The Brussels Post, 1952-3-19, Page 3The Art of • Punting
Now to the boathouses! Punts,
Varietyof flat-bottomed high -prow* •
+d water vehicle not unlike a goo-
4ola, are rented by the !tour, cent.
pieta with poles, Punting Is very
sample; the Cani is shallow, the
pole is long. All you have to do is
to seat your wife, mother, affianced,
or in lieu of female acquaintance,
best friend: in the middle of the
punt. (Young ladieo do not, I be-
lieve, punt each other; although I
do not see why not.) Anyway, you
have the passenger. in the middle of
the boat; you stand in the baelc on
a little platform, just the right size.
Take the pole, and phsh off from
the dock. gxcellent. Nothing to it.
ow you are in the middle of the
• Cam. Ilow historic! You will tell
your children you went punting at
Cambridge. And what makes peo-
ple say
eo-ple,say punting is hard? Why, all
you have to do is to dig that "pole`
into . the river bottom, and push.
Voila! The punt slides down the
river. How deeee—lightfuli. How
silvery is the water! See the beau-
tiful building, left and right! Ob-
serve the lush gardens. What a
charming way of spending -a sum-
mer afternoon. Just pu-u-u-u-nting
a -1 -o -n -g; green grass, Renaissance
brick, pretty girls (or handsome
young men) in other punts, waving
and smiling; people sitting along
the Cam,.lolling on the sun -lit turf.
"Why, this is heavenly!" you say.
At this paint, if not sooner, your
pole gets stuck in 'the mud, you
give a healthy push, and the plat-
form. of the punt just gli-i-i-i-des
out from under you. For a fraction
of a second you are suspended in
space, clinging desperately, fever-
ishly, with an expression of wild
dismay and surprise, to the pole.
But before your beloved in the punt
has had time to rise, and cry in-
dignantly: "George! What are you
doing!" you have descended abrupt-
ly into the• drink. You can walk
out. No danger. Just good, clean
fun for your large audience on the
river banks.
I admit that people falling on a
banana l.el are tragic, not funny,
but I must confess that one of the
most entertaining afternoons I ever
spent was sitting on the grass along
the Cam, watching tourists go
pu-u-u-untfng along.
—From 'Here's England', by Ruth
M^Kenney. and Richard. Bransten.
Oh What His Jet Met — Second
Lt. Ira Kimes, Jr., demonstrates
the accuracy of Communist anti-
aircraft guns in Korea and the
ruggedness of his fighter-bomb-
er by sticking his head through
the hole knocked in the jet's en-
gine wall. Lt. Kimes finished
bombing a tunnel before re-
turning to his base.
Colours May Make
Child A Gunman
If you are a parent and want
your child to be a warm-hearted,
relaxed little chap, see that the
walls of his nursery or the room
where he habitually sleeps are dec-
orated in greens and browns. For
according' to an American who.
studies the effect of colour on
children (he has recently decorated'
50 nurseries in order to do this),
the right colours' are vital in a
child's '
He says parents should 'avoid
trilliant red on nursery walls. Red
stimulates; a child influenced too
much by red might become a gun-
man! Dcepblues and purples will
give a baby a calm, philosophical
outlook, states this expert. But he
utters this warning: "The Worst
thing parents can do is to use a lot
of conflicting colours."
Why? Because they are "too
much of an optical stimulation for .
a child. The infant will not show
it as quickly as an adult, but
eventually he will get nervous."
If you have a tin of black paint
you don't want, yotir child will be
delighted if you slap it over the
nursery walls. For children accept
black as easily as pale pink or blue,
But a mother's reaction to a given
shade is often transmitted to a
child.
To Conclude , . In Telsa, Okla.,
Mrs, Emma Conway complained to
police that her husband, after a
spat, had; 1) mixed alcohol with
her cosmetics, 2) smeared sulfa
'cream on her clothing, 3) cut the
straps oft her shoes, 4) dumped a
!tot roast with gravy all over the
kitchen, 5) broken the bedroom
7ltirror and two Bower vases, 6)
slashed her brassieres to shreds,
"Happy Fanatic"
Xtecotrcis Bird Songs
Ludwig 'Koch s a happy fanatic
who cares for nothing so much as
recording the songs and sounds
made by various wild creatures,
preferably birds. I -Ie made his first
recording on a tiny wax cylinder'
when he was eight and, is still re-
cording busily at the age of sev-
enty.
The BBC for whom he has made
so many magnificent recordings,
celebrated his last birthday with
a special programme of the most
famous and interesting of theta,
Lately Koeh presented a new
programme, "Birds of the Scillies,'•'
a collection' of recordings recently
made -in these islands lying off the
tip of Cornwall. Some of the larger
Scilly Isles are inhabited, but the
majority are almost all rocks and
nearly always inaccessible to man
though ideal for the sea birds that
were Ludwig's quarry.
His great ambition was to re-
cord the cries of the Manx shear -
waters, those far -flying birds which
nest in burrows and ony come out
of them on dark, moonless nights
when the black -backed gulls can-
not see them and attack them.
As the shearwaters fly in from
the sea to relieve their mates Who
have been sitting on their single
eggs in their burrows for twenty-
four hours and often longer, they
make a noise unlike anything else.
Their mates fly up to meet them
and their voices mingle in cries
which combine the coo of the dove
with the hoot of the owl and an
'unearthly shriek which is pure
shearwater. To stand on a .pitch-
black island at midnight with these
screaming birds swooping all
around is an unforgettable experi-
ence and it was this noise above
all others that Koch longed to re-
cord.
After great difficulty he and his
helpers landed on the little island
of Annet and over rocky treacher-
our ground laid out five hundred
yards of cable from the recording
machine. He was worried by the
very heavy dew that collected on
his gear and by ten pm, heard
crackling so heavy and persistent
that it was useless to try to make
recordings.
The 'secopd attempt was made
on a dull, dark night when the
Shearwater cacophony was at its
height and there was not too much
dew; but by some hideous mis-
chance the disks had been left on
the main island and did not get to
Annet until it was too late.
On his third visit there was a
high wind and the birds never
came within range of the micro-
phone.
Trying his friends' patience to
the uttermost, he persuaded them
to help him to land once more on
Annet. He chose a darkly perfect
night but the dew was devastating
and by eleven p.m, disks, turn-
table and microphone were soak-
edwith dew and fog and the gear
had to be wiped dry every five
minutes. Suddenly at twelve -forty
a.m, the shearwaters rose and be-
gan their weird wailing.
The heavy dew was making re-
cording impossible and Koch
worked frantically with a handker-
chief to dry out the gear and make
the table turn. At last, at one -fif-
teen, he heard through his head-
phones that the disks were clearly
recording the fantastic nocturnal
' cries.
It was a sound which few peo-
ple have heard and no one else has
ever recorded, and he concluded
his programme in triumph by play-
inghis uniqu e shearwater sym-
phony for listeners.
QUIZ ANSWERS
1—e; 2—g; 3—o; 4—k; 5—n;
6—j;' 7—d; 8—a; 9—h; 10—c;
11—f; 12—b; 13-1; 14—m; 15—i.
Use inexpensive Fabrics
�o Brighten Your Kitchen
BX DNA MILES
ADDING flavor to a kitchen is a lift to your morale as well
as to the appearance of the room. You, as a housewife,
spend more time in the kitchen than In any other room in
the house. Why,.then, lavish all your attention onthe living
room?
Dressing up the kitchen can be done on a budget, and done
with a minimum of sewing, The trick is in using inexpen-
sive fabric to make newcurtains and to tie up a kitchen
lheme by making matching aprons. Pamper yourself as
well as your kitchen! .
The popularity of denim is penetrating from fashion to
home decoration. Orr you may use highly acceptable ging-
halos or chintzes, both inexpensive.
Frosting on the cake comes from your own ingenuity and
fgom the clever use of conso trim. Blue denim, for Octillhlhlc,
can be combined with white ball fringe to make cottage
curtains. Run up a matching apron in cobbler style, with
three roomy pockets that are handy for storing odds and
ends as you work.
Pink -and -white checked gingham is the best bet for tic -
back curtains. Try edging them in red -and -white cotton
loop trim and use this same trios for ruffle valance and tie-
backs.
The matching apron is pretty in a petal effect, perked up
by red -and -white loops.
For a kitchen window without a view or one with an un-
sightly view, opaque green glazed chintz hides unattractive
scenes and keeps the inside looking bright. These are made
in cottage style, bordered with quilted chintz which also is
used for the valance. Edging is fluffy yellow cotton brush
trim. The apron, which repeats the motif, is worked with
quilted chintz pocket and two inserts that can double as poi
'holders. Brush trim is repeated at pocket and hem.
For an ordinary window, about three yards of fabric will
make the curtains, with -enough left over for an apron by Practical and pretty this set of kitchen curtains and an apron W.
piecing in three sections. match are made of sturdy blue denim with a white ball fringe.
41 TABLE
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This is probably the hardest time
of the year for a housewife who
likes to have variety in the foods
she serves, and especially so in
homes where the Lenten season
makes the choice even more re-
stricted.
But whether or not yours is one
of the latter kind of homes, I think
you'll find these recipes for "hot
cheese" dishes will be a real help.
Here's hoping, anyway.
* *
INDIVIDUAL CHEESE AND
MEAT PIES
Pastry for eight 33/4" pies
cup finely chopped onion
% cup chopped green pepper
2 tbsps. butter
1 Ib. chuck beef, ground
1 tsp. salt, 34 tsp. pepper
1% cups condensed tomato soup
3 cups cooked fine noodles
lbs, process cheese foods, grated
Line eight 3" pie pans with
pastry. Cook onion and pepper in
butter until tender and lightly
brotsncd. Add ground .meat, salt
and pepper and mix well. Stir in
tomato soup and noodles; blend
well. Add cheese, saving % cup
for top of pies. Fill pastry -lined pie
pans with cheese -meat mixture.
Sprinkle 1 tfisp. cheese on top of
each pie. Bake in oven of 350° F.
45 min. Serve hot in pan.
* * *
SAVORY DAIRY LOAF
2 No. 2 cans red kidney beans
4 tbsps. onion, finely chomped
3 tbsps. green pepper, chopped
1 tbsp, butter
1 cup creamed cottage. cheese
154 cups dry bread crumbs
2 eggs
cup evaporated milk
.54 tsp. poultry seasoning
154 tsps. salt, % tsp. pepper
2 taps. Worcestershire sauce
Put drained beans through food
chopper. Cook onion and pepper in
butter until tender. Blend beans,
onion and pepper, cheese and bread
Listening Post—The curlicue tubules jutting front the wall are parts
of a radio -telescope designed by Dr. John Kraus. He hopes to pick
up radio signals from stars 1,000,000 light years away from the
earth. He says the signals produce a "frying sound" on the "space
ear."
crumbs. Mix well. Add eggs, one
at a time, beating until well blend-
ed. Stir in remaining ingredients
and mix well. Turn into 6 greased
muffin cups. Bake at 350° F. 45
min. Unmold on serving plate.
Serve with hot mushroom cream
sante.
* * *
MACARONI AND CHEESE
WITH OLIVES
1 8 -oz. package macaroni
54 lb. Canadian pasteurized process
cheese, shredded
Vs cup stuffed olives, sliced
IA' tsp. salt
Dash pepper
ys tsp. dry mustard
34 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 cup milk
Buttered soft bread crumbs
Break macaroni into 1" pieces
and cook according to label on
package. Drain well. Place altern-
ate layers of macaroni and the
cheese in individual casseroles, Add
the olives, salt, pepper, mustard
and Worcestershire sauce to milk
and pour over macaroni. Top with
buttered crumbs. Bake in oven of
350° F. for' 40 min. Serves 6.
• PEPPER • • SURPRISES
2 large green peppers
2 cups cooked narrow egg
noodles
3 tbsp. margarine, melted
IA tsp. salt
14 lb. pasteurized process Can-
adian cheese
4 peeled, thick tomato slices
Soft bread crumbs
Cut the peppers in half length-
wise, remove seeds, boil rapidly for
6 min. in a quart of water, Remove
carefully, drain and place in a
shallow baking dish. Combine the
cooked noodles, margarine, salt and
cheese; toss lightly until cheese is
melted, then fill the pepper shells
with this mixture. Place a tomato
slice on top of each and cover with
crumbs. Bake in an oven of 375°
F. 15 min. or until the crumbs are
lightly brot6ned and the tomato
halves are tender. Serves 4.
* * *
TUNA SALAD SANDWICHES
2 6% -oz. cans tuna
2 tbsp. horseradish
1 tsp. lemon juice
ys cup mayonnaise
Salt, pepper
Bread, crusts trimmed
Melted butter oc margarine
Sliced pasteurized process
Canadian cheese
Flake the tuna and mix it with
the horseradish, 1 c m o,n juice
mayonnaise and seasonings to
taste. Spread generously between
slices of bread, spread the outsides
of each sandwich with melted but-
ter. Toast sandwiches on both sides
until brown. Just before they are
ready to serve place a slice of
cheese on each sandwich, Return
to the broiler to melt the cheese.
Serve immediately,
* * *
CHEESE SAUCE
r/4 tsp. instant coffee
2 tbsps. flour
% tsp. salt, dash of pepper
14 tsp. dry mustard
2 tbsps. butter
1 cup milk
Y4 Ib. process cheese food, diced
Melt butter in top of double
boiler, Mix first' 5 ingredients and
blend into melted butter after it
has been removed from heat.
Gradually add milk, stirring con-
stantly until thickened, Add cheese
and stir until cheese melts, Serve
over tomato hath cups, Place slice
of slant in muffin cups; into haat
place s scooped -out tomato shell
with whole egg broken into tomato.
Cover with bread crumbs, season
Match The Nicknames With The People
Through the media of music, or sports, or entertainment, people in
these fields have been dubbed with nicknames that fit them. 'See if you
can snatch up the people with their well-known titles.
1. Mr. Hollywood a. Joe Di Maggio
2. Young Man with a Horn b. Ty Cobb
3. The Mighty Sachmo c. Charles E. Russell
4. The Little Professor - d. Bing Crosby
5. Swing and Sway with e. Jesse Lasky
6. The Lip f. Shep Fields
7. Der P.ingle g. Ray Anthony
8. The Yankee Clipper h. Albert B. Chandler
9. Happy i. Frankie Laine
10. Pee Wee (in Jazz) j. Leo Durocher
11. The Rippling Rhythms of k. Dominic Di Maggio
12. Georgia Peach 1. Billy Eckstein
13. 11 r. 13. m. Frank Sinatra
14. The Voice n. Sammy Kaye
15. Mr. Rhythm o. Louis Armstrong
rani. sower, elxewherc en this pane)
and bake at 375° F. 25 min. Serve
on toast with chee"e sauce over top.
* * *
BAKED OMELET
ib. sharp
pasteurized process cheese
cup evaporated milk, undiluted
3/4 tap. salt
Dash of pepper
6 eggs, separated
Melt the cheese in top of a
double boiler. Add milk gradually,
stirring constantly until the sauce
is smooth. Acid seasonings, Remove
from heat. Beat the egg yolks and
slowly add cheese sauce. Fold mix-
ture into the stiffly beaten egg
whaes. Pour into a well -greased 9"
skillet or shallow oven -proof casse-
role. Bake in oven of 325° F. 25 to
30 min. Cut into lenge-shaped
pieces and serve immediately. Makes
6 servings.
Time In The Bank
March this year arrived one day
later than usual. For this we can
thank that happy institution known
as Leap Year. The effect may be
to raise by a slight percentage the
month's mean temperature, at the
same time postponing by one day
the calendar's announcement of
spring.
Whatever the nature of March in
any given year, tvc can live
through it in peace of mind, if
not always in comfort of body. If
March is genial, that is a dividend
we receive without asking ques-
tions. If March is snowy, that is
all right, too. \Ve will be rewarded
later for our patience. and in
March, with the break of the year
so close at hand, it is easy to be
patient. Winter has grown old and
shabby. We have some pity for
him.
In March we have time in the
bank—golden time, not buried in
some frowning Fort Knox but
ready to draw upon when occasion
arrives. In March we can still gloat
over the unspent days of April,
May and June, we can' still fount
over one by one the languid hours
of July and August. These are
ahead of us in a land of pure de-
lights not yet traversed. \\'e can
still cherish illusions about this
treasure trove in its unpenetrated
hiding place, It may be better to
sit by our fireplaces on a some-
what chilly March evening and
dream of spring and summer that
it is actually to spend those sea-
sons when they arrive. For in the
:dream there are no disenchant -
'merits. There are no days when
the heat wears down our energies.
There are no .mosquitos. There are
no traffic blocks on blistering high-
ways. There are no disappoint-
ments whatever.
In March we stillhave time in
the baitk. Like so many Silas
Marners, like so many pirates 00
some stormy shore, we count our
golden treasure over without
spending it. --From The New York
Times,
Reading Aloud
Reading aloud has come back
into fashion, though done with a
difference.
.First it was Charles Laughton,
Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke,
and Agnes Moorhead holding
Broadway enthralled by their pel-
lucid reading of Shaw's "Don Juan
in Hell"—the wit and passion of
ideas flashing before the mind's
eye without encumbrance of stage-
craft and scenery, as dramatic a
play of sheer argument as any-
thing since Plato's dialogues.
More recently it has been Emlyn
Williams re-creating Charles Dick-
ens' tribmphal American readings
of a century ago—and re-creating,
with the magic of the spoken word,
the gloriously rough-and-tumble,
!taunted and gaudy, childlike and
merry world of Dickens' novels.
How wonderful to see whole troops
of characters come pouring out of
the, void into exuberant life — all
through one loan's words and an-
other man's inflcctionsl
To a generation brought up on
movies in teehnicolor and televi-
sion in the living roost we hope an.
echo from the readings on Broad-
way may penetrate.. For they re-
mind us again that the words treas-
ured up in books and shared among
friends may open for us what eye
has never beheld—"infinite riches
in a little room."
One half of the world wonders
why the other half lives,
Majestic Ararat
In the iluagina ion of the mut.
ants„ Ararat seemed a wonder, the
work of a supernatural power; the
eplossus became sacred, the abode
of genic known as "Dragon's
Sona." Its snowy summit was as-
sociated with the dim memories of
forgotten ages, with stories en-,
hanced by tradition, and Ararat,
the work of divine hands, stood in
,contrast to that other fabulous
tower which mortals had sought
in vain to build to heaven; Such
power and grandeur, such cont -
mending poetry, emanate from the
volcano's majesty, that simple
minds have ever been struck with
overwhelming awe and admiration
in the presence of this natural
wonder - . .
' When towards the east the sky
is aglow with the firesthat herald
the dawn, while all Armenia is still
slumbering deep in darkness, a
blood -colored patch appears in the
cloud,bright as the steel aglow on
the blacksmith's anvil. Slowly this
patch spreads, lengthens, and takes
the form of the sharp -pointed head
of a giant arrow, directed threat-
eningly to heaven, This is the
snowy peak of Great Ararat, made
crimson by the first rays of the
sun, while the orb itself, still hid-
den to mortals, announces its coat-
ing by the gleams it sheds in the
cloud beyond the Black Moun-
tains , .
To the left of the Giant rises an-
other peak, lower but just as sharp
in outline, and also bathed in blood,
namely, the Lesser Ararat. It like-
wise is touched by the first glows
of daylight, and this vision, evoca-
tive of the time when the two
craters together belched f ort 11
flames and lava, soon disappears.
Then, towards the west, there
comes soon into view the summit
of another extinct volcano, the
brother of the two Ararats, the
Alagheuz (or Blue -Eye) whose
eternal snow appears pink in the
now azured sky and stands out
against the dark huddle of the
mountains of Western Arinenia.
Gradually, hundreds of peaks come
out of the darkness, announcing to
every valley the coming of Day,
while shadow and morning mist
still surround the whole Araxes
plain ... In the distance are heard
the church bells ringing the An-
gelus, the bleating of herds leaving
the villages, the singing of shep-
herds, the barking of dogs: Arme-
nia is awaking to return to its
daily labors in its fertile fields.
Now the sun pours its joyous
smile on the workers who have
been up before dawn, dispels the
shades of the mist, tinges win blue
the light smoke hovering over the
villages, and sends forth its waves
of warmth. Women clad in blue or
red, carrying a jar on head or
shoulder, conte out chattering from
thier houses of yellow clay, while
the men, wearing heavy sheepskin
caps like the Tartars, come and
go, take the horses to water, and
lead the oxen to the plow. Heed-
less of Nature's awakening, they
sing, chant love -songs or old le-
gends preserved by the minstrels,
and do not even look at the Giant
majestically standing beyond the
plain, an object of admiration for
the traveler, but of no concern to
the countryman who has seen it
since he was born.
Ararat whose summit stands in
the clouds like an immense regu-
lar cone, is over 13,000 feet higher
than the waters of the Araxes.—
From "History of the Armenian
People," by Jacques de Morgan.
FALLING LEAVES
The gentleman at the art mu-
seum stood spellbound staring at
a huge oil painting of a shapely
girl, dressed only in a few leaves
at strategic points. The picture was
entitled, "Spring".
Suddenly, his wife's voice inter-
rupted his reveries as she snap-
ped: "Well, what are you waiting
for? Autumn,"
Sorry, No Kitchen Sink—Nita Nelson cautiously inspects what ap-
pears to be the instrument panel of a let plane, but what is actually
the dashboard of Joseph Baiion's custom-built automobile, Bailon
included bosh air speed and ground speed it5'dicators, a record
player and a snack bar when he constructed his gadget car which
was displayed at the third annual National Roaster show