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Most Beautiful Of All Waterfalls Ong has two methods by which to cross the Andes before des- cending to the Argentinian fron- tier post. There is a railway tun- 'nel, inside which there is also a track where cars may drive through to the other side with- out much difficulty, but this is 'a very expensive method. The other, and.-far more satisfying ex- perience for the traveller, is a climb up the steepest gradient in South America' to pass over the Andes at 14,000 feet, and then immediately drop down into Ar- gentinian territory. . . The road was not the highest over which we had driven, but it was certainly the steepest. . . . On looking down, the grandeur of the scene is breathtaking -- the view of a section cut through the mountains, leaving jagged gaping places to tell how it was done. On all sides the rocks are red and violet, and at their high- est points, silhouetted against a vivid blue sky, they are perpetu- ally capped with snow. Our journey through Chile, Ar- gentina and Uruguay was to have been swift because we wanted very much to arrive in Brazil before the Carnival celebration and while a slender chance of doing so remained, little else was of interest to us. One superb and permanent memory of Ar- gentina, however, is the colour film I succeeded in taking of the Iguazu Falls on the River Par- ana where the three countries of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay adjoin. ' "The Iguazu is a tributary of the Parana. It rises in the hills of Curitiba in southern Brazil, and just above the main falls the river, dotted with numerous is- lands, opens out in all its maj- esty to a width of 4360 yards. There are cataracts for two miles above the 200-foot precipice over which the water thunders 'on a frontage of approximately 2,700 yards. The falls are wider than Niagara by half as much again, and higher by some thirty to forty feet. But it is not the measurement or the comparison which is interesting: rather it is the majesty and splendour of the falls themselves as they come crashing through the tropical une dergrowth to fling their tons of white and yellow-stained water down upon rock ledge and para- pet into a seething caldron which ~ flings back its bursting spray high into the sky, painting the most beautiful rainbows one can imagine. Orchids in profusion hang upon the quivering branches of water-ruffed trees and a myr- iad birds and butterflies fly ecstatically over and under the outflowing water. We walked down among nar- row crevices and were deafened by the roar of the water's voices; we looked from left to right and behind and below and there was always water -- through trees, over trees, among the rocks and over the rocks -- and suddenly, as we came closer to the largest fall of all, we, too, were envel- i SALE SALLIES T= 'I'm on a strict diet, you know; unch was lovely, dear," oped, covered with spray as we tried to pierce a way through the ilvery mist I thought the film would by glorious if only a part of it were successful, and to my great joy it is, giving us a lasting record in colour of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world From "The Road Grew No Moss," by F. W. Hayman Chaffey Magic World For ° Ski Fraternity Alpine skiing 1s something more than the thrill of an open slope and deep powder snow. Tt is a new and magic world where the ski fraternity, a unique inter- national clan bent oi fast sport and matching social pace, con- gregate for the winter. Starting with the first snowfall at such ski centers as Garmisch, Inns- bruck, Kitzbuehel, and St. Anton, an atmosphere of\ gaiety envel- opes the region Anil draws an ex- citing mixture of fortune hunt- ers, gay divorcees, eligible but confirmed bachelors and sensa- tion seekers from all over the world. Matching the flow of Canadian and American students, secretar- ies, young marrieds and chronic ski friends jetting over to Austria and Bavaria for the Easter holi- days or a week's AWOL from care, are many people converg- ing from the cities of Europe, leaving school or work behind for a few days in the snow country. They come for the fes- tive spirit, and incidentally, to ski. - The party 'ife is in tempo with the sport: I\ ough fast, it is in- formal, centev.ing around Alping towns and villages, swinging into high gear each evening as the sun goes down. Tea dances, get- togethers and gatherings spring up everywhere, the day's skiin is hashed over, friendship an conviviality bloom. An Indication of the sport's Importance as a social institution is its effect on the fashion world, top Canadian, U.S. and European designers each year present a new lire of boldly styled ski and aprés ski ensem- bles. This year's low excursion fares, combined with airlines' ex- pense-cutting innovations, bring the European ski scene to peo- ple who never before considered Kitzbuehel or Garmisch within _reach.-- George Paley, Lufthansa German Airline' ski Specialist knowing the Alpine ski picture and its bubbling social life, aims his winter ski program directly at students and young workers, Booking at choice pensions rather than big hotels, he counts on the ski schedule and evening revelry to take care of all but breakfast meal needs, breakfast provided by the pensions. The program fis "bare, stripped of extras, yet of- fers full ski arrangements and accommodations, advance snow reports, . ski. school advice, a wealth of facts about each area. Besides the top Bavarian and Austrian ski resorts featured in Paley's plans are those of France, Italy and Switzerland. | ~The social aspect --of -- Alpine | skiing proves that skiers, after all, are not really crazy, as is sometimes thought. There's more than meets the eye to a person who travels thousands of miles to plummet down a mountain on a pair of boards. To get the best idea of what skiing has to offer, | and why people go to Europe to do it, look in on Garmisch or Kitzbuehel some February. We might even suggest you leave your skiis behind. Enlightening News: A com- munity in Michigan called Para- dise belied its name the other day--local thermometers regis- tered 20 degrees below zero. floor, ping and goin are done ih a , touch of the fl experimental | lerator, the floor. is divided into accelerator floor and , Instead of brake pedal NO PROBLEMS -- Linda Bement finds winter weather stimu- lating -- at least in Miami Beach, Linda is the current Miss Universe. My column this week, if you wanted to give it a sub-title, oould be called "Column I1O.L' That is to say "Items of Inter- est" culled from recent letters, _ conversation and other sources. The first concerns water short- age and that I am hearing about from all quarters. In a letter from a reader near Shelburne the writer says this; "We are so terribly short of water . . . I only wash dishes once a day, and us 5 and pans but spar- _ ingly. have to save every drop we can for the cattle as my husband is unable to draw water, and, since my recent ill- ness, I am not permitted outside at all." I received that letter just be- fore the big snowstorm. Snow won't make it any easier getting around but at-least it will be a means of saving water. I remem- ber years ago, under similar cir- cumstances, I used to keep a cop- per boiler on the kitchen stove all the time and kept filling it and re-filling it with pails of «clean, packed snow. And oh, there is nothing so soft as fresh melted- snow. Naturally, there was never any shortage of wa- ~ter for: house -use or laundry | -- AY Partner had three trough dr the cattle, two in- side the Barnyard and one out. He kept the troughs full of snow and water the same way. It all meant extra work but you don't think of the work during a wa- ter shortage. However, snow wasn't always _ available, At such time we had to buy water. That meant having it come in by the tank load. Now I see farmers in that same dis- trict buying water again. And in plenty of other places too. Even in residential areas west of here water is being trucked in for household purposes. One house that we nearly bought the present owner is buying water, How little we appreciate wa- ter when we've got it. Water trickles out of leaky faucets; runs off roof tops into ditches and septic tanks and is used generously all day long. The only ones who save water are small boys sent to, wash their hands before meals! In summer lawns and gardens are watered up to 'the very last drop allowed by the local water commission. I am sorry for anyone short of water but I do feel a lot could be done individually to allevi- ate the. situation on farms and in" the home. When we were out West we used to draw water from the sloughs in spring for washing purposes. And we al- ways had big barrels to catch the run-oM from the house and barn, We are not used to such primitive ways these days but .when the necessity arises there is much we might learn from previous generations, In a happler veln -- from our .. mail box we get plenty of evi- dence of the kindness and gen- erosity of friends and former neighbours. Since I have been under the weather there have been letters and phone calls - every day. In our immediate _neighbourhood people are equal- ly kind. There. is always some- cne coming in to see if Partner wants any shopping done, or any other little chore. As for wash- ing Dee" and Joy say bundle it up and we will take it home, But I guess we are independent, we dabble it out ourselves a Jittle at a tlme -- except yes- _terday when Partner had a big wash -- sheets and things, I had to.laugh . . . he sald "I could get along fine if it 'wasn't for the interruptions'-- the'doorbell, the baker or the oll-truck -- there's aiways something." "Well," I laughed, "that goes with housekeeping. You get used to it after awhile." That is some- thing the man of the house has A Real Wrap! _ PRINTED PATTERN 4594 SIZES 14Y2--24% bite Aloo Walk 'into this coatdress that wraps and buttons on the double -- then, go smartly off to town, work, travel! Note flattery of cape- collar. For cotton, wool, Printed Pattern 4594: Half Sizes 14%, 16%, 18%, 20%, 22%, 24%. Size 16% requires 4%. yards 35-inch fabric, Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps gapmol be accepted, use postal for safety) for this pattern. 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Partner-is thankful that, so long as he takes it easy, he can shovel his own. driveway, and help out our neighbours too. What do you think of this for a coincidence? Our son and _ daughter, although in widely se- parated districts both had a fire . scare on the same day. Two fire "reels came racing up the street --to--a---club--house just opposite - 'Dee's place. She never did see any fire or smoke so probably the fire was confined' to the kitchen, But imagine what a thrill the boys had seeing fire trucks so close at" hand. Next door to Bob a neighbour _ wanted to make. sure his car would start in the morning. So he put a light bulb over the motor and a blanket on top of it to hold in the heat. Under the hood, not on top of it! In the morning there was a -big hole in the blanket. Being wool it had only smoldered. On that occasion there was no fire alarm as no one knew anything about it until the damage was done. But think what could have hap- pened had the blanket been in- flammable. Well, the time of the deep freeze seems to be over. At this minute it is 25 above zero. Fron: deep 'freeze we now seem to lisve come to the time of the Giant Birds On Their Way. Out Strange giant birds which are survivors of the Ice Age and are sometimes referred to as '"cave- man's pets," may socn be extinct -- as -the dodo. They are a large species of American vulture known as the condors of California. Hundreds of thousands of them once lived in America, but a recent "count" suggests that only sixty of these astonishing birds remain alive. "They have survived into an age never intended for them," say ornithologists. "They are . giants from the age of giants and have lived on earth since the days of the great mastodons, sabre-toothed tigers and giant stoths." A condor has a wing- spread ot" nine or ten feet and stands from - four to five feet high. Its appe- tite for decaying flesh can no longer be satisfied. Every day | . + it becomes more difficult for a :|, condor to find its fill of carrion. say naturalists. As creatures of the past fought savagely for sur- vival, the condors picked dry the bones of the vanquished, The mother condor lays only one egg a year. The natural life of a condor is now believed to exceed a hundred years so some of these glossy black-plumaged creatures are virtually flying centenarians, The condor's six -inch - Jong quills' were used by early Cali-' fornians to carry gold dust. As. much as 500. worth of the heavy dust could he packed into one hollow quill. ' DRIVE CAREFULLY -- .The life you save may be your own. \ What They Looked At In Victorian Days The Queen's and Prince Al- bert's concern both for the pro- gress of photography and for the dissemination of knowledge through photographs is shown. many ways, Their interest, for instance, in Sir David Brewster's lenticular stereoscope = at the Great Exhibition gave the great- est impetus to visual education in the nineteenth century, No English firm had been prepared to risk the commercial manufac- ture of the stereoscope, consider- ing that (Sir) Charles Wheat- stone's earlier instrument (which . was not suitable for photographs) had met with no success. . Realizing the advantages of - Brewster's design over Wheat- stone's, Jules Duboscq foresaw a great future for it in connection with photography, and con- structed a number of stereoscopes for display at the 1851 Exhibition. At the Crystal Palace the three- dimensional effect of stereoscopic daguerreotypes when viewed in the stereoscope arouséd Queen Victoria's admiration. As a re- sult of the interest shown by the Queen, Duboscq was {flooded with orders, and English optical- instrument makers then also took up the manufacture .ot stereo- scopes, of which nearly a quarter of a million were sold in Lon- don and Paris within three months. When the comparatively ex- pensive stereoscopic daguerreo- types were replaced by glass transparencies, and soon after- wards by paper frints from collo- dion - negatives, the price of stereoscopic slides was brought within reach of everyone. Stereo- grams of buildings and scenery in all parts of the world were ' soon available, and by 18538 the London Stereoscopic Company was in a position to advertise the astonishing number ot 100,000 different. views. By 'this time the stereoscope had conquered the world, and lending libraries facilitated the | exchange of pictures. Men, wo- men and children, rich and poor, gazed into this "Optieal wonder of the age". -- the television set of the Victorian era. Like the photograph album soon to come, the stereoscope found a place in every Victorian drawing-room, providing "refined amusement __combined with useful instrue- tion" -- the criterion of Victorian recreation. -- From "Victoria R," by Helmut and Alison Gern- sheim. Eighty Years And Eighty-One Books "Do you know what lapidary means?" P.G. Wodehouse in- quired across the luncheon table, "This chap, Simon Raven, said in an English review of my last book ('The Most of P.G. Wode- house') that I was lapidary in art. He's a. very odd sort of bird, but if it means what you say, he must have intended a compliment." Halway through his 80th year, P. (for Pelham, or Plummie) G. (for Grenville)) Wodehouse is a - big, bald old lamb with an air of deep innocence which holds up even when he drops bits of information culled from The Wall Street Journal, A resident of this country off and on- for "half a century, he now lives 120 miles from Manhattan on a small Long Island estate with his wife, a retinue of cats, a dog, and a remarkable red tree called an Acer ("I should think it's Jap- anese, wouldn't you?"), He hasn't seen England since 1939 when they made him a Doctor "of Letters -at Oxford. In 'cer- tain quarters" over there they still hold it against him that, while interned by the Nazis, he made jesting broadcasts from Berlin. Wodehouse says he did this "in the naive belief that he was only letting his friends know that he was alive and safe. In New York for lunch--and to swipe as many whodunits as possible from his publisher's of- tice--Wodehouse explained why he looks like a youth of 60. Back in 1919 or thereabouts, he read a health article in Collier's and learned a daily dozen which he says he has devoutly -performed ever since.' For a new book club which promises autographed books to subscribers, Wodehouse had just signed 1,000 coples of his latest,. roughly reckoned to be his 81st. "Twenty-one enormous hoxes arrived," he said, "and I had them put in the garage (prono- unced gay'-rage), then I had to . 'carry them into my study. I didn't think until later that I could have put them in a wheel- barrow, I started out signing 'Best Wishes," then 1 wrote 'Cheerio," then I went back to 'Best Wishes! After a while 'P.G. Wodehouse' began to look like the most improbable name. A great experince that!" -* Wodehouse said he was feel- ing lively as a kipper, following a firm schedule of work and relaxing at noon each day with -his favorite TV- soap opera; the +,CBS show 'Love of Life" ("Oh, it's lovely, really awfully good"). 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