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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-3-11, Page 3The, toco le 15j'llxl':tCTlj`1Ci A I -IOM How tai plata* •and design a 'private :garage end where to locate It repra- fent problems in the autom'ot'ive ex- perience Of many owners of ears. There are several items to be taken into consideration, J'FOR TRW; .C1I-R. CONCIu rFi C'rooi uw tilt0F;0,, The floor of ar• garage should ba :of concrete. Thera shou.d lie a welter outlet under each car so that the datmpnees will disappear after the car has been witslzed or•the water has For instance, there is the mutter been let out of the radiator. The Of the style of architecture. Certainly most popular method of sighting a this should receive careful ntteution. garage at night is by electricity`, Of course any old box shaped stem- To have a water connection in the tura will house a care and protect it! garage is nature:]Y. a great conven- from the weather, but a neat garage fence. With plenty of water even - that is In harmony with the types of bile the car end the garage Skier can architecture of,the house is most cte- be easily kept clean. Also water with sirablo. It makes one's property morn a hose connection will come in handy attractive and salable if the owner for use in ease of Jiro. Also for fire should ever wish to sell, ll' the home protection, every garage should have is of wood, stone, brick or stucco the' a first class fire extinguisher. sante material will Probably loole bast Garage doors come in fora lot of in the garage. The size of a gar•ago•use, The hinges on the doors should depends naturally on the number of, be substantial. Garage doors should the ,ears to be housed'. The height open outwardly, When doors aro usually should be at least ten feet,; opened, fasten them open so they will with a doorway that is at least nine not slam back, and forth, I%eep the feet high, The length should be usu-1 doors shut when the car is out or lie ally as much as twenty feet and width, It is possible to have them arranged about eight or ten feet per ear, It is so that they slide open straight across. not by any means twice as expensive the door area or fold up Eike an ac - to build a two -car garage as itis to;cordion or slide on iron frames along. construct a one -ear building, There; the outside of the garage. There is a growing tendency to build two -i should be geed quality of bolts .and car garages instead of one car. Morel locks and other Hardware, 1 fake are venting to own two cars, Eat Before building a garage the owner of an autoznolrile should carefully con-' sider this whole matter. He will find that to give his ear the proper kind of shelter is true economy. A car properly housed is sure to give its when there is hut one car in the fam- ily motorists find it desirable to have extra space enough to Libeller the our of a friend -who may be visiting. A little more complicated is the -problem as, .to where the' garage owner malty dollara' worth of satis- should be located. Usually it to be faction and adequate protection for found in the rear of the house. Some this valuable possession, houses that aro built on a high plot of ground with the land sloping sharp- ly toward the streetrepresent u situa- tion where locating the garage in the rear of the home is out of the ques- tion. In such an event it can be located bridge and presented herduwith a small in front, but the grading can be dors so that the garage is mostly under -I sack of candy; Just before they reach. ground and does not mar the beauty; ecTcamp they overtook the small bare - of the landscaping. Thus located foot boy who brought them milk each morning. • "Give the littleboy some candy, Gertie," her father suggested. Garbs picked out a small piece, but In Other Words„ 'Taint Fair! A business man who 'had motored out tohissummer camp, for the week right on the street it has Sts advan- tages, but this is not ordinarily the most desirable place to put a garage. If possible*, the 'garage should he her father took the hag and poured about on a level with the house. Of out several pieces into the boy's ont- course, thie is not apt to be possible out hei1 ]Lane]. in the case of the house just described. Since it is especially inconvenient to have to back up a steep incline in get- ting out of the garage, it is desirable After the boy had gone Gertie said reproachfully, "Papa, why did you give that milk boy nearly all my candy?" "Why, my dear, you must be gener- when building in the rear of a house ons! Thuile of all the nice milk he to either grade down the s' 1 d orraise o t..,. 6c for chargemuh don't h t brings,ndt a do eand y the foundation if the ground slopes lee away from the back of the house. "Oh well,'' said the little girl, still. PRESENT TENDENCY REVIEWED. reproachful, "1 only hada few bits of There is a growing tendency to candy, and hes got, a whole cow full construct garages that are attached to .of milk." the house. Some of these are located M the basements of homes. This ar- rangement makes it convenient for the owner eyho has to start out with his car in unfavorable weather. On the other hand, the auto is a fire haz- ard. If`the garage is under the house its walls and roof should be fireproof, and if there must be an entrance di- rect from the house to the garage the door should be fireproof. If the gar- age is in the basement be sure there He Probably Did. is no connecting door between it and "So your husband sleeps like a log?" the furnace room, as gasoline fumes "Yes, like a log." from the car may cause a disastrous "And saws it all night, I suppose." explosion. If a garage is attached to the house at the side or rear the same precaution about fire should betaken. Camera as Detective. Architects have worked out attractive designs for attaching garages to houses, ' It is taken for granted that the garage should be well constructed. There should be no drafts. • The doors useful to impregnate the skin of the and windows should fit tightly, so that fingers of criminals, or other suspect the place can be easily heated if de- sired. The only proper heat for a ty;ara;ge, however, is steam or : hob water, This can be piped from the house. A cost] or wood stove in a garage would be extremely dangerous. The building should be constructed so as to keep out various animals that might enter and damage a car. On the other hand, the garage should be well ventilated.: The danger of running a motor in a tightly closed garage is frequently emphasized by tragic consequences to those who do so. The exhaust throws out carbon monoxide, a deadly gas, and in addi- tion, the carburetor constantly drains out the oxygen in the room. One is easily overcome by such conditions, and once this happens the victim has little chance of recovery. MUTT AND,JEFF An Interesting discovery In photo- graphy .is now being used by the Freneh police In their work of crimin• al investigation. It has been found ed persons, with a preparation con- taining a lead compouud. This re- mains on the lines of the skin, • `When an X-ray photograph is taken, not only is the linger -print shown In detail, but also thestructure of the bones. The bones of the fingers fur- nish even more possible clues to the identification of criminals than finger- prints. - Crowded, "I feel like a store with a bargain sale," groaned Tommy, as he ap- Proaehed from the direction of the pantry, the immediate surroundings. o£ his mouth being asuspicions dark rod, "What's the matter, my dear?" Sam inside. A sole agent -the shoemaker When the "All•Blacks" rugby team of New Zealand wore at Banff, Chef Buffalo Child Long Lance, a blood Indian, greeted the Maori members of the teem as long -lost brothers, Cured by Nutmegs. A nutmeg tree will yield from 1,000 to 10,000 nuts a year. All Parts of the fruit are in demand for culinary pur- poses, In Singapore the .natives salt. the husks, and in drinking saloons they are supplied for the purpose of creating thirst. A. delicious, preserve is also prepared front the husks. The nutmeg is employed in medicine as a carminative and stimulant, and fat from the nut—the so-called nutmeg Naatur'a. Beeaurcen Bulte#n. The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the ;M. 'Eerier at Ottawa says;, Ono of Canada's oeonornic mii;erais that is hemming increasingly import- ant is copper. The demand for thla metal is rapidly growing, due to the '.ease with which 11 can be adapted to manufacture, During 1024 the out- put of copper in Canada reached the TOMMY'S ESSAY ON CONP1UCTORS fay Irene 'WiflUsnis. tip, "Pa," said Tommy, aged ten, who was sitting at a table, with both feet twisted around the legs of said table, remarkable figures of 101,000,000 a Pad of paper before lion, said a stub - pounds, the highest production since by penell (which Socked 118 though it the close of 1ho war. In•1918 there had been through a threshing-rna- was 118,7G9,d8$ pounds produced, chine), grasped tightly in his right showing the possibilities of this ne- hand• tural resource when occasion demands. Ne answer from Pa, who was very Last year the output of copper was deep in war, Peace, and Ilolshevism• 86,881,63? pounds. as 'fully explained to the everting There has been a very large in- Paper, . crease 10 the use of copper in recent "Fa," said Tommy again, This tante years, particularly in the electrical in. the word penetrated somewhat. dustry, where fully 60 . per cent. of "Helm?" said Pa. the world's output of copper is con- "What's .conductor omen?" a:slced mimed. In a recent statement by the Tommy. 'Ifenzntoitdltawa wife'Always Secretary of the Copper and Brass Pa submerged again. nearly a 3 Research Association, some figures of "Pa!" said Tommy. louder.''Sllixt'a stops to put her face malue•up on ha - consumption were made available. conductor mean? 'f oarher' gSve us fora' she driven ltc r husband down to work inch O. W. L. (Qu With Laughter) buttar—is used as an application for In telephone and telegraph lines it tots hare word, an' said we wiz to * a'rnorrtzng• ' rheumatism. is estimated that 1,400,000,000 pounds write a eases aa' explain jus' what Why is she so particular, I contains t :cent, of copper have been used; while the conductor means." "She didn't do it one morning and It from3 08perce.of p , i> ,,. .,, there rt got °w t, front oout that Ilemm ndha a volatile 011, and the substance- myrls- present annual conmutnption for this "Conductor, said Pa, c]tan„ . 1 iz ntP e tloln, which possesses narcotic proper- purpose is 200,000,000 pounds; sub- war, peace•and Bolshevism, to coPper was running away with another WO. ties, Cases of poisoning as a result marine gables contain 20,000;000 Plate, gun metal, tin roofing and so 10011," pounds of copper; radio sets have used up 6,000,000 pounds. Harnessing of water -power and the building of trans- mission lines have called fee an enor- mous quantity of copper wire. of chewing nutmegs have been record- forth, "A conductor is a gutter pipe." ed—a'aingle nutmegserious] affect -"Gee!" excatmed Tommy. "Gutter She --"Stop! What do you think you Ypipe?" are doing?' He—"Oh, about forty- ing the cerebral functions of man, "That's what I said! Can't you un- fig{"" ! One way costs dodge excessive trans- derstand? said Pa, "A conductor is ---- quality, costs is to grow products of The manufacture of automobiles a gutter pipe and it carries off things. Many a man doesn't know .how to ualit Now don't bother me any more to- tinker his flirver on the road now q y' b absorbs ' I tit[ f >r mor Jar duan es o copper, CROSS -WORD -PUZZLE ®®®®1 111.1I111111111111 11111 INN ®1111■®®111111:, mu®■ 1iilm11■II II NI iii111111111 II ®SII HER .r . ®.®■a■....■ 111111111111111 -- 1111. 10 20 • k0 ;. i f ilia II It .: , iiiiii ,.. 1111... •.,i1111 ■ :iilliiil.■ 60 SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS -WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both, HORIZONTAL } 1—A small Job 8 ---Pronoun (possessive) 7—implied 12-411rl'e name 13—Thus 14—Exclamation '18—Inside an apple 17—Printer's measure 18—Ono who bears the blame 20=Upon 21—Wealthy 23 --Small Spanish horse 24-Perfeot mentally 26—Nonsense (slang) 28 --Very email insects 80- Consumed 32--A grain 38 --Indentation 38 -Understands 98—Suppose 38—An English school 40• --Possesses 41—Direct 42—Put on clothes 45.—A helper (abbr,) 48—Caper 52—Poisonous reptiles 54—Legal term 55—Those who put money in business 68—Island near New York (abbr.) 57. --End of a dog , 59—Preflx meaning "formerly" 80—Prefix md1lning "In" 61 --Supplied with shoes 83—Old 64—Boy's name (abbr.) 68—Last name of author of Uncle Tom's Cabin VERTICAL 1—White collar slave 2—Prefix meaning half 3—Upon 4—Hasty 8—Anticipate 6 -Anger 8—Performs 9—Abbr. for name of a business organization 10—A metal 11—Rellglbus belief 13—Bend 16-100 degrees In the shade 19—Battles 22—Partly burned wood (pi.) 25—Those who bear witness to 28—Leave 27—Frozen rains 28—Yawns 29—To clip 30—Summed up 81—Half en em 82—House pet 34—Light brown 87—Royal Highness (abbr.) 99—Onward 43—Portions 44—Apart 48—Settee 47—Cuttivate 48—Hall 49—The one following 60—Piece of news 61—Peruse 52—Abbr. for assistant 53—Farm tool 58—Western State (abbe.) 82—Exclamation OF CO -UR JEFF'S Bce'N AT woRk obi So,MeT1-11t'6 1N Tt-W cCLL 1t. Po(,'Wo MONTHS Dui' NGLs KEPI" 'Clic- boors Lottt0D: lie's GONNA t -e:1" IN oN Tide SEct<ET YbAP1Y.! AN! NE RAPS: THAT'S IU'3 s(GNAL Fort ME To Come' Dowty: MuYY, IT'S A BOAT S MAbE lr M'SCL1': (T 1lAS AN) E1Gt1T• Fool Br:AA'N Aiiub WILL:1toLl) TEN •PCoPLe1 N►FTY,df ? Yes! Bur s'M JusT WalabePlNG ABoUr SOMeTNING: varying from twenty pounds in the night!" that his wife doesn't wear hairpins Smaller car to 700 pounds in the more Tommy looked bewildered for a nee- any more. expensive car. Street railway lines menta Then, producing a knife, the use a large amount of copper for blade of which looked as though it had CORRECT THIS SENTENCE. wwell in - been through two threshing machines.''Yes, ytiur honor, I'm sure we have ingtrolley of the cars, iresas from oneas to tthewobuildthou- he haggled the stubby pencil until it met before," politely remarked the sand pounds being required for each was a little more stubby; then, rob' tnotorii;t to the judge before whom ear• bing some smudges which were on the he had appeared three tithes previous Copper is also the principal ingre paper until they were a little blacker, for speeding. ddent in fhe manufacture of brass, he proceeded to write about conduct • - which latter is made by fusing three ore• This is what he had for the : When conte birds get thea, filet. iiru parts of copper with two parts of Language Class at school the next automobile they can out -remark the zine, although varying in proportion day; bird who has the first baby at his as to color and hardness required, A "it's awful nice to go to the countre house —cud then some, small percentage of iron is sometimes of a summer, and stay all summer— added to secure 'hardness, You kin go barefut, an' do as you; His car was fact, t} c. train was British ` Columbia and Ontario are piece, if you don't live there; you kin Inner; 3 they met or. tate track, result the two principal producing provinces, go black -bemire, an' wade in the erik, ' —disaster, the former largely predominating, an' eat green apples, an' gat up when'! If his car has two more ryiiutlers three companies, the Granby, Britan you piece, if you don't live there; if nia and Consolidated, having large you live there, you have to git up by!than 701118, and you eau call him a smelting and refining plants. moonlit, an' milk cows with lanterns--; Big Stiff, that is class consciuusneee. In order to encourage the produc but if you don't live there, you kin gat tion of the higher grades of copper al up au' go a-ilshin'. Motorist---"Yeses I think I can b...t thetrain am to bounty on copper bars and rods, made "It's nice in winter, tu, if you dontthe crowing, but 1 wish i in Canada from copper produced in live there. You kin go a-sleddin' an' you were up bore in the (rout with Canada and sold for consumption In:` roast apples on the harth at night, an' me." Nervous passenger----"W-why?" A lIZOtOrISt—" 5''. ' Th 1, time last toe I tried it this country, was granted in 1923 for' have IDLs o' mime, pies; but if you live i I five years. As a result of this one' there, you have to help hall wood an I lest the backseat." Canadian electrical company is now shuvei snow, That's a heap harden]. halite sheds up -hill an' pilin' np snow I There once was a driver name;) Move. rolling copper rods do Canada, 1 ing, for forts "There's 1018 o' ways to git to the - Who refused to he d any warning. countre. If you don't have no money, He drove on the trace you kin walk, if it ain't too fur; but; Without looking back, if you have muney, you k}n go en 1 So they're mourning this morning t'nr horseback, or in ottrmoblles, or stelae: Morning, cars, or trolley cars. A gutter pipe Tourists Leave Much Money Here. Many estimates are made as to the amount of revenue derived from the tourist traffic. It is somewhat un- what enrries off things, takes your; Henry Forel bought att oat I' w usual,' however, to receive a direct ticket. But they ain't ell gutter pipes; England sleigh for his ct 1ettien of statement of expenditure by those who —some is, Some is awful nice to fat ° antdques. One thing abut t that s:ciglt, come to Canada for holiday purposes. leen with dimon rings, an' stilish wim- i it never had a frown radiator. The Natural Resources Intelligence mins, but if they ain't stiffish, they Letyour li h Service of the Dept. of the Interior push 'em uP finite an' they say, 'Boy, E t so shine thot mea is receiving a large number of en-; don't you forgit to gat off at your will ace your good works, and dim quiries for information on canoe crossin'. I can't stop all day!' Them theirs also. routes, motor trips and holiday me-, ons is gutter pipes, they'd carry off sorts from many residents of the things,: but some says, 'Madan, I'll Many a girl has had her hair hob - United States. Among these is one in; help you with your baskit; 110 matter, bed without first toockoning the: cost which the writer wants information! who the w•lmmins is. An' they say, of maintenance and repair. concerning a canoe trip in North.] 'Now. sun, this is your stop.' Them western Ontario he contemplates mak-; uns aint gutter pipes; they would't Nothing is so annoying to a neon ing this summer. Ile states that "one' carry off things. . singing his own praise as to be drown - year, when we figured out, we found "This is all I know about conduct- ed out by a fellow blowing his own we had left 48,700 in your good Pro-' ons." horn. vince of Ontario, and I assure you it afforded us all great pleasure to do so," This season promises to be an exceptionally active -one for tourist business, especially among the areas where transportation is almost ex- clusively by canoe and portage. What He Feared. Two laborers were returning to a construction camp late one night after a pay day. They had spent most of their wages for goods of a liquid na- ture and thus had great diIDculty in keeping to the path through the woods. 1Plea113 tbey strayed from 3t altogether and one of them fell down a deep ra- Solutionof Iasi, week's puzzle. Speaking of hard luck, consider the girl who walks back on an asphalt road and has no mud on her shoes to prove it, 13131ral® EIC112163- 13®00 13©®1'2®; 1001,© oca©©ao Q©© ©; oLIC113 iva©© 131©�%" M • OGii © �©©• :1111:2-1121011211:11§ rl©©Q©",100© Ulcog :a2000•nu� ,:laCE0 - .D 10 00©0 " I2 ©ddoh,•®©uo i d:,QO ..1Y®©1ki',.,a®QO v©ala©v Q'©PIS Gi'MICL . u r t. loo©C11R 'i110i ui The question of the hour; "How much can I get for my old car?" Henry Ford has put the automobile within the reach of all. Stick out your hand in any direction and you can't miss one. The automobile, says a scientist, has made physical wrecks out of men. We,i, they ought to get out of the vine. The other held to a tree and: way. peered into the depths for his tom- 1 beliele in a spade and an acre pnuion. of gra:. ncl, whose cuts a straight The man who listed flivvers as hay - "Are you,hurt. Jim"' he called. path to his own living, ie the 800 ing horsepower must have bean think - "1 don't know, • canoe a weak mire and rad 1and sprouting grain, seems ing of Shetland ponies. fromthe darkness below. -hut 1 think to be a universal workhtgman. He Pam unconscious." solve, the problem of life.—Emersou. Pull out the cork and let it drip; - _, _ , ,.. step on the gas and let it Hp; bury hint gently end let him R. I, P. ' SE, JEFF COULD MOVE THE HOUSE -3y Bud Fisher ADD QUESTIONS. THC BoAT's 8 Fee -T DADE AND TNG BooR's 3 FEET Leib& Now You G,0NNiv 6gr THE GnAT au't' ote THC-- ce-LLLAR ? Sox CS tlislur- • • FDR SALE CNGAN A Nay W thm.l•'. Neticqz [revs, uSCbl FINE Fel lit ibut4G tuoobiAPPLY 10, If we're to believe the daily press, Carping critics abound. When critic carps, the want to ]enure• How the heck does it sound? .-_- First Belgian Town Raided by Germans Has Been Restored The little town of Vise, near the herder line between Belgium and Ger- many, the first scene of German op- erations in August, 1914, hes just completed its restoration program. Vise was very badly scarred by fire, hut all its historic edifices have been rebuilt in the old style, I'rinci• pal teeing these ora a sixteenth cen- tury church and town hall and a fa. moue ancient convent scht.oi. Give, and it shall be given uut1 you; good measure, pressed down, and 'shaken together•, and running over, shall men give unto your besot% For with the sante measure that ye met° withal it shall be measured to you again,— hake 6: 88.