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1" Sad PR rials > Tx A NE S era x NEE o Ee oe hr Lins a Rrra SN AL ES % Sa - Rp = En CT eT ey LN ~ DMN, a SRN a - EXT nN re ' N te NA » CNL a sn SN ee RR RN 3 Ae dae ts A recalad a saan § tem } ee} How The Corals Make An Atoll The Pacific Ocean .is the home of many coral atolls -- those r mantic necklaces of islands which surround their. lagoons with a Inge of graceful palm trees. . . . he structure of the atolls sug- gests the reason for the flat- topped sea-mounts and shows the eyclic history of these features of deep oceans, . . The beautiful colours and the fantastic shapes of coral are the outward clothing of a smallun ine animal. The coral polyp is most efficient at assimilating the raw materials necessary to pro- duce calcium carbonate, which is the chemical compound that is the basis of chalk and of lime- stone as well as of many sea shells. But the coral polyps only thrive in warm water, and if all the places where coral is growing today are marked on a chart they will be found to lie approximate- ly within the tropics... . . More- over, the coral animal likes light, and those kinds that form reefs and atolls can only grow in water which is less than 200 feet deep, because at greater depths the life-giving rays of light are too much filtered out. The really strong coral rock that forms haz- ardous reefs consists of colonies * of coral polyps which are cem- ented together by further sup- pliésT of calcium carbonate. . | . Coral Polyps dislike mud -- part- ly because muddy water ob- scures the light, but mainly be- cause the animals like a firm base on which to grow and propagate. Being marine animals, the polyps need salt water, and so will not be found in fresh water For Half-Sizes PRINTED PATTERN 4618 12%--22% Step into this scooped, back- ripped shpath--step out happily all Summgr! Easy-sew in bregze- Mght cottgn or shantung with jacket to/ contrast or match.' Printéd Pattern 4618; half izes 12%, 14%, 16%, 18%, 2014, 2%. Size 16% dress takes 3% yards 35-inch; jacket, 13 yards. "Send FIFITY CENTS (stamps eannot be acceped, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. | The biggest fashion show of Summer, 1961 --- pages, pages," | Rages of patterns in our new or Catalog. Hurry, send 35¢. Se estuaries. When all the conditicns for successful growth are satis- fied coral is a great and powerful builder, and many beautiful structures -- beautiful in archi- tectural form as well as in the fine filigree detail--can be found. Darwin observed many types of coral island in his journey ac- ross the Pacific in the Beagle, Some islands like Rotuma con- sisted of a rocky central portion with an apron of fringing reef growing out from it. At Bora- Bora a volcanic island rises out of a lagoon which in turn is en- circled by a narrow reef, just as if a mountain had been placed in the lagoon of a true coral atoll. The atoll itself is merely a ring of long, straggling islands which enclose the lagoon. The islands rise a few feet only above sea level; the lagoon can be anything up to a hundred feet in depth.... It seemed obvious to Darwin that these three types were all natural process. In the beginning a volcanic island grew up out of the sea, and a reef of coral grew all round it. But the island slow- ly subsided -- at a rate which allowed the coral polyps to build up and keep their heads above water. The coral grew badly near the shore because of fresh water and mud brought down by rain from the volcanic island, On the other hand the growth at she outer edge of the reet was strong and healthy, so that gradually, as the island sank and diminished in size, a stretch of lagoon appeared between the island and the up- ward-growing outer. rim of the reef. Eventually the whole wvol- canic island disappeared bencath the sea, but the coral still ¢on- tinued to grow, keeping pace with the sinking island. --From ""Un- _ der the Deep Oceans," by T. F. Gaskell. Making Men More Like Women When a man has a heart attack, he may simply be paying "the penalty of being a male." This is the opinion of Dr. George C. Grif- fith, a University of Southern. California cardiologist who cites the fact that twice as many men as women aged 40 to 74 suffer heart attacks. In an article in the current Annals of Internal Medi- cine, Dr. Griffith suggested a pos- sible solution:: Make men chemi- cally more like women. According to Dr. Griffith, stud- _.ies have shown that men ate far _ more likely to accumulate choles- terol, a fatty substance which clogs the arteries and is believed to be a major cause of heart at- tacks. Among wo, , says Dr. Griffith, the cond is much less common. This logical in- equity, says the USC cardiologis has been traced to the fact t the female sex hormone, estrogen, shields arterial walls from fat (women past the .menopause, lacking estrogen, are more liable to heart disease), while the male' hormone, testosterone, seems to promote the fat deposits (eunuchs are less likely to develop ather- osclerosis). Putting this to practical use, re- searchers at USC (notably, Dr. . Jessie Marmorston) have given 354 male heart patients doses of the female sex hormone -- in am- ounts too small to feminize -- -} daily for at least two and a half --months. The-results-were encour--- aging: The death rate for these men was cut from the usual 15 per cent after a heart attack to a mere 5 per cent, Dr. Griffith's recommendation: "The administration of estrogen in a small dose that does not pro- duce breast changes or loss of "libido" should be considered for every male patient found to have an abnormal-distribution of the (blood) fat pattern plus early clinical findings of atheroscler- osis. Men must borrow the protec- tive factor that is the normal birthright of the so-called weaker sex." "Most people's financial prob- lems are very simple," says an economist, Yes; they're short of money. Price Of Beauty Comes High Here! "You might call this the Mayo Clinic of Beauty," said brisk, balding, plastic surgeon Dr. Robs , ert Franklyn, surveying the ¢ splendors of his .new establish- ment. The official name for Dr. Franklyn's temple of - vanity, which opened to the general pub- lic recently on 26 acres of wooded hills overlooking Los Angeles, is the Atheda Marquesa, A luxur- fous $2 mififon "beauty hospital" dedicated to solving overweight, sagging muscles, wrinkles, and other dire maladies, it is a tri- bute to the American woman's unflagging quest for the foun- tain of youth. And any resem- blance to a clinic is purely coin- cidental, The waiting room has 3-inch- deep gold carpets. A radiantly smiling "hostess signs in the pa- tients (many arrive at midnight); 28 lavishly appointed efficiency apartments overlook a 100-foot swimming pool and bridle paths; patients enjoy a cocktail before their candlelit dinner which -- providing they have no dietary problems -- features the special- ties of a $35-a-day French thef, All the nurses 'are .pretty. "We like everybody here to look nice," said Dr. Franklyn. "We don't want any bedpan biddies." Each would-be Athena gets a complete physical exam from Dr. Franklyn, a highly success- ful plastic surgeon who has re- juvenated many a fading film star. His patients receive the full beauty-salon treatment -- includ- ing a "glowing aromatic vapor oil" bath. To this, Dr. Franklyn may add a nose reconstruction, surgical or chemical facelifting, injection of plastic foam to boost bosoms, or -- the house specialty -- injections of fruit-derived liquids. Dr. Franklyn claims these help replace collapsed, shrunken tissues under sagging skin, Av- erage bill for one week: $1,500. "It becomes increasingly ap- parent that we can define beauty in medical terms," Dr. Franklyn maintains. "We believe it is un- natural and abnormal for the human body to be ugly. There's nothing more devastating to a woman than the knowledge that she doesn't look good enough to compete with other women. It that happens, we're here to re- , juvenate her." "On such claims are fortunes founded! Most girls take a job either to meet expenses or a man who can, TOPPING IT OFF -- It takes a second look 'to see that Greek actress Evi Marandi is not modeling the latest -- or oldest -- in fashions, Evi posed be- hind the headless statue on the Appian Way near Rome. £ FRATURSS --' Mrs. Ronald Satok wes unable fo resist mimicking a plaster head, She right down #e the puckerad lips at an art show in Toronto, -™ REBUFFED -- Little \ Sylvia Strickler o t Aviles Pa., apparently wants nothing to do with her sad-eyed, cold-nosed boxer . friend. The expressions on both of them suggest the meeting Just didnt come off. HRONICLES %GinGER FARM 4 Gvendoline b sympathetic attitude to wards Well, whit do you how! Al- ter four weeks of intense; heat and humidity our furnace came into operation last night -- the thermostat was set at sixty-four. But I'm not grumbling -- no in- deed! Cool weather is preferable to the heat we have been endur- ing just lately. However, I did get up and set the thermostat gets everyone down -- except maybe children at summer cot- tages. I know our eldest grand- son, David, was in his glory a week ago. as he was in a regatta, swimming race at Crowe's Land- ing -- for seven years and under. There were 83 entrants. Dave came first in both heats and sec- ond in the finals. He was pres- ented with a ribbon and a flash- back to sixty. I think humidity light. There couldn't have been a prouder boy anywhere than our Dave! I was very glad be- cause Dave is a liftle inclined to-- wards an inferiority complex and doing so well in his first swim- ming race may help boost his his morable. Every child should, if possible, be encouraged to ex- cel in something. It does a lot to - boost his ego. Last Sunday we took a little trip with Bob, Joy and our other two grandsons, We got ahead of the crowds and went to see the flowers at the C.N.E. grounds. ~The -waste land where-the-Manu-. facturer's Building used to be is now a mass of flowers. It is ex-- traordinary how quickly a trans- formation can take place. But it must have taken thousands and . thousands of bedding plants to do the job. It almost makes me wilt to think of the financial out- lay, judging by what it costs to set out an ordinary home flower garden. And then what can some- times happen when flowers are at their best is often tragic, We had a brief but terrific rain and wind- storm last week and many of our gorgeous gladioll were beaten in- to the ground. So discouraging, 'However, that's nothing to problems that farmers are. fac- ing this summer. Hay already to cut; baler moves in but before one round of the field is com- pleted, down comes the rain. That was the distressing news contain- ed in a recent letter from farm- ing. friends. We could visualise . the situation so well because of our own past experiences, Many is the time we had the same thing happen. And yet, now we have been away from the farm a few years we find it unbelievably easy to forget. 'And we don't - really want to forget. I mention this because when we were on the farm we were often provoked by city friends who had so little understanding of our problems at that timé, Now we can appre- clate both sides of the matter. To farm {folk 'wet, stormy. weather means extra "work, "often coupled with financial 108s, To urban folk it is a matter of an- noyance --- i Jpsetting plans for a long week-end -- for d family picnic; a round of golf or attend~ dance at a baseball game, It is a fdet that one half of our popula« tion doesn't know how the other half lives -- sometimes because .we don't even care, Surely it would be well to take a more Ed each other's problems. However, farming problems are not what they used to be, Haying and harvesting, with balers and combines doing most of the har-: vest work, doesn't make the ex- tra chores for the farmer's wife that it used to. Feeding and bak- "ing for extra help was bad enough but in addition Mrs. Far- mer was often pressed into ser- vice to drive the horses or trac- tor on the hayfork. And the same when grain was being loaded into the barn. Then came thresh- ing -- taking up anywhere from one to four days, according to the size of the crop and the threshing capacity of the ma- chine. Hours were long -- from five-thirty to sundown -- and 'barn chores to do after that. Looking back to those early threshing days. almost makes me wilt, even now. Pies and more pies; great dishes of applesauce, vegetables, hot biscuits and huge roasts of good, red beef -- to feed from eight to twelve men twice a day. Before the advent of hydro that meant hours and hours over a hot kitchen range.. Water for the men to wash was also quite a problem. They liked it hot. but of course very few farm homes had water. on tap. It had to be heated on the stove and then taken out to a wash tub, placed in the yard or the back kitchen. So, Mrs. Modern Farmer, be- lieve me when I tell you farm women never had it so good! 1 know because we lived without conveniences and with them; from wood to electric stoves; from hand pumps to taps; from pitch forks to balers and com- bines. And yet this much I will admit, Every type of farming has its problems -- even now. Like a country fair -- what you make on the swings you lose on the roundabouts! But now we have other things to worry about -- Berlin and 'East Germany. By comparison other problems are insignificant. Frankie Really Turns It On! From Sy Devore, the hippest of Hollywood haberdashers, clan chieftain Frank Sinatra ordered nine business suits. -- all with paisley-lined jackets, collars, and vests -- four sports jackets, a dozén dress slacks, a dozen boat- ing slacks," two black mohair - dinner jackets, and a dotble- breasted white blazer.: Thus did Sinatra suit:up for. a Riviera cruise on which he was to em-' bark with such fellow clansmen as singer-actor Dean Martin, act or Peter Lawford, and" Lawford's wife, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of the President. The buoyant boatload planned to call « on Monaco's Princess Grace, per- haps at her charity gala starring the clan's own Sammy Davis Jr., and on Pat Lawford's Cap- d'Antibes - vacationing parents, *_ax-Ambassador and Mrs, Joseph P. Kennedy. Papa Joe said: "I'll be happy to see them -- but they will have to go to a hotel be- cause I just don't have the room at my place." Getting )Junior To Pose| For Snaps In the time it takes you to read this column, possibly sev- eral thousand doting - parents are pointing cameras at their offspring and beseeching the little tykes to smile. And quite a few are going to be disappointed with the results. The * little fellow just won't smile. He stands there stiffly, -squinting into the lens. Techni. ally, the picture is perfect but t just doesn't look like Daddy's laughing, bouncing boy at all, What happened? Here are. a few hints, from one amateur to another, that might help to brighten up the family snapshot album for future amuse- ment and nostalgic reminiscence. First, don't let Mom "fix him up," for the camera. Chances are he rarely looks like that for more than five minutes at a time. Slicked-down hair, face scrub- bed shiny, wrinkle-free clothes. Hardly the way you'll want to remember him after he grows up. Don't try to pose him, He won't pose the way you want him te anyway. Let him do what he wants, Let him wander, Pre-focus the camera at, say, five or six feet and follow him, keeping the preset distance away. Patience is a necessity. -If Junior is a little ham, let him ham it up. He'll grow tired of it after a while and you can snap him as he really is. If he's. . shy, let him hide. He'll warm up to the camera shortly. Once he has come.to see the camera as just another part of Dad, like a finger or an ear, you can induce him to do things. Talk to him. Make noises that "interest and amuse him, Give him something to play with, a ball or a book. Normally, pictures of other people's children tend to have a "ho-hum" effect upon outsiders. You can brighten up your dis- play by shuffling the pictures into a sequence with captions. The little tyke might be a politician explaining away charges against his administra- tion, or a 'salesman telling the boss why he lost the last sale, or a rock--'n'--roll singer, or a host of other people. _ Perhaps it's corny but, let's face it, it's fun. Johnny And Frank Kid Show Business Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, the irrepressible Can- adian comics who turned out to be entirely repressible when they lent their services this summer to a situation comedy called "Holi- day Lodge" are evidently fighting for air as plants strairr for the sunlight. Although their show stays as sniffy as ever, the Can- 'adians popped up one day last . month with something redolent - of the old, pre-Hollywood days, a syndicated-column for-vacation-- ing John Crosby of The New York Herald Tribune. It was de- voted to a dialogue between Sir Melvyn Fynke, an Elizabethan writer's agent, and 'Will Shakes- peare (author of London's latest smash, "Macbeth"). Excerpts: Fynke: Bard, baby! Great to see you! Sit down, sweetie . . "Five Emmys! Billy boy, you got: the whole town talking. W.S.: Well, the next will be greater, Fynke: You got a new play? Sensational, What's it about? W.C.: It's about a French prince . .. His uncle murders his father and marries his mother. His girl friend goes crazy, his mother dies, from poison, and he kills his step- father . . .~ 4 Fynke: Sounds. OKs Dogs/ithe hero have. té4' be French? . ..- France is a big markef, You don't want to tw them. Thegjre still steaming a 1bout Joan: W.S.: It's all set. I'm 'calling him "The Melancholy French- man." Fynke: Listen, why look for trouble? Remember all that mail from Verons? Make the Tocals Denmark , . . 'W.8.: We'll pes I've got to run. (He leaves, aimost bumping into Sir Francis Bacon . . .) Fynke: Francis, baby! How'd - you like to work on a series? Q. Although I was invited to a bridal shower recently, 1 did not receive an invitation to the wedding, Don't you think this was rude? A.. Yes. Since an invitation te a shower is, in a way, a request for a gift, you most certainly should have been included in the guest list. Scrap-Savers! Knit up a storm -- knit cozy, merry-as-a-carousel mitten for "all the tots in the family! No more mitten mix-ups! Use * knitting worsted leftovers -- give each child a different color 'scheme. Pattern 945: knitting di- rections, sizes 4, 6, 8, 10. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety)' for this -- pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, you: NAME and AD- DRESS. Eend now far our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, quilt, weave -- fash- ions, hometiir nishings, toys, gifts, "bazaar hits. F tus FREE--instruc- tions for sig smart veil caps. Hurry, sené 46 now! ISSUE 35 -- 1961 REVERSAL -- Lucky, a Lilliputian pup, suffered a setback as he _ hid from a big bully of a dog. As As he peeked around from a° fire hydrant to see where hls fos was, a tiny trickle of water tplashed over his head,