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The Brussels Post, 1961-06-15, Page 6eses gees Britain's thatched ratift. 41,11911,,,, • '.1",111111111$n .041e, ''11 Ch6tk Fbee. and Aft The Te-cifte. flow lliettPeddt to Go I His Own. Enmity liqd No OglOktS. million pairs sold will pass over drugstore counters $1,50 to $4 each, .a class that features pies.- tic or molded glass lenses. In bet.• ter quality glasses ($6 to. $10 or more), lenses are ground and pot, fished in the same way as optical glass. Ophthalmologists s ay $0,o4 glasses should have metched lenses: that transmit no more than a third of the visible light, are. free of color distortion and sur,. face defects, In addition, sPecial- istt say the lenses should absorb ultraviolet (sunburn), rays and. infra-red (heat) rays, Sunburn and heat rays are no :problem, however, with a speciat "in" voile, of sunglasses wearers. In the jazz set, it's. the vogue to. wear sunglasses — the darker, the better — while sitting in st, smoke-filled bistro listening to cool music.• FISH DAY IN CAMOGI.1 — Two enormous frying pans dothinate, the colorful port of Camogli, Italy, on the Italian Riviera ae the annual mass fish fry gets under way. The cooks will feed, 50,000 persons from these two pans. • drain on paper towel. Beat egg yolks; add apple sauce and corn, Sift together flour, salt, and bak- ing powder; add to apple sauce mixture. Crumble part of the bacon; reserve several strips with which to garnish the casserole just before serving. Add pimi- ento or olives. Beat egg whites stiff with a rotory beater; fold in. Pour into 2-quart baking dish andhake at 350° F. 60-70 minutes, or until set. Serves 6-8. • For a colorful 2-vegetable dish, try this carrot ring with buttered green beans. You'll find the ring makes carrots taste like a differ- ent vegetable. CARROT RING WITH BUTTERED GREEN BEANS 8 cups soft bread crumbs P/2 cups milk 5 eggs, beaten 1 pint mashed cooked carrots cup chopped celery 8 tablespoons chopped, toasted, buttered almonds 11/2 teaspoons salt 3/4 teaspoon each, pepper and marjoram 1 pint hot, buttered cut green beans Combine soft bread crumbs, milk, beaten eggs, carrots, cel- ery, almonds, salt, pepper, and marjoram. Pour into a well- greased 1-quart ring mold. Set in; to shallow pan of hot water and bake at 350° F. for 1 hour. Let stand 5 minutes' before loosening around edges. Unmold onto warm serving platter. Fill center of ring with hot buttered, cut green beans. * A Whether you want to serve your beets sliced or whole, here are a couple of ways to fix them. BAKED SLICED BEETS I can (1 pound) sliced beets, drained 2 tablespoons flour cup sugar v2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup orange juice Preheat oven to 400° F, Place beets in a buttered 1-quart bak- ing dish, Combine flour, sugar, salt, and orange juice, Pour over beets, Dot with butter. Cover dish tightly. Bake about 30 min- utes, Get Your Tinted Glasses Yet? The sunglasses' set --- a not so exclusive group that includes nearly half the nation — will be out in force whas the summer season gets under Way, They'll be sporting a sometimes weird assortment of sunglasses, the harlequin, classic,, aviator Con- tinental, and even the butterfly. Nearly 80 million Americahs wear sunglasses, and more than half a million others wire don't seem to, wear sun-filtered con- tact lenses. Sunglasses are as common as sunburn — just as colorful — and nobody is happier about it than the men who make them. Howard I3arclift, head of Ameri- can Optical's sunglasses division, says in wonder: "More and more people are buying them every year. Our slogan is 'Add a pair for outdoor wear.' And, by Heav- en, they're doing it by leaps and bounds," Unfortunately, as far as Bar- clift and other makers of qual- ity lenses are concerned, too many sunglasses are bought "strictly from the cosmetic point of view." Dr. F. W. Jobe of Bausch & Lomb warns that "an amazing number of people base their selection on frame style -- completely ignoring the most im- portant part of the sunglasses, the lenses." While their main function is protective, sunglasses certainly owe a good deal of their popular- ity to the fact that they are dec- orative. Possibly 80 per cent have green lenses, although cognac and smoke are gaining favor. But most of the "cosmetic value" is delivered by the frames which come in every hue and a startling range of shapes. This year's fa- shion leader is the wrap-around, nearly all glass from ear to ear, but the top novelty may well be the Pancho, a Mexican import that features large, semi-square frames and heavy temple bars. If. there's any trend, and merchan- disers are doing their best to start one, it will be toward matching sets of sunglasses for boys and girls, husbands and wives. Trends or not, the industry plans to sell a record $170 mil- lion worth of sunglasses this year at retail prices ranging from cents to $25. The price can go much higher. A Miami Beach dealer recently made up a pair of sunglasses trimmed with plat- inum and diamonds. Price: $1,000. The huge majority of the 69 ON THE BEACH — If stylist. have their way, gals will be showing their shirt tails at the beach, come summer. Model in model "ocean" shows off denim shirt which is sleeveless, with tiny mandarin col I a r, tucked front and deep side slits. TABLE TALKS neighbors' fulsome congratula- tions and their repeated assts. times that they could hardly wait to get to the theatre. My mother could barely wait to get me inside the apartment to proudly parade for my inspec- tion the two new dresses ghe had bought to celebrate. These twin purchases were explained by the fact that since she expected to attend every performance through 'the week, as well as the cpening one, it was hardly to be expected that she could appear all week in the same dress. My father and brother had settled for new ties and shirts and would wear their best blue suits every night, but since different neigh- bors would be attending the play on different nights it was no more than seemly that she be dressed as the occasion merited. 1 could only gather that she meant to alternate the dresses, as alternate neighbors attended the performance, for at the end of an hour of listening to lighthead- ed plans and dreams of the rich, full life we were going to live, I nodded "yes" to everything. It was plainly hopeless to try to persuade her or my father or brother, for that matter, that "Once in a Lifetime" might turn out to be a little less than the shower of gold they had already concluded it was. To do them justice, this convic- tion, which seemed so firmly rooted and fixed in all of their minds, was not entirely without a basis in reality, — From "Act One," an Autobiography by Moss Hart. My family's reception of the news, when I stood in the door- way and announced in ringing tones that I had, sold the play, in PO way matched ray own tri- umphant glow, They received the news with an air of amazed dis- belief and infuriating cal,. Even the check, which I unfolded care- fully and placed in the center of the dining-room table to be ad- mired by them and by myself all over again, was viewed with an irritating detachment and a quite evident distrust. "I suppose you know what you're doing, taking all that money," said my mother warily, "but I wouldn't touch it until af- ter you've worked with this Mr. Kaufman for a while — in case he asks you to give it back. I certainly wouldn't go around spending it with Eddie Chodor- ov." . I know of no group of people as idiotically confident of suc- cess as a playwright's family while his play is still in its try- out stage. In spite of everything I had said over the telephone to my mother from Atlantic City, in spite of my insistence that they must all think of the play as still "trying out" and not as a assured success, I was welcomed home en a note of unqualified triumph. Everything short of a flags and a brass band greeted a returning hero, whose own doubts about the play jangled like sieighbells in his ears as he listened to the British Folks. Are •Resentful Over "Thatched Roof" Stuff By TOM A. CULLEN Newspaper Enterprise Association NAMEDeePRESIDENT' • Mrs. Mary Lee Gough Nay of Boston and Chicago was named President of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Maas., at the June b Annual Meeting. A native of McKinney, Texas, she has been a teacher and practitioner of Christian Science for many year.. London—(NEA)— Many Brit- ons are unhappy about putting up the "thatched roof Image" for the summer, for the• benefit of the biggest summer invasion of bentrican tourists that Britain has ever seen. The thatched roofs are project- ed in glossy American magazine advertisements which try to in- duce tourists to drop a good share of their travel expenses in British coffers: The Guardian complains that the ads show the British "as a parcel of local yokels busy quaf- fing tankards of ale outside thatched inns under an uncloud- ed sun while the pink-cOated hunt clatters by." This image doesn't square at all with the 1961 Britain of belching smokestacks, brave new towns, atomic energy plants and gleaming -sports cars. But, the thatched cottages are raking in the dollars, the British Travel and Holidays Assn. re- ports. Last year's total of 426,642 FASHION HINT over to portray the city through the rose-colored glasses worn by tourists. They are 384 offi- cial men and women who are proud of the fact that they are seldom, if ever, caught in a wrong answer. They can rattle off the number of diamonds in the Imperial. State Crown (3,000) and the height of St. Paul's Cathedral (363 feet). They know where Pocahontas is buried (in Graves- end) and the depth of London's deepest underground subway sta- tion (181 feet). They havg worked heel to correct a bad image of nritaial which Americans got until the 1953 Coronation Year. The im- age was not one of thatched cottages in the country but that of being swindled by Soho crooks and touts posing as guides. "The result was disastrous," says Charles W. Price of the Holidays' Association. "Ameri- cans were leaving England with the vow never to return again." So a register of reputable guides was set up. Guides were given a three-month lecture Bachelors Worth Weight In Gold ! over batter may be stored for a day or two by itself and then used, In July, when Alaskan homemakers are busy picking blueberries, they 'may use the left-over pancake batter for a quick afternoon snack of blue- berry muffins. They may also try Blueberry Buckle as a treat for the neighbor ladies who drop in for a visit. BLUEBERRY BUCKLE cup sugar 2 cups flour 2Y2 teaspoons baking powder 1 egg 1/4 teaspoon salt 1,4 cup milk IA cup melted fat 1 pint fresh blueberries (or the equivalent of canned, drain- ed blueberries or any berries easily available) For the topping: le cup sugar 3/s cup flour 1//4 cup butter 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon Sift the flour, sugar,- baking powder, and salt together into a large mixing bowl. Make a well and break in the egg, Add milk and melted fat, Beat liquid In- gredients in center, then stir slowly just enough to mix with the flour. Pour the batter into a shallow baking dish. Cover with blueberries and top with lightly mixed topping. Bake 40 to 50 minutes at 350° F. Bachelors are worth their weight in gold in parts of India these days. The scarcity of good prospective husbands there has resulted in the few °legible ones asking for huge dowries from their prospective spouses before relinquishing their single status. A man with a' goad 'steady job can demand more than $3,000. Itf he doesn't get what he wants, all the lucky man has to do is advertise that he is open to of- fees and the bide will flow in. A publicity-minded bachelor advertised himself iti all the local papers, then told the spiri- sters who inquired after him that he'd just had a better offer. They topped it and he eventually in- ished up with a small fortune, So serious has the bachelor inflation become that the gov- errirrient is considering stepping in and imposing a ceiling on-the amount of 'dowry asked, At the moment the bachelors are making hay while the sun shines. Some even demand a trip to Britain — on the wife's par. exits — before they enter into Married lane Andrews Generally speaking, the Alas- kan homemaker serves her fam- ily the same kinds of food and prepares meals quite similar 'to those of her stateside sisters. But no Alaskan recipe book is complete with out the sour dough, and the Extension Serv- ice at the University of Alaska has always included' recipes for sour dough, pancakes and varia- tions of those in its pamphlets. c. 0 0 The rugged prospector of the Gold `Rush days at the turn of the century knew how to sur- vive in the Arctic. One of his aids was .the sour dough. He car- ried a bag of dough around his neck to keep it 'from freezing. No matter what the circum- stances, his sour-dough starter would always permit him to' have batch of hot pancakes — more often than not cooked over an open fire — and all he had to add was a little flour, sugar, fat, a dash of salt, and baking soda. The egg had, of necessity, to be omitted. a 4, There are several Alaskans who possess a sour-dough starter said to date back to the Klon- dike days of 1898. They are al- ways glad, just as the old sour-. dough was, to share it and the recipe with others. For example, Mrs. Lydia Fohn- Hansen, who for several years headed the woman's department of the University of Alaska Ex- tension Service, has a pint jar of 1898 sour-dough starter in her refrigerator. It was given to her by a friend who had received, it from an oldtime miner and trap- per in 1920, after it had been in use by him and his wife for more than 20 years. When Mrs. Fohn-Hansen wants pancakes for breakfast she takes her jar of sour-dough starter out of the refrigerator the evening before. She fills the jar with lukewarm water, pours it into a bowl, and adds one cup of. flour. This is kept overnight in a warm place. In the morning, Mrs. Fohn-Hansen takes one- fourth of it out and puts it back into her pint jar which goes back into the refrigerator, To what is left in the bowl, she adds 1 tea- spoon of baking soda, 1 or ? eggs, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 2 tablespoons of melted fat or oil, As soon as she has baked her pancakes, she sits down to a breakfast of them with butter and syrup. ,, „ For most of us who can't lay claim to a pancake starter which goes back half a century, the fol- lowing. recipe will serve to make our own pancake starter, and we may keep it going as long as we wish and give some to our daugh- ters when they are ready for housekeeping, writes Ingeborg Wilson in the Christian Science Monitor. Make a starter as follows: 2 cups flour 2 cups warm water yeast cake You will need to use yeast for your first batch only. Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water, add flour, Set in a warm place in closed cupboard overnight. The, following morning, take out Ye cup of it and put it in a scalded pint jar. Cover and store in re- frigerator, This is your starter for future use, To the remainder in the bowl add: 1 egg ",;2 teaspoon salt tablespoons melted fat or nil' 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 tablespoon sugar Add eggs and dry ingredients to yeast mixture, then stir in melted ;tat, If batter it too thick, add a little milk ett it May be poured more easily, Bake on hot griddle, turning to brown on both sides. Serve hot with :syrup, Never add any left-Over bat- ter to the starter. would: Spoil the garter, However, left- * * Whatever size your family is, you probably want ideas for fix- ing vegetables in new and dif- ferent ways. An original recipe for corn and apple sauce and bacon follows. Flavor is height- ened' with crumbles of bacon mixed through the dish .— it's a one-dish meal—and needs only a salad or relish to go with it. BAKED APPLE CORN WITH BACON 1i pound bacon strips 3 eggs; separated 2 cups canned apple sauce 1 17-ounce can cream-style corn 11/4 cups sifted Pour 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1t cup diced pimiento or cup chopped stuffed. olives Saute bacon strips until crisp; , TIT 'Mt TAT "Dear Alice," wrote the young man. "I'M getting so forgetful that while I remember propes- ing to you last night, I forget. Whether you said 'Yes' or `No.'" "Dear Bob," Alice replied 'So glad 'to hear from you. I know I said 'No' to soMetine last" night,. but I had forgotten just who it Was." course with practical, oral and written examinations to ascer- tain whether they Were suffi- ciently steeped in English his- toty, geography; topography, art and architecture, national and local goVetrinierit, and local hate ticultute (fel' the benefit of vis- iting farmers) to go into the, field. Only 16 of 200 applicants for guide jobs qualified this year, (Price says retired businessmen make the best guides, students the poorest ones 'because they are too yew-1g to have acquired the necessary knowledge.") By being absolutely ruthless in weeding out bad guide tut, teriai and properly placing its Advettisernentt, the' atsociatiog hat created the linage of Britain that the. Guardian eortiplaiite about, tut regardless of the tri- licitin, the British tourist iii- ctuttry once again this year will put their bete 'thatched cottages forward. taStlit 164/ American visitors to Britain set eti all-time record. And the Americans do not come to Britain to see the steel mills of Sheffield or to take snapshots of the suburbs of Mart- chetter, "We've- got those at bailie" is the typical American resteonse. No, mostly they come to see a glivire4c of the peaceful British countro tide, walk in Cottswold 'villages with ducking ponds and quaint inns, and talk to vicars in gaiters, Arid when they come to the city, It's London, not Birming- ham or Liverpool, they want to tote They Want to peek at the Crown jewels, watch the Chang- 111(1 aUardr, eat at, the Oltiahire Gheete Ptib 6tt Pleet Street and go to the theater, '(London has nearly twice at frialeY first,rate theaters as NeW fork. You'll get One' of the best seats at the Old Vie for $2.38 In: London, the guides take