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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-3-12, Page 3So Pico By Helen LangWorthy Bruce 'Wheeler looked across the restaurant ,table at his daughter Avis, He hadn't realized how much he missed her since he had sent tier' 10 Grand River to school, "Are you ,really glad you're going to Grand River? At the time you were deter- mined to stay in Northville with me. Ranent ber?" "Retnemberl" Avis said withlire- alarm emphasis. "I was just a 15 year old baby then. I didn't know about the big wheels at Grand Riv- er, and that I'd be a main spoke. You're scrimgrangorgeous I" Avis' eyes grew large over the fried chicken placed before her, "We don't seen to talk the same language," Bruce said slowly "Please interpret. What's a 'big wheel" and a 'main spoke'? That scrim -something word, is it good?" Avis smiled. "Dad, I forget you're of the vintage of the terrific twen- ties! 'Big wheel' is someone impor- tant around High. And I'm impor- tant around High. And I'm itnpor- tant—a 'main spoke'1 'Scrimgran- gorgeous' is swooning good." Avis turned to the chicken. Bruce decided he wasn't hungry, For the thousandth time he wished Avis' mother could have lived . , . To avoid bringing up Avis in a woman -less household he had sent her to Grand River. Avis finished the chicken and whispered, "Can I have a float?" "Sure," Bruce answered, "but what is it?" "This is the 364 business! A float is ice cream and coke mixed. Yummy! Avis continued, "What are we doing after dinner, Frankie Martin's in town . Frankie's a sax manl Can we go, Dad? I mean, can we?" Bruce nodded and felt dizzy. Maybe a show with Avis listening would give him time to impress the new language onto his mind:, Avis openly applied Lipstick (her mother would never have done that!) as Bruce saw a familiar face across the restaurant. It was Jim McKinnon, son of an old friend. Jim returned Bruce's nod casuaily then Jim's eyes widened. Jim was 20. Bruce was glad when he came to their table. Bruce pulled out a chair and be- gan pelting the boy with questions about his father and about business. Jim responded that his father was well, business was fine, the football games had been won, but all the time his eyes were on Avis. It hit Bruce like a wallop, Jim hadn't come for man -talk , . . it was Avis] And Avisl—Bruce squirmed. Her eyes were downcast. The sparkle was gone. Bruce knew that bashful ten year obits had more personality. Plainly Avis was mentally swoon- ing over Jim. Jinn asked her, "How do you like Grand River High?" "Nice," Avis said softly. "Do they have a good football team?" "It's—it's nice," Avis answered, She raised her eyes as far as Jim's hands like it was a trrific effort, 4' Bruce clenched his teeth. Didn't she know anythingl If she put one tenth of the gayness of her conver- sation five miuntes ago into talking with Jim, he would be interested: "Do you like having dinner here," Jim asked, already searching • the room for an escape. Avis took a long time to answer, and managed to raise her eyes to the level of Jim's. "It's so-so nice here," she said. Bruce knotted his hands. Jim sighed with disappointment and politely asked Avis to dance. He. probably expected her to say she couldn't push ones foot ahead of the other. As they walked away Bruce closed his eyes—probably she would fall! If only her mother had lived, Maybe she could have taught. Avis how to talk! Then they were back and Avis was drawing on her coat and Jim was walking away, "Ile's peachy!" Avis breathed, Bruce began, "There's something I should tell you, If you want le man to be interested you have to a alive—" Avis interrupted, "Jiin? Oh, we've a` date for tomorrow night, another for the fraternity party, and he asked' me to go to the Fall Prom tool Not bad?" she asked with lifted brows. "You'll do," Bruce whispered, Tuberous Begonias Lovely, Easy to Grow Any 'gardener can grow tuber- ous 'rooted begonias • to rival the rarest orchid or camellia, The ex- quisite blossoms, with brisk petals and a satin -like substance, are em- phasized by a background of al- most equally attractive foliage.. Calors range from purest while through deepest reds, which are , effective in the garden or as cut flowers, Tuberous begonias, thanks to the relentless search of the hybridizer, have surprising hardiness and dis- ease resistance, as well as a wide range of color and flower size. Many are characterized by differ- ent habits of growth, ansi 'there is an increasing variation in flower. form, too. The most popular of the double -flowering kinds is the cam- ellia type, Although the tuberous begonia is not well known by the average gar- dener, this does 'not mean it is difficult to grow. It is started from a tuber, of course, which is best purchased from a reliable dealer. The various grades vary from three-fourths of an inch to three inches in diameter. The smaller tubers grow and bloom in propor- tion to their size, but best results are obtained with medium or larger tubers. One to two-inch tubers are satisfactory for use in beds; larger ones are preferred for the .produc- tion of exhibition specimens to be grown in pots or flower boxes. This is the time to order them. If they are sent through the mail, immediate inspection should be trade to determine whether any damage has been consent by, low temperatures in transit. If they have been frozen, they become mushy and will not grow, and should be returned. In late March or April, the tub- ers are started in wooden flats or other containers, which can be con- veniently placed on window sills. The growing medium should con- sist of equal parts of screened woods, soil and sand. A two to four -inch layer of this mixture is placed in the container. The top of the tuber is concave, and most of the hairlike roots come from this hollow. It is most i.n0ortant, then, that the tubers be set with the con- cave side up. Into the Pot. They are spaced two inches apart and pressed firmly into the soil and sand, and covered with not more than a half-inch of the pot- ting mixture. A deeper covering will cause the tubers to rot. The container is then placed in a warm location and watered sparingly un- til growth has started. The soil, however, must always be kept moist. Top growth of four to six inches indicates adequate size for transplanting to their p ermanent garden location—if danger of frost has passed, This is done on a cloudy day, when possible. Successful growth and bloom thereafter depend on shade, proper soil and adequate moisture. An ideal location will have part shade, such as is found on the north side of a wall or structure, or under a 'tree. Although the begonia is con- sidered a plant for shade, it must receive adequate sun or the result will be tall, ungainly plants with sparse foliage and few blossoms. Dense shade, therefore, is not de- sirable. Most gardens have a northern exposure, which provides adequate sunlight in the early morning and late afternoon. If begonias are planted under a tree, the gardener should snake certain that the lowest branches are not less than five feet above the ground. The site should also provide protection from strong winds and.tlriving rains. The sprouted tubers are planted to the same depth they were in the pots. Deeper planting results in rotting at the base of the stem. If medium-sized tubers have been purchased for -bedding purposes, the started tubers should be placed twelve to eighteen inches apart. This will provide enough space for 'development and allow for circula- tion of air to prevent stem rot. Mso, plants are always watered after transplanting. If the gardener wants to pot the begonias, they are moved to ten to twelve -inch glazed pots. There are used (0'1311 in vacant spots in the garden. When this method is • fol- lowed, the problem of moisture re- tention is simplified because the pots and sunk up to their rims in the soil '"He says we gotta make out a withdrawal slip." Model With A Model: Pretty Ann Martin. of Montreal takes time out to pose with a seven -foot, nine - inch model of a deHavllland let aircraft which will go into service on Canadian. Pacific Airlines' Trans -Pacific service this year. After being displayed at the Windsor Station in Montreal the $15,000 -model will go on tour to Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Honolulu, in addition to ap- pearing at the Canadian National Exhibition In Toronto this year. Of plastic and metal construction, it has a wingspan of nine feet seven inches, with rubber -tired wheels on a retractable undercarriage which can be operated by hand to fold into the belly of the aircraft. A removeable panel in the side displays the interior of the model which consists of crew compartment, showing pilot and co- pilot seat in font of a detailed control panel. The wireless operators dials and range sets are align- ed in one corner while the navigators working table is shown in the other. The next section shows lounge room. The lounge section which accomodates two sets of four chairs has tabIg with folding leaves, while the body contains 28 reclining chairs, with the hand luggage rack overhead. The sec- tional view of the rear compartments discloses ladies' and men's washrooms and the service com- partment of the stewardesses which is located in the rear of the aircraft. Was Queen A,BelieverIn Spiritualism? Did John Brown Act As A Medium? It is not generally known that seances have been held in Buck- ingham Palace and Windsor Castle, or that several members of our Royal Family are interested in Spiritualism. The full story can- not be told at present; but I can mention, without disclosing names, that not long ago, one member of the Royal Family attended a voice seance in Brighton and received spirit messages, writes Maurice Barbanel!, in "Tit -Bits." Another member has frequently sat with a leading London med- ium. An intimate friend of the highest Court circles has related to then the remarkable spirit proofs from a loved one that he has obtained through another Lon- don medium. Princess Louise, elder sister of King George V, regularly receiv- ed spirit communications from her husband, the Dulce of Fife. The medium was Miss Elisabeth Gor- don, her companion -secretary. Here are her own words: "I regularly gave the Princess, who died in 1931, messages front her husband. For two years I was 'the Princess Royal's inseparable companion." Queen Aleeanara once held a seance• in Windsor Castle. She was attracted •seriously to Spiritual- ism. A very close friend of hers, who died a few years ago, left a private record to her family, 14ysterious Music In it she described how- Queen Alexandra, one evening in her dressing room at the Castle, saw the spirit form of a tall woman in a black and white dress stand- ing at the doorway. The Queen also maintained afterwards that during the night she often hear music and singing for which there was no explanation. Shortly before, King Edward VIPs passing, and unknown to the Ring, a London medium was in- vited to Windsor Castle by Queen Alexandra. The seance, held in one of the ante -roosts, was at- tended by about a dozen people, including the Queen, Some remarkable spirit mes- sages were received. One foretold the early death of the King in ' the house of his birth. When Queen Alexandra was having a holiday in Corfu, the following year, intimation reached her that the King was "not feeling so well as usual." Despite official assurance that the matter was not in the least serious, the Queett left imine-. diately for London. She arrived in time to see King Edward breathe his last at Buckingham Palace, The King communicated many times after his death to his friend, Lady Warwick, who caused a sen- sation by becoming a Socialist. She told me the story of his spirit return when I interviewed her in ° her Essex home. King Edward's Voice She had invited Mrs. Etta Wriedt, a well-known American volae medium, to visit Warwick Castle. \Vhen she . arrived she was shown to her rooin. While waiting for her outside the roost, Lady Warwick noticed a trumpet standing • on the floor. A trumpet is frequently' used at seances to intensify the sound of the spirit voices, fulfilling a function similar to that of a megaphone, Out of curiosity, Lady Warwick picked up the trumpet, "Inunediate- ly I heard the voice of my old friend, King Edward, talking In EDWARD VII 1841 - 1910 QUEEN VICTORIA 1837-1901 VICTORIA 1819 - 1901 PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF DENMARK GEORGE PRINCESS MARY 1865- 1936 OF TECK EDWARD VIII ' Born- 1894 BECAME k1Ns-JAN.20.1936 ABDICATED- DEC.11,1936 GEORGE VI LADY ELIZABETH 1895-'1952 j-Tj BOWES -LYON PRINCESS MARGARET 1950 — PRINCESS ELIZABETH 1926 — PRINCESS ANNE AUS. 15, 1950 PRINCE CHARLES NOV. 14.1948 QUEEN ELIZABETH 1952 - ALBERT 1819-1861 PRINCESS ALICEPRINCE LOU15. I842.- I878� OF NESSE (PRIOFNCESNES VICTORIA PRINCE LOUIS SSE TOf BATTENBURG LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN MARQUIS of MILFORD HAVEN PRINCESS ALICE OF BATTEN BURG PRINCE PHILIP OF. GREECE PRINCE ANDREW OF GREECE German," she told rte: You can ,imagine her surprise as the medi- um was not even prc`senti "Whenever I sat with Mrs. Wriedt," she added, ' "I always heard King Edward's voice, always speaking in German. He was so persistent that I got no other re- sults, so I left off sitting." In a glass -covered case at the South Kensington headquarters of the' London Spiritualist Alliance there is a gold •watch which was presented to a medium by Queen Victoria. It bears an engraved inscription stating that it was pre- sented by Her Majesty in July, 1846, to Miss Georgina Eagle "for her meritorious and extraordinary clairvoyance produced at Osborne House, Isle of Wight." It is believed that on the death of Miss Eagle the watch was re- turned to the Queen, Tvho asked W. T. Stead, the famous journal- ist and spiritualist, to present It to another medium. The watch has a second inscription which re- cords that Stead presented it to Etta Wriedt, "through whose melitunship Queen Victoria's direct voice was heard in London in July, 1911," -at a seance. As the Queen was born in 1819, the watch is evidence of her in- terest in psychic matters at the early age of twenty-seven. This was nine years after site ascended the throne, and six years after her marriage to Prince Albert. The story of her association with Spiritualism did not end at the Isle of Wight. She derived great comfort from seances held in Buckingham Palace with two med- iums through whoin the Prince Consort communicated after his passing in 1861. Evidence of Survival The first was R. J. Lees, a remarkable Leicester medium who began to receive spirit messages from Prince Albert when he was still under twenty, These com- munications were brought to the notice of the Queen, who sum - maned Lees to the Palace, and a long series, of seances ensued. Gut, dance, evidence of survival after death and consolation, came to the Queen in these messages. She offered Lees a post in her employ so that he could be in close attendance upon her, but his spirit guide would not permit him to accept the offer. For, he said, the medium had a great task to complete—the writing, under in- spiration, of accounts of life in the world beyond death. This task was fulfilled in the compilation of three books which berame best-sellers. Lee's guide revealed that the Queen had -another medium nearer at hand. This was John Brown, one of her Scottish gillies, The' guide promised that should John Brown at any time be unable to give her a seance he would allow hia ntedinni to help her. It was I.ees, rattier than the Queen, who insisted, because of his retiring nature and dislike of publicity, that these seances should be kept seeret. Ile asked for his visit to llnckingham Palace to be so arranged that the Press should not give tlic natter any publicity. The guide of Lees kept his pro- mise. :after the death of John Brown, seances were held for the Queen with Lees as the medium. People have always wondered at the mystery of the close asso- ciation between Queen Victoria and John Brown. The simple explana- tion is that he was for many years the medium for her husband's com- munications. Who lirotvn died, the Queen herself ordered an itt- setiption for the tombstone in which she referred to him as hav- ing represented "1;,,d's (lasing" to her. Court Consternation The Queen wrote a monograph on Brown in which she paid tri- bute to the help she received through his ulcditnnship. She dedi- cated it "to the memory of my ..'11.11FAIIN FRONT 0. • . .:.•, This isn't the first time I've writ- ten about the dangers of carbon monoxide in this column. Nor will itbe, in ail probability, the last. For, as somebody once put it, "The care you took yesterday isn't going to keep you safe today"; and we all need constant warnings about the hazards so common in every- day modern life. * * * Carbon monoxide strikes with- out warning. It is a colorless, odor- less and tasteless gas, Carbon mon- oxide gets in its deadly work be- fore you know what is happening. * * * * * * Experts say that you can avoid carbon monoxide poisoning easily by following a few simple rules: 1, Never run the motor of a car in a closed garage. It 'takes only 3 minutes for the air to become dangerously poisonous in a small garage, * * * 2, Keep the muffler and tail pipe on your car in good repair, and be • be sure the manifold is tight. * * * 3, Check for gas leaks in your furnace and see that the smoke pipe is sound and tightly connected to furnace and chimney. * * * 4, If you burn coal, don't cover the entire fire bed with coal. Heap the coal to one side, being sure a flame is always visible. * * * That line of long icicles hanging from the eaves may be very pic- turesque and give your house an artistic Christmas card look, but can wreak a lot of damage if al- lowed to remain. * * * Where icicles form at the roof edge there will be an area of ice on the shingles just behind them that may reach up six inches or more. It is very solid ice and melts slowly. The snow above it melts when rain comes or a rise in temperature brings a thaw, but the run-off is impeded by the ridge that still holds firm. This re- veals itself as a leak around the windoiv casing or through the ceil- ing. * * * Roofs which are really sound for all ordinary purposes will leak under such conditions. So, being careful not to injure the sltingles, knock erose icicles and ice -ridge * * * There is another wa'y in which icicles and roof snow can cause damage around the home. Where ornamental shrubs or trees aro planted close to the walls, melting snow and ice drops down :con tinuously, from the eaves to freeze again and festoon them veldt icy wreaths. Broken icicles will shat- ter down on 'them, Or sheets of snow may slide from the roof breaking off branches and bending others until the bush is half buried by the mass, * * * This alternated freezing and thawing with consequent bombard- ments is a potent destroyer of suf- fering shrubs and small trees, Be- cause they do not show the injury for two or three months after it happens, their owners are puzzled to account for the burned appear- ance they present at leafing -out time. Storms and snow have now passed from mind, so no one re- lates it to the winter conditions these plantings had to endure, • * * Valuable trees and shrubs plant- ed close to the house should have a protective casing of . stray or evergreen branches. A wide, pro- jecting roof will, of course, take the line of icicles beyond the dam- age point. But best results for larger varieties are had when they are planted away from the house, in more favorable spots on the home grounds. GIRL IN SLACKS (After Lewis Carroll), "You've grown up, little Audrey," her mother exclaimed, "And your form is all wavy and scalloped, Yet you put on men's pants and you don't seem ashamed: Don't you think you deserve, to be walloped?" "In my hose," said the child, get- ing into a wax, "There are several holes and a ladder, And even a mother might see that these slacks Are a choice 'twixt the bad and the badder." devoted personal attendant and faithful friend." When she expressed her desire for the monograph to be published there was consternation in Court circles, and Lord Davidson, Dean of Windsor, threatened to resign. The Queen sent her monograph to Sir Henry Ponsonby, her private secretary for twenty-five years. She mentioned that she would also like John Brown's private diary to be printed. Ponsonby, in what he describes as "the most delicate and difficult" of his interventions, advised the . Queen against publication. He ex- pressed a doubt whether "this record of Your Majesty's inner- most and most sacred feelings should be made public to the world." Ponsonby's advice prevailed. The Queen's papers were destroyed and the project was abandoned. More- over Ponsonby impounded Bro'wn's private diary which was also des- troyed. When Brown passed on, Ponsonby records that "the Queen's grief at the loss of one on whom she depended for daily and almost hourly attendance was very deep.... She is utterly crush- ed. . The shock she has sus- tained has trade her very weak." It was the closing chapter in one of the most dramatic stories in British history. "Plug Cu.'' --if ;:n animal like a poodle t n q',aliry to have a hairdo nomed in its !donor, why not c horse? Sur, Glow takes a few minutes f ram intensive training at Hialeah Park in Miami to demonstrate the "plug cut" suitably topped with a stun- ning chapeau. The fashion - conscious thoroughbred belongs to Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloan. 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