HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-04-21, Page 2Loyalty Visits
P Fashion Show
A green halo hovered over the
willows. Crocuses spread a pur-
ple and gold carpet beneath the
almond trees. Burgeoning park-
land set the spring scene for the
visit of Queen Elizabeth, the
Queen Mother, and Princess
Margaret to a stately home at
Osterley Park here recently. The
royal ladies were to see a show
of spring and summer clothes
which would probably influence
the Princess in her choice of a
trousseau for the royal wedding
May 6,
In the long gallery of the six-
teenth -century mansion, built in
the reign of the first Queen
Elizabeth, the Princess saw mod-
els from London's 11 top cou-
turiers.
Americans and Canadians, too.
will have opportunities to see
most of these clothes. "From
Tweed to Tiara," designed by
members of the Incorporated So-
ciety of London Fashion Design-
ers, will be presented in New
York on April 20 under the
sponsorship of the Fashion
Group, Inc. British mannequins
will show the clothes at a gala
dinner in the ballroom of the
Hotel Astor, New York.
Subsequent showings will be
at the British Embassy in Wash-
ington, in Los Angeles, New Or-
leans, Toronto, and Montieal,
and at the Fashion Group's other
branches from coast to coast of -
North America.
it is interesting to meditate on
the contrast in setting and at-
mosphere between the news -
world presentations and that for
Princess Margaret in the coun-
try house built by Sir Thomas
Gresham, founder of the Royal
Exchange in 1577. In tradition-
haunted Osterley Park thought
was centred on clothes for a
royal wedding.
"What will the Princess
ehoose?" Many of the visitors in
the long gallery pondered this
as they sat on small gilt chairs
ander Grecian goddesses stitched
into priceless Beauvais tapest-
ries. Flowers filled the pewter
bars of white marble fireplaces
where oak logs have sparked
through the centuries.
An Adam -style door opened.
(The Adam Brothers restyled the
house in 1771.) The audience
waited expectantly.
Eeveryone stood up, The
Queen Mother and Princess
Margaret entered. We curtsied,
The model girls curtsied. The
royal visitors took their seats.
Soft music played and the man-
nequins formed the moving pat-
terns of a fashion ballet on the
dsis which stretched the length
of the long banqueting hall.
Each model from Norman
Hartnell (whois designing the
wedding dress) and Victor Stie-
bel (making the going -away
reit) was considered as to whe-
ther it would suit the petite fa-
shion -conscious Princess, writes
Melita Knowles in the Christian
Science Monitor.
Would a Royal Princess who
has broken with tradition to
marry a commoner, Antony
Armstrong -Jones, strike out and
choose a new color -range for
her trousseau? How about that
sumptuous emerald satin semi-
formal with its dramatic em-
broidered jacket outlined with
mink? Or the cerise satin with
Spanish -style mantilla and pill-
box hat? Or any of 22 ball -gowns
a orn with tiaras?
Since the New York showing is
m gala occasion, there will be
less tweed and more tiaras than
at Osterley Park, Mrs, John Hay
Whitney, wife of the United
States Ambassador to London, is
ISSUE 16 — 1960
helping to choose the.collectisin
for New York.
Meanwhile talk of weddings Is
in the spring air over London,
The tulips are coining Into
bleonz, making patches of erim-
sen in the royal parks. The
forsythia scattersold over bare
brown branches. The tall gilt -
tipped railings outside Bucking-
ham Palace are being refurbish-
ed.
The Joneses gather together to
give a wedding present to Prin-
cess Margaret and the man who
has shed such distinotion over
the clan. The gift will be handed
to a charity, Surprisingly, the ini-
tiative comes not from Wales,
traditional home of the ,Toneses,
but from Scotland.
And in the secret recesses Of
Norman Hartnell's workrooms
embroideresses ply their needles
on samples of embroidery for
the royal wedding dress.
How much will these be influ-
enced by the stately elegance of
the spring presentation at Oster-
ley Park?
The Mute's Last Joke
Gabriel Germaneau stomped
in from the barnyard on his
farm near Poitiers. "Girls and
their parties," he snorted. "All
this chatter and confusion. All
this money for new dresses just
for a costume ball."
"But Papa," said his slaughter
Yolande. "Am I not beautiful?"
She pirouetted before him and
smiled her prettiest.
"And Papa, look at this," said
another daughter, Giaele, She
put on the mask she would wear
at the party and blinked her
dark eyelashes at him
"C 'e s t b i e n," Germaneau
grumped. "But behave your-
selves. And don't forget to say
good -by to your sister Laure."
"Of course, Papa," they said.
They pecked Laure on both
cheeks, "So sorry, ma chore,
that your Bernard could not take
you tonight," they told her.
Seventeen -year-old Laure did
not hear the words. She is deaf
and ahnost mute. But femme
understood. Her fiance, 20 -year-
old Bernard Binet, had relatives
visiting, and of course he couldn't
come.
Papa Germaneau settled down
with his pipe. A younger bro-
ther, Gerard, read. An hour
passed. Then suddenly sounds
like gunfire rattled the win-
dows,
"We are being attacked," Ger-
ard gasped. He slammed the
front door tight and then bolted
it.
"Robbers!" cried Germaneau.
He loaded his old rabbit gun
and shouted for the intruder to
leave. No answer,
Germaneau tiptoed to the attic
and peered from a small win-
dow. In the shadows he saw a
man with a white mask over his
face, Again, he shouted a warn-
ing, But the stranger gave no
answer. That was enough. Ger-
maneau raised the gun to his
shoulder and fired. The man at
the door pitched forward,
By the time the fallen man's
mask was removed it was too
late. "Papa;' sobbed Laure,
forming her words painfully and
slowly. "My little Bernard is
dead."
Bernard, who was as deaf as
Laure and completely mute, had
meant it all as a joke. He had
bought firecrackers to startle the
family before making a grand
entrance to announce that he
could take Laure to the costume
party after all.
But because of his deafness
Bernard could not hear Papa
Germaneau's stern warnings. And
if he could have heard, he could
not have replied.
THE BRIGHT CHILD -- Love won a victory over culture in the
ease of 4 -year-old Alice Marie, a youngster with a near•genius
I.Q. of 138. The New Jersey State Board of Child Welfdre
ruled that she could remain with the only parents she has
ever known, Mr. and Mr:, Pirhord Combs of Old Bridge. A
public outcry against the be,aro was aroused when it tried
to coke Alice Marie From rl,e Carib., maintaining that their
hence didn't hove the preeer terle.red atmo_phere,
THE FLOWER QUEEN — Tall, brown -haired Paula Pace, 18, will
rule over 350,000 flowers as queen of the 1960 International
Azalea Festival,
',TABLE TALKS
If you like a dessert to serve
warm, try this chocalte chip
meringue pudding.
CHOCOLATE CHIP QUEEN
PUDDINGi
3 cups 1/2 -inch cubes stale
cake
1/4 cup sugar
34. teaspoon salt
2 eggs plus 2 egg yolks
3 cups scalded milk
1. teaspoon vanilla
z/z package chocolate chips
2 egg whites
Dash of salt
4 tablespoons sugar
Place cake cubes in greased
81/2 -inch casserole. Add the 1 -
cup sugar and Y4 teaspoon salt
to the 2 eggs and 2 egg yolks
and beat slightly. Add milk and
vanilla. Pour over cake and mix
well. Bake in 350° oven about
50 minutes. Sprinkle chocolate
chips over pudding; cover with
meringue which you have made
by beating egg whites with the
dash of salt until foamy then
adding the 4 tablespoons sugar
gradually, beating after each ad-
dition until sugar is blended and
mixture stands in peaks. Return
pudding to oven and bake about
12 minutes. Serve warm. Serves
6-8.
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Another serve -hot dessert is
souffl€, Here is oat using coco-
nut.
COCONUT SOUFFLE
11/2 cups milk
1/2 cup granulated tapioca
1 tablespoon butter
2 egg yolks, well beaten
?�s teaspoon vanilla
I% cup sugar
?f teaspoon salt
1 cup coconut, shredded
2 egg whites, beaten stiffly
Scald milk in double boiler:
add tapioca and cook until clear;
add butter. Combine egg yolks,
vanilla, sugar, salt and 5/4 cup
coconut; add milk mixture and
mix well, Fold in stiffly beaten
egg whites. Pour into buttered
baking dish; place in pan of hot
water. Bake at 350° F. for 30
minutes. Sprinkle with remain-
ing coconut; bake another 20-30
minutes, or until souffle is firm.
✓. 7 R
This made -beforehand dessert
uses lady fingers and is seasoned
with lemon juice. It should chill
for about 8 hours.
LEMON REFRIGERATOR
HALO
24 marshmallows
1 pint whipping Cream
1 envelope plain gelatin
2 cups water
?`a cup lemon juice
lee cups sugar
2 (lawn lady fingers
Soften gelatin in Se cup cold
water. Cut marshmallows fine
and soak in whipping cream for
3 minutes; bring sugar and re-
maining water to boil. Add sugar
syrup to gelatin mixture. Add
lemon juice and cool. When gel-
atin mixture begins to stiffen,
fold in marshmallow -cream mix -
tore which you have beaten stiff
Line a 0 -inch spring form pan
with the lady fingers; pour in
mixture and chill.
If you're having a family din-
ner, here is a dessert that serve:
16. This, too may be made the
day ha"ore serving.
ANGEL DELIGHT
1 bottle (R -oz,) maraschino
cherries
1 package (4 -ns.) marsh-
matlnws
1 e,uu (9 -oz.) crushed pine.
apple
1 tablespoon gelatin
1 cup milk
1 phi( heavy cream, whipped
1 cup Alred, blanched almonds
1 Mint 1) assert food cake •
eiee and • cut
mach- : times ete -mall pieces
Drain t.'.;se e11• 1nd rere bine
with cats; e coil -:hrnni•
lows. Let stand for about 2
hours, Soften gelatin in 1 cup
cold milk, Heat remaining 1
cup milk and add to softened
gelatin. Refrigerate until gela-
tin is partially set. Add fruit
mixture and almonds. Fold into
whipped cream. Slice cake hori-
zontally into 3 equal -sized lay-
ers. Spread fruit filling between
cake layers and over top and
sides of cake. Chill until mix-
ture is firm, Refrigerate until
served,
'N5 5
This dessert has a nutted cara-
mel center enclosed in vanilla
ice cream in a melon mold. For
the caramel, use the new caramel
chips.
CARAMEL CHIP BOMBE
1 pint vanilla ice cream.
softened
1/2 cup caramel chips
3 tablespoons water
pint whipping cream
'/z cup chopped nuts
Line a 1 -quart melon mold
with ice cream. Freeze until
firm — about 1 hour. Meanwhile,
combine ,.caramel ,.chips ..with
water in a saucepan and melt
over low heat. Cool to room
temperature. Whip cream. Fold
melted chips and nuts into
cream. Spoon into center of
mold. Freeze until firm — takes
4-5 hours or overnight. TJnmold
to serve, Serves 6.
Where The Curfew
din&s At Nine
Every night at 9 o'clock, 365
days a year, year after year,
for 95 years the historic curfew
bell at Bristol, Conn,, has clang-
ed 99 times.
From atop a belfry of one el
the Wallace and Barnes Com-
pany buildings, the old bell has
a cord stretching to the ground
which a watchman on his rounds
eaoh night pulls 99 times, just as
it was done in the curfew -law
days.
The curfew was a warning for
children to get off the streets
into their homes. When the cur-
few was abolished, the custom
of ringing the bell was continued
as a Bristol tradition. An official
of the Wallace and Barnes Com-
pany said it will con:finue to ring,
The Dunbar bell was first
used to start and stop work at
the factory. Subsequently the
police asked that it be used as
curfew warning at 9 p.m. Teen-
agers in those days who were
found wandering beyond the
allotted time were escorted to
their parents and given warning
pot to meander again after they
heard the bell ringing.
Ringing the bell as a starting
and stopping signal to workers
was given up years ago.
Every Family
Should Have Onie
It will be known as "The
Freedom Room," Measuring 8 by
12 feet, it will be empty — ex-
ecipt for a mat and a punching
bag. Off and on, the cubicle
will also contain one angry
youngster, who will be encour-
aged to "punch" out his fury
and so avoid a tantrum,
Designed by Dr. Jerome Schul-
man, a 35 -year-old psychiatrist,
this novel "treatment room" for
psychologically disturbed boys
and girls is planned as part of
a $5,5 million addition to Chico
go's famous Children's, Memorial
Hospital.
"The Freedom Room is not for
punishment," explained the
Bronx -born Dr, Schulman, di-
rector of the Child Guidance and
Child Development clinics at the
hospital, "It's simply a •place for
a child to work off his aggres-
sions,"
One of the big problems in
child guidance is that of the
disturbed child who throws a
tantrum and so disturbs other
children. "Some children con-
trive tantrums so they will 'get
something,' " Dr. Schulman point-
ed out recently. "Others have
been treated unfairly at home,
They 'are spanked, and it doesn't
work. Now, if we handle their
aggressions in the manner to
which they have become aoeus-
tamed (by punishment), it tends
to produce other aggressions. So
we have created this room in
which there is nothing destruct-
ible, and the child is permitted,
in fact, encouraged, to do any-
thing he likes. When he feels
like it, he leaves, But if he acts
up after he leaves the rooms,
he is taken back,"
The Freedom Room is primar-
ily for disturbed children. But,
says Dr. Schulman: "I have had
about two dozen adults come
ask me if they'll be allowed to
use it, too.
He Makes Noodles
In The Lord's Name
•
In the courtyard of a Tung
Wah hospital in Hong Kong one
afternoon recently, several hun-
dred refugees from Red China
lined up for their weekly quota
of noodles. Children, a few men,
and mothers with babies slung
on their backs filed slowly by
to pick up the 5 -pound bags
bearing the legend in English
and Chinese: "A gift of the peo-
ple of the United States. Distri-
buted by Catholic Relief Ser-
vices — NCWC."
At one point a middle-aged
refugee dressed in the usual
dark rags timidly approached
the heavy -set priest supervising
the distribution. "Father," he
said in Cantonese, "I want to tell
you how grateful I am. Each
evening when I come to the roof-
top where we live, my wife
waits for me anxiously. In the
past, if I turned up my palms
to show that I hadn't been able
to make my $5 (88 cents U.S.)
that clay, she'd sigh and the
children would go to bed with-
out supper. Now 11 I turn up my
hands she pulls down the noo-
dles — and we all have some-
thing to eat. We can go to bed
feeling that tomorrow's another
day"
Behind the gifts, and the lift
in spirit which this food brings
to thousands of refugees, is a
59 -year-old Roman Catholic
priest who is responsible for con-
verting more than $15 million
worth of surplus foodstuff from
the - U.S. into g o o d, nutritious
noodles.
An extroverted Mar y k n o 11
missionary front New Rochelle,
N.Y., Monsignor John Romani-
ello virtually lives and breathes
noodles. He shamelessly solicits
contributions ($100,000 so far)
for his refugee relief program
from every visiting American
he can reach — including the
crews of Navy ships in Hong
King for rest and recreation. On
the golf course, he has been
known to insist upon playing
for 10 pounds of noodles a hole.
He glories in the title of Noodles
King at Hong Kong and any
time at all he's likely to break
into his "theme song" to the
tune of "Sugartime"( "Noodles in
the morning/Noodles in the eve-
ning . , Just try Rocay's noo-
dies/You'll choose them every
time,"
Roney, who went to Hon
Kong in 1957 to head the CRS
there, says his concern about
this ancient and popular Chi--
nese
hinese food stems from a flaw in
the U.S, relief program; Even
though surplus foods from the
11.5 reach Hong Kong regularly,
they come in unfamiliar or un-
usable forms, Milk powder anti•
corn meal, for instance, are ells -
tasteful innovations to the Ori-
ental palate; wheat flour is welt
lilted but requires mere space
for processing than moot refu-
gees are living in (3 feet by 6).
"One day," he says, "1 saw• a
little girl going to a bakery'
with a gift sack of the flour to
have it turned into noodles. Na-
turally, she paid for the service.
So I thought: Why can't we
make noodles ourselves?" With,
the help of the CRS and the
Hong Kong Junior Chamber ad
Commerce, Father Romaniello
set up his first factory in 1957.
Today there are nine in Hong
Kong, and others in the Philip-
pines, Macao, Taiwan, Vietnam„
and Korea.
"Romy's noodles" are made of
75 per cent wheat flour, 20
per cent corn meal, and 5 per
cent milk powder. A few con-
sumers complain that they turn,
out mushy and that corn meal
and milk powder spoil the atste.
Romy's are, to be sure, unlike
the Cantonese product — usual-
ly flour, water, and egg. Still,
the rate of consumption indi-
cates that they are not too bad.
"For centuries," Father Ro-
maniello says, "my Italian fore-
bears enjoyed spaghetti, the se-
cret brought from China by Mar-
co Polo. Now I'm returning noo-
dles to the Chinese at the rate
of about 5 million pounds a
year." — From NEWSWEEIK.
Alphabet Soup!
Seldom has any good been said
about the American bureaucratla
habit of making alphabet soup
out of the names of Government
agencies.
But, at least to one who speaks
English, our alphabet soup
makes more sense than the Ger-
man variety. The West Germany
military has decided to abbre-
viate titles as a means of cut-
ting down communications cost.
And it has come up with some
beauties such as Ofap, Ostbtsm,
Pzfu, and Pzpi.
These stand for, in order,
Oberfeldapotheker (ni e d i c a 1
corpsman), Oberstabsbootsmann
(chief petty officer), Panzer -
flanker (tank radio operator),.
and Panzerpionier (armored en-
gineer). Still, maybe it's not so
bad. Looking the thing over
carefully, the alphabet soup is
as easy to pronounce as the full
titles for those who can't speak
German.
— The Milwaukee Journal,
SOME DiSH — A gift intended
for Princess Grace of Monaca,
this hand -cut crystal bowl le
displayed by a beauty in Parte.
ARTIST'S SHADY BUSINESS — Umbrellas do more hon keep the rain off Giusseppe Scardovell`tt
who LI!! . bits of broken bjmbe'shoots to form ort works in Rome, The 45 -year-old painter
calk his new creative idea "umbrellism."