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The Seaforth News, 1961-07-06, Page 2Daddy Very t enerous With Diano's Dough In praise of Old Nassau, my boys, Ilurrahl Hurrah! Hurrah! Her sons will give, while they Ishell live, illtiree cheers for Old Nassau! see ;,`11,, The only trouble with Prince - ^ton University's venerable "Old Nassau" is that it doesn't com- mit the daughters of the sons to give even three cheers and a tiger, And the only trouble with Shelby Cullom Davis (class of '30) was that he wanted his daughter to give his alma meter not a cheer --but $3.8 million, Until she was summoned to the scheduled giveaway meeting at a Manhattan bank recently, shy and blond Diana Davis was hard- ly aware of the fact that she was wealthy, She had heard talk of a trust in her name, established by her father with $4,000 when she was born 22 years ago, But she had no idea that it amounted now to nearly $4 million, or that, under its terms, she could have demanded it from the trus. tees at any time since she reach- ed the age o1 20. The trustees are her parents, and they didn't tell her until Daddy decided to give It all Instead to Princeton —in his name. Rash Promise: Ostensibly, it never occurred to Shelby Cul- lom Davis, a New York invest- ment banker, who traces his an- cestry to John Alden, and is a power in the Society of May- flower Descendants and the Sons of the American Revolu- tion, that his daughter would prove recalcitrant. As a matter of fact, he alreadi• had promised the money to Princeton, and had a press release on his philan- thropy ready ter the Sunday papers. When the facts finally became clear to Diana, she saw not Princeton's orange and black at all. What she saw was red. Instead of answering her fa- ther's summons to the bank to sign away the fortune she never knew she had, she hired herself a lawyer, Julian S. Bush, a for- mer instructor at Columbia, and for 25 years a specialist in tax law. Bush promptly filed for- mal demand that the fund be turned over to Diana, and said noncompliance would mean suit in New York's Supreme Court, Stuck with one press release, avis quickly issued another be - re taking off on a business trip to Europe. Through a public- lrelations firm, he said of his daughter that he "could only at- tribute her unreasonable self Ishness to the unrealistic materi- (Oism prevalent among Ameri- aan youth today." Silt, Coal PRINTED PATTERN ►9Q 44244 Pocket-ful of flowers, color- ful touch for a perfectly plain (and plainly perfect) sheath. Easy enough to sew in a day — smart enough to wear every- where, Printed Pattern 4846: Half Sizes 141A, 16%, 1811, 20/, 221n, 24/. Size 1614 takes 3 yards 35 -inch, Embroidery transfer. Send FORTY CENTS, (stamps cannot be accepted, use postai note for safety) for this pattern, Please print. plainly SIZE, NAME, A DARES S, STYLE NUMBER, Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St,; New Toronto, Ont. ANNOUNCING t h e biggest fashion show of Spring-Suanmer, 1961—pages, pages, pages of pat- terns in our new Color Catalog --just out! Hurry, send 350 now! NEW CAR FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY — A custom-built Lincoln limousine for. President Ken- nedy was delivered to the White House recently. It took four years to design the 21 -foot -long auto and five months to construct it to Secret Service specifications. The car has three dif- ferent tops: leather covered metal, a six -piece transparent plastic "bubble" top and a black fabric convertible top. There is an elevator under the back seat to raise it 101/2 inches from normal position to permit the President to be seen more easily in parades. It has retract- able running boards and foot stands for Secret Service agents, It has two different two- way radios. HIONICLES �N6E FAK1 CYvdx oLir�e D Cls i.s You know how people always say "the nicest part of going away is the coming home", In just that same way the nicest part of leaving a district where you have once lived is going back for a brief visit. I had proof of that last week. About three weeks ago I re- ceived an invitation to the Fif- tieth Anniversary Tea of the John Milton Chapter, I.O,D.E. — to which I used to belong many years ago. I thought it was so nice of the members to send me an invitation. But I was a little dubious about .accepting as it carne in the middle of a very busy week for us. However, I thought the only way to show niy appreciation — and my con- tinued interest in the work of the Chapter — was to appear in person. And was I glad I went! Really I couldn't get over it — everyone was so nice and so pleased to see me. The only way I can explain it is they knew I had been quite ill during last winter and probably thought I had made a special effort to at- tend this tea. It almost made me feel as if I had risen from the diild! Naturally the pleasure was not in the least one-sided. There were many "old-timers" there whom I had not seen for years — and we all remembered each other so well. Quite a num- ber of them, like myself, are now living elsewhere. I hope they got as much pleasure from this visit to their old Chapter as I did. There were others who had experienced . many changes in their lives during the inter- vening years — some good, some not so good, some even tragic. A few were courageously fight- ing their way back to health and strength. Others who bad led a particularly active life — at home and in the organization — were now more or less retired. There was even one member whn had a copy of this column in her purse, ready to pass on to an- other member. And so the Chapter carries an — with the help and addition of many younger members. It has a fine fifty-year record, having survived the incidental work of two wars and assisted with the aftermath of countless rehabili- tation problems. One of its char- ter members was there — able and almost as active as ever A lady who during the last ten years has become an accomplish- ed local artist, There you have the secret of how to enjoy the leisure of one's later years. That is, the development of a latent talent to maintain one's interest in life. It is the panacea . for many ills of the flesh and the boredom which sometimes ac- companies advancing years. The tea was held at the home of one of the members — a past Regent. A lovely old home with attractive lawns and shrubberies. There was quite a line-up of shining cars parked on three ad- joining streets on the older out- skirts of the town, I looked around and couldn't help com- paring present conditions with • the time when I was first a member of the LO.D,E. In those daysit wasn't always easy to get away from Ginger Farm to attend the meetings. And there was always the problem of tran- sportation, Cars were few and far between and we didn't have one ourselves, So, on many on- casions I walked two miles to go to a meeting, Sometimes I drove our horse and buggy if Prince WAN not required in the field, Later, it was our first car — si 'Model T. . That really put us in. the Iuxury chase! But at this an - GUESS WHO? — Actress Eliza- beth Taylor, disguised as a waitress, created havoc at the closing show of her husband, Eddie Fisher, in Las Vegas. Stumbling around the dining room, dropping crockery and abusing Fisher in a highly pitched Cockney voice, she com- pletely fooled him. It was only when she removed her wig that Fisher recognized her. niversary, tea 1 think our '53 Plymouth was the oldest car there. That didn't worry me in the least. It got me there and it brought me back. What more could I ask? Not only that it took me over to Bob and Joy's to supper and from there to the local hospital to visit an old friend in her eighty-sixth year, and then home just before the lights carne on. Next day Partner went to Dee's for a two-day visit. His primary objective was to help straighten up the front lawn aft - err the city Streets Commission had tt.ken down a huge tree in front of the house and of course, left the spreading roots in the ground. He tool: all his heavy tools with him, several of them relics of our farming days, for which he still finds • many uses. As do our neighbours! The tools are often on loan, for the average home -owner would never, or at least seldom, think it necessary to buy a post -hole digger, an iron spoon or a pickaxe. Gener- ally it ends up with Partner ac- companying whatever tool is re- quired and putting it into action. himself, And that he is quite happy to do. Like the LO,D.E artist his many interests and ac- tivities keep him from becoming prematurely old, None of us can help growing old in years but we ran remain young in spirit. That is, if we so desire. Apropos of family problems — of married children and aging parents, I wonder how many saw "G,M. Presents" — "Something Old, Something New". It must surely have given young and old alike plenty of food for thought. SALLY'S SALLIES SURF 1.10 MISSING PERSONS "rt T ever turn up Missing, can X depend upon you to find me?" ISSUE 26 — 1961 How Some Wedding Customs Started Many of the oustoms, associ- ated with weddings today, pre- date the Christian era. Some are survivals of pagan rites which were blended through the cen- turies with Jewish and Chris- tian rituals. The Wedding Ring originated in the days of the caveman - in a cord of .reeds with which the man bound himself to his wife's waist in order to make their spirits one. The Bridal Party stems h•um the marriage - by - capture era when loyal tribesmen and close friends of the ,groom within the tribe added' him to capture nis bride. While he dashed off with her, his friends stayed behind to fend off or fight the bride's • outraged relatives. Such v. ere the first ushers and best man. The Bridal Veil evolved nut of an Oriental custom from cast ages. It was believed that e 'il spirits were especially edit/teed' to women so, as a protec'lon from the "Evil Eye" women a1 - ways wore veils. The cust ,m continued although the feeling behind it changed into a rale of modesty and obedience. The Trousseau can be directly. traced back, to the barter -price, purchase -price, and dowry sys- tems. Throwing Old Shoes after the bridal party stems from a cus- tom among the 'ancient Assyri- ans and Jews. When a bargain was made, a man gave his sandal as an indication of good faith. A shoe was the symbol of authority. When the Anglo-Sax- ons hurled a shoe, it indicated that authority had been trans (erred. Some authorities believe that the throwing of a shoe can be traced to the missiles which the bride's father hurled at the robber caveman. Happy Surprise For Ocean Voyager Mrs. Elsie D. Cox of Mahatta, Vancouver Island, has never for- gotten the day in 1929 when she sailed from Southampton, Eng- land, to live in British Columbia. Nor is Mrs. Cox likely to for- get the recent day when .she arrived in Southampton on her first visit to,England since leav- ing there 32 years ago. When Mrs. Cox sailed from Southampton in 192,9 she clasped a bouquet of red roses that her family had given her as the last goodbyes were said. Then early this year, Mrs. Cox, whose husband died in 1959, de- cided it was time to visit Eng- land. Before she left Mahatta for Montreal and hte ocean crossing in the liner Saxonia, Mrs. Cox bought a bouquet of red plastic roses. "For sentimental reasons!" she confided to her long-time friend, Mrs, Louise Haugland of Mahat- ta River. Then, unknown to Mrs, Cox, Mrs. Haugland arranged with the Cunard Line to have a bou- quet of fresh, red roses presented to her friend aboard the Saxonia. as the liner berthed in South- ampton on June 9. Cunard carried out Mrs, Haug - land's instructions and • as Mrs Cox prepared to go ashore, a ship's official presented the sur- prised and delighted Mrs. Coat with a dozen red roses, Attached was a card bearing good wishes from Mrs. Coat's friends in Mahatta, As a finishing touch to the happy occasion, press photogra- phers, a television remera craw and a reporter from one of Bri- tain's national w^"ten's maga. tines intervice ed livid a. COX. A Grand Occasion For The Ke11ys The mists, foamed around Croagh Pabrick — the holy mountain Where Saint Patrick himself liad prayed and fasted for 40 days and nights — on the day that young John Kelly left the sold sod. He was 20 then, a ruddy -faced lad with a cloth cap and a battered- Brunk. Vier the last time, he looked at the stone -floored cottage where he had been reared, Then he trudg- ed an to the village alt West -- p est -p o r t,- scarcely hearing the scream of, gulls as they swept in off Clew Bay. Lilce many an- other lad, John Kelly was leav- . ing for America, and there were dreams in his eyes. In the course of tyro genera- tions, John Kelly's ten children and their children made those Irish dreams come true, This month Ireland got its first took at the most famous of all John Kelly's descendants — a grand- daughter, Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco, re- turning to Ireland with her Prince and throwing the 50,000 Kellys into an uproar. Outnumbered only by the Murphys, but now twice as noisy, the Kellys fumed over a strike by theater employees, whi.cth would prevent ex -actress Grace from seeing Dublin's plush Theater Royal, There was con- cern too over how President Eamon De Valera and other dig- nitaries might comport them- selves in welcoming a royal chief of state for the first time since the Irish republic was esta- blished. Down in the late Jahn Kelly's native County Mayo, in prepar- ation for an informal visit by Princess Grace, her husband Prince Rainier, and their two children, Albert and Caroline, the cottages were getting' fresh coats of whitewash, The Kelly clan prepared a welcome in the presbytery of the Westport Ca- tholic Church, but this brought up the problem of who would shake the royal hand and mono- polize the royal ear. "If she shakes hands with every Kelly around here," one villager ob- served, "she won't get away for two years." The key to these problems was held by one of the Princess' se- cond cousins, who possesses the only extant record of the Kelly family tree. According to her, there are only ten bona fide second cousins of Grace's in all the county, and they would get special treatment, "no matter if there are people who think they can't be left out of things." At the thatch -roof cottage where John Kelly once lived, there waited a new owner, an apple-cheeked widow who wears gingham gowns and hobnailed boots. "I'll have a plain tea a -n my own soda bread and ealces before the hearth," size said. She also had prepared a welcoming verse: She comes to Ireland for her grandfather's sake. And to visit lois gottage down by the lake, The widow was sure that the Princess would call 00 her be- cause a gypsy told her years ago: "A beautiful woman will visit you from Europe, and her all dripping with diamonds," - From NEWSWEEK, TV Turtle / reavta V U N2E Protect the furniture, and delight youngsters with this gay cushion that's perfect for TV! Use thrifty scraps — the brighter, the better — for this plumply padded TV turtle. Pat- tern 504: pattern pieces; direc- tions for 151x19 -inch cushion. 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 Tor- onto, Oat. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME arid ADDRESS. JUST OFF THE PRESS! Send now for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, em - braider, quilt, weave — fash- ions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits. 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