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ELECTING WORLD COURT JUDGE

While the League of Nationis

Article In Honour of 2 YEARS AGO

HAGGIS TO-MORROW

of

ROBERT BURNS

Tappetising, concoction

keep."

O

NCE moro with the birthday of Ro- bort Burns tho fasst of the bag- gis comos round

that lucky

dish honoured by

two festivals per || The last bulletin: "Death camo peacefully..

annum, the pro-

Kont one and St.WO Andrew's Day.

years ago to-morrow the

British Empire was plunged into

The poot has im- mourning. mortalized this national dish for || all time in his ode to the "groat chloftain o' the pudden race

The death of King George V. at Sandringham was to his people more than the passing of a ruler: it meant to every home the loss of a friend beloved for many years.

but F. Marian *January 20, 1936, was a day of M'Neil, in her anxious waiting. Historians will write delightful cook-the diary of that day. It will read: ery book, has MORNING-The Lord President of added an equally fine tributo in

the Council, the Lord Chancellor, and which she points

the Home Secretary arrived at San- out how well tho dringham. homely ingredi- ants of the hag- gis suit "the national gift of making the most of small moans.'

A meeting of the Privy Council was held in the King's dressing room, while His Majesty looked on through an open door. The King's strength was just sufficient to allow him to sign the document appointing Counsellors of State. extraordinaryNOON. The Prince of Wales and the

It is certainly

that out of the queer and often repulsive mator- ials anyone could ovolvo such

J

dish that can both attract the gourmot and satisfy the gour. mand,

wife.

Duke of York flew from London to Sandringham,

5.30 P.M. A bulletin was issued: The condition of His Majesty the King shows diminishing strength."

9.25 P.M.-The historic bulletin which prepared the nation for the end: "The King's life is moving peacefully towards its close." MIDNIGHT—The

last bulletin: "Death came peacefully to the King at 11.50 p.m. to-night in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Princess Royal, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent."

this the bag is thin, you may put it is meeting with mixed success

in a cloth," In its efforts to deal with politi-

Evidently she did not follow cal disputes between nations,

is apparently very the quaint old custom whereby the Permanent Court of Inter- ancient, so much so, in fact, a housewife of Roxburghshire minced sheep's would insure her haggis from he a ́d, adding national Justice at the Hague is that the suggested deriva- bursting in the boiling. "The cautiously, "We quietly continuing its important tion of its name from the only effectual antidote known is have no experi- work of settling legal quarrels. English "hash"

nominally to commit it to the ence of this re- or the keeping of some male who is ceipt, but it pro- The value of the World Court's French "hachis" is declared generally supposed to bear ant- mises well." peace-making. activities may be

lers on his brow. When the cook gathered from the fact that, incorrect, since these words puts it into the pot she says. Intives among English meal pud- period was indeed on quite good The haggis has many near re- The English housewife of that since its establishment in 1921, are not

a one-to old enough. More gie this to such

dings. Even the method of terms, according to another it has successfuly handled some probably the name comes No particular animal seems followed as is proven by a re- 'the Haggas or Huggus, of cooking was evidently alosely seventeenth-century writer, with sixty cases between big and from the old verb "to hag to have been consecrated to the cipe in an old cookery book of whose goodnesse it is in vain little countries, some of them

making of haggis, for Mrs. 1663 in the writer's possession. to boast, because there is hardly involving countries outside the tion borne out by

or cut in pieces, a supposi- MacIver has a recipe for "a Calf's chaldron minced with beef to be found a man that doth not the lamb's haggies" in which the suct or marrow seasoned with affect them." Yet in little over {League_of_Nations.

directions in mediaeval re- fat tripes and the rodikin with a salt, nutmeg, cloves, and mate apparently become a Scottish cook-has-to-"slit-up-all-the-little-onion, parsley, thyme, lemon, a century-this-tasty-dish-had- A vacancy has now occurred cipes. One cookery book, pair of scissors-and shred the were all bound together with gastronomical shibboleth, so to on the bench of the World the "Liber Cocorum," dated web very small." In this case eggs and cream. Then it is as speak, for Smollett made his Court, owing to the death of 1420, bade the "hagese" gether with a kind of pancake it over to the peasant house- am not yet Scotchman enough to the ingredients were bound to If the aristocratic chef handed Humphrey Clinker declare, "I Mr. Hammarskjold, the Swedish maker take his ingredients batter. Judge, who for many years be-and "hacke all tugeder with Meg Dods' Recipe

relish their singed sheep's-head fore his appointment was Re-gode persole."

"Have ready," the recipe runs, and haggice." "the great guts of Mutton Making. Fun of-It gistrar of the Court. The As-

In 1747 Mrs. Glasse, in "The scraped and washed very clean;

League, holding simultaneous

Easy," had used "the lights, wine and salt for half a day be a large export trade, the amount Another fifteenth-century re- heart, and chitterlings of a calf" fore you use it." (This some of which can be gauged by the sessions, will accordingly have cipe for "hagws" contained the for her recipe. Meg Dods took what civilises the performance.) fact that in November 1923, 1,- to elect his successor.

words, "than kakke hem smal." a sheep's pluck and paunch for "When your meat is mixed and 000 lbs of haggis wore sent to the It is the practice for nomina-note the various spellings one mannals of the Cleikum Club boil it, when it is boiled enough signment received an amount Incidentally it is interesting to her prize haggis, and a leg of made up somewhat stiff, put it Savoy, in London, for the St. An- mutton for her haggis royal. into the sheep's guts, and so drew's banquet. This special con- tions to be made by national finds: haggas, haggus, haggice, also record the suggestion of serve it to the Table in the Gut." of publicity owing to the fact groups in the various countries. haggeis, and haggies,

that as it crossed the Border a They can suggest candidates of

In 1773, Mrs. MacIver, who

piece of haggle was thrown into any nationality, provided that instructed the young ladies of

the Tweed. A London paper they possess the necessary legal Edinburgh in her "Pastry

quoted a Perth doctor as having qualifications. Fourteen names School" in Peebles Wynd, issued

said that this custom dated from the time of Mary Queen of Scots,. appear on the, present list of a very popular cookery, book.

By A WAR-BLINDED MAN

who, having tasted some haggis candidates, many of them so Her recipe for "a good Scots THE miracle has happened. The As for me, I will take the risk."

on her voyage home to Scotland, eminent that it is apparent that baggeis" made of liver and bec time in 20 years I have seen a human pital, as I had desperately wanted indieliked it so much that she

curtain has lifted. For the first So, instead of coming out of hos-. the League will have no easy contains careful directions for face.

those moments, I am stopping on ordered it to be thrown into the task in selecting the best of an filling the bag. "Be sure to I know it was a face. It told me for several weeks until I can see pro-scu, and forbade any of it to be

put out all the wind before you face of Mary, the woman who has

sent out of Scotland. Hence so. It told me gently that it was the perly. illustrious company.

feel better now-more steadfast forth Scotsmen bearing this con- new it quite close. If you think loved me and served me with such more courageous, Perhaps that If one may speak of a

supreme selflessness since a far-off sounds funny-speaking of the need traband into England followed spring morning in 1820 when I mar- for courage at the prospect of re- the quaint custom of always "favourite" in this connection,taken an active part in the work

ried her.

ceiving back one's sight. Let me try casting a bit of it into the Tweed. But I would not have known that to explain. he would appear to be M. Erich, of the League of Nations. There To me It was but a pale, yellow healthy, loving life and hating war. that Mary Queen of Scots intro- This tradition upsets the story the thing I saw was a human face. I Imagine a boy of 20, strong, the Finnish jurist, who has is Judge Michael Hansson, a circle, vague and blurred, like a sun Imagine him in a front-line trench duced haggis into Scotland. In been nominated by national distinguished compatriot of the seen through winter's mist.

watching a wounded man being)

any case; it must have been groups in

thirteen countries. late Dr. Nansen, who has.bech that this was she to whom i owed so

As I gated on it, telling, myself taken away to the casually station. But the Lengue Council and running the Nansen Refugee frightened,

man's face is tinged with known there long before her much, I became suddenly weak and green, and a thin thread of blood time, since Dunbar, in his "Fly- the merits of many others be-the Argentine statesman, Senor through the years of darkness might

I was frightened lest all the dream-horrible--and it is the last thing this ing with Kennedle," wrote:

"The gallowis gaipis eftir thy fore coming to a decision.

graceless gruntill,

sembly and the Council of the "Put Out the Wind"! Art of Cookery Made Plain and let your Gut have laine in, white- This monopoly has resulted in

THE MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED

The

trickles from his forehead. It is

Assembly will have to weigh up Office for the League. There 18 | things, the pictures I had built up boy is destined to see for many years,

and

and

AB thow wald for ano

hnggols."

Nowadays English influence

There comes a terrific roar, na it Saavedra Lamas, one time Pre-be horribly shattered by my slowly heaven and earth have collapsed,... Great Britain and the sident of the League Assembly

strengthening eyes.

And the boy awakes, in darkness. I was so frightened that I had to

You can talk of bitterness. You Dominions favour the claim of and a winner of the Nobel grip the coverlet of my bed to keto can talk of plumbing the depths of human despair. But you, do not an Indian Jurist, Sir Salyld Peace Prize. M. Unden has doctor replaced the bandage

my hands from shaking. Then the understand these things. I do. I tends to make a buffoon of the Sultan Ahmed, whose work at many times represented Sweden world of shapes, and smells,

whisked me back to my old familiar encompassed me for years.

have known them. They have decent homoly Scottish haggis the Indian Round Table Confer- at Geneva, and has acted on Blackness.

Then I met Mary. She gave me Why, it is difficult to understand, ence will be remembered. The various occasions an arbitrator course. She always does,Don't be courage. I began to live again.

Mary, guessed my thoughts, of that made me happy. She gave me have never seen any food which sight, a sort of cool, Inward sight for, na H. V. Morton anys, "I French group, curiously enough, between disputing States. Any frightened," she said; and I poured

looks lean humorous.” It would la supporting Dr. Bruns, of of these men would be worthy wanted her to be as blindness,

out all my fears to Tor.

be more filting to remember that Germany

upholders of international law wanted our two children to be ni It is interesting to note how on the bench of the World ways, as I had imagined them.,

She said:"You won't be disap- many of the candidates have| Court.

pointed in the children, I promise.

I I had always

dacteusly proposed that I should to our friends of the Auld "A" year younger than 1, she au-į this "calietta do mouton,” was, marry her when she was 31 Aliance, lo pain benitia Ecor-

Boldal: or. I. was, 1 jibbed at that proposal. She had all her life in ec

(Continued on Page 2).

Maria W Btuart