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the week. herr four-year-old .laugh.
ter had wakened her with gentle
but iusi,teut tugs to tell her about
the dream s1l5, l hast had, !lad they
been nightmares, Ali I-,aughtrnt
would have been eater to get up
to comfort a frightened child, but.
they were always gay mid fanci-
ful dream- that made the little girt's
stall fac • low with wonder an i
delight.
So Mrs. Laughton, as on the other
mornings, tools Ellen into the kit-
chen and poured a glass of milk for
each of them,
With both small baud, wrapped
around her glass, the little girl sat
on the edge of a too large chair
and with shinning eyes. eagerly told
her dream,
"I dreamed t was sleeping, \fons-
iny, and that the North \Vind stop-
ped right outside my window and
called my mate. He :aid, '1:1•
len—Ellen--wake up and come 1,11
my shoulder and take you for a
rifle with me.'”
Airs. Laughton took a drink frons
iter glass of milk. This dream was
going to be very 11111011 like the dth-
eCS. Suinething or solneom•—once a
bluebird once a fairy—she couldn't
erall what the others were—carte
to the window and offered to take
Ellen on, all impossible journey.
Airs. Laughton yawned. She would
liked to have put her daughter to
"We went way up high ever the
houses and trees,"
bed and soiled the tall at duce. but
the thought of \!r. Laughton and
his sire-tn•be-had disposition made
her ask patiently, "What did the
Norah Wind loot: like, dear?"
"He was green," she declared ihn-
portan ty,
Mrs. 1.;ulgittoll thought to her-
self, "She doesn't know one COkir
from another."
'l'lhe child continued. "He had long
pointy green 511005 and long green
hair and a long green nose." The
wide eyes and little blonde head
leaned forward and the small voice
became confidential. "He was all
green except for the buckles on his
shoes. They were silver and shaped
like stars and they sparkled so
bright that I had to blink may eyes
as we wenn through tete air,"
Mrs. Laughton yawned again. El-
len didn't' notice.
"After I climbed onto his shoul-
der'," site said, "we went way up
high over all the houses and trees.
We woke the leaves and they made
shivering noises whenever we pass-
ed by. \Ve stirred the duet from the
streets so they would be clean for
morning.
"L'ut soon he said that he mit-t
take the back home because there
were other towns be had to visit
befose the night was over, So," (she
sounded genuinely disappointed)
"we carte back to my window..Ele
lifted ate down front his shoulder,
said goodnight and went away— -
way up in the sky."
"That's fine, dear—such a flue
dream." she said, and added hastily,
"Now let's go back to bed,"
I•i Was morning. Mr. Laughton
had heft for the office a couple of
hours ago. and Ellen was playing
in the yard.
Mrs, Laughton made Ellen's
small bed She picked up a rag
doll and sot it in a chair. She put
the two miniature bedroom slippers
in !hell' place in the closet, She
picked ti, 0 rumpled nightie aid
started to hang it away.
There was something in the
pocket -- something heavy, Mee,
Laughton put her hand inside and
felt. it was cold and hard.
',She drew it out slowly and held
it in her hand for a long moment.
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heat, and building; without light-
ning rods, Anyway, it mightn't be
a had idea to Lal:,' a lank arluuul 111e
place aid see if anything needs fix-
ing. .\nd this aright be ;1 good time
for the to remind you 01100 again
that the alllunnt of bre insurance
you carry 511',U1.1) NO1' lie based
on what 0 building cost you years
ago, 1)111 m1 AVHA'1' 11' \Vour,D
COST TO REPLACE at today's
prices. There'; a mighty big differ•
eitee between the two.
Of ,ottr.0 you know that water
pipe; that aren't below the frost
level in the ground need extra pro-
tection in winter; but it's also a
good idea to check any vertical
piping, that has been packed with
sawdust or earth, to lmek0 sure that
the packing hasn't settled, tints ex-
p0si11g some part of the pipes. And
,even. indoor pipes, which pass
through unheated portions of the
house or other buildings, may need
insulation.
This latter is particularly neces-
sary with hot water lines, as the
insulation not only• prevents exces-
sive loss of heat, but will prevent
freezing at times when such piping
may be idle,
Dr. J. W. Bailey, a lean known
veterinarian, Inas some interesting
things bo say to all who keep dairy
cows. We have long been told, he
writes, that a lack of water meatus
less milk from the cows—and with
Milk being so largely composed of
water, it is easy to sec why this
should be true.
* * *
However, a deficiency of water
causes an even more serious loss
than that of decreased milk produc-
tion.
roducttion. The biggest loss of all is
sickness caused by indigestion—in
fact it is this sickness which brings
about the decrease in the milk flow.
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It is only natural that cows should
suffer most from lack of water in
the winter months. At other sea-
sons they are likely to have greener
feeds and to be outdoors where
water is more cotit'elliellt.
to v w
Dr. Bailey tells about a sick cow
which he attended in an ultra-
modern barn. She was the only
ailing animal in a large herd and
was really sick. It took the better
part of an hour to figure out what
was the natter with her, and the
answer—when found—was 5o simple
that it matte hint feel foolish.
What had happened was that this
cow's drinking cup wasn't working
and Bailey estimated that the poor
beast had been without a drink for
at least three days. Replacement
of a wortwut valve in the drinking
cup soon fixed things up.
* A, *
Sometimes whole herds will sick-
en with indigestion during the winter
when water pipes freeze, or "auto-
matic” water systems go haywire,
or drinking cups get plugged with
feed. When cattle are watered out-
side indigestion on a herd -size basis
is likely to go along with a particu-
larly cold spell. Shivering , cows
won't drink as notch as warm. ones,
even though the water may be
steaming and have a smoking
heater standing in the tank.
The situation, naturally, is ouch
worse if the Watering place is an
unheated freezing tank, or a hole
chopped in the ice of a creek or
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An Air France Constel ation taxis over the world's first roadway underpass built to permit the si-
multaneous movement of aircraft and surface vehicles at New York's International Airport, The
underpass, considered o major engineering feat, drops to below sea level at the point pictured above.
The roadway. retaining walls and overpass comprise a 82,000 -ton "ronerete boat" built to with-
stand pressures from below sea level.
pond. And indigestion on a large
scale may even appear in fairly mild
' weather, That's because cow; aren't
built like camels, so trouble is com-
mon in herde that are only turned
out to water mice a day.
5o. Dailey Says. 1111y not take
time off some evening and see if you
can figure ont some ways of getting
more water into your cows this
winter? Plenty of good drinking
water means better herd health, and
that means less expense and 1110re
milk. e * e1
All of which I pass along to you,
together with The Compliments of
the Season.
Searching for Orchids
Ever since Jocelyn Brooke WAS a
child he has had a passion for or-
chids, those strange and subtly
beautiful plants. He says that. of
the sixty species that grow wild in
Great Britain, many are very rare
indeed and growing rarer owing to
the increase of building, and the,
depredations of holiday makers,
hikers and zealous botanists. He
pleads that these lovely rarities
should be allowed to flourish where
they grew and said: "If one must
gather then(, it is better to cut the
stalk, as this 13 less likely to dis-
turb the root."
Brooke has been an orchid hunter
since the tca3 eight; entranced by
the spell of these flowers he has
sougiht and found some of the rarest
of 'them. Orchids have a strangely
imitative quality; there is the Bee
Orchid, which looks like a cluster of
Living bees clinging to the stems
and the Spider and Fly Orchids
have this same quality of mimicry.
There is a Man Orchid, Frog, liz-
ard and Butterfly Orchids and, rar-
est of all in Britain, the Military
Orchid, He has searched all his
life for this, but has not yet found*
it Ile has even written a book
called "The Military Orchid,"
combination of personal anecdote
and botanical record which he terms •
an "autobontanograplsy."
He called orchids the Royal Fam-
ily of the British Flora and said,
"like other kinds of royalty, they
are on the decrease; perhaps the
plant world in this country is be-
coming republican." He mentioned
that orchids are thought of by the
man is the street as symbols of
Edwardian opulence or decadence;
to him they have a fascination and
a quality of uniqueness. "Orchids
arc not quite like anything else;
there is something rare and singular
about then, something a little dif-
ferent, something a little queer,
something rather self-consciously
and defiantly elegant"
Jocelyn Brooke, product of Bed -
ales and Oxford, has been wine and
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hook seller, author and medical
orderly in the Army. E{e joined as
a private during the war, remained
in the ranks for five year,. and has
recently re -unlisted for a further
terns. He concluded Itis talk on
British orchids by saying: "When
so many of our public or private
symbols are losing their power to
sustain ns I find it consoling to
think that certainly, but I cat stilt
return every year to look at the
Early Spider on the Dover cliffs, or
the Lady Orchid in the woods of
the Elham Valley, and feel pretty
sure that they will still be there, and
that they will still give me the salve
satisfaction that .they did when I
was a child in that remote, unbeliev-
able age of thirty years ago."
Poor Hubby
Ith :'eectlt iuont'.tz a perfume mak-
er bas been carrying on an unusual-
ly ambitious advertising campaign
in newspapers of the Mid -West and
Far West. The ads smell like the
perfume, which is mixed with the
ink used for the particular page on
which the ad appears,
.011 went well until one news-
paper, by error, got the perfume
mixed into all its ink for one issue.
The- whole paper reeked. Heavily
scented husbands hesitated to go
home from the office lest their odor
be misinterpreted.
Glass -Blowers Art
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1)1„a.•r; ac:}d,•ved A high artistic
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hat today tin: Mote leg of glass for
1, 11 uses has h een modified 1)y
n o-ff ii.ulical means, although the art
survives to contribute a1r• essential
skill to the field of chemical re•
5earch. The scientist, and especially
the chemist, leas become dependent
upon glass as One of the chief
materials for fabri'ation of Com-
tainera in which his studies are
made.
From the begi: sting of science to
the end of the last century only the
simplest glass apparatus teas
kusu ,t; flaslcs, retorts and tubes
were used and their style changed
little down the centuries, In the
last quarter century, however, tore
elaborate apparatus and custom-
made glassware have been intro-
ducced, a development necessitated
by the complicated work of today's
scientific workers.
In the type of work done for the
laboratory, a raw stock of tubular
glass, previously blown to this
shape as part of the manufacturing
process, is held in the flame of a
burner, fueled with gas and com-
pressed air or oxygen until the glass
reaches the right state of flux, a
point between rigidity and !Nue-%
faction. From long practice the
operator konws by the colour of the
glowing piece when it has reached
the proper state of plasticity. The
glass can then be drawn out many
times its own length or blown into
any shape desired.
The flame from the torch can be
adjusted from a mere pinpoint to
a fanlike blaze. Glass first becomes
red and then white-hot and in this
latter stage is almost impossible to
mould; therefore, most of the work
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flationary sign: "Formerly 1') cents,
now three dollars." And for a de-
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drastic au.; In any li„a,,.y literature.
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divorce froth Romeo St. Amour nil
Detroit. That's 1 11513 wrinkle ire a
very old cloth,
Merry Menagerie—ByWalt Disney
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scribe her to me!"
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Christmas -,-a time of candle -light flickering on. happy faces, a time of carols and
good cheer, of brightlywrapped gifts and tinselled trees.
And deep within us all is still another Christmas, the Christmas guiding ma every dllayr—
a Christmas born for us of a tolerance and Understanding that goes beyond wordlsg
born for ins so that sten may live in harinnony, with purpose to their lives acid benevolence
inn their hearts , , e This is the other Christmas, the spiritual Christmas;
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