Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-07-03, Page 2Kissing Is In The News Yt was'festiyal time in the old Danish city. Wine flowed and kisses were freely exchanged. Young men embraced girls they had never seen before and kissed them heartily. The girls -many of whom had come in from ad. joining towns and villages—re- sponded zestfully. One young fellow who had al- ready kissed at least 20 girls stood outside his father's shop with roving eyes, seeking more pretty victims amid the surging crowds. Suddenly he saw a bewitching stranger, a flaxen -haired teen- ager in a rainbow -colored dress who was sauntering past with her older sister. In an instant he was beside her. His arm encircled her slim waist and he gave her a long, lingering kiss. It thrilled him more than all the other kisses he had enjoyed during the last hour. It thrilled the girl, too. He was about to kiss her again when she gave him a resounding smack on the face and cried In- dignantly: "Don't you dare kiss me again! I don't know you!" It was true. She was an American lass spending a briAf holiday in Denmark with her parents, her father being an oil magnate. At the age of 17 she had never kissed any young man, least of all one as ardent as the young Dane. The girl and her sister had been brought up in a small town where men were scarce and this was their first trip abroad. The Dane apologizeo profusely , and bowed low before leaving the girls, holding his still - smarting cheek as he went. Next day, however, he met the girl again. She repented at hav- ing slapped him, A romance de- veloped and they were married within a few months. When the girl's father died the young couple inherited about $1,000,000. Many girls, even today, grow to womanhood without being kissed by anybody but their parents and other near relatives. The joys of kissing for the sheer fun of it have never been theirs. Kissing has been pressing into the news lately. A leading doctor has expressed the view that in Britain they are kissing too seldom He does not advocate indiscriminate kissing, but he does say that when young people are fond of each other kissing is a wonderful way to ease stress and discord. Yet another doctor has recent- ly recommended kissing as a palliative when mother-in-law trouble besets young married couples. He thinks kissing is a cure for many marriage troubles and says that most other doctors, agree with him .He also thinks that middle-aged couples should kiss more often and adds: "Toa often a peck is all they ex- change." Let's take a closer look at this kissing business for it fascinates most people. And it's surprising to discover what an all -embrac- ing subject it realy is! The research experts, however, are still rather vague about the origin of kissing. Some say it began in Roman times. When the men returned from 'the wars they put their lips to those of wives, not .to greet them but to find out whether the women had been drinking the wine stored in their cellars. They must have enjoyed these early kisses, for kissing soon became an important feature of a number of festivals: There's no doubt that in many countries kissing was merely a matter of etiquette for many' years. For centuries kissing was equally unknown in China and Japan and even today it is not popular in either country. Neither the Eskimo nor the Maori is keen on kissing. At the Art Exhibition in Tokyo in 1924 the work of the sculptor, Rodin, "The Kiss", was hidden behind a screen. When a Frenoh visitor complained about it he received this answer from the chief of police: "Rodin's group had to be hid- den behind the screen because kissing is a disgusting European habit which we wish, at, any price, to keep out of Japan. It is only because of the interna- tional reputation of the sculptor that the group has been allowed , to enter the country at all." Life -Saving fly Flies are not normally associ- eted with life-saving, but at least one fly can take the credit for saying the lives of sixteen peo- ple at Sao Paulo in Brazil. A ,clerk in the finance depart - Ment was making. coffee for her fellow. workers when a fly set- tled on the open tin of coffee and promptly dropped dead. The puzzled girl called anoth- eremployee and they caught a fly and brought it to the tin; it tee dropped dead. An analysis revealed: that the coffee was mixed with a large quantity of cyanide. Drive With Care TECHNIQUE -The thumb goes in like so, but no mdiic comes out. Debra Lynn Taylor Thacker, 21/x, has the right idea but the wrong instrument. A bugle, perhaps, or a trumpet might produce better results than a thumb but it wouldn't be half so satisfying. F. l •; TABLE TALKSa' dani Artavews. Whether you barbecue, roast, broil, stew, or fry your meat, the vegetables that go with it are important, and old stand-bys fixed in new ways are welcome at your dinner table. Here is the year-round cabbage which the man in your life may be sur- prised to learn is very good other ways than with corned beef! Here it is cooked with Edmonds and curry powder — and isn't it delicious! SAVORY CABBAGE WITH ALMONDS 3/ cup chopped unblanched al- monds 8 tablespoons butter 11/4 cups milk 5 cups coarsely shredded cab- bage 2 teaspoons salt 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon curry powder Saute almonds in 1 tablespoon butter. Heat milk; add cabbage and salt and .simmer for 2 min- utes. Add remaining butter, flour and curry powderand simmer 3 minutes longer, stirring fre- quently. Stir in almonds and serve at once. Serves 6. o • • Green beans may be cooked in many ways and the old- fashioned method of boiling them slowly a long time in ba- con drippings or bits of ham is still popular. One family that I know likes to boil new green beans until tender, then to brown them slightly in olive oil to which a garlic clove has been added. Another method is to cook them in salted water until ten- der, then (to 4 cups) add 3 table- spoons butter, salt and pepper and s/a teaspoon nutmeg. A quick and simple way to make a "company" dish of green beans is to combine them with sauteed fresh mushrooms. French the beansand cook, then toss 'lightly in the skillet with the sauteed, sliced mushrooms. Sea- son with salt and pepper and. a brief squeeze of lemon juice. If you like green beans com- bined with tomatoes, try this: SPANISH SNAP BEANS 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon. chopped onion 3/4 cup chopped green pepper 1 eup cooked tomatoes 1%s cups cooked snap beans Salt and pepper Toasted bread crumbs Heat butter and brown onion and green pepper in it, Add to- matoes and cook slowly about 15 minutes. Add beans and sea- son. Heat thoroughly. Turh into serving dish and top with bread crumbs. Serves 4. • • A Cook's reputations •have been built on souffles, and this is the way to make one of spinach. It serves 6. SPINACH SOUFFLE 1 cup cooked chopped. spinach 8 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 11/2 cups milk 18/ teaspoons salt r/s teaspoon pepper "Harold, why don't you come up for air?" 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion Dash tabasco sauce 3 eggs Wash spinach and cook about 5 minutes in water that .clings to leaves, Drain and chop fine. Make white sauce of the butter, flour and milk; add spinach, salt, pepper, onion and few drops of tabasco sauce; mix well. Sep- arate eggs. Beat yolks until light and lemon colored; beat whites until very dry. Add yolks to the spinach mixture, then fold in well -beaten whites. Pour in a greased baking dish, Place in. pan of water and bake at 300°- 325' F. about 1 hour or until set, Serve immediately. a • • Some Sunday evening soon. treat your family to a supper of. fresh -corn pancakeswith fried ham and applesauce. This recipe makes 12 to 14 3 -inch pancakes, TRESS -CORN PANCAKES 314 cup sifted flour 3 teaspoon baking powder Y teaspoon salt s teaspoon sugar 1 cup grated raw corn 1 egg, well beaten 2 tablespoons melted butter 3 tablespoons, milk (approxi- mately 1/4 teaspoon monosodium gluts. mate Mix and sift dry ingredients;• mix corn and egg; stir in melted butter; gradually add. dry ingre- dients, stirring until smooth. Add enough milk to make pancake consistency. Bake as any pan- cake. On A Houseboat -In Kashmir The Valley of Kashmir was below us. Fields and meadows lightly brushed with green, -yet- low patches of mustard in flower, trees pricked with young buds, cherry trees like : sea foam, flooded rice fields that mirrored snows and sky, like the lead lines in a stained glass window. Along the'road ;at intervals were thatched roofs of houses, mark= Ing a village. The sun caught ". the road so that it seemed to flow into the valley with the great silver curves of a river .. . Our house in the 'Valley is' made of natural polished wood, carved and fitted together. The gabled windows drip wooden icicles. Pots of scarlet geraniums line the flat part of the .roof, which has a little railing. Ruffled curtains hang on the outside of the windows. The house floats. It can be poled through the waterways of the Vailey, canals, lakes, and the Jhelum River, and tied up under any willow we wish. A floating Hansel-and- Gretel cottage, with a catwalk round it and a little gangplank— that is a Kashmiri houseboat from the outside ... Our house- boat is called the Peony . The Peony is moored at Na- geen, a lake that is small and oval-shaped, five miles by road from Srinagar ...' Willows and chenar, the Persian sycamore, grow along the banks, The many Persian things in the Val- ley, chenar, lilacs that are bluer than ours, the pleasure gardens of Shalimar and Nishat, the poetry, and banquet food were left behind by the Mogul Em- perors, who, loved to summer here. Not ten steps from the Peony is a cherry orchard in full blossom and a little beyond that a field of daisies, and a path. that leads to the main road. In the heart of the lake is an underwater world of inverted snow mountains, green hills, and reeds, so fragile that anything cap splinter it -the ducks that swim 'past morning and evening, a kingfisher flashing turquoise as it dives, even the sinal shikaras that, rest on the water lightly, as ,a ,flower ;petal. The water around thg boat is so cleer that we can see the waterweeds gently swaying, a forest for tiny spun -glass fish.. Around the boat are bowl - shaped lotus leaves with a pearl of water in the centre of each, and water -lilies, and frogs, and 'butterflies and dragon -flies that swoop over the ' lake like winged needles,, and always we can hear cicadas, but seldom see them,., Callers begin to come, whole fleets'. of them, The flower boat,"' like a floating bowl, full of daf- fodils, bluebells, iris, and some- time's lilies -of -the -valley with the roots wrapped in moss. For a few annas a day the Peony can be turned into a garden. Pir the Candy Man has a red tin trunk amidships, loaded with pepper- mints and fudge which, he says, 'a missionary lady' taught him to make. ` And there are sellers of shawls, embroideries, carved *desk, papiermache boxes, furs, jewellery, carpets, toy house- boats, and all the hand -made things the Valley is famous for. Back To Ice Age For Britain British and American scien- tists have made a remarkable discovery about thepowerful` and mysterious Gulf Stream— that warm blue river which flews across the cold green At- lantic from the Gulf Of Mexico and is believed to be largely responsible for the British. climate. For the first time they have been able to map its underlying flow of water. They found that the Gulf Stream has an "under- tow" current moving in the op- pOsite direction at depths of about, 9,000 feet. The Gulf Stream starts with a tremendous volume of water moving at the fantastic rate of. 25 million tons ;e second. Its mighty flow is subject to impor- tent variations and these are be- ing constantly -studied by ex- perts. The water travels at about seventy-two miles a day. If the Gulf Stream were cooled by as little as fifteen degrees, Scan- dinavia, German y, Northern France and Britain would prob- ably experience a return to ice age conditions. The lush green landscapes would become like that of Labrador. Some scientists believe that by systematically recording the temperature of the dulf•Stream we could confidently forecast the weather for long periods. When a -U.S. flying -boat crash- ed into the atlantic on :a .bitter- ly cold January day some years ago, members of the crew whe were rescued after drifting le the ocean for ten hours asserts that it was the warm water ei the Gulf Stream that had saved their lives. Sometimes ship's officers hays tried to test the force of thl Stream's flow for themselve As long ago as 1513, a French man sailing to Florida was amazed to discover that in spite of the strong - favouring winds his vessel was actually driven back by the motion of the water. When Britain or America hal had a particularly cold winter. it is sometimes suggested that the ` Gulf Stream , has somehow' "changed its course." At a point where it is about 300 miles wide, the Stream meets the icy Labra- dor current, a strange union which results in thick fogs. Princess Grace After Two Years By Rosette Hargrove Monte Carlo (NEA)— And now, the true -life story of what happens when an American city girl (Grace Kelly) marries a big executive (Prince Rainier) and goes to live in the suburbs !,Monaco). After two years of marriage, one` should not be surprised to find some changes. But in this tiny principality, the •changes have been enough to stagger the minds of the 2,600 Monegasques. Consider for a moment the royal husband. Two years ago, young Rainier was a shy, taci- turn, complicated young man with an intense interest in rac- ing cars, his private zoo, ' and his yacht. And how? This' happy hus- band has sold his yacht, given up his fast cars and seldom vis- its his zoo any more. Instead, he devotes his time to affairs of state, especially a national project of a vast under- ground railway system which will be used by the coastal trains • That now run right through the realm. This plan will. give Monaco new land on which to build an Eden of'.ultra modern apartment houses facing the blue Mediterranean. The prince's shyness has al- most completely disappeared. He is demonstrative with his wife and children, and is what one would expect of a happy hue - band and father -. much more than Monaco ever expected its ruler to be. And if Rainier has changed, Princess Grace has been trans - •formed. Two years ago she was a movie actressin the public eye every moment. As new roy- alty,she was aloof. And today... Well, the royal couple has sold their luxurious villa on the Riviera because it attracted too many sight -seers, They are now .building a small cottage retreat high' on Mont Agel, away from curious eyes. Her aptitude for French has made it easy, to talk with her new subjects She has taken' a personal interest in social agen- cies, orphan asylums, the .lives . of her people, the Red Cross. At least one day each week she is "at home" to the women of: the nation who come to tea and ;talk of the state, the wea- ther, •the problems of modern living and the national game of football. From time. to time rumors rise about Grace's return to movies. "Sheer nonsense," says a pal- ace habitue. "She is perfectly :,happy and much too busy as wife 'of Prince Rainier and mo- ther of two children to consider any outside activity." Grace herself says emphati- cally that the two "cannot be mixed.,, . :• The Monegasques have seen themselves change, too, after two years since - their Prince's marriage. In every home above the man- tlepiece are two Christmas cards bearing 'the House of Grimaldi arms. These cards are inscribed: "With all my wishes for your happiness (signed) Grace." Palace stall members have re- ceived personal gifts from their monarchs each Christmas. No- body expects meaningless ap- pearances at state functions from the rulers. No one tries to make an appointment at the Palace on Thursdays — the maid's day off -- when Grace has the children to herself. But when emergencies arise, Monaco is sure their Prince and Princess will be there. Politics in this little country have relaxed, too, in the past two years. Political parties feel such a step. On the other hand, it is point- ed out that Rainier is sublimely lacking in political sense. His tendency to play the part of Louis XIV (the power of life, death and banishment) is con- sidered rather ridiculous. All the same, the right of ban- ishment is no empty threat, as the turbulent Lady pocker found recently when she and her millionaire husband, Sir Bernard Docker, were expelled not only from Monaco but from the three French departments which constitute the Cote d'Azur on the French Riviera, under a treaty between France and Monaco. But regardless of national and international politics, Monaco is still a little surprised at how its NEWLYWEDS, TWO YEARS AGO, Rainier was a shy, taciturn man, his bride was aloof. They turned tfieir• backs' on. the public as they did here on a New York'. shopping expedition. • free enough to enter' the, public arena and fight'for what they want. ' ' ' In Monaco today, sentiment is for a revision of the Principali-• ty's constitution, and the estab- lishment of a Financial Court which would control state funds — until now hnder the sole, power .of Prince Rainier. "But," commented a French ,observer, "to jump to the con- clusion: that Rainier faces more difficulties with his government is somewhat premature." Everyone agrees that a palace revolution, and. the proclamation of a .repubiie in Monaco is not. going .to happen tomorrow. The country wouldlose too much by • reactions have changed In two years. "Today," said a 77 -year-old` fifth generation Monegasque; "every one of us would let our- selves be cut up in little pieces for our princess, She is more of a princess than any at royal blood and she has become one, of US — a Monegasque." Andwith the birth of a son, Albert, 14 months after' the birth of a daughter, Caroline, Prin- cess Grace has given her new land another very .Teal' reason to love her: an heir to the throne. that keeps Monaco from becom- ing just another French depart- ment with taxes and , military service. DIFFERENCE TWO YEARS MAKE is apparent here as the now demonstrative Rainier and un aloof Princess Grace show off their children, P rincess Caroline and' Prince Albert.