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MECHANICAL HEN?-"Fresh„ from the nest" is the advertising
claim on the side of this egg vendor, and most children think
that means right from the wooden hen perachecl atop it. The
first of its kind in Ohio, Lewis Enquist, a local poultryman,
gives it the once-over. So far it has been very successful, with
many people who may not really need eggs putting their
money in just to see how it works.
Eating. In Rome
Englitslt Style
Today's visitor to Rome may
get One of his Milder surprises as
he comes up one of the busy
shopping streets from the Corso
into, the Piazza do Spat no and,
sees across the old. square on the
left of the famous Spanish Steps
what appears to be at once on
anomaly and an anachronism,
These two words, as Webster
won't tell you, translate into
"Babington's English Tea Rooms."
`The sign tops the shop front, it
is also carved on a stone plaque,
quite classic looking, but only
loud enough to attract connois-
seurs, as it probbly was origin-
ally meant to do,
Out of place and out of time?
Well, Babington is not a usual
name hereabouts, where Via
Condotti enttee$ the piazza at
Bernini's fountain, and Borgog-
none, Frtina, and IVIignanelli with
their sound as of delicate tuning
forks strike the key for even
mundane speech, But to the right
Of the broad. stairway that rises
to the church called Trinita de'
Monti another shop sign vouches
for its appropriateness. This one
is "Byron," and the window be-
neath it, as you would expect,
displays apparel, with a special
appeal to a man's vanity.
Anyone who knows the square
well knows also that other Eng-
lish names are to be found in
courts and hallways off the pi-
azza. As an American might look
for Americans at Paris“Cafe de
la Paix, and as likely nowadays
along Rome's Vi Vitorlo Veneto,
so for a hundred years or more
Britons have expected to find
their countrymen on the Piazza
di Spagna, When Signora Petri
had the house at the bottom of
the steps near the sleek little
haberdashery, Keats and Shelley
rented rooms from her, and in
1821 Keats passed on there. The
rooms are a sort of monument
a memorial to them,
In the subdued English-Italian
atmosphere of the lunchrooms
today you hear More American
than British accents, Americans
not only talk louder but go more
places now that currency con-
trol nips the British tourist in
the pocketbook. These lunch-
rooms are as ort of monument,
not to the literary tradition of
Britain but to the heyday of em-
pire at the turn of the century.
Many a Briton who as a child mi-
grated regularly with his farn-
THREE COUNTRIES-All decked
out in his Alpirte outfit is two-
year-old Mark Jones of Scotia,
Calif. He's chomping on a hot
dog in-well, of course-London,
England. Mark is the son of
Air Force sergeant stationed in
London and was attending an
Air 'Force party qt the Festival
Gardens in Battersea.
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Memory Selection: A friend
lovetit at all times, and :a brother
is born for adversity. rroverbs
17:17,
I-1ere is Jonathan, prince of
the realm and heir apparent tO
the throne of Israel, Re is at-
tracted to the ruddy faced youth
who has just slain Golialx and
given his report to King Saul,
It is the beginning of a great
friendship, "The soul of Jon-
athan was knit with the soul of
David, and Jonathon loved hien
as his own sotil." As a token of
his love he gave to David his
robe, garments, sword, bow and
girdle,
Would this love last? Saul be-
came David's enemy continually
and sought to slay him. This put
Jonathan in an embarrassing
position, But lie was true to
David without being untrue to
his father, King Saul. Even when
it became known that David had
been anointed by Samuel to suc-
ceed to the throne of Isreal
Jonathan's love did not waver.
He pled for David with Saul but
to no avail, The Spirit of God
had departed from Saul.
David made a covenant with
Jonathan to always show kind-
ness not only to him but also to
his deseandents. On the day of
their farewell "they kissed one
another, and wept one with an-
other, until David exceeded."
Jonathan was slain with his
father King Saul in a great
battle with the Philistines, Part
of David's lament was, "How
are the mighty fallen in the
midst of battle! 0 Jonathan,
thou west slain in thine high
places. I am distressed for thee,
my ebrother Jonathan; very
pleasant hast thou been unto me:
thy love to me was wonderful,
passing the love -/ women,"
David remembered his pledge
to Jonathan. When he was es-
tablished on the throne he found
Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son
who was lame on both his feet.
T6 him he said, "Fear not: for
I will surely show thee kindness
for Jonathan thy father's sake,
and will restore thee all the land
of Saul thy father; and thou
shalt eat bread at my table con-
tinually."
If I had to choose between
friends and money I would
choose friends. They warm the
heart. Francis Bacon wisely
taught . that to share one's joys
with a friend is to double them
and to share one's sorrows is to
reduce them by half, Thank God
for friends.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
gold to district min% farmers,
The temperature in both co/4
stoeale rooms is regulated by
coropri,,;;or and the refrigerant .
used is 'fluorinated hydrocarbons
The fame, has an emergency
pow er unit of its own in case
of power taitures.
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ilirmers have found that even
the most expensive seed, once
it is placed in the soil, is defence»_
lees against seed-borne and soil,
borne enemies.. Unlike roan, to
whom most bacterial, virus or
fungus •infections are disagree-
able, but not necessarily fatal, a.
plant once stricken with disease
rarely recovers. Some plants
can be attacked by as many as
30 different disorders.
For many years farmers found
tl it best protection in careful
seection of disease-resistant va-
rieties of seed and in a system of•
planned crop rotation, Now, per-
fection by agricultural scientists
of seed disinfectants has given
them a new weapon in their war
on plant diseases.
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Seed disinfectants are wid'ely
used to protect seed grain from
the attacks of organisms that
cause root rot, smuts and seed-
ling blights. Armed against such
diseases, treated seed has a bet-
ter chance of producing healthier
stands.and richer yields of wheat,
rye, barley, oats and flax.
Other crops have benefittil,
too, from applications of seed dis-
infectants. Treatment of seed
potatoes not only disinfects the
surface of the tuber but also pro-
tects it from many • disease at-
tacks after planting,
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In the United States and Can-
ada extensive field, tests using
seed disinfectant on alfalfa have
resulted in increased stands of
hay, and also in larger, healthier
plants with more vigorous root
systems.
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Truck farmers and market
gardeners have obtained in-
creased yields, from beans, peas
and other vegetables by treating
the seed before planting. Sugar
beets, corn and even flower seeds
and bulbs also respond success-
fully to seed treatment.
Seed disinfectants are now
available in a variety of forms
and strengths: liquid, for use in
ready-mix treaters; a standard
dry formulation; and dustless
powder which is dissolved in
water and mixed with a special
sticking agent to ensure complete
coverage of the seed.
Sharks Save Lives -•
Until recently sharks were of
very little use to man, despite
considerhble scientific study of
their carcases. But "scientists at
the University „College of .North
Wales have now discovered a
use for -at least a small part Of
a dead shark.
BetY1 alcohol, taken from a
shark's liver, was injected into
a cow which had- poisoned itself
by eating bracken,. Previously, a
synthetic substance of batyl al-
cohol had been used, and this
was very expensive to produce.
The shark's liver, however pro-
vides the richest and- cheapest
extract of batyl alcohol.
Sharks-live ones this time-
may prove to be of value to man
in another direction. Professor
P. W. Gilbert, a zoologist of
Cornell University, recently ar-
rived in the Bahamas with the
intention of anaesthetizing some
sharks, so that he can study their
glands. He hopes this will be of
value in studying the human re-
productive system.
A BUG?-Three-year-old Susan
.Carlton looks at her „ice cream
stick with consternation. Maybe
she's plotting a method where-
by she'll get more inside her
mouht than outside.
Dog's 3,000 Mile
Walk Home
A tortoise is said to have walk-
ed from Durban, South Africa,
to a farm in the Karoo, a distance
of 600 miles, taking forty years
to do the journey. This astonish-
ing claim is being investigated
by naturalists.
A sheep farmer in Durban has
,told them that he found the
tortoise on his farm and at once
recognized it by the markings on
its back as the same tortoise
which his son took to Durban
forty years ago. The farmer
added that two months after
his son had settled in Durban
he missed the tortoise.
It is known that the homing
instinct in tortoises is very
strong, says one naturalist, and
that they will always try to
return to their original homes,
however great the distance.
What puzzles the experts is
how various creatures-notably
tortoises, cats, dogs and horses-
find their with apparent ease
through vast tracts of unknown
country when the homing in-
stinct grips them.
"Have these animals a sense
of which we humans are abso-
lutely devoid?" that great
naturalist, the late Lord Grey
de Ruthyn, once asked, "It is
tree that the carrier or homing
pigeon finds its way by sight,
but sight can be no help to
animals taken by rail,"
The feet that animals never
lose themselves seems to point
to an uncanny sense of which
science knowe little. Yet dogs
have been sold' by their own-
ere, taken by train a hundred
or more miles and then, footsore
and emaciated, have returned
home. For instance, a dog lost iri
California fourid its Way' home
to Boston, 3,000 miles away. It
was in a state of collapse but
careful nursing saved its life,
Scene yeats ago a man living
at Firsby, Lanes, bought a horse
in Boston Market and turned it
out to grass. Three months later
the horse broke out of the field
and, covering twenty miles, was
found feeding in his former
owner's yard.
Cave for
Thirty-Five Years •
Lovely Yolanda Span had
plenty of admirers, men friends
who showered gifts upon her.
They took her to fashionable
first nights, film prernierve, gay
costume balls. But then 5.yolanda
went home • - to a hele in the
ground!
She had travelled widely and
spoke five languages. Yet Ramp-
shire villagers knew nothing of
her past when the wentetn visit
her in her strange 10 ft, by 7 ft,.
borne, •carpeted with newspapers.
Yolanda lost her good looks,
She lived by rearing • chickens,
rabbits and. goats. She lived in
her hole for thirty-five years--
and the secret of why .the had
chosen such a life recently went
with her to the grave, •
In Birmingham, too, when a
pretty twenty-tWo-yearseld girl
ran into troeble with her father,.
he forbade her, to enter the house.
So she settled down cosily-end
slept 300 nights in a car parked.
just outside. The story came out
before the magistrates, when the
girl at last agreed to go home.
At East Ashford, Kent, a year
ago a widow, Mrs, May Morley,
was evicted from a tumbledown
army hut and offered three dif- , •
ferent homes. She refused all
thre. With all her belongings,
she lived on the roadside for
nearly a year until the authori-
ties had to remove her on medi-
cal grounds.
Another startling case con-
cerns a shop-steward who works
as an Oban docker by day but
then goes home to sleep in a
cave 12ft. by Oft; He lives there
because he is fed up with being
turned out of boarding houses
by summer visitors, and he may
be set .for a - long stay. The last
occupant of the cave lived there
thirty years!
11NDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
ily from London to the Piazza di
SpaSetia will at one Urns or an-
other enteli hinieelf cm:tiering
about the pastwar fate' of the
little restaurant,
An Italian Conti:sea with a
good Italian name owns it today,
She is a charming woman who
speaks English with a pure south-
ern English accent. With her
fresh complexion and graying
hair swept back from her fore
head, she seems at least as Eng-
lish as her tearoom,
Lunches are served "all clay"
as the old. brass sign entlicate$
they always have'been, The menu
is more up to date, reflecting the
American invasion of the Old
World in such items as waffles,
cheese sandwiches, club sand-
wiches, ice cream sodas. But you
can get also those thin pancakes
that Americalp often call "Eng-
lish" biit which the British call
"French," thus passing the Com-
pliment - and a real one it is,
The pots and pitchers shine
silvery on the straw mat sof the
small tables so that the place
seems always alive and warm,
Maraschino the cat may be wait-
ing fa' you on the table near
the door if he is not sitting face
to face with the cashier in her
cage and causing her to bob
now this way and now that as
she deals with her acconuts. In
his black coat and white shirt-
front it is obvious that Mara-
schino considers himself the head
waiter and conducts himself with
the called-for arrogance toward
the employees but with a ration-
ed graciousness for customers,
writes Carlyle Morgan in The
Christian Science Monitor.
And yes-the old, long-re-
membered pictures line the walls
of the rear room, the colored
lithographs of London scenes by
F. W. Wheatley, R.A., and the
miscellaneous shunting scenes
with plenty of pink coats being
lifted over hedges by beautiful
horses. Yes, the flower boxes let
blooms look into the front win-
dows of the tom, as ever, and
vines drape teh diamnd-paned
window that opens against the
side of the Spanish. Steps. The
flower merchants can still be
seen from your table, picking
faded petals from their roses and
bunching carnations under their
huge umbrellas at the foot of
the vast stairway that climbs the
Pincian Hill.
It was Cardinal Mazarin, -*he
who had so many ideas about
Europe, who foresaw what an im-
pressive ascent a flight of stairs
from the Piazza to the Trinita de'
Monti would make, though some-
one ense executed the plan.
Today, as for generations, the
stairs are sat upon as much as
• they are climbed. The habitues
form an audience that many a
playwright would be happy to
be assured of for his first night,
curious, ever-watchful of happen-
ings in the square, or about the
boat-shaped fountain, or on the
steps themselves, and frequently
appreciative and. commentative.
But such inquisitiveness and
such a crowd, plus the haste and
nonchalance of the Roman traffic
thaat sweeps and swerves through
the piazza, can become wearing
to a northerner, let alone to the
stereotype known as the "shy
Englishman." In the cool and
quiet of the cozy ' lunchrooms,
there is a refuge from it, which
makes its proximity pleasur-
able, like the sounds that come
into a lonely room from children
at play. Very little English -is
spoken by those who serve you
your scones. But they serve you
as ifyou were English. And no
matter what the British may. say
on that point, you could be treat-
ed worse, and you will rarely
be treated better.
By Rev. R., Barclay Wa'ren
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many as 1,600 broilers occupy
one room, enjoying the ultimate
in chicken comfort. Instead of
old - fashioned brooders, they
have infra-red heat lamps to
keep them warm. Four times a
day an automatic feeder places
carefully prepared feed before
them with a minimum of dis-
turbance. They have nothing to
do except eat and relax.
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For the first six weeks, the
birds are fed chick starter in
small pellets. They are then
graduated to larger pellets of *
more concentrated feed. In 10
to 11 weeks they weigh 31/2 to
four pounds - the weight at
which they are killed. Before
concentrated broiler rations were
used the time required for the
same gain in-weight was usually
15 weeks.
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Mr. Robert keeps his farm op-
erating at capacity. Every 10
days, 3,000 broilers are ready for
sale and 3,000 new chicks arrive
to take their place. Although
some are sold locally, most are
shipped to Montreal where they
are killed, dressed and packaged
for the retail trade.
Those sold locally are killed
at the farm which as its own
killing plant with a capacity of
1,000 birds a day. After the birds
are .killed they are plucked by
machine and hung on racks. The
racks are wheeled to a cold stor-
age room where they remain
overnight at a temperature of 35
degrees. The following day the
birds are cleaned and packed for
delivery.
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Chickens have long been an
important item on Canadian din-
ner tables and there is no indi-
cation of a decrease in their
popularity. Canadian shoppers,
however, are showing a definite
preference for small, tender,
young birds. The poultry divi-
sion of the department of agri-
culture recently announced that
the large roaster chicken was
being replaced by the so-called
broiler chicken which could be
produced in less time and with
greater feed efficiency, thanks to
modern broiler rations,
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Behind the chicken a busy
housewife buys at, her favorite
meat counter is a major industry
offering employment to thou-
sands of Canadians. It begins in
a chicken hatchery and ends with
the marketing of the finished
bird neatly packaged in a poly-
thene 'bag or overwrapped with
cellulose film on a cardboaed
tray. Amongst the business men
who cater' to the Canadian ap-
petite for chicken is Edouard
Robert, owner of Sunny Brook
Farm' near Ste. Adele, Que.
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Located in the heart of the
Laurentians, Sunny Brook Farm
looks more like a luxury tourist
resort than a broiler "factory."
And a luxury resort it is, at least
for the 35,000 broilers which oc-
cupy the five modern chicken
houses. Here for 10 to 11 weeks
the broilers live a pampered ex-
istence carefully guarded by Mr.
Robert and a staff of three men.
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They arrive at the farm as
chicks and are immediately
placed in a thoroughly clean and
well-disinfected room in one of
the de luxe poultryhouses. As
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Sunny Brook Farm. It is frozen
and stored in a deep-freeze until
"Dad, why is a man not al-
lowed to have more than one
wife?
'My son, when you are older
you will realize that the law
protects those, who are incap-
able of protecting themselves."
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by recent torrenliel reins, this once proudly waving wheat field
(right) is the object of sad scrutiny by Walter Lauer. Holdied
a few of the storm-shattered stalks, Lauer indicates the height
of the groin before the rains came. The Missouri Farmers'
Association reports that this year's wheat yield has been cut
in half in many sections of the state because of bed weather.
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WHEAT STORY: SHE'E GLAD; HE'S SAD-In Salina, Kan., this
golden 'sand pile" is a happy sight for Rose Mary Martin, 4, as
she plays in- ct wheat truck (left) and watches another load of
grain shower down from the combine, Rose Mary doesn't know
it but here imitation "sand toile" le worth hundreds of dollars to
her parents. Iii Rhineland, Mo,, it's a different sit ^j7.'Flattened Ariswer elsewhere on thispage,