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The Brussels Post, 1952-3-19, Page 7Cigarette Trick By Richard Hill Wilkinson Joe Frazer finished his dinner, `pushed back his chair and produced a cigarette, Extending his left hand horizontally, palm down, he placed the cigarette thereon, struck his left wrist sharply with his right ,hand and opened his mouth, The cigarette bounded into the air, somersaulted and missed popping into Joe's mouth by a hair, Joe giggled good-naturedly and repeat- ed the operation. On the fifth try his lips caught the somersaulting cigarette in midair and held on. Joe gurgled triumphantly and struck a match. Watching this performance from across the table, Bess, Joe's wife, considered screaming hysterically, but controlled herself. Instead she decided on another course . A year before they were marri- ed, when Joe and Bess first met, Bess had thought it was cute. Like all of Joe's ways. The first time it happened they had dined at a tiny country inn. After the meal Joe had produced a cigarette, tried four times to successfully perform his trick, and ' succeeded on -the fifth attempt. Joe was clever at other things, but the cigarette trick was his special achievement During the year that elapsed before they were married Bess must have seen him perform it a hundred times. After the first hundred, Bess be- gan to weary of the cigarette trick a little. She didn't say so, of course, because Joe was pretty proud of his achievement. And so they were married. They went to Maine for a week's honey- moon, and Bess saw the cigarette trick performed, without variation, Joewas clever at other things, but the cigarette trick was hit special achievement. 21 times. They came back to Wor- cester and began housekeeping. Joe resumed work aid was gone all day. Dinner was the only meal he ate at home, and so Bess had to watch the cigarette trick only once on week days and three times on Sunday. But that was enough — enough to drive her almost mad. After six months of it she found herself waiting at the end of each meal for, sight of Joe reaching for his cigarette, for sound of his gurgl- ing laugh, for the vision of his triumphant grin. She felt like the condemned man who awaits the first shock of current. She took measures to absent her- self at the ritual, but they failed. Joe required an audience and he al- ways waited patiently for her ap- proval, Bess realised Joe thought the cigarette trick a noteworthy accom- plishment. He was vain. It wouldn't do to ask him to stop. His ego -couldn't stand the gaff. No, she had to think of some other way and think of it quickly, before t!e funny wagon backed up to their door one day and took her away . , . Joe applied the match to his cigarette, inhaled deeply and ex- haled contentedly, itis Zook was the look of ,a Man of smugness, complacency, superiority, Joe was clever. Joe knew it. He was the life of every party, because be knew so many curie tricks. Bess reached for the cigarette box, She drew forth a cigarette. She extended her left hand out- ward. horizontally, palm down. She placed the cigarette thereon. She suspended her right hand above the wrist of her left and smiled at Joe. Joe's idle interest quickened, He was aroused. Poor Bess, "Try it, Joe urged patronizing- ly, "Go ahead and try it, See how you Make out," Bess tried it. She smacked her left wrist sharply. Up bounded the cigarette, somersaulted. Bess' month opened. Her bead remained stationary; The white cylinder, as if responding to a magnet, darted toward her lips. She caught it and hung on, • Joe's jaw dropped, His eves belgcd. Ile gaped. Bess gurgled triumphantly and struck a inntch, "The first try," he chortled. "No four nut of five for Inc," Joe brazen en longer performs his cigarette trick for the ester- tainntent of wife and friends, Bess IS ispj. She hopes aloe won't de- velop any .more cute tricks. It talces too much time anti patience to perfect their '.l'wo hours every day Inc two months, "Twenty -Five Lashes -- For Profanity",.. Lord Byron said to Jack Sky- scrape; "And as he knew not what to say, he swore." Now, as then, it stems that there are those who eannot express themselves without "swearing." And when legitimate language falters, they fill in with .oaths and profane utterances. In his widely -read work , on George Washington, Douglas Southall Freeman lists some of the penalties that a soldier of the Virginia Regiment might expedt to pay for certain offenses, among them: ", . twenty-five 'lashes with a cat-o'-nine-tails for profanity, fifty for feigning sickness, 100 for drunkenness, 500 for fighting with another soldier ." Twenty-five lashes for profanity! If the order were in general force and effect today, uncounted multitudes would ,ke beaten and. bruised—in the army and out of ftl These words are credited to General Washington, as having been, directed to' his Continental Army: "The foolish and .wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing. is .'a vice so mean and low that every person -of sense and character detests and despises it." * * It would sewn to be seriously significant that in the Ten Com- mandments which the Lord God gave to Moses, the prohibition against profanity was thought to be a subject pf sufficient importance as to be included in this limited list: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord tby God in vain." (Exodus. 20:7.) • And yet profanity is so prevalent that it sometimes seems to have become almost as common as con- versation. But being common doesn't assure acceptability. Disease is also common. Corruption and moral decadence are common. And the fact than they are prevalent doesn't mean that they are proper or permissible. * * * One reason, no doubt, for the prevalence of profanity is because we often unthinkingly accept our- selves as we are, and we don't hear ourselves as others hear us any more than we see ourselves as others see us. But if we were to hear a record of some of our re- marks—and listen as if we had never heard ourselves before— there are times when we would surely be embarrassed. I heard a man the other day— a "substantial citizen" shall we say? -=who apparently knew only one kind of adjective, writes Rich- ard L. Evans in The Sunday Pictorial. And no matter what he was attempting to talk about, every Third or fourth word was a profane expletive or a• foul ad- jective. With him it had become so habitual that he wasn't aware of what he was saying or how he was sounding. * * * Quite apart for the question of • commandments, there is a purely practical side of the problem: Language is an effective tool if wisely used. But if overused it loses much of its force and effec- tiveness. And the constant use of so-called "strong language is like someone shouting all the time. It soon becomes commonplace and MERRY doesn't add any emphasis- but only offense. And if the real need should arise, the shouting •would , already have lost its force and effectiveness, (Like ;the boy who cried "Wolfl Wolf!"too many times, and didn't have anything to add when the real occasion came,) * * We commend the code to which the television board of the Nat- ional Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters have re- cently committed themselves,. and from which we quote; - "Television, and all -who partici- pate in it, are jointly accountable to the American public for respect for the special needs of children, for community responsibility, for the •advancement of education and culture, for the acceptability of the program materials chosen, for decency and decorum •in produc- tion, and for propriety in advertis- ing. This responsibility ... can be discharged only through the highest standards of respect for the. American home, applied - to- every moment of every program pre- sented "Profanity, obscenity, smut and vulgarity are forbidden, even when likely to- be understood only by pant of the audience "Reverence is to mark shy men- tion of the name of God, His at- tributes and powers." Any man, on or off the air—any mann who appears in public or in private—should think of the in- fluence and atmosphere he is im- posing upon other people, and should have the decency to protect all others against offensive speech. • * The final fact is that crude com- Ment and oaths and irreverent utterances are proscribed by' the commandments of God, which fact cannot lightly be considered even by those who mean no offense by their loose language. Perhapstheessence of the sub- ject is suggested in that phase of the dictionary definition which re- fers to profanity as "irreverence." A Helping Hand—One of 'the numerous services provided by the Ontario Society for Crippled Children, which makes its Easter Seal campaign for funds March 13th to April 13th, is transportation of treatment cases. Here driver Jack Doherty is ready to take Mel Horwick, aged 20, to the Occupational Therapy Centre, Toronto. Wouldn't it seem to be inconsis- tent to pray for health :and hap- piness, ' for ap-piness,'for peace and protection, and for "our daily bread''—and then irreverently use the name of Him to whom we pray? Theopening utterance of the Lord's Prayer presents the key to the question "Our Father which art in -heaven,, HALLOWED be they name." (Matthew 6:9.) TUL.F4IN FON Coarse grain crops can be made practically smut -free if proper methods of treatment and the most effective disinfectants are used, re- port scientists of the Federal Lab- oratory of Plant Pathojogy in Win- nipeg who have completed a three year survey of actual farm seed treating methods for smut control in barley and oat crops, * * * Their survey showed that old standby disinfectants such as cop- per sulphate (bluestone) and for- maldehyde are not satisfactory for treating seed as they sometimes cause seed injury, * * * Modern organic mercury disin- fectants gave much better smut MENAGERIE ;X' control, particularly when an un- even distribution of disinfectant * !�.•.•,n+.-•7�+<S .:ea 5.11 -'through seed grain was obtained --with the shovel. or loading auger -...'..-method of application. The most -efficient disinfectant was found to be the organic mercury compounid, "Ceresan" M. The laboratory report noted that the mean percentage•of smut in 166 fields sown with seed treated with "Ceresan"—M. was. 0,49 while in 103 fields sown with formalde- hyde -treated seed the tnean percen- tage of smut was 2.20. The percent- age of snout in cheek plots of un- treated grain was 2.25. * * * The survey further revealed that • "With inflation and income tax, I figure it's worth about $27!" • T OW to r• BY • HAROLD ARNETT HERE'S A STUNT TO TRY WHEN YOU HAVE LiNT ON 'YOUR CLOTHES : WRAP SOME CELLULOSE TAPE ST/Cky SIDE 01/7 AROUND A PIECE OF WOOD AND BRU514 THE LINT OFF WITH ri grains treated with organic mer-• cury disinfectants could be stored much longer than those treated with older types of fungicides, When treated with copper sulphate or for- maldehyde, seed has to be sown a day or less after treatment. Organic mercury compounds, on the other hand, control seed -borne diseases more effectively if applied four or more days before seeding, and treated seed can be stored without risk •of injury, This en- ables the farmer to complete his seed -treating operations during the slack pre -seeding season. * * * Methods of applying seed disin- fectant are an important factor in smut control, the investigators found, Machine -treated seed gene- rally produced crops with less smut than shovel or auger -treated seed but only about 55 per cent of the farms that treated seed used a treating machine. * * * Pasture and hay occupy over 50 per cent of the total crop acreage in Ontario. Approximately 3 mil- lion acres of arable land and 3;4 million acres of rough land are in pasture, while hay is grown on approximately 341 million acres. * * * The extent of this acreage and _ the significance of same in the economy of production speaks for itself, Because of the large areas avail- able and the low cost price of land, we have unfortunately, down through the years, been inclined to seek the line of least resistance by 'increasing our acreage rather than the carrying capacity per acre. Until recently, we did not concern ourselves about the re- lationship between soil fertility, hay and pastures mixtures, and the management of same. Today, we consider pasture planning and management in all of their aspects as being of vital importance as re- lated to profitableness of enter- prise. Notwithstanding this fact, it is considered safe to suggest • that our live stock producers across the Province are not as hay minded as they are pasture - minded. * * * High quality bay is made from legumes and grasses, cut at the proper stages of growth, leafy, green in colour, free from moulds and weeds and dust and as nearly as possible fine -stemmed. * * * The stage of maturity affects hays because the dry matter con- tent increases up to full maturity. As timothy approaches maturity, however, there are marked decreases in protein and, in fact, all useful ingredients, and in their digesti- bility. For best quality grass hays, cutting should be made at the earliest heading or beginning bloom stage. * * * Time of cutting is important with legumes, although probably not as critical as with grasses. With alf- alfa, the first cutting can be made at the early bloom stage. Red clover and alsike should also be cut at early bloom or one-half bloom stage for the best quality of hay. * * * Mixtures of legumes and grasses should be cut when the legumes are at the proper stage of develop- ment as described above. * * * The weather conditions at the time of cutting exert a greater .control on nutrient preservation than does time of day. If a person has proper standard modern hay- making equipment on hand, and if one sees fit to take advantage of the facilities which are made available to agriculture today with respect to the forecasting services of government through radio sta- tions, and to use one's own baro- meter, there remains opportunity for one to make- high quality hay in the field, provided that it is cut at the proper stage of matur- ity. * * * Windrowing of hay after it has lain in the swath for two or three hours, preserves the quality by re- ducing the amount of hay directly exposed to the sun, and permits of better circulation'of air through the hay. There is also evidence that it is easier to cure mixtures of grasses and legumes than lege:nes alone because of the fact that the grasses aid in aeration which makes for more rapid drying. • * * The pick-up haler can have its limitation., in the harvesting of high quality hay, This is especially so if hay its harvested by contract. There is a tendency for the opera- tor to wait until the last possible minute before cutting the crop. This makes drying much more rapid and baling much easier, so that frequently baled hay is a more mature product than what is con- sidered to be average mow hay. * 1 -Tay, properly field cured under ideal weather conditions, is high in vitamin D and may contain Ma appreciable quantity of carotene, Leaf lose le redueed to a minipriutlt and the overall • feeding' quantity le well preserved. Unfortunately, if adverse weather conditions prevail, there is a con- siderable nutrient joss, When hay crops are fully cured in the field under such' adverse conditions, losses in original feedmg value are very considerable. Bleaching and leaf , shattering can account for losses amounting to between 30 and 40 per cent. An acre of alfalfa that will yield approximately three tons of hay per season containing 50 per cent or thereabout of leaves has as much feed value in terms of digestible protein and total dig- estible nutrients, when properly fed, as one ton of linseed oilmeal, plus one ton of dried beet pulp. * * The tripod- curing method is satisfactory when the volume of hay to be harvested is relatively small. By this method it is possible to make a high quality product at a relatively low cost. *. * * Mow drying and curing of hay, either baled or chopped.—This method serves to make for a better quality product. Getting hay into the mow sooner after it is cut tends to reduce losses from weath- ering and also reduces leaf loss, especially during unfavourable hay harvesting weather, with the result that more hay, cut at the right stage of maturity, can be saved and the protein and carotene content will be higher if curing in the mow is completed in a satisfactory manner. Doubtless there remains consider= able information to be discovered concerning this method of preserv- ing hay. However, whether the hay is baled or chopped, this 'method of curing, combined with better "Just like a man! Must have everything in black and white! harvesting equipment, are all steps toward the goal of better hay. Such methods should serve to shorten the time between cutting and a safe moisture content for perman- ent storage. * 4. * As for this initial moisture con- tent, present information is to the effect that hay canbe put on the drier at a moisture content of from 40 to 45 per cent with no danger of spontaneous ignition, provided that the fans are kept^ running. * * * Extensive cooperative research is being conducted at the Ontario Agricultural College in connection with mow curing of hay. NDAYSCHOOL LESSON By Rev. R. B. Warren, B,A,, B,1). Lydia Who Opened 1-Ocr X3esrt And Home Acts 161 6-15, 40, Memory Slectiona A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall bei praised, Proverbs 31130, It is remarkable how God guides His children. Paul and Silas, se- companied by Timothy from Lista, journeyed through Asia, a westerns province of Asia Minor, 'being for• bidden of the Holy Ghost to preack the word there. They they thought to go to the north of Bithynia, but the Spirit suffered them not. Where would they go? But when God closes some doors, He always opens another to his faithful chil- dren, In a night vision Paul re- ceived a call to Macedonia, The record reads, "Immediately we en- deavoured to go." In the Roman colony at Philippi the evangelists attended an open- air prayer meeting by the riverside. Apparently there were not suffi- cient Jews there to build a syna- gogue. Among those present was a Gentile woman, Lydia, a seller -of - purple, who worshipped God. This woman, 'whose heart the Lord opened," became a Christian. She and her household were baptized. Then she opened her home to the evangelists, Paul, Silas, Timothy and Luke. That it continued to be their home while they were in Philippi is seen from the fact that when Paul and Silas were released from prison they proceeded to the house of Lydia where they met with the brethern and comforted them. There are still some Lydias who not only have received Christ into their heart but who are labouring fervently with heart and hand to help on the cause in every way. The church needs more Lydias. The High Cost . Of Getting Rubber Better appreciate the elastic in that new girdle, the rubber . let those new tires. Much of it comes to you through bared Wire enclosures, past tom mein st guerrilla fire from the jungles of Malaya, where one of the world's great dramas is now playing. A close-up of the life of a rub- ber planter and his family- in Malaya is given by a pretty Eng- lish girl, Rhona Connery, now vis- iting the United States after three years as news and apecial events editor of Radio Malaya. During her stay in the heart of the jungles, whence comes some 90 per cent of the world's natural rubber, • Miss Connery witnessed blood -and -thunder dramas that rival the tales of America's early ' frontiers and Indian warfare. Says she: "The average English rubber grower in Malaya lives in a bun- galow in a barbed-wire enclosure, from which his family dare not stray. Every time he , rides itis jeep around his acreage, he is in constant danger of attack front ambush. To have even a slim mar- gin of safety he must take a differ- ent route every day." All Socked Away—Faced with a critical housing problem after her collie, Pippin, had 11 puppies, Mrs. Theo Rubbright solved it by hanging up the pups in socks. 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