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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1955-10-19, Page 3You .Coularl't .Dream- of . What Women Have .in Handbags f. • FRONT ..jo.612twell PpkTABLE GREENHO,US,E-031aclisuecle handbag shown at a leather fair in Offenbach, Germany, is topped with a plastic "greenhouse" in which milady can place flowers to enjoy on some gala evening, Chemical keeps bouquet fresh for hours, MAKING-UP'S A BREEZE—It is,, if you have a handbag such as this gone, recently shown in' OffenbaCh, Germany. Tiny dry battery concealed in the brocade-covered feedbag-type leather accessory powers a compact-size fan concealed under the lid. 'his highly emotional wife .be• cause she insisted en frequent kisses, full on the mouth, even after she had been ld$Sing her tame white rat. John was not, the only young husband who has discovered that affection for animals eon disturb the tranquility of wed- leek. A •divorce judge once nod- ded sympathetically when an English railway clerk complain- ed that he had been ordered to kiss his nagging wife, his sister- in-law, and finally their ginger cat every time he returned from . work. Many adventurous individuals have found that stealing kisses is an expensive and perilous pastime, On New Year's Eve, Mrs. 01- ga Perdens, gazing through the,, window of her New York flat, spotted a handsome constable on his beat, And her secret, yearning proved tea much foe her, With a cry of joy, she tot- tered downstairs on her high- heeled shoes, flung her arms, round the astonished officer and kissed him passionately. "I'd been wanting to do that for a whole year," she told the jl-lelge with evident satisfaction.. "Disgraceful!" he commented., "Two dollars fine." "Gee! It was sure worth it!" chuckled the delighted defen- ;,darit. Another American whose - thrilling conquests landed him e in the dock was a gay young fellow from New Jersey. He had a weakness for kissing pretty girls whom he encoun- tered on the pavement. But during one of his excur- sions, he was arrested and lock- ed in a cell . Later, in court, the judge gave him a stern lecture on morality. "And I sentence you to kiss nobody except your wife dur- ing the next twelve months," the judge concluded severely. iR Libraries There were 60 Federal Gov- ernrnent libraries at last count and they had 1,738,838 volumes on their shelves. One-third of the libraries but only 2% of the books were located outside Ot- tawa, RELIEF FOR ,POLJO :VICVMS FOr..the first' time, air conditioning 'comes ,to.the aid of irpn lOng patients in this one. Demonstrating the , unit are,Janet Wolter, octing, as ,the patient; William Croft, left;',Ciir conditioning company executive, and Tohru Ino- u ye, kneeling, 'who conceived directed the development. Poet Man DRIVE WITH CARE Upsidedown 'to Prevery Peekinis Was Also of Affairs Love Makes The World Go Wrong up. 'Discontented with the home- washed grey look of his white ,shirts„ his wife secretly sent them to the laundry. Though she insisted the shirts should bear no laundry marks, the launder- ers put deft "unseen" marks in- side the sleeve, When Beckert was caught, the laundry Mark revealed his iden- tity, his address and the forg- er's equipment in a workshop where,his loving wife imagined he practised his hobbies, Love an& kisses often get or- dinary folk into trouble with the law, tbo. Two laughing lovers' who ex- changed• quick kisses on a round- about at a Bengal fair were re- cently jailed for six weeks. Although admitting their guilt, they appealed against the sen- tence. But the judge refused to change his verdict. "Kissing in public is indecent!" he solemnly reminded them. Japanese sweethearts c an' t cuddle and squeeze at the pic- tures, -either. Even in these en- lightened times, many orientals are prudish about spooning, And twilight caresses are banned., Municipal authorities maintain that wooing leads to kisses, and kissing leads to trouble. So, to prevent public scandal, film pa- trons are segregated into well- defined groups. Thus, when a teen-age Jap es- corts his favourite heart-throb to the movies, they have to part at the paybox. Then they are conducted to seats, on opposite sides of the gangway. And they are not allowed to join up again till the show is ended. All over the world, kisses of- ten result in unforeseen compli- cations. A few weeks ago, at Bordeaux in France, the fire brigade an- swered a midnight call to rescue a plump young corporal who was wedged in a chimney. _He had climbed over the roof- tops by moonlight and descended the wrong chimney while trying to enter 'his girl friend's .home. "What were yOu doing up there?" inquired a gendarme. The soldier blushed, "I intended to claim my usual good-night kiss,"- he explained sheepishly. "This she denied me after we quarrelled. Odd though it may sound, kissing one's husband provided grounds for divorce. John Fulton, of Hartford, Con- necticut, obtained release from SouvenirCollectorsOnTheRampage By TOM A. CULLEN great royal forest domain of Petherton in Somerset. . . What that experience gave to Chaucer was, of course; first of all an opportunity almost un- rivalled for wide and intimate knowledge of almost every sort of actor in the human comedy. We are apt to• forget in thinking of him the remarkable range of his acquaintance with men and women in virtually every sta- tion, rank and occupation of the diversified society in which he lived. . • • We need constantly to remind ourselves of the degree to which in Chaficer's day 'communication had to be by word of mouth. And so the people whom he knew were also channels through which came to him news of his world—news not only of that "little world" which to Shake- speare's John of Gaunt was Eng- land . . but also of that now looming, menacing, always my- sterious world beyond, which was the Orient. . . . Chaucer!s London was his own vast House of Rumour; only, on' a smaller scale. But men, among them scores whom Chaucer knew, were' con- stantly going out of Engle/id and coming back to it—going out for reasons of war, or trade, or chiv- alry, or religion, and coming back along the trade routes and the pilgrim roads. . . And the knight was a composite portrait of men whom Chaucer person- ally knew . .'. It was along the pilgrim road, as we now well know, that the stories of Charle- magne and Roland and the twelve peers 'of. France passed over the Alps into Italy. And pilgrims told their tales, and Chaucer was a marvelous listen- er . . . . And Chaucer sat at the receipt of custom in the port of London, "at the quay called Wool-wharf in the Tower Ward." And the man ,who, between nightfall and bedtime, had spo- ken with every one of the nine and twenty pilgrims at the Ta- tbard Inn was not the man to refrain from incidental conver- sation with the mariners whose lawful Occasions brought them to his quay.—From "Essays in Appreciation," ley JOHN LIV- INGSTONE• LOWES. No other English poet, in the f,irst p 1 a c e, has afiprOaChed Chaucer in the breadth ,and va- riety of his immediate, personal experience of life. For no other English poet — to pack a life- time into a list — was a page 'in a royal household and , for years Yeoman' or ,Esquire at Court; was captured while in military service, and then ran- somed by the King; -was sent to Flanders, France, and Italy on, half .a dozen delicate and im- portant diplomatic missions, in- volving royal marriages, com- mercial treaties, and treaties of peace; was Controller of the Customs and Subsidy of wools, hides, and wool-fells, and also Controller of Petty Customs, in the port of London; was Justice of the Peace, and member of Parliament; Clerk of the King's Works, with exacting duties and wide pewers, at Westminster Palace, the Tower of London;. the ''Castle of Berkhampstead, and at 'seven Of the royal manors, with their gardens, mill-ponds, and fences; Surveyor, again with large. authority, of walls, ditches, gutters, sewers, bridges,: cause- ways, et eetera,along the Thames 'between .Gre-envvich and' Woolwich; Clerk of the Works at , Windsor; Sub-Forester, and later Forester, in control of- the Adding Insult To Injury A French court has decided that a husband, whose wife has used his car to go off with an- other man, is responsible for any accident the two lovers may have 'on the road. When Madame A. decided she would leave her husband she took the family car early one morning, loaded her luggage on to the roof, and drove to meet her lover. Dreaming of their rosy future, the two bowled along as far as Epernay, where they were in- Volved in ,an accident with a trombone player, To the police who came to the scene of the accident, Madame A. told her tale of woe. She said ' she had no driving licence, it was her husband's car, but she was rey longer in love with him and She was running away. Had the musician not been in- jured, the police might have turned a blind eye, for the world knows the French policeman is an incurable romantic. But the injured musician wanted damages; So in dud course' the eiiSd, was brought be= fore the 4clatitta, There her hus- band Was, held responsible for 'Maclaine A's imprudent driving. He appealed, but hiS appeal Was rejected. Thanks to the Yanks, the Brit- ish are now getting a new insight to their own history. No English- man,. for example, ever thought of St. James' Square, London, as other than the home of the world's most stuffy clubs—cer- tainly not the stamping-ground of floosies. But listen to this bit of potted history from the U.K. Eagle, magazine of the U.S. Air Force in Britain: "St. James' is the home of a former Duchess of Richmond. King Charles II had long had his eye 'on this pretty 'filly . She died in 1702, a rich and not un- happy woman whose virtue is outstanding in an era of rakes and floosies, Maybe ,as you walk through St. James' Square one of these evenings you might meet her ghost—who knows?" Who knows, indeed! lock Holmes as Judge John Biggs, of the U.S. Court of Ap- peals? No sooner did. Judge Biggs land in England to attend a conference of 400 criminolo- gists than he was off across Dartmoor in search of the Hound of the Baskervilles. * * And is it usual for a dramatic critic to come all the way from Long Island, N.Y., in an effort to prove that Shakespeare's plays were written by Christo- pher Marlowe? 4.merican critic , Calvin Roff- man has been hanging around Chiselkurst, Kent, call summer waiting for perinission to dig up a 300-year-old tomb. He thinks the tomb, that of IVIarlowe's pa- tron, may contain evidence. to supeert his theory. ... .. . . .. 2. Egg-shaved, LiS. European I robin3 . CROSSWORD 4 t W a, blg'ress,ed , ..1 01•Ight ' 30. Cry Of a oat . 29. Angel, . , , . . . li.:1,Ai'g'e6bciy' i22, Novelty -. PUZILE..- .-- * ,e, .WtiiiOdaiik 04. tettclecl ,. ,- ., ,,, , 1 •, .- . —. ,.. ,,o.e.*3..1..er - k 316 Iritillire. ,...,..t..L:I"' • '• ' •-I..: "-- ''' -'4 .-.-., '• . 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NEA Staff Correspondent London — Now that most of the 203,000 Ameridan' tourists who flooded London this sum- mer have left for home, Lond- oners are busy counting the silverware, - Not that an American would take anything, mind, you. Still, there's no ham in checking to see that London Bridge is' intact, Nelson's Column ,nailed down and Big Ben in its tower at Westminster Palace. It's the' yankee ,souvenir-hunt- ing mania that baffles Britonk Americans dropped nearly $100.- 000,000 here this summer, and a good part of it went for buy- ing mementoes that ranged from Queen Anne thimbles to maroon- colored, pre-1918 'taxicabs. • There was the woman from Winthrop, Me., who tried to buy the roof Of a thatched cottage. In the end she settled for 30 tons of Norfolk reed, 'which is being shipped to the U.S., and now two professional thatchers from North Walsham are on their way to Maine to 'make sure the roof gets a proper cre4-cut. And then there is Maj, Arthur Kieling, lately of J' the U.S. Air Force at Burtonwood. To his home in Welikeit, Mich., the Major took a lamp-post, six Lon- don bobbies' helniets, 15 old clocks 'and. a storm lamp, Tlie 12-foot, 'green-painted gas= lamp standard he bought for for his cocker' spaniel, 11/lidnight. "Kew Midnight will have a real lamp=post just like other dogs," Says the Maier, explaining that Welikeit's lights are 'strung oil WoOeleri The :policemen's helnitts? The Major thinks he may plant them With flowers 'and hang them On Midnight's lamp-post:. Other things about Americans tit4tle the British, , Are all Athericari judges, fer etample, Co rabid fatis of $her- When Pierre Lebel fell in love he showered his girl friend with loving kisses — 'and crisp new 5,000-franc ( £5) notes. She would find them hidden among the handkerchiefs and nylons in her little drawer or stuffed in' the fingers,of the gloves he often gave er as a present. For Pierre loved Lucille Mar- tin with true Parisian fervour, Whenever she Wanted to go shopping ,on the boulevards • he pressed ,new notes into her hand and Lucille naturally rewarded such generosity With loving kisses, Pierre was a commercial ar- tist who worked hard for his living and loving. Often he shut himself away, in his studio for long hours, but he 'always seemed to have plenty of money. What Lucille didn't know was that he was making his own. Pierre had been living on home-made money for years. He printed and retouched the notes with •such skill that they were always passed with ease. But, with sensible caution, this ace forger never printed more than "he needed to pay his way and enable him to study the violin — until he fell in love, The more loving she was, the More Pierre wanted to shower Lucille with. cash—so he stepped up production. He imagined that after a shopping spree Lucille would be content, but Pierre found that he had to reckon with a woman's touch! Working, --- or forging — too fast, he soon made mistakes. One day he tried to pay a milliner with a freshly printed note which smudged. Now Pierre Lebel and his •girl friend are serving jail Sentences. Cupid and the crook some- limes go hand in hand. It's startling hew frequently crimin- als are brought to book by love, Freddy Beckert, one of the great- est forgers in the game, didn't Want the police to break up the sw et domesticity of his happy 'home. When trying to pass a 'fbrged note, he always made sttre that he barbed tid inarkS of identity. Ills suit bore no tailor's tabs and Beckert always insisted that his Wife shetild do the laundry at lionie. He carried no tell-tale notebooks or motoring license, Even if caught changing a forged note, Heckert reasoned, , he would' receive only a comparatively light Sentence; for his .identity,„ and therefore hiS lifetime of forgery couldn't be proved. But that's where he tripped More ittlegeleS Canadian niatiulacturerS„ pro- ' dtitedili,400 'bicycles in, 1051 as against 82,515 in 1i152', and ft1.0., fent -Value MO- to from $2,837,551. 4 at Swift Current, Sask., to simp- lify and reduce .the (.10,S1 of eon- mate construction, and three root houses have now been built One was built in 1953 at the Swift Current Farm, The Ar- cher Memorial Hospital at La- mont, Alt,„ built one 32 feet by 16 feet in 1954 and the Union Hospital at Maple Creek com- pleted one 32 feet by 20 feel this year. The form is semi-circular. and resembles a small sized set type of structure, It is ex. ceedingly simple to build with ordinary tools and uses less than half the lumber required for "box". forms. Furthermore,. the problem of reinoVirkg forms is: geatly simplified and the lum- ber wasted is negligible when compared with common meth- . eds. * * * Five-sixteenths, sheathing- grade, fir plywood is lightly nailed on a framework of 2 x 4's and 2 x 6's. Except for the ver- tical supports all lumber is used in full lengths and none of the x 8' sheets of plywood needs to be cut. A layer of waterproof paper is tacked or stapled to the ply- wood, then 2" x 2" mesh 14 guage self-furring Stucco wire is laid over this. Two coats of stucco are then applied. Fol- lowing this 6" x 6" mesh rein- forcing wire and iron rods. are fastened in place and four inches of concrete is shovelled oh. * * Studies of the root houses built show no signs of failure. All units are overlaid with soil four or more feet deep. * Inquiries regarding this type of construction may be address- ed to the Superintendent, Ex- perimental Farm, Swift Current, Sask. a 5 , nclOV Ctant)than poultrymen have re. eently shown considerable in- terest in cages for laying hens to increase efficiently and re- duce costs, But this method of housing the laying flock is no cure-all for the problems of the egg producer, says T. M, Mae- Iptyre, senior poultry husband- man at the Canada Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm, Nappan, N,S., where lay- ing hens have been housed in individual laying batteries for a number of years. * * There are two types of laying cages in common use, individual cages which hold one bird, and: community cages which may house anywhere from 10 to 25 birds per unit, These cages may have a single, double, or triple deck arrangement. Double and triple deck arrangements allow MUM birds to be kept in a giVen floor area but complicate the cleaning problem, since the droppings must be removed daily, The single deck battery. on the other hand, elminates the need for frequently remov- ing the droppings, * Results at Nappan have shown that brobdiness is less of a problem when hens are kept in batteries, If the egg baskets arc kept free from dust dirty eggs are rare. Hens cannot de- velop the habit of eating eggs if the cages are correctly con- structed. Death losses may be reduced by constant culling, while lice and mites are easily controlled. ** The disadvantages noted in- clude heavy investment per hen, ilig,htly higher labour require- ments, an increased, fly problem in hot weather and difficulty in controlling ventilation, parti- cularly where three eck bat- teries are used. * * Standard poultry houses may be used for gaged ,birds, and heat is not necessary other than to prevent frozen water pipes during protracted cold periods. Light and heavy breeds and crosses have all been success- fully kept in cages. However, there are in*ations 4hat some breeds and strains,j do not do as well in cages as" in floor pens. Feeding cageVlayers .presents no problem. Hand or automatic feeding may be successfully em- ployed. The all-mash or the mash-grain systems of feeding may be used.A. The „feeding sys- tem should 411e 0 designed with economy or ,labour an mind, most feeders 'favour the more `simple' all mash system. Suffi- cient limestone add 'itit should be included in the ration to satisfy the birds'requirements. * * 'The cage •system is no substi- tute lot good business judgment • and poultry knowledge. The in- •,creased investment per bird em- phasizes the' need for keeping the 'cages full at all times. This presents added problems in rear- ing and maria'gement. It,, should be recognized'that over a period of time auerted'S may' deperid more on the: operator than on the method of operation. * Root houses and potato stor- ages are necessary, in many of the fruit, vegetable and potato growing areas of Canada, Experiments ,have been made at 'the Canada.' Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm AMERICAN ibUitists 64 THE PROWL H ere they're looking CoOrtcrc Eton, the famous public school, One over the y f* at eight It tekiigh661; ck6 bo:re artiourit OP roily venirt.