HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-4-30, Page 3Art of pee-Huntiin;t
There js no point in going bee-
hunting if one can find no bees,
Bees begin to work as soon ea
spring gets warm and continue
until severe frost, This can be
proved b'' examining any hive on
any. warm day, but what the bees
are working on is another question,
They are hard to find except dur-
ing sone definitu.,honey flOwl such
as the white clover season or, the
milkweed or the goldenrod. Especi-
ally the last two are -favorable. On
the bee box I have used for a good
many years, 1 have scribbled the
dates of the findings of 06 bee
trees, Eighty per cent are ,in July
or September, Only occasionally
does one occur in Jute or August
and practically never in October,
July and n September mean milk-
weed and goldenrod to the bee -
hunter.
Let us assume that it is a warm
day in mid-July and the milkweed
is in bloom, We find a patch and
find it teeming with hoitey bees.
Incidentally the first step should
be to learn what a honey bee loolcs
like, Ile resembles a refined and
streamlined horsefly and is totally
Unlike the fuzzy bumble bee that
so many "mistakenly regard as
, honey bees. One's first task is
to catch a bee. This is done by
bringing the box up sharply under
him,with, the 11d, open as he sits
on he; edge of a bloom and slap-
ping the lid home es he tumbles'
into` the box.
Having caught the. bee ,in the
outer `Compartment- and Verifying
.,the fact that he is,titere,by looking,
in the window, the, next stsp is to
close the window,'darken the outer=
compartment, open the slide to ad
nut un to the rear and open
the rear window:. Seeing the light.
the' bee Will proniptly go in there
seeking escape. Then one can close
the: rear compartment and open the
front so as to• catch. another bee.
One can start a line with one bee,
but the chance of success is greater
if one has, a dozen, and during
a goad honey flow, if The tree is
not : too .far away, these can be ,
caught in ten minutes.
Sometimes the attempt_to find a
'tree is unusually baffling. One time
my"son and Ilined and cross -lined
a swarm- until We narrowed the
search to two or three trees. The
likeliest was a beech, but though
we occasionally got a glitter of
wings in the ' air, we could not
be sure that we had the. tree. It
was not until -we had gone home
and returned with a powerful pair
of field glasses that we were able
to distinguish the bees in the folie
age, forty-five feet in the air, and
near enough the hole to make us
certain that we had our bee-tree.—
From "The Bee -Hunter," by
George Harold Edgell.
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Shorthand Isn't
Anything' New
Few realize that the art of speed
writing, which is so vital to
modern commerce, goes bask two
thoustnd years—that it tdl began
with the Romans,
The saga of shorthand illustrates
the perfection reached . by modern
systems since the time when stu-
dents fn ancient Rome stabbed a
tutor to 'death with their 'metal
"pens" because. the 13,000 word
signs were too much to learns
The latest chapter has just,/seen .,
added with the publication of the
first complete history of British
'shorthand to be written in Great,,
Britain since 1881.
The author, Edward Harry
Butler, a 38 -year-old London jour-
nalist, has equalled the persever-
ance of the shorthand masters of
old. He spent 17 years collecting
3,000 rare manuscripts, books and
illustrations for the facts.
The first is that shorthand was
introduced to Great Britain by
Julius Caesar in 55 B,C., although
it is anybody's guess how well he
wrote it,
It had been invented by Marcus
Tiro, a slave of Cicero, and was
used to record the great speeches
in the Roman Senate. The crude
symbols were written with large
sharp s tyl o's on wax -covered
tablets. Torn to Pieces , S
According, to Latin poets, those
early stenographers could write as
fast as a `eech, But whatever their
p
skill, the -fates which awaited them.
for misreporting and other ,wrongs
were gruesome, and enough to
..frighten off any newcomers to the
profession. One was torn to pieces.
Other punishments included cutting
off the han'ds or severing the nerves
of the fingers..
In A.D. 534, Emperor Justinian
proclaimed shorthand "diabolical"
and banned its use, The Roman -
inspired secince then faded out.
It was in Britain that shorthand,
as we know it now, was born. The
oldest short -writing signs in 'the
English alphabet were devised by
a' monk, John of Tilbury, in 1180.
They looked like childish drawings
of railway signals.
The second attempt was,in 1588.
Dr. Timothy Bright, physician at
St, Bartholomew's Hospital, Lon-
don, and later a Yorkshire parson,
published "An Arte of Shorte,,
Swifte and Secrete Writing by
Characterie." He dedicated it to
Queen Elizabeth, who rewarded
him generously.
Bitter Feuds
Since then 418 different systems
have, been published in Great Brit-
ain, invented by a mixture of en-
thusiasts from bishop to petti-coat
maker.
BAWLING OUT ;.!
In the'eerfy days. o45Balm Ruth s'
stardom With the Yan uses 'he
Huggins Many a headache With his
antics" 'eff the field. You could
chastise art ordinary player for
breaking training rules, but' what rl
could you do' about the, greatest
star in baseball --.the man thou-
sands of fans came every day to
cheer?' One day, ` relates Robert
Sntith`r 1;itiggins 'redly . •lost his
temper. Ile told a reporter, "I'm
going to 'speak to Ruth this tinsel
You just wait and seal" At this
precise moment the Babe swagger-
ed into the hotel lobby. "There's
your mat," needled the reporter,
"Are you really 'going to speak to
hint?" "I certainly am," insisted
Huggins, "Hello, Babel"
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itis for Mother Need. Not Be Expensive
Ell EDNA VOILES
rp.HE gifts that Mother gets on
Mother's Day need not be ex-
ause it
Ise her day, they ve or yshould bee chosen
with per; particular wants in mind.
They should be what she'd pick
for herself 11 she could indulge
some of her small whims.
;l.,uxury. Janet neceslsarilY,'ex
pensiv , Tale, for Instance, the
luxury of a new tohet'Water an"d
stick perfume ,combination fin' a
Matching fragrance, 1} :bufiget,-
priped, .The ,eau de toilette is for
herr dressing table, the stick per-
fume goes inte'her handbag for
touch-ups away from home. It is,
by the way, a good traveler.
Stick perfume, because it con-
tains a higher percentage of es-
sential oils, is generally longer,
lasting than sticll cologne. It's non-
greasy, too, vanishing immediately
on the skin, leaving a lingering
fragrance.
If, Mother likes to combine prac-
ticality with her luxury, there's a
set for her that includes an after -
bath lotion and an after -bath fric-
tion mitt designed to be used to-
gether.
The white terry -cloth mitt has
friction material across the palm
Eau de toilette and stick per.
fume are Packaged together.
Anda non -porous pad beneath.
This seeanL,that most of the mitt is
kept dry during use. 'Used with,
the lotion, the mitt soothes tired
nerves and gives a cool, invigorat-
ing lift.
Combination package conta ns lotion and after -bath Stiction mitt,
British shorthand was first' used
to preserve church sermons, keep
secret diaries, or record the fare-'
well speeches and prayers of those o
about to be executed. -
The early authors gained, little
from their inventions aril died
paupers. By 1672• shorthand' alpha-
bets sold at the .unheard-of 'pride
of one shilling. The rivalry between•
authors was extreme, Theee were.
bitter feuds and many 'coffee -mouse,
brawls. One system was' given'
away as a frac gift with quack pills
and teething rings for five:ybars.
In 1720, John Byrom, 1 -.'poet,
diarist, friend of theWesleys, took
the spbtlight. The most famous in,
the land flocked to learn his sup-
erior system for the social iire'stlge.
All Byrom's pupils were sworn to' •
secrecy, and in 1742 an A:ct; of
Parliament gave him special short-
hand teaching rights. ,
He was the greatest shorthand
genius, Yet time has obliterated his
fame. To -day he is mostly remem-
bered as author of the Christmas
hymn "Christians Awake."
The peak in shorthand invention
came .in the 1800s. Never did so
many authors achieve so little.
Most of their systems were useless.
They were published merely to
satisfy the authors' vanity and
achieve social, rather than com-
mercial, success.
Good News For Lawn Lovers
Hated Crabgrass Meets Match
In the nationwide chemical war-
fare against crabgrass, known .as
the worst enemy of 'the lawn
grower, the army of homeowners
has been joined by a newand
powerful recruit—potassium cyan-
ate,
'This Chemical will be. available
throughout the country this sum-
mer for the first time in the his-
tory of the long and generally un-
successful battle to halt the rav-
ages of crabgrass. It comes as a
genuine challenge to the maligned
lawn grower who has decided to
stop growing grass to devote his
tine to raising crabgrass instead.
Potassium cyanate is a dry,
white powder that is simply mixed
with water and sprayed on the
lawns with an ordinary garden
sprayer. It is harmless to children
and pets, does no damage to basic
grasses, and eventually' breakt
down into fertilizing elements.
The chemical has been used by
some lawn growers before, in scat-
tered sections.. where it has been
available. Now; however, it is be-
ing produced hi volume' for gen
er1�i ge, '
`' •Cr=abgrass is the worst of .all.
lawn .pests, a tough, rank grass
that;:.sprouts late in the spring.
It: ,Jg'' hard to mote, and quickly
spreads overthe lawn, .choking
out the real 'grass and... lifting., its
brown=seed heads to ntakc the
lawn hook unkempt. nor years,
:i homeowners have beett'sprinkling
'Bait, old.`ntotor: oil, borax, and a
+ variety of poisonous chcmicale.,on
`;their;l atvtta in' a harried attempt
to stjt p it..out.
:Theodore Glowa, of the West
Pbiri 'Milit ry Acadcmy,,;.has been,
trying for ye'et to lick rhe, crap-
. -grass problg4n on the a3nt's'roll-
"Now, in the first grade you must
learn to look before you leap—or
there'll be no second grade!"
ing, spacious lawns and athletic
fields. After experimenting with
potassium cyanate, he has this to
say, "I can report that our control
ran from 95 to 100 per cent and
that there was no permanent in-
jury or lasting discoloration to the
basic grasses."'
None, of the commercial crab-
grass chemicals on the market go
under the chemical name of potas-
sium cyanate. Cyanate is the basic
ingredient in 11 different brands,
each sold under a different brand
• name,
However, it is the potassium
cyanate which ruins the crab-
grass. Known as a selective weed
killer because it destroys crab-
grass withottt permanently harm-
ing basic lawn grasses, potassium
cyanate destroys on 'Conte c t.
Wherever a globule of water and
cyanate lands on a leaf of crab-
grass, the cells of that leaf are
destroyed. And as the cells manu-
facture food, for the crabgrass
roots,the food supply is cut off
and the roots' perish.
Potassium cyanate was p u t
through years of thorough and
varied tests before being placed
on the market for crabgrass con-
trol. It is not a new chemical.
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Roast lamb is traditional spring-
' time dinner
pring-'time"dinner fare in many families,
and is' such a delightful dish that
:it's worth a little extra trouble to
,give it an.,attractive setting,
* *
Mint sauce goes with lamb as
a matter of Course and, when this
is served•in a half 'grapefruit shell
, -that is also a„platter ,garnish, 'it
gives a fresh, ' calorie] note to the
dinner table.
Sprigs of fresh,• aromatic mint
also add. color to ,the platter, and
one shot}ld be served on each din-
ner plate.
At' the very last minute before
putting your leg of lamb on •the
table to be carved, if you pour
melted butter over it and follow
this with an equal amount of fresh
lemon juice, you will find your
meat flavor*greatly improved.
If you would rather serve mint
jelly, there are several attractive
ways to use it as a garnish. Cut
lemons in half lengthwise, making
boats when pulp is removed. Fill
these with green mint jelly and
circle your meat platter with them,
serving one ou each plate.
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DISCOUNT
A' grave crisis developed recent-
, ly at tate Twentieth Cent fry -ho'
•studio,,Just.before,a picture went
into production, Darryl Zanuck
decreed that the script needed bol-
stering.. He furthermore decreed”
that' only one 'titan on earth .could!..
rho 'the' job ptuperiy: Ben Hecht.
'Get hirci". ordered Mr. Z., who
has,. •nevem, had• -a single wish de-
nied,,ltins since .the day he blew
into Hollywood from ahoo, Ne-
ftraska. This time, however, Mr
Hecht ptdvi±d'elusive, "He's bound
for New York in two days," re-
ported Zanuck's emissary, "but if
you want, he'll work on your
script ail the, way from Pasadena
to grand Central Station." Zanuck
shad had much previous commerce
with Ben Hecht, so he quickly
asked, "Alai what does lie Want
for this labor of love?" "Mr. Hecht
„ says he has a- fondness for full
,round sums," was the answer. 'iThe
,,price he asks is one hundred thou-
sand dollars."
Mr,''Zastuck staggered, but ral-
',lied quickly. "Call him again," he
ordered, "and ask him how much
he'll take to work on the scritpt as
far as Kansas City,"
If you want to make baskets
out of lemon shells, stick in slen-
der half circles of green pepper
for handles. Or, cut rounds of
lemon (thick enough to squeeze
some juice from)s and circle the
platter with them. Heap fnounds
of mint jelly ontop of each.
* * *
If you like to have vegetables,
on your meat platten=saving both
dishes and serving confusion—
make little nests of mashed pota-
toes around your roast and fill each
with drained, buttered frozen 'green
peas. For another garnish that
goes well with lamb, heap slices
of pineapple high with little green,
seedless grapes. Alternate these
fruit slices with.a cluster of, three
small, deep -yellow carrots topped'
with fresh mint to simulate carrot
tops. Serve a fruitsliceand sevd'ral
carrots with 'mint on eachipiatc,l
The Frenched leg, of 'Iamb is
probably the best known ' in the
retail store. Always have the
butcher leave on the paperlike
covering known as the fell, since
it helps to keep the meat juices
in and to retain the. shape of the
leg during cooking. " Place the leg'
fat side up (fell side down) ona •
rack in an open pan. No cover]
no water. Roast at 325° F., follow-
ing chart which follows.
* * *
If you allow the roast to "set"
for about 30 minutes after sook-
ing it makes* carving *easier.
*
A .,lemon mint .sauce offers, a a
variation front the plain butter-
mint sauce so often used on lamb.
Here is the way to make it:
LEMON MINT SAUCE
1 cup sugar
r/ cup lemon juice
/ cup finely minced mint leaves
Combine all ingredients and al-
low to stand % hour,
* * *
If your family is small and you
prefer to serve lamb in some other
form than the leg. try lamb steaks
with minted .stuffing for a delec-
table dinner dish. Garnish in the
sane way you would the Iamb
platter. For four servings you
'will need four steaks (sirloin chops
may be fixed this way, . too), and
the mint flavor appears in a new
guise in the stuffing.
* * *
LAMB STEAKS WITH MINT
DRESSING
4 lamb steaks, / inch thick
3 tablespoons fat
8 slices bread, broken in small
pieces
1 medium apple, chopped fine
2 tablespoons finely chopped..
celery
1 tablespoon chopped mint
leaves
2 tablespoons poultry seasoning
1/ cups (about) fruit juice or
water
Mix bread, apple, celery, mint
leaves, and poultry seasoning in
large bowL Moisten with fruit
juice or water. Brown one side of
steaks in hot fat in skillet. Place
two steaks: browned°Side down on
a rack in shallow pan. Pile stuff-
ings .on top of steaks. Top each
with' second 'steak,' browned side
up. Fasten with toothpicks, Bake
uncovered at 325° F. for 45 min-
utes. Serve hot
* * *
You may ase this same minted
dressing in lamb shanks, if you
like. The flavour of this cheaper
cut of lamb is good and serving
them stuffed adds a surprise note.
Have the butcher hone them. Stuff
and brown before roasting slowly.
Garnish :and serve, with a spiced
cranberry sauce.
a * * ?k
If you want a more definite
flavoring, try baked breast of lamb
with mustard. You'll need several
pounds of breast cut in serving
pieces. Before baking, spread all
sides with prepared mustard and
place in open pan so all pieces are
flat. Bake at 375° F. for two hours,
turning occasionally until well
browned on all sides. Season with
salt and pepper at last turning.
TIMETABLE FOR COOKING
LAMB
Five -Pound Leg of Lamb
Medium done, 214hours, 175°F.
Well done, 214 hours, 182° F.
Eight -Pound Leg of Lamb'
Medium done, 35,4 hours, 175°F.
Well done, 4 hours, 182°F.
THE FIFTH
. A teen-age boy was telling some
of his friends about the wreck he
had with his hot rod the night
before.
"Five things were broken in the
wreck," he told, his spellbound
audience. "I broke my front bum-
per, my windshield, my watch and
my nose!"
And the girl sitting next to him
observed: "That's only four things.
What else was broke?" she asked
"Me," the lad replied sadly.
BY -
HAROLD
ARNETT
A MOUSETRAP, NAILED OR 5CR WED TO THE
WALL IN YOUR BASEMENT OR GARAGE, MAKES
A HANDY PLACE TO KEEP DIRTY WORK GLOVES.
THANKS R. J. L, PEs MOINES, Icw4.
Best eller
Written In Jail
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The bole with this widq t read
eirship, In the wpild Is t1 B3bla.
The one with the eecon widest
readership is "The1'ilgri 's Pro -
gross," written 'by John Bunyan, the
inspired "Tinker from Bedford,"
whose metnory is to be further per-
petuated by the erectiai of s
granite stone on the site of his
birthplace at Elstow,; Bedfordshire,
The cottage in which Bunyan was
born stood just within the parish
of Elstow at the foot of a gently
sloping 1ti11 between two streams.
Although the cottage is no longer
there the field in which it stood la
known as "Bunyan's End," and per.
mission has been given by, the local
farmers for the making of a foot-
path to the new ;commemoration
stone.
John Bunyan lived in the seven-
teenth century during the Puritan
Age when the main preoccupation
of English life and character was
religion, To the majority of the
population the only book known
was the Bible, every word of which
was accepted as literally and his-
torically true.
Unlike John Milton, /that other
literary giant of the seventeenth
century, Bunyan had fpceived no
education worth speakinpg of. He
had never entered a colldge and had
no kind patron among; the upper
classes His; father was a tinker
i worked
brazier; tt
Bun an
bra and and JSi
rad
hard at the ,sam e t e.
He -w
as a
Wild Youtn
t
and during
g
his early years his excitable nature
involved him fn an excess of rioting
and hooliganism. He was also ad-
dicted to swearing, and these
characteristics—when young=. Bun-
yan began to take an absorbed
interest in religion -tormented him
with misery, convincing him that
he was utterly damned for the sins
of his youth.
In quite unjustified despair he
joined the Parliamentary Army,
and it was while serving that an
incident occurred which has often
been described as a miracle.
"Shot in the Head"
"1 with others, he says, "was
drawn out to go to such a place to
besiege it, but when I was just
ready to go one of the company
desired to go in my room (place),
to which when 1 had consented, he
took my place, and coming to the
siege, as he stood sentinel, he was
shot in the head with a musket ball
and died."
Bunyan took this as a sign from
divine providence that his own
life was to be spared for some im-
portant task. On leaving the Army
he joined a Baptist Society at Bed-
ford and soon proved himself to be
an eloquent preacher.
He was one of the first victims
of the persecution of the noncom-
formists or dissenters, who were
regarded as disloyal to the Icing
and the Established Church.
The Dark Abyss
He was cast into Bedford jail,
where, with some brief ientrvals
of freedom, he was imprisoned for
over twelve years. Left to his
solitary meditations, cut off from
the world in a damp, unwholesome
dungeon, Bunyan's powerful im-
agination soared among the stars
and penetrated the dark abyss of
woe.
It was in these conditions that
he wrote the first part of "The
Pilgrim's Progress," describing the
adventures of Christian and Hope-
ful on their way from the City of
Destruction to the Celestial City.
One hundred thousand copies of
"The Pilgrim's Progress" were
sold within the first few years of
its publication - an astonishing
figure in those days. The book has
now been translated into over a
hundred languages and dialects.
Bunyan was aged sixty when he
died in 1688 and by that time he
had written a total of sixty books.
Six children were born to him, four
by his first wife and two by his
second.
OLD STUFF,
"What a pity, times are not what
they used to bel Children no long-
er obey their parents and everyone
wants to write a book." This plaint
was voiced neither by a victim of
the Inquiring Photographer nor a
harassed published at the Ritz. It
is a literal translation, vows E,
Stanley Jones, in The Christ of
Every Road, of the message in-
scribed on the oldest piece of
papyrus preserved by the State
Museum in Istanbul.
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MATERNITY WARD —'
The Clevelorid, Ohlo, 200 is calling its monkey house the "Stark Club" these days, Pictured a
crop of 20 baby monks.
ove is port of the reason—a bumper