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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-8-4, Page 61111,17ARM Every farmhouse should have downstairs bedroom, is the contention a£ Dr. Paul H, Pluck, writing in. the Farm Journal he hoe some interesting things to any on the subjeet * ., Illy friend and patient, Dan Fester, was full of house -building pfang. At last after ten yea; ,5n the farm, the Fosters could leave a new home, Dan and Martha asked me out to dinner, so they could show me the blue- prints. Dan hung over me, pointing out the details: a playroom for the youngsters, picture windows, a dishwasher sink, and storage closets galore. They'd thought of everything -almost! "Well, there's the castle!" Dan clawed, waving the pians in my :face. But right away he detected e flow in my enthusiasm, "What's wrong, Doc?" I was remembering other times led visited the Fosters -and not for dinner. The time Dan sprain- ed his foot jumping off the tractor; those two months we had to put Martha to bed before little Dan was due; the spring the kid had mumps and gave them to their dad. I said: "This plan doesn't show a first -floor bedroom. A bedroom downstairs makes a mighty handy sickroom." Dan bristled up. "Look, Due, we're planning a home. not a hospital." Even so," I said, "you need a downstairs bedroom -for guests, and for a daytime nursery." (,Martha's new baby was schedul- ed for April,) Dan argued: "What's wrong with using one of upstairs rooms if anyone gets sick?" Stairs- that was what was wrong, i told him. "Just because ;Martha's been used to running up and down for ten years, to tend •the bunch of you, doesn't mean she should go On doing it. No wonder she has varicose veins. And what about my legs? A elector ought to charge a double lee when the sick room is up- stairs.,, I won my point. Dan and Martha crossed out "Den" on the Bret -floor plan and substituted "bedroom" there and then. (They witched the den to one of those upstairs rooms.) My next beut was with Ai, the architect, "What's this I hear about Dan's den being changed le a bedroom'?" he demanded. I had a tough time convincing him that a downstairs bedroom -pro- perly planned to take care of sick- ness -was necessary. 1 told him: Even the average healthy per- son is laid up three to five days a year -- with colds, sore throat, diarrhea, and the like. To say nothing of mothers coming home with new babies, patients conval_ lrsgules ow about a license for you and pie?" escing from operations; and child- ren going to bed with everything Deem the chicken pox to sour - apple tummy ache. * a v By now, M was shouting: "Hold it Doe! That's why people earry hOspitalizatien insurance - so they can be sick in the hos. pftal," "If they're sick enough," I agreed. "So maybe I send Dan to the hospital with appendicitie. In five days, they ship him home. That insurance you're talking about keeps hospital beds in de- mand. Nowadays 'you're expect- ed to convalesce in your own bed- room." So -we got down to business. We cut a door from the convert- ed den into the hall bathroom, and we gave that bathroom a closet for sickroom accessories- bedpan, heating pad, hot water bottle, rubber sheets, even extra bed linen. We also planned a special medicine cabinet --with a lock -in the bathroom wall. We widened the bedroom door to 88 inches, so that it could ad- mit an ambulance cot of a wheel chair. And we relocated the tele- phone, handy to the bedroom and on a long cord, so Dan could talk business while convalescing. I held out for a big, bright ceil- ing light. When the architect de- murred, I asked him.: "How can I spot weasels at midnight -by a bed lamp?" He threw up his hands. First time he'd ever had to mix measels with blueprints! Martha nearly *blew up when I meddled with her furnishing plan. I ruled out a broadloom rug, flossy draperies, and the big double bed. But when they in.. vited me out to see the finished room, she and Dan were as pleas- ed as if it had been their idea. Twin beds provide for patient and nurse (or mother). They're not hospital beds, but they can be elevated on blocks during ill- ness. The rug is washable, and Martha put up good, plastic draw curtains as cheerful as chintz. That downstairs, homey guest room has already done sick duty several times. But in spite of waiting on flu, measels, and the slipped cartilage in Dan's knee, Martha's varicose veins have im- proved. What's more, Dan's mother, who hasn't walked a step since she had that stroke, paid them a long visit recently. She wheeled her chair comfortably in and out of that bedroom a dozen tunes a day. Upstairs, she'd have been cut off from TV and the tele- phone -and Martha would have had to carry up meal trays. Even Al, the architect, now agrees that nothing. (except may- be an automobile) can save as many steps as a well-planned bedroom --downstairs! MODERN ART The night porter of the hose where artist Salvador Dali, the extreme modernist, was staying while in New York, helped police catch a burglar by remembering the man's appearance and making a quick sketch of it. Dali was so impressed that, when his own place was robbed soon after, he observed the ban- dit who tied him up, and later did a painting of the roan, which he gave to the police. Guided by the sketch, the police promptly rounded up two hundred people, a horse, a hearse, a canary, a pair of crutches and a Swiss watch, 70. Claims of CROSSCROSSWORD maples WORD t' ys�'�r\, Mr i1. Rind s meat 14. Border 18, High body temperature, 19. Thin coating 20, soft drink ACROSS 4. Rind of cheese 21. Singing voter 1. organ stop 6. Near 22. nook Done alone 6, Plant 24, Rely 10. Col1931*2 gree Plant 27, Grose less 11. To lh3 left 7. Mgcr,ao,ao an Lan'3 , '18, Introduction seaport 28. Landmeasure 16. Hindu queen 8. Allow 39. Informal 36. Command 0. Concerning conversation 17. Insect 18. IDnglieb river 20. Breaking waves 2'1. Philippine volcano A3. Night before 24. Dowry 26, Constellation 28. Aiproaehed 28. Alternating nurront fab.) 22, Tighter 04, Alternative a6. Comp)ement of P. mortar 01.:1,,o 99, in favor of 00.Irow1 4�01. Iteselvo 48. Caress e dry 49, Beverage 46, variety. 47. Within (comb. form) tpy0bA Garland . G0.10)bow GGGO tantalum for laluln i: DOWN 3, Pshse-water I t3. Braniltnn tree t) Seasonal wind Allover eseewhere o s This Page PUZZLE 1. r�,ocation 13. Vlcarlons government 8. Trull of briers 8.:2nemiea 1. Sword handle 42. 011ve genua 3. Play a trick 4. Gave for a time 0.7 ale child 8.8 Iver Coln tab.) 9. Individual 1.Ae far es 52. Lnio 4 S n !6 2, A3 2. ,0 s0 ,9 29 6 Ala 10 7 7 ne, as 41 42 36 • a9 42 32 33 * 37 s, Reaching Skyward - David Spinney has a bumper corn crop in his back yard. Given the seeds last Hallowe'en, David planted them early in Morch with this seven -foot -high result. Despite the excellent results, five-year-old Dave would rather be a pilot than a farmer. HARD LUCK HELPED THEM REACH THE TOP A crack un the jaw 'can mean curtains for a boxer. But when it comes to the question of fight- ing life's battles a really hard blow can be the tonic that sets a man on the road to success. Too much is heard today of rowdyism in boys' clubs. A vast amount of inspired youth work is thus by-passed. Dr. Clifford Martin, Bishop of Liverpool, was still in the callow youth phase himself when he founded a boys' club in Islington Green, London.. They began by treating him "rough". Buying a bicycle on the instalment plan, he left it one evening on the stairway outside the club rooms. Some bounder stole it. Yet . , "but for the club and the 'lessons it taught me," he said, 'I would probably never have been ordained." Humour kept shining through his ordeals. Once. as he helped to carry a two -stone barrel of gin- ger beer up the stairs for a club spree, it burst. The future bishop though engulfed in laughter, was dripping with pop juice! Yes, examples are numerous and uplifting of mishaps on the stairways of first-class careers. How rewarding they proved. How free of claptrap they made men. In 1891 George King ar- rived in London from the U.S.A. He wanted to hop along to that golden land of promise 'down under," .Australia. To further his schemes, he bribed a deck -hand to stow him away on an. Australia - bound boat. But sailing down the Thames, he was discovered and dumped ashore at Tilbury.. "So that's Australia, that was," he ruminated. Now, penniless, jobless and homeless, he tried to get work as a dock -hand. But the dockers, hard bit then by unem- ployment, protested. 'Want no bloomin' upstarts 'ere!" was their cry. Soon he was in the thick of a fight -Hostile fists flayed round his ears: His own were busy, too, The courage of Young King impressed a watching ganger. "Hi, youngster!" he shouted, "I've a job for you, if you want it" So King stayed in London's Pool, knuckled down to its ways, did well and finally launched his own firm. Today that firm, really founded through the dockside fight, counts 1,000 employees. it: business being crane, hoist and conveyor manufacture. And the proudest emblem in the direc- tors' board -room is the hook used by King as an up -and -corn- ing dock labourer. That womenfolk the world over should be indebted today to a Canadian mother's tragic be- reavement may seem stral}ge. But it is true. The Women's in• stitute movement owes its con- ception to Mrs, Adelaide Hod less, of Hamilton, Ontario, She lost her eighteen -month-old son, and through her grief con- ceived the idea of self-help For isolated countrywomen. The boy had cited bemuse he drank int pure milk. He would .not have died, his mother recognized, had she been more knowledgeable. Her lecture of February 19th, 1897, delivered at Squire's Hall, Stoney Creek, marked the birth of the first Women's Institute. Her entreaties turned the 101 women and one brave man who listened to her into crusaders it was the tragic death of a child whieh recently gave the Abbe" Pierre his long-awaited chance to revolutionize France's post-war rehousing programme. For /meths, this bearded, toiling crusader 'had campalened in vain against. hideous s1um conditions which 'were causing loss of life, disease and untold suffering. Successive governments sympa- thieed, but did nothing. Then a baby died of exposure in a disused 'bus, "home" of the parents. The Abbe, his indigna- tion finally controlled, wrote now to the Minister ,of Reconstruc- tion and invited him to the fun- eral. The Minister came, was touched by the' piteous scenes he witnessed, and so set in motion the mucht•needed springs of gov- ernment a c,t i o n to rehouse France's needy families. Experience emphasizes ' that there is no sort of disaster over which the human spirit cannot prevail. Those, indeed, who pass through the fire are often hard- ened by it, to their own and the world's advantage. Still short of sixty, Mr. Stan- ley Swash, managing director of Woolworths Ltd., ranks as one of Britain's most highly paid ex- ecutives. Thirty years back he started worked in the firm's Ox- ford Street store, And meteoric as his climb proved, from assi- tont to manager, from area su- perintendent to director, the driving force behind it drew power from an earlier ordeal and triumph. • While fighting in France during the 191'4-18 war he was wounded and blinded. Even surgeons thought it improbable that, he would ever regain his sight. But he did! Through sheer will -power, he fought his way back to clear vis- ion. The burstif)g of a blood vessel in one of his lungs proved the escape route for a struggling draper's apprentice. It launched him on a lifetime of titantic lit- erary labour, which imprinted his name on the world's mind, 4 and an history's enduring pages. For, as H. G. Wells himself said, "I had an exceptionally hard time of it when I was trying to gain a footing in journalism. I could get very little printed , . A lung went wrong and while I was lying on my back it was imperative that I should . write articles and sell them or go 60 the pariah infirmary." Had H, O. Wells lived in a "Odom welfare state, would he. have been s0 goaded? " An accidental setback turned, too, an athletic young chap into 8; teredigioualy successful and world-famous cartoonist, Millions know Hobert ltipiey's "Believe it or Not" series, Yet for all the incredible ±acts he dug Opt and cartooned, his greatest "Believe ft Or Net" etory'was hint- self, A, scratch golfer, first-class ten - »Ie player and useful boxer, he was else a brilliant baseball pitcher, But One day he over - pitched and' broke his arm by the throw. The accident senthim back to the drawing -board, a school- boybobby of his, Slowly, he be- gan- to prosper, then through a happy thought he decided to re- title a series of sports 4pddities called "Champs and Chumps." That's a g 0'0 d' heading, he thought, but "Believe it or Not" is better, Itis often best to be born with - Out a silver spoon in your mouth if you're gol'ng to fight your way to success like John D. Rocke- feller did. His erities described him as an aged dodderer, paralyzed by chronic. dispepsia, living in dread of his life, and condemned to a daily diet of bread and mills, If that's millions, they said, give me dimes, But the picture was a lie. Even aged ninety-eight, he had remarkable physical vigour and dined out on anything but bread and milk! ' As he once preached to a Bible class (all Isje life he remained a devout Baptist) ; "I believeit is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and hon- estly, and to give away all you can. What is success? It is mon- ey? Some of you have all the money you need to provide for your wants. Who is the poorest man in the world? X will tell you. The poorest man I know is the man Who has nothing but money." True to his creed, he gave away a clear £150 millions before he died in 1987. He was a man, fun- damentally, after Billy Graham's own heart, Prince Charles' Pony in Disgrace William, Prince Charles' very own pony, has fallen from grace at Windsor. He came over from Ireland, where he arrived as the eleventh in an official batch of ten ponies (being so small he had crept in without being noticed) with a wonderful reputation. They said that he never put a foot wrong, always remained calm and collected, and in every way lived a completely model life. A pony fit for a prince if ever there was one, With that reputation the Queen's girl grooms, Pat Drury and Shirley Townsend, were ready to agree, once William had settled down in the mews at Windsor Castle. But now the worst has happened. William is a bark eater. What does this mean? Just that a number of father favour- ite treees in the grounds .of Wind- sor Castle have taken on a bat- tered look with great strips of their bark chewed off. And from/ the deputy ranger downwards the Royal staff at Windsor are most proud of their trees. William? He's in a paddock where the are no trees and he cannot get up to any mischief they can think of in Windsor.. • UP-TO-DATE In Utica a 'witness was asked, "Do you know whether the milk from this dairy is pasteurized?" "It sure is," was the answer. "Every morning they turn their cows out to pasture." No hints Wrong With The "Chassis" -- Speaking of the ancient auto model, of course, Joyce Gamrath, 17, doesn't have to do a thing to improve the picture--er, auto model. it's o miniature car, circa 1904, and le In perfect running order. It was built for dispitiy purposes in the .early days of the auto industry, by the late Ransome a. Olds, NAY SCHOOL ESSON By ev. R. Dania, B,A,, 61.». Choosing The Best Matthew 6:88-33; Philippians 1:9.11; 4:8. Memory Selection: 'Rhis I play, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and In alt jade -Meat; that ye may approve things „that excel- lent. 9.0 W # Y Canadians have a standard of living second Only to Our neigh boors in USA. Our homes, q automobiles, clothes, TV sete and innumerable lukuries classify us as a prosperous people, This is fine. However, when people become gbsorbed in the getting of things' their Iives become Off- balance and they are unhappy. ' Jesus said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His right- - eousness; and all these things shall be added unto you,' These things refer to food, drink and. clothing; the things which our heavenly Father knows we need. Here is a gracious and comprehensive promise. If we take this way then our worries fOr the present and future are over. It is a simple recipe. Put God first in your life. Let His grace make your life right and then do yourbest that others may know Him, too, Life will take on its proper perspective. Paul prays that our love may so abound in knowledge and judgment that we may approve things that ape ext,ellent. There are, many good pursuits in Life. There are many good books t0 read. Let us choose the best. Let the good give way to the best. Our mind should be a garden of beautiful thoughts, Here we should entertain only the true, the honest, the just, the pure and the lovely. Then our speech and our actions will be beautiful too. When we yield our life to Jesus Christ, confess our sins and believe in Him as our Lord and Saviour, we have chosen the best. Then it is natural and easy to choose those things which please Him - Warren, Odin Fionertneon4 kloneymooli is a ward which can.mean vastly different things to different people. Last year the° director of a firm specializing in sports -diving equipment attended to an engaged couple. They bought a diving Oatilt, With this they planned to go to St. Ives and catch lobsters under the surface of the sea. Other ,newly-weds have been equally energetic. After their marriage on t o p o£ 8,000 -toot Swuaw Peak, in California, one bride and groom skied to the bot- tom, She wore her wedding dress; he a dinnersjacked Sometimes one of the newly- weds has had to honeymoon in hospital, A Northumberland man, • injured at work, had to return to his sick bed by stretcher, A Wilt- ' shire bride went straight from re- cepti0n to hospital, having been given tear //Ours' leave for the oeremony. It's nO unusual thing,for couples to be parted practically, the second the knot has been tied. A young Portartlouth soldier, absent from his unit without permission, de- parted from his bride with the police, Voluntary partings on the wed- ding night have occurred. At a Devonshire court last year it was stated that a young, soldier had waited until his bride was asleep. Then he had crept' brit of, the house to commit a burglary. On her wedding n i gh t one American bride had to go in search of her husband. He was on his own, downing two bottles of whisky won from friends who had bet him he'd never marry. Upsidedown to prevent Peeking C3E1E1110:" IIICICEEIEFI MOOD ©lii1C11/113.''inoCE5 ©EE ©©M ; c.•7® OEI0 ©il�©. H0 .� ®EI1L rl1' 0o aooi IEIN .G©©o I90E ©©®' "101513 MEMIFIE ©©oEEO/AHEM <Nomone] eI DEC]©viOEI9 9 There's No Cease -Fire in, Farmers' War With Nature 193,_;1'01esr..:,,8 n.'a '3.'-te'n .00473177000‘ ‘.0 .• '*rw'. ,03130 The e'eNo Cease -Fire in Farmers' War With Nature - Despite drought early in the growing season which threatened wheat - belt crops, a bumper harvest is combined at the,,Kenneth Doug- las farm (above). With wheat -belt farmers expecting amore than bountiful harvest, acreciges for 1955 plantings will be cut sharply by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to reduce a further increase of grain in storage. Failing to knock out the fermers with drought, Mother Natures . hos sent her insect army into the field. Waiting. 'to get in their licks, the advance guard of a horde of grasshoppers perches on wheat stubble in a field before going on to more tasty cornfields and gardens. Fruit growers fear a ravenous invasion of peach and apple orchards, and have started spraying as a control precaution.