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The Brussels Post, 1958-11-05, Page 2:PA GILDED. CAGE A Any bird looking for ,p gilded cage should wing to builder. Vittorio falchi, who puts the finishing touches to a gilded pagoda in Rome.. The craftsman sells his cages for about $100. a?""11"1"",," • eeesft‘W,/r.dsiIi0.(404 HRONICLES 219,REAR. ON: ONNA • '' • In the autumn of 1928, a frog Meet of mold drifted down out. of a dull. London sky and floated through the open window or Alexander Fleming'a modest lab oratory in St. Mary's. .I:lospitai, Coming to nest an a lab dish, the mold ruined one of the Scot- fish scieetiet'e most promising staphyleeoecus, A e Fleming • started to throw the plate away. he noticed a strange green forge • ment, In his notebeole he wrote:. "FM. some considerable distance. around the mold growth, staph colonies were undergoing lysis (being dissolved)." Fleming's. mold was Fenicil- Bum notatuni, the miracle sub- stance which, in the last three • decades, has saved the lives of millions throughout the world. At the sixth annual symposium on antibiotics in Washington,. D.C., last month, Sir Howard Florey, 60,' the stocky„ floind Oxford University pathologist who was knighted with the late Dr. Fleming for their work on. penicillin, beaded the obaery ante of the 30th anniversary of the accidental opening of the. antibiotic age. Fleming, according to Dr. Florey, was "a master tactician with lab retort and pipette," but. no chemist and unfamiliar with animal experimente His prec, ions mold languished in labora- tories for five years until Florey happened to reread a paper pub- lished by Dr. Fleming in 1929. describing his discovery. Florey and an Oxford colleague, Dr. Ernest Chain, finally accumulat- ed several hundred milligrams of penicillin, which in animal ."Peer, Anne Hirst: We have always been very close to my husband's family, and Visited back and forth all the time, Lately, though, they seem to have changed their attitude to- ward me, and I =met under- stand why. "His mother tells me little un- pleasant things about her other children, and quotes tales they've told about me. (I am sure she discusses my faults, and perhaps they are getting even.) made the mistake of telling my husband about it, and now he doesn't ask me to go to see them; I do know that he misses going himself, too, Do you think he is waiting for me to suggest it? I dread that, for I don't feel at home there now. "If resumed our visits, do you thick they might treat me as they used to? Or shall I con- tinue to stay away from them? WORRIED WIFE" * Whether she likes it or not, • when a girl marries she mar- • ries her husband's family too. * One of her important duties * is to get along with them — * as you, I hope have decided to * do. * When a man is as devoted to * his people as your husband, * you as his wife dare not be • unfriendly. Make up your * mind to admire what virtues * they have, and overlook their * faults. Since this unhappy sit- ' uation has come about do all * you can to overcome it. • Suggest to your husband * that you resume your accus- e tomed visits. While there. try' * to forget all your mother-in- * law said; you do not ?mow her • source, so take it for granted * that the others still feel kind- * ly toward you, Winning their * good will is essential to your * husband's peace of mind. If * further unfortunate comments * are made, overlook them de- ' liberately. This is easier than you * think. .Your letter (which I • had to condense) reveals a • sympathetic and understand- • ing nature that will stand • you in good stead. Take it for * granted from now on that they ' still like you, and play up to • the idea. I think they cannot * help but respond. * * HE'S NOT FOR YOU "Dear Anne Hirst: You advis- ed two friends of mine, and they appreciated it. Now will you please tell me what to do? I am in love with a boy I met two months ago at an outing. My mother liked him at first, but now she has found out that he drinks a little, so she won't let Easy-to-Sew ,PRINTED pATTERN 4592 SIZES 10-20 rte. 4404 Our smart Printed Pattern—a new version of your favorite step-in dress, This tailored sheath is a wonderfully becom- ing style for every figure. Easy sewing directibris are printed on.each pattern part, .Printed Fifteen 4592: Misses' Sizes 10, .12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 3 yards 54-inch. Printed directiorie on can pat- tern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (500 (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note fox, .ad,3r) foie thiS patterh Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER, Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Iltea 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. me date him. I have to go out see him, and I don't like to, 'Ile has asked. .me to marry him, 41t 1 t. ply ),0- so how can I without: me mother's consent? I've, met his family, .and they all think. l'r A nice girl alret prove of ear marrying; What eat 1 do? .IIEARTBRORRN.' You. w* have to e*** this * boy y04 will not see him again, 0 until he has won your moth- * er's.. appreval.. If he really * cares for you, lie will stop this * drinking and prove to be 4 worth . considering as a bus- * band, * A boy his age who drinks * is not a fit companion for a • nice eel., and if you hadn't fallen in love with him you * Would. think so, too. Your • * mother knows this, and I agree. * with her. Your only course is to obey her to the letter. *. One of a wife's- initial. respon- sibilities is. to stay friendly with her in-laws, painful as it some- times is. She will overlook un- pleasant straits and cultivate the happy ones,, and so keep her bus-. band conscious. of her good will. Anne Hirst will help you, too, if you write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Modern Etiquette by Roberta Lee Q. What are the courses that make up a formal dinner? A. There are five or more courses. First, oysters or clams on the half shell, or canapes, or other light relish; or grapefruit, fruit cup, or melon. Second, soup. Third, fish. Fourth, game or roast with two vegetables. Fifth, salad. Sixth, dessert, fol- lowed by fruit, nuts, candy, and coffee. Q. Lately I have noticed per- sons of apparent refinement us- ing toothpicks at the table. Is this now considered acceptable? A. Most certainly not. Tooth- picks should never be seen in use, at the table or anywhere else. Q. Is it rude for a woman to remain seated while shaking hands? A. No — unless the other is an elderly person and you are a young one. Q. My husband and I were guests at dinner in some friends' home recently and, in order to help my hostess, I stacked my used dishes as I finished eating out of them. My husband says this was incorrect. What is the answer? A. Your husband is right, Al- ways leave your dishes as they are when you finish eating. Q. If it so happens that a bride-elect has already had the opportunity to thank a donor verbally for a gift received, is it still necessary for her to write a note of thanks? A. Yes, and just as soon as possible. Q. When making announce- ments at. a banquet, does the master-of-ceremonies always rise or may lie remain seated? A. If he wishes to exhibit good breeding and courtesy, he will rise for any announcement, no matter how short it may be. Q. I have received a set of steak knives as a gift. Is it pro- per for me to use these unmatch- ing knives with my regular sterling silver forks and spoons? A. It is quite proper to sub- stitute steak knives for the reg- ular silver knives when serving steak. — Any way you =mm I took at it, shapely Marilyn Monroe a cinch to dank, mai. moviegoets his esit site Wears In her rieW rriovi*, "Sortie Late It Hot," A Miracle— And. A Regret EYE CATCHING — Playing hide- and-seek among the tall reeds of Southern France, shapely Sidonie Paquin, 17, proves a standout in the beauty depart- ment. The Paris-born lovely, re- sembling Brigilte Bardot, hopes to become an actress. tests "brought staggering good results" on a wide variety of stubborn germs. But Florey's mold filtrates`con- tained only tiny amounts of penicillin — less than enough to cure one sick human being. It was during a visit to the U.S. in 1941 that Florey obtained assurance of large-scale manu- facture by Americana, drug com- panies. Today, more than 2,5 million pounds of penicillin and other antibiotics are produced annually — enough to treat all sufferers from germ infection. Summing up his antibiotic ad- ventures last week, Florey, now a gray-haired baronet engaged in heart research at Oxford has "only one serious regret .. . that I did not, on behalf of my, col- leagues and our laboratory, patent the processes by which penicillin was extracted . . But at that time, the patenting of medicinal substances by medical- ly qualified people was heavily frowned upon in both Great Britain and the United States." As the use of penicillin wideh ed, allergic sensitivitiee appear- ed in some patients, as well a resistance in certain organisms (notably staphylococcus) to the powerful germ. killer, But; Dr. Florey insists,the development of resistance to penicillin is rare, despite the widespread aittiolieitY about 'steph gettrie in heapitels, Staph itself is net resistaitt, Elorey explained, But certain strains; peetidlarly these iii litee pitals, produce an erizythe called penicillinage, which deatroYa penicillin, This is true Only of perdeillin, he added. "The re- listande shown by the staph kei.ni to other antibiotics II genuine 'resistance'; and nOt baSed Oft enzyme adtiVity."' .-Proin NEWSWEEIC Last night I was lying awake for quite awhile and, as one does, 1 was thinking of this thing and' that. And, probably because I had been busy for the past week canning and pickling, I thought how much easier it is now from what is used to be. I thought of pre-hydro days when putting down fruit and tomatoes meant having the kitchen stove going full blast and sweltering in a hundred ',degree kitchen, For us a three-burner oil stove was all right for some things but be- cause it was on the back porch it meant a continual trotting back and forth to the kitchen. I remember, too, how annoyed I used to get in reading over recipes which, nine times out of ten would say — "Set the timer and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350° for -35 minutes." Often I exclaimed, "For heaven's sake, do these magazine publishers think everyone has an electric stove?" Then came the time when we, too, had hydro. I'll never forget the thrill of it. How gladly I substituted the magic switch on the wall for the smelly c]d coal-oil lamps. And yet, can you believe it, that was only thirteen years ago, Since then hydro for rural use has greatly expanded. Even so, I was won- dering in the night how many readers of this column are still without electricity. Not many I hope. But I suppose there are some in outlying districts that the hydro has not yet reached,- But at least they would be dis- tricts where a good supply of Slimmer wood is always avail- able. And you know some people declare that tea always tastes better when the water is boiled over a chip fire. From hydro in general I began thinking of the old threshing days, Ten or fifteen men for at least two days at a time. Two meals a day and the threshers themselves for bed and break- fast. Stacks of pies, cakes and biscuits and a fifteen-pound roast each day — hot for dinner, sliced cold for supper. It makes me 'feel hungry to think of the meat — rich, juicy beef — often our own butchering. After each meat it took at least an hour to clean up the dishes. And then we'd turn around and get ready for the next meal. But there was always help. One or two neigh- bours always phoned and in- quired — "Have you help for our threshing tomorrow — if not I can come over in the morning." Maybe we didn't have hydro, and we certainly didn't have combines but we did have wonderful neighbours. Time passed and farms became more 'and more mechanized, Threshing machines and big threshing meals were on their way out and the human element was pushed into the background. Today I sortie- times think farmers' wives have never' had it so good . but then agalh I sometimes wohdeti The entail hours of the night are a good time fot reviewing situations 'peg and present, In the rush houte of the dee we don't always get the right Oars, isective. Our sense of values gets sort of mixed UP, as it were. Antithet thing I terketribeled WeS a little verse that there of less' outlined hiy philosophy when the going was particularly rugged during the depression days. Here it is — author unknown, "There was a woman who wept because That's the kind of woman she was. Finally sorrow sought her out Gave her something to weep about Then she found weeping inadequate, Took to laughing— And learnt on that." How do you like it? Well, from farming I began • thinking of eur youngest grand- son — a year old today — beating his birthday by walking two days ahead of it. Grandchildren' are wonderful — we enjoy every one, of them — without having the worry and responsibility of continually looking after theni. I thought being a grandmother was a special privilege that every mother looked forward to. Now I'm not so sure. Partner said jokingly to a lady the other day, "Hullo, Grandma, how are you?" The lady was quite an- noyed, said she didn't want to be reminded of the fact that she was a grandmother, it made her feel much too old! And yet the dear soul is already past 70, How inconsistent can you get? Especially in an era when being a grandmother doesn't neces- sarily imply old age. Go to any W.I. meeting or church group and see the smart women there are around, and half of them grandmothers. Yesterday I was talking to an elderly lady of 80 who, until she broke her hip, had been driving her own car. Not that I am in favour of people that age driving a car — there is too much risk involved. When I get to be 80 I shall be quite content for someone else to take over the wheel. For that reason we are - very glad Daughter is seriously thinking of taking driving lessons. Up • to now she has been too busy with babies to even think about it but now she feels the need of being able to get herself around. And we are very glad. Right of the Dying In the long ago, most people , died in their_ own homes with only the fanilIY to attend' theni. Today, the Modetn hospital piece; vides professional •care for -the patient arid relief from pain at , life's end. ,Eut in *this; new way, of dying, "death ,may be robbed its Dr. John J.' Far-' of the University' of Miatrif School of* Medicine; Writes 'in the State—Medical ,Jourtialr of South Careltee, The death •beds I see today • (In Modern hospitals) are not Pertietilarly '''cligfilflet1;" The faM•e fly is shelled out into 'corriL dor, by the .presence—et, intro= venous stands, , suction fnachines,,, oxygen machines, Oxygen, tAnks, and tubes emanating from every natural and gurgle -ally itichieedr orifices, The last Wotde, " 'if the patient.liee not ,been base for the past 48' hours, mask lost behind 'On oxygen Mask "In our pliesttit.of the scientifle aspects of tnedicine, the ,ert eef medicine aerhetirees utijustle fiably suffered „. „ Each One of us /mist strike a latilehee We caiMbt allow' culpable ignorance to Mask itself in the guise of Story Of.A Recd) 17.4.ptipt, From that first, fascinated moment when he watched a street spieler in MinneaPils peddle worthless wrist wo,+4Phes at $5 a throw, 8-year-old Pm/pa Goldbogen realized with the 0,, tuitiveness. of Barnum thee people will believe almost any- thing, and that making them be, sieve was to be his life's. work, Avrumele (little Avrom) forth- with set out on his career by conning the spieler into taking him on as a shill at two bits a clay, The career ended 40 years later after Avrom, known as Mike Todd, hustled millions of people into seeing what has been called the greatest show now on earth — his movie "Around the World in. .80 Days". The years between have been chronicled in "The Nine Lives of.Michael Todd", published this month. It is the week of the late Art Cohn, who died in the plaee crash that killed Todd last March. Cohn worked for Todd for two years in various capaci- ties (one was as scenarist of Todd's projected film version of "Don Quixote"), and he suffered from a pretty severe case of hero worship. If the halo he placed rakishly on Todd's head seems a trifle tarnished, it is only because the showman him- self' wanted no one to consider him anything but unethical. "I'm a hustler and an opportunist," Cohn rather regretfully quotes Todd as saying. "Show business is honest larceny," Todd's talent asserted itself in his early years. He once talked the manager of a movie theater into letting him guard the fire exit to keep kids from sneaking in -free. For the three months Todd was stationed there, he let in his pals for 5 cents apiece. Next he worked for a carny operator, hiding under the table of a ball-throw game and, on cue, tightening the spring in the bottom of the basket so that the balls bounced out and the players went away prizeless. After marrying a girl named Bertha Freshman and making and losing (at 19) a million dol- lars in a construction business that went bankrupt in 1928, Todd drummed up a flame-dance at- traction for the Chicago Ex- position, then produced a show called "Bring en the Dames". He marched on Broadway in 1937, opened a disaster called "Call Me. Ziggy", and fell out of love with Bertha. Next he put Bill (Bojangles) Robinson in a gold suit and starred him in "The Hot Mikado", a smash. It started Todd's Broadway career moving. The hits that followed included "Something for the Boys", "Mexican Hayride", "Up in Central Park", and "As the Girls Go". ' When Bertha died in an acci- dent in 1946, Todd' married actress Joan Blondell, was, di- vorced by 'herin 1950; Vent into baekruptcy (caused in part by gambling debts), and` then snap- ped back , with a theatrical hodgepodge called "Peep Show". After producing , a bust called "The Live Wire", his 16th show, and having .geossed a total of $18 million on Broadway, Todd decided to give it up. He -tackled his first film, "Around the World". Originally budgeted at $3 mil- humanitarianism; but neither can we allow scientific achieve- ment to preclude the right to die' with dignity; which is the right of every man." it ended .cesting twice that much, Cohn relates how Todd. finagled the extra financing; Midway through production, one. magnate offered to buy Todd out leek, stock and rights for VD Million. Todd rejected, it, and on the basis of his refosal.land- ed the loan which let him fini.511 the picture. (Cohn predicted it would gross between $50 million and $100 million.) • Todd's ex- planation of the tactic: "'Chi Welt is ic.tioxving your opponent's hole card, or knowing one more- fact than he.does...I didn't have. a hole card but they thouglft did, which is just as. good at, having one. I knew soMeone- weuld stake a guy who had just: turned down ten million bucks' This.. biography's account of Todd's romance with Elizabeth,. Taylor, finished by -Cohn's wife from his notes, is strictly pulp, fiction stuff, When they met for the first time, Cohn reports, "Miss Taylor" was fearful and • lonely, looking for comfort and solace like A lost, frightened. chid . Between Avrumele and Lizzie .Schwartkopf (Miss Tay, lor's real name), the chemistry was eight." Those vftre Cohn% last written words, 'Jama Dolls. Iff reaute,Witeo, Just a pair of man's socks — a few scraps of fabric, make these cutest 'jama dolls! Boys and girls — all children love them. Pattern 736: pattern for 12- inch dolls and pajamas; pattern of faces. Dolls made of man's size 12 socks; fabric sceaps.. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, 'use postal note for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St e New Toronto, One Print, plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your "NAME and ADDRESS. A NEW 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book, JUST OUT, has lovely designs to order: embroidery, crochet, knitting, weaving, quilting, toys, In ,the book, a special Surprise to make a little girl happy — a but-out doll, clothes to color. Send 25 cents for this book. ISSUE 45 — 197' STARS ON His 'FILM — Ralph kleste dams the' asirOnatiii• 'Ceti edfiieed he built' in tpafe time While' SetVing at FOrt Dix.. Kirale; a native of beiniigi, Poland 'shoots the sun .noon ,statS, ,planets- and Meiti-hriOde "satellites. Tined e xposure of the plan& Jupiter, tap photo, is an example of his Weirla, Photo 'was mad: With teiX filmy expaSeel. for 2Q minutes.