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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1950-8-9, Page 7After all is said and done, how does it taste in the cup? That is what counts! yl.eid the perfect flavour, A E S T /pm, a --� "Dear Anne Hirst: My stain rouble is that I can't talk with sty mother about this. I'm 16, in sigh school -and I am in love! rhe boy is nearly 20. "My mother doesn't know the the way we feel so I can't just come right out and tell her that we want to mar- ry in two years. She wants to send me to an- other school ext fall and to college afterwards, 'or four whole years! "What's the sense in spending that money -when I want to get married? The boy leaves this fall for two years in college. "He and I are both satisfied with one another, and we do not think there will ever be anyone rel h ° t d r ° t s t e + 1 a a � . I t�� Hg d + 'I 4984 SIZES 12-20 "At e �//] re Cd+od So smart! So simple! This new shirtwaister has an upstanding little Chinese collar, outstanding pockets, winged cuffs. You need an import- ant fashion like this -for important events. Sew it now! Pattern 4984 sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 4 %yds. 36 -in. This pattern, easy to use, simple io sew, is tested for fit. 1 -las com- plete illustrated instructions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (25c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern t.r (lox 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. else. -But something could happen. MI you please help me decide? PUZZLED"' NOT FOR CHILDREN • Marriage is not for children. * It is a job which many mature • persons find exceedingly difficult. * The way for a girl to prepare * herself for this great adventure * is to develop her mind and body * and spirit by every means she * can, so she becomes a well- * balanced individual competent to * meet the multitudinous problems * which attack every marriage. * If you do not go to college, * how will you spend the next two * years? Yearning for your sweet- * heart? Floundering from one in- * consequential interest to another * in your effort to kill time? Stinnt- * lathlg those emotions so recently a aroused? * The boy you love is finishing * his education, to fit him for the ,r career that will provide for a wife * and family. It is likely he cannot * marry anybody for two years * after he graduates, until he has * launched himself properly in his * life work. 4' Can you do less? * Your years in college will not * only help you accumulate knowl- * edge, they will teach, you disci- * Aline, and train your mind. + Daily association with the Stu- * dent body and teachers will help * you learn to get along with diff- * erent temperaments, Your taste * wilt be educated. You will learn the value of loyalty and good * sportsmanship, and other spirit- * nal traits which you will need to * be a good wife and mother. * When you graduate, you will be 4' able to meet your sweetheart on 4' his own ground, and feel your- * self a real partner in this most 4' demanding of all partnerships. * And how proud he will be of '1 you( * You seem to be a smart girl * for your age. Now prove it. * Tell your mother how you feel * about each other. You will find * her more understanding than * you think. Assure her you know * you are too young to feel entirely * certain of each other, and you * have no idea of allowing your * emotions to override your coin- " mon sense. * Tell her you will go on with * your education as she plans, and * give these years all your best * energies and application. And don't be formally engaged * until you are of age, at least. By * that time you will know whether * you two are really "meant for * each other." As you say, many * things can happen between now * and then. * * 4' Confide your secrets to your mother. She was once in love, too, and she hasn't forgotten it Anne Hirst understands, and will help you find the courage. Address her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. If your wife described you as a man of rare gifts, just what would she mean? CR SSWORD PUZZLE 2. Fuss ACROSS 1. Scotcheap 4, Lizard 9. The girl 12, NorthWestorn State (ab.) 19. Heathen 19. 16ouality 18, Grieve with another 17, Turkish decree 11 Antis, 20, Slip 21. Former emperor 23. Marchers 27. Regarded 29. Appointment 80 Near 81. Palm loaf 32. Aftarsong 34. Self 35. You and 1 30. Mork of an injury 97, hound roots 39, Device for scattering 92. Frons 49. Finishes 41. Man's name 40. malice 48, Triangle with unequal Sl, Weight 62. Scruffs 114, Negative NN, Affirmative N0. Meeting 37. Malayan coin DOWN 1. TwItehing 3. Order 9. Footless animal 5, Fast dance 8, (epoch 7. Mother e. Vivacious 8, Deteriorating 9. Flood 3, Cushions 10. Owned 39, Famous 0. Made to go 38. Spoken 0, Lines 1. Speed contents 9 Final 8. Pigeon 7 American author 8 Watch from cover 9, And not 0 Greek letter 88. Land measure 11. Before 10. Terrible 18. Be carried 20. Toward the mouth 21. Thinks (archaic) 22. Orchid meal 24. worship 25. Stormed 20. Facing up- stream on a glacier 0 . ®... ■ ABM 111111®.111,111101111111111 xr, au® ,®ars It ANS Answer e sewhere on this page. Wallin On Water pnud cut it b"t Suniuur , dy and notch the in' ccs rat'. r.1 if* stirfacr, line of theta, 115,' the ":whirligig beetle-." are St' ill :In !ng, tm1 others. -the s ,.ralled "pond- okatcrs" for ,'aui:ple are at walking on nater. If the sun i; shining brightly yon will see on the button: of the pond a number of little shadows. Each of these eoresponds to the foot of a "pond-skater." It is sur- rounded by a narrow bright halo of light. Can these' insects wall[ on water, and how do we explain the beauti- ful little shadows and their attend- ant haloes? Science tells us that the surface layer of every liquid behaves as if it were a very thin stretched clas- tic skin -that is, an elastic skin under tension. Surface Skin This is the key to the power which certain insects possess of walking on water. A very thin stretched horizontal sheet of rubber can show the be- havior of •the "surface skin" of any liquid. Imagine a mouse to be walking on it. The rubber will sag under the feet of the mouse. In a similar way the "surface skin" of water sags under the feet of a "pond-skater." In fact a tiny hollow or dimple is made in the surface under each foot, and this sagging enables the weight of the insect to be supported, No Wet Peet The insect's feet are such that they are not "wetted" by water. If they were the water would spread over them. The feet would go through the surface layer and wallcing on it would be impossible. "Wetting" of water can be ex- plained when a duck dives. Beads or globules of water can be seen running off its back and head, be- cause the nature of the feathers prevents theist being "wetted." On the other hand a blackbird dipped in water would come out with its feathers soaked. The sagging of the "surface skin" Under an insect's foot also accounts for the haloes of light on the bot- tom of the pond. The sag causes a tiny curve in the surface skin round the feet and this curve acts like a lens, gather- ing the light and concentrating it on the bottom of the pond in circles. The dark portion in the mid- dle of the circle is the shadow of the foot. ra4o aWLcQ Make visitors welcome and the family happy with fine linens( Pine- apple design edges linens embroi- dered with favorite flowers. Simple embroidery, crochet. Pat- tern 665; transfer 6 motifs 4 x 10% inches; edging directions. - Laura Wheeler's improved pat- tern makes crochet and knitting so simple with its charts, photos and concise, directions. Send TWENTY FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be ac- cepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. WHALING UP-TO-DATE A helicopter made by a Somer- set, firm wilt be used shortly to "spot" whales in the Arctic. It has been sent to Portugal l fol- lovtng a decision by the Portu- guese ort-gucse Government to modernize its whale -hunting expeditions. So soon tv ng exp the silence of the Arctic wastes- breeding ground of the valuable oil-bearing whaic-stay be broken by the roar of the helicopter's en- gines as the whalers get busy. Whale oil, which has countless commercial uses, is in great de - m man . Restrictions o 1 hunting time have been a great handicap to Whaling expeditions, but now Por- tuguese whalers hope to stake up for this lost time by using tiie heti- ! copier and to increase their Isar- ' vest. Teaching The Young Idea How To -Swim -At Thunder Bay, on the sandy shores of Lake Erie, a Red Cross swimming instructor is show n with his youthful class intently listening to Ins instructions. -Photo by George S. Putt. HRON'ICLLS SiNGERFARM Gwen.doline P Clal'ke Between painting and entertain- ing; canning and writing, I have done a- little reading -that is over and above the papers and maga- zines that come to the house -and overflow onto tables, chairs and chesterfield. I never can keep our reading material in order. I have been trying to read Louis Brom- field's books -."Pleasant Valley" and "Malabar Farm." And when I say "trying" that is no reflection on the author -quite the opposite. It was this way. I brought home "Malabar Farm" from the library - ostensibly to read it myself. But when I had read about ten pages Partner got hold of it. When he was through it was time .for tite book to go hack. Because it was new I could not get it renewed. So I brought back "Pleasant Vall- ey" instead and am halfway through it. Both books are too meaty to hurry over. Read carefully a lot can be learnt from Louis Brom- field's writting, both as regards farming and life in general. His philosophy is pretty good. Mr. Bromfield's pet subject is soil conservation, He thinks that soil conservation -or the lack of it -has a much greater effect upon farming,and the welfare ofa people, than is generally realised. Lack of soil conservation is already threat- ing the world's food supply. Mr. Bromfield claims their never has been a world surplus of food but always a scarcity -uneven distri- bution is the only factor staking surpluses in some countries. Scar- city is likely to Increase unless still more is done to prevent further soil. erosion, which, L. B. contends, is plainly the result of poor farming -that is, farmers taking all they can out of the soil and putting noth- ing back. This practise dates back to the early settlement days in the United States when the fertile land was cleared indiscriminately and cropped so intensely that in two or three generations the top soil was worn out. Then farmers moved further west, took up more virgin land and continued the process of soil erosion. He likens these early immigrants to "a plague of locusts moving across the continent" -the main exceptions being the Pennsyl- vania Dutch who settled on the land and enriched it by their good farming. Eventually agriculturists reali- sed that something was happening to what had been their good earth. No longer was it producing the bountiful crops to which -they prev- iously had been accustomed. An in- tensive reseach programme was carried out and as a result, twenty- five years ago, a movement was started to systemize farming, recta - lam the impoverished land and stop further soil erosion, But what has been clone is apparently still toot enough and Mr. Bromfield contends that unless wasteful farming meth- ods are changed there will event- ually be a shortage of food in the I), S. A. He admits that such a con- dition sounds fantastic but he also reminds his readers that a few generations ago such a theory was also fantastic to the people of India and China. Yet now, half the people in those countries live their lives out without ever having had enough to eat. Soil erosion not only means poor financial returns for the farmer but the loss of minerals in the soil also affects the health of a nation, since it is impossible for any man to be better than the food he eats. Incidentally Louis Bromfield's 's the - Gry for world distribution of food is much the sante as that of Cana- da's H. H. Hannam, "Pleasant Valley" has one chap- ter devoted entitcly to the building of "The Big House" and was quite amusing. Every member of the fam- ily was given the privilege of decor- ating itis or her owls roost. Tastes were vastly different so the result was unusual, to say the least, In one respect all rooms were alike- windows so low that anyone could sit in a chair or lie in bed and still look out the window. That would ISSUE 32 - 1950 suit nae. Our windows are high set and I always wish I could low- er thein about a foot, But back to soil erosion. In his books Louis Bromfield is referring mainly to the United States, but much of what he Bays is equally true of Canada. From our own ex- perience oil the prairie we know on- ly too well the effect of soil erosion. Muclt of the prairie land should never have been farmed at all. We also have a sample right near here. '.l'wo years ago the Department of Highways made a new piece of road past our place. They got "fill" from a nearby hill. Steam shovels scooped up the good earth, trucks carried it away until the "hill" was lower than the road. Now that piece of land is like a desert -the subsoil is gone, in places there is nothing growing, not even a weed. Yet that piece of land is government property -and no doubt there are other such patches. The government spends thousands of dollars in con- servation propaganda -wouldn't it be more to the point to give a prac- tical demonstration on restoring fertilty to soil on waste land so that trees at least could be planted and encouraged to grow? Farmers are not the only sinners, Clover - And Bees Roadsides are sweet now with honeysuckle and clover, the warn, sweet fragrance of summer at its peak. Honeysuckle begins to pass its prime, though there will be blossom and lesser sweetness till the asters bloom, But clover blooms all summer long, a delight to bees, a friend of the soil and a pleasure to anyone who pauses to look. One thing about clover: it takes the soil as it finds it, sends down eager roots, spends the whole sea- son at a complex chemical job and gives a new supply of fresh nitrates to the soil it occupies. Clover re- builds the soil, and is constantly reaching out for new soil to reclaim. Give it half a chance and it will take over a gravelly roadside or a worn-out field where few other plants will grow, and its a few sea- sons the clover has given it new life. And all the while the clover will cloak that soil in cool green, brighten the landscape with its miniature sweet pea blossoms, and feed every bee within range. The one thing clover needs to thrive is cooperation of the bees. Take away the bees and the clover won't outlast the ,season, as Aus- tralia learned long ago. For the bees fertilize the clover blooms and thus enable it to reseed itself. On the other hand, take away the clover and the bees would be hard put to fill their hives. Clover honey outweighs all other varieties, year after year. It would be a dull and less fra- grant summer without the' coopera- tion of bees and clover. Together they help keep the planet green and sweet, with no thanks asked. Mystery Of The Mighty Midgets One of the northland's most fas- cinating puzzles is the mystery of the "Little Men" -the dwarfs who are said to haunt the barren stretch beyond the Arctic Circle where be- cause of the winds and sudden storms, no other human could sur- vive. From generation to generation Eskimos have handed down the story to their children, as parents in other lands relate the adventures of "Alice in Wonderland" or "Jack and the Beanstalk." Legend says that these dwarfs are mighty men. Even though they are short they are supposed to be able to carry the largest caribou (deer) on their backs. It is only the huge caribou they hunt -not the timid seal which is highly valued by almost all other Eskimos. For many years white men dis- counted such stories as a fanciful bit of folk lore. Then Dr. D. Jenness, a Canadian explorer, made several quick reconnaissances into the uninhabitable land and found STOPITCH of/nseet Bites- NeatRasb Quick) Stop itching of insect bites, heat rash, eczema, hives, pimples. scales, scabies, athlete's foot and other externally caused skin troubiee. Use outck•acting, soothing, antiseptic D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. Greaseless. stainless. Itch stops or your money back. Your druggist stocks D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. evidence that the "little men" may. exist. Do They Exist? He reported finding dwellings:: only eight feet long by four feet wide and from twelve to eighteen inches high, made of dolomite, a kind of white marble. Points from small hunting arrows were also found, though no one had hunted there within the memory of the Eskimos. Civilization's gradual, but irre- sistible advance into the northland race in those snowbound diminu- wastes may soon give us the answer. And the RELIEF is "` "''' LASTING Nobody knows the cause of rheuma- tism but we do know there's one thing to ease the pain . .. it's INSTANTINE. And when you take INSTANTINE the relief is prolonged because INSTANTn=E contains not one, but three proven medical ingredients. These three ingredients work together to bring you not only fast relief but more prolonged relief. Take INs'rAsoreseE for fast headache relief too . or for the pains of neuritis or neuralgia and the aches and pains that often accompany a cold. Get Instentine today and always keep It handy nstantine 12 -Tablet Tln 250 Teal 48 -Tablet Bottle Economical 690 Upside down to prevent peeking. GOB DEEM '`©®® BO© ©©0u© ©OB gIZEIIEIENEEI ©MIDGE© ©EMO ®CI© ]`. 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