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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-6-28, Page 2Germs Work Overtime For United National In a germ exchange in lfertford- nhire two thousand annics of bacil- 11 have been ptit to work by the United Nasions. At the National (.'oltection of 'Type Cultures, as the encampment is known, they are helping to conserve food supj liee, help the shek, and smooth the road to recovery. Ina series of rooms still of glass bottles and seated boxes are born anti bred billions of germs, coni - prising el try kind of Lecillu . New specimens are sent from ail parts of the world. Here are trap- ped the cruises of all human ailments and others which cause only ani- mal or plant diseases. 'Phe 2,000 varieties are perpetu- ally increasing in number owing to the germs' high birthrate. Oc- casionally, they are weeded out and sent to other countries for experi- mental purposes. If any doctor 1 rosers a new germ, his first act is to send along a specimen captive, some 4,000 germ -containing test -tubes being sent out every year. Imagine the task of maintaining these little creatures! How would yon feed a midget Measuring, perhaps, a twenty-five thousandth of an inch serosa? It is not eo situple, especially 55 some require such dainties as mashed potatoes and boiled blood If they are to be kept good-tem- pered. Only a minority require no food at all except 'agar,' the gelatinous substance cm which they rest in the test-tube. A few have to he trans- planted into other test -tabes at different periods. The nieningococ- eus, or cerebro -spinal meningitis germ, has to be transferred into a different tube every three weeks. How terrible even to ha•:e to re- member its name! And to know continually which germs are dan- gerous! Some of them are beneficial crea- tures, such as are found in bread, cheese and beer. They are helping , scientists to discover how to keep food fresh and how to make it more nourishing, Experiments are con- tinually being made on the use of gems for i,t duetrial purposes, Tine -Thing 1— Vim can pay your overparking fine without going to court in Medina. Mayor John Brown points out the new penalty box, situated below the regular parking :meter, where delinquent motor- ists can leave fines ranging from 10 cents—if paid within one hour—up io one dollar. GROWS AFTER 3,000 YEARS With seed grown from a sew grains found in a .3,000 year-old tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, Newman Turner, of Som- erset, has produced a new type of _wheat which he calls "Osiris," Osiris wheat is claimed to have remarkable yielding qualities. One Sven i1) a 6rop grown in a garcl rii Swindon had 252 grains•—a world record; A fifty -grain ear of ordin- ary wheat is exceptionally good, for Many wheat areas. From the original handful of grains, Turner has produced enough seed to send to the main seed -test - log centres in Great Ilritain for official observation, It is too early to say whether the new wheat is suitable for general use—one snag 10 that the sheer weight of grain In the ears flattens the crop In Heavy winds --but if the commercial farmer can get results oniy half as good as those obtained by Turner an his experiments, Osiris may he the wheat of the future. To remove burnt taste front scorched miff(, pelt pan in cold water and add a pitch of salt lo the mills. 1N 111114 Gordo:\ The Compost Heap Books have been written 00 com- post heaps and it is a worthy sub- ject. The good gardener throws nothing away that wilt rot or de- compose and that means almost anything. .1 -Ie piles them on his compost heap. Green weeds, leaves and outer trash should all be tossed in, covered with a layer of soil and it obtainable some manure. If watered occasionally and perhaps treated with some of the special humus -:taking chemicals this ma- terial will break down rapidly and make the finest sort of garden soil. Most experts regard the compost pile as an essential part of their gardens. Where the pile is large it can be screened with some quick - growing annuals or some perman- ent shrubbery, If each new addi- tion of refuse is covered well with a fresh layer of soil there should be no odour and no attraction for flies. * * * Something Will Grow No matter how unfavorable the location there is some flower, vege- table or shrub that will thrive in it. Some flowers, vegetables and certain varieties of grass actually prefer shade, some want acid soil rather than sweet, some like heavy clay better than loans or sand. The thing in planning is to consider these special likes and dicSkee, then to select those plants that shit one's special location. Most vegetables, however, are pretty keen on a generous amount of sten, but they have distinct likes and dislikes in the matter of soil. For deep-rooted carrots, potatoes, etc., it is important that the soils be fairly loose at least a foot down. Certain types prefer sandy soil to clay. But no matter what the soil is to start with by a little planning and care one can change it fairly easily. * * Can't Do Without Cultivation Killing weeds is only one of several reasons for cultivating flowers and vegetables. Even if it eyere possible to have chemical weed killers which would destroy all but the flowers and vegetables we would still need to cultivate. This stirring of the soil with a rake, hoe, or whatever is used, is essen- tial to let in air, to absorb moisture and to distribute plant food. In dry parts of the country it also keeps the soil from drying out. A good practice is to cultivate gardens or hoe crops regularly, after every good shower. Wait, of course, a few hours or so until the soil is just dry enough to work. * * * Plenty of Time Too early sowing is definitely not recommended. It is all very well to sow a few short rows of vegetables a week or two before the regular tilne just on the chance that there will be no late frosts, but the main sowings should wait until tlhe time recommended by the seed catalogue or the local experts. For plants that are tender nothing is gained in planting in cold soil and before the weather has definitely turned warns. Of course, where extra pro- tection is provided one can get started earlier but otherwise it is better to wait. Even if tender plants do survive a late frost they are quite likely to be so retarded that later and normal plantings will overtake them. In the vegetable garden, of course, one should never sow all seed at once. The experts urge spreading sowings over several weeks so that the harvest will like- wise be spread out. In most parts of Canada one can go on planting beans, beets, carrots, lettuce and such things every ten days or so from the time of earliest possible planting right up to July. In a schoolboy's exam. paper: "To keep milk fresh it should be left in the cote until needed." In Line Of Duty—Rhett Butler, a Dalmatian fire clog gets new bandages on his foot acid leg, burned by flaming gas in a meat market fire. The nurse is fireman Bob Arwine, who answered the fire alarm with Rhett. We wrote, not so long ago, some fairly uncomplimentary remarks regarding the torrent of books about baseball, baseball teams and baseball players which, for the past couple of years, have been gushing from publishers' presses faster than the Red River ever flooded, and with almost as depressing an effect. Now, after perusing—or at least glancing through — what seems like a long cord more of these volumes, we would say that the lads are rapidly writing them- selves clean out of material; and if we have to read just once more about what Dizzy Dean said to Frankie Frisch during the World Series, or about how Old Pete Alexander threw his hangover at the N. Y. Yankees and beat then with it, we are going to toss the book out the window and holler "Copper." K * (Here we would like to state again, however, that Ell. Barrow's reminiscenscs, still running serially, by no means belong in the above category. But then Big Ed was an. exceptional baseball man — one whose influence on the growth and development of the game was probably greater than that of any other individual.) Anyway, fairly well fed up with baseball as reading material, it was a refreshing change to run across a book about a quite different sort of sport—the sport of Lawn Ten- nis. And when you consider what a gruelling, punishing, nerve-rack- ing affair modern tennis has be- come, Ecome, it seems strange to recall that, not too many years ago, it was considered a lady -like sort of pastime, and men who indulged in it were liable to be called, by crude hangers-on around Dolaus Tavern or Cassidy's Pool Parlor, "Sissies' or worse. * s The book we refer to is called "Rontahce of Wimbledon" by John 011iff, profusely illustrated with portraits and scenes from- earliest tines down to the present day. We are sure anybody who likes to either play or watch tennis will get a real bang out of this book; al- though some of them will undoubt- edly' be surprised to learn that Gleeful Gorilla -- "Arno," an 8 -month-old gorilla flown from Africa, looks forward to the good life in some zoo. Animal dealer Henry 'Trefich, holding Arno, calls the animal "ugly and vicious enough to grow up to be a second (iar;gantua•" Wimbledon — the greatest tennis centre in the world—was actually started as a place for the playing of Croquet. But facts are facts— and it was Croquet that really kept Wimbledon going for the first thirty years of its existence. '5 * * It was back in 1870 that two brothers nailed Jones formed a Ceram -let Club and, after searching for a ground that wouldn't put too great a strain on their limited bank -roll, acquired four acres at Wimbledon at a rental of fifty pounds a year. And their .All Eng- land Croquet Club held its first championships there in June, 1870. * * :1 Some five years later Henry Jones, who was always proposing startling innovations, suggested de- voting a small piece of the grounds to lawn tennis. This was at first re- garded as "just another of Henry's little jokes"; but Hank was appar- ently a persistent sort of bloke, and he had his way, the rather frighten- ing sum of twenty-five pounds being spent an the necessary equip- ment. The tennis folks rallied around, and the first Wimbledon championship was held in 1877. * 5 5 But, according to Mr. 011iff, Croquet kept the club together till after the turn of the century—in fact until '1904 when Lawn Tennis showed a profit .of thirteen hundred pounds, while Croquet was in the red for she pounds. But for all that the suggestion that Croquet be re- moved from the official name of the club was twice rcornfully re- jected. * * :k It was around this time that the two famous Dpherty brotliers— "R.F." and "H.L." as they were known—began to put Lawn Tennis on a really solid footing so far as the general public was concerned. And from the Doherty's stems the long line of tennis stars right down to Gorgeous Gussie whose lace panties last year caused almost as much stir at Wimbledon as Suz- anne Lenglen's actions did in 1926 when she kept Queen Mary waiting —and lived to regret doing so, * * * - Suzanne, in -case you don't re- member, was the French girl who won the Ladies Singles five times in a row, and whose opinion of herself was almost as great as her ability. In those days they didn't "seed the draw" as they do now, and Suzanne—finding chat all the leading ladies were in her section of the draw—threw something like a conniption fit. * * Dealing with this incident the author quotes the official referee's tactful—extremely tactful—version, "Storms were caesed by Mlle, Lenglen,i" lie wrote. "1Inr uuqueh- tlon,lble superiority of the past few years to any otter 0010110 player had apparently lett her to think that \Vinlblekloti ought to ;'e run to suit her convenience without regard to any other interest whatever. Pos- sibly too much attention had been paid to her wishes in previous years. But in 1926 site presnunecl too far on her position in the. tennis world." * * * Boiled clown to more everyday language this means that Suzy said they had to play it her way --or else. Queen Mary, there to see the great Frenchwoman play, was kept waiting for half an hour with notat- ing to watch. Possibly 7icr Majesty didn't like this treatment. Certainly the Wimbledon folks didn't. Any- way, Suzanne scratched—and never played at Wimbledon again. Sounds like a tempest in a teapot at this distance; but it stirred up plenty of talk and excitement then. * * 5 The author says—and who are we to dispute his word?—that the most extraordinary Wimbledon match of all occurred in 1921 be- tween Randolph Lycett, of Austra- lia, and Zenzo Shimidzu of Japan. It was played on one of the hottest days in memory, and by the third set the Aussie had to be revived . every time they changed ends. And we fear that his revival methods wouldn't tppeal very greatly to some of our temperance advocates —for what Lycett used, as a stinnl- lant, was plain gin. * * In the fine,' set, which ran to twenty games, it was plainly to be seen that the Australian was on his last legs, the combination of heat and gin having taken its effect. Lycett knew that it was impossible to carry on without further stimu- lant, so he did the most audacious thing the Centre Court at Wimble- don has ever seen. IIe ordered a bottle of champagne to be placed for hint on the umpire's chair— and as the battle went on, he drank the lot. t e * However, virtue was its own reward; and as the Jap eventually won, perhaps we'll be forgiven—in spite of the gin and champagne— for catling attention to ''Romance of Wimbledon" by John 011iff. As one reviewer puts it "this is a book that contains the statistics which lawn tennis enthusiasts will wish to consult, but is also packed with drama and, in some cases, tragedy." MAD AT OWN VOICES Do lions recognize their own voices? Edgar M. Queeney, an American naturalist, thinks not. When he was filming big game in the Lake Amboseli area of Kenya recently, he pitched his camp one night beside a small river, The party was awakened next morning by a pride of five lions roaring a few yards away on the opposite bank. Queeney switched on sound -recording apparatus and made a filo( of the din. 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