Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-10-27, Page 3Nightmoro With A Happy Ending. It wa4. one of time night- norish moments every parent prays won't happen. The well was 40 feet deep. and dark, Peering through the small opening in its sealedcover,. you could hardly see the water some 25 feet down unless a glint of light struck its surface, The faint gleam that met the eyes of 21-year-old Mrs.. Wayne cordle when she. peered Into. the well one day last month looke.d. at first like such a reflection,. Then with a: shock of horror she realized what it' was: "I saw the blond hair of my baby floating near the surface." What she did next, Mi.s. Car- die could scarcely remember af- terward, She recalled shouting 'for help hoping to be heard by neighbors nearest the Cordle house outside the small North Georgia town of LaFayette, It was late morning, and her hus- band was at work, She couldn't be sure if anybody had beard her cries or not, She couldn't wait to find out, either. Her 17-month-old daughter had tod- dled out of the kitchen into the yard only a matter of minutes before, The child could still be alive, But. certainly she couldn't be alive much longer, Somehow the young. mother squeezed herself through the 1- foot-wide opening. In the dim- ness she found she could brace her feet against one side of the shaft — it was a little more than a yard in diameter — and her back against the other, The shaft's walls of rough fieldstone offered footholds and handholds, Slowly she worked her way down, fighting off the impulse to let herself drop. Finally she reached the water, groped beneath its surface, fish- ed out the limp body. It seemed lifeless. Still braced against the shaft walls, she got the child onto her lap. "I pumped her arms, then I blew into her mouth like I had read about people doing. I didn't know if it was the right thing or not. Then all of a sudden she started crying." How long it took her to work her way back up the shaft, inch by inch, clutching the child in one arm, Mrs. Cordle didn't know. All she knew was that she made it, that helping hands of a neighbour were waiting at the top and — above all else — that her baby was alive. "Little Egypt" Must Behave A Middle Eastern art form that dates back centuries qui- vered and rotated to a halt the other day. A U.A.R. cultural minister, Sarwat Okasha, an- nounced that hereafter all belly dancers must conform to the increasingly strict moral stric- tures of the Nasser government by wearing a sacklike dress that flows in one unbroken line from shoulder to ankle (known as the Sarwat Sack). This is to re- place the traditional costume of a bikini-like bra and a flowing diaphanous skirt hitched up somewhere south of the navel. In Cairo, dancer Wafa Kamel wailed: "It's just no good—the people won't like it." But Samia Gamal, onetime favourite of ex- King Farouk and later short- time wife of an adventuresome young Texan named Sheppard King, defended the ruling. The true movements of the belly dance, said Sarnia, have been corrupted by the "wigglings and wagglings" of American strip- tease artists, "It. is sad,' she said, "when a dance that was born in the palaces of princes and kings can only find its audiences in drafty theaters where they sell popcorn." DRIVE CAREFULLY — The life you' save may be your own. fries other than the United States, included clovers, frOM New Zealand; Kentucky blue. grass from Denmark. and Holy land; millet from Australia; bird's foot trefoil Pram France and ti u ngary; orchard grass. from United. Kingdom, Denznark and Sweden; red clover, chiefly from U.K. — 2.2 million pounds; and rapeseed from U.K, Thatching 4 An Ancient Art There are a few marvellous crafts which, alas, pre dying out in the modern world with all the anachronistic tragedy of the dodo bird. In the full frenzy of the machine age, skilled human hands cannot hope to compete with block-busting methods of efficiency. This was the prob- lem in Broadchalke village when a number of cottages needed re- thatching, Mr. Bundy, ray ad- jacent farmer, was quite under- standably concerned with both expense and practicality, . I championed beauty and im- practicability, casting my lot for a continuation of thatched roof and walls, both for the cottages adjoining my own house and for Mr. Bundy's very visible barn across the way. . . , After the usual ambiguities and pour-parlers, Mr. Bundy agreed that art should survive if economy were compensated. The thatchers arrived one misty June morning, seated in all their glory at the head of a golden wagon-load of special sheaves. They brought with them the timeless aura of their art, a smell of fields, an awareness of nature and a sense of human dignity that somehow wove it- self into our daily lives even as the' dark, stained thatching of a decade earlier began to disap- pear beneath the bright new weave created by skillful fingers. At first sight, the instruments used by our two artists in straw seemed rather primitive. But no- thing could be more adroit than their manipulation of sickle and shears as they cut and overlaid hundreds of pounds of reed mat- ting for r single roof. Special reeds were used for the opera- tion, and had been gathered and dried some time previously. Each bundle was cut on the diagonal. As the layering got under way, it was not unlike watching Lil- liputian hairdressers braiding the tresses of some Brobdingn- agian lady. Afterwards, when the roofs were covered and all had been neatly trimmed, spe- cial triangular designs of dec- orative thatch were added to top the effect, giving the cottages the air of an Afrean village. Rarely have I seen work=r4P with such a look of content or pride in their occupation as the two gentlemen whose m'ild man- ners ingratiated them to us all... At high noon, the artists could be found sitting among the reeds, eating a simple lunch of cheese and bread, In the course of con- versation, they would pick up stray reeds and feel the texture, commenting on the smell, the colour of the material, its clean- liness and unusual design. Be- side them on the ground might be an empty wasp's nest, a mini- ature alhambra of cunningly manufactured paper which they had saved to take to the village school, that the children might see an example of fantastically elaborate insect architecture. When the last thatching had been done, the men departed In the wagon they had come , in taking with them the poetry they had emanated—echoes of Shakespeare that had been evok- ed by their beautiful process of working, eating and responding to eternal verities. Left behind were the fresh results of their labours, cottages basking in honey-coloured loveliness, their simple headdresses as spectacul- ar as any worn 'by Marie' An- toinette.—From "The Face of the World," by Cecil Beaton, ISSUE 44 1960 Management of the Dairyland Foods Limited, Spencerville, Ont. last month pleaded guilty in Magistrate's Court at Prescott to five charges of selling cheddar cheese which contained less than 48 per cent fat on the dry basis — the minimum requirement. A fine of $125 and costs of $97.50 was imposed, and the cheese was forfeited to the Crown, 4' * Also last month, the firm of Edgar Laberge, Chicoutimi, Que., pleaded guilty to five charges -of selling butter which contained fat other than milk fat. A fine of $250 and costs was imposed, and the butter was confiscated. Thanks to abundant hay crops in the last two years, production of timothy seed in 1960 is expect- ed to reach a record figure ex- ceeding '23 million pounds. Brome grass, too, the second most important Canadian forage grass after timothy, may produce more seed than in any year since 1952. More than half of the timothy seed comes from western On- tario. Eastern Canada, where timothy has for generations been the basic forage grass for dairy and beef herds, increased its out- put by four million pounds this year. Yields were reported to- be about 300 pounds per acre with quality generally up to average, but there was considerable hull- ing due to inexperience in har- vesting. • * In Western Canada timothy seed production is mainly regis- tered and certified seed of the variety Climax, and 80 per cent of the acreage in Climax was in the prairie provinces. Yields, however, were below expecta- tions. Timothy production has al- most doubled from 12.7 million pounds in 1956 because ample- hay harvests in 1959 and 1960 enabled farmers who generally do not grow seed, to harvest seed after their pasturage and hay requirements had, been met, * * There is at least twice as much timothy seed sold for planting each year as any other forage grass and considerable amounts are also exported = 3.5 million pounds to the United Kingdom in the crop year ended June 30, 1960, and smaller amounts to a dozen other countries for a total of 6.4- million pounds. Although 1.1 million pounds were sold to the 'United States, a slightly higher amount was imported. The United StateS expects to have its largest timothy seed crop in five years, an. estimated 48.4 pounds. Brome grass, the leading fors age grass of Western Canada, will increase its seed harvest this year, a Wirt its Saskatchewan productihn more than offsetting the out Inflicted oh the Peace River, Alta., region by hot; dry weather. Alberta produces 1116f6 than half the crop, The estimated 12 million. DOUnds' of Canadian. broirie grass portant of all. Father was just as strict about that as Mother, writes Jennie Small Owen in the Christian Science Monitor. Brooms often figured in our sayings which are now consid- ered folklore. If we got in Mother's way when she was sweeping, she would tell us, "All trash goes before the broom." If she thought we were too en- thusiastic about a new acquaint- ance, she would warn, "A new broom sweeps clean." If Mother chanced to see a cobweb dangling from the ceil- ing, she told her teen-age daugh- ters, "No beaux go where the cobwebs grow." Marriage was sometimes re- ferred to as "jumping the broom- stick." In a festive mood, Mother would hum; "Nelly Ely, Nelly Ely, bring de broom along. We'll sweep the kitchen clean, my dear, and have a little song." Probably the cave w o m a n, whose broom was a tree branch, schooled her daughters similarly in the "Art of Sweeping." Benjamin Franklin introduced broomcorn in America. While visiting in Europe, he plucked a single seed from his hostess's whisk broom, wrapped it in cot- ton, and put it in his gold snuff- box. Like Mr. Finney's turnip, "it grew, and it ,grew, 'til. it could grow no bigger." From one seed. America grew to be the big broomcorn producer of the world. At first, broomcorn in Amer- ica was merely a garden crop for making homemade brooms. By 1850, 770,000 brooms and 76,000 brushes were made in 41 factories in the Hadley, Mass., section. Five years later, broom- corn was grown in 24 New York counties. The Shakers took up broom- corn culture and made brooms in all their colonies. For many years Amsterdam, N.Y., led the country -in broommaking. Broomcorn continued its. way westward. to McPherson county, Kan, where Frank G. Hawkin- son, Swedish emigrant, brought it in 1869. The crop fitted well into the agricultural picture in Kansas, Oklahoma,' and. Nebras- ka. Almost every community had a broom man — a farmer who not only grew broomcorn but also made brooms. Before spring work opened up On the farm, the broom man would load his Spring wagon with brooms. There would be big ..brooms for Mother„ whisk brooms for Father; and -little brooms for little girls. Everybody welcomed our broom man, Johnny tones. His coining meant that winter, our season of leisure, was past. Fa- ther must get into the fields, Mother to her house cleaning and garden Making,- and we children to our annual task of yardwork: For the tall broomcorn is a warrior born, , In the stern battalions grOwind, And his green leaves Wave like a bah- ner,tb rave, When the battle winds are blowing. MODEST Ecstatically, and almost mi. annliOusly, Lendori's W bUffS acclaimed Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson, for her rafter- ringing performance as Brun- nhilde in "Did Walictire.'" the Single deuturrett "she is not yet the perfect Erunnhilde," wrote the trifle for The Financial Tim-'5, in an otherwise thentary review, 1/Molehill that it seemed, the slight 'sent Miss Nilsson into a mountaitiotit, truly Wagnerian rage! '"-Why Should / come .to London to be insulted?' I will not sing again i n Lbndoii, t will go and sing alt over the World whbre, they are ble th ering to hear me " MNDAY SCH001 • .,„.„.• LESSON Or ROY. ft, B, Warren, BA., Dao Our Response tq God Psalm 1; Romans 12:1 Memory Selection: Be trot' 080 formed to this World; but be ycs transformed by the renewing 02 your mind, that ye may prove. RWohmatans i is t::: good, and accent- able, and, perfect will of God. The first one of the 150 Pstaine draws a, clear distinction be- tween the good man and the bad man. We need this emphasis to- day. We are inclined to call evit good and good evil, The word 'church' is from the Greek. 'called out,' But today the church which is to be "in the world but not of the world," is trying to help the world by adopting its evil ways. Notice the gradation in the 'first verse of the lesson, The man who walks in the counsel of the ungodly will soon be standing in the way of sinners and after that he will soon be sitting in the seat of the scornful; walking, standing, sitting; with ungodly, sinners, scornful. Bad always leads to worse. Happy is the mart who does not do this. His thoughts are in God's Word. He lives a fruitful life. The ungodly are like chaff.. They will be afraid at the judg- ment whereas the righteous will have confidence in that day, Who wouldn't choose the way of the righteous? In the second part of the les- son, Paul calls for a complete presentation of ourselves all to God. People who try to serve God and the world at the same time are miserable. Let us pre-- sent our bodies a living sacrifice. The happy people are those who have been crucified unto the world and the world has been crucified unto them. To share the spirit of Christ is to live a victorious life. Let us not play around Jesus Christ as our Lord and with religion but by re- pentance for our sins and faith in Saviour we can enter the full lif e. What will be our response to God? He has given His Son that we might be saved from our sins and reconciled to our Hea- venly Father, Let us take the way of happiness. I have just heard Miss Gladys Aylward. "The Small Woman." She lost uherselfnable Chinese tthatsoh emisishn ministe r 9 h in might lnow ng to findtar heruthi. ie service to Christ. Though ;;dopy Christians to see their responsibility to a needy world. SCRAMBLER --- Telephone "scrambler" converts speaker's voice into unintelligible jargon for everybody but a person with an Identical device at the other end of the line. It's de- signed to frustrate wire tapper* and eavesdropping in general. Alan B. Simpkins demonstrate; In Palo Alto, France. They're sold In matched pairs. • • • a. 4••••••• .1.0*•111..1111;1'. WOULD YOU LIKE A DATE? — Kit Manley reigns as Date Queen in. Phoenix, Ariz. She's taking her pick of the huge• cluster of the fruit, ripened for the fall harvest. SWINE AND DANDY — Mrs. Cecelia Neville is' probably the prettiest woman judging swine shows in the world and is the only one widely recognized. Mrs. Neville, who operates a farm with her husband, looks over a good-size porker, THE FARM FRONT • e.4 -eog, 01, j 06 0 •+ seed compares with a 9,3 mil- lion pounds average for 1950-59 and is two million pounds great- er than last year's. Brome is the staple of the western pastures as timothy is of Eastern Canada. U.S. brome grass seed production may be lower than Canada's this year. Other western grass seed pro- duction which will be as good or better than the previous year's are crested wheat grass, meadow fescue, Kentucky blue grass and creeping red fescue which re- ceived a hoc* „te record proper- lions frofn favorable weather in British Columbia's Peace River area. Canada blue grass seed, grown only in Ontario amounted to 75,- 000 pounds this year, three-quar- ters of 1959 production. * * Canada exported 50 million pounds of forage seed to a score of countries in the last crop year. Most popular in quantity was sweet clover, 10 million pounds, creeping red fescue, ten million pounds, timothy and brome grass. The biggest customer was the United States with 35.5 mil- lion pounds, three times as much as it exported to Canada. The Soviet Union bought a token quantity of alfalfa seed from. Canada last year. Significant imports from coun- Ups ciedown to Prevent Peeking About Brooms —And Sweeping A new broom in the market has a yardstick printed on the handle for the housewife to take measurements around her do- mestic castle. Sakes alive! Have we come to the time when a broom has to be a measuring stick in order to sell it? 'Brooms were made to sweep with and nothing more," I mutt- ered as I read the news of the in- novation in my morning paper. Or were they? On after- thought- I had to eat my words. For suddenly I was remembering what a wonderful stick horse a broomstick made back in the '90's when I was growing up on a quarter section of buffalo grass. Curiously, I turned to my usu- ally infallible dictionary. "A brush with a long handle, used for sweeping," I read. That was all. I could certainly elaborate on that, I thought, as I sum- moned childhood memories to my aid. How could Mother have known when the cake was done, if she had no broomstraw to test it? And how would Great Uncle Tom stake the pole beans? Sup- pose Webster had to, lift hot, steaming clothes from a wash boiler. He would soon realize that a broom handle makes the best of clothessticks! In the spring when Mother made soap out of doors in the big black kettle, she stirred it with a broomstick. I'm not sure that her apple-butter stirrer and also her lard ladle didn't have broomstick origin. Besides, Mother could rout the cat out from under the stove, the hens from the flower bed and the dog from his favorite snoozing spot in front of the kit- chen door with this versatile "weapon" almost universally used by farm Women of the period.. Compilers of encyclopedias seemingly neglected, .or over- looked, ,the "Art of Sweeping," They should have consulted Mother. She taught her daugh- ters how 'tog et the dust out of the corners, and the fuddy, duddieS out from under the beds, also how to, sweep with a mini- mum of dust. She demonstrated how to sweep without wearing t ii e broom unevenly. A lopsided broom was the sign of a'slovenly housekeeper. Never stand a broom on its brush was Most inn- AdSirdVS S33.1. d1 9 11V2.1 33N0 1S3 Ilt:IV 3 N1Vd NINVC1 S3 3t3c15 5-1.33 .8 9010 .LV15 SNO 155 3 9 330 fatl CHJ. ti ti 3 QV 9N'ISV32:ID S3 01 C131E1 5-1.NVd 32tH1 aaaN N3 AO •1.5.3CiN V8.9 tad IM alst 1 4 0 vytm -1 5 5311H c1V1 CROSSWORD PUZZLE // 5 2. /0 8 3 9 of +I* •Xt, /3 /2 /1 atells (Poet.) 39. Malt Jongs i 5.- Fishiog ap-• . .... • eounter •• 1'i . Views, purtenances'. • . - • - • 34, Ralf (preti•O . 30, Chief . '80. Normal donee' 21. Crusted' dishes 37, &Mil, 22. Lend 0018., 38. Sheet of trloati• tire 39. Oriental food 23. Fetch-staple - - 25. Arose writ) .49, Fall le &OA- . seed. 43. Large group 28. State of bi9. of motorists trig mien , (db.) . , OloYed 44. Smith taste 27 Trim 46, 'FleSil V i. ltinlile agransi ways Collett.) Annoss r, (an., 4, Delicate ttrite 7Xolon Ste 8. Cabbage salad 8. Pointed 12. Lubricate WOPOOS 11, Small teland 9. Abide IA Telegraph ICI FIxtent Sior• 13 !Wrist hi/deat '. fare ft 11 IS Ft. Dentilre 13. Deed In se* Ins it Trout:FT:4 .23. Lost life fl 24, nO8sorts 211 rolling e9 Pe mistaken an A tiv .of three equal ,pante 31. Scotch rive, PerIndS of Oittia,t1 RI 71o/18100 101 port. 85. Nind of da her 88 Nrogetab161' '87. f4o1.9,v froli& l'n .ecinderOn , est bad. 11.. Ache 42. Most Prittif tIve 43 Fern ier131 47. Troth' track 44, Winateit 48, English river iin.•Trerielles r,1 SI.,rnt Arent , TIPOWN 4I4 2. Ventilate 3, Deelelicre 4: Co-tit:6mo. ,r; 17 /5 /11 20 tot•tv:44: :•+••41%.•:: 27 Z: . 23 2/ zz 2# 34 34. 35 3$,, 30 37 3 ,3 yt 4 yr ikt '17 3d, TAPESTRY OF DISASTER- A study in destruction, this garage yields to flood waters Aubusson, France, a city' HOW its tapestry-Making, Heavy rains have spread death Cita property damage over- a large section tht nation: 48 , Answer e sewliret tin this page