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The Brussels Post, 1952-11-12, Page 3Kiss Earned Fortune The girl is charming and seems to like you? But pause a second before you embrace her and think of thepossible' conse- quenees, Hisses,, however 'inno- cent, have often brought about the most unexpected results, A kiss may bring you success. Valentine Baker, a nineteenth century subaltern, saw a pretty girl asleep in a railway carriage ImptJlsively he kissed her, she complained, . and he was court- martialled and dismissed in dis- grace, Feeling this country had no more to offer him, he joined the Turkish Army, rose to become a general. His skill helped the British to victory in the Egyptian wars at the encs of the century. Fox, standing for Parliament in 1784, had good reason to be grateful for a woman'e kiss. One of his staunchest supporters was 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devon- shire, who promised a kiss to any man who agreed to give his vote to Fox. His cause became so popular that the opposition persuaded a Mrs. Robert Hobart to copy the duchess's methods, but with far less success. An Australian shop assistant was at first sorry that he leant across his counter to kiss a pretty woman customer, for he was ru- ed £2.10s. Years later. however, he had cause to be thankful for his .impulsive action, for in her will she left him £20,000, ex- plaining that she treasured the stolen kiss above everything else in life. But kisses can lead to disaster involving not only the partici- pants but those around them. Drafted to Malta with his bat- talion, a young soldier kissed his sick sweetheart good-bye. He caught mumps from her, most of the battalion caught it from him, the infection spread to the brigade, and their training pro - Fashions Solve Junior.Figure Worries For growing girls in that "bean pole" stage is this sanforized gingham dress done in two- color small cheek. Six-inch -leafed dust ruffle breaks the skirt line. Ruffles Enhance Child -Charm BY EDNA MU4ES ADULTS are not alone in their "figure irtlnblems or their heed for fashions that camouflage faulty points, Chil- dren have their problems, such as: too -weedy arms, pipe - stem legs, or the reverse side of ,the picture, a roly-poly body that's the result of baby fat, In recent years, designers have come to understand that children deed fashions that take cognizance of figure faults. Thus, they are giving them fashions that will foreshorten and soften where it's needed, fashions that will cut down bean -pole height or minimize a roly-poly small girl. STRIPES AND PUFF SLEEVES HELP A dust ruffle, for instance, breaks a skirt line, and thus detracts front theJleight of a little girl who's shooting sky- wards rapidly. Combinations of solid and striped fabrics foreshorten, while puff sleeves soften angular young arms. Added to these fashion fillips is the convenience that lies In cotton fabrics that are sanforized to prevent shrinkage. This is a factor Important to mother since she must handle the laundering and balance the budget at one and the same time. •ItIneans, then, that a small wardrobe will retain its fit and therefore,ts original good looks. Half-and-half is the styling theme of' this one-piece san- forized ehambray dress designed for the young Miss who needs foreshortening and the softening effect of puff sleeves. gramme was delayed for three. months. 0 >S. It's r egrette.ble, but gallantry 'doesn't always pay. A Berliner and his girl friend were involved in an accident when riding his motor cycle, and were told that the fine would be £14. The girl managed to persuade the police- man who called for the money to take payment in kisses, one kiss being worth the equivalent of one and eightpence. The chivalrous policeman took ninety minutes (timed by the man in another room) to collect the "fine." The kisses didn't seem so sweet, however, when he was jailed for "abusing his author - THE FARM FRONT Jok1i2us, Humans can eat it, and to ad- vantage, but wild rice is prim- arily a food for wild fowl and as such it is becoming widely cultivated in Canada. Because of this in popularity, the Botany and Plant Pathology Division of the Canada Department of Agri- . culture has issued a pamphlet giving advice and information on wild rice and decribing the plant and its use, how to plant it, and where. 4 Originally, the pamphlet says, wild rice grew in southern Can-. ada but the recent interest has spread it to wider areas. It has a food value equal tq the culti- vated cereals although nobody has tried planting it on arable° land, many are interested in es; tablis l' 1 mg stands as food and shelter for adequate fowl and muskrats, Sportmen are prob- ably more interested than others since a stand of wild rice is a powerful attraction for game birds. An annual grass, wild rice de- pends on seeds to propagate it- self, but once established, it will drop its seeds into the water automatically. it grows only in shallow (up to four feet) water in slow streams and along shores. There are some places It will not grow at all due to unknown factors. Fresh seed is necessary to start it, usually over winter but dealers manage it success- fully. It is sown simply by cast - ting well-filled kernels sink, ing the seed on the water, let - empty hulls float away. Use a canoe or skiff, avoiding seeding from shore. 0 4, e The experts advise using 20 pounds of seed to an acre of water surface. If conditions are right, the plant will appear the first year, flower and produce enough seed to make the next year's growth denser A soft, silty bottom, generally found in shallow bends or below sand bars. Open shore lines exposed to waves or clurents are not satisfactory, nor are locations in constant shade, among dense marsh vegetation or in salt- water marshes and lagoons. r * Finally, if you don't know what the wild rice plant looks like and want to procure seed from existing stand, be sure to get expert advice since it can be easily confused with grasses, sedges and tushes. Send a dried specimen to the Division of Bo- tany and Plant pathology, Sci- ence Service Building. Depart- ment of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont., for identification, * 0 4 N. M. Parks of the Central Experimental Farm it Ottawa says the primary objects le the storage of any perishable food CR SSW i ifl PUZZLE AQRO89 t. C,uah 0. Statute 9. (tu lded 12, lime 13. wing 11. (1000l4y 16. Come n 10. 0,80 16. Cnrru0ed 10, Collapsible bed 21, Deep hole 23 Mud or window 24 Become leen Revere 27, Jubilant 20, River (Splen.) SO . lIngllsh river 33, Spinning toy 34. Potter state 3G. Tear 20, Lets down 8. 00000w 40. Snuggle 44, Operated 40, fire01t letter 40. Pronoun 47. 'Manionof a boob M. (aoudlosa 03, Not at Koine 50. Teed % G4. Short 56. honey gatherer 110. Sh el ter G7, Riding horse 'DOWN 1, flare 2, Piebald 1. Fur-benrintt animal 4, Rubber 1.000 0. kind othawk 6, Phial 7, High Music,/ 8. 'Twisted out of shape 9. Signal light 44. Equine 10, Poultry product 30. Lens-ohaped 11, Female deer seed 17. Trouble 27, Rwanda 20, Speaker 22. Faucet 2J. .Lmployees 41, In that place 1 53e aor19 42. Rent 20, Insect', egg 43. Plundered 20. Pedal digit 40. 10ar or corn 28, run 47. Book division 30. Skill 48. Tint 31, Strive 40. Compass point 32. work 51 hermit /2 /5 5 3 4 5. 6 7 a /3 /6 1 /7 9 /0 // /4 /0 22 }Pr�ti: 23 9 20 eve 24 2/ sieii 25 10 27 za 29 35 3, 32 33 34 36 37 39 39 40 4 t43 44 47 40 49 45 so L4° v, r 55 07 51 76 ,f Answer Elsewhere on This Page B PURPLE BANNERS -From Countryman's Year, by Haydn 5. Pearson THE humble, old-fashioned purple lilac is part of our national tradition When brought to this country about the middle of the seventeenth century, it already had a long and interesting history. It came from Persia to Constantinople in the twelfth or thirteenth century, and traveled slowly across Europe to England. In his Garden of Pleasante Flowers, which was written in '1629, Parkinson called the purple lilac "the blew pipe tree." Over wide areas of our nation its fragrant masses of bloom bring cheer in the swing. Its thick deep green leaves hold their sheen through the heat and drought- of )midsummer. There are clumps of Syringo vulgaris growing in old stonewall -lined cemeteries in New England; it stands faithful guard over'. the sacred spots where courageous pioneers lie sleeping across a continent. As home -seeking men and women pushed over mountains, across rivers, and through shoulder -high prairie grasses, they carried roots of the lilac with them. No one has a complete record of the things mothers and wives tucked into the Conestoga wagons and prairie schooners, but because man does not live by bread alone, lilacs, peonies, and favorite herbs blazed a trail along the virgin paths to new homes, In Cornwall and Devon the maidens believe that dew from lilac blossoms will bring beauty to those who bathe their faces in it. Legends and folklore have accumulated about it in .England's border country. In this nation it is a shrub associated with ]homemaking and with memorials to those who have gone before. Unpretentious and plain, it grows in gardens and by the corners of old cellar holes deep in woods that have reclaimed their own. Birds nest in its security and small wild folk seek sanctuary in its tangled dimness. The purple lilac has been a good companion to man as he has hewed a nation of homes from a wilderness. include prolonging its edible condition . and reduction of loss during the storage period. The chief causes of shrinkage in storage are moisture losses and decay. Storage, particularly controlled storage, makes it poss- ible to hold all or part of the main crop of potatoes through winter and spring, enabling the grower to dispose of his crop when the requirements of the market demand. By this he can avoid marketing at a time of over -supply and low prices. * v Successful storage of potatoes depends on factors p like tem- perature, humidity, circulation of air, exclusion of light, sound- ness of tubers, freedom from soil, surface moisture and depth of tubers in th bin. Potatoes to be stored should be fully mature free front severe bruises and any apparent dis- ease. dry and free from excess soil. * 0 For seven to 10 days following harvesting, potatoes should be held at a temperature of around 60 degrees F to permit cuts and bruises to heal. After this heal- ing period the cellar or storage should be cooled to 40 degrees F., as soon as possible. t 4 0 The temperature at which po- tatoes should be stored for table use is 40 degrees F. Two weeks prior to using, they should be placed at a temperature of 60 degrees to 70 degrees F. A tem- perature below 40 degrees F. causes a reversion of the starch in potato tubers to sugar, result- • ing in sogginess, a dark colour after cooking, and a sweet taste. Potatoes for seed purposes should be stored at 35 degrees to 27 degrees F. * * * High humidity in potato stor- , ages is necessary if shrinkage of the tubers is to b'. *educed to a 80 per cent is recommended, minimum. A relative humidity high enough to retard shrinkage, and low enough under average conditions to prevent fromation Of free moisture on the surface of the tubers. At St, Augustine, Fla., a thou- sand alligators . were washed with soap and water se they would "look right" for a mo- tion picture being made there, Six Hundred Feet In A Glider The Wright brothers took many glides that summer. Some were good. But many times the glider wouldn't stay up at all. They changed the curve of the wings, and tried again, "You are getting ahead," I said one evening. "Maybe it will take men only fifty years to learn to fly," I smiled. Mr, Orville shook his head- "Go ahead and laugh, Bill," he said. "Something is wrong ie the books we've been reading. The men who wrote the books didn't know much about gliders. We've got to find out about gliders for our- selves." "I'm about ready to give up," said Mr. Wilbur. "Maybe some- body will find the right answers some day. I don't believe we ever shall," "Third time never fails," said Mr. Orville. "We'll give it one more try." Wilbur and Orville Wright went back to Dayton to their bicycle shop. I didn't hear a word from then all winter. "I think they've had enough of flying," I said to my wife. But I was wrong. They came back in 1902. I met them at the shore. "Do you think you are going to fly this summer?" I asked. "We believe so," answered Mr. Wilbur. "We made a wooden box, about six feet long. It had a glass top. We blew air through the box with a fan. "We hung glider models on a string inside the box. We watch- ed what the gliders did when the wind blew, We tried flat wings and curved wings. We used thick wings andthin wings. We made glider models with one wing and two wings and three wings. We put a tail on some of the gliders." I went over to Iell Devil Hill the first good day, Mr. Orville lay down . on the bottom wing of the glider. We, pushed him off into the wind. And that man did glide! He stayed up a whole min- . ute. He travelled six hundred feet! "We've got it, Wilbur," he shouted from the foot of the long hill. Mr. Wilbur took lois brothers place. He sailed away into the air. He moved the tail and the glider went to the right, Ile turn- ed the tail the other way. Then the glider went to the left. I couldn't believe b e e v mY eyes. e s. i couldn't say a word at first. I knew that nobody else in all the world had done what they had done. I turned to Mr. Orville. "I've laughed at you," I said. "I've made fun of you. Now I take it all back. You were right and I was wrong, You men can fly. And you are the first in the world to do it," Mr. Orville was very quiet about it, "I was sure we had it this time," he said. "But we can't call it flying yet. Wehave to take off, and then come down on ground as high as where we started. We need an engine and a propeller. Then we shall really have a flying machine." -From "Yesterday In America," by Har- old B. Clifford. On The Invention Of . Lithography In the early nineteenth century when pictures in books and ma- gazines were reproduced only by relatively slow and cumbersome processes from copperplate en- gravings, from woodcuts, or by some similar method -engravers and publishers in Europe and in America were beginning to ex- periment with a new- and simpler invention. This new process was called lithography (meaning "writing on stone"), and it de- pended on so simple a principle as the natural antipathy between grease and water. Lithography had been invented around 1795 by a Bavarian named Alois Senefelder, It was introduc- ed in France in 1816 and' was being used successfully in Lon- don in 1822, Meanwhile this in- genious new idea had already reached the United States where, in 1819 or 1820, the painter Bass Otis, a pupil of Gilbert Stuart, was making the first American experiments. Senefelder's invention, like many other brilliant ones, was remarkably simple.' It demanded, first of all, a special kind of soft and very porous stone. The stones used by Currier & Ives were of calcareous slate, imported from Solenhofen, Bavaria, and bought and sold by the pound. The stone was cut in fiat rectangular blocks to the required length and width and a couple of inches in thick- ness. A soft yellowish gray in color, the stone was then pre- pared for the lithographer by grinding. A very thir layer of sand was spread over it, and it was ground smooth by another stone rubbed over it with a cir- cular m o t i o n. This process, known as "graining," gave' the stone a fine, velvety surface tex- ture, so delicate that a touch of the fingers could damage it. The stone was now ready for the design, which would be sketched on it with special litho- graphic crayons made of water - repelling substances, The crayons varied in width from the delicate "diamond" size, used for letter- ing, to coarser grades one and a half inches wide. As the design was worked on the stone, the crayons were supplemented with brushes and with an alpaca pad for shading. The work was ex- tremely delicate and required faultless accuracy, for no erasures were possible. A line could be re- moved, but no proper line could' be put in its place without re - graining the stone. The stone, with the complete design now sketched on it, was given a bath of gain and acids. Those parts of the stone not pro- tected by the crayon would Nub- ble up under the acid, and when the stOne had been washed clean with another solution the crayon design, hardy enough to resist the acid would stand out in low relief, The stone was now a plate ready for printing. -From "Cur- rier & Ives," by Harry T. Peters. Ingenious Ways Of Getting Wealthy .. Ingenious people will always find ways of earning a living. Often such people invent jobs 210 one else has thought of. When a new idea is propounded, they don't say, "It has never been done before, so it can't be done now." They don't make Obstacles. They overcome them, If you like visiting fairs you might have come across a Mr, Watkins, who, some years ago, exhibited a single rat. This an - inial was trapped on a grain ship at Liverpool and was so large that Mr. Watkins bought it, It grew prodigiously till it weighed 261b., and for years Mr. Watkins toured England exhibiting it at 3d. a time, Tea Loosens Tongues The art of making a good liv- ing Is to satisfy a public demand, and if the public you cater for is a feminine one, so much the, better. There's nothing the ladies like, for instance, so much as pouring out their woes, especial- ly over a cup of tea, When Professor William BOyd, ed San Diego, California, was sacked because of a steel slump that hit the town, he found him- self listening to the Woes of others in a similar predicament. He decided to charge them for the privilege of unburdening their woes and advertised in the local paper, "Tell me your troubles," at $2.50 an hour. And for that he also supplies tea or coffee. If his advice is wanted his clients must pay another dollar. He has helped people both to marry and stay single: he's stop- ped scores from bumping them- selves off. Golf 'and fishing stories are digested without the bat of an' eyelid or a yawn. How often have you wanted some commodity badly and said, "If only someone produced it, he'd make a fortune." A Californian named Barrett was an ardent fisherman, but found that in that paradise bait was costly and difficult to obtain. So he visited the public library and borrowed the most author- itative book on worms. Price On Their Heads He learnt that each female lays 400 eggs a year and each egg yields a male and a female. Mortality rate is low and worms are easy to feed. He bought 10,- 000 and in two years they had multiplied to 8,000,000. Barrett was soon shipping them all over the States at a price of six dozen for 501'. His first "farm" was a 20 by 30 feet plot in the back garden. Now he rears acres of worms and sends them to fisher- men, schools, laboratories and wherever worms are sought. To -day Barrett is not only a worm farmer but one of the leading authorities in the world on worms. He is consulted by official bureaux and has written books and made films on the life of worms. You never know how far a chance meeting, an accident, or even a moment of irritation might take you. When Sherman. C. Amsden was forty-eight he was trying laboriously to make ends meet. At the very ebb of his fortunes he encountered a doctor, who, referring to a patient, complained, "If only 1 had been told in time I could have saved him; but I was din- ing out And his wife did not lcnow where I could be found!' This chance remark gave Ama- deu an idea. He borrowed money and rented a room equipped with telephones. Then he inserted .en advertisement in w h f eh . he guaranteed to deliver urgent messages t0 anyone, day or night. He explained his scheme to u ' number of doctors, business men and others who wanted to be on tap. Amsden then entered into a special low -rate agreement with the telephone company. Eube scribers agreed to let him know just where they would be at specified times, and he compiled detailed lists of their appoint- ments, Army of Clients He started with fifty clients. Soon he had 100, and by the end of a year 1,00, and was employ- ing a considerable. staff. Within ten years he had a bureau in every important American city. His annual subscription is $200 By paying it, doctors save -lives and big business men tens of thousands of dollars. His clients are numbered b the hundred undre d thousand and Amsden is a mil- lionaire. All because of a chance remark. FOLLOW SUIT Frank Sinatra was invited to lunch one day with the big -shots in the MGM executive dining room. 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