The Brussels Post, 1949-1-26, Page 7‘PAX -4. es
lJGERFARM
Gwon.dottrw, P. Clarice
Well, folks, it is going to be nice
'to ,settle down to ordinary everyday
living again isn't it? I.guess most of
us have beet trying to take the hills
in high gear for .a number of weeks
so that now, getting back to "the
- daily round" is more or less of a rest.
By this time, what happened on
New Year's Eve is old stuff to you
but this is my first opportunity to
tell you how we ushered 'in 1949,
You remember it was a very stormy
night and we were more than glad
to be. right by our own fireside.
Come to think of it I should say—
bot-air register—but what does it
sound like? "Fireside" is much
cosier. Of course, staying where
it was warm and comfortable did not
appeal to some of the young crowd,
including Bob. He and another
fellow were away to Toronto—and
the wilder it got the more I wished
they were home. I listened to the
warnings that were given over the
r.-dio and was talking it over with a
neighbor nil the phone when ,
blackout!—and of course, without
warning. _!way I went hunting for
matches, candles and a lamp, As I
hunted 1 wondered if anything could
be blacker than a black -out. It
wouldn't have been so had if I could
have renicnberd where 1 head put the
half-dozen candles that I bought,..
for just such an emergency. I re-
member thinking—"Now I'll just
put these where ,they'll be handy if
we need them in a hurry!" I haven't
fonnd then! yet.
About 11:30 partner took the
flashlight and went off to the barn—
as he was a little anxious about one
of the cows. So ut he went into
the howling storm. Ten minutes,
fifteen and twenty minutes passed,
and I began to wonder if I ought
to go and hunt Partner. Then I
heard footsteps. Very casually 1
was informed that a calf had arrived
to he thought he might as well
move the calf, bed the cow, and see
that she was comfortable for the
night—all of which took time with
only a flashlight to lighten the dark-
ness. 'Of course we possess a lan-
tern but 'Partner hadn't bothered to
Star -Seriously Ill—Ace movie
queen,,. Ann Sheridan, who col-
lapsed •int the set of :i f1'•-•
was xnr'iking in London, Fssag-
land, an p1 who has lece,t :..
iously ,iii with pleurisy.
take it. It would probably have
blown out in the storm anyway.
That done, partner wens- to bed
, .. and then Bob came home and
pooh-poohed the idea of their being
cause to worry. "It wasn't such a
bad night!" he said.
•By that me I didn' feel like go-
ing to bed, Anyway I thought I
had better wait awhile because for
the life of me I couldn't tell, with
some of the lights, whether they
were on or off, So I stretched out
on the chesterfield and—yes, you
guessed it—I fell axle p. At 4:30
I awoke with a start , , . a light was
shining right into my face. Another
was burning full blast in the sitting -
room; another in the pantry and the
radio was having a grand old time
all to itself. l shut everything off
and went to bed for a couple of
hours. "A Happy New „ear," said
I to myself. "Happy New Year is
right!"
But still we have nothing to
grumble about. In spite of all the
dire weather reports and accounts
of roads drifting badly, with people
marooned here and there, right here
we had no trouble at all. No drifts,
no blocked lanes or roads- -cars still
sifting along as if it were early in
the fall. So there you are folks—if
you are tired of being snowed in,
come 1n and live down on the high-
way. That must surely be the
answer because on the cross-roads
just a mile above us, cars were
abandoned and boys homeward
bound from dances found themselves
with quite a bit of walking to do.
Young John was here for New
Year's dinner and he said it was
seven a.m. before he got home that
day—and on foot ... just in time
to milk the cows.
We haven't heard yet what hap-
pened to our hydro but six hours
was a good, long black -out. That's
once we were glad we weren't using
an oil -burning furnace.
We had a letter from Daughter
yesterday, and thank goodness she
is willing to change the name of her
pup. From now on it is "Honey"—
honey in, color but not yet to charac-
ter, - However, one of my big
worries is over—the big dog and
the little pup ;lave now become
friendly so I don't have to be con-
tinually on edge in case of a slaugh-
ter. But is this ]rouse ever a
shambles! Leave "Honey" in the
kitchen alone for an hour and there
are slippers, shoes, mitts and sticks
of wood all over the floor.
Fooling The Bees
Even the bees and the blossoms
are being put on a mechanized, as-
sembly -line basis, One new patent
is on a device invented by Leo, C.
Antles, to make honey bees carry
to apple blossoms the kind ofpollen
he wants then to, not what they
may pick up by chance oa their
foraging trips.
There is 'a sound reason for this.
Some choice apple varieties are self -
sterile. That is, they will no form
fruit unless the pollen comes from
a different variety of apple.
So Mr, Antics collects a supply of
the kind of pollen he wants used and
places it in a container through
which the bees must pass in leaving
the hive, It thus becomes dusted on
their hairy bodies, and when they
fly to the nearby apple blossoms to
gather nectar they insure Proper
fertilization.
BY Tom GREGORY
' bU; DON'T HAVE' TO
SUFFER 'PHE DISCOMFORT
OF HAVING sTHE HANDLES
OF A HEAVY,:SHOPPING
BAG HURT AN,. NUMB
YOUR FINGERS t NEN
Y00 GO OUT ON A SUj'•
ING SPREE. .
A SHORT LENGTH OF
W.
LARGE DOWEL ROD OR.
BROOMSTICK, SLOTTED NEAR THE ENDS AS
SHOWN, MAKES A CONVENIENT GRIP FOR
CARRYING LOADED SHOPPING BAGS WITH
EASE,
CUT THE SLOTS AT AN ANGLE. TO PRE.
VENT THE CORD FROM SLIPPING OUT.
see
A TABLE FORK CAN MAKE 'A SAFE
AND HANDY LIFTER 'FOR HOT POTS AND
PANS. BEND THE END OF THE CENTER TINE
UP AT RIGHT ANGLES AND 8EN0. THE 00I-
5101
01'9101 TINES DOWN, AS SHOWN, WHEN IN'
SERTED THRU A HOLE IN TI1E PANS RIM
THE OUTER TiNES REST Afr.nast THE 91011-.
Re Looks Friendly, But He Has Plenty of Crust—'fake 150 Jwnncl- of sugar --1: U pounds
of apples -1.0 pounds Of cranbel'ries--and add them te, a 11.1f1 pound cruet. and you have the
biggest cranberry pie ever baked. Or, at lea, 1, that's what the man -aid---.mel he forgot to
add whether it was baked to cat. r,r to throw at.somebody.
MANY MEN
CAR A' i+1WN
"TRADE MARKS"
The skin is comparable to a monu-
mental facade that tells the age, the
peaceful or calamitous past and the
constitution of its owner. The
hands are an important part of this
facade. They may record what the
face may conceal. The warns and
dry, the cold and clammy hand-
shake, the clasping and twisting and
biting of hands in an effort to con-
trol emotions, gestures in conversa-
tionall these are revealing psy-
chological characteristics,
Stone Cutter's Callus
Distinctive occupational narks are
those, for instance, of the stoue
cutter, who braces the pneumatic
chisel on his little finger all day
long 'if he is a granite cutter. A
cutter of the softer stone of Indiana
will not have the callus because be
uses the tool in a different way.
It is possible to tell what instru-
ment a musician plays. The violinist
has a callus on his neck, the jazz
drummer on the left ring finger. A
peculiar left -thumb callus in cellists
distinguishes the professional sym-
phonic players from the jazz 'cello
players. -
Other occupational marks of dis-
tinct value, because they are peculiar
to one profession, one race, one dis-
ease or one operation, are the marks
of the janitor,and floor sweeper, the
barber, the shoemaker, the tailor,
the cook. There are the remnants of
burns of optical glass molders; the
cocaine addict's blue scars; the color
from various stains; the marks of
some sports, such as the cauliflower
cars of a boxer,
Occupational Marks
A little less useful for identifica-
tion are marks common to several
occupations. Such are the narks of
the writer -designer -dentist on the
right middle fingertip; of .the jewel-
ler -engraver; men who work on
their knees, or priests who kneel
much in prayer.
Fairly useful for identification etre
the calluses of the machinists, tool-
makers, knifemakers and file found-
ry workers. Bakers who lean against
benches lose hair and develop pim-
ples on the thighs from friction.
The odor that comes from clothes
or the body may help considerably
in determining social status, pro-
fession and ancestry. Dr. Ronchese
finds that characteristic smells can
be detected in bartenders, incinera-
tor workers and ash collectors,
doughnut dough mixers, sauerkraut
packers, fertilizer mamtfacturcrs,
hostlers and dishwashers.
Skin color may give a hint of the
occupation, Workers in coal tar and
petroleum derivative plants have
dark exposed parts. Silversmiths
may absorb so notch silver as to
become slate gray. Workers in ex-
plosives plants are called "canaries"
because they are set apart by a
peculiar red -yellowish stain 'of hair
and -skin front teryl Photographers,
ehoelmakers and shocshiners have
nails stained black,
- True Fish Story
A famed ophthalmdlogist tells us
that he used to tie his. own trout
flies, paint his own plug halts, select
colors with the utmost of care and
deliberation. Then ire- suddenly die-
sOvered that he had been wasting
hip time, Reason: A fish cannot dis-
tinguish colors and is completely
iinaffected by them, Like a dog, a
fish perceives all objects, whatever
the color, ht ahadee of gray, Also
like & dog, the only factor in All
artificial fly or plug bait that attracts
fish is the motion. In other words,
it doesn't mean a thingg If h aln't got
that swing, Apparently, he only ad-
vantage in color in flies and Tap1t
,,suss is that it Attracts --ant the Hell
• et the customer.
True Or False?
Tests have proved that men and
women have the same intelligence,
False. Males are Letter in me-
chanical, arithmetical anal aT,<tract
reasoning problem.;; ft males, to
language, rote, memory, social and
esthetic tests. Because of thaw
differenics, it is not possible to emit -
pare the intelligence of the sr-xes in
equal terms.
Men are less emotional than
women.
1 rue, Some 50 of the hest rcceet
psychological studies are almost uu-
animous in indicating less ,'motional
balance in women.
Men are less likely to be hys-
terical than women,
False. During the bombing of
London there were more eases of
hysteria among male civilians, and
the recovery of men under treatment
was less rapid than among women.
Men sleep more soundly than
women,
False. Male infants are more
restless in their sleep and don't sleep
as long as girl infants, and this
difference characterizes the sexes in
maturity.
Men are less intuitive,'
True. Girls from earliest ages
are more observant and conscious
of people than boys. As they grow
older women develop the power.
This is helped along by the need of
mothers to understand their child-
ren, sick people—and husbands.
Men are less concerned with their .
appearance than women,
False. It is only in this country
and in Europe, as a result of social
changes in the last century, that man
are restrained from showing too
much interest in their dress. Among
most of the world's population hien
are fully as vain and dress -conscious
as women, and often spend more
time and money on their appearance.
It's Jai-Alai—One of the top
players of the great Cuban
game shows his form as he
whips a return shot down court
between his legs. The game, a
speeded -up handball, uses a
ball called a pelota, and a rac-
quet -like basket, strapped to
the hand, and called a ceata.
NEW ad
USEFUL TOO -
-
Flashlight Key Chain, To over-
come fumbling with door lock at
night time, this key chain has a
tiny flashlight attached. Light has
a cru, inch battery and throws a
p'tveriul, although very small
hcam. thenal construction resists
wear and near in pocket or hand-
bag.
Home Paint Sprayer. _ A spray
unit that earl be carried anywhere
as it lweighs only 4 pounds, includ-
e ing container. Has a built-in
compressor, eliminating need for
hose and separate motor, Has pistol.
gripe trigger control, and motor
operates on 110 volts DC or AC.
Can be used for disinfectants, de-
odorants. tweed killers as well as
paint.
Polish While You Sweep. This
floor sweeping compound is claim-
ed to polish as it sweeps and leave
on oil stain to harm floors. Has a
high wax content but contains no
harmful oils or abrasives. Can be
used on asphalt, rubber and cork
tile as well as linoleum and finely
finished floors.
Pocket For Sports Cap. Zipper
pocket on sports cap is useful for
carrying golf tees, fish flies, etc.
Pocket is detachable, and loops
over visor of cap.
Tiny Postage Scale. Pocket size
postal scale is smaller than a
fountain pen. yet weighs letters up
to four ounces.
Refrigerator. Only table high
yet has 5 cubic feet capacity. Re-
frigerator fits flush with other
kitchen cabinets to provide extra
working surface with room for ad-
ditional overhead shelves,
Upholstery. New type of plastic
upholstery—vinyl plastic sheeting
with a fabric support. Can be
sewed, tacked and padded like
cloth. The upholstery is washable
and resists oil or grease.
They leo Forget
The idea that elephants never for-
get is fictitious, says A. R. Sieden-
topf, who has studied the habits of
wild animals for 15 years in Tan-
ganyika, Bast Africa.
The lion, he says, kills for food
only and kills almost instantly, it
being beneath his dignity 'to play
with"a victim. Having provided a
meal, the lion sounds a deep -chested
call to a mate and waits for the
latter to take the first bite,
The rhinoceros, dull-witted, is
likely to be the first of the great
African mammals to become extinct,
unless better protected by law,
Siedentopf thinks, He also points
out that the hippo, as stupid as the
rhinoceros but of a sunnier disposi-
tion, cannot he considered danger -
OW.
"So your name is Johnny Thomp-
eon," the teacher said; "But your
mother's nave is Jones?"
"Yes, ma'am," Johnny said, "You
See, the married again and I didn't"
BLETALKS
b datut,Andrews.
Now I honestly thoug' t I knew
about every way there is of cook-
ing potatoes but a few days ago I
ran into something new, Possibly
it isn't a new way of cooking, but
just a variation of an old style.
Anyway, I'm passing it along, in
°r. some of you haven't heard of
it before.
You just select smooth, medium-
sized potatoes and pare a strip,
about half an inch wide, around
the largest circumference of each,
Wash and boil in salted water until
done. Cooked this way the "spuds"
will be mealy—never soggy—and
very easy to peel before serving.
If served as cooked the white in-
teriors—fluffing like lacy vests be-
tween the gaping edges of the
brown jackets—form a tempting
sight indeed.
* * *
This is the time of year when
most ,families—the men folks es-
pecially—really go for soup, and
broths of the "stick to the ribs"
variety. Here are a couple that
are guaranteed to !111 those "aching
voids" satisfactorily, The first is
Chowder, Country Style
in 4 quarts of cold water sank,
for 2 hours,
55 pound dried linea beans. Then
add
2 - small, fresh pork hocks
1 tablespoon salt
Jest teaspoon pepper
1 bay leaf
Simmer slowly for an hour and
a half, then add
1 large potato, diced
2 large carrots. diced
1 large onion, diced
1 cup cabbage, cut in small
pieces
3i cup tomatoes
r: cup cut green beans
Cook for 30 minutes over a low
heat, then serve piping hot with
the pork cut from the hocks.
* * *
'The otl;er soup recipe will prob-
�� II
ably appeal more strongly to those
of you who do your cooking on
coal or wood stoves—as the
lengthy simmering might be a little
long for hones that use gas or
electricity. It's a
Vegetable -Beef Soup
For four flours—or until the
meat is very tender, simmer in 3
quarts of water
1 Meaty soup bone (beef or
knuckle of veal)
Remove the soup bone. Cut the
neat from the bone. Put part of
meat into the broth, reserving the
other part for hash or croquettes.
Add to broth and meat
1 cup chopped onion
2 cups chopped celery
2 cups tomatoes
2 cups diced carrots
2 cups diced turnips
Simmer until vegetables are ten-
der, season to taste with salt and
pepper, then yell "Soup's On' and
see all come a -running.
* * *
Seems as if that particular form
of dessert known as Upside -clown
Cake gets more and more popular
every day, so I don't suppose I
need apologize for giving you still
another recipe. This is
Chocolate Upside Down Cake,
1 cup sifted flour
14 cup sugar
104 tablespoons cocoa
2 tablespoons baking powder
Sift all the above together, then
add
2 tablespoons butter or short-
ening
44 cup chopped nuts
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Beat for 2 minutes, pour into well
greased pan, then ntix together and
sprinkle over the batter,
1 cup sugar
"4 cup cocoa
Then—this is important—pour 1
cup of HOT water over the cake
and bake in moderate (35) oven
for 35 minute.. Makes an 8 inch
square cake—and there aren't like-
ly to be any "left overs"
Break. It Up
Making a new pattern of behavior
to break up the routine that makes
smoking mechanical is one of several
ways to stop smoking, C. Aubrey
Hearn reports in "Journal of
Living.'
A psychologist is said to have
succeeded in throwing off the smok-
ing habit in this way. He junked his
old routine front scratch, getting up
at a different time, eating a different
kind of breakfast and setting out on
a new course to work.
Now that it's all over. what did
you really do yesterday that's worth
mentioning?—Coleman Cox,
PYLTONE FOR PIKES
Modern medical science knows the internal
canoe must first be removed. The new
PYLTONr7 TRItATMENT is the result.
It is giving amazing smite everywhere,
almply because it goes directly to the
inside cause of piles: to liquid talon by
mouth), It acts quickly on delicate Internal
tissue and ewellinge, restoring it to t+
healthy' normal state. That's the differ-
ence with the new PYLTONi TRatAT-
MONT, You get results you expect with
the first bottle or price refunded at oneyy,
With this new Treatment, pile torture mai
n thing of the past. 11,11 at affl
druggists or have him order for you,
QUICKLY BREAKS
COUGHING SPELL
East Action of Lymoids
Leaves Man GrateFul I
'Shave used LYMOIDS for cough relle! fop
maayyearn,"wrltoe aBrantfordresidont, "and
their quick adieu almost always relieves irri-
tation," Carry LYMOIDS
always with you. With its
concentrated medicinal
oils, LYMOIDS usually
bring instant relief in
tbroettiokle, soughing 104
boamenees. Most stores
sell LYMOIDS, bat if
• unobtainable, send IOc in
etam��ppea or pain to
LY'Tt 01D5; f l0 Peart St„Toren ts.
TRY tet
How To Get Quick Relief
From Sore, Psi ful Piles
does not hole them as much as they
expect it to. If Item -Roil beeps you,
T can help moot pile mutterers. I be -
Pm I gun hole you too 15 you want
relief from the Itching soreness 055
burning pain of pile*.
My Hem -Rohl treatment ,s different,
Rom -Reid to an Internal medicine — a
malt tablet taken with a Blame of
water. It torrents the conditions IN-
ffiDld your body that Baume you such
intense pile -soreness and pain,,
But I'it be honest with you. Hem -
Bold aeem0 to help some pile mutterers
. More than °there so I want to protect
!home who are not satisfied. I refuse
to ask people to pay for *something that
0'
surely it Is worth the small coat, Other-
wise 1 want you to have your 21101105
back. I'll take your word. 1 find people
are honest about such things.
All I nog Is you two Heln•11014 0m
directed f...,r 10 dare. Then if 100 are
not satisfied return what you did not
me and get your menet' back, This It
an unusual offer but Hem -Reid 1s an
!mune” medicine. It Lao been sold on
et refund promise for over 40 years. I
am not asked to make many refunds
eo It must help most folks who Imo it,
At' 011 drug stores,
Honey and Hsi,
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