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The Brussels Post, 1962-11-22, Page 7AUTOMATIC BEAT — Young women look over a multiple rug beater machine invented by a West Berliner, who exhibited the contraption at a local industrial fair. SChools LIKE. A CHILD— An English Woman Recalls Her Youth 1,9-nn” On warMon Front far eel the United Slates .goVe r t intent .;;o in curbing what a letie.ing nutritionist has called. "nut ri lion al nonsense"? A tug-of-war test — posFibly re. e1i ing c.!‘( nto the courts m offing. reIt volves around around some of the elan-lie made today for the 40-• called "health foods'; the promo- Lion the hisofclaimed oaf certainol :food edbenefits; products and tolnd the claimed nutritional necceeity for various vitamin products. Touching off the fray wasa proposed new set of regulations by the Food and Drug Adminisv tration governing the labeling _or these products. It is the responsibility of the agency to see that foods are pure and safe and that they are truth- fully and informatively labeled. All the new regulations have to do with labeling claims, The $1,000,000,000 industry •ar. feeted by these stringent regt:h- tions has declared war. Never before, it is said, has the Food and Drug Administration been bombarded by so marry pro- tests — more than 30,000 from industry, piling up into some 225 .• volumes, not to mention the 000 or more from postcards blonverecl on Congress, Producers of safflower oil pro- ducts, "sea salts," and protein boosters were alarmed. Business- men who sell these products saw profits dwindling, writes Jose- . phine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. The Food and Drug Adminis- tration finally -issued a statement of denial that the new regula- , bons would have or were intend- ed. to put people out of business or cut profits. • . All it wants to do, it has ex- plained, is "to diacottrage the ad- dition of needlessly large.amounts of vitamins and minerals to food supplements simply as a sales- .promotion device." It .seeks to prevent consumers "from being misled by a listing of ingredients which have no value as food supplements. "Such 'shotgun' formulas now contain as many as 50 to. 70 in- gredients, only' a few of which are . recognized as essential .in nutrition," says the agency. The .proposed regulations also are directed at "false or mislead- ing labeling which may lead con- sumers to believe tittt the aver- age American diet results in ill health and that nutritional sup- plements are required to prevent or cure this." With respect to. foods, the agency is out to crack down on the use of "nonfattening" or "low-calorie" or other terms suggestive of benefit in weight. control. Annmtr, ihncrviewt.ti: tali of whten were Negroes ^herwelvk's found, for instance, That Negroes like "to buy where they aim work." A full 42 per cent of those polled indicated that trey patronize stores in their areas because of "'positive" L:ttitude,s toward Negtoee. Almost a third said that they will speeittcally seiek.i. the 1,:',,trids ,.znmriv: which they believe to have fa.. vorable policies toward Negroes.. More than a quarter frankly ad- miticti that they would riot buy the products of a company that they thought had a "poor'.' atti- tude toward Negroes. Indeed. Abe :iudies showed that many Negroes consider their purchas-. ing power a weapon in the battle for equal rights. Such finding: .are becoming inereesingly important to buei- n.eeetnen trying to make a sale. As William C:apitman, president of CRM, Summed up; "Under- standing (Negroes' attitudes) will open the' way to more effective advertising, promotion, and dis- tribution policies for those manu- facturers who want to take ad- ve 'z.rge of this growing market." ALREADY? — Here it is win- ter 1962 and already fashion designs are rushing into the spring. The above is one of the first to appear for next year in London, England. Empty coffee, baking powder or fruit cans make ideal pans for fruit cake gift giving, Never fill the pans more than 1/2 -inch from the top, To prevent fruit cake from "crumbing," chill it several hours before cutting it. If it does crumb, use these deliciously flavored crumbs as topping for ice cream or sherbet. * Glazed fruit cakes always look very gala, rust bring corn syrup, molasses mixed with three times as much water, or honey to a full boil then spread or brush on warm cake as it is ,cooling. A shallow pan of water placed on a lower shelf of the oven un- der the cake will help prevent the cake drying out. With Christmas and New Year dinners coming along soon, you may want a new cranberry sauce to serve, Here is one using fresh cranberries. GINGER CRANBERRIES 4 cups (1 pound) fresh cranberries 1 large orange, quartered (remove seeds) 1 cup raisins cup honey V cup sugar 11/2 teaspoons ginger Put cranberries and orange through food chopper. Mix with raisins, honey, sugar and, ginger. Chill in refrigeratOr several hours to allow flavors to blend. Makes 2 pints. Sales Pitch To The U.S. Negro Market For years, U.S. businessmen have been keenly aware that the $20 billion Negro market is a lucrative one. And, with an eye on the strengthening economic power of colored people, many companies have beamed special pitches toward potential Negro customers. Thus, singer Dorothy Dandridge may be used in adver- tisements to tout rice, baseball player Willie Mays may suggest a pancake syrup, and footballer Roosevelt Brown may be a Marl- boro man. The importance of a good "image" when trying to tap the Negro market was underscored again in a new survey released recently by the Center for Re- search in Marketing of Peekskill, N., It was made for a number of firms in the food, cosmetics, automotive, beverage, and other industries. In talks with 3,016 Negro families this spring and Rushing To Design Houses, For The Moon Moon-architects are in a hurry. They have to design houses for the first men on the moon — and time is running out fast. Far-fetched? Not at all. Rus- sian scientists are already grap- pling with the problem of hous- ing their moon-men — and sev- eral plans are now being drawn up. The buildings will have to float on the sea of dust, several miles deep, which covers the moon. The dust is continually growing, about a hundred tons of it falling on to the surface every day. So the houses will have to be balanced and anchored firmly. But first of all, moon-architects must overcome an immense ter- restrial problem. They must build an enormous tower at sea to act as the "eye" controlling moon- traffic, Then giant metal umbrellas must be erected to defend the roofs of moon-houses from the weight of falling meteorites which bomb the moon at a speed of fifty miles per second. Fortunately everything on the moon weighs one-sixth of its weight on earth. A lift designed for a one-ton load here would be strong enough to carry six tons on the moon. Staircases on the moon could be. much steeper than they are on earth because moon-inhabitants would need to use only one-sixth of the energy which we use. For the same reasons moon-runners could cut the 100-yard, record to one and a half seconds. Weather will present no difficulties be- cause there is literally no weather on the moon. No clouds, fog, rain, wind or snow. The greatest headache for the moon-architect is how to combat the 500 degrees difference be- tween the day and the night temperatures, Daylight lasts two weeks. So does darkness. A special central- heating system for the icy nights will have to be turned into a cooling system during the day- time, Apart from laboratories and workshops, plans must include enough space for bedrooms, liv- ing rooms, bathrooms, a kitchen, and even a cinema in each house, This may seem like luxury to us, but it is essential to combat the greatest enemies in space — boredom and loneliness. EIGHT TEACHERS Graeme Young may be the most pampered schoolboy in Britain. The 12-year-old son of a British civil servant, Graeme has eight teachers all to himself. He is the only student at Sutton High, a private boys' school just outside London. Only last June, Graeme had 250 schoolmates; then it was announced that Sut- ton High. would be demolished in a local redevelopment project. All, the youngsters found new schools—except Graeme, who is legally entitled to stay until the term ends on Dec. 14. ISSUE 47 — 1962 ,n learn( r The ;Hon 1 purelniscd rtiyy firA email vae from deova hove with nue 4 Olf you go," he ;ail, and .moved ovee so that t ceuld take the wheel on the 20-mile i»ncward it/M. 110y. 1 hurl only •drieen .a two- strokt• motorcycle before. It is bard to imagine those empty roads when going over the 14ame • ground 30 years• later. Meanwhile, with the -Outage in fortunes of the rich, depleted by taxes, the Istoulon "seas.m" was almost gone, Some of the' great town .houses were still in the hands of the owners who lived and entertained .m them, but many had been turned into hotels, or clubs. in regard to tashiene, I have an old print of my mother and her sister us young girls, with 20-inch waists, wearing what were called "Russian" biousee trimmed with .braid and 4ured skirls with frills at the bottom,. which trailed the ground behind, 1 remember as a child seeing red marks behind my mother's ears made by the bone supperts in her high collars. She did her hair "big" in large swathed puffs, For special occasions she used a. pad to. fill out the puff, and ac- hieved a result rather like the "birecage" hairdos of teen-agers today! My mother used !retains 10 Inches long in her large ostrich feather hats, She often sported a boa and wore long, black stockings and short button trots, Under her long dresses she wore lace petticoats with many frills, crimped with. a gartering iron heated over a coal fire, The revolt from tight lacing came in the 1920's, with the low waist and • the loose "jumper" .enitse—similar• in shape to those worn by young women of the 1960's. People by then were beginning to eat in restaurants .a great 'deal. There was usually dancing dure ing meals in the evening. The fashion started when the lan- guorous tango reached England from South America before World _War I. Tango teas and suppers set a 'fashion for tread-. ing a measure between courses,. The Charleston and the Black Bottom crazes which came later were as hectic and lamentable as the TWist sessions of today,. This was the age of the bicycle and the tennis club. Cinemas still were called the "flicks," a hang- over from the days when early films flickered as the comics rol- licked- through their boisterous scenes in black and white. The open-top buses and the old electric trams • were a popular means of transport in London when I was a child. London's tramways have all gone and rails have been torn up, Glasgow, one of the last cities to keep them, abolished its tramways earlier this year, The modern "Red Rover" buses on London Tran- sport would hold two of the old open-topped buses with their slatted wooden seats exposed to the elements. On a visit to a south London social settlement recently I was told of the rich women who worked there in the middle of the 19th century. Their fathers allowed them to .stay overnight during the week provided they took their maids- as chaperons, The settlement therefore had to provide sleeping quarters both for the voluntary workers and their maids, The young woman. who showed the around in 1062 wore scarlet slacks and a black knitted polo sweater, She was the wife of the warden, a young social work- er and youth-club leader, To- gether they run the centre, at meeting place for the teen-agers, the old people in the Derby and Joan Clubs and the mothers who bring their babies in the • after- noons—a happy example of part- nership in the 1960's. Scene: A .hot afternoon on the River Thames above Windsor. Time: August, 11)12, A girl in a voluminous sprig- god muslin dress, a flat straw • hat and patent shoes leans back dreamily on the euehions of a punt. Her escort, In striped blaz- er and white flannel trousers, stands up propelling the punt with .'weeping strokee of the long pole. Seene: Tne same. Time: August, 1962:. A throb- bing little cruiser speeds up- stream. A girl in blue siveles at the wheel. Her escort, in open- neekeel shirt and shorts, is cut- ting sandwiches. From dependence to partner- eatip 'in 50 years—the two ,wen's .en the Thames River seem to epitomize the metamorphosis which has taken place in the re- lations. of men and women. In 1912 Mrs. Emmeline Pank- burst and her militant suffra- gettes were still chaining them- selves to railings of the House of Commons in an effort to ex- tract. from an unwilling male legislature the privilege of vot- ing nr ah election. "From dependence to partner- ship—yes that about summarizes the position, especially for wo- men of the so-called upper and middle classes," said Miss Irene F. Hilton, former president of the International Federation or University WOMOn, Miss Hilton comes from a Liverpool family of progressive thinkers, "In my family," She said, "and especially • among the men, the suffrage question was never one of sex, but one of social justice." Little success was achieved un- til the onset of World War I took thousands of men to France in. the fighting. services.. The women met the challenge to do men's. work, in the munitions faCtories, as bus conductors, chimney weeps, in the services for the • first time, in nursing, Red Cross work, as postwornen, women po- _lice, and in many other fields. As a reward, legislatiOn was passed in 1918 which enabled women of 30 to vote for the 'first time in the General Election of 1919. Ten years later, the age was reduced to 21, writes Melita, Knowles, in the .Christian Science Monitor. - As a schoolgirl I remember hearing "votes for women" dis- cussed in the family circle when My grandmother wondered "what the world was coming to," and my mother felt "perhaps it was a good thing to give women the vote." In the early 1920's their doubts about the wisdom. of letting up on the strict disciplines of Vic- torian family life knight seem to have been justified. The irre- sponsibilities of the "flapper" age were only too apparent, Changes the social structure suddenly Slackened the rigidity of society, Noel Coward's plays dramatized the plight and inertia, of the "poor little rich girl,." The changed status of women brought the end of the formal afternoon call, Church parades in Hyde Park went out of fashe ion with the coming of the mo- torcar. People in London devel- oped the 'habit of spending the weekend in the counter. The day trip to the seaside by motorcar from, London, I rerpeiii- ben started to be popular in the 1930's. Living on the northwest side -of London I often drove the. 60 miles to Printon-on-Sea and. back he one day, in a little Aus- tin-7 tourer model. Despite the -faster motorcars, many • would hesitate to do this - journey at Weekends today because of the traffic holdups. Nobody had to take a .driving Wet, There were no L auto tag ABSTRACT ATTRACTION Stormy Van Baer, former Miss International Beauty, Midi) even more attraction to ,thla sculpture in Ontario, Cali. WAVeWARD DRIVE — Skirtinling over the water Of the 'et....rdrid taltd* mablle is viewed by astonished passengers of a rnot.i.)tboat, Raft ii pioted under 'duke• Rinse, drain and dry raisins. Combine all fruits, peels and nuts, Mix thoroughly. Blend butter and sugar. Beat thoroughly. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add jelly and apricot nectar and beat well. Gradually add sifted dry ingredients and flavoring. Fold in fruit mixture. Pour into prepared pans. Bake in very slow 250 degree degree oven for 30 minutes, In- crease oven temperature to 275. degrees and continue to bake about 1 hour 45 minutes longer. Makes about 71/2 lbs. cake after baking. 0 MINCEMEAT 3 cups seedless raisins 2 ,-14 cups currants 2 cups granulated sugar 1, pound finely chopped suet 5 medium apples 1 teaspoon salt 1r.,'2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1,4 teaspoon ground cloves 14 cup cider or grape juice 1 cup browned, blanehed almonds Wash raisins and currants. Wash, core, peel and chop apples. Combine all ingredients except nuts which should be added just before using mincemeat in pies, etc, Store mincemeat in a covered crock or sealers in the refrigera tot or other very cold place. Mince pies—use 3 cups mince- meat and 1/4 cup of the browned almonds for a 9-inch double crust pie. e Bake in a hot oven of 425 deg. F. for 40 minutes or until crust is delicately browned. e Fruit, cake pans may be lined with 2 thicknesses of greased brown paper and one thickness of greased waxed paper or they may be lined with one thickness of greased foil with the shiny side turned down and away from the cake. Lining the pans pee- vents a heavy crust forming on the cake. e e A pound of raisins, prunes and dried apricots all measure from 31/4 to 31/2 cups. One dried fruit may be substituted for another iri most recipes as long as you keep the total &inbuilt of fruit the same, All - purpose (bread) flout Makes a More satisfactory batter Which holds the fruit well dis- tribUted Throughout the cake. Z14 cake also .tmiiis to slice better, * * Tube arid loaf pans are pop- filar for fruit elites but allitest any shape at iith may be used, 014 TABLE TALKS irf elates Andeewe CHRISTMAS PUDDING 3 cups (1 lb,) seedless raisins 3 cups (15 ozs,) currants la cup chopped nuts 2V2 cups sifted all-purpose (bread) flour 4 eggs 2 cups light molasses 2 cups buttermilk 11/2 cups finely ground or chopped suet 1/2 cup fruit juice with favorite flavoring added 2 1/2 cups fine dry bread crumbs 2 teaspoons baking soda le teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon allspice 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon cinnamon 2 teaspoons salt Combine raisins and currants in a saucepan. Cover with water and bring to boiling point. Im- mediately drain or dry, Add nuts and dredge in 1 cup of the flour. Beat eggs until light and fluffy, Gradually add molasses, but- termilk, suet and fruit juice with flavoring, Stir in bread crumbs, sifted flour, soda, spices and salt. Fold in fruit and nuts, Mix thor- oughly. Pour into two well greased 6-cusp moulds and one 3- cup heat-resistant bowl. Cover tightly with greased foil. Place puddings on a rack in boiling Water in steamers. Steam for about Pk to 3 hours, Cool puddings, wrap carefully, label and store in a cool dry place. To serve, re-steam and serve hot with your favorite sauce. * * LIGHT CHRISTMAS CAKE 1 cup dried apricots 2 cups dark raisins 2 cups golden raisins 8 ozs. (about 2 cup) sliced almonds 8 ozs, (about 1 cup) halved candied cherries 16 ozs. (about 21/2 cups) diced peels candied fruits and 12 ozs. (about 2 cups) diced candied pineapple PA cups shortening 114 cups liquid honey 6 eggs 2 1/2 ' cups sifted all-purpose (bread) flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 114 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon cloves Line a greased 10-inch tube pan With 2 thicknesses of greased brown paper and one of greased waxed paper Cover apricots with boiling water and let stand 5 minutes. Drain and, using scissors, cut apricots in slices. Comine apricots, raisins, nuts, cherries, candied fruits and peels. Mix thoroughly. Blend shortening and honey. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Sift together flour, baking Powder, salt and spices. Blend into batter. Stir in fruits and nuts, mixing well. Spoon into prepared pan. Bake in very slow, 250-degree, oven, with shallow pan of hot water on floor of oven, about 4 hours. Makes 1 tube cake about 7 1/2 lbs. * DARK CHRISTMAS CAKE 3 cups chopped dates 2 cups raisins 8 Ns, (about 11/2 cups) sliced Mixed Peels 8 ozs. (about ila cups) sliced enroll 8 OM. sliced glace pineapple 9 as (about 2 cups) coarsely chopped. Mils 1 leblps t g butter 8 egg's 1 ettp thick tart Jelly cup apricot nectar 514 ettp.S. Sifted alt-ptirpose (bread) HOW 2 teasPildriS salt 1:1/2 teaspoons baking eiStla tefiSpecitie 1 teaspeOrt allspice IA teaspoon eitiVet 2 teitSfitfoiig mace 2 teitspOiMS flavoring Line three. 9 by 5 by 11/2 inch loaf pant with Sluriflui fait Crease well, Pit and slice dates. TICKLERS — High voltage comedy jolted teleVisiort- ers when Lucille Boll feomecNrith Kaye' el special show. Kciye has been signed for weekly one-hour televisioti Shows planned for next Secisori