No preview available
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-7-14, Page 3rasa TALKS clam Geed nevs lot ;• the ihousd'tlds' no ore on l0 i -calorie diets' comes in the :um +uncement of a new liquid sweet nee, One drop of it equals a half teaspoon of sugar in sweetness, yet it keeps its sweet taste even when you boil, bake or freeze It, And, ac- cording to a lady I . ktlwvy. who , has been using it Co selnr,, unlike saccharin or ethos' sub stitutes, the taste: of this product cannot be told frf:m real sugar. So here are a couple of recipes for you• who ai n at slimness, First, cookies with a Jew calorie count of only 25 calories each U .MOLDED fCOOKCIES lei cup butter ei teaspoon si'veeta 1 teaspoon l elnon extrattt is 3 egg yolk, • 3 tablespoons water e1/4 cups sifted. flour, .. Cream thy butter Add sweeta, lemoilisextraet..and the .eggs .and water, which have been beaten togetlieie:Mia: lthbroughly. stir, in flour lailcl. mi1rl,,we11•Fgn}n .ipto a balls WSW tigl}tly In waxed pa.' per end chill fOr sel+eral hours. Pineh oiif dough iii pi4ees about the size et •a walnut; enoldlin de. siredeshape, and- place on un greasedr000kie ettget. Bake in hot ovep, 400 degrees 3' until lightly brounei1 ll to 10' minutes. 'Yield: 8 dtlzr�n'cuokie� .,,ii 'r y' +, • Thosc-..wite• have. been tore - going desserts in their quest for slimness can help themselves to ' this Chocolate Sauce! It's low in calories) This recipe makes a cup of Chocolate :Sauce,• and because it s,agaade with sweeta, she calorie count is cut down by 384 calories! CHOCOLATE SAUCE 1 cup water el. -cup cocoa 1 tablespoon eornstach r/• teaspoon vanilla 2 drops lemon extract hie teaspoon sweeta Slowly add 3/4 -cup water to the cocoa, blending well. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently, for about 2 to 3 minutes: Combine and add remaining r/a cup water and cornstarch. Continue cook- ing, g, stirring constantly, until sauce has thickened. Remo v e from heat, and stir in vanilla, almond and sweeta. And now, 14ttslforget the diet- ers for a moment and pass along-,: a recipe that's wonderful for, say;' a Sunday night supper dish when a few friends drop in. Served with b oiled i rankfurters, it's hearty enough for the men folks. And the eggs can be cooked and shelled on Saturday, and kept In the refrigerator an a damp cloth or moist paper .towels until you need them, 'rife chopped egg yolks, egg wes and parsley garnish can also be fixed ahead of time. Burns Both Track And Cigars — Big favorite with the Stock Car fans at the C.N.E. track in Tor- onto is Burlington's cigar-smok- Ing Jim Howard. 0ItiiIS.1Y11.D EC1GrS .,113 hard -cooked eggs % 0, butter t'xse c, flour.:.', 1 c. light cream B% C. milk (about) 112 Ib, shp Canadian Processara cess, cut up 1 tsps salt Dealt of pepper 2 tblsp, chopped parsley 12 frankfurters 8,slices white bread Use 2 of the eggs for garnish, Chop yolks and whitee separatel$1. Cut retraining eggs . int* quare tern.. Melt butter, blend'intflour, Add m creaslowly; rook,t'stirring eQn-r1 scantly. Add milk tqq makea - smooth, rather thin saube."Stir in cheese, salt, pepper. Cover pan and simmer,. 'with- out stirring, over low heat until • cheese melts — 10 to 15 minutes, Stir td blend and add quartered eggs. Bring sauce to a boil, (11 sauce "gets too thick, add a little more milk,) ., Split. rankfur'ters, and ;cut in halves; fry dor broil until crisp and brown, ` r Toast bread slices. Cut into tri - owlet, • Pour creamed eggs ,onto •bot serving platter. Garnish with rows. of cheeped. egg., yolk . egg .white,... and w iter - and parsley. P'olte, frankfurters part way'intd'egg Mixture ardind the edgof disli, alternately ,with toasttriangles, Makes 8 servings. o SAVORY DRESSING' ys c. blue cheese, mashed i' c, cream elieesc+--' • 1- clove garlic (optional) 1 c. Sour Cream. 1. tsp. Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp. salt 2 tsp, lemon juice Blend b 1 tt e cheese, cream cheese and chopped garlic. Stir in sour cream. Add all other ingredients; blend welt. Store •in ? refrigerator in ; oov- ered jar. * For dessert try this molded rice cream. It's grand eating served With a tart, luscious sero us cheer y sauce. You can mke both the mold and -the°sa_uce the day before, too, I IOLDED, .RICE 1.1 c, rice 144 qt. boiling water 1 qt, milk' '34 C. sugar 1 tsp. salt 1 tblsp. butter' - 3 envelopes unfiavoured gelatine 1 e. cold water 1 pt, heavy cream 1 pt, heavy cream 2 tblsp. vanillas Pour rice into boiling water. Boil briskly 2 minutes. Drain in sieve, rinse with cold=water, Return t0 pati. Add 2 cups milk, 1 tablespoon sugar, and sait, Bring to boil; add butter, Cover, simmer 20 minutes — do not stir. Pour into bowl. Add remaining milk and sugar. Cooi. Soften gelatine in cold water for 5 minutes, Heat slowly until gelatine dissolves. Add to rice, Chill > until .thick enough so ker nela`don't sink- Whip. "cream, adding vanilla gradually, as you whip. Fold into rice, Pour iirto oiled, 2 -quart mold: Vover with foil, Chill over night. ,Makes '8 to IO servings. Serve "y with .._ Cherry Sante: Bring to a boil, 3 cups pitted sour cherries, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon lemon juice. a n d zts if cup sugar. Mix together 2 tablespoons corn starch and is cup water. 1 uce, Cook, stirring, until thick and clear, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat, add butter. (Sauce should be tart, but a little more sugar may be added if desired,1 Chill before serving OH, MY ACHING ARM—It's all J. FredS Muggs con da ''to. k41 p from yanking himself away from that hypodermic needle the vetorinarian is holding. The popular television chimpanzee.had to be inoculated against yellow fever prior to making. . a month long 'round-the.worid tour with members of his TV,studio staff. Peeking from behind his nervous paws, Mugg$ looks like any scored child. n. IT COULD MAKE PLENTY OF BREAD—More than 6000 bushels of wheat' anti piled in'a Missouri street.. after..fgrtpers„ran out of storage space. Forecasts indicate some 300,000 bushels of wheat from this year's billion -bushel crop wilf add to' the—storage problem throughot,t the U.S.A., where 875,0.Q0,0QQ-bushels, are already in storage. And Yet They Say lesliect`The `Laity” Lyman E. Cadk; St: Louis 'at- torney, is a collector, of freak laws, Here are some of his ex- hibits: It_ypu.,sjng et a bar in Wis• - consin, drive a rdd automobile in .Minneapolis; eavesdrop In Okla - home, m ar r y your mother-in- law in the. District; of Columbia,. or, arrest. a dearleinen. for .a debt in.13ety, York, you !nay run 'afoul of the law. Legal y •according to Cook, ei- ttsens•of Barre, Vermont,. are re- •quired to take a bath e very Saturday night; every male in Brainerd, Minnesota, must grow a beard; and' the female popula- tion of Providence, Rhode Island, cannot wear transparent apparel — even silk or nylon stockings. Custom dictated many strange laws; yet when times changed no o.n•e remerenered to reps]. them: Thus, in' Oregon a girl can- not legally enter an automobile with a young man unless accom- panied p by a chaperone. In Utah daylight must be seen between a dancing couple. A man in Lewes, Delaware, cannot wear trousers that are form -fitting" around the hips, while in Reading, Pennsyl- vania, a woman cannot hang un- derwear on a clothesline unless a screen is present. Romance, of course, has al- ways come under the law's scru- _ tiny. Only a few years ago a husband was fined $15 for kiss- ing his wife in a Chicago park. Kissing 1n public is also taboo in Georgia. In Massachusetts, a state surprisingly lenient with the ten- der passion, teri kisses are equiv- alent to a marriage proposal. A hug and kiss in the presence of the girl's parents, combined with several gifts of candy, are enough to announce your intentions in Minnesota; in Maryland, if you • make six visits to a girl's home you are as good as hitched, Once married, you c a n law. fully direct profanity at your wife if y o u We' in Delaware; while in Michigan the law says a husband owns all his wife's clothing and can take possession of her entire wardrobe if she ever leaves him. In matters of health, as well as heart, lawmakers have ruled sternly at times.' A San Francisco ordinance prohibits the spraying of laundry clothes by water emit- ted from the mouth; Omaha bans the use of the same finger bowl by more than one person; and in Waterville, Maine, it is a viola- tion to blow your hoe in publie. Indiana law declares that a mus- f tache is "a known carrier of germs and a man cannot wear one if he habitually kisses human beings," Flowers Cure es Exam Nerves It was found that young men a n d women students taking examinations in one of the class- rooms of a school in Clanathal- Zellerfield, Germany, were sof Tering more than usual from "exam nerves." Some of the pretty girds due to enter for tin. portant 'exams would walk • into the room ,confidyntly but would "go to pieces" before they had even read the examination clues. tions. As fur the ,eoung men, they `quickly became depressed and Morose. - Saki a teacher: "it's the roots. ice dreary, depressing. No won- der the students aren't passing their exams,' ' Rainbow blinds were inteo diced, bright towers w e i` e placed en desks. The blackboard :Was_ covered with humorous and encouraging verses above which were placed, three 'small ianteres "with the words; "See that your . lights 'shine when. you take your exam„ At the- next exam fifteen out • of fifteen passed with credit, none showing any sign, If ser. vettaneea, HAIRDO'? — Her don't. This love- ly model wouldn't think of wear- ing her hair this way. She's showing a little straw cap, named "The Ondine," after a Broadway play. it's made of shredded laghorn straw, and is offered ,in a rainbow selection of colors. Where All Animals Came From Elsewhere One of the strangest things about New Zealand is that orig- inally it had no land mammals, no snakes, no fruit trees and no cereal' grains or grasses of the kinds that animals eat. There was one poisonous insect, a little spid- er that lives on some of the beach- es. When the Maoris came to the islands,- they brought some dogs and a kind of black rat with them in their canoes, but there are none of these dogs left now, and the rats are very rare. When the white settlers came; they had to bring into the coun- try ,all of the cattle, sheep, and other domesticated animals, They also had, to import clover and other pasture grasses for the animals . to eat, and then they had to import bees to pollinize the clover. Yet to -day New Zea- land is one of the greatest sheep and cattle countries in the world. and has many fruit trees. Deer, pheasants, rainbow trout, rab- bits, stoats and ferrets a r e afnong the kinds of animals and freshwater fish that have been brought to New Zealand and have flourished. Unfortunately, the results . of bringing in these strangers have not always been happy. The rabbits hemline such pests, 'destroying the farmers' crops. that the government had to take measures to destroy as many as possible. The ferrets and stoats, and cats which had become wild, also became a plague to the farmers in outlying districts, and killed so many of the wonderful wingless birds, the kiwi, and destroyed so many of the other birds, that refuges had ltife,ie be created to protect the bird There are many lovrl)' song. birds in New Zealand, such as the tul, or pareon-bird, and ma komalto. The kea, a hawk like green parrot, has learned how to be. a nuisance himself, for he has become skillful at killing sheep, piercing their backs with his sharp beak to get at the fat which surrounds the kidneys. There are many sea birds. among them the graceful. albatross, and ' in the outlying islands in the far south there are pcnliuins, The kiwi, as we have said, Is a wing- less bird, a smell cue which still lives In New Zealand, hut the great wingless 'moa has gone forever. The lciwt, also called ap- ttet;ichryx,es, 14 a relative of the os Are There Other Worlds Than Ours? r. Are there o t he r inhabited worlds—does life' e*ist elsewhere in the universe? What about those queer little bogey -men w i t h antennae --like projections and pressurized ,suits setting off ,for a picnic in the family flying saucer? Are there really such creatures living on other planets? , We can assume that, as on earth life only exists and flour- ishes where physical conditions permit—where soil and climate are favourable. Remember, even on this overcrowded world of ours there are plates entirely devoid of life—the tops 01 moun- tains and around the North and South Poles. Less than one in a hundred of the stars in the universe offers the solid matter upon which life , can get a foothold and develop. And more than ninety per cent. of this matter is so hot—over a million degrees — that nothing can live within thousands of miles of it. There are, as, well, worlds that i are too cold for living things, Mercury is too' cold on one side, I and too hot on the other, Even if a space -man could lay in 000 u g h hot-water bottles and eiderdowns to survive Mercury's cold spell, he would find the odds of survival hopelessly against him in midsummer with the thermometer settled al a steady 1,000 deg. F. Another point: whether you prefer it fuggy or fresh, oxygen is essential to life. Animals and plants alike are breathing crea- tures. Mercury is without oxy- gen and is. therefore, a lifeless planet. They Sure Suffered For Ter Art it is said that Sir Alfred Min- nings, who likes a horse 00 can- vas to look like the real thing, was taken t0 an exhibition by'. artists of an advanced sehooi. When he had been round his. guide asked, "What d'you think of them?" "I think; Munning said, "that these chaps have at least kept the Ten Commandments." "What d'you mean?" "I mean that they've not made to themselves the likeness of "anything that is in the oarth beneath, or that ie in the waters under the earth." Visitors to the Royal. Academy are unlikely to see pictures of that sort, though Whistler once succeeded in getting ' a painting by an "advanced" artist hung there. When the artist beheld his masterpiece, he groaned, "They've hung• niy picture up- side down!" "Hush," Whistler whispered, "the committee refused it the other way." Little do those who wander, through the galleries know of the labour; the sacrifice and the heartache that goes into some of the pictures. They glance at a picture depicting a frosty win- ter's morning without realizing that the artist may have been up and out at first light, his fin- gers stiff with the cold, for the true artist will suffer almost - anything to achieve the effects he *ants. ' The public examining some of Turner's wilder seascapes might well wonder how the artist got his effet s. The question was encs Iput to him by Charles Kingsley. "I wished to paint a storm at sea," Turner. explained, "so I went to the coast of Holland and engaged a fisherman to take me out in his boat in the next storm, 1 The storm was brewing, so I went down to his boat and bade bin to bind me to the mast. Then he drove the boat out in- to the teeth of the storm, "eTot only did I see that storm and feel it, but it blew itself Into me till I became part of the storm. And then I came back and painted that picture." Sir William Orpen's colour ef- fects were amazing. Once, an amateur who had tried and fail- ed to get anything like the same results, asked "How do you mix your colours,. Orpen?" "With brains, sir." he replied. The true artist hates to part with his work. He puts so much of himself into it that it becomes part of him. Few laymen can understand this feeling. Georgia O'Keefe, a famous American enlist, suffers agony each time she sells a picture. So much care was taken over a series of five flower paintings that when asked the price for them she panted what she considered was the fsn- possible sum of £9,000. To her dismay the figure was accepted at once; and she was so desolate that it was three months before she could touch a brush. Artists will go anywhere ar,d brave almost any danger to put on canvas the subjects they have chosen. In 1940 Barnett Freed- man was ordered to board a ship for England at once, but remem- bering that his painting, "Air- craft Runway m Construction at Arras," was in his hotel, he dis. regarded the order and rushed back through streets packed with refugees who were being mach- ine-gunned by Nazi 'planes. When he got back to the quay i he found that the slip had sail- ed, taking eight other pictures I and his kit: Edward Bawdsn cooked Lev. , erishly on the Dunkirk beaches during the evartalion. and his How do astronomers k n o w there isn't any oxygen on Mer- cury? Careful study through a powerful telescope of the planet, which is not too far away, sup- plies the answer. The clearness or otherwise of I the surface features is looked f for. The surface features on this little planet — twenty times smaller than the ' earth are sharply defined and easy to see. Therefore, there can be no clouding atmosphere—containing the gases essential to life. Want to have a look at the planet for yourself? Make a note of the times then, for Mercury is difficult to spot and is never to be seen in the sky for more than an hour or so after sunset in the west. Care to try again in the morning? Time of show- ing is an hour or so before sun- rise in the east THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW Three common beliets are that bats snarl themselves in women's hair, falling cats always land on. their feet, and elephants are afraid of mice. All are untrue. A boatman is legally respons- ible for the waves or wake created by his boat. This also applies to those "water cowboys" found around most lakes on Sun. day:: A jack rabbit can run as fast as a good race horse, often obtaining ,speeds 'up to 45 miles per hour. The shrew is the only poison- ous. mammal known. It feeds larely upon insects, to which its saliva is toxic. The physical pro- ceases of the shrew are se rapid that it will starve to death in only a few hours if deprived of fold, The woodcock has its ears lactated ahead. of its eyes. Snakes almost literally walk am the ends of their ribs. The ribsare attached to broad, special scales on the under side of -the body. Through a forward and' backward Motion of the ribs, these scales move the snake along the ground, *chiral; now form part of phiw• torloal record of the event, William Frith used 3,000 mod- els fOr his famous, pictures "Derby Day," and during the work lived on Epsom Downs, was swindled by card sharpers, had his pocket picked and hie fortune told by gipsies, Luckily he made a good deaf 01 money on that work. After seeing the preliminary sketch a dealer offered him $4,800 for the: completed painting, and au - Other ,agreed to Pay $4,500 for the engraving' rights, So; before he put his brush on canvas he was $9,000 "In pocket." The crowd pressed about hit* so closely while he worked Ott the picture that an iron rail - Mg was built round him for pro- tection and a policeman stood guard over hint. Sir William - Orpen was com- missioned to paint the "Sighing of the Peace Treaty at Ver- sailles," and for nine monthµ worked day acid night on thee . portraits of forty statesmen and high ranking dicers, When the picture was finish- ed he felt thoroughly dissatis- fied with their smug faces and `. rubbed the lot out. instead he painted "The Unknown Soldier,". lying in the Hall of Mirrors guarded by two gaunt spectres Iron the trenches. The Imperial War Museum re- fused it and Orpen forfeited hie commission of $6,000. John Skeaping went to Mexico to study the pottery net hods of primitive natives and learned secrets he could not have found in textbooks or art school. Living there on a penny a day he heard that he had been elected an A.R.A. - Frank Brangwyn, whose pie - tures fetch high prices today, was once desperately hard up. During a financial crisis he tried to borrow $60 on one of his pic- tures that years later he sold for $6,000. The pawnbroker offered tee shillings. "Why, the frame alone costa that!" protested Brangwyn in. dignantly. T know," agreed the other, "it's on the frame that I'm lend- ing you the money." IA Staffordshire firm has made a watchdog that never has to be exercised. fed or licensed. It is a gramophone which plays a re- cord ofa barking dog. By press - ung a cursor the operator can select anything from the yap of a dachschund to the roar of an Alsatian, according to -the type of unwelcome visitor. tee 4444444444.4444444 *w' "I wish you woOidlit de' behini a newspaper like other hue hands!" ` IT'S ROUCH NAVIGATING—But it shouldn't bein the future. Timothy Vukarat, 2, was crippled shortly after birth by a hip bone infection. At one month he was placed in a waist•down cast. Now he must scoot around o children's hospital err o casnered plywood board, the cost holds his legs , spread so proper growth will take place. Doctors soy lte hos "an even chance la gain complete use of his legs..