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The Brussels Post, 1962-01-04, Page 6TABLE T 21am Arvittews. Deep Freezing. May Save Many Lives DIES AT 101 — Grandma. Moses Anna Mary Robert- son Moses — died in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. aged 101. BIG BEAUTIFUL DAHL — For Arlene Dahl, a Rome dress designer made up this whimsical blue-with-white-dots bow. Grandma Moses — A Sincere Tribute Trouble APIenty Changing To- Decimals If G r eat Britain ditches its complicated coinage system In favour of a decimal system, as a news story from London says it is expected to do by official announcement soon, the British- American system of weights and measures should be next on the agenda, In. a world where decimals are basic arithmetic,, a system in which 12 pence make a shilling and 20 shillings make a pound is an anachronism, So is. a sys- tem in which 12 inches make a foot, three a yard, etc., in which sometimes 12 ounces and at 'other times 16 ounces make a pound, and in which two pints make a quart, and four quarts a gallen, This system should have been discarded long ago and replaced with the metric system in which everything is computed easily by decimals, It will be expensive to change all tools, but it will be worth it, Cost of converting price-com- puting scales, adding and ac- counting machines, etc., to sub- stitute a coinage based .on 10 shillings for the present confus- ing one is estimated by the Brie tish at $358 million, Changing to the metric system in the Eng- lish-speaking world will be much greater than that, But, as in the case of the coinage, a 10- year delay will add tremendous- ly to the cost — 50 per cent for the money conversion, it is' esti- mated. The time to get in step with. the rest of the world is now --.. (Portland) Oregonian. Largest Flower In The. World Her early pictures Grandma would draw, end then color with grape juice or berries,. She mile ed. her pictures "very pretty lamhseapes;" Throughout her life she en- joyed painting for Christmas gifts "and things like that.," She simply picked up the Paintbrush: when her sister Celestite suggest- ed', "I think you could paint better and faster than you could do worsted, pictures." Painting for her until the mo- Meet of nationwide recognition. • was a pastime,. like fancywork, ,But when a gentleman from New' York called in Hoosick Falls and showed some interest in buying her paintings, everything chang- ed. All the pictures she had were sold. One was large, so Grand- ma simply cut it clown the naid- die and made two pictures out of it. The rest is history, As a painter Grandma Moses shared certain traits, with other untutored talented painters, of whom there are many. Every- - thing she painted was rendered. as clearly and descriptively as possible, Often arehitectural de- tails were carried out in a more. expert manner than the human figure. Various animal. species were clearly differentiated, It was unmistakable what season of the year she was describing. She had her own way of imbuing the pictures with vitality. The modern art world is oriented in other directions very remote from the thinking and 'the mode of visualization of a rural home-bred painter. No wonder • city dwellers have been refresh- ed and. delighted by the honesty and unaffectedness of our primi- tives, In Grandma Moses there was unmistakable talent; a buoyancy, an ever-replenishing liveliness. She achieved a position in the public eye for qUaintness and skill; but a proper estimate of Grandma Moses should embrace with the achievement and the painter. It takes will-power to have the same ailment a friend is describ- ing and not mention it. Obey the traffic sins — they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY, ee, teaspoon vanilla 1 egg white 1 cup shredded coconut Soften gelatin in cold water, then dissolve over hot water. Beat cream cheese until fluffy. Add egg yolk, condensed sweet milk, salt, orange rind, and vanil- la. Beat well. Stir in dissolved gelatin. Beat egg white until stiff but not dry. Gently fold into cheese mixture. Pour into crumb crust. Chill until firm. Topping 1'4 teaspoons unflavored gelatin 2 tablespoons cold water 1.1 .1 cups cranberry-orange relish Coconut Soften gelatin in cold water; dissolve over hot water. Stir in cranberry-orange relish, Spread on top of cheese mixture; garnish with a circle of coconut. CRANBERRY-ORANGE RELISH 1 pound fresh cranberries 2 oranges (quarter and, remove seeds) 2 cups sugar Put cranberries and oranges through food chopper (coarse blade); stir in the sugar; chill. Use 11/2 cups of this relish for the pie topping. Save remaining 21/2 cups (freeze it if you like) to serve with chicken, turkey, or pork. When the world's largest flow- er, a specimen at the. New York Botanical Garden, bloomed in 1937 for the first -time since its arrival there six years earlier from its native Sumatra, the news was published everywhere and caused a sensation. Now there is news that, for the fourth time since it reached the Botanical Gardens, this strange plant, the amorphophal- lus, is likely to bloom again — next year. At maturity the flower. reaches a height of eight feet and is about four feet' in diameter. On one occasion when ,it bloomed, a tall man standing,,Gp- right could not reach, the top with the tips of his "fingers. With open arms hp, could only reach' half-way round the fun- nel-shaped bloom's circumfer- ence. This monster bloom looks ra- ther like an enormous candle- stick, It takes about forty days to mature and three days after maturing it usually dies, No one likes to go too near this flower when it blooms be- cause of its strange odour. Under natural conditions in Sumatra, the stem of the amor- phophallus has been known to reach a jungle height of more than twelve feet, Now that the plum pudding and mince pie season is pretty well over, perhaps a few sugges- tions for other sorts of desserts might be welcome, Here are a few that I think you'll 'like. BANANA. SPLIT ICE CREAM PIE You'll need a deep 9-inch pie pan for this dessert. Make a crust by combining 13/4 cups graham cracker crumbs and 1/2 cup chopped walnuts. with 5 tablespoons melted butter; save 3/4 cup of this mixture and pack remaining mixture in bottom and sides of the pie pan; chill. Filling 2 medium-sized bananas, sliced lengthwise'1/4 -inch thick 1/4 cup strawberry jam 1/4 cup chocolate sauce 1/2 pint each, strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla ice cream Cover bottom of the chilled crumb crust with sliced bananas. Pack ice cream firmly over them, alternating flavors. Cover ice cream With jam and chocolate sauce. Topping 1 cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Whip cream; add sugar and. vanilla. Spread over top of pie. Sprinkle remaining crumb mix- ture over whipped cream. Serve immediately or freeze for future use. Diet—triumph of mind over platter. . When. Anna Mary Robertson Moses was born 101 years ago, there were many painters in the United States, uneducated and unknown. They painted pictures for their homes and their famili- es. There was not much discus- sion about merit, and certainly no reference was made to their value. In the generation in which we live, there has been a pressing revival of American art history, a search for artifacts, and an ap- petite for Americana, for art of the people, art nurtured on the land, Grandma Moses was a charac- teristic woman living down coun- try, preoccupied with her family, with farm chores, with 'religion. It was in character for a:Woman like this to be exceedingly mo- dest. To Grandma it was no more important to paint a picture than it was to cook a batch of berry jam, or to embroider a fine piece. In her rural, domestic, happily unsophisticated world there was no division between major or minor art, between the status of the brush or the needle. She had a sound, wholesome, healthy standard of values, her own def- inition of what was good and. beautiful. To Grandma a picture was good when it Was "pretty." A picture was a recording of what she saw, what she knew, a re- membrance of times past, of the beauty of valleys and hills seen from a window in the farmhouse; a snowstorm, in which she dili- gently filled out all the spaces with downy white snowflakes; springtime on the farm, the live- stock, the industrious farmers plowing the good earth. Grand- ma ,painted railroad trains, and the old-time automobile. in her pictures there was 'a good deal of fun, picnics, skating, country fairs. She painted farm- houses, barns, and the white church, with its tall spire; she painted the picket fences, It was not until after Grand- ma Moses was 80 years old that she was "discovered" in her simple rustic living, and adver- tised. The massive promotion of a beloved elderly woman with a genuine talent was an utter in- consistency, The pressures and public ac- claim could not touch a person of her character. She had no higher opinion of herself as a painter after the moment of national recognition. She continued to work, and she spoke in her mo- 'dest provincial manner. She wrote the notes for her endear- ing autobiography, a touching humah document, in the opinion of Dorothy Adlow, Art Critic of the Christian Science Monitor. The memory of this elderly woman was prodded and urged so that she managed to think back to her first Thanksgiving Day in 1864, and to the black bunting that marked the passing of Abraham Lincoln, How Well Do You Know SOUTH AMERICA? weeks, months or. years! This year the driver of a bull- dozer was lost in a snowdrift on the Caucasian Mountains. Thirty hours later his body, frozen stiff, was recovered, The Russian new'sagency Tees reported that there was a film of ice over the man's eyes, "When his rescuers tapped him with a hammer, his frozen body gave out a hollow, wooden sound." After adrentslin had been in- jected, the man's body was rub- bed with, oil and alcohol and ta- ken to Professor Negovskre la- boratory. There, in five hours, he brought the driver back to life! Britain is not lagging behind in, this amazing new science — with its infinite possibilities, not only of frozen immortality, but as a tremendous aid to surgery, writes Basil Bailey in "Tit-Bits," At the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, warm - blooded animals have been frozen almost solid and then revived completely — without suffering any apparent injury or loss of powers. They were refrigerated in a special apparatus by Dr. Audrey Smith until they became as hard as wood. Breathing stopped, the heart beat and all other signs of life disappeared. After as long as half an hour in this condition the animals were warmed by a beam of hot light focused on their chests. Their hearts began to beat again, breathing restarted and, within a few minutes, they were running around normally. Says shy, soft-spoken Dr. Audrey Smith: "The stopping of heartbeats does not mean an ani- mal is dead. By treating certain organs with glycerol small crea- tures c a n be stored in deep- freeze indefinitely. They are still alive — and no older — when thawed out." Dr. Alan Parkes, who also works at Mill Hill Research In- stitute, said recently; "As knowl- edge increases, the means of resuscitation will extend, so that what constitutes death to- day will not necessarily consti- tute death tomorrow." Hypothermia heralds the era of spare-part medicine, By freezing human organs and storing them, surgeons believe that one day it may be possible to transplant kidneys, lungs, hearts, even complete limbs, af- ter the blood cells have been kept in a state of suspended animation. Already the new technique is being used to freeze parts of the body while delicate operations are performed. By lowering temperatures even more, the time may come when coronary artery disease — that killer of so many old peo- ple — will also be curable under the knife. The brain, too, can be slowed down by freezing to allow extra time for a tricky operation. The British Medical Journal told last year of a thirty-seven-year-old woman who was saved by such deep-freeze treatment at Guy's Hospital, London, There have been many similar cases throughout the world, but perhaps the most remarkable concerns -:Mrs. Ellen Moore of Wallsend, Northumberland, who was struck on the head by a log. This twenty - three - year - old mother - to - be was unconscious for 169 days — six of them under deep-freeze. Yet her baby was born' while she lay in a coma, and the child suffered no ill- effects! After treatment under deep- freeze to her injured brain, Mrs, Moore also recovered, It would take about eighteen Months for a man to go by space ship to Mars or Venus, As for the stars — and the habitable planets which presumably en- circle some of them-- light from even the nearest has to travel for four years at a speed of 186,324 miles a second before It reaches the Earth, In other words, a life-time would be needed to cross the vast void dividing this solar system from the next, But . theworld's scientists have a plan. If men could be deep-frozen and then brought back to life months, years or decades later, they could journey to our plan- ets and, perhaps, one day to the stars without requiring food, water or oxygen in any signifi- cant quantity. They would, in effect, be hu- man time machines, the sci- entists' version of the science- fiction writers' invention. Of course, there would prob- ably have to be spells of live "sentry" duty to see the space ship was functioning properly and also to arrange for the rapid resuscitation at planet-fall of all the floating, frozen passengers in their refrigerated "coffins." Hypothermia, t h e science of suspending "life" by extremes of cold, is only ten years old, but it is now providing one of the most dramatic advances known to medicine. Dr. Charles Huggins of Boston, who heads the government-spon- sored U.S. research team, reveal- ed recently that deep-freezing experiments are being carried out in that country with space travel especially in mind. "It would," he s a y s, "take eighteen months to send a man to Mars or Venus in a space ship. Think of the food and water and oxygen he ,would need. To hold it you would require a vehicle of staggering size. If you could degrees centigrade, it would solve degrees centigrate, it would solve the problem. It would stop his heart beating and his other organs working. "Anyone whose heart ceases beating for five minutes is tech- nically dead. But if we could bring him back afterwards , . That is the big snag. To pre- serve life, it seems that every- thing must be frozen quickly and simultaneously so that no part of the body, whether it be big toe or the brai n, has a, chance to decay w h i l e other parts are still functioning. The effect must be like that when a motion picture is sud- denly arrested. At absolute zero, which is ap- proximately 273 degrees below zero centigrade, all molecular motion stops. And it is now pos- sible to register 265 degrees be- low in a laboratory deep freeze. To bring a man back to life from such an advanced state of suspended animation, it is thought it will be necessary to zoom him up rapidly to 37 de- grees centigrade, the normal body temperature, and also to give his heart a restarting jolt and his lungs a respiratory action. Meanwhile, in Moscow, scien- tists are talking about the fan- tastic experiments of Russia's top heart specialist, Professor ladimir Negovski, who claims to have revived more than 3,000 people after they were declared "clinically dead." He, too, is working on the reseservation — or suspension — if life through deep freezing in the hope that a planet-bound essmonaut can be "rested" for CHOWING DOWN -- King Saud' of Arabia dines at a, restaurant in Lynnfield, Mass., after release from a Boston hospital where he was' treated for an abdominal ailment. GEORGETOWN , PARAMARIEO ISSUE 1 — 1962 Long French Trial Finally Over Postmistress 'Yvonne Pintou was the one who first started tongues wagging in the south- western French village of Lou- dun. Back in 1047, she said that she had talked with the late Leon Besnard on his deathbed and that the well - to - do land- owner whispered that he had been poisoned by his wife, Marie. Police exhumed the body from the village graveyard and found it full of arsenic. Then they started exhuming some more of the family and found arsenic in the remains of Marie's first hus- b a n d, her father and mother, four in-laws, and three cousins. In each case the 53-year-old Marie had benefitted from their legacies and now was worth $60.000. But when the sensational case finally came to' trial in nearby Poitiers — a full three years af- ter her arrest in 1949 — Marie's lawyers argued that any arsenic in the bodies had come from fer- tilizer -washed down into the earth by, rains. A series of toxo- logists gave conflicting opinions on this possibility, arid the trial was adjourned 'after fifteen days, France's creaking judicial ma- chinery took two more years to bring Marie back to trial, this time in Bordeaux. More experts contradicted each other. This trial, too, was adjourned so that three "super experts" could make a study, Last• month, twelve years, four months, and nineteen days, after Merle's arrest, "L'affaire Bes- nard" drew to a close. During that perfect Marie had Survived 55 months in jail and a heart attack; she had outlived two key witnesses against her, seven of the Prosecution's scientific ex- perts, and France's Fourth Re- publi c, Ultimately,, h e case against her came back to Where it started -- the allegations of postmistress Pititou. Despite the "super experts"' 175-page re- p o r t, the prosecutor admitted there was no proof that Marie had administered 'the poison.. Marie heard 'this cahnly, sit- ting with her hands liinp in the &ids of a black elk dress, Then she leaned forward as the ail, male jury pronounced her not guilty. "Mesiieurs, thank you," Marie gasped and burst into solos. From the audience a handful of SYM- pathetic Worben rushed to the courtroom railing an d handed I16t bomincts of Violets, $ A light, sweet, rich dessert that can be made the day before serv- ing and refrigerated is made with fruits and marshmallows. This recipe serves 8-10. MARSHMALLOW- FRUIT DESSERT 1 pound marshmallows 1 No. 2 can cherries 1 No. 2 can pineapple 1 3-oz. jar maraschino cherries 1/2 cup almonds, blanched and slivered 3 egg yolks 1/4 teaspoon salt Juice of 2 lemons 2 cups heavy cream Cut marshmallows into fourths with wet scissors or use the small ones. Drain all fruit. Split and seed cherries, Cut pineapple and maraschino cherries into small pieces. Iii .a large bowl, mix marshmallows, fruit, and nuts. In a saucepan combine egg yolks, salt, and lemon juice; simmer until thickened; cool. Whip cream and fold into cooled mixture. Add the marshmallows, fruit, and nuts to cream mixture mix lightly but well; cover. Chill in refrigerator several hours or overnight. Have you ever eaten cheese pie? Here's the recipe: CHEESE PIE 1/2 poimd Swiss cheese, gr ated 1 tablespoon flour 3 eggs well beaten 1 cup milk Salt, pepper to taste Pie crust for 9-inch pie Dredge cheese with flour. Beat eggs well; mix With milk; season lightly; pour mixture over cheese, Turn into unbelted pie shell. Bake 15 minutes in hot *even (400 b F,); reduce heat to 80fr- 325°F. Bake until knife inserted in center.. comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Yields 4 servings, CRANBERRY CHEESE PIE Crumb Crust 30 thin 'chitin Wafer cookies (11/i clips trinribs) J/4 cup Melted butter Finely trash or put through food chopper (fine blade) the tookies. Blend with the melted butter. Press into bottom and sides of an g-trich pie plate. Chill. PaekageS (3 bee)' treatii theese softened PA teaspoons ttriflaVored getatiii 2 tables, ions cold Water egg yolk 1/2 SWeeteiied condebsed Mirk 14 teA4aoit salt I teaSPotlit grated orange find STRINGS An-ACHED — Busy 8pihhihg yarn dre'Wbhieri working in the Mutbilkititig ter- fife mill' in Heilungkitirt4 Province in kdd China. Perhaps, Corritiluriist& like to Spin yarns, ORSEPLAY — Film star Yul Brynner lends his white tioth at to:friend on the location Site 8ciltci, Argentina, where his new Movie,. ti historical draMa r it being filmed.. „