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The Brussels Post, 1959-04-30, Page 6e a 3 , 4 4 31.4 ,AW Yellow Shoes At A Bargain Price Dad grinned, trying 0;4, the new coat, happily, 'How 0 I look?" "The elloeldeee fit evot dere fully," mother admitted, — "You'll need a new per ef oes to go with this, Those you have on are terribly scuffed." "I see by the paper they're having a sale tomorrow of Eng- lish shoes in Boston," Dad agreed, Ike and I went through even, our husky boots with the brass 'eyelets so fast that Dad always waited for the basement ehoe sales to get his. He came home next day with a pair of English walking shoes, beautifully made but such a bright yellow you could hardly see what else he had on. "There weren't any black ones in my size," Dad defended him- self to my mother's gasp of hor- ror. "But these are good shoes. Cost ten dollars originally, and now they're only,$1.98, The tag's right on 'em, see? Made in Eng- land. I paid only a dime for the black dye I got in the drug .`tore; $2.08 isn't bad for a pair ofshoes as good as, these." , e e"Itte. blaelcsiye will rub off, mother prophesied but Tad in- sisted, stubbornly thathwat non- sense; he knew what he was do- ing. The black dye Weseed, pun- gent, drying, it sinellecleeup the whole heese,,ape every,time we kids barged into Tee'eesteiele that week, he'd snap, ,eet for my eEnglieta. sliogei"; wanted them ready- Jor, ..next: Sunday morning, because he Was planning Ito dedicate the individual com- munion cups( . • It was raining' herd the next Sunday,, on' his odorifer- ous new shoes and rubbers to- walk the six blocks to the church, setting out under his big black cotton umbrella with 'the pine handle, with the -'est•of the fam- ily trailing anxious umbrellas be- ;hind him up the sidewalk. But mother's' prophecy was justified;. when Dad took off his rubbers at the vestry door, the toes of both his shoes. were bright yellow suns. ' ""You can't wear those!" .1\ilother wailed. Not with everyone kneel- inpat the communion railing, Reeking With bent heads right. down -to where Dad's shoes walk! "Susie, yOu go tell the organist not to stop the prelude^till I get back. I'll rup fnime for' your old shoes!" "'"NO. Wait," Dad, daught, her arm, "Thpre isn't time," He grin- ned ddwn ruefully at his sun- burst toes, ,murmuring, "'Be sure -your sins will, find you out.' " That Sunday the startled con- gregation was offered the newly dedicated communion cups by their preacher wearing his rub- bees! —From "Preacher's Kids," by Grace Nies Fletcher. ' water; bring to boil. Acid rice taennctderC°°k wly(2&s-leoerniunnutteils).riceAclids more water, If rice becomes dry, Season in the onwith saelg, tos ancdoveprepeaenrci Drop sim mer are firm, about10,Minetee, or an, eggstil Note; If yole prefer hard cooked eggs instead of poached, quarter 6 liard-cooked eggs on top of creole rice, * m Save three slices of hard- cooked eggs for a garnish in the center of this dish of scalloped eggs, . SCALLOPED EGGS 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons (lour ee teaspoon each, salt and paprika 34 teaspoon each, pepper and ground nutmeg 11/2 cup milk ag cup bettered soft bread crumbs (2 tablespoons butter added to crumbs) 6 hard-cooked eggs, sliced 1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley 1 tabtespoon minced onion Melt butter over low heat; blend in flour, salt, paprika, pep- per and nutmeg; add milk all at once. Cook over moderate heat, stirring cbnstantly until uniformly thickened. Spread half the crumbs iretthe bottom of a 9-inch pie plate. Cover crumbs with half the white sauce, Ar-, range the egge'over the sauce in', a layer. Sprinkle parsley and onion over the eggs. Cover with „ remaining white sauce and top with remaining crumbs. Bake at 400' F. for 20 minutes, or until, crumbs are brown and sauce is bubbly, Serves 4. * C * CHICKEN PIE GRAVY Before you put your top crust Over your chicken pie, make your gravy for it this way if you like a clear, slightly thick gravy, Beat 1 egg thoroughly and add a little Chicken broth to it slowly. Stir this mixture into the remaining broth and ,q)our, over your chicken and vege- tables, then put on the top crust and bake, Royal Art Of Shaking Hands In, Court eircles it is generally agreed that the Queen is likely to do More handshaking, during 1050 than, she has done in any previous year since 'she came to the Throne, leer visits to• Canada and Nest Africa, will inevitably involve a great deal of greeting people, The Queen well knows that meeting hundreds of people by shaking 'their hands can be extremely-fatiguing, but' She also knows what a friendly gesture it is. Fee years she has. cultivated a graceful, relaxed style which helps to minimize fatigue, One famous man said oriteiteme time ago; "-It is delightful: The*Queen's hand may look limp as, she shakes hands, but I can-assure you it is really quite firm, She does, how- 'ever, leave you to de the actual hand-shaking," " During one visit abroad some years ago, handshaking was 'tem- porarily cancelled at a ceremony ,in an ,area where esone cases of polio had been reported. All mempers of the Royal Fam- ily, especially thebelee of Edin- burgh, get plenty of "handshak- ing in the course of their public duties. The Duke is now so ex- perienced in the art that he can carry on for a long time without feeling any effects. His is no open-handed clutch. He usually. offers three fingers only to be enveloped in the other person's palm. There are no wrist movements, no crushed little finger, and no squashed knuckles for him. r. DOUBLE-DUTY DOG -- Finnegan, 'a talented French poodle, takes care of little Patricia Stevenson in a corner Of New' York's Madison Square Garden while watching for his cue to go through an act. Finnegan baby-sits while Patricia's parents put dogs through their circus paces in the ring. "Gussie Wilson knows more about egg nuyieg than anyone in the country," said William F. Leimert, president of Tranin Egg Prodects Co., in Kansas City, Mo. And she buys millions of them. Coming from her boss as this observation did, it's certain to be true, for Mrs, Wilson has the re- sponsibility of buying 5,400,000 eggs a week! She is the only woman egg buyer for a large company in the United States. this country each year. Here is an egg dish that may be served for lunch or supper, It-combines onions with gently fried eggs. ELECTRIC SKILLET EGGS I/2 cup. (1%. pound) butter 2 cups .(about 10 ounces) chopped onion 1 dozen eggs teaspoon salt Melt' baiter in a 10-inch elec- tric skilletavith heat control set at 300 degrees F. Add onions, spreading to make even: layer on bottom of pan, and cook until transparent, strring occasional- ly. Break eggs into bowl, slip into skillet on top of .onions Sprinkle with salt. Cover and cook eggs to desired doneness- 3 to 5 minutes. Makes- 6 serv- What does anybody do with 5,400,000 eggs a week? "We freeze some of the eggs and 'Make 'egg solids out of others," Mrs. Wilson told me as we sat in her office where the telephone rang often as egg sell- ers from Missouri, Kansas, Ne- braska, Iowa — even Minnesota, and South Dakota -e quoted their prices or asked for her buying figure. Just outside the door of her office, truck loads of eggs were being unloaded and sent, on cenveyor belts, to the cold- storage rooms across the alley from the office building. "Who uses these frozen egss And egg solids?" I asked, be- tween telephone calls. "They go to food producers, bakeries, confectioners, noodle manufacturers, mayonnaise man- ufacturers — companies like that — all over the country," she ex- plained. "Are you going to charge me a dollar for cutting my few hairs?" the nearly bald customer asked the barber. "Not at all, sir. Fifty cents for cutting and. fifty cents search fee." DOES WELL after appendec- tomy. Prince4 Grace of Monaco. Mrs, Wilson started with the Tranin Company in the early 1920's as bookkeeper and gradu-, ally worked into egg buying and now serves also ae assistant sec- retary personnel manager. * There's more to egg buying than at first meets the eye. Weight has to be Considered — and this differs according to the time of year. Freshness, of coarse, is imperative. Then, some of the eggs are graded and some are not and the prices for these differ. There are other considerations, too. * * • "Some of our customers need dark yolks for their food prod- ucts — and we have to know where to buy eggs that give us this color in the yolks," explain- ed Mrs. Wilson. 'The big 'egg-buying season is from January to June, though it actually goes on all year, Mrs, Wilson's warm voice and cheerful, ready laugh explain some of her popularity in ,the egg ihdustry. She is tall and blond — with gray eyes and gel- deri hair — and she wears, suits that enable her to take off. her jacket when the weather gets warm. Her blouse, the day I in- terviewed her, was white, 'Welt- ed all over and 'trimmed with lace "Hello Sam—or Jchn, or Dick, or Bill: — I'm buying them for such-and-Such a price today -- yes, I can take 600 cases from you. Well; perhaps' More tomorrow —." So her conversation goes on the telephohd, With a tape from the Chicago Mercantile.Exchange ticking off prices nearby by the initaUte. It is an exciting life thiat Mee. Wilson leads in her little office on Oak Street down neer the river. She is calm arid cheer- ful through it all because she is doihg Work that she understands and lbees, writes Eleeher Richey Jetinefori in The ChrlStiari ,encp Monitor. Egg's on yotie table they be served ri literally hundreds of WAYS,They should always be cooked at low to' Moderate teni , itiOrattl It. I have been told that over 6() billion eggs are Catch hi lan-i=packed phone booth . . money for tliet Which maybe should go for something else, Put eettidal we raise the money somehow?„ Miss Ellen's eyes were twink- ling, now, "Did you tell your papa-yen were going to talk thie over with me?" she asked. "Why, no," I said, serPeieed at such an idea, "Why should I? You want a new organ, and Papa wants to sell one, and all we need is money, and why shouldn't we raise some?" Thtre didn't seem to me to be any ques- tion about it, eyou may have a point," Miss Ellen said thoughtfully, but she almost looked as if she wanted to laugh, "I'll talk it over with Miss Crabtree. Maybe we can come up with something. In the meantime, let's keep it to our- selves, shall we?" I was of course charmed to have a secret with ,Miss Ellen and actually managed to keep it though it was not easy, for sev- eral days passedbefore I heard anything- more about it, Then one morning -Miss Ellen gave us a talk to stir the blood. The two teachers certainly had diseussed the matter to good pur- pose, and Miss Ellen, fresh from River Falls normal, was full of ideas. She laid it on the line to the primark room. The school was badly in need of an organ. We could earn it ourselves if we were willing to work. Would we do it? As a man, we rose to the challenge. We were to put on a program, but it was no ordinary program. It was a cantata and we'd have it in the Town Hall where there was plenty of room, and it was up to us to sell the tickets. If we could sell enough in advance, we could have the organ in time for the program. Of course I longed for a spe- cial part, but the few there were of those were taken by members of the upper grades. There was plenty to do, however. In school and after school we worked on songs and groupings, and some drills and tableaux invented by our teachers. Mamma and Cousin. Anna and a few other :ladies ren up costumes of cheesecloth in white and pastel rolors which de- lighted the girls. In our spare time, ,which wes scanty, we eanys_esed the town selling tickets, and Papa had them for sale in the store. They sold readily, for a cantata was something entirely new in. Deer Forest back at the turn of the century. I was on hand, cleaning black- blackboards after- school, the day all the peoceeds were in, The two teachers eagerly counted, and 'hen Miss Ellen loOked up in een clisapporitmene. "It isn't enough!" she said. woefully. "We can't have it in time!" "There'll be some tickets sold the night of the performance," Miss Crabtree said. ."That will bring it up some." ' "But, oh, I did want the organ for that night," sighed Miss El- len, and added, as if a dreadful thought had just struck her. "What if we can't get it at all?" I ran home as fast as I could and told all this at suppertime. Papa looked disturbed, for not only did he want to sell the or- gan but he had caught the en- thusiasm over,-the cantata and wanted the whole project to suc- ceed. "Wonder if there isn't something we could do," he be- gan, when Mamma interrupted eagerly. "Didn't you say, Gilbert, that Mr .Beebe in Star Lake recently gat the Kimball agency?" "Yes, but what in the world has that got to do with our can- tata?" . "I was just thinking — this is a good time for a sleighing party, and• a crowd might like to come over from Star Lake. A cantata is something utaisual. And with everybody working so hard why couldn't the school mothers do their part and offer a little sup- per after the program? Maybe. Mr. Beebe would help get un Star Lake crowd to come, We could reciprocate sometime when they were trying to ;raise money. I believe they'd think it Was fun, Then, With that many sure ticket sales for the night, couldn't you Advance enough to—" It seemed a wonderful idea to the, and one could easily see it appealed to Papa too. "Yes, but how could We get, it all arranged? There isn't much time." • "I thought you had something new down in the store called a telephone," said Mamma, arid now Papa's eyes began to twin- kle. "That's right!" he exclaithecl. "Might as Weil Make it earn its keep.." The hall Was crowded the night of the cantata, Even standing room was filled,lip in front etoed the new organ, Miss Ellen peoud- ly seated on the nee, etc161, And I had a special part after -all, for there was a peologue to tee spoken arid Miss Ellen said , 'I ,•eholch do that just as well as anyone, eShe'S really earned the pert," I thought I heard her eae iii a low Wile to Miee Cralettee, but. dedided I must Have bed* Mistakeri. I hadn't date anything, but help earn the Money. —Sy Alto Halverson Seyinourairi the Christian Science Monitoe, • held 24 men at Birminaham.Southern, in Alabama . . BELOW PAR Mrs. Torn Amis wound up with this wacky cha- peau as a booby prize. She was low woman in a local fund-rais- ing drive. Napa's Store Puts In A New Line There was a little air of trie 1=01 about Papa When he came Up from the store One snowy iViring and eettied himself in faVerite chain "Something special happened today, Gilbert?" asked Mamma, "Well, maybe you might call It a little epeeial. Letter came In the evening email, books as if I can have that ageneY for organs and pianos." Mamma's blue eyes shone. Papa had been wanting such an agency for some time. "I hope I can sell one right soon. Of course I've got some pretty good prospects, and I told them so, but these big items might take a little time," Mamma nodded thoughfully, "The school needs a new organ," she said. "They need a new organ, all right, but they also need the money to buy it, and where they're going to find that is quite a big question." "I thought you said there was a balance in the treasury this year." "Yes, but since I'm a member eellip school hoard, and, so many things are needed, I couldn't very well propose that it use the ' money to buy an organ frOm me." "Couldn't they have a social or a bazaar or something?" I burst in, thinking of the usual Deer Forest ways of raising money, "Takes time to get things ready for a bazaar," said Mam- ma. "Anyway, the Ladies Aid bad one just before Christmas. And we had a basket social last month and the strawberry social will be coming on. I really don't see—" I heard them talking about it long after I had been sent to tied, and I was thinking it all over as I set off over the snowy roads to school the next morn- ing. Of course I wanted Papa to have a chance to sell' the organ, but I had something else in mind too. Twice a; "week now, ale% whole school gathered_ for * singing lesson. Our new pri- Mary teacher, Miss Ellen Ander- son, played and led the singing ,in. a way none of our other teachers had done, but there were times when she looked in despair at our wheezy old organ. "I wish we could get a piano, but. I know that's out of the auestion," „I had heard her say to Miss Crabtree, our principal. "If we just had a decent organ, we could really have some. mu- here. These children take to' et." I liked, pretty, lively Miss Ellen, It 'seemed no more than Muir that she; should have a de- cent organ to play. And now here was Papa just waiting to sell one. I had come early on purpose take the matter ue with Miss Alen and was delighted to find r alone at her desk. "Miss Ellen, .you want a new organ, don't you?" I asked, Miss Ellen looked a little startled. "I hope you didn't tell your papa I'd been complaining about the organ," she said. "Oh,no! He knows .we, need a new one, anyway-, and Mamma does too." "Well, that's good," she said, sounding relieved, and then ;tided, with her quick smile. "You didn't happen to bring me one in your pocket, did you?" I liked joking as well as any- one, but this seemed no time for it. "No, but Papa just got an organ agency and of course he'd like to sell one to the school, but he's on the board, you see, and he doesn't want to use 4: Prayer Food For Growing Plants Can prayer make plants grow faster and bigger? Skeptics think it laughable, scientists find`it ir- relevarit, arid farmers tend to rely on more mundane methods to increase their crops. But ihe Rev. Frahklin Loehr is convinced that the answer is yes, and has, just written a boole,"The Power of Prayer on Plants," to tell why. Aeter, five years and 900 exper- iments, k6-yeas-old Fresher., terian minister reports he and 150 members of his prayet group found thee piayecl-for wheat and corn seeds grew into' bigger seed- lings than ones which got ho prayer or outright negative prayer. Commenting on their methods recently in his Los An- geles home, Mt, Loehr explaired that they used every kind :of prayer and found every one ea,' fective to a degree. 'There Were silent and spoken prayers," he continued, those to loved Ones. arid the humble prayer straight of God. But Mostly people just talked to the plants, loved them, or Scolded them, First I tried ebuddering up to them, arid then I observed that the people getting better results Woe approaching the :plants on their own level of consciousness.'. Picking up a copy of the Boole, be bointed to die jaeket, Which shows e loin, etteeted shoot on the no-prayet sirlMofito. teperirrieneae tel seedbedeelleevieeret supposed , to be. theecee'eleaeeplainect Loelne'eo sxie:Tdirtiteci him With- these lobate eat eleeeetiee t'i'll-ee netted."' a • ti.r . • „ • PEEK-A-BOO Fi ve Florida Misses wearing hats With built- euhglatses look like a Met- flan totetri fibre on sandy beetle. .. , . . ii, 'i- ., and 1.3, gitiS •Iiiiide, (you 'count "eiti, bUttitia)' overwhelm this todet. tot -at 'Knox t ',ilea Where University' of Tenn essee 'Coeds succumb to the,ctowtlif6e.d,ree'oeCkteoze,, latest in -6 loeig en . list it4 College 'seietieniettliet .e. • rr TABLE TALKS 6at,e, Anatiews Note: Peeled, sliced apples may be used with onions for a variation. If you like eggs combined with tomatoes ,and rice, here is an easy' top-of-the-stove recipe for Eggs' Creole. • .. EGGS CREOLE VI cup chopped onion 3/4 cup chopped green pepper 2 tablespoons fat, melted 21/2 cups tomatoes .2 cups water 1 cup uncooked rice Salt and pepper 6 eggs Cook onion and green pepper in the fat until onion is lightly browned. Pour in tomatoes and Spring Cramming on College Campuses — . 1-'!,:r ' ,:: f;r0APESSINVPMf . . ,...,...-: i• -,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,.....,,,,,••••,:,,,,, • .,,,,„ .,,, A„..,•••:: , „... ..„...,.._ ,....w .., P te