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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-08-20, Page 6fl otil4 fanz4* 4,1244,41 41-4-.‘ =112-eeeeeZer. deeeeee„,eseee:,eeeeee'sSeeeeeeeeleee • • • • eee 0110 gog. ee? •••••• 10/ trela,/ corner Bay S Wellington Sti.i tOtoritd, Oht. EMiitra 2-1911' Attlieliiex • Satre setei`• tweleie • lOrentri PETTICOAT MARINER Breaking all seafaring traditions, actress Joan O'Brien takes an excursion on a submarine in her new movi,:4ttii4l'otion Petticoat." ONICLES ItiaRFAte * "Pear Anne Hirst; X was a lonesome widow for over tave years, and then Z met a man who is almost as wonderful ea my husband. was, rrom the day we nee% we have been seeing each other alneest constantly, and care More all the time, We ere so compatible that just being to- gether is enough, "So why don't we get mar- ried? "There isn't money enough,. „His ,incence ::ban enel,y „himself, and, two leapeeelego' he Vecarne'partially disabled though I-, otherwise he is, in good heath' Wt.- along, on'eny husband's • pensicen.'but,, an: any a eme'rgency we would be hard put to it for cash. - . 'Shall we, take a,.'chance,?. Ore ) stop seeing ,each Othereentirely? DISTRESSED" CAN YOU HELP? * My first thought is to say go * ahead, but one must be prac- * tical. Have you ever worked? * Bad -any business training? * Many a young woman is hold- * ing down a job today who * never expected to, Can't you? * Consult a few employment * agencies and ask their advice; • they may have suggestions you. * haven't considered. Also fon; * low the help-wanted ads in * this newspaper. * Let all your friends know • liow anxious you are to aug- o ment your income, and follow o up any lead they offer. The • more people that learn your * need, the earlier it will be met. * Are you a good cook? Per- * haps there is a demand in your * neighborhood for homemade * cakes, desserts and other dish- * es you can prepare at home. * The Woman's Exchange or a * similar group can tell you. • Perhaps this man can find a * part-time job that will not o over-tax his strength. (A talk * with his physician should be * helpful.) Employers are grow- * ing more agreeable to employ- o Mg the disabled, and oppor- • tunities are opening up for • them to prove their worth, * In these days of high prices, • I am amazed to learn how * many couples are getting along * on incomes they would have * thought a pittance some yearsl, * ago. They. have lowered their • living standards, true; but * they believe in themselves and * each other, and have enough * love and understanding to be * content "just to be together." * Attack the 'problem, both of * you, with all your imagination * and energy. Leave no field un- * examined. With inspiration of * your gOal, you may be sur- * prised how soon you will suc- o coed. • I do hope so. It is a shame Smart Traveler PRINTED PATTERN Wonderful day in, day -out dress — easy to sew with a mini- ;Mn of seeing, darts and finish ing details. Crisp cellar, smart bodice xdetail, figure-flattering skirt. Choose gay cotton. Printed Pattern 4643: Missa Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 26: 40, 42. Sites 16 takes 4% yards 35-itich- Printed directions On each net, fern part. Easter, accieratse. Send' FIFTY OtNTS (50O) 'stamps cannot be accepted, postal note for aalfetY) fot this aaatterri. Pleaet print plainly SIZE; 14 A M lit. ADDRESS, 'STYLE NUMBER, I send order to ANNP. AbAIVIS, I,, 123 Eighteenth St., NeW ?Toronto, Ont. • L * that two nice people so. well Suited should have to live apart, Good luck!. * * ADVICE TO TOE AGED "Dear Anne 1-lirst: So many older people seem to be burdens to others these days that I feel impelled to suggest ways they can prepare earlier for their re- tiring years. "Living fully for today, and being thenlefu,1 to God for it, is a ,e safe Mate. During, ypen)yOung years learn to do something that wilt bring you employment and when ageNeernes upon You can 1`),9- e4jOYeal then, too. Get a hob- by. 11 yOn tan work, keep work- ing at something that will bring a„ense,aafeadthitveinent now and t IrezYjf::one's health declines, they will have a con- tented mind, Put yourself in God's hands, and never forget to exercise your faith. "Too many old people I know today never learned early enough how to get the most out of life, If they had, they could be won- derful assets to their family! PRACTISING", * It is in the time of their * youth that men and women * should plan for their declining * years, while they are still ac- * tive enough' to develop and * pursue activities that will keep * them interested the rest of • their lives, Your advice puts it * clearly before them as one's * duty to others, * There are few burdens so trying as having to live with " an aged person whose mind • and heart have emptied them- * selves of life's real values; and * there is nothing so inspiring • as older folks who refuse to * lose their enthusiasms for life. • Thank you. When two people love each other and have faith, there is almost no limit to what they can accomplish. If you are concerned about the future, ask Anne Hirst's opinion. Write her. at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Real Dog-Lovers. When 'flames roared through the library of his , Derbyshire mansion recently, Hugh Molson the Minister of Works, dashed into the room in his pyjamas to save his ten-year-old golden La- brador, Caesar. He also saved valuable books, paintings and furniture from the blaze, but afterwards his wife Nancy declared: "I was more re- lieved when he brought out the dog." Heart-warming stories of peo- ple's consideration for their dogs are told almost every day. For instance, Wally Watts, of South- sea, has made a pair of rubber boots so that his seventeen-year- old mongrel Scruffy can keep his paws dry when it's raining. You don't 'count the cost of dogs in money, says Phillip Op- penheimer, the London diamond merchant. When he lost his dog, Poacher, on the way to the of- fice, he immediately put adver- tisements in newspapers offering £60 reward, Full of anxiety, Mr. Oppen- heimer waited. Then, three hours later, he had a telephone call from a police station: "We've found your dog." He had been found wandering in the road. But this devotion between dog and owner is not by any means a one•ovay traffic. Quite a few folk have recently been saved from peril by their pets, For instance, just before aloe- ing time a man attacked Walter Page in his pub in Dulwich Vil- lage, London, throwing pepper in his face and coshing him with a bottle. Luckily, Mr. Page has a black and white mongrel called Smudge, who flew at the attack- er and chased him away, "If it hadn't been for Sinudge, I'm sure the man would have taken the cash from the till," said Mr. Page's wile, Police dogs, of Course, are well known for their intelligence and courage. One of the best is Dante, seven-year-old Alsatian of ,the Metropolitan Police, who trapped a gang of safebreakete iii his off-duty hours. 'et" -ett"lei not -StilY One le a tittle ten, teat- "bet you"re I Alit, lion in AIMS .70 PLEASE Sherry O'Shea practices with an old muzzle loader on the bluffs overlooking Huntington, W.Va., for the Cabell County Sesqui- centennial. How To Cut Red - Tape — Fast! Ever hear the one about the boy just in from the country who let a city stinker 'talk him into buying the Brooklyn Bridge? It got a lot of yuks back in the days when granddaddy wore knickers. The boy went onto the bridge and started to collect tolls. Someone called the cops. Enter, cops, Exit, cops with boy, Cui.fain Laughter, That ancient wheeze came true in Washington last month — but the laughs were on the govern- ment, The story began last Septem- ber, when; Doug M. Smiley, 50, a busy and amiable real- estate man, signed the-papers for the 17 acres of scrubland that lie adjacent to one of the na- tion's most heavily traveled ex- pressways (five cars a second at peak load), the Baltmore-Wash ington Highway, U.S, 1. Smiley intended to develop the land for industrial purposes. A title company, searching the ancient deeds through the Prince Georges County courthouse, found that the property includ- ed a right-of-way — 10 feet across and 215 feet long — that gave access to a long-forgotten country road. The small right-of- way lay directly athwart the Washington-Baltimore Highway. Somehow, in the original con- demnation proceedings, the Fed- eral Bureau of Public Roads had missed the tiny plot on its sur- veys. Unlike the boy who bought the Brooklyn Bridge, once. Smiley found he had title to this bonanza; he had only one idea — to get rid of it. "I knew it would just be a headache," he said last month. "I just wanted to clear the title," But, under the rules for stand- ard operating procedure hi Washington bureaucracy, it took Smiley six months to get some- one to listen to him. He called the Bureau of Public Roads. They turned him over to the Department of the Interior. In- terior thought he ought to con- cult the National Peek Service. Parks sent him beck to Public Roads. And so on. As the months went by, Smiley found all this less amusing. Filially he tried a new tack, Re called up the Interior De- partment and told them that, since the government didn't seem to care whether he owned the property or not, he intended to turn a profit. He was going to put a toll gate straight across the highway, Smiley said. ' "Of course, I lied no such in- tention," he said. "But the man at the ether end of the phone said "My God, you'll make 6 for. tuner And, boy, did I get aettetv. Ife did indeed. By the Week. end„ the Interior liepeettrient'S legal staff had already begun work to take his right-of-Way off MS hands... The stare,' Was Over. txit Smiley, smiling, Otirtain. Laugh., ter. Front NtiAISVittlk. A Ttiothet4r140v IS referee with an interest in one tef the fighteti, We have another grandson . . . 8 pounds, 4 ounces -- and he arrived fourteen minutes al-, ter his mother reached the hos- pitalt On March 12, at , 2,44 a.m.. to_ be exact. We are thankful he was born in the hospital and not befOre Joy got there. Appar- ently he is a fine, healthy boy. ha'ven't seen him yet but 'I heard a lusty pair of lungs Over the, telephone. Naturally I would love to have a peek at him but at the moment I am fully occu- pied looking after his big bro- ther -Ross. He isn't very big at that — two years and two weeks old — as active, as they 'come but very obedient. And believe me, that is about as big a help as grandparents can have. This is the first time away from home for Ross and there hasn't been a, whimper out of him — except when he fell outside and scraped his face, which makes him look like a young prize-fighter and hasn't improved his appearance at all, Morning, aternoon and eve- ning we get along fine but at six o'clock in the morning I don't love him quite so much, He wakes, sees his slippers on the floor and immediately starts saying "Go walk." He loves to get outside and Grandpa and I take turns at taking him walking — at which time who- ever is left at hothe gets a little work done. Young mothers manage to' take babies and everyday work in their stride but a grandmother is inclined to be a litte over-anxious and leave her dwri work to make sure her grandchild is not get- ting into mischief or doing something harmful to hirriself. The bathroom is a great at- traction. "It is Sun to throw things into the toilet and then flush it, If only Grandma wouldn't be a spoilsport and stop it — generally by locking the door. Then there's electric plugs 1:AMO' tamp Skticie.‘ like hat of black sitow With purple rose'-sheen !Mete above the fate is et' heW epring-atid- ieunither Offerinq in Pdris, Soucy bow It red beheiti, peak, of the t„.. and outlets — so easy to. put together. • Sometimes when 'this, is done a light coves on; the toaster gets hot or' the tea-kettle sings. Or maybe 'by just 'turning a knob on a funny looking box you get-music. Best 'of eIl is that ..glass4X-eid box in the living- Toom.,It has lots of knobs and by turning thicone and-:that you get •music and funny pictures. It is generally Grandpa ' who says "no" tO, that little trick. Seems like a fellow 'can't have any' fun at all. The dog and kitty-cat are fun too — if 'only Grandma would ]et .me pull the kitty's tail and, the .clog's ears. And why can't I play with their supper dishes? ' I'd like their dishes for my sup- per too. Taffy's is a nice bright red and the kitty-cat's is green. .Sometimes ,when they've been washed Grandma lets me put, one on for a hat, other times• she says' "No, no." I can't see that it Matters if the dish hap- pens to have a little supper left in it. Sunday afternoon my Daddy came to see ine. But why didn't Mummy come? Daddy says Mummy's got a baby. I've got a baby too. A doll. It hasn't got any clothes on an it cries I cried too yesterday when I fell and scraped my face. We have nice windows at Grand- ma's house and when I get tired of playing I watch the cars and trucks and doggies go by, and the little- boys and girls going to school." Well, I am sure Ross would say all' that if he 'could but at, present his limit is 'two words at a time, Sometimes I think it is a pity we are not all limited, to two words then we would have teas to say "about the Wea- ther, At present we could say • volumes — but what good would it do? Looks as if we, in the so-called banana belt, have been subjected to more vagaries from the weather man than some dis- tricts farther north, -Visitors from Guelph yesterday were amazed at the snow, ice and floods around here. 'Arid then while they were here the winds cattle. One neighbour with an unfinished garage -- flat reef and no doors — Was very busy, with the help of another main loading ell kinds of heavy stuff on top of the tool' to keep it front being .carried away. AN patently he succeeded but as I watched I was 'afraid the than Would gd as Well as the Not At another house water was be- big putnped cru t through the basement window. Ana thole Were plenty of shingles being lifted in the breeie, including Seine Of our oven, morning We are back to Skating-ritilt con- clitioh again. Arid I'm not liking it one bit. Bad Weather and baby sitting. don't go Well together: It seems useless picking up toys *Ilen e ten Mintites later they ere shattered all over the place agan,I Should be better organ- afarIted hut as A ternpy trietiente the line of least resistance see n§ the easiest way Obi ad the fine fabric From. The Qrent In the .days. of the old East India. Company, among the many Oriental marvels ).nat„ delight the hearte of • exiled women were certain Indian silk shawls. A They. were so that al- though more than a yard square, they could be pulled without of- fort through a weeldirt'ribg. W. no longer wear stills shawls.. as they did ltr..those days, but cashmere still comes 'to: us, from another part .ot the • Far Fast. Its history harks back to the earliest traders and-the first great trade ratites. — the c'ays when Phoenician merchants, grew rich from the treasures Of' Aoci- eut China, „. Nowadays caravans rnalre;. journey betweenk a TientSin Tibet. „prO, a'arryte'VbIOth, iron ww are, sugar and boots westward trek: They Aturp with the .0oyeted fleece of the Tibetan. goat,: the 'lovely material we knoW, after' it has -, undergone many processes, as. cashmere, • Along these routes are trading posts that were busy marts when Solomon lived, and they still do a good trade. The curious part about these soft fleeces is that they are not sheared frtin. the Tibetan goats that roam, the wild countryside. They are removed by large, combs from the scrub brush. • aa What makes the finest cash." mere is that part of the goat's coat next to its skin, behind the. coarse "beard-hair," As summer wears on the goats begin to shed their coats. They do the shearing for themselves while their shepherds sit and - wait. They rub themselves all day against the rough scrub bush.. as thOugh from instinct. Later, the goatherd. gathers this soft crop from the scrub bush. Each goat yields around twelve ounces of '.fleece, and the annual yield 'that flows out of China is around sixty thousand. ,pounds a year, • '• • When it as. taken from the bushes the fleece is a tangle of. smelly wool. A camel caravan laden with Tibetan goat fleeces can be smelt ,miles away, • Yetlrom this unattractive raw prodUct comes the prited'anater- ial that Is. used Irethe making of toys stay where they are until nightfall. This I must tell you. It hap- pened this morning. Ross was awake at 5,30. I changed him and he settled down again. So did I. And then it' didn't seem any time before Partner was saying — "Aren't you going to get up this morning . . 'the coffee's ready?" Ye gods — he had made a mistake ire. the time and got up 'an hour too soon! That, I consider, should 'establish grounds for charges of mental cruelty! a wide range of cardigans, sweat, vgs and overcoats, - Once,, I* Vernon Who had heard bow a oshmere shawl could be draWil .through a wedding ring, tried the,. same experiment with a cashmere pullover.. She found: to her surprise that it .passed :through with very little Pe:Melee sign. Q. Q. Is it all right to use the tele- phone to acknowledge the eelpf of a gift?, A. This is better than no acir- nowhiegeraent at all, But a nice, personally Written note of thanks is in much better taste, Eask-Sew, Iran 4 74,:t H aaievatiL,\Ak 1:1,04:000:,\ISIA•100 ryir,fraktiztaiv, !ifyill1:11:, aitoisioli44.411 oriel. #4$41741.14-3 47",e4ta, AV' ..., • . bgit W ,,, iti, ,,,,,„,,,,,,,,,,. .14-1;111i111111:1:11111611 ......1:7:? 1171141)-Alleatriiik7' it To. -,,,,,, •ss. -.1 r --s- tillt ,,..... ty C44444%424 Cool sundress with an embroi- dered birdie for its pockets. Easy — no fitting problems — bow `cinches waist No ironing prob- lem — opens flat. Pattern 554: embroidery trans- for, pattern, directions for child's sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, included. Send THIRTY JIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safetythis, pattern to Laura-Ineeleie;N: 123 Eighteenth St., Nevi:I'd-WM?, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. ft has lovely designs to order: em- broidery, crochet, knitting, weav- ing, quilting, toys. In the book, a special surprise to make a lit- tle girl happy — a cut-out doll, clothes to color. Send 25 cents for this book. ISSUE 15 -- 1959 e‘u -0 THAT STRETCHES AWLIND TOE WORLD Per the most delightful way of enjoying the Wonderfill world in which we live, nothing SurpaSses the thrill of a CUNARD oceart,voyage. llore is the perfeet, relaxing crossing to -Europe ... the glory of following the bun to the West Indies or South America ... the indelible rnernot'ieS of a cruise in the aziite Mediterranean the 'trip of a lifetinie to five continents of the globe. WherCter yeti go, 'whenever you travel at tea, With CUI\TAIID all pleasure's take On fresh', -exciting dimensions.; • • ' • "The renoWried Cunard fleet offers hiattry living unsurpassed cuisine fini-packed days movies, parties, dancing . airy, inviting staterooms —phis a standard of service that for ydata has beer( the Ileillinark of Ocean Travel! And why not turn every business trip_ e pleasure cruise? Sea Your, teem( Adeet--Na One Can SeiVe You 'Betio.