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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-08-31, Page 2No Moth el' -Rn i,. Trouble !dere! After a Brazilian Indian of the 1Veatto Grosso tribes marries he is never allowed to speak to his mother-in-law; Custom demands that he brings home a gift for her when- ever he goes hunting or fishing. He lays this at her feet, but she mustn't thank him direct, only through her daughter. And he says to the wife: "Tell your mother it is a pleasure" — to avoid addressing her person. ally. This rule was apparently laid down by a tribal chief tired of hearing complaints about mo- thers-in-law from his warriors. He decided to stop family squab- bles once and for all by forbid- ding all talk between them. So says Andrea Bayard, the only young woman with a twelve -man film unit exploring the jungle, in her book "Brazil- ian Eden." Miss ,Bayard was told of can- nibal tribes which it was still impossible to approach. When they captured, more than one victim they killed only the one they Intended 'eating first, The others they paralyzed from the waist down with a Blew on the spine from an iron-vRuir t club. They wore then kept in g hut and given food and water '. until needed for the pot. ' For a girl of nineteen Miss Bayard had some stirring adven- tures in this wild, remote jungle country. She records them vivid- ly. Service Helps Cut Poison Deaths So many children are being ac- cidentally poisoned in their own homes that an emergency, round- the-clock "poison service" may be set up in Britain shortly. The alarming increase in child - poisoning is due to the fact that -hundreds of new preparations are being used today — cleaning fluids, detergents and "do-it- yourself" materials. In addition, many kinds of tab- lets are left lying around which children are tempted to pick up and swallow. Under the proposed service a frightened mother could dial POI for advice if her child swallowed something which might be dan- gerous. France already has such a ser- vice. Not a day passes without Fe of emergency' calls coming from all parts of Europe for elp in identifying obscure poi- e�00ns or for antidotes, if they 4xist. So far the poison specialists at e French Medical Centre on e Rue de Faubourg in Paris ave not been caught out, despite he fact that sometimes up to a undyed calls are received daily. In some cases the type of poi- e�Don is not known to the caller. Ilea Britanny recently, a young Wean, jilted by his girl, swallowed ,some• form of poison which be- e= to corrode the roof of his Mouth. The doctor could not decide what poison it was and he called tap the Centre for advice. "While I wait on the telephone, Vonsieur le Docteur, you go to. the patient and take a small ie lece of blotting paper, roll it t the form of a matchstick d rub the point over the pa- nt's tongue and come back sir and tell me what you sec,"said the expert in Paris. The doctor was back in a mo- Ment. "The blotting paper has. turned yellow-orange," he said. "Alt," said the expert, "now we. know what he has taken!" The expert dictated an anti- dote and told the local doctor to hurry because the poison would start acting on the nervous eye tern in a few minutes. The pa- tient recovered. One of the most curious of re- cent calls was received by radio from a French cargo vessel. A seaman had caught some fish while the ship was at anchor off a port in Madagascar. Five days out at sea the cook prepared some of them, Some men were taken violent ill. The poison expert was told that the fish blew up like a bal- loon when taken from the water. "Your men have eaten a rare fish Which is highly poisonous," said the expert. "Now listen care- fully „ ." are -fully,,," The ship's master took down the instructions and medicines - were administered, After six. hours the men began to recover. Should Plane Seats Face Backwards ? A fairly substantial intramural fight developing in the aircraft industry is the value of back- ward -facing seats in planes. There is some evidence to sup- port the theory that placing the seats opposite to the direction of flight could save lives. In the Boston plane crash that killed 62 people, about 20 of the vic- tims died from head injuries caused by impact with the food trays which are stored in zip- pered pockets in front of the passengers, At the point of im- pact, these victims hit the plastic trays hard with their foreheads. Many of them had legs broken by crashing against the seat in front. The evidence accumulated after the crash suggests that the majority of these injuries might not have occurred if the passen- gers had been facing the rear. The assumption is that the weight of the body would have been much moreeasily absorbed by the back of the seat. The argument over whether this is or isn't • an urgent job that needs to be done now cen- . tres around the airlines. Some' military transport commands are reported adopting the practice, but the airlines may be shying away. Their argument is: It would not be popular with our passengers. Mormons Stage Great Spectacle A legendary city was demol- ished, A young boy was offered in sacrifice. The prophet Abinadi was burned at the stake. Kings and crowds, pagan dancers and fierce warriors, priests and pro- phets — hundreds of costumed Mormons — swarmed over the green side of Hill Cumorah, 23 miles east of Rochester, N.Y., recently. It was the nineteenth annual renewal of the pageant celebrating the Book of Mormon (scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) at. the very place where, in 1823, Joseph Smith said he found the golden tablets on which the book is based. There were more actors (350) and spectators (100,000 at the four freeshows) than ever be- fore. Stereophonic tape carried the music of the Salt Lake Tab- ernacle Choir, the actors' voices, and the sound effects—including a thunder -making "rotatorion," an octagonal box full of croquet balls and marbles, Judging from the dapper at- tire of the cowboys and lawmen In television adaptations of the Old West we assume there must have been many branches of Brooks Brothers, Nieman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue in those old pioneer towns of Deadwood Gulch, Laramie, and Dodge City. A WEE BIT HOT — Diana Lynn Askin and her father tried is escape the heat by going to d nearby, city pool. Her* the 2 - month -old type found that she could relax and catch up on a little sleep, too, in the sun. HOT FOOT — This youngster found that New York streets get hot in the summer sun. They just aren't conducive to running tborefoot. Thus, he hotfooted it over to a fountain in Wash. ing Square to find relief. Russia has just succeeded in sending her second man into orbit, Well, that's too big a sub- ject for this columnist to tackle. We'll stick to homelier topics. Last week Dee was in Toronto for a few days on business. She was herefor a little while Tues- day evening. Of course she had plenty to say about their first month's holiday at the cottage — plus her continual run of vis- itors.. During the conversation she said _ "Did you hear about Dave knocking himself out?" "Heavens, no — what happen- ed?" "Well, • Dave and Jerry had gone among the trees and rocks Pocket It! Gaf SetW4Wheal& Turn a pair of towels into a marvelous gift for hostess or bride via easy, easy crochet. 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After that she didn't waste any time before running off to where they had been playing. She found Dave on his feet but look- ing somewhat bewildered as he said - "Mummy, I think I went to sleep." What happened was this: To make a tent Dave had weighted down each corner of the blanket on to a rook with another rock — and then crawled under the canopy. One rdck slipped and bopped him on the head. Ob- viously it knocked him out. That was when Jerry came home and said Davey was dead! What a scare children can give you at times. It's a wonder so many grow up to be adults. Or that parents survive the shocks. On the other hand some people are so fussy it's a marvel how they can bear to go on living. They should have some kind of insulation. Here is a sample. I was talking to .a young married woman about swimming. She told me she found it much easier swimming in the lake than in a swimming pool. "Yes," I agreed, "and it is easier still swimming in the sea. The buoyancy of the waves just carries you along." "I suppose so — but then after swimming in salt water you have to wash yourself off." "You what?" I exclaimed. "Wash yourself off , , you know, on account of the salt water. It isn't good for the skin," By that time I was almost speechless. I couldn't believe she was serious, Imagine any- one, after taking a chance in a public pool — however well looked after — thinking for one minute that more risk is involv- ed when swimming in the sea. The sea, with its vastness and depth; its minerals, and nature's own system of purification. Why would it be, necessary "to wash yourself off"? Where in the name of wonder do people get such fantastic ideas? And speaking about ideas ev- eryone seems to be talking about ESP these days — extra -sensory - perception, That is, knowing things by intuition, receiving telephatic information from those you love, or being forewarned in dreams of impending disaster. i suppose everyone, more or less, has a sort of sixth sense. I know I have had one major experience and any number of miner ones, I often know what people are going to say ahead of time or, I ":lam ^al - [ill when reading a book, what the answer will be to any given question. Last Thursday, for instance, While shopping I looked around for something for Sunday night supper as I expected Bob and Joy would be here as usual, and I like to have a hot meal for them at night. But on Thursday I' thought — "Oh, I'll just have something cold, AFTER ALL THEY MAY NOT COME". That was really an, odd .thought be- cause they have been coming every other Sunday without fail, winter and summer, spring and • fail, Anyway I decided on cold ham. and green salad. So what happened? Sunday morning we got a telephone call from ,Toy friends had invited them out to lunch, would it be all right if they carne to see us on Monday instead! (Civic Holiday). You will agree it wasn't a mattes' of earth -shaking importance but yet it is little . instances like that, happening quite frequently, that strike me as "being somewhat uncanny. I expect there are dozens of my readers who have had similar experiences, And the major experience I referred to .. , I knew exactly • when 'my mother died although we were three thousand miles apart, I felt sick and didn't know why — until the cable from England came next day. How People Speak In Old Kentucky The people of the Cumberlands are largely of English and Scotch- Irish blood. Woodrow Wilson stat- ed that in these mountains could be found the original stuff of which America was made, Cecil J. Sharp, the Britishfolk-song authority, writes that, although many of these people are unedu- cated, they "possess that elemen- tal wisdom, abundant knowledge and intuitive understanding which only those who live in con- stant touch with nature, and face to face with reality, seem to be able to acquire." Their, speech is flavored with many of the words which Shakes- peare used, and with those found in the King James translation of the Bible, Some of these, expres- sions may also be heard in "hill- billy" spots of western Kentucky, where the earliest settlers had the same Anglo-Saxon heritage and were isolated en the far rug- ged side of the Green, the Cum- berland, and the Tennessee, or near the Obey River. Here certain of the older folk "allow" that such -and -such is so. They say something is "right smart" this or that, They greet you with an invitation to come in and "set a spell" or "take the - night." They are feeling "peart" or "right tol'able," or "fair to middlin'," unless they have the "misables." They are "geared" or "beholden," as the case may be. They "fetch -an -carry," and they "holp" one another. Salad is "sallet," just as it was in olden times, and a bag is a "poke." "Clumb" is the past tense of climb and "et" is used for ate, as it often is in England ,and Can- ada. There is a certain charm about these archaic expressions, a nos- talgic and atavistic race memory, perhaps, which 'unites us with our forebears and makes us feel a closer kinship to them, as well as to these, our neighbors who are proud to be addressed, when aged, with the ancient courtesy ..title of "Aunt" and "Uncle" — a title of accorded dignity and re- spect due their gray heads and mature philosophy. —From "Old Kentucky Country," by Clark McMeekin, Modern Etiquette Ity Arnie Ashley. Q. Is It proper for a nten, dining in a restaurant with his wife, to rise when another' couple stops at their table for a few wtn'dS? A. lie must always rise When a woman stops at his table. Q. I thanked each guest per- sonally for the gifts they gave me at a Surprise birthday party in my honor. Now am I supposed to write each one a thank -you note? A. This is not necessary. Q. Is it all right for a man to smoke a. cigar at a social func- tion, oven though all the other guests are smoking cigarets? A. There is nothing at all wrong with a cigar at any affair where other people are smoking. Q. I am working and earning a good salary, while the boy with whom I gd steady is still in col- lege and doesn't have much mon- ey to spend. Is It all right for me. occasionally to treat him to some entertainment? A. This is quite all right Oc- casionally you may say you have tickets for this or that affair. Don't embarrass him, however, by paying for the tickets while he is present! Look! Jiffy -Cut PRINTED - - _ . b ...N 4784 SIZES 12-24 Afik 41.4 4,4 JIFFY -CUT blouses. Pin pat- tern to fabric—presto! Cut out complete blouse instantly. Top off all your skirts, shorts, slacks. Printed Pattern 4784: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size la top style 11 yards 35 -inch; mid- dle 134 yards; lower 11/2 yards.' Jiffy -cut in one piece. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot beaccepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME. ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. 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