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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-07-17, Page 2.Mental Health From Chemistry? One •of mental health's most Migniflicant developments the move away., from the psycho- analyst's couch with its.emphasis on emotional disentanglement to advancing drug therapy — got into the news on several fronts last month. In the quest for bio- chemical origins, cure, and pre- vention of mental illness, this. happened: Dr. Robert Galbraith Beath, head of neuropsychiatry at Tulane University and a pioneer in the field of "chemical psychiatry", brought up to date his research with taraxein. A substance found in the blood serum of victims of schizo- phrenia, it was injected in the blood stream of convict vohl- teers. Result: "The injections in- duced behaviour changes which were very similar of the pattern of the patients from whom the blood was taken." (Within two hours,the subjects were back to normal.) "We think the serum destroys the activity of an en- zyme present in part of the brain, causing a misfiring of that portion." To find a drug to com- bat this effect, Heath and his associates. have for months been using a new extract of cattle brain. When injected into schizo- phrenic patients the extract, he reported, "has produced changes';. in the biophysical make-up so that it nearly resembles that of normal people" Dr. Leon Oettinger Jr., pedia- trician of St. Luke's hospital in Pasadena, Calif., announced that daily tablet doses of Deaner, a new antidepressant compound, has improved the mental and physical condition of 108 child- ren (6 months to 20 years) with behaviour pr o b l e m s severe enough to make them "socially unaccepted". After six weeks on Deaner, 68 per cent of the boys and girls had significantly, im- proved, both in emotional be- haviour and in their school work. Deaner has been used success- fully in adult experiments to stimulate people suffering from chronic fatigue and headaches (including migraine). Dr. H. E. Lehman announced that he has used a new Swiss drug, imitramine hydrochloride, on 100 casesof dangerously de preaegd..•psychotic patients in Montreal, with improvements in 'Mire:After cent of them within six teaiinths: The compound, ne/tttsrsh stimulant nor a seda- tlbe,v 1s ; •said to "unblock" the pdtinfi s fixed depressive mood and lelease the inhibitions which caused the despondency. Captive In A Harem "Every day I sat in terror in the King's harem, wondering if my call would come." London's • flashy press was panting over a story that seem- ed to be right out of "Arabian Nights". A 25 -year-old British housewife named Rita Nasir had been"held prisoner" by the tierce, sexagenarian King of Yemen for four months. It all began, Mrs, Nasir said on returning to Britain, when she, her Yemeni husband, Ah- med, 38, and their five small daughters left England for Yemen where Ahmed had been offered a teacher's job. For two weeks, the Nasirs lived peaceably in a palace guest house in Ta'izz. Then, at a military review, the King saw Rita. Next day, three soldiers arrived at the guest house, escorted her and her daughtera into a station wagon, and whisked them off to the palace. "I was given a room in the harem," she said, "a wonderful room luxuriously furnished with NATIONAL 1HOT-DOG 'MONTH—U.S. Agricultural Secretary Ezra Taft Benson bites into •a three- foot hot dog presented to him in his office as a forerunner of National Hot -Dog Month. SALAD DRESSING — Mrs. Helen Nicholls is ready to eat her hat, an entry in the Sandys Flower Hat Show In Hamilton, Ber- muda. Mrs. Nicholls, who's from Paget, Bermuda, raided her vegetable garden for the cha- peau, which has baby carrots fanning out over a crown of lettuce leaves. Asparagus fern adds a finishing touch. thick carpets, silk drapes, and deep cushions all over the floor. There were lots more rooms like it opening onto a central garden." All told, she said, the harem housed two wives and 200 con- cubines—some barely 15 years old, the gifts of other Arab_. sheiks. African slaves in baggy cotton pantaloons stood guard. Mrs. Nasi, offered other peeks into harem life: The King had a circle of favorites who •sat at his feet and waited for him to enap his fingers. Others stitched and sewed or changed their cos- turves three and four times a day. Some never were called. They just "waited and waited in the scorching palace until they lost all interest in life." And Mrs. Nasir? • "I was called to the King five or six times," she said. "I was always frightened. But we only ... talked." She got away at last when one of her daughters fell ill and she had to go to the hospital. There she met her husband who bribed a man to drive them across the desert to British Aden. Back at the palace, the King' kept a discreet, if perhaps be- wildered, silence. In feudal Yemen, the King can bestow few greater honors on a woman than to offer her the hospitality of his harem. OUTSPELLED THEM ALL — Her expression spelling -pleasure, Jolitia Schelhuber accepts her first -prize award for winning the 31st Annual National Spelling Bee in Washington. Present- ing the $1,000 check to Jolitta is the bee's director, Richard Peters. TABLE TALKS 4 . rte' :i elate Anda ya. If you are making sandwiches for a crowd, buy sliced bread and line up slices two by two, using slices that lie next to each other on the loaf so the edges will it. Making fillings before starting. Here are a few cold sandwich fillings for simple sandwiches — then some elab- orate ones that are really meals. Swiss Cheese: Combine a / pound finely grated Swiss cheese with 1/4 cup chopped ripe olives, 1 teaspoon dry mustard and 1/4 cup mayonnaise. Carrot -Peanut: Mix one cup grated raw carrots with 1/4 cup finely chopped salted peanuts, 3 tablespoons piccalilli and 1/4 cup mayonnaise. Roquefort -Pecan: Combine 1 3 -ounce package cream cheese with '/4 cup crumbled Roquefort cheese. .Add 2 tablespoons chop- ped pecans and 2 tablespoons cream. Date - Honey - Peanut Butter: Combine 1/4 cup peanut butter, 114 cup finely cut, pitted dates, 1/4 cup honey and 5 teaspoons lemon juice. Tuna -Olive: Combine 1/4 cup flaked tuna, 1/4 cup chopped stuffed olives, 21 tablespoons mayonnaise or salad dressing and 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice. Avacado - Sour Cream: Com- bine s/4 cup mashed avocado, 1/4 cup sour cream, 2 teaspoons lemon juice and 1/4 teaspoon salt. a • • The U.S. National Restaurant Association and the Wheat Flour Institute conducted a nationwide search for new sandwich ideas. They held a competition and out of thousands of entries selected the 20 newest and best. These were adapted for family use. Here are several prize winning recipes! Summer Treat Sandwich From Miss Grete Henningsen, food supervisor, University of Chicago. 4 slices bread, toasted Butter Lettuce leaves 1 pound (3 -ounce can) aspara- gus spears, drained 1 6% -ounce can jumbo salad shrimp, drained 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise (about) Paprika 1 tomato, cut in 8 wedges Spreadtoast with butter. On each slice, place lettuce and 3-4 asparagus spears. Arra n g e shrimp diagonally over aspara- gus. Make mayonnaise rosettes on asparagus on each side of centre. Sprinkle the mayonnaise with paprika. Place tomato wedge on each side between shrimp and asparagus. Four sandwiches. • * M Spring Garden Club Sandwich From Mrs. E. J,, Overstreet, owner and manager of the Mi- mosa Restaurant. 18 slices bread, toasted i cup softened cream cheese Lettuce leaves 12 tomato slices Butter Cucumber filling" • Spread 6 slices toast with cream cheese. Cover with let- tuce and tomato slices. Spread 6 more toast slices with butter, Spread with cucumber filling about 3 tablespoons per sand- wich. Top with remaining toast slices. Cut into quarters. "Cucumber Filling. 1 medium cucumber 1 spring 'onion, 1 teaspoon salad dressing 1 teaspoon prepared horseradish Pare cucumber. Coarsely grate cucumber and onion. Drain. Mix with salad dressing and horse- radish. Six sandwiches, 0, .y a Private Secretary "Bosses go for it, too," said its originator, Carl T. Mottek, food and beverage manager; Hotel New Yorker. 8 slices giant size rye bread Butter 2 cups egg salad 12 ounces beef tongue (about 20 slices) Butter bread. Place slices end to end. Spread 4 slices with egg salad, using 1 cup per slice. Place tongue on opposite bread slices. Serve with India relish and green pepper wedges. Four sandwiches, :s * " * Here's a new, bite -size pastry to serve with a beverage at the afternoon sessions when good friends visit together These can be prepared ahead and served just slightly warm, ' or cold, as you wish. These tiny pastry Jam Roll -Ups are good the whole year round, and are also popular as family bedtime snacks while everybody is watch- ing a favorite television pro- gram, They are delicious and ea'ty to make. Jam Roll -Ups 1 cup butter 34 lb. (8 oz. pkg.) cream cheese 2 cups sifted enriched flour 1 teaspoon salt Your choice of Jam Combine butter and cream cheese and blend until smooth. Combine flour and salt and blend into butter mixture. Chill about 1/a hour. Roll out about 1/4 inch thick. Cut into 2% -inch. squares. Spread each square with 1 tea- spoon jam to within 1/4 inch of edge. (Be careful with the jam. in this roll -up process - too much jam will squeeze out and ruin the pastry.) Roll up firmly. Place rolled edge down on un - greased baking sheets. Bake at 426° F. about 12 minutes or un- til golden brown. Makes about 2% dozen. A PAIN TO EXPLAIN The White Sox and the Red Sox were involved in one of • those interminable games, with managers. Richards and Bou- dreau moving men • in and out of the contest in wholesale lots. Thirty-five men •took part in the affair before It was finally de- cided. After player number thirty- four left the fray, one sports- writer turned to another: "rd hate to have to explain this game to a visiting Englishman." "I'd hate to have to explain it to an American," was the reply. Billy Graham In' The" Far "West Dr. Billy Graham ' completed his capture of another big town last month Behind him was a global series of stirring triumphs: Los An- geles, New Orleans, London, Glasgow, Madras, New York. Now San Francisco had rallied hugely to the world's most suc- cessful evangelist>.(photographed at one of the city's famous bridges). During his seven -week crusade, 696,525 persons flocked to the roomy Cow Palace (ca- pacity: 16,500) on the city's southern industrial edge. In the 44 meetings of the campaign, 25,575 came forward to make their "decisions for Christ" — • even more' than had done so during the same period in the record-breaking (and much long- er) New York crusade. In planning his Western cru- sade, Graham Used the same well -tried techniques which have served him so well before. First came an invitation from the city, an assurance that a majority of. the local Protestant churches ap- proved and supported bis efforts. The invitation set off a clock- work of organizing committees, prayer groups, and publicity. By the time Graham began his arduous series of sermons, San Francisco was well aware of his conning and 'a substantial follow- ing.was at work on the crusade. From the evangelist's point of view, almost all the big towns are sinful and hard, but for a long time before the crusade Billythought that San Francisco was sure to be the toughest of them all. He pointed out that it had never had a successful evangelistic campaign before and that "its spiritual roots were not • very deep." Even today, he not - ted, many people journey there with "the psychology of `Go West, young man' for the pot of gold," and, failing to find it, end up in a state of despair. Lasting Impression: As always, Graham's sermons were lively and full of ear -catching modern phrases ("So amazing is God's love that. He erases your sins from His mind as a tape recorder erases its sound track"); so were his statements to the press (his answer to the current emphasis on sex: "Cover the female bosom"). There was the familiar Graham showmanship, sometimes criticiz- ed, but, as in the past, the cru- sade had a grave religious impact on the live audiences, on the millions who saw the televised meetings, and on the 1,200 -odd Bay Area churches which sup- ported the campaign. The Rev. Donald Sheley of the Glad Tid- ings Temple (Assemblies of God) said: "It swill . , cause a great upsurge of spiritual ac- tivity .... Wemay .not 'always see eye to eye with Billy Gra- ham on doctrinal•matters, but we do ... in his presentation of the need of a man's experience with Christ." From 'Newsweek. Craftsmen In Nepal Towns of Nepal owe much of their beauty to : a wonderful -blend of styles; for architects and craftsmen have never been afraid to borrowf the pagoda from China, the stupa domes from India, all enhanced, by their own precious gift of origin- ality. Anciently, before the Gur- kha conquest, Patan ranked first among the three little Kingdoms of the Valley, with its own roy- al house of Newar stock; it also heldan urivalled\place as a cen- tre of Buddhist culture and learning; not only unrivalled in Nepal but known and respected in far away China, as its was so much nearer, in India. There flourished, no fewer than fifteen 'great 'seats of Bud- dhist learning, smaller institu• tions without • number, and a multitudinous population 01 monks and students and'schol• ars. To all this the material survivals of today give testi- mony. The great open spaces and quadrangles were' once sur- rounded by their cells and places of' study, and the shrines and temples are the surviving ex- pression of such piety. Perhaps, Indeed, Paton could boast of he•• ing the greatest centre of Bud- dhist culture in the east,: As 1 made my way through the streets, the tap of a metal- smith's hammer and the wheeze of his fellows sounded from many little shops' ' and houses. It was captivating to look in through an open shop front and watch a silver -smith crouched in his corner, beating- out finely chased cups or blowing, up his little fire of highest -grade war - coal with the crudest andmost primitive bellows imaginable; a bag of goat -skin with a nozzle. at one end, the other open, with a wooden handle on either side. The same form of bellows is found all over Tibet and must be as old as the art, of working metal. •• The average Newar craftsman keeps it for choice though some use a type identi- cal with our own — and per- haps its slowness is more effi- cient in regulating the tempera- ture with 'precision. Quite as fascinating to watch was the modelling by the simple process of cire perdue — 'lost - wax" — by which the Newars make the small metal figures and the temple vessels. It is a process perfectly efficient, and as old as civilization. First_ the object is modelled by making an exact replica of wax. This is coated firmly in clay with a hole left at one end, and then baked hard in the fire. The melted wax is absorbed into the clay or poured out, and the space it leaves is replaced by molten metal poured in to take its place. A little filing and polishing up, and the figure, or whatever it may be, is fin- ished: From "The Sherpa and the Snowman," by Charles Ston- er. APPLESAUCE—This "hat" is so far •ahead of .the fashion parade that it extends 'way out of the picture, at left. Model Rose- mary Sayers modeled it in Lon- don, England, as a promotion. gimmick for a film's debut. TRAIN WITHOUT TRACKS Designed for the of a serpentine land monster is put through. .wheel drive for its 52 wheels, would be suita conventional types of engines. The company, constructed the electrically powered model to Large toy dump truck to right gives some idea Atim age, this . scale model (34 inch = 1 foot) its paces. 'The 450 -foot -long vehicle, with all- ble to be powered by either atomic reactors or world's only builder of "rubber -tired trains,". prove out the practicability of the machine. of how big the full-sized version would be.