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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-02-01, Page 2vall. • .• TABLE 'TAL dazes Andrews. CAGEY.KITTN-ei(candyv:, the, killer), iseet Yery„friendly visitor in tile cage of "Mickey", the para-, keel,, The a two pets have beeneon good. terms ver- since Candy accidentally trawled into the cage in the home of Rev .,-Orville Schroer.,:ln:ph oto-at left, ,Candy directs a few ':ployful 'swipes at Mickey on his. perch. At right, the visit over Candy, leaves through the open door. Here is a pudding that is Mixed right in the baking cli,sh to which it is cookecl, You can put it together in a hurry and, cook the rest of the meal while it is baiting. Serve this pudding either hot or cold with ice cream or whipped cream. MYSTERY PIIDDINO I cup sifted flour 3/4 cup sugar I% teaspoons soda % teaspoon salt „, ye cup brown sugar firmly packed Ye cup sirup drained from fruit cocktail 1 egg, unbeaten 1,1/5 cups drained, fruit cocktail (No., 1 can) icily chopped nuts, cup brown sugar firmly packedt Sift first 4 ingredients togeth- er into a 2-quart casserole or baking dish. Add the ei cup brown sugar, fruit cocktail sirup and egg; blend well. Stir in drained fruit cocktail, and nuts. Scrape batter from sides- of cas- serole with rubber scraper and spread, batter,. evenly in. -dish. - Sprinkle top with they Ye cup brown sugar.. Bake in preheated 325° F. oven for 50-60 minutes. Serves 6-8. - • * A new version of nee pud- ding that puts that old favorite in the company ,class- is, this Butterscotch Rice Mold. BUTTERSCOTCH RICE MOLD 14 cup uncooked rice 4 cups milk 2 cups darChrelin ;Sugar firmly Packed 1 teaspoon salt 1/4, cup butter 1 teaspoon- vanilla % pint whipping .:cream 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon,. vanilla 34 cup choppedkinaraichino cherries Mix rice e end mine« in a 2- quart saucepan and'I:Ceing to, a bail. Immediately' thin ',heat" as ]ow as possilelee'coveieiancepan and leave oVerethieelow•theat for 1 hour, or until r-rice, has ab- sorbed milk. Stir ,several times during waking, Coelc• brown sugar, salt, and buffer, stirf'ing' constantly, until sirupy. -Add 1 teaspoon vanilla„ eStir stigar mixture into cOokedOricee,Chill &Tore serving with „the Whip- ped cream into whichlies been beaten the 2 tablespeOns sugar- and 1 teaspoori Top with the cherries. To make this pudding aides-.. sert masterpiece, 'Tress e the NNW ,"But I can't let you in to see' the Boss, Sir. I'm supposed to keep People):out," warm rice-sirup Uli,xture. into a well.-greased dessert mold, Chill until cold, Whip cream. and fold in sugar and vanilla. Unrnold rice by dipping mold into hot water, placing a. plate under mold and inverting plate and mold together. Arrange the whipped cream On plate 'around molded dessert, Sprinkle the cherries over the whipped, cream. * R A. Meringue is, as good on pud- ding as, it is on pie, so try this applesauce pudding topped with a meringue browned delicately in the oven, APPLESAUCE. PUDDING 1% cups applesauce 34 clip sugar teaspoem grated lemon rind ee teaspoon lemon. •juice 34-r -teaspoon vanilla 1 egg yolk 1 egg white ; tablespoons sugar Dash silt % teaspoon vanilla :Mix together first 5. ingredi- ents. Beateegg, yolk into this mixture. Pour into 8x8x2-inch, biking dish. Beat egg white until fluffy; add salt; beat un- til. stiff , but.. nptedry. Gradually beat in thee; eablesoonS sugar „ until' egg whites stand in peaks; opeat in vanilla. Spread Over puddink baking dish. Bake at 300' F. for 15 minutes. • * • LEMON-LIME CHIFFON SQUARES 1 package lemen pudding and lite, filling- mix 3% cup. sugar 2 cups water 2 egg yolks 1 package lime-flavored tin' 1 cup hot water 1 cup cold water 2 eggs white Graham cracker 'nett trust Combine pudding, Mix and Ye cup each Of the sugar end water in a saucepan. Add egg yolks and blend well. Then aCid ,remain- ing 1g cups. water., Cook and stir until -mixture comes to full boil and is ;thickened — about 5 minutee. Rernove from heat. Cool Only 5.. minutes, stirring. Once or twice, Meanwhile, dissolve lime gela- tin in the 1 cup hot water. Add 1 cup cold water. Add gradual- ly to Redding mixture, blending well. Beat- egg whites' until foamy throughout. Add remain- ing, lee cup sugar gradually, beating until mixture' will stand in stiff peaks: Then' told in mixture. Turn onto graham cracker nut crust. Sprinkle tepeweth part Of crumb mixture, if desired, Chill until firm; cut in squares; serve with whipped, cream. „ GRAHAM CRACKER NUT 'CRUST 114 eel* fine graham cracker %.'cup finely chopped nuts 2 tablespoons sugar % cup melted butter Combine cruinbs, nuts and sugar; add butter arid mix well. (Reserve 3 tablespoons of mix- ture Mr trip, if desired.) Press firmly on bottom. of 12x1.8-inch pair. Murder atteige A Perfect Crime It was the evening- of, Janue, ary 19th, leelp andrit,wes,,fee,eze - Mg fast., In fact, it was,one of the coldest nights of that winter in England: smokel laden cleberoore Veyond 'the bar' of the, North Jphn Street e pub' -in -Liverpool „conditions• were, warm and, comfoeteble. This little room was the heade, quarters of the local chess club,, and that very evening there was to be a • championship match. Unfortunately, •theestart- was' being- delayed;~ Oneeof the, players, respectable insurance agent William Wallace, had not, arrived. Chess enthusiaSts stood about' talking, waiting impatiently. Then, suddenly, the shrill• ring- ing of the telephone bell cut through the babble of converse-- tion. ' The call was for William Wallace. The barmaid' took' the message. The caller' was a "Mr. R. M. Qualtrough." It was his daughter's birthday, he said, and he intended taking out in- surance in her favour. Would she ask Mr. Wallace to call around the following, night to 25, Menlove Gardens, East? It was riot until fiften Min- utes later that Wallace arrived to 'receive his message and play hit game of chess:• The, mes- sage was soon forgotten, by, the , spectators as he. sat down to do battle o v e r. the' chese board. Wallace won, appeared delight= ed, end' Went horrid happy. b e g n one z of thee most baffling- crimes .in British his- torye a- crime. in which the kill- er es still at large. It is unique, in the fact that a men Was con- victed of„ the murder, then found” riot guilty because the eeidenee*had' been too , scanty: It was not until , the evening after the chess match at the, North John Street public house that the ineportance --oe that telephone call carne to light. As was to "be expected, that the 1. ft, tall, timid looking William Wallace set out at 6.45 to find Mr, Qualtrough at 25, Menlove Gardens, East. After many tram jOurneyse he could' not find the address. He was seen by sever al people wandering through Menlove Gardens, North, South and West. THERE WAS, IN, FACT, NO MENLOVE GADENS, EAST. Policemen, shop-keepers, and others told him they had never heard of any Mr. Qualtrough. Plainly the timid" Mr. Wallace had been hoaxed — bet Why? Finding hiS journey fruitless, the insurance agent returned home at 8.45, His wife was stretched out on the floor. She had been pounded to death ruthlessly by a weapon that was subsequently never found. Wallace did not lose his head, To the police he was the only possible suspect. They did not believe his story, but he showed ne emotion when finally they charged him With his 'wife'': murder. The evidence was, Of course, purely circumstantial, But the preisecution'e case Was eliite good According to the prosecution, it Was Wallace who had Made • the .1 b a et call to the public house in order to provide hint. Self With en alibi for the /al, lowing' evening, This was badk. ed. Up by the fact 'that the call had, been Made in a etreet-eet, nor kiosk only four hundred yards from Wallace's The distance frotri the. tele= phone boX to the public hotted rn Notth John Street took about fifteen Minutes to walk — the exact tithe alter the hi eSsege that Wallace had arrived, The prosecution conjured Lin a Pieture' of 'the tell Mee ertiv- itig noted that everiing with ~murder- Mind, fro had strip, 'Hciridt"Eif'e think' NutDavies, COMPACT` . —; All 'con- tained 4n .the doctor's "little black 'Io'cig13'--'afer`to'be'.:Totirid :in, 'this, billfold-size ,pocket De- signed by Dr. Harry E. 'Barnett, it holds !instruments; •therapeutic equipment-, and basic 'medico-, Lions,-,,, ,Redesigned •';instruments.- which, -serve several purposes, singly ,or in.:combination,, are the secret ,of the kit's compactness. It weighs 1Vz Ounces. ped naked to nreveht blood splashes on his clethes 4— slip- ped into the patiour; 'eand Called his Wife from its deekhess. Then ,he had beaten her to. death. *Next he went upstairs for a bath, and then out clean and stainless to make a great show of looking for a man who did not .eedet. On his return he had put on another great act of finding the body. The murder weapon, the pro- Secution claimed, had been „ thrown away in the search for Meelove Gardens, East, It was never found, but certainly there was a charwoman pre- pared to swear, that there had been a long iron rod in the par. lour WhiCh was not to be found after Mrs. Wallace's death. It was quite a good case. BUT THE SAME FACTS PROVID- tit, AN EQUALLY GOOD CASE FOR THE DEFENCE, First, the hoax phone Would Wallace Have been fool- ish 0116110i to have made that dell froth Within a. quarter of nine of his toxin house, they ar- gued? Surely he would have realized the clanger Of neigh- bours 'seeing hint? More likely, the deferied Saki, the real thee- detee had tteed the leedth to throw etiSpitibil on Wallace., The 'barmaid in the public hatiee, certainly' testified 'that the' Wide which gave the message had been itnfatrirliar to her, :and` she had known Walleee for Seine tithe. ' According to the defence, there was a reaeonable possihile. ,ty that Julia Wallace was still, alive when her litiebend left the house. Only a. quarter of- an - hour earlier, a milk boy had talked with 'her On the door- "step. Could' Wallace' have , killed his wife, bathed,., dressed. ,and walked• away in ten minutes? Then, perhaps, most ,.import- , ant of all: what motive, had William Wallace for killing his Wife? NeighbourSI testified that • he and "Julia,-had always*seeth- ed perfectly happy, 'so .it could not have been hatred Of her. - Another woman perhaps? No. Wallace had teen faithfUl at that' timer' and alWays. He was that' sort of •n'eati. It could not, surely, have been robbery;' 'Would he have mur- dered her ler the-few paltry pounds to be had from her in- surance policy? So it ' seethed that o - William" Wallace had nothing to expect froM• his wife's 'death but lone- liness, - However, a jury of, ten .men and 'two women seeened,,to think he had. After onlY One hour out of court, they brought in a ver- dict of ittilty and Wallace • iAras sentencedlo death. But their,. "verdict. did, not stand forr:long. Soon .afterwards the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction of' niti-; der on the grounds that the jury's Verdibt 'had unrea- -.:sonable and basedrore insufficient evidence... It- weeetheefirst time in British „legal, hietpry that such a thing had ever hapPen- ed. „ „ BUT' IF' WALLACE WAS NOT THE MURDERER,e 'WHO , DID KILL ON THAT e COLD, JANUARY NIGHT? .That sorriebody, whether it was William Wallace or not, committed the perfect crime, for he never paid the- penalty for his glaukliter. Quick Witted Are you, quick-witted? Could you make h wieeciatle ors the ' spur of the ...Mot-tient? — If your answer is an honest "Yes" -to- both: these "questione, you'ee lucky; Very few people are masters of repartee. - Quite famous men' and wo- men have no" flair for it at ell,' although they secretly long for the ability to make witty re- torts ee retorts so clever that . they are remembered and quot- ed• efterwatds. 'One of the neatest answers ever Made es attributed to Alex- Andre Dumas, the French novel- ist. "How do you groW old so gracefully?"' an . admirer asked him. "M adani, I give all 'My time' to heteplied, ' , One of the wittiest men who ever lived was the Rev, Sydney Smith. When he was at , St.- Paul's someone asked him his opinion of a proopsed - new wooden pavement around_ the Cathedral: "That is a matter "for the canons to decide," he Said. "AS you know, 'they, have only to put their heads together and the thing is done." Srilith (Mee entered a draw, mgrooinwhich was lined with mirrors on all sides. Finding hirrxSelf, reflected in every tit= section, he wisecracked; "This. looks like a -meeting of the clergy ee and there seems to be' a very respectable attendance." John Philpot Curran,, the laniOUS Irish lawyer and 'Wit, Once remarked that he could never Sneak in public- ter Mete than a 'quarter of die hour With,' out itibistening his , "1 take the advantage of you thee, Ctieran,'' replied his' panic.; azi MA': "I spoke last night the House of Commons for several liblite and 'hover felt in the leaet thirsty." "That's very remarkable, in- •deeth." Curran retorted; "for' Modem Etiquette.," Is there any further obli- gation upon a person who has just introduced two other per, sons to each other? A. Yes; a person who is ex- dPuerciteio4nceed i in m eaarlkingthe tt1,70- strangers into smooth, pleasant conversation, as, "Mrs. Roberts Bos h as t joUns.,t, to v eisd twohp:nr cainty af wrokm, ward pause follows an introduc tion that embarrassment is felt. Q. Is it proper for a girl to light a man's cigarette for himT A, Yes, if she has- just light- ed her own and her match is still burning. Otherwise, he should always light his own. Q. When should a Woman re- move her wraps when dining in a restuarant? A. She waits until she is seat- ed before removing; her wraps, the waiter or one of the men, in her party assisting her. 'Q. Is it always proper to smoke in another person's home? A. Not always. It is still con- sidered bad manners to light a cigarette, cigar or pipe in the, home of another when no one else is smoking — and espe- cially at the table when there is no provision made for smok- ing. Q. - I received a4,narnber of gifts at a birthday party recent- ly, and I, thanked each donor personally. Is it also necessary that .I write each one a thank- you note? A.- No. A. Is it, permissible to blow on 'coffee that is very hot? A. No. It is much better Man- ners just to be patient. Q. What; in general, Is an ac- ceptable Alp to give bellboys, porters, and others who render -you small services in a hotel? A. Usually 25 cents for small eervices. You should be guided, however, by -the amount Or type of work' each person does for You, and, of -course, by the type of establishment. Q. When the boy with whom a girl has- been going for some time ineitee her• to his home hit dinner ivit proper for the girl to take his. mother •a box of candy? A. No.„ Q. If candles are not to be -lighted, • is:It all • right to have. them on the table? A. 'Yes; candles areiconsider- ed an ornamental part of the dinner or supper table setting., Q. Does a man who is Ing alone prefix "Mi.° when registering at a hotel? , A. No; he merely registers as JOnh B. Green, Peoria, Ill. everyone agrees it was the driest, speech of the session." A certain court witness whose evidence was not very convine ing indignently told 6a- London judge; "I would have you 'know, sir, that -I have been wedded to the truth from my earliest years:" ' "Yes," said the judge,- drily, "but the question is: how • long have you been a iwdower?" An artist fathous for his re- partee was suffering from a very 'bad cold, His doctor call- ed on him one morning and said: "You're coughing very badly, I'n1',sarrY -to see.' "That's odd," replied the art- ist. "for I've been practising all night." Brides Worth. Weight hi: lialfpermies.f Two thousand Italian girls travel to Britain. every year to, work and save money for their dowries,, it was revealed recent- ly, still the custom in Italy for every bride to bring a dowry with her on her wedding day, so when a girl's, family is poor she: has to earn the money. Average amount of a dowry is $00 One slim, dark-haired, Italian beauty earned this money by sewing red stripes on poste men's trousers in Norfolk,' She did this work •during the day and then, worked in the evening making pretty things for her trousseau.- Another Italian girl saved $300 by getting a job a's a Man- nequin in a provincial store,. Her sister--they were engaged to twin-, brothers in Rome—got her dowry money in six months by teaching Italian in London: The dowey custom is slowly dyingeall'oVer the world, but it still lingers, not only in Italy, France and some parts 'of Ger- many Ibut „also env. Russeae In rural, areas of Eire , farmer-fa- thees sometimes give a dowry of cows-and pigs with their daugh- ters; Dowries were once quite corne mon in • Britain.• Eighteenth-cen- tury husbands delighted to tell, the world about the fortunes they„ had obtained With-3 their , wives. A newspaper advertisement of 1781 runs: "Married, the Rev. Mr. Roger Wainai of.York,• about twenty-six years 'of • age, to ei Lincolnshire lady upwards, of eighty with whom he is to have £8,000 in money, £300 per an- num and a coach and four dur- ing life only." How long this unequal pair enjoyed married bliss is not recbrded. Then there was the eccentric London tradesman who in 1770 disposed of his eleven not-veey- pretty daughters in marriage by offering novel dowries — -the weight of each girl in halfpen- nies. He paid out £50 2s. 8d. for the lightest girl, which, suggests they were all rather weighty. Alto- gether, the dciwries cost hint 4609. , Yet another amazing dowry was 100,000 farthings. which went to a poor young Man who mar- ried; the lovely daughter of a well-to-do draper. Farthings were frequently , given with change to customers in 'those days,. so, as he heeded overethe coins the draper always said: "If you don't want them, please put them in my dangle. ter's wedding dowry 'chest" —` a box which stood on the coun- ter Farthings fascinated t} dra, per so much that after the wed. ding he showered his daughter and her husband WithegOO'riewlY minted farthings as they left the church. • Wedding. pests and onlookers scrambled eagerly fOr this! copper "confetti." A certain 'west country liach. elm' 'noted ' the frequent failure of ugly girls to get hesbands, sd he left a sum of money to pro. vide three dowries of 210 each, to three girls "who Ore ill-fa- voured of tace," DRIVE WITH CARE. gels- 'HOW :OAR, YA — oh-dog, the. permits Kaneko State frOekere may choose front Wheir buying their license plates for '56, '16 ,abOve. MOIrt auto plate is tnple .Of load in this Ctiee 16,660. pounds. Setow- ,tildie a.re, in areleie eefei§ for .fartie vehicle use only, commercial per** tag fee trucks used: roydius of (Mite et. plot& Of buSinessi perrri 'if for .6066,,Speedoiel efer, in lie rigs;;` litfiit' of a 'tete& GONE itiMoititO01-1hdei the .wciy to describe• d ' th*di liven -kitchen area, modern- ntnieri interior, above; that of d"fitieittre. home° trea'irilinetl' name' for the katige trailer. Experts et the Wheel of the recent National Mobile • '.Homes that. rdest§hs for • Ititrittt.ett.wheeli, provide young Married coulees- With a base of. operations it wkleh .tkey may- lice pursue their careers And at the Sarni time they .dre iJOirdi'hd tguify which 'some day May. be '..60. • Plied Ott pe inthent'housing ysettles' one :'spa' •