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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-6-18, Page 8Incident fit Volley Post By TEP SHiMER Old Alan Rates came out of the bills early that :spying driven by an impulse to inspect his new grand- son in the little crossroads settle- ment of Valley Post, As he drove up the rutted street, he noticed several changes since his last visit in the fall and waived airly to old acquaintances, at the sante titre eotleing-a few empty seats made of packing cases in front of the blacksmith shop. IIe duly visited his daughter whose husband was foreman at the saw mill and was unimpressed by his squalling, redfeeed grandson. Ile guessed he expected much more, but maybe nest year the little tod- dler could walk down to the village with hint. That afternoon Old Man Bates sat in his familiar seat of honour in front of Clancey's General Store and, after holding forth on the mer- its of his oW11 "digging" far up in the hills, listened to the news. About three o'clock in the after- noon the village was set agog by the appearance of a low black sedan touring through its main street. Automobiles were not too common in Valley Post with an occasional ramshackle Ford or clattering trac- tor drawing acute interest. Old Man Bates was eaten with suriosity and concealed awe. '>i''`iitiast eindleg�::01• d• iftah, otos, and said, "Hello, Pop, how'za 'bout watching the horses?" lie satperfectly still as the sedan drew to' a purring stop in front of the bank. s It, rear end was •uiud spattered 4u t `siilasifed cas" witness to the fearful.roa<ls leading through the wildernezy •ol vitgin, timber to Valley Post. With engine purring and its enhaust making •little.white puffs in the Fool epring_.air, it was a synnbol ol:hiatent Two yount men stepped from the car and 'hc 1l t 'of: "then esurvey ed _thd . bank,' with an expression._ of a acute disgust nett his dark . (ent,tlees. - Old Ivian Bptes took an ansta�j dislike to''this (ln "'line other'one was• smiting,'' lilotiti'; f yotetig 'hien in' an ,impeceabJe gray suit. He smiled at Old -'Man Bates and said, "Hello; Pop, how'za about watching the horses?" Old Man .Bates grinned toothlessly hark et hint and nodded, 1,13oth men entered the bank and 151d' Man Bates squinted at the 'big, purring car with a child:Gke curios- ity, finally he rose. Then with some finality as if ]raving reached a great decision, he walked; slowly tb the car his hand clutched about e small object. J' riionirni laird there rose a fusillade of shots, and. Old Man Bates pushed further behind his po- tato barrel as the bank doo- slam- med open. The dark young man stood there a moment surveying the street and scowling, a smoking pistol in his right hand and a small satchel • in his left. He Reckoned with the pistol and the blonde young man followed him slowly to the car. The dark man cursed and slid under the wheel of the car. He tnade sev- eral deft futile mover cots on the dashboard and Old Man Bates beard the urgent whir or the star- ter. The c.c would not start. Down the street the Constable's office banged open and soon- rifles and •shotguns began to converge on the black sedan. Old Man 13ates joined the. Crowd of townsmen and worked his way to tie rear of the c -r. Someone e Saw him stoop and retrieve an ob- ject from b-ject'from its rear end. A shout went • up and soon men were pounding his slight form and shaking his hand. 'The Constable shouldered his way through turd pulled the two young bandits behind hint. "What's allthe hultai:nloo about back here," he demanded. Old Mal Bates son-in-law put his arm :trout d the slight shoulders. "Pap here stopped( yer bandits cold, les. sir, lie stuck a pot;tto in the tail pipe of their. car. Hormel smart work 1 calls it" Later when Old Man Bates was taken to his Daughter's house he dawdled his grandson on his knee His s:nt nn -len inquired, "Pop. where did You ,learn that plugging tip' a told lige -weed(' stop n gaso- line engine?" Old isfan Butes returned the eat - did unblinking gaze of his gran d - son and replied, "1 ain't as old and dtin97 as some folks !link. 'Sides I saw 110 sense in nil tont Oar steam escaping from that tail- end—so I plugged her no?" Modern Etiquette By Roberta l.,ee Q. How can I give a buffet Kipper? A. Anytime between five and eight P.M, Hot dishes, 'salads, rolls, appetizers, dessert and bever- ages are served, 'J'he dishes, napkins and silverware are placed on the table with the food, and the guests help themselves, This is a good way to entertain a large gathering without maid service, Q. What kind of entertainments arh appropriate for announcing a wedding engagement? A, Engagements are announced by parents or older, relatives of the bride-to-be, and this may be done at formal or informal' dinners or luncheons, dances,- card or cocktail 'Parties. Q. Is it considered improper to use the knife in cutting the. lettuce in a salad? A. There is no ban at all against cutting the salad with a knife. Q. To settle an argument, will you tell me the correct way in which to eet ,, ,e? Is it ever proper to eat them with a spoon? it Is customary' always to eat ve•;etablee with the fork. This ap- plies to peas, too. Q. If a couple know that their engagement is to be a long one, should a public announcement be made? A. Yes; but the announcement should include "that no date has been set for the wedding." Q. Is it proper to name the second son "junior" after his father, or is this title always sup- posed to be conferred on the oldest son? A. The "junior" in a family need not be the first son, Q. My husband and^I have been invited to a double wedding ceremony. The one couple are very good friends, but the other we know only slightly. Are we obligat- ed to give wedding gifts to both couples? A. A gift to your good friends is the only requirement. Of course, a little gift to the other bride would not be improper, but it isn't expected, a Q. Is the prefuc "Mr." ever ' omitted irom _A man's card? " - s A. It is omitted from a man's - business card, but never from the card which he. uses 'socially. Isit proper to sip your coffee or tea with the spoon? A. Not the entire cup.` The spoon; may be used for tasting only, never, for drinking. After stirring your. beverage and tasting, lay the spoon in the saucer and let it remain there, ANSWERS TO INTELLIGENCE TEST 1—Bowling, 2—Spain. 3—Britain. 4-700, yards. 5—Milton. 6—Aaron Burl 7 ' (A) tfitited States; (B) '—*•Rome; (C) Tdrkeyl'.(D) :Britain. Colorful Paper Plates: Ease, Duties of Summer Hostess i VC Emit. 141ILBs tpO entertain with the least effort and the greatest results is the aim of almost every woman during the hot sum- mer months, She wants her guests to have a good tune. 13ut,she doesn't. want to spend long, hot hours in the kitchen before they arrive nor does she want to return to the kitchen for another session when they've gone. One ofthe simplest and most pleasant forms of party - giving is the buffet using paper -plate service. It leaves the hostess free 1,0 enjoy her own party, to; talk to her guests and to eat without feeling harried, As the buffet 'moves out-of-doors for warm weather, the hostess may utilize,almost any open.: spade, from a small terrace in a city apartment to a back porch or a lawn. Color, in a buffet, can be gained through the striking pastel shades of the paper .plates—jonquil yellow, avocado green, paradise pink and blue—or in patterns on white grounds. The hostess. can use a dark cloth for contrast or she can let the wood of the table top set off the plates, Table decorations need'• not be elaborate to be attention - getting. Flowers in an unusual arrangement, an interesting candelabra, a functional relish Ferris wheel ---any of these will turn the trick. - When the buffet is over, neither guests nor hostess need feel obliged to ri in. -the balance of the evening by doing - dishes. The paper plates and matching paper napkins .can he thrown oitt, thus,getting rid of most of the clean-up work. Gay paper plates add to the friendly atmosphere of the outdoor buffet. Hostess relaxes, free from visions of stacks of dishes. Note relish "ferris wheel" at left. In the latest issue of that very .,interesting American Magazine "The Farms Journal," there's an article by L.:•C. -Boggs which I'm going to pass along to you poultry raisers. These roosting "islands," as he calls them, sound like a really goodidea—one that I'm sure many of us could- adopt to our -advant- age. - A lien acratching around on' the floor" looks industrious—says''Mr: Boggs—and mos( 'of us 'have `thought "that's good—she must be making money." •'But'1some of the poultrymen in ' the stare of Washington new have fi different' idea. They are trying roosting' "islands" that. run down the centre of their houses, with feed and water troughs mounted on the roosts. Their hens spend 'most of the time on the "islands," not oh the floor. The advantages are: - .* * * 'Yee can keep more. birds in a house;' Your litter stays dryer; You get more clean eggs; C,P.R, VICE PRESIDENT MEETS DIESEL PIONEER: A college 'thesis was responsible for a. long delayed meeting in Montreal recently between the Russian scientist who designed and built the world's first diesel-electric locomotive (shown above) and the vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The story began when N. R. Crump (right), now vice.president of the C,P.R., was studying for his Bachelor of Science degree at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., and was renewed in 1936 while Mr. Crump was locomotive foreman at Moose - Jaw, Sask., and was working on his thesis for his Mechanical Engineer's degree, His subject, "internal Combustion .Engines in the Railroad Field," was one that required a study of facts that were almost unobtainable at that time, Mr. Crump .turned to the reports of Dr. George Vladimir Lomonosoff (left), a Russian mechanical engineer who had designed a diesel locomotive as early as 1909, and had one in operation in 1923, to 'get the information he needed. The 76'year-old Dr.• Lomonosoff, whose son h a resident engineer with the Montreal Locomotive Works, has been living so quietly., hi, Montreal for the past two years, that it wag only recently that Mr. Crump learned of his presence in the city and arranged an interview,• Modern C.P.R, diesel locomotive built by the Montreal Locomotive Works is shown in the picture behind br. Lomonosoff and Mr. Crump. Your birds are More " comfort- able; And best of all, you save work. * * * A typical roosting island is 12 feet wide, with a 10 -foot alley on each side. It's built up 2 feet off the floor-, * * * You put the feed hoppers on the outside edges of the island, for easy, no -stoop filling from a feed cart. The water trough runs down the middle. * * - * The sides are closed down to the floor, of course, so the birds can't get under the rack. All the water the birds shake off: their wattles, or billrout of the 'trough goes under the rack, where there's no Litter to get wet. * * * So do most of the droppings, be- cause the birds spend nearly two- thirds of their time on the islands. That means fewer droppings in the litter, which stays dryer and clean- er and lasts longer. Harry Lechner of hednnond, Wash„ says his roosting. Leland lets him keep more birds: 14d figures that he needs only 2 square feet of floor space per Leghorn hen. He used to use 3 square feet for Leghorns and 4 square feet for heavy breeds. * * How about this labor-saving angle? *. * * Z watched Everett 'Peterson' of Langley, Wash„ drive into his lay- ing house with his tractor and field cultivator, and stir the litter it a pen 36' x I00'. It took hint just 10 minutes to make two rounds around the, island, } and the job' • was done. He didn't»have to move a feeder, or dodge a waterer. ,. .q * * * What happened to the 1,500 hens in the house? They just ran ahead of the tractor, or jumped up on the island. Peterson does the chore once a week, and the birds are used to hien. Another poultryman using an island says that it takes hint just -10 minutes a day to feed mash out of a wheel -harrow to 1,200 birds. It takes him another ten minutes a day to scatter grain in the litter and pick up floor eggs. * * * Automatic feeders will work with this system, too. Those who use them mount the hopper and motor on one corner of the island, to leave the alley clear all"the way around for cleaning. * * * The dryer, cleaner litter is the thing that produces more clean eggs. What's more, you've got more room for nests, because you've got the whole bath wall. free for nests, now that the roosts have been moved away from the wall Mighty Mouthpiece — With the aid of tiny new electronic parts called. "transitors," this newly - developed megaphone enlarges the human voice without exter- nal connections. Powered by small batteries the "transitors" do the work of vacuum tubes, eliminating the use of bulky high-voltage batteries and the need for an external power 5 ..l supply. There's another saving. too. Reed Hanson at the Western Washington Experiment Station says that it takes only three-fifths as much time to keep built-up lit- ter in good condition in island houses as it does in ordinary houses. * * * A na)mber 'Of 'folks using islands tell me that their birds are less flighty, because they've got a place to go when you conte in to feed,: or to gather eggs. They're more comfortable, too, especially in hot weather, brcansc there's more. air space overhead right above the is- -, land than any other place 111 the house. t * - * There seems .to be advantages than disadvantages in the system. A lot of folks with 1,000 birds or more are switching to it. All of them, I've talked to like it. BEER -PROOF PIANO A beer -proof piano has been on display at the British industries Fair. The piano is built of solid oak. There are no sharp edges to bruise souses who fall against it. Beer mugs and cigarettes slide off sloping lids. Keys are covered with a fireproof plastic that cannot be picked off. Neither money nor food can be thrown into the works. The string assembly is so fastened in place- that it cannot be removed to be played on as a harp in some Baccate outpouring of song, "Care ntust be exercised in making the holes for seed planting, It naturally follows that the gardener ran, by indulging in a orad orgy of • hole -making, practically wipe out his garden," —Prank Sullivan. Does a Curve Curve? A new and awesome electronic calculator says a common beseball, of the shape baseballs art supposed to be, weighing what official base- balls are supposed tb weigh, pro- pelled at the speed and with the Spirt any good pitcher can put on ...it, actually 'curves. All of which may appear as merely superscientific laboring of the obvious to several millions who have (a) sat behind the plate any- where from the Polo Grounds to Sportsmans Park or (b) fanned the air with a willow themselves, Bute some—surprisingly few—will recall the stroboscopic pictures in Life magazine 11 years ago which showed that Carl Hubbell's and Cy Blanton's best twisters didn't curve at all —Met dropped. There they were: A string of white circles right down a straight chalk line, No optical illusion here. A camera can't lie—or can it? Anyhow, if two marvels of tech- nology are going to stand up and call each other liars, wiry not seize the baseball by the seams and see if it won't curve around something solid? The answer is, it's already been done—long ago. Sporting News (baseball's fountainhead of know- ledge) says star pitcher Fred Gold- smith did it eight times in 1870. He and a catcher stood on the same side of a line of three stakes. The ball left the pitcher's hand to the left of the first stake, traveled to the right of the second and smacked into- the catcher's hands (no mitts then) at the left of the third. 13111 J'osedel and Lenny Levy did it again in 1950, Who's right? Well—anyone who has twisted himself into a pretzel as he swung at a big "round house" and missed for the third strike knows that if that curve was an optica( illusion then his bat had an invisible hole in it. — From The . Christian Science Monitor. 714 Y Cordolt Siattll Save Labor Cultivators, spudders, spades, rakes, and practically - everything we use to dig, cut or prune are much more easily operated if they have long handles.' Even the little single -pronged cultivator is han- dier with a three -to -five-foot han- die. Thus equipped it will save a lot of stooping. . Another point in this labor. saving business. The average per- son is inclined to plant rows far too close together, Of course one can grow beets, carrots, beans, etc., in rows only 12 inches apart if space is very limited, but it be much easier for cultivation if these are two feet ormore apart, and with a garden eultivator they should be at least 30 Welles er.bet ter still, three feet. * s• * Be Prepared A very necessary piece of equip- ment for most gardeners is a small sprayer or duster and the tnaterials to load it. Nothing is more dis- ' couraging than to get flowers, veg- etables or shrubery flourishing and then to discover some fine morning that bugs or disease have started to attack then;, ,If , one counter-at- tacks promptly, however, there is little difficulty about control . For every pest, fortunately, there is some chemical or other treat- ment reatmeat to keep it in, check, Usually a spray, or dust is used. For in- sects that eat holes in foliage the 'usual remedy is a_poison of some kind, suck as arsenate of lead, DDT, copper sulphate, nicotine, etc. For the pests that suck out the juices a burning spray or dust: incorporating sulphur is recent,, mended, or sometimes special soap and water or some of the tobacco solutions. Use sprays .when the foliage .it - dry. With the dust, best results are obtained on a day With- out wind and just after a rainsor before a dew. With all chemicals one is well advised to study and follow directions carefully and make sure that the proper mater- ial is used for the particular pest coucerned. * * * Pinch 'Em Most beginners are too gentle or tender. They hate to do some very necessary surgery. Take the handling of what the trade calls bedding plants. These are well - started annuals in both the flower and vegetable line which are grown from seed, sown indoors or in hot- beds, or are bought from the seed. men or florists, usually about a dozen to the box or fiat. The be- ginner is inclined to set these out without any pinching back, or without even removing.ibuds or Bowers. If just before or after planting one pinches off quite a lot of the growth, and especially alt flowers or buds, one will get much sturdier growth and in the end.,. more flowers or fruit. Water peonies frequently and 't11orodgh(y to fill out the buds. Don't worry about the ants run- ning around on the buds for they do no harm. Legend has itthat the ants nibble at the bud ,cover- ing. enabling them to open, more easily and perfectly. TEST YOUR INTELLIGENCE Score 10 points kr each correct answer in the first six questions: 1, "Spare" is a terns used in: • —golf —baseball - —badminton --howling 2. The Balearic Islands are off the coast of: —Spain —Korea —Ethiopia ---Maryland 3, Joan of Are led the French arms tsgainst the: —Polish —British '' -Germans- —Algerians 4. The greatest distance a modern archer could shoot with a ,Sow and, arrow would be about—. —100 yards --300 yards --500 yards -•700 yards 5. The epic poem, Paradise Lost, was written by: • —Byron —Shelley -•-Goldsmith Milton 6. Alexander Hamilton fought a duel with: - -Thomas Jefferson —Aarnu Burr -_Tont Paine —Patrick Henry. 7. 'l,istcd below are four wars ,nd opposite them the victors, or one of the victors. Match then scoring 10 points for each correct. answer. (A1 War of 1113 (B1 Punic Wars (C) Crimean (D) Boer War 'Total your points. A score superior; 90-100, very superior. —Britain -Turkey United States - - -Rome . of 0-20 is poor; '30-60, average; 70.80, AVER WAinr: E, HONEY.. tmtEACHSN'l ItLQETM'f pools TNG MONKS ST(C5' l lb SNare.vaV'' p FUNNY Maur THAT? 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