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The Brussels Post, 1961-08-17, Page 2EXERCISER — Dorothy Coulter looks as if she may be doing a swimming exercise. the new Metropolitan Opera soprano is doing a "singing" exercise. The diaphragm exercise points out that there is more to singing than singing. They DIDN'T Say What They MEANT Here are some classic instanves of the misuse of words. fair Sohn Hunt, who led the successful assault on Mount lgverest, told a, story recently of a Schoolgirl who announced her withdrawal from the Duke of Edinburgh's scholarship award scheme in a letter to her teacher which ran: "Dear Miss, I'm afraid I cannot carry on any longer with the Duke of Edin- burgh as the nights are getting dark." We all have careless moments when we commit the odd faux pas, Whether it is done verabally or in writing, it produces the same humorous effect. Not long ago, the wife of a Midlands bishop, speaking to a gathering of women about her experiences as an organist told them; "When our organ was modernized the local paper re- ported: 'The organist is now able to change her combinations with- out lifting her feet.' On the Brains Trust some time ago, Sir Julian Huxley quoted an eminent American oceanographer who told his audience: "I think that the sea's bottom is just as important as the moon's behind." Some of the best laughs are to be had from newspaper head- lines, which sometimes don't mean white the sub-editors in- tend, Splashed across the woman's page of a daily appeared: "Work- ing Wives Are Revolting." Another which appeared in a photographic m a g az i n e was: "Shoot All Your Children For One Shilling Each," Announcements on the labels of proprietary goods are some- times misleading. ,Printed on the box, containing a well - known cheese 'is the following: "The overall characteristic of this cheese is indescribable!" Advertisements sometimes cause amusement. One in a farm- ing paper announced: "Tractor for sale; has not worked since completely ,overhauled." Another stated: "Applications are invited for superintendent for the, making of 'nurses' uniforms. Successful candidate must have kr ewledge of uphOlstery." Newspaper reporters working' under pressure make the occa- sional slip, The fdllowing, from an English paper, must have been written in haste: "The first swallow has arrived at Devizes, It was spotted by Po- lice Constable John Cooke, whose hobby is birdwatching, sitting wet and bedraggled on telephone wires." High-flown off i e i a 1 notices, phrased in official jargon, some- times achieve exactly the reverse effect to that intended. A notice on a Portman Square entrance announced: "Only the smallest dogs in charge of owners are allowed in the garden .with- out a lead and they must be un-- der proper control. All other dogs and all dogs in charge of servants must be kept on a lead." A physician-addressing medical students at a University prize- giving summed up his topic in what he alone thought was a nut- shell, • "Go to a meeting of a commit- tee and what does one hear: often raw slices of maundering, repe- titive, ungrammatical, formless jargon," he began. "Look at the agenda of many - academic com- mittees, at the letters and docu- ments from government depart- mens, from advertisers and can- didates — diffuse, tedious, turgid. "Too many people will not take- the trouble to keep to a brief, terse, controlled style and cut out the unnecessary and falsely im- pressive. "On the clarity of your Words," he wound up, "may hang at worst, a life; at best a speedy and Complete recovery: " A life did depend on a word. In Ipoh, Malaya, earlier this year, a judge adjusted the black cap on, his head and was about to pro- nounce sentence of death on a prisoner when the foreman Of the jury leapt to his feet and Shout- ed: "A mistake has been made, •my Lord! Our verdict was not GUILTY, it was NOT GUILTY!" "What We don't know never hues its,?' observes a philosophi= cal reader. No, bid It Certainly gives neiglibotits sernethilkg to 'talk abont. MERRY MENAGERIE 90 t=41,17-Avr Isk.rummilmwm.ftwim .741 411ohiettmes I think Sint has A* lthdoi'lt •OmPleitr 842 f WhiMeeig. 1116ER Ala awendoltinz P. Ctaxike, I $01011.4.4 Maybe Tau Coed.! As eN'ery pro.speelot worth his grubstake knows, there is gold galore in the dry, sandy creek beds of Arizona, 'Nevada and southern California, just waiting for someone to pick it up. And es many a frustrated prospector has learned, it isn't worth the. effort. The gold dust is so. finely diffused among. the particles- of sand and. gravel that the only' way to get it out is through the costly, time-consuming sifting process called "placer" mining, And that has been uneconomical almost since the lush pickings of $utters Fe:: all this, a month-old firm called United Placer Industries now insists. it has the ingenuity and the wherewithal to succeed. where the 49ers and all since have failed, its chief and some- what incongruous assets: (1) Fi- nancial backing from Mrs C. Geraldine Freund, company pre- sident, a vivacious, brunette Chi- cagoan whose most, ambitious venture to date has been spon- sors...lip of the Winnetka Freund Pony Leaguers; (2) a battery cif high-powered New York and Chicago public-relations men; (3) a 40-foot-long, 18-foot-high land dredge invented by two young Phoenix, Ariz., geologists and called "Geraldine" after Mrs. •Freund, which is claimed to Comfort For Baby Babies can be cool this sum- mer dress them in these suits. Be thrifty — use remnants. Seersucker, nylon, light cotton are' good fabrics. Pattern 842: transfer; pattern 6 month, 1 year, 18 month babies; directions, State size, 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. Send now for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft. Catalog, Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, -:-.;-gmbroider, quilt, weave — fash- ions, ,"r-n-,-Furnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar- hits. — Otructions for six sm, 71,61 caps. Hurry, send 250. now! be able to process gold bearing placer sand for 6.2 cents a cubic yard vs. the 35- to 55-cent cost of conventional metheels. Last month "Geraldine' rum- bled along a dry creek bed in the Weaver placer district 60 miles northwest of Phoenix, re- sembling a mcnsrous harvesting machine as it scooped sand into its innards. It was only a trial run, but even grizzled sour- doughs watched fascinated as the machine gulped sand and gravel it would have taken them years to sift by hand — a maxi- mum of 1,500 cubic yards every twenty hours, according to the company. Once inside "Geral- dine," the sand is processed in a filtration system using infra- red heat, aeration, and an elec- trostatic separator. Drying is the secret of "Geraldine," according to inventors Kelsey Blot z, 31, and Donald Wright, 30, who spent live years working on the process. Despite its apparent dryness, placer sand contains an average of 8 per cent mois- ture that locks gold dust in; by drying the sand completely, they explain, the machine can easily extract the gold, $1,800 worth a day from the Weaver field where the gold assays at $1.25 a cubic yard. The inventors' statistics are nothing to those envisioned by Mrs. Freund, who put up some of the $150,000 it cost to build the machine and who thinks it will be "just as important as the reaper." The wife of a weal- thy Chicago psychiatrist, Mrs. Freund has taken 'to gold mining with fervor. She has leased 18,-' 000 acres of Arizona land which she claims contains "a billion dollars' worth" of placer gold. "It will be a gold rush all over again," bubbles Mrs. Freund — with United Placer presumably leading the rush and leasing its patented machine to other pros- pectors. In Phoenix, however, mining people were inclined to be skep- tical. For one thing, there have been other placer-mining ma- chines that failed to pan out the vast claims made for them; for another, United Placer's claims sounded to some like a sourdough's daydream slicked up for a press release. The idea of a billion dollars worth of gold on company land was "ridicu- lous," said one mining expert flatly. "That's more money than ever was taken out of all Ari- zona gold mines." Has anyone found a way to beat the heat? If so we would like to know about it. We have tried just about everything — shutting all the windows; open-, ing all the doors and windows trying to create a draft; working outside; working inside; doing as much as we can in the basement. But nothing worked satisfactor- ily. Finally we were driven to•the inconvenience at this time of spending $300 on an aircondition- er. Even so we had our problems. Two years ago we wanted to put one in; went so far as having a. man come in to install it and,.then found it was impossible, to find a place for it. The unit wasn't deep enough to go through the wall and we couldn't put it through any of the , windows as they are all plate glass with ten- inch louvres underneath for ven- tilation. This year we thought we had a solution when our appli- ance man' found he could get a unit small enough to fit one 'of the louvres, by.cutting a bit away from the sill. In talking it over he happened to mention that, because of it being low down it would throw an awful blast of, air right across my bed. During the night I realised that would never do. And then I had a brain- wave . . . funny how we so often "see the light" during the hours, of darkness! There was one con: ner of the room, with an out- side wall, that none of us had even thought about. Partner agreed it would probably work fine if we could get the right unit. So back the man came again and by the next night our air-, conditioner was installed .It was in my room — which happens to be the hottest in the house, It is also the room where I do most of my work — writing, typing, sew- ing, knitting and reading. When the unit was in operation it was like living in 'a different World— and we thought our troubles were over. But oh no, Sunday morning we were changing the controls- and suddenly the motor quit. We tried this ant,qiet, all to no avail, And then Partner said -- "It bet it's blown a fuse!" "But why?" I wailed, "what did we do that was wrong?" We didn't know and We couldn't find out because the agent had Omit- ted to leave us a book of instruc- tions. He couldn't find it. Don't forget — this was Sun- day. Naturally the store was closed and it had no emergency number listed. If only we could have contacted the manager at his home, just to ask adviee, But We couldn't do that beeatrae_We know his name! That. Sounds crazy, T, know, but 'Ws true, We have always heard him spoken of as "Al" and if We Wanted to -get in touch With hint at the store We; asked for Al. BUt -how cad you get a perabil on the- phhaitoh:i it you don't know Well, after replacing two blown litaes and e#eklinetiting with- thd various controls we finally, got the thing' going againand got hotter in so doing theft we would have been Without it! BelieVe Me, Al, will have to. find that book of instructions tOcialr or else! What We cliatil khOW about appliances *edict fill ii book — and one can't afford to do too much experimenting where" electricity is concerned. Sunday, Bob, Joy and the two boys were here and of course the Main topic of conversation was the heat — or rather the humid- ity. We have had it hot before but never with so much humid- ity for so long a spell. It is cloudy today but there is no mention of cooler weather in sight. However, I suppose we shall live through It. Of one thing I am sure . . . a person is far bet- ter off in his own home than by running around trying, to find a a pace to get cool, After all, the relief can only` be temporary — we have to 'come back home in the end so we are far- better to stay put and make,things at home as comfortable as possible. Dee and the boys 'are having a wonderful time at the cottage. That, of course, is a hoind away from home and I imagine their way to beat the heat is to spend most of their time in the water. All the boys can now swim, even four-year-od Jerry — that, is. With life-jackets on. Dave doesn't need one as he is' ike a young eel in the water. Cousin Mike has been staying with them the last feiv weeks. He is five and yesterday he caught six fish in ten minutes! Dee is a good swimmer too so"I imagine they are fairly safe. Art goes down Friday nights so I get 'all the latest news. Monday Morn- ings. The whole family is agitat- ing for us, to go down — but as I have pointed out we are regtilar old home-bodies — especially when going to the cottage' in- volves a, long car drive. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. When mailing birthday cards to my women friends, whom in huSband knows only slightly, should I sign both our names, or just xnine alone? A. You need not include your husband's name on your person al greetings, Q. Are silver crumb straper$ still in good use? A. Yes, if the tablecloth is of plain damask. But are not so practical on lace or embroidery. In this case, one may fold a napkin to the thickness Of a pot= holder for brushing off the crumbs. Q. When a girl is being Mar- ried iii a sinipley informal sere-. many, and she is wearing her going away costume, does she lia've a number of bridesmaids? A. In an informal ceremony such as this, the bride usually has ^hitt one attendant* her maid or inatrori-of-horiar, Q, When a girl Is Walking along the street ,with a. man and he Speaks to someone whom she doeSn't. know, Shmild She speak also? A, She shoul d and nod her head, This holds ''true also for the Mani• should She speak to an aoluaiiitatite. • , Q, When, Miring a piece of SiI4 ver for a baby marked with only one Waal, should It be, the Mat hie the lase A. The first, 1661 King's Messengers' Adventurous Lives The three Mexican peasants stood unconcernedly on the back of the truck. Their hands were tied behind them and their legs were roped at the ankles. A noose was draped round each of their necks, They were about to die. The truck crashed into gear and lurched away. The ropes cracked taut and the three figures weaved and spun in a macabre dance of death, From his car nearby, King's Messenger Brigadier Sir Andrew Maclaren, D,S.O., watched in horror. Then Captain Ocampo, the Mexican officer who was accompanying him, walked back to the car. "Guerilleros," he explained, "They admitted their guilt, so a trial was unnecessary!" Mexico was under the hard and fast rule of a dictator in 1931. Outlaws and bandits who dis- agreed with the regime abounded in the country and their looting and pillaging excursions were be- coming more frequent— hence Maclaren's escort on his journey from the British Legation in Mexico to Veracruz carrying vital diplomatic bags. Brigadier Maclaren .settled back in his seat as Ocampo and two guards clambered in and the car began to pick up speed. He lit a cigar and was deep in thought as the miles sped by. Suddenly the car jerked to a stop in front of what had been a bridge. A bomb had reduced it to ruins. As his companions quickly raised their hands above their heads, Maclaren saw several armed men. emerge from some nearby bushes, One of them motioned Ocampo and the guards to- get out of the car. They did so, and for a few minutes the officer and bandit spoke together: Then ()Campo returned to ,the car. "I have told them, that you are a' very important man, and are to be treated with respect. He will take you to their leader. May God go with you, senor." The bandits hustled him away. A few seconds later, Maclaren heard a volley of shots and realized the three soldiers had . been, executed. Some hours later a tired King's Messenger found himself facing .the leader of the banditS in- troduced by,his men as:, "General Hernandez Romoza, Seeker of Ristice, Friend. of the Poor and Oppressed, Governor .Of numer- ous states and' the next President of the' Republic." After his imposing references, Romoza was something of a, dis- appointment. He-was a small Man, with high cheekbones and narrow darting _eyes. His clothes were even more fantastic than his titles heavy, gold epaulettes surmounted a bottle-green jac- ket and grubby white cotton trousers, while. buckled to his side was an- immence sabre. He wore.'no fewer than thirty medals including the Croix de Guerre, two ,Iron Crosses, a Star of David — and a' bronze medal denoting 'third place in a swim- , ming contest held at a Texas • High School. Maclaren realized he was deal- ing with, nothing more than a power-mad illiterate with an in- satiable thirst for recognition and fame. He explained his- mission emphasizing its importance and concluding: "I must ask Your Excellency's. assurance that' my despatches will reach their des- tination intact." It was enough for Romoza he imhiediately decided that Nktelaren. was nothing less IMO. a relation of the King of Eng.- land and began to treat him ae, cordingly, Then ho spotted tiro King's Messenger's badge Royal Cipher with pendant sit- ver greyhound attached frorn blue ribbon, His admiration was obvious, Realizing that he was, in a position to bargain, Maciaren an- nounced that the silver grey- hound was an honour given to few men -,• but he was willing • to confer it on Romoza in ex, change for his freedom and safe passage. The General accepted like a shot— and later Maclaren, armed. with a sword, dubbed him • a Companion of the Order of the Silver Dog! The King's Messenger. reached Veracruz safely and eventually learned that Romoza had been captured by an army patrol, Despite his frantic protests that he was practically a blood rela- tion of the King of England, he was executed by a firing squad.. 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Hi ONLY HAS FOR Lit — Sitting ter 0 Hollywood niqhf. kidbe. Eddie FtshfiF foOlci tit hit Wife, TOylOr, on het fritt bight 'out since' Undergoing' plastic surgery last month to reirove a tracheotomy Ode incurred duririg her ttoublie pritiu4 *FAD ABOUT PRESIDENT'S , SPEECH IN BERLIN — With the. Bran eitibtita Gate in. the background;" West Berlin border gueirde read, 0 hesksjicipee adt6Utit President kennedy's speech on 4,14 Berlin Mayor` Will] Brandt in statement Bailed thok West speech and pledged, that th e 2,1 million people Of Serlirii would do their' duty.