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The Brussels Post, 1960-07-21, Page 6MANNA BY THE BAG — _These hungry honkers in c, Memphis park pay close attention to Sally Goldsmith, 3, as-she doles out bread crumbs to appreciative geese. TABLE T KS kavz Ambews. a LADY IN DI STRESS: With' the great increase in beating in Canada during the past few years, several federal geesertinient regulatioae have been laid down to' make boating ti safe sport. Oho of these requires that pleasure craft feet to 4D feet long Mutt be equilioed with pyroleCtink &Stress SignalS for su mm onin g help When beat trouble. Here,, the young lady denionstedles the new distress flare ad tehtly introduced. the trdee burns with Oa ine tense, bright red flame for five minutes and can be seen to, the hellion on a dark night. flares are also highly recommended for smaller boats which might venture Out lateopeii wdler, Greater Safety In the Home In well-kept homes, ofacee and factories, there are no loose ob- jects on !stairs, floors and land- ings; no articles that can fall f}'= overhead; no wet or greasy fleiors; no Projecting objects in hallways or aisles; no exposed nails or sharp pieces of metal; and no sharp utensils or tools lying where they may be in- advertently touched. Here are some facts gathered from the records of many thous- ands of home accidents, About four out of five home fatalities occur inside the house, and more than half of these hap- pen in a bedroom, While more men are, hurt on stairs and steps, more women are injured in bed- rooms. Causes of bedroom acci- dents include; loose rugs; smok- ing in bed; leaving clothes, dressing stools, chairs and other objects where they may be trip- ped over; careless handling of electric plugs; leaving doors part- ly open. Having a handrail on every stairway is a safety "must", When someone leaves an object on the steps, or there is a brok- en or odd-sized step, or if the carpet is torn, or when some- one slips, many accidents on stairways could be prevented if there were something to grab quickly. The lighting of stair- ways should be good. Rugs should be well anchored. Electrical hazards must be guarded against. Don't break through or saw through a wall without turning off the electri- city at the main switch; you may strike a wire cable with fatal re- sults. Don't leave a fan, a radio, or a heater where it may fall into the tub when you are bath- ing; don't forget that even with the plug pulled out your tele- vision set is dangerous, because the rectifier tube stores up and holds high electrical energy; don't leave bare wires, empty light sockets or defective appli- ances where they can be touched by chance. Among danger spots in the kitchen are the stove, of what- ever sort; knives; electrical ap- pliances carelessly used;,lye, am- monia, and cleaning fluids; open cupboard doors; slick waxed lino- leum; careless climbing to reach high shelves; and pots left on the stove with their handles pointed outward. In the safe home the bathroom is kept clear of loose razor blades and safety pins. Medicines are in a high latched cabinet. More than six hundred deaths due to accidental poisoning of children are recorded in the United States every year. It was said in the. CIBA Clinical Symposia in mid- summer 1951: "The number of children who have been acci- dentally poisoned as a result of parental carelessness is truly tragic." In. Canada, more than 3,000 persons died in ten years as a result of accidental poison- ing. Here is a programme of action. The home in which it is follow- ed will be by a big percentage less likely than others to suffer deaths and pain and the cost of accidents. It requires only a little time. The action can made a game, with everyone taking part. It does not demand money expedi- ture, but it does need leadership and the overcoming of listless Inertia. Let's start by making a job study in the home. What does who do where? Is the environ- ment safe? Are the tools as safe as they can be made — properly sharpened, properly set up, prop- erly guarded? Is the worker well-instructed in safety proced- ures and conscious of the danger element? Some factories have safety committees: why should not every home have one? What is needed in both factory and home is• co-operation. The only effective way to bring a fac- tory or a home through a year without serious accident is to have everyone become part of a co-ordinated effort to apply thinking, experience and ability to the problem. Such a committee in the home could be fun, First of all, brain- storm the project; gather the family together and throw on the table the problem: how can we avoid accidents? If you're lucky enough to have a daughter who is a stenogra- pher, persuade her to take notes of all the dangers mentioned, and get her to add her own suggestions. If you have no stenographer, do the best you can to put down in writing all the ideas that are proffered by your family. Do not leave out any, however trivial they may seem to you: these are danger spots perceived by others. Then, when everyone has ex- hausted his stock of thoughts — ranging from the menace of that rotting tree branch in the gar- den to the danger of parking a mop on the cellar stairs; from the hazard encountered in walk- ing across a newly-waxed floor to that of using a makeshift lad- der to put up storm windows — then turn everybody loose on the constructive correction of all un- safe conditions, Give everyone a sense of personal responsibility for the safety of everyone else. Give everyone something worth- while to do, — From the Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter Summer That Lasts Twenty-one Years Astronomers are planning to snake a special study of the green planet Uranus which is sixty-four times as large as the earth and has 65,000 days in its year, They want to know more about its strange greenish tinge. This may be due, they think, to a very light and attenuated gaseous element in the upper regions of the planet's dense at- mosphere, the presence of which has been confirmed by spectrum 'analysis. But there may be an- other reason for this greenish tinge. Nohody really knows for certain — yet. You're lucky if you can get even a glimpse of Uranus — the most distant world that it is possible to see with the naked eye. You need a dark and clear moonless night and very keen eyesight to see Uranus, although it is 430 times the size of Mars. "Suppose London were on Uranus and in the same latitude as on earth, we should have a summer twenty-one years long with continuous daylight for about 231/2 years," one astrono- mer explains. "During that time the sun would never set but go round and round in the sky once in every ten - and - three - quarter hours. In spring and autumn the days of daylight would be reduced to between five and six hours only, which would be still further reduced as the ter- rible winter approached. For during a period of over twenty- three years the sun would never be seen and only the dim light of four ghostly moons would be added occasionally to the star- light." It was on the night of March 13th, 1781, that Sir William Herschel, afterwards Astrono- mer Royal, was at. Bath examin- ing small stars with a seven- inch reflecting telescope which he had made himself, when he saw one that was larger than the rest. A few more nights of observa- tion revealed that his discovery was moving among the stars. He thought it was a comet but later calculations showed it was a planet twice as far from the sun as Saturn and travelling in, a nearly circular orbit. Twilight Flight Of Blackbirds NO sight is more characteristic of the Delaware conntryside than the flight of blackbirds, With the approach of dusk any day now there comes to ear from afar a faint chorus of tehirps and tehucks, I look aloft and there in the sky, far above the trees, they are myriads of little black bodies, each one flowing, as it were, in a shOrt zooming burst of flight — the ensemble e great caravan of the air, It Is an exciting, event and it stirs the blood, this streaming of end- less flight across the sky. In late afternoon as I pass an abandoned farm — a cellar hole, a tottering wall, a tangle of un- kempt brush, and a clump of maples — a flock flies in, The maples are to be their roost for the night, Directly an uproar as- saults my ears. Their chatter is incessant, almost deafening. Then I notice one thing. Perch- ed in the tops of the maples, each and every blackbird faces in exactly the same direction. And so motionless do they stand, it is like a great set piece, as if the conical tops of the trees had suddenly matured a growth of black fruit. -- From "Thousand Acre Marsh," by Dudley Cam- mett Lunt, THE PHYSICIAN — Dr. Satty Gill is a physician from India. She's taking a pooiside break dur- ing a doctors' convention. Fruits, Flowers Of Roman Britain The first 'English" country gentlemen, with houses, gardens and estates, were Romans; and as country gentlemen should they had wealth and leisure to enjoy their property. One is apt to forget that they lived in that country for five hundred years in conditions which in many ways were more secure and civilized than any we were to know again until the days of Queen Victoria. Recalling their original homes in. Italy the Romans built two types of villa, the villa suburbia and the villa rustica. The villa =slics was utilitarian, with a farmhouse, stables and barns — orchards and vineyards. The villa suburbia was grander and more luxurious, often with a central court open at the roof and surrounded by an arcade, which, with the Roman's deep love of flowers and shrubs, must inevitably have been cased as garden... At home the Romans grew narcissi, white lilies, gladiola, hyacinths, cyclamen, crocusese irises, amaranth, myrtle, rose- mary, convolvulous, cornflowers„ cranesbill, pinks, carnations:, anemones,, periwinkles, violets, peonies. . . Many of these they into England, some tc, survive the Saxon invasion. others to die out and be re- imported long years after their original growers had departed. But the flower beloved beyond! all by the Romatie was the roses particularly the little damask: rose... Unlike the British the Itoinate were great eaters of fruit and vegetables. Roman orchards grew apples, pomegranates, quinces, nears, almonds, nuts, peaches and figs, 'Mulberries, Mediate and cherries, and as many of these as would grow were brought in to Britain, From "The Story of Out Gar- den." by Dorothea Eastwood, Costume jewelry that discol- ours the skin may' eitriply need St good brushing with warm, soapy water, Melt 'rinse and dry' thoroughly and Coat With COloure lees nail polish. Let's give a great big hand (at they say on TV) to John Mon- tague, the fourth Earl of Sand- wich, who, liked to eat infor- mally and is reputed to have put the first slice of meat be- tween two slices of bread, Within the wide variety of popular sandwiches today there are infinite types: pinwheel, open- face, double or three- decker, rolled, toasted, square, long or round. For bread, we have white, whole wheat, cara- way rye, Swedish rye, pumper- nickel, French or Italian, crack- ed wheat, cinnamon, Boston brown or raisin. To add savour to softened but- ler, work in a little mayonnaise. If you plan a sweet filling, sub-. stitute a little whipped cream, * Add drained crushed pine- apple, brown sugar and cloves -to ground ham; add cream cheese and horse-radish to sliced tongue; add chopped pimiento and salad dressing to shredded nippy cheese; add dried crisp bacon to peanut butter; add slic- ed sweet anion to sliced roast beef; add American cheese to frankfurters sliced lengthwise; add green olives, nuts and may- onnaise to chopped chicken; add grated orange rind and orange juice to peanut butter; or, mix, softened cream cheese with chopped dried apricots and chop- ped prunes, writes Eleanor Ri- chey Johnston in the Christian Science Monitor. Here is an open-faced sand- wich with deviled ham for its chief ingredient. Served on rye bread with a cold drink, it makes a light meal for hot days. OPEN-FACED HAM SANDWICH 1 can ham (4es 4 slices rye bread 1 cucumber, sliced Lettuce Mayonnaise Spread deviled, ham on bread slice. Place on bed of lettuce leaves. Top each spread sand- wich with a row of cucumber slices, overlapping. , Serve may- onnaise on side on lettuce leaf, Makes 4 sandwiches, * Another open-faced sandwich: ASPARAGUS-EGG SANDWICH 6 slices white bread 32 esp hard-cooked tabloons soefgtob, utter sliced 24 cooked green asparagus spears tarasnd peppear to taste cup tomato paste 2 tablespoons slivered almonds 'oast bread and spread With butter. Arrange egg slices buttered toast. Top with aspera- gus spears. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour tomato sauce over asparagus. Scatter almonds on top. Place on cooky sheet and broil until nuts are brown- ed and sauce is hot — about 2 minutes. Serve immediately Serves 6. * 4 1f your family is A sandwich- ' eating group, you may "wantto make several fillings ahead and keep them in the refrigerator for quick lunches. Many sand- wiches may be made early, Wrapped carefully and kept in the refrigerator for a quick lunch. tiere are suggestions for some interesting fillings. tThe any bread you like for then), CHUSE.titilVE FILLING J/x eitti Otani cheese 14 CuP cottage cheese tablespoons softened butter teaspoOri grated onion • tettePtion salt. Few drops Woitester sauce • ciip, chopped ripe stuffed olives or elite butter Blend thee* buttery onioti r Fierce :Gangster Was Ideal Father "They .seek him here, they seek hint there, those frenchies seek him everywhere," But it was no intrepid 00,, teent4 century Engiiehmans snatching aristocrats from the jaws of the guillotine, whom the Pelage sought, It was. one of 4,40ir own countrymen. Charles Rivelo was A. bad lot. A gangster, a thief, a jailbreaker, he had been "wented" for months but the police vonldn't catch him,. Until the evening in 1950 when a gendarme cycling down .a lonely lane ten miles from Bordeaux, met a man pushing baby's pram, The man was e tramp. No doubt the pram cone tamed odds and ends such men managed to scrounge and hoard. As be cycled past, the police- man looked .more closely — and got the surprise of his life In the pram was a baby and, though. the pram-pusher was) dirty and unkempt, the chubby, healthy-looking child was a pic- ture, Spotlessly clean, he show- ed two white teeth as he glea- ned happily at the policeman, "Hey, you!" he called, "What are you doing with that infant?" "He is my son," the man an swered gruffly and made to push on, But the policeman was still suspicious. "You'll have to come to the station with me," he said, Shrugging resignedly, the tramp pushed the pram to the nearest police station. There, cross-examination lasts ed for several hours until is was, finally established that he was Charles Rivelo; but he stoutly- maintained that the child was his. - It seemed, so fantastic to the police that they .examined the baby, looking for bruises which would reveal ill-treatment. But they found none. Little Jean- Claude was as well cared for as if he'd been looked after by the best of mothers, They- decided Charles Rivelo must be' locked in a cell far the night and taken to Paris next clay, Aivelo Made no protest until they tried to take his child tom hims "aset me keep my baby," Ile- pleaded, "He knows me, loves Me, and he needs attention, See, I have his bottle." So father and son were allow- ed to share .a cell, Jean-Maude got his bottle and from familiar hands, Then. Rivelo told his story, Be- fore the war he had become the 'father of two illegitimate children. Their mother had re- Insect to get a divorce and marry him. Instead, she had gone away,, taking the children with .her, When he had met another woman willing to throw in her lot with him, although she else was married, Charles had tried, to forget. Once more he had be- come a father, but very soon the couple quarrelled. This time, however, Rivelo decided he would keep his child.. He had waited until the baby was weaned, then he kidnapped him, at the same time helping himself, to clothes, diapers and a feeding bottle, These he haa packed in a pram and for three months he had roamed about the roads of France, never fail- ing in. his care of little Jean.• the light of a summer Claude,In dawn early travellers at tail Caere d'Austeelitz, Paris, saw a strange sight. Down the plat- form strode a policeman carry, ing a bundle of baby linen in a, huge pillow-case. Behind him walked a man hedged in by' other police — a man under ar, rest, obviously heading for jail -- tenderly holding a baby in his arms. Most birds are voracious eat- ers. young crows are eccustomed to consuming at least half of their own weight a day, and. they have been known to eat their full weight in a clay. A. young robin, shortly after leav- ing its nest, is known to have eaten 14 feet of earthworm in. one day. ISSUE 30 — 1960 salt and Worcestershire sauce, Add olive and stir just enough to blend. Chill. • * AVOCADO - CREAM CHEESE FILLING biz .cup mashed avocado 1 package (8-oz.) cream cheese 2 teaspoons lemon juice Dash Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion '4 teaspoon salt Gradually add avocado to the cheese, blending until smooth. Add lemon' juice, sauce, onion and salt. Blend thoroughly. Fill- ing for 8 sandwiches. * * * SHRIMP - DILL - CUCUMBER FILLING 1 package (3-oz.) cream cheese 1/4 cup chopped, cooked shrimp Ye cup diced cucumber 54, teaspoon dill seed 1 teaspOon lemon juice Soften cheese,'add shrimp, cu- cumber, dill seeds, and lemon juice., Filling for 4 sandwiches. • * TONGUE FILLING 1 th cups ground tongue 2 tablespoons chopped celery 1 tablespoon prepared horse- radish 1 teaspoon prepared mustard 1 tablespoon maynnaise or salad dressing Combine all ingredient. Fill- ing for 8 sandwiches. 4 PINEAPPLE - EGG SALAD FILLING it cup chopped, hard-cooked eggs Ya cup well-drained crushed pineapple 2 tablespoons chopped green Pepper 1, teaspoon prepared mustard Dash of pepper .14 teaspoon salt Combine all ingredients. Fill- ing for' e sandwiches, MARRIAGE ON THEIR MINDS — This drawing won a natiornwide tatitest for students in West Germany's schools. bone by Hoes Dieter Muesch, it shows East and West Geenaey being bound together. The contest was sponsdred by the Committee for a United Gerhattrisse EATON GETS LENIN PEACE AWARD — Canadian industrialist Cyrus Eaton, left, is pinned with the Lenin Peace Prize medal at Pugwash, Nova. Scotia. Making the award is Mrs. A. Amu- tunian, wife of the Soviets' ambassador to Canada.