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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-2-7, Page 7Change (f Pace fell By Wilford Oban Persing "1 don't rare if you have, to buy a sawmill to get that lumber, just see that it gets there today!" Ai Ike tilanahan slammed the phone back on its cradle, month!. Mg to himself abmtt young pups who quit trying as soon as they'd heard 'No' mentioned a time or two. The slender, black -haired girl, sitting on the corner of his sleek, grinned al him. "Pops. if everyone bulled their way through like you do, there'd be quite a crop of cracked leads," As he looked up at his slaughter, Mike's face softened into a smile. "Something on your mind, Cathy?" "Y.es, but I think this job is a little too delicate for your methods." She stared out the window for a moment before continuing. "James refuses to marry me," she said. "Now, he's decided that it's Netter if we don't even see each other any more." "Refuses to marry you l" 'rhe windows rattled as Mike came up out of his chair. "Why 111—" Cathy's frown put Mike back into his chair. "That's what I mean about your methods. I'd like to have enough of hint left to carry me over the threshold." "Why won't he marry you?" "Rich girl, poor boy. Ile says he won't have it appear that he married me for my money." Mike stared thoughtfully at her. "You really love him, don't you?" Cathy nodded her head. "All you need," Mike said as he leaned back and stared at the ceiling, "is just a diamond -studded, fourteen -carat miracle." "That's a thought to cheer a girl's heart." Cathy gave her father a wry glance. "That is, if you have an extra miracle you won't be needing for a few days." Alike closed his eyes and studied a moment. "I could arrange for a high -salaried job to fall his way." "Pops, please don't try anything like that. If he found that we had a hand in it, he would probably leave town. Your tactic; are about as subtle as those of an old billy goat." "All right, so I'm not in the habit of pussy -footing around," growled Mike "What are you going to do?" "Salve as 1 have been doing. Argue some more and try to wear him down." "That settles that." Mike stood up and absently walked over to get his hat and coat. "You want the to drop you off at home? I've got to' run over to the hospital." ."The hospital?" "Yes, old Zeke, the fellow who owns the newsstand clown on the corner, thinks he's going to die, and I thought some company might cheer hien up." Cathy frowned. "He must be the one who has been giving me some competition. James spends two or three nights a week, playing chess and arguing politics with some old fellow named Zeke." Mike stopped and stared at Cathy. "Come on," he said hur- riedly, "if rI don't get a move on; visiting hours will be over before 1 get there," The windows were still rattling !roan Alike's conversation when he slanmmled the phone back into its :radio and glanced up .at the young woman who vgas struggling to keep the exasperated expression ou her face "Mike .Clanahan, I thought you were asked to keep your st:rongarin tactics out of my love affair." Mike grinned up at her. "What :lo you neatm?" "You know very well what I mean." Cathy's stern expression • broke into a happy laugh. She came around.the desk and kissed Hint on the forehead. "But I still don't kimow—" "Don't play innocent with me. Having Zeke leave everything to James was a stroke of genius. But what I wanted to know is how you managed to get forty-seven thou- sand dollars in old bilis hidden in 'Leltes room. "Did it Work?" • Cathy held flier left hand up 10 front of Mike's face. A diamond on the third linger twinkled .merrily at 11115, Korea's Great Gifts To Our Gardens Writing in 'Horticulture,' Len- non: 4ingley, tell ahont Korea's gifts to gardeners, one of thein is the hand)' spirc•a blooming like a floral fountain, which graces manly an Ontario lawn in spring—the Korean bridal wreath, And with larger flowers and more :spreading growth than the Chinese variety, two of our host forsythias, opulent with golden bloSSwtt, also origin- ated in Korea. In 1902 a plant hunter explor- ing ICorean tva sides 1.1(1510 upon a flowering shrub with rose- coloured buds and waxy, pure -white flowers. He fragrance was clean and spicy, tlie essence of spring itself. No time was' lost in intro- ducing. the plant into North Ameri- can gardens where it seems to have taken kindly to soil and elimatic conditions. It is the mayflower viburnum (Viburnum earle,if. In his book on Plant Hunting, Ernest Wilson says that if Korea had given us none other than this lovely plant, that land would merit the lasting graittude of gardeners. "Let me state emphatically," he adds, "the species is a native of Korea only, and unknown in China or Japan to which countries it is persistently referred . . . It has accepted our soil and our climate, added beauty and fragrance to our lives, tut, in the beginning, the Power which distributes plants to mankind ordained that this parti- cular bit of loveliness. should grow wild only for those people who lived in the Land of Morning Calm." One of the gems of the barberry family is a native of Korea, and can be recognized by its leathery leaves, sometimes reaching a length of three inches. It produces flowers in inch -long racemes and its berries are a radiant red to brighten autumn days in the garden. Waysides and gardens in milder zones south of the border and in British Columbia, have their spring days glorified by masses of rho- dodendron blossoms. English lanes and hillsides are adorned with the great flowers produced on the sante lofty shrubs. Many of the best varieties originated in Korea. One of them, distinguished by its pure pink blossoms, was found 'by the earliest of Korean plant hunters, Baron Alexander Schlippenbach, in 1854. He found the shrub which has been named for hien growing in tens of thousands on the lower slopes of the Diamond Mountains. Another gorgeous rhododendron •with fragrant flowers of rosy -purple delighted plant hunter f G. Jack when he 'discovered it growing on - Mount Poukhan, near Seoul, in 1905. Seed was collected in quantity and taken to the United' States where it flourished. Korea in peacetime is a rich field for plant exploration, and Ernest Wilson writes glowingly of the treasures found there. Lilac time, which Inc many gardeners and flower lovers is the crowning glory of spring, Owes touch to Korea. It was Wilson who intro- duced the earliest of our lilacs to bloom (Syringo oblata dilitata). Open panicles of flowers, pink and fragrant', distinguish it, and it ltas foliage dark and leathery which in autumn days brings a second joy, for it colours isrii llaittl}'. In recent , years fall gardens, lengthening the season of bloom most gratefully, have been gay with a host of new chrysanthe- mums. Many of them are Korean hybrids. It was the good fortune of hybridizer Alexander Cummings to stumble across a wild Korean species with white, daisy -like flowers, which became a receptive • nd pliant species for breeding. This Korean daisy became the dom- inant parent in the development of of many recent hybrids. But the list of Korean originations in other plant varieties could go on indefin- itely. Speaking of our debt to Korea, Cummins writes: "Korea, asso- ciated with much of our fine gar- den material of today, loons large in the history of garden chrysan- themums, both ancient and recent. 0' Make Your Sprang Hat a Spring Tonic EY EDNA WILES IN spring a young woman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of hats. But the wisest of women direct their attention towards the often troublesome matter of selecting hendwear long before the first daffodil pokes its head above the ground. A hat can make or break your spring outfit. It must at once suit your personality, tie In with the color of your ensemble, flatter your features and enhance your general appearance<. Too often women are swept off their feet by a single virtue in a hat. For example, while the color may be a perfect match or con- trast, the shape of the hat may leave much to be desired. Picture hats, for instance, are particularly complimentary to A sheaf of sheer white net, knife pleated, streaks seeress this dra- =etic spring creation. The demure pleated net is held in place by a broad band of pink velvet ribbon. Golden straw leaves are strewn acmes the stiffened blonde meek of this spring picture bat Shallow crowned and wide brimmed. the hat sparkles with scatteredi ibdmestones, women with long slender faces but do little for naturally round faces. Hats with horizontal lines, like the one at lower left, are a boon to unusually tall women but a liability for women who are short. On the other hand, turban -type hats aid high heels in coming to the rescue of women who wishthey were a little taller. In choosing the color of your spying hat, don't trust your, memory. If you want the hat to match your outfit, take a swatch of material with you on your hat -shopping trip. And, • above all, ask yourself how long you will truly .look for- ward to wearing the hat. When you try it on, does it seem to give an 'added lilt to your step? Remember that altogether hats are the perennial butt of jokes by the male of the specie, they are as much of a spring tonic as sulphur and molasses. There is nothing like a hat to provide some relief from a winter of dreary landscapes or. a month of drab domestic chores. So when you buy a hat, take. a deep breath of courage and take a hat that will make you want to hold your head high. New Light On Question Of What To Wear In Cold Weather Prof. M. E. Barker of the Uni- versity of Arkansas dispelled widely held beliefs as to what snakes cloth- ing comfortable. Piling one layer on other layers doesn't do nearly as mucic good as we think, ile finds. Two layers of cloth do not give twice the insula - .tion value of one layer, but only about one and one-half times as much. According to Barker, there is little difference in the insulation. value of a piece of cloth whether it is made of wool, cotton, rayon or any of the synthetic fibers, so long as the thickness, structure, color and density are the same. He assumes that the cloth is;dry and that there is no winf,. Heat loss through damp fabrics is front two to five times as great as from the same dry fabrics, In ridiculing the notion that many layers of fabric are preferable to Few, well chosen, Professor Barker pointed out. that Eskimos wear only two relatively thick layers of cloth- ing weighing together about ten pounds. On the other hand the Army, to get the same insulation value, uses approximately thirty pounds in smite seven layers. Pro- fessor Barker nevertheless approves of the Army's idea for the reason that when multi -layer clothing is worn, it is much easier to shed some garments and thus adjust time insulation to the amount of heat that must be lost during periods of exercise. Besides, the insulating value of cloth increases more rapid- Iy than thickness, up to about' one- nial of an inch, Compromise Needed Barker holds that the well-dressed outdoor ratan should establish a good compromise in lightness, economy and warmth. This can be achieved with moderate - weight, _ closely woven synthetic fabric for under- clothes; a really closely woven thick wool cloth (24 ounces) for shirt and trousers; a thick quilted coat of nixed wool and feathers, and au outer windbreaker in the form of a parka of two layers of water- repellent clout, The windbreaker should be :uncle BY - HAROLD ARNETT GARDEN SHOES STORED STORE GARDEN SHOES AND RUBBERS ON PEGS IN CORNER OF GARAGE ... of cloth so woven as to stop ordin- ary wind current yet allow the body's normal perspiration to es- cape in the form of vapor. If the cloth layer next to the warm skin becomes damp, the heat loss is nearly as great as if all the clothing were wet, On the other hand, a wet outer layer has meth less ef- fect in increasing heat loss. Keep underclothing dry and you will be comfortable, is Barker's admoni- tion. Barker regards the body as ass • engine which can generate enough heat every hour to raise the temper- ature of five pounds of water 100 degrees. This heat nest be dissi- pated, The average adult human body has approximately twenty square feet of surface from which 80 per cent of the heat energy must be cast off regardless of outside' weather conditions. Difference in Temperature The rate of heat loss is Influ- enced by the difference in tempera- ture between the body surface and the outside air and surroundings, the insulating value of the clothing the wind velocity to which the body is exposed and the amount of moist- ure to be evaporated on the surface of the skin. There are also such minor factors as the compression or tension of the clothing, the type of outside windbreaker layer, the manner in which blosure is effected to prevent stray air currents from reaching the body surface or from pentrating the space between the layers of clothing that surround the body, the thickness of the individ- ual layers of fabric that compose the clothing, the composition, emis- sivity and structure of the cloth. "To he comfortable in windy, cold weather outdoors," says Barker, "you must wear dry clothing in comparatively thick layers; the ankles, wrists and neck openings must be closed to exclude thermal convection currents, and the out- side• windbreaker layer must be of closely woven cloth with a smooth surface, yet it nest permit out- ward diffusion of water vapor from the body." New Ideas About Fertilization Seldom does a year go by with- out a gardener trying something new in the litre of plants or their care. Any method which poves successful from the viewpoint, of a better display or saving time is certain to become a part of his reg- ular practice, writes E. L. Far- rington in the New York Times. New varieties of roses in the 1951 catalogues remind me that I mulch- ed my beds of this flower rather heavily with coarse compost last spring. The results were highly satisfactory, for few weeds ap- peared and there was little need for cultivation. Town restrictions re- duced the amount of water I could use and although I regard ade- quate moisture as one of the es - roses, the plants did not seem to suffer. All in all, the coarse but not wholly disintegrated compost proved as good a mulch as any ma- terial I have ever hied. A neighbor who was committed to organic gardening to the ulti- mate degree had grown swcetcorn successfully under a sawdust mulch for several years. Last summer his corn refused to grow. The plant food needed to meet the detttands brought about by additional bac- terial activity was undoubtedly not there. I find that grass clippings provide the only mulching material which does not need to be supple- mented by extra feeding, * n, a Whether or not my unusually good yield of tomatoes resulted from my use of aluminum foil as a mulch, 1 would not know, In other years, 1 have mulched with grass clippings, which 1 considered a good practice, but •the aluminum foil may have special advantages. bast summer, too, I picked snore blueberries than usual. In past seasons, the birds got more than their share of berries in spite of all the scare -away devices 1 could find. The robins and starlings ig- nored all of theist. In 1950, I put in effect the simple plass of covering thirty bushes with a goeat tract under which 1 could walls and work. The tent was oracle of dis- carded tobacco cloth in two 30 by 40 foot sections bought for a song. * 5' * ' Tho cloth was stretched over wires held in place by water -pipe posts six feet above the ground. Cltotltcs1ines were stretched front post to post at ground level and the tobacco cloth fastened to them with clothespins, The result in terms of crop was perfect, To be sure, the hurricane which came along in late summer ripped the cloth into strips but the picking season was over then and I can buy cloth for next year, Certain planting procedures also lead to increast harvest, I have come to the conclusion that lettuce plants should stand a foot apart in he row if they are to head well. In order to gather lettuce all sum- mer, I grow it in a coldframe, which is not covered but does give protection from hot winds. * * '5 Whether fall plowing or seeding with a cover crop is the better practice is still an open question. One or the other is needed if the garden slopes, for winter snow and tban is commonly realized. Plow- ing leaves the ground rough and probably destroys many insects, they have been dug under in the spring, 5 Early- digging or plowing under of the cover es -op is important, A neighbor who planted winter oats let them grow until they resisted all his efforts to turn them under the soil. A power cultivator was the last resort. Cover crops may not be as satisfactory for the gar- den which is started early. They undoubtedly retard warming ftp of the soil in spring, Yet I continue to sow rye, perhaps because I like to look out on that pleasant patch of green during the winter. Even Chance: A store in Nese Jersey has two large safes. One contained $4,000 the other was empty. 'Thieves worked for hours on one, finally opened it—and drew time plank. $500 Per Night For "Magical" Bed A bed fitted with a motor, which in the morning pounds the mat- tress until you are tlmrovvn out on to tate floor, is now being Made in Chicago. But novel beds are not a modern invention, • The main property in an im, mense fraud was Dr, Graham'$ "Celestial Bed," made by him in 1779. Costing $60,000, it was sue - ported by twenty-eight glass pil- lars and from its depths came the strains of vocal and instrumental music. Graham claimed that childless married couples would have heirs as a result of sleeping on it, and for this privilege he charged' the gullible $500 a night, Beds which must have given thier occupants nightmares were designed by the ancient Egyptians, who sculptured their couches in the form of animals. One such bed is half in the shape of a hippopotamus and half like a crocodile, with menacing teeth made of ivory. Bad dreams must also have been the lot of those who slept in the bed -chamber built for Metternich, the European statesman, in 1820. '1'wo beds represented a grotto, on which lizards, toads and bats were modelled in gilt wood. Placed in an alcove, they were 11t by .a lamp in the form of an owl, the light shining eerily through the bird's eyes. Eastern monarchs used to have beds supplied for the use of more than two people, and so, surpris- ingly, did some of our own an- cestors. The Great Bed of Ware, built in 1400 to the specifications of Warwick, the King -maker, was twelve foot square and seven and a half feet in height. When it stood in the "Saracen's Head" at Ware for a time, as marry as 12 people at once used to hire it. Sometimes beds have played an important part in public life. Car- dinal Richelieu used to travel in his. Six men were needed to carry the bed, which was so enormous that the walls of a town had to be breached to make room. In fourteenth -century England, when a prince or noble brought his bride home, a beautifully decorated bed was prepared by special offi- cials. After the wedding night, this bed was given to the officer who had got it ready, Beds have often been a source of inspiration. Alexander time Great lay on his couch to issue strategical directions and not so long ago so did Mr. Churchill. In bed, ±he famous barrister, F. E. Smith, wrote most of his books; Milton thought out "Paradise Lost" and Glinka, Donizetti ant Rossini worked on their musical scores. A pity that on these cold morn- ings we can't all follow the ex- ample set by these great men, PERVERSE GENT One cold morning the native was seen, dressed in itis nightshirt, vig- orously chopping kindling, His neighbour, amazed at the brevity of the old man's clothing in such severe weather, asked, "How come?" The man neves' missed a lick in his chopping as he replied: "For the last 70 years I have always dressed by a fin!, and 1'11 be dad gummed if I'm gonna stop now." Nice Boost for Hospital—After staking a tutu of the new Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, members of Rameses Shrine presented a cheque for $6,000 to R. A. Laidlaw, chair- man of the hospital board. This brought the total contribution• of the Shf•inera to this. institution over $110,000, Left to right are Shriners Alex Brown, Bill Corman, 13111 Callow, Potentate S. Titchener-Smith, Shriner Jack Ramsden, Mr, Laidlaw and Shriner Murdoch L...?efartyn, Ji1'5SR'8. Lobe 3r11.1. HOLDS,.., rALt.1Na NtE/-15 1,ANisina t POSH kiTAo W AABOARD 7a(L6 NOW WNsRs nip THAT LITTLE Mint - DISAPPEAR 'sn 1. By Arthur Pointer 41, NOW, YOUNG MASA, YDU cAN CARR WHIR PASsA6ta A514000 BYHOLDIN' Tay HSTWNILE a Sve'a ST lid