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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-07-12, Page 2TWIRL—Model twirls in new coat dress in Paris, France. Dress features simplicity in design, done in lamb blue vel- vet with soft side gathers. Tohylations on U0S. ers.Agers,, Three or (Telephone More Calls, Usage. ll Age a Doy Croups) lit , + 0 Pe CO 46 r V"NiArli , o 3 6 , .i., 13-15 1462.%19 /42% '20-24'' 39o/ ' 9 25-34 3a% 35.44 4.4"*"...'''.4.1.11:161::"1 350/ 4!.114...ciii . As 4 4? "e jA i40/0 -'- Z1' i(143 YgA" YEARs 'YEARS / YEARS // :. INYEAks ':+•:•. '. " YEARS ""„;',7„;!, ../..ee-, ''""4 '1 EARS Iifiik .4. 651' YEARS o ,. • TEEN TRENDS—Who has what in .teen-age land is shown. In chart above, .bated. on a survey conducted lauthe Bat System, For instance, three.fourths of those. in the survey owned. a Wriat'Wateh-. Booming teen-age market 4 all kinds. of goods is an important factor in the nation's economy. TAKETYAK—It won't be news to parents,' but teen-agers count for and preteeners ac , one•Aftli of all home ,phone oils, This was the result of a survey conducted by the Bell System, chart above shows the percentage of .people in leach age group who make three or more calls a day, Usage rises rapidly throughout teen-age yeatsreaches a peak in early adulthood. and then dwindles gradually thereafter, dent, wrinn Dorothea- nlint jatio in the - Christian ..Science Monitor. Writing of the event, the Kit, tor of the Official magazine Of t h e assoeiation reported: "Mr. Herndon gave assurance that, from the point of view of hotel managers, tile Word of God a. an indispensable item in transi- ent hotel and motel g e Norris.' A continual flow of letters. at gratitude from persons helped. by reading the Bibles proVided by the Gideons serves to keep up enthusiasm for the work and win support. From their hand- some new headquarters builds lag in Chicago the Gideens pub- lisib a booklet called "Returns.' It contains testimonies from men and women who found themselves in desperate situa- tions but wore regenerated and strengthened by reading a Bible picked up in a hotel room, jail cell, hospital w a r d, or some other place where Gideon vol- unteers had been. It is this fruitage which keepe the movement going steadily forward, said Robert E, Swa- ney, associate editor of The Gi- deon. The organization conducts no fund-raising campaigns. Members — Christian business and professional men — contri- bute generously and receive added support from Protestant churches, Why the name Gideon? The name came to the found- ers as a result of privet,. It re- fers to the s t ud y of Gideon. (Judges 6, 7, and 8), a judge of Israel, who was willing to do the work God gave him to do, in God's own way, The LK beles were. scattered around the broken mill, and se-v.. era' -.4!• Mr. Parker's co-workers ceteenented on. the colorful, shiny pebbles. This broken pebble mill in a factory junk shop, together with an at title about gem tumbling in a laboratory journal, gave the Patters the idea for the old mill's present use, writes June Bibb in the Chtletien Seienee Monitor, Alter building all of the Dec- essar). "barrels" and ineubleery, the Parkers put the old mill wheel to use producing power to operate the machines, As they laughingly explain, "All of the commercial electricity we use here is to operate the electric stove and the television eet.' Starting with large chunks of stone sent from all over the world, the Petters break these, into pieces about the size of your thumb by placing them in a. crushing machine, The pieces .are then placed in a tumbler which does the work of an "artificial beach," tumbling the stones with water and an abrasive until they are smooth and rounded. • According to Mr. Parker; this operation takes time and pati- ence, A batch of stones runs for 10 weeks—and many stones have to be left in the tumbler for as long as two to three years before they are properly rounded and, smoothed. The stones are then placed in smrller barrels where they are gently polished to a high luster for another 10 weeks. Then the polished gems are carefully ex- amined tor flaws which may mean another trip for retumbl- ing and further polishing. A picture of constant and gay activity, the ancient mill attract- ed almost 10,000 visitors last year, Despite its popularity, a vis- itor glancing back over his .shoul- der at the bright orange mill wheel and the splashing wrater, may feel as if he is waiting to see a colorfully dressed old mil- ler come out of the door and place sacks of freshly ground cornmeal on the back of the donkey who brays from a neigh- boring yard. An Pict Mill Turns Pebbles into :Penis. ".Jewel — the visitor may blink twice to be sure, but that is what the sign over the door says, No, it isn't out of the pages of Grimm or off the streete ve Disneyland. The Jewel Mill is on a quaint waterwheel eite near Rowley, Mass,, where for more. than 300 years a mill has been in almost constant. .operation. The "jewels" are smoothly pot. Ished stones produced by "gem tumbling," an art performed by the Parker fetrely, present own- er~ of the mill. It Rowley Mill, as it was orige finally called, could talk, the old paLicile wheel would have. a as eirtalere story to tell, The orig- inal dam and c.inal. remain just as trey were 7)1114 nure than three centuries.. op when the. first "fulling" neal e•-erated there to finish the wo -'t cloth woven by the townspeople of Rowley. Later the mill was used to grind and package whole grain flour during the. lath century. Today the frothy splash of the water over the gay orange mile wheel provides power for pi- oneeriug in another field, that of "gem tumbling." By tumbl- ing, a chunk of rough stone may be smoothed and polished until it is suitable for use as jewelry or for decorative purposes. The Parkers beught the old mill long before they knew about gem tumbling. Then came the question of what they could do with their purchase and _till preserve the clean, quaint setting as it was centuries ago, The idea for "gem tumbling" came from a small broken "peb- ble mill" which Paul Parker found in a factory junk shop. In this small machine, ordinary pebbles had been used to grind substances placed in the machine. The pebbles had been constantly churned in water and were beautifully polished to a high, smooth luster. Vudghtg from your fee you'll -be letting the Alimony in- stead of me." SNAPPY COMEBACK At a party one night, a famous composer and pianist, who is not an even-tempered person at best, was being annoyed by a woman who chattered constant- ly during his playing. When he finished, she rushed over to him enthusiastically. "Oh," she gushed, "that was perfectly lovely! Do tell me something about yourself. Why did you take up the piano?" "Because," said the composer sourly, "my beer glass kept fall- ing off the violin!" Well now, I thought all I would have to write about this week would be the results of the Fed- eral Election. But that isn't all — not by a long way, although it did come first. That being the case I suppose I had better make a few comments, But what can one say that hasn't been said already? Naturally like most other peo- ple we had our eyes glued to the television screen from eight o'clock onwards and from it we learnt that what we most feared had actually happened — a gov- ernment without any one party gaining an overall majority. The many upsets were interesting to say the least, For instance the county of Peel where we now live went Liberal for the first time in sixty years, In Halton, our former home district, both the Liberal and Conservative candidate claimed to be the vic- tor. During the last hour I have' heard the final decision was an- other victory for the Liberals-. In Parkdale where my daughter and her family live, there was another unforeseen defeat with Arthur Maloney losing out. And that was the picture all over Canada but particularly in On- tario and Quebec. So now I'll leave it at that and tell you what happened for the rest of the week. As a member of the Ontario Historical Society I was natural- ly anxious to attend the Annual Convention "which, this year, was being held. in Prescott, on the St. 'Unique' Is the Word for It They. Supply Bibles By The Millions What kind of devoted work has it taken to place 50,000,000 Bibles and Testaments In hotels, motels, and other secular spots? The Gideons International, the organization which achieved this record distribution this year after more than a half century of effort, can give the answer. It took only two Christian tra- veling salesmen to start the orgaiiization in 1898-99. John H. Nicholson, who shar- ed his room in the crowded Central Hotel at Boecobel, Wis., on a Septetnber night in 1898, and Samuel E. Hill, the benefi- ciary of his hospitality, launch- ed the would-encircling organi- zation, simply by talking over with each other the possibility of establiehing e fellowship for those businessmen who held si- milar religious convictions and a desire to serve. • Joined by William J. Knights in a Janesville, Wis,, hotel the next summer, they founded The Gideon. Object: "to win men end women for Jesus Christ," It was not until a decade later that this ,group was led to focus Its work on the distribution of the King James version of the Bible and the New Testament. They believed that by placing the book in public places it would come to the attention of persons who migh t not find their way into a church or who lied drifted away from religion. Their first step was to' place 35 copies of the, Bible in a Mon- tana hotel. From that time on the work grew. This spring, at A conference of the organize, 'tion's state presidents, Vernon Herndon, past president of the American Hotel Association, re- ceived a token volume repro- senting the so,000,000tb copy of the Scriptures placed by-the Gri- cleons.,-He received it from H. S, Anmerding, Gideons' presi- Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. If I sin in a group of per- sons and someone whom I do not know joins us, should I introduce myself to him or should I ask someone else in the group to introduce us? A. Neither is necessary, If you happen to have sonithing to say to the stranger, you would ad- dress him just as if he had been introduced -to you. Q. When invited to someone's home and the hostess has small dishes of potato chips and pea- nuts placed on tables, is it proper for a guest to help himself with- out being asked? A. Since obviously these dishes are there for the guests, it is quite ail right to help yourself. Q. What kind 'of letter can a mother write to an out-of-town girl whom her son wishes to in- vite to their home for a week- end visit? A, "Dear Betty: It will give to all great pleasure if you will visit our home on any week-end that you and Bill decide on. We shall be looking forward to seeing you soon. Very sincerely yours, Mary Thomas." Proposed three-way theater for Wittenberg University is at left in sketch, above. At right, classroom and studio of the music-drama unit in the multipurpose• building. She- Says Hello in Five Languages If Britain joins the Common. Market, the 600 girls working daytime' shifts at London's Con- tinental telephone- exchange are going to be even busier. Already the exchange, mount- ed high up in Faraday Building, Queen Victoria Street, handles 80,000 incoming and outgoing calls 'every, day- 85 per4cent 'of them by businessmen. How much this percentage will rise if Britain dials hetselt into Eur- . ope is anyone's guess. One girl who daily speaks to exchanges all over ,Europe is petite MAL 'Nan Graves, of Har- row — Continental's ace opera- tor. Nan, a "hello girl" in five languages, was born in Alexan- dria, Egypt, of Italian parents, and ,is married to an English- man, She began learning English, French, Italian and Arabic at' the age of six, picked up Greek later, now speaks them all flu- ently and understands Spanish. So, when she came to England in 1950, she was the eight ma- terial for Continental.. "My 8 to $4.30 shift passes quickly, for apart from handling calls I'm an official guide to the 10,000 visitors we get every year," she says. "They come from all over the world to see how we , work, We recently had a party from the Bell Telephone Company of America, They were impressed, and when they left handed me a souvenir key-ring shaped like' a telephone. We had some Rus- sians) too -- their parting gifts were sputnik badges with a peace emblem." Nan takes her telephone cells in one of three switchrooms alongside the other girls — all Of them specially trained, many multi-lingual, their" ages rangieg from sixteen to forty, Speaking several languages makes' Nan useful as an inter= preter, too. "We monitor calls for a time to make sure those speaking un- due-teed each other — if they don't, we offer cur services, "The funniest call I ever bad carne from an Italian in a I...oh- doh hotel, He Wanted a cieen shirt! He complained there was no one on duty Whd understood him and wanted our help. I rang, the hotel's teceptioniet arid gave her the message — In triglish,' Callers pay nothing for using Cohtiriental's opeeetote as triter- enters -- they merely pay for the call time. Lawrence rivet. A friend and I had planned to go together but about ten o'clock Monday night she phoned me to say she had developed an allergy and had been forced to make an appoint- ment with, a skin specialist in Toronto for Wednesday. What happened after that would de- pend upon his advice — she would phone when she knew. So there I was with my bag half packed and more or less resigned to staying at home. And then Wednesday afternoon came an- other call from Lillian — "The doctor says there is no reason why I shouldn't go, So pack your bag and we will pick up you up in about an hour's timer Believe me, I finished packing my bag in a hurry, looked around and made sure there was enough food in the house to keep Partner going until I got home again, and then, after we had all had a cup of tea, we were on the road. First of all I was spending the night with. Lillian at Newmarket — from there Lil- lian's husband warned us he wanted to start out at FIVE o'clock the next morning so as to be in Prescott by noon. That meant getting up at four. It is a long time since I got up that early in the morning. But we made it . . . 264 miles in a new car — which meant we couldn't average more than forty miles an hour, Neither Lillian nor I had made hotel reservations so at Brockville Lillian phoned ahead to an adjacent hotel and asked if there were rooms available. They had just received two cancellations! How lucky can one get? Now I am not going to deal with the historical angle of our trip in this week's column. In- stead I will give you a few of the sidelights in connection With our outing, Here is'ethe first item-. The room Lillian and I shared had twin beds, a shower and toilet. Now I don't profess to know much a-bout hotel accom- modation but the'set-up here did strike me - as being . somewhat unique: The shower cabinet had two doors — one led into our room, the other into an adjoining room. BOth doors could be lock- ed from the inside but there was also a chain dangling from the top of one door which could be stretched across and hooked into the opposite door. Which meant when the shower was in use neither door could be opened from inside either of -the rooms. We supposed it Was all right otherwise it , wouldn't be there. Well, that night I -was ready for bed arid opened our door from the inside, Believe me, I shut it in a hurr*"Lillian," I whisp- ered in a shocked voice, "There's a man in our bathroom!" At first ate wouldn't believe me, "Non- sense," she returned, "there couldn't be, What was he doing anyway?" • "I --- I think he was trying to do up the chairi. Anyway he had his back to me. And thank good- ness he was fully clothed!"' We sat on one of the beds and listen- ed in petrified silence until there were no longer sounds coming from our dual bathroom after which we set out to investigate. We found it was possible for the occupant of one room to open his or her inside door before other person could get the lock- ing chain in place. Once we -understood the setup there was - no further trouble — although it was rather nerve-wracking to khow that any misjudgment by either party could lead to an embarrassing situation. We told the chambermaid what had hap- pened and she just laughed and said. — "Oh, you don't need to worry — the man in the other room was a doctor — no doubt he has seen veareen le eighties before!" That's all for now — more to tell you ttext week, Q. Hew can I prevent that tin- Sightly crease that often results whth trousers• have been hang- ifi g fee -seine time oil a wire teat hanger? A, One way is to plate a TIOWS. Paper under the trousers while they are on the itanget. Or, loop a piece Of cardboard over the hanger, Don't fold the cardboard just let it ettrkte gently, arid fasten it With Opel. Clips at the bottom. Three-quarter open stage, at left. At right, theater arranged for conventional seat- ing. Not shown: proposed concert shell, which would provide ideal acoustical condi- tions. Only theater of its kind is proposed for Wittenberg University Springfield, 0 h Three-way 'stage 'of the 600-seat' theater Will provide a three-quarter open stage for ghtiketpeciredri 6t Cidttidal drums, a conventional theater w I t proscenium' for standard plays, and a; rettactdEile, petal-like 04on concert shell which will 'Witold at the touch of a button on the proper, to surround a neLleitiet 01'64 on three sides •orid overhead,. providing Ideal acoustical conditions for "CI' inuSidal performOiCe. The' Pt606ted theater it fti bit toeittflitted Os part of Witten, berg's, platitied $2 5, ftiillion blued' and drahia' fadility., Construction Will go forward once fundi Ott felted, islE28 is_" j 62 WHAT TEEN-Ac RS 0%,N WRIST WATCH, BICYCLE RADIO CAMERA RECORD PLAYEReP TV SET CAR SION 9 TYPE-, WRITER SALLY'S SALLIES Fashion Hint