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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-06-25, Page 2f,. va3/4 Upsr-, fiai.timit..4.411 iiiiittstios I i li -itiiiiiiumptim 1*-0.1.11A... ildilikliwgt1111 - rsitiss-Atilygrow, isvy. iiiiitik !I ,4. *MI v' MINI ifitill ..mmogiaium!„, piiirm•li'im -a,t,1 vitTiaiiio. . ty-fh.. 44.5 HRONICL INGERFARM evertdolit\e P. Clatke How The Queen Selects Dresses. Tie Queen does not like wear, ing extravagantly large hats.. either, and there is a good reason for this. The small close-fitting hats she prefers leave her face completely visible from all angles —a fact that women spectators at royal Junctions are elle' ys quick to, appreciate, Her dresses at such highspots of fashion as Ascot are always just the thing for the occasion, and bring forth admiration from everyone who sees her. In such events she must be ever more discerning than usual, for not only must she be fashionable but once again also has to cater for the public, nor critics, and Buffet went, back to his attic, ge,4tvcci there till 1948, when luck at last took a hand, A Monsieur Girardin, who had made a great name for himself as, an art connoisseur, was in. Yited to sit on the jury which awarded a "Young Painter's Prize" each year. Buffet entered, a picture, "The Seated Drinker," and qirardin liked it, He liked it so much, respite the indifference of the other judges, that he stalked out of the room in protest, slamming the door behind him, His action created a minor sensation. "Who is this Buffet?" People asked. Another connoisseur called Em- manuel David was sufficiently interested to find out and has been Buffet's agent ever since. It is said that to-day he pays Buffet $3,000 a month in, retnrn for the rights to sell his paint- ings, His client is quite happy with the arrangement. Any work outside painting bores and ap- pals him. He would not dream of haggling over a price. Only when he finds himself before a blank canvas, his white overall buttoned to the neck, does he become a dynamic force, painting without a break until the picture is finished. Week's Sew-thrifty PRINTED PATTERN NOT REVEALING PLANS--Pleading hands of newsmen confront Princess Soraya as she prepares to board the liner Queen Elizabeth in New York to sail for Germany. The former Queen divorced by the Shah of Iran after seven years of childless marriage, said that she "enjoyed" her stay in the U.S. Asked if she would ttll any of her future plans, she •said simply, "Im very sorry. When the Queen chooses new dresses, what colours, does she favour? It is well known that greens have always attracted her, but she• lea also fond of so- phisticated new colours, a Court iilashion correspondent States. The Queen likes, for instance, orange, coral, lilac, sapphire blue and mimosa yellow. Yellow has long been her favourite colour for sunshine fashion, On her Commonwealth, tour in 1953, six of the twenty or more outfits she, wore were in, yellow. They var• - ied from a sharp, acid yellow to a deep buttercup and the lovely pale shade of an organza party dress. Blue is another dress colour Which clearly fascinates the Queen. On her visit to Nigeria in 1956 she chose clear colours, including many blues and pinks and a lot of white because of the bright sunshine. When it comes to choosing clothes, the Queen, it is believed, has always been influenced by her mother. Back in her child- hood days as. Princess Elizabeth, she was hailed in the United States as "the world's most at- tractively dressed girl." were of her latest frocks were cabled to America to be mass - produced. Everywhere, from New York to San Francisco, small girls wore short puff-shoul- dered frocks of the type favoured by the little,Princess. One New York store, I remem- ber, came out with a prominent advertisement: "Princess Eliza- beth frocks, inspired by the sweetheart of the British Empire. Every mother will want her lit- tle girl to look as appealing and as cute as the little Princess — style arbiter in her own right." The dresses worn by the Queen during her early spring trip to Holland this year were a tre- mendous success with the Neth- erlands queen and her two daughters. Dress experts prais- ed the Queen's exquisitely groomed appearance and mar- velled at the 'smartness of her gowns. It has always been a tradition in the Royal Family to avoid the ultra-fashionable, the extra- vagant and the exotic in dress. FIREMEN FORGOT The Tokyo fire brigade were half-way through their weekly spit and polish when the alarm went. The men raced off in their, fire trucks to the scene of the fire and were almost there — when someone remembered. that both the hose nozzles were back at the fire station being polished. "Dear Anne Hirst; When my sweetheart was ordered ever- Seee ,egeentlyo he wanted us to ge Married immediately. We bought the rings, and made ar- rangements with our• pastor A 'few days latep he called up and seid to forget it; he wanted a real honeymoon and there wasn't time for it! , "The other day he wrote and said he wants to, end our engage- ment. I couldn't believe it, and neither will his family. My par- ents have been so generous that I can't bear to tell them. I wrote him and asked if there is another girl, and he denied it, "What am I to do? I simply cannot let, him go, I love him too much. Without him, I don't want to live. I'll do anything to get him back! If I have to admit we are through, all my rtiends will make fun of me, And how can I tell my family? MAD G E" * of character who shows ail her * friends how a lady behaves * under stress. * * * "Dear Anne Hirst: I don't know why my parents forbid me the privileges other girls, my age have, I'm a high-school senior, and an only child, They won't let me go anywhere with my girl friends, and I have never had a date; I just attend school, come home and do some housework and go to bed, Is this any way to live? "Why are my parents like this? I've never given them any trouble. I know it isn't because they love me! I even thought of leaving home, but that isn't right and besides, it might get me into trouble. Please advise me. MARGY" * I think you should certain- * ly be given more privileges A * girl 17 and a senior who has * never caused her family any * concern should be able to ron- * duct herself socially. * Whether you believe it or * not, the discipline that parents * practice is based on their love * for their children. They want * to protect a daughter, especial- * IY, from making the wrong * friends until she is old enough * to have good judgment. Yet if * you haven't at your age, when * will they exepct you to? * If you have been frank with * me, you should be allowed to * visit your girl friends, go with * them to movies and sports * events, and have dates with * nice boys your parents accept. * Ask your parents to read * this piece today. If your moth- * er would like to write me. I * shall be glad to have her letter. When you feel your heart is breaking, keep It to yourself. Go through the motions of living, and before long they will have a meaning of their own. A let- ter to Anne Hirst will bring you comfort and fresh courage. Ad- dress her at Box .1, 123 Eigh- teenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Proposed Marriage From The Pulpit Did Painting On Torn Bedsheets IT IS OVER * The young man has broken * the engagement, and the bit- o ter truth is you will have' to • accept it. Tell your parents im- mediately, they have the right o to know; they will be as o shocked as his people are, but • at him, not at you. They, with * your pastor, will help you * through these sorry days. * Why admit you were jilted? * Explain to your friends that * you have changed your mind, * and would rather not talk s about it. It is as simple as that. * Whether another girl is in- * volved really does not matter. * There is no getting thea boy * back, and a girl who respects * herself will not try. There is * nothing so impressive as sil- * ence, so don't write him again; * it will only annoy him. The * book is closed, and for good, o You say you haven't looked • at another boy since you met * him. Well, begin to look * around. Your friends will * spread the news, and other * boys you've known will prob- * ably ask for dates. Don't make * the mistake of turning them * down; going out will give you * less time to mourn, and keep • you in circulation. Unwelcome as the idea is, believe me it * will lift your spirits after a * time, and Soon you will realize • that the world must go on and * you must go with it. * I am so sorry! Giving up. * your dreams of marrying the * lad, you love is the most pain- * ful experience You have ever o known. But if you make the• * adjustment bravely, and with • your head high, you will prove • what you really are — a girl Favorite Roses Quick„ whip up these sun `ti• fun separates in a jiiffy—daugh- ter will rive in, play in, Jove them. Make• several versions of smock, shorts pedal pushers in , no-iron eaten, denim seersucker with our easy Printed Pattern. Printed Pattern 4707: Child's Sizes 2,, 4,, 6, 8'. Size 6 smock and shorts take 1x yards 35-inch. Printed directions on each pat- tern part Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (40e) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print ,plainly SIZE, NAME ,ADDRESS STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box. 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto Ontario. ASKS DIVORCE — British-born actress Deborah Kerr has filed suit for divorce frorm her hus- band, film and TV producer Anthony- C. Bartley. Miss Kerr, 36, has charged Bartley, 38r with extreme cruelty and asked the HollywoOd'Court for custody ISSUE 26 — 1958 If you find a proposal of mar- riage in your next package of cigarettes, don't get alarmed. Ci- e• garette manufacturers are taking' steps to end "proposals by pack- age,' the messages dropped into packs by cigarette factory girls who plead: "If you're a bachelor, please write!" Yet there's more than one way of snaring a spouse, A worker in a cardboard box factory knew there were plenty of budding brides he a margarine' factory seventeen miles away. So he dropped a note into one of his boxes: "Lonely bachelor would like pen friend." The pen pals later met and decided to wed—and one of the wedding gifts was a boX of margarine." In Montreal, newlywed cou- ples always .thanked the parson and little guessed he was yearn- ing to share their happiness. Until one day he stood up in the pulpit and simply announced, "I'm lonesome, and I want to get married. If there's any willing lady present, will she please stand up?" The Congregadon stayed very quiet. No ,One rose. But there were three eligible lad`- in the vestry _afterwards., A northern boy couldn't pro- pose to his girl because' he.found himself too shy to talk to her. He was better on the telephone, especially when he found a' way of calling her long-distance without 'paying for the calls. After his seventh free call, po- lice were waiting outside the box. He was fined £10 for steal- ing electricity but had to admit that he thought the fine worth it. Love laughed at the coin boxes, for the seventh call was the time .he managed to blurt out his proposal. Another bride was bagged during a high dive from the top board at a London swimming bath. Just as the athletic young man took off, a girl dived from a lower board. They crashed head on under water and were taken to hospital. Their friend- ship ripened during convale- scence and—a tiny diving board was built on the wedding cake. BUNKERED No doubt golfing professional Jock McKinnon of Vancouver. British Columbia thought him- self well and truly in the rough when he learned from doctors that he was allergic to grass. „ Not every great painter starves in a garret. Bernard Buffet, a twenty-nine-year-old. Parisian, lives in a beautiful villa,• runs several motor cars arid works only when he feels like it. He has been nicknamed by Ameri- can tourists, "The Painter With The Golden Arm." Yet Buffet began in squalor. Son of a bicycle dealer in a poor quarter of Paris, he was for years his father's despair. He would never play with other children and refused work at school. "I don't know what he'll ever be capable of doing in life," his father used to say. There was just one thing that the young and skinny Bernard did enjoy doing—painting. Ma- terials were the trouble. His "canvases"—which to-day sell at thousand of pounds a time—were then the sheets he stole off his grandmother's bed. He had to save the dry grains when he came to the end of each tube of Paint, for there was never enough money to buy another. But for his mother who stood by him and encouraged him dur- ing all this time and who'eventu- ally persuaded his father, to let him go to evening classes in art, he would never have made the grade. Bernard eked out his existence on morsels of bread, giVen him at art school by companions whom he helped with their painting. Relief seemed to be at hand when he won a scholarship worth two hundred francs. Somehow his mother scraped up some more money, and Buffet was sent to the seaside for the first time in his life. When, he returned, it was to find that his mother had died suddenly. He was more iso- lated than ever. He left home and went to live in an attic. There he had not even his grandmother's sheets to paint on. He managed teh obtain strips of sheets which a neigh- bour sewed together for him. Ise valeked in a freezing room With the sheets nailed to the wall. Hard though Buffet worked, his paintings never seemed to satisfy him, He felt that he had not yet touched his best. When his pictures were finish- ed, he either threw them away, or Used them to stop holes in the window. life first chance came in 1946 and was Miserably lost, ke" ex hibited a couple of pictures in A so-called slid* by "Itideaierie dents," which caught the eye of Michel Brietit, a boakselleta Brient arranged an exhibitibri of Buffet's *three in an` art dealer's shop on the Left Hank. On the day of the show Parisian transport was Halted by a strike!' Nobody Caine, neither Patton§ posed to kill the insects on con- tact—so here's hoping it works. And now for news nearer home. Quite close to where we are living is the home of a well- known personality — known to thousands of women across Can- ada through the medium 9f ra- dio, books and magazine article's. No less a person than the one and only Kate Aitken. Yester- day Mrs. A. entertained mem- bers of four women's organiza- tions to, a tea at her home in the Credit Valley. I had been past the `place dozens of times before but ' had never quite realized what a grand spot it is: From the road it appears just a nice house among the trees. But drive up to the house, explore the sur- roundings on foot and you im- mediately realise that Mrs. A. is first and foremost a woman of vision. Sometime. or other she must surely have wandered along the banks of the Credit River and realised what a wonderful spot it would be for a country residence. At that time there was one house on the property. Now there are two. Mrs. Aitken lives in one house, a married daugh- ter and her family in the other —in what used to be "The Spa." Mrs. Aitken's beautiful house is home and office combined. But. such an office! She calls 'it "the Green Room." One wall is en- tirely -of glass overlooking an expanse of trees, lawn and ower beds. A recessed area is obviously strictly for the busi- ness of typing, dictating and composing. Another recess is a sort ,of reading-room with a log- burning fireplace. And of course, there are all kinds of "books and bookshelves. I can't begin to de- scribe the ,other. rooms—all very lovely, furnished with charm, and functiOnal simplicity. From every window there is a Magni- ficent v.ieW. From the patio, steps lead down to a restful spot among the trees; more steps to a rustic bridge overlooking the Credit ,River,, with great oaks and elms towering overhead. There are many equally beauti- ful spots along the Valley of the aCredit but it took a woman with Kate Aitken's imagination to realise what a home could be amid such surroundings. It would also require what it takes to run such a place! But the vision came first. That is what really counts. We certainly have reason to be concerned about the present dry weather but at least we don't have to worry about grass- hoppers as farmers do in the prairie provinces. And believe' me that is something for which we should be truly 'thankful. Every few years grain growers and home gardeners out West are faced with this deadly men- ace ;,o their crops—and this year they .'are threatened again. No one, except those who have lived through such an experience — as we did — can possibly ima- gine what a grasshopper plague can do. Unless contrelled they can clean off a field in a few days leaving it as bare as a reaper would do. Walk along the edge of a field of wheat or oats and a cloud of, hoppers rise up ahead of you. It would seem that grasshop- pers have always menaced the prairie districts even as far back as the pioneer days. In a history of the North-West Territory I came across this notation: "the summer was favourable and the fields soon assumed a promising appearance, but on the 18th July, 1818, the sky suddenly became darkened by clouds of grasshop- pers, and as they descended ,on the earth in' dense Swarths 'they destroyed every green thing be- fore them. The settlers managed to save a little grain, but not a vegetable was left in the gar- dens. The same thing hap- pened again the folloWing year, and the settlers had to move to Pembina for the winter, other- wise they would have died of starvation." Well, it was a hundred years later, almost to the very day, that Partner and I started farm- ing on, the Saskatchewan prairie. I think it was the following year we were almost eaten out by grasshoppers. An appeal on be- half of the farmers was made to the government and as a result poison bait mixed with sawdust, bran and molasses was made available to the farmers. This had to be scattered over the fields before daylight. I so well remember Partner loading the buggy with hundred-potind bags of bait and starting out for the fields by 3 O'clock in the Morn- ing, But that was not all. In the afternoon he had to .drive nine miles With wagon and team to 'pick up his , Supply of bait ftom the Depot ready for broadcast- ing the follOwing morning be- fore daybreak. WO managed to Save seine -Of the crop but the loss Wag still quite considerable.' And apitt fterit the financial loss it was a miserable experience living among the hoppers: They Were every where, SeiriehoW they Would find access to the house and eVen to the food "ready for thatable. And if YOU were Walk= ing near a field=-or even in the garden—the impact Of the crea- tures would sting Your tate as they fieW up and around you. rotttihately science has nOW de= veloped hew technitrue for dealing With the hoppers`_ DDT 'preparation,Miked with Water' arid Spraye on infested areas by Weed :sprayers horn the ground, bt' by eileatiS of helie topteri titre the air: it is sup- Modern . Etiquette . by Roberta Lee C;64:411.4 VI 612A Dreatn gift for the bride or bride-at-heart! Beatttify a bed set, gtieet towels, scarf ends. Easy 8-to-inch crosses' — use shaded effect in 6-strand cotton, Pattern 668: trensfet of one 7 x 19v2 inch motif; two 5% x 1214; directions' for crocheted edging, Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for Safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Bak 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, N':W Toronto Ontario. 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"PEEK" OF Oktitibki straw hat, WhiCh. comes Complete with sunglasses, , outi them till in 0;6' *ilidde.„ The peekaboo eyes lOn416 Mery Lou ithodes,, whO'S hiddeltrin' the hat LEAP INTO MARRIAGE,,-Showing what the Well-dreited. bride .grOani will wecit4ii' one case—Alberta' de di.ittotoed ad. • juqo the .patdetipte harness of his ficinced tappOne, i9 in Turin, The couple. will wed in an. unusual Manner this Month Wrier' thley and parCitrOap Chaplain Line Eteito luittot freiin,„ plohe. Bidned and Alberta hope to be and WifiC loy the time they reach the grOUndi.