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Port Perry Star (1907-), 29 Sep 1960, p. 2

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Sa EA Sheu Ba RR te A a SE ET x 5s Oo a RE EOL . visited. Here were the products It's sew-easy. Rich Treasures In A Russian Museum I walked about the Kremlin, fascinated by its maze of palaces and churches. , . . Every day thereafter I.came into the Krem- lin for a couple of hours single visit, and too rewarding to be rushed. . .. [ began. my sightseeing in Ps on or Palace of" | Arms -- which is now a museum, | as interesting as any I have ever of Russian arts and crafts -- and presents to the tsars from all over the world, an amazing wealth of European and Asiatic splendour, .". . | One great room was allocated to horse tranpings, amazingly elaborate. There might be hun- dreds of horses in a procession = even a thousand, if a power- tul monarch were being met. The harness was brilliant -- worked leather, with gilt and enamel fittings, and silken embroideries. Most fantastic of all was a horse resented by the Sultan of Tur- | ey to Catherine the Great. Not | merely are its trappings worth a king's ransom, but it wore silver shoes -- and the nails were also of silver! . There was a wonderful collec- tlon of coaches, They ranged from toy minatures used. by Peter the Great in his child's alace; some had wheels for the mmer, others runners for the winter snow. Close by was an eeu Smart Teamwork PRINTED PATTERN SIZES 14Y4--24% rg Simple, slimming, smart! Travel from midsummer through Fall in this two-piece dress with a" neatly tucked top, - and choice of slim or flared skirt. Printed Pattern, 4707: Hall Sizes 143%, 16%, 1812, 201%, 221%, 2415, See dod for yardages. Printed directions on cach pat- tern part. Easier, accurate, Send FIFTY CENTS = (50¢) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal. note for safely) for this pattern. Please "print plainly SIZE, NAME, , ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. : Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont, --- it is ,| "106 vast to" be exhatsted inna war. "Heures" enormous coach on sleigh run- ners; it carried the Tsarina Eliza- beth, Peter's daughter, from St. Petersburg to Moscow 'in three days. The coach of Catherine the Groat needed twenty - three horses to pull it. I admired the warming pgn in its interior. .-. . ... There is-a-collection of-Bibles > of incredible richness --- their covers in precious metals, with reliefs in enamel and chased gold. . . . ; The presents of potentates to the tsars 'were outdone by the presents of [the tsars to their families. Most intriguing were those by Carl Fabergé, the French Protestant refugee who became goldsmith to the court of the tsars. When Alexander III demanded an Easter present for his wife which 'would give her half an hour's "happiness," Fab- ergé fashioned an Easter egg which opened to reveal a yolk of gold, which hid a chicken, which in turn divided to produce a model of the crown. --- From "Visa to Russia," by Bernard Newman. Most Victimized Of All Sick People For rheumatoid arthritis, Ame- rican scientists agree, aspirin is the safest long-term drug. But it isn't casy to convince a pa- tient, crippled with arthritis, that so simple a treatment is suffi- cient to control so terrible a dis- ease, They may seek other doc- tors, who will prescribe stronger drugs, perhaps heavy doses of cortisone. Because this painful disease is such a medical mystery, the arth- ritic victim is the most exploited of all sick people in the nation. Men and women with twisted backs, inflamed legs and arms, stiffened fingers, - and shriveled muscles, -are constantly being . lured into buying books suggest- ing cures, inadequate drugs, de- vices, and treatments that are worthless, unduly expensive, and even dangerous. "I" know it is ridiculous, but I'm so désperate I'll spend any amount to get rid of this pain," a long-suffering arthritic said in explaining why he had paid $600 _ to a faith healer. Among the other cruel hoaxes being" perpetrated on a gigantic scale: Uranium-ore pads and mittens, advertised to have a lasting effect on pain « (raido- activity of the ore is comparable to that in the average radium- dial wrist watch); "super aspir- in" for $3 to $4 a hundred (the same drug can be bought for a few cents a hundred); alcohol and herb roots, containing gin, water, © and vegctable colors ("brown for neuritis," and "green for arthritis," the ad goes). "Such nostrums are no more effective than carrying a potato in the pocket," said Dr. Ronald Lamont-Havers, medical direc- tor of the Arthritis and Rheuma- tism Foundation, notv--waging a - against - fake arthritis -- Recently, Federal, state,' and private agencies have set up stiff programs to fight this $250 mil- lion a year swindle. Yet the fact remains that one out of every two arthritis victims still listens to these, -- From NEWSWEEK. : Modern Etiquette "By Anre Ashley © Q. My husband has been ask- ed to serve as godfather to a friend's child. Should the silver cup he is giving the baby be en- graved as just from my husband, or should my name be included? A. Since the cup is from the godfather alone, it should be marked as from him. No addi- tional gift js required from you. Experience is what you have after you've lost everything else. 'parents tuc Little Tormm ; Kemmerer ¢ iv tired of his soft kod him in, d bureau drawer in his bedroom. t later, found him 0 , This - paper, : bish. NOTHING TO DO BUT COMPLAIN -- Mark Strait, comfortable these hot days, 10, and his dog, Pluto, just can't get ish UN. soldier wields primi- tive shield in Leopofldville, Congo. He used it to deflect rocks and other missiles that may be thrown during street demonstrations at tense area. | Papered Room With Love-letters Wallpapers play a bigger part in our lives than we realize.- We have to live with them. Psy- chologists say they have a mark- ed effect on our happiness. Dull designs tend to make us miser- _able, bright ones gay. ne There's romance in w allpapers -- and we don't mean the kind --of- romance that once-led a Lon---|- don actress -1{o 'paper the walls of her boudoir with the hun-- dreds of love letters and propos- als of marriage she'd received from 'her Victorian admirers. No, it's the romance that has' made English wallpapers the finest in the world; ~although- the making of wallpaper in this country doesn't go .back more than two hundred years. The custom of using attractive printed paper on walls origin- ated in Tudor. times. Tapestries and painted cloth were wdll- paper's forerunners. One of the first wallpapers 'manufactured in- England - was- designed by Jerome Lanver, It had a velvet or pile surface. If Lanyer's ghost walks to-day, -, how he must admire the wonder- ful wallpapers of 1960 -- marble 'effect papers achieved by 'using _ _ a photogravure process, stylized floral = prints featuring roses, lilac and carnations, bamboo © papers for people who like the Eastern look in décor. One of the rooms in the oldest house in Staines where Sir Fran- * cis 'Drake lived for a time 'was stripped in 1029 of some rare and valuablé wallpaper . which . was sold to a London antique dealer, hand-painted with Chinese pictures, was prepared about 1730 by a famous Chinese artist and its removal from the wall involved a long process. Some: priceless seventeenth century fragments of wallpaper weras found in a House in Lon- don's Park Lane-which was be- ing dismantled. - They were saved by an' expert who chanced to see them and snatched them from the hands of a workman while he was carry- | ing them off to be burned as rub- 'The Great Fife of 1666 des- --troyed many 6f the early speci- - mens of wallpaper, but 'some sur- vive in museums in various. Yi parts « of the world. Kensington Pal "appears to have been the first "building in Shglatid completely. decorated with w allpaper. ! ' ISSUE 39 -- 1960 er needs_doctoring Partner takes. - change is--taking--place- that is fice, ni a Gwendoline >) Clore We are finally getting frome: grown produce from our own garden .-- beans and beets any- way, And are they ever good! Cucumbers are coming along nicely but root vegetables are nowhere near ready. However, we are well satisfied with what we are getting considering our low-lying garden patch was too wet to work until the middle of July. One _thing we are missing is mushrooms. Until this: year we have had lots of them growing - wild. This year all I have seen up to the present-is-one sorry lit=--|- tle mushroom, It must be they don't like dry weather. And dry weather is definitely what we've-- got. SEA One day last week we were up to Milton."When our power mow- it along for Bob to see to. He has a knack of taking things" apart, putting them together again and having them work. He has bolts and bits strewn on the ground all around him and how he ever knows what belongs to which I'll never know. As we approached Milton we noticed how much the landscape had | changed. As a matter 'of fact it | ~ hasbeen slowly ~changing for several years but the change is now more. noticeable. We have regretfully become accustomed to the sluaghter of trees and the mushroom growth. of hoting and industry. But now another: equally destractive "fo = scenic beauty. I am referring to quar- ries. "Part of the Niagara Escarp- ment -- that is, the part that Miltonians refer to as "the Moun- tain" is gradually being bull- dozed away. 'Several quarries are in operation and the lovely lime- stone rock is being daily blasted, crushed and trucked away for various purposes -- for -road- work, building and construction. Milton residents. have always been proud of their Mountain -- it provided a pleasing back- ground to green fields, orchards and pastures. And the colour- 'ing in the fall was beaufiful be- yond description. Red: maples and evergreens against the grey- white limestone was something to remember. We found yet another change had taken place. An old milling business that had been in opera- tion since Jasper Martin built his first grist mill in 1837, has beeh sold to the Robin Hood Milling Company, after being in Martin's name for three successive gén- erations, The Martin family was: chiefly respensible for the found- ing of Milton and saw it grow from pioneer settlement to vil- lage and" finally to being the county town of Halton, It is a change that many of the older residents will regret. To them Milton and Martin's mills are. synonymous. 'Too 'many "links with the past, in Milton and else- where, 'have already been lost, dropping like nineping before the onslaught of modern progress. We know that changes are in- -evitable but we are always hop-- | -- - ne that links connecting the past - ith the present will somehow ie in the not too distant future there are to be two more -- one from Hamilton to Toronto, the other from Malton to Toronto. And I suppose all of them will be used to capacity. Personally I am- more interested in a proposed new shopping centre, If it 'mater- falizes.it will be within walking distance of where we live. -That would suit us just fine. In that - case: we 'might even do without a "car, Just "imagine, lili of us been to the Exhibition this year. T had an invitation but at the time Partner was in the hospital. After he got home it turned hot "so we kept way, We like visiting the Exhibition -- if we could ~ have the Exhibition without the crowds! And if we could be sup- for the occasion. We would love ~to see "Lloyd's of London" and to hear Marian Anderson and Victor Borge. However, it we don't get there I suppose we shall survive, Maybe we won't if we _ do -- if you get what I mean. I wonder . . . have any of you had trouble with your TV sets -just lately? Ours"has been act- - plied with a special pair of feet _ ing _rather--queerly; -Sonietimes good; sometimes bad. One night the picture had all the appear- \ ance of ocean waves. Then came a click and the picture was as clear as could be, It didn't give any more trouble until tonight, Do you know what we think was "wrong? _ Nothing more or .less than interference from . the -Northern-- Lights: "There have | been several wonderful displays ~ just lately. At two o'clock one morning there was like a huge mushroom in the sky. From the Lights were shooting in all direc- tions. Gradually the lights pen- trated the blackness 'and the mushroom disintegrated. It was very beautiful to watch.-But we wish they would leave our TV alone. We almost sent for a TV mechanic, JUDY STILL OVERWEIGHT . stool of the mushroom Northern Bouncy -- American songstress Judy Garland, 38;-added up to a lot of trouper to. London's crit- ics, who gallantly toasted her two-hour, 83-song show as per- haps the most rousing perform- ance of its kind ever put on at the storied old Palladium, but got in less than gallant referen- ces to the bulging Garland con- tours: ("podgy," "piumpish," "both her china shook with - J laughter"). No stranger to sug- : gestions that she eould 'do with less heft, Judy lamented: "Every- - body says if, and it.always hurts, Sedo ienn > Y's SALES Gulls Create Air Traffic Snarl The Massachusetts Port Au- thority is trying to reduce the possibilities of collisions between its fastest mechanical. "birds -- jet transports -- over Logan In- ural variety -- gulls. . The advent of commercial fet greater frequencies of jet flights, has augmented the need to elim- inate birds from the neighbor- hood of airport runways. The problem is not peculiar to Boston but is one that engages the at- tention of airport - managers wherever airports lie along thé margin of the sea. When it is considered that a- jet transport may be flying at a speed of' close to 170 miles an hour when it takes off, .con- siderable damage may result to the aircraft by striking birds on the runway. Moreover, the birds may be ingested into the intakes of the jet engines and introduce the possibility of engine stop- 'page. Recently, a Scandinavian Air- lines System jet transport, tak- ing off from Copenhagen's Kas- trup Airport, ran into a flock of birds severely denting the leading edge of the wing and taking four gulls into its engines. The aircraft lost power from one engine but was able to complete its take-off and come around and land again, 7 Massachusetts Port Authority airport officials disdain taking authorized to do so -- such as wholesale shooting, or poisoning of gulls to.get rid of them, More- over, it would rouse bird lovers. That method, they believe, is only short range and does not solve the problem. The solution, they believe, is eliminating the food sources of the birds nearby - which is possibly the cause of their nesting in "the areas be- tween Logan's runways, writes Albert D. Hughes in The Chris- tion Science Monitor. Cutting off bird food sources would mean closer' inspection and contrél by the city of dump areas 'and over the casting of fish offal into the sea which at- tracts the gulls as feeding --grounds, -- Airport officials say the birds inhabit the ends of the runways in. cooler weather generally fol- - lowing hot weather. The asphalt "runways retain the heat of the sun and the birds, like human beings, collect wherever they ~ find heat. Map 'Makers Face Many Problems The problem of signs and sym- ~bols-on'maps was a bad one, and for a long time map makers did not know how 'to solve it. In | 1880, there were more than a "thousand different kinds of geo- graphical features 'shown on maps, starting with cities and towns, roads, beaches, and ram- bling on through rivers, bridges and ferries, There were other symbols that 'represented or=- chards and vineyards, 'and still others- that represented manufac- turing centers and military in- important things as boundary. lines, compass points and the slope of the land, every map maker had his own ideas. Map makers needed to get together, The most troublesome problem of all was the spelling of place names, and notes to the reader. -- the language of the map. The map maker and reader of maps ~ternational-Airport-and-the -nat-. "aircraft at East Boston, plus the - harsh measures -- even though "stallations," When it came to such | -home \ . had to 'deal with several differ- ent alphabets and hundreds of different letters in order to un- derstand the maps that wera printed in a foreign country. Maps were printed in Arabic, German, Greek, Hebrew, Rus: sian, Chinese, Japanese and seve eral other languages, All of thesa ianguages-used strange letters. das... their alphabets,-and even if a person knew the letters of tha alphabet, he often. had trouble in deciding what the map maker was trying to say and the places he was trying to label, Should the name be written Moskva, Moscua, Moschia, Moscou, hind kau or Moscow? . Map makers ade 'a brave start. They did not lose hope, and onetby one they solved the proh- lems that would make it possible for the world to have an inter- national map, a map that could be read and understood by everyone. 'One by one they es- tablished a universal prime mer- idian, a standard method of keeping time, a standard scala of measure, and a code of sym- bols and signs. The languages and alphabets of the world are still causing trouble, but map makers have not given up, and they are working every day. to- ward the perfection of a map of the -world for all men. -- From "Map Making: The Art That Be- came a Science," by Lloyd A. Brown. Jiffy - Knit Newest fashion! Knit a beautl- ful, bulky jacket to wear every- where, all year 'round. Jiffy-knit inches fly by! Use "double-strand knitting worsted, large needlés: for bulky jacket. Pattern 861: directions sizes 32- 34; 36-38 included. 'Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, usa postal not for safety) for this pattern to LAURA WHEELER, , New. plainly Box 1,.123 Eighteenth St; Toronto, Ont. Print PATTERN NUMBER, 'NAME and ADDRESS. New! New! New! Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting unusual, popular' de- signg to crochet, knit, sew, em- broider, quilt, weave -- fashions, furnishings, toys gifts, bazaar - hits. In- the book FREE -- 3 quilt patterns. Hurry, send . your 25 cents for your copy.- be preserved, said "There dre also changes in the | offing for. the district: in which | 'we now live, We already have . four main highways into Toronto -- Nos, 2, 5,401 and the Queen E. Now we understand that some. toms THERE, TOO -- Aetriss oan col ns | Village: in Rome. She's seated naxt to Rich ber of the' British Olynipic staff, 'relaxes at Olymple ard Hinks, a meme Ah =

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