The Brussels Post, 1958-07-16, Page 6TABLE TALKS
eJam Andrews.
10. Billy Graham.
In. The Far West
Where The, Mother
Is . Really Ross
Nepal' but known And respected'
in far away China, as it was so
much nearer, iii Iedia.
There flourished no fewer.
than fifteen great seats.. of B441
dhist learning, smaller lestitue
tione without number, and a
Multitadinees population of
monks and students .and schol-
ars. To all this the material
survivals of today give testis
mony, The great open space; and
quadrangles were once sur-.
rounded by their cells and places.
of study,: and the shrines and
temples are the surviving ex-
pression of such piety. Perhaps,
indeed, Paten could boast of bee
nig the greatest centre of Bud-
dhist culture in the easr,
As I made my way through
the streets, the tap of a metal,
smith's hammer and the wheeze
of his fellows sounded from
many little shops and. houses.
It was captivating to look in
through an open shop front and
watch a silver-smith crouched
in his corner, beating out .finely
chased cups or blowing up his
little fire of highest-grade cnar-
coal with the crudest and most
primitive bellows imaginable:
bag of goat-skin with a nozzle
at one end, the other open, with
a wooden handle on either side,
The same form of .bellows is
found all over Tibet and must
be as old as the art of working
metal. The average Newer
craftsman keeps it for choice —
though some use a type identi,
cal with our own — and per- •
haps 'its slowness is more effi-
cient in regulating the tempera-
ture with precision,
Quite as fascinating to watch
was the modelling by the simple
process of cire perdue — "lost •
wax' — by which the Newars
make the small metal figures and
the temple vessels. It is a process
perfectly efficient, and as old as,
civilization. First the object is
modelled by making an exact
replica of wax. This is coated'
firmly in clay with a hole left
at one end, and then baked hard
in the fire. The melted wax is
absorb-ed into the clay or poured
out, and the space it leaves is ,•
replaced by molten metal .poured
in to take its place. A little filing
and polishing up, and the figure,.
or whatever it may be, is fin-
ished.—From "The Sherpa and
the Snowman," by Charles Stan-
then they divert*, usually by
mutual, agreement,
There must be two witnesses,
and each party nrealuees five
rupees, The wife sloes hers to
the husband, who mixes them
with his own and, hands the lot
back to her to shake up and re-
turn to him, He then throws
them on the ground, whereupon
a. slave, eating as "crier", runs,
thorugh the village shouting:
"Healcen, villagens! K— and
U— have separated today in
the presence of the elders! Heil
all ye young men who are not
yet wed, come and court K--,
who is no longer the wife of her
husband; come, ye maidens, and
court U—, there is nothing to
prevent It!"
When a spouse is absent for
a very long time a divorce is
pronounced before the head of
the clan and the elders in the
presence Of the spouse's relatives,
for the race must multiply and
the clan produce fine children.
Divorced persons cannot re-
marry into the clan of their
former spouse. A woman can-
not divorce if ehe is expecting
a child.
Generally, the author says,
there is no polygamy among the
Khasi, but a man may have a
mistress before he marries pro-
vided she is not from the same
village from which he will choose
his future wife.
NATIONAL HOT-DOG MONTH—U.S. Agricultural Secretary Ezra Taft Benson bites into a three-
foot hot dog presented to him in his office as a forerunner of National Hot-Dog Month.
manager, Hotel
Captive In A Harem
or.
SALAD DRESSING — Mrs. Helen
Nicholls is ready to eat her hat,
an entry in the Sandys Flower
Hat Show in Hamilton, Ber-
muda. Mrs. Nicholls, who's from.
Paget, Bermuda, raided her
vegetable garden for the cha-
peau, which has baby carrots
fanning out over a crown of
lettuce leaves. Asparagus fern
adds a finishing touch.
Mental' Health
From Chemistry?
Pr. Billy Graham completed
his, capture of another big town
last month,
Behind him was a global series
of stirring triumphs; Los A-lar
geles, New Orleans,London,
Glasgow, Madras, N ew York.
Now San Francisco had rallied
hugely to the world's most suc-
cessful evangelist (photographed
at 'pile of the city's famous,
bridges), During his seven-Week
crusade, 696,525 persons flocked
to the roomy Cow Palace (ca-
pacity: 16,500) on the city's
southern industrial edge, In the
44 meetings of the campaign,
25,575 came forward to make
their "decisions for Christ"
even more than had .done so
during the same period in the
record-breaking (and much long-
er) New York crusade.
In planning his Western cru-
sade, Graham used the same
well-tried techniques which have
served him so well before. First
came an invitation from the city,
an assurance that a majority of
the local Protestant churches ap-
proved and supported his efforts.
The invitation set off a clock-
work of organizing committees,
prayer groups, and publicity. By
the time Graham began his
arduous series of sermons, San
Francisco was well aware of his
coming and a substantial follow-
ing was at work on the crusade,
From the evangelist's point of
view, almost all the big towns
are sinful and hard, but for a
long time before the crusade
Billy thought that San Francisco
was sure to be the toughest of
them all. He pointed out that it
had never had a successful
evangelistic campaign before and
that "its spiritual roots were not
very deep." Even today, he not-
ted, many people journey there
with "the psychology of ' 'Go
West, young man' for the pot of
gold," and, failing to find it, end
up in a state of despair.:
Lasting Impression: As always,
Graham's sermons were lively
and full of ear-catching modern
phrases ("So amazing is God's
love that He erases your sins
from His mind as a tape recorder
erases its sound track"); so were
his statements to the press (his
answer to the current emphasis
on sex: "Cover the female
bosom").
There was the familiar Graham
showmanship, 'sometimes criticiz-
ed, but, as in the past, the cru-
sade had a grave religious impact
on the live audiences, on the
millions who saw the televised
meetings, and on the 1,200:odd
Bay Area churches which sup-•
ported the campaign. The Rev.
Donald Slieley of 'the Glad Tid-
ings Temple (Assemblies. of
God) said: "It will . . cause a
great upsurge of spiritual ac-
tivity. We may not always .
see eye to eye with Billy Gra-
ham on doctrinal matters, but we
do . . in his presentation of the
need of a man's experience with
-Christ."
—From Newsweek,
and beverage
New Yorker.
8 slices giant size rye bread
Butter
2 cups egg salad
12 ounces beef tongue (about 20
slices)
Butter bread. Place slices end
to end. Spread 4 'slices with egg
salad, using 1/2 cup per slice.
Place tongue on opposite bread
slices. Serve with India relish
and green pepper wedges. Four
sandwiches. * *
Here's a new, bite-size pastry
to serve with a beverage at the
afternoon sessions when good
friends visit together
These can be prepared ahead
and served just slightly warm,
Or cold, as you wish. These tiny
pastry Jam Roll-Ups are good
the whole year round, and are
also popular as family bedtime
snacks while everybody is watch-
ing a favorite television pro-
gram. They are delicious and
easy to make.
Jam Roll-Ups
1 cup' butter
% lb. (8 oz. pkg.) cream cheese
2 cups sifted enriched flour
1 teaspoon salt
Your choice of jam
Combine butter and cream
cheese and blend until smooth:
Combine flour and salt and blend
into butter mixture. Chill about
1/2 hour.
Roll out about 1/4 inch thick.
Cut into 21/2 -inch squares.
Spread each square with 1 tea-
spoon' jam to within 114 inch of
edge. (Be careful with 'the jam
in this roll-up' process — too
much jam will squeeze out and
ruin the pastry.) Roll up firmly.
Place rolled edge down on un-
greased baking ,sheets. Bake at
425° F. about 12 minutes or un-
til golden brown, Makes about
2 1/2 dozen.
Craftsmen In Nepal
APPLESAUCE—This "hat" is so far
ahead of the fashion parade
that it extends 'way out of the
picture, -at left. Model Rose-
mary Sayers modeled it in Lon-
'don, England, as a promotion'
gimmick for a film's debut.
Towns 'of Nepal owe much of
,their beauty to a wonderful
' blend of 'styles; for architects
and craftsmen have 'never been
afraid to borrow:: the pagoda
.from China, ' the stupa domes'
- from India; all enhanced by ,
their owhprecious gift,of origin-
ality. Anciently, before, the Gun;
Ilia conquest, Paten ranked first
among the 'three little Kingdoms
.of the Valley, with its own roy-
al house of Newer stock; it also
held an urivalled'plaCe 'as a cen-
'tre of Buddhist culture and
learning; not only Unrivalled in
A PAIN TO EXPLAIN
The White Sox and the Red
'Sox were • involved in 'one of
those interminable games, with
managers Richards and Bou-
dreau moving men in and out
of the contest in wholesale lots.
Thirty-five men took part in-the
affair before' it was finally' de-
cided.
After player number thirty-
four left the fray, one sports-
writer turned to another: "I'd
hate to' have to explain this game'
to a visiting Englishman,"
"I'd hate to have to explain
it to an *american," was the
-reply.
If you are making sandwiches
for a crowd, buy sliced bread
and line up slices two by two,
using slices that lie next to each
other on the loaf so the edges
will fit. Making fillings before
starting. Here are a few cold
sandwich fillings for simple
sandwiches — then some elab-
orate ones that are really meals.
Swiss Cheese: Combine a 1/2
pound finely grated Swiss cheese
with 1/4 cup chopped ripe olives,
1 teaspoon dry mustard and 1/4
cup mayonnaise.
Carrot-Peanut: Mix one cup
grated raw carrots with aa cup
finely chopped salted peanuts, 3
tablespoons piccalilli and 1/4 cup
mayonnaise.
Roquefort-Pecan: ,Combine 1
3-ounce package cream cheese
with Y4 cup crumbled Roquefort
cheese. Add 2-tablespoons chop-
ped pecans and 2 tablespoons
cream. pa
te - Honey - Peanut Butter:
Combine 1/2 cup peanut butter,
1,4 cup finely cut, pitted dates,
1/4 cup honey and 5 teaspoons
lemon juice.
Tuna-Olive: Combine 1/2 cup
flaked tuna, 3/4 cup chopped
stuffed olives, 21/2 tablespoons
mayonnaise or salad dressing
and lb teaspoon lemon juice.
Avacado - Sour Cream: Com-
bine % cup masheil avocado, 1/4
cup sour cream, 2 teaspoons
lemon juice 'and 114 teaspoon
salt. * • •
The U.S. National. Restaurant
Association and the Wheat Flour
Institute conducted a •nationwide
search for new sandwich ideas.
They held a competition and out
of thousands of entries selected
the 20 newest and best. These
were adapted for family use.
Here are several prize 'winning
recipes!
Summer Treat Sandwich
From Miss Grote Henningsen,,
food supervisor, University of
Chicago.
4 slices bread, toasted
Butter
Lettuce leaves
1 pound (3-mince can) aspara-
gus spears, drained
16%-ounce can jumbo salad
Shrimp, drained
3 tablespoonsa of 'mayonnaise (b
Paprika
1 tomato, cut in ..8 wedges
Spread toast with, butter. On
each slice, place lettuce and 3,4
asparagus spears: A re a n g e
shrimp diagonally over aspara-
gus. Make mayonnaise rosettes
on asparagus on each side, .of
centre. Sprinkle the mayonnaise
with paprika, Place tomato
wedge on each Side between
shrimp and asparagus. Four
eandwiches,
*
Spring Garden Club . Sandwich
,Xrorn Mrs. E.. J. Overstreet,
owner and.manager of the Mi,
inosa Reetatiratit.
18 slices bread, toasted
'34 cup softened cream cheese
`Lettuce leaves
12 tomato
Butter
Ciiduinhet
Spread 6 slices.'toast With
deem' Cheese. Cover'. with. let,
'hide arid tomato slides,. Spread 6
more 'toast slides With butter,
8pread with cuturnbet'. filling —
about 8 tablespoons per sand-
wich, Top With rernaining toast
slideS. Cut into citarters.
One of mental health's most
. significant developments — the
move away from the psycho-
analyst's couch with its emphasis
on emotional disentanglement to
advancing drug therapy -- got
into the news on several fronts
last month. In the quest for bio-
chemical origins, cure, and pre-
vention 'of mental illness, this
happened: Dr. Robert Galbraith
Heath', head of neuropsychiatry
at Tulane University and a
pioneer in the field of "chemical
psychiatry", brought up' to date
his research with taraxein. A
substance found in " the blood
serum of victims of schizo-
phrenia, it was injected in the
blood stream of convict volun-
teers. Result: "The injections in-
duced behaViour changes which
were 'very similar of the' pattern
of the patients from whom the
blood was taken." (Within twe
hours, the subjects were back
to normal.) "We think the serum
destroys the activity of an en-
. zyme • present in part of the
!brain, causing a misfiring of that
portion." To find a drug to com-
bat this effect, Heath and his
associates, have 'for months been
using ,a new extract of cattle
brain. When injected into schizo-
phrenic patients the extract, he
reported, "has predated changes
in the biophysical make-up so
that it nearly resembles that of
normal, people,"
Dr. Leon Oettinger Jr., pedia-
trician of St, Luke's hospital in
Pasadena, Calif., announced that
daily tablet doges' of Deaner, a
new antidepressant compound,
has improved the mental and
Physical condition of 108 child:,
ren (6 Months to 20 years) with
behaviour p r o b I e iii s severe
enough to Make -them "socially
unaccepted", After six weeks on
Deaner, 68 per ent of the box:
and girls had .Significantly
peeved,, both in, emotional bete
haviour and in their School: work,
Deaner has been used success-,
fully` in adult experiments to
stimulate people suffering from
chronic fatigue and headaches
(including migraine).
Dr. H. E. Lehman announced
that he has used a new Swiss
drug, imitramine hydrochloride;
On 100 Cased Of dangerously do-
pressed psychotic patients hi
Montreal; with itriprovetrients in
'76 to 80 pet cent of them within
kik months. the conripotinclo
neithera stimulant nor seda-
tivei said to "iiiibloalt' 'the
patient's fixed depressive Medd
and release the inhibitions which
winded the despondency',
"Every day I sat in terror in
the King's harem, wondering if
my call would come."
London's flashy press was
panting over a story that seem-
ed to be right out of "Arabian.
Nights", A 25-year-old British
housewife named Rita Nasir had
been "held prisoner" by the
fierce, sexagenarian King of
Yemen for four months.
It all began, Mrs. Nasir said
on returning to Britain, when
she, her Yemeni husband, Ah-
med,, 38, ad' their five small
daughters left England for Yemen
where Ahmed had been offered
a teacher's job. For two weeks,
the Nasirs lived peaceably in a
palace guest house in Ta'izz.
Then, at a military review, the
King saw Rita. Next day, three
soldiers arrived at the guest
house, escorted her and her
daughters Into a station wagon,
and whisked them off to the
palace.
"I was given a room in the
harem," she said, "a wonderful
room luxuriously furnished with
thick carpets, silk drapes, and
deep cushions all over the floor.
There were lots more rooms like
it opening onto a central garden."
All told, she said, the harem
housed two wives and 200 con-
cubines—some barely 15 years
old, the gifts of other 'Arab
sheiks. African slaves in baggy
cotton pantaloons stood guard.
Mrs. Nasir offered other peeks
into harem life: The King had
a circle of favorites who sat at
his feet and waited for him to
snap his fingers. Others stitched
and sewed or changed their cos-
tumes three and four times a
day, Some never were called.
,They just "waited and waited in
the scorching palace until they
lost all interest in life." .
And Mrs. Nasir?
"I was called to the King five
or six times," she • said. "I was
always' frightened. But we only
. . . talked."
She got away at last when
one of her daughters fell 'ill
,and she had to go to the hospital.
There she met her husband who
bribed a man to drive them
across the desert to British. Aden.
.Back at the palace, the King
kept a discreet, if perhaps be-
wildered, silence. In feudal
Yemen, the King can bestow
few greater honors ,on a woman
than to offer her the hospitality
of his harem.
In the Wild, remote mountains
of Assam, there is a tribe, the
Khasi, ruled by women, Maa.a
Of them want to have ehildren
by European men, so they go
off to work In, the tea `gardens of
the Himalayan foothills where
there are plenty of English bach-
elors who are attracted by their
youth and charm. They then re-
turn to their mountains, proud
to bear line children with fair
skins.
A Khaei man is abscautelY pro-
hibited from marrying a woman
of his own clan, and in some
cases marriages between certain
clans are forbidden because the
young people of marriageable
age are of the same stock, So to
ensure that there can be rone
ensure that there can be no re-
lationship between them and the
clan, these women take Euro-
pean partners.
Gabrielle Bertrand, who re-
cently explored among the prim-
itive tribes of N.E. India, met a
Captain Hunt who had lived in
Assam for ,a5 years, taken to
farming and distilling, and mar-
ried a Khasi woman whose father
was head of Mawphlang state.
Their 15-year-old daughter, a
tall, pretty girl, had taken her
mother's name In accordance
with the strict matriarchal sys-
tem.
, In the family, Miss Bertrand
explains in "Secret Lands Where
Women Rule", the mother holds
first place. On her death her
eldest brother—or, failing him,
a younger—takes her place, or
da there is no brother, a woman
from her sister's family.
Generally, the mother's eldest
brother represente the clan and
-helps the female head of it. The
feminine duties and burdens, like
the property, pass to the young-
est daughter, who thus has little
chance of marrying young, The
girls choose their husbands.
Captain Hunt's marriage was
of this kind. On the wedding
day, he said, he went with his
friends to his bride's house, and
half way was met by her and
the men of her family.
They offered each other betel
nut and spirit from a bowl, then
all went to the house where
other relatives waited. These
took him by the hand and said:
"You ate going to be our bro-
ther; you must be kind and take
great care of your wife and obey
her in everything and follow her
everywhere" — the exact op-
posite of our Western procedure.
He was then permitted to sit
next to the girl, though he had
known her over a year and pro-
posed long before. Next, he was
required to present her with a
bag of betel nut, some of which
she offered to all the guests in
turn while the ritual fotmula
was being put to the two con-
tracting parties, who replied.
That was the end of the civil
ceremony, but elaborate religious
ceremonies followed.
At every wedding there is a
very special function. The new•
lyweds select two people, one
male, one female, who pretend
to quarrel. This is to show up
the absurd side of family bicker-
ing; prevent disputes, and chase
away evil spirits.
Three days must elapse before
the couple' can live together.
The bride then visits her hus
band in his parent's house, takes
him by the hand, and invites him
to come and live with her.
Captain Hunt said that not un-
til the birth of his daughter
two years after the marriage had
he the right to take his wife
to the house he had built, in
which he was now living.
Divorce among the Khasi is a
very simple matter. Couples
operate for many reasons—adul-
tery, sterility, incompatibility —
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'Cucumber Pilling
mediulii cucumbet
spring Onion
1' teaspoon salad 'dressing
1 teaspoon prepared horseradish.
Pare cucitinber. Coarsely grate
Cucumber and Ordoit'brairi. Mix
'with salad tlresting tend horse.
radish. Six' EarldWiches.
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