THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1958.
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The Big Story Behind Your Breakfast today
Y the end of the year I shall have eaten, I reckon, about 25 stone of bread. Twice my own weight. You too, sir, and you too, madam,. will have eaten twice as much bread as you weigh. That is the
national average.
Mtle
With some tle pride I Perhaps I'm a little above the average, though.
At breakfast this morning, for instance- admit that I'm a connoisseur of brend. how much bread did YOU eat. One alice, two, three?
With my breakfast of egg and bacon I had tried silces of brend. wheaton bread, polato and soda bread. (Nothing more Clling.)
But a connoisseur of brese? Absurd? Not so. There is no worth so single tem ef food muen aludy, none with so many variations.
In that allee of bread on your slice of the table is a good whole history of man; of blood
and triumph; and ears religion, of romance,
of
Bread probably the
first mooked food that human beings ever ale: traces of baked wheaton Huur huve been found in Swit- zecand dating back to the Stone Age.
The oldest
four
thousand years ago. And very nell preserved it le too. (Today well-baked lost should Inst Ave days without appreciable signs of staling.)
Those Egyptian loaves of old were often sprinkled with seeds un top, like the modern Vienna bread.
All through the Bible bread is mentioned. Abrahum bade Sarah nend tiree measures of fine met and bake It by the hearth
Gen. xviii, 6).
Abigail laid 200 anungst other foods, (1 Samuel, xxv, 18).
loaves, on asses
There is the story of the loaves and Ashes; the breaking of bread....
Today the neighbours may Judge your social positions by the size of your house, the make
your clothes, and onc things....and thought at all to the delivering the daily
SCAN through the pages of the of your cnr
007
baker
pust...The first historlan, Iterodotus (434 B.C.) recorda elve na that the Egyptians used 10 "mould clay with their and dough
hands round.
with their fcol." (And the Scots were still doing decided me
thing 2,000 years rome Leter.)
0
It was Julius Caesar, invad- ing Faypt in 47 B.C. (eight years fter he first visited Britali) who learned the value of wheat
this brend....gradually
Io21 through the Roman
spread Empire,
act ур a
The Romans college of battery, their bakers wore Hinen gloves and masks of gauze....cven today you will and that the WHEAT loaf is the staple food of countries that were once subject to Rome. Which explains why the un- conquered Scots slick so long to their oaten enkes.
(And, if you are a Scotsman abd have quoted against you the famous saying by Dr Johnson: "Oals are a food used in England for horses and in Scotland for men," you should always come back with: "And where do you And better horses and better men?")
Divided
IN mediaeval Europe there was
And I doubt if you realise just how great a part it's had in shaping
But
Peter Burgoyne's
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News From Britain
and there
'
is another
Angry Young Man
TTERE comes a clue to And so, educated to discontent
H what makes angry of
Young Mon so angry.
(The Angry Young Mon,
and without the trimmings of the class above, they find them- selves in a' social no-man's land where bewilderment ripens into
let me explain, are recently rebellion,
evolved literary animals, Rebellion Anda. Its outlet in usually of working class print and bingo, you have an
origins and with outsize Angry Young Mani
chips on their shoulders. To
Bome of them their anger has been decidedly pront- able),
a symposium this world...
by DONALD GOMERY
names
of
loaves;
Icopard
bread Even the for which men have fought and like lardy cakes); Edinburgh without which they have died. birck buns (the most heavily com appetisingly to the tongue
loat in Britain); for finited
....twist loaves and skip loaves; Napoleon invaded Russia bread just an Hitler did............ Aberdeen butteries (daky rolls buster loaves; musket lard); crumby brick loaves; only un
nade with butter or bread is not
cakes (currant baton loaves, triby loaves: long Cornish saffron tusle food; it can be FUN.
aaron split tin loaves.... All over Britain
loaves flavoured with I have
The stuff w!it
The staff of Hie? made a habit of sampling tea); Welsh bara britha,
drama ani of history, too, and the local breads. I have had their sultanas, raisins, and ear-
poetry. Wiltshire shaleys (made rather died peel.
HEADACHES? IT MAY
BE EYE STRAIN
OW many headaches a year do you get? If you have
year can
ache type; if less than two you don't fall into that category; if you don't suffer any, you're not a type at all. You're a walking miracle.
Pope's brend and count's it was bread that Ви одес
your social position. bread and knight's bread and bread and lackey's The priests
squire's in that Egypt of
**I had one only once in a old, for example, were paid in bread. The loaves of the rich bread; and a oblet priest would were richly shaped-like lutes blue moon," Mrs Lambert.wald, year 500 small are and lyres and the poor people's. "but recently I've had quite a toaves and 36,000 coarse love loaves were plainly shaped infow"
spheres or "boules" which la three roasted in coals,
French baker is still why the called a "boulanger."
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in this cur your of 1859, there is a basket of Egyptian bread baked
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Lambert's Mra
headaches of the mlizesinous weren't varlaty, nor was the the kind of who suffered Certainly you will have eaten person
from crescent-shaped rolls...."nervous headaches." Neither Ihose again you are taking a bite out were her headaches related to of romantic history."
When the Turkish invasion of Europe was halled at the gates of Vienna in 1883, the citizens celebrated with a feest at which all their bread was in the shape of a crescent--the emblem of the Turks,
food.
"Food?" Mrs Lambert zald. "I didn't know headaches had anything to do with eating"
Certain
people find
they suffer a headache when they eat a particular article of diet, One patient of mine used to get un allergic herdache whenever In thowo days, in those areas,
he ate chicken or turkey, хо bakera had a hard time of it was the only man I know whe ...if bread rose Lo famine hated Christmas. He never com- prioes it was the usual thing to plained of headaches he said Instead, "I've got that Scrooge again."
hang a baker or two.
All a
doctor
day: by CEDRIC
CARNEY
occur from
cya
over-
But Novor The Twain
The clue was revealed in
on class- Britons, Evon College is the epitome of all that is rari- distinctions published in a fled and exclusive and expen Cambridge University.maga. siva. zlne.
And the answer to this. These Angry Young Men are the most tragic of Britons- the Englishman without a class,
Fish and chips on the other hand are the symbol of all that is uninhibited and lusty and "of the people","
We are here talking of neither "sole meuniere" nor "pommes frites",
of but of the slabs To savour the tragedy deep-fried haddock and luscious, the greasy chipped spuds, wrapped fully you must know
in a copy of yesterday's newe- complexities of the English paper and consumed therefrom, caste-system, and the ser- lousness with which it is regarded.
To the uninitiated, It should be explained, that throughout Brinin thero. fourt special Briefly the social pyramid establishments for the prepara looks, something like this: tion and sale of this delectable The broad base is the work native dish, ing-class slightly-but, ol
They are to be found every-
so definably-higher, comes where--with the exception of the lower middle cines; next Eton High Street. And it seems the middle class which is that Eton Urban District Coun
cil are detemuined that never hardly distinguishable from the twain shall meet,
the upper-middle class im- mediately above; at
the One of the
Council's own
apex, the aristocracy with committees gave permission for whom we are not immediate the opening of a fish and chip shop in the High Street But the Council ly concerned.
has apparently been struck by the incongruity, of such an establishment in the vicinity of tae ancient College and has asked for he revocation of permission
Musculer fatigue of the sinuses, as so
people musclos can many
Money has nothing and do
thin
work or insufficient sleep, and everything to do with one's Be- those days, not uncommonly,
Country.
cause of our through watching the late of placing on this scale. What damp climete the television not too long, too is important is how long you doctors
con- often, and under wrong lighting have had the money and how tinually see in conditions.
you have used it. their surgeries "But I have perfect vision,” patients
who Mrs Lambert said. "I mean I pave morning chart."
Meanwhile the prospective fish and chip shopkeeper has expressed his determination to If you have used it to make sure that if Eton wants
complain of eon see ali of the optician's acquire the external social is fish and chips it can have
1 examined Mrs Lambert, but found nothing of note. I made quite sure her blood pressure was normal, though, in any case, her headtches didn't particularly in the morning. who
come on
perfect
во
So
all passion
The Big Question
a patient of
cough and It is generally belleved that trimmings of the class above, them,
is not yet - those who have perfect alght you will be regarded as an occasional headrches,
When those symptoms are in never suffer from eye strain. "upstart," but the chances spent in this campaign of social conjunction it is not uncommon This is a totally wrong assumpare your grandchildren will emancipation in reverse,
Llen. Just as a at footballer can be accepted by your present for the doctor to discover some
sutter from cramp of
the leg sinusitis present.
100 сад the most Bocial "betters." muscles, so balanced eye muscles become fatigued when
There you have the classic the eyes are strained.
social upsurge.
“HOULD the law slep in when NO HARM AT ALL
✩ conflict between railgiçus But the Angry Young Men bellef and accop.ed mertical "What about all those women have been spared this pain. practice deprived
Mrs aro shortsighted," "Everything is in
Lambert said, "who you fully slow process. A bene vital attention? order," sold,
ittle bleary, your eyes around without glasses? Don't volent State has plucked
The question has been raised them from their working by a case which has come bos But it was this faint clue that they suffer from eye strain?"
Generally thesa shortsighted
class and lower-middle class fore a British court. A man In Britala the punishmen! Another patient, a young disclosed the diagnosis. Mra
people do no harm at all to
face two charges was Dittle leas sevc.N
woman, became headachy very Lambert's headrches were due their eyes. They become used nests and thrust them into and his wife killing their soon "ler she had alpped her to continual eye strain and in
to their fuzzy vision and don't universities which, until of feloniously first drop of sherry.
child and of wilfully neglecting fact,
questioning, she strain their eye muscles. They comparatively recently, wore I sald, admitted
occasional
it in a manner likely to injure "Then, of course."
soon put on their glasses when the preserve of the middle is health. "there is the kind of headache momentary blurred vision.
they went to see something class and upwards, 10 Shropshire 'professional
hunger and sin-calers were employed who that is caused by
As a result of fatigue the eye important, Like the price on muscles go into spasm and Do fur coat. by eating bread over the coffinrelleved by eating."
"No, mine have nothing to do alter the relationship take upen
between themselves the sins of the dend with food in any way," Mrs the lens in the eye and the sea-
Lambert Inalsted.
sitive retina at the back of the Throughout the centuries Neither did Mrs Lambert lave orbit. This leads to the image thero in this pattern of bread anything wrong
with her on the reling blurring.
And if they gave short weight they were nalled by the car to |ONLY. ONE CLUE the doorpost of their shops.
the
offender was dragged through the streets on a hurdle with the light-weight loaf tied round his neck.
were
person.
supposed to
look
to
and
"So they don't get headaches," Mrs Lambert said.
Both of the accused Here they learn to do the jobs Jehovah's Witnesses. Because which are socially acceptable by of this, claims the prosecution, their "bettlers." But-and herein they refused permission for a "No, it's thele husbands who lies the tragedy-no univeralty complete replacement blood get the headache when they get can change their social back transfusion to be given to in the bill," I smiled.
child, although this was only practical remedy known to the medical profesion for the child's condition.
"If: Grandma's bought a short dress I'm going to leave home.”
ground.
the
They claimed, it was alleged at a preliminary hearing, that, according to Scripture, blood should not be Laken in any form.
While the case is before the courts there can bo TO COX- ment in Britain. But you can be sure that the whole, qucation will becoma a top point later.
Strike-Happy
talking
good whatsoever Was
Ncome to the cause of trade
unionin in Britain by a striko which bit bustling Laverpool docks recently.
pcd
DET
Kner-UruOD
More than 3,000 dockera slaşı
work, Not because they any quarrel with their employers. But because of an over who stould unload a cargo of bulk sugar. Members of one unloʻi, General the Transport Ed Warkets, refused to work along. side members of their rival Wion, the National Amalgamaż- ed Stevedores and Doctors,
What started as a dockside aquabbla became a big-lasted and suddenly," WHAMI ̧ thate was'n full blown swike, with s sips lying idle and another 27 under-mannad
As in the chao.pt D aquabblon, it was the Inndcast bystander who, fuktared, mort.
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