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The Seaforth News, 1960-06-02, Page 2Royalty Oftt�r!ll Goes Unrecognized On the balconies at Coleshill Iiitildiug s, Among the back - doubles of Pimlico, the neigh- bours were arguing; — and it has taken the engagement of Peet, cess NIergar•aet 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 - tweets the laundry and the old - clothes shop. The Dake wee pay- ing a friendly call on Mr. Jones. But the people in the Building, scarcely .gave a seeond glance to two girls they sometimes saw walking through the courtyard towards Mr. Jane's back door. Was it Princess Margaret and her lady-in-waiting?• lt•s known now that the Prin- cess and her fiance explored riqol together while spending a week -end - with friends in the West Country last autumn, No one recognized them. 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 ;potting her? Far more petite than most peo- ple expect, and not afraid to vary the tone of her hair fol• the sake of fashion, it has often been claimed 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 enulcl 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. 1 haycn't one." must be thinking of your sister, then," the• young man blundered on. "Yes, a lot fo people think about her," said Princess Mar- garet. impishly. "She's the Quern, you know," The proof of this story was undelined 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 ear 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 a 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. 9 have only seen pictures of her Majesty smiling," the Morris driver confessed later, "and she certainly wasn't smiling then. t5'he looked as• disapproving as any wife would!" Princess Alexandra of Kent. e sed to stroll out of Kensington Palace and take 'a bus. No one rec•oenized her; and her younger brother. Prince Michael, ran still do eo to -day. When the Princes: i umo nt age. however• and the publicity intensified, she risked being 'pelted. Soon it happened. At! ryes ,vere upon her as the r;, -;enye, rs whispered a n d reeked. Shyly. the Princess was teirete1 to it.sve the hes- and take fi 1%Yi. :inrthet lot •t. 11r1wrve1'. Fhe t'151t' P. ioen1 shop to choo.;e gramo- phone records and the assistants know that She likes to be treated lik,• nn;; other customer. 'Yet they fired it amusing at. times to see rr+cttt ;,'idiot- 11,,tenine moonily to Marty Wilde unaware that they are sitting next to a prin- cess. The Queen Mother is probably the most readily known, mem- ber of the Royal Family — glut 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 spurt? Would you like to borrow one of my flies? The Queen Mother said she 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 chaulteur-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 day, 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 me!" 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 hest 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 dnuble!" without suspecting. Would you recognize royalty it they lived next door? When the Duke of Windsor, as Prince of Wales, went in for steeplechas- ing, he took a flat at Melton Mowbray. It was 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 thc• 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 lo trace small radioactive p ticles injected into hospital patients under examination. Ft?hly scn :tivc, if registers data on blood circulation through eig,'11 ports of the body, writing the data on a paper ribbon. GINA AND FAMILY — Italian f!Im star Gina Lollobrigida 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 citizenship of Yugoslavia - born Skofic, TABLE TAL isr ,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 1 egg white, beaten -stiff 4 small bananas 16 blanched almonds Put the cut-up rhubarb and a 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 rhubarb and sprinkle the blanched almonds over the top. 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. t While on the subject of pies, this recipe is well worth trying. CHERRY MERINGUE PIE 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 tablespoons shortening 1e 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 wilts the cherry filling. MERINGITE: 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. * * Peach season is just arowid the corner, too, so you may want to know how to snake an upside-down peach cake. UPSIDE-DOWN PEACH CAKE ei cup butter !i3 t'up brown sugar 4-5 fresh peaches (canned peach slices may be nsedr 1.1. Clegg butter 1 egg, beaten ea cup auger 11 , cups cake flour 13 teeepaan salt 2 teaspoons baking pattder 1.2 cop milk 12 teaspoon vanilla t 2 teaspoon almond extract Melt ?a cup butter in an 1; inch pan; sprinkie with brown Sugar. Arrange sliced peaches over this mixture. Set aside. Croam t'a cup butter with the r,.i cup sugar; acid beaten egg anti flavourings; mix well. Silt dry ingredients and add alter- nately with milk, Blend well and pans evenly over peaches. Bake at 375 degrees F. for ' 45 minutes. Turn out on cake plate at once, Serve warm nit cold, with cream or plain. Serves 8.9. S Every housewife has her own recipe for potato salad, but pos- sibly for a change you would like to try this one, which ie highly recommended, POTATO SALAD 3 pounds small potatoes' lee cups warm vinegar 1 egg yolk Salad Oil - 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 Boil 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 Iips against his nose. She must never kiss him an the lips. because traditionally no Tuareg man ever uncovers the lower part of his face. He 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. Il ie feared that these fascinat- ing people may die out altogeth- er within the next hundred years. Only about 180,000 Tua- 1egs are now lett ;n North Africa. Many 01 the mot are - camel breeders and traders, And they have long offered resistance to .French subjugation "f the Saha re,. The Tuaregs are t'iolhauhnhed- an but are less strict than most followers of that faith. Arabs sometitnes 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 nrnet superior people on earth! Sticky dales, raisins or figs will part company .easily if pug in the oven for a few minutes, ISSUE 20 -- 1960 Matting Teen*Agars Really Hard'goileci Americans are being encour- aged to improve their public schools and to challenge their youngsters 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 sense 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 in 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 than 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, he w e v e 1', points out that Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, assistant dean 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, closing 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 to modernize the teaching of biology, as well as of physics and mathematics and other sub- jects. But some capable biology teachers who are making ship effort say that this advanced animal experimentation not only is not necessary but is actually a diversion from the really significant laboratory work which youngsters can perform. Many public schools require 110 such advanced dissection. and experimentation. Yet there i* enough carelessness in the scho- lastic indoctrination of young people today—the animal disscc- tion, perhaps callous and prying questionnaires, the detailed teaching of disease symptoms, the psyhiatric-laboratory oxperie mentation --so that parents need to keep 11 --.sharp watch, indivi« dually and through parent - teaehet• associations, on what their youngsters are being taaght. Miss Thompson warns about building a calloused mind and observed that "callousness is not a synonym J'or 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 Up Stock . With Motorbikes Horses are disap- pearing 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 flacks. But now his men mount motor -cycles, and he pilots an old Tiger Moth air- - craft to guide than 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, he marks its whereabouts- on his map, and estimates how 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 his 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. QUAKE TOWN — Survivors of two temblors which struck Lar,• Iran, (X on Newsmap) are rei- 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 et this picture of a sleepy polar bear in a Paris, France, zoo — and see what happens.