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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-12-5, Page 3Do You Make Excuses Like Some of These? Alibis and excuses are the pills w't' use to deaden and conceal the pain of our shurlrontiugs, failures, and frustrations. 11ut we should not herniae too adept 01 rationalizing. Let us examine a few or our more or lets common false excuses: Alibi: The traflic light was green when I started to ero,.5 the inter- section. Troth: It was turning. You were in a hurry and took a chance. Alibi: You have to have pull in our otlice, and so f didn't get the promotion. Truth: You're not too competent - at your present job, and ignore the fact that most then and women get ahead without pull. Alibi: 1 don't read many good hooks because I haven't the time, Truth: You titbit( gond hooks are ;lull and greatly prefer "whodun- its," radio and television. Alibi: Men are untrustworthy, and I'm intelligent and discrimin- ating to kid them along as other girls do, just to be popular. Truth: Yon are self-centered, shy, afraid of men, and deeply jealous of popular girls. Alibi: 1 don't go to church Sun- days because I had an overdose as a child, the minister annoys me, and too- many hypocrites attend. Truth: You can't be bothered, you prefer to sleep Sunday morn- ings, and also you feel uncomfort- able in church surroundings. Alibi: Well you see, Boss, Frank rushed me for other reports, and I didn't have time to .. . Truth: You forgot all about it. Alibi: I'd really like to save money, but niy barest needs take every penny. Truth: You want to have stoney belt refuse to save it. Alibi: I haven't the time for the many things I want to do. Truth: You have 24 hours a day. Write down some of your own pet excuses and those of people you know. Then examine then. real- istically, and expose the sneaky little evaders for what they are. Ws Breezy—It's a lovely day at Miami Beach, Bikini -clad Do- lores Medlin demonstrates with her bandana scarf fluttering in the trade winds. Real Puzzlers Life Was Tougher A Century Ago Dill you !snow what Queen Vic- tori:i s husband died of in 1841? Would you be surprised to heal' that; the sanitary arrangements in Buck-, ingh:uu Palace were such a menace to health that thcoGovernnu'ut dare, not let the public know the truth? Prince AIhcrt died of typhoid fever, and this is what Sir !.yon Mayfair wrote in his memoirs years} afterwards: "The condition of liuckinglnuni Palace was so bad that the Govern= ment never dared to publish my report. A great stain sewer ran through the courtyard, and the whole Palace was in untrapped con- nection with it. "To illustrate this, I painted a small room on the basement floor with white lead, and showed that it had blackened next morning." Romantic Thames! A year after Queen Victoria had come to the throne it had been suggested that Parliament should be moved from the Palace of West- minster because of the dreadful stench from the Thames and from St. Margaret's churchyard: and in 1844, more than forty overflowing cesspools were discovered under Windsor Castle, With such conditions rife throughout the country, it was scarcely surprising that more than half the children born in large manufacturing towns never reached the age of five and that in 1874, 50,- 000 people died of typhus. There was not a single Medical Officer of Health in the country until 1841, and until ten years after that Parliament had not passed one measure in the interests of public health: "The English," said The take "prefer to to e the chance of cholera and the rest rather than be bullied into health." . In the year of the Prince Con- sort's death the Secretary of State for War, the Under-Secretary and the Assistant Under-Secretary all died within a few months of one another owing to what were called "the awful insanitary conditions of the War Office." Twenty years later most of London's 250,000 houses still had cesspools beneath them. These grim facts, and a great many others, appear in a recently published book. "The Day Before Yesterday" by J. W. Robertson Scott. A shocking feature of life in Britain 100 years ago was the re- fusal to admit scientific progress. And all over the country women and children worked under appall- ing conditions. An official report described women working in a Cumberland coal -mine as "chained, b e 1 t e d, harnessed like dogs in a go-cart, black, saturated with wet and more than half -naked." Children of all ages were em- ployed down the mines, the oldest to carry coal, younger ones to mind the ventilation doors, and evert tiny toddlers to keep away the rats frons their parents' food. Conditions were little better twenty years later, when Cardinal Cullen told the Royal Commission on Irish Education that he was against the masses learning more than reading, writing and simple arithmetic. in general, the attitude of the Church towards social .reform was deplorable. In 1810 seven bishops voted against a Bill to abolish hanging for stealing an article valu- ed at 5s. or over. The Bishops voted 21 to 2 against the Reform Bill .of 1832—and the Bill left five men out of six still without a vote. "Such things as railway roads and telegraphs are impossible and rank infidelity," wrote a clerical critic of the 40's. "There is nothing in the word of God about therm, and if God had designed his intelligent creatures to travel at the frightful speed of 15 miles an hour by' steam it would have been foretold by one of his holy prophets. These are the devices of Satan to lead immortal souls to hell." Big stores, professional societies, and insurance companies are tackl- ing the problem of several million man-hours per year lost to them through bad handwriting. Recently the Royal Institute of British Architects, which receives 200 letters a day, made a blunt, but pathetic appeal to its Fellows and Associate's to write more clear- ly. Signatures were sometimes so obscure, the Institute explained, that they defied all efforts of the handwriting experts to decipher. The Royal Society of Arts dont- plained that some of the letters of application for membership were so badly written that neither the signature of the applicant or that of any of the three Fellows who recommended bits could be readl The tleterioration of handwriting began towarcls the end ,pf the last century. More and more people became tccustonted to reading the printed Nord, and typing replaced penman - ;hip. Classic instance of the havoc that ,an be wrought by bad handwriting concerns the Dttice of Wellington. J. C. Loudon, the botanist, wrote to him asking for permission to inspect the duke's trees. The duke took the signature to be that of the Bishop of London, and, misreading another word as well, wrote to the bishop: "My dear lord:—I shall always be glad to e.e you at Strath6eld- taye, and my servant shall show you as many pairs of my breeches as you may choose fn inspect; but what you want to see thein for is quite beyond ane." •:"ice... .:,.. Photographic Mystery Creates Sensation -This picture, which appeared in the Ashland (Ky.) Daily Independent, was represented to that newspaper as an actual photograph taken in the sky over Korea. The Independent ran the picture on a Sunday and the entire edition of 14,000'copies was quickly sold out, with people clamoring for more. Two weeks later, also on a Sunday. the paper ran the picture again and again the entire edition was snapped up. Readers sent clippings to friends and the Independent has been receiving hundreds of letters from all over the country. Ac- cording to the information received by the paper, an Air Force man from Chicago took pictures of an American and a Communist plane during a combat patrol. He sent the films home to Chi- cago to be developed. To the amazement of everyone, including the flyer, the image of Christ, supposedly formed by clouds, showed up on one of the photos. A neighbor of the Air Force man's family in Chicago sent a print to his brother in Ashland. Someone there finally mailed it to the Independent. Actual origin of. the picture is a mystery so far, because the names of the Air Force man and of the Chicago neighbor family are unknown. Another reverend gentleman call- ed ed chloroform, when used for women in childbirth, "a decoy of Satan, apparently offering itself to bless women but which would rob God of the deep,, earnest cries for help in time of trouble." But when it came to advancing the rights of her own sex the Queen was a bad as any bishop. As late as 1870 there was no legal protec- tion for girls once they reached the age,of ten. It was much harder for a woman to obtain a divorce than it was for a man, and no woman could legally own any property, much less, of course, vote. And yet we have Her Majesty writing, "The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write in checking this mad, wicked following of "Women's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of a womanly feeling and propriety. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herselfl" Dial Puzzle Each of the following combina- tions of numbers from the telephone dial spells a word. You can discover the word by selecting the correct letter from the group indicated by each digit in the number. For in- stance, 3228 spells fact. There is only one possible answer for each, so start dialing, For the right an- swers, see below —printed upside clown to make ,peeking harder. a. 220227 11. 5328873. n. 8585353 b. 84445 i. 227368 o. 3328437 c. 6787424 j. 47783 , p. 92783 d. 935569 k. 724665 q. 893583 e. 35625 1. 2389336 r. 366844 f. 443886 m. 736753 s. 8383726 g. 63729 t. 586467 DIAL PUZZLE ANSWERS •aoltin j '; :ne.laleA s :118nou : 'a fatfamy 'b :assuA\ •d lxag;eaa 0 !aia}n)ff} '11 !Woad eu :uaamlag 'I :loogag 'X tanse f :;uasgy 'I tasntoa" 'q :.ia.1a}Q •11 :ol4agr0 .•1 :)fools a :momA 'p fgoins0 'o :1!81A 'q '!,euzag a Window Screen: A device to pre- cnt the escape of insects. Knee - Tickling Talkie A walkie-talkie with a built-in knee tickle is the little gadget demonstrated by Charlotte Hanker. The garter which Charlotte displays is the antenna of the minute set When someone .alts her or the vealkie:talkie the garter -antenna picks up an electrical impulse which tickles her knee All,' .t.. trrin LE TALKS "Time Marches On" may be an accurate enough statement most of the year; but with the approach of the festive season it seems as though "flies" would be more appropriate than "marches." So without further ado, let's get on to the subject of that turkey, First of all a chart that may help you in the selection of your bird, and another showing approximate cooking times. TURKEY BUYING GUIDE Amount to Allow How They Come Market Weight Per Serving 4 to 30 pounds ell to 1 pound Dressed: bled, picked, but not not drawn, head and feet on. • Ready - to -cook: picked, fully drawn, head and feet removed. May be fresh or frozen. Live 3 to 25 pounds 34 to 34 pound 4,4 to 32 pounds 1 to 11,4 pounds ROASTING TIME FOR YOUNG TURKEYS Set oven for moderately low, 325 degrees F. Ready -to -Cook Approximate Weight Time Dressed Weight 4— 9 pounds 9-14 pounds 14-19 pounds 19-25 pounds 25-30 pounds 3-- 7 7-11 11-15 15-20 20-25 * * To Prepare Turkey for Roasting Remove pin feathers with twee- zers or catch them between thumb and paring knife. Singe the bird if hairs and feathers are hard to remove, 'Take out bits of lung and kidney from the inside. Cut out oil sac from the top of tail. Wash inside and ottt with cold water and dry, Store fresh turkey in refri- gerator until coolcing time, \Vrap loosely in waxed paper. Thaw frozen turkey in refrigera- tor. Allow about 2 days for large bird; 12 to 15. hours for small or half turkeys; 3 to 9 hours for parts. Cook frozen turkey immediately after thawing. * * * To Stuff Whole Turkey Allow about 1 cup of stuffing per pound of ready -to -cook turkey, or 34 cup per pound, dressed weight. A pound loaf of white bread makes about 2 quarts of e5 -inch cubes. Use bread 2 or 3 days old. Pack stuffing loosely. Fill neck cavity; fasten neck skin to back, Fill body cavity; sew up. Tic legs to tall; place wings eicdnnbo. * * * 'Po Roast Turkey (See chart for roasting time) Place, breast up, on a flat or V-shaped tack in an open roaster, (For extra crisp, tender skin, cover turkey completely with cheesecloth dipped. in melted, unsalted fat) Baste frequently with drippings. Turkey is done when joints move easily. 'Plan to have turkey done 15 to 30 minutes before serving pounds pounds pounds pounds pounds time. This will allow time to re- move strings, make the gravy, ar- range the turkey on the platter, and garnish it. * * * Giblets Cook giblets immediately after cleaning. Cover gizzard and heart with water, add 1 teaspoon salt, 14 teaspoon pepper, 1 small onion, and a bay leaf, if desired. Simmer 2 to 3 hours or until tender. Cut liver in half; add last }z hour. Re- frigerate unless used immediately. Giblets may be chopped and added to stuffing or gravy. or dice then, heat in gravy, and serve as a lun- cheon dish. Cook the neck about 11,4 hours in salted water to cover. An aver- age size neck yields about 1/ cups meat to use in creamed dishes or sandwich fillings. * * * Bread Stuffing / cup butter oe margarine 34 cup chopped onion 1 cup chopped celery (stalk and leaves) 3 to 4 quarts bread crumbs 2-3 hours 3-4 hours 4-5 hours 5-6 hours 6-7 hours :mining ingredients. Pour over bread and toss lightly. if a moist dressing is desired, add milk, or stock from giblets. This makes enough stuffing for a 12 to 16 -pound turkey. P.S. for a richer stuffing, increase the amount of butter. * * * Prune and Nut Stuffing a/ cup butter or margarine 1/ cups chopped walnuts or pecans 4 teaspoons salt /.teaspoon pepper / teaspoon nutmeg 2 to 3 quarts bread crumbs or cubes 3 cups chopped prunes Melt butter in a skillet. Add nuts and cook over low heat, until light brown, stirring frequently. Add salt. pepper, and nutmeg and stir well. Combine bread and prune;. Add nut mixture and mix well. If a more moist stuffing is desired, add liquid from the prunes. Enough for a 12 to 16 -pound turkey. P.S. To prepare prunes: Cover 3 cups prunes with boiling water. I,et stand 5 minutes, Remove pits; cut the pulp into small pieces. * * * Giblet Gravy r/ cup fat from roast turkey r/ cup flour Liquid from roast turkey Milk Chopped, cooked turkey giblets Salt and pepper to taste When turkey is done, remove from roaster to a platter and keep in a warm place on the range. Pour off fat from the liquid in roaster. Measure one-third cup fat and put in skillet or saucepan. Blend in flour. Measure liquid from the turkey remaining in the roaster. oke 3 cups • P Add sufficient milk to me liquid. Return milk mixture to the roaster and place over low heat to loosen all the browned juices from sides and bottom of roaster. Now stir into the flour mixture, and cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Add giblets, salt, and pepper. Heat to boiling. Makes about 4 cups. P.S. If a thicker gravy is desired, add more fat and flour in equal amounts. 'or cubes 1 tablespoon salt 14 teaspoon pepper 2 teaspoons ,poultry seasoning Giblets, cooked and chopped Milk or stock from giblets, if desired Melt butter 111 a skillet. Add on- ions and celery and cools over low heat until onions and celery are soft, stirring occasionally. Adel re- • Like Venison? Ever barbecue venison? No? Then you've missed a real treat! If you're lucky enough to have a deer in your locker, here is a recipe you won't forget. lc. catsup; 1 tb. salt; 2 tb. Wor- cestershire sauce; ;:'i c. vinegar; 1 tb. butter; y.e t. cinnamon; 3 slices lemon; 1 onion, sliced thin; ?g t. allspice. Sear 3 lbs. of venison, (or any like meat) in frying pan. ix above in- gredients in saucepan and bring mixture to boil. Stir to avoid burn- ing. Simmer 10 minutes. Cover venison wtih the sauce and roast in moderate oven (350 degrees F.). Cook 135 to 2 hours, turning occa- sionally. No, Corrxradel It Wasn't Marconi Fifty-six years after the alleged discovery, the U.S.S.R. are claim- ing the glory of having produced the inventor of wireless telegraphy. This claim was made officially front Moscow quite recently. Ac- cording to it, on May 7th, 1895, a Russian scientist, Alexander Popov, opo , demonstrated an apparatus wireless transmission of messages, and described his method in a sci- entific journal in March, 189ti. In that year, the Russians claim, Pop- ov transmitted a telegram. by wire" less, the First of its kind ever transmitted. Rival Claimants There has never yet been a great and epoch-making invention that has riot produced rival claimants, and winless is no exception. The world has accepted Marconi as the undisputed inventor of the sys- tem and will, one may be reason- ably sure, always so regard him. Of the validity of the Russian churn nothing is yet known in this country.. But one question arises: why has the claim been left unmade for more than fifty years? What of Marconi's claim? In the early summer of 1895, he transmit- ted wireless messages in his father's garden, near Bologna. In 1896 he came to England, and in June took out the first patent for wireless telegraphy. Next, under the' auspices of Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the Post Office, Marconi demon- strated his method on Salisbury Plain. These epoch-making scien- tific marvels caused tremendous excitement and universal interest. Marconi was world famous. But was he the first man to invent wireless? The first man to transmit wireless messages? In October, 1895, there came front New Zealand to the famous Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge, a brilliant young scientist, Ernest Rutherford. He came as a research student and he was already a D.Sc. of Otago University, New Zealand. What work should he attempt? he asked the Director, the late Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M. "Try to transmit signals without wires," suggest Thomson. Rutherford went to work. He used a detector he had already in- vented in New Zealand. Later in the same year Ruther- ford transmitted messages without wires from one room in the Labor- atory to another. Before the year was out he transmitted messages between the Cavendish Laboratory and his lodgings, three-quarters of a mile away. So impressed was Sir J. J. Thom- son with these results that he tried to interest businessmen in their commercial development. But all those he approached were incredu- lous and Rutherford went on with other work. For him wireless had little further interest. The First Message Well, there are the facts. Mar- coni's first message was transmitted in the early summer of 1895. Ru- therford had already invented his detector in 1894 and sent his first message in the fall of 1894. It is a close thing. Rutherford never took out one single patent. He was indifferent to priority claims and any sort of commercialization of science. He personally presented Marconi with the gold medal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and paid hint a handsome tribute. This is what he said: "I may recall that in my youthful days in Cambridge I was myself inter- ested in wireless waves, and de- vised, in 1896. a simple magnetic detector for these waves. I am glad to know that Marconi was able to develop and transform the germs of this simple device into a reliable detector." And now conies Alexander Pop- ov's claim. Strange, indeed, that modesty should have withheld it from the world for over fifty years! —George Godwin in "Tit -Bits" THESE SCOTS! An American soldier spending his leave in Scotland discovered a fine collie dog and decided he need- ed it for his farts in Texas. He asked the old shepherd to sell hint the dog. 'Wad ye be takin' him to Ameri- ca?" the Scot asked. "Yeah, to nay ranch in Texas," replied the GI. "Then I couldna part wi' the dog," said the shepherd. Then an English officer came along, admired the dog, and bought it without a bit of trouble. This nettled the Texan, who said: "Hey Scotty, you told me you wouldn't sell the dog, what's the big idea?" "Na," replied the old Scot, "I said 1 couldna part wi' hint. The dog'11 be back shortly from Eng- land but he couldna sw•int the Ai- lantic 1" Honk, Honk, To You, Tool—Viewed over the hood of the photo- grapher's car, a flock of slow-moving geese waddle nonchalantly along. Only consolation for the fuming motorist following in the thought that one of the birds, roasted and stuffed, might make a delightful forthcoming Christmas feast.