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The Brussels Post, 1950-4-12, Page 7Here's How To Live A Century An English biologist, Dr Maur- ice Ernst, has gone to America t0 show three American million- aires how to live to be a hundred, Dr. Itirnest believes ire can achieve this if none of the men has any- thing organically wrong with theta. Their names .have been 1•ept sec- ret, bu t it is known that they chal- lenged the doctor to keep thein alive until they reached their cen- tury, Dr. Ernest is not the first man to believe that he can prolong life beyond the Psalmist's span of three score years and ten. Voronoff, Crile, Hobbs and Carrel are some of the experts who have also tried Some scientists say that any man who -lies before he is a hundred has, in effect, committed suicide. They agree that the gradual wear and tear of the organs eau be re- tarded, but so far no effective method has been discovered. One doctor thought he had found it when he injected himself with new sex glands at the age of seventy, but he died soon afterwards. The real secret of long life seems to be: enjoying every mom- ent and having too much to do to spare a thought for the passing of time. Winston Churchill, for instance, is ten years past the age wizen most men retire, but he is still very active. Lloyd George was such an- other. Bernard Shaw, at ninety-four, is as mentally active as he was thirty years ago. He enjoys life, and still writes. Rockefeller, who almost reached the century, lived a full life, He had no time to sit down and won- der dolefully how Tong he was going to live. He spent his youth and middle age huilding up an empire and his old age in controlling it, The Countess of Desmond was one hundred and forty years old when she climbed a tree for some apples. At .the top she slipped and fell, and the fall killed her, A Killarney woman, Mrs. Jo- hanna O'Connor, was still working in the fields at one hundred and ten when last heard of some ten years ago. She enjoyed a drink, had an excellent appetite and smoked the strongest tobacco. Her recipe was: "Never worry about •anything, but enjoy yourself." Scots Clans Are Gathering Again. The first gathering of the,Scot- tish .Claus in strength for over 200 years in planned to take place in Edinburgh as part of the Festival •of Britain celebrations in 1951. It is likely .to 'prove one of the biggestevents in Scottish history, lasting .several days and attracting Scots from all .over the world. The word "clan" means a social group recognizing a common ances- try. It vvas most developed in Scot- land where, for centuries, especially in the north, the country was divid- ed among the Campbells, Ivfac- gregors, Gardens and other clans, Each was ruled by a chief who had the power of life and death over his clansmen, and they usually serv- ed hint with remarkable Loyalty. The land was held by him as being the _common. property of theclan', breathers of a clan regarded them- selves as kinsfolk and the whole strength of the group was mobilized to support the claims of any individ- ual within it. In the old days this gave rise to inter -tribal blood -feuds. Members of individual clans were recognized by a special form of dress, The brightly coloured check squares of the Scottish plaid or tar- tan still serve this purpose. The staunch clan spirit remained first throughout the centuries, cul - minting in the rebellions of 1715 and 1745, When the Stuart cause was final- ly stipprevsed clanship was dealt a severe blow by the enforced aboli- tion of elan laws Which had existed for a thousand years, and the tut•- buleut clansmen were disarmed. When the last direct heir of the Itfergillivrays died In 18S2 laws were introclileed declaring that the pur- poses for which the clans once exist - al were no longer legal, and that they were not societies which the law acknowledged. Teacher's Got a Full House—The second grace teacher at: Sutherland School sees double and triple when she faces this quintet of 7-yeiir-olds. Thetripletsare Diane, Karen and Elizabeth Quist, and the twins are James and William Owen. "Checkmate" Means "The King Is Deacl" The first chess champion of the world was a Spaniard. Ruy Lopez, who was awarded the title about the middle of the sixteenth century. Chess is a very ancient game which is believed to have started in India about three thousand years before the birth of Christ. .One theory of its origin is that the game was invented to amuse a king of India who tired of waging war and wanted something to occupy lns mind. It was then known as "C l,atur- anga," meaning the game of four armies or four types of forces— elephants, horses, chariots, and foot soldiers. The elephant was equiva- lent to the piece now known as a castle or rook, From India the game spread to Persia, where it was known as "Chatrang," The term "cheelcmate" —which is used in chess to-day—is derived from the Persian "schach mat,'+ meaning "the king is dead." From India the game was taken up by the Arabs, who were the first to play it blindfold. They, in turn, brought the game to Europe during the eleventh century, Spain being the firs,t country to play it. It was not, however, until the nineteenth century that England be- came the leading chess -playing country of the world, when Howard Staunton was recognized as world champion until he was defeated in 1851 by Professor Anderssen of Breslau. One of the earlier champions was Andre Danican Philidor, who re- tained the title until his death in 1795. He was able to play blindfold, and created quite a sensation in London in 1783 by playing two games simultaneously without see- ing the board. A newspaper of the time report- ed: "It is a phenomenon in the history of Man, and so should be hoarded among the best samples of human memory, till memory shall be no amore." Since those days, however, the number of games that have been played blindfold has increased con- siderably. It has been known for as many as thirty-four to be conducted' simultaneously. Sign in New Yorlc bar: We do not serve women, You have to bring your own. LET� e1am; Andrews Few Cities are more fantods for "special dishes" than Philadelphia. One of the best known, of course, is Pepper Pot which, many years ago, used to be hawked through the streets of the Pennsylvania metro- . puli.e, - Yerhaps you'd like to try it some time. It's a really hearty dish of the "stick to the ribs" kind, PHILADELPHIA PEPPER POT 2 pounds honeycomb tripe 2 medium sized onions, chopped 2 medium sized potatoes, cubed 1 level tablespoon ground allspice 1 level tablespoon sweet majoram 1 level tablespoon black pepper Salt to taste Method—Cover tripe with water, add seasonings. When tripe is al- most done, remove from pot, cut in /-inch squares and return to the liquid. Add onion and potatoes. When the potatoes are nearly donne, add dumplings made as follows: 55 R DUMPLINGS 1 cup flour 1 level teaspoon baking powder TA teaspoon salt 1 level tablespoon shortening (fat) Water Method—Mix dry ingredients. Cut in 'shortening. Then add enough water to make a dough that can be easily handled. Put on a floured board and pat out. Cut into strips, then in /u -inch squares. Roll each square in the palet of the hands to make a small -sized marble. Put on a floured plate and drop one by one into the -boiling pepper pot. Cover and cook 20 minutes, then serve. * +n 5, Scrapple is another dish the folks - down in Philadelphia are partial to, served either at breakfast—in fami- lies where they take time to eat a real breakfast—or for Sunday supper. First I'll give you a tradi- tional method of evaleing it, then a quicker and less bothersome recipe. PHILADELPHIA SCRAPPLE 1 pound calf's liver 9 pound pork shoulder YA pound veal 1 large onion 2 cups yellow cornmeal. 1 teaspoon salt r,,,4 teaspoon pepper Method-13oil liver, pork, and iSTARTING - Next Week A GREAT NEW SERIAL Riders for the Hoot -Owl Pool by G. H. SHARP BE I YO 1 Packed with action and thrills—A color- ful, swift -moving serial bound to please lovers of Western fiction .at its best. SURE AND READ THE FIRST �STALMENT NEXT WEEK. -- U WON'T WANT TO MISS A SINGLE EPISODE veal with the onion until well done. Put all through a food chopper. Parboil the cornmeal in boiling salted water. Add the mew to the mush. Place in greased bread pan and cool thoroughly. Slicc about 34 -inch thick and fry, Fisc served with eggs. * 5 x QUICK SAUSAGE SCRAPPLE Method—Cook bulk pork sausage until done and pour off the grease. Make cornmeal mush, and when smooth add the cooked bulk saus- age which has ifeen run through a tine grinder. t,'ook mush -sausage mixture in double boiler 45 min- utes to 1 hour.- Pour into greased bread (loaf) pan and chill thor- oughly in cool place. When ready to ,use, slice about .3 in:b thick, dip each slice into flour arum brown in skillet in bacon fat. Serve with syrup. * 5 5 • Getting sufficient vegetables into the family isn't much of a taste if you happen to live where ttie fresh kind are available all the year 'rotnd. But when you have to de- pend on what you have canned or stored away, around this time of year they're liable to be tc bit un- interesting, unless you find new ways to "pep then ftp". Next time you think of serving beets, try then as BEETS IN 'ORANGE SAUCE 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 2 tablespoons flour 9.4 cup water - 1% teaspoons grated orange rind a/a cup orange juice IA teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper 2 teaspoons sugar 354 cups cookedbeets, sliced Method—Melt butter, stir in flour and add water slowly. Add orange rind, orange juice, salt, pepper, and sugar. Cook until smooth, stirring constantly. Add beets and heat. 8 servings, * # 5 Here, too, is a style you may never have tried for serving that other standby, carrots. SOUR -SWEET CARROTS 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 2 tablespoons flour teaspoon salt Pepper 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 cup hot water 4 cups cooked carrots Method—Brown butter, blend- in flour, and continue browning, stir- ring constantly. Add seasonings. Combine sugar, vinegar, and water and add to first mixture gradually; cook slowly until thickened, stir- ring constantly. Pour over hot car- rots, 6 to 8 servings, No Co-operation Discussing his tennis technique, a Stout, amiable, bald man panted, "My brain immediately barks out.a command to any body. '.Run for- ward, but fast!' it says, 'Start right nowt Drop the ball gracefully over the net and ten walk back slowly'," "And then what happens?" he was asked. And theft," replied the stout man, "my body says, 'Wino—eel' Warning note from newspaper. To avoid confusion, possibly pain- ful, it should be explained that "pickled blonde" In the furniture business means a kind of finish -- not what you think. A SAIF OINTMENT ..sooIhlinq Heeling P01117 eh' 'wil Thought Readings On The Air Some of the 551051 successful BBC broadcasts in years are concerned with thought reading Something so silent and intangible appears unlikely to make an effective broad - east hut two young Australians, Sydney piddingtou and his wife Insley, have been front page news in the British press whenever their "thought transference" programme has been on the air. It mystifies a large section of the listening public but whether it is genuine or a very clever trick is a problem: which the Pidrlingtons themselves do nothing to solve. "Listeners must decide for themselves," is their ans- wer, Lesley's apparent ability to read lice husband's mind is uncanny. In their first broadcasts they were in the sante studio and she was blind- folded but was able to identify with MSC such things as•cards her bus• bend picked out of a pack. In later broadcasts ,lie was in another studio, another building or another town but wherever she was she was able apparently to rommmni- rate with her husband, to identify objects and to quote lines out of books chosen haphazardly by the audience. Later on independent Judges were brought in, and before transmission both Ur. and Mrs, Piddington were stripped and searched by detectives s vviio made sure that no transmitting sets were rove• d<alel about their pet -sous. Ev- ery possible precaution was taken and still the 1'iddiugtons seemed able to communicate with each other without difficulty. For their latest broadrest Syd• ney Piridingtun and isms judges were in a BBC studio in London. Lesley Das a hundred and twenty :Hiles away in Bristol. Site took Off in a 13,O,A,C:. Stratocruiser, ac conipanie,l by about forty hardened reporters and a B131' commentator. Pefore the programme began the plane climbed through thick fog to fifteen hnn•'red feet and then com- mentator Hilbert Harding, wearing earphones, made contact with tate London studio, although Lesley could (tear nothing of what was going on. Members of the audience placed personal possessions into envelopes, these were carried to the judges, who selected five, opened them and passed the cons tents to Sydney. He, without speak- ing, "transmitted" the articles to Lesley in the plane, and within a 'few seconds she• had told listeners what they were, giving Correctly the number on a pound -note and the clues in a half -finished crossword. Even the reporters were astonished at this seemingly miraculous per- formance. Is it telepathy or is it a clever art? The Pidrlingtons aren't telling and _the BBC is satisfied to broadcast programmes that are of first rate entertainment value, whether the "thought transference" is genuine or not. Cold River Will Warm Concert Hall An 'ingenious system of pipes and pumps wiil be used to extract natural warmth from the River Thames and provide free heat for the $8,000,000 concert hall now be: ing built near Waterloo Bridge for the 1951 Festival of Britain Exhibi- tion. After - extracting the heat from the apparently cold Thames, scien- tists will generate high temperature with it. The plant they use will be or: show at the exhibition, The Thames water will be pumped by two aircraft engines, running on coal gas, to pipes con- veying a refrigerant liquid. As the warmth in the river water passes to the liquid, it will be transformed into a vapor. This vapor will be compressed in a pump. Its temperature will be tre- mendously increased in the same way as heat is generated in a bicycle Pump, - Advice to after-dinner speakers: If you don't strike ail in Eve utes, stop boring, MANOR CUCKOO CLOCK CHARMING OLD -WOW) TIMEKEEPER;-: - No. 2 (as pictured) Price $25.00 tt'itt'rn I'Dtt, ntsse PROSPRcxrs TO MANUFACTURERS MERCHANDISING (CANADA) LTD. 2067 Stanley Street, Montreal I-Iow The Moon F ols The Eye ...... One of the most baffling and as • yet unsolved problems that scien- tists are now trying to explain is the apparent alteration in the size of the moon as it rises and crosses the night sky. They know quite well that the moon is practically the same size when it first appears as it is when directtly overheard. They also know that the shrinking in size is an optical illusion, but exact- ly how that illusion is caused re- mains a mystery. Everyone knows that the moon on the horizon looks about three tines the size of the moon over- head, but though the moon can fool our eyes it can't fool the cam- era, and a filar of the moon rising shows it to be practically the same size all the time it is visible. Actually, when the moon is over - bead it should look bige,rr than when it is nn the horizon because it is about four thousand miles nearer to tis. But when we check this with our own eyes we find just the opposite, Astronomers have been trying to explain this illusion for centuries, Some thought the horizon noon seems larger because we compare it with trees and buildings also in the line of sight. wherea"s when it is high in the sky n, such comparison can be made. Others said that dust particles in the air distort the horizon moon and make it appear larger, But ask any sailor what he thinks of this explanation and he will give the lie to it, for at sea the moon illusion seems to be just as great, even though there are no trees or dust on the horizon. Astronomers have discovered that the size of a big harvest numn can be brought down to normal by looking at it through a tube or circle made by one's thumb and forefinger. The sante thing happens if you bend clown and look at the moon through your legs. Similarly if one eye is covered and the observer looks at the rising moon for a long time the illusion gradually disappears. A man who has lost an eye does not have any illusion at all. 'When the moon is overhead it can he made to appear as big as a horizon noon if the observer lies on his back. In that position itis eyes are in the same position as when lie stands erect looking at the horizon moon. What is the solution to the riddle? Scientists will not commit them- selves beyond saying that it has something to do with - the raising and lowering of the eyes. Perhaps you have some ingenious ideas on the subject, What, No Feathers? — One of nature's oddities is this strange creature caught by coon dogs near Mount Enterprise. The animal's head resetnbles that of a fox, and it has a tail like an opossum and feet like a raccoon. Stranger yet is the complete absence of hair and an extra tail starting to grow on its back. Charles Hudson, shown holding the animal above, The Famous Eskimo Jumping Game As the darkest part of night cane ou the inclination of everybody was towards some kind of celebration or entertainment for the visitors, and here Connie and I tried our luck with the others at the famous Es- kimo jumping game. Beside one of the tents the game had begun. 1 Ve understand that originally a walrus hide was always used for the junipers, but in this part of the ocean there are no wal- rus, and these people extemporized with a moose hide. The hide had a ' rope sewed around the edge for handholds. About fifteen people took hold of the skin, stretching it tight like a fireman's net. They chanted an jerked the skin taut and then slackened off in unison. The dancer stood in the center of the skin and tried to hold his bal- ance. If he succeeded he was shot higher and higher into the air. About the highest we saw dancers go on the hide was fifteen feet into the air. With a walrus skin and more ]tide holders the dancer can reach much greater heights. Many. of our party had never tried this game before and one or two couldn't be induced to try. The game looked easy, so upon being coaxed to join in, I gave it a try. 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