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The Brussels Post, 1958-07-09, Page 2'TABLE TALKS eiate An.dDews. ti Push To Treasure Swap Wives For Change Of Diet! Cards Foretold. Death By. Hanging' A strange story is told of a small man who was staying at a„ hotel when he became interested in a party of fellow-guests who were jokingly telling • fortunes • by cards. The man joined the party and. laughed heartily when he was told, that, according to the cards, he was destined to die by hang-. ing, The prediction proved true., The man was John George Haigh, the acid-bath murderer, • Students of history have quot- ed instances of royal personalie ties whose lives were linked in . some way with the predictions oib fortune-tellers. It is an historical fact that • William. Lilly, the last of the great English astrologers, foretold, to Charles II, when he was in exile, his eventual restoration to the throne in 1660. The astrolo- ger, however, gave the date as July .29th whereas the restoration actually took place on May 29th, exactly two months earlier. Queen Victoria, when she was a girl at Broadstairs, Kent, once went with several girl friends to a fortune-teller. The woman is said to have foretold to the fu- ture queen "a number of events which were fulfilled in a re, markable manner." These in- cluded her marriage to Prince Albert. • "Just been cleaning up a few family allowances," he told Wyatt. "These 'blighters. make me mad sometimes; By the time they've gnished swapping wives or taking new ones, without. ttelling1:11 e '0Wruoplid e .about-of it, clays it of paper work to sort out whose. is which and what child belongs to. whom. It may be a simple and sensible solution of their prebs leaps; but it _sure messes up my records," • The parish of one missionary,. Don Whitbread, covers some 40,- 000 square miles, so there are man's' caps 5i,nea,r he . can visit only o Sometimes, accordingly, be has married a couple with the bride peacefully nursing her baby during the ceremony, On one such visit he rounded up in a big igloo all the couples who wanted to marry, then launched a final appeal for any others so inclined. Yes, said an old man, he would like to get married — and an old wrinkled woman came forward as the bride, Where- upon, the groom of one of the younger couples said, laughing; "Why father! Haven't you and mother married yet?" Every aspect of life in the. Pei North, and the way the new defence posts of an atomic age are changing it, is described in this well-written first-hand sur- vey. FOOD FOR THOUGHT — Girls seated at mail-sorting keyboards are the "cooks" in this automat-like room in the Washington, D.C., post office, above. Each girl can handle nearly 18,000 letters a day Once letter is coded for distribution by Belgian- made device, it's automatically pigeonholed for distribution to delivering offices. FA S 10 IV Legend told of the wonders of the Gran Sabana (Great Plain) before ever a white man saw it. It was a, rich, grassy plateau ris- ing for thousands, of miles out of the unexplored Guiana jun, gie in southeastern Venattela, the Indians said, Its hills teem- ed with gold, diamonds, and al- most every known kind of „min- eral, Huge, bass-life fish, which could only be caught with fruit as bait, swam in its mighty rivers, The lakes had red sand beaches. Flocks of bright-wing- ed birds flew thaough 100-foot trees. The highest waterfall in the world crowned it, "The Lost World," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called it in his great ad- venture novel based on the legends. In 1934 a Venezuelan pilot landed on the plateau and found that there really was a Gran Sabana, about 14,000 square miles in extent. About the same time the North American flier, Jimmy Angel, discovered the falls (3,212 feet high), which now bear his name, And in the early 1940s geologists of the Bethlehem Steel Co. came on a hint of its mineral wealth in a great bowl of iron ore at El Pao, on the edge of the Lost World, In 1947 U.S. Steel's ex- plorers located nearby the even richer Cerro Bolivar, a solid mountain of• iron ore, 63 per cent pure. Last year Bethle- hem's Iron Mines of Venezuela produced some 3 million tons of ore at El Pao. U.S. Steel's Ori- noco Mining Co. dug more than 12 million tons out of Cerro. Bolivar. A third mine, El Tru- eno, owned by a Venezuelan company, has great and as yet mostly unexploited reserves. Al- together there may be 2 billion tons of iron ore in this rich earth. Now, the Venezuelan Govern- ment reported a vast industrial complex, including a $360 Champagne Café When the Cafe de Feria in ,London drat opened its. doors in /924 it was a dismal flop, Hardly any customers turned up and the place was semi-deserted for Weeks. Then Martin Poulsen, the Dana ish owner of the Café, 'rernem- lbered that the Fringe of Wales (now the Duke oa Windsor) had Once said he would be pleased 10 visit any restaurant that Paul- sen owned, He decided to take up the promise and got in touch with his royal friend, The Prince replied that he would be only too pleased to come along arid named a date. Poulsen got to work. He sent telegrams to all the various so- ciety People of the day inform- ing them that His Royal High- ness would be attending the Cafe. On the night the place was packed to capacity when the Prince took the door for a waltz. Poulsen's gamble had paid off. . From that day on the Cafe de Paris was the mecca of society. Charles Graves relates this story in "Champagne and Chan- deliers," which tells the story of the famous cabaret spot from its opening to its ending as a rock 'n' roll 'haunt last year. One night after the war Sid Field, Sir Laurence Olivier and Danny Kaye paid a visit. For a joke, they posed together light- ing three cigarettes from one match. A member of the staff standing near-by remarked that it was unlucky and that the eld- est of the three was due for some bad luck. "Nonsensp!" replied Sid Field. "I'm. the eldest. We don't be- lieve in superstition." In a mat- ter of days Field was dead! Sir Laurence Oliviers wife, Vivien. Leigh, was taken ill, and Danny Kaye just escaped with his life in a 'plane crash. Packed with anecdotes from cover to cover and lavishly il- lustrated, the book recalls all the sparkle and glitter of what was the most fabulous night-spot in the world. Rich Rewards. cream in the refrigerator. The making is a simple process. Into the tall glass put, first, crushed fresh or frozen fruit or syrup; stir into this a, spoonful of ice cream or whipped cream or aa cup light cream. Fill glass three-quarters full with chilled, freshly opened carbonated bev- erage; float on this mixture 2 dippers ice cream — then add more carbonated beverage to fill to the top. * * * Chocolate drinks are popular all the year round, and for a new drink try adding a little oil of peppermint to the mill: chocolate. CHOCOLATE MINT DRINK 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 1 cup boiling water % cup sugar 4 tablespoons marshmallow topping 2 drops oil of peppermint 1 quart milk Melt chocolate in top of double boiler over hot water; add boil- ing water and cook 3 minutes. Remove from heat; add marsh- mallow topping, and beat until smooth. Add peppermint and milk. Combine well, Serve in chilled glasses. Serves 6. * * In case you've forgotten, frost your tall glasses this way: dip rims in lime juice (or any other fruit juice that blends with your drink) then dip in granulated sugar immediately. Use 3 ?glasses frosted in this manner for the following, cold, fruity drink, Top these two coolers with slightly sweetened whip tie d cream if y o u want a frothy drink. Use a dash of cinnamon, too, on the banana drink. Each serves 4. GRAPE COOLER 1 pint milk, well chilled 1 pint cold grape juice Whipped cream Stir grape juice into the milk. Top with whipped cream. * * '* BANANA COOLER 4 fully ripe bananas, flecked with brown 4 cups milk Whipped cream Peel bananas, sliep into a bowl and beat until creamy. Add milk. Top with whipped cream; sprin- kle with cinnamon. * * * And'here's another summer favorite: STRAWBERRY CRUSH 1 cup sweetened fresh crushed strawberries (or frozen berries, thawed) 4 cups milk Strawberry ice cream Combine berries and milk and mix well. Top each glass with a scoop of strawberry ice cream Serves 4. * Your - teen-agers may enjoy making their own sodas, so be sure to have on hand a supply of the following — and then let them take their choice of fla- vors: Tall glasses, straws, long- handled spoons, chilled spark- ling water, a variety of flavors and fruits, and plenty of ice CONEY ISLAND HEAD -- This young 'mademoiselle seems to prefer a frothy dip in a king- sized beer mug to the ocean at Cannes, France. Monique Wet- ter, 17, took her beery plunge after being named "Queen of French Beer."' Ty In an igloo in the Spence Ray area of Arctic Canada an .ski- me lay sick, moaning and call, ing out; "I am dYingi I am dy- ing!" The family sent for a noted " shaman or witch-doctor, Eeche- vilitak, who asked fOr to be dimmed, shut 'his eyes, threw back his head, made a humming noise, swayed gently, then. became quiet and held out his hands before him. Suddenly tiny figures of dogs and men began jumping clown from the ice-window ledge above the sick man. They ran about the shaman's hands, sprang over to the sick man lying on furs. The shaman stood still, mumbling quietly, There were tiny dogs on the floor, jumping up towards him, which he patted back with one hand. The sick man stopped wrig- gling and moaning, The tiny figures returned from nim, jumping back on to Eechevili- tak's hands. Again he Spoke to them, then they leapt hack to the window and vanished. The old shaman dropped his hands, began to hum again, then stopped swayed as if about to fall, opened his eyes, looked around in a daze. "He will get well," he said, then turned and crawled out through the door. The sick man was now asleep, breathing quietly. Next morning at breakfast he was sitting up eating and seemed happy, though weak. Ten days later he was well and able to hunt again. This astonishing story was told to Colin Wyatt by an Eskimo, Katardjuk, who was present, "I could not believe my eyes," he said, "but I swear to you it hap- pened — I saw it." He was a fully-believing Christian from a different tribe, Wyatt says in a vivid account of his Arctic travels, "North of Sixty" and therefore reliable. Even the missionaries admit that these witch-doctors have powers they cannot explain. Five years ago another sham- an was arrested for murder and taken down south by dog-team for trial, One evening, as the po- lice sat in the barracks awaiting transport, they began question- ing him about his powers. Was it true he could call up spirits and do strange things? The old man assured them it was so. A policeman then handcuffed him, saying: "Let us see you free yourself from 'these!" The Eskimo replied: "I shall call upon my strongest spirit, Nanook, the polar bear!" He then 'Went into a trance, for a while 'sat motionless with eyes closed, then raised his arms. To the astonishment of the police, his wrists appeared to swell; suddenly the manacles burst, his arms fell free, and in a few moments he awoke from the trance. While mostly harmless, some shamans use their powers to further their own ends, Wyatt observes. For example, people go to one asking when and where there will be good seal- hunting. He goes into a trance, saying ,he'll call up a seal's spirit, This tells him there will be good hunting at such a spot— probably one he knows to be normally good — .but that only he may go there. So he has it to himself while the tribe, afraid to intrude, has to content it- self with less good grounds! The Eskimo' custom of Iwife- swapping with both parties' consent arises from the pecu- liar conditions of hunting life. A man may have to go off to hunt caribou, but his wife may not be good at curing caribou skins, though good, at curing fish; so he swaps with a fisher- man whose wife is bad at curing fish but a good curer of hides and a good seamstress. Thus, each expedition May bring maximum benefit to the com- munity, But a Mountie at a Hudson Bay post was furious about it. lion steel mill and a $40 million dam and hydro-electric plant, is being built near the mines, Ten years ago there were more jag- uars' and igtianas than human beings at the junction of the sluggish Orinoco River and the mad-rushing Caroni. Today, the new iron town of Puerto Ordaz, connected by rail with Cerro Bolivar, 75 miles southwest, houses 10,000 people. Ten years from now it expects to have a population of 100,000. The first generator of the hy- dro-electric plant. will begin to turn this fall. Its eventual prod- uction: 300,000 kilowatts. Soon after, the steel, mill, which Will cover more than a square mile, will start making seamless tub- ing for the vast Venezuelan oil industry. In a few years the mill will produce a variety of other products, including rails, reinforcing • rods, barbed wire, and nails. Eventually it Will turn out 1,2 million tons of fin- ished products annually. Meanwhile, teams of geophy-, sicists and explorers are fanning out southward into the Lost World. Already they haVe found iron, gold, diarnonds, bauxite, lead, titaniutri and nickel, The plateau is a high one' Mare than 6,000 feet. The climate is healthy. ,The Lost World could be One answer to' Vehetuelara Main prObletrit How to get away fterri its highly profitable but economically thihealtry depend= (Mad on ail.--Ftath Newsweek. PERSIAN PUNCH 3,4 cup sugar 1 cup water 21/2 cups lime juice 1412 cups loganberry juice. 1 cup white grape juice 1 cup crushed. pineapple with. juice S sprigs of mint Boil sugar and water together for 5 minutes; cool. Add fruit juices and pineapple with juice and chill thoroughly. Pour over finely crushed ice in tall frosted glasses; top each glass with mint sprig. * * A spicy taste is added to this Hawaiian punch with. cloves and cinnamon. If you want it pic turesque, use a pineapple spear as a garnish in each glass, HAWAIIAN ruNot• 2 cups water 3/2 cup sugar' 8 Whole cloves 1 stick cinnamon 1 bottle a-- 8-ot. — cranberry juice cocktail 2 6-oz. cans pineapple juice concentrate, diluted 1 battle (28-oz.) ginger ale, chilled. Heat water and spices to. other; simmer gently 5 Min- utee, Chill. Mix remaining ingre- client ,a. strain chilled syrup and add. Pour over ice •and add gin- ger ale just beiot e serving, Mikes 3 quarts, BEE NUISANCE , Lots of people, before this anti-inlet ends, are going to be stung by bees. A solitary jab does little harm, When attacked by a swarm, however, it is a different story, There is only one thing to do, a Govetntrie'tit apiarist advises, and that is to "kith for it, arid take theitee,"' What you must not do is to ..fight the ,beea. TO kill or cripple Single One of those attacking yolf is asking for trouble. the smell Of a crushed bed merely incenses the"others and rouses them' to concentrate With added fury eh the "killer." Nobody gives anything away for nothing nowadays, charity aside. But if you can grow an outsize white marigold this summer, a New York firm will pay $10,000 to the first person to send them seeds. If you can capture a plant bug able to with- stand a dose of dieldrin—twenty- two times more powerful than DDT—an insecticide manufac- turer has a $15,000 reward wait- ing. Are you interested in hair re- . rtorers? An. American wigmaker is so sure that wigs are the only answer to baldness that he has publicly made an offer to pay $10,000 to anyone able to grow hair on his own bald pate, And if you're interested in TV con- struction, a leading aerial manu- facturer has a similar sum wait- ing for anyone able to develop a TV aerial small enough for indoor use, yet powerful enough to provide fringe area reception. Then there's $1,000 waiting for anyone who comes along with a satisfactory "captive cap" for toothpaste tubes. One inventor came up with a cap attached to a spring-clip but the manufac- turers decided that both the cap and the clip could get lost. There's a snag in most of these challenges, in fact, Collected to- gether in a recent survey, they are legally valid but mostly im- possible to perform at the pres- ent time. Thus the National Dog Welfare Guild, in America, offers $1,000 to anyone who can prove or dis- cover a cure for rabies and some Of the other ailments of man's best friend. In Holland a social research institute offers $6,000 to anyone who can merely find new ways of controlling popu- lation. Perhaps the biggest uncollect- ed reward is the $25,000 on the head of a brown-eyed, dark- haired man wanted in connec- tion. with a New York bank rob- bery of five years ago, Probably Johnnie Mazziotta has long since left America. Worth $25,000 to anyone, he may have sat beside you in the train and he must be somebody's next-door neighbour! aiaa SUPERCHAIN SMOKER Puffing Up' ..itOrtni`thiSin ;heart' pump Conaumea cigarettes. atiperahainagniaking apeeds Notismoker DOOM Sutton, a Mitatieapolla.Horieywell engineer, IlIghta; 'Up another for the voracious Metalline. in a sealed roan Where alealgiat faa ,electronie airatiedining equipment are tested. 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