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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-12-13, Page 6Famous 'White Horse' Will Get Grooming Plops are being made to "groom" and retrim the famous White horse Of Uffington, which is cut into the chalk on England's Berkshire Downs. This ancient landmark, measur- ing over 370 feet Front nose to tail, ie now for all time under govern. moat care. Once again, the en- croaching grass has frayed its out- line to some exte:tt, though it still is a white beacon for utiles around ss it towers aj)ove Utlington village - In a few months' time, say Min- istry of Worlcs officials, a labor force will work over the entire figure. Starting with the long tail, it will remove all weeds and grasses, make good the inroads of weather, and restore full sharpness of line. Other hill - figures, including horses, a stag, a lion, and two giants, decorate England's country- side, principally on the rolling green chalklands of the west. But most of these are conventional or natur- alistic in shape, and few were cut more than two centuries ago. The Uffington Horse with its beaklike jaws, and primitive -looking limbs stretched at a gallop, is something apart, its origin lost among Britain's early legends. Discounting local teles of St. George's steed, and the magic horse of Wayland the Smith, only slender clues remain. Berkshire chronicles, however, written in the twelfth century, refer to the horse as already a well- known landmark. These records, Bow in the British Museum, have made historians wonder, and recall that a rampant horse was carved on the battle -standards of early chiefs, such as Hengist and Horsa. Others surmise that the figure was cut by King Alfred's armies, to mark their victory over the Danes at Ashdown, in 1871. But many believe the immense figure predates even the Saxons. Early Celtic coins, struck at some time during the 700 years B.C., bear animal designs with a startling resemblance to the horse, Was it, then, cut by Celtic tribesmen, long before Julius Caesar touched Bri- tish shores? Earthworks at the sum- mit of White Horse Hill indicate a military camp of this period, and the horse may have been a tribal emblem on the grand scale. Pos- sibly, too, it was a guiding mark for tra;'eiler, seejcing the old Ridge- way idge- w ' track acioas these downs. Anyway, the horse appeals to poets. In his long "Ballad of the White Horse," G, K. Chesterton writes fancifully of how it lay ne- glected and half -smothered with weeds, while King Alfred's men of Wessex were fighting the invader. When victory came at last, a first duty was to restore its true white- ness. Be this history or fiction, the White Horse has been tended through peace and war, Otherwise, it would have vanished long ago. Records show that careful "scour- ings" were held .about every seventh year. MATTER OF HABIT "By the way," he remarked after a while, "I was sorry to see your husband leave the church last Sun- day right in the middle of my ser- mon. I trust nothing was seriously the matter with hint?" "Oh no, sir," replied Mrs. Mac- shoddie. "It was nothing very seri- ous; but, you see the poor man does have a terrible habit of walk- ing in hissleep." f?eek Of Fashion — Parisian designer Schiaparelli includes this michievous mask hat in her slid -season collection, The teasing topper is made of beige suede. Deal, In Seattle, Mrs. Dorothy C. Horowitz used for evidence in Jisr tlivQree suit a 'Written pledge her husband had asked her to sign: "I promise Itever to embarrass you; to pay attention to you when you Speak to me; never to smoke; to refrain from playing the radio too loudly; to keep my telephone con- versatiolls under five minutes; to cook three meals a day when requested and at the hours specified; . never to keep you waiting." PORT 111A Gy A StX6tTC all 1C "When I was a Ids!, we used to have a saying about everybody hav- ing a peck of dirt before they die," remarked one of the contestants—a lineman—the evening after the re- cent Argonaut -Blue Bomber mud - ball championship affair, "And if that's the case I'm away ahead of schedule, because this afternoon I must have swallowed enough to cover my next three tines on earth." +k 5 N Probably he had, at that, But we greatly doubt That the mud of Varsity Field left anything like as bad a taste in the mouth as did the remarks of certain disgruntled Western officials and hangers-on. Mr, Les Lear, of the defunct Cal- gary Stampeders, was especially hard to take. He gave the impres- sion that he had never condescend- ed to do any playing in surroundings less glamorous than the California Rose Bowl, and that he was doing us' poor benighted Eastern heathen a rare favor by even visiting such a dirty and poorly -managed little dump, # * k As a matter of fact, on his per- sonal 1950 showing—and that of his team—Mr. Lear was dead lucky to even be in Varsity Stadium that afternoon without paying full ad- mission fee. But, we suppose, it was ever thus. As the late Jerry Shea used to say, with some bitterness, to a bunch of us who used to make his Yonge Street vaudeville em- porium something of a hangout, "It's always you guys who come in on the cuff, not the cash cus- tomers, that beef loudest about what a lousy show I have." 5 * * And, when all is said and done, what's all the shooting about fn regard to this spatter of good, bad or indifferent playing conditions? A thoroughbred of real champion- ship class can run on any kind of a track; and when an owner has a horse that can't perform except on a lightning -fast racing strip, he scratches same when it "comes up mud." We haven't heard any rumours of the Winnipeg folks re- fusing to take their cut of those lovely gate receipts, just because the footing didn't happen to suit their greatly over - ballyhooed favourites. 5 k # - Nor, when you come right down to it, do we recall anybody taking the football moguls — Eastern or Western—and twisting their arms in order to make them double the length of their football seasons. The football promoters are in the business strictly for the dough. So, with mightly few exceptions, are the players. Do they expect the paying public to cuddle them, and cry over them, if they have to earn that dough, once in a while, the hard way? # :k . * A lot of those second-guessing critics are putting the blast on Varsity and Warren Stevens, the Toronto University Athletic Direc- tor, for the condition of the playing field. Does any sensible person think that the C.R.U. folks bring their finals to Toronto just because they're•in -love with Stevens' baby blue eyes, or because they admire the Bloor Street surroundings. The sole reason the finals are played in the Queen City is because they draw a whole lot more money than they would anywhere else in Cana- da. Let the Canadian Rugby Union people give Varsity a ten-year guar- antee—or even a five—that they'll s5 y there, even should somebody build twice as large a stadium else- where, and then it will be time to trlk about twelve thousand dollar tarpaulins, which might turn out to be nothing but a nuisance after all. Some of that Bomber crew looked as if they would be more at home rolling up a tarp than try- ing to roll up that Argo front-line, at that, # # * We started this piece off by saying that the wails and moans referred to had left a bad taste in a lot of folks' mouths, 'they've done more than that. They have set a lot of fans to thinking about, and discussing, just what our game of football has developed into this past few years, especially since the announcement of various "All Cana- dian" teams shade up, practically 100 percent, of imports from south of the border, * +k * Now we are not prepared to dis- cuss, at this time, whether Cana- dian football is a better or poorer sport than the United States variety. That is largely a matter of personal taste. But what we do maintain is this; * 5 * Up to a few years ago, it] the Big Pour—and to a lesser extent in other loops — we had the privilege of watching THE BEST CANADIAN FOOTBALL T JERE WAS. What they are ped- dling to us nowadays is THIRD O RA D E AMERICAN FOOT- BALL, And if you think this is New Switch In Railroading—Long-familiar switch engines may be replaced in railroad yards by the new "trackmobile," a 6000 -pound tractor small enough to park in your living room. Above, it pulls a train of loaded freight cars. Called the world's mightiest electric -propelled industrial tractor, the 10 -foot -long machine has towed a load of locomotives weighing more than half a million pounds. The tractor has r etractable rubber -tired wheels so that the oper- ator can change from rail to gr ound operation in 30 seconds. Individuality In Hair -Styling Counts For Most, Experts Say One of the most attractive fea- tttres of hair is that you can always do things with it, Unless, of course, you prefer it, there need never be that deadly saneness about the way you arrange your hair, that cut-and- dried stodginess that shuts the door on adventure. Nothing is lost if you try differ- ent ways of improving your ap- pearance through the arrangement of your hair, You don't stand still, so why should the manner in which you do your hair? The principal question at the moment is, "how long ought your hair to be?" Now that the shingle is out, are women letting their hair grow? Let's see what the experts have to say about this. "There is such a difference in the shapes of women's faces and . the lengtlts of their necks that no stylist in the world can say that hair should be a certain number of inches long," declares Jungst. It depends entirely on an individ- ual's personal silhouette." "High -Collar" Coiffure This well-known hair stylist, however, doesn't stop here and leave you wondering. He points out specifically that he solves the prob- Iem of length by cutting the hair so that your hairdo just touches the edge of your collar—a "high collar" coiffure. It is neither long nor short. It is right for you. Mr, Jungst likes a feminine hair style. "Cue -ball heads, shingles, man- nish close -cropped heads, and Mary Martin bobs are out," he says. "Your new hair style, if properly shaped and curled, should spring back into place from one combing to another. The average woman needs a shaping job every five or six weeks. "Don't think," he advises, "that by putting off shaping you are going to preserve your permanent. This very neglect tends to cause your permanent to lose its chic completely. An expert shaping will make your permanent go much farther. somewhat of an exaggeration ask yourself this question—just how mans of the 1950 "ALL -CANA- DIAN ALL-STARS" could make a place as a first -stringer on even a second division United States Professional outfit? R # o They come here—those players and coaches—simply because they can do better financially than they could in their own country. If they don't like the conditions they find here, let them go back to "God's country." Or forever hold their peace. 1, # 5 An just itt case we Canadians think that our playing setups are "small time" as our American im- ports would have us think, here are a few quotations regarding games played, the very same day, south of the line in "Big League" college games: :k k * CORNELL vs, PENNSYLVANIA Although 52,000 tickets had been sold, only 17,846 intrepid, dyed-in- the-wool fans forsook their video sets and braved the wind -driven rain that .made a mud puddle of the field between the 25 -yard lines, in which the players slithered, Skidded' and took beilywhoppers, to look like so many gnomes in their soaking, mud -encased uniforms. * ,k * PRINCETON vs. DARTMOUTH A howling gale out of the East and lashing rains turned the field into a quagmire, kept away from Painter Stadium ail but 5,000 hardy enthusiasts of the 31,000 who had purchased tickets and made this a travesty of a football game, * 5 * We could quote plenty more along the same line but—Nutt Sed, "A good way to test your hair's manageability is to recant() it your- self before you leave the salon— under the observant eye of the stylist. There are many tricks to combing a style and keeping it in place, and the place to learn them is at the hairdresser's." Marguerite Buck, whose work keeps her traveling from one part of the country to another, says that to her amazement and dismay she finds American women "growing hair by the yardl" Primary Beauty Requirements Swiss -born Matte, Buck points out that "Quantities of hair bear no relation to beauty. One of the primary requirements for maximum attractiveness is a natural, youthful, and well-groomed appearance, "Long hair — even beautifully coiffed long hair—gives a woman of any age a more mature appear- ance. The most exciting coiffures," she says, "are designed with hair no longer than 1/ to 3 inches from the hair neckline. "If you want to become the most enchanting person in the world for that special occasion which requires a chignon, don't bother to grow it. Simply pin on a small ready-to-wear chignon. You can place it low on the neck for evening. Custom -Made Styling Best "But you can and should retain your own custom-made, individual, comfortable, and charming short hair style for daytime wear with smart suits and becoming millin- ery." Another stylist predicts, "Volume in the back." Instead of resorting to a hair piece to fill in the gap between your short haircut and that chignon you are hoping to grow, this hairdresser advises, dur- ing the "grow -in" period, that you have your hair"shapered" so that the short ends do not jut out awk- wardly. "Brush the hair up into a defin- ite line of style," he says. "First: beginning at the crown, divide the hair according to the lines of a horseshoe—one prong of the shoe ending at each temple. Now, take the hair• between the two prongs and, going back three inches from the hairline; draw a horizonal part. "You now have two sections of hair. Comb the front section to the the right to form a bang of curls. Comb the back section to the left in a soft wave. "The back hair is brushed from either side toward the' center, form- ing a cascade of soft ringlets, But. always brush the short ends up, to avoid scraggy ends," warns another noted expert, 'fin order to avoid that scraggy look!' Hair Remains Nape Length Victor Vito takes still another view on the. subject of longer hair. This experienced stylist believes that when people say that "!fair will be longer" they mean actually that the shingle is out, This hairdresser predicts, on the basis of his obser- vations, that hair will remain about the same length as it was last spring, namely, nape Length, Mr. Vito finds tate one definitely new trend in hair styles this fall to be the popularity of the center part. 'rhis has been revived be- cause it is feminine and presages the return of somewhat longer, fuller hairdos. On the. fascinating subject of bangs, Victor Vito says, "Bangs can do nice things for widely dif- ferent types of faces and features. They balance the thin face and compliment the round face; lhey are easy to take care of and can be completely individual; they dra- matize your eyes, deepening their color. "If your hair tends to grow too low or too high, they camouflage the situation. Contrary to the widely held belief, straight bangs can he becoming to any type of face. They'll add length to the face if the cornersabove the temples are lifted, width if the corners are dropped." Why not begin your new hair adventure with a bang! 51 it This is one of a series of words and expressions whose origins and meanings are published in the interest of abetter understanding, use and knowledge of the English language. "THIMHIE" "Thimble", meaning a protective cover for the finger used when sewing, de- rives from the Anglo-Saxon thylnel, a thumb -stall, from the Anglo-Saxon Mama, thumb. 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