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The Brussels Post, 1960-07-14, Page 2H ONICLE PISP.17014.1 eiWeeee.., 1 — The Clifton Daniels (Margaret Truman) are greeted by ex-President Harry upon arrival in New York on the liner United States. Margaret is holding Daniel's arms is William Wallace, 1, who doesn't seem to be too impressed grandfather. Mount Everest Viewed GO Evening. Alter having flown over the Pleins of India, flat as the sea, were cgoeeing, Nepal on foot and approaching at last the high- est Mountains on earth. One evening the deep narrow valley suddenly fanned out, and the dream that we had nureeci .for so many long years began to take shape. Far up, between the lilac mists that concealed the foot of the gigantic moun- tain and the raw blue of the. Asian sky, floated a tracery Of stone at more than twenty-six thousand feet; slopes of snow, torn by the wind, evaporated into azure. Silently we advanced a little, leaving behind us the tumult of the torrent buffeting through its gorges. In the stillness that followed we could hear better the murmurings of nature and the beating of our own hearts. For a long time we gazed at the mysterious mountain which had enchanted our evenings around the campfire; then, when my eyes could look away along the immense valley bottom, utterly silent and deserted, I thought of the Oisans, of the Valais, cc the Oberland, and I said to myself: "This place is just like home, only on a larger scale! It is one of those places marked in ochre and white in the atlas, high, sterile and good for nothing; nothing marketable grows there, and higher still nothing can exist at all. It is one of those spots made solely for the happiness of men, in order that in this chang- ing world, grown every day more artificial, they might yet find a few gardens still unspoil- Doubly Useful PRINTED PATTERN' 4978 •SL.:'s 1414-24!12 4-4rte.- 444 Smart spring duo! This young, slimming dress travels every- where in the company of its own jacket. 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Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. in their silence of forgo: td ness,. a few gardens full of chi mai colours that are good for the eyes and for the heart," That evening, when the sun dipped behind the earth, f ex- perienced a deep feeling of sere- nity in the presence of So many natural things: the wood fire, the valley which drew us on, the magnetic mountains, the air of peace and silence, the living sky, I was happy to be them and, 'thinking cl my boyhood, of my very first excursion in the mountains, so like the one we were making now, I said to myself again: "It's just like the first time," — From "Mont Blanc to Everest," by Gaston Rebuffat.. Translated by Geof- frey Sutton. What Guides Bees On Scouting Trips? --- Many observers have express- ed surprise at the speed with which the foragers of a colony will often become aware of new sources of nectar and pollen. Frequently bees will appear on a crop almost as soon as the first flowers open. During the summer of 1-949 the author watched half-a-dozen bees col- lecting nectar from a small and very isolated patch of wild rasp- berries, growing in the middle of a thick wood, when only thirty-four flowers were open. Howdid these bees find these few flowers? Again, also during 1949, regu- lar and frequent observations were made at a large tree that was flowering freely, but not until about half of the flowers 'had actually opened was a sin- gle bee seen collecting a load of nectar from them, although sev- eral times previously individual, bees had been seen apparently investigating them. Then one clay at noon two or three bees began to collect nectar from the flowers and by early afternoon the whole tree was humming with bees. In order to explain such ob- servations as these one is led to suppose that at least a pro- portion of the foraging force of every colony of 'honeybees consists of scouts. What is it that leads scout bees to investigate new flowers as possible sources of food? We know from the work of Lubbock, Forel, von Frisch and others, that bees can distinguish be- tween different colours and per- fumes, and can learn to associate colours or perfumes with food. One sunny afternoon in spring the author was walking through a country churchyard when he noticed a number of bees play- ing considerable attention to some small, brightly coloured pieces of confetti which were scattered about. on a path. Al- though the bees flew down to- wards and sometimes hovered over particular pieces of con- fetti none was seen to settle on a piece. Some purple aubretia flowers were taken and scattered singly amongst the pieces of confetti. Several scouting bees flew down to these aubretia flowers, hovered an inch or less away from them, just as they had done over various pieces of confetti, and then settled down them, extended their tongues and searched for nectar. In experiments which were carried out subsequently it was found that untrained, scouting bees are attracted towards small coloured objects, particularly 'towards blue and yellow ones, but will very seldom alight upon them to investigate 'fur- ther their possibilities as sources of food unless they are also scented. It was found that, just as some colours are inherently much more attractive to scouting bees than others, so some of the scents used (all of which were extracted from flowers) were much more attractive to bees than others, — From "The World of the Honeybee," by Colin G. Butler. RAP.:ILY REUNION and Bess Truman Clifton, 3. In Mr. by his illustrious ON THE ROPE — Screen actress Janice Rule sits on a covered rope at New York's Idlewild Airport. She was headed for San Francisco. Puts Dick Tracy In The Shade Latest kick in the churning world of electronics is moletro- nics, a technique of iuilding am- plifiers and oscillators which promises to make obsolete all present devices such as radios, radars and TV sets, Molectronics is micro-miniat- urization pushed to the ultimate. Instead of taking ,some transist- ors and soldering them into a net- work of capacitors and resistors, thus building an amplifier, you simply take a piece of semi-con- ductor material and (by plating, etching or alloying other atoms to it) you turn it into an ampli- fier directly, Among the circuits so far built by this magic arc an audio amp- lifier the size of a dime and a two-stage vidio amplifier half the size of a postage stamp. Thus Dick Tracy's wrist radio Is obsolete before it got into pro- duction. Coming shortly could be a radio mounted in a signet ring, or built into the type of ear- phone used in hearing aids. What makes the new stunt possible is a new method of Mak- ing semi-conductors. The pres- ent method involves the careful culture of, say, germanium crys- tals, to which you add tiny, con- trolled impurities, later assem- bling different types to form transistors. By the new method (recently announced by Westirig- house) finished semi-conductore can be produced in long ribbons by automatic machinery. Event- tally it may be possible to pee- duce finished radio receivers from a pool of molten Serni-eon- ductor material, with no human hands being required at any stage of the process'.. Ordinary nail polish remover can be iiscd to take Off splatter of paint from floors — even when it has hardened. Let the reinover sink in for a few utes only,. then rub off with a cloth and wash the spot with warm, soapy water, The trouble with' being punt-' twat Li that there's' nobody there to appreciate Have you ever seen ten acres of 'flowers, mostly in bloom? Yes, that's what I said . . . ten acres. And I don't mean big, flat fields with plants in formal rows like vegetables. The ten acres I saw were quite differ- ent. Just like a lot of separate - gardens but with Winding paths thr o u g h shrubberies leading from one garden to another. Some of the gardens were even weedy — which added to their homey appearance! But t h e weeds didn't stop the flowers growing. The overall bloom was magnificent. Rows and rows of iris in every colour and variety. Peonies — double and single. Lupins with stately multi-col- oured spikes. Oriental poppies in a lovely shade of pink. Red pop- pies, mostly weeds in an uncul- tivated patch. I may be wrong but they looked to me like the wild poppy that grows .among the corn in England — and in Flancleese fields. Poppies may be weeds but they are very beau- tiful, none the less. And of course there were roses, and shasta daisies; colum- bines and lilies. But I could go on and on and still not name them all. One unusual plant was the "yucca." It was in bud but not quite out. Someone said the yucca blooms only once in seven years. I find it a little hard to ex- plain what I found so fascinat- ing about this garden. Natur- ally I have seen beautiful gar- dens before, seine of them bet- ter cultivated, but there was an unspoilt loveliness about this place that I found most attrac- tive, It had an old-world atmos- phere as if love, even more than the spade, had contributed to its growth and beauty. Perhaps I was not too far wrong at that. As far as I could gather two ladies, who were great friends, and had a mutual interest in flowers, start- ed the gardens as a hobby many years ago. They kept it up year after year until the hobby be- came partly a commercial yen tore. One of the partners died a few years ago but the other still carries on. The gardens are called "Rowancroft" and are si- tuated in the picturesque vil- lage of Meadowvale, in Peel county, well known as an artist's paradise. It was just by a stroke of luck that 1 visited these gar- dens. Members of our local W.I. were invited by the IVIeadowvale W.I. to help celebrate their 50th Anniversary. About ten of our members were happy to accept the invitation which was held at "Bowancroft," It Was a well organized tea and a delightful social get-together: There Were over 200 guests and members arid we were all seated under huge Maple trees that provided just the right amount of shelter and shade , arid ho niesqUi- teeti The programme included reproduction of the first Meet, it*, thoe participating were in dresses of that period. Some, I think, were considerably older frilly, lady affairs with won-, rlerful embroidered llouricet, A. few of the accessories were' a little incongruous but that made the costumes all the More •strik, ing. 'For instance, one lady with a very elaborate black silk dress wa.; we,:,rin.,* white spike-heeled shoes.-Gran'arnother i of coarse r Movie. Star Novak Sounds Off! "t felt most uncomfortabla. making 'Pal ,Joey" and `Jeanne Eagels,'" Kim Novak volunteer- ed, plumping down on the studio couch in her Now York apart- Ana and tucking her bare ireet under her, "I, just never cared for the part in `Pal Joey,' I can't stand people like that girl Linda — I can't even stand the name, I just think life is too short to waste time doing things you don't believe in." Wearing a black - and - white striped shirt, black slacks, and almost no make-up, Miss Novak at the moment was indulging in something she believes in strongly: Being comfortable, The duplex apartment that she sublets contains an antique chaise lounge which is soon to be replaced by an imitation, "be, cause the original is so valu- able. I can't feel comfortable in it," She has a similar dislike of uncomfortable roles, "I al- ways read up for a part — for `Vertigo' I looked up all sorts of information about dual per- sonalities — and it never does me any good, I felt most corn- '.sortable, without a doubt, in 'Middle of the Night,' We had rehearsals, and you had a chance to absorb the other peo- 4:de's ideas. It wasn't as though they were just pulling strings and making you move. "I'd always worked with Hollywood people, as opposed to New York stage people, and they always seemed to be show- ing off how little they needed to be prepared. They would be telling dirty stories one minute, and the next they'd be in the middle of a, deep scene. Well, I always arrive at the set early, 'but in 'Middle of the Night' Fredric March always got there before me — I never once beat him there. I like people who give everything to what they do." Miss Novak was asked how she could tell in advance whe- ther or not a part would turn out to be comfortable. "I just read about an experiment with babies and seventeen different foods, and they automatically went to the ones that were OK for them; I think it's the same with parts. You ,just know." The conversation turned to Miss Novak's hobby, painting, and she produced a charcoal drawing she was doing of the late Aly Khan. "Some day I want to do another one of a horse's head but with A.ly's eyes, so that people will look at it and say, 'My God, it re- sembles Aly!' " Miss Novak said musingly. "If I can't tell a story in painting, I don't want to do it, and I like to paint people who have been through a lot. "Acting is very frustrating," SALLY'S SALLIES 'I may many hint when lie's Echoed; the cr dealt is loaded." • ISSUE 29 -- 1969 she noWentoli "I like it, but oi:t Icontrol - Lion it takes. In movies, I just let th, script telci„!. me, Out as. far as ;List plain old fulfillment • .goes, it's not satisfying. That's why I have to paint. It's the only place. I get my satisfaction," , From NEWS.W Modern Etiquette Ahhe Ashley Q. Does, •a woman ever rise when a tnea .extemiS his hand either to greet .her or bid her good-by? A, As a hostess, yes — but not otherwise, unless the man is An. important persOnage or very elderly. Q. 91).Onld. the first page of a social letter be numbered.? A. No, but you may number the succeeding pages, if you wish, Q. Please suggest a bread-and- 'butter letter a girl can write ni- ter she has spent a week-end at a boy's home, A, She addresses it to the boy's mother, something like . this; "Deal: Mrs. Benson; Your home is as nice as Dick as always said it is. I really enjoyed the week-, end so much, and I want to thank you for having invited the.. Please remember me to Mr. Ben- eon. Sincerely, Sally 'Griffith." Luxury-on-a-Budget would have worn black kid, high 'button boots. Another modish lady had open-toed pumps, re- vealing red painted toe-nails. Can you imagine grandmother with painted toe-nails? There were also two skits, one of them called "The Gold-Diggers." Five girls dancing in short-skirted costumes, which they admitted were mostly paper and scotch tape — scotch tape in lieu of shoulder straps! Sometimes outdoor activities are spoilt because no one can 'hear the speakers but this enter- prising Institute had set up a loud speaker system and it worked very well. Oh no, I for- got, there was one hitch. Some- one blew a fuse and put the "speaker" out of commission, be- fore the meeting even got start- ed. Just one of those things — bute it was all treated as a joke and added to the fun, Of course, we had a delight- ful tea under the trees. There seemed no limit to the fancy sandwiches and cookies that were passed around although I am quite sure there was a big- ger crowd than the Meadowvaie W.I. had anticipated. We were late getting home as we could not tear ourselves away from the alluring gardens. Just when we thought we had seen every- thing we would turn a corner and there would be another sec- tion of the garden. It, too, had to be explored. So that was my highlight for last week. See what it means to be a W.I. member . . . you never know what unexpected pleasUre is likely to come your way — and sometimes, as in this case, only a few miles from home. 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