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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1959,
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY MAIL" FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK
Madelaine, The Child Poet, Said
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Why Are I Am About To Die' American LUO DUPONT
'Sang-Sang' Oranges SO RED?
Catania. GROUP of foreign A
Journalists began an Investigation horo to find.out who really puts the blood | Into Sicily's famous "blood oranges."
Sleillans say the deep red colouring of their "sang-sang" or "ganguinello" oranges in the work af God. They say they are pretty tired of foreigners Recusing them
of injecting colouring Into their oranges to make them look more blood- like.
Before the Second World War, British, French ond Swiss
By
HUGH MORAN
London.
SUDDENLY the sparkly left
the life and pooms of Madelaine Jennings, Instead. she spoke and wrote of death.
For Madalaine, only ten years old and already a gifted poet, had a strange pre- monition; that she was dying.
The little fair-haired schoolgirl used to sit in her home In Valley Road, Notting-
about the beauties ham, writing nature.
The Dream
of
Some of her poems were very good. One was broadcast and the BBC still has two others they intended to use. Every- thing pointed towards a brilliant future. magazines and newspapers ac-Thon a few weeks ago Madelaine's mood cured Skilians of adulteraung
then that she began their oranges. The latest ac- changed. It was cusation was recently publisheit writing and talking of her own death. "In a Hamburg-dally (Das Bild).
Main Reason
The last blast was the main reason why the Italian govern- ment, through the local institute of foreign commerce, sponsored
the visit here of 15 West German journalists to investigate.
the
The 15 journalists started on their tour with a visit to the great sweeping orange groves on the slopes of
volcano c Mount Etna,
The best and largest blood oranges of Sielly are produced Treen grow on these slopes.
high as 980 feet above sea level.
The journalists will stay about two days in the Mount Etna groves and then move on to the
Пого Kamous Conca
orange
and lemon groves,
They will be allowed to do whatever they want with the oranges, suld a Catania Chùmber of Commerce official.
The Secret
He said they can pick ripe and partly ripe blood oranges right off the trees.
The vialling journalists' will not reveal what plans they have thought up to discover the secret of the "Sanguinelle" oranges.
A local reporter såkt he be- lieved they were armed with a microscope and they intended to explore the skin of the oranges to and out if they have any holes which could. have seen made by hypodermic needles,
Local editor Pietro Nicolosi suggested the visitors study up on the island's climate and how the lava-rich soil of Mount Eina makes all the frult here grow in rich and Juicy quality.
Know-How
He said Sicily has the best climate in the world and it was
¦
Mr and Mrs Roy Jennings were puzzled and shocked by the behaviour of the daughter they had adopted as a baby.
One morning recently she walked into Calmly she said: their bedroom. "Mummy, I can't get my breath. I think I am going to die."
An hour later Madelaine was dead.
Now all the joy that was Madelaino had gone from the Jennings' home and the only, memorial of the child poet were two dog-eared oxeréise books filled with verses written Lin-a_childish hand.
Poems like:
This is Madelaine ...like all girls she loved dolla, but unlike the other the foretold her own death
At night when I go to bed, fairlea flutter round my head.
in the morning when I wake
up,
I might find a fairy's cup. To me, it seemed, that I had dreamed...."
"Yes, she wos a dreamer," said Mrs Jenning. "But just as often the way bright and smiling and tremendously alive.
"She began writing when she was six, and gradually filled an inch-thick exercise bool with her poems."
Under the Sea
about
"Usually it took her ten minutes to dish one off, and none lines she wrote them in the oddest of places around the house and in the garden,"
When the BBC broadcast official one of her" poema an wrote to Mra Jennings con- gratulating her on Madelaine's command of meiro,
"When I told Madelaine," just sald Mrs Jennings, "she
sked, "What's metre, Mummy*?”
A DREAMER,
SAYS
HER MOTHER
put the macabro thought out of her mind, but Madelaine wrote no more tinkling nature plocce
Natural gift
Her father said: “Everyone agreed that Madelaine's poems were very good. You would have thought they were written by a girl twice her ago. But she studied other poets' never works."
Madelaine's headmistress, Miss F. I. Smith, of Sedly School, Nottingham, said: "She was good scholar and had a marvel- jous natural gift for poetry.
a
"I have an exercise book of her poems which she gave to me. I will treasure it all my life."
So Medelaine is dead. The Nottingham coroner sald that she died from "an acule
and rather race throat infection."
But no one could explain.
Ferhaps Modelabre did not know what poetio metre was, Cicero who test wrote thus-the-buk ho pould still cole Madelaine's-premonition. island was the place where you refreshing stanzas Jike those is "law" the "supf wt-lemb-once-a-dayahçe posmamala
every day of the Year.
Bielllans Just know how to STOW thing," said Nicolosi, "especially blood oranges," He sold Sicilluns have been Irrigating their orango groves from the time of the Romans more than 2,000 years ago.
"On Mount Etna alone thero are more than 200 electric and steam pumps trickling water coniinually to the orange trees hist up on the volesno," hi said, "ond with this waler plus
Under the aca are mossy beda, where sea flowers show their pretty heads, And moving crcatures in the
HE OUTDID
water gicam, like, glou THE SCOT
worms do in the grass by
the stream.
The fishes are swimming gally
Dlong, and above meallow alng their lovely ara song, The mightly traves battle over- head, and joy is life on the sen bed.
Madelaine wrote that when
Sea Captain's
Cellar
Rides On Water
Amsterdam.
FLOATING basements, nine-foot tall women, 500-pound men! Sounds like the product of
a science-fiction writer's imagination, but they are all facts out of history stored in a museum in the tiny village of Edam, only 14 miles from Amsterdam.
and
Edam is typical of Extropo's | bridges span the canals, many touristic treasures-quaint, there's a wonderful, quiet little out-of-the-way places walting market phwe. All these attrac- to be discovered by the enter- tions have remained unchanged prising traveller.
by Lime for the past 200 years. It's as it a dairy queen had touched the town with her wand and said, "Stay as you are until I call you again."
CHEESE BALLS
Today Edam is renowned for its weeld-Campus, cheese Listo! red cannon balls that cami a Livelihorsk for most of the town's 13,050 Inhabitants. But the tiny cornmunity's greatest Lourist roagnet is a mustum, originally the 16th Century home of a rich retired ship's captain who must have retained a nostalgic. His chief excentricity is expressed in the celter of his bouSD, which is unique because it floats on water and has portholes in the walls.
The house has also had some weird inhabitants during the last
BUT LOST longing for the sexu
THE FIGHT
N
Edinburgh.
But something made her think A Englishman failed to four centuries. You can see theat
the local soil is no wonder we (sho was nine, have beautiful rich blood-red crangos, "U.P.I.
in the picture gallery on the foor. There' was Dukc
outwit a Scot and lost main
of death Her parents tried to the battle of Tweed-River Pleterezoon, deomed well worthy
CHINCHILLA RABBIT
RACKET ATTACKED
London.
CONSERVATIVE Member of Parliament T. L. Iremonger charged that a “chinchilla rabbit racket" was operating in Britain.
last week.
INTRODUCES
NEW PLANE
WITH A CHA CHAL
London. (CANDINAVIAN Airlines offered a new wrinkle
| a pieturo, for he was the proud owner of a board which
hia the reached down" to
toes. Back in Juno 1957,
Hillmeir, climbed back up
and Inguin, Englishman, J. A tried to outdo. his Scottish finally came to rest his in sales promotion—a cha nelghbour I. M. Campbell, ahoulders. across the River Tweed, altering part
on
by
Then there
the W3B
cha candidate for the hit fat parade to Introduce their of the river bed landlord of Gentleman's in new twin-jet French Cara- to attract the salmon to his This character, necording to the side of the bank,
inscription on the painting, yelle transport which gors The fealous animon-Ashers weighod over 300 pounds at the Into service soon. took the camo to court,
age of 42, lind felt just fine that i The song was performed for Lord Walker, judgo of
NINE-FOOT TALL
the way.
Eglishman had. adversely
Edinburgh Court, ruled that the affected the Scot's nahing by removing gravel from the river best. He asked the Parliamentary "The advertisers do not un Billmeir, the judge said, in- Secretary of the Board of Trade dertake to buy back the rub fringed the Scot's interest in in the House of Commons to bits and there is really no maintaining the normal courso take steps to boat the racket guarantee of anything except of the River Tweed which con- order to protect the bona-fide that the rabbits breed, he said. tinues to divide England from chinchilla breeder. He admitted "Felta by a small back room Scolland-UP.I.. that only 500 pelta were sold breeder really are of a doubt- In Britain last year,
ful value when they am" put! The racket is thin," he cx-over on the market. plained.
'MISLEADING'
He demanded an Investigation of the "racket."
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it has on was a tecznged girl by agreement on snaring of jot
name of Telin Kevor. planes.
SALES PARTY From the dimensions of the
The cha cha is about a plánu house, the must have gone about her daily chores doubled, o ride and for the purposes of evon, trebled up, for Trijn, at the terkice age of 17, mosaured just the sales, party, the tyre was under pino foot tall in her lightly adapted to rond: stocicing feet. Next to her paint. kung lai cariat det her' shots," "worses šiznes misleiyen for a butter casic, put, there to convince sat un believing posterity.
Agnet froyo the museum, Edem
"Volol Is Caravelle, "he is our latest Belle, "Yon on't nŭard to miss "Khia" lovely' despolnolle,
“Bkeli make a hit All right "And
you will start to
Sas aunounced at the party
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of Trade, (John Je cago department storé cherchy and glitter throughout. It vestor who buys a pair of Rodgers, mid that the best way smiled telgly ne they waldhed looks like, Hollywood set for a that it would begin jet opera beading chinchilla rabbits for of publicising what was going a woven-year-old bom dosedly 1h Century movies or cule it's dion from Edrape to the mid- R300 will #gon resp a large | on was through the lofluence of manosu Ba tricycle down zeh. Twee | atrogabled bosmos: wort in three monķim, and My public opinion rather than three digtste of amonlar mera Impalasiksweinele cuchi, joizme | vypluld have the most complete 1 porast the advertisement] [hrough a govemment Inquiry, and out the main floor skicates bases FERITON KODiáriona short, and magnum--`zaigu (jei
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purchases Ameriend antiques, particularly the most expensive pieces, have doubled
the business of one of London's biggest nuction houses in the. past year and caused it to be- in this year's sales week carly.
Startled
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Sotheby's, one of two huge Duction houses in the city, began No auction on January .D. Previous sales at the 115-year- old firm have shocked the man in the street who was startled recently when a 31-inch high porcelain pollcan sold
for
£2,300.
Sotheby's sales have shocked more than just the British man in the street. Last October seven
paintings impressionist aukt for £781,000.
In December A traco of Louis XVI mahogany commodes cold for £0,100.
The 1050 sales at Sotheby's are beginning week early because of the big increase in the number of works of art, kooka and other valuable roperty of all kinds sent to Sotheby's for the sale,
Spread Out
For decades London's auction houses passed unnoticed as the trend of antique-buying began to warm up. The auction house boasts that nothing" it auctions is less than 100 years old.
A spokesman at the auction house cald It took 115 years to achieve this identity. So many buyers attend the auctions today that they are spread around the building in rooms equipped with loudspeakers-UPI.
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