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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-3-14, Page 2Mystery of the Great Pyrarnid& "rhe Egyptians belirtcd in a life After death, and around that belief built a religion. The religion of t?Siris, the god or the hereafter, and of ft, ka, ibc vi .d force or spirit a'f 01111. For the !tell -being ..i the ka,. :after the booty's ,loath, the body had to be pr, sewed, and this ',as dont as ,krlludty 111.11 the mun1tnit • 01 the Eittn ia0 Lind, and uneens still show u1 vc+'y chart- :nein they 4,oked like. it v,15 this Indict in a Gnure life ;(tat was tate motive for perantids and ihr clahorate burial 17114170,5 of the Egyptians. .Altogether there are nine hundred yyratniels dotted about Egypt, but it is the group of nine at Gizeh, near Cairo, which are known a, the Great Pyramids. The largest of all is called the -pyramid of Cheops, and it is these Pyraniirls which were foremost in the list of the Seven Wonders of the World in the minds of intelligent !Greeks at the beginning of the Christian era. These colossal tombs had first been described to the European -world by Herodotus, the Greek historian and traveller. His name for these four-sided erections, the triangular sides of which converge front a square base to a sharp apex, was Pyratnis. The plural of this in Greek was Pyra- mides, and it is from this word that the English expression Pyramid has been derived. It was Khufu, an Egyptian king and called Cheops by the Greeks, ,'ho built the Great Pyramids, the largest of which covers nearly thirteen acres. Its base is 755 feet long at each side and its height 481 feet. A hun- dred thousand men worked thirty years to erect this six -million -ton .monument to a single man's mem- ory. Another hundred thousand men worked ten years to build a road from the Nile to the site of the workings. And there is still doubt As to quite how that immense edifice was raised. The Pyramid of Cheops is some six thousand years old and was built obviously, in an age long be- fore machinery. One school of thought itas it that the Pyramid was built by first lay- ing a sloping road and dragging the :tar Returns - Helen Hayes, long recognized as one .of the lop actresses of the American etage, is shown here in Holly- wood shortly after she agreed to her first movie in 16 years. Miss IlaYes, who is 49, reveal- ed that one of the reasons she accepted the part was That she .could get to play a woman of SO, which would allow her to acct without worrying about camera angle. forty -ton blocks of stone oo rollers, gradually increasing the slope of Rite road to reach tip the Pyramid ms it grew. It is argued, though, that the •flask of building, re -sloping and then disposing of such a road would lave been even greater than that of building the Pyramid itself. A more likely suggestion is that (the stones were raised, ane by one, try sty.` eat of levers and plain enan-lr--aided considerably by liberalpt.;a$ of the lash. ThF.1''frantid was built to he •.15141,,pwhen the time came, as a tomb for Cheops, and was con- structed on a geometrical plan. et 'The Perimeter r ,the four , r )t sides lac txa'tiy the north, south, east and west. "Whatever the sys.ent of Construc- tion employed, the finished result hof ,e name rivet 'ts'wort v t1 t i. given to it by Chcop.> ill called it lxhut, which means glory, and it most ceretinly deserves that name. But by far the most marvelous accuracy lies in the fact t That a ven- tilating shaft. was 1 1 10 the royal "chamber with such uncanny preci- sion that the dead I h:u•ob's face was illuminated by 'be 1)og star when it crossed "the meridian, thus marking the beginnnit, o! tom Rgye- e, f titin y.n,. The iridescent color of -t duck'e wing patches is not due to pigment, (hut to submicroscopic prisme break- ing the light: on the surface of the feathers. Canadian, Manual Now Available Os Atomic Survival 5,e•:t ge '. Mooney, eon ie. street, r, annommee that tee Cdna• ,Batt Federation of Mayors :utd t\iu- nicipalities has lirepared a booklet entitled "Can You Survive:", ries! of 11s kind printed tit !'sass. cover- ing precautions which should be taken by individuals ill the (,rent of a bomb attack in general and an :.!muni- as.asds in particular. The text for this manual was adapted 1 1 Canadian romirruu ut; after au exhaustive Andy of hnlletits print- ed hy. the United States and Bri- tish governments, 1:uious civil de, fence organizations in Ili Untied States, and further research into -ranches and paper. on this suhiect by qualified expert. "Publication of this booklet," dr- elarea Mr. Mooney, "should not be construed as an attempt to create any undue concern or alarm re- garding an atonic attack in Cana- da. Flowerer, the world situation is precarious and becoming more so each day. We feel, therefore, that any prec:uniolls with which Canadians can familiarize them- selves should be welcome even though the possibility of attack is remote. "We have published the booklet in the interests of public safety with the (tope that we can, in a small measure, assist the civil de- fense authorities in the municipal- ities across Canada in an essential and vital educational campaign, de- signed to lessen the evil conse- quences of a hostile air attack. There can be no room for com- placency in our outlook and, as in the case of disease, we must be prepared to mitigate the conse- quences should we ever be face-to- face with a calamity of this mag- nitude," Mr. Mooney advises that all in- quiries regarding the booklet, "Can You Survive?" utay be directed to the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities, Mount Royal Hotel, Montreal, Quebec. The =n- atal will also be available in French., Up On A Mountain With 14=Ton Magnet Perched precariously 11,780 ft. up in the Swiss .Alps in a tiny alu- minium cabin which is Europe's highest observatory, four scientists -three Englishmen and an Indian -are keeping a day and !tight vigil for four months. They are studying cosmic rift's, the mysterious radiation from outer space which at this height are more than 25 times ns strong as at sea Level. The scientists' futuristic - looking cabin was cut into the solid rock by Swiss engineers, In it is crowded amazing equipment worth thousands of pounds, including an , apparatus which automatically photographs and records cosmic rays. They arc also issing a 14 -ton elec- tromagnet which took weeks to as- semble and take to the top of the mountain, Jungfranjoch. The men work in an atmosphere so thin that they find it hard to breathe. But to them the strange experiment is well worth while, for they hope to throw light on the origin of the V -particles, so called because their tracks on a photographic plate re- semble a V. The particles niay be the key to the atom's inner core, the composition „f which is un- known. Below the tutu's cabin, at the foot 4f a lift, is a 500 -yard gallery which leads to the scientists' living guar- - ters. The scientists do their Own cooking in turn, btweeu work shifts. And they have found that the low atmospheric presenre make the task of boiling things at normal tem- peratures very difficult. But the inen's bedrooms have running water and central heating. A beautiful woman can get any- thing -except her husband's point of view. Room Drintler Multiphes Stara B1` rDNA: 141LE$ FOR those whose dream houses are still just dreams, American furniture designers offered a number of pieces of interest in recent winter Market showings. Outstanding among these is a room divider created to serve a double purpose as partition and storage space. If your family relies upon one room for all aspects of daily living, you might find this piece useful for screen- ing off a nook for the baby's crib, for separating e' dining area from the rest of the room, or for shutting it corner kitchen from general view. Storage space -which includes drawers, open counters, and shelves enclosed by sliding doors ---is accessible from both shies. ' The divider (at right). is made tap of metal, dimpled ,and plain plywook and plastic panels, and stands 511 inches high., It is four feet wide with panels obtainable 1t seven different colors, which may be combined to suit thepurchaser's taste. Also helpLul to those not yet permanently settled is multi-purpose furniture. There's a h -end away from liv- ing room or bedroom( suites as such, and many new pieces may be swapped from room to room as they're needed. The two -drawer night -stand that graces your .bedroon today (night well double as a corner table in your living room next time you shift quarters. 0 TABLE bane Anc6ew '. Our first three recipes today have no claim to novelty. As a matter of fact they were contributed by ladies who took them originally from their grandmother's store of prized reci- pes. But for all that t think you'll find thein all well worth trying - and possibly storing up for future generations. By the way, although the first one is called ''cake" it's really a sort of bread. CUSTARD CORN CAKE 2 eggs T4 cup sugar 1 cup sweet milk 1 cup sour milk ' Salt to taste 1 teaspoonful baking soda 1% cups yellow corn meal ?a cup flour METHOD -Mix well and pour into a frying pan or flat saucepan -or, if you prefer, a baking dish - in which two tablespoons of butter have been melted. Just before put- ting into the oven, pour into the centre 1 additional cup of sweet milk .-- without stirring. Bake in hot oven for half an hour, or until it is golden brown and thoroughly cooked by the straw test. There should be soft custard in the centre where the milk was poured. 1 "•Phis cake" says its sponsor, "titouglt not especially rich, is of fine texture and when iced with the orange icing just melts in your mouth. GRANDMOTHER'S YELLOW CAKE 3/4 cup butter 2 scant cups sugar 3 eggs 3 cups flour (sifted before meas- uring) 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla METHOD -Cream butter and sugar together well and add eggs 1 at a time, beating tong and well after each is added. Sift baking powder and flour together and add this mixture to butter - sugar - egg mixture alternately with the milk. Add vanilla. Bake in,2 layers or a loaf pan, layers require about 25 minutes and loaf about 45 minutes. ORANGE ICING 1 tablespoon butter, melted Orange juice Powdered sugar METHOD - Cream sugar into butter and add orange juice and continue creaming, Keep adding sugar andjuice and creaming until there is plenty to cover calve. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Llmb 4. Discard ns worthless 5. Luzon native 12. Rind of bean f8. Brazilian macaw 14. two -wheeled Carriage 13. Left at death 17. Whole 11. Deadly pale 20. Snug room .32. (Orden implet.ents 2,3. Water aa. Cistern 18. A in erican fasts: •^0, sterna: Map :13. Cocain' ing 'able 35. ileWTakes 38 Takes ant 17. Ratline :,almaI 98 Seokriver ee cow 111015men 42 Small t,tnrrel As Pi nem. rite 400. Nelle , -09 4n,n,a fit Witt Iran' I Agri ,4. 1),tnC d , . et - 1,7 r Irr- t'•ir 1.67 n 9. 4,-,•1^., 5511:,1 t.on Lr .,ran f. nriti 1 4, nrv,.., rnr ',115't77' 11. l-upoehn 35. Showed to a I4, City In Scot- sent land :17. Devoured 18. Pronoun 40. Incendiarism 31. Self. 41, Rodent 24. waken 42. Coveringof 25, Tight high pers 'rook a chair8. wicked a3. 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METHOD -Squeeze orange juice and add enough boiling water to make I cup; pour over dates and • grated rind that have been mixed together. Stir in the soda and then sugar, shortening and vanilla. Add the beaten egg, than the hour, bake ing powder and salt that have been sifted ingether. Beat thoroughly and stir in the tuts. ]lake in moderate oven 350 degrees. Cool in pan be- fore icing, 1 5, .t Next comes an Italian -style may - 'Make '-manse that snakes a really delight- ful rlreseing for any sort of vege- table salad. ITALIAN MAYONNAISE 2 egg yolks 1/4 teaspoon white pepper % teaspoon sugar 3 tablespoons vinegar or lemon juice 2 cups Salad oil 34 cup grated onion TA on a teaspoon alt z p tee teaspoon dry mustard 1 teaspoon prepared horseradish 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 2 tablespoons crumbled nippy cheese. METHOD: Beat egg yolks, add sugar, salt, pepper, mustard, horse- radish, vinegar and beat. Add salad oil slowly, about 1 tablespoon at a time, beating after each addition, until 1 cup of oil has been used. Add retraining oil ee cup at a time, beating well after each addition, Add garlic, onion, and cheese. Makes about 2% cups. Finally, here is one from the Balkans -a stew that is a great favourite with the Serbians and which is a very tasty dish. Econo- mical, tool SERBIAN STEW 2 gloves garlic, quartered pounds shoulder of lamb 1 pound green beans 1 can tomato paste 1 cup water 4 tablespoons chopped parsley Salt and pepper to taste METHOD.' Fry garlic in a lit- tle fat until brown, then remove front pan. Cut lamb into 2 -inch squares and brown well itt gariie- flavoured fat. Add _ cup of water and simmer until tender, Add pars- ley, beans, cut in 1 -inch pieces, salt and pepper, and sinmter until beans are cooked. Add tomato paste and retraining water and cook five min - toes longer. Serve with •boiled rice. (Serves 6). Nothing But A "Rolling Stove" A good many years ago 1 acquir- ed a small portable camp cookstove of distinctive and original design, which had been my inseparable, if fragrant cotnpanion on many expc ditions to and fro upon the world on one mission or another. Since Connie and I had settled clown in rural New England this little ob- ject always went with us 00 picnics and the like, as a convenient means of heating tap soaps or , , . what- ever when in a hurry. It was a sort of international stove, as far as background goes, for it was an Austrian infringement of the Bri- tish Prisms Stove, made in Czech- oslovakia for the trade in Russian Central Asia. I had. bought it at a French store in Damascus at a time when I happened to be work-, ing for a British Archaeological society. It had cost 1210 ne little trouble learning how to put the thing together and get it working, for while the instructions were neatly p•'inted on the box, they hap- pened to be in Russian, Pushtu, and Chinese. The lavender -tinted box contained a variety of fittings which, when properly screwed together, formed a squat bras, bellied affair like a votive tripod, not much bigger than a teapot. A preliminary fire of alcohol had to be ignited first to beat up the coils, then when these were good and hot one pumped air into the machine's stotnach and -provided all dietary rules had been • observed -the burner on the lop sprang into a roaring 11ame like a blow torch, which is indeed what the little thing was, generically. The main fuel was kerosene, and While I (did not know it at the time, the principle was exactly that of the main burster of a Stanley Steamer. Remember at ail limes that a Stanley Steanterls really a rolling stove -a kind of self-propelled fur- nace. It may look something like a e.cnvcntioual automobile, but it isn't All it Itas in common is four wheels anti the steering mechan- ist:. The similarity stops and col- lapses in 0 111119,' -'Front "The Story. of a Stanley Steamer," by George Woodbury. k' Just ask what's good for ct UG A SINGLE SIE` TELLS WHY Some of Our Early Canadian Artists Painting is the most nationally expressive of all the arts in Canada, for within the general circumference of painting is a small, recognizable arc which is distinctly Canadian in manner. The catalogue of the Na- tional Gallery of Canada contains a section describing the works of the "Canadian School" of painters -a bold attitude for Canadian offi- cialdom to take, but a justifiable ;and necessary one. 'The country's art history dates from recorded times- when white explorers and settlers first came to , the New World, Early French art in Canada, patronized by the Church, was mostly ecclesiastical, untutored, and . unambitious, and cannot be considered in any sense the basis of the eecelient painting of modern French Canada, The earliest works by English artists were mainly reportorial drawings and paintings by ncilitas7 men and surveyors. The first Canadian painters to gain personal recognition and pres- tige were Paul Kane and Cornelius Krieghoff. Kane, who as a boy caste from Ireland to make his home in what is now Toronto, be- came noted for his faithful re- cording of the personalities and cus- toms of Indian tribes in all parts of the land which subsequently be- came Canada. He even tnade a ha- zardous trip' across the Rocky Mountains in 1846 to do a series of paintings of the Pacific Coast Indians.' Krieghoff, a youthful lin- migrant from Germany who made his home itt Montreal about 1840, became a renowned painter of the atmosphere and customs of the de- vout, lighthearted people of rural French Canada. Both artists were highly competent, technically and intellectually, and their works are prized today and sought by collec- tors:, -Front "The Cultural Pattern," by Walter Herbert, in "Canada." Edited by George W. 13rown. Alas! Alas; For The Party••Line Phone R r r r1 ring! Irlles, crntr.tll \\ a don't ' tt:utf .uty 1amber. p4•as' \\e ills! rang ,in h.r at chat I Y1 11511' we . '1' is he re ilte old rr" •utk nnI huller farm Ielepltone +' on its w:q' utl. \Vs' think snunrhod \ night .bed it tear. Por shame, and petit 'finite, have e one: to a tine pass When 0e :1111- 1.011 a rural party line and our mod- est youugnt(11 think aver' talking Isfosrow politics. 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