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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-03-07, Page 7111E111/M FRONT JokueQusseit 10. Arabiaa • Seaithrt .Saucy 16, ttearoves. thciis titre i9. tlehowii 20. DeSettets. 21. Encourage 21. Toy • • 24. Spheres 26, Beoad Smile 2S. Wax 85. Boa •of to V E. 81. Uniform 22. ljeratiristi.a- tiVe prnno tn 26, Blissful. 118. [Tires 10..bae for transmitting fordo 41. Land measure 42. ,knit 44. Climbing' plant 40. wiliOring pinto 47 Lower litlib 4$ Old note to. e'NeaVate. I 2 3 ''''.f.,,n '::"1A .,....,:. 9 5 a 7 , :.,•'',.?v. • 8 9 io it 12 , % iff"; i , 15 16 ' :"?.'"'". s 17 ..x• •••• ';:::..6.: :;::";;;;,, ••::5;;,,! ::i:?•;;', :',:.‘:;.: ,4, kr I , 20 2, 22 '....,,,::,,,: 23 2# ::::•:*.Z., .1,...."...,..,Y, 20 • 29 . . 25 :::•::::,,::: 2p • ,...-1 k :: i 1..V.,. 27 30 it ,K 4 ",..:•••:•. .$5: 74...Ns 32 33 34 `. },.h 4%;:,, .S.'.VilS' as 39 ,:: rte, ::......z.;;;.: *':";,:;39 .>.d.w.:.. 39 e. g:;,,,,, .:7::....,.., 40 akiA,4'.. ",:c1 41- 42 s'f 40 , 4 ' : 1,0 45" :"::lKii :,6 1114: - ' 47 IA, 0 50 •:•i:K.::, 27 - , 0 s. 53 "' 5# . A.3.75/ m, 1-22 . • itiiatter .e sec/here tilt this' page, Rein' of lifesaying equipment for use at sea, Both items 10/1 S(110 OL ESSON At; .Barelo.yr Warren, **,:4*- jestss Interprets History. Luke 21:5-38 IvIeruarY • Selection:. ...Woven and earth shall pas Away; but PT 'Wards. Shall not pass, away. Luke 4 All Work Makes Jack a Dim Bulb' GREEN THUMB 3,0„„do,5,4a1,- Seen Be Iline All things must end sotnes time, even this, in many parts of Canada, t h e coldest winter in three-quarters of a century. Very Shortly now we can expect to limber up muscles and get out into the sunshine and the\ gar- den, But before we take up the rake, there is a pleasant inter- lude before the fire with a good seed catalogue and perhaps a pencil and a sheet or two of paper. Planning a garden, of course, is not absolutely necessary. Some lucky people, with a particular- ly green thumb, perhaps can get along without any planning at all, But for the average persons, some planning ahead is recom- mended by the experts and this preliminary planning can be a very pleasant way of putting in the time. It will also, repay many times in a much better garden, more beautiful, and more use- ful and one that requires much less effort. Keep It Simple Only an expert should attempt a formal garden and most of the experts are too wise to try. Stiff rows and square beds, under very rare conditions, may make an impressive show but if carried out in the small home garden, at best, they look awkward and out of place. It is far better to have the garden lay-out simple and informal with clumps rather than straight rows, a n d wavy edged beds with lots of variety. For the centre and fore- ground nothing is better than a good lawn. On city lots this may only be a few square yards. The grass however sets off the whole layout and it 'should lead up to the flower garden with possibly shrubs or trees or a vine-covered trellis or .f ence in the back- , ground, or as a division between say a kitchen garden plot at the rear, Shrubs and flower borders may be used to line driveways and fences. Against the house tiself, but at least a foot or so in front, one can plant groups of shrubs or taller flowers, A winding path, disapearing behind shrubbery or trees, will add attraction. In the flower garden or border the informal or clump planting is continued. Rather than setting out in rigid rows, one should plant groups of various flowers with the little things like alys- sum, dwarf nasturtiums, lobelias and so "n, in front, taller zin- nias, petunias, asters towards the centre and really tall flowers such as cosmos, hollyhocks, mari- golds and delphiniums at the rear, Tough Ones First Most conveniently growing things in Canada divide them, selves into three main groups. There are the hardy types that cannot be planted too early, pro- vided of course, the ion is ready and fit to work. These are not afraid of frost. Next come the biggest group of all, the semi- hardy. 'They will stand a little frost but they do not like it and it is best not to sow or set out until we are almost certain that spring has really arrived. In the third category are the softies, plants, seeds, roots or bulbs that will not stand frost at all. Noth- ing is gained by putting these things in the grOund until the soil is really warm and summer is just around the cerner. At this season, of course, we need concern ourselves only with the first and extremely hardy group of plantings, In the wann- er parts of Canada we can plant these before the ,end of March, Of course we must wait Until the frost is out and the mud has dried up reasonably. It never does to start Working soil in any case while it is still soggy and liable to pack down tight. CROSSWORD PUZZLE PUZZLE ACROSS ,1. Faucet Location S. Snare 1'8. Self. 13. Seed aoverfag 14. In teroret 15, Califilete obstrtietlim 17. AlwaSins 18. Grade 19, Weal: 410, Past 28. Burdens 2.5.'Chatheterit, 28. Slier abe 27. Frozen water so. Jabt.W 51111 12d Ithhroved'ith health At Pen 35. Contends 37,..Brave man 38. Inclination. 40:Ore deposits . 41..Orayish white 43, Preteditig` • higntite 45... t'lece Of Mattel 45. Whined 50Dwarf 51. LiltiOia 52. BibliettlinirteSt 53. Tin Itabf work 5 I, 11tritile'geritiO 55. Silence tottlbW 170W §i3A,ead rOV„.tild 0. 'blue take of Mystery .KeepS Its Secrets Lake Fundudzl is the Meld's. Most mysterious lake, Yon can get to it at some risk, you can. examine its water, -but yon can't remove any of the water to have it .analy.aed 'Y'ett cannot plumb the ialcc's depth, men who have ventured. out .on te. the laice'S surface in boats. have vanished, never .to be seen again. The lake lies in the • heart of the mOuntainous Western Transvaal where • few white. men venture .because of 20-foot pythons, 116ns, giant-sized scorpions and a thousand other forms of death, When the eminent Professor Harry Burnside learned, that. the lake had a reputation for. refusing to give up any of its water for analysis, he set out with two essietants to disprove the theory. 'They had to find their ow.n. way through the denSe bush- land to the lake because no na- tives would accompany them for fear of reprisal from the. evil spirit of 'the lake. ,13.0 r n s i d e filled porcelain, glass, bakelite and rubber •bot- ties with water, carefully re.. placed., the stoppers and set out for - home to analyse the water. THE SAME NIGHT, MILES AWAY FROM THE , LAKE, ALL THE BOTTLES BURST! They returned and filled more bottles, but on the way home the water mysteriously evapor- ated from the careful stopper- ed bottles. There was no ex- planation for it. Once more they returned. This time Burnside tested the water for poisons but .could find no impurity so he drank some, again filled some bottles and drove back home. By the time he reached Pretoria the bottles were bone dry. Two days later Blirnside went sick from a mysterious stomach ailment.. No doctor could help because they couldn't find out what was causing his ill- ness. He died in agony, but at 'the autopsy no unnatural 'cause of death could be . found. There was nothing .w rong with his stomach at all despite the The biggest and in many ways the most important crop in the world is grass, About two-thirds of the world's farmland is under grass, and the roots of this massive crop are, literally the grass roots of the world's main food supply and a major means for overcoming its hunger. • * * According to Lord Boyd-Orr, first director general of the Unit- ed Nations Food and Agricultur- al Organization, it would take $12,000,000,000 to relieve hunger in the, world, In •nonfinancial terms this means there is no real international food surplus des- pite reports from ,time to time' of grain "surpluses" in some .s countries, * * "The future depends," said Lord Boyd-Orr, "upon whether the rulers of the world can have • sufficient sense to get together to apply great scientific powers to relieve hunger," Apart from the purely politi- cal field, these powers are al- ready being applied to the pro- duction problem, and possibly nowhere more interestingly or Serious electrical engineers ' eornetimee get :off: the...elec- tronic beam and -.come• up With Creations which illum- inate the lighter 'side` of the exacting busineSsl of re-' search, One would-be ems- tourier recently „fashioned the glowing example Of mil- linery, at left. TinY ; belbs adorn the spring ,..ptrave, Snappy whipcord trim around model's neck leads from "hat to coneealed,,, batteriese At right, a wet knucjele.,,a4,4kr- fee-gid-doughmet time , May. have„ inspired this 'dunk lights" Tiny, 1.3svelt, .06- , =Peke bulb, held bY!, Model, has an adhesive tape-like strilS around its ',basee.When strip - is dipped, :waters bulb glews.,fer ,ere, leeter ,prsmere, A laboratory; , curiosity at present, buili'ilw:firfd seri- ous application seine ;'day more hopefully than in. Australia, a continent with a definitely large yet not fully developed food potential. * One of the most notable ad- vances on the world grassland front was made recently by a young university student work- ing in Australia. Actually, Ray Marquez hails from the Philip- pines and went to Australia on a United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization scholarship under the Colombo Plan. * In association :with the dean. of the faculty of agriculture in the University.Of Sydney and an associate professor, Mr. Martinez became deeply interested in the problem of fs a two-million-acre wasteland in Midwest N e w South Wales, the Pilliga Scrub country, where a, handful of tough battlers defied the wilder- ness and the soil deficiencies which were its chief weapons. • * With the cooperation of some Of these pioneers, Mr. Marquez went to work on the problem. He faced a light, highly acid soil, acutely deficient in nitrogen and phosphate and comprising some- times 89 per cent sand. Some people called it "desert," * * Working steadily, Mr. Marquez devised a grass development technique which produced what the locals termed "startling" re- sults, He had achieved what was thought to be impossible, that is, to induce legtiminetts grasses to grow in this highly inhospitable soil environment, But grow they did, to the keen delight of his university. • * The grateful farmers took round the hat and presented Mr. Marquez With a sliver tray arid a cash gift as a sigh of their warns apPreCiation. As somebody Said, the Colombo was Work-- ing in reverse for AUStralia., But the ,once almost unbeatable -Pile- ' lige Sortib country had met its match in the bright-faded young For the everld's hitritty, they are two ' dens' of newly prOdtiative:land'' added :to the credit Side. Even' more to •the Point, the MarqueZ technique hag. breached the defenses of Wastelsinda hi Other `parf4 of the *arid, they, vanished, never again to be seen. When Patrick McMurty, a young Irishman, joined the pOlibe force in the district and learned about the lake, he de- « tided to photograph it and to send some pictures home. He was accompanied by a youth, and neither was ever seen again after• they set out to walk to the lake sevenemiles from where they were , farced to park their car, . Another odd thing is that Lake , Fundudzi is fed by the Mutali and, other rivers at • the rate of 3,000,000 gallons of wat- er an hour, but there is no eis- ible outlet to the lake. The lake rises and falls with tides just like ,the ocean, but no One hag ever been able • to account for this, 'Neither do we know.where the overflow of water goes. Last year two adventurous men-, Ronald Gregory and Tom- my Brown - Hamilton, went shooting in the lake area. It was sticky hot and Gregory de- cided against the advice of Ham- ilton - Brown to have a quick dip. Gregory was swimming in a shallow part of the lake, no more than ten feet from the shore when he gave a shout. Hamil- ton - Brown saw him struggling as if in the grip of some great underwater creature and has- tily threw a rope to him. Gregory gripped the rope and Hamilton - Brown began to drag him out, but some force was holding Gregory back as if he were glued 'to a rock in the water, Gradually Hamilton - Brown found himself being drawn into the water. He raced with the end of the rope and tied it to a tree, then he had to stand by and see how his friend was dragged from the rope and taken under water. Gregory has not been seen since. Once a ,farmer; Gerhardus de Bruin, with two companions, ventured on the lake and drop- ped a 2,000-ft. plumb line. It went rgiht down without toucn- ing bottom, but while they were hauling the rope in something caught it and began to, drag it downwards although all the men hung on to the rope. They swiftly sheared through the rope with a knife and began to row for the shore.. Fifteen feet from the shore something ,grabbed the boat and jerked it -under the water. De Bruin and' his' companions began to swim for their lives. De Bruin reached the muddy shore exhausted and dragged , himself out, 'then turned to look for his companions. They had vanished! Within a few feet of the shore something had caught them and dragged them under water! They have not been seen since, The world's most mysterious lake keeps its grim secrets locked somewhere in the great' depths where the superstitious natives say a gigantic monster has his lair. Can this be true? WEATHER, PROPHETS Seine French peasants claim bib& able to foretell the Weather for the next heeled months by means of a centuries-old Christ., mss cos Early oh ChristiriaS Day they put twelve onions, representing: the. months, in a row and then. „ plabe'd dab of Of ealt On . each. Yf by:EpiphAiiy.the..,talt on any onion- has !Melted, the 'peasants' say the :month „ -represented by that 'onion Will be Very Wet. If the Salt Ori:the twelfth onion is' dry at Epiphany, it means that the' December 'will be dry and that the 'still Will shine brightly on dliklatiried Electric's Nela Park. Some Folks Take Love Seriously ! Amazing what sacrifices folk will make when. they are madly in love-like the twenty-four- year-old Londoner who fell, in love at sight with a beautiful girl who chanced to Gall at the insurance' offide 'e; *here he worked, He was wondering , how he could get to meet her socially when he was, bitterly disap- pointed to hear she had married a 'wealthy landowner thirty years her senior. Three weeks later he sacked himself from his job and "got a post as butler in his rival's country house. He felt he must be near ,the girl he still loved, although she knew nothing of his infatuation. The butler served his master loyally for nearly twenty years. Then the husband died from pneumonia,. ' After the funeral the butler went straight to the widow and ,told her that he had always se- cretly loved her," "I took the job to be near you," he pleaded. "I resisted al- ways the temptation, to try to make you forget your marriage vows. Now - will you marry me?" Touched by his, words, she could only murmur, "Yes," as he took her in his arms and kissed her trembling lips for the first time. In the United States an ardent young lover captured the head- lines some years ago by,his de- termination to do anything to win a sloe-eyed girl's love. She was staying with her par- ents at a fashionable hotel and had twice'refused to marry him. Early one morning he stole into 'the hotel unobserved by the sleepy commissionaire and chained himself to a radiator in the vestibule, where he vowed he would remain until the girl consented to meter hip: She thawed when she saw '`this' proof of his 16ve-but only after he had been there six hours.,During that time the staff had tried vainly to.free him and to find the key to his chains which he had flung through a window into the street. The couple duly married. And they spent the first day and night of their honeynidOn at that same hotel. Shortly before D-Day in Eu- rope, a flight lieutenant from New Zealand flew to an English airfield after a loto-buating ex- pedition •over France. Awaiting him, 'with landing instructions for the squadron, Was the pretty W.A.A.F. Officer with whom he was in love. As he was coming in he proposed to her' in mid-air over the inter- Comm, Everybody in the squadron heard the proposal. The W.A.A.V. felt very embarrassed and rather angry about it. "Conic in and land at ()nee," sh‘e'Ncor,ieddar ling, I won't," he re- torted. "I won't On* in until you say you'll marry nib?' The impulsive anti-Ian's .C.O. ordered him to land, "I've got five gallons left ri()Wi" was his reply, as his aircraft buzzed over" the tattled. Then, suddenly, draniatidelly, the gave her answer *Melt made the airmail whoop With "Of detiree t ll Mar* you," she Said, "No* do as YoU're told and come' ,dowry;" The, pair Were Martied ea feW weeks later. 'it wee yet another triumph for 16Vd. Living in a lovely, luizufiOhS house in tinkle 'vas a beauty Who scerned the many Who Wanted to 'Marry here One clay a good-looking matt Who had ieeti her In he ti cat., riage and fallen in love at first sight, called and proposed, She merely mocked hint, say- ing : "I must marry someone rich, for I have expensive tastes. You are not rich?" "NO, I brie only ten thot4and francs," lie replied, 'and I've brought it today to jay at your feet, for I adore you," She laughed, 'Pm sorry, but It would, not support me for a month," she said, The man took the thick wad Of notes frond his pocket, walked over to the Are and tossed them into the flames, So impressed was the woman by his devotion that she married him the fol- lowing week. They were raptur- ously happy together, One girl who gambled for her happiness was only seventeen, deeply in love-and a cripple. Her left leg, inches shorter than her right, needed a built-up shoe-a result of poliomyelitis when she was a baby, She could not go dancing, cycling or walking with her boy friend, a twenty-year-old sol- dier, so she decided that she must do something about it. While he was away, she per- suaded doctors 'to amputate her crippled leg six inches below the knee and fit an artificial leg, "I wanted to show my boy friend that I love him so much that I would do anything to win his love," he said. "I wanted to prove to him that when he came back I would be able to do the things he always wanted me to do, Now I can walk miles, dance, _ride a bicycle and do anything that other girls do." When the girl knew that the operations was successful, she wrote to him from her Hamp- shire home, telling him what she had done. Back' came his answer in an expressed letter. A diamond en- gagement ring slipped :611t of the envelope into her palm. "Bless you, darling," his letter ran, "let's marry as soon as I get home." Once more love had won. - But is there any sacrifice 'a woman won't make to please the man she loves? Take the case of the 190- pound American wife whose hus- band sued for divorce because he said she ate too much and was too heavy. He promised to take her back only if she slimmed and knocked off about fifty pounds. What did the wife do? She at once started to slim, gave up many of the tasty but fattening foods she enjoyed, in an effort to save her marriage and pre- serve her husband's love, Hungry Hotel Amid a blaze of publicity, a Government-owned hotel was opened recently on the Gulf of Siam. All the rooms were pala- tial, and the amenities left nothing to be desired. The hotel staff was courteous and con- siderate, and the charges were moderate. The new, palm-lined roads t that led to the hotel 'were a motorist's delight; there were excellent facilities for bathing and sporting activities. The wide beach and a well-equipped • playground ensured a good holiday for children. There was even a well-equipped health centre close by. There was just one snag, however, and it soon had the guests departing, and writing angry letters to the Press. The hotel provided no food- and the nearest town was nine- teen miles away, and that's quite a distance to travel for a meal, they all agreed. The explanation is that the , Government, finding itself un-, able to offer meals at 'a price that would permit a reasonable Margin of profit, decided to of- fer accommodation only - but did ,not make this clear in its brochures, Our lesson is from one Of the most difficult and PerPlestint portions of all of Christ's re- corded teaching, I think God. meant it to be tharivey, If we knew in minute detail God's plan fOr the 'future, we would; know too much. Some cOnfident interpreters are very dogmatic about their understanding of it all. But if one follows their writings over a period Of years, he finds that they have to amend frequently in order tar keep in line with current events. During the later days of the war I was returning a friend's book. With great enthusiasm he showed me a new 'book by the same author, just off the press, I ventured. "Oh," I said, "I sup pose that in this rieW book Japan is not one of the, ten lost tribes." "No," he replied. In the book I was returning, Japan. was so identified. Why the change? The first book was written before the war when. Japan was an ally of Britain. The second was written when. Japan waS fighting Britain. Hence Japan was discontinued. In the lesson Jesus' predicts - the fall of Jerusalem. That took place in! 70 A.D. The Jews made their last stubborn stand, in the temple, The Roman general set fire to it. The Romans dug up the foundation stones to pro- cure the gold that had melted. and run down, Not ,one stone was left upon another, even as Jesus had' said. Verse 24 predicts the follow,- ing scattering, of, the jeWs throughout the world. "Jeru- salem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles till the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled." The Gen- tiles have recovered part of Jerusalem. That is significant. Great events are in the near fu- ture. Let us take heed that we are not bowed down with dissi- pation, drunkeness and cares of ,this life. The last can be disas- trous to spiritual preparedness as the first and the second. Jesuit. Christ is coming again with Hia holy, angels. Let us 'be ready. • 4. Cold dish 5, Metal G. Please 7, Antlered animal G. Walk 9. went bark cramps from which, he had suf- fered, Jacobus van Blerk, 29, a pow- erfully - built farther, 'arid his brother, Hendrick, 27, 'decided to challenge the lake.- Hendrik, took a rowboat, and while his brother sswam in the lake, be rowed, next to Jacobus. Their younger biother; wat'c'h- ing from the shores, suddenly saw the boat 'plucked -under the, water. Simultaneously the swim- mer vanished. There wasn't even a ripple on the water. It appeared to the youth that a giant's hand had reached up from the depth and simply plucked the boat and the two men under, For hundreds of years Bantu natives met on the shores of the lake annually to- hold their appeasement dance for the 'spir- it which they believe dwelt in the lake. Three young girls were forced to wade into the lake and to stand neck deep until some unseen force whipped them away under water where . . `One advantage of long engage- ments is shorter srnarriagesr Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking tit a 3 dWeLL 911S dVI O 0 9 S 9ii‘O 213 5 S 9a1 0 9• 3 af N 7 a 3 a A 7 al '7 3 0 W S 3 H 13 3 Al 3 0 ,a/ S a N A U '9 3 N 7 NV O N 9 d 1 S N CZ .r: a/ /V a S '7 0 V 0 2 21 A a d 1 A N V V e 9 17 0 S a V a V , WAR WARMER This RC-12j` isn't ecs, big for • it hanga. The building.:1 1s specially designed Id house the huge, four..''s engine radar search pldhei in this manner. 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