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The Brussels Post, 1958-03-19, Page 2LAN vou,L Nf t+IRST C*044444-• 4700 SIZES 10--20 TWO-WAY STRETCH—it takes two models'to display what the well-rounded woman will wear as Rose Wood, left, and Betty Kelly show off o size 72 girdle., The garment,displayed at the Midwest Corset and raassiere Association Show, was designed for a circus fat lady. HRONICLE PIARPFamti 9 And she remained that way for several years, Of course there were no conveniences where we lived —no hydro, or • plumb:, ing! no car, PP .S.hOPPing. Ventre! When the baby got the coup we, dosed, her with. emetics., Fifty miles. was a little toe, far for doctor to PoTeeeNcqpt.i11 a Matter of life or death. As 'you. ),MOW . we all survived. jefeeiV •".4%g Koala. ne i'0•=:. ars "l&-$14. • ...„ • 'Dear Anne Hirst; If there is one lesson I've learned from '40. years of l i v e trig, it. isethat nothing lasts, I am trying to hide my time in a dreadful situation;" writes a. troubled mother. Half a. year, ago, during a local housing short- age, she invited her son and his wife to move from their apartment to her houee. For a weeks everything was 411 right, but the honeymoon did not laet„ "I never thought I'd be one of those mothers who.. criticizes her ,son's Wife," she declares, "but what I have endured from this one convinced me that two women of different genrations cannot live amicably together in the same house, "The girl is a shoddy house- keeper,.but she thinks she knows it all and laughs at my sug- estions, She said she knew all About washing 'machines, and she ruined mine the. _first time she used it. She is wrecking my lovely home!„—I have fine old Furniture, and she has banged every piece of it by her clumsi- ness, She won't prepare the food my son needs, and serves heavy stuff that no horse could digest. "She will not listen to my son when he tries to correct her handling of the baby; how he is going to grow into a healthy child I cannot imagine, When I found . how ignorant she was I Insisted on a regular routine for him, but soon she refused to eginner-Simpie PRINT PI% I A ALA‘..IN JIFFY-CUT and sew! This Printed Pattern is all in one pieced; just pin it to fabric, cut out the entire dress at one time, Beginner-simple to sew — s-o-o flattering. Perfect style for the coming season. Printed Pattern 4700: Misses' Sizes 10,...14,14, le; 18, 20e' Size 16 takes 41/2 yards 35-inch. Printed 4 directions on :••eadii pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (400) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, N A 1H E, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send ordereto ANNE ADAMS, BoX I, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, On t, bother with it, Now we have to creep silently about the house and whisper to avoid waking him, Yet she complains to my Son about Me all the time, ex- pecting him to take her Part. He doesn't, and this throws her into tantrums, "My son is trying to buy a house, and it will take at least a year, How can I stand all this quarreling day after day? I only want the best Tor them all, but I'm afraid he will look back on these months at my home as ugly memories." * ▪ + This distressed mother can- not hasten the day of her son's departure, but fortunately she has made up her mind to en- dure what cannot be cured. Her chief concern is that her son shall not be hurt. If she stops trying to direct his wife and lets her commit what dam- age she will, this is the simplest way out. Let the girl talk about her as she pleases; the * lad is too well-bred to resent * it audibly and for this his mother is thankful. It is her disappointment in his wife's attitude that really floors her. I hope she will take her son's cue, and hide her disgust. TO "WAITING"; For your son's sake, continue to be philosophical and contain your annoyance. When these three leave, what a consolation it will be that you did nothing, said nothing to bring on any crisis, but submitted with ma- ture grace to a tension which many older women would find unbearable. Tomorrow will bring its own harassing situations, but if you do not anticipate them you will solve them as calmly as you did today's. And remember, every dawn brings you one day nearer to your release. * SISTER IS RIVAL "Dear Anne Hirst: Before I got engaged to this young serviceman, he was dating my sister. On his last leave he told me he didn't want to stay engaged—and then he asked my sister if she would go steady! "He says he loves me, and asked me to wait for him. But the way he acts now, I feel she is first with him and I'm just a follow-up. "Shall I find somebody else and try to forget him? Or keep on waiting? HEARTBROKEN" * Find somebody else fast, and . let these two play with love * as though it were a new toy. * They will find out, * A boy who gets himself en- * gaged and then wangles out * of it is at the age where he * is trying out one girl after another. He isn't thinking of * anybody but himself, and it * will be a long while before * he grows up. Let him practice * on others, including your sis- * ter. I feel sorry for her. I know this is hard to take, * but, if you will forgive my * saying so, you are well out of * it. You will find other lads * who will appreciate you, and * know how to be loyal to a nice * girl. * Next time, hold on to your * heart until one of them proves * himself a sweetheart who * knows what he wants, and * how to cherish the right girl * when he finds her. In any iti-law trouble, it is the' older wornan'aplape. to practice tolerance and restraint. The ways of yotithAre riot her waYs, and she contributes best by overlook; ing what she can and putting up with the rest . . . Anne Hirst's studies of family difficulties have increased her wisdom, and it is all at her reader's •service. Write her at Box 1, 123, - 18th Street, New Toronto, Ontario. Trapeze Line hi Women's Fashions Inside the rambling private mansion on Paris's Avenue. Mon- taigne, a hush fell recently over the best-dressed, reporters in the world, jammed en gilt chairs in the cream end gilt inner sane, turn. "This collection and follow, ing ones," said attractive an, nouncer Jacqueline Frentin in a solemn voice, "will he presented in permanent tribute to M. Pier." Two hours and l'78- creations later, all the rules for covering spring fashions in the mighty couturier houses of Paris had been broken. "Tears flowed copi- ously and joyously," cabled Dee Wells, spot-news fashion reporter of The. New York Times, "while bravos shook the glittering chan- deliers." For the first time 'n several decades; feel-lien-wise Mrs, Carmel Snow of aurper's Bazaar wee- seen to bake notes. she had always relied on memory before. "The collection," wrote Rosette Hargrove of Scripps- Howard, ". . was punctuated by applause and cries of "quelle merveille!" (how wonderful)." This unprecedented rush to gush over the spring fashions reached a climax with the ap- pearance of shy Yves St. Lau- rent, the 22-year-old protege of the late Christian Dior, who saved the tradition — and the profits — of the great couturier's house by creating what St, Lau- rent himself called his "trapeze line." Sack or Blimp? Many a male reader, who skips fashion news for the sports page, might won- der what young St. Laurent's "trapeze line" actually' looked like. According to the AP's Na- deane Walker, it was "a new sack line that is practically blim- pish in proportions," with a silhouette that "falls flat from bosom to waist, and thereafter is puffy as a cloud." "His 'clothes are the kind, caressing type," wrote Women's Feature Editor Eugenia Sheppard of The New York Herald Tribune. "They are 'shaped and molded instead of devil-may-care." No U.S. editor, however, was likely to blame his legwoman if her reports failed to jibe with those of her rivals. Because the designers fear piracy almost as much as they want publicity for their creations, they do not make it easy for the press. Last week:, for example, Balenciaga cancel- ed his show on the morning it was scheduled — just as he had in the previous two years.. He had no desire to risk a. recur- rence of the 1955 incident in which The London Daily Express published pietures of his dresses ahead of the release date (us- ually set one month after the showings, to give buyers a chance to stock up for the publi- cation of the fashion magazines' " stories). Among the 400 women re- porters on hand in. Paris, it is the fashion-magazine girls who have it particularly rough. Some 25 two-hour shows are held over a five-day period, some of them simultaneously. At each, the models bustle past the reporters at a brisk clip to prevent un- authorized sketching. Although an occasional murmur of "(2a c'est chic" is considered good form, the magazine girl usually sits stone-faced and silent be- hind dark glasses to hide her re- actions from her eager rivals. Making notes as cryptically as possible, she must (1) remember each dress, (2) decide whether her readers will be interested in it, (3) guess whether it will fit the model she has stashed else- where in Paris, and (4) at the end of the showing, dash madly to persuade the house's publicity director to let her take it out for picture shots., First lady to reach the pub- licity man gets the dress — shrouded in white muslin to keep it from, unauthorized eyes — but woe take her who does' not get it back in time for the house to show it to prospective buyers. An editor once lost her identity card, without which no reporter can be admitted to a showing, because she kept a Dior number out for extra three hours; waiting for an intriguing cloud formation to; drift over the Arc de Triomphe for an arty photographic effect. Often, too, arrangements are difficult to make, Last week one editor found herself overseeing picture- taking of a popular dress in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles at 4 pan., the only hour the dress Was available. — From NEWS- WEEK, BADLY PHRASED A young teacher deputised fora friend evhd was on her honeymoon. A few weeks later the newlywed's and the the friend were at the same party and the hostess started to intro- dttce the groom to the Wife's friend, "Oli,** he interrupted brightly "I know Miss Rose very well. In fad, she substituted for my wife 'on our hOneymOOn.-44 Well, what shall it be first . . farm price prospects, the forth- coming general election or the American Sputnik? All are very much in the news and ll are bound to have some bear i ng on our ordinary everyday lives. Farm prices, so we are told, are expected to be somewhat higher, except possibly' in the case of eggs. (Case of ,eggs — no pun intended). Apparently there are dither too many eggs or not enough people to eat them. Or it could be 'that modern appe- tites demand something a little more fancy than plain old- fashioned egg dishes. Country people still use plenty and if town people used as many eggs as farm folk there soon wouldn't be enough to go round. Of course there is a reason why more eggs are used on the farm, Every day among the eggs that are gathered there are 'bound to be a number of cracks and culls. So eggs appear .on the •table in various ways just to use them up. Angel cake is no problem, Yes, and even the cats and dogs benefit. Collie has no objection to a few eggs dropped into his evening , meal and cats are equally appreciative. And oh dear, when one ii occupied in cleaning eggs how handy it is to have a cat or dog around — to clean up a dropped and bro- ken egg. Bad enough to have en egg break in your hand without having to scoop it up off the floor — just about the messiest job there is, A dog 'or cat's tongue does a far neater job. Years ago when Partner's ma-. ther was watching us I so well remember her coming to the sup, per table one night and exclaim- ing — What! Eggs again? First thing you know you'll have me looking like an. egg!" Poor grandma — soon after that she was back in England among bombs, doodle-bugs and ration- ing. Never again did she need to fear there Was any danger ut her looking like an egg. And now we have another sort of egg — a live egg, that's 'due, to hatch On March 31. The incu- bation period will be as chancy . as it always is and What the egg Will be When it is hatched is anyone's guess. it could be any breed: It tnight even be addled and then we wouldn't be any better off than we are hOW., Thank goodness the ;date (for hatching) Wasn't set for April I. If it had been 'there Would have been an ex tra big crop of annual April fools. Ditto — when cat — is about as crazy these days es a cat could be. Trie's' to datolt things on the TV screen; jumps oh to the window-tille to, catch„ the odd flies that the Venn sun has brought Otit;, and Wetted Still; thillkS the edge Of my coffee table is a good place to 'sha'r'pen her claws. I guess have to keep her away from the 'W When the election CM-1.'1061ga gets underway otherwise ,she might take a jump at Dieleobeleere nodding head or Mr. Pearson's bow-tie. Last, but no means least, there was all the excitement last week &bout the successful launching of the American satellite — "The Explorer" to give it its correct title. A tremendous number of people in many countries will be happy about that. And now there is another problpm . . who con- trols the regions of outer spree? Shall we soon need a special de- tachment of orbit traffic cops? But oh dear, I'm getting into deep water. It is all too fantastic for words. I think I'll get back to where I feel more comfort- able. And that is Daughter's birthday, which also took place last week, Being her mother my thoughts naturally turn back to this time over thirty years ago. Partner and I had been in Canada only six- months, then. We were liv- ing with a farm family on the Saskatchewan prairie. Towards the end of January I went to Moose Jaw to await the arrival of our first-born, Partner saw me safely settled down at a boarding-house And then went back to the farm, leaving me to a lonely wait. Five nights later my landlady phoned for a taxi- cab to take me to the hospital. I waited and waited and still the taxi did not come. My landlady phoned again. Yes, a taxi had been sent — something must have happened to it, they would send another. The• second one arrived and on the way through the city we passed the first taxi. One of its wheels had dome off! Daughter arrived in due course and ten days later I returned ,to the farm. And were Partner and I the proud parents! 'I remember we drove from the "depot" to the farni in' an open cutter 'at` 15 below zero. Dee Was known in the hospital as "the, good baby" At Home The most popular inhabitants of the (Flinders) Chase are un- doubtedly the Koala. Bears. These are of the. Victorian species with thick fur, grey ton- ing to brown, and very feathery ears. The home of the koalas by the Rocky River is a particularly beautiful wooded flat. The steep sandbanks run sheer down to the river bed on one side, and on e, the other bank the woods run north to steep limestone cliffs. The flat is a jungle of tail,. slim Manna Gums interspersed with larger trees, and carries a thick undergrowth of wattles, prickly bushes and dead branches. It is broken here and there by patches of sunlit bracken, as part of this country was cleared for barley growing when the old Rocky River station was worked as a farm. In the swaying tops of these tall trees the • little bears can usually be found, silhouetted against the sky, swinging in the wind, curled up asleep, or reaching out for gum-leaves. On a hot day they will curl up on a fork or limb and sleep mo- tionless for hours. Often if one is studying the branches of a big gum tree, what appears to be a knob or curly lerancle unroll itself, and turn out to be a koala moving off for a feed. In the evening they become act ive and perform some amusing acrobatic feats for such clumsy little aninials, 'swinging 'on the twigs as they search for a foot- hold .It was a source of, great joy to us the first time one ap- peared in the trees shading our camp and performed for our special benefit. He Was a very large, handsome buck, and cross- ed the river by Hof a big Sugar Gum leaning vUver' and. touching the branches of one on the other bank. The bears are, rarely seen on the _ground but they often descend by night to reach fresh feeding 'trees. The mother koala carries her baby in her Pouch for six months until he emerges in the spring, a dark, woolly little fellow,, and clings to her chest as she walks up the branches, or sits with him in her lap. Later•he crawls up on her back and reaches-.out for some leaves for himself, and if frightened may leave the mother and go right' up into the, top- most twigs., Our best vantage point for watching -these little bears was to climb the cliffs beyond the flat, until we were 'level with the tree -tops, and could look straight into their faces a few yards away, to their great ,sur- prise!—From "Flinders Chase," by Mervinia Masterman, Today's housewife has only to push a button to get the dishes washed. Her mother had to push a husband. Modern Etiquette AP 9 by Roberts Lee Q. is the guest of bowie asp. Posed to be the first person t* else from the table at the end of a dflanee A. No. The hostdsi is always the person who signalizes the end of a dinner by rising front her place, q. Just what is the proper role governing the removal of a =Ilea hat in an elevator? A. He removes his hat only in an elevator in a building where people live, such as a hotel or an apartment building. 'Me ale- vators of office and store build- ings are rated' as the street. Q. When there is no one wait- , ing on table, and the serving dishes are passed from hand to hand, are they passed to the left or to the right? A. To the right, so that the person receives the dish- in hie. left hand and helps himself' with the right. Q. Is it required that one loak. directly at another person au the time that person is talking with one? A. Of course, you imply closer attention to what the other per- son is saying if you look at him — but be sure this doesn't be- come a fixed stare. Q. Is it necessary to write a "thank you" note to a hostess who has entertained you infor- mally at dinner in her home? A. No; when leaving, be sure to tell her how much you have enjoyed your visit, and then sometime in the near future in- vite her to your home. ISSUE 9 — 1958, ty roam al/Lel* Decorative cover for a table or to use as a tablecloth for special occasions. Lovely on the round table so popular now or on an oblong table, Pattern 510; crochet directions for 54- and 64-inch cloth in string; 36,incli in No. 30 cotton. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1. 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, One Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, you NAME and ADDRESS. As a bonus, TWO complete patterns are printed right in our LAURA WHEELER Needle- craft Book. Dozens of other de- 'signs you'll want to order—easy fascinating handwork for your- self, your home, gifts, bazaar, items. Send 25 cents for your copy of this book today!" HE'S TH btsri Robert Gorman is reWardiri4 hit prite- Witinin§' th, OUltentove OroiniSe, with a tidbit diter the peddle won firsfpried at the Westminster' Kennel Club's 81rid AnnuOl Del Show at Meidisori Siludee 0Orclari, "Of course, I know you'll cal it a night gown for outdoor wear." DAMSEL IN DISTRESS—Lyiii§ 'told iihatterid ed in the Otter d d flre to tioh?ersity: Park, ol suburb of Dade, Tex, Rut the rie&ed ea body is °t If a fcishihn Mannequin, 'scorched in a $-I.S,O6C) blate whir{" wrecked five besineSt heildinOt.