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NS a PR Fn! rr. es (or ar = 4 SAL a md SRE - Sr TK -- ee go = Eo oo iy ii Kee Ro " a £ PY Well now, we had a real good start for the week . . day morning Partner upset half a pail of water all over the kitchen floor! And you know what a flood a little bit of water makeés on a waxed tiled floor. It took the two of us about fifteen minutes to mop it up. I didn't mind helping to clean up the mess but I was glad I didn't make it! As it was Partner had plenty to "say--"These modern houses--in the old farm kitchen you could spill a pail of water and hardly notice it." The floor there was hardwood, but not polished, so it was used to the soap and water treatment. We are still skidding around on ice outside -- except when we're paddling. Freeze and thaw, mild and bitter. And so it goes. The weather I mean -- not. the beverage. We make a bee-line for stores and bank every time we get a decent day, otherwise we are quite content to stay at home. Friday night Dee and family came in after shopping and brought me a few supplies, including rock salt which we _ had been trying to get for a week. Such a demand for it the stores had run out of supplies. It was our first experience with rock salt and Partner doesn't think it does as good a job as the ordinary bulk salt we used «.- to get for the cattle. Next time we are near a feed store we shall bring home a 75 pound bag. Then I suppose we won't have: any more ice. Salt will keep any- way and- it's good for putting out a fire -- but heaven forbid that we should need it for that purpose, We have had.a great time since Christmas "catching up on little jobs -that had been laid over until the new year, Partner made a binder-twine mat for Bob and a big wooden box, on casters, for Dee to keep the boys' small toys in. It has three partitions, one for David, Eddie and Jerry respectively and deep enough to make it difficult fér Jerry to reach things by himself and thus --.gcalter toys all over the floor. » "However, I wouldn't be surprised to hear he had over-balnaced and was found standing on his head in the box. That little fel- low can get into more mischief than the other two put together. And of course he has the most innocent expression. I have been going through a lot of stuff stacked away in the basement -- magazines, papers, notebooks and scrapbooks. One day we had a visitor here who does quite a bit of free-lance writing and she wanted to know if I had any information on a Favorite Handcraft Use'these gay Swedish designs tor quick bazaar items . . . . towels, potholders, bags, mats, a - huck, Decorate many varied ar- So simple, even .a .child can" help with "this - handcraft. . Pat- tern 566: 'charts, directions for weaving "4 "different designs on ticles, od . ' 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 the PATTERN NUMBER, and your NAME and ADDRESS. Send for a copy of 1959 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. It has lovely designs to order: embroid- ery, crochet, knitting, weaving, quilting, toys. Tn the book, a sur. prise to make a little girl happy =a cut-out doll, clothes to color. i lend 28 cents for this book. a . on Sun- . me LS certain subjéct. 1 thought I had so off I went to the basement and brought up two big cartons of brown envelopes, marked as to contents. When she saw the boxes she laughed. "You too," she exclaimed. "How my hus- band. does go on about all the paper clippings and articles that I collect." 1 knew exactly what she meant as the same situation exists in our family. Partner is almost afraid to use a news- paper to light-the fire unless he asks me aboutfit first. Or maybe he forgets and I almost yell at him -- "Don't burn that -- it has an article in it on bird- houses , , . or on training dogs or time saving recipes" -- or whatever I happened to be inter- ested in at the moment.. But I must admit the clippings do have a way of accumulating so it becomes absolutely neces- . sary to go through them occa- sionally. It is a job that can run into days -- or even weeks -- depending upon how absorbed one gets, And there is knitting -- TV pick-up work I call it, Outgrown sweaters and sacks are ripped out and re-knitted into mitts and small blankets, using two strands of contrasting wool for addi- tional strength. Wool from baby sweaters starts life again as baby socks, only one strand of wool being used. Incidentally, play mitts from used wool are far more satisfactory than any made from new wool. The used yarn, already washed and shrunken, does not mat when washed. My non-knitting heighbours havé caught on to what I am do- ing and bring me their old hand- knitted garments instead f throwing them into the garbage. And they feel well repaid shen, in time, I present them with mitts for the children. Quilt tops is something else I have on the go. How do I get the time to do it all? Well, for one thing I am a fast worker -- and I also have a dishwasher. No, no -- not one of those elec- trical things. This one is human and goes by the mame of Part- ner. So you see my husband is really a partner in the true sense of the word and lives up to the name I gave him years ago. There are times when I would rather do the dishes myself but I let it ride -- except when I've been baking. Then 'I do get | them done myself -- it saves a lot of explaining. I know I would hear -- "What did you -make all these dishes dirty for -- can't you do a bit of baking without all this mess?" So -- washing the dishes myself is the easiest in the long run. Your Mannerisms Can Be Important Science is watching our man- nerisms. Experts who have just toncluded an extensive probe into the gestures of hundreds of men and women declare that they reveal a person's character and feelings more effectively than anything else. "Keep an eye on your manmner- isms and gestures and you'll learn to know yourself and other people much better," they advise. Scientific study of gestures shows that they fall naturally into two classes. "Any downward movement of the head, hands, arms or eye- lids expresses dislike or con- tempt," states one scientist who checked up on 500 men and 500 women in different walks of. life. "Any upward movement us- ually expresses admiration or pleasure." He says there are a few ex- ceptions to this, but they only serve to prove the rule. For in- stance, there's a way of raising the eyebrows which expresses a sneer, but then a sneer is really a compliment which is meant to be understood as an insult, the scientist adds. A sneer, too, is deliberate whereas the gestures which real- ly tell tales are always made without deliberation. One of the experts tells of a pretty girl who, although still in her early twenties, has deep little furrows running down one side of her face because of her nervous mannerism of constant- ly screwing up her mouth. "Another attractive girl I know would be much more at- tactive if she shortened her laugh," hé suggests. 'She opens her mouth far too widely and this mars her looks. It's a mis- take, too, for a girl to try to smile 'continuously and talk at the same time. Smiles are not always Jovely, Constant smiling is practiced by some film and TV stars in the United States, "often takes away character from a girl's face." One girl who was Interviewed during the Investigation confess- ed that her harsh, uncontrolled laugh lost her a husband. She had become engaged but one evening her flancé told her frankly that he found her laugh intolerable--and broke the en- gagement, : "We believe that many a girl has missed a chance of marriage because of her synthetle and obviously Insihcere smile" re- port the scientists, Cancer Vaccine ? Several hundred U.S, physi- cians who skeptically greet any mention of quick-relief serums for treating cancer listened re- cently as Dr. Gordon Murray of Toronto described "some aston- ishing effects" in last-stage can- cer victims injected with his ow brand of horse serum. i So far, Dr, Murray admitted at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthope- dic Surgeons, in Chicago, there have been no cures with the serum, derived from blood cul- tures of horses Injected' with human cancers. But at least ten terminal breast-cancer patients and others with stomach and colon cancers are alive from two to three years after getting their first injections. All the patients previously had been treated, without success, with the stan. dard therapies -- surgery, radia- tion, and drugs. From daily in- jections of Dr. Murray's serum the majority got pain relief; some even were able to go back to work. Dr. Murray's work is based on the theory, now. accepted by many cancer experts, that the human_ body possesses a natural resistance to cancer. In his ex- periments, he hopes to determine whether his horse serum is cap- able of strengthening the cancer victim's built-in immunity to the disease. If so, the serum might take its place as an immunizing cancer vaccine--the goal of every cancer researcher, ~ SECRET'S OUT --The first case Raymond Burr, as Perry Mason, solved on TV involved a capti- vating "Restless Redhead". A recent one involved an equally captivating "Black-eyed Blonde" Both roles were played by cap- tivating Whitney Blake, above, a comer in such demand by TV directors and producers, that she seldom has a day off for herself. Legal Or Not -1t Still Corrupts The exodus of gamblers from Cuba, according to Havana dis- patches, has been almost as hur- ried as the exodus of political and military leaders of the fallen Batista regime, Whether the gambling group will remove from the island as much money as the politicians are reputed to have deposited abroad is problematical. That they had tremendous "takes" while their games ran with Batista's blessing, and be- came a chink in his armor, hard- ly can be doubted. Each of the many casinos li- censed by the Batista govern- ment paid an initial fee of $25,000. In addition, many of the' richer gamblers are reputed to have paid annual bribes exceed- ing $100,000. . .. In places where commercial- ized gambling is illegal but nevertheless is conducted with with little or no official inter- ference, it is logical to assume that gamblers are willing to pay for the privilege. If they pald heavily in Cuba to "take" the suckers, there's no reason to be- lieve they wouldn't pay heavily to "take" suckers in other places. . . . Here's hoping that the fleeing Cuban gamblers, many of whom formerly operated in the United States will stay out of this state, -- Times-Picayune (New Or- leans), > KIDS' DAY -- $chool brs operator Harold J. Taylor, of Ira, Vt., places new, and quite appropriate, license plates on his bus. He is assisted by daughters. Karen, left, and Pamela. Taylor requested and received the special plates from the state's motor vehicle department. . - During this. school year, an estimated 400,000 Canadian ele- mentary - and secondary school pupils will be driven an-estimat- ed -70 million miles to-and from their classrooms. Their safety will mainly de. pend on three- things: the skill and judgment of the school bus driver; the mechanical condition of his vehicle; and the. conduct of the children themselves get- ting on and oft the bus and dur- ing the actual travel. Yet it's a shocking fact 'that, in the words o! Fred Ellis, general manager, Ontario Safety 'League, "Many communities are apathetic to these elementary safety factors." Fortunately, to date there have been very few school bus tra- gedies in Canada. But as high- way travel conditions become more hazardous our luck may. not hold out. - The number of accidents in recent years involv- ing school vehicles should serve as a stern warning. During the: last six months of 1956 in On- tario, for example, there were 31 accidents, British Columbia had 27 accidents in '1957 -- or an average of nearly three per 'month over the 10-month school year. No statistics are available for all Canada. The irony of the situation is- that safety experts know what. precautions must be taken to prevent large vehicles from be- coming involved in accidents. The trucking industry follows their advice eagerly with: the re- sult that commercial truck driv- ers have an impressive safety record. On the other hand, many: school administrators fail to fol- low the truckers' example. One can only conclude that many communities attach more .im- portance to delivering a carload of furniture or a tankful of milk than they do to transporting their children safely. Some recent accidents empha- size this point. Near Orono, Ont., a bus carrying .14 high school students stalled while going up u hill and - started rolling. back- wards. The brakes failed and the bus rolled over an embank- ment. Four of the children were injured. There would likely have been many more injuries had the vehicle gone over a much deeper drop nearby. There's a good chance that the inefficient engine and the defective brakes might have been detected before the accident, had the bus been 'undergoing routine' .mechanical checks. The school. bus inspec- tion system in Ontario has been improved since then, but in some provinces many. . school . buses still go several years without a thorough" mechanical check. In the Mundare district in 'Alberta a seven-year-old girl lighted from a school bus and walked in front of it to cross to the other side of the highway. As she was doing so, she stooped over to pick up a book she had dropped. At that instant' the driver -- who couldn't see her ,-- pulled ahead and crushed her to death. Safety officials have long advocated 'the necessity, of escorting children on and off buses and helping them across the road. On a school bus near London, Ont., student passengers were shooting hard paper pellets at one another with rubber bands. One of the pellets hit a 16-year- old girl in the eye. She may permanently. lose the sight of the eye. The difficulty of controlling young children at all times fis known to every parent. essential. Every authoritative article or booklet dealing with safe school transportation em- phasizes this point. One section of the 88-page Safety Handbook publishigd by the American Auto- mobil, ssociation shows how A #30 a But on. a moving vehicle such control is \ order and discipline can be main- tained by school bus patrols. In Saskatchewan, a school bus driver was fired after a formal 'road test showed that he was incapable of handling the job' His was not a rare case. Con- trary to the advice of safety ex- perts, a man can become a school bus driver. in any one of several provinces without a stiff medical examination and without know- ing much about driving a bus. In investigating the safety of our school transportation in Cgn- ada, I questioned police, safety experts, and provincial education and highway officials. I posed these questions: Are we doing all we can do to protect our children? Are we ignoring ha- zards that could be removed?" What are the. greatest danger points in our present school transportation systems? Their answers give cause for both optimism and pessimism. The cheerful news is that many" school authorities are fully aware of the school bus 'safety. problem and are meeting it with . vigor and imagination, generous- ly back by dollars; others are becoming aware of the hazards and are organizing to meet them. On the gloomy side, I found that in many parts of Canada the full nature of the problem is not yet realized and that very little is being done. In some 'localities, considerations other than safety ' --such as local politics or the de- sire to save a few dollars -- are being given priority. The most important figure in sale school transportation is the man who drives the bus. The National Safety Council likens him "to a ship's captain or an airline "pilot because precious . buman lives depend on his ex- perience, skill and judgment." 'Yet the sad fact is that too often "the employment of the school bus driver is made on a casual basis. It's often a part- time job taken on by a person who' works -in--a garage, In a store, on a farm or on shift work. The health" of the driver is an important factor, yet only a few: provinces, such as Alberta and Nova Scotia, insist on annual medical certificates. A -mature age is also important, that's why the National Safety Council sets 21 as the minimum age fora bus. driver -- advice that's followed .by at least 18 American states. "In. most Canadian 'provinces, a \ youth of 18 can get the job. A candidate's temperament apd his attitude toward children are also important considerations. In the opinion of W. Arch Bryce, secre- tary of the Canadian Highway Safety Conference, 'Dangerous hooliganism on many buses ls the direct result of a careless hiring attitude by boards of edu- cation. When a wrong choice is made, there's trouble ahead." In practically every part of. Canada, school bus drivers lack adequate training in the opera- tion of a heavy vehicle. A typi- cal new driver holds only a chauffeur's license and has ex- perience only with passenger cars. But is this qualification enough? Most trucking com- panies think not. They require all their new drivers -- even i! they've held a chauffeur's license for 20 years -- to take a long, intensive course in handling heavy vehicles before taking regular runs on the highway. For the same reason, Wallace N.' Hyde, director of motor vehicles, North Carolina, says, "The per- son with a good record driving an ordinary car will not neces- sarily make a safe and efficient school bus driver." For one thing, there's quite a difference between carrying two or three young passengers in a family car and carrying several dozen lively -- if not rowdy -- 'voungsters who are temporarily free of any parental or teacher discipline. There is also a whale of a physi- cal difference between a 55-pas- senger conveyance and the or- . dinary family car. For example, at 25 mph a. passenger: car will stop in 25 feet; a bus needs 40 feet. You need more space to take a turn with a bus and you have to take it more slowly A driver needs many hours behind the wheel of a big vehicle to get the hang of the transmission. Re- cently one Canadian bus. dealer received a complaint from a driver that the clutch was al- ways wearing out. The dealer went for a ride with the driver and was amazed to find that he was thoroughly unfamiliar with the transmission. He knew fittle ~ or nothing about how to use the six-speed gear shift which was intended to-give greater control going up or down hills and in slippery weather. - The indifference of many school boards often adds up to the inefficiency of the bus driv- ers. A Saskatchewan safety ol- ficial told me, "Many school bus drivers feel that nobody is in- terested in what they're -doing, so they become careless." Fred Ellis of the Ontario Safety League adds, "There's no incent- ive for the good school bus driver." In contrast, -in many parts of the country commercial truck drivers with good- records are given cash bonuses, feted at banquets and sent away on courses to improve their status. What can be done to ensure that our children are not entrust- ed to unqualitied drivers? First and foremost, . we should be much stricter in the qualifications re- 'aquired for school bus drivers. The state of Pennsylvania has laid down a list of criteria now widely approved by safety au- thorities in Canada and the Unit- ed States."'It says that the driver should be at least 21 years of age and in: excellent health. Each year, he should be tested for "vision, hearing, muscular steadi- ness 'and-strength, fast reaction "time and freedom: from physical conditions * which might make him faim, such as heart disease, high. blood pressure and epilepsy.' Psvchological tests should estab- lish that he's a stable, self-disct-- plined -and patient person. "A. .number of highly regarded loca} . citizens who know him should attest to the fact that he's a per- - son of good habits. (Continued: Next Week) © Fi "RECOGNIZE THE BLONDE? -- If you don't know who the blonde is at right, It's because you're used to seeing her as a brunette. Sophia Loren, known for her dark, suliry Malian look, left, wears her Ii r blonde for part in "Heller With a Gun", a western, > 4 Modern Etiquette by Roberta Lee Q. What expenditures does the best man have for the wedding? A. Only the expenses of a gift to the bridal couple and the clothes he wears for the wed- ding. His principal duties are to stay 'with the groom most of the day and see that he gets to church on time: He also takes ' care of the Bride's ring and the clergyman's fee, which the groom glves to him in an envelope and which he gives to the clergyman immediately following the cere- mony. Q. When a hostess is serving cocktails and knows that one ox two of her guests do not care for them, what should she do? A, She should be prepared in advance for any such eventuali- tles, and serve these guests some soft drinks. Q. When two men and two girls are eating together in a publi place, at a small table; Mow should they be seated? . A. The girls should be seated opposite each other, QHow may a woman know whether or not to offer her hand to a man when being introduced? A. There is no rule for this. 1t is altogether optional with the woman, She can remember, how+ ever, that the proffered: hand is her way of shdwing sincere and genuine pleasure over the meet- ing. - . Week's Sew-Thrifty PRINTED PATTERN See the diagram -- even a be- .ginner 'can' stitch wp 'his pretiy jumper in a day! Curved neck reveals 'blouse beneath, back has inverted pleat, half-belt." Printed Pattern 4828: Chil- dren's Sizes 2, 4,6; 8 10. Size 8 Jumper takes 1% yards 39-inch; blouse takes: 1 yard. Printed ditegtions on each pat- tern part; Easier, accurate. Send FORTY CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted; use posial note for safety) -for this pattern, 'Please print plainly SIZE, NAMR and APDRESS, STYLE NUM- Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Si, Rew Toronto, Ont. ISSUE § -- 1959 54 4 Wigan de 0 en