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The Brussels Post, 1957-12-18, Page 7..... . . ..... HAPPY BIRTHDAY—Sir Winston Churchill, right, is shown walk-, ing with Field. Marshal Viscount Montgomery around Chartwell, his country home near Westerham, 'England. Montgomery, who beat the Germans at El Alamein during World War 11, was the only person outside Churchill's family to help celebrate the latter's 83rd birthday. AGENTS WANTED GO INTO eustpos6 for yourself. Sell our exclusive hope- wares,-watches and other proditets not found in stores. Ne competitiOn, Profits up to 500%. Write now for free .01mm catalogue and separate confidential Whelesale price sheet, Murray .Sa)es, 3822 St. Lawrence, Montreal. SPARE TIME AGENTS You risk only 13,00 to start a year around, spare time business, Our Item Nenette makes a gratifying Christmas gift that will bring a volume of re- peat orders later. 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By adding a pinch or two of sugar to the oil as soon a, it is opened. Q. How can make a good metal polish? A. By using 1 cup of cigar ashes, mixed with 2 tablespoons of bicarbonate of soda, bringing it to a smooth past 'with water. Use on a clean cloth, rubbing vigorously. Q. How can I make a good hair tonic? A. Buy one ounce of the best castor oil, two ounces of French brandy, and two ounces of bay rum. Mix thoroughly and rub well Into the scalp. Q. How can I preserve leather `auto cushions that are often nib- jetted to rain? A. By rubbing linseed oil into . them thoroughly and frequently. Q. How can I make a hem that will not show?' A. After making a hem that one is particularly anxious will not show, place a Turkish towel over the ironing board and iron on the right side of the hem. It will be practically invisible. Q. How can I promote the growth of the eyelashes? A. Dip a soft brush in pure lanolin and touch the edges of the eyelids with it. This applica- tion should be made before re- tiring for the night. Q. How can I remove paint from window glass? A. By rubbing with hot, strong vinegar. Repeat if necessary. . How can I clean the dirty, black bottoms of aluminum pans? A. This can be easily done by placing the pans in a , shallow pap, in which a teaspoon of soda has been dissolved in little wa- ter. Heat the water and let it simmer for a few minutes. Q. How can I remove ink stains from colored fabrics? A. Try applying a paste that Is made of sour milk and fuller's earth. GOOD 'DEAL AtTER, 'NeW' Yorkers elitiCkled:thrOugh, the yeari the' 'thautAt that they bought Manhattan .from. the.. Indians .for only $24. But Ben Red Hilt, centre,an ArliOna Indian In town to' do tribal dance e xhibitions with friends ,Red becri.lift, and Chtettlei Like; 'beeciri .tio'grudge.. After struggling With Mete glass doors in a Cafeteriai the Nndians Will 46 happy leave'New"YOktc tit the cliff dWelletsi CLOCK IN nit CLOUDS The World's largest super-accurate' clock was recently put into Operation atop the 30-story Con- tinental National Bonk Building in Forth Worth, Tex. The clock makes Pone complete revolution every minute and flashes time minute by triiriute in giant illuminated numerals over two stories tall, If can be read day or night at distances of three mites on more, Accuracy is 'controlled within 1]20t11 bf 'a skand by d short wav e Signals from the National Buredis of Standards CLASSIFIED ADVERTISIN Angry -Elephants Hurled Trees Two :famous hunter$1 Jelna P. !Burger and Micky. Norton, Went Out after elephant ivory in the Congo one morning, taking OP- 'Waite directions, Burger return- ed with two. Prize trophies, but Norton hadn't returned even by next morning, 50 Burger set out with trackers fearing that the worst might have happened to him. Eventually they came to the steep banks of a tributary of the Congo River, and deep down the ravine could hear Norton call- ing for help, lie lay buried un- der- hundreds of branches and tree-trunks, and was lucky to be He had shot a prize bull-ele- pliant and was admiring the tusks when suddenly he was charged by the infuriated herd. Instinctively he ran for the river and slid down its bank, which was too steep for them to fol- low, But that did not deter them from trying to settle the score. He found himself being cov- ered by an avalanche of branches and young trees which they were tossing down on him in an effort to bury him alive! The assault lasted until darkness set in, when the herd moved away. t took Burger and his boys more than an hour to free Norton. Burger was working in a min- ing camp on the Lupa goldfields, Tanganyika, when illness con- fined him to his bed. His only helper was an old native cook named Dan who claimed that he'd cooked for Dr. Livinstone and seen the historic meeting with Stanley in 1871. Burger of- ten needed his help at night, but once he'd fallen asleep only a charge of dynamite could awaken him, so Burger tied one end of a length of twine to one of Dan's toes, the'other to 'a four- gallon tin of water mounted on a bracket over his head. If pull- ing string No. 1 was ineffective, Burger was determined to try No. 2. One daybreak, after a sleepless night, he managed to wake Dan with No. 2 and ordered him to make toast and coffee. Soon a Are was burning briskly at the foot of his bed, but a little later . . dead silence and no sign of a fine. Dan,hael dropped off again. His feet were stretched out to- wards the,fire, and between the tote of each he'd wedged two pieees 'Of toagt,'ii6w burnt black. Another time -'he` caught Dan a CROWNED — Showgirl Diana Milroy wears her new crown with a smile after being named Bachelor Queen of 1958, by the Bachelor Society of America. Coronation was at the group's seventh anniversary meeting. ;training the morning ecetfee through One of his socks, As hunter, miner and trader, Burger relates exciting and amusing bush experiences in "'African Adventures", O n e morning in Elizabethville passed a handcart with coffin aboard, A sorrowing husband Was burying his wife, and the funeral procession had halted outside a pub to "drown" their sorrow. Two days later be Pass- ed the same procession two streets farther down town, The mourners were then inside the last bar but one en route to the cemetery. Burger's most astonishing en- counter was with "Professor IVIor- risey," the world's greatest snake man, in Durban, His act consist- ed in taking the bites of the infest poisonous reptiles, including a twelve-foot deadly King Cetera of India, but he said he wanted to procure black and green mam- bas and open his show by taking the bite from the black mamba, Africa's deadliest, most feared reptile, aptly called "the shadow of death," • Burger took him out to the sugar plantations of Natal's north coast, where he caught a seven-foot green mamba — and brought it back in the rickshaw, pushed into his shirt, with his belt ,and buttons securely fasten- ed and.a tie round his neck, to make sure it didn't escape. He the nannounced that he would take its bite the next ' evening, and his tent was packed to suffocation by a crowd intent en seeing what a man looks like when he dies from mamba bite. Holding it firmly in his right hand before the spellbound audi- ence, Morrisey pushed his left forearm under its snout. As the fangs fastened on it, he released his hold with the right hand, and for some seconds the mamba hung suspended, with the fangs deeply embedded. The jaws were then gently re- leased, the snake replaced in its cage, and he held out his arm for inspection. Blood began to flow from the deep punctures, which he cauterized, then poured some serum into the wounds, saying he hoped to see them all back the next night, when he would take a 'bite from a puff- adder. A few minutes later he slump- ed to the ground, showing all the signs of neurotoxic poisoning: troubled breathing, dilated eyes, rapid pulse and 'arm pains. Then he complained of a feeling of suffocation and failing sight; but he refused to have a doctor called. The next morning Burger was amazed to find him sitting in his tent, taking tea. He didn't put on a show far 'a farther two days, then took the puff-adder's bite as promised. His incredible resistance to the most deadly snake-venom, Bur- ger says, puzzled doctors. To satisfy sceptical onlookers, one night he allowed the mamba to bite astray dog. It died within half-an-hour, and cost him a $30 fine. He had (complete faith in a serum which he claimed was in- fallible against all :snake-poisons, but as this was never injected, only poured into the wounds, Burger doubts its neutralizing properties, believing that over many years Morrisey had sys- tematically immunized himself. The book'excels in the variety of its adventures and makes first- rate reading. Basher lay wearily in his dressing-room. One eye was completely closed and his nose felt all over the place. In fact, he had had the hiding of his life. Suddenly the door burst open and in dashed his Manager. "Cheer upi I've great news for you!" "What it is?" gasped the bat- tered boxer. "I've arranged • a return fight for next week." Girls Who -Rose To Emergencies A burglar stole in to the dormitory of a girls' boarding school in Yorkshire. One girl, aroused by stealthy movements, screamed to warn the others, leapt out of bed, rushed to the door and put her back to it, so barring his escape. She also switched on the light. Inspired by her action, her four companions, all plucky and pretty teenagers, made a rush for the man in their pyjamas. As he slipped on the polished floor, they sat on him until help came. In a more 'desperate emer- gency, a yung South African girl, Carol Cuttleway of Tur- fonteim, found herself stacked by a rogue baboon just as she was getting into her car. The animal partially clawed oaf her dress. Nevertheless, the struggled into her driver's seat. The mon- key leapt into the seat behind her. Very much frightened, she drove a few yards. Then a brilliant idea occurred to her: the fire.extinguisher. She stopped the car, seized it, swung round, and gave the gaping ba- boon the works — a mouthful of chemical foam. He hopped over the side at once and she drove away unscathed. . Resourcefulness in times of danger, is known to be no mascu- line prerogative. In a Displaced Persons camp near Munich a welfare worker was confronted by a hysterical mother. "I've locked my two children in a room and set it alight! It's burn- ing now! We've no focd!" she screamed. The welfare worker, a young French girl, Marie Anjouin, at once called a Hungarian refu- gee to help her and rushed to the hut. Smoke was pouring from its window. Inside, she heard cries and moans. Marie wrenched, the window open and, as smoke cascaded out, ordered the Hungarian to hoist her into it. Choking with smoke, she gathered up the two terror-stricken children, snatch- ing one from the very edge of a. blazing hearthrug and handed them out, of the opening. Then, with great presence of mind, for `there was an invalid, bed-rid- den woonan next door, she stamp- ed out the flames. Through her promptness two children were saved, their over- wrought mother was spared a criminal' charge, and a terrible fire, which might hive brought down the whole camp, was averted. Some nurses at a South'Lon- don hospital, set a neat -- and sticky — booby trap for a Peep- ing Tom. Worried,by the man's attentions, they decided to -scare him off. They knew the tree into which he clinked to. sipy through their hostel windows. They dis- covered, in fact his exact perch- ing place and, in daylight, fixed above it a sizeable tin operated by 'an almost invisible wire. Then, that ,night,' girl acted as decoy. She began to undress slowly in front of a lighted win- dow. So enthralled was Peeping Tom that he failed to hear the wire being pulled from an ad- joining window until it was too late and tar had splashed over him from the upturned can. Covered in tar he bolted and never showed his face there again. Nowadays, courses of unarmed combat form part of every police girl's training — as many crooks, thugs, bullies and even agressive drunks have discovered,. Once, in the days before this training became general, a police girl on duty at Leeds City Sta- tion trapped her man by a boldly unorthodox leap. At her chal- . lenge, the quarry, a notorious railway thief, moved as if to bolt. Dropping his packages, he braced his back. At that split second, with re- markable agility, the police girl leap-frogged on to him, clung to his neck and pulled him to the ground. Resourcefulness pays, particu- larly in war time, when many a girl agent owed her life, and the safety of her circle, to her quick thinking. A French - Canadian agent, known as Jolette, was coming out of a restaurant in Rochelle, France, when two plain-clothes members of the Gestapo stopped her. "You will accompany us for interrogation at once" they or- dcred curtly, On her she carried a note re- porting German troop locations and equipment — it was only a few weeks before D-Day — to the local Resistance move- , irent. It would be fatal, she knew, for her to be taken With that vital information. "You must permit me fi.m.t to buy Myself some neW stoek- ings," she said, showing them a laddered Steckipg on a shapely leg. "Herr Cotriniancient," she added, not wish to see me incorrectly dressed," The police escorted her to a near-by shop and watched her closely while she seelcted an ex- pensive Pair. But they never guessed that the secret Message had sefely crossed the' counter along With het purchasing frahoSI Drive With Care An Undersea Game Of Chess Looking through a window, Professor Piccard saw his bathy- scaphe being swung over the ship's side into the see. The, cabin underneath disappeared from sight, then Augustenthe said t9 pr float cameto rest.o. "Well," 'essor Monod, "apparently they have not yet discovered the tele- phone is not working, We shall simply have to wait until they realize it and, give us some in- struction, It will take a good while to fill the tanks with gaso. lhie." "Let us settle down for a While, then, and have a game of chess," replied the professer. Auguste glanced at his watch, It was three o'clock in the after- noon, The steel sphere was flood- eel with a beautiful blue light Where the sun penetrated the water from a clear blue sky. AU they could hear was the soft noise from the Draeger breathing apparatus. Occasionally, when he looked up, Auguste noticed a curious fish pause at the window of the gondola, investigating this strange monster that was invade ing the depths. Once, a frogman passed the portholes, one of the men the professor had detailed to check below the surface after the bathyscaphe was in the water. He gave them no instructions and disappeared, Still nothing happened. It seemed hours be- fore the float was eventually filled. Finally, another frogman ap- peared and caught the attention of the men in the observation chamber. He held a board in front of him with these words On it: "You are now going down. Don't stay too long!" Slowly, the F.N.S.R. II des- cended into the sea. A sudden jolt told the scientists they were at the bottom. The bathyscaphe worked! Here they were, safe and sound in 'about 90 feet of water, and everything was working as it was supposedto, except the tele- ph Atiguste was delighted.—From "Ten Miles High, Two Miles Deep," by Alan Honour LIFE'S A LAUGH — Laughingest guy in Hollywood is British-born star David Niven, who refuses to take himself or Hollywood seriously. During the filming of "Around the World in 80 Days" he even fell off an ele- phant—from laughing. Drank Poison To Prove Innocence 'Trial by ordeal, once com- monplace, still crops up over- seas, and no always in primi- tive communities. The latest ex- ample comes from Nyasaland, where, because of a child's sud- den death, a bitter quarrel broke out between two women, the child's mother and her sister. The mother accused the other of having planted a spell on her baby'. To settle their differences and Mad out the real culprit, the child's grandmother resorted to traditional justice arid prepared cups of muabvi, a virulent poi- son distilled from the bark of the swamp - growing muabvi tree. According to some ancient but deeply-rooted tribal lore, when this liquor is drunk to separate guilty from innocent parties, the innocent ones always escape any punishment by vomiting up the poison. The guilty ones, how- ever, writhe in agony arid die. In this test ease, the grand- mother herself decided to take a cup, too, probably to exhibit her Path in the validity of the poison as an instrument of jus- tice, So all three quaffed their drinks. The grandmother and the Mint died but the child's mother survived. 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