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The Brussels Post, 1961-11-30, Page 2A FIRST PHOTO—Jacqueline Kennedy cuddles John F. Kennedy Jr. who celebrated first birthday on Nov, 25. This is his first official picture since his christening. his Easy-See Diagram PRINTED PATTERN 4828 SIZES 2-10 ADDED EMPHASIS--Addth4: .6 vivid eXClanititian. ptithf to. these- two f ittiltiie ilprisr of .-tiVerfUrned truck' lies beside tha road rn Withitdi Katt, The.,deivee.Wdt-iiijuiiid, DOLL---Screen starlet her autograph to Lola 'Locos, poster of the Muscular Ahlericd, Lbia's doll' It Covered Oeisont who support the Mardi Sweaters ',Have. A Colorful 'History 'QontrarY to popular opinion, ,bane Turner didn't "originate" the sweater, Its early history is more adventurous than eleanor- PIA. And, like the ..development Ott Meet articles of apparel, the sweater is DIM concerned in. its early stages with men than ryes Men.. Its. origin goes back some 400 • years to the time of the first Elizabeth and -the Isle of Jersey in the .Eeglisle Channel, It was then and there that the wives of eirople fishermen used their new-, ly acquired art of knitting to devise a jacket which would withstand the icy blasts of the North Sea. But their invention was re- gereled as such a humble, garment it wasn't even, given a name for 300 years, When referred to at all, it was usually called a jersey or a fisherman's knit, The type of stitch used was called stockingette, since it was the same employed in the island's principal industry, which was hand-made hosiery, Knitting was a popular pastime among Jersey reen and children as well. Re- cords remain of a local swain's :Pattern , Bonanza itty Lake' Whofflqk A JUMBO pattern of 12 pot- holders, 2 mitts. It solves many gift problems in one swoop, Use serape for potholders or buy Ye yard of fabric — makes 2 potholders, Pattern 784: trans- fer 10 holders, 2 mitts; direc- tions, charts, 2 crocheted holders, Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal nate 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. FOR THE FIRST TIME! Over 200 designs in our new, 1962 Needlecraft Catalog — biggest ever! Pages. pages, pages of fashions, home accessories to knit, crochet, sew, weave, em- broider, quilt. See jumbo-knit hits, cloths, spreads, toys, linens, afghans plus free patterns. Send 250. Ontario residents- must include 1c Sales Tax for each CATA- LOG ordered. There is no sales tax on the patterns. being forbidden by .the Royal Court from "knitting in company with young women, to put an end, to the gossip caused thereby on pain of punishment." However, the ,people of Jersey lost their Corner on the stocking market when knitting meet-lines became widespread in England about 1840. Toward the end of the last century when such sports as foot- ball, bicycling, lawn tennis, and yachting became popular, their enthusiasts discovered that the jersey or fisherman's knit pre- vented' chills by absorbing per epiration. They promptly dubbed. it the SWBATeeer and the ward entered the English language. About the same time in France, garlic vendor's or marchands d'ail, who sold their pungent flavoring in Paris' open market place, le Marche des Belles, also discovered the warmth and flexie bility of the fisherman's knits Soon customers were referring to the marchands d'eils adopted garment be the abbreviated name of CHANDAIL, Later, when internationally known sports figures such as 'Bobby Jones • and Helen Wills Moody won matches white wear- ing sweaters, it wasn't long be- • fore Fashion lifted the garment's strictly utilitarian connotation, Some Kind Words For School Teachers We confess to a weakness for school teachers, Theirs, it often seems to us, is as difficult a, task as society has contrived. It is complicated by the fact that in no area of American life is criticism from the outside so rampant. Some of the criticism is unjust and stems from failure to understand what is demanded from modern American schools, Some is wholly just and has its, birth in the commendable desire for constant improvement. Admiral Riekover emits trio of anguish because his personal standards are not met in all cases. Minority groups, in some instances, want their cases pre- sented in out-of-focus relation- ship to the magnitude of their problem, Parents who haven't read a book in 20 years suddenly decide their children can't read as well as they can. One group thinks they overdo control. A faction decries lack of imagina- tion in schools, says they are afraid to experiment. An op- posite faction says they experi- ment too much. The list of plaints and complaints is end- less. Is this bad? Not necessarily, An encouraging aspect is that it is an indication that while Amer- icans may be complacement about many things, the education of their children is not one of them. Niggling criticism, and there is a good deal of it, is certainly bad. Based upon ignorance it can only extend ignorance. Constructive criticism, a n d there is much of that, too, can only help educators to do a job which most of them want de- sperately to do well. For the balance of criticism to remain on the constructive side, there must be continuing understanding be- tween educators and parents. A way to achieve that understand- ing is to heed the invitation of educators to visit the schools next week and talk with those who are teaching your children. You will make teachers parti- cularly happy if you add a ques- tion to the one you are sure to ask, "How is Johnny doing?" Ask it, certainly, but try adding this one. "What do you want from Johnny and from us?"—Need- ham (Mass.) Times beliorah Walley, left, gives 7, of St. Loult, national Dystraphy Assodiation of • With ti§natUreit of famotill foe Mit'Sdilot tiyitrophy. HRONICL 4v 1:31.mar INGERFA1111, telcatez D Cleake I suppose it's a case of "once a farmer, always a faemer". Any- way, first thing this morning Partner was awfully confused because he thought a virus infec- tion had got into his cows, cut- ting clown the milk supply — and also the cash receipts! He want- ed to sell the cows but the au- thorities wouldn't let him. They waited them kept around for re- search purposes — to discover the source of the virus. Of course it was all a dream but for an hour or two Partner felt as if a lot of his livestock worries had come back to plague him. Dreams are queer things. You would think with all the recent tale; about nuclear war, fallout shelters and so on, it would only be natural to dream about them. Instead of that Partner's "sub- conscious" returned to the farm and the sort of problems he was wrestling with ten years ago. Maybe what brought it all back is the fact that friends of ours have recently had to give up ac- tive farming entirely as they no longer have the health and strergth to carry on. They solved then problems by selling all their stock, and implements, the barn and most of the land but retain- ed the house and enough ground for a good kitchen garden. They knew, with their limited income, it would be impossible to' buy a house in a built-up area and live as cheaply as they can in the country, Maybe what they have done could be the solution for other farm couple under sim- ilar circumstances. Last. Saturday I had an experi- ence that was quite new for me. Our W,I, was putting en a' rum- mage sale with which I had prom- ised to help — somthing .1 had never done before. Friday after- noon the convener and her com- mittee got together, sorting and pricing the stuff as it came in. We were at it again for an hour Saturday morning. Then the doors were opened and the peo- ple rushed in. And how they rushed in! It -was like Bedlam for awhile. I noticed one woman just grabbed up stuff from each. table as she passed until she had an arneful. I said to Mrs. A, -- one of our helpers "See that woman — she didn't even look at the stuff she was taking!" "Don't worry," said Mrs. A., look at it. That's what some of them do — grab an arnt- ftil of stuff to -no one else will get it. 'Then 'they go to the back of the hall, sort it out and theoW back ottethe tables what they don't want. These rummage sale customers have a -technique all their own." i watched and saw that Mrs. A. was right. I had charge of a rack of "better dresses"! One dress I thought was too good to be there et all. There- wasn't a mark on it anywreee, To one customer 1 said — "This is a lovely dress if you can wear a sixteen." "Yes, it's all right — but look at the price, A &Mel That's too much to pay for a dress at a rummage Sale," I didn't argue the point Mit in' dtegtist I re- dliced the—priaa,to,.,.eVatity-five cents, In anothet denettirierit thete Was a rack of thativa suit's and WPC-WS and I Weiidefed if there Were Otrftdrr rt rtr any of the hOtheit 'where, those suits Caned from. Ii so tere w plenty Of good trieterial In theiti that *Mad: rititke,OVEit beyk pants EAST, WEST DO MEET Secretary of State and Mrs. Dean Rusk honored Indian Prime Minister Nehru at a dinner at the State Depart- men. Here beautifully gowned for the occasion, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, left, exchanges views with Mrs. Rusk as they pro- ceed to dinner. and windbreakers -- the way I used to do for our children. But I suppose few mothers do that any more. They grumble at the price of children's clothes — but continue to buy them •=,- some so shoddy they almost fall apart during the first week's. wear. On the variety table there was costume jewellery, fancy dishes, pots and pans, paper-back books and toys, Nearly all the things were sold, It seems. there is al- ways a market somewhere for what someone else doesn't want. Maybe the buyers might change their minds after they got home — and in that way some of the stuff may turn up at yet another rummage sale! Sunday night I forgot all a_botat rummage sales. and so on as I listened. to. Dr. Brock Chisholm on TV. Or it could be there was a connection as Dr, Chisholm was talking about the pattern of human behaviour. He also said he is not against Santa Claus so long as, he is presented as a myth and not as a person, who really exists. He said we cannot expect truth and honesty from children if we are a party to any kind of mass deception. I agree with De Chisholm. Christmas will soon be with us once again. How shall we answer that age-Old question — "Is there teally a Santa Claus?" A child who is old enough to doubt is old enough to be given this explana- tion. Santa Claus is part of the spirit of Christmas. We, too, act the part of Santa Claus when We give surprise elites to each other. The spirit of Christmas is loving and giVing --a and in showing. appreciation 'for what we are given. In that way we can all play SaritY4 Claus, TALK• AttAdic Canada's Governor Getiofal Vincent Massey, Sneaking ebetit the undefended U.S. Cettereett border:, Our frontier has long been immune from eoriflitt, hitt it has suffered grievously been the effects 'of theterit, Love Threatens Sponge Shortage Stand by for a shortage of sponges, Reason; young Greeks are afraid of losing their girl- friends. Even- when belonging to old - established sponge - fishing families, Many young men are refusing to follow their country's 2,500-year-old trade, In past years, 200 calques set sail each season from Kalimnos, the great sponge-fishing base in the Aegean. And, in the late au- tumn, they returned with a har- vest of 200 tons of top-quality sponges. - Now, instead of 2,500 Greeks taking part in this annual exped- ition, the number has dropped to barely a thousand. Experienced divers can earn better money ashore, with no risks, and keep their wives comfortable all the year round. So next month, when the calques unload their catches, the total harvest is not likely to exceed eighty .tons. "We simply can't get recruits," says a Greek sponge merchant. "Six months at sea, in this com- fort-loving age, means too long a spell away from home for our young men. Village girls won't wait, They take new sweethearts in the spongemen's absenge. "The divers' disease, the bends, is crippling inexperienced men, and they are also being killed by their clumsiness." Sponges, once believed to be plants, are really a tow form of marine animal life. As larvae, they attach themselves b rocks and form colonies, After wrenching the sponges from the sea-bed, the divers -hang them up. on the ship's rigging, to dry in the sun. The animals' black, gelatinoue flesh decays, leaving the skeleton which' we use in the bathroom,. In ancient warfare,, Greek sol- diers padded their helmets with sponges' which acted a shock absorber against enemy blows. And. Greek mothers, used sponges soaked in honey as. infante dum- mies. SALLY'S SALLIES iNV011,, Maclaine, tide surely will give you a most continental look:" Telex sign Has A Birthday it was a dank day in Novem. bee, typical for London, The year was 1036. Willie many Britons were playing darts in their local PUbs, a handful of adventurers crouched before same 300 flicker- ing- "goggle boxes" and presided at the uncertain birth of the world's first -regular television service. What they saw on the scroen was a grab-bag assort- ment of Chinese jugglers, Ameri.: can comedians, a tennis star, and a 1v4evietOne newsreel. This was BBC-TV, now a staid old monolith which on its 25th anniversary this month attracts 23 million Britons daily, BBC's coups have been many, from the world's first televised play (El- eanor and Herbert Farjeon's "The Two Bouquets" in 1936) to its memorable coverage of the Coronation in 1953. Despite its' royal charter, the. BBC is entirely free of govern- ment control. Supported by goy- ermnent - collected license fees levied on all set owners, it also spares its viewers the pain of commercials. This autonomy led to an attitude of prim moral up- lift which earned the network the nickname "Auntie." BBC's credo is still not so much to give the public what it wants as to provide what it feels the public ought to want. As admirable as this might be, such• autocracy led Parliament in 1955 to authorize rival commer- cial TV. Pessimists then feared the BBC would have to retaliate with dancing girls and jugglers. Optimists were not afraid, feel- ing that competitive scrapping would enliven things. As it turned put, BBC-TV to- day, in the favorable words of NBC's Robert Sarnoff, is "a wily and vigorous competitor" of the new Independent Television out- fit, BBC attracts more than 37 per cent of Britain's viewers not only by offering hours of adult fare but by matching ITV's more popular programs. 'Wyatt Earp," for instance, on the commercial nework, was matched on BBC by another U.S. import, "The Lone Ranger." While relinquishing decorum, however, BBC-TV also acquired a taste for bold programing. Ponmerly squeamish about con- troversial issues, the network sharpened news coverage to pro- duce such incisive, tough-minded programs as its reporting of the Notting Hill race riots in 1958 and, more recently, a vigorous clobbering of police for manhan- dling anti-bomb demonstrators, BBC-TV Director General H. Carleton Greene thinks that his network's aloofness from "the tyranny of ratings" is one of its strongest assets. "The role of a national service like the BBC is not to worship a Big Audience," he told a reporter recently, "If the cash register came' to be regarded as the test of success, one could say good-by to minor- ity interests. "More people are going 'to school longer. The more edu- cated the public becomes, the more it watches us." Smiling calmly, he added: "In the long rim, time is on our side," —From NEWSWEEK Now They Hope To Wipe Out Measles For five to seven days, the child writhes and coughs with a 105-degree fever, while a rash spreads over his bo dy.' After ten days the child, sick with meas• s/es, will probably recover, But still measles• kills more children (estimates rue up to 4,000 yearly) than any other major childhood disease. Now, finally, the U.S. Public Health Service is preparing to license a vaccine to fight mea- sles, At an international measles conference in Washington last week, the data gleaned from more than 10,000 tests convinced PISS officials they had a live measles vaccine (combined with a shot of gamma globulin to eliminate uncemeortable side effects) that would stork. "(We have) a safe and effective vac- elhe,"•said ITS. Surgeon Q011. eral Dr. Luther Terry, Before 'the vaccine can bo latiliveted (at up to $5 a shot) the Public Health Service .tit .10 set up rules for its manufacture, then carefully test eamoe batches from the drug makers, Tests with children gage shown the vaccine 100 per cent effective against measles, Will this wipe out the disease? "It won't be long now," Dr, John F, Enders, Nobel Prize winner and father of the vaccine, in- sisted recently, /*Wert! Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. What acknowledgement, can I make when friends stop.me and express their regret over the Imo. cent. passing of my father? A.. A. natural and proper re- sponse would be: "Thank you for your sympathy.' Q. At a church wedding, on, which side of the center aisle should pews be reserved for the bride's family and for the bride- groom's family? A. The left side (facing the altar) for the bride's family, the right side for the bridegroom's family,. Q, How does .,a guest know when to begin eating at a din- ner? A. It is generally considered courteous to wait until the Oth- ers have been served, either at. the beginning of a meal or at the- beginning of a . new course, be- fore starting to eat. Usually, the hostess is the first to • begins which gives the signal for the others to start. -4-41 See the diagram—even a be- ginner can stitch up this pretty jumper in a day!: Curved' neck reveals blouse' beneath, back has inverted pleat and half-belt. Printed Pattern 4828: chil- dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6; 8;, 10, Size 6 jumper takes 13/4 yards 54-inch; blouse takes 11 yard 39-inch, Send' FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDEESS, STYLE NUMBER,. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St,, New Toronto, Oat, FALL'S 100 BEST FASHIONS -- separates, dresses, Suits, en- sembles, all sizes, all in Out new Pattern Catalog in color. Sew for yourself, family. 350. Ontario reSidents must ineltide le Sales Tax for each CATA. LOG ordered. There is no sales tax on the patterns.