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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-05-14, Page 2fell Asleep During Gun-Fight of the Ressian Church spangles its three great onion bulbs over the high roofs of Beedgade, Christiansborg and the Nicolas: Church topple giant crowns and high glided balls dizzily to the heavens, Stand at a high window and see these green and gold towers and spires appearing and diss appearing in the weaving of a morning mist, one moment gilded by the sun, the sleet sud- denly vanished — and one may fr I properly diminutive among a race of immense and decorous, chessmen striding formally, gravely, the streets of a dream. — From "The Icicle and the Sun," by William Sansom. With the.referees Bandali set out to find Ms 4c,Ivorsury. They dis- covered hilly eventually, sound • asleep under a trees where he'd rested, with 'his gun beside him, "Real fool of a feller," was Ran- doll's pithy comment. And to show that there were rya 'bard feelings, a few days, later, at a 12ticra)Q: bunt, Jerry. Randall saved the life of the Kid when he was thrown from. his horse and attacked by wounded buffalo. Borroloola was an oasis well and truly in the outbacks. its in, habitants managed to 'live quite happily within, the limits set by the commissioner of theorise tax ,at that time, relates Douglas Lockwood, th6 income of a man had to exceed $300 to be liable for taxation, Consequently, Borroloola was remarkably free from letters bearing the imprint of the In- land, Revenue department, But Roger Jose had a near miss. It was in the interests of na- tive welfare and pastoral indus- try, says the author,. that some. kind of a road should be main- tained between Anthony's La- goon station, 200 miles distant, and Borroloola, The fact that this road, no more than a bush track, was passable was due to Jose, who dragged a grader over it once a year, At the completion of oree "road-making" session, Roger Jose informed the authorities at, Darwin that the job had been carried out. This tactical error resulted in a cheque for $1000. being sent to Jose—a sum liable to taxation! He was fearful of the result and promptly returned the cheque with the request that the sum payable be amended to $300 exactly, After an exchange of correspondence the authorities acceded to the request, thus po- tential official intruders were kept off, and the peace of Bor- roloola remained undisturbed. IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING — Jack Jensen, in cabin of cruiser, and son, Ricky, 8, work on the 21-foot welded steel hull that outgrew their garage. Says the elder Jensen: "I was going to make the garage bigger, anyway." That's what the man says. Man With The X-Ray Eyes Introducing the man with the XsraY eyes, That's what they call lynxseyed Alfred Dias, thirty fur-year-old Cesterlas Officer at the .Tan Smuts international air- Port, Johannesburg. Why? Because he is an age detector of smuggled articles. He always knows when a person has something to hide, How? By simply gazing steadily into his, eyes. He has found this method almost infallible. "X-ray" Dias once caught an American evangelist who failed to report diamond rings he had purchased ii. South Africa. Then there was the businessman living in Jo,burg who tried to smuggle $7,500 worth of diamonds out of the country; and the Portuguese merchant who attemped to smuggle $5,000 worth of curren- cy into the country. Dias spotted them — by looking at their eyes. So good is he at thwarting smugglers that he has paid for his house, motor car and holidays from rewards he has receved for this work during the past few years. The customs officers at the air- port get a bonus of up to one- third of the value of the contra- band they confiscate. World's Most Beautiful Sight Copenhagen Sea-Salt City A, bewildering map allows Denmark as, very roughly, three pieees of. land divided by two Vertical idseasbelts. To the left Jutland, springing from the mainland of Europe:* in the mid- dle the rich cluster called Pi.rnen (Fyn: and to the right Zealand and its islands, with the capital Copenhegen. Of four million Danes, one million live in Copen- hagen: so whether you arrive by sea from England to Jutland, or from Germany to Zealand, or via the North Pole to Kastrup airport, the capital must finally be the place of destination and, for present purposes, our right point of departure. Copenhagen is a salt-sea city where deep-draught steamships berth hard up against the main streets. Through the delicate rococo quarterings of the Royal Amalienborg Palace, there can be seen the giant red and black funnel of an ocean-going liner, painted steel bright against the weathered grey pediments: the King, a sailor himself and mon- arch of a democracy, can, and does, wave from his balcony as these great ships sail off into the Baltic night. As you wander among the gracious old houses by the quays, past great Christiansborg Castle that houses the Government, and then through much of the centre of this city — it seems that there is a ship at the end of every second street. Against a graceful copper spire the rigging of sail- boats describes a sharp callig- raphy that in other cities would be made by the winter branches of a tree; and on the green lawns of the Rosenborg park, white seagulls strut the part of pigeons. , Ships. And spires. The copper spires of Copenhagen are the city's other fable. Castles, churches, and other buildings of eminence vie to strike with bright verdigris the grey winter sky, the summer's high blue: these green writhings are dreamlike as the ships — the spire of the copper-roofed Bourse is made up of dragons' tails en- twined upwards to end in a point of unique delicacy, the spire of Christianshavn Church wreathed with a gilded copper staircase spiralling to the sky, the spire • Insured Against Being Jilted! ,,...orMSPEGew ASIAN HUNGARY — Commu- nist Chinese aggression in Ti- bet is causing pressure to mount in India for Prime Min- ister Nehru to take another look at his policy of neutrality. Political leaders have expressed fears that the Reds may be planning to invade the King- dom of Nepal and the Indian protectorates of Sikkim and Bhutan. Newsmop spots this explosive area of the world. fruit syrup. Pour thin layer of gelatin in ring mold. Arrange half-wheels of oranges and al- mond halves in this gelatin. Chill half of remaining gelatin mix- ture until slightly thickened. Fold in well-drained fruit cock- tail. Pour over thin layer in ring mold. Chill remaining gel- atin mixture until slightly thickened. Beat egg white until stiff and gradually beat in re- maining 2 tablespoons sugar. Fold into remaining gelatin mix- ture. Blend in flavoring and tint lightly with food coloring. Pour over fruit layer. Chill until firm. Unmold. Serves 5-6. * Celery is very much in the foreground this spring as'a plen- tiful product. Here's a recipe for spiced celery and when you consider, in how many spiced pickle recipes celery, appears, spiced celery is perfectly logical. To prepare it, wash celery and cut diagonally — 3 cups. Place in a saucepan' with a bag contain- in 1 teaspoon mixed pickling spices, and add water to cover. Cook just until the celery is tender, and be careful not to overcook, for it won't take very long, When done, remove the spice bag and serve the celery hot, This will make about 4 servings. Wedded Bliss? Pearl White, attractive star of some of the early silent film thril- lers, thought so much of her dim- ple that she valued it as highly as $50,011,0. A young man engaged to a rich girl insured himself for $100,000 against the risk of being jilted and losing both wife and fortune. Insurance companies are natur- ally careful about what risks they accept, but sometimes they make mistakes. A young married man, for instance, once insured against triplets. The insurance company discovered that triplets were un- known in each family, and work- ed out the odds against them at 500 million to one, With such odds they did not charge a big premium, but later they wished they had. Triplets arrived two years later. The driver of the truck braked to a sudden stop, "Don't look now, you're being followed," he whin Pered urgently to his companion, "Don't Move, Have e gander beside you." And, lying on the track, about two feet from the passenger's boot, was a huge coiled python. The driver, a small, but ex- ceedingly tough and wiry man, clambered from his seat. Non- ehalantly he circled the python, then suddenly darted in, grabbed its tail and ran rapidly away from the head while the snake uncoiled. slowly, at first, the man , swung the sixteen-foot python around his head. The third turn had produced sufficient momen- tum for the man to bang the snake's head against a tree, kill- ing it stone dead. "Saves a bullet," he said, casu- ally, as he returned to the driv- er's seat. That anecdote, one of many related by the passenger on that trip, Douglas Lockwood, is told in his entertaining book, '-'Croco- diles And Other People", As an outback correspondent in the tropical Northern Terri- tory of Australia, responsible for a "beat" of some 523,000 square miles, Douglas Lockwood has a fund of good stories. Into the author's Darwin office one day came Jerry Randall, an adventurer who had spent his post-war years shooting croco- dile, buffalo and other game he could either eat or sell, Accompanied by a mischievous twinkling of eyes, Randall gave a commentary of a gun duel re- cently forced upon him — for- tunately with an unlooked for and happy ending. After a gin and rum drinking sessicin with a couple of pals, one of them, known as the Kid, started a drunken argument. The Kid concluded their talk by take ieg a wild swing ,at Randall. The latter was obliged to floor him. This affront to his dignity caused the Kid to throw out a challerige to shoot it out, which was ac- cepted. At the request of the owner of the tin hut where the drink- ing party had been held, the contestants went outside for their battle, to a clearing close by the hut. The owner was to ac',es referee; the duelists were to stand back to back, walk to the opposite ends of the clearing, then walk back and shoot on sight. 'Visibility in the moonlight was about twenty-five yards. The referee gave the signal to start. Off staggered the Kid; but Randall, -at the cunning-drunk stage, 'squatted behind an ant- hill and waited. He waited for about half an hour. There was, no sign of 'the Kid, so he went off to bed. The next morning, in company A man who had travelled all over the world for thirty years was asked: "What is the most beautiful sight you have ever seen?" He replied, without hesi- tation; "Daffodils growing in mil- lions in the Scilly Isles. To me it seemed that the fields were covered with a cloth of gold," That was a fine and well de- served tribute to these lovely yellow flowers. With their glory of green and gold, daffodils in spring find their way into more homes than any other flower. The daffodil is not only one of our most popular flowers — it's among the most ancient. Egyptian mummy cases have disclosed dry specimens of a var- iety of daffodils dating back, it's estimated, at least 4,000 years, Some authorities think we are indebted to the Phoenicians for introducing many species of daf- fodils into Great Britain when they came to Cornwall for tin. At any rate, the climate and soil of Cornwall suit these flow- ers, so it's possible that these imported bulbs have been per- petuated. The first daffodil show in Bri- tain took place in the spring of 1893 in Birmingham. It was at the Birmingham Daffodil Show sixty years ago—Monday, March 28th, 1899—that the famous King Alfred daffodil was introduced to the horticultural world. It created a sensation and was awarded the highest honour — a first-class certificate. During that same year a hundred King Al- fred bulbs were sold at five guineas each. Although many thousands of new daffodils have been added to the classified list since then, many experts declare the King Alfred has never been surpassed in excellence. Daffodil lovers may think it strange that it was once con- sidered unlucky to carry a single bloom into the house when these flowers were first in season. There's only one authentic story on record of a woman who actively disliked daffodils. It was told by Sir Herbert Maxwell, who used to visit a Scottish church where the churchyard had a won- derful show of daffodils which was an annual delight to church- goers.. One March Sunday morning when he and others went to church expecting to find the flowers in bloom, they found them mown down and lying in dismal swaths upon the lawn and among the graves. After the ser- vice, Sir Herbert went to the minister to inquire the reason for this outrage. "Oh, it was done by my or- ders," was the explanation, "My wife dislikes yellow which she considers a vulgar colour." There are about 20,000 species of birds in the world, about 800 of them being in the United States and Canada. FOR GLOBAL SPENDING — Purse in the shape of the earth Is made of feather. Continents are embossed on its surface, and it opens along the line of the equator. It was shown at an international leather fair in Offenbach, Germany. ISSUE 20 — 1959 When newlyweds have their first argument, what is it usually about? Your guess is as good as ours, but a marriage guidance expert in the United States de- clares that the first tiff is almost invariably about money. "The chances are seven to one that the young wife's housekeep- ing allowance will cause the first discord," he says. And after that? "Flirting by either party, work, in-laws and drinking are later subjects which lead to argu- ment," he adds. Another marriage investigator in America calculates that the chances of a man marrying a girl with whom .he went to school are only 1 in 70 nowadays. He also found out that for every wife who deserts her husband, one thousand husbands walk out and disappear. "Five per cent of marriages in the United States to-day are the result of mutual courtship, but in twenty per cent of the cases the man courts the woman while in the other 75 per cent ,the woman chases the man," says the investigator. , Light furniture scratches can be concealed by rubbing with boiled linseed oil, turpentine and white vinegar, combined in equal proportions. Deeper scars re- quire special products carried by paint dealers. ADIOS, NEW YORK — Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro waves to a crowd ds he takes leave of New York City. 0 1,4 0 "We have a very special red- ipe recently tested in our kit- then, . It really is a festive production, unmolding like a beautiful, majestic crown, float- ing on a foamy colored layer," wrote a home economist Lein Sunkist who tested this recipe for Gold Crown salad: GOLDEN CROWN SALAD I envelope pinin 'gelatin U. cup fresh leiliOn juice 1 Cup hot Water (or hot fruit juke) 2 orarigeS, cut in half-wheels (1' tablespoons sugar t'etv grains salt' Ali On; syrup from canned' fruit cocktail 1 CUP fruit Coattail 1 egg whits' Few drops peppermint ex't'ract Few droPS reel or green. Coloring' Ain:ind Halves Soften gelatin in lernOti inide and dissolve in hot' liqta in 4 tablespoons sugar, edit end Harvest Of Being Too Lenient Long shadows lay over the newly plowed farmlands when Janice Anne Holmes, 12, a curly-haired English lass, said goodnight to a friend and skip- ped down the lane to her home in. Lincolnshire. She wore a tartan skirt and perky yellow beret with a tassel. She was in a hurry to see "Wagon Train" on TV. She never got to see it. Somewhere along the lane, Janice Anne met a man on a bicycle. More than five hours later — at 2 a.m. — farmhands searching with lanterns found an abandoned bicycle. Not° far away they found Janice Anne's beret in a haystack. Near it they found her body. She had been sexually assaulted, then strangled. The crime was the second of its type within two months in the same area. All Britain was appalled. For Janice Anne's death seemed a grueshme cli- max to a bloody — and sense- less — crime wave that last week had Britons afraid. Eight murders in eight days, The Daily Sketch headlined. From April 7 to Janice Anne's death on April 14 these ranged from the murder of a college student and his girl friend to the bludgeoning of an "inno- cent bystander" in a South Lon- doe pub. Indignation spilled over to the House of Commons, One' M.Ps demanded the return of legis- lation making hanging manda- tory for the murder of women, children, and old people. Siece Britain in 1057 abolished hane- irig (except for "capital niur. tiers" and two-tiree offenders), Home Secretary R. A Butler ad- mitted that indictable crimes had risen 14.3 per tent, robbery 29 per cent, ft was the moat serious crime we've sitice 1952 but Butler could only say Cleat he hoped it would "subside.' Others were less reticent. "We are reaping the harvest of being too lenient,' said one of Britain's t o p crime reporters- "Today I've seen half a .,dozen 'Teddy boys' sweep along the sidewalk with arms linked, knocking Woriiert and old people into' the gutters. Soinebedy calls a Bobby and what happens? They're fined 10 bob and told they're betighty."—Froin News- week. SPEAKING OF. CARS, d er, sports car tend open truck are smell enough lo on. the little finder of a man's lidrid, truly "baby" buggies, they loomed large ers the sresitiest exhibits' of is gliowiiits of shiali autos in ljaris„ Frohces *HAT' tt:SO The Planet Venus Will' &Serie Wider the scrutiny •stif Fretiek •baillodhiet AdoUrin Ddifussin, He is peering from the doridolce moored hear Pieria, frorn which lie ho es to phce lodiciph Ventre free* 13,666 feet. the gotidoid is bluitifnuni. TABLE TALKS 6aue Andzews. So many things other than flour and shortening are put in pie crusts these days that just ordinary pie crust is becoming a rarity. Here's a version which sounds good, though, and it's simple. To 11/2 cups of flour, a teaspoon of salt, and % cup, of shortening add a cup of oats, either quick or old-fashioned, but uncooked. Then add 6 to 7 tablespoons of water. When you put the top crust on your pie, spfinkle 1 teaspoon of sugar over the top. This crust is said to be especially good for rhu- barb pit. „ s Perhaps you should plan for seconds when you serve this salad — pineapple-mallow; crisp, sweet and tangy. It has been a favourite since Grandmother's day. It's good on a buffet as well as for individual servings. PINEAPPLE-MALLOW SALAD 11/2 cups (No. 2 can) pineapple tidbits'drained 3 cups cut cabbage Salt 1/2 cup whipping cream 1 tablespoon sugar % cup salad dressing 1/2 cup (I ounce) miniature or cut marshmallows Drain pineapple and add to lightly salad cabbage. Whip cream, add sugar and fold in salad dressing, then marshmal- lows. Combine with cabbage and pineapple. Serve on bright green leaves. Serves 4-6. Note: Substi- tute sour cream for whipped cream and salad dressing, if you like. You may like frozen salad for your parties because of its festive appearance and because ,it can be prepared before the rush of getting other foods ready and be served with a flair. Here is such a salad that serves 8. If you do not like the fruits, already cut and can- ned, make your own combina- tion of fruit. FROZEN-FRUIT SALAD 1 can (1 lb. 14 ounces) fruit cocktail 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin 1 tablespoon cold water 1 tablespoon sugar 1 3-oz. package cream cheese 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 8 marshmallows, quartered 1 cup heavy cream, whipped 1/4 cup fruit juice Drain fruit well, saving 1/4 cup juice. Soften gelatin in cold water, Add sugar to the 1/4 cup juice and heat. Stir in gelatin and dissolve_ Blend with cheese and mayonnaise, mixing until smooth. Combine with marsh- mallows and fruit. Fold in whipped cream. Put in refrig- erator tray or quart mold. Freeze without stirring until firm. Serve on crisp salad greens. eseese seSese