The Brussels Post, 1961-04-06, Page 2this in the naive belief that he
was only letting Isis friends
know that he was alive and safe.
In .New York for lunch—and
to swipe as many whodunits as.
possible from his publisher's of-
fioe---Wodehouse explained why
he looks like a youth of 60, Bea;
in 191.1 or thereabouts, he read
a health article in Collier's and
learned a daily dozen which he
says he has devoutly performed
ever since.
For a new book club. which
promises autographed books td
subscribers, Wodehouse had just
signed 1,000 copies of his latest,
roughly reckoned to be his gist,
"Twenty-one enormous boxes
arrived," he said, "and I had
them put in the garage (prong,
unced gay'-rage), then I had to
carry them into my study. I
didn't think until later that I
could have put them in a wheel-
barrow. I started out signing
'Best Wishes;' then I wrote
'Cheerio,' then I went back to
'Best Wishes.' After a, while
Wodehouse' began tp look
like the most improbable name.
A great experince that!'
, ""Wodehouse said he was feel-
'lag lively as a kipper, following
a firm schedule of work and
relaxing at noon each day with
his favorite TV soap opera, the
ClEr3 show "Love of Life" ("Oh,
it's lovely, really awfully good").
,,"But you noticed," he said,
"'how old everybody is getting
Maughain is 87. Eden Phillpotts
(the. mystery writer) died, the
other day, and he was 98", I
Wonder what one is like at 98.
I do 'hope I can keep on with
my exercises." — From NEWS-
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entertaining. IliCvisitat is,'Gene' Kelly, in tie tihj hcitici;i` for Ali
dancing' 'appearance. al-the Monte Car10 opera.
One has two methods by which
to cross the Andes before des-
cending to the Argentinian Iron,
tier post. There is a railway tun-
nel, inside which there is also o
track where cars may drive
through to the other side with,
out Much difficulty, but this is
a very expensive method. The
other, and far more satisfying ex-
perience fot the traveller, is a
climb ittp, the steepest gradient in
South America to pass over the
Andes at 14,000 feet, and then
immediately drop down into Ar-
gentinian territory,. . '
The road was not the highest
over which we had driven, but
it was certainly the steepest.
On looking down, the grandeur
of the scene is breathtaking —
the view of g section cut through
the mountains, 'leaving jagged
gaping places to tell how it was
done. On all sides the rocks are
red and violet, and at their high-
est points,' silhouetted against a
vivid blue sky, they are perpetu-
ally capped with men, -
Our journey through Chile, Ar-
gentina and Uruguay was to have
been swift because 'A wanted
very much to arrive in Brazil
before the Carnival celebration
and while a slender chance of
doing so remained, little else was
of interest to us..: One superb
and permanent memory of Ar-
gentina, however, is the colour,
film I succeeded in taking of the
Iguazu Falls on the River Par-
ana where the three countries of ^
Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay
adjoin,
The Iguazu is a tribut'ir" of
the Parana. It rises in the hills of
Curitiba in southern Brazil, and
just above the main falls the
river, dotted with numerous is-
lands, opens out in all its maj-
esty to a width of 4360 yards.
There are cataracts for two miles
above the 200-foot preeipice
over which the water thunders
on a frontage of approximately
2,700 yards. The falls are wider
than Niagara by halt " as Much'
again, and higher by some thirty
to forty feet. But is not the
measurement or the comparison
which is interesting: rather it' is
the majesty and splendour of the
falls themselves as they come
crashing through the tropical un-
dergrowth to fling their tons of
white and yellow-stained water
down upon rock ledge and para-
pet into a seething caldron which,
flings back its bursting spray'
high into the sky, painting the:..
most beautiful rainbows `one can
imagine. Orchids in profusion
hang upon the quivering branches
of water-ruffed trees and a myr-
iad birds and butterflies fly
ecstatically over and under the
outflowing water.
We walked down among nar-
row crevices and were deafened
by the roar of the water's Voices;
we looked from left to right and
behind and below and there was
always Water — through trees,
over trees, among the rocks and
over the rocks — and suddenly,
as we carne closer to. the largest
fall of all, we, too, were envel-
Most Beautiful of
All Waterfalls
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tried to plum a way trirlieh the
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I thought the film wout ki bs
glorious if only a part of it ere
successful, and to my great joy
it is, giving us a lasting record
in, colour of the most :beautiful
waterfalls in the world — From
"The Road Grew NO Moss."' by
W....Kaman .Chaffee.
Magic World fpr
Ski Fraternity
Alpine skiing is something
more than the thrill of an open
slope and deep powder snow. It
is a new and magic world where
the ski. fraternity, a, unique inter-
national clan bent on fast sport
and snatching, social pace, con-
gregate for the winter. Starting
with the first snowfall at such
ski centers as .Garrnisch, Inns-
bruck, Kitxbuenel, aril St, Anton,
an atmosphere of gaiety envel-
opes the region and draws an ex-
citing mixture of fortune hunt-
ers, gay divorcees, eligible' but
confirmed bachelors and sensa-
tion seekers ,,from all over the
world, "
Matching the flow of Canadian
and American students, secretar-
ies, youna. marrieds „,arsd „chronic
ski friends' jetting over to Austria
and Bavaria for the Easter ,11531i-
days or a week's AWOL from
care, are , many. People converg-
ing from the • cities of Europe,
leaving school or work behind
for a few days in the snow
country. They come for the fes-
tive spirit, and incidentally, to
ski.
The party life is in tempo 'with
the sport: '1% 'ugh fast; it is in-
formal,. ceriteLind around Alpine
towns and villages, swinging into
high gear each evening as the
sun goes down. Tea dances,' get-
togethers and gatherings spring
up everywhere, the day's skiing
is hashed over, friendship and
conviviality bloom. An indication
of the sport's importance as a
social institution is its effect on
the 'fashion red, top,Canadian,
I.T.S. and European designers each
year present ,e new ling of boldly
styled ski and apres ski ensem-
bles, •
This year's 1 o w excursion
A fares; combined with airlines' ex-
pense-cutting innovations, bring
the European; ski scene to peo-
ple who never before considered
Kitzbkiehel or Garmisch within
reach. George Paley, Lufthansa
Gerrnan Airline' Ski Specialist
knowing the Alpine ski picture
and its bbbbling social life, aline
his winter ski prograin directly
at students and young workers.
Booking at choice pensions rather
than big hotels, he counts on the
ski schedule and evening revelry
to take care of all but breakfast
meal needs, breakfast provided
by the pensions. The program is
bare, stripped of extras, yet of-
fers full ski arrangements and
accommodations, advance snow
reports, ski school advice, a
wealth of facts about each area.
Besides the top Bavarian 'and
Austrian ski resorts featured in
Paley's plans are those of France,
Italy and Switzerland.
The social aspect of Alpine
skiing proves that skiers, after'
all, are, not really crazy, as is
'sometimes thought. There's more
,than meets the ,eye to a person
who -travels thousands pf miles to
plummet down a mountain on a
pair of boards. To get the best
idea of what skiing has to offer,
and why people go to Europe to
do it, look in on Garmisch or
Kitzbuehel some February. We
might even suggest you leave
your skiis behind.
Enlightening .News: A com-
munity in Michigan called Para-
dise belied its name the other
day--local thermometers regis-
tered 20 degrees below zero.
My column, this, week, 'if you
wanted 'to'giVe it a sub-title,
could be tailed "Column LO.I."
That ie 4 to 'say "Items of Inter-
est" culled from recent letters,
conversation and -other sources.
The first concerns *water Short-
age and that I ern, hearing about
from all quartera In a 'letter
a reader near Shelbeirne
the -Writer says'this: "We, are -so
terribly short of water . . .
only wash dishes once a day
and use pots and pans but spar-
ingly. We have to save every
drop we can 'for the cattle as
my husband is unable to draw.
-water, and, since my recent ill-
ness, I am not permitted outside
at all." .
I received that letter just be-
fore the big snowstorm.' Snow
won't make it any easier getting
around• but at least. it will be a
means of saving water. I remem-
ber years ago, under similar cir-
cumstances, I used to keep a cop-
per boiler on the kitchen stove
all the time and kept filling it
and re-filling it with pails of
clean, packed snow. And oh,
there is nothing so soft as fresh
melted snow. 'Naturally, there
was never 'any shortage of wa-
ter for house use or laundry
purposes, Partner had three
troughs for the cattle, two in-
side the barnyard and one out.
He kept the troughs full of snow
and water the same_ way. It all
meant extra work but you don't
think of the work during a wa-
ter shOrtage.
However; snow wasn't always
available. At such time we had
to buy water: That meant having
it come in by the, tank load. Now
I see farmers in that same dis-
trict buying water again. And
in Plenty of other places too.
Event in residential areas West of
here Water is being trucked in
for 'household purposes. One
house that we nearly bought the
present owner is buying Water.
How little we appreciate wa-
ter when we've got it. Water
trickles out of leaky faucets;
runs off roof tops into, ditches
and 'septic tanks 'and is . used
generously all day long. The only
ones who save Water are small
boys sent to wash their hands
before ntealS! Iii summer lawns
and gardens are Watered, Up to
the very IAA 'drop allOWed by
the lode" ,Water tointilssioli, I
aril sorry 'for anyone short of
Water but.I do feel a lot could
be done individually to
ate the situation on fauns grid
iri the Mine
to
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d
We' Were
Out West we Wed - ie*. Water
frOth the ,sidtigha *In *piing for
Wee/ling PlirPOSei, And we 1414
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the run=off from the bona* arid
barn, We, are not need to Attati
VtirtiltiVi Ways these days -hitt
When the 'necessity arisesl there
la *itch we might learn marl
Pr4VietaS generation*:
happier vein ee,..frekti
ariiiil bolt we get :plenty Of evi .
,cietideoaf -4the' kin . drieSa and 'gen-
erOsity friencti and f Miner
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neighbOUrs. Since I have been
under the .weather there have
been letters ' and phone callse
every day. In ea u r 'immediate
neighbourhood people ,are equal-
ly- kind. 'There is always sqme-
cne coming in to' see ,if Partner
wants• any'elhopping done; or any
other little• chore. As for' wash-
ing' Dee 'and Joy say bundle, it
up and we, will take . it home:
But I guess . we are• independent;
we dabble it 'out ourselves a
little,at: 4 ;time except yes- ,
terday:when Partner had a big
wash sheeta and. things. I , had
to laugh . he said "I could get
along fine if- it wasn't for the
Interruptions .-- the doorbell, the.
+baker or 'the , oil-truck there's
always semething."
"Well," I latighed, "that goes
with housekeeping. You get used
to it after ,a*hile." That is some-
thing the man of the house• has
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and invariable, ' interruptions
thro-w...you off ,sehedule..relendS
near here are in much the' same
situation. The -wife has• been dr,:
bed eight weeks :with a :heart
condition, Her' husband is doing
'all the work and was getting
along fine, 'until the snots,
came. Being .elderly he „is. not
physicallY able to deal with' it:
,So there •waS his snow-tiled
,..firivewayeand in Spite, of the
talk about Unemployment „he
couldn't find a man to shovel it
out.' Partner is. thankful Wit, so
long'as'he takes it easy, he can
shovel hig own driveway,' and
help out our neighbours too.,
What do you• think of this for
a coincidence? Ourson, and
daughter, although ,in. WidelY, see,
patated districts both had ,a fire,
. `scare-on the same .day. Two fire
",,eels :came , racing up the - street -
ital a club' :house , just" Opposite •
;'"lets' place.; .She --never 'did see,
ire or smoke so , probably
fhe:. fire was confined to .the
kitAen. But imagine what a
thrill the boys had seeing fire
trucks so close at hand.
Next door to Bob -a neighbour
wanted to make , sure his car
would start in the morning. So
he put a light bulbs. over the
motor and a blanket on top' of
it to • hold in the heat. Under
the hood, not on top of it! In
the morning there was a big
hole in the- blanket, Being wool
" it had only smoldered, 'On that
occasion there was_no fire alarm
as no _.one knew anything about
it until the damage was done.
But think what could have hap-
pened had' the 'blanket been in-
flammable.
Well, the time of the deep
freeze seems to be over. At this
minute it is 25 aboye zero. From
deep freeie we now seem to .
have come to the time of the
big snow.
Giant Birds''
On. Their Way Out
Strange -giant, birds which arc
survivors Of 'the Tee Age and are
sometimes. refer.resd to as ''cave-
man's pets," may, soon be extinct'
as the dodo.
They are a large species of
American vulture known as the
condors of California. Hundreds
of thousands of them once lived
in Americe, but a recent,„"count"
suggests that only shay 'Of these
astonishhigt remain alive.
"They have survived Into' an
age never —intended for them,"
say ornithologists: "They • are
giants 'from the age of giants
and have lived on earth since
the days of the great Mastodons,
sabre-toothed tigers' and giant
sloths,"
A condor has A• wing-spread of
nine or ten feei, attd stands4:vorn„
loin' to five ,feet
tile for'' decaying flesh can no
longer be. -satisfied. :very- 'day'
it beconies 'more difficult 'fdr;'a
'condor to its fill of carrion,.
ea* naturalists. AS creatures Of
the Asst fought savagely ter stir,
Vival, the COricliera picked dry the
bones of. tile
The mother • condor lays only
one egg a year; The;eiattirat life
et a eondor is now believed tr„,
exceed a hundred t•tars. SO tome
Of these glossy 'black-plumaged
creatures are 'virtually flying
centenarians.' '
iThe Condor's inch 106g,
quills Were used by early Cali,
fertilaria' to carry gold dust. AS
*Welt as '500 worth of 'the heaid-
dtht could be packed. into:: oiie
Iloilo*, filial.
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DRIVE CAREFULLY The
RN *oh may fier
What They. Looked
At.In 'Victorian:Rays.
The queen's and Prinee Al-
bert's.concern both for the pro,
gress of photography and -I for
the dissemination of 'knowledge
through photographs is shown in
Many ways, Their interest, for
instance, in. Sir David PreWster'a
;lenticular ,stereoscope at the
Great,,,Exhibitioirlave the greet-
est impetus to visual education
in the nineteenth century, No
ture ()tithe stereoscope, consider-
big
firm had been. prepared
to risk 'the commercial rnanufac-
iwsnt oagns enti
that
etsaur tiSaeibrrle forCh instrumentaprhleost
photographs)
gW(ripbehlacsth;
had met with no success.. „
Realizing the advantages of
Brewster's design over Wheat-
stone's, Jules Duboseq foresaw a
great future for 'it In connection
with photography, and
structed a nnmber of stereoscopes
for display, at the 1851 Exhibition.
At the crystal Palace the three-
dimensional !effect of stereosdople
daguerreotypes when viewed in
the stereoscope aroused Queen
Victoria's admiration. As a re-
sult of the interest shown by the
queen, Duboscq was flooded
with orders, and English optical-
instrument makers then also took
up' the •manufacture of stereo-
scopes, of which nearly a quarter
of a million were sold in Lon-
don and Paris within three
months.
When the comparatively ex-
pensiye stereoscopic daguerreo-
types were replaced, by glass
transparenciA" and soon after-
wards by paper prints from collo-
dion negatives, the price of
stereoscopic slides, was brought
within reach of everyone. Stereo-
grams of buildings 'and scenery
in all parts of 'the world were
soon• available, and ,by, 1858' the
'London, Stereoscopic „Company
was in a position to advertise thee .
astonishing number of 100,000
different views.
By• 'this time 'the stereoscope
had conquered' the, world, and
lending libraries facilitated the
exchange of pictures. Men, wo-
men and children, rich rind poor,
gazed into `this ,"Optical 'wonder
of the age", the television set
Of the Victorian era.• Like- the
photOgraph album soon to cone,
'the stereoscope found a 'place in
every Victorian drawing-room,
providing ."refined amusement
combined with useful instruc-
tion" -e,ethe criterion of Victorian
recreation, From "Victoria
R," by Helmut and Alison Gern-
sheirri
Eighty Years And
Eighty-One Books
"Do you know 'What lapidary
means?" P.G. Wodehouse
quired across the luncheon table.
"This chap, Simon Raven, said in
an English ,review of my .last
book (`The" Most of ,P.G. Wode-
house') that I was lapidary in
part. He's very odd' Sort of
bird, but if it Means 'what you
say, he must have intended a
compliment.", .
Halway through his 80th year,
P. (for Pelham, or Plummie) G.
(for Grenville))' Wodehouse is a
big, bald old lamb with an air
of deep innocence which holds
up even when he drops bits of
information culled from The
Wall Street Journal, A resident
of this country off -and on for
half ,a century, he now, lives 120
miles from Manhattan on a small
Long Island' estate with his wife,
a retinue of cats, a'dog, and a'
remarkable • red tree called an
Acer ("I should think it's Jap-
anese, wouldn't you?"). He
hasn't seen , England since 1939
when they made him a Doctor
of Letters at Oxford. In ""cer-
tain quarters" over there they
still hold. it. against him that,
while interned by the Nazis, he
made jesting broadcasts from
Wodehouse says he did
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