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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-05-30, Page 2Costly Kisses! The big society wedding was over. The great congregation was%dispersing from the flower filled church. The pink-cheeked, lovely little twenty -three-year- old bride was being driven swiftly away with her young husband, through the busy American city, when they heard the sudden, shrill' whine of a traffic cop's siren; Puzzled, the bridegroom told the chauffeur to pull over to the curb and stop. Up roared the cop on his motor -cycle. "Have we committed a traffic offence?" asked the groom.. "Of course not," replied the cop, "but I just want to remind you that I've been in front of the church for two hours direct- ing traffic for your wedding. Now I want to claim the .privi- lege of kissing the bride!" Luckily, the groom had a keen sense of humour, and he re- plied: "All right, go ahead—if my wife doesn't mind." No, the bride didn't mind. Smilingly she allowed the good-looking young officer to give her a resounding kiss on the lips. Then the cou- ple's -ear sped on to the recep- tion. If a girl's attractive, it's ama- zing what some men will do and dare to win a kiss. When two impressionable bachelors heard that a lovely young actress planned to auc- tion a kiss for charity at a Lon- don ball, each decided to buy that kiss, however much it cost. Bidding began at £50 and was brisk until £2,000 was reached. Then most of the men began to drop out, but the bidding con- tinned. By the time £8,000 had been reached, only the two bachelors remained. They went on out -bidding each other until the grand total of 210,000 was attained..At this point the actress stoped the fan- tastic bidding and gave her £10,000 kiss—a long, lingering one—full on the delighted win- ner's lips. One spring day a Hungarian, Jovan Petrograv, was sitting In a park cafe near Zagreb when he noticed an attractive redhead sitting near him. She smiled at him, but a moment later she was joined by •a man. Jovan found himself longing to kiss the girl, but the Other man's arrival seemed to make that impossible. Suddenly, the pair surprised him by coming across to him. "I'm sorry to trouble you, but "OUR QUEEN" — Seven-year- old Christine Henderson, a London, England, schoolgirl prepares to hang her painting, Our Queen", at London's Guildhall Art Gallery. The Queen Mother has seen the youngster's work which was included in the gallery's 62nd exhibit of children's paintings. we need your help," said the stranger. "You see, I'm a mar- ried man and this is not my wife. My father-in-law ha"s just come into the 'cafe. Will you please sit with this lady to save me getting into trouble?" Jovan assented, feeling cer- tain that the redhead would give him a kiss or two if he helped them. Soon the girl suggested a stroll in the park. There, on a bench, she ex- pressed her heartfelt gratitude to Tovan and threw her arms round his neck, allowinghim to shower' her with kisses. Five minutes later the man came back, thanked Jovan very much for his good turn, and vanished with the girl. Jovan returned to the cafe and sat daydreaming about the lovely girl for the next hour and a half. Then, noticingit was get- ting late, he put his hand into his pocket to pull out his watch. But it had gone—together with his well-filled wallet and gold fountain -pen. Those kisses he had won in the park had proved very costly! When, during an invasion scare, in 1794, recruiting to Scot- tish regiments was going slowly, a beautiful woman friend of the Prince Regent bet him that she would be the first to recruit 1,000 men. She won her bet in less than a month. Her provocative rosy lips persuaded more than 1,000 men who would not otherwise have thought of enlisting to be- come soldiers. Every man she kissed and cuddled joined up within twenty-four hours! It's hard to believe that a kiss could result in a war, but that happened in 1703, when Ferdi- nand of Bavaria, during a visit to a near -by state saw a chim- ing girl walking in the park surrounding the palace of his royal neighbour. Her beauty'be- witched him and an impulse to steal a kiss proved irresistible. What Ferdinand did not know was that the charmer was a princess of the royal family and was engaged to be married. Worse still, her husband -to -be had witnessed the incident. There were hot words and blows were exchanged. In the duel that followed, both men were wounded. Diplomatic relations between the two kingdoms were suspended and war broke out. Some men will go to great lengths to steal a kiss. In Ne- braska a susceptible young man whose attempts to woo a slim brunette had been rebuffed, walked ahead of her as she left her office one evening and sud- denly collapsed on to the pave- ment and lay motionless. Believing he had fainted, she knelt beside him, Immediately he "recovered" and putting his arms round her drew her to him and kissed her heartily half a dozen times before she could free herself. She never forgave him. One stolen kiss is not enough to send, a man to jail, said a Canadian judge two years ago after an attractive sixteen -year- old girl had described how her former boy friend had awakened her with a kiss and then walked out of her home which he had entered at dead of night, In summoning him for assault she said she wouldn't have minded being kissed by him when she was going with him two years earlier, but it was "different now." The judge dismissed the case, saying to the young man: "I don't want to give you a crim- inal record for stealing just one little kiss." "I hear you've bought a tele- vision set to keep your children at home. Has the idea worked?" The neighbour considered the matter for a moment. "Well," was his eventual re- ply, "they don't go out now until all the channels close down for the night." FOR GAS -LESS DRIVERS—In Paris, French Inventor Ruiz Luciarte demonstrates for a young boy the operation of his pedal - propelled Quadricycle. He designed It for motorists hit by Europe's gasoline shortage. The inventor claims exceptional maneuverability for his 35 -pound, four-wheel cycle car which features 18 speeds. Luciarte introduced the Quadricycle at the Concours Lepirre, Paris' Annual Inventors"'Fain PLAYTIME FOR THE PRINCE—Bat in hand, Prince Charles (right) scampers over, the Chelsea play- ing field in London as he plays cricket with some of his school chums. It was Charles' first day back at school following the Easter vacation. CP .'�TA8LET.KS Any ii„, e1atw.Andiws "Can she make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?" was a question asked in an old popular song, implying that the perfec- tion of the pie making art was greatly to be desired in Billy Boy's and other boy's sweet- hearts, and no doubt the same is true today. So, girls, be sure to read and heed. this column! There are 3 parts to making cream pies—the crust, the filling and the topping. Use your favor- ite pastry recipe for almost any of the pies you want to make— but here I am going to give you the recipe for a special pastry that will give this lemon pie a festive taste. * * * Cream Cheese Pastry - 11/4 cups sifted flour 34 teaspoon salt 1 package Dream cheese, (3 -ounce) 36 cup butter Combine flour and salt and sift into a mixing bowl. Mix cream cheese and butter to- gether thoroughly. Blend cheese - butter mixture into dry ingre- dients until it forms a dough. Shape mixture into flat, round patty. Chill in refrigerator until firm. Roll about i/s inch. thick on lightly floured board or pastry cloth. Fit into a 9 -inch pan and trim one inch around edge of pan. Fold under and flute edge. Prick bottom and sides with fork. Chill. Bake in 425° F. oven until crisp and brown -12-15 minutes. Cool and fill with lemon cream filling. * * * Lemon Cream Filling 1 cup sugar cup cornstarch 3a teaspoon salt 2 cups milk, scalded 2 tablespoons butter 3 egg yolks, beaten 34 cup lemon juice 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel 1 egg white, beaten stiff Mix sugar, cornstarch, and salt in top of double boiler. Add hot milk slowly, stirring con- stantly. Add butter, blend. Cook over boiling water until thick, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Stir a small ampunt of hot mixture into beaten egg yolks. Add to remaining hot mixture, stirring vigorously. Blend in lemon juice and peel. Return to heat and cook 2 minutes. Re- move from heat and fold in stiffly beaten egg white. Cool slightly and pour into baked pastry shell. Make meringue border around edge of pie. Lightly brown me- ringue in 400° F. oven, 5-7 min- utes. Chill. * * * Meringue Vs teaspoon salt 3 teaspoon lemon extract 2 egg whites 34 cup sugar Add salt and lemon extract to egg whites and beat until they form soft peaks. Add sugar 1 teaspoon at a time; beat well after each addition. Continue beating until mixture forms stiff peaks. * * * Instead of spreading the me- ringue over the top of this strawberry chiffon pie, you fold it into the filling. Strawberry Chiffon Pie 1 baked 9 -inch pie shell 2 (10 -ounce) packages frozen strawberries (or equivalent fresh) 1 envelope unflavored gelatin 1 tablespoon lemon juice 3 egg yolks 34 cap sugar 2 teaspoon salt 3 egg whites 6 tablespoons sugar (for mer- ingue) Whipped cream Defrost berries and drain well. Sprinkle gelatin over ?/s cup of the strawberry juice combined with the lemon juice; set aside. Beat egg yolks slightly and mix with remaining strawberry juice plus the 2 cup sugar and the, ,salt, then cook in double boiler until thick, stirring constantly. Remove from hot water, add softened gelatin and stir to dis- solve. Stir in drained fruit. Beat egg whites until fluffy, add the 6 tablespoons sugar gradually and beat to make stiff meringue. Fold into fruit mix- ture and pour into pie shell. Refrigerate for several hours until set. Just before serving, wreathe with whipped. cream. * * Have you ever made a peach - custard pie? When peach season comes, try this it is a Penn- sylvania Dutch recipe. Peach Custard Pie 1 unbaked 9 -inch pastry shell 6 large fresh peaches 2 eggs, slightly beaten S/ cup sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch Pinch salt 134 cups milk Nutmeg or cinnamon (optional) Peel and slice peaches and ar- range in pie shell. Combine all other ingredients except spice. Pour over peaches. Sprinkle with spice. Bake 5 minutes at 450° F. Reduce heat to 350° F. and bake about 45 minutes longer. Beachcombers Make Clean-up As the tide ebbed slowly out a human skull gleamed white against the dark mud -flats. Once again the sea had delivered up a secret of the past. This time it is the skull of a killer's victim—or it is believed to be anyway that of car dealer Stanley Setty whose dismember- ed body was dumped from a 'plane on to the lonely Essex sea marshes seven years ago. Nearly always the sea is slow to tell its secrets, but no one can ever be sure that, given time, it will not throw back to land something thought to be safely hidden in the depths. In June 1949, a tightly sealed red case was washed upon the Devon coast, near Dawlish. Inside was a lavishly decorated official document giving a legal grant of arms to Charles Pelham Larne, of King's Norton, Worcester- shire; it was dated June 6th, 18911 A couple of years ago an as- pirin bottle was washed up on the western coast of Ireland con- . taining a proposal of marriage to whoever found it. The sender, a young American man, must been very confident that a wo- man — and an attractive one at that — would- be at the receiv- ing endl In fact, a Kerry girl fished it from the sea. The story and her picture was flashed back to the United States and the news- paper and television publicity brought the American lad to Ireland, hotfoot after the girl he had wooed in this strange fash- ion. Said the girl: "He's very nice -but I'll marry an Irish boy, thank youl" In 1928 an Australian, Colonel SALLY'S SAWES "The doctor can't be too busy. We haven't heard any yelling." Edward Bailey, started the In- ternational Bottle Club to co- ordinate the findings Of the hundreds of people throughout the world who throw bottles into the oceans to check tides and currents. The club has calculat- ed the average speed of a float- ing bottle is five m.p.h. and the fastest eight m.p.h. Some 400 years ago a small bottle came drifting' across the Straits of Dover to the shores of England. The fisherman who found it naturally opened it .. . and was nearly executed for his pains For it contined a red-hot poli- tical secret of the day. At once Good Queen Bess appointed an Official Uneorker of Bottles -arid hanging was decreed as the penalty for anyone who didn't take their finds to this official. The law of salvage has never worried beachcombers, those people who make a living by combing the world's seashores. And a very fat living some do make. A former Edinburgh com- positor became a beachcomber in South Africa — and left near- Iy $150,000 on his death. Professional beachcombers carve up search areas among themselves and go over the fore- shore with a wide rake. Here the best finds are nearly always just two feet down, where a solid layer meets the top fine sand. - Once a beachcomber finds a coin or a hairpin he knows he has hit on a spot where someone was sitting or playing. If the previous day was hot he may not bother very much, for people will have been in brief swimsuits, bikinis perhaps, and you don't carry many valu- ables in those. But if it was cool. holiday-makers will have worn more clothes and had much more to lose. And the things people do leave behind! Signed open cheques a will bequeathing over $10,000, love letters, complete bicycles, false teeth. artificial legs and glass eyes have all been found. After a storm the bigger loot comes rolling in. Barrels of beer, timber, rubber, cases of fruit, toys, copper, refrigerators, even a grand piano have been salvag- ed in one season off the south coast of England. JOY RIDE WAS "NO GO" Strange things happen some- times when women are let loose. In Gaevie, Sweden, nineteen - year -old Irene Karlson borrowed a motor -cycle to go for a joy ride. One thing ner boy friend had forgotten to teach her: how to stop the machine. She rode fifty miles until it ran out of petrol, then returned home by train. Ideas Have: Legs There is poetic—- and historic-- justice istoric-justice in the news that a bus - boycott in the Union of South Africa has ended with a moral victory for 50,000 Africans. Since - last January, the Africans had refused to board the buses on a 10 -mile ride from Alexandria to Johannesburg In protest against a fare increase. Under the com- promise settlement, the fare will ' remain 5 pence (6 cents), but the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce will sell natives a 4 - pence coupon wirth 5 pence on the buses. The miracle is that, despite 14,000 arrests, the white supremacy government could not crush the spirit of the strikers and force them to ride the bus. The boycott technique- will re- main to haunt the South African Government. The Africans, of course, adopt- ed their strategy from the suc- cessful bus boycott staged by American Negroes in. Montgom- ery, Ala. That is where the his- toric justice comes in. The lead- er of the Montgomery movement was the Rev. Martin Luther King, who drew his inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi's philos- ophy of passive resistance.And where did the Indian leader for- mulate his theory? In South Africa, where he began law practice as a young man in 1893 and remained for two decades. Gandhi, in turn, absorbed his philosophy partly from Tolstoy and Henry Thoreau, whose tract on Civil Disobedience has been a veritable handbook for all who seek justification for passive re- sistance. Thus, in circular fash- ion, the ideas of an eccentric Yankee individualist and a saint- ly Russian count have spun 'round the world and have pro- vided the oppressed with an hon- orable philosophy of resistance. At a time when it is sometimes fashionable to scoff at the power of ideas to bring out the best in men, it would be well to pon- der the lesson of the contagious bus boycott—Washington Post. Fashion Note MY FAIR LADY—You're ,never too old to look pretty believes 107 -year-old Mrs. Charlotte Bonner who gets "a hairdo from hairdresser Nora Breheny on her birthday.