HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-02-23, Page 2They Ploy At Work
Anel Work At Play
Stated against other nations -
past and present on their fond.-
0,
onde s a for parties, tate modern
"hats would doubtless come in
>,st, with the Greeks of Homer's
late and al the rest of the field
3tr ing out far behind along the
track; While it is ,perhaps not
true of Thais, as has sometimes
been said, that they play at
work and work at play, it is true
that they get fun out of both
terms of endeavour and that
this fun has in it a large element
of the gregarious,
As good an indication as any
of the way in which Thais con-
trive to enjoy whatever they
may be doing is presented to
any passerby by the sight of a
road -gang at work, More than
half of the workers in such a
gang are likely to be girls or
young woinen whose costume
consists of huge straw sun -hel-
mets and dark pasins fastened by
the heavy sold -gold belt whish is
at once a Thai working -woman's
major investment and adorn
meat. The work consists largely
of carrying dirt or gravel about
in shovel -shaped wicker baskets
to the accompaniment of so
suuch chuckling and joking that
the passerby may jtunp to the
surmise that very little is being
accomplished,
When it became necessart to
repave a major Bangkok traffic
artery a few years ago, a project
which also involved channeling
two major klongs into overslaed
sewer -pipes and then laying a
concrete surface over thein,
many irate auto -commuters voic-
ed irritable. opinions that the job
was taking too long. A foreign
engineer was finally consulted
and his opinion, handed down
after earnest cogitation, was
that, using American earth -mov-
ing machinery and the same
budget. the work would have
taken about 50 per cent longer.
— From "Thailand," by Noel F.
Busch.
Modern Etiquette
By Anne Ashley
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4 This is less often seen now,
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om the gifts displayed, and
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ISSIF1-1961
HE SKIIS ON GLASS — Famous.O ympicskiier.and movie star Tony Sailer just after he arrived
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RONICLES
allffieFoWik.
• Nearly everyone these days is
worrying about the high 'cost of
drugs. If you are one of the
worriers I've got news for you
— good news. There are certain
persons — far too many, unfor-
tunately — who must take drugs
all the tune, maybe for rheuma-
tism, a heart condition, asthma,
or whatever your special com-
plaint maybe. These people are
used to buying "repeat prescrip-
tions" so they are the ones who,
by using their heads, can save
themselves a little money — as
I have found out from experi-
ence. Tablets that I take—under
doctor's orders — come at $10
a hundred. The other day I
needed a fresh supply but think-
ing the prescription might pos-
sibly be changed before too long
I thought I might as well order
fifty, I asked the price —
"$6.25 for 50," replied the
druggist.
"But I've always paid $10 a
hundred."
"Oh, yes, but that's just a spe-
cial price for buying in quan-
tity." 1 quickly changed my
mind, took a chance and ordered
a hundred. Later I was relaying
this information to a friend who
said, "Well now, I'II inquire
about that, What my husband
gets for his asthma are 36 cap-
sules for $4.35." The next day
she phoned me back with the
astounding news that Fred's cap-
sules were $25 a hundred. And
they had been buying thirty-six
at a time for nearly a. year! So
by figuring things out from the
two instances I have given you,
you can easily see how ;you can
save a little money Of course
this is only possible vw>ben drugs
are more or less a part of your
regular diet. as it were. For
emergencies v''n en antibiotics
may be necessary the doctor will
order only mooch tablets or
capsules to take care id the sit -
situation. Such medicine cannot
be ordered in bull:.
Well. we seem to be haying
a little snow — and daseift h
look nice for a change — se
clean and sparkling. Same dis-
tricts evidently got more than
others. Friends pl:ened us from
Milton on the Thursday night of
the storm. They had started out
to pay us a visit: got as tar as
the Dundas Highway; ran into a
blinding snowstorm; found even
transports were getting stalled
so they turned around and went
home again, That was the same
night Ed Sullivan's plane was
unable to land at Melton. The
next morning Partner was busy
from nine o'clock until four in
the afternoon, diggin, shovelling
and scraping away anew from
the house and garage to the road.
When he got through with our
own driveway he got busy for
a grass widow who lives next
door.
SIGNS UP — Italian singer An-
na Marie Alberghetti applies
for American citizenship.
Partner is feeling very pleased
with himself right now. He is
reaping the benefit of all the
hard work he did last fall in
raising the .level of the ground'
at the back of the house. With
a higher Level rain now has a
chance to run off. Snow, when
it melts, will do the same thing.
Thus it will save a lot of winter
digging and shovell-:ng and pre-
vent slippery patches from form-
ing around the back of the
house.
Our Toronto grandsons have
just started a round of chicken-
pox. Dave came outwith a rash
last Saturday so I suppose the
other two will get it eventually.
In the meantime Dave is capital-
izing on the situation. getting his
your.g brothers to wait on him
while he stays in bed or on the
cnesterireld. He really keeps
their. busy Ls he isn't the least
bit sick, icor has he too many
spots to worry him.
This deep snow and the boys
having thicken -pox reminds the
of one erne on the farm many
years ago .When our two children
had red measles. Bob so badly
you couldn't put a pit -point
down between the spots. Even
the doctor had to laugh whet be
saw hint. And then I carne down
with tc.rsilitis at the same rime
and ran a very high tempera-
ture. We were alltr. onetwenty-
by-twenty, bedroom, 1 roan see
us yet. Then came a heavy snow-
fall, about the satre as we fad
just recently. There was no need
to clean out the late beetle:e
there were no cars on the lona
just horses, sleighs and cut-
ters, Partner was but at the
chopping wood to keep tl'o
three fires going — we
have a furnace at t'- tt t e. e
presently he came limping into
the house and called to me —
"Get a doctor, quick — 1've
chopped my foot!" - I jumped out
of bed and ran to the phone.
Fortunately there was no "an-
swering service" in those days
so I got the doe"£or on the line
right away. Theft -I collapsed at
the phone. The Motor was soon
On the scene. I'torget what he
was driving but I do know he
walked through our long snow -
filled lane. I wonder how many
doctors would do it today. Part-
ner had gashed the instep of his
foot right to the bone. It re-
quired several stitches to close
the wound. That night he had
to milk the cows just the same
— there was no one else to do
it. Before the foot healed infec-
tion set in and the wound had
to be lanced.
Happily we all survived but
as I look back I wonder how we
did it, Maybe it was a case of
"as thy need so shall thy
strength be".
Umbrella Saves
High -Flying Boy
A small boy has been recover-
ed from space in Launceston,
Tasmania. A man scrambled up
a building and hooked five-
year-old David Ankers out of
the sky with the handle of his
umbrella.
The youngster had been hold-
ing a bunch of balloons at the
Launceston fair when a gust of
wind lifted him high off the
ground.
Another youngster from "out-
er space" broke up a mission-
ary's outdoor meeting in a vil-
lage n ear Pietermaritzburg,
South Africa, recently The
preacher was telling a spell-
bound audience that the great
day would come when angels
would appear in the sky and
gather ail -of God's children into
Heaven.
In pious gesture he upraised
his arms—and then screamed
with dismay as a tiny coloured
child suddenly dropped into
thews, the force of the youngs-
ter's "arrival" knocking him to
the ground.
He was able to smile, later,
when he learned that the boy
had climbed an overhanging tree
to listen to the preacher, but had
fallen asleep during the sermon,
lost his balance, and dropped
into the waifing arms,
e
"Di L,s's. P o-..' :lt. or politi-
cal p✓ll, t se r:. c a• r.,ume beret"'
Prince' Philip Is
A Two -Finger Typist
Can you use a typewriter? The
Queen can and does but only
occasionally, nowadays. When
else was Princess Elizabeth she
often typed notes.to her friends,
following the . example of her
%nether, The Queen Mother, still
types some of her own letters
end has always enjoyed using a
typewriter,
Prince Philipp is a keen typist.
He owns a light -weight portable
machine and uses only two fin-
gers of Tither hand, but can type
quickly and accurately,
Before her marriage, the. Prin-
cess Royal (then Princess Mary)
often typed letters for• her mo.
the, the late Queen Mary. When.
the Princess. Royal's ,two sons
were quite young they were giv-
en a typewriter as a present and
used it to produce a magazine,
which they Balled "The Hare -
wood News,
First ruler to admit a type-
writer to a Royal household was
Queen Victoria. In 1890 she read
a newspaper article which said
that women were specially suited
for typing,
She got into touch with a Mr.
W. J. Riohardson Who was then
introducing typewriters into
England and he took one of the
machines to her et Windsor. Cas-
tle. After examining it, finger-
ing the keys and studying a
specimen of typewriting, the
Queen asked him to leave the
typewriter at the castle.
Phone And Put
Your Kids To -Sleep!
For any tot in Hull, England, •
fairyland is as close as the tele-
phone. Just dial 211. A sweet_
feminine voice answers — she
could be the good fairy herself
— and she tells a bedtime story
about Father Christmas, or a
goose, or a pony, or almost any-
thing from the land of never-
never.
The local telephone company
since last December has been
providing each night a differ-
ent, original, three -and -a -half -
minute; tape-recorded bedtime
' sot o r y for its subscribers. The
stories have become so popular
that one recent week the com-
pany logged 12,000 calls to Hull
211 — some from London and
Glasgow, and some from as far
away as Norway, West Germany,
and France. Perhaps of most in-
terest, all of the stories were
written by amateurs — students
in the creative -writing course of
the local Kingston upon Hull
(teachers) Training College.
Last fall, Mrs. Mary Y. Sower -
by, a 34 -year-old Scotswoman
who lectures in education at the
coeducational school (314 stu-
dents), . offered original bedtime
stories by the college's novice
writers for the phone company
to transmit to subscribers, as it
does cricket scores and cooking
recipes. Telephone m an a g e r
Hugh V. AT. Harris accepted, and
the bedtime story was made a
regular weekly assignment in
the creative -writing course.
Student Wendy Richards, 19,
was able to dash off a story in
three minutes — about a Teddy
bear and a candle, separated and
later reunited, "I wanted to hell,
children understand loneliness
and 'friendship," she said.
Naturally, the ehiidren are the
final judges of a story's merit.
When asked, rosy-cheeked Jamie
I•laWWert11, 4, whose &nether dials
211 for him, sang out; "1 like
the ones about animals and arab
tiler Christmas." More sophistic
sated, Sue Richardson, 7, who
dials her own, said unegutvo-.
Bally; "I like them because they
don't have those old-tintey
words you get in Grinuns' Fairy
Tales'"
A plan's life span: years of
heating his mother ask where
he's goleg, years of having his
wife ask where he's going, e
day or two having the inournerst
wondering the swine thing,
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Lndio, Over 200 children live in the nursery becouse their par-
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