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The Brussels Post, 1961-10-26, Page 2house. calls, but this is an ahalas lute physical limitation forced on him by tnreoWnstit.," Right now there, are ,1.32 ever,. worked. 40090 for every 100,000. Americans, /3,y 1071, if the popne • latlen mushrooms, to 220 million, as predicted, the ratio, cett4 • worsen to. little. More than Ott doctors, pee 100,000. The shozi6.0 age Is becoming. moo critical air a time when! the Average Arne*. • can is demanding more and. more medical care, .and the 414A, 'her of chroniesaly ill is increas, lag as the life span is extended, Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. If a girl has no parents and she has no means of giving a party to announce her engage- ment, how can she best make this announcement? A, Her best way would be through the society-news page of her local newspaper. Q, Is it absolutely necessary to send a wedding gift when you have declined an invitation to the wedding and reception? A. If you are a good friend of the bride, the bridegroom, or their' families, yes, Otherwise, no, Q. I have received a number 'of wedding gifts from out-of- town relatives of my husband, whom. I've never seen. What salutation should I make to each, of these in my thank-you notes? A. Address each relative of your husband as he does — as "Aunt Mary," "Uncle Joe," or "Cousin Tom." Q. For how long should the bread and butter plates be left on the dinner table? A. Until it is time to serve the dessert. Q. Is it necessary for a host and hostess to accompany de- parting guests to their cars? A. Not unless they really wish to do so. Otherwise, it is all right for them -to speak their good-by's at their door.and then remain there until their guesta are well on their way to their cars. 6111111W. dderWAildonio HRCI)NICLES 4947 SIZES 9-17 ram4W612.4. TOO FAT — Mrs. Sharon Lee Clarke, 21, poses in front of the Los Angeles divorce ,court. The blonde, who now weighs 130 pounds, was granted an uncontested divorce when she testified that Her husband` said she was too fat. ISSUE 43 -- 1961 STUDY FOR BEAUTY — Just a short , time ago Nancy Ann Fleming was. Miss America. Now she's a freshman at Mich- igan State University, looking forward to a career in educat- ional television. •Throwino, Pisbes In a Nunnery 01 some 152,000 Reatiete Getitos lia rums in Italy, 13,000 are idtered--"virgins consecrated to God," in the words of .Giorgio Pecerini, noted writer on relig- ious matters, "called by a con t' templative VoQatiork which finds in the rigors of the .0Ioister pre, tection and guaranty," For 23 nun in the .Convent of the Holy Immaculate Heart of Mary in the town of San Dona -di Piave out- side Venice, the rigour of the clos istereci life have been great, but by last month its protection and guaranty were nil. 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Sew tor yourself, family. 350 Ontario residents must include 1¢ sales tax for each CATALOG orderedaThere is no sales tax on the patterns, thumb, Whisper increased that she was excessively serere with her flock, forced the nuns to eat while kneeling, and, sometimes beat them. She denied the rum- ours vigorously; "T gave them occasslonal slaps, as rules of the Order provide, but that's all." Last month, while Mother Arcata, was in Cleveland visiting another of her order's convents, the Vatican sent a new mother superior-from the larger Clare, tier). Order-to take over San Dona di Piave, One of the nuns there cabled Mother Amata to fly home. With fire in her eye, she confronted her successor, Sister Clara Sorge, "I have returned," she announced, "to take over my convent." Sister Clara was equally firm, "Tae bishop has sent me here," she said, "You ore not my super- ior," "I'll show you who is super- ior," Mother Amata shrieked, and that was the end of "protection and guaranty" for the nuns of the convent. Seven sided with Mother Amata, fourteen with Mother Clara. Chairs and dishes flew as the nuns scratched and grappled for central, Three Franciscans from a nearby friary charged in to break up the melee, incurring automatic excemmunication as soon as they set foot inside the cloister. The battle raged on even after two policemen and two civ- ilians joined the peace-making attempt.. Almost an hour after it broke out, Sister Clara's party beat a retreat, Next day, the Bis- hop of Treviso's delegate announ- ced the reduction of the rebels to lay status and warned them to leave the cloister. Mother Amata was excommunicated, and the seven men who had entered the convent were not to be denied church rites since they had acted out of necessity. Finally, Mother Amata sub- mitted. Before dawn the next day, her followers cleaned up the convent, put out the garbage, and took a train to Venice, where they were given makeshift clo- thes by a charitable order, No longer Mother Amata, but plain Maria Pascher, 60-year-old dau- gher of an Austro - Hungarian general, their leader refused to admit defeat. "We will stick to- gether," she declared in -a voice still heavy with Austrian accent, "We will go off somewhere now and form a new 'Order,' a new and form' a new order, a new convent." But two days later her followers had defected. S t ill Maria Pascher would not give up. "The story is not finished yet," she said, "od and truth will pre- vail." From NEWSWEEK Gypsy Rose's Latest Shows Flops In. New York, "The Three- penny Opera" has been running off-Broadway for more than six years, and gives little sign of slowing down. But' even with ex-stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee heading the cast as Jenny. the tart (and singing the show's catchiest tune, "Mack the Knife," during a prologue), a road-company' version of the lusty old musical flopped dis- hearteningly in Toronto, impel- ling the producers to cancel, a seven-month tour. One criticism, from John Kraglund of The Tor- onto Globe and Mail: "Miss Lee is too little musical and, believe it or not, too ladylike to fill the bill." Gypsy retorted: "I must say he hasn't met many ladies." Last Tuesday five of us went over to Melton airport 'to meet Partner's sister from England, My, what a thrill' it is to'watch the huge planes come in; to' see the passengers getting off ,' and the -excitement of the friends and relatives who await them. And the .remarks one hears, tell "a story in• themselves. For ins stance; "Do you think we'll know him after all these. years?" "Look, Mummy, look, there's Grandma!" . . . "I don't believe he's come — I can't -see anyone there who looks a bit like Fred!" We were like all the rest — we wondered if 'we would rec- ognize Queenie after a lapsetof twelve Years. From a distance we picked out first one and then another as Queenie. But when quite a different person came to the Customs desk we had'rea doubt at all. There was the same smile, the same bright, manner that we remernhered— - she didn't appear changed at all — or even tired, Soon we were all united, greetings ex- changed • arid then• we were on our way. Joy and the two boys stayed and had supper with us and • the two little, fellows were very friendly with this aunt they had never seen. When the skipper dishes were done you can imagine how we talked. It just seems you can exchange more -family news in two hours conversation than you can in two years of letter- writing. And then there was the trip over, Queenie said the flight had been smooth and un- eventful — she hadn't even minded the taking off or land- ing. At eleven-thirty I suggest-: ed it might be a good idea to go to bed, Queenie looked at her watch— "My goodness," she exclaimed, "do you know by our time it is four-thirty in the morning! NO wonder I'm tired," For the next two days we took short drives around the country showing her this and that, including Ginger Farm with its network of cloverleaf and high-ways with a short ser- vice road running directly into the farm. She was astounded at the many changes since her last visit. Early Friday morning aut visitor was on her way again, this time to Renfrew, Ottawa and Deep River, travelling with Bob, joy arid the two boys at they were going to Deep Rivet for thanksgiving. A three-huh, circa mile drive with two little ones in the car might be quite an ordeal, We are hoping it wasn't too much for her, The rest of that day Partner and I tort of rested up a bit, Later in the day we were talk- ing to Daughter — she and her family were going to the cottage for the weekend — would we go along too, That meant four adults, three active boys and two dogs in one car! It was hot avid t wilted at the thought. Partner wanted me to go ,,ind he' would stay hosed but I talk- edbim into going instead by say- ing I -would just as soon have' a otiiet weekend at home. I started my* weekend by working sin.,the garden — pull- ing .utat cannas, petunias and nicatines that were certainly past , their glory. Then a neigh- bour asked:me to go shopping with 'her and el went.. Early Sun- day afternoon a little girl from next door came running over in great, diStress •crying — "Mrs. Clarke,. please, oh please come over and help my. mother. 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There is no sales tax on ti patterns, next door where I found a Po, fish woman in great distress, I had. trouble in getting a doctor to come but finally managed it. The poor soul thought site was going to pass away; begged me not to leave her and to look afa ter her little girl if she should die, The doctor gave her a sedative after a thorough ex. amination but he could not say at that time whether she was likely to get better or worse. What added to the trouble was the feet that the woman and her litiShated could spealt only broken En g 11 s h. Fortunately their ten-year-old daughter Was a good interpreter, Naturally was back and forth for the rest of the day, Another neighbour had invited me in for dinner so I went es that was quicker than making a meal for myself, Monday, being a holiday, the lit- tle girl and her father will both be at home so I hope the patient will improve during the day, When Partner returns he will be a little surprised and per- haps disturbed — at what my, "nice, quiet weekend" turned into, But then isn't that what neighbours are for — to help each other in' time of needy I felt so sorry for the child. Poor wee soul, She was so frightened `when her mother kept talking of dying. ,I rather fancy the woman has a bad attack of summer flu but she thought she had eaten something that was peisonous. That is why she was so frantic, Some True Tales. Of Lost-ATd-Found While he was sitting on the beach at a Lancashire coast re- sort, a Yorkshireman lost his gold watch which was inscribed with his name and'address. That was thirty-one years ago, Recently, a young girl on holiday was making a sandcastle on the same beach each when she found the watch, It has been restored to its owner, who is now nearly seven- ty. He was overjoyed to receive the watch as it was regarded as a "family heirloom." .A haulage Merchant .in Glam- organshire found a silver watch completely intact while loading coal into a lorry. The owner was traced. He was a miner who had drop- ped the watch in the pit many years before. His watch had gone to the pit- head, passed .over ,wheels, pull- , ways and screens and been tip- ped into the waiting truck with- out being damaged. Lost-and-found stories are al- ways fascinating. A dream which came true after -eighteen years figures in one of them. Going-to school one day in 1942 a Somerset boy lost a purse con- taining a locket and some coins. That night he dreamed that he would find the purse, , Nothing happened until last year when, as a young farm worker, 'he was given •the job of clearing a ditch which was on• the route to his old' school. • • On turning the second- shovel- • ful he found the• purse. The leather had -almost rotted away but he recovered the aocket and coins just as his boyhood dream had foretold, While visiting London a Wor- cestershire man dropped a signet ring of sentimental value as he. got out of a train at South Ken-, sington, He asked a porter to look for it but was • told later that it could riot be found. At that' moment a train came in. The man explained to an of- ficial that it was "just here that I got out," glancing down as he spoke. There lay the ring on the footboard of the train that had jug come in after making a round of London! • Doctor .Shartape. Threatens .The. The cletnand for medical care is fast outstripping the supply. Despite the nation's rapid popu- lation growth, there hes been no increase at all in the past ton years in the number of doc- tora graduating from medical school. Noting this alarming trend, Dr. Lindsley Fiske Kim- ball, a Rockefeller Institute tells - tee, warned recently that the shortage may well become "ac- ute" by 1971, This fall, only 8,000 students began the first leg of that long, arduous, and expensive education that the medical profession requires. In this special report, Assistant Editor Joan. Braddon of NEWS- WEEK tells how the eversgrow- hag shortage is affecting patients and doctors, and What is cur- rently being done about it, At 7 p.m, weakened by a hysterectomy, the lawyer's wife was given a blood transfusion by two resident doctors, a Ger- man and a Vietnamese. Silent- ly, they rigged the transfusion bottle . and inserted the needle into her right arm. Then, just as silently, they disappeared, leaving the patient alone in a well-known Washington hospi- tal. An hour' later, the patient no- ticed that the, serum in the bot- tle was separating, and the tube seemed clogged. • Frightened, she rang the call' button with her free 'left hand. No one answer- ed. The phone was just out of reach on her right side. Bit by bit, resting between movements, she inched toward it, Finally at 10 tem., more than two hours after the transfusion should have been completed, she was able to ,knock the phone to the floor, and the telephone oper- ator sent:in a nurse to see what was wrong. She called the two foreign doctors, but neither spoke English, and the nurse told the patient that there wasn't a single English-speaking doctor available in the hoSpital. Now panic-stricken and with no one to reassure her, the law-, yer's wife watched"the two -for- eign , doctors tinker_with the • transfusion rig. Finaly, they got it going., and the transfusion was completed at midnight. ° This is a harrowing example of the sort of experience that will become more common as the national doctor shortage be- homes more acute. The doctor shortage is not only serious in hospitals.' la, plagues parents whe are trying to find a doctor for sick child at night, -residents as rural areas that; actually have no doctors, and, potentially, any- body in a time of emergency. The shortage of doctors threat- ens the whole fabric of Medical care, and it also exerts a ter- rible strain on -the medical pro- fession itself; -"Doctors are overburdened eve erywhereat explains Boisfeuillet - Jones, Special Assistant for Health and Medical Affairs in, the U.S. Depattment of Health. "There are frequent complaints that the 'doctor.' won't make MP' VACATIONERS. RETURN --- Princess' Margaret and her hut- band, Antony Armstrong-Jones, who received the titles of Ecirl of Snowdon and Viscount Linley, ore in London again. They walk their t4s, after arriving from vocation in Btainlor- Oh Scotland, Princess Margaret is, expecting a baby in the next few weeks, "ru tell you 'my ambitions, but not my dimensioni." PEACE: Mrs. Nina l<Firushchev left), wife Of the .Soviet Otetatier, holds the hand of 8'dei, Herrick of. New ?ark during tin inforitof meeting with d group of "peace marchers" Mako\,v. Met, 1<lifilthdhev readiyed, several' filerribe4 of the San Fneanciscd-to-MOtaciW peace hadrdh- of the f-louse of Friendship in the center of the city. She told 'the gi`dtib fiat(' the Soviet Union het building any bomt, because "We are hot getting: ready foe