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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1938,

ELECTING WORLD COURT JUDGE

While the League of Nations į

Article In Honour of 2 YEARS AGO

HAGGIS

HE

ROBERT BURNS

this the bag is thin, you may put it

is meeting with mixed success: Tapp toisin of this the bag is th

in its efforts to deal with politi cal disputes between nations,

Evidently she did not follow

is apparently very the quaint old custom whereby

NCE moro,

with the

birthday of Ro- bert Burns the feast of the bag, gis comes round - that lucky dish honoured by two festivals per annum, the pro- sent ong and St.

Andrew's Day.. The poet has im- mortalised this national dish for all time in his ode to the "great chloftain o tho, pudden race but F. Marian M'Neil, in her delightful cook cry book, has added an equally fine tributo in which sho points out how well the homely Ingredi. ents of the hag- gi suit "the national gift of making the most of small means."

It is certainly oxtraordinary

that out of the queer and often repulsivo -mater-.. Jals anyone could ovolvo such a dish that can both attract the gourmet and satisfy the gour. mand.

sheep's

a housewife of Roxburghshire minced would insure her haggls from he a d, adding.

the Permanent Court of Inter- ancient, so much so, in fact, 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 nominally to commit it to the ence of this re. only effectual antidote known is have no experi work af settling legal, quarrels. English "hash" 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- mines well." peace-making activities may be

gathered from the fact that, incorrect, since these since its establishment in 1921, are not old enough.

League-of-Nations,

lers on his brow. When the cook

.

TO-MORROW

The last bulletin: "Death came peacefully........

Wo years ago

to-morrow the British Empire was plunged into mourning.

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.

January 20, 1936, was a day of anxious waiting. Historians will write the diary of that day. It will read: MORNING-The Lord President of the Council, the Lord Chancellor, and the Home Secretary arrived at San- dringham...

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.

NOON. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York flew from London to Sandringham.

.

5.30 P.M.A bulletin was issued: "The çondition 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 plni. to-night in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen, the Prince Princess Royal, and the Duke and of Wales, the Duke of York, the

Duchess of Kent."

words puts it into the pot she says. I

The haggis has many near re- The English housewife of that latives among English meal pud- period was indeed on quite good one-to

another More gie this to such a

dings. Even the method of terms, according to keep.'' it has successfully handled some probably the name comes

cooking was evidently closely seventeenth-century writer, with No particular animal seems followed as is proved by a re- 'the Haggas or Haggue, of sixty cases between big and from the old verb "to hag" to have been consecrated to the cipe in an old cookery book of whage goodnesse it is in vain little countries, some of them or cut in pieces, a supposi- MacIver has

making of haggis, for Mrs. 1663 in the writer's possession, to boast, because there is hardly a recipe for Calf's chaldron minced with beef to be found a man that doth not involving countries outside the tion borne out by the lamb's haggies" in which the suct or marrow seasoned with affect them.". Yet in little over cook has to "slit up all the little onion, parsley, thyme, lemon, a century this tasty dish-had- directions in mediaeval re- fat tripes and the rodikin with a salt, nutmeg, cloves, and mace apparently become a Scottish A vacancy has now occurred cipes. One cookery book, pair of scissors and shred the were all bound together with gastronomical shibboleth, so to 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 togeder with

relish their singed sheep's-head and haggice." fore his appointment was Re-gode persole." gistrar of the Court. The As

on

League, holding simultaneous sessions, will accordingly have to elect his successor.

tions

wife.

"Have ready," the recipe runs, "the great guts of Mutton

Meg Dods' Recipe

In 1747 Mrs. Glasse, in "The scraped and washed very clean; Making Fun of It 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 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 cipe for "hagwa" contained the for her recipe, Meg Doda took what civilises the performance.) fact that in November 1923, 1,- words, "than kakke hem smal." a sheep's pluck and paunch for "When your meat is mixed and 000 lbs of haggis were sent to the 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- It is the practice for nomina- note the, various spellings one The annals of the Cleikum Club boil it, when it is boiled enough signment received an amount mutton for her haggis royal. into the sheep's guts, and so drew's banquet. This special con- to be made by national finds: haggas, haggua, 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. They can suggest candidates of In 1773, Mrs. MacIver, who any nationality, provided that instructed the young ladies of they possess the necessary legal Edinburgh in her "Pastry qualifications. Fourteen names School" in Peebles Wynd, issued | appear on the present list of a very popular cookery book. candidates, many of them so eminent that it is apparent that the League will have no easy task in selecting the best of an illustrious company.

THE MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED

By A WAR-BLINDED MAN

that as it crossed the Border a piece of huggis was thrown into the Tweed. A London paper quoted a Perth doctor as having said that this custom dated from the time of Mary Queen of Scots, who, having tasted some haggis 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, haggcis" made of liver and beef curtain has lifted. For the first! So, instead of coming out of hos- contains careful directions for face.

time in 20 years I have seen a human pital, an I had desperately wanted in disliked it so much that she those moments, I am stopping on ordered it to be thrown into the put out all the wind before you face of Mary, the woman who has filling the bag. "Be sure to I know it was a face. It told me for several weeks until I can see pro-sea, and forbade any of it to be

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

I feel better now-more steadfast forth Scotamen bearing this con- sew it quite close. If you think loved me and served me with such more

courageous. Perhaps thut 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 1920 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. he would appear to be M. Erich, of the League of Nations. There the thing I saw was a human face.

But I would not have known that to explain.

This tradition upsets the story 1 Imagine a boy of 20, strong. the Finnish jurist, who hass Judge Michael Hansson, a circle, vague and blurred, like a sun Imagine him in o front-line trench duced haggia into Scotland. In To me It was but a pale, yellow healthy, loving life and hating war. that Mary Queen of Scota intro- 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 been that this was she to whom I owed so

As I gazed on it, telling myself taken away to the casualty station.

The man's face is tinged with known there long before her frightened,

trickles from his forehead. It is ing with Kennedle," wrote:-- was frightened lost all the dream-horrible and it is the last thing this the merits of many others be-the. Argentine statesman, Sonorings, the pictures I had built up boy is destined to see for many years,

through the years of darkness

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

strengthening eyes.

And the boy awakes, In darkness.

You can talk of bitterness. You Dominions favour the claim of and a winner of the Nobel grip the coverlet of my bed to keep can talk of plumbing the depths of

Nowadays English Influence human an Indian jurist, Sir Saiyid Peace Prize,

my hands from shaking. Then the understand these things, I do. I tends to make a buffoon of the

despair. But you do notj M. Unden has doctor replaced the bandage

world of shapes, and smells, blackness.

But the League Council and running the Nansen Refugee/much, I becamp suddenly weak and groon, and a thin thread of blood time, since Dunbar, in his "Fly-

Assembly will have to weigh up ofco for the League. There is

fore coming to a decision.

might

I was so frightened that I had to

"The gallowis galpis eftir thy

graceless gruntill,

As

thow wald for але haggcis."

Sultan Ahmed, whose work at many times represented Sweden whisked me back to my old familiar encompassed me for years.

them. They have decent homely Scottish haggis.

and havo known

and

sight,

the Indian Round Table Confer- at Geneva, and has acted on

Then I met Mary. She gave me Why, it is difficult to understand, ence will be remembered. The various occasions as 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 a sort of cool, inward night for, as II. V. Morton, says, "I Franch group, curiously enough, between disputing States. Any

frightened," she said; and I poured

looks less humorous." It would but all

be more fitting to remember that is supporting Dr. Bruns, of of these men would be worthy I wanted her to be as I had always. A year younger than 1, she au- this "caliette de mouton," was, Germany.

upholders of international law pictured her in my blindness. I deciously proposed that I should to our friends of the Auld

wanted our two children to be, al- marry her when she was 21, d ways as I had imagined them.

It is interesting to note how on the bench of the World many of the candidates have| Court,

my fears to her.

Beifah as I was, I jibbed at that Alliance, "le pain benit d'Ecos She said: "You won't be disap-proposal. She had all her life in 60." pointed-in-the-children, I promtie

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Marle W. Stuart

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