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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-11-21, Page 6MEDITERRANEAN SEA AMMAN • ' JERUSALEM PORT SAID GAZA GAZA STRIP EL ARISH SUEZ CANAL •••••, AEU 'AWEIGILA • ISRAEL SEAS SEA cr O *CAIRO KUNTILLA SUEZ E G GULF or SUEZ. \\RAS EL NAQE P T • SINAI PENINSULA SAUDI ARABIA rrntA,1' 4:4Qt Sneeze, Ruilued Months 'Work B 1{4V IlA.K.I.AY WARRgt. .gualities . of • Christ an Matthew memory Selection; Messed -are they which do hPlIggr Ancl. thirst after righteousness: for they shall be :filled. Matthew 5:6,. HOOT,. MOM. ELVIS4lot THE Elvis, though both strum guitars. ,Pv4 T. Ellwood has been dubbed "Elvis" by his com- rades. He , o member of the Argyle and Sutherland High- landers.. The_mysisal soldier is shown at Southampton, Eng- land, boarding a troopship bound for, the Mediterranean. TABLE TALKS Andriews. Hove d You Like A Paper :Dress..? Disposablepaper garments for the use of research workers in atomic laboratories were devel- QbPeraltly som- e time agpboyrattli'oenKihmui these are just the first step into a new field. The next will lie paper dresses, slips, bathing snits, rain capes, and who knows what else for everybody to wear. Many plant workers, in mills are already wearing paperwork clothes and sonic of the girls in the offices enjoy wearing paper dresses and skirts. They are either printed or painted in in- teresting designs and have a crispness which does net wilt with wearing. The paper material is„ -non- woven, formed by laminating several piles pf high wet-strength cellulose wadding to each side of a web of crosslaid threads of rayon, nylon, or glass, held to- gether by an adhesive. In making this wadding, some of -,the im- portant speeial features are, built in, such as resistance to wrink- ling, scuffing, linting, and also desirable draping" qualities. The word"wadding" doesn't strike a high-fashion note, but whereas Kimberly-Clark is now '" devoting itself chiefly to pro- viding this paper "fabric" for special laboratory uses, it has an seiybeidiotnie . fan more glamorous pos- About the only "paper" char- acteristic of this product is that it cuts like paper. But it sews like Oath. However, it needn't be sewed, but can be glued to- gether or fastened by a heat- sealing process. Just imagine cutting Out anew dress like one for a paper doll, pressing the seams together with a hot iron, painting on a few posies and dancing off to a party in it, But so far paper is not available in the yard-goods section of de- partment stores. The garments produced in the iesearch laboratories are not only water-resistant but also burn-resistant, and some can be washed and reused a time or two. The cost of such a new gown would probably be about $4. And think what a variety one could have! The idea stirs the imagination. Want a new dress? Chuck the old one in the wastebasket and get out the scissors and the iron. There'll be nothing to it — not even much expense. This-is all in the realm of pos- sibility but not of availability— anyway not yet. EASY WINNER "We had a kind of drinking competition at the club last night, dear." "So I gathered. Who came second?!' The beatitudes form the opening part of our Lord's' Ser- mon on the 'Mount, He gave this message in the early part of his ministry, It might be called his manifesto. 'Blessed' means 'happy,' Billy Graham's -book of sermons on these `beatitudes is well called, • The Secret of .Happiness, Everyone wants happiness this life but compairatively few are finding it, Isaiah asked, "Wherefore do yp Spend money for that, which vis not bread? and your 'labour for that which satisfieth not?" Millions of dal , lars are -spent each' month in the vaira.pursuit of. happiness. Actually, if .,we,; make happiness the object and goal of our life we will miss it. But if we turn from our sins and let Jesus Christ be Lord and Saviour of our life and follow On to lave and serve .Him we shall ex- perience continual happiness. That does not mean that life will always be smooth sailing. But we shall know that .we are safe with. Christ on board. We will have zest for climbing rug- ged hills when our face is al- ways turned Godward. We shall be happy even when we are re- viled and persecuted. A holy contentment will pervade our lives; not the contentment of self-satisfaction or stagnation but that which is born of sturdy faith and a sure con- fidence that God is leading and the end will be glorious. The world's tyrants who strutted for a time didn't real- ize that to be humble, meek and merciful was the way of happiness. If they had they would have been peacemakers instead of war mongers. They would have sought righteous- ness and a pure heart. The greatest riches and hap- piness is available to all. Let us read the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7. Before we can live this life we must be born of the Spirit of God. With a new heart we 'will have happiness as we delight to walk in God's way. Terror' Climb Turned Man, OLd Vayed by the bitter, early Xtierning wind, two men lay huddled on the upper slopes of 26,620-foot Nanga Parbat, the Himalayan "mtnintain of terror," which had already claimed the lives of thirty-one would-be conquerors, Herman Buhl, an Austrian mountaineer, nudged his reluc- tant fellow-climber, Otto Kemp- ter. "Otto" Buhl pleaded, "haven't you got any will-power? To-day of all days—when everything's .set—and we're going for the aurnmit?"- A mumble from the sleeping-, bagt,,"Net me—I ain't got none," So Buhl shouldered, his pack and gear and set off alone, thinking Otto would catch up with him latennIt was another ;four miles of, atruggliag osner • nnknown snow. and ice ridges to the tOp, and with no oxygen 'to help. Up, up he trudged until' he. Carrie to -a huge' and* wall' the size of a block of buildings, a colossal cornice structure. Here, in 1937, an expedition had .ended inaa shattering,tragedy when an ice avalanche buried Cart Wien and his comrades; A sense of desolation sWept, over Buhl. But he must tnet think of death or horror, up here alone. As the sun grew unberably hot it parched his body, lay on him like a ton load. He found it terribly difficult to make pro- gress, breathed five times to each step he took, sat down and tried to eat, but couldn't swal- low, so forced' his way on and un over the rim of the summit plateau. 1311111, thoroughly exhausted, now lay in the snow face down on his rucksack, panting. This looked like the end. Far off he could See a dot—Otto. How gladly he would have had him with him now! But the dot didn't move. Otto seemed to have given up.. Buhl couldn't wait. He must go on alone. lila description of the rest of the climb in his dramatic book, "Nanga P a r b a t Pilgrimage" translated by Hugh Merrick, is one of the finest epics of endur- ance ever penned. At 25,658 feet, in the gap between the subsidiary and main summits, he collapsed on the snow, again exhausted. Hunger racked him, thirst tortured him. He swal- lowed two energizinz tablets to boost his failing powers. On his feet again, he clam- bered along an enorrnouse chain of cornices, then had to face a sharp rock-ridge of 'saw-toothed *crags, dominated by towers of snow and ice-covered rock. And 17,000 below him was the awe- some Rupal Nullah, a deep rav- ine. But it hardly affected him, so anathetic had he become. Whenever he looked at the summit ahead it looked no near- he decided to ,filx eyes on „sense point only a few yards . the next ledge, next spike on the ridge, and no far- ther ahead until he got there. That way he kept going, Nearing the top at last, he crossed some gullies and short patches of snow, stumbling over boulders to the foot of the sum- mit structure, The highest thing he could see was a projecting rock. 1-low far now? Had he the strength? He could no longer stand upright, he was a wreck. Slowly he craw- led forward on all fours, nearer the rocky spur, and to his joy • and relief saw nothing but a little crest, a short snow slope, He was on the summit, Every- thing fell away on all sides, He was the first human being to get there. It was 7 p.m. It had taken him seventeen hours since leaving Otto. "But '1 felt no wave of over- mastering joy, no wish' to shout, aloud, no sense of- victorous ex- altation . . I was absolutely all in. Utterly worn out, I fell on the snow and stuck my ice- axe upright on the hard-beaten snow ... took the Tyrolese pen- nant out of my anorak and tied itato the shaft „ , " Then he took photographs for documentary evidence. The sky was cloudless, but immediately the sun ;vent down behind a mountain range the cold beeeine penetrating. After about half an hour he took a last look back, turned, and began the descent. But his terrific ordeal was by no means over. On the way down he was startled to feel something loose and wobbly on his left foot, and saw the strap-fasten-, ing of his crampon— spiked climbing aid—disappear below him. Then the crampon came off the boot.. He grabbed it just in time, then stood on one leg, with two ski-sticks as his only, support. He tried to scrape a shallow dent in the frozen, snow with the points of the sticks to give his smooth boot sole a 'moment's hold while he moved the cramponed foot a farther on. In this way he man- aged somehow to balance from one snow-rib to another. As- darkness came down he searched frantically for a perch, found a stance with just room for both feet though too small to permit sitting, and realized that he would have to spend the night in that perilous position standing up. He put on every- thing he had, his woolly well over his ears, his balaclava well down over his head, and two pairs of gloves. He had the slanting rock face as back-rest. "I was amazingly relaxed," he says. "I almost faced that night at 26,000 feet with complete equanimity." Buhl swallowed another drug to stimulate circulation and protect hiM against, frostbite. His left hand clutched the pre- cious ski-sticks, his right a solitary hold. Utter weariness overcame him, his head kept falling forwards, his eyelids felt like lead, he could hardly stay upright, he dozed off, woke with- a start . The intense cold grew more unbearable. He felt it on his face, hands, feet, body. His feet went dead. The night drag- ged on; it was like eternity. At last . . . dawn. "During those hours of ex- treme tension I had an extra- • ordinary feeling that I was not alone. I had a partner with me, looking after me, ." he says. Moving into a gully, he removed his gloves, couldn't find them. "Have you seen my gloves?". he asked his ghostly companion, and heard quite clearly the ans- wer: "You've lost them." When, after forty-one hours' lone or- deal, he at last regained hit team he was a drawn, haggard, old man — at twenty-nine — as a photograph of him taken' by a colleague shows only too clearly. Climbs in his native Tyre], the Dolotnites and Alps complete the magnificent story of an in- trepid mountaineer who was so weak as a child that he had to be kept front school a year be- yond the normal time! CEASE-FIRE IN MIDDLE EAST—Mop spots approximate positions of British, French and Israeli forces in the Middle East after the cease-fire deadline was reached. A gastric ulcer is something you get if you go mountain- climbing over Mole hills, SALLY'S SALLIES salt, and cinnamon. Stir in rai- sins and turn into pastry-lined pie pan with high, fluted' edges. Bake at 425° F. 15 minutes, Re- duce heat to 325° F. and bake 20-25-minutes longer, until fill- ing is set in center. Remove from oven and sperad meringue in swirls overtop. Bake at 325° F. for 15-20 minutes longer un- til lightly browned. Cool be- fore cutting. Meringue: Beat the 3 ,egg whites until foamy. Add 1/4 ..tea- spoon cream of tartar, and beat until barely stiff. Add 6 table- spoons sugar, 1. tablespoon at a time, beating well after each addition. * „ PUMPKIN PIE 5/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 3/4 teaspoon mixed spices (nut- meg, mace,' cloves, ginger) 14 cup dry milk (whole or non-fat) 1/2, teaspoon 'salt 1% cups mashed cooked or - canned pumpkin 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup water or fluid milk 2 tablespoons melted fat 1 unbaked .9-inch pie shell Combine all dry ingredients; add pumpkin gradually '.to the dry mixture, stirring until smooth. Add eggs, liquids, and fat. Pour into pie shell and bake at 425° F. until set—about 35 minutes. Serve hot or cold, as you wish. Penguin Proves Expentive Pet When schoolboy Errol Berry found an injured penguin ly- ing weak and gasping on a quay of Cape Town docks, he took him home and bathed the deep red wounds in the bird's white waistcoat. Three days later Errol 'had to raid his rnoneybox to pay for fish for his Antarctic house guest. The bird began gobbling up 6 lb. per day, scorning salt cod and insisting on fresh fish. And when Errol's parents, re- fused to pay for further ra- tions, the boy sadly took the penguin and set -him free. The bird ,swam -around, fish- ing voraciously,.But when he had finished his meal he swam back to the schpolboy! To-day, Errol is gaining wide- spread publicity 'as the school- 'boy with the world's strangest pet, Snappy, as heacalls his pen- guin, travels with him en buses sleeps stretched flat out in a shed in the garden, and is very intelligent: A penguin eats almost his own weight, in fish a ,day, and soon he could riot find aufficierit food off's'hore. F'or Snappy's Own good, Errol -decided "to release him — and relinquish" hint - far Out at. sea, For .two months the boy saw nothing, of, his friend, Then he heard of a pen- guin' which had litided on the beach, peek'ng viciously at any- brie Who dared to approach it, It was Snappy, waiting for him at the very rock :Where they used to swim and fish te- gethet AS Soon as the 'bird saw the bey he Waddled up and seta tied cosily tinder his arrii, NOW a trawling: company ape- daily sets aside Mule of fish for 8haphk. Occasionally, the bird gOeS to sea for a week Or iwn, but alwaye returns; await-7 ing hit master' at their In the minds of most men cheese is associated closely with apple pie. If you'd like to go a step further than serving the cheese in wedges, try this recipe for cheese mixed right into the crust. APPLE PIE WITH CHEESE CRUST 21/2, cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 5 tablespoons cold water 1 5-ounce jar pasteurized, processed cheese spread cup cooking oil 3% cups cooked or canned sliced apples V4 cup sugar 2 tablespoons flour 3Y, teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/t. teaspoon nutmeg 2 tablespoons butter Sift together the flour and salt. Add water gradually to the cheese spread, blending until smooth after each addition. Add oil and beat until well blended. Add to flour mixture. Toss and mix with fork. Form dough into ball; divide in half. Before roll- ing, shape each half into a fiat round, making top and edges smooth. `Roll out one round be- tween two 12-inch squares of waxed paper. If bottom paper wrinkes, turn and roll on other side, Remove top sheet and in- vert pastry over a 9-inch pan, peel off paper; fit pastry into pan. Combine apples, sugar, 2 tablespoons 'flour, salt, cinna- mon, and nutmeg. Fill the pastry-lined pie pan. Dot filling with butter. Roll second piece of pastry; cut gashes for escape of steam and place over apples. Seal edges. Bake at 400° F. fOr 40 minutes, or until done. Lemon pie is also a great favorite and here is a recipe that your entire family will praise, MAGIC LEMON PIE 1 8-inch pie shell or crumb crust 1 can (1% cups) sweetened condensed milk 2 egg yolks, well beaten Vs cup fresh lemon juice 2, tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel Stir all ingredients together well. The filling will thicken as though cooked. Pour into baked pastry shell. Spread meringue over pie. Bake at 350° F, 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Cool away from drafts. MERINGUE 1 teaspodn fresh lemon juice 2 egg whites 4 tablespoons sugar Beat egg whites and lemon juice together until soft peake form. Add sugar gradually, beating until Meringue holds hi firm glbssy peaks. a a is The tang of sour cream and spite with the sweetness of rai- sins make "custard raisin trie- riii.gue pie a special favorite now just as it was in grand-, Mother's day. Try this pie for a "company" dessert. RAISILki MERINGUL .PIE I eittl- tight Or dark raisins 3 egg yolka 12,h cup 1 clip tkintinereial sour` ,Orearit 'a/f sugar' teaspoon teaspoon eitirtairieri Pastry for ,Shigic. 8 finch crust Rinse- and drain raisins. Sep,.. prate eggs' and beat ybiks blend in Milk. creel-hi Sugar, An attractive young woman lay in a ,plaster cast in a south of England hospital trying des- perately not to sneeze, She had been told by doctors that if she did so, she might become a cripple for life. Two years earlier she had in- jured her spine by sneezing while reaching up to feed her pet, eanary. As a result, she underwent an operation in which a piece of bone from her leg was grafted on to her spine. "If you avoid sneezing, which - might cause a fresh injury, you may be walking again soon," doctors told her, Somehow she managed to stifle her sneezes. And to-day she is fit and well again, and walking *normally. Sneezing is now in season and once more the sneeze sleuths — those medieal experts who study our a-tishoos — are investigating its causes and effects. Some doctors actua ally hold the theory that sneezes are often just symptoms of frustrated love! They quote the case of the twenty-nine-year-old spinster Who, started taking music les- sons from a man. Soon after- wards she began to have bad attacks of sneezing. "She was suffering frorn conflict between her desire to marry him and her dependence on her mother," they' reported. Another susceptible young woman would always sneeze violently after saying good- night to her boy friend, Such sneezing attacks have become so common that doctors recog- nize a complaint which has been called "honeymoon cold." The costliest sneeze on rec- ord was that of a banknote en- graver. He had worked for three months on a design for e new note for a South Ameri- can republic and had practical- ly finished when he sneezed. Se he started all over again. Sneezing was taboo in the court of King Narathihapate, of Warne, but one day, just as court festivities were beginning, a lovely new lady in waiting Was so overcome by a desire to sneeze that she ran to a great ornamental jar and thrust her face into its wide mouth. Instead of stifling the sneeze the hollow -jar made it a hun- dred times louder. The nobility of Burma quaked in.their shoes, well knowing the king's usper- stitious hatred of sneezing in his presence. "Cut off her head!" the king commanded. But Queen Saw at once pointed out • too the king that one of his titles was "Master of the Ninety-Six Diseases," adding: "If you are really master of them You are immune from common ills like colds and sneezes, and it seems that you expect this girl also to be im- mune from sneezing. By sent- encing her to death you are merely flattering her." The king was impressed. "I pardon her for sneezing," he said. An American murderer once went to the electric chair be- cause he sneezed. He was drink- ing coffee in a New York res- taurant when he gave a loud sneeze and the cup dropped from his hand and broke, The noise attracted the atten- tion of a detective who was eating ,at a near-by table. He immediately recognized the sneezer as a long-sought mut': Beret and arrested him. A sneeze brought happiness to the composer Carl Weber. He was on his way to the re- hearsal of one of his operas when a woman sneezed behind him. Turning, doffing his hat and bowing with mock courtesy, he said: "Madame, you have a cold, but that's no reason why you should spread the illness by sneezing over me, Take my handkerchief, I beg of you!" Then he realized hp was ad- dressing one of the loveliest girls he had ever seen. She scorned his offer, declaring: "You are no gentleman." To his surprise he met her again half an hour later at the rehearsal were he found she was a newly-engaged singer, 'Caroline Brandt, with a love- ly Soprano voice. He apologized tot his rude- nets in the street, but She snub- bed hint But Weber never fora. got the girl who had sneezed. Later he offered her an en- gagement in a new opera. She acceptasl forgave him for the insult he had offered her in F'rankf'urt, and they were mar-; rigid, EVEN UL" A doctor coughed tiPologeti- tallY at hit patient. "I don't like to mention it he said, "but that eheejue you gave me hes come pa.,ck,,, " Thaes all right," Wes the re- ply, ""so` has my' rheutrlatiarri.° A diploitat is a Men who earl disarming When his eintritry isht' tHE EASY WAY — Placing tf&epteitick, and equipment del ten. of ,smokestack Mate than 300feet high is easy if you use a helicopter . With the aid of 'extensions of skid landing 'Oar, Bell helicopter deftly kindi Oft it* by, Straddling it and puffing steeplejack end' eiturptitetit On the fob, When repairs Were'completed, the belicepter- teitirnecl to bring' Me' •iioackgriit back earth. ARABS .FEAR' ArTACK Traci, tyeto. and Jordan be: ell brought IMO", Middle East fighting- by dittick 'frttfti Israel, illustrated Ndwi'mop above. Jordan .d 4di.et't tittdOlt. froth': the JeruSdreitt breure a.Russia is 'Streng,meiting 'ties With Syria,May offer ve,p- I f 'hostilities break out, 569411: tiCi$ broker-i diptdrildtie re:atirkris. with Frtti,e;e: art& has 4:1105efelida lorttr:nt, •ea AM SCHOOL LESSON r• F TURKEY Syria fears 1srasli attack aimed at outflanking Joi, don. Country under full mobilization, Of Syria's 30,- 000 regular troops, 20,000 are reported already in Jor- dan. Syrian president visits Moscow, receives gage of all "necessary" odd. ti Bordirfed • Iraq i'oralinci sending in full diVision of her total stiength of throe into Jordon,,Troops taking up birdee positions optional, Iciest ref Ash, Jerusolem EGYPT SAUDII A r; A LI ti tVIILLS rt tort 114 r "Don't be so fitesY sift hat grant ft