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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-1-10, Page 7Injected Poison Saved Boy's Life Aui ductus• at C/N iurd ha, n.ed p„ . •„ in a st,ccr.-.111 attempt tt save the life of a ten,-;ew:4,1d boy w'h.. .t.,. dying in hospital of inherent, et, ,uouingitk, Attet,tl,t- to cttre him: with the drug streen,myein whirs i, report- er to tui e one list ;t, two, had fir led, he decided td, wooer lu poison of because site believed it c,.uld really Lomeli the i,„•.,but bc- -use it ., old give her knowledge it Melt :u thin: 1111111.1 benv;it others. So sit, seemed .,moll quantities 01 purified tuberculin tt deadly poisons , free by '1 !t germs—into the pitifully emaciated 10 who was in a cr+ ditiott of p.uulysis. The effect tiro amazing. lle '.cited and to -day, a t•lnq, els ld of three, he is fit and cell. lVith the help of a colleague, the woman doctor decided to make sim- ilar injections with seven other suf- ferers, inducting a 17 -year-old youth whose case seemed hopeless, \Vith- ia a fortnight he was much better and is stilt improving. Medical authorities are showing great interest in these Oxford ex- periments. • which were conceived while the woman doctor was trying to evolve it theory to explain why some patients do not respond to streptomycin. It is pointed out that much more work roust be done bo;ore the pois- on treatment can be properly as- sessed, and unfortunately there is no evidence to show that it would help in any other fortes of tuber- culosis Ready To Rivet—Mrs. Helen Dortclt Longstreet, a b 0 v e, widow of the fatuous Confed- erate general, is ready to don her World War I1 slacks again and return to work on a bomber assembly line near her home, Now in the 80's but in "tip-top physical shape,” the militant •widoty last summer lost a bid to unseat Gov, Her- man Talmadge -for the govern - ship of Georgia, Country Smells If the opening music of the northern year begins with a first t 1 of i return of light, trumpet talthe 1g , t and the return of warmth is the second great flourish from the air, the unsealing of the waters of earth is certainly the third, As the walked tonight in a darkness from which a young moon had only just with- drawn, the earth everywhere, like something talking to itself, murmur- ed and even sang with its living waters and hs living streams, Between us and the grate, a tor- rent as from an overflowing spring, half -blocked by a culvert heaved by frost, chided about our feet, , , , Across the pools, at the great farm on the lull, a light suddenly went on:. Our own windows shone nearby, 'but we did not enter, so haunted were we boot by the sense of the change h the year and the continuous sound of waters moving in the earth, \Viten we at length entered the house, using the side door and its tramped -over and muddy step, we found ourselves welcomed by some- thing w, nee very seldom aware of summer or winter—tic country smell r• the old house. All oid farms, 1 imagine, have some such rustic flavor in their walls; country dwellers will recog- nize what 1 mean, A hundred and fifty years of barrelled apples, of vegetables stored in a field -stone collar, of potatoes in the last of the spring, of earth somewhere and never very far, of old and enduring wood and wood -smoke, ton — all these --were unmistakably present iu the neat room with 'ts lamp anti books. The cold and inundd night had stirred the house as well. as otirsclves: it had its own rustic - tttemoues: hront 'No•rdt.rn Warns." by Henry Beaton. Minister's Stories Were "Unprintable" Your ,,-us, of humour is a gold,. t„ (lie standard or your maturity. 1t slaws only too plainly whether the years have mellowed y01 into., • Multi& person or left you a., a pelmas nl .spoilt child." The reader's reietit'nt to this f0rt1 right statement by C. 11.'1'cear will be found in tut interesting and amusing hook, "Spire of Life" cum -- piled by 3. Thurston 'I hrower -- fur there's faun in abundance, culled from the works of famous writer, and many sty other sources. Cecil limit tell, nt a young man whose father had been hanged and who tins Luer faced with a life insurance tn'nposal form. After the usual questions about hereditary diseases, eine one asking for the cause of death of his parents. Ile put: "\lotltcr died of pneumonia. hnther teas taking part in a public function when the platform gave n sty." Reporter's Regret "'Che Press is a great friend to the platform" (au entirely different platform by Ole way), states the Rev. W. K. Iliu•forth But once he was amazed by a report of a lecture he had given, after he had asked the local reporter to please leave out the anecdotes in his talk as he would be repeating it fu the near future in the sane locality—and naturally didn't want it to sound stale. The reporter had very kindly oh - served the request, expressing re- gret that the Reverend Gentleman told many stories which. unfor- tunately, could not he printed! This amusing tale about Fritz Kreisler we owe to Bernard Shore, Walking with a friend one day, Kreisler passed a large fish shop where a fine catch of codfish— mouths open and eyes staring- were arranged in a row. Kreisler suddenly stopped, looked tat them, and caught his friend by the arm "Heavens!" he exclaimed. "That reminds me .. , I should be play- ing at a concert . very rarely does one find a sailor lacking a sense of. humour. But William Ilickey finds one for ns. Two midshipmen accepted an in- vitation to visit a local coal thine. On their way back to the ship they met two senior officers who had been playing golf. Not wanting to return to the sltip at once, they asked the midshipmen to take their golf -bags back for them. Reprieved! • As the 'middies" went on board they met the Admiral, Genially (for once) he chortled, 'Alta, my boys —been having a round of golf, eh?" "Oh no, sir!" they protested, "IWe've been down a coal mine," It's good to he able to record that sentence of a year's stoppage of leave for impertinence was later rescinded by intervention of the two golfing officers. All his life Claude F. Luke will recall a fragment of talk he lead one night with an outsize commis- sionaire ata celebrated hotel. While waiting for the taxi,- the commis- sionaire remarked: "Had a beauty here last night, sir, The Boss said I was to throw hint out. He was gettin' a bit noisy. "So I go inside and walk up to hint. He was quite a tittle feller but with nasty broad shoulders and big hands. I say to him: 'Out you go,' He didn't say a word. He just looked the straight in the eye and picked up one of those brass ash- trays—thick, heavy brass, they are. And he says, very quiet: 'Watch this, cltunt'—and took that ash- tray between his hand and rolled it up. Made a tube of it, 'Now throw •s" 1 o me out' he says." s y did you \ "Whatyo t [t , . 1 .trice asked. ".I appealed to pped 'is better nature, sir1" exclaimed the commissionaire triumphantly, King Winter Spodights King Cotton TIM arrival of King Winter is a cue for King Cotton to L go north. Although generally considered a suinnter fabric, cotton has successfully stolen this year's snowy fashion scene by virtue of its light weight and versatility. The cotton boucle tweed suit (right), for instance, makes a practical, crush -resistant travel costume. Featur- ing a belted, button -front blouse, the suit achieves graceful lines with a sling tapering skirt. Black accessories, a gold choker and novelty bracelets further compliment the .peri ensemble, For the outdoor girl en route to a winter sports resort, a corduroy suit won accolades at the National Cotton Council showing in New York. The New York designers teamed a boxy braid -tensed jacket and slim skirt with a tattersall -checked corduroy weskit (left). Light-colored gloves and a velvet -trimmed tailored felt hat gave added zest to the smart and practical outfit. And the jacket may be worn as a separate with harmonizing or contrasting skirt. The skirt, too, can do double duty in the wardrobe. Both creations, previewed in New York, seem to indi- cate that Cotton is on the march and will henceforth move north for the winter as soon as the birds streak south, TMLE TALKS eJoe Andvews. Space considerations often pre- vent me front passing along to you recipes --very fine and useful rec•pes —which 1 would like to include. Over the year just passed quite a number have accumulated; and to- day the column will consist of a few of these, without further comment except to say that they have all been thoroughly tes.ecl, in various homes, and found thoroughly sat- isfactory, PETITS FOURS CAKE 1 cup sifted pastry flour or 3 4 cup sifted hard -wheat flour and 1 tbsp. corn starch 1 tsp. Magic Baking Powder m tsps salt - 5 tbsp. butter 14 cap fine granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp. grated lemon rind 3 tbsps. milk _4 tsp. vanilla Method: Sift flour. baking pow- der and salt together 3 times. Create butter; gradually blend in sugar. Add unbeaten eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; stir in lepton rind, :Measure milk and add vanilla. Add flour mix- ture to creamed mixture alternately with rnillc, combining lightly after each addition. Turn into at 8 -inch square cake pan which has been greased and lined in the bottom with greased paper. Bake in a moderate oven, 350 degrees, about 25 minutes. Let stand on calce cooler for 10 minutes, then turn out and remove paper. When cold, trim away side crusts and split cake into 3 layers; put together again with a thin spread of Royal Pudding (made up in any of its flavors) or with jam; press layers together lightly, Turn cake top- side clown and cut into squares or diamonds with a sharp knife, or cut into fancy shapes with sharp little rookie cutters. Spread with butter icing or arrange, well apart, on cake cooler and cover with the accompanying Petits Fours Frost- ing. Deporate as desired. t, PETITS FOURS FROSTING 34 tsp. plain gelatine 1 tsp. cold water r x cup granulatedsugar ar ag 1 tbsp. n Crow Brand corn syrup - cup water 1 pound icing sugar, sifted 1 large egg white All Doing Nicely—The triplet ealves—a rarity itt bovine biol- ogy-- horn Nov, 24, are getting huskier every day. Their mother is jolly, a Guernsey cow owned by Elroy 13ennke. Here ,is son, (Glenn Roy, 7, poses with the healthy heifers whose ;,,ht ranged from 144 to 152 pounds when they were a week old, 2 tbsps. shortening r/e tsp. vanilla Method: Soften gelatine in the 1 tsp. cold water. In top of double boiler combine sugar, corn syrup and the 54 cup water; over direct heat, bring just to a full rolling boil, stirring until sugar is dissolv- ed. Remove from beat and stir in softened gelatine; cool to 120 (just' a little hotter than lukewarm). Stir in sifted icing sugar and then the unbeaten egg white, shortening and vanilla. Place cake cooler of little cakes on a clean dry metal or porcelain table top; slowly pour frosting over little cakes until they are coated, When frosting has been poured, lift cake rack and with a spatula scrape frosting from table top and return to saucepan; heat over hot water until again of pour-/ ing consistency and pour over un- frosted cakes—continue inthisway until all cakes have been frosted. For variety, frosting may be divid- ed and tinted delicate pastel shades or a little melted chocolate may be added and the frosting thinned with ltot water. z: a Y CHERRY SNOW CAKE IA cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 cups sifted flour 2 tsps. Magic Baking Powder tsp. baking soda 34 tsp. salt tsp. cloves 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 cup strained thick applesauce a/ cup seedless raisins Vs cup chopped pitted dates Snow Frosting Marachino Cherries Citron Method: Creast together shorten- ing and sugar. Add eggs; beat well. Sif t dry ingredients together. Add alternately with applesauce to creamed mixture, Add raisins and dates. Bake in 9 -inch greased tube pan in 350 degrees oven, 1 hour, Let stand until cold. Remove cake front pan. Spread frosting on top and sides of cake. Decorate with cherries and citron, * * A: SNOW FROSTING Creast 2 tablespoons Nutter or margarine. Sift 231 cups confec- tioner's onfec- n ho er s saga t•• gradually raduafly ' add creaming constantly. Add about 3 tbsps, milk to make mixture right consistency for spreading, Add a few grains of salt and 4 teaspoon vanilla extract. 5 5' * BEAN LOAF 3 cups cooked navy beans 1 onion, minced 34 cup milic, water, or cooking liquid 1 egg, beaten 1 cup bread crumbs Salt, pepper, herbs Celery or green pepper Method: Chop beaus finely, mash or put through food chopper. Add onion, liquid, eggs, crumbs and sea- sonings. Mix well and shape into loaf. Turn into loaf pan, potty a little melted fat over top and balce until well browned (350-375 degrees F,) fpr 25 to 30 minutes, Turn out on bot platter and serve with toma- to sauce, Tomato Sauce Coolc I sliced onion until yellow, using 1 tablespoon fat, Blend in 2 tablespoon flour and brown. Stir in 2 cups canted totates and cook until thick. Season to taste. ,s * * BOSTON BAKED BEANS Soak navy beans overnight, drain and cover with boiling water and cools until tender, Boil slowly. 2 cups cooked beans 3 tablespoons brown sugar teaspoon dry mustard 3 tablespoons molasses • 04 eup chili sauce 1 teaspoon pepper, or less 1 teaspoon salt 1 small onion Combine all ingredients. Pour in baking dish, Add strips of baton or salt pork and bake slowly (300- 325 degrees F.) 4 hours. Winter Planter — A sunny winter day in London inspired two-year-old Aylmer Gribble to set about bolstering Bri- tain's economy with a toy rake and handful of seed. Veteran farmers fear that when harvest time rolls around Aylmer will find noth- ing has grown in his modest acreage but a few wornms, tra- ditional prizes for early birds. SAVOY BAKED BEANS 1% cups dried navy beans 2 or 234 cups canned or stewed tomatoes 1 small onion (optional) 6 strips bacon 3 to 4 tablespoons brown sugar 2 tablespoons catsup 1 small teaspoon prepared mustard Salt and pepper Method: Soak beans overnight; then cook in salted water until ten- der and almost dry. Add tomatoes, 3 strips bacon, diced, sugar, catsup, and seasoning. Place in covered dish and bake in slow oven (300- 325 degrees P.), 4;; hours, Re- move rover, place 3 strips bacon on top and hake 7 hour more. 5 5 t, JELLY BUNS Measure into small bowl, 1 cup lukewarm water, 2 tsps. granulated sugar; stir until sugar is dissolved. Sprinkle with 2 envelopes Fleislich- ntattn's Royal Fast Rising Dry Yeast Let stand 10 minutes, Then stir well, Cream Si cup shortening; gra- dually blend in I. cup granulated sugar, 2 asp, salt, 1 asp, grated nutmeg, Gradually beat in 2 well - beaten eggs. Stir in 51 tsp. letuon extract, 3 cup milk which has been scalded and cooled to lukewarm, and yeast mixture. Stir in 3 cups once -sifted bread flour. Knead until smooth. \Worle in 3 cups or more ounce -sifted bread flour. Knead until smooth and elastic; place in greas- ed bowl and brush top with melted butter or shortening. Cover and set in warm place, free from draught. Let rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough and cut into 36 equal portions; knead into smooth balls. Brush with melted butter or margarine, roll in fine granulated sugar and arrange ;z" apart on greased halting pans. Cover and let rise until doubled in bulk. Twist the handle of a knife in the top of each roil to form an indentation; fill with jelly. Cover and let rise 15 minutes longer. Bake itt moder- ate trot oven, 375 degrees, about 18 minutes. SAVE IT UP In the middle of a whipping the young son convinced he was being beaten unjustly, "Very well, son'" Itis mother re- plied with grins humor, "but we have gone so far that we may as well proceed. It will be credited to your account for next time," Young James And His Steam Engine The story is told; - of how this Scottisl, boy, James Watt, sat on the heart[ in his mother's cottage, in- tently watching the steam rising from the mouth of the tea kettle, and of the great role which this boy afterwards assumed in the mechanical world, It was in 1763, when he was twenty-eight and tad the rppointment of mathematical - instrument maker to the University of Glasgow, that a model of New- comer's steam pumping• engine was brought into his shop for repairs. One can perhaps imagine the feel- ings with which James Watt, inter- ested from his youth in mechanical and scientific instruments, partic- ularly those which dealt with steam, regarded this Newcomen engine. Now his interest was vastly quick- ened. He set up the model and oper- ated it, noticed how the alternate heating and cooling of its cylinder wasted power, and concluded, after some weeks of experiment, that, in order to snake the engine practic- able, the cylinder must be kept hot, "always as hot as the steam which entered it." Yet in order to condense the steam there must be a cooling of the vessel. The problem was to reconcile these two conditions. At length the pregnant idea oc- curred to hint—the idea of the separate condenser. It came to hien on a Sunday afternoon in 1765, as he walked across Glasgow Green. If the steam were condensed in a vessel separate from the cylinder, it would be quite possible to keep the con- deusirg vessel cool and the cylinder hot at the same time. Next morning Watt began to put his scheme to the test and found it practicable, He de- veloped other ideas and applied them. So at last was born a steam engine that would work and multi- ply man's energies a thousandfold. —From "The Age of Invention," by Holland 'Thompson, Little Possum With Millions Of Friends When the Washington Star jug- gled its comic strips recently t0 make roost for a new one, tate editor:, worried not a bit about dropping an odd little strip front. the top of the page. Its name: Pogo, But tate reaction was sharp and swift, In carne a letter signed by 18 members of the "Pogo Protec- tive League" demanding that the :,trip Ise returned to its rightfully superior position" lest "indignant readers everywhere rise up in arm- ed might to crush this infamy." Gravely- the Star's editors bowed to the will of the readers, restored Pogo to the top. The Star was not the first paper to find that Pogo's pals are as loyal and vociferous as L'ii Ab- ner's. After only 14 months of syn- dication, Pogo is appearing in 126 U. S. Newspapers. A current poll by the Saturday Review of Litera- ture shotes Pogo ahead of Terry and the Pirates, just behind Steve Canyon.° Fuss and Feathers Pogoiand's characters are Lall- ing animals who live in the Oke- fenokee Swamp and call them- selves "nature's screetures." Poga himself h a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar -smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Piste, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate cap- tain; Howland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo -scientist who once tried. to invent ail "Adam Bomb"; a pride- ful hound named Beauregard Bugle - boy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, con- versing in a vaguely Southern dia- lect that drips with puns and non- sense verse: "Oh, the parsnips were snipping their snappers, While the parsley was parceling the peas." Creator of Pogo is tall, moon- faced Walter Kelly, 37, who has a quick ear for fantastic word twists and a gentle eye for the gentler foibles of mankind. Kelly, who spent five years as a cartoon ani- mator for Walt Disney, began draw- ing Pogo in a daily strip in 1948, while he was art director of the New York Star, After the Star folded, the Post -Hall Syndicate res- cued Pogo and started hint on his rapid climb. Pits and Pie Pogo, which frequently takes it poke at U.S. manners and morals, usually sticks to such personal problems as Porky's courting of Mani Belle I-lepzibath, a skunk with a French accent. To help Porky, Albert and Churchy offer their services as serenaders, sing in typi- cal Pogo style: "Ori, pick a pock of peach pits, pockets full of pie, foreign twenty blackboards baked until they cry . .." Pogo, which now pays Kelly about $25,000 a year, has so far turned away from the blandish- ments of toy manufacturers, book publishers, eta Pogo and his pals have no greater ambition than Hor- rors Greeley, the freckled cow, who meanders westward as she sings: "011, give me a home 'tween Buf- falo an' Rome, where the beer in the cantaloupe lay . . ."—From "Time" *The top five: Blondie, Li'l Abner, Gasoline Alley, Penny, Dicta Tracy. Do You Suffer Distress From IPERIOOIC• MALI Wailirg which makes you so nervous several days before? Dofomale functional monthly ailments mate you suffer painful distress, make you fool so nervous, so strangely rest• less, tired and weak—at such times (or a few days $ wt before your period)? Then start taking Lydia R. Pinldmm'n Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms. No other medicine of this typo for women has such nlongrecord ofsuccoss. Piukham'o Compound not only relieves this monthly pain but also pre -period nervous tension and cross, irritable emotions—of this nature. It has such a comforting anti -spasmodic action on ons of woman's most important organs. Regular use helps build up resistance against ouch female distress, Truly the woman's friend! NOTE: Or yo„ min' prefer Lydia E. I'. ,kbam's TABLETS ���JJJ with nailed iron. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S Vegetable Compound Stork Sttikes Twice—A mother and ctatrghtet• shared a roost in a maternity hospital as each gave birth to a daughter within a few hours of each other. Seen with their stew babies are Mrs. Ara Campbeli, 41, left, and her daughter, Mrs, Doris George, 20.