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ROYAL FLOWER — With a dimpled smile, Crown Princess
Beatrix poses for her birthday picture. Thecheiress to the throne
of The Netherlands, daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince
Bernhard, is 22.
ca*tle Haunted:
lye ,Half. A Ghost
,In•a tower room of .ellengeened,
historic Meggernie Castle, in
,q.Stee Lyon, ,p(n•thshiye., a gueet.
was sleeping when eudclen.leie,eiti es
the small hours, he was aweile-ereesZ,
led by what felt • like a kroflSiSaa
On his check, It was, as, if histlesle • '
had :been hUrned through to the
cheekbone... • - • -
•Leaping out • ef, bed, lie` .egete--
the Teepee • halt cf woman's,
body drifting away from his becle,
side, fading through the sealed-
off door of a small secret cup-
board which had been bellowed
out of the thick wall between
hie, and the next room,
He rushed to. it, expecting to
be able to open it, but found it es.
firmly sealed as when he and a
fellowegaest next door had exa-
mined it some hours earlier,
With his cheek still smarting,
he lit, the lamp and made for the
mirror, sure that he would see
evidence of a burn. But he saw-
nothing to account for the sensa-
tion of fierce heat. He then de-
scended the staircase, lamp in
hand, but saw nothing Chilled
and perplexed he returned to
bed, but could not sleep.
"Beau! I've had a terrible
night!" he called to his friend in
the next room when morning
came.
"So have I!" Beau answered.
And the two men -- E, J. Sim
°as and Beaumont Fetherstone,—
found that they had had an al-
most identical experience.
'When Simons .began talking of
it' at breakfast his hostess, Mrs.
Herbert Wend, silenced him with
a warning glance. She was terri-
fied*.gest the Highland servants
should have heard,
Almady she Was having diffi-
culty in retaining them owing to
the rumour that the place was'
haunted by half, a ghost. Only a
day or two previously a kitchen-
Maid had rushed to her, saying
that she had seen the lower part
of a mutilated female figure flit-
ting through the castle corridors.
This tallied with what others
said they had seen fibm time to
time, not only in the corridors
but in an adjacent lime avenue
and near-by graveyard.
Later, Simons again saw the
half-spectre go gliding through
his room as he sat writing. The
temperature suddenly dropped
below freezing-point, as though a -
biting blizzard had blown in.
for his bedroom alengs'
a ground-floor passage he saw*, a
woman's face, sad and beautiful,
peering in at a window. And
about a year later Fetherstone
met a lady who said she had had
exactly the same experience at
Meggernie.
Relating this eerie story in
'Phantom Footsteps, a second
Ghost Book", Alasdair Alpin
MacGregor, who has visited Meg-
gernie, says that tradition as- ...
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'end otder to ANNE ADAMS,
liOX 1, 1:13 Eighteenth St., New
iliorceette, On t,
tribes the haunting to a Clan
Menzies chief who murdered his
young, beautiful wife in the
tower, because" he was insanely
jealous of, her,
TO dispose secretly of the body
he, cut it in two, then hid the
parts in a cupboard and, announc-
ed that he and his wife wpulci
be absent abroad' for some
months,
On his return be stated that'
she had been drowned acciden-
tally an the Continent: Under
cover of dark he removed the
lower half of the body and
buried it in the churchyard,
The morning after the night
that he tried to remove the up-
per half he was found dead in
the tower, evidently murdered
by someone aware of his awful
crime, The matter was allowed
to rest,
But not so the woman's divided
ghost, which haunted the two
guests and kitchen-maid in 1802
and was seen again some thirty
years ago by a Dr. MacKay, who
had been summoned to Megger-
nie to attend to someone taken
ill,
Another tower haunting oc-
curred at Askham Hall, West-
morland, when Lord and Lady
Lowther lived there. She dis-
closed that guests in a bedroom
in the tower constantly com-
plained of its evil atmosphere
and asked to be moved. Indepen-
dently of each other they said
that, at night they had seen two
men in 'top bats" (probably
Jacobean steeple hats) cross the
floor carrying 'a box.
Lady Lowther sought the serv-
ices of a well-known, woman
exorcist who, after a lengthy
search,- finally pointed to a part
of the room's oak-panelled wall,
saying that behind it lay the
source of the trouble. There
PHAIR PHARR — Pharr is a city
in the Rio Grande Valley of
Texas. It has orange groves and
gas wells within its limits. Pharr
also has Kay Jancik within its
limits. Kay holds an orange and
a gas well poses in the back-
ground.
workmen found a recess cut in
the stone, and in it a mummified
cat, which Lord. Lowther took
downstairs and placed in a cup-
board in' his study.
This did not cure the evil
haunting, se a prominent student
of the occult was consulted. He
declared that it was a definite
case of black magic and the
mummy must be burned or
buried. It was duly burned.
"The body uncurled in the
fire!" Lady Lowther said — and
the manifestations evidently
ceased,
1Vracaregor's fascinating ghosts,
though, do not all inhabit old
castles, mansions or manors. A
tenant moving into a new coun-
cil house at Newry; Ireland,
heard footsteps mount the stairs,
saw the doorknob turn and the
door stealthily opened. She then
heard them ascend the next flight
and sound overhead,
Armed with an electric torch,
the startled removal men search-
ed the rooms above, but found
no one...NO sootier had they re-
turned to their task downstairs
than the whole eerie "routine Was
repeated! They ran froth the
house in terror.
81711AT NEXT?
After three days of freedom,
Delbett K., Gregory, who escap-
ed froM Oahe .Prison in Homo
lulu, s recaptured
while swimming' at Waikiki
Beach.
Later, *hen questioned by Pas
Ike Officers,' he explained:
"They don't need higher. feriae
to keep'us in prison. What they
need is a SWinirriing POOL Ha-
*Wien boys are, crazy far the
weedie"
TO ATTEND QUEEN — Sister
Helen Rowe, above, royal mid-
wife, slated to be in attendance
at birth of Queen Elizabeth's
third child.
Scaring The Wits
Out Of The Healthy
Life might be a lot easier for
us all, we suggest, if the medical
world concentrated more on cur-
ing the sick and less on scaring
the wits out of the healthy.
Seven hundred business exe-
cutives sat glumly in London's
,Festival Hall . . . listening to
talk about the crippling penal=
ties of doing too much work.
Coronary thrombosis is wait-
ing to pounce, warned Sir Dan-
iel Davies, an eminent physician.
Don't work at week-ends, don't
take your briefcase home, don't
take telephone calls during
lunch . . . The list Cuf things pro-
hibited was long and unnerving
Even if the high-pressure life
did not attack the heart, they
were warned, it would finally
get at the stomach or the intes-
tines.
We trust that this unhappy 700
went home invigorated and re-
freshed. We hope that they have
now' been insulated against any
of the clinical catastrophes they
have been told about. But we
fear very much that they won't
have been.
For nothing, it has been esta-
blished, is more likely to make a
man suffer from a particular ill-
ness than anxiety over the fact
that he might. Worry is the great
menace to health.
• It is in America (where Sir
Daniel got his list al "dont's,"
he tells us) that this process
has got really out of hand. They
are suffering from what could
almost be called an epidemic of
hypochrondia . .
This, we hasten to say, does
not appear to have resulted in
people remaining any healthier.
Quite the reverse. It has gone
so far that ulcers are looked
upon as an accepted symbol of
success.
We must at all costs prevent
this happening here. It would
not be so bad if the pronounce-
mats of the medical men were
consistent. But they vary from,
month to month.
Last August a New York doc-
tor told the world that it was
the monotony of shift - work
which was responsible for' ulcers,
not the stress, strain, and re-
sponsibility of the executive life.
This contradicted an article in
the Family Doctor last June
which stated firmly that high-
pressure executives are more
prone to ulcers and heart at-
tacks than any other group. And
that it is not' hard work but
unfinished business nagging ire
the background that does the
damage.
What are we to do, then?
Wham are we to believe?
Perhaps we should take nate
of the view of Sir Winston.
Churchill, who put down his
ability to weather extraordinary
strain and responsibility to "the
management of a good wife."
And we could also remember
the words of another Churchill,
Charles Churchill, the poet ar
the 18th century,
"The surest road to health," he
wrote, "say what they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be
ill.
Most of those evils we poor
mortals 'knee/
From doctors and itnaginations
flow,"
Londoe Daily Mail.
CAtiBtii• DEATH
Little did Roger Baer, of Zee,
Wild dream as he watched a high
school football game that the
rain was to turn, ille enjoyment
to, tragedy.
A raindrop "sheeted"' a 1,000- • Watt floodlight. which exploded,
Sueli was the force of the eke
plosion that it bleat pet,
detain reflector from its iieounte
ing, arid the heavy refleator fell
75 ft on Boer's head, killing him
outright, The tragedy was &Albs'
br sad because Beer had recently
undergone' a successful' braid
operation.
We had been trying for three
weeks to get through by tele-
phone to .our farm friends in
theeShelburrie area. The answer
was' always the same — "Sorry
— .that line' is 'temporarily' out
of ,order" -- which didn't make
us feel any happier. What won-
„,ried us most, was the fact that
their water supply was control-
led by an electroc motor so, in
the event of a major' power fail-
ure they would have no way of
getting water, either at the house
or the barn. Naturally we were
not surprised that we didn't get
a letter knowing that the worse
the weather the less time 'they
would have for writing. How-
ever last Friday we found a very
welcome letter in the mail. Our
friends had had their troubles
all, right but had managed to
survive — thanks to good neigh-
bours who had kept them in sup-
plies whenever they were able to
get through .the snow-banked
roads. Hydro had been on and
off ever since the first ice-storm
but never for any longer than
five hours at a stretch, `so they
were considerably luckier than
a lot of farm folk. By keeping
pots, pans and tank full they
had managed all right for water.
'Communication with the outside
world 'had been almost nil — no
telephone, and , mail delivery
spotty.: Apparently they have
very poor mail service, even
when the road has been plough-
ed the mailman often makes no
attempt to get through. It seems'
strange that in spite of better
roads mail delivery in some
placees isn't nearly as good as
it used to be.
I remember when we first
came to Ontario orie'mail carrier
in our district was a man with
only one leg. He could neither
read nor write but, yet he was
known as the best rural mail
carrier for miles around. Far-
mers said they could 'set their
watches by "Old Jim”. He made
his rounds by horse and buggy
in summer and by horse and
cutter in winter, and, no mat-
ter What the weather Old Jim al-
ways got through. Although he
couldn't , read he ,kneW by sight
what letter belonged to each box
and of course "he knew all the
people .on his route — in those
days all of them were farmers,
many of them second and third
generations.
Compared with winters years
ago it would seem we shouldn't
have much to complain about
these days. And yet we have .. .
why is it ?Obviously it isn't 'the
weather that's at fault, it's our
way of dealing with it. Instead
of relying on our own means of
navigation we, depend on sand-
trucks and snowploughs. For
instance, we had arranged a W.A.
quilting party at the parish ball
for last Tuesday. Monday it
snowed quite heavily Snow-
ploughs were out and ploughed
the steep' hill up to the church.
Even so I wouldn't attempt the
drive •—e not with a car, With a
horse and cutter it would pot
have been any problem. Hoyv-
ever, one of the younger mems
bees was braver than I and offer-
ed me a ride:'She had to take a
run at the hill several times be-
Sore she could make it' and we
got stuck in a snwobank com-
ing home but we did manage to
get there and back.
By the way; we had better
make the most of our winter
because the prophecies are for
another hot' summer! Remember
last year .
Well, we are just recovering
from a triple celebration. Dee's
birthday • was yesterday; Bob's
birthday exactly a .month „ago
and our wedding anniversary
six days from now so the grand-
parents staged a family get-
together. To eliminate some of
the confusion that' seems un-
avoidable with hot meals and
small children I had 'arranged
a buffet supper and it really
worked out quite well, Every-
thing cold except the,' Christmas
pudding--savecl for just this oc-
casion. For space reasons We had
adults in the dining-room and
e table for the boys in the latch,
en. Nearly everyone was hungry
as grandpa and Pee had taken
the two biggest boys over to the
golf course fora toboggan ride..
Eddie still has his leg in a east
uP to the knee but it, doesn't
bother hint .a hit, Re was tramp-
ing, around in the snow just the
same,.Jerry has a non-infectious,
glaad swelling'in his neck so he
wasn't girlie himself. Cedric is
busy cutting baby teeth — so
altogether it was quite a ',party,
Grandpa aays he feels like the
last rose of summer this Morn-
ing -- end faded one ,at that.
As a climax Ross went home with
Jerry'a"oVershoes so Jerry took
over what Ross had left behind.
It wouldn't matter except that
Jerry's were mismated, In her
hurry to get away Dee had pick-
ed up .one of Jerry's own over-
shoes and the one that Eddie
can't wear because of his cast.
So that's what Ross has to wear
until the parents get things
straightened out. Are you con-
fused? Well, believe me, so am
I!!
Canadian Tenor
Now Metro Star
For an opera singer, particu-
larly a tenor, Jon Vickers had
behaved in a most peculiar way:
He studiously avoided photogra-
phers and begged off all inter
views. As he sat in his dressing
room at the Metropolitan one
night recently, still decked out
in the unkempt beard and rags
and tatters of Floreetan in Bee-
thoven's "Fidelio," the husky
Canadian explained his reti-
cence, "I'm a strange person. If
I do my job, that's the publicity
that counts."
Vickers had dime his job well.
Eleven days after his, actual de-
but as Canio in "Pagliacci," he
lived up to his' glowing' European;
notices by carrying off the tax-
ing tenor part in the Met's new
production- of Beethoven's only
opera. Now he was only too
happy to talk. To the biggest
question of all — when did he
think he would be ,ready to sing
Tristan — he was most decisive.
"I am just six weeks Over "33,"
he said, "and I feel that singing
these big roles, Tristan and the
Siegfrieds, would be asking for
trouble- at my: age. I .am feeling
my way along, and I have no
intention of becoming a Wag-
nerian, specialist. I. sing dramatic
tenor in the Italian repertory
too, for Italian opera preserves
the beauty of the voice more
than German opera."
Vickers has the big ringing
voice one would expect from a
muscular singer from Prince Al-
bert in the forests of Saskatche-
wan. If he keeps' it under con-
trol and doesn't drive it too hard,
he may in time become just what
the Met's Wagnerian' fans are
How Brigitte
Stuck To The Ship
None of the crew of the
freighter wanted to look after
"Brigitte Bardot," the ship's cat
named after the famous film star;
so the skipper ordered that the'
animal be thrown overboard.
The "execution. " order ,,was car-
ried out in Marseilles, just be-
fore the ship,' the •Tadla, sailed
for. Casablanca.
Upon arrival at the North Afri-
can port, the ship's engineer was
walking around the moored
freighter when he spotted a
black 'ball of fur -clinging. to the
rudder; which was riding• high ,
out of the water. •
Covered in oil and soaked in
sea water, "Brigitte" was alive,
and faithfully clinging to her
ship. The skipper issued new
Orders. "The cat will be scrubbed
down in the galley, given regu7
lar meals and 'accorded treat-
ment fit for a heroine,"
waiting for: A Tristan to Birgit
Nilsson's Isoide. —From NEWS-
,.WEEK.
Modern ftiquollo. •
117 4erta.. Lee.
Q. wl't thQ, privIleo to select: the table witm enter,
jog a restaurant with a mate.
escort?
•NO;:. she should allow her.
Q. After finishing a Ogee of
Sherbet at the dinner table, what.
should one do. with the spoon?
A. Place it .on. the saucer
which holds the glass,,
Q. When one is eating a steak
or roast, or .erittegthiag eintitee,
isn't it all right and more cone
yenient to gut' the meat up. into
several mouthfuls at a time be-
fore eating it?
A, It may seem more conveni-
ent to get yoar "cutting-up" all
done at the same time — but it
certainly is not considered in
good ferm, One should cut off
a single bite at a time,
BACKWARD AGE?,
Not a little concerned by the
antics of a teenage girl who per,
sisted in driving her car in re-
verse, a police patrol in Idato
stopped her and asked for an
explanation.
It appeared that the car be-
longed to her father and, un-
known to him, she had run up
quite a mileage. She was now,
to use her own words, "unwind-
ing some of the miles reaistered
on the clock."
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vise While her baby taker a dip at the Auckland, NeW Zealand'
16,d, th Zoo hal been a national competition to' name
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