Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1947-7-30, Page 6A Bathing Suit That Swims— If you are 1u„kin„ for a h.al;ing suit that is not , nly st• pt u11:ing to decorate the peach ttith. 1 net , also doesn't g.. -t r, t11c if. as and s:1;n you get into the water, try elle lila, t It i. ,tr.rn by Cyd Chari!—se who slums it off to alivantege net a new movie ,ailed "Fiesta.” Wel wet M e'en le,e ralu,e "ror a minute I thought he was going to pull my head off 1" On the Home Front By C. Kessler 41157AM1NUT5, I'LL SEE IPI CAN GET Tow Lbl5SEy ori BAG CROS1Y Music So Sweet By MULES CROWLEY Ile noticed it now as they walked across the green gratis that tihrew back the sunlight like tiny, )ruling points of isinglass. And it hurt hint to uuucc it ---]nut hits as if it were a physical wound. "Bea, it's foolish!" he said. He acid it low, but his voice seemed to possess a quality that carried tt far beyond tine green hill. "Maybe it is," she said. "I can feel it, too, .when I'm home." She gave a slight lift of her slender shoulders. "It seems that the at- mosphere just doses around Inc. Sometihoe 1've found myself breathless. as tf I were tired." "Maybe if your father felt any different; he suggested. "Yes," she said thongtfully. "Father could help. But when he's not working, he sits by the window, as he's sitting now, gazing out at the trees and the birds and not seeing theta. Yes, Father could help, all right." 'Have you played any mrtsic, since--" "No," and she looked up at him, the sun painting a soft hate, round her coppery hair. "Neither of us has touched anything since Mother died." She looked away. Eight months. Yet it seems like, yesterday when she used to sit at the piano, touching those ivory keys with her white, slender fingers—' Ile thought a moment, and he wondered if this feeling could be real, like stone is real, or if it could he lifted, like a filet and the trtt- (hanyrd real shown beneath. "Let's go back," he said. "I'm going home, and you're going with She looked at him. Her blue eyes shone sadly. "Earnie. l can't." , He took her hand gently. "We'll conte back, be said. Don't wor- ry.' He stopped the car in front of his home. "I'11 be right back," he said. He want in, came out with a large, curved. black case, and start- ed back 10 Ler house. In front of her house again, they got out, and be took the big, black case ont of the car. She led the way to the door. He crossed slowly through the kitchen, then stepped into the living roost, and stopped. From his chair across the rine, near the wide window where he alway s sat, Bea's father smiled. "1 brought my guitar," Earnie said. The older elan removed his pipe, blew out smoke that formed a blue filar before hint. As if to hide the expression on his face, thought Karmic, "You did?" he said. "It's been a long tine." "Yes," Earnica said. "It has. You don't mind, do you?" The older man shook his head, "No I don't mind. Go ahead." "Bea --- the piano, will you, please?" he said, She struck the keys. A soft, re- sonant sound splashed out, like cool -water that sprinkled around the quiet roost. He struck the kuitar strings. The smooth, whispering notes blended with the piano's. She started to play, and he leaped in with the chords, and music, for the first time in so long, drifted in sweet, lovely strains through the house, atomizing the air with its fragrance, air that had long been stagnant and dry, Earnie heard a soft sound behind him and caught a glimpse of Ilea's father's back as he strode slowly out of the roots. A tight knot sud- denly formed inside him, and he turned back and looked at Bea. Site didn't see his gaze. Iter eyes, her mind, were absorbed in the mu- sic. And then, from the other room rante a high, tient sustaining note. The silvery, mellifluous strains of a violin, Th two near the piano turned, and they watched him enter tate room, his elbow held high, pilling the bow across the strings, while he watched it with his eyes, as if mu- sic was something you should see and he was seeing it—and smiling at the sometime. The astrolabe, most ancient of all navigation instruments, was used by Columbus. All Set to Go to Work—Farmerette Gloria Carl non seems to be having no trouble operating this new model SN Fore.] tractor. New featu res include an improved hydraulic system for implement control and four forward speeds. Ontario Canning Crops Down Only Apples, Berries Plentiful Higher prices and smaller sup- plies than last year—that's the score on canned fruits and vegetables for 1947 as shown in an early season sur- vey by The Financial Post. Only apples and berries will be plentiful among the frnits. Peaches, pears, cherries and plums all will be considerably down from last year's record yields. .Among the vegetables, the as- paragus pack is down from last year. The prospects for other crops arc: corn, good a dry weather maintained; peas, percent of normal; tomatoes 1055 than ave- rage Consumer Will Pay More Bigger returns to the grower and increased labor costs will boost prices to the consumer as much as 00 percent in Ontario. Examples given to the Financial Post by one canner tin Ontario) of what he called "an evident in- flationary tendency" were: peas, up 17 percent; tomatojuice up 12 percent; asi,aragus, up 5.1 percent; cherries up a2 percent. Compared with crop conditions at this time last year, the picture is not so bright, with the excep- tion of British Columbia which reports tile over-all situation bet- ter Than last year with increases in berries, apples and tomatoes and, in contrast to other areas, "ample 11111," How They Stack Up Here are some comparisons be- tween this season and last: Apples:—Good all round. Esti- mated :10 percent increase on last year's yield of 17,650,000 bushels. Peaches:— Estimated not much 1(1010 than 59 percent of last year's 2,101,000 bushels because of long cold, rainy spells in spring. Pears:—Low production last year down again this year --estimated .00 permit of last year's 924,090 bushels Plums:—Clint 011 market last year and this year's expected 50 percent drop on 1946's 750,000 bushels wel- comed by trade. Cherries:--llit worst of all by spring weather (except in B.C.). Sours yield estimated 30 percent of last year's, sweets 50 percent. Last year's combined total was a30,t100 bushels. Raspberries, Strawberries: — Both expected to be in plentiful supply, estimated yields tip 10-20 percent on last year (100 percent in some B.C. areas), Vegetables:— Warm, sunny wea- ther in the last three weeks of June has improved prospects in most areas for most canning crops except in Quebec where both peas and tomatoes have fallen far behind, Useful Toad If a toad decides to ntalke his home in your garden, by all means be hospitable to hint — which means, mainly, just don't molest hint, or let anyone else do so. He may look like a stere animat- ed clod, but his sticky tongue is forked lightning to insects. 1•Ie does all his work at ground level, look- ing up at the underside of leaves where insects lurk that even the sharpest -eyed of birds fail to see. He is one of the most valuable of our allies in the endless insect war, )n some Quebec arras canneries have abandoned hope for a fair crop of peas and large losses are ex- pected in transplanting tomatoes. Shortage of Crates In British Columbia, however, canners are reporting peas will be better than last year and tomatoes much better. But this does not help the over-all picture appreci- ably since B. C. production in both items normally averages only 10 percent of tine Canada total. Improved weather conditions have helped Ontario growers with their corn but it's doubtful if there will be a good yield front these late plantings. Conditions are worse in Quebec. One other feature of the situa- tion which may tend to ranee ex- pected ntarketings is a pronounced shortage of vegetable packages. Box nails are in extremely short supply and growers fear connidrr- able crop wastage may result through a lack of crates. Maple Products Pay Millions to Farmers The 10.11 crop of maple syrup and maple sugar is much greater than in 1040 and is estimated at 3,080,000 gallons of syrup and 3,134,000 pounds of sugar, com- pared with 1,880,000 gallons of. syrup and 2,443,050 pounds of sneer in 19-;6, The syrup crop is the largest on record since 1921 but sugar production is 5 per cent smaller than the 10 year 19311-45 average. Production of 1113110 syrup and sugar is confined to four provinces and pr,:duction this season, with comparable figures for 1046 in brackets, is as follows: Qnebec, ,,;ail :.g=31.(ttl0 gal. (l,o38,0U(( gal,): sugar 3^110,000 lb. (2,118,000 1b.); Ontario, 'syrup 717,000 gal. 1235,000 gal.), sugar 07,000 !b. (7,00 110; New Brunswick, syrup 23,000 gal. (10,000 gal.), sugar 9:,000 Ib. (08,000 lb.); Nova Scotia, syrup 0,000 gal. (0,000 gni.), sugar 14,090 lb. (20,000 The value of the crop, including syrup and sugar, is estimated at 814,11t1,e00 ur 123 per cent more tG'/GLCC,4lG, Why Not Decorate Dull Screen Door? We had painted tho front -door screen 1)11101; (it's the kind with more screen than wood), and it seemed to 10011 so chill and was such a yawn- ing expanse of black that we decided to do something decorative shoat it, writes D.E,M. in The Christian Science Monitor, We thought up the idea of decor- ating it with designs (recalling in our childhood the painted screens in the w111110ws of Grandmother's 11(5(55), and art (11(0(11 i1 with the materials at hand—several tubes of oil paints, some 'turpentine, ne, and two small -size bristle brushes. With a piece of chalk we sketched the design on the screen (and one doesn't have. to he an artist to do this), copying the design in the ehdnlz used in the living -room drapes. k * * \Ve filled in the design with (Inc oil paints, mixing the colors with a small amount of turpentine. The 1'sf- foe (1 bunch of woodland flowers —was so pleasing that neighbors quickly copied oar idea, and now there are several hand -decorated screen doors on our street. Some people have gone really artistic in their work, and have formal flower bouquets and bunches of garden flowers--poppie:s, iris, roses, and the like—all very gay and attractive for sunnier. Decorating screen doors in this manner has the added feature of lending a bit more 1• i'. acy to one's house, for it is pos- sible to see out but -not to see in so * Another idea which we tried, after the Stlrces5 of this one, was to paint a fireplace screen in lite Dame man- ner, using a decoration of pine boughs and hemlock branches, and this, too, added at decorative and new rine to the living room, perking up the looks of am otherwise dull tire- 1dece setting. Window ace, ens can be done in the same way. And if the scene with- out is none loo pleasing, then paint the design on the inside and the outside view won't bother you. than the value of production in 1945, most of which went to farmers as bulk of maple syrup and staple sugar conies from trees ,51 0(11115. IMAYEAWCI 017 "paw TEE FIRE FIGHTER Constantly alert, ever waiting to stamp out the dread danger of finales, is the Fire Fighter. In every city, town and village of Canada be is ever ready to pit his skill and energy and very life against the mad heartbreak of Inc. Men like this, some of Canada's finest, are in the public's service—at your service. DAWES BLACK HORSE BREWERY Onc of a series o advertisements in tribtete to those Candians in the service of the public POP— Hot Stuff By J. MILLAR WATT 9 a WiiY Aga VOL) 'i SMIGANCofPOPGAVE Ao 7 ��/ �._ E. 3 i N .. ... -(ae3Wee A LITTLE GIRL, M!~ AN IC . GR,1=AM GOND 1 c , %r(/t, -^ IT WARMED MY HART 1 ,,,, , Y .. - / ����) / tea % .ter y n �) iv Toe tMn nmeleau, tial) ..