1956-04-14 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,

APRIL 14, 1956..

One of the world's strangest stories

WORLD'S FIRST

TEST

T WHS a kuluron

evening

I

1783. in King Louis XVI of France, with his Queen and the Indies

and

gentlemen of their Court.

were

strolling.

in the

grounds of the Palace of

Versailles when an

official

the

came hurrying across lawns,

"Three gentlemen from

audience

Paris nak for

with

Baid.

An

your Majesty,"

"Who are they?" the King.

asked

"Two you will have heard of already. Sire. They are

the brothers Montgolfier." The King nodded and asked who the third man be.

might

from "A young chemist your Royal Museum: M. Pintre ile Rozier," replied

the official.

Joseph and Etienne Mont-

golfler were

certainly well

known to the King.

Their

father, 24 papermaker al

Annonay, ina apecially

fine stationery

Royal household.

for

Astonishing

the

"It is of this invention of yours this balloon – to speak?" that you wish queried the King. And it was an astonishing story that he and his brother had to tell.

It all began on a Novem- ber evening in 1782. They were sitting in front of

An- fire in their house at nonay, speculating about the great problems which of science had yet solve.

"

men to

PILOT

By Harry Harper

which The hot-air balloon

Je carried

Rozier And D'Arlandes five miles across Paris.

t th lower end,

Inside

Its capacity was a little more than 00,000 cuble feel, and when fully inflated stood over 7011.

Its greatest diameter was. high. That simple experiment 50ert.. tapering to 18ft, at the

music was the real beginning of this neck they atted a large man's conquest on the air. brazier at:nched by a series of stout cords. Round the outside of the neck they slung a wicker. work platform the open alr cockpit for the world's Brat there he eronnut-anıd from

bundles of straw was to feed into the brazier with a pitch fork to maintain the necessary fient.

A much larger paper bag sent up on an outdoor text rose to an esllnoted height of 000 feet

in

The first living creatures asend into the air any kind of man-made air machine were

sheep, a cockerel and a duck Placed in

baskel wicket beneath a bit Montgoiner, they went

hundred Teet u}l [vevria] nnd soiled through the air for mile and a half, coming slowly

10 carth as the hot air cooled,

The three occupants seemed nano the worse; true, the Cockerel was found to have might injury to one wing, but This was not due to the upper

le but lo o kick

from the sheep!

De

от

DT

No man had seen what Do Rozier now saw-Paris from soor, op... A "still" from a Hìm of De Rosters exploita

WEA

Fortunately they had been påneed hydrogen to obtain advised to take up with them constant lift, whits below

wo buckets of water and two the hot-air chamber. He realised the inflammability of large sponges. Seizing these. De fully to wet the smouldering patches two containers to be sufficiently Rozier and the Marquis begin hydrogen gas but believed the

fur apart.

round the neck of the balloon. Dabbing us fast as they could at every point where fire was threatening, they managed to quench edel outbreak.

Death of an Idol

And so a composite balloon of this type was built under De Rozier's supervision. In its first ascent, when he was joined by a friend, M. Rounale, the balloon rose about 3,000 feel,

Suddenly there watching below were horrified to me a cloud of smoke just above the balloon. By this time they had been in This was followed by dashes of fame, and a moment Inter the balloon was torn to pieces by a

violent explosion.

On October 15, 1783. Horier pale but composed, took the platform and his place on signated for the tethering ropes For this first to be paid out. expertinent it was deckied that the balloon should be allowen

Thon 00 To go up not more

100 reet held captive by the

The balloon

stmoothly. with De Rozier leaning over the sic of his gallery and waving left the boulevard, behind and Who Should be First? is the crowd below. Up it went seeing open ground beneath. until it tugged at the restraining they stopped stoking the Bre. горея. 100 feet or so above the Slowly the balloon cam? down infeld near the Butte-aux- ground

Cuifles.

Joseph and Ellenne had come to work the King for an impor- total decision They explained they had now learned enough to construct a balloon cupable of lifting a man into the alr Bul who should be the art human

being thus to be elevated? This was a mutler, they both thought, for Royal command

The ing was inclined to be sceptical He thought that any human who ventured up in bulloon would be lucky to return To ength alive. But be made o constructive suggestion. Ju Pans grol of the moment wire two criminals under sentence of

death

it

#

rupes,

For five minuten De Rozier kept the balloon straining at its celling Almit. Then, by letting the fire die out, he came down gently for a perfect landing.

Another page

Surrounded

by

The air about 25 minutes and had flown for between five or six miles across Paris, Having

A spark

FIRST REAL DIET DISCOVERY

FOR

YEARS

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

ONSOLATION for all shifted

tho overweight patient."

entirely on to the

people who find it The moßern trend has beon ncar-impossible to to attribute almost all obesity stick to a reducing diet to gluttony and simply to order comes from the doctors to patients to eat less.

Some idea of how tough diet- day.

ing is for many people who They have found that desperately want to slim is given the result of a two-year though fat people may look by alike they are really of two study of a large number of over-

weight people in Boston, U.S. constitutional types and ope of them can diet with much

strain than the other less physical and mental

TYPE ONE can fast fair-

The people were weighed and then separated into three Ono whs Bunt groups. Group home without any advice. The members of the second

group were given individui dieting

y easily, but lose little but instructions at a hospital einle. encouraged to their excess fat when they The third was

dirt for several weeks as go on a tough diet,

group so that tho

members could give efch other moral support.

aя

TYPE TWO people im- mediately start losing pro- tein from their muscles well. They go into “nega- tivo nitrogen balance,"

as

erentes a much stronger

Alternative

the doctors say, and this Two

TWO years later the whole lot

craving for food. Their there wea no

to emotional reaction

meals is

appreciable

were reweighed. They wero nearly all un fat as éver and

Jack difference between the threo hnd lost also groups. Those who

weight on the diet had quickly relapsed and put it back; on again.

Some display distressing “withdrawal symptoms" like addicts who have been sud- denly deprived of drugs.

The worst had happened-af normal As soon as De Roztex and the spork had burni fty way into the much more severt,

hydrogen bag. with tattered Marquis stepped down from

por lens of fabric sin cming be- thee gallery, smoke-begrimed bind the balloon crashed to the but triumphant, they were sur

ground, killing both De Rozter round of by wildly-chtering and

companion Instan- whom taneously. “ sume མ1»9«4a2¢a1%, seized De Rozier's cont and fare So the naine of this young it into anall pleees for souvenirs, Frenchman is written twice lň cheering De Rozler became the idol of

us the Ars; man of history, once crowd, he lifted an arm for Paris But he was still not satis-

the ever to leave the ground in any silence and called out;

fted He felt improvements

nents man-mande air machine, and This day, my friends, will he could be made in hot-air bal remembered

as long as there toon and this led him to work secondly as the first acrunout in the world to lose his life in an are men anywhere to remember out a design of his own. He air dienster. He was also the anything, for it is the first time planned to use not only hot air flist of a long line of test pilots history that human being but also the newly discovered to die while striving for grenter has risen from the ground and hydrogen ges. In an upper safely in air travel. descended again safely, in a compartment of his balloon he man-lifting air machine."

He said he

an opening at the bottom. This was made, and a big

As their lives were chung-lish was filled with

already forfait, suggested Lauh, a mixture of chopped straw why not let them be the first to But when set be sent up beneath this mon- and wool.

Captive ascents soon talled to was carrying balloon? alight they found it

Before Joseph or Etienne saltsty De Rozier, could

would turn another page in his- difficult to hold the bag over

reply, young Pilntre de At this Rozler-hliherto silent-stepped free fight through the air. It

tory the chafing dish.

by making the world's first of a forward. moment the widow

"With all respect, _Sire," he this he did not find himself tradesman, living opposite, saw smoke coming out of ld, "the honour of being drat alone. One of the King's cousins,

in the world to leave the earth the Marquis d'Ariande

been fascinated by Mont- their window, and ran across

A.

1.gh. 16 tod

Is too gres; for a couple

The King raised oifiers' experiments, and wi to watch what was going on. of criminals,"

it became known that Da Hozier eyebrows. She noted that the bag was

intended to make free light "My request,' answered De difficult to hold, and she

Rozier, "is that I myself may be over Paris the Marquis asked to suggested attaching it to the allowed to make this first lest" be allowed to accompany him.

De Rozier This they

agreed, and tho dish hy cords.

ascent was made from the Bois did.

de Boulogne

his

The King smiled, and gave his permission.

Up She Goes

the

had

in

(COPYRIGHT)

MY 30s. SECRET

OF THE DESERT

From

TOM POCOCK

we

Cairo cup of thick, black coffer IX yards of Damascus, began 13 telk business.

Ahmed Soliman jun. offered desert some Incense of Araby, brocade

Tur fume the house or the office,

A light wind was blowing, and as the balloon rose slowly boots, size eight Its occupants waved their hats kish Delight

Tougher

the

Have the doctors anything to who overweight offer cannot diet apart from sym- pathy? Yes. EXERCISE is on effective alternative, they say.

The weight-reducing value of exercise has been ridiculed by

they claim. Walking hard for oft find it harder to lose an hour a day may tako TYPE TWO people not only dieticians without good reason. weight but are much more only can ounce of fat, but over likely to regain it rapidly the year thin would add up to when they stop dieting be more than a stone and a holt. cause they cannot resist the temptation to eat.

So if two overweight women begin to diet, one inay give up before the other not because sho Ja weak-willed but simply bo cause the ordeal is infinitely tougher for her..

A benefit

DEGULAR exercise offers

further benent, Dr Reginald Passmare, of Edinburgh Univer- sity, points out. It may gradually reset the "appestat" the ap- pelite regulating mechanism · In The discovery of this con- the brain at a lower level o Atitutional difference between, that dieling becomes fat people has made doctors difficult.

realise they

that through ignorance

have often been callously Hospital trials suggest that Indifferent to the dimeuitles of abrut Ove fat people out of their overweight patients.

every 10 belong to Type Two. They just cannot keep their weight down by dieting,

As Miss M. E. Furnivall, chief dictician toptholomew's

to London's St Bar- Hospital, puts it:

But as slimming is so effective

a Bokhara stone scented cigarettes "Mr Obesity is a complicated medi- in improving general health and Coward like These very sad problem, not a moral issue, extending life-span the experts responsibility for weight are urging all over-weights to mucited a cursus tonic, is The

to the crowds below. Drifling carpet. That was the Middle Noc]

in

South-easterly direction, East shopping list compiled

"This smoke now," Joseph said. "This

smoke and fre heated air from the

As soon as the bag was which we see going up the fully inlated with heated chimney. If it could be im air the cords were cut and.

For the Arst human ascent the prisoned in some way. and

The delighl 10

of the Mon golfers bulli balloon the balloon was soon more than for me by London friends be takest in coffee, which, says reduelion cannot in foirness be inalte a marathon effort to diet made to exercise

a lifting

The astonish larger than any previous one not rise brothers and

themselves who well knew they would power, would it

found was cons.ructed with

an occupants something from the ground ment of the spertator. the outer covering of linen specially faced by a sudden peril. Parts be lucky to get a postcard

lower section of the of the Pyramids. into the air?"

bag fled it! into the impregnated and waterproofed, of

and an inner lining of toughened balloon round the neck, Just Etienne suggested the use Kir 21214 rose to the cell paper made in the brothers own above the of a round paper bag with ing.

factory.

500 feet high. But now its two

the

smoulder.

the libel, "will, fer a time, re- open the Portals of the Realm of Youth."

Mr Sellman explained about Oriente scent. He told me about the contributions of whales, cals,

fire, began 10 But, then, SHE hed k

"Bring me one of the perfumes deer, and the Russian beaver. of Arubin."

EVERY RECORD WE MAKE

One

妪

of Britain's

biggest record com- panies has announced an all-time high profit of more than half a million pounds.

TOPS 50,000

02090

DICKIE VALENTINE

MANTOVAN:

WINIFRED ATWELL

RUBY MURRAY

VICTOR SILVESTER

MAX BYCRAVES

Another claims that

its sales are up by a third. Today Page Eight ranks the stars that make these re- markable figures pos-

sible......

By Christopher Hall

CYRIL STAPLETON

JIMMY SHAND

DAVID

WHITFIELD.

ALMA COCA

So my quest began. I looked not for the dinks little rcent bottles in huge cardboard boxes you buy in Europe. I wanted 44 Irue Arublan perfume to con- fure with the scent of black herelssus, the song of night- ingales in the flame trees and the diamond-glitter of stars over the desert.

And he told me about flower reents: "For one ounce of per- fume we take 300lb. of flowers, but for the Duke of Windsor we mate speelal perfume--for each munce one room full of blossom!"

ANAESTHETIC

Holder

TEAVY perfume is best for women, I was told. Flower scents-such as jasmin, In the dusty inbyrinth of the gardenla, narcissus, and lily of Mousky bazaars of old Caire, the valley-are for girls. where the coppersmiths hammer and the donkeys bray and the sunlight Alters through tattered ownings, found my goal.

INTO THE PALACE

OVER

A Moorish arch WDS

written In glit Victorian lettering: "The Palace of Per-

I settled for a lot of Secret of the Desert. It cost 30 shillings, jooks like creme de menthe and Is 10 tires stronger than French scent. Il Is practically an anacзetic.

I also took away

with me cx- samples of a dozen or so *pensive perfumes which Mr Solf- intin had dabbed on the backs of | fumes," I remembered that the my hands and on my handker proprietor, a Mr Ahined Soliman, chief. was indeed, as he advertised, "A

That was six hours ago. Sinco Purveyor of Oriental Perfumes then I have been washing

before

deciding that they be In the St. Bartholomew's Hospitat long to the "Irreducible 60 per-

Journal.

cent."

BUT IF YOU'RE ONE OF THE OTHER 5

FOR thore determined to

FOR three inte

this

advice the suggests simple slimming system:-

Make up a daily intake of 1,000 Lo 1,500 calories According to your doctor's advice from the following Lables:

100 CALORIE. PORTIONS

1 Erg

1340%.

Liver

{ Zon.

Ai ez. Cheese Beef, vorned

10%. Beef, tean roast Hars, lean

Multon Brend

Chicken

Hidney 20% Herriar Crab

Bloaters Fish recs

2 Cream Crackers

Salmon,

tinned

Smoked

and

haddock

of the Most Exclusive Grades scrubbing with a brick of green and Entracing Kinds to a Great klichen soap. But I am still as Number of the Royal Familles." essenced us a cavalier.

Inside, the Palace of the feared

furnished with

hove

it? thought

Silvester, 200,000 with a hit. But without cushime, low brass-topped tables

hit she has dropped to less and silver-haired king of the strict a

lattleo screen, tempo style, pedeles

a million than a tenth of that before now. fountain splashes.

Two

routine discs or three

records every year. He's been will put even the biggest star

doing it since 1934.

dance

After him, another band shock. Right up in the big time now is Jimmy Shand, the shy, middle-aged Soots band leader who rarely comes South in person.

Hols a regular on Housewives' Choice, and that keeps his dilsen turing, well out of the relega- big-business make. If you can, you are a star tion zone. His latest hit, "Blue

soared over the struggle to sell records, who can make £1,000 from a bell

100,000 mark.

IN the

Polka"

figures are more secret than moming's wor

AL the top a trinity of The other top-gelling” band

next year's Honours List. emotional talentuby Murray, leader is Mantovanl. He is a

Whitfield, But today for the first time Devid

and

lut in America Dickly bigge

thon Britain, And that leaves a notch be comedian and entertainer Max.

I present a list compiled Valentino. No surprises here.

Now come down

L

with the help of music two from the los leaders. Bygraves as the only other man publishers, artists' agents, Hore in a br are Cyril to pass the 50,000 minimum, and song-pluggers. It gives Stapleton, will the Show effortlessly and just as a

aldo- pound; singor line to clowning. you the top ten names of Band's big new

Alma Cogan, and the first bla There are many nudging that the Turn-table League, surprise Winifred Atwell, the vital figure. There are many who plenkt who put boogie-woogle sell more than that from time to back in the big-time on a bar fine and then drop right out of To get into that longus you, room typu plano too.

the raining. need to be able to sell more thản -- Big surprise No. 3. Yollows Vera Zytki, mill swet-ketelling 20,900 coples et ANY rotond you Vieter Silvariae. Wis | would the wordi at large, mile aYKE

Divalon One.

With a start of homer I have remembered Mr Soliman's words

An ancient queen's at

discovered. Luxor A little

they

ณ.

far that had contained Jasmin acent and after 3,300, years it still

had strong perfume!"

Old Mr Sollman, who looked a

So, back to the bathroom. II In Division Two. That's how little like Farouk, died seversi chaney it is at the top.

years ago, and his son, who looks petrol, chlorophyll and diain-

Little like Llout. Colonel foctant fall-well, I may never (KENNETH ALLSOP'S RECORD

REVIEWS ON PAGE 19) Nusser, reigns in his stend, Over be able to return to Fleet Street,

JOHNNY HAZARD

WHAT'S THAT FOOL KID DOING

GETTING ON THEIR BARE?

WHILE BELOW...WITH THE DEPARTING SPIESAN

BE RIGHT WITH YOU, STEFFI NO

SEHSE LEAVING ANY „EVIDENCE OF

OUR VISIT?

Los Rabbit Tripe White fish

Bo Whole milk

100%. skimmed

milk

Kipper

50 CALORIES PORTIONS

14.02. Butter Margarine Cooking fat

Dripping

By Frank Robbins'

FOODS TO BE AVOIDED

Mado up dishes; Sausages, fried foods, Pastry, plos, cakes; Thick gravy, sauces; Sweet biscuits, cereals; Ice- cream, nuts; Sugar, sweets, jam, marmalade, glucose; Potatoes, beans, peas, best- root; Bananas, tinned or dried fruits; Alcohol.

THESE MAY BE TAKEN FREELY

Too, Coffee {ground or instant), Water, Clear broth,

Fresh Boet extract;

fruit

drinks. Pepper, mustard, vinegar, salt,

Milk

EXAMPLE OF 1,000

CALORIE. DIET ....

Gox. tablespoons

Bread,

C10.

Zoz. 13 thin allees) Butter, o

100 cals.

200

100

Ham, 30%

300

Smoked baddocks.

BUL

100

Permitted veget-

abits and fruits

100

1,000

1-5th oz. Oliver oft

nd lib. about

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel