The Brussels Post, 1952-7-16, Page 3"1'C you, are losing the affection
'of • the mho you love, pretend- in-
difference," confidently wrote one
authority.
Helen laughed bitterly. That
looked well ,in print. But how
about' a woman who had been
=tried to a man for 10 years and
loved hint now even more than the
. day of their wedding?' How about
it when. you try and try. -to make
yourself interesting to your bus -
band, knowing all the time that
you're playing a losing game be-
cause grey streaks are showing in
your hair and inevitable lines are
kppearing in, your face?
From'her bedroom window Helen
could see beneath the trees that
surrounded the lodge, down as for
as the lake. And suddenly she stif-
fened! Roger was corning up the
path, carrying a canoe paddle and
-laughing down at a slim girl by
his side,
The lines about Helen's mouth
hardened, The girl, she knew, was
Sally Burton. She was staying at
the lodge, with her folks.
Watching the carefree progress of
the couple coming up the path,
she, said aloud; "How can 1 stop
it, before it's too late, How can
1 combat youth?" There wasn't
any answer even in the story
books to that one.
Five minutes later Roger carte
into the room. At 34 he hid lost
none `of his good looks, nor his
boyishness and eagerness of man-
ner,
"Hi. ._ there, kiddol Say, look{
We're planning a picnic up at
Birch Islandtonight ons h Two canoes
g
of us are going. Theee'll be a moon
and we'll cook steaks. flow about
it?"
Helen's blood froze. He acted
almost as if he honed she'd 'd refuse
with
yet was resigned to having her v
him,
"I'm sorry, Roger, I've a dread-
ful headache. You run along wtib
the others and let me stay here and
rest"
"Do you mind if I do go?" he
said, "It's the sort of thing I like
doing, you know,"
"Of course not, darling. Now if
SALLY'S SALLIES
"I paid for parking an hour yes-
terday and parked only 3.5 min*
otos. Can't I use the rest of ib
today for notifing v"
you don't mind—I'd like to go to
bed."•
Not until the sound of picnickers
had died away around a bend in
the lake did Bolen give way to
her emotions.
"He wasn't even; Concerned about
my headache , , , He was thinking
Only of the chance to be ache
With *Sally Burton , Oh, what's
the use? What's the use of trying
to cling. to something you know
you've lost?"
How Jong Helen lays there she
had no way of knowing, She Must
have slept, for .wlhen she opened
her; eyes it was to have them
blindedby lightning, Sharp, deafen-
ing thunder
eafeningthunder followed. Rain lashed
against the building.
Terror seised her. Ever' since
she bad been a child she had been
•afraid itr electric storms. ,By now,
even greater than this instinctive
fear was fear for Roger.
She slipped from bed and ran
to the window. A flash of lightning
showed her the lake in a wild tttr-
"i'm Sorry, Roger," she said,
"I've a dreadful headache."
moil. She thought of the two frail
canoes that had left earlier in the
evening. She thought of Roger and
Sally Burton , ,
A sound at the door brought her
head around sharply, The room was
suddenly flooded with light.
"Roger!"
He stood just inside the door,
dripping wet.
"Hi, kiddo." -
"Roger—you didn't—not in this
storm—?"
He nodded, "The others are safe
—at Bailey's camp. They decided
not to risk the storm." He came
toward her, placed a hand on •either
of her shoulders. "I—knew' you
were always afraid of thunder
storms, acid—and it was the first
time you'd ever refused to go any
place with me. It made me won-
der."
Helen knew she was trembling.
Even though she wanted she could
not have stopped herself from ask-
ing tht: next question.
"And—what of Sally?"
He stared at her blankly, sur-
prised, puzzled. How should 1
know? She wasn't with our bunch.'
"Not with—" Helen broke off
abruptly, feeling suddenly very
foolish. Thea Roger's amts slipped
about her, and the old familiar
sensb of security swept over hover as
he held her close.
"There's no answer to this," she
whispered half to herself. "No an-
swer at all -except real love."
Bald men were found to have 40
per centmore male children than
men with full hair or with receding-
hairline
ecedinghairline that had not developed
into .full baldness, according to a
study rade by a Fullbright fellow.
"Miss Universe" --Screen actress Piper Laurie places a: crown fha
belonged to Russia's Catherine The Great on the head of Arm.
Kuusel'a, ''Miss Finland," who won the "Miss Universe" beauty
pageant. The 18 -year-old Fi"nfsh beauty triumphed over lovelies
from alIII.over the world.
Modernized Farms
By JRA MILLZxt
Berm Electrification Bureau
The problem of keeping the
younger generation "an the farm"
la often the Wnbjeg:of considerable
concern anipit dorm
many tinted tinted • 1C'otflitig • up for , earnest
discussion tod.l te' for parents to
help their srsns.and- daughters re-
capture the eagerness they once
showed for agricultural pursuits.
Three of the primary reasons,
agricultural specialists say, why
young inert and women' want to
leave farms to live in cities are: a
desire for city conveniences, so
often lacking in their own Homes;
long hours of tedious work with
comparatively .small cash returns,
and a gradual decline of interest in
farming activities during their
formative years.
Tile first two •of these' obstacles
to continue enjoyment of farm life
are being countered, to a large ex-
tent, by the opportunities provided
by electric power to modernize the
old home place, make housework
easier and put farming on a more
automatic, efficient and profitable
basis, Surveys indicate that today's
farm girls—and their mothers tqp
—are keenly interested in electric
washing machines, ranges, water
heaters, refrigerators and other
electrical appliances, which their
city cousins have taken for granted
for years. They want electric lights,
modern bath -rooms and farm freez-
ers too. Few want to grow old
doing the family washing by hand.
cleaning rugs with an..ild-fashioned
carpet sweeper or heating water
and cooking on a coal or wood
'burning kitchen range.
Farm hors also yearn for city
conveniences and, in addition, want
to use electricity to perform chores
which dad was brought up' to do
the hard way. They don't relish
pumping water by. hand when
electricity can do it cheaper and
easier, They'd like milking machines,
milk coolers, milk house water
heaters, grain elevating an dbarn
hay curing equipment, feed grinders
and electrically .equipped farm
shops. They want these devices,
not only' to make farming easier,
but more profitable. 'With them,
they feel, they can do present farm
work more economically and faster,
using ttme saved to expand d current
farming operations and thus • in-
creasing the family income.
Ono of the. best ways for boys
and girls to 'keep:. their farming in-
terest alive,,:tizercby meeting the
third obstacfe,•is through participa-
tion in rural youth, organizations,
such as 4-19 and Future Farmers
of America. These and similar or-
ganizations, are continually en-
couraging the development of group
and individual farm projects which
act as a constant stimulant to agri-
cultural thought and action. Many
members of groups of this nature
have built up their own herds
through club projects, and all of
them have acquired a new appre-
ciation and understanding of
modern farming methods which,
often, decided them to remain and
prosper on the farm.
Petrified Forest
In Sonoma County, five miles
west of Calistoga and seventy miles
north of San Francisco, is the most
notable fossil exhibit. It was con-
sidered interesting enough by Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson and Benjamin
F. Taylor for each of them to put
a chapter about it in a book. It
hadn't yet been discovered when
Bayard Taylor was in the neigh-
borhood in 1859. An old historian,
who was writing a very thick vol-
ume . . . called it "a curious freak
of nature."
Redwoods, after+being felled by
the lumbermen, sometimes lie un-
used for a year or several years,
but here they waited for untold
centuries to be yarded, waited until
quarrymen and not loggers would
be' the ones to do it, if it were
finally to be done. Over thirteen
million acres of the public domain
were homesteaded under the Tim-
ber and Stone Act, and of them all
what tract was so doubly suitable
as this claim taken up by an old
Swede sailor?
It is a recumbent forest of 'stone,
of huge down -timber turned ad-
amant, -of petrified redwoods still
enormous in their transformation—
about a twenty -acre graveyard with
uptvard of three. hwtdred trees
"struck with rocky immortality."
'fie "Queen of. the Forest" lies
in,segments, the total of its verte-
brae amounting to, eighty feet. They
are in truth huge cylinders of
stone, being four yards through.
The "Monarch" is intact, prostrate
upon the hillside for a distance of
a hundred ,and ,twenty-five . feet,
with an average, diameter of eight
lest and 'with a ring count to show
it. Was a thousand years old when
it fell,
Taylor's visit was in 1878, Stevan•
son's in 1880. Both were very
much taken with the owner and
excavator of the place. "Petrified
Chancy," Taylor called Ititn,
Altogether, said Taylor, to
thoughtful man, the Petrified Trees
are the most impressive things in
California. They overwhelm your
vanity with gray cairns Of what
once danced in the rain, whisperedit' the wind, blossomed in the ann.--
From "Redivodd Country," by Al
fled Powers Due1l,
So. You Think YOU'RE . Hot 1 w
So You Think YOU'RE Hoff -•if you think the heat's got you down
chum, how would you Tike to hold down one of tate jobs pictured
below? Not so hot, ph? Or much too hot! Heat -frazzled folk In
those jobs probably give out with a bitter laugh' when they hear
someone moaning about the currant heat wave. Or maybe you
• .think your Obis worse than these,
aicPVl�l' �rro�+lm"�t''
He smirks
When you say you're perspiry!
He works
At a blast furnace fiery!
As unstarched
As soggy dress
is this parched
Flat 'work laundress
If you have labeled
The heat "dadratted,"
Pity models sabled
And muskratted!
Your scream
Would be far more wrathful
if steam
You sold by the bath-ful!
II..UAJRMFRONT
J06
Farming used to be considered a
muscle jolting occupation, a job for
people with plenty of brawn.
The plain tedious labor and long
hours of half a century ago likely
helped to fill up our cities just as
much as the promised rewards of
industry,
* * *
Then carte the mechanical revolt
on the farms, Combines, tractors
and machine milking made major
farm operation easier, quicker and
more pleasant- The small chores
were still a lot of work.
* * *
But many farmers have made
tfiese routine, time consuming ditt-
ies easier by using the tractor as
a substitute for muscle.
This mobile power plant can do
more than ¢ill plows, disc, haying
machinery and combines. With its
power take -off acid its belt pulley,
a tractor is equipped to handle all
sorts of chores.
* a *
Fence building is a job that often
takes weeks of muscular efforts but
a post hole digger attached to the
power take -off can drill out a hole
in a few seconds,
* *
The posts themselves can be pull-
ed, along on a light trailer and a
pot can be dropped off at each
hole. The hardest labor is done by
machines and the whole job is
completed in jig time.
* * *
Belt pulleys are used to power
circular saws, feed grinders, as well
as hay and grain loaders, Water
pumps cart be run off the belt
pulley, but the speed of the pulley
must suit the machine it is run-
ning. Grain loaders or circular saws
can wear ottt quickly or be difficult
to operate if run at excessive
speeds.
,\ tractor blade can be useful• in
a number of ways: In winter the
blade is used to _clear snow from
the farm road to the highway, pre•
venting the isolation so common in
many areas.
The blade is used to clean man-
ure out of pen type barns, as well
as moving dirt into soil depressions
and doing shallow excavations.
Some farmers use it to grade roads
on the farm,
* * *
Tractors are handy machines to
have in a garden or orchard. They
draw cultivating tools to till be-
tween rows, yet 'modern tractors
are so manoeuvrable small, odd
shaped plots can be worked.
* * *
Some tractors have the power to
drive a high capacity "speed"
sprayer by power take -off through
an orchard. Booms can be mount-
ed on any tractor and insecticide
sprayed uniformly on orchard or
garden.
* R *
An irrigation system can be laid
out by plpwing a network of dit-
ches and furrows. Here again, the
tractor with a plow can dig out
straighter ditches in a shorter time.
* * *
Tractors are often used to draw
the rough work in clearing a field.
Fallen trees or huge boulders can
be chained to the drawbar and pull-
ed to the side of the field.
* * *
Stones ran be removed by at-
taching the rock picker to any two
or three plow tractor. This machine
operates rather like a rake. After
it has gathered a number of rocks,
the tines can be lifted hydraulically
and the rocks dumped into a bucket
at the back.
r- * *
The bucket can hold two tons
of rock and dumps hydraulically.
The rock picker will gather every-
thing from too inch stones up to
400 pound bounders.
* O *
Silage pits can be made by run-
ning a cultivator or plow through
a given area of ground, then remov-
ing the loose dirt with a tractor
mounted scoop.
A survey by the National Office
Management Association reveals
that cuspidots are still in use in
20 per cent of firsts. Seventy-five
per cent allow shirtsleeves at any
time, 13 per cent permit it in
summer, 2 per cent never aliow
such attire.
"Rea.: " From i Life For 60 Years
What Was The Lady's Secret?
lovely
no less beautiful .with age, thong
ht in isW
Pale
Even t1 leof
death oft liher Inha d
did not break her solitude.
A personal : Maid 'brought her
news of iltg ,plhtside world; and
through this ;sale companloat. Lada'
Annaly peiiortned much good, um -
seen, She 'piid doctors' bills and.
arranged for entire families to take
seaside , holidays, She equipped
young men for careers in a world
site, had never seen,
The strange secret ,of this beau:
tifut woman's bizarre existence re-
mains one of the greatest Mysteries
of the British peerage.
When Lord Cliften's y
daugliter, Lilah, swept intoa lilt-
ing waltz other couples stood back
from the floor to .watch. She dang
ed divinely, with; her gracefully
slim figure and dragile beauty.
Brilliantly w,itt`i she was the
most popular dF'btante of her day,
and when sbt 'nigrried a former
Lord Annaly, her happiness seem-
ed mitred. Yet, for some sixty
years, ,until her death in .1944,
Lilah, Lady Annaly, lived in sha-
dow in a suite of rooms in Hot-
denby House. Northampton, un-
seen even by many of her dearest
friends.
When George V and Queen
Mary, the Duke of Windsor as
Prince of Wales, and the Duke
and Duchess of York, visited Ilol-
denby House, this strange woman
never saw them. Whiter and sum-
mer, she remained behind drawn.
blinds, and her relatives could not
explain the •riddle of her extra-
ordinary existence.
Some strange and sad desire for
the most c o m p late retirement
touched her life. Acute in political
knowledge, fatuous people con-
stantly sought her views and
friendship, yet she suddenly became
almost afraid of 'meeting strangers.
Her shyness drove her to aston-
ishing lengths. She shut herself in
her room until everyone else in the
house had retired at night, and
returned there before the first ser-
vants ,
er-vants, were about in the early
morning.
Alone With Memories
Through the dead hours of night
site roamed the stately home where
Icing Charles had concealed himself
before Roundhead roughriders bore
hits away to face execution in Lon-
don.
Concealed In Lady Annaly's life
was tragedy, the memory .of a
twin sister who had died. Alone
with her memories, she trod the
spacious corridors and entered the
ancient and historic rooms of her
home only after every other light
had been extinguished.
Her h u s b a it d was meantime
steadily making Holdenby House
smaller and smaller. To adapt it to
modern condition, Sir Charles Al -
tom was called in for architectural
advice.
He had heard the strange n story
g
of Lady Annaly's "retirement," and
much to his surprise was told that
she would see him in the small
hours of the morning, long after
everyone else was in bed.
Peerage Mystery
Lord Annaly led the way and
tapped gently on the door. "It is
I, Lilah, with Charles Allom," he
announced, •
A silvery voice bade them enter.
In a corner of the room, in a soft
and becoming light, sat Lilah, Lady
Annaly. As the old French clock
on the mantelpiece ticked away the
hours, she eagerly ail tioan"et
visitor as if she sought to touch
the excitement of the human world
outside,
Yet, she never emerged from her
strange self-imposed imprisonment,
although her husband entertained,
brilliantly both at Holdenby House
and in London. When royalty were
her guests, she had to be excused
her duties as hostess. She became
When Bridesmaids)
Carried Guns
Titne-hotpured custom its the
wedding of most Jute brides is the
appointment of bridesmaids.
The duties of these daintily -at-
tired attendants seem to ^ have
changed over theyears, for at
time the bridesmaids, reinforced by
"bridesmen," used to form part of
the .bride's bodyguard. They alt
carried weapons, too, in case any
romantic but rejected knight should
decide to abduct the fair lady on
her way front her home to the wed-
ding.
Noisy Weddings
The duties of the bridesmaids
are thus a survival of the early
primitive practice of marriage by
capture, when the lady's friends
resisted attempts to seize and carry
her off.
Traces of this custom may stilt
be found at some English village
weddings, where a mock contest be-
tween the friends of the bride and
bridegroom forms part of the day's
proceedings.
Up to the beginning of this.cen-
tury in parts of Durham County
the bridal party was escorted to
church by men armed with guns,.
which they fired again and again
close to the ears of the bride and
bridesmaids.
At Guisborough, in Cleveland,
these guns were fired over the.
heads of the newly married couple
all the way from church. This was
a survival of the fighting which
really happened in the days of ,
•mazeg
a capture.
marriage
Y
Again, instead of being mere
graceful ornaments at the marriage
ceremony, the bridesmaids of olden
Hines had •strict duties assigned to
them, Every tine of them had to
take part in dressing the bride on
her wedding morning, and if any-
thing was forgotten they were pun-
ished for it.
Important duty of the first brides-
maid was to stand by the bride
throughout all the restivities, which
often lasted a week. Much strong
Mead and wine was consumedin
toast and pledges, with the result
that the bride often needed a help-
ing hand when it was time to re-
tire.
Of an estimated 20,000,000 cats
in the 'United States, about 40 per
cent board with families, 10 per cent
try the . luck of the road, 50 per
cent earn a living as ratcatchere
M. barns, factories, prisons, res-
taurants, churches, shins, etc. -
'
End Of The "World"—Scientists have predicted many waysthat
the world might be destroyed, but none of then thought the end
would come in the form of a sledge -swinging workman. The
world, in this case, is the 12,000 -pound stone -and -steel globe
located in the Ford Rotunda. It is bung destroyed to make room
for a new display.
JITTER
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T$s 'amour sof CAN NANO OUT
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By Arthur Pointer