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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-12-15, Page 6Jim A dews, Now that the time for dill - (trent!' parties is with us again, mothers will be faced with the problem of what to give the 'young fry" to drink, •eeilk of bnurse, is the most nutritious, ut since a child likes something "different" at a party, it is a good idea to serve a drink which *Ot only contains some valuable health -giving elements but is also agreeable to the taste and "different" from the run of. the Mill beverages. Here are a cou- ple of unusual and tested re- elpee which should go over well With the youngsters, HONER SPICED TEA 4 level tablespoonfuls tea 2 level tablespoons whole cloves 1 cup of strained orange juice 3�s eup lemon juice 31 to 4 eup honey 8 cups freshly boiled hot water Pour 5 cups boiling water over the tea and cloves. Let steep for live minutes, strain, Add orange and lemon juices, honey and re- maining 3 cups hot water. Stir until honey is thoroughly dis- solved. * * Isere again is a delightful fruit punch which will no doubt' .please both young and their par- ents too — ARCADIA FRUIT PUNCH 2 quarts strong tea (made with 12 tea bags or 12 teaspoons of tea) 2 cups lemon juice (strain) 4 cups orange juice (strain) 2 cups sugar WI quarts cranberry or grape juice 2 quarts water 1 quart ginger ale Mix tea, fruit juices, water and sugar and chill. Just before serving add ginger ale and pour over piece of ice in punch bowl (makes about 2 gallons). n * * Mothers who find difficulty in getting their children to drink milk might try serving Cambric Tea, This way of giving a new taste to milk but in no way re- ducing its nutritive value has become very popular in Eastern Canada in many institutions and schools. It has long been the 8ustom in "Tea -drinking" Bri- talr,, to serve "Milky Tea" to youngsters. To make Cambric Tea simply add a dash of tea to the glass What's Cooking? — Home -baked •d ideas, on display at an in- ventors' show in Paris, France, end this electric oven is hot off the mind of newspaperwoman Jean leMaire. It features inside Illumination and an elevator - type table for food. of milk. It can have no ill ef- fects whatsoever and the change in flavour often encourages stubborn youngsters t0 enjoy their milk, Inozdentally if you are look- ing for a first-rate pick-up and energy restorer try a NO Oi' clear tea, with honey added and float in It a slice of lemon, It is being used by sportsmen as an energy restorer and is delicious to taste too, No Cheap Scores In This Game It may not be tactful to men- tion the matter to any past or present pupils of Eton College, but Nov. 30 this year also had something of a significance for rival Harrow School. The most renowned of all Old Ilarrev- ians, Sir Winston Churchill, celebrated his 80th birthday. And the nation will be as one paying generous tribute to the man internationally acclaimed as the greatest modern Eng- lishman. Old Etonians, among them Sir Anthony Eden and the Mar- quess of Salisbury who rank second and third respectively to Sir Winston in the British Cabinet, will maintain their Eton decorum about the fan- aticism for this hero from Har- row. The old monocle will be given a seemly flourish as they declare, "Jolly well done, old boy," and all that sort of thing. And that, for the purpose of my story, anyway, will be that. Primarily the thoughts of all loyal Etonians on the last day of November is toward their Alma Mater. Always on this day, from time immemorial, a carnival of fete and football is staged at the most famous of England's scholastic seminaries. The Thameside townlet in the shadows of Windsor Castle goes gay with house flags against a usually gray sky. And parents and old boys, to say mothing of photographers and newsreel - men, flock down to watch the football festival, writes Sidney Skilton in the Christian Science Monitor. The day starts shortly after breakfast time with the final of the Lower Boy House Cup and ends in the gloom of the even - Ing with a clash between Ox- ford Old Etonians and Cam- bridge OE. In between, and highlighting the day is Eton's Wall Game. Like those other peculiarly English institutions, parliament, cricket, and fish and chips the wall game knows no actual origin. And it con- tinues an absolute source of be- wilderment to most people at- tempting to understand it. A theory generally, and cer- tainly conveniently, accepted is that the wall game just grew with the school which is now more than 500 years old. But those with more probing minds have great respect for the view expressed by a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. It is that the wall game arrived at Eton in 1624 when Sir Henry Wooton became Provost. He is said to have brought it from Italy where he had served in the diplomatic service as the English ambassador in Venice. The same historian further claims that the wall game at Eton comes from a style of football which was played and written about in Italy around the middle of the 16th century. A wall was an integral part of the Florentine and Siennese versions of the game and was described in a number of books printed in Venice more than four centuries ago. In support of the historian's supposition is the retentietn of certain Latin phrases in the Eton game like. "C" ISN'T FOR "CHERRY"—It's for vitamin C, and juke of the sherry -like Acerala berries which fill these tubs On a plantation et Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico, Is said to yield as muck as.80 times More Vitamin C than an equal quantify or orange juice. The wince -wild shrubs which produce the berries are now being cultivated for their health -'rich harvest, WO' *If r 0411: ,61,0 4 tI<, t� cF weer The woman Who possesses beautiful hands. doesn't &ome by there accideetaily, She consistently gives her. hands Pare *And at- tentl4ag peeps them out of very hot water, ;wears rubbef, gloves for household tasks and is faithful about creams or lotions, Atty" bousewife must dip her bands fate- weteg„eeequently during the day. She ;should keen : her .#a,vo),}r} e l p4 .pg am or IOtion:handy on a kitchen shelf PO tga:q la$plyAM/hen she takes hee:h#>ade eat of w,ater, But $ e s90u14,44o be, consistent In her wearing 41 rubber, gloyes, •i`Or women Whd havenet tried'uubbkr,giovas, there are;water- tight'nedprene gloves on the market that are lined with ,an inter locking:knitted fabric toralesol•'ia,pe, piratiou,, .'hey haye„a speei'8I nonseip grip and can be tossed fpr witiz the.,fannily,-w,asls When they're ready for. cleaning. ti• The reasons for wearing household glrti*eg'are sound ones: To protect your hands from long'seekingl*.heevseter, to prevent cuts and bruises, to keep fingerns!Us Pony, phippAng.and.,ap•,preserve a manicure, to allow you to use much hotter water in washhig dishes and to cut garlic or onions without having the odor cling to your hands• SOUR Irtr >l�rlr i t 'rr Her fabric -fined rubber gloves protect her from extra -hot water, give her a .nonskid grip and preserve her hands' appearance. for example, "Calx" which means heel, or foot, and froni which the Italian "Caleio" (a kick) is derived.' The games are between twt: teams of 10 a -side. One is come prised of the Collegers, that is the small but elite company of residents in the college itself, and the other is made up of Oppidans who are the town or boarded out boys, The striking of 12:30 by the old clock in Lupton's Tower is the signal for the start of play which takes place in an area between the wall running along the Slough - Windsor road and a furrow which is the touchline some six yards away. Surmounted on this wall, ap- proximately 12 feet high, are all the young schoolboys who can manage to make it plus all the photographers who must make it if they wish to get any picture at all of the struggling and straining mass of humanity locked in combat against the wally, Tne ball, somewhat smaller than a soccer ball, is there somewhere but it does not seem to matter because goals are very rarely scored with it. To score a goal at Eton's wall brand of football it is necessary first to secure the ball from a scrimmage in a certain region of the wall and then to shy it at one of the awkardly placed targets --a little old door at one end and an old elm tree trunk at the other. The difficulty of this accomplishment may be judged from the goal scoring record since results were first tabulated in 1841. It is three! In an attempt to remedy this state of affairs and make goal Hamming It Up - Sculptor Frank putt puts the finishing touches on a group of "performers" modeled of lard, the medium in which putt is a specialist.He re-created a scene in a television studio In which the sfar Is a dimpled piano player., scoring a privilege witnessed by more than about one assembly every 40 years it was decided last year to reduce the number of players from eleven to ten. This did have the effect of op- ening up the game and for the first time since 1949 there was a result other than a pointless draw. The Collegers won by two shies (ten of which count' as a goal) to nil. But there was still no goal. How High Is High -- Up where the sky becomes space and where the vapor trails appear behind planes, the im- possible is becoming the pos- sible. To the roar of jet and rocket engines, man - made limitations are being thrust aside. Ordin- ary space and speed concepts are undergoing vast changes. Where in 1906 the first record- ed air -speed mark was clocked at 25.66 miles an hour—set by A. Santos Dumont in France— the year 1954 finds its fastest plane piercing space at 1,650 miles an hour (the latest releas- ed figures, at any rate.) When you step to reduce that speed down to seconds, it means travelling a mile, or 5,280 feet, every 2 1/5 seconds. Or some- where between 2,000 and 3,000 feet every time you can say the "Jack" in "Jack Robinson." By the time you managed to utter "Robinson," the plane would be another half mile away. The only way you could fol- low a plane in flight with your eyes at that speed near the ground (it hasn't been done near the ground yet) would be to look ahead of where you ex- pected the plane to be seconds before you expected it to get there. Then, you might possi- bly see it go by. Actually, you couldn't turn your head or flick your eyes quickly enough to watch it• flash past, writes Bert- ram B. Johnsson in The Chris- tian Science Monitor. But FAST for a plane is as a snail ambling backwards com- pared to FAST for a rocket. American -built rockets have reached tumultous speeds of about 5,000 miles an hour. We'll let you figure that out in terms of seconds. How high is high? These rockets have climbed up to the vicinity of 250 miles from earth. So have some of the Soviet rockets, we are told. Up that high, far beyond the blueness of our earth's atmos- phere, space is almost complete- ly dark. Reason: the atmosphere is so thin (no dust) that It con- tains no particles to reflect the light of the sun. Only objects large enough to reflect light catch the sunlight. That is why the space ships and space platforms in television. How Fast Is Fast? programs are n.ade to glow with light. The rest of space is dark, out about 100 miles from the earth. But, interestingly enough, the light is passing through space all the time. Only objects that can reflect light are visible, humanly. Highest that humans have flown thus far is about 90,000 feet, or some 17 miles up, ac- cording to official United States Air Force announcements, These announcements do not, how- ever, disclose exactly when this occurred. One can assume it was in 1954. The altitude record was fnade over California- by Maj. Arthur Murray, in a Bell Aircraft plane named: the X -1A. Airlaunched from a B-29 bomber six miles above the earth, it was powered by a Reaction Motors Corpora- tion rocket engine which thrust the 35 -loot -long plane 60,000 feet higher in four minutes. This is the same plane in which Maj. Charles Yaeger achieved the speed record of 1,050 miles an hour. Major Murray, on his altitude flight was not yet as high as the darkness of space. Quite the re- verse. He became keenly aware of the intense gia'-o of the sun, "I felt closed to the sun than I did to the earth," Major Mur- ray said in describing thz ex- perience, to a Harrisburg news- paperman, William T. Lunsford, Jr., "and I was lonelier than I have ever been in my life. "Then I looked down, and 1 could see the roundness of the earth , .. It seemed as if I could see 200 miles in all directions. As I looked down, the part- of the earth I knew was green had shanged to olive drab. And the mountains were almost black," "1 kept thinking, '11 I could only shut out the brightness of the sun,' It was good that I had a data pad with a dark background this time, because on my first flights the sun was so bright, I couldn'tread my knee pad." Major Murray found the plane somewhat difficult to con- trol since the atmosphere was se thin at that altitude. But he swung the SC -1A, into it glide pattern for the long des- cent, and 30 minutes later lend ed on the hot sands of 'the Muroc dry lake bed, Fantastic stories of condi- tions in the upper atmosphere are coming back from these space pioneers, and thought patterns need to be revised so often, on the basis of te data. Take the case of the so-called sound barrier, which is that point in flight when a plane ap- , preaches the speed of sound - 750 miles an hour, at sea level. First attempts to- break through the sound barrier in 1947 met with considerable buffeting for the plane. Some years ,before 1947 a British natural scientist 'Started what is now galled the "legend of the sonic 'barrier." He said that when an airplane ap- proached the speed of sound (Mach 1) it would shake to pieces from the effect of shock waves. But the barrier is being pierc- ed every day now by United States Air Force interceptors. One pilot describes the punc- turing of that supposedly im- penetrable wall thes1 "It's like a tiger going through a paper hoop." Even the concept that`buffet- ing is necessary is changing. We noticed a ?grief note jn a recent issue of Aviation Week maga- zine which said: "English Elec- tric P-1 (a turbo jet fighter air- craft), has exceeded the speed of sund and gone well beyond Mach 1 with 'complete absence of buffeting; reports British Minister of Supply Duncan • Sandys." We htought we'd find out whether Supply Minister$Bandys could, within the bounds of sec- urity regulations, tell us why there was no buffeting. Our an- swer from the Ministry of Sup- ply was about as brief as the magazine item. It read: "Thank you for your letter about the English Electric P-1 exceeding the speed of sound. 5 am sorry to say that it is not possible to give any further de- tails." But apparently it happened— with no buffeting! As for the heat harrier (the high temperatures generated by friction of the atmosphere on the metal and plastic skin of the plane, that's another matter, but not one that is looked upon as impossible of solution. Many aircraft engineers while not overlooking the feet that frictive heat is regarded as a problem, dislike the item heat barrier," Some deny: there is such a thing, One Boeing engineer says: "The barrier to speed is not heat. Atmospheric speed is lim- ited by the power plant' We've' always been able to.' tele' the most powerful engines .designed There's no reason now to think We won't be able to continue t0 do so. We've been .designing. for higher and higher altitudes, There's no reason to believe we won't keep .right on going up " Some of the problems met in the heat zone are: At 35,000 altitude, gasoline boils at speed Mach 1.4, Plexi- glass melts at Mach 1,7, kero- sene boils at Mach 2, solder melts at Mach 2.4, and glass' softens at Mach 3.6, There is still a need. Boeing experts point out, for a lubri- cant that won't deteriorate at high temperatures and tires that won't blow up at high tempera- tures and low external press- ures. Someday, progress in aerody- namics may be so far advanced that we may wonder how people ever got so concerned about what the heat barrier could do;, Blue For A Boy Pink For A Fish Tokio. — A discovery has been made about the attraction cer- tain colours appear to have for fish, with the result, it is said, that the entire fishing industry may be revolutionised if the idea is universally adopted. Japanese zoologists claims, af- ter a series of experiments, that fish were most strongly attract- ed to objects of a pink colour. It was then arranged that fish- ermen should co-operate with the scientists. Nets were dyed pink, and increased catches were made. Previously it was thought that nets should be black so as to be almost invisible, but the suc- cess of the experiment soon be- came known, and now fisher- men all round Japan's coasts are reported to be using the new pink nets. Recent statistics show that there has been an increase of 60 per cent in catches over the period since the new nets have been used. It has been suggested that more research and experiment may lead to refinements of the discovery. It may be found that while the colour pink seems to be a general favourite with all fish, some may be individually attracted by other hues. It may be found that cod favour crim- son and salmon purple! TRANSIT STORY The lost -and -found depart- ment of the Seattle trimsit sys- tem reported a telephone call from a woman who said she had left a package containing a bras- siere on a bus. "What bus" said the transit company employ°. "Size 36," replied the woman. No one can handle Jewish dialect stories better than Ezra Stone, One of his favorites concerns two cloak-and-suiters. Cohen and Lapidus meet each other on the train for Chicago,. and not having seen each other since high school days, they are effusive. "Row are you, Cohen?" sties Lapidus, 'Where are you go- ing?" "Me, I'm going to Chicago," "So am I.'' "And what business, are you in?" "In the cloak and suit line, Cohen. And you?" "The same thing," "Say, Cohen, do you remem- ber the swell parties we used to have at Bose Lipschitz's house in Brooklyn?" "Boy, those were the days," "You said it." They talked for awhile, rem- iniscing about old times, but somehow Cohen isn't satisfied with this set-up, and he begins to think to himself: "This guy Lapidus is a cute fellow. He tells me he's going to Chicago, but why should he tell me the truth? He's in the same business. I'll bethe's go- ing. toeCleveiand. Why should he go to Cleveland? He must, be _ going to see Ruger Bros. They probably are going to give a big order of dresses asd he's trying to get the whole thing. "No, that can't be, He's a prosperous manufacturer; he wouldn't go to see Ruger him- self. He'd send a salesman. Maybe he's. going to Miller Bros.? No, they ain't :buying anything this season, their buy- er just Left New York. Then it must be Lipschitz and Son.. . But then, again, he wouldn't go himself; 'he'd send a salesman. Say, wait a minute. ..That old man Lipschitz is Rose Lipschitz's father, the girl he used to go with in Brooklyn I'll bet he's still nuts about Rose. I'll bet he's going there to get engaged to be married 10 Rosie." With a sly smile he turns t0 his friend. "Congratulations, Lapidus," "How dis you Imow?" cries Lappie, amazed. "It was obvious," says Cohen. Pray 8ti11+ x: ,Father;Indelecle Alejo has two "habits,' neither of which interferes ' with the other. His religious habit in nc way impedes the priest's pitch frig arm, as the president 01 the Philippine University Athle• tic Associotionrwrnnils up a farone its` eanila;'; Starting Young -. Seven-year-old Tommy Frisbie leads his Short• shorn steer into Chicago's International Amphitheater, Tommy/, so far, is the youngest exhibitor at the 55th International Live. 'tack Show.