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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-04-07, Page 2• aY1 TAKE TWO — No, Yoko Tani doesn't have a twin sister. She's looking in a mirror. The Oriental actress was on hand to attend a Rome premiere of her new film, "White Shadows." girls break their heels in base; and trains on their way to work. And have to limp home for an- other pair of shoes,. The manager of a large Lon, den store keeps a burly eenirnia- sionaire at the ready to rescue girls who get trapped in the ent, sane floor grille, But. stiletto .heels cause worst havoc in restaurants and stoma: where fitted carpets are laid. :Every time a girl swings., 'around Ott her heels she digs two deep boles into the pile. Now tut .enterprising inanataaa turer has produced a stiletto. heel-proof carpet made of extra, strong nylon. Two-toned Easter eggs arc gay and easy to make. First one end of the harclboiled egg dipped into a dish of food colour, Mg then the other into a second colouring, The jagged edges or the join is concealed by a band of household cement sprinkled with glitter. Rickrack braiding or strings of sequins may also be used for decoration. Incident- ally a dash of vinegar added to 'the colouring will make it more intense. Look! Jiffy-Cut PR TNTED d .Y4tataa 4/444 JITHIFY-CUT blouses, Pin pat-. tern to, fabric — presto! Cut out complete blouse, instantly. Top, off all your skirts smartly.. Painted Pattern 47134: Misses' Sizes 12', 14, 16; 18, 20,. Size 18'. top, style Trig yards 35-inch; Iki yardsz lower 1112, yards Jiffy'-cut in one- piece. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier;, accurate, Send FIFTY CENTS', (stamps: cannot be acceptc4:, use postal note for safety),, for this pattern. Please prim t plainly SIZE,. NAME, ADDRESS,. STYLE NUMBER,. Send order to ANNE ADAMS,. Box 2, 123aEighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 15 — 1960 , • $4tADIINIO HOtvW M borsey Green, 13, is escorted by art Fflt (vent In Washington, affe'r slue Was found With Elmer Polide'd art ' his wife.. who Deirsey's porents say kiclnappedf the child,- Royal ,christening Big-League Affair!, • n the diplomatic bag from Israel a bottle of ordinary water was recently flown by 'plane direct to the Queen, Yet in reality this was no ordinary water, for it was specially taken from the River Jordan , and Jordan water has been used in sacrament at royal.christenings for a hundred years, Tile Queen, herself Was bap- tized with it, crying lustily in the Archbishop's arms, at the silver-gilt font in the Private chapel of Buckingham Palace, Princess Ma,rgaret was similarly sprinkled when fast asleep. Prince Charles was equally sleepy when christened at one month old, while Princess Anne was an extremely wide-awake two-month-old. It is fun at this time to trace back through the "cradlecade" of royal christenings, At pre- sent--day christenings, the royal babies still wear the beautiful robe of creamy limiten lace and Spitalfields silk made for Queen Victoria and used for practically every royal baby since. So fragile that it can no longer be cleaned, it is normally kept in an air-tight box. When the Archbishop of Canterbury splashed it a little at Princess Margaret's christening ceremony, it was noted that Queen Mary rightly looked anxious. This was a small mishap, how- ever, compared with the disaster that befell the guests at the christening of Queen Victoria's last baby boy, A sudden out- break of measles among the eld- er children also infected the royal guests and the Queen and the germs spread a measles epidemic far and wide through the Courts of Europe. Royal christenings were never again held on an elaborate scale and they have increasingly be- come pleasantly family affairs, Back in the bad old days it is recorded that Henry III expect- ed gifts in cash for his first-born and courtiers who failed to open their purses were sent into exile, King Henry VII first ordained that the christening chapel door should be hung with cloth of gold, afterwards sold to benefit the clergy. But Charles I staged the most magnificent christening ever seen for his infant son, af- terwards Charles. II. All the streets arid courtyards around St. James's Palace were covered with red carpets in or- der that guests and clergy should not soil their shoes. The interior of, the Palace became a blaze of gold. The cradle itself was fashioned, in gold and silver and set with priceless jewels. Earls and viscounts carried the christening gifts in procession. The royal heralds proclaimed in For Tiny Tots fea1444 WhetQe4 No tot can ever have too many sunsuits. 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Hurry, send 1.$ tents for your WO- full the new Prince's names and titles to the crowds outside, The ceremony lasted five hours, with prayers and, anthems padding it out, No fewer than seven nurses tools turns to hold the baby k,vran a hundred years ago royal christenings were at- tended by Garter King of Arms and all the heralds in their ,state glory, At the first christening at Buckingham Palace, the proud father had a cold. Skating on the Palace lake the previous day, Prince Albert—later Prince Consort—went through the ice and had to swim for several minutes to reach the side, ,wblle ladies-in-waiting screamed for help and only the Queen had the presence of mind to stretch out a helpful pole. Almost a year later to the day a second christening took place at Windsor, This time it was the heir to the Throne — later Edward VII. Queer.. Victoria felt that it was not sufficient to use a makeshift chapel at the Palace when Windsor offered the properly consecrated chapel of St. George. A new chapel at Buckingham Palace was ready only just in time for Queen Victoria's third baby, the great-grandmother of to-day's Duke of Edinburgh. Evcn then the 711ac;: had its in- ccaveniences. There was scarce- ly raom for the choristers and the Palaca private band, who thus had to play in an adjoin- ing room, When he worked out the pi o- cessional detaila, too, Prince Al- bert discovered that there a-a. •Id be an appalling squash at the door. So a second doorway for the use of the Royal Family had to be constructed still so new for the' christening that paint specks brushed off on to the Prince's field-marshal's uniform. The gold plate was brought out for the grand -banquet held afterwards in the Picture Gal- lery. Another Victorian christen- ing was marred when an eccen- tric old aunt forgot where she was and insisted on kneeling at the Queen's feet. "Imagine our horror!" the Queen's diary noted. Then there was the strange oc- casion when an Indian princess — daughter of the Rajah of Cooro—also had a Palace chris- tening. Princess Gaurornma was near- ly grown up, but it was decided to give her the christian name of Victoria. The Queen herself was godmother and the Archbi- Shop. of Canterbury gravely per- formed the ceremony. In more modern times, George VI was christened in church at Sandringham. At a crucial mo- ment he began' to cry and this made his elder brother howl in sympathy. Every child in the church then set up a cry and it is said that the ceremony ended in a flood of tears. Queen Victoria, however, was delighted that the child was named Albert, after her lament- ed hutband. Few people know the Queen's full names—Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, derived from her mother, her great-grandmothet, and her grandmother: The names of a new baby are, in fact, never an- nounced till the christening.' The beautifully scrolled gold font is kept at Windsor but brought to London for a Palace ceremony, The gold bowl also used in the ceremony is report- ed to date from Edward M. Though a 'modern royal chris- tening is a simple ceremony, in fact it is still richly steeped in royal tradition. The top tier of the Queen's own wedding cake —or to be precise, one of the seven cakes used at her wedding —was strangely surmounted by a silver cradle containing a baby doll. The poetic symbolism be- came apparent, however when the cradle was used on christen- ing cakes 'for both the present Prince of Wales and Princets Anne. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. What is the proper time for the host and hostess to take their seats at the dinner table? A. The hostess always seats herself first, this being the sig- nal for the guests to seat them- selves. The host is always the last to seat himself. Q. When is the abbreviation "Messrs." used' in letter writ- ing? A. This is the abbreviation of the French word for "Mistera", and is used only for letters ad- dressed to two brothers. never to father and son — "The Messrs John and George Kent." Would it be jiroper to in- sert the annottneement Of a btoken engagettieht in our local newspaper? A, Yes, and especially if the announcement of the engage= Merit appeared in that paper. It could be readsomething like this: "Mt, and read, Fred L. l'og announce that by mutual ton- sent the engagement between their daughter, Mary Elaine, and Mr. Thotaras J, Winters is at ari end." japputiful Caverns. Of Western gurppe, The cave of Han, in Heigium, has been called a .'subterranean Babylon' The River Lesse flows through it into, an underground lake, one of the biggest of its kind in the world. In these huge caverns the corrosive action Of the water on the limestone, and the conatructive power. or. the limestone in solution, have cre=- ated a miraculous architecture. The result is a fairy-land of towering flowstone .and glittering daipstone„ visited every year by thousands of wondering sight- aeersa The grottoes present some tan- forgettable spectacles of breath- . taking beauty, The vaulted roof of the Hall. of the Dome rises. to a height of .426 feet; the lime- stone formations of the •Cave of Mysteries make one think of an enchanter's castle, and the visit- or will long recall the delicate veil of stone in the Hall of Cur- tains. The nearby caves of Rochefert are full of traces of the primeval forces that created them, and a multidue of clefts penetrate deep into unexplored regions.. The visitor stands as- tounded in the Hall of the Sab- bath, an immeasurably vast chamber with vertical walls that take on magic colours when a balloon carrying a magnesium. flare is released and 'drifts up- wards towards the roof. Western Europe is rich in re- markable caves. The Pyrenees, in particular, have captured the attention of speleologists, by their iza caverns, driastone grot- toes, and deep potholes, Trace.; OH, NO! — The young lady is amusing herself with a toy that's described as the worthy success to the hula hoop. It's called a Jiggle-Stick. Object is to keep the wavering flexible shaft straight so the ball balances. of prehistoric man are plentiful in the Pyrenean caverns. One of the finest of them is the Gouffre de Perillos, which Contains a huge chamber, An abyss made up of several stages and fifty feet in diameter gives access to it. The descent can only be made by practised speleolo- gists. The first thirty feet have to be traversed by ladder down a vertical rockface. •Once this obstacle has been overcome, the caver enters an immense cham- ber 130 feet high, 330 feet long and 200 feet wide. There he will see two pillars fifty feet high, twenty feet in diameter and about 'seventeen feet apart, bearing wonderful mouldings. At the back of this vast hall, the walls fall like heavy cur- tains, providing shelter for enor- mous swarms of hats, Many of the pits formed by dripping whier, are found the 'cave pearls,' already mentioned, which occur so frequently in Pyrenean caves. Very few are to be found in museums, and they are unfamiliar to many geo- logists. The cave pearl it a piso. lith that forms in the eddy of calcareous water falling from a eertalta height into a shallow basin, A small piece of gravel or a grain of sand kept in con- stant- movement by.the falling water becomes encrusted with liMe, and finally develops into small ball, which May be as large as a pigeon's egg — Prom "The World of Caves," by Anton tabke, "They don't make good cof- fee!" That was a headline that caught my eye in a magazine just recently. And I thought immedi- ately — who sets the standard for good coffee—or tea, or farm- ing, or housekeeping, or being a good mother? Isn't it just a mat- ter of comparison? We all have our own idea of what a good cup of coffee should be and if what we are given is different we say the person responsible doesn't know how to make good coffee. I don't like the way English peo- ple make coffee and yet it never occurred to me until just now that my English friends prob- ably don't like- my coffee either. The same, applies to tea. Some like it weak, some like it strong. But who shall say which is the better cup of tea? You can follow that line of reasoning through every phase of life: Some folk like to live in town; some in the country; others in suburbia. Does that make one way of living any, more "right" than another? The same applies to politics, and so we have liberals, conservatives and communists. Every member of each grout) thinks his is the right party. So, too, in the world of religion. We are' often divided as to doctrines, yet all members of every Christian faith are trav- elling towards the tame goal but often by a different route, And then take farming—dairy farming. Some farmers swear by registered Jersey cattle, others (at one time that included Part- ner) wouldn't have a Jersey on the place. Farmers w-anting to get the most for the least favour Holsteins; others anxious for less work go in for Shorthorns, Herefords, or Durham's. For a general purpose breed there Ore Ayrshires. But who it to say one breed it better than another? Or take housekeeping and raising a family. There are mothers whose floors are always shining and never a thing out of place, But look around for a magazine or a book and there isn't one in sight. Apparently house-proud mOthers haven't time for reading. Her opposite is the woman in whose home you can hardly find a place to sit, there are so many papers and magazines around. Her children are net always as tidy as they Might be but they seem to be healthy, carefree youngsters and Mother is never too busy to listen when they come running in with, to them, a big story to tell. And the way children are trained. I have several families in mind, In two of them the chit- area are raised by the clock, they,have their meals before the adults eat, at exactly the same time day after day, On the rare ,occasions when there is a time disruption in the family schedule the children are whiney and can- net adjust, Their world .1.5. in chaos becauta supper was an haul. late. In another family a time schedule is never even thought of. If the. family wants to go somewhere they pick up and go. The children are fed when and how an opportunity arises. Hot dogs bought at a lunch counter; ice cream cones taken out to the 'car. If they get tired they fall asleep in the car — and wake up ready for anything. Bedtime is an elastic affair; 'fine if they are tired, if not they go on play- ing. The children take every- thing in their stride; regular or irregular, it's all one to them. They adjust to almost anything. Which parents will eventually raise the better family? That's a question, isn't it? Probably one to which neither you nor I know the answer. Along these lines-our grand- sons are an interesting study in contrasts. Yesterday Ross was left for a few hours with Aunt Dee and his cousins. He is a quiet little fellow and after a while he stood at the window and started to cry. Jerry, six months younger, got a kleenex and wip- ed away "Ross's tears! Friday night the three broth/ ers were here — the first time for three Weeks. Eddie was out of the car before it had properly stopped, Climbing on to his grandfather's knee he said — "I like you Granpa — and I like grandma too:" Dave also was in a hurry and cracked his head getting out of the car. He raised a lovely goose-egg, Jerry was nonchalant; wandering in as much to say "What's all the fuss about anyway?" I don't know whether they are being brought up right or not. Sometimes we have our doubts but they are Dee's and Art's boys, not ours. Our children sometimes look back and tell us Where they think we made mis- takes, We seldom went out at night because we thought chil- dren were better at home and in bed. Perhaps we over-did it, I don't know, It's just the same as making toffee, isn't it? We make coffee to snit our taste but maybe when we have visitors they say to themselves — after they get away — "Well, they sure don't make good coffee!" 'Don't tatter to, alaillrig. Tife laturarice will take tall of it all," Your Children, May Fick Up Danger i. "Look what j felted in the. field, Moonily-I" The wise mg,. tiler pricks. up her ears .when. she hears this remark, from one of her offspring. Magpie-like, children pick up all aorta of things when they're out playing, Scraps of colored glass, Metal, pipe and weed are treasure trove IroalaaailSiatletflari sites and .di- used quarries, qaarries, if what junior found was a Pencll slim metal cylindrical oba jeet it could be a blasting cap-- and a blasting cap could be Jar- germ's, If blasting caps are found by children or inexperienced adults, they should be reported immedi- ately to the police or fire station. • Before the authorities arrive wrap the cap in a large wet soft cloth such as a blanket, scarf, towel or piece of flannel, Place. it in a safe place where the children can't reach it. Be- member not to smoke while handling a blasting - eap, ' There are two types of blast- ing caps: those for use with safety fuse and those set off electrically, called electric blast- ing caps. The first type has an open end and is detonated by the flame from the fuse. It is about one and a half inches long and is, made of aluminum, The electric bleating cap has two wires covered with coloured plastic or cotton insulation ex- tending out of one end. The cap, shells themselves are sometimes coloured red or green and are from one to five inches long, Both types may be recognized as small metallic cylinders made of either aluminum or capper. They are designed to explode and are loaded with powerful and sensitive explosive charges for this purpose. Children should be familiar with the appearance 'of blasting. caps and impressed with the fact that they .should be left alone and their whereabouts reported, immediately to a grownup. Throwing stones at them, light- ing matches near them or throw- ing them in a bonfire could be the cause of serious accidents, Leaflets showing what these caps look like may be obtained, .from: .Public Relations Depart- . ment, Canadian Industries Li- mited, P.O. BoX 10, Montreal,. Quebec; A little time and trou- ble spent in briefing your youngster could prevent them from m a k in g heartbreaking, headlines, After All — What's A Broken Leg? "Help!" cried the lovely young redhead, looking frantically, around at the rush-hour crowds. Her stiletto heel was firmly wedged between the slats of a Toronto subway esculator. To the rescue came a good- looking young man who was standing behind her. With a sharp tug, he released her foot from its trap, But at the same time he was caught in a far more tender trap. They fell head over heels in love and this spring they are to be married! Because they add glamour to otherwise quite ordinary legs, stiletto heels have been respon- sible for starting many other ro- mances, But this revolution in feminine- footwear has brought its troubles as well. Thousands of working hours are lost every week because