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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-5-21, Page 9.dad, Business We are acquainted with a number et people, who would no more think of breaking the laws of the couptry 'Cruder mast, circumstances than they would of leaping off the lop of the rix Life Building in Montreal ft aiming they are a bird, however, they appear to have no qualms about :smoking ; cigarettes witch they are certain have been smuggled into Canada from the United States. As most Canadians are aware, the Mac of lower priced 1.',S. cigar- ettes in Canada is prosperous, highly organized and against the laws en. acted ;by the elected government of the people of Canada. Purchasing and smoking illegal • cigarettes is considered by many as a means of protest against what they consider prohibitive taxes en• Can- adian cigarettes, Ifowevcr, by ,so doing they are breaking the law, to a • lesser degree it is true, as those who purchase and distribute other types of smuggled goods, including dupe, Experience in other countries has shown that where an illegal business shows quick and large profits it is only a matter of time before the big time hoodlums and gangsters take over. Then, like the clays of prohi- bition in the United States, innocent citizens are often killed in wild shunt- ing affairs between rival gangsters, The temptation of easy bribe mon- ey is often too great for normally honest government officials to resist. We trust this never happens to the United States -Canada border but we wonder how many smokers of "smug- gles" realize that by their support of an illegal enterprise they are in- viting w h o l es ale ganesterism?- From The Alcan Ingot And How She's Human -No in- vader from Mars is Janet Wint- ers who's hiding her beauty under an aqua -lung appartus that enables her to stay under water for about 45 minutes at This pool. Looks like a good way to avoid vacationing wolves. Celandine Even before the peepers announc- ed that spring was here to stay. before the day lilies thrust up their prophetic fleurs-de-lis of first leaf- age, the fresh leaves of the celan- dine were spread to catch the sun. Where the celandine flourished, in fact, the illusion of spring debated the season with the snow while the peepers were still deep in hiber- nation. The celandine is a perverse and undemonstrative men ser of the poppy family. It is also cousin of the bloodroot. Lilce all its fancily. its flowers bear pollen but no honey, lure the bees for their own purposes and send them away short -rationed. The flower of the celandine is technically a poppy, yellow and four -petaled, but small and undistinguished, scarcely worth a second look. It comes in May and keeps on coming all summer. The plant's distinction is in the yellow juice which oozes from any broken stem or leaf, as a similar juice does from all the poppy fam- ily, The celandine juice is bitter and astringent, was used by the old herbalists, and still has a place in medicine, It will inflame a ten- der skin. It once was used to re- move warts. It was employed in treating jaundice, among other maladies, and as a purgative; in large doses it is poisonous. It's name cones from the Greek for swallow, and it is sometimes called swallowwort. 13y nature it is a biennial, and it winters with a large rosette of lower leaves per-. tdstenlly green event amid the snow and ire. Late winter, and it bur- geons with new leaves, as though Urging spring to hurry. Twa things distinguish it -this early vigor, and a beautiful name. What more could one ask in early April? Front the New York Tithes. • TABLEUTALKS Most everybody knows --I hope -- tow good carrot pudding is. But did you ever try making grated carrots an ingredient for a cake? if not, yott'rc going to be pleasant- ly surprised when you try this, CARROT CAKE 1% cups sugar 13.4 cups water 1% cups grated carrots 1 cup raisins 5/1 cup shortening 1 teaspoon cinnamon. -.. 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 egg l2 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon eoda 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts 1. Combine sugar, water, grated carrots, raisins, shortening, cinna- mon and nutmeg, Boil 5 minutes. Cool for 2 to 3 hours, 2. Beat egg until light, Stir into cooled mixture, 3. Sift together the flour, soda, cream of tartar and salt, Add, st'rhr- ing until well blended, 4. Blend 54 cup of the chopped nuts into the batter. 5. Pour into a greased loaf pan (10 by 5 by 3 inches) and bake in a preheated moderate oven (350° F.) about 45 minutes. 6. Cool and frost with Marsh- mallow Frosting, Sprinkle remain- ing chopped nuts over the top. MARSHMALLOW FROSTING 2 tablespoon butter 3,4 cup milk ,5 teaspoon almond flavoring 6 tablespoons marshmallow cream 134 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (about) 1, Ifeat butter and milk together. Add almond flavoring and marsh- mallow cream. 2, Beat in sugar gradually, beat- ing until thick enough to spread. * * * MOLASSES SPONGE CAKE 4 eggs IA cup cold coffee 1 teaspoon vanilla asa cup sugar 35 cup molasses PA cups sifted cake flour 134 teaspoons baking powder lae teaspoon salt XI teaspoon cream of tartar 1. Separate eggs. Add coffee and vanilla to yolks and heat until thick and light. 2. Beat in sugar and molasses gradually. 3. Sift together 3 times the flour, baking powder and salt. Fold into egg mixture in thirds. 4. Beat egg whites until light and foamy. Add cream of tartar and continue beating until whites are almost stiff but not dry. Fold into sponge batter. Pour into a 10 - inch ungreased tube pan. Cut gently through batter with spatula or knife 2 or 3 times to remove any air pockets. Bake in a pre -heated slow oven (325° F.) for about 1 hour. 5. Remove from oven and invert until cool; Then remove from pan and frost with Coffee Frosting made with confectioners' sugar. COFFEE FROSTING 2 tablespoons warm coffee (about) 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1. Add coffee to the sifted con- fectioners' sugar, beating until frosting is of good spreading con- sistency. (It should be rather thin.) Add additional coffee if necessary. 2. Stir in vanilla. Spread on cooled cake. SPICED CHOCOLATE CAKE `-1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 1 cup mashed potatoes 4 eggs 2 1 -ounce squares chocolate 2 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda 1% teaspoons cream of tartar teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cininanten 3434 teaspoon cloves teaspoon nutmeg 34 cup chopped note • 1 cup chopped dates 1 cup sour cream 1.Cream butter and sugar to- gether until light, well2,, Add trashed potatoes, beating 3. 13eat eggs until light,, Add to creamed mixture gradually, 4, Melt chocolate and stir into creamed mixture. 5. Sift dry ingredients together. ,b. Mix nuts and dates with a little of the flour. Add bolt` al- ternately with sour cream to creamed mixture, mixing well. Add huts and dates, 7. Pour into a rectangular baking pan (13 by 93e.: by 2 inches), and bake in a slow oven (300° F.) about 14 hours, 8, Cool and frost with Cream - Cheese Frosting, CREAM -CHEESE FROSTING 1 3 -ounce package cream cheese 2 ounces chocolate 3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (about) 2 to 3 tablespoons cream 3% teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1, Soften cream cheese, 2. Melt chocolate and add to the cheese. 3. Add sugar, cregm, salt and vanilla. Beat until smooth and of spreading consistency. * * x' FEATHER CAKE 2 cups sifted flour 154 cups angor 3 teaspoons baking powder ?� teaspoon salt 54 cup shortening 1 cup milk 34 teaspoon lemon .flavoring 544 teaspoon vanilla 4 egg yolks (or ,2 whole eggs) 1. Sift cake flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together into a mixing bowl. Add shortening. 2. Combine milk with lemon and vanilla flavorings. Pour 34 cup of the liquid into the dry ingredients and shortening. Beat for 2 minutes (medium speed of electric mixer), scraping down the sides often. 3. Add ,remaining liquid and egg yolks. eat 2 minutes longer. 4. Pour cake batter into two 8 - inch greased cake pans. Bake in a preheated moderate oven (350' F.) for 25 to 30 minutes, 5. Cool and frost with fluffy white frosting, Top with shredded coco- nut, if desired. FLUFFY WHITE FROSTING 3 egg whites 34 cup sugar 6 tablespoons light corn syrup 44 teaspoon cream of tartar teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 1. Combine egg whites, sugar, light corn syrup, cream of tartar. and salt in the top of a double boiler. Place pan over boiling water and beat mixture with rotary beater until mixture stands in peaks, 2. Remove from water, add vanilla and continue beating until frostiuig is thick enough to spread. When cake has cooled, spread with frosting. LOW NECKLINE .k diplomatic publisher complim- ented a socialite from Richmond on her splendid arpearance and added, "Do you feel as well as you look?" She answered, "There are only two things the matter with me: Dandruff and a badly spoiled stomach." ".Aren't you lucky," commented the publisher, "that only one shows?" The lady reported the conversa- tion faithfully to her husband a moment later. He nodded slowly apd asked, "Honey, did you have yntur hat on at the tinge. New Artificial kidney -A close-up view shows us the intricacies of the newly developed "Guarino kidney," a unit which can Ise man- ufactured for as little as $400 to $500. Two brothers, Dr. John Guarino and Louis Guarino, an engineer, developed the apparatus Sheds Light on Painting Four-year-old Paul Davidson was properly impressed when painter John Forzoglia, three- year-old entrant in an art exhibition, explained why his watrecolor, "A Choo-Choo With a House and Two Suns," has two suns. The reason: two make the "choo-choo" and house brighter. The King T(.k inly e hath A Year. . Saturday night, by tradition, is bath night. But the tradition doesn't go very far back, By 1850 only four per cent of London's houses had bathrooms, and there were only one or two public bathhouses. The first modern -type "bath -house" was built in 1828, but 'it was not popular, chiefly because the water had to be carried by hand to the bath -tub. The bath -tub gradually evolution- ized British life in the nineteenth ecntura, for during the previous 300 years people had considered washing and bathing to be detri- mental to health, Even Queen Elizabeth strongly disliked washing, but had to resort to strong perfume instead, Louis • the XIV of France had but one. bath a year, and washed his„ face less than once a month- He too, was a firm believer in 'perfume as a cleanser, Marie Antoinette was more extravagant in the use of water, for she washed herself about once a week, Unbecoming! .By modern standards people dur- ing those centuries were unbeliev- ably dirty, and only if they were in dire need of a bath would they take one. This attitude towards washing was prevalent among all classes, and, if anything, the ricin were more averse to washing than the poor. To have a bath ayes thought to be an unbecoming advertisement of uncleanliniess. It had not always been like that, and the ancient Greeks and Romans, for instance, were very bath-con- sciocs, The Greeks had warm baths a':,out 3.000 years ago, the well-to- do citizens having bathrooms in their own houses, and the poorer :lasses frequenting public baths. It was the Greeks who gave the Romans the idea of bathing, and by the first century A.D. the daily hath had become a f,tmly establish- ed habit to be taken before the evening meal. One of the hest remaining ex - maples of a private Ronan hath ,an be seen at Cheuitworth Willa, in (l lcnu ceetershire, From excavations, we can deduce the comfort and Maury that sat -- rounded a Roman in a public bath. The St.nhian Baths at Pompeii are a good example. The centre con - sided of an open court where gym- nastic exercises ar-e lateen before and after, Adjoining this, there was a swim- ming -hath. On one side, waiting - rooms, an undressing -room, furn- ished with benches, lockers and niches. A tiled paving led to a cold - water hath: From here a bather would go into a wartu-air room, and, last of -all, he would immerge him°rlf in a hot-water hath Gambling, too Similar public baths were built in Great Britain, the best known be- ing at Wroxeter, near Shrewshhry, on the site of the Raglan city of [triennium, and at Bath, The re- mains at \Wroxefer cave us a good idea how the different chambers of the baths were heated: flit baths luere each built on shag, square pillars, so that there wee a spare beneath the two doors. A fire, which was continually fired, filled this space with flame and heat. The extent to which Romans he - Hayed in bathing can be judged from the fact thet at one time there were no less titan 850 pulite' baths in Rome. As toile", these were either separate baths for men and women, or, when only ono public bath was available, different hours of the dnv were allotted to each sex. During the,cotrse of the fifteenth renlury, however, ,nixed bathii,e became fashionable. The hath houses became plarrs where clone ing, gambling, and drinking would go on unrestrictedly all day, and there were even stories of bathing orgies. In order to root out the abuses of r ,-ell bathing, all bathing was condemned by the Church as sin- ful. Its agitation not only put in end to the scandalous orgies of bath -houses, but it killed the people's sense of personal hygiene until they regarded cleanliness itself as sinful BIG TREE A giant Douglas lir tree, recent- ly felled on Vancouver Island for lumber, had a circumference of 15 feet, was 1106 years old, and must have been a huge tree when the Magna Carta was signed 1215. In spite of its venerable age there was still a lot of useful wood in this ancient giant of the forest. Says We Need Special Knobs To Tune Out Radio "Coin nerc als" My first experience of American commercial radio was of the on - and -off kind. I was staying at a friend's house, and whenever the radio was on he would leap to his feet at definite intervals throughout the evening and turn the thing off, wait ao minute or two, and then turn it on again and resume his seat. Ila didn't like commercials:.Ap- parently he had developed a very finely torted commercial sense, be- cause he could tell just when are advertisement was about to begin and he could tell to the second when it was due to stop. In this way he was able to provide him- self with noncommercial radio and a good deal of ria doubt valuable exercise writes John Allan May in "The Christian Science Monitor." At first this amused me. Then, discovering a superior attitude that was floating around loose at the time, I adopted it. It seemed to me that there was something vaguely unethical about his methods. It wasn't just that some- body else was paying good money to provide us with programs that we were receiving free (half the time we weren't even paying at- tention). But both my friend and I are newspapermen, and as such are ourselves dependent upon ad- vertising for our pay checks. It seemed to me that we were almost morally obligated to listen to the commercials. Maybe we ought even to turn the volume up and fetch in the neighbors. "But we don't force people to read the ads in the paper." my friend remarked in defending his system. "They can read the ones they want to read and skip the ones they want to skip, The ads have io be good to catch their attention, Also they almost always protide a valuable service for the readers; there•are dozens of ads they want to read, 1 object to being forced to lister, to much of this radio stuff. And, furthermore, same of it is not merely stuff -it is also nonsense." With this he jumped rip tike a shot front- a catapult and just managed to cut off a commercial at the first half word, thus pre- serving intact his amateur status. I am afraid I was very young at the tinge, and I did not altogether Child Disappeared Six Years Ago Now Turns Up Safe and Sound When three -year - old Helga Miche disappeared 'while playing in a cobbled side -street near her par- ents' home in Mainz six years ago, the police suspected foul play. Two months later, the tragic corpse of a three-year-old child was found, frozen to death and unrecogn::rhle, and all the town sadly watched the pathetic funeral. .Yet little Ilelga has just returned to life safe and sound, found living happily in tl:e T-r.S.-\,, adopted by an Americancouple, \\ilio should claim such a child? The legal but make-believe parents who have reared and educated her or the father and another who had given her up for dead,, living m a land and speaking a language she has completely forgotten? Should a nine-year-old leave the only l:onte she has known to live with parents who are "strangers"? These human problems 111 the case of Helga Michel have caused rifts of deep controversy-' Picture the problem: On one side of the Atlan- tic her parents by adoption, com- fortably off Americans, who have accustomed little Helga to every luxury, and are wilting to sacrifice their own domestic happiness for the child's sake. In Germany, rail- wayman Karl Michel and his wire, overjoyed at the 51 ought of the homecoming of the child wlmit they mourned. acme Ilelga has grown a big ,a3 s Mrs, Michel. "1 know it will hurt her new parents to part with her, but I pray they will per- mit u. 'to have her.. , ." lather way, it's he.ular:l:c otr b`ana`l c in this aunazing dile:nnca - and behind it lies a whale tangle of n'other.love. For it was in No- sentlscr, 1050. that a thirty-one• year-old VS 0111:115 named Caroline Bern wus arrested for kidnappi,fg a child and pleaded she had ,!nae it ant of sheer nffeetinn. As the police questio❑,d her, Caroline confessed to enticing sea• era! young children from their T.ome.• Oltrn she did not know their names but site gave as much information as site could. And on her list of the children she had lur- ed away was three-year-old Helga. Caroline had promised her toys and sweets, and the date and place of the kidnapping matched the known details, SI c cared for ITelga ''like a mother,"•slte said, until she felt the time had conte for parting. Burn she left 'the little girl at the game of an orphanage , , , and little Helga was aiege:mil in the tragic ebb tide of twelve million men, women and children who were grind wandering from their boatos after the war, 1'lu ough a Red Cross reception camp, Helga was cared for while the International Tracing Service tried to establish her identity. It was thought the her parents had perished in an air-raid; and event- ually Helga crossed the Atlantic to find a new life through a child - adoption society in the States. Caroline Kern's confession, how- • ever, set off a fresh hunt through the Tracing Service files and es- tahlisl ed Helga's real identity. The foster -parents in America sent photographs to the police in Mainz and the astonishing chain of cir- cumstance was nearly complete. Now from America comes a gen- erous and open-hearted gesture. Helga's foster -parents suggest that the Michele should visit America as le r "aunt" and "uncle;" hiding the truth until they can regain the child's affection, But Elizabeth :Michel la not sure whether her overflowing mother -love could en- able her 10 keep the agreement t.nce site clasped the child in her arms, here indeed is a riddle as unfathomable as the identity of the frozen, nameless mite who was bur- ied in Mainz in Helga Michel's name eix years ago, agree with him, A month later I' had my own radio and I was 11 lot older. Now I was jumping up and down, My timing was not as good as his, but I got just as much exercise, I thought: Sweet are the rises of advertisement, but hitter its abuses. By this time another point bad occurred to me. Doubtless it had occurred a lot earlier to everybody else. It was this: We do not seo above the weekly 'Pattern of Diplomacy" in this newspaper the wards, "Presented By the Mouse- trap Cheese Corporation." And halfway through our leading edi- torial, thundering perhaps about tle state of the West's moral and mat- erial defenses, we do not suddenly come across the advice, "Eat Tirub-. ber, the Candy 'Bar with 'Ugh'1" Nor at- the end of these columns do you find some merry little jingle like: "The Derby laat is here to stay. Wear a Derby night and day. If you wish to lead the way, Wear a Derby, Come What May." We write our columns and our news stories and our editorials, and the advertisers write their copy, we put them together the best way we know, and the reader gets his quarter's worth for which he pays his five cents. The reader can choose what he wants to read. What is more, he can also sit down and stay sat. It seems to me to be a very fair arrangement. I ant rather afraid that' American radio has gone rather too far along its own chosen road to turn back now. But as an Engiishnman from way back in the dim, noncommercial era I wonder whether these folk pondering the bright future of English radio and television might not consider a development of commercial radio along newspaper lines. Quite how they could work it I don't know. But certainly on television advertis- ing without sponsorship seems a reasonably practical proposition. At the same time some company might market a long-distance switch or remote control so that my friend {and everyone with the sante prejudice) could turn the volume down from itis easy chair without having to jump to it. There's such a thing as over- exercise, you know. This column was brought to you through the courtesy of Mrs, Joy May, who made the hot chocolate and also did the washing up. Holes In His Head -Jerry Bynum, 5, has two holes in his head, but he isn't complaining. The holes were drilled in his skull to give support for a specially designed bow which is helping to cornet Jerry's curvature of the spine. The unusual treatment, being given at Fort Worth Hospital, causes Jerry no pain. The Beehive Look With a bloom din oil and iron providing big budgets for new homes, apartments and office buildings, Vene- zuela is witnessing new trends in architecture. The first units of a development in Caracas displays a beehive brick design which creates a natural air flow and gives protection from the sur, Each studio apartment runs the full width of the building.