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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-02-12, Page 3ALL DUNN IN — With a slight hangover apparent, foUr-year-old Sylvan Sundby has had a bellyfull of a farm convention. He's snoozed off under a sign marking, the area of Dunn County Farm Bureau, headed by his father. IINDAY SC11001 LESSON SY ROY- tiaretal. .W.14170 Responsibility to G.od. and Man Mark 12: 28-31 Memory SeleCUQ111 TO Olt° Wm with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neigh- bor as himself, is more than all Whole burnt offerings and sacri- fices, Mark M 33, REST FOR GRAHAM—Evangelist Billy Graham is shown in Rochester, Minn., where he went to seek advice at the fam- ed Mayo Clinic, in connection with an eye difficulty. Pre- scription: rest, and a temporary postponement of a trip to Australia. EVER SEE ONE?—Many of to-. day's youngsters have never seen one of the devices pictur- ed, above. It's a mailbag :standard, from which a speed- ing train snatches the mailbag as it goes by. Mrs. Edna Dun- fee, 81, adjusts the sack for the one train a day that picks up mail in this manner. A few years ago, at least six mail trains each day made such pickups at Little Hocking. . ISSUE 7 —4959 COLD'. WEATHER AID - THE OUTDOOR SAMARITAN — Porky the porcupine, although wild, 'responds regularly to chow call by Dewey Spines, top. Spines, who lives atop 8,000-foot Casper Mountain, takes care of many wild friend's when deep snow' makes foraging difficult. Below, Spines puts out fodder for a family of deer, Other ''customers" include rabbitS, squirrels, ancrvarious kinds of birds. Is Your Memory A One-Way Street? From Bud To, Leaf: The year -beide, one moment,. Which, may last for •A when tree :and bush, and vine are On the breathless verge of leaf- mg out. It Is then that one can i.,.tend en hilltop and look across, the valley 'and see . the -scarlet and orange maple blossoms like a., touch of pastel crayon acreSI, the treetops. saw such a generalization to' cley,onnd,,I, knew that, moment is here. Then I began to look for particulars,. The pear tree beside the garden is dressed in green laces its leaves no larger than my little fingernail. 1' he lilacs are tufted at their stem- ends, each twin leaf cluster' tip;!.. ped with faint brownish purple and not a leaf among them as. big as: a squirrel's ear. The wild raspberries. beside the river have scarlet tassels not half. an inch tong, each tassel an unfolding group of leaves whose form can be faintly seen. The early apple trees have silver grey nubs at their twig tips; when I .drew down a braneh to look I could see .each nub as a young leaf cluster emerging !from the bud, each leaf the size of a lady- bird's wing and each red-tipped as though blushing. The bridal- wreath is green at every joint with little green rosebud leaves. These things are here .ssow, this instant. Even an hour from now all will be changed. Tomor- row it will be still different. This is the trembling moment when life stands between bud and leaf, promise and achieve- ment. A new world is in the making on these old, old hills. I am an observer while Creation . is taking place — From "This Hill, This Valley," by Hal Bor.- Hand. 1 1 '4I 1 4 4 1 •4 '4 4 `Taffy 'Pulling Is Still Fun 0.1' Ed Gilligan had himself another Gloucester fishing yam in the magazine the other week, and I was in A dory on the try banks hauling in halibut by the gross ton when a large and conspicuous aroma of clear, knifelike vinegar, pushed me off the thwart and overside, it's pretty hard to settle into. an armchair in this particular arena of unbridled activity and get through a bit of reading without some penetration of the irrelev- ant, but vinegar, on the Grand Banks is new, I climbed hack, stud; my hook in the gun'lr and went out in the kitchen, It was some taffy. It being holiday time, and an accumula- tion of wooers and woo-ed about, pulling some taffy was suggest- ed by my woods-queer spouse as a wonderful way to pass a .cold and stormy evening which had unkindly set in, "What can we do?" had been the wail, and ,she met this cloldrum head on with the suggestion, dredged up 'from forgotten times, that they pull some taffy. I, myself, was always a molas- ses taffy man, and never could go this vinegar taffy. It sets up such ,a lound shout, to begin with, and then the finished product is du- 'bious. Vinegar has its place in the world, but. I think it is not in candy. On the other hand, the vine- gar coming to a stanch boil in the pot makes conversation eas- ier, because it is very easy to make remarks about it and to •compare 'watering eyes. Of oourse, there was a time chil: -dren were knowledgeable, and knew what was coming when the -taffy was put to cook. But these 'newer children, wise in all the 'teen-age categories, didn't know and were alarmed. When they .said "What can you do on a cold night when thereT nothing to do?" they were not expecting ,any such fumigation as this. There is a big difference be- tween taffy then and taffy now. 'We used to cook it on a wood .geptre on a near by • Ouch and carefully covered, it with cushions so that it and its jewels were .definitely protected and he would be .able to keep. his eye on that couch." Unaware of this, Miss Wil4, ing's assistant, Marion pg.tho,01, feverishly removed ex p 0 .4 e d films in their carriers from the camera and placed, them. under those same cushions, also for protection. At the end of the sitting Rufus. removed the ottelliMIS and nearly passed out when he saw the sceptre completely smothered by the photographic equipment! ' :4 An attractive young Americann, bride-to-be failed to keep an 11 a,m, appointment with her dress- maker to try on her wedding dress on the day before her wed- ding. She only remembered it at 9 p,m. when it was too late. An incredible incident? Not at all, comments a psyehiatrist, who says that after studying the tricks that memory sometimes plays he is convinced that such memory lapses usually occur be- cause forgetfulness is an attempt at escaping from one's problems. It was later revealed that the young bride was not really in love with the much older* man she was pledged to marry. Their marriage was dissolved a few months after the wedding. Medical authorities in this country have pointed out that forgetting is often intentional and deliberate. Barristers and - doctors, for instance, can train themselves to forget the details col a case once it is over and done with. They clear their minds of it when fresh cases de- mand their attention. Some famous men in the past had very bad memories. Novel- ist-poet. Sir Walter Scott heard a song sung at a Christmas party where he was a guest of honor and observed, "What remarkably good words! I wonder who wrote them?" He was amazed when a friend pointed out that Scott himself had written them and that the song had been sung in his honor. Lots of people have poor mem- ories for, names and laces. The Queen and Prince Philip have so trained their memories that they nearly always remember faces. The Queen's grandfather, King George V, also had a mar- vellous memory for faces. At ninety miles He liked to whiz: Now he's 'was' Instead of 'is', • 111IFARM FRONT J069.u.sseil. Of all the commands given in the Scriptures, there is none so extensively and at the same time, so intensive, as the Great Commandment composed qf two parts selected from the law of Moses, Their substance is given in the memory selection, The young lawyer recognized that the answer which Jesus gave tp his query as to which was the greatest commandment, was a masterpiece, Love for God and man is the solution for man's ills in every age, Without it, everything else is vain, as expressed so clearly in Paul's first letter to the Cor- inthians, chapter 13-. But before we can so love God, we must surrender our wills to Heaven's greatest expression of love, the Lord Jesus Christ. Only then can we fully love our fellowmen. The love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us, will be manifest in many practical ways. Today's 'lesson has been desig- nated as the Temperance Lesson for this quarter, It is appropriate, too. If we love our fellowmen we will want to influence them in the right direction. In the old days of the saloon, a young man (whom I came to know in his later years) took a widow's son into the bar and treated him to his 'first drink. The lad in due time became a drunk. Today we would call him an alcoholic. In- stead of being a help to his mother he became a burden. He died young. The man who treat- ed him later became a devout Christian through repentance of his sins and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He became a gifted and successful minister of the Gospel. One of-the burning re- grets of his life was that he had started the other youth on the way to drunkenness. He himself had escaped from the tyranny of strong drink but the other had succumbed to it. "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink—," Habakkuk 2: 15. stove by the ball method. You held .a glass of cold water in one hand, and dripped some of the syrup in it. You could tell by the kind of rqaction you got. It called for judgment and, know- bow, and, there was room for community conjecture. °I don't think it's ready" was answered by ."Sure, it's gone just a dolt too far." We all stood around the stove, creating a coziness, and naturally enjoying close- band the Soporific combination of beat and flavor. Now thee gas flamb speeds the boiling, and the candy thermo- meter allows no compromise, When it gets to the !nark, it's done, Nobody needs to super- vise or corroborate; they can sit around and wait. The pot needs just one watcher, This lets the boys and girls talk about other things while they're waiting—a bad thing. Attention should be focused, Poured on the marble slab to cool, the mixture was soon - ready, and word to butter the hands was variously received, Hands that had reached eigh- teen and nineteen and had never been buttered approached this requirement gingerly. Who ever heard of such a thing? One or two recoiled visibly from this unkempt idea, thinking it might be better to refrain altogether, But horray! The kitchen was shortly ajingle with happy laugh- ter, and the long strands of taffy were beginning to look White and crisp. Somebody said, ,col- lies, this really is fun!" Of course, it's fun. It was fun long ago, too, and need not have perished as a youthful pursuit. It's an old-fashioned, out-of-date, time-lost amusement, smacking of the defunct and long-gone past. It came before cellophane and plastic, and the age of indi- vidual wraps. It has no relation- ship to progress and culture. Yet, lacking all recommendations, it turned out to be fun! They pulled and pulled, and there was the boy who found out he couldn't do it. Something about body heat, or his palms, or something—there is' and was always one such in every taffy crowd. The stuff, in spite of but- ter, stuck to his hands. They yanked and yanked, and some of 'the taffy fell on the floor, and some didn't seem to want to pull right with all the side issues and tangents and funny remarks and expressions. Then there was another boy who found he couldn't eat any. Stuck to his teeth. Some people are like that. They found him in the corner going "Mmm-mmrn- mmm" and he had to wait it out. He was out of the conversations for about a half hour. He found out it doesn't do any good to pull it away, it just sticks some- where else. Everybody came to him with suggestions, and solici- tous inquiries about his condi- tion, and immediate questions he couldn't delay answering. "What can we do?" Is this such a problem? I don't remember we ever had it, and we didn't, have "advantages" back then. We couldn't jump in an automobile and go ten towns over -for a pizza. We didn't have hi-fi and tee-vee. ("Aw, there's nothing on it—just banging and hang- ing!" said the black-eyed girl.) We had a sociable occasionally, alWays gatting home by nine- thirty, and sometimes we pulled taffy at them. Organized play was unkpown; we had no youth centers. We walked and- walked home. It's a little hard for me to take a modern youngster seri- ously when he says, "What can we do?" At least one small segment of today's teen-age crowd now knows how to pass a pleasant evening. pulling taffy. They said they'd' like to come another time and try some molasses kind. Do you suppose we've started some- thing, and buttered hands will bloom all across the land?—By John Gould. in The Christian Sci- ence Monitor. his herd, using mostly his own bull but, also, at times, artificial insemination. He figures the average number of milking cows *at about 31, writes Helen Hen- ley in the Chrstian Science Moni- tor. Mr. Hathorn credits a practical system 'of Dairy Herd Improve- ment records' with some of his success in keeping his cows in top producing 'condition. His own careful records on each cow are sent to Cornell Uni- versity, where IBM machines evaluate aisd Interpret the statis- tics to the., point of even pre- scribing the exact feed best for each cow, determining when she needs a complete rest, etc. The service costs about 9 cents per cow per month, and Mr. Hathorn feels this has paid off well, as have all his investments in mechanical equipment which have enabled him to handle all the work himself — 'well, not quite by himself: When Mr. Stone commented that he had good equipment, Byron smiled at Jean and said, "Yes — and a good wife." • King George Wore Lead-Lined' Bowler Thatches Roofs With Human Hair Dorothy Wilding, who photo- graphed King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) immediately after the Coronation ceremony, was told that a fortnight before it the King had accustomed himself to the weight of the Crown by wearing a bowler lined with lead to make it the same weight! He arrived at Buckingham Palace looking remarkably fresh; the Queen was so pale that Miss Wilding feared she was going to faint, but she walked resolutely to the dais in the Throne Room As the King moved forward to take his place on the dais for the photographing he handed to Lord Cromer the Sceptre which he had held in his right hand, according to ancient tradition, after receiving it at his corona- tion. Lord Cromer in turn, hand- ed it to another dignitary, who looked around for someone else to take charge of it while he carried out other duties — and finally handed it to Miss Wild- ing's itasband, Rufus Leighton- Pea rte.' "I shall never forget the awe- stricken look on my husband's free when he found the fabulmis relic placed in his hand," she recalls. "There he was, standing alone, holding the Sceptre, with no one daring to relieve him of such a precious burden Finally, When it became too Mitch for him, he, wishing to be helpful, laid the 37, Deliver e sermon CROSSWORD PUZZLE 10 Going astray 16, Enraged 18. And not 20. Landed properties 22. Ilerringlike 42, Eurnan rare fish 43. View erioss 29. Coax Ulnilts 25. Fruits or t he 44 what Fide wild rose Wags 29, Hubbub 47. Horizontal 27. Exploits - stripe 29. Command to 41..Epoeh neat 49. Sooner tlian 33. Souls IL Contend 34. That which 52. trree absorbs 55. mascu its s moistu re nickname 4. At a bargain IL Brick , carrier! 6. Article 7. Coterie S. Unpleasant eight 9. Impassive 10, Through 11. Affirmative ACROSS 1, spoil Pursue 14, Discover 12, English river II. Mel 14: Pagoda , ornaMent „ Tared * 17, High Voices 19: Obliterate 21.,Sun 2!, Thong 24. BUilding OuPport 23, Mitisertee 29. MIX rabbit 31, SOP gel 12, 3111riped atirt3i, 23, Has being 99, Serltietit 33. COMM etrekei 39. Berle!! 41, White alit 43. Sheet!' 44. Esptke of earn' 41. P.1163, 47, lairs hat 36, Ecirne 113. , 34.,Strifirr Care' 39. Nothing 37. Cheering' evlhthje 13. Vend! 69. 1lttifrin 1. . Milir714' I. Lead nialiatirt 1. Allude! 2 1 a 7 5 6 4 3 10 II ists.• 'coin 3 12 14 Is 18 17 16 21 20 214 26 27 5 Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 211 30 29 "-35 31. gl 34 32 43 36 37 33. Xs: 40 39 41 42 43 44 46 43 49 54 5 58 56 59 51 52 47 53 57 50' A novel use for human hair has been found by a Berkshire man. He is using it, specially bleached and colored, to thatch the tiny roofs of cottages and other buildings in a model he is making of a typical country vii. lage. Natives in some parts of North- ern Australia often make a coarse but strong kind of string from human hair. They get their material from the heads of their wives. A native husband has been seen to grasp a handful of his unprotesting wife's hair and without the least concern saw off the tresses wills a sharpened stone. In Germany human hair has long been Used in the Making of certain fabrics, Hair cut from tustomers' heads in barber shops is swept tip from the floor and after treatment is used in the manufacture of certain type of carpets and felts. Wig-makers, of course, use enormous quantities of human hair. An average of fifty parcels of hair a day teach one London wig-maker, who says that white or really good grey hair are the colors most in demand. In France there is always a brisk .trade in human hair,- In some. areas regular "hair mar- kets" take place at which the yarious tollectots and brol:ers assemble to discuss business. Before the war noir-cutters would be seen in the market- place at Bordeaux sitting under lithe umbrellas, Woineti with hair for sale went to them arid after the price had been fixed the cutting was per , formed and the valuable hair placed in a sack. One collector was said to haw Made $100,000 profit out of human hair in two years. A bachelor never quite gets eiVer the idea he is a thing of beauty and a boy for ever, A wintertime swing through snow-covered hills' to visit New England dairy and poultry farms has shown specifically the tre- mendous investment in time, work, and money which farmers must make to produce the kind of commodity demanded by to- day's consumers Like ,their counterparts in other areas, these dairy and poul- try farmers are having to find new ways ,to increase their effi- ciency and to beat the cost-Price squeeze. Take, for instance, Jean and Byron Hathorn's diary farm, a tidy river-bottom farmstead in a narrow valley. Only about 125 acres out of their total 370 are usable as pasture and for grow- ing hay and corn. In the seven years since Byron began taking over management of the family farm from his father, he not only has doubled the size of his Holstein herd, but has practically doubled the but- terfat content of the milk. His over-all accomplishment, says William Stone, county agent, has put him in the top 10 per cent among the dairy farmers — "maybe the top 5 per cent." * * Like many other modern young farmers who are making their farms pay, Mr. Hathorn had a family farm to start with — but prospects didn't look very encouraging at the time. Byron and Jean came back to a farm that he and his five brothers and one sister had all been glad to leave as soon as they could get out on ttheir own. They'd all had enough of the drudgery of pertpetual before- -and-after school farm• chores in the days when manpower and horsepower did all the work. But alter trying other things, Byron decided that "there are worse things than farming." His father was "getting along" and ' needed help, so Byron and Jean moved to the farm seven years ago to share 50-50 with his mother and father. * * But 50 per cent of the pro- ceeds from the 17 milk cows then on the farm was pretty slim, even when supplemented with a little grain business and a few chickens. Gradually, with some help from Bill Stone, the Ha- thorns not only made necessary improvements to the farm, but worked out an agreement with the elder Hathorn which contin- ued the 50 per cent arrangement and also assured Byron's future as the ultimate sole owner. His father has since passed on, but his mother still occupies her own 'house on the farm, Now the Hatherns have a new modern barn which Byron built himself three years ago at a cost of $5,000„ for materials alone. This snug, picturesque red barn now houses about 70 purebred Holsteins, living a lfe oh bovine luxury; a $4,500 milking parlor from Which milk is piped di- rectly from the cow into a 300- gallon, $2,500 bulk milk tank; an automatic gutter - cleaning sys- tem, which conveys manure out- side and loads it into' a Manure spreader: and a radio, dispensing Soft Music to keep the cows con- tented. AntWer,.elseWhsee this page Byron breeds replacements fdee