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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