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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-09-04, Page 3Royal Tour Hitch -Ants Ate . Throne All Princess Margaret's tours seem strangely exotic with a variety all their own. 11 was quite typical in Nairobi when her entire royal procession had to swerve to avoid a hood- ed cobra hissing menacingly in the r o a d. Characteristically, when she tried to explore the ro- mantic blue grotto of Capri, photographers swam alongside her launch, Instead of seeing the exquisite blueness, the Princess was half - blinded by flashbulbs. It's just 10 years since her first lone travel assignment when George VI appointed her to represent him at the accession of Queen Juliana of the Nether- lands. The irrepressible Princess had pleaded "Let me go!" as a breakfast table joke and con- fessed to "butterflies in the tum- my" when her father agreed. Expecting to be offered a homely guestroonl, she was as- tonished to find herself in a 12 - room suite - With empty beds to spare - in Amsterdam's No. 1 hotel, "It was like the three bears," she said. Princess Margaret's first solo holiday abroad provided quite a disappointment. She dreamed up a glamorous holiday in Italy. Two hundred cameramen follow- ed her in Naples, their clamour drowning the twang of serenad- ing guitars, In a restaurant in Rome excitable police had to cordon her table, so dense was the press of Italians seeking to dance with her. In Florence the entire hotel staff was on strike, so the Prin- cess's suite was serviced absurd- ly by "volunteers". In reality the volunteers were inquisitive journalists, eager to report even the color of her toothbrush, In Venice she rode in a gen- dela, surrounded by so many sightseers afloat in other gon- dolas that she saw little but a forest of prows. Though flatter- ing, it provided a hard object lesson in the penalties of being a princess. One hotel, determined to treat her royally, prepared a menu of great distinctoin. The Princess, however, visited the kitchens and spotted the traditional staff pot of haricot beans and macaroni. She tried it as first course, en- joyed it so much that she asked for a second helping - and then only had room for coffee, The staff ate the royal meal! From the point of view of a UNDERSTUDY - Pete the pelican is only an understudy to the symbolic eagle, but he's proud as a peacock as he carries Alaska's new star to the top of the flagstaff. Pete's an attrac- tion at Marine Studios in Ma- rineland. young girl eager to enjoy her- self, erself, her first visit to Paris was a dismal failure. Dignitaries and dowagers lined un for a round of formal reception. At -tier sallies the Princess laughed out- right when she noted the bored look on the royal portraits. "What a pity that I have to travel like royalty!" To this day, however, Marg- aret remains the only princess who has ' seen her welcoming crowds whacked over their heads with sticks and batons, This oc- curred in Mauritius when crash- barriers gave way and the Prin cess's car was surrounded by a milling, uncontrollable mob. The situation was ugly. Ulti- mately, as the car. moved slowly forward, policemen with swag- ger sticks beat off the crowds. Next day boy scouts were re- cruited to clout as they cheered. Yet it didn't diminish the warmth afthe welcome. This year the Princess visited British Honduras in the wake of political demonstrations. T h e Princess quietly faced the fart that some crank might well put her in great danger. Standing completely unpro- tected, she made her tour on a jeep, giving the anti-British con- tingents such broad smiles that she turned terror into triumph. Only a few weeks before her first visit to Trinidad an earth- quake cracked open the walls of her suite, bringing down slabs of masonry that littered the crimson -carpeted stairs of Gov- ernment House with debris. Government experts anxiously discussed whether the Princess should run the risk of being in- volved in a bigger 'quake. Sixty men worked overtime to repair the cracks. A night or two be- fore she left London there was another tremor, but the Princess merely said: "Of course I shall go Even an earthquake could not prove as intimidating as an awe- some audience of 50 bearded sheikhs whom she addressed in a small room in Mombasa. And to a young woman, perhaps, this was simple compared with the possible ordeal of dinner alone with the aged Sultan of Zanzi- bar, the longest -reigning mon- arch in the world. As it happened, the Sultan was charmed with her and stage ed a great Arab sword dance in her hoonr. Mile for mile, Princess Marg- aret has travelled far less than the Queen or the Queen Mother, but all her globe-trotting ex- periences have distinction. In a sheikhdom in East Africa, going alone into a darkened room heavy with incense, where she visited a shuttered harem, men did not dare to enter. The women unveiled for her - and her private detective was told to wait outside. Wherever the red carpet goes down for Princess Margaret the unusual happens. Even when she was merely visiting a sports ground in Port of Spain, the ad- joining buildings burned dowti just before she arrived. The royal procession became tangled with fire engines and a bouquet awaiting presentation to the Princess was devoured in the flames. By contrast, a day or two later m Georgetown, "P.M," became the only princess in the world to be greeted with after -shave lotion. A float in her fietsa pro- cession advertised the lotion and sprayed everyone in the royal dais. "So refreshing!" laughed the Princess. In Dar-es-Salaam a carved throne had been stored awaiting a royal visitor for 30 years. When officials wanted to bring it out for the Princess's visit, they found that white ants and damp had reduced it to powder. Apolo- getically, the story was told to the Princess. "It just proves," she said, "that people in glass houses shouldn't stow thrones!" CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACI10SS 1. !tang 5. furtive 8, bellow 10. I roman emperor 13. Draw 14. Assumed character 16. Dill 18. Chalice 17. Mental image 10. Leave 19. meantime 22, 00 23. Awar from windward 24. Uhl Jetties 28 Professional life 28. 'testi °pod mollusks 81, Bustle 22. Contend 33, Taker of it lease 37. Mineral 40. Merit 41, Dry 42 the man 44, Assimilates 96. Resit/glen syllable 48. Idalr ,' 50 IAA 51, Bird 68. Pleasant 54. New (comb. form) 65. fled of love 597. 11t7xlstenea 68. Small depre991nn DOWN 1. Difficulty 2. Cotton cloth 8. Exist 4. Producing motion 6 rile (Ir. coli 6, Fruit 7. Craves 8. Asiatic. peninsula 9. Scuttle 80. 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It may not be etiquette but when one is thirsty, one simply doesn't care. Although fire -damaged wheat is not particularly appetizing to pigs, it does retain a certain nutritional value. le. Whiting and L. M. Bezeau of the Canada Department of Agriculture, re- port that protein utilization in severely damaged wheat, al- though less than in normal wheat, is almost equal to that in wheat only slightly damaged by fire. However, the digestible energy content of wheat severe- ly damaged is considerably less than normal wheat and wheat slightly damaged. The over-all value of burnt grain as a feed will depend on the amount of fire damage and the amount of foreign material such as wood, glass, and nails present in the grain. * * In 1953 a quantity of wheat was obtained from a grain stor- age elevator that burnt at Pic- ture Butte, Alberta. This grain was put through a fanning mill to remove nails, glass, pieces el chaired wood, fine charcoal dust and weed seeds. These materials amounted to 14 per cent of the total weight. The most severly damaged wheat was then separated from wheat only slightly damaged, by re- peating the fanning mill opera- tion with controlled wind and the use of various sieves. 13y chemical analysis and feeding trials the general value of this material was ascertained. * * * Rations consisting of burnt grain were so unpalatable to swine that a preliminary feeding period was necessary to accus- tom the pigs to the feed. Indic cations are the approximately ten days are required for this purpose. Each year fire destroys a num- ber of grain storage elevators across Canada rendering thou- sands of bushels of grain unfit for milling and processing pur- poses. Its use as a feed for live- stock was one possibility but its comparative value with non - damaged grain had to be taken into account before a satisfactory assessment could be made. * * * Healthy holstein heifer calves can be weaned from milk at four weeks of age and raised successfully on a calf starter composed of materials other than animal proteins, according to F. Whiting and R. D. Clark of the Lethbridge, Alta., Ex- perimental Farm. Although protein of animal origin is not essential in calf starter, hay quality is important. The addi- tion of aureomycin to the calf starter had no effect on body weights in these studies at Lethbridge. * * * In general, calves raised an milk substitutes were rougher in appearance from four to seven weeks of age, and growth late was somewhat slower dur- ing the first month than calves raised on whole milk. No dif- ferences were evident by four to six months of age. * * 0 Previous studies on the use of antibiotics indicate a more bene- ficial effect whete calf scours or other infectious diseases are prevalent. As calf scours had not been a problem in the Leth- bridge herd, this may explain the lack of response to aureo- mycin, * * * On dairy farms where all fluid milk is marketed, skim milk normally is not available for raising heifer calves for herd re- placements. Under this system taw use of whole milk or whole skim milk for calves is costly. In view of this, efforts have been made during the past num- ber of years to formulate milk substitutes and calf meals that would replace most of the milk normally used for raising calves, MULE WAITS FOR PENSION In Cremona, Italy, 43 -year-old Gina, a mule, is awaiting a Gov- ernment pension. She helped haul artillery in World War I. and is still plodding along carry- ing mail for her owner, 73 -year- old Giuseppe Guattarini. Giuseppe served with Gina during the war and he bought her when he was demobbed in 1918. He now finds it difficult to put Gina to pasture and has applied to the Government for a pension for her. While the authorities are giving sympa- thetic consideration to his plea they are making Gina a month- ly food allowance of $9, pendng their decision, Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ®©©O ©MM ©©M MODEVADIEWHEIRU ©©t©© U OHM' ©© MOMM1271110 Q H. ;CID®CI IJ©O©;.' ©®IJ 1k Ej ©®©©©-1 ©©Irl©mm b©©©©a ©1 I ©DIM IJHud nm8wom mmmv mm nummmiumamms By The Ancient WiolI Of Joseph Cairo is traversed by a canal which ,issues from the Nile a little below the old town, and, having passed through immense and innumerable heaps of rub- bish, enters the modern capital on the south side, goes out at the north, and, winding round the wall, makes a second entrance on the west, and terminates in the Birket el Esbequier. The out- line of the city is nearly that of a quadrant, being square to- wards the north and east, and circular towards the south and west. This artificial river is of the greatest consequence to the in- habitants; for, besides furnish- ing them with the inundation, continues with an abundant sup- ply of water for all the purposes of domestic fife, it affords the means of replenishing a variety of small lakes, both inside and outside the walls, on which they ply their pleasure -boats, and en- joy a variety of other recreations suited to their indolent luxury or to the softness of their deli- cious climate. • In one of these sheets of water is observed the lotus -that mys- terious plant so highly esteem- ed by the ancient Egyptians, the flower of which contrasts so beautifully with the liquid ground on which it reposes, as well as with the arid waste by which it is surrounded. The citadel, which occupies part of the ridge of Mokattam, is a place of considerable strength, but like most other ancient buildings in Egypt, greatly en- cumbered with ruins... . The Well of Joseph, in the middle of the fortress, calls us back to the twelfth century, the era of the renowned Saladin, by whom it was excavated, and whose name, Yousef, it continues to bear. It is about 45 feet in circumference at the top, and is dug through the soft calcare- ous rock to the depth of about 270 feet, where it meets a spring of brackish water on a level with the Nile, from which indeed it is derived -owing its saline im- pregnation to the nature of the soil through which it has fil- tered. The water is raised by buc- kets by means of two wheels turned by oxen -the one being on the surface of the ground, the other . at the depth of 150 feet. The main use of this celebrated cistern, besides partly supply- ing the garrison, is to irrigate the adjoining gardens, and keep alive the little verdure which adorns the interior of the fort- ress; but it is preserved in tol- erable repair, from the consid- eration that, were the place ever subjected to a siege, the stream of Joseph's Well would become the sole reliance of the troops as well as the numerous inhabi- tants.-From nhabi- tants: From "View of Ancient and Modern Egypt," by the Rev. Michael Russell. MINDAYS01001 LESSON By Bev It, Barclay Warren B.I) Justice Among Nations Isaiah 31: 1-3; Micah 4: 3-5; Acts 10: 34-35; Ephesians 2: 13-18. Memory Selection: Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify they name? for thou only art holy; for all nations shall come and worship before thee. Revelation 15: 3-4, This is a very timely topic. In the last century nationalism expressed itself in unification movements whch produced Ger- many and Italy, Today national- ism is causing a ferment in the Arab world. It is complicated by the special interest of Russia on the one hand and U.S. and Britain on the other. it is a dif- ficult situation for the practice of justice among nations. Isaiah warned Israel to look tc the Holy One of Israel for help, rather than seek aid from Egypt. if the nations who have the Bible would earnestly seek God and obey His commands, world tension would quickly ease, The. Gospel would get a ranch better hearing among the other nations of the world. Micah's prophecy would soon be Sulfil]ed when the weapons of war would be changed into instruments for agriculture, Na- tions wouldnot learn war any more. But regardless of the warring tames in which we live, it is still true as Peter said, "That (.rod is no respecter of persons: but in every nation he that fear- eth him, and worketh righteous- ness, is accepted with him." The prevalence of sin in the nation is no excuse for us. By confessing our sins and believing on Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour we shall be forgiven and cleansed from our sins so that as indi- viduals we may wholly follow the Lord, Then we shall practise justice. There is only one Saviour for the entire human family; Jesus Christ. He died upon the cross that He might reconcile both Jew and Gentile to God. When we have accepted of His great salvation we shall live peace- ably with our fellow men, as much as we possibly can. We shall accord justice to others, even as we desire it for our- selves. Jesus Christ has the answer for the injustices that prevail among the nations today. In New Hamburg, Ont., Walter Haas was arrested for careless driving, explained that he was only trying to catch another speeder to lecture him on safety. )SEAR -BACK RIDER - The exception that proves the rule, Dancer Julie Hawk, 17, is one back-seat driver it's a pleasure to look at. Riding on this bear statue at a shopping centre, Julie makes even the metal "mahout" smile. IT'S THE GYPSY IN HER - Former strip -tease queen Gypsy Rose Lee found the 96 • degree weather in Atlanta, Ga., just too hot for much activity. So someone (a press agent, maybe?) gave her a fishing rod and she stretched out an a grossy bank under a shaae tree to, present this charming picture of curvesome angling. t"'ow a "legitimate" actress, Gypsy is starring In "Happy Hunting" - but it was hot for l^unt: 3..