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The Brussels Post, 1961-02-08, Page 2tr. GERF ewen.d.olit\e, P. Cl&tice Easy—see Diagram! PRINTED PATTERN 4506 SIZES • • • Ken. Gt41.$ CHINESE FACTORY — In this workshop, women from a Red commune outside Canton, China, turn,out beautiful embroideries intended only for export. 'The 'fort Of ,Snowdon. • Gets A. New Job Jones the :Camera" has,. a new, This is; how Wales would re- ceiye the; that. Princes.s. gargaret's husband, the Earl of • Snowdon.—the former photographer Antony Armstrong-. Jones.,--was going to work on a Sunday XleWspaper when he re- turned from three-week holi- day in the West Indies, Lord Snowdon was to take up his duties Feb. 1 as artistic ad- yi,ser to a new color section of the Sunday "This has never happened be, fore to a member oh the Royal Family," said Maj.. John Griffin, press secretary to Queen Eliza- beth, the Queen Mother. He was referring to the fact a member of the inner Royal Family was taking a job on a newspaper, Queen Elizabeth II's cousin, the Earl of Harewood, was found- er and former editor of the maga- zine Opera, and other members, like the Marquis of Carisbrooke, a grandson of Queen Victoeie, served on the boards of certain companies. Lord Snowdon's first duties would be with the new color section of the Sunday Times, the first issue of which was to be published -Feb. 4. He will later be associated in a similar capacity with other publications issued by the Sunday Times Publishing Company. (London's Sunday Observer raised an editorial cry of pro- test over the decision of Prin- cess Margaret's •husband. Lord Snow-Queen Sets rea.m.Whizaz. Two-in-one gift! Knit the gay bonnet for a child — ear-warmer for a teenager or yourself! Jumbo-knit.' Use large needles, 2-strands worsted for cable- trimmed cap or ear-warmer 'n' mitten set. Pattern 745: direc- tions smaLi. medium and large. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St.. New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER. your NAME and AD- DRESS. FOR THE FIRST TIME! Over 200 designs in our new, 1962 Needlecraft Catalogue — biggest ever! Pages, pages, pages of fa- shions, home accessories to knit, _crochet, sew, weave, embroider, quilt. See jumbo-knit hits, cloths, spreads, toys, linens, afghans plus free patterns. Send 25e. Ontario residents must include le Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered, There is no sales tax on the patterns. .Snowden, to join the staff .of the Sunday Times. The two news, papers .are rivets,. (The Observer was .quoted by the Associated Press as. ing Buckingham Palace for al lowing him to take the job, cola tending his name will unfairly boost the advertising revenue of the Tinees, (Both the Observer and the Sunday Times are in competition for Britain's "quality" Sunday readership. The Times, owned by Boy Thomson, Canadian news- paper magnate, is running ahead. with a circulation of over 1,000„, 000 in. comparison, with 725,000 for the Observer.) For the color section he will prepare special picture features, Ile may even take photographs himself, which will raise the question of whether he should • join. a union, writes IVIelita Knowles in the Christian. Science Monitor, Lord Snowdon gave up his job us a professional photographer when as Antony Armstrong- Jones, according to the editor of Debrett, he became the first com- moner to marry into the British Royal Family in 457 years. He has since taken an unpaid job as artistic adviser to the Design Council, a state-sponsored organ- ization to promote good design in British indhstry and manu- facture. The new appointment carries a salary. The amount has . not been officially announced, though Fleet Street is busy specu- lating on the figure. Lord Snow- don will not be expected to keep office hours, and his duties will not interfere with official en- gagements. The color section announced by the Sunday Timis, though well - known in American jour- nalism, represents a new devel- opment in England. It is so novel in fact that it has already run into trouble with the retailers and the newspaper sellers. The latter object to the extra. weight. The former are quibbling over the pay for extra work involved in putting the two publications together, since they • come to them from different printing presses. The format of • the Sunday Times will remain unchanged, the color section being added to the present news and magazine sections to make a three-in-one paper., Folks Stay Away Just Like In Ontario To hear granite-ribbed New Englanders tell it, the town meeting remains as staunch as Yankee frugality, as sacred as the flag on, the Fourth of July. Sacred it may be, among local historians and starry-eyed artists like Norman Rockwell, but staunch it no longer is — at least in the state of Maine. "Town meetings are poorly at- tended, manipulated by minor- ities, unrepresentative of the community, and cumbersome to the point of rendering town gov- ernment unresponsive," reports a Bowdoin College study releas- ed recently. Analyzing the town- manager system, the Maine col- lege's bureau •for research in municipal government says: "The farcical nature of 'the town meeting is accentuated in the towns with over 5,000 popula- tion. A sampling of their town-' meeting attendance for the past five years revealed that only one attracted as many as 15 per cent of the potential voters. The rest had to be content with much less." Modern complexities in local government, of course, have forced many a Maine commun- ity — even though annual town meetings are still convened — to switch important decisions to either elected officials or ap- pointed town managers, This evolution is inevitable, But the likes of Daniel Webster would no doubt grieve at what time has wrought. Well, we have had quite a session! Our daughter and her family were moving from one house to another in the Pa.e- dale area left week and wanted to know if we would have the two smaller boys here on Fri- day and Saturday to keep them out of the way while the mov- ing van was there. Of course we agreed willingly. So they came out Friday night and when it was bedtime they settled down without any trouble at all and slept right through the night. It was Saturday morning when the fun began. Overnight we got our first heavy' snowfall of the winter. Two of our , neighbours were taking their children to- bogganing and wanted our two boys to go along with them. Eddie was quite willing but Jerry was far too occupied and wanted to stay home with me. So that's what happened. Eddie and Grandpa went with the neighbours and Jerry spent two whole hours trotting up and down stairs with logs for the fireplace — carrying them from a pile downstairs to the chimney nook 'in the living room. Their mother had t o 1 d me they wouldn't need much looking af- ter Saturday morning as they would sit and watch television hour after hour if they were al- lowed to. So I turned on the TV but they were not the least bit interested. Which goes to sleety that if there are active counter attractions TV doesn't really have such a hypnotic effect upon children as we somelMes are led to believe. We all had a rest after lunch following which the two of teem amused themselves in the base- ment again. Grandpa's tools were a great attraction. They, were allowed the use of a small ham- mer, nails and a hacksaw, with plenty of odds, and. ends or weed to play around with, and I'm telling you, they were two busy boys for the rest of the after- noon. It was nine o'clock before Mother and Dad came along to take them and' by that time we were all a little on the tired side. The deep snow made it an awful day to be moving. Dee had been busy all week cleaning the hardwood floors. She might bet- ter have left them alone as you can imagine what they looted' like by the time the movers had finished tramping in and out. The next morning we ware pret- ty busy cleaning up c ur own house) Sometimes I wonder how mothers stand up to it — I mean looking, alter their children day after day, Week in and week out, But t h en we did it ourselves years ago and thought nothing Of it. I suppose that is where the difference in age comes in. As a mother with young children you take it in your stride. Orande parents are naturally consider- ably older and inclined to be somewhat over-mucous — more alive to the things that can hap- pen when Or if, little tots- are left without sufficient supervi- sion, That 1. estate hi Mir getting 'physically over-tited,' and in a state of nervous tension. We see quite a lot'of . oft 'grand, dhiletten but their Parents very rarely ask us to '`baby-sit!' for any length of time although We did our share each time new baby Made it necessary for Grandma to take over while mother was in hospital. No, we cannot say we have. ever been imposed upon by our children but with 'some greet., parents it is a different story. I know several instances where grandmother looks after the chil- dren so their mother, can 'go out to work. Unless it is absolutely necessary that seems to me like an imposition. After all, grand- parents have raised one family. That ,should be enoughe-As the years go by they can do . with - much less work and consider- ably less worry. Therefore 'they should not be expected to .raise their children's offspring, as well as their own. Incidentally, what de you think of this for 'four to. shi- year-old reasoning, as revealed in fly_ °Rowing • , it ,ersaleon? Grandma: "You had' a little dog once; didn't you Eddie?' Re- member Honey?" Eddie —nearly six, "Yes,. but he died. When dogseget old they die. When men get old they -die. And when ladies get old they die too." Grandma. "Yes, and when lit- tle boys. run across the road in front ct cars they sometimes die too." Jerry — four and a half years old_ "No they don't — they get I let it go .at that., I thought our two little grandsons were not quite ready to kn.o w the basic difference .between dying, and getting ,killed.. Incidentally we have solved our telephone disturbance prob- lem,. We had a telephone' man come in and adjust the' eitension bell to almost a whisper.. Now by turning down a lever an the kitchen set we don't even hear it, ring, — that isare turn it up again. We are delighted with the result. After all a telephone is. meant to be' a convenience — not an inconvenience. False Hair-Wigs Are Back Again A fashion wave that slatted /00,000 years ago lapped against the White Home door last year when Jacqueline Kennedy tried a hairdo 'using some of some- body else's hair. The First Lady, on a visit to Paris, thus aided a revival. False hair, which reaeh- ed 3-foot heights at the court of Louis XV, then fell to tha level of the switch, is fashionable again, The trend began as a fad three years ago when: Paris designer 'put wigs oh his models,' This started a rash of "party ulgs” cast, I'm tinning Over .ricer' ou right hoWl" NEW.TWIsT—.Fashi'ort 4i:v s the nod to the' current dance craze 'With a "'twist turbo 1"' for spring. The turban, pi-,.e- sented in New York, was- the only departure from the big.- brimmed rook that' wi:IT domi- nate fa.shion, world' T962.. in pastel synthetic. fibers_ Then. came,. a boom in wigs - of real hair, firmly anchored, and: un- deteetable, Trade sources say 250,000 to 500,000) women • now own such. wigs, and this• doesn't include 2' millIan. American men, and' women' for whom wigs are, ' necessity_ As with any fashion,, the, sea- soning; behind, the revival is •a bit vague.. -"Most owners argue that. wigs are convenient...One Los Angeles socialite. said "NoW I cam swim and not have to worry about my hair, I cant just clap the old wig' on, and nobody knows the difference!" The. wife of an upper-bracket executive,. -said:: "It's financially worthwhile. With that bubble" thing we have, to wear• these days„ you have to, goo to the beautty parlor twice at week.' Whatever• the reason,. the na- flans wiggers are. delighted. "It's getting to be a question of social status now,, like: mink: coats,' said Max Miller, president of New 'York's Joseph Fleischer & The. Comp a nye a 13.0.-year- old producer,, importer, whole- saler„ and retailer, is turning out "several hundred" wigs a, week, expanding staff and adverthing. Miller says the' percentage• of "problem' wigs (ie., for the hairless)) has, falren from WI to 50. in the' past eighteen months_ One reason:- "We're calling them wigs: now in ad's: Up to a year ago you could never do that. It was always `hairpiece or 'trans- formation'e" Louis.Feder, another New York wigmaker, says his volume in the last, six months doubled sales of a. year earlier, but the proportion of "problem' business has stayed the same. "With all the publibity," More women who have a prob- lem are deciding it's respectable to wear Wig," Feder said. Wig prices range from $2.95 to $750; the cheaper models (which cost up to about $75) are made of synthetic fibers, mohair, and yak fur. Makers of "high-fash- ion" wigs say that each takes one worker about a week to turn out, hand-knotting up to 300,000 human hairs in an vidually'fitte'd mesh cap,. The best hair for wigs is imported from Italy, where women inex plicably achieve the desired hair • coin's and texture, Few expert. sive wigs are dyed; instead, makers blend strands of natural colors, The results are spreading froln ballets of the haute denture crowd to neighborhood esalohs- arielestibtirban department stores, "It's, n •great, conyeri,ienec,1`,paicl Miller, "you just' dro[; file `wig off to be cleaned and set, and go shopping. Thtfi;'," if your "husband cdlls6Aiict,gaW 'Come into town for dinner; you just put on the wig, and go."' ' Work nitres sonic trottbIts j anti makes us forget others. Sells Diamonds College : campoe.s.. The time-honored way for col- lege students., to earn while they learn is to sell encyclopedias, That's what Charles Kent Beaver of the University of Detroit did until he found a more glittering. opportunity.- Beaver, 21-Year-. old philosophy major, sells dia ,, monels., Sinee last April, when eager- beaver Beaver started "special- izing" in diamonds, he has seen his sales soar from a few stones. a week—each worth en average of $300—to his present gross • of $3,900 a week, On or off campus, which he leaves at 2:30 each. afternoon for his two-room office nearby, he looks, acts, and dress-• ee like a full-time entrepreneur. He has even developed the soli- citous, somewhet petronizing, ap- proach of many fast-talking salesmen, Beaver sold shoe polish and appliances . as well as encyclope- dias before he discovered that diamonds are a college girl's best friend. "I sold my first diamonds early in 1960. Then they began to fascinate me," he says. His Charles Kent Beaver Co. ("dia- mond merchants") has 45 repre- set-natives on 25 college campu- ses, most in the Midwest but reaching, into s o m a Eastern schools. By the time he gets his degree a year from now, Reaver (a native of Detroit): hopes to cover the whole eastern sea- board, lie evert talks. grandly of going. into the industrial-diamond• planning to go to Brazil Liz three years—ter dia- monds," he' says. 'Our attorney is working on the incorporation papers{" What's behind Beaver's suc- cess? To begin with, there's, a large market.. At latest. couree abouttill per cent of all college students were, married., addition„ Beaver• explained) recently, because of Tow over. head "our prices, are, about 40 per .cent less than the. competi- tion. 'Nei got the Manie Treeseke eye' among the fellows—rm al. ways trying, to get the best, pose sible diamond for the: customer." One satisfied customer, ant 18- year-old Detroit freshman{ named' Kenneth S,ullilvan- who recently bought a $100) ring,. says:: "I'fira tired I. could' save a since' he was a seiedent, too.. And' emit for , the information on stonasi themselves„ ifd recommend him.. I learned how to tell the differ , ence between, a good diamond and a diamond not worth the money,. That's one: tiling I did learn—no .diamond is- perfect!' In fact, Reaver''' ads state:: "Each customer' will be' given, as a mat- ter of course the little-known facts determining the beauty. ands .value of diamonds.' ALso at matter of course,. Bea- ver says„ is• the unhappy custom- er who: reports:: "Chuck,. waive broken' up.: Can I havemythoney back? • Refunds are made' in about one of each 25 sales. Beaver gets; his diamonds from number of sources„ including, outlets. in. New York and Ant- werp' and from a roving Euro- pean: expert who attends auc- tions. Ire enjoys telling how he. lined up hi's' Midwest source.. "When I walked into his.office7 Reaver' says, "there. were big' New • York men With as much as a half a million dollars worth of ISSUE 6 — 1962 in their .pouches.. him I Was selling only three or 1.24r diamonds a 'week and. told him ,t didn't have much. time (But). he believed we. Peg do what I believed we. geoid do and l have a credit with. him of up to $50,000," ('Tie's of the greatest salesmen I ever Met," his source admits, oaut, it remains to be seen how strong: he'll go,.I want to make sore he's wetehlog his money,"") Beaver learned early that 0 happy customer is the best sourcq, of new business, One student will tell another, Beaver point; out, but in addition, "we get their families, their friends, everyonk they talk to, because they are really enthusiastic about it, You'd think they - bought the Hope dia- mond for two bucks, they're so happy," —From NEWSWEEK To. keep a small. boy out of the cookie box, lock it and hide the key under a cake of soap. Moving gracefully. through Winter—the. princess dhess with a quartet of inverted' pleats Mat give fashibars new. flaiir Lai the skirt.. NC. waist: seams—diagram proves how siinple it' is.. Printed Pattern 45176e Misses" Sizes: 10, 1'2, 1:4', 16; 18. Size' Ili takes 47/8 yards' 35-Inch fabric:, Send' FIFTY CENTS ((stamps cannot he accepted; use' postal note for safety)) for thiS pattern.. Please print p.lairely SIZE, NAME; A ..131 D) NE' S' S;, STYLE NUMBER.. Send, order. to ANNE! ADAMS, Box- 1,, 123 Eighteenth Sb,, 'New Toronto, Ont., FALIZS' TOO' BEST FASHIONS —separates; dressese suits.„ en- sembles; all sizes;, all' in (MT' crew Pattern, C'atal'og. color:, Sew tor yourself, family,. 31-101. Or tario residents must include /e Sales. Tkx fbr. each' CATA- LOG. ordered. There is, ire sales tax en the. patterns.. ALTAR BOUND—Artist-designer Natalie Raymond Owings of Son Francisco will wed John Fell Stevenson, youngest ton of U.N. Ambassador Adiai E. Stevenson, on Feb. 1/. PUP TENT—COncentratiant,p 100",Vit.:centeoxygen,c Cale be achieved with this new; portable sendlittonifflof inhala,fr fidri theropy device, If is used in the tfoothleht of feSpirotOtjr idtSttOSSt hetif riltistratiOri, Shock and especially iii,thd care of newborn fitteit, jackle-Waikee is shown above removing tOMI oopped-up ijdOthe.. •o3