HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-04-20, Page 2Gave Up Teaching
To ae A Clown
If a fellow can't run away and
join the circus just because he's
only 51/4, the next best thing cer-
tainly would be or his father to
quit his job, sign up as a 010 \AM—
aBd take junior along as part of
the act.
That was the reason there
were spangles in the eyes of
young Charles Boas as the fami-
ly's trailer took off from Michi-
gan last month for Alabama and
' the winter headquarters of the
Penny Brothers Circus at Scotts-
boro. Also in the trailer were
Charles' cheerfully long - suffer-
ing mother, Kathleen, and his
three sisters, aged respectively 4
years, 18 months, and 21/2
months. And, of course, there was
father — 35 -year-old Dr, Charles
Baas, a Ph,D. from the Univer-
sity of Michigan and until a few
days ago an assistant profeaser
of geography at Michigan State
University, All his late a circus
buff, Dr. Boas had finally decid-
ed to take the big jump from
campus to tanbark, specifically
to join the Penny Brothers fac-
ulty of clowns.
For Mrs. Boas it was "some,
thing my husband always want-
ed to do." For the babies there
could be only the dimmest
awareness of a change in sounds
and smells. For 4 -year-old Lola
lie, "going with daddy to the cir-
cus will be fun" and she hoped
"to swing on the trapezes,"
But for young Charles — or
Toby, as lie's called — it was a
matter of the most solemn im-
portance, marking his awn em-
barkation on a new career as
well as his father's. He talked
about it with professional seri-
osuness, occasionally breaking up
at the thought of the funny
things in their act.
"We've got a magic box," he
explained. "Me and daddy and
some other clowns come out. I
have an ice-cream cone and I
put it in the box, and daddy puts
in a little custard pie. Then I
turn a crank, a bell rings, and
out cornea a great big cone.
Daddy is surprised. Then I turn
the crank again and out comes a
great big custard pie. Daddy
says, 'Let me have it,' and I do—.
right in the face."
What did Toby want to be
when he grew up?
"Oh, maybe I'll be a fireman
or maybe a balloon man."
A balloon man? Like an as-
tronaut in space, maybe?
"Gosh, no," said Toby with a
trace of scorn. "The man who
sells balloons."
One Way Of Meeting
A Great Challenge
In our secttrity - conscious,
steam -heated society, boredom
and a loss of real zest for life
are rather common. People com-
plain that there is no challenge
in daily living, that everything
moves along in a prearranged,
or at least readily predictable,
fashion.
It is true that a man can no
banger get together a few house-
hold goods in a wagon and head
west toward a frontier. It is not
at all true that there are no
longer any challenges that will
test the mettle of a courageous
man or woman.
We have in mind one challenge
In particular. It can be simply
stated: Try applying the precepts
of your religion, without reserv-
ation or sail -trimming, to daily
life. Although this may sound
rather simple, a challenge not to
be compared with the hardships
and hostile savages that tested
the pioneers, it is actually the
most demanding challenge of all.
Suppose that concept of the
brotherhood of all men — not
merely those whose skin is the
same color as ours, whose poli-
tical and moral ideas are the
same as ours, but literally all
men—were to be applied un-
stintingly to our dealings with •
others? Suppose the admonition
td sell all we have and give to
the poor were to be followed to
the letter? Suppose everyone tic-
zepted as a solemn obligation the
demand to feed the hungry,
clothe the naked, comfort 'the
oppressed—without, be it noted,
first taking precautions to assure
personal comfort?
Those are only hints of the
immeasurably great challenge
that confronts us all, There is
still plenty of pioneering to be
done,—Greenwood (Miss.) Com-
monwealth,
They Store Apples
Under Water !
A traveller who recently re-
turned from a visit to Hungary
has been telling of sometaffy
apples and' vegetables he ate
straight from the river bedl end
before you think this man is off
his head—let us say that he did
so as a result of an experiment
for using underwater beds for
food storage.
At twelve sites, including va-
rious places ofr-the .Danube and
Tiza rivers, supplies of apples
were sunk in plastic containers.
In some instances, the surface of
the water froze over—but with
no ill effects to the apples.
The authors of the scheme,
two horticultural experts, San-
der Fejes and Josef. ICresch, •
joined forces with an engineer
of the Synthetic Material Re-
search. Association. Together,
they have solved the problem et
underwater ventilation. The ,ap-
ples have freedom to breathe
and sweat.
The traveller states that apples
thus bedded down retain both,
their bloom and freshness. They
taste as delicious as when they
are freshly picked.
The new plan will reduce costs
in maintaining expensive store-
houses, hitherto a must, because
of Hungary's big apple crop.
Now We Have The
Stamp Bootlegger
Stamp dealers in the LES,
badger countries from Afghanis-
tan to: Zululand to keep issuing
new stamps, essential imports for
the $100 million -a -year philatel-
ist trade. Partly due to this pres-
sure, the volume of new stamps
has hit blizzard proportions fin
1960, world postal departments
turned out nearly 2,000 special
issues): But traders last month
were complaining louder than
ever,
Cause of their troubles: Phila-
telic free -hooters cornering the
market. Here's how they, work,
A broker, usually an American
with connections, buys up exclu-
sive rights to the new issue of a
cooperative nation, often at a
discount, and sells the stamps for
whatever the market will bear.
One New York firm, for ex-
ample,' peddled foreign 6 -cent
damps in this country last year
for $8.50 apiece. The over - all
take, according to Britain's Phil-
atelic Traders' Society, often runs
to about $100,000 on a single is-
sue,
"When you think of collectors
who are having to pay fancy
prices for issues that will fall in
value in a few years, you realize
what a racket, is going on," com-
mented a broker at the Eighth
National Stamp Exhibition in
London.
One Latin American collector,
unable to buy a new stamp in his
own country, raised such a com-
motion recently that he almost
single-handedly forced his gov-
ernment to revoke its exclusive
contract with a New York deal-
er. Despite such rear -guard ac-
tivity, however, the double-deal-
ing persists. The Maldive Islands,
a British protectorate in the In-
dian Ocean, recently issued, for
instance, a new stamp with a
face value of $21. "How many
Maldive fishermen," wondered a
British broker. "can buy such a
stamp out of a month's earn-
ings?"
Top pay in the Maldives:
About $21 a month.
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HEIRLOOM — Five generations have prized this quilt. It was
mode at o twilling bee 134 years ago by the great, great
, 40,-anciroollier of Mrs, Cyrus Cooley of Memphis.
PILOT TO BE SKY PILOT -- Canadian Pacific Airline pilot Torn
Elden catches up on some school work between flights. He is
studying at the University of British Columbia to be a minister
and, logs 3,000 miles a week between classes.
' TABLE TALKS
clam. Andrews
MOULDED CHICKEN
Minced chick en and finely
chopped almonds are combined
to make these delicious chicken
molds.
2 packages unflavored. gelatin
14 cup cold water
2 teaspoons chicken soup base
or 2 chicken bouillon cubes
2 cups hot water
% cup. mayonnaise
1/1 teaspoon pepper
Dash cayenne pepper
234 cups minced cooked chicken
14 cup finely chopped celery
yz cup finely chopped almonds
Salt to taste
1 cup heavy cream, whipped
Stuffed olives, sliced.
Soften gelatin in cold water.
Dissolve chicken soup base or
chicken bouillon cubes in hot
water. Add softened gelatin, Stir
until dissolved and well blended.
Cool mixture, then stir, in
mayonnaise, pepper and cayenne.
Add minced chicken, celery, al-
monds, Salt to taste. Chill un-
til mixture begins to thicken,
then fold in whipped cream.
Rinse 8 individual molds with
cold water. Place a slice of
stuffed olive in bottom of each.
Fill with chicken mixture. Chill
until firm.
To remove molds, hold for a
second in hot water, Invert on a
serving platter.
DEVILLED EGGS
3 hard -cooked eggs, peeled
1 tablepsoon mayonnaise
% teaspoon vinegar
Ye teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
14 teaspoon dry mustard
34 teaspoon paprika
2 drops tabasco sauce
Halve eggs lengthwise. Remove
yolks and maah. Mix yolks with
mayonnaise, vinegar, salt, pep-
per, mustard, paprika, and ta-
basco. Blend well.
Refill egg whites. Chill unlit
serving time,
a a
STUFFED EGGS
3 eggs
Cold water
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 drop anchovy paste
34 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
6 small stuffed olives
Pimiento.
Place eggs in saucepan. Cover
with cold water. Cover sauce-
pan, place over low heat, and
bring slowly to boiling point. Re-
duce heat and simmer eggs for
20 minutes.
As soon as they are cooked,
t e in o v e from hot water and
plunge into cold water, This pre-
vents egg yolk from discoloring,
and the eggs .shell more easily.
Remove shells. Halve eggs
lengthwise. Remove yolks and
mash. Mix yolks with mayon-
naise, anchovy paste, salt, and
pepper. Blend well,
Place a small stuffed olive in
each half -white, Fill with the
yolk mixture. Garnish with pi-
miento. Chill until serving time.
CORN STICKS
1;4 Cups flour
3/4 cup cornmeal
tablepsoon baking powder
teaspoon salt
ahi cup grated cheese
I eggs
14 sup sugar
21 cup Milk
if, cup melted shortening
Sift flour, cornmeal, baking
powder and salt into a bowl. Stir
in grated cheese with a fork, so
that cheese is mixed all through
the flour -cornmeal mixture.
Beat eggs tintil very light. Add
ago, sugar, milk and Milted
shortening, all at once, to flour -
cheese mixture, Mix together
but do not beat. Stir just enough
to mix the ingredients.
Fill 12 greased cornstick pane.
Bake in 400 oven for 18 minutes.
If you *haven't any cornstick
• pans, bake in 9 -inch -square bak-
ing pan for 30 minutes, and cut
into squares to serve.
MAPLE CHIFFON PIE
I tablespoon unflavored
gelatin '-
2 tablespoons cold water
14 cup milk
1,4 cup Maple syrup
34 teaspoon salt
2 egg yolks, beaten
34 teaspoon vanilla
2 egg whites •
1 cup heavy cream, whipped
1 9 -inch baked pie shell
2 tablespoons finely chopped
walnuts,
Soften gelatin in caisl..„ water,
Combine milk, maple griind
salt. Heat in the top.p of
double boiler. When trcii,t.slowly
blend in beaten egg kalkkaitAdd
gelatin and stir until well: blend-
ed. Remove from heat, stir in
vanilla. Chill until slightly thick-
ened.
Beat egg whites until stiff, fold
into cooled mixture. Then fold in
whipped cream.
Fill baked pie shell with this
mixture. Sprinkle with finely
chopped walnuts. Ohill tor 4
hours and serve.
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RHUBARB COMPOTE
3 cups rhubarb
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 tablespoon minute tapioca
4 tablespoons grenadine.
Select firm young rhubarb.
Cut off leaves and stem end.
Wash. Peel or not, as desired.
Cut into 1 -inch pieces and meas-
ure 3 cups,
Place in greased baking dish.
Sprinkle with sugar. Add water.
Cover and bake in 325 oven for
1 hour, until just tender.
Strain off as much of the liquid
as possible without disturbing
the pieces or rhubarb,
Combine liquid and tapioca in
'saucepan. Cook for 10 minutes.
Remove from heat, cool slightly,
stir in grenadine, Pour over rhu-
barb. Cool, then refrigerate until
thoroughly chilled.
Serve with whipped cream, if
desired.
Cairo Car.Parkiag
Colorful Business
Pulling up to the curb of a
downtown Cairo street recently I
Was accosted .by a tall, black -
faced `mart dressed in a long
brown overcoat and red tarboosh.
"Leave the brake off when you
leave and put tile gear in neu-
tral," he said quietly in a deep,
powerful voice. "If someone
idups you from the rear the car
won't be hurt, you see."
"qh, yes," I said, taking his ad-
vice and prepared to get out of
the ear.
Then, as I looked away for a
moment, there came a thunder-
ing shout in Arabic that resem-
bled the liner Queen Elizabeth
putting out to sea.
"TA KAWII"
Looking at the kind -faced man,
I found him smiling through big,
gold teeth and pointing upward.
In another moment there came
another stenorian "YA KAWIt"
"Old Sa'ad the car parker here
is the most religious man on
Kasr el Nil Street," a passerby
stopped to tell me, "The Koran
says good Moslems should repeat
Allah's name as often as pos-
sible,
"Sa'ad has such a powerful
yoice he lets it go every now and
then. Allah has about 100 names
and "Ya Kawi" (Ob. All -Power-
ful One) is one of them.
"This is his 22nd year on this
very spot. If people around here
don't know him by sight they
know him by voice."
"TA KAWI!l" Sa'ad, roared
once again, "TA KAWI'l YA
KAWII!"
Sa'ad Mirzilni Sa'ad is Cairo's
most colorful car parker, a job
preferred by some of Egypt's
moat unusual personalities.
Where the United States has
parking meters and police to
check them, Cairo has car park-
ers who must use their own de-
vices to be sure they get paid.
Sections of Cairo streets are
divided up by mutual agreement,
the higher -paying curbs near the
center of town being preferred
and going to men with highest
seniority, Concessions are some-
times passed on to sons or cous-
ins like valuable family legacies.
There are few easier jobs in
Egypt.
In return for finding parking
spaces and for insuring that hub-
caps remain where they belong,
drivers pay one piaster — about
two cents -- to the car parkers.
The custom is purely voluntary
and many try to get away with-
out paying. A few Americans
here, for example, pride them-
selves on resisting this non-
bureaucratic system s a n g,
"Why should we pay! There's no
law about it, is there?"
They ignore the car parkers
frantic screams of "Aiwa! Aiwa!"
as they pull out from the curb
while he stands in their path. It
Is his only way of getting the pi-
aster from reluctant car owners,
writes James Davidson in the
Christian Science Monitor.
Sa'ad Mirzilni is one of Cairo's
oldest and most respected car
parkers. For 22 years he has
worked the north side of Kasr
el Nil Street opposite the Wahba
Building where many foreign
correspondents have their offices.'
His booming "KAWTS" are a fa -
/miller part of the daily. street
scene. He is married and has
four children. Asked why he
works instead of following the
Oriental custom of living off
children, he replies, "It's better
to work. I can't stay home idle.
Allah wouldn't like it, I'm still
strong, look."
About six feet, two and weigh-
ing over 200 pounds, Sa'ad indeed
presents an imposing figure.
"My father came from.parfour
in Sudan," he tells you, "He was
-six feet, five and 275 pounds. He
lived to' be 110." Al waich pint
Sa'ad Usually lets off aeother,
°YA KAWilt"
Sa'ad Worked five years in the
Egyptian Army in Palestine and
Sudan. And before becoming a
carparker he served live years
with Cairo police,
He makes between a dollar and
a dollar and a half a day — a
good salary in Egypt for unskill-
ed, illiterate work (farm laborer*
get 50 cents a day). Sa'ad, how-
ever, is an exceptien and is liter-
ate, as the pile of newspapers by
his chair at the curb testify,
Cairo carparkers are part of
the city's lower income brackets
and most of them have come
from the villages, They are all
especially religious. Five times a
day they spread out a newspaper
on the sigewalk, face Mecca, and
Pray.
New regulations are coming
out regulating traffic. Where be-
fore car parkers could fill streets
with double and triple parkers,
getting the added piasters that
crackingwi .tt. ent withdown,
wnInmany them,repolicenoswaeties
in mid -Cairo double parking is
o
It won't be long, many people
feel, before Cairo officials take
the opportunity for added rev-
enues and install parking meterS,
And when they do one of Cairo's
most colorful citizens, foghorn
-
Voiced Sa'ed Mirzilni Sa'ad will
have to return to his home near
King Farouk's former Abdin Pa-
lace and live off his sons. It will
be a sad day for him, indeed.
Cairo might be more efficient
without Sa'ad and his colorful
colleagues, but one wonders if
the city would be as interesting
as it is with them on the job.
Q. Is.there something I can
put on ny window screens to
help keep my house free of flies
during the summer months?
A. One method that has been
found highly effective is to paint
the screens with a solution con-
sisting of three fluid ounces of
quassia extract, one ounce of
sugar, and 30 grams of gum
arabic. This solution, which is
applied with a brush, is deadly
to flies, which it attracts, but is
harmless to humans and animals.
GUESS WHO? — Believe it or
not, this is a Chicago police-
man and he's in proper uni-
form. Patrolman James Noto
wears a new ton smock which
will protect uniforms in han-
dling messy work, including
loading the paddy wagon in
Skid Row.
ISSUE 15 -- 1961
EASTER PARADERS — The Brermans of Oak Park, Ill., are always the grandest family In rho
Easter parade. Thomas Brennan, the father, each year Makes a complete wardrobe for every
member of his largo fconliy, Thars Mrs. Brennan, for rIght, back row,
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