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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-06-01, Page 2Terrific Trio PRINTED PATTERN 4851 10-18 Otter • "lty advent- it such good coin; petty when Oct 4 1te Move 'eines eeee inAgv.r1,— • • , ti,S, FIRST LADY VISITS THE HORSY 'SET L- During' ea visit to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police barracks at Rockcliffe, Mrs. John F. Kennedy has a worm emile and a 'friendly pat for one of the horses. Are • Worth •,Read. Money • A rare. treat, even for those AeCtistemed to. turning up sur- prisee during visits to the Smith- sonian Institution — or Uncle. Sam's attic as it is sometimes called--. were three charming Swiss mechanical dolls reeenily on view there. gach is equipped with'Wirt. cate . mechanism ,amazingly genious even in today's age a automation. They are almost as large as.. children, about throe- q uarters life-size, and represent an artist, a writer, and a lady musician playing art organ, Made nearly 200 years ago by. S‘,Vise wetchmakers Pierre Jaquet-Drug and his son, Henri-Louis, they were lent to the 'United. Status for a abort, "first trip to Amer- ica." Prof, Eclin.ond Droz, a filth- generation, descendant of the dolimalte•rs and a professor of mathematics and physics at Neu- chatel School of Mechanics, is accompanying the delis on their American tour, He 1$ the only person authorized to operate the mechanism that puts the autom- atic .dolls through their paces. As might be expected, they are highly prized and meticulously protected because re' their unique chara.etze : ed long history. He will put two of them thrieugh their pates at frequent demote- stretioe eerleds each day be- tween g a,m, and 4:30 p.m. The third has been damaged and will need about 100 hauls of labor before it can operate again, At their first performance there on opening clay, the lady musi- cian exhibited poise end evident mastery cf 18th-century organ technique as her hands moved up and down the keyboard, her head and eyes moved, her fin- gers pressed down on the keys, and her bosom rose and fell to simulate breathing, writes Her- bert B. Nichols in the Christian Science Monitor. The four tunes which she plays were composed before 1775. The "Writer," a boy with quill FANCY PANTS — These huge Ipulottes provide plenty of cool- leg leg room. Striped in tur- quoise and white, the cotton outfit is from the summer beach- Weor collection of Jacques Heim of Paris, pen and a treshly filh Inkpot e dips hi.; ren fie the i writes eevetal lidos if .seript using both eapital and email la1.- tees. When M. operai Ale cuzdi- tion the 'Artist," aleu a •b4y. in satin knee breeches and velvet. coat, dew four different pictures with a pencil on small cards, one of which depicts Louis XVI of • France and Marie - Antoinette. The dolls performed at the. French court shortly before the French Itevolution, They were built before and during the American Revolu- tionary War. During the days of the French upheaval, they were taken to England and sold. Moved to Spain they were "lost" for about 10. years, until they were 'found by agents of Na- poleon, reassembled and ex- hibited in Paris. Then folio ,ved almost a century of •ttavels ' around Europe before they' were finally sold tb the Museum at Neuchatel, According t a Ambassador Blanc, each doll is insured for $00,000 and it took considerable persuasion on the part of influ- ential Swiss citizens to persuade. the museum to allow the dolls to make this short visit to the United States with Professor Droz "to show the Jove of the Swiss people for America." Exactly What Is A Billion Dollars? At some point every year ti ere is always hopeful talk abut new efficiency and economy in gov- ernmalet, and some politicians al- ways piously suggest that they will be "disappointed unless the savings which are effected are in the hundreds of millions or even a billion dollars," It seems to us that we should be happy with whatever blessing we may get in this respect—especially if they are counted in terms of a billion. One billion dollars, we all tend to forget in these days of multi- billion dollar budgets and expen- ditures, is a whale of lot of money. Sylvia Porter, the noted financial columnist, once sug- gested a guide to help people visualize just how much a billion dollars is. Here is what she said: "Whenever I try to comprehend such statistics as these, I mumble to myself: (If I had a billion dollars and. I set out to count it at the rate of $100 a minute for 48 hours a week, it would take more than 66 years to complete the job.'. ...)" And if you are still a little hazy on how much $1 billion is, here is another formula •for meas- uring it which is a favorite of ours: If a business founded at the beginning of the year 1 A.D. had been lasing $1,000 a day since that time, it would not yet have lost $1 billion. In fact, it would still have nearly $300 mil- iori to go—and would not reach a $1 billion loss for another 750- odd years. Obviously, a a y competitive business that continuously loses $1,000 a day for even a few years would be hard pressed to attract employees a n d stockholders, Government agencies and bu- reaus are unfortunately not sub- ject to the pressures of compe- titive free enterprise which has so long served to weed out the inefficient businessman or the industry which no longer pro- vides a useful product or service. By Edward E. Hale. To me, one . of the most re- warding features of writing this column comes in the fan mail it brings me. Today I received a letter from a reader near Peter- borough with whom I had cor- responded briefly seven years ago. To get a letter after that lapse of time was indeed a pleasure, especially as the lady in question still seems to be reading this column and appar- ently getting some pleasure in doing so. Her letter sent me scan- ning through back files of fan mail and I was amazed to find that letters have come to me One skirt is arrow-slim, one a whirl of fluid pleats — both go beautifully with the boxy jacket that's favored above all for Surnfner. Choose cotton, linen. Printed Pattern 4851: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 13. Size 16 jacket 2 1/2 yards 35-inch: slitn skirt 1%; full skirt 8% yards, Send PIETY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note foe safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NATO, ADDAt ss, STYLE NTIMBEIt, Send order to ANNE ADAIV1S, EbX 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ANNOLINCINO the biggest fashion show of Spring-Summer, 1961 — pages, pages, pegs of patterns in our new Color Cata- log * just butt 'Hurry, genii 15f tto wi from all parts of Ontario and the U.S.A. — and even some from England, most of which I have answered personally. Some of the letters asked for a little advice in solving personal problems which I was only too glad to of- fer, The lady from Peterborough said — "you will never know what your letter meant to me". I suppose that was because I was able to take a long range view of her problems at that time, If we are too close to the problems involved, or intimate- ly associated with all parties con- cerned, we cannot always get the right perspective, And so, dear friends, if I can ever be of as- sistance to Ou do not hesitate to write. I don't pretend to have the wisdom of Job but in our long experience Partner and have had to meet, and to solve in some way, the same sort of prob- lems that occur in many families, and which, at times, seem almost insurmountable. Well, we have had four con- secutive days without rain — quite a recqrd. And all the peo- ple in this neighbourhood have been as busy as bees round a hive — opening up screen win- dows, taking off storm doors, dig- ging up flower beds and cutting grass. We have been planting cannas, chatting with neighbours and comparing notes as to what died and what survived the win- ter months, We didn't have too much stuff killed out. A golden pussy-willow which I specially prized was chewed off by rabbits. However, it is shooting up from the roots so maybe it won't be a total loss after all. We even put the veranda chairs -out to- day — and managed to find a few minutes to sit in them too, Isn't the springtime wonder- ful? Doesn't it just make you feel good to be alive? It does more than that for me — it makes me feel guilty, Why, well you see, I have a friend about my own age who has been in hospital for the last five months and so far there isn't any definite word of her coming out, Every, few days I phone her but what can you say to comfort a person who is on the inside white you are on the outside? Unfortunately her world seems to be shrinking all the time, She is losing, interest in so many things. Even reading bores her, In shell her World is now more than ever within the four walls of the Iospital; her conversation mainly about the treatments she is getting and what the doctor said on his last visit. She has, in my opinion, given up fighting, And when that happens drugs and treatments have less effect. Doctors and medication can help a lot but only with the cooperation of the patient, And so you see why feel guilty in talking to this friend of mine, f, too, have my ups and downs, and cannot do the things I used to do. But, general- ly sw.,fati rIg , T tiny still bubbling riStibie — I081 over with the joy of living while all my friend knows of this lovely springtime is what she can see from the 4th floor win- dow of the hospital — maybe a glimpse of the tops of trees com- ing into leaf with a few birds flit- ting from one tree to another. Well, Partner is doing plenty of chuckling these days . . and at me! For the first time in my life I have had the courage to come out in slacks! I really bought them last year to wear at the cottage — and then I never got to the cottage. So this morn- ing to work in the garden I donned my slacks and found them a great protection against the wind which still has a bite in it. Partner says the next thing I'll be wearing is shorts. I told him not to worry — I still have a certain amount of vanity, and to my way of thinking shorts and varicose veins don't go to- gether. At least they don't make an attractive combination. Slacks at least have the saving grace of concealment, Partner's next jibe was that I might take a few beauty treat- ments like some of the other women. I know. A beauty coun- sellor comes to the homes and gives slcin treatments, supposedly to remove pimples and other skin blemishes. The cost is $25 for a two-hour session, Maybe she does some good, I don't know. But I think if I were younger, before taking a chance like that I would try eating less rich food and quit smoking. Beauty treatments, in my opinion, start from within. Before paying $25 I would also make a few inquiries from the Better Business Bureau. How- ever, none of that is my personal worry. My hair is white and it stays that way. I won't even let my hairdresser give me a blue rinse, As for wrinkles — well, what would Eleanor Roosevelt look like without the charm and serenity that age has given her? Youth has its beauty. Age also has a charm all its own, Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. Isn't it rude and, ill-bred of a bride who waits until she re- turns from a month's honey- moon before acknowledging her 'wedding gifts? A. I think so. Wedding gilts are best acknowledged as they are received, while those receiv- ed at the last moment can be acknowledged while the bride is away. Q. I recently saw a person, after dining in a restaurant, dip his fingers into his glass of water and then wipe thein on his nap- kin. Is this good mantle's? A. Never! If there are no fingerbowls and the fingers are sticky, it is permissible to tip the glass of water into one corner of the napkin, then wipe the 'fingers with this. Settee tittles Opobtg. About Th or 131004 -Pressure The doctor winds the long, flat cloth tube of the sphygmomano- meter around the patienee upper alto, pumps it up, then notes the feedings on the pressure gauge When the patient's heart calla tracts and relaxes. This time- honored procedure, of course, Is supposed to show whethei the blood pressure is normal (for an average male, .130/75), high (200/ 130), or low (90/60). Rut does it? "Not neeessartly," says Dr. Sidney Roston of the University of Louisville School of IViedielne, who has spent 'three years working on a mathematical analysis of the human circulatory system, In New York last month at a meeting of mathematicians And biologists, lie gave his con- clusion; Blood in various parts of the body may 'Move- at different retes of. pressure, "There have been cases of enlarged hearts," Dr. Boston told the • meeting, sponsored by the New York Aca- demy of Sciences and the Univer- eity of Chicago, "where the blood pressure in the arm was normal." If the present practice of tak- ing blood-pressure readings in the arm Is of "limited" value in diagnosing heart disease, Dr, Ros- ton has no other solution to of- fer. It would take surgery, he ad- mitted,. to get pressure readings of such important internal or- • gans as the brain or heart, "The important point," lie warned, "is that doctors should be aware that even if the bloor-pressure in the arm is normal, there may be dangerously high pressure elsewhere in the body." Trouble Brews In Fashion Circles The deposed boy-king of the House of Dior, Yves St. Laurent, lay disconsolately on a Majorcan beach. While the heir-designate of the late Christian Dior was recuperating from military ser- vice and a consequent nervous breakdown, Marc Bohan, for- merly chief designer in Dior's London office, had usurped his throne. Bohan's designs for Dior's spring collection last Jan- uary had triumphed grandly, St. Laurent, now a ripe 24, looked back over the wreckage of his ambitions and brooded darkly. Bohan, who is pushing 30, had no time for brooding. The slim, dark-haired designer was in New York last month, making cere- monial calls on the governor- generals of his far-flung realm and checking on the Dior-New York collection prior to its un- veiling. At Lord & Taylor, he smiled with exquisite politeness when its president, 'Melvin Daw- ley, ventured to inform him that "Fashion is worldwide." He ac- knowledged graciously the wel- comes prepared by Saks Fifth Avenue's Adam Gimhle, Bonwit Teller's Edgar Wherry, and Berg- dorf Goodman's Andrew Good- man—all of whom took time out to show him their stores, Arlene Francis, Betty Furness, John Crosby, and Dave C-arroway in- terviewed him on radio and TV. 'All this was recompense indeed for a man who once toiled in a coat shop in the jungle of New York's Seventh Avenue, and whose attempt to set up his own couturier house had failed dis- mally in 1955, Now, a married man and the father of a 7-year- old daughter, Bohan may be something of an oddity in the fashion business, but there is no- thing strange about the popular- ity of his designs—youthful, simple, and very much in con- formity with the netnrel tt figure. The k,loititti linos tinvelled this week at the Dior-New York 'fall- and-winter collection were Ma great departure from those of last season. LOW necks, snort Items, low waistlines, floppy' bodices, and pleated and flared skirts ,Predeminated, ill bright colors but with fewer pinks than last year. "I do not believe In radical changes, but In evolo- tion," said Bohan, "and I believe in casual fit. :Extreme elegance or formality in dress," lie aadea. thoughtfully, "is not for our ac- tive life." Almost et the moment he was speaking, life suddenly became very active indeed for Bohan, Yves St. Laurent, back in Pavia from exile but rarely seen in public, announced through his lawyer, Jean Pierre Bredin, that he was suing Dior for $120,000 for their breach of his contract which has three years still • to. run, St. Laurent was also. "M-• portedly planning to open his, own fashion house in Paris. He was, said Bredin, "more hurt than angry," lt'e Spring' in the suburbs where the birds are now work- ing on their third replacement of grass seed, Comfort For Baby re.A.WiteLat, Babies can be cool this sum- mer — dress them in these suits. Be thrifty — use remnants, Seersucker, nylon, light cotton are good fabrics, Pattern 842: transfer; pattern 6 month, 1 year, 13 month babies; directions. State size, . Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, Print plainly PA T TERN NUMBER, your. NAME and AD- DRESS. JUST On THE PRESS! Send now for our exciting, new 1961 Needle&aft Catalog,, Over 123 designs to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave — fashions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, ba- zaar hits. Plus, FREE — instruc- tions for six smart veil caps, Hur- ry, send now! *.ES 00)1 Chosen to represent their country in beauty contests around the world,. three French girls display their tiatOrna it Parif. Leff to' rig'! T are: Sinibrie Derly, whb will Colt, Pete in the Miss Universe enniestr Marie Helene Trove, seeking' The title of Miss Europe, and grldiffe 13atoteie entry' in the Wei International . Beauty arnpetitioe, gnat GLAMOUR Wearing cliamond necklace ant! wh:le Dior own, Sophie' Laren arrives at Cannes P•zi Poloce for showing' of her picture; "La Ciaciora."