HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-11-19, Page 6TOP NEWS — As much "for men only" as the 'cigar, the fedora' and the derby are lifted for
the ladies this fall. Man-type hots, like these modeled by Ruth Copeland Cleft) and Inge
Gruber, are becoming women's wear, continuing a fashion trend that so 'wthe ladies donning
mannish straw hats during the summer.
tATE MODEL the latest ih buggies driven by the knish,
has real' view mitrors, .heacIlights, parking lights and tail,
lights, A rieW stale law will require in addition a flashing red
Vght to warn itibtariete.,
GET THE POINT — From her
toes to her hairdo, this Paris
model is in style. She sports a
"cosmic" coiffure vvhde display-
ing a pair of "missile-styled"
shoes,
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to ;mien
• TO the ancient Pity which was
the traditional. Scene of the
Werld's most celebrated love
affair Certke many letters, and
notes every week addressed to a
girl who has been dead hundreds
years, •
The „city is. Verona and the girl
was the lovely Juliet whose woo-
jog by the passionate Romeo
Spired one of Shakespeare's
greatest tragedies, The letters
And. notes pour in from love-
lorn girls in many parts of the
world, some being simply ad-
dressed.. to "Juliet, Verona, Italy,"
Nearly all the letters `from.
girls abroad ask the dead Juliet
for advice, sincerely believing
that she will help them. The
tomb—of the two lovers is situ-
Ater' in an old disused monastery
and is of rough stone, As the
tomb is uncovered and the lov-
ers are clearly not inside it, it
is usually explained that they
are "underneath."
Historians have east doubt on
the Romeo and Juliet story des-
pite the fact that there is a mar-
ble plaque under the "lovers'
• balcony" and other tablets in-
dicating the place where they
stayed. They say that Shakes-
peare borrowed the story from
a romance invented by an ear-
lier writer called Maeuccio who
In. turn had been, inspired by a
story from classic Greece.
Traffic Lights
A Century Old
In a recent statement that
more traffic lights are soon to
be installed in smaller provire
dal towns in Britain a spokes-
man paid tribute to what he call-
ed "this life-saving invention of
the twentieth century." But in
actual fact, it was just a century
ago this October that the first
working model was tried out.
The story really begins in
Bradford when a mill-hand had
the bright idea of controlling
traffic by means of coloured
lights. He invented a device with
oil lamps worked by a shutter,
Armed with this invention, he
reached London one October
anorning and hawked his idea
through various Government of-
fices.
Although his miniature model
worked well enough, the notion
did not impress the powers-that-
be. 'In those days the volume of
horse traffic was easily controll-
ed by a policeman on point duty.
The ingenious mill-hand return-
ed home disappointed.
A few years later the famous
engineering firm of Saxby, who
became pioneers of railway sig.
palling, brought out a much
more up-to-date device. It was,
In fact, the firs t- ever street
trossing light in the world.
three fixed gas lamps were set
In a lantern which rotated et
the top of a twenty-foot pole,
And a policeman swung the light
to Stop or Go as the stream of
traffic required.
The same device also had
semaphore arms which were
horizontal for Stop and dropped
like a railway signal for Go.
It was first installed near the
Houses of Parliainent, at the
junction -of Great George Street
end Bridge Street. The 'reason
given was "to safeguard M.P.s
as they crossed the busy streams
of traffic."
People flocked from many
parts of London to see the new
discovery. One enterprising man
ran coach trips from Finsbury
Park, and did a brisk trade at
sixpence for the return journey.
Refreshment stalls were set up
^ ^ ^
near the traffic light; and the
pollee were more concerned
abaut the ct'laWcl of sightseers
than about the -traffic which the
new lights were intended to con-
trol.
The invention was popular
with the police, and the inventors
publicly announced their hope.
that it would soon be installed
throughout the , busy parts of
London and all other great
Officials from New York, Paris,
and aerlin came over specially
to see how the new gadget was
working,
Then came the first setback.
A party of mounted troops were
riding out from Buckingham Pal-
ace one night when the lights
suddenly turned ;:rorri red to
green. A trooper's horse took
fright and bolted. The reFt of the
party proceeded, until yet an-
ether horse refused to pass the
mysterious light, which by now
had changed from green to re
again,
In the words of a cone:moor-
ery account of the incident: "Toe
dignified cortege was quickly
disordered and the sceen took
the appearance of a rout. Some
of the troopers dismounted and
had to lead their horses past the
flashing light," •
Soon afterwards one of the
gas lamps exploded, badly in-
juring a policeman who was
working it. As Asa result, the Gov-
ernment decided that the project
was too risky. It was abandoned
and London had to wait many
decades for its next set of traf-
fic lights, It was not, in fact,
until 1927 that a second, more
permanent set of lights were
installed,
No Old Maids
Among The Eskimos
On his recent Arctic Circuit,
Mr, Justice. Sisson granted two
divorce decrees to Canadian Es-
kimos, Thus a new step in. Es-
kimo society, from the human re-
lations" standpoint, began. For
until these actions, legalized di-
vorce didn't exist among these
nomadic hunters of caribou, seal
and. walrus. They had always
practised a code of marital re-
lations strictly their own which
produced strange results.
As Mr. c Y. Rowley, adviser
to the Northern Affairs Depart-
ment, testified: "The happiest
igloo I ever lived in was occu-
piel by two couples. And not un-
til I left, did. I learn that the
couples were originally matched
the other way round."
After this, Eskimos may per-
haps copy Western civilization's
marriage customs. So far they
have managed very well without
any ceremony at all. 'Youngsters
are often matched as prospec-
tive mates, in infancy, some-
times even before birth.
The young Eskimo male takes
the girl promised to him as soon
as he can support her, But, if
they do not get on well they sep-
arate without any fuss or loss
of face. The wife, tribal custom
dictates, takes care of the chil-
dren, But, once children are
born, such breakups are very
rare.
Until recently, some Eskimo
hunters maintained two or three
wives. Conversely, a woman was
not criticized if she had two
husbands. All depended on the
availability of males and fe-
males.
What mattered was that every
adult had a mate, bachelors and
old maids being quite unknown,
And, with one or other partner
able to walk out at will, domestic
rows seldom caused trouble in
igloo life.
COUNTY CHOW — Martha Ann ,
DeBorger, 35; of Son Francisco
insists she may be eating
"county chow" for a long time.
Air Force Maj. Arthur DeBorger,
38, divorced her recently but
she refused to reveal where
she had 'hidden his $20,000
life insurance policy. A judge
put her in jail to refresh her
memory,
Jazz Is Jumping
In Russia!
One of the most fascinating
discoveries that has been made
since the thaw in U.S.-Russian
relations is the size of the beach-
head that jazz has established
within the well-protected citadel
of Marxist culture. Taped from
Voice of America programs,
pressed on bootleg disks and
even. X-ray plates, jazz has
raised such a ferment within the
strict confines of Soviet musical
life that the Communist authori-
ties hardly know what to do
about it.
When a jazz club began to-
flourish in Leningrad recently,
however, the authorities knew
just what to do. This account
from a Leningrad jazz buff to
American friend recently told
the story:
"The Leningrad jazz club .
was established here in Sept.,
1958 by some of the most en-
thusiastic jazz fans, They tied
wonderful ideas of studying the
history of jazz, playing real jazz
music, and 'foundsting' the Rus-
sian style of jazz according to
the Russian school of polyton.
ality. The club has some won-
derful jazz combos playing in all
styles from Dixieland to swing,
bop, progressiee, etc. One of
them eves an experimental quin-
tet including such instruments as
the violin and the Vrench horn
and they sounded so nice,
"The whole world knows that
Russia is a. verly musical na-
tion and they have a real feel
ing for jazz. The popularity of
jazz in- Russia is tremendous and
a very good example of that is
the concerts of the jazz club
which were attended by more
than 2,500 people each day (in
Leningrad). Indeed, it was the
finest jazz club in the country,
But after existing for about eight
months it was closed by the offi-
cial authorities (end of May '50).
The causes of that were eX-
pleined in this woy. They said:
'Probably you do a very won-
derful and useful job, but we
leaders understand nothing
about jazz and so we cannot pre-
vide leadership. And what can
A club be without Communist
IeattershiP?"
"It sounds pretty funny," the
Russian jazz buff Wrote, "but it
Is se."
I have heard it said that the
steret of good health is to, eat
'but have never been
able to understand how yeti can
eet onions and keep „ the secret.
Sir rthOris Moore, M.P.
Here are a few freezing
points, in ease you haven't froz.
en baked goods lately. Fruit,
berry, mince and chiffon pies are
especially suitable ,for freezing,
Custard or cream-filled pies
tend to become grainy. Meringue
toughens during freezing and
should not be used.
Most pies can be frozen either
baked or unbaked. Fruit pies,
however, are best frozen on-
baked,
*
Do 'not 'slit the top crusts of
unbaked pies until just before
baking. This prevents evapora-
tion of juice during freezing.
Baked pies should be cooled
thoroughly end frozen at once.
Wrap and seal with tape.
If pies are very fragile they
may be 'frozen before wrapping.
Pie shells, either 'baked or un-
baked, 'freeze well' and should be
frozen before wrapping.
* *
One home economist who bad
experimented with the addition
of fruit to commercial mince-
meat for pies recommended the
addition of 1 chopped apple, 1/2
cup raisins, and 3 teaspoons but-
ter to the mincemeat for 1 large
pie. You may want to experi-
ment—you may even want to
run a taste-test among mem-
bers of your family to determine
which filling is best for your
particular pie.
For your 2-crust mince pie,
put pie in a 450* F. oven until
edges are brown, then turn to
350° F. until pastry is evenly
browned. ,,
The ever - popular apple pie
may -be made more festive for
holiday serving if you combine
the usual fruit with bright red
cranberries, Here is the way to
make one.
CRANatelRitle-APPLE PIE
4 tart apples
114 cups cranberries
34 cup sugar
teaspoon cinnamon
teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
Pastry for 2-crust pie
Pare, core and thinly slice the
apples. Wash and cut cranber-
ries in half. Line a 9-inch pie
plate with pastry. Place a layer
of apples in bottom of pie plate;
add cranberries; acid remaining
apples. Sprinkle with the sugar,
cinnamon and salt which you
have mixed together. Dot with
butter. Cover with pastry that
has an opening cut in center for.
steam to escape (if you do not
intend to freeze the pie). Seal
edges. Bake in 400° F. to 425°
F. oven about 45 minutes or un-
til apples are tender and crust
is golden brown.
Another f r it i t combination
which you may want to try is
rhubarb and raisin, Use rich,
dark raisins and you'll find it is
a perfect foil for the bright
piquancy of rhubarb. Brown
sugar blends these two flavors
together in a way you'll like.
RIIIIIIAltR-ItAISIN
114 cups sugar
cup brolen sugar
14 cup flour
1/1, teaspoon salt
1 rtafribtliespoon grated lemon
'544 cups
cup W
s et evil thhberb (earthed
frozen May be used)
1 tte.tk, seedless raisins
Pastry for g-trust 9-inch pie
Combine sugars, flour, salty
lemon rind, and water in
saucepan, Creek until mixture
thickens slightly, stirring con-
stantly, Pour sauce over fruits
arid Mix well, bivide dough in
half. Roll one-hall of circle
about 1/4 -inch thick and fit into
9-inch pan, ttell teriettinitig dough
tor top enest, Petit filling in pets
And,f,OP With other &Ugh. Flute
edges. Bake at 425' F. about 35
minutes.
APRICOT PIE
1 (12-ounce package dried
apricots
2 cups -water
-3/3 cup sugar
1,/,; teaspoon salt
"Vs teaspoon nutmeg
:11/2 tablespoons cornstarch
3 tablespoons cold water
Pastry for 2-crust 9-inch pie
. Simmer apricots in the water
about 15 minutes. Add sugar,
salt, and nutmeg. Simmer 5 min-
utes more. Combine cornstarch
with the 2 tablespoons, cold
water; add to apricot mixture
-and bring to boil, stirring con-
stantly, Cook 2 minutes. Line a
9-inch pan with do-ugh and -fill
With apricot mixture. Top with
remaining crust (cut steam slits
if you are not going to freeze
pie). Flute or press with,fork to
seal in juices. Bake at 425° F.
about 20 minutes, then reduce to
350° F. and bake 15 minutes
longer.
*
Flavor in Pastry: For special
zip in your apple pies, roll
grated cheese into dough. For
spiced pastry, mix cinnamon and
ginger into crust, For mince pies
or cream pies, use orange juice
instead of water when mixing,
and add about 1 tablespoon
grated orange rind for each pie.
These Folks Don't
Like Confetti!
Young lovers have been warn-
ed that their 'wedding at a vil-
lage church in the British Mid-
lands may cost them £3 extra
from now on -- unless they can
persuade their exuberant and
sentimental friends not to pelt
them with confetti afterwards.
To combat What they call the
"confetti menace," the parochial
council are imposing a "we
don't want litter in our church-
yard" ban. They demand that
before the service the bride-
groom shall pay a :a3 "good be-
havior" fee, This is only return-
ed to him if no confetti is
thrown,
If there is confetti, the money
goes towards the church funds.
Couples who got the idea that.
confetti throwing can start out-
side the church may have an-
other shock, for the police can
class them as "litterbugs" and
fine them.
One opponent of confetti at
weddings some years ago called
it "a relic of barbarism and a
,eurvival from the days when the
bridegroom captured the bride
by force,"
Hundreds of tons of confetti
worth many thousands of pounds
were not only Made, sold -and
distributed in Britain, but were
exported annually in pre-war
days. Confetti is still in consid-
erable detnand despite cons
plaints from vergers that the
custom of throwing it at newly-
, weds gives them a great deal of
extre work.
Rice is rarely thrown at wed-
dings to-day, but the custom was
widespread in Victorian times.
The Chinese threw rice at heWly-
weds believing that itt` induced
fertility: The Rornaris threw
grain for the same reason Ter
Saxon times couples were show-
ered with red and white rose
petals as they left chittch.
"Letts revive this petal cus-
tom," urged a minister not long
ago. "It was picturesque, harm'-
less and much More natural than
the- use of .'coloured` confetti made
of tepee."
ISSUE 49-61
Charlie Chaplin
As He Is. Now
— —
The world's most famous and
most centrogersial—mOrally and.
AP tett iff raPlal Th the lovriol re lcd1 abne ;ivi)acis I,Ni,shoal t-
he calls his "well of silence,"
Charlie Chaplin seldom strayed
far from the book-filled study of
Isis $420,000, l5-room .chateau in
Vevey, Switzerland. Chaplin was
not, however, merely taking it
easy, Forty-Ave years after mak,
ing his first movie ("Making a
Living"), he was up to his acro-
batic eyebrows in a project he
thinks will prove to be his ma-
jor accomplishment: His auto-
biography, spanning 60 years of
show business, He is in the final
stages, and until the book is
finished Chaplin will stay at it,
Pacing up and down, dictating in
a high-pitched voice, correcting
himself with great frequency,
In his wood-paneled library
recently the 70-year-old come-
dian took a rare time out from
his writing to expound to News-
week's Lionel Durand on a num-
ber of subjects, including: 'His
coming seventh child, which his
fourth wife Oona, 34-year-old
daughter of the late Eugene
O'Neill, will present him with
around Christmas (People ask
me if I am pleased. Of course I
am, But they should ask their
question in ten years — then it
will be interestingl"); his future
plans ("I want to do a nice big
comedy with color, wide screen,
stereophonic sound, and all the
trimmings. I want to try it once,
anyway. It should be great fun
to play with all these new tech-
niques"), and his favorite movies
("I think I liked 'City Lights,'
'Limelight,' 'Monsieur Verdoux,'
and 'A King in New York' best").
"I picked the three films for
the 'Charlie Chaplin Revue' be-
cause they're full of fun and in-
vention," he went on: "Besides,
composing two hours of .music
for them was an interesting all-
lenge, I may bring out some
more, depending on the recep-
tion Charlie gets around the
world, but I feel I no longer have
any association with the little
man with the black mustache.
I keep 'a number of half-written
scripts in the freezer, mostly
comedies, and I'm interested in
-new projects.
',Comedy, or at least humor, is
around us all the time. Once a
comedy director asked me: 'What
are you making?' I said this: `Oh,
the same old thing — getting
people in and out of trouble'."
.For Chaplin, the business of
getting in and out of trouble has ,
often carried over from films into
real life. And his real-life diffi-
culties have been 'by far the less
savory of the two. He lost a much- .
publicized paternity suit in 1945.
In 1952, having become a multi-
-millionaire but not a citizen after
42 years' residence, Chaplin left
the 11,5, in the midst, of much.
bad feeling over his outspoken
left-wing sympathies, In he
•
got into dialculties over his red,
eral tales, which he settled lest
year for $425,000,
The last new Chaplin film, "A
King in New York," was widely
criticized e.s' a heavy-handed as-
sault on the United • States. This.
picture (still to be 'shown in
America). of a deposed monarch
seeking freedom but .finding
steria," suggested this question;
pici• he ever get homesick for
the
"No, I really don't," said Brit-
ish subject Chaplin, bristling,
"In feet, I'm happy not to be in
the United States. I'm much.
freer here," He added: "I am
essentially a Showman and I like
to amuse people I have no
messages to pass oround. An art-
ist, or a comedian, or a clown,
must comment on whatever sur.
rounds him. But I don't shoot at
targets.
"I keep fit by walking, play-,
ing tennis, and raising tulips in
my garden," Chaplin concluded
somewhat abruptly, "I can abide
anywhere, in almost any coun-
try, I appreciate the basic things
of life, a good glaSs of wine, a
good meal, love" — and he add-
ed: "And having fun! I think
that's very important. I don't
know of anything else more 1M-
PortaM!" —From NEWSWEEK,
AGE OF REASON
Summoned by the police to
attend court, to answer a charge
of driving a motor scooter with-
out a driving licence, William
Bryant, aged 88, explained to
an Oklahoma court that the rea-
son he had not applied for a
licence was because he thought
he had to be accompanied by his -
parents.
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