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The Brussels Post, 1957-03-27, Page 7BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - That large, striped animal resting on the sofa is a tiger from the Ussuri region of Siberia, where the largest of these giant cats are found. Its owner, Russian tiger tamer Margarita Nazarova strokes the animal while talking to Soviet hunter P. Borgachev in her Moscow home. The woman raised the tiger from a cub, and they appeared to- gether in a movie' which was successful in. Russia and abroad. The photograph and caption are from an official Soviet source. HAIM FRONT 21. Annie seed 47, Sound of a 23. Male swan clock 24. Donkey 48: Soon 25. Paddle 49. Skin disease" ACROSS . 2. Barber's ern 26.; intimation 51: straw 1. together With 9. Be Overfond of 28. Canine 4. Rough iiiiitto e 4. Band-of. color 0.,keunowiedge 63, To a. point 5. Finished edge ' applause inside 6. 8. Oh6uitrdoor game letter 32: Clear gain 55. Auld' Lang lat Hebrew Si. Anger 64. maim genus 12. George (2,1):1 7. Sort 39. Weir first rneaelring 9, Of the eat velvet' 5618 .FiRteehtijOld 13. Device for CareaS 36. Supper' distance: 15. Rooting Out Cubit meter 18. Stiorl 19, BanhfUl 20.'Hiatus 22' Jurisdiction ,Early Eng.) 24,0Urv. 27. Young goat 29. Song bird 83. Spirit 85. 'Cooking' Veagel 81 Caliber 38. Remove dirt .40. (Ikelife 42, Moisten 43. River, barriof 45.3d "kig of ,litdalt PAgodit 50 iteeeriti# _ .acquired 52, Elijah' 56... Want of agreeinent Thickens59. (A cardinal number'.1. SOO, Joint +42. Peiiiialng„:4*ord 113, Seaweed.,' • , V. • 000.o..mig - 10, Cotton fabric 41. African fly 11. Wild revelry 44. Intervening CROSSWORD 10. Unit of work 46. Malt liquor 14. 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Woman Hit By A Flying Cow Several folk living in Bad Axe, Michigan, say they have sighted "flying saucers." But recently one resident in this tiny commu- nity, 62-year-old Mrs. Janet Whittaker, encountered a flying cow! Setting off on a shopping OX- peditiOn, she heard a sudden thud as she came round a bend and the next instant a huge cow dee mended on her. Petrified, she had no chance of side-stepping and the cow, hit by a car, crashed full tilt into her , knees. But luckily she sustained only slight injuries. No bones were broken. Traffic accidents involving ani- mals often take strange turns, In this country, according to the Royal Society for the Preven- tion of Accidents' report, per- sonal injury accidents caused by dogs average 2,600 a year, And • as the Highway Code warns "the presence of dogs and other ani- mals in the carriageway contri- butes towards the 4,000 personal injury accidents a year." This is in Great Britain alone. Pet owners should be more alert and careful. And motorists should know more about animal reactions when caught in the traffic. Chickens nervously fol- low a single instinct when sur- prised by a car: they dash straight for home. Horses and . ponies, which seem quiet, may be thoroughly startled if ap- proached too close and they may swing without warning straight into a car's path. Cows, being sluggish-minded, often behave very stupidly. And a solitary sheep, left stranded on one side of the road, with the flock on the other, merits extra cauion. For, seeing a mechanical monster approaching, the animal may panic and scamper across the road to rejoin its companions. When, in April last year, the Queen attended the West Nor- folk Hunt's point-to-point meet- ing at Sporle, two races ended with a riderless horse galloping out of the main gate and career- ing wildly along the main. Swaff- ham road. In the first ' instance, two R.S.P.C.A. inspecotrs gave chase in their van. But P.C. Thomas Bokehain raced ahead of them on his motor-cycle: Very skil- fully, he managed to catch the hunter by the reins with one hand, whlie with the other, he steered his machine. He then rode alongside the runaway, talleSug soothingly to it all the time, Until' the horse calmed down and trotted to a standstill. Half an .hour later, -when another riderless racehorse bolted, P.C. Bekehain again, gave chase and, using the same tech- nique, made a second, capture, without injury to himeelf or to . the horse. It was bad luck for a York- shire, milkman of , Wibsey, near Bradforclee Veen hiss ten eyeer-old ODD EGG 7 The hen that laid this egg apparently grew tired of her anonymous contributions to humanity. So here it is, Corti - pieta with monogran2, mare sudch bolted, :She raced off the main road, the milk cart swaying crazily behind, her, and charged down a narrow Wig'. The cart overturned, bottles splashed and milk whitened the wreckage. The horse, now free, cleared a four-foot-high stone wall and fell six feet into a sel- ler entrance; There she was wedged, with her left hind leg,. trapped and in danger of being broken. Arrivingly quickly on the- scene, policemen, firemen and an. R,$.P.C,A.. inspector placed rub- ber fire hoses beneath her and lifted her forward into a more natural position to ease the strain on her back leg. Then, using a • special lifting apparatus, they' raised her bodily from the cellar entrance into which, she had plunged. The entire rescue ope eration lasted an hour and twen- ty minutes. The horse was saved from injuries which might easily. have necessitated Its. being de, stroyed. But the residents were not at all happy at seeing their breakfast milk splashed all over the read. Drives Eight Miles With Eyes Shut What's happening to the wink - the deliberate wink which was once so frequently exchang- ed between young men and women? It is, losing popularity all over Europe, declares a French expert on courtship and marriage. "Many a love affair used to begin with a wink, but you rare- ly see a man wink at a girl nowa- days," he says. "As for a girl winking at a man - this just isn't done any more, not even in France! But in the 'twenties of this century such winks be- tween the sexes were very popular." Perhaps he's right. When did you last wink deliberately at an- other person, or see a wink ex- changed between a young couple? Lots of schoolboys still wink in play, but even this type of wink- ing is much, less often seen than it was a quarter of a century ago. Involuntary winking, or blink- ing, is as universal as ever. Ever tried to see how long you could go without winking? You'll find it very difficult to carry on for more than a minute on two, and very uncomfortable. Yet Miss Maryan Curtis, a lovely U.S. brunette, won a bet of nearly $1000 for - as the - judges put it - "maintaining a fixed stare for twenty-four hours without moving an eyelid." To scientists a wink is an op- eration of the eye which requires one-fifth of a second and occurs twenty-five times a minute. Therefore, if you drive at an average of 20 m.p.h. for- five hours, you will drive eight and a third miles with your eyes shut! - This winking business, you see, is necessary. It's Nature's way of keeping your eye-balls clean, moist and comfortable. Some people wink more often than others,. A nervous person winks most, It is 'calculated that his eyelids travel about 25,000 inches a day. Women tend to blink less than men.- It's considered wicked to wink deliverately in Falco, Alabama. If a woman's rapid winking is mistaken for saucy winking, she can under a local by-law - be arrested and fined. OPERATION WHISTLE `During an operation to remove six-year-old David Anderson's tonsils, the surgeon found a small, plastic whistle lodged be- hind one of the boy's tonsils. Questioning the boy's mother later, the surgeon learned that David had swallowed the whistle some months previous but it gave him no bother. "He did snore ' with a peculiar sound, 'though," she added. Seeing Double By seeing double a man gain- ed his release from prison re- cently, A Cockney, whom we'll call Smith, was arrested after two robberies and taken to Britton Prison to await trial, In jail Was another East Loridener, Brown, already serving sentence for an alleged wages snatch. lee looked at Smith, and blinked, for the than Was his true double, so like him that their mothers meld not have told them apart. Now Drown had protested his innocence from the very first and the authorities allowed a special identification parade in which he appeared with the new arrival, The resemblance between them Was so uncanny that a witness was amazed and could not be. certain which wa.s*which, The result was that Brown'e, appeal was allowed and he was set free. His double was not so fortunate, He could net be said to have had anything to do with the offence for which the other man had innocently suffered, but he was sentenced on a totally different charge. A White Russian woman who was said to bear an uncanny re, semblance to 'the Princess Anas- tasia, daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas, appealed last year to the, Egyptian p6lice. She said that unprincipled people had tried to persuade her to pose as the Princess and claim the for- tune of the late Tsar, rumoured to be about $75,000,000 and held in England. She told the police that when she refused she was threatened with death and so asked the Cairo police for pro- tection. A BLOW-HARD - Fred Polk, is all puffed up over his work, which makes sense because for 44 years he has' been a glass blower. Polk demonstrated his special skill• at the recent Glass Blowers Association convention, Frog, in Your Bed Prevents Colds! Would you like to go through the rest o the year without catching a cold? One way is to stay in bed all the time. But even this is not foolproof, es- pecially if you happen to have hardy friends like the Swedish professor, Samuel Oedman. The professor was se scared of catching cold that he spent the last twenty-five years of his life in bed. A friend came through a snowstorm to visit him. But when he appeared in the 'bed- room with snowflakes on his overcoat, the professor was so alarmed that he died of shock, Many people have their own pet cures and preventives against the common cold, Turkey drip- ping smeared on the chest is guaranteed by many to get rid of wheezes. Another old remedy recommends sleeping with a live !frog in"the bed to avoid a cold. Even more disturbing is the old notion that a live fish placed on the chest will cure a cough...Ad- cording to this remedy, by the time the fish is dead the cough should be gone, " One of the strangest ways of preventing a cold was that favoured by Sir John Robertson, who was five titles Premier of New South Wales and died 'in 18912 After suefering from One very severe cold he vowed that he would never catch enothee. From then onwards he bought three ph-ite of rum every day. He drank one pint himself, gave an- other to his horse and poured the third into his riding boots. A gettleinan from Halifax has not had a eold for thirty-five years. Ile attributes this to the fact that he cuts the ends 'off his socks to kee ps his feet to He keeps his' soekt in place by stitching taped to the bottoms and passing, there under his feet. He sent this cold reni- edy to e cousin in San Frarieieco. It has proVed so effective that a. Barefoot Club had been formed in the U.S.A, to spread the idea. George Berkeley,: the Milt philosopher, set his faith in tar, Water as a remedy against all ills. In winter he kept a barrel. of it in his bedroom. Cooking quality of potatoes de- pends to a large extent on their • degree of meanliness -when cook- ed. The food value of the potato depends on its dry matter con- tent, and many of the qualities of texture - or mealiness and taste depend on the percentage composition of theprincibal com- ponents such as water, starch, protein, mineral and cellulose. * * * Over the past quarter-century research workerse:haVe devoted much. time and a great deal of effort in trying to develop a prac- tical, method for determining the cooking quality of potatoes on a commercial basis. Of the, m any methods experimented with, the most ..practical has proved to be the specific gravity method. By specific- gravity pe- tatoes can be separated, into classes based on the total solids content of individual or cOm- posite samples of tubers. The results of thousands of -tests has shown that there is a very close correlation between the specific gravity or 'total solids' content of potatoes and their cooking quality, reports N. M. Parke, potato specialist, 'Canada Depart- ment of Agriculture. * * * Specify gravity is defined as, "The relative weight of a given volume of any kind of matter as compared with the weight of an equal volume of a standard sub- stance, as water or air'. Hence the, specific gravity of potato tubers can be determined either by (1) the flotation of individual tubers in a solution of known density, or by (2) weighing them in air and then under water and dividing the weight in air by the loss of weight in water. * * If lag of potatoes with defin- ite dry matter content are desir- ed, then the specific gravity of individual tubers must be deter- mined'. However, potatoes can be separated into claSses with a range of percentage dry matter content and their cooking qual- ity predetermined by making . specific gravity determinations on composite samples of any given lot of tither& An instrument designed for this purpose and known -as a 'potato hydrometer' was devel- oped in 1936. This instrument is so designed that the specific grav- ity - per cent total solids - and pet cent starch of any composite sample of potatoes can be read directly from the stein of the hydrometer. In using the potato hydro- Meter the following points must be observed: (1) The coinposite sample of potatoes being Used to make a determination- Mast be clean Arid free of 1111 soil parts- dies; (2) A ten pound sample of peteteee 'Must be Weighed ace aurately; (3) The temperature of the Water in Which the basket' Polatoes is suepetided must be held at ethietarie tempera- titre of 60 degrees F., The following give§ the' stig- geSted quality of potatoes fall. 'big within certain perCeritage range, of dry matter as detek- Mined be, specific gravityt 13016W 15 per cent dry matter - POcit Quality; 15.1-18 per cent dry friattee Fair Quality; 18.1-21e, per cent dry Metter Gocid Quality; 21,1 up per cent dry matter - Excellent Quality. * * Improved flock management is rapidly reflected in increased profits. Such factors as feed wastage, culling, labour, balanced rations and egg marketing, must be considered in a well managed poultry program. * * * As feed comprises approxi- mately 65 per cent of the cost- of egg production this is the logical place to reduce expenses. However, this should not be'done by limiting total feed consump- tion. A surprising amount of feed is wasted each day due to carelessness on the part of the operator and improper construc- tion and locatien of feed ,troughs. By careful •planning, practically all of these loses ban be limited. Culling is also important in the cost of egg production as it costs about 30 cents per month to feed a non-layer. Pullets should be culled when put in the laying pens so that only strong, vigorous, well-matured birds are kept. If a pullet is not laying by six months, /chances are she will never be a high producer. Egg flavour and grades are often adversely affected through excessive amounts of green feed. For this reason hens should not be allowed to forage for suffi- cient feed but rather should re- ceive complete rations. This will ensure desirable egg flavour, uniform yolk colour, upstanding yolks and clean, white, strong shells. Frequent egg gathering and early marketing regardless of storage facilities on the farm is desirable, as quality deterior- ates rapidly even tinder the most favourable conditions. Operating costs could be re- duced still further by conserving labour through the use of prop- erly constructed poultry houses and good organization, "One good thing about the ris- ing cost of living," said Mrs. Stern to her husband, "le the fact that I've lost fifteen pounds worrying ,about it, Fifty-Two Years To Deliver Letter A tailor in Graz, Austria, re- cently received from his mother a letter which she had posted in Vienna, less than fifty miles away, in November, 1004. What happened to it during that fifty- two yeers remains a mystery which is still puzzling them both Postal services in Europe to- day are as 'near perfect as in- genuity can make them and such instances of delayed mail are rare. Letters have sometimes slipped unnoticed between floor- boards and remained uncliseov- ered for years, but 'very few go astray nowadays, Thirteen letters posted be- tween 1915 and 1917 were not delivered to addresses in the. West of England until, 1934, but there was a good reason. They were diseovered behind the sorting racks of a post office railway van•when it was being repaired. A letter from- the Post- master-General, apologizing for the delay, was sent to each of the addresses. During the siege of Paris by the ,Germans in 1870, postal of- " Relate hit upon the idea of en- closing letters in small zinc globes, water-tight and herme- tically sealed, and dropping them into the River Seine. They floated down to the French lines, where a net stretched across the river gath- ered them in and they were sent on their way. When the Germans discovered what was going on, they stretch- ed across the river a net of their own and caught the floating mail. Thirty years later, in 1900, when the zinc balls and their use were almost forgotten, a fish- erman found one in the Seine. Inside were 300 letters, dated 1870, "Jenkins," hundrecle the em- ployer, "why do you keep look- ing at the clock?" "Well, sir," replied the em- ployee, "I keep worrying whe- ther I'm behind on the two men's work that I do." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking HMO MOH MOM MOB OUBMOOMOE MBOMBOUUMOEME ®M1000 QUO 000 DUO ©CAM BOO BOO OUUDU HM CO BOO MOM ©DODO OMO 0010 MOO COO MOB OMB ODOM OMMBOMOMMOBEIO 015BUMUMOB 000 MOO DO MB MOO UNDAY SC11001 LESSON De Bev. R. 13.arday ',$Varreti 13.A., B.D. The. Last judgment • 1alettleeW 25eeeee6 illeutery Selection: And the - tlin.g shalt .answer and 43.y,..oto. them, Verily I say unto You, inasmuch, as ye have donor it unto one of the ;least of these my brethren, ye have done It unto Inc, Matthew 25:40. The parables dealing with Divine Judgment emphasize God's condemnation on people not so much for what they did as for what they failed, to do. Tt ahke o e f a Ito 1 as dhe virginsqu ate s dai p lnot y of oil; the servant did not use his talent; those put on the left hand did not care for the naked, hungry,sick orthiity, imprisoned, incline to think of wickedness in „ terms of the evil things which people do. Jesus focuses our attention on the sinfulness of those who fail to do good things, Men do not so readily detect the sins of omission. We are not saved by works; we are saved by faith, But. James wrote: "Faith without works is dead." A man's faith is manifest by his works. ,Per- haps we cannot do much toward feeding the hungry and cloth- ing the naked. But surely we can visit the sick. I have called on the sick of all creeds. Not once have I been treated un- kindly. The sick appreciate visi- tors provided they are cheerful and helpful and do not stay too long. I sailed to see a man held on a murder charge. He didn't have to consent to see me. We had never met. We talk- ed, read the Sceiptures and prayed. Developments .sins:* have demonstrated his apprecia- tion. Let us remember our Christian responsibility to those in trouble. Is there really a judgment af- ter life? Jesus uses strong lan- guage. "Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." "Depart from me, ye cursed, into ever- lasting fire, prepared. for, the devil and his angels." We are- prone to pass lover,. such pass- ages. Well, who are we to al- ter what God has decreed? Our part is to repent of our sins believe in Jesus Christ and bring forth fruit unto life eter- nal. •• •