HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-12-17, Page 6LAST MONTH — IN HISTORY NOV 11 _ .
NOV 24 Cargo plan,
crashes into Chicago
residence,
chirie$c Reds
kidnap U.S, Matine in
Bombe ; hold him six hours.
NOV 27
NOV 28 Chineie attempt to eteel coded U,S.
iliPlomatic telegrams
frbm messenger.
U.S. and
Rossio exten.d,cultutol
and scientific exchange
pr rainier two years,
NOV 2 TV quiz star
Charles:Von Doren admits
rigging; congressional
investigation moves into
disc jockey field,
NOV 1 AuPrellIS Cott upholds
Taft-Hadley in=.
jun041;50090 ,
steelworkers go.
back to work for
$0 days. Nov 9 Government )vernoof
'contaminated cranberries; begins
widespmad seizure gekinepeetion.
NOV. 26
NOv 8 Pulping tanker
Hoeston for hours; 7 crewmen
ore killed;15 injured.
NOV. `7 -
16 Airliner crashei in
Gulf.of Mexico, killing 42,
Native
civifiwor spreads
in'$elgion Congo. 'A0t144;tiqte .rapt in, ranarno.
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their C14.,.neS whirle GI mind Aild
round.
anAlilfetceir near
shyly
;,t thttLeyogug
She
pulled tut hi,s t
smiled bar shyly
Te ctahsee? 41114
offered her a smoke, Soon they
were talking away nineteen to
mar-
r ied,
the dozen, having discovered &
mutual interest in opera, With-
in three months they were mar-
Bernard Shaw found his bride
in a highly unconventional inaa.
tier. The great dramatist, then
struggling for recognition, fell
off his bicycle outside Renhall,
Rectory, near Saxinueclham,
Suffolk, This put him into the,
capable hands, of Miss Town-
send, a wealthy heiress. She
bandaged his ankle — and
Irishman,
inlove with the tempestuous
Their marriage was greatly
successful. Helped by his wife's'
fortune, Shaw could afford to,
stage his plays independently,
and publish his own books.
An even stormier character,
Benito Mussolini, fell madly
love at first sight with an inn-
keeper's daughter, Augusta, But
she rejected bum outright. In her
sight, Italy's future dictator was
no more than an ex-convict and.
worthless adventurer.
His pride was outraged when
she told him she, was going to
marry a young farm worker
from Forli.
"He's a steady, trusty man,"
she said, "and what's more, he's
just got a good job as a grave-
digger."
Young Mussolini then switch-
ed his passions to Augusta's six-
teen-year-old sister, Rachele,
pretty but buxom, Here parent*
did their best to drive -him off,
but he was, not to be thwarted
A second'-time.
One night, having taken hes,
to the theatre, he, returned with
her to ,her-father's inn in ,his most
challenging -mood: Strutting like
.a rae.apaan,,in' the presenee of the
whole family, he .whipped out
a 'revolVer and, shonted:' "If you
won't 'give Rachele to me,' then
'I have six shots here.. The first
goes, through her heart, the
others, are !for me." So Musso-
lini got his wife, thanks to her
`,sister's choice of a gravedigger.
!SSUE 51 — 1950
A BLE TALKS
dam Ankbews.
ll
musical groups established in
many cities across the country
who welcome strangers, travel-
ers, and businessmen who be-
come stranded while in the pur-
suit of their profession. All one
has to do• is call up the group
in the city and join in the scene
(any place where musicians play
or gather).
The only ticket or expense 'is
a, joy for making common mu-'
sic. The "scene"' is `usually a
home.
I have not yet reached the
point where. I am a far-out chick
but the other night my neighbor
came down and,esked: "Say, how
do you learn to play that thing?"
Sleep. Goes West
If You Face 'South
bake for 12 to 15 minutes, 'watch-
ing that edges de not brown toe
much.
Part 0
2 ,eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup, brown sugar '
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 :tablespoon corn starch
teaSpoon 'salt
.1/2 • teaspoon baking powder
1-cup shredded coconut
1/2 rabins;, chopped
cup'chopped nuts
Mix -together, slightly-beaten
eggs; sugar 'and -Vanilla.-Add re-
maining ingredients; . mix 'well.
Pour 'over' partly '•baked short-
bread' foundation, return to oven
and -continue cooking for 25 min-
utes.,
MIAMI MISS — Winter weather
reports are just so many words
to Dolores Kirby who-; soaks up
the sun at Miami=-.Beach.
NUT WAFFLES: add one cup
coarsely-chopped walnuts to
waffle 'batter before _baking.
ALMOND TOPPING: ,add one-
• half cup: finely-chopped-
'hoods .to your favorite but-
ter,icing ,
Nuts, either whole, or finely
chopped,,.ca..r-add a pleasant taste
to most of your, baking favorites.
`Sprinkle them on' top or -blend
them In, dependihg on your taste.
,
On Target!
Chance: Mvoting,A
tread To Romance
As the giant Airliner round
through the skies from genie
,towards Nairobi, the vivacious,
redheaded air hostess made her
way down the gangway, dis-
tributingnewspopers to the pas-
elvers,
But when she came to a hand,
some, suntanned young man, he
asked for .newspaper which
she said she hadn't. got, He was
annoyed at this and said so in no.
uncertain terms., •
The 'girl, Anna Koeltemper,
one of the South African Air-
‘nceay5'd'Ill hQ:sttelstersa,cfbiveceatVannoy-°Nnpoeyr: iev
eti„ too,. She gave. back as good
as she got, if not better! •
But almost at once she re,
:gretted her loss of temper. The.
lapse worried her, so when the,
'Plane. landed at Nairobi she
apologized to the passenger for
having been rude to :him..
The passenger, thirtY-five-
year-old Peter Trinder, a Kenya
company -director, 'did more than
accept her' Apology., he invited
her to dine with him..
• It Was a wonderful dinner, ex-
quisite food and drink, soft mu-
aie; perfect in -every .sense,"
thought Anna. And Peter, for
his part, thought he had never .
entertained a - more charming
girl.
Their r o in a n c e. blossomed
,,swiftly, and not long ago Anna
foond..herself flying 'to Nairobi_
again, 'to .marry the. man with
,whom she had first exchanged
sharp words;
De chances meeting such as this
a make the hest marriages?. Some
'.'experts on:marriage 'believe' that
when two people- meet by' ac-
cident .and fall in have, they will
haVe 'a far more romantic
lationship than ' those .whose .
meetings are.. more conventional:—
Two shy people,'•happily .liv-
ing as man and wife today, owe
. their' :good ,fortune to watching
each-other's dirty washing.. They,
snot_ in ,a..Chelsea.,,launderette.,
' 'The girl, J-ulia; had' just .pUt
Jeer ;scanties into „a machine,
when a young` man. arrived,- and,
looking -highly:-enibarrassed, -pro-
Ceeded to '41',.'neighbouring
Machine with' his 'washing. They,
saf-down'.side.,by. side, each try ,-
.ing 'to ..appear .unconcerned.•as' ;Try ;,YoUt. tiorkey
Grandma's Way
By GAILE DUGAS
NEA Women's Editor
When you sleep does your head
point to: the north? If so, you
probably sleep better than pee-'
pie who, sleep with their heads
pointing south,' east' Of West.
That's the theory; 'anyway, of
a team of scientists in the United
States who conducted a series of
experiments to study" the influ-
ence the earth's magnetism ",on
'the human hedy.,• "
"If you want to awake feeling
refreshed in mind and, body, pay
attention to the position of your,
bed," they advise.
"The head' should rest to• the
north, or in line with the earth's..
main magnetic field of force,-
Which exists in the direction
north to south."
In some :sanatoriums abroad
the authorities deliberately seek
,the •north when they place their
'Patients' bedi in position: They
maintain that "north sleepers"
come 'under the soothing influ
'nee of the' Magnetic Pole and
that ai a result the' 'spectre of
insomnia is banished.
A doctor who died at the great
age of 109, had slept with his
head north and his feet south
'ever 'since he •was a young man.
He always declared that when
yon lie north. and south you are
"in a direct line with the mag-
netic . ciirrents passing between
the two poles and these currents,
in passing through the bodir, en-
sure a regular circulation'. of the
blood and• help to ,maintain the
tissues."
In London a professor of psy-
chology saidsorne time ago that
there was ample foundation for
the belief that' the position of
- • the bedhad sortie effect on the
quality of 'a person's sleep.
"Magnetic and other cosmic
forces undoubtedly influence the
processes ,of, ."our minds: and
bodies," he declared.
He called his -girl Candy Bar. •
Not because she was sweet, but
because she was half nuts. e,4
WHATSIT? = -This it ,one 'of the Cleo rest and closest photo-
sirqbbs• ever made 'of the sun. The picture wets taken, from a
balloon 80,000 feet over 'Minnesota, using a remote-controlled
radlO-carnera. The black marks are sunspots, 'he largest about
30;906 across.
Who's map enough to beat
three centuries old sporting rec-
ord? The amazing thing• ,is ;that
any athletic record should ekist,
for so long. 'But back in- 1798,
Sultan, Selitn,,of Turkey, scored
what archery,,experts describe as
the •world's longest'shot with' an
arrow. Linking ;his gianVstrength
with &Tient bow, he sent an in.-,
row flashing over 972.87 yds.
An. American archer recently
tried to beat thiS. He eqnippcd,
himself with a super,'fifty4our-,
inch maple bow with ettwo hurt-
dred and fifty 'pound pull,jand
settled• down into his firing posi-
tion at Lancaster Airport', Perin-
sylvania. He flexed his legs
against the •boves shaft, stretch-
ed• with., all 'his might ,and un-
leashed what he hoped Would be
a world beater.
Away' whizzed his twenty-five-
inch arrow, streaking over--the "
airfield's half-mile mark, but
plummeted.down a total distance
"of 07.13 arc's. away He'd 'failed
by nearly thirty-ffveyardS;to,clip
'-the Sultan's, record. '
He was too exhausted to 'try
again. Perhaps there's e descend-
' ant of. Robin Hood soinewhete in •
this' country 'who wilrrise to the
challenge,. He'll 'need, though, to
how like a mule.
"Why the string round your
finger?" •
"My wife put• it there . so I'd
• remember to post' a letter."
"Did you post it?"
"No,:-- she forgot to give, it to
me."
A, Cool Cot
On A Fipplel
lViaklng nlaSic is multiplying
60 fast that 30,000,000 Americans
^are "far out" (extremely Ovalle',
td; •gene) as nonprofessional,
dal--it-YOUrSelf hilaaters. And 21,-
000,000 are adults many of
them delayed playing or looking
at the maps (arrangements) un-
la they had eyes to cool it (the
desire to relax).
But now there are 21,000,001,
for this reporter recently be-
came a finger popper (a swing-
ing musician) with the recorder,
Let no one sell a recorder
abort, It is a lovely wood-wind
instrument, It is a 14th to 16th
century advancement over the
tipple flute of the 5th century.
This in turn was a descendant
of the syrinx ,panpipe flute of
Egyptian origin. By the same
token, the ancestry does not help
one to learn to play it — you
have to get untwisted before you
go far out.
Yet, 70,000 recorders will be
sold this year with a retail value
of about $700,000. About 60 per
tent of these Will be purchased
by adults over 30. About 500,000
persons are actively playing re-
rorders today.
These wailers (those who play,
blow, or perform outstandingly)
are not to' be confused with the
millions who perform on an
ax (any instrument, including
piano). And there are millions
of these. Actually, for the past
three years about 12,600 adults
each year have started class mu-
sic instruction. There is no
. knowing how many have gone in
for Sella-instruction. The total
number of adults registered in
classes _in, 1959 is about 75,000,
writes Hal•ry C. Kenney in The
Christian Science Monitor.
Some of these will become
loose wigs (uninhibited, beyond-
musicians) and some will be ly-
ing (conformists, playing the
notes, not improvising). But few ,
will have my experience.
The instructions that came ,
with any beautiful German wood
wind say that owing 'to its great
simplicity one can easily learn
to play the recorder. I live in
an apartment, and my neighbor
upstairs says this is not so ,—:-rny
"learning" was ;,giving him ,a.
harcrtime. lie is a good , fellow
but -a monkey (a 'mu:sic Critic,
he'sees no music, hears no mu-
sic, digs no music).
Then I went out into the foot-
hills -of lovely Connecticut and
started 'to practice l'A' A: stlAdle-horst pasture. 'Shortly, very
ishorilly in fact, a;poliCe prowl-
Illea` rushed Up and shooed me i: — the neighbors, unseen,: had
ird, and that was ,too much.
ey just did not aPPreciettelhe
embryonic dulcet tones.
But by perseveranCe in the
woodlands, „op„,„N:f?y" York, Con-
ecticut, MasseiChlisetti, and New
pshire, I worked from the
ingering charts to l'A Wee -Man
41.1 Alone," "Loch LArnond,"
"Dip Your Bread, Mary," and
"Amaryllis."
As the light began to dawn
and my fingers became more
nimble, I graduated to "The
Nightingale," "Hot Cross Buns,"
"Came a Bird to- My Window,"
and finally, with great *satisfac-
tion, "Theme From The Ninth
SY111Ph.enY."
At;thipoirit I' expect soon to
became a member 'Of the Anieri-
can-.Recorder Society — an as-
sociation devoted to "anyone
who plays `,the • recorder — no
formal requirements are neces-
sary."
Furthermore 'I have juat learn-
that there are nonprofessional
Here are sonie recipes 'using
nuts and which are ideal for holi-
day nihbling.
TemWpe4rijaNtnUreri 355 degrees
Time:'10 minutes
l 42 cup sifted flour
1/4 teaspoon baking. powder
teaspoon; salt
% cup-butter •
V2 . cup white sugar.
1 egg, unbeaten
1,.teaspoon, vanitla
1 "sotiare unsweetened disco--
late (loz.), melted
2 cups NO 1/111 tS, • coarsely
-chopped
Sift ' together, flour, baking
powder and salt; cream together'
butter and, sugar until light; add,
unbeaten egg,. vanilla and melt-
ed chocolate; blend well.' Com-
bine the two mixtures, add wal-
nuts, Drop by spoonfuls one inch
apart on oiled cookie sheet;
mould to peaks with back of oil-
ed ,spoon, Bake until. done.
* e, *.
• NEW :ORLEANS PRALINES,
2 cups, firmly packed brown
sugar
.I/s cup abutter
.1/4 '.;t4P,.w41.
2. cups;pecan nuts, coar3ely
chopped
CombineSugar, water and but-
ter. Cook -Slowly, stirring Con-
stantly, until' mixture boils. Add
nuts. Boil slowly, stirring con-
stantly, to 246 degrees (or
when small quantity dropped in_
cold water forms a, firm ball).
Remove from beat and drop by
tablespoons on oiled cookie sheet
or aluminum' foil, making patties
two to three,inches in diameter.,
Let cool:
* • *
NUT AND DATE BALLS
Temperature: 350 degrees
m 45 - 50 minutes
1 cup chopped nuts,- any
variety
e:
1 cup pitted dates, finely
chopped •
2-tablespoons sifted flour
2 eggs, well •beaten ,
3/1 cup sifted flour
% - teaspoon baking powder
1 cup white .sugar
teaspoon salt
Combine 'chopped 'nuts - and ••
dates 'and 'two , tablespoons flour;
toss well; add beaten eggs. Sift
together -three-quarters eup,flour,,
baking' powder, sugar and' salt':
Combine the t w o mixtures,
Spread- the:mixture in a greased'
pan eight • by eight 'inches. 'Bake,
until: done, watching that' the top
does notbecorne icy crusty.'While
still ' warm cut in one-inch
scfuares. When cool enough to
handle, roll- eachh-saudre into ball
,and roll in;.white sugar. Store in ,
tightly covered -cookie tin.
Nut 'SQUARES
Temperature: 350 degrees
Time: 40` minutes
Part 1
butter
V2, cup broWn sugar
1 cup -flour
Cream butter, 'gradually add
brown sugar, blend well. Sift. in
floor, stirring with a fork until
mixture is crumbly. Pat into en
oiled pan eight by 12 inches;
stuff into everything: stewed •
chicken, puddings, cake, soup,
meat pie and the breakfast por-
ridge.
The last word on our ances-
tor" culinary skills comes from
an expert, Mrs. Harriet Beecher
StoWe. In 1869, she wrote a book
called "The. American Woman's.
Home." In it, she says',
"The abundance of material
we have in America is in great
contrast with the style of cook-
ing most prevalent in our
country, ROW •often do we Sit
down to tables loaded with Mat-
eriel originally of the best kind
which has. been so spoiled iii
the treatment' that .there Is really
nothing 'to eatt Green biscuits
With acrid spots of alkal4 sour
yeast breed!' meat sititriered
SIOWIY- in:fat ttritil It Seems like
grease' itself and slowly eengeat.
trig in cord grease; and abote
alb that 'UntitirdOneble enormity,
strong butter!"
When we sit down to Christ-
mas' dinner this year, let's all
be merry, every last one of us,
over the fact that great-grand-
ma didn't cook it.
Because, all the legends to the
contrary, the American woman
-of a century ago probably was
a poor cook. Proof comes in
Peterson's Magazine, the 'Nov-
ember and December issues for
1859. (Peterson's. Magazine, like
G-odey's Lady's BoOk
'
was , in'
every Victorian home)
Now, to the Christmas turkey,
Tired of the' roasted* drumstick?
Sick Aof basting? Then try it
great-{grandma's way. She just
dropped.the bird into a pot and
boiled it:a-Iere's. her recipe:
"Procure a large- turkey, make
a nice force-meat of veal and
stuef., the craw of the turkey;
skewer it for. boiling sand boil,
it until is alinost dame; take
up your turkey and- put it in , a.
pot with some of the water it
was boiled in, then Put . seven`
or eight heads of celery' into the
water,' the turkey was boiled in,.
till they are tender; take them
out and put. your turkey in,
breast 'side down. and stdV it a
qu'artei of an 'hour. Thicken your
sauce with half a. pound of but-
ter and enough flour, to make it
pretty thick and a quarter, of, a,
pint of rich .cream and, then add
the celery. Pour the .celery and.
sauce 'upon the turkey's breast
and serve it. up."
Neict on 'this Christmas menu
is plum pudding, which sounds
more like bread stuffing Made
with raisins, Please notice great-
grandma 'used store - bought
bread. Here we go:
"Take One loaf o'f 'baker's •
bread, 'broken up and pour over
it three pints of warm milk and
let it stand for ail hour. While
warm put in a piece of butter
as large as an egg, half a pound
of raisins, six eggs and half a
pound of currants, citron, nut-
meg and brandy and ariythihg
else you please, Bake It three
hours and eat at. With a • wine
sauce."
This 'is a stretchy kind, of
recipe. "Anything clad" Went
when great-grandma was in the
kitchen.
One thing that was always
in the ,kitchen With her was a.
bottle of Sherry. A shining '
ampler dorrmes toward the, end, et
a soup redipe:.
"Pass the soup" through, '
sieve, skim off the fats end put
it oh the fire with a little pOW-'
dered arrowroot to thicken
When it ufficiently, thick,
pour In sherry wine and season'
to yew' taste".
Great araridtria 'poured the
'SOW MANY HANDS HIGH — Visitor jiriet Skelsei
her hatids -46'04 those it on unusual` pdritlii .g. by -kOnion
Oftlat Renato ChelttiOhO, He dunks .his hands in :pains and
iireet-ed fhern on the 'convdt..
GREEN CHEESE? A hungry mail on the Moon eats his ititith. 1-1 d War k415-11
wend set for the new "Men into Speice television show,
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