HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-8-20, Page 7Good Natured
Fool
By R. H. WILKINSON
No -,one denied that the Max
Jordans were a model couple. Be-
fore marriage both had been popu-
lar, well -liked, Max was admired
for his good nature, his kind and
chivalrous manner, his ambition
and ability to get ahead. Sylvia was
envied for her good looks, admired
for her sense of humor, her vivaci-
ousness. They were ideally suited.
In the spring of the second year
the Village Welfaresociety held
a charity ball, As feature attrac-
tion they advertised a beauty con-
test, Friends of Sylvia urged her
to enter it. But Sylvia was doubt-
ful. She was a married lady now.
"Boshl" said Max. 'Go ahead
and enter."
So Sylvia entered the contest—
in the interest of charity, No one
disputed the decision of the judges
when she was awarded first prize.
Nor was anyone surprised when,
'two weeks later, she was asked to
join a statewide contest in hien
dere. The idea excited her, -but
of course she refused.
'Tutt Tutl" declared the good-
natured Max. "Go down there and
show them wliat a really beautiful
girl looks like,"
And Sylvia, who was really quite
thrilled, went down to Slenderest
and carate hone with the winning
cup and the announcement that,
as winner, she was expected to
join the Grand Eastern contest.
The winner of the Grand Eastern
would go to Hollywood.
"But of course I'd never think
of entering it," site told her hus-
band, her eyes shining.
"Oh, you wouldn't? Max -grin-
ned. "Here we have a chance to
bring laurels to the family and you
pass it up. O.K." He shrugged -with
elaborate indifference.
And. so Sylvia entered the Great
Eastern, and won. The papers
played up the., victory in great
shape, and - everyone wondered if
she'd go to Hollywood.
"I couldn't do that," she told
Max breathlessly. "Why, I'd have
to be away from you for weeks."
"1'!!e " Max told , her good
naturedly. "If I get too lonesome
I'll take two weeks and come out
for a visit, Go ahead if you want."
He continued to think how swell
it was for almost a week: Then he
found that his socks needed darn-
ing and restaurant food wasn't
agreeing with him and he was
mighty lonesome.
The next day, he met Elsie Parker
eau the. streetand asked her to
have dinner with him. It seemed
good to have some one to talk to.
Three nights • later Elsie called
up. "I've a letter from Sylvia;'
she said. "Would you cpre to see
it?"
Max went over to Elsie's house
The townspeople gave Sylvia a
great -sendoff-
and"found her alone. He read the
letter. Elsie said:
"She's enjoying herself. She's
having a grand time. She's met a
lot of interesting people."
"I wonder who this guy Ted
Thornton is?" Max asked, frown
ing over the letter.
Elsie looked at him. "Max, you're
a fool l A ' lovable, good natured
fool. If you had any sense you'd
go out there to Hollywood and
bring back your wife."
"Bosh!" said Max. "Sylvia and
1 aren't children;"
But he thought about it a good
deal, He loved Sylvia,
A month later the blow -fel!. "—
after all, Max, darling," Sylvia
.wrote, "we could never continue to
.be happy together when our inter-
ests are so far apart . . I hope
when my lawyer gets in touch
walls .you ,,...
"!'lie 'next day Max hail a. letter
from Sylt•ia's"lawyer•, He'ansivered
at once, agreeing to everything.
ale_wrote to Sylvia also. He told
" her that he waisted her to be happy.
"Even," he wrote, "Elsie Parker
seems to thine that you're right,"
Max spent the next week wislt-
ing he weh'feletnl to fact, lib wtis'•'
actually, .:contemplating lidshest
• uteans, of Auit.klc when. Sy+lvitt rush-
ed in on hint,,
"Darlingi Forgive Inc. It was
all a mistake, 1 should have known
better.1 was •a little idiot. Please
take me 'back and dott't ever let
me go egain."
"That," said the agreeable !.fax,
"suits rale; fine," •lrIe kissed her, da-
lirious with joy but wondering flow
'it htitl happened, Sylvia said:
"Is Elsie—have you—/ mean—"
Max answered the frantic look in
Flier eyes by kissing her agate,
Blest Elsie Parker, he thought.
They Live at Other
Aninnals' Expense
Living at the expense of some-
body else, and in turn providing
for another parasite, in as common
in the animal world as among men,
Alt outstanding case is that of the
flying fish. Pursued by its enemies
in the water, it leaps into the air
and is often caught by the pelican.
When the pelican' has got its
pouch full of fish it wings' its way
to land and starts fo eat. The
pooch is a bag of skin hanging
from the under -jaw,' and in order
to get a fish out of it the bird trust '
open its mouth, and by a toss of
the head throw a fish out of the
pouch.
The seagull, knowing this, and
being a lazy fellow, watches the
clumsy pelican until it files ashore
to feed, Then the gull, with the
impudence which conies so natur-
ally to villainy, actually purcltes on
the long head of the pelican and
waits.
Stolen Meal
The great mouth yawns open, the
tasty fish is flipped out of the
pouch, and in another instant it is
in the gull's beak!.
But the sharp eye of tate light-
ning -like frigate -bird has been
watching, and the moment the gull
leaves its perch on the pellican to
enjoy his stolen meal, it sees a
stronger and faster bird hurtling
towards it like a rocket.
The gull opens its beak to scream
in fear, and with a graceful swoop,
the falling fish is caught by the last
thief of all
It must be said for most animals
that they rob or murder solely for
the purpose of 'getting food, but
here and. there we 'come across a
thoroughly depraved creature who
steals for the fun of it.
All Balt Gonel
One of these is the North Ameri-
can wolverine. .It. will follow a
. trapper at a safe distance, and af-
ter the trapper has carefully baited,
alt his traps it will steal all tile.
bait quite as carefully.
Sometimes it will - wait until a
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light and air circulator is designed to eliminate the hazards
of the ordinary wall or _portable auxiliary heater. It's in-
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This places it, of course, beyond the reach of childreu'ts
hands and eliminates the chance of burns or shocks suffered
front backing into an ordinary heater.
A. fan draws the air from the ceiling, pulls it through the
unit and thus heats it and forces it down into the rooan
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•fox has: been cauglstand then cool-
ly walk up and -kill it, It then tears
the fox from thetrap, eats as much
as„it wishes, buries the rest, then
goes on to iaspect other traps,
Trappers hate the wolverine,
*hich seems` to be able to avoid the
cleverest traps available, One trap-
per spent a week making an elab-
orate and complicated series of
traps, laying cords about the ap-
proaches to the bait, so that the
most wary animal would have been
sure to stumble on one and, pull
the trigger•of a gun placed so that
it would shoot the disturber.
The next . morning the trapper
visited his "foolproof” wolverine -
,catcher and found" eVery cord bit-
ten"through and every scrap of the
bait gone! .
Tll£FARN FRONT
John's
I wouldn't even try to make a
guess as to how long wild oats
have been a problem -and a serious
one—to farmers. Just when you
think you have the pesky things
licked for keeps, they're back again,
worse than ever. They remind me
of what a little niece of, mine once
said about the • weeds. "Wouldn't
it be grand" she said, "if things
like strawberries were as anxious
to grow as the dandelions?"
* *
But, according to Prof. L. B.
Shebeski of the university of Sask-
atchewan, wild oats would be
easier to control if farmers would
help, nature to crack the seed coat
in order to provide germination and
growth at a time when the plants
could be killed off by tillage. Wild
oats,_by. the way, were especially
bad in many north Saskatchewan
fields this Spring.
* * *
Farmers knew that wild oat seed
sometimes lay dormant for years,
,but did not realize this dormancy
could be broken if the oat seed
coat was cracked to, allow germin-
ation. Unless the seed' coat was
cracked the seed would not ger-
mutate, Prof. Shebeski said. Nature
did this job of cracking the seed
coat. by alternate freezing and
thawing in the fall and alternate
wetting and drying of the soil in
the ,growing season.
Prof:"-Shebeski advocated wild
oat control be started in the fall
with shallow fall tillage to bring
as many seeds as possible near the •
;surface for the alternate freezing
and thawing process. This seed
would germinate in the spring and.
could be eliminated by tillage.
* * *
Many farmers found their low
spots badly infested with wild oats
because they had followed a policy
of leaving tillage until this land
was drier. Prof, Shebeski advised
farmers with low, waterlogged
land to till it as soon as possible
in the spring. To germinate and
produce a plant any seed needed
three things — temperature, mois-
ture and oxygen. The low land had
the moisture and the temperature
would come as the spring advanced,
but lacked oxygen, The low spots
should be worked, as early as pos-
sible in the spring to aerate the
land. This procedure would give
the wild oat plants the best chance.
to grow enough to get their second
leaves and be at the proper stage
for killing by further tillage.
* * ;t.
The sowing of the proper crop
should be delayed until this pro-
cedure had been carried out and
the maximum amount of• wild oats
grown to the stage when they
could be killed off and not infest
the crop.
Young Ancieft Mariners --Tried and tested sailors, Inge Wand-
schneider, 11, and her brother, Bernd, 9, right, scrub the cabin of
the 57 -foot ketch, "Optimist," In which they crossed the Atlantic in
43 days with their parents and a crew of fwd„
a
Needless .'Donor .Fuss
One cannot help feeling sorry for a lot .of Canadian hotel rnanageas,
tourist, resort operators and store clerks in these days of the depreciated
U,S. dollar. Confusion and resentment have been generated, especially
at border points where American money is circulating almost as freely
as our own legal tender.
And all 'this fess is unnecessary.
When the shoe was on the other foot no thinking Canadian expected
to have American hotels, or stores accept our dollar at par. Moat
Canadian'vilitors to thet1.S., as a matter of course, had their money
changed into U.S. currency,; before they crossed the border. It's a pity
that our American visitors would not adopt the same practice.
Where they don't and insist on using their own currency here we
should not hesitate to discount it and we should tell them this:
"It may have the same name but our dollar is not the same as your
dollar. For a long time you took 10 cents off each of our dollars before
you even started to do business with us. Times have changed. You and
a lot of other people have =been buying into Canada, have been investing
in,oar oil,wells, our nines, our industries, That investment has made our
dollar scarcer, more valuable. It is the old law of supply and demand."
—From The Financial Post
The experimental station at
Lacombe, Alta., bears out this pro-
cedure best e a s the b sk f or control of
wild oats. "Shallow tillage and de-
layed seeding,, plus the use of fer-
tilizer and an early - maturing
grain," was the recommendation of
the station.
* * *
On the station a field has been
in fallow -grain -grain rotation for
38 years, yet developed a serious
wild oat problem, Sifting the wild
oat seeds the 'station technicians
found 70.7 bushels of wild oat seeds
per acre.
* * *
In the fall of 1949 the field was
given a shallow tilling with a one-
way disc, and in the spring of 1950
with a duckfoot cultivator and
cable weeder. Seeding was delayed
until June 2 while an adjacent area
was seeded May 8. Thegrain seed-
ed June 2 was practically ftee of
wild oats while that seeded May 8
was polluted.
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LESSON
By Rev. R Barclay Warren,
B.A.. B.D.
By.R' Barclay.: Warren, B.A., B.D. '
"THE TRAGEDY Oar SAUL"
1 Samuel 15:17-22; 18:6-9; 31:3-4.
Memory Selection: To •obey is
better than sacrifice, and to heark-
en than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel
15:22,
The tall young king to whom
God had given another heart (1'
Sam. 10:9) and who had prophesied
(10:10) had a sad ending. In im-
patience at Samuel's late arrival he
assumed the office of a priest and
offered sacrifice, Then he was diso-
bedient in sparing Agag and the
best of the flocks of the Amahe-
kites, His effort to lay the blame
on the people showed further weak-
tress, If the blame had really rested
on the people then it would show
weak leadership on his part. Jea-
lousy was the next sinful trait to
appear. Then carne malice and an-
ger against the youthful David, An
evil spirit from the Lord troubled
this sinful king. On occasion he
would seem to he about to revert
to the good" life. When David
showed hint how he.had spared his
life he said, "I have sinned—behold,
I have played the fool, and have
erred exceedingly" (26:21). But
reformation w hort-
s
thaapparent as w
lived.
The last scenes of Saul's life ars
particularly distressing. The Philis-
tines are arrayed against him. In
his plight he resorts to the witch
of Endor. In earlier days he had
been zealous In ridding the land of
these impostors. What an array we
have of them today: fortune tellers,
tea cup readers, palm readers, med-
iums, etc. But "should not a people
seek unto their God?" Is. 8:19.
inn asked by the figure Samuel,
" liy hast thou disquieted me, to
bring me up?" he replied;
God is departed from me, and an-
swereth me no more, neither by
prophets, nor by dreams." The news
he received was evil. He had gong
too far front God to return, In
, despair he fell on his own sword.
His light went out in darkness.
"Let /dm that thinketh he stand-
eth take heed lest he fall." I Cor.
10:12,
Arrival In Alaska
A bush ptlot, flying a makeshift
plane that could rightly be called
a "crate," took us to Bristol Vil-
lages. On our way in we flew over
herds of caribou sad moose ,
We- soared over the heavily -wood-
ed mountains and then over the
flat and treeless tundra, snow-
covered and glittering in the bril-
liant sun, and down to the shore
by the lashing waters of Bristol
Bay. As the heavy ground fog
below us lifted, the pilot set us
down on a lake two miles from
the schoolhouse, It was the twenty-
_ third day of our journey.
The sound ofau incoming plane
is rare and woatdetful in'the North
and on this occasion, as on every
one, all of Bristol Village cane to
meet the plane. No' word had been
sent ahead of our coming, but the
news spread through the crowd
and we heard eager cries of:
"Teachers! Teachers have comet
We have school nowt"
Around us were the soiling
friendly faces of Aleuts and Eski-
mos broad and welcome. Bill and
I were overwhelmed by the warmth
of their cordiality as we introduced
ourselves and exchanged hand-
shakes.
The fact that teachers had come
made it a gala day for the village.
Children climbed over the plane,
the men helped Bill unload, and
the women gathered together in
a circle to one side, chattering
gaily. One of them, Esther, an
Eskimo mother, walked over to
me and said timidly: "We want
you to like us here."
Slushing across two frozen lakes
and two miles of crystal white
snow, we finally came to the
Schoolhouse. It was a long white
clapboard building, something like
a covered bridge, with a front
porch along. the length of it. Ws
had expected a one room log cabin
and were overcome by the "grand-
eur" of this school.
Thanking our drivers for tak-
ing us and our luggage to the
school, we asked them to come and
see us when we were settled. Bev -
seal children plainly wanted to
stay and one little 'Eskimo boy
asked hopefully: "Schools,tomorrow
maybe?"
We told them it would take us
a few days to get the school ready,
but to dropin for a visit any Y touts.
The next morning at seven o'clock
they were there.
The schoolrooms and teachers'
Living -quarter were all in the
same building, connected by a long
hallway.
As we stepped out on the front
porch, we flinched in the glare
of a white land. It stretched out
to the North Pole and somewhere
on the way merged with a bleached
sky, the frosty glitter broken only
lay ...Week of woke creeping out
of the etinillell llos , 1 iohl
remnants of an old fog. For as
long as men could piece memories
together, Bristol Village had been
a permanent settlement, and so it
was not an igloo town. Winding
trails laced homes together, join-
ing t w o separated clusters of
houses nestled in the snow. Down
In the village, we learned that the
Eskimos lived in one group and
the Aleuts in the other. After
many centuries of sharing the Arc-
tic, the two distant cousin races
had become close neighbors in this
one spot in Alaska.—From "Hearth
in the Snow," by Laura Buchan
and Jerry Allen.
Precious imus
The study of glass may be coots
pared to a window which opens
backward to the most remote per»
iods of recorded history, There is,
for example, tate legend of the acci-
dental discovery of glass by the
Phoenicians, A group of Phoenicia"
sailors, the story goes, built a bon-
fire on the beach. Having no stones
upon which they could rest .thea
cooking utensils, they used Cakes
of soda which they happened to
have with them, On completion of
their meal, they were amazed to
find Haat the soda had disappeared.
In its place was a hard shitty sub-
stance which firoved to be the first
glass made by man.
Or let us glance back itlto the
history of the ancient Egyptians,
In the museum, at Cairo the modern,
tragetlec sees all the priceless pos-
sessions of Icing Tutankliantee,
Among these b a marvellous gold'
necklace with a hundred gold pea"
dents inlaid with turquoise, lapis
lazuli and cloisonn6 of glass. Be-
cause glass is so common in the
world today, it strikes one as odd`
that this material should form pare
of theseexquisite adornments coif
ancient kings, but our surprise ends'
with the realization that in those
ancient times glass was so rare.
that it was valued above preCiotte
stones.
Anyone who becomes interested
in the history of glas. will be de-
lighted with many of the archaeoe
logical exhibits he will find in Egypt
In a tomb of one of the old Pha-
raohs near Thebes, for examples
paintings on the walls show mea
blowing glass in very much the
same way and with very much the
'same tools still employed In Blase
making at the present time. Still
preserved is a glass piece found IA
the tomb of Thutmose II, who
reigned about 1500 B.C.
Anyone who studies the old mo-
saic glass beads of the Egyptianet
will find In them the designs which,
served hundreds of years later, t
give workmen their ideas for Idle
so-called "cane" patterns "used"1nt
some of the early glass paper
weights.
Many centuries alter, the art af.
glass -making spread to Venice and
Rome. In the 12th Century, glees
factories were so numerous ba
Venice that they became a' fire ha-
zard to the city, As a result, titer
were moved v tothe Island of Mu-
rano, where the secrets of glass-
makers were guarded under penalty
of death. Glass-makers of those
days ranked with the nobility, and
a daughter of a count could marry
a glass-maker without losing caste.
At Attare, the seat of the glass-
makers' ,guild in the 13th Century,
glassworkers were eventually hired
out to other districts—much to the
distress of Murano. As a result,' °
the art spread to Bohemia, Franca
'an$ England; and centuries later,
to the United States. There is no
er4D&e Ve rias glass menu-
fete!:
anu-
fgcti bgdo�� ikt,: Cdni:ur'jr,
although it Is not ndy that 1?•I
this time St. Msrk's in Venice,
built in 1159, bad mosaics through-
out its interior, and the Venetians
of the 13th and, 14th Centuries were.,
already complete masters of the use
of enamel.—From "Old Glow
' Paperweights," by Evangeline H.
Bergstrom.
Eleven O'Clock Break
Combination hot coffee -cold
water dispenser is ideal for offices.
Coffee can be taken "with" or.
"without" by pressing appropriate
button, Beverages served in sani-
tary paper -cups.
"She's A Honey"—This new Lockheed F -94-C Starfire, jet-fighier
interceptor climbs to 45,000 feet in a twinkling and zooms along
in all weather "in the 1500•m.p.h. clots." Its "bubble nose"'
houses instruments that electronically track clown enemy air.
craft. The "almost automatic" Starfire is the'first tighter plane to
have all -rocket armament, tarrying 24 rockets, 2.75 in size. Said
test pilot Tony Levier after landing, "She's a honey."
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