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The Brussels Post, 1960-10-06, Page 674 •T:..ete‘e BABY SETTER -- This is a labor-saving idea which sprang from e springer spaniel in Portenhall, England. Gary Lee Bodiford gets his bottle as his mother Elizabeth looks on. But the nurse- maid pooch, pet of a neighbor, is out of a job. Wife and baby have gone to U.S. to join dad, Larry -- an ex-Air Force man, iTABLE 1-1"4 " dr eiaue,An, cumbers should not be over large in circumference, 1 to 1 ,e inches preferably. DUTCH RELISH qt. green tomatoes 1/2 qt. green cucumbers 1/2 small firm cabbage 1/2 qt. (or less) carrots 11/2 sweet red peppers 11/2 sweet green peppers 1/2 large head celery (or celery seed to taste) 1/2 qt. onions. Put vegetables through food chopper medium blade. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup salt (pickling salt). Allow to stand a few hours and drain thoroughly. Squeeze out all juice. Cover with two quarts vinegar. Bring to boil then add 11/2 tsp, ground mustard 34 tsp. tuineric 2 c. gran. sugar st c. flour Mix ingredients to a smooth paste with a little cold water. Add to pickles and bring to boil- ing point. Pour into hot sterilized jars. Seal at once. Always meas- ure pickles after they have been chopped. * ROSE RELISH I qt. chopped onions 2 bunches chopped celery 3 sweet red peppers chopped 1 large cauliflower cut small Cover with brine overnight and drain in morning. Prepare Euro of Their Duty Wci To Sip. Royal Soup! — They don't do at nowetlaya, of Bourse. But once upon a time One of the Vital duties of the 401ourful Yeomen of the Guard A—the Queen's personal guard end the oldest military force in st,tiSterice--was to taste the SOv- tkreign's soup, ,just in case some enemy had poisoned it, There are eighty-one Yeomen. They are paid 480 a year, and 4o be made one is a great honour, ring Henry VII formed the eomen of the King's Body- etruarcl, as they were originally alled, in 1485, He had the corn- fort of knowing that any one of shem would, if necessary, lay own his life for him. In those "good old days" cut- lhroats had a habit of creeping ,Into royal palaces and lurking 'behind curtains with knife or dagger. So the newly-formed Yeomen were made solely responsible for tie King's safety. They not only lasted the royal dinners, but they also performed the elab- orate ceremony known as "mak- ing the king's bed." No one but the Yeomen was allowed to touch the royal bed or the royal couch. Every por- tion was separately examined. The Yeomen looked at each elieet and each coverlet carefully and laid them with the greatest Ceremony, Before the king re- tired for the night, a Yeoman was solemnly bounced up and down on the bed to make sure that no enemy of the realm had hidden knives between the eheets. And all night long the Yeo- men's commanding officer lay across the doorway of the royal ehamber, ready to raise the alarm if anyone tried to enter. Even today the existence of these ancient bed duties is still cknowledged — though never married out—by the initials YBG and .YBH (Yeoman Bed Goer teed Yeoman Bed Hanger) affix- ii)d to the names of certain Yeo- nen on the roll of the Guard. Frofft the date of their forma- Hon the Yeomen were in con- ttant attendance upon the Sov ereign's person, They even help- d him to dress in the morning, list to make sure that no one ad stuck a poniard into his other. The Yeomen are dressed pia- tresquely in scarlet uniforms o e Tudor period with ruffs of bite muslin round the neck and and black hats. Little about ese stalwart men has changed. r years, except that sometimes illey have worn beards and itnnetirnes they have not. They grew beards after this eshion had been introduced by British troops from the Crimea "who had needed beards there as it protection. against the cold, To qualify as a Yeoman you lave to be an old soldier with Snore than twenty-two years' service to your credit and a spot- less military record. And you must have served overseas for a period. You must be five feet ten inches tall with chest meas- urement of at least thirty-six inches, Before the second world war began, the oldest Yeoman was an eighty-eight-year-old veteran of Tel-el-Kebir, ierho passed reg- ularly for duty. A yearly task for the Yeomen is searching the Houses of Par- liament to make sure no Guy Fawkes skulks in the cellars. They are at the State opening of Parliament by the Queen, in at- tendance at the Epiphany offer- ings of gold, frankincense and myrrh and at the distribution of :Maundy Money at Westminster on the Thursday of Holy Week. When you next see some of these veterans on parade, either in person or on film, think of their long and fascinating his* tory. Yeoman of the Guard have taken part in famous battles in practieally every guropean county try. They made their final .ap- pearance on the field of battle at Dettingen, Germany, in lT43, as armed attendants on George H, the last king of England to lead his army in person. Yeoman number one Was a Certain William Brown, There. still exists an ancient Warrant appointing him "Yeoman of the King's Guard for good service that Our humble and faithfUl servant bath heretofore done unto us." Browns everywhere. can feel proud of this bearer of one of Britain's oldest surnames. Tokyo Taxicabs Hard On Nerves ---,— Remember the kamikaze pilots --the Japanese suicide airmen who dived their 'planes into Al- lied warships in the last war? Well, now it seems they have modern counterparts — behind the wheels of Tokyo's 9,00 taxi- cabs. Officials of the capital's Me- tropolitan Department recently tested more than 500 drivers and found that 20% of them were "psychologically unfit" to drive. More than a quarter of them drove cabs that had no insurance cover; a quarter of them had been involved in accidents; and a third had convictions for traf- fic violations. It was discovered that many drivers worked a twenty-four- hour shift with the next tweny- fourhours off. Taximen in this group were responsible for 61% of all accidents involving cabs. Nearly a third of Tokyo's taxi drivers work for firms which re- quire no driving test before en- gaging staff. Yet Tokyo with its narrow, winding streets, its nine million people, nom() buses and lorries and 25,000 cars is a traf- fic nightmare even to experi- enced drivers. There were 20,000 traffic acct- dents in Tokyo in 1958: 500 peo- ple were killed, and 11,000 in- jured. Taxis were involved in half of these accidents. One of the problems is that taxi firms require drivers to ac- hieve a certain quota of fares each day before they start earn- ing money for themselves. This results in excessive speeds, reck- less conduct and, inevitably, ac- cidents. More than 60% of taxix driv- ers involved in. accidents were found to be under the influence of drink. A central traffic court tries cases at the rate of ten an hour, round the clock, but fines merely have the effect of mak- ing the cabbies drive even more furiously in. order to recoup the money, Licenses can be with- drawn, but for every driver so dealt with, ten aspiring "kami- kaze cabbies" step up to claim his job. There is no simple solution to the problem; but a step in the right direction, which the police now have under consideration, would be to scrap the system of payment for cabbies which re- wards dangerous driving. SIMPLE ENOUGH Attempting to park her car, a woman dented the bumper of an occupied car parked at the curb, She completed an accident report form for her insurance com- pany, and asked her husband to check it before posting it. He found everything in order until he came to the question: "What could the driver of the other vehicle have clone to avoid the accident?" Her reply was: "He could have parked his car somewhere else." WATERMELON RIND PICKLE 11/2 c. watermelon rind cut in 2 by 1/2 inch pieces 1/2 c. vinegar :54 c. water 1/4 lemon sliced thin 1 c. sugar 1.4, tsp. stick cinnamon 34 tsp, whole cloves Soak watermelon rind in med. brine (1/2 c. salt to 1 qt. water) overnight. Drain and wash with fresh water. Drain. Boil in clear water until tender. Mix other in- gredients and ben five minutes. Add rind and boil until clear. Pack into sterilized jars and seal. * M U. SWEET PICKLES 150 cucumbers two inches long 6 pints white vinegar 11/2 cups white sugar 1 tbsp. celery seed whole 2 tbsp, mixed spices Wash pickles then make brine of 1 cup pickling salt to 1 gal. wa- ter and put in stone crock. Acid cucumbers being sure brine is over them. Place plate over top to hold them clown — brine should be about one inch above dish. Let stand seven full days. Drain off brine and put fresh water on cucumbers. Let stand 24 hours, drain and cut in quer- -tees lengthwise replacing in crock, Pour over them one gal. boiling water with one tbsp. powdered alum and let stand another 24 hours, Drain again and put pickles back in crock. Bring vinegar, sugar and spice to a boil and pour over pickles be- ing sure to cover completely. Af- ter 24 hours pour off into pan, heat and add 3/4 c, sugar. Let stand another 24 hours. Add an- . other 34 c. sugar and heat syrup and pour over pickles. On the third day pack pickles in jars and pour syrup over till jar is full. Seal and examine for leaks. Do not heat the syrup on the third day, Quantities may be proportionately reclue co for smaller batches, U. ICICLE PICKLES 2 gal, med. size cucumbers cut lengthwise, Put in crock and pour over I. gal. water, boiling, to which a pint of salt has been added (this is the brine), Let stand four days. Drain and cover with fresh water, boiling, Let stand one day. Drain and cover with boiling water into which a piece of alum size of walnut has been dropped. Leave 24 .1-sours. Drain and cover with 21/2 quarts'cider vinegar 2 cups sugar or, allspice I than, cassia buds I tbsp mustard seed in a bag Heat and pour over pickle for 3 days and on the third day seal in sterilized jars, U. n.AI BREAD AND BUTTER PICKLES cups sliced mom-titers not peeled 2 cups onions sliced I Jorge pepper, green or red, chopped or sliced Pitt c, salt on above Let stand ttvo three hours Drain well and add to c. vinegar e, White sugar 2 tsp, turmeric tsp. celery seed tsp, mustard seed Let wine to boil and cook 20 minutes. Seal in sterile jars, Cu- 4t 406* Sherlock Hohres Put In The Shade The package contained three bones, found At the bottom of e, recently re-opened well. sydney Smith, the medico-legal expert for the Egyptian Ministry of ,Ins- tire in Cairo in the early 1930'si was asked by the police if they were human. Smith's report• told more than that: "They are the bones of a young woman," he wrote. "She was short and slim. Aged between 23 and 25 when she died, which was at least three months ago. She had. probably 'had at least one pregnancy , . She walked with a pronounced limp, She was kill ed by a shotgun loaded with homemade slugs, fired in an up- ward direction from a range of about 3 yards , . She was not killed outright, but died seven to ten days later, probably of septic peritonitis . " The report was later proved correct in every particular, and led to the arrest of the dead girl's father. It also served to draw considerable attention to Sydney Smith, who even then, before the scientific "crime lab" became an adjunct of all police work, was well, on his way to becoming one of the world's leading authorities on forensic (legal) medicine, The story of Smith's extraordinary career as told in his colorful autobiography, "Mostly Mirrder," published this month, makes some of Sherlock Holmes' ex- ploits seem pale by comparison. As a poor boy in rural New Zealand, Smith turned to medi- cine "as a means to an encl. The end was to see the world!' He won ,a scholarship to Edinburgh University, and drifted into for- ensic medicine when Edinburgh's Harvey Littlejohn asked him to be his assistant. At the close of World War I Smith was offered the medico-legal post in Cairo, which proved to be an ideal soil for his brilliant talents. For eleven years, Smith re- viewed an the important crimes committed in Egypt, at a time when there were about 1,000 murders a year. He became an expert on arsenic poisoning, ar- senic being "the poison most com- monly used for murder .. . as it has been in every country from remote periods." Through his knowledge of the rate at which a body cools after death, the on- set of rigor mortis, the condition of food in the stomach, postmor- tem discoloration of the skin, etc., he often provided the only de- pendable evidence as to when, where, how, and sometimes even why a person had died — for in Egypt the evidence of "eyewit- ness" was easily and cheaply ob- 6 c. sugar qt.s vinegar 1 tbsp, white mustard seed Let come to a boil and stir in c. flour 4 tbsp, mustard 11/2 tsp. turmeric made into batter with vinegar Stir this dressing constantly until it thickens smoothly then, . potm over pickle. Boil a .few min- utes. Seal while hot, May be made in half quantity.. Wined. lie was not above tide use of the dramatic courtroom ges- ture: Once he • brought * whip down on his own bare arm to demonstrate the marks it left on. the skin, Qn his own in Egypt, Smith pioneered the study of ballistics as it applied to his work. The value of his studios was drama- tically proved in the .192+ murder of the •Sirdar (Commander Chief) of the Egyptian Ariny, Sir Leo Stack. Pasha, Smith de- duced that the bullet that killed the Sirdar had come from a Colt .32 with a slight imperfection in the barrel. The police's discovery of the Colt .32 with just this im- perfection not only led to the conviction of the assassins, but also helped, greatly to establish. the science for forensic ballistics through the world. Smith returned to Scotland in 1928, to succeed Harvey Little- john as professor of forensic medicine at Edinburgh Univer— May, From then on, he says, "1. was always aelted by • the Crown to take part' in the more impoet- ant cases," and in 1949 he was knighted, Time and time again his minute observation of de- tails. — a bit of household fluff near a dead child, bacteria in a bloodstain — was instrumental . in the decision of famous cases throughout the English-speaking world, In 1952, he was able to re- construct a murder in Ceylon so accurately 'that, . before going there from Scotland for the trial, he had pinpointed the existence in the victim's kitchen of an iron hook on which she had bruised hee back while struggling with her assailant, • After a lifetime spent in the study of murder and murderers, does Sir Sydney have a theory about the kind of persons who kills? • "be my recollection," he writes, "they have been devoid of the characteristics they are com- monly credited with, and (are) quite ordinary individuals such as you and me." From NEWS- WEEK. Y.ear,iRound ,k4e .5cbool System The summer just endingi Central rierida has demonstrate ed that the proposal to make year-at-Mind use or the expens- ive school system instead. of permitting it to Ile idle for three months of the year is finding. high favor with school age young:itcls and their parents who had been expected to be the most aggressive opponents to the idea, • At Orlando Junior • College, .according to John McClain, aura- mer session director, sttrarrier enrollment has continued to grow in recent years and in 1960 enrollment of more than 500 stu- dents in the clay and night class- es is the largest in the history of the college, At Stetson University at De- Land the enrollment this summer totaled 509, the- largest since the period after World War II when GIs crowded the campus to com- plete their education. That the movement toward the year-around use of the schools is not confined to Cen- tral Florida is evidenced by fig- ures sent to us by S. B. Jen- nings of Middleburg, Jennings, a long-time advo- cate of year-around use of the public schools, sends us tabula- tions showing Chicago's experi- ence with summer time enroll- ment. They show a Chicago summer enrollment of 46,145 students this year as compared to 12,732 only five years ago, It has been authoritatively es- timated that if, all schools in the nation would operate 48 weeks In the year with staggered en- rollments, such operation would immediately create the equiva- lent of 444,000 additional class- rooms, equivalent to a construc- tion cost of $18 billion, without an additional penny of cost to anyone. — Orlando (Fla.) Eve- nirig Star. DRIVE WITH CARE! ASTRO'S NOT FOR HER — As a oblidernciii fries to calm hdr elcievn, dh einti-Castro Cuban wenneol rilakeS her feeling itnown hi kid' uhtertaill tetrete as the shakes her fist deed shouts treet,its O group of pro,Casfro demonstrators near 1 6ediclquorfete irY ,14eW York, THAT OTHER idgtAt OtilAtt' — The :series of joint tele- vision inferViews and debates between Vice President kithdri.1 M. Nixon and Seri. Joiho 17* Kennedy inevitably brings fa &arid The Mail famous' pblitiCal 'ciellotes In Am- erican history, These wire tliti tdet:tritift.s held by Abraham Lincoln arid ten, Sfephen bduglas ittraugliOuf Illinois dur. "WIDE AWAKE" BEAUTY — Anna Curti carries a century-old torch of the "Wide Awakes," marching organization that sup- ported Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. Helmet went with the oilskin cape, used to keep dripping oil off the marchers. Inq Autusf, September and bctober, 1t58, Although the contest was only a siaie-wide one, a ha the prlie not the presidency but b 5ettate teal, the issues discussed tincOln and Douglas were nolibliWide signifitcw,c,f Lincoln lost the erection, bet} the prophecy he. Made that year — "A house divided- Odin's,' itself cannot stond".,, tome tragically truo,