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The Seaforth News, 1960-09-15, Page 6On Cornish Co sst Iiav ; ryb t.d y Points isi±ilio; is so popular in ('.uu'. Beall a.; to be an industry in it - :telt "With the possible exception Bof London there is nowhere in ritain wheeze there are so many at r!.:ts living and working.... FUere, working under varied coeditions — in converter fish. teeters, in wide windowed lofts, in old-fashioned wooden studios and in bright new concrete ones built to specification --artists of many outlooks, and techniques have not only made their homes, but in many cases their reputa- tions... . The etpleneti .rn is not a simple one.. . The climate, the bril- liant light. the almost Mediter- ranean blue or the sea, the fas- einating fora rtions of reeks and eliffs, hills an.l valleys, sand and 'pebble shore,, --these are some of the more obivous attractions. So, too, is, the comparative freedom and easiness of life in a small but cosmopolitan town such as St. Ives, as compared to most of the provincial towns and Indus- trial areas; the congenial atmo- ephere of working and living among large groups of fellow Artists; the facilities of numerous art galleries and showrooms, Catch the Stars to 1 Pi A1.0 40 di estee y e$ erg eneSeeee ".44'4..w4 Via: ai Ct,�hvv�,lt Summer snowflakes! Dainty doilies are welcoming gifts — enol, refreshing touch for tables. Lightning -swift crochet! Star these doilies on coffee table, eresser, anywhere! Pattern 609: odirections 91e -inch round; 81e equare; 7?s x 111..' oval in No. 50. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. New! New! New! Out 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting, unusual, popular de - :signs to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quit, weave — fashions, home furnishings, toys, gifts, ba- saar hits. In the book FREE — 1 quilt patterns. Hurry, send 25 rents for your copy. several art societies, .clubs and, other meeting places; and, last • but by no means least, a syn.:. pathetic local population and press,, , This is an important point, but it does not provide a final answer to the question, it does not elucidate the real explana- tion which remains hidden some- where in Cornwall itself. Per- haps it is some sort of force, a magnetic force (for Cornwall draws artists like a magnet, pull- ing with some underlying hid- den strength which cannot be resisted).. , , By far the greatest number now, in Cornwall have been drawn right down to the Land's End peninsula; to be more pre• else, to that area known as Pen - with, which comprises the coast- line from 11larazion and Penzance round via Newlyn, Mousehole, Lamorna, Porthcurno, Sennen, St. Just, Zenner, and back to St, Ives, and including the inland area of lonely moors, cairns and crags and boulder -strewn hill- sides such as Trencrom. This is indeed a beautiful landscape for the artist... There is a sense of grins, unrelenting battle about this Land's End coastline. Even on a hot, cloud- less, June day the sea never gives the impression of being quite at peace. The waves lap- ping around the salt-fleciced rocks, splashing the seagulls and cormorants as they sunbathe, have an angry, irritable flicker to them. The rocks and cliffs themselves carry the same sense of inward, seething strength, — From "Britain's Art Colony by the Sea," by Denys Val Baker. Is Idleness Making You A Neurotic? Dawdling beside a back -yard swimming pool or puttering around a barbecue pit might seem an idyllic way to spend a long, leisurely weekend, but as Dr. Alexander Martin, a New York psychiatrist, diagnoses it, too much leisure can lead to "Sunday neurosis." This ailment, he told the World Federation for Mental Health at its annual meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, last month, is really a severe case of the blues, caused by "an inner compulsion to work." People who have such a compulsion, the psychiatrist said, develop guilt feelings when they are idle — and now, with more people spending more leisure time than ever before, and with pressure mounting for a four-day work week, the problem is be- coming acute. "In America and Britain" Dr, Martin said, "there are thous- ands of people who have two and even three jobs because they are apparently not able or ready to use their free time." For such people, lie went on, idleness can lead to severe depression and even suicide. "More thought," he admonished, "should be given to the greater number of suicides which occur during weekends, holidays, and vacations," Dr. Martin scoffed at the no- tion that people will eventually learn to handle free time by themselves. Psychiatry, he said, must find a way to give them a helping hand. Otherwise, he warned, in the automated life of the future, with its promise of great leisure, human beings may become "sterile robots, alienated from life and from themselves, living vicariously and so deaden- ed that they compulsively seek overstimulation from the ex- treme, the lurid, the bizarre, and the macabre." PECK Gregory Pock who is making a new movie, "The Guns of Novarone," In London, England, Pete;, a professional seagull, has o part, too, AND PECK Getting the bird doesn't bother ORIENTAL CALL — Pagodalike telephone booths is installed in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chinese lettering identifies it as "Electric Voice House." Putting in a call, little Rosalyn lea gets a boost from Helen Funai, left, and Mai Wing. aacz.n..o1inz P. CL AVe I have been anrovecl an number of times by having ray calls responded to by "telephone answering service.' There is something o impersonal about it and it often takes several hours to get through to the per- son you're really •calling. But now I have come to the conclu- sion that it has its points, I could do with it myself just now! For the last five days Partner has been in the hospital for minor surgery. Naturally there have been plenty of telephone calls. Necessary ones •1 welcome but unnecessary ones drive nee frantic, Offers to clean carpets, magazine subscriptions, Christ- mas cards and so on. You just have to answer the phone — it might be. important. y afraid of being alone. I am more afraid of the little things that can go wrong — and often do The kitchen sink got slightly plugged and I had to deal with that. If Partner had been there he would have disconnected the goose -neck and cleaned it. I for- got to water the garden for two nights and the plants got badly wilted. The gladioli needed stak- ing. Before I got around to it one a. them was leaning over saying its prayers. Saturday morning I went shopping yet Sunday morning found me with- out butter, A minor detail, of course, I made out very nicely with margarine which I keep in the house for cooking. Art was here Friday night. He naturally wanted a last minute report on Partner to take to Dee at the cottage. She had to be reassured else she migh have come flying home. Which would have been quite unnecesary. Bob and family were here Sunday. And so it goes. And the weather. We are fin- ally getting a taste of summer heat and humidity, but very little rain. We don't appreciate the change but then at Exhibi- tion time it is nearly always hot and sticky. Anyway the heat has brought my late -planted gladioli into bloom. Just a dozen bulbs I bought from a church sale, certified and in mixed colours. It is interesting to watch them come into bloom not know- ing what they will be. There is an ordinary pink, mauve and a yellow. There is also one just coming out that is almost black — a reddish -black. Another is orange with black spots. Never seen one like it before. And nearly every bulb has produced two bloom stalks. I didn't know that was possible. But then Partner's operation was sche- duled for noon on Friday so he went to hospital on Thursday: Next morning no breakfast. The time hung heavy so he phoned me twice during the morning. Then one of the doctors called, told me they would be operating about two o'clock and to stay home and he would call me. I waited and waited, afraid to leave the house for a minute in case the telephone should ring. At five o'clock I called the floor supervisor. Yes, Mr. Clarke was back in his room and was com- ing along nicely. I still had to wait for the doctor's call, which I didn't get until nearly seven. He had a confinement case in the same hospital at the same time and couldn't Ieave. By seven o'clock I was down to the hospital but Partner was too drowsy and uncomfortable to talk. Since then he has been improving steadily and should be home in a few days. As for me I hadn't been sleep- ing too well — which is under- standable — so I took a sleep- ing pill Saturday night (doc- tor's prescription) and was still dead to the world at eight -thirty Sunday morning when the tele- phone rang. It was Partner, Of course he had hnd his: break- fast and wondered why I tools so long to answer the phone. After that I got myself a quick break- fast and then took a bath. Bed hardly got into it when the telephone rang again. This tune it was a neighbour. I explained I wa:. dripping wet and draped in a bath towel. Would she call egain, There were other ring,, some important, some trivial, which have led me to the con- clusion that busy people can be :saved a lot of time by making use of telephone enswering ser - vire, It seems strange around here without Partner but I have been so busy 2 haven't had time to he lonesome. One neighbour said -- "Do you mind being alone -- are you nervous?" Nervous! I went to bed one night and for- teol to lock the doors. That's how nervous 1 ate. No, I am not there is a lot I don't know about Weds — but I do love them. Must grow more next year. Yes- terday there was a humming- bird flitting from one flower to another — the smallest I've ever seen. Grayish -- not blue and Veen like we used to see on the farm. Speaking of Ginger Farm, the barn and shed on the farm just opposite burnt to the ground last week, Always afraid It might as there was no one liv- ing on the place. Those Soap Operas On The Way Out "A soap 'opera is a kind of sandwich," James Thurber once wrote. "Between thick slices of advertising, spread twelve min- utes of dialogue, add predica- ment, villainy, and female suf- fering in equal measure, throw in a dash of nobility, sprinkle with tears, season with organ music, cover with a rich announcer sauce, and serve five • times a week." In an abrupt action recently, CBS radio — the only radio net- work still harboring the weep- ers — decided the sandwich was no longer quite palatable. As a preliminary move, which will require the OI{ al its affiliates, CBS indicated it would like to overhaul its daytime schedule and replace all its soap sagas next year with news and per- sonality shows. Among the seven sudsers that could be affected were such lachrymose antiques as the 28 - year -old "Ma Perkins," the 20 - year -old "Young Dr. Malone," and the 19 -year-old "The Second Mrs. Burton" It was understood that as a part of the overhauling CBS would also call for the jettisoning of "Amos 'n' Andy Music Hall," a lineal descendant of the famous comedy show which started back in 1928. Although the soaps once at- tracted as many as 20 million listeners a week (during one period, NBC carried sixteen, CBS thirteen), they have fallen an lean days as radio has swung toward a hard format of music and news. Even on TV, there are only eleven, and last week one of .these — NBC's "From These Roots" — was saved from the graveyard only at the last minute when the network got thousands o1 protesting letters. All told, almost 60 actors may lost their jobs if the serials die, among them soap -opera pioneer Ethel Owen. A blond veteran of more than 50 soaps over the past 33 years, she now plays the dom- ineering Mrs. Burton in "The Second Mrs. Burton." "I came in with the soap operas, and now it looks as if I may go out with Ahem," she sighed last week. "Music and news are fine, but they are just the same thing all day long. The soaps are dif- ferent — there's always some- thing new going on." Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. 'When a man is dining in n restaurant with his wife, and another couple stops at their table for a few words, must he rise? A. A man always rises when a woman stops at his table. Q. Is it all right to use the telephone to thank a person for sending flowers? A. This is acceptable — but a handwritten note of thanks is much better. Q. When one is in doubt as to whether an invitation can be ac- cepted or not, how should the acknowledgement be worded? A. There should be no uncer- tainty about the acknowledge.. nient. You MUST state definite- ly whether or not you can ac- cept the invitation. Obey the traffic signs — they are placed there for YOU R SAFETY. Popular Culottes PRINTED u VAT'i" ERN 4023 WAIST 24"-34" es,e. 44 Fashion's newest hit! Step smartly in culottes — they com- bine the ease of pants with the flattery of a skirt. Make then In gay cotton for summer, rayon for fall or back to campus. Printed Pattern 4823: Waist . Sizes 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, Size 28 takes 331 yards 45 -inch. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St„ New Toronto, Ont, SEA SNOW — Yvette Mimieux gets set to throw a snowball as she ankles her way through the surf ad Venice Beach. Not ex- actly snowballs, though. Crush- ed ice balls. ISSUE 37 — 1960 ,rte .._..., .._, .._ _. .:.,.:,..,. STEP SAVER -- This is not a flat escalator, it I s a moving sidewalk, something cities have their eyes on as an answer to moving heavy pedestrian traffic, This Speedwalk passenger cons Veyor system is Installed In Froodomland, a new amusement park.