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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-11-15, Page 3Takes Lightning Out Of Thunderstorms If ammonia is sprayed into thun- der clouds from aircraft, in the Same way as dry ice or silver jodide is sprayed into clouds to Produce rain, the chance of lightning flashes during a storm is considerably re- duced, according to 1)r. E. Workman, of the New Mexico School of Mines. Every time there is a thunder- storm, Dr. Workman conducts ex- periments, Basing then on the fact that electricity is generated when water freezes, he claims that he has been successful on three occasions in taking the lightning out of thun- derstorms. The ammonia he sprays into the thunder clouds prevents the raindrops in them from, freez- ing. There has been disagreement about rain -making experiments be- cause, while some people want rain, others don't, but Dr. Workman's experiments are not likely to meet with any opposition. Nobody, it is pointed out, is ever likely to want lightning) Meanwhile; Swedish scientists have, discovered that an old pros- pector's belief that mineral depo- sits in the soil attract lightning is partly true. The scientists experi- mented with four - million - volt flashes which they found were de- finitely attracted by iron ore when the flash was of positive electricity, But ,they found that negative light sting flashes were not affected.. Experts say that most of it. is negative, although positive flashes are not uncommon, especially in .Africa, Which has the highest light- ning death rate in the world. Six hundred deaths occur. every year. A lightning flash traybe any length front 1,000 yards up to 20,000 yards, yet it never lasts more than the hundredth part of a second, From Lace TO Leopard-Thdn- nis star Gussie Moran,, who recently made her profesional debut, has added a pair' of leopard -skin underpanties to a wardrobe already bulging with abbreviated ' lace things. Neither Gussie or the leopard seem to mind the fact that the customers will be seeing spots before their eyes. Autumn Leaf -smoke Leaf -smoke, pungent, spicy, re- dolent leaf -smoke, ]tangs in the air these evenings, hazing the sunset and making the red old moon a little more romantic. The whole effect is as romantic as an old ballad, and we all love it. For once, there's no excuse whatsoever even to try to be rough, tough and hard-boil- ed about such evenings, They are lovely and beautiful, and if you don't, watch out they will make your heart sing. Scuffle of feet in the heaped leaves along the gutter, a sound like no other sound in this world. Slow song of aging katydids which escaped the first frosts and sound properly jubilant about it. Hickory nuts, sought out at dusk in the • crisping grass where thebristling squirrels overlooked them. Simple things that twang old memories, not of the good old days but simply of other autumns when the heart leaped lust as it is leaping now. The moon there iu the sky at sun- set, fast approaching its fullness and deepening from white to gold *o ruddy orange as the darkness comes. Stars lit early, twinkling already with a bit of frosty glitter, stars that are like the love -light in somebody's eyes, and you don't care who hears you say it, A breeze that is soft and cool and sweet, anti maybe has a trace of wood - smoke from a happy hearth. Simple things that belong to everybody and don't cost a penny, and can't be bought at any other season of the year no matter what you ocer them. Sentimental? Sure, as sentimental as a ltttg and as sweet as a kiss, And all misted over with leaf- smoke, incense distilled from crisp fiaftes of ruby and garnet and opal and topaz.We love itl S atu� Andttews.. ' Probably I've told you before about the small boy I know whose mother was coaxing him to eat some food he disliked. "Mom," he said solemnly, "when yob tell me something is good for me, it makes me want to dump it on the floor." * * ,h I'll leave it to the child psycho- logists to figure out whether such a remark betokened something deep-seatedly wrong with the lad's inner nature. That's' what• he said, and there are lots of youngsters Iike him. But few of them, thank Goodness, need to be coaxed to eat honey; and honey is definitely good for most of us. The Hindus, in ancient times, believed that eat- ing honey made people strong, wise, happy, rich, even that it made them good-looking. That's cover- ing quite s stretch of territory, Still, it's a fine food, and one that far more families should eat lar more of. * :e * For baking, the ability of honey to absorb and retain extra moist- ure adds a lot to the keeping qual- ity of the product. Cakes, cookies, desserts and candies dry out slow- ly, and ,may even improve with standing * * * To replace sugar with honey in cooking, here's a ^simple rule. In cake or cookie recipes calling for sugar, use the sante amount of honey - but' reduce the liquid by a quarter -cup for'etich cup of honey used. For •exaiitple, in a recipe calling for 1. •cup sugar and a half - cup liquid, use one cup honey and a !quarter -cup liquid. * * * Fig and Apple Crisp 34 cup dried figs 4 apples 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/4 .cup honey 2 tablespoons sugar teaspoon cinnamon 3,4 cup flour ,34 cup brown sugar 34 teaspoon salt 34 ,cup butter Method: Pour boiling Crater over figs. Let stand 5 minutes., Drain; cut •coarsely with scissors. Slice apples and spread apples and figs in shallow baking dish. Pour lemon juice and honey over them. Add 2 tablespoons sugar and cin- namon. Make the "crisp" part by working flour, brown sugar, salt. .and butter together until crumbly. Spread crumbs over apples and figs and bake 45 min- cutes at 350° F. Serve warm with top milk. * * •4 Honey Hermits 234 tcups sifted flour 1, teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt • teaspoon allspice r/ teaspoon cinnamon cup shortening. 34 cup honey % cup brown sugar 2 'eggs, well beaten 3 tablespoons milk 1 cup seedless raisins 2 cup •dried currants 1 cup chopped dates ... . . 34 cup chopped nuts Method: Sift flour, soda, salt, and spices :together 3 times. ,Cream hetrtening with honey and brown sugar. Add eggs. Add milk, dry ingredients, fruits and nuts and mix thoroughly. Drop from tea- spoon on greased baking sheet .and bake at 400°- F. 19 to 112 min- utes. Makes about 4 dozen. Keep very well. * * * Honey Hard Sauce Vs cup butter or margarine • cup honey Beat shortening matl'i soft. Beat honey in gradually. Mix thor- oughly. Especially good oa gin- gerbread. • * * Honey Date Bars 3 cup shortening 1 cup honey 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 eggs or 6 egg yolks 11/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 34 teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped dater 1 cup chopped nuts Confectioners' sugar Method: Blend shortening, honey, and vanilla until creamy. Beat in , eggs one at a time. Sift dry in,-, gredients into egg mixture. Blend. .Add nuts and' dates and stir just to distribute evenly. Spread 'i41 a' greased 9 x 12 -inch pan. Bake in moderate oven (350°F.) until. .goltl.-- en brown, 30 to 35 minutes Cool.. Cut in bars and roll in con fee- tioners' sugar. Makes 3 dozen 1 x 3 -inch bars. '4 * * Honey Frosting 1 cup honey 34 teaspoon salt 2 egg whites Method: Heat honey until it spins a thread when it drops front a spoon: Add salt to egg whites. Pour honey slowly as r egg whites which have been beaten stiff. Beat until frosting holds its shape. Easiest to do on an elec- tric mixer. * Honey Spiced Broiled Ilam 1 slice ham, 1 -inch thick cup honey 34 teaspoon cloves / teaspoon allspice teaspoon cinnamon Method: Wipe meat wi.h damp cloth. Place meat on broiler rack, allowing 3 inches between top of meat and source of heat, if pos- sible. Sprinlcle with spices, and cook until browned, basting with the honey occasionally. When brown, turn. Sprinkle other side with remaining spices and con tinue cooking, basting occasionally with remaining honey. • These Atom Secrets Are 50 Years Old New light is likely to be thrown on the structure of the atom by Br;tish 'Museum experts who are now trying to decipher a manu- script half rotted by mildew, stud and soot. Much of the abstruse formulae, contained in the manuscript is ille- gible. It was the work of a mathe- matical genus, eccentric and surly - haired Oliver Heaviside, who lived a hermit -like existence and of whom scientists now say: "He was born a century too soots." After publishing _hree volumes on electromagnetism, he set to work towards the end of the 19th cen- tury on a vital fourth volume deal- ing with atomic phenomena which would have startled the world of science -had it ever been published. It is the half -legible manuscript of this work that is now under close scrutiny in the British Muse- um. In 1927, two years after Heavi- side's death, a collection of his papers was bought by the Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers, and when the war cane in 1939 the papers were sent for safety to North Wales. Shortly before tate centenary cele- brations of his birth were to be held (he was bora 1850) someone Chanced to remember the docu- ments and they were retrieved. A cursory study revealed that they included notes for Heav:side's fourth volume. These dealt in detail" with his' important research on what is sci- entifically described as "a unified field theorem covering electromag- netic and gravitational phenomena." And this research, so far as it re- lates to atomic phenomena, is said to be even more complete than the latest and much publicized dis- coveries of Einstein, the famous exponent 01 relativity. CR SSWO PUZZLE ACROSS 2. Implement for 1. Awny abrading 4, 1:exhibition 8, HaNhs of a 8. Percolate certain sort 12. By way of 4. Meager 18, Third power or 5. Inline a number 4. Japanese sash 14, Story•7.Marriages 18, Addition tc a 8, Adhesive banding 16, Dry 17. Doctrines 18. Late 20. Gaming cubes 22. b'requentl 28, Made stn -all metaUiosounds 26, Half quart 28, English cols 20, Perform 80. Stupt$1 *racn 81. Yearns 32. Past 98, He 0 r,) 14, Varieties 98, Aays 30,.Causes to tp ember A8,3,lx et 89. 13rtncol2y Xtalian 505500 40. Mode of stlltTd- 48. Separate entry In an aeooUnf 40. Small stream 47. Hind Of tieb 48. Flank 49. Silkworm 60. Type measures 81. Dlreottee 62. Holds back 68. Scotch river DOWN 8, )laded S. Stand for a picture 50, Hind of tree 11, rootlike part 19. Salamander 21, Taverns as Looks art It 29. Rim 26. Movable barrier 20, Couple 27 Small Island 28, Cogitated 91 Scraped Exacted linen sat- isfaction. 29. Oriental word for fats 96, Ago 37, Athletic assemblies 88. Book of maps 40. Slender 41. walking stick 92. Language of tho Scottish I3ighlander• 48. Anger 44, Japanese pagoda 46; MasulIne name An wet El .ew sere On Th is Pap What's All That Stuff? -Jumbo, a five-year-old Mexican hair- less, investigates the unfamiliar foliage of Electra, a Maltese lap dog two years , younger. Both. canines were selected as champions in their class at the 23rd International Dog Show held recently in Paris. Slept hi Coffin Wore Black Pyjamas, Ever since the mid -thirties, when the popular and somewhat syrupy, song, "The Isle of Capri," was first launched, most people have dream- ed of visiting that romantic haunt off the Bay of Naples.. Mr. Charles Graves calls it the answer to the psychiatrist's prayer - the cure for frustrations and inhibi- tions, where you can behave in a way that would get you locked up or certified anywhere else, . An.Italian princess he saw there always wore a black skull -cap, black pyjamas, black sun -glasses, and slept every night in a black coffin. Daily, to the Piazza cane a man in red cummerbund with red cap tassel, blue canvas trousers, smoking a ludicrous meerschaum and carrying three embroidered baskets over his shoulder, A youngYank on leave from the U.S. sector of Austria walked the Piazza for two days dressed up as a Tyrolean peasant, feather and all. When no one took any notice of that, he changed into full cowboy costume. A man who carate from the main- land six months ago, shaven and apparently nornal, first grew his hair long, then his beard, and now parades the Piazza in straggling black beard and locks, hoping he will be photographed. That's what Capri did to hint. One oidgirl still plays her tambourine and dances the tarantella -though she's eighty if she's a day.1 The island has a suicides' ceme- tery, well patronized by people who jump off the precipitous cliffs that yawn over the• sea, especially on Mount Tiberias. An artist, Lucy Flanagan, who won a travelling art scholarship at Boston, U.Ii.A„ liked Capri so much that she refused to go back home and lived for thirty years in the Hotel Webber, whose dining -room la still hung with Iter pictures. Only during her last illness did she ever visit the mainland. When the news reached Capri that she had died in Rome, the local peasants raised a subscription tq bring her body back to her spiri- tual home. But the cost of trans- porting the coffin proved too great, so they had her cremated, the urn being sent by parcel post more cheaply. Everyone, however, had forgotten that the Roman Catholic church disapproved of cremation. The local priest therefore refused to bury her ashes, the local C. of E, representa- tive also refused to perform the last rites because of the R.C. priest had been asked first. So for months the ashes stood on a shelf until the priest relented to the extent of giv- ing her an unconsecrated burial, as if she ltad been a suicide. Visiting the many grottoes for which Capri is famous, Mr. Graves found that the most entertaining spectacle was a series of floating junk shops selling postcards, coral necklaces, pocket knives, scarves, and so on. Entrance to the celebra- ted blue Grotto -sixty yards long, thirty wide sixty deep -was throngh a narrow opening so low that the boatman had to pull his boat in by a hawser, with himself and passen- gers lying almost flat on their backs. One visitor had dived into the fan- tastically blue water -which turned to an uncanny phosphorescence when an oar dipped into it -and his body looked like a pale blue nega- tivc. A lovely spot is the night club of the Hotel Caesar Augustus at Ana- capri, with pine, fig, and pepper trees and oleanders lit with conceal- ed lighting round the dance floor. "On a breathless June night with the perfume of jasmine in the air it is a great place for lovers. The or- chestra is first-class and the singer is as gay as a lark as he sings his Neapolitan songs. With the full moon overhead, a bottle of cham- pagne at the table and the crickets chirping, it is more glamorous titan any scene out of Hollywood, writes Mr, Graves, in a first-class illus- trated book, "Italy Re -visited" which tells the traveller all he wants to know of the country from the Lakes in the north to Capri. "Say," he heard a Yank visitor ask, "are there any snakes on this island?" "Sure," replied a New York girl, "and they've all got lovely villas." 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