HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1960-07-21, Page 6Mount .Norest
Viewed CI! Evening
�ttet 1»ivijg flown over the
plait:.. of Ihdi,'y flat as the sea,
we were cre ening Nepal on foot
not approaching at last the high-
est mountains on earth.
One evening the deep narrow
valley suddenly fanned out, and
the dream that we had -nursed
for so maty' loot; years began
te take shape. Far up, between
he Lilac' mist; that emiceale d
tee root of the gigantic mcun-
rain and the raw blue of the
Asian sky, floated a tracery o'2
:tone et more than twenty -..ix
thousand feet; slopes of snow,
torn by the wind. evaporated
-into azure.
Silently we advanced a [rale,
leaving behind us the tuntnit et
the torrent buffeting through
its gorges. In the stillness that,
followed we could hear better
the murmuring of nature and
the beat in:e of our own hearts.
For a ton; time we gazed at the
mysterious inuuntain which hard
enchanted our evenings around
the canters' ; then, when my
eyes coole tools. away along tees
immense valley bottom, utterly
silent and deserted, I thought of
the Oisans, of the Valais, of the
Oberland, and I said to myself:
'This place is just like hones,
only on a larger scale. It is on;
of those mace; marked in ochre
and white in the atlas. high,
sterile and f;oiel for nothing
nothing marketable grows the1e,
and higher still nothing can exist
at all, It is one of those spots
made solely for the happiness of
men, in order that in this chang-
ing world. grown every day
more artificial, they might yet
find a few gardens still unspoil-
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RAM11Y REUNION — The Clifton Daniels (Margaret Truman) are greeted by ex -President Harry
and Bess Truman upon arrival in New York ort the liner United States. Margaret is holding
Clifton, 3, In Mr. Danlel's arms is William Wallace, 1, who doesn't seem to be too impressed
by his illustrious grandfather.
ed in their silence of forgetful-
ness, a fele gardens full of pet-
mal
r •atal colours •that are good for
the eyes and for the heart.'
Titst evening, when the sun
dipped behind the earth, I ex-
perienced a deep feeling of sere-
nity in the presence of so many
natural things: the wood fire,
the v iiey which drew us nn,
the magnetic mountains, the air
of peace end silence, the living
sky. I was happy to be therm;
and, thinking ce. my boyhood,
of my very first excursion in
the mountains, so like the one
we were making now, I said to
myself again: `It's just like the
first time." -- From • "Mont
Blanc to Everest," by Gaston
Rebuffat. Translated by Geof-
frey Sutton,
Puts Dick Tracy
In The Shade
Lata t kick in the churning
world of electronics is moletro-
nics, a technique of building am-
plifiers and oscillators which
promises to make obsolete all
present device: such a.a radios,
radars and TV sets.
Molectronics is micro -miniat-
urization pushed to the ultimate.
Instead of taking some transist-
ors and soldering then into a net-
work of capacitors and resistors,
thus building an amplifier, you
simply take a piece of semi -con-
ductor material and (by plating,
etching or alloying other atoms
to it l you turn it into an ampli-
fier directly.
Among the Circuits s, far built
by this magic ate an audio amp-
lifier the ,size ci a dine and a
-two-stage vidio amplifier. half
the size of a postage .stamp.
Thus Dick Tracy's wrist radio
is obsolete before it got into pro-
duction. Coming shortly could he
a radio mounted in a signet rine.
or -built into the type d ear-
phoni, used in hearing aids.
What makes the new stunt
po Bible is a new method et mak-
ing seem: -conductors, The pres-
ent method involves the coreful
culture of. say, gorm•utiuut c.r:'.,-
tal,, to which you add tin con-
trolled impuritiess, biter aeeem-
hlies dilferetnt type. to form
transistors:. By the new method
(recently ennonneed by Westing-
house
t c ting!rouses finished :semi -conductors
can be produced in long ribbons
by automate, machinery. Event-
ually it may be po Bible to pro-
duce bni'.hed radio lio r'ec -iver ;
from a pool -of molten sena eon-
ductor inatcriai, with no home
hands being required at any
sii t• of the process.
Ordinary nail polish remover
can be used to take off .,platter
of paint from floors -- even
when it has hardened. Let the
remover sink in for a few min-
utes only, then rub off with a
cloth and wash the spot with
warm, soapy water.
QUEEN AND 'RETINUE' -- Mrs, Rosemary Murphy. 31, is greeted
by members of her Family upon return from Fort Lauderdale,
where she was chosen Mrs. Americo for 1961. Presenting kiss
'Is Cyotbu-i, 2. Loft to right; Steven, 100 Michael, 81 Patrick, 61
ji'=r10.y, d, cord husband, George.
Have you ever seen ten acre.;
of flowers,. mostly in b'oo:n?
Yes, that's what I said , , . ten
acres. And I don't mean big,
flat fields with plants in formal
rows like vegetables. The ten
acres I saw - were quite differ-
ent. Just like a lot of separate
gardens but with winding paths
t h r o u g h shrubberies leading
from one garden to another.
Some of the gardens were even
weedy — which added to their
homey appearance! But t h e
weeds didn't stop the flowers
growing. The overall bloom was
magnificent. Rows and rows of
iris in every colour and variety,
Peonies — double and single.
Lr phis with stately mitlti-eol-
oured splices. Oriental poppies in
a Iovely shade of pink. Red pop-
pies, mostly weeds in an uncul-
tivated patch. I may be wrong
but they looked to me like the
wild poppy that grows anions;
the corn in England -- and !n
Flanders' fields. Poppies may be
weeds but they are very beet,
tiful, none the less.
And of course there were
roses, and shasta daisies;; colum-
bine.: and lilies. nut I could ee
en and on and still not nam
them all. One unusual plant was
the "yucca." It was iu bud but
cot quite out. Someone said the
yucca blooms only once its
severs years.
1 find it a little hard to ;
plain what I found so fascinat-
ing about • this garden. Natur-
ally I have ;..n beautiful gar -
&tie before. some of them bet-
ter eultivt•ted, but there vette an
unspoilt Ir;elinaa about. this
-(.lace that I found most attrac-
tive. It had an old-world etntui-
ph era , if love even more than
the spade, had contributed to its
;trwlh and beauty.
Pen'iae, I wai 110t tau fan,'
ytr n;
:'t the 1. As for as f
cetald gather lave ladies, who
were great friends, and had a
muton intmrc:-t in flowers, start -
cd the garden., as a hobby many
years ago. They kept it up gear •
61'ter year until the hobby be,
celue partly a commercial -von-
lure.. One of the partners died
a few years ago but the other
still carries on. The gardens are
called "Powancroft" and are si-
tuated in the picturesque vil-
lage of Meadowvale, in Peel
county, well known as an ar'tist's -
paradise
It- was just by a stroke of
lr.u_l•: that I -visited these gar-
dens. Members of our local W,I,
were invited be the Meadowsele
W.I. to help celebrate their 50th
Anniversary. About ten of our
member:; -were happy to accept
the invitation which was held
"Rowa neroft," It was a weil-
ergenizcd Lea and a delightful
acial get-together. There were
over 200 guests and members
d we were all seated under
eau maple trees that provided
-suss the right amount of shelter
and shade .. and no mosqui-
tocs! The programme included a
reproduction of the first meet-
ing, all those, -participating were
in dresses of that period. Some,
I think, were considerably older
-- frilly, lacy affairs with won-
derful embroiderers flounces. A
Ism of lite accessories were a
little incongruous but that made
the costnrnes all .the more shit: -
Mg. For instance, one lady wit',
very elaborate. black "ilk dre .
was weering. white spike -h' ie
slogs, Grandmother, of corn.
would have worn black kid, high
button boots. Another modish
lady had open -toed pumps, re-
vealing red painted toe -nails.
Can you imagine grandmother
with painted toe -nails? There
were- also two skits, one of them
called "The Gold -Diggers." Five
girls dancing in short -skirted
costumes, which they admitted
were mostly paper and scotch
tape — scotch tape in lieu of
shoulder straps:
Sometimes outdoor activities
are 'spoilt because no one can
hear the speakers but this enter-
prising Institute had set up a
loud speaker system and it
worked -very well. Oh no, I for-
got, there Ivan one hitch. Some-
ene blew a fuse end put the
"speaker" out of commission be-
fore the- meeting even got start-
ed. Just. one of those things --
but it was all treated as a joke
and added to the fun.
G: course, the had a delight -
fill tee under the trees. There
seemed no limit to the fancy
sandwiches and cookies that
were passed around although I
am quite sure there was a bin -
ger crowd than the Meadowvala
W.I. had anticipated. We were
late getting home as we could
not tear ourselves away front
the alluring gardens. Just when
we thought we had seen every-
thing we would turn a corner
and there would be another sec-
tion of the garden. It, too, had
to be explored.
So that was my highlight for
last week. See what it means te
be a W.I. member .. . you
never know what unexpected
pleasure is likely to come your
way — and sometimes, as in
this case, only a few miles from
(tome. Moral . , . before you
start yearning for distant fields
make sure you know all the
beauty spots in your own local-
ity.
Movie Star Novak
Sounds ''ffl
"I felt most Lutcemfurtirbi,
staking 'Pad Juey' and ',terms.?
l+;attels,'" Kim Norah volunteer.
.'d. plumping down on the studio
couch in her New York apart-
menl and tucking -her bare foal
touter her, "I just never can'd
for the part in 'Pal Jocy,'
can't stand people like that girt
Undo -- I can't even stand toe
name. I just think life is too
short to waste time doing things
oil don't believe in," •
Wearing a black - and - white
striped shirt, black slacks, and
utmost no make-up, Miss Novak
at the moment was, indulging its
something site believes in
strongly Being comfortable.
The duplex apartment that she
sublets contains an antique
chaise • lounge which is soon' to
be replaced by an Imitation, "be-.
cause the original is so valu-
able I can't feel comfortable its
it." She has a similar dislike
of uncomfortable role.,. "I •al-
ways read up for a part — for
'Vertigo' I looked up all sorts
of information about dual per-
sonalities — and it never does
me any good. I felt most nom-
fortahie, without a doubt, in
'Middle of the Night,' We had
rehearsals, and you had a
chance to absorb the other peo-
ple's ideas. It wasn't as though
they were just pulling strings
and making you move.
"I'd always worked with
Hollywood people, as apposed.
to New York stage people, and
they always seemed to be show-
ing off how little they needed
to be prepared. They would be
telling dirty stories one minute,
and the next they'd be in the
middle of a deep scene. Well, I
always arrive at the set early, -
but in 'Middle of the Night'
Fredric March always got there
before me — I never once beat
him there. I like people who
give everything to what they
do,"
Miss .Navalc was asked stow
she could tell in advance whe-
ther or not a part would turn
out to be comfortable. "I just
read about an experiment with
babies and seventeen different
foods, and they • automatically
went to the ones that were OK
for them. I think it's the same
with purls. You just know,"
The conversation turned to
Miss Novak's hobby, painting,
and she produced a charcoal
drawing she was doing 'of the
late Aly Khan. "Some day I
want to iso another one a: a
horse's head but with Aly's
eyes, so that people will Iook
at it and say, 'My God, it re-
sembles Aly!' " Miss Novak sate
musingly. "If 1 can't tell a story
in painting, 1 don't want to da
it, and I like to paint people
who have been through a let.
"Acting is very frustrating,"
5414Y S POLIES
"I may matey him when 1:''.r
Penn^d; the of deith is loaded;'
ISSUE 29 — 2960
she event en, ''1 lilac it, hid yea
have no control over the direr -
tion it takes. In movies, I just tit
the scrips lake. me. -But as tor
as ,lust plain old fulfillment
tey, 15'4 not ;satisfying. 'filet's
why I have to pains. It's the only
place I get my satisfaction." -
From NEWSWI'II''K.
Modern Etiquette
11v Anne Ashler
Q. 'Does a woman ever rise
is tett a ,Hart extends his hand
either to greet her or bid het•
good -by?
A, As a hostess, yes -- but not
otherwise, unless the man is an
important personage or very
elderly.
Q. Should the first page of ra
social letter be numbered?
A. No, But you may number
the suceecdhus pages, if you
wish.
C). Please suggest a bread -and.
butter letter a girl ran write af-
ter she has spent a week -end at
a boy's home,
A, Site addresses it to the boy's
mother, something like this:
"Dear Mrs, Benson: Your home
is as nice its Dick as always said
it is. I really enjoyed the week-
end so much, and I want to
thank you for (raving invited me.
Please remember me to Mr. Ben-
son. Sincerely, Sally Griffith."
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SMILING FIRST LADIES — Mrs, Eisenhower and Queen Sirikit of Thailand are all smiles ',stew
to a White House dinner for the Queen and her husband, King Phumiphoi Aduldet, This was the
first photo -' 'rs, Eisenhower since she left Walter Reed Hospital, where she wos treated for
an attars . t c bronchitis.