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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 TO-MORROW

ROBERT BURNS

HE origin of this the bag is thin, you may put it

Tappetising concoction

锌

in a cloth."

Evidently she did not follow

lers on his brow. When the cook

keep.'

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

ONCE

that lucky

dish honoured by

two festivals porThe last bulletin: "Death came peacefully...." 'annum,' the pre-

sent one and St. TWO years

Andrew's Day. The poot has im- mortalised this national dish for all time in his oda to the "great chieftain o' the pudden race

but F. Marian

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 M'Neil, in hor 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 tribute in which she points out how well the homely ingredi- ents of the hag- gia quit "tho national gift of making the most of small means."

It is certainly extraordinary that out of the queer and often repulsivo mater- ials anyone could evolve such a dish that can

both attract the gourmet. and satisfy the gour-

mand.

•

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 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."

is meeting with mixed success in its efforts to deal with politi 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 head,, 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- nominally to commit it to the ence of this re- work of Bettling 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- mises well." peace-making activities may be

The haggis has many near re- The English housewife of that gathered from the fact that, incorrect, since these words puts it into the pot she says, 'I

another dings.

Even the method of terms, according to since its establishment in 1921, are not old enough: More gie this to such a one-to atives among English meal pud- period was indeed on quite good cooking was evidently glosely seventeenth-century writer, with it has successfully handled some probably the name comes No particular animal seems followed as is proved by a re- 'the Haggas or Haggus, 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 whose goodnesse it is in vain making of haggis, for Mrs. 1663 in the writer's possession. to boast, because there is hardly little countries, some of them 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 involving countries outside the

tion, borne out by the lamb's haggies" in which the auet or marrow seasoned with affect them." Yet in little over League-of-Nations.

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 scissars-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 the ingredients were bound to if the aristocratic chef handed Humphrey Clinker declare, "I 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 relish their singed sheep's-head Mr. Hammarskjold, the Swedish maker take his ingredients batter.

and haggice." judge, who for many years be- and "hacke all togeder with Meg Dods' Recipe fore his appointment was Re-gode persole."

gistrar of the Court. The A8-

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

wife.

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

In 1747 Mrs. Glasse, in "The scraped and washed very clean; Making Fun of It

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

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 "hagws" contained the for her recipe. Meg Dods took what civilises the performance) fact that in November 1923, 1,- words, "than kakke hem smpl." & 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- mutton for her haggis royal. into the sheep's guts, and so drow's banquet. This special con- note the various spellings one The annals of the Cleikum Club boil it, when it is bolled enough signment received an amount finds: haggas, haggus, haggice, also record the suggestion of serve it to the Table in the Gut." of publicity owing to the fact haggels, and baggies.

THE MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED

It is the practice for nomine tions to be made by national

that as it crossed the Border a groups in the various countries.

plece of haggis was thrown into They can suggest candidates of!

In 1778, Mrs. MacIver; who

the Tweed. A London paper any nationality, provided that instructed the young ladies of

quoted a Perth doctor as having: "Pastry they possess the necessary legal Edinburgh in her

said that this custom dated from the time of Mary Queen of Scota, qualifications. Fourteen names School" in Peebles Wynd, issued

By A WAR-DLINDED MAN ;

who, having tasted some haggis appear on the present list of a very popular cookery book. candidates, many of them so Her recipe for "a good Scots THE miracle has happened. The As for me, I will take the risk."

curtain has lifted. For the Arst So, instead of coming out of hos-on her voyage home to Scotland, eminent that it is apparent that haggeis" made of liver and bee time in 20 years I have seen a humani pital, as I had desperately wanted in disliked it so much that she those moments, I am stopping an jordered it to be thrown into the the League will have no easy contains careful directions for face.

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- task in selecting the best of an

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

It told me gently that it was the perly.

I feel better now-more steadfast, forth Scotsmon bearing this con-

Perhaps thut illustrious company.

sew it quite close. If you think loved me and served me with such more

supreme selflessness since a far-off sounds funny-speaking of the need traband into England followed If one

may speak

spring morning in 1920, when I mar for courage at the prospect of re- the quaint custom of always ceiving back one's sight. Let me try casting a bit of it into the Tweed. ried her. "favourite? In this connection, | taken an active part in the work

This tradition upsets the story 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

thing I saw was a human face. the Finnish jurist, who has is Judge Michel Hansson, a circle, vague and blurred, like a gun imagine him in a front-line french duced haggis into Scotland. In watching a wounded man being any case, it must have beon been nominated by national distinguished compatriot of the seen through winter's mist groups in thirteen countries. late Dr. Nansen, who has been that this was she to whom I owed so

As I gazed on li, telling myself taken away to the casually station,

of

So.

the

..

courageous,

+

1 Imagine a boy. of 20, strong.

The man's face in tinged with known there long before her tricklos from his forehead. It

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

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

frightened.

the merits of many others be-the Argentine atatesman, Senori hawah the yeared by my slow And the boy awakes, in darkness.

am- horrible--and it is the last thing thising with Kennedle," wrote: I was frightened lest

feat all the dream-

The gallowis gaípls eftir thy things, the pictures I had bulit up boy is destined to see for many years. There comes a terrifle roar, as it

graceless gruntill, of darkness might

heaven and earth have collapsed....

As thow wald for ano fore coming to a decision.

Saavedra Lamas, one time Pro strengthening eyes.

be horribly

haggola." Great Britain and the sident of the League Assembly |

You can talk of bitterness. You I was so frightened that I had to can talk of plumbing the depths of

Nowadays English Influence. Dominions favour the claim of) and a winner of the Nobel grip the coverlet of my bed to keep human despair. But you do not

my hands from shaking. Then the understand these things I do. I tends to make a buffoon of the an Indian jurist, Sir Salyld Peace Prize. M. Undon has doctor replaced die bandage and have known them. They have decent homely Scottish haggis.

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

shapes, and smells, and

Then I met Mary. She gave me Why, it is difficult to understand. the Indian Round Table Conferat Genova, and has acted on

sight, a sort of cool, Inward sight for, as H. V. Morton says, "I ence will be remembered. The various occasions as arbitrator Mary guessed my thoughts, of that made me happy. She gave the have never seen any food which

course. 51

She always does.-- "Don't be courage,. I began to live again. looks less humorous." It would frightened," she said: 'and I poured. French group, curiously enough, between disputing States. Any out all my fears to her.

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 I, she au- this "calfette de mouton,” was, pictured her in my blindness. I daciously proposed that I should to our friends of the Auld Germany.

Supholdora of International law wanted our two children to be al marry her when the was 21. Alliance, "le pain benit d'Ecos-

Selfish an I was, I libbed at that It is Interesting to note how on the bench of the World ways as I had imagined them.

She saidYou won't be disapproposal. She had all her ille in

Marlo W. Stuart pointed in the children, I promlis. (Continued on Page 21). many of the candidates have Court.

blackness,