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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-1-23, Page 3Eu Tr de By Richard Hill Wilkinso Taking Care Of Electrical Appliances There's a pop-up electric toaster in our home that started married We with us nearly eleven years ago. 1t hash t failed or faltered in all=that time, writes Bab, Gilmore in the C untryr;Orenlleth(ip, A little of the .right kind of care aifd respect is all that's necessary to keep a toaster or any small house- hold appliance putting out carefree help for many years. Do's and Don'ts for All Appliances Almost invariably they are elec- trical appliances—motor-driven ones like fans, food mixers and bleeders; ori heat -producing appliances like toasters, sandwich and waffle grills, coffee makers, hot plates, roasters, and irons, Treat their electric cordswith care. Wipe grease and fats from stnoot ..rubber cords with warm suds on a cloth after disconnecting Keep them free of oily substances, or the, rubber insulation will deteri- orate. Flog each end of the cord firmly into the socket or onto its prongs. Haphazard connections spark eon- stantlyt are a fire hazard, and burn plugs into eventual uselessness. Ilave a place to hang separate i^on. grill or heater cords where they'll stay cool and uukiaded. Don't jerk a cord to disconnect it—grip the plug and wiggle it out, Don't tie knots in cords if you slant the inner wires to stay. un- broken, Don't tent for broken wires by flexing the cord. You could get a bad burn if the broken inner wires should short. Don't wrap cords around hot ap- pliances. Never plug any heating appliance of over 600 -watt capacity into an extension cord or hanging plug. Use only built-in wall sockets or range outlets,.or have heavier wir- ing installed if your house is old and underwired. Don't leave any appliances plugg ed in while it's not in use. Oil motors and working parts only if and where oil boles or cups are provided. Use a hght automo- bile or appliance oil and use it sparingly. If a. motor sparks badly. smokes, grows too hot to touch comfortably or smells like scorched rubber or cooked insulation, take it to a re- pairman at once. Occasionally, clean lint and dust away from vent holes in the motor body to let it breathe and cool efficiently, Don't continually overwork a motor with loads that heat it or slow It. Don't immerse any motor in nater or allow water to splash into it. Don't poke any object into a motor, whether it's running or not. Be gentle with any heat appliance. Often the coils which produce the heat are delicate and unprotected from poking or jarring. For the gadget's sake, keep knives and forks away -from heating wires. Clean dust or crumbs from exposed heat coils by gently brushing with a soft - bristled brush. Don't plunge any heat coil into water. Keep dry always. If exposed to moisture ,let it dry for a day or two before rising. Don't leave a heat appliance op- erating for longer than necessary. Life ot any coil is not unlimited, so wily shorten it needlessly? Soni s pride, his independent na- ure and ultnnst belligerent dieposi• ion were his stick iu trade. Kvcry. me•said so. They -were responsible 'or Inc succrss us a real estate agent. 1.1e always said What he :bought, -regardless of the conse lttences, He gave -no quarter and asked stone. But he always kept his ward. That's why people tolerated him. And now he'd fallen in love with Audrey Gardner: Audrey was a stand's girl, She depended on her mother for everything. It was al- ways: "Yes, manta. "(lf course, mother, dear." "Well, if you think it's best, xtuuna." It got under Sant's ski's. A yes-man Or a- yes - woman denoted a weak character, a spineless. :hallow individuality. But he had to take it and lace it if he was going to have Audrey. He wanted Audrey. That's why he swallowed and suppressed. Secretly he was disgusted with himself for doing no, After the wedding the went to live in a cottage by where Audrey's mother lived. Audrey's mother came over every day, She made suggestions; she issued commands. The dining room should he done in blue. the living rornn furniture rant 14A Be threw her hat, parasol and handbag put the door after her. was atrocious, the bedroogts were cold and barren. Everything should be changed. It was. 'Sam ground his tet h and said nothing: .And when he trled to sell a building lot to a bridal couple they weren't very impressed. -They grunted and stalled and said; "Hunt. Well, we'll talk it over,' And went home. Sant was wild. Ile'd never lel a prospect walk out on his like that: It happened a second time and a third. It began to look as if San's business were going to pot. Three months passed. Sam's business was on the brink of dis- aster. Me had not sold a single piece of property since his marriage. He began to wish that he didn't love Audrey, that he could stop loving her. IIe returned home one evening to find that Mrs. Gardener had spent the afternoon with Audrey. She had conte over for a purpose. The purpose was to rearrange and do over the small room off the living room San used for an office and stud. Every other room in the house reflected the personality and ideas of Audrey's soother. The study had been ieft instil the last. Sant str,,d on the threshold and stared. II'. desk had been moved. Papers which he had left 00 top of tt were wept into the waste basket. Pink dreees hung froth the win - lows. The wall was decorated .with a picture of a cherub. There is s floor lamp with pinkish frills *lasing from its shade. Slowly, then more rapidly a fierce Inger mounted in Sam. Sant ea"oninu fled from Isis brain. Re whirled. His eyes fell on the rimnphast. pompous countenance tf Mrs, Gardener. tie raised a 'remitting forefinger and pointed it ti her nose. "Get out!" rte said, his voice like t threatening wind sweeping down 'rent the mountains and growing rver louder. "Get out before I treat( your domineering neck1 Mrs. Gardener gasped. She netted to speak. "Get nut1" roared Sant. "(let out, lo you Ilea'?" Apparently Mfrs, (gardener heard. She gasped again, but shade no ef- fort to speak. Instead, her eyes wide with apprehension, site hacked toward the door' and disappeared, •forgetting her hat, parasol and hand- bag. These items, hotbcver, -over- took her as she was sprinting Amen the walk. Same ban gcd shut' the door and caned against it, breathing heavily. Slowly, very slowly the significance of what ire bad done struck' bombe, ile had lost Audrey (and he loved her) but there was a warm glow of tat is faction inside hint. , - Audrey stood in front of ,hint: Audrey said; "Well, my goodnena,. ft's about time you sidwed a little gumption. I.had begun to think' I'd married a freak. .l man, n man without a spinel" The next steel; Sat, sent. five tmtse lots. - Winter s Time to Purchase B �d Sorcerer's Apprentice. in West Berlin, Germany, Ernest Bogelsack sneaker~ into town from the Soviet Zone, hid in a public lavatory until the attendant left, removed the brass water taps from the sinks in order to sell theta in the black market, immediately loosed a flood, tried to get out but pound the doors locked, howled for help until a pass- ing police patrol broke in and res- cued hint from the rising waters, by then neck -deep. Coordinated cotton separates, this sleeveless blouse and gath- ered skirt have hobo theme. In permanently crinkled cotton, color of blouse is picked up in one of the brilliant patches posed against darker back- ground of skirt. TBY E0»1( MILES k1 brri$ht look of cotton papa - rates has become, for 1942, brilliant, But it's 'a dlsoiplikied brilliance, with colors carefully coordinated to get the maximum In .a dramatic effect. Color combinations, instead of being haphazard, are balanced. $thelouses andr's skirts are planned to bc•matched'or mixed, accardieg, tq wearepreference Thinking' of cottons now, in the middleof winter, may seem a bit like shopping for Christmas in Juhave learned that t thisthriftyithe women aest time to buy budget -priced cottons: Thesd'separates are forerunners of summer• fashions to come,Put neatly away until warns weather, they eliminate the necessity for last minute . hurried shopping in late spring. - • A hobo skirt and shirt, designed by Eranigan, are in permanently 'crinkled' cotton. The sleeveless blouse has a Peter Pan color, Its color is ,planned to pick up the color in one of the patches sprin- kled over the gatfiered- skirt. Patches in brilliant colors are poised against a dark background, as when raspberry, pink and aqua are used on navy and worn with araspberry blouse. An organ grinder motif in black velveray appears on a bright green cotton broadcloth circle skirt' with huge sweep. This is worn with a scoop 'neck blouse in green or black. Priced Cottons Organ grinder motif of black velveray decorates this sweep circle skirt its green cotton broadcloth. Scoop -necked blouse is done in matching green or contrasting black. hilL FA1 FRONT lr seems hard to believe now, but Tess than a dozen years ago chickens were regarded primarily, as egg -laying mechanisms. Practi- cally all the scictitific breeding was aimed at just one thing,— to get more eggs per hen. And egg pro- duction climbed first to an amaz- ing 300, and went on climbing. w * a There were those who claimed that this emphasis on egg -laying not only decreased the size of the birds, but also detracted from meat quali- ty; and most of us can remember when chickens in the market were mostly worn-out Hens, culls and un- wanted cockerels—an assortment of egg -laying by-products. .. a 5 It was probably time sight of that great breeding creation, the broad - breasted turkey, which caused. far- seeing chicken raisers to aim a di- vision .into two separate types, — meat types as distinct from egg - producers. The new trend was spotlighted when a great American chain of food stores, six or seven years ago, started a big campaign to increase chicken eating. I haven't the figures for the year just passed, but in 1950 the response to this campaign was so great, south of the border, they ate 625 million chickens, And of that number no less than 425 million were descen- dants of "Chicken of Totnorrow" stock. Once again "It Pays to Ad- vertise" proved to be a sound busi- ness maxim. K a i Writing about this new -type chicken in The Country Gentleman, Howard Bloomfield says "What the new neat chicken might look like was dramatized by taking very good chicken—full-bosomed, unlac- ed birds—and blowing them up with a pump until the skin stretch- ed almost to bursting , , . wax casts were made ... just an a goal to shoot at. Then the best new - model chicken was pumped up and another cast was made. That is the Chicken of Tomorrow—a chick- en with chest and legs that look as if they might pull a plow, ex- cept that the muscles are tender," * a * As breeding improved; feeding methods kept pace. Three pounds, or lesf, of feed now stakes a pound of chicken, instead of the former four pounds of feed to a pound of meat. Growth has been speeded up till a bird reaches three pounds in ten weeks instead of twelve, and its nothing unusual for birds of twelve weeks to scale four or even five pounds ... These heavier birds are cockerels, of course, but in a state contest held last year the pul- lets averaged over four pounds at 12 weeks. w a 5 It appears that the biggest fac- tor in this new -style feeding was a discovery about corn, Loaded with energy and growth -producing quali- ties, corn can also induce 'poor health. A few years ago when more than 25 per cent of corn was fed, chickens sickened, lost appetite and went in for feather -picking and cannibalism. But scientists dug around till they found out what was wrong, coming up with a for- mula that is the basis of the new feeds which get some remarkable results. a: * The rescachers found that corn needed a shot of extra- vitamins, such as nicotinic acid, • niacitte or choline. A very small amount, ad- ded to a ton of corn, destroys the evil effects. Nowadays feeders are mixing rations containing up to 70 per cent of corn and finding that their chickens grow faster, on less feed, than ever before. In the last couple of years anti -biotics and the animal protein factor have also clone their part in more profitable feeding. r: a * The owner of small Retic', who produces mostly for family use and a limited outside sale, can take advantage of this new trend just as well as—a few years ago --many benefited by the chance to buy chicks of superior laying strains. The same chicks, heed for more meat and faster maturity, are be- coming available to the "email - tinter" just as they are to the man who numbers his flock. by the thou sands, a And, ect'ording to the already. quoted Howard Bloomfield, there are even advantages in the smaller flock. Ile tells 01 one hntcheryntan who sells, at half price, weak -look- ing, puny chicks—the culls out of his incubator trays—to Heathy t CAN'T CLEAN HOUSE WIN 'MESE- TWO UN105 .-OOT. 55855E TAKE TRIM OW0155 AND ataL0 TNIMA SNOW HOUSE OR. .. L... eoMETNIN5/. farmers. "The women generally raise every one of those chicks, and tell me how fast they grow," this man reports, "while I'm always in conference in big houses regarding disease outbreaks, diet troubles and so forth," • , a a The reasons for such results may be that the women give the chicks better care. or possibly because they have more space, Because crowding means more stoney most commercial growers allow three- quarters of a square foot per bird. - But, as most people know, larger space means better, healthier and finer -quality chickens. Then again, home chinks are hand -fed, which generally makes for better quality because the chicks at the beginning of an automatic feed line nab the biggest, choicest bits in the mash. a * a The question naturally arises— "How about buyiag meat -strain chickens, and eating the cockerels while the pullets are kept for lay- ing?" Sometimes the results of such a practice are very good—some- times not so goad. The manager of a huge hatchery, devoted to meat - type chickens exlusively, says that the meat -strain birds produce about Tiles's why he pays 30-cents-a-doz- 150 eggs to a laying -type's 250, en premium for his hatching eggs. a a a Now, to top off, here are some useful instructions about hots 'to dress a chicken properly, either for home use, or for sale. t: a5 1. Cut off feet straight through or just below hocks, leaving a bit of the foot skin, This keeps the flesh frons drawing up on the drum- stick while roasting. * a e 2. Cutout the oil sac on the back near the tail, because it may give the chicken an off Haver, q, M 8+ 3. From between the shoulders. slit the skin up the back of the neck. Then sever the neck between shoulders and pull it away. Now you can easily take out the crop, windpipe and gullet. The lap of skin from over neck and breast can then be easily fastened to the back with skewers, 5 5 * 4. Make a short cut down through the abdomen and around the vent Insert a linger through the front opening and loosen the attachments of the heart and liver and the lungs. 1.uusen intestines from the rear. After this, two fin- gers hooked over the gizzard froth the rear opening' will remove in one mass everything but kidneys frets the body cavity. Bourgeois Weakness. In Buda- pest, Hungary, after two factory nursery school directors tried to buy chamber pate at a government store and were tolyl that only un- suitable Japanese timer vases woald he available until next year, the trade -stains paper Nepszava an- grily commented; "The small chil- dren of the nursery are in no posi- tion to wait 111161 January for the pegs" Wild Oats Still Unsolved Problem Herbicides formed the chief topic of discussion at the Fifth Western \\recd Control Conference recently held at Vancouver. There was much talk of 2,4-D, now well- known to farmers, in addition to reviews of experimental work on some of the newer chemicals such as TCA, CMU, MH, MCP, SES, and DNOSBP. Tillage as a weed -control mea- sure seems to be fading out of the picture with a great many crops. But delegates had ts admit that with some weeds, notably wild oats, it was still the only answer. H. W. Legett, La"ombe experi- mental station (Alberta) told the conference that wild oats is still the most serious weed infesting crop land -in western Canada. An average of 4,000,000 bushels are shipped from prairie farms to ter- minal elevators each year. Leggett estimated that this ac- counted for only about one-third of the wild oats produced. The other two-thirds never reach the combine, "There is, as yet, no sure me- thod of control," Leggett admitted. But two measures which will help are: 1. Use of an early -maturing crop of barley, with seeding delayed un- til the first week in Juneso that several crops of wild oats can be killed before seeding. Cultivation with a rod weeder, cable weeder or cultivator when there is a one-half inch sprout on the barley. This work to be done on a day when the weeds will wilt quickly. Ferti- lizer also recommended. 2. Growing a crop of green feed which may be cut before the oats mature. Gertrude The Camel We troll into the lovely oasis oR Biskra, This is the Gardena of Aka last of Michel's' famous romance. Through the soft evening scants ed with orange blossoms move veiled won en who might easily be the houris of the Moslem paradise, 15 was thetf:that I met Gertrude, but, she was not veiled, She had great thrown eyes whose 'look of trusting innocence was contradicted. by a sneering nose and a pouting' lower lip. She had large yellow teeth . , . and a neck like a. swan's, Wholly fantastic, she seesned to belong to this fantastic land. We organized a caravan for a trip to the south-west.. , . I would be content with nothing less than a camel, So the canteleers introdue- ed us. 1 asked her her name. Be. foretheycould reply, she herself - answered' with a gargling sound. It sounded more like Gertrude than anything else, so Gertrude she was from that time on, Our caravan, when assembled, comprised besides ourselves she Arab camel drivers, six camels, and a horse. The pack cancels were loaded with tents, carping equip- alens and food, 1 was soon to learn that Gertrude also had a pack cam- el's mentality and to her 1 was neve er anything more than a sack of flour.. , With her nose in the stratoe. phere, Gertrude objected gargingjy. . to thlte cameleer's command' that she kneel down. When she finally collapsed with a rattling groan, her saddle was still some five feet above ground. 1 scrambled up and perch- ed atop her hump in the crotch of the ornate saddle. "Goons!" cried the cameleer, and the instant result was a violent earthquake, Rumbling internally, Gertrude stood up on her hind legs. This would have been quite alt right except that she was still down on her fore -knees. I was tossed fors ward against her neck, which 1 clasped firmly, Gertrude was in- censed by such familiarity; she turned her head and gave me a nip on the shoulder with her great yel- low fangs, . But I was not to stay within nip- ping distance long. Another "Goomt" and up went her front end, severing my hold upon her neck and throwing me violently backward. Now I was sitting on a yellow cloud looking down upon Biskra. The cameleers and even my com- panion on his horse seemed inn- nitely far below. 1 felt as unsteady as a boy on his first pair of .high stilts. The street was bordered by mud walls that shut the gardene. away from the public gaze. But to me, aloft on my magic carpet, there was no privacy; I could look down upon the, intimacies of every gar- den. Among the date palms, orange trees and flowering shrubs women worked while children played in the basins of sparkling fountains. One of the advantages of being a flagpole sitter is that the flagpole does not move, "OOssl" cried the camneleers, and our caravan began to pitch like a ship in a stormy sea. It did not take me five minutes to learn that riding a camel is not as easy as it looks when a Bedouin does it.—From "I Cannot Rest from Travel," by Willard Price. Winter: the season of the year when it's colder outside a movie theatre than it is inside. sr .Y -HAROLD H ARNETT ^,m A SCALE PAINTED ON 'TNE SIDE OF YOUR FISN(NG ROD WILL ENABLE YOU TO MEASURE FISH OF DOUBTFUL LENGTH. PAiNT THE MEASUREMENTS ON WITI4 SLACK ENAMEL, By Arthur Pointer Street Models—Tailor Maurice Priest carefully escorts one of his dress dummies to the street after being evicted from his shop. All his possessions, including several shapely mannequins, were clumped unceremoniously on the sidewalk in the cold January air.