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Stifi Persist
The Siirn auburn-halted Irish
girl spending a late holiday in
London suddenly began to feel
lonely as she sauntered towards
the hotel ballroom where a, Corn-,
petent dance band was playing
the latest sentimental waltz
tune,
She was a good dancer, brit
as she entered the room it Was
clear that male partners were
scarce, Mast of the young men
had obviously brought their Own
companions.
For ten minutes Maureen
watched the dancing, She was
about to return disappointedly
to her apartment when she
glanced through a window and
noticed for the first time a new
moon in the sky. Almost in-
stinctively, she opened her bag
and turned over a feW coins,
superstitiously hoping ,that the
old custom would bring her
luck.
It did—at once. A tall; dark-
haired youth rose from a seat
some ten yards from her, said
something to a girl he was: with
and headed straight foe, Maureen
as the band struck up a foxtrot.
He asked for ,the dance and •^
she was just thinking what an
expert dancer he was when
he said: "You're Irish, I see. I'm
a Scot-, and note a bit super=
stitious, but I was intrigued to
gee you dive' bite 3/but handbag
and turn your money, over aftee.,
you'd glanced up at the moon.
I wonder whether you really
believe that coin business will
bring you luck. Do you?"
"Yes," she said, "I feel
that it, has done so already." '
The implied'aciMplinlent pleas-
ed him. After the dance he in-
troduced her -to his sister and
her fiance. For Maureen the
rest of the evening passed swift-
ly and happily.
Sandy, too, felt curiously elat-
ed ,and as they parted at mid-
night he knew — just as she
did — that' theirs was a case of
love at first sight. And he
eouldn't,help wondering Whether
the new moon had influenced
both of them.
Sandy today is as superstitious
as Maureen. She told him also
of the old belief that .if couples
are photographed together the
engagement will be broken off,
so they agreed to dodge all their
friends' cameras until their wed-
ding day next year.
Like countless other young
men Sandy had never realized
the extent to which love and
courtship — not to mention the
wedding ceremony itself — are
hedged about with qnaint super
stitious beliefs, even in these
sophisticated times.
An attractive Yorkshire lass
says that it's "terribly unlucky"
on one's wedding day to enter
the church by one. door -- •and
leave by another, Another. York-
shire wedding custom was for
a plate of fruit cake to be thrown
from an upper window of the
bride's parents' house as she re-
turned to it from the service.
Should the plate not break,
then the marriage would be dis-
astrous, it was believed. The
more fragments' of broken ,plate,
the happier the marriage.
There's many a pretty country
girl who firmly believes that if
she fails to look at the --moon,
when she leaves her home before
breakfast, she will never be
wooed and wed.
Theres'are West Country girls
who say 'that to give or even
merely to hand your Sweetheart
a knife indoors means that you-
want to break the engagement.
Because you feel you are not
"cut out", for each other?
Lovers in 'many lands declare
that if a couple pluck a twig
from a laurel tree, break it in
two and each, preserve a piece,
they will always remain lovers.,
Scandinavian brides --to - be
would not dream of embroider-
Mg their, lingerie Or household
linen with the initials of their
future name before their wed,
ding. "
Marriage in May ia avoided
by girls in practically every part
of the British, Tsles. register
Office official told me he al-
ways takes a May holiday for
this reason.
Friday, he added, is almost
always a slack day for him, be-
cause Friday Weddings are sup-
posed to herald misfortune. On.
Me Continent many girls are
against Tuesday weddings.
Nonsensical? Perhaps, but once
a love superstition is started no
common-sense arguments can in-
fluence those who believe in it,
Lived In. A 'Tomb
The pit was wide and deep.
In the bottom ,was a coffin of
wooden Weeks, studded with
5,000 sharply pointed nails. Here,
Swami paramayogeshver Bab-
ashrt Ginhari, a 50-year-old, man
with blazing eyes and a scraggly
beard,. was to, prove that India's
"sadhus" or holy men were those
truly gifted with.vast and mystic
powets by Divine Will,
There was a rustle: through the
craved, a rattle of fenders, and a
grinding, of:worn-out- gears as a
taxi pulled up. Out -came the
,sadhu, sweakened from fasting
but elbbwed along by two clis-
„ ciples. eThay remvoeclehis safeepp.
.robe and rubbed off the ver-
*fiiilion" and sandalwood caste
marks;, on his forehead.. In. his
droopy underwear, he walked
• aroundqhe pit three times. Then,
he climbed down into the coffin,
PraYed,, and sat •calmly on the
upturned spikes.- Thd cOffin was.
sealed andnaileci down with an-
other plank; then the entire pit
was covered over with cement.
The crowd looked on in a heavy
silence.
This was on a Saturday and
for the next 24 hours in New
Delhi the sadhu was to 'perform
his 101st burial penance. Trained
in yoga since childhood, he had
performed the Ban Sainacihi pen-
ances (lying on a bed ,of arrow
points) and Jal Samadhi feats
(lying under water). Now,
throwing himself into a trance,,
he was going through the Bhumi
Samadhi ritual (living under-
ground). He was not, •his dis-
ciples ,said, one of the Aghori-
sadhus who stalk the - country-
side carrying spears and knives.
Neither was he one of the Nanga
sadhus who go about naked to
show they have "nothing to
hide". These plagued India's
500,000 villages,' threatening• to
curse families for generations to
come unless they got alms for
their "blessings". This man, the
disciples claimed, was• only seek-
ing divine powers to-use "for the
welfare of the people'''. (He had
already turned down a $150,000
contract to perform his 'burial
;feat Mettle U.S., they said.)
Hours passed. The crowd swell- „
ed to 5,000. These were not un-
sophisticated Villagers but in-
cluded scores of government
employees aid officials aware
that ever since a holy-man tried
the burial performance 'six years
ago (and died), the government'
had tried to curb the sadhus and
their practices. Many had been'
particularly annoyed when eit
took 250 police two days and
eight 'casualties to' break up a'
sadhu ashram, (cornmunal.settle-,*
ment) practicing exotic sexual
rites in the state of Uttar Pra-
desh. Yet, •in a land drenched
in mysticism, they, too, watched
,and, waited:
Precisely, at 4:15 p.m. as the
24 hours ended, the* cement was
'hammered away and: the coffin'
opened. Unconscious, the swami.
recovered when: his hody was
massaged. Women then :rushed
forward to fling flowers at his
feet and the crowd brake into
a hymn. They spread the word
throughout India last month that
his first statement on emerging
from the, pit was: "Good' 'begets
good."
By TOM A. CULLEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
LONDON — (NEA) — The,
British two-seater sports model
—that most raffish of all •motor-
cars—has' lost its go-to-hell look.
In fact, it has gone respectable.
For years the British two-seat-
ers—the Morgans, the,A. C, 13ris-
tols, the Jensens and the M.G.'s
—have been regarded as sym-
bols of everything that is jaunty;
debonair and slightly disrepu-
table. Now they have become
StattiS Symbols.
,Sports car afficionados 'could
see it coming', months. ago. First,
the manufacturers replaced the
beloved fire-engine red,, the ca-
' nary yellow and kelly green with
subtle pastel shades — "pansy
shades," a sporting type would,
call them. Then., they called in
the fashion designers from Milan.
Result is that Britain's rake-.
hell cars-are no' longer rakehell.
They look just like any other
well-dressed motorcar.
Gone are the canvas straps that
kept the hood from rattling. Gone
are 'the bucket seats open to all
types of weather. Gone, too, that'
splendid, worm's eye view of the
world frorri,,behind an' out-size
steering wheel. •
There are exceptions.The beau-
By ROSETTE HARGROVE.
NEA Staff Correspondent
PARIS (NEA) — French
auto makers are out to double
their share of the U.S. market
in the next two years.
'The French designers have
come out with' 'a fistful of 1959
models they're confident will twit
the fandy 'of Americans. The
new cars are 'faster, have simpler
lines, use .even less gas than the
1958 models.
The French brag about their'
"uncluttered exteriors," their
lack 'of tail fins, their' absence of
gadgets, They " claiM their 1959
cars are roomier, in' feel with-
out actually being larger. They
assert these cars will be even
cheaper to maintain than past
models.
The French sold 45 thousand
passenger cars in the U.S. in
1957. They expect to increase
this by, 50. to 60 per' cent this
year, raise exports to the U.S.
in 1959 by another 50. per, cent
over that
The •French •frankly are out to
win the women. They point to
,the scarcity ,of gadgets and the
high-fashion colors used in some
models.
The French this time also have
come out:•with eome radical in-
novations aimed at appealing to
the man or woman "who has
everything."
Citroen's DS 19 Prestige is de-
signed- for the plush. executive.
A soundproof roll-up glass Panel
between the front, seat and the
back gives' the businessman pri-
vacy. He speaks eo. ,the driver
.through, .a microphone hookup
with the front. A radio-telephone
is attached to the rear of the
front seat. •
Renault has a new sports car
called the Floride. The body is
by, the famed Italian designer
Ghia.. The French count • on its
sleek lines, low,cost and sums
plicity:to attract .mericans away
from the fancier highly-chrom-
ed •.American cars. The. Floride
' will sell at a little over $2,000
in France.
There ate Other innovations in
the new French cars. The
Aronde line by Sinica has rubber
shock absorbers on the bumpers.
Siirica's Arlene has seats that
ttnn into a bed for the night.
Renault's new version of its pole-
tiler 4 CV will make 47 miles on
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Panhard's Dyna has smaller-
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Mr. Dow And.
Mr. Jones
The first time t heard a radio
news announcer wind pp his
broadcast with the phrase, "The
Dow-Jones average hit, an all-
time . ." X thought he was,
talking about the Weather, You
can see why this 'story does not
belong on the financial yage.
' If you follow 0 stock mar,
ket, if you know all about puts
and calls . and specialists, you
_knew i all about the Dow-Jones-
average. In a fer-off sort of way
it ,interested the long before I
finally' Sag around and found
but : Abgut "Mr; D9w and Mr.
Jones 'and 'why their "average"
is Important,
How could anyone list a group
of stocks, bounce them around,
take an average and come up
with a pronouncement? Did this
involve certain 'stocks? Were
they the, same stocks every day,
or' did they change from day
to: day, or , week to week? How
many stocks were included? And
were they, preferred or just the
plain old common ones? With
alesayS sonie Wicks going down
and others going up, not neces-
sarily the same ones arid not
even the particular listed stocks
"of Mr. Dow and Mr. Jones, how
could their list be important?
Who made up this list these
days?
Could the. Dow-Jones average
give a true picture of the stock
'market? What eetarted ell this,
anyway?
It didn't take me long to dis-
cover that Charles H. Dow be-
gan his New York career by
conducting a financial news
service about 'the year 1881, go-
ing on from -this to form Dow
Jones & Co. and the Wall Street
Journal. Old records, show- that
Mr. Dow was the first editor and
published, and his part in this
undertaking is history.
But nowhere could I find even
a footnote about Mi. Jones. Af-
ter hours of searching — I was
more interested than ever now—
and when all reference books
had been.exhausted' with still no
mention Of the elusive Mr. Jones,
the statistical department of the
city library began the search.
Did Mr. Jones exist in naive
only? Maybe he - was a silent
partner, or a "ghost." Or did. Mr.
Dow think. it important to have
a partner in his new venture
and just tag on the name of
Jones.
None of these theories was
correct. There ..was a Mr. Jones.
Edward D. Jones, indeed, did
forin Dow Dories & Co. along
with Mr,. Dow in 1882. Before,
they'd worked together as young
men on the Providence "lour- -7
nal, then jdined up in New
York. They • must have been a
colorful pair, JOnes called him-
self a "New England Baptist"
and dubbed Dow a "Connecticut ,
Yankee." I ,wonder what hap-
pened Ice make Mr. Jones retire
'from the'partnership in 1899 and
join another firm as financial
adviser writes Dorothy E., Gates
in The ChristiareSpience Monitor.
The important, thing was to
find what. the bOw-Jones av-
erage meant., A' long- time ago
it was ,diScovered that the' stock
market had a "trend," that the
great body of stocks moved
more or less in unison regard-
less of fluctuations of individual
stocks. Mr. Dow devised , the
idea of using two sets (later in-
creased to three) of averages
which 'have been, continuously
calculated, and published ever
since.
If you will look at the table,
of 'Dow-Jones averages in. the
Wall Street Journal or any of a
group• of pieblications that carry
this service, you will find listed
three sets of stocks. First' a
group of 30 industrial stocks,
then 20 rails and 15 utilities. Util-
ities were not added to 'the group
until 1929. Over the years a few
changes have been made in the
lists, but on the whole they ree
Main relatively the same, in-
cluding such blue- chips as East-
man Kodak, General• Electric,
and United States Steel.
The "rail average" is based on
the price established by.each of
the 20 representative 'railroad
stocks at the final sale of that
stock on any given day, or in
any given hour. It is calculated
by adding 'together these .closing
prices in dollars and cents and
dividing by a certain figure. In,
stead of dividing by 20' as one
might think, a divisor has been
figured out• taking into Consider-
ation the stock splitting of the
original list, any substitutions. or
deletions. This, divieOr is found
in fide print toward the bottom
of the list. It changes from time
to time as the 'capital structure
of one of the corporations chang-
es or When the list is changed,
Which is infrequently.
Tile industrial 'average is et,
lived , at and Calculated in just
the same way, Using the final sale
ef the 30 industrials listed, The
16 utilities areilVeraged the
Seine *ay. Each
are.
its Own di-
ViSor,
Front these Do*-Jories averag-
es has emerged the Dow theoret
of predicting the action of stocks,
We won't go into that except to
say' that It involves Wing the
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daily Dow Jones stock aver-
ages plus the total of the daily
stock market transactions. It
doesn't pretend to be a tipster's
sheet. It just sets forth the
facts that form the trend from
day to day, and year to year.
It gives no predictions or fore-
casts.
Just like the weather is fore-
cast by using ' graphs that show
what has happened to 'the
weather over a period of years,
so these tabulated stock market
quotations show the trend, at
least what has gone before.
Some think it of great use in
studying the, future.
Dow-Jones is "the market." If
the 65 stocks in the Dow-Jones
index go up and the other 1,300
or More stocks go down, "the
market" is said to go up. This
does happen. In the early '50's a
majority of 'stocks declined,-but
"the market" was consistently
described as "rising." Let us
not go into that.
Dow Jones & Co. has come a'
-long way since the quiet Mr. Dow
and explosive Mr. Jones daily
toured on foot the brokerage ,of-
fices of Wall Street for gossip
and Information. Back to their
office they'd rush ,to dash oat in
longhand their observations.
Probably they had^a dozen sub-
scribers. Wouldn't these two New
England Yankees be surprised to
see Dow Jones & Co. today?
Now, when you ask, "What did
the market do today?" and your
broker glibly answers, "Indus-
trials are 'off a point. Utilities
are up an eighth," you'll know
what he's talking about. Or will
you?
How Can I?
By Anne Ashley
Q. e llow can, I avoid bluing
streaks in the clothes after
laundering?
A, Add a little salt to the blu-
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cur.
Q. How can I make a stiffener
for dimity and ofgandy?
A. A good stiffener can be
made by dissolving 2 ounces of
gum arabic in 1 pint of hot wa-
ter. Use 2 tablespoons of this
solution in 2 quatts of Water.
It' giVes a body to the material
without appearing starchy,. i
0., Ho* tan I make good
cenient?
A good cement for Mending
almost anything around the
hoine can be easily made by
mixing one quart of wood Ashes,
2h-cup of table salt, 'and enough
water' to give the proper con-
sistency, The 'dark appearance
at first Will afterwards turn at.,
inoSt White,
itg8tft 10'4
tiful Aston Martin. DB-4 440-
ly betrays its sporting joast, 'de-
spite a face-lift by Superleggera
of Milan. No amount of Italian
high fashion can disguise its
tiger-crouching lines, ,
Elsewhere the news from the
motorcar front is good. Produc-
tion is up: 681,000 vehicles for the
first eight months of 1958 as com-
pared to 510,000 for the corre-
sponding period last year. Over-
seas earnings have increased to
an estimated 1,500 million dol-
lars this yeae,
British medium-size cars have
not only held their,; own
American market, but increased
their American sales to la7, mil e
lion dollars to the end of August,
as compared to 73 million for the
same period last, year.
But it is to 'the domestic front
that manufacturers arid dealers
alike now look eagerly. Thanks
to full employment, and increased
pay, the Aeerage Beitish skilled
worker 'can now afford a motor'
car for the first time, ire 'history.
Liberal hire-purchase terms have
helped to ease the way.
The result is a boom, with
British workers grabbing cars as
fast as they come 'off the assem-
bly line. Moderate-priced cars, of
course, the Austins, Hillmans
and Morris Minors, in which thee
British excel.
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