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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-01-25, Page 6H NICLIES Two-Skirt Pattern PRINTED PATTERN , 4-41-14... 44.5 re.A. vv4,2S.,4 "Now: thitt YOU'Vei. • got up hough ooitiragA .to proPsae. ittiiinuat up enough to ask '11frither to Mid idtti Issilk 4 4—, 19ei MOd*ril EtiqUette By Anne Ashley BURSTING WITH JOY—Mrs, Mae Morse has something to be proud of: she hos two- boys in Broadway shows, Robert, right, is star of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," while Richard has top role in "All Kinds of Giants, Enough to make any mother sparkle. Q, Is it censieered in g3od *far a 4.1.h.4 • 4;:e t.p 'insert • an a u poupetopent newspapers of her engage ,eA to a second maul" A., pule is nothing exactie improper ..tiletut this. Usually., however, p.n engagement la • announced • meraly • by, mouth to- friends, Q, When eating a fried elf?; whose yolk is rather "runny," is. • it all right IQ- put. a- Malt pleCe Of bread on the end of the fork anti use this to dip .tip the yolk? A. Not only is this 'proper — 'but very practical, too. Q, When a family has guests 'who are of a different should they omit the usual 0-mt. cedure of saying grace, befowe dioner?. A, It is perfectly correct for a family to follow its regular .cis- tom, and the guests sit with bow, ed heads until the prayer has been spoken. Q. I thanked cacti guest Pcr- sonally for gifts received at a birthday party in my honor. Am . f supposed also 0 write "thank you" notes to each of these per', sons? A. This is net necessary. icnew when the phone was in use, ' Now the only way we know is by hearing voiles when we pick up.. the receiver, Just recently a young lUother left word at her doctor's office for him. to, call as her baby was very sick. She wait- ed and waited, After an hour and a half she decided to call again. When she picked up the receiver she found the -other party busily engaged :in safien! Later -the .docter told her he had tried to get through sev,; oral times. but the line Was 'al , Ways 'busy, Isn't there some way in which such g situation could be- avoided? Couldn't the tele- phone people invent .a set that 'would show. a red tight when the line was in use? My personal problem is our extension phone. Partner and 1. have reached the stage when we both require "forty winks" after lunch, -Often we just get nicely snoozing when ding-a-ling goes the phone. Apparently there is. no way of -disconnecting the ex- tension without throwing the line out of commission: So- i guess the only solution- is a. portable phone, to be plugged in and out as re- quired, leaving the main phone as is, in 'the kitchen, with its bell toned down to almost a whis- per. Modern conveniences! What a problem they are!! NILE STYLE — Modern cock- tail dress, done in beige lace over matching silk organdy, updates the elegance that was Cleopatra's. Reading- IcWe* $hifting If a nation he judged by the beeslas it reads, the United, States. • seems to be showing a new seri, ousness in its outlook and keener attention to being well-informed. • In the past five years adult • 'book circulation has increased. 29. per cent, •Furthermore, the rea,ding emphasis • has shifted away from Western and mys- teries toward art, music, and. pelltieai affairs. And special in- terest is being shown in science and technology. .Despite Ernest Hemingway's continuing supremacy es author • :Of the most sought-after fiction, circulation growth in the nation's libraries is far greater in non- fiction. All of this comes to light • in the first annual, reading-interest survey by the American Library Association since the 1940's Some of t h e librarians re- sponding to the 200-library questionnaire attributed circu- lation gains to population in- creases in their particular areas. "For persons concerned with raising the educational and cul- tural levels of our citizens this is an encouraging portrait of the Areerie!in reader," says David H. MM. executive 'director of the ALA. "It is important to know, too, that librarians also contend that the growing awareness on the part of the American citizens of the need to be informed is due to the widespread publicity given to . world events through our mass communications me- dia," The survey turns up a variety of footnotes to the reading ha- bits of the nation. Historical, psychological, poli- tical and sociological novels are Au inferiority complex could be a good thing if the right per- sons bad it, from the- meat situation.. When we first heard the reports we felt , sick the Same as most People. But then, because of our exper- ience on the farm, we started to reason things out and we be- came quite sure reports had 'been grossly exaggerated. It could be that sick and diseased animals have at times been slaughtered . and sold as prime beef — and as such were unfit for human consumption, But we do not be- lieve .that DEAD animals,. were ever so used. The few times we. had ',an animal die on the farin., the "Dead -Stock" truck was sent for immediately. By the .time the truck arrived the poor dead -ani- mal couldn't possibly have .been used. for human consumption as it would be bloated to twice its most popular. But interest in the historical is waning.. Africa and the Soviet- Union are winning prime interest in the area et foreign affairs. •Slightly less but still- `"great in- terest" is shown in the United Nations and South America. In domestic affairs, education attracts most reader attention. In politics, 27 per • cent of the librarians report a growing in- terest in conservatism. Sew one outfit with the slim skirt and one with the gored skirt. Vary the sleeve lengths and mix match. Ring collared jacket is new and smart Easy Sew in wool, cotton, tweiel. Printed Pattern 4852: Misses' Sizes 10, 12 /14, 16, 18. See pat- tern for yardages. Send FORTY CENTS (sta'upE cannot be accepted, use poetal note for safety) for this tea t- tern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. FALL'S 100 BEST FASHIONS — separates, dresses, suits, en- sembles, all sizes, all in our new Pattern Catalogue in colour. Sew for' yourself, family. 350. Ontario residents must include le Sales Tax for each. CATA- LOG ordered, There is no sales tax on the patterns. Mother Of A Great Inventor The legend has conic down to us, through Edison and his family, that it was because of the inadequacy of the teacher, and in the interests of the boy's education, that his mother de- cided to keep him et home and instruct him privately . The- remeekable mother gave the boy the sympathetic understanding that bred confidence, She avoid- ed forcing or prodding and made an effort to engage his interest by reading him works of good literature and history that she had learned to love and she was said to have been a fine reader. Instead of being bored by these works of serious litera- ture, he grew fascinated and at nine was inspired to read 'such books himself, While immature and ill-discipined, in sonic re- spects, he was advanced in others and soon became a. very rapid reader. Nancy Edison also sensed, or discovered by chance, the real direction of her son's interests; for one day ehe brought forth an elementary book of physical science, R. G. Parker's School of Natural Philosophy, which described and illustrated various scientific experiments that could be 'performed at home. Now his mother found that the boy had truly caught fire. This was "the first book in science I read when a boy, nine years old, the first I could under- stand" he later said. Here, learning became a "game" that he loved. He read and tested out every experiment in Parker; then his mother ob- • tained for him an old Dictionary of Science, and he went to work on that. He was now ten and formed a boyish passion for chemistry, gathering together whole col- lections of chemicals in bottles or "jars, which he ranged on shelves in his room. All his pocket money went for chemi- cals purchased at the pharmae cisee and for scraps of metal and dw ire. Thushis mother had accom- plished that which all truly great teachers do for their ptt- pils: she brought him to the stage of learning things fee him- self, leatning that which most amused and interested him. "My mother was the making of me," he said afterward: "She understood me; she let me fol- low my bent," — From "tdisont A Biography," by Matthew Jo- sephson, Well, do you like our M1.11,-. ter weather? Coming so sudden- ly makes it a little hard to take, doesn't it? On Friday we thought had weather was en the way so we rushed out to do some shop- ping. Passing ears and trucks splashed muddy water all over my windshield and it was then I found the spray solution ,had frozen and wouldn't •work. I drove along the road, trying to see my way between splashes. However, we managed to slither home safe and sound and you Can be quite sure we didn't go out again. On Saturday we had our share of freezing rain, icy roads, snow' and high winds. • About midnight Partner discov- ered the two dawn-pipes from the eavestrough . were -frozen solid, so they had to be discon- nected and two other pipes at- tached to allow the water to run off. the roof, When we went to • bed. freezing rain was still pelting • on the windows so i turned on the :radio- to drown the nnise. It was easier getting .off to sleep to the sound of soft music than pelting rain. We also each took a flashlight to bed as there was no Jelling if, and when, the hydro might go off, However, we were lucky — the worst we suf- fered was flickering lights. One thing the 'storm did was take some of our attention away A -Little Girl • Meets Mark Twain A little girl walked round and round the deck of an ocean liner, • On the starboard side ..she fairly flew along, but when. she turned. the -corner and came to- the port side of the vessel. she. walked slowly and her feet. dragged' while her eyes were fixed in ad- miration on a man standing be- side the rail talking to another man, Both men were staring out to- ward 'the far horizon. They didn't see the little girl whose gaze was riveted on the older of the two,. the man who had a great mass of snow-white hair and a keen, kindly, osbervant face — Mark Twain! Only a little while ago he had come on deck, made one or two turns and then paused. beside the . • rail. to- have the talk with his friend that was now engrossing him. It was a heaven-sent opportun- ity for me I could observe with- out being observed; and so 1 corn- -menced my circling of the deck, and as I did so, took in overt detail of the figure at the rail until thore was no line at • the famous face that I did not know. Mark Twain. was not tall, As matto: of fact, I. who was big tea' my age, came nearly up t.i his shoulder. Butaltlicugh ho wasn't high in the matter of inches, he gave the effect of being tall by • his magnificent .carriage and the commanding way in which he held his head, He was very straight and- his. slender snoul-. dens were always well back While his he-ad was invariably held high, so that he seemed much taller than he actually was, As the weather was cool that first day at sea, he was dressed in gray tweeds with a matching overcoat, and he held in his hands a gray cap. His head was left free -to the breeze which whipped his soft white hair about his face until it seemed like an intensified halo. I was fascinated by that crop of snowy hair'. It was so-ft as the down a a thistle and whiter than the gleaming feathers of • a swan. Beneath it was a .broad, low fore- head from which thick, bushy eyebrows stuck out in a quizzical manner as . they overshadowed piercing blue eyes.. Mark Twain's eyes had the dear glaze possess- ed. by men who have followed' the sea. They were particularly blue and .brilliariteyes -• ever alert that had friendly little laugh wrinkles around their cor- ners. . . i walked past him five time's. On my sixth trip I saw that his companion was gone. Just as I came abreast of him, .„ he turned suddenly and to my utter amazement held out his hand and said in a slow, drawly voice, "Aren't you going to speak to me, little girl?" If the boat had suddenly de- veloped wings and flown to the moon, I couldn't have been more astonished! I put my hand in his and man- , aged to say, "I'd love to," iquite articulately through the lump of ex:eitement in rriy throate--From "Enchantment: A Little Girl's- Friendship with Mark Twain," by Dorothy Quick. Pattern Bonanza !Here's Your Chance For Unique Photo Collection By TOM A. CULLEN Newspaper Enterprise Assn. LONDON — Anybody looking for 36,000 original Victorian photographs, including the first photo ever taken? They are free for the asking, to any city in America which will provide them with a suitable home. The offer comes from German- born Helmut Gernsheim, who started the collection. But inter- ested Americans will have to -act quickly, Gernsheim warned, be- cause the West German cities of Munich and Cologne have made bids for the collection. For 10 years Gernsheim, a small, dapper man with a goatee beard, has tried to interest the British in establishing a museum of photographic art, using his collection as a nucleus, But there have been no takers here. Now, disgusted with British in- normal size. Another thing that hasn'tbeen properly emphasized is that dead animals cannot be' properly bled. Live animals must he killed and hung in such a way that all the blood drains out of the carcass. If this' is not proper- ly done even a healthy anirnal can end up unfit for human con- sumption. The same applies-to poultry. Remember the days when the popular way of killing a chicken was to take it to a wood block and chop its head off? Those days are gone for ever. Chickens are now scientifi- cally killed, bled, and hung. You can tell when a chicken has been properly bled by its while :flesh, Certainly "there must have, been irregularities in the cattle trade and a lot of inferior meat placed on the markel but we feel sure the reports are ,A little -more spectacular than they should be. However, it is a good idea to buy meat from a "Canada Approved" carcass. Here arid there you can Lind it stamped on a roast of beef. NoW for another. subject. How do you like our "improved" tele- phone system? I ask this because just recently we have had rea- son to doubt. As you know, we now have direct dialling to many places, So what happens? Here is an instance. Last week I put a call through to Hespeler. To do So I had to use no less than 13., digits! So many figures are con- fusing, to say the least, Then we have a new type of party- line — generally two to a line but the rings come through on only one receiving set. That, I suppose, is an improvemente but it has its draWsbacks. On the old type party-line all the rings were heard so everyone on the line A Bargain — Up For Grabs ' where negatives are filed in cardboard boxes reaching the ceiling. Gernsheim's prize exhibit is the first photograph ever taken. This is a view of a courtyard taken by the French inventor Nicephore Niepce in 1826. Niepce called the new process "heliogra- phy," meaning sun-writing, but could find no backers when he came to London to market his invention. Discovery of the Niepce photo- graph, incidentally, represents eight years of detective work on the part of Gernsheim. Gernsheim's collection include photos taken during the Indian mutiny and during the Crimean War. Also on hand are American Civil War photos taken by Alex- ander Gardner, an assistant to Brady. His collection features such oddities as photographs taken by His Acting Was Too Realistic In a bright green suit, and with hat perched rakishly on the back of his head. actor Van Johnson rose from his seat in the opening scene of "The Music Man." As he had done in 219 pre- vious performances on the Lon- don stage,, music man Johnson hefted a suitcase in his right hand, pulled the car door open with his left hand, and stepped out — but departed agonizingly from the script by slamming the door on his middle finger, severing it at the first joint, Offstage, the scene shifted to the emergency ward of Char- ing Cross Hospital, Doctor: "Where's the finger?" Johnson: "On the stage, I guess," Doctor: "Let's get it." (-Enter stage doorman with an envelope con- taining Johnson's fingertip), Doc- to: "Let's just dip it in iodine, tidy it up, stitch it on, and hope for the best," A JUMBO pattern, of 12 pot- holders, 2 mitts,. A variety to suit every taste': Use scraps for potholders or buy IS yard of fabric — Makes 2 pothoiders, Pittern 784: trans- fer 10 holders, 2 mitt's; direc- tions, charts, 2 crocheted holders. Send THiRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be aceepted, use postal note for safety) for 'this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Bolt 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, ° Print plainly PATTIIRN, N(11‘413'181t, yOur NAIVtil and MA JARESS. FOR THE FIRST TIME! Over 200 designs in our new, 1962 Needlecraft Catalog — biggest ever! Pages, pages, pages of testi= lens, horse accessories to knit, crochet, sew,. Weave,. 'embroider, quilt, See jurribo-knit hits, clothS, Weeds, toys, linens,. afghans' free patterns. 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There tin sales tat On. the Patterns, I" GERI:eV, Alk.y!EW--,kitifiefat'Clit.VieW.6(.hanies and trailers' destroyed by iathtiddi in Crestview, 'COLLECTOR GERNSHEIM AT HOME: His private morgue is hurating out all over., difference, Gernsheim is offering Lewis Carroll, author of "'Alice in Wonderland," and caLawgued in purple ink in Carton's hand- wriCng, "What I have in mind." scud Gernsheim, "is a, museum of photography with its own exhibi- tion halls, lecture rooms mmd li- braries for the use of students, Surele, there is room for such museum in America," Geresherm feels that if his celleetion is ac- cepted its, the nucleus of such a ,museum both be and his wife should be invited to become its director end curator, Now age 48, Gernsheim fled to England front GerMany rn Int spreht-the,,War years working as a pii in Britain, arid in 1945` began aSSenibling, his Gerrisheint and his Wife are the editors of seventeen books on photography, ineluding the "ilistorY of. PhotograPt firit published* the Oxfattl Unhist. sity Prep lit ton his collection abroad. In addition to photographs,„it includes books, letters, manuscripts and cameras. I is difficult to place a value on his collection, Gernsheim tells Me l becauselehotagrephs are only now beginning to appear at auc- tion sales, Ile estimates its Worth at $560,000, Disposal of the celleetion is a Matter -of some urgence for Gernsheim, for it hae seta grown to the point where lee can no Tenger dope— with it, Indeed, Gernshelen and his wife literally are being crowded but of their' London apartment by phatoj graphs, " Every nook And etateily . in- oluding the' bathrinerri, was eratiettied With iterriS such as 01iritograpti albuiris, datilettis or tioolts on wititbgtaphA ' When Gerlialleint Wanted to show one of his Mere' valuable titioths he. had to ellitib a ladder into the loft "abOVe kitchen •