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The Brussels Post, 1959-07-09, Page 6• IN HOLLYWOOD, A MONKEY SHINES - Fuzzy, the monkey, Is on Claud Nine even if he's not the space-travelling type. The hairy one mimics actresses Barbara Eden left, and Merry An- ders of 'TV's "How to Mai'ey a Fizzy' has a key role in the production. ' 100 In the topsoil for relief of rheumatism and other ailments. Some of the products of char- latans have an ancient history, A turn-of the-century fashion in ample bosoms produced 'Bust-O- rrin the eurreat bosorn-cons eious fad has resulted in 4'Kurv- On,“ "La Contour" and "Charm- On," which, says the Food and Drug Administration, ohave about the same effect, on the de- '410innent or structure of the female breast es. Smith Brothers cough drops," The "magic detec- tor" of Dr, Albert Abrams, a roaring success in the 20's, pop- ped up again last year in San Fransisco, The detector enabled. Dr. Abrams to "tune in on the electric vibrations coming from a droip' of blood and tell exactly what disease the patients were suffering from," Not all such examples are amusing, Use of the mails for medical quackery, according to Postmaster General Arthur Sum- merfieltl, is at an elitism, high. Millions fall for quackery be- cause their own physicians' ad- vices is undramatic, especially in Beldi such as cancer, where the physician cannot guarantee a ewe.. An, estimated $500 million annually is', spent by a 'duped public onirnisredresented" drugs or remedies solid door to door. - From TIME Q. What amount of tip, is It etistosnary la give ter a bellboy 'Who 'beings a telegram to' (sine's hotel room? A. Not less -than twenty-five cents. Jiffy Halter C444an Wheat Variedi flowers lend colorftsl touch to this jiffy wrap halter that tops shorts, slacks;, skirts. Little yardage - use' renmants. Pattern 572:; pattern pieces and transfer; misses', sizes small 10- 12; inedlem 14-ICis large. .18'-20; directions for sewing.. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cant-let be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123. Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Wild plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS'. Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It has lovely designs to order: em- broidery, crochet, knitting, weav- ing, editing, toys. In the book, a special surprise to Make a little girls happy - a cuttout doll, clothes to color. Send -25 cents for this book. SIZES 141/2 -241/2 4776 "Dear Anne 1-lirst; Before Thanksgiving I expect to marry a yeeng man I've been engaged to for two years, bet as the day nears I realize hove different our concepts of married life are. Don't get Mg wrong --- I never have doubted his love, and we agree on almost everything that matters. But marriage means more than that., "Now and then he likes tq drink WO much, though. I've never been with him when he has, I've also had some of our regular dates postponed because at the last minute he decided to join the boys in a card game. All of them are still single, and it has got me worried; as his wife I wonder whether I'd be spend- ing more evenings at home wait- ing for him to come? "That is not my idea of mar- riage. "I want a home ,with him, net without him; I love children, arid I want mine to have • a father they can grow up with. During our engagement we Have spent. most evenings at parties or Shows, alierays on the go (his choice, not mine) and have taken little time out to talk over plan- ning our house, discussing a budget and the intimate give- and-take of two people Sho exs pect to spend the rest airtime under one roof, WORRIED" DANGER SIGNS * It is not essential thatida men • and his fiancee haverdevery- • thing in common, but toi8eoose * one whose living pattern is sb * opposed to your own is to e • start a la°irdt. of temperamente • shat lead to disillusion if .• not disaster. • Your picture of marriage is • sharing a home with your thus- • band, raising a family with * that home the center of your • life and theirs. There must be • love, naturally, but love alone • cannot guarantee a contented • life for either, of you. If your * fiance expects to continue find- • ing his pleasures with his men • friends you two would be in • conflict from the 'end of Your • honeymoon. • Whatryou want is content- • ment within your own walls, • a spiritual companionship, la * sense of well-being based on * just being togethere • Can it be that you have • nothing in common but a phy- • sieal love? Gather: up your • courage arid find' out whether • your fiance intends to be a • part-time husband whose home • is a place to eat and sleep - or * whether he will give up play- a ing at life and follow the de-, • sign of couples who rate ,a nab • family relationship first: • If two people (even in love) Half-Size Play Suit PRINTED PAT i t.tais1 , Modesty plea figure flattery in playsuit deftly designed for. *Ott' WHO ate alierteie gate bresdoneealitig traps built-up` bodice.. EaSYstetteS Printed .Pattetri 4778: Half Sizes IN, 160, 181h, 2O%. 21%, 24%. Size X1,6 i requires, 2% yard's' 36-inth fahria. Print taidieeiCtiorid. on each tett part. Eager, edentate. Send FORTY C'ENTS (gtatilItS, Mit ebe aedepteds postal ii6te foi• Safety)f-or tiffs pattern. Please 'Print . SiZ WASTE, ADijitESSi Stitt kitatiAtt. Senclt order "to Aitilt • 1, .1, 123 Eighteenth Ste. Nittf lireforited Qrst,• • do not enjoy spending their • • leisure hours together, mar- * riage soon becomes a farce. It • is for yonx fiance to decide • which kind of living design • you both can agree upon. DANGERQUS PItEAMS "Dear Anne Hirst; I have fal- len in love (after four dates), with a young man 19 who was raised abroad. Now he wants me to go steady, "My young sister dated him meantime, and is telling a story about him which. I know it not true; my parents insist he is not our kind (whatever that is) and won't let him come here any- more, Is that fair? Or is it be- cause he comes from a poor fam- ily? Should your parents choose your friends for you? "Shall I sneak out to see him? Now I'm home nearly every night, listening to music that brings me thoughts of him. IN LOVE" Because your parents dis- approve of the young man, you question their right to say whom you shall date; because your sister has told of your meeting him, you blame your mother for believing her. You are in a dangerous mood. These conclusions re- flect your resentment that you * 'cannot do as you please. A girl * that declares she is in love *ewith a boy she has dated four 'times reveals an irresponsibil- * Sty and emotional unrestraint • that can lead her into trouble. * Certainly parents have the * right to say whom a young • daughter should see; who else * can protect her 'from' dating * the wrong friends? - • Don't sneak out to meet him. • Deceit is a costly gesture, and • it would cheapen you even to • him. Accept your parents' rule • for the time being at least, and • play fair, Marriage is not fee adolescents whose happiness consists of good times. for-grownups ready to settle down and share the rich- est experience,life hdlds. Anne Hirst will give you' her opinion of your problem if you write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. That Last Puff! Ever since statistics began to point to some connection be- tween cigarette smoking and lung cancer, the world's tobacco industries hay been devising ways to cut down the effects of tars and nicotine. Last week the Swedish tobacco monopoly settled on a fraction-of-an-inch policy; the last puffs do more harm than the first. Testing 19 lOcal and 18 foreign brands, the Swedish Institute for Peo- ple's Health found that Icings sized cigarettes give the smoker more tars and nicotine if smoked to the same stub as a regular, much less than a.regu- lar if smoked only ids. 1.78 inches, the usual length of a smoke for regulars. Convinced that the trouble comes in the last few puffs, the tobacco monopoly took ads to warn, "Don't get too close," printed two thin rings on its king sizes at 178 inches to show where the cigarette should be stubbed out. But Swedish smokers cyni- cally saw the campaign as a means of selling more cigarettes, puffed right on past the new warning rings. TAIL• IS . TOLD, — Rest of ih• plan* is snug Inside, but thrk . gigantic tail of a DC-7 Is out In the weather. Special elliptical doors in a nevi- motion-dollar- plus hangar provide 4ot the outslzi planet.• 'two planes,. nos•-o‘noes, tan thus be Work= awl in In' iridorit coniferti Partnet is still counting the cost of a few blackfly bites. He took. penicillin until hi& system rebelled, then,, as the ,infection was still there the doctor swit- ched him on to antibiotics. 'He is no* well on the road to re- covery after having lost hiseap- petite, five pounds in :weight and thirty dollars in money. NSW, tbe mOsquitoge are haying their innings' but at least they can only sting' Mice Whereae the blackfly, if Telt undisturbed, can continue his blood-sucking activities indefinitely.. Time was when, birde and bigger insects lOokedd after smaller insects, such as grubs, flies and 'mosquitoes; and' kepTt them more or less under -dim- 'trot. Then insecticides were in- vented :as a :-means of mass slaughter and for awhile the, in- sect population was considera- bly reduced, Gradually they built up a resistance to poisdn sprays "and Managed' stirvide. ••-"' :dee:sussed Isy the birds. Un- fortunately the birds.- also suf- fered - through eating poi- soned insects. It's a vicious circle which ever way yoU ldok at it. Man, with the best in- tentions in the worlde has upset nature's balance and now he can't find a way to restore it,,,. Take rabbits, for instance. Do you know we are likely to have a superabundance of cotton- tails this fall. 'Why? Simply on account of the widssspreace slaughter of fosses last year A3 a means of controlling the ra bies epidemic. So . fewer foxes, more rabbits. And as we certainly don't want rabies to increase I guess we'll just have to put up with the rabbit's. However, eery few years there is a fatal disease among rabbits that keeps their population urn der control. Given a chance nature does a pretty good job of maintaining a balance. With human interven- tion you never know. I remember so well what hap- pened one year at Ginger Farm. A neighbour was pestered with starlings and crows in his corn- field. Finally he put out poison- ed bait - that is, corn soaked with, a strychnine solution It worked in snore ways than one. Birds ate the poisoned corn and died, Our favourite barnyard cat ate a poisoned bird and died too, We found the poor dear al- ong the line fence, heading for home and her 'family of kit- tens. Very !often Much the seine fate awaits domestic cats and dogs who persist in rifling neighbourhood garbage cans, The only way to prevent a dog forming this objectionable habit is to keep him at home. Ilven a Well-fed dog loves to hunt away from his own backyard. • I re- member one feritti dog near the edge of a entail town Who cams lectitie One day With half a Cooked hare His mistress never did find out Where that herri bailie froth, At, ancithet house visiting puppy found the "frig" door eilieti and made Oft with the rer<tains of ei roast Of heel, Ceti that Is, properly led Ceti, Os more easily' controlled. For yenta We fed our cats bread and and table scraps. Oh. That ittet, it took a lot of train- zing to? keep „them , frOm trig. But we have finally solved the problem,but list Oro -Ceti hit*. been, fed on cOntinetdial kibbled meal and canned meat. And they are simply not inter- ested in any other 'kind of food. For the same reason they never go snoopihg around garbage cans. Buying proper food for' cats costs a little 'extra but it is certainly worth it.; that is if you value your pets and like to be able , `to trust them in the kitchen and elsewhere. Speaking of keeping -things derider control I met my match yesterday. For years we' have had e• cot-sized down-filled tick around the hotiSe: 'But who' wante sleep on such a thing nowadays? However you don't throw out anything' filled with down without a second 'thought. I could see doer -good pillows in that tick. It looked like , a simple matter. But oh boy, what, I let myself in• for! The minute I cut into the' ticking the down began to fly -- fortunately was in the basement. I. soon had' down, all over the table, the floor and myself., .I had mos- quito Ointment. on my arms and neck and the down stick to it closer. thane brother.,EXCept for the down being white you might ,,have thought I'd been • tarred., and feathered. I basted, the end of the first pillow and took it- outside. Then I folded the rest cif the ticking over and pinned it. Cleaning up_ -the mess was my next problem - and that I was most anxious to do before, Partnee came around! Even with a vacuum it was quite' a job. Just get the blower •end of the tank in the wrong direc- tion and the flying cldwn would be thicker than snowflakes in a blizzard. The next Ihtee pil- lows I shall do outdoors. And how the little birds will love the down for lining their nests. Speaking of birds a few minutes ago a Baltimore oriole dune quite close to the house intent on a feast of caterpillars from trees near the kitchen door. Throw Them Away --Or 5urn Thom: Alarmed by the suffocation of 55 children this year by plastic bags, the U.S. plastic's industry last month launched a million dollar common-sense campaign to preserve safety, aleng with its 3 billion-bag-a-year business (estimated $30 million in sales) In full-page advertisements iii 117 major newspapers across the nation, the industr'y warned: "Never keep a plastic bag after it has served its intended useful- ness. Destroy its tear it up and throw it away." Since some 70% of the coun- try's 55,000 dry cleaners have switched to plastic bags, they in- S.AterS.sseets *iv j KNOT THEM - The safe way to dispose of plastic garment bags, Plastics industry, Inc., advises, is to tie them in knots and, throw them in covered gar- bage cans. The irdustry is start- ing a campaign to make, sure the bags are handled safely. istStiE 28` Russia's Sex Modes Suit Billy Graham The usual crowds, of admirers and autograph hunters were missing when 13111y landed at Motc6w's airport, In his party: boyhoods pal and associate Grady Wiesen; 'hie , male secretary and two U.S, businessmen - Print- ing Tycoon William Jones, ,who had persuaded Graham to take the trip, and Department Store Owner Henderson Belk, who was taking Bible intruction from Billy enroute. Sightseeing with American reporters and an In- tourist guide, Billy did a double take at the large gold crosses atop the • Kremlin churches. "There is a symbol I never ex- pected to see here," he said. "I hope it has meaning for the fu- ture." Russian tourists, gaping at paintings of Jesus Christ in the Kremlin's Cathedral of the As- sumption, equally astonished him. "A tender, moving thing. — Never, never did I expect to find this in the Kremlin." He never expected to find a bevy of French models in Dior dresses in the Kremlin either, but ther.esttheY were dfor Dior fashion show), and Billy hesitantly consented to pose `for photo's with two of there. Said he: "I wish my wife we're here." He was:the honored guest at a Baptist Sunday service held in a larte Wadden hall 'crammed with more than 2,500 worship- pers, most of them women. But he did not preach. He had the wrong kind of visa. Russian Bap- tist leaders explained politely: "It is not eustomary here to have tourists preach." Perhaps this would be possible on his next visit, they added, and Billy asked to be shown the mammoth Lenin Stadium, which seats 100,000. ("I knelt and asked God," he said later, "that some day. it will be filled with' people iistening to the Gospel.") In Paris last month, after five days of Intourist tourism, Bap- tist Graham told reporters he had not been surprised when Russian religious - leaders told him that atheism was declining and religion rising in the U.S.S.R. "I could le-ad "on the faces of the people a greatespirit- nee hunger, and the sort of in- security that only God can solve," he said. "We don't like Cdmmunism, but we IeVe the Russian people." Tourist Graham also had a good word to say for "the high standard of Russian morality" and the "morel purity" of Rus- sians as compared to the broad- daylight sex life he had observed in London parks. Said Billy: "I did not see• one person walking down the street with an arm around another. We went to a park where thousands of young people were gathered. They heed hands, but they were very dis- ciplined." Quackery Revived Elisha Perkins was reputed to be able to cure almost any kind _ of ailment with two small pieces of "magnetized" metal:? A couple of: centuries ago, his "magnetic tractors" allegedly drew diseases out of such celebrities as George, Washington. He was, discredited only when his magnetic tractors were discovered to be two pieces of ,painted wood. Since Melte Perkins' day, medical charlatan- ism has made great strides, notes Dr: William H. Gordon in the medical magazine GP. Frequssfit- ly the quackery is keyed to news of medical progress. Use of radioactive isotopes in medicine, for example, inspired some Co- manche County, Texas entrepre- neurs to -sell packages of their local topsoil, which contained feint traces of uranium. Patients were supposed 'to sit with their dustry is geared to turn out .the thin, transparent film coverings, and does not want to switch back to paper. What worries many of the 35 producers of 'plastic bags is that laws will be passed ban- ning the use of the bags. New York City now requires that warning labels be placed on plas- tic bags, and other restrictive legislation is pending in various states. Despite the deaths( most have been enfants who smothered on plastic bags misused as crib mat-. ress covers), cleaners across the country report that consumers overwhelmingly prefer plastic to paper fie' covering shirts and suits. After, the 27 members of the Knoxville, Tenn, Laundry and Dry Cleaners Association agreed publicly to discontinue plastic bags and shelve $100,000 worth of bag-processing equip- meet, they found that customers (by a, 50-to-1 margin) demanded the bags, What the plastics industry is after is a porous bag that 1) Will not cling to the face, 2) will not generate static. electricity. Some manufacturers have tinned to making combination plastic and paper bags, while Other key pro- ducers,.such as National Distill- ers' KOrdite Corp., are return- ing to the heavier, more expens sive plastic they first Used to make bags three years ago. They believe that heavier-guage bags are less dangerous because they de not cling to the skin as read= In the search for a' safer product. Technical Tape Corp., NeW Rochelle, 'N.Y.; a major producer of 'plastic bags ha$ de- wised a corrugated 'Plastid With thoesends of tiny air' corridors that perMit breathing, But most of all, the -plaStic Makers are counting on public education. Says Harry Betibetg, ,president' of New York's Spot,, leas Store§ (200 stores): 'Plastic bags are -something new, and people have get to learn ehodt. them thedWay they learned abed riiatches,. razor .blades and giths:'' e-so From TIME LOVE THAT OUtitit .year'F hischum `ion adiii~res p iiottet.1 , :the Winged. 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