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The 'G 4erieh, Si al-Star,-'LIiur lav, v.j'anuary 13, 1003
WHQ'S AFRAID?
The arrival •of the Christmas
i-
� bw•' ri
er o£ a _variety ,rarefy • of pe_ od
✓ ats invariably. 'transpor'ts one
into. : Other worlds , and ether
tinte,s and auo of talose whose
e
#101110 r$ ;rest rrected is Fred-
e rick Courtney Stelous, the great
By G. MacLEOD t,OSS
to check this widely; held belief. a live hen which makes its home
placed a wide plastic tray on the elephant's head during
He
tike
_ do -not k.
li ht. Elephants 1
-•the fd.
C
circus e
a 1 g
centre of
in the ce•n e
plants' compound and filled it to travel alone and the feather -
with white mice.' The elephants,ed companion has a calming
effect ' shed. •
their were then let out of h
One walked over tp inspect the ' Dog Behaviour,.
tray, testiir •, it with over trunk. My own' inwestigatiOns , into
an all over s e re-
_
Tk�� ran' e Aanulted, f over fear_ in animals has _b e,
'i '11<n all 'arguments about big the compound and the elephants stricted to dog behaviour, yet.
game. Taunting there is no dis• sought their shed. All `save" one, '1 have never been able to satisfy mas days they remember edt Phe
�riotto "I will honor Christmas
' 'tite that Selous was the great. which ran to the fence and myself as �to• why a small°daclf-, in me heart and try to keep its
'eSls of 'tlier4 all. He • sailed for s`ood,• with Ps trunk haneine •shund, (Charlie, in fact) by re-
. '19 and• over, presumably petrified with marks, occasionally. reinforced all the year," was given by.-Mrs
£rico in -1871, aged , Terence re.nce ,Hunter who read the,
eventually arrived at Bulawayo, fright, by a ping to .the throat .of -his story cThe Open Door," by Faith
the capital of King Lobengula i But what about the size limits opponent, can frighten off dogs Ii trrlw'T
of, the Matabele, in what is now to stimulate fear? Quite by, three and four times his size. Is Mrs. T. Lamb gave household
3cn;a ri as Southern hodes'r chance a rippQ Wished -its-way re, pest ?or his seniority? For li-i s on how La to make --a .si;�hold
In 'three -seasons he shot 78 into an -elephant coriipound in the stern voice of the sophists- cushion and how to make marsh
" elephants, with a 121.2 pound the Kronberd Reserve" and took cated dog -of -the -world? Or is t mallow rabbits.
smooth bore duck gun, as sturdy possession -'*of the pool Three that a dog does net realize his '•he meeting closed with the
as a small cannon. He returned elephants advanced to 'attack, size? Queen and Grace. A social hour
• there again and again and in The hippo stood firm and open.”! You .may recall the story was enjoyed while the members
1917, at age""b' "-was active in., eel'"rvhe•r. mouth to expose her; "The Ugliest Dachshund,' of exchanged gifts and enjoyed the'
the East African Campaign, the glistening tusks. After , one the Great Dane, brought ' VP lunch served' by Mrs, Percy Mc -
clash, the bolder ,of the three with a kennel of d•ach�shends, Bride. Mrs. Kaitting, Mrs. `C, Al.
tireless. He died, hit" by an elephants, a cow, presented her who 'always considered • himself lin and Mrs. O. Falkiner, the
enemy bullet in the head on rear end preparatory to a quick one of their,,breed until, one hostesses,
the Rufiji and they buried him wheel around to deal a surprise day, he saw himself in a mirror, '
at the foot ,of a great b
Household "Hints
Fr Dunlop WWI
The December meeting of the
Tiger Dunlop branch of the Wo-
men's Institute was • held in the
hl.—:t
l. --Carlo - tall, the enr tr
dent, Mrs. R. Buchanan, in the
chair, .-
The roll call was answered
by a 'G
ristmos
Poem.
m.
The 4H Achievement Daywas.
set for January 29 i}}' the. Sea -
forth District High School and
all members were invited to at-
tend.
• During the meeting some of
klie nrembers Te-CalTell Christ:
tree.
To illustrate what an elephant
will do in its:`�,rage, he cited
how Quabeet, a native hunter,!
. , trapped by a maddened ele-
phant, •had been torn to pieces.
We turn from this. story of ele-
phantine violence to Grone-
-7 feld's b'°o o k "Understanding
Animals" (Heineman 45s) which
in text .ands erb photoeeeph:s,
descrilee. Jail "investigation 'into
how large„nor small„ an animal
can frighten an elephant.
As early as 1627, Luptee
wrote:. "Elephants of all other
beats do chiefly hate the
mouse,” and now, three centur-
ies later, Gronefeld sets out.
aobab blow with her
trunk liut she I forgot which of those great
exponents of the outdoors ands
hunting said: Those who have
S'PPn a�n Plc.,ha•n+ beim
cooked overs spirit lamp, can
have no idea of the gastronomic
too then retreated from the
snapping jaws. Eventually a dog
chased the hippo away.
What were the limits of size?
Gronefeld had inadvertently
found that a hedgehog produced
fear in elephants. He tried a
small toy dog, with two inch
fess, pulled along by a string
.and the toy became a crumpled
.mass-• �It -was sufficiently' high -
off the ground to he classed as
nothing to fear, yet a toy hedee-
Ihog produced panic amongst the
w relephants.
I wonder 'how all this fits in
with the Royal Dutch, Airlines
fine print: "A11 elephants•travel-
ling by air are e mpanied by
resourcefulness of the French,
"Gourmet" Quem
Perhaps you noticed that mas-
sive Queen Salote of Tonga died
quite recently. As befitted one
,who•••cause- from the Friendly
Lsles, as Captain Cook named
her island, she enshrined her-
self ih, the_ hearts of the Lon-
doners. when in 1953,- she drove
through the city, in an open
victoria -.in the pouring rain and
smiled and smiled at the cheers.
It was the Coronation proces-
Local Minister
To Be, Speaker
Rev. G. Lockhart Royal of
Knox Presbyterian Church will
be the .guest speaker at the Week
of Prayer service to be held in
Wiartgil.l
sign .of Queen Elizabeth II. On
the seat facing Queen Salote sat
a small' boy, whose identity was
unknown't" the crowds cheering
her progress. A 'friend asked
Noel Coward, who ' vas- watch
ling, who the boy, was Noel re
plied:' "That's her lunch!"
SUGAR
AND SPICE
by Bill smiie,.
THE STVRDY ONES A•R MAIN
six -dunce, 'forty -cent Minkel" dor, Orab the shovel -and make
'drinks, and a. twisted 'back from the snoW fly, chuckling' heartily
trying to `tango, all 'the\ while as you think of
those poor slobs in: the south,
wife, in the other, twin with nothing to do every day
bed, lookslike an 'innate of Bbl- but the same old things.
sen:. beeause..she-'s had Mexican
THESTURDY' O S REMAIN w o throw the first curling corn taint, omznnni known as The clear,, fresh, n ►rthern aur
� l�._�X N� . � .A when You th ®� ._ < � 'dire
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>_� Malt
;I`Itis 1s" .e tuneofear When slap', hat Gita of .t ugh bones d re rear, ever szziee`t ey cross, ' ltnrg tTtl'rzt�Ii urn.
weget nd of call the undesiz.- on ski., hill? ed the Jaotder. She. �wh nes, he bullet.' Bark seal like greeting
the ,,< :,, r to neighbor, whose head is just
abler in the _cgmmulnity, By un- snarls; 7 hey: totter out• -info the
desirables, I 'mean people with Let's take a Took at a. couple muggy heat., And anothet„hor• visible 'over his ' snowbanl.
more money than I.. They. leave of o' hese hot•weather haunts. rible day in Acapulco has be; °
our northern conui unity for Look At thus bird in Florida. gun. �Ofrt to the garage, xcitemenfi
Florida, MYlexiep, the West Indies. Gets out of bed and there's that 40 f wogdering whether the car
`•t * : t:1 same old ' crumby,ti" monotonous It's not like that around here. .will start; The sheer, demonic
In one fell ' swoop we get rid su blazing' down�.�just like all My' daughter wakes me at six- I°Y of belt+ tg out the driveway
of.allthe ' oaf ie 'the cowards, the other 'da .. Same. old reu- thirtyandt call ..a cheery good backwards and.trying tet. smash
s t a;:, ys ( eh rY g
• :'throe h the bank the ane 1 w
the sybarites- . 10 Meet the rich, tine. -The . inevitable. orange morning. It• may sounds .,-..b 1111:......8 - ..�__ __..��!p 4___
white. t,'ash, juice on the Inevitable patio; more like "RUMPH" but it's has thrown up. sometimes• you
A: �' '' the- inevitable trip to the beach well meant. My life's partner make it.
It's as much a part of our with the inevitable obscenely shoves me et;,. with her foot ten 4' 10
heritage as the Saturday night fat softies lying all around: Or minutes latera The skidding,
slithering ad -
heritage
both, or spring cleaning. And 1 the' 'inevitable sweating'it out" . K venture of the' `drive to work,
think it's a good thing. on the golf course with a ..1qt of Dawn to a .jolly breakfast: Wheels spurning, visibility twel-
"' other middle-aged 'liars, vitamin pills, cuppa tea and half- ve feet; every man for himself.
When the last barber or brick- '" ---4,tt slice of toast. There's the thrill f'
layer has bragged about being And here's our pal in Mexico, of variety as you prepare for The good fellowship and viva -
off to the Baham s, when the 'ty--of the- teachers' cloakroom,
everyone stamping cursing, and
running et the nose.
last druggist or octor has jq-
form'ed me .. pompously .. that
"We'll probably take in Acapul-
co this year," I feel a sense of
relief.
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The rats have lett the Freez'
ing ship, -and there's only the'
hard core, the• sturdy pioneer
types, the rugged individualist
and the poor people, left in the
temperate (hah!) •zone.
fust getting up at 10.3 He 'the day. When-- dawn comes;+
hasn't, paid last year's' income will the sun be shining, the
tax yet, but he borrciwved $1,500 snow falling, or a blizzard howl -
from the bank to make the trin, ing? I 4•` * 4' a
He- has 'a hangover from those , Out into the wild white yon- And another day of
The rest of us, the best of us,
can get down to the real glory
of winter living, without stum-
bling over a lot of sissies who
are better off down there get-
ting sand in their navels.
As ',One of the =old true-blue
breed, rghting it out with the
elements, I am inclined to scorn
them. As a huinanitarian, I can
only pity them. Think of what
they're missing!
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What is there. in the soft' and
sensuous south to .equal that
crunch of tees breaking off, that
crack of bursitis in the shoulder
glorious
'wrote' living, kas ,011. -Don't
try to tell me about the seduc-
tion -'of the .languorous south-
1aud: dust give me the crisp, "1
virile challenge of living'°where
men. are men, And you. call tell .
them from women. When you.
get them h F(Y out; `_._
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- Here it is once again, our big_January Price Slash on
our dresses, This !is a large group and you Will find
practically .every style, color and material. This
Merchandise ` is from our re'ular stock and 'the
i savings are substantial. ' Shop early for best selec
tion` and. get lots o wear put of one- of these fall
and winter dresses.
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