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The Brussels Post, 1961-11-23, Page 6Just Like Baby's PR1N'il,"J „4.JA:ri .L1.,. I INFANT DOLL WARDROBE 4870 FOR COLL 10"-20” TALL } Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Spotted ‘Savage Worth Million* asked if atm was happy. "Yea," she said, "Bemuse I made np. My mind I had to be. I have no. reason to complain. We are well fed, and well eared for but It was some time before I could reconcile myself to institutional care. But my friends don't fora get me, I get taken out and home for supper. Sometimes even get invited to an institute meeting;" Well, friends, if We live long enough we, too, shall be old, and. what we are new probably determines our pattern for the future, Cheerful and tolerant— querglotta and complaining which shall we be? Incidentally at a luncheon the other day I sat next to Edna Jaques. Many of you will re- member her lovely little poems. Years ago she wrote these lines, "Qh, let me mellow with the years And not grow old and stale!" Believe me, this talented and. charming little lady has fulfilled her wish. She has, indeed, grown "mellow with the years," 45' EYE FOR BEAUTY—The face may become a work of art in- stead of an art of work if this predicted use of makeup by a New York cosmetologist-hair- dresser comes to pass, la. a godmother or goOtther sopposed to remember the .ehihre. birthday with n gift each yOar? A. Not necessarily, A christ- „ening praunt is expected, but IlnYthing beyond that dependi. upon how notteli you think of the child, Usually, it's Wee .for 01al godparent to r em emb e r floe child's birthday with a .card. man who does tat :have a ray goes out with a girl wit() .does, is he supposed to pay for .the gasoline? A, Has first first suggestion of the evening should be a stop at .4. service station for some gasoline for his girl's ear, fs it ever proper to leave one's spoon in the coffee cup or in a bowl of any hind during meal? A, No — the only exception being: When soup Is served In soup plate, the spoon is left in ft, handle extending .over the right edge, parallel to the table . edge — and, if you're served iced tea, with no saucer tinder the glass, you leave your spoon in the glass, holding it aside with yOut first and second fingers as ye% drink, They; Talk English Last-Century Style. STAR BRIGHT — Sophia Loren is on the set again making another film, this one in Lugo, Italy, for Director Vittorio De Sica (left). She is playing a shooting gallery owner. rRONItICES 1 Qvoculvlts~t 6INGREla aka ASitt . is Up from, South Africa on her. Maiden voyage, the 0,7054On freighter Oregon steamed into .the shoaling tide-Pipped Atlantic Waters south of Nantucket 'Siena early of a gray December morn- ing almost exactly twenty years ago. With any kind of luck — despite the wartime blackout ern- , posed three days earlier, after the• attack on Pearl Harbour the Oregon would be dockside in Beaton Harbour before the day was out, discharging the first of 14,076 bales of high- grade wool. Unseen by the 42 officers and men in the Oregon, the battle- ship Now Mexico, in company with four screening destroyers, was booming south through the same watees, hastening to join the stricken Pacific Fleet. Like the Oregon, none of the war- ships was showing a light and, in that first week of the war, none had radar. At 4.42 a,m, the Oregon and the New Mexico collided. The Now Mexico, slightly da- maged, :cletectied one destroyer to stand by the Oregon and pro- ceeded toward Norfolk, Va,, for repairs, The Oregon, despite a great rip in her starboard side, was taking no water and 'se sent the destroyer about her busi- ness. The Oregon sailed on to Boston at fun speed of 13 knots. Shortax, after the destroyer left, ho;:a'ver, the Wind freshened arid heightening waves began wash- ing aboard, , The Oregon went to the het- torn within a matter of hours, with a loss of seventeen lives. Since that dim and, near-for- gotten day, the Oregon and her. cargo of golden fleece, worth perhaps $3 million at current wool prices, has eluded every effort at recovery. And the job seems tantalizingly easy. T h e depth — under 200 feet — is well within the reach of divers. The wool is tightly compressed and thick with lanolin so that the bales, once freed from the hold, should bob to the surface, But only one man out of the scores who have searched—fish- ermen and salvage experts, div- ers and plain adventurers — ever so much as claimed to have seen the Oregon, And he brought up no wool. Understandably then, a report Other people go shopping, visiting or have a day down- t o w'n without incident but whenever I do any of t it e se things I seem to run into the unusual — sometimes pleasant, sometimes not. What happened last Tuesday bordered on the bizarre, I was having a lot of pain and inflammation in one eye so. I. went to see my oculist downtown. That appointment naturally took me into a build- ing almost entirely given over to offices for doctors, dentists and so on. I g,ot into •a crowded elevator and just before the door closed a man more or less push- ed his way in carrying what ap- peared to be a box of chocolates. Turning to the elevator girl he said. as he opened the box — "For Dr. Blank — nice box of chocolates, eh?" He gave me an Takes Little Time How About A Game Of Mah Jongg? The exotic lingo of the ancient Chinese game of mah jongg ("three barn," "East Wind"), was a common sound in many an American home back in the '205, Then contract bridge swept the nation, and few people- had the patience to cope with mah jongg's inscrutable rules. Only a straggle of diehard women kept on building "hands" of flowers, dragons, and winds with painted tiles. Last month, about twenty of these stalwarts gathered earnest- ly in a tiny New York office to press on with a series of test games which will end in mid- January. The ladies—the board of directors of the National Mah Jongg League—are trying to de- cide whether there should be, among other things, a change in the number of flower tiles. The rulings they hand down will af- fect hundreds of thousands of American women who have, in the past five years, returned to the favorite game of their mo- thers, "Our membership has tripled in the paSt five years," Mrs. Her- ma Scheffer, blond league pres- ident, explained. "Just in Illinois, membership has boomed from 2,000 to 15,000. We think the main reason for the new interest in mall jongg is the introduction of big jokers two years ago," she said, "These are like canasta jokers and add an element of chance to the game." The joker tiles are now included in sets. A good mah-jongg set costs about $25. It includes 152 tiles, four racks, dice, chips (the various winning hands have different monetary values), and carrying case. Even though a lot of old sets are being retrieved from. American attics (the league sells joker decals to bring them up to date), the two major manufac- turers, Cardinal and A&L, both say they can't keep up with orders, "It doesn't take a college edu- cation to learn mall jongg," Mrs. Scheffer insisted. "Some people play a good game after one les- son. Of course, there are some who have played twenty years and they're just awful, but they don't know it. All mah jongg players consider themselves ex- perts," HELPS HERSELF—Debbie Sue Brown, 5, the 1962 U.S. March of Dimes National Poster Child, helps herself to a drink thanks to those who helped her through giving to the March of Dimes. She was born With an open spine which had to be closed by surgery when she was eight. She wears the half-leg braces for corrective purposes. that the Oregon had been found recently set in mitten a, tidal wave of envy and incredulity from Point Judith to 'Woods Hole. The man who discovered the wreck: Burton Mason, a 35.- year-old diver previously known for his efforts to raise the last German submarine sunk in World War A breezy, bearded extrovert from Trumbull, Conn., Mason paused in his preparations for recovering tile wool to tell how an educated guess and an instru- meat often used to find oil led him to the wreck. "I started searching last August," he said, "and made repeated runs with a fathometer over the spot shown on the charts for the wreck, Nothing. "I became convinced that the Chart, which was marked with bearings that had been taken from the bridge of a sinking ship, was wrong." By this time, in Mason's words, he was "down to 32 cents and a secondhand razor blade," Surrendering his salvage rights to t h e ship's insurers, Mason went to Boston and, there per- suaded an adventurous State Street tax attorney, John S. Bottomly, to take up the rights and give Mason a contract to continue the hunt. Thus bankrolled and furnish- ed with an elaborately equipped 76-foot dragger, the Captain Bill III, Mason got Aero Service Corp. of Philadelphia, an aerial- mapping a a d oil - prospecting firm, to come to his aid with a device known as the magneto- meter, which detects certain un- •el er w a ter and underground masses by noting changes in the earth's magnetic field, "I don't know why nobody else ever thought of the magnetometer," Mason said, "It's been available ever since World War II." In 45 minutes, guiding the Captain Bill III by radio, a mag- netometer operator in Aero Ser- vice's Beechcraft led Mason straight to the hulk, The spot: Just off Asia Rip and the Phelps. Bank fishing grounds, within sight of Nantucket Lightship and Texas Tower No. 3 — and not many miles from where the Ita- lian liner Andrea Doria lies on the bottom. The Atlantic did its best to deny Mason a glimpse of his prize. Wearing free-diving gear, Mason started down the anchor cable. "It was whipping very hard," he said. "The sea kept pulling my mask off my face and filling it with water. I managed to get down to 85 feet where a tremendous surge pull- ed my helmet and flippers right off and damn near ripped me off the. cable." Later, after another futile dive, the Captain Bill III's crew rigged a 1,500-pound cement block on chain and cable and dropped it. Mason tried again, "The current was mild and the visibility pretty good," he said. "At 95 feet I ran into a school of tuna so thick I could see nothing. At about 100 feet I saw the wreck and landed 6,feet from the block," After exploring the immediate area, Mason surfaced and com- pared his underwater observa- tions with a photograph of the Oregon, "1 found I had probably been on the port side of the fly-, hag bridge," he said. "Everything on the bridge matches the pic- tures." As this was written, Mason was intending to return to the scene and, he hopes, bring up the first bales of the Oregon's wool. "It's just a mechanical problem now," Mason said. From NEWSWEEK, Delight a little girl with this beautiful wardrobe for her new baby doll! Easy-sew pattern in bunting, snow-suit, over- all set, coat, hat, dress, bib, slip and panties, Use remnants. Printed Pettern 4870: For dolls 10, 12, 14, 16, 13, 20 incises, Please state size. Send Fie CE'lTS ae -t-ees cannot be accepted, c' note for sa'z'ay) for this Please print ph' r VIE, NAME, ADDRE :a, . aeLE Send order to Anne Adams, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. FALL'S 100 BEST FASHIONS — separates, dresses, suits, en- sembles, all sizes, all in our new' Pattern Catalog in color, Sew for yourself, family. 35a. Ontario residents must include is Sates Tax ter each CATIta LOG ordered. There is no sales tax on the patterns, When a young mother found her six-year-old son busily put- ting a bandage around his thumb, she said, "You poor child, what happened?" "I hit it with a ham- mer and it hurts." "But I didn't hear you cry." "I didn't cry. I thought you were out. inquiring look, knowing very well I, too, had seen the con- tents of the box, Without stop- ping to think it was no business of mine I said involuntarily — "Looks more like a blood-stain- ed knife to me!" "That's just exactly what it is, Old Doc Blank carved me up a few months ago so I'm just taking him a reminder!" The effect was probably the result of red paint but what I saw was, to all intents and pur- poses, a blood-stained short- handled knife lying on a bed of red-splattered cotton batting. I wonder if the doctor appreci- ated his patient's peculiar brand of humour. Later that day I was walking past a section of the subway construction job when I noticed a workman standing beside three cylinders of propane gas. Or maybe it wasn't — I don't really know. Anyway, the man was fooling around with the nozzle and I heard escaping gas or air, or something, Perhaps he was only testing' the nozzle be- fore connecting the pipe. But I wasn't taking any chances and got by in a hurry. On the crowded bus coining home I witnessed this pleasing little incident. Two girls, about ten and twelve, sat near me. They wore navy blue uniforms so evidently they came from a private •school. One approached .an elderly man, the other an oldish lady. Each said — "Would you please take my seat?" I just felt warm all over. We hear a lot of criticism about the ycunger generation but here were two little girls, without anyone to prompt them, gener- ously offering their seats to two elderly people. I couldn't let that pass without comment. "You are very thoughtful girls," I said to the one nearest to me. She just beamed, After all everyone, especially a child, likes to be appreciated. My next stop was a local druggist's to have my prescrip- tion filled. I waited fifteen mina utes. Another woman was also waiting and kept up a steady conversation with the druggist. about her allergies and the num- ber of drugs with which her doctor had treated her. (T could just imagine!) Then she got on to her daughter's troubles and why it was impossible for the daughter's children to be born naturally. She was just describ- ing the second Caesarean When the other druggist came along with my prescription so I was able to make good my escape, • I wonder — have some folk completely lost all sense of mo- desty and reticence? Is it neces- sary to broadcast one's symp- toms and allegies for all the world to hear? 'believe me, I felt sorry for that young phar- macist, Incidentally, while I don't appreciate intimate per- sonal details I do like hospital dramas such as Dr. Kildare, ten Casey arid the Young Doctors, Later in the week I visited a home for the aged where I know several of the residents. I also met othere, Driving home I thought of the difference in their peraoriailties. 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But no professor went with tape recorder and microphone to record the quaint phrases of descendants of Cpl, William Glass and his three colleagues who founded the colony in 1816. These four Englishmen stayed behind when the British garrison withdrew because of the difficulties of maintaining supplies, On October 10, 1961, however, the 263 inhabitants. of Tristan da Cunha were forced to leave their island through the erup- tion of a volcano which threat- ened to destroy their homes. They went to England and are now housed in a camp at Merst- ham, Surrey. There the professor has met and talked with them. He is Prof. Randolph Quirk, professor of English language at the University of London, who will record the colourful, vivid phraseology which he feels approximates the speech of the man-in-the-street in the early days of the 19th century when Charles Dickens was writing his novels. He realizes he must work fast before the unique phrases disappear, "I have been .down there al- ready to spend a day getting im- pressions and listening to , pro- nunciation," Professor Quirk told this correspondent, writes Melita Knowles in the Christian. Science Monitor. "I found the Tristanians most likeable and very forthcoming," he said, "They are dignified, gentle and courteous, very much interested 'in their new life, and most anxious to let people know the kind of life they led on their island." He noticed survivals of the speech of England round about 1800, The Tristanians also have peculiarities of speech which are still to be found in Aus- tralia and in parts of the United States. The most noticeable feature of the speech is the use of the aspirate. This is placed before any vowel which happens to be the first lettter of a word, as in the "hother" side. They say "arth" for earth and "sarch" for search, They have the Pick- wickian habit of substituting "w" for "v" in describing condi- tion — "wery wiolent." Their descriptions are vivid and direct. "They told mt. how to build a bullock cart in Eng- lish straight from the time of the Napoleonic wars," Professor Quirk said, There are 62 families, but every member is related to the others. So there arc few sur- names. alvee the small children speak of their grandparents by their Christian name:;, "The men may hold their speech lonecat," the profs. ser thinks, "and the old people may not change at all." In two years' time Professor Quirk hopes to track down these Triatanians n d record the changes in their speech. "This is the real fascination of the study," he said, "to be able to record the speech of this iso- lated community, And then to study what happens to it when expoaed to the pressures of mo- dern English." dATTY CORNER —While Julie, 8,. ?dad§ IV au felines, Fluffy, the puss, grabs a catnap on desk fop. Fluffy foliowti Julie to school every day but Shows rig incilriation toward education, even• about tats. algrAlitti 10214.1 • ."1.11herve44,