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The Brussels Post, 1953-1-28, Page 21m Urex Cure Taikesli'l{'lIig'+ � Sounds Worse Thar* The fzy WADII JONES NRA Staff Correspondent " 'Paris — Visitors seeking balm :Ater too much over -celebration might get a tip front a few of the curious cures of Europe. On the other hand, they might just feel worse. • Some of the remedies seem ',worse than the ailment they're rrupposed to cure. In fact, they seem to be Used' on the theery 'that if the cure is awful enough, the patient will forget all about his original indisposition. i Fish, for instance. In parts of Germany, where a hangover is called a katzenjammer, and in sieve/hi other north European eountries, it's the gustom before retiring to gulp down a whole herring dipped in chopped onion.. Thi'afcchh'nic ue 'i9 simple.. You just take the herring—prefer- ably raw—by the tail, lean your head back and swallow it down. It's supposed to absorb the al- cohol in the system and make you awake up in the morning feeling like a million marks,' ° s ° In Germany, fish thus eaten are called rollmops, but have snore the effect of vacuum clean- Onn. Most Europeans subscribe to the theory that an ounce of pre- vention is worth a quart of cure. Eo they 'eat a lot before and "while they're drinking. In countries like Belgium, :9•lolland, Norway, and Sweden many people eat a chunk of but- ter beforehand if they haven't had time to eat anything more. In southern Europe they often +gat several slices of bread dunked in olive oil. • After a party in Holland it's Often customary for the host to give you something called "uits- lnyter," which literally means something to get you out of the place with,, It usually consists of ead and batter and fried ham and eggs. " e o a In France, which boasts more running feet of bar space per Verson than any other country au the world, people also eat a lot while they're drinking. And that'stdespite the fact the coun- try has 580,000 bars, and only 49,000 bakeries. Parisians, young people par- ticularly, like to go to Les Hanes, the great market place, after a late perry and eat onion soup. When food fails, though, Euro- peans are great believers in the Bair -of -the -dog theory. The French have two words for hangover which ' are good 3+ardstielcs in the matter. One is d1mal aux chevaux," which means aching hair, and the other Heavy, Heavy, hangs the hong- gver of Frenchman Raoul Pres - be, here trying an international *bstre, to wit: a raw herring to be followed by hair -of -the -dog (in vlass) while he wears American- made hangover hat compart- mented for ice, aspirin and other panaceas. "gueule de boss,,, which isCduth of WOocl. If you've got either of these it probably means you're gyicvoualy athletes' and, can take stern curative measurel, Louis, of the Crillon Hotel bar,. recommends what ha calls a Smiling hoe -one part lemon juice and three parts vodka, with ice. The French workingman will probably step into the corner bistro and call the rine co- chon, which is white wine and seltzer, and which picturesquely means to wash the pig out of the system.' Jacques, head barman at the "swank Relais-Plaza, unhesitat- ingly recommends a mixture of ice cold beer and tomato juice, "Bu{ not if you've been drink - Ing scotch the night before," he adds. - Jacques iS 'ifrin on the point that the only morning - after euro for too much scotch • the 'night before is a drop more of the same, But Jean, bar chief at the Tan - gage Restaurant, doesn't entirely approveof the hair -of -the -dog business. "It doesn't cure the hangover," he says, "It only postpones it. We once had a client who came in here, a genteel type. He drank every morning to postpone a hangover he had acquired 20 years before. One day he forgot to drink and the hangover caught, up with him.. -a 20 -year- old hangover, my friend—and he just soxt of exploded like this— pfft. They could not even find the little pieces of him." Some Strange Bets People -Have Made It probably started when Eve provokingly bet weak-willed Ad- am that he daren't eat an apple off the forbidden tree. •t He couldn't resist the challenge, ,and since, that nemorable'.day; the betting habit seems to bave caught on. Sometimes a small amount of money changes hands, sometimes fortunes. And on record are the wagers of those happy-go-lucky betters who have had not only to eat their .words, but also their stakes. William Hendricks rashly said of a certain baseball team: "if it wins that next match I'll eat my hat." Theteam won. Wil- liam, being a man of integrity,. promptly made arrangements to fulfil his promise. Inviting witnesses home he took his favorite straw hat, drop- ped it into a saucepan with thin macaroni, added onions and to- mato sauce, and boiled` the lot for fifteen minutes. He ate all, except the hatband. .To an anxious audience he exclaimed: "Boy, I feel simply fine!" Far more painstaking and sci- entific was the learned professor who had to eat his shirt when he lost a bet. He disolved the shirt in acid with another chemical. The poisonous part of the concoc- tion was filtered with a specially built apparatus. The diner spread the result on a piece of bread and ate it. Some time ago Inc a . bet, a Dutchman, Ta'kkenberg, travel - ted •• from Amsterdam to Mar- seilles, roughly some 840 miles, by some1sd'iilts. dTlte-man won his bet and statisticians estimated that 2,000,000 soniesaults 'were required for the whole- distance. Bottle carrying used to be a popular sport in Deptford. This branch of athletics entailed bal- ancing a bottle, or stone jar, neck downwards on the head. Champion in this form of en- tertainment was James Fowler who once raced George Golding to Brighton and back for a £50' wager, James won easily by the decisive margin of twenty-five miles. The coming Presidential elec- IIAISS NORMA-HOBIBS, daughter of Mr. and, Mrs. W, H. Hobbs, and 4B. DONALD "CORDON, G.M.G., L.L.D., whose engagement has bees sumounced, Miss Hobbs is a graduate in Arts of McGill University and served with the Wdt.L,N,H• duretg the bat war. Mr, Geirdon'ie Chaifread ind President of the Canadian National Railways, and former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ceq+1a and during the war Chairman of the War tonne Prices and 'i'retle hoard, The marringe will lake place in the spring Who frobb.' photo by Msy,r, studio) ni 'Capital Calligrapher—If you received an invitation to the Inaugural Ball, chances are it was written by this smiling Washington letter. artist, Fay King. She wrote nearly 10,0011 invitations In highly 'brne:menial dript. or Harry Truman's inauguration, Miss Kingr • turned out 30,000 in 39 days. Using a special type of pen, she 1 keeps spares, seen at left, always tevailable. tion in America will, for a cer- tainty, add more unorthodox' bets to. the list; perhaps one that will cap that of the Detroit womanin a past election. This woman lost her bet and had to walk "across one of the bridges clad in long woollen un- derwear. Then there was the girl from Boston. Her part of the bargain was to walk through the streets of her home town wear- ing shoes and a barrel. Oddly enough the modern business man's short -tailed coat came into popularity as the result of a wager. Years ago, the then Lord Spencer wagered that he would cut off his long coat-tails and walk about the city, thus setting a new fashion. He won his bet as can be seen. Every once in a while, espe- cially during the silly season, one reads of a conscientious loser pushing a peanut for miles with his nose, wheeling a companion from one Point to another in a wheelbarrow, nudging a small pebble from here to there with a matchstick; 'but''when "a • gam- ' bler plays for real big money and refuses to admit, defeat special mention must be made of Col- onel Edgeworth, who served un- der William Ill. One evening, having Iost' all WS -money at a 'Card 'table, he took himself -to an adjoining school wherehis wife sat play- ing. A whispered word in Iter ear resulted in husband and wife locking themselves in another room. . The Colonel..emerged a''short ` time later,carxying all his wife's clothes, including, her, diamond - buckled shoes. Re-entering the game, using his W"ife's clothing as stake money,' he ran into a spell. of good lucle••aild managed to win back all his, losings -and return the good lady's wardrobe to her. Electronic Glow -Worm Recharged in Pressure By Richard Kleiner NEA Staff Correspondent New York—A souped -up Lam- pyris Noctiluca (glow-worm) is causing quite a stir along what's left of Tin Pan Alley. This en- tomological ditty is "The Glow - Worm," the hit song of the 1910s that's now back with a set of electronic lyrics and a new lease an life. It's a smash. But it typifies the current bleakness of the musical picture, when lyricists are hay-. ing to dip back 40 years or so to find singable melodies, "The Glow -Worm" _ has been selling well for more than four decades. It's long been classed as' a "standard"—the publishers, Edward B, Marks Music Corp., sell some 80 different arrange-. ments of it, for everything from a saxophone quartette to a flute - piano duet. But dew modern songs stand a chanceof lasting so long. "The Glow -Worm," and other melodies of that era, were simple. "Songs' used to be written," says Herbert Marks, head of the Marks song publishing firm, "for people to sing around a piano. Today, they're written for trick effects on records. It's hard to sing something like 'Jambalaya,' for instance, even if you could re- member the words," Marks points out that there are plenty of song -writers around. His crowded waiting room is evi- dence to thet.. But they write melodies tl;sound gpod coming out of an cum chamber, or being bowled by a weeping tenor, or strummed by what 'Sounds like 17:guitars. Songs? toildy, are w>litten» for mechanical reproduction. • And they're written under pressure, It's gotten' s0 00e oommenthtor things they 'ought td'i'enaniti Tin Pan Alley 'il'reesure Cooker Lane," - Te -day's song -writer has to work fast, He makes far Icss money now than he did in the good old gather -around -the - piano flays. His cjilef source of revenue --sheet music --is sealing just .moderately well. And the writer and publisher get, at the. most, only two cents from each record., Figuring a. million rec- ords, which is good, that means the pdiblisher and writer (or writers) •:cut up a $20,000 maim And •a million record - song isn't too common. S,o the song -writers grind them out as fast as they can, and when they become hits, it's generally because of a recording artist and a recording arrangement, rather than because of the quality of the song itself. "The Glow -Worm" is the ex- ception. Marks poo-poos those • Shines Again, Cooker Lane. who talk about "it as 'a`'"lucky hit." "After all,';*.•hg says, "1115• the work of fop artists. Paul Lincke, who wrote the music, was the foremost composer of Berlin in his day. And Johnny Mercer, who wrote the new lyrics—weal, I don't have to tell you about Johnny Mercer. It wasn't luck— , it was skill and talent and hard work." Lineke wrote it in 1902, and called it "Gluhwurmeben," which even the Mills Brothers couldn't have done much with. It came over to this country in 1905, got a new name and new lyrics and eventually found Its 'way into a Lew Fields show,. "The Girl Be- hind the Counter," • From then on, it's been a semi - classic. Children learned to play the piano front it. Little girls dented to it in school plays. Big girls took their clothes off to it in burlesque houses. Little shav- ers sang it„,and so did.bie,,shaV- ere in barber shop quartettes. Then Johmry !Mercer gave it a lyrical transfusion, and the Mills Brothers record of it be- came one of the top sellers of 19571,., Marks, ]topes in the pew version, it'll keep glowing for another 110 years. (Wet least 'as long, as the new lyrics ' -put it, "es 'the' little' bug' with. the neon tail light 'centime ues,-to. turn on..the..AC,.arid, the Just Like ,,A.ttawa "Here” j says, a Washington paper, "are comparisons o4 the wordage in some rather famous pieces of writing: --- The Ten Com- mandments 297 words. Tlfe Lord's Prayel' ; ,,, 56 words, The Declaration at Independence " • ' 300 wee*. T h e Gettysburg Address 268 words. OPS Ceiling Order tor Cabbages '1.6,911 words." AA°out QX! 4 Almanacs for 1963 having op - Peered, it May:now be said that 1982 -lids pahalitt^thio history', tl'ho record is impressive, consisting of .almost a thousand .page& cov- ering everything froni.Abadan to Zoroastrians. Keeping its ancient name derived from the Arabic, the 'almanac • has risen to great • heights. It is a very useful book, thougle'probably not so essential • today as in its form of a few generations ago When an almanac and the Bible welt tlte 6111yrea8= • Ing matter in neany'itiral homes.' The almanac has bedome 1;earn" ed, technical, highly' .1it'eerat°e, Compare a modern al'manae` with rone of two hundred years'"ago and you have aavenyr:good :Meas. bre of new Amerieatl' interests have expanded frore,,slpall, home, ly topics to include. the Whole world. A 1953 almanac night claim to be the latest edition of the oldest reference bock in''thd world.. The Egyptians. began ;making alman acs about the year 2000 B.C. and, of course, .the Chinese, (The Chi- nese,, it seems, are riot to be over- looked in any ancient develop tient:) Arab compilers of infor- mation about the seasons, the stars and the -planets gave the almanac the name .which it still bears and about which there is some uncertainty, One authority, says the name means "the cli- mate." In any .case, the almanac is a monument more enduring than bronze to the Arabic schol- ars who kept an interest in learn- ing alive during the Dart,. Ages. When almanacs departed' from their original form of calendars and astronomical handbooks:and became known as "prognostica- tions" their popularity enormous- ly increased. In time they be- came' a pest. In seventeenth cen- tury France they were forbidden to predict political events, Eng- land _also tried . to .restrain the doctors and astrologers who•, kept the public on edge by. predicting dire calamities. This 'did not pre- vent the more amibitious editors from claiming predictions of the great fire of London in 1668. A. lucky prognostication won an 'edi- tor great fame. There is the story of the Almanac Liegeois, which in its edition for 1774 predicted that in April a royal favorite would "play nor- last part." :Mme. du Barry is said to have been much annoyed and to have re- marked,' "I wish this villianous month of April were over." Inn April Louis XV was taken and on May 10 he died. Mme. du Barry's "last part" gave a great. lift to the prognosticators. Their predictions were usually so care- fully—hedged that they could hardly go wrong. This was a fore- cast of the weather for the year 1580: "The Sommer and Autumnne shall sometyme encline, unto driness, sometyme unto mays ture: so Rhe Winter shall be part- ly rough and partly milde." What could, be, fairer than that? Jonathan. Swift's famous hoax was a heavy ,blow to, the, prog- nosticators of the early eighteen - the century. "Predictions for the Year 1708 by Isaac Binkerstoff" appeared at the close of 1707. •.Complaining of the ambiguity of the annual predictions,` Swift aimed directly at John Partridge, author of one of the most popular prognostications, and predicted Inc March 29 the death of John Partridge "about 11 at night, of a raging fever." On March 30 Swift was ready with an 'Elegy on the Death of Mr. Partridge." In April Partridge protested that he was not only alive then but had bean alive on March 29, The public wouldn'tbear 'of it. Part- ridge's almanac:: was suspended for several . years and his real obituary seven years later was a distinct anticlimax Modern almanacs, like the most ancient ones, give consider- able Vanes to 'the 'seasons, the rising: land'seetting •tlro n, phases: o f •th,noon aofnd thesumove•the-t ments of the _planets., This is a field `where predictions can he' made With 100.pdt tent 'anemia*. We may be atm that the transit of Mer, Bury, ::put down for Nov. 14, will ,begin and end, at the; exact 'rninute• indicated. The old astrologers would have tacked on sante ominous significance to this rather rare phenomenon. 7'he casual stroller• in the open these ,Tamar:, qtya,.anny oee,.tlie . planet Venus ,high in „the west, two golden tamps in the 'sky, just 'at''Sunset. He will not wen!: let' what strange 'eventd this juxtaposition may forecast. He may recall, not from the study of an almanac but froma gober. text book oh. astronomy, that if'_ there were pebplir• n Jupiter With eyes like. our ,and telescopes like ours they Would proliaoly,never know', that this, earth -existed. So close does. the • earth circle the sun .that it would not be visible from Jupiter, The Jovians, like Jove himself, would be far re- moved from the cares of earth's ordinary mortals. —From The New York Times, A ' LE TALKS Anctews Too many of us, 'in these days Of gas and electric stoves, sacri- iice a whole lot o± good eating by trying to do an" cooking much too speedily. For instance, a browna4, ten- der pot roast seasoned just right and served with plenty of brown gravy is popular in almost every , family. But, be sure to take time to cook . pot roasts, Swiss steaks, short ribs and other less tender cuts of .beef slowly .to .assure tenderness and to retain;, the juices, Whate%er' tut of pot toast you buy, roll it in seasoned flour and brown it on all sides in a small amount of fat in a deep, heavy skillet as yotir first step in roast- ing it. When it is well browned, slip a low rack under the meat' and add 1 to 1 cup of water before covering it for a long, slow cooking, if you like a spe- cial seasoning, add a few slices of onion, a bay leaf and 2 or ,3 whole cloves. Then, covered, put' it in a 350°F. oven to cook ,Rot ' 2 or 3 hours. For the last 30 or 40 minutes of this cooking, add whatever,vegetables yeti want to serve with your roast—carrots, onions, potatoes, turnips, etc, a , ° There are several.euts.01 beef. that are especially desirable for pot roasts. The round bone shoulder.. roast. which has only one small round bone is good, The blade bone shoulder roast usually called chuck is rood, also, but is difficult to carve across the grain. The boned rump is one of the best pieces for pot -roasting, and a boneless sirloin tip is ten- der and easy to serve, though, it often lacks the fat that adds so much to the taste ofthese slow- eooking pieces, of beef.th • ° I In the slow -cooking steak field, roundis the most popular cut in almost all parts of the country. 'It is from the round that Swiss steaks ,gre.procured,,,.fop a Swiss • steak is around that Sas _been cut from 1 'Co 2 inches thick and then pounded •or "trenched" with seasoning and dour. •'Brown e Swiss . 'steak well and cook it slowly.in tomato juice, beef broth • or any other savory liquid until you can cut it with a fork :,and you'll gain a reputation as'a spe- cialized meat cooker! if you want s special touch to your Swiss steak, add to the beef broth liquid onions, mushrooms, tomato sauce or a combination of these. And be sure to cook it a long time slowly and serve some of the sauce you've cooked it in with each portion. ' * * * POT ROAST VVInlll VEGETABLES3 pounds beef pot roast Flour ?4 cup fat . . 2 teaspoons salt • 14 teaspoon pepper 1 cup water 6 potatoes, cut in friii ' 6 m,edinm'e,1fots,rpared ' 6 medium onions,_peelcd 6 small turnips, pared ?4 cap flour • • r- , Coat beef on all sidei in flour. Brown' in the fat in Dutch oven or heavy skillet. Add salt, pepper and water.- Slip "low rack under meat. Cover and cook at -350° F. 2'hours. Add vegetables and cook• about 1,1 hour logger of, .until meat and vegetables are, fork tender, :Arrenge;resect smm ct ,ego!- '; ' t ables on hot platter. Add water to kettle to make 2 cups broth, ,Mix the 'la cup flour with ria cup Bold water. Stir and add slowly to broth, Boil 6 misstates. Season more 11 necessary. a ° a If you'd like an, entirely, new , taste to your next"pot roast,; try fixing it this way: & .. swey,e $O 1t lep;,c„>«oAsa',, 3-6 Pound pot roasts..,{.• 2 tablespoons fat lis stili"stied onion"' 1 cup vinegar .4 cup brown sugar, firmly peeked , n%• toaspdon: iffift zeg ' 8 medium turnips 0' cups cooker • 1poM1s = i Butter or margarine Brown roasttin lto}'fat 'in heavy' • skill et..Add. onions, Snail cook, until onions are transparent. Add vine- garr, sugar end nutmeg. Cover tightly' and simmer 3-31 hours ,,,pr ttijtil fork. tender. ,Thiolren liquid for gravy, Serve with but •',,. tered peas and turnips, • Short ribs may: be browned, seasoned and - covered, • with •a ,small amount of .water added, and baked at 300° F. for, I,.- 2 "hours, or they may be fixed with spices for a special's -neat'' ° .5 * SPICY BEEF SHORT RBS 2 Ibs. beef short ribs 3 Oise. lard or drippings= 1 medium onion, sliced 2'tblsp. butter or margarine 2 Oise. viiiegilr'' x-"'' - Ye cup ketehyp 1 tblsp. %Vorcestershiie sauce 1 tblsp. brown sugar 1 tsp. prepared mustard 11 cup water- Sir/Ism 1 -..334 cup chopped celery 1 telaspooh' salt 34 teasphou popper • Brown short ribe in ford; brown onion in "Butter or' margarine, Combine onibstf''tvith all' ingredi- ents except 'meat ..acid 'siminer ,. until thickened (about • 30 min- , utes). Pour. off drippings .from ribs and pour over the ribs the simmered sauce. Cover and elm- ' MMei' or' baler! dt 350° F. about 2 houre or until tender. Makes' 4 - 6 servings,; . '• * If you would like to serve a flank steak for your next. buffet ,gupper, try it with this special 'blue cheese topping. Buy a top quality flank steak and remove membrane from both sides. Trim off excess fat and uneven edges, Place trimmed and scored steak in a shallow pan and pour over it that mixture:. 1 cup salad ail, 2 • tablespoons vinegar and 1 mashed clove of garlic. Cover and keep in refrigerator 8 to 24''hours, turning..ateak several times so it tvill absorb dressing, 'At'broiling tithe, remove steak and rub each -side with cut clove 'of, garlic. ,,Broil one aide in ''pi'ehehted broiler about 3 inclees.froin heat for about 5 minutes. Turn and sp'1ead other side with mashed .'blae c1> e'ye (yen 11- need, about: 4 ouncesj:'" ,Continue broiling until cheese is bubbly hot and lightly browned: 'Carve vet°y'thin '' slanting slices. Ferrietl'Ove ; Heli Milk' Ilec'k-iADOBSTn, junk t t;Tjorse ,and,,t:art driver Abe•Schaeffer paytheir'ferry Hire for the las tirni r'na get ready for the final ride''acrofs'the riVW on the Oast Bdt;`tbii'"Peinny'", Ferry. Discontinued after 120 years, the "fenny'.' Ferry, running in the red, went to sea for the"lost•time. It mode •ts irate )0p in •'~•1832.