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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-10-04, Page 6Waited 20 Years For Revenge Girls in Tunisian cabarets still Chant Of lovely young Bianca. She married an Italian cannel corps officer and for a time they lived happily, if tempestuously, at a coastal station. Then she became bored with !tarn. But he was still in love with her, and passionately jeal- ous. After a quarrel one day, she left him. Desperately he search- ed for Bianca, and at last he found her — at the house of her lover. Stealing through the door- way of an upper room, he caught them together. Mad with rage, he whipped out his service re- volver and fired six shots at point-blank range. The bullets streamed into Bianca's body. She should have died instantly, for one bullet entered her neck, and split her tongue. Yet, three months later, Bian- ca stood up in court and gave evidence against 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 light-hearted escapade." He must have known all the time it was him she really loved, she murmured. Not long after- wards Bianca's husband died, Tout 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- counts with the blonde named Erika who had enticed him away. "I'll 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 Karl, will love me again." So, on a pretext of telling the _ girl a secret or two about the dancing master, she persuaded Erika to go for a walk. She led her to an old trestled wooden bridge, a creaky ",structure, with a torrent roaring over rocks be- neath it. "Now we'll talk," said Karin. .A few moments later, with the blonde off her guard, Karin stooped low, seized Erika's legs, and tried to heave her over the flimsy rails. But, reacting in- stinctively, Erika hurled herself backwardh. Then squirming around, she waded into her ad- versary and a bitter, hair -tug- ging, clawing scene ensued. Finally Karin was overpower- ed. Then, kneeling on her chest, half choking her, Erika wrung from her the reason for the as- sault. "Before 1 hand you over to the police," said Erika, "let me help you to your senses." She drag- ged the object Karin down a steep wooded path to t h e stream's edge, and gleefully dipped her head; again and again, into the icy waters trying, she claimed, to cleanse it of all wickedness. While living with • a Berber tribe beautiful Carmen Kalsinki, a white Russian of noble birth, revenged herself on an Arab SALLY'S SALLIES "Slow down? Why 1 don't do a thing! My husband won't let me." boy, "He's insulted me!" she cried. "I'll have him whipped!„ The boy had only whistled a trifle shrilly under her window. But far this she ordered her black servants to strip and bind Then, using a camel -hide whip, she lashed him mercilessly. Twenty years later Carmen, still beautiful but not quite so proud, called for shelter one night at a palatial house in Tunis. The servant told her to wait, while he took her name and her request for aid to his master. Then he escorted Carmen to his master. "Madame," said the powerfully - built handsome Arab, rising from a chequered silk dais, "I have been expecting you for twenty years. Now Allah has delivered you to me — no longer young, but not incapable, I trust, of feeling pain," He smiled cruelly. Seeing her be- wildered look, he explained, "You see, I am the boy you once whipped. Now it is your turn! "Strip!" he hissed, "and pre- pare for the lash." "Surely you wouldn't whip a defenceless woman?" Carmen cried. "The Gods will curse and revile you for such an outrage!" "Had you any such noble thoughts of pity for me when I was a boy?" 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 command. But Carmen was not beaten yet. "Since you insist on humiliating me, I must offer you any respects first," she said calm- ly. Then with a sudden dart into the folds of 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 police. While in prison she brooded night and day over this griev- ance until, when she was re- leased one overweening thought possessed her — to punish her daughter. "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- sington store. But, apparently, the mother's shoplifting talent had gone rusty during her spell in jail. The store detective spotted her. "Step this way, please madam," he said with cold 'politeness. At that, she collapsed, moaning with fear and self-pity. The Rev. John Alington, patron of a living at Letchworth, Herts, 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 vast fortune, but — a thorough crackpot. The rector, so dis- placed, reported Alington's con- duct to the bishop and as a re- sult of this Alington was un- frocked. Foaming with rage, the Rev. John started gin -drinking serv- ices at Letchworth Hall, the stately resdence he owned. He invited all the local riff-raff, tramps, pick -pockets and good- time girls. Then, well plied with gin, he harangued them from his pupit, wearing only Morocan shoes, a red wig and a leopard skin. He continued this infamous conduct, until the rector, Sam- uel Knapp, resigned. But the vengeful patron, if satisfied on one score, was- neer satisfied with his bot.,...l-re . drank on and Ori, everrb.eeply, till he drowned, j- '�' •last bottle of brandy toe_ erg and died. Vie...• 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 an his promise, creating an "Italian rum beauty weighing a full ton. The mammoth confection, baked in sections, was a week-long job for Milani, and required 40 crates of eggs alone. Above, happy Joe gives expert guid- ance far 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". ?TABLL data TALKS Have you ever baked ham for a crowd and had themeat 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 decided 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!" * * *. If you'd like a casserole that •combines ham, 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 % teaspoon pepper teaspoon onion salt Y2 cup grated cheese 2 tablespoons butter Combine ham and tomatoes. Blend beaten egg with zh cup • cracker crumbs, mustard, and seasoning. Add to ham and to- matoes. Mix cheese, 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. * * *- Here is a skillet dish of ham and rice that you will like, HAM AND ORANGE CURRIED RICE 2 cups small cooked ham pieces 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper 1 tablespoon chopped onion 2 tablespoons brown sugar, firmly packed 1 teaspoon salt teaspoon curry powder rV2 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 for 5 minues. Add remaining ingre- dients. Mix well. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. * s:• In grandmother's day, ham scrapple was a regular part of. the menti when ham was available. Here is a good mode ern version of that glorified mush dish. • HAM SCRAPPLE 1 cup cornmeal 1 tablespoon sugar '/a teaspoon salt 2% culls boiling water V2 eup milk 2 cups ground, baked ham 11/4 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 21/4 cups .cooked mashed sweet potatoes 2 ripe bananas, mashed 34 cup crushed pineapple 2 tablespoons brown sugar ?i 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 onto meat. Broil 3 inches from heat source for about 5 minutes. Serve hilt. 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. 03 "House to let," replied the friend. Identical Twins And Their Ways 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 prenursing training course there. Sometimes Fay would be seen 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 them 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 some identical twins have ben' discovered. An eminent doctor repo.} ; on twins who got the same' e: wers in written examinatierts 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 mesical 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 t he pain when one was pinched in ill* 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. When You Yawn Satan Laughs!, When you yawn, Satan peeps down your throat to catch a glimpse of your soul. Then ha 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 same time, it was believed that evil spirits peered though the' jaws of 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 froni 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 be 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 stare, for covering the mouth with the hand. A yawn is automatic, It 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 boats, 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. NEW TWIST ON CHILD-REARING — As many human youngsters do, Michiline's young son got too rambuntious charging at his mother hard enough to rip he, temper. So, with a simple twist of her trunk en his tusk, she showed him who was boss. The elephants are residents of the Vincennes Zoo, ncctr Paris, France.