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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-09-14, Page 6Crazy World And. Screwball People fitirry in the White Hetise.. CAW .N.Vashtington. drinkin water does not make good teat • the expOrts had samples of f, nn-. don, water sent. over, These were analysed and then gallons of cal water wore filtered and "re,, built" to be like the sample from T.,ontion. According to Mrs, Nesbitt, President Rooseveit'stiouselteep, or„. a ..confidential memo from the British. Government atipulateci that tea should always. be readY1 even at midnight. The King's bed was, to be placed with. the. head against the wall, never with the side against the wall, and even hbt-water bottles for the ladies- in-waiting were specified be- forehand., Despite these careful prepare, tions, a secretary checked the King's room at the last me- ment—and noticed that the pic- ture above his bed showed Bri- tish forces surrendering to George Washington after the battle of Yorktown. The offending picture • was hastily replaced with a harmless flower study! Similarly„ when the King and visited Paris, the Queen's bed was that of Marie Antois nette, and every item of becl,. clothing, including the blankets, was specially woven ror the ocs casion. Cudly Bears Saved NASHUA ALL THE WAY — Eddie Arcaro drives Nashua under the finish line to win the $100,000 winner-take-all dossic at Washington Fork, Chicago. Swaps, with. Willie Shoemaker up, trails by six-and-one-half lengths. Proving Theory Almost Killed Her There are dozens Of different recipes for the popular "bread and butter" pickles; but in case you have lest, yours, or would lake to try a different one, I * don't believe Yoo can do bet:- ter than this, Bread and Butter Pickles 2 cupa brown sugar 1 cup granulated sugar 1 tablespoon, each, salt and white mustard seed toaapOon each, dry must- ard and turmeric 1 tablespoon celery seed 3 cups cider vinegar 1 cup water 9 medium cucumbers, sliced without paring 9 medium white onions, peel- ed and, thinly sliced Mix together the dry ingredi- ental blend to paste with part or the vinegar, then add re- maining vinegar; add water, 'Boil for about 5 minutes. Add sliced cucumbers and onions; boil 3 minutes, Seal hot in small jars. Jam made of green tomatoes may sound rather incongruous, but those who have tried it say it's simply delicious. Easy to prepare, too! Green Tomato Jam 5 pounds green tomatoes, slic- ed thin 3 pounds sugar 3 tablespoons lime juice Combine sliced tomatoes and sugar and allow to stand over- night. Boil gently until mixture begins to thicken. Remove from heat• and add lime juice. Place in sterilized jars and seal. * * In my part of the Province we don't seem to see, many quinces nowadays; which is rather a pity because I can re- member how good they used to taste when I was a lot younger. In case they are available where you live, the following recipe comes highly recommended. Quince Honey 4 large quinces, grated 2. pounds sugar 2 quarts water Combine sugar and water and bring to, boiling point;, add Australia's cuddly, lovable little koala bears have been saved from extinction. It is re- ported from Victoria that since animal-lovers and the Govern- nient stepped in twenty-five years ago in a determined effort to save the koala bear, there has been an increase of more than 100 per cent in their numbers, and that the threat of extinction has now completely disappear- ed. The koala bear is, a fastidious little animal, eating only the tips of a special kind of eucalyp- tus, the manna gum. If he can't get these tips, he doesn't eat, and starves to death. When this was discovered, the Government hurriedly sought tips to keep the koalas going while a special re- serve was set aside for them and plenty of manna gums planted. The food problem has been solved and the koalas are thriv- ing. quality is correct, and this is now generally preferred to black- bordered stationery. Q. When one receives a for- mal engraved invitation to some, social affair, and is very busy, wouldn't it be all right to• tele- phone the hostess one's accep- tance or regrets? A. Never. A formal invita- tion always requires a formal reply, handwritten on note paper —* and expressed in the third person. Q. Please suggest a toast a man can propose to his wife on her birthday? A. "To my wife. May we love as long as we live, and live as long as we love." Q. Who provides the bouton- nieres for the best man and the ushers at a wedding? A. The • bridegroom. When introducing two per- sons, it is proper to say, "Mrs. Smith, this is Mr. Jones; Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Smith?" A. No; it is altogether "nec- essary to mention the twice. When the police were investi- gating the murders by "Brides in the Bath" Smith in 1915 there arose some doubt about whether a young and healthy woman could be forcibly drown- ed in her bath. It was alleged that immediately after' "mar- riage" Smith persuaded the bride to settle her property on him. Then induced her to take a bath, and while she was doing so seized her legs and raised them, forcing her head under. To test ,whether, this could be done effectively a nurse volun- teered to act as victim. She donned a' bathing costume and climbed into a bath of water. An ,offical seized her legs and her head went.under. She proved the 'truth of the theory almost too well—they had to give her artificial respiration!. In another case a senior Scot- land Yard officer was called to .view the body of an unknown man who was found head down- wards in a waterbutt outside a country cottage, At first sight it looked like murder because the man had an ugly wound on his forehead. The detective carefully ex- amined all the surroundings, in- cluding the garden fence, and then gave his opinion. He thought that it was accidental death. The man had hurt his head climbing through the fence .and went to bathe it in the water-butt. As he lowered his head he over-balanced and fell in. Another man refused to be- lieve the detective's explanation. He strode to the water-butt to demonstrate how impossible it would be for such an accident to 'occur. As he bent over the butt there was a muffled yell, a mighty splash . . . and two legs waved wildly in the air! An American recently dranic, three bottles of hrandY in thirty Minutes for a bet, but within another thirty minutes he was dead, Back in the 1920s Hill Wil- liams, of Hind°, Texas, pushed a peanut up a mountain) 14,110 feet high, with his nose, A took him a month to do, and he Wan $000. A tightrope walker balanced for ten minutes on a piece of rope stretched between two sky- scrapers. A Canadian,, stood on his head at the top of a hundred- foot flagpole. 'Then there was the man who climbed to the top of a church steeple arid remained perched there for three days. A month later he fell downstairs at home and broke his neck. A few years ago a man rowed across the Thames on a butcher's tray. About the same time a strange competition was held in Kent. Fifteen women and twenty men started rolling down a hill to see who could roll farthest. The winner was a girl, who rolled just over half a mile. In 1938 six Australians en- tered a billiards ball contest for a $50 prize. The test was a , three and a half mile stretch of road just outside Sydney, and the billiards balls had to be cued along this' distance. Two dropped out with cramp. The winner covered the course in forty minutes, but he fre- quently had to crawl on hands and knees to drive his ball from beneath parked cars. And all for $50! There is also the story of Henry' Lewis, who made a rec- ord break of 46 at billiards using his nose as a cue! One of the craziest contests of all time took place a couple of years ago. It was surely one of the queerest hare and tortoise races ever invented. Larry Hughes, of the U.S.A., was at- tempting to fly round the world in five days, using only the com- mercial air lines. He hoped to reach Los Angeles City Hall be- fore his opponent, Carol' Field- house, who was hopping along the road• from Santa Monica on a pogo-stick. The prize was a thousand dollars. And still it goes on. It has been reported recently that an Egyptian is trying to walk up the whole length of the Nile on his hands, and a Frenchman • is to make a second attempt to reach the North Pole on a bi- cycle equipped with special tires. What folks will do for money! Ali, well, it5s a crazy world! Still Seeking That Spanish Gold grated quince and boil, until thick, Place in sterilized jars and seal with Paraffin, * Some time ago a reader wrote to The Christiaan Science Monitor asking for a recipe for making an old s country deli- cacy known as '"parkin." Many replies were received and in a recent issue two of the recipes were published. I'm passing them along to you, with the comments, just in case any of You are of Cornish, Yorkshire or Lancashire birth or descent, * * With her recipe for parkin, Mrs. Elsie G, Howe, Ottawa, Canada, writes: "Recently an English friend from London did a repair job in our home for me and when I asked what I could do in return, replied, 'Make me some parkin' I tried several recipes, but none came up to my memories Of parkin, so I wrote to Lancashire cous- ins and asked them to send me a family recipe. I have used it several times — and my English friend seems to approve! "I have always been under the impression that parkin is traditionally Lancashire," con- tinues Mrs. Howe. "A quiz ar- ticle in a recent English maga- zine seems to confirm this, for in answers giving the tradition- al food for various counties, parkin was the answer for Lan- cashire. It was described as a gingerbread made wtih oatmeal. I suggest that for baking park- in, you line -a tin or glass bak- ing dish with heavy brown paper — and don't overbake. Use an 111/2 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish." Mrs. Howe's Parkin 1/2 pound flour (11/2 cups) 1/2 pound medium oatmeal (11/2 cups) IA pound brown sugar (% cup) 3 ounces butter (6 table- spoons) 10 .ounces treacle (1% cups molasses) 1 teaspoon ginger 14 pint' milk (% cup) 1 teaspoon baking soda. Melt together butter, sugar, and treacle with a little of the milk. Combine flour, oatmeal, and ginger and add to melted butter mixture. Stir well, Dis- solve soda in remaining milk and add. Pour quickly into well- greased tin. Bake at 310°F. for an hour and 20 minutes. * * * Mrs. Phyllis D. Hamilton sends a recipe using cornmeal instead of oatmeal. "This park- in is heavy and chewy when done,` so don't cook until dry looking. Store it in a closed con- tainer when cool," she writes. Mrs. Hamilton's Parkin 2 cups cornmeal 1 cup flour 1 cup light sirup 1 cup sugar 2 cups shortening 2 eggs 1 teaspoon baking poWder 1 teaspoon ginger Pinch salt Milk — a little Sift together the flour, corn- meal, sugar, baking powder, salt, and ginger. Heat shorten- ing and sirup; add dry ingredi- ents. Beat eggs slightly, add milk, and mix with first mix- ture. Beat well. Pout into greased pan and bake at 375°F. for about 1 hour. Modern Etiquette DIP TRIP — Diane Williams loses no time on her trip from Miami Ito the Babarrias for swimming. She's "Miss Florida Sunshine" and travels in a bathing suit when she flies to the island re- tort. By Roberta Lee Pleasure is necessarily recipro- cal; no one feels, who does not at the same time give it, To be pleased one must please. —LORD CHESTERFIELD Heartbroken Swan Killed By Grief ILOSt Forty Tor), Hats to Souvenir Hunters The Royal Family's oldest M e b e r, eighty-two-year-old. Princess. Marie Louise, returned from an amazing tour of Central Africa, .a journey that took her through jungle areas, that were untrodden and unexplored ter- ritory only a few years ago, The Duke of Edinburgh, too, recently returned from a visit to the French Riviera where he was held up by speed cops and yet still outpaced reporters at the wheel of his supercharged car. Soon he is to go with the Queen on, their State visit to Norway and already lie is plan- ning his Olympic Games trip to Melbourne next year. The Royal Family to-day is travelling the world with a speed and facility never before known. The Queen Mother's trip to New York, Princess Marga- ret's tour of the Caribbean, the visit to Canada ,o,f the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra are all to be capped shortly by zestful new globetrotting ex- periences. Yet not so long ago, when Queen Victoria went to Nice, she insisted on taking all her serv- ants—and a household of over 100 people had to be transported overseas. Water specially boiled for the Queen had to be ready at every station along the line. Courtiers telegraphed ahead whenever the Queen wanted something to drink but eqnerries complained that they could scarcely get a jug of hot shaving water. It was evenssworse when the old" Queen went to. Balmoral— a venturesome journey for those, days. Men were posted every 200 yards along the rail route, while the Queen sat with her hand on a semaphore signal marked Slower, Faster and Stop. On one occasion the Queen went up by sea, the royal yacht had•to be towed and the Queen was sick all the way! It's a good many years since Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, inaugurated modern-style royal travel by visiting. Canada and the United States: In order not to offend republican America, he travelled incognito• as Baron Renfrew. Even' then, so many ardent republicans wanted to grab the royal topper as a .sou- venir that the Prince actually lost and had to replace forty top-hats. A generation later George V as a youngster cruised the world in the Bacchante. The ship was a 4,000-ton corvette but states- men were so anxious for royal safety that the captain first had to cruise the ocean in search of a storm to discover whether the vessel would capsize. All was well, but when the, Bacchante was 400 miles from Australia she ran into rough weather that tore the rudder sideways. The steering gear re- fused to function and the ship ' began drifting in a hurricane towards the Antarctic. For three anxious days and nights the skipper had no sleep . . . until he was at last able to efect repairs and turn the vessel northwards. By comparison, perhaps' the worst nautical experience of our own Queen was when she last left Canada in the teeth of a Newfoundland gale. The light- er conveying her to the waiting destroyer almost stood on end. Almost everybody aboard was sick—except the Queen. Though she used to dislike the sea, she swung aboard the de- stroyer saying, "I'm famished. I'd like to eat right away!" As comparatively recently as 1939, the visit 'of King George VI and his Queen to Washing- ton caused an extraordinary NICE CATCH — The way Spike Jones, shown here, tells it, the big one didn't get away. He was "deep sea" ,fishing in a Las Vegas swimming pool and came up with a' mermaid (named Ida Mercier), So he posed in the typical fisherman's stance With his five-foot, nine-inch, 135 pound catch. .34*Aus 10.ME:60 • WELCHED ON. US" Playfully' tossingbeach= 401 in happier days` • are Joan Rawlings, right, and -Ca'r'ol • •,Singleton, winner and tUriner-up, in the "I"111ss bikini IJ;S,Aa of beauty But the. shapely Were not to Miara *lien they fired $ibiotict and' 060 damage ngtdrist M. Andre, Who they. Oaim; welshed the. proiriited leven,week crate and tore UP theli $1D'-d-week co ntracts: Periwig: Factory shipments of woven wire laWn fencing rose 153 font to 1,233 tent the first three quarters. Of 1953: 001011t1, that's 16-yiiei.-old' Mend Wood; tauciht fifie Seek lingua cOw, 'tango' tii" carry' her in a i,addlei Country folk living deep in the heart of 'Essex will long remem- ber the story of the swan with the broken heart. Some time ago he was found, amid the weeds of a disused sandpit, standing guard beside his snowy-white mate. She had died and he was ob- viously grief-stricken. Kindly animal welfare experts called to the spot feared that he would pine to death. Said one: "A swan has only one mate and is faithful to her always." In the end the broken-hearted swan was persuaded to leave the spot for a 'spell in hospital to help him-to forget. It was then planned to set him free on a big lake in another part of the country far from the disused pit and its memories. Naturalists say that many • creatures do experience grief and that some even shed tears. Some years ago there was a giraffe at Sydney Zoo which wept for several days following the sudden death of its mate. The founder of an animal Wel- fare organization declared, "I can Unhesitatingly say that ani- mals do soinetimes die from grief." She quoted the case of a monkey which, having lost its mate, was. in a state of collapse. It would eat nothing and just • sat brooding over its loss. Then, after a few hours, it died. But if animals feel grief, some also have a 'sense of Infinour, A fermata observer of animal con- duct Maintained that many can actually laugh. "Some dogs raise the Upper lip and show their teeth clearly with a curious grinning exptea- siora" he Said. "When this is atconinallied by Wagging of the tail, it may be regarded as what, in a human being, Would be called a. broad smile." An orange-mitarig at London Zoo used to show every eigh of pleasure when its practieal jokes excited laughter:, Gilbert White, the great naturalist, told of a pet magpie which, had a laugh so hearty; joyous' and natural that no one Who heard it could' help joining iti. STOR "My garden was such a inc., eels this rear,!" boasted ngentie- *an fernier; "that ink heighber'sf Shkkeria took first price at the poultry shawl" Q. Is it considered necessary to repeat a person's name when being introduced? A. Just "How do you do" is sufficient, but it is always nicer if you do repeat the other pet- sen's name after this greeting. It seems to indicate that you have really paid attention to the in. troduction Q. When eating a baked po- tato, is it cared to take the po- tato from the skin and mash it on the plate? A. No; the proper way is to split the potato and then eat it directly from the skin, Q. Is it necessary to write anything on the card that aceotn, parties a wedding gift? A. No. The: card with your narrie on it it sufficient, as good Wishes and congrattilations are Offered at the reception. Whose piade isit to set the date of the wedding, the bride or the, bridegroom? A, After the prospective bride° and bridegroOni Haile decided be. baleen themselves that eireinii- sterieeS are faVerable for their 'Wedding, it is Lip to the bride and her "nether to decide the exact date. Q.• Should asparagus be eaten With the fingers? A. No. It is ill-bred to 'take tip this dripping Vetable With the fingers. It IS Properly eaten with the fork. 0, •Mill 000 et stationery ihOtild be used by people fn • WhIti irintienerk et wit Work has begun in Tobermery Bay, Argyllshire, on the sunken Spanish galleon. Florentia, one of the many ships of the' Armada which went down in the great storm which scattered Philip of Spain's proud fleet. She took to her grave bullion and other trea- sure valued at two million pounds, including some almost priceless church ornaments of gold and silver. Salvage operations are not to be hurried as a rule. Those on the wreck of the Royal George extended over six summers. The divers recovered many interest- ing relics. Some of these found their way to national museums, others are still preserved by the salvage firm which,conducted the work. The same firm will also show the interested visitor a Mexican gold dollar. It is one of 250,000 Mexican dolars recovered from the sunken Harnilla Mitchell. Which went down in 156 feet of water off Shanghai. One of the firm's divers, Alex- ander Lambert, is the hero of many great feats carried out on the bed of the ocean. Among other remarkable achievements, he located the wreck of the Spanish mail steamer, Alfonso XII, and hauled from it seven chests of gold coin at the great depth of 162 feet. The Salvage Section of the -Admiralty was called into being early in 1917 by Commodore F. „W. Young. In all about 450 tor- pert:lied merchantineri were sal- vaged, Which meant nearly two ' million tons Of shipping, repre- Senting about fifty rri illio ii pounds. The Section salvaged the Ara= by from Boulogne Harbour and conveyed her to the Thames in two sections'. It patched up the battlecruiser Lion after a des perate fight and enabled her to reach the Tyne. It salvaged the first class battleship, the Cori- * titterer, the hospital ship Astu- rias, and the subrnatine thus rescuing the thirty-five' Men who Went doWn With her from a dreadful death, -And it hauled upright a sunken trans., Port vessel at Folkestone by Means Of four railway IticOrne-, titres.