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SCALE MODEL — Student nurse Lois Boettcher tries out an
extremely sensitive scale. The scale can measure Lois' weight
loss in five minutes of breathing, an aid in metabolism research.
TABLE nuts
6ana. Andtews
Walked 240 Miles To
Her Own Wedding
Do ye ken John Peel? Of
course. Everyone does. But de,
you know the amazing story of
his runaway marriage at Gretna
Green? This romantic drama
started in 1197 when the famous
13t1,14tS,Inan fell in love with, eigh,
teen- year - old iVtary White,
daughter of a Cumbrian farmer,
The banns were duly read, he
church, but Mrs. White objected
to the Marriage because the
couple were still too. young, True
love, however, though it may not
always run smooth, seldom goes
slow. One dark night young
John Peel saddled Binsey, his
father's fastest horse, and rode
across the fells to the village of
T.Ildale, where Mary White lived,
Mary was ready for him. She
bad smuggled a length of rope
into her bedroom, and when John
tapped at her window she let
herself down, carrying only a
small bundle of belongings.
As the clock was striking mid-
night John lifted his bride on, to
the horse and galloped off with
her, across nearly sixty miles of
wild mountainous country, to
border village of Gretna Green,
There, next day, the couple
were married according to the
ancient custom of the place.
However, when they returned
home, Mrs. White relented, per-
haps on the score of properiety,
On December 18th that year
John and Mary were married
again, this time in their own
Caldbeck church.
The entry in the register can
still be read: "John Peel, Bache-
lor, of this parish, and Mary
White, Spinster, of this parish,
were married in this Church by
banns, this 18th day of Decem-
ber in the year one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-seven
by me, Joseph. Rogerson, Curate."
Why, then, did John Peel
chocZse Gretna Green? Everyone
thinks they know the answer, but
not many people have it right.
To begin with, there is absolute-
ly no truth at all in the legend
that Gretna's eloping couples
were married at the anvil by a
blacksmith. In the words of an
official guidebook to Gretna:
"There is not one record of any
such marriage ever having taken
place."
In those years, however, Scot-
tish law enabled any couple over
sixteen to marry simply by de-
claring their willingness in front
of three witnesses, all of whom
may have been complete stran-
gers to them. The principal wit-
ness,, or "priest," was usually the
Gretna ferryman or the toll-
keeper or the landlord of the
King's Head Inn.
Marriages never did take place
at a smithy. They occurred either
at the tollhouse or in Gretna
Hall. Visitors to Gretna Green
may still inspect the famous
register of runaway marriages.
Between 1825 and 1855 no fewer
than 1,134 eloping couples were
married in the village, among
them peers, heiresses, tinkers,
criminals, and even a clergyman
or two.
How much did the ceremony
cost?. The price varied from two-
pence to a modern £1,000, ac-
cording to circumstances, Per-
haps the most amazing cut-price
marriage occurred when a youth
arrived at midnight, wishing to
marry a Yorkshire squire's
daughter with a fortune of near-
ly 1100,000 (in those years a
woman's money automatically
became the property of her hus-
band).
Hot on the couple's heels came
the girl's father and two armed
servants, vowing to shoot the
young man if they caught him.
In desperation the youth round-
ed up a couple of witnesses from
an alehouse, and then found a
third who would marry them,
Their charge, they said, was two
guineas, which in those years
was worth about £20 in modern
currency.
The young men had spent all
his money on the journey. He
had exactly twepence left. He
gave the two coins to the "priest"
who was so drunk that he mis-
took them for sovereigns.
In the nick of time the couple
were married abter a gabbled
ceremony, and the irate father
arrived too late for, according
to Scottish law, his daughter was
now e married woman. — and •Ali
her fortune had passed to her
husband.
Believe it or not, as recently
as 1923 it was possible for a girl
of twelve and A boy of fourteen
to be legally married at. Gretna
without their parents' consent or
knowledge, And it was not until
1940 that the famous — and fic-
titious "anvil marriage' was
outlawed,
Even to-day, however, run-
Way couples can get married in
Scotland very easily. If they are
both over sixteen they need only
spend fifteen days in Scotland,
after which they pay a shilling
to enter an application for mar-
riage,
A week later they can appear
before any registrar in. Scotland,
in whose presence — and that of
two witnesses — they have mere-
ly to say that they accept each
other,
For this they pay the registrar
five shillings. If they wish, they
can buy a copy of their marriage
lines for another half-crown,
Even to-day, therefore, run-
away couples still arrive by aero-
plane, ship, or motor-car, hop-
ing that through the Scottish
marriage laws they can evade
awkward parents or guardians.
Many of these elopers are the
children of rich or famous par-
ents.
Not so the ostler of a tavern
at Spilsby, in. Lincolnshire, who
eloped to Gretna with a local
girl, both having walked the 240
miles!
It proves that the current
walking craze started a long time
ago. Apart from the valiant Dr.
Marbara Moore, to-day's walkers
are not noted for their success.
Several servicemen could not
even manage the,110 miles from
Birmingham to London. There
might have been a different end-
ing if they had been eloping!
A "Bomb"
To Save Life
The elderly patient had suf-
fered two coronary attacks. His
arteries were so clogged that the
blood needed to nourish his
starved heart could not flow
normally. And• the doctors at
New York's Mount Sinai Hospi-
tal had tried virtually every
known surgical technique for in-
creasing the blood supply —
grafting new arterial tissues
from other parts of his body,
joining other blood vessels to
the coronary system, even open-
ing the heart and "irritating" its
surface with talcum powder to
stimulate circulation. All had
failed. The man was dying.
In this emergency, Dr. Ivan
D. Baronofsky, 42, the lean,
dark-haired surgeon-in-chief of
Mount Sinai, ordered a new kind
of therapy — direct X-ray of the
chest to step up the •heart's faul-
ty circulation. Over a period of
two weeks, the patient had three
doses of radiation (totalling 2,000
roentgen units) from the hospi-
tal's cobalt bomb. The blood sup-
ply to the patient's heart im-
proved, and doctors were opti-
mistic about his future. Since
then, some 40 other desperately
ill heart patients have had X-ray
therapy, and, as Dr. Baronofsky
put it recently, improvement
in each case was "beyond all
expectations."
Before attempting human X-
ray tests, Dr. Baronofsky worked
- for two years with more than
300 laboratory dogs, creating
"artificial heart attacks" by clos-
ing off arteries of the heart, and
then administering X-ray ther-
apy. About 50 per cent of the
radiated animals lived; of those
non-radiated, only 10 per cent.
And the radiated dogs• all show-
ed great improvement in circu-
lation,
With the support of the New
York. Heart Association, Dr.
Baronofsky and his associates
began the first X-ray experi-
ments on human heart patients.
"You can't give a coronary pa-
tient a new heart," Dr. Baronet-
sky said in assessing his "still
experimental" heart - radiation
treatment. "You can't promise
to prevent another coronary at-
tack. But by improving the blood
flow to his heart muscles, often
you can keep him from dying
and that is our intention."
Prom NEWSWEEK,
College Seniors.
Can't Write English
We find it shocking that 20
per cent (cm the average) of
Iowa State University seniors
flunk a freshman-level English
composition test, The university
requires seniors to pass such a
test before they graduate.
What we can't understand is
how one fifth of the senior class
got to be seniors without being
able to pass freshman English,
Some members of the English
faculty at Iowa State said a main
reason the seniors are so poor in
language is that they get no
practice in writing after finish-
ing freshman English,
Surely this can't be literally
true, Students have to write re-
ports in nearly all courses, and
in many of them they must
write narrative or discussion-
type e examinations, at least.
What the English professors evi-
dently mean is that students
aren't graded on. English compo-
sition in any courses except
freshman English.
But shouldn't they be? If a
student taking biology cannot
write a clear, grammatical expo-
sition about his subject,
shouldn't he be graded down for
this deficiency?
This abysmal record on Eng-
lish composition at Iowa State
University probably is dupli-
cated at most other public insti-
tutions and many of the private
ones as well. The colleges and
universities frequently complain
about language deficiencies of
the students they receive as
freshmen. They blame the high
schools for inadequate prepara-
tion of these students. No doubt
these complaints, are justified.
But the colleges have to as-
sume the blame themselves for
their own seniors who cannot
express themselves adequately in
the English language. — Des
Moines ,Register.
TRY, TRY AGAIN — Attorney
Rosalie. Sue Asher of Sacra-
mento, Calif., has defended
Caryl Chessman continuously
since 1948. Miss. Asher took
over the case of the condemned
convict when a fellow attorney
offered it to her in partial pay-
ment of a $300 debt.
Bells Are Ringing
Four hundred ships' bells
were recently offered for sale by
the Admirality. Among the buy-
ers, preference was given to men
and women connected with the
ships concerned. The collection
of old bells, many with interest-
ing histories, was brought to-
gether at Chatham Dockyard.
Whenever these periodical
sales of ships' bells occur there
are always some which go to the
wives, mothers and sweethearts
of men who served in the ships
where the bells once hung. They
treasure them as mementos of
their loved ones.
An African missionary bought
a ship's bell and used it to
summon natives to prayer. An
ex-naval officer acquired one he.
cause it had been used, inverted,
to baptize his children on ship-
board, The bell now hangs in
his dining-room,
Other old ships' bells have
become dinner gongs or door
bells in the homes of ex-naval
Men. Some have replaced Worn-
out school and factory bolls. An-
other bell is used by a nursery.
mane as a bird ,carer, A farmer
who formerly served in the Navy
purchased his old ship's bell for
use as a gong to warn sons,
working in the fields, when
meals were ready, Vet another
old ship's bell found its way into
a Japanese temple where it is
rung during worship.
wife' is the most worider 7
ful woman, in the world. And
that's not just my opinion
her, tool"
One of my fondest memories
is of my mother's cream pie as
it came from her oven, frag-
rant and bubbling. Mother, as
many excellent cooks of her day,
seldom measured ingredients or
followed• recipies, She taught me
to make the cream pie by dem-
onstration. Later, she helped me
to work the measurements and
method into a recipe. If you
have eaten it but, have never
baked it, you will be delighted,
even with your first attempt,
writes "D. D. S." in the Chris-
tian Sciece Monitor.
OLD-FASHIONED CREAM PIE
% cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons flour
3 tablespoons soft butter
2 cups half and half cream
Nutmeg
Crumble sugar, flour, and but-
ter together and put in an un-
baked crust, Pour in cream and
sprinkle with nutmeg to taste.
Bake at 425° F. 15 minutes. Re-
duce heat to 325° F. Break crust
which forms and stir filling gent-
ly with rubber spatula. Do not
puncture bottom piecrust,
Bake approxiMately 40 min-
utes longer. If desired, when
ready for the oven, drop bite-
sized pieces of canned apricots
or peaches in filling. However,
the pie is superb without this
addition, It is best served slight-
ly warm.
Y *
The following is a simplified
recipe for a famous Eastern dish.
This way of cooking chicken is
popular in most of the Middle-
Eastern countries and India and
Pakistan as well.
CHICKEN PILAF
2-3 pound frying chicken, cut up
1 cup butter
1/2 cup chopped onion'
1 cup chopped green pepper
1/4 cup dry chili. peppers
1 tablespoon turmeric
1 'teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon pepper (if you do
not have chili peppers, use
red pepper, here)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
2 3/2 cups (2 101/2 -oz. cans) to-
mato puree.
cups rice, cooked
Melt, butter in large skillet,
Add onion and chicken. When
chicken is browned, add green
peppers, chili pePpers, turmeric,
ginger, pepper, cinnamon, salt
and tomatce purée: Stir, Covet
and cook slowly until chicken is
fork tender, Spread cooked rice-
over bottom of a 3-qt, baking
pan. Arrange chicken and sauce
on top. Bake at 375° F. for 20
minutes. Serve with uncooked
chutney. (Recipe folloWe.)
,, 4.
There ate many versions of
chutney in Eastern lands, but
hero is • a simple uncooked recipe
to try:
Coinbine 1 cup commercially
soured erevrn and 'I cup yogurt
Cut a large unparecl cucumber
into• 8 portions, lengthwise, then
cut into 1/2 -inch chenks. Cut a
tomato into half-inch sections.
Combine lightly, cucumbers, to.
Mated, sonic chives, Onions, cel-
ery and the soured troatn with
yogurt. Chill before serving with
the chicken pilaf,
'I
'Curry is equally good wimthei•
ISSIit 11 --,1131iii
made with lamb or chicken. If
you make the following recipe
with chicken, you'll need a 31/2 -
4-pound roasting chicken cut in
pieces. You may buy Savory
Sauce, a sweet-sour, fruit based
sauce and use this for your curry
or you, may make the sauce right
with the curry dish as is shown
in the recipe. If you like a
spicier curry, you may add any
or all of the following — 3 whole
cardamon, 1 tablespoon ground
cumin seed, 11/2 teaspoons
ground coriander seed and 1 tea-
spoon turmeric powder.
LAMB CURRY
% cup (1 stick) butter
2 onions, sliced
1 1-inch piece stick cinnamon
2 garlic cloves, minced
I. teaspoon ginger
1 tablespoon curry powder
3t cup warm water, divided
2 pounds lamb cut into cubes
Melt butter in deep saucepan;
add lamb and brown on all sides;
add onion and cinnamon and
cook until onion is done and
lightly browned. Remove lamb.
Combine garlic, ginger and curry
powder with 1/4 cup water; stir
to a paste. Stir into butter mix-
ture; add tomatoes; cover and
simmer 20 minutes. Add lamb
and remaining 1/2 cup water.
Cook over low heat until lamb is
tender. If necessary, add addi-
tional warm water. Add salt to
taste. Serve in hot rice ring, or
,e'pread hot rice over bottom of
platter and pour curry in center
and serve,
Salads are in season all year
round and provide color as
well as vitamins to' our sun
'starved diets. Use only fresh
vegetables and fruits. Wash them
carefully and soak greens in
cold water for a short time to
crisp if necessary. Dry on a
towel or by draining and store
in a polythene bag• in a cool
place.
"What happens when your
wife wants a new hat?"
"I'm never happy until she
gets it."
Tompto. moots
T.b.a.t..R0$14t Frost?
The men who. grow 'love ..ap,
pies" — that's an old DAMP for-
tomatoes — . are thrilled, After.
five years of painstaking re-
Search, tomato plants which To-
4st tip to nine degrees of frost
have been successfully cultivated
by an .Austrian scientist,
• It is normally unsafe for Bri,
•tish growers to plant tomatoes
• out. in the open until mid-May,
but • the Austrian experiment
may alter all that.
Some of the scientist's research
had to be conducted with the
use of artificial frosts.. So suc-
cessful did it prove that 'seed
can now be produced. to meet.
any frosts during a normal Eng-
spring, say experts.
Au4rian conditions are very
similar to those in England, so
it's hoped that in 'future it will
be possible to pick ripe tomatoes
there much earlier in the season.
No . one .knows .who "discover-.
ed" the tomato, although it's a
member of the same family as
the potato and .the tobacco plant
and is a native of South America.
The tomato was introduced
into Europe from America about
the year 1596 when everybody
called it the love Apple.. At first
it was grown 'there merely as a
pretty ornament outside houses.
Then someone tasted it,. found
it to be good, began to sell it.
-The tomato was called the love
apple because' of its Supposed.
power of "exciting tender feel-
ings," says a centuries, old book.
Wy is the tomato so much
esteemed today? Because of its
high vitamin content, said the
research scientist, Dr. S. G. Wil-
Emote
"In its store of vitamin C,
Which wards off scurvy, it is a
rival of the orange," he added..
"The Tomato also contains vita-
min's A and B, which fortify
the total vitamins in the diet,"
TV Commercials
In Any Language
The written TV commercial
copy was for a soft drink—Al-
pine, by name — glassed and
gassed in ten delicious flavours,
from cherry to champagne,
There was only one slight de-
parture from the customary sales
pitch — this one now had to be
reworked for Iranian TV.
Copy hot in hand, the Alpine
repreesntative plopped his prob-
lem recently in the lap of Round
Hill International Produclions,
the only U.S. firm specializing in
the business of translating TV
and radio sales plugs into 'for-
eign tongues. RHI (whose cus-
tomers include General Motors,
Seven-U p, IBM, Pittsburgh
Paints, and Catalina swim suits)
not only produced a Persian
translator - announcer; it also
rejiggered the soft-drink ad to
eliminate one possibly catastro-
itgiem•boo,“ Ittoi The 'eNdvor4 t "en14.4.mt4ii:
offend teetotaling Moslems, M
a
that the flavour was.D.94,:a1CV•k
result, listeners were assured
bOliC, For such expertese,
collects, for a one-minute spot,
In Persian, about $i„g&; in a more
convenient language like .rrenchi
the tab would be about $90,.
• Launched only last -November
by John • Gres, a' melliflous,
tongued Cuban whose own line
goal inventory embraces Italian,
German, French, Spanish and.
Bnglish, rir-II now boasts that it
can tap a font of some IMP
translators in New fork, includ-
ing several who speak Swahili..
Gres, who used to produce
shows for the United Nation*
and NBC International, has to,
know all hinds of answers in
present business. A Hannover
accent for example, is best for
German commercials; the Cas,
Wien accent is taboo in Latin
America; in Thai and Tagalog, a
leminine voice is preferred,
Gres's severest headaches, how-
ever, ,have .their origin in the
Americanrties: idiom. Some recent
wor
For Catalina, a line went; "The
loveliest reason to stay in the
all-day sun is'Catalina!". "Ab-,
surd," said Gres. "In. South
America, no one wants to stay
out in the sun all day—it's too
hot." The solution "The must
elegant, in and out of the water,
is Catalina."
For Kayser Hosiery, a lin..
went: "If you are not wearing
Kayser Hosiery, you just haven't
a leg to stand on," "No good,"
reported Gres, "because in Span-
ish it means 'no legs.' " The
.solution: "If you are not wear-
ing Kayser Hosiery, you are
half-dressed."
Paid For Taxi With
Crocodile Skins
Veteran Aussie crocodile hun-
ter, "Ginger". Palmer, evened
from an awkward :predicament
recently — in court.
He hired a taxi to go from.
Darwin to his Northern Terri-
tory camping grounds, forty-
seven miles distant. The driver
asked to see- the colour of his
money, for he had previously
paid his fare in crocodile hide,
Palmer said that he had.
Money, tucked away in his shack..
But at the end of his long
drive, his rummaging proved •
fruitless — there was no cash.
So Ginger offered his usual quo-
ta of crocodile skins to .meet the
fare.
But the taxi driver, feeling
himself diddled, had Palmer ar-
rested and grabbed his binoeu-•
tars as security.
Brought up before the Darwir4
magistrate, the grizzled old cro-
codile hunter was acquitted, The.
magistrate ruled that as he had
tried to pay his fare in crocodile
skins he .had no intention to
defru a d.
ViBMILEFUL Minheule Bible hat 100 pages illuttitited with
*Vera! wbodcUts. Printed' in 1789, If is in a collection in Geneva,
ltserland.
RUNNING A BATH — Mechanic Jaap Swart tool's
Amsterdam, Holland, in this bathtub runabout.
around
JAPAN CELEBRATES ROYAL BIRTH — The'resemblance may be vague; but :fifeSe dolls sale
laltec represent Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko,, Cradled he her. arms
is their first-born softy second' In line behind his•foiliee for Japan's 1,606-year.act