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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-03-15, Page 2Prince Charles Won't Be Pampered Imagine a group of boys swinging hand over hand along. a rope thirty feet over a lake, with nothing to stop a cold- water clucking but the strength of their own muscles and a mea- sure of cat -like skill. Well, that's the kind of thing Prince Charles will do when he begins school as a new boy et Gordonstoun. There'll be nothing cushy for him at the extraordinary Scot- tish school where his father was once a star pupil. Out of bedat dawn, a quick freeze under a cold shower, a run round the grounds before breakfast trying to reach peak athletic speeds. Then making his bed, cleaning his shoes and doing part of the housework — this is the tough- ening prospect for the teenager who will one day be King of England. No Palace official has con- firmed on- firmed that the. heir to the throne will be going to Gordon- stoun, But in Royal circles it is well known that Prince Philip in- tends to let his son follow in his athletic footsteps. Some true blues may have doubts about sending the Prince of Wales to a school where games, as a head- master said, "have been de- throned!" Yet Dr. Kurt Hahn, the school's German founder, drew his ideas from a school run by Prince Philip's uncle. Prince Philip went to Salem before joining the first contin- gent of forty boys Who switched to Gordonstoun. Curiously, Gordonstoun is the most expensive school in Scot- land and yet parents fix their own fees. They are asked to decide what they can afford to pay, from £37 a term upwards, The Queen can pay up to £519 a year for Charles. But scores of boys get in cheaply on schol- arships. Prince Charles may thus chum up with a miner's or shopkeep- er's son, or a boy from one of the poorer regions of industry. In any case, he will mix with the local day -boys, sons of farm- ers and fishermen and railway- men, boys from all strata of so- ciety. Prince Philip joined the local coastguards, spending his quota of four hours on chilly watch Charles may prefer the Gor- donstoun fire brigade, founded since his father's day. Later on, if he takes after his father, Prince Charles might be- come an athletics coach at some of the local schools, rushing off to his o w n physical training groups on a bicycle. In Duffus village the local smithy is manned entirely by Gordonstoun youngsters. Farm- ers may one day have cause to point out machinery repaired by the Prince of Wales. Among more menial tasks Prince Charles might well find himself fixing a soot plate in a chimney stack .or carrying out small loeal plumbing repairs. "To free the sons of the rich and powerful of the enervating sense of privilege," is still among Gordonstoun's avowed aims. Cheam Prep, School cast a sense of exclusiveness around the young Prince, but his Scot- tish school will adopt the atti- tude that he's just as good as he can make himself, and no bet- ter. In physical training, for In- atome, Gordonstoun boys are each encouraged to beat their own previous best, and not to compete against each other, writes Helen Cathcart In "Tit - Bite Two years from now, . if he takes after his father, Charles will be able to walk five miles In an hour, run two miles in thirteen minutes and do the 100 yards in 12.6 seconds At worst, he won't be far be- hind these attainments. Few Gordonstoun boys are. In the Training P 1 a n, as it is called, Prince Charles will conscienti- ously tick whether he has kept certain rules. Has he rationed the time spent listening to radio or watching TV? Can he satisfactorily tick that he hasn't "chewed" between meals? He's bound to discover that no one ever checks his answers. Yet this lesson in self-reliance is necessary before he can be- come a Room Leader; or climb the rungs of the ladder tobe- come a Colour Bearer and, fin- ally, Guardian, the highest hon- our of the school, Twice a week Prince Charles will enjoy a half-day given over to a project of his own choice. It may range from making a kitchen table alone in the car- pentry shop, to joining others in planting a new woodland. Prince Philip specialized in making architectural or ship models, a hobby he still enjoys on rainy afternoons at Balmoral or Sandringham. The choice for Prince Charles will now be wider than it used to be. He can paint a picture in the art room or carve new pews for the chapel. Perhaps he will pick up his Uncle Tony's flair for photogra- phy or furniture design. He may even join the school orchestra — and he's bound to act in the annual school play. Gordonstoun s p e c i a li z e s in seamanship. Prince Charles has already gained a lot of sailing skill. Now he'll take sail drill with nine other youngsters in the school's o w n dipping lug cutter . . , and later on he'll go to sea in a schooner named after his great-grandfather, Prince Louis. Commonwealth leaders have often urged that Prince Charles should travel abroad, sharing o n e of h i s mother's overseas tours. But Prince Charles is more likely to sail to Norway as a member of the ship's crew, just as his father did, What Charles will do at Gor- donstoun, in fact, is have the time of his life and have the Palace gloss scraped off him, The Queen fully understands the Gordonstoun system of turn- ing a boy into a self-possessed man and won't be surprised if he turns up at Balmoral, hav- ing walked all the way. The Gordonstoun report lists not only classroom results but "Ability in the face of danger, discomfort, mockery . , Ability to deal with the unexpected . . Fighting Spirit . . Endurance . .." Few potential kings have ever undergone training on this scale. ISSUE 9 — 1002 HEAD OF STATE —. Workman applies fin Shing touches to papier mache head of West German Chancellor Konrad Ade- nouer for a huge carnival float in Cologne West Germany. CHINESE SPAGHETTI Ac- tress Nancy Kwan brews up a batch of spaghetti, perhaps with her next movie role in mind, that of an Italian girl. °TABA E TALKS dug drews One of the worst things that can happen to a vegetable is to be overcooked. The exact point at which vegetables become ten- der is the point to remove them from ` heat—then they are not only done but they have retained color and their often delicate flavor. A general rule is to use as little water as is practical to get the best results. Strong fla- vored vegetables such as cab- bage, onions, and turnips are best cooked without a lid, a a * When your vegetables are on, season them with imagination. Make your own combinations of vegetables to serve with differ- ent meats, and if you must serve certain vegetables often to satisfy your family, vary the way of cooking them, * * One way of varying your vege- tables is to serve them with dif- ferent sauces. Combine hot vege- tables and hot sauce lightly, just before serving, and use about 1 cup of sauce to 4 cups of vege- table, Medium white sauce (made with 2 tablespoons each, flour and butter, to 1 cup milk and salt to taste) is the best white sauce to combine with vegetables. With this as a base, here are several others. Mock Hollandaise Sauce Make medium white sauce. Beat 2 egg yolks; stir in '/4 cup of the hot sauce, then pour back into remainder of sauce. Add 2 tablespoons butter or margarine and stir and cook over hot water about 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Serve immediately. Good with asparagus or broccoli, Mustard Sauce This sauce is especially good with snap beans, cabbage and greens. Just stir 2 teaspoons prepared mustard into medium white sauce after cooking. Egg Sauce You may want to serve this with brussels sprouts or greens. Just before serving, add to thin white sauce 1 teaspoon lemon. juice and 1 chopped hard -cooked egg. For a convenient—and good— way to serve green vegetables, try scalloping them. This is a new dish when you use more than 1 vegetable such as beans and broccoli, asparagus and cab- bage, spinach and lima beans— or any combination you choose. Here is a basic recipe. SCALLOPED GREEN VEGETABLES 2 cups drained cooked green vegetables 1-12 cups medium white sauce Salt to taste Pinch of dry herbs Ve cup dry bread or cracker crumbs 1 tablespoon butter or meat drippings Combine vegetables, sauce, and Seasonings in greased casserole. Mix crumbs with butter and sprinkle over vegetable mixture, Bake at 350' F. until sauce is bubbly and topping is slightly browned -20-30 minutes. Serves 4. Variation: Put vegetables and sauce in baking dish in separate layers with a sprinkling of grated cheese or finely chopped parsley or onion or cooked 'mushrooms between layers. Top with I/e cup small bread cubes and dot with fat before baking. c a * Wont to make a main dish of a green vegetable? Then combine it with eggs and cheese and, bake it either in one dish or in indivi- dual dishes. 11AIKED CHEESE .BROCCOLI. 2 cups broccoli (10 oz. package, frozen) chopped and drained 11 eups eottago cheese 6 eggs '/a cup butter 2 tablespoons grated onion Ili cup flour 11h cope milk Souvenir Hunting. And Its Tricks Ashtrays are such popular inomentoes with souvenir hunt- ers that London's West End theatres are orcccl to replace ever 0,000 of t':rrrn in their bars each year. The British owned Aviz Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal, at one time had special, ashtrays made which proved such a successful gimmick that the initial order from the makers had to be doubled, On the reverse side of the 1 cup grated, sharp processed cheese 2 cups corn flakes (or rf cup packaged corn flake crumbs) 1 tablespoon butter, melted Spread broccoli in bottom of 6 greased individual casseroles or a 2 -quart casserole, reserving '/a cup for garnish, if desired. Beat cottage cheese with a rotary beater until smooth. Add eggs and continue beating until well blended. Melt butter in heavy saucepan; stir in flour and on- ions. Add milk gradually, stir- ring constantly. Cook until thick- ened. Add Vs cup of the grated cheese and stir until cheese is melted, •Fold in the cottage cheese -egg mixture, Pour over broccoli. If using corn flakes, crush into fine crumbs. Combine corn flake crumbs and butter. Sprinkle crumb mixture and re- maining cheese on top of casse- roles; garnish with reserved broc- coli, Bake at 325. 1', about 55 minutes for individual casseroles, or 13/4 hours for 2 quart casserole, until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Serve at once, as this is a souffle -type dish. Serves 6. green and gold ashtrays appear- ed thre words "honourably pinch— ed from the Aviz Hotel," By contrast, when the Ritz 11. tel in London decided to use plain ashtrays in their public rooms, losses fell almost immedi- ately, Drinking glasses are another favourite "perk" of the souvenir hunter, There is an old sailor in Leicester who has a collection of over 700 glasses taken from pubs visited during the course of his travels, At a Defence Ministry'canteen in Bonn, Germany, so many tea- spoons were being stolen that the spoons now have holes in the bowl, This makes it impossible to use them for guests in private homes. Visitors to Ireland were at one time unwilling to buy souvenirs marked "made in Japan," but the versatile Japanese have since rec- tified this by stamping the slogan in Gaelic! Papyrophilists or serviette col. lectors have become so numerous in this country that a special Papyrophiles' Club has been formed. Members swop serviettes and paper table mats with collec- tors in other parts of the world. Even the Dean of Canterbury is not safe from the souvenir hunter. He has lost so many umbrellas to their clutching hands that he has recently bought himself a lady's brolly — complete with blue handle and red tassel. To date it remains unscathed, FIND YOUR ROLE Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. Sloppy Joe's ' Oar Yields Treasures In Key West, Fla., hard -d114 - ging Mary Hemingway paid pur- poseful visits to an old hangout of her late husband's The plaeei Sloppy Joe's, a downttiwn ' ba'r where Ernest Hemingway whiled countless hoot's in the ines, and where he stashed a hodgepodge of belongings, in dungarees and apron, the author's widow rum. mage4 , through a dusty store- room hour after hour last month, Among her discoveries: Tho a1sInr6 of a grizzly bear and a brows bear, souvenirs of a long -ago Hemingway hunting expeditioft in the Northwest, numerous let - tees and photographs; and parts of the original drafts of "To Have and Have Not" "Death in the Afternoon," and 'Vile Fifth Column," as well as nates on "4 Farewell to Arms." Grimy but gratified, huntress Hemingway • said; "Most of what have found DRIVE WITH CARE I. How Well Do You Know SOUTH AMERICA? SOUTH ,AMERICA • PROVING OF A PRINCE, MAKING OF A KING: THIS IS LODGE AT GORDONSTOUN Spartan -strict prep school in northern Scotland, where Charles Windsor, the Prince of Wales, 13, will be quartered when he begins school in May. Pupils begin day at 7 a.m. with a wind sprint followed by a brisk, cold shower. THE PRINCE will make up his own iron bedstead in austere dormitory he will shore with 11 other boys. School's aim, to build character, is pursued with a rigid schedule of academic and physical activities, The school is steeped in rigorous maritime tradition. 7 • GORDONSTOUN PUPILS prepare their lessons in cheerless cubicles clearly riot designed for comfort They arise at 7 o.m., daily, but as a special treat may sleep until 8 on Sunday. HEIR to British throne follows in footsteps of his father who attended same prep school.