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ed nthe iat SERENA Sond TERETE ERA FANE SLi | tes BL CRA ' Li ) . \y ee -- ---- -- An Old Mill Turns Pebbles into Gems "Jewel Mill" -- the visitor may blink twice to be sure, but that is what the sign over the, door says. No, it isn't out of the pages of Grimm or off the streets of Disneyland. The Jewel Mill is on a quaint' waterwheel 13ite near Rowley, Mass.,, where for more than 300 years a mill has been in almost gonstant operation. The "jewels" are smoothly pol- ished stones produced by 'gem tumbling," an art performed by the Parker family, present own- ers of the mill. If Rowley Mill, as it was orig- finally called, could tilk, the old pacadle wheel would have a fas- cinating story to tell. The orig- inal dam und canal remain just as they were built more than three centuries ago when the first "fulling" mill was overated there to finish tne woo! a cloth woven by the townspecple of Rowley. Later the mill was used to grind and package whole grain flour during the 19th century. Today the frothy splash of the water over the gay orange mill whee] provides power for pi- oneering in another field, that of "gem tumbling." By tumbl- ing, a chunk of rough stone may be smoothed and polished until it is suitable for use as jewelry or for decorative purposes. The Parkers bought the old 'mill long before they knew about gem tumbling. Then came the question of what they could do with their purchase and. still preserve the clean, quaint setting as it was centuries ago. The idea for "gem tumbling" came from a small broken "peb- ble mill" which Paul Parker found in a factory junk shop. In this smal' machime, ordinary pebbles had been used to grind substances placed in the machine. The pebbles had been constantly churned in water and were beautifully polished to a high, smooth luster. SALLY'S SALLIES The pebbles were scattered around the broken mill, and sev- era) + Mr. Parker's co-workers consmented on the colorful, shiny pebbles. This broken pebble mill in a factory junk shop, together with an article about gem tumbling in a laboratory journal, gave the Parkers the idea for the old mill's present use, writes June Bibb in the Christian Science Monitor. After building all of the nec- essary "barrels" and machinery, the Parkers put the old mill wheel to use producing power to operate the machines. As they laughingly explain, "All of the commercial! electricity we use here is to operate the electric stove and the television set." Starting with large chunks of stone sent from all over the world, the Parkers break these into pieces about the size of your thumb by placing them in a crushing machine, The pieces are then placed in a tumbler which does the work of an "artificial beach," tumbling the stones with water and an abrasive until they are smooth and rounded. According to Mr. Parker, this operation takes time and pati- ence. A batch of stones runs for 10 weeks--and many stones have to be left in the tumbler for as long as two to three years before they are preperly rounded and smoothed. The stones are then placed in smaller barrels where they are gently polished to a high luster for another 10 weeks. Then the polished gems are carefully ex- amined for flaws which may mean another trip for retumbl- ing and further polishing. A picture of constant and gay activity, the ancient mill attract- ed almost 10,000 visitors last year, Despite its popularity, a vis- itor glancing back over his shoul- der at the bright orange mill wheel and the splashing water, may feel as if he is waiting to see a colorfully dressed old mil- ler come out of the door and place sacks of freshly ground cornmeal on the back of the donkey who brays from a neigh- boring yard. SNAPPY COMEBACK At a party one night, a famous composer and pianist, who is not an even-tempered person at best, was being annoyed by a woman who chattered constant- ly during his playing. When he finished, she rushed over to him enthusiastically. "Oh," she gushed, "that was perfectly lovely! Do tell me something about yourself. Why did you take up the piano?" "Because," said the composer sourly, "my beer glass kept fall- ing off the violin!" Tabulations on U.$. Teen-Agers-- of goods is an important factor in WHAT TEEN-AGERS OV/N nation's economy. YAKBTYAK--It won't be news and p Three or More Calls a Day (Telephone Usage by Age Groups) «u) to "but teen-agers all home System. Chart above shows the of | in each age who make three GR a Hoar? rises rapidly Birougho teen-age years, 'reaches a peak In early "adult reteeners account for, oi of phone «alls. This was the result of a survey conducted by the Bell T) and then dwindles gradually thereafter. Well now, I thought all I would have to write about this week would be the results of the Fed- eral Election. But that isn't all -- not by a long way, although it did come first. That being the case I suppose I had better make a few comments. But what can one say that hasn't been said already? Naturally like most other peo- ple we had our eyes glued to the television "screen from eight o'clock 'onwards and from it wae learnt that what we most feared had actually happened -- a gov- ernment without any one party gaining an overall majority. Tha many upsets were interesting to say -the least. For instance the county of Peel where we now live went Liberal for the first time in sixty years. In Halton, our former home district, both the Liberal and Conservative candidate claimed to be the vic- tor. During the last hour I have heard the final decision was an- other victory for the Liberals. In Parkdale where my daughter and her family live, there was another unforeseen defeat with Arthur Maloney losing out. And that was the picture all over Canada but particularly in On- tario and Quebec. So now I'll leave it at that and tell you what happened for the rest of the week, As a member of the Ontario Historical Society I was natural- ly anxious to attend the Annual Convention which, this year, was - being held In Prescott, on the St. Hy . Proposed three-way theater for Wittenberg University Is at left in sketch, above. At right, classroom and studio of the music-drama unit in the multipurpose building. oy Three-quarter open stage, at left. At right, theater arranged for conventional seat- ing. Not shown: proposed concert shell, which would provide ideal acoustical condi-. tions. Only theater of its kind is proposed for Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio. Three-way stage of the 600-seat theater will provide a three-quarter open stage for Shakespearean or classical drama, 'a conventional theater with proscenium arch for standard plays, and a retractable, petal-like 28-ton concert shell which will unfold at the touch of a button on the stage proper, to surround a musical group on three sides and 'overhead, musical roviding d e a | acoustical conditions for a rformance. The proposed theater Is to be constructed as part of Witten- berg's planned $25 million musie and drama facility. Construction will go forward once funds are raised. i - cancellations! How lucky can one - Lawrence river. A friend and I had planned to go together but about ten o'clock Monday night she phoned me to say she had developed an allergy and had been forced to make an appointe ment with a skin speolalist in Toronto for Wednesday. What happened after that would de- pend upon his advice ----- she would phone when she knew. So there I was with my bag half packed and more or lass resigned to 'staying at home. And then Wednesday afternoon came an- other call from Lillian -- "The doctor says there is no reason why .I shouldn't go, So pack your bag and we will pick up you up in about an hour's time!" Believe me, I finished packin my bag in a hurry, looke around and made sure there was enough food in the house to keep Partner going until I got home again, and then, after we had all had a cup of tea, we were on the road. First of all 1 was spending the night with Lillian at Newmarket -- from there Lil- liar"s husband warned us he wanted to start out at FIVE o'clock the next morning so as to be in Prescott by noon. That meant getting up at four. It is a long time since I got up that early in the morning. But we made-it , . . 264 miles in a new. car -- which meant we couldn't average more than forty miies an hour. Neither Lillian nor I had made hotel reservations so at Brockville Lillian phoned ahead to an adjacent hotel and asked if there were rooms available. They had just received two get? Now I am not going to deal with the historical angle of our trip in this week's column. In- stead I will give you a few of the sidelights in connection with our outing. Here is the first item, "The room Lillian and I shared ~ had twin beds, a shower and toilet. Now I don't profess to know much about hotel accom- modation but the set-up here did strike me as being somewhat unique. The shower cabinet had two doors -- one led into our room, the other into an adjoining room. Both doors could be lock- ed from the inside bul there was also a chain dangling from the top of one door which could be stretched across and hooked into the opposite door. Which meant when the shower was in use neither door could be opened from inside either of the rooms. We supposed it was all right otherwise it wouldn't be there. Well, that night I was ready for bed and opened our door from - the inside. Believe me, I shut it in a hurry! "Lillian," I whisp- ered in a shocked voice, "There's & man in our bathroom!" At first she wouldn't believe me. "Non- sense," she returned, 'there couldn't be. What was he doing anyway?" "I -- I think he was trying to do up the chain. Anyway he had his back to me. And thank good- ness he was fully clothed!" We sat on one of the beds and listen- ed in petrified silence until there were no longer sounds coming from our dual bathroom after. which we set out to investigate, We found it was possible for the occupant of one room to open his or her inside door before the other person could get the lock- ing chain in place. Once we understood the set-up there was no further trouble -- although it was rather nerve-wracking to know that any misjudgment by either party could lead to an embarrassing situation, We told the chambermaid what had hap- pened and she just laughed and said -- "Oh, you don't need to worry -- the man in the other room was a doctor -- no doubt he has seen women in nighties before!" That's all for now -- more to tell you next week. : Q. How can I prevent that un- slightly crease that often results when trousers have been hang- ing for some time on a wire coat hanger? "A. One way is to place a news- paper under the trousers while they are on the hanger. Or, loop a piece of cardboard over the hanger, Don't fold the cardboard ~ just let it curve gently, and fasten it with paper clips at the bottom. -TWIRL---Model -twirls--in - new--}- coat dress in Paris, France. Dress features simplicity In design, done In lamb blue vel- vet with soft side gathers. She Says Hello In Five Languages If Britain joins the Common Market, the 600 gins working daytime shifts at London's Con- tinental telephone exchange are going to be even busier. Already the exchange, mount- high up in Faraday Building, ueen Victoria Street, handles 80,000 incoming and outgoing ealls every day -- 83 percent of them by businessmen. How much thls percentage will rise if Britain dials herself into Fur- ope is anyone's guess. 'One girl who daily speaks to exchanges all over Europe petite Mrs, Nan Graves, of Har- row -- Continental's ace opera- tor. Nan, a "hello girl" in five languages, was born in Alexan- dria, Egypt, of Italian: parents, and is married to an English- man. She began learning English, French, Italian and Arabic at 'the age of six, picked up Greek later, now speaks them all flu- ently and understands Spanish. So, when she came to England in 1950, she was -the right ma- - terial for Continental. - "My 8 to $4.30 shift passes quickly, for apart from handling calls I'm 'an official guide to the 10,000 visitors we get every year," she says. "They come from all over the world to see how we work. We recently had a party from the Bell Telephone Company of America. They were impressed, and when they left handed me a souvenir key-ring shaped like a telephone. We had some Rus- sians, too -- their parting gifts were sgputnik badges with a peace emblem." } Nan takes her telephone calls in one of three switchrooms alongside the other girls -- all of them specially trained, many multi-lingual, their ages ranging from sixteen to forty. . fir Speaking several languages makes Nan useful as an inter- preter, too. "We monitor calls for a time to make sure those speaking un-. derstand each other -- if théy don't, we offer our services. "The funniest call I ever had came from an Italian in a Lon- don hotel. He wanted a ¢ledn shirt! He complained there was no one on duty who understood him and wanted our help. I rang the hotel's receptionist and gave her the message -- in English." Callers pay nothing for using Continental's operators as inter- preters -- they merely pay for the call time, \ ISSUE 28 -- 1063 , They Supply Bibles By The Millions What kind of devoted work has it taken to place 50,000,000 Bibles and Testaments in hotels, motels, and other secular spotst The Gideons International, the organization which achieved this record distribution this year after more than a half century of effort, can give tha answer. It took only two Chnistian tra- veling salesmen to start the organization in 1898-99. John H. Nicholson, who shar- ed his room in the crowded Central Hotel at Boscobel, Wis., "on a September night in 1898, and Samuel E. Hill, the benefi- ciary of his hospitality, launch- ed the wonld-encircling organi- zation, simply by talking over with each other the possibility of establishing a fellowship for those businessmen who held si- milar religious convictions and a desire to serve. Joined by William J. Knights in a Janesville, Wis, hotel the next summer, they founded The Gideons. Object: "to win men and women for Jesus Christ." -It was not until a decade later that this group--was led to focus its work on the distribution of the King James version of the Bible and the New Testament. They believed that by placing the book in public places it would come to the attention of persons who might not find their way into a church or who had drifted away from religion. Their first step was to place 23 copies of the Bible in a Mon- tana hotel. From that time on the work grew. This spring, at conference - of the onganiza- on's state presidents, Vernon Herndon, past president of the American Hotel Association, re- ceived a token volume repre- senting the 350,000,000th copy of the Scriptures placed by the Gi- deons. He recelved it from H. 8. Ammerding, Glideons' presi- dent, writes Dorothea Kahn Jaffe in the Christian Science Monitor. Writing of the event, the edi- tor of the -official magazine of the association reported: "Mr. Herndon gave assurance that from the point af view of hot managers, the Word of God fis an indispensable¢item in transi- ent hotel and motel guest rooms." A continual flaw of letters of gratitude from persons helped by reading the Bibles provided by the Gideons serves to keep up enthusiasm for the work and win support. From their hand- sbme new headquarters build ing in Chicago the Gideons pub- lish a booklet called "Returns." It contains testimonies from men and women who found themselves in desperate situa- tons but were regenerated and strengthened by reading a Bible picked up in a hotel room, jail cell, hospital ward, or some other place where Gideon vol- unteers had been. ) It is this fruitage which keeps the movement going steadily forward, said Robert 'E. Swa- ney, associate editor of The Gi- deon. The organization conducts no fund-raising campaigns. Members -- Christian business and professional men -- contri- bute generously and receive added support from Protestant churches. : - Why the name Gideon? The name came to the found- ers as a result of prayer. It re- fers to the study of Gideon (Judges 6, 7, and 8), a judge of Israel, who was willing to do the work God gave him to do, in God's awn way. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. If I am in a group of per- sons and someone whom I do not know joins us, should I introduce myself to him or should I ask someone else in the group to introduce us? A. Neither is necessary. If you happen to have somthing to say to the stranger, you would ad- dress him just as if he had been introduced to you. Q. When invited to someone's home and the hostess has small dishes of potato chips and pea- nuts placed on tables, is it proper for a guest to help himself with- out being asked? A. Since obviously these dishes are there for the guests, it is quite all right to help yourself. Q. What kind of letter can a mother write to an out-of-town girl whom her son wishes to in- vite to their home for a week end visit? A. "Dear Betty! Jt will give us all great pleasure if you will visi$ our home on any week-end ou and Bill decide on. We sh looking forward to 284ing yoy soon. Very sincerely yours, Mary Thomas." wd