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Zurich Herald, 1950-11-16, Page 7e T How Koreans seep SECTIONAL FURNITURE Their Hones Warm ° F your living quarters are <;$k IF so crowded that be- Korean home life cats best be you've understood .by living in a Korean t home, So .come with me to the space .i ; 'j:: h . n the same way~ �ou w house of Hyun, a young man lylio s �; dream of acquiring a amllllion ,; �rx;;�<°�, ,��' ;� dollars, here perhaps is an � ��t .3.. has seen the life.of the city, but is answer to your problem. Cut down on the ,not ashamed 'of the inud-and-thatch . amount of furniture you try to jam intokA'" y dwelling of his parents in a moun- your dwelling. This sounds, on tain village back of Seoul. ..r; easier said than done, .. We passed through a yard filled ' A certain number of furnish-�." with great jars, any one of them Ings are essential to daily liv- 3{ rl large enough to contain a man, trig, no matter how much you Instead, they contain the winter's may try to pare your belong- ; fi store of kimishi—a mixture of fish, ings to a minimum. The answer lies not in s �y onions, garlic and red pepper, elim- Y.' ination, but in combination. "Here we 'are," said Hyun hap- By creating furniture that can pily, and opened a low handsomely serve dual purposes, modern dbsigners have made it carved door .. . pos- stole for even one -room apart p- x He introduced me tc his old ments to loop attractive and, tionsl pieces are available uncluttered, versatile furnishings are the spice of one -room living. This mir- which inay be to- white -clad father and mother and your white oak with driftwood finish, part there's a versatile desk- his pretty sister, Then lie invited rinse well. Wash in me to take a seat, There was no "Not Flt For A Knighthood chair. We sat on the floor, The autumn air had been chilly outside. worth millions of pounds may lie But now a delightful warmth began "You've to pass up through rile, It seemed ICE CREAM to be coming from the floor! ter. Wash in lukewarm And then I became acquainted treat as such. Wash in with one of the cleverest intentions of man since the age of fire began. It is the heated floor. America and - Europe, for all their ingenuity, know MEAT it not. The Chinese have something ter. Wash in lukewarm like it—the kang, a heated brick hot water first; it may set divan. By living on the top of the kang and stepping clown from it upon the cold floor as rarely as Poor boiling water from a possible, one may keep reasonably I'RUIT warni. ter. If stain remains But the Korean invention has through stain. If stain is gone the Chinese idea one better. The entire floor becomes a kang. let stand a few hours, Who has not suffered with cold peroxide. Rinse well.. Do feet and hot head in all. unevenly heated room? Since hot air rises, in warm suds. it would seem elementary that the set stains. heat should come from the floor— CTREASE and from all parts of the floor, not Sponge with carbon just from a register in one corner. wash in hot suds. If stain This very obvious fact seems to a have struck the Korean and no one solvent. Wash in luke- else. And the Korean has very bon tetrachloride or other simply solved the problem by run- ning the hot smoke from his kitchen stove under the floors of the other Scrape off fresh paint incl zooms .to the far side of the house where at last, its heat exhausted, it cottons and linens, is allowed to escape through a chim- stain has dried, soften first ney. - By using what we throw away, he keeps his house warm. then sponge with turpen- The floor is raised from the ground a foot or two and is made of stone slabs cemented together in warns suds, so that no smoke can rise fn'to the SCORCH; xoom. The stones absorb !teat easily Can seldom be to - and hold it well. For comfort's light. Repeat several times. sake, the entire floor is covered with resilient oiled paper almost as fine sandpaper may thick as a thin carpet=and much .vith oxide necessarv. Rinse easier to keep clean. On this spot- less silklike surface cushions are placed for sitting, or beds spread at night. Cooking the usual two or three meals will furnish enough heat to keep"the floor warm all day, and only a blaze of pine needles at retiring will store enough heat l in the -stone floor to last, till morn- ing.—From. "Key to Japan," by Willard Price. a?, "When I was single I had lots `s of theories on how to bring up chit - a; •dren. Now I'm married, I have four children — and no theories." e T The world has never celebrated the centenaries of day -dreams — even those day -dreams that have charged the hearts of thousands with emotion. Yet it is just one hundred years since a schoolboy wrote to his aunt from a wretched Dotheboys Hall in the slums of London, "This school will lead me nowhere but I shall study here. And I shall learn how to become a great actor ..." His naive was John Henry Brod- ribb.' Born in 1838, his father was an impecunious grocer, often shut- ting up shop lest the shelves should be cleared by the bailiffs. The schoolboy began his career as an underpaid shipping clerk, but the day -dream remained. And thou- sands remember him affectionately to this day under the immortal stage name he chose for himself -- Henry Irving, writes 111. Reynelle in "Tit Bits." Audience of None His was one of those success stories which even now is an in- spiration. He used to rise at 4 a.m., breakfast on apples and bread, read and re -read plays by candlelight until dawn, and then march five miles ' to his work. At{the shipping office his cronies, knowing his idio- syncrasies, scooped out a hollow fn a packing case. Here he crouched for as many minutes as he could spare, studying Shakespeare. On barely 12s. a week he scraped and saved for elocution and fencing classes. When he at last ventured to present himself before a famous theatrical producer, and explained his ambition, the latter jeered. "Go away, boy. I never saw anyone less suited in looks or character." Happily at last one' old actcor recognized the spark of genius and gave him a letter of introduction STAINS—HOW TO REMOVE THEM WHITE COT'T'ONS OR ANY WASHABLE STAIN LINENS ONLY COLORED FABRIC BLOOD For. fresh stain, soak in Sponge with cold wa- water. Wash in warm suds. ter. Wash in lukewarm For stubbornn stains, use suds. salt water solution (/ cup salt to 2 cups water). Do not use hot water first. CHEWING Rub with piece of ice and SECTIONAL FURNITURE SAVES LIVING ° F your living quarters are <;$k IF so crowded that be- �� dressing table which may. 'i $s 'give you've �qr/ ,., , s �� your !tome a lift in both gun to think of having enough '�� if" x, efficiency and beauty. ! } 4ipa space .i ; 'j:: h . n the same way~ �ou w y�r , •; p,,,�,#• , ' , , , I' The center section of the ' s �; dream of acquiring a amllllion ,; �rx;;�<°�, ,��' ;� dollars, here perhaps is an � ��t .3.. ,desk top lifts tip 'to reveal n s; mirrored vanity section.' answer to your problem. Cut down on the When the lid is, closed, the ,> >fp ` amount of furniture you try to jam intokA'" y clutter of cosmetic needs is �`n 2x;• OL kjdily concealed, your dwelling. This sounds, on Y:t Another versatile piece is ..r; easier said than done, .. -leaf table with draw - a dropface, G >} ryy entlyatfill. the space; usually A certain number of furnish-�." roasted between table top an Ings are essential to daily liv- 3{ rl floor. Here table linens or trig, no matter how much you other items may be conveni- may try to pare your belong- ; fi ently stored. ings to a minimum. The answer lies not in s �y Flexible seating arrange - elim- Y.' ination, but in combination. merits are also a good idea for a crowded home or apart - By creating furniture that can ment. The trend is away from serve dual purposes, modern dbsigners have made it bi , cumbersome divans that e ` ` pos- stole for even one -room apart p- x .. consume any precious, m ?"' u hard -to -spare feet. Now sec.- ments to loop attractive and, tionsl pieces are available uncluttered, versatile furnishings are the spice of one -room living. This mir- which inay be to- pushed living flf' in f rored vanity swings down into desk. L-shaped section of room Y g room must as a bedroom by night and a den by day. All furnishings are gether to form sofas, or sep- serve as bedroom, too, your white oak with driftwood finish, part there's a versatile desk- of a new 64-plece group � arated to use as individual rinse well. Wash in chairs. "Not Flt For A Knighthood was told she could look after the 1y closed, even though stones cats. worth millions of pounds may lie ---Si'��t y FWas as A Groot r" "You've already taken on three untouched in the workings. If ICE CREAM women to look after the cats," his they were taken out too soon they The world has never celebrated the centenaries of day -dreams — even those day -dreams that have charged the hearts of thousands with emotion. Yet it is just one hundred years since a schoolboy wrote to his aunt from a wretched Dotheboys Hall in the slums of London, "This school will lead me nowhere but I shall study here. And I shall learn how to become a great actor ..." His naive was John Henry Brod- ribb.' Born in 1838, his father was an impecunious grocer, often shut- ting up shop lest the shelves should be cleared by the bailiffs. The schoolboy began his career as an underpaid shipping clerk, but the day -dream remained. And thou- sands remember him affectionately to this day under the immortal stage name he chose for himself -- Henry Irving, writes 111. Reynelle in "Tit Bits." Audience of None His was one of those success stories which even now is an in- spiration. He used to rise at 4 a.m., breakfast on apples and bread, read and re -read plays by candlelight until dawn, and then march five miles ' to his work. At{the shipping office his cronies, knowing his idio- syncrasies, scooped out a hollow fn a packing case. Here he crouched for as many minutes as he could spare, studying Shakespeare. On barely 12s. a week he scraped and saved for elocution and fencing classes. When he at last ventured to present himself before a famous theatrical producer, and explained his ambition, the latter jeered. "Go away, boy. I never saw anyone less suited in looks or character." Happily at last one' old actcor recognized the spark of genius and gave him a letter of introduction STAINS—HOW TO REMOVE THEM WHITE COT'T'ONS OR ANY WASHABLE STAIN LINENS ONLY COLORED FABRIC BLOOD For. fresh stain, soak in Sponge with cold wa- water. Wash in warm suds. ter. Wash in lukewarm For stubbornn stains, use suds. salt water solution (/ cup salt to 2 cups water). Do not use hot water first. CHEWING Rub with piece of ice and Chill with ice; scrape GUM scrape off gum. If stain re- off gum. Sponge with mains, sponge with carbon carbon tetrachloride or tetrachloride or other sol- other solvent. vent. CHOCOLATE Dip fabric up and down in Wash -in lukewarm OR COCOA hot water. Wash in hot suds. Use carbon tetra - suds. Bleach any remain- chloride to remove any ing stain, with hydrogen grease spots caused by peroxide. Rinse well. cream. COFFEE Pour boiling water from a Sponge with waren wa- OR TEA height of 2 or 3 feet ter. If stain remains, through stain. If stain is apply warm glycerine not removed, bleach with let stand / hour, and hydrogen peroxide. Rinse rinse well. Wash in well. Do not use soap warm suds. first, it may set the stain. ,CREAM OR Soak in cold water. If ice Sponge with cold wa- ICE CREAM cream is fruit or chocolate, ter. Wash in lukewarm treat as such. Wash in suds. warm suds. Rinse well. EGGS OR Soak in cola water, Wash Sponge with cold wa- MEAT in hot suds, Do not use ter. Wash in lukewarm TUICE • hot water first; it may set suds. stain. FRUITS OR Poor boiling water from a _ Sponge with cool wa- I'RUIT height of 2 or 3 feet ter. If stain remains TUICES through stain. If stain is apply warm glycerine, not removed, use hydrogen let stand a few hours, peroxide. Rinse well.. Do and rinse well, Wash not use soap first; it'mav in warm suds. set stains. CTREASE Rub well with soap and Sponge with carbon AND OIL wash in hot suds. If stain tetrachloride or otfier� a remains sponge with car- solvent. Wash in luke- bon tetrachloride or other warm suds. solvent, TAINT Scrape off fresh paint incl Same method as for wash in warm sods. If cottons and linens, stain has dried, soften first with oil, lard, or vaseline, then sponge with turpen- tine or banana oil. Wash in warns suds, SCORCH; Moisten and expose to Can seldom be to - light. Repeat several times. moved. Brushing with Bleach, Hydrogen per- fine sandpaper may .vith oxide necessarv. Rinse improve woollens. welt, that secured him his first part at the age of eighteen. He had only four words to speak and when his cue came he blundered so badly that the audience rocked with -- laughter. The audience at the old Suther- land Lyceum never guessed that they had seen the first perform- ance of an immortal. Years later, when he owned and ruled the great Lyceum Theatre in London, Irving was the first actor to be knighted. "I'm not fit for it," lie said, at first refusing the honor; "ivy father was a grocer." But if his first appearance was unpromising, his second was lament- able. He forgot his lines entirely! When he launched himself in a one-man show in a little theatre Scotland, not a soul came to see him. In Dublin, he had no sooner set foot on the stage than howls of execration rained from the gal- lery. His first part in London also was a failure. For years he barnstormed around the Provinces, painstakingly learning his craft. When the Lyce- um theatrical impresario, Colonel Bateman, at last offered him a love role, the production flopped within twenty-four hours. Eagerly Irving told Bateman he knew of a drama which might re- place the failure. "It's called 'The Bells'," he . explained. "The central character is a Polish Jew—a: con- science-stricken murderer." "Ridiculous!" retorted Bateman. "The public doesn't pay to see Polish Jews." Faced with the alter- native of closing the theatre, or of producing "The Bells," however, he chose to keep open doors. With cheap scenery and poor re- hearsing, the play that was to give Irving the first great part of his career was put on. Few critics at- tended the first night. The opening act was played tolan accompani- ment of coughing and chatter. Then, quite suddenly, the atmosphere be- came electric. The theatre hushed. A dramatic critic sent an urgent message to his Editor to hold the presses. Later, when he turned in a column of ecsatic praise, the editor refused to print it. "Print it," said the critic. "Our paper will gain a reputation for truth." - The rest is theatrical history. All London flocked to the Lyceum and talked of the unknown actor who was making hardened playgoers shiver, tremble, and cry out in fear and horror. The play eventually enabled Irving to rent the Lyceum and set tip as actor -manager. Soon he met Ellen Terry and engaged her as his leading lady. For years there was hardly a production in which they did, not appear together. When they toured the Provinces, mayors and alder- men came to the station to welcome them. When they went to America cheering crowds gave them a Broad- way welcome. Irving always wanted to share his success. At the summit of his career lie gave away money as fast as lie earned it. An old actor once begged hien for seats. In the envel- ope with the tickets were two £5 notes. , An actress who had lost most of her charms tremblingly asked for a post in the theatre and manager interposed. Fine, said Irving, "You can, be the woman who looks after the women who look after the cats!" With equal generosity he endow- ed cabmen's shelters and beds. in hospitals. It was said that 200 old actors and actresses lived oil the bank -notes he sent them every Friday. Ruined by Fire Simultaneously he lavished for- tunes on his theatrical productions, making them as brilliantly dressed and spectacular as possible. Until, one night, his scenery warehouse caught fire. Within an hour the great stocks of stage settings, rich costumes and"curtains, swords and jewellery were consumed to ashes. The blow crippled Irving financi- ally. Though he continued to act there he had to surrender his Lyce- um lease. Despite this, veteran playgoers still recall his lavish pro- duction of "Becket," at Drury Lane, .in 1905. Touring with this play at Bradford, a strange thing happened to Irving. As Becket, after being stabbed by his persecutors, he had to utter the words, "Into Thy Hands, O Lord," as the curtain fell. On -the final night Irving acted with a strange fervour. As he spoke the wo'r'ds; "Into Thy Hands . and fell 'before, the stage altar, sobs could be heard over the theatre. But when. the curtain rose,for his calf the great actor lay still. The rising curtain was hurriedly lower- ed. Within a few hours Sir Henry Irving was dead. When. he first entered the theatre, actors were classed as rogues and vagabonds. When he left it, they were members of a respected and enviable profession. Diamonds Are .Real Portable Wealth .War scares,..fnflation and devalu- ation are causing one of the biggest diamond booms in history. When choice stones come up for auction private buyers often bid 30 per- cent. more than professional tra- ders are prepared to offer. They do. not do this because they are carried away by the subtle sparkle of this queen of gems. Nor because it would look well set in a ring, or bracelet. They buy at almost any price be- cause they know the value of dia- monds is less likely to go down than the price of any other coin- modity in the world.. Why is this? Because Practically all the dia- monds in existence are mined and sold under the auspices of one business concern, the Diamond Cor- poration. Soft Golds While gold is a soft, unstable commodity, changing its value with currencies and the needs of coun- tries, all the problems of the dia- mond world have been solved by a control .as hard as the carbon of which the stones are made - The Diamond Corporation care- fully grades all the rough stones mined and sells them at a care- fully established price. Brokers cannot haggle, and they in their turn must pass oil the pre- arranged prices to their clients, the diamond -cotters and polishers. The, diamond market is neve flooded, To keep the value of the diamond high mines are deliberate - VM TAKING WOODY'SSCOUT k TROOP* ON A HWE ANP YOUY3u 5rAYltt(G OiOMg. TNAT'.5 rest of the fancily were ve.y short, lie was .six feet two inches title at the age of nineteen, The one thing they all had in ' common was red hair, Yet their father's lair was jet black and their mother's as white as snow. In 1701 Peter, the father„ fell into a deep sawpit and starvrd to death and his wife, who refused to eat after the accident, died five days later. The tall Ezekiel enlisted as a grenadier but was drowned 'in 1723 with his brother Solomon when they were crossing the Thames, This tragedy brought an end to the odd family of Ipswich, for just tett years earlier, in 1713, the strangest event of all had happen- ed. The other five brothers had all died at different places on the same day, Set A Camera, Caught A Thief The pretty girl tourist was sit- ting peacefully in the pavement cafe of a Paris thoroughfare watching the smart crowds pass by. On the table at which she was sitting were her handbag, a cup of coffee, a camera and a book of travellers' cheques she had just then been counting. Along the boulevard pavement sauntered two men, As they passed the girl at her outdoor table they glanced at her handbag and the w ouldn t be worth so nuc n. travellers' cheques. Inherited Skill They moved closer to the table, In time of war diamonds are the then suddenly one of them brushed only convenient way of carrying against her. He murmured "Par - half a million pounds around in don, mademoiselle," she looked up your pocket. at him, and as she did so the That is why so many refugees second matt grabbed the cheques from Holland, traditionally famous and they both ran off. for its diamond experts, were by To an observer, it was a well no means penniless when they co-ordinated theft, and it didn't look reached England during the war, as though anyone would ever catch Annstcrdarn has been the Euro- those two running men. But the pean headquarters of the diamond- girl had other ideas, She seized cutting industry since the middle her camera, got the fleeing men in of the fifteenth century, the lens, and clicked the shutter. Jeivs driven out of London and And as she did so one of the men Lisbon by religious persecution turned round. found sanctuary in Holland, where She tools the film to the police. they introduced the art as taught They developed it and there was to them by their Eastern fore- a perfect portrait of the thief. With - fathers. in a short time he was picked up Those Jewish refugees, who po- and confessed. Later his confeder- pulated the teeming streets of Arra- ate was found as well. sterdam's Jodenhock kept the art It was a case of setting a camera of diamond -cutting as a racial pos- to catch a thief, and shows how session until they held it almost a little quick thinking can some-• as a world monopoly. times upset the careful calculations" -- of crooks. - A Family That There have been other examples of camera - catching. Quite recently Was Really "Odd" a thief broke into a store and made for the till. Just as he was open - Probably the oddest family in Ing it, however, there was a sudden history, a mother, father and seven flash of light and an alarm bell sons, lived in Ipswich, Suffolk, in rang. the reign of William III. Every He made off. A efew hours later event, either good or bad, happened the police were on his trail and to this family on an odd day of the arrested him. month and each one of the nine The flash of light had been a members had something peculiar camera flash bulb which had been about his or her person. fixed by the store owner to go Even the letters in their Chris- off if anyone tried to rob the till.- tian names added up to an odd The camera, too, was focussed to number. The husband was named photograph the incident. Peter, his wife Rabah and the boys In a U.S. factory the workers' were Solomon, Roger, James, private lockers were constantly be. Matthew, Jonas, David and Ezekiel. ing raided by an unknown thief Father had only one leg Nand A similar device was rigged up on mother only one, arm. Solomon a shelf, set to take a picture when was born blind in the left eye and a locker door was opened, Roger lost his right eye in an ac A perfect picture was obtained, cident. and the astonished expression on James had his left ear pulled off the crook's face in the incriminat- in a quarrel and Matthew was born ing snap made even the police smile, with only three fingers on his right hand. "How's your daughter getting on Jonas had a stump foot and David in California?" was humpbacked. The odd thing "Fine. Got a steady job as about Ezekiel was that wbilst the bridesmaid to a Hollywood star." ow 6 } � f WEIT DRIP PROOF CANDLES sM AKE CANDLES DRIP - PROOF BY SOAKING• "1'i-1EM IN A STRONGr SALT WATER SOLUTION FORA FEW l~ OURS.I.ONOT WIPE ON REMOVAL