HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-04-16, Page 6GESUNDHEIT!
Got Hay Fever?
Q. You guys make me sick,
A. Qf course nature heraelf has,
provided sanctuaries for ,suf-
ferers, There are many caves in
this country that are completely
free of
Q, Caves? Are you crazy?
A, Misters shows that Jess*
James lived in a cave, So did
Daniel Boone. Kate Smith first.
sang "God Bless America" in la
cave,
Q. She did?
A, According to. Rudy Turilli
who owns the Meramec and On-
anciago Caverns in Missouri,
caves are a very good invest-
ment, even if you don't have hay
the ,daysi when .medieval bishops.
apci. barons .11.14.0g .tapeatri.O. to
'keep the chill out their drafty
churches. end castles, As In the
golden, age .et tapeatryenaking
Lour cennelee age, the looms are
still made by .hand, Even wool-
dyeing remains A labOrious ,pro-
gess (the threadt. for Picatto'r
first tapestry desigA. were dyed
ten .censectstives „times tq obtain
the, exact shade required), )3e-
cause of all the, delicate work
that goes into even an °I-dine*
tapestry, the average weaver
turns out only a square yard
per month,
Nevertheless, some, 500 French
tapestry makers are busier now
than, they have been in genera,
'Lions.. Since the postwar revival
of the age-old craft, thousands
upon thonsands of tapestries
have come off French looms.
Despite the relatively high price
(a 10-square-foot section fetches,
between $300 and $500), many of
the smaller pieces haVe been
snapped up by private collectors.
Larger items have gone to banks,
churches, businesses, and other
institutions, The output of the
famous government - owned
Gobelin shops in Paris decorate
public buildings at home and
embassies abroad,
One explanation for the cur-
rent revival: More and more
first-rate artists are designing
directly for the medium, possibly
for the same reason that led
Leger to tapestry. "My husband,"
the painter's .Russian-born widow
said last month, "felt it gave a
warmth to his work which had a
coldness on canyas."-
-From NEWSWEEK
Woven Dreams
*lung, on Walls
aim village of Aubusson
;plaid the quiet, green hills of
Ventral France, an old Weaver
ends over an eighteenth-century
alt ;loom set in a comer of a
dusty workshop, With hia feet,
rifle weaver nimbly operates two
jpedala controlling the 'loom's
tautly stretched warp, With his
lingers, he deftly maneuvers
one of the loom's many bobbins,
first pulling it over one warp,
then pushing it under the next.
As he labors, a brilliantly col-
ored tapestry slowly takes shape
do the loom, The old man pauses,
gene back from his work, looks
at it closely, and says softly:
"It's a dream to be hung on a
On both sides of the Atlantic
last month, gallery-goers were
having their first look at some
of the best of the weaver's art,
In Paris, a dozen bold designs
by the late Fernand Leger went
on exhibit at the Maison de la
Pence FrancaIse. The Leger
tapestries, filled with solid
blocks of, primary colors, have
the same feeling of solid strength
which fills the late artist's can-
vases. But while Leger consider-
ed tapistry-making "a caprice, a
fantasy," to his fellow country-
man Le Corbusier, it is 'modern
man's ideal work of art." The
architect is one of 21 designers
represented in the first compre-
hensive exhibit of modern tapis-
tries in America now on display
at New York's Museum of Con-
temporary Crafts.
Besides a happy inspiration by
Le Corbusier, the New York
show features three forceful
tapestries by Mathieu Mategot,
48, leader of a school of young
abstrationists, and two sumptu-
ous works by Jean Uurcat, 66,
who spearheaded the tapestry
'revival two decades ago.
It was Istircat who introduced
the major Innovations that have
given modern tapestries some-
thing of their medieval splen-
dor. These , involved working
from original designs, using a
coarser weave and fewer colors
than in the ornate Victorian
etyle of the last century. "Tapes-
try," says Lurcat, "is putting art
in touch with its 'traditional
handicraft sources."
The link to the great artisans
of the Middle Ages lies in the
weavers' painstaking technique
which has scarcely changed since
lever. People will pay instant
money to see your .
Q. They will?
A. It's easier to get a mortgage
on a cave than on a house, Turilli
says, But he says you have to
be careful to buy 'a live cave:
one with fresh springs and
stalagtites, and so forth. This kind
not only keeps the air pollen-
„free, but also grows at the rate
of a cubic inch every •
Q. No kidding?
A. No. Turilli says he knows
where all the best ones are. He
knows a couple that have good
echoes so you won't get lonely.
He'll help you find just what you
need. Simply sign this form „ .
Q. You guys make me sick.
Canada Might
Try It Too!
The Jefferson County School
District is the only one we
know of in the nation with a
compulsory foreign language
program f r o in kindergarten
through the sixth grade.
That's something for the dis-
trict to be proud of, and we're
glad to know the program is
going to continue.
Jefferson is also planning a
four-year language program in
the high school.
In an interdependent world,
where America's dealings with
other nations are growing.
training in foreign languages is
a vital asset.
Our ignorance of other lan-
guages has been a major U.S
handicap in the competition
with Russia for the friendship
of peoples throughout the
world.
So, even if the critics harp,
Jefferson is wise in sticking to
;its language guns. Both the
children and the nation they
will one day serve will be the
better for it. — Denver Post.
a regular dinner, why not have
a fish plate special? This is es-
pecially good for lunch. The
following is an informal fish
plate with a special lemon relish
served, artistically, in half .a
green pepper. Put this fish fillet
on a toasted half bun, if you
like. You'll need 6 fish fillets,
breaded and fried. Six buns,
split and toasted. Lemon quar-
ters, ripe olives, carrot sticks
and parsley,
LEMON RELISH
1 cup finely chopped cabbage
1/2- cup finely chopped onion
2 tablespoons finely chopped
parsley
1 small .lemon, finely ground
Dash each: salt, pepper, dry
mustard, and turmeric
1/2 teaspoon celery ,seed
Dash Tabasco sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
Mayonnaise to •moisten
Scooped-out pepper halves
Combine chopped vegetables
with seasoning and sugar. Al-
low to set several hours for fla-
vors to blend.• Before serving,
add enough. mayonnaise to mois-
ten, Serve with your fried fish.
A PUPPET THAT BLOWS bubbles and a wall oven patterned after mother's are two of the
new toys offered this year to 'entice youngsters.
.4, TA BLE TALKS
# eio-Ae Anclvews.
Comeback For,
Electric Auto?
Live In A Cave!
FAMILY FIGURES
Paul Bourdrez, of Arras,
France, claims a record. He re-
cently became a grandfather
four times in 48 hours. Three of
his sons and one of his daugh-
ters became parents within that
time. The doting grandfather
now has a total of 19 grandchil-
dren,
By WAAL) CANNEL
1NEA. Staff Correspondent
New York — — In an-
ewer to many questions from all
over the country, It can be re-
ported conclusively that a little
progress is, being made against
the scourge of ,spring and snrri-
mer — hay fever,
Here are some of the most fre,
quently asked questions by hay
fever sufferers; and answers from
leading authorities in the field
on this mighty battle of man
against nature,
Q. I hear there's a one-shot-in-
the-arm treatment that cures
allergy. Why are they hiding it
from us?
A. Doctors are Watching this
new therapy very closely, accord-
ing to Dr, Charles D. Marple,
director of the Allergy Founda-
tion of America, Right now, how-
ever, it is still in the control stage
because the dose is so stiff it
could be ...
Q. Sure. Sure. I got the same
pussyfoot song-and-dance about
cortisone and ACTII. And I know
they work like magic.
A. The corticosteroids can
have serious side effects, accord-
ing to Dr. A. H. Fineman, one
of New York's leading allergists,
Effects sometimes more serious
than the condition they relieve.
Happily, however, we are begin-
*ning to learn more about . .
Q. Beginning to learn? It there
anything you know?
A. Antihistamines are much
more effective today than they
were even a year ago. There is
a tremendous range to choose
from -- literally hundreds of .
Q. Listen. Just because you
can't pronounce the name of the
'drug doesn't mean it's a miracle.
I got" an idea they pick those
names for the pyschological
effect.
A. There is no denying the
emotional factor in allergy, ac-
cording to Dr, Marple. Your state
of mind can certainly .. .
Q. You guys make me sick. You
see a kid with asthma and right
away you want: to psychoanalyze
him.
A. On the contrary. Asthmatic
children are often simply re-
moved to a healthier climate and
their parents are given- the psy-
chotherapy. Science has found ...
Q. 'You guys make me sick.
A. For severe hayfever cases,
the usual long-term series of in-
jections is still most effective and
sometimes leads to life-long de-
sensitization. A sea trip during
the hay, fever season, is good, too,
because it removes from the .
Q. Are you crazy? The hay
fever season can last a month.
Do you know how much one of
those cruises could cost?
A. Crown Peters Travel Service,
can arrange something for you
for about $1,010. If you sign this
form :
Lucky Cough
Double Charm
* *
Here are some sauces for your
fish dishes.
ANCHOVY BUTTER FOR
HALIBUT
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon anchovy paste
3 tablespoons butter- melted
Dash paprika
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
Combine all ingredients.
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ALMOND SAUCE
IA cup almonds, blanched and
sliced lengthwise
2 tablespoons butter
Lemon. juice
Brown butter in heavy skillet,
Add almonds and toast gently.
Add a little lemon juice. Pour
over broiled lake perch or any
small fish, just before serving.
BUTTER SAUCE
4 tablespoons butter
4% teaspoons lime juice
3/4 teaspoon Tabasco
1 tablespoott minced parsley
Melt butter; add lime juice
and Tabasco. Heat. Add parsley.
Charles Hall of Harlowton,
Montana, can talk freely now,
because of what he considers a
miraculously lucky cough. As a
marine, he fought with Ameri-
tan troops in the invasion of
Guam in 1944, and was wounded
in the throat.
Medical officers said his wound
was caused by a shrapnel graze.
Nothing, so far as they could dis-
cover, had actually penetrated
his throat. But recently he felt
a huge lump there, coughed, and
into his mouth popped a one
inch Japanese bullet!
Unknowingly, he had carried
this souvenir inside his neck for
fifteen years. Now, having got
rid of that ticklish feeling, he is
a thoroughly happy man — all
because of a cough.
A NEW LIFE — Actress Diane
Varsi, 21, has ended her star-
ring career b .i leaving Holly-
wood for Be nnington, Vt.
Known as a rebellious "female
Jimmie Dean,' she quit the
glamorous acting world be-
cause she thought it was des-
troying her.
•
"The thing for you to do," said
the doctor to the man with the
upset nerves, "is to stop thinking
about yourself-to bury yourself
in' your work,"
"Gosh," replied the patient,
"and me a .cement mixer!"
Here is a recipe for caramel
fudge which has more than one
use as it can "double" as a cake
frosting or as an ice cream
sauce. And it is equally good no
matter which way you use it.
CARAMEL FUDGE
1 cup sugar
V..; cup warm water
2 cups sugar
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter
1.4, teaspoon salt
1' teaspoOn vanilla
1 cup pecans or Brazil nuts
Combine 2 cups sugar with 1.
cup milk in a large saucepan
and start simmering, Caramelize
1 cup sugar in -a heavy pan or
skillet. Do not stir much, but
watch closely to 'avoid burning,
When melted and brown in col-
or, add a little warm water and
stir. Do this 2 or 3 times 'until
syrup is simmering gently and
all of the hard caramel is melted
off the bottom of the pan. Add
some milk and sugar syrup 2
or 3 times. Turn caramel mix-
ture into the white syrup pan;
proceed as for fudge. Cook to
soft ,,ball stage. Remove from
fire; add butter and salt. Cool
to room temperature; beat with
electriA mixer until gloss be-
gins,:to '(If it firms up too
fast, add a little light cream).
Stir in vanilla and nuts and turn
into 7x7-inch pan. Mark into
squares..
Note: TO,:smake sauce for ice
cream, take, mixture from heat
at soft ball''Stage, add!'salt but
omit butter., Cool somewhat and
stir in 1 cup light cream, stir-
ring only enough to mix. Store
at room temperature.
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The reader who sent this
recipe in calls them
NEVER-FAIL. PANCAKES
1 cup churned buttermilk
143 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1'4 teaspoOn soda
1 cup sifted flour
2 teaspoons salad oil
1 egg, beaten
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
'Pun tbAttermilk in bowl; add
salt, sugar, and soda. Stir well
until foaming subsides some-
what. Add flour gradnally; add
salad oil in small quantities to
get good distribution of oil. Let
stand in cool place over night.
In morning, add 1/2 ' teaspoon
baking powder and the beaten
egg by folding in lightly. Allow
to stand at least 20 minutes (if
too thick, mixture may be
thinned with milk or cream).
Bake as usual, greasing grid-
dle lightly with oil. This makes
4 6-inch pancakes, Recipe may
be doubled.
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The sauce you use on fish eT„
and this is especially true of
fresh-water fish — is equally
important as the way you cook
them. Here are sorrie recipes
that are highly recommended to
all fish-lovere,
SAUCE MAITRE IYHOTRI,
4 tablespoons butter
teaspoon minded onion
2 tablespoons Mint
teaspoon salt
teaspoon pepper
Dash sugar ,;
cup hot Milk
ctip Water
4 tablespoons butter
Juice of % lenteri
1 talottijopOrt chopped.
teaspoons finely 'chopped
fresh tarralgOit -
Simmer 4 tablespoons butter
With the minced ,briion Mine
Utes; do riot brown. Add flptlis,
Salt,, pOppere and Sitter's mod
Well. Add Milk;' nook Until thiek.s
eried and smooth. Add water,-
then add butter, beating iii 1
tablespoon at a 'eine. Add tee
Malting' ingredients: Serve hot
if you're riot iii. the irtiOod fee
Do you remember the electric
automobile," that stately, slow-
moving vehicle beloved several
generations back?
It may 'soon be on the streets
again in jauntier guise. •
A California company has a
model with fins — and a Cleve-
land_ firm is experimenting with
a Rambler body on an• electric
car.
The 'eledtrie's revival is part'
of a trend to .economy cars —
and cars' for specific uses.
It flouts rising motor fuel
costs. by-. running on electric
motors drawing current front
batteries. And it is generally
proposed as an auto "to be used
around town, a good second car
for a family — or, it has been
suggested, for a salesman with
a route in one locality
The Detroit Edison Company
is the Motor City firm display-
ing the most active interest in
the electric, 'though Ameriean
Motors furnished a Rambler
body go Cleyeland Vehicle
Company.
The utility has ordered a
Charles Town-About from the
California electric- e producing
firm, Stinson. Aircraft Tool &
-Engineering :Corporation, of
- San Diego.
Its Charles Town-About, says
Detroit. Edison, is expected to
run for ;about 77 miles between
battery charges. Cost of re-
charge would be about 18 cents,
Recharging could be done
from an ordinary electric light
socket. Or, a Detroit .Edison ex-
ecutive suggests, parking me-
ters Might be fitted ,with outlets
and the auto recharged while
the driver shopped)
a A Wall Street Journal article
on the Stinson electric quotes
a ,utility executive' as estimating
a total operating cost' of 61/4
cents a mile, compared with 9
cents a mile for cars of the low-
priced three.
Detroit Edison describes the
electric ,it.has ordered as a two-
door, four-passenger auto with
a 94,5-inch wheelbase and a
fiber glass body. Two 3.2 horse-
power motors will derive cur.
rent from batteries accounting
for 528 pounds of the 1,875
over-all weight. Top speed will
be 68' m.p,h7
Tile brine has been 'quoted as
from $2,200 Up. Delivery is ,ex-
peeled in June or July writes
Elizabeth H. Harrison in The
Christian, Science Monitor.
gays a Detroit Edrson
spokesman, perhaps less con-
cerned with the subject than a
Los Angeles in a n would sbe,
"there would be no combustion,
so there should be.no exhaust,"
In addition, the Detroit utility
company has a financial ifit6F-
eit in •an electric-vehicle re-
search project with the Cleve-
land Vehicle Company and- sev-
eral (ether firma.,
Cleveland Vehicle has been
selling electric trucks but will
not have its first car model
ready before June of this year,
according to information re-
,ceived from Detroit Edison.
Another year of testing and
refining will be necessary be-
fore the car goes into produc-
tion.
Detroit ,Ectison's interest tit
electric cars: has several aspects,
accoi4ding to company spokes-
men.
First, it would like to see au
automobile manufacturer be •.
(Writ interested in making eke
trie automobiles in Detroit, thus
Providing .a new fhdUStry.
Second, it is interested in a
possible new use of ite elee-
trieity in battery recharges.
HANDICAP TOR OUTSIDERS
Under a red* by-law
ciders who marry girlS, iii the
village Of Peglio, Italy, will, in
future; have to paY a special, tax, *OLIVE GOT IT RIGHT No, the picture isn't upside-down,
the tneite is. Wearing magnetic slices at the Wright .Air Develoo-
Orient Center, Dayton, Ohio, he it testing problems of weight-
lessness that could be encountered in Spate travels ISSUE iii 101'
FLowEr.4, FAEsaNtss is the "Took” of this season, Mother in her
spie•and-span Cydarnen pink shirtWaietsdress with the new stand-
away collar ih a' IDO.croti and cotton. Daughter in her pastel petal
print airy dress of tiaeron, nylon and cotton. A teeth tot east
sewing and easy care gisses pronirie of little or do pressing. use
Anne Adams. Printed Pattern 4563 (in Misses' Sizes 1.2 to 10) arid
4821 (hi Sires Ito for the ChilcPg dress. To Orden send 50 cents
0100 stamps cannott be accepted; use postal note for safety) fee
Printi.d iN,1,i:oin 4.'568 and 400 for Priiited Pattern 48N, Send your
order to Ann,. Ad: Tut, Box I; 133 Eiglittenth St.; New Toronto Ont.
AGES VYEeLL— GeneraliSSIKO
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