The Brussels Post, 1962-03-29, Page 8"sALLY'S Mugs
Northern Cohins
And Sled-Dogs
BACK TO BACK — Miniature dachshunds James, left, and Danny, add up to about four feet of dog in WI ol England.
Mose= tale nOrrespoartent: no.
CT.CaLl. "What," I asked'. my in,
tourist guide, "does that say?"
"Ine the English word 'atop,"
she' replied. "And it means stop,"
a, cents] core of
ItIveol'e4iisrs1 olairn the
conversation, t\t
e1P, itCO3
so foreign soldiers studying iii
the United States hove discover
eyed, Leave out most et the
verbs and a person still can make.
hindel I: end, rei .
Some persons- have • been de- •
Qeived into thinking that one fee-
'tor in the spread of English '14
its enreed .'''h r. . • • s,
however, wrong on two grounas,
The first is that opportunity and
availability are• fat' move impor-
tant .factors in the spread of lane
guap.
The second point is that Eng-.
lish speech, far from being stun-
pie, is one of the. most compile
sated tongues of the advanced.
modern world, True, it' is one of
the easiest of languages to be-
gin epeaking.
But it is one of the hardest to
speak well, Beside- it, French
and German are models of ease,
older, and logicality.
Tile United States helps along
this swing to Engli ;eh. The
United States Information Serv-
ice has 389 :cultural Centees in. •
some 80 countries, and in inast
of them apee elangVehns lennuege
libraries and courses ir; grieisln
to be had for the asking.:,
Does all of this data give. on
American a mellow feeling? aw
got in on the ground floor. --
knew the language from infancy,
Other languages, however, have-
their great eoles ae• French, a,
mark of culture anywhere; Ruse
sian, in which many scientific'
treatises arn•pablished, and so on
and on. ' '
But it is also significant that
English has been the language'
vehicle for expressing some of
mankind's most spiritual con-
cepts, beginning with that grand
masterpiece, the King James
Version of the Bible.
Q. Is it correct to have one's
monogram engraved on the en-
velope of social stationery?
A, No; the monogram should
be engraved only on the note-
paper itself,
English A4 A•
WOrldtanguoge
Every' now and then somebody
suggests that everyone should
'learn Esperanto or some other
sentiadi? riternatiezed lang dee,
so all could' understand one an,
other, Well, they are tot, late.
An. International language al-
ready exists, understood in sonic
degree by 000a000;000` people. on
all continents,.
It sis the English language.
Two years ago tiers, eorres-
Pendent remarked, in a eolumn;
that in interviewing nine na,
tionnt leaders in nine nations of
Asia and Africa, seven of the in-
terviewe were .conducted. in Eng-
lish, Yes, Messrs, Nasser, S
l'arrio, 'Nehru, KYshi,, alcrumah,
Abdul Rahman, U No, Ben-
Galion,. all converse ably in Eng-
. lisle,
Now scholarly Lincoln Bar-
nett, writing in Life magazine,
reminds us how far and fast.
English has spread in our own
lifetime. The Soviets. and •Chl-
nese even use English in their
best broadcasts to the Far East
anal Africa, The Bandung con-
ference of neutrals was eonduct-
ed in English. I knew of an Is-
raeli conference of Afro - Asian
expeets on co-operatives which
had' to• be held' in English. That
was the . one language everybody
— or almost everybody -- un-
derstood.
English is the language used.
by international pilots and' air-
port control towers in all parts
of the world. It also is used by
airline stewardesses More often
than any other . because ' most
tourists know some English —
and because some Americans do
not know any other language.
It has surpassed French as the
No. 1 language of international
diplomacy,
In Poland people would as
soon study English as German or.
Russian, because it offers the best
"window. on the West," In Indo-
nesia when the inhabitants said
goodbye to the Dutch — and their
language — they welcomed the
English language into • their
schools. When Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru met the Dalai
Lama fleeing from. Tibet, they
conversed in English,
Why this recent wartime and
postwar spread of English? For
one thing,' it had a kind of head
.start. The British had carried
English with. them through all-
their vast colonial empire — to
India, Burma, Nigeria, Egypt,
and Malaya. Then, too, the Eng-
lish were great traders and used
their own language in commer-
cial transactions. And of course,
once a • language .gets going and
is widely accepted, others want
to learn it, to be in on' the con-
versation, so to speak writes
WilliamsStringer in the Chris- •
tian Science Monitor.
English is an especially vital
language (maybe because Ameri-
cans speakit). Anyway its words
have penetrated all sort -of' for
eign 'tongues, from. 'beishol in
Russia, tole jazz in French, In
Looks Like Time
Lady Stayed Home
Since •Frects project that year
was a documentary Win of 'Ma
in an Eskimo frera freeze-
up in fail until. the breakeup in
spring, and einee I worked with
him, I start began to share the
respect and warm regard for the
Eskimos held. by my new hue-
band. I felt the same reittetance•
ihe did when the time came to
leave linelaleleet and -Alaska for
.lecture tours with the movie.
And the same eagerness to re-
tarn to .Alaska, after each season
ended, for more filming, more
writing, more painting, and to
search out a location for a home,
We found what we were look-
ing for in the Matanuska Valley.
Here, to us, was the most ape
pealing scenery in all Alaska.
We selected the view we liked
the best, centered it in a picture
window and built a log cabin
ground the window, The fact
that it happened to be in the
heart of three thousand acres of
forest was surplus good fortune,
tee was the fact that it overlooked
a perfect blue lake.
• There was still another lade
dent that upped our fortunes
from merely good to that of red-
traordinary.
While leeking for 1,:ur hinnee
site, we had hogged down on an.
unfrequented narrow lane. We
had hiked to tall nearest
for lee:peer:a bad '.come.awey not
only with a farmer on a tremor
but .with a hatideenie .white sled-.
deg puppy.
Neither •Fred nor 1-had known
we wanted a dog until we saw
this one leaping straight into. the
air end howling to go wath•.u.s.
Suddenly we. .had wandered what
the fun was. living in . a ten'
(which We were doing wh:i%
building our home) without
dog?
We called the • puppy Seegoo
because that was the Eskimo.
word for ice and December first
— a time of ice — was his birth,
day,
The cabin was finished as win-
ter set in and we took possession,
And Seegoo? He took possession
of the high ridge upon which
the cabin sat, for he was now
a gangling adolescent with her-•
tic ideas of protecting his master
and mistress from the porcupines
and announcing in loud.' clear
barks when moose and bear were
about, so his master and mistress
could protect him if they wanted
to,
Seegoo was ever faithful,
When his master and mistress
found. it necessary to leave he
always watched the spot they
had last been seen, until they.
returned.
Seegoo was gentle.
From humans he wanted only
affection, nor did he. pleasure in
fighting his own kind. Were he
attacked, he would fight, but
mostly happy trying to please —
both humans and dogs.
Seegoo was adaptable.
When the lecture tours came
around, he would walk across
lobbies and into. elevators with
as much aplomb as if he were.
on the snow carpeted floor of a
spruce forest. He appeared. on
television and on the lecture
platform and instead of becom-
ing spoiled, he accepted the ad-
ulation of his audience with
kindly dignity. In one • month he
would total as many miles of
travel by . auto as other sled-
dogs would average in a lifetime
On train—From "The Howl of
the Malamute: The Story of an
Alaskan Winter," by Sara Ma-
chetant:
Anything India could do for
Jacqueline Kennedy, Pakistan
was convinced it could da better,
The Pakistanis could scarcely
match India's "Hon" festivities,
when Prime Minister dawaharial
Nehru and Mrs. Kennedy ob-
eerved the ritual at .daubing
each . uthelds ..foreheade, With red
paint. But the Pakietanis .nad
their own Republic Day, and
More than 100,000 of them turn-
ed out in the streets to cheer the
First. Lady when she arrived
lest month in ..Rawalpindi. India
had provided Mrs. Kennedy with
oar first .ride on a rouged and
golden-tusked elephant named
Bible, ("What fun!" said Mrs.
Kennedy.a But President Ayub
Khan knew that Mrs. Kennedy's
true love is horses, and lie took
her • to one • of the most ape:ne-
m:dr horse shows in the world
Ayub escorted her 'to the stadi-
um in Lahore in a state coach
drawn by six gleaming bays
with red tassels on their manes.
The show itself included a camel
that did rock 'n' roll and a, troop
of dancing horses that Mn, Ken-
nedy pronounced 'beautiful and
fascinating." As a finale, Ayub
gave her a ten-year-old bay
gelding named Sardar (chief)—
thereby topping India's gift of
tiger cubs, both of which have
since died of enteritis. After
riding Sardar, Mrs. Kennedy
said. "No one is going to be al-
lowed to ride him but me,"
Amid such pomp and circus
dance, the heavy pressures of the
tour inevitably caused some
strains. Stephen Barber of The
London Telegraph said the trip
"has fizzled miserably," and Wel-
les Hangen of NBC, who was for-
bidden to cover Mrs. Kennedy's
elephant ride from the top of an-
other specially -rented elephant,
called it "far from a smash hit."
Their criticism reflected a con-
cern, felt more by visitors than
hosts, that Mrs. Kennedy' had
seen only the pageantry of the
Indian subcontinent, not its po-
verty.
Mrs. Kennedy herself, obvious-
ly tired at times, canceled a
sight-seeing tour of Lahore and a
lunch among the ruins in Taxila.
One day, she overslept while
thousands of Pakistani school
children patiently awaited her
for three hours. On one occa-
sion when Mrs. Kennedy got
away from her eecarity men for
a Motorboat ride in Udaipur, sae
spotted some children .and said:
"Let's get out and speak to them.
before they think up some reason
why we can't." But U.S. officials
feared the children might jostle
Mrs. Kennedy and knock her into
the water, so the First Lady just
waved at them as the motorboat
sped on.
ROAD DEMONS — Vic Jowers
and Aloine Flaubert try to
hitch a ride on the Watson-
ville Santa Cruz freeway in
California. It was a promo-
tional stunt to focus attention
on his outdoor theatre, which
was denied a permit to run.
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N Ililt IYiII'74
1
r.
My address — still the same.
The dale — of neat I'm not stire,
except that it's near the end of
Marsh. The day — Sunday. And
the time — six-thirty A.M,
In the hospital the activities of
the day are just beginning. In
seine rooms patients are talking
back and forth to each other; in
other nurses are plunging thter-
morneters into the mouths of
sleeping patients. Outside the
sun is shining; birds are flitting
to and fro — apparently "God's
in his Heaven — all's right with
the world". If only it were so.
Unfortunately we know it isn't, I
haven't read a newspaper in over
three weeks — can't concentrate
— but I have my radio and man-
age to listen to the news two or
three times, a day --,-, that is, with
inteftueelides. 'Being in hospital
isn't like it Used to` de years ago.
Patients" now 'are encouraged to
be up and around .ase much as
possible, . So. we wander up and
down the, hall at will and visit
in each other's rooms, It breaks
the monotony but it also 'makes
it impossible for a person to con-
centrate on reading, writing or
even thinking. There are also
other interruptions. Luech and
s upPete trays es- very welcome,- of
course,,-- but so.afteeelast.es tlee, .
lunch tray arrives,', se does, the"
doctor --d i often Woridei' when
the doctors' eat aftetin6ron tea
nearly ealways coincides with eels- -.
items, ,preA kfas,tods,guy favnuelte-
meal „ea the r ely,,et home or
' hospital. I just' long for my toast
and coffee.
My, but ther'e'g a lot to see and -
learn in a • heater Then) ati en ts
that come and- go, their charac-
teristics, appealing or otherwise.
They are all interesting. When I
go down for X-ray i am some-
times left for awhile in the corri-
dor, But I don't' stay there, I
trundle my chair around and
take a peek at the emergency
ward; the laundry; the labora-
tory and the admitting office, I
want to know as enu.ch as I can,
inside and out,' And why not?
After' 6111,eabeett fain' dob..toee and
six nurses want,' tee know ME in-
side and out! Surely what is
sauce for, the goose is also sauce
for the' Veneer, -Wrid'llie4tilling.s
doctors saynanitie otlei, "day I was
oil the operating table, more or
less under the influence of a
sedative, but still very much
alive and alert. Stiddenly f start-
ed to chuckle -- that was as
Much as I could manage. I
couldn't "shake" with laughter
because I was strapped down by
my hands and feet. But I did
manage to chuckle, and this was
why . suddenly my surgeon
said: "How, Mrs. Clarke, shut
your mouth!" He meant it liter-
ally but Maybe he was glad of an
excuse to say it!
Well, .1 have just got through
talking to ?pettier. He says if I
don't soon get home he'll be a pa-
tient in hospital himself! Alma-
DRIVE WITH CARE !
Q. 'When a visitor brings candy
to a patient in the hospital.
should the candy 'be offered
about?
A. Yes: and the nuts should
be included, too, if she is pre-
isent.
renal,-; he has keen quite buey —
waerneg •and waxing floors,
cleaning windows and tidying up '
the front porch —naise. baheseeit7 •
ting. I asked If Taffy and Ditto
seem to miss nee and he said
Taffy goes running into my bed-
room first thing every morning'
to see if I am there. Ditto has
started her springtime habits —
wants to sleep all day and Stay
out all night. That we don't al-
low but occasionally Partner goes
to bed and then gets up in the
middle of the night to let her in.
I era sure that pleases him im-
mensely. • .
The other day he went grocery
shopping at Cloverdale Mall and.
-.almost got himself lost. Shopping
is one thing Partner isn't used to
but I guess he wanted to do it
just to show that he could. When • get ...home' we'll be fightieg
about who's to, do what.
'My room-mate and I listened
to the,,heckey deet night — eo•
that last big tussle between the,
Leafs and Detroit, 'Thank good-
ness I shall be home to watch the
play-offs on T.V, After three
weeks 'without it I know now
how lost PartnereeneaLwould be
without • it - even tho'ugn we
sometimes disagree in our choice
,of programs. HoweVen, far a lit-
tle while at least, when Partner
has his "westerns" 1 can go to my
desk and get a few "thank-you"
cards ,and. ,letters written.
4
Springtime hi The
St. Lawrence Basin
In early spring in the whole
St. Lawrence basin, water
trickles among roots and rocks
into gurgling brooks, thrusts past
boulders. into gullies, and on Into
turnultous streams. In lowland
pastures from Minnesota to Que-
bec, streams overflow, making
ponds with clean 'rows of elms
standing in • the water. As.
streams empty into the river, the
water becomes violent here and
there; ice loosens, piles up at a.
bend or a bridge; finally, es the
rivers enter the Great Lakes or
the St. Lawrence itself, their
force is terrifying, •
But the St. Lawrence knows
its. job well; the Great Lakes are
giant reservoirs, regulating the
impact of_ spring. In May, its
month of greatest flow, the. river
usually carries only twice as
much water as in • October, its
month of least flow, making it
one of the most .effidient power-
producing rivers in the world.-
Unlike the. Missouri and Missis-
sippi, unlike the Yellow and
Danube; this noble river carries
the spring run-off, with rare ex,
captions, safely to 'the ocean,
At. last we begin to see robins,
arid cars stack in the mud. We
hear mothers scold their' child-
ren for walking through puddles,
and fathers, inspecting their
flooded cellars, groan, .
Spring drags agonizingly. At
the end of March,. when the,
cherry' blossoms are about te
bloom in • Washington, the St.
Lawrence may be having its
worst blizzard of the year.
By the middle' of April,. ships.
are beginning to find their way.
through' the ice chunks on their
river.
By May the • cows amble out
to fresh pasture by the rivet'. On
mile after mile of quiet shore
the sluggish cows crop, while
sailors slip by them on rusty
freighters from Chicago to Mont-
real and Ilanthu,rg to Fort Wile
liam,
The leaves along the river
come out reluctantly, The "pope
pies" become a shivering en-
chaetment of green;. the tama-
rack grottes, looking so long like
'dead evergreens, bring out their
fine soft needles; the wild ehere
ries along the fence rows throw
dashes of white into the .gteeri.
Oreharder including. McIntosh
apple trees • which bilgillated in
the Valley, ate' bineiting, Spring
has luny tertieebnly when sum-
irier is "Ttie
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shows harm of Rtirnbert Ballet, It will
be 'd beacon of light dt night in London. Will seat 06,