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The Seaforth News, 1958-12-18, Page 2t Neglected Harem To Watch Movies The attractive, blonde New Zealand girl screamed in ter- ror when the two Indian lorry drivers threw themselves upon her as she cycled down the lone- ly jungle road. But there was no one to hear her cries. For minutes that seemed like hours she struggled and fought with the two men. "I was ter- rified," she says. "Then, just as I knew I couldn't last much longer, the twice -weekly bus suddenly pulled up beside us. "It couldn't have come at a better time, The two men were steered, Jumped into their lorry and drove off," But police caught them seven- teen miles down the road, and Louise Sutherland, 29 -year-old nurse on a lone cycle tour round the world, was the only Euro- pean present when the two men were sentenced to six years' Imprisonment. That was only one of many adventures that befell Louise on her amazing journey, She went Mesopotamian a sheikh's harem in the Mesopotamian desert .. • was a trespasser in a "forbidden" mos- que in Baghdad and was swept away by floods in the Canadian Rockies. A broken romance started her off on her world trip, she said recently. "That was in New Zea- Iand, at my home in Dunedin, "At the age of twenty-one I was through with men for ever. I bought my ticket to London and set out to seek adventure." Louise did private nursing in Soho for a year to save money for her trip. In the summer of 1951 she set out for Europe "on a perfectly ordinary bicycle." It was in Greece that she first ran into trouble. "I didn't have a visa for Turkey. Rather than hang around for two months waiting for one, I tried to cycle across the border without it." Turkish police in Edirne es- corted Miss Sutherland back into Greece, where she finally took a boat to Haifa, in Israel. "On the boat, my cabin wes raided and all my money stolen,' she recalls, "When I landed at Haifa there was a freight charge of g4 to be paid on my bicycle. I had only a few shillings, so the eampany confiscated the ma- chine until I could raise the cash." "I worked in an Arab hospi- tal for several months — the only white woman on the staff When I had earned enough to get my bike out of hock, I hit the road again — to the Leban- on." Working at a TB sanatorium there, Louise's no -romance cam- paign came to an abrupt halt. She became engaged to a charm- ing Arab doctor. Louise laugh- ed. "He was the first of three fiances I collected on my way round the world." When th ''romance with the Arab doctor ended, Louise con- tinued on her way to Baghdad, Before she got there she was in- vited into a sheikh's harem in the Mesopotamain desert. But there was no chance of her being asked to stay. The sheikh's four wives and in- numerable concubines were alI bemoaning the fact that they 'This is the friend you said you were bringing home for dinner?" f had lost favour with their lord and master. "It appeared," Louise explain- ed. "that the sheikh had become an addict of Hollywood cowboy films, He was spending all his spare time at the local cinema." In Baghdad, Arab friends in- vited Louise to don Moslem garb and accompany them to prayers in a huge golden mosque. "I had to keep lifting the yashmak I was wearing to see what was going on. When we got outside, my friends told me that, if I had been discovered, I would have been torn to pieces. The mosque was the holiest Moslem shrine in the East and strictly out of bounds to infidels, meaning rite!" By the time Louise had reach- ed Bombay her fame had spread before her. On arrival she was wined and dined by the Press ' and rushed in front of micro- phones and newsreel cameras. "It was. fun being a celebrity. 1 was taken out to dinner by Ashok Kumar, India's answer to Clark Gable, and was guest of honour at a party thrown by the Maharajah of Gwalior." Three weeks later came the adventure in the jungle between Bombay and New Delhi when she was attacked by the two Indian lorry drivers, For a few days after that she paid heed to friendly warnings to cancel her trip. But then, lumping them with other well - mentioned forecasts of danger, she climbed back on to her bi- cycle. "I wanted to prove two things," she said. "For myself, that I hadn't lost my nerve, And to the people of India, that I wouldn't judge then all by one isolated incident. "In New Delhi, I collected my second fiance. I won't mention his name. Ile was way up in the Indian Foreign Office. When his superiors heard about the en- gagement, they didn't ask any questions— they just posted him off into the wilds of Africa to one of their more remote em- bassies!" Trouble still dogged Louise's. footsteps. Just as she was about to leave Calcutta for Burma, an urgent cable from home told her that her father was resperately ill and she returned to New Zealand. For twelve months she worked at home, Then, eager to con- tinue her round -the -world tour, she sailed for Fiji, Hawaii and Vancouver. A fortnight later, Louise was camping in the foothills of the Rockies when it began to rain. "Pandemonium broke loose," she recalls. "The wind just tore my tent out of the ground. I did my best to pack everything away into my cycle trailer. There was thunder, lighting and the rain came down in torrents, I didn't know what to do. The road was flooded with water, but I just had to get to the nearest town:' For the next four hours, Louise cycled desperately. 'By the time I did reach a town the water was almost up to the hub of my bicycle. Everything in my trailer was ruined. When she arrived in New York Louise was broke again. "I booked a ticket on the Queeu Mary to sail to England. I didn't know how I was going to raise the fare! Then, with two days to spare, I was invited to appear an a TV quiz show. "The first few questions were fortunately simple, and as soon as I had reached 200 dollars — the amount of the fare — I re- tired." It was mid -winter when Louise docked at Southhamp- ton. She had cycled entirely around the world — alone — the first girl ever to have done so. "Those genuine ivory carvings you sold me last week turned out to be imitation." "I can't understand it—unless the elephant had a false tooth." SUDS WINTRY WEATHER — Soaps and detergents from thou- sands of suburban sinks paint this wintry p,c+vre on the out- skirts of Chicago. Such foaming is a familiar sight to filtration plant engineers. FETCH THE MISTLETOE — Fair- fax Smothers is Poinsettia Queen for '59. The "southern" beauty is shown with an arm- load of the Christmas flowers at Cypress Gardens, Table Talks By Jane Andrews Pancakes are becoming versa- tile enough to serve for any meal of the day. If you want to make any rolled pancake, use a regu- lar whiteflour recipe with eggs in it. Have the batter of the con- sistency for the pancakes to spread thin on the griddle, and place them on paper towels as soon as they are done so that all excess fat will be removed. Whether you roll the pancakes around a paste or around one of several fruits (a filling made with sweet cherries is a favorite for this), you can produce a dra- matic effect by dipping cubes of sugar into lemon flavoring and then lighting with a match. The effect is best if you place the dipped cubes around the edges of your platter. 4 4 * The manager of a men's club famous for its fine food gave me this recipe for paste around which to roll such pancakes writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in The Christian Science Moni- tor. "Make a cream of half pound sweet butter, half a pound of sugar, 12 almonds that have been blanched and peeled, then dried in a slow oven and chopped fine, a half dozen stale macaroons dried and chopped, and grated peel of two oranges and several tablespoons fruit juice Blend all to a smooth paste and put in a jar and cover with waxed paper. Refrigerate. For the pancakes, make a thin batter of a'4 cup flour, 3/4 cup milk and 1 egg, Make into pancakes 4-43/4 inches in size. Do not let pancakes crisp. Spread each cake with a gener- ous spoonful of the paste, using a spatula or silver knife to spread. Roll. Place on metal platter, sprinkle with a little powdered sugar, and slip under broiler for a few minutes." s Breakfast pancakes are made with a thicker batter. Serve them with butter and syrup and with sausage or bacon on the side. Serve them as a sandwich, if you desire, with the bacon or saus- age between 2 pancakes and syrup on top; or serve them buttered in a stack with a poached egg on top of the stack; sauce if your family likes them sweet. * * SOUR MILE PANCAKES 11:_ cups pancake mix t. teaspoon soda 1 egg, beaten 1 cup milk to which 11/2 tea- spoons vinegar has been added. Combine soda with pancake mix. Add milk and egg. For a thin pancake, add a little water as it thickens; Would you like to know how to make old-fashioned flannel cakes? Mrs. Beryl Martel writes. "When the cold winds off Lake Michigan notified us of the ap- proach of winter when we were children, Mother got out a crock and made a starter for flannel. cakes. Buckwheat flour was win- ter fare and not used in any other season. This starter was kept going all winter." FLANNEL IIOT CAKES 1 yeast` cake !t cup warm water 1 tablespoon honey or sugar 1 teaspoon salt ?:e cup buckwheat flour la cup white flour Dissolve yeast in the warm water and add other ingredients to make a dough. Keep in a warm place (it should be. made in the morning and allowed to stand until evening). Then add the following: 1 cup warm water 5/y cup buckwheat flour �2 eup white flour You may now use this batter for cakes, but be sure to save at least 1 cup for your starter. Keep this in a cool place, but , be sure it doesn't freeze. Next time you want to have flannel cakes, take starter from cool place and letstand at room temperature overnight. Then add: 1 cup warm water 1 tablespoon honey or sugar 1 teaspoon ,salt s/e cup buckwheat flour Ve cup white flour "This starter is strong enough to double or treble the amount of the batter, If you .like to add fat to the batter, remove starter before adding it. I serve these with either bacon or sausage and use about 2 tablespoons of the bacon or sausage fat in •the bat- ter," writes Mrs. Martel n * * Closely akin to pancakes are fritters, and a cherry fritter re- cipe was sent by Mrs. Mary Wall, who writes, "these fritters are delicious served with baked ham, as well as for dessert with sauce and whipped cream added. I serve two of them on the plate, as they are small. CHERRY FRITTERS 1 medium-size can sour cherries 14 cup sugar • 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder %2 teaspoon salt 2 eggs, beaten Milk Add sugar t0 cherries in pan and cook 5 minutes; drain and save juice. Put flour, baking pow- der and salt in bowl; add eggs and drained cherries. Add enough milk to make a thick batter (amount depends on size of eggs). Drop by spoonfuls into hot, deep fat and cook until done; drain on paper towels. a M * Anybody made popcorn balls lately? Of course the youngsters love them, and those -not -so - young have been known to reach for seconds when no one was looking. Here's one way. For seven cups of popped corn, mix in a sauce- pan a cup of sugar, rh cup of water, rh cup light corn syrup, a teaspoon of salt, and about re cup of butter. Cook until a candy thermometer says 2508F., or un- til a few drops forth a hard ball when dropped in cold water. (Hope you know mo surely than I do when a hard ball is hard enough!) Remove from the heat and add a teaspoon of va- nilla. Then pour in a thin stream over the popped corn, stirring constantly to mix well, Shape into balls with buttered hands, and don't be surprised to find yourself thoroughly stuck up be- fore you finish. Seven cups of popped corn will make 12 to 15 large balls, Remember that one eup, un - popped, makes about 5 cups of the popped product. IT ALL DEPENDS In a naval vessel the officer of the watch asked the starboard look -out what he would de if a man fell overboard. "I Would yell, 'Man over- board'," he replied. The officer then asked what he would do if an officer fell overboard, The look -out was silent for a moment, then asked: "Which of- ficer, sir?" Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for YOUR SAFETY. "FLOURS" — 'Flowers" held by Girl Scout leader Mrs, William Heleker, are -really "flours." They're twists of readymix bis- cuit dough on green sticks, and are intended for quick baking over comp or fireplace blaze. An old trick to Scouts, it's a new trick for suburbanites. The "Fast Gun" Craze They stood facing each other in the long, green room, the Western bad man , — swarthy, evil, six-guns at the ready — and the hero, a coiled spring, poised on the balls of his feet, slightly bent forward, his single- action Colt nestling in his hol- ster. Suddenly the hero dropped his right hand, drew, and fired. And a voice said flatly: "Forty one -hundredths of a second. Not bad." For the green room was a shooting gallery; the bad man, a wooden silhousette; the hero — from 9 a.m. to 5 — a Chicago supermarket clerk. And the bul- let that he fired, was made of wax. Through half of the nation last month, otherwise mature men were playing the same game: Seeing how quickly they could draw and fire a six-gun. The fad had started on the West Coast; it was now crackling through Chicago. Everywhere, the draw -and -fire buffs were organizing "quick -draw clubs." "Thirteen one -hundredths of a second is the record at niy place," said a man named James Bell one day last week. Bell operates a combined gun -shop -- shooting -gallery, which houses Bell's Frontier Quick Draw Club in Chicago's suburban Franklia Park. "That's better than the best time of the Old West gun slingers, and it's 24/100ths of a second better than Hugh O'Brian veld he could draw and fire," The fastest of the old-time bad men are credited with a time of 88/100ths of a second; O'Brian who play Wyatt Earp on tele- vision, is credited with 37. All sorts of males are fascin- ated by this newest hobby. Bell's 70 -member club includes a truck driver, a factory mana- ger, office clerks, university students, gun colleotors, firemen and policemen. And all take this very seriously. What is its fascination? "I guess it's part of man's secret urge to pit himself against the bad man," said George Virgines, president of club, a truck driver when he's not playing at being the fastest draw west of the Pecos, "Ever since I saw my first Western movie, guns have always • been interesting to me. I always thought it would be fun to see how fast I could draw, You see a cowboy on TV in a duel and you say: 'Gee, I could show him!' And here at the club you can do it and not feel funny about it." - from NEWSWEEK. SHADOW OVER BERLIN SHADOW OVER BERLIN — West Berlin, some 100 miles within East Germany, is the latest pawn to be placed in play by Russia on the chessboard of the Cold War. Intimations that an- other blockade could occur raise grim memories of the days in '48-'49, when Berlin's life— and world peace — hung from the wings of the West's airlift. BERLIN A i R sit 101F T EAST GERMANY WEST GERMANY - OPERATION "VITTLES" — C-47 Globemaster, above, joined the '48249 airlift to beleaguered Berlin. THE CHILDREN CAME OUT — Thousands of children, aged and infirm persons and refugees were flown out of Berlin by the airlift. SCORE FOR FREEDOM — Men of the airlift kept gear*, TQ 11t 2,343,215 tone of food and supplies, April '48-Sept,'•4'.