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The, attractive, blende New
tealand girl screamed in tee-
ter when the two Indian leery"
skivers threw theneeelves upon
her as she cycled down the lone.
ty jungle road, But there was
he one to hear her cries,
For minutes that seemed like
hours she struggled and fought
with the two men, "I was ter-
rified," she says. "Then, just as
I kreew I couldn't last much
longer, the twice-weekly bus
suddenly pulled up beside us,
"It couldn't have come at a
better time, The two men were
11(eared, jumped into their lorry
end drove off."
But police eaught them seven-
teen miles down the road, and
Louise Sutherland, 29-year-old
nurse on a lone cycle tour round
the world, was the only Euro-
pean present when the two
Men were sentenced to six years'
imprisonment.
That was only one of many
adventures that befell Louise on
her amazing journey. She went
Inside a sheikh's harem in the
Mesopotamian desert . . was a
trespasser in a "forbidden" mos- -t;
que in Baghdad . . , and was
swept away by floods in the
Canadian Rockies,
A broken romance started her
off on her world trip, she- said
recently. "That was in New Zea-
land, at my home in Dunedin.
"At the age of twenty-one I
was through with men for ever.
bought my ticket to London
end set out to seek adventure."
Louise did private nursing in
Soho for a year to save money
for her trip. In the summer of
1951 she set out for Europe "on
a perfectly ordinary bicycle,"
It was in Greece that she first
ran into trouble, "I didn't have
st visa for Turkey. Rather than
hang around for two months
waiting for one, I tried to cycle
&cross the border without it."
Turkish police in Edirne es-
corted Miss Sutherland back into
Greece, where she finally took
IL boat to Haifa, In Israel.
"On the boat, my cabin was
raided and all my money stolen,"
she recalls. "When I landed at
Haifa there was a freight charge
of £4 to be paid on my bicycle.
I had only a few shillings, so the
company confiscated the ma-
Chine until I could raise the
gash."
"I worked in an Arab hospi-
tal for several months — the
only white woman on the staff.
When I had earned enough to
get my bike out of hock, I hit
the road again — to the Leban-
on."
Working at a TB sanatorium
there, Louise's no-romance cam-
paign came to an abrupt halt
She became engaged to a charm-
ing Arab doctor, Louise laugh-
ed. "He was the first of three
fiances I collected on my way
round the world,"
When the romance with the
Arab doctor ended. Louise con-
tinued' on her way to Baghdad.
Before she got there she was in-
vited into a sheikh's harem in
the Mesopotamain desert.
But there was no chance of
her being asked to stay. The
sheikh's four wives and in-
numerable concubines were all
bemoaning the fact that they
SALLY'S SALLISS
'This is the friend you said
you were bringing home fee
dinner?"
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line. Production of her sleek, 1R.V 1,..0sKr,s,,,Ilice„tilet qfitca in baFkground wavinterrupted long
enough, for Liz to sashay down thN5ssemPly,Q1ipe RA LK4wah, The perfectly_ 'reconditioned
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SUDS WINTRY WEATHER• — Soa
tands of sUbutiocin sinks paint
skirts of Chicago. Such foarting
plant engineers.
bad lost favour with their lord
and Mester,
"It appeared;' Louise explain-
ed. "that the Sheikh had become
an addict of Hollywood cowboi
films, He was spending all his
spare time at the local cinema."
In Baghdad, Arab friends in-
vited Louise to den Moslem garb
end accompany them to prayers
a huge golden mosque,
"I had to keep lifting the
yashmak I was wearing to see
what, was going on. When we get
outside, my friends told me that,
if I had been discovered,
would have been torn to 'Pieces.
The mosque was the holiest
Moslem shrine in the East and
strictly out of bounds to infidels,
meaning me!"
By the time Louise hart reach-
ed Bombay her fame had spread,
before her. On arrival she was
wined and dined by the Press
and rushed in front of micro-
phones and newsreel cameras,
"It was fun being a celebrity.
1 was taken out to dinner by
Ashok Kumar, India's answer to
Clark Gable, and was guest of
honour at a party thrown by
the Maharajah of Gwalior."
Three weeks later came the
adventure in the jungle between
Bombay and New Delhi when
she was attacked by the two
Indian lorry drivers.
For a few days after that she
paid heed to friendly warnings
to cancel her trip. But then,
lumping them with other well-
mentioned forecasts of danger,
she climbed back on to her bi-
cycle.
"I wanted to prove two
things," she said. "For myself,
that I hadn't lost my nerve. And
to the people of. India, that I
wouldn't judge them all by, one
isolated incident.
"In New Delhi, I collected my
second fiance. I won't mention
his name. He was way up in the
Indian Foreign Office. When his
superiors heard about the en-
gagement, they didn't ask any
questions — they just posted him
off into the wilds of Africa to
one of their more remote em-
bassies!"
Trouble still dogged Louise's
footsteps. Just as she was about
to leave Calcutta for Burma, an
urgent cable from home told her
that her father was resperately
ill and she returned to New
Zealand.
For twelve months she worked
at home. Then, eager to con-
tinue her round-the-world tour,
she sailed for Fiji, Hawaii and
Vancouver.
A fortnight later, Louise was
camping in the foothills of the
Rockies when it began to rain.
"Pandemonium broke loose," she
recalls. "The wind just tore my
tent out of the ground. I did
my best to pack everything away
into my cycle trailer. There was
thunder, lighting and the rain
came down in torrents. I didn't
know what to do, The road was
flooded with water, but I just
had to get to the nearest town.'
For the next four hours,
Louise, cycled desperately, "By
the time I did reach a town the
water was almost up to the hub
of my bicycle. Everything in my
trailer was ruined.
When she arrived in. New York
Louise was broke. again. "I
booked a ticket on the Queen
Mary to sail to England, I didn't
know how I was going to raise
the fare! Then, with two days to
spare, I was invited to appear
on a TV quiz show.
"The first few questions were
fortunately simple, and as goon
as I had reached 200 dollars —
the amount of the fare — I re-
tired."
It was mid - winter when
Louise docked at Southhamp-
ton.
She had cycled entirely around
the world — alone — the first
girl ever to have done so.
"Those genuine ivory carving's
you sold me last week turned out
to be imitation."
"T can't understand it--unless
the elephant had a false tooth.''
FETCH THE MISTLETOE — Fair-
fax Smothers is Poinsettia
Queen for '58. The "southern"
beauty is shown with an arm-
load of the Christmas flowers
at Cypress Gardens.
Ascertaining
Man's Worth
What is a man worth? The
chemist would, say that the hum-
an body, if reduced_ to its prin-
cipal chemicals, would be worth
about 98 cents. But the Scripture
raises a question. Our thought
for today is that question as
created in the words of Matthew
10:31—Ye are of more values
than many sparrows. Thus man
may be worth more than 93
cents,
The nuclear physicist would
say that the atoms in a man
contain a potential energy of
more than eleven million kilo-
watt hours per 'pOund of body
weight. Thus a man would be
worth about $85 million.
Then again, in the realm of
military might or political pow-
er, a man might be worth the
equivalent of a nation.
One could go on and on and
yet be unable to evade the truth:
A man's worth depends on how
we look at him.
In the sight of God the true
value of the individual is not
measured by chemicals, kilowatt
hours, or political signi Eicance.
God values a man' by his re-
lationship with destiny and
eternity, A- man is worth very
little if he is not in the will of
God. He is worth very much ei
he is in the will of God.
If you dedicate this day, your
mind, your talents, and your
heart to the purpose of God and
to the service of your fellow
men, your worth is immeasur-
able. Jesus always measured a
man by the services he might
render which could extend the
kingdom Of God.
Tonight it should be our re-
quest that our Father keep be-
fore is his estimate of our worth
and that He help us live today
and each as sons and daughters
of a King. May He help us in-
clude that which is spiritual and
eternal in our scale of values.
—The Everett(Washington)
Dane,.
IT ALL Mfl'ENDS
In a naval vessel the officer of
the watch asked the starboard
look-out what he would do if a
'Man tell overboard,
"I would yell, 'Mae over-
board'," he replied.
The officer then asked what
he Would do if ati officer fell
overboard.
The lOok-ett. was silent for a
niontent, then asked: "Which oft
eider, sir?"
NNE. .WIT1-4 CARO'
Pancakes are becoming versa-
tile enough to serve for any meal
of the day. If, you want to ,make
any rolled pancake, use a regu-
lar whiteflour recipe with eggs
in it. Have the batter of the con-
sistency for the pancakes to
spread thin on the griddle, and
place them on paper towels as
soon as they are done so• that
all excess fat will be' removed.
Whether you roll the pancakes
around a paste or around one of
several fruits (a filling made
with sweet cherries is a favorite
for this), you can produce a dra-
matic effect by dipping cubes of
sugar into lemon flavoring and:,
then lighting with a match. The
effect is best if you place the'
dipped cubes around the edges
of your platter.
* • e
The manager of a men's club e
famous for its fine. food gave
me this recipe for paste around
which to roll such pancakes
writes Eleanor Richey Johnston
in The Christian Science Moni-
tor',
"Make a cream of half pound
sweet butter, half a pound of
sugar, 12 almonds that have been
blanched and. peeled, then 'dried
in a slow, oven and chopped fine,
a half dozen stale macaroons
dried and chopped, and grated
peel of two oranges and several
tablespoons fruit juice Blend all
to a smooth paste and put in a
jar and cover with waxed paper.
Refrigerate. Far the pancakes,
make a thin batter of 2/4 cup
flour, 3/4 cup milk and 1 egg.
Make into pancakes 4-41/2 inches
in size. Do not let pancakes crisp.
Spread each cake with a gener-
bus spoonful of the paste, using
a spatula or silver knife to spread.
Roll. Place on metal platter,
sprinkle with a little powdered
sugar, and slip under, broiler for
a few minutes."
* *
Breakfast, pancakes are made
.with a thicker batter. Serve them
with butter and syrup and with
sausage or bacon on the side,
Serve them as a sandwich, if you
desire, with the bacon or saus-
age between 2 pancakes and
syrup on top; or serve them
buttered in a stack with a
poached egg on top of the stack;
sauce if yothe!earnily likes them
sweet,
* *
SOUR MILK PANCAKES
Ph cups pancake mix
eet teaspoon soda
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk to which 11/2 tea-
spoons vinegar has been
added.
Combine soda with pancake
mix. Add milk and egg. For a
thin pancake, add a little water
as it thickens, * •
Would you like to know how
to make old-fashioned flannel.
cakes? Mrs. Beryl Martel writes.
"When the cold winds off Lake
Michigan notified us of the ap-
proach of winter when we were
children, Mother got out a crock
and made a starter for flannel
cakes. Buckwheat four was Win-
ter fare and not used in any
other season, This starter was
kept going all winter."
FLANNEL HOT CAKES
1 yeast cake
1 cup warm water
1 tablespoon honey or, sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1/2 cup White limit
Dissolve yeast in the Warm
water and add other ingredients
to make a dough, Keep in a
warm place (it should be made
in .the morning end allowed to
stand until evening), Then add
the following:
1 cup warm Water`
1/2 cup buckwheat tiotir
3/e Cup White flour
You filey now Use this batter
for Cakes, but be sure to Save
at least 1 cup for your starter.
Keep this itt Cool plate, but
be ante- it doesn't freeze.
Next time you want to have
flannel cakes, take starter train
cool place and let stand at roarri
temperature overnight. Then add:
I cup warm Water
1 tableSPOOri henejf ar SiigsJi
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1/2 cup white flour
"This starter iS strong enough
to doul2le or treble the amount
of the batter. If you like to add
fat to the batter, remove starter
before adding ite. I serve 'these
with either bacon or sausage and
use about 2 tablespoons of the
bacon or sausage fat in the bat-
ter," writes Mrs. Martel.
* *
. Closely akin to pancakes are
fritters, and a cherry fritter re-
cipe was sent by Mrs. Mary Wall,
,who writes, "these fritters are
:delicious served.with baked ham,
as well as for dessert with sauce
and 'whipped cream added. I
serve two of them ,on the plate,
as they are small.
CHERRY FRITTERS'
1 medfum-size can sour cherries
1/2 .cup sugar
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
% 'teaspoon salt
2 eggs, beaten.
Milk
Add sugar to cherries in pan
and cook 5 minutes; • drain and
save juice. Put flour, baking pow-
der and salt in bowl; add eggs
and drained cherries. Add enough
milk to make a thick batter
(amount depends on size of eggs).
Drop by spoonfuls into hot, deep
fat and cook until done; drain
on paper towels.
g,
Anybody made popcorn balls
lately? Of course the youngsters
love Ahern, and those-not-so-
y,Oeirig have been known. to reach
fere seconds when , no one was
•looking, •
Here's one way. For seven cups
of popped corn, mix in a sauce-
pan a cup of sugar, % cup of
water, 1/ cup light corn syrup, a
teaspoon of salt, and about 1/4 cup
of butter. Cook until 'a candy
thermometer says• 250°F.,. or un-
ti few' dropS fa= a hard ball
'Ivehen 'dropped' rn -cold water.
"(Hope' you knOw nib's surely
!than -I' do 'when a hard ;ball is
diard enough!) Remove from the
heat and, add "a •teaspeon„of
Then"Polk a thin stream
oVefethe , popped corn, stirring
constantly-,tornix well.' Shape
into,.balls.. wtth • buttered, hands,
and ,don't be. surprised, to find
yburseli thoePighly Stuck up, be-
fer'd you
Seven cups of popPed corn
well. make 12 to• 15 large balls.
Remember that one „cup,. un-
popped, makes about 5 cups of
the, popPecl product.
"FLOURS" — "Flowers`'' held by
Oirl Scout leodei.
Hdleker,* are really -"flours."
They're' twists: of readymik
cUit dough on green sticks, arid
are intended for quick baking ,
aver camp or fireplace blaze,
An old trick to Scouts, it's .a never'
trick for' suburbanites:
The '"fast Ovn"
craze,
'They stood facing each other
in the long, green, room, the
Western bad man — swarthy,
evil, six-guns at the ready —
and the hero, a coiled spring,
poised on the balls of his feet,
slightly bent forward, his single-
action Colt nestling in his hol-
ster,. Suddenly the hero dropped,
his right hand, drew, and fired.
And 4 voice said flatly; "Forty
one-hundredths of a second.
Not had."
For the green room was a
shooting' gallery; the bad man,
a wooden silhousette; the hero
— from 9 a,m, to 5 — a Chicago
supermarket clerk. And the bul-
let that he fired was made of
wax,
Through half of the nation
last month, otherwise mature
men were playing the same
game; Seeing how quickly they
could draw and fire a six-gun.
The fad had started on the West
Coast; it was now crackling
through Chicago; Everywhere,
the draw-and-fire buffs were
organizing "gentle-draw clubs."
"Thirteen ' one-hundredths of
a second is the record at my
place,"'said a man named James
Bell one day, last week. Bell
operates a combined gun-shop"
shooting-gallery, which houses
SHADOW
OVER
BERLIN
THE CHILDREN CAME OUT —
infirm person's and refugees
airlift.
Frontier Quick Draw Club
in cbingo's suburban .Franklin
Park.
"That's better than the best
time of the Old West grin
slingers, and it's 24/100tits of
seeolid, better than Ilttgh O'Brian
.raid he could draw .and fire," •
The fastest Of the old-time bad
men are credited with a time ot
130/100ths of a second; 013rian
who play Wyatt Earp on telew
vision, is credited with, 37.
All sorts of males .are feeelle-
Ato. by this newest
pelf's '70-member club includes
a truck driver, a factory mana,
ger, office clerks, university
students, gun collectors,. firemen
and policemen. And all take this
very seriously..
What is its fascination?
"I guess it's part of .mart's
secret urge to pit himself
against the bad mar4" said
George Virgines, president of
club, a truck driver when he't.
net playing at• being the fastest
draw west of the Pecos. "Ever
since I saw my first Western,
movie, guns have' always been
interesting to. me. I always
thought it would be fun to see
how fast I could .draw, You see
a cowboy on 'TV in a duel .and
you say: 'Gee, I could show
him!' And here at the club you'
can do it and not feel funny
about — from 1‘1W,SiWEEK.
ps and detergent's from thou..
this Wintry picture on the but-
it a frarniliar sight to flitration
A
SHADOW OVER BERLIN — West
Berlin, some 100 miles within
East Germany, is the latest
pawn to be placed in play by
Russia on the chessboard of the
Cold War. Intimations that an-
other blockade could occur
raise grim memories of the days
in '48-'49, when Berlin's life—
and world peace — hung from
the wings of the West's airlift.
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OPERATION "VITTLES" — C-47 Globemaster, above, joined the
'48-'49 airlift to beleaguered Berlin,
N.7Y BERLIN
4.1#
11PF T
EAST
. GERMANY
•YN 4"1"4.'
'48 -'49
WEST
GERMANY
Thouscliti'ds,"Of'Ehtlriren, 'aged and
were fldWi0o0r ,ot , Berlin" by the
SCORE- FOR FREEDOM — Men of the airlift Kept acore. 'fatal
1,343;,215 tons of food and supplies, Aptil s48.Siof, '49:
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