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The Seaforth News, 1962-01-18, Page 6Lovely Princess Makes Great Tour "Alexandra the Great,",Prin- cess Alexandra is being styled In Britain. She has earned the title en a asked six -weeks tour of the FarEast w here she represented Queen Elizabeth II, All reports point to the Queen's cousin as having done a "mag- nificent job," Her good looks, youth, and gaiety, as On former tours, have infused royal pomp and p r o t o. c o l with refreshing spontaneity. The daughter of the elegant Princess Marin a, Duchess 01 Kent, the princess wears a head - Sear/ as easily as a tiara, In the same way fun and formality characterize her tours, In Hong Kong she represented, Queen Elizabeth II as patron of the university at its golden jubi- lee celebrations. She received the honorary degree of doctor of law and later opened the new student union building. In between the formal recep- tions she drove a train, took a tramcar in the rush hour, and rode the ferry in Hong Kong harbor after placing a coin in the slot to buy her own ticket, Sailing in the governor's yacht among the islands in the harbor the princess enjoyed two of her favorite sports — water skiing and swimming. Back on the job the princess received a boisterous welcome when she attended a mammoth party given in her honor by Chinese welfare' organizations representing a million people working for refugees, Even "on duty" the princess's gaiety breaks through. Her pic- tures show a princess enjoying herself whether using chopsticks in Hong Kong, sitting on the floor of a Japanese style meal it Kyoto, or eating pieces of boiled sheep with her fingers at a luncheon given by Arab chiefs in a tent in the Arabian desert. On leaving Hong Kong the prieess flew to Tokyo where as the guest of Emperor Hirohito and the Empress Nagako she was the first member of the Brit- ish royal house to be received in the Imperial Palace since 1929. The Emperor wore the Order of the Garter for the first time since World War II. The princess paid her hosts a delicate compliment by wearing dresses with an Ori- ental thence. In Kyoto, the ancient capital Ultra -Easy! PRJNTED PATTERN 4776 SIZES 12-20 t ,441kte. Gi$94 This dashing, side - buttoned wrap is the season's most ap- plauded casual! Sew it swiftly, sash it smartly with a quick tie —it has no waist seams, Choose cotton, surah, faille, Printed Pattern 4776; Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 15 takes 4 yards 35 -inch fabric, Send FIFTY CENTS (stanvps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STILE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St„ New Toronto, Ont. FALL'S 100 BEST FASHIONS —separates, dresses, suits, en- oembles, all sizes, all in our new Pattern Catalog in color, Sew for yourself, family. 350. Ontario residents must inolude Ito Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered, There is tie sales tax on the patterns, ISSUE 52 — 1961 of Japan she stayed at the Oinlya Paine normally reserved for the exclusive use of the imperial family, At a reception she met the elder statesman, Mr. Husitida, pre-war Ambassador to Britain and Bernard Leach, the British pottery artist, The princess also paid a pri- vate visit to her friends King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand whom site visited on a former occasion and who came on a state visit to London in 1980. At Aden the princess took tine salute at a trooping the color ceremony of the 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment. "Going. Steady" At • Twelve Years Old! How early do American young- sters begin dating? A lot earlier than most parents think, a Pennsylvania sociologist who has been studying pre -teen dating habits .reports in the cur - Tent edition of PTA Magazine. "We even found fourth graders who dated," said Carlfred B. Broderick, professor of family relationships at Penn State Uni- versity. "We may have to go down to the second grade to find a 'dateless' class. "Ten years ago dating was con- sidered an adventurous and unu- sual activity for a 12 -year-old," Dr. Broderick explained, "Today teachers in many communit}es across the nation report that some 9 -year-olds are beginning to date and 12 -year-olds are, go- ing steady, In one middle-class school district that we studied, 40 per cent of the fifth graders (mostly 10- and 11 -year-old chil- dren) had started to date." Broderick, a father 02 live, based his observations on inter- views with 264 youngsters in a small Georgia city (sample ques- tion: "Have you ever kissed a boy?"). On the strength of his preliminary findings, the U.S. Public Health Service has given him $25,000 for a full-scale inves- tigation of pre -teen dating in three types of connnunities in Pennsylvania — upper -middle- class suburban, depressed urban, and rural. "Our hunch," said Dr. Broderick, "is that children in middle-class towns are more pre- cocious than those in poorer areas, But sooner or later, every community will have to contend with the phenomenon" While the 29 -year-old Broder- ick believes there's a bright side to early dating (it gives young- ters "a chance to develop poise, social skills, and self-assurance"), he feels the negative aspects far outweigh the positive, His major objection is that too -early dating often leads to too -early marriage. "Of course it would be foolish to suppose that every boy or girl who starts dating in elementary school will end up in some kind of difficulty," he said. "There doesn't seem to be much doubt, though, that early deters are more likely than others to become involved in difficulties," To prevent these problems, Professor Broderick advises pa- ents to work through the PTA and other groups to get a collec- tive agreement to "at least not encourage premature pairing off," Just what can the individual parent do? Not much.' "My 8 - year -old girl came home crying the other day because the boy with whom she is 'madly in love' told her he likes some other girl,' Professor Broderick said. "To tell the truth I didn't know how to handle the situation," —From NEWSWEEK Bernard Shaw On Parliament "I think that the real function of Parliament in this country is to prevent anything being done by endlessly talking about it, Parliament reminds me of a lo- comotive engine, but a locomo- tive engine made in a peculiar way. You know a modern loco- motive is attached to 75 trucks with 10 tons of coal in each, and it has to move the lot. In order to do that, there must be an enormous pressure of steam in the cylinders to make the wheels go round with all that weight against them. To prevent that pressure from blowing the boiler to bits there is a hole in the boiler which is closed with a spring strong enough to resist the pressure needed to move the train; but if the pressure goes beyond that the spring lifts and the steam evaporates, This ,:un- trivance is called a safety valve, Now, the only difference be- tween the parliamentary locomo- tive and the engineers' locomo- tive is that the safety valve in the parliamentary locomotive is made so extremely weak that it blows off in hot air before .there is the slightest possibility of the train moving at all." — From "Platform and Pulpit" Sign in antique shop — "Yen think this ix Junk? Cetna in and price it." BEAUTY OFF-DUTY—Just sitting around home catching up with school work, Martha Sissell is still pretty at a picture. The 18 -year-old student was named queen of the New Year's Day Tournameht of Roses. HIdONICLES ioLiGandNG 1RFABM ne D. Cles4a Well, we have just come through an experience that comes every so often, generally once in two years. I am referring to civic elections. It got pretty hot around here last week - phone calls, elec- tion cards in the mail or deliver- ed by hand. Candidates calling and one neighbourhood meeting to see and talk with a would-be council member, We went along with i all and go quite .a kick out of it -until I was asked to act as a scrutineer. That little office l declined. I have done my share at that sort of thing - now 1 think l am entitled to sit back and watch • others at it. Partner always takes a lively interest in any election - civic, provincial or federal - but he never campaigns for any particu- lar party. He likes to be free to attend meetings on either side; to ask questions and to express his views, which don't always coin- cide with those of the person running for office! That doesn't mean Partner makes a habit of sitting on the fence. It just means that he has an open mind concerning the issues at stake. One thing neither of us can stand - that is apathy on the part of so - called electors. Partner will often say and do things just to start an argument that he hopes will make his friends and neighbours take more in- terest in what is taking place. Really it is amazing the number of young mar r le d couples who don't bother to vote. But yet they have plenty to say among themselves about what the council does or doesn't do . . why don't they give us better loads; Why don't they bring the sewerage through; why are res- idential areas so often rezoned commercial; why are we taxed for improvements that are only of benefit to those living on the other side of the township; why shouldn't we have more im - provements here? You have doubtless heard the same thing over and over. Then comes an election. How many of those who complain the loudest turn out to vote? You know the answer as well as I do - but 1 do hope YOU are not one of the non - voting complainers! Well, although electioneering and voting is to all intents and purposes a serious business yet it also has its funny side, Al a Ward meeting that we went to the candidate, in answer to a specific question, was trying to think in what year the pre.e.mt slump began. Partner said with a laugh - "When the Conserv- atives got in!" He didn't marry mean to make a loaded obseri a - tion - it was just a quip 'to raise a laugh - which it certainly did. At home Partner and 1 had been arguing about the candi- dates and their policies and as you know it is generally taken for granted that a husband and wife will vote the same way. But Partner and 1 didn't • al- though Partner didn't know it until 1 told him. He was quite amused. Now 1 must see to it that he doesn't broadcast the fact otherwise the neighbours may wonder whom they can trust - especially with the possibility of a federal election coming up. Another matter around here that is providing plenty of dis- cussion is a "fall -out shelter". Our doctor is building one in his own backyard, This doctor orginally came from Central Europe. He has first hand know- ledge of the horrors of war' and is quite convinced that Khrushchev means business, also that Canada is sadly lacking in defence preparations, therefore every man should take means to protect his own home and family He said to me - "Mrs. Clarke, the situation has become so serious that only God can save us." "And why not?" I asked. "God created mankind why not place your faith in Him? Do you think He will be content to let what He has created be destroyed by an evil genius? Personally 1 would rather trust my Creator than the strongest fall -out shelter made by man•" Perhaps 1 am wrong. Perhaps • in our flagrant disregard of Divine Law we are inviting dis- aster and the near extinction of the human race. A certain meas- ure of punishment may be com- ing our way but I cannot believe the Western world will be wiped out and the Communists allowed to triumph. Well, my immediate problem is dishing up a hot dinner which today is quite an adventure. Ad- venture? Yes. For the first time in years I've made a Yorkshire pudding. Will it be like Mother used to make or a dismal failure? We love roast beef and Yorkshire pudding but I lacked the courage to try it. I'll add a postscript later. P.S. The pudding was quite a success !I! 'Don't worry what people think of you — they seldom do. Nylon Snow For Indoor Skiing The biggest muscle - bending craze since trampolines may well turn out to be indoor skiing—if the bankroll of entertainment entrepreneur G, David Schine, Inc„ is really smart money. The former McCarthy sleuth, whose Schine Enterprises encompasses thirteen hotels and 04 movie theatres, recently bought a solid interst in Ski-Dek,. Inc., a firm that has developed a "mechanical conveyor belt, set at an eignteen-• degree slope and covered with a deep -pile white nylon carpet on which skiers may frolic indoors, somewhat hi the manner of a squirrel on a treadmill, The invention of Aspen ski - instructor Ray Hall, who thought it up while nursing a broken leg, the Ski-Dek until now has been little more than a curiosity at sports shows and on television. But this month, Schine plans to open the -world's first Ski -Dere center in a Buffalo movie -house --and, he emphasized the other day as he watched ski pros *slith- er down the rug at -the Winter Sports Show in New York, "this ie just the beginning!' "By the end of next year," Sohine promised, "we'll have six more ski centers—in Boston, New York, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami Beaeh." Ultimately, Schine hopes to have "1,000 franchised operators" and he figures the annual net yield for each will be $150,000. The Buffalo installation will have only, nine moving carpets (Schine plans centers with up to 50 units), and will accommodate 102 skiers simultaneously; Cram- med into what was once the Schine Riverside Theatre, which will get appropriate Alpine mur- als, the centre will cost about $300,000. Customers will • pay $1.75 an hour for use of the car- pet and rental of skis, boots, and poles, and 75 cents for each ad- ditional hour. The ebullient Schine; who points out that a Ski-Dek in the middle of a city eliminates the need for paying lift fares and travel, hotel, and equipment costs, views his newest acquisi- tion with nearly religious fervor. "This will mean more skiers, and more proficient skiers," he said happily. "This will help the physical fitness of the nation; It will be a new common denom- inator between people!" Amazing Zoom Of Paperback Books According to figures of the book trade, Americans are buy- ing paperbacks ,at a rate of al- most a million a day. In just 18 months, the number of paperback titles has zoomed from 6,500 to 13,900. So many of the new titles are "serious" that they axe sweeping the college campuses and .show- ing up in more dominant manner wherever paperbacks are sold. Not only are they cheaper than the hard -book covers, for some reason many people consider them easier to read, The paperback is not new. Half a century or more ago it was SALLY'S SALLIES ' "What are you realty looking. for? A marriage certificate? possible to buy paper -boned re - Inlets, many of which sold as low as 10 eents a copy. Many of the paperbacks then were "thril- lers" which weren't considered of sufficiently lasting value 10 jas- tify a permanent binding, .,• But the paperback arrived In k big way only a deeade or two ago, originally prospering be cau;.e it s.c:.zd up titles already well known. At the start of their revival they went in extensively for lurid covers even when the contents were anything but lurid. There were those of that era who asscciated paperbacks with "trash," which was only partially justified, In due course the pub- lisliers found they had a broader market than they had suspected, People who never got around to reading the hard -cover product experimented with the soft-cover. variety and, enjoying both the contents and price, carne back for, more. Now original titles, not pre- viously published in any other form, are appearing in the paper- backs. Thus Frank Merriwell and his successors in the tripe school of paperbacks are being joined by serious novels and many a volume of high repute on the lists for classroom and extracur- ricular use in high schools and: colleges. In our time `culture, bless its heart, marches on reli- ably and more economically in the paperbacks. — Muskegon (Mich.) Chronicle Toss Pillows Use these pillows in a "rec" room — or give them to young- sters to decorate their beds! 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