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The Brussels Post, 1961-04-13, Page 24 . ..enwnt-144 TABLE THEY 'ONLY EXPECTED THREE'— Rayrhond Feyre and his wife, Mary, smile in Holyoke, Mass., after Mrs. Feyre, 35, gave birth to quadruplets, two girls and 'two boys, March 29. Feyre, now the father of 10 children, said -they had expected triplets but "one of them must have 'been hiding in that x-ray picture," Two of the Feyres' other children are twins. Gave Up Teaching To fle A Gown If a fellow can't run away and join the circus just because he's only 51/2 , the next beet thing cer- tainly would be for his father to quit his job, sign 'up as a clown and take junior along as part of the act. That was the reason there were spangles in the eyes of young Charles Boas as the fami- ly's trailer took off from Michi- gan last month for Alabama and the winter headquarters of the Penny Brothers Circus at Scotts. bore. Also in the trailer were Charles' cheerfully long - suffer. Mg mother, Kathleen, and his three sisters, aged respectively 4 years, 18 months, and 2 months. And, of course, there was father — 35-year-old. Dr. Charles Boas, a Ph.D. from the 'Univer- sity of Michigan and until a few days ago an assistant professor of geography at Michigan. State University. All his the a circus bnff, Dr. Boas had finally decid- ed to take the big jump from campus to tanbark, specifically to join the Penny Brothers fac- ulty of clowns, For Mrs. Boas it was "seine- thing my husband always want- ed to do." For the babies there could be only the dimmest awareness of a change in sounds and smells. For 4-year-old Lol- lie, "going with daddy to the cir- cus will be fun" and she hoped "to swing on the trapezes." But for yourg Charles — cr Toby, as he's called — it was a matter of the most solemn im- portance, marking his own em- barkation on a new career as well as his father's. He talked about it with professional seri- osuness, occasionally breaking up et the thought of the funny things in their act. "We've got a magic box," he explained. "Me and daddy and some other clowns come out. I have an ice-cream cone and I put it in the box, and daddy puts In a little custard pie. Then I turn a crank, a bell rings, and out comes a great big cone. Daddy is surprised. Then. I turn the crank again and out comes a great big custard pie. Daddy rays, 'Let me have it,' and I do— right in the face." What did Toby want to be when he grew up? "Oh, maybe I'll be a fireman or maybe a balloon man." A balloon man? Like an as- tronaut in space, maybe? "Gosh, no," said Toby with a. trace of scorn. "The man who sells balloons." They Store Apples Under Water ! A traveller who recently re- turned from a visit to Hungary has been telling of some tasty apples and vegetables he ate straight from the river bed! a.nd before you think this man is off his head—let us say that he did t-o as a result of an experiment for using underwater beds for food storage. At twelve sites, including va- rious places on the Danube and. Tiza rivers, supplies of apples were sunk in plastic containers. In some instances, the surface of the water froze over—but with no ill effects to the apples, The authors of the scheme, two horticultural experts, San- dor Fejes and Jozef Kresch, joined forces with an engineer of the Synthetic Material. Re- search Association. Together, they have solved the problem of underwater ventilation. The ap- ples have freedom to breathe and sweat. The traveller states that apples thus bedded down retain both their bloom and freshness. They taste as delicious as when they are freshly picked. The new plan will reduce costs in maintaining expensive store- houses, hitherto a must, because of Hungary's big apple crop. MOULDED CHICKEN Minced chicken and finely chopped almonds are combined to make these delicious chicken molds. 2 packages unflavored gelatin 14 cup cold water 2 teaspoons chicken soup base or 2 chicken bouillon cubes 2 cups hot water 1.(e cup mayonnaise 14 teaspoon pepper Dash cayenne pepper 2% cups minced cooked chicken ea cup finely chopped celery Ye cup finely chopped almonds Salt td taste • cup heavy cream, whipped Stuffed olives, sliced. Soften gelatin in cold water. Dissolve chicken soup base or chicken bouillon cubes in hot water. Add softened gelatin. Stir until dissolved and well blended. Cool mixture, then stir in mayonnaise, pepper and cayenne. Add minced chicken, celery, al- monds. Salt to taste. Chill un- til mixture begins to thicken, then fold in whipped cream. Rinse 8 individual molds with cold water. Place a slice of stuffed olive in bottom of each. Fill with chicken mixture. Chill until firm, To remove molds, hold for a 'second in hot water, Invert on a serving platter. * * DEVILLED EGGS 3 hard-cooked eggs, peeled 1 tablepsoon mayonnaise ', teaspoon vinegar 1.l4 teaspoon salt. Dash pepper • teaspoon dry mustard 1,4 teaspoon paprika 2 drops tabasco sauce Halve eggs lengthwise. Remove yolks and mash. Mix yolks with mayonnaise, vinegar, salt, pep- per, mustard, paprika, and ta- basco. Blend well. Refill egg whites, Chill until serving time. a a * STUFFED EGGS 3 eggs Cold water 1 tableepoon mayonnaise 1 drop anchovy paste is teaspoon salt Dash pepper 6 Small stuffed olives Pimiento. Place eggs in saucepan. Cover with cold water. Cover sauce- pan, place over low heat, and bring aloWly to' boiling point, Re- duce heat and simmer eggs for 20 minutes. As soon as they are cooked, rem o v e from hot water and plunge into cold water, This pre- vents egg yolk from discoloring, and the eggs shell more easily. Remove shells. Halve eggs lengthwise. Remove yolks and mash. Mix yolks with. mayon- naise, anchovy paste, salt, and pepper. Blend well. Place a small stuffed olive in each half-white. Fill with the yolk mixture, Garnish with pi- miento. Chill until serving time. * CORN STICKS 11/4 pups flour Ye cup cornmeal 1 tablepSoon baking powder 3,S2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup grated cheese eggs 14 cup sugar % cup milk 3/3 cup melted shortening Slit flour, cornmeal, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Stir in grated cheese with a fork, so that cheese is mixed all through the flour-cornmeal mixture. Beat eggs until very light. Add eggs, sugar, milk and melted shortening, all at once, to flour- -cheese mixture, Mix together• but do not beat. Stir just enough to mix the ingredients. Fill 12 greased cornstick pans. Bake in 400 oven for 18 minutes. If you haven't any cornstick pans, bake in 9-inch-square bak- ing pan for 30 minutes, and cut into squares to serve. e MAPLE CHIFFON PIE 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin 2 tablespoons cold water .1,4 cup milk -1/1 cup maple syrup ys teaspoon salt 2 egg yolks, beaten 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 2 egg whites I cup heavy cream, whipped 1 9-inch baked pie shell 2 tablespoons finely chopped walnuts, Soften gelatin in cold water. Combine milk, maple syrup and salt. Heat in the top part of double boiler. When hot, slowly blend in 'beaten egg yolks. Add gelatin and stir until well blend- ed. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla. Chill until slightly thick- vied. Beat egg whites until stiff, fold into cooled mixture. Then fold ih whipped cream, Fill baked pie shell With this mixture, Sprinkle with finely chopped walnuts. Chill for 4 hours and serve. RHURARB COMPOTE 3 cups thubaeb 1 cup sugar I clip watee 1 tablespoon minute tapioca 4,tablespoons grenadine, Select tient young rhubarb. Cut off leaves and stern end, Wash, Peel or riot, as desired, Cut into 1-inch pieces end meas- ure 3 cups. Place in greased baking dish, Sprinkle with sugar. Add water. Cover and bake in 325 oven for hour, until just tender. Strain off as much of the liquid us possible without clisturbleg the pieces or, rhubarb. Combine liquid and tapioca in saucepan. Cook for El nainutea. Remove Trona heat, cool slightly, stir in grenadine, Pont'rover rhu- barb. Coal, then refrigerate until thoroughly Serve with whipped cream, if desired, GUESS WHERE — With her hair piled high upon her head, ear- rings and wrist watch, 'this beauty operator, Tanya Kon- stantina, could easily be mis- taken for her Canadian counter part, even though she works in a Moscow shop. One Way Of Meeting A Great Challenge • In. our security conscious; steam-heated society, boredom and a loss of real zest for life are rather common, Peoplecone- plein that there is no challenge in daily living, that everything moves along in' a prearranged, or at least readily predictable, fashion, . It is true that a man can no longer get together a few house-. hold goods in a wagon and head west toward a . frontier, It is not. at all true that there are no larvae any challenges that will test the mettle of a courageous man or woman. We have' in mind one. challenge in particular. It can be simply stated: Try applying the precepts of your religion, without reserv- ation or sail-trimming, to daily life. Althotigh this may sound rather simple, a Challengenot to be compared with the hardships end hostile savages that tested the "pioneers,. . it is .aetuany. the most demaning challenge of all.. „ Suppose that concept Of the brotherhood of all men — not ,merely those Whose skit) is the same color as ours, whose poli- tical and' moral ideas are the same as ours,_ but literally all. men—were to . be applied un- stintingly to our dealings with others? Suppose the adertertition to sell. all we have and' give to the poor were to be followed to the letter? Suppose - everyone ac- copted as a solemn -obligation the del-naiad to' feed the hungry, clothe the naked, .contort the .oppressed—without, be it nbteci, first taking precautions to assure personal coinforat Those are only hints of the immeasurably great challenge that confronts us all, There is still plenty of pioneering td be done.—Orettiwood (Miss.) 'dent- mon:wealth. • Somehow the ,anintal • family income tax! fee doesillseem United after reading the' .Statea is entering -a mil.. lien-dollar tax Claim against trigemat Johatissait Cairo .Car,Parking Colorful, Bu iness Pulling up to the curb of 4 downtown Cairo street recently I was accosted by a tall, black- faced man dressed in a long crown overcoat and red tarboosh, "Leave the brake off when you leave and put the gear in neu- tral," he said quietly in a deep, powerful voice, "a someone bumps you from the rear the car won't be hurt, you see." "Oh, yes," / said, taking his ad- vice and prepared to pet out of the car, Then, as looked away for a moment, there came a thunder‘. ing shout in Arabic that resem- bled the liner Queen Elizabeth putting out to -sea, 4,1 YA Looking at the kind-faced man, I found him smiling through big, gold teeth and pointing upward. In another moment there came another stenorian "YA KAWI'," "Old Sa'ad the ear parker here is the most religious man on Kasr el Nil Street," a passerby stopped to tell me. "The Koran says good Moslems should repeat Allah's name as often as pos- sible. "Sa'ad has such a powerful voice he lets it go every now and then, Allah has about 100 names and "Ya Kawi" (Oh All-Power- ful One) is one of them, "This is his 22nd year on this very spot, If people around here don't know him by sight they know him by voice: "YA KAWI!!" Sa'acl roared once .again. "YA KAWI'! YA KAWP!" Sa'ad Mirzilni Stead is Cairo's most colorful car parker, a job preferred by some of Egypt's most unusual personalities. Where the United States has parking meters and police to check them, Cairo has car park- ers who must use their own de- vices to be sure they get paid. Sections of Cairo streets are divided up by mutual agreement, the higher-paying curbs near the center of town being preferred and going to men with highest seniority. Concessions are some- times passed on to sons or cous- ins like valuable family legacies. There are few easier jobs in Egypt. ' In return for finding parking spaces and for insuring that hub- caps remain where they belong, drivers pay one piaster — about two cents — to the car parkers. The custom' is purely voluntary and many try to get away with- out paying. A few Americans here, for example, pride them- selves on resisting this non- bureaucratic system say in g, "Why should we pay! There's no law about it, is there?" They ignore the car parkers frantic screams of "Aiwa! Aiwa!" as they pull out from the curb while he stands in, their path. It is his only way of getting the pi- aster from reluctant car owners, writes James Davidson in the Christian Science Monitor. Sa'ad Mirzilni is one of Cairo's oldest and most respected car parkers. For 22 years he has worked the north side of Kasr, el Nil Street opposite the Wahba Building where many foreign correspondents have their offices-. His booming "KAWIS" are a fa- miliar part of the daily street scene. He is married and has four children. Asked why he works instead of following the Oriental custom of living off children, he replies, "It's better to work. I can't stay home idle, Allah wouldn't liace it. I'm still strong, look." About six feet, two and weigh- ing over 200 pounds, Sa'ad indeed presents an imposing figure. "My father came from Darfour b-i Sudan," he tells you: "He was six feet, five and 275 pounds. He lived ter 1,e 110." At ;41 " eto ih P t 41)lienrt, "vA KAWI!!" Sa'ad worReal five ycns in the, Egyptian Al my in Pait.,itinf., and Sudan. And before lemming carparker he' served five years with Cairo pollee, Be makes between a dollar and a dollar and .a half a day good salary in Egypt for unskill- ed, illiterate work (farm laborers. get 50 cents a clay), Stead, how- ever, is an exception and is liter- ate, as the pile of newspapers by his chair at the curb teetify, Cairo cerparkers arc part of the city's lower income breckete and most .ef them have- come from the, villages, They ere all especially religious. Five times a. day they spread out a newspaper en the sigewalk e face Melva, and pray. New regulations arc coming out regulating traffic, Where be- por tg‘.voet,et.letittncagr the k:dra.deccoi could fill streets with double and triple Rankers, lers that with -them, police now are cracking clown, in many streets in mid-Cairo double parking is out. It won't be long, many people feel, before Cairo officials take the opportunity for ethic d rev- enues and install parking meters. And when they do one of Cairo's most colorful citizens, tsghorn- voiced Sa'ad Mirzilni S'a'nd will have to. return to his horde near King Farouk's former Atdin Pa- lace and live off sc.n . it will be a sad day for him, indeed, Cairo might be mere ea:telt:tit without Sa'ad and his colo.titti colleagues, but one v.!andere if the city would be as iron reeling as it is with them on 171e jab. Q, is there something, l can put on my window SC, eL'ils to help keep my house free of flies during the summer months? A, One method that hes been found highly effective is lo paint the screens with a solution con- sisting of three fluid eances of quassia extract, one ounce of sugar, ande 30' grams of gum arable. This solution, which is applied with a brush, is deadly to flies, which it attracts. but is harmless to humans and animals. GUESS .WHO? -- Believe it or not, this is a Chicago police- man and he's in proper uni- form. PO,trolmon James Note wears.- a new tan smock which will protect uniforms in hon, dling messy work, including loading the paddy wagon In Skid Row. ISSUE 15 -- 1961 PILOT TO BE SKY PILOT — Canadian Pacific Airline 'pilot' Torn Elden catches up on some school work between flights, He is studying at the University of British Columbia to be a minister and logs 3,000 miles o week between classes. 0.1Vane Anobews. Now We YHave The Stamp Bootlegger Stamp dealers in the U.S. badger countries from Afghanis- tan to Zululand to keep issuing new stamps, essential imports for the $100 million-a-year philatel- ist trade. Partly due to this pres- sure, the volume of new stamps has hit blizzard proportions (in 1960, world postal departments turned out nearly 2,000 special issues). But traders last month were complaining louder than ever. Cause of their troubles: Phila- telic 'free-baoters cornering the market. Here's how they work. A broker, usually an American with connections, buys up exclu- sive rights to the new issue of a cooperative nation, often at a discount, and sells the stamps for whatever the market will bear. One New York firm, for ex- ample, peddled foreign 6-cent stamps in this country last year for $8.50 apiece. The over - all take, according to Britain's Phil- atelic Traders' Society, often runs to about $100,000 on a single is- sue. "When you think of collectors who are having to pay fancy prices for issues that will fall in value in a few years, you realize what a racket is going on," cone- mented a broker at the Eighth National Stamp Exhibition in London, One Latin American collector, unable to buy a new stamp in his own country, raised such. a com- motion recently that he almost single-handedly 'forced his 'gov- ernment to revoke its exclusive contract with a New York deal- er. Despite such rear-guard ac- tivity, however, the double-deal- ineepersists. The Maldive Islands, a 'British protectorate in the In- dian Ocean, recently issued, for instance, a new stamp with a face value of $21, "Flow many Maldive fishermen," wondered a British broker, "can buy such a stamp out of a month's earn- logs?" Top pay in the Maid' v e s: About $21 a month, She: "Will you bring home an- other mousetrap today, dear?" He: "What's wrong with the one we have?" She: "It's full!" fillEiR160M — rive generations have prized this quilt. if was Made at a quilting bee 130 years ago' by the great, greet trorideticithee cif Mrs. Cyrei Cooley of Memphis, FASTER teARAblikt The B renridrts of bok Park, 111,, are 'always the, grandest family i t t Easter parade. Thorns grelincin, the fa ttier., each year makes d tainv l ste wardrobe far e.t4rts member of hie forte fartiTiy„, `that's' Mrs. Brennan, for ri hi, back to*,,