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The Brussels Post, 1951-11-21, Page 7, Great Sailor And Great Map -Maker 11/21ost mariners know nothing of how to make charts. Nor need they know. It is enough if they can read them. Cook himself then knew little of that infinitely patient craft. It was a reminder that his education was not complete. The squadron was confronted with a passage called the Traverse. It is still regarded as nasty a problem in navigation as the St. Lawrence offers. On the 9th of June (1760) Cook noted "ye boats of ye fleet engaged sounding ye channel of, ye Traverse." Two days later he observes: "Retia satisfied with being acquainted with ye Channel." He was still having trouble with his spelling. He was learning, pain- fully, that though few gentlemen could spell, and there were Admir- als who knew nothing of triangula- tion, and Captains who were hard put to it to take a latitude, he, be- cause lie was a laborer's son, must excel in everything, It was a curious rule, a wrong rule, but he recognized its truth. He was not a Yorkshireman and part stubborn Scot for nothing. He would learn. He would know more of every aspect of their complicated ,, trade than they did. )ares Cook was not a stern pian. He was a gentle man. Time would even weld those last two words into one. There was nothing pious in his resolution, for learning gave hint great pleasure. Perfection was the purest joy be knew. Before the siege of Quebec was over, Cook had become the fleet's most expert mapnaker. He was tireless. He was thorough, When Cook had noted rocks and shoals and current and meticulously put his findings down on paper, the job was done for generations. Wolfe consulted him, The senior officers of the fleet, through that trying summer carne to depend on hint. Cook — dangerously for his ambition — had become a useful man. He was a specialist. Many a car- eer has foundered on just that, Lieutenants and Captains who could direct a fighting ship in battle were ten to the penny. In the British squadron on the St. Lawrence there was only one James Cook. They would not have promoted him for all the tea in China. On the night Wolfe scaled the Heights- of Abraham, Cook was within hearing of the guns. But for him there was no glory. Because of his excellence he was chained to his obscure but all-important duty. Theti days later, at the particular request of Saunders, Cook was superseded aboard the Pembroke and appointed Master of the Ad- miral's flagship, the H.M.S. North- umberland, The Northumberland's Captain, Lord Colville, who suc- ceeded Saunders on the Admiral's return to . England, was aware of the prize he had secured. Nothing so quickly ironed the wrinkles from a Captain's brow as a capable plas- ter. To Colville, Cook was worth six hours' sleep a clay. On the passage down -river in t he autumn, three of the squadron went aground. The Northumber- land did not.—From "Great Sailor," - by John W. Vandercook. Britain `Washed Up?' What Nonsense! There have been gloomy reports, about Britain—for centuries—even from Englishmen. Two hundred years ago Horace Walpole wrote, "It is time for England to slip her cables, and float away into some unknown ocean." A few years later, under Chatham, Britain and her Empire rose to new heights Today, we again bear strange talk that Britain is "clone," 'finished," "washed up." That is wishful think- ing on the part of her enemies and by -others who are dismally ignor- ant of British history and British character. Britain's Gloom has been wished for by her foes or pro- phesied even by her friends in ages past and will be wished for or prophesied in.future ages. This is not surprising, because those men who think only in the bleak terms of materialism are genuinely puz- zled that a. magnificently decent people can survive in a hard world. Britain has known good days and bad days, but not doomsday, There was the 'Britain of the Elizabethan Age when she was only "half an island"—only England—ane when her seanlett destroyed the hope of Spanish tyranny to dominate the world and (lade North America possible as another home for her children. There was the Britain of the days of Charles the Second when she was in pawn to the French icing, and' of the days of Queen Anne when Marlborough's armies kept alive tine hope of free- dom in Europe. There was the Br'i- 'tain of 1776 when her Icing and his advisors forgetful of the rights and liberties of Englishmen, lost her American colonies, and the Britain of 1815, when at Waterlob, she again crushed a tyrant's threat to the freedom of mankind. ,Iu our owns time there was the Britain of 1938, which yielded at Munich, and the Britain of 1940 which saved the world. - From the Address of Mr. Lawrence Hunt, !slew York, at the Royal Empire Society, Montreal, October 16, 1951. A LE TALK eJag Anc> rows. Time to be at least thinking about those Christmas candies, isn't it? As it rule 1 don't mention individu- al firms or products iu these col- umns, but 1 feel that 1 should say that the hints on different types of anty, and the instructions on how to go about making them, are taken from a very attractive booklet sent use recently t he the Home Service Department of the Carna- tion Company Ltd. Equipment. The size and kind of pan used in cooling candy are im- portant. Enough room is allowed the mixture to cook without over- flowing. A two -quart pan is used for all these recipes except cara- mels, which require a three -quart size. Any kind of prat can be used, but the candy will not stick as readily 0 a heavy metal pan as in a thin one. Aluminum, steel and copper pans are ideal for candy cookery. A wooden spoon is best to use for candy making. A candy thermometer is an aid in determin- ing more accurately the tempera- ture to which candy should be cooked. * * * Cooking. Mix ingredients and cook over low heat, stirring Pre- cook over ntediun heat, starring quently, until sugar dissolves, then constantly, until candy is done. The acid in brown sugar will often cause candy mixtures to curdle. This curdled appearance wilt usu- ally disappear, however, after cool- ing and beating, * * N THE COLD WATER TEST Fill a small howl with cold water. Remove candy from heat when ,:, making test so candy does not continue cooping. Allow small drops of candy to fail from spoon into cold water. The Soft Ball Stage is reached when the drops can be gathered to- gether in a ball that will just hold its shape, but which flattens on re- moval from the water. The Firm Ball Stage is reached when the drops will form into a firm ball which does not flatten on removal. The Hard Ball Stage is reached when the drops will form into a ball which is ]card enough to hold its shape, yet is plastic. The Soft Crack Stage is reached when tate drops separate .into _ threads which are hard but not., brittle. The Hard Crack Stage is reached when the drops separate into threads which are hard and brittle. • * * CHOCOLATE FUDGE 2 squares unsweetened chocolate (2 ounces) 2 cups granulated sugar 5/8 teaspoon salt 1 cup evaporated milk 2 tablespoons butter teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup nuts, if desired Grate or chop chocolate Inc. Cook sugar, salt, chocolate, and milk slowly until sugar dissolves, stirring constantly, :Chen conk over mecliu10 heat to soft ball stage (235 degrees E.), stirring all the while. Cool. Add butter stud van- illa, Beat until fudge begins to stiffen. Add (tuts and continue to heat until crystalline, 'fern into buttered pan, Or knead until soft and plastic, and press into buttered pan to 0X -inch thickness, Mark in squares, Makes lij pounds. Note: Chocolate Fudge nay be made with cocoa instead of choco- late. Use la cup cocoa in place of chocolate. Mix cocoa thoroughly with sugar and salt, then proceed as above, Marshmallow Fudge Increase chocolate to 3 squares (3 ounces). Cuok, cool and beat un- til fudge begins to stiffen. Add 1 cup marshmallows cut Otto bits and continue to beat until crystalline. Peanut Butter Fudge Add tit cup peanut butter to fudge just as it is taken from heat. Cool and heat as above. * * * CREAM PRALINES 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1 cup granulated sugar 2 cups pecans (% lb.) cup evaporated milk Mix all ingredients thoroughly. Cook over medium heat to soft ball stage (236 degrees F.), stirring constantly. Cool slightly, then beat until mixture begins to thicken. drop candy rapidly from a table- spoon onto waxed paper or a but- tered baking sh8et to form patties. If candy becomes too stiff at the last to drop into smooth patties, stir in a little hot water. Makes 20 Patties 256 inches in diameter. * * * MEXICAN ORANGE CANDY 1 cup granulated sugar, caramelized cup boiling water cups granulated sugar . few grains salt 1 cup evaporated milk 2 teaspoons grated orange rind 1 cup nuts Place the 1 cup of sugar in the saucepan in which candy is to be cooked. Place' over medium heat and stir occasioitatty until sugar begins to melt. Then stir constant- ly until all sugar is melted and deep golden brown in color. Add boiling water to the caramelized sugar and cook to smooth syrup, stirring con- stantly. Add the 2 cups sugar, milk and salt and cook over medium heat to soft ball stage (236"F.), stir- ring all the while. Add orange rind. Cool. Stir in nuts. Beat until crys- talline. Drop from a teaspoon onto waxed paper. Makes 1}d pounds. MALLOW SQUARES 14 pound graham crackers (23/4 cups fine crumbs) 1 cup sliced dates (% pound) 54 pound. marshmallows 1 cup shopped nuts. 1 cup evaporated milk 2 AND THEREBY HANGS A .AIL Milliners will gnash their teeth when they see this new displayed hair -do, recently in Paris. For how could a gal wear a hat with such an arrangement of her hair? The weird coneshaned coiffure, featur- ing a long curl dangling like a tail, is the work of Serge, a Parisian hairdresser. Ingrid's Back—Film director 'Roberto Rossellini leans across a came'.° to give last-minute instructions to his beautiful wife, Ingrid Bergman, in the shooting of the movie, "Europe '51," in Rome, Italy. The Swedish -born actress "retired" from films last year after giving up her Hollywood life to marry Rossellini. Roll graham crackers line and re- serve ,fc cup crumbs. Cut marsh- mallows in eighths. Mix marshmal- lows with dates, nits and all but the 'z cup crumbs. Add milk and blend well, Spread the 54 cup crumbs. Add milk and blend well. Spread the 5.:c cup crumbs in a square 9 -inch layer cake pan. Roll mixture in the crumbs. Press to fit the pan. Chill, then cut into squares."Makes 36 -54-inch squares. DATE NUT ROLL 274 cups granulated sugar - 1 cup evaporated milk 154 cups chopped dates 2 cups chopped nuts • Cook sugar and milk over me- dium heat to soft ball stage (235° F.), stirring constantly. Add dates and cook to soft hall stage (236° F.), stirring all the while to blend dates. Add nuts. Cool. Turn into buttered pan. Knead until creamy and stiff. Shape hs a roll. 'Wrap in traxed paper or aluminum foil and chill, then slice. Makes 1!z pounds. Needed A Mirror To Read Her Writing Did you know that far more boys than girls are left-handed, that there is more backwardness among left-handed pupils, that the easiest way to find out a youngster's dom- inant hand is to ash him to unscrew a screw -topped bottle? Miss Margaret Claris, who has been conducting a series of experi- ments with school -children in Scot- land, has discovered that one boy in every three and one girl in every . four are not completely "right- sided." Her tests were also directed to detecting any preference by the children for using the left eye, foot or ear, It is Miss Clark's contention that children,who are left-handed would learn much more rapidly and ex- perience much less frustration if they could write from right to left. To have to write from left to right is a distinct handicap to the aver- age lefthander. Why is it that most of us are right-handed? Some scientists have suggested that primitive man learn- ed to realize that the left side of Isis body was mare vulnerable than his right. He did not know that this was due to his heart being two-thirds on the left side. But ex- perience taught stint that a wound in the left chest was more danger- ous than one on the right. It isn't certain, however, that right-handedness was always pre- dominant. Prehistoric itnplentents found in France about twenty years ago established beyond doubt that in that country left-handed people were at one time twice as numer- ous as right-handed. A physician has warned that it is a mistake to try to force a child to use the right hand when the natural tendency is to use the left. A stammer may thus be developed, but it is lost when left-handedness is permitted once more. All the cats drawn by that great artist, Louis Wain, were drawn with his left hand. Laurisecr could draw not only with hi's left hand Start The Day With A Prayer—Factory workers at the Gerber Plumbing and Fixture Company hold a 25 -minute chapel service in the firm's shipping department before beginning their day's work. The religious service 0 a daily custom inaugurated by the boss for the plant's, 100 em- ployees, Services are usually conducted by the Rev. Ernest Armstrong, a Presbyterian pastor. but with both hands at oncel For some unexplained reason most of the Egyptian Pharaohs were left- handed. A Cheshire doctor had a girl patient who discovered that she could write "looking -glass writing" with her left hand—a rare achieve- ment. The girl was left-handed, and OS getting her to write her name the doctor was surprised to see she was writing words that were clear and neat—but could be read only through a mirror. With her right hand the girl wrote imper- fectly and with considerable diffi- culty, Famous Epitaphs The story' goes that a Chinese statesman, wishing to know some- thing of the history of his people, collected the inscriptions on every tombstone in the vast Chinese Em- pire. Having done this, he advised the Emperor that the only way to im- prove his subjects was to kill all the living and resurrect the dead. At this time it was the fashion to devote epitaphs exclusively to . the virtues of the dead. Any attempt at humor or un- kind criticism was sacrificed to lengthy, and often untrue, recitals of the qualities of the deceased. The ancient Greeks, however, set a new fashion. After a great battle between the Spartans' and the Lacedaentonians (two of the rival states of the main- land of Greece) a memorial was erected with the inscription: "Go tell the Spartans, thou who passeth by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie." Today there are people who col- lect epitaphs as a hobby. Their col- lections range from long lists of Latin titles to the very simple and frankly humorous. "Excuse My Dust" The most, famous epitaphs are some of. the simplest. In St. Paul's Cathedral, London, for instance, you'll find an inscrip- tion in Latin to its designer, Sir Christopher Wren, which says: "If you seek Isis monument, look around." .Thomas Fuller, the seventeenth - century divine and historian, esta- blished a record for brevity with just the two words: "Fuller's earth." Another short and simple one is that of. Dorothy Parker, the Ain- erican writer and `humorist. She has written it in advance—being still very much alive.. - It reads: "Excuse my dust." Verse is one of the favorite and one of the most famous—and mediums for the writers of epitaphs, amusing—is the inscription which mourns the death of Thomas Ilyde: "'-fere lies Tom Hyde; It's a pity he died; \Ve had rather It had been his father ..." Many people have been unable to resist the desire to prat in their epitaphs. A well-known example of this is the inscription to a man named More in a London church: "One More and no more can tie here alone; But here lies one More, and that's more than one ' Another of a similar nature reads ., as follows: "Here lies lies Anne Mann; she lived An old maid and died an ole> Mann," Some of tine best collectors' pieces can be found in America. The code of the Old West, for example, is told on a natural rock gravestone in Cripple Creek, Color- ado; "I -Ie called 11111 Snaith a liar." While the career, political ambi- tions and .final demise of another Westerner are told on a simple epitaph its Dodge City, Kansas: "Ran for sheriff, 1872 Ran from sheriff, 1876 Buried, 1876." Lastly here is an epitaph which is ideally suited to the age in which we live—the age of speed anti trash. It was written by an Ameri- can, Leopard Robbins. "Here Hee a; '4Vhillikeut's friends, alf lave. He took theta along wltett he learned to drive. Wing 1000 Mile Race At Age Of 66! A few weeks ago, all eyes in Swe- den scanned the newspapers and all ears listened anxiously to the radio for the latest news of Gustav Haw- kanson—an amazing 001 man of sixty-six, with a long white flowing beard, who, when he was not ac- cepted as a candidate for the yearly national cycle race, front Haparan- da in the north to Ystad in the south of Sweden, decided he would compete off hi,s own bull Gustav had never been a pro- fessional cyclist—he only took it up three years ago—but he di- vided to ride to his ow( rules. After the first day's cycling be did not stop like the other competitors, but continued pedalling into the night. His bicycle was not a "speedster," but a heavy old grid with dynamo light, chain rover, packet holder—and "lots of things tied on behind." All the same, he led the field on the second day. r People thought it funny. He slept hardly at all, ate what was given to hint, or what he had with him, and reported for control at the local police stations in the towns at which he stopped. Some- times he would sleep in a police cell before continuing, one or two hours sufficed. At the end of the second day he had such a lead on the others—the professionals with their streamlined racing machines, and scanty shorts—that people be- came quite exciter!. By the fourth clay he was more than twenty-four hours alfead, and he had been nicknamed "Steel Grandfather" and "The Beard", Four times a clay the radio re- ported his progess, doctors were amazed at his vitality. At one halting place he was run into by a schoolboy, who brought hint off his cycle. Re- mounting, he continued the race and was able to give a fine radio interview at the end of the day, concluding by singing with an amazingly young voice before turn- ing in for forty winks in as many minutes. At another town, the workers of a certain factory admiringly bought a gold watch for the "old boy," He became the talk of Swe- den; and the forty -odd profession- als, racing to catch ]rim up but still more than a day behind, were ignored. As be neared the winning post, thousands lined the route an cheered him on, For their benefit, he put in a phenomenal final spurt --but with only half a mile to go he got a puncture! Undaunted, he continued on the rim of his back tire, to complete his well over 1,000 mile journey more than twenty-four hours ahead of the field! He now is the modest possessor of a big cheese, a sofa, an arm- chair, a gold wrist watch, two new bicycles, a mattress, a . new pair of trousers (lined with chamois lea- ther), coffee, cakes, fruit, flowers Os large quantities, to say nothing of presents of cash, and three con.. tracts to make, public appearances! The moral of this remarkable story is obvious: You're never too old to try! Strapless Bathing Suit: A com- promise between the law of de- cency and the law of gravity. TRUE CHIVALRY The chivalry of the ante-bellum South is not dead, according to Kay Kyser. He defines a typical od-fashioned Southern gentleman as a man who hadn't embraced his ' wife for six months, but shot an- other man who did. Evita's III — Reported to be desperately ill is Evita. Peron, above, wife of the Argentine president. - I HAVE GIVEN GOOD ADVICE During the nine years that I have been sponsoring mining - and oil shares I have made a lot of money for o lot of people. 1 made the first public offering of Silver Miller at 22c a share. I recommended, and sold, a lot of Pan Western Oil shares at 25c. I recommended, and sold, a lot of Jupiter Oils shares at 18c; Last week Silver Miller' sold at $1.50 a share. Pan Western sold at $1.75. Jupiter Oils sold etc $2.80. When 1 first offered these shares to my clients they were out and out speculations. Today all three are listed and traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. 1 Sincerely Believe 1 Have Another Good Low -Priced Buy If you are in a position to invest one or two hundred dollars in a low-priced mining stock, you might do yourself a lot of good by getting in touch with me at once. We have had gold booms, silver booms, oil booms and base metal'booms —in my opinion the next market move will be in uranium shares. Because I so sincerely believe that a lot of money is going to be made mining uranium, I am sponsoring a property right in the heart of the active Beaverlodae uran- ium field in Northern Saskatchewan On location alone, I feel that the shares should be selling in dollars instead of cents. From a speculative angle, I consider them to be the best low-priced offering I have ever made. Let Me Tell You About Baska If you would like to know why I'believe Baska Uranium Mines shares are a better buy at this early stage than was Silver Miller, Pan Western Oil and Jupiter Oils when I first offered those stocks, send me your name. By return mail I will send you complete information. If you canget a copy of October 15th issue of Maclean's Magazine now on the newstands, and read a full-length article about the Beaver - lodge Uranium Area entitled "The Hottest Square Mile In The World." After reading it you will better understand my enthusiasm and why I believe we are just getting ready for a big market move in uranium shares. And whether or not you have ever bought mining shares, drop me a line or mail the coupon below. Doing this could be one of the best moves,you ever made. HUGH T. BORTHWICI( & COMPANY (H. T. Borthwick, Sole Owner). 21 King Street East, Toronto, Canada. Dear Mr. Borthwick: Please mall me information about Baska Uranium Mines Limited. 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