The Brussels Post, 1961-11-02, Page 2x ac
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MOTNER'S LITTLE HELPER — This little cutie is Debbie
Sue Brawn, 5, and doing dishes is fun for her. Debbie
Sue is 1962's U.S. March of Dimes poster child. She was
born with an open spine which was corrected by surgery,
made possible by March of Dimes funds, Today Debbie Sue
can walk without braces but .wears half-leg braces for cor-
rective purposes following the operation.
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As the 160 'wedding gtieats.
stied into their seats, the or-
)%aletst'e. hymns soared to the top
t) Wive. in Bournemouth's
• 190,year-old Heldenhurst church,
Then came the wedding maven
from L.oliengrio and ;Ws and
en's from the audience as the,
bride and groom moved down
the aisle and stood before Ted-
oarpeted altar steps banked with
eltrysanthernums and dahlias. The.
:Bev, William Stedmond, a pink-.
checked gentleman who has mar-.
tied more than 1,400 couples in
his 35 years as an Anglican
clergyman, cleared his throat,
"Dearly beloved," he began. "we
are gathered together here in the
sight of
The vicar got little further
than that,
"As if he had been poleaxed,"
the best man, Geoffrey Farwell;
dropped to the floor in a faint,
hie head striking the altar steps
with a thud.
"I was horrified," the vicar re-
counted last month, "but I went
right on." 'He didn't go on for
long, though.
Thinking that the best man
had fallen dead on the sport, a
young choirboy in a white sur-
plice keeled over in a faint and •
had to be carried out of the
choir loft. Shaken, the vicar
continued.
But again: Not for long.
The bridegroom, 20-year-old
Alan Farwell, suddenly turned
pale, swayed momentarily, and
then collapeed. to, his kneee. His
bride-t'-be, pretty Gillian Seare,
helped him to his feet and held
firmly to his arm until the mo-
ment •_--ete when she was to re-
ceive ' ring, At this point the
bride'e father had to rummage
throne 1 the pockets of the best
man—till prostrate—to retrieve
it.
"On humanitarian grounds,"
Vicar itedrnond omitted the usu-
al ade.ess to the wedding couple
and need through the rest of the
ceremeny. "Some wedding cere-
monies do have their troubles,"
he told a reporter. "But I've
never known anything like this
one—the church looked like a
battlefield," re Was there any explanation?
Sori-e'e parishioners believe, the
vicar -.aid, that ancient spirits
may have reappeared to cause
mischief, But the vicar himself
discounted this. "It was a chain
reaction," he said. "Mass Hy-
steria,"
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CHRONICLES OF Ginger Farm,.
Here's one for the record. On
Sunday morning, October 15, we
saw snow for the first time thee
season. It was very fine, never-
theless it was snow. And that
after a record high of 80 degrees
earlier in the week. But we still
haven't had a killing frost. Last
night we thought there would be
one and at two o'clock in the
morning I remembered a very
special begonia was still out, So
/ got out of my nice warm bed,
went outside and brought the
plant in. It was already potted
but it is such a huge plant we
wanted to leave it outside to the
last minute. I don't think I ever
saw such a huge begonia — great,
big leaves and stems — and it
all grew from one small slip I
planted last spring,
Well, I suppose everybody has
been in a mad rush just recent-
ly, Doesn't matter how long the
good weather lasts there are al-
ways last minute chores to do
when the weather changes, We
have rescued what was left in
the garden — flowers, bulbs and
vegetables. Everything except
the geraniums. One of the plant-
ers is even now a mass of red,
geraniums still blooming as if it
were the middle of summer. The
plants have grown so big I can't
possibly handle them in the
house.
We are still on the run in
other ways too — entertaining
and being entertained — and last
week I started making six pairs
of pyjamas for three of our
grandsons. Saturday I went to a
sort of family dinner party that.
Dee was giving for her Aunt
Qtteenie, Partner wouldn't go --
he didn't want to miss his foot-
ball game on television! That
wasn't quite so ungracious as it
sounds because his sister will be
back with us on Monday so Part-
ner says she will have seen
enough of him before she goes
anyway.
Anybody been watching "Ben
Casey" on television — that is,
a new series of dramas dealing
with doctors, hospitals and pa-
tients? It is fine if you can take
it but I am not too sure it is a
good idea for people who are sick
to watch it too closely, 1 get en-
thralled with any picture of that
type — in fact I would love to
have been a woman doctor. "Dr,
Kildare" is good but I think "Ben
Casey" is even more realistic —
perhaps too much so. As an iTX
Iustration I will tell you an
amusing incident that happened
to me. We had Watched "ten
Casey" followed by the late news
and then We Went to bed, I Witt
soon asleep brit- In a little while
I was awake again and Was dis,-
treesed to fed - queer burting
in me eart, It kept'on no matter'
which Way 'hated. I rettleth-
lacrect peoplii with high iii6bit
pressure do sometimes have ear
trouble but I had never been
bothered before. Thinking of Ben
Casey I said to myself — "Is this
what happens when the carotid
artery acts up?" Then I thought
— "This throbbing is such a
peculiar sensation. If I had to
describe it to a doctor what
would I say? Probably the best
description would be that it was
something like the buzzing of a
fly," With that the thought came
to me . . . "A fly — maybe it IS
a fly!" I sat up in bed, put on
the light and looked at the pil-
boy, No fly. But I use two pil-
lows so I lifted the top one, and
sure enough, trapped between
the two pillows was a stupid,
buzzing fly! Imagine hearing a
fly through the thickness of a
feather pillow. It was one of
those crazy shingle flies that flop
around for awhile and then falls
on its back and dies, But I'm
telling you no other case of
"noises in the head" could have
been more realistic. And as you
see it wasn't even imagination.
The noise was there all right al-
though it turned out it wasn't
exactly a symptom of high blood
pressure!
As to that I know one thing
that can raise a person's blood
pressure, and that is taking a car
on the road. What road? Any
road. You can't drive these days
without running into detours and
road construction, Friday I was
shopping just two miles from
home, There was a survey party
right where I get on to the high-
way, A little further along men
were felling trees and had trucks
along the side of the road. I
knew No, 10, was shut off eso
took a sideroad, only to find it
unusually busy. I found out why
when I got to the and. of the
road., Men were putting down
new paving on a section of No.
10, north of No, 5, hitherto un-
touched. That is about the busi-
est intersection around here anci
the Department of Highways
chose Friday afternoon to work
on it! I know road work must
be done but it sometimes appears
that the Department goes out of
SALLY'S SALES
"WY:hobby walla bA btinting;„
Ur"' IONO'10, jiboot.°
Its. way to find the most incon-
venient time to do it, On this.
occasion a had to perk my car
and walle a considerable distance
to the bank, dodging MY way
around heavy road equipment,
jqz x i ng .The
.wpdoin.o. March.
"A new wedding march is sore-
ly needed. The march from
(Lohersgrin.' is as archaic as Pop.'
ulisra and; the Mendelssohn
march is A doddering ankh:P.1e." •
•Merteken -roade this oom,
plaint. in 190.5, but recently in
London, the drive to divorce
church organists from what he
called "these ancient and curdled
compositions" was still going on.
Under the white rococo dome
of Central Hail, Westminster,
clusters of black-coated oranists
mingled one afternoon with stu-
dents in bright sweaters and
beaming brides-to-be. They had
joined forces to preview the win-
ning tune in a contest sponsored
by Young's Dress Hire, Ltd., a
firm which rents out bridal attire
and feels that a marriage can be
binding without "Here Comes
the Bride."
As the mighty organ at the
back of the Central Hall stage
thundered out eight old favorite
wedding procesaionals—including
Jeremiah Clarke's Trumpet Vol-
untary and Hubert Parry's Bridal
March from his operetta, "The
Birds"—a parade of models
showed off gowns and morning
suits, Then organist William S,
Lloyd Webber—the hall's mus-
ical director—turned his beech.
over to bushy-browed Ernest
Suttle, a 46-year-old- inspector
of music for• Britain's Ministry
of Education who had won the
wedding-march contest (also
sponsored by the London music-
publishing firm of Novelle) over
more than 200 other entries.
Dr. Suttle, stiff-backed and
fidgety, stormed through his
march in four and a half minutes
—a pace he considers "just about
right for couples who want to get
on with it." Composed "on and
off" over a month, the wedding
march earned Dr. Suttle the te100
($280) prize. Forthrightly en-
ough, the tune is called "Wedding.
March for Louis Young," "Who
is this Louis Young?" ask eGorge
Thalben-Ball, organist of Lon-
don Temple 'Church and a judge .
in the contest. "Is that someone
Dr. Suttle knows will be married
to the melody?"
"No, no, no," replied Webber,
who was sitting next to Thalben-
Ball, "Young is 'the man who's
paying for the show,"
"No matter," said Thalben-Ball.
"It was the best work we got.
It's quite good—a • fine recital
piece."
"I like its pageantry, its cere-
monial imagery," said Webber.
"It's rather rousing—guaranteed
to get the desired result from
even the roost somnolent uncle."
"It's a jolly good tune," ex-
claimed Young, "I could hum it
from memory after hearing it
three times, I now declare Men-
delssohe dead, done, and finished
with,"
"Are you Mr. Young?" snapped
an elderly traditionalist who had
been eavesdropping. "You are
very audacious!"
New Hope For
The Paraplegics
A paraplegic since he fell six
floors from a roof to the ground
two years ago, Maynard (Red)
Berg, 25, wheeled himself into
the laboratory at Maimonides
Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., one
day last summer, A laboratory
technician attached four elect-
rodes to the useless muscles of
his legs. Wires from the elec-
trodes led to a bank of four radio-
like amplifiers• on a nearby table.
Dr, Adrian Kantrowitz, attend-
ing surgeon, approached the con-
trols of the amplifiers, paused a
moment, and said quietly to Berg:
"Get ready, you're going to stand
up now," The patient grasped a
bar over his head provided to
give him balance. Dr. Kantrowitz
turned the kooles, sending elect-
ric impulses through the• wires to
the muscles. Red Berg stood up,
He was the first paraplegic in
history to stand through activity
of his own muscles,
"It was kinda funny," the red-
bearded paraplegic says now, "It
was a weird feeling standing
there and net feeling the ground
below me. I didn't feel any rionsa.,
tion in my legs at all. At first I
Was really frightened because I
didn't think the electricity tould
hold me up, But it did,"
Red's ability to stand was a
crude beginning of a process
that may take years, but it gives
hope that someday he they he
able to walk. It deuld mean that
Many of the 250,000 paralyzed
War Veterans and accident victims
May follow Red Out of his wheel
chair and walk firmly into More
productive lives.
At a Meeting sponsored by
International Business Machines
Corp. in Enditott, bf. Kati-
trowitz recently told What this'
ist).E 44 1961
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new "bioelectronie" technique
poytends. Someday, he explained,
a complex program of "instruct-
ions for walking" will be feel into
a combined computer-amplifier'
small enough for a patient to
wear on his belt. Through wires
to electrodes, the computes' would
activate eighteen muscles in each
leg in the proper order and at the
proper strength. The patient
would carry a little control box,
the size of a cigarette package,
with a "joy stick" on it. When
he pushes the joy stick forward,
the patient would walk, Push it
to the left and he would turn
left. Push it back and he would
stop.
Aware of the complex prob-
lems facing Dr. Kantrowitz and
his co-workers, Red Berg, back
in his ward, pushes on with his
own rehabilitation program. He
spends three hours a day exercis-
ing in the gym, then studies art
in the hope of winning a scholar-
ship to an art school. His para-
plegic wardmates kid him 'about
his visits to Dr. Kantrowitz, and
call him "Red the Robot," "Bat-
tery Red," and "Ever-Reddy."
Dr. Kantrowitz himself is con-
fident that someday many para-
plegics will walk again. The U.S.
government evidently has that
confidence too. Last month, Mai-
monides received a $250,000 re-
search grant from the National
Institutes of Health to assemble a
team of surgeons, engineers, bio- ,
physicists, and biochemists to
work -together on the project,
"When we get all the problems
licked," Dr. Kantrowitz said,
"there's no telling what we could
program irate the prospective
computer on Red's belt. Why, we
could even program a cha-cha-
cha for him to dance,"
Making Your Nylons
Last Longer
For longer nylon wear, a
'noted fashion expert offers these
suggestions:
Always roll the stocking leg
down to the toe before slipping it
on your foot.
Straighten the foot seams, ad-
just the reinforcement at the
foot and slowly unroll the stock-
ing, smoothing it over the leg,
straightening the leg seam at
the same time as you put it on.
Stand up to fasten the back
garters first, then sit down to
fasten front and side garters.
And make sure to fasten the gar-
ters in the welt of the stocking.
Guard your nylons from rough
shoe linings, jewelery, torn fin-
gernails, crinolines or rough
surfaces that could snag them,
Unroll the stockirigg from your
leg when you take it off; never
pull it from the foot.
Higher Standards
for Baby Sitters
Rabies of America, better times
are in store for yowl •
High standards for those who.
substitute for 'Marna the- baby
sitters — have been set forth in
a handbook just off the Press,
The booklet by Camp Firs
Girls, Inc, is called a childcare
course.
'Ideas front many girls, and ad-
ults went into the handbook:
Special help was given by Dr,
Margaret Hanlon. of St, Louis,
Mo., and Agnes 'Fuller of the•
Children's Bureau, United States •
Department of Health, Education,
and. Welfare,
"A baby sitter is in a sense
many people clueing her work,
— caretaker, teacher, feeder,
dresser, and, very important,
friend" says June Hammond, of
the Camp Fire Division of Pro-
gram Services, She explains that
while each girl will have her
individual way of doing .her best,
helpful information is available
for all baby sitters,
The long list of do's and don't's
covers getting perental approval
first; agreeing on the fee in ad-
vance; learning well the layout
of the house where baby. lives;
knowing the telephone number
of the nearest neighbor; thinking
of the baby as "a little friend";
playing with the baby, feeding
it, taking care of it; also some
general rules of safety applied
to emergencies such as what to
do if there is an intruder or a
fire; and assuming .a fair respon,
sibility in Gleaning-up,
The trained baby sitter doesn't
come with her brief case exactly,
but she does come with a play
kit, A whole chapter is given
over to "Let's have fun" and
what to bring along — such as
books, paper dolls,. or that old
teddy bear, keeping in mind
the taste and the age of the
child, and being ready for games
and music.
Modern Etiquette
By Anne Ashley
Q. Is it considered proper to
send a male patient in a hospital
cut flowers?
A. AlthoOgh not "improper,"
cut flowers- are usually sent to
women, A growing plant is the
customary gift to a male patient.
t7t, When a young girl has spent
a week-end in the home of a girl
friend, to whom does she ad-
dress her "bread - and - butter"
letter?
A. She may address the letter
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Wedding. Impkod
1.,00 A Battlefield
to her Wend, but must inclucto
a message of appreciation to -Ma
girl's mother, who 'usually de._
serves much of the credit for a
pleasant visit,
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