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The Seaforth News, 1959-12-24, Page 6She Shot Her 25th Husband Peter Goullart, a Shanghai businessman, Stared in astonish - Ment when hearrived at 'Veng, king, a small town in Sikang, the province annexed from Tibet by China. Everyone was brawling in the busy main street, Groups Of men gesticulated, shouted and fought. Women swore, sob- bed and beat each other with sticks. The explanation for their be- haviour was that something in the local water made people, so highly sensitive and. irritable that Yungking: was the most quarrelsome town in Sikangl He made other strange dis- coyeries when he reached Tach- ienlu, the capital, to work for the Chinese Industrial Co-opera- tives. Far horn being subserv- ient to their husbands, Tibetan wives there did all the cominer- eial business, They sold goods imported from India via Tibet to Chinese merchants, tea and other mer- chandise bound for Lhasa from China. Their husbands were merely the agents who supervis- ed. caravans and delivered the wile's goods to women merch- ants in Lhasa. But this entailed no disruption of family life, Goullart explains in a remarkable account of his travels in this primitive country; "Princes of the Black Bone". In Lhasa the husband was hos- pitably entertained in all re - Jiffy Stoles So luxurious! Fashion loves the stole — soft, smart, warm with dresses and separates. One stole to knit, one to cro- chet—both JIFFY to make - m knitting worsted with large needles, Lacy, lovely gifts. Pat- tern 976: simple directions. Send . -THIRTY -FIVE CENTS (stamps caniibt.be accepted, use postal note for safety) to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS, New! New! New! Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting, unusual, popular de- signs to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave—fashions, home furnishings, toys, gifts, ba- zaar hits. In the book FREE — 3 quilt patterns. Hurry, send 25 cents for your copy. spects by a" lady friend, per haps the one entrusted with the. , disposal of his wife's caravan,. The Tachienlu wife was usual- ly solaced in turn by the Lhasa lady's husband who had brought. her goods to sell in Tachienlui Thus, each husband had a wife at either end,.'and when the children of both families reach- ed travelling age they visited each mother in turn. One such dealer was the. rich. Princess Aja Pentso belonging to a 'noble 'family. Pretty, slim and delicate, with powdered face and rouged lips, she walked through the streets on high -heel- ed shoes, accompanied by husky girls carrying her merchandise, Thanks to her wealth, beauty and charm, she did •a roaring trade, sometimes cornering the market in saffron or dry rhubarb brought from the highlands by Tibetans who would. rather sell their goods a little cheaper 10 beauty than at a higher price to a less attractive woman. The girl•.porters had the busi- ness fever, too. When not en- gaged in tea -carrying, they' kept watch for some arriving stranger, •especially one .coming' from the highlands.- They would ask him if he had gold •dust, musk, saffron or corn to dis- pose of. Not knowing where togo or what price to ask, he usually ac- cepted the offer to. help. A bar- gain was struck over a cup of wine and the proceeds at the sale duly delivered in the even- ing at an appointed place. The man was happy over the. deal, the following evening there might be more drinks adiT a dance at a caravanserai. Brick tea, for ages China's chief export to Tibet, is carried. from Yaan to Tachienlu over lone mountain tracks by strange, pitiful, almost sub -human Szech- uan-Chinese porters with bluish- yellow wizened faces and unsee- ing eyes. Clad in rags, they resemble walking corpses. • As they are paid by weight they sometimes carry as much as one; hundred. and eighty pounds. They stagger along in the rarefied mountain air like automata, sometimes collapsing in the snow and frost by the roadside to die unmourn- ed. All their energy for this; grim task combs from opium, without which they could not live. When Goullart went up- country to Garthar to start a modern creamery at a cattle farm there, news came of a Tibetan uprising near adjacent I{anze. It was, so the rumors ran, due to the matrimonial entangle- ments of its ruling Grand Duch- ess, Detchin Wangmo. She was believed to have shot her twenty- fifth husband and to be enam oured of a handsome young •Ti- betan from another` tribe. The Provincial government wanted to prevent this new marriage, fearing that the alliance would make her too powerful., Refugees reached Garthar with panic tales of cruelty and pillage and of raids by fierce Hsiangohen tribesmen incensed by the exactions of rapacious Szechuanese soldiers. Chinese settlers and merch- ants in Garthar hurriedly pack- ed their goods and with -their caravans headed for the. safety of Tachienlu. Goullart soon fol- lowed, and on a 15,000 -Toot pass between snow peaks hadthe terrifying experience of losing• his caravan in dense fog. WATCHING THE WATCHERS' A federal judge in Gainesville, Ga., dismissed a moonshine in- dictment. against Harry Cotton when it turned out that Cotton was Harry Lauderdale, a treas- ury agent investigating moon - shining. DOWN MEXICO WAY - Russian Deputy Premie; Anastas Mika - rut lakes with the wife of a steelworker in her home in Mort - clove, Mexico, The city is the site of Mexico's largest steel mill. During his tour of the country, the Soviet supersalesman also visited oil fields and industrial installations. PRETTY SHELL GAME'- Adriene Bourbeau' is delighted by the conch sail, she found in. Florida. 1N�RFARM eve Last Satuiday we went to the official opening of Ontario's. newest hospital that is, the "Milton "District Hospital." It was a great day for.the:Board of Directors as there ias.probably been more controversy over. this ' one 62-bect hospital. than any in Ontario. The public was apathe- tic. Getting local funds was .tike `trying to' draw blood from 'a 'stone. The need for 'a hospital was great 'yet the men in the street seemed to lack faith ' in the ability .of the directors to plan, build and maintain a' local .hospital. This 'was largely the result of what some people con- .sidered.over-spehding in the ini- tial planning. Which was a pity as there was. never .a harder. working.,board of directors, How- ever, after almost six years of endeavour the hospital is now getting` organised. 'to receive its first patients, replacing the 16 - bed private hospital that has served the district for' 16. years. The new hospital is very mod- ern, very spacious and exceed- ingly airy and attractive, com- paring favourably with any that have been built in recent years. Naturally, the.costhas been high — prohibitive, according to some people.. But then, doesn't that apply to • all hospitals, big or small? As I wandered through the wardsand, corridors I won- dered if there was. any way of cutting the initial cost. I ,hit on one• or two ideas. Here they aro for, what they' may be worth. As you know any public build- ing must be government -approv- ed to ' qualify for provincial grants and since hospitals follow .more or less along the lines of a chosen blueprint; some with a one -floor. plan, others with mul- tiple floors, why then couldn't the Department of Health and Welfare have blueprints available to meet the need of any planning board and• thus cut down on. architectural fees, which run to quite. a sizable figure. It might not make too much difference in the overall expenditure but even .one small' economy would be a step in the right. direction, The same Idea could apply to schools and institutions. Another saving might be effect ed in the initial publicity cam- paigns for raising funds. Local ' papers do a wonderful job ad- vertising worthwhile causes and there ,arealways public spirited men and women, who will under- take voluntary services in the interest of their own community. Why then spend thousands` of • dollars on outside 'help to publi- • size 'local fund-raising projects? Arouse the interest of prominent men and women , there are always' born leaders in every community ,.. let them be the ones to spark the campaign They'. know the type of people with whom they must deal - far bet- ter, I would say, than a hired campaign manager. That's how it appears to me anyway, As for the completed hospital, that is another story. I don't think anyone should miss, an opportunity to go on a pre- opening tour of inspection of any new local hospital. It is quite an education, To my way of think- ing one of the best features of modern hospitals is the "recovery ,room," usually a room with from two to four beds, where patients are, taken while still partly un- der anaesthesia following an •operation. A nurse is constantly in attendance at this critical stage ` in the patient's post- operative period. Perhaps I ap- preciate this advance in nursing care because of my own experi ence about 20 years ago, At •that time, following a major operation, I "came to" in my own private room . , . alone, Not even realizing I had been in surgery I thought I wanted •to go to the bathroom:'I attempted to get out of bed. One of the nurses came in and found me on the floor. Special nurses had been engaged to care for me but I was supposed not, to need any special attention until• later in the day. It just shows you never can tell. It was an un- pleasant experience and c.e that could hardly happen today. Another thing I gained from that time was a piece of worthwhile advice given me by one of my "specials" - a nurse who had the reputation of being the best in the hospital. She said if,it were necessary to cut down on expenses it was better to choose a public ward' and special nurs- ing rather thana private room with less n u r s i n g. Partner thought this good advice and _ when he had to go to the To- ronto General for observation some years later he insisted on. a public ward, He was there for, three weeks. and never regretted it. Well I hope you won't con- sider this to be .a gloomy' column. It isn't meant to be . So far as I can see a stay in any good hospital isn't the ordeal it used to be. We'should be thank- ful for our modern ;facilities — especially under our, • present. pre -paid Ontario.; Hospital Insur- • ance. Getting Taller Bed manufacturers, door mak- ers, basketball coaches, and military draft boards had sensed it, and last .month London Uni- versity's famous biologist Peter B. Medawar .confirmed' -it: Hu- mans , are getting taller and taller. Specifically, Medawar report- ed that British teen-agers are growing three-quarters of an inch taller each decade. The sta- tistics are essentially the same in the U.S. end tlie:"ehd is not`-, in sight," according 'tb Dr.•Sten ley 1'L Gain of,fhe;r"els Research' Institute 'for the Study' oi. Hui man Development,, Yellow Spritis, Ohio,' Further, " Gain sees no ceiling on man's up- ward evolution, "Fortunately, the heart and other human organs are capable of keeping up with normal non -glandular growth," he said, Garn offers one reason for this "tall story": "This is a nation of fat kids and fat kids usually grow taller." Frank Lloyd Wright (Archi- teat): Definition of television Chewing -gum for the eyes. daughter Banned In The Pcijuce When novelist . playwright, gymphna 'Cusack recently tour- ed China she met an Imperial Gttards general's widow, Yu Poungling, who had been a Manchu princess and lady-in- waiting to the Empress. Dowager, Tsui Hsi, In her talk with Miss Cusaelc, quoted in "Chinese Women. Speak she said: "The Court . dazzled us with its richness and splendour. By then the Empress Dowager was in sole control. Poor Ifwang Hsu (the Emperor) had been put under house -arrest in a pavilion in the Sea Palace . We dared not go out of the women's quarters. To go' to the Emperor's Palace would have brought punishment undreamed of." The Dowager had a cape made of more than three thousand perfectly matched pearls, each the size of a canary's egg, linked by twopure jade clasps.Her headdresses and shoes were en- crusted with jewels, a she wore gold and jade fingernail pro- tectors. No collection of jewels in the world could equal hers, it was said. There were three thousand boxes of them in one room for everyday , wear. Many others were kept in a safety room for special occasions... Her favourite was a pearl nearly as large as a hen's egg. ". Best of all Yu loved the much freer Summer Palace, where she lived in a pavilion - now a tea -house — on the lake's edge. Inthis palace they were not permitted to laugh aloud, but in the pavilion rules were slightly relaxed. Normally they rose at five - o'clock and at six sharp they lined : up in the ante -chamber to the Dowager's bedroom -- the Young Empress, the favour- ite, 'and , t h e ladies-in-waiting. The princesses . outside came only on fete days. They then helped her to dress, from a wardrobe of thousands of beau- tifully embroidered. robes. Inthe afternoons there were plays and operas, all the .parts being taken by specially trained eunuchs, These 'were followed by public receptions. "Those receptions were awful," Yu said. "Some of the foreign ladies behaved as if they were,at a circus," She confessed:. "I'm happier , today than I ever was working at the Court. Etiquettewas so ' strict that one scarcely dared breathe.' But during the eight years of Japanese occupation s h e 'and her husband were so poor that they had practically nothing to eat but coarse grain. Fellow we know bought all his Christmas lights. on the pay-as- you-go plan. Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee Q,: When a tingerbowl is part et a formal diln?.er, does one put both hands In at the same titre? A, Never, Dip just the FIN- GERS pf one hand into the bowl at a time, Q. Some of my girl Mende, who have become engaged re- cently, have given their fiances engagement gifts. Is this p new custom, and Is it now proper? A. This is neither a new custom nor necessary, Of course, there is nothing wrong with it, if the girl, really "wishes to do se. For Women Who Sew PRINTED PATTERN INFANT DOLL WARDROBE /, 4937 FOR DOLL 10"-20" TALL 41141404e+ ,4i It's fun to play fairy god- mother and sew this wardrobe for tiny 10 to big 20 -inch baby dolls. Includescoat,' hat, sacque, kimono, dress,. playsuit, bib, hooded blanket, slip, pants. Printed Pattern 4937: For dolls 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 inches. State size of doll. Printed .directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate, Send FORTY CENTS (40O (stamps, cannot be accepted, use postai note for safety) for this pattern. Please .print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, • STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 51.— 1959 CUSTODY, FIGHT - Mrs, Betty De Noon Hayden is shown wi h her attorney in a Las Angeles courtroom before a hearing in which she demanded the custody of her three children by actor Sterling Hayden,,'Hayden recently returned from u 10;000 -mile voyage with the children in defiance of a court order not to remove them from the country.