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The Brussels Post, 1953-7-15, Page 3When an emergency looms up, a man sometimes has to act quickly, and not according to the book. When the temperature hit a steaming 95', with high humidity and no air moving, Sanford Al- ger had to act quick oz' lose his chickens, He bought large blocks of ice, and put them in the pens in front of electric fans. It did the trick—he didn't lose a chicken. a e. If you happen to be troubled with mites in the: litter of your poultry house, here's a tip, You can kill them right where they are—without throwing out the litter. One way is to sprinkle the lit- ter with a combination dust con- taining 5%9 DDT or methoxy- chlor, plus 20% sulfur, says Da- vid Brannon of Washington State College. Put on about 3 pounds et dust to each 100: square feet of litter, and mix it in thoroughly. If you deli t own a mecha- nical litter stirrer, and want to try an easier method, you cane just spray the litter with insect- icidies, and let it dry for a day or two. For this method, says Brannon, mix up 4 pounds of 50% wettable DDT powder or methoxychlor with 6 pounds of wettable sulfur per 100 gallons of wale". R ♦ 4 About 3 gallons of the mix= ture to each 100 square feet of litter Should do the trick. How often should you treat the litter? Since both DDT and methoxychlor last well, once a season should be enough. Y. Broiler growers ...don't agree on how much.:..lighting their chicks need. Some say; All,e timet" Others say: "Just i t the summer." • C, B. LOfltte of Shelby County. campromisses, and has some good reasOtis for it, too. Starting in 1948 with one atnaU house, he now markets 90,000 -to 100,000 birds per year, and is recognized as one- of the best broiler men In the fast-growing broiler glen of East Texas, Y W t 141111(0 has a time switch that turns on the •lights at 10130 p.m. and off at 0:00 a.m. You need lights -especially in the summer, he, says, because the broilers will, eat more in the cool of night and be ready for market sooner, e r But why not burn- them all night? "We used to do this," said Lafitte, "but when the power would go off, the birds sometimes got excited and piled up. But by lettingthem get used to the darkness for a few hours each night, we never have trouble," * * W (Some growers who use lights have stand-by battery-operated sets.) - "Another advantage," tattle reasons, "is that it gives the birds a chance to vest awhile, When natural darkness comes on, the birds stuff their crops—enough to last the two or three ]tours be - lore tire lights come on." 300 YEAR OLD BIIACELET A boost in bracelets is fore- cast as the result of a change the Queen herself made -in the oro - nation ceremony. The 'kings of old wore bracelets as a sign of royal authority, but two golden bracelets have formed the least noticed part of the Regalia for 399 years and have 'never- been worn by the Sovereign, Beautifully Ornamented with the Tudor rose, the Queen will now wear a pair of solid gold bracelets — or armtllae — above the elbow . the 'gift Of the Dominion'Governments and thus a link with a coronation tradi- tion last observed by Queen Elizabeth 1. Yet bracelets were the last to be saved in the big jewel house fire .at the Tower of London in 1841:when the Crown Jewels nar- rowly'. escaped destruction. Breaking into the blazing jewel - house with a crowbar, a police- man handed ,out the articles of the Regalia in stifling heat, re- maining until his clothes were literally charred off him. Now firms are manufacturing replicas of the Regalia bracelets and big•export orders herald a new fashion. Albino Baby—Warming, mothering and feeding a tiny albino squirrel thrills three kids who found it, apparently sick and orphaned. Kate Mobley, 8, at left, coaxes him to eat, Her sister Kuulei. '15, holds him while the third sister, Patty, 12, fixes a special bottled formula recommended by animal experts at the zoo. dilOSSWrRD JO. In aitultur 11, ants* aa. Elstot .18. tiorsenn,n 99. Prttmlatl seaport 49 Walk 41 Lake In New lm9t Pinta l8. ['roof; 0141.1Irt In a t1taon 1 . sunt• 19 'roils taint. PUZZLE ie. warltman l"•. Mb 39. Not ninny 31 Crane by 4 Cap»abin of 3). 110.44. befog' held 71, Ilobb$ 5 mansion 31. Si*0ntai111n 4. PM%40111 . Crete oath,] Twice wice 1(04; 5 "1 Permit 41; Tonbr 14, 1iln n rnon 8 Green beebntce.. 13.3Yaluuaa.aontet (rhes. .. U ttirwtlon WO! 18.3(1/, - Ari 0Ra t (.011, t Haney $_ A1411410) la 140 nature . rods it. molt a 100 Il Vol hid breathtoll saved I4 t'arnpnrstl 10njo netl"1 11 Tennis toonstenn t7. 011 the tr. Lesletnt"r 30, (,lower ryp 31.'36646* 4ti 39. Matto 19. 3i4id u , sensiau 70. Rent 11tr. nh - a. 50.1106022. s,. non* v. maga' 34. tred �81 ai t!ut off Aim del. 53. (1196 e 8 dt 11 319114119416 48ernit bro0' 18 PoiCao 41, my 19 A1"td,tr. 411.Tend cr 0o(19,11 11.3111116.* Sr, etcIt . aito24. rde st llta s Ratll4/Virptl i minhia• as s Pot a. Vora% , A.tewer elsewhere ou Phis Page • f.6 ' Corgi.' • Maas Italic inose 7Flirl(' 044100011Kf ('01.. watts weather when illMett h e Jaded, to servile; s3{gKlly hove 'dishes. Reeeatly h�as,,,Tex.,.Kell latot'rill, one ell the south's out#tanning home eeohomists, shaved' afar host to use e18)) ehtl?s in baked•dith'ss, Her recipes suit('eertainl' snake Year Summertime cooking a Witt more lnterestin81, laQI(N Clil10PS ZlIrro , Ctrlt)tpmc • (Selret0 6 le B) one and one«1101t'etip3 milk, a eggs, stigytly beaten; 'A testiness */ dttlr.trtustetai, Ilia teaspoons sett Vsiiteaepeo(r-eayelifet, 1 cup onions, al;NPpPelli 1< tOps grated American eheese,•i.etap crushed 'cer:n,ohtps frneaaure after crushing), 11,88 Pleated milk to slightly Beatebianci r`easenIngi ` Mix 'onions, cheese and corn chips lb'Wetberr936drairao0e in' iaggi'cased baking dish. Pour milk :and eggs over 4his,,afd bake 'in rpot}erat; QVOFI (335'degrees 'l',) for YO minutes. Porerr econpmieal-and• out«of-the-ilydinaly Menioly dish; "use this .r;^(Pe.' .. .. „•••=r4- — ' ....-.8`ORkt.¢1HP-1t0141,•:CASSEROLE (Serves E•to a) FOLIC ounces macaroni, 4 slices .bacon..(Lie4 eclsp),, ;lahlespoans bacaft'drippings, 4' tablespoons chopped green pepper, '!ie cup chopped onions, 2 cloven garlic (minced), * •feasjiop'h monosodium _glutamate, l'g teaepoon,white pepper, -.y4 tea,spooersalt, .•1 cart•con-, dettsed tomato soup, 2 cups lightly crushed corn chip (treasured atter crushing), 1 cup grated American cheese. ' Doll macaroni in salted seater''ftttf,ti-thnder, Saute oaten green' pepper and garlic In bacon fat, thsn.add ,se;zsonings,-((snare soup,,- minced bacon an* Cooked macaror)i, Place half of cora chips in a osserole, Add the macaroni niix'tu±0, Top "w"itli remaining aohi' ,chips and grated cheese. Bake in moderate,oven..(35(). degrees F.) tor 30 minutes. Ci013.N4 CHIPS BAKCD NOO1)I,6 I ,AAF,_ , , - (Serves 5) Sane, package (5 ounces) noodles, 3 eggs, 2 cups milk, ''3'q tea- spoon salt, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce,' 'Ic •'teaspoon white Cerny h'. anal atp»x eiteese, st00 '84 'wilt. chid sauce are s seetifui� hot i s)I er luncheon dish;" Try it to relieve the mealtime too-' - •n'r flet noion3, of ' soffits](, peppit -1 cup grated American tames*, 3 eup dimly crushed rises. ehiDelnrieasured'9itei crusbl6�ii Cook noodles (Io boiling.sattert water. Drain and rinse.4ftelaii bine beaten eggs, milk, seasonings, cheese, torn Ohips and eioodteed Pour ]ilio a greased casserole. Bakke 1a ]moderate aver (31$0 degressi F.) for 45 'minutes. Grace' Before Meals .Anyone who has- seen hard, dry wheat.,strewn. on a Kansas, Nebraska er Minnesota field, sprout into gdtden grain, and then transforinsdlinto life -gluing bread must„belle,'p•gl•ip,; ed. Pach^d! a miracle could not happen with- out the aid of a florce'muchmore'' powerful than rnan. has- bean able to devise. , , It was probably With sµFh, a thought in mind that some mem- bers of the,. Texee ..Restaurant, Association have decided to place- on'their telilers cards` t'l fe1i bear the 'thaziksgitting • hgfore=itfeals-- ptayers of, the-Catholle,..Jew•ish..', alit .Pretp$tantfa.tths . In a ,great.. m,anv3„.om hes, espe- aily where there are smell children,"the"diatter'''b±-r'sa'1ng Grace” is a •fit ly rite.-Buti(estr people say. -Grace -when. they go to restatlrents. ' The, restaurant.operators are asking in effect: Why should this , be? To paraphrase a childhood poem, is not •God'in' they restaur- ant, -just the same • as irr the )come? So (hes restaurant, .,operators. are putting on their tables print- ei9 cards'sithich bear -the lovely words of thanks Of the three major faiths, -They are: • •-Catholic . "Bless us, 0 Lord, and these Thy..gifts, which we are , about to receive from Thy boun- ty, through Christ our Lord, Jewish:"Lift up your hands toward the'sanctuary and bless the Lord. Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord our God King of the uni- verse, who bringest .orth bread from the earth. Amen." Protestant: ,' Bj.ess, Q Lord, this food to our use, and us to Thy service, and make us ever mind. Irl of the needs of others. in Je- sus Name. Amen." . It is a simple thing, but in this Materialistic age it is a wonder - fel thing. After all, there is no shame attached to being seen thanking God for the food we eat. A great many of us seem to have forgotten this.—Iiouston (Texas) Post. RIE KNEW WHAT SHE MEANT - Driving her shiny new car through a town , an elderly Quaker lady was suddenly con- fronted by an enormous moving van, which appeared, as if by magic and at considerable speed, from a side turning, The classic irresistable force met the legendary unmovable object with an almighty crunch and the shiny new car wrap- ped Itself lovingly around the driving cab of the moving van. Infuriated, the woman man- aged to control, herself only by remembering her Quaker prin- ciples. Waving her finger before the van -driver's red face, she snarled: "When thee gets home to thy kennel to -night, young man, I hope thy mother bites thee." F,AIt. FROM BOAIF COOKING There is a well-known Ameri- can general, at present in Korea, who is noted for his keen in- terest in all that goes into the :. Army's stomach. Approaching the nervous. young cook of an advance field kitchen, the big than boomed; "Here, let me taste that." The cook opened his mouths to pro- test, but the general $napped ; "Don't give me any bull ---give me a spoon]" The general dipped Ina spoon into the huge soup cauldron, And slid tasted e d t ire l' z t q L 1 ' s so "Yost da t t auk that off t up, - do youhe reefed. ?f, ".No, slit" stammered the Sol- dier. "That's what I Was trying to tell you --it's dishwater, airs". Crackers and Cheese — And, what better refreshment for a picnic than crackers and cheese. Serving up his special brand for the day, our photographer com- bined (fire) crackers and cheese (cake) to produce the eye. appealing picture of Norma Randall, Hollywood actress, seen above. Bitten By Snakes Over 400 Times George Canzi, reptile -keeper at Sydney's Taronga Zoo Park, has caught 17,000 wild live snakes (he claims this is an Australian record) and has been bitten over 420 tunes, George has been in the game 'since boyhood'. For thirty -form years he gave snake show all over Australia. With him in the pit he woulet have 200 venomous snakes, cop- perheads, rattlesnakes He thinks he's fairly venom - proof, but thirty-one years ago a tiger snake near Nowra (NS, W.) nearly finished him. He was out in the bush catching snakes. He collapsed in his shack sev- eral hours later and was uncon- scious for foul' days. ' Fortunately, a friend chanced along on the fourth day, found him Iying on the floor, and re- vived him after half an hour's vigorous shaking. Cann could move neither arms nor Ings for a fortnight. A. month lana' another tiger snake: bit him at Malting" (N.S.W.) when he was putting on his net• Cann was blind tor three days. o twenty- four George's two sons, - w y four and fourteen, share his en- . thusiasm far snakes. During the war the elder boy, a soldier in New Guinea; caught two tree boas, and (slipped them to his father for the zoo. Canis tells a good story about the younger lata. When he was five, itisa mother found hint in' a tin pittsWith twenty blue - tongued lizards., One protesting lizard Was clamped between his teeth, Said Cann Junior, "Mtim- any, this.' nasty lizard bit rte; so I'm biting 'hien baelt." What is new iso owed be. , cause most are:; unwilling to be taught. —SAMUEL JORNSON World -Famous Diamond Hidden ]fn ' Potato Field What has happened to the Koh- i-illur, the fatuous and 'fastinat- ing diamond that •ihas'-:glittered for $o long as ane of the shining highlights 'of tIe'BritIth Cibwn Jewels? The startling answer:is that 71i6153dy-knows. it -played no part in the, Coro- nation . ceremonies. It had not been .built,, as .so many people expected, into the. Queen's newly reconstructed Imperial Crown of . State,..A.par( from the Queen,her-. selfirand-.three close confidential advisers, norone knows the iden- tity of the stone's present owner, Was it mentioned in Queen Mary's will? The great diamond was set into Queen Mary's per- sonal crown over forty years ago and was long .regarded, like, the„ crown, as her late Majesty's per- sonal property. The contents of royal wills, however, are never disclosed, •and the value of the gem is not considered to have been included in Queen Mary's reputed £3,000,000 fortune. Legal Puzzler 'With -watchful regard for the legend of a curse that ordains it unlucky to men, Queen Victoria is known to have willed the Koh - 1 -Nur to Queen Alexandra. From her it passed to Queen Mary, who merely loaned it for the queen consort's crown at George VI's coronation in 1937. But Queen Victoria' also made a 'provision ,that the diamond should always be worn by the queen consorts of England and never by the kings. To -day, of course, there is no queen consort. Our young queen is sovereign in her own right; the Queen Mother is, in reality, a dowager queen; the Duke of Edinburgh, although a consort, is not in line as a man, and thus an interesting legal si- tuation has arisen. Yet this is by no means the only strange twist in the Koh-i- Nur's recent story. During the war it was kept in an old hat -box in the vaults of Windsor Castle. At tine tim0, when German in- vasion seemed inuninent, it was placed in an air -tight preserving jar and buried in a potato field. And to heighten the controver- sy, it is being urged that the Koh- i -Nur belongs to the government" of India and should be returned Souse Of It 'Yours But perhaps you, yourself, have a fragment of the Koh -i -Nur and are giving it house room unaware of the curse? After the East India Company presented it to Queen Victoria, the 186 -carat stone was cut down to 106 carats, The smaller port was again split and many of the smaller chippings found their way into private jewellery. In size, the Koh-i-Nur—Moun- tain of Light --cannot compare with the modern 3,025 -carat Cul - linen in the State Crown or the 770 -carat stone found in a Sierra Leone river -bed seven years ago, which has now passed to a pri- vate buyer. Yet it is one of the World's oldest known diamonds. Legend traces it back 2,000 years —when it was allegedly found in the Golconda mines in India and 'it: has a documented his- tory f±sn the year 1804. It f0rined part of the loot et lllalv5a, `seized from the old Par than empire. It passed into the fabulous treasury of Delhi and was :sound thei'e When . great • Tanntlane's grandson hornacre ,, liinduZtail and fnuuded •ttt0 fettledr Vogul eYtipise.' " Wars have been fought around . the Koh -i -Nur.' In trying to find it, men have fallen down stair- ways and broken their necks. A harem slave once hid it away and appeased her conquerors by revealing it hidden in the em' peror's turban. Emperor's Pligbi But how to get it? The con- queror suggested exchanging turbans . as a gesture of friend- ship and the unfortunate emper- or, Mohammed Shah, had no choice but to comply. Ralf a century' later, another emperor in the same plight tried to deceive a conqueror by foist- ing him off with a perfect repli- ca. In return, his capital was ransacked, and, his palace razed to the ground until the diamond was at last found in a heap of ashes. Following the overthrow of the Sikh empire, it was handed over to John Lawrence, the British Resident, Absent-minded- ly he put it into a cotton coat pocket, forgot about it, and then learned' !fie coat hid gone to the. cleaners. A' Panic-stricken,he turned the laundry upside down. "If you are looking for that piece of glass," said a servant, ."I "'save put it- in' a drawer." Erik. iance Fades And when Queen Victoria was at last presented with the'Koh-i- Nur, it must be recorded that she did 'not - think 'Much of 'it The gem did not seem to shine with sufficient brightness, hence the old queen ordered it to be recut. But the harsh truth is that diamonds as old as the Koh -i -Nur gradually lose their power and brilliance This "gem of germs" is no ex- ception. Some years ago it was valued at £140,000, but it was priced at £2,000,000 when shown at the Great Exhibition in 18513 So who now owns the Koh -i - Nur? It is nearly two years since it was last seen twinkling in Queen Mary's crown at the Tower of London. Since then the crown itself has been dismantled, and the Queen was seen to be wearing gems from. iRawhen (rhe last rode to the State Op ring of Parliament. IS the Koh -i -Nur has to await the next queen con- sort, its icy fires may lie in cold storage for sixty years or more. On The. Naming Of (Oats It Occurs to Tile .all veriptet' tkt that the naming of cats is an ai- znost infallible guide to the de- gree of affection bestowed on e cat, Perhaps not affection sl} much as true appreciatidn Of' feline character, YOU may bat reasonably sure when you meet a eat called Ginger or merely Puss that his or her owner has insufficient respect for his eat♦ Such plebeian and unimagina- tive names are not given to Oafs: by true eat -lovers, There is a world of difference between tix6 di cognmmified onpl9an0ed "soTabbynorous "" "andTabftha tlta Longclaws Tiddleywinks" 'which the poet Hood christened his cat. And her three kittens called Pepf perpot, Scratchaway and Scott- kins reveal an affectionate inter- est which is never displayed by' such ordinary names as Sandy Or Mickey. We cannot all rise, of course, to Southey's heights, He, you may remember, called his ca( "the most noble the Archduke Rumpelstilzehen, Marcus Mae - bum, Earl Tomiefnagne, Berets. Ratieide, W a o w h 1 e r "4Scratch." - . . Not that grandiloquent or fan- cy titles are necessary to a true appreciation of cats. What could be more dignified or appropriate than the name of Doctor John.• son's cat Hodge? And the hand/ some Bedfordshire cat who is mentioned later in this story is admirably suited by his name of Albert. Without doubt the names given to individual cats shed interest:. ing light on their human owners. No one but a true cat -lover could call his cat Gilderoy, Absalom, Petifar, Wotan, Feathers or Shall. de Perse.—From "Charles, The Story of a Friendship," by Mich. ael Joseph, Copyright, 1952, bur Michael Joseph, Prentice -Hall, Inc. Upsidedown o,; Preven Peeking ess M 9 A N d e a 1 0 0 5 t7 1,;3 s'' a 9 9 3 3S 3 1 Q f l 3 1 V 3 d 0 n w s 1,3 07 3 I 9 N f 1 N / 3 7 tl 191 S l a 9 0 1 l 1 3 7 a' n N 1' 9 9 d S 3 3 S v 1 3, 9 X N H 3 Yf I V g Toothsome Prize —`fife spirit of - adventure paid off in lots of thrills and a real prize for Lorry Cokenawel', teff, and W l t e r Myers. Using a snare -pole with a wire loop, they caught a four.. and • one-half • foot alligator in the Des Plaines River. Squirrel P1+lend•.•AouOlas Holmes, siiaws aff his pet squirrel "Skip" to his seventh grade classmates (t Union Nish School. -1 he boy found "Skip" several weeks ago and the two hove .became inseparable friends. 4 NW1��MINMEMM�t WWWWM ®OM®Al ��' �i ip��/yttJ,rl��I ypi a31�I tR7��R[� �y�j ,�'" Cu 1C.di+Tt{� mMVl1mmo!rl�r��,,jjw�� C3. vS WM M® IPIMVWM�UM�MM a'ri 'a agilY�y 1'r•*luMu iMUMMERM MONO MIMMUWIWOMMM WSW MOMMMMM WIMMyA •' 4 MONIMMM A.tewer elsewhere ou Phis Page • f.6 ' Corgi.' • Maas Italic inose 7Flirl(' 044100011Kf ('01.. watts weather when illMett h e Jaded, to servile; s3{gKlly hove 'dishes. Reeeatly h�as,,,Tex.,.Kell latot'rill, one ell the south's out#tanning home eeohomists, shaved' afar host to use e18)) ehtl?s in baked•dith'ss, Her recipes suit('eertainl' snake Year Summertime cooking a Witt more lnterestin81, laQI(N Clil10PS ZlIrro , Ctrlt)tpmc • (Selret0 6 le B) one and one«1101t'etip3 milk, a eggs, stigytly beaten; 'A testiness */ dttlr.trtustetai, Ilia teaspoons sett Vsiiteaepeo(r-eayelifet, 1 cup onions, al;NPpPelli 1< tOps grated American eheese,•i.etap crushed 'cer:n,ohtps frneaaure after crushing), 11,88 Pleated milk to slightly Beatebianci r`easenIngi ` Mix 'onions, cheese and corn chips lb'Wetberr936drairao0e in' iaggi'cased baking dish. Pour milk :and eggs over 4his,,afd bake 'in rpot}erat; QVOFI (335'degrees 'l',) for YO minutes. Porerr econpmieal-and• out«of-the-ilydinaly Menioly dish; "use this .r;^(Pe.' .. .. „•••=r4- — ' ....-.8`ORkt.¢1HP-1t0141,•:CASSEROLE (Serves E•to a) FOLIC ounces macaroni, 4 slices .bacon..(Lie4 eclsp),, ;lahlespoans bacaft'drippings, 4' tablespoons chopped green pepper, '!ie cup chopped onions, 2 cloven garlic (minced), * •feasjiop'h monosodium _glutamate, l'g teaepoon,white pepper, -.y4 tea,spooersalt, .•1 cart•con-, dettsed tomato soup, 2 cups lightly crushed corn chip (treasured atter crushing), 1 cup grated American cheese. ' Doll macaroni in salted seater''ftttf,ti-thnder, Saute oaten green' pepper and garlic In bacon fat, thsn.add ,se;zsonings,-((snare soup,,- minced bacon an* Cooked macaror)i, Place half of cora chips in a osserole, Add the macaroni niix'tu±0, Top "w"itli remaining aohi' ,chips and grated cheese. Bake in moderate,oven..(35(). degrees F.) tor 30 minutes. Ci013.N4 CHIPS BAKCD NOO1)I,6 I ,AAF,_ , , - (Serves 5) Sane, package (5 ounces) noodles, 3 eggs, 2 cups milk, ''3'q tea- spoon salt, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce,' 'Ic •'teaspoon white Cerny h'. anal atp»x eiteese, st00 '84 'wilt. chid sauce are s seetifui� hot i s)I er luncheon dish;" Try it to relieve the mealtime too-' - •n'r flet noion3, of ' soffits](, peppit -1 cup grated American tames*, 3 eup dimly crushed rises. ehiDelnrieasured'9itei crusbl6�ii Cook noodles (Io boiling.sattert water. Drain and rinse.4ftelaii bine beaten eggs, milk, seasonings, cheese, torn Ohips and eioodteed Pour ]ilio a greased casserole. Bakke 1a ]moderate aver (31$0 degressi F.) for 45 'minutes. Grace' Before Meals .Anyone who has- seen hard, dry wheat.,strewn. on a Kansas, Nebraska er Minnesota field, sprout into gdtden grain, and then transforinsdlinto life -gluing bread must„belle,'p•gl•ip,; ed. Pach^d! a miracle could not happen with- out the aid of a florce'muchmore'' powerful than rnan. has- bean able to devise. , , It was probably With sµFh, a thought in mind that some mem- bers of the,. Texee ..Restaurant, Association have decided to place- on'their telilers cards` t'l fe1i bear the 'thaziksgitting • hgfore=itfeals-- ptayers of, the-Catholle,..Jew•ish..', alit .Pretp$tantfa.tths . In a ,great.. m,anv3„.om hes, espe- aily where there are smell children,"the"diatter'''b±-r'sa'1ng Grace” is a •fit ly rite.-Buti(estr people say. -Grace -when. they go to restatlrents. ' The, restaurant.operators are asking in effect: Why should this , be? To paraphrase a childhood poem, is not •God'in' they restaur- ant, -just the same • as irr the )come? So (hes restaurant, .,operators. are putting on their tables print- ei9 cards'sithich bear -the lovely words of thanks Of the three major faiths, -They are: • •-Catholic . "Bless us, 0 Lord, and these Thy..gifts, which we are , about to receive from Thy boun- ty, through Christ our Lord, Jewish:"Lift up your hands toward the'sanctuary and bless the Lord. Blessed art Thou, 0 Lord our God King of the uni- verse, who bringest .orth bread from the earth. Amen." Protestant: ,' Bj.ess, Q Lord, this food to our use, and us to Thy service, and make us ever mind. Irl of the needs of others. in Je- sus Name. Amen." . It is a simple thing, but in this Materialistic age it is a wonder - fel thing. After all, there is no shame attached to being seen thanking God for the food we eat. A great many of us seem to have forgotten this.—Iiouston (Texas) Post. RIE KNEW WHAT SHE MEANT - Driving her shiny new car through a town , an elderly Quaker lady was suddenly con- fronted by an enormous moving van, which appeared, as if by magic and at considerable speed, from a side turning, The classic irresistable force met the legendary unmovable object with an almighty crunch and the shiny new car wrap- ped Itself lovingly around the driving cab of the moving van. Infuriated, the woman man- aged to control, herself only by remembering her Quaker prin- ciples. Waving her finger before the van -driver's red face, she snarled: "When thee gets home to thy kennel to -night, young man, I hope thy mother bites thee." F,AIt. FROM BOAIF COOKING There is a well-known Ameri- can general, at present in Korea, who is noted for his keen in- terest in all that goes into the :. Army's stomach. Approaching the nervous. young cook of an advance field kitchen, the big than boomed; "Here, let me taste that." The cook opened his mouths to pro- test, but the general $napped ; "Don't give me any bull ---give me a spoon]" The general dipped Ina spoon into the huge soup cauldron, And slid tasted e d t ire l' z t q L 1 ' s so "Yost da t t auk that off t up, - do youhe reefed. ?f, ".No, slit" stammered the Sol- dier. "That's what I Was trying to tell you --it's dishwater, airs". Crackers and Cheese — And, what better refreshment for a picnic than crackers and cheese. Serving up his special brand for the day, our photographer com- bined (fire) crackers and cheese (cake) to produce the eye. appealing picture of Norma Randall, Hollywood actress, seen above. Bitten By Snakes Over 400 Times George Canzi, reptile -keeper at Sydney's Taronga Zoo Park, has caught 17,000 wild live snakes (he claims this is an Australian record) and has been bitten over 420 tunes, George has been in the game 'since boyhood'. For thirty -form years he gave snake show all over Australia. With him in the pit he woulet have 200 venomous snakes, cop- perheads, rattlesnakes He thinks he's fairly venom - proof, but thirty-one years ago a tiger snake near Nowra (NS, W.) nearly finished him. He was out in the bush catching snakes. He collapsed in his shack sev- eral hours later and was uncon- scious for foul' days. ' Fortunately, a friend chanced along on the fourth day, found him Iying on the floor, and re- vived him after half an hour's vigorous shaking. Cann could move neither arms nor Ings for a fortnight. A. month lana' another tiger snake: bit him at Malting" (N.S.W.) when he was putting on his net• Cann was blind tor three days. o twenty- four George's two sons, - w y four and fourteen, share his en- . thusiasm far snakes. During the war the elder boy, a soldier in New Guinea; caught two tree boas, and (slipped them to his father for the zoo. Canis tells a good story about the younger lata. When he was five, itisa mother found hint in' a tin pittsWith twenty blue - tongued lizards., One protesting lizard Was clamped between his teeth, Said Cann Junior, "Mtim- any, this.' nasty lizard bit rte; so I'm biting 'hien baelt." What is new iso owed be. , cause most are:; unwilling to be taught. —SAMUEL JORNSON World -Famous Diamond Hidden ]fn ' Potato Field What has happened to the Koh- i-illur, the fatuous and 'fastinat- ing diamond that •ihas'-:glittered for $o long as ane of the shining highlights 'of tIe'BritIth Cibwn Jewels? The startling answer:is that 71i6153dy-knows. it -played no part in the, Coro- nation . ceremonies. It had not been .built,, as .so many people expected, into the. Queen's newly reconstructed Imperial Crown of . State,..A.par( from the Queen,her-. selfirand-.three close confidential advisers, norone knows the iden- tity of the stone's present owner, Was it mentioned in Queen Mary's will? The great diamond was set into Queen Mary's per- sonal crown over forty years ago and was long .regarded, like, the„ crown, as her late Majesty's per- sonal property. The contents of royal wills, however, are never disclosed, •and the value of the gem is not considered to have been included in Queen Mary's reputed £3,000,000 fortune. Legal Puzzler 'With -watchful regard for the legend of a curse that ordains it unlucky to men, Queen Victoria is known to have willed the Koh - 1 -Nur to Queen Alexandra. From her it passed to Queen Mary, who merely loaned it for the queen consort's crown at George VI's coronation in 1937. But Queen Victoria' also made a 'provision ,that the diamond should always be worn by the queen consorts of England and never by the kings. To -day, of course, there is no queen consort. Our young queen is sovereign in her own right; the Queen Mother is, in reality, a dowager queen; the Duke of Edinburgh, although a consort, is not in line as a man, and thus an interesting legal si- tuation has arisen. Yet this is by no means the only strange twist in the Koh-i- Nur's recent story. During the war it was kept in an old hat -box in the vaults of Windsor Castle. At tine tim0, when German in- vasion seemed inuninent, it was placed in an air -tight preserving jar and buried in a potato field. And to heighten the controver- sy, it is being urged that the Koh- i -Nur belongs to the government" of India and should be returned Souse Of It 'Yours But perhaps you, yourself, have a fragment of the Koh -i -Nur and are giving it house room unaware of the curse? After the East India Company presented it to Queen Victoria, the 186 -carat stone was cut down to 106 carats, The smaller port was again split and many of the smaller chippings found their way into private jewellery. In size, the Koh-i-Nur—Moun- tain of Light --cannot compare with the modern 3,025 -carat Cul - linen in the State Crown or the 770 -carat stone found in a Sierra Leone river -bed seven years ago, which has now passed to a pri- vate buyer. Yet it is one of the World's oldest known diamonds. Legend traces it back 2,000 years —when it was allegedly found in the Golconda mines in India and 'it: has a documented his- tory f±sn the year 1804. It f0rined part of the loot et lllalv5a, `seized from the old Par than empire. It passed into the fabulous treasury of Delhi and was :sound thei'e When . great • Tanntlane's grandson hornacre ,, liinduZtail and fnuuded •ttt0 fettledr Vogul eYtipise.' " Wars have been fought around . the Koh -i -Nur.' In trying to find it, men have fallen down stair- ways and broken their necks. A harem slave once hid it away and appeased her conquerors by revealing it hidden in the em' peror's turban. Emperor's Pligbi But how to get it? The con- queror suggested exchanging turbans . as a gesture of friend- ship and the unfortunate emper- or, Mohammed Shah, had no choice but to comply. Ralf a century' later, another emperor in the same plight tried to deceive a conqueror by foist- ing him off with a perfect repli- ca. In return, his capital was ransacked, and, his palace razed to the ground until the diamond was at last found in a heap of ashes. Following the overthrow of the Sikh empire, it was handed over to John Lawrence, the British Resident, Absent-minded- ly he put it into a cotton coat pocket, forgot about it, and then learned' !fie coat hid gone to the. cleaners. A' Panic-stricken,he turned the laundry upside down. "If you are looking for that piece of glass," said a servant, ."I "'save put it- in' a drawer." Erik. iance Fades And when Queen Victoria was at last presented with the'Koh-i- Nur, it must be recorded that she did 'not - think 'Much of 'it The gem did not seem to shine with sufficient brightness, hence the old queen ordered it to be recut. But the harsh truth is that diamonds as old as the Koh -i -Nur gradually lose their power and brilliance This "gem of germs" is no ex- ception. Some years ago it was valued at £140,000, but it was priced at £2,000,000 when shown at the Great Exhibition in 18513 So who now owns the Koh -i - Nur? It is nearly two years since it was last seen twinkling in Queen Mary's crown at the Tower of London. Since then the crown itself has been dismantled, and the Queen was seen to be wearing gems from. iRawhen (rhe last rode to the State Op ring of Parliament. IS the Koh -i -Nur has to await the next queen con- sort, its icy fires may lie in cold storage for sixty years or more. On The. Naming Of (Oats It Occurs to Tile .all veriptet' tkt that the naming of cats is an ai- znost infallible guide to the de- gree of affection bestowed on e cat, Perhaps not affection sl} much as true appreciatidn Of' feline character, YOU may bat reasonably sure when you meet a eat called Ginger or merely Puss that his or her owner has insufficient respect for his eat♦ Such plebeian and unimagina- tive names are not given to Oafs: by true eat -lovers, There is a world of difference between tix6 di cognmmified onpl9an0ed "soTabbynorous "" "andTabftha tlta Longclaws Tiddleywinks" 'which the poet Hood christened his cat. And her three kittens called Pepf perpot, Scratchaway and Scott- kins reveal an affectionate inter- est which is never displayed by' such ordinary names as Sandy Or Mickey. We cannot all rise, of course, to Southey's heights, He, you may remember, called his ca( "the most noble the Archduke Rumpelstilzehen, Marcus Mae - bum, Earl Tomiefnagne, Berets. Ratieide, W a o w h 1 e r "4Scratch." - . . Not that grandiloquent or fan- cy titles are necessary to a true appreciation of cats. What could be more dignified or appropriate than the name of Doctor John.• son's cat Hodge? And the hand/ some Bedfordshire cat who is mentioned later in this story is admirably suited by his name of Albert. Without doubt the names given to individual cats shed interest:. ing light on their human owners. No one but a true cat -lover could call his cat Gilderoy, Absalom, Petifar, Wotan, Feathers or Shall. de Perse.—From "Charles, The Story of a Friendship," by Mich. ael Joseph, Copyright, 1952, bur Michael Joseph, Prentice -Hall, Inc. Upsidedown o,; Preven Peeking ess M 9 A N d e a 1 0 0 5 t7 1,;3 s'' a 9 9 3 3S 3 1 Q f l 3 1 V 3 d 0 n w s 1,3 07 3 I 9 N f 1 N / 3 7 tl 191 S l a 9 0 1 l 1 3 7 a' n N 1' 9 9 d S 3 3 S v 1 3, 9 X N H 3 Yf I V g Toothsome Prize —`fife spirit of - adventure paid off in lots of thrills and a real prize for Lorry Cokenawel', teff, and W l t e r Myers. Using a snare -pole with a wire loop, they caught a four.. and • one-half • foot alligator in the Des Plaines River. Squirrel P1+lend•.•AouOlas Holmes, siiaws aff his pet squirrel "Skip" to his seventh grade classmates (t Union Nish School. -1 he boy found "Skip" several weeks ago and the two hove .became inseparable friends.