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'Five Killed By Swarms Of Bees ------ No one will deny the usefulness - of bees. Most bees are well behav- ed and go about their lawful bus- Aness--as a rule. But those of i Southern - Rhodesia sometimes get out of hand. Recently they invaded a home for old people near Salis- bury, the capital," and 'five of the inmates were stung to death. This sad event recalls the adventure of another resident in the home, He was walking on a sunny day In the suburbs of Cape Town under some overhanging branches .of trees. Suddenly, without a solind of warning, his arms, shoulders, and then his head were black with bees, There was not a soul in sight. He went on walking --at a slow pace. The nearest habitation was a small tavern. He decided to walk into the bar. 3 On catching sight of him, the arman 'and the three customers vaulted over the bar and disappear- ed quickly. In his own words, the bee-man "just waited for some- thing to turn up." Then, after what geemed an age, he heard a voice from behind him say, "Stand quite still." Steadily, smoke surrounded him, and the bees left as silently as they had come, A The bee-man said later that the queen bee had first settled on him, and all the others followed. A wo- man again! His coolness saved his life, for if he had attempted to brush them off he would have been stung to death, Malaya's Boss--Gen. Sir Gerald Yempler arrives in Kuala Lumpur to take over the post of British high commissioner of Malaya, He replaces Sir Henry -Gurney, who was slain in a Communist ambush last fall. When. The Sun Is Totally Eclipsed Most awe-inspiring of all astro- nomical spectacles is a total ee- lipse of the sun such as the one gecently observed in some parts of the world. Wherever the. eclipse is total all nature falls under the spell of a fear-inspiring dusk, illumined only by the corona's ghostly beauty. The landscape is a deep red, fading into orange and yellow above the horizon. Trees appear leaden, the faces of observers livid. Life and warmth flees from the earth. Fringed by the corona, the moon hangs in the sky, an immense ball. For not quite 190 seconds will nature be thus transformed. That we should see a total solar eclipse at all is a matter for won- , derment. Some 92.061,000 miles away blazes the sun, with a dia- meter of about 864,000 miles, Some 225,000 miles away is the moon, with a diameter of only 2,160 miles. Lastly, there is the earth with a diameter of not quite 8,000 miles. If any of these three bodies were of a different size the motions of the earth around the sun and of the moon around the earth would not be what they are. As .it is, the little moon is so placed that it is possible for it to hide the surface of the sun. But only just pos- sible. If the moon were smaller or farther away we should never see a total eclipse of the sun, Until the opening of the present century, astronomical atténtion was focussed on the corona, a pearly effulgence which iss still a mystery and which has some connection with sunspots; for the shape of the corona is not the sage when spots are at their maximum and minimum, : : It is certain that the outer corona shines by reflected sunlight--re- flected by minute particles. The ease for the inner corona is still obscure, There atoms of gas are probably emitting rays under con- ditions still , unknown, ) / $5 (W/ LL) TTR Zr IL) A friend of mine was saying the . other day that most-of the cake recipes in this column lately had been of the simple, easy-to-make variety. I told her that it was done purposely as I know how busy .most of my readers are, and 'how little time they have for "fancy" cooking. : : © Still, there are occasions 'such as parties, anniversaries and so on, when something extra-special seems to be called for. So here you are, folks--cakes that you can serve with full confidence that they will please even the most discriminat- ing. - N . . * " BIRTHDAY CHOCOLATE CAKE 2 squares unsweetened chocolate . 34 cup boiling water 114 cups sifted cake flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 14 teaspoon salt 1%4 teaspoons cinnamon 14 cup shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 14 cup buttermilk Line the bottoms of two 1-pound coffee cans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderately low, 325 degree F. Melt chocolate in a double boiler over hot water. Then add water and stir until smooth. Cool to room témperature. Sift to- gether flour, soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Beat shortening until creamy. Stir in flavoring. Beat in sugar gradually and continue beating un- til light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time beat thoroughly after each. Stir in chocolate mixture. Add dry ingredients to egg mixture al- ternately with buttermilk in this way: Add one-third of dry ingre- dients, then half the buttermilk; repeat;' end with dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thor- oughly after each addition. Pour into lined cans. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until cake tester inserted in the center eomes out clean. Cool in cans on wire racks for 5 minutes. Loosen around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool, Then split each cake' horizontally into two . layers. Fill and frost layers with Chocolate Raisin Frosting. CHOCOLATE RAISIN FROSTING 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons butter 14 cup milk 1 egg, slightly beaten 4 squares unsweetened . chocolate, melted 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring 34 cup chopped Yaisins Cook sugar, butter, and milk in top of double boiler over boiling water until sugar dissolves. Stir in egg and blend thoroughly. Remove from heat; stir in chocolate; van- flla, 'and raisins. Cool. Fills and frosts Birthday Chocolate Cake: or an 8-inch layer cake. + ss 9 FLUFFY WHITE CAKE 3% cups :eifted flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt : 34 cup shortening _ 14 teaspoon vanilla flavoring 14 teaspoon almond flavoring 134 cups sugar 14 cup milk: 34 cup water 14 cup egg whites (about 4) Line the bottoms of two 'B-inch layer cake pans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderate, 350 degree F. Sift together flour, baking pow- der, and salt. Beat shortening until creamy. Stir in vanilla and almond flavor- ings. Beat in sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy. Combine milk and water. Add sifted dry ingredients to sugar mixture alternately with milk mix- tore in this way: Add one-third of ™~ CA a 30 I SAG AIR dad SARE sboniaians ade [OMELET Fl EAs ABLE TALKS dane Andrews 20 Rss: [dry ingredients, then half the liquid; repeat; end with dry ingredients. Beat only enough to blend thor- oughly after each addition, Whip egg whites until stiff with. a rotary beater or 'electric mixer, Gently fold into the flour mixture. Pour into lined pans. § Bake 30 ot 35 minutes or until a cake tester inserted inthe center comes out clean, Cool cakes in pans on wire racks 5 minutes. Loos- en around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper. Cool. Then split each layer horizontally into two layers. Put layers together with Strawberry Jam. Frost top and sides with Cream Cheese Frost- ing. CREAM CHEESE FROSTING 1 3-ounce package cream cheese 2 tablespoons milk Y4teaspoon almond flavorings 314 cups sifted confectioners' sugar Few grains salt Put cheese in a medium-size bowl and mash with a wooden spoon or electric mixer. Add milk, salt, and almond flavoring and beat until smooth and creamy. Add sugar gradually, continue beating vigor- ously: until smooth, If frosting is too stiff to spread, add a few more drops of milk, Frosts top and sides of one 8-inch layer cake. P.S.--If a tinted frosting is de- sired, stir in a few drops of food coloring, after all the sugar has been added. : * . * "CARAMEL PARTY CAKE 14 cups milk, scalded 1 cup sugar _ 3 cups sifted cake flour - 4 teaspoons baking powder 34 teaspoon salt ¥4 cup shortening 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 4 eggs : Heat milk in double boiler over boiling water, While milk heats, put 1 cup of the sugar in a heavy skillet. Place over low heat. Stir constantly until golden brown and sugar is dissolved, Stir very slowly into hot milk and continue cooking until it dissolves again, stirring occasionally, Measure. Add addi- tional milk if necessary to make _1%4 cups. Cool to room tempera- ture. Line bottoms of two 9-inch layer cake pans with waxed paper. Set oven for moderately hot, 375 degree F. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Beat shortening until creamy, Beat in the second cup of sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat thoroughly after each. Add sifted dry. ingre- dients to egg mixture alternately with milk mixture in this way: Add one-third of dry ingredients, then half the liquid; repeat, end with dry ingredients, Beat vA enough to blend thoroughly aff€r - each addition. Pour into lined pans. Bake 25 to 30 minutes. or until a cake tester inserted in the cen- ter comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for '5 minutes. Loosen around edges, turn out onto racks, and peel off paper, Cool. Fill and frost with Caramel Seven-Minute Frosting. CARAMEL SEVEN-MINUTE FROSTING. 1% cups brown sugar . Few grains salt 2 egg whites -14 cup water ) 2 teaspoons grated orange rind Combine the first five ingredi- ents in the top of a 2-quart double boiler. Place over boiling water and beat with a rotary beater or electric mixer until mixture holds igs shape, about 7 minutes. Fold n orange rind. Fills and frosts one 9-inch Jayer cake. Shelley's Fellow -- Hollywood actress Shelley Winters snuggles up "close to her flance, Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, as the couple arrive at New York's Idlewild Airport. The tempestuous blonde movie star says they will wed In April "if things work smoothly : i, enought :2 teaspoons light corn syrup Beaming Duo--Movie queen Elizabeth Taylor clasps hands with her new husband, Michael Wilding, shortly after arriving at a London airport. The 19-year-old star and the British actor, 41, were married Feb. 22. It was the second trip to the altar for each of them. "Pardon me, but could you spare twenty-five cents for a cup of coffee? Marriage Proposal Just 22 Years Late What an infinite variety of ways there are of asking someone to marry you, from the old-fashioned "Will you do me the honour of be- coming my wife?" to the modern "How about getting hitched, baby?" There's the proposal business- like, for instance. Never a second of time was wasted by Edgar Wallace, who dictated his hundreds of books at high speed. One day, his secretary was taking down a sentence when he stopped before the end and said, "What about popping round to the registry office and finding out what we have to do about it?" They downed tools, dashed round to investigate, got married, and after the ceremony returned to "~the unfinished sentence. One of the most cold-blooded and calculated proposals must have been that made by John Ward, of Scranton, U.S.A, to Mattie Weav- er. They met for the first time as members of a class to which a pro- fessor -gave a lecture on courtship and marriage, Using the students as guinca- pigs, he gave different couples the reasons why they should suit each other. Ward and Miss Weaver were so convinced by his argu- ments that they immediately fixed the wedding date, Then there's the blind proposal, the parties to which have never seen cach other, though probably. have admired a highly glamorous photograph. Sometimes such offers of marriage are made as the result of pen friemndship, and, of course, film stars are quite accustomed to receiving impassioned proposals from their fans. It is estimated that 100,000 such "love" letters are received in Holly- wood each year, The postman brings 'Ann Blyth an average of twelve proposals a week, but six of them are from the samc man, a Texan cattle rancher, Sailors' Lucky Dip The blindest proposals of all have been made by sailors who throw overboard bottles containing - offers of marriage to the first wo- man who reads them. One such proposal, though in this case it was addressed to a par- ticular woman, has just reached its destination, twenty-two years too Jate. The man concerned was a cook on board the German liner Thuringia, The bottle holding his proposal was found by someone on the Isle of Wight, who forwarded it to Germany, Neither the cook, who is now a baker in. Sylt, nor his sweetheart, who lives near Worms-on-Rhine, had married--and they don't intend to do so now! One of these blind proposals had a very happy ending-in New York quite recently, when Samuel Jamie- son married Myrtle Thomey, Two radio amateurs, they carried on their courtship by means of short- wave transmitters. One lived in _ Texas, the other in Indiana, so they didn't meet until their wedd- ing day. The proposal topsy-turvy is not uncommon when a woman sets her heart on a particular man. During the Napoleonic Wars, the March- joness of Sligo was present at the Old Bailey when Sir William Scott was the judge trying her son. Sir William gave such a very paternal lecture that she sent up a note to the Bench saying how very good it would be for the young man if he could have such a father for the rest of his life. The judge accepted this tactful offer, In Somerset many years ago, a wealthy squire had a beautiful young daughter who fell in love with a handsome barrister. He took no notice of her, so she determined to attract his attention. Anonymously, she sent him a challenge to a duel, declaring that he had insulted her. Amazed, he arrived with his second to find a masked woman who pointed a rapier at his heart and issued the ultimatum: "Either you wed me or you fight." She refused to let him see her face until he had made his decision, The young man racked his brain, his friend advised him that she must be a woman of character to show such initiative, and so the barrister agreed to marry her, Her beauty when revealed de- lighted him, and their marriage was a very successiul .one. He later became Lord Lieutenant of the country. Happily, the proposal romantic does still exist, judging by the evi- dence of letters to the Press writen by quite ordinary people recently. A Suffolk woman was given five red roses, each with a small label on which was written one word. The whole sentence read: "Will you be my wife?" Another modern proposal took place in the middle of a thunder- storm, The couple concerned were sheltering .in a telephone kiosk Their breath made the glass steamy, and the man wrote on it: "Will you marry me?" Not Dead Yet People write learned discussions full of statistics which are intended to prove that Great Britain is finished as a great nation, We don't believe it and our disbelief has been heightened by an item we just read in a British. paper. i The actors were playing "St, George and the Dragon" in which St. George is supposed to slay the dragon witli his lance. But it hap- pened that the dragon's lance hit the lance of St. George at an in- opportune second and "St. George's lance went flying off the stage, grazing: the nose of the flute player in the orchestra, St, George never hesitated. He tackled the dragon with bare hands, took his lance away from him and slew him right on schedule, Furthermore the flute player with the injured nose retrieved his flute and continued to play, hardly missing a note. You can't lick people like that, © --From The Wall Street Journal SLEEP TO-NITE EDICIN tablets token accord to directions is a safe way to Induce sleep or quiet the piven nse. 3 A Like To Book Your Passage To The Moon? \Are you thinking of emigrating? Is yaur eye on Australia? Or South America? Or - maybe it's Africa? Well, don't make a hasty de¢i- sion. If you 'wait a mere 50:years "or +50, your choice 'may not be limited to these countries, or, in- deed, to any country on earth, By the end of the century it may be possible to emigrate to Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, or even the Moon. This is the hope, if not yet the plan, of the British Interplanetary' Society, whose members. claim, with the customary caution of scientists, that within 30 to 50 years they will have made the first trip to the moon. But it's no use trying, through the Society, to book your passage. You would probably be suspected of facettiousness, which is some- thing the Society does not encour- - age. It is very sensitive to the fact that most people still regard space- ships and journeys to the moon as strip-cartoon and film subjects --entertaining, but hardly -to be taken seriously, Like Tibet This is an idea it wants to cor- rect. The 360 "Fellows" of the Society --members with high scientific or engineering qualifications -- genuinely believe that space travel is not only possible but probable-- and soon. Many of them, working for the Government - on rocket research, are satisfied that even with the materials they already have it would be. possible to send an .ex- pedition to Mars (where the climate is believed to be like that of Tibet). ' The only knowledge they still lack is how best to assemble those materials into a spaceship. It is this problem, says the Society's chairman, Mr. A. C. Clarke, that, is holding things up and may do so for scveral years to come. ELECTRICAL STORM All Magic The poctry of earth, of course, is to be found in every created thing. Our spirits, when they're tuned to the right pitch of primal astonish- ment and delight, discover enchant- ment in any sun-warmed rock, any whisking October oak leaf, and shimmering drop of rain on the nearest blade of dooryard grass. The creation is one continuous and inexhaustible glory; this garden is all magic. Still, we're likely, most of us, to grow a little dulled, from a sort of fatigue of familiarity. We forget to be feeling the sunlight on us. We don't hear any mora all the astonishing little earth - musics, such as, say, crickets'... Whatever else we may neglect to notice, we are pretty sure to be struck and stirred by the tumbling, spring-bursting "conkerr-eel" of red-winged blackbirds in an April marsh, the honking clatter of wild geese in their autumnal passing ... The speed, the aerial expertness of birds is, of course, one of the first things about them to enchant us. We stand on an autumn hilltop and watch the migrant hawks flash by, or we see swallows skimming across the farm lands almost like darts of light, and in an instant we are caught up, in empathy, in the bird's world of rush and buoyance. How fast, really, do these winged brothers of ours go, up in' their world of air and sunlight and the whistling wind? Most of the commoner small birds have a flying speed of about forty-five or fifty miles per hour. (They often go much more slowly, of course: we're speaking of maxi- mums.) Doves and pigeons can go arrowing along at sixty-five, If the guesses of some nineteenth- century animalizers were right, back in the days when there were still passenger pigeons' thronging the American sky, those may have been able to fly even more swiftly. The wild geese? They are able to touch seventy: and that's about the record speed, too, for ducks.-- Reprinted from "This Fascinating Animal World," by Alan Devoe. "After all," he points out, 'ht took five years and £10 million to 'get the Brabazon into the air, and this- problem is 100 times more difficult." Met and Argued. The. British Interplanetary Society was founded in 1933---ten years before the first rocket was invented, and when the idea of visiting the moon only existed in the minds of imaginative novelists. Yet Mr, P. E, Cleator, a young engineer living in Cheshire, manag- ed to find about 100 men like him- self, who believed fervently enough in interplanetary travel to form a society, In those days, recalls Mr. Clarke, was was an early enthusiast, all that the members did was to meet and argue. During the war the Society went into temporary retirement, though the members continued to argue by post. In 1946 they re-formed the Society and, because the war had made everyone rocket-con- scious, new members were not hard to find. For a subscription of about $5 a year the 1,129 "lay" members-- those with no particular scientific knowledge--can go to the monthly meetings and attend lectures, exhi- bitions and film shows which keep ""them up-to-date with the latest developments in engineering and astronomy. Many of them went, last Septem. ber, to the three-day Second Inter- national Congress on Astronautics (the first was in Paris in 1950), organised by the Society at Caxton Hall, Westminister. Here they met delegates from interplanetary- societies in fourteen different countries -- for Britain, though she was one of the first, is not the only country that is reaching for the moon, The Society's "Journal," pub- lished monthly, caters for both kinds of members. . "Far Too Risky" Mental stimulation is provided for Fellows in articles with titles like "A Note on the Use of Dim- ensionless Parameters in Astron- autics"; but less technically-minded readers can skip that and turn straight to the Notes and News column, Here they can learn that at the "Fifty Years of Flying" exhibition, held at Hendon in July, the ex- Lord Mayor of London volunteer- ed to go to the moon--but on the second trip and that six boys be- tween the ages of seven and twelve, interviewed by a Society official about their willingness to go, said they were not very keen on the idea because they thought it would be "far too risky." = SAFES Protect your BOOKS and CASH frem FIRE and THIEVES. 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