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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-09-12, Page 6AND THE GUARD GOT WET — Smiling under an umbrella as , the rain pours down, Queen Elizabeth inspects a guard of honor of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, during her recent visit to Oban, Scotland. Her Majesty's escort, sword held high in royal salute, gallonty got drenched. the .bride-elect and her lanes enclosed in a heart, Q. On which side Of the plate should the napkin be placed, and hew should it be folded -- with the open edge toward at Way front the plate? A. On the left of the plate with PPen edge toward the plate,, unless it is folded and there is no edge. Q. Would it be Proper to have, two maids 9f honer./ both •al ihem dressed in white? A, This is all right, if you wish, although usually only the bride is dressed in white.. In some summer weddings, an all- white wedding is very effective. Of course, the bridesmaids never wear veils of any kind, Q. I have been told, that one who visits a sick friend in, a hospital should always bring some, kind of gift. Is this cor- rect? A. This is not obligatory. You may do as you wish. Q. What is the correct way to eat a banana at the table? A. It should be peeled into a plate, and then eaten with the fork, Q. Is it customary to tip ush- ers in a theater? A. Not in this country. It is a Europeari custom. Blouse Wardrobe Add to your Wardrobe with these blouses — a thrifty way to have - many smart fashions for summer! Three classic styles, with, ctever little. varia- tions in collarS and wickets., Sew thern, to !nix and match with your• favorite' skirts! Pattern 4660: Mises' Siie 10, 12,"'14, 16, 18, 20. Siie 16 upper ,version, 2 1/4 yards 39-inch; ' middle 1% yards; lower 1% yards. , This pattern easy to use, sim- ple to sew; is tested for fit. Has complete illustrated instruc- tions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (350 (stamps cannot be ac- cepted, use postal note for for this pattern. Print plain- ly ^ SIZE NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order 'to ANNE ADAMS, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toms= to, Ont. • 4660 irElo 4Y 4b Brazil "A Giant In A Cradle" Modern. Etiquette.... f. HIRST lionii4 awrisheecrtt 0 10. 0; ► 9. What is the rule on the Introduction of young and old Persons? A. The younger Person is, al- ways introduced to the older or more distinguished, but a gen- telman is alwaya presented to a lady, even though he is an, old genleman and the lady is a mere slip of, a girl. Of course, a woman is presented to the President of the United States, a royal personage, or a digni- tary of the church, Q. How dogs an unmarried business woman identify herself over fhe telephone? A. "This is Miss Johnson (or, Miss Ruth Johnson), of such- and - such company." Q. Is it correct to wear ear- rings at any time, • or should they be reserved only for cer- fain "occasions?' A, Small earnings can ^ be worn anywhere ,and at any time. But the diamond type and long, dangling ones are best worn only with evening or dressy party frocks, Q. Is there any way that one can possibly rinse one's fingers at the tahle if no finger bowl has been provided.? A. It is permissible to tip the waterglass against the corner of the napkin, and then wipe the fingers on, this damp corner. Q. Is there any special mark- ing customary on a cake to be served at an engagement party? A. A traditionally favorite decoration is the first names of • ''Dear Anne Hirst: I am al, Most toe asnaMed to explain our prablein, but I need some sound advice. Our daughter, 19, is cheating on her fiance during his absence from home. Her father and I are frantic, and he threatens to tell her to leave The two got engaged at Christ- mas, and she is, wearing his ring. A wonderful offer came from the West Coast that nearly doubled his income; knowing it meant they could marry this year, he jumped at it, "By March she had started, to date another boy almost every night! She hardly knows him, 'but he has her under his thumb; she has changed so much we hardly known her, and she open- ly defies us, Her fiance senses something is wrong and called her up to ask, if she was going with anyone else, She wouldn't say yes or no . We both are so fond of the fiance and had thought her future all set. Now we almost feel she doesn't de- serve him, Also, he sends her monthly checks for her savings account against their future. "She does read your column regularly, and we will be so grateful for' any advice, Perhaps someone else, can convince her how dishonorable she is. We have failed miserably, DISTRACTED" 4' It is heartbreaking to see a * presumably nice girl double-. ► - I 9 `?.orojle'tN ONICLE INGER A1114 Gwetldolihe P. Claxike if we had a, greater knowledge concerning plants and' trees. For instance we have a hickory tree down by the creek that is load- ed with nuts this year. We won- der why because we haven't had hickory, nuts around here for years and years. 'There ,are also quite a '. lot of wild grapes, on vines where I have never seen grapes before.. There are plenty of choke-cherries, too. Last year there there'wasn't one to, be seen anywhere. Why? No doubt native Indians• could tell use. 4" One-a-Day Doilies La WIte4Qat types of embroidery. All these entries, were conclusive evidence of the talent that. exists among , the Women's Instittites of On- tariofi 'Of course We were wel- comed by officials of the Sal- ada Tea Company, after which' we were served with piping hot tea, dainty sandwiches and fancy cakes. I expect this tea was probably the last function at which the Provincial officers of the W.I. will appear before leaving Canada on, their way to Ceylon and the Tri-ennial Con- vention' of the Associated Countrywomen of the World, taking place this fall., Well, we hear orr the radio that harvest operations in On- tario are pretty well over! We wonder where. In - this district most of the wheat has certain- ly been threshed or combined but spring crops are still stand- ing -,- and I expect most of the farmers with spring crop are praying that no big storm comes along and knocks them flat be- fore they are• ready for the binder. In fact we know of some farms where the crops have al- ready suffered that fate. We get such freakish storms these days. Saturday we had just a sprinkle of rain. Later when Bob came up from Oakville he reported the heaviest rain- storm of the summer with a ter- rific electrical storm. At the construction plant lightning ran along steel pipes, jumped from one machine to another; •gave all the 'einployees a scare and yet no damage was reported anywhere. Today the 'weather is delight- fully cool: In fact there is a feeling• of fall in, the 'air. The wind has , a mournful sighing Sound; bluejays are sounding forth With loud, unmusical notes, and last night there was a gorgeous sunset,• unusuarfor, summer evenings. I suppose we might learn .more about' what the weather has in store fin' us SHE MEANS IT — Close friends of •actress Cleo 'Moore, above, insist she's dead serious about .her plans to run for governor of Louisiana in 1960. "And why' not?" asks 'Cleo. "All good politicians are good actors, so what's so funny, about an ac- tress being a, politician?" THREE lovely little doilies so easy to crochet -- do each pretty design in less than a day! Pattern 697.: Doily' quickies! Three designs (74/2 and 8 inches)' .• to crochet in. No. 50 mercer- ized cotton. To increase' size, use No. 30 or bedspread cot-. ton. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot by accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura -Wheeler, 123 Eighteenth St. New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS: Our gift to you ,-- two won- derful patterns for yourself, your home — printed in our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft book for 1956! Dozens of other new designs to order — crochet, knitting, embroidery, iron-ons, novelties. Send 25 cents • for. your copy of this book NOW — with gift patterns printed in it! cross any man,.ana it is denh- * ly cruel when he traveled so * far away to make their for*, * tune, If your daughter cannot ex- * ist on the assurance of his * love, if she must have other * men's attentions to keep her * content, she should never have promised to marry hint I * agree with you: she should * realize how disgracefully she * is behaving, and determine to * stay true to her promise, If * she cannot (or will not) then * she should openly break the * engagement, and return the * money her fiance has sent her; * her possession of it adds an * almost sinister note to her * treasonable behaviour. * The boy she is dating is * equally guilty; you say he * knew she was engaged when * they met. Unless he upholds * her casual idea of honor, he * should realize she cannot be * true to any one man. • Asking her to leave home is • no solution. No matter how * she is shaming you and her * father, she is still your daugh- * ter and entitled to whatever * protection her parents can * provide. Better to have her at * home. * I sympathize with you both. • r hope when she realizes what * others must think of her, she * will turn to the• right before * she tosses aside the love of a * good man and ,encounters * more trouble than she, has * ever known: * * "Dear Anne Hirst: "I've been going steady with a boy for seven months; sometimes we've double-dated with my best girl and- my • friend's buddy. "Now we aren't going steady any more . . . My girl friend's cousin came here to get a job and they have taken - an apart- ment together. We met her at church, and right away my friend asked his buddy to get him a date with her! They have seen each other every night for the past two weeks. "What can I do? I still love him. He hasn't come out and said we are through; in fact, 1 haven't even seen him. What do you think? He is 22 and I am H. LOVE SICK" * Steady dating for seven * months is apt to make a girl * feel so possessive that she * takes it as a real offence if * the boy so much as looks at * anyone else twice. Yet, since • * there is no engagement be- * tween them, this girl is help- * less to object. He has the right * to date anyone he likes, and * so has she. Waiting for a wandering * lad to come back is one of -4. the most, trying situations a girl faces. She feels so lost, • so lonely. All she can do is * to hide her• hurt and act ai * though her heart were not • breaking, and this must be * your role for a while. Let * the lad pursue his new flame,, * but you go your own way, too,. * and cultivate other boys you * know, if only to keep yourself in circulation. * He may or may not be dis- * appointed in the• girl. At any ▪ rate, hold' yoUr head high, and • remember not to speak of him * to anyone else. That might * help you keep your dignity, * which will give you courage * to mingle with other friends "' and at least appear to be * enjoying yourself. No mat- * ter what happens, that will * comfort you. * * * If you have deceived one who loves you straighten things out immediately before he loses his faith in all women. Anne Hirst will help,• if you Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Brazil, boasts its national an- 's them, is "a giant lying eternally in a •splendid cradle. The un- intended irony is not lost on the quiek-witted Brazilian, who knows that his country, despite its giant size, abundant re, sources, immense promise, if not still in the, cradle, has at most just barely left it, rural- ermore, he thinks it is high time the giant began to walk. In fact, a development pro- gram is under way designed to enable it to do just that. If it succeeds, Brazil may round the corner into the modern age on the way to realizing its poten- tialities as another United States. If it fails, it may find itself doomed to• the' economic treadmill in which production, growth just manages to keep up with population growth, The United States, for its own security, has a stake in the outcome. Brazil is trying to climb over the hurdle of backwardness without departing from funda- mentally Western democratic traditions. But Brazil knows the Soviet Union, although at cost to liberty and life for millions, pull- ed out of the economic waste- lands, and Brazil is watching Communist China and other present or potential "people's democracies." Should the same transforma- tion be repeated there, a de- sperate Brazil might adopt their methods. For Brazilians are impatient- for the splendid to- morrow they are certain destiny has in store" for them: The North American visitor arriving directly in Brazil's beautiful capital of Rio or the fantastic boom city of Sao Paulo questions the need for urgency, All about him are signs of wealth, and feverish growth. Magnificent avenues, gleaming concrete buildings, stores crammed with merchan- dise. From Sae, Paulo's forest of skyscrapers.: a super highway leads through a busy, modern factory district, twists in an en- gineering miracle of tunnels and aviaducts doWn the 2,000- foot escarpment to' the bustling coffee port of Santos. Another such highway arrows west through rich farmland to, smaller satellite industrial towns. Crack trains of the Paul- ista Railway rival all but the best in the United States. New buildings are going up 10, 15, 25 stories on every hand. The visitor feels the energy and quick tempo of the Paulistas, and notes the absence of "tropi, cal languor." Where is all tile backwardness he has beard so much about? He learns that same surging growth is taking place in small- er cities — Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Campinas, Londrina, Porto Alegre. He is tossed impressive sta- tistics -- Brazil has one-fourth of the world's iron 'ore reserves, grows 70 per cent of the world's coffee, has 12 per cent of its wa- ter power resources, is rich in sugar, cocoa, cotton, timber, and fibres, is a storehouse for man- ganese, phosphates, chrome, titanium, and the energy pack- ed minerals of uranium and thorium. This year,the population pass- ed the 60,0,00,000 mark: Its growth ct' nearly 3 per , cent a year is exceeded by an 'average 5 per cent to 6 per cent' growth in the national product. Indus- trial giants like Krupp, General Motors, Schneider, Mannes- mann are 8proutipg. Brazilian branches writes Leslie Warren, Special Correspondent of The Christian Science 'Monitor. When the visitor •learns of President Kubitschek's five-year program to double electrical output, add 2,000,000 tons of steel-making capacity, boost iron ore exports seven times, construct 6,200 miles of roads, turn out 100,000 car's. trucks and buses a year, he has no doubts as to Brazil's ability to become a rich and powerful nation. But the coin has another aide. It appears in Rio, where 'shanty towns crown the city's hills, Where shortages in essential public services suggest admihisa trative incapacity. ' The real face of poVerty cap be studied in the interior away from the leading cities, The statistics are grim: up to 80 per cent illiteracy, average income $45 a year, the. common inade- quate diet of beans and manioc, stretched. out with dried meat or ,fish. needs, where they exist, are 'lust clouds in dry -Weather, mud trails in wet. Throughout the backlands millions exist as "earn-lam-aid zeros," Producing no More than they Constim. Yet they live in a rich country,. "A beggar sitting on a heap of gold," Brazil has been terrned. „_. bid furniture often" contains wood of an Unusually good qual, ity even though hidden under several layers of paint. A liquid paint xemover and. a. piece , of 1SandPapCr, then'..a 'new • coat lit paint Or vvol'k derS with a`1,fo,r,gotteri Piece el furnitifre. If we hadn't thought it be- fore we would certaihly realise now that ',television is a great medium for education. How else could we have received such a clear picture of what takes place at the great party` conventions in the U.S.A.? Their• system of preparing for the' election, of, a government is so different from our own that it is sometimes a little difficult to understand. But now, I for one, certainly know more about. it 'than I. did before. I might, even offer a little criticism — but why bother — what our frierids across the border do 'is entirely their own affairs, so at Ginger Farm we -can just sit back .and remain interested. onlookers. Of course we got a little tired of some of the speeches but yet we couldn't drag ourselves away from the TV, particularly on Friday night. Of course we would have to have done so had we been getting up with the dawn as we used to do.. From now on many of those at the Democratic convention will be to us, not merely names in the news, but definite personalities. And that, of course will apply to Republican candidates too, whose convention we shall watch, with equal interest. But we Ore glad we don't have to vote for either one side or the • other! PreSident Eisenhower has such a wonderful personali- ty — but then we found our- selves equally impressed with Mr. Steyenson and Mr. Kefau- ver: But we don't have to make' any decision so we can straddle the fence •in comfort— if straddling a fence can ever be described as comfortable. Altogether, newswise, „ last week was quite exciting. The Suez 'Conference, and — if it isnq incongruous to mention it in the same paragraph — Cliff Lurnsdon!s conquest of the Strait of Juan de FUca. And. I had a spetial little outing of my, own. Just another' interesting Women's Institute affair, -This . time it was a tea and the ex., hibit of prize winning entries in', connection with ,,the annual competition sponsored by the Salada Tea Company. There were three Tweedsthuir History Scrapbooks 'shown, all of them good, but -that of Bridgeport W.I. in the Kitchener -. Water- loo district a- was deservedly awarded the first.,prize: 'Such beatitiful illtigtratiOnS featuring pioneer scenes. They appeared to be three-difnensiorial, There were also wenderfid black and white sketches by Mrs: Idessa Zimmerman. • The entire beak was well arranged 'arid tabulat- ed. Another splendid winning' entry *08 frairi stack Bay W.I.'Tbe diatinguisha ing feature in this beak was the remarkably attractive written, entries, I .have been Wandering since whether it was Italie - 'handwriting. -The third' prize s ory was in two va - tithes'. It, too, was a carefully arranged „end attractive piece of Woilt; Were also three beautiful Oil 'Paintings 'of rural scenes. and three prizeaWinning Hope chests which included `very Tine specitrieritS, of crochet, Cr CMS [16•11 work end other . EVEN' MEDIC' HAVE MANEOviks •— Athi'y Mediealtoviei kcietvitit COS's d,streani with- a cable 'hitch., sinitilatingine'rranitforting ofiti 'Cciitialty, The' inafteilyerS are .fictit,6f:. a '.1.4rweek training course though tif their training originatei, classrooms,the" VoltinfeerS dee 4lveet practical 'combat-type training keynoted by reaihsni, The yOUng. Medics will be 'On call for ilailoeial dltailers as well as for our defence tOrCeiii, titINtED, .SNEEp. JO -FALL ,,ASLEEP — In this case,' Oa live sheep. der',01&*lee$04, for. a ..rap at the MiSSOUil Stake lamb lhiisfying his curiositji through the barrier is one-cif:1400, en,Kes fair's wool *haw. c