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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-11-5, Page 7oya o an we Aly Ore t iskY- 11 Ori. Il end corn- t end llier'ee, sports 11e1b- triine- r 'vast rt was i the 1p 800 seven thinee, VIE E? tb En Jim1 owing gas I'6wn. ,- 0) out gentle erten, motto 'Mica mould HIP1 get than. TAE FRONT esr Few things around a Sarin house can be more bothersome -or d,i-lgercus--than.the chim- neys, ,led a bit of advice about their eons truetion and e a r e, might be well worth following. Burin: tar -like liquid gather- ing oil the outside of chimneys will gine' trouble from time to time if the proper precautions are nut taken. This creosotic ma- teriel i;t-due to the moisture in the mnoke being condensed on the in de of the chimney when ah.ian,ey walls are very cold. This moisture works through .nevi. es and poor mortar joints and plays havoo with plaster and walil,aper. It is worse when green 'or half seasoned wood is used for fuel, but some trouble may 1111 experienced even with dry wind or coal, since some water ''-apor isgiven oft as a product of combustion. There are ec esral ways of improving the eit.lation, • • • One method is to manage the flee in such a way that less mois- ture. will be formed. Green or half, ds,' wood contains a great deal of Water afid this propably is the :hief cause of the trouble. Dry-,,aleaaoned wood will be bet- ter than green wood, or it may be found necessary to burn some coal with the wood to keep down moisture. Also if the fire is fed Oftener and with smaller am- ounts, ^are being taken so far as possible to feed alternate sides and to have a blaze going with fresh feel is put in. Instead of shutting up the stove tight and allowing the pipe and chimney to stand full of hot stagnant smoke, it is better to have an opening through which air can be admitted above the fire and thus nlow draft be kept up hrougtl the pipe and chimney. If this fresh air can be admitted close above the fire it is that much better. • • Another method is to prevent the etnoke in the `chiinney from being chilled. Wherever possible the chimney should :be of double construction, a smooth tile lin- ing with brick or concrete out- side. Such a construction will seldom give any trouble from condensation. Also the chimney should so far as possible be near the mitre of the house, partly to keen the chimney from being chi/lett byP•cold winds and partly se that the heat from the chim- ney wit; help to warm the house. 4 • 1 MOW, the chimney is already condi:acted ,and it is not desir- able Mo" remodel it, much help can often be secured by putting a galvanized extension at the top to give a greater draft and a MERRY MENAGERIE tT :t:ie ' -"' 10 71 4r11.1101 "eke eery kindly acts asour jungle jailer!" faster movement of s m o k e through the flue. This, with a cold air opening in the stove above the fire, will help mast cases, An effective way of jack- eting the chimney ie to put, strips at the corners, then put on gal- vanized lath and then cover with two coats of cement plaster. •• • 5 natty, the outside of the chimney may be treated to pre- vent the creosote from striking through and spoiling the walls. Painting the outside when per- fectly dry with three ar four coats of shellac or of paint well thinned otlt with oil will help a great deal in this regard. Plen- ty of time should be allowed be- tween coats to allow it to strike in. This will Have to be sized be- fore wallpaper will adhere to it. Or covering the outside with coats of rich concrete will help e great deal and will also make the chimney much, safer from fire, • • • The following plan has been found helpful in preventing soot and creosote; • • • • Keep the grates clear or ashes enough to let free draft through them. Leave the draft open about equal to the size of a sil- ver quarter or a little more, just enough so there is a little draft, Then open the check draft in the smoke pipe. This allows some air to pass through the fire all the time, and so up through the chimney. The amount of fire wanted is regulated by the check draft in the smoke pipe, this al- so applying when the fire is left for the night. But when the wind blows hard, the check draft must be left open farther than. when it is still because the wind pulls on the fire throught.the chimney. • a •• Finally, one should not over- look the possibility that the - trouble may be due to leakage around the chimney where it passes through the roof, A lib- eral"application of stiff roofing cement around this joint each year when the chimney is clean- ed will prevent such trouble, There are cases where it was thought that the roof was leak- ing at other places, but it was finally found to be due to invis- ible cracks around the chimney flashing. Also heavy rains may pour into the chimney and wash through enough soot to stain the walls. Caps may be secured which will prevent this and still not interfere with the draft. Whatever treatment is used, a little• reservoir at the bottom of the chimney to catch the creo- sote or rain will often prevent serious stains, HE AGREED' Calvin Coolidge story ntun- ber 48,811; When Cal Coolidge was Prseident, his wife gave him a portrait of himself as a biirthday present. It had been painted by a local youth, touted by Northampton savants as "an- other Picasso -or anyhow, „For- -man Rockwell." Coolidge prop- ped it up .on the mantelpiece, where a senator, come to pay a duty call, spotted it a short time later. The senator and the President gazed at it in silence` for five full minutes, Then Cool- idge remarked, sourly, "You're right." (CROSSWORD -PUZZLE - ACROSS t, Pratt 4, hear 0, Unruffled (2, r'oepd 15. Opposite of awe/Wier 14. Wings- Y0, 14rt 4OSed 17. Rau y 19. dila en, le. Brit Cr a tennis bop 00. European • r1 ).t, Pile 104. l'lrcl,tn 55, Amaleklt• tint; 4t. bong narrow Piero 20. 0fti0,r0 02 law and order 30. )7nt•doned 79, Water wheel 30, City in tt. 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Opals, In spite of the super- stitious belief that they bring bad luck to their Owners, may • soon becomeoxtretnely valu- able, for the opal -mining ;beide In New South Wales, Australia, are reported to be drying up, The barren expanses of land there are., the main source of opals in the world, and Australia has been exporting nearly $0,- 000,000 worth of the stones an - Recently some of the world's finest opals were en show in Bond Street, London, and among . them was the Flame `Queen' a heart -shaped. 228 -carat opal, val- ued at $55,009. Most sought are black opals. These have fetched up to 580,000 eaelt, Not so rare, but still valuable, are the orange and yellow "fire" opals and white or milk opal. 'The Empress Catherine of Russia had a fire opal that glowed so' fierely she" called it the "Burning of Troy." Coober Pedy, in Central Aus= tralia, is the centre where most opals have been . mined during the past half century. Discovered by accident in 1915, it had been nearly worked out and aband- oned by 1946. Then a native found a new vein eight miles from the old site, and a new rush was on. . To -day an entire community of some 400 men, women and children work, eat, sleep, and live deep in the subsoil from which they gouge their wealth. No bricks or mortar are needed to build their homes. Stripped to the waist in the desert heat of Central Australia, the inen carve sand -stone with pick and shovel and trenching tool, The •original reason for living under -ground was absence of timber and the cost of bringing building materials to so isolated a spot, But powerful secondary causes were the fiery day -time temperatures whicl4 sometimes leap to 125 degrees Fahrenheit, and the lashing, stinging winds which are strong enough to beat down any shelter. To -day the superstition that the opal is unlucky is being fought by the trade and is los- ing ground. The acceptance of an opal by the Queen as a wedding -gift from the people of Australia helped. It Pays To. Be Lazy! Did you know that' although the body-builders extol deep breathing and the expanded chest, the narrow -shouldered, narrow -hipped style of physique has the superior constitution? That's what the majority' 01 medical men say. Keep your hands off those dumb -bells for a moment, Forty-eight inch chest and eighteen -inch biceps? Very im- pressive on paper, and better than many a boxer's measure- ments, but what are you going to do with them? Are they going to be of any use to you? You don't race your car if you want it to have a long life, so why not continue the logic 'With your body? Heavy exercise makes the heart pump out four or five times as much blood as usual. Blood pressure and tem- perature zoom up, putting a fierce strain on blood vessels, heart and blood cells. You're sure that this urge for exercise is not just a form of vanity, tryingtiful? to obtain the body beau - Mark Twain said that he ob- tained all his exercise by act- ing a pall -bearer at the funerals of those of his frineds who ex- ercised regualrly. He lived to the age of 75. An insurance company once studied the lives of 5,000 young athletes to see how they fared. Among tile' athletes over 45 years of age, there were 60 ,per cent more deaths resulting from heart troubles 'than among nor- mal people. (Of course, some of those hearts may have been faulty to start with.) Put your head out of that window, take some deep breaths, and prepare for some more shocks. Just stick to preaching that hard work never killed anyone:' Don't go the whole hog and test your theory. Dr. Raymond Pearl found that for a man over 40 hard physi- cal labour and sustained fatigue often caused premature death. Worry is the worst' life shorten- er. If you are a normal healthy individual, it seems that smok- ing and drinking in Moderation have little effect on your long- evity. • You'd better reconsider your wife's faults, too. Married men have, on the average, tenger lives and louver mortality rates' at ell ages. Between the ages of 25 and 44 their death rate is only ,halt that of bachelors: Don't feel too downcast, Creep back into bed, 'You've only wasted ten minutes, so have a cigarette before you mumu l off. Cafe De Pooch-Hunting;•dogs point right for this doggy lunch counter when they come to'Yakima, The .bird -hunting season has been delayed this year because of the fire hazerd present in the dry woodlands, and all the gay dogs in town congregate here. Ann Bowkers serves a snack to a regular customer, while Dolores Neese waits fo set 'em up again, (74 liNDAYSCI-1001, LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B. A., B. D. THE COMPASSION' OF .'SESIIS Matthew 9:1-9, 35-38 Memory Selection: When he saw the multitudes, he. was moved • with compassion on them, because they fainted, and. were scattered abroad, .as sheep having no shepered (Matt, 9:36). A good nurse shares the com- passion of Jesus. Of course she must be skilful. But more than skill is desirable in this great profession, Her attitude can do much to hasten the recovery of the, sick. If she shares the coin - passion of Jesus she will inspire - faith, hope and courage. She will bear the burdens but not be crushed -by them but rather make them lighter on the sick. Jesus cared for people; especi- ally those in particular need, To the paralytic laid before Him, He spoke the words of forgiveness. The skeptical scribes said to themselves: "This man blasphe- meth." Then to prove to them that He had power 'to forgive sins He bade the man to arise and walk. The man who . came borne of four walked, carrying his bed. It is more important for a man to be forgiven of his sins than to be physically whole. Ul- timately these bodies will be laid aside. These miracles of healing were not only works of compas- sion but signs that the Son of Man had power on earth to for- give sins. Of the twelve whom Jesus chose to be with him, one was a despised Publican, a tax - gatherer. Jesus cared for the lowest class. He raised them by His matchless grace. All the people, rich and poor, high and low, educated and illiterate, were as sheep without a shep- herd. He cared for them, There was a harvest to be gathered and He prepared laborers for the task. Matthew, or Levi, quietly caught the significance of the good news. He made a feast to which he invited his friends (Luke 5:29). There he had the privilege of introducing them' to his Master Jesus. Later Matthew wrote the Gospel record which we are studying this quarter, What a privilege it is today to share the compassion of Jesus. Red -last Gun $avers Crops, from Rulon No hailstones have fallen on the pretty Alpine village of Peels, inn Styria, Central Austria, for more than a century. For every time storm clouds appear over the village, threatening the fare niers' crops, the villagers' ancient weather gun is fired -and the clouds disperse and drift else- where, This "shooting the hall clouds away" has been going en sincli 1840 at least, The gun, a queer, mortar -like contraption consist- ing mainly of a 2 -fit iron tulle with a 17 -in,, diameter, end weighing 200 117, is always kept loaded, ' In charge of itis Fanner Peter Rucker. He's paid an annual re- tainer and undertakes to be ready t4 fire the gun, using .a 1 lb. charge of black powder, when- ever necessary, Some years ago this village "weather gunner" was kept busy firing for nearly an hour because black clouds kept threatening to deluge the area with hailstones which would have ruined the crops. Said one villager: "The gun was red-hot afterwards -but the crops were saved," The clouds dispersed by firing the gun that clay finally beset over other villages, destroying crops for miles around: When these villagers protested to the provincial government, they were told that they, too, should use weather guns if they didn't want more than their fair share of hailstorms! When it was computed forty years ago that damage wrought by hail and lightning in Franca was costing between $12,000,000 and $18,000,000 a year, a new type of hail -destroyer was in- troduced. It was a very large lightning rod of pure copper grounded by means of a copper conductor. It so affected currents of atmospheric electricity that the formation and fall of hail- stones was prevented. Hailstones can do enormous damage in a few minutes. The director of an observatory in Indo-China reported that a hail- storm which arose in the Mai Pha mountains swept over miles of country, ruined all crops, w r e c k e d buildings wholesale. Buildings in the village of Thal - ma had their roofs pierced with hailstones which left holes eight inches in diameter. Big hailstones are usually ir- regular and jagged in shape, which increases their menace. The biggest stones fall in the hottest weather. The best way to thoroughly mix paint is to pour part of the contents of a can into another container, stirring the paint in each and then pouring it back and forth several times from one can to the Other. Real Cowboys With the cattle ranch came the great American figure popular in "horse operas" from genera?. tion uuto generation, wjth pox, sibly Hopalong Cassidy as the quintessential example the cowboy. The magazine story, novel, stage, screen, radio, television cowboy will apparently go on forever, He is always and in- stinctively a gentleman house - span in his manners but chival- rous with the fair sex, honest as the day is long, and with a Heart as big as all outdoors; owns a favorite horse called always Sil- ver or Paint or Pinto, or Old Pal or some similarly endearing name; .. , is smart enough tie save the ranch for the beautiful and wealthy eastern girl whom he addresses as "ma'am" and re- moves his hat when he speaks to her; can spot a Mexican rustier, a lurking Indian, or re city slicker in one second flat` , wears "chaps" to dinner, and above all else in the fiction field, be he in print, movie, radio, or television, never seems to do any work. The real cowboy gets up at dawn and works until sunset or later and earns from $60 to $100 a month. There are about eighty- five hundred ranchers in Ari- zona and possibly over a mil- lion cattle; and the average size of a ranch is about fifty thou- sand acres. So there will always be a demand for the Cowboy. In desert heat or mountain snow- storm he works all day at any- thing -from milking cows (which most cowboys detest) to check- ing water holes, repairing fences, rounding up cattle, branding cattle, shoeing horses, feeding dogies, mending harness, build- ing corrals, repairing windmills, and keeping a weather eye on his particular range. Most cow- boys own their own saddles and horses. A good "western" saddle will weigh thirty to forty pounds and may cost as much as $150 to $250, His next prized personal possessions are his high -heeled boots, which may set him back as much as $40. The high heels prevent his feet from slipping of the stirrups. - From "The Gila," by Edwin Corte. Upsidedown to Prevent Peekinge' IIELIMPIEL `13 Io oEue©©© iooaH ©kiv1 lrj ON3a N3d C7MC"l©1►![fyy 1 venae 11± INERREIA Ill FPI ,LM3d ,! WIbbQ W1VJ... DVS tV4- S V 3 N 3 DI 1r' a 1.! THE E' LION IN THE HOUSE -_ Meet "Little Tyke," perhaps the only' lioness in. the world that won't eat meat. Tyke is the household -yep, that's right, HOUSE- HOLD, pet of Mrs. Margaret Westbeau. Recently, when Tyke's mistress held a big juicy steak close to the lionesse'• mouth, the animal turned away, with an expression of horror, as if she had seen something ghastly. Like the dog that won't eat meat - because no one ever gives him any -Tyke has never developed her carnivorous instincts, She has been raised entirely on cereals. Today, some five years after a local zoo gave the Westbeaus the baby lioness to raise, "Little Tyke" still eats 12 different kinds of breakfastfoods, mixed with milk. She lives right in the house with the family, hangs around the kitchen and even tries to help with the dishes. She even sleeps occasionally in bed with Mrs. Westbeau, .After a good -night hug and kiss, it's .. . f ovosh 'eat, you dry 'eel." , off to the and •af Nod -- we hrptn. as