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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-09-29, Page 6It isn't fall yet but the bide- jays evidently think it should be. They are congregating in the tall trees nearby, occasionally leav- ing them to swoop down to the sunflower heads, picking at the. seed before it is even ripe. Blue- e tays ,are such lovely birds — lovely but with an ugly voice, even worse than the crows..How different from the pretty little canaries, their flashing yellow matched:by songs of lilting mel- ody. We have quite a number around here. I love to watch them, and I have been able to do quite a lot of watching late- ly as I have been sitting out- side knitting mitts for the boys. Mitts! Yes, that's right — eight pairs of them, two pairs each for the four oldest grandsons. To avoid rushing don't you think it's a good idea in summer to get ready for winter — and in win- ter to prepare for. summer? Not that I always practise what I preach but that doesn't alter the fact of it being a good idea, does it? Of course, most of us are pre- paring to a certain extent any- way — by canning, pickling and jamming. Last night I put down nine jars of raspberries. It is nice to see them stacked on the shelves for winter consumption. In our family, during the sum- mer, we hardly touch preserves at all — not with fresh fruit on the market, Raspberries, even at thirty-five cents a pint, are still just as economical as opening a jar or can of berries. if you grow your own that's even het- i ter — which, unfortunately, we don't. I just can't get Partner interested in growing berries of any kind. Sometimes I wonder' where the supermarkets buy their stuff. The other day I was in a hurry and, bought a five-pound bag of "new" Ontario grown potatoes. Almost half of them were partly rotten. The next day I stopped at a well-known fruit market for raspberries and noticed they had freshly dug Irish cobblers that might have come from our own garden. They were a treat to serape and to eat, As for fruit, I never buy it from a- superrnart — except bananas and citrous fruit, There are times when you definitely DON'T gel what you • pay for. Well, this is the time of year when little field mice try to find a way into the house to set up living quarters for the fall And winter, And are they the cagey little fellows! Many of them manage to eat the bait Without springing the trap. We are not bothered' with them — Ditto takes care of that little problem. But just listen to what happened to a neie.nbour family. They had a really friendly little mouse. He came out every night and ran around the kitchen, oblivious to anyone who might be around. Traps didn't scare him one bit but he enjoyed the cheese! We lent Ditto to our neighbours, 1St Ditto evidently thought it wasn't Worth while hanging around for title small mouse when she could catch them by the dozen in the field. So she curled up on the chesterfield, and went to sleep. Then came the weekend when- our neighbours had visitors. The mouse came out as usual — which naturally led -to a mouse- catching discussion. Said Ron to Bill — "Why don't we shoot it — you've got 'an air-rifle haven't you?" So, to cut 'a long story short, that's what they did. The mouse was under the "frig" so they blocked the sides to make sure it would have: to come out at the front. They waited . two grown men against one lit- tle mouse! Presently it appeared, friendly and fearless as ever. Bill got it — first shot, So that's one way to get rid of a mouse. Per- sonally I would rather put up with a mouse than have any kind of a gun used in the house. Even an air-rifle. My nephew Klemi was staying with us most of last week. He arrived from Peterborough in a new Hillman, his first long drive since getting his driver's permit. I don't know whether to say he had beginner's luck or the con- fidence of a limited experience. Anyway he drove through Tor- onto during the rush-hour traf- fic, via the Kingsway, with its detours and construction confu- sion at the Six Points — a drive that even hardened drivers try to avoid if at all possible. But he arrived happy and serene and all in one piece. He offered to take me with him on his return to Peterborough, from there I could go on to the cottage. Also invited me to the Stratford. Mu- sic Festival next week. I appre- ciated both offers but after a trial run I decided a ninety-mile trip would probably reduce rne to a state of jitters. Not but what Klemi is a careful driver but . . well, you probably know what I mean. Anyway we are too busy look- ing after properties around here belonging to vacation neigh- bours. Lawns to cut, plants and gardens to water and berries to pick. Also basements to bale out if the hydro should go off dur- ing a storm! As far as we are personally concerned we find it easier to be away one at a tine. That way we know that things Will be all right at home. After all we don't need a vacation the way most people do. coma from the 'wide open epaeee,' Buck, Yeti won't t' lone fee item" For Half Sizes PRINTED PATTERN, 4618 121/2-221 /2 THE NEW PRINCE — Queen Mother Elizabeth appears to have quite an armful as she helps little Prince Andrew pose for his latest photograph. Stately Towers WolcOre Visitor Seven hundred- years ago, you owned a. castle or palace you would (in conformity with the. •soeial customs of the time) doubtless have dug a Wide, deep moat around your home and, having tilled that (the moat) with water, have filled your battlements with • itchy-fingered archers, alert tar-boilers and nettrere, and muscular rock, droppers. The general aim then was to keep visitors out. A hundred years ago you might merely have surrounded your palace with iron 'fences and perhaps • filled the surrounding woods with mantraps and pit- falls. • Ten years ago you might have caused your bailiff to nail up your first restrained notice of invitation outside your gates, beckoning passers-by to enter and, for a small fee, to share with you the marvels or beauties of your estate on Saturday after- neons.• Times change. Today you would buy space in the news- papers and time on television to drag as many people as possible into your grounds • and you would sit up nights in brain- storming sessions with your London agent (publicity agent) dreaming up new gimmicks to. make it all worth while. What can happen in the mod- ern age was rather drastically illustrated the other day at Pal- ace House, historic home of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (pronounc- ed Bewley) where his lordship 11/ArLs. -444 Step into this scooped, back- zipped sheath—step out happily all summer! Easy-sew in breeze- light cotton or shantung with jacket to contrast or match. Printed Pattern 4618: Half Sizes 121/2 , 141/2, 161/2 , 181/2 , 20 1/2 , 221/2 . Size 161/2 dress takes 31/2 yards 35-inch; jacket, 13/4 yards.. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate, Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps• cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. DRIVE WITH CARE 1 ha d staged the f'i'fth Beaulieu Festival. of Jazz. Thousands came, it Was not just that bearded tra- ditionalists joined in a fight that clean-shaven Dixielandeea were having with a combined force of midway skitters and moder:ilsts„ but somebody 01,0 50 fire to the Antique Car Mu. scorn. The Britian. Broadcasting Cere poration meanwhile was driven off the air while actually tele- vising the festive'. Then next evening ten historic villages around were blacked out by a power failure, Finally Mr, Hume phrey Lyttleton's trumpet was lost, to use a euphemism, and an innocent horn player who was later skieling in a New Forest village street was pounced upon by the police and detained for some time while he tried to ex- plain his trumpet, no easy thing to do. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu had been hoping to turn Beaulieu into "The Glyndebourne of the jazz world," but at Glynde- bourne they play opera and the fans are willing to dress in t.vening tails and. gowns in the afternoon :e zl generally behave more formally. Yet n hat made this whole thing so specially significant was that, because of the informality of this filth festival, Lord. Mon- tagu had. to cancel his long. standing engagement to race his traction engine against the Duke of Bedford's finest racing trac- tion engine at Woburn Abbey, historic country palace of the Bedfords. The many thousands of peo- ple who had gathered at Woburn Abbey from the 14 corners of the United Kingdom to race or simply to watch traction en- gines — there was a great An- nual Traction-Engine Rally ad- vertised — although they kept a stiff upper lip, were a mite dis- appointed. W o b u r n somehow didn't seem the same, writes John. Allan May in the Christian Science Monitor. For it is not enough these days to offer a landscaped garden, lunch in the historic 15th century banqueting hail, a view of the priceless tapestries of a unique Palladian Villa, Lord Hertford, for instance, when he invites you to Bagley Hall, Alcester, War- wickshire, may offer a Picasso 'EXhibition, as well as the dis- plays of water skiing in the an- ` -central lake, but there are some who are a little doubtful whether Lord Hertford has yet gone far enough, however well Picasso draws the mobs. More may be needed. "Visit Alton Towers" advises another advertisement. Alton Towers is in Staffordshire, mid- way between Uttoxeter and Leek and is, the advertisement states, the "Former Stately Home of the Earls of Shrewsbury." It has, it is said, the most magnificent gardens in the British Isles. But it now has also "fountains, tem- ples, zoo (including lions and elephants), the largest 00 gauge railway in the world. . . . Trac- tion Engine Museum ... boating, scenic railway, first-class licens- ed catering . . . and FREE PARK- ING." Such is the English love of locomotives that the sure-fire way of drawing in a million visitors a year apparently is to fill your stately home with trac- tion engines. You would be well advised also to race them, such is the English love of racing, over the historic landscape, to the sound ,of trumpets (Dixie- land). All, there is no home like a palace, as they say in England, and it is certainly a far cry from the days of moats, archers, oil- boilers, and rock-droppers. Or, as Lord Montagu of Beaulieu might well wonder, is it? Is it all that far after all? Will they make a comeback? It's foolish to worry about the confused teenagers. Give them time and they'll grow up to be confused adults. New Royal Baby Gets The Q,K., Exultant 1,;:nglisb newspapers eeize.d on es rare treat and really spread themselves out with the. latest pictures — and. the first,. since .shortly after his birth — of cotton-topped, .ti-montb-old .prince Andrew, The ..occasion: Baby Andrew and the two other royal tots, 11-year-old Prince Charles and Blear-old Princess Anne, visited their grandmother, Queen. Mother Elizabeth, on her 00th birthday, The 'London. Daily Sketch fetched in a pediatrician, showed 'nine photographs of An- drew, and printed the doctor's obeeryations. Some of thorn; Arms and legs: "Very well covered — quite nice, Too fat? No, no. Not a bit." Expression: "Intelligent. Look at those nice fat'pheeks and that smile. He looks rather intellie gent!" Shape of head: "A perfectly happy head, that." Snapping Pictures Modern Passion In a recent article, the Lon- don Economist reports that one family in every two in Britain now owns a camera. But only one Briton out of every five or six says he is a camera user, while in the Unitdd States, ac- cording to the weekly, one of every three individuals claims to be an amateur photographer. The point of the article is that Britain may very well catch up at the rate interest in the hob- by is- growing-. Then, in passing, it observes: It is not for nothing that the caricature 'of the -American abroad has his, tine (movie cam- era) whirring, . his exposure meter and filters dangling at .his side, and his tripod strapped tightly over his arm . . . psy- chologists assert that taking . photographs has now become such. an ingrained habit among• Americans that pointing a cam-- era has itself become an essen- tial part of seeing a view. Whether that habit is a nation- al characteristic peculiar to us C O I. L LC T 1 0 N Little Linda Huguely drags •a few of mom- my's pans and utensils out of the cupboard. Lin d a thinks these will never be missed. Wait and see, Linda. is doubtful, Any traveler knows that Germans and ;fapancoe seem to have an equal passion for "making a picture" of any unusual or historic sight.. The 'real question is whether "see- ing a view" suffers from getting it, on film. Who has net exle"in. Wed the tourist who, after a quick glimpse of the Colosseum or the; %Grand Canyon e; the. Alhaenbrin or the redwoods, bets,- ies himseg with his photographic apparatus, all intent upon get- tinier a clear, sharp "shot" of it? This has its advantages, of course. A good photograph, es- specially in color, of a fine scene is a pretty thing in its own right. It has a degree of per- manence. It can touch, years later, all manner of triggers of memory which otherwise would be inactive. It renews the past and keeps remembrance fresh and detailed as well as accur- ate. The disadvantage is that if the vision of the actuality has been skimped in order to get an image of it, memory 'teat may be thin and poor, no matter how good the artificial stimula- tion. Nobody recalls vividly and fully what he did not look at hard, long and thoughtfully with his own eyes in the first place. The most spendid of shadows doesn't help if the personal ex- perience of the substance was hasty, meager and distracted by -preoccupation with what the lens was "seeing." — Baltimore Sun. Brave! Men And Cowardly Cats Six husky young men walked quietly up to the lions' cage at Ueno Park Zoo lee Tokyo one day recently and promptly be- gan glaring into the animals' eyes. After five minutes, the lions grew fidgety, stopped star- ing back, and, tails tucked be- tween their legs, retreated to far corners of the cage. Having out-stared the king of beasts, the members of the Japanese Olym- pic wrestling team pronounced their training complete. "Wrestling began when stone- age 'humans had to fight wild beasts," explained Shigeru Sasa- hare, who coaches the Japanese wrestlers. "Survival depended on watching the animal's eyes. It's still good training for a wrestler to face living beasts." Sasahara smiled. "It would have been better inside' the cage," he said. Hard To Slow Old. Master 'Down For seven months of the year he gads about the world in his Rolls-Royce or by boat and train. He feasts on—his beloved cities street by street, prowling the antique shops and the art gal- leries, plunging into out-of-the- way neighborhoods to take in the sights and stores and people. Not long ago he hied himself to ,nine operas in ten days in Vien- na. He drinks a cocktail before lunch, another before dinner, and dines on anything that strikes his fancy — and plenty of it. All this must stop, a fin- ger-wagging doctor cautioned 86-year-old British author Somerset Maugham; better he should find a quiet nook in his ten-room villa on the Riviera, plunk down in a big, soft chair, and take life easy. The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt, don't." Cardinal Doesn't Like Womenis Fonts "As far as covering goes," said Guiseppe Cardinal .Siri reeentav commenting on the light, tight clothes of summer, "pants elver more than modern feminhie skirts, "Rut it is not only a question of covering," continued the 64- year-old Archbishop of •Genoa in a particularly testy warning to hie Roman Catholic flock, "It is also a 'question of tightness In general (pants) can give a greater tightness than skirts. And it 15 this tightness which can cause no less preoccupation than the exhibition itself . "Above all, in the use of men's pants on the part of women there is an aspect which appears to us more grave: Male attire worn by women (a) alters the psychology of the women (b) tends to spoil relations between the woman and the opposite sex, and (e) easily damages maternal dignity before chil- dren." Needle Variety 41/ r444414 Witt& Make your guest room lovely with these linens! Unusual de- sign combines embroidery with a, crocheted edging. Perfect for towels, pillow- cases, scarf ends. Pattern 5351 transfer of 5% x 191/2 inch motif; two 41/2 x 131/2 ; crochet direc- tions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal not for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, 'your NAME and ADDRESS. New! New! Newl Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting, unusual, popular, designs to crochet, knit, sew, em- brodier, quilt, weave, fashions, home furnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits. In the book FREE —3 quilt patterns. Hurry, seed 25 cents for your copy. ISSUE 35 —1960 tHREE-WHEELING Ma. Calvin Bublin shows how the prOblern of airing her triplets Weft solved — three darridges joined to-- gOhde. The Middle pram even hal on extra seat far the babies?'" theresei 2. RED PARTY LINE -- that great inveritien e- the chorus line has iiieeti adopted iii OussIdi Where these 30 Russian girls cavort in the theat.e of Moscow's Gorky' Pork, Their nut* ber is called "Heroines of Bocialist Lt2hOr'' id U,S.-sei.e revue titled