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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-08-08, Page 3How Can 1? TIE FARM FRONT A Call to Christian Living Peter 41-11 HY Anne Ashley Q. lbw can I. AnaUe a MAO, letnia varnish? A, By Melting a SMall 4.410.111, 'of glue in a pint of water,. 8ce that the linoleum is clean and dry before applying. Apply with a paint brush at night and the ,surface will be dry and hard by morning. Q. 'What is a good tonic for Plants? A. The water in which beef has been washed is an excellent tonic treatment for plants, and especially for roses and geran- 1140%. Q. How can X clean a suede jacket? A. Try cleaning suede articles by going over the entire surface lightly with very fine sandpaper. Q. How can I keep the auto- mobile windshield clear while it is raining? A, If a cup of clear vinegar is poured over the Outside of the windshield, allowing it to tric- kle down the glass from top to bottom, it will prove very ef- fective in a heavy rain. Q. How can I secure more space when the laundry must be dried in the basement? A. By hanging the dresses, night clothes, and underclothing on coat hangers. They will also dry more quickly. Q. How can I keep apples solid? A. To keep apples solid, and to prevent them from rotting, pack them in a box or barrel of sawdust. Q. How can I prevent coins from breaking through the en- velope and becoming lost in the mail? A. Place them flat on a piece of paper and place adhesive tape over them and on the paper. Then fold the paper as usual and place in the envelope. Q. Row can I freshen stale bread? A. Wrap the loaf in, a wet cloth for a minute, then remove and bake in a slow oven for one- quarter to one-half hour. Q. How can I clean willow- ware? A. Scour with a strong solu- tion of.salt water, using a brush. 1SlemorY $election: Ord up the lelns. of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought Ila" to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 1;3 Pression, he fried to. cut 144 :throat .--- and was saved P.t.14 by medical skill of a farmer's wife with whom b.c was stay The .ens sclonee money _don*, aced his life; yet he surely had. no. .conscience, HIS housekeeper,. for Instance, served him faith- fully for twenty-six years, When he died he -cut her off Without a penny,. Queen Victoria decided that she could. accept the 'Vast for- tune, with certain .provisos. A. sum of .10() each to the three .executors: -NOS increased to 41,04.,.. 'The faithful house, keeper- WaS..giVen.,a- life _annui- ty — and there was an annuity;. too, for the farmer's Wile who had saved,Neild's life, Then. the Queen paid for re, pairs to North Marston church and prOvided a stained-glass window and altar screen in John Neild's Memory. Fifty years of pleasure-seek- ing on the part of her spend, thrift uncles had left the Queen a poor woman. She inherited only debts. in her own family but the Neild Bequest brought her great riches, Her son, Edward VII, later doubled and redoubled the for- tune in stock exchange deal- ings. Assuming that the hard kernel of investment still exists, it can be estimated to-day at 12,000,000. John Neild lived on borrowed gruel but his • amazing legacy can be traced as a lifeline of wealth through. Queen Mary, to the Duke of Windsor, Princess Margaret and Princess Alexandra. handling either -chopped or long. material, Since it is not possible to draw loaded wagons through the .si") the bales must be car- ried, in by hand or part way by means of an elevator., Bales must be placed tightly together -and each layer must be packed by tractor. WALKIE-TEEyEE Resembling a one-man eltctronics laboratory this French reporter uses the, latest, in television reporting equip- ment. The extra-light equipment enables operators to provide on-the-spot coverage of important news events for TV audiences. Miser Founded Royal. Millions All through the latter years of his life rich old Captain Charles. Ablett boasted of the fine antique furniture he was going to leave to the. Queen. Dutifully his secretaries corres- p o n d e d with Buckingham Palace. Sure enough, when his will was published the other .day, he left to Queen Elizabeth II the Tudor writing desk and settee that had traditionally belonged Has someone wronged you by word or deed? Do you feel, hurt? Many are nursing such hurts, By telling others the hurt grows. The infection spreads, Many are defiled, I talked with one who had thus been hurt. There is nO point of prolonged discussiOn of those responsible for inflicting, the injury. They are account- able to God. I said to my friend, "Did they hurt you as much ask the Scribes and Pharisees hurl Jesus? Were you stoned as Ste- phen?" The answer was, "No." Yet Jesus prayed on the cross, "Father, forgive them for they know what not what they do. Stephen prayed midst the bar- rage of stones that was killing him, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge," Can we rise • above the injuries done to ust By the grace of God we can. It will be better for us both in spirit and in body. It will be better for those who live with us and meet with us from day to day. Peter reminds his readers ol their former way of life when they engaged in excess of wine, revellings and banquetings. exhorts them; "But the end ol all things is. at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch un- to prayer." The daily news reminds us 01 the curse of strong drink. The accounts of quarrels, divorces murders and death on the high- way nearly Always mention that some one had been drink- ing. Yet if one raises his voice against the opening of new out- lets for the sale of intoxicantt he is accused of being intoler- ant and unrealistic; out of step. with the age. Well, some of us want to continue out of step with those who want to increase the sale of liquor. Many drink to forget their troubles but when they become sober they find that they havit increased their problems. Jesus invites the burdened to come to him and find rest. Matthew 11:- 28. This is true rest. TIT FOR TAT Jack Osterman, the comedian, was asked to appear at a fire- men's benefit performance. Be- ing a kind hearted guy, Jack agreed. On the night of the show the. Fire Chief called Jack aside. "I'll have to audition you before you go on." "Oh, yeah," replied. Oster- man, "wait until I come back." "Where you goin?" asked the Chief. "Over here in the corner to start a fire. I wanna see how good YOU are." Ready Made Sitter For Your Plants It is no longer necessary to find a "sitter" for your plants when you go away for a holiday. All you need is a polythene bag. This will keep the plant suffi- ciently moist for as long as two weeks. Water the plant thoroughly, then slip the pot into the poly- thene bag, tying the top of it around the stem of the plant, This leaves the flowers and leaves free to breathe while the polythene bag holds moisture in the soil. For apartment dwellers who garden in flower pots, remember that indoor plants need light, warmth, moisture and food just the same as plants out-of-doors. Potted flowers will use up the food supply in the little bit of earth in the pot very quickly. Therefore, a good plant nutrient should be added for extra nour- ishment. In this fertilizer there is nitrogen for good foliage, phosphoric acid and potash for well-developed flowers, strong stems and healthy roots, and sev- eral other elements necessary for plant growth. When you are adding fertilizer don't overdo it. Too much is as bad as too little. Use fertilizer sparingly, strictly according to the directions on the package. Careful watering is important if you are going to have healthy plants. To much water will rot the roots .of a plant and not enough may check the growth or seriously injure it. The best way to tell if a plant needs water is by feeling the soil peri- odically. If it crumbles when squeezed between two fingers, it needs water. Don't wait until the plant withers — then it may be too late. Avoid watering plants in drib- lets. The ,water should soak the pot completely and no more should be given until the soil is almost dry again. An indoor garden can give just as much pleasure as one out-of- doors. In fact, it is more inter- esting since the growing things can be watched more closely. But don't trust your plants to luck. Constant care is required for a successful garden, whether it be in re field or under an ap- artment roof. * * * , The Marketing Services notes .hat when expofts go down the luality of the home slaughter foes up but for the first five nonths of this year, exports were down only 6,300 head while the number of "choice" And "good" cattle slaughtered ,ncreased by over' 58,000 head. Che grading figures indicate that Canadian farmers are pro- hieing more top quality beef and that Canadian consumers are in- t.reasing their demands so that nost of it is needed at home, • * * Silo filling operations are de- ' pendent on methods and equip- ment used in harvesting and hauling, says D. J. Cooper, Cen- tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa. Chopped silage can be handled by wagon, truck or by blower. Uncut silage is generally hauled And stored with a buck rake. * ^ When filling a horizontal silo with cropped silage from a flat bottom wagon the material may be hand forked out of the wagon or else drawn off by a variety of unloaders. These unloaders may be of the* false 'erid gate :ype, canvas bottom, self-unload. Mg wagon or rope and board drag design. Of time, the rope and board drag is considered to De one of the most satisfactory. It consists of three two-by:sixes or two-by-eights placed on edge to divide the load into, three equal, • Sections. Lo o se rope ' through , the boards allows the Load to be pulled off in separate sections., Unloading, by this tneans can readily be done in two or three minutes. Chopped silage may be spread by hand . or with less labor, by means of, a board bolted to the front of the tractor. When handling long' silage with the use of a buck rake the tractor is driven through the silo an 1 the load dropped in the desired location. Hand spreading of the long grass is necessary in order to reduce the number of air pockets. * * Storing baled, silage means more hand labor than when MATCHMAKER — Take' 50,000 matches, several tubes of glue, 700 hours and a young ambi- tious man with unlimited gobs of patience. The result is an eye-full Eiffel. Jules Pardon, a 24-year-old radio technician from Louvain, Belguim, made the elaborate model of Paris, France's, famed landmark. The baby Eiffel Tower has an elec- tric motor running up the shaft and a tiny radio set mounted on top. New Chemical • Chases Dirt Anyone who 'has ever made a trip to the attic knows that a lot of dust, dirt and grime can accumulate in even the best managed home. Something that would make furniture. and fabrics dirt-re- sistant has long been the dream of housewives, and a new pro- duct just announced may go a long way to making that dream come true. The new chemical can be al>, plied to 1,10, carpets, fabrics, Painted walls and other sur- faces to keep them dirt . free: Not yet available in small packages for individual con-, summer Use, it is currently being tested on a commercial scale by rug manufacturers; The chemical, colloidal Silica, works as a soil retardant. frere's the idea behind it, All surfaces possess, in varying degrees, small pits and crevices in which dirt can lodges These soil" re- i)ter sites, as they are called, have defeated normal cleaning practices to date,' The dirt got in them and stayed there. Plug- ging the crevices with the chemical means that dirt litera14, iy has no place to go. Particles of the new chemical are so minute that it IA/add re-; 'quire about 606,000,006 -of them to Coverlhe heed Of a- pin. They are Smaller than even the Snrialleat' grain Of dirt, so that A' • treated • "surface is given an in= • visible coat that cannot be Pene- tratect by even the tiniest Mete, Dirt remains on the treated Stir.; laCe and 'Ceti be removed With light vadtititiliiie stiongirird, Such s itiple eleditaing; is does not remove any Of the chemical tell retardarit dirt-chasing 'quality retrialtia unimpaired.- Singing Bamboos On our right there was a suc- cession of neat cottages amongst cocoanut trees, forming the vil- lage of Kandang. On earing one of these, our ears were saluted by the most melodious sounds, some soft and liquid, like the notes of a flute, and others full like the tones of an organ. These sounds were sometimes interrupted or even single, but presently, they would swell into a grand burst of mingled mel- ody. I can hardly express the feelings of astonishment with which I paused to listen to and look for the source of music so wild and ravishing in such a spot. It seemed to proceed from a grove of trees at a little distance, but I could see neither musician nor instrument, and the sounds varied so much in their strength, and their origin seemed now at one place, and now at another, as if they sometimes swelled from amidst the dark foliage, or hovered faint and fitful around it. On drawing nearer to the grove of trees, my companions (Malays) pointed out a slender bamboo which rose above the branches of the trees, and from which they said the music proceeded, and when the notes -had died away in the distance, our ears were suddenly penetrated by a crash of grand and thrilling tones which seemed to grow out of the air that surrounded us, in- stead of pursuing us. A brisk breeze which soon followed, agitating the dark and heavy leaves of the fronds of the gomuti palms, explained the mystery, while it prolonged, the powerful swell. As we' went on our way, the sounds decreased in strength, and gradually be- came faint, but it was not until we left 'the bamboo of the winds' far behind us, and long hidden by intervening trees and cottages, that we ceased to hear it. The instrument which pro- duced these fine effects was a bamboo cane, rough from the jungle, thirty or forty feet long, perforated with holes and stuck in the ground. This is certain- ly a very simple contrivance, but One which would not have occurred to any people who had not a natural taste for music.— From "Bamboo, Lotus and Palm; An Anthology of the Far East, South East Asia and the Pacific," Compiled by E. D. Edwards. to Queen Elizabeth I. Yet the bequest had to be declined. For nearly a century members of the royal family have in- flexibly observed the rule that ' they must not accept major gifts from people personally un- known to them. Behind this rul- ing lies one of the strangest stories of the royal annals. Poor Queen Victoria blushed for years at the rumour that she was indebted for the bulk of her personal forttme to an ec- ceritric Miser. But this was nothing less than the truth. In the late summer of 1852 an old lawyer " named John Camden -Neild was found dead on a squalid straw bed in a gar- ret in Chelsea, Though he own- ' ed the whole house, he had used one of the smallest rooms to save heating, and starvation had hastened his end, He ,had no friends or relatives. HIS affection'has 'been lavished' only on a mangy black cat Whose Milk he had watered to help save Mtn farthings, But hi the drawer of his desk was found a will, scrawled on half a sheet of grubby paper; begging the Queen's acceptance of his worldly goods for her 801e rise arid benefit, Scarcely a week pastes btit eccentric Cranks will money ,to royalty and, usually, these be-, quests have to be held null and void, With legal eattiteneSS, however; old Neild had named the Deeper of Her MajestYis Purse as One Of HIS three' executors,, no doubt aS Prd-, daiition to eristire that his lag wishes reached royal attention'. Arid 33-year-old 9iiden, ViCtor.•. gasped *hen, she tear(' that LUCKY TUCKIE—A family pet missing since •1950 returned horn* as mysteriously as he had disappeared. The dog, Tuckie, belongs to Mrk and As. Tony Anslinger. They were sitting on the porch recently when the dog came trotting up the street. He ran to them when called. They tried to convince themselves it isn't ti,/ same dog that ran away six years ago, but all evidence points to it as being the very same Tuckle. a total stranger had left- her a cool half a Million pounds. It was a staggering sum for those days. Representing nearly twenty times the proposed pur- chase price of Balmoral, it meant more hard cash than the Queen could expect to save from her privy purse in fifty years. But B could she accept the money? Would she be depriving • legatees who might stand in greater need'?" The Queen's husband, the Prince Consort,, quietly organ- ized an army of special investi- gators. Their first report, now safely stowed in the royal ar- chives at Windsor, is an aston- ishing document. John Neild was so mean, for instance, that he refused to al- low his housekeeper to brush his clothes for fear any brush- ing, would wear out the fabric. He always wore the same patch- ed blue suit and preferred to have hOles in his socks rather than spend money on darning wool. His father had left huge es- tates around London. When Neild went travelling to collect the rents, he either hitch-hiked ' or fought for the cheapest out- side seat on a coach. One terribly wet day travel- lers took such pity on- the poor, drenched old man that they whipped round for money to buy him brandy and hot water. They little knew the object of their compassion could have bought up the coachload. Neild carried his overnight necessities in a brown paper parcel tied with string. Rather than stay at an inn, or risk having to return hospitality, he sought shelter among the poor- est of his tenants, taking the rent and then cadging a bowl of gruel for his supper. Then he would go to bed in order that the housewife could wash his clothes. On one occasion he wished to call at a cottage that lay across a field turned into a quagmire by heavy rain, A local woods- man offered to carry him across on his back for sixpence. "I'll pay you threepence and no more," Neild stormed. The wily local accepted, carried him half-way across the field and then deposited him, spluttering, in the mud. Among his tenants was the rector of North Marston, Buck- inghamshire. Neild was under agreement to keep the church in repair but when the roof needed new lead to keep out the rain t he could not bring hint- self to spend the money. Instead, he used strips of calico painted black — and sat on the roof of the church all day to make sure the workmen did net slack, What was behind his pinch- penny Mania? When the in- vestigators delved deeper, they discovered that Neild never re- garded his money as his own. He firmly believed that it be- longed by right to Queen Vic- toria. His father; Jetties Neild, had been court silversmith to the Queen's uncle, George IV, and had built up St fortune by gross- ly overcharging that playboy grnaetincae,th for all his extrava= • At one time the sill ersinith'S bill had soared to 4130,000. When James died, he left 4250,000 — and his son deter- Mined to: double jt fOr the Queen's Sake. That was why he slept On bare boards rather than buy si new mattress and depriVed him self of every comfort: During it stock exchange de•4 • MALAYA'S: /1.3Al.iiitYfilt Striga4 Pore:Singer Salmah (Salatna) Is1 mail is. called the "Marilyn Mon- roe"' of Malayd .filinS. to` her it flance,..1$C6Oish- barn Kenneth lituchanin-Davies, Who pidni `adept the Islamic religion, SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME-* B. decided to straighten, his Car out while 6aCtc, p rocess u • -64--6 • f, • • ta ••••,, ,g,ont of the garage. I he p, he i ruined o • wn, wo gar s and three — .er his tat' onto the, lawn, lost control while frytfiti to regain the driveway arid hit hie awn: garage,, after which the tar careened neighbor's garage, and. pinitect,a ;modelp Eedan, si 5. ill IttrOlaY Warren, 1341,- A remarkable Improvement as taken place in the over-all uality of the cattle slaughtered or beef in Canada during the ast five years, states the Mar- Oting Service, Department of griculture, Ottawa, * ** Since the national carcass trades were established in 1946 '11 the inspected slaughter has leen carcass graded. In 1950, of total kill of 1,300,000 cattle, .6.7 per cent reached the two ,op grades--6 per cent choice, 10,7 per cent good; the balance were graded, as commercial or Alter grades. In 1955, of a total till of 1,700,000 cattle, 35,4 per tent were in the two top grades -18 per cent choice, 17.4 per ient good. * a, * The percentage reaching the :op grades is still increasing. For ;he first five months of 1956, with a total kill of 777,000, there were 42,2 per cent in the two ,op e,srades-21.9 choice, 20,3 food, as compared with 712,000 tilled, grading 18.8 choice and :8.9 good, in the first five months A 1955, ,740.1%,"?:"•4-.