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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-4-26, Page 3sir el a Guam Sequence By Richard 1310 Wilkinson Bryant dreamed a dream. Ile was in a garden, A beautiful girl sat on a white marble bench,.and smiled at him across a pond filled with goldfish and pand bible;;. Bright sunshine filtered clown through shade trees and reflected the gold in the gr1's hair. Bryant knew that, according to all good dreams, he was supposed to do something --possibly to walk around the pool and bow gallantly before the girt He began to wonder if he didn't look somewhat like an idiot stand- ing there. It was then that he heard foot- steps on the flagstone path that connected the garden with the wide, screened -in porch of tine house. He looked up to find Laura, his sister, coming into the garden. :He was glad that Laura had conte. For Laura knew ad about dreams s. and could tell hits what to do. "Bryant!" Laura exclaimed, slop- ping on the pool's edge, and looking frotu hint to the girl, "whatever in the world are you standing here for Why, you're positively rude. Doris must think my brother is stupid!" Oh, yes, that was it. it was ah' working out line now. Laura had asked her college roommate, Doris LaPlante, down for the week -end. Of course, that was she. f ton stu- pid of hint. So Ilryant walked around the pool and was introduced. Ire looked deep into the twin black pools that were Doris' eyes, and apologized. Bryant slowly put his arm about her slim shoulders. His voice sounded odd, bet that, of course, was because lie was think - Mg that here was the girl he had been waiting for. Then he almost groaned aloud, Doris had looked tip and said it was quite all right and she really should have introduced herself, but be added so much to the scene. standing over stere so straight and silent. It was the soend of - her voice that made Bryant groan; for he remembered that it was all a dream and that Doris would soon• he gone. Then suddenly it was night, and they were once more iu the garden, There was a full toot and a gentle. breeze and music drifting down on the still air from somewhere back of the marble- bench. A week two weeks, had gone by —Bryant wasn't sore which—since the first nutting in the garden. Ile had a dint recollection that they were glorious weeks of riding and golfing and swimming and dancing. —all with Doris. It was only occasioualiy now that Bryant remembered it was all a stream. The dread of waking up affect hint quite so poig- nantly. That is to say, it didn't affect him until this night when they were alone in the garden, 'Tet he was seized with a sudden pan- icky sensation. . And so quite abruptly Bryant turned and said tvithus1 prelimin- aries: "Doris, darling, I love you, I know this is all a dream, there. fore Pm telling you now before f. wake up, I've waited all my life for such a girl as you. It seems cruel that you'd come to sur only ill a dream.' And Doris turned tip her face to Ills, with the moon making shad- ows of her eyes, and said: "I love you, too, Bryant, and I'm glad you waited for one, I hardly know who I would herr done had I ditt- rovercd yrei brio:titer, 10 some one else." Bryant 1luwgli1 this over attd do- cidctl that the dream had turned out just the w'ay he would have ordered. He'd better wake himself up, be thought, before he did something to spoil it, But before he could pi telt himself, which was the conventional wily of waking oneself from a dream, Doris hili iter head on his shoulder. • Bryant looked down at the gold- en head, "Doris," he said brokenly, "this is alt a dream, rind in a mtin. oto you'll he gone and Pbl find myself alone, You're not real." But Doris laughed softly, end snuggled closer. Bryant slowly put his arm abortt her slim shoul- ders. She was there, close against hint. Her lips were upturned, and its !Bryant bent to Liss thein, he knew titan wilco ;train be opened his eyes, she'd still bre. there --and would always be there. Canned Lobsters Come .Out Fighting Ilrrau:.e Melt epicures all ,s,r Anieriee are clamoring fur P;W,land deep-sea ltlstere, ,le le. MacDonald has spent $1511,1. • and ten years trying to perfect .n method of lacking them so that they' arrive fit and lighting after travelling iltoneands of miles. Tie now cans them alive. I..obstet•s resent air travel. They are subject to altitude "bends" and frequently die in tansit, A dead lobster is a total loss to an epicure. They have to he killed itnmediate ly before cooking if the full fiin flavour is to be retained. The high travelling mortality rate pushed up the cost of New England lobsters to exorbitant Halite, Mr. i,lacDonald got to grips with the problem In 19,19 by fitting up a laboratory and staffing it with mar- ine biologists: 32,000 lobsters were used in experiments before success was achieved. He won't tell the secret, but says that "a pinch of powdery substance iu the can of fresh water does the trick." :Chis substance contains six ele- ments highly beneficial to lobsters. So beneficial are they that the big claws have to be pinioned before canning: Afr, ,1acDonald's firm guarantees that their lobsters will remain alive for six days after processing. Some have popped out of their cans in highly belligerent mood after spend- ing sixteen days in hermetic con- finement. It's a wonder they don't open their own tins! Just What Is "The Milky Way"? "What is the Milky Way, and why is it unapptochable by man?" There are two questions here, and 1 shall deal with the first one first: "What is the Milky Way?" said Sir Harold Spencer (ones, the Astronomer Royal, in a recent broadcast. This is a question that was much discussed until the observations of William Herschel, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, answered it beyond doubt. When William Herschel first de- veloped an interest in astronomy, lie bought a copy of Ferguson's As- troinonty, the best textbook of the day which passed through many editions The almost complete ig- norance of that time is reflected in Ferguson's book, in which twenty- onie chapters are devoted to the solar system and only one to the stars. The then current knowledge about the Milky Way is summed up in one brief paragraph, It says: 'There is a remarkable tract round the Heavens, called the itdilkyWay from its peculiar whiteness, which was formerly thought to be owing to a vast number of very small stars therein;; but the telescope shows it to be quite otherwise; attd therefore its whiteness lutist he due to some other cause.' Roger Bacon had asserted that the Milky Way Int the sky is 'a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder but giving light together,' Ferguson believed that the telescope had proved his view to be incoorrect, but lie was unable to suggest any other explanation of its appearance. His negative conclusion was not much more informative than the - view of the old Greek mythology that the Milky Way arose from a few drops of milk which the infant Hercules let fall front the bosons Of Juno, When William Herschel was seized with a passion for astronomy, he decided to stake a telescope for himself, because he was too poor to buy. one: He was undeterred by Isis early failures, and persever- until he was able to make telescopes which far surpassed, in optical qual- ity, any that had been made pre- viously. Having made a good telescope, he turned it on the. Milky \\'ay, and he has recorded how 'the glorious multitude of stars of all Clear the Tracks for Springtime—with a mighty "swoosh," a big rotary snow plow bucks its way in the yearly spring chore of opening th e Yellowstone branch line. Here, Old Man Winter's last stand is a solid one, Twelve feet of snow were moved to clear the 56 -mile rail route for the rush for summer vacationers. possible sixes that presented them- selves here to my view was truly astonishing. ' So the nature of the Milky Way was settled beyond doubt. The stars of which it is composed are so far away that they are individually invisible to the staked eye, but their number is so great that we can see their integrated effect. Imagine a caudle being moved to such a distance that our eyes are just unable to detect it, and that, when 100 candles are plot in its place, we should then be able to see a bright patch of light. Herschel explained also. why the Milky Way appears as a narrow belt stretching right around the heavens. It is because our stellar universe is in the form of a flatten- ed disk, like a millstons. The radial extension of the system is much greater than its thickness, So in any direction in the Millcy Way, we are looking through the system to its most distant limits; in any other direction, we look through a much smaller depth. The stars in the Milky Way are very far away. Remember that our sttn is a star, and not a partic- ularly bright one. But we should have to push it to a very great dis- tance before it became invisible. The distances of the stars in the Milky Way have been measured, If we take as our unit of distance the light-year, that is the distance ',which light light—travelling at 186,000 miles every second—would travel in a year, which is about six million -million miles, the dis- tances of the stars in the Milky Way are of the order of 10,000 light- years upwards. That answers the second part of the question: Why is the Millcy Way unapproachable by mast? If we could travel with the speed of light towards the Milky Way (assuming that some suitable mode of travel had been devised) it would take us several thousand years to arrive. The journey would take so much longer than the span of hu- man life that it is, obviously, quite impracti bl e. A WHITE SPITZ clog and a Persian cat owned by Bob and Judy Nesmith of Dalton, eat from the same dish. The dog always waits politely until the cat has finished her half of the food before starting. SEALING ' WAX d—coax TEST TUBE LIGHT OIL Am KEROSENE — By Harold Arnett STORING GLASS CUTTER KEEP GLASS CUTTER FREE OF RUST IN A TEST TUBE CONTAINING OIL ANP KEROSENE. Flk CORK ON CUTTER RANiLE AND SECURE WITH SEALING WA(.CORK REMAINS Ott HANDLE WHEN CUTTER IS IN USE ANU SEALS TUBE WHEN CUTTER IS NOT IN UsE. PRESERVING LEMON KEEP LEMONS MUCH LONGER BY COATING THEM LIGHTLY WITH PAptAPFIN. , New Theory About Migraine Headache A migraine headache is what most of us call a "sick headache," Sometimes headache powders and rest bring relief; more often they do not. \Vhat causes a migraine or sick - ache has been the subject of medi- cal discussion for decades. Not one of the hypotheses advanced in the past ltas been worth a 'teadache powedr. Now comes Dr. Murray M. Braaf in the New York State Journal of Medicine with a new ex- planation, one which he believes he has proved to be right in numer- ous cases. Instead of finding the cause of migraine headache in the head, as most of his predecessors have done, Dr. Braaf finds it in the neck. In the majority of cases of migraine headache that came under his ob- servation, tenderness to the touch and X-ray pictures indicated a con- dition much like that which pre- vails when disks are dislocated in the spine. Ile inferred that an in- jury to the neck (a fall on the head, on the back, on outstretched arms) was the cause, The fall may have occurred years before there was a migraine attack, When the neck was injured, ligaments were apt to give way, so that a disk between two vertebrae protruded. The dis- placed disk compressed the sur- rounding nerves and thus set up a neuritis, of which one symptom was a sick headache. If this eplanation was correct, the obvious remedy was to get the protruding disk back into place by strengthening the ligaments and putting then: to work. This is ex- actly what Dr. Braaf did. He stretched the neck with a pulley apparatus applied at the back of the head and under the chin for a few minutes, There was no pain. Large doses of vitamin B-1 were also injected to counteract _the neu- ritis. Of patients whose neck were stretched at least three times a week for one to two months, 85 per cent reported relief that lasted. The results were evaluated on the basis of the frequency, intensity and dur- ation of the attacks before and after treatment, THRIFT "fico cents of bicarbonate of soda for indigestion at this time of night," cried the infuriated drug- gist, who had been aroused at 2 a,tw, "when a glass of hot water would have done just as well!" "Weel, weel," returned McDoug- al, "I thank ye for the advice, and I'll no bother ye after all. Good night!" PSYCHOLOGISTS, studying gorillas at the Bronx Zoo, found then: suffering from melancholia and recommended that keepers should force themselves to ant jolly and so deceive tate apes into a state of happiness. New andr�Useful Too oo .. Brush Handles Handles of new paint brushes won't cake, roughen or blister fing- ers, is claim. Of plastic, handles have chisel tips to remove pits, blister,, holes for stringing. * * * Mows Edges New gasoline -power "Sensa- tion" mower which runs along fences, foundations for close cut- ting, eliminating hand work, says maker, This made possible by switching wheels to forward posi- tion. Front of chassis also folds to expose blades for weed, brush cut- ting. Has 20 -inch blade, uses 1.9- h.p. engine, or larger. * * Ring Clothespins New circular clothespins fasten clothes to line by finger pressure on "trigger" inside pin. Ring de- sign enables housewife to clip sev- eral pins on fingers for easy carry- ing, say sntaker. Of celanese plastic. * * * Swinging Girl Clock New clocks have girl on swing for pendulum forward and back rather than sideways. Set in re- cess with colored garden, Said to fit into most room interiors; self- starting electric movement; indi- rect lighting, Mantel, wall models. * * Scientific Boomerang. New plastic boomerang can be thrown by anyone strong enough to throw ball, claims manufacturer. Leading edges beveled to work like ailerons of airplane; flies out al- most horizontally, veers left, re- turns, does a spiral like autogyro while landing. Measures 24 inches, goes up to 100 yards, is bright red for finding if lost; special reversed aileron models for southpaws, King Took Actress To Supper, Then Couldn't Pay Bill ,v could the fat.nous beautiss,— led Bliss" ----a vivid and entertain - the roost celebrated a, tresses of the past, :strike us if we could tweet them io-day? %Would Mrs. riddous after sante coaching in modern tecltnigtte, snake the saute vivid impression on us that she did on Ler romtetnpor- t)ne who would he, if anything, more of it success to -day than she was in her own time is Nell Gwyn. For she was a cockney of cockneys, and the true cockney does not change. IIer verve and vitality, quick tongue, devastating honesty, generosity, even her extravagances, would win London's heart to -day as completely as in Restoration times, writes Charles Solomon in "fitBite' Did She Sell Oarnges Next to nothing is known of her early life. Even the story that she sold oranges at Drury bane is pro- bably untrue. Her father may have been a tradesman in Hereford or a soldier in Wales. The first hard fact coolies front Nell herself, who admitted in the course of a quarrel with another actress that she had first made her living in somewhat questionable surroundings. Nell was contrasting her own faithful- ness to one roan with her rival's collection of three or four—"though I was brought up to fill, strong water to the gentlemen and you, a Presbyter's praying daughter." Nell never pulled her punches, even in the presence of Royalty. She was once enjoying a busman's holiday, watching a play with an admirer, when they discovered that Ring Charles himself was in the next box. Charles had already seen Nell on the stage. This closer view so enchated hits that he in- sisted on taking the couple to sup- per, bringing with him his brother James, Duke of York (afterwards James II). Wlten the bill for the supper had to be paid, neither Charles or James had any money and Nell's unhappy admirer had to settle. "Odsfish," cried Nell, "but this is the poorest company that ever I was in before at a tavern," It may have ben her gift for re- partee that so endeared her to Charles—himself a very pretty wit who did not object to being the source of wit in others. Certainly he enjoyed the duels between Nell and her chief rivet, Lauise de Kerouaille, the Duchess of Ports- mouth. At one time, when ft seemed as if the lovely Duchess of Otfazarin might carry off Charles under Louise's nose Nell went into mourning for, as she explained, at the top of her voice, the Duchess of Portsmouth's ruined !topes. Another of her japes at her rival's expense, which also concerned the wearing of mourning is quoted by Iienelm Foss in his book "Unwed- ing collcetinn of short biographies of people who did not marry. It w'as when Lady Portsmouth, thinking to add to Iter social •stature, put on deep mourning for the death a princely personage in France to whom ibis was in no way related. Nall boat no time in exhibiting her- s( If in public in unrelieved black• bttrlesquely weeping, explaining to tuquirers that she was inconsolable over Ole pi,e.ing of the Chant of Tartar) • Best of a Queer Bunch Nell was generally a winner in a contest of this sort. But she was no match for Louise in getting what she wanted out of Charles—probab- ly because site was not very inter- ested in money for its own sake. She was extravagant but almost recklessly generous. And of alt the harpies who surrounded the King site seems to have been the slily one who was genuinely fond of hint. Stopped the Show Neil's reputation as an actress rests chiefly on the diary of Pepyo, an enthusiastic and highly critical playgoer. He adored her as a woman and as a comedienne, but was very definite that she could not tackle tragedy. He speaks of "a. great and serious part which aha does most basely" in the "Indian Emperor." But iu "Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen," he sayet "There is a comical part done by- Nell yNell that I can never !tope ever to see the like done -again by man or woman." Int this play Nell had a dance in boy's clothing that "stopped the show" and set a new fashion—all the Court ladies: toots to wearing male attire. Found Food for Convicts Even if there is no troth in tho tradition that Nell was largely ro- sponsible for the founding of Cites sea Hospital, there can be little doubt of her many charities, Highly practical they were, too. Among her other activities, she specialized in providing convicts with food. And very necessary this was, in an age when jailors were responsible only for seeing that their prisoners did not es- cape and not for keeping them fed, Charles must have worried over his Nell's lack of money sense, For as Ile lay dying he said to hlg brother: "Let not poor Nally starve." The request was loyalty carried out: but Nell survived hires by only two years more. Even allowing for those rollick- ing days of laxer morals, Nott Gwyn cannot but be called a good. woman. But she was a warm- hearted, generous creature, as ha. loved by her public as by her Royal toaster. Self-control—Tile facial expression of "Tiger," is that of a cat who didn't eat a canary Tiger exercises almost perfect will power as three pet canaries stroll by under his nose. He wouldn't touch one of them for the world, but can't quite resist licking his chops. New Mosquito Boats on the way—Those hard-hitting, fastdodging PT boats of World War 111 are growing up. Hero is a sketch of the new all -metal torpedo boats to join the fleet late this year Much larger than current ?Ts, the new boats will have greater operating range, more fire-power and bet ter stability in rough sea::. BOUFOR 1) 6AtdtSS ALIVHI WENT DID gat/FORD DO Owl B ' MELLOR THAT BOUFORDI EVEN WNEN N6'5 AWAKE HE'S 51112. HALF 0,5LEEP1 WHAT IS IT? WHAT'B THE MATTER WITH WUR Fix., ? 0 pour TOUCH ITI PLEASE DON'T TOUGH lit WHAT HAPPENED? NO, NO, 010 YOU DROP .` IT JUST 50M1ETNIN ON FELL. ASLEEP! IT? , p- , OOOo+! PINS AN° raep1ES 1,