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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-6-30, Page 6TABLE TaLxs With hot weather bore, and hot- ter still in prospect, thought nat- urally turn to the kind of meals that can be prepared In advance Ono then dished up cold with a minimum of trouble. SO here are a few new versions el some old favorites starting cif WO pot01g salad that is de-. elehtfulle different from t h e ,'standard" kind; POTATO SALAD 11/2 cups potato balls 2 tomatoes, peeled and diced 9/4 pound Swiss cheese, silvered ei cop lemon -French dressing It small green pepper, sliced 1 small head lettuce 1 quart mixed salad greens -- (4 ny of the following: beet greens, celery leaves, dan- delion greens, esearole, spin- ach leaves, water cress). 11 mall Bermuda onion, rilloed thin radishes, sliced thin 34 op grated, raw carrot Cook potato balls in boiling Waited water until barely tender. rain and cool Place in salad 'bevel; add tomatoes, cheese, and .lemon -French dressing. Maris Ade for 1 hour. Add remaining ingredients. Toss lightly and serve immediately. * * MACARONI SALAD 41 ounces elbow or fancy macaroni, cooked, drained and cooled ie cup mayonnaise tp tablespoons chopped onion 11 tablespoons each, chopped egreen pepper and chopped dill pickle orf teaspoon salt Il cup Swiss cheese cubes 1 cup lightly crushed corn chips (measured after crushing) Combine macaroni, mayon- mdse, Onion, green pepper, dill Bekle, salt and cheese. Chile efore serving, stir in corn chips. Variations: Add 1 cup shrimp, chicken or any cold meat. k k CHICKEN LOAF H you'd like a chicken or fish loaf, liere are ways to make and bake them. 8 cups diced, cooked chicken l;; cup (3 -os. can) mushroom pieces 2 cups cooked noodles 1 cup chicken broth or gravy 2 eggs, beaten ee cup finely chopped celery 1 teaspoon salt N. teaspoon curry powder 34 teaspoon pepper Combine all ingredients. Place in oiled loaf pan 9x5x3 inches. Bake at 350° F. about 1 hour. `.turn out' on platter; garnish with sliced beets and hard - cooked eggs. SALMON LOAF 1 pound can salmon 2 eggs, beaten slightly th eup milk 2 tablespoons melte' butter or margarine 1 cup soft bread crumbs ei teaspoon salt . Plash of pepper 34 teaspoon dry mustard Combine crumbs with season- ing and butter. Add milk, oil from the salmon, and the slight- ly beaten eggs; mix well. Flake aenean ; leyalteee.,Corbin dem Onstrates a featherweight rod'o receiver that allows .him to keep In touch with his office, no mat- ter where he maybe within 'a .20 -mile radius. Every 15 minu- tes q list of numbereis celled off from 'a central broadcasting transmitter. If he hears his num- ber called, he checks with his office to see where he is needed. salmon and add to bread -egg mix- ture. Turn int° shallow, oiled baking dish and bake at 350° F. about 45 minutes, Or untflfirm and browned, Serve garnished with lemon slices and bunches of water cress, with egg-white sauce, or with with sauce. Here, now, is a French dress- ing which x do not recommend unless yt happen to like the flavor of garlic, paprika and curry powder, however, it's easy to substitute something a little less pungent in case your tastes don't happen to run along such lines, CURRY FRENCH DRESSING see cup salad oil ee on vinegar 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon sugar ee teaspoon salt teaspoon each, pepper and onion salt lei teaspoon each garlic powder and paprika Neeia teaspoon curry powder Combine all ingredients and shake well in tightly covered jar. How Electricity Got Its Name :Electricity has always been a part of nature. Imagine a violent thunderstorm, with the crash of thunder and the crackling flash of lightning. In his shelter, the cave -man must have cowered in terror. Then, perhaps a quarter of a million years later, some an- cient discovered that amber, rubbed with a piece of fur, would attract bits of feathers or wisps of straw. This property (we • know it today as statis electric- ity) was described as long ago as 600 B.C., by Thales of Miletus, one of the seven wise men of an- cient Greece. The Greek word for amber is elektron, and since it was the first substance to show this prop- erty of attraction, William Gil- bert (1540-1603), physician to Queen Elizabeth, called the prop- erty "electrica," In 1650, Walter Charlton changed the name to "electricity," the name we use now. IS Electrical Resistance Affected When a Conductor is Heated? Yes. For copper and most other materials there is an in- crease of resistance to electricity when the temperature rises; but the resistance of these thin car- bon filaments you may occasion- ally see in very old lamps goes down when the wire gets hotter. Resistance generally decreases as a conductor is chilled; and at extremely low temperatures many metals show what is called superconductivity. That means their power of conducting elec- tricity is enormously increased. At a temperature approaching absolute zero, a wire made from lead, for instance, will offer no resistance; and once a current has been set up in a coil, it will keep flowing for days. ARE Silver and Gold Magnetic? Generally speaking, it is iron and steel and their alloys that are magnetic. Nickel and cobalt also show some magnetism. An alloy of iron, cobalt, nickel, alun- inum and copper can be made so magnetic that it can lift a thous- and times its own weight of iron. A magnet attracts iron and steel and the alloys that make mag- nets. Gold and silver do not snake magnets, nor are these metals attracted by magnets. Ribs A' Plenty There are about seventeen hun- dred species Of snakes distribut- ed throughout the temperate and tropical regions of the world. They range in size from a bur- rowing creature only a few inch- es long to the regal python, near- ly Or fully thirty feet long and weighing three hundred pounds. Consequently the number of ribs varies, though in any case it is , enormous. Sometimes there are as many as three hundred pair of ribs, loosely tied to the back- bone. Earl: rib at its free end is attached to a shield of horn on the underside of the body. It is by this plan that the snake moves. The ribs ripple forward, a pair at a time, and in doing 50, thrust forward the rear- edges of the shield to which they are united. At each movement the shield grips some rough spot on the ground, and so the whole body is drawn ahead. The wriggling movement is always horizontal. INSECTS' BRAINS. Most insects have a well-de- veloped nervous system includ- ing a brain. It Is in the head and has two parts. The brain is connected with the main nervi: cord, which runs in a double line the length of the insect's body. At intervals along the cord there are nerve centres called ganglia, which look like swell - Ings, Fine Linens Sill Bleached Out. Of -Doors In itendalstown, a 24, -mil° drive through lanes Out Of this city, I met a group Of people Who are carrying over into a machine age the beauty, the skill, and the satisfaction of the handcraft era, Old Bleach, the small linen %ill, started in 1804 by C. J. Webb, has grown into a public company which provides work for 1,200 people from the edun- tryside around. Operating now in a world where fewer people appreciate the many qualifies of linen made from 'flax, Old Bleach Mills use wool, rayon, eottan, and other fibres. Special orders take their fabrics to the ,ends of the earth, They're in royal, trains, luxury hotels, giant lin- ers, aircraft, and modern homes. The approach to the Randals- town factory under a. tall brick arch, down a lane by a stream, and over a rustic 'bridge sets the informal atmosphere. Smooth lawns withflower beds, a white office building with, pale blue 'windows, cars in the drive as though friends had called, struck the friendly note Which 'I found throughout the works, states a writer in The Christian Science Monitor. The green, lush land, kept soft and moist, by the Gulf Stream way out in the North At- lantic is 'particularly suited to the manufacture of linen. However, on the day of my visit, the sunshine, air, and light with which the first Mr. Webb bleached his linens in the fields, and which gave the name to his product, were everywhere ap- parent. Nowhere more so than in the studio presided over by Robi- nette Bradshaw, who to me, epit- omized the spirit of Old Bleach. This is not surprising, since for more than a quarter of a century 'Robinette' has been the inspiration for their 'designs. She came to Old.. Bleach to help fur- ther the sales. of linen by the introduction of machine em- broidery. Now this 'silver -haired Irish woman of Quaker descent is head of the studio at Old Bleach. Her designs are in the cabins and staterooms of the great Cu- narders.•rliey•grace royal trains and well-known hotels through- out - the world: the main air craft companies have these linens as . head rests and cur- tains; you will find them as draperies in modern cinemas. Robinette works in traditional and modern patterns. Some of the Old Bleach wool embroidery on linen grounds for curtains is almost indistinguishable from the crewel embroidery stitched by Stuart ladies. Ever since the founder of Old Bleach set out to make super glass cloths from the blue flax grown in the Ulster fields, wo_ men of two hemispheres have used his linen for embroidery. It was this usage of the origi- nal cloths which inspired the famous range of embroidery linen and led to the compilation of the Old Bleach Embroidery Annual. I saw the girls working on patterns for the coming -of - age issue of this annual. They were sitting in the sun- shine by the tall windows. The gold glinted in their fair hair as they concentrated on the small, rOund embroidery frames which held their linen taut. Although the demand for cheaper household linen has brought the machine to what Robinette would like to have kept as a handcraft, originality of her design still gives the in- dividual touch to these products. In the machine room I saw the girl machinists rattling over the tracings of gay embroidery, do- ing in half an hour what it would take a needlewoman a couple of weeks to d0 by hand. The quest for ex cell e n c e stamps this quality -produced ma- terial. Here all the linen is fast colored and even the embroid- ery threads are dyed by experts on the premises to ensure their colors are perfect and fest. In the air-conditioned hand painting room I saw groups of girls in white overalls, leaning over the long treetle tables on which were spread damask tablecloths, They worked in a team, painting with pastel dyes, peach and rale, fir wers, green and blue leaves and fruit. They worked. quickly. Scarcely one looked up as vistiors walked round. "The girls come straight from school to do this work. It is very popular," Miss heather Webb, descendant of the founder, told me as we left the busy groups. The color is indelibly fixed sub- sequently by stearning and press- ing, si;e explained The colors finally take on a delicate pastel shade. guaranteed fa(teless. Blood pice.t,urcc 11 normal, 100 plus mus sge. If r= woman, 130 pins her age. r;+ "9t's• Ah IIIW nd- " It's fust a breeze .for Steve • Baker, 3, at basket, and cousin Jimmie Connor, de So make baskets- on the outdoor basketball court near Steve's home in Fort Scott, Kan. A tornado' which blevi into town pounded the adult -size stan- dard down to goal -scoring height for little boys. Near -Sightedness •In' nearsighfedneess, the eyeball is too long -from front' tor back, and the person can see near ob- jects clearly, but not distant ones. When we see an object, it means that light -rays coming from it are passing through the lens of the eye, at the front of the eyeball. The lens • act as a refractor, that is, light -rays pass- ing through it are bent. Ip the normal eye, light -rays come' to- gether, or are focused, on the retina, at the back of ehe eyeball, from•' which •the sensation of sight travels-ta,the brain by way, of, the optic nerve_. However, when the eyeball is�too long -from front to back, tile 11W -rays from a distant object come to a focus before reaching the retina. The result is -41 blurred image. To correct nearsightedness, the ocu- list will give you a concave lens for your spectacles. It will diverge the 'rays just the" right amount to keep them from focus- ing too soon. Under -Cover Fashion Notes — in 2054, the boys can look forward to seeing the costume, above, when their secretaries rocket to work in the morning. It's a one- piece suit of light -weight jersey with button -on sleeves and_de- tachable skirt, It was modeled at the National Secretaries Associa- tion meeting by Laura Jane Holmes, "Miss Press Photogra- pher." Below, height of fashion on Brazil's coffee plantations demands a straw hat and flow- ered coverall, as protection against the blazing sun when hoeing coffee plants. `Straw Hat' Players Back in Muskoka On July 5th the Straw Hat Players return- for their seventh season of summer theatre in Mus- koka. The company, which pro- vides a play a week for vaca- tioners in Port Carling and Grav- enhurst throughout the summer, was the spring -board from which its founders, Murray and Don- ald Davis, launched into a full- scale season with the Crest The- atre company in Toronto last January. Now Toronto is in a position to repay the debt to Muskoka. A vastly improved company with many Crest Theatre stars and technicians will serve the sum- mer companies this year. Renowned Crest designer, Hut- chinson Scott, Directors John Blatchley and Pierre Lefevre, and a strong company headed by Murray Davis, Max Helpmann, Charmion King, Norma Renault, Antonia Pemberton, Norman Ett- linger and George McCowan, will all be in Muskoka. Opening on July 5th in Grav- enhurst with the current Crest success, Amphitryon 38, and in Port Carling with a wild Rus- sian farce, Squaring The Circle, the company will present also Noel Coward's Fallen Angels, Peter Ustinov's The Indifferent Shepherd and a Revue to be staged by Crest actor, George McCowan. Araby Lockhart, a long-time Straw Hat favourite, who has not been with the Crest company this season (she has, instead, be- come a mother) and Richard Lamb will join the players from the Crest. Two favourite Straw Hat ac- tors will be missing from the company; Donald Davis and Bar- bara Chilcott, who have been honoured by being given leading roles in this year's Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Miss Childott is to play 'the Shrew' in the Taming of the Shrew and Mr. Davis will play 'Tiresias' in Oedipus Rex, The Crest Theatre's other de- signer, Carolyn Souter, who has been responsible this year for the decor for The Little Hut, Dream Girl and The Light Of Heart, will also be designing settings for the Straw Hat Players, and Crest Theatre General Manager, Brian Maller, and well-known televis- ion director, Henry Kaplan, will share the direction with Blatch- ley.;and Lefevre, Murray & Donald Davis, the Crest Theatre, Toronto. HU. 9- 9927. Depth Of Water Very Deceitful When we turn on the water in the bathtub, and our cake of soap falls into the water and sinks to the bottom, a curious illusion oc- curs. If we plunge our hand in- to the water to seize the soap, we find that it is not where it seems to be. The eye is deceived into believing that the water is much shallower than it real)), Pebbles - and ,fish in a , pool al- ways 'appear to be nearer to us then they really' ere: 'The rdason ib that the rays of Light reaching- us-frnm the ab-. jest. at .tire bottom .pf the water tint 'vm height to us,, ns they would if there were no water be- tween us and the object. The light from the object travels straight as long as it is in the water, but it it emerges oblique- ly .from the water into the air it is bent downward toward the si r±ace. This bending is known as 'fefrbetion; and it occurs when- ever. -light pusses from one trans- pnnent ;medium into . another • of dlJicxpn.t .•density—es, . for ex- alnple, from water to air, or from air t6 glass. The eye does not take refraction into account, but - judges the position of the object as ff the light came in u straight line. Nlibry Men Became Wonsan- linters Girls! Meet the bachelor of 80,000 weddings, a charming man with a bright senile, dapper Mr, Alfred Brewer, who lies been . Superintendent Registrar at Hackney, London, for 28 years. This quietly -spoken man has married no fewer than 30,000 couples since he was appointed to his job. But be's still a bache- lor at 65, though he lOOIts young- er. Has the man who has remain- ed a bachelor so long—and is retiring this year — anything against marriage? Not at all Is he likely to marry when he is finally free from the ores Of •office? Ah! that's quite a ques- tion! Says genial Mr. Brewer, very wisely; "I'm not committing my- self about the future." Why a man is a bachelor is his awn business, of course, In Britain the number Of bachelors has increased since the war. There are hundreds of thousands of them—and few give any sign of being woman -haters. But when a bachelor does be- come a woman -hater he's apt to express his anti -marriage views pretty strongly. An American millionaire who spends thousands of dollars a year on old books and manus- cripts was disappointed in love when he was a youth! The pretty girl he was wooing walked off with somebody else, leaving him so bitter that he now travels all over the .world looking for evi- dence which justifies his hatred of the opposite sex. Many otherwise eligible men stay bachelors because they have to support parents or younger sisters and brothers. They •ac- quire the habit of bachelorhood —and it sticks, Some have been badly let down by a fickle girl. Two weal -to -da, good-looking Leeds young mere had this ex- perience. Two sloe-eyed sisters they met at a dance during a south coast holiday won their bearts within forty-eight hours. Each man proposed one moon- light night towards the end of the holiday; each was accepted. But a shock awaited the young - men. A „few weeks later they learned that the shapely pair they were planning .to marry were already married : to two brothers—partners in business who had been too busy to ac- company them on holiday! "We did it for a lark," was their fatuous explanation. "It must have'been the seaside air." So incensed were the, young men that they vowed solemnly to remain bachelors for the rest of their lives. For five years each kept his vow. Then one fell violently in love with a slim young Brazilian widow he met in a Paris night club. He flew with her to Lon- don, where they were married in a register office three weeks later. To ease his conscience he sent a wire On his wedding day to his friend, who was spending a three -months' holiday in Naples. It ran: "Was married today. Very sorry to break our com- pact, but you'll understand when you meet my lovely bride." Within a few hours he was surprised to receive this reply: "Don't mention it. I married an Italian girl here last week. Just wait till you see her. She's gor- geous!" When bachelors fail to fall for their charms, some women have been known to take drastic action to "beat down their def- ences." ..Living' in a small luxury hotel at Saint . Etienne • Deschamps, France, ; was a lovely but unscru- pulous brunette .whofor some time had had her eye on a rich middle -,aged bachelor who lived alone in -a costly apartment -not far from the hotel. She met him "accidentally" by moonlight, but he ignored her. She contrived to sit at his, tel?j],.e,,. in a busy cafe, but he mere •na glanced up at her pretty 1 , and then became mare i% ppy immersed in his nowspapeleit 11 la At eleven that night the five:— Mated girl called On.-th.e-baehe- lor as he was preparing for bed and doclat'ed passionately that she loved him. She brandished -v under his nose an unloaded re- volver, declaring: "I'll shoot my- self here unless you nlarsy Me!" He feared a seance and per-.,. suede(' her - to meet ,biro-' iyeitt day "10 talk things over." But he got cold feet and failed 10 turn up. Grimly, the girl resolved to . scare him badly. She disguised; herself are a 'than, 'clapped on a false moustache and knotted at the door of his house about mid- night. The bachelor, wearing pa- jamas, nervously opened the door. Pretending she was rt des- perate bandit, tikegirl flourished her pistol and demanded money and the jewellery she knew he possessed, Badly seared, the. bachelor n -as about to part with then ahen he suddenly' seized a shorting gun hanging in the hall and fired point blank 'Mr nisi died immediately, The police made no eharggo against the man when the cir- cumstances became known. Thew revealed that she had preyed on several Other lonely bachelors,. driving one to suicide,. .Bachelors have Often banded - together to frustrate determined. .. attempts by attractive women to lure them into marriage. At an inaugural dinner of a Bachelors' League in Italy be- fore the war, 200 young ,men pledged never t0 marry and never to flirt. "YOu flirt with a pretty girl at year peril," their handsome cury-haired president warned them. Even waitresses had b'een banned from serving at table during the dinner. French members of another anti -marriage league also - took VOWS 01 life-long bacheloxdous, The bachelor who was false to his vows had to pay a fine Of 2,000 francs to the league's funds .and perform same - act of pen- ance. One bachelor found kissing a blonde typist in -a country lane was condemned - to swim twice across the Seine at midnight In his pajamas. He developed rhea- uratic fever which nearly rob- bed him of his bride-to-be — another girl he had been sec- retly courting! She was a nurse and her nursing skill saved his life. • 'Years ago, All Souls' College, Oxford, made a defaulting mem- ber present the college with a memorial of his lapse from baoh- elardont—a silver, cup engraved with the words: "Descendjt in matrimonium" ("He backslid in- to matrimony.") On the whole, it seems that in the end most women who are determined get their man, how- ever keen he is to remain a bach- elor. Even the law is on the girls' side, for not long ago a famous judge declared in court: "No man can look after himself, whatever his age. Every man is helpless without a woman's care" Blood Circulation -Ancient peoples realized the great importance of the heart, although they dict not -under- stand its real function. We have known for only three centuries that the heart is actually a great pump, forcing the blood to cir- culate through the body. This was, proved by William Harvey, . an English physician who lived from 1578 to 1657. He was a tire- less student: One of his projects was examining the animals that had 'been wounded in hunting. In vasloue _•, experiments, he measured the. ':amount • of blood that passed by a spot in the , heart. He found to his astonish- ment that far more blood passed by in an hour than the whole body contained. _ Harvey con - eluded, therefore, that the blood must circulate, that is, it must travel round and round in a closed circuit. As Harvey had no microscope, he could not prove the passage of the blood from the arteries to the veins by way of the capillaries. Only ten years after Harvey's death, Marcella Malpighi, an Italian anatomist, who had the benefit of a microscope, showed this capillary action in the lung of a frog. The heart of t grown man at rest pumps out into the arteries about four to six quarts of blood each minute with, of course, the same amount of blood returhfng' to the heart each minute through the veins. CDisr+uedieut — Parking reshic- tions don't bother this swarm of bees invading downtown Allen- town. Police couldn't do a thing with the "lawbreakers," but a beekeeper solved the situation by rounding them up,