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The Seaforth News, 1961-05-04, Page 6► r •• ► • • ►' r ► r Y' —776 Hew First M•.viddy "Like A Princess" Always, whenever they saw her, her head wee high and her eyes were bright. Her smile ,was radiant — but not for them. She swept regally past,, her eyes. looking far ahead. Yet 'the ei,owds loved It, "She's like a 'princess," said one young man. "She's the closest thing to royally ea Ameri- can girl can be," This was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy last month — back in New York for the first time since she ,moved to the White House and enjoying a pre -Piaster shop- ping spree M the finest shops. IL was on a bright Monday afternoon that the First Lady planed into La Guardia airfield. She was accompanied by her equally beautiful sister. Princess Radziwill, White House secretary Anne Lincoln, and two Secret Service men. Mrs. Kennedy held a shiny copy of Vogue in her hands and wore a plum -colored suit, loose -fitted and understated as are all of her clothes. A New York girl (summers in East Hampton, winters on Park Avenue), Mrs. Kennedy checked into her hotel, the elegant Car- lyle at 76th and Madison. She moved into her sister's apart- ment 145 while her entourage took over the Presidential suites on the 34th and 35th floors Then, first things first, of course, A call went out for Mr. Kenneth, the hair -stylist at Lilly Dacha's. The ladies kept him busy until 6 p.m. Having managed to avoid mak- ing.a statement to the press at the airport, Mrs. Kennedy kept up the silent treatment. Report- ers and photographers, ignoring the glares of Carlyle patrons, camped out in the hotel lounge only to suffer one disappoint- ment after another. The First Lady herself slip- ped in and out through back en- trances and once, to elude the press — with the help of the Secret Service — she switched, cars, Tooling down Park Avenue in one Cadillac, she stopped as goon as she had eluded eager re- porters, and stepped into another Cadillac, (This was because the license plates of the first car — a White House limousine with District of Columbia tags read- ing JK 102 would be a give hway if reporters caught up to er again.) She planned luncheon for six - I. t Le Pavillon but did not at - end, to the great regret of Ali' he doorman to whom she always peaks in French. "I know her or many years," Ali said, "Nice ady, very, what you say simple." Mrs. Kennedy, wearing a blue Wool dress, blue reefer coat and ,alligator shoes with nonteetering griddle --size heels — the kind a woman can wear if her legs don't need high heels — spent that tfternoon shopping. She stopped at Fifth Avenue's F.A.O. chwarz toy shop where she sought , two dolls for Caroline. ater the Preaident's wife look- ed at a velvet -collared Princess Margaret -style coat' and leggings for Caroline and then dropped by one of her favorite antique shops, S. Barges.- There she bought a jardiniere, an 18th century French flower bowl for use 'in the Kennedy's Hyannis Port summer home. The First Lady also found time during her stay to look at the post-impres- aionist paintings of Maurice t'rendergast at the Whitney Mu- seum, a collection of contempor- ry art at the Sagittarius Gal- ery and some primitive art ob- ects at J. 3. Klejman. Tuesday evening, accompanied r'e Adlai Stevenson, Mrs. Ken- dy attended the City Center ballet inhere the director, George ISSUE 17 — 1961 Balanehine, switehed tris pros gram to include, three of her fa- vorites: "Pea de Dix" by'Glee unov, "Symphony in 0" by Bizet, and the "Liebeslieder Walser," With music by Brahms. ` A crowd of 500 gathered" Outside the hall to see and wave to her. She fleshed them and TV cam- eramen a radiant smile before taking her seat: at dead center in row G. The. First Lady was not dressed to the nines for the occa- sion; she wore a simple blue - gray brocade theater suit. The jacket had a cowl neck and, the skirt was day. length. Her only jewelry was glittering earrings. Other theater -goers ,tromped up and down the aisles, ogling her, but none spoke to her. She chat- ted gaily and seemed to be.hav- ing a fine time. The next morning two men and two models, all resolutely refusing to give their names, ap- peared at the Carlyle, laden with hatboxes and garment bags. The hats came from Mr. John, the clothes from Oleg Cassini, Mrs. Kennedy's favorite American de- signer. Because of a White House frown on publicity about her clothes, there was no official word on what Cassini was show- ing her, but she had already ap- proved most of the designs in sketch form. The selection rang- ed from summer . dresses and sportswear to wooled dresses and suits needed to finish out the season in Washington. Her East- er outfit was to be summery and gay (she planned to spend Easter in Palm Beach) and reflected what experts noted was a new emphasis on color. It was pre- sumed that a print dress she. wore recently at a Latin Ameri- can reception was a sign of Mrs. Kennedy's experimenting in styles and colors not as under- stated as those she has favored in the past. Newsmen were still kept in the dark about her schedule as well as her new wardrobe. ['!Who does this dame think she is?" was a common complaint.] But she spent the late hours of the day readying the Presidential Suite for a small cocktail party. The guests included Robert Dow- ling, owner of the Carlyle, Col. SergeObolensky, the hotel exe- cutive who is also known as'"the best waltzer in America," Henry Ford II, Princess Radziwill and her husband, who is a London businessman, the Leland Hay - wards (she is the former Pamela Churchill), and Mrs. Kennedy's stepbrother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr. The party broke up at 8:30 and the President's Wife, with her • sister. left with the Auchinclos- see. They dined at L'Ermitage on East 58th St., where Mrs. Kennedy wore a blue wool suit with white trim, white gloves, blue pumps, no coat, no hat. It was the sisters' last night togeth- er in town but the First Lady still had more fittings and more clothes to look at the next day. This time a new group of models displayed the wares. In the af- ternoon Mrs. Kennedy shopped at Sloane's furniture store, and had a friend pick up some things for her at Saks Fifth Avenue. She was back at the hotel at 3 p.m., again avoiding the press and, with her sister, checked out at 4:15. She went through the rain to her car, where a photo- grapher caught an appealing Renoir -like picture. Back at the airport, homeward bound, Mrs. Kennedy again gave her famous smile to the still - pursuing press—but still she re- fused to talk. She climbed into her plane, again with a copy of Vogue in her hand. Not until she reached home in Washington did she have any statement to make, Then all she said was: "I didn't buy too much. The weather was awful." From NEWSWEEK, DRIVE CAREFULLY The life you save may be your own. CAROLINE'S CAT — The White House cat, Tom Kitten, has neW masters and a new name, Tom Terrific. Mrs. Kennedy decided the Executive Mansion was too lonely for the cot and gave him to her personal secretary, Mary Gallagher, Gregory, 3, and Chrlatopher Gallagher, 4, find that Tom oda.pts easily. NATURAL CURTAIN STRETCHERS . Living cactus fences that surround most rural homes on the island of, Aruba, Netherlands West Indies, make handy "clotheslines," The laundry is draped overr the prrelely plants .and the worm Caribbean trade winds do the drying. y RON!CL IS ` INGLES-ARM 9r Gori eiol•a+s P CLool a If you are not interested in dogs don't read my column this week. As you may know my special- ity in dogs is Welsh Corgis. Un- til recently I thought we were the only 'ones in this district to own a Corgi. Then I saw an advertisement in a Toronto pa- per --."For Sale — registered Welsh Corgi pups". And the owner of the dogs lived . only about three milesfrom here. So I phoned, explained my interest, asked if I might see the pups and if I could bring Taffy along with me, I was cordially invited to come any time. So away I went the very next morning. Only two of the puppies were left and they were the cutest little things, one of them very like Taffy. But the mother — she was a perfect match for Taffy. They were very friendly towards each other, so, Who knows, it might be the be- ginning of a future romance, A day or two later I saw an- other "for sale" notice in the paper. Thistime of a cocker spaniel for a very reasonable price. I immediately phoned Dee because ever since Honey died the boys have been begging for another dog. Dee had to go to a Guide meeting that night sb Art and the boys went along to gee the dog. What they saw wasso different from what they expect- ed Art decided he wasn't going Easy Sun -Style Sundress or pinafore! It's easy to sew of crisp cotton - opens flat for speedy ironing. 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So' the dog wase bought and paid for •= the next problem was to get, him home. Not only the dog but his dishes, brush and comb, col- lar and chain and some dog food. However Dee is the type who will tackle anything at times and this was one of those occasions all the way home on the Queen street car! The worst part was getting dog and boys all assembled in the same spot at the same time to get off the crowded street -car. That same night, after Friday night shop- ping, they all came along for their accustomed visit — with the pup of course, so we could see what we thought of him. I am glad to say we liked him as much as they did: He is longer in the leg than the average spaniel.From his appearance I would say he is a mixture of water spaniel and Irish setter. His name is "Gustav" and he is six months old. Already he takes a lot of good-natured mauling from the. boys. They just love him. Dee will need to love him too as he isn't house-trained! His former owners were Finnish folk and they bought him as a wee pup hoping to overcome their little girl's fear of dogs. But It didn't work so Gustav spent a good deal of time in the cellar. With a timid, three-year- old, child to look after and an- other on the way the lady of the house couldn't give the dog the attention he should have had. However, I think Gus will now find he finally got the better of the bargain. Friday night, of course, we were faced with. the problem of keeping peace between the two dogs — Taffy and Gus. Taffy had never had another dog in- vade his home territory. — ex- cept poor old Honey who was so old and fat Taffy treated her more like a stuffed toy. There was a little snapping and snarl- ing on Taffy's part when' Gus first came in but then he decided it was really 'fun to have some- one to play with and after that they got along fine. I'm telling you what with three boys and two dogs this place was little short of a madhouse Friday night. Ditto, I might add, took to the front bedroom and didn't show up again until after the crowd had gone. Well, the last few days we have had a greater problem than drags to contehd with. Our town- ship water supply is contamin- ated. I'm not sure "contamin- ated" is the right word to use as we are told whatever has got into the water is not in any way poisonous. Poison or not it has made the wider quite undrink- able, . Eyen dishes after being washed have :the phenol 'odot clinging to them. We understand seepage 'from the oil refineries has somehow reached the town- ship filtration plant. But are we lucky . right next door to us is a -neighbour who still gets his water supply from a pod old- fashioned well in the backyard. We go over there Iii the mprning and get our water supply Sot' this day -- that is, for drinking and cooking purposes. Some people are making trips to a natural spring a few miles from here,. filling, cans, pails and bottle and bringing it home; So now we know hone of our modern con- veniences are really fool -proof. Yesterday a mail order' catalogue came in the mail. Looking through it Partner said --"Here's something we had better send forright away." IL was a two - burner oiistove. I'm all for it. Withthat on hand we can at least make a cup of tea or boil a few potatoes such time as the hydro goes off. - Mass Production Honeymooning ' There are, it seems, two kinds of togetherness on a honeymoon. There is the 'togetherness of a couple who want to' be alone to- gether, gazing into each other's eyes and all that kind of thing. • Then there is a real'togetherness. The second kind was what in- spired more than 1,000 newly - •wed couples who swarmed into. Britain's Channel Island of Jer- sey recently. A British institu- 'tion known as "the tax man's wedding" was responsible for the big splurge. Easter, always a popular time for weddings, coincided almost exactly with the end of Britain's fiscal year, and any bachelor married before April 6 got his personal income- tax exemption 'raised from $392 to $672. Thus, he•'could count on a big enough tax -rebate to finance a honeymoon. And when it came to choosing a spot, he knew his money would go far- ther on Jersey because it is a self - governing dependency, which .,doesn't like too many taxes.. Cigarettes, cost 20 cents, compared with 57 Bents in Bri- tain; the cost of whisky is cut in' half. Well aware of the profits to SEASONAL -- With the "sun get- ting : hotter, the beach is. a pleasant place to be, as Sheila Batley proves. ha made, Jersey's tourist bureait and.hotelkeepers have inaugur- ated special honeymoon features: Island bars serve "honeymoon" cocktails (a secret recipe), bus tours are arranged, and room television sets are installed, its case of badweather. And the honeymooners have responded by ,spending $200,000, • Many couples arrived with no Idea that so many others were going to be there at the same time. "We thought we' were go- ing to get away from it all," 'said Glen Brown, 21 -year-old engi- neer from Wimborne, Dorset, '"We're not disappointed though,' added his. -pretty wife, Peggy. "It's fine to )rave so. many other happy people around." Bridegroom Roger Pryor had another view. "S t r a ti g e 1 Y enough," he said, "a honeymoon could be lonely. But not here. We've made friends with two other couples and are having e grand time." This was the sort of together - Aim that delighted hoteikeeper Stan Mason, whose Merton hotel was filled with 414 newlyweds. "It's like a tonic," he said, "to see so many people liking each other so much. Keeps, you young." Modern Etiquette Sy Anne Ashley Q, liow many vea etables. is it considered "really heeds aiyt ':te • serve at a well-prepared dinner? A, Two vegetables, usually Q. 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