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modern Ttiqu.tte .n,2,Amie Asble'y Q. When mailing birthday edste mny womien f riends, whom y hubband knows on1Y s1gt~shoiild I sîgn both our nies, or 3ust mine alone? A. You n£eed flt .nclude, youir husba-nd's namne on your person- ai greetings. Q.Are silver crumob serapers stl in gOod use? A. Yes, if the tablecloth 1s of plain damnask. But are n roV so L ractical on lace or enibroldery n this, case, One may fold a niapkin ta the thickness of aG pot- holder for buhigoff the crumrbs. Q. When a girl is being mar- wed lu a Simple, informai cerf"- mony, and she îs wearlng ber golng-away costume, dtoes she bave a mimber of -bridesmnalds? A. In 5anin-formiai ceremiony such as this, the bride usuiaiiy has but one aitendant - her m)aid or iratron-of-honor, Q. When a girl is walking along thue street with a mian and lie ýspeaks te oeoewhom she doesn't koshudshe speak aisoe? A. She -shiou1d sile, and nod her head. This hold's true also for the Man, shoid she s-peak ta an Q.When havin,- a piece of sul- ver for a baby miarked with Only one initial, shouid it be thie f irst o)r the Iast? A, The first. Q. WVhai i, ttle pr4lper Order of procession into the din1ing room of wne's homie? A. At a f amily gathe-ring, the womnan oC the hou-nse ieads the femninîne guet athe dining room, thtý imeýn following. But, at a fori party the h-ost, with thie woni guest of honor, goica first, then the other guesis, fol- lowýýed by i [he hostess with whic-,- ever man is guest of hor.or. Q. f a man's fianceee bas b)rokçen their enga1gemnent, is it -propecr forfthe îman's mother te write to the girl and ask for the reeturn ý) osime inens she gave bter as an engagement gift? A. This would be quie in or 4esince it was understood that ihe 1-ens segqv~ e toeb geed in hei. son's fu.turehm Com fort For Baby 842 (~ Q~.~Wfk Babies caclecool bhls sumý-1 ~ r-dress themr in ilesýe suits. e 11 Lfty - ue nemnanis. Seersucker, nyl-on, ligi catiLon tire good fabrics. Patiprni 842ý tleanser; pattern a month, 1 year, 18monil babici; directions. State ý4îze. Send THIRTY - FINE CENTS (stLamps cannai le accepted, use pý)ostal noie for- safety) for t1his pattcrn ta Laura Wheeler, Box il 123 Eî ghteenthl St., Newx Tononta,7 Ont. Pini plainly PATTER-N NUMBER, yourNA ME andAD- DRESS. Scnd n(ôwý for aur excitinig, niew 1961 Needlecraft Cataiag. Over J,25 designs to crochet, kfilt, se-çQ, rmbt'ol4er, quilt, weave -- f ash- ioi mtefurnishings, boys, gifVs, h~z its. Plus FEE - in- trio~dns for sixe smart veil cap'. VtýrgSend 25# tiaw! They DIDN'T Say Wliat They MEANT Here, are samne classic instances, of the- misuse of words. ,sir John H~unt, w.ho led the suûccessful assaultL on Mount Everest, told a siory recently of a, schoolgiri who arnnaunced her withdrawal fromi the Duke o1 Edinburgh's s c hc1a rshiÎP award scheme in a letter ta her teacher whllch ran: "Dear -Miss,, I'm afraid 1, cannot carry an any longer with the Duke of Edin- buargh as the n!ights are g«etting dark." We al havýe careless moments when we comnmit the odd faux pas. Whether il is done verabally or in writing, it produces the same humoraus effect, Not long ago, the wife of a Midlands bishop, speaking toaa gathering of womnen about her experiences as an organist told them: "When aur organ wasý mo dernized the local paper ne- ported: 'The onganist Is now able ta change her combînations with-, out 'lifting her feet.'" On the Brains Trust somne time ago, Sir Juliani Huxley quated an emPinent American oceanographer who told hits audience: "I think that the sea's bottomn is just as important as the mioon's behiind." Some of the best laughis are to be had from newspaper head- uines, wý,hichi somnetimes don't mean whîbe 1th- sub-ediiors in- t end *Splashied across the womians pageaof a daily appeared: "Work- inig Wivcs Are Revoiting." Anothe-r which appeared in a photographic m a gaz i n ewas: "Shoot Ail Your Children For One Shliniýg -Each." >Anniouncemnrts on the labels of propietary ggoods are some- times misleading. Pinted on the 1box containîng a well -known cheese is the foliawing: "Theý a ve ra il characterîstic of this cheese- is inde cri*bable!" Advertisements s omwe times cause q.muse,-ent. One -In, a farm- ing paper anniiounced: "Tractar for sale; has niot worked since ,completely ov,,erhauied." Another stated: "'Applica,-tionis are invited for superintend.ent for the makilng 0f nurses' uniforms. Successful candidate must have know.ledge of upholstery." Newspaper repor-,ters working unider pressure make the acca- sionai s'ip. The fllowving, froa a Englîsh paper, must have 'been writben ini haste: "The first swalow bas arrived at Devizes. It was spatted by Po- lice Constable John, Cooke, wbose hiobby is birdwatching, sitting wtand bcdraggied on telepohane wrires.", High-f lawn a f f i c i a i n otiîces, phrased in official jargon, same- timnes achieve exactiy the reverse effect ta that intended. A noice on a Partman Square entrance ann-ounedé: "Only the smaliest dogs in charge of owniers are aliowed Ln the gardenwih out a lead and they mfust be un-- der praper conîtrai. Ail other dogs and ail dogs in charge of servants must be kept on a lead." A physician addressing mnedicai students at a University prize- giving surmmed up- his topic in what he alone thought was a nut- shel. - "'Go to a meeting of a commnit- tee and what does anie hear- often,.ý raw slces of maundening, nepe- it-ive,. ungramnmabicai, fris jargon," lie began. "Look at bife agenda of mrany acadei-c com- mittees, at the letters and docu- ments froïm governimenit dcparb- mens, fnm advertisers and cari- didafes - diffuse, tedialus, tungid. Too mnany people wili not take, the trouble ta k eep ta a brief, terse, controlleçi style and, cut out the unnecessary andLselyim- pressive. "On the cianîty 0f yourwod, - --------------I HE ONLY HAS EYES FOR LIZ Sitting in a Hollywood night- club, Eddie Fisher looks at his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, on ber first night out since undrgong plastic surgery laist moanth to remnove a tracheotomy scar incurred during her double pneu- monici ilness earlier this yar. 4f 6et~ottr~~eP.Cttk Has anyane found a way ta beat the heat? If so we woul1d like ta knowv about l. We have tried just abouit evenything -, shutiing all e windows; open- ixrg ail the doars and windows tnying ta cnate a draft; wonking oubside; working inside; daing as mnuch as we can in the basemient. But nothingc wonked saisfatan- ily, Finally we were driver ta the iniconvenience althiis time of specndýIng $300 on an aincondition- er. Eyen 50 we lad aur pnoblems. Twa years ago we wanted ta cput anc in- went sa f ar as having a man camne in ta instaîl it andic then, founid h was impassible ta find a place for it. The unit wasne't deep enougli ta go itîrougl tbe wail and w couldn't put lb tlirough any of the windows as they are aul plate glass witb ben - inch louvres Lunderneatb for vn tilation. This year we thaugliw lad a solution when aur appli- ance mari fund he could gel a unit smnal enougl ta fi, bnan f th-e louvres, by cutting a bit aa frôm, the,. ill. In talking lbi ve le 1happened ta e. nilan 11- 'because of it being low dow, would tbnow an awflui b' - air ighi &cross my bcd. fhe night I reaiised that nieyer do. And tIen I hacia b, wave. funny how; we so i "sec the ligît" during the bu of darkness! There was anc -or- nrer of bbc room, witl an, out- side al that none o. us hiad even thougýhb about. Partner agreed lb would pnobably -wonk fine if we couid get thIlc it unit. Sa hack the hian came again and by the ne2xi nighi aur air- condit'ioner was inst ailed .11 was in myn roomn - which lappens ta be. tbe hottest in bbc hanse. Itbis also île rom iwhere 1 do rmasi af mny work - writing, typing-, sew- . rg, kniiiing and rcading. When-- îlre îunit was in operatian it ,vas like li'ving, in a diffenent wrld- ndwe bboughit aur troubles wer o ve--r. But oh no, Suiiday mairning wVc wenc changing bbc contrais and sudde-nly tIc mï-obar quit. We tried tfhis an-d ihat, al ta no avail. And ilcen Fartiner said- 'i bet it's- biown a fuse!" "But why?,", .JwaiIed,,. "wý,hat did we do blat was wrong?" We diçln't kriow and we couldn'b £14d Du ubbecause bbc agent lad omit.' ted ta leave us a book of instruc- tionts. He couldni'b find it. Dan't fanget - thls was, Sun- day. Naturaily the store was elosed and it lad no emengency nulmber listed. If onily* we could have contacted the maJnagýer ai his home, juast ta ask adivice. But we' couldni-'t do thai becauise w ldn't know bis name! Thiat sounds crazy, .I 'know, but it's true. We have always heard himi spoken of as "AI" and If -we wanted ta get in toucli witilh hm at the store we asked for AI. But how cani yau get a persan on the Phone if Yeu dan-'b knaw b is ful1 niame? WejIalter replacing- two blown fuses and ex,,pe rime nting wiih the2 various contrais we finaily got the tling going again - and got botter in s0 daing thian we would hiave been withiout il! Believe me-1, AI, wiii have ta find thiat book 0f instructions today . . . or else! Whiat we don't kniow abffit dec- trical appliances would fila -book, - and one can't afford ta do toa mnuch experienting -where eleciricity is concernied. Sunday, Bob), Joy and the twa boys wcne here and of course the main topic of coinversation was the heat - or rathier the humid- ity. We have liad if hot before but neyer with saemci .humnid- ity for so long a speil. It is cloudy today but there is no mention of cooler weather in s-ight. However, I suppose we shaI live througlh 1t. 0f cone thing I am sure . . . a persan is far bet- ter off in bis own home than by running around trying ta find za a pace to get cool. After ail, the relief can only be temrporary -- we have ta came back home in the end so we are far better ta sbay put and makce things at homec as camifortable as passible. IJee and tlie boys are liaving a woniderfui time ai Vle cottage. TI ait, off course, is a, homne away fromi home and 1Iimagine their way -ta beat the heat is ta spend miosi of iheir timne in the water. Ali tbc boy,.s can now swit, Peven fouri-year-od Jerry -- thatý is with iife-j ackeis on. Da-ve doesni'i need. one as lie is ike a yaung eclin11 the watcr. Cousin Mike has been staying with i'hemin he last few we eks. He is five and yesterday hie caughit six fish in ten' minutes! Dee is a goad swimmer boa so I imagine they are faiily safe. A.rt goes down Yriday ights so I get ail île latesi news Manday m rorn- ings. The whoie f amily is agibat- ing for uLs ta go down -- but as 1 have poinied out we- are regular old hiome-bocjies -- especially when going ta the cottage in- volves a longý car drive. "1What is a whiisper? aslied a readler. A w-ay tij mak0e people believe what tbey otherwise woulidn't. ý c Sounds Good- Maybe Too Good! As cvery prospecterr wonth bis grubsiake knows, there Ls gald galoIre in thec dry, sandy crceck bedsý of Arizona, -NIevada aýnd souihcrn Califarniia, jusi waiting for somecone to pick 1: up. And as many a, frustrateci prospecter has learned, IV isn't worti the effort. nie gold dust is sa finelY diffused among te_ particles of sand and gravel that the only way ta get lb out is ibrougî the ,.ostly, iime-consurning sifting -proce-ss caiicd "Placer" mining. And that lias been uneconomicai i lmosi since bbc lush pickings of Suiters Mill. For al ibis, a mionil-old f s-m caiied United Placer Industries- 110w insisis i las the ingenuity and the whercwihai ta s'seceed where the 49ers and ail since lave f ailed. its chief and some- wîai incongruaus assets: (1) Fi- nanciai bùackýing f n mMrs C. Geraidine Freund, company pre- sident, a vivaciaus, brunette Chi- cagoan -whose rnost amrbitiaus venture ta date hias beýen span- sorship of the Winnebka Freund Pony Leaiguers; (2) a buttery; c.f high-powered New York and Chicago public-relations nmca; (3) a 1ü-fooi-long, 1-otig land dredge invented by iwo yugPhoenix, Anîz., geologisis and called "Geýraldine"' atter Mrs. Freunid, whichi is chaimed ta bc able ta proccss gold bearrrg placerË sand for 6.2 cents a cubic yard vs. tle 35- ta 55-ceni cas' of conveniionai mneihods. Lasi mnsth"Geraline-" rum- bled along a dry creek led in the Weaver placer district 60 miles nartlwesi of Phoenix, ne- sembling a monsirous barvesting machine as il scoop)ed sand ia is innards. lb wasý only a triai s-un, but even grizzled saur- daughs waiched fascinaied as tle machine gulped sand and gravel ii would lave taken th-em years ta sifi by land - a maxi- mumi of 1,500 cubic yards eveny 1twenty bours, according bu île compa ny'. Once inside "Geral- dine," île sand is processed, in a filtration sys;temn using infra- red beat, acration, and an elcc- trasiaiic separator. Drying is tIe secret of "eadn, according ta inventons Kelsey B 1 a b z, 31, and Donald Wighi, 30, who spent five yeanrs working or tle process,. Despite is apparent, dry nessý, placer sand coniains an avenage of 8 per centmas ture ilatIlochks gold dusi in; " ý drying île s and comipletely, tley expiain, the machine carn easilyv exiracitIch gold, $1,800 Worth a day frnm île Wea*.er f ield yherc, the goldssas at $1 25 a cubic \yard. The iniventas-s' stiIist!sc5 are noihing ta il ose envisioned by Mrs. Freunjd, wlo puti p sot-e of the $150,000 lb cosita obuild îlenmachine and who tîinks lb wývil le "jusi as important as bbcheapr"TIc wif c of a wei- tly Chicaga psycbiatnisi, 1Mrs. Freund las taken La goid mninrg witl fervon. SIc las leased 118,- 000 acres of Arizana land whjch' sIec daims contains "a 'billion READ ABOUT P*ESIDENT'S SPEECH IN BERLIN - With-the Bran- 4iinburg Gate -in -thb bacçground, Wes-1e4Q4god read a newspaper account of President Kennsdy'?s speech on lhe Berlin crisis. Mayor Willy Brcindt ini a stteen hiled the President's spesch and ied id thot:fic 2.? million p opl f West Berliuwould do their duty. dollars' worthi" of placer goldi. "It will be a gofld rush ail over again," bubbles Mrs. Freurid w-ith United Placer presurnahty) le-ading the rush and leasing its patented machine ta other pros- pectors. In Phoenix, however, iniig people were inclined ta be skep- tical. For one thing, there have b-een other placer-mining ma- chines that failed ta pan out the vast dlaimns made for thprm; for another, United Pae' dlaims sounded to some i ike a sourdough's daydream slicked, up for a press release. The idea of a billion dollars worth of gucid on, company land was "ridicu- lous," said one mîning expert flatly. "That's- more money thant ever was taken out of ail Ar'- zona gold mines." Week's Sew-thbrifty PRITEDPATTERN 4713 SIZES 1, 2, 3 yrs. Swift se-wing - ONE 1m-ain pat- tern part each for pop-top, bon- net, bloomers! Whip up this fun ,il, frolic set in pique, seersucker, poplin or gay ginghlam. Prirnted Pattern 4713: Toddler Siz-es 1, 2, 3 years. Size 2 Popi- top, bloomers take I ¼ yaqrds 3- inch; bonnet takes %'ý yard. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps cannot, be acceptedl, use postal note for safety) for this Pattern, Please print plainlyjý SIZE , NAIME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order ta ANNE ADAMS, Box,, 1, 123 EighiteenithSi., New Toronto, Ont. The biggest fashion show of Summi-er, 1961 - pages, pages., pages off patterns in aur new Color Catalag. H-urry, send 35#- ISSUE 321ý - 1961