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ODD LOTS
HOPE SPRINGS
or
ROME: Berardo Lizandri, a pensant of Teramo, in Abruzzo, was presented with a zon this week. Next week he will cele- brate-belleve It no-hu. 100th birthday. His wife, Lacin, 18 42
nt years of age. Berardo, iri 24 years of marriage, has had no other children, but he said after the happy event: "I knew I would have an heir sooner later"
PERFORMING DOG
bom
Of
CALCUTTA: Four months ago Mrs Marie Russian Sandaros, an animal trainer, D found a mongrel dog with
home broken leg outside her here. The dog's leg healed and circus larled to teach it tricks, and was astonished one day to hear the dog say "Mama". also blew several rapid
trumpet on - toy walked-on-his-forefoot with hin hind legs in the air. Pluto's next task, according to Mrs Sandares, is to say "Papa" and after that "a simple sentence such no 'I love Mama and Papa'.
Pluto
blasto
anxi
THE EASY WAY
GENEVA: A Geneva green- grocer is feeling on top of the world. I bought 11. dd. tickets in a lottery and went on
A
re-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1950.
"So far, all your quiet-little-caravan-holiday-away-from-it-all hasn't got is Yaks and North Koreans."
London Express Berrict
AN AMAZING LOST CITY
ARISING FROM THE DEAD
rooms In
Вужн L.W.
Phelps-Orion
neum stands A shop where an assistant had been hard at work cracking walnuts on that fatni, Bnat afternoon. The half-cracked nuls lle in ond bowl, some splintered shells are on the floor, the kemels in another bowl, charred to carbon.
together, while an assistant So far, the research workers counter.
were
Soun visitors may
World Excited
PASS THE GRASS, PLEASE!
0
By RONALD
GARTH
than VER the surface of times more vitamin B3
14 times equivalent tomatoes. the earth every
more vitamin C and 140 times spring sprouta more vitamin A, plus invigorat 2,000,000,000 tons of e
and ing chlorophyll
valuable alls. Carolene, the which 000,000 sheep and cattle counteracts night blindness and thrive o n pastureland: failing eyesight, is yielded by civilisations have been crass in three times the quantity founded on grass and available from carrots. ultimately overlaid by its Probing grass possibilities, rich, weedy growth.
vital foodstuff. Over 1,800,- mineral A substance
Vitamin
thenpeutists
have discovered not only 1 sugar harm- to diabetics but aleo research laboratories, the factor which has overcame world's foremost nutrition parentage probleme in rots and experts are studying the rabbits.
Today, in the quiet of less
a "green gross anti-sterility
inner food values of grass, Yet perhaps the trend of chasing perspectives thut current grass research is best In tho painstaking opening illustrated may yet cans of fresh grass for experiments of poultry experi
David Tullia breakfast.
see us
London
Ideal Food
J. R. D. Branson, Grass-caling enthusiast, has ex- pounded a 75 per cent grass diet. Branson recommenda Ane golf course tipa garnished with rose leaves, tomatoes stuffed with rara contains lawn cuttings and hamburgers cooked with dried genes.
with
Lucerne Soup –
He was nware that young
horinones and
Tullia He
op
the balance of
proteins, which make it an ideal food for her except for one snug the simple fact that Housewives regard him as they cannot digest it. faddist, yet scientists agree that set out to overcome the
an obvious fed a flock on powdered grass Hass may prove
then tried to the
panacea for the world's pressing without result, and -N the Bunny summer turned
food problems.
all the indigestible removing of A.D: 79 the pleasant which they belong.
British Government chemists abre, but still in vain, holiday. On his return, he
The rolling turgid lava Halian seaport city of
Investigated the good possibill- Geese can digest grass-why fourt that he had won a four-
ties of fresh young grass during buried preserved and mummified WAS kenter aloon, an
washing Herculaneum electric
city in the
the war, and at the height of the not hens? After patient experi machine and
large-size re-beneath the molten lava of an ancient
shadow ment, Tullis isolated the diges U-boat menace set up destruction. of to collect his frigerator.
have juices which reese Going
Vesuvius, and vanished for moment
At the last moment
factory for potential production, tive with inexhaustiblo prizes he was handed a
for his Desert troops in Libya munched but hens lack, and succeeded i gisterest letter by the postman, nearly two thousand years Now,
inder tints as realistle and fresh as if customer, sent running Its skill and patience, the ex- ting fragments of
never manufacturing them synthell- change on the sustaining candy bars, life, left his delineated yesterday. His wife had inherited £4,000 from the light of day.
At least the change suspecting they were eating ex- cally, On being fed grass pellets very name was forgotten, envators are winning back from an aunt. He is now look-
mixed with these juices, oil and carbohydrates, bens town of the whole brilliant picture. gently covered the com- have excavated barely a square was found there almost stamped perimental grass nougat
put ing for a lottery with a villa as
And the new
The forum, into the stone by the weight of first prize.
weight and laid better, root
the on Resim took
In some houses eggs re- pleted wire-bound blocks in mile of the town.
temples, lava, 1 remains lying on the unbroken in the sheets of glass. With in- path, main libraries, WOMEN IN BOSNIA solid soil 130 feet above the main
The only remaining dunculty Children's hidden
unsuspected larders.
toys finite pains and integrity, chief villas and other Important counter to this day. and
buildings have still to be dis-
was that they grew tremendous- have been repaired and left they
reconstructing covered. They lie there, locked BELGRADE: Moslem women
looked as 13 Sausages can be made from ly long legs and that in the lava darkness, as you of Bosnia are discarding the veil, streets of the old.
THE fresh liveliness of the ass protein. At the Rothom they were scratching with slits.
sled soil science station British Tullis adjusted their centuries old symbol of
Today Resina in turn has where they were found in a fallen stairway Bo
reach read these words. nurseries and gardens.
The Awiftness of the fate that Herculaneum excavations has male superiorily. Meetings are
If you want to take IL the upper floors of a house
overlook Herculaneum, due to exciled world archaeology. Dr researchists have experimented the ingredients and tried again.
♫ dehydrated pen- going on throughout this pre-been sentenced to destruc-
Jucerne Ernes for Moslem dominantly
As a result, republiction to make way for the trip back to the world the by the self-same steps used its position nearer the mountain Amedeo Maluri, the distingu Bavoured
poultry farmers betler-known Pompeil, ed savant in charge of this 115 soups. Romans knew, all you need by its vanished occupants. thens the archaeologists thank saw salvage, set as his task the total protein needs, it is asserted. neliet grass. Full-grown gris- Two percent of Britain's today are feeding their birds on it spectacle of supporting demands for the veil absorbing to be prohibited by law. Moslem
do is to take a 55 tram from Building a reasonable ro-
weigh an average men of shine areas are support-city of the ancient
a under ing the campaign for a new law, emerging intnet after 1,871 Naples. The cobbled dusty plica of the original stair- ful today. Ponpeil was buried completest possible presentation could be supplied in this way. ecra
thore raised comparatively light of everything brought to light,
The news is not surprising, pound more than but there are others who oppose years of oblivion.
Resina case would be easier and coating of ashes and tell an easy and has succeeded brilliantly.
oats, rice and an other foods. Egg yields are with me down n Wheat, barley, hus prey to the picks and predation? But come it, telling the women that to
all belong among the up. Good grass-fed birds have Inch by inch, yard by comes to an end abruptly; quicker, but nothing drop the vell in heresy and n
treasure shaft from Resina itself into the maize Hercu- of eighteenth century to
theatre, 4,500 varieties of the great grass Jaldi 245 eggs a year, an increas0 humters. Herculaneum-interred
ancient the underground mark of immorality.
yard, streets, villas, shops, beyond a slender fence the been added
Sugar-canes, sorghum of about 45, and inferior layers temples, baths, courts and ground is cut away in three lancum, except where a gar- in rock-hard lava-escaped this with its stage and tiers of seats family.
has been lovingly danger.
buried section that still re- and bamboos are mere varia- have produced 180 eggs instead
wall tions in grass nutrition. Freeh of about 100. gardens are being uncover sharp terraces, and below den
liberated Hercu- replanted or an unseen In the year 1719 a
farmer mains unexplored. On a ed and restored to their you lies
of current waterpipe laid to enable a accidentally sanie a wellshaft from which the lava has been wild gross-Nature's waste pro-
there is ducts the focus
Part of the easing of Britain's original condition. Calcined laneum.
Impres-experiments.
present day egg supply is due to Twisted Column
pelict grass. Small formers and fragments of glass
again. Pots and pans re- the
sion, the faintest outline of a local folk promptly human
In a prisoner-of-war camp that the pelleta shpble them to being fitted together with
being. Someone a care- in the kitchens; which
of all the plundered re- IN the foreground work-
morble
an actor, taker,
a stage-hand-the men fell ill with beri beri keep 200 birus instead of 25. painstaking care and
men with wicker baskets knives and spoons are laid and
reach, statuary within
trapped here. and
diet, duo scurvy the placed in
carbonised
shalts and tunnels they have been on the dining tables or ar- but the
of this cerie dlficiency of vitamin B. With no made The strangeness wood of
original re still removing the soil. the
twisted column, ranged in Here
is on drugs on land, the camp doctors the cupboards, of the curious happily
httle headway against the rigid underground souvenir window-frames. Tiles are
par with the strangeness of the prescribed young grass clippings there an angled roof spar The result is dramatic.
surrounding subsoil. being restored to house.
from the
One may walk through the houses and gardens of Hercu- from the camp verges, and the main street of Pompeil and see laneum in the sunshine-beau- prisoners recovered, Beyond tops. Walls overthrown by projects
blackish rubble.
Analysts little but roodess quadrangles of tiful, impressive, yet silent and the lava flood are being re-
them the resurrected
brick and stucco. In Hercula- despiulc, thousands of built from
Roman villas and the rows fragments.
of narrow-fronted shops all, bask under the blue Italian
Pre-
- Would you like me to terap
up pour Russian crab in a
peace petition form 7
world
are
main
Most striking of pieces of furniture have sky. been retrieved from
street
2
of
solid I watched one studious
Roman fountain to play straight into the auditorium of carefully removed
ancient buried theatre, discoloration, a vague
main
No Reticence
LIKE Hollywood, the past
has no reticence. In the bedroom of a villa a little pot of powder stands open un the dressing table,
lava blocks, cleaned and re- research worker quietly fit the powder now no
THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN
more
than baked clay, though the hairbrush, comb and mirror arc unmistakably feminine. A set of eye- brow tweezers, some lip- sticks und hairslitics lie
the water is 1,500 feet deep in confusion, as if hurried-
got back home.
One more success he must do more to locate ly abandoned. In this villa
N astonishing case of for the
ΑΝ
in
surgery plastic which 17 bones of a girl's
re-
deliberately face were
then und severed positioned to make her bet- ter looking has just been reported by British geons-seven
years
sur After
they performed the opera tion.
plastic surgeon
confirm
to
that
an
ounce of grass provides eight
I TALK TO MYSELF
ON MY BIRTHDAY
S I've reported in this colun before, I was 6, born September 1899. On the same date
their home-ground than just leg the roof, and some vagrant two years later President
it buck with the incoming de air current that hardened because they
McKinley Was shot, and the crust of lava, preserved there are plenty of fellows the the contents.
return just A3 some surely when dropped, in rock
The mirror
the on Broadway who will tell vrong you they shot the BILJATI,
pool further same const.
down
might have framed
OUT OF HABIT
features of its owner A bare minute before.
BUTCHERS have told Food
Out on the sun-bathing
Al the
by BILLY
ROSE
"That's another
out of I'm and
01.
then
Just and start
lato
not
Fibre-free
On a Cheshire farm, similarly, pigs have been fed on grass protein, giving a yield of 70 lb. of pork per acre. Though grass for feeding in Ia too fibrous quantity to pigs, the difficulty has been overcome by the manufacture
Abre-free 'Grass cheese'.
of
A
A leading gross scientist, Dr R. E. Slade, estimates that the 9,000,000 acres of arable land in Britain, if put down to grass, could produce enough protein- rich grass cheese to feed 40,000,- 000 people. This still leaves in force
the permanent pastures and rough grazing for calle in supply meat and milk.
weeds
Grass can no longer be un- thinkingly trodden underfool. In its sustaining new gulse, it may to thing I've
yet yleid a new foodstuff
sub.. the been meaning to take up with
increase
world's No. Z went you," Head
new standard diets and create "Now that your lungs are 51,
levels of nutrition. think it's time you as it don't you Anyhow, be that
Following the grass traif, What are you going to British Government technicians "And while you're at it, how ends.
You're up to your have taken over two semi-
coaxial cable-see derelict farma Ministry ofcials that, un balcony le a few pieces of car-may, when I wroke up on cut down on your smoking? less the quality and quantity of Lonised wood-the ashes of a Wednesday morning, Sep about doing something about do when
near Stratford- tamlly meat rations are im lounging chair too badly dam tember 6, 1950, my two that waistline? This Hallowe'en car-lobes in
kil is liable to think her overy New Year's Eve?" on-Avon as grassland improve. proved soon, the Britid people aged for restoration.
Eleanor bounced ment centres. Typical of many heads began to argue with some
you're u pumpkin The girl suffered no 1-effects may get out of the meat-eating street corner just below stands a
bedroom, my cutting holes in it."
"Happy neglected marginal acres, water- from the operation, and left the habit altogether.
communal well, with the wind-cach other.
hedges breath," said birthday, Methuselah, the said, courses What's that? You didn't "Bave your
were choked, hospital five weeks Inter.
Few growing children have lass and a mass of charred rope
people in
drainage blocked When her wounds had healed ever bitten into a good steak.still hanging above its open know I had two heads? Of Head No. 1. "I get a lot of "I've invited a few
How do overgrown, and for dinner tonight. smoke
ployed amid the The surgeons, 68-year-old Bir
family mouth. Harold Gliiles and Mr Stewart the improvenient was so strik r fed off a first-class
And giving you want me to fix the birth- and rabbits
Tho brambles. steaks,
candle or one Harrison, withheld the news of Ing that her parents could hard- joint, they warn. And, as with
In a garden is an encrusted course I have. When I was pleasure
born on a kitchen table on them up for you or any other day cake one
scientists sought to discover the same. all other food preferences, unt!] they ly believe she was the
spade, thrown hastily to
for each year?" their achievement
on the actual hend," liking for meat is an acquired side. The spade was intact, but the lower East Side
"One candle," I said. "unless effect of weeds.
· funeral," your
physical properties of grosz. were satisfied that their treat person.
out smoked The girl, who since babyhood laste.
bronze Agurine at the end of years ago, I had only one, sald No. 2. "And incidentally, you alm to pass ment would be permanent. The
LET'S STAY
the garden was broken into
funerals, speaking of
what's glasses to the guests. By the Seeds were inoculated with a girl is now a pleasant-looking, had felt herself to be a freak.
beneficial strain of bacteria to buy 12345 Wis able to begin a
three and dislodged from its but 15 years later, day and
first pay this I read in the papers about way. 21-year-old nurse.
A QUIZ of 1,005 old patients pedestal by the lava, Now, re-date with my
promote growth and sturdiness. television show present?" Before the operation the girls sollsfying life.
your doing a upper jaw was set so far back
this autumn? I thought you were that her lips
through scrounging around for
On The Menu tu Round the corner in the atrium
an additional hot buck." proof the clothmaker's house is a
"Bucks have little to do with loom, held in place above tessellated pavement by
In recent years I've been a. it," said No. 1. TV is an Eleanor. invisible wires. The badly confused
man-my two Interesting medium and I'd like for a long time. almost fragile wood was removed from brains seldom
agree on any the lava bed after the precise thing, and as a result I seldom corner I'm io, angle and height of each plece know whose from the floor had been exactly what team I'm
rooting for, plotted.
which cheering section I belong
normal,
11
one
another.
51
In a Birmingham hospital paired and replaced. It gazer cheque, I began to sprout WHAT BIG EYES almost touched
has shown that about 30 pernenin across the bowers, her crooked nose. Her eyes pro-
leave when the doctors truded in a way that made her THE PUPILS of your eyes fent. of them do not want
gradually get smaller as
nounce them At. look permanently startled. The
Some have no homes to roof of her mouth was so sharp. vou grow old, doctors report,
arched that she could not after measuring up the pupil- to. The rest prefer the comfort, Ty
width of 222 people aged 20 to care, and companionship of the peak properly.
hospital ward,'
**
BO.
Men and
1# women
thetr
The surgeous rated her cake twenties had pupils 1-16th of in
near
they
WHY THEY GROW
FROM the remarkably rapid growth of the baby blue-
The Portrait
the
thin
to.
"Okay it's
to take a crack at it."
did you
~708-2
A
Sideline discoveries
sald deep-freeze,"
include "We've needed one
oats without. husks, new strains And for good
herbal six
grung handkerchiefs of measure
with A teals monogrammed E. H. R.”
"That's my Fight and wishes
I sald, species which "Always doing the
and fresh sporting *TASK
BTOWB
and it feds
wherever. soll. Fung on a tidak
is you'll fall on proper by her old walked out edge, this sparting grows straight
My wife grinned,
and came back and upright, even
when four
above #
the land
"My guesa ns so pilful that they decided an inch wider, when measured
In bright light, than those
your fat face," said No. 2. "This to remodel the whole face,
thing, you of the room DAC-shot Working in an operating their eighties. In the dark the
When I got up on Wednes- fen't a
got to be good with one of those fancy wrist feet of water flows theatre at Park Prewett Hospie young folks' puplis were 1-10th whole, scientists deduced that its mother must feed it on ex-
day, both heads yawned, know-you've
And, as watches which have separate Beyond the fide strip tal,
end then remembered week after week,
crumbling mud Basingstoke, Hants, it an inch wider.
the dials for the days and months
censes to be like that's down ceptionally rich milk compared WORKMEN move in and out of Blinked
it, This change must cut of
600 first broke the bones
and becomes firm soil under the ul.W a half-excavated house. The what day it was. reaching with cow's milk, which has
vaudevillian who steps down to of the year. her nose and reshaped them. the amount of light
"Wear
it in good health, binding influence of the Abr
Tools. Then they cut right through the the eye's light-sensitive screen. fat-content of about four per visitor may wander casually into
Here Is an opportunity to "Happy birthday." Sald Head the footlights and says: "My villa and And an expert plec-
next trick, ladies and gentle darling," she said.
what
teli did. I front part of the skull behind So it may be an important cause cent.
you?" transform eroding mudfiets into But actual analysis of blue-ing together the warm red and No. 1. the eyes, severed the check of the dimming vision of old
whale's milk *** surprised yellow pieces of a mosaic,
about "What's happy
itpre man, is impossible."
"I'm inclined to agree," said enthused Head No. 1. when grass-food forms.
gone downstairz. benes, broke the bones at the go.
them. It contains -33 percent.
At the far end of one of the
It's a great world; in fact, it labourer sald Head No. 2. "A birthday lead No. 1. "I'd be plenty Eleanor had of butter-fat.
alde streets I saw o
between crib tickled if I came up with five "She's a girl in a zillion." Als just a comma
the gross doesn't weaken. One out pause and, blow a whistle,
of the first good showa and and crypt."
"That's one thing we agree ounce of vitamin Bi extracted foreman hurried forward
and worse twenty-six. And not to brood work of the upper part of the plastic identity togs, then
picked up a few tiny fragments "Bad alliteration
from grasa la sufficient to supply face, so that they could pull it dropped into deep water far
on a logle," said No. of painted stucco, Lald
would put me four up an the calendar on that wrist watch 30,000 people with all they neeft forwards into a position which fibm home have
should worry you plenty. May- for one day, "Gross in its raw, corrected the previous faulty. way back
very coastal that if all the people in Lon restore the mural of a crum-
Think so?" said No. 2. "Well, other Jos McGeniuses." crannies where inquisitive setan don were to speak at once, the bling wall.
"How does your missus feel be the little woman is trying form may be unpalatable, but try touching your toes and you'll
minced green tits captured them. How they total power they would generate In another house one comes and that a man is as old as he about this now chore?" asked to tell you that it's later than its clipped and
No. 2. "As it is, what with the you, think."**
Bedrock beltvis blodes are now on the menu, When they were satisfied with did it in the latest natural-his would be just about enough to almost face to face with the is old."
I reached
out for my usual theatre, column and night club, world Copyright Rameroid-London
Pass the grass, plentel the girls's new features they fix try mystery,
owner. His portrait remains
ye only got to see her. week- ed the bones in position by Even when taken two mitel light a 60-watt. Iamp.....
flesh getting-up cigarette. painted on the wall, the wires.
base of the temples and
rut
across the roof of the mouth,
This entirely freed the frame-
HOME, PLEASE
LOBSTERS fitted with
the
found their
out to sea oft Bermuda, where
WITH COMPLIMENTS
PRESENT for Beachcomber:
-Scientists have calculated Infece of canvas they will yet as old as he feel. “”“”“A man la about it-chances are that ave on," said Hend No. 1. "but the :
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