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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-6-27, Page 2Money Made In Rare Autographs 11 T'her'e an about halt a !Milker autograph -hunters in Britain, and over two million in the United Mates, where ten thousand people make touting for signatures and the selling of them a full-time occupa- item, The rarest autograph and there- fpre the most valuable is that of 'William Shakespeare, whose three extant letters—the only ones con- eidered genuine by experts—are each valued at $500,O00. Autographs of film stars are right et the bottom of the list and can he bought for a quarter or less. One filet studio worked out that Bs stars spent an average of three weeks every year just writing their names for the benefit of autograph collectors. For stars being paid $2500 a week this meant that the studios were paying then $7500 for just writ- ing their names. Organised groups of collectors post sentries outside famous Lon- don hotels to nose out celebrities. When Don Bradman was last there ;he found he could never leave his hotel without being chased down the street for his autograph. All sorts of ruses are adopted by collectors. Most use the "straight" method of sending the victim a eourteously worded printed card with room for the signature, and a etantped addressed envelope for its return. How Shaw Gave To Charity One collector wrote to Lawrence of Arabia (T. E, Shaw), who never gave autographs, He enclosed Law- rence's portrait, cut out from an illustrated paper. On the back was tt cartoon by H. M. Bateman. Some time later he received the following reply: "Dear sir, I owe you an apology. +formally I should have sent you 11.eing Lapped—When 97 cyclists from Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland competing in the 34th annual "Tour of Italy" be- gan to wilt beneath the torrid heat, spectators obligingly , doused the riders with water from bottles. buckets and hoses. Near Piano Cinque Miglia, Italy, this pedal pusher took time out to hove both face and flask filled. back you,- print. unsigned, of course, Lint unhappily on its bark was Bate- ncm's caricature of a sergeant -major inspecting his tulips all in a roe. "Our sergeant -major was in the office when 1 opened your letter and he liked the cartoon so much that he carried it off for framing in the sergeant's mess, so 1 alt afraid you have now lost both sides of that cut- ting. Your's. T. E. Shaw.-" The collector was quite happy about it• Shaw's genuinesignature at the • foot of the letter was worth a thousand portraits of hint. Another collector wrote to famous people posing as a big shipowner, and asking for permission to name his next vessel after them. Practic- ,slly every one agreed, sending a signed letter to say so. A woman who was trying to raise subscriptions for charity wrote to George Bernard Shaw- and asked Mtn if he would contribute some- thing. He replied on one of his familiar cards: "I never subscribe to charity—signed, Bernard Shaw," She promptly sold the card to a tiollector for $50. FAMILY AFFAIRS ----- The young man, who had been telling fregttentiy, at last went to he Mtthe1't father. "Ws a mere formality,-] know," he began, "but 3y, thought l'rl better tett-womb you in the usual way.tt "And maty ? fiiquirc,'• the father aakeel, '(who suggested that asking my consent was at mere Formality?" "iyTabel's mother," TA Jane Andrews!, l' The high cost of foods, esper. ially meats, continues to challenge ea all, But, as 1 have said before, meats of what are known as the "variety" type may often be pur- chased as "specials" and, if pros perly prepart'd, offer an economical change from steaks, chops, roasts and so forth. Before giving you today's batch of recipes using such Meats, per- haps a few general hints on their preparation might he timely. Tips on Preparation and Cooking Of Variety Meats Liver—D- not soak or scald. Pre- cook only when it is to be ground, Pau -fry or broil veal or lamb liver. May he baked with bacon or ground for loaves or patties. Kidneys—Du not soak or precook. Wash, remove outer membrane, ' halve, remove fat and white veins. Veal and lamb kidneys may be broiled. Braise pork or beef. Grund, slice, or chop for patties, loaves, or kidney pies. Hearts -1)o not soak or precook. Trim out fibres at top. Wash in cold water, Cooked tender int water they may be ground or diced for hash, neat pies, cas- seroles. Beef or veal mac be stuffed and braised, Pork or lamb may be, braised whole or in slices. Sweetbreads—Do not soak. Pre- cook in simmering water 15 minutes. Remove loose ntent- branes, prepare for desired cern- Cooked sweetbreads ntay be braised, pan-fried, broiled, or baked whole. Use precooked sweetbreads diced in s a la d s, creamed dishes—or slice, crumb, anti fry. Tongue—Simmer fresh tongue in seasoned. salted water until tender, then remove outer skin. Omit salt in cooking smoked tongue. Slice and serve hot or cold. May be diced and used in casserole. Brains—Soak in salted cold water 15 minutes, Remove membrane. Precook in simmering water 15 Minutes. then prepare for de- sired servings. Cooked brains may be diced for use in scram- bled eggs, or creamed dishes, - slieed, egged and crumbed, and fried in deep fat or pan- fried. BEEF I-IEART STUFFED WITH RICE. 1 beef heart 1;4 cups uncooked rice 1 tablespoon chopped celery 3 onions, chopped 3 tablespoons fat 2 cups water (if possible use water from cooked vegetables) 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning Salt and pepper Ripe heart with dump cloth and reprove as tench fat as possible. Rub inside and out with salt and pepper, Cook rice in boiling salted water about 15 minutes and drain. Combine rice with celery, onions and poultry seasoning, Stuff heart lightly and sew edges together. Brown stuffed heart in fat in heavy kettle over high heat. Cover and reduce heat to low. Cook two hours. Remove heart from skillet, pour off fat, and put remaining rice anixtttre and water in ]fettle, Sea- son with salt and pepper, Place heart on op of rice, cover and cook one hour over low heat—or longer if it is required to make heart ten- der. Garnish with creamed carrots in green pepper shells, * t 0 TONGUE STEAKS WITH TOMATO SAUCE 6 slices cooked. fresh or smoked - beef tongue 1 egg, beaten N cup milk 2 cups sifted bread crumbs Salt and pepper _ Stinson meat with salt and pep- per. Combine egg and milk, Dip meat first in crumbs, then in egg mixture and again in crumbs. Brown in melted fat over moder- ate heat. Serve with tomato sauce. TOMATO SAUCE 1% cups tomato juice 1 tablespoon thick bottled meat SauCe r•z teaspoon celery salt 1 teaspoon salt Sq teaspoon pepper 2 tabiespsoons flour Combine all ingredients except four. .Add about to of tomato mixture to flour and ,nix to make a smooth paste, Add to rest of in- gredients. Heat and stir constant- ly until sauce is thickened and boil for 5 minutes. Servo hot. Six serving. s LAMB LIVER CASSEROLE r/ pound lamb liver FIour 2 tablespoons fat ;'tt cup each, chapped cnion and green pepper 214 cups cooked rice or noodles 2 cups tomatoes 2 teaspoons salt i.4 teaspoon pepper Cut Ever into ':-incl, drips and roll in flour and brows in lust fat. Add union and green pepper and pan-fry for 5 minutes. Combine all other ingredients and place in buttered 1 -quart casserole. Bake at 350' F. for 45 minutes. 4 to 5 serving,. SWEETBREADS AND CHIPS 1 pound sweetbreads 1 egg cup orange juice 1 teaspoon salt Hi: cups crushed potato chips 1 tablespoon batter or margarine Place sweetbreads in boiling salad Ovate an inuieI!]!111uuuuun salted water and sitnuter for 25 mint-- Cool, Remove thin mem- brana covering and divide into small pieces. t_ntitbine egg, orange juice. and salt. Dip sweetbreads into this mixture and then into cru -(ted potato chips. Arrange in four mimed; in a small oiled bak- ing ,fish. Pott' remaining egg mix- ture over top and cower with re- maits ng crushed potato chips. Dot ,with hotter. Bake 20 ntinutcs, Hints On Proper Cave Hands \4ell-groomed hands are always an asset. Your hands, The your face, are in evidence• and give ,one idea of the kind rii person you arc. It i- worth while, therefore, to give your hands the protection and care they need. The market i. flooded with all kind: of working gloves, even hand -unit dusters. Ahnust any cos- metic, counter sells night gloves, for ,which an n1d pa•r of white rot - ton _gloves will setae a satisfactory substitute, - Before putting ou u'"ht gloves apply hand ersIOU, working it well into the cuticle. Flc:rt each cuticle and the nail corners with an orange- wood stick using cuticle oil or cream. If you do your gardening and panting bare-handed. dig your marls into a soft cake of mild soar) first to preys 11 aiming. or oil them well iritis heavy lanolin If your nail, show abuse front gen- eral neglect, a few professional manicures will be a help. If your nails have been .stunted from bating. they can he coaxed back into shape slowly by an al- utast daily filing to strengthen them, Keep them short and smooth for a long time and very gradually let them grow longer. The cuticle will neer( to be pushed back daily. Do. this with a towel evert• time you wash your hands, Beautiful ]iambs aid in giving you praise and as-urancc. One can- not begin ton soon to cane for hands and naJs. Even a little girl five to six years of age is proud to have her very own manicure (tit, A few simple mole arc needed, Assemble them in a little, box or iiiice Sideline—Tiffs reclining, comfortable arm -chair is the feature of a new sidecar for motorcycles and scooters. It can be removed from the sidecar in a few seconds and used as a beach or lawn chair. It is shown being demonstrated at a German inventors' exhibition in Munich. Battle Of The Beef—Pictured is graphic evidence of the fight waged by United States cattlemen, packers and butchers against the government price rollbacks on beef. Butcher Edward F. Butler registers his displeasure by offering "installment -plan" steaks, the necessity for which he credits to the Office of Price Stabilization. Butler is seen explaining his deal to a customer. pencil z puff rase so Ihey can be at your hetisde or readily available when traveling. Here is a sugire.t• ed list: List of Proper Tools Small jar of cuticle cream ;ind rippers or small curved scissors: emery hoards or steel tile; or:ngc- wood sticks; a pusher—there are several types cd pn.hers: a steel one, a manicure !rush witlt a tiny brush on one end and a plastic pusher on the other end, a soft pusher which dispenses liquid cu- ticle remover like a fountain yen; trail bnffcr and nlanrure brush; nail polish -- 1)5)5151. pow dcr, or cream. Now for the hone manicure, You will need le -ides the assent - bled kit a bowl of soapy o atcr and soft towel. Begin by !)ling• and shaping your nail:. I -t t the shape and length of your [tails be in har- mony with the contour and s'zc of your hants. Lone tapering Lingers can take a long and more pointed nail-, thanl shorter: fingers, which I.,ok better than a gentle oval. You are the One to study your hands and decide aaaur own style. Yur own good taastt should de- termine this for you. if you like gay, bright polishes, have tiff col- ors blend with' ypurl lipstick or match exactly the red bus of your grown and accessories, You may cut the nails with Ple- na1 nippers or heavy .hears lie - fore filing (cuticle scissors are deli- s -ate and should be 11 -cd oniy to rut cuticle). Cream or Oil Helps When well -shaped. finish with light, smoothing -off strokes with the every board at a perpend'cu- lar or 45 -degree angle. Now soak the fingers m warm stapv w•a;er to soften the cuticle. Cream or oil may be added for this purpose. Gently loosen the cuticle with orangewood stick or pusher. The cuticle must never be allowed to grow up on the nail. The cuticle must roll back naturally, free from the nail. After soaking, stains may be bleached with peroxide, liquid ssaP, nail white (pencil or paste). ,there are many cuticle remov- ers on the market but these are not always necessary to the maul- cure. Many expert manicurists avoid the use of cuticle removers preferring to loosen cuticle with a pusher or orangewood stick and train the cuticle and corners with- out cutting. If your cuticle is broken, ragged, or you have tiny hangnails, however, you will have to Ulm then,. Once your nails are in order, the three-minute daily care is all they will need. 1f your cuticle should be ex- ceptionally ragged and dry, soak it in (nut olive or any other good oil, uotir at the beginning and end of the manicure, Buffers Raise Shine Now for the polish. Buffers with cream or powder -type polish are still used to shine modest finger- nails. Many prefer high buff polish before the liquid is applied. Dazzling hands often have a miniature wardrobe of many col- ors of liquid polish harmonizing with costumes and accessories, The application of the liquid is much the sane as any other kind of brush painting. Work with very little polish on the brush, Care- fully draty a line for a moon, or skirt your own moon with a light, deft stroke, Carry one stroke up the centre of the trail. then cover each sides, hying careful not to go back over the painted arca, To give a more slender appear- ance to broad nails, leave a slight margin at each side of the nail when applying colored polish, Some prefer to show no moons. They carry polish to the tip of each nail, This gives a lengthening effect, It is advisable. however, to :wipe off the very tips with facial haat(,, Ail this plus your own good taste determines the finished effect anti gives you the comfortable as- surance of having well-groomed }rands, Tragic Piece o4 His'tor'y Lies Behind Well-known Nursery Ditty Few mothers can resist teaching their child to recite nursery rhymes. Yet how marry know that these nursery jingles are not all mythical, but are usually about real people? '!'.da "Mary had a little lamb." Nine-year-old Mary Sawyer never dreamed, as on a bitterly cold win- ter's night she sat up till daybreak, warning and feeding a dying lamb back to life, that her thoughtful' act would be recounted in a jingle by children the w'orltl over. It w as on her father's farm, in the year 1815, that Maryperforated her set of mercy.. and as the lamb grew up its affection for Mary grew, too, and it follower( her wherever she wept. One day Vary took it to school with ler and ]rid it Behind a big desk. the teacher never even sus- pected its presence --not until she tailed (]'Cary to the; front of the -class to recite a poen,, and •the little. girl's wooly friend calmly trailed up behind her. But Mary's faros was in the mak- ing, for a young man named John Roeletnne heard of the incident and promptly sat down and wrote a rhyme about it, That is horn "Mary hada little lamb" Vara(' to be writ, ten Mary lanr became Mrs. Mary Taylor, and lived to well over filial}, years of age. She died to- wards the end of the last century. Mother Hoose was ;else) a real person and lived to be nearly a hundred years old. She liver) in Boston, U.C.:\., and was the wife of Edward Goose. She mothered ten shildreu, hence the name — "&lother Goose." Her nursery rhymes, written to amuse her grand- children, were first publisher, in 17111, . Real Jack Horner Another "Mother" of equal re- nown is Mother Tlebbard, who was housekeeper to an old 'West Coun- try fancily natucd Berard, When Sarah (Martin visited the family one clay in 1804. the house- keeper had gone out. It later trans- pired that she had been to find a hone for her dog, and this incident inspired Miss Martin to write "Old Mother I-rtthbard," But not all nursery rhymes have their roots in .such homely incidents. Some have a political origin, as in the case of "Little Jack Horner," He was a real person, and was steward of the Abbey of Glaston- bury in the time of Henry Via "Have you any wool?" The rhyme is an allusintt to the disolving of the monasteries by the King, The smaller monasteries were dissolved forst and the richer abheys next As Glastonbury was one of the richest in the kingdom, an attempt was made to bribe the King to leavc it alone and Jack Homer was 'sent with a Christmas Me as a gift to Henry. Horner's curiosity, however, led hfm to discover the bribe that was hidden in the pie— the title deeds of several manors of the Abbey estates. "Jost wriggle your fingers, dear, airs I'Lt Itnow If you're stilt alive." He abstracted a "plum" for him- self—the title deeds of the Is-latior of :\fells. Thus it was that the Manor of Melts passed into the hands of the Horner family, When you hear children reciting "Baa,- ban, black sheep, have you any wool?" do you connect it with the export tax on wool imposed by Edward I in 1275? This jingle is said to refer to this prohibitive lax. tvluch proved very unpopular, Another version says that the jingle is a propaganda rhyme for the English wool trade of the fif- teenth century, between England and Flanders. At this period nearly half of England was engaged in the flourishing business of sheep- farming. - Hp the "Beanstalk" The jingle—"Taffy was a Welsli- man, Taffy was a thief," is an allu- sion to the old-time pillaging raids into each other's countries by the Welsh and the English along the border counties, Obviously. Taffy was not the only thief! Of grins origin, however, is the rhyme "Ring -a -ring -o' -roses," often sung with such happy gusto by children in their genes. It cont- nteniotateS the fourteenth -century Plague known as the Black Death, The phrase—"Tishoo1 Tishool we all fall down," is a grief reminder of the fact that over one-third of the population died of the Plague. "jack and Jill," and "Jack and • the Beanstalk" are myths of ancient Norse origin, The myth of Jack and the Beanstalk, however, is known to have been recounted in many savage lands. Particularly in Polynesia, where the native mind conceives the tall trees of the forest as reaching to the sky, and Jack as being able to climb up one of these "beanstalks" into the heavenly country. FASHION NOTES 1-yow would you sunt up the dif- ference between the modern girl and her grandmother? A Holly- wood fashion designer, Mr, Milo Anderson, does it this way: "For- nterty girls used to stay modestly at home when they had nothing to put nn." Read Even Better Than He Wrote ,]'herr never was and thus• never will be again Audi au :un,acMg series of !milt, , •,hibitiuns as the -.e read- ings by Dickens, It would no doubt have been more thrilling to see tikakeacar, act a leading part in our of his own drama. ur tet watch l.lrethocrtu roudurtitig nue of Iiia encu at cjshn(liea; hitt 1)it'.kcns's achifrenn•50 tray moque. anti Shakes sp. are ,would have ]tad to aft every part in his drama, Beethoven to plan t very inslrmnent in his orch- estra, to made: a comparison possi- ble, "1 had to conception, before )tearing I)iclrou; read, of what tape- : ities lie in . the human fare and voice," ,,aid Carlyle. "No theatre - stage could have had tmtre players than mem u'd to flit about his face, and all tone,t were present, There wtas no need of any orchestra." lie had a score of voice:,, male, tenial,, old, young.. ❑iiddlc ;tged, cockney, yokel, aniliuur, naval, medical. clerical, forensic, aristo- cratic; :ted he had a more of faces, from the jolly cherubic countcnanc, of a schoolboy to the wizened avari- cious features of a Scrooge. His voice was naturally rich and deep, rapahlc of every tone and half -tone, of quiet pathos, boisterous humour, merd Ttartial was not[rd otehow, by the mere action of his lingers &Omitting on the table, he conveyed the tdholc spirit and houwur of the dance at the Fezziwik party; how. by simply stooping down and taking an imag- inary band in his anti speaking gently, he suggested 'Bob Cratcltit's desolation over the death of 'Tiny Tim; how-. int the Pickwick trial, he eoetrivcrl-to keep Mr. Justice Stare- leigh present throughout the pro- ceedings by sudden snorts and con- vulsive starts; how Mrs. Camp came alive in a sentence before she carte on the scent•. --From "Duron*," by lissketh I'carson, "Who ewer knew a gardener who did not love Itis neighbor as 'him- self? 'file last thing any gardener desires is to (seep his garden's glory to himself. —Walter Locke, DE BEA Nrt PIN? 1)P, m•••• • ani h�warea< Papal Stamps—Here are two of the four postage stamps issued by the Vatican to commemor- ate the solemn beatification of the late Pope Pius X. Two of the stamps bear his portrait and two his profile. Distribution of the stamps will be very limited, Learning To Do The Little Things—Twenty-year-old Robert Smith, first quadruple amputee of the Korean war, can now light cigar- ettes and comb his hair with the aid of the artificial hands he is learning to us, Pictured in a hospital, the Korean hero manages, a lighter with only one hand, S