The Brussels Post, 1955-06-15, Page 64.11UPA.A.,410
Valuable Junk tot Her Head Giving Shelter
dam
Everyone likes to try o new
*We with ever-popular spaghet-
ti why we think this •
savory eggplant .sauce will be
'welcome et your dinner table.,
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4. TV FOOLED YOU, TOO—
These two Blackfoot penguins at the zoo in London, England,
are "slipping in a little !peaking despite presence of the (King),
penguin. But if you think that the big fellow is hiding his head
in bashfulness afiuch goings-on, take another—and closer'—
"look; The King's white vest shows that he's actually turned in
the opposite direction, He's iust taking a nap,
During a recent spring-cleats at
ata OiCin^QAt4Pli4led hospital in
the south ot'England, a huge
"junk pile of apparently ewe
less articieS which had lain idle
for years was collected. It• in,
chided some 1920-style men's
puns'.
jut*? tlardly. It proved to be
Stitch valuable junk when vine,
body thought of selling it in,
stead of putting it em the scrap-,
heap, that the nice little sum of
$8,000, was realized from it,
What you think is junk may
mean wade of banknotes for
somebody else. What .many, peo-.
pie, dump on the scrap-heap may
even be worth a fortune—to the
right buyer, Many of us are
wasters and, don't know it, Yes,
we throw namSey away.
For junk is often- big business,
it certainly was for the man
'who found a way of melting and
toughening broken glass and
moulding it into skid-proof
road bricks,
So, it was for the shrewd young ,„
man who started a toy factory
with old tine systematically
salvaged from rubbish heaps.
These men 'netted fortunes,
There was also the enterprise
leg foreigner who bought tons
of old bottle, corks, had them
compressed, mixed them with
strong glue and made them into
cheap mats:
A north of England council
-employed a man whose appre-
ciation of the potentialities of
lank later led to the handing
over to the ratepayers of $60,000.
Made out of the sale of old tins,
paper, rags, corks, jars and empe
Spaghetti With Eggplant
Sauce (6-8 servings)
One half zero Mitten el Ote-
ifiemisize eggptaat, pared and
tut in cubes; Op (topped
onions, 3 $ ounce cans tomato
mice, 1 eup %eater, a cup chop-
Pteli eamied, Pimento; 1 medium:
:sized green pepper, diced; 1 tea-
spoon salt, to taste, 14 teaspoon
thyme,tableepoone salt, 4 to
tt gnors boiling Water, 1 pound
spaghetti, gra t e d Parmesan,
eleeee.
Melt butter over medium heat,
Add eggplant and onions and
saute 10 minutes, stirring occa-
sionally. Add tomato sauce, wa-
ter, pimento, green pepper, 1
teapsoon salt, pepper and, thyme.
Cook over low heat 3Q min-
utes, stirring Occasionally, Mean.,
while, add 2 tablespoons pelt to
rapidly boiling water: Gradually
add spaghetti so that easater-con-
linues to boil. nand::
Cook uncovered,-7 4iiiinkigs oc-
casionally until ten4diga:;;;-iiie.Pliain
In ,colander; Serietes egigiplant
satire with spagliettiaind sprin-
kle with g r'a t ed Parnaosan
cheese* if desired.
Maybe you want a sotip that is
meat in itself.' Served with big
slices'ed bread and a salads this
.iehrilial - and - vegetable soup
makes a wonderfully hearty
Iteach. ►
V g
egg whites
cup Sugar
teaspoon Vanilla
Beat egg ‘1,11iteg until foamy,
then gradually beat in, einiar end
,vanilla until mixture stands in
soft peaks.
STRAWBERRY $11OBTOA1 E
The shortcake of grandmoth-
'er's kitchen was usually made
with two pie-size layers. Fresh
strawberries, were between and
on OP of the layers, and wedge-
shaped pieces were served with
sugar and cream, The shortcake
was biscuit dough to which,
sometirnee, a little sugar was
added. 11 you like this touch of
sweetness in your shortcake, add
from 2-4 tablespoons sugar to
a biscuit recipe calling, for 2
cups flour, Serve with either
whipped creams or vanilla ice
cream, if you like. * *
Grandmother early learned to
use what she had in cooking
and she had recipes for many
types of bread puddingenQften
she used molasses ordhalfeKin
place of sugar. Here, lei heciPe
using honey. * *
HONEY BREADt:EUDOING
1% cups day-old bread 'tubes
cup liquid honey
2, tablespoons butter
teaspoon salt
2 eggs beaten.
Ys teaspoon vanilla
1% cups hot milk
Place bread cubes in baking
dish, Combine honey, butter,
sale, eggs, and vanilla. Slowly
stir in milk. Pour mixture over
,bread. Set baking dish in pan
Of hot water, and bake at 350' •F.
30-40 minutes until pudding is
set. Serve with cream, or ice
cream. Four servings.
MAMALESS MEAL — This little
piggy is going to market, but
not until long after he's been
weaned on a pew, dry-meal
liet developed by Peturs J.
Geerling, who is holding him.
Geerling says that feed tubs
pictured represent s,ufficent food
to wean one piglet, could in-
crease pork production* by 25
per cent at less cost than' usual
Weanind methods.
Challenged To A
Duel With
Sausages
The air has been thick lately
with challenges thrown out by
ministers of state in France and
certain South American repub-
lics, none of which, fortunately,
has been accepted. In one, of "
these President Somoza of Nica-
ragua challenged President
Figueres of Costa Rica to e duiel
with revolvers to settle a quar-
rel between their countries.
The idea is an excellent one
— for it is better that one or
two men politicians should die
than thousands of innocent citi-
zens. But President. Somoza for-
got. the first rule in duelling;
that the challenged mans has
the choice of weapons.
President Figueres might have
chosen howitzers — or hockey
sticks — and then where would
Somoza have been?
Numerous duels have been
fought in the past and differ-
ences settled without recourse to
the use of conventional weapons
such as rapiers and pistols.
At the turn of the century the
swashbuckling writer, Richard
Harding Davis, challenged a re-
porter of the 'Chicago Sun' to
a duel. The reporter knew that
Davis was a deadly shot, but he
also knew his rights, and when
accepting agreed to fight with
custard pies at six paces.
Davis realized that if he ac-
cepted' he would beCome the
laughing stock of America, and
though it meant a loss of face,
there was no option but for him
to decline. America laughed
heartily and for some weeks the
reporter was a national hero.
i" If a challenged man keeps
his head he need never fight, for
the weapons of his choice may
sO nonplus his opponent that he
Will withdraw from the contest.
thappened when Isaac
Putman, ei general in the War of
Independence, was called out ,to
a duel with 'sabres, "Sir," he
wrote his opponent, "I have
been challenged, so the choice
of- weapons is, mine. I suggest
that we shall sit in a room in
which 'Shall he placed , an Open
barrel of gunpowder. On it shall
be placed a burning candle. The
first man, to leave shall •be ad-
judged a coward and the loser."
—His adversary's nerve could
net stand such a shattering test,
so' the affair was called off.
Another bloodless duel was
the iesixlt of g challenge thrown
out byileisnaarck to the Russian
scientist,, Virchow, for some
"imegined,eilight. Bismarck was no
novice when it came to handling
:arms, whereas the' Professor
hardly' knew which way a bul-
let left- a gun, So after a good
deal of thought he accented e ad-
dieg that, as it' was his 'privilege
to choese' the weapens, he had
decided upon. sausages.
Two' eausages would be ,placed
on plates, one packed with dead-
ly diseaSe gerins and the other
free fibre-them, Bismarck would
select and eat one, after which
Virchow would devour the
other.,
Bismarck paled when he read.
Virchow's letter — and declined,
One of the first of such duels
occured at the end of the eigh-
teenth century when duelling
was .taken seriously. Colonel
Lennox called out the Duke of
York, who apparently had a
sense of humour, and chose
pistols loaded with corks instead
of lead. Early one morning they
repaired to Wimbledon Com-
mon,• then the' fashionable
ground for such -affairs, and at
the 'word, both fired, The re-
sult was that the Duke's peri-
wig was slightly disarranged,
after which the contestants
shook hands and drove to
White's for coffee.
The town of Carlyle, Illinois,
was the scene of a most unusual
duel' in 1936 in which both men
were the losers. But as they
were millionaire oil men who
Cream of Salmon-Noodle Soup
(About 2% quarts)
One tablespoon salt, 3 quarts
boiling water, 8 ounces wide
logg nOodle,s (about 4 clips),
cswbutter, ,A/4 cur finely chop-
ped „ onion, 1/4 cup <<all-purpose
flour, 6 cups Milk, 1 VA-ounce
Can salmon, drained and flaked;
3. cup cooked Lima beans, salt
and pepper to taste.'-
Add 1 tablespoon salt to
:rapidly boiling watery Gradually
add noodles so that water con-
tinues to boil., Cook uncovered,
stirring occasionally, until ten-
der, Drain in colander. Melt but-
ler Over ,low heat; add onion
and saute until tender. Add
/lour and blend.
Gradually add milk and cook
until slightly thickened, stirring
constantly.
Add salmon, Lima beans and
,salt and pepper to taste. Add
wadies. Cook Mier low heat 15
minutes, stirring occasionally.
Serve immediately,
Floating island was a favour-
ite dessert of past days. Some
modern recipes suggest cooking
the meringue before serving it
on the custard, but in grand-
mother's day this was not al-
ways done.
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FLOATING ISLAND
4 egg yolks
1.41 cup sugar
14 teaspoonful salt
2 tablespoons salad oil
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Meringues
Beat egg yolks in top of
double boiler. Stir in sugar and
salt. Add oil and ntilk gradual-
ly, stirring to mix. Cook over
simmering water until mixture
is of custard consistency, stir-
ring constantly. When done, it
'will coat metal spoon. Cool
slightly, stir in vanilla. Cover
and chill. Serve topped with
epoonfuls of 'uncooked meringue.
Six servings,
would please to examine Done,
a little more strictly."
The examination was conduct-
ed' by the Lord Chief Justice
himself. Dunne refused to ad-
mit he had told Lady Lisle that
Hicks was a fugitive from Mon-
mouth's a,ri ny, Jefferies aban-
doned his self-control, "It is in-
finite mercy that for these false-
hoods.of thine God does not im-
mediately strike thee into help"
he exclaimed, "How darst 'you
offer to tell such horrid lies in
the prehence of God and of a
'Court of justice!" .
Other witnesses came forward,
but they could give no informa-
trim as to whether Lady Lisle
knew that. HickS hod fought for
Monmouth.
on
eBut Jefferies knew thPie was
e more witness whose words
could be twisted into proof of
guilt--Lady Alicia Lisle herself.
When she stood up to answer the
case against her, Lady Lisle ad-
mitted she knew Hicks was a
Presbyterian minister against
whom a warrent had been issued
for eon-conformity. But, she de-
, clared, she had never suspected
he ifed been engaged in the re-
bellion.
Addressing the prisoner but
looking straight at the jury,
Jefferies snarled: "There is not
one of those lying, snivelling,
canting Presbyterian rascals, but
one way or another has had a
hand' in'the late horrid conspir-
acy and rebellion." •
Lady Lisle protested that she
would have been the most un-
grateful person living, had she
been dislOyal to the King to
whom she owed her estates.
Jefferies glared significantly
at the jury again "Ungrateful!"
he exclaimed. "Ungrateful adds
to the load, and is the basest
crime that anyone can be guilty
of." „
Brushing aside her protests of
innocence and ignoring her plea,
to calf . ladies of King James's
Court to give evidence of her
loyalty, Jefferies proceeded to
sum up. The proofs were as
plain as could be given, he con-
cluded, and as evident as the
sun at noonday.
Even so,„ Jefferies did not get
his verdict without a struggle.
The jurymen protested that they
"had heard no proof that Lady
Lisle knew Hicks had served un-
der Monmouth. But the power
of the—Lord Chief Justice was
supreme and his cruelty notori-
ous. The jury knew, perhaps
that they could not save Lady
Lisle and might well endanger
their own lives. They returned
a verdict of guilty.
Jefferies smiled again, "If I'
had been among you and she
had been my own mother, I
should have found her guilty."
he said. Then he passed sentence
of death by burning at the stake,
and ordered the sheriff to pre-
pare for execution that after-
noon. He addedeihat a respite of
four days might be granted, if
the prisoner confessed.
LadviLisle had nothing to con-
fess. hitt her ' friends hastened
to King James with a petition
for clemency. They 'carried also
a personal plea from Lady Lisle
for e a four-day respite' and for
beheeciiiing _instead of burning.
That most ,Ciiiristian monarch
declined to interfere with Jef-
feries' decision about the time
of 'the execution ( which had, in
fact, been delayed while the
messengers Went to tension),
but was graciously pleased to
allow death by beheading.
On September 2nd Lady Lisle
nines ekeriuted in the
market-place at Winchester.
She died, says the old -records,
with. the resolution that became
her rank end her principles.
The scatteid, that workmen
were husy .eree'ting; in the mar,,
ket-place of Winchester was for
A woman—an. elderly and gentle
woman of good family whose
only crime WAS that she had
eheitered, A fellow creature in.
distress, It was the first day of
Septet-1'1nel., 1685, •
Among the hundreds who pass-
ed through the. •market-place
that day there was scarcely one
whose heart did net go out in
pity, But i no. voice was raised in
protest, for Lady Alicia --Lisle
had been condemned by the
Lord Chief Justice of England,.
and that Chief . Justice was
"bloody" .Jefferies,
The .rebellion of James Scott,.
Duke of Monmouth, was over.
His hopes had vanished at Sedge
moor in Somerset where his
army had been routed and, he
himself captured,
After the battle two men, John
Hicks and 'Nelthrop, persuaded
an acquaintance named Dunne
to ask Lady Lisle if they might
shelter at her house at Elting-
ham,. in Hampshire, She gave
permission and directed that
they shotild• be supplied with.
food .There is no evidence that
she had any knowledge of the
identity of either man, or that
they were soldiers who had.
served under Monmouth,
An inforiner by the name of
Barter • saw the' three men in
conversation with Lady Alicia's
bailiff, and immediately report-
ed the matter to Colonel Pen-",.,
ruddock, who was stationed in
the district. He took a body of
troops and i eurrounded Lady
'Lisle's house. lie questioned the
bailiff who freely admitted the
presence of two strangers. A
search was made and Nelthrop
was found hiding -in a chimney.
At once the Colonel charged
Lady Alicia • With harbouring
rebels and • entertaining the.
King's enemies.
On• August 27th, 1685, the trial
of Lady Lisle opened.. The ori-
ginal charge had now grown to
the following: "That, intending
to stir up war . and rebellion
Within the kingdom, and to de-.
prive the King of his crown, and
to put him to death, she had
traitorously concealed, sheltered'
and maintained in . her dwelling
house, at-the-parish of Elling-
ham, one John Hicks, knowing
him at the tithe to be a traitor."
Lady Lisle: who was not' only
old and frail, but deaf, pleaded
not guilty. She asked the judge
to consider her infirmities .and
allow her to have a friend by
her side to inform her of what
was passing.
With 'a deceptive smile Jef-
feries nodded his consent.
. Mr.. Pollexfen, stating the case
for the Crown, exalted Hicks to
• be the chief instrument in ..alon-
mouth'e rebellion.
Lady Lisle interrupted to de-
clare in a quavering voice that
she utterly abhorred the rebel-
lion. • •. .
Still in the same suave man-
ner Jefferies reproved her.
"You shall be tully heard
when it comes to your. then,"
he said, adding: "Though we sit
here as judges over you, by au-
thririty; from the ,King; yet we •
are accountable ,not" only, to . h im„
lent, to the King of Kings, the
great Judge. of Heaven and
earth. As to what, ydu say con-
cerning ,''yottrse'lf,,' I pray God
With all :My heart you may be
innOcent.":-
The chief witness for the pro-
secution was Dunne—a Wretch-
ed, conscience-stricken witness
who knew when he persuaded
• Lady Lisle to shelter Hicks that
she Was ignorant of his identity.
"We do .trutibly desire;" said
Polle.xaeri, "that your Lordship
didn't know how to get rid of
the gold that' fitAed into their
coffers, they enjoyed the affair
immensely.
They met in the street and
went into a restaurant for din- „
ner, a meal priced at one dollar
They sat at the same table.
and each insisted on being
served by a pretty waitress,
When they finished, one of the
oil men placed a $15 tip on his
side plate,
"Hugh!" snorted his friend,
looking disparagingly at the 'tip
and planked down twice as
much on his plate.
Instantly, the other added to
his tip. His friend took up the
challenge. "I'll be darned if I
let that skunk beat me!" he de-
clared, as his pile of silver in-
creased.
The waitress looked on with
interest, When ultimatel/ both
men were cleaned out of- ready'
cash it was found that they had
between them contributed $350
in their novel tipping duel. The
waitresses were the winners,
Unorthodox duels don't al-
ways end harmlessly. .In 1808
two hot-blooded Frenchmen, M.
de Grandpre and Id. le Pique,
both fell madly in love with a
gorgeous prima donna from the
Imperial Opera.
If de Granpre entered her
dressing-room with a magnifi-
cent bouquet, he found le Pique
waiting with a much better as-
sortment of blooms when he
emerged,
If le Pique gave her a diamond
bracelet, he discovered the fol-
lowing week that his rival had
givin her one of diamonds as
well.
in the end both decided to
fight, it out, and the weapons
named were two balloons in
which they would ascend- into
the clouds, and a blunderbuss
apiece to fire at each other.
When some hundreds of feet
up, the wind carried their bal-
ioons within range of each other
and M. de Grandpre's discharge
tore a huge hole in the envelope
of his rival's ballon, sending the
poor fellow hurtling to his
death.
Unfortunately foe the victon
the prima donna changed her
mind when she heard of the
duel — and married an even
riohet, man. -
In 1937 two swains of Verona
quarrelled over a girl and
agreed to settle their differenceS
'with a duel, They chefte -their
own weapons. So one turned up
with e spade and the other a
pick-axe,
There were no seconds and no
witnesses, At the first light of
day they started hacking away
at each other And continued to
fight until they were so badly
ibiurecl that they could not go
on. Their cries attracted passers-
by, who took them to hospital in
a serious condition, EVentually
both recovered, but the girl had
the good sense to realize that
. life .with men so stupid could
never be happy and married
another.
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l'HISIIMAY"GIVO YOU 'A' SHOCk—YOLi cctn generate "electricity
by stetekih'itli&fd? of.ct.tatt, but it would be a long time before
you genatitediehough"to light a 75-waft bulb for One minute:
Pretty Donna Braun shows the cat and inStruMants she used
to diseavet that, if WoUld take almost four handled yecirsi
assuMing you ,patted the •tat once every eetond. Tho inlagih-
live`Aectetary ftir•cm electric toMpany eclys it would tolt,o
billibri 'Cat pats fce do the trick, She indeed' cri to a voitrooter
tb prove it.
ty 'bottles carefully sorted from
-the loads brought in by its elust-
vans. The sale of fertilizer pre-
pared from, household litter re-
sulted in ,another, $25,000 profit.
Never throw 'away a thing just
because you think it's out of
date. It's a Safe bet that some
body is looking for it and will #
pay you well for it,
Old bath-chairs, pepperepots—
even old .railway tickets—have
been, sold to ecillectors for cash.
Seine collectors of "junk" supply
such articles to film companies
which need thann for, use in
viociefilres.
One' producer spent months
looking for a steamship ticket
issued , from New Orleans, to
tngland about the year 1800. It
was absolutely vital 'for the film
he was making. Ho" fourid it ul-
timately in a junkshop,
Ellin ',studios are constantly
building ,up their own "muse.-
'ems" of out of date end obsolete
articles 'which are pretty sure
to be needed sooner fir later in
Now that TV is booming;
the demand for apparently dn.
ifhpertant period 'articles—from
;clay pipes to old flute-brushes --
is likely to iricreaee.
Producers of TV Wins and
playeeeveTt titnoW -that unless au=
thentie articles ere* need en , their
patedinetiOaan they Will get shoals
of complaints f 4011i ,viewers
pointing diAlt inaattira'cieS',
So think °twice before throw-,
i hg away gtiet shaded old
'kettle, or that rusty eloek- which
has been lying' abent:-in yOtir
lumber robin ,for Years: It ,May
be Worth itiOtiey, tia,„yOu sooner
Ot later when the tight buyer
cones along,
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A4thig acitn intiedirlei 64i-tee °Vet her eight Sons, all Of Piave tel•Veti in the arme • ci
forces, h EMS: Willloni D,. Adatts, Their combined setvite totals 34 years; They sire pictured
during a fartilly reunion in tier home,
Ati attractive ,young Govern-.
tnent typist made A prgetied
Arrivihg at the office a fieW Mies
Ides late ettety, day. Repeated
'warnings by. her supervisor had
ettect Finally he arinciuncedt
feign tired Of talk-
ink About your tardiness. 1 ami•
therefore; suspending. yeti for
one' day 'without Whei't
would you like to take the: day?"
"Well It it's all right With
you," she replied,. ',TA 'like to
tide up being We