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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-10-03, Page 3'tfesSies elseW lee& on this page NDAY SCHOOL LESSON Et? REV If tM .Rc.leAY WA.1)M1'4 ELA,, The Great invitation neV040011 '2211^,f,c $4, 0-31 sus in his revelation to joint says, "And let him that is athirst come. And whoseevtv will, let him take the water of life,free.-, ly." A little boy was asked who was meant by 'whosoever'. Fie re- plied, "That meants you and me and everybody else." The .greatest invitation yoil cvill ever receive is to come t(') Jesus Christ and and 04 W41.4 will you with this invitation? Do not Set it aside but bow your heart and -come to Jesus .now. Memory Selection "Kite Spirit and the bride say, Conic, And let him that, heareth say, Come, Anti let him that athirst, come,. And whosoever will, let Mei take the water of 'life freely, Revel- glen •22;17 thunderstorm. Lightning AM!, ered. Martha was unhurt 'but .her husband was killed. The tragedy of losing by the same means the two 'men, she had. loved shocked Martha so se- 'may #1-it for weeks she hove erect between We and death. A aorman s-weiallst was called in. and under his skill she recovered. Ire looked after her so well that When he proposed to her, she ac- cented him, Only then did she discover that Mataux bad left her his entire fortune: 000,000. With her new 'husband. Ma- dame Matilda, as she now was,. went to 'Berlin. War clouds were gathering and the Nazis were gaining strength in Germany, Martha did not like them or their ,metbods. When she disco- vered her husband was one, She decided to leave him, and ran away, He followed her. Near the French frontier his car was struck by lightning, lie was killed, She stayed in France. Then corn' to England with her fortune and returned to Sofia after the war. Still attractive and only thirty, she said she MIS scared of marriage. Who wouldn't be, after losing three husbands in thunder- storms? - One hopes her fourth marriage will be as happy as the first two -without any tragic ending,. HE HAS TOO MUCH MONEY - G, E. P. Alsem, of Amsterdam, Holland, has monetary trouble! - an abundance of money of all different kinds. Alsern, an airlines flight engineer, some- times has to carry 25 varieties of money from all over the world, The Dutchman, whose globe-trotting has ,extended over 27 years and 27,000 flying hours, often finds making'change difficult. T~IEFA~M FRONT Spepjal. Willows Grown For Bats • One of East Anglia's "cricket bat nurseries" is • growing at. least 30,000 willow trees this year, Cricket bat willows are fast-growing trees and as many as 400 blades have sometimes been cut from a fully-developed specimen. Bat willows are sensitive trees, They must be planted with the greatest care, lest the, bark be bruised or torn, So. de, licate are they that even foreign bodies in the soil will ..stato, them, giving them that queer, reddish-brown mark which all cricketers know and sometimes attribute to knot • The great W, G. Grace would. have his bats made only from willow grown in a Hampshire Village. He well knew that the average cricket willow, takes sixteen to twenty years to grow to the right size for cutting- about eighteen inches diameter. From one of six willow cut- tings sent from. England to Aus- tralia fifty-one years ago by Archie Maclaren, the English • Test captain, there grew the big- gest willow plantation of its kind in .Australia. From these cuttings grew a cricket bat in- dustry. which • produces many - thousands of bat every year. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking. It is said that, the invitation to. Come is given by God some nine hundred times in the Bible, Man is a free moral agent,. God can- not coerce him to surrender. He cannot and will not take from him his right to make his own moral choices, God will have no conscripts. But God can and does entreat, Since the tail of . Adam and Eve God has been calling man to come to him. He has called through the law and the voice of the prophets. His greatest call - the one which gives val. idity to all others - came through His Son Jesus Christ. God, come in, the flesh, is a tangible manifestation that God is really calling man. From the lips of Jesus Christ came the great invitation which is still sounding out through the world. "Come unto me, all • ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30. The Holy Spirit is here to press upon men the urgency of God's call. He speaks through the written word, the Bible. He appeals to the heart and con- science of the individual. He convinces the world of sin, right- eousness and judgment. The Church of Jesus Christ, His bride, joins in presenting the call. .7e- SV:3 SN3I 3S ig M 1 n N I 3d0 -1SV jj N I 11 - d YIN! N ,gNi --131\1, 0 S.1 NN I 1 WV ci V Irain ' 0 I ti 4 if2 silv N -k,...wiv 1:)....gsm Ike' -a cs ',:r Nvaaa 01c13 13 0 riirl 32:iV1-1 sis4 71 V31 =.0__ vii .s. 1 3 movement of these elements within plant and animal tissues easily followed. Instruiffents to measure these movements have been adapted from the familiar Geiger count- er and are sb sensitive that the amount of carbon given off in an animal's breath can be detected and measured. Shipped, Horses, Pianos :By Mali "Three cheers .for penny post- age and Rowland Tliti . hip- hurrah!' Thus echoed the throaty cheering from ...the 'crowd ,jammed tightly in the in London when on January, 10th, 1.810, permy post- age came into force, This great triumph ter Row- land Hill had Ile origin in the the days, when as a small boy, 'he noticed the worried 'leek on his mother's face when the post. man knocked at the deer to de- mend a shilling or so.:.fee for the letter he had brought, The, 'postal service et the time in- sisted that the reeipient paid the fee, not the sender;'' Even the present trend for higher parcel postage will take .some time yet to reach rates prevailing in those . days, To send a parcel. to Australia cost as. much as $60 to $75, Only the well-to-do could af- ford to take advantage of foil postal facilities, Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords enjoyed the "perks" of free letters and par- eels ". . in order to maintain adequate correspondence with their constituents." This priv- ilege was "glaringly abused, for, writes Norman. Wymer in his excellent and enlightening book "Social Reformers", they sent letters and parcels for relatives, friends, and even acquaintances, Nor were they conscientious about the nature of the things they dispatched. Pianos, horses, cows, maidservants-all travel- led as "free parcels" under their signatures! Many ingenious ideas were adopted by the public to cut down the cost of a letter, since the fee was doubled for every sheet of paper used, They would pen the letter in the nor- mal manner, then turn the sheet sideways and continued writing across the text' already written, thus confining it to -one sheet of paper. Like all other social refor- mers, Rowland Hill (later Sir Rowland Hill, K. C.B.) met stiff opposition to his plan for penny postage.. The • Postmaster-Gen- eral declared: "Of all the wild and visionary schemes which I have ever heard or read of this is the most extraordinary." An- other official grumbled: "If we are to handle a greater volume of mail the walls of the post office will burst." Needless to say, Rowland Hill won, And with postage so cheap,. people who were unable ,even to sign their own names began to learn to read and write. to the heading out stage. After heeding the plants continue to take up quite large quantities but it is taken from phosphorus from the soil rather than from the fertilizers. In their experi- ent, approximately 22 per cent of the fertilizer, phospho- rus was recovered by the grow- ing plants. Chemists' engaged in animal nutrition research at Science Service, Department of Agricul- ture, Ottawa, have used radio-. active carbon and calcium to trace the movement. of these two elements in the animal's system and determine the me- thod by which the animal con- verts them into bones, meat and milk, • - k * In western Canada wool grown le an area deficient in sulphur was a basis of study. Tracers of radio-active sulphur mixed with additional non-active sulphur and fed to the ewes was dis- covered not only in the wool of the ewes themselves but in the wool of lambs later born to those ,t;444;t4)4tst,:itn...441:>,W Famous Sundials Sundials are increasing in popularity in Britain, probably necause some weather experts nave predicted that they are go- ing to experience a series of sunny summers until et least the year 1966, You can still -find a number of centuries-old sundials in the quiet churchyards and gardens of Britain, but many of those familiar to our forefathersi have crumbled away, being themselves. the victims of the • time which they recorded. The new sundials are likely to have mottoes similar to those of the old ones. The motto chosen by Queen Alexandra for the sundial on the wall of San- dringharn House was:. Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll count only your sunny hours., Among wedding gifts to the Queen and the' Duke of Edin- burgh was a sundial 'designed and executed by a man whose family have been stonemasons since 1706. In the • days of the first Queen Elizabeth men often carried pocket sundials for the purpose of time-telling. Not long ago it was reported that a Ger- man firm had begun to make. 10,000 pocket sundials a month because of the sudden' revival in their popularity. • In France is an ancient sun- dial gun made in Paris in 1650 which fires a discharge at twelve o'clock every day provided the sun is not hidden by clouds. It is a small brass cannon, the touch-hole of which is elongat- ed into •si groove running in line with the north-south line on the dial, A teaspoonful of powder forms that charge, a. little being also sprinkled on the long touch- hole. If the burning-glass lens held by adjustable arms above the cannon is set in the correct posi- tion, the concentration of the sun's rays makes the powder ex- Diode at midday, ewes, When cows are housed in con- ventional stables, the usual prac- tice is to control the rate at which silage is fed and provide hay in accordance with the cow's appetite for dry roughage. V. 'S. Logan of the Central Ex- perimental Farm, advises that under these conditions the feed- er can make reasonably accurate estimates of his storage re- quirements for both silage and hay. Taking into consideration the rates at which he wishes to feed the respective roughages and the anticipated winter feed- ing period, lie should store suf- ficient extra feed at harvest time to allow for losses and wastage of approximately 25 per cent for silage and 30 per cent for hay. * With the development of loose housing barns and the adoption of self-feeding devices both for hay and silage, the question is asked as to how much silage and hay cattle will consume when they are allowed free ac- cess to both of these roughages? The variations-that exist between quality and palatability of hays and silages make it impossible to estimate accurately the pro- portion of the individual rough- ages that will be consumed in these circumstances. Lightning Killed Her .$ Husbands I3eautif4 Maclaine Matilda, of Sotiu has been married three t_ienet, and Met be nearing forty, lint she looks ten years younger, and, is also one of the richest women in Bulgaria. So there would seem. to be no- thing unusual about the recent announcement of her engagement 'to be married fot the'fourth time, After all, sfienty of people marry four times. Yet the man who has asked Martha. Matilda to marry him must be very., very brave. In 1936 Martio, was eighteen. With masses of wavy, black hair, flashing stark eyes and a figure that Hollywood would have en- vied, she Was the queen of the local beauties. The daughter of poor peasants, Martha worked in the fields .ene farm boys were her only admirers, • It was festival time in Sofia, and, dressed in her best, she went there for the ciNi and caught the eye of Randolph Eastman, an American on a grand tour of Eu- rope, Ho fell in. love with her, and finding her as charming and good natured as she was beauti- ful, he proposed via an interpre- ter and was accepted, in spite of the many difficul- ties they were deliriously happy, and, after eight weeks of touring, were making preparations to go to America Then, during a storm, her Husband was struck by a fleele of lightning, Martha found herself traeically widowed but richer by $60,000-the for- tune left her by her husband. She went. to Paris and one day attended a display at the fashion house of Mataux et Cie. Her .in- tersest was so obvious that the owner, Charles Mataux, spoke to her end asked if he could help. A' few minutes later she wee - trying on the most expensive models in- the shop. She was ad- miring herself in a very chic cre- ation and inquired the cost. She was rather surprised when Ma- faux told her she could have it free of charge, together with every other gown in his shop . if only she would marry him. This was sudden, even for France. Martha, still grieving for her husband, took four months to consider the proposal, then ac- cepted Mataux. For eighteen months she was one of the best dressed women in Paris. Then her husband de- cided to have a holiday. They went to the south, of Spain, One day they were caught out in a Tabby-Cat Alarm Scares Burglars 0' g, * WASTF - "FORT CHAMP AND A WOULD-BE - Two contenders at the Los An- geles County Fair team up for a photo, The lambie-pie is 19-' year-old Virginia Rodgers who teeks the title of queen of the fete. She's showing off straw- hatted Champion Corbie, year= old Southdown ram of many blue ribbons, competing in the livestock exhibit, zat A filns acts,. disappointed at not being ,called upon to ' make a speech on the occasion of his retirement from films. And as he said to a friend, "What makes it worse, old man, is that I spend three hours in the make-up department having a lump put in my throat, Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan have used radio- active phosphrous in numerous experiments to determine the form of phosphorus in fertilizers, most readily used by plants. Their tests indicate that , for Saskatchewan prairie eons am- tebnitirri phosphate is' the form most readily available for grain crops. * s' " Measurements of the phospho- rus taken up by plants at dif- ferent stages of growth revealed that most of the phosphorus supplied through fertilizers is taken' up by Wheat plants prior PIPE THE "PEOPLE MACHINE" - In their efforts to remake the world, the Communists haven't quite gotten to the point of turn- ing out good Reds on the assembly line, But that's, what this scene looks like. The big machine is a turbine, and visitors to the second Exhibition of Czechoslovak Engineering at Brno, Czechoslovakia, are pouring out of the exhaust pipe after view' ing the workings of the turbine from the inside. I (1Pacqii 27. Irish containing ' exfilutive gold CROSSWORD PUZZLE FARM FAMILY ttogiNk44 Ranging ifi age from 61 to 80, the Robinson sisters of Bethel' Springs find 110 trouble at all in Wititiiiittg 0 large farm. The work-shoring -quintet tiitilidgei eVerythiri0 horn plowing fields to butchering atiiniols, Betweeri heavier chores, they spend 'time in the gelqieri, abdiVe, hoeing' peat arid drying apples, Left fad' right, the RabititatiS tire. 011id, Eunke and tillie, the ttnljr one of the' five tb Mary, it, 0 widow, and thte sisters fartit a collective band of "mothers" fOr her Oath-del to-id livd on the farm"with' them. With adverse , weather condi- tions during harvest time it may be advantageous to store the greater proportion of the grass crop as silage. This would neces- sitate a higher rate of silage feeding, and with self-feeding some arrangement would have to be made to limit the access to the hay supply. Otherwise three units of silage to one of hay is a usual ratio to allow. * • * Canadian agricultural scien- tists are putting radio-active materials from atomic energy plants to 'use in many ,valuable fields of research. Just as the discovory of the microscope en- abled the medical scientist to identify and follow the move- meet of living disease organ- isms that could not be seen with the eye, use of these radio- active elements (known as iso- topes to the scientists to distin- guish them from the same ele- ments when not radio-eetive) has made it possible to identify and follow the path of these ele- ments through living tissues and accurately measure the quanti- ty present in any part of the plant or animal at any period of growth. Their use permits it to be done far more rapidly than by the old method of chemical analysis and without injury to the living plant or animal. Extremely minute quantities of a number of elements such as phosphorus, calcium, cobalt, car- bon end Others, used by plants and anitrials in their growth, Whet Made radio-active, can be Mixed With Much larger, Udine active, quantities of the elements and Makes the absorption and When a gas tap was left acci- dentallYlturned on in an Italian house recently, a pet goose named Gina saved a two-year- old baby girl's life in a gas-filled room by flapping against a win- dowpane with its wings and breaking the glass. This roused neighbours who . promptly turned off the gas and removed the baby from its cot. The child's mother was out shopping at the time. In a London suburb a few week ago cat burglars missed a £1,500 haul of cigarettes because a pet tabby cat raised the alarm by miaowing non-stop for five minutes, The cat made so much noise that the shokeeper was roused and the raiders fled emp- ty-handed. Pets and other animals 'fre- quently "earn their keep" in novel and dramatic ways. In .the United States town of Hillsdale a small drainpipe be- came choked With mud some years ago. It could not be cleared by water pressure and the house- holder was in despair until he suddenly thought of his pet mud turtle which he kept in his back- yard, The turtle was put hi the pipe, Burrowing through the mud and silt, it made short work of the trouble. When the town's health authorities heard of the turtle's achievement, they at once ac- • quired half a dozen turtles of their own which are now used for this special purpose. Dogs have earned their keep in hundreds of ways. The pet mastiff of a keen woman golfer always carried her bag of 'clubs fastened by a belt to his body, the heads of the clubs being kept in position by a band attached ' to his collar. She started using 9. Snoalt.hotse 30, 141oW (tousle) 3t. Conducts 34, (loon try loons OS 30. Printing. to I:Ital.:1Ni IS, Anoint tit or date 404. Couple 41, Anolont siltt 42. 't 44, l !Mils h tottee 41t. 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One member of a fire brigade near London, a few years ago owned ti pet terrier who was an enthusiastic "firentan." Dit'ectly ari alarm came through, Fiery Would take his place en the•One gine. Fiery could- actually run out a length of hose quickly and efficiently, At one fire he was seen beating out pieces of burn- ing Material by holding theft` in his Mouth and banging them against the ground.