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This ancient capital is today
full of priests and pagodas and
Shrines, There are 1,540 Buddhist
temples and 231 Shinto shrines.
Shintoism is a secondary
but an extremely active one,
It should not, however, be
aupposed that Kyoto is now a
dead city -- a museum piece. It
le the second largest city in
Japan, ranking next to Tokyo,
with a population of a million
and a quarter and has a great
manylndustries, such as lacquer
ware, porcelain, silk-weaving,
lrocades and bronze. Most of the
oveliest kimonos of Japan are
made there.
The town is surrounded by
hills which, are dotted by cha-
lets very much like those you
see in Switzerland, In' fact, but
for the pagodas which lift their
many-serried roofs above the
trees, you might think you
were in Europe.
When I was there John Wayne,
the American film actor, was in
the same hotel, with a company
of thirty „artists 'and siboUt fifty
film techniCians. They were mak`!.
!rig a film about Americah
eonsul-general who, a hundred
veers ago, fell In love 'with
geisha girl. It..-Je called "The
Urbarian and the Geisha."
In addition to thisi enormous
American invasion •there were
large numbers of Arneiicaii tour
lets In the town, most of them'
elderly women, writes R. J. Min-
no,' In "Tit-Bits."
A wonderful sight Is the
mountain 'of Fujiyarna, only
sixty miles outside Tokyo. My
plane passed fairly -close to it
and it is quite awe-inspiring
from the air. It is nearly 12;500
feet high, the highest mountain
in Japan. It is almost a perfect-
ly symmetrical cone and the
people regard it as sacred. They
make pilgrimages to its top wheh
It is free of snow, which is for
only two months of the summer.
It is in fact an extinct vol-
cano; the crater is 2,000 feet
across, but you get no hint of
this from the drawings of the
mountain which are put out in
pictures and are used also to
decorate many articles manu-
factured in Japan.
You can see too many shrines
and temples. Your mind gets
muddled with it all, so I refused
to do the full escorted tour by
bus, I selected instead the four
most interesting places and went
to them by myself.
One of them was the house of
a nobleman, built of wood and
paper 800 years ago, with a moat
all round it. Very few private
houses of that age survive in
Europe; here was a perfect ex-
ample and I could visualize ex-
actly how people lived at that
time.
About an hour away by bus is
a still earlier capital of Japan
called Nara. This is a place
chiefly of shrines and temples,
and has the atmosphere of one
of our smaller cathedral towns.
Right in the middle of it is
a vast unfenced deer park,
stretching for 13,000 acres. The
Tie Your Bad Luck
Tq A Tree !
Tow) *as been the capital
of .raPan for less than a hundred
Years., It has grown to its vast
size within that short time and
is now linked completely with
tokohama, Japan's biggest sea-
port, which is seventeen miles
It oin the centre of. Tokyo,
Previously, for more than a
thousancl years, the capital of
the country was Kyoto, right in,
the heart of the main island. The
tourney by air fromTekyo took
t
e more than three hours. It is,
fact, half as far again as Paris
g from London.
SUMMER TRAGEDY AVERTED—AnOther in the annual long list
of summer ,drowning t raged ies was aVerted when six:young .in
sWimeri went, to the aid of Judy McKenna • in Boston. The
Sbuth Boston girl is lifted Osier a fend into 'the waiting arms
Tc Of police.
deer eauxe out of it and roam
through the streets, nuzzling up
against you, hoping to be fed,
You pan crick your neck in
Nara by gazing up at the largest
bronze Buddha in the world, It
is seventy-one feet high. The
face is three times as tall as the
average man's height -- seven-
teen feet; each eye is nearly
four feet wide; the thumb is, 5
ft. 3 in. long, The devout were
lighting joss and' setting
theM up in front of the Buddha,
much as one lights candles in
France and Italy,
But the Shinto shrines, are the
most picturesque. Each is ap-
preached through at least one
saffron-oolOured wooden arch-
way, about ten feet high, made
not circular but of cross bars,
One of the shrines has a thous- ,
and such arches, each put UD by
a man hoping to acquire merit.
The arches are called Tories and
the vista provided by them is
most attractive and colourful.
All the Shinto shrines, which
are in fact temples, have girls
who sing and dance as part of
the service. Some of the girls are
extremely pretty; they accom-
pany themselves by beating on
arums and cymbols:
All round, on bushes and trees,
one can see little knots of paper
— they look like the twists of
paper some women in England
use for curling their hair. All
these papers represent bad luck.
The people of the East are
extremely superstitious; they
frequently consult astrologers,
Whenever they are told of some
ill fortune that is likely to befall
them, they instantly write out
the evil• tidings, go to a temple
and tie the paper on to a tree or
a bush. That is their way •of get-
ting rid of it.,
Japanese pronunciation oenur
language .differs from. the Chin-
'In `it way. The Chin-
ese turn all our is into l's. The '
Japanese do' the opposite. They
• tifin '111:1.14. !Mo. r'.. A cloak='
room,,,bectimes a "Croakroom."
An assistant In the BOAC office
was talking to me about my
"Fright." As I wasn't nervous
1 wondered what• ,he meant and
then realized he' was talking
about the .time ..of my. flight! At
the camera- shop I was offered
"A wide atirrection"—meaning
selection. But the word "grass-
is" Pizzled me in the 'plane. The
Japanese sitting beside, me meant
he had to put on his glasses to
read the menu.
The Japanese language is apt
to phzzle a, foreigner, I picked up
a few essential words so that I
could order a meal in a restaur-
ant, •but the words I learnt were
inadequate. They required an
"0" to be stuck in front of them.
"What's the '0' for?" I asked a
friend. "Oh, that's for 'Honour-
able.' You can't just order an
egg or a plate of ham. You have
to say 'Bring me an 'honourable
egg and an honourable plate
of ham'."
From this journey into the
interior I returned to Tokyo by
train. I found the train extreme-
ly clean (as in China) and sup-
erbly comfortable. All the attend-
ants were girls. They were dress-
ed in sky-blue uniforms, close
fitting, with white overlapping
collars and cuffs.
The meals were swiftly serv-
ed, for there was one attendant
for each passenger in the dining
car. As a result they got three
services in within the hour. A
slow eater seated beside me had
his plate snatched away before
he was finished; they could net
afford to wait!
Then there's the student who
changed his major from dentistry
to real estate. He still want to
drill—but for oil.
*
The fresh vegetable is often
passed by for, to many, it seems
difficult to prepare, when actu-
ally the preparation is very
simple. Trim the top third with
a sharp knife (or scissors),
which, will terhove the thorny
tips. Then remove the outer
course leaves and 'trim stem to
within an inch of the cluster. • • * *
Wash thoroUghly in cold, salt-
ed water, then plaee in a full
kettle of boiling, salted water.
Cook the large artichokes from
30 to 45 minutes, smaller ones
15 to 20 minutes, Remove from
Water. Turn upside down to
drain. Serve either hot or cold. * * •
Many are the tempting ways
that artichokes may be served:
in salads, soups, stuffed with
meat, poultry, or shellfish, with
scrambled eggs, crisp fried, or
pickled. Individuals have even
made desserts of this tematk-
able vegetable. * • *
After having cooked a num-
ber of the small chokes,
may mash the leaves into a pulp,
then. make a pie by following a
simple recipe, as for pumpkin
pie. Using the pulp in a cake
mixture results in a moist, -deli-
cately flavored cake.
The Central California Anti=
choke Growers Association sug-
gests:
Stuffed Artichokes; Raked
6 medium-sized or large airti-
Chokes
111 pound ground lean beef
IA cup chopped onion
Oil (olive Or salad oil)
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
cup oft bread crumbs
1 egg
Salt
Fenner
DaSit of allspice
1 tomato
I tablespoons lemon juke
Aftet trithming and washing,
spread i#rtreliokes OVA by 1)1Se-
irig upside &Wit On table and
pressing stein ends firmly. With
teaspoon, dig out centre leaves
and fuzzy portions. Iltowli beet
and onion in about 2 tebleSpooila
olive or other cooking oil, it'd
move from heat, stir in paisley;
bread trutiihs, egg, 1 "J' teaSpbbn
Pz!pper, and allspice'. Fill
centres of Chokes with -meat..
mixture. PlaCe artichokes in
deep baking dish; top each with
'thin slice of tomato. 'Put one-
ihch .,boiling Water in baking
pan; add lemon juice. Stand
artichokes in pan, .tdP leiter"-
ously with, salt and, oil; cover
closelY_Eake in m'od'erate oven
(350°F.), about 1 to 11/2 hours 'or
until tender. Serves 6.
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We.iterit Salad BOW!
8 small cooked artichokes
1 small head lettuce
1 bunch Romaine
2 green onions
3/1. cup salad oil
2 tomatoes
2 tablespoona garlic - flavored
vinegar
Salt '
Pepper
1 hard-cooked egg '
After trimming •and washing,
place in boiling water with 1/2
teaspoon of salt. Cover closely
and cook 15 to 20 minutes, Drain
upside down and chill, Break
salad greens in bite-sized pieces
into salad bowl. Add halved
artichokes and thinly sliced on-
ion. Sprinkle with oil and toss
lightly until greens are thor-
oughly coated. Add tomato
wedges, sprinkle with yinegar
and salt and pepper to taste.
Toss again. Top with wedges or
slices of egg. Serves 8.
*
Artichoke Egg Scramble
3 small artichokes
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons chopped onion
6 eggs
1,4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk
After trimming and washing,
cut trimmed artichokes into thin
lengthwise slices. Melt butter
and add artichokes, Cover and
cook slowly until 'tender, about
15 minutes. Stir frequently to
prevent; browning, Add onion a
few minutes before artichokes
are tender. Beat eggs with salt
and milk and 'pour over arti-
chokes. Cook slowly until Set,
stirring from the bottom as mix-
ture cooks, Serves 3 to 4. t
REAL ROLE Suzanne Voyda,
17, in a Toronto Way, takes the
,role of a Huri,o,ciricin refugee
trying to adjust to life in Can-
ada. It should be a cinch—she'i
a refugee front the 1956
clarion revali.
Stamp-Out Stickers
Proliferate
Heinember not long ago those
pesky little sports cars began
appearing with window stickers
urging all tinyecar drivers, to
rise up and "Help stamp out
Cadillacs?"
Well, the whole thing is now
out of hande at least in southern
California, The place is being
buried under a. heavy snowfall
of car stickers,
Folks who drive Cadillacs
now .driving around, carrying
signs on their broad rear win-
dows urging the quick stamping
out of sports cars,
And some, who belong to
neither chaSs in the Warfare of
,the stickers, are simply urging
that we "Help Stamp Out
People".
probably the cry that comes
from deepest in the heart and
carries the deepest hope, is that
seen recently emblazoned in
bright red paint on' the side of
a vintage 1930 clunker driven
by two teen-age boys. It im-
plored„all to rally around and
'Help Stamp Out Chaperons".
From the "stamp out" sticker
has grown the "made in" sticker.
"Made in Africa by Ants":
one sticker tells its readers.
-"Made in Las Vegas Out of Old
Slot Machine Parts", notessan-
-other. "Made in Pasadena :by
Little Old Ladies", said a sticker.
on a heap* that looked very much
as though, it could have been.
"Made by der Elves in der 'Black
Forest," graces many a German
Volkswagen.
Then there is the broad group
'of apologetic stickers. Usually
.found` on quaint foreign imports
Or old cars, they attempt to ex-
plain things themselves, for
Initance.
"Don't Crush• Me", -says .'orie,
"ItEat Insects". "bon't Laugh",
'brags another, "It's Paid -For".
Another says simply and some-
what mournfully: "We Can't
Afford a,: New One". AnOther,
Welting full confidence, 'Wails
'drivers that, "We Expect a Flat.''
Stay Close".
Then there was that home-
made sign we saw one day
'fashioned from red reflector
tape and enstamped on. the
bymper, nf a quaint little car,
;explaining: "This Is a•Car! Don't
4Iit ID"
7,/here, is also a broad grOup
',Of stickers 'that defy classifica-
tion, writes John C. Waugh,.4in
The Christian. Science Monitor.
"Achtung!" says a Volks-
wagen sticker. "I'm Doing My
Pest to Make Smog", notes one
sticker,undoubtedly dreamed up
in Los' Angeles, "How' About
You?" Another, right up to the
minute with the news of Holly-
wood, says: "Not a Gift From
General Trujillo."
"Not Lost," says another.
"Just Confused," "Shull Car—
LARGE Payments," advises an-
other.
"Pass Quietly," one sign reads,
"Driver Asleep." "Be Nice, I'm
Rich," warns still another.
Anyhow, it has given southern
California motorists a new road
game to play, in which it 'is hot
uncommon to .see cars jockeyng
up behind one another hoping to
see what the sticker iri the back
window says.
However, the laSt car we
sidled up to flashed the portent
of counterrevolution. It said
simply and ominously: "Help
Stamp Out Car Stickers."
Broken Leg
Brought 'Romance
Bells of the- ivy-clad church
ehimed cheerfully and the
August sun shone fiercely, as
the bride emerged on the arm
of her greein and walked to
their waiting car:
On the fringe of the boisterous
crowd was a pale-faced, lovely
girl of twenty-four, She waved
as the car slid away in the di,
rection of the railwaY station,
but the couple, engroSSed in each
other; did' not see her.
For a .few moments' the girl
gazed, wistfully, after the._ car,,
then she walked slowly back te-
ward's her cottage borne at the
other end of the French` Village,.
'to her ailing, bedridden Mother.
As she walked in the intense.
heat she reflected that knit for
her tnOthet's ill the she
might have been the bride Of
the wealthy market gardener
who was now On his way with
his wife to the. Prerich Riviera
forfora fortnight's honeymoon;
The girl could hot help think-
ing that tate had been rather
hard on her, She had lest.,
latiaband because of hersInether's
illness as, and everybody in the
little Freheh ,Village-:kheW. it.
"How titiiiitity. she is,". they
murmured, . 'They knew What: it
Mint have cost the .girl to Say
td the arderiC sWeetheart 'who'
had proposed;, to her in the '
moonlight cloSe to the Cottage'
"No, dear I c'an't marry' 'While
mother is alive.. She neecig 'my
constant care. it's :been like that
'eVer since., father died in a fetid
era: seven ear
!Since turning' down the inat.
-rlage proposal, two other bea
chelors front surrounding vii-
lages had tried in vain to woo
her.
As she approached the cot-
tage the girl was suddenly startl-
ed into action by seeing that
the thatched roof was alight,
She rushed to the home of the
nearest village fireman. Soon the
brigade and farmhands were
fighting, the flames and rescuing
the girl's seventy-year,old mo-
ther who was taken to a neigh-
bour's cottage,
Their own cottage was gutted.
The girl wept as she contem-
plated their grim future. This
new misfortune seemed t o o
Much.
A friendly farmer's wife a
mile away took pity on • them
and proyided them with rooms
at the farmhouse next day.
But yet another misfortune
awaited the girl. She was cross-
ing a rustic bridge later that
week when a rotten plank gave
way and she broke a leg.
Then her luck began to turn.
The young doctor who tended
the leg was a substitute for the
usual village doctor who was
on holiday. He fell in love with
his fair-haired patient.
He proposed a week later, And
when the girl explained that she
could not marry him because
of her mother, he merely smiled.
"I love you, Marie," he said,
"and I will wait until you are
free, if necessary, but perhaps
I can persuade your mother to
alter her mind and crime and
live with us. My sister, a skilled
rurse, Will look .after her."
And so it was that the girl
who seemed to be always dog-
ged by misfortnne found hap-
piness in love and marriage. To-
day, the mother of, three chil-
dren, she declares she's the hap-
piest 'woman in France, And'eher
Mother; well cared for, is con-
tented, too, although still bed-
trdden.
• •,-The A m e r ieafn
miner Nichblas ,Creede used to
say that ,he owed• his 'fortune •
to an accident. He was ',down
'on his luck <when nne'afternoon
'while toiling up a •steep slope,
the mule he rode slipped, -and
trying ''to ' recover _Itself, over-
turned, large piece , rock.
Creede -was amazedtO find
that the underside 'of the rock.
glistened 'Specks'. of 'Silver.
He pegged a eight and in less
than a year had made a silver
fortune of $600,000.
Husband. "I was's —punished
only once when I Was a boy, and
strange 'to sa*Y, it was for felling
the truth."
Wife. "Well, it cured you."
Island. In The
When Prince Philip visited the
lovely, sub-tropical island of
Tresco, one of the Scilly Ie.giti •
about three years ago, he ,cae,
greatly impressed by the safe,
warm beaches and thought what.
A wonderful playground, they-
would make. from time .to time
for Prince Qharlcs and Princess.
Anne,
He is taking the Queen to,
Tresco. this month so that her
Majesty can see for herself this.
island set in a turquoise sea,
About . 150 people live thet P.
Tresco isleesed to. a member of
the Sthith-Dorrien family who•
haye been associated with the
Scillies for nearly 130 years,
Lieutenant-Commander Porrien-
Smith is A. friend of Prince
Philip.
Specially attractive to Prince
Philip are Tresco's facilities for
a sport he loves — sailing. Per
haps Prince Charles will nail.
there with his father in the near
future. The Scilly Isles, appro-
priately enough, are part of the
Duchy of Cornwall and Princv.
Charles, of 'course, is Duke of
Cornwall.
Ancient legend says that the
Land of Lyonesse and that 140.
Scillies are the fabulous Lost
villages and churches lie fa..
thorns deep beneath the sea di-,
siding the islands from the Cor-
nish mainland, Superstitious old
sailors declare that when a sterns
is imminent these bells can 'bay
heard ringing beneath the waves.
as a warning to the islanders.
SIMA THESE DAYS
When, Al ,,Sima pitched' for the
Sentifors and depe Woociling
played -for 'the Yankees; the 'boys-
lived fairly close' to each other
'•in'lieetr—'bY New Jersey suburbs
When =Washington came to New
Sima used to drive Wood:-
ling to the park, then drive hin
home after the game,
One day, the Yanks and Sena-
tors were emb'r'oiled 'in a light
2-1 ball game. In the bottom of
the ninth, Sima ,was just (Alt
frbm victory. With two men oil
`base; WO`Odling` was sent 'u to
pinch hit, You gueSsed it; Weed-
Hng ,hit one 'over* the fence.
The Yankee secretary rushed
out and.asked Gene if he would
take a bow on the postgame TV •
show. Gene said,.sure.
"But what abOut Sima?" ask-
ed the secretary.
Woodling's eyes twinkled. "I
don't think he'll wait for me
this, afternoon,7
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WASH DAY-A tree growi in Brooklyn; 011 l'ight, but 'it's frod.st
ap by the jungle Of clotheslines on *ask tidy, Hein-
trig' th
iiwallowed
e' lady of the house, a husband hands out a' few
thing' to dry from the fire escape of a house On MeborioutA'
Castroville,t a small commun-
ity aitaatea, in ,Monterey Conn, •
ty. 'Calif.; f has ifritly
'Called "the
Artiehoke."Centre of the World."
Only hvo' places are nknown` to
grow this rich, delicately .fla-.
vored vegetable„ commercially:
Italy and Central
In CastroVille, 20 feet above
sea level, within a few miles of
the Pacific Ocean, are found -
ideal climatic conditions — fre-'
quent' fogs, soft sea breezes, and
rich coastal soil, 4 * *
It is the Globe or French arti-
choke, a thistrelille perennial
that covers almost 6,000 acres of
this fertile land In 1922 the first
plants were -introduced. Today
three packing houses are needed
to pack and ship the' abundant
crop. The harvesting season be-
gins about Sept, 1, and continues
until about April 15, with two
main crops during these months
_ —one about Oct. 1, another near
Jan. 1.
Younger Set Fashion Hint