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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-04-05, Page 6Seeing Europe Without Haste 10. 11 .,111 ,1,41111116 „,,, -11,111, "I ,111, nommolgoll ' filseittielpect -Make, w. rDarden A 'Brighter cash revenue WAS •Seld0M. mere than a few hundred dollars a. Year-, The rest et the iivolthood was home-grown • The coming of the railroad we ;the great feeent Which ley he, hind this .change in the way of 'life, not only '.8trathrOY. but everywhere. Railreadiag fn On- tario suffered from the, disedvarre Cage that fhe province: bee no • coal mines, and therefore' the, .coal had to. be imported fram. lihe mines, or Pennsylvania.. The' eesult, was that the .earl'i'est tecie meti*ves blamed wood.. f reealel distinetly the wood-burying to- coirtatives. of titre greatWiesteern Railroad' (later hire Grand Theik,, and now:- the Canadian: .Natione0 with: their termer-Shaped: chime- neys. throwhyg, showers.; of sparks' high in the air' when .tire' firemen threw the eetee -- From "The Autobiography of James. T. .Strotwelt."' Apring began last Month ,lee- aiding •the year's. most weleema season, daefeelile will soon be reks lieying gardens of their drab • winter brown. cheerful, seventy -.seven - . year-old, Irishman, who died last ,month, • deserved much. of the credit for this flowered bright- ness so early in the year, Guy . Wilson, ofted Oiled. the Grand Old Man of daffodils, had been growing the flowers at Brough ehene„ Co" Antrim, since 1920, He, had, always been most fare!, neted. by white daffodils, His Em- press of Ireland bulb was eonsid- ered the best daffodil of 1960, and single bulbs sold at $50. each. There • are about 10,000 var- ieties of the flower, and Wilson developed 139 of them. Every year, tributes. to the man and his work will flourish in gardens from Tokyo to Toronto. Q. I have noticed some women wearing their rings over their gloved fingers. Is this eonsitlered correct? A, No, it isn't. It's all right to wear bracelets over thy gloves, but not rings. Grace° Kelly with. Jimmy Stewart in "Rear Window." Princess GraCe of Monaco PRINCESS TAKES A J0,13 — Princess Grace of 'Monaco returns to 'Hollywood this summer' to resume her movie career. She will take the principal role in a thriller based on the suspense novel, "Marnie," by' Winston Graham. The former Grace Kelly will be directed by Alfred Hitchcock, an old friend, responsible for t h re e of her most successful films: "Dial M for Murder," "Rear, Window" and "To Catch a Thief," Prince Rainier, her hus- band, will be present during at least part of the filming if his schedule should permit. Small Children Get' Free Toys thingS I could tell you are not even printable! ! Construction work for an ad- dition to the hospital is going on a good clip. Sometimes when electric drills are ,pounding away you just can't hear yourself think. It is a wonder the men can Work at all with all the mud and slush around.' One man, stepping around a square hole — probably meant for a cement pillar — fell into it and was up 'to his armpits in slush. Fellow- ssrorkmen hoisted him out. I wonder what he said!: zing, thes-lairgineendee ikitithe J $t, John the 13aptist and St. Anne Its owner, Royal Academy of Arts, had. PreP94ed to sell the, work, to' feet, rls j, , costs and maintain its independ- ence, of government subsidy-, When it $0ea on 01* auction. block, Iseenarcio'S beautiful clrai,v- ing is expected to fetch $2,8 million, Speculation also picks the Cleveland Museum of Art -- which just missed getting the Rembrandt as the most inter- ested bidder, Unimpressed, The. Times filled its columns with let- ters from, readers suggesting , ways to keep the, sketch among Britain's art treasures, Rallying to the cause, labor- union leader Sir Torn O'Brien suggested that the nation's fif- teen commercial television com- panies ante up part of their "fab- ulous" profits to buy the picture for some museum', His reasoning; The gesture would quiet critics who complain at their failures so far to promote the arts and sciences, G. )3eresford Craddock, Tory M,P., proposed that 200,000 people donate $14 apiece to an endowment fund to be set up for the Royal Academy, The acad- emy itself had attempted to fore- stall the sale by asking the Treasury to buy the drawing last month, but was turned down. At Sotheby's, however, prag- matism prevailed. A spokesman for the auction house remark of last week: "It's downright hyp- ocrisy to call the Leonardo part of Britain's heritage. It was painted in Italy by an Italian. It isn't as if some rich American bought Westminster Abbey and wanted to erect it again in Wash- ington, D.C. How could the gov- ernment pay a million pounds for a picture . when' it's deny- ing workers even sixpence more in daily wages?" Most Crowded Nation Wins Land. From Sea DOTTED BONNET — Polka- dot Breton hat with detach- able wimple is shown for spring wear. Stratheey itself began., like all other countr y towns on the eon, tinent, as a trading post for farmers who brought their wheat , to the grist mill on the little river and sold or bartered their farm produce at the weekly market. Stores soon lined the village street, and in course of time 'the storekeepers became the artistocraey of the growing town, with larger houses and spreading lawns on the low hills crowning the valleY, The weekly market held its own, however ' for the "market price" set in this miniature ver- sion of an Oriental bazaar was generally a few cents less thah the price of '"store goods," on which the merchants had to make their margin of profit. Butter was twelve cents a pound; eggs, nine cents a dozen; strawberries, from two to five cents a quart (berry-pickers were allowed to fill pails to the brim with blackberries for noth- ing); chickens were twenty cents or two for thirty-five; and in winter beef by the quarter sold for four or five cents a pound, Tomatoes were so plentiful that they were often given away. This price list I found on a yellowing page of the local paper, without date. The market was more import- ant for the farmers, however, than for the townspeople, for selling their produce there was almost the only way they had of getting a little spending money for current expensei. And it was almost the only chance the farmers and their wives had- to compare their pro- duce with that of the more dis- tant sections, of the neighbor- hood. For the men it also meant political talk; for the women, more intimate gossip. At inter- vals there would be a sale of livestock or grain or garden produce in larger bulk; but, as the average farm was only one hundred acres, including farm- yard and' pasture lots, the total Saturday is a big day for the tots of Bromley-by-Bow, East London. For every Saturday any child who can pass under a wooden arch in Fern Street without stooping receives a pack- et of toys for a halfpenny. The mites of the district have' filed through this arch every week for more than sixty years. The' custom 'began in 1900' when Miss' Clara Grant„ distressed' by seeing the poverty-stricken kiddies,. founded the' Fern Street settle- ment — three houses stacked' with books' and toys.. Miss Grant' died' in 1949, but her work con- tinues', bringing happiness to' new generations' of kiddies:. Q. Are the folded thank-you cards' proper for acknowledging• wedding gifts? A: A folded card with 'Thank you" imprinted' on its face is right — but a HANDWRITTEN` personal message: M'U'ST be added. RHINESTONE GAL — Sparkl- "big rhinestones set off deep- cut back of block swimsuit, Art Treasure May Break Record A drawing to be auctioned in. London next June is expected to bring even more than the rec- erd-breaking $2,3 million paid by the Metropolitan Museum for Rembrandt's "Aristotle Contem- plating the Bust of Homer," But the London Times, among others, was not pleased, "The issue," warned The Times, ". . is whe- ther the British people will show that altered circumstances have not destroyed old valuer, that having it individually good includes preserving the national treasures . . . Let them do this and the noise will go round the world. It would show the British character . . in another of its finest hours." The masterpiece which moved The Times to sound the tocsin was Leonardo da Vinci's draw- Already the most densely pop- ulated country' per square mile in the, world, Japan is expected to increase its population by 6,- 500,000 — to 100,000,000 — in the next eight years. Many of these extra millions will live on land which is now covered by sea water. For Dutch engineers, experts on land re- clamation in the Zuider Zee, are teaching the Japanese all they know. And the Japanese are learning swiftly. They are building pow- erful new dyke walls and mast, ering such techniques as repell- ing floods from.reclaimed areas, driving out sea-water pockets, 'preventing underground seepage, laying roads below sea level, purifying the soil of salt; and putting down foundations for factories and housing estates, and even new cities. Sea wastes, mostly estuary flats, in twenty-nine out of Japan's forty-six home prov- inces, are being converted, The nation is budgeting over $300,- 000,000 to finance this great bid to increase its living space, Already factory sites have been built on former mud flats. One ambitious land-winning pro- ject is taking place beside Mild; moto, famous for its pearl oyster beds. Some rice farmers, kelp gath- erers and fishermen are protest- ing against this disturbance of their livelihood. But many others are pleased to have safe jobs with much higher- wages. My address is, still the same, although I didn't expect it to be which means I am still in the hospital — and I would be 'un- grateful indeed 'if I made any complaints. It is possible to get all kinds of small' concessions to make life easier; for instance .I am doing this copy on, the library table in the waiting room as I find bedside tables are not con- ducive to legible writing. Yesterday was St. Patrick's, so what, happened'? The nursing staff,` nurses' aides and all the female patients on the 4th floor were wearing most attractive boutonnieres, made and pre- sented to them by'cne of the pa- tients who does wonderful things with artificial flowers. Then at lunch-time our trays came up with an attractive tray-cloth embossed with Irish emblems and in one corner of the tray an Irish favour — that- is, a green Shamrock sprinkled with spark- lets. That sort of thing is a great help to patients because it creates an outside interest and thus-des- troys the embryo of that soul- destroying quality, self-pity — all too common, alas, with pa- tients suffering a long illness. I wonder how many people know abOut the new low rates on long-distance telephone calls af- ter nine o'clock at night? I find it is news to everyone on this floor. So far as I can make out there is the usual charge for a ,five-minute call and after that there is five minutes free time. In other words you talk ten min- utes for the price of five. Then every alternate two minutes is free of charge. I phoned the operator one night to make sure my information was correct. Since then I have phoned a friend in Newmarket, also one in Shelburne. I find talking is far more satisfactory than writing letters, Wouldn't it'be wonderful if I could talk to all you people instead of writing -this colurim? Wouldn't we have a chin-wag? ! And don't you think after all this free publicity' the Bell Telephone should allow me half-an-hour's free time every day? Some chalice! Well, at this stage I was inter-, rupted by a visit from my plastic surgeon who said I shall be here for at least another week. I sup- pose he. Wants nie to stay around until all risk of infection is' past. Of-course I am also being treated for high blood pressure. Right now I am wondering what will happen to my blood pressure when we get an account from the plastic surgeon! Plastic surgeons don't come a dime a dozen,, that's for sere, Partner says, well at least we won't have' to worry about Income Tax this year! I imagine by the time I get home Partner will he tired, of being his own cook and house- keeper! Daughter went in last night with the weekly shopping and Made him a meat loaf before she left. She intended coming to the hospital to See me but I told her it would do me more good if she went home and did some- thing for her dad, especially' as he has a Very inflamed eye from the cold winds, Joy was here during the week, She put Ross and Cedrie down for their after, noon sleep and left Grandpa to look after them, And Of CoUrse neigliborus front here and Milton have been wonderful,• popping in and out -7-, to, say nothing of pa- tiefits going from rborn to l'Ootn, Visiting one aribtlidie in fact there is never a dull Moment aftettid here e- but some of the. A HELPING HAND — This PittUre• taken at treatment con. fee for cerebral palsy, won first prize in recent U.S,, photo loiitest. conducted by United Cerebral Palsy Atsocicificine, Picture Shows the children's edUrcigeOUsreisii the fade of their trerriendout handicaps, passengers- can' avail ,themselves of a hairdressing salon on the ship. One airline corn-meting Caiia. dian. travellers With the Rhine Sttilth'er"OrkiFee is Lufthansa, op= 170.),;itig Boeing. 707 and 120,13 jets. from Montreal, New York, Sail Francisco and Chicago. The airline's spring and Summer "40 'flights weekly between .Germany iind North ;110.,ierica.,,, four, limos from the Montreal, Chicago and San Vranciscp gateways, and daily from New York. Lufthansa's let tertnibais in Gormany are tIent- burg, .Vrankturt, Cologne, and Munich, the most eeeveniere 10 the steamer' eerviee e being daily flights etre New York to Cot., ogne or.Frankfurt, ,er the f fur titne8 Weekly Ptetriltfurl flights from the other gateways, Theegh contrast in speed is otper, Kneed between a 6t) -tilde lion'• jet atrossthe Atlantic end' the trap up the _ contrast id tatittra is 'nonexistent, " Switzerland, or making further perusal of the Continent from those points,• Wherever 'you etiihark, the at- cent of the trip is leisure. One cent only recline peEideftill,c his deck chair or wetch from the observation lounge as turope unfolds in front of him. Parep- ered..by attendants with. cocktails , and Snaefes 'and Many Other' IttX Utica, the, traveller tries in a grand and aver changing pan-, crania Of the Dutch countryside, the Wireef"couhtty Gdrmaily i the old and beautiful, cities and village.; Verde:ring the river, and the 'busy rivet traffiC. Not a feet of the spectacular scenery is wasted , on night travel, the steamer putting in at different eitlw each ,evon:rig. an'opportunity to 11:4,ve dinner ashore, explore a city and sample its night life, Or enter into the evening festivities on hoard the &Learn r. pre tire ter the sparkiina night life k rind eff the StontiCtS, tvoinett Rhine from 'this Central loetitiori, picking lip another. flight back days for the return. Pares are extremely 'reasanable. This year two new steamers; the MS Europa and the MS Rel= Vetia, are plying the Aniney tlia,k:ng, possible. thC reduced time span of fotin `dayS • fey the trip between lioiland and Switz- erland, Ultra-modern in every way, the two new vessels have luxury eccommodatioris includ- ing private air,- conditioned rooms with bath, a swimming pool, a grill, bar, and dieing 0 00til, Offered in the dining rooms are a Superiee' cont.:hen- tat cuisine and the' 'finest 'Ger- man wines at unusually tow Cost. ' The beet 'feature of the Rhine cruise' its Its flekibility, Pas8- etigerS can begin and erid their trip anywhere along the Steam- er's :course., Vor instance, if the traveller taes a Lufthansa. Ger- man Airlinea 'Diana from. Canada to this country iii' Rolland' or .ISStlig 1.9t4 An essential but oft-neglected ingredient of a European Vaca- tion is relaxation, Too often a snort trip to Europe becomes a frantic scurrying from city to city, the traveller trying to see as Much as possible in the el= *lotted time, You 'might call it biting off more than you ran chew. Theft relaxation is ob- soured, the trip becomes a cut- htral mission rather than a plea- sure One way, to see a lot of Su- rope 'a restf'u'l way is to hike teleisutely steamer Cruise on the Rhine. the river, though gen-, erally associated with. Germany, idtually hoWs through four countries on a northerly course from the Swiss Alps to (totter- dam arid the North Sea.. Stearn' ers travel a course from Rottet- dein upthe Rhine to Basler SWitterlandy taking five days, to Matto the trip upstreart, four to Cologne, he can 'embark there for a trip either Up tit doWn the' WELL-PRESERVED MARKSBURG CASTLE, -sits high above' beaubach on` Germanys ro- mantic Rhine. River steamers operate scheduled services during :the. set:leen, affording, the tourist the most beautiful scenery in Germaq.