparts ire Victorian times. Ever tried to see how long you could go without blinking? These unconscious winks which our eyes perform every day can- not really be controlled, al- though twenty years ago a New York girl named lVfaryan Curtis Was reported to have Won a $500 wager by "maintaining a fixed stare for twenty-four hours without winking an eye- lid," Hew quick is a wink? About one-fortieth of a second, accord- ing to one investigator. "But if I were to give you a signal to wink by flashing a light, you could probably do it in one- fifth of'a sacond if your reaction was quick," he adde. This winking business is very necessary. It's an arrancement of nature for keeping the eye- balls clean, moist and corn forte able, So it's essential to wink fairly often, some people wink more fre- quently than others. It's ealtu- letecl that a nervous pemn may wink as often as 50,00t)- -MOS a day during a sixteen-hour wak- ing period. Even as you read this you area winking to some extent. But so rapid is the wink that you are not cbmcions of eny interruptions. People who blink frequently ought to stay away from the town of Falco, Alaberna. There's 0. by-law iti force there which says you ean be timid if you wink in public'.. Knowing how to make a smooth cream sauce may not sound like something to boast about, but if yours comes out Wesley, so will your souffles, cream soups, and croquettes. Actually, it's not hard at all, but do yonr practicing when you're not leaving guests for dinner. The main Point is to have •the three principal ingre- dients measured and ready for instant action. If you're careful, you can make cream sauce in an ordinary saucepan over low heat; but, if you're likely to wander away from the stove for long, use a double boiler. First, melt butter slowly, then stir in flour, quickly, and heat a few seconds until bubbly. Add milk and salt gradually, and stir quickly until smooth. Then cook, stirring all the while, until the mixture boils slightly and thickens. Thin, medium, thick, very thick—how do you want your sauce? The only difference is in the amount of butter and flour. For one cup of milk and 1/2 tea- spoon salt, use the following proportions, depending on how thick you want the sauce: Kind Butter Flour Thin 1 tbsp. 1 tbsp. Medium 2 tbsp. 2 tbsp. Thick 3 tbsp. 3 tbsp. Very thick 4 tbsp. 4 tbsp. Thin sauce: you can make delicious creamed soups` by com- bining 1 cup thin sauce with 1/2 to % cup of mashed vegetables. Medium sauce: for cheese sauce, add 1/2 to % cup grated cheese. Use also for creamed and scalloped vegetables, meat, or eggs, with a proportion of 1 cup sauce to 2 or 21/2 cups chop- ped food. Thick: souffles usually re- quire thick sauce. Very thick: croquettes and other foods to be bound to- gether need a very thick sauce. One of the most famous of English dishes is steak-and-kid- ney pie. There are two ways to prepare this pie. You may stew the meat in a small amount of water to cover and then cool before putting between. the un- baked pie-crusts. Or, you may put uncooked meat between un- cooked crusts, put into a hot oven to brown and then reduce the heat and cook slowly, for two hours. Some recipes call for a little chopped onion, a few small po- , tatoes, and a pinch of chopped parsley. In the more modern recipes, there is usually one Crest only used -= the top one. The old English recipe fel- lows: STEAK AM!) KIDNEY NE 11,4 pounds lean beef JeS pound veal or lamb kidney Short pastry, for 2-crust pie 1 cup water or stock Pepper and salt Beef fat Cut beef into thin strips. Cut fat into Email cubes. Roll each strip of beef around a piece of fat and fasten with a toothpick. Put in lined-with-dough pie pan alternately with pieces of kid.. hey until pan is Tilled, season. Pour water of steak to cover. Put oh top dough and press around eclgo' to fasten. Prick. Bake in moderate oven. Several recipes for this pie add carrots to the Meat and Po- tatoes, ,ti l'iltom Hungary comes this delicious main dish: Dit.NDAtilAN $rtilit6 0 green peppers, pl(iriili ant? imiforin gilruhd beef 34 cup chopped onion 1 egg 1 cup rice 1 teaspoon salt Pepper 1 can tomato soup (101h-oz.) 1 tablespoon tionr 1 cup thick sour cream Cut tops off green peppers. With scissors, remove center end seeds. Combine beef, pnion, egg, rice, salt and pePper. Mix well and stuff loosely into the green peppers (allow for rice to swell). Place upright in a cas- serole. Pour tomato soup mixed with 2 cans of water into cas- 'serole. Bake at'350° F. at least 1 hour until rice is tender. (Note: if rice is boiled 10 minutes before combining with 'meat, 1 hour eking is adequate.) Remove cooked peppers to hot platter. 'Combine flour and sour cream into tomato sauce in casserole, Stir and boil to thicken: Pour over peppers. How Some Places Got Their Names The history of a country and something of the romance of its origins and development are to be found in the names of places. Here are the :origins of some Canadian place names which are in common usage. Vancouver — Named after the the English navigator, Captain George Vancouver, who entered Burrard Inlet a year after the Spaniard Narvaez ,had discover- ed it in 1791. Edmonton — In 1794 the Hud- son's Bay Company had a Fort built twenty-five miles below the present site. It was named by George Sutherland who built it, after Edmonton River, Lon. don, England, the birthplace of his elerg John Pruden. The name was retained when the Fort was rebuilt, after destruction by the Blood Indians of 1807, on the site of the present City. Saskatoon — The name is de- rived from the Cree word Mis- sask-quah-too-mina or Mis-saek- astoo-mina, a name given to a berry, used in the making of buffalo pemmican, founds in pro- fusion in the vicinity. Winnipeg — From the Cree words Win-murky and Nipity. water. Toronto — Various meanings have been assigned to the name which is of Indian origin: "A place of meetieg'- ' "Trees in the Water", "Lake Opening," all more or less conjectural, The name has also been traced to that of "Attointa," chief Of the Arendaronons and to the Word "Tarontorai" meaning "between the lakes." The name "Tarantou" appears for the ' first time oh Sanson's map of 1656. Sudbury--This city was nam- ed in the winter of 1882-3 by James Worthington after Sud- bury, in Suffolk, .England; the birthplace of his wife, Montreal — Derived from the name — Le Mont Royal -u given by Jacqiees Cartier to the meths, tain in the center of the island in the year 1535. Arvida FOUnded in 1926 by the Aluminum Coinparly,Of Can, ada on the south bank of the Saguenay, River Six Miles west of the City of Chicoutimi, The name is composed of, the first syllables of the names of the then-President of the Company;. Arthur Vining Davis, Moncton — Incorporated as a town in 11356• When the name was changed from 'Bend of the Pet- tidediae to MOtititteri, after tt,, ten. Robert Moricittot4 one of Another Princess On The Job A new royal diary for 1959 is already studded with engage- ments as another princess takes her place as a full-time work- log member of Britain's royal team, Princess Alexandra, the 21, year old daughter of the Duchess of Kent, will make her first Commonwealth tour to Australia next year instead of ° Princess Margaret, it is an, flounced in London, Such a tour with its vast Op- portunities for cementing rela. tions between the Dominions and the United Kingdom brings tremendous responsibility and, much hard work, Princess Alexandra will, for the first time, travel with her own court ladies in waiting, maids, sec- retaries, and tho efficient aides who work behind stage to smooth the way for royal ladies. The Princess, under the keen eye of the Duchess, has in the past few years grown from chubby, tomboyish schoolgirl into a handsome, well-groomed, sophisticated royal personage. She has visited hospitals and welfare centers, talked to pen- sioners, opened, garden parties, and made speeches.. In these lessee engagements she has de- veloped that flair which British people expect from royalty — the ability to invest each event with the sparkle of romance and sense of grand Occasion. There are times, in royal visits, however, when the best- laid plans go astray and here the 'sr Princess shows a sense of humor and informal atmopshere in which tension disappears and ,people unbend and laugh. with her. Such was the time when. she was launching the anti-air- craft carrier Jaguar at Dumbar- ton. The bottle was given all the backward swing and follow- through of a forehand drive in her favorite game of tennis, writes Melita Knowles in the Christian Science Monitor. It smashed to smithereens but the carrier stood its ground. "Give her a' shove, Princess," one of the workmen shouted. The Princess pushed. As if wait- ing for the royal gesture, the ship began to glide down the slip way. The Princess's education has prepared her for making her way as a good "mixer" like the Duke of Edinburgh, She is ninth in succession. to the throne but hasn't been se- . eluded in a royal schoolroom. The Duchess of Kent chose a boarding-school education with a course at a "finishing" school in Paris. At an age when most rdyal princesses work with tu- tors or governesses and see a. hand-picked group of compan- ions, the Princess was going about in Paris like any other student. ISSUE 36 — 1958 . CASTING ARO U ND — Pretty high school sOphorifOre Jane Schweitzer rolls herself to the kitchen stove Pa pap a. take hi the oven. The 15`-yedir-Ofd, spending her fourth and last surri- tiner encased in a Wditt.t4-fiet cast correct' a slipped 'led iOcketi gee around on the' wheeled wooden Vehicle built by. her .fothet,.She'll attend, school a specidl telephand arrOnge- Orient this toll. But, she' expects to be ,back oh fide: feet again by regular &Stet," her Ordeal 'over, Younger Set Fashion Hint