The Brussels Post, 1962-11-03, Page 3• •
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AFRICA
They Mess His Name
—And Small Wonder:
FED UP — These children got a little fed up on these witches mixing their respective brew
at a candy factory. Halloween would bring on a new appetite however.
,handiwork, condoned with teetseis
wore, begins. One assistant lure*
up patients and admini•ters a
iccra anesthetic; another tiin3
Their eyelashes; a third pr.vores
them for surgery on tables
with sterile drapee. blanked by
three other masked and gowned
assistants, Dr, Modi moves to the
first table and carefully bmiltit.
the minute iiagments tho
misty diseased lens in the pati-
ent's eye. Removing the ?ens, ‘.(r.
quickly stitches the eye's toneh.
white packet back in place and
mows on.' Eaoh (morale= takes
just 50 seconds, Dr. 'Mosliez re-
cord for operations per-Aimed art
a single eeie : 7e5 patients. For
the emceeing sitsYs of the elinie,
he watches over the recovery of
his surgical pa t s And pre-
scribes for the theusands ad-
ditional patients Mune eyot are
less seriously •efflieted.
State and local health drix.rtn•
ment—as well ag weallhy
zees in the towns whore
Modi's clinics are herd--provide
food and lodging for his patients.
Dr. Modi charges no fees.
During each year's three-month
monsoon season, Dr. Moth travels
abroad to study new techniq'res
in eye surgery. lNherever he
goes, he as recognized 'as einc of
- the world's leading enehtealmoloae
gists, For his ownpare Oise aria,:
• titude of bis 'Patients is receg-
ition enough, one, a'16-yearsold.
Kerala girl whom -he treated .for •
strabismus (squint eyes), said:'"I
used to bend my head whenever
I was paraded before a prospeee
Live mother-in-law.. New I can
face them with couragee'
—From NEWSWEEK
TABLE TALKS „
le news fersdee.we
WIIAT HAPPENED TO
LOVE?
There once was a time when
most successful pop tunes includ-
ed in their titles at least one ro-
mantic catchword — "love," per-
haps, or "heart" or "stars" or
"moon" or 'sky," Not any more.
Among the top titles on Variety's
list of best-selling singles this
week: 'Monster Mash" (No, 2),
"Green Onions" (No. 3), "Alley
Cat" (No. 10), "Limbo Rock"
(No, 12), and, "Surfin Safari"
(No. 15). The word "heart," in
fact, appears only twice in the
entire top 50 tunes, "love" only
three times.
That Irish Cttarm
Is Really $..pmething
On my finer visit to Ireland
five or year,; ego I asked a
taxi driver it he thought he
could drive me on a tom of
Dulbilnrs historic, sites for 10
shillings, We were standing by
the side of Se Stephen's Green,.
that pleasant, tree-shaded park
opposite the admirable Shel-
beurne Hotel,
We set off: We saw the noble
green - lawned quadrangle of
Trinity College, Dublin's Prot-
eSta rel mizabetalan University,.
where Burke and Goldsmith, and
more recently Samuel Beckett,
were put into the ways of
learning; we went past the two
cathedrals of the city, St. Pe-
trick's and Christ Oleurele. both
of them again Protestant; we
looked . at the Roman Catholic
University, wt-reap original col-
lege was founded by Newman.
And we saw a lot of other
things, too., the General Post Of-
fice, Phoenix Park, Dubeie Case
tee.
As we passed these the driver
reeresaferdertee ernY'sclaugheee exed.•
myself historical reminiscences,.
eelilPeorvehich` iniedrel'eeterne disereae
trouts or disgraceful;aetivity on
the part of the British. Here the
British had run a .w,a y; there
they had set some„villarnaues,ame
sh bu. for patriot :Irishmen; here. •
they -had pillaged, there they
had murdered. All these things
about the wickedness of the.
English were related with im-
mense relish.
When we got back to the
Shelleourne Hotel the taxi me-
ter registered £2 .10s. (50 shil-
lings; • not 30). But 30 Shillings
was all the. driver would taker
I concluded that the joy of
pointing out to two English peo-
ple the misdoings of their coun-
trymen against the Irish must
have been well worth losing 20
On another visit to Dublin I
took a taxi from Dublin to Pa-
kenham Haiti, which. is not far
from the middle of Ireland. One
csf the famous theaters of "Dub-
lin, rendered celebrated by Mi-
chael MacLiammoir and Hilton
Edwards and the late Ford
LLeeeford during a quarter of .a
ISSUE 45 — 1962
In the villages near the town
of Mangalore on India's western
coast, drumbeats sounded a joy•
Otis message, They announced
the arrival of kanutt lotto, Auina
"our brother who gives eye-
sight." Soon, in Mangalore's brick
sehool building, Dr. Murugappa
Chennaveerappa Modi turned a
meeting hall into an operating
Mom, and classrooms into hospi-
tal wards. By foot and by bul-
lock cart, 15,000 villagers visited
the 43-year-old surgeon's temp-
porary clinic last month and
more than 500 underwent ur-
gery,
In India, where 6 million per-
sons are sightless, largely as a
result of poverty and lack of me-
dical care, eye surgeons are in
great demand. During twenty
years of running free treatment
clinics throughout Southern In-
dia, Dr. Modi himself has won
the ultimate acclaim: To many
villagers he is an avatar, or "le-
carnation of God." But the mod-
est, slightly built surgeon is
humble; "My patients are my
God, the operating room my tem-
ple, and my surgical instruments
my sacred bell,"
Dr. Modes assault on India's
massive blindness problem began
in 1943, shortly after he comple-
ted surgical training in a Bom-
bay eye hospital. Shocked that
many patients were forced to
sell their daughters' dowries or
their cattle to reach his clinic, he
gave up his own private practice
to start a "Touring Free Eye
Hospital," with headquarters in
the Mysore town of Davangere.
Loading his instruments on
oxcarts, bicycles, or elephants'
and, more recently, a $12,000
mobile van donated by CARE),
Dr. Modi has traveled the south-
ern coast of India, treated more
than 2 million patients and op-
erated on more than 100,000.
His clinics, each of which lasts
fifteen days, are usually conduct-
ed in towns having a modern
school building. On the first day,
Dr, Modi examines patients and
hangst colored cloth tags around
their necks to indicate the type
of treatment they will receive—
eye drops, eye-glasses, or sur-
gery. Most surgical cases are
treated for eye-clouding catar-
acts.
Then Dr. Modi's massive oper-
ating schedule, a marvel of deft
Fashion Hint
1 teasp000 salt
PA to Z cups milk
Sift together the flour and
'baking powder, Cut in the short-
ening; add well beaten egg,
sugar, and salt; mix well. Add
milk to make a soft dough. Roll
out to 1/2 -inch thickness. Cut
with round or oval cutter and
crease in center. Brush les of
each roll with melted butter and
fold over the other half, Place
apart on well-greased pan; brush
tops with milk, Bake at 375° F.
for about 15 minutes.
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Want a recipe for scones to
serve as an afternoon snack with
a hot beverage? "Delicious when
served slightly warm,'' writes
Mrs. Winifred B. King, who sent
the following recipe.
SCONES
2 eggs, beaten until light
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons sugar
2 cups sifted flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
lA cup milk
Sift dry ingredients together;
cut in the butter, Beat eggs until
light and add milk. Fold lightly
and slowly the dry ingredients
into the egg-milk mixture. Roll
very thin and cut into 3x3-inch
squares. Brush with melted but-
ter and fold over into triangles,
Bake 25 minutes at 375° F.
When baked, open the fold and
place jelly on lower half of
triangle and fold back top again,
"Thank you for the many
lovely recipes I have enjoyed in
your column," writes Mrs. Isabel
Johoda. "I enclose a favorite
recipe for walnut bread which is
easy to make and nice for party
sandwiches."
WALNUT BREAD
2 cups flour
2 teaspoonns baking powder
'se, cup chopped walnuts
ee teaspoon salt
N cup milk
1 egg, beaten
Combine dry ingredients and
nuts. Add milk and egg and mix
well. Bake in greased loaf pan
about 374 of an hour at 375' F.
The following recipe is for a
long-keeping Ginger Parkin. It
should not be eaten when first
made, hut it's superb in a few
days time, and will especially
appeal to readers with an Eng-
lish backward.
GINGER PARKIN
le pound self-rising flour
in pound fine oatmeal
iei„ pound Demerara . sugar
J4 teaspoon ground ginger
teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
10 ounces golden syrup
4 ounces lard
ee cup milk
Melt lard, syrup, sugar. Mix
in dry ingredients. Add milk.
Bake one hour in moderate oven
in tin lined with waked papers.
When baked, leave in tin. If
needed quickly, place in contain-
er with a slice of fresh bread or
half an apple, where, to use a
Derbyshire term, the parkin
"comes again" in about 12 hours.
This parkin keeps, in a tin, ins
definitely,
It's the little thiegsethat count,
so the adage goes, and this
sometimes seems more true in
the cooking field than in any
other, It's the sugar and spice
that make cookies "nice"; it's the
colorful garnishes that make
dishes appear tempting; it's the
menu planning that makes meals
satisfying; and, for some people,
it's the hot bread at dinner that
makes the meal perfect.
Many homemakers feel that
they must have bread on the
table at every meal, others will
not serve it if potatoes or rice
is on the menu, believing that
one starch is enough. If you be-
long to the first group, you no
doubt serve hot bread as an oc-
casional treat. To be a real treat
this must be served oozing with
butter and topped with jelly or
jam; this makes it the ultimate
in treats, some people contend.
Speaking of bread and of
,.ereats, what has ever become of
"the bread-and-butter-and-sugar
after-school treat that has been
described by grandmothers as
one of their most happifying
childhood - memories? "Home
made bread, buttered thick and
to the edges, then covered 'with
as much sugar as the butter
would hold," the way this has
been described by one wire used
to enjoy it daily. Itewas no trou-
ble to fix because all the ingre-
dients were right at hand: I think
it's about time this wholesome
snack came back into the lives
of our little ones!
A reader once asked me:
"What temperature is luke-
warm?", writes Eleanor Richey
Johnston in the Christian Sci-
ence Monitor.
I looked this up in Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary and this
is what he says, eleukewarm:
Moderately warm; neither cold
nor hot; tepid; ..." It is not nec-
essary to be exact to the hun-
dreth degree in this matter —
simply neither hot nor cold will
do when dissolving or softening
yeast,
"Here is our favorite recipe
for rolls; it is quick and just the
thing for the busy homemaker,"
writes Jean F. Swinney, "No
kneading is required, and it is
only necessary to rise once, I
have inept this dough in the refri-
gerator for as long as three
weeks, using small &mounts as
we needed rolls for a meal,"
YEAST CRESCENTS
4 cups flour
V2, cup sugar
Mink Paws
, eenteiry„ the Gate. At eecii
performance, in one ofthe aisles
of the theater, a Stout Mae,
wearing an old blue suit fun-
pressed), .and a tee that always
seemed to be :slipping down his
shirt, used to stand with e eol-
lecting box,
This was the Earl of Longford
himself', .He Was. not, as ignor-
ant visitors might have., thought,
making a eollection on behalf
of his family (he really had no
need to do this, because friends
have calculated that his private
income was not far short of
£1,000 (UMW a week). He was
raking in odd sixpences on lees
half of the theater, to which he
devoted. 'his life, writes Harold
Hobson in the Christian Science
Monitor.
His country home in Ireland
was Paleenham Hale, and, as I
say, I deckled to go and. have a
look at this enormous house,
with its 83 bedrooms. I prudent-
ly asked for an estimate before
setting out, and was eol d (I
think) £9. Anyhow, when I got '
back the taxi clock', registered
more than the estimate. But
the driver took only £9, He
lead„fotight with the 'British
Army in two wars; he felt that
r• in refusing -to allow. the British
ehe use oe Irish norts against the
Germans •— eefusal which cost
the British many lives — Ire-
land had betrayed Britain.' (Ire e
land, it should bee'rtereenabered,
is much nearer to Landon than
Cuba is to New York; and Bri-
tain was engaged in a life-and-
death struggle, But Britain
never asked for firm measures
against Ireland, even so.)
This driven, unlike the first, -
thought that; the fault was Ire-
lane's. So I concluded ,that he
refrained from taking the money.
clue to him for the eheet plea-
sure of talking to English peo-
pie.
But on my latest visit I have
been forced to t h e conclusion
that politics had nothing to do
with the action of these taxi dri-
vers. An American travel agent
has just said that the true at-
traction of Ireland is not Dub-
tin's lath-centurY squares, fine'
though these are, nor Irieh but-
ter and ham, nor Killarney, but
simply the charm of the Irish.
people, To this I would add their
Unconem.ercialisan. I have no
feeling here that tourists are
looked on as fair prey. The im-
pression that the traveller- has
in other countries, that everyone
has an eye on his pocketbook,
is in Ireland totally absent. Irish
people are friendly, without ap-
parently any expectation of eco-
nomic gain. It really is a very
remarkable ehing.
SHIVER ME TIMBERS —
Navy-style wedding gown, call-
ed the "Nautical Bride," com-
plete with bell bottom trousers,
was seen at a fashion show for
members of the British Wom-
en's Royal Army Corps at
Kingston-On-Thames.
Modern Etiquette
By Anne Ashley
3/4. teaspoon salt
1 package dry yeast
it cup warns water
1/4 pound (1 cup) melted butter
1 cup commercial sour cream
2 eggs, slightly beaten
Sift flour, sugar, and salt to-
gether, Soften yeast in warm
water and add to butter, eggs,
and tour cream, which have been
mixed. Add liquid mixture to
flour mixture and stir, until
dough leaves side of bowl. Cover
and put in refrigerator overnight.
Divide dough Ls 4 equal parts.
Roll each portion, round like a
pie about 1/4 inch thick. Cut in
pie-shaped wedges, 12 to .16
wedges per circle. Spread melt-
ed butter over each wedges Roll
up, butter side in, beginning with
small end and rolling toward
top; place in lightly greased pan.
Let rise for about 11/2 hours,
Bake at 375°F. until golden
brown. (Note: I sometimes
sprinkle sugar and cinnamon and
raisins or nuts over part of the
dough after spreading it with
melted butter, just before it
rises.)
*
Does anybody remember the
old-fashioned egg biscuits? Mrs.
Olive Armstrong sent in a reeipe
for these, writing, "These biscuits
are delicious!"
EGO BISCUITS
2 craps float
3 teespoons double-acting
baking powder
12 teaspoonn. salt
1 tablespoon nsugar (optional]
1 egg, well beaten
2 tablesPoonns shortening,
melted
14 cup water
Sift together the flour, baking
powder, salt, and sugar; add
well-beaten egg and melted
shortening to water and add this
to the dry ingredients to make
a soft dough. Roll out on flour-
ed board to le-inch thickness:
rut with ble.euit cutter. Bake 2,5
omvseen,esee es a 350° F. to 400° le
4, 0,
Mrs. Armstrong also sent a
recipe for Parker House rolls
made with baking powder.
11011Sli1 itOttg
4 cops nou'
4 teaspoons, bakieg powder
tablespoons ehortenieg
egg, beaten
1 leblesepooli sugar
Q. When a host does the carv-
ing at the dinner table, does he
,serve the vegetables as well? •
A. Usually he serves only the
meat, The vegetable dishes are
passed from hand to hand.
Q. I've been criticized for my
habit of reading at the table
while I'm dining alone. How
about this?
A. Your critics are wrong,
Any person is in perfect right to
read at the table — when, of
course, he is dining alone.
Q. Does a woman ever take
the aisle seat when she is at-
tending the theater with a man?
A. Never, She always enters
the row first, and her escort
takes the aisle seat.
Q. Is it always necessary to
say, "You're welcome," in re-
sponse to "Thank you?"
A. Some response should be
made, and "You're welcome," or,
"That's quite all right" are al-
ways in good order,
SOUR TO SWEET --•• Practic-
ing a bit of homemaking tal-
ent is Pam Davidson, 11, who
is sweetening a sour face on
Ira Leifer, 10.
What Do You Know
About
NORTHWEST APRICM
FISH StORY Prenth-Canodion fishermen caught these codfish on hook and lihe WITH-
bUT bait 'during the biggest run tO yeort -Off the 6otpe Penintuta Schools Were to thick
that the fish, shopped of just the Sliihy hooks, Here ore three tons of cod drying on rackt
near Madeleine, Quebeti Eddi Orr. the fish weighed about eight pounds
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