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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-02-16, Page 7 4"-411111111 Underground River 2,000 Feet Down Then I understood; though tits ,cave ears tO an end, a tunnek OPened at its farthest and low- est extremity, It was a black, gaping orifice, toward which the shining strips drew me on. I entered the tunnel; Its ;pro- portions were on the same Scale as those of the cave 20 Yard/ high, and 20 to 40 breadth. took the, time and the altimete; reading, scribbled for a moment in my damp notebook and set Off briskly On Mairey's tracks. The huge tunnel ran on to the northwest, in aperfectly straight line. Half a dozen trains could have been driven through it abreast. . . . Two hundred yards down the tunnel, he was waiting for me. "Can you hear it?" he asked. Conversation piece is this hat fashioned by Claude St. Cyr,from a man's evening shirt front. Collar encircles the head along with dark red silk tie and three-carat diamond stickpin from Mellerio. BACK TO WORK -Mrs. Annie Lee Moss will soon be back at a job with the U.S. Army. She had been accused before Sen. Jo- seph McCarthy's committee of having been a Communist. Sec- retary of Defense Wilson said her record "does- not support a conclusion that she is subversive or disloyal to the U.S.," and or- ' dered her placed in a non-sensi- tive job. killed. But she 'rode back to Damascus by Medjuere, side in triumph—to read her own obit- uary notices in the European press. When Damascus was an in- ferno during the massacre -of Christians •in 1859, Jane went alone through the city, to do what she could to turn the tide of carnage, and neither she nor her house Were touched—a re- markable tribute to her stand- ing among the Arabs. Miss Blanch says she was happy, fulfilled, in this desert and Dainascan life, but it was no serene idyll. There were lovers' quarrela, reconciliations, jealOuaies, part- ings, snatched honeymoon jour- neys alone together hi the desert silences. They had a pact, instigated by Jane, that if at any time Medjuel felt constrained by European monogamy he was free to take kept wife,,-but she Must be kept at a distance, and Jane Must never know. In tithe his oteasibrial Sences,, and bazaar gossip tor, merited her bitterly, and there were scenes. On her Side, dark hints surrounded' the name Sheik FareS El Meziad, for She reiliained a fatally attractive woman' into her sixties.. But .the marriage Mated :to the end: Mecljtiel• was SO ,appalled at the glbeni of her Christian funeral that he hurled himself from the Carriage arid took his heel§ like a inedinati, 'the Service was ending he gal. loped back Id the open grate nit her favourite black Mate, td Pay a lag tribute to the *bitten he had loVed. Miss. Mara writes vt-vidik of other famotie *tifnefa. whir Ihrild ler Adventure end laVeo Picture hat with precious jewels is this handmade lace and white tulle confection from Albouy of Paris. Poised on rose is diamond butterfly with jeweled wings from Van Cleef and Arpels. 35 23 37 38 56 111'.1S. • 41 42, 554 40 39 ra "' 43 45' lb 49 41 50 54 52 55 4A, Si 3O• 31 • Gals! Men's Clothes Go To Your Head Women took men's slacks and shirts and made high, fashion out of them and n o w Paris designers are going to Papa's wardrobe for millinery inspirdian for millinery inspiration. These latest designs from some of the new hat collec- tions show the Masculine in. fluence. A fnan's *evening shirt makes one'llat.while a cuff,, with cutf-bu o n, makes another. Even the swallow-tail lines of evening clothes provide idea s. — By Rosette Hargrove N E A Pciris Fashion Expert. From Achille, .Paris designer, comes this brown bake beret (left) in the form of a man's cuff with gold and diamond cuff links. Matching diamond earrings are from Van Cleef and Arpels. Black, blue and white chiffon toque draped on swallow„ tail, lines (right) is from the new Jacque* Fath collection. A black loop in front threads through diamond leaves from Van Cleef and Arpels. * * Rural America is as badly hi need of a spiritual rebirth as it is in need of greater knowledge of the , science of soil cultlya- tion, a leading farm editor told the National Association of County •4-H Club Agents meet- ing in Chicago in November. "We must learn to love the land as well as use it," Paul C. Johnson, editor of Prairie Far- mer and, president of American Country Life Association, de- clared. He believes farmers must set aside materialism as their basic purpose and begin to see their responsibility as fitting into a larger purpose . . ." Famous Front Door Titled Beauty Turned Arab For Love .... That home of history, No. 10, Downing Street, London, re- cently received a new coat of paint. The window-frames have, been brightened with 'cream paint; the world-famous front door has been re-painted in tra- ditional ebony black. From the outside it doesn't look one of the most comfort- able houses in London, but act- ually it is. No: 10, official resi- dence of Britain's Prime Minis- ters since 1731, is the most stared-at residence in. London, with the exception of Bucking- ham Palace. Last year more overseas visitors than ever be- fore have gone to look at it. Sir Winston Churchill is fond of No. 10 mainly, perhaps, be- cause of its wonderful historical 'associations. But some premiers have disliked it. Lord Roseberry declared he did not care for it. Lord Melbourne and Sir Robert Peel preferred the comfort of their own luxurious hornes. A Pittsburgh millionaire once cabled a leading London estate agent offering a fabulous rent for No. 10, furnished or unfur- nished. He was told he was ex- actly '200 years too late and that the house had not been in the market since the time when, fol- lowing the death of its builder and first owner, Sir. George Downing, it passed into the hands of his grandson Charles Downing, who advertised it "to let." There should be something different about living, in the country, whether or not you are by vocation a tiller of the soil, Country life should give .a wid- er choice as to how and where each person may Seek his par- ticular success in life, It should give us more leisure and greater freedom of choice in using it. It should permit 'better devel- opment of family solidarity. It should give, us a better chance to study the footprints of God, if for no other reason than the ground is not so cluttered with footprints of frantic people. We should, in the country, be pro- ducing more than our share of music, painting, sculpture, all the fine arts, The brotherhood of man should have its great- est flowering here. * * In this -world of Higher Pur- pose there are many mansions. We know them by name, but they will never mean much tO us unless we make a personal exploration, *• * Brotherhood of Man. We have talked a lot about this subject lately. 4-H adopted it as a major aim, more particularly through its foreign exchange program. Does the brotherhood of man mean equal opportunity for all, or does it mean alms for the poor? Do we want our brothers to be well fed and obedient td, us like our livestock, or do we want them to be free? * Freedom. What is it anyway? Freedom is a need of the soul, not of the body. Freedom is the opportunity to say and do what one's wisdom and conscience dictate. Freedom • is from God, not from government. There- fore ^it sometimes becomes nec- essary to defend it against gov- ernment. The farmers" of the American Constitution recog- nized the sovereignty bf God, and so they established the gov;- ernment of the United' States "under God." * 4, In the political world we are tempted to spend a great deal . of time and effort censoring out the bad, when we should be multiplying the good with such vigor and enthusiasm it will crowd out the bad as a healthy vigorous plant crowds out a weed. Without vision the people per- ish. Without courage, without an adventurous spirit, there can be no progress. No one has any real _fun. * The everyday work of devel- oping the 4-H's is useful and satisfying. But I hope fervently that 4-H workers will take time to explore also the Great Ad- venture ,into that phase of edu- cation that has been neglected by our public schools. I speak of high, purposes and moral val- ues that are living -material of good citizenship. Lovely' Jane Digby, daughter of buccaneering' sea-dog Admir- al Digby, was one of the most headstrong, passionate beauties who ever lived. . Brought up at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, She was married off. at sixteen to the blasé, cynical Lord Ellenborough, who quick- ly left her to her 6Narrr devices. In rakish,, Regency London she fell in loved with a dashing Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, followed him hotfoot to Paris, and lived with him there for two years. By the tune Ellenborough di- vorced her this affair had run its course. She had .others, with the novelist Balzac and with King Ludwig -I of Bavaria, then married a Bavarian nobleman, Baron von. Venningen, met the Byronic Greek. Count Theotoky and fell headlong in love with him. When the Venningens 'left for their Baden estates Theotoky stayed nearby at Heidelberg, and the lovers went on secret rides. through the forests. One night the susnicious husband galloped after them, Challenged the. Count tea duei on the spot and seriously wounded him with the first' shot. Dramatically, Jane held him in her arms to die. But mirac, ulously he tecovered, and when the Baron had freed •her, mar- ried her and .whisked her off to Athens. 'In Brigands' Camp Here there Was a rumoured affair with King Otho, a fran- tic one with a fierce Albanian general, Hadji-Petros. Lesley Blanch says in her irresistibly fascinating book, "The Wilder Shores Of Love," that she fled with him to' the Mountains, sleeping in camp stirrotinded by his brigands, sharing their' reck- less adventures and hardships Until the Greek Queen, who Was jealous of Jane, interposed had relieved kadji-Petros of his command. It Was the end when the dashing brigand turned syco- Pliant and wrote the Queen say- ing: "If I am' the Woman's loVer it is hOt for love'S sake, but purely for self-interest. She is wealthy, T din not,'? With her maid. Jane packed up and Made for Syria. Sheplanned to . visit beck, JettiSaleth, Pelniyra, and track &IV:it the' ancient Otieett Zenobia'a .legendary kitigdbxn, bid Within a. month Was iiiVelv- ed With a handsome YOung Arab who swept her Off her feet and into the black donin tents of big desert tribe.• Again the had ietnidthe pe feet' loVe. TheY Wonicli marry per And liVe 'perpetual bliss. Romantic DOM 'DayS int first she had to See 'ruined Palmyra, Mid it was While negotiating lei' a camel caravan to take her adreiSa the MEOW! The amateur actors were re- hearsing their Christmas play. Mrs. Jones was required tO kiss Mr, Smith and as they arrived at that incident Mrs. Smith ap- peared. "Oh," exclaimed Mrs. Jones, "I hope, dear, you don't mind my kissing your husband?" "Not at all, darling," was the icy reply. "I don't mind im the least—if he doesn't." Upsidedown to Prevent peeking desert that she - met in Damas- cus the. Sheik Abdul Medjuel, whose tribe controlled the des- ert around Palmyra, and who, it was, suggested, should act as her guide, since Salih could not accompany her into rival terri- tory. `This chieftain with, the glit- tering black eyes was intrigued by the, beautiful Englishwoman. With him it was probably love at first sight, and very early he sensed that, although it, was unheard of that he, a Moslem Sheik, should consider marry- ing a Christian, he would have to take the drastic step. When the caravan was at- tacked by robber horsemen brandishing spears, • he rallied- his men and routed them at the point of his lance. And Jane, who loved drama and was her- self an amazon rider, found the incident exciting. Was not Med- juel brave as a lion, a ,hero, her saviour? There was a ten- derness in her that led him to hope. . . Meantime, she went back to Athens to wind up her affairs, and on her return renewed her romantic explorations with 'an- other 'Sheik, El Barrak, spend- ing romantic days and nights in the desert with hini. This was enough for Medjuel. Hear- ing that they were riding to- wards Damascus, he swooped to meet het . . and El Barrak tactfully withdrew. Soon Jane saw in Medjuel all the qualities she had sought in other men. He was a man of kindness, honour — and roman- tic passion. During her absence he had divorced his Arab wife who had borne him sons. Now he was free to marry Jane on her own European terms. As they rode towards Palmyra once more, they ;{kissed. They Mar- ried at Rotta, where he owned a hotise, but preferred living in desert tents, Jane shared both, and later built 'a fine house on the out- skirts of Damascus. 'She adopted Arab Ways, smoked a hookah pipe, went barefoot, Wore the traditional blue robe' and yash- mak, kohled het eyelids, be- cattle one of the tribe, Mastered drotnedary-riding, raced at the' head of the Bedouins, arid won their admiration and testieet. When rival tribes swooped to snatch their best cattle and to kill, she and Medjuel galloped at the head of their men to battle With then'', One action was waged for three weeks, Hole Pasha attacked t 11 e i r camp With a fOrce ninety'- Strong at dead of night, but 1VIedjiieland Jane fought and rented 'their, Iii{ inter-tribal 'warfare over pasturage and trading cinv- Cessions, Meeljuers nien Suffer- ed 'greet' fogad§ in Men and tat- tle, their &MPS'. We're SaCkedf and it was rifinotited that Jane, fighting 'beside hind, had been MBWOHOMB-00E4 cowqmon nom ©©D© `!3L MOM EGU'IWICHM EMOODAMI WOOD 6110900B3gM OU DD®:. MBOOM. WOW MOrMEIOW'WOOM MORI_W W EI ©©©DIVA PIDMELOOMO 00212W_WEVONUO UMMMEMMOD OWD Mod ',4Q 0111E1:1 MEM CAUSE AND EFFECT "No thanks, I'm trying to give up smoking." A list of. priZe-winners at a small town church picnic in- cluded the following: "Mrs. Joshua Randolph won the ladies' rolling pin throwing contest. "Mr. JeShila Randolph won the 100-yard dash," I had to listen very carefully in order to work out where the noise came from, for the ruin- bling seemed to issue from the whole rocky wall, In fact, it was coming from underneath us. "It's the river,"- Andre said. Parallel to it, the tunnel ran on, and we set ,off down it again. A little farther on, amid- scatter- ed rocks, the water suddenly ap- peared, In a few steps, we had passed from a dry gallery to the banks of a big subterranean stream After half an hour's straight- forward progress down this ex- traordinary tunnel, we stopped at 12:45 p.m. •on the edge of a wide, calm, greenish pool. Prob- ing beyond this small lake, our lamps picked 'out the dark circle of the tunnel which seemed to stretch on ahead forever. I lit my last flare, and, turning the handle, shot a few feet 'of film. Andre took advantage of,' the light to survey the tunnel as far as he could see; -he report- ed that it went on exactly as beIft wasore. a very great sacrifice for us to turn back on our tracks. We reconciled ourselves to it only because of the waiting men on the surface, who would be getting anxious about our long silence. But it- was tough! Ac- cording to our calculations, based' on altimeter readings, we were about 2,000 feet underground, and more than a mile, as the crow flies, from the end of the caobulsee. wshuacdcesbsr.ourgohrt wo: h a reache,d the base „.of the great had tremen- dous d - limestone • mountain mass, and were now at the point where, on a gently inclined plane, it, rested on the underlying car- boniferous schist. Almost for certain, from now onward, there, „ would be no more shafts; only succession of galleries leading, very likely; to the Kakouetta gorge, 33/Z miles away, and an- other „,2,000 feet lower down. What a potholer's dream it was to enter the heart of a mounain at the top, and come out again 4,000 feet lower down, having traversed the whole mountain mass within! The realization of ' this dream probably lay in front of us. And yet we had to turn back. Not only were we leaving off an intoxicating task of ex- ploration; we were still con- fronted. with the exhausing climb back to camp, and all the hazards of ascent up the per- pendicular shaft. — From "Caves of Adventure," by Haman Taz- ieff. Translated from the French by Alan Hodge. Even it it does have a de- cidedly "below the border" slant, I think you will find this acoount of a speech made at a 4-II Club convention both in- teresting and thought-provok- ing, At least, I hope so, It is taken from the "CalifOrnia Fa rmer." * The great weakness of our free enterprise system is that most of its goals are materialis- tic in. nature. An ever improv- ing standard of living based on higher income will yield certain nonmaterial by-products, such as better education, better health, maybe more leisure time. But for a great many peo- ple, farmers not excepted, it becomes a rat-race, a chain re- action of creating material wards and then trying to satisfy them. There is no true happi- ness traveling this dead-end road, as we can see from look- ing around us. * * Why have we done so well in production of food and so poorly in the production of sen- timents and traditions that con- stitute the art of rural living? Our churches should, hold an important key, but their influ- ence in the rural. field appears to have declined. Our universi- ties and lesser schools have vast programs, but few clear ideas. Our extension services have been successful in promoting scientific agriculture but weak in promoting the art of graceful living. * • * If our principal satisfactions lie beyond material things, it will be easier to convert energy ar o- productive power, over and beyond that needed for a satis- factory standard - of living, into land conservation for the future or the manufacture of neigh- borliness and cultural satisfac- tions. 10. Australian 33. Myself CROSSWORD 11, Vapor bird 35. Ancient boat :17. African 16. Smooth. PUZZLE efitelohe 38. Rafter 19: Nobleman 40. Reined , ,,.....*-- — -- 22. 0101 inurlet j 21, Has being . 43: ilintntegrillifingt6inniti ACROSS 4. Denoting a 23.. liltitertairi 44. Weird S, Light repast choice , 24. Central parts 45, Pro ofreader', 4. or kreefi 5..06 ahead 25. So. 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