The Brussels Post, 1949-5-25, Page 3F"ONT
Dancing
Shoes
By CHARLES LES DORIAN
While a vast throng of theatre-
goers passed through the exits of
the Orphetun, the beautiful hloude
attraction left quietly by the stage
door on the arm of her most ardent
admirer, the owner of the theatre
and a string of others.
At the curb stood Max Berber's
limousine, and just ahead of 1t, a
taxi. Four maudlin "Collegians"
having a singsong, obstructed the
entrance to Berber's car, but made
way white the lady stepped in.
Then suddenly three of them gave
Berber the hum's rush, while the
fourth clambered in beside Paula
Pau'ecu, tap dancer extraordinary.
Max spluttered and fumed while
-the three kidded hint. A letter was
pressed into his clenching, fist and
his cru• keys were frisked from him.
The taxi jumped forward, and in a
moment was followed by the lim-
ousine carrying the dancer and
four members of the notorious Scar-
let Gang in evening clothes and top
hats,. still simulating drunken col-
legians, singing to drown out the
cries of the distressed dancer.
In the Holland Tunnel the sing-
song ceased and one of the gang
said to the girl;
"This is something new in kid-
naps, sister. We're all jolly good
fe lows, members of a theatrical
troupe (to the general public). But
don't get us wrong. We'd rub you
out as quick as any Broadway mug
if you failed for a minute .to join
the spirit of our little game, Your
big boy has just read our demands
in a note left with hint."
"I'll—I'll pay you," chatted the
little dancer, "Please—sty contract.
I must dance every night."
The car sped along for thirty miles
and turned into a narrow road.
License plates were switched and
another fifty stiles sped hy. They
stopped at a railroad village and
e "This is something new in kidnaps,
sister," said one of the gang.
parked the car on a side street, They
changed their toppers for peak caps
and entered the%ailroad station,
"Oh, you're the troupe from the
opery house,' grinned the -operator.
"Though there was two girls in the
party."
"One of us a female impersonator,
haw haw!" laughed the spokesman.
The operator laughed too, and began
stamping the tickets. "Trains not .
due for thirty minutes yet," he
apologized.
"O.K. brother, we'll put on* -a
little show while we're waiting." J -Ie
strode •over to Paula. "Smile." sis-
ter, SMILE," he hissed, and out
loud, "Come on, Sally Rand, give
the gentleman your best incitation
of a fan dance,"
Paula was ready to faint but en-
tered into the game by dancing a
whirling tap number that had the
operator's eyes popping. Some eitg-
around,
ing followed and a bottle was pussed
"Now, another dance," ordered
the toaster of ceremonies,
"Just a slow one," pleaded Paula,
"I'nt very tired,"
"Oh, all right," yawned the fel-
low, She trade a long slow strlde
straight to the operator and whis-
pered. 'Listen!' Then she perform.,
ed a paiufuly punctuated dance with
more body unduations than foot-
work.
The bottle passed around again
and the operator went to his key,
took an order, sent one, and in a few
minutes tite train was in„ They
hoarded it.
Sargo was a small city. A taxi
was ready waiting for them and
whisked thein otit into the country
where they got out in front of a big
house.
Every shadow exuded a police
officer. Eight of them had pinioned
the four "collegians" before the door
opened, and two more seized the
servant.
Paula promptly fainted. Two of-
ficers carried her to safety.
"This house has been under sus-
picion for a long thee," said an of-
ficer to Paula. "When that opera-
tor's message mentioned 'Sargo' we
posted a squad at the house. Here's
the car now which- followed their
taxi from the depot."
Oh, yes, Paula's dad had been a
station agent and had taught her to
tap dance the Morse code.
Mistakes Other
Folks Have Made
When our baby had measles, we
listened to friends' advice on how
to care for hint, instead of taking
hint to a doctor. As a result he,
got too hot, took a bad cold, and
the measles settled in his throat.
The only way we could tell he
was crying was by his mouth's
being open and tears on his cheeks.
Hereafter I'll take my children to
competent doctors.—Mrs. M.K,
I set down a can of lye, while
doing my family wash, and my
two-year-old daughter ate some
of it. We rushed her to the hospi-
tal. After two weeks of treatment,
we were able to carry her home.
We had a large medical -hill and
untold anxiety because of my care-
lessness,—Mrs. A.H.
1 left my fine Jersey heifer in
the sante pasture with the horses,
instead of keeping her to herself
just before calving. A colt kicked
her, causing her to lose the calf.
I shall not snake this mistake
again!—T. K.
Killing our best laying hens with
anti -freeze was my biggest mis-
take. Last spring when I drained
my car, I left the pan under- the
car and the chickens drank the
solution. The next morning some
of the hens were too sick to fly
off the roose, some were dying, and
the rest were dead—C. W. H.
I repaired my five-rbom house
inside, instead of first putting a
good roof on it. A few days after
ceiling and papering the inside and
screening the porches, a spark of
fire from the kitchen flue landed
on the bad roof, and * I lost my
entire house.—E. B. M.
Relying too such on old or faulty
farm equipment can prove very
costly. Last fall I neglected to re-
place worn harness for my wagon,
The harness gave way while I
was riding a loaded wagon, caus-
ing the team to run away and
throw are in front of two wheels.
As a result I suffered three months
with a broken heel and badly cut
foot, and still cannot walk,—T.T.W.
People who insist on drinking
before driving are putting the quart
before the hearse,
BY TOM GREGORY
HOME OWNERS WHO HAVE
CISTERNS WILL FIND THIS
SELF-CLEANING STRAINER A
SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM
OF KEEPING THE SAVE CON-
DUCTOR PIPES FROM CLOG-
GING. CUT AN OPENING IN
ONE SIDE OF THE PIPE.JUST
BELOW THE TIN BAFFLE
PLATE SOLDERED INSIDE..
SOLDER SEVERAL STIFF
WIRES TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE
OF THE PIPE WITH THE FREE
ENDS PROJECTNG OUT OP THE
OPENING AT AN ANGLE. LEAVES AND TRASH WILL
SLIDE DOWN THE WIRES AND OUT THE OPENING.
IF YOUR KITCHEN CHIMNEY IS
BLOCKED OFF FROM THE WIND BY A
HIGHER PART OF THE HOUSE 1T ISN'T
NECESSARY TO PUT A LONG EXTEN•
SION PIPS ON IT TO PREVENT DOWN -
DRAFTS. A SHEET IRON SHELP SUP-
PORTED ABOUT TWO INCHES ABOVE
THE TOP OP THE CHIMNEY ISJUST
AS EFFECTIVE AS AN EXTENSION
PIPE IN PREVENTING DOWNDRAFTI
AND IS NOT SO LIKELY TO Ba
SLOWN OVER BY HIGH WINDS,
GARDEN NOTES
SAVING SPACE
Space can be saved with larger
growing vegetables by following a
few tricks of the experienced gar-
deners. Talce tomatoes, for example.
If left alone to gruw the natural
way these plants will need a full
24 inches at least each way and
better siill, 30 inches or a yard.
However, if they are staked, they
can be grown about 15 to 18 inches
apart and better, earlier and cleaner
fruit will be produced. Stakes
should be about 6 feet long and
firmly driven at least a foot in the
soil close to the plant. All side
shoots are nipped off and growth
confined to a single shoot. Care
must be taken not to pinch off flow-
ers which will come at every joint
in the main stent. The latter should
be tied loosely to the stake with
soft ovine or raffia about every
foot.
Melons, squash and other climb-
ing or trailing things will take up
less valuable space if planted around
the outside of the stain garden.
They can trail over paths or even
fences. Most of these, however, re-
quire as much sun as possible, as
wel as good, rich, open soil. In-
cidentally, around the outside of the
garden and especially the North
and West side, is the place for
the fruit trees. Here they are out
of the way and they will not shade
the garden.
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SPREAD OUT ANNUALS
With bedding plants like petun-
ias, asters, cosmos, marigolds, etc.,
most amateurs make the same mis-
take as they make with shrubs and
trees—they plant thein too close to-
gether. This is not only expensive
but it results in less bloom and
poor, spindly growth.
It is really surprising how much
space a well -grown petunia, nastur-
tium or any other of these plants
will cover. Instead' of putting the
larger sorts of 6 or 8 inches apart
the experts advocate a foot or even
two. This will allow easier cultiva-
tion which, of course, is vital and
encourage the plan, to spread and
grow sturdily, In a few weeks these
annuals will have occupied all the
space between. For very long beds
such as those along driveways, pet-
unias, zinnias, cosmos, big mari-
golds, etc,, are often planted in
wavy rows far enough apart to
permit tractor cultivation for the
first week or two. By mid-July they
will be staking a wonderful show.
KEEP PLANTING
Beans, lettuce, carrots attd beets
can he planted at intervals right up
to early July with still good pros-
pects of a crop. Where Fall climate
is mild and moist peas can be sown
for an Autumn crop in late July.
Turnips are usually sown in early
June,
4 * *
SUPPORT
For tall plants or those pruned to
grow tall like tomatoes, staking is
advisable. Perennials, like delphin-
iums and hollyhocks, are quite
liable to break over in a high wind
or during a heavy rain. Stakes about
an inch thick and wide and as tall
as necessary will hold these flowers
and also tomatoes. They need not be
conspicuous if driven in behind the
plants and they can always be
stained brown or green. Plants
should be tied to them loosely with
soft twine or raffia. For bushy '
things like peonies, hoops of wire
or wood placed in position before
blooming will prove very., satisfac-
tory.
* * *
GOOD EQUIPMENT HELPS
Good, sharp tools will save a lot
of hard work, A dull spade or hoe
never do the work efficiently. A
few of the special tools, too, will
prove helpful—things like Dutch
hoes, hand cultivators and long -
handled spudders to get out weeds.
Under the general heading of labor -
savers will be weed -killers like the
new 2-4-D and some of the DDT
insect sprays or dusts. These do
the job with little effort if direc-
tions are followed carefully.
SUMMER CARE
Aside from some replanting, •
about the only Summer, care the
garden should need will be thinning,
weeding and cultviaton, If the soil
is very dry it is advisable to water.
One good soaking is worth a dozen
sprinkles. Sprinkling only settles
the dust and has a tendency to bring
root growth too close to the sur-
face where the sun is liable to hurt
it. A little chemical fertilizer ap-
plied carefully according to diree--
tions is also a good thing at this
time. It will terry along growth
and with vegetables will increase
tenderness.
When the hot weather sets in it
is as well to cut lawn grass less
frequently and not as short. This,
protects roots from the burning!
sunt During warm weather is tha
bast time to apply 2.4-D weed kill.
ars This efts* broad -leave&)
weeds but leaves the grass undam-
aged,
Mulching around tite roots with
grass or straw will help newly set
out nursery stock sit a' 'e its fffrst
Sumpter. - - "'
High Steppers—Circus aerialists Betty and Benny Fox do a
sky dance 168 feet above Chicago's Michigan Avenue on an
18 -inch pedestal which projects 12 feet out from a hotel roof.
They did it to herald the opening of their circus.
S':'ictiy Honest
'The theatrical producer was giv-
ing an audition to a man with a
new act.
Producing a puppy front his pock-
et, the man placed it on the piano,
whereupon the puppy calmly pro-
ceeded to play part of one of the
operas.
'\Vonderfuli" exclaimed the pro-•
ducer. "I'll give you $500 a week
for that."
"But that's not all." said the man,'
producing from another pocket a
parrot, which perched on the piano,
sang an aria from the opera to the
puppy's accompaniment.
Almost speechless by now, the
producer managed to bring out an
offer of $1000 a week for the
"Er—er." said thc man, nervous-
ly, "before you decide. I trust tell
you this act's a bit of a cheat, You
see, the parrot can't sing. The
puppy's a ventriloquist"
Good Neighbor — Josephine
Bonilla is a real asset to the
good neighbor policy. She was
chosen queen of the Miami
Good Neighbor Program. Jo-
sephine is well qualified for her
hands -across -the -border title,
since she's from Havana, Cuba.
Odd Communities
In Finland
Finland is a country of water-
ways, but its largest stretch of
water is the great Lake Ladoga.
Here, on some forty islands and
islets, 2,000 monks who have been
outlawed from Soviet Russia are
working out a successful com-
munal life regardless of the troubled
world.
From the forest lands of the
islands the brothers secure ade-
quate lumber and make resin and
turpentine. Some work as bakers,
others as carpenters and joiners.
There are tailor monks for robes
and vestments, cobbler monks,
blacksmith monks. There is even
a co-op store ruts by these Russian
brethren in Lutheran Finland.
As soon as visitors arrive by
steamer at the largest island—area
24 square miles — the blackrobed
brothers in their tall cylinder hats
are there on the quay to act as
porters. They run their own hotel
and a restaurant. And since they
know that their visitors appreciate
entertainment they even stage a
citnrch service lasting nineteen
hours!
Another of Finland's strange
communities is Mariehamn, the
capital of lost ships. Commercial
sailing ships of any size are iso
longer being built, but Mariehamn
is continually buying up the sur-
viving veterans, reconditioning them
and putting them into use,
The Mariehamn fleet has but one
owner, who operates his business
on amazingly simple lines, He is a
one-man company, doing everything
himself in his own !tome. Having
no office salaries or rents to' pay,
his sailing is sheer profit, and as he
pays scrap prices for his ships,
he can still count upon the vessels
to be worth their weight in scrap
whenever he decides to get rid of
theist,
Looked Ahead
Jake was a worthless and Impro-
vident fellow. One day he said to
the local grocer: "I got to have
a sack of flour! I'm all out and
my family is starvin.' ' '
"All right Jake," said the grocer.
"If you need a sack of flour and
have no stoney to buy'.11 with we'll
give you a sack. But, see here, Jake,
there's a circus coating to town in
a few days. and if I give you a sack
of flour, are you sure "you won't
sell it and take your family to the
circus?"
'Oh, no," said Jake, "I got this
oircus money saved up already."
South of the border a number of
newspapers have been "rapping"
the use of DDT for spraying in
dairy barns—some of them even
going so far as to say that the
DDT is responsible for the "virus
"X" disease of man and the "X"
disease of animals."
* * 41
Now—following a meeting of the
principal government agencies con-
cerned with the use of insecticides
—the United States Department of
Agriculture has conte out with an
official statement, It says, "There
is no evidence that the use of DDT
in accordance with the recommen-
dations of the various federal
agencies has ever caused human
sickness due to the DDT itself."
* * *
"However," the statement goes
on, "minor toxic symptoms may
be produced by coal -oil and •various
solvents used in DDT and in prac-
tically all other insecticide mix-
tures,"
* * *
"Totally without foundation^ is
the way the statement deals with
the published reports that DDT
is responsible for the diseases men-
tioned in my first paragraph. Both
these diseases had been reported
and recognized before' DDT was
ever used.
* * *
Our own Ottawa Department of
Agriculture has something to say
on the subject. To protect farmers
from buying insecticides that are
either worthless or highly danger-
ous, all such preparations sold in
Canada come under the provisions
of the Pest Control Products Act.
No pesticide is allowed on the
market until it has been analyzed
and approved by technical officials
of the Department. And if such pre-
parations are used 1N ACCORD-
ANCE WITH THE INSTRUC-
TIONS ON THE LABEL, they
will be effective for the purpose
for which they are recommended
and will have no detrimental effects.
(The capitals are mine, as I be-
lieve that most of the trouble with
D T has been because people
DIDN'T fol'l'ow the directions
properly).
* * *
Officials of our Department of
Agriculture say that spraying dairy
barns with DDT—particularly with
oil solutions—should be done when
cattle are NOT in the stalls; and
that special care should be taken to
stake sure that milk and cream
cans and milking machines are
not touched by the spray.
This is because DDT its oil solu-
tions can be absorbed through the
skin of animals, and will be found .
both in the milk and In the animal
fat. However, there has been little
or no difficulty in spraying catty
themselves with DDT, when wet-
table powders are used in water.
The water spray won't penetrate
the akin, and the residue is not
absorbed by the tissues.
* * *
BUT EVEN WITH WATER
SPRAY THE UTMOST CARE
SHOULD BE TAKEN TO' SEE
THAT MILKING UTENSILS
DO NOT COME IN DIRECT
CONTACT WITH THE SPRAY.
There are still some farmers who
believe that chemical fertilizers are
ruining our soils; but if you are
one of them, I have to tell you
that the facts seem to be against
your belief, No experiments have
ever shown that chemical fertilizers
are in any way detrimental to soil.
4: * 4.
Oyer itt England there's been
a test going for almost a century
—95 years to be-exact—using man-
ure on one patch of wheat, and
chemical fertilizers on a shnilar
patch. The plot receiving 1,392
pounds of complete fertilizer each
year out -yielded the plot treated
with an annual application of 15.7
tons of manure. During the past
five years the yield was 4.4 bushels
per acre greater. So it would seem
that this patch of soil hadn't been
poisoned or harmed after receiving
chemical fertilizer annually for 95
years—which is quite a stretch of
time.
* * *
From what I hear more and more
farmers in southern and central.
Ontario are getting interested in
sunflower growing— although just
how many of them are going so- far
as to put in a real crop I really
cannot say at the moment.
* * *
But from Buenos Aires comes
word that is rather interesting.
This report says that, compared
with 1948. the area sown to sun-
flower this year has increased by
25 per cent—to a record figure of
almost four and a half million acres.
* * *
This is because Argentine farmers
have found that their sunower crop
is much more profitable than corn.
Besides that, maturing wheat crops
that were killed by heavy frosts
have been replaced by sunflowers.
-4 4 *
And, in case you don't already
know it, lots of folks think that
sunflower seeds—or at least the
insides of them—are better eating
than peanuts. I have a friend —
he came from Russia years ago—
w-ho always has a handful or so 1st
his pocket. Puts one edgewise be-
tween his teeth—cracks open thq
hull, sucks out tate "innards," and
reaches for another. Try it some-
time.
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Where Chinese Reda Shelled British Sloop—The cross in that
Yangtze River marks the spot where HMS Amethyst, a British
sloop, was driven aground by Chinese Communist shelling•, The
location is Rose Island, 80 miles east of Nanking (1). Help
in the form of warships, is racing to the scene from Shanghai
(2), Communists hold the north bank of the river (shade area),
with the Nationalists in control of the south bank.
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