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The Brussels Post, 1958-09-03, Page 2E L T ektue . Andecwa .,,rimeimmm0m..000 110•••••=k ► I ► I 0 ► ► I 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. * • 0, 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 - 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