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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. * 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. * 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. * k e 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 Chafing iCcfi-s h ek '71, president and loriiPtinlei boss of Nationijr- lit' China; ii shown in Toi'peis Formosa; recent elciUte..