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Wedding Looked Like A Battlefield As the .180 wedding gudsts pottled into their seats, the or- ganist's hymns soared to the top of the nave in Bournemouth's 80-year-old Holdenhurst church, hen came the wedding march from Lohengrin and oh's and 's from the audience as the ride and groom moved down the aisle and stood before red- garpeted altar steps banked with ¢hrysanthemums and dahlias. The Rev. William Stedmond, a pink-. cheeked gentleman who has mar- »ied more than 1,400 couples in bis 35 years as an Anglican clergyman, cleared his throat. "Dearly beloved," he began, "we are gathered together here in the sight of . , ." The vicar got little further than that. "As if he had been poleaxed," the best man, Geoffrey Farwell, dropped to the floor in a faint, his head striking the altar steps with a thud. rd "I was horrified," the vicar re- counted last month, "but I went right on." He didn't go on for long, though. Thinking that the best man had fallen dead on the sport, a young choirboy in a white sur- plice keeled over in a faint and had to be carried out of the choir. loft. Shaken, the vicar continued. But again: Not for Jong. The bridegroom, 20-year-old Alan Farwell, suddenly turned pale, swayed momentarily, and then collapsed to his knees. His bride-to-be, pretty Gillian Seare, helped him to his feet and held firmly to his arm until the mo- ment came when she was to re- ceive her ring. At-this point the --.bride's father had to rummage through the pockets of the best man--still prostrate--to retrieve it. "On humanitarian grounds," Vicar Stedmond omitted the usu- al address to the wedding couple and raced through the rest of the ceremony. "Some wedding cere- monies do have their troubles," ~ he told~ a "reporter; "But I've | TT __ gma never known anything like this. one--the church looked like a battlefield." Was there any explanation? Some parishioners believe, the vicar said, that ancient spirlts may have reappeared to cause mischief, But the vicar himself discounted this. "It was a chain reaction," he said. "Mass Hy- steria." ' - Simple Seaming PRINTED PATTERN 14Y2--24% byte Sells | Pocket-ful of flowers--colour- "ful touch for a perfectly piain- (and plainly perfect) sheath, Easy enough to sew in a day -- smart enough to wear every- v'here, ' Printed Pattern 4846: Half Sizes 14%, 16%, 18%, 20%, 22%, 24%, Size 16% takes 3% yards 39-inch. Embroidery transfer.' * Send FIFTY CENTS (50¢) (stamps cannot be accepted, use | postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print - plainly, SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER, : 3 Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Toronto, Ont. 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Last 'night we thought there would be one and at two o'clock in the morning I remembered a very special begonja was still out. So 1 got out of my nice warm bed, went outside and brought the plant in. It was already potted but it is such a huge plant we wanted to leave it outside to the last minute. I don't think I ever "| saw sucha liige begonia = great, | big leaves and stems -- and it all grew from one small slip I planted last spring. Well, I suppose everybody has been in a mad rush just recent- ly. Doesn't matter how long the good weather lasts there are al- ways last minute chores to do when the weather changes. We have rescued what was left in the garden -- flowers, bulbs and vegetables. Everything except the geraniums. One of the plant- ers is even now a mass of red, geraniums still blooming as it it were the middle of summer. The plants have grown so big I can't possibly handle them in the house, We are still on the run in other ways too -- entertaining and being entertained -- and last week I started making six pairs of pyjamas for three of our grandsons. Saturday I went to a sort of family dinner party that Dee was giving for her Aunt Queenie, Partner wouldn't go -- he didn't want to miss his foot- ball game on television! That wasn't quite so ungracious as it . sounds because his sister will be ~back with-us-on- Monday so Part- 1 ner says. she will have seen enough of him before she goes anyway. Anybody been watching "Ben Casey" on television -- that is, a new series of dramas. dealing with doctors, hospitals and pa- tients? It is fine if you can take it but I am not too sure it is a good idea for people who are sick -to-wateh-it too closely. 1-get en--- thralled with any.picture of that type -- in fact I would love to have been a woman doctor, "Dr. Kildare" is good but I'think "Ben Casey" is even more realistic -- perhaps too much so. As an il- lustration I will tell you an amusing incident that happened to me, We had watched "Ben Casey" followed by the late news and then we went to bed. I was ~ goon asleep but in a little 'while - I was awake again and was dls- tressed to feel a queer buzzing' in my ears. It kept on no matter which way I turned. I remem Abb bered "people with high blopd _ pressure do sometimes have ear trouble but I had never been bothered before. Thinking of Ben --Casey I'said to myself -- "1s this what happens when the carotid artery acts up?" Then I thought -- "This throbbing is such a peculiar sensation. If I had to describe it to.a doctor. what would I say? Probably the best description would be that it was something like the buzzing of a fly." With that the thought came to me... "A fly -- maybe it IS a fly!" T sat up in bed, put on the light and Jooked at the pil- loy. No fly. fu I use two pil- lows so I lifted th top one, and sure enough, trapped between. the two pillows was a stupid, buzzing fly! imagine hearing a fly through the thickness of a feather pillow. It was one of those crazy shingle flies that flop ~ around-for awhile and then falls on its back and dies. But I'm telling you no other casé of "noises in the head" could -have been more realistic. And as you see it wasn't even imagination. The noise was there all right al- though it turned out it wasn't exactly a symptom of high blood pressure! As to that I know one thing that can raise a person's blood pressure, and that is taking a car on the road. What road? Any road. You can't drive these days without running into detours and road construction. Friday I was shopping just two miles from home. There was a survey party right where I get on to the high- 'way. A little further along men were felling trees and had trucks along the side of the road. I knew No. 10, was shut off so I took a sideroad, only to find it unusually busy. I found out why when I got to the end of the road.. Men were putting down "new paving on a section of No. 10, north of No. 5, hitherto un- touched. That is about the busi- est intersection around here and the Department of Highways chose Friday afternoon to work on it! I know road -work must be done but it sometimes appears that the Department goes out of 4.8 hobby. would he hunting, I knew how to shoot" INGERFARM Gwendoline P. Clarke | its way to find the most incon- venient time to do it. On this occasion 1 had to park my car and walk a considerable distance to the bank, dodging my way arotind heavy road equjpment. Jazzing Up The Wedding March * "A new wedding march. is sore- ly needed. The march from 'Lohengrin' {3 as archaic as Pop- ulism and the Mendelssohn march is a doddering antique," H.L. Mencken made this com- giant in 1908. But recently in ndon, the drive to. divorce church organists from what he called "these ancient and curdled compositions" was still going on. Under the white rococo dome of Central Hall, Westminster, clusters of black-coated oranists mingled one afternoon with stu- dents in bright sweaters and beaming brides-to-be. They had joined forces to preview the win- ning tune in a contest sponsored by Young's Dress Hire, Ltd., a firm which rents out bridal attire and feels that a marriage can be binding without "Here Comes the Bride." As the mighty organ at the back of the Central Hall stage thundered out eight old favorite wedding processionals--including Jeremiah Clarke's Trumpet Vol- untary and Hubert Parry's Bridal March from his operetta, "The Birds""--a parade of models showed off gowns and morning suits. Then organist William S. Lloyd Webber--the hall's mus- ical director--turned his bench over to bushy-browed Ernest Suttle, a 46-year-old inspector of music for~Britain's Ministry of Education who had won the wedding-march contest (also "sponsored by the London music--- publishing firm of Novello) over more than 200 other entries. Dr. Suttle, stiff-backed and fidgety, - stormed through his march in four and a half minutes --a pace he considers "just about right for couples who want to get on with it." Composed "on and off" over a month, the wedding "march earned Dr. Suttle the £100 ($280) prize. Forthrightly én- ough, the tune is called "Wedding March for Louis Young." "Who is this Louis Young?" ask eGorge Thalben-Ball, organist of. Lon- don Temple Church and a judge in the contest, "Is that someone Dr. Suttle knows will be married to the melody?" "No, no, no," replied Webber, who was sitting next to Thalben- Ball. "Young is the man who's : paying for the show." "No matter," said Thalben-Ball, "It was the best work we got. It's quite good--a fine recital "plece."' : "I like its pageantry, its cere- monial imagery," said Webber. "It's rather. rousing--guaranteed to get the desired result from even the most somnolent uncle." "It's a jolly good tune," ex- claimed Young. "I could hum it from memory after hearing it three times. I now declare Men- ~~delssohn-dead; dome, and finished with." ) "Are you Mr. Young?" snapped an elderly traditionalist who had been eavesdropping. "You are very audacious!" . New Hope For The Paraplegics A paraplegic since he fell six floors from a roof to the ground ---two- years ago, Maynard (Red) Berg, 25, wheeled himself into the laboratory at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. one day last summer. A laboratory technician attached four elect- rodes to the useless muscles of his legs. Wires from the elec- trodes led to a bank of four radio- like amplifiers on a nearby table, Dr, Adrian Kantrowitz, attend- ing surgeon, approached the con- trols of the amplifiers, paused a moment, and said quietly to Berg: "Get ready, you're going to stand up now." The patient grasped a bar over his head provided to give him balance, Dr. Kantrowitz turned the knobs, sending elect- - ric impulses through the wires to - the muscles, Red Berg stood up. | "He was the first paraplegic in history to stand through activity of his own muscles, "It was kinda funny," the red- bearded paraplegic says now. "It was a weird feeling standing there and not feeling thé ground below me, I didn't feel any sensa- tion in my legs at all, At first I "was really frightened because I didn't think the electricity could "hold me up. But it did." Red's ability to stand was a --erude beginning of a process -| [that may take years, but it gives hope that someday he may be able to walk, It could mean that many of the 250,000 paralyzed war veterans and accident victims may follow*Red out of his wheel chair and walk firmly. into. more .{ productive lives, At. a meeting. sponsored by International Business Machines Corp. in Endicott, N.Y., Dr, Kan- trowitz recently told what this RESmee-- ISSUE 44 -- 1961 HIGH BROW -- This hand- tooled, 18-karat gold eyebrow pencil, studded with dia- monds and emeralds, has a price tag guaranteed to raise anyone's eyebrows--$12,500., (That includes tax, of course.) new "bioelectronic" technique portends. Someday, he explained, a complex program of "instruct- ions for walking" will be fed into a combined computer-amplifier small enough for. a patient to wear on his belt. Through wires to electrodes, the computer would activate eighteen muscles in each leg in the proper order and at the proper strength. The patient would carry a little control box, the size of a cigarette package, with, a "joy stick" on it. When he pushes the joy stick forward, the patient would walk. Push it to the left and he would turn left. Push it back and he would stop. Aware of the complex prob- lems facing Dr. Kantrowitz and his co-workers, Red Berg, back in his ward, pushes on with his own rehabilitation "program. He spends three hours a day exercis- ing in the gym, then studies art in the hope of winning a scholar- ship to an art school. His para- plegic wardmates kid him about his visits to Dr. Kantrowitz, and all him "Red the Robot," "Bat- | bee h ¢ ® aEver-Reddy.n | By Anne Ashley ------ |---tery- Red," and "Ever-Reddy." | - Dr. Kantrowitz himself is con- fident that someday many para- plegics will walk again. The U.S. government evidently has that confidence too. Last month, Mai- monides received a $250,000 re-- search grant from the National Institutes of Health to assemble a team of surgeons, engineers, bio- physicists, work together on the project. "When we get all the problems licked," Dr. Kantrowitz = said, _ "there's no telling what we could program into the prospective computer on Red's belt, Why; we -could even prograni a cha-cha- cha for him to dance." Making Your Nylons Last Longer For longer "nylon wear, a noted fashion expert offers these" suggestions: and biochemists to . Higher Standards For Baby Sitters abies of Arherica, better times ake in store for you! High standards for those who substitute for mama -- the baby sitters -- have been set forth in a handbook just off the press: The booklet by Camp Fire Girls, Inc, is called a child care. course. " Ideas from many girls and ad- ults went into 'the handbook Special help was given by Dr. Margaret Hanlon of St. Louis, Mo., and Agnes Fuller of the Children's Bureau, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "A baby sitter is in a sense many people during her work caretaker, teacher, feeder, dresser, and, very important, friend" says June Hammond, of the Camp Fire Division of Pro- gram Services. She explains that while each girl will have her individual way of doing her best, helpful information is available for all baby sitters, The long list of do's and don't's covers getting perental approval first; agreeing on the fee in ad- vance; learning well the layout of the house where baby lives; knowing the telephone number of the nearest neighbor; thinking of the baby as "a little friend"; playing with the baby, feeding it, taking care of it; also some general rules of safety applied to emergencies such as what to do if there is an intruder or a fire; and assuming a fair respon- sibility in cleaning-up. The trained baby sitter doesn't come with her brief case exactly, but she does come with a play kit. A whole chapter is given over to "Let's have fun" and what to bring along --- such as books, paper dolls, or that old teddy bear, keeping in mind the taste and the age of the child, and being ready for games and music. \ \ Q. Is it considered proper to ° send a male patient in a hospital cut flowers? A, Although not "improper," out flowers are usually sent to women. A growing plant is the customary gift to a male patient. Q. When a young girl has spent a week-end in the home of 'a girl friend, to whom does she ad- dress her "bread - and - butter" * Jetter? A. She may address the letter Modern Etiquette to her friend, but must include a message of appreciation fo the girl's mother, who usually de- serves much of the credit for a pleasant visit. BABIES GALORE A collection of babies to fas- cinate the tiny tots, whether carriage or crib cover, ) Each motif is mainly in out- --line-stitch. You'll tind delight in embroidering these. Pattern 797: transfer of 9 motifs 5% x 6% inches; directions for cover, Send THIRTY-FIVE. 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And make sure to-fasten the gar=--{ ters in the welt of the stocking. Guard your nylons from rough shoe linings, jewelery, torn fin- gernails, crinolines or rough surfaces that could snag them. Unroll the stocking from your leg when you take it off; never pull it from the foot. FOOTNOTE -- Of radical design, Capezio's "playfl i! CT at,' with toes sheared square and heels sliced wafer thin, strikes a new note on the casual footwear scene this fall season. ENT? -- An estimated 115 persons were injured in a huge explosion d ; EAUTY TREATM that rocked the 16-building complex of the Helene Curtis cosmetic supply plant. Some 2,000 employees fled the plant following the explosion. Plant spokesman said the explo- sion, that caused this wreckage, seemed to come from a chemical tank car on a rail sid- ing at the plant. > © -- 4