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The Brussels Post, 1955-08-31, Page 211( ' Was it Coincidence.•, ABLE TALKS eiclAe AraPCW5. 414, BIRTHDAY PRESENT — Britain's Princess. Anne smiles prettily for a special portrait on the occasion of her fifth birthday, The. Princess is wearing a pink linen dress edged with, white .piping.„ Stamp forger Paid To Quit Grime does not pay except in those very rare cases in which a crook knows where to draw the line, In Illinois recently, for instance, police paid a saf e- breaker several thousand dollars upon receiving a guarantee froX11 him that he would never disclose the secret of his success to any- one, This burglar had Successfully opened more than 009 safes with- out the use of any explosives or keys.1 Ilbw, he did it he refused to Clisclose*.; even to the• police But After• lie' ,was sentenced to three tyears in,prison, the Police visiteci;;Iiim„ and made him the ()fie' Prointsed to go 'straight if A:they, .released, hrtrr, ,:lie is now Working for safe manufae- Wring ,,:cempany testing new safes'„ Jean Sperati; a 71-year-old C"r 47' treriblitii6n; been. making .t* perfect copies "of the world's • rarest,Stamps for the past forty years.,,,perati could _easily have ,sold tneSe as genuine. But he didn't. 'Instead: he wrote "fac- simile” On- the -reverse 'of each stamp before selligg-it as' a copy. Unscrupuleus persons , who ob- tained these stamps erased Aim word ,facsimile and sold the' stamps as genuine. The Icritish Philatelic AsSocia- Clothes Line Gave tlui To Permanent Waving From the State Department Mr, Aberman learned that some 2,00Q American soldierS were, still listed missing. Many of them were believed to be suffering from loss Of memory or were dead and untraced, In November, 1923, almost five years after his son vanished, Mr, Aberman arrived in Prance with his, son's dog, an Alsatian, "If I do not recognize my son," Mr, Aberman declared, "his dog will." In a remote French village he learned that there were some "strange" Frenchmen in the dis- trict, derelicts of the war who had lost all trace Of time and place and their own identities, The searching father went from man to Man, and found that mostly they were Belgians or Germans. Then, in Alsace-Lor- raine, in a small village, the dog gave a sudden, eager bark one morning, Jerking himself free from the leash, he darted •through a crowd of people and jumped up excit- edly at a man with a badly dis- figured face. He was blind in one eye, one leg had been amputated below the knee and four fingers had been lost from one hand, But the dog knew his master! The whole tragic story was then revealed. The young man, hideously scarred by the war, did not want to return home but settled in a community' where many men were just as badly scarred as he was and where he would not be subjected to the curious stares of strangers. Surgical treatment soon restor- ed young Aberman to a semb- lance of what he had been. And when his faithful pal died in 1933 a grave was made for him and a simple tombstone erected to com- memorate the Alsatian who had found his master. SWEET LEMON MUFFINS 2 tablespoons lemon juice 44 cup sugar 2 cups sifted flour 3, teaspoons baking, pOWder 34 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar I cup milk. 1 egg, well beaten 3 tablespoons melted shorten- ing, In a small bowl, combine' lemonjuice and. Y4 cup sugar. Mix well. In a large bowl, sift flour, baking powder, salt arid 2 table- spoons sugar, Add milk, egg, and shortening; stir until dry ingredients are just moistened. Fill greased muffin pans % full. Spoon lemon syrup over top of ' each. Bake at 425° F. 20-25 minutes, or until done. * * * Vary these oatmeal muffins by adding 1/2 _cup chopped dates, chopped nutmeats, or raisins at the time you add the oats. You may omit the cinnamon topping if you like them bet- ter plain, This recipe makes from 8 to 16 muffins, depending on the size. OATMEAL MUFFINS 1 cup sifted flour 3/4 cup sugar • 3 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons shortening 1 cup quick or old-fashioned rolled oats, uncooked 1 egg, beaten 1 cup milk 34 cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon flour 2teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon melted butter Sift together flour, sugar, bak- ing powder, and salt. Cut in shortening until mixture resem- bles corn meal. Add rolled oats, blending thoroughly. Add beat- en egg and milk, stirring lightly. Fill greased muffin tins 2/3 full. Combine last 4 ingredients and sprinkle over muffins before baking. Bake at 425° F. 15 to 25 minutes. * For a nutty taste in baking powder biscuits, add some wheat germ. Brush these with melted butter as soon as you take them out of the oven. WHEAT GERM BISCUITS III cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder % cup wheat germ 34 cup shortening 1/8 cups milk Sift together flour, salt, and baking powder, and stir in the wheat germ. Cut in shortening. Add milk gradually and mix with fork to form soft dough. Knead lightly on well-floured board and roll to 1/2 -inch thick- ness. Cut with biscuit cutter; bake on ungreased cookie sheet 12-15 minutes at 450° F. R.g.ba, 37Q.4 have never made buttermilk biscuits with bran, .1Blere IS a recipe ;for this mill* leption which you and: your tam- AY Will like,: BRAN BUTTERMILK .BISCUITS. 1,6 cup ready-to-eat bran • cup buttermilk 1% cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder % teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt % cup shortening Soak bran in buttermilk, Sift dry ingredients tegether, Cut in abertening until mixture is like coarse corn meal. Add soaked bran; stir until dough is well, blended. Turn Onto flamed board and knead lightly. Roll, or pat to 1/2 -inch thickness and cut with floured cutter. Bake on lightly greased pan in preheat- led oven (450° F) about 12 min- utes. Makes 12 biscuits, 21/2 inches in diameter. Note: if sweet milk is used instead of bnittermilk, omit soda and in- pease baking powder to 3 tea- OpOODS. * * If you'd rather drop your bis- omits than Deol them, try these. MARMALADE DROP BISCUITS 2 cups sifted flour 1 teasPoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt • cup shortening 1 cup milk / ()range marmalade Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cut or rub in Shortening until mixture i s rumbly. Add milk to make a 'cic- batter, stirring only until sour is moistened. 140 greased muffin pans place a teaspoon of orange" marnialade. Drop batter en top of marmalade, filling pans half full. Bake :at 450° F., p ;2 minutes. Makes 20 small or 12 medium sized biscuits. * * Here's a sweet muffin with a lemon taste. This recipe makes 1 dozen 21/2 -inch muffins. The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. —ANTHONY TROLLOPE NIP EYE TO THE FUTURE Before China was engulfed by the Red tide, a family named Lum — grandfather, father and twelve-year-old son — lived in poverty in a tiny compound. The, grandfather was crippled by arthritis and unable to continue his share of work in the rice paddy, so the father decided to liquidate him.' He trussed him up in a big market basket and,:" made for the shore of the Yangtze River. En route he met his son ,who cried, "What are, you doing to my poor grand- father?" "Quiet," whispered the father, "By lowering him into the stream we will end his suf- fering and at the same time lighten our load." "I see," nodded the son, "but , be sure to bring back the basket. I'll need it for you one day." PILGRIM — Carrying ,a cross bearing a painting of the. Vir- gin and Child, this religious *.Slot makes his way on foot through Paris, France, en route 10 Rome. Below the picture is Need some of the religious shrines throughout Europe to which his pilgrimage has taken tarn. Among them are: Lourdes, Tolima, Loreto and Liseux. Strange things happen When ' Fate takes a hand in matters. Or was it just coincidence that caused two cars to collide, at a busy intersection, in Johannes, burg the other day? aeOssniee mofcLtehoe drivers d, dwhvoerswaWs aosn Mhros.r Way to the city centre to visit liar sister-in,law, Mrs, Rose Mc- Leod, As she climbed, out of her• dented car she stared in aston- ishment at the other driver -- the sister-in-law she'd been on her way to seal A few years ago, a New Zea- land woman, Mrs. Thomas Askew, Of Dunedin, arrived in Hamburg to search for her son, He had been reported "missing" three years previously, in 1944, after his 'plane was shot down over Germany. Mrs. Askew spent four fruit- less months scouring German 'records for any trace of her son. Then she came across a vital entry in a hospital record at Dort- mund. It related to a New Zealand pilot, name unknown, who was admitted to the hospital with serious injuries after being shot down while on a raid. The final note read: "Discharged to mili- tary police," followed by the date. With the help of police offi- cials, Mrs. Askew traced her son to three different concentration camps. The last one in which he had been was captured by the American forces and all the prisoners had been freed. Convinced that he was alive, she enlisted the aid of the Ameri- can Army of Liberation and was given no fewer than nineteen cases of Australian, British and New Zealand airmen who had been released but whose identi- ties were unknown because they were suffering from lapses of memory. Still determined to find her. - lost boy, Mrs. Askew came to Britain. But her son had not been admitted to' any hospitals here; nor had he been taken to Am- erica. She then discovered from the War Office that the Anzac men had been shipped back to their native land. She set out at once for Australia. Another two months elapsed during which seven men suffer- ing from loss of memory were traced. But there was still no sign of Mrs. Askew's son, Dennis, aged twenty-six; and his mother finally had to return to her home in New Zealand, As she stepped into the house she saw some letters that had been delivered during her lengthy absence. One of them had been airmailed from Sydney a few' hours after her departere. As soon as sherd read it she ran for the telephone to call a taxi. "Dear Madam," it said, "We have been able to, trace a man whose description fits that of your son. This man's identity is totally unknoWn, but he is be- lieved to be either Australian or a New Zealander and is at , present in Government employ in Canberra." Three days later a 'plane with Mrs. Askew on boai'd touched down at the Australian capital, and within a few minutes Mrs. Askew, weeping bitterly, swept an embarrassed young man into her arms. She had found her son! He still had no idea of who he was, but now, safely back home, he has recovered after a series of operations. Even,:more dramatic was a, search that took just over five years. Here truly Fate Wok a hand in the matter, A young American infantryman was be- lieved to have been killed in action, in the first world war; but there was no trace of his body. By December, 1920, his father, Lorne S. Aberman, de- cided to ge search of his son's body. He went to Europe and scoured cemeteries and records in vain. TALL TALE — low.a :isn't the N,only. place .,where, the ,:corm grows tall M urray "Geiaer,, Churubusco, Ind., farmer, looks" upat 'a cornstalk more than' 10 feet high. Recent heat and' humidity teamed to produce a bumper crop. air tion and other philatelic societies have for many years been warn- ing members. about the French- .man's perfect "forgeries." Last year the British Philatelic Asso- ciation 'paid Sperati a handsome sum of money upon receiving a promise from him that he would never reveal to anyone his pro- cess for, producing the perfect copies. Now the association has pub- lished 500 copies of a book for . private circulation to its mem- bers to put them on their guard against Sperati's perfect stamps.' Jose Tavares was one of the cleverest forgers Portugal ever 'produced. For some years he -cashed cheques at regular inter- vals at various banks in Portugal and Spain, even travelling into France and, Belgium to cash cheques up to £10,000, One day he presented a cheque at a Lisbon bank and was ar- rested, not because the signature on the cheque was wrong, but because the signature belonged to a man who had just been ar- rested on a charge of illegal nar- cotic dealings. The• police had ordered banks to detain any person presenting cheques signed by the suspect Tavares soon revealed that he had no criminal dealings, with the smuggler, but in the mean- time he was identified as the forger• for whom, the police had been hunting for some years. Each ,signature was stated by the bank to be genuine — but was refuted by the bank's cus- tomer. Tavares had found out an absolutely foolproof method of forging signatures. But he re- fused to divulge his secret even upon pain of imprisonment for life. The Portuguese authorities weighed the matter carefully and decided that „Tavares could • do much more harm than good in any Portuguese prison where he might pasi his secret on to some other prisoner. They made him an offer of a free passage to Ma- deira, plus a few, hundred pounds in pocket to start life afresh -- on condition that he never revealed his secret to any- one and never returned to Por- tugal. Tavares accepted with alacrity, for the alternative was twenty years in prison! In the United. States two years ago a •released prisoner wrote a book about his life of crime and included in it. how he forged cheques, opened safes, broke into buildings. A copy of the book fell into the hands of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — and panic ensued. If the book fell into crooks' hands, it would be- come the "Handbook of Crime," the F.B.I. said. They got hold of the ex-convict author and made him an out. right offer for the full copyright of the book plus a big sum of money if he would refrain from writing other books along those lines, He accepted. And the F B.I. had the book withdrawn. The "Handbook of Crime" has vanished from the market. But its author received enough money to keep him in comfort for the rest of his life. For him Crime certainly paid, although not in the way he expected! own lines, one ,of whom was Eu-, gene Suter, the millionaire own- er of Eugene Waving. Another was Peter Sartory, who invented machineless waving- many 'years „later. Then another tragedy overtook Charles Nessler. The 1914-1918" war broke out and as, 'he _had forgOtten to* take out naturali- zation papers, he was' interned. But after -a brief period,' he lwas4 released and allowed to go to the United States. After the.war his possessions in London, his shop and the invention, were 'seized and sold for almost noth-: ing to the landlord. — From the other side , of the Atlantic he saw his great in- vention revCdutionizing i,r- dressing in Britain. From a mere handful of ladies' hairdreSsing salons, thousands of shops opened throughout the country and per- manent waving gradually be- came world-Wide with custom- ers for it running into millions. Today in Great Britain the industry employ's some 150,000 people. In Canada and the Unit— ed States it is ,three times as large. There are now some 100 systems of permanent waving and all the methods—hot, 'ma- chineless, tepid and cold, were invented' here. Although Charles Nessler be- _ came wealthy and successful in the United' States (he died there a few years ago), he never quite overcame a sense of being per- secuted, the result of his early days in London. In his later years he became obsessed with the fear that humanity *as las- ing its hair and making his great invention worthless. He attacked scientists who said that baldness was -heredi:. tary and he vigorously denied that baldness had anything to do with age. ,. "If baldness were hereditary," he wrote, "women would be at least equally subjected to it as, with one or two exceptions, 'the transmission of 'traits froin par- ent to child alternates and the father's characteristics are found rather in the daughter than in the son." He was tirelesS in collecting statistics about hair. He found that the normal adult produced four and a half ounces of hair annually— and some produced up to seven ounces. He studied people who lived to be a hun- dred and proved that they had grown as much as thirty-five pounds of hair during their life- time. The hair produced from a 'single root in the average hu- man being during lifetime :was fifty feet in length. Although he Was not a seieri- - tist he derided , medical opinion when it claimed that baldness was the result of infection through disease. He pointed to the tramp who is seldom with- out luxuriant hair growth. He dismissed dieting ea a means for safegUarding the health of the hair, Hai r," he wrote; "is_the phys, ical expressionof that inner urge in all 'Of us to selfgiretec- ton Mid mankind tuitOnseitma-d 137', kiting this urge as it reakeS life safer, more assured arid more Organized." Baldness was the result of the failure of hale to retitednee it self and thia Vag due tO a breaks down in the bedY'Sliair4iiiiiitig 'machinery: "The hair gives the first inch- cation of bad health in the may farity of cases, if we ;,would only Water" for 'it. A healthy person 'always hat' good hair;' 'Oen though tithletemi often gO• b6id, but. athletet stiOng. Often iVithoUt being healthy," lie sari- tended; In a small village in the Black Forest of Germany one summer afternoon many years ago a small boy sat on his garden step watching his mother hurriedly collecting the family washing off the clothes-line. "It's going to rain, Charles," his mother warned. "You must come in." The dreamy little boy sat on. The shower came. The hot sun- shine followed. Then, to him, a remarkable thing happened. Watching the hempen clothes- line, he saw it gradually tighten until it became so taut that it caused the two young trees, to which it was tied, to bend over towards each other. The discovery enchanted him. He took a small ladder and let down the line. The trees sprang back into position and the line jumped into a series of kinks and curls. He told no one al;Opt the inci- dent. It was not the only thing of this kind that he` had noticed, On the way to school he had 'observed that, around noon, the twigs and leaves in the forest were straight, but in the early morning dew they curled and waved.' Eventually, no doubt, these discoveries would have passed from his mind, if one afternoon, later in the summer, he had not played a game of rounders on the village green: Bays were called away fpr milking, ,so an urgent invitation was .sent out for girls to take their places. He had four sisters, but none, he knew, was ,available. He had to ex- plain,. ratheeshame-facedly; that they were having their hair put into curlers. "Pooh, fancy putting their hair into curlers!" mocked a little gitl;'whose mass of golden curls, was the pride of the village. "My mummy just holds my head in the steam of a kettle • and it curls right, „away." Thus was the final link estab= lishecrin young Charles Nessler's theory which led to his great invention of permanent waving in 1905 — fifty years ago. As soon as he could save enough money he came to Lon- don and took a hairdressing shop at 47, Great Portland Street, in the, West End of London. Few hairdressers believed that hair could be permanently waved and money was hard to get to finance his work. He lived by working for wigmakers and mak- ing artificial eyelashes. Hardships followed his first experiment. He gave a demon- stration to leading 'London hair- dressers and it ended in a near riot. The model was injured, the machine damaged and Ness- ler himself was manhandled. Hairdressers were alarmed that what they had seen would kill Marcel Waving—with specially designed irons — Upon which their living at that time de- pended., Like Marcel Grateau, the French hairdresser Who inVen- ted this form of hair waving! CharleS NeSsler forgot td patent his' prodess of Making straight hair Curly: "Had he donee So, Said Mr; Justice Eve a few years later in the courts, his invention Could never' have been tepied or infringed in any 'shape or taint, And Hessler might have %died' one of the richest Men who had ever lived:. Baffled and enraged by his treatnient at the hands of tendon haircireasersr set to *Ork improving his Machine Mid offer,• • itig perniatient waves to' rich *Omen tit $80 a timer §Oirle Of his, best baekreorif bOYS left him to tleVelbp the invention On their ae 24w. PIPE THIS farrier prepares" to toy prattle' ripe With this ciuto,,- triatic avice On a plot Of, land Where the' ab rktav ng median-0 fifii manufactured. bispotalale reels holding up to' 600 feet of ,piping ate attached, fo, the machine, Which 'e.ingti,061,8e1 for three-001ilf 14U+ WhiCh is- adorable; tractor, actaitlitid to the' rilanUfactuebr; Operating f' tractor Speed, it IS desie4.,,o4 to uncover a trench, lay pipe 1.4 16• 20, intliet deep and liatic tilt after 'cit the' rave 'of 100 feet' per mhiuie. ONLY' HUMAN The male half Of :a new dance teeth was Pleading With &tor., "you never saw anything so sensational," he , raved "TO fin, ish Otif act, I take my partner by the hair and Whirl her round fee exactly' twenty spins. Then I wind up. by heaving' thrtitigh an_ open WinclOW," The Producer paled: "Heave her through art open. WindOW!" he' eXclaiinedi incredulous! : "Do YOtt do that at every once?" The :Yeting man Artigged, l!NObeiCIY'ii'Perfeet" he admitted. "SOnietitridS tiONT-WING'ER = Ultraconservative right-winger gives photo- grapher the bird C.leing .ci barnyard harrangue; There's 'no danger Of her Winding Up IA the :pot, pOlitiCal Otherwite as this Arkansas_ fryer Was born With only the one Wing', 'and has been purchased as a mascot hy owner of Wholesale .60 concern. •••