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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-07-10, Page 2• Champagne Cafe When the Cafe de Paris in London first opened its doors in 1924 it was a dismal flop. Hardly any customers turned up and the place was .semi -deserted for weeks. • Then Martin Poulsen, the Dan- ish owner of the Cafe, remem- bered that the Prince of Wales (now the Duke of Windsor) had once said he would be pleased to visit any restaurant that Poul - sen owned. He decided to take up the promise and got in touch with his royal friend. The Prince replied that he would be only too- pleased to come along and named a date. Poulsen got to work. He sent telegrams to all the various so- ciety people of the day inform- ing them that His Royal High- ness would be attending the' • Cafe.. On the night the place was packed to capacity when the Prince took the floor for a waltz. Poulsen's gamble had paid off. From that day on the Cafe de Paris was the mecca of society. Charles Graves relates this story in "Champagne and Chan- deliers," which tells the story of the famous cabaret spot from its opening to its ending as a rock 'n' roll haunt last year. One night after the war Sid Field, Sir Laurence Olivier and Danny Kaye paid a visit. For a joke, they posed together light- ing three cigarettes from one match, A member of the staff standing near -by remarked that it was unlucky and that the eld- est Of the three was due for some bad luck. ' "Nonsense!" replied Sid Field. "I'm the eldest, We don't be- lieve in superstition," In a mat- ter of days Field was dead! Sir Laurence Oliviers wife, Vivien Leigh, was taken ill, and Danny Kaye just escaped with his life in a 'plane crash. Packed with anecdotes from cover to cover and lavishly . il- htstrated, the book recalls all the sparkle and glitter Of what was the most fabulous night-spot in the world. Rich Rewards Nobody gives anything away for nothing nowadays, charity aside. But if you can grow an outsize white marigold this suiiimer, a brew York firth will pay $10,000 to the first person to send them seeds. If you can papture a plant bug able to with- stand a dole of dieldrin—twenty- two times more powerful than DDT—an. insecticide manufac- turer has a $15,000 reward wait- ing, Are yoti interested in hair re- storers? An American wigmaker is so sure that wigs are the only answer to baldness that he has publicly made an offer to pay $10,000 to anyone able to grow hair on his own bald pate. And if you're interested. in TV con- struction, a leading aerial manu- facturer has a similar sum wait- ing for anyone able to develop a TV aerial small enough for indoor use, yet powerful enough to provide fringe area reception. Then there's $1,000 waiting for anyone who comes along with a satisfactory "captive cap" for toothpaste tubes. One inventor came up with a cap attached to a spring -clip but the manufac- turers decided that both the cap and the clip could get lost. There's a snag in most of these challenges, in fact. Collected to- gether in a recent survey, they are legally valid but mostly im- possible to perform at the pres- ent time. Thus the National Dog Welfare Guild, in America, offers $1,000 to anyone who can prove or dis- cover a cure for rabies and some of the other ailments of man's FOOD FOR THOUGHT — Girls seated at mail -sorting keyboards are the "cooks" in this automat -like room in the Washington, D,C,, post office, above. Each girl can handle nearly 18;000- letters a day Once letter Is coded for distribution by Belgian- made device, it's automatically pigeonholed for distribution to delivering offices. TABLE TALKS eiam Andre -1w. Top these two coolers with slightly sweetened whipped cream if y o u want a frothy drink. Use a dash of cinnamon, too, on the banana drink. Each serves 4. GRAPE COOLER 1 pint milk, well chilled 1 pint cold grape juice Whipped cream Stir grape juice into the milk. Top with whipped eream. * * * BANANA COOLER 4 fully ripe bananas, flecked with brown 4 cups milk Whipped eream Peel bananas, slice into a bowl and beat until creamy. Add milk. Top with whipped cream; sprin- kle with cinnamon. * * * And here's another summer favorite! STRAWBERRF CRUSH 1 oup sweetened fresh crushed strawberries (or frozen berries, thawed) 4 cups milk Strawberry ice cream Combine berries and milk and mix well. Top each glass with a scoop of strawberry ice cream Serves 4. * * * Your teen-agers may enjoy making their own sodas, so be sure to have on hand a supply of the following — and then let them take their choice of fla- vors: Tall glasses, straws, long - handled spoons, chilled spark- ling water, a variety of flavors and fruits, and plenty of ice best friend. In Holland a social research institute offers $6,000 to anyone who can merely find new ways of controlling popu- lation. Perhaps the biggest uncollect- ed reward is the $25,000 on the head of a brown -eyed, dark- haired man wanted in connec- tion with a New York bank rob- bery of five years ago. Probably Johnnie Mazziotta has long since left America. Worth $25,000 to anyone, he may have sat beside you in the train and he must be somebody's next-door neighbour! $UPERCHAIN SMOKER — Puffing up a storm, this experimental. heart pump consumes cigarettes at superchain-smoking speed. Nonsmoker Dave Sutton, a Minneapolis -Honeywell engineer, lights up another for the voracious machine in a sealed room where designs for electronic air -cleaning equipment are tested. it would remove stale tobacco odors from home or office. cream in the refrigerator. The making is a simple process. Into the tall glass put, first, crushed fresh or frozen fruit er syrup; stir into this a spoonful of ice cream or whipped cream or 3/4 cup light cream. Fill glass three-quarters full with chilled, freshly opened carbonated bev- erage; float on this mixture 2 dippers ice cream — then add more carbonated beverage to fill to the top. * * * Chocolate drinks are popular all the year round, and for a new drink try adding a little oil et peppermint tO the milk chocolate. CHOCOLATE MINT DRINK 2 squares unsweetened chocolate 1 cup boiling water % cup sugar 4 tablespoons marshmallow topping drops oil of peppermint 1 quart milk Melt chocolate in top of double boiler over hot water; add boil- ing water and cook 8 minutes. Remove from heat; add marsh- mallow topping, and beat until smooth. Add peppermint and milk. Combine well, Serve in chilled glasses. Serves 6. * * * In case you've forgotten, frost your tall glasses this way: dip rims in lime juice (or any other fruit juice that blends with your drink) then dip in granulated sugar immediately. Use 8 glasses frosted in this manner for t h e following cold, fruity drink, PERSIAN PUNCH ?ii cup sugar 1 cup water 23/4 cups lime juice 13/4 cups loganerry juice 1 cup white grape juice 1 cup crushed pineapple with juice 8 sprigs of mint Boil sugar and water together for 5 minutes; cool. Add fruit juices and pineapple with juice and chill thoroughly. Pour over finely crushed ice in tall frosted glasses; top each glass with mint sprig. * * * A spicy taste is added to this Hawaiian punch with cloves and cinnamon. If you want it pic- turesque, use a pineapple spear as a garnish in each glass. HAWAIIAN PUNCH 2 cups water it cup sugar 8 whole cloves , 1 stick cinnamon 1 bottle — 8 -oz. — crapberry juice cocktail 2 6 -oz. cans pineapple juice concentrate, diluted 1 bottle (28 -oz.) ginger ale, chilled Heat water and spices to- gether; simmer gently 5 min- utes. Chill. Mix remaining ingre- clients; strain chilled syrup and add. Pour over ice and add gin- ger ale just before serving. Makes 3 quarts, BEE NUISANCE Lots of people, before this summer ends, are going to be stung by bees. A solitary jab does little harm. When attacked by a swarm, however, 11 is a different story. There is only one thing to do, a Government apiarist advises, • and that is to "run for it, and take shelter." What you must not do is to fight the bees. To kill or cripple a single one of those attacking you is asking for trouble The smell of a crushed bee merely incenses the others and rouses them to concentrate with added. fury on the "killer." Swap Wives For Change .Of Diet! ' In an igloo in the Spence Bay area of Arctic Canada an Eski mo lay sick, moaning and call- ing out: "I am dying! I am dy- ing!" The family sent for a noted shaman or witch -doctor, Eeehe- vilitak, who asked for the lamp to be dimmed, shut his eyes, threw back his head, made a humming noise, swayed gently, then became quiet and held out his hands before him.; Suddenly tiny figures of dogs and men began jumping . down from the ice -window ledge above the sick man. They ran about the shaman's hands, , sprang over to the sick man lying on furs. The shaman stood still, mumbling quietly. There were tiny dogs on ;the floor, jumping up towards him, which he patted back with one hand. The sick man stopped wrig- gling and moaning. The tiny figures returned from him, jumping back oh to Eechevili- tak's hands. Again he spoke to them, then they leapt back to the window and vanished. The Old shaman dropped his hands, began to hum again, then stopped swayed as if about to fall, opened his eyes, looked around in a daze. "He will get well," he said, then turned and crawled out through the door. The sick man was now asleep, breathing quietly. Next morning at breakfast he was sitting up eating and seemed happy, though weak. Ten days later he was well and able to hunt again. This astonishing story was told to Colin Wyatt by an Eskimo, Katardjuk, who was present, "1 could not believe my eyes," he said, "but I swear to you it hap- pened — I saw it" He was a fully -believing Christian from a different tribe, Wyatt says in a vivid account Of his Arctic travels, "North of Sixty" and therefore reliable. Even the missionaries admit that these witch -doctors have powers they cannot explain. Five years ago another sham- an was arrested for murder and taken down south by dog -team for trial. One evening, as the po- lice sat in the barracks awaiting transport, they began question- ing him about his powers. Was it true he could call up spirits and do strange things? The old man assured them It was so. A policeman then handcuffed him, saying; "Let us see you free yourself from these!" The Eskimo replied: "I shall call upon my strongest spirit, Nenook, the polar bear!" He then went into a trance, for a whlie sat motionless with eyes closed, then raised his arms. To the astonishment of the police, his wrists appeared to swell; suddenly the manacles burst, his arms fell free, and in a few moments he awoke from the trance. While mostly harmless, some shamans use their powers to further their own ends, Wyatt , observes. For example, people go to one asking when and where there will be good seal - hunting. He goes into a trance, saying he'll call up a seal's spirit. This tells him there will be good hunting at ouch a spot-- probably pot—probably one he knows to be normally good — but that only he may go there. So he has it to himself while the tribe, afraid to intrude, has to content it- self with less good grounds! The Eskimo custom of wife - swapping with both . parties' consent arises from the pecu- liar conditions of hunting life. A man may have to go off to hunt caribou, but his wife may not be good at curing caribou skins, though good at curing fish; so he swaps with a fisher- man whosewife is bad at curing fish but a good curer of hides and a good seamstress. Thus, each expedition may bring maximum benefit to the com- munity.. But a Mountie at a Hudson Bay post was furious about it. "Just been cleaning up a few family allowances," he told Wyatt. "These blighters make me' mad sometimes! By the time they've finished swapping wives or taking' new ones, without telling me a word about it, it takes me a couple of days of paper work, to sort out whose is which and what child belongs tO whom. It may be a simple and sensible solution of their prob- lems, but it sure messes up My records." The parish of one missionary, Don .Whitbread, covers some 40,- 000 square miles, so there are many camps' he can visit only' once a year. Sometimes, accordingly, he has married a 'couple with the bride peacefully nursing' her baby during the ceremony. On one such visit he rounded up in a big igloo all the couples who wanted to marry; then launched a final appeal for any others so inclined. Yes, said an old man, he Would like to get married — and an old wrinkled woman came forward as the bride, Where- upon, the groom Of one of the younger couples said, laughing: "Why father! Haven't you and mother married yet?" Every . aspect of life in the Far North, and the way the new defence posts of an atomic age are changing it, is described in this well-written first-hand sur- vey. Cards Foretold Death By Hanging A strange story is told of a small man who was staying at a hotel when he became interested in a party of fellow -guests who were jokingly telling fortunes by cards. The man joined the party and laughed heartily when he was told that, according to the cards, he was destined to die by hang- ing. The prediction proved true. The man was John George Haigh, the acid -bath murderer. Students of history have quot- ed instances of royal personali- ties whose lives were linked in some way with the predictions of fortune-tellers. It is an historical fact that William Lilly, the last of the great English astrologers, foretold to Charles II, when he was in exile, his eventual restoration to the throne in 1660. The astrolo- ger, however, gave the date as July 29th whereas the restoration actually took place on May 29th, exactly two months earlier. Queen Victoria, when she was a girl at Broadstairs, Kent, once went with several girl friends to a fortune-teller. The woman is saidto have foretold to the fu- ture queen "a number of events which were fulfilled in a re- markable manner." These in- cluded her marriage to Prince Albert. -, F SilliON Hi T A'.i-TIME TV MONEY WINNER - The blackboard tells the story as pretty E'Ifrida von Nardroff shows the record prize money she has von on television's "Twenty -One". She increased her winnings to almost a quarter -million dcllcrs by defeating Wolfgang Weissleder, a marine architect.