The Brussels Post, 1960-02-18, Page 2MATCHLESS PRODUCTION — built block-on-block with concrete Units molded in trays from
pocket match -boxes, this miniature village Is in the garden of the L. R. Abrahams family at
Shawford, England.
IMP
011 GUARD — A - grirn.fated woman Insurgent, haid" danger
if guard en I barrieali Algiers:
HE SHALL .NOT, PASS he. did. Rioting students stand
their ground+.•behind,ea ,barricade of chairs, lableSy benches and
,desks ot, laternatiOnal Airport. They attempted to
prevent the departure of JapanSse .Premier Kishi to the U.S...
to.sito a mutual security pact. Police cleared a peth,
MONSTER TRAFFIC JAM Lined up trucks, disappear
into the distance as hey wait to roll on U.. Highway'
41 east of:Racine, Wis. The vehicles 'Wert' Stepped
ifitee end ice-coVered
Mystery •Of Corps.
In Castle Wall
Viet!" A frightened: /sad ran
across a courtyard of Edinburgh
Calale one autumn afternoon,
*rousing the• garrison to his cries
of alarm . and, incidentally,
Setting off a trail of royal mass
tery that defies soletion to this
day.
A rafter running into the
chimney of the master-guaner's
office was ablaze. Luckily, the
eddying smoke was quickly de-
tected by the yard boy and
welling hands swiftly doused the
flames,
If the fire had occurred at
night, it might have been a clif-
ferent and more tragic story. The
magazines were stuffed with
=ammunition and a fearful ex-
plosion would probably have
destroyed not only the Castle but
perhaps a large part of Edin-
burgh itself,
Fearful of the risk of such
dire consequences, the Governor
ordered all the surrounding
chimneys and walls to, be close-
ly examined, But for this vigil-
ant inspection scientists would.
never have stumbled on the rid-
dle of the ,baby's coffin that
still remains sealed in the Castle
wall.
Tapping the ancient masonry
that walled the private apart-
ments of hafary, Queen of Scots,
a. workman noticed. that one
stone einitted a hollow ring.
He pried it oute expecting to
find structural decay and dam-
age. Instead the apace behind
It was filled by a tiny oaken cof-
It was of good workmanship
and, thinking they were stumbl-
ing on a lost hoard of treasure,
the masons opened the casket...
and fell back in 'alarm.
In the coffin' lay the body of
a baby, shrivelled and mummi-
fied by the passage of time. Yet
the vestments of silk and cloth-
of-gold still gleeMed with fresh
magnificence and the, embroid-
ered initial "J" stood out richly
on the tiny sleeve.
From its craftsmanship and
style, experts estimated' that the
coffin was between .250 and 300
vein old, Waethere'.it link be.
tween this macabre discovery in
e836 — and the more distant days
When Mary, Queered Scots, was
a beautiful young woman ' of
twenty-f roiir eagerly antieepat-
ing her first child?
Mary's husband, Robert Darn-.
ley, stood next in succession to.
the English throne. Anil when
she announced that a baby was
on the way,, the news• ran from
lip to lip and her followers'
rejoicing knew no bounds.
The times were cruel and
dark. In England Elizabeth had
reigned as a Protestant Queen
for eight years, each bitter month
increasing the flow of Catholic
refugees across. the Border.
Every day, however, ,brought
new plots of religious intoler-
ance and, in the court of Scot-
land aselas Mary could rely on
only two true friends. One was
the proud Earl of Mar. The
other was humbly-born David
Rizzio, whom she had raised
from being a minstrel to be con-
stantly at her side as private
secretary.
A faint and abominable whis-
per suggested that Rizzio was
perhaps the true lather of her
child. It was not •more than a
whisper, swiftly stamped out,
for both Darnley and Mary ar-
dently dreamed that the coming
child would be the first to rule
a united kingdom of England and
Scotland.
Nothing should mar that high
ambition and perhaps Rizzio was•
always a lonely threat to such
hopes. Perhaps that is why, one
night, a group of conspirators
burst through Darnley's rooms
at Holyrood 'Darnley leinself
amongst them — to tear Rizzio
from the Queen's side.
There was, a ,single, short cry
as the poniard§ plunged into his
breast fifty yengefee dagger,-
thrusts in all. Then, his tattered
body was hurled into the court-
yard, while Mary wept silently
in a bitter passion of horror and
hate..
ThisPart of the story is fam-
iliar, yet historians have, still to
unravel the • inner mystery,• Al-
though men, said that the broken
Queen would never tend her
husband with love again, she still
flattered him with silken words
and seemed to forgive him,
Even murder, it seemed, did
not diminish her allegiance to
him as husband, Or was she
stifling anguished inner hatred
for the sake of the coming child?
The baby was born three
months later. The guns proudly
boomed the event, "I present to
you the child who will unite the
kingdoms of Scotland and Eng-
land," said Mary, as she placed
the infant in Darnley's arms.
Thousands of stout hearts re-
joiced and the English Parlia-
ment itself shivered.
But supposing the baby had
died, dashing all hopes, at this
'vital moment of British hostory? ,
A rumour has always •persisted
that the baby was lowered in a.
basket by a rope and whisked
away to. Stirling Casele for safety
with the ,Earl of Mar. It seems a
strangely dangerous way to treat
a living infant, but a far less
perilous exit for a corpse.
The window from which this
thazardous operation was made
is almost immediately over the
coffin stone. It, was commonplace
in those 'days for a child to sicken
and Aie • in the first hours of life.
Did this fate overtake the infant
son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and
was he swiftly replaced by a
counterfeit prince?
Mary, Queen of Scots, however,
was in Edinburgh Castle for only
the final months of pregnancy in
1566. She often spoke of a fore-
bodingethat the baby would 'not
live. Supposing these dreads were
realized? The Countess of Mar
was confined at 'about the same
time In, Edinburgh' Castle. Here
was a second baby ito 'take the
place of Mary's child.
Who but a peinee would be
wrapped in cloth-of-gold with
the initial "J"? Moreover, royal,
portraits- reveal ,a striking like-
ness between James I and the
Earls of Mer of that' period.
All the resources of science'can
never solve the riddle to-day.
When the coffin was first found,
news was sent to St. James's
Palace — and ,the order came
• back- that it was to be replaced
in the wall, sealed by the same
stone.
Before the casket was resealed,
members of the Scottish Anti-
quarian Society secured a piece
of, the richly embroidered wrap-
ping material for their museum.
No other trophy was possible, for
the tiny body had crumbled to
dust on exposure to the air,
Above •a small nail-studded
door — a door close to the pub-
lic entrance of the royal apart-
ments to-day- — the coffin stone
can still be seen.
Does ithell of a mother's trag-
edy, of a national disaster swiftly
turned into triumph by a wo-
man's quick wits? When Mary
Queen Of _Scots, was near the
scaffold, she sent a final message
to her son, "Tell him I have done
nothing to prejudice his kingdom
of Scotland," she said.
Did she intend this as a re-
assurance that the secret of his
birth was 'taken to the grave?
BURGLAR'S BUNGLE
As lack Brodsky approached
a tavern in Columbus, 'Ohio, a
man stepped up to him and re-
marked: "Sorry, buddy, we're
closed."
Brodsky lost no time in ha
forming the polite, who arrested
the man on suspicion of burg-
lazy. Brodsky owns the pub !
FOLLOWS LOVE — Tired, 'but
flashing a wide smile; Andre
P oru m beams arrived in New
York after er quick flight from
Paris and confidently announc-
ed there Was no doubt In his •
mind that he would marry 19=
year-old heiress Gamble Bene-
dict.
Dinner• Is ,Served
In An Oak Tree
Will the traditional English
oak tree eventually disappear?
There are signs that itemay do
so.
In Kent 2,000 acres •of forest
and woodland are being replant-
ed annually, but few of them
contain oaks, Says a Forestry
Commission •official: "It is diffi-
cult to justify' the planting of
oak trees. because of the ,high
quality soil they need to' grow
well."
Forestry experts say that the
finest forest oak tree in all Bri-
tain today is the 95-foot giant
known as Lady Harriett's Oak
on the Powis Castle estate in,
Wales, which has always been.
famous for its noble oaks,
This flourishing forest giant
thrills foresters because it is. so
wonderfully straight and 'tall,
the first branch 'being,more than
50 feet from the ground.
Five to six hundred years is
reckoned a good age for an,oak.
But many have 'flourished for
well over 1,000 years. Said -a
tree expert recently: "An oak
grows for 500 years, is in its
prime for another 200, and de-
cline for several hundred more."
But an old Gaelic saying pate
it this way:
Thrice the age ef a dog 'is the
age of a florae,
Thrice the age of a horses is the
age of a man.
Thrice the age of a man , is the
age of a stag.
Thrice the age Of a
age of an eagle.
Thrice the age of an eagle es the
age of an dak tree.
Taking' m'an's "allotted span",,
of seventy years, this gives 1,8e0
years as the age of •an oak,
Some oaks become so veteran
that they have to be given
"crutches." This happened to the
Laesihgton, Oak, near, Gloucees
ter. Owing to its great age, its
weight had to• he supported with
stout props.
Shakespeare Mentions the
tverld-farneu§ Herne's Oak in
Windsor' Forest, The legend of
the 'weld huntsman" who was
supposed to haunt this ancient
oak lingered until recent Orrice.
In 1798 a flout', with benches
and a table,, was put in the'
great oak tree in BoWthoree
Park, Lineolnahire. Teich twolve
people dined with case inside
the ancient tree.
ANOTHER HELPING', OF
BADGER
Roast badger is not the aVeis
age person's idea of an tippetiz
lag dish on Christmas Eve,. buff
in gerrierset some of the villag-
eta enjoy it. They Ore .65116w,
jag a ctistorn said to have been
started by peaehera -Nerrhata
times.
A badger' le ettereonially roast-
ed. en a spit at a local Mee and
When it •is ready`it. is eaten with
lingers arid pen-knieee, other
implements being allowed.
The following recipe comes
foosa far-away Iran.— formerly
Persia --- and although all the• in-:
aredients are 'familiar. I'm' sure .
you'll find the combination
usual 7- and • delicious.
CHICKEN •AND VEGETABLES
1 chicken—about 2 •pounds
1 *cup 'potatoes, diced
1 cup carrots cut in strips
2 green sweet "peppers
4 onion:,, sliced
1 small eggplant, diced
4 tablespoons butter or fat
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/6 :teaspoon pepper
Salt to 'taste •
Water
TeaatOes
Clean' and wash chicken and
cut in quarters. Melt 2 table-
epeons butter or fat in large
pan.' Adds in layers the onions,
chicken, green peppers, egg-
plant, carrots, potatoes, and to-
.matoes. Season with salt, peps
per, and cinnamon. Cover tight-
ly. Cook le ,minutes. Add 1 cup
hot •water and the remaining 2
tablespoons butter. Simmer un-
til tender. *
Writing to the Christian Sci-
ence Monitor, Mrs. - Margaret
Beals offers the following recipe
for —
SOUR CREAM MUFFINS
3/:2 cup salad oil
1 cup brown sugar
2 'eggs' '
1 alp whole-wheat flour
% teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 "teaspoon soda
1 cup sour cream
1 cup wheat germ
Mix oil, ,sugar, and eggs. Sift
together the flour, salt, • baking
pewder and soda. Add to egg
'mixture' alternately with sour
cream. Stir in wheat germ. Fill'
greased muffin tins % full. Bake
at 400 °F. for e 5-18 minutes,
Makes 1 dozen.
(Note: Mrs. Beals suggests
that if you do not have sour
cream you may sepal cup eveps•
orated milk ilk;wiT ,, 2 ,tablespoon
vinegar.)
Mrs. ,Mary Wall sends a
recipe for iee-box rolls that are
made in'qualitity and then used
as the need arises.
SIX-DAY ROLLS
1,cup sugar
1 cup. Shortening
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon each, soda and
baking powder
1 cake dry yeast
1 quart milk 4
cupsflour
1 cup mashed potatoes
8 cups floilk
Scald, milk and add sugar, po-
tateesa and shortening. Let ,coe1
to lukewarmeand add ehe 4 cups
flour, baking powder, soda, and
the yeast Which has been dis-
solved in %, cup, warm water.
Let rise in'warm place for 3
home. Add salt and.8 elite fibula
knead Weir :and 'put in icelsok.
Use as 'wanted; letting it rise 3
hours before baking.
„ 4g .
Or perhape you'd like a fruit
bread. If you Would, you might
want to try this prune-bread
recipe sent by Miss Jean Merritt
PRUNE BREAD
2 cups all-bran
ii Cup buttermilk
Se Op prune Atice
1 tablespoon, shortening
36 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
11/4 cups flour
Ye teaspoon salt
1% teaspoons soda
.cup strained prunes (baby
food is good)
Soak bran in buttermilk. and
prune juice which have been
mixed Cream shortening' and
sugar together; add the beaten
egg. Add this mixture to bran
mixture. Sift flour, salt and soda
together and add to it the bran
mixture: Add prunes and nut
meats and stir until flour disap-
pears. 'Bake in greased loaf pan
for 1 hour ',and 20 'minutes at'
e50°F.
From La Jolla, Calif., Sherry
Grund sent this recipe for ban-
ana bread.
BANANA -MOLASSES BREAD
3-ripe bananas
'1 egg, unbeaten
% Cup 'sugar
2 tablespoons- light molasses
2 tablespoons: melted shorten-
2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon. each, •baking pow-
der and soda
'1 cup shopped walnuts
Mash. banana's 'until there are
' no lumps; ,asid unbeaten egg and
mix Well. Beit in sugar,. mo-
lasses, and shortening. Sift to,
gether the flour, baking powder,
soda, and salt. Stir flOur 'mix-
ture into first mixture. Stir in
walnuts. Bake in greased, 8x5x3-
inch loaf pan about 1- hem' at
325°F.
Trading Stamps
In Washington
The government that was born
out of _opposition to one Stamp
Act now needs some sort of new
stamp act to get it out of a jam,
In Washington the General
Services Administration, in its
role• of supervising federal pro-
perty, has collected a heap of
trading stamps' that, to trail a'
preposition, it doesn't know
what to do with.
It seems that governMent
workers who bought gas with
government money to run their'
goVernment ears have been get-
ting trading etamps with their
purchases -- and GSA thought,
under the circumstances, these
ought to be government stamps.
So the stamps now are 'collect-
ing by the millions. But GSA
'doesn't need the hundreds of out-
door cookers and frilly table
lamps it could acquire by turn-
ing the stamps, Se what to do?
Since the' stamps Can't be con-
verted into 'money they can't
be Used Ito retire the national
debt or reduce the GSA budget,
two otherwise laudable aims.
Therefore, it' would seem logi-
cal 'to find a use for all those
potential clocks, lamps, vacuum
cleaners, blankets, pots and pans
*here they would do' the most',
good,
One promising idea suggests
that Washington's women's clubs
take over the 'task' of pasting the
stamps in redemption books and
then cenveyIng the gitts to suit-
able dernestie and overseas chars
ities. If• this takes' pongressional
approval, let's have `•a new stamp
act: — From the. Christian SCi-•
enee Monitor.
This Bird Plants
Tref--, In Rows.
Any attack by an animal, apart
from a beast in search of Prey,
is, at the (Meet, a combination
of flight and attack,
What causes a rat, for exam-
ple, though many times smaller
than a man, to obey an inherit-
ediinstinet ,te flee from him and
then, when cornered, turn and
tight like a demon? Even the
humble farmyard rooster will, on
OCeasSIOO, attack a trespasser
with fury,
F, J, Footman, in his fascinat-
ing and instructive book, "Sec-
rets Of The Animal. World" —
naturalist detection at its best —
explains just why and when
flight is forsaken for fight
All the high mammals, he says,
claim the right to "free" space
around' them. 'This space is
divided into two imaginary cir-
cles. Invasion of the outer cir-
cle cause them to flee, but the
stage pf aggression is reached
when the inner Circle is breach-
ed and the animal •feels that its
life is in danger.
As a result of study by scien-
tists and naturalists, the flight
distance of many animals has
been determined. The lion am-
bles away at eighty yards, the
elephant shuffles off at 150, the
more timid antelope at 200,
while the inquisitive hyena
.stands its ground until man ap-
proaches to within seven yards.
,The heard, will permit man's
approach to one yard, the mara-
bou stork twenty yards, while
pelicans and crocodiles prefer a
.safety margin of 150 yards,
As with man, anlinals, birds
and insects regard their home as
'to
ca,stle.and will fight, often
to the death; to defend their
territory.,
Despite 'the comprehensive
knowledge acquired by, natural-
ists and scientists over 'the cen-
turies, there are still many baff-
ling phenomena,
For more:than a hundred years
scientists and, others have been
puzzled by the eirge of the na-
tive. British bird, the jay; to plant
seeds.
A jay will 'diligently search a
wood for acorns .or ebeeeh- nuts,
which it 'swalloWS and stores in
Its crop. When sufficient have
been gathered, the bird flies•to
'a clearing and painstakingly
plants •Ahem; not haphazardly,
ebut upright, and at even distan-
ces in the ground to allow for
the trees' growth.
One scientist asserts that the
jay is the .founder of British
',forests, and would establish more
if only man did not seek .to. des-
troy him.
Man can think, but an ani-
mal cannot It can learn, but
never grasp what' it has learned,
writes Pootman There are, how- ..
ever, instances on record which
Sweigthgersetsfi• etchtaitona. e, nireals can behav
A tethered goat was euffering
from the annoying attentions of
sWarms of insects. When h^r
vigorous efforts failed to dispel',a
the tormentors, she picked up
A„ three-feet-long stick in her
Wnlhouacthkedthhreewr bbaacek1C whietrh hthe84e atain a ck
untilin thepeaceeestering insects iefa
her
On the intelligent use of ob-
jects by the animal kingdom the
author offers a wealth of ab,
sorbing detail and, in his opin-
ion, the most astounding in,
stance is to be found in the
weaver ants which build their
nests in trees,
Celumns of the, weaver ants
inspect the leaves until a suit-
able choice is made. The work-
ers line up on the edge• ot,a
leaf, cling tight with their hind
legs and then lean forward and
angle for another leaf with their
jaws and front legs. If a near-
by leaf is beyond their reach,
living bridge of ants is form-
ed until it is secured.
Beneath the leaf another col-
umn of workers is waiting, each
ant carrying a grub of its own
breed. While the edges of the
leaves are held together, the
grub-carrying ants hold the head
of the grub where the spinning
gland is situated against the
edge of the leaves, and the grub,
is used, shuttle fashion, to stick
the leaves. The leaves 'are then
"sewn" together and united to
form a huge nest,
An object of another kind is
used by the octopus to earn him-
self a tasty Meal. The octopus
has a taste for mussels, •and will
wait patiently by a mussel for
"opening time." arnibecliately the
shell parts, the' ectupus inserts a
stone between -the separated
shells. The..mussel can no Jaeger
close its shell, and is deemed.
Whether • you are an ardent
naturalist, or one of the count-
less number of animal lovers,
"Secrets of the Animal World"
will both delight and intrigue
you. ,
STRANGE BRIDGE PARTY
A footbridge spanning a river
in Christchurch, New. . Zealand,
came under the management and
jurisdiction of two separate
municipal authorities.
This dual control caused some
'perPlexed head-scratching when,
not 'long ago, the bridge was
marked on a Monday for demo-
lition, renovated on Tuesday by
a repair squad, demolished as
scheduled on the Wednesday,
and visited by another gang of
workmen on Thursday with or-
ders to,paint it,
ISSUE S — 1960
stag is the