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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-06-02, Page 2Simply The Smartest PRINTED PATTERN 4906 SIZES 10-19 CURVY COMFORT — Like a girl lolling in a crescent moon, a model relaxes in the latest divan. Shawn in Milan, Italy, the sofa is adjustable and has storage space below decks. eeeee eeeeteeee .eereleee,e9,,ee yeeeeeleteeteet • .. • „„„e„, Neve:, , • HRONICLE °P6L INGERFARM ---e evetIdoLit-va P CtetAte Everybody Loves. Those Penguins The face of Antartica is ice and Snow", l?tit. its personality is a penguin, I was a week in Antarctica before I saw my. first Adelie penguin. A was up on the rook- ery at Cape Rude, where half a century ago a. great man, Sir reest Shackleton, built a hut and challenged a continent. But even the hut, an appeal- ing remnant of an heroic age, could, not detain me from my long-awaited visit to the Adelies. I couldn't wait to get to the rookery, The. Adelies, with the shoe- button eyes and the comical lit- tle waddle, present the warmest and gayest aspect of an ether, wise cold and saturnine land. As one writer once wrote, they are the "little people of the Antes's.- tic world," There are two Antarcticists among the world's penguins — tre Adelie and the Emperor. Shorter by half than the three- foot-tall Emperor, the. Adelie is the clown of the continent. Named for Mme Adelie D'Ur- ville, wife of an early French Antarctic explorer, he is not half so dignified in bearing and be- havior as the Emperor. Early in, the Antarctic sum- rner, about mid-October, tre Adelie comes waddling — thou- sands of them — over the ice from the open sea in a noisy return to their ancestral rook- ery, Then the , great business of Adelie life — mating, stealing pebbles, building nests, and raising chicks—commences. This performance, often slapstick, has amusing and fascinated men since the days of D'Urville in tre 1840's. The Adelie nuptial rites are filled with throaty chants, pierc- ing cries, and weavings and bobbings to and fro. During the courting the Adelie stand with their beaks jutting straight to the sky, their bodies stretched, and their little flippers extended and flapping slowly in the cold Antarctic air. Adelies even have trouble themselves telling male from female. But when a male finally gets things figured out he courts the fair maid with pebbles' and stones, acquired in the most illegal manner. He steals them, writes John C. Waugh in the Christian Science Monitor. He goes out and grabs them from an unwary penguin and plops them 'in his own nest. As soon as his back is turned an- other bird steals them from him. When the maid is won, the nest built, the eggs laid, and the frantic thievery abates, one of each, penguin pair heads for the open sea, leaving its mate to look out for things at the rook- ery. 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During the entire courtship periods, which ,fasts a matter Of weeks, , neither mate has. had. a. thing tn. eat. For about a fort; night the absent .Adelie eats or'-her fill. And waddles back fat and shiny to relieve the hungry mate. • We stood on the rookery and watched the •Adelies. returning. The open water lay about 20 Miles across the ice from Cape Royds. In bunches as far as our eyes could see the Adelies, were waddling hurriedly and happily home. The two mates alternate in this strange shuttle system from rookery to open water. But be- fore the summer is over the ice In the Sound breaks and drifts out to sea and the penguins need not travel so far. Much, of the food they eat is later regurgi- tated and fed to• the penguin. chicks, Often some lurking skua gull, the scavenger of the Antareitic, dives in upon en untended nest and whisks egg or chick away. Heartrending indeed is the sight of a pair of penguins bereft of egg, staring down pitifully, un- believingly into an empty nest filled only with pebbles,. • To the Adelies, the human in- truder is a source of great curi- osity and bother, While sitting on his nest he will squawk ominously and peck at any pase, ing boot. Some, out of sorts, will stand beak to shin-bone with the trespasser and flail away comi- cally and fearlessly with flipper- like wings. The Adelie is a funny little fellow, a plucky little gentleman,. albeit a thief, And everybody loves. him. He gives character to a continent. • Moonlight Can Be Dangerous More proposals of marriage are made by moonlight than at any other time, declares a French scientist investigating the effects of moonlight on human health and happiness. Why? Because when the moon shines brightly from an uncloud- ed sky human emotions are at their highest point, he says. Plenty of lovers feel this is true. They don't dismiss as "moonshine" the widely held theory that the moon's rays make for specially happy courtships. Film stars kiss more convinc• ingly and with more ardour at the time of a full moon, accord- ing to an American producer. He even believes that "cold moon- lightlike lighting" is a great help when love scenes are being shot. The Romans thought the moon caused madness — hence the word lunacy from the Latin Luna, the moon. But any suggestion that it is harmful to walk or lie bare-headed in the moonlight was dismissed as "all moon- shine"_ some years ago by Pro- fessor J. Arthur Thomson. He said moonlight is merely "re- flected and gentle sunlight." A New York physician says he thinks the moon makes sleep- walkers more active. The wife of an Oklahoma man only sleep- walked when the moon was full. At 2 a.m. he suddenly missed her and after searching the grounds of their home found her 20 ft. up a tree, picking the leaves and still asleep. Trained Dog To Dig Up Treasure Rex, a Danish bloodhound, has brought joy to careless holi- daymakers. This floppy-eared animal has developed uncanny powers of detecting buried treas- ure, especially if it's buried in sand. As a trusty finder of lost property on East Denmark's popular beach at 'Velje, Rex is scrabbling almost from dusk to dark and turning up gold! His owner, Peter Christiensen, estimates' the dog has recovered rings, watches, bangles, brooches and earrings worth over $1500. "I trained him to hunt for lost trinkets as a hobby," said Mr. Christiensen. "But now his hobby looks like becoming a full- time job for both 'Rex and me!" Since the dog's powers became publicized, Nte. Christiensen has been inundated with telephone calls. Always the complaint is the same, "We're sorry, but we've Icist something precious. Can. Rex help?" they ask. When advised to borrow a mine-detector, some callers put on a sentimental act. What else can a poor dog do? — Rex goes to theft rescue. High Finlike - — A sateen-Ian, trying to sell a housewife a eefrigetetot, point- ed .out: "You can save enough on your food bills to pay for it." "That's fine,"' answered the Woman, "but You see we're pay- ing for our car on the fares, we save.- Thesis We're paying for Our washing machine' on the laundry bills we save, end eve Fare paying The the house on the retie we are saving, It tooks to me like We just can't afford 10 save airy More at the present time," HANGING AROUND — Bag on shoulder and pacifier in mouth, 2 - year - old Harriet Kaminski waits aboard the liner Bremen to go ashore in New York. The tot was returning with her par • - ents from a European visit. Moment -of Silence A moment of silence can quiet the turbulent sea of harried liv- ing. Ralph Freese, author of "Dis- covering Solitude," asks: "Ate the hetcic days of the. Twentieth Century driving us into a richly rewarding custom practiced by the American Indian before the eoming of the white man—that of worshiping in solitary silence?" We moderns are finding it more and more difficult to locate places where we can be alone and listen in private to the Eternal. We moderns are finding it more and more difficult to find a place where we can be alone with our thoughts in an effort to rechart our course on the high- way of life. The American Indian worship- ed the Great. Spirit in solitary silence. It was silent because all speech to him was of necessity feeble and imperfect; it was soli- tary because he believed that the "Great.Mystery" came near- er in solitude. The Bible is filled with stories of how the patriarchs, the pro- phets, and Jesus hunted for the solitary places for communion and prayer. Every home well could have a "silence room." There are today "dark rooms," rumpus rooms, sewing rooms, hi-fi rooms arid many othees. In most homes, there is not one single room where a member of the, family' can go for privacy, for prayer and meditation and for absolute quiet. There must be a place where the individual can free himself of the cobwebs that so frequently beset his thinking. Privacy is necessary to the de- velopment of everyone's person- ality. Without it ,real ,meditation is often difficult or impossible. To go hunting for .silence is not always a sign of man's unsce debility; rather, sociability, like any other human tendency, be- comes annoying if too long of too strenuously indulged in at a time. Privacy is again demanded as a matter of emotional protection in individuals. We like to keep our concerns to ourselves or to share them telly with those with whom we have a marked corn• reunite/ of interest and feeling. So that "silence" room is something to consider a eolith where every member of the fame ily might go and experience for a fewV moments each day 6 silence in which to become itWate of the politer of 6:cid, — The Everett (Wash.) Daily Het- eld. "Do you believe lei 'heredity? "1 most certainly 'do. That's hoer I came' into all my money." After last week's ice-storm it should be evident to everyone that we have become enmeshed in a net of our own weaving. A network of gadgets and conveni- ences by which we are trapped and left helpless if the hydro should go off for any length of time, leaving us with stoves that won't function; kettles that won't boil; furnaces that remain cold as charity; electric fixtures that fail to lighten our darkness; refrigerators that thaw and drip with de-frosted foods; washing machines and dryers that are as useful as a car without a battery. Oh yes, I could go on with a long list of other articles '— things to which we have become so accustomed we take them for granted. Last week we would have traded any of our so-called con= veniences for a good old-fash- ioned wood and coal burning stove. But even such a stove wouldn't have been any use be- cause there's no place in our modern kitchen to put a stove- pipe. We have only one chimney and that takes care of the fur- nace and fireplace. So, although, we know only too well whate could happen in a power failure we, too, are caught in our own net, just the same as about ninety-five percent of our neigh- bours. And I'm telling you we think ourselves • mighty lucky there wasn't a power break in this district. Need I say we kept our fingers crossed the best part of a week. Come to think.of it, was there ever a time like last week for' bad weather? Not just locally but in practically all parts of the world — on land, on sea, in Europe, Asia, many parts of the U.S.A. and right across Canada. Naturally, as alWays happens, we are more concerned with districts that we know and are nearer to home. We were parti- cularly concerned about friends in. Dufferin County. We 'still don't know how they fared as we haven't been able to get through by telephone. One couple in their sixties is farm- ing and depend entirely on hy- dro for pumping water to the barn — and of course for light. They do have fuel burning'stoves so at least they would be warm. The other couple is retired and elderly, have a lovely country home in an isolated district with never a neighbour. in sight. An ideal spot in summer, but in winter .. 'ye gods! The thought of so much seclusion makes my blood run cold. As I say we did not run into too much trouble around here — except for icy roads and walks. Tuesday night was the worst, freezing rain coated- wires and trees making us wonder how long •before the hydro gave up the ghost. Friday morning it started to snow and we felt the worst was over. We breathed a sigh of relief and a prayer of thankfulness. I didn't get out to do any shopping; our local W.I. meeting was cancelled and our television refused to func- tion but of course they were mere' details. ,Partner kept him- self busy opening ditches, shovel- ling snow,- ;chopping speink- , ling salt and watering ice-coated, bent-over trees — weeping birch. It was just an •experiment but e it Worked. In a little while the trees were back to normal. Theeice-storm led me. to think of fagm homes — partictilarly houses where old-fashioned Icit- cherid r-have been re-modelled — and there have been many such during •the last 'decade. Kitchens where a modern electric stove has been installed, and the old cookstove •thrown out! How fool- ish can we get? Remember how 'd few chunks of dry maple would have the stove-top red hot in a matter of minutes? On 'the larm eeve had a modern electric stove too — but we hung on to our old stove like grim death. In early spring and late fall 1 nearly always lit the stove for an hour or two in the morning and we enjoyed the pleasant warmth it gave until the sun was up. It ,came in' useful in summer too. If the hydro went off during a storm 'a few -chips from .the woodpile would boil water for tea or cook our sepper. We also had a coal furnace. It was dirty compared with oil.; The pipes had to be cleaned twice during the winter and ashes had to be sifted every• day. But at least it always gave out heat, no matter what the,weath- er. It didn't have a motor to-biten out or fuses to blow and it was certainly cheaper to operate than an oil furnace. Yes, once, in awhile we look n2 Girls Buy Bats For Good Luck. While a ‘ViSeinlain farmer was having a nap one evening re, cently, a bat flew in through an open window and bit him on the ear, The man died a day or two later from hydrophobia. Such fatalities are rare anye where in the world, for most species of bats are harmless and will net attack human beings, An exception is the dreaded vampire bat of the American tropics, which preys On cattle and "sheep and sometimes counts man among its victims, "Lords of the twilight" is one of the nicknames given to bats. They have even been associ- ated with witchcraft. Two hun- dred years ago a woman was executed in France as a witch simply because bats were often seen flying around her cottage at night, In appearance bats a re a strange mixture of mouse and bird although all bats are main- male. This probably accounts for mailer of the queer beliefs and sinister legends about these little creatures. Bats in Vienna are still caught and occasionally sold to superstitious peasant girls who believe •they are lucky and can lure lovers. A man was fined $75 in South Africa for extract- ing money from a credulous youth in •exchange for the in- formation that his stomach was infested by a live bat! It was a flight of three million bats .from what appeared to be a yawning black •pit in New Mexico which led to the discov- ery of the mammoth Carlsbad Caverns in 1901 by a lone cow- boy, Jim White. He was nearly bowled over with surprise when he ea* thee bats, looking like a vast cloud of black smoke, emerge from the caves 750 feet below the scorching desert on a nightly raid in •search of insects. Later, he explored -the caverns. Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee Q. When drinking a cocktail that has a piece of fruit In it, suck as orange, lemon, pineap- ple or cherry, is it proper to eat the fruit? ' A. Yes; but lee sure to do this -.gracefully as possible. Above all,• don't be too obvious with your efforts to get at the fruit—such' 'as tipping the glass high and then tapping .on the bottom of the glass in order to loosen an elusive bit of fruit. Q. Does „ a wOman keep her hat on when attending an afternoon bridge party? A. If the party is in a private home, she, of course, removes her hat, If, hOwever, the party is in a public place, she may do as she wishes About this. Q. What' ti the proper order back and realise the advantages we enjoyed -he the old days but that's about as far as it goes, I suppose we shall 'continue to live with. our "conveniences” in spite of the inconveniences that often arise. I don't suppose we' shall build a chimney or buy a stove but I.really think, to the end of - our days, we shall have a nostal- gic longing for that old kitchen range. ' ' Well, I'd' better take this to the • post office.• The weatherman just said -- "snow, turning to freez- ing rain late this afternoon"! Oh no, not again! Of recession at the cOnelusima of a church wedding ceremony? A. Just the reverse of how the party entered the, church, The b ri de And bridegroom should leo d, 'followed by the bridesmelds, and finally the 'Ashore. 9, II it proper to abbreviate the name of the month on the date line of a business letter? A. No. Neither the month nor the name of the state of the addressee is abbreviated — even of the states of Mississippi or Pennsylvania, It is considered more polite to write them out, Q. When a guest in my infuse persists in telling off-colour jokes, what can I do about it? A. If the a bsence of any laughter from you is not enough to stop him, then you have a perfect right to take him aside and tell him pointblank that hie kind of stories are not accept- able in your household. Q, Is it proper for the bride- groom to give his bride some- thing for their home as his spe- cial wedding gift to her? A. This is not customary. His special gift to her should be something for her own personal adornment — usually jewelry of some kind. Fashion'S shapely sheath in a beginnerleasy version—no waist seams. 'Versatile for any hour, any day in cotton blend, wool jersey, or fluid crepe. Wear it •with or without a belt. Printed Pattern 4906: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16 takes 2% yards 54-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps Cannot be accepted, use postal ,note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRES S, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth. St., New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 1 — 1960 eee LIFE'S NOT THAT BAD — The ilitertieteriefie finee Worry` teeth fe be disepeear:eg from the brev" of Tray., a basset fietreide as ha kit f, otn Jo. Anton, Z. idt show. FUN ON *HP.,4tAck HOW Can deyehe ex loin 'Carrie- Price Miami 'Beattie except as 'air • eye pleases?