HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-10-20, Page 2Their Duty Was To
Sip Royal Bouts!
They don't des it nowadays, of
(:cote. e. But once upon. a time
one of the vital duties of the
teoluurful Yeomen of the Guard
---the Queens. personal guard
end the oldest military forte in
,existence --wax to taste the Sov-
er•eigu a soup, ;lust in case some
,enemy had poisoned it.
There are eighty-one Yeomen.
They are paid d?80 a year, and
to be made one is a great honour.
Hirt Henry VII formed the
`Yeomen of the King's Body-
guard, as they were originally
walled, in 1485. He had the cum -
tort of knowing that any one of
them would, if necessary, lay
?oxen his life for hint. •
In those "gond old days" cut-
-threats had a habit of creeping
:into royal palace; and iurkieg
behind curtains with knife or
111 `t1'.
the newly -turned Yeomen
,mora made solely responsible for
.the King's safety. They not only
tasted the royal dinners, but
they also performed the elab-
erate. ceremony known as "mak-
ng the king's bed.'
Na one but Inc Yroluen was
allowed to touch the royal bed
a;r the royal much. Every por-
tion was separately examined.
The Yeomen looked •at each
rte.,: and etch coverlet carefully
end laid them with the greatest
ecremany. Before the Icing -re-
tired for the night, a Yeoman
was solemnly bounced up and
ole„ n on the bed to make sure
seat no enemy et the realm had
h.ciden knives between the
shed.>,
And all night long the Yeo-
men's commanding cffieer lay
xlcross the doorway of the royal
e haniber, ready to raise the
alt=ran it anyone tried to enter,
Even today the existence of
•
these ancient bed duties is still
eeknowlcdgeil -- though never
a'cerried out—by the initials YBG
and YBH (Yeoman Bed Goer
end Yeoman Bed Hanger) affix -
ad to the names of certain Yeo-.
men en the roll of the Guard.
From the date of their forma -
:inn the Yeomen were in con -
sunt attendance upon the Sow
ere.ssn's person. They even help-
ed him to dress in the morning,
just to make sure that no one
heel' stuck a poniard into his
t+ekes.
The Yeomen are dressed pie-
nure_ eucly in scarlet uniforms of
the Tudor period with ruffs of
teetite muslin round the neck and
Leone 'sleek hats. Little about
these stalwart men has changed
tear years, except that sometimes
they have worn beards and
sometimes they have not.
To qualify as a Yeoman you
have to be an old soldier with
more than twenty-two years'
re.rvice to your credit and a spot -
military record. And you
crust have served overseas for a
period. You must be five feet
Urn inches tall with chest meas-
urement nt al least thirty-six
inches.
Be fore the serial -id wu1Id war
i•eg,an. the oldest Yeoman was
an eighty -eight-year-old veteran
set Tel-el-Kebir, who passed reg_
t,larly for duty.
- 113 task for Ja' Yeomen
;arching the Houses et Par-
tiame-nt to ,make sure. net Guy
I' iv ter skulks in the cellars.
They are at the State opening of
Pal liernent be the t eeen, in at-
tr_r.danee ;at the, Epiphany oifer-
inir of ::Diel. frankincense and
teesteth and al the distribution of
ecce dy- :sleety' at We: Iiuinsles.
en the: Thursday at Hnly Week.
Y eter w of the Cursed have
seem Ears. in iemous betties in
t-l:es'a. icelly every E1.11'U1h,;a0
try. They They- -mlide theft fin,.: ap-
preralrec ein the field of hettle
zi. Dellinger:, G.nn t , it{ 1743,
armed attendants vn George
11. the last eine or Eno and to
}e-,ri 1,is •seal;,.• perA,n.
BACK OUT - Mrs, Marjorie
letwox, 26, blonde American
foreign service secretary held
'By Cuban police for some 40
'emir., is back in the U.S.
"rtes: -y wu5 the word she
etc.,1 to describe her detention
in tit*, ,: ❑e;.nrtine •nt officials:
13.ABY SETTER — This is a labor-saving idea which sprang front
a springer spaniel in Partenhall, England, Gary Lee Bodiford
gets his bottle as his mother Elizabeth looks on. But the nurse.•
maid pooch, pet of a neighbor, is out of a job. Wife and baby
have gone to U.S, to join dad, Larry — an ex -Air Force man.
9.-1% Bi Ef
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Ja.Tvz ,Amdows.
WATERMELON RIND PICKLE
11/2 e. watermelon rind cut In
2 by le inch pieces
12 c. vinegar
15 e. water
14 lemon sliced thin
1 c. sugar
l i tsp. stick cinnamon
lie tsp. whole cloves
Soak watermelon rind in med.
brine ('5 c. salt to 1 qt, water)
overnight. Drain and wash with
fresh water. Drain. Boil in clear
water until tender. Mix other in-
gredients and boil five minutes.
Add rind and boil until clear.
Pack into sterilized Tars and seal.
SWEET PICKLES
150 cucumbers two inches long
6 pints white vinegar
1!i cups white sugar
1 tbsp. celery seed whole
2 tbsp. mixed spices
Wash pickles then snake brine
Of 1 cup pickling salt to 1 gal. wa-
ter and put in stone crock, Add
cucumbers being sure brine is
over them. Place plate over top
to hold them down — brine
ehould be about one inch above
dish. Let stand seven full days.
Drain off brine and put fresh
water on cucumbers. Let stand
24 hours, drain and cut in quar-
ters lengthwise replacing in
crock. Pour over them one gal.
boiling water with one tbsp.
powdered alum and let stend
another 24 hours. Drain again
and put pickles back in crock.
Bring vinegar, sugar and spice to
a boil and pour over pickles be-
ing sure to cover completely. Af-
ter 24 hours pour elf into pan,
heat and add 3e e. sugar. Let
stand another 24 horn's. Add an-
other er c, sugar and heat syrup
and pour over pickles. On the
third day pack pickles in ,jars
and pour syrup over till jar is
full. Seal and examine for leaks.
Do not hetat the syrup on the
third day. Quantities may he
proportionately r e d u c e d for
sin ell, .r hatches.
ICICLE PICKLES •
2 gal. med• size cucumbers crit
lengthwise. Put in crock and
pour over 1 hal. water, boiling,
to which a pint of salt has bean
added (this is the brine). Let
Mend four days. Drain and cover
with fresh seater, boiling. Let
stand one day, Drain and cover
with• boiling water into which e
piece ole alum size of walnut has
been dropped. Leave 24 hours.
Drain and ('ewer with
21.•2 quarts eider vinegar
cups sugar
'2 oz. allspice
1 tbsp. cassia buds
1 Oise mustard seed in a bag
Heat and peter aver pickle for
3 day; and nn the third day teal
ill stel'ili/ed tas.
i3IREAIl ii.Nll BUTTER
PICKLES
It cups Sliced encumbers not
peeled
2 tops elileias sfieerd
1 large pepper, green or red,
chopped or sliced
Put le c. salt nn above
Let stand two or three horn's
!)rain well and add le
3 e. vinegar
:i e, white sugar
1 (sp. turmeric
tsp. celery seed
1 ism, mustard seed.
Let dime, to boil. and cook 211
endnote yeah in Pieria. jars. C(1 -
ISSUE 41 1914);
cumbers should not be over
large in circumference. I to 1'5
inehes preferably,
DUTCH RELISH
e qt, green tomatoes
le qt. green cucumbers
1z shalt firm cabbage
le qt, (or less) carrots .
lei sweet red peppers
Ile sweet green peppers
le large head celery for celery
seed to taste)
12 qt. onions.
Put vegetables through food
chopper medium blade. Sprinkle
with yz cup salt (pickling salt),
Allow to stand a few hours and
drain thoroughly. Squeeze out
all juice. Cover with two quarts
vinegar. Bring to boil then add
Ile asp, ground mustard
le tsp. tumeric
2 c. gran. sugar
e. hour
Mix ingredients to s sntootll
paste with a little cold water.
Add to pickles and bring to boil-
ing point. Pour into hot sterilized
,tars. Seal at once. Always meas-
ure pickles after they have been
chopped,
M Ok
ROSE RELISH
1 qt. chopped onions
2 bunches chopped celery
2 sweet red peppers chopped
1 largo ca,Iifiewer cut small
Cover with brine overnight
and drain in morning. Prepare
ntixhue of:
Sherlock Holmes
Fust hi The Shade
The package contained three
bones, found at the -bottom of a
recently re -opened well. Sydney
Smith, the medico -legal expert
for the Egyptian Ministry of jeti-
tire In Cairo in the early 11120'x,
was asked by the pollee if they
were hutnan. Smiths report told
more than that:
"They are the bones of a young
woman," he wrote. "She was
short and slim. Aged between 23
and 23 when she died, which was
at least three months ago. She
lead probably had at least one
pregnancy , . She walked with
a pronounced limp. She was kill -
eel by a shotgun loaded with
homemade slugs, filed in an up-
ward direction from a range of
about 3 yards , . She was not
killed outright, but died seven
to ten days later, probably of
septic peritonitis , '
The report was later proved
correct in every particular, and
led to the arrest of the dead girl's
father. It also served to draw
considerable attention to Sydney
Smith, who even then, before the
scientific "crime lab" became an
adjunct of all police work, was
well on his way to becoming one
of the world's leading authorities
on forensic (legal) medicine. The
story of Smith's extraordinary
career tis told In his colorful
autobiography, "Mostly Murder,"
published this month, makes
some of Sherlock Holmes' ex-
ploits seem pale by comparison.
As a poor bay in rural New
Zealand, Smith turned to medi-
cine "as a means to an end. The
end was to see the world." He
won a scholarship to Edinburgh
'University, and drifted into for-
ensic medicine when Edinburgh's
Harvey Littlejohn asked him to
be his assistant, At the close of
World War I Smith was offered
the medico -legal post in Cairo,
which proved to be an ideal soil
for his brilliant talents.
For eleven years, Smith re-
viewed all the important crimes
committed in Egypt, at a time
when there were about 1,000
murders a year. He became an
expert on arsenic poisoning, ar-
senic being "the poison most com-
monly used for murder . . as it
has been in every country from
remote periods," Through his
knowledge of the rate at which
a body cools after death, the on-
set of rigor mortis, the condition
of food in the stomach, postmor-
tem discoloration of the skin, eto.,
he often provided the only de-
pendable evidence as to when,
where, how, and sometimes even
why a person had died - for in
Egypt the evidence of "eyewit-
ness" was easily and cheaply ob-
fi e. sugar
gt.s vinegar
I tbsp. white mustard seed
Let come to a boll and stir
in 95 e. flour
4 tbsp, mustard
Ila tsp. turmeric made Into
batter with vinegar
Stir this dressing constantly
until it thickens smoothly then
pour over pickle. Boil a few min-
utes. Seal while hot. May be
made in half quantity.
taint d. tic was not akive the use
of the dramatic cour1r e1 1
11uc; 0115'c Ise l•rau, nt .1 clif)
GUAM (10 Itis 411'11 l,nre linin to
dcrnonstrtite the an inks it left on
the akin.
On his own in Egypt. Smith
'pioneered the study of bollistic
as it applied to his work, The
value of his studies. was rh'ama-
tieally proved in the 1024 murder
at the Sirdar (Commander in
Chief) cif the Egyptian Army,
Sir Lee Stack Pasha. Smith de-
duced that the bullet that Milled
the Sirens. had come from a Colt
.32 with a slight 1011) lection in
the barrel. The polis, s discovery
of the Colt ,32 with lust this im-
perfection not only led to the
conviction of the assassins, - but
also helped greatly to establish
the science for forensic ballistics
through the world.
Smith returned to Scotland In
1028, to succeed Harvey Little-
john • as professor of forensic
medicine at Edinburgh Univer-
sity. From then on, he says, "I
was always asked by the Crown
to take part in the mare•import-
ant cases," and in 1041 he was
knighted, Time and time again
his minute observation of de-
tails -- a bit of household fluff
near a dead child, bacteria in a
bloodstain — was instrumental
in the decision of famous cases
throughout the English-speaking
world. In 11)52, he was able to re-
construct a murder.in Ceylon so
accurately that, before going
there from Scotland for the trial,
he had pinpointed the existence
in the victim's kitchen of an iron
hook' on which she had bruised
her back while struggling with
her assailant.
After a lifetime spent in the
study of murder and murderers,
does Sir Sydney have a theory
about the kind of persons who
kills? "In my recollection," he
writes, "they have been devoid of
the characteristics they are .com-
monly credited with, and (are)
quite ordinary individuals such
as you and me." From NEWS -
WEEK.
Yectr.R lUtI1d lb'sV
1''_ School of S•y<Ji'Gxlli'1
The tot' 1 t e'ne,)... 'e
t t s,tra) t dent t
rat that to i't eke-
yrer-arot er1 use 1,1 tate ezne •s-
ive Felice s'5 ,I rnstI;ar: of
h'crmittine it to Ye trite fey three
months az the r in entering
high favor a seised :seen
youngster' sod;it ;eir ptt.'enta
who d , stn ;, dc te' ht.' hien
most haagg sivect n r, rat ! 111 ;ha
idea.
At Oreende e.e.eor e u14; e,
according to Jolt) 11,Clai.t ,Irr11-
mer sesteon director,'summer
carolimet t hes .entinued to
grow in recent y'e5 0 and in 19110
enrollment of n;e1:t than 500 stu-
dents in the nay at,o night class-
es is the lartert to the history
at the college.
At Stetson Ueleersity at De -
Land the enrollesee t this ,mummer
totaled 51)1, the lac gest since the
period after We,; :,d War 17. 'whale
GIs crowded the ,•tempus•in con-
plcte their educe:epee.
Thal the movement toward
the year -around use of 1110
schools is not cari'ined ':o Cen-
tral Florida is t' dI acetd by fig-
ures sent to us le S. 3, Jen-
nings of Middleteteg.
Jennings, s 'wee -time advo-
cate of year-ercre,nd use of the,
public schools, 011's us tabula -
lions showing C r c go's expert.
cnce with summer time enroll -
meat. They show a Chicago
summer enrollment of 46,146
students this year res cemented
to 12,732 only five years ago.
It has been aurhorifat:rely es-
timated that if tell schools in the
nation would roe ete 43 weeks
in the year with etagge.:ed en-
rollments, such cpe-ratioe would
immediately creete the equiva-
lent of 444,000 slid:tiot:al class-
rooms, equivalent to a construc-
tion cost of Sit- 't•lllion without
an additional penny of cost lee
anyone. Oris,, '(Ic 1 Fia.1 Fre-
ning Star.
DRIVE WLTH Cfillc
"WIDE AWAKE" BEAUTY — Anna Curti carries c century -cid
torch of the "Wide Awakes," marching organizoi'cn that
ported Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. Helmet v.enO'
with the oilskin cape, used to keep drippinre ell off •,'s
marchers.
THAT OTHER 'GREAT DEBATE' -- The series of joint tele-
vision interviews and debates between Vice President
Richard M, Nixon and Sen, John F, Kennedy inevitobly.
brings to mind the most famous political debates in Am-
ericon history, These were the debates held by Abraham
tincoln and Sen. Stephen Douglas throughout Illinois dur-
ing August, September and October, 1558, Althcu:aln the
contest was only o stale -wide one, one 4te rrize. no: ,roe
presidency but a Senate seat, the isseen iscutse :>y
Lincoln and Couples were nationwide in siel•ii'':_ .....
lincoln lost the eleaioo, but the prophecy• he mode that
year - "A houre divided against g r itscif comic; sat -.z:''—
come Icegicully. true,