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aR Ve SC A JE iT ri, 3 or rl er Proa 43 a a 2d oh 1. of? re rt SR et En Ea a ais 1 -- ~~ 5% 5 5 EASELS ES SEA ENE OE ER A BAAR SR ad ARIE CI els Weather Can Change One's Whole Life Nii One pathetic fact stands out from the terrible murder of Bar--| bara Songhurst and Christine ' Reed on the Teddington towpath: That morning they had intended oycling to Brighton, but chang- "ed their plans because the weather was uncertain. At a loose end, they decided to visit three youths who had told them they would be camping by the river. Returning home at night, they were murdered. It the weather hadn't been unsettled in the morning they would be alive today. Behind Locked Doors How many lives are changed by the caprice- of the weather! Patrick Mahon, the Crumbles murderer, said he met a young woman one wet night at Rich- mond, Surrey, where he lived. She was soaked to the skin, down on her luck, and was walking to Isleworth. He talked with her and saw her home, They met again, and he invited her to spend Easter at the bungalow near Eastbourne, She was there while, unknown ~-to her, the body of Emily Kaye, whom he had murdered, was ly- ing in a trunk in a locked room. But for the rain and her soak- ed condition that night it is un- likely that her name woud have been linked with that of a notor- ious murderer, or that she would have undergone such an unfor- gettably grim experience. But rain and unsettled weather _ have brought good fortune, too. How many happily married couples to-day can say that they met by chance when sheltering from the rain? Proximity in a doorway, perhaps by a bus stop, induced talk -- about the "aw- -- ful weather." Maybe th» man 'offered her the use of hiz um- brella. They liked each other and . arranged to meet again . in love . ', . married . . . happy home and_a family. Saved by Second Thoughts ~If 'the rain hadn't come down when it did, bringing them to- gether, they would still be un- . known to each other. Strange, that the big things of life may depend on a passing shower! I know of a couple who were . fell had a Buttons Up Record -- Just two hours old and still a bit bewild- ered, giraffe stands on wobbly legs beside proud mama "But- fons." "Buttons" holds the record for producing babies in captiv- My. the newcomer being her eighth. + cried off, --up--at-the rendezvous. That-day-- "interior of the death house at .a fine, sunny day when t| -of rain hadn't spattered down. . . going to buy a bungalow gn the East Coast. They fell for it on shore looked a paradise by a calm blue sea. The bungalow itself suited them admirably. ' The second time they went there, - intending" to clinch the deal, it was grey, rainy, blustery, with" "white horses" roaring in under a dun sky. They found themselves wondering what the place would be like in mid-win- ter, with a gale howling and the sea storm-lashed, or under heavy snow. All very well in fine weather, but . ., ; They hesitated and in the end But for that second visit in unsettled weather they would have been there that ter- rible night of storm, at the end of January, when the sea raged in, flooded the country for miles in- land, and drowned three people in the very bungalow they were going to make their home At places nearer London, like Canvey Island, many lives were spared in the disaster because people who might have gone for the weekend in the ordinary way did not do so, thinking the weather. looked too unsettled. Had it been better, as in some years, the tragic. denth-roll would have been higher. In the Lap of the Gods Look out of your door on a Sunday morning, gaze at the-sky, sniff the air and say, "I don't think we'll go, it looks 'oo un- settled" -- and in those few moments of casual decision you may be escaping a car or. coach smash, or rail disaster: How many times have we heard peo- ple say: "If it hadn't looked so uncertain we'd have been in that. But we changed our minds at the last: minute." A Ta You may also be foregoing one of the biggests strokes of luck in your life -- an encounter, per- haps, that would bring you- all -- you most desire. But how are you to know? It's all in the lap of the gods -- and the clouds. If the sky hadn't looked menacing at precisely 9.13 a.m. on a cer- tain date, ;and those few drops well, you'd have done something quite different, wouldn't you, and your life would have been changed: ' What do you make of this? A young fellow and a girl, who were engaged, used to go out every Sunday in the summer with a rambling club. One Sun- day morning she was late up, with a bit of a.cold:-the w=2ather looked very threatening, so she decided not to go and didn't turn her brother brought a business acquaintance in to tea. They fell in love at first sight and eventu- ally married, == Romance Takes Cover On that day's ramble the boy friend met a girl, a new member, and as he was alone they drift- ed together and became friendly. Soon they, too, were in love and in the end married. So the weather that morning changed four lives radically -- and un- born lives, too, for both' couples now have children. Refurbished. To provide a. soothing and restful atmosphere for its condemned occupants, the Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y, is being painted a pastel shade of green. : Flexible Steering Gear For Safety--A te action of a néwly-developed steering gear at Chelles Alrfleld In Paris, France. The flexible joint "gives" when a collision throws y forward, praventing his being thrown through and at the same time protecting him from rib switch cuts all electrical contacts to avold post-accident explosions, the driver's bod , fractures. A special V jest driver demonstrates the right shows, Couldn't Bear It -- The. camera-focusing tourist, left, was delighted to be able to take a moving picture of this black bear in the Great Smoky Mountains. But when the animal proved to be a ham at heart and moved in for a close-up, The lady ducked -- as the empty. car windows at New Fashions In Fall Hosiery Whether women hold that hemline. or give in to Christian Dior, milady's legs are due for more attention this Fall than has been focused ®n them in many seasons. ; For one thing, the new nar- rower look with its long continu- ous line converges at the legs. For another, the. news in nylon hosiery is the return of the dark- er stocking. : Though not so dark as are be- ing shown in the United States, Canadian hosiery mills "include shades as deep as' true browns, gunmetals, charcoals and even can-can black. Names of the new hosiery col- ors are just as fanciful as ever. Some have drawn their inspira- tion from the water spectacle presented at the Canadian Nat- ional Exhibition in Toronto this year, Others are cued to the movy- ies and the theatre. One manu- facturer helps shoppers co-ordi- nate stockings and outfit by im- printing little diamond-shaped patches of: color 'at the top of "each pair-of hosiery. 3 Whatever the adjectives, most of the new-colors are lighter or 'darker 'ersions of such basic hosiery shades as skintone, beige, taupe, grey, tan or off-black. This season there is also more to choose from in hosiery styl- ing. There are stockings with --lingerie-colored tops in pastel pinks or blues to match slips: There are new heels dyed a deep- er tone of the same shade to 'make the stocking appear sheer- er by contrast. : And for the first time Can- .adian manufacturers are offer- ing a complete range of autumn | folors in the new, ultra-sheer 12 denier nylon. These stockings are almost four times. as sheer as the first nylon hosiery that appeared in 1939. The latter were 40 denier and today seem quite heavy by comparison, However, each weight has its place in every wo- man's wardrobe and 12 denier stockings should be worn only. on the dress-up occasions for which they were designed. They are particularly flattering in char- coal and can-can black. When buying hosiery to blend with Fall costumes, = shoppers should select the gauge and den- ier as carefully. as they do the themselves wearing stockings that are either too fragile or too practical for: the occasion. ment store in a large Canadian city estimates tha. only one-third of her customers know what to ask for in nylon stockings. About two-thirds of the women who shop at this hosiery counter don't know that denier means the weight and thickness of the thread and that gauge stands for the number of stitches in one and one half inches of stocking fabric. - * peat over and over again to cus- tomers that the degree of sheer- while tightness of the stitch de- "pends upon the gauge. The den- jer decreases. as stocking threads become progressively finer, while the gauge increases with the "ad- dition of stitches to make them 'a tighter, longer-wearing fabric. For example, 15 denier, 45 gauge stockings can't be expected to give the same wear as a pair of 18 denier, 66 gauge. The individ- ual threads on the former are looser and therefore more. likely to be caught and' broken on a rough surface, Speedsters, In Dedham, Mass, Jockar Tony-Despirito, last year's "cesslve speed down the stretch of a nearby highway, Fall color cards brought out by shade, Otherwise, they may find The 'hosiery buyer of a depart- - All day long the sales girls re- ness is determined by the denier, rider, paid a $10 fine for gal- loping his automobile at an ex- EE "and the bobbin of the "and-gold divans For Cumici--A hand of black velvet, tipped .with ruby nails, «is the latest in .hats on display in the autumn. collection of Simone Mirman, Princess Mar- garet's milliner in ° London, + England. "SEALED" ROOMS IN ROYAL PALACES - White with fright, a girl point- ed at the locked door of the seal- ed room of Sandringham, "There's someone in-thare." she gasped. "I heard them knocking!" Security police hurriedly un- locked the door. King George V's - brass bedstead 'stood made up with fresh new sheets. The old king's - Tibetan dressing- gown still hung in the ward- robe. But the room was eerie and unoccupied as it has been these last seventeen years. Then it came again, the in- sistent tapping. = Cleaning the room the previous week, a house- maid had left the window ajar blind- cord softly rapped in the breeze. Today Sandringham has two - sealed rooms. Following royal custom the death-chambers of the. last two kings are kept as they always have been, but with the passing of Queen Mary the room in which her husband died will soon be returned to house- hold use. a : Instead, the whole of Queen Mary's six-roomed suite at Marl- borough House has been sot aside, its sumptuous furnishings protected by dust-sheets, its car- pets protected from 'sunlight be- hind drawn blinds. If the Duke of Windsor decided to visit his' mother's. home, he everything just as he has always known it. ; Queen Mary's two thousand art treagures are kept carefully "dusted, the glass-fronted show- cases meticulously polished, just as they were durisg her lite. Her . Spectacle case and a favourite photograph remain at her bed- side. And every detail of the room will proably be just the same in fifty years' time. | . Some other Royal scaled tooms --~ have had to give way to new. conditions. , The forgotten royal waitingroom at Windsor and Eton railway station slumbered through four reigns until open- ed up recently. PERT By the massive fireplace Queen Victoria used to sit with her ladies, waifing® for the train. Modern royalty, however, pre- fers travel by- car, and no pass- enger set foot amid the faded splendour far many years. Indeed, as the surveyor pushed open the almost. forgotten door in the wall of No. 3 platform, he felt the touch of a cobweb. It was a little while before his eyes grew accustomed to the dim light 'and he saw the crimson- and seltess, ivory :Cupids and rich furniture ~--and his finger traced a scroll in the dust.: Two or three years ago the contents were sold, and the room uhderwent a. strange transforma tion, Today it is the new divi- sional HQ. of the railway police, .and is concerned not with Royal- ty, but with the war against railway thieves! | - 7 ris REaes nd na er Ph Sb RA ko Mo Sa BE fk would find - Fire Burning For 69 Years Somebody © set fire to New Straitsville, "Ohio, sixty-nine © years ago, and they haven't put it out yet. It was in 1884, during a bitter strike in the local coal 'mines, that some of the dissident 'par- ties decided to set the mines on fire, They got a string of loaded coal wagons, soaked the coal in oil, lit-a match and sent the whole lot roaring and flaming into the heart of the mine a mile under ~.| the hills. The results were spec- tacular, The flames are still burning in what has come to be known as the biggest under- ground mine fire in the world. . . Where there's fire, there's smoke. You can see it eddying skyward from all sorts of un-- likely places. Although the coal lies about - thirty feet under the town the fires have produced some strange effects in New Straitsville, The water in some cisterns has be- come so hot that the housewives wash clothes in it as it comes from the wells." To drink the "water, it mu§t-tbe artificially cooled. In places grass and plants grow in tropical lushness amid winter snowdrifts. When the underground flames got too close to the school, classes were dismissed while nearby coal veins were scooped out and safety walls sunk as protection. Some houses have caved :in when the coal under the foundations burn- ed out and the earth collapsed. Back in 1895 one Sebastian Spi- cer, his team, apd. his wagon sank from sight in one of- the - deep fissures. : While the writer stood back at a safe distance, Paul Hatem, a local miner and volunteer fire- man, set fire to a piece of card- board by placing it on the ground. The only. sign of fire was the smoke seeping up out of the- ground and the bushes waving ,drom the eddies of hot air. No visible flames. Yet the cardboard was burning briskly fifteen sec- onds after it was placed on the ground. 3 W. J. Brown, who sed to work in the mines, says thé reason the fires can't be put out is that they keep getting fresh air from cave-ins and new diggings. It has been estimated that more than $60,000,000 worth of "coal has been destroyed by fire so far. Oil was discovered in New Straitsyille in 1909, and for a time, what with coal and oil, the town was booming with a popu- lation of 3,500. But the oil began to peter out several years ago, most of the " coal veins were worked out or burned out, and New Straitsville succumbed to the doldrums. Now . there are only about 1,100 peaple, | - and whole rows of dirty-win- - dowed business buildings in the main street are empty.. REALLY, REALISTIC A Greek artist painted some. .grapes in one of his masterpieces so superbly that when it was exhibited at a garden party birds * flew at them, thinking they were real fruit. : Velazquez's portrait 6f a Span- _ish- admiral was so true to life .. that King Felipe IV mistook. it for the man himself. He reproved the "officer" sharply for wasting his time in a painter's studio when he ought .to be with his fleet! {TE A bee painted on the out- strteched leg of a fallen angel by Quintin. Matsys, the Belgian artist, looked so- natural that a visitor to 'his studio tried to frighten it away by waving his handkerchief. : When Alexeander the Great's 'horse was painted, the artist did . it with such fidelity that a real "horse began to neigh at it, be- lleveing it to be alive. _ at Bincleaves, went off course "and {rashed on the beach, scattering athers. No one was hurt and Queer Happenings At The Seaside A torpedo with a dummy head, fired from an Admiralty range Weymouth, last month, no damage caused, and an Ad- miralty spokesman said later: "There was no danger of an ex-: . - plosion." : : . Y es, queer things frequently happen at the seaside. Some years ago scores of holiday-makers at - Southsea had a big thrill because two liners chanced to meet and pass each other in the Solent. You see, a hundred thousand tons, even moving slowly, dis- place a great mass of water, and that's. what happened on that sunny day -as people basked on the beach. Enormous waves, quickly reach- ing the shore, washed many holiday-makers off their feet and out of their deck-chairs. Hun- dreds of people got a wetting and much property was lost. Children would have been drowned but for - prompt action by parents. : At Gorleston, near Yarmouth, a whirlwind carried away the roof of a beach hut in which a young woman was sitting reading, and dumped it into the sea, Oth- er huts were lifted sixty feet into the air. A warning was once issued to holiday-makers in Jersey that a quantity of gelignite was miss- ing. They left the beaches in a hurry; the gelignite-was washed up and disposed of, nobody being hurt. SHES The gunboat Cherwell was rushed from Dover to. Folkestone twelve years after-the end of the first world war to remove & mine which. was menacing holiday= makers, It contained=200-1bs. of T.N.T, and had actually been moved and tapped by 'youths ~ who were within an ace of be- ing sky-high! Crowds watched from the safe-- ty of the clifftop while the ex- perts rendered the mine harm- less by withdrawing the detona- tors and the magazine contain- ing the explosive. The mine was British and had been" laid way ~ back in 1916. "i> While bathers splashed gail in the water at Stokes Bay, Gos- port, in 1930, a seaplane carrying pilot and observer crashed in their midst. It swept along the, beach, overturning six bathing huts, three of which weré re- duced to matchwood, and buried . its nose in the shingle. One holdiay-maker, about to put. on his bathing costume, - found himself outside his hut without a stitch of clothing. He wrapped a towel round himself and ran to help the trapped air- men, neither of whom was hurt, - Mystery Street Made Folks Cry For eight years people's eyes watered every time they passed through a certain street in Calle, . Germany. Even the most cheer- ful individuals were . sometimes known to "burst into tears" 'at "one particular spot! It was all very sad -- but nobody knew exactly why. \ But they've just found out, after the street had borne the nickname "Tranenstrasse" (Tear Street) since 1945. Half buried under the rotting floor of an old shed adjacent to the street of tears somebody discovered -hun- dreds of bottles of tear gas which ° were stored there by troops dur- ing the war -- and since forgot- ten. ; Tops of the bottles had worked loose as time passed and the gas escaped slowly. Millions Mourn For Everest A short time ago the conquest of - Mount Everest thrilled the _ achievement; an epic of man's courage and endurance. . But in India. to-day there is mourning for this conquest. By allowing itself to be conquered by Man, Everest has broken the faith of thousands of Hindus. It was their firm belief that Gauri Shanker (their name for _ Everest), 'in whose snowy lap ' generations of Hindu yogis had sat and worshipped, would never permit men to tread disrespect- fully on its face, much less on its head. 'Mountain Hermits The yogis had gazed on Ever- est with deep bumility, And the great moun has inspired that feeling, throughout the ages. Early Indians worshipped the Eternal Abode of Snow. Hindu life: was divided into four clear parts -- ending with renuncia- tion. Innumerable stories have been told of people who lived in the Himalayas after retirement, spending their time in medita- tion. ; 3 Everest's. lofty peak was a treat for the soul as well as the eye. ! Hindu gods and goddesses have traditionally resided on Himalayas as did Greek gods on .» Mount Olympus. There they "could remain on earth without being earthly. : - Is it any wonder, therefore, that for generations yogis made ~ their solemn journey Himalayas, and still do? Legend has it that some of them have been there for centuries, defy- ing death. : 2 It is. not for nothing that some .of the Hindu pilgrimage centres are situated on the Himalayan peaks. Badri Nath, 18,000 feet up, still attracts pious Hindus from all over India. : Shrine Profaned? A modern Hindu writer says ot Everest: "It 'is not just a moun- -- tain, not even the world's high- . est mountain, that we know as Everest. "It is the abode of -our gods, the sanctuary of our saints,. the point of our quest of the infinite." Everest has indeed been consi- dered, not merely as the roof of in a"world, Now to so many. In- dians its religious significance has been sneered at and defiled by human feet. different eyes. To the Hindus, Everest was a shrine, and the challenge it presented: should never have been accepted. To send fudge through the fudge in a pan lined with sever- al layers of waxed paper. When fudge has cooled, lift it out in the paper and wrap it as a block for : mailing. Receiver can cut fudge, which stays moist. SALLY'S SALLIES " . and when this Must Be Hard To Buy Gloves -- Govind Desa "patriarch of Rajkot, India, lower right, rules over his multifingers "ed family with six-fingered fists. His son, fop right, and grand. son, lower left, each have an extra finger on each hand, and a cousin, top left, outpoints them all, with six fingers on the left, and seven on the right hand, : : Koli, 84-year-old world, It was a great British _ . among devout Hindus ; the to the, the world, but as a world with- i East and West see things with - mails successfully, pour the warm - vi Rs wt