The Brussels Post, 1959-11-12, Page 6 SALLY'S sALLIEs
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Sad Fate Of The
Precious Pearl ANNE FIRST I *cm e—canidoi rown4e4rt
in 1.92,9, And the average age,
height, and weight statistics.
On still be seen on the charts
tacked, le thlousand5 of penny
scales. But even though the new
average weight f o r American
Men IS higher pounds more
in young adulthood, less with
increasing age) and for women
lower (by several pounds for
all ages) the insurance men are
not suggesting that-these are
the best weights for good health,
They found that, for both twos,
the lowest mortality at ages
over 30 was among people who
tipped the scales at about 20
pounds below average. I
What haa caused the national
change in weight? Good food,
the insurance report said, 'is the
main reason why Americatmen
have gained weight. As for
American women, they') are
lighter than 3Q years ago, pri-
marily because of "the g-rbater
vogue of slenderness."t
ever, and my mother will not
consent ''although .•
want to' get •alarrie'd arOlOW
Without that. She .,had 'an .tm-
happy life. 'with my kfather
died recently, so perhaps,
that is why - s.he fears for me,
kShe knOws r4 • flanWs fa'
and likes them, and she
doesn't dislike him, How .can
Persuade •ner to help us?
MADGE"
* Waiting to marry until you
4 are of age will draw you and
* your fiance closer, and should.
* soften your mother's attitude
* considerably. Discouraged by
* her own sad married life, she
•4` is trying to protect you from
* possible disillusion.
* Since she admires the lad's
4. family, perhaps h i s mother
can influence her to believe
• that this marriage is right for
* you when the time comes' for
* it, Cheer up: *
Whether your problem is
great or small, Anne Hirst will
lend a sympathetic ear and give
it her best thought. Write her
frankly at EON 1, 123 Eighteenth
St., New T croft t o, Ont,, and
know you will have an honest.,
opinion and safe guidance. •
Chill Chasers
963
All ever the world, women
and jewelera might well. take:
a loving now look at their,.
pearls, for it may be three or
' foUrlrearOlepre, good rlelAg
aValAble.,Typhoon Vera, the,
trapical:t stem t 0 ok • the..
1 iv es -'of , 4,000 Japanese last
month, als6'. :Slammed. savagely
into the seven. Warm, piper,,fring,
ed, quiet. bays near Nagoya
where 'millions of oysters, aided
by nimble human fingers, pro-
duce most of the world's finest
cultured. pearls.,:,' Vera's tower'--
ing
•
seas ripped up the bamboo
and oil-drum rafts from which
the seeded oysters hang, tore
the oyster baskets from their
moorings, smashed boats, dam-
aged factories on shore, and
scattered to the ocean currents.
about 75 million pearls, one-half
the area's annual crop. Total
loss in pearls and equipment:
$15 million,
In the wake of the disaster,
wholesale pearl prices moved
up 20 per cent and prices of
finer pearls, those that mature
for four years in the oyster,
were expected to skyrocket: As
Japan's pearl men picked, over
their tangled rafts, however,
they found a mother-of-pearl
lining in Vera's dark clouds:
The storm had scoured the bay
bottoms clean, 'considerably im-
proving water conditions for ru-
ture pearl culture.
SAFELY HOME - Russell langelle,..;ousted from Russia by the
Soviet Government, carries r his, two.-.year-old ,d,aughter, Mary
as he arrives in. New York,. The Reds charged, that.kangelle
had used his job as security. officer at the, y..,Embas ,, in
Moscow as a front for espiOnage-aeficilies: •
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from a friend, It, was folded
over like An advertisement,
stapled in one place and came
with a four-cent 'stamp. It be-
gan ""Dear Family and
Friends It continued like
any ordinary letter giving high-
lights of fan-illy news, also little
items of interest concerning
mutual friends-where K, went
for his holidays, „11.4..YY the 12:9,i
were getting on with theft: nth-
sic, and so on.
The letter had evidently been
taken off on a home duplicator,
obviously with the intention' of
sending a copy to all those in-
terested in hearing from the
writer, Fine, if the main pur-
,,,,pesei was to, save time, But I
could See drawbacks. For in-
stance,• how many would write
the same type of letter to Dora
as we' would 0-rAuriellin? Per-
sonal tonchga„wonld .apply to
one and not the other. And
heaven rheig us.4.f we were guil-
ty of a little criticism of either,
Another type of letter I know
of .`is a sort of family chain-
letter. It begins with Mabel who
writes all the news relating to
the old hometown community.
She sends the latter to Katie. K.
adds her bit and forwards it to
Betty. And so it 'goes' until it
has reached each of the seven-
member family and is then re-
turned to the one who started
it. Maybe that •is: a better idea
than the duplicate letter.' In this
case the letter comes in, a, seal-
ed enVelOpe and has all the in-
timate details one is accustom-
ed to in "a' fan-illy letter. But
neither a chain nor a circular
letter is as good as a personal
letter. Either, of course, is bet-
ter than no letter at all.
Another way is to write a
column such as this. I wonder
how many hundreds of,pepple xI
write to each weeks- and'tfroin
whom I get a surprising num-
ber of heart-warming replies.
Keep it up, dear, people. I love
your-letterg.
Why Women Live
Longer Than Men
H
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"Dear Anne Hirst: On my Ve-
cent birthday, T. to MY OVA 4,14r-
prise, got engaged to. a Ming
man I' Down for years, His
family and mine evidently had
planned our future before I re-
alized it. In their presence "the
gave me a beautiful diamond:
was speechless-and I'm asham-
ed to confess that I have not
yet found courage to oppose
them all,
"Why? Because for three
years I've been in love with a
man 10 years older whom I met
in business. We have dated re-
gularly, and when I am with
,hire I an thrilled through and
through; yet I am at peace. He
has never spoken in terms of
love until the other day, when
I showed him my ring. He wish-
ed me happiness, and that was
that.
"I could not bear it. I tele-
phoned him and we met, Then
he admitted he has al w a ys
loved me, but hesitated to say
so because he is older, He is a
professional man, really a so-
phisticated person and earning
a large income. Now he seems
miserable too, and I am so con-
fused I don't know what to do.
"I am fond of my fiance, and
hesitate to hurt him and our
families. Do you think I could
learn to love him? Or shall I
break things of •and tell my
family why? IN A WHIRL"
* To test your feelings for
" the older man, try to picture
him without a dollar to his
name, Suppose his profession
failed h i m, his investments
diminish, and he grow bitter
at fate? Could you stick by
him, comfort him, count all
else well lost just to be by
his side? If you find that you
could not love him for him-
self alone, put him put of
your mind today and forever.
But if you are wholehearted-
ly in love, then break yaur
engagement.
The young man will get over
it. His family would not want
him ' to marry a girl who
doesn't love him, and your
• parents will surely want, first
• your personal happiness.
• Whether anyone can con-
' sciously learn to love a man'
Is debatable. I hope you will
not go through with marriage
' to your fiance unless you do
fall in love with him - and,if
you renounce this other man
* that could happen.
"Dear Aniie Hirst: I and a
grand young man are very
much in love and want to get
married, I'm not of age, how-
EXPECTING - Japanese CroWn
Princess Michiko sits for an of-
ficial 25th-birthday portrait. It
was announced she is expect-
ing a child in March.
Juvenile Decency Pure Flattery
PRINTED PATTERN
ISSUE 46 1959
While American" meri",ogle" the
opulent curves of a Monroe or
Bardot, American women have
been I". getting thinner. While
Ameridan women sigh over the
hard lean frames of Hudson and
Holden, their own men have
been `growing fat. In fact, the,-
average 25-year-old American
woman today weighs a good 5
pounds less than her, mother did
30 years'-ag6;5rbilf -trie• average"
American man of 25 .weighs
about 3 4,ounds,-nioret
father at' the same age.
That was what the Societr.of
Actuaries, which has a way 'with
,figures,.:reparted„ Wit: Month.
an attempt to find out why
, people die' before insuranpetkom-
panies think they shou d; the
society compiled the weights,
heights, and • causes of cti* for
nearly 5 million America=nS who
hay,e)died pasrAenty
years'. The massive report the
biggest statisticale,study :fol.., date,
in the health 4l'elte corifierns
what the insurance .men thought
all along: Fat Americans' are
poor insurance risks because
'they arerribren,likely to die of.
diabetes, digestive disorders,
and 'heart disease.
The last such study was made
the 'weather I am wondering
how • many farm folk will be
up again'st' the lovely ."job of -
:.rescuing" contrary pullets and
roristers from- the tree-tops:
Even' though ;you provide 'the
birds.with the best possibleac,
Commodatign ,some., will escape
froni custody ,and. qake to the
trees. Catching themlii as hard
a job as, any one the , farni A
quick .grab for a chicken's legs
-and if you miss it flutters to
the ground and 'then runs
squawking inte the garden or
,among the shrubs. ,There is
nothing : more stupid than a
frightened chickep.,".Chasing it
with 'a flashlight is a waste of
time - unless ,yon can throw a
sack over it or chase it into 'the
corner , of, a building , and• then
-mak.e a grab, for it, in the dark.
Deaf farmer 7friends, I sincerely
hope you, don't have too many
chickens lb 'catch. If you 'have
than my sympathy is with .you.
Now.: . . do you' ever•get, be-
hind in ,answering letters? Who
doesn't? This may 'give You, an
idea. Recently I -received 'a
three-page tyPew-ritteri letter,
The attention that juvenile
delinquency has been getting re-
cently has obscured for many
New Yorkers the fact that only
a fraction of our youngsters are
involved in such activities. The
Board of Education has pointed
up the positive. side of the pic-
ture with a report on the thou-
sands of pupils who took part
„last year, in construptive,
minded Work* under 'school aus-
pices.
Juvenile decency,' -may not
draw sensational headlines, but
it should be remembered that
far more of the city:s young
people are actively,, , engaged ji
w orthwhile activities than ever
run ,afoul, of ,the law„. School
civic cinbs haVe,1ed.a 'cOrrinaun-
ity-wide,cfeari-up Carnpalgri;':run
errands for elderly and disabled
persons in the neighbourhood;
collected food and clothing ior.
the children of needy coal com-
ers, and helped raise funds to
equip an ;educational center in
Liberia, to name but a few of
their activities. Certainly young-
sters who devote their time to
work like, this are well on the
road to good citizenship. They
deserve our salute, -- New York ,
Times,
Talcum-Powder
Tragedy lo France
"I'll never• forget the look in
my little Claude's eyes," o n e
Mother said. "He was only a
little thing. then - 18 months-
but he looked as if he wanted to
tell me something. And all the
time I just kept rubbing on
more of that powder."
The powder, as a court in
Bordeaux heard last month in
harrowing detail, was a babies'
talcum powder called Baurrml
which pharmacist Jacques Caze-
nave mixed in 1-ton batches and
sold for use on babies' diaper
rash and other skin complaints.
until it was suddenly taken off
the market in 1952. By then, doc-
tors were being driven frantic
by a wave of infant mortalities .
that struck like a plague out
of the Middle Ages. Symptoms.
were always the same: Violent
rashes which refused to, respond
to treatment. And when mpthers
dabbed. on Baumol the rashes
got worse; hi ,a few days the
helpless .child would die.
Seventy-three babies died this
way and at least 290 others were
made -deaperately ill before in-
vestigations - which were made
public for the first , time last
week revealed that in 1951
Cazenave had mixed Op two
batches of powder in which
arsenic was substituted for
harmless zinc oxide.
The French Government, af-
ter seven years of laboriously
tracking down the parents of
the dead' children, accused Ca-
zenave of "grave professional
error." "I admit all my errors,"
the druggist replied. "I didn't
have the time . . . to perform
an analysis of the ingredients."
Now 59 and a haunted and
broken man, Cazenave sat for-.
lornly in a courtroom packed
with the parents who `sprinkled
theft-tots, with "the talctim pow-
der that kills." He is charged
with "involuntary homicide" -
for which the maximum penalty
is two years in prison. This is
the same sentence now being
served by French pharmacist
George Feuillet who in; a1957
was found guilty of. marinfac-
turing a poison-laden "cure" for
pimples` whiCiihlkiIled 1.02 pF,-
song. —From-N' wswEEK:
• ..
Men Ages
Height 15-16 17-19 20-24 25-29 30-39
.
40-49 50-59 60.69
• 5' 0" 98 113 *1 22 -, '128 131 134 , 136 133 ,
-,, 2 107 119 128 134, , 137, ;140 142 . 139
4 117 127 136 141 145 148 149 146
.6 127 135 142 148 153 156 157 154
,$r,137 143 149 155 161 165 166 163
10. •146 151 157 163, 170. 174 175 173
6'0" 154 160. 166 '172 179' 183 185 .183
, 2 164 168 174 182 188 192 194 - 193.
4 ... 176. .181 190 199 , 203 205 204 ,
Women Ages
Height 15-16 17-19 20-24 251.29 '30-39 40-49
,
50-59 60-69
4' 10" 97 99 102 '..107 , ;: 115 122 125 127
5' 0" 103 105 :.108';, ; .0113 . • 120 : ' 127 130 131
2 111 113 , 115 - , 119 126 . . , . 133 136 137
4 117 120 121 125 132 ' 140 144 145
-,..-..........
6 125 127 129 • 133 • 139 147 ' 152'153 •
8 132 134 136 140 146 155 160 161'
10 142144 1-48 • 154 164 169 ' - ,
6' 0" ' 152 154 158 164 174 180 , • •
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Shades,of winter! I haveknit- •
ted _five pairs of Boys' mitts' this
paSt week. Jerry and Eddie were
styliekled with theirs they .wore
them to bed: ,Children get
ure from the most unexpected
things. Dave put his into his
%coat pockets "ready for school".
Ross hasn't got his yet and the
fifth pair As for a little neigh-
bour . boy: Incidentally I make
the mitts, hi'irriother pays me
750 A pair and that goes towards
my "talent money" for the W.I.
Each member is supposed to earn
money to the • value of $2 or•
more and hand it in. That little
scheme should swell' the. treasury
quite a 'bit.: There are no restric-
flans as to• how the money shall
'be raised. It can be by baking,
baby-sitting, knitting,,
work or by having a pay-tea or
card party. Thought I would
pass the.. idea along for what it
is worth. Talent - money isn't 'a
new idea but ways of making it
often are.
This is Thanksgiving weekend.
Dee and family have, gone to tie
cottage -,- probably for the last
time this year. Anyway they'll
be putting the boat in`dry dock,
bringing home the motor and all
the other stuff that was removed
to'the cottage temporarily. Yes,
'it really looks- as` if we have fin-
'ally :come to the end of our
•s. warm 'Iweather. Now what a
scramble there will be - on
farms and in homes - to get
all the odd jObs done before
freeze-up. And you never know
how soon it might come, judging
by what is happening on the
prairie right now. Imagine bliZ-
bards and blocked roads so early
in the ;-season. The poor dears,
,Howeverjk I am hoping there
won't be too much loss from
snow-covered grain. I remember
We had that happen one year
out west:, and we were able 'to'
thresh, in early spring .sinci the
wheat was none the worse.
It has been tough and windy
here' tolday, whipping the leaves
from the ash trees and Worry-
ing the birds, Sparrows have
been seeking shelter under our
permanent awnings and dozens
of little juncos have invaded the
lawns and gardenS. Such, dainty,
Pi retty little birds,
With this sudden change iii
Eight-Year-Olds
Modern Etionette
By Ante Ashley
O If the bride has no one to
give her away or walk down ,the
aisle with her, would it be all
right for the bride and the bride-
groom toovalk down the aisle to-
gether?
A. This would tie all right for
a home wedding. But in a chttrch
wedding., it is pot done, It would
be much better fer' the' bride to'
walk alone and the bridegroom
to wait for her At the head of
the aisle.
Q: 'lig it really considered.
geed Manners to use the hand-
kerchief at the dinner taiitel
A.• ThiS is not a 'at:leafier: of
"good manners," but rather One
-of "necessity." Certainly, when
the necessity arises, One may
use the handkerchief et the
table - but One should cld.
as ,,titiottliibsfo.ictiotisly and cillictlY
•
A superbly shaped sheath -
the most elegant way to be ,
[iced by day, at dinner, on a
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Enioy P.Roirnetry!
"I like arithmetic," said John
Crabbe. "But i'like geometry
better." The statement was re-
"Markabie' for the simple reason
that John Crabbe Is only 8 years
old. Together With 8,.060 Second
and third graders in the Paid
Alto., Calif., area, John is study-
ing rudimentary piane_geornefry
-including the formation-of fig-
ures and',rneasurement bf angles,
Who 's more, he and his class-
mat are grasping •tfle stibjerd
easily, Backed by, a, $32,000 Car-
negie corp. grant, the ex:Peri-
rnent Fis th.e, brain child: of two
professofst'• a't'.' beart:yeSliinfOrd
University, Dr, Patrick Stippes
and Dr. Newton Hawley, atithoia
Of a 161-page textbook, "Geo-
metry for Primary Grades."'
"We think it's passible to,giVe
theM. something that tenth
graders' den't, haVe time to ab-
tOrb,'Y' saki 644n0Pas• recently,
"A thorough ititaitivte feeling:
for geotnetry„." 'the :ea sy text-
book problems dite'IMproVe a
• reacting etiftiPtelietiSibri,
With Seine awe, one teaeher "14e -
ports that Words" like "Ctadrita-
Wel" are appearing in cornea=
sition used correctly and
rspelled ,e6PitdtiSt.
YOUR WEIGHT' WEIGHS HEAVILY IN. tiOtS EOAN People'. ';;;kiii live longest are people.
body weight's and blood pressures are: 'below. normal on the average, Weight tables, above,
are a '&S14101166 from a massive 20-ear .SfUcly,,,representing'•lifekinddea4f. experience' of 26.
life insurance companies with almost` fiVe.thillrdA policy hoideili. .Actuaries - insurance
statisticians deterriiined for -eikciMple,, that who weighed 20, pdtiii'ds Mare than the
overage far their height and 'age had .a per cent higher rote. A 2:5.reaufid ,average
shot the death rate to '25; per refit above the dorm, When ,he'..ekOss'.reached 50, pounds, the
death rate reached front' so to 75 ,;fper . cent alacye • averages, figures
are conditioned yatir OWn•-pe;idn.:ii -physidian's • adviCi
iliouldrt4 :Sought In `dealing w'th' it . • '