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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-3-5, Page 7Five Killed By Swarms 0i Bees No one will deny the usefulness of bees, Most been are well behav- ed and go about their lawful hus- ineas—as 'a rule. But those of Southern Rhodesia sometimes get out of hand. Recently they Invaded a home for old people near Saila- bury; the capital, and five of the inmates were sting to death. This cad event recalls the : adventure of another resident in the home, He was walking on a sunny day in the suburbs of Cape Townupder some overhanging branches of trees,Suddenly, without a sound of warning, his arms, shoulders, and then his bead were black with bees, There wee not a soul in sight. He Went on. walking— at a slow pace, The nearest habitation was a small tavern. He decided to walk into the bar. On catching sight „Af him; the barman and the three customers vaulted over the bar and disappear- ed quickly. In his own words, the bee -man "just waited for some- thing to turn up." Then, after what seemed an age, he heard a voice from behind him say, 'Stand quite still, Steadily, smoke surrounded hint, and the bees left as silently as they bad come'. The bee -man said later that the queen bee had first -settled on him, and all the others followed. A wo- man again! His coolness saved his life, for ifs he had attempted to brush them off he would have been stung to death, Malaya's Boss -Gen. Sir Gerald Templer arrives in Kuala Lumpur to -take over the post of British high commissioner of Malaya. He replaces Sir Henry Gurney, who was slain in a Communist ambush last fall. When The Sun Is Totally Eclipsed Most awe-inspiring of all astro- nomical spectacles is a total ec- lipse of the sun' such as the one recently observed in some parts of the world. Wherever the eclipse is total all nature falls under the spell of a fear -inspiring dusk, illumined only by the corona's ghostly beauty. The landscape is a deep red, fading into orange and yellow above the horizon. Trees appear leaden, the faces of observers livid. Life and warmth flees from the earth. Fringed by the corona, the moon hangs in the sky, an immense ball. For not quite 190 seconds will nature be thus transformed. That we should see a total solar eclipse at all is a matter for won-, dernient. Some 92,061,000 miles • away blazes the sun, with a dia- meter of about 864,000 miles. Some 225,000 miles away is the moon, with a diameter of only 2460 miles, Lastly, tliere is the earth with a diameter of not quite 8,000 miles. If any of these three bodies were of a different size the motions of the earth around the sun and of the moon around the earth would not be what they are. As it is, the little moon is so placed that it is possible for it to hide the surface of the sun. But only just pos- sible. If the moon were smaller or farther away we should never see a total eclipse of the sun. Until the opening of the present century, astronomical attention was focussed on the corona, a pearly effulgence which is still a mystery and which has some connection with sunspots; for the shape of the corona is not the sante when spots are at their maximum and mhtiniiitn . It is f hcertain that tete outer corona shines by reflected sunlight—re- flected by minute particles. The ease for the inner corona is still obscure. There atones of "gas are probably emitting rays under con- ditiona still unkttown, TABLEdTALKS r.�A�areas A friend of nine was saying the other day that most of the calce recipes in this column lately had been of the simple, easy -to -make variety, I told her that it was done purposely as I know how busy most of my readers are, and how little time they have for „fancy," cooking, Still, there are occasions such as parties, anniversaries and "soon, when something extra -special seems to be called for. So here you are, folks—cakes that, you can serve with full confidence that they will please even the most discriminat- ing. * * BIRTHDAY CHOCOLATE CAKE 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 34 cup boiling water 1/ cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 24 teaspoon salt 134 teaspoons cinnamon / cup shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring 1 cup sugar 2 -eggs 54 cup buttermilk Line the bottoms of two 1 -pound coffee cans with waxed paper. Set oven'.for moderately. low, 325 ,,degree" F. Melt chocolate in a double boiler over hot water. Then add water and stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature. Sift to- gether flour, soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.. • Beat shortening until creamy. Stir in flavoring. Beat in sugar • gradually and continue beating un- til light.andlfluffy. Add eggs, one at a time beat thoroughly after each. Stir in chocolate mixture. Add dry ingredients to egg mixture al- ternately with buttermilk in this way:' Add one-third of dry ingre- dients, then half the buttermilk; repeat; end with' dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thor- oughly' after each addition. Pour •into' lined cans. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in cans on wire racks for 5 minutes. Loosen around edges turn out onto racks, and peel off paper.'Cool.'Then split each cake, horizontally into two layers. Fill and frost layers with Chocolate Raisin Frosting. CHOCOLATE RAISIN FROSTING 1 cup auger 3 tablespoons butter l cup. milk 1 egg, slightly beaten 4 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring r4 Cup' chopped taisint Cook sugar, butter, and milk in top of double boiler over boiling water until sugar dissolves. Stir in egg and blend thoroughly. Remove from heat; stir in chocolate, van- illa, and raisins. Cool. Fills and frosts Birthday Chocolate Cake or an 8 -inch layer cake. , * * * FLUFFY WHITE CAKE 2/ cups sifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder / teaspoon salt / cup shortening , ,% teaspoon vanilla flavoring 34 teaspoon almond flavoring 134 cups sugar 34 cup milk 34 cup water r/ cup egg whites (about 4) Line the bottoms of two 8 -inch layer cake pans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderate, 350 degree F. Sift together flour, baking pow- der, and salt. Beat shortening until creamy, Stir in vanilla and almond flavor- ings. Beat in sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy. Combine milk and water. Add sifted dry ingredients to sugar mixture alternately with milk mix- ture in this way: Add one-third of dry ingredients, then half the liquid; repeat; end with dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thor- oughly after each addition. Whip egg whites until stiff with a rotary beater or electric ,mixer. Gently fold into the flour mixture. Pour into lined pans. Bake 30 of 35 minutes pr until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool "'cakes in pans on wire racks 5 minutes, Loos- en 'around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool. Then split each Jager horizontally into two layers. Put layers together with Strawberry Jam. Frost top and sides with Cream Cheese Frost- ing. CREAM CHEESE FROSTING 1 3 -ounce package cream. cheese 2 tablespoons milk r/4teaspoon almond flavorings 354 cups sifted confectioners' sugar Few grains salt' Put cheese in a medium-size bowl and 'mash with a wooden spoon or electric mixer. Add, milk,' salt, and almond flavoring and beat until. smooth and creamy. Add sugar gradually, contigue beating vigor- ously until smooth. If frosting is too stiff to -spread, add a few more drops of milk. Froststop and sides of one 8 -inch layer cake. P.S.—If• a tinted frosting is. de- sired, stir in a few drops of food coloring, after all the sugar has been added. * * * CARAMEL PARTY CAKE lr/ cups milk, scalded 1 cup sugar 3 cups sifted cake flour 4 teaspoons baking powder - 94 teaspoon salt M cup shortening - - 1 cup shortening 1 cup 'sugar 4 eggs Heat milk in double boiler over boiling water. While milk heats, put 1 cup of the sugar in a heavy skillet. Place over low heat. Stir constantly until golden brown and sugar is' dissolved. Stir very slowly into bot milk and continue cooking until it dissolves again, 'stirring occasionally. Measure. Add addi- tional milk if necessary to make 114 cups. Cool to room tempera- ture. Line bottoms of two 9 -inch layer cake pans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderately hot, 375 degree F. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. . Beat shortening until creamy. Beat in the second cup, of sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat thoroughly after each. Add sifted dry ingre- dients to egg mixture alternately with milk mixture in this way: Add one-third of dry ingredients, then half the liquid; repeat, end with dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thoroughly after each addition, Pour into lined pans. - Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the cen- ter comes out clean. Cool in 'pans on wire racks, for 5 minutes, Loosen around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool. Fill and frost with Caramel Seven -Minute Frosting. CARAMEL SEVEN -MINUTE FROSTING 1/ cups brown sugar 2 teaspoons light corn syrup Few grains salt 2 egg. whites 5a• cup water 2 teaspoons grated orange rind ' Combine the first five ingredi- ents in the top of a 2 -quart double boiler. Place over boiling water and beat with a rotary beater or electric mixer until 'mixture holds its shape, about 7 minutes. ,Fold in orange rind. Fills and frosts one 9 -inch layer cake. Shelley's FeIIdv* — Hollywood actress Shelley Winters snuggles up close to her fiance, Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, as the couple arrive at New York's IdieWlld Airport. The 'tempestuous blonde movie star says they will wed In April "if thIngs work smoothly Mnouable swarms..k.,,,,arsera;.zr• Beaming Duo -Movie queen Elizabeth Taylor clasps hands wi h her new husband, Michael Wilding, shortly after arriving at a London airport. The 19-year'old star and the British "actor, 41, were married Feb. 22. It was the second trip to the altar for each of them. "Pardon me, but could you spare twenty-five cents for a cup of . coffee? Marriage Proposal Just 22 Years Late What an infinite variety of ways there are bf asking someone to marry you, from the old-fashioned "Will you do me the honour of be- coming my wife?" to the modern "How about getting hitched, baby?" - There's the proposal business- like, for instance. Never a second of time was wasted by Edgar Wallace, who dictated his hundreds of books at high speed. One day, his secretary was taking down a sentence when he stopped before the end and said, "What about popping round to the registry office and finding out what we have to do about it?" They downed tools, dashed round to investigate, got married, and after the ceremony returned to the unfinished sentence. One of the most cold-blooded and calculated proposals must have been that made by John Ward, of Scranton, U.S.A., to Mattie Weav- er. They met for the first time as members of a class to which a pro- fessor gave a lecture on courtship and marriage. Using the students as guinea - pigs, he gave different couples the reasons why they should suit each other. Ward and Miss Weaver were so convinced by his argu- ments that they immediately fixed the wedding date. Then there's the blind proposal, the parties • to which have never seen each other, though probably have admired a highly glamorous photograph, Sometimes such offers ' of marriage are made as the result of pen frienutdship, and, of course, film stars are quite accustomed to receiving impassioned proposals front their fats, It is estimated that 100,000 such "love" letters are received in Holly- wood each year. Tile postman brings Ann Blyth an average of twelve proposals a week, but six of then are from the same man, a Texan cattle rancher. - Sailors' Lucky Dip The blindest proposals of all have been made by sailors who throw overboard bottles containing offers of marriage to the first wo- man who reads them? One such proposal, though in this case it was addressed to a par. titular woman, has just reached its destination, twenty-two years too late. The man concerned was a cook on board the German' liner Thuringia, The bottle holding his proposal was found by someone on the Isle of Wight, who forwarded it to Germany, Neither the cook, who is now a baker in Sylt, nor his sweetheart, who lives near Worms -on -Rhine, had married—and they don't intend to do so nowt One of theseblind proposals had a very happy ending in New York quite recently, when Samuel Jamie- son married Myrtle Thomey, Two radio amateurs, they carried on their courtship by means of short- wave transmitters. One lived in Texas, the other in Indiana, so they didn't meet until their wedd- ing day. The proposal topsy-turvy is not uncommon when a woman sets her heart on a particular man. During the Napoleonic Wars, the March- ioness of Sligo was present at the Old Bailey when Sir William Scott was the judge trying her son. Sir William gave such a very paternal lecture that she sent up a note to the Bench saying how very good it would be for the young man if he could have such a father for the rest of his life. The judge accepted this tactful offer, In Somerset many years ago, a wealthy squire had a beautiful young daughter who fell in love with a handsome barrister. He took no notice of her, so she determined to attract his attention. Anonymously, she sent him a challenge to a duel, declaring that he had insulted her. Amazed, he arrived with his second to find a masked woman who pointed a rapier at his heart and issued the ultimatum: "Either you wed me or . you fight" She refused to let him see her face until he had made his decision. The young man racked his brain, his friend • advised hint that she must be a woman of character to show such initiative, and so the barrister agreed to marry her. Her beauty when revealed de- lighted him, and their marriage was a very successful one. He later became Lord Lieutenant of the country, Happily, the proposal romantic does still exist, judging by the evi- dence of letters to the Press Writen by quite ordinary people recently. A Suffolk woman was given five red roses, each with a small label on which was written one word. The whole sentence read; "Will you be my wife?" Another modern proposal took place in the middle of .a thunder- storm, The couple concerned were sheltering .in a telephone kiosk Their breath made the glass steamy, and the man wrote on it: "Will you marry me?" Not Dead Yet People write learned discussions full of statistics which are intended to prove, that Great Britain is finished as a great nation. We don't believe it and our disbelief has been heightened by an item we just read in a British paper. The actors were playing "St. George and the Dragon" in which St. George is supposed to slay the dragon with his lance. But it hap- pened that the dragon's lance bit the lance of St. George at an in- opportune second and St. George's lance went flying off the stage, grazing the lose of the flute player in the orchestra. St, George never hesitated, Ile tackled the dragon with bare hands, took his lance away from him and slew him right on schedule. • Furthermore the flute player with the injured nose retrieved his Adte aunt continued to play, hardly missing a note. You can't lick people like that. —Front The Wall Street Journal SLEEP TO -NI TE SEDICIN tablet* taken according se directions is a sale way to Indues sloop or quit the nerves when tense 51.00 Drag Stores onlyl orSedicin, Toronto 2. Like To Book Your Passage To The Moon? Are you thinking of emigrating? Is your eye on Australia? Or South America? Or maybe it's Africa? Well, don't make a hasty deci- sion. If you wait a mere 50 years or so, your choice may not be limited to these countries, or, in. deed, to any country on earth. By the end of the century it may be possible to emigrate to Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, or even the Moon. This is the hope, if not yet the plan, of the British Interplanetary Society, whose members claim, with the customary caution of scientists, that within 30 to 50 years they will have made the first trip to the moon. But it's no use trying, through the Society, to book your passage. You would probably be suspected of facettiousness, which is some- thing the Society does not encour- age. It is very sensitive to the fact that most people still regard space- ships and journeys to the moon as strip -cartoon and film subjects —entertaining, but hardly to be taken seriously. Like Tibet This is an idea it wants to cor- rect. The 360 "Fellows" of the Society —members with high scientific or engine -e ring qualifications— genuinely believe that - space travel is not only possible but probable— and soon. Many of them, working for the Government .on rocket research, are satisfied that even - with the materials they already have it would be possible to send an ex- pedition, to Mars (where the climate is believed to be like that of Tibet). The only knowledge they still lack is how best to assemble those materials into a spaceship. It is this problem,says the Society's chairman, Mr. A. C. Clarke, that is holding things ttp and may do so for several years to come. All Magic The poetry of earth, of course, is to be found in every created thing. Our spirits, when they're tuned to the right pitch of primal astonish- ment and delight, discover enchant- ment in any sun -warmed rock, any whisking October oak leaf, and shimmering drop of rain on the nearest blade of dooryard grass. The creation is one continuous and inexhaustible glory; this garden is all magic. Still, we're likely, most of us, to grow a little dulled, from a sort of fatigue of familiarity. We forget to be feeling the sunlight on us. We don't hear any more all the astonishing little earth - musics, such as, say, crickets' Whatever else we may neglect to notice, we are pretty sure to be struck and stirred by the tumbling, spring -bursting "conkerr-eel" of red -winged blackbirds in an April marsh, the honking clatter of wild geese in their autumnal passing ... The speed, the aerial expertness of birds is, of course, one of the first things about them to enchant us. We stand on an autumn hilltop and watch the migrant hawks flash by, or we see swallows skimming across the farm lands almost like darts of light, and in an instant we are caught up, in empathy, in the bird's world of rush and buoyance. How fast, really, do these winged brothers of ours go, up in their world of air and sunlight and the whistling wind? Most of the commoner small birds have a flying speed of about forty-five or fifty utiles per hour. (Thy: often go moth more slowly, of course; we're speaking of maxi- mums.) Doves and pigeons can go arrowing along at sixty-five: If the guesses of sonic nineteenth- century animalizers were right, back in the days when there were still passenger pigeons thronging the American sky, those may have been able to fly even more swiftly. The wild geese? They are able to touch seventy; and that's about the record speed, too, for ducks.— Reprinted from "This Fascinating Animal World:" by Alan Devoe. "After all," he points out, !It took five years and £10 million t4 get the Brabazon into the air, and this problem _ is .100 times ;more difficult,' Met and Argued The British Intetplanetary Society was founded in 1933—ten years before the first rocket was invented, and when the 'idea of visiting the moon only .existed in the minds of imaginative novetiste. Yet Mr. P, E. Cleator, a young engineer living in Cheshire, manag- ed to find about 100 men like him- self, who believed fervently enough in interplanetary travel to form {s society, In those days, recalls Mr. Clarke, was was an early enthusiast, all that the members did was to meet and argue. During the war the Society went into temporary retirement, though the members continued to argue by poat. In 1946 they re-formed the Society and, because the war bad made everyone rocket -con- scious, new members were not hard to find. For a subscription of about $5 a year the 1,129 "lay" members— those with no particular scientific knowledge—can go to the monthly meetings and attend lectures, exhi- bitions and film shows which keep them up-to-date with the latest developments in engineering. and . astronomy, Many of them went, last Septem ber, 'to the three-day Second Inter- national Congress on Astronautics (the first was in Paris in 1950), organised by the Society at Caxton Hall, Westminister. Here they , met delegates from interplanetary societies in fourteen different countries — for Britain, though she was one of the first, is not the only country that is reaching for the moon. The Society's "Journal," pub- lished monthly, caters for both kinds of members. "Far Too Risky" Mental stimulation is provided for Fellows in articles with titles like "A Note on the Use of Dim- ensionless Parameters in Astron- autics"; but less technically -minded readers can skip that andtura straight to the Notes and News column. Here they can learn that at the "Fifty Years of FIying" exhibition, Meld at Hendon in July, the ex - Lord Mayor of London volunteer. ett to go to the' moon—but on the second trip and that six boys be- tween the ages of seven and twelve, interviewed by a Society official about their willingness to go, said they were not very keen on the idea because they thought it would be "far too risky." SAFES ee Protect sour BOORS and CASH from FIRE and THIEVES. 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