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BS YY EG Co Looking Down On A Colored Dawn It was very quiet, but light enough now. Still no one came. I stood in the dew and pulled the propeller; the Aeronca burst into life. Watchful of the whir- ring and almost invisible blades, I removed the wheel chocks and climbed in, and-as I fastened the safety belt I taxied out and away from the hangar. The wheels kicked up sprays of dew from the grass onto the undersurface of the wings. I took off and rose into silky smoothness, not a ripple or a breath of air disturbed my wings, The aroma of the morn- .ing was strong and sweet. The village lights glittered, and the hills were dark and clear. The eastern sky was glowing with the hidden fire below the hori- zon, and the fire was reflected in the dozen of farmyard ponds which are scattered over the land. I looked closely at the ponds, puzzled, for each had something hanging over it, a small pink crown. Then, as I gained alti- tude and flew over one of them, I saw that it was a ring of mist rising from the surface of the water in a perfect doughnut shape, which coiled up and rose from the center outward, like a smoke ring blown up from gigantic lips. They were every- where; each pond was lidded with its own pink doughnut, all at the same height, each fitted in size to its pond, and all rising up into the air. Then the sun came, jumping over the edge of the world and a moment later a ray shot across For Chair or Table In crisp white or a colour, one large pansy makes a grace- ful chair back or place mat. Pansies -- a spring time touch in mid-winter! Pattern 686: charts, directions chair back or doily, 1214x13; armrest 6x12%; center - piece 13x24 inches. 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, your' NAME and ADDRESS. New! New! New! Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! Crammed with exciting, unusual, popular designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, quilt, weave -- fa- shions, home furnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits, In the book FREE -- 3 quilt patterns. Hurry, send 23 cents for your copy. the land, throwing shadows as it went, All at once the dough- nuts changed color, and were now white against the dark blue hills, While I circled and watch- ed, they rose quickly as the warmth of the sun fell upon them. They broke up into frag- ments and faded away, and were gone, : The "village lights were turn- ed up now;. The twin chimneys on the river bank belched up black smoke. Someone down there was firing the furnaces, I supposed. Two graceful plumes rose together into the quiet sky, and together they curved side- ways and drifted in the pressure "of the light wind. . .. Many times since the flight of the doughnuts I have taken oft in the early morning, either to go somewhere, or just for fun. Al- most always it is quiet, the air of heavy, rich quality, and some- times strange and wonderful things are to be seen in the dawn sky. I have seen the mist over the ponds in cbrkscrews, spiral- ing upward, and once I found a delicate memberane of cloud, in- finitely thin and fragile, a sort of skin. Once, a little blob of vapor came sailing by, a little sphere a yard or so across, all by itself. And there is always peace, and freedom and loneliness, in the morning sky. -- From "A Sky of My Own," by Molly Bern- heim. Tumbling Into Debt Head-Over-Heels company the other day and got a $180 loan, Seems he wanted to buy a new TV set, had $50, and needed the balance. "How much will it cost?" asked the borrower. "Six per cent," said the lender, "to be paid back in monthly in- stallments of $15.90." The loan was negotiated as thousands of similar loans are,. and the borrower went away happy. What he didn't realize was that since he would have the use of the full $180 for only a month the real interest wouldn't be 6 per cent, it would total up to over 11 per cent A newly married couple went into the finance company to ar- range a mortgage on their dream house. The pleasant fellow behind the counter said yes, they could " 'have the mortgage -- the rates: were 6 per cent for $10,000 over 20 years. "I thought interest rates were nearer 4 per cent," said the young man. He was embar- rassed, for this was his first big loan, but he was determined, too. The pleasant man behind the counter explained rates have gone up -- 'tight money," you know. The young man did somé figur- ing. Four per cent interest on $10,000 for 20 years would add $4,500 to the total cost of their dream house. That seemed high enough, but 6 per cent would bring it closer to $7,000. This par- ticular couple decided to rent, writes Richard L. Strout in the Christian Science Monitor. Let's take a third illustration: The easy-going Smiths suddenly discovered after Christmas they | were hocked right up to their necks in installment debts and needed a quick loan to tide them over. Smith got credit from a loan company and borrowed $200, "The interest?" asked Mrs. Smith, "Not bad -- 3 per cent!" Smith answered. What he didn": say -- if he understood it -- was that his state has no antiusury law and he was paying 3 per cent interest a month, in other words 36 per cent a year. The American public is tumbl- ing into debt head over heels. Most automobiles are so financed and most buyers seem to have only vague notions of the in- terest. The transaction is "$76.50 a month and the old car," or something like that. "The constable gave you the usual warning, I suppose?" asked the magistrate of the prisoner. "Yes, sir. He sald he'd wring my neck'it I didn't come quietly." "CAMERA BOW -- Actress Brigitte Bardot and actor husband {Ly Jacques Charrier pose happily 'in their Paris apartment with thelr two-day old son Nicolas. Nicolas, making his camera oF debut, was born In the apartment Jan, 11, Bette Davis And Her Dresses Bette Davis thinks like a busi- nessman. Hers is a truly organiz- ed point o! view, and working with her I've felt like being in conference with a bank presi- dent. You can see the authority on screen in her walk, her voice, her action; there's nof a. trace of indecision -- she's the same on screen and off; and she's only one of the most sensational ex- periences I've ever had, She came in like a small whirl-' wind, the first time, There was no polite chitchat. She's a busy woman, I'm a busy woman, and we both knew it was a nice day. She'd come, actually, to see if we had the same point of view. "This is how I walk," she said (it's a walk like a whiplash). "I must move freely. If clothes don't move with me I can't wear them. This 'woman (in June Bride) is a career woman; she works for a magazine; and strangely enough she's a lot like me. How do you think she should dress?" } "Like a career woman who doesn't look like a career woman," I said, and quickly did a little sketch of a Bette Davis striding about in a coat dress with open and concealed pockets, the concealed pockets for pen- cils, memo pads, etc. "A "high-fashion carpenter's cverall!" She grinned a-regular blockbuster of a gfin, and we were in business. Bette liked the coat dress so much she had six of them made for herself in var- ied colors. She was wearing one the day we started working on All About Eve. She strode about, hands deep in her pockets, study- ing the fabrics, the sketches. For each costume, I'd place my fav- orite sketch on top, then alter- nates. In nothing flat, she'd whip- ped around the room, selected N, x v : a SKI QUEEN -- While the world guesses who her next husband will be, ex-Queen Soraya of Iran gets her skis adjusted by an instructor on Switzerland's St. Moritz sfopes. each of the top drawings, and was saying, "When do we fit?" This is never a tense or dram- atic woman, it's a woman fer- ribly interested in whatever she's doing and doing it with tremen- ° dous energy, and enthusiasm . . . a brilliant woman, who enters into a story conference less like the star than like the director, " her concern with the whole not with herself . . . an impatient woman - who has none of the usual female vanity, she never thinks, Do I look nice in this? She thinks only, Is it good for the part? . .. A-small woman, not thin, she can look tall, regal, short, -chic or slovenly, whatever is needed for a scene, and each scene is played to the hilt. All About" Eve was an excit- ing picture from the beginning. You smell smoke when there's a good fire and this was good. Bet- te's take-off on a successful New York actress showed her at the top of her form: no accident could throw her; any fault -- in cos- tume, dialogue, or what have you -- immediately bécame in her hands an asset. We had lunch one day 'after the picture had become a success and I'd won an award for the cos- tumes. We talk about business- women not being very feminine, It isn't true, of course. "You can't fool me, Edith," Bette said. "You may live with potted cactuses but you love hearts and flowers." And the next day she sent me a great flowered "heart. -- From "The Dress Doec- tor," by Edith Head and Jane Kesner Ardmore. atid BRIDESMAID -- Princess Arne, nine-y BE RR r-old daughter of Brit- ain's Queen Elizabeth Il, made her first appearance as a bridesmaid, Jan. 13, at the wedding of Lady Pamela Mount- batten in Romsey, England. Lady Pomela was married to Interior decorator David Hicks, Anne's mother, who Is awalt- ing the birth of her third child, did not attend. Year that left ' ' 4 R Some weeks ago a minister addressing a woOman's meeting warned those present to beware of "the barren-ness of a busy life." His warning was meant to apply to women who are over- active in soclal life; who offi- cially take part in so many organizations that they have little spare time to devote to their families, or to reading, or "to the quiet reflection that is vitally necessary to all of us -- if we would but realize it. I quite agreed with what the minister said. I have known fa- milies -- and I am sure you have too -- where the children are starved for personal atten- tion to their little problems be- cause mother is too tired, or too busy to listen. On the other hand, thinking about it lately I have come to the conclusion that too far east is west; that an- other kind of busyness can also lead to "a barren life." That is to say women who are so ab- sorbed in what goes on within their own four walls and have no interest or knowledge of what goes on beyond the con- fines of their own, home lead a "barren" life just as surely as the over-active club woman. The following instances will explain what I mean. You remember the ice-storm between Christmas. and New thousands of homes in Ontario without hydro and consequently without heat. Well, at that time Partner was speaking to one of our neigh- bours and asked if her husband had got back all right from a "business trip the day before or had the storm delayed him. And the answer came -- "What storm?" Incidentally.- the hus band had phoned that he was staying over as the roads were so icy. That was all she knew about it. Apparently this young oouple do not take a daily paper and, as far as I can make out, the girl, who has'two small chil- dren, does not bother to listen to the news, eithel by radio. or television. So, it the hydro had suddenly gone off around here she wouldn't have known what - had caused the power failure or how widespread the trouble. Nor would she have been prepared for it in any way. It seemed incredible to me "that she should know nothing ONI PUN HR "That's so beautiful, Doctor, Could you read it aU gin?" JT CON-- about the storm but I came to the conclusion that she was a little unusual. Later, however, I heard of another family, west of Toronto, who had received a long distance call from friends in New York asking if the fa- mily was all right, They had been so anxious about them af- ter listening to the newscasts about the dreadful ice-storm in Ontario. Again the question was asked -- "What storm?" Wouldn't that set you back on your heels after taking the trou- ble to put in a long distance call? ' Well, after hearing of those two instances 1 began to won- der how many people there are who pay so little attention to the news of the day and to what goes on around them. Daughter says I would be surprised if I really knew! I wonder, too, how anyone can be content to live in such a small world of their own making -- for it must be a _ small world where the only in- terests are those concerned with housekeeping, getting meals, looking after children and watching television - -- "all ex- cept the news apparently Inci- dentally how can a motfiér keep pace with the interests afd:out- look of her growing chil8rén.it she herself does not keep, : of the times. Surely I' Y be too much of an effort<to ls- ten to, or read the news, at least once a day. After all in the case of weather sometimes to be forewarned is to be fore- armed. Or could be. New Year's Day we had a middle-aged couple here who were amiong the many who had been without heat for two days. They coped with it by buying a" small box stove which they 'set up in the basement, substituting a stove pipe for the oil furnace pipe in the chimney. For light they were fortunate -- they had two Coleman lanterns left over from the days of country living. They had only themselves -to worry about as they are a child- 'less couple. So, although they were caught unprepared that one time a similar occasion will find them ready to cope with the situation a3 soon, as it oc- curs. However, there are some near- disasters which are impossible * to foresee. This is what Daugh- ter had to, contend with last night. She had put the dog out for a run just before bedtime and was straightening up the kitchen when she was suddenly conscious of a strong odour of skunk. She rushed to the front door but the damage was done. Honey was there all right but so was the odour. Out came the tomato juice but Honey is old and catches cold so easily . it could not be used too generous- iy. For the same reason Honey could not be sent down to the basement. The only advice 1 could offer was to leave Honey at home i fhey came to see us during the next few days! ~ "Opera Broadcasts Then And Now One wintry day 50 "years ago, tenor Enrico Caruso stood on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House and opened up with an aria from "Pagliacci." Sixty-four miles away in Bridgeport, Conn., a pioneer radio ham pressed the earphone of his primitive radio set tightly to his head and with great difficulty made out the opening bars of "Vesti la giubba." This was the first opera broad- cast in history. In the half- century since, the Met's radio au- dience has grown from a hand- ful of wireless owners to a loyal band of more than 12 million. While other more popular shows have long since disappeared from the air waves, the opera, which became a permanent fixture in 1931, retains its faithful follow-. ing. : In New York recently, com- mentator Milton' Cross, whose round and resonant "Good after- non, opera lovers across the na- tion" has introduced 564 opera programs, reminsced about some of the more curious devotees of the Saturday afternoon broad- casts now hear on CBS, "Take the horseman out West who strapped a portable radio to his saddle before riding out on the range each Saturday," sald the burly, ruddy-faced vet- eran of 28 years of Met broad- casts, "He was one of the real zealots, But there are others. For instance, the gentleman in Lub- bock, Texas, who after hearing 'that the Met was installing new seats had one of the. old ones shipped to his house. And then there was that little old lady in the Middle West who had a spe- cial black velvet dress which she put on every Saturday. It made her feel as if she were sit- ting right there in the Diamond Horseshoe. : "Even though the people out there can't see what's going on, I'm sure that the power of the music enables them to feel the same things that 1 do sitting there in my little booth on the Grand Tier. I should be tired by now, but opera.still affects me emotionally, For example, when 1. heard Birgit Nilsson in a 'Tristan' rehearsal, she was so magnificent that I broke down. and wept. Opera has always affected' me this way and Fm sure it always will." --From NEWSWEEK. Keeping Flowers in Bloom Longer Gift plants such as poinsettia, cyclamen and chrysanthemums flower brilliantly but" briefly. Given care, however, the bright blooms will outlast the holiday season. According to G. R. Sny- der, of C-I-L's Agricultural Chemicals, they can be coaxed to remain in flower for about eight weeks. The large scarlet or white leaf- like bracts -- that's what the botanist calls them -- of the poinsettia will cheer your living room for some time if you pay attention to its needs. You must give the plant good light and a temperature of about 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The soil in the pot should be kept. moderately moist. If the roots become dry or it is subject, to. drafts the bot- tom leaves will turn yellow or fall off. - Cyclamen does best in a slightly cooler location. The tem- perature should be from 55 to 60 degrees F., and the plant kept well watered. Don't be alarmed it the tuber appears above the soil. This prevents the leaf and flower stems from rotting. Both these flants, reduice am; ple feeding. Usually they come well fertilized from the florist's. However, in addition, a dilute solution of water -- soluble plant food "be given them every three or four weeks. Chrysanthemums forced in the greenhouse for gift plants are not as hardy as the outdqor ones that flower in the fall, They need lit- tle attention, but usually only last about four weeks. Q. Are all plates removed from a dinner fable before serving dessert? ils A. Yes, the table should be plateless. Salt cellars, pep pots, unused flat silver, are { off the table, and the crumbs are brushed off with a folded napkin onto a tray held under the table edge, : Look Slimmer ED PATTERN 4952 YI Becoming "surplice line ideal for the half-size figure. Smart, two-piece dress" has a wrap-tie top that's sleek, smooth, always sure-of-fit. Easy-sew. Printed Pattern 4952: Halt 'Sizes 12%, 14%, 16%2, 18%, 20%, 22%. Size 16% requires 2% yards 54-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate, Send FIFTY CENTS, (stamps cannot be accepted, 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. ISSUE 3 -- 1960 i BREEZY TYPE -- Valera Rice holds onto her scarf and hair os a brisk breeze bends her backwards,