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onto, Ont. Pi et BN en LFS ARNON SHY - an hb OVE EER RAN TERI MARES HAR ST TRAN SR SRE EERE SE Ret SR A H 3 ; LP it Ye fa JIE Eh th i hf Kh EE -- a NRA fd He Cut Ingrid Down To Size w it will sound odd," the pretty Swedish girl. t, tor, can you make me about 4 inches shorter?" on she walked Into the of- of surgeon Lars Unander- arin ip Harnosand, Sweden, k In 1059 and made this bi- he request, 16-year-old Ingrid estman was 6-feet 1-inch tall and fitterly miserable because "she "felt like a big bear" among her smaller classmates. Today, however, after having undergone two of the most controversial operations in Swedish medical history, Ingrid is 2 (not 4) inches shorter. And while a couple of Inches might not seem like much, she is happier than she has ever been before. The unique operation was per- formed last summer when Dr. Unander-Scharin cut 2 inches (more he thought would have made Ingrid "disproportionate') from the upper thigh bone in her left leg and joined the pieces with a silver 'plate. Six weeks later he did the same thing to her right leg. The muscles were left untouched and gradually adjusted by themselves. When the story of the case. was pub- lished in the Swedish press, the medical controversy began. The dispute was still simmering last week. : "Young people often experi- ence difficulty in accepting themselves as they are," said Dr. Elsa-Brita Nordlund, a promi- nent Stockholm plastic surgeon. "However, this is a transitory stage." Dr. Arthur Engel, chief of the Royal Medical Board, which has authority over all of 'Sweden's - 6,602 physicians, in- sisted that "a doctor must not act aceording to a patient's re- quest, but must be motivated by his ewn experience." In his own defense, the 43- year-old chief surgeon at the Institute for the Crippled in Harnosand (a lumber port in northern Sweden) points out that he deliberately waited two years before performing the operation | to see whether Ingrid would change her mind. But even Dr. Unander-Scharin is having sec- ~~ ond thoughts. -"It-was -a-danger- ous operation and I hope I will never have to perform another like it," he said. : Ingrid, herself, is undisturbed - by the flurry of controversy. ----=~Back home in the small northern - town of Ornskoldsvik, Ingrid, daughter of a local grocer, said that she "feels no pains' and has even gone out on the slopes to ski. Does being 2 inches shorter really make a difference? "When I used to go to a school " dance," the attractive young brunette recalled, "the boys sel- foe asked me to dance. But at e last party I had a partner for every dance. i Jiffy Halter 872 A | Varied flowers lend colorful touch to this jiffy-wrap halter that tops shorts, slacks, skirts.. Little yardage--use remnants. Pattern 572: pattérn pleees; transfer of embroidery; misses sizes small 10-12; medium 14-16; large 18-20; diréctions. ~ Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (stantps cannot be accepted, use postal' note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Tor- { planly PAT- TERN, NU and ADDRESS; UST OFF THE PRESS! nd now for our exciting, new ~ 1061 Needlecraft Catalog. Over * 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew,' "embroider, guilt, weave =" fagh= {shin ions, homef toys, gifts, bazaar hits, Plus E--instruc- tions for six smart veil caps. Hurry, send 25¢ now! * your NAME Cle vow Tg NOTABLE VISITOR MAKES BRIEF VISIT -- Winston Churchill, 86, surveys New York harbour from the deck of the Christina, left, as two nurses look on. Churchill, cruising aboard the yacht owned by Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, made a one-day stop at the port following a tour of the Caribbean and a short stop in Florida, An impromptu welcome by harbor firebcats greeted the grand old man of England's finest hour. Having Lunch At The White House Newspaper women may be blasé about a lot of things, but not about going to the White House! An invitation to lunch with the First Lady sent excitement through the whole feminine press - corps recently. There was the usual feminine comment on "what to wear," - how to reply to the invitation, and so on." "Never use a ball™ point pen," advised one purist-- "the implication being that this would be as gauche as using a ~pencili- o-oo Almost at the last minute, a rumor swept through the Press Building that "the girls aren't going to wear hats!" There was consternation until it became "evident that the rumor stemmed from a small contingent averse to mussing their hair-do, most of whom don't wear hats anyway. One newspaper woman. sport- ing a bright flowered number confessed she had bought it "about half an hour ago." There is a special aura about the White House. It is hard to define. It is not so much what one sees there but the way one feels about it. ' ] My first visit to the White House was during the war when I arrived in Washington in time to attend some of Mrs. Roose- velt's last press conferences there. We congregated upstairs in the now off-limit family rooms. One has a feeling of awe on entering the White House for the first time. It is an emotion pe- culiar to Americans, I suppose. I don't know that I agree with Mrs. Kennedy that the White House has.a "cold" appearance. She saw it first as an 11-year- old when she was taken there by her mother. She recalls it as seeming austere and lacking in - warmth, That is why she is try- ing to make it seem more "home- like" now to the thousands of school children who tour the downstairs public rooms. In a recent television inter-- view she spoke of her effort to make certain that there are flowers on the tables and fires burning in the fireplaces in the winter. Through her new Fine Arts Commission, the First Lady is hoping to recover for the White House "more pieces of beautiful furniture that belonged to all the Ptesidents." The White House has very little antique furniture now. Most of {ts original {furnishings were burned in the War of 1812. La- ter, Presidents who came and went disposed of the furniture as they liked. Some of it was even auctioned. off in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, Chairman of Mrs. Kennedy's commission is Henry B. du Pont, director 'of the Winterthur Cor- poration. Winterthur is the famed du Pont museum in Wil- mington of fine American furni- - ture and decorative objects of the 1640 to 1840 period. "Anyone who has"seen Winter- thur will kow that we are serl- ous in what we hope to do," Mrs. Kennedy stated during the television interview. 4 "We don't really want to re- strict it to any special period because this house can't be a rigld museum, Everyone who has lived in it is a part of it. We just want to get the best things." Living in the White House has its problems, particularly when it comes to ralsing children in / HANDLE WITH CARE -- "Crated for export," Paris model, Janine, wears a new short spring and summer hair style of hairdress- ar Henry Prevost. Prevost gives 'his creation a final check before Janine and other models' de- part for the United States. ...... : -- | the constant glare of publicity that surrounds the nation's first family, wrifes Josephine Ripley in the Christian Science Monitor. Mrs. Kennedy gave as an ex- ample her desire to take Caroline to the circus. She finally de- cided against it because she knew it would immediately focus at- tention on her daughter and spoil it all for her. So. Caroline was sent to the circus with a friend where, un- recognized, she had just the kind of a good time any child would. "I worked so-hard-to make-her little ballet school a private thing we could do together -- and there were all the photog- raphers waiting there when we got there. So it is a little hard." So far she fcels Caroline 'has not been changed by the atten-, tion, "She is still too. little," but™ Mrs. Kennedy confessed that she looks forward with some appre- 'hension to the time when -her daughter will start going to school. As she put it: ".. .. if sheis in the papers all the time, that will affect her little classmates and they will treat her differ- ently. That is why I am so anxi- ous--we always treat her the same, hut it is how other people treat her because they have read about her." : , The Kennedy children's play- ground, with the swing, jungle gym, and sand box, is so close to the street press photographers had no trouble at all snapping pictures of Caroline at play re- cently. They have been especial- ly requested not to do this again, Caroline and her brother were nowhere 'to be séden' when news- paper women arrived for their luncheon party. Parties at the White House can be exciting fqr those who attend them. But possibly young tenants peeping out of upstairs: windows may have a differént point of view. The possibility of installing -stamp-selling machines on. mail boxes intrigues the U.S. Post Oftice. Some wives think the innovation needs a mechanical arm fo tap husbands on the arm to remind them to also MAIL the letter. get it again.-However, it answer-__}. © person whose GREAT RECEPTION TO GRAND OLD MAN -- U.S. dignitaries visit Churéhill aboard- ship. Churchill's quiet return was in contrast: to a previous visit over nine years ago. In January 1952, the then Prime Minister received a 'standing ovation, right, as_hp. addressed a joint session of Congress in Wash- ington. Churchill announced he had come "not for gold but for steel" as Britain in those days sought to relieve dn economic orisis. Teer any What a day -- rain, snow and high winds; ditches running and the backyard like a swamp. But thank goodness all the moisture is outside, not so much as a trickle inthe basement. And "speaking of moisture, 'we are now able to drink water straight from th tap without that 'awful taste and odour of phenol that was with us for over a week.' The township water commission still isn't sure of the source of the phenol. Wherever it came from we certainly hope we don't ed one good purpose -- it made us appreciate our usually good water supply. And yet I suppose we shouldn't let such trivial matters as wea- ther and water concern us when bigger events are taking place -- Russia sending the {first man into space; signs of more trouble in Cuba, and so on and so forth. By comparison you and I are little people, aren't we . . . little people who understand our small everyday problems better than problems of space and revolu- tions. And isn't it better so -- that is, better for our peace of mind? In our immediate family Jerry has developed German measles -- right after fhe three of them had just recovered from chicken- pox. Gustav, the new pup, is still is still providing Dee with plenty of exercise in her attempts to get him house-broken. And we have had dog difficulties of an- other nature. Last Wednesday two black retrievors were frisk- ing around outside with Taffy. They were lovely dogs, friendly and full of fun but came to us directly when they were called. Obviously they had escaped cus- tody from someone or some place. Between us Partner and I managed to catch them and tie them up -- 'we were so afraid they would ct hit on the rcad. "We foun-'-they-carried-tags -giv- ing the name, i (dress aac. phone number of their owners -- © wise precantion -- making it a simple ma'ter t. con%a't them which we did. The f-eedom of the dogs was soon 'explained. The lady of the house had gone shopping, leaving the ten- months-old dogs in a fenced-in enclosure. They had climbed it and jumped over the top. To get here they had crossed the busy Dundas Highway, so you can imagine how. delightful Mrs, -- was to get them back again, safe and anharmed, Our . next excitement was watching the N.H.L, hockey tele= cast. - The finals were the most exciting of any series that we: remember, Now hockey is over for another season and in their play for the Stanley Cup, the | Chicego Black Hawks have won a well-deserved victory. Workwise I have -been busy catching up on' household book: _ keéping., Which leads to a cru cial question' , . . is it, or isn't it, worthwhile to keep' track: of day by day expénditure? One inion 1 asked replied -- "It is bad enough spending the . money without. worrying about where It goes." "Another couple told me they al- rays live on a well-balanced "budget. As for. us ve don't at- tempt to budget but we do keep an itemized acccunt of every. RONICLES thing we spend. That way we know if we are spending too much in any one direction. I'm the book-keeper in our family. I find it fun -- and full of sur- . prises. I have my own system of book-keeping -- which probably no one else would understand! I keep a rough, everyday record which at the end of the week I break down into separate head- ings and enter into a three-col- umn account book. It was with the weekly account book I was behind, but it was quite easy to bring it up to date. And here is what I found. During the first fifteen weeks, of 1961, in com- parison with 1960, we spent more on: fuel 'but less on-food, gas and drugs. And Partner is strutting like a peacock because during that same period he has smoked' one can less of tobacco! .Qther things were more or less equal so that the overall picture show- ed a decrease of about three dollars weekly. Now, in view of all the public- ity -there has been just lately about what it costs to live it might interest you to know that our total outlay for food each week averages $12.94. That in- cludes meat, groceries, bread, milk and eggs--for ourselves, one cat, one dog and any company that we. may have. Last year it was $14.44 so either we are eat- ing less or the cost-of some of. the items we buy has gone down. I try to buy economically but we certainly have all we want of good, plain food. We could live on less if I did more baking. But at this stage of the game saving work is as important as saving money. The most important thing as I see it is to live within one's income -- and to pay cash right across the board. Installment buying is something of which we have never approved. If we haven't got the money for what we want we do without it. Years ago I heard a- lecture in which the speaker said -- "If you earn 95 cents and spend a dollar you're in trouble." That is as true today as it was then, and always will be. How to Improve Orchestra Music ~The following is the report of 'a Work Study Engineer after a visit to a symphony concert at the Royal Festival Hall in Lon- don: For considerable periods the four oboe players had nothing to do. The number should be reduc- ed and the work spread more -- evenly over- the whole of the concert, thus eliminating peaks of activity. All twelve violins were playing identical notes; that seems unnecessary duplication. The staft of this section should be drastically cut. If a large vol- ume of sound is required, it could be obtained by means of elec- tronic apparatus. Much effort was absorbed in the playing of demi-semi-quav- ers; this seems to be an unneces- sary refinement. It is recom- mended thatall notes should be rounded up to the nearest semi- quaver. If this was done, it would be possible to use trainees a lower-grade operatives more ex- tensively. : There seems to be too much repetition of some musical pas- sages. Scores should be drastical- ly pruned. No useful purpose is ¢erved by repeating on the horns a passage which has already been handled by the strings. It is es timated that if all redundant pas- - sages were eliminated the whole concert time of two hours could be reduced to twenty minutes and there would be no need for an interval. The conductor agrees in general ... , but expresses the opinion that theré might be some falling off in box-office receipts. . It the worse came to the - worst, the whole thing could be abandoned and the public could .go to the Albert Hall instead. -- Harlequin (published by Atomlis Energy Research Authority, Har- well, England). = "She Gof the Dress fi Jat That She Wanted All Paris is chuckling at the expense of a celebrated New York socialite who recently re- turned to the United States with an "exclusive gown" for which she paid $400. For the dress cost -- $2.25. ; Tr = To It happened during the recent showing of spring collections by the leading. French fashion * houses. : The American woman had been an honoured guest at the fashion displays, but had failed to see anything she considered good enough for the party she was planning on her return home. She wanted something really "different." Famous Parisian designers tussed around her with thelr latest creations until suddenly she spotted a vivid blue dress, in a silky. material, draped over the back of a chair. "This is it!" she exclaimed ex- citedly. "But, but . . ." stammer- ed the proprietor of the house, only to be siléncéd by his custo- mer who brushed away hif pro- ° tests and demanded' the dress. "I'll pay $400 for this one," she cried, and soon left, proudly clutching her purchase. And that evening, the shop's daily cleaner, who had "knocked up". the dress very cheaply, but - left it over the back of a chair while she did her cleaning in an overall, was $400 better offl Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley a Q. Would it be all right for a girl to send a young man a birthday card, even though he has never sent her a card or giv- en her a gift of any kind? A. There is' never anything wrong with a gesture of thought- fulness and friendship such as this. . id Q. Just what is a girl sup- posed to reply to a fellow when he says "Thank you" after they have danced. together? I usually say "You're welcome." . A. Although "Youre wel- come" is correct enough, it dces sound a little trite. I think il's nice for a girl to say in differ- ent ways, "I enjoyed it, too," and to sound as though she meant it. Even the girl who doesn't dance very well can make the boy feel so - appreciated that he'll come back «for another 'go- round." TT : Q.._ When a woman is paying her first call on a woman whd has recently moved into the neighborhood, how long should she remain? A. From 15 to 20 minutes should be long enough. Usually, a woman who has just moved into a new home has loads of work on her hands and she might resent (justifiably) a too- lengthy visit. Sun-Sational PRENTED PATTERN Cool, pretty and quick to sew --it's the muu-muu! No fitting problems--pop it over daughter's head to wear as sundress, smock," beach cover-all. Pattern includes pretty panties. Printed Pattern 4822: Chil- dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. Size 6 dress, 2% yards 35-inch fabric. Send FIFTY CENTS (50¢) (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLR NUMBER. atletit Send order to ANNE ADAMS, -Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. ANNOUNCING the biggest fashion show of Spring-Summer, 1981--pages, pages, pages of pat- terns in our new Color Catalog-- Just out! Hurry; send 35¢ now! -- ISSUE 18 -- 1961 HISTORICAL MURAL -- Former President Harry S. Truman and artist Thomas Hart Benion . pose in front of Benton's large mural | ct compleied in lobby of Truman Library at Inde- oi pendence, Mo. Mofiths of resecrch and ght monihs of actual painting went into the projeck