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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-10-03, Page 2ti TABLE T eiciae Ancbews. 4 "SlOw down? 'Why I don't do a Thing! My Inisband won't let me," PROCESSION IN VENICE — With a sea god sitting on the "ram" of the bow piece,, a large bissona — Venetian vessel — moves along the Grand Canal. The waterway parade is part of traditional festivities marking the "wedding of Venice with the sea". Waited 20 Years For Revenge Pirle in Tunisian c413at tee stilt tkant of lovely yoking Bianca. $4e married an Italian camel corps officer aid for a time they lived happily, if tempestuously, 41 a PeaStal station, Then she became bored with him, But he was still in love with her, and passionately jeal- ens. After a quarrel one day, she left him. Desperately he search- ed for Bianca, and at last he found her — at the house of her )Over, Stealing through the door- way of an upper room, he caught them together, Mad with rage, he whipped out his service re- volver and tired six shots at point-blank range. The bullets streamed into Bianca's body, She should have died instantly, for one bullet entered her neck, and split her tongue, Yet, three months later, Bian- ca stood up in court and gave evidence against her husband! In a voice betraying not the slightest vestige of the injury she expressed feelings of hurt that he had tried to kill her for what she termed was a "rather light-hearted escapade." He Must have known all the time it was him she really loved, iihe murmured. Not long after- wards Bianca's husband died, but from all accounts she did not seem unduly heartbroken. Many people, in trying to get even with others, have fallen Into their own traps. A young Austrian girl, twenty-four-year- old Karin Sudbrack, was jilted by a handsome Viennese dancing master. She swore to level ac- counts with the blonde named Erika who had enticed him away. "I'll arrange a most beautiful accident for her," whispered Karin, "It will be so lovely just a little fall, a little splash and good-bye, Erika! No one will ever know. And then Karl, my beloved Karl, will love me again." So, on a pretext of telling the girl a secret or two about the dancing master, she persuaded Erika to go for a walk, She led her to an old trestled wooden bridge, a creaky structure, with a torrent roaring over rocks be- neath it. "Now we'll ;talk," said Karin. A feW moments later, with the blonde off her guard, Karin stooped low, seized Erika's legs, and tried to heave her over the flimsy rails. But, reacting in- stinctively, Erika hurled herself backwardh. Then squirming around, she waded into her ad- versary and a bitter, hair-tug- ging, clawing scene ensued. Finally Karin was overpower- ed. Then, kneeling on her chest, half choking her, Erika wrung from her the reason for the as- sault. "Before 1 hand you over to the police," said Erika, "let me help Sou to your senses." She drag- ged. the object Karin down a steep wooded path to t h e stream's edge, and gleefully dipped her head, again and again, into the icy waters trying, she claimed, to cleanse it of all wickedness. While living with a Berber tribe beautiful Carmen Kalsinki, a white Russian of noble birth, revenged herself on an Arab SALLY'S SALLIES boy. "He's insulted me!" She. cried. "I'll have him whipped!" The boy had only whistled a trifle shrilly under her window, But for this she ordered her black servants to strip and bind Then, using a eamel-hide whip, she lashed him mercilessly, Twenty years later Carmen, still beautiful but not quite so proud, called for shelter one night at a palatial house in Tunis. The servant told her to wait, while he took her name and her request for aid to his master, Then he escorted Carmen to his master. "Madame," said, the powerfully - b u i 1 t, handsome Arab, rising from a chequered silk dais, "Phave been expecting you for twenty years. Now Allah has delivered you to me — no longer young, but not incapable, I trust, of feeling pain," He smiled cruelly, Seeing her be- wildered look, he explained, "You see, I am the boy you once whipped. Now it is your turn! 'Strip!" he hissed, "and pre- pare for the lash." "Surely you wouldn't whip a defenceless woman?" Carmen cried, "The Gods will curse and revile you for such an outrage!" "Had you any such noble thoughts of pity for me when I was a boy?" sneered the Arab. "That was different", replied Carmen. "You were insolent, and deserved a lesson. I have only knocked at your door and ask- ed for charity," "Daughter of a dog, it is char- ity, sharper than serpent's fangs, that now shall bite you. Strip!" Again, the Arab rapped out his command, But Carmen was not beaten yet, "Since you insist on humiliating me, I must offer you my respects first," she said calm- ly. Then with a sudden dart into the folds of her dress, she pulled out a revolver. It spat flame — and the man who had waited twenty years for vengeance crumpled to the floor without a sound. From the desert to South Ken- sington, but still with the same theme — revenge. . . . A mother and daughter thrived as profes- sional shoplifters, but one day they quarrelled violently over the daughter's new boy-friend. Shortly afterwards the mother was caught shoplifting. She sus- pected, though quite wrongly, that her daughter had informed on her to the police. While in prison she brooded. night and day over this griev- ance until, when she was re- leased one overweening thought possessed her — to punish her daughter. "I'll 'frame' her!" she vowed. To do this she slipped an ar- ticle into the girl's shopping bag while they were in a South Ken- sington store. But, apparently, the mother's shoplifting talent had gone rusty • during her spell in jail. The store detective spotted her. "Step this way, please madam," he said with cold politeness. At that, she collapsed, moaning with fear and self-pity. The Rev. John Alington, patron of a living at Letchworth, Herts, insisted on taking all services •himself, allowing his rector to conduct only funerals. He could not be denied this right; he was an ordained priest, graduate of a famous university, inheritor of a vast fortune, but — a thorough crackpot. The rector, so dis- placed, reported Alington's con- duct to the bishop and as a re- sult of this Alington was un- frocked. Foaming with rage, the Rev. John started gin-drinking serv- ices at Letchworth Hall, the stately resdence he owned. He invited all the local riff-Taff, tramps, pick-pockets and good- time girls. Then, well plied with gin, he harangued them from his pupit, wearing only Morocan shoes, a red wig and a leopard skin. He continued this infamous conduct, until the rector, Sam- uel Knapp, resigned, But the vengeful patron, if satisfied on one score, was never satisfied with his bottles. He drank on and on, ever more deeply, till he drowned just one last bottle of brandy too many and died. Sell Their. Hair To Get Marrie4 This IS a vintage year for human hair in the Italian viii laps and hamlets of the ,open- • nine Valley, where Women and girls every year part with their long tresses for cash. Men who trade in human hair which, is needed for wig- making recently returned from their .annual tour of the area and reported that the hair is stronger as well as better in texture than ever before, Many • an attractive Italian girl obtains her own dowry money by selling her tresses to a-dealer, An Italian peasant with. eight daughters obtained en- ough cash to buy a modest new home for them by allowing a dealer to snip off their eleven- inch tresses. Wigmakers are forced to -seek human hair on the. Continent because the pigmentation of English hair is so delicate that it will not stand up to the cur- ling and processing needed for wigs. Blonde hair is always scarce. The most valuable hair is white. When it was especially rare in 1945, one London merchant, whose family has been in the hair business for nearly a cen- tury, was paying $15 an ounce, In one deal before the war this merchant sold an American two tons of human hair. In some parts of France hair "markets" are held. Women and girls willing to sell their hair come to them, and after the terms have been fixed the buyer gets busy with his scissors, placing the valuable tresses carefully in a sack., • In AuStria a girl with lovely golden hair allowed it to grow- to .the amazing length of five feet. Then she offered it to the highest bidder and received $1,200. The hair was sent to Hollywood and converted into a wig for a film star. But the girl's fiance was very angry with her. OFFICIAL—This is the official photo of Princess Margaret that was used in connection with her tour of British East Africa. Angry Elephant -A Uganda game guard patrol went to investigate some circling vultures, He expected to come across a freshly killed carcase, the spoils of some hunting lion_ or leopard. Instead; he was met by an infuriated cow elephant who had just given birth to a calf. She charged him instantly. He fired and missed. Before he could recover, the frenzied elephant tore the rifle out of his hands, tossed it away and with a slash- ing blow of her trunk, ripped off his shorts and shirt. He was completely at the elephants's mercy — naked and weaponless. But to his relief, the elephant sheered off without troubling any 'more about him. Elephants, is seems, have their own line in maternity wards. Where the breeding herds occupy thick bush and wooded regions, a central area, circular in Shape, is cleared or smashed flat. Young and sometimes sizeable trees are spreadeagled to make a suitable jungle Mattress. These clearings are not made by wanton destruc- tion, or by elephants jousting in frolicsotne mood, According to the Acholi, natives of this region, they are deliberately made for a cow elephant when she is near calving time, She then lies in the centre of the clearing. The •rest of the herd, retiring discreetly, stand off at a respeCtable distance and guard her against any intrusion. • One such area, found hi open country, had an additional prd, caution. The elephants had rais- ed a wall or tough barricade round it, leaving only a single narrow entrance. Standing on sentry-go at the opening a single' elephant can nab any 11,1 other ifitleicide that might fancy an elephant calf for supper. Have you ever baked ham for a crowd and had them eat far less of it than you expected? This happened recently to a friend of mine. After a success- ful buffet party, she found her- self with lots and lots of ham — tender, juicy, pink ham. She served it to her family sliced for two evenings — then de- cided on a-, different plan. writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in The Christian Science Monitor. "My family doesn't like too many 'repeats,' " she told me. "I decided not to push them any further by giving them ham as-is. I decided to dress it up — to serve it with vege- tables, in salads, on open-face sandwiches, and in soup. It really was sandwiches„ — a sort of game which the whole family 'entered and enoyed!" e * * If you'd like a casserole that combines ham, tomatoes, and cheese, try this one. It serves 6. SURPRISE TOMATO CASSEROLE 1 cup cooked diced ham 2 cups cooked or canned etomatoes (solid) egg, beaten 1 cup cracker crumbs 2 tablespoons prepared mustard 2 teaspoons salt JA3 teaspoon pepper IA teaspoon onion salt ye cup grated cheese 2 tablespoohs butter Combine ham and tomatoes. Blend beaten egg with ee cup cracker crumbs, mustard, and seasoning. Add to ham and to- matoes. Mix cheese, butter and remaining cracker crumbs. Sprinkle over top of mixture which you have placed in but- tered casserole. Bake at 350° F. 30 minutes or until browned. * * * Here is a skillet dish of ham and rice that you will like. HAM AND ORANGE CURRIED RICE 2 cups small cooked ham pieces 2 tablespoons butter . 2 tablespoohs chopped green pepper ' 1 tablespoon chopped onion 2 tablespoons bireivri sugar, randy packed 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon curry powder Ve cup orange juice 1 tablespoon slivered orange peel 2 clips cooked rice Pan-fry green pepper and onion in butter for 5 minutes. Add broWn suger and ham. Stir and continue cooking for 5 minces. Add remaining ingre- dients. Mix well. Cover and cook for 10 Minutes, Ira grandmother's day, ham scrapple Was a regular part of the menu When ham was available, Here is a good -Mod- den Version of that glotified Mush dish, IIAPaI :SCRAPPLE I CuD torilinettil 1 tableepedli sugar teaspoon salt ti-A: otos betting. water tuft Milk 2 etiPs grattlid, baked ham 11/e teaspoons prepared mustard Shortening Mix together cornmeal, sugar, and salt. Add cornmeal mix- ture slowly to boiling water and milk. Cook slowly in heavy covered pan, stirring occasion- ally, about 20 minutes. Add ham and mustard and mix well. Pack into loaf pan. When cold and firm, slice and fry in short- ening until brown on each side. * * 'HAM CHOWDER When your ham is almost gone and you have lots of lit- tle pieces left, make a ham chowder for lunch or as a first course for dinner. All you do is combine a can each of chicken gumbo and chciken noodle soup with an equal amount of water. Mix until smooth. Add plenty of ham bits and heat. If you'd like to combine your ham with sweet potatoes, try this recipe for 4 servings. HAM HAWAIIAN e 2 cups chopped cooked ham 21 cups cooked mashed sweet potatoes 2 ripe bananas, maehed ee cup crushed pineapple 2 tablespoons brown sugar le teaspoon cinnamon Divide potatoes in 4 mound's and shape into nests on cookie sheet, Fill nests with the chopped ham. Combine bana- nas, pineapple, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Pile onto meat. Broil 3 inches from heat source for about 5 minutes. Serve" hot. HIS EPITAPH A novelist was walking with a friend when they passed a house on which a tablet had been fixed to commemorate the fact that a noted poet had once lived there. "I wonder what they'll put over my door when I die," mused the novelist. "House to let," replied the friend. :Identical Twins And 'Their Ways. Patients in, a, SaffOlk hospital used to. rub their eyes in aston- ishment and think they were seeing double when pretty, identical twins, eighteen-Year- old Fay and Hilary Woods, were taking a prenursing training course there. Sometimes Fay would be seen. to walk out at -one end of a ward seconds -before her sister appeared at the other. The girls have dressed exactly alike since babyhood, even to such details as identical necklaces, and they were made joint captains dur- ing their last year. at school. Now the twins have gone to, another hospital as trainee nurses and once more they are puzzling doctors and staff who constantly get them mixed up, But if the problem of identifi- cation becomes too acute, the doctors will be able to enlist the aid of the twins' elder sister,. Pat, who is also on the staff of the hospital. Identical twins have for some years been the subject of fas- cinating research in various parts of the world. Extra- ordinary. instances of what ap- pears to be telepathy between some identical twins have been discovered. An eminent doctor • reported on twins who got the same ans- wers in written examinations so regulatlY that they were ac- cused of cheating.' They were given a stiff test — and still their answers Were so alike that even • the • wording of sentences was identical. About thirty years ago a "twin matinee" attracted world- wide attention when it was giv- en in a New York theatre in -honour of a pair of lovely twin actresses then starring in a musical comedy called "Two Lit- tle Girls in Blue." The management extended free invitations to twins of both sexes to attend the per- formance. They turned up in force and several scientists were also present to see what . happened. "The reactions of the audi- ence were remarkable," re- ported one scientist. "We no- ticed that each pair of twins laughed at the same time and in the same way. If there was anything in the play which they found dull, they assumed the same bored expression simul- taneously, It was uncanny to watch them." Telepathic twin boys provid- ed new evidence for scientists last year when it. was discov- ered that two Sussex three- year-olds both felt the pain when, one wa pinched in the absence of the -other, Experts eager to prove how. close in affinity identical 'twin!. On become, noted that Johnny, out of sight of his brother,. la tickled, Th ed l4e'lli,1!"Mo rnsy was aid she hesitated to slap, one of the boys for misbehaving because she would be punishing his When You YaWri. brother, too. Satan, Laughs! When you yawn, Satan poips down your throat to catch a glimpse of your soul, Then Me laughs because he recognizvs 4 as one of his own. • You don't believe it? We. have it on the authority of Mo- hammed himself. In Traditions Of The Prophet he says:— fro"ins StoaltsairwTriliiietfol'e,is ks,(:1111(,:i anyone of you yawns, let him suppress it as far as he is .able. For, verily, when anyone of you yawns, Satan laughs at him," Strange that Mohammed should • have that idea, for in England at the same time, it was believed that evil spirits peered though the jaws of a cyoawniiizeee so that. they could re- cognize g the person's spirit when they met it again in the shades. Have you ever wondered why you place your hand in front of your mouth when you yawn? It isn't 'out of politeness, to hide the inside of your mouth from view. If it was, then it would be impolite for singers to sing with their mouths open, giving the. world a full view of teeth, ton- gue and tensile Hiding a yawn behind a hand is one of the oldest habits known to man. It was old when we wereeer.e wearing woad and nothing e ls • There are other reasons apart from' Satan's sarcastic stare, for covering the mouth with the hand. A yawn is automatic. It takes an effort to suppress it, and even thinking or reading about it is enough to set most people's Mouths gaping This fact made primitive people believe it was not they who yawned, but their spirit . trying, to get out. Once. their spirit left them they were dead, so they covered their mouths to keep it Some people believed that to yawn openly' was to invite in- side them any .evil spirit -that. might be wandering around at a loose end. - They believed that there were far more spirits around than human beings, all looking ghosts, o• stns,ice, warm homes. So a hand to the mouth prevented the entry of any of these evil LOVE'S SWEET LABOR — Chef Want,. TV's culinary king, ,had promised his, bride-to-be he'd bake the largest take "foe their neptiali, He made goo'd• Ott his Creating cln .Italian 'NM beauty weighing a full ton. The 'mammoth confection; b• led an .seOtifiS, was a week-long-,lob' for Milani, and required 40 crates of eggs alone, Above, happy Joe gives expert guid, once for cutting' the take to his riew bride, the former June Oblad NEW WING BOAT — Tall, odd-looking thing, above, of Ham- burg, Germany, is the latest in wing boats, as developed by German eri'gineer Friedrich Wendel. The boat rests on three legs, which feature short wings and propellers to drive the vessel. The lower part of the rear leg is moveable is used to steer the boat, The front wings also have moveable fins to eliminate of the craft in rough seas. .. ..... NEW TWIST ONChiit,REARINd As.inany human vourigSferS vo Aig` son got' , Teed rambunctious, that:ging tit his Mother hcird. enough to, rip her 'temper, Soi itt simple twist of her trunk bri',.fiTs tusk, she .showed him who was, Buss. The are" residents of ilia Vilieetinee -Zadi iiede Parisi France,