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The Brussels Post, 1955-12-07, Page 6*—••********.,-..• Real Skyscraper Shop or New Swimsuit' in izzar Weat • I TABLE ,p,„ dapg, Atavews.'. ► • BY .]KDNA 1U1 ES 4 11 4y-lin next summer's swimsuit this lee,. (errtber isn't really a wild idea, The read collections offer the .newest idecrst , prettiest fabrics, You can shop at leisYre, without that feeling of pressure that sten)s. from the belief that you MUST get e, suit this s ovu may want WY.cirit a suit for a winter VaCcl* tion, There's a brand-new group of swift'. suits by Schiqpqrelli in French print's. 'these ' are authentic,h reproductions in color an* design of originals by Chagalt and„Picasso, They're used in sults with matching • skirftr, e „„, that are ideal for wear from poOlsid through the casual luneheon ,hour: 7 ” Flared skirts take care of the hip proV- lees: 'other designs' minimize the bustline,, There's a group of spits, with necklines that -can beichangect at will to p.lter 4tfta -- look sompletely, One of these is: Wadi, lastex with removable-, leweled= „collar. There's a crossed halter that switches .to-,a . - plunge or that can be used as a cuff for, a strapless top. Each suit in this new collectien is inticie, with al:wilt-in' boned bro thas'adjUstable to your contovrs. „ Warm idea 'for cold,:winter: 'Shop fob me* sufarner'4 .Styled by SChicipctralli in Prini Irony Marc' Chagall , suit sliawn (balutpslialter• 'neck,' pleated skirt. i 2 eggs, unbeaten ' Cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla, spy cup shortening tilt cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder lel teaspoon soda 3.4 teaspoon salt 34 teaspoon cinnamon Y4 teaspoon nutmeg. Ili teaspoon ,gloves. Sift flour with baking powder, soda, salt and spices three tinies, cream shortening and vanilla, adding sugar gradually until light and fluffy, Acid eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour, mixture and, apple settee. Beat until seen blended, Fill paper baking cups Or greased muffin pans le full. Bake at 375° F. until cake springs back when touched (about 20 minutes), Cool before frosting. .Makes 14 large cup cakes, Cupcakes are always popular, siepecially with the "limier set" toad have the adVantege of be- :Ine easy to decOrate fee festive dieeaSieris. Jere are a few recipes Vin sure Yeti 1l lee glad yOu tried Ip these cupcakes you'll Often effreae upon ; bright red cherry. They're ,doubly pretty fretted with a cherry-red icing. CHERRY SURPRISE, CAKES 2. Ors sifted flour 3 teaepoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 13/4 cups sugar 3/4 cup shortening 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla e egg whites (about le$ cup) , cup drained sour pitted cherries (unsweetened) Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Add. )1sortening and milk. Beat 2 kainutes. Add vanilla and egg whites, Beat 2 minutes more, hid in cherries. Fill 2-inch muffin pans, filling each cup 2/3 Bake at 350°F. 30-35 min- lates. Makes 3 dozen. Frost with the • . • .N Spent' Her •Wedding Nught Alone CHERRY FROSTING 1/s cups sugar 6 tablespoons unsweetened cherry juice 1 tablespoon corn syrup 2 egg whites 1 teaspoon vanilla. Few drops red food coloring Combine all ingredients ex- ept vanilla and food coloring to top of double boiler. Mix Sell. Place over boiling water. eat constantly with rotary beater until mixture holds its shape. Remove from heat; add vanilla and food coloring. Beat until cool. Frost sides and top of cup cakes. , Applesauce and spices make These cupcakes favorites with '%e younger crowd. Frost them 'with icing you've colored pink, 41xeen, yellow' and chocolate (do this by separating white icing. Into 4 parts and coloring each part with a drop or 'two of col- erring in a different color.) APPLESAUCE CUPCAKES s/ cup applesauce ' 984-foot Ellfel Tower and NStefte Y;irialcici'S.,415.1,4171a2v-leoe tonEamvPiirde in friendly .rivalry as the world's talle4t structures, New they are to be challenged by a 1,378-foot builidng designed to make the Tower of Babel — be- lieved to have soared to 450 feet —justa Appropriatelybaby enough, the Magnel is to be the centre- piece of a multilingual, World Fair to be held in Brussels in 1958,, Gustave Biffel built in his tower for an outsize exhibition sixty-six years ago and the Bel- gians have instructed Gustave Magnel, an architect specializ- ing in prefab Concerte units, to try for something bigger and better. On wasteland outside Brus- sels 2,000 concrete piles sunk deep into the ground will give fouedation for a thirty-storey building made in pyranlid style of great concrete blocks. On the top floor or this sky-. scraper yet another structure will contain ten floors topped by a panoramic terrace restaurant capable ahee tim o seating 1,500 people project will cost $12,000,- 000 and the main building will contain radio and TV studios, concert halls and a TV school to give Belgium the finest radio centre in Europe. There are prospects that the 442-foot high TV mast will be used for com- mercials beaming ten hours day to this country, In the highest tower an observatory a n d meteorological station will keep watch on the weather. ,Yet this building is to be only the dominating big brother to a startling inverted tower which will also be an attraction at the exhibition. Beginning where our own skyline left off, a metal structure resting on*a base fifty inches square will beyel out- wards, supporting at a height'of 500 feet a platform fifty yards wide ' This inverted Eiffel Tower is to have four novel escalator lifts climbing outward, a carillon and a restaurant. Though it will look absurdly top-heavy, the full thrust will converge forty feet below ground on a point'as fine as a tin-tack. BRAIN WAVE -- Britain's min- ister of labor, Sir Walter Monckton, hasn't gone'in for a zany method of curling his straight-as-a-poker hair. He's submitting to test run of a brain - wave recorder during opening ceremonies at a mental health exhibit in London. R. ► 110 ► iP• 10. s s 4 ► ► ► ► P. ► ► ► ► 1.• Pk▪ i ,•••• Def ' • • I•• doubles his sneed front taking hood sped reading course, The exceptional adult increases his speed three and, four tirneee Not long ago a public OW- flea executive started the speed reading course at"the Reading Inwoldsute' per Hilleinuretea.4 Hae fialltistr.40500 pt he 1.! terloitils tee r e Aadt nt s5a0re0 e words m e his'comprehension rose from 85 per cent, to 92 per cent. A saleswoman jumped from 325 words a minute to 85Q After the l executive rose from 475 words per minute to 1,100 words per minute, hard-to- believe- possible ty pic aspereedsults threeteading course achieves ,these ways: malc.hPinreobiasblythe the ostHelpful tachistoscope, It flashes words or symbols on a screen at a hundredth of a sec- ond, Thus it teaches people to grasp the meaning of what is before them as quickly as poss- ible, When I first arrived at the Reading Institute I 'found it hard to read even a three-let, ter word at this speed. Soine- times the machine flashed on and off before I realized it was flashing. But, gradually, I learn- ed to read three-and four-word phrases at this speed. 2. By a reading-rate accelera- tor students are paced and pushed to read faster. This ma- chine has a sort of window shade that decends over the pages of a book. Set the accel- erator for 500 words per min- ute and it forces you to read this fast by gradually sliding down and covering up the page before you. The accelerator is the back- bone of the course. After read- ing articles with the accelerator students take comprehension tests. Alms, they measure at each weekly session of the course how fast they are reading and how well they undertand what they read. 3. Of course' the teacher is a most important parte, of the course. Through his enthusiasm and interest he must motivate students to want to read faster. He must explain the basic prin- ciples of faster reading and in- spire them to practice a half hour a day at home. Friendly competition among the members of the class is fun, too. One of my friends, another' reporter on this newspaper, started the course reading more slowly than I but finished at 800 words per Minute. This pricked me a little, and made me wish I had done my home work more faithfully. It's not unlikely that he and I will have a reading race in the future. "Reading is an art," Samuel Joslow, the Director of the Reading Insti- tute of Boston, explains. "It's an art that must not be taken for granted by adults. Most of es learned to read essentially only through the sixth grade, "But the faster you read with- in your ability, thereby utiliz- ing more of your mental capa- City, the more you compre- hend," he explains. "How well you see is basic. But also fundamental is how well you use your vision. "Advanced reading requires advanced reading skills. You should read with a compelling drive for speed, with good un- derstanding, in phrases for main ideas and without interruption." "The average adult reads be- tween eighth and tenth grade level," Mr. Joslow continues. "He reads approximately. 300 words per minute with only mediocre to fair comprehension. And he doesn't realize there are specific skills he could develop to greetly increase his reading ability." Anyway,siblie when he woke up the next morniog, he ,hacl not the slightest recollection of en- listing in the 'Legion for' five years. But he had—and his sig- nature on the appropriate docu- ment was proof.' His protestations were of no avail. The luckless young.fellow was shipped to Algiers, given relentless training in the desert, and eventually found himself on the way to Indo-China. At this stage he managed to desert and elientually, reached Britain. It taught him a lesson. 'No more holidays in Paris for me!" he vowed. You would think it impossible to forget your own children. Yet" when a father took his small boy for a day at an Essex seaside place he arrived, home without him, Fortunately the child 'was being looked after by the police —but the father received a se- vere ticking off for his lapse of memory. Another husband and father left his home in Woolwich one Saturday morning. "I'm just go- ing out for a drink," he told his wife. "Shan't be long." The day passed, darkness fell, and he hadn't returned. By now -the wife was thoroughly alarmed and anxious, and when there was no sign of him on the Sun- day she went to the police. They were sympathetic, pro- mised to' make inquiries. Then at about ten o'clock on the Mon- day morning a telegram arrived at the woman's house. It lkas from her missing husband. He was at his mother's home in in Yorkshire. He had completely forgotten that he had been•mar- ried for nearly two years, and was the father of a girl. Fortu- nately, the man's memory re- turned, and there was no further trouble. All of which invites the ques- tion: what causes loss of memo- ry? "A blow on the head, worry or overwork mainly," a doctor tells me. "But sometimes a per- son subconsciously wants to for- get — and he does!" So if you feel the urge to run away from your worries, to in- dulge in a spot of escapism, there is only one sensible thing to do. Forget it! Grated orange and lemon rind give these banana cup cakes an elusive taste, while chopped nuts acid to their richness. BANANA CUPCAKES 2 cups sifted flour 2. teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon soda ee teaspoon salt rii cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, beaten 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon each grated orange and lemon rind 1 cup mashed ripe bananas 2 tablespoons milk 3/2 cup chopped nuts Sift together flOur, baking powder, soda, and salt. Cream together shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Blend in beaten eggs. Stir in vanilla and orange and lemon rinds. Stir flour mixture into cream mixture alternately with bananas and milk. Fold in nuts. Fill greased muffin pans or fluted baking cups (you'll need 18) about Ile full, Bake at 350° P. about 25 min. sites. * Here's a plain cake to frost and decorate with halves of pecans. QUICK NUT-TOPPED CAKES 2 cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1% cups' sugar 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs Rutter cream frosting Pecan halves Sift together fiber, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Add shortening. Add vanilla to milk; add le cup milk to flour mix- ture. Mix to blend. Beat 2 min- utes at medium speed on electric mixer or 300 strokes by hand. Add eggs and remaining milk. Mix to blend. Beat 2 minutes or 300 strokes more. Spoon into greased or paper-lined muffin cups. Bake at 350° F. 25 minutes. When cool, frost and decorate will pecan halves. ea -a's -DOLEFUL DOVE — A mourning dove that has a right to mourn is this one being held for tho photographer. The bird WO( mysteriously, w o u n d e d ans grounded • by a short twig, im, bedded in its neck. The wound had healed around the twig so the dove has to go through lift with a chip on its shoulder. a:51\1114AT- kere'S the Ions and, horthof' it 'at .the . Western Specialty dog show. Evangers Blitz, the Great Dane, and Fis- tel's Brassie, a Chihudhurl: shoW their good breeding, by remain- ing friendly while posing for this• picture. Drive With Care Speeding-up Your Reading Habits My husband and friends pushed me into taking a speed reading course with them ever' though I was convinced I was a good reader and didn't need it To my dismay and embarrass- meet I soon discovered I was ' not such a good reader -- I read only at the level' of the average college freshman, a lit- tle under 400 words a en Mute, liowevey, at the end of a 12 weeks' course at Boston'S Read- ing Institute — one of scores of speed reading clinics all over the United States — I had close to doubled my speed end great- ly improved my comprehension. This is the experience of thousands of people today: They are pouring into newly develop- ed .speed-teadieg dotirseS in un, peecedented numbers, writes Mary Handy in The Christian Science 1Vioriitot They are discovering that speed reading skills help them not only to read .faster .bUt also understand and teineelbee' bet, ter Whet they. teed Fatter read- Means not only !less spent but altd better organized and Mote intelligent reading, 11/lothers are finding that they -can tit deWri and 'tend. a whele novel in an evening. With their new' akills. Befitietterieri 'ate leathing to weed through stacks' tSf 'reports as Well as the Morn- ing paper in half the time. Trl effect; faster reading 'gieree More heists to the day, , The average adult Usually THE MittS . dti1/41iiiNt twititet ketley, dean tir4liStlarri't .scid.faced *clowbe, breaks . leaditiati to Senile Through 'his grease Mints 14e has reason ---'the •picture thews- his wife and newborn datigliferi,.ttocicit,Ketiby"wdS playttid .SetatiteS.Witt:tlibtigeitlehl the Mork .arrived at Ringlinp'a Winter quarters, -Where Mrs.Kelley trtet hint 'at 'the . his address, or why he had come. Rather than look a fool in front of the receptionist he filled in the register with the first particulars which came into his head. Followed a week of worry, a 'week of frantic brain-flogging. All without result.' Then he bumped into a woman who hod just arrived at the hotel. By a remarkable coincidence it was his wife's sister. They hadn't met for quite a long time, but they instantly recognized each other. Thanks to that the man's memory returned and he return- ed also—to his wife. A Hampshire farmer engaged a man of forty or so who had begged him• for a job. He was unshaven and his clothes were shabby and badly torn. But he looked strong, and labour *was too short for the farmer to ask questions. Despite the new man's dis- reputable appearance he was obviously well educated. He spoke with a refilled accent and his manners were very different from those of his fellow-work- ers. After he had received his first week's wages he went to the nearest town and had a shave and haircut. The transformation was strik- ing—and it rang a bell with the farmer. He recalled seeing a photograph in the newspapers of a schoolmaster who had gone on a walking tour some weeks before and hadn't been seen Undoubtedly the in i s si ri g schoolmaster and his tient work,. er were the same. The fanner reborted the matter: the man's wife came to identify him, and almost at once he remembered who he was. But he had to idsa of what, had happened after 'he left hotne. All these are serious incidents, but loss of mereorv—of the tern , eorary kind—can have its amus- ing and embarrassine side. After ;seeing his bride settled in the hotel where they were to' ancrid their hOnevnIoOrt, the brides ereoin want off to park the car. Then he fnerid he botilfIll't rem Member where he wag Staving, and alter searching for hours gave tab in desoair and dozed fitfully in the ear till dawn. 'lira,. gine the feelincts—net to Say anxiety — of the utitortengte- hridee-left alone in a strange plate on her Wedding eight! A tot of 'men are Said to join the over-rotilatititiZed French poreign tegion "to fotget." A London youth feted himself in ilia tough minis for the Opposite reason. iTe hall a 'Mental black,. out while eri holidaVif Patla. perhaps the drinks be had eetittirrsed Were pettlY YeePitie While, on holiday with his wife and two little girls last June, a Yeovil bank official went for a swim—and' disappeared. Sixty- four days later he returned. Dur- ing that period his memory had been a complete blank. He remembered nothing from the time he entered the sea until he found himself in a Bristol restaurant. His case is unusual, but it is by no means a record.•One morn- ing •in the eighteenth century a Norfolk man left as usual for his work on the farm. Nobody saw him after that for nearly five years. Then he was dis- covered wandering in the fields near his home. Where had he been all that tim? He hadn't the haziest idea. But it was obvious that he had travelled extensively and had spent many, nonths abroad in a hot climates, He was burned al- most, black by the sun, and his broad Norfolk, speech was in- terspersed with numerous for- eign words and strange expres- sions. Snatches of Arabic and Hindustani mainly, plus queer -phrases which nobody recog- nized, In addition, he had. picked. up a lot of nautical terms— and ,the sailor's picturesque slang and full-blooded oaths. Undoubtedly, he had somehow or other _boarded a ship and voyaged to the East. But, why he aict so ana iiuw lie came pace- was never cuscovereu. .even more aramatic—and cer- tainiy pathetic—is tee sorry of the essex gee wno varusneu un the eve or ner weciaing to .a young termer. it seemeo an heal neaten. The young couple were genuinely in love with each other. The girl herself was eagerly looking forward to the morrow. Yet during the night she dis- appeared. With her went her bridal dress, and this Was found in a river near by. Of the bride, however, there was no trace, and after a long and heart- breaking search her frantic pa- rents and intended husband gave her up for dead, believing that she had been claimed by the river. And so the weeks pasted. Then one evening the parents heard their dog• barking joyfully. A feeble knock at the door fols lowed, and the father threw it open. On the doorstep was the daughter they had never ex- pected to see again. She was weary, and pale with exhaustion, but otherwise unhutt. Above all, she. was alive, To her parents it was a miracle. Eventually they were able to piece together the events of those lost weeks. There is no doubt that the excitement of her coming wedding had temporarily affected the girl's brain, And so she had wandered off, clutching her wedding-dress, lost in a world of her own. She had do reeollectiet of throwing the dress in the elver, But she dimly re- called tramping the roads, eleep- ing beneath hedges and hayricks, begging crests and drinking from ditches. At last she found herself among a crowd outside a village church, A bride entered on the arM of het father --, end this touched trent thOrd iri the potir gif't's clouded Memory came flooding back, and the hastened home. Not se serial's is the case of the Young husband Wile had a tiff with his Wife and stormed out of the house. "I'm going for holiday," lie hotiteii over' his Shoulder. "Alone!" He Went to a Seaside hotel on the Eatt coast and was about to 'Sigh the tegi- eter when iris blind misted over. lie enuicIn't remember' his flame, '1R0OSE" FOR, tittditY TRAVEL — The autornotive Seri- trapiion dbd-ve es both, feyek•and hOUtd, so its 'Owner, JOe'Sirik64 Wicit t talts it "trouse', A University 'student, he's used it .as ing tintifterS and frOnipOrtcitiOn for' laue years. The unit tbn- fCtin5 a bunk, tWO" [Witt ert's, a tcibiet d stove; an icebag t o. drid a closet, In itt Joe goes battle every Suitither and hits ,liittde one trip cross-country and baek, all in COMplete corrifort, the coach unit is designed so it SUPS handily an or off the bed a 'his 49411‘ Pidif.tail Ford thick a za 'Pardon me, but these are big words you're dictating. Please use ones that we lath can spell." egeeleeZiVe