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a She Shot Her 25th Husband Peter Goullart, a Shanghai businessman, stared in astonish ment when he arrived at Yung- 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 wi 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 Sikang! He made other strange dis- coveries when he reached Tach- ienlu, the capital, to work for the Chinese Industrial Co-opera- tives. Far from being subserv- ient to their husbands, Tibetan wives there did all the commer- cial 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 wife'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- Jitfy 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 in knitting worsted with large needles. Lacy, lovely gifts. Pat- tern 076: simple directions. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot 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 23 cents for your copy. - walking corpses. As spects by a lady friend, per- haps the one entrusted with the disposal of his wife's caravan, The Tachlenlu wife was usual- ly solaced in turn by the Lhasa lady's husband who had brought her goods to sell in Tachienlu! 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 to beauty than at a higher price (2 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 to go 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 of 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 and 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 they resemble 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 rags, , collapsing in the snow and frost by the roadside to die unmourn- ed. All their energy for this grim task comes 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 Kanze. It was, so the rumors ran, due to the matrimonial entangle- ments of its ruling Grand Duch- ess, Detehin 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 Hsiangchen 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-foot pass between snow peaks had the 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. A DOWN MEXICO WAY -- Russian Deputy Premier Anastas Miko- yan jokes with the wife of a steelworker In her home in Mon- Hove, Mexico. The city is the site of Mexico's largest steel mill ring his tour of the country, the Soviet supersalesman alse visited oil fields and industrial Installations, Sm ae Kangaroo Trouble Way Down Under Mobs of kangaroos, 1,000 or more strong, are causing Aus- tralia's graziers their biggest headache since myxomatosis wiped out the wild rabbit plague. These wealthy but wor- ried farmers say they have lost close to a billion dollars since the war because of old man kan- garoo's depredations, At a recent meeting of the New South Wales Graziers' As- sociation, the president told members that every kangaroo which invades a property keeps off two sheep. He disclosed that, according to estimates 2,000,000 kangaroos are cropping pastures in the Western Division alone of New South Wales. This means a loss 8f four million sheep. That ex- tra sheep population would add he calculated, another $15,000,- 000 a year to Australia's income from wool. In Bourke, five hundred miles north of Sydney, kangaroo mobs are running rampant, devouring valuable sheep grass within fif- teen miles of the town. An all- cut hunt on one 10,000 - acre property resulted in a kill' of 3,000 kangaroos. Some indivdu- al marksmen earnéd $250 a week during this blitz. But killing these voracious crop-eaters is not easy. The 'roo becomes highly sensitive when once it has been fired at, is quick off the mark and works up a speed of 30 m.p.h. after a few jumps. Little is known of how fast he breeds or o! his migrational tendencies. TEN CENTS - This is the new Liberty Bell international air mail stamp. The 10-cent fee would allow the sender to post his letter .to as far as Central or South America, if he wished, or to the West Indies. Tides Of The Woeorld's Oceans The tides are the heartbeat of the ocean, a pulse that can be felt all over. the world. This mysterious rhythm has gripped man's imagination since the be- ginnings of recorded history, spurring him to try to under- stand Tits causes and grasp its meaning. An attentive observer, watch- ing the ebb and flow of the tides from a vantage point on the coast, will notice that this movement of the water includes both a vertical and a horizon- tal motion. Both recur at equal intervals, i.e, they have the same period, and both are part of the same wave motion. No coastline is without tides--the periodic rise and fall of the water level is universal. Often it is so weak that the effects of wind and weather obscure it, but equally often it presents us with the magnificent spectacle of tides up to sixty feet. These tremendous fluctuations have a marked effect on the econumy and way of life of all those who live near the sea. Tides are particularly impres- sive in shallow waters. Off the German North Sea coast for in- stance, a strip from some six to some twelve miles broad is above water during low tide and submerged during high. This coastal strip is a wide, barren, almost level, gray surface, com- posed of mud and wet sand and known as the German Watt, an amphibian belt which is sea bed and low-lying, fertile marshes, protected for the most part by dykes, During high water the dykes form the barrier between land and sea, and tremendous catastrophes occur whenever they succumb to the pressure of the water. The extensive mud flats are divided by clearly defined chan- nels. During low tide the chan- nels drain the water to the sea, in much the same way as would a system-of rivers, and during high tide they lead it to the in- nermost parts of the flats. The larger and deeper of these chan- nels which are navigable, are marked off by poles from the surrounding shallows. When the coast is steep, the picture is of course quite differ- ent. Here the tides appear al- most exclusively as a rise in the water level, while the hoii- zontal displacement has become negligible. Instead of submerg- ing large tracts of land, the tidal effect is here restricted to a narrow coastal belt. -- From "Ebb and Flow," by Albert De- fant. ¥ PRETTY SHELL GAME -- Adriene Bourbeau is delighted by the conch shell she found in Florida. INGERFARM by Gwendoline P. Clarke Last Saturday 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 has probably .been more controversy over this one 62-bed hospital than any in Ontatio. The public was apathe- tic. Getting local funds was like trying to draw stone. The .need for a hospital was great yet the man 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-spending 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.gost has been high -- prohibitive, according to some peonle. But then, doesn't that applv to all hospitals, big or small? As I wandered through the wards and corridors I won- dered if there was any way of cutting the initial cost. I hit on one or two ideas. Here they are 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 are always 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 or the best features of blood from a 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 one 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 than a private room with less nursing. 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 1 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. and the "end is not in sight,' according to Dr. Stan- ley N. Garn of the Fels Research Institute for the Study of Hu- man Development, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Further, Garn 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." $4 Frank Lloyd Wright (Archi- tect):- Definition of television: Chewing-gum for the eyes. 4 i -- Laughter Banned In The Palace W hen novelist - playwright, Dymphna Cusack recently tour- ed China she met an Imperial Guards general's widow, Yu Roungling, who had been a Manchu princesy and lady-in- waiting to the press Dowager, T'sui Hsi, : In her talk with Miss Cusack, 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 Kwang 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 two pure jade clasps. Her headdresses and shoes' were en- . crusted 'with jewels, a she wore gold and 'jade fingernail pro- tectors. a 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. In this 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 tavour- ite, and the 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. In the afternoons there were plays and operas, all the parts being takin 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: today than I ever was working at the Court. Etiquette was so strict that one scarcely dared breathe. But during the eight years of Japanese occupation she 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, "I'm happier - ata wad Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee. Q. When a fingerbowl is part of a formal dinner, does one put both hands in at the same time? A. Never. Dip just the FIN- GERS of one hand into the bowl at a time. Q. 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Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. ; ISSUB 51 -- 1959 FILA CUSTODY FIGHT -- Mrs. Batty De Noon: Hayden fs shown with her attorney in a los Angeles courtroom before a hearing in ~ which she demanded the custody of her three children by actor. Sterling Hayden. Hayden recently returned from a 10,000-mile voyage with fhe 'children in defiance of a court order not to remove them frem the country, playsuit, bib," Es _---- =o