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Regrets
ey Hfeinted Hill Wilklnaoat
Vakalla's affair with Eliot Hai,
vey had proved extremely gratify-
ing, After all, Eliot was the most
handsome and the most glamorous
man at Newfane Lake, and the
confession of his love had rather
ilattere'tt her vanity, But the dura.
tion had been brief. Two months,
to be exact, She had smiled a little
wistfully the night she handed back
his ring.
"Lt's been ,.well fun, Eliot, but
it can't last, The feeling's all on the
surface. It isn't real."
"Not real?" He stared at her, uu
believing. "Good Lord, Val—" But
she interrupted hint with a gesture
of finality. "1044 no use. Eliot,
You're far too glamorous and hand-
some to fall in love. 1 tried hard,
but it didn't work." She patted his
hand maternally. "Sumner ro-
mances are full, and this has beet]
the best ever. No regrets."
A hurt loos; came into his eyes,
to be replarcd an instant later by
e::aggcrated indifference, He tossed
the ring, caught it, pocketed it.
"O.K., aster. I guess 1 can stand
it," His eyes held that smug, "it's
your -funeral" look that so flitted
Itis role, She felt released, free
When Doug Metcalf asked
her to attend .the Country Club
ball with .hit she accepted with•
out qualms of conscience. Doug
was big and homely.
"Thought there was no harm ,o
asking," he grinned. "You won't
find rine as spectacular as Eliot."
He looker) at her •curiously,
scented on the point of asking a
que tion and thought better of it,
She knew that lie, like everyone els,
WAS wondering if her heart was
broken, Well, let them find out for
then: elves. Their pity annoyed
her. Who was this Eliot Harvey,
a god or something?
The night of the ball, dancing
with Doug Metcalf, she saw Eliot
Floating by With Slteelalt Jackson
He was looking down into her up
turned face, oblivious to everything
else. Valeria felt a little pang, and,
inpatient at herself, gave her at-
tention to Doug. Doug was watch-
ing her and there was worship in
his eyes.
She was dancing a dreamy waltz
with Doug when Eliot cut in, Sur-
prised, she found herself in his
arms scarcely before his familiar
features became recognizable. '
"Well, well, well,Look who's
here! Bow's the Don Juan of New-
fanc?"
"Val, let's go out and get a
punch." His tone was almost harsh.
Valeria hesitated,' "All right,"
she said, "I could use' something
like that. It's been a destructive
evening, I'm worn out."
They moved into the alcove
where the drinks were being serv-
ed, He led her beyond and through
french doors that opened onto the
terrace. The place was crowded,
but they found a vacant beneh be-
hind some shrubbery, nand Valeria
sat down. Ti was good to sit, Eliot
hent over her.
. r
"Ltsteu, Val, I can't stand itl
I've been crazy ever since you gave
me back the ring, I'm going mad!
Yon've got to conte back to mel"
Amazed, she stared up at hinm.
His eyes were burning. coals, He
stood there stripped of his pride
and dignity, no longer the confi-
dent lion Juan, the breaker of
women's. hearts.
"Eliot, you're drunk)"
"1'm not) Val, don't you see inc'.
soil Don't you see how much I
love youl" He dropped down be-
side her, and suddenly his head was
against her breast. He wept.
Val was frightened and bewild-
ered. So„ all his indifference, hitt
casual acceptance of her decision
to break their engagement, his in-
terest in Shelah Jackson—it had
all been pretense! A sham! A
meek! An attempt to maintain his
Don Juan standing, to nourish his '
pride ami'vanity and conceit.
d ' c r arms
She stood up, „u) colt oft t
1 [
hums, a ruued of her own doub s
,
disgusted with Id- ate )knew, She
looked clown at him, without pity
or compassion or regret, turned
sway and went eagerly barlc to
find dependable Doug.
VIP', END
For Ailing Trees
The mass of green leaves that
cover trees all 'milliner are eine of
the chief•reasons for growing them,
Idut leaves, like children, sometimes
get "measles," Leaves may blotch,
tura yellow or brown and perhaps
drop prematurely. Often this is due
to fungus diseases, Elm, horse
chestnut, maple, oak and sycamore
are subject to distinct leaf diseases
or blotching'. Last year, these dis-
eases were uoticeably prevalent be-
cause of unusually wet weather.
Regardless of the kind of season
we are due Tor this summer, the
best approach to tree leaf diseases
is prevention,
The recommendation ot 1)r. R. i'.
Marshall of the elartlett Tree Re-
search Laboratories is spraying any,
broad-leaved trees subject to dis-
ease with a copper or mercury
fungicide. A second •application fu
late July is advisable because
leaves are growing and new ones
continue to appear.
Leads The World
Making Matches
Two out ot every three people
on earth use Swedish matches.
With the help of British and Amer'
lean capital. Sweden's fabulous
match industry controls the produc-
tion of wooden and paper matches
in almost every ntition in the world.
The Swedish -Match Company, with
headquarters in Jonkoping, owns
vast tracts oftimberland, pulp and
paper stills, presses for printing
match box labels, machine shops,
chemical plants and water -power
bsystems, The company manufac-
tures more than 250 brands of
matches. Matchmaking is a colossal
business, but it is only one of the
industries made possible by Swed-
en's forests,
Great stands of timber cover al.
most 60 per cent. of Sweden's land
area, These forests — chiefly pine
—are Sweden's greatest natural re-
source, Lumber is, of course, the
primary product of the forests, but
through wood chemistry, Swedish
scientists have devised methods of
making brandy, drugs, explosives,
synthetic rubber, fodder, raw vine-
gar, and a constantly growing list
of new and surprising forest -bore
commodities, Much of the world's
supply of wood pulp ,for paper
comes from Sweden. A scientific
people, Sweden leads the world in
the science and manufacture of
products derived from wood,
Young Canadians, complaining
that there are no more opportunities
here, might think this over.
GEP.MAN MASONS MEET,
FIRST SINCE HITLER
Six hundred German elasons,
whose organization was proscribed
by Hitler as an 'enemy of the
Reich,' have met in Frankfort for
their first public gathering in more
than 16 years,
About 700 guests watched in
silence as the delegates joined hands
in a circle in Frankfort's. historic
St, Paul's Church and sang the
hymn, "Brother (live Me Thy
Hand," written by a former •
Masonic brother, Wolfgang Ama-
deus Mozart,
Representing the 6,700 Masons re
maining in Germany, out of a pre -
Hitler strength of more than
70,000, the formally dressed dele-
gates assembled to reestablish the
"United Grand Lodge" of their
order.
Delegations from .B e 1 g i u m,
France, Austria, and Denmark and
a semiofficial representative of
Great Britain were present.
No 'German delegates attended
from either the Soviet zone or the
Soviet sector of Berlin, where the
order has been banned.
For the first time since Ger-
matiy"s first lodge, "Die Drei
Nes•seln" (the Three Nettles), was
founded at Hamburg io 1737, all
units under the reestablished
"United Grand Lodge" will • ac-
cept sponsored members of noir-
Christian faith.
Previously, separate Jewish and
Christian lodges functioned ire Ger.
Many.
Streamlined Power for C.P.R.—Just over the St. Lawrence River on its way from Montreal,
is diesel engine 4000, first of 23 diesel units ordered by the Canadian Pacific for their main
line operation from Montreal to Wells River, Vt. The locomotive shown above is made up
of two units, each supplying 1,500 horsepower and is capable of hauling loads of more than
2,200 tons in the heavy grades on the C.P.R. lines through the Green Mountains. The units
above are geared for freight service, but passenger locomotives will be ready in the fall
to complete dieselization of the 171 -mile stretch of track.
eon
World's Only Large
Hidden Area
In a previous issue we pub-
lished part lof an article by
Professor Hans Petherson re-
garding the recent Swedish ex-
pedition sent out to gaits in-
formation about the ocean
floor. This week we conclude
this highly interesting article.
In the first place, we shall get
to know much more about the
stratification and the composition—
chemical, physical and mechanical
—of the sleep -sea deposits. It is
estimated that our longest cores,
taken from the red clay in the At-
lantic Ocean, had their very lowest
layers deposited about 2,000.000
years ago. But in similar cores
from red clay in the Pacific the
lowest parts may be ouch older
than that.
One of the most important and,
at the same time, most difficult of
our problems concerns the dating
of these cores: That is, to finding
out the rate at which the sediment
has been accumulating—in fact, to
ts°eking out the chronology' of the
deep ocean bed. Two trays of at-
taching this problem seen to give
fair prospects of suceess,
lonium—The Parent of Radium
In one of them we measure the
eoutent of radium present in layers
at different distances from the top
of the core. This has been found to
show a regular decrease with age,
due to the progressive disintegra-
tion of the element ionium—the
parent of radium,
'Earlier investigations in Sweden
and elsewhere have proved that
ionium is precipitated, onto the bot-
tom of the sea, together with icon,
This precipitation 'is responsible for
the high content of ionium -bred
radium in the red clay without•atty
corresponding content of uranium,
It has also been found possible, by
taking measurements of the radium
content, to measure the rate of
growth of these remarkable concre-
tions which we find on the deep-sea
bottom, the so-called manganese
nodules,. Their rate of radial
growth is about one inch in 25,000
pears,
Another way of approaching the
chronological problem is by a bio-
logical analysis—that is to say, by
the study of different species at
minute, calcareous shells from the
so-called For:uninifera. 'These are
Searchingg For of Relks On 3istomic Canadian Site—While pre-
parations
re-parations
are being made for a spectacular pageant to beheld
at the Martyrs' Shrine, near Midland, Ontario, July 27 to 31, to
eonitnemotate the 300th anniversary of the deaths of the Cana•
d' .o martyrs, :trchaelogists and historical eeholars sir sre 1 the
site of historical Tort Ste, Marie.'
minute organisms living in the sur-
face waters, and their shells stake
up the bulk of the lime present in
the sediment, Some of these Fora-
minifera are typical, warm -water
organisms, leaving easily recogniz-
able shells on the sea bottom,
whereas other species with different
looking shells are more hardy and
able to tolerate cooler water con-
ditions.
During the ice ages, when the
Polar ice -caps extended down to
much lower latitudes than they do
now, the surface of 'the ocean was
very much cooler, even at the
Equator. So if the find no shells of
the heat -loving Foraminifera in a
certain layer in a deposit, it must
mean that, this layer was laid down
it] an ice age. The reappearance of
the same shells in a lower stratum
means a ei-arm, inter -glacial age
Through a biological analysis of the
Por: minifera shells found in differ-
ent levels of a long core, we shall
be able to 'link up the chronology
ot the records of the deep with the
record of the rocks compiled by
glaciological studies.
There are other lines of approach
to the problem of chronology: For
example, the study of the volcanic
shards produced by ash -rains front
great volcanic eruptions, They have
fallen over the sea surface and grad-
ually settled on the ocean bottom,
By studying them, and by connect-
ing volcanic -ash layers from the
same outbreak, in different cores,
we may be able to work out how
a layer from a special eruption runs
through the sediment. Where we
have taken cores near islands with
forests or other dense vegetation,
we may find well-preserved pollen
grains which will also afford clues
to submarine chronology.
One of the most fascinating prob-
lems the have to deal with. concerns
the morphology and the tetonics of
the ocean floor. During our cruise
with the Albatross, we were im-
pressed with the ruggedness of the
deep ocean bottom as it appeared
before us"in the curve drawn by our
ultrasonic depth -recorder, This fact
is of great scientific interest, but,
unfortunately, it was a serious ob-
stacle both terour coring operations
and to our work with the deep sea
trawl, and sometimes led to the loss
01 valuable gear. Our echograms
cover about 20,000 nautical miles of
our course, and once worked out,
will tell us a greiit Ileal,
Another serious obstacle to o''
work with the core-samplet was the
lava beds which we found fa'equent-
ly, in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
They suggest very widespread vol-
canic activity under the sea at great
depth, which not only piled up
enormous cones, crowned by bhe
volcanic and the coal islands of
these oceans, but also spread hori-
zontal beds of lava over vast ex-
panses of the ocean floor,
In no ease did we find reflecting
layers its these two oceans deeper
than 1,000 feet below the sediment
surface. This is only a small frac-
tion of the maximum thickness
found by the saute method in the
open Atlantic, in the Mediterranean
and in the Caribbean Sea.
Now, I should like to call your
attention to the work to be done in
the future on the deep ocean bed.
Its morphology, its deposits, and
the fantastic fauna which exist in its
depths, supporting• an enormous
water pressure and ice-cold tem-
perature, are fascinating studies.
Our experience from the cruise
with the Albatross proved that the
novel technique we have applied
can, in fact, be used to explore the
record of the deep and all the prob-
lems it represents, The coring tech-
nique can probably be still further
improved, and the technique of
deep-sea trawling has already made
a great stride forward.
)'here are no immediate gains of
an economic kind to be expected:
no oil, no precious metals, no uran-
ium are to be found on the deep
ocean floor. But, on the other
hand, the possible gain to many dif-
ferent sciences is very rich indeed
—to oceanography, geochemistry
and submarine -geology — a science
still in its infancy, The past history
of our mother, the Earth, and of her
octans, the great happenings which
have shaken the earth in its founda-
tion and have reshaped the contin-
ents and ocean basins will be re-
vealed through the deep ocean floor.
II is my sincere hope that in this
great tt'ork of the future, not only
the Scandinavian countries, but also
Holland. ;Belgium, France, Great
Bfftain and the United States of
America, with their splendid past
achievements in the study' of the
sea, shall take parts worthy of their
great 'traditions.
Definitions
•
BEST MAN — The one who
doesn't get the bride.
* * *
CHIVALRY — The attitude of •
a man toward a woman who will
listen while he talks.
* * {:
C1VIL SEERVICE — Something
you get in restaurants between
wars,
DIVORCEE — A woman who
gets richer by decrees.
DUTY — \Vltat we expect from
others.
* * *
EASTER -- 'rite time when the
rabbit comes out and takes all the
credit for what the chickens have
been working at all winter,
* * 4,
POLITICIAN -- A malt who
stands for what he think others will
fall for.
* * 1'
ETC.—Sign used to [take others
think you know more than you
really, do.
* * *
MIDDLE AGE — That time in
life when you'd rather not have n
good time than recover from it.
* * *
PESSIMIST — A person who
loops at sunshine as something that
casts sltadowa.
Perhaps some of my readers have
had this sort of trouble'antong farm
animals. You have a cow — or it
might be a horse or even a pig that
has a good deal of white on it. Pos-
sibly white "stockings" on the legs,
a "blaze" on the face, or "mark-
ings" on other parts of the body.
{: * M:
In hot weather these white areas
suddenly, puffed up, reddened, and
appeared to be sore, Cracks began
to show, and you probably thought
the poor beast was badly sunburned
*
Finally, whole patches of the
white skin would dry up and slough
off — while, at the sante time, dark
areas of the skin appeared quite un-
affected.
* * *
Actually such symptoms are —
according to latest findings—a sign
of what is called 'fight sensitiza-
tion", And the condition is caused
by something the animal is eating,
usually some sort of legume.
* * *
Just exactly how the condition is
brought about is not understood any
too well, up to the present; but in
some manner the light areas of the
skin are made far more susceptible
to the sunlight than when the sante
animal is in perfect condition.
* * 4,
Treatment should' begin by get-
ting the afflicted animal off the
trouble -making feed or pasture.
Then it should be kept out of the
sun and ointments applied every
day until all the sores have healed.
* * *
Here's a little incident 1 ran
across which illustrates how care-
ful everybody must be who owns
valuable animals. Not so long ago
there was an outbreak of anthrax
on an Eastern dairy farm.
* * *
There was a great deal of specu-
lation as to how the disease itad got
started, since there had never been
any anthrax before in that entire
region. So they decided to trace it
down to its source,
w., * *
Finally they discovered that the
origin of the trouble had been a
short piece of bloody rope. This
had been accidentally left behind
When a rendering -work's truck had
stopped at thedairy farm for the
purpose of picking up a dead horse.
The driver of the truck, when
questioned, recalled that the rope
had been used to load some cattle
which had died suddenly more than
80 miles away. No diagnosis had
been made of the disease which had
proved fatal to those cattle, The
rope was found in the barnyard of
the dairy farm, and had been prac-
tically chewed to shreds by cattle.
This is just another example oil
the countless happenings which
should serve as a reminder that dis-
eases are easily carried around the
country. They don't need to depend
on such things as pieces of rope for
transportation either.
* * *
Animals themselves are good
disease carriers. So arc shoes —
and automobile tires. So look out
for such things, and don't take any
unnecessary chances with thein.
And if you have visitors to your
place, ask them to conduct them-
selves so that your valuable aui-
nmals are not exposed to the rick of
dangerous disease.
Helpful' Hints
For Homemakers
Before discarding that catsup bot-
tle, rinse it out with a little vinegat.
Use the "vinegar rinse" it] your
French dressing for salad,
* * 4
When making a rolled hem, put a
row of machine stitching along the
edge to be rolled. Trim edge close
to stitching. Speeds up the hand
work, and prevents stretching.
* * *
If raveled yarn is full ot kinks, wntd
it around a glass jar as you unravel
it; you then dip jar in warns water
and allow yarn to dry. It will be
soft and usable.
* * *
Save the paint left over in a t.art,
by pouring paraffin over the top.
Paraffin may also be poured over
the cut end of cheeses to keep them
from drying out.
* * *
Moth -proof small woolens by wash-
ing and drying thoroughly; put in
separate paper bags, fold top over
and stitch down on the sewing ma-
chine. o
* * {i
When sewing plastic materials,
"baste" with paper clips instead of
pins or a. needle and thread. This
kind of cloth should not be punc-
tured except by the permanent
stitching.
* * {.
Bake thinly rolled baking powder
biscuits in pairs, one on top of the
other. Baked two -deep, they are
extra crusty and break open easily,
* * is
A chenille bathroom set makes a
pretty, inexpensive set for yuue
little girl's roost. Put the seat
rover on her dressing table stool,
and use the mat for a rug.
* * *
Use an egg poacher to heat the
baby's food. Each section holds a
small quantity, and the food can all
be steam -heated at once. Or, if the
oven is in use, you can heat baby's
luncheon in a muffin pan.
Judgment of Paris—One of a jury of women in a Paris contest
feels the biceps of 21 -year-old Mario Morello. After looking
over his 21 rivals, the gals delivered their verdict Mario is the
"Most Beautiful Athlete of Paris."
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