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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-04-07, Page 6TeX Gals And Gulls-- What would the ladies sus- taining the exotic headgear hove in common with a farmer plowing his field? They ore both important chapters in NatUre's annual publication entitled Spring. The geometric and over- turned wastebasket-type hats from Italy would stand out in any' Easter parade, While in Surrey, England, 'sea gulls feast on thousands of worms dispossessed as a tractor churns the awakening earth. eneeeeseenee a'$ MADE FOR EACH OTHER — Tommy Smrekar, 10, gets an af- fectionate kiss from his new pal, He found the dog wandering' the highway near his home, His parents wrote the owner, whose nctrhe was on the dog's collar, asking if Tommy could keep the animal, He could, Tragedy In An Illinois Canyon nIlle Illinois l3iuer and its, akilantariee have swirled away at the, eandeteele Until canyons 150 feet deep gash the thick forests, *heir eliffe rising she and cav- .0rneme, The park lodge that com- rends. 1,475 acres of Illinois's finest. unspoiled • scenery —only 2 eouthweet, of •Ohainago- pneeieely suits the serenity of the wilderness. Sprawled atop a bluff overlPoking, the river, it. is built of roughheaVen logs and fhingles,,and its rules 'are as rus- tic as its yawning stone hearths — no liquor served; meals eaten promptly or not at all; lights out in the public rooms at 11 p.m. Starved Rock State Parle is the kind of quiet resort that many people as children savor, visit on honeymoons, and return to. On anniversaries; and from the time its rugged site was cliscov- vred by ,Joliet and Marquette in 1673, it had known only one in- stance of violence. That was, in legend, when warring Ottawa Indians gave it its name by be- sieging a band of Illinois atop a cropping of sandstone until they starved to death. _Among those for whom the park long had been a favorite retreat wore two matrons from Riverside, a pleasant, well-to-do suburb of 10,000 just west • of Chicago, Nearly every year they drove down for a few days of - rest from their busy activities social and civic leaders.. Fre- quently their husbanda• accom- panied them, but this year .the men were too busy, and they took along a woman friend who share their interests. The three were Mrs Mildred Lindquist, 50, wife of Robert Lindquist. vice president of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago; Mrs. Frances Mur- phy, 47, wife of Robert W. Mur- phy, vice president and general counsel of the Borg-Warner Corp., and Mrs, Lillian Oetting, 50, wife of George Oetting, gen- eral supervisor of internal audits for the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. Among them, they had nine children. One pleasant day last month, the three friends drove to the park, arriving at the lodge just in time for lunch. After eating, they changed to warm hiking clothes, donned boots against a few inches of slow-thawing snow, and set out on the marked trail toward St. Louis Canyon, a blind chasm about a mile and a half. away, where a frozen waterfall glittered multicolored in the bright sunlight. It was the last time anyone reported seeing them alive. That night the women's hus- bands tried vainly to reach them by phone. The next morning, trying again, they learned that none of their beds had been slept in. All that day, they tried inter- mittently without success. Early the next day they called the po- lice. Search parties were organized, Shortly after noon, a group of boys from a nearby correctional camp -plowed through a foot of fresh snow in a lonely canyon and made a grim discovery: The bodies of the three women, They lay on their backs in a cavern near the waterfall. The wrists of the two were 'bound with light cord. The heads Of all three had been beaten almost beyond recognition. The clothing was disarranged and scattered, and there was evidence of rape. At once, a horrified;: state mobilized all. its detection forces', but the clues were Omit, A blood-smeared lengths of tree limb found at the scene was be- lieved to be the fatal bludgeon, but there were also some traces, oe blood on a club-like icicle. partially exposed film in Mrs,, Oetting's camera showed only Mrs.. Lindquist and Mrs. MternlaYe smiling gaily during a WnYeteP. along the trail, not far from the waterfall,. ga'actlY what happened after that was still uncertain as this is. written, us police questioned whole parade of possible tete- pecte. All that was certain was the tragic horror of the situa- tion, One Illinois police official said: "This is one of the most hideous crimes on record." Oetting, Water In The A.frican, Bush. In the coal of the evening they and Nhooxlia.m, "Lips of Finest Fat," led us some miles away to the deepest part of the old water- course between dunes, yellow in. the sun. There we found several shallow excavations due b -Cur water in ampler seasons, but the :Supply which never failed them was hidden, deep beneath the send, Near the deepest excavation Bauxhau knelt down and dug in- to the sand to arm's length. To- ward' the end scene moist =and but no water appeared. Then he took a tube almost five feet long made out of the stem of a bush with a soft • core, wound nbot't lour inches aa dry grass lightly around one end presumably to. act as a kind of filter aaainst the fine drift sand, inserted it into the hole and packed the sand beak into it, stamping it down with his feet. He then took scene empty eetrie.h-cge shells from XhOoxham.and wedged them up- rirelt inn) the sand beside the utte, produced a little stick, one end of which he inserted into the opening in the shell and the other into the corner of hie mouth, Then he put his lips to: the tube. For about two minutes 'he.sunk- ed mightily without any. result. His broad shoulders heaved with the immense effort and sweat began to run like water down his back. But at last the miracle happened and so suddenly that Jeremiah gasped and I had an impulse loudly to cheer. A bub- ble of pure bright water came out of the, corner of Bauxhau's mouth, clung to the little stick and ran straight down its side into the shell • without spilling one precious drop! So it continued, faster and faster until shell after shell was filled, Bauxhau's whole being and strength joined in the single function of drawing water out of the sand and pumping it u.p into the light of day, . . . We named that place, where - we saw one of the oldest legends about the Bushman become a miraculque twentieth - century fact, "the Sip-wells." Were it not for the water we •extracted we could not have stayed there in the central desert but would have had continually to go labor- iously back and forth between it and our own remote water- points. And oil course without the sip-wells Nxou and his people could not have survived there at all between the rains, —, From "The Lost World of the Kale.- hart," by Laurens van ,der Post. A. former salesman lead, joined the police force. Returning from his first beat, the sergeant asked him how he liked his new job. "Oh, it's great," the ex-sales- man replied. "The hours are good, the pay is all right, and the customer is always wrong." 131:9 New PreeidentsTof the United States WM. Always presented with a large cheese when they were elected in the nineteenth, century, At the end of the year, when the next Presidential glee- tion will be held, the custom is likely to be revived. When Thomas Jefferson was elected in 180], the people • of •Oheshire, Massachusetts, decided to "build a cheese which would eclipse all records." When completed it was four feet in diameter and eighteen inches high. Village blacksmiths strengthened it with iron bands! The mammoth cheese went to Washington in a wagon drawn by six horses, It greatly impressed the new President, but lie decided net to accept it as a gift. Instead he in- sisted on paying two hundred dollars for it. It's said that in spite at the President's well- known hospitality, some of the cheese was still left after six months, Buy fresh Seeds --- Nearly everyone orders too many seeds and, strange as it may seem, the seed dealers dis- like -overselling. They have good reason. Surpluses are on.en thrown in- to clamp drawers and if these ere used the following year the Leanne will be poor and unfair to the firm whose name is on the paehet. Dealers prefer me- terners to tailor their orders to the space available. WADDYA HEAR? — Fetching Judy DePew tunes into the lo- cal wave length' at Cypress Gardens. They Don't Foot With Criminals The secret and strange land of Bhutan, sometimes called "The Land of the Lost Horizon," has only just abolished slavery which has been practised there for, centuries. Bhutan is one of the most isolated .countries in the world and in many Ways its popula- tion of 300,000 people are still living in an atmosphere reminis- cent of the Middle Ages, says a traveller who was there re- cently. The country lies between In- dia and Tibet in the Eastern Himalayas and its 18,000 square miles of mountains and fertile soil have no toads.. The Bhuta- nese make :their clothes from nettle fibre and have a strange way of dealing with criminals. They sew the condemned men in bullock skins and toss them into a river to drown, The feet of prisoners are shackled and they have wooden blocks about their necks, Bhutan has a thirty-two-yeae- old king who is an absolute mon- arch and speaks English, No stranger can cross its wind- lashed and often snowbound frontiers except by his invita- tion or that of his government, which consists of an advisory council of eight and an assem- bly of elected representatives from every district of Bhutan. The Bhutanese have no use for wheels, Yet this year they are considering schemes for the ex- ploitation of the country's vast forest and' mineral wealth and a hydro-electric project on some of their Hiinaiayan torrents is bes ing planned, The People be- lieve in Witchcraft and sorcery brit they are else considering setting up a canning industry with the help of foreigners within the next keen years. "Rift in the bottritry'e fertile valleys I found the Middle Age's enduring, shielded froth the modern world by great barriers of forested Mountain and a Fran. tier closed to strangers," reports the traveller, 'ea tetetomed is to let het keep her' jir,i.rbTt,h1.1 eteesiieenseit WtotlYaietholdititteat :iawT al el., beets; let stand at least 10 min- utes to blend flavors. Wheel, Serves 4. * Use either fresh le from) green beans and either fresh or canned mushrooms for this dish. GREEN :laEANS ,AND 111DSIIROONS package .'mien MOO beans (l.9 na,) cup water • I. chicken • bouillon cube 'r, pound :fresh. mushrooms, sho- ed (or 3-4 pz, eiu sliced). g tablespoons butter Salt end ',pepper Cools green beans in water seasoned with' bouillon cube 8-12 minutes (or use liquid from mushrooms for cooking beans). Drain. If you use fresh mush- rooms, saute in butter; stir into beans and season with' salt and Pontoon * .* Like any other dish, you can find as many methods as you find cooks. This is our family's way of baking beans. It produces moist, brown beans, delicately flavored, writes Geetrude P. Lancaster in t h e Christian Science Monitor. Wash about two pounds of pea beans arid discard imperfect ones. Cover with water, about cups, and bring to boil. Boil. two or three minutes, then re- move from beat, and let soak an hour or more. In the same, water, cook again for a few minutes untiln when you take a few beans on a spoon and blow en them, the skins burst. Drain. reserving the cooking liquid. Cut half a pound of salt pork into two hunks, and score with gashes every half inch without cutting through the rind. Put beans. into •a bean pot, putting one piece of pork midway and the other piece on top. Mix the following in a dish: 2 teaspoons salt, 1 cup molasses, 1 teaspoon dry mustard, 2 table- spoons white sugar, 1 oup of the reserved neater. Pour over the beans and add enough more of water to cover the beans. Cover the bean pot and bake at 325° F. about 5-6 hours, turning heat down somewhat toward end of cooking. You will have to ,add water about once an bour; add just enough so that it ,ShOWS, through the top layer of beans,. There will be enough beans to serve 19-12. Mother used to soak her beans overnight, but I have found that the .above method eliminates this process, and produces the same results, • Htellitary Days:. stlAcetsilt,oecte.rirstilt;,g;ao pitoulc:nemA 4.4D1 Bu. gered ,. and some vivid meme ories were brought beck to Mr, Henry Austin, a sixty-eight-year- old Yorkshireman now living in the Irish capital. He was watching the opening sequences shot on location in Dublin for the film, "The Siege of Sidney Street:" And because he witnessed the real thing back in 1011., the famous .gtin battle in London's East End, he was a b lescene. touch for the realism the When the dramatic day-long raid took place on No. 100, Sid-, ney Street, Henry 'Austin, then only nineteen, was living at No. 100, His family, including his young sister who was ill, were confined to their house during the seige. And their larder was completely empty. "Them was a steady crossfire from the gunmen and the police on the other side," he says, "But we evertually got hold of a loaf of bread from a house fourteen deers away, by neighbours tos- sing it over fences front one back door to the next, "It was pretty black by the time- we got it," he recalls, "But we were very hungry." --------- When watering houseplants add enough water to wet the soil to the 'bottom of the 1)0,1-, and do not water again until 'his soil shows signs ci' needing it, if. the plant is growing rapidly and is in a worm, sunny- places watering may he required ISSUE 15 — 1980 Finish off the winter with a dish of braised cabbage — this recipe serves 6. BRAISED CABBAGE 3 tablespoons butter 3 cups shreddea fresh cabbage 1 cup shredded raw carrots Ye cup stock (beef or chicken) ti teaspoon salt ate teaspoon pepper Melt butter in skillet with a tight-fitting cover, Add cabbage, carrots, stock, salt and pepper. Cover- closely and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes or until vegetables are tender, Top with grated cheese when serving, if desired, Bread crumbs, chopped ham or other cooked meats, or mush- rooms may be added to the stuffing of this squash, if you. STUFFED SUMMER SQUASH 4 summer squash la teaspoon Worcestershire sauce • 1/4 teaspoon minced garlic or onion 14 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon butter 14 cup grated cheese • ii teaspoon curry powder or dry mustard. Few grains cayenne • Wash squash and cut off stems, Steam or boil Until 'tender. Drain and cool. Scoop out centres of squash, leaving a rind about 1/2s inch thick. Chop removed pulp and add other ingredients to it, Mix well. Refill shells with the mixture, Place filled squash shells in a pan in very little water. Bake at 400° F. about 10 minutes, or until done. Serves 4, * Perhaps you will enjoy pre- paring turnips in a new way — glazed in a maple-sugar-butter mixture. Here is the way to fix r'. serving for fice or six. GLAZED TURNIPS 3 medium white turnips, diced (about 3 (nips) 3 tablespoons butter 6 tablespoons maple syrup Salt and pepper. Place turnips in enough boil- ing salted water to cover, Cook 15-20 minutes, or until tender. Drain. Heat butter and maple syrup in a skillet until butter is melted. Add turnips and saute until turnips are glazed, turning occasionally. Season to taste with salt and pepper.. Want a new way to serve canned beets? Try honey sauce with them: BEETS IN HONEY SAUCE 2 cups diced or sliced beets (No. • 2 can) 1 tablespoon cornstarch 14. teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon beet juice or water 2 tablespoons vinegar ine cup honey 1 tablespoon butter Mix cornstarch and salt and blend in the beet juice, or water.. Add vinegar, honey, and butter. Cook slowly, stirring constantly until thickened. Add sauce to LOSING FACIE — BrOdd-brthiMeer, strata hat doesn't'protect this trebt snowman from the tuh. tagging'. suggeits arr end to the fttorel weather. FACING UP TO THINGS — Dwarfed by his creation, sculptor Assen Peikov, in Pietoia, Italy, works on ci giant head of Re- naissance genius Leonardo do Vinci. The cloy head when fin- ished will be cast in bronze for Rome's new airport.