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DON'T BE A "HAPPY WANDERER," Make certain of
the cored room first, and alWays knOck before Matra Tht you save may be yont omit,
l'IN-UP GIRLS — Wearing unusual halos of huge pins in tra-
ditional cloth braids, these. Lombardy girls take part in a
Roman pageant.
TO oUR VISITORb:
Oui 'VISITORS:
Early Methods Of
Blowing 1 a 5
The glass used medieval
'ines was made by two "methods
one known as "MUM' and the
Other as "Crown." In the .first
type the workman manipulated
It by swinging and. twisting it
into, a long sausage-shaped. bale
1001.1,. The top and b‘.).ttein were
then. opened out to form a cyle
sincler, which was split longways
40,014h a hot iron, This was allow,
ed. to .00e1 and flatten out in an
• annealing oven to form a sheet
of uneven thickness,
But the "crown" process, after
the glass had been gathered on
the pipe and the small bubble
formed, it was transferred to an
iron rod, and a hole made in the
other end, By spinning and
whirling the rod between his
hands, the workman opened the
bubble out into a circular disc
some twenty-four inches in dia-
meter, thick in the centre, get-
ting thinner towards the outside
circumference, The method of
manufacture can often be de-
tected from the direction taken
by the small air bubbles in the
glass, If these 'run to more or
less parallel lines, the glaas is
"muff," but if the bubbles 'rove
a circular direction in ever- wid-
ening circles then it is "crown,"
Coloured. glass was mad' by
both methods, but there is ti fur-
ther distinction to be made.
Some 'k'inds of it are known as
"pet-metal" — that is, coiou"ed
throughout their entire thickness
— others were "flashed," In the
latter the pipe was first dipped
into molten coloured. glass and
then, once a bubble had been
blown, further dipped into rnol-
ten white glass until a good-
sized lump was formed. It was
worked as before, but the re-
suiting glass had a thin layer of
coloured glass on one side only..
The original reason for this me-
thod was the difficulty of mak-
ing "ruby" or red glass translu-
cent enough. By superimposing
a thin layer of colour on a
'thicker layer of white or trans-
parent glass a rich but transpar-
ent red was ipbtained. • Much la-
ter the •methed was extended •to.
other colours.
The glasses were coloured by
adding variouaarnetallic salts to
the materials used for making
clear white glass. The . colours
obtained depended partly on the
metal used and the temperature
to which it was taken. Copper
oxide produced red or ruby as-
It is usually called. Oxide of co-
balt gave blue and oxide of
managanese, purple glasS. Oxide
of iron was used for making
greens, and. by adjusting the pro-
portion and temperature strong,
brassy yellows could be made.
As the metal salts were found
MOW
"Match-Mates"
1y,r4i0.4111/611,
Oval shape is elegant; pin-
wheel, so pretty—crochet match-
Mates for living, dining room.
Pinwheel ovals—dramatic for
doilies, place mats, TV cover,
buffet scarf, Pattern 582: doilies
15x30 and 11x16 in string; 13x24
and 9x13 inches in. No. 30,
Send TIIIRTY-'FIVE CENTS
(stamps cannot be accepted, use
postal note for safety) for this
pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1,
123 Eighteenth St., New Toron-
to, Ont. Print ;Mainly PATTERN
NUMBER., your NAME and AD-
DRESS.
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in an impure state; and no dintbt
used more or less as they were,
found, this would probably aee
count for the tremendous varia-
tion. in "eh different colour. The
wifite glass of the time was
far from pure as we know it;
and was 'usually tinged with
Ore% or yellow due to the inl-
p4,rity of the sand used in its
manufacture, — l tom 0E4001
Stained Glass," text and Om-
arient by John Baker, photo-
graphs by Alfred 'Ammer,.
Brigham Young's Wife
Who Flew The Coop
Nobody knows heat! many
wives Brigham Young, the Mor-
mon "Lien of the Lord," actu-
ally took to his bosom. What-
e v e r the number, Ann Eliza
Webb — who author Irving Wal-
lace believes was the 27th and
last — was one too many, Alone
cf the Prophet's numerous har-
em, Ann Eliza soured on Celes-
tial Marriage (polygamy), flew
the coop, and sued for divorce.
Out of her extraordinary story
Wallace has built a biography,
"The Twenty-Seventh Wife,"
fascinating enough to wipe cut
the memory that his last consi-
deration of sox cn a large scale
was the tawdry best-selling no-
vel, "The Chapman Report."
Ann Eliza, child of Mormon
"Saints" in good standing, trek-
ked West in the exodus to Salt
Lake at the a?;:.*. .of 2. Growing
up under the Prophet's eye, she
first detected a gleam in it wnen
she was 17, Young lodged, her as
guest in the Lion House — his
populous seraglio — but did not
snare her into Celestial Marriage
until she had wed and divorced
a young plasterer who mistreat-
ed her. Aim Eliza later insisted
that she thought Young a "hate-
ful old thing" and married him
only to save a brother whom he
threatened to ruin. When she
became wife No. 27, Ann Eliza
was 24; the Prophet was 68,
Ann Eliza put up with it for
four years. Eventually, she ac-
quired gentile (non-Mormon)
allies when she opened her cot-
tage to boarders. With their
help, she fled the Prophet's bed
and board to. lodge in a gentile
hotel. Here, she went to bed at
night expecting to be murdered
by Mormon avengers and awoke
one morning to find that her
apostasy had made her a coast-
to-coast celebrity.
For ten years, Ann Eliza
stumped the nation, raking in
money with her lectures on life
in Brigham Young's harem.
Shrilly and tirelessly, she nag-
ged Congress to outlaw poly-
gamy in Utah and, in time, she
helped inspire some genuinely
stiff legislation, though a good
many Fundamentalist. Mormons
still practice plural marriage to-
day, Another irony attended Ann
Eliza's crusade: She married a
philandering Michigan lumber-
man who taught her to hate
monogamy as much as polygamy.
What finally became of her is
one of the unsolved mysteries of
the American past.
Ducking Stool For
Nagging Women
When a woman was charged
recently with being a "common
scold," she presented a problem
for court officials at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. A spell in a duck-
ing stool is the normal punish-
ment for such offenders, but no
one could remember when one
was last used.
The magistrates wondered if a
new stool would have to be built
until the State Attorney-General
ruled that a fine or imprison-
ment would be a fairer way of
dealing with the 'woman if she
was found guilty,
The ducking stool was used
frequently in Britain during
Cromwell's. regime and imme-
diately after the Rego-ration.
A common scold was not a
woman who nagged her husband,
nor was she a malicious •gossip,
She was1 a pets= 'Who a-dntafrtly
complained about the Govern-
ment!
The unfortunate woman to be
ducked was put" in a bueket
which hung from a tree over the
village pond, She was lowered
into the water, hauled up and.
lowered again as often as was
necessary te a make her change
her political views.
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HRON1CLES
61INGER.PARM r .rtri nl t no is
There arc all kinds of wonder-
ful things on the market these
days — electrical and otherwise.
A gadget to cook weiners, special
candles to burn to keep bugs
away, humidifiers and de - hu-
midifiers; push-button contrap-
tions for this, that and the other,
Providing you have the money—
or- credit — yOu can get them
with less trouble than it takes
to tell, But suppose you want
something ordinary — just an
ordinary, everyday article—now,
that's a different story. You shop,
and you shop and you shop, only
to be met with a blank stare and
a shake of the head wherever you
go. What you want may be so
ordinary that department stores
and such like don't even bother
to stock it. What am I getting at?
Just this,
I was badly in need of a
shower-cap. Naturally I didn't
anticipate any trouble in getting
it, but, will. you believe it, at a
nearby shopping .centre went
into Tamblyn'S, Kresge's, Wool-
worth's and all the ladies' wear
I could find and not..one of them
had an ordinary shower-cap.
Swim caps, yes, in all kinds of
fancy shapes and patterns, all of
throe too tight — and too expen-
sive for my purpose. After I
came home I was airing my grie-
vances to a neighbour. The very
next day she came over and
brought me a shower-cap,
"Where in the world did you
get it?" I asked.
"At a little store in the village,"
she answered. It was just what I
wanted — good quality plastic
with elastic round the edge and
it cost only thirty-nine cents,
A few days later while work-
ing on a wool afghan I am mak-
ing ,I broke my crochet hook. It
was bone and had worn smooth
with all the work it had done
over — I don't know how many
years, I had another hook, a steel
one, but it wouldn't slide in and
out of the wool nearly so well.
That afternoon I went into two
wool shops and a variety store in
search of another bone crochet
hook but all they had were steel
hooks. One storekeeper said —
"Why don't you try next door —
Mrs. Smith has all kinds of
things you probably wouldn't
find anywhere else."
So I wen`. "next door". Proper-
ly speaking it wasn't a store at
all but an ordinary house, the
front room fitted with shelves
ar d a couple of counters and the
owner-storekeeper a little old
lady, probably in her middle sev-
enties,
"Bone crochet hook?" she re-
peated, in answer to my query,
"Oh yes, I have lots of them."
And she produed a small box,
with hooks of ''all sires, "They
don't sell very fast now," she ad-
ded, "no one seems to crochet
any more,"
I got talking to the old lady
and was told she had been in
business forty years and in her
present location sixteen years.
"I have lots of stuff here " she
said proudly, "maybe things
you'd never find elsewhere, If
you can't find what you want in
the big stores conic back again
and I'll likely have it."
I looked around the crowded
little store and could quite be-
lieve it. It was one of those de-
lightfully quaint places that have
a little of everything — toys,
china ornaments, socks, knitting
wool, greeting cards, notions of
all kinds and, thank goodness,
crochet hooks, Among the crochet
hooks I noticed some bodkins ---
and I hadn't seen a bodkin lot
younger folk who don't even
years. Maybe there are plenty of
know what a bodkin is,
Sometime later I am going to
pay 4 second visit to that little
store, It was like stepping back
to the days of Charles Dickens
end the "Old Curiosity Shop". A
colourful old world oasis in the
'Midst of modern merchandise —
a shopping centre was Past across
the road, with stores too modern
to sell shower-caps and crochet
hooks, The front door of this lit-
tle shop even had an over-hang-
ing bell that rang when the door
was opened.
It is possible many readers of
this column may have just such
a shop somewhere in their corn,
munity, iat any rat: e: ii s..1
run aross wh
rat:
ercve,
times the owner is an elderly
pensioner, keeping store because
it gives him an interest in life —
he probably has a room at the
back where he and his cronies
can play cards in between, cus,
tomers, If you like colourful
character's pay him — or her —
a visit. You will be richly re-
warded. Generally speaking it is
not only the store that is inter-
esting but the owner as well.
Engage him in conversation and
you will usually find his philoso-
phy of life is liable to put many
of us to shame.
Just a word about the weather,
Here it is almost the end of June
and our furnace hasn't stopped
pumping yet, This summer (?)
will surely set some kind 'of a
record.
Q. The man I am to marry is a
widower, but I have never been
previously married, Am I per-
mitted to wear white and a veil.?
A. The bridegroom's status has
nothing to do with the bride. So
long as she has never been mar-
ried previously, she may wear
the traditional white wedding
gown and a veil.
What Would Happen
If A Bomb Went Off?
At 'first it was merely a sense
of annoyance that swept the city
when everythitt stoppot work-
ing. Then annoyance .deepened
to Outrage,. And finally, it was
a. Sena .0 of utter helplessness
that gripped hundreds of thou-..
sands of New Yorkers — and
realization of how • fearfully de-
pendent • the inhabitants of a.
great city have come to be on.
electrical power, .th .. the., tall
buildings, there they were, thon-
sandi and -thoUsateds• of them,
*Mont elevators, . X.) a .rk 4.0 $ $
came on, and they were with..
out lights. It had beenatbiaa hot-
test . day in nearlY.m t years.
(95 degrees) and 'suddenly they
were without air conditioning,
And for four hours and -22 Min,
ute$ there iwas • precious little
that most sot them could do
about it.
The power failure that crip-
pled New York last month
brought chaos to a 5-sqoare,mile
area of Midtown Manhattan in
which 400,000 people live and at
least that many work. It couldn't
have happened at a worse time
— at 5:05 in the afternoon,• at
the peak of the rush hour, Thou-
sands just leaving their_ offices,
found themselves standing in
pitch-dark lobbies high in sky-
Scrapers, with endless " dark
stairs as their only way out„
Thousands of o tie e r s were
stranded deep in tunnels on
stalled subway trains,
Probably the luckiest —,_none
too justly ,-- were those who
had already stopped off in their
favourite bars for •a couple of
quick ones before starting home.
In most places candles were
quickly lit and cash registers
jingled as the customers gradu-
ally got the idea that they had
a wonderful excuse for staying
right there. People in rooms
with natural light found that
there is a basic urge that guides
your action when you find that
the power is off. You go to a
window and look out — to find
someone across the street look-
ing out at you.
But for the great majority, it
was anything but a joke. They
stumbled and groped down the
skyscraper stairs. It took two
hours for 3,000 people to clear
out of the new 41-story First
National City Bank Building,
Even worse- off were those
caught in eievaters. The Fire
Department answered some 75
calls to rescue scom,s of trap-
ped victims,
It was just as bud in the tun-
nels of the Independent subway
system, which carries about a
third of the 600,000 rush-hour
passengers. About 4,000 riders
were trapped in trains under
the East River, between their
jobs in Manhattan and t h e ir
homes in Queens, for a long,
long three hours, Women faint-
ed, men took off their shirts,
others ripped advertising signs
down pad used them as faus
against the steamy heat.
Somehow the eity's institutions
managed to carry on, ,,Hospitals
used bucket brigades to feed
their patients on Upper 'floors
and kept iron lungs -in operation
with diesel power.
The New York Times, the only
newspaper affected, got its copy
written by candlelight, then sent
it by platoons of messengers to
the 'downtown plant of The
World-Telegram and. The Sun to
be printed on the latter's presses.
At 9:27 the power came back,
The city, blinking a bit, return-
ed to normal,
Warning Against
The Witnesses
Some 70,000 Jehovah's witness-
es, most of them toting Bibles,
gathered in New York last month
for meetings at Yankee Stadium
and "field service" — ringing
doorbells and proselyting. In an
article timed to meet this on-
slaught, the Jesuit weekly Amer-
ica warned its Roman Catholic
readers that since the witnesses
generally "know more about the
Bible than most Catholics . . .
it would be well to advise un-
prepared Catholics to avoid
them, for they will accomplish
little and may endanger their
own faith,"
Appraised of the warning, the
chief of the witnesses, Nathan
H. Knorr of Brooklyn, had this
reply: "If (the Catholics) had the
truth and . . witnessed to it,
they would be able to convert
the world in two mathree years."
Mrs. Mary Schmidt, a witness--
and former Catholic—from Flor-
ida, heartily agreed, "We know
they haven't the truth," she said.
"The Bible shows us they're way
off."
DRIVE CAREFULLY — The
life you save may be your own.
TO OUR VISITORS:
Vim, Sleek, Easy!
"1 1 NTliD PATTliN
Sew it one day, wear it the
next,! This shapely princess
sheath is so easy to fit, and fits
so beautifully. Stitch it straight-
away in white, black, or a bril-
liantly colorful cotton,
Printed Pattern 4814: Misses'
Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size 16
takes 2 3/4 yards 35-inch fabric.
Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps
cannot be accepted, use postal
note for safety) for this pattern.
PleaSe print plainly SIZE,
NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE
NUMBER.
Send order to ANNE ADAMS,
Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Si., New
Toronto, Ont.
The biggest fashion show of
Summer, 1961 — pages, pages,
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ISSUE 28 — 1961
THE ROOM, NOT THE BED, IS SEMAPRIVATt—polite-
ness may prohibit hint from coMplaining, but the
patient's comfort could be jeopardized by someone sit-
ting on his bed. Please use the lortirs tlro,dilcd, and
"cef-) v'e,;(4; short.
"A. SEA OF UPTURNED FACES" ... is luituid to upset
the patient. That is why we suggest only two visitors in:
a room. at one tinie, If others are there, please Wail or
tettrrit later,
Humor and horse sense are mixed into Ontario Hospital
Association's "prescription." Ws infericted to cure the
thoughtlessness of the small' minority,. of hiospitcil visitors
whe make things miserable for patients, hospital per-
Saline) and other visitors. Based on do idea orighicifind
With a group of hospitals in rert Wayne,• the Opening*
TO OUR VISITORS:
VISITS SHOULD BE' .EN.10-YE
For the welfare of toOr
patients, please observe
good visiting •practice.
Prescription for Hospital Visitors
THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STOGY! The patient's side may not be as pleasant as yours. Be Con-
siderate, and always observe: "No Smoking" signs posted
In the hospital, They are there for the safety of the patientQ,
move by the Collodion organirdflon has been to dis-
tribute the four posters shown, (Shelve, to ifs 200 member
hospitals Sri Ontario province. Bottom bar appears On
etith poster, If the operation an the furinyboriet oti
visitors is successful, the campaign will b.e pursued with
further "trectments.e'