HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-10-11, Page 6Wined 20 Years
For Revenge
Girls in Tunisian cabarets still
arhant of lovely young lirtnca.
She married an Italian camel •
e&iips officer and for a time they
lived happily, if tempestuously,
sit a coastal station.
Then site became bored with.
la.im. But he was still in love.
with her•. and passionately jeal-
rsus.
1 t,i• a quarrel one day, she
left hint. Desperately he search-
ed for Mance, and at last he
Bund her -- :;t the heti, of her
Sown Stealing through tl e doer -
Way of an upper room, he cnught
them seemlier. Bled with isee,
• he whipped eta his eervic•i nt
voiver and Ilred r;iti -hot: at
• point-blank wined. The etelets
strctarned ire Bianca s body. She
should have died instantly, for
cue bullet onkel-eft her meek, and,.
split her tongue.
Yet, three months later. Ilian-
ea stood up in court and gave
curt: e,nce a:aainst her husband!
In a voice betraying not the
slightest vestige: of the injury
she expressed feelings of hurt
that he had tried to kill her
for what she termed was a
'rather lighthearted escapade."
Ile must have known all the
time it was him she really loved,
• she murmured. Not long -after-
• wards Bianca's husband died,
but from all accounts she did
not seem unduly heartbroken.
Many' people, in trying to' get
even with others, have fallen
-into their 'own traps. A young
Austrian girl, twenty -four-year-
old Karin-Sudbrack, was jilted
by a handsome Viennese dancing
master, She swore to level ac-
eeunts with the blonde.- named --
Erika who had enticed him
away.
"1'11 arrange a most beautiful
accident for her," whispered
Karin.
"It will be so 'lovely just a
little fall, a little splash and
good-bye, Erika! No one will
ever know. And then .Karl, my
beloved Kari. wiil - love me
Again."
So, on a pretext of telling the
Leri a secret or two about the
dancing master, she persuaded
Erika to ao far a walk. She led
Baer to an aid trestled wooden
bridge. a creaky structure, with
a torrent roaring over rocks be,
siesta it.
"Now we'll talk," .said Karin.
A few moments later, with the
blonde off her guard, Karin
stooped tot t :eel l.rika s lets,
:and tried t Move her over the
f7int�r rails. Flute reacting in.
in-
etinetivele, Erika hurled herself
iii tc li �. 1' h e n squirming
enema, elm tided into her ad.
afeetire avid a bitter, heir -the-
mes,. scene ensued.
c 1i in was overpower-
ed, Tate, enseling en her chest,
hue :e .,..;t her. Erika wrung
from net the ei?ason for the as -
melt.
efe)_e l it ii:l you tater to the
As: ode E i nt, "tet me help
yet' tE7 ie seise-.? She drag -
reel
. a
reelOwts
h�,,le'et .:abut elown
5tec;; u,rl-ci path to t h e
Mee/Lana e.le5, anti gleefully
dipped , l_: r head, egain and attain,
;ntr. the icy weters tryin, she
(tialn e:d, 1e _t n e it of Mil
With a Berber
s iretef i • Carmen Ks ant ,
a s tit.e Lessem d' :male t,.rth,
eavereiea herself .... en Arab
'Slow down? eerily l don't do a
thin;! My ..disband won't let
me."
boy. "He's insulted me!" she
cried. °Til have him whipped!"
The boy had only whistled a
trifle shrilly under her window.
Ilut for this she ordered: her
black servants to strip- and bind
Then, using a camel -hide whip,
Rho lashed him mereileeely.
Twenty year•,i lint+)I• Carmen,
still beautiful but not quite so
prefect, called for shelter one
might at a palatial house in Tunis,
The servant told her to wait,
while lie took her name and her
request for aid to his master.
Then he escorted Carmen to
his master. "Madame," said the
Powerfully - b it i 1 t, handsome
Arab, rising from a chequered
silk dais, "1 have been expecting
you tor twenty years. Now Allah
loos delivered you to me — no
longer yotinv, but ncit incapable,
1 trust, of feeling pain." He
.smiled e•ruerily. Seeing her be -
leek, he explained...
"You see. I am the boy you once
'.l',itmcd. Now it is your turn!
"Strip!" lie hissed, '•and pre-
pare for the lash."
";Surely y ou wouldn't whip a
defenceless woman?" Carmen
cried. "The Gods will curse and
revile you for each an outrage!"
"Had you any such noble
thoughts of pity for me when
• I was a bee?" sneered the Arab.
"That was different", replied
Carmen. "You were insolent, and
deserved a lesson. I have • only
knocked at your door and ask-
ed for charity."
"Daughter of a dog, it is char-
ity, sharper than serpent's fangs,
that now shall bite you. Strip!"
Again, the Arab rapped out. his
•ecmmand. But Carmen was not
beaten yet. "Since you insist on
humiliating me, I must offer you
my :respects first," she said calm-
ly. Then with a sudden dart into
the folds cif her dress, she pulled
out a revolver. It spat flame —
and the man who had waited
twenty years for vengeance
crumpled to the floor without a
sound.
From the desert to South Ken-
sington, but still with the same
theme — revenge.... A mother
and daughter thrived as profes-
sional shoplifters, but one day
they quarrelled violently over
the daughter's new boy -friend.
Shortly afterwards the mother
was caught shoplifting. She sus-
pected, though quite wrongly,
that her daughter had informed
on her to the pollee.
While in prison she brooded
night and day otter this griev-
ance until, when she was re-
leased one overweening thought
possessed her — to punish her
cl.utehter, "I'11 'frame' her!" she
vowed.
To do this she slipped an ar-
ticle into the girl's shopping bag
while they were in a South Ken••
sine ton store.
ISut, apparently, the mother's
s'r plifting talent had gone rusty
during her spell in jail. The store
detective spotted her. "Step this
wa:y, please madam," lie said
with cold politeness. At that, she
crllepsed, moaning with fear
and self-pity.
The Rev. John Alington, patron
of e living at Letchworth, Herta,
insisted on taking all services
himself, allowing his rector to
conduct only funerals. He could
not be denied this right: he was
an ordained priest, graduate of
a famous university, inheritor of
a test fortune, but -- a thorough
creek—pot The rector, so die-.
pI .red, reported Alin =ton's con -
duet to the bi:hnp and as a re-
sult of this Alington was un-
frocked. •
Foaming with rage, the Rev.
John started gin -drinking serv-
icry t Letchworth Hall, •the
stately re, -dente he owned. Ile
invited all the teem riff -ruff,
tramps, peek -pockets and geode
time girls. Then, well plied with -
;in, he harangued them from
his pupit, wearing only Morocart
shores. a red wig end a leopard
skin.
-le eontinue•d this. infamous
eonciact, until the r•ectnr, Sam-
uel Knapp, resigned. Put the
vengeful patron, if satisfied on
one score, wee never satisfied
With his battles. Ile drank nn
and on, evt'r more deeply, till
he clrow'necl just one Int bottle
of brandy too marry and died.
LOVE'S SWEET LABOR — Chef Milani, TV's culinary king, had
promised his bride-to-be he'd bake the world's largest cake for
their nuptials. He made good on his promise, creating an Italian
rum beauty weighing a full ton. The mammoth confection,
(caked in sections, was a week-long lob for Milani, and required
40 crates of eggs alone; Above, happy Joe gives expert guid-
ance for cutting the cake to his new bride,' the former June
Oblad. Siriann.
PROCESSION IN VENICE — With a sea god sitting on the "ram'
of the bow piece, a large bissona — Venetian vessel — moves
along the Grand Canal. The waterway parade is part of
traditional festivities marking the "wedding of Venice with
the sea".
eiaae /nd t wa,
Have you ever baked ham
for a crowd and had them eat
far less of it than you expected?
This happened recently to a
friend of mine. After a success-
ful buffet party, she found her-
self with lots and lots of ham
— tender, juicy, pink ham. She
served it to her family sliced
for two evenings --- then de-
cided on a different plan. writes
Eleanor Richey Johnston in The
Christian Science Monitor,
"My family doesn't like too
many 'repeats,'" she told me.
"I decided not to push them
any further by giving them
ham as -is. I derided to dress it
up — to serve it with vege-
tables, in salads, on open -face
sandwiches, and in soup. It
really was fun — a sort of game
which the whole family entered
and enoyed!"
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If you'd 'like a casserole that
combines harp, tomatoes, and
cheese, try this one. It serves 6.
SURPRISE TOMATO
CASSEROLE
1 cup cooked diced ham
2 cups cooked or canned
tomatoes (solid)
1 egg, beaten
1 cup cracker crumbs
2 tablespoons prepared
mustard
2 teaspoons salt
ee teaspoon pepper
fry teaspoon onion salt
la cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons butter
Combine ham and tomatoes.
131end beaten egg with tz cup
cracker crumbs, mustard, and
seasoning. Add to haze and to-
matoes. Mix eheese, butter and
remaining cracker crumbs.
Sprinkle over top of mixture
which you have placed in but-
tered casserole. Bake at 350' F.
30 minutes or until browned.
e ,p *
Here is a skillet dish of ham
and rice that you will like,
HAM AND ORANGE
COIRRIED RICE
2 eups small cooked ham
pieces
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons chopped green
pepper
I tablespoon clopped onion
2 tablespoons brown sugar,
firmly packed
I teaspoon salt
$3r teaspoon curry powder
11i cup orange juice
1 tablespoon slivered orange
peel
2 cups cooked rice
Pan-fry green pepper and
onion in butter for 5 minutes.
Add brown suger and ham.
Stir and continue cooking tor 5
minutes. Add remaining ingre-
dients- Mix well, Cover and
cook for 10 minutes.
* *
In grandmother's day, harp
scrapple was a regular part of
the menu when harp was
available. Here is a good mod-
ern version of that glorified
mush dish.
HAM SCRAPPLE
1 cup cornmeal
1 tablespoon sugar
try teaspoon salt
28%y cups boiling water
t/s cup milk
2
eups ground, baked heir
Iii teaspoons prepared mustard
Shortening
Mix together cornmeal, sugar,
and salt. Add cornmeal mix-
ture slowly to boiling water and
milk. Cook slowly in heavy
covered pan, stirring occasion-
ally, about 20 minutes. Add ham
and mustard and mix well.
Pack into loaf pan. When cold
and firm, slice and fry in short-
ening until brown on each side.
HAM CHOWDER
When your ham is almost
gone and you have lots of lit-
tle pieces left, make a ham
chowder for lunch or as a first
course for dinner. All you do is
combine a can each of chicken
gumbo and chciken noodle soup
with an equal amount of water.
Mix until smooth. Add plenty of
ham bits and heat.
If you'd like to combine your
ham with sweet potatoes, try
this recipe for 4 servings,
HAM HAWAIIAN
2 cups chopped cooked ham
Et cups cooked mashed sweet
potatoes
2 ripe bananas, mashed
ti_ cup crushed pineapple
2 tablespoons brown sugar
r..y teaspoon cinnamon
Divide potatoes in 4 mounds
and shape into nests on cookie
sheet. Fill nests with the
chopped ham. Combine bana-
nas, pineapple, brown sugar,
and cinnamon. Pile unto meat.
Broil 3 inches from heat source
for about 5 minutes. Serve
hot.
HIS EPITAPH
A novelist was walking with
a friend when they passed a
house on which a tablet. had been
fixed to commemorate the fact
that a noted poet had once lived
there.
"I wonder what they'll put
over my door when I die,"
mused the novelist.
"House to let." replied the
friend.
Identical Twins
And Their gays
Patients in a Suffolk hospital
used to rub their eyes in aston-
ishment and think they were
seeing double when pretty,
identical twins, eighteen -year-
old Fay and Hilary Woods, were
taking a prenursiug training
course there.
Sometimes Fay would beseen
to walk out at one end of a
ward seconds before her sister
appeared at the other. The girls
have dressed exactly alike since
babyhood, even to such details
as identical necklaces, and they
were made joint captains dur-
ing their last year at school,
Now the twins have gone to
another hospital as trainee
nurses and once more they are
puzzling doctors and staff who
constantly get thein mixed up.
But if the problem of identifi-
cation becomes too acute, the
doctors will be able to enlist the
aid of the twins' elder sister,
Pat, who is also on the staff of
the hospital.
Identical twins have for some
years been the subject of fas-
cinating research in various
parts of the world. Extra-
ordinary instances of what ap-
pears to be telepathy between
sone identical twins have been
discovered.
An eminent doctor reported
on twins who got the same ans-
wers in written examinations
so regularly that they were ac-
cused of cheating. They were
given a stiff test — and still
their answers were so alike that
even the wording of sentences
was identical.
About thirty years ago a
"twin matinee" attracted world-
wide attention when it was giv-
en in a New York theatre in
honour of a pair of lovely twin
actresses then starring in a
musical comedy called "Two Lit-
tle Girls in Blue."
The management extended
free invitations to twins of
both sexes to attend the per-
formance. They turned up in
force and several scientists
were also present to see what
happened.
"The reactions of the audi-
ence were remarkable," re-
ported one scientist, "We no-
ticed that each pair of twins
laughed at the same time and
in the same way. If there was
anything in the play which they
found dull, they assumed the
same bored expression simul-
taneously. It was uncanny to
watch them."
Telepathic twin boys provid-
ed new evidence for scientists
last year when it was discov-
ered that two Sussex three-
year -olds both felt the pain
1
when one was pinched in the
absence of the other.
Experts eager to prove how
close in affinity identical twins
can become, noted that Johnny,
out of sight of his brother,
laughed when Jimmy was
tickled. Their mother said she
hesitated to slap one of the
boys for misbehaving because
she would be punishing his
brother, too. ---
9u e,,i£ s You Yawn
Baton Laughs!
When you yawn, Satan peeps
down your throat to catch a
glimpse of your soul. Then he
laughs because he recognizes it
as one of his own.
You don't believe it? We
have it on the authority of Mo-
hammed himself. In Traditions
Of The Prophet he says:—
"As for yawning, it is only
from Satan. Therefore, when
anyone of you yawns, let him
suppress it as far as he is able,
For, verily, when anyone of you
. yawns, Satan laughs at him."
Strange that Mohammed
should have that idea, for in
England at the sante time, it
was believed that evil spirits
peered though the jaws of a
yawner so that 'they . could re-
cognize the person's spirit when
they met it again in the shades,
Have you ever wondered why
you place your hand in front
of your mouth when you yawn?
It isn't out of politeness, to hide
the inside of your mouth from
view. If it was, then it would bs
impolite for singers to sing with
their mouths open, giving the
world a full view of teeth, ton-
gue and tonsils,
Hiding a yawn behind a hand
is one of the oldest habits known
to man. It was old when we
were wearing woad and nothing
else.
There are other reasons apart
from Satan's sarcastic Marc, for
covering the mouth with the
hand.
A yawn is automatic. 1t takes
an effort to suppress it, and
even thinking or reading about
it is enough to set most people's
mouths gaping This fact made
primitive people believe it was
not they who yawned, but their
spirit trying to get out. Once
their spirit left them they were
dead, so they covered their
mouths to keep it in.
Some people believed that to
yawn openly was to invite in-
side them any evil spirit that
might be wandering around at
a loose end.
They believed that there
were far more spirits around
than human beings, all looking
for nice, warm homes. So a
hand to the mouth prevented
the entry of any of these evil
ghosts.
NEW WING BOAT — Tall, odd-looking thing, above, of Ham-
burg, Germany, is the latest in wing boat's, as developed by
German engineer Friedrich Wendel. The boat rests on three
legs, which feature short wings and propellers to drive the
vessel. The lower part of the rear leg is moveable and is used
to steer the boat. The front wings also have moveable fins to
eliminate rolling of the craft in rough seas.
NSW TWIST ON 'CHILD-REARING — As many human youngsters do, Michiline's young son got -
too rambunctious charging at his mot: er hard enough to rip he, temper. So, with a simple twist
of her trunk on his tusk, she showed hire who was buss. The elephants are residents of the,
Vincennes Zoo, near Polis, France.,