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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-05-08, Page 2ippopfm,-;=0,,Fawamms. in Quest Of The Strong-Man Killer Toby Jugs Named, After Guzzler Two thousand gallons strong ale were drunk by th nd t o i l a u favourite. niHjeuise,„„igpitwageetitlh.4t-nrqoems,nittuvwryers tankard which he loved SO much that he even kept it, filled with beer, by his bedside at night is case he woke up thirsty, lie was so fond of beer that his friends nicknamed him. Toby Fillpot. And the very first Toby jug ever made was a rep- resentation of him drinking his 2,QQQth gallon. It was called a Toby FillPot, but others which followed were as Toby jugs — those $ gro e que pieces of Stafford- shire ware ware whieh collectors prize so highly to-day, Bidding was brisk and prices good at a recent sale of Toby jugs in London. Some fetched 81.50 and more, The record price ever paid for a Toby jug, how- ever, was 500 guineas in 1918. It was a very rare specimen. The landlord of a Manchester pub has collected thirty* TobY jugs in thirty-five years. Every day he apends hours touring in search of additional jugs for his remarkable collections which is very valuable. The earliest Toby jug known is dated 1750 and shows the familiar figure of an elderly countryman with a black, tri- cornered hat wearing a gay apple-green coat, yellow breeches; 'white' stockings, a striped brown, blue, and white brown and white beer jug on his knee. In all there are about twenty-five varieties of fig- ure known to the collector of Toby jugs. Peaeala, Have you ever compared the cost per serving of different cereals? You'd be amazed at the difference." 41 have compared, and. I was Amazed, What time of day do ye4 prefer to do your grocery shopping?" "As early in the morning as I can make it, and on Thursday or Friday. Before I leave home I Plan a. week's Menus, and make a marketing list, allowing lee-. way for any `price Specials" happen to find," "One more question, I know your husband likes to cook—" "Well, what I want to know is whether you encourage him to help buy the groceries." "When we're on a saving spree? He'd be no help at all! He just can't concentrate on a shopping list, especially when his pal, the butcher, shows him a choice sirloin or porterhouse." "You don't mean he weakens?" "Well, he would—if I didn't rush over and start talking fast about the wonders of a soup bone, 'Now one more thing: even though this may sound imprac- tical, when you're trying to save money, I consider a few pennies worth of parsley a sound invest- ment." "Like the poet, if you had only two loaves, you would 'sell one, and with the dole buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.'" "Hyacinths or parsley, which- ever was cheapest," said my friend and with that she went blithely off to the grocery store, a Marketing list in her hand. .A Young. Actor Seeks His fortune Whatever the motives that. brought Shakespeare to. London, be now realized that .his true Wien, was to Waite for the thea- tre,. a course which meant that the poetry he ached to write would. become the very shaft of his profession:, But the plays had yet to be written, and in the Meantime. he had, to, ..earn a liv•, • Mg. The obvious course was O. join' a company of actora, for in that way he would learn his craft' from the inside and have a likely market for his wares, A company of actors consisted Of about eight men, all of whom invested capital in .4 common stock of plays and apparel, shar- ing the profits in proportion to their investments, whence the. name of "shares" or more pic- turesquely,. "full adventurers." They had two or three boy ap, prentiees whom they trained to play women's parts, for there were no actresses on the public stage for almost another century and they hired a few novices, or. old hands with no capital to in-. vest, or to, play minor parts, It would be as a "hireling" that Shakespeare found employment, probably with the, Queen's, the company for which Robert. Greene was just beginning to write. For some years, as we should expect, we hear nothing of the obscure a c toa and aspiring dramatist, and we must imagine him "dressing" and rewriting old plays for • his company,. and try- ing his hand at original work, when he was not engaged in acting or rehearsing the numer- ous parts that- he had -to learn, for there was a different play each afternoon of the week, with A HITCH IN THE HIKE—The hitch in giving bear trainer R. W. Barns a ride is that his 720-pound, India Chinchilla bear "Kelly' goes along, too. Barns and the bear are hitchhiking across Florida and Barns says the bear gets more ride offers than he does. In photo, the pair waits hopefully for a motorist who'd like to tell a "shaggy bear story," Note: Small foreign car owners need not stop. ;TABLE TALKS eial\eAndtte,w . Whatever troubles Adam had, No man could make him sore By saying when he, told a joke: "I've heard that one before." A bridegroom, after the wed- ding was aover and the guests had departed, began to search *anxiously among the wedding gifts. "What are you looking for, darling?" asked the bride. "That $500 cheque your fa- ther gave us," he said. "I don't see it anywhere." "Poor Dad is so absent- minded," said the bride. "He lit his cigar with it" before s.*4 reached the water; it might have been caused by a fall from a rock or by a blew* but a fall was not so probable because the body bore no ether injeriaa, Later he stated: ‘The medical experts' report proves beyond doubt that Miss. Raper was attacked and killed by a man of great strength. Any suggestion* of suicide is ruled out. The skull was crushed in with a blunt instrument used with, terrific force, a result of my prelimina pry inquiries, I have given or- ders for an intensive police force search to be instituted. It is in the charge of Inspector Blanc, of the Marseilles Flying Squad, Inquiries at this stage are naturally somewhat deli- cate, but you may take it we have reason to try to find for questioning a local man." Meantime, the two detectives had followed a route they thought Miss Raper may have taken when she left the hostel —four miles of winding track, hedged by tall bamboo, to the rocky headland of fortified Cap Chevalier and a military zone barbed-wire fence. They exam- ined the cliffs and talked to members of the garrison, who could not recall having seen Miss Raper. M. Brunet's next step was to seek the help of the Paris Surete and to hand the Paris detectives, when they arrived at Toulon, the forty-page doctors' report. The Surete ordered the whole area to be combed. Then, a month after the girl disappeared, the Toulon police made an abrupt about-turn, completely discrediting M. Bru- net and claiming' that a thor- ough examination of all the facts showed that she had been killed accidentally while trying to take a photograph from Glens Cliff. "She fell seventy-five feet be- fore she rolled into the sea. The strong current carried her down the coast to the fishing village where she was found in the fisherman's net," was their ver- dict. The case was dropped. But what of the "man of great strength" mentioned in the medical experts' report? Green- wall asks. And another weak link: Where was her camera which twenty gendarmes had searched for in vain? Another strange fact had been left unexplained. After her death her passport and person- al papers had been taken to the British Consulate in Toulon; while the consul was absent on holiday his house had been burgled and the passport and papers stolen. Why, and by whom? ' An acting British Consul- General at Marseilles, Reginald Arthur Lee, figures in another unplumbed mystery. On July 5th, 1930, he vanished and has not been frayed to this day. One theory was that he had been murdered for frustrating the schemes of a drug-smug- gling Ting, but the Foreign Of- fice has denied that his work was ever concerned with anti- smuggling. These and other riddles Greenwall examines; often with new evidence gathered person- ally on the spot. His facts and theories are as gripping as those in any detection thriller. His comments on French police methods should do tome' good, for these cases show that there is little to deter killers from committing brutal crimes, since they go undetected or made- aquately punished. -.The two young artists, Pant- cla Raper and Isabel Manton, arrived at the Poppy Club Youth ffostel, La Cappe, near Toulon, thrilled at the prospect of a rata mantle igediterranon holiday. But six days later Pamela bad vanished . . and fishermen trawling off the coast found her body in one of their nets. That was in the sammer of 1938 and—as is always the ease when British women vanish Or are found murdered in France —It affected the nation deeply. It is felt there is something particularly poignant and sinisa ter in unprotected women fall.- lug vietiras to evil in a= foreign land, far from home. Harry J, Greenwall, who has lived two-thirds of his life in France as foreign correspondent, lists nine women and the little daughter of Sir Jack and. Lady Drummond in "They Were Mur- dered in France. Five men victims bring the total to fifteen —all since 1920—and even where the killer was traced, found guilty and sentenced to death, the sentence has never been carried out. It is therefore understandable that Greenwall'a penetrating probe into these cases is also a challenging criticism of French police methods and apparent apathy. The case of Pamela Raper, a gay, happy girl, is typical. Her skull had a deep fracture, and her face and one arm were badly scarred. The doctors agreed that she must have been dead before her body entered the water. She had carried a $150 cam- era, which was never found, and it was thought that she might have fallen from high rocks while taking a picture. But a friend who knew her well said: "It is difficult to believe she was overcome by dizziness, be- cause she was used to heights." The theory of suicide was put forward by the police, but her family repudiated the idea. The police then sought two young Indo-Chinese who had called at the hostel the day she disap- peared, until Miss Manton ex-. Veined that she and Pamela had known them. in England and their call was merely to renew accpaaintance. The police next wished to in- terview a Pole, unnamed, who had been annoying girls at the hostel and was said to have been seen frequently in .Parn- ala's company. But nothing ap- pears to have resulted from that, though it was an obvious- ' Ily important line of inquiry. On September 1st, two detec- tives from the Marseilles "Mur- der Squad" were called in, and M. Leon Brunet, the Toulon ex- amining magistrate, put to them these points: Miss Raper had died from a fracture of the skull MERRY MENAGERIE NO CHOPSTICKS -- Japanese airline hoste's's Rafko 'Kato sa`rn- pies iorne WeissWursf; a Ba- varian sausage siiecialty, in Munich, Germany. The flying Oriental girl has lots of op- portunity to try foreign foods as one of the rewards of her - job. Her sausage-eating etch- nique, incidentally, is a uni- versal one. "Me and my doggone wolf whistler INDOOR POOL OUTDOORS—Overdiated youngsters, top photo,. hurry to get into thertwim 'as frost nips at their heels and bare Meet in Buffalo. A look at those barren trees shows that spring, is still far behind. Inside the shelter, made of plastic and nylon,, swimsuited youngsters await their arrival. Once inside, bottom photo, the -newcomers -enjoy a preseason swim. Thanks- to. Walter Bird, the kids don't have to be members of a Polar Bear club to enjoy 'the cool weather dip. Bird designed the .dome, to double the swim season at his outdoor pool. The dome it supported by ,air and is ,t;eadily collapsible for storage. the shoulder would make a more delicious stew." "Yes, there's more flavor in the shoulder cut." "That's it. Of course, it takes more time to cook the cheaper, less tender cuts—such beef cuts, for example, as shoulder, chuck, flank, round, rump, chuck ribs, brisket, and so ona-because they need long, slow cooking to bring out the flavor. But in the long run, for me at least, they save both time and work. "Take a pot roast: The first day I serve it hot, with carrots and potatoes. The' next time, heated over in the gravy—I al- ways make plenty of gravy with the drippings. Then the third day I ,combine the roast with noodles or lima beans, or I may serve the hot' meat and gravy over rice." "And the fourth day?" "A pot roast seldom 'last -that long in our house. But, if it does, I slice the cold meat and make sandwiches, and apour hot gravy over the top. With this, we like broccoli or squash or some other vegetable, and a fruit pie for dessert. Am I giving the impres- sionthat you have to serve pot roast three or four days in a row?" "Well, you don't Keep what's! left over the freezer section of -your refrigerator, and you can serve something else between pot-roast dinners. "Another money-saver in my book—cook book—is a big fat hen, ste wed or fricasseed. There's usually enough left for -a creamed dish, or chicken cro- quettes." "Or chicken salad." "Or soup or hash or sand- wiches. Never waste food, is my motto. Still another ,pet economy of mine is buying milk by the gallon. We use dry milk, too. Which reminds me of breakfast • • ► ► • ► • RHUBARB CHIFFON PIE Fresh, rosy rhubarb chiffon pie — what could look prettier `--. or taste more like spring? Fill a 9-inch pie plate with graham cracker crumb crust, made with a generous amount of butter, and then add this filling: 1 tblsp. unflavored gelatin cup cold water 3 eggs, separated 1 cup sugar 1 cup cooked rhubarb (3 cups uncooked). 1 tablespoon lemon juice 14. teaspoon salt % teaspoon lemon extract. Sprinkle gelatin into cold water in small cup. In top of double boiler beat egg yolks. Stir in 1/2 cup sugar and cooked rhubarb. Cook over hot water, stirring constantly until mix- ture coats spoon and is thick- ened. Stir in lemon jUicea Add 'softened gelatin and stir until gelatin is Completely dissolved. Cool until mixture' holds shape when dropped from spoon. Add salt to egg whites and beat un- till stiff but not dry. Gradually add salt to egg whites and beat until stiff but not drag. :add remaining aa cup sugar, beat- ' ing until stiff meringue forms. Add meringue and lemon, ex- tract to cooled gelatin mixture and fold in until 'well blended. Pile into. chilled pie shell. Chill until well, set (3 to 4 hours). ▪ * The following artiele on how to save on your food budge't — written by Josephine Hemphill in The Christian Science Monitor r— strikes me as so sensible and useful, especially to younger housewives, that I'm reproduc- ing it herewith. * * * Last week I' talked with an experienced homemaker of food budgets. This week, to continue the subject, I talked with a young woman who is a wife, mother, part-time writer, and one of the best cooks I know of in Washington, D.C. "You came at a good time," she said, "for this is one week When the food bills are getting out of hand. I've just planned, a few menus around hamburger, frankfurters, and tuna fish. By the way, how did we ever get along without tuna fish?" "Can't imagine," I said, "A stand-by shelf without a can of tuna is like a — a —" "A ship without' a lifeboat. Of course, with me cooking just 'comes natural.' I've been cook- ing ever since the day Mother let 'me stand on a chair and cut out a gingerbread man. "So maybe I have a slight 'ad- vantage over some other young housewives. Still, With all the wonderful recipes in cookbooks and newspapers and magazines, don't you, think it would be easy to start. out right raw and learn to cook?'" "Easier than- ever. But if you were a beginner, where would 'you begin?" "If ; were a yOung wife, and my husband had a hearty ap- petite, I'd probably start with meat., I'd learn to recOgaize all the different cuts, arid I'd,' Oc- t eriarierit titan I could make a .theapi tough cut taste just as' good as the those •ekaeritive, Maybe better', 'You „know, even if tenderloin 'steak arid Shoulder Of beef Coat exactly the aatrie, a new one introduced into their repertory every fortnight or so. In the spring they performed in one of the public theatres, generally the Theatre, in the summer they went on tour, in 1589 getting as far afield as Carlisle, then back to their London theatre for an autumn season before retreat- ing to one of the inns in Gra- cious Street for the winter, where they rehearsed the plays they were to present at Court. The life of an actor with• such a coMpany, and at this time the Queen's was the most favoured of all, was a liberal education. Apart from the travel, the actors inevitably met the poets who wrote their plays, and mixed with the nobles and gallants of the Inns of Court who frequent- ed their: theatre, and sometimes invited them to perform ha their dining-halls. Then at Christmas they performed befove the Queen her self. Under Elizabeth the Court Revels began on De- ' cember 26th and reached their climax on Twelfth Night, Janu- ary 6th, within which Twelve Days of Christmas four or five plays were given, followed by two or three more before the be- ginning of Lent. Between 1587 and 1592 the.-Queen's Men gave fourteen of these Court perfor- mances, more than any other cortmany. far However unpolished Shakespeare may have been when he arrived in London, it would riot be long, before he Was at ease in the intellectual .and. courtly life of the ,capital, arid he Would have no diffiehlty in representing such a society in his plays. — Froth "Shakespeare; a Pictorial Biography," by F, E. Halliday. A WOMAN'S itlimS,,,Noettiolii considered one of the safest ' places, a WOindriq arms this instance are' something to be' isVoided. Mrik Sillety, en§iriberlild technician, checks ith drawing alongside the tank: Cannon she designed A S-,-year Veteran' With'•the.Oitierial, Mei. Sillery has 0 1-yecir-, ott0. ito66hfee, Her haribtihdi atinalan design engineer* "I atipptiae horrible' thing is what yeti tall inederai att," 'said a Wonsan in ari fiat "shod to a dealer. "No, Madan," he replied. "Yotere idOkirig in the Mirror?' IN' tit WHA(E'S .MciiiTH attendant tit'M atineicind no Jcinah, hoe the oItiutei take.,Attualli if 4;1 0' photo ,made Of the feeding of the only whale in eaphvlf y it took the personnel Cif 'Martheland LiWo tr6iti "he whale fo am-weed-low call. Noehithitv, the big nitiniMat travels arOUnd the iptittairi of the nOW When lie luriChtline comes her Veers ih-Ototif '0 for handout of ititiuld,