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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1948-10-27, Page 3da bft�' nil 3BE';R'y, Don't Fret By tirCw ELLIS K. BALDWIN 1 ha I iu•t put little Caroline to le it. lulling she'd sleep through- un- to No • wine when shufllieg down tltc lir •walk came Otto Olsen. I saw hitt before my young doctor hushaut did. Gus was the first half of a stent medicine testimonial l iure the great transformation. Ili• fa resembled 1cathedral gar. goylc, Itis stomach ailment was kuowu all over the town, still he swore lie would never go to a doc- tor. "Not one of thein would be able to help nit," he boasted. \Vbeet flus retired front the rail - roar; he took up his post l,n his Porch. hailing every par,,•rby to disnr, lits .vmpt0ms. Panicky, f realized if Charlie should pre -tribe something that didn't cure, Gus with kis porch Iee- tur, s would spoil the doctor's chalices for building a practice. "Charlie." I said breathlessly, "1'11 tell hint yon have an emer- g,.ucy. Go out and hitch tip Dinah." I'd stopped counting the tittles Charlie haruc-,ed the horse to roll' out 0f the yard like he was headed for a fire. "it exciting for the maghborhood kids," Charlie would chuckle. k didn't !teat) a thing. l' ht doctor it as just putting on an art. half an hour later you'd hear the crunch of the wheel: on the twat. Charlie was saying, "I'm fed up with whirlwind buggy rides. Be- sides, the neighbors are starting to wonder where I go." nes was walking slowly, hunched er. hand on his stomach. I found my -elf clinging to Charlie's hand drowning woman. "%et go of Inc, darling," the doc- tor ;girl • almost angrily. "I must tin et our new patient." w•hiyrerc 1 desperately. "Dar- hinc. you can't face this old ges- so, `•uddculy the dolor mai calling ..lit, "Good evening, 3dr. Olsen. \\',-ai t you come in?" It took Gu; a long time to tell his ',tory. I board the doctor clear "You've got nee flabbergasted," Gus said. his throat it number of time while he in Gus recite his history. Then ('lutrlie began using those long technical terms he'd been boning up on these nights when he held office hours and no one cause in. "All of a sudden, I heard Gus shout an- grily, "Listen here, Doc, you can't telt me that," Goose pimple's pop- ped out on my amts. Charlie couldn't afford to get Gus down on him. 'Chen Charlie's voice droned on seemingly unperturbed by Gus' shouting. Front where I sat I couldn't mike out what he was say- ing. It seemed hours before the office door swung open. "You're kind of young," Gus was telling the doctor, "Nothing seems to have helped me, Figured yott couldn't put me through any more agony but what you've just said has got lite flabbergasted." Gus moved off into the night. The doctor didn't say anything. I stood it as long as I could, "Charlie, what did you give hint?' "It's a tough case," the doctor grunted, employing the deep bass notes he was learning to use, "Absolutely nothing. If you must know, I told him he was a hypo- chondriac, Told him there was ab- solutely nothing wrong with him but if he didn't stop glutting him- self with all these patent medicines he shortly would turn into a medi- cine bottle," But all that was years ago. Now the impatient honking of a motor horn brought me tobogganing back dorm the years, Ont at the curb was Caroline, a grown woman now, ready to drive her father down to his office in the medical building. The office would be jammed be- cause Gas Olsen, rocking steadily on his porch during the' years, re- peated proudly again and again to his passing friends, "I'm a !typo' tlundr(ar, yes sir, a hypochon- driac " Invariably lie'd add, "If you got any bad symptoms and you want to know quickly what they ave, there's a young doctor down the street . , ," The End Start Collecting Now For Christmas Gifts al„1het•, lu.t1 },"u''Itihheu Limit gruing ready for t ltrc,lni:is: 11 you live in the country, lir cut reach it. ra;ily, iliac ate many preparations t11a tan he made in the autumn, \\ hen going for a wall:, suggest that tali (hilt( carry a paper shopp- iut: bag. On the first trip they might secure acorns, to be made into Clu•isltette-tree ornaments, Then, on stormy days, let the boys and girls take out their paints and color some of the acorns. Others could be covered with tinfoil and colored paper, If the scores are nut too ripe, it will he easy to pierce one end of each with a needle, threaded with strong thread that has been doubled and knotted, and to draw the thread through the opposite end. When the thread is cut and tied it will form a loop with which to hang the ornament on the tree, however, if the acorns are to be covered with bright papr, instead of being paint- ed or covered with tinfoil, it is more satisfactory* to roll each paper covering in the form of a cylinder —tying the cylinder above and be- low the acorn and leaving a loop at one end. Cones for Fireplaces On another autumn day, the col- lection of cones might be the object a f a getting -ready -for -Christmas trip. Colics are delightful gifts for those who have fireplaces. The older children will enjoy making cheesecloth bags of vatrious colors for receptacles. The gift is more interesting when the cones have been treated chemically so that, while burning, their flames show beautiful hues — blues and greens — like those of driftwood, If the cones have been treated chemically, do not allow the papers on which they have been dried to be destroyed; instead, let the little folks roll them tightly and tie then into knots. These paper knots will burn with the same bril- liant colors as the cones. Another way to prepare this Christmas gift is one that can be done even by five-year-old children, but be sure to instruct each child to finish one cone before beginning on another. First, the torte must be covered with shellac, then, while it is still wet, driftwood powder should be scattered over it. This powder is sold under different trade names, such as "Seafire" and "Drift- wood Glow." Christmas Bouquets There are many dry grasses, dry berries, and seed pods that when combined stake pretty Christmas bouquets. Gathering these can be the object of one more merry autumn trip. Advise against select- ing any that easily shed particles of any kind — thus becoming an an- noyance instead of a joy to the re- cipient. Inexpensive scissors should be used for cutting, and only the older children should carry those grasses that have delicate stents. This carying should be understood to be an important responsibility and a very definite contribution to the preparation of the gifts. You will think of other country walks with Christmas in view. Baskets can be woven with grasses or rushes and later filled with nuts that the boys and girls have gather- ed. Or, the woven grasses may be formed into covers for glass jars and pots in which vines and hardy colorful living plants may be found In the woods long after winter has come to stay. Replanting Needed For a hundred years, the maple trees have been destroyed by fire, or cut with reckless abandon for fuel or lumber ... If a largescale replanting of maples was undertak- en, it would repay the effort in soil and water conservation and gener- al farm prosperity. Who Goes There?—These two peculiar looking juveniles are pileated woodpeckers. Their habits, and those of many others, are being portrayed in pictures and lectures revealing many little known facts of plant and animal life. TIIEFA1M FRONT Not long ago I saw a letter writ• ten to a friend by a woman who had recently lost, through fire, her entire farm house and all its con- tents. Because there might be a valuable idea in it for some readers of this column, Pin going to repro- duce it in part. * 0 "The fire insurance company seemed anxious to be perfectly fair," site wrote, "but the trouble was that I had no record of any of the smaller things in the home; so all we could do in the settlement was to accept a blanket rate for each roost.. Now, almost every day I miss something—maybe some thing small but still something I really need and have to buy, and the total cost is running up dread- fully. I feel sure that I didn't get enough in settling with the insur- ance company—but atilt it's no- body's fault but my own. * * "So now," the letter goes on, "I ata keeping an exact inventory of everything we own; and everything, even if it costs only a quarter, goes on the list. What is more I keep the list in a place where it is not likely to be destroyed by fire—in a glass fruit jar in a neighbor's basement." * * * One of the finest movements of its kind anywhere is the National Farm Radio Forum—the world's largest Radio Study Group Pro- gram which opens its ninth season on Mdnday, November 1st. Prob- ably you already know more about 0 titan I do; but just M case you don't here are a few of the facts. For although last season there were no less than 1351 groups or Farm Forums which stet and reported regularly during the fall and win- ter—and although over 23,000 peo- ple belonged to them—there's still plenty of room for expansion. 4' * 4, - The Forum is a Iisten.ing-and discussion project designed espec- ially for the farming people of the THIS CURIOUS WORLD 'feet®�1s"'e� u ' • `1k , By William Ferguson .A HUGE ,v• i�CsjnnROOU i�t:J . tLhq TWIGS AS TALL 'A5 A MAN WHBN IT SAT UP, ONCE. LIVED IN • BOTH NORTH ANDSOUiH AMERICA. dq 5261.1 6ieery.=a tt+cwlx KORNER /ha, UNIVERSIIYOF souitiogN CALIFORNIA IS WHERE? 0SANTA NAMBARA Lclf' ANG.Ez,EJ MAO AL7YJ COpM. 194) BY NEA SERVICE. INC 04. FAMOUS fgrOO j°? ©(AMONG IS TNOut'efIT TO HAVE BEEN FOUND IN SOUiHERN INDIA ABour ,soot YtARSAGO. T.M. two. 0. S. PAT. OF0 Dominion. It is jointly sponsored by three non-political and non-profit organizations — the Canadian Fed- eration of Agriculture, the Cana- dian Association of Adult Educa- tion, and the Canadian Broadcast- ing Corporation. * * * The setup is extremely simple. A group of neighbors agree to meet together once a week to listen to the National Farm Radio Forum broadcast. Then they discuss the topic of the broadcast, also how their problems can best be solved, and what appropriate action should be taken. * * * There's still time to start such a group in your neighborhood if there isn't already one there. Get in touch with some of the neighbors and talk it over with thein; then write to your Provincial Forum secretary and ask him for the necessary study and informational material for each person expected to attend the meet- ing. Plenty of help will be forth- coming—free of charge, of course —to assist you in getting started. And the place to write, here in On- tario, is 71 King St. West, Toronto. * * * Being in something of a borrow- ing stood today, I think I'll swipe a few paragraphs from an editorial published in the Farm Journal. Al- though, of course, it refers specifi- cally to conditions in the United States, some of the things It says aren't very far astray regarding things here in Canada. So here goes: * * * "The cost of living still rises. Millions of city people are being told, and believe, that because their food costs more, farriers should be blamed. * 1 * "They do not know that farmers are producing MORE this year than last. Nor do they appreciate that production costs are higher this year than last. They would be surprised to know that the farner's share of the food dollar is lower than most of the time during the war. * "Agriculture should* not silently let itself be made the goat for a condition that arises from other causes. Government spending and government wartime borrowing of money, with no sweat behind it, started the inflation and keep it rolling. When the town folks say you charge them too much, tell them you don't make the prices. Tell thein to put the blame where it belongs." * * * Which sound hire words with a whole lot of wisdom behind them— so I'll leave them with you and sign off for the week, With the Movie and Radio Folks by Grace Sharp U•.-1 u•cirwcrs who saw advauee sbntcirtie of Lawrence Olivier's ,erei•t) version of 'Ifatmlet" went ormilioard with eu4o;iastn, hailing it a; the greatest thing that had ever beige 0ed to the dear old cinema. Still, here and there one catches a tine envy note in the chorus of One captious gent, Or example, hints that in the process of filming not only Hamlet, but Shakespeare as well, got murdered; arid says that Olivier probably omitted the line "Olt, what a rogue etc. am I" be- cause people might take it as a C011 - E0551011 of guilt for what he had done to the Bard of Avon. In spite of this it would seem as if Olivier has done a magnificent job —and now the question is whether the general public will take to a drama in which laughs are about as scarce as in a radio soap opera, and in which most of the real action takes place in people's minds. Olivier's "Henry Fifth' made a good clean up financially—one which made many filen wiseacres wonder if they hadn't been staking a terrible mis- take as assuming that picture -going mentality is that of a ten year old kid. The Gloomy Prince of Den- mark is quite another cup of tea, and I can imagine quite a lot of folks coning away wishing that they'd gone to see Bob Hope instead. * * * Fred Allen's first broadcast—the 0110 in which he and Henry Morgan did a burlesque on "giveaway" shows—was screamingly funny and I can't recall, offhand, any single air performance which gave me so many real laughs. Morgan's take- off of the high pressure M.C. at the telephone was a masterpiece. * * * Still, as a long-time admirer of the baggy -eyed comic, after it was all over I couldn't help wishing Al- len hadn't done it. That Fred is bitter against the "giveaways" 1a understandable—hut to let that bit- terness appear so unmistakeably, and especially that business of guar- anteeing listeners to his program against loss of money they might have won by tuning M his rivals, struck me as—well, rather cheap. * * * This is, of course, only one per- son's opinion, acid I could easily be wrong. But personally I much pre- fer Jack Benny's approach to the matter—which has been more or less to ignore It. Benny seems to be saying to himself, "Well, I was here long before the giveaways wera even thought of and I'll probably be here long after they're alt washed up. In the meantime—to Heck with It" * 5 * One of any pet hates on the air is the type of announcer who always sounds about eighty per cent sin- cere and convincing -1f you know what I mean and you probably do. He's the kind who, when doing a newscast, tries to give you the im- pression that he's just fresh in from a talk over the Berlin situation with Marshall, Bevin and Molotov; or, when making a spiel about Some- body's Soapless Suds, gushes over with such enthusiasm that you'd imagine his hands were still drip - How to Store Porch Rockers In 11111111 11011,01, with limited storage space, it is sometimes dif- ficult to know what to do with porch rockers during the winter. Re- cently we saw what we considered a very satisfactory solution of this problem. A strip 0f nowt two inches wide and about one inch thick had been nailed across the cellar joists about 16 inches from the wall, The one we saw was 12 feet long, but the length would be determined by the number of chairs to be stored. The chairs were turned upside down, with the rockers hanging on this strip and the top or back of the chair resting against the wall. This arrangement kept the chairs in good condition and released precious floor spare for other articles. Fair Enough! "Mighty big tip you handed that cloakroom attendant," commented Park, "It seemed only fair," said Telford. "Look at the beautiful new coat she gave ire." ping front doing the weekly wash - lug. * * * Perish the thought, they seem to imply, that they're reading every word from a script which—in all probability ---they never even saw till about a quarter of an hour be- fore they carne on the air. They're speaking to you direct from the heart, and don't let anybody tell you anything different. And I couldn't help thinking of these Johnny Sincere's when I saw a little item recently to the ef- fect that television commercial an- nouncements are becoming almost entirely film presentations. The rea- son? Well, in television the com- mercial announcers can't work with a script, because the folks would see them doing so and it would kill the effect. And deprived of a script to read from, it has been found that even after -several rehearsals few if any announcers are able to deliver a sponsor's message effectively and convincingly from memory. 1 TEST YOUR 1. Q.I HIDDEN BOOK TT,TLES Each of the following should re• mind you of the actual title of some well-knowu book, For exempla, "The Bei! and the Volume" is actu- ally Browning's "The Ring and the !look." Answers ar upside down belowi but no fair Looking until you've tried your hardest. 1. Bird Mantle. 2. Expanding Earth. 3. Foot Soldier Trio. • 4. A Crescent a n d Twelve Cents. 5. The Red Epistle. 6. Bug in the Fireplace. 7. Wanderer's Headway. 8. Emerald Palaces. 9. The Tiny Parson. 10. 730 Days as a Sailor. 1L The Lamp Went Out. 12. Cheerless Abode. ANSWERS •asnog new( let Palied 3et1L 3l2i'I a1L '11 'PM aqs auoiag s,reaA oras, •0T e lal)'( 21331'1 a4,/, '6 'suolsaapt aaa.19 •seareo.td s,tuluelld 's 'g3.teaH aqd< no 3asio1.r0 '9 ra;lal 32f2e3g aqy •g 'aeuadxls pue coon y 'seaa3a)isny\f aaugy, 'g 'frog at0 to g3mot0 E *PDDR u1goR 't Station Agent Pulls Man from Tracks in Nick of Time WINS DINAWARD EDWARD McNAMARA OF GLASGOW STATION, ONT. risks life to save stunned man from wheels of moving train The morning local was just about to pull out from Glasgow Station, near Arnprior, Ontario. Royce Macklaim was standing by his truck, close to the tracks, when the train began to move. Side-stepping quickly to avoid a shower of water thrown from the trail he lost his balance an stumble .. striking his hes against his truck. Temporarily stuoned, he fell directly across the tracks — underneath the second last coach of the slowly moving train! ACTS iN SPLIT SECOND In what seemed like a fraction of a second, station agent Edward McNamara, who was also on the platform, leaped to the man's assistance. At great risk to his own life he grasped Macklaim by the ankles and dragged him clear of the tracks — just as the heavy wheels passed over the spot where his bead had been, seconds before. Macklaim suffered from shock and a gash on the head ... but, thanks to the almost unbelievable speed, courage and presence of mind of the agent, was otherwise unhurt. We are proud to pay tribute to Edward McNamara of Glasgow Station, Ontario, through the presentation of The Dow Award. THE DOW AWARD is a citation for outstanding hero, ism and includes, es a tangible expression of appreciation, a $roo Canada Savings Bond. Winners are selected by the Dow Award Committee, a group of Editors of leading (remedial' newspapers. Macklaim lost his balance trying to avoid a shower of water from the train. In doing so, he struck his head against the rack of his truck and fed onto the tracks, under the train. Although the truck driver suffered from shock and a gash in the head, he was otherwise uninjured—thanks to the action of the quick -thinking station agent. LISTEN TO THE DOW AWARD RADIO SHOVIT SATURDAY -8.30 P.M. ARCHIE FRED, THERES A STRANGE MAN AT THE DOOR WITH A BILL! WAIT POP! DONT OPEN THE 6o0R 'Ttt..t, t GET MY CAMERA! AW, GOSH! SAID HE HAD A BILL! By Montana He JUST HAS A PLAIN NOSE.., LIKE EVERY -ONE ELSS/ �Ig`` i. NNI(' Bye Will !iu��III fl Ai!'