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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-10-29, Page 7iAECalVlit'$P06TS COLUMN 4 e lyes This fs the story of the little girl who slept. Her name is Gladys Jeanie Priestly, a swimmer from the suburbs of Montreal, Youngest athlete ever to make a Canadian Olympic team, for Gladys was only 14 • years -old when she was named to carry ' Canada's colors into the Helsinki tank. She didn't win anything there, but Olympic officials will recall for a long time the calm approach of this„ pretty miss to the Olympic' selections. It was the night the Canadian Olympic selection eemmittee was 'laking the final choices for the Olympic teams, The swim- mers and track field athletes paced their hotel corridors or drank coffee hi order to stay awake and hear the choices. But fieannie went home and fell, fast asleep. Shortly after three o'clock in the morning, results of the swimming committees meeting were announced, With 'Jeannie winning a berth of the four' member girls team, Coach Malcolm Ross thought she would be overjoyed to hear the news., FIe awakened her, hut Jeannie merely murmured sleepily: "Izzat so?" and fell back into slumber. One of the youngest swimmers ever to compete in the Olympic was Jeannie. Though she had turned 14 only a few days before the three-day title meet at. Toronto from which Olympic selections emerged, she splashed to , four junior Cana- dian recordsinthree free -style events. In the 200 -yard free style she set a new National mark in the afternoon heats and then broke that record again in the finals at night. Her tinges in the 100 -yards free style and 300 -yards free style were faster than the Senior records. Since returning, she has smashed several Quebec provincial tank marks, and won the Canadian National Exhibition 100 -yards free style, defeating Joan Campbell who was right up with the leaders of the women's 3 -mile professional swim shortly before. The youngest daughter of Verdun police captain Ray Priestly is a swim natural since she was paddling in the water by herself at one year old and while competing in a tots meet at the age of ten she was spotted by Malcolm Ross who asked her parents if he could train her. Train her he did, but aquatic students will tell you that 10 years is a ripe old age to start on a swimming career. By then, say experts, the swimmer has missed the championship boat., A little girl from India, named Saba, competed at the Olympics and she was only 12. Barbara Stark of Berkeley, Cal., was the youngest American at the Olympics and she had reached the ripe old age of 15. Your comments and iuggesflonefor fhb column will be welcomed by Elmer Ferguson, e/o Calvert House, 431 Yong* St., Toronto. CatvttDISTILLERS ISTIL LiMITED AMH ER3T1 URO, ONTARIO From a recent issue of the Toronto Globe Si Mail we lift s couple of items which seem to tie in very well with one another. The first is a dispatch from Fort William, which reads, in part, as follows:,; * * * Fort William, Oct. 20.—A 27 - year -old Fort W311tant mann Mel- vin (Bud) Barnwell, was shot dead before his bride's eyes in the bush, 20 miles east of here Sunday evening, when he was mistaken for a deer. Provincial police said Robert Webb, 17, also of Fort William, mistook Barnwell, who was wear- ing a dark brown windbreaker, for a deer, as Barnwell walked down an old bush road toward him. He fired with a .300 rifle, and the bullet struck Barnwell in the shoulder, piercing both • lungs. He died a few moments later. • ° * • Our second piece of borrowing or, if you prefer, thievery, is from Bob Turnbull's widely -read "Outdoor Trail" column. Bob is also writing about the type of individual who arms himself with a gun and an outdoor outfit and, probably on the strength of that, puts himself away to all who will listen as a worthy descendant of Nimrod, the son of Cush, that mighty hunter before the Lord. Mr. Turnbull's tale reads like this: * * * On the past two weekends three Toronto men—Dr. William Dewar, Hank Lamport and Cec Forsyth—have gone duck shoot- ing near Honey Harbor. They have taken a nice bag of ducks from each expedition, but they also have had the none too plea- sant experience of being shot at —deliberately. Not just once, either. First weekend the . trio was settled in their blind when along came a boatload of hunters sail- ing blithely among the sets of decoys. One of the Toronto party rose to: wave off the intruders. Up jumped ane of the men in the boat. He unlimbered a rifle and let fly at the blind. A bullet . zinged between two of the men. The gunboat then sped away. Later, back at their nearby cottage, the trio's peace was shat- tared by another shot whipping past the window, / Last weekend came a third in- cident. Five well -armed huckos came tl'arnping down the point on which the cottage is located, The Toronto men, a bit peeved by now, traipsed out to tell the t trespassers they were on private property. So•. what happened? A cocky young punk levelled his - gun at Bill Dewar, and with fin- ger on the trigger,demanded with not a few oaths just what he was going to do about it,'Af- ter a couple; of ugly minutes of this impasse the ugly quintet shouldered arms and swaggered away, You can't blame the Toronto men for being:' fighting mad at this sort of thing. They are posi- tive that in all three' instances, the gunmen were not local people, but parties from the city. Nor were they all ignorant youngsters, but mostly mature men. • Things have climeto a• pretty pass when decent Sportsmen have to fear death or injury from . deliberate, gunplay. Makes one wonder if some of these hunting deaths are really accidental. Get- ting back to the boat -blind incid- ent, what was a hunter doing out on the water with a loaded rifle, anyway? Farmers have suffered'. from this sort of hooliganism for years. Little wonder they have scant regard for so-called sportsmen from the city and are in no mood to differentiate between the hon- est citizen and the gangster. It's' a serious situation and I'm will- ing to wager the upcoming pheasant shoot will be a dilly for mayhem. Yet what do we, or the authorities, do about it? Nothing much. The hooligan is winning, and his victory eventu- ally will be the defeat of the true sportsman—more posted land and less hunting. e Bob Tyrnbull has, put* the whole thing so much better and more clearly than we could ever hope to do that we have little to add. Except this. About 90 per cent. of -.the folks who talk of themselves as "SPORTSMEN" couldn't even find the word in a large type dictionary, let alone define it. And if they were to bring a few of these careless shooters upon a charre of man- slaughter or murder — and make it stick — it wouldn't be more than they deserve. Order Of The Bath The history of bathtubs dates back much farther than the days of the Saturday night wash tub in ,the kitchen. Today's house- wives may point with pride to their modern tiled bathrooms, but at least three thousand years ago the Greeks and the Romans had tiled bathrooms with water piped' into their houses. And, of course, in the third century B.C., Ar- chimedes conceived his famous law of buoyancy while sitting in his marble tub. Fragments of crude tubs fashioned from wood, clay and stone show 'that primitive man bathed for both cleanliness and pleasure. The Bible also men- tions bathing pools frequently. The 1000 years following Reines' decline, known as the Dark Ages, were grimy as well as dark. Bathing lost popularity. Francis I of France, for example, boasted that he never washed. Oriental hospitality, however; continued the tradition of offering guests a bath or at least bathing their hands and feet. The Crusaders were said to have brought this Flying Canucks--Three CF -100 Canucks of the RCAF at seen here` In flight. near their home base at North Bay, Ont, These aircraft,. destinedto ploy a key role in Canada's air defence scheme, Will be used to train let pilots and navigators who will eventually serve with squadrons fully - equipped with the Canadian designed and built all-weather interceptor. This conversion training Will 'be carried out by. the RCA$'s,Operational Training Unit at North Bay. ,, 'JAYWALK. When T am injured or killed, please send me to one of the following Hospitals: (check One) CHRIST 0 GOOD SAMARITAN- 0 GENERAL. 0 ST. MARY'S 0 JEWISH 0 . DEACONESS MERCY 0 COUNTY MORGUE • 0 time"Notary hddreee . . . Name Ase Addteeo inset type , x „�.' P `z , Telephone lu: 11, Grim Reminder—Citizens of Cincinnati are. reminded of the tragic consequ'nces of jaywalking' by this grim little identification card, thousands of which have been distributed throughout the city. Those who fail- to heed the reminder' to use the'crpsswalks, have the small comfort of knowing 'they'll be indentified in case of .accident. refreshing habit back to England, henry IV of England is re- ported to have instituted the Order of the Bath in 1399 when his nobles appeared before him sweat -stained and bloody after battle. Queen Elizabeth I gave. her royal sanction to bathing and was said to "bathe once amonthe whether she needed it or no." The coming of the portable tin tub was a foretaste of the im- portant role that metals and par- ticularly iron would play in the bathroom. These tubs became universally popular in England • and the travelling Englishman carried his tub and his bathing habit to all parts of the world. Later France invented the slipper bath. Made of copper in the form of a lady's shoe, its high sides modestly concealed the bather, This was followed by the sofa bath,- a metal tub en- closed in cane or wood to make an ornamental piece of furniture. In America bathing got off to a slow start. Hardy souls enjoyed a dip in the lakes or rivers, but not until bathtubs began arriving on ships from Europe did the bath win any popularity. Then once a week. was considered plenty and the Saturday night tub became a family institution. In Victorian days the wealthy owned ponderousmarble tubs, gradually replaced by solid por- celain. - T1e wooden . tubs owned by the. average family gave way to those lined: with . metal and the next step was ,to painted metal tubs. A radicalchange in the manu- facture of bathtubs occurred in North America when , the first cast iron enamelled tub was made about 1870. Similar tubs were first made in Canada al Port Hope, Ont., and from that time became best sellers. These Insects Smell With Their Legs When the earliest inhabitants of the earth 'emerged from the' sea to live on land, it is probable that they had only one sense to guide them—smell. But gradually sight and hearing were developed and the sense of smell became less important, until today, in human beings, it has fallen into disuse and be- come the Cinderella of the senses. Scientists say that this is partly because the smells of our every- day life are unpleasant, and we defend ourselves by not recog- nizing them. Thus, although• you may notice that a place has a strange smell; .if you stay in that spot you will cease to notice it. The nose is re very inaccurate reporter of smells. Nothing could be more different than nail pol- ish and carnations, or the deadly Lewisite gas and geraniums, yet by smell alone we could prob- ably not tell. the difference. .This strange confusion of smells has already, been put to work by advertisers. One firm sent out circulars to sell fire insur- ance, and the ink in which they were printed gave off an -aroma of burning wood. The number of replies e; ceedgd all expec- tations. Perfume In The Ink Another firm with a new brand Of perfume to sell had it mixed with the ink that was used to print the advertisement. The- claims made were borne out by the smell of the advertisement, and the entire stock was sold in a few days. Bees have a much more acutely developed sense of smell than human beings, yet they make the same mistake as we do, This is odd, because bees do not have noses. They snte11 with the Last eight joints of their legs. Many animals and insects rdly 'Much more on this sense than on sightA silk moth holds the record for long-distance smell- ing. Males have been known to scent females of the species at a distance of mere than siac.miles" The male deer uses musk to attract the female, and it has been found that Man is strangely sensitive to this scent. It is cal- culated that wc can detect a three hundred millionth part of a grain of musk in a ttoseful of alt. HOW CAN 1? Q. How can 1 clean marble? A. Cover the stained marble with a paste consisting of two tablespoons of soda, one table- spoon each of salt and powdered pumice, and some cold water. After this paste has dried on the marble, rub it off with a cloth, and wash the marble well with soap and water. If neces- sary, repeat this process. Q. How can I preserve left- over paint? A. Paint can be kept in open cans if the paint is stirred thor- oughly, then the can filled to the top with water. When needed again, pour off the water care- fully. Q. How can I pull stamps apart when they have become stuck together? A. Place them under a thin piece of paper and run a hot iron over the paper very lightly. They will then come apart read- ily. What is a good treatment for the dust cloth? A. Pour about two tablespoon- fuls of furniture polish into a glass jar; then pour it out and put the dust cloth into the jar, leaving it in there for two days" before using. The cloth should be kept in the jar after using, Q. How can I removee iodine stains from white linen? A. These0stains can be remov- ed with a solution of ammonia and water. Soak the material in a solution composed of one tea- spoonful of ammonia to a pint of water, and the stain will quickly disappear. Q. How can I stop the squeaks in shoes? A. Take a darning needle and insert it several places betweeen the layers of leather in the soles. Then with a small oil can, drop a little oil into these holes. Q. How can I make a lemon milk shake. A. Beat together 2 eggs, add 1/2 cup ice water, 6 tablespoons lemon juice, and 1 cup sugar; mix thoroughly. Add this mix- ture slowly to 3 cups cold milk, stirring constantly. Serve at once. This will afford about four or five glasses. Q. How can I make a decora- tive salad? A. By cutting- some hard-boil- ed ardboil- ed eggs in six lengthwise slices and arranging petal - fashion around mounds of chopped pickle, mixed with salad dress- ing..Serve on lettuce. Q. How can 1 clean unwash- able leather gloves? , A. Clean with a flannel cloth that has been soaked in milk, squeezed nearly dry, and then rubbed on a bar of soap. Q. /low can I.loosen grease in cooking utensils? A. If the pan to be washed is very greasy, heat it slightly be- fore putting it into the dish pan. It will loosen the grease and cause it to wash more readily. MYSTERY OF THE ROARING DESERT In the- Kalahari Desert, near the south-east earner, the travel- ler may stop bewildered at a roaring that meets his ears. The sand roars in this area, and at certain times of the day can be likened to thunder in the distance. A very loud roar can be pro- duced by heaping the sand, sit- ting on ' the slope and sliding down in a series bf slow jerks. By moving the sand slowly down the slope a hum is heard, The hum ceases when the sand stops moving. Some time ago samples of the sand were taken in bags to Pre- toria for examination. 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