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The Brussels Post, 1954-11-17, Page 7Stage Realism That passion for realism long emeated the theatres of sophi- oa ted London, ,Hansom -cabs awn by real horses and even r -in -hands appeared upon stage of the Standard eatre, Boats were rowed treat wing to wing in real Water. Such touches had little to d0 with real acting, but they drew real money, Not to be outdone, we in New York had real fire engines in a play called The Still Alarm; also motor cars and race horses. I myself was the victim of the mania for realism, when .my manager insisted on introduc- ing a real fountain with real water into the balcony scene of Borneo and Juliet, What Bulwer Lytton describes as the "mux- mur of low fountains which gush forth ' the midst of roses," it was declared, would enhance the beauty of those tender con- fessions indulged in by Verona's lovers,' The hateful fountain behaved well enough at rehearsal. But overcome by stage fright or mis- directed ambition, it contribu- ted such spasmodic gurglings when poor Juliet began to breathe to the moon her adora- tion for Romeo that no one but a capable . plumber could have controlled its utterances. "Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" - Phit! Phit! Gurgle! Squirt! went the water. "How silver sweet sound lov- ers' tongues by night." 'riddle! Babble! Phit! went the fountain, "Like sweetest music to at- tending ears." Squirt! Giuk-k-k! Fuddle! gushed the . . . water. With a Anal effort to mono- polize the attention of the audi- ence, the hose which supplied the water became detached just as wretched Juliet cried; `Part- ing is such sweet sorrow!" Phit! Toil Wrapping, High. Heat Cuts Fowl's Roasting Time BY DOROTHY IV'IADDOK There's something new in chicken and turkey roasting, At the recent Newspaper Food Editors Conference • in. New York we learned how it's done -- quick, and with high -heat, Eleanor M, Lynch Of Reynolds Metal Company explained that the revolutionary high-speed method cuts the roasting time ap- 'proximately in half. Here's how you do it; Instead of the usual low temperature Of 300 degrees P., use a very high temperature, •450 degrees F. Instead of stuffing the turkey, bake the. stuffing 'separately, Wrap the turkey completely in aluminum foil during all but the last 30 minutes of: the roasting time. s With chielcens and email Beltsville -type turkeys, the saving in time is great, too. A 3r to 41/2 pound eviscerated, broiler, fryer type chicken may be roasted in one hour and ,45 minutes as against 2% to 3 hours by the low-tempelaature method, A 3 pound eviscerated Beltsville -type turkey can se roasted in 21 hours as against 31/5 hours by the low-temperature method, Reports from housewives state that these chickens and tur- keys urkeys rate high in flavor and moistness, And since the juice can't evaporate, you have all the makings for wonderful gravy right at hand, Directions for Foil Roasting Prepare chicken or turkey for roasting, as usual. Truss, Wrap in heavy-duty aluminum foil. Overlap the foil over breast of turkey; fold top foil down at neck and drumsticks ends, Bring underneath foil up, letting it extend 2 to 3 inches upward, Place, Cook'foil•wrapped fowl at high temperature for a new taste treat, Eviscerated Weight 3-4 pounds 4.6 pounds 7-9 pounds Time 13-15/4 hours 2 -23/1 hours 21/4-23 hours wrapped bird in shallow roasting pan. Roast at 450 degrees Ys, according to following instructions: In each instance, open 'foil during last 30 minutes for browning. NOTE: Testing was done with both stuffed and unstuffed birds. It made no difference in roasting times, s Whee-k went the water and squirted over the whole stage as the curtain went down. "Never again!" said L Since that misadventure man- agers tried to induce me to en- cumber my performance with realism, especially Mr. Belasco, who wanted me to play under his management in As You Like It "We will have real deer," said he, "and real foliage dipping into a real stream." "No," said I. "I'll stick to real acting, thank you," - From "Julia Marlowe's Story," by E. ,H, Sothern, TI.PARM F1ZONT 612ussell You can make choice beef in drylot for 15 to . 16 cents a pound. Purdue University ex- periments show how. • 4 * "Five years ago I wouldn't have believed that you could get Choice and Prime cattle with so little feed," remarks Purdue's animal husbandry head, Claude Harper. • • 9 At a feed cost of 18 cents per pound of gain, Purdue put 2.3 - pound daily gains on 670 -pound steers, using high-quality corn silage, 3.5 pounds of Purdue Supplement A, and minerals. But another lot on the 161 -day trial did it for only 16 cents feed cot, by cutting the supple- ment to Z pounds and adding 1% pounds of shelled corn. M. T. Mohler figured the darn silage at $11 per ton, Supple- ment A at $80, per ton, and corn at:;$1,50 :per 'bushel , In' another test; grass silage with corn and cob meal preser- vative' paused on nearly 214 pounds daily gain, when fed with 7 pounds Of shelled corn. • • 9 l3tit"donit :expect much from grass silage without preserva- tive unless you feed supplement. Shorthorn .,steers•-weighing,:480 pounds gained nothing fOr 70 days, when.. W,: M. Beeson fed ,, straight grass silage and min- erals. •• • 4 Yet the same steers put on 1.6 pouhds gain per day during the following two months, after he added 1 pound of shelled corn and 1 pound of soybean meal to the full feed of grass silage that had been made .without preservative. And the cost per pound of gain -only 15 cents. • • 9 Why the extra kick from soy- bean meal when grass silage is already rich in protein? Says Beeson: "There's something else besides protein in soybean meal that is responsible for the addi- tional gains." • * * If dry weather has made a serious dent in your orchard yields, maybe you should try mulching. • * • After four years of experi- mental work on ways and means of saving soil moisture for fruit trees, Roy Simons, University of Illinois scientist, recommends these steps: • • • 1.'Avoid chs an c i ult vati0n. Use a cover crop to help build up organic matter in the soil, and cut down the amount of run-off after rains. • ••• • 2. Keep that cover -crop mow- ed. Better yet, mow the cover crop, chop it up with a culti- cutter, and put it back-on'the ground as a mulch. * * 4 3. Mulch under the trees with straw, old hay, or any other CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Crown ' 1. LOadston.y: 13. Landed property 14. Strong' flavored 16. Oslo 15. Spikenard• 18. Point 12, Eagle 80. System of weights 21, Pru lt drink 10, Avbtd 21, Ifobreer month 64. Dry 27. Male turkey 28. Basps 81, Acknowledg- tnont 63, Distribute again 64. Hold again 32, Peroelv6 30, pigpen 87. Ahead 88, Clenched hand 80. Thunder 41, axtinot 131rd 42. Luzon anuses 46, Reynt Air Perot (ab.) 47.710 4180 city 40, Cfose the 0550,5 40, Charni 61. Lost aslant 53, Spatter II, Nun 3, WN CnfieeI «river len *Wer" 8. Solar disk 4. Voo tore 6, Ana. (Lao 0; 0015 comedy T wank minded person B, Friend of Amos 6. Ametlean soldier 10. Important 0nr9one 11. Wife of Gera(nt,, 12. Printing forme 1T. Cuokoopint 12, Romain 13. 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She served a well-dre;sed man in his fifties a $1.50 sirloin steak and when she returned to pick up the dishes she found a $100, $50 and $1 bill on the table. mulching materia] you may have, • • • Simons found only 25.3% moisture available at the 24 - inch depth when he left the cover crop unmowed, But when he mowed it, and then used a cults -cutter, available moisture at the 24 -inch depth jumped to 46,9%. * • • When mulching material was added under trees, Simons found increased available soil moisture down as far as 36 inches. How To Live To Be Ono Hundred The whole presidential a0un-'' cil of the Hungarian People's Republic was kept waiting for an hour and a half while Janos Zseller, a 100 -year-old peasant, watered his sheep. Zselier,i a' member of a co- operative farm in Zsambek, was invited to the parliament build- ing in Budapest to receive from the hand of President Istvan Debi himself hhe Order of Merit of Socialist Labour and the $225 award that goes with it, The occasion was to celebrate Zsel ler's 100th birthday. ,All was ready, the table laid, wines prepared, and the presi- dential council assembled, but there was no Janos. Then a mes sage came from the hero of the Occasion that he regretted he would be late, but It was drink- ing time for his sheep, and he could not trust the job to any- one else. There was nothing the council could do but to postpone the ceremony for an hour and a half. Eventually the aged Janos turned up, looking as fresh and jovlal as a young man. When he had been presented with his decoration, the wine had been served, the toasts drunk, the conversation turned, Of course, to the secret Of long 'life. "The secret of long lite?" said ,Janos. ' "Why, good health and work.. My father died at 116, one of my sisters at 98, end the 'other at 96. My mother died quite early in life -,She- was only Fry eggs in a perfect Oval shape. Remove top and bottom Dein el sardine can, and 0191 the rim, for •tl "mold" in skillet, They Don't All Live South of the Border A new campaign is under way. ,It is launched with the slogan "Keep Ainerica Beautiful" and paradoxically, it is initiated by American industrialists who, as every reader of the Daily Work- er should know, should only be interested in beautiful dollars. The campaign is designed to get Americans to mend their untidy ways. Felicitously, the drive is headed by William C. Stolk, president of the American Can Company. He calls the litter habit "a national disgrace" and says when he walks around New York streets on Sunday it makes him ashamed. Perhaps the sight of allthose empty cans in the wrong places does to Mr. Stolk what:; it does to every other person of decent instincts. Certainly, there ' is' nothing sd calculated to make a householder blow his top -than to. find the remnants ,of •a midnight, snack on his front%]8wit, tossed` there by motorists with porcine instincts. If these areaccont- panied by a few paper •enri-3 tainers, a few empty beer cans or an empty bottle, the house- holder can hardly be blamed if he does not express a silent hope that they all had a good time the night before. But these Outward breaches of manners are nothing com- pared with the state of mind they indicate. When people can carelessly litter beach, highway, or private lawns, they are indi- cating a completely unsocial point of view. There are few things more distressing than to see a group of people at a pub- lic park or beach spreading their wake of discarded news- papers, watermelon rinds and empty cans -behind them. If the drive to "Keep America Beauti- ful" will drive these crehtures undercover or get them to mend their ways, it will be a distinct step forward. One of the early objectives of the group is to train motorists to carry a "litter bag" in the car with them. We are not unduly hopeful, People who are so ob- livious of the right% of others are not likely to respond to any- thing less than swift sure pun - Witted for littering. Thai's what they should get. -• NM. ford Courant The Great Bear On The Horizon The windmill at the top of the hill was big and protective to the boy as darkness came and the autumn wind increased. He pressed his back close to the weather worn shingles but he had no thought of the sharp wind; his mind was on the heavy black clouds in the west. They had covered the sun be- fore it had reached the horizon and darkness had begun, but the north was clear and a blue afterglow domed the sky. It was just as the• old whaler • said it would be: "It will be 4 good night for thee to see the North Star; darkness will be early, • there'll be heavy clouds in the west, but the north will be clear; perhaps before six the Pole Star will be in sight" Walter had asked the old ship -master how the whaleshipe found their way over the ocean and for the first time he heard of the Big Dipper and the North Star, "Look to the north," said the old whaler, "and down low thee'll see the Dipper; four stars make the bowl and three stars make the handle -a little bent Now remember! The two stars opposite the handle are called 'the pointers'; follow a lino through those 'pointers' up and up, and thee'll see the North Star -not very bright -rather pale -but there it is, and re- member, boy, it's always there, and if thee is able to fix one sure point in the heavens, thee can nearly find out exactly where thee is on the big ocean; that is, it thee has a quadrant." As Walter waited ter the darkness to increase, his mind galloped and bits of knowledge that ha had picked up began to fall into intensely interesting relations. All the maps and charts had lines that went round the earth and up and down" from pole to pole. If the whaler could see the North Star and knew how to use a quadrant, he could locate himself on those lines of .the chart, A quadrant! That's what he must get. When he had askedthe cap- tain how ap-tainhow he could get one, the old whaler_ hesitated;' he waited and looked out over the harbor and then up into the rattling' rigging of the big ship. Thenhe said: `.'There's a lot ±O` say, Walter, about finding where you are on the sea. . "It takes time to' study Hadi= gation, but we cart do it -and we will. Some day we will go up on the 'walk' of my house, and I'll take my ggadrant and we'll make a real observa- tion. . , ;' Much of the afterglow in the north had now passed. Thou- sands of twinkling lights 'ap- peared in the darkening dome, `They flashed new meaning to the boy's mind; those tiny lights we're useful, there was some connection between this earth on which he lived and this great mysterious blackening dome that overshadowed him. • Turning his attention to the low north, he gazed at the area just above the horizon. , Then below, closer to the hori- zon, he saw the Big Dipper, Its seven stare gleamed brightly and the two stars, the pointers, formed the side of the hipper. opposite the handle, while above them was the pale star Which he Was sure was the Pole Star. Satisfaction in aOhfevement was followed by wonder, . • He had met the universe, -- From "The Clock That Talk$ end What It Tells„ by Will Gardnes. Finding Watr In Persia There was a man named Huslan-i-Ilakim in Jupar. Itrt much knowledge on all subjeeta and especially genets tie willingly agreed to guide Louis and me to a spring in the moun- tains, the existence of whioh had been reported by one of the villagers, It was in the early morning that he met tis With a donkey on which he had laden , , . two rifles and a lot of food , , Later on the sub - jest was brought around t0 genets and how they are made, Qanat Is a word of Assyrian or Akkadian origin- and came via the Hebrew and Aramaic lan- guages to .be used in Persia, But this type of water channel is definitely Persian in origin and was Originally called kariz; somehow the word genet has ousted the word kariz, which is now used only in Afghanistan. Polyblus makes the first refer- ence to them in describing the wars of 209 B,C, But although the word genet may have orig- inated well prior to this date, it is not known when it acquired its present meaning. It is prob- able that genets are as old as the towns in those parts of Per- sia where water does not flow on or just beneath the surface. The real principle behind all genets is that if a man con- structs one then he owns the land which its water irrigates; this dictum is very old and still applies. Only if there are Other clangs in the vicinity, or if the land has been enclosed, it does not hold; then some arrange- ment has to be made between the genets owners so that no water is unused and there is sufficient land to be made pro- ductive. 'Of course, the land necessary for each owner de- pends on the amount of water which flows from his genet. Gauhariz irrigates an area of two square miles and there are five channels, each three miles long and leading from a depth of 150 ft. The two square miles contain a lotof houses but there are very many gardens for which rent must be paid. Once a clang is made, provided that the water table it has pene- trated does not sink, a high in- come is assured: the limiting factor is the difficulty in build- ing such a genet, The man who believes he has enough money calls for the water -finding experts. They ar- rive and inspect the neighbor- hood. Partly by intuition and partly by intelligence in connec- tion with the lie of the land, the proximity of any springs and the abundance of plants in the s m e r, they estimate where there will be water be- neath the surface, Their de- cision is never discussed with the landlord, for the secret is a jealous one; instead, they point to a spot, collect money and go. Then surveyors are called for. They dig a well at this spot and continue downwards until water is reached; if no water is arrived at before is depth of 300 feet has been dug, then the well is abandoned and a fresh party of diviners is sum- moned. However, if water is found, then the well is deepen- ed until a depth of two meters accumulates overnight;; this quantity not only makes further deepening unpractical but shows that there' is sufficiency' Of wat- er at that level -From "Blind White Fish in Persia," by An- thony Smith. 'Key. R: N. Warren, O.A. ;!!lYr Ood'N Abuitdanoe for MaItril Need. Psalm 104: 1-5, 10.14, 24, 33. Memory Seleotion8 The earth is, the Lord's, an41 the fulness thereof; the wort and they that dwell therein. Psalm 24;1. Today we enter upon a study Of a few Of the psalms, The one for today graphically describes the care of God over all his works. As we read we are im- pressed with the majesty and wisdom and power of God. Ona has said. "Like stately pillars' supporting a solemn temple, three noble psalms, placed side by side, exalt the glory of Jeho- vah: 103 glorifies the God of grace; 104 the God of nature; 105 the God of history. Each springs from a strong pedestal of adoration and is crowned with a rich capital of praise." The person who isnot thrilled when viewing some of the great sights of nature is poor indeed. Here are some of the scenes which have led me to a greaser appreciation of the God who has clothed the world in beauty and given man the capacity to en- joy it: the changing colour of the sky as the sun goes down on the other side of the lake at my boy- hood home; the Laurentian Highlands in October when the leaves are at their best;. the u.1- ceasing aceasing mass of water breal.aug over the precipice at Niagara Falls; Lake Louise nestled in the Rockies. These and many others in everyday life are fascinating be- cause they remind us of the, great and mighty God. We join with the Psalmist when he says, "I will sing unto the LO'Rp as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have fny being." And God has made provision for all his creatures. Not even a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice. This great God invites our love and service. He gave His son for us. ' .Shall we not give ourselves to Him? THEY SAVE IVIONEY ON COSMETICS Face powder manufacturers In France have found the rea- son for a 30 per cent drop in sales: thrifty housewives are using oatmeal, In rural districts the meal is applied with a powder puff and dusted off with a handkerchief. Results are said to be good for the skin and look just as natural as customary face -powders. The cosmetic makers are not taking the situation lightly. They remember that oatmeal was used as an external as well as an internal beautifier by Scots girls until about 1900. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking J.: 9.145v e l. 1d �� nwld d Vlc;'4 C310011 21 ?J�1 N O, A '9' 1 3Ctl,i A a '3Y to 13bo .1. '3 S AS 8. 1 A V Gb 0 .1311 d 1 D H 1 N INC 9 9 V WIIW e 1 MO 3 9 2i 9 VL a S e. KEEP IT QUIET -- This pretty'youn4 lady finds the world's largest "quiet" room a perfect place to take 'a break from her work. Supposedly one of the quietest plates ever constructed, the room 1a part of a General Electric sound laboratory. The re. !axing girl is seated In front of a 41 -foot -high door covered with fiber -glass wedges that absorb sound. There are, more than 12,000 of these wedges in' the room.