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TEST FOR NUCLEAR. SHE? — The Savannah, world's first nuclear-pawered merchant
vessel, pulls into the Delaware River at Philadelphia for its first trip to sea, under cOnven-
tionol power, and eventual testing of its nuclear reactor. The vessel cost $41 million,
Hcsr Q; .marx Tells
Of Practical: Jokes
I'Ve Spent, a lifetime as a clown
in the theatre. I've played the
harp op Concert stages, I've writ-
ten a 10041e Called lIeepe, Speaks!
And new I find, that I'm In
danger of going down in history
as, a practical joker,
The trouble is that hi my book
casually recalled a few pranks
that I took part in.
Now, f don't mind practical
jokes as long as the; are geed-
natured (some can be pretty
cruel, and those I hate), So I
don't resent being classed as a
practical joker—except that I
really don't rank with the great
practical jokers, such as the late
Charlie elacArestar, Hugh Troy,
and Jim Mora;:,
MacArthur himself thought the
best practical jelte he ever heard
of was wr.:Itteht by Wsido Peirce,-
artist, pee:, and bohemian.
Mae Arthur's eavourite spoof
flashes beck to Pee Paris
days. Knowing his concierge
liked pets. he bought , her a
turtle.
Two &aye later he substituted
a turie a size larger. Next day
he switceed that for one which.
was ever 1 l'i4vr still,
Madame 11015 °yodelled that
the little ereatuce was thriving,
Warm-lip Wonders
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ISSUE S — 1962
but ay by day the turtle grew
until the good lady found herself'
sharing the apartment with
340-pound Gargantuan,
At that point, Peirce began re,
tluoing the turtle until it grad-,
dally retnriled to its oriebeal
Peirce told the lady the truth
;hest in time to keep het' from
going out of her mind.
One of my favourite pioneer
practical jokers on this side of
the Atlantic was a roly-poly New
Yorker, Brian ce, Hughee,
On rainy days, Hughes would
enter a bee or restaurant, leave.
his umbrella in a tempting spot,
and watch for someone to pick
- it up.
AS the culprit stepped outside
Hughes would follow, for his
umbrella put on a remarkably
Spectacular performance. When
it was opened it unfurled a
gaudy hammer Announcing to the
world "This Umbrella Stolen
from Brian Ga Hughes."
The most efficient practical
joke is one that delivers a mes-
sage without a word being utter-
ed. Ore year I was at Alec
Woollcotte; summer retreat, Nes-
hobe Island in the middle of 'Ver-
mont's Lake Bamoseen. Alec's
Island was well off the mainland
and cnly speaially invited friends
were ever- expected to set foot
on it,
One day Alice Duer Miller, the
novelist and a member of the in-
ner circle, went for a walk and
rushed back with harrowing
news—a group • of tourists • had
rowed over to the island and
were having a picnic"
I volunteered to deal with the ..
interlopers. I stripped off my
clothes, put on my red wig.
smeared myself with mud and
went whooping and war-dancing
dottier to the shore, making goony
griniaces and brandishing an axe.
The picnickers snatched up
their belongings and rowed away
fast enough to win a boat race.
This gag not only scattered the
poacitairs but started a spate of
juice- rumours about the maroon-
ed mania:: of Neshcles Island,
wh:ch effectively snuffed out all
picnic plans for years to come,
Steffed shirts are the best tar-
gets for practical jekes. Years
With an air of suave dignity, I
Avenue jewellery store, was
noted for its solemn,. stuffy atmo-
sphere. I couldn't resist trying to
deflate the place a bit. Here's
what I did
I 'went to Woolworth's • and
bought practically all the fake
emeralds, rubies and diamonds
in Stock and dumped them all in
one bag. Then i went to Tif-
fany's.
With an air of sauce dignity, I
asked to be shown some dia-
monds; The clerk drew out a
tray of thousand-dollar gems.
While I examined them I gently
turned over the bag from Wool-
worth's behind my back,
Jewels went spilling and bounc-
ing all over the joint. Instantly
bells rang., buzzers buzzed, and.
detective:, jumped out of the
woodwork. All the other custom-
ers were hustled out. The doors
were locked.
Meanwhile the whole sales
staff, including the manager,.
down on their hands and knees
retrieving my sparkling gems.
I stood holding out my hat,
and they put all the loose jewels
in it, As he dropped in the last
emerald, the manager understood
at last. Abruptly, his attitude
changed.
The store detective hustled me
out of the door, with the recom-
mendation that I never return to
the premises.
Tiffany';, by the way, denies to
this clay it ever happened, That's
th"i" jeke en me!
We need more free-wheeling
spirits, more impractical jokers,
in this grim twentieth century, to
plaster a few smiles on the crusty
old face of the globe,.
Some people are no good, at
counting calories -- they have
the figures to prove it.
Last week we had just about
everything in the way of wea-
ther — ice, snow, high winds and
below zero temperature. It was
uncomfortable for everyone but
worse for some than others, For
instance our five-year-old grand-
son Ross went into the Sick
Children's Hospital last Monday
for a tonsileetorny. The doctors
had reason to expect there might
be complications so he was under
observation for nearly three days
before they operated. Joy and
Cedric stayed with Dee and her
family so. Joy could spend as
much time as possible with ROSS.
He was as happy as a lark the
first few days. One day his
mother took him to a telephone
booth so he could talk to me —
and to his Daddy, Was he ever
excited! This was part of the
conversation: "Grandma — do
you know what? I'm in a big,
big hospital. There is, another
little boy in my room and are we
having fun! And tomorrow I'm
going to have my tonsils out."
Needless to say the next day he
wasn't talking much, either on
the telephone or elsewhere. He
has had a rough time, poor little
fellow, but I think he is coming
along all right now, although he
will be in hospital for a few days
yet,
We haven't been able to get
in to see hi mas I was practically
blind in one eye most of last
week. I always have this trouble
in winter — bright sun en the
white snow is my undoing. Last
week I wrote about good neigh-
bours we had had in the past.
Well, we have good neighbours
here too. One of there is always
bringing along bones and odds
and ends for the dog: two others
will do any necessary shopping
for us — or drive our car if I
am unable to handle it myself.
In return Partner shovels their
driveways, keeps an eye on the
children and goes down to the
road for their mail every day as
the husbands are away all day. 1
have heard people say — "Oh, I
couldn't live in a subdivision.
There is nothing to see. nowhere
to go and no one to talk to!" Well,
you know the answer to that one.
To have friends you have to be
friendly. Shut yourself away
from everything and everybody
and you naturally create a vacu-
um. One time we had. neighbours
like that on the farm but we
broke down their reserve and
since then we have been the best
of friends. One time they even
lived with us for three months
between moves. However being
friends doesn't necessarily mean
being in agreement all the time.
We have often had sharp differ-
ences of opinion with many of
our friends, especially in regard
to politics! Partner starts a little
good-natured needling and be-
fore you know it a real argument
is in full swing. The best joke
around here lately stems from
the fact that at the last municipal
election Partner voted for one
candidate and I for the other!
That I kept to thyself for quite
awhile but eventually, for pure
devilment, I let it leak out. Of
course I was told we killed each
:other's vote and might just as
well have stayed at home. With
that I don't agree. We exercised
our franchise; as loyal citizens
we cast our vote, How, and for
whom, was our own business,
Right now I am more concerti.,
ed with past generations; their'
trials and tribulations in their
fight for political freedom, That
is to say I am Way gathering
Material for out' W.I. Tweeds-
'Muir Ristory arid, as usual, I am
getting More benefit than I give.
It is simply ,thriazing that One can
move into A new lodality, know-
ing little Of its history, and then
find stories' as feseinating as any
tedOrded in history books 'ef the
past. rot, instance anyone living
west of Toronto has probably
heard of a subciiViSion known as
"Credit Woodlands°. We live
itts1 i4rOli the road ittini it. it
PSYCHOLOGICAL TWIST —
Using black on white silk
shantung print resembling
spots used in psychological
tests, this dress shown in
Italy is cut straight arid short,
used to be a lovely wooded sec-
tion that we had admired for
years. What we didn't know was
that it was also the site of a huge
dairy farm — "Price Brother's
Dairy" — with a herd of 400
cows. Eventually City Dairy
bought Price's out — they in turn
sold to Bordens. Price Brothers,
deprived of their cows, turned
their 700 acres into a fruit farm,
planting 1,000 apple trees. By
those who should knov,7. I have
been told they made wonderful
eider. Only one of the 'four bro-
tere is now living -- 90 years old
Tom Price, who spends most of
his time iii Toronto but has a
wonderful log cabin about a mile
from us, the interior of which I
am hoping to see before toot long,
Another thing, every fall we find
wonderful mushrooim on Our
acre lot. Why wouldn't we .
it was part of a mushroom farm!
Far too much local history is
being lost and I am glad Lady
Tweedsmuir had the foresight to
realize it and to encourage come-
try weincn across Canada to make
every effort to preserve records
and stories front pioneer daye to
the present. Churches, hospitals
and so on erected during the lad
few years should not be consider-
ed too modern for local histories,
otherwise, in a few years, their
origin may also be forgotten.
Q. If a combination breakfast
and hutch is served after a morn-
ing Wedding, is it all right to
Call this "branch" on the recep-
tion invitations?
A. No, it would not be. At or
before neon and until one
o'clock, the correct word is
"breakfast." After that, the word
is "reception."
Who Says They're
the Weaker Sex?
It used to be thought that
Oriental ladies were invariably
submissive—creatures to be seen
and never heard, Not so in the
island of Ceylon.
Mere than 2,000 years ago,
Queen Vihara Mahn Devi, one of
the island's first suffragettes,
saw her husband lose his nerve
before a battle. In a flash, she
had her trembling spouse dress-
ed in women's clothes, propped
hint up in the palace to await her
return, sallied forth to the battle-
field, and led her troops in rout-
ing the enemy.
Today many of Ceylon's 5.2
million Buddhists may be par-
doned for believing that Queen
Vihara Mahe Devi has been rein-
carnated in the person of Mine.
Sirimavo Bandaranaike. One year
after her husband, Solomon West
Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike,
had been assassinated in 1959,
Mme. Bandaranaike took over his .
jab as Prime Minister. Ever
since, she has tried to drive the
"evildoers" from the land he once
governed.
She has no lack of troubles,
Ceylon's two major language
groups (5.6 million Singhalese, 2
million Tamils) are at each
other's throats; its Christian mis-
sionaries, labeled "anti-National-
ists," are up in arms because
their hospitals have been taken
over by the government; its
dockers and bank clerks have
been on strike for months.
Last month; all this discontent
came to a head in a palace rev-
olution, staged by policemen, sol-
diers, and senior civil servants in.
Colombo. All of them were males
but they achieved no more suc-
cess than the enemies of good
Queen Vihara Malta Devi.
The plotters' intention, Mine.
Bandaranaike said, was to kid-
nap her Cabinet. But before they
could strike, her police (also
mate) had loyally rounded them
up and dragged the ringleaders
out to Temple Trees, her private
residence. There, clad in a bil-
lowing sari, the Prime Minister
interrogated them, sternly, then
packed them off to jail.
So much for any mere males
who would challenge the power
of the mistress of Ceylon.
Northern Mudtown
On The Move
However bitterly cold it is, the
Eskimos and other inhabitants
of Aklevfk — until recently Can-
ada's -largest Arctic community—
delight in their traditional game
of "blanket toss."
This involves about twenty
people holding a huge sheet of
caribou hides iv i t h thonged
edges. The player sits in the mid-
dle of it, and those holding the
blanket toss him higher and
higher, testing his nerve and ab-
its. to land, cat-like, on the mat.
But now the town is being
moved, stage by stage, to a new
site at Inuvik, seventy miles dis-
tant.
The reason lies with Aklavik's
unsafe foundations, .Built on
permafrost, a mixture of frozen
silt and ice, it has. long been a
quagmire in suinmer when the
ice on top layers melts to a depth.
Of two ce three feet.
Much of this cannot drain
away, so huge pools of thick mud
lie around. Wanner eoriditions in
the Arctic have aggravated this
nuisance, earning for Aklavik
the title of "IVIeetropolis of the
Arc tic."
So a much firmer site at The-
e*, on the east bank of the east
channel of the Mackenzie River,
has been surveyed, Oil` this, fine
new buildings, lecluding Schools,
a headquarters for the Royal
Canadian Mouhted anti
centrally-heated houses teei t h
proer sanitary and fresh=water''
facilities, are rising,
All buildings are being erected
weticieh pileS driVen twenty
feet int° the frOteri grotind.
"EaW hoilSetitIide mgr.
than tiirelVa .p1iet-Settitiga-
OtttIerko?" nOtet a woman writer'.
StAybe why unktOki ,
to ')clove thirteetlt ii ditifie4
Who Would Be • •
A :Royal Princ.ess?
For most unroyal people corn. ing home from holiday the bills
are the most serious problem,
they have to meet.
Princess Margaret, home .oil
January 20, from a, three-week
holiday in th,e West Indies, had
to face repercusaions of public
era/darn op two major counts,
which point up the intricacies of
life for a royal Princess who does
not conform to the accehlted royal
pattern.
A sterna had broken out over
her husband Lord Snowdon's ap-
pointment to a big-circulation
Sunday newspaper„ The Sunday
Times. Though many sympathize
with the Princess in her desire
that her husband should have
some outlet for the artistic talent
which made him a successful pro-
fessional photographer, some
here feel she ehould, have fore-
seen the difficulties which his
acceptance of a newspaper posi-
tion would make for the Royal
Scarcely had the repercussions
of this furore blown over than it
was announced in Parliament the
royal home which the Ministry
of Works is renovating for the
Princess and her husband in a
wing of Kensington Palace, is to
cost the British taxpayer $185,000,
$45,000 more than was originally
estimated a year ago,
In addition Queen Elizabeth
II pays $60,000 toward the cost
of repair since the house is one
of her "grace and favor" resi-
dences. These are royal proper-
ties which the soverign gives to
near relatives, or to those who
have rendered personal service
to the Crown.
It is unfortunate the public
has been reminded of the cost of
restoring the Princess's new
home at a time when the Lon-
don County Council is under
pressure to find homes for thous-
ands of ,homeless people, and the
government is having the great-
est difficulty in holding down
a "pay pause" for workers in the
interests of the national econr-
omy.
"Is this (the increased charge
for the restoration) the contri-
bution the minister is making to
the solution of national economic
problems?" Labor M.P. William
Hamilton asked in Parliament
when the supplementary esti-
mate came up for payment,
Actually, though, there are
other reasons for refurbishing of
this house, apart from its use as
a residence for Princess Margar-
et, her husband and infant son
David. No. 1A. Kensington Palace
is a Wren house which has been
allowed to deteriorate since it
was twice blasted by Nazi bombs
in air raids. The reddish-brown,
20-room stone residence is one
of the finest examples of Sir
Christopher Wren's domestic ar-
chitecture, built in co-operation
with the famous carver Grinling
Gibbons in 1689, writes Melita
Knowles in the Christian Science
Monitor.
The cost of restoring this home
comes under a plan by which,
since 1953, the Ministry of Works
has renovated many historic
houses for private owners.. Such
buildings are considered part of
the national heritage which
would be lost except for an Ex-
chequer grant. Some of the re-
storations• have cost the taepayee
more than the sum ,needed for
the' Snowdon: repair.. Castle How-
ard, for instance, in Malton,,
Yorkshire, home of George How-
ard, cost 049;000 to restore. The
main idea in sttch renovation is
that damage caused by age,
weather, dry rot and so on may
t*.eharged. to public funds.
electric
such, as painting,
light .and decorations fail
°the-if :Lord.ownr' .$oS.nowdon, does take
up his now appointment, a re,
Portedly- highly paid post, he wilt
have to dig into his .salary, packet
for .decorations. to No. IA, Other,
wise Princess Margaret will have
to,lpealYnc th eoneli!ills ou , t of her pri "
The block for the Prime .Min-
ister's residence off Whitehall,
with less archtectnral claim to be
preserved than the Wren wing
at Nensiogton Palace, is being
rebuilt inside its original facade
at six times the. cost of the
Snowdon restoration. It's general,
ly .accepted the Prime Minister
must, be housed in accordance
with his station, but he could
have had a wonderful new house
'for much less than this sum if
the Ministry of Works had been
prepared to sacrifice historic
architecture.
VEASATILE ATHLETE
Laconic report of a junior high
school basketball game from an
Illinois publication, t h e La
Harpe Quill;
"The Terra Haute Flea-
weights defeated Colusa 13 to 2,
and Ted Kern was high point
Man for both teams, scoring 12
for Terra Haute and two points
at the wrong basket for Colusa."
Delight a little girl with this
beautiful baby doll wardrobe.
Easy-sew pattern includes bunt-
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hat, dress, slip and panties, Use
thrifty scraps.
Printed Pattern 4870.; For dolls
10,a t1e
size,
2,l4,16, 18, 20 inches. Please s
Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps
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the White I-touse press secretary, and:Mrs. Alexi Adthijbei,
Wife of the editor of the Soviet newspaper, lzvettid, enga6e
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daughter of toViet .in Nikitd l<kircishCheii,