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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-02-04, Page 611011104 'Bigamist TO Save Nurse. The attractive young German twee leoked with loving eyes at the wounded; soldier, She had iursed hire devotedly, but now all was chaos. The Red Army lied stormed, into her native city of Meekleriberg. It Was a time of pillage, plunder end agoniz- ing rumours, Soon, as many feared, curt orders came from the Russian commander, requiring all single Women between twenty-one and thirty to report to their local tabour offices, bringing only personal belongings in readiness for their deportation to Siberia. It would be better to be killed the nurses whispered among themselves, But there was a way out, at least for one lucky girl. A hospital official told. August Schroeder, the wounded soldier: "You can save that nurse if you marry her," August furrowed his brows, for he had a wife and children in Upper Silesia. But he quickly subdued his conscience, reflect- ing that they would probably have been killed as the Soviet panzers crashed triumphantly into Germany. So, relaxed and smiling, he took the girl into his arms. Af- ter all, but for her devotion and care, he told himself, he would not be alive. The pair quickly found a p r i es t who married them. Thus, bigamy spared the nurse the terrible fate that befell so many of her colleagues. August moved his new "wife" westwards to the safety side of the Iron Curtain. For a time the pair were v e r y happy. Then August discovered that his wife and family were still alive, He sent them money and food par- cels, but not even a regular supply of gifts eased his troubl- ed conscience. At last he sur- rendered to the police and con- fessed to his "crime." The sequel came recently, when he was brought for trial as a bigamist before a Cologne court. The judge heard his case sympathetically, remarking that it revealed a "refreshing touch of romance and pathos." The court, compelled to take a serious view' of bigamy, sentenc- ed August to eight months' im- prisonment, but this was sus- pended and he was released im- mediately on probation.- Now his advisers believe that his wife will divorce him. He will then be able to put his marriage to the nurse on a pro- per legaL footing. Conscience has a very strange power, In another recent case, a priest at Casale, a town in North Italy, went to a worker and handed him a silver watch. "Why, that's mine!" said the Cut A Slim Figure PRINTED PATTERN 4956 SIZES • 12112-241i 4/41)1044 4444 Slim and trim under your cleat now—smart enough to take you right through spririg.. Curved wise seething on bodice help to narrow 'your Weistline. Printed Pattern 4058: Half Mies 121b, 141/2, 181/2 , 18%, 26%, 221/4, 241/4 . 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Margaret Francisca of Holland' is shown in an official portrait for her 17th birthday. She's one of four daughters of Queen Ju- liana and Prince Bernhard, worker, examining the watch carefully, "It belonged to me when I was a boy. You don't mean to say you've suddenly Pound it, Father, and by some miracle identified it as being mine?" The priest shook his head. "No my son," he said, "the man who stole it from you eighteen years ago asked me to return it to you. _Apparently, the thief could not sleep properly. Gradually, over the years, his dreams came to be haunted by watches. He awoke in a cold sweat, a ticking sound throbbing in his brain. "So, he made confession, brought the watch wih him, and hoped that by restoring it with my help, he would once again sleep quietly and at peace." To go on "living a lie" proves in the end, too much for many people. It proved, too much for a young infantryman who in April, 1048, after serving for a year in Palestine, deserted from a famous regiment. Later, he joined the Jewish Army. Then, in 1950, he married an. Israeli girl and worked on a collective 'farm. Twelve months later, he inherited by his mar- riage a farm of his own. He and his pretty young wife, working long hours, and in all weathers, made it pay, too. But deeply embedded in his mind was the thought that he had let down his country. Finally, his conscience troubl- ed him so much that he could ignore it no longer. So, much against the advice of his new Jewish friends, he brought his young wife with him to England and surrendered. Court - martialled, he was sen- tenced to a year's detention. Sometimes, a man's conscience speaks through a girl. A 21- year-old Glasgow boy deserted from the Black Watch. Though he kept -his equipment, he re- sisted the idea of surrendering to the police, determined to keep his new-found freedom. He now had a civilian job bringing in £8 a week, and with his father and mother both seri- ously ill, he was able to send them £3 a week instead al the 7s. he'd been able to spare them from his national service pay. But he'd won the love of an honest girl. She knew that, deep inside him, he was a very troubled man. "Why don't you make a clean breast of it?" she wards." But he still shook his head dourly. Without saying another word to anyone, she went to the po- lice and got him arrested, He was courtmartialled, and given ,nine months' detention. To-day however, he is very glad that his girl had the courage to act on her own, and remove a great weight from his Mind. Among the spate oe robberies now troubling the police, mean thefts occur almost daily. Old people and even disabled ex- servicemen are robbed of theit life saviegs. But sometimes the thief is trembled by conscience and makes amends, returning a batch of savings certificates or a cash- box. Sometimes tragedy results be- cause someone allows a trifling matter to Prey on the conscience until even health is undermined. A greatly respected nun had given the date of het birth as 1894 although she knew it was 1801. To her, this fairly common feminine deceit appeated es a heinous' &line. She doefeseed it to het eierreetit priest who told her riot to worry,: But she Went oh fretting, feeling that het whole religious life he'd beett lie. Finally, she went to one of her cbeivent'e outhouses where she splashed over her clothes and set light to them. it Was, her tenaciente that killed het Posted $ontry- PA,Imect Snowdrop Walking One day on one of her palace lawns., the Empress Cath- erine of Russia spied a little flower which was strange to her a snowdrop. Charmed by its simplicity, the Empress called the ..orhcer of the. guard and commanded a sentry to be posted beside the lowly snowdrop to guard it from harm, For years the order continued to be carried. out, long after the plant had perished, runs the • Story. At last a curious courtier asked. Why a sentry was always stationed on the particular lawn. No one could remember the rea- son, So the order was counter- mended. Another legend of the snow- drop, which is .sometimes seen as early as 'New Year's Day in parts of Britain,. is that it was the first of all flowers, After :the Fall of man, it snowed in Eden. This frightened. Eve but she felt - sure of better days in store when out of the snowflakes there sprang beautiful snowdrops, For centuries the snowdrop has • been the emblem of maidenhood,. A very old name for snowdrops is "Fair Maids of February," for although they are often seen in January many more of their tiny white blossoms appear in Feb- ruary, reminding us that spring is on the way. A feyourite drink among Eng- lishmen in. the Middle Ages was "saloop" made from the bulb- ous roots of the snowdrop. Snow- belle is the name, given by the Germans to snowdrops, A Bavar- ian legend says that the peals of the flowers' tiny bells tinkle a nuptial chime whenever there is a white wedding in fairyland. In Sussex, to bring snowdrops into the house is regarded as unlucky and signifying death. If a girl gives them to her sweet- hearts it means that she prefers to remain single. WISTFUL — Beauty queen Jean- nine Descruel would rather be , wearing a wedding veil than her crown. The 28-year-old Porisienne was elected "Miss Lonely Heart 1960" by the bachelor boys and girls who make up her lonely hearts club. Healthy Mind Can a person's thoughts cause him to die of cancer? That startling question is sug- g e s t e d by a recent statement from Dr. Eugene P. Pendergrass, president of the American Can- cer Society. He says it has been found that some persons successfully treat- ed for cancer are well for years, but that some emotional stress then comes along and their di- sease flares up and kills therm.. Cancer research, Dr. Pender- grass hopes, will be widened "to include the distant possibility that within one's mind is a pow- er capable of exerting f ore es which can either enhance or in- hibit the progress of this di sense." Dr. Pendergrass' comments are in line with what appears to be a growing conviction hi medical science that One'S thoughts have a tremendous in ituence oh one's physical health. Perhaps some of the greatest medical advances or the future will consist hot of new drugs or new surgical techniques, but rather of a better understanding of the mind's effect on the body. Richmond Titres-Dispatch. T06 TAXING- , Kristieristad, Sweden, tiffitialg admitted their error after four- year-old Sven Ldrrson received a notice that he had been hatted district purchase tart collector`; We are buying eggs now 'in: stead of selling- them as we were a few years ago. Even so. I would much rather eggs were sixty cents a dozen than forty, which is .what we are paying at the present time. At sixty cents a farmer has a certain margin of profit but at forty he has none. Even at sixty cents it should be remembered the only time a farmer gets top retail price for -his eggs is when he is selling to .privae customers, going from ,door to doer •with his produce, But for every far- mer who has his own route there are scores whose only market is to wholesale shippers. Collec- tors pick up the' eggs ungraded, returning 'the following week with a cheque and a grading slip showing the eggs have been can- dled and. graded according to quality and size. The charge for this is four to five cents a dozen, irrespective of the wholesale and retail selling price. Naturally if the price is low — say twenty- five cents to the farmer — the charge Of five Cents a dozen for' grading is more 'noticeable than if the , price is fifty cents. And the farmer is entirely at the mercy • of the grader. If he is honest, well and good. If he is, not, the farmer has no proof that his eggs should have been given a higher grade and consequently a better price. Even Gordon' Sin- clair is concerned over the pre- sent low price of eggs to the far- ' mer and quoted one farmer's 'wife who shipped a Large 'quan- tity oe- eggs and received an average of 181h. cents a dozen. Sinclair mentioned the cost of feeding, raising and caring for poultry — and other farm stock -- but he didn't mention,- what a lot of other people - also forget,. that is; the cost of veterinary services. The terribly high cost of drugs hits the eaerner not only for members of his .family if they e are sick but also for the' animals. The last year that we were farming we were down to five or elIZ head of cattle in- cluding two milk cows. One of our gradecoWe had trouble CaIV- ing and our subsequent veterin- ary bill was $64, or about half the value al the cow, But you know how it is, if an animal gets sick, whether she's a grade or registered beast, doesn't make any difference. A farmer can't bear to gee an animal suffer and he certainly can't afford to lose her. So he is trapped, both from a humanitarian and a fin- ancial point of view. Traditionally, the 'farmer is supposed to be a born grumbler, and believe me, at the present time, he has something to grum- ble about. So, those who -have to buy farm produce, shouldn't be too happy when 'the price of eggs drops far below normal. A reduced farm income naturally results in less purchasing power. You can't spend what you haven't got even on. the ir- stalment plan the day of reck- oning finally comes, 'Or- else . Well, in our family the first month of .the year brought a' casualty. Eddie was playing around a pile of cement blocks in the yard next to his- home when one of them' Fell on top of his foot, irebturing three toes. A. cast will be necessary but must wait until the swelling -has gone down for the doctor to set the toes. Poor little• chap, he has been so good, both at home and at the hospital emergency ward, In fact, at' the moment, 1 think he -is rather enjoying all the attention he is getting. How-. ever, two of the others are mak- ing a claire to fame too. David by cutting' his first permanent teeth and Cedric his baby teeth. Yesterday they were all here — all five grandsons and their par- ents. One family stayed for sup- per, the others Went home. How often it happens that the grand- parent's home is the halfway house for other members of the family. We are glad to have it so, ' it is one way of keeping the family together. I remember it was never the same for my fa- mily after my widowed mother died. We were pretty well scat- tered by then but mother was the medium who got us in touch with one another. Right hire we are kept in training by neighbourhood chil- dren, especially three-year-old Julie wlio lives next door. The other, .day ,the,, front door bell was ringing like inad. had heaved' 'tire mat Off 'the steps, and dragged a' box up to' the door. That was' also shoved aside and a chair-we.feaVe for the cat was brought into service. Later Julie's Mother asked if her daughter had been ringing Our bell, Partner laughed — ing it — she just about tore the place deidiel did you see her?" ""No, but Julie said she push- ed a button at Mr. Clarke's door and then She heard 'jingle belle " Thdre is never a dull • moment With children around. Blees- their mischievous little hearts. "I *ant a very cateful chaut, feur, man, one who takes be risks WhatSoVer, Said the PreS- pective employer, "Theh I'M just the chap ytiti Want for the job; Sit. Can't have my wages iti advent-el" How Kimberley Pets Its piumomis The Rand, is the basis of South African power and prosperity; but Kimberley is the basis of the Rand, for its diamonds financed the great gold magnates, bolster- ed the ebullience of Rhodes and his peers, and enticed the first Africa. TbeY diamonds.111 vivacious flood of adventurers and fortune hunters to South many other places, too, They even manufacture them nowa- days, The Cullman, greatest of them all, was discovered in the Transvaal. In South-West Africa they pick them pp in handfuls from the beach. In Tanganyika they guard the deposits with radar mechanisms, But Kimber- ley i s the most famous, the most suggestive of all diamond cities, and to the world at large its name remains more or less syn- onymous with the allure of pre- cious stones, . . . A plateau of bleak no-man's- land surrounds your mine at Kimberley.... Within its fences the whole process of diamond proaliction is conducted, There are the mine-shafts (for it is underground mining nowadays, down the deep diamondiferous pipes); and there are the big crushers which pound the rock when it Nines to the surface (so hard are the diamonds that they are hardly ever broken in this brutal 'process); and there are the little trains which, clanking mildly, bring the crushed rock to the washing plants; and there ,is the series of pots and pans and weirs and screens that re- duce the crushed, washed, sort- ed rock to the smallest concen- trates. Finally they extract the dia- monds. In a long unpretentious room, not unlike a printing shop, there stand a series of machines like linotypes. Five or six eld- erly operators, of unspeakable integrity, tend these machine's and greet the visitor with grave incorruptible smiles. The crush- ed rock arrives down a chute and is poured over a sloping table lined with petroleum jelly; and if you watch this operation very closely, and scrupulously obey the instructions of the ma- chineman, you may see a petit- point of tiny speckles ornament- ing the surface of the grease. The muck runs away out of sight, to be returned .to - the, earth again: but the diamonds, those unshakable cores- of, bril, liance, embed therriselveS 'in. the vaseline like oysterse arid sparkle away merrily when the operator, seizing a trowel, scrapes the grease from ,his. table and de- posits it in a nearby pot. So they' get their' diamonds. The grease is bollect away and next door four men and a girl, in clinital white oafs, pick up the gems in frying-pans and pit them on a table. There are greenish diamonds and yellow ones, brown and white and ,an occasional heavenly blue: there are little / flaky unpretentious diamonds, and diamonds that seem to have been chipped with a penknife, and diamonds of ulti- mate perfection of symmetry. They examine these treasures with their eye-glasses, and they sort them by shape and colour: but at the end of -the day, for all. ISSUE II — 1960 the , shaking and the crush-, ing and. the greasing and the end the sorting, .only two WO piles. of stones, like tragical molehills, lie on that table com-. "South African Winter," by dames Morris. Modern Etiquette By Roberta Leo Is it considered excusable now to "reach" at the table? A. While the old "boarding, house reach" is still considered the sign of a chowhound, we can peoperly reach for things that we on get as easily as our eeighe bor can — instead of being over- genteel and, bothering him need- lessly to pass them. ct. When there is to be a sup- per for the bridal party after the rehearsal at the church, is it necessary to invite the clergy- man — and, If so, his wife? A, If you know the clergyman well (in which case you would probably know his wife well, too), they would both be invited. Otherwise, no. Child's Favourite C414444 WItjat' Make 'a picture d.a-cushion of each of these cuddly kittens. Justethe thing for the nursery! 'The kittens, entirely in cross- stitch, can be done in 'six-strand cotton or in 'wool. Lovely baby gift. Pattern 08: liansfer of two 1:0 3/p-inch, squares., Send THIRT1r -.FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be; accepted, use postal note lor safety) fpr this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- 1' ERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. New! New! New! Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! 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