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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-09-22, Page 6HRONICI.,ES 61/„.(Wk..e. est NOTHING TO DO BUT COMPLAIN — Mark Strait, 10, and his dog, Pluto, .just can't comfortable these hot days. te,!h Treasures 44oian Mt,,,1_$044.10 1 e.alked about the Kremlin, 4fase!nated by its mare of palaces and churches, , Every day thereafter I came into the Krems lin for a couple of hours — it it. too vast, to be exhausted in a eingle visit, and too rewarding to be rushed, I began my sightseeing in feeeeheeimaya, or Palace of arms which is now a museum, as interesting as any I have ever 'visited, Here were the products: of Russian arts and crafts — and. presents to the tsars from all Over the world, an amazing wealth of European. and Asiatic: splendour, • " • One great room was allocated to. horse trappings, amazingly elaborate, There might be .hun- elreds of horses in a procession even a thousand, if a power- ful monarch were being met, The harness was brilliant worked leather, with gilt and enamel ittings, and silken embroideries. Most fantastic of all was a horse presented by the Sultan of Tur- key to Catherine the Great, Not merely are its trappings worth a. king's ransom, but it wore silver elsoes. — and the nails were also silver!. • There was a wonderful collec- tion of coaches. They ranged from toy minatures used by Peter the Great in his child's palace; some had wheels for the. summer, ethers runners for the Winter snow. Close by was an Smart Teamwork PRINTED PATTERN' 4707 SIZES 144-2454 otg. 4444 Simple, slimming, smart! Travel from midsummer trough Fall in this two-piece dress with a neatly tucked top, and choice of slim or flared skirt. It's sew-easy. Printed Pattern 4707: Half teizes 141/2 , 161/2 , 181/2 , 201/2, 221/2 , 141/2 . See pattern for yardages. Printed directions on each pat- tern part, Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (50e) ;stamps cannot be accepted, use leesstal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, ?x 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New teeseeeesto, Ont, lea enormous coach on ele wars; it carried the, T$arin • 4Z, beth, Peter's daughter, from f Petersburg to Moscow in thre days. "the coach of Catherine the Great . needed twenty - three horses to pull it, I admired the warming pan in its interior. . There is a collection of Biblee of incredible richness -- their covers in precious metals, with reliefs in enamel and chased gold. The presents. of potenteleti to the tsars were outdone by the presents of the tsars to their families. Most intriguing were those by Carl raber0, the French Protestant refugee who became goldsmith to the court of the tears. When Alexander III demanded an Easter present for his wife which - 'would give her half an hour's happiness," Fab- erge fashioned an Faster egg which opened to reveal a yolk of gold, which hid a chicken, which in turn divided to produce a model of the crown, — From "Visa to Russia," by Bernard Newman, Most Victimized Of All Sick People For rheumatoid arthritis, Ame- rican scientists agree, aspirin is the safest long-term drug, But it isn't easy to convince a pa- tient, crippled with arthritis, that so simple a treatment is suffi- cient to control so terrible a dis- ease. They may seek other doe- tors, who will prescribe stronger drugs, perhaps heavy doses of cortisone. Because this painful disease is such a medical mystery, the arth- ritic victim is the most exploited of all sick people in the nation. Men and women with twisted backs, inflamed legs and arms, stiffened fingers, and shriveled muscles, are constantly being lured into buying books suggest- ing cures, inadequate drugs, de- vices, and treatments that are worthless, unduly expensive, and even dangerous. "I know it is ridiculous, but I'm so desperate I'll spend any amount to get rid of this pain," a long-suffering arthritic said in explaining why he had paid $600 to a faith healer. Among the other cruel hoaxes being perpetrated on a gigantic scale: Uranium-ore pads and mittens, advertised to have a lasting effect on pain (raido- activity of the ore is comparable to that in the average radium- dial wrist watch); "super aspir- in" for $3 to $4 a hundred (the same drug can be bought for a few cents a hundred); alcohol and herb roots, containing gin, water, and vegetable colors ("brown for neuritis," and "green for arthritis," the ad goes). "Such nostrums are no more effective than carrying a potato in the pocket," said Dr. Ronald Lamont-Havers, medical direc- tor of the Arthritis and Rheuma- tism Foundation, now waging a war against fake arthritis "cures." Recently, Federal, state, and private agencies have set up stiff programs to fight this $250 mil- lion a year swindle. Yet the fact remains that one out of every two arthritis victims still listens to these. — From NEWSWEEK. Modern ENque-22e !Sy Ante Ashley Q. My husband has been ask- ed to serve as godfather to a friend's child. Should the silver cup he is giving the baby- be en- graved as just from my husband, or should my name be included? A, Since the cup is from the godfather alone, it should be marked as from him. No addi- tional gift is required from you. Experience is what you have after you've lost everything else. MODERN KNIGHT — A Swed- ish U.N. soldier wields primi- tive shield in Leopoldville, Congo. He used It to deflect rocks and other missiles that may be thrown during street demonstrations at tense area. Papered Room With Love-Letters Wallpapers play a bigger part in our lives than we realize. We have to live with them. Psy- chologists say they have a mark- ed effect on our happiness. Dull designs tend to make us miser- able, bright ones gay. There's romance in wallpapers — and we don't mean the kind of romance that once led a Lon- don actress to paper the walls of her boudoir with the hun- dreds of love letters and propos- als of marriage she'd received frpm her Victorian admirers, No, it's the romance that has made English wallpapers the finest in the world, although the making of wallpaper in this country doesn't go back more than two hundred years. The custom of using attractive printed paper on walls origin- ated in Tudor times. Tapestries and painted cloth were wall- paper's forerunners, One of the first wallpapers manufactured in England was designed by Jerome Lanver. It had a velvet or pile surface. If Lanyer's ghost walks to-day, how he must admire the wonder- ful wallpapers of 1960 — marble effect papers achieved by using a photogravure process, stylized floral prints featuring roses, lilac and carnations, bamboo papers for people who like the Eastern look in decor. One of the rooms in the oldest house in Staines where Sir Fran- cis Drake lived for a time was stripped in 1929 of some rare and valuable wallpaper which was sold to a London antique dealer. This paper, hand-painted with Chinese pictures, was prepared about 1730 by a famous Chinese artist and its removal from the Wall involved a long process. Some priceless seventeenth century fragments of wallpaper were found in a House in Lon- don's Park Lane which was be- ing dismantled. They were saved by an expert who chanced to see them and snatched them from the hands of a Workman weeile IA§ was detry- ing them off to be burned as rub- bish. The Great Fire of 1666 dee- troyed many of the early speci- ineris of wallpaper, but some stir= viVe in musettms in various, Parts Of the World. Kensington ale* appears to have been the first building in England completely decorated with WalIpaPet. •IgatIlt 194 \ We are finally getting home- grown produce from our own garden — beans and beets any- way. And are they ever good! Cucumbers are coming along nicely but root vegetables are nowhere near ready. However, we are well satisfied with what we are getting considering our low-lying garden patch was too wet to work until the middle of July. One thing we are missing is mushrooms. Until this year we have had lots of them growing wild. This year all I have seen up to the present is one sorry lit- tle mushroom. It must be they don't like dry weather. And dry weather is definitely what we've got. One day last week we were up to Milton. When our power mow- er needs doctoring Partner takes it along for Bob to see to. He has a knack of taking things apart, putting them together again and having them work. He has bolts and bits strewn on the ground all around him and how he ever knows what belongs to which I'll never know. As ,,.we approached Milton we noticed how much the landscape had changed. As a matter of fact it has been slowly changing for several years but the change is now more noticeable. We have regretfully become accustomed to the sluaghter of trees and the mushroom growth of housing and industry. But now another change is taking place that is equally destructive to scenic beauty. I am referring to quar- ries, Part of the Niagara Escarp- ment — that is, the part that Miltonians refer to as 'the Moun- tain" is gradually being bull- dozed away. Several quarries are in operation and the lovely lime- stone rock is being daily blasted, crushed and trucked away for various purposes — for road- work, building and construction, Milton residents have always been proud of their Mountain — it provided a pleasing back- ground to green fields, orchards and pastures, And the colour- ing in the fall was beautiful be- yond description. Red maples and evergreens against the grey-. white limestone was something to remember. We found yet another change had taken place. An old milling business that had been in opera- tiOn since Jasper Martin built his first grist mill in 1837, has been sold to the Robin Hood Milling Company, after being in Martin's name for .three successive gen- erations. The Martin family was chiefly respensible for the found- ing of Milton and saw it grow from pioneer settlement to vil- lage and finally to being the County town of Balton. It is a change that many of the older residents will •regtet. To them Milton and Martin's mills ere synonymous. Too many links With the past, in Milton and else., wherei have already been lost, dropping like ninepins before' the ' onelatight of modern progress.. We .know that changes are in- evitable but We are always hop= ing that link§ connecting the past with the preeent will somehoW be firestreed. Tilde are gee changes in the Offing for the district, in which we slow live. We alteady have four maid highways into Toronto NO§. 2, 5, 401 and the Queen B. Now we Understand that some time in the not too distant future there are to be two more — one from Hamilton to Toronto, the other from Melton to Toronto, And I suppose all of them will be used to capacity. Personally I am more interested in a proposed new shopping centre. If it mater- ializes it will be within walking distance of where we live. That would suit us just fine. In that case we might even do without a car. Just imagine, neither of us been to the Exhibition this year. I had an invitation but at the time Partner was in the hospital. After he got home it turned hot so we kept way. We like visiting the Exhibition — if we could have the Exhibition without the crowdsrAnd if we could be sup- plied with a special pair of feet for the occasion. We would love to see "Lloyd's of London" and to hear Marian. Anderson and Victor Borge. However, if we don't get there I suppose we shall survive. Maybe we won't if we do — if you get what I mean. I wonder . . . have any of you had trouble with your TV sets just lately? Ours has been act- ing rather queerly. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. One night the picture had all the appear- ance of ocean waves. Then came a click and the picture was as clear as could be. It didn't give any more trouble until tonight. Do you know what we think was wrong? Nothing more or less than interference from the Northern Lights. There have been several wonderful displays just lately. At two o'clock one morning there was like a huge mushroom in the sky, From the stool of the mushroom Northern Lights were shooting in all direc- tions. Gradually the lights pen- trated the blackness and the mushroom disintegrated. It was very beautiful to watch. But we wish they would leave our TV alone. We almost sent for a- TV mechanic. JUDY STILL OVERWEIGHT Bouncy American songstress Judy Garland, 38, added up to a lot of trouper to London's crit- ics, who gallantly toasted her two-hour, 33-song show as per- haps the most rousing perform- ance of its kind ever put on at the storied old Palladium, but got in less than gallant referen- ces to the bulging Garland con- tours ("podgy," "p lumpis ' "b o t h her chins shook with laughter"). No stranger to sug- gestions that she could do with less heft, Judy lamented: "Every- body says it, and it Always hurts." settee SALLIES toile yet; from the bottdni of fifY heart, toll but tieke'l someone Wee the Gulls Create Air Traffic Snarl The Massachusetts Port Au- thority is, trying to reduce the. possibilities of collisions between its fastest mechanical "birds — jet transports — •over Logan In- ternational Airport and the Dat- ttral variety — gulls, The advent of commercial jet aircraft at East Boston, plus the greater frequencies of jet MOO, has augmented the need to elim- inate birds from the neighbor- hood of airport runways. The problem is not peculiar to Boston hut is one that engages the at- tention of airport managers wherever airports lie along .the margin of the sea, When It Is considered that A jet transport may be flying at a speed of close to 170 miles ' an hour when it takes off, con- siderable damage may result to the aircraft by striking birds on the runway. Moreover, the birds may be ingested into the intakes of the jet engines and introduce the possibility of engine stop- page. Recently, a Scandinavian Air- lines System jet transport, tak- ing off from Copenhagen's Kase trup Airport, ran into a flock of birds severely denting the leading edge of the wing and taking four gulls into its engines. The aircraft lost power from one engine but was able to complete its take-off and come around and land again. Massachusetts Port Authority airport officials disdain taking harsh measures — even though authorized to do so — such as wholesale shooting or poisoning of gulls to get rid of them. More- over, it would rouse bird lovers, That method, they believe, Is only short range and does not solve the problem. The solution, they believe, is eliminating the food sources of the birds nearby which is possibly the cause of their nesting in the areap be- tween Logan's runways, writes Albert D. Hughes in The Chris- tion. Science Monitor. Cutting off bird food sources would mean closer inspection and control by the city of dump areas and over the casting of fish offal into the sea which at- tracts the gulls as feeding grounds. Airport officials say the birds Inhabit the ends of the runways in cooler weather generally fol- lowing hot weather. The asphalt runways retain the heat of the sun and the birds, like human beings, collect wherever they find heat. Map Makers Face Many Problems The problem of signs and sym- bols on maps was a bad one, and for a long time map makers did not know how to solve it. In 1880, there were more than a thousand different kinds of geo- graphical features 'shown on maps, starting with cities and towns, roads, beaches, and ram- bling on through rivers, Imidge., and ferries. There were other symbols that represented or- chards and vineyards, and still others that represented manufac- turing centers and military in- stallations. When it came to such important things as boundary lines, compass points and the slope of the land, every map maker had his own ideas, Map makers needed to get together. The most troublesome problem of all was the spelling of place names, and notes to the reader — the language of the map. The map maker and reader of maps bad to deal with several d.lfer* eat alphabets and hundreds et different letters in order to uri, the map that w-,,ru priwttd in a foreign .country. Maps evere printed in Art04%. German, Greek, Hebrew, ltug.. sian, Chinese„ Japanese and oral other languages. All of th languages used strange letters ill their Alphabets, and even if a Peeson knew the letters of the alphabet, he often had .trontile. in deciding what the map maker was trying to say and the places. he was trying to label, Should the name be written Moskva, Moscus, Mosehia, Moscow, Mos- lcau or Moscow? , Map makers .made a brave. start. They did not lose hope, and one by one they solved the prob- lems that would make it possible for the world to have an inter- national map, a map that could. be. read and understood by everyone, One by one. they es- tablished a universal prime mer- idian, a standard method of keeping time, a standard scale of measure, and a code of synt, bole and signs. The languages and alphabets of the, world are still causing trouble, but map makers have not given up, and they are working every day to:- ward the perfection of a map of the world for all men, — Frain "Map Making: The Art That Bee came tt. Science," by e LlOyd A. Brown. Jiffy - Knit Newest fashion! Knit a beauti- ful, bulky jacket to wear every- where, all year 'round. Jiffy-knii inches fly by! Use double-strand knitting worsted, large needles for bulky jacket. Pattern 861:. directions sizes 32- 3.4; 36-38 included. 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