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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-11-7, Page 7Never Saw White Maxi A strange, 1valled in jungle village where the tilt, tribesmen had never before seen a white elan has been discovered by explorers on a• I)utclt government mission into the wild interior of Ne w Guinea. The explorers say for many clays they had followed vine grove trails beset with hooky traps, while birds of paradise flashed among the jungle green. Sucldenly they found themselves near a tiny village surrounded by high palisades, They found a hole just big enough for one of their number to crawl through. It led fouler a tree trunk curtain to the compound. As the warriors who had been aware of their movements, sprang from hiding and surrounded them, many brandishing 1211. -long, four - pronged spears, Other eft. natives, • praceleally naked, carried bows almost as big as themselves, and quivers of weirdly deroraterl arrows, By various signs the leader of the Dutchmen explained to the natives that they were on a pearetul mis- sion and had not come to fight, lie began to sing a song of peace which the suspicious natives listened to, slowly becoming less belligerent in their attitude. Then the Dutchmen conveyed to then that they had brought gifts front a peacefully -in- clined white queen (Juliana),'who reigned across the blue water and had their welfare at heart. The warriors were i 1ipres:ed, With relief, the explorers watched them slowly louver their weapons. The gifts, knives and tomahawks, were handed to the natives who be- came very friendly. An astonishing fact revealed is that although Australians fought the Japanese within almost an arrow's flight of the strange, wall- ed -in village, nobody stumbled upon this tribal fortress. Bombers and fighters are known to have flown over the area many times, but until now the dense jungle had managed to preserve its secret, l"taE tilnhU Ai (01,1 t tfif4011.1 154'"1,ote' 4tLRt,1 la' d e 5trltillil( fretee4 CIA Weer,: pert) tegl slt4 tr°i 1ittti2l(t tuaf a'A', 4 '1 fit/:€•9G°td in Any Language - He, nando Santana-Marre, or strike at a Chicago s,:hooi of lannuages, uses half a dozen lan.7uages to advertise his complaints. Other pickets used starrlarrl English on thei' Less "Welfare State" More Selfr.Ry:liiance Aft:r the recent nuuunvers in (iernn n , British Field Marshal Sir William Slim said in connection with the welfare state as a pre -train- ing background for sol:iicrs: "Tire modern reel) has not been taught to look after himself -he never looks more than 100 feet across a city street or from the back scat of a cinema. Therefore he has had 16 be taught when he comes into tine Aemy to he a prac- tical unit in himself, observant, able to look after himself, and eonfiderlt of hi; weapons." Tltis is 4101 altopethcr Et clispaege- menl of the welfare slate. The field marshal admits that it has many ad- vaniuges. He merely says that it isn't good for soldiers, 1t is a warning that even in the all -provid- ing Army self-reliance and clear, in- - dividuat thinking fs needed. But it can also be taken as a re- mindc•i' that in the paternalistic state fess is required of individual effort, 011d that less necessity to sneered may fostri• less inclination to put forth effort, On the basis- of -statements like that of the field marshal we may well gttcstioir the wi (told of plating inure responsibility for the itrdividn- al eft the state. Army service is 0111)' 0110 df alto times 411 a than'a ifwhen lifehemay be tic caelumt t0 J p. use his own ingenuity, --From The 19inancitti l'ost . Left -Handed Folks Said Superior Left-handrd people have good reason for feeling superior when compared with their clumsier right- handed brothers, '1•hat is the verdict or 1t 15aun of psychologists 01 the University of Wisconsin, who have been engaged in making a thorough investigation into the age-old pro- blem of left and right-handedness. During the experiments it was found haat left-handed persons were superior to right-handed in et least two different •ways, These were: "Speed at moving the hands (either of then1) from one plane to another while performing task; and speed at turning small control panel knobs." 11 was found that left-handers were able to move their left hand from one spot to another with a good deal more speed -than their right hand, whereas right-handed people moved lent hands at ap- ttrnximately the same speed, It was learned, too, that left- handed persons are much more likely to be001)10 ambidextrous (able to use either band with equal facil- ity), which is a decided advantage. The notions that left-handedness is a serious physical handicap, is a sign of arrested mental develop - meet, and can lead to stammering or even insanity were described as "old wives' tales." Some argue that preference for right or left originates from the way a baby is held by its mother. 1f a mother carries her t>ahy in her left atm the baby's right arm wound encircle her neck, while its left would be free to , snatch at things, Thus it might be expected to be- come left-handed. Iltut careful experiments by the scientists have proved that it just does not work out that way, Tailpiece: Unique among all the races of the world are the Antanalas of Madagascar. Almost every mem- ber of this tribe of 100,000 is left- handed, Must Eat Every Hour Or Starve To Death A mouse -like creature so small that it can be held in a closed fist has been making naturalists whistle with amazement, 1t is the short - tailed skew, and it was already re- markable enough in that it has an appetite for twice its weight eveiy day, and has a distressing habit of dying of shock when in danger of being caught by man. But the latest news about the shrew is even more remarkable, It has been discovered that it carries a nerve poison as deadly as that used by an Indian cobra, and that the poison glands of a single shrew carry enough doses of it to kill 200 mice. The danger from the shrew's venom is small, however, so far as Man is concerned. For some reason the shrew is practically paralysed with fear when he is detected by a 11010011 being, and scientists have handled dozens of them without beinu`: injercd in any way. When face to face with other creatures of garden and meadow the shrew becomes a ferocious bundle of furry death, One scientist was foolish enough to put three shrews together in the same cage. A few (tours later Ile found only one shrew left -and it had a very fat stomach. In fact this stomach is the shrew's greatest enemy, for it must be filled 24 times a day. If one of the meals is delayed for two or three hours Ile dies of starvation. A Canadian naturalist, Conrad Cain, has described the activities of a shrew which he observed while stormbound in his cabin on Snioley River in the Canadian Rockies. One day the threw upon the cabin floor a clead squirrel. A shrew began to feed on it, The little fellow cane hourly for a meal and in five days he had eaten all the squirrel, except the skin and bones. The squirrel weighed about one pcund, so that in space of five days the shrew had eaten 128 times his own weigind • Bully Quartet - Arriving for the National Livestock exposition, horse show and rodeo, four blue- blooded Hereford bulls receive a gracious• welcome from Livestock Queen Coraleen Jurion. TI N (� d. Andrews. That cookie jar empty again? If not, it soon will be -that's suppos- ing your family is like the major- ity. So, without further explana- tion or apology here are a few recipes I'rn sure you'll all like. * APRICOT -FILLED COOKIES IA cup shortening 1 cup sugar 134 teaspoons vanilla flavoring 2 eggs, beaten 2% cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder teaspoon salt Set oven fon moderately ]tot, 375 degrees F. Cream shortening and sugar together until fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs, beating well. Sift dry ingredients together; add to creamed mixture. Mix well. Roll dough /s -inch thick on floured board. Cut with 3 -inch cut- ter. Cut holes in half the rounds with apple corer. Place plain rounds on ungreased baking sheets; top each with 1 teaspoon apricot fill- ing and cover with remaining rounds. To seal, press edges with a floured fork. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies are light brown. Makes 2 dozen cookies. Apricot Filling Mix f cup chopped dried apri- cots, % cup sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, and 2 tablespoons orange juice in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, and cook 5 minutes, or until thick. Stir in 2 teaspoons butter and 'fa cup chop- ped nuts. Cool before placing on cooky dough. * * * CHOCOLATE PINWHEELS 14 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg 114 teaspoons vanilla flavoring 13/4 cups sifted flour 34 teaspoon salt 34 teaspoon baking powder 1 I square unsweetened chocolate, melted Set oven for moderately hot, 375 degrees F. Cream shortening and sugar together until fluffy. Blend in egg and vanilla. Sift dry ingredi- ents together and add to creamed mixture. Divide the (tough in half; add chocolate to one part. Mix well, Cut 4 sheets of waxed paper 12" x 8". Roll chocolate dough between two sheets, to edges of paper. Re- peat with vanilla dough. Remove top sheets of paper, and invert vanilla on chocolate dough, match- ing rectangles, Remove remaining paper from vanilla dough, Trim edges. Roll clough starting at wider edge, removing paper during roll- ing. Wrap roll in waxed paper and chill overnight. Twin -Mater Rotor Craft - Britain'sfirst twin-enined helicopter g p the "Bristol" type 173, is shown as It was unveiled for ground running trials in England. The super size ship, whose rotors are 48 feet in diameter, is designed to carry from 10 to 30 passengers or 2500 pounds of freight. Cut in 34 -inch slices. Place on greased baking sheets. Bake 10 min- utes, or until browned, bfakes about 4 dozen cookies. * t ORANGE DROP COOKIES 3,4 cup shortening 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg 17/4 cup sifted flour 54 teaspoon salt 54 teaspoon baking powder 34 teaspoon baking soda 2 tablespoons orange juice 114 teaspoons grated orange rind Set oven for hot, 400 degrees F. Cream shortening and sugar to- gether until fluffy. Add egg; blend well. Sift dry ingredients together; add to creamed mixture, Add orange juice and rind; mix well. Drop by teaspoonfuls, 2 inches apart, on greased baking sheets. With small measuring spoon, in- dent the center of each cooky. Mix cup sugar and 2 teaspoons orange juice; drop a scant 0/4 tea- spoon of mixture in each dent. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light brown. Makes about 24 doz- en cookies. * * * PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES 3,4 cup shortening 34 cup peanut butter 14 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 34 cup granulated sugar 1 egg I% cups sifted flour s/4 teaspoon baking soda 14 teaspoon baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt Set oven for moderately hot, 375 degrees F. Cream shortening and peanut butter. Add sugars, mixing until fluffy. Beat in egg. Sift dry ingredients together; add to cream- ed mixture; mix well, Chill, Rola in 1 -inch bails and place 2 incites apart on greased baking sheets. Flatten with grater or po- tato masher. Bake 8 to 10 min- utes or until light brown. Makes about 3 dozen cookies. Remembered Autumn We who live with them know that our staples are beautiful trees, and when October conies we watch how they turn red and gold and tell ourselves that the color is grand this year, or that it isn't quite as good as it was last year, And we glance at the orange of the sassafras and the deep crimson of the oaks with quirk appraisal. The woods are doing pretty well, we think; if heavy rains or hard winds hold off, they won't be hare for a few more weeks,- But when the last of the leaves ase down, we'll Have to rake and burn them and tidy up for the winter. Thal, we think, is the price we pay for having trees, But there are others who have lived with those trees and are now far away. There is for example a wontnu in England who wrote home and asked, "Won't you please send a staple leaf in your next letter? Just one leaf, or maybe two. I want to see autumn again, the rutty I remember it" One leaf, or two, from ati Anlcri- can maple in October means autumn, when your are fair away frons home. '.Che American aulnnln, which covers the hills like a carpet, and which has no co nnterpert any- where else in the world. We forget, having it always, even as we forget thewhole bounty of autumn all across the land, The cornshocks,. the pumpkins, the plenty of the apple orchards, the browning hay- stacks, the towering elevators ovm flowing with grain, And somehow, by the ntagir of remembered autumn, it is all symbolized 01 a staple leaf 00 two splotched with red and gold. The 1 red of life, the gold of plenty, in a laid where 1 '1V 1C even the trees celebrate the hart est eea9011. -Trona The New York 'Chute., Men Cooking By Miriam Dewey Olt, some Wren cook By rule and book And follow a recipe with precision. Adjusting a stets To serve just two Is an intricate problem in long division The meat to an accurate ounce they weigh, And quarter exactly a leaf of bay. Alarm clocks are set for the moment to baste. They shudder at phrases like "season to taste!" But other Wren pitch in And storm the kitchen With violent Art and creative Abandon. Instinct, not reasoning, Dictates the seasoning -- It's dull to serve dishes that anyone planned out Oh, bring on the garlic, the chili, the wine, If a teaspoon is good,'then a table- spoon's fine! Fling on some tarragon, curry the peas, Broil the steak with a topping of cheese! Yes, some men cook By rule and book, And others by instinct, by gosh, or by guess. But whoever the male You can tell without fail • That a woman's the one who will clean up the mess! -From "Better Living" What You Can See In 1 -10th Second How much you can see in a tenth of a second? Some amazing answers to this question have turned up at the University of Wisconsin, one of two renters where the so-called flash -training of artists, journalists, photographers and others who lean heavily upon visual perreptioo in their work is studied. One answer is: "Yore than you • think -if you have the proper training." Flash -training grew out of sil- houette -training in aircraft identifi- cation during the last war. The eye is trained to see quickly everything that lies in the visual field. Students volunteer for the train- ing, The stand in the dark before easels on which huge sheets of drawing paper are fastened and draw images flashed on a screen for one tenth of a second. Each 11)(145 -hour sante twenty such images -usually abstract- are drawn. During the entire course the stu- dents spend twenty hours drawing what they have seen in forty Sec) the drawings are done in the dark, no great accuracy in detail is demanded. The students are expected to coordinate hand and eye and to train the eye to see as Much a5 it can i11 the short time available. Visual sensitivity is in- creased, Students learn to realize what is going on in the periphery of vision. The artist's awareness of differences in shapes and brightness and the photographer's sense of balanced composition are heighten- ed. The evidence is strong that for 50211e aspects of vision -position, brightness, size differences, color, depth and emergence of an linage from the background -the training improves visual acuity 400 per cent or more. No Two Alike To the Wren who are studying flash -training, objectivity now means something on which they can agree. It is the lowest common denominator of experience. All of es color our perceptions with our opinions, fears, hopes and hates. The consequence is that objects ap- pear to be much larger than if they are not emotionally interpreted. No object appears absolutely the same to any two persons. These differences show up on drawings made during flash -train- ing. No two drawings are the same, yet each draftsman has seen the object in what is to hitn an effec- tive ffecttive and useful way. "Johnson says he wears the trousers in his house." "Perhaps so, but every night after •supper he wears an apron over theta." Beech Trees - Deep Rooted In History A Beech is, in almost any land- scape where it appears, the finest tree to be seen. There are many taller trees, and many that attain to moments of showier glory, like the Sugar Maple in autumnal color- ation, or a Dogwood starred with snowy blossoms. Burt, taken in all seasons and judged by ail that makes a tree noble -strength com- bined with grace, balance, longevity, hardiness, health -the Beech is all that we want a tree to he. And more besides, for it is a tree deep- rooted in the history of our people, in this new world and the old one, and figures beloved to us both in fable and fart move under its ancient boughs. Far flown the aisles of the forest the Beech is identifahle by the gleans of its wondrously smooth bark, not ftn•rowed even by extreme age, I -fere it will he free of branches for full half of its height, the sturdy boughs then gracefully down - sweeping. The gray bole has a further beauty in the way it flutes out at the base into strong feet, to the shallow, wide -spreading roots. And the luxuriant growth of mosses on the north side of such a tree, together with the mottling of lichens, add to the look it wears of wisdom and serenity. The elegant clear gray of the bark extends from the trunk to the main mighty boughs, then to tine hundreds of branches, and out to the thousands of 11ranchlets. So that when the tree stands naked in winter it seems to shine through the forest, almost white in contrast with the dun colors all shout •it, or against the dark evergreen back- groulds of the Canadian Hemlock 5n11 White Pine with which it as- sociates. , Our species does 1101 differ great- ly from the Beech of Europe (Fags sylvatica), which from time immemorial had already played .a' greet role in human life, Beech nuts seem to have heen a food of the New Stone Age 1050, just as they still are eaten by the peasants of central Europe. The most abundant tree in its wide range, Beech pro- vided the principal fuel, botch for keeping warm and for the charcoal used in 1110 Ohl Worid's iron smelt- ers. It supplied much dimension timber, a vast uanti y q t, of furniture wood, handles of agricultural tools, wooden shoes, asci too many other uses to number. Indeed, it has long been the general utility hardwood of Europe. And on the Beech was written, probably, the first page of Europ- ean literature. For, it is said, the earliest Sanskrit characters were carved on strips of Beech bark; the custom of inscribing the temptingly smooth boles of Beeches came to Europe with the Indo-Ruropean people who entered the Continent from Asia. Indeed, our word book comes from the Anglo-Saxon boc, meaning a letter or character, which in turn derives from the Anglo- Saxon beece, for Beetle -Front A Natural History of Trees of East- ern and Central North America by Donald Culross Peattie. She Favors Wearing Old Clothes So many people take it for grant* ed that a woman W110 does not buy one or more new costumes a season is in need of sympathy, that I want to eater a protest, I am in favor of wearing old clothes, Specifically, let us consider as old suit. An old suit conforms to a woman's activities as no new one does. The old suit is literally part of her personality. Even her friends recognize her from distances be- cause they know the suit, and there- by she is more often hailed. Over the years the old snit may have acquired many accessories. Perhaps it started out with two blouses; now it has six. Gloves are equally numerous. A crisp straw and fresh daisies on the lapel give the suit a newness for spring; the freshened felt and an orange scarf make it equally appropriate for fall writes Nellie Perry Watts in The Christian Science Moniter, The friends we love most are those who make us think well of ourselves, and the old worsted suit compliments one's sense of values. Whether it has been worn for five or ten years, it has a new look when it comes from the cleaners. An acquaintance may say: "How well you look in that suit, Is. this the fifth season you have worn it, 111)' dear?" To this remark the wearer of the suit ntay confidently counter, "I must introduce you to my tailor, my dear. I was so sorry to see your last season's costume was a disap- pointment to you." Finally conies the day when the good suit can be worn only a few times between pressings. It's time to contemplate a new one: its weave, color, style, tailor. Not that the old suit will be summarily dis- carded. Oh, not On cool, foggy days and on rainy days, its posses- sor and the old suit will be com- fortably cozy under a bright rain- coat. 1'or clothes to grow old in the harness ,they and the wearer have been in harmony. Old clothes have a satisfaction all their own. "When I see you I always think of Brown." "But I'rn not like Brown." "Yes you are -you both owe Inc five dollars!" Suez C. 0 - Brigadier K. T. Dar- ling, above, cornman..is the Bri- tish 16.h Parachute Brigade, which flew into the Suez Canal Zone from the island of Cyprus to reinforce British troor`14 at- tempting to keep order there against rioting Egyptians, and back up Britain's determination not to be evicted from the vital Coned Zone. Mystery Surgeons Gift -- Dr. Joseph Cyr of Grana Fulls, New Brunswick, displays on his desk ostoscope and eye-examinatior instrument given him by Cecil B. Hamann last winter bsfori Hamann -and Dr, Cyr's medical idetttificatfon papers -vanished Hamann has caused quite a stir as the mystery surgeon wh( ha been performing remarkable operations in Korea