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The Seaforth News, 1960-09-29, Page 6Pft +Rich Treasures lay A Russian Museum 1 w'.11::,e about the Kremlin, fascinatediav its maze of palaces and clturelne.. , Every day thereafter I :ame into the Krein- lin for a eoeple of hours — it is too vast t-. be exhausted in a 1' :tihigle visit, and too rewarding 1 to he rushed.... 1 began my sightseeing in 1 Orushozhnaya, or Palace of 1 Arms ••— which is now a museum, as interesting as any I have ever I visited. Here were the products 1 of Russian arts and crafts --- and ' presents to the tsars from all over the world, an amazing wealth of European and Asiatic a lendour. , , , One great room was allocated to horse trappings, amazingly elaborate. There might be bun. reds of horn's in a procession •a- even a thousand, if a power monarch were being met, The $farness was brilliant -- worked leather, with gilt and enamel fittings, and silken embroideries. Most fantastic of all was a horse resented by the Sultan of Tur- ey to Catherine the Great. Not erely are its trappings worth a king's ransom, but it wore silver hoes — and the nails were also ad silver! There was a wonderful collec- Smart Teamwork PRINTED PATTERN Simple. slimming, smart: Travel from midsummer through Fall in this two-piece dress with a neatly tucked top, pend choice of slim or flared skirt: It's sew -easy. Printed Pattern 4707: Hall Sizes 141 161: e181e, 20Ie, 22Ie, Mee. See pattern forryardages. Printed directions on each pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (50.'1 tstamps cannot be accepted, use p sta! note for-safety.;for this pattern. - Please print plainly SIZE, N A M E, ADDRESS. STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, 1, 12:3 Eighteenth St., New Tmentn, Ont. tion o! coaches. They ranged from toy tnittatures used by Peter the Great in his child's palace: some had wheels for the summer, others runners for the winter snow. Close by was an enormous coach on sleigh rit- ners; it carried the Tsarina Eliza- beth, Peter's daughter, from St. Petersburg to Moscow in three days. The coach of Catherine the Great needed twenty - three horses to pull it. I admired the warming pan in its interior. , . . There is a collection of Bibles of incredible richness — their covers in precious metals, with reliefs in enamel and chased gold. , . . The presents of potentates to the tsars were outdone by the presents of the tsars to their families. Most intriguing were those by Carl Faberge, the French Protestant refugee who became goldsmith to the court of the tsars. When Alexander III demanded an Easter present for' his wife which `would give her half an• hour's happiness," Fab- erge fashioned an Easter egg which opened to reveal a yolk of gold, which hid a chicken, which in turn divided to produce a model of the crown, — From "Visa to Russia," by Bernard Newman. Most Victimized Of A11 Sick People For rheumatoid arthritis, Ame- rican scientists agree, aspirin is the safest long-term drug. But it isn"t easy to convince a pa- tient, crippled with arthritis, that so simple a treatment is suffi- cient to control so terrible a dis- ease. They may seek other doc- tors, who will .prescribe stronger drugs, perhaps heavy doses of cortisone. Because this painful disease is such a medical mystery, the arth- ritic victim is the most exploited of all sick people in the nation. Men and women with twisted backs, inflamed legs and amts, stiffened fingers, and shriveled museles, are constantly being lured into buying books suggest- ing cures, -inadequate drugs, de- vices, and treatments that are worthless, unduly expensive, and even dangerous. "I know it is ridiculous, but I'm so desperate I'll spend any amount to get rid of this pain," a long-suffering arthritic said in explaining why he had paid $600 to a faith healer. Among the other cruel hoaxes being perpetrated on a gigantic scale: Uranium -ore pade and mittens, advertised to have a lasting effect on pain (nide- activity of the ore is comparable to that in the average radium - dial wrist watch); "super aspir- in" for 83 to 84 a hundred (the same drug can be bought for a few cents a hundred): alcohol and herb routs, containing gin, water, and vegetable colors ("brown for neuritis," and "green for arthritis," the ed goes). "Such nostrums are no more effective than carrying a potato in the pocket," said Dr. Ronald Lamont -Havers, medical direc- tor of the Arthritis and Rheuma- tism Foundation, noir waging a war against fake arthritis „cures." Recently, Federal, state, and private agencies have set up stiff programs to fight this 7250 mil- lion a year swindle. Yet the fact remains that one out of every two arthritis victims still listens to these. — Froin NEWSWEI1K. Obey the traffic 51400 -- they arc placed there for Y 0 11 R SAFETY JOAN'S THERe, TOO -- Actress Joon Collins relaxes at Olympic Village in Rome, She's seated next to Richard Hinks, a mem- ber of the British Olympic staff. REDDER PLACE — Little Tommy Kemmerer gottired of his soft crib at home. His parents tucked him in, but later found him curled up in a bureau drawer in his bedroom. We are finally getting home- grown produce from our own garden— beans and beets any- way. And are they ever good! Cucumbers are coming along nicely but root vegetables are nowhere near ready. However, we are well satisfied with what we are getting considering our low-lying garden patch was too wet to work until the middle of July. One thing we •are missing is mushrooms. Until this year we have had lots of them growing wild. This year all I have seen up to the present is one sorry lit- tle mushroom. It must be they don't like dry weather. And dry weather is definitely what we've got. One day last week we were up to Milton. When our power mow- er needs doctoring Partner takes it along for Bob to see to. He has a knack of taking things apart, putting them together again and having them work. He has bolts and bits strewn on the ground all around him and how he ever knows what belongs to which 1'11 never know. As we eppronched Milton we noticed how Hutch the landscape had changed. As a matter of fact it has been slowly changing for several years but the change is now more noticeable, We have regretfully become accustomed to the slue:giver of trees and the Mushroom grnwl•h of housing and industry. But. new another change is taking plei : that is equally destructive t.1 scenic beauty. I am referring to quar- ries. Pu't of the Niagara Escarp- ( mem - fled i , tilt' part that Mil teninns r: ter to as "the Moun- tain" le graeuelly being bull- dozed away. Several rlto:rri•ies are in operation and the lovely lime- stone rock is being dsi v blasted, crushed 011-1 1t a kc l ❑tray for various purpose --- for road- work, building and construction. Mitl,on resident, have nI ways been proud of their .Mountain — it provided a pleasing back- ground to green fields, orcherds and pastures. And the colour- ing in the fall was beautiful be- yond description. Red maples and evergreens against the grey- white limestone• W00 something to remember. We found yet another change had taken place. An old milling busines.e that had been in opera- tion since Jasper Martin built his first grist mill in 1837, has been sold to the Robin Hood Milling Company, :titer being in Martin's, name for three successeve gen- orations. The Martin family was chiefly respensihlc for the found- ing of Milton and saw it grow from pioneer setiicntrrnt to vil- lage and finally to being the county town of Halton. It is 0 change that many of the older residents • will regret, To thein Milton and Martin's milts are synonymous, Toa many links with the past; in Milton and else- where, have already been lost, dropping like ninepins before the onslaught of modern progress. We know that. changes are in- evitable but we are always hop- ing that .links connecting the past with the present will somehow be preserved. There are also changes in the rifling for the district in -which we now live. We already have four main highways into Toronto — Nos. 2, 5, 401 and the Queen E. Now we understand that some time in the not too distant future there are to be two more -- one from Hamilton to Toronto, the other from Malian to Toronto. And I suppose all of them will be used to capacity. Personally I am more interested in a proposed new shopping centre. If it mater-, ializes it will be within walking distance of where we live. That would suit tts just fine. In that case we might even do without a car. Just imagine, neither of us been to the Exhibition this year. I had an invitation but at the time Partner was in the hospital. After he got home it turned hot so we kept way. We like visiting the Exhibition — if we could have the Exhibition without the crowds! And if we could be sup- plied with a special pair of feet for the occasion. We would love to see "Lloyd's of London" and to hear Marian Anderson and Victor •Borge. However, if we don't get there I suppose we shall survive. Maybe we won't if we do -- if you get what I mean. I wander ... have any of you had trouble with your TV sets just lately? Ours has been act- ing rather queerly. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. One night the picture had all the appear- ance of ocean waves. Then came a click and the picture was as clear as could be. It didn't give any more trouble until tonight. Do you know what we think was wrong? Nothing more or less than interference from the Northern Lights. There have been several wonderful displays just lately. .At t.wo o'clock one morning there was like a huge mushroom in the sky. From tate stool of the mushroom Northern Lights were shooting in all direc- tions. Gradually the lights pen- trated the blackness and the •mushroom disintegrated. It was very beautiful to watch. But we Wish they would leave our TV alone, We almost sent for a TV mechanic. Gulls Create Air Traffic Sartori The Massichusekks fort Au- thority is trying to reduce the possibilities of collisions between its fastest mechanical "birds -- jet transports -- over Logan In- ternational Airport and the nat- ural variety — gulls. The advent of commercial jet aircraft at East Boston, plus the greater frequencies of jet flights, has augmented tho need to elim- inate birds from the neighbor- hood of airport runways. The problem is not peculiar to Boston but is one that engages the at- tention of airport managers wherever airports lie along the margin 01 the sea. When it is considered that a jet transport may be flying at a speed of close to 170 miles an hour when it takes off, con- siderable damage may result to the aircraft by striking birds on the runway. Moreover, the birds may be ingested into the intakes of the jet engines and introduce the possibility of engine stop- page. Recently, a Scandinavian Air- lines System jet transport, tak- ing off from Copenhagen's Kas- trup Airport, ran into a flock oe birds severely denting the leading edge of tite wing and taking four gulls into its engines. The aircraft lost power from one engine but was able to complete its take -off and come around and land again. Massachusetts Port Authority airport officials disdain taking harsh measures — even though Jiffy - Knit £A y k Newest fashion! Knit a beauti- ful, bulky jacket to wear every- where, all year 'round. Jiffy -knit inches fly by! Use double -strand knitting worsted, large needles for bulky jacket. 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Hughes in The Chris - tion Science Monitor. Cutting off bird food sources would mean closer inspection and control by the city of dump areas and over the casting of fish offal into the sea which at- tracts the gulls as feeding grounds. Airport officials say the birds inhabit the ends of the runways in cooler weather generally fol- lowing hot weather. The asphalt runways retain the heat of the sun and the birds, lige human beings, collect wherever they find heat. JUDY STILL OVERWEIGHIT Bouncy American songstress Judy Garland, 38, added up to a lot of trouper to London's crit- ics, who gallantly toasted her two-hour, 33 -song show as per- haps the most rousing perform- ance of its kind ever put on at the storied old Palladium, but got in less than gallant referen- ces to the bulging Garland con- tours ("podgy," "p 1 u m p 1 s h," "both her chins shook with laughter"). No stranger to sug- gestions that she could do with less heft, Judy lamented: "Every- body says it, and it always hurts." Modern Etiquette lly Anne Ashlee Q. My husband has been ask- ed to serve as godfather to a friend's child, Should tate silver cup he is giving the baby be en- graved as just from my husband, or should my name be included? A. Since the cup is from the godfather alone, it should be marked as from him. No addi- tional gift is required from you. Q. When a guest shows no signs of pleasure, and even fails to thank his hostess properly, is there any way for the hostess to make him see how he statins in her estimation? A, Her best procedure in this instance is not to invite him again soon — or ever! Experience is what you have after you've lost everything else. ISSUE 39 — 1960 MODERN KNIGHT — A Swed- ish U.N. soldier wields primi- tive shield in Leopoldville, Congo. He used it to deflect rocks and other missiles that may be thrown during street demonstrations at tense area. NOTHING TO DO BUT COMPLAIN — Mark Strait, 10, and his dog, Pluto, lust can't got comfortable these hot days.