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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-5-14, Page 9r":Triangli0 By L, MOcDONALD -S"Mister, I'm gonna get amiarrfed,, Me, a guy of forty-two. I gotta tell someone. Want to hear about it?" 1 was waiting for someone when this guy sits on the parts bench be- side me and starts talking, He'd singled me out -from the others in the park and I didn't want to dis- appoint him. 1 nodded my head. After all, I had some time to kill and I don't like to wait alone. "I',n listening," I told him, "Tell me about it," "I got a radio shop," he began, "Buy, sell and repair. I'm getting married tonight. Forty-two years old and I'm getting married, She's forty, but she looks thirty. Real black hair and dark eyes. She's a 'wonderful cook; no foot) in L. A. like it." I looked at his stocky form and the graying hairs of his round. bare head. I said something about love. "Love, you say? How old are you? About thirty, I bet. in ten years you won't be like that. Things change. She and I had plenty of love when we were young. But we didn't have much money. 1 got a job helping an electrician. It took me years to get a shop of my own. Now I got money, all kinds of business." He Was silent for a moment, squinting at His watch, trying to see the hands with his red eyes. They were tired and strained from delving into thousands of radios. I wondered what kind of woman loul d marry this little red eyed man who was fast losing his hair. "During the war," he continued, "people had all kinds of radios to get fixed. I used to work night and day, saving my money to get mar- ried, I hiresl1 two kids; they had "SAM'S RfLDIOS" sewed on the backs of their coveralls. They used to make deliveries and stuff, May- be you saw them down on First street. Just off of Figueroa. I was always- in the shop, working con- stantly because people couldn't get new radios. I never had time to cone to the park." Ile paused to look at his watch and I tried to remember where I bad heard 'Sam's Radios' before. It stuck in my mind. But I couldn't remember at the moment. "While Pm husy fixing radios with no time to come to the park or anything a guy starts rushing Lena. Lena Raetllo is her name, the woman I'm going to marry. We-" The,.uame struck me and I missed a few sentences. Ile went right on tacking, "-and all the while he was taking her out. To the park, the movies, the beach and all the places l was too busy to take her. They inet here in the park almost every day. He was swell to her." "Itis name was Ilarry. Lena liked (mint because he was so much fun. I never had the time to spare; Harry was good to her. She said, "Yes, Sam, 1,11 marry you." But she'd have to break the news to Harry first, She told me who he was and ail about it. He was a pretty good guy-, and she wanted to, break it to' him easy" I didn't .look at him but-focused on a woman coming across the park. Ile glanced et'nme and went on talking, as though he knew I was clutching at every word. "She pas supposed to meet him and telt himmm, this afternoon. I closed the shop, because tonight we get married, and came over to the park to find this guy. I had to tell some- one about getting married and all. Lena said Harry is a nice guy." "Ile used to take her--", he broke off at he saw the wouman'I had: been watching. She had seen us and halt- ed, ('ler hair black and even from a distance L could see tier eyes glisten jet. Sam stood es -anti took a step, then he turned to rue. "It's Leila," he said,' "She didn't expect me here.. I better go meet her; it's better that way, `.[`hanks for listening to ate," I sighed in relief, I said, "So long. Congratulations." Ila ,glanced over his shoulder "Thanks," he said, "Goodbye, Ilarry " This Was World's First Postage Stamp Prior to 1840 the Carriage of letters for private persons and firms Was an expensive matter - rates having been based upon dis- tance and weight -and most mail took the form of folded sheets of letter -paper with a wax seal on the back. 1 Agitation for Universal Penny Postage was successful in 1840, and, within six days after the act providing for a reduced and uni- form rate of postage in Grett Britain was set up, an advertise- ment seeking a "stamp" design appeared in the London Tittles. Designs submitted were not con- sidered satisfactory, and Sir Row- land Hill -appointed to the Trea- sury to assist in preparations to put penny postage into effect - went to a firm named Perkins, Bacon and Fetch. This firm pre- pared an engraved die of a head of Queen Victoria, facing reit, as taken from the 'Guildhall". medal by William \Vyon. The drawing for the head was clone by, Henry Cor- bould and the engraving of the stamp die was the work of either Charles Ileath or his son, Fred- . crick. The first die proving unsatis- factory, a second one was made, and the various process leading up to the accepted stamp design went on apace. black was selected as the color for the Id (ane penny) value accounting for its familiar name of "Penny Black," and blue was selected fo rthe companion 2d de- nomination .. . The one great problem facing ' postal clerks was that the stamps did not have perforations or a means of separating 'them cleanly and easily. Scissors, knives and any form of straight -edged tool were used, many tines with unfortunate effect, and it was not long before a perforating device, proposed by Henry Archer was adopted. , 10 a sense, this "Penny ,Black" affected, all future British stamp issues. Being the world's first posts age stamp, and a British invention, it did not occur to the authorities to put the name of he country on It. To his day British stamps do not have the name of the country of origin ---although naturally the British Colonial issues do. , Other countries, also aware of the need of such a means of denoting': the prepayment of • postage, were quickly to follow the innovation of the British. In all some ninety countries, colonies or other govern- mental units had followed 13ritain'a lead by isasing postage stamps in the first twenty ,years --1840 to 1860. • Officially the United States was seventh on the list, with its re- gular 5 -cent and 10 -cent stamps of 1847; but unofficially it was second, for there was a private letter post operated in New York by Alex- ander M. Grieg and Henry Thomas Windsor, This was 'known as the City Despatch Post and commenc- ed operations Jan. 1, 1842, with its own ste4nps. The practical use of these first stamps, and other private and semi- official stamps which followed, was a motivating factor in persuading Congress to authorize the issuance of regular stamps - Froin "Fell's Profitable Stamp Guide," by Franklin R. Bruns, Jr. Aluminum Ships At Wallsend -on -Tyne, England, the yards are building aluminum ships: A 60 -foot launch made of aluminum for the Pakistan Govern- ,nment weighs about one-quarter as much as a similar vessel built of the usual materials and use only half the horsepower for the same speed, Many barges have been built of aluminum for service in the tropics. They carry more cargo than would ordinarily be 'possible in shallow waterways. THLPA1M FRONT Jo tir Give your eggs a soft tide - to town if you want top dollars for them. That's the advice handed out by a famous expert. * * * ' . Here's what happened when three different lots of cased eggs were hauled over the sane four miles of rough roads: * * * • Those in a sedan came through without damage. * * * Those hauled in the front of a truck showed that a dozen per case (30 dozen) had developed tremulous air cells, * * But those hauled in the back of the truck) Half a dozen per case were broken; eight per ease were cracked; and 76 --or more than six dozen -suffered tremulous air cells. One out of every four eggs was damaged in one way or another) * * * If you're shipping hatching eggs and getting docked for low hatch- ability, some research by scientists gets right down to your pocket- book level. * * * They've been trying to find out whether you can candle eggs and find out what their chances of hatching are. * * * They've discovered eight "ab- normalities" that can cut your (match 'way down. These are cracks; poor shells (either thin or rough shells, and all over or jult 18 spots); blood spots; misplaced air • cells; loose air cells; oversize (2.3 ounces or larger); undersize (1.6 ounces or smaller). The scientists set 1,400 eggs that had one or another of these defects (only one defect per egg) and got a 45% hatch, against a 72% hatch for normal eggs. * * * Most common defects were cracks, misplaced air cells, and oversize. But undersize eggs were the worst offenders. Less than half of them (only 39%) were fertile to begin with, * * Plenty of eggs ... on a small amount of feed . , plus a good market carcass. Frank Moses has a White Leghorn -Barred Rock cross that is giving him all that. * * * Moses mated White I_eghorn roosters to Barred Rocic )mens to. make his cross. He got both breeds from flocks bred for high produc- tion, SALLY'S SALLIES 'Our ilexibt, mike, Senator,' is especially des►gned„ for, states Ms BY - HAROLD ARNETT READING I' P'i tour YOUR GLASSES N AN if EMERGENCY CAP! SE ACCOMPLISfIED BYkING 'n FINGER AS SHOWN, AND READINGTNRo GH 114E HOLE, WHICH MAGNIFIES TME PRINT(, Self -Help Gadget -Mrs. Pearl McMullen, suffering with rheumatoid arthritis, delightedly demonstrates usefulness of long -handled comb. With this self-help gadget, patients whose hands, arms and shoulders are stiffened can look after their own hair where formerly they were dependent on others. Many other self-help devices of this nature are being demonstrated by the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society, to help rehabilitate patients and restore morale. Society is campaigning this month for funds to carry on its work. lie's been getting 85 to 90 eggs a day per 100 birds since they hit their stride. They eat 28/ pounds of feed per 100 birds per' day - about 10 pounds a day less than heavier birds would eat. * * * - \Vhen he culls his hens, they weigh 5 to 5;4 pounds - a weight that brings top fowl prices. * * * The birds lay 'tinted eggs. That's no handicap where Moses sells his eggs, although it might be in otherP laces. * * * "Just like peas in a pod." Folks like a lot of things that way no difference from one to another, or from week to week. * * * Walter A. Moore, who runs the Hollywood Poultry Farm aims to give his customers eggs just like that. * * * But some eggs cone flirty. Clean 'em and they look shiny. And everybody knows a fresh eggs has a dull finish to its shell. * * * Well - not quite everybody. Moore shines all his eggs to get that "peas -in -a -pod" look to them, Result: his customers won't take anything else. So far as they're concerned, the shinier the egg, the fresher it is. Great Act Bobby Clark, one of the greatest comedians of our time, would like to revive the lion act he did in burlesque with his old partner Mc- Cultougb. It is a project that should be encouraged, if necessary, by a special grant front Congress. The manager of a side-show offered Clark a dollar. to wrestle with a lion, When Clark demurred the manager assured hint, "Our real ,lion has escaped. This fellow (McCullough) will wear a lion skin and the suckers will never know the difference." Claris, of course, perk- ed up at once when he heard this. And the real lion, of course, walk- s ed' into the cage behind his back white he told time audience what he was going to do to fhe "king of beasts." The next ten minutes provided more belly laughs than any other act of sits.. kind. Clark whacked the lion with his cane, lcicked it in the rump, played leap frog with.it, and waved a flashlight in its eyes. When the lion. roared, be Would' .cry, "That's grcatl You sure are fooling. the audience." Occasionally he'd sniff and declare, "What a perfornmance l You even smell like a )ton." I'or the pay-off, time lion would start 'chasing Claris around the cage. The manager yelled, "Hey, I've been trying to tell youl That's the real lion in there with you)" Clark's final speech was, "This is a hell of a time to tell mel" HELPFUL Ilka Chase tells of time day she was taken to Long Island by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the late General. The General had been briefed to meet the ladies at the Syosset station, but 'just before they reached it, they discovered the train was not scheduled to stop there. They proved equal to the emergency. As the train tootled by the station, they tossed a has- tily scribbled note to the startled' on the track General. Heran out a Ge ea. u e to retrieve it. It was most help- ful. It read, "Timis train does not stop at Syosset." ADHESIVE A new British adhesive can be used as a cold solder for aluminum and other metals and to join china, glass, enamel -ware, leather, plas- tics, tiles and wood together. The new adhesive is transparent, water- proof, acid -proof and heat -proof; It can be smoothed down with sandpaper, filed, chiselled or, plan- ed. /vt,GREEIN TUUMB Gorda\Smith Where Space Short Where space is limited one does not go in for big, bushy vegetables like potatoes, or for sprawly pump- kins which cover so much room. It is best to concentrate on those things which grow quickly and yield heavily 10 family meals and take up a minimum of apace. In this cate- gory come lettuce, onions, radish, beets, carrots, beans, staked toma- toes, one or two (tills of cucumbers and, mostly because you can't hope to buy them really fresh, a few rows of small type garden peas. One can get a little extra production by alternating rows of tate and early kinds of vegetables, by planting the staked tomatoes around the edge of the garden. Practically all vegetables like fine, rich soil, frequent cultivation, a little commercial fertilizer to push growth and also watering when the weather is dry. To permit uniform develop- ment they should be thinned, The real secret of tender vegetables is to keep them growing quickly, to use just when they hit their best, For most of them the season can be extended substantially by making a succession•of sowings at two week intervals.- - Commonest Mistakes The two commonest mistakes of gardening are too thick and too deep in sowing flower and vegetable seed. One should remember that all these things require room, even tiny things like alyssum or radish or onions. With big things like peas, beans, etc., it is not hard to space as we plant, but with tiny seeds it is more difficult and after the plants come up they should be thinned. To spread very small seed more evenly some experts mix with a little sand or fine soil and sow the mixture. The general rule for depth is three times the diameter. Now that does not mean getting out a ruler or calipers. It simply suggests that fine seed such as that of onion, poppy, portulaca and carrots should be merely pressed into the soil, large seed like beans and peas or corn covered about an inch, still larger such as potatoes and gladioli, three to six inches. If planted too deep, the tiny seed especially may not germinate at all. A Few Early Rows For time amain plantings of vege- tables it is not advisable to start too soon. With tender things little is to -be gained by planting until both the soil and air have started to turn warm and spring has really arrived. But this advice, of course, does not apply to very hardy flowers and vegetables nor to most nursery stock, grass seed, etc. And it doe0 not apply rigidly to a few extra, earl, rows of almost anything in the vegetable line, If these conte along and escape the frost one gots a good deal of satisfaction in boasting to the ueigIse bore. if they don't come, well one is oat oiily a few cents worth of seed and in an 'hour's healthy oxer- . cise. Just as soon as the ground IS fit to work, one can take a chane* on a few feet of lettuce, some radish, carrots, onions, spinaeim, and such things. Even a few hilts of potatoes may be planted. Main . plantings.. however, of vegetables and flower should wait until practically al danger of frost has passed. UNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. R. B. Warren, B.A., B.D. Conserving The Family Heritage Exodus 20:12, Mar 7:9-13; John 19:25-27. Memory Selection: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God givetk thee. Exodus 20:12, At the convention of the Ontario Educational Association held in - Toronto during the Easter holidays repeated reference was made to the fact that parents are failing to teach their children obedience. This increases the problems of the teachers. The child who doesn't honor his parents may readily come to resent his teacher's requirement of obedience. Iu some cases it goes farther and the grown child - goes out to defy the nation's laws. Then .it is called "juvenile delin- quency" but it would be more pro- perly called "parental delinquency." The command of the memory verse is to the children. But par- ents have a responsibility in living so as to merit that honour. If the child wakes up to see his mother carried in in a drunken stupor while the baby-sitter prepares to leave, -well, it will be harder for him to honor his mother. The national tragedy of divorce r er na- c s nm ton of a eat is but a y p g tional tragedy -the increasing dis- integration and disorganization of family life. The broken family is, not the result of divorce; divorce is time result of the broken family. A report from a midwestern city its the U.S showed that in the last 8000 divorces cases tried there, the spouses had already been separated an average of well over two years before coming into court to get their divorces. Jests set us an example of obe- dience and of consideration for his mother. While on the cross hs arranged for his beloved John to care for his mother. ONTARIO FISHING REGULATIONS FOR 1952 FISH OPEN SEASON LIMiT MIN. LENGTH AREA BLACK yaASS 1. July 1-0d. 15 6 per day 2, June 25 -Doc. 15 6 por day 3. July 1 -Dee. 15 6 par day 10 inches 10 inches 10 inches 1. All province, except as listed under 2 and 3. 2. River St. Clair, Lake 5t. Clair and Detroit River. Part of Area A on map. 3. Lake Erie and Niagara River above fails, Part of Area A on map. MASKINONGE 1. July 1 -Oct. 1 14 por Benson 2 per day 2. June 25 -Des. 15 2 per day 14 per season 3. July 1 -Doc. 15 2 por day 14 por season 4. June 20 -Oct. 1 2 per day 14 per season 30 inch¢s 30 inches 30 inches 30 inches 1. All province, except as listed under 2, 3 and4. 2. River 5t. Clair, Lake Si, Clair and Detroit River. Part of Area A on map. - 3. Lake Erie and Niagara 'River above falls. Part of Area A on map. 4. North end west of French and Mattawa Rivers and take Nipissing. Areas B and D on map. SPECKLED TROUT 1, May 1 -Sept. 15 15 per day or 10 lbs. 2. May 1 -Sept. 15 10 per day or 5 Ib,, 7 inches 7 inches 1. All province except 2. 2. Norfolk County. RAINBOW, BROWN, AURORA and KAMLOOPS TROUT 1. May 1 -Sept. 15 5 per day 7 inches 1. All province. YELLOW PICKEREL 1, All year - 6 per day 2. May 15 -Doc. 31 6 per day 3. May 15 -Apr. 14 6 per day - 4. May 1 -March 1 6 por day 5. May 15 -Nov. 15 6 per day ' 13 inches 13 inches 13 inches 13 Inches - 13 inches 1. Great Lakes except Bay of Qulnte. Area 5 on map, 2. South of French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing (all inclusive). Area C on map. 3. North and West of French and Mattawa Rivers and lake Nipissing. Area 0 on lisp. • 4. St. Lawrence River. • 5. Lake 5t. Frances. PIKE 1. All year - 6 per day 7. May 12 -Mar. 31 6 per day 3. April 28 -Mar. 1 6 per day -.. 4, May 12 -Nov. 15 6 per day none none none none 1. •Groat Lakes and north and west of French and Mattawa Rivers, and Lake Nipissing, Areas B and 0 on map. 2. South of French and Mattawa' Rivers, and Lake Nipissing (all inclusive). Area C on map. 3. St. Lawrence River. 4. Lake St. Francis, LAKE TROUT , 1. All year 5 pet slay, 2. Nov. 6 -Oct 5 5 per day 3. May 1 -Oct. 5 3 per day 4. All year 5 per day none non* none none 1. Groat Lakes and 5t. Lawrence River, Area B on asap. 2. South of French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipissing. Area c, on nmap,,,8attepl 3. - 5, County of Haliburton and 'That portion of country of Hastings north and idlludfng''lriiivnihips of Cashel. Limerick and Wollaston. 4. North of listing 2. Area D on map. By Arthur Pointer