The Brussels Post, 1958-05-28, Page 2hyph4e fro* an asterisk and bee
probably knew that the last was
Ore* for aln,a1/ star, to boot,
But those Who conic closest to
the marks of punctuation are
the ones who have the most fun
with them—the Printers, They
have pu,t the melodrama, of the
exclamatiOn. Point int9 several.
phrases. They pall iteshriek, as-
tonisher, screamer, scare ...point,
and strike em stiff; all image-
making terms of high voltage
for a mark hated by Swift for
its exuberance, In their efforts
to season monotony with interest,
they call the question mark the
wonder mark and parentheses
finger nails, thinking of the cut-
tings, no doubt. -
Once you're in it, you and
that the stony of punctuation,
like that of most human inter-
ests, is inexhaustible and not'
without its humor, Like capitalie
zation, it is part of the old-time
learninLsongs which began with
Great A and ended with gro-
tesque Izzard and Ampersand:
Great A, little a,
Bouncing B,
The cat's in the cupboard
And ehe,ean't see.
If you want any more you can
swing it Yourself.=-By Horace
Reynolds in The Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
yourself ' confession recently:. '"I
thought. X would have a go at
Making Some £10 notes. ,X went
to the library and to the hook-
shop and read sbOut printing
and engraving for six menthe,
then I bought some ammonium
bichromate, gum arable, pumice
powder, some nitric acid, and
other things, I also get some
sheet zinc and tubes of water
colours and some typing paper,
photographic film . and so
on,
He passed 350 of his notes at
night trotting races .and grey-
hound meetings, and was dubbed
by the newspapers "Mr. One by
One" because he was careful
never to pass more, than three
or four in a day,
To avoid ;having to carry the
notes about until he really need-
ed them, he mailed himself let-
ters in the different cities he
visited. After he was caught and
given seven years' hard labour
in 1953, the detective inspector
on the case said:
"This non's work, developed
in a few months from an almost
complete lack of photography
knowledge, shows what can be
done if one has the determina-
tion,"
Taxis Of Death
A New York taxi was recently
taking a man ,and a woman to
a police station. When the taxi
arrived, astonished , police of-
titers found' both passehgere
dead. The man had a pistol and•
a commando knife in his belt,
and a bullet in his head; the
woman, his wife, had died of
bullet wounds in the head and'
neck.
Another tragic taxi was that
taken by a woman to Beatify
Head last autumn. On arrivat
she told the driver to wait for
her, but she never came back,
They found her body on a ledge'
500 feet below.
Remember the "Cleft Chin"
murder, when an American sol-
dier and a British woman were
sentenced in January, 1945, for
murdering and robbing a London
taxi driver?
After they had been sentenced
and removed from court, the,
judge told the jury that the
same pair had -some time pre-
viously held up another taxi,
But on that occasion the pas-
senger was an American officer
who promptly drew his revolver
and the couple fled.
THE ATOMIUM-Spectators crowd, around-the Atomium, symbol
of the' atomic age at 'the .World's Fair in Brussels, Belgium.
Representing the basic molecular structure, the Atomium houses
a, restaurant and_ exhibition halls in the aluminum spheres.
'They're connected' by a system of escalators.
Owning,
New Roads
Otte had 'acquired: the 40.:
automobile 1.0 1)0. open. in au'
part; a. Model "T" ford touring
or with a hand •crank, ..1110.
and hAr4. tiresi At, first, •this
was piloted by an , imported:
chauffeur not an elegant Ole
low, but •s( Mechanically *1004
youth Versed 'in the ways 0. We,
*puttering beast. Thep I learned
to drive. and found .high ad
venture even on the, . journey
from, an Antenio to. Socorro. •
.Over the rutted' designed,
for wagOnS. When father hirn-.
self, • learned, to drive, which-h.
always .did with veat gusto and•
very little, respect for his car,,
the -chauffeur became a mechanic
and Gus opened the first garage •
in San
The Colonel .was the first per-
son to drive an automobile .over
what he. ,named the. "skyline
route" which followed the wagon,
road from Magdalena over the .
Black Range, through Winston, •
Hermosa, Animas Canyon, CaVe
Creek Hill, and'into
a route which. up, to that time
was 'used, only for horsee and,
wegons. The journey, which,
father made alone,. wasa peril-
ous one, When he reached Cave
Creek Hill, :always a terror, for
teamsters, and. horee-drawn ye-
hiclee, he was almost forced
give up the trip, • Finally,. Gee
solved the problem of ascent by.
putting the Ford into- reverse
and going up the hill backward,
• so that the gasoline would feed
from the tank to the engine. '
From this and like edventures,,
lather developed a definite con-
cern fol. .the development of
proper roads. "These things,"
he remarked to me sagely, "are
going to change' the transporta-,
tion world entirely."
—From "Be My Guest",
by Conrad • Hilton,
TABLE •TAL mac
I wi, 6aue Andrews.
•
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1 envelope active dry yeast
$ cups (about) once-sifted
all-purpose flour.
Scald sour Cream; stir in salt,
the 2 tablespoons sugar, mace,
butter and baking soda.
Mash potato with a fork until
very smooth; gradually? stir in
the sour creom mixture and cool
to lukewarm.
Meantime, measure lukewarm
water into a large bowl; stir in
the .1 teaspoon sugar.
Sprinkle with, yeast. Let stand
10 minutes, then• stir well.
Stir 'in :lukewarm• sour cream
mixture• and 11/2 cups of the
flour; beat until smooth and
elastic.
Stir in, sufficient additional
flour to make a soft dough —
about 11/2 cups more.
Turn out on 'floured board or
canvas and knead until smooth
and elastic. Place in a greased
bowl. Grease top. Cover. Let.
rise in a warm, place, free from
draft, until doubled in bulk —
about 1% hours.•
Punch down dough. Turn out
on lightly floured board or can-
vas and knead until smooth.
Divide dotigh into 4 equal por-
tions. Roll out each portion into
a thin round, 9 .inches in diam-
eter; dust with flour.
Cut each round into. 4 triangu-
lar scones.
'PlaCe, :well apart,, on lightly
floured cookiesheets.Cover. Let
rise in .a warm-place,. free 'from
.draft, until' doubled in bulk '—
about 45 minutes.
Bake in '*.moderately hot-oven,
375 'degrees, ,about 15 'minutes. '
Serve hot, or 'reheated.
FRIGHTENING - Cathren Santa '
Maria, a big-eared ,basset
hound, doesn't like the-looks ,f'
that hypodermic needle. An
antirabies' drive brought out the
dread •instrumen't. A finishing - school is e place
where girls who haVe any -lin-
gering respect' for their parents
go to • have it removed.
Studied Evenings
To' Learn Forgery
Counterfeiters are queer peo-
ple. Melvin G., Parsons, a fifty*
seven-year-old foundry moulder
of Missouri, laid on his Own
"evening classes". lie studied
engraving, inks and printing at
Public •library for hundreds of
evenings, then in three years
forged $14,000 worth of perfect
$10 bills, but gave them such
painstaking care and costly fin-
ishes that he barely met ea-
PenSes.
"I didn't make any money out
"of it," he told a secret service
agent, "but like horse-racing, it
gets in your blood, and I couldn't
, get 'away from it," The agent
'said: 'lie was frying to produce
better money than the Treasury
Department,"
One U.S, counterfeiter was a
Roman Catholic who victimized
only priests of his church. Pious,
penitent, he wandered around
the country offering $50 and
$100 bills for special prayers of
which, he said, he was in great
need.
The priests readily took his
notes and gave him change, and
the notes stayed in circulation
longer than usual because the
churches had no difficulty in
passing them!
One counterfeiter was a Lou
isiana justice of the peace who,
in 1908, set up an efficient plant
in an unused room of his court.
Culprits paying fines were lec-
tured sternly on eheir misdeeds
and given counterfeit change!
In a fascinating account of
some of the world's most,notori-
ous cases — "Money of Their
Own" — Murray Teigh Bloom
says that a few forgers do es-
cape ,despite a U.S.-Secret Ser-
vice setimate that at least nine-
ty ,per cent. are caught and
.sentenced.
The half-rouble notes of a
-Russian gang, in 1912, were ex-
, cellent reproductions, except
that on one side, in tiny charac-
ters, was this challenge to the
Tsar's treasury: "Our money is
no worse than yours."
A Milanese counterfeiter, in,
1951,' turned out. fairly good U.S.
notes, but in the usual
promise on the fae'e; "Redeem-
able in lawful money," the en-
graver deliberately omitted the
first "1" from "lawful"!
The $100 notes -of-the Ramirez
brothers of Mexico were, only,
fair technically, and probably
wouldn't have passed• any sober
bank' cashier. , They were in-
tended only for use by bootleg-
gers, to Pay of(suppliers beyond
ehe three-mile limit -- and on
a pitching .boat on a moonless
night they always passed. Later,
when they were foiled to be
fake, how could the supplier
complain, and to whom?
But in-lime some of the wiser
ones hired _bank tellers, for a'
week-end's Work• at sea, check-
ing the pay-off money.
-Marcus Cralwan, a Providence,
U.S.,,' photo - engraver, disposed
of most of his home-made notes
at race •tracks 'around the coun-
try. As soon as .he reached a
city., he put a personal notice in
a leading paper on these lines:
"Found in Union Station late
“yesterday 'afternoon, a 'sum of
• money in bank -•notes, which-
owner may ';have, after proving
'property, by applying to X-13
this paper."
•Thus, when he was eventually
caught, he could say he •found
the fake mites, instead. of 'mak-
ing the laMe excuse that, he got
them from bank or store. Once
or twice 'this gueeeeded, but the
third tinie it landed him a fif-
teen-year sentence.
Edward Windeyer, ex-fisher-
man, ex - mechanic, .ex - watch-
maker living' in a suburb-of Syd-
ney, Australia, made 'this do-it- ISSUE 22 7- 1953
Dates and Prunes Are Sure-Fire Dessert'Hits
Punttuation
Then And Now
until. elnite, lately I to.* the
punctuation marks which guide
our reading pretty much for
granted, as something that • had
always been and elwaye would
re, I noted a few deviations, I
knew they had once been called
fointe and that. another expres.
, eiOn for peried was Atli. stop, I
knew the last century used more
commas than we do,
I ef'ase ewer* that the English-
in their queer way celled our
quotes, inVerted commas,, and I
knew, also that the Spanish put
A question mark before, as well - as after, the question, inverting
' the first one, a most sensible
procedure which tells, you a
question is a question when you
most want, to know it—before
you start to read it.
But lately I have been no-
ticing larger things.
The first of these was that
punctuation marks are canniba-
little. They feed on each other,
making new marks out of old.
Take that question mark which
the Spanish, put before as well
as after the question. It's the
eetnicolon used as a question
mark in medieval Greek manu-
scripts, dismembered and reas-
sembled with the period on the
bottom and the comma turned'.
*round and put on top. The com-
me itself is a virgule (the slant-
ing ',stroke you sometimes see be-
tween and and, or thusly _
and/or) decapitated and twisted
into a curve.
But that's nothing to the jolt
I get when I learned that our
ancestors used punctuation
marks not as we do, to make
grammaticalclear, gramatical :structure, but
as reading rests to indicate how -
long.the reader should pause at
a given place. In the 18th-cen-
tury "Young Ladies' and Gen-
tlemen's Spelling Book" I came
across a table of these rests, here
called stops, marks and pauses:"
A comma (,) is a pause in read-
ing until you may tell one.
A semicolon (;) two:
A colon (:) three;
A period (.) four. -
Thus you read, and still read,
for this is the punctuation of
the Bible. "The Lord is my Shep-
eard (count, or tell, two); „I
Shall not want (count four), He
anaketh me to lie 'down In-green
ia
stures (count three: he leadeth ,
e beside the Still waters (Count
ur)."
Webster in his famotie spell,
ing book changed the count e
bit )sere. He told our great-
#andfathers to count four, not
three, for a colon; six, not four,
,for a period. Being a sensible
rutmeg Yankee, he .wanted to
slow things down.
This makes punctuation much
easier than our modern system
—no grammar, no comma splices.
All you have to know is how to
rest. All you have to do is count.
My next discovery was note
of admiration, which I first came
upon in the "The New-York
gpeler," of 1819. Like note of in-
terrogation, for question mark,
It had the old wordy formality
in it and the Latin which we
are getting further and further
away from.
Our grannies also played with.
punctuation: I found, three points
drametized in an old rebus
which runs like this:
.If the B mt put:
If the B. putting:
Don't put; over a a-den
You'd be an • it.
Translated, this rebus, which
once adorned many a sampler
and pot-holdere reads thusly:
If the grate be empty, put
coal on.
If the grate be full, stop put,,
ting coal on.
Don't pet coal on over sehigh .
fender. ,
You'd he, an ass to risk it.- -
Great-granddad was a busy man,
as the song tells us, but he knevv
a colon from a full stop, a great
or capital B from a small one, a
It's How. We Live
That. Counts
At least one-third' of all man's
illnesses, from the common cold
to cancer, may now be traced
scientifically to the patient's en-
vironment and how well he
adapts to it.
This concept of disease was
presented by Dr. Lawrence E.
Hinkle Jr. of New York at a
meeting of the. American Col-
lege of Physicians in Atlantic
City, N.J. Its basis was a seven-
year Cornell Medical Centre
study covering some 3,000 per-
sons (American working men
and women, Chinese graduate
students, American college grad-
uates, and Hungarian refugees).
In each of these contrasting
groups, said Dr. Hinkle, was
found the same sickness pattern:
25 per cent of the men and wo-
men studied accounted for 50
per cent of the total illness for
each group.
The great majority of the dis-
Dease incidents came in "clesters,"
r. Hinkle said, at times when
elle members of every ,group
found their life situations and
environments "threatening, un7
eatisfying, overdemandinge pro-
ductive of conflict . . . against
which conditions they could
make no satisfactory adaptation."
In general, the conditions in-
velved• "disturbed relations with
family members or business as-
sociates, threats to security and
status, and restrictions and lim-
itations which made it impossible
for them to satisfy important
needs and drives."
The disease episodes were not
minor. They ran the gamut of
"major, irreversible, life-endana
gering illnesses." About 50 to
60 per cent were upper-respira-
tory disease; 20 per cent affected
the gastrointestinal tract, But
any body function regulated by
the.central nervous system might.
be influenced-by the patient's-
unfavorable reaction to environ-
ment, Dr, Hinkle suggested.
In some cases, changes of 'en-
vironment and of unsatiefactory
life situations might help. But
in the end; Dr: Hinkle thinks, it
is the patient's ability to adjust
to -his sieuation that will best
combat disease. "Ultimately," he
said, "medicine will have to take
account of-this- ire the treatinent
of illness. In view of the corn-.
plexities -irryolvect . . these ef-
forts will be difficult, time-con-
suming, and not, at first highly,
rewarding: /eevertheless; t h d
problem •of >the patient's relatipn,
to'his environment stands before
ps eas a stern •challenge to medi-
„ tine, and, noinas. an .easy oppor-
tunity.” —From NEWSWEEK
• • •
•
Portugal's Story
The country which was after-
ward to be known as Portugal"
was not discovered by the Ro-
mans in the way that the coasts .
of Africa, India and Brazil were
discovered by the Portuguese.
The, pioneers were Phoenicians,-
and perhaps also Mycenaean'
Greeks—who•had sailed from the
back of the Mediterranean out
into the Atlantic and up the
Portuguese coast, though unlike
the later Portuguese in pursuit
of pepper, they were in search
of tin. Portugal-was on the -way
to Galicia, BrittanY, and Corn--
wall, the places where tin was
found—the' tin which was' alloy-
ed with copper to make bronze;
but .the voyages were so long
that they led to the idea that
Lisbon (Ulyssipona)' had origie
nally. been founded by wise
Ulysses, and for that reason att..
eld Spaniah writer could say that
the Portugeese, whatever else
they were, were never stupid.
We may wonder now what.
geographical reasons could ac-
count for the formation of a, sep-
arate state in the west of the
Peninsula . . . That polygonal
mass, shaped roughly like a
pentagOn — so clearly separated
from the rest of Europe by the-
Pyrenees and so narrowly cut off
froni, Africa by, the Straits of.
Gibraltar — seems geologically
forrried for unity . . • •
Considered More • closely, the
judgment is shown to' be super-
ficial.' Even a tidy-minded civil.
servant -like' Philip II found 'it
.unworkable; and when it came
to pragtieel • administretion -the
Romans were right: Hispania
was :not one •province, 'but sev-
eral: Only 'worldly adVenttiters.
or unworldly theologians' could2
hope' to, govern the coastal. re- -
gion whether leyef plains or.
tumbled mountains — from 'the
fortress of the :,central :plateau.
The, population of. fishermen and
sailors were 'too ,unlike the mi- ,
gratory shepherds up above . . •
The. Peninsbla is slightly` tilt:
ed toward the west; there is no '
more room; the slopes are more
gradual than 'they arc in the
Basque or Catalan country .
As a rule, maritime peoplee
begin by fishing and exchanging,
fish; then they take to the &oast--
hid trade ; and exchange fish and:
can for other products 'with,
other peoples. This is what
happened in Portugal. But Por-
ttigal was in the ,beeinnietg, and
remained to the •end" of the fif-
teenth century, one vast forest,
broken. here , and' there by small
country towns and • Villages sur-
rounded by strips of ,cultivation.
A little -clearing here, and you
could' pasture` sheep end goate;
another,clearing; end you could
grow; -cereals of some sort; erye e
bate, of eer. be . ground hi
hatut,triillS by ' wennen,_ like the
women foreVer grinding maize
in Mexiati to', Make tortillas:
=From "Portugal",
hy'J: E..Trend.
Whipped cream tops DAR delicious elete=lirewnie pudding. ILeik
geitiiiif Itis, tied easy :te make; toe! . .
,BY DOROTHY MADDOX,
,
Like dates and prunes in dote
eats? If you do, ,you'll enjoy
these two very good recipes. • Date-Brownie Ttalditte
(8.10 servings)'
Three squares unsWeetenett
chocolate, g tablespoons stiertena
ing, 1 cup sifted' flour, 2 tea ,
species double* Acting. baking.
'powder, 1 teaSp66n salt, ,.'13 cup
ttigar, 2%cups milk,' n.teaSpeon
,vanilla, 1/2 cup chopped dates,
% cue ' chopped ' nut meats, 2'
'clip's water, 11,4, ceps sugar, 1
muare unsweetened` chocolate,.
• Melt 3 squares of chocolate
and shortcning together:, Cool.
,Sift flour, meaStire, 'add baking
, powder, sett,' .end Pe. tee Alger
',end Sift. again. Add milk and
."eiiiltit i until smooth Stir
'CO
M
Oled ChOcolitc Age*
fond nuts: •'Pour into" greased'
eiktia.inch pan' Combine water,
I iii dins sugar :.and •1 'square'
*hOCOleta' in sau cepan.
inediurn
stir Until 'siiger , is. dISSOIVed and
ithoeolate is' riielted! Bring .to a .,
boil, Pour:.oVer...ten'<ef better.
.4 *Ole. mOkee;---,ti.--chocolate' sauce
•Irkebottonelkf. 'pen after ..pudding. I. beaked ):puke - in :niederate
oVeitir3efe degriel''F:1.e40.1te-45.
• Oie: •
• iintrifitei, .
When you try the following
recipe — originally-from Europe
— please- remember that all
honey cakes require a few days
to ripen and it must also be
noted that in the .final -stages of
baking the oven temperaeure
should be lowered because honey
cakes scorch very easily.
• • •
HONEY CAKE
1 cup honey
II egg whites
IA cup butter
'1 cup 'brown-sugar
• egg yolks
I% cups sifted cake..flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
Se tspileialt
% cup milli
, Bring honey to it boil and then
tool it. Beat egg whites until
stiff.
In another bowl,cream-butter
'and 'sugar 'Until light, add 'egg
yolks 'arid beat until fluffy, •add•
, honey and beat well.
Sift flour, soda, salt and cin-
namon twice and, add to the mix-
ture alternately .with ,the milk.
Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites -
and few- into greased tube pan.
Bake 45 minutes oven 350 F.
Reduce 'heat to 300 F. and bake
15 minutes longer.
Cool cake for a short •while
before removing from pan. Let
'ripen 24 hours tor lopger before
serving.
•
RHUBARB CHIFFON TIE
(Yielde- about 8 servings)
1 cup quick-cooking rolled eats
'/a cup lightirpacked broWn
,.sugar
' % cup. butter, melted
11 /2 cup -cut-up flaked". or
, • shredded coconut
3% cups chopped rhubarb
1/2 cup water
(1., cup _granulated Sugar
1 .envelope unflavored gelatine
V2 I pint, (1% tept) whipping
cream
Preheae. oven to .375 degrees
(Moderately
Measure. rolled oats into a shal-
low pah and place preheated
oven' to toast, 5 to 10 minutes.
Mix in brown sugar, melted
butter and coconut: '
Paek crumble firmly :into bot-
and sides of 'a .po:plat6 (9
inches, top inside measure): Chill
until firm. _
Prepare thebarb and, place in
eaetepan; add' ?/4 .trip of the
, water and 1/2 'cup of the grant.t-
lated sugar:
Covet' erid..e6ok barely
tender — remove j/e cup, of the
rhubarb pieces;
Cook remaining fruit • Until
tender — 8 ,UelGithinutee longer.
Combine ,gelatine' and 'the ;re'- •
irriaining water) add to
rhubarb and stir .until gelatine
is .ilistoleede Cool until painiale
- Beat whipping cream 'until
stiff; beat in the remaining
cup, geamilited.Fold"10,;
' rhubarb' Miktere ;end' Itierre• into.:
prepared pie shell
„Garnish etop Of pie With the
'saved. out' :partially, ,cooked
tintireet. ' _
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and rind, lemon 'pike, nrtine,
lititiid,:Stigar and Mittel and teat.
to belling.. ' .- , . .; ..e .,,,e
Add ' 6:ere:Teich' .i‘iiiie ed.;.. with! '
Watet dind cook and stir until
iniiiiire, bolts and is thick. Eder '''''''
ovee.the 'prurteS. Cover piewith ,' i
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Strips el pastry: Peike abOtit 'e.il
minutes iti. i fiat` riven 1423 dee
Oen. P. .
wine or water,. clip orange
juice, .1 teaspoon grated Orange,
rind, 2 ,tai?letrio0s: ,ju ice;
te• tug preinn conking '.:11qted;:tle:
cup sugar,- - t es pOczt blitter.
or 4131bnpooils
tete:sus:fele 2 tableleoces. cold
Water, 'pa airy" fee • fe-ihelf
end' strip top. , Pit • end cut in halve!.
&Wig. M i iseStry4leed
ItACKSTOP'WITH' VISION _ • .
Bobby 'Bregan, ex-third, string
Catcher; 'begged the club Secree
tank fOr an extra .pair Of ,tickete
teethe '.1947 Vlforld sSeries.„.Witht
'.7.111het do.You, Ivant ,thein fori"
the felowr *d.rnanded •
41111.*iid Rex Barney,' Cantle.
Straight:fazed answer'
tikan't &see ,se: good :front Hifi beef-,
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!Above, "rising ;pretty eeitkliii Pretty eliading
Crystoe, who "lays hie wife..
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