Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-03-02, Page 6Mast Beautiful Of All Waterfalls One has two methods by which to cross this Andes before des ponding to the Argentinian fron- tier post. There is a railway tun- nel, inside which there is also a track where oars may drive through to the other side 'with out much difficulty, but this is a very expensive method. The other, and far more satisfying ex» perlence for the, traveller, is a climb up the steepest gradient in South America to, pass over the Andes at 14,000 feet, and then immediately drop down into Ar- gentinian territory. . The road was not the highest over which we had driven, but it was certainly the steepest. , , , On looking down, the grandeur of the scene is breathtaking - the view of a section cut through the mountains, leaving jagged gaping places to tell how it was done, On all sides the rocks are red and violet, and at their high- est points, silhouetted against a vivid blue sky, they are perpetu- ally capped with snow, Our journey through Chile, Ar- gentina and Uruguay was to have been swift because we Wanted very much to arrive in Brazil before the Carnival celebration and while a slender chance of doing so remained, little else was of interest to us. One superb and permanent memory of Ar- gentina, however, is the colour film I succeeded in taking of the Iguazu Falls on the River Par- ana where the three countries of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay . adjoin, The Iguazu is a tri' [item, or the Parana, It rises in the hills of Curitiba in southern Brazil. and just above the main falls the river, dotted with numerous is- lands, opens out in all its maj- esty to a width of 4360 yards, There are eat"rects for two miles above the 200 -foot precipice over which the water thunders on a frontage of approximately 2,700 yards. The falls are wider than Niagara by half as much again, and higher by some thirty to forty feet, But it is not the measurement or the comparison which is interesting; rather it is the majesty and splendour of the falls themselves as they come crashing through the tropicalun- dergrowth to fling their tons of white and yellow -stained water down upon rock ledge and para- pet into a seething caldron which flings back its bursting spray high into the sky, painting the most beautiful rainbows one can imagine. Orchids in profusion hang upon the quivering branches of water -ruffed trees and a myr- iad birds and butterflies fly ecstatically over and under the outflowing water. We walked down among nar- row crevices and were deafened by the roar of the water's voices; we looked from left to right and behind and below and there was always water — through trees, over trees, among the rocks and over the rocks — and suddenly, as we came closer to the largest fall of all, we, too, were envel- SALLY'S SALLIES "Pm on a strict diet, you 'know; the lunch was lovely, dear." sped, covered with spray as We tried to pierce a way through the silvery mist, I thought the film Would be glorious if only a part of it were successful, and to my great joy it is, giving us a lasting record in colour of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. From "The Road Grew No Moss," by F. W. Hayman Chaffey. Magic World For. Ski Fraternity Alpine skiing is something more than the thrill of an open slope: and deep powder snow. It is a new and magic world where the ski fraternity, a unique inter- national clan bent on fast sport and matching social pace; con- gregate for the winter. 'Starting with the first snowfall at 'such ski centers as Garmiseh, Inns- bruck, Kitzbuehel, and St, Aiston, an atmosphere of gaiety - envel- opes the region and draws an ex- citing mixture of fortune hunt- ers, gay divorcees, eligible but confirmed bachelors and sensa- tion seekers from all over the world. Matching the flow of Canadian and American students, secretar- ies, young marrieds and chronic ski friends jetting over to Austria and Bavaria for the Easter holi-• days or a week's' AWOL from care, are many people converg- ing from the cities of Europe, leaving school or work behind for a few days in the snow country,' They come for the fes- tive spirit,' and incidentally, 'to ski. The party life is in tempo with •the sport: Though fast;, it is in- formal, centering, around Alpine. towns and villages,. swinging into high gear each evening as the sun goes down. Tea dances, get- togethers and gatherings spring up everywhere, the day's skiing is hashed over, friendship and conviviality bloom. An indication of the sport's importance as a social institution is its effect on the fashion world, top Canadian; U.S, and European designers each year present a new line of boldly styled ski and apses ski ensem- bles. This year's 1 o w excursion. fares, combined with airlines' ex- pense -cutting innovations, bring the European ski scene to peo- ple who never before considered Kitzbuehel or Garmisch within reach. George Paley, Lufthansa German Airline' Ski Specialist knowing the Alpine ski picture and its bubbling social life, aims his winter ski program directly at students and young workers. Booking at choice pensions rather than big hotels, he counts on the ski schedule and evening revelry to take care of all but breakfast meal needs, breakfast provided by the pensions. The program is bare, stripped, of extras, yet 'of- fers full ski arrangements and accommodations, advance snow reports, ski school advice, a wealth of facts about each area. Besides the top Bavarian and Austrian ski resorts featured in Paley's plans are those of France, Italy and Switzerland. The social aspect of Alpine skiing proves that skiers, after all, are not really crazy, as is sometimes thought. There's more than meets the eye to a person who travels thousands of miles to plummet down a mountain on a pair of boards. To get the best idea of what skiing has to offer, and why people go to Europe to do it, look in on Garmisch or Kitzbuehel some February. We might even suggest you leave your skits behind. Enlightening News: A com- munity in Michigan called Para- dise belied its name the other day—local thermometers regis- tered 20 degrees below zero. STEP ON IT — Stopping and going ars done with a tough of'fhe floor boards in this experimental car. Instead of brake. pedal and accelerator, the floor is divided into accelerator floor and brake floor. NO PROBLEMS Linda Bement fibds winter weather stimu- lating -- at least in .Miami' Beach. Linda s the current Miss Universe. BONICLES cilidlesnEEFARI4 My column this week, if you wanted. to give it a sub -title, could be called "Column T.O.L" That is to say "Items of Inter- est" Dulled from recent letters, conversation and other sources. The first concerns water short- age and that I am hearing about from all quarters. In a letter from a reader near Shelburne the writer says this: "We are so terribly short of water . I only wash' dishes once a day and use pots and pans but spar- ingly. We have 'to save every drop we can for the cattle as my husband is unable to draw water, and, since my recent ill- ness, I' am not permitted outside_ at all." I received that letter just be- fore the big snowstorm. Snow won't make it any easier getting around but at least it will be a means of saving water. I remem- ber years ago, under similar cir- cumstances, I used to keep a cop- per boiler on the kitchen stove all the time and kept filling it and re -filling it with pails of clean, packed snow. And oh, there is nothing so soft as fresh ' melted snow, Naturally, there was never any shortage of wa- ter 'for house use or laundry purposes. Partner had three troughs for the cattle, two in- side the barnyard and one out. He kept the troughs full of snow and water the 'same way. It all meant extra work but you don't think of the work during a wa- ter shortage. However, snow wasn't always available, At such time we had to buy water. That meant having •it come in by the tank load: Now I see farmers in that same dis- trict buying water again. And in plenty of other places too. Even in residential areas west of here water is being trucked in for household purposes, One house that we nearly bought the present owner is buying water. How little we appreciate wa- ter when we've got it. Water trickles out of leaky faucets; runs off roof tops into ditches and ' septic tanks and is used generously all day long. The only ones who save water are' small boys sent to wash their hands before meals! In summer lawns and gardens are watered up to the very last • drop allowed by the local water commission. I 'am sorry for anyone short of water but I do feel a lot could be done individually to allevi- ate the sitsaaltion on farmsand. in the home. When we were out West we used to draw water from the sloughs in spring for washing purposes. And we al- ways had big barrels to catch the run-off from the house and barn, We are not used' to: such primitive ways these days but When the necessity arises there is much we might learn from Previous generations. In a happier vein — from our mall box we get plenty of evi- dence of the kindness and gen- erosity of friends and format. neighbours. Since 1 have been under the weather there have been letters and phone calls' every day. In o u r immediate neighbourhood people are equal- ly kind. There is always some- one coming in 'to see if Partner wants any shopping done, or any other little chore. As for wash- ing Dee and Joy say bundle it up and we will take it home. But I guess we are independent, we dabble it out ourselves a little at a time — except yes- terday when Partner had a big wash — sheets and things. I. had' to laugh ... he said "I could get along fine if it wasn't for the interruptions — the doorbell, the baker or the oil -truck — there's always something." "Well," I laughed, "that goes with housekeeping. You get used to it after awhile." That is some- thing the man of the house has A. Real Wrap! PRINTED PATTERN 4594 SIZES 14'/s-2412 ' 412 Walk into this coatdress that wraps and buttons on the double — then, go smartly off to town, work, travel! Note flattery of cape collar. For cotton, wool, Printed Pattern 4594: Half Sizes 141/2, 161/2, 181/2, 201/2, 221/2, 241/2. Size 161/2 requires 4% yards 35 -inch fabric. 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, SEND NOW! Big, beautiful COLOR-IFIC Fall and •Winter Pattern Catalog has over 100 styles to' sew - school, career, half -sizes. Ohl 150. always been slow to realize, Pian work and meals how you like and invariable interrupt i000s throw you off schedule. Pz'ieeds near here are in much the same situation. The wife has been in bed eight weeks with a heart condition, Her husband is doing all the work and was getting along fine — until the snow came. Being elderly he is not physically able to deal with it. So there was his snow -filed driveway and in spite of all the talk about unemployment he couldn't find a man to shovel it out. Partner is thankful that, so long as he takes it easy, he can shovel his own driveway, and help out our neighbours too. What do you think of this for a coincidence? Our son and daughter, although in widely "se- parated districts e-parated'districts both had a fire scare on the same day. Two tire reels came racing up the street to a club house just opposite Dee's plate. She never did see any fire or smoke so, probably the fire was confined to 'the. kitchen. But imagine what a thrill the boys had seeing fire trucks so close at hand. Next door to Bob' a neighbour wanted to make surd his car would start in the morning So he put a light bulb over the motor and a blanket on top of it to hold in the heat. Under the hood, not on top of it! In the morning there was a big hole in the blanket. Being wool it had only smoldered. On that occasion there was no fire alarm as no one knew anything about it until the, damage was done. But think what could have hap- pened had the blanket been in- flammable. Well, the time of the deep, freeze seems to be over. At 'this minute it is 25 above zero. From deep 'freeze we now seem to have come to the time of the big snow. What They Looked At In Victorian Days The Queen's and Prince Al- bert's concern both for thepro- gress of photography and for the dissemination of knowledge through photographs is shown in many ways. Their interest, for instance, in Sir David Brewster's lenticular stereoscope at the Great Exhibition gave the great- est impetus to visual education " in the nineteenth century. No English firm had been, prepared to risk the commercial manufac- ture of the stereoscope, consider- ing that (Sir) -Charles Wheat - stone's earlier instrument (which was not suitable for photographs) had met with no success.:.. . Realizing the advantages of Brewster's design over Wheat - stone's, 3ules Duboscq foresaw a great future for it in. connection with photography, and con- structed a nuinbe`r of stereoscopes for display at the 1851 Exhibition. At the Crystal Palace the three- dimensional effect of stereoscopic daguerreotypes when viewed in the stereoscope ' aroused Queen,. Victoria's admiration. As a re- sult of the interest shown by the Queen, Duboscq was flooded with orders, and English optical - instrument makers then also took up the manufacture of stereo- scopes, of which nearly a quarter of a million were sold in Lon- don and Paris within three months. When the comparatively ex- pensive stereoscopic daguerreo- types 'were replaced by glass. transparencies, and soon .after- wards by paper prints from collo- dion negatives, the price of stereoscopic slides was brought within reach of everyone. Stereo- grams of buildings and scenery in all parts of the world were soon available, and by 1858 the London. Stereoscopic Company was in a position to advertise the astonishing number of 100,000 . different views. By this time the stereoscope had conquered the weriv, and lending ' libraries facilittled the exchange of pictures, Men ,wo- men and children, rich and Poor, gazed into this "Optical wonder of the 'age" --. the television set of the Victorian era, Like the photograph album soon to come, the stereoscope found a place in every Victorian drawing- room, providing "refined amusement tomb 'ned with useful instruc- tion" — the nstruc-tion"—the criterion of Victorian recreation. From "Victoria R," by Helmut and Alison Gern•• sheiln, Modern Etiquette, By Anne Ashley Q. When older women begin calling a young man by his first name, is the then permitted to begin addressing them by their first natives? A. It isbetter not. It shows better taste to continue address- ing them by their last names until they specifically ask him to use their first names, Q. What do you consider the major wedding anniversaries,, and what are the proper gifts for them? A. The most celebrated anui- versaries are the first (paper, plastics), the fifth (wood), the tenth (tin or aluminum), the 25th (silver), the 50th (gold), and the 75th (diamond). Q. When celery, pickles, or olives are, passed at the table, Where should the guest place them? A, On the bread and butter plate. Jumbo -Knit Hit 677 raw,, W Twice as smart! Keep warm all winter with this bulky, cap, mitten set in knitting worsted.. Jiffy jumbo -knit! Turnabout hat can be worn two ways Pat- tern 677:' hat directions fit all sizes, mittens small, medium, large included. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS , (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note fel' safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont.. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AIDS DRESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS! Send now for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew„ embroider, quilt, weave — fash- ions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits. 'Plus FREE — in- structions for six smart veil caps. Hurry, send 250 now! KELLY AND E)( -KELLY - Princess Grace' of Monaco does same entertaining. The visitor is Gene Kelly, ' , th Any nation fora .. dancing appearance at the Monte Cala