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The Seaforth News, 1960-05-26, Page 2Royalty Often Goes Unrecognized On the balconies at Coleshill Buildings, among the baek- doubles of Pimlico, the neigh- bours were arguing — and it has taken the engagement of Prin- cess Margaraet to Mr. Anthony Armstrong -Jones to settle the riddle. Now the local folk know that it was the Duke of Edinburgh they SaW crossing the pavement to the photographer's studio be- tween the laundry atnd the old - clothes shop. The Duke was pay- ing a friendly call on Mr, Junes. But the people in the Buildings scarcely gave a second glance to two • girls they sometimes saw =Being •through the courtyard towards Mr. Jones back door. Was it. Princess Margaret and her lady-in-waiting? It's known now that the Prin- cees and her fiance explored Bristol together while apending a week -end with friends in the West Country last autumn. No one recognized thein. In a river- side pub among the dockland streets of Rotherhithe, Antony. Armstrong -Jones sometimes used to pop in for a meal with three or four gay young people, Was Princess Margaret in that happy, laughing group without anyone spotting her? Far more petite than most peo- ple expect, and not afraid to vary the tone of her hair for the sake of fashion, it has often been laimed that Princess Margaret is the least easily. recognizable member of the royal family. At a party once a young man felt that he knew her face but could not quite place her, In the hope of settling her identity he asked: "And how is your mother?" "She's very well." "I haven't seen your brother lately." "That's not surprising. I haven't one." "I must be thinking of your Aster, then," the young man blundered on. "Yes, a lot fo people think about her," said Princess Mar- garet, impishly. "She's the Queen, you know." The proof of this story was imdelined when Princess Mar- garet once arrived twenty min- utes too soon for a ceremony in a northern town. As Her Royal Highness first stepped from her car, officials paid her little atten- tion, They imagined that it was a pilot car with a lady-in-waiting. Strange but true, we are so accustomed to seeing photo- graphs or TV pictures of royalty In black and white that they can pass unrecognized in real life, in the side streets of Slough it green Lagonda knocked into a little pre-war Morris. "Some clot's hit me," the Morris driver thought — then recognized the Duke of Edinburgh. He did not recognize the lady sitting beside the Duke — and only afterwards realized that it was the Queen. "I have only seen pictures of her Majesty smiling," the Morris driver confessed later, "and she certainly wasn't smiling then. She looked as disapproving as any wife would!" Princess Alexandra of Kent used to stroll out of Kensington Palace and take a bus. No one recognized her: and her younger brothel, Prince Michael, can still do so to -day. When the Princess carne of age, however, and the publicity intensified, she risked being. spotted. Soon it happened. All eyes were upon her as the - • pr: senor., whispered a n d nudged. Sieh-, the Princess WAS fore• d 10 leave the bus and take a test Sometimes, however. she visit. - a !oral shop to choose gramo- phone records and the assistants know that she likes to be treated like any other customer. Yet they find it amusing at times to see record addicts listening moonily to Marty Wilde unaware that they are sitting next to a prin- vesa. The Queen Mother is probably the most readily known mem- ber of the Royal Family — but it depends where you expect to find her. A keen angler, she was once fishing on Deeside when a fellow woman angler inquired, "How's sport? Would you like to borrow one of my flies? The Queen lt4other said sha would. Then the woman recog- nized her, tried to bob a curtsey and promptly fell into the river, Later she revived a letter from the Queen Mother, thinking her for the fly and commenting that the curtsey had "not gone un- noticed!" In Berkshire two hikers were resting at the roadside when a chauffeur -driven car stopped and a lady inside asked if they would like a lift. While they were de- bating, the chauffeur opened his nearside door. "Hop in," he said, "You're keeping the Queen Mother waiting!" Queen Mary used to give a lit- tle souvenir medallion to scores of service men and women to whom she gave lifts in war -time, On average, one in three failed to realize her identity. On Coronation Day our present Queen found that children whom she had known all their lives fail- ed to recognize her in her crown ' and robes of state. "They've al- ways known me as someone or- dinary," she said. "Now I sup- pose I look like a queen in a fairytale," When the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were in New York, the Duke had great fun, one clay, walking incognito through the crowds who had turned out to• cheer him. The Duke had kept an engagement at the American Physics Institute when the peak rush-hour blocked his car and detectives had agreed that he could walk the half -mile to his hotel. At the hotel, where the crowds were thickest, the Duke found he could not get through without a pass. Finally he announced to a policeman, "It's ire!" but was still unrecognized, Panting be- hind him, State Department offi- cials had to help get him through. For two years the Queen and her husband enjoyed a favourite picnic spot between London and Sandringham where they used to park for lunch. A local farmer passed them many a time with- out seeming to pay any atten- tion, One day, however, the farmer brought his wife along. Both were dressed in Sunday best and they quietly placed a little posy on the bonnet of the car before walking on. It was a charming gesture and, thanks to the farmer's discretion, the royal couple still occasionally enjoy the pleasant spot. During the war the Duchess of Kent was able to work in a hospital ward as "Nurse Kay" — and the nearest she came to recognition was when a patient murmured, "You remind me of someone." In school holidays, Prince Charles is sometimes taken shop- ping. Passersby have said. "He's almost the Prince's double!" without suspecting. Would you recognize royalty if they lived next door? When the Duke of Windsor, as Prince of Wales, went in for steeplechas- ing, be took a flat at Melton Mowbray. It wes some months before his neighbours knew. The Princess Royal, similarly, took a suite of rooms in Bays- water not so very long ago and her neighbours learnt the truth only when the story leaked into the newspapers. By presenting its slightly false black and white picture of royalty television may be a bless- ing in disguise. Members of the Royal Family can often move about unrecognized and taste the enjoyment of feeling "ordinary" SAY "UNCLE" — It looks as though the robots have taken over in Moscow, The weird device is used to trace small radioactive particles injected into hospital patients under examination. hl'c•hls sensitive, it registers data on blood circulation through eight ports of the body, writing the data on a paper ribbon. GINA AND FAMILY — Ita•lian film star Gina Lollobrig•ida and her husband, Milko Skofic, arrive in New York. Milko, Jr,, pro- tests. The family may become Canadian citizens due to a feud with Italian officials over the oitizenship of Yugoslavia. barn Skofic. TABLE ALKS Jam Andrews. Soon fresh rhubarb season will be here, and you may want to try this deep-dish rhubarb and banana pie with a meringue - like crust. RHUBARB and BANANA PIE 3 cups rhubarb, cut small 5 tablespoons sugar I egg white, beaten stiff' 4 small bananas 16 blanched almonds Put the cut-up rhubarb and 3, tablespoons sugar in bottom of a deep - dish glass casserole. Crush bananas and mash to a pulp with 2 tablespoons sugar; beat in the stiff egg white. Spread this mixture over the r hu barb and sprinkle the blanched almonds over the tap. Bake at 350 degrees F. for about 45 minutes (you can see when rhubarb is done by looking through glass of the baking dish). Serve hot with cream. r a While on the subject of pies, this recipe is well worth trying. CHERRY MERINGUE FIE FILLING: 1 quart red pie cherries 1 cup sugar Pinch salt 1 teaspoon buttter 1 teaspoon almond extract 2 tablespoons corn starch Combine cherries, sugar and salt and cook until sugar is dis- solved. Add butter. Mix corn starch with a little water and add to cherry mixture, stirring to thicken. Add almond flavour- ing. Set aside to cool. CRUST: 1 cup flour 2 tablespodns shortening t. teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons ice water Sift flour and salt together; add shortening; mix lightly with as little handling as possible. Add ice water and mix. Roll on floured board and line a 10 - inch pie pan. Bake at 350 de- grees F. Cool before filling with the cherry filling. MERINGUE: 2 egg whites 2 tablespoons sugar Almond extract Beat egg whites with the su- gar until stiff; add almond ex- tract. Continue beating until whites stand in peaks. Cover cherry pie with this and bake until meringue is brown. « a Peach season is just around the corner, too, so you may want to know how to make an upside-down peach cake, UPSIDE-DOWN PEACH CAS, cup butter Ie cup brown sugar 4-5 fresh peaches (canned peach slices may he used) cup butter 1 egg, beaten ea cup sugar las cups cake flaw' 11 teaepcon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder cup milk 12 teaspoon rennin s teaspoon almond extract Melt se cup butter in an 0- ineh pan; sprinkle with bran i sugar. Arrange sliced peaches over this mixture, Set aside, Cream is rap butter with the al cup sugar; add beaten egg and flavourings; mix well. Sift dry ingredients and .add alter- nately with milk. Blend well and pour evenly over peaches. Bake at 375 degrees F. for 45 minutes. Turn nut on cake plate at once. Serve Warne or cold, with erten: nr mein. Serves 8-0. Every housewife has her own recipe for potato salad, but pos- sibly for a change you would like to try this one, which is highly recommended. POTATO SALAD 3 pounds small potatoes 1.?4, cups warm vinegar 1 egg yolk Salad 011 1 large onion, grated 1 carrot cut into very small pieces 5 stalks celery, cut into small pieces 3 tablespoons mayonnaise Salt, pepper and paprika Bail potatoes in salt water, peel, and cut them thin; add the warm vinegar while potatoes are still hot, Set aside, In another bowl, place egg yolk and thin out with salad oil, stirring slowly and constantly until you have 1 cup of the mixture, Add onion, carrot, cel- ery, mayonnaise, and season- ings, Pour all this over the potato -vinegar mixture. Veiled Men Who Never Wash Would you like to meet the world's only veiled men — a dwindling race of strange and fierce - looking warriors who wear swords and whose faces are never fully visible? Yes? Then go to Timbuktu, in French West Africa. Many of these proud men live in this arid - town of mud buildings, wide sandy streets and ancient mos- ques. These restless, warlike people are members of the tribe known as the Tuaregs, Born in the Sahara, they know the secret places of the great desert as do no other race in the world. When a Tuareg man's wife wants to kiss him, she presses her lips against his .nose, She must never kiss him an the lips because traditionally no Tuareg roan ever uncovers the lower part of his face. Ile never washes, he never shaves. Tuareg women are often beau- ties, Yet they grease their dark hair frequently with rancid but- ter, the scent of which is regard- ed as an exotic perfume. "They seem to flaunt their beauty, but no man ever ven- tures to play a Tuareg woman false or to harm her in any way," reports one traveller who was in Timbuktu a short time ago. It is feared that these fascinat• Mg people may die out altogeth- er within the next hundred years. Only about 100,000 Tua- regs are now lett. in North Africa. Many of the Hien are cancel breeders and trailers. And they have long offered resistance to h'rench sublugatinn of the Sahara. The Tuaregs are ivlohanimed- euts but are Icss strict than most followers of that faith. Arabs sometimes call them "the mad people" because of their peculiar ways, but no one really believes they are mad, Tauregs merely believe, passionately and with great sincerity, that they are the most superior people mi earth! Sticky dates, raisins or figs will part company easily if put in the oven for a kw minute'. 1551111 20 -- 1960 Making Teen' Ag ers Really Hard -Bailees Americans are being encour- aged to improve their public schools and to challenge their y6ungsters with higher stand- ards and bigger demands in the classroom, but sometimes some- body gets imbued with a "zeal not according to knowledge." Members of Congress have noted the article by Dorothy Thompson in the February issue of the Ladies Home Journal, criticizing the dissection and ex- perimentation practiced on live (though anesthetized) animals in high school. What is the need for this kind of advanced biology at this impressionable age? Miss Thompson asks with some in- dignation. And she quotes a sur- prising report on the practice by a biology teacher, who says: "Surgical procedures are es- pecially thrilling to pupils, After the first few weeks there is an amazing absence of squeamish- ness and fear. In fact, it fre- quently surprises me to see the avidity with which pupils plunge into the dissection of rats, mice, rabbits, and dog sharks." The National Science Teachers Association iri Washington main- tains that Miss Thompson is be- ing unfair, The association main- tains that classes employing advanced dissection and experi- mentation with live animals are usually reserved for gifted stu- dents, Moreover, it is said, the rules, followed, which have been set up by the National Institute of Health, National Cancer Insti- tute, and related agencies, intend that such experimentation shall at all times be "humane" — meaning that the animal is, fully anesthetized and is dispatched promptly after experimentation. Anyway, concludes the NSTA, if classes didn't progress beyond the one -celled creatures to some- thing more ambitious, students would lose interest, writes Wil- • liam H. Stringer in the Christian Science Monitor. Miss Thompson, li o w e v e r, points out that Dr. Chauncey D. Leasee, assistant clean of Ohio State University and president of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, re- cently wrote: "It seems to me that it is wise to avoid getting our youngsters so enthused over biological sciences that they are anxious to undertake extensive animal experimentation without the background, the experience, the judgment, or the wisdom that is necessary. . . . It is even argued in some quarters that, except for the pre- medical student or the candidate for the natural science labora- tory, the average student would gain more information about animals that would be useful later in life if he studied them in their native habitats, The question really raised here concerns dissection and experimentation which advances beyond the oldtime examination of pickled frogs to such things as depriving kittens of balanced diet to see what happens, dosing mice with high-voltage radiation, or blowing tobacco smoke into animals' lungs. Is this a vital part of biology or is it, as Miss Thompson contends, a batch of "scientifically worthless cruel- ties"? There is a laudable effort to- day le modernize the teaching of biology, as well as of physics and mathematics and other sub- jects. But some capable biology teachers who are making thisl effort say that this advanced animal experimentation not onl1r is not necessary but is actually a diversion from the really significant laboratory work which youngsters can perform. Many public schools require no such advanced dissection and. experimentation. Yet there fit enough carelessness in the scho- lastic indoctrination of young people today—the animal dissec- tion, perhaps callous and prying( questionnaires, the d e 1 a I l e d teaching of disease symptoms, the psyliiati:ie-laboratory expert. mentation -so that parents need to keep a sharp watch, indivi- dually and through parent - teaclier associations, on what their youngsters arc being taught, Miss Thompson warns about building a calloused mind and observed that "callousness is not a synonym for bravery; if it were, our "beatniks" and delin- quents would make the best soldiers, instead of being imme. diately classified as unfit for service," Round lip Stock With Motorbikes Horses are disappearing today even from Australia's relatively wild outback. At Meekatharra, 500 miles north of Perth, Bill Lacey owns two sheep stations cov- ering 1,000 square miles. Until recently he and his ..stockmen used horses to round up his flocks. But now his men mount motor -cycles, and he pilots an old Tiger Moth air- craft to guide them to scatter- ed flocks. The pilot goes up with a supply of maps and canisters, Having spotted a flock graz- ing in some remote valley, ha marks its whereabouts on his snap, and estimates stow many sheep are there. Then he stuffs the map into a canister and from tree -top height drops it to the stock- man concerned. The stockman roars off on. his motor -bike to round up Inc • charges at the spot mentioned. In this way, Bill Lacey claims, he can muster 15,000 sheep in, three weeks, whereas the old method would have taken two. months, a QUAKE TOWN — Survivors of two temblors which struck Lar, Iran, (X on Newsman) are re- ceiving aid from the Red Lion and Sun, the country's equiva- lent of the Red Cross. The or« ganization estimates 400 per- sons killed and 450 injured. YAWN, ANYONE? — Conduct your own experiment into the phenomenon of yawning. Try staring at this picture of a sleepy polar bear in a Paris, France, zoo — and see what happens.