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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-08-01, Page 21.001:, MA, NO HANDS — It's "Oh, dear, who's gonna steer?" as a pyramid of 15 extended arms glides through Munich, Ger- many. The men are members of the Vespa Club, of Pisa,' Italy. They demonstrated their acrobatics on wheels during on all- Europe Vespa meeting in the German •city. 732 IRON-ON COLOR SIZES S-10--12 M-14-11, L-18-20 CASE THE' RUNAWAY YANKEES' — Casey Stengel,' With plenty to Wink about'. 114 New York Y'ankee's were leading the Afrierlian league' by b .citable niargiti, and appeared fa 440 hjeaded foe thel? tevoith perintoif eight year's under Stelgirs' guidcinte. "Corn. Starch Makes Creamy Salad Dressings!" SOUR CREAM SALAD DRESSING 1/3 cup MAZOLA 5alod Olt 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 egg yolk,.unbeatee f" tablespoon sugar 1/5 teaspoon salt teaspoon dry 'Mustard 'A teaspoon paprika (optional) i cup_ Water tiE14(...1114'S of CANADA Corn Starch. Vi totilblck, WA: cream Pt.tt MAZOLA, vinegar; egg yolk; sugar and season = ings in a bo*I. PREPARE bate in itiacejOn slowly adding *diet' ttr4Ortit or CAN ADA nib( witt: „oiler to COOK thickens and stir cotlstantly BOIL 2 minutes; COlisiOnitjIi, REMOVE from heats ad it to egg mixture tiokkiv 40;1 with 6eatie twit blended. Ab6soue dean; beat I tsi Oar free folder Of other deliCiOut recipes, write toe Jane` Asi4•40-6- tionie tenelee THE CANADA STARCH COMPANY LIMITED, ifOtt 124, Montreal,. P.Q. How Norway Pawned Orkney Islands "Dear Anne Hirst; Can you rescue a friend of mine before 3 is too late? We are Classmates, and Z love her like a sister. She has always read your column and perhaps she will listen to. You; she won't listen to anyone else . For seven months she has been running arottod with t young man who is utterly worthless; he has no ambition, has never held. a job for long; ae has an ugly temper and no self-control. He is horrid to his family, and he's even been ar- rested! I'm afraid he is dragging aer down to his level. "She comes from fine people, :s talented and popular, Why she gave up nice boys for this one, VII never know, but she has ac- :epted his ways as her own. She resents her family not liking aim; she stays out late at night with him and will brook no re- primand. Her mother is worried ;ick, but she is beyond caring. "Now I hear they plan to .elopel How they'll live, I don't Know, but I am really fright- med. Can't something be done to wake her up before it is too !ate? CYNTHIA" CRAGEDY AHEAD One fact your girl friend should be told at once; in your State she cannot marry with- out her parents' consent until she is 21. If she does, the par- ents can have it annulled. That may give her pause. Time and again this girl has read my counsel to other de- Cinch to Sew! frautaWiteiL Cinch to sew this pretty wrap- halter! No embroidery; IRON ON flower trim in glowing col- ors! Pattern 732: Tissue pattern, washable iron-on color transfers in combination of pink, blue and green. Small (10, 12); Medium (14, 15); Large (18,20). State size. Send. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER and. SIZE; your NAME and ADDRESS. Our gift to you—two wonder- ful patterns for yourself, your home—printed in our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft book for 1956! Dozens of other new de- signs to order—crochet, knitting, embroidery, iron-ons, novelties. Send 25 cents for your copy of this boo's NOW—with gift pat- terns printed in it! * hided youngsters who have * strayed from the right path. In her blind determination to * pursue her own desires, she 4' scorns the tenets of her church 4' and family training. is not * likely she would listen to any * warning from me. * If she is so sure this boy is * worth marrying, why hasn't * she the courage to prove it to * others? Why doesn't she put * him on probation for a year? She should tell him to get a * job and show he can do it; to * begin earning the respect of * his family,, and other nice peo- * ple who know him; to give up * his dissolute companions, and * begin cultivating worth-while young men, making himself one of a group that is pursu- ing constructive activities. Perhaps she is passionately in love and if this idea occurred to her, she would be afraid to put him to the test for fear he would laugh in her face. You and I shudder to pic- ture what her future with him would be. Tied to a weakling who defies morality, who thumbs his nose at the law, and who has no means of sup- porting her as his wife, she will pay the price of her folly. I believe she would find her- self left alone, deserted and tarnished, forced to creep back home begging forgiveness. I am sorry for her, but more sorry for her family, for you and others who love her and who stand helplessly by, watching her plan her own ruin. * 4, GOOD MANNERS HELP "Dear Anne Hirst: I'm. 16, and fell in love with a boy I went with for three months. Three weeks ago he stopped coming, and I've not heard anything from his since. "Three friends tell me he'd like to date me again, but he keeps silent. When I see him, I pass him by—is this right? IMPATIENT" • The young man will be more * apt to ask you for a date if * you greet him with your for- * mer cordiality. Passing him by * makes him feel guilty, and During the excitement and glamour of our Queen's Corona- tion Year, in fact only a month before the ceremony, her sister flew to Norway for the wedding of another princess. And in con- trast with the rich decking of Westminster Abbey, Princess Margaret found herself in a gay little church in the mountains. It had been adorned with wild cherry, lilac and narcissi, trans- forming it into a bower of love- liness for the wedding. Like Princess Margaret, the bride was a great-granddaughter of our King Edward VII, one of two sisters and close to a throne. Moreover, she was Princess Mar- garet's age. Gossiping matchmakers had paired her off with half the princes of Europe, and her name had been romantically linked with first. one, then another of a string of young aristocrats about the court. Yet she was marrying a commoner. Love came to beautiful Prin- cess Ragnhild of Norway almost befoie she was aware of it. And instantly her emotional crisis plunged her into acute contro- versy while lawyers explored all the blind alleyways of royal protocol. She was only fifteen when she first met tall, handsome Erling Lorentzen. "Who is he?" she asked. "He looks to be the nicest' man I've seen in the north." She was told he. was the son of a well-known- Norwegian shipowner, and had a most dis- tinguished war record. He was, in fact, Norway's na- tional hero, the mysterious "Mr. * indicates that his absence means the collapse of your * social life. That may be true, * but don't give such an impres- * sion, for the sake of your self- * respect. • Perhaps he sensed you fell * in love with him and he isn't .* ready for that at the moment; * like most boys his age, he * went out with other girls and * was too embarrassed to ex- * plain. If he should call you, be * careful to give no hint of the * state of your heart, or you * may lose him for good. * Boys feel the initiative be- * longs to them, and they re- * sent any girl who tries to force * the issue, * Even loving parents and loyal friends cannot direot the lives of others. When we see them choosing the wrong path, we can only stand by to help later on when we are needed. Anne Hirst is here to give ,you the benefit of her understanding .and vasdom. Write lei 'at Box' '1, 123 Eighteenth St.,•New. Toronto, Ont. Onion,"' who had headed a team of saboteurs in the resistance movement against the Nazis. He had even sown bombs in their cabbage 'beds, planted death-dealing booby traps on their submarine gangplanks, dodging capture under a dozen disguises, a veritable Norwegian Scarlet Pimpernel. When the"war began, Princess Ragnhild was sent to safety in New York. Erling escaped to Sweden. ' But, as a seventeen-. year-old youngster, he was para- chuted back into Norway to join in the desperate underground struggle. Later, when the royal family returned from exile, Erling was chosen to be one of King Haa- kon's personal escorts. Then it fell to him to act as equerry to Crown Prince Olaf, Ragiahild's, father, When Ragnhild and her sister,, Astrid, went skiing in the moun- tains, Erling Lorentzen accom- panied them as ' a matter of course. In summer they went riding through the scented ,pine forests or sailing on Oslo Fiord, Few cast a second glance at the little yacht with its blue sails, the laughing blonde girl, the deeply suntanned man at the„ helm. When Ragnhild was only fif- teen and Erling a man of twen- ty-three, a great gulf divided them: But when Ragnhild was twenty-one and twenty-nine- year-old Erling wore his Nor- wegian guards uniform at a ball, their two hearts beat faster. Yet no princess of the Nor- wegian royal house had married a commoner for 600 years. How was love possible? The two often met in business hours. at the royal palace; then came swift secret meetings in off-duty time. Their favourite rendezvous was a smart and intimate little bar, with a gramophone, There sometimes they held hands, der pretence of choosing redords. Confronted with het grewing attachment, Princess Ragnhild wisely asked her father if a mar= riage were possible. The Crown' in Norway passes only through the male line, so Ragnhild faced no dynastic or religieus tieg. But the problem inevitably had to tie taken to old King Heakort for his sanction,end soon all Norway knew tat the King 'sternly frowned On the situation: Ragnhild was packed off to Switzerland, • ostensibly to study domestic eperioMy and child *effete. 'tiling Leteritzeri'a fa- ther was' a-Whitened to the, pal= Abe to Meet the King;, with the result that Btling fetirid himself ikdkkihg itt a Shipping'office Rio de Janeiro, on the other side of the world. Yet nothing could cool the ar- dour of his love letters. He worked against the opposition to a possible marriage with all the steely courage he -had shown in the war. And ultithately, he was, allowed to "stand his chance." By the King's decree he was per- mitted to visit Switzerland and woo the princess, just like any other young man courting a girl. Flying down the ski , slopes, dancing and dining together, princess and commoner found their true springtime of happi- ness. They were desperately in love. "I would have married her if she had been a servant girl," Erling was to say later. And the princess declared: "From the first there was no other man so per- fect." She had decided that if need be she would. earn her own liv- ing. Among other accomplish- ments she had learned millinery in New York and dressmaking in Switzerland. But the King now fully realized that-thia love match was fully in keeping with the democratic spirit of Norway. Erling bought the engagement ring in one of the smallest shops in Oslo. He was, after all, a son of the people and quite unable to afford fabulous prices. Yet Ragnhild's joy in that simple ring was radiant. It was decided that the wed- ding should be staged in the tiny parish church attached to the Crown Prince's country resi- dence. Yet this modest choice caused consternation. Nearly every country wished to send a representative, and the little church had-,room for only 500 guests. This number is small indeed for a royal wed- ding. Neatly, Ragnhild and Erl- ing got 'over the problem by giving a reception and ball for their own friends on their wed- ding eve. Princess Margaret at- tended the ball as a friend and cousin of the bride, and the wed- ding as official representative of the Queen. The couple were to leave for a honeymoon at romantic Santa Margarita, near Majorca, in the Mediterranean. But the young husband had a special card up his sleeve. He whisked his wife away to his summer log cabin in the hills. There was nothing palatial about it. The rough wood floor was covered by simple mats. Arid here the royal daughter •spent her wedding night as 'the wife of a man of the people. With her husband she began a new life in Buenos Aires. Their shipping business prospered — and a young son was born. Typi- cal of their democratic outlook, the baby was brought to Norway to be christened as a commoner's son—though in the lacy chris- tening robe worn previoUsly by those destined to be kings. Brothers' Lives Ran Parallel Within a few minutes of the and. den death recently Of her eighty- Year-Old peasant litiaband, his wife Who found him' dying in their Italian village horns herself' died, It was then revealed thilt the Couple ,liad led 'Mini:tint parallel lives, TheY had been born Within a few hours of each other in, the Mine' had played together as babies' and had attended the Shine adheel They have iiow been buried hi, the sante- grate, ",inch in death," said the village "they 'Were not diVided." This Ca rlota parallel In liVeS is not unitive, there's the reinarkable instance of two brotherk Richard and Ida Webber, Of SWiihaelif 'Who' Started working on the' same da tot the Same' fitin at ttivel*e. TJAY iiitirkled CO the rsame day, lived hest door to one Another Ond :eitoh had ten ehildren, Both brothers Were Members of the sante,'Cliareh and 'choir for 1110te than half a teefi,• t ti tY.• To-day it would be hard to think of any area more typically Scottish than the numerous but sparsely populated Orkney IS- lands, seloarated from the north- Pete'nnatraantd firth. tiPof Scotland by the Yet up to the early 1000s the majority of the Orkney folk did not speak Enlish they spOke an archaic form of the Norwe- gian language, traces of which survive among the Orkney Is- landers in their names for such things as islands and rocks, An islet, in the Orkney's is called a "holm," and a rock a "sker-ry.,, Even more striking as a sur- vival of the time when the is- lands — all sixty-seven of them were inhabited by a Nor- wegian - speaking population is the fact that Norwegian — and not Scottish — law is the law of„ the Orkneys. To this day day freeholds pass from owner to, owner without any written contract, according to the ancient citstom of Norway. In short, the Orkneys were once part of the Norwegian king- dom and, in a way, you could say that they still are. • It is certain, though, that Nor- way will never be able to -ask for the return of the Orkneys. The sum needed to redeem the islands is so immense that it is doubtful that even the U. S. A. • could foot so tremendous a bill. How did this extraordinary situation arise — in which this country absorbed a part of the Norwegian state? The story begins almost ex- actly 500 years ago, when the Orkneys were not only Nor- wegian - speaking, but formed part of the Norwegian domin- ions. On behalf of the Norwe- gian king, they were ruled by the Earls of Caithness, but there was no question that they were as much a part of Norway as the channel Islands to-day are a part of Britain. Ties between Norway and Scotland have always been close: they • were even more so five centuries ago and, in 1467, the daughter of the King of Norway and Denmark, Christian I, was betrothed to the Scottish King, James III. This betrothal was of the ut- most political importance, for it would' haye meant eventually that the three "kingdoms of Nor- way, Denmark and Scotland would, have been welded into one powerful state, spanning and so controlling, a vast area of the North Sea. The difficulties involved were not many, but they all sprang from the fact that Christian I was a gambler to his fingertips: a man who would not only stake a fortune on the turn of a card or the fall of a coin, but would bet on any conceivable happen- ing: whether the next day's sun- rise would be red or gold, whether the first man encount- ered on the following Thursday would have red hair or black. Christian would wager on any- thing. And; like so many con- firmed gamblers, he almost al- ways lost. The ministers of the two kings — of Scotland and of Norway and Denmark — treated the forthcoming marriage with all • the importance that was its Clue. The special embassy sent, by the Soots king was on a scale of 'unprecedented magnificence to mark the importance of its mis- sion and the cost, in terms of modern money, was around £100,000. It was pot until everything was ready for the last formality affixing the signatures of "the High Contracting Parties," that the affair struck its first snag-- a big one! The dowry that the Norwe- gian princess, Margaret, was to take with her,. as the King of Scotland's bride, had been fixed at £12,000, an immense sum for those days, representing some- thing like £500,000 in modern money. The day arrived in which the solemn contract had to be sign- ed by King Christian and the Scottish ambassador, All was ready. There was much mediaeval pageantly -- heralds in brilliantly embroid- ered tunic, flourishes of trum- pets, the glitter of steel and the glow and sheen of golden vest- ments. The, quill pens were laid ready, and there on a sheet of vellum wonderfully illuminated was the solemn marriage con- tract. And then, Christian—looking rather embarrassed — murmured something abOut it not being quite convenient to pay the dowry! Like the gambler he was, he had waited until the last possi- ble moment, always hoping, with :the eternal optimism of the gambler, that some lucky break would occur to put things right. But there it was: Christian had wagered 'away his last kroner. There was only enough left in the royal treasury to give the assembled guests a moderate banquet; the dowry would have to go unpaid, Urgent messages began to travel across the North Sea, and eventually a compromise was ef- fected, so that the marriage need not be put off, indefinitely, 'while Christian scratched around to raise the necessary £12,000. The suggestion was this: if Christian liked to ,pledge the Orkneys with the King of Scot- land, the wedding could go for- ward, and Christian could re- deem the pawned island just as soon as he could find the am- ount of the pledge, together with interest, At once the idea appealed 'to Christian's gambling instinct. He was sure that he would have the money in no time. He was, in his own opinion, merely backing a certainty in putting part of his kingdom in pawn. It would be a matter Of only a few weeks — perhaps only a few days — before he would have a tremen- dous win at cards or dice, and be' able to buy back the Ork- neys. So sure was Christian that the loss of his Orkneys was only a temporary affair, that he ex- tracted a promise that the Nor- wegian laws and customs ob- served in the Orkneys would not be changed in favour of their Scottish equivalents. "Only a temporary measure," he beamed cheerfully. "I'll have the islands back in next to no time," Put the years passed. Chris- tian died, and other kings came to the thrones of Norway and Scotland. The old life went en in the ()Omen '..l'kre islanders still spoke Norwegian, and the tra- ditional laws of Norway still governed their simple existence. The original 412,000 of the unpaid dowry accumulated inter- est. The sum steadily mounted, as compound interest doubled it, and redoubled it, and eventually — over the centuries — sent the original sum soaring into astronomical figures, If the original debt had to be paid to-day — together with compound interest over 500 years — it would total thws- ands of millions of pounds. No wonder that the Norwe- gians have never redeemed the Orkneys!. Week's Sew this adorable frock for daughter in a jiffy! See the dia- gram; it's the EASIEST! She'll love the style; cool scoop neck- line, saucy bow trim of contrast binding. Make several in easy-to launder cottons -- keep her smartly dressed every day this summer! Pattern 4766: Children's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. Size 6 requires 214 yards 35-inch fabric. This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew, is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instructions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (350)' (stamps cannot be accep- ted; use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Print plain13 SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS and STYLe. NUMBER. Send 'order to ANNE ADAMS. 123 Eighteenth St., Icew Toron to, Ont. ISSUE 28 — 1956 Royal Princess TVeds Commoner