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Zurich Herald, 1957-05-02, Page 2Hair Brushes Then And Now Beauty aids have changed sirastieally down the ages, The concept of beauty has been dif- ferent not 'only in different peri - ads but also in different coun- tries. The voluptous women painted by Rubens have little in common with the delicate charm of the Orientals. The clean cut look of the Scandina- vian or North American woman is sharp contrast to the stylized beauty of the Spanish. Yet com- mon to all ages, all periods of history and all countries, is beautiful hair. Whether long, free-flowing or tightly curled, beautiful hair has always been considered the greatest charm a 'woman could have. The hairbrush has been the most important of all beauty aids for the hair. It was particularly important in the days when hair was at least waist -length and the value of soap and water practically unknown. Even in those days -- when brushing the hair 100 times a day must have been a real time - consuming chore — women with an eye to personal beauty did their best to follow routine. It's hard to believe history's verdict that the loveliest women in Europe, of the time, were in Marie Antoinette's court. You'll remember it was she who insti- gated those extravagant hair styles that were anywhere up to three feet tall and which were only taken down for very spe- cial occasions. In those days women had special, cages that fitted over their heads and necks so that when they slept their head remained upright and their coiffures somewhat undisturbed. 'What price beauty! As recently as the Victorian age a lady's dressing table was judged by her silver -backed, lavishly ornate, brush, comb and mirror set. Of the three items— even taking vanity into account —the most important was the brush. In those days—as indeed through all time up to the Sec- ond World War—the brush was made with natural boar's bristles and the back was frequently wood or, where money allowed, china or silver. In those days, too, the look of the brush was considered as important as its function. Today's consumer thinks of her short hair as a breeze to keep in comparison with thelong manes of yesterday. But ac- t . w: the 't'naide nworiaan= es- pecially if she lives in a city — comes in for a greater degree of soot, smog and dust than her predecessor ever knew. Unfor- tunately many woman have given up, or practically given up, the hairbrush in favor of the comb. But a brush is still -- beauty -wise — a much more effective aid to glossy shining hair. Today's brushes generally are designed with bristles all around — ideal for the short duck -tailed hair cuts; or with bristles on the half circle — excellent for any of the short hair worn in the monk' cap style. Baby brushes — made by most manufacturers in Canada today — are ideal from the time when the baby first has hair until about four years of age. Then the child usually switches to an adult brush. It is inter- esting to note that relatively few men buy hair brushes al- though there are two styles — military and club — available to them. It would seem that ON A PARIS FLING — The sound of skirling bagpipes fills the air of Paris as a company of Scottish Highlanders march away from the Arc de Triomphe where they joined with other British. troops to honor the French unkown soldier. The troops. from across the channel were in the French capital for the Franco British Military Festival., . :BLE T eJam Aminvs. Nowhere in the entire range of cooking can your imagina- tion run over such a wide, ar- tistic and sometimes humorous range as when you make canapes for a party. Colors, materials, possible combinations as well as designs made with them are at your finger tips and at the mercy of your most ca- pricious fancy. a. * .. If your party is simple, here are some spreads that may be used for topping crackers: Com- bine chopped egg with chopped ripe olives; sliced egg with deviled ham; cream rheese sea- seined with onion, garlic salt, and Worcestershire sauce; cream cheese with anchovy; cheddar cheese with horseradish • and Worcestshire sauce; Canadian cheese with liver paste; caviar with small onion rings. * *,, * If you'd like to make hot canapes, here are some sugges- tions: Hot Tuna Canape 1/4 cup chunk -type tuna, drained I hard -cooked egg, chopped 1 tablespoon finely chopped green pepper 6 anchovies, chopped 3 tablespoons diced fresh to- mato Dash Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon chili sauce 1 tablespoon mayonnaise Toast rounds With a fork, separate tuna in- to small pieces. In a bowl, com- bine tuna, egg, green pepper, anchovies, tomato, Worcester- bhire sauce, chili sauce and mayonnaise. Mix well. Spread on toast rounds. Place on rack and broil until piping hot. Serve immediately. men haven't as yet heard the old but so true beauty adage, "100. strokes a day for beautiful hair." SEEKS POPE'S AID -- At the Vatican to confer with Pops: Pius XII en the heading off of British nuclear tests, Japanese envoy Masa Tashi Matsushita, left, and his wife posed with the Pontiff dur- ing a reception. The Pope has made public appeals in the past 'for a ban on atomic weapons. S Parmesan -Onion Canapes 1/z cup grated Parmesan cheese y4 cup finely minced onion 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 14 tspn. Worcestershire sauce 1/4 teaspoon monosodium gluta- mate 6 slices sandwich bread, crusts removed Paprika Mix cheese, onion, mayors naise, Worcestershire sauce and monosodium glutamate. Toast slices of bread on one side; . spread untoastela side with the cheese mixture. Cut each slice in quarters; dust with paprika. Place on baking sheet under broiler until delicately brown. Serve at once. Makes 24 canapes. a * Hot Canapes Using Bacon 1. Stuff pitted ripe olives with shrimp. Wrap each stuffed olive. in 'a thin strip ofbacon and'. fasten with a pick. ` Arrange, on a wire rack placed over a shal- low pan. Bake in hot oven until bacon is csisp. These may be broiled, but must be watched carefully. 2. Combine chopped ripe olives, chopped almonds and minced raw bacon. Spread mix- ture over long, narrow salted crackers; arrange on cooky sheet. Bake in hot oven until bacon is crisp. Serve piping hot. 3. Slit frankfurters and in- sert a stick of cheese the full length. Cut into 1 -inch pieces and wrap each in bacon; secure with a pick. Broil to heat and crisp bacon. +. * * Something new has been de- veloped in the egg world re- cently that will help you with your next party. It is smoked eggs which have a new taste for canapes, stuffed egg filling for tiny cream puffs and spread for crackers or toast. Use in same combinations as you would unsmoked eggs. This is the way you smoke them. Smoked Eggs 6 hard -cooked eggs, hot and shelled 2 cups cold water 2 teaspoons liquid smoke Place eggs in jar or bowl. Pour in water and liquid smoke. Cover and refrigerate several hours or as long as is required for smoke to flavor eggs, Eggs must be kept in smoke liquid until used. * • a Serve these balls on colored picks. Appetizer Cheese Balls 2 (3 -ounce) packages cream cheese 1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese 2r/ cups shredded sharp Ched- dar cheese I tspn. Worcestershire sauce Dash garlic salt Chopped nuts or parsley Have all cheeses at room tem- perature. Combine all ingredi- ents except parsley or nuts. Beat either by hand or with electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Shape into long roll. Wrap in waxed paper and chill in refrig- erator. When ready to serve, shape into balls and roll in the chopped nuts or parsley. Keep cold until ready to serve. a Liverwurst Balis 1/4 pound liverwurst 1 tablespoon catsup teaspoon onion juice 34 teaspoon celery salt 14 teaspoon Worcestershire settee 1 bunch water cress, finely cut Blend all ingredients in. Mix- ing bowl. Shape into 12 small balls. Fell I Love On Way To Jail People fall in love anywhere and,. propose at any time. Re- cently a pair met as they were being taken to serve sentences In the San Vittore, Milan, jail and in an instant both their hearts missed a beat, In that brief mb- ineen.t they learned each other's identityand began correspond- ing ;through the prison service. That was their only meeting but they knew it was the real thing. Fortunately the Italians .are romantic and sentimental, and the young couple applied to have, a prison wedding, an event to loch '.theauthorities have agreed in the past. • Nicholas Tscuma', a French- man, • was sent by the Gestapo to a ,concentration camp in the Arctic Circle, After a time of horror there, he learned that a French girl, Marianne, was im- prisoned in one of the neighbour- ing 'camps, Risking heavy penalties for Smtiggling letters, he got in touch with ' her. She replied through the grapevine. For years they corresponded, each letter more endearing than the Mast. Then, in 1945, the pri- son doors clanked open. The `.Russians had moved in. "You are free," they told Tschumak. "Get ready for repatriation." His heart sank. He must have been the only prisoner who feared to hear those words. Would he now be parted for ever from'the girl of his dreams, who had made his years in prison bearable? Then a miracle happened. On the day that Nicholas went to the transit camp, he saw her. She;too, was freed. She was tall,blonde and, despite years of privation, beautiful — as he had pictured her. As they held hands on the train he asked her to marry him. Sine years ago a lovely young girl , whispered "yes" to a pro- posal and her fiance slipped a diamond and amethyst ring on to her:;; finger. Then the boy friend, wishing to make his way in the world, emi- grated to America, intending that th,e girl should follow as soon as he hed made • a niche for himself. But the first world war inter- Vened and she became the man- ageress of a big shoe shop and put her engagemnt ring away in a drawer, The boy went to Calgary where he married, raised a family' and eventually made enough to re- tire. His wife died, so he re- turned to England where he ran into his old girl friend, still un- married and attractive. The day after they met he popped the question; and they are to be married soon. A woman who had always lived in a flat moved into a house and was thrilled with the large gar- den. One day she was showing a friend round and after admiring the flowers the visitor noticed veral small green clusters. On asking what they were she was told they were radishes. "That's a novel way to plant them," commented the friend. "Most people plant 'them in rows.» "Do they?" asked the new gardener,' "Well, that's funny— they always come in bunches at the grocer's." Calypso For Cats The calmer heads among the population always said that "rock-and-roll" craze would pass if we'd just be patient, Looks like they're right. But that doesn't mean there going to be peace around the place. We're already into the next one: calypso. One of the big record compa- nies says rock and roll was barely represented on its recent best-seller list, while calypso and related West Indian music was booming. The film companies, always a good spot to look for signs 02 a new tidal wave, are grabbing off all kinds of calypso titles in preparation fora rush of films capitalizing on the trend. The music stores are showing calypso drums, and the business of banging steel drums (made from heavy oil containers) is becoming so popular that the oil companies may start peddling the things without any oil in them. Ah, but this too will pass.--- Times-Leader-News of Wilkes- Barre, Pa. THIS ISN'T RUSSIA — Despite the strange lettering on the traffic sign, this isn't Russia, but Dallas, Tex. Traffic officers W. E. Fields, left, and B. J. Hendry express bewilderment at the upside- down sign which reads—if you're an acrobat—"Diagonal Cross- in.g Permitted on Walk Signal." Ti;.. LEPHONES WA,tDhCANNEL ata`. Cor`rapondent xiirirvay Hill, N.Y. -- The Bell Telephone Laboratories, where 04019 men of science design phones ' has found itself in the ,°nibarrassment of not being able to !,communicate its own story to the • outside. world. Bell was recently called to at- tend a meeting with home and efficiency experts who made nu- merous suggestions Of "improve- ments" for future phones. Well, sir, the improvements have al- ready been incorporated in the latest telephones now rolling off the assembly lines. Home experts asked fora way to make the bell louder or sof- ter. (New phones have a four - position bell—from tinkle to tocsin—which you can adjust.) Decorators and stylists want- ed a prettier, lighter, easier -to - handle phone. (New phones, available in color, have been re- engineered. The handset is al- most an inch shorter and nearly a • quarter of a pound lighter. One model—the bedroom set— looks like a vanity case.) Everybody wanted easier dial- ing. (New phones have their letters and numbers outside the fingerwheel. You don't have to stand directly in front of the instrument to dial, and you can dial faster. Besides, you can't erase the characters through use, saving the company a $6 maintenance visitto replace the 10 -cent character plate.) In addition, nobody knew that the latest phones have been freed to travel 25 per cent far- ther from their -office. Wiring size has been reduced by 30 per cent, to begin"' a multi-million- dollar saving. To cut . manufacturing and maintenance costs, new inbtru- ments are now being built with all of their elements on a chas- sis—the bottom—with an easy to remove protective housing. This phone will take 16 hard falls. The new chassis serves an- other purpose. It is designed to accommodate extra elements as they are needed for use in any of the 29 varieties of telephone. For example, new phones can be adapted quickly for an on - the -set intercom switchboard; I :,n G 1,: ELL WITH ODE for •:a night light;; for stepping up sound for the. -hard -of -hear. - mg; for being used without the handset in a microphone and loudspeaker arrangement. Other improvements have been laboratory tested. Phones can be equipped with push -but- tons instead of a dial. Extra push -buttons can call pre-set numbers. (You want to call the grocer? Push button A. You want to call your best girl? Push button B.) There is also a camp - on system: If you dial a busy number, your call waits until the line is free and then rings your party. But at the rate of seven mil- lion off the assembly lines each year, the new phones are sadly ahead of themselves—technical-. ly, financially, mortally. Most of the 60 million phones now in nationwide use are only about six years old. It will be another 11 years before they live out their investment value to the company. To satisfy cus- tomer demand for the new phones, laboratory men have designed a new housing for the old phones. In the words of one apparatus engineer: "It gives them what they want. The modern look." Meanwhile, Bell Labs engi- neers have begun to fill the gap between switching and im- proved, telephone station service. New office equipment works faster, with more memory and more decsion-making ability. By the time you have dialed the first three characters; "for exam- ple, the system begins to look for routes to get your call through. By the time you have finished dialing, the switching system has found the route or tells you that the line is busy. If the equipment answering your call cannot complete its job, it will pass your call on to other equipment and then call a maintenance man for help. In addition, the information you dial is recorded on automatic message accounting equipment, A punched tape notes the time you made th4 call, to what num- ber, when the call was answer- ed and when it was terminated. This tape, processed and de- coded, totals the message units Oftaaaa aelaaaaa alio HANDS" ]PHONE has loudspeakeC (left) and microphone (right) tied hi with the usual telephone tlet" LOOK C?7YA N\r.��.1,.�TR'.M\j'•.`1111 if i� asi PUSH-BUTTON dialing has been tested in laboratoy. BEDROOM SET phone looks r,i- most like a vanity case. AUTOMATIC BILLING is done on tape -punch machine. .—the time and distance you have talked—and calculates your bill. By far the latest switching de- velopment is direct distance dialing. More and more commu- nities in the nation are able to dial what was once the job of dozens of operators. For exam- ple, Los Angeles to Syracuse. It works this way: Every state and the southern province& of Canada are as- signed a three -digit code num- ber, with more heavily trafficked areas given more codes, To dial a distant point, you dial first the area's three -digit code and then the telephone number you want. More and more the old-fash- ioned number -please operator is being denied her function. More and more machinery is replacing people, Does this mean people out of work? In the words of one telephone. company spokesman: "We've got a permanent recruiting programs. Do you know anybody who wants a job?"