The Brussels Post, 1960-03-03, Page 2Week's Sew-thrifty
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174.114.
of the Whittington tatnily of
Gloucestershire, Centuries later,
during alterations to this house,
a stone was unearthed in a eel-
lax and Q11 this steno was carved!,
a cat being carried in the arms
of a boy,
From dates mentioned it is
quite clear that the Lord Maye
or's own family credited: the ex-
istence of the eat.
Dick Whittington founded the
Church of St, isifichael Paternos-
ter Royal, where he was buried
in 1423 at the age of sixty-
five, and in a glass case in this
church is a mummified cat dis-
covered there some time ago,
only a few feet from Whitting
ton's grave.
BLACK MAGIC
A tourist went into a bar in
Central Africa. To his amaze-
ment, he saw on a stool beside
him a perfectly formed human
being in military uniform —
only six inches high. Incredulous,
the tourist stared until the bar-
tender spoke up,
"Don't you know the Major
sir?" he asked, redching across
the bar, picking the little fellow
up and placing him on the coun-
ter. The tourist shook his head.
"Speak up, Major", the bar-
tender said. "Tell this gentleman
about the time you called the
witch-doctor a damn fool,"
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TOP MAN ON THE POLE — Husky Cherokee Indian artist Le-
looska has his lob cut out forr shim as he carves a totem pole.
The 50-foot cedar log he's *orkinb "on is 750' years old, Lelooska
says Northwest Indians began totem making when white men
first introduced metal, tools.
1)ciagilter Of An.
lady Stampeder
Nfy father had wanted to- name
...s.na Klondike. The big stampede.
was at its height in 1897, when,
X was born, and he insisted on
calling me that for good luck,
But my mother said that Klon-
dike wasn't any name for a girl,
eet my father gave in. and short-
ened it to, Klondy, For my mid-
dle nessie he chose Esmeralda,
the name of the gold claim. in
South 'Dakota, he was working
at the time,.,,
• I was only two weeks old
when my father left us and went
Off to. the Klondike, I guess he'd
been planning it in his mind a
a long time, but he didn't tell..
ray mother anti' after I was
christened,. They had been mar-
ried a year arid a half • when he
set out to join the endless file of
prospectors over the Chilkeet
Trail, , „
It's hard to explain ray father
today. I've tried to tell my.
grandchildren • about him I
have six of thesis living here
in Olympia, Washington but
they can't understand a man
who would lealie his wife and
baby daughter and run off like
that. He must have been selfish
and shittlesi„ they say, but it'
wasn't that. Dad .Was a stale-
peder„ and there were tens of
thousands like him. in those
dayss They would always leave
a sure thing to follow remote
It wasn't just the . goids be-
cause when -they .found it they
staked it all to look .for more.
Somewhere just over' the next
mountain thete were nuggets as
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big as boulders, waiting tor their
picks to:, Uncover, and no hard,.
ships could halt them,
"1 wanted the gold and 1
sought Robert. Service wrote,
"I scrabbled and mucked like a
slave." My dad was always!. tittot-
ing Robert. 'Service, the young
bank clerk in Dawson who used
to make up poems to entertairt
the miners, I've always wonder-
ed. whether he might have had.
someone • like Father in • mind
when he penned the lines:
,There's gold, 'aid it's haunt-
• ing and hatintina .
It's luring me on as of old; •
But it isn't the gold that I'm
wanting
-So much .as just finding the
gold."
Dad wrote regularly over the
next four years. Hie letters were
always full of glittering promise..
He was going to strike it rich
any day now, and come home..
He hit pay dirt in the Klondike,
but- then he heard. .of a new
stampede, and his next letter
said he was joining the rush
down. the Yukon River to. the
big strike at Nome.
I was going .on five when Dad
wrote; in the spring of 1902; that
he was pulling up stakes in
Nome and heading for 'the latest
discovery at Council, eighty
-miles farther., Mother decided
then and there the time had
come to join him. Maybe she
• thought she could help. him save
some of that gold he was for-
ever diggihg out of one hole and'
.sinking another. — From
"Daughter of the Gold Rush," by
•-.Kloedy Nelson with Corey Ford.
Mr. Hoover Still
Gets The Shivers
Isn't it paying a sort of com-
pliment to the Communist Party
in America to assert that with
each loss of membership, the
party becomes more menacing
than ever? At its national con-
vention last December, reports
placed the hard-core member-
ship* of the party at between
6,000 and 10,000 persons — as
contrasted with a membership of
64,000 in 1945, Surely this is an
indication that American Com-
munists have been a miserable
failure, and that even Mr.
Khrushchev's visit has failed to
pump new life into a slavishly
alien party. Yet a recent head-
line proclaimed: "Hoover Sees
Greater U.S. Red Peril."
This is a theme that J. Edgar
Hoover, the FBI director, has
reiterated many times: the
smaller the party, the greater
the menace. . . .
In his testimony to the House
in 1958, the Associated Press re-
ported, Mr. Hoover advised that
"the scuttling of the Daily
Worker, far from being a sign
that the Communist Party in
American is collapsing, indicates
that it is firmly under control
of the Soviet Union." And now,
in 1960, Mr. Hoover warns the
Senate Internal Security Sub-
committee that, in the wake of
Mr. Khrushchev's visit, the
dwindling party is "more power-
ful, more unified, and even more
of a menace to our republic."
To be sure, mere size does not
tell the whole story. Party
statistics do not include muddle-
headed fellow travelers, and in
some countries a handful of
Communists have indeed been
able to seize power. But in those
instances notably in Russia in
1917 the whole social fabric
was disintegrating and the Com-
munists had a fertile field to
exploit, The United States has
never been more prosperous; the
dreary domestic Reds have
never been more discredited. It
would he refreshing if Mn:
Hoover for once were to hail the
reduction of Communist mem-,
beeship as proof of how a free
society, in Jefferson's words, can
successfully tolerate'error "so
long as reason is free to combat
it." — "Washington Post and
Times Herald.
Ladies, do you have trouble
threading your sewing, needles?
Do. you dodge this way.and that,
with the thread going anywhere
but through the eye of 'the
needle? When you, are hemming
a seam and y,our needle acci-
dentally becomes unthreaded, do
,you spend precious minutes try-
ing, with increasing frustration,
to thread it again? If Your ans-
wer to all these questions is "yes"
then I have good. news for you.
There is a new type of needle-
threader on the market that real-
ly works and it costs only
twenty-five cents. I say "really
works" because I have tried
'others that' were almost as 'much
trouble. to use as threading a
needle. This one is a little plastic
stand with an, upright slotted
post in which you place the,
needle. Then you press a lever,
pull up the needle — and, presto,
it is threaded. No eye strain, no
time wasted, no nerves on edge.
Isn't that wonderful? I don't
think any particular store has
the agency for this handy little
gadget as the first one I saw
came from a little village hard-
ware shop. They didn't have any
more so I made inquiries from
a down-town store and had two
delivered, the very next. day. I
have every intention of buying
more and giving them away. By
that means I am sure of having
a few grateful friends
Of course even this small gad-
get isn't ,fool-proof. I , found it
didn't, work when I put the
needle inepoint downwaeds; or
pressed the needle too far into
the socket; or when I was over-
anxious to show how it' worked,
But in everything you have to
allow for a margin of human
error — or should say, stupidi-
ty?
And now We come to good
news for farm folk. It is pre-
dicted that eggs are likely to be
80 cents a dozen by fall. Many
farmers have already refused
shipment of chicks because they
can't afford to raise them with
eggs so low in price. They are
just losing money paying out
more for teed than they get
back for the eves they sell. So,
Mrs. Housewife, it yeti want
eggs for your family. better
prepare yourself for paying a
more reasonabie'price for them.
Partners have to make a living
too, you know,
And this should interest dairy
farettsre. It has been found that
makes haltar ice for sitat-
itv7 than water! What next?
hid visions of an arena flooded
with milk and the freezing ark
ceasing to 'VI-notion. It might get
a little high — perhaps even turn
cottsee cheese. Anyway I
don't imagirie Milksice is likely
to itnprove the fat-Mere future
to eny great extent.
And theh there's that report
on What Pesple look fat: how in
the Iltitises they buy, 14iggat bed-
rooms and Inthroomv, bigger
lots; better ventilation' and lower
bc.fl.00rn windows., rictus-?: svin.
dows,ne longer iri great detileticl
— drapes cost too much to cover
them. et agree.) Kitchens were
-not even mentioned. s
Well, it 'is my opinion the per-
fect house will never be on the
market. How can it be when
people's needs are so contrary.
Anyway you just can't get
everything you want in one
packet. The thing to do is buy
the house that has the least num-
ber of disadvantages. ,Even at
that you have to live in a place
six months to a year before you
can make up your mind about
what you like and don't like.
You may think a house with a
one-floor plan is just exactly
what you need. Live in it for •
awhile and you'll find 'it has its
'drawbacks. A young mother
soon finds there are too many
rooms toddlers can get into un-
less doors are kept shut. In a one-
and-a-half story house a gate can
be placed at the foot of the
stairs, thus confining toddlers to
one floor. At Ginger Farm I used-
to keep our children within
bounds by having a small hook
and eye up high on most of the
doors. Afterwards they came in
handy .for the grandchildren; We
brought the hooks along with us
when we moved. This morning
I used one to fasten the sliding
cupboard doors in the den. Last
Saturday we were Woking after
Ross while his parents went
shopping. He found was, good .
hunting in the eupboaed I just
mentioned. It won't be next time.
As for high bedroom windows,
I wouldn't have them as a gift.
Imagine not being able to look
out of the window. Sick people
get great pleasure out of watch-
in,g .the birds, the wind fn the
trees, and passers-by. When we
were house-hunting sve turned
down' several nice houses because
of high bedroom windows. We ,
also objected to small lots. So
you see what I mean- There are
-more "ifs" and "buts" in buying
s house — or a farm -- than you•
realize. We decided that the most .
important thing was locality. And
in that we guessed right each
time.
"Don't you think he's • ignor-
ant?"
"Ignorant Why, I've never
met a Mart who lowers less about
more things."
Is Handwriting
A Health Guide?
la good handwriting a sign of
good health? Doctors and gra-
phologists experts on hand,
writing — are beginning to, be-
lieve so. Some doctors can even
diegiseee illnesses through hand-
writing,
It'a the irregularities• in hands
writing that reveal most, se
watch how you cross your "t"
and hew you farm such letters
as, "ds" "f" arid! "h," say the
experts.
In writing most Of the muscles
of the body are brought into
use, although most people don't
realize it, Those of the neck,
shoulders, left a r in and hand
keep on adapting themselves to
the various changes of position
made by the writer, as he writes
with his right hand.
"If the writer is badly Pour-
jelled, his blood becomes in poor
condition and theeefoee h i s
nerves and muscles are not kept
in the pink of condition," de-
clared one graphologist.
"His handwriting will, in this
case, lose the buoyancy which is
found inthat of a well-fed man,"
A London professor once said
that penmanship was a health
barometer,
"In my youth I was honoured
by the friendship of a great Vic-
torian woman whose handwrit-
ing week by week was a most
sensitive barometer to her phy-
sical, and emotional condition,"
he revealed.
A psychiatrist said recently
that by studying a patient's writ-
ing he could cut his work on
the case by three months be-
cause the writing, disclosed clues
to th e patient's health, `moods
end basic attitude to life.
Another student of how we
write points out that the person
who writes "with a large hand
is often ambitious and generous
but also has much pride and a
fondness for generalizing when
he converses."
People who make very thick
strokes are often very strong and
courageous, but they tend to be
gluttons, he adds. ,
Handwriting is often inherited,
according to, other experts. R. H.
Chandler devoted much time
to the study and investigation of
likenesses which exist in the
writing of various members of
the same family.
So strong is this similarity in
some cases that if it is often
difficult for the expert to dis-
tinguish one member's hand
from another's.
Long, Lonely
Courageous Trip
Alone in his 32-ft yawl Sheila
II in the ,Mediterranean bound
from, England to New Zealand,
Adrian Hayter noticed ' with
alarm that the mast had become
unstable, and that 'the deck was
taking the strain of holding it
upright in a gale. The solid for-
ty-foot spar might tear the ship
apart.
Lashing the helm down he
stripped off his oilskins, climbed
on to the boom, gripped the mast
with his legs and 'began to lever
himself up.
At his second attempt he made
the cross-trees and found that
the slackness was caused by a
missing two-inch wooden block,
which had been fitted to take
up the slack:
It had been torn out. He fixed
things as. best he could, then
took a hasty glance- below.
"From that height,:" he says,
"she looked tiny, alms* hidden,
by sheets of spray; it wile scene
of undaunted gallantry arid
brought a Wild Surge' ot,exhilare
tion to my' precarious perph:
This exhilaration killed all fear."
Changing jibs one night lit-
, tle later, he snagged the halyards
acoft. To avoid Clifribirig the
nia.st again' in the darkneSs he
played a torch on them.' front
the deck, trying to trace the of-
fending rope. But it was a diffi-
cult job, haiding, the tea-eh with
one hand, freeing the'rope with
the Other, While keeping hiS bal-
ance on the plunging deck.
A huge liner; coming up from
astern, passed very close; An
Officer on the bridge, seeing hi "i
plight, trained a powertel
Searchlight on Sheila, lighting up
mast and ropes. He kept it there
until kia,yter had cleared the
mess,
4'1 am grateful to that offieer,"
he says in "Sheila in the Wind,"
a first-rate account of his long,
lone, courageous voyage.
enHe ees had ashore. one AtstBr4onnte; e"Ptaexr ii:
drive r, misunderstanding h1 s
French, took him to a café in
`d'aletles 'sordid quartet,:1,It was
frecitiefited'bYeArabe: and scanti-
ly clad girls. He ordered a, drink,
and left quickly.
A, he walked away five young
Arab louts came out of the sha-
dows and blocked the narrow
alley before and behind him. One
came close and asked for a
cigarette. A refusal, he knew,
would spark off an attack. A
razor slash across the arm could
delay him for weeks.
He passed cigarettes around
and made a disparaging crack
about the women in the café
which delighted them. They all
went back inside for a drink,
and later the Arabs escorted him
through the maze of alleys and
tunnels to the town, got him a
taxi, and paid for it. That
"crack" had made all the differ-
ence between a deserted corpse
and an honoured guest.
Dick Whittington
And His Cat
Thousands of children have
thrilled to the story of Dick
Whittington and his Cat, but
some may wonder why the fa-
in o u s man is alway pictured
with such an animal.
This cat has caused much dis-
cussion among historians. Some
say it originated through the
confusion of the French word
achat being translated into Eng-
lish as "a cat." Aohat (purchase)
In the fourteenth' and fifteenth
centuries Signified buying and
selling at a profit.
Then there is also the sug-
gestion that the word had some-
thing to do with "cat," a Nor-
wegian type of ship used for
carrying coal: Dick Whittington
is supposed to haVe owned suoh
a craft, plying between London
and Newcastle.
But here is more concrete evi-
dence. In the Mercers' Hall, at
one time, a portrait of Richard
was on view with a black and
white cat at his side. A later
sixteenth-century picture shows,
him in full Mayoral regalia, pat-
ting or stroking' a cat.' In re-
sponse to public request, the cat
was substituted for a skull, ori-
ginally shown, so that the legend
--if legend it. is — must go back
a very long way.
Another curious thin g. In
Whitthigton's will he requested
that. Newgate Prison should be
rebuilt and one of several carved
figures, representing Liberty,
had a cat resting at its feet — a
definite reference to Sir Richard,
'who is said to have made his
first step to his good fortune
by a cat" Coloured heraldic cats
also appeared on some plate,
owned by the Mercers' Company,
in 1572.
One of the strongest' pieces of
evidence comes from the home
SALLY' SALLIES
"Hereto our new post-weekeud
. „piek-me;up."
totb ARRESTED AS WAYWARD MINOR borothy Lebotirters
18, a freshman at Alfred University; and, daughter` of tint
versity -treasurer Edescird K. Labohriers Of Alfred ciffct ,
Warren Sefton,. 20, are shown in a New York police station
after they Were picked up in a theatre, 006447 Was arrested
as a wayward minor for trying to elope' with Sutton, a baskets
bell star, the pretty blonde fold SUltan, Wha Woe not .held,
"''Listen; honey, want you to .go home and your educid,
so"sVe tan get Married:. l int going to finish Mines and then
see yoUsli
With. en ey& fa illifined.r beaCh
Modell 'a hat inspired by ''ef butterflyi iii •Florende'Li
, AGEM 00 A STONE Jew expert tleWellyn peeri info'
the VatUable depths of a pink diamondetf. Sauthebyis in' LOrie
dein. pink stones Ore setae end this one 'Weil, ekpetteci
a resided prices It i believed to be Indians,