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By Richard H. Wilkinson
No No, taught on to me : e, rel
hitt Sheila, Sheila was soils!. pretty,
too. Site II ad ,41114,10 }!ray c}rs and.
tinea hair and pure white slcio.
\Ve nn`I at 11 winter sport. Lou>e-
party up iu New' Hampshire, and
the nest Monday, bark in Boston,
I took her to lunch, "I've sante
friends I'd lila' to have you meet,"
I said, "'They have nn apartment
out on the Fenway. Suppose 11'e
run out tonighti" She looked -al
me with a sudden flash of her
smoky eyes, and I said quickly:
"Sounds like a stuffy evening, I
suppose. It won't be, Bette and
Gill are O.K. You'll like than."
"I'd love to go," she said. And
so that night we called ou Bette
and Gill.
On the way home Sheila said
she'd had a 'rand time, which is
why i've always marveled at Bette
and Gill, because we'd done prac-
tically nothing.
"I 1 i le e them," Sheila said,
"They're married and dies seem
happy."
"They are happy. They've been
married six years and they're hap-
pier than when they started. I've
known 'cut both since high school."
Well, during the six months that
followed I saw a lot of Sheila, and
togethen we saw a lot of Gill and
Bette. One night 1 went up there
without her, and you'd think those
two had been waiting for an oppor.
tunity to get nae alone.
"Say, listen," Gill said, "you're
getting old. I mean, here we've
been married six years and you're
not even in lone."
"How would you know about
that?" I grinned at him.
"I knew its"- Bette cried delight-
edly. "It's Sheila! He's in love with
Sheila! Oh, ,Tint, we thinly that's
grand! She'll make you a wonder-
ful wife1"
"Sheila's all right. Good- company.
So are the dozen other girls I've
been bringing up there."
Gillshrugged, "O.K.,- -fiat, \Ve've
been hoping you'd fall for one of
them, because you're missing some.
thing—not being married."
Two nights after that 1 saw
Sheila. We went to an in -town
hotel to dinner and dance. Around
10 o'clock I suggested we leave
and run out to Gill's and Bette's,
But Sheila shook her head, and I
looked at her in some surprise.
"They're nice people," she said,
"1 like thein, but Pm a little tired
of being an excuse,"
"Excuse?"
"I've heard about the other girls,
They were all excuses, but f'll bel
they didn't know it."
"Now, wait a minute," I said.
"What is this?"
"Call it a game, if yon like,"
She looked at me steadily, "Jim.
you'd better give up, Gill happens
.to love his wife and I hare 'an idea
he'll keep on loving her,"
i flushed angrily. "Or course elle
will, Who says he won't?"
"Nobody. But you hope he won't,'
"I hope what? \'Vhat the devil
a1'c you talking about?"
She sighed, "Oh, .fins, stop pre-
tending. \'ou're in love with "Bette,
You've been in lore with her tot
so many years you've lost count,
You kept bringing pretty girls up
there, hoping he'd fall for one of
therm. hoping she'd break up their
match, Then yan'd have a chance
with Gette,
"StopP' I yeller. "You're crazyf"
"No 1'mu not, l.'in quite sane,
What kills 1110 is that neither Gill
nor Bette have caught on," She
stolyped and bit her lip. "Well, ft's
110110 of my affair, but 1'Il tell yon
this. 11111: 'Tose two are about the
only inspiring people I've ever
known, And I'n all Petr letting them
stay that 11510 From noel 011, romll0
me out."
1 shrugged. "0.R. You're out.
There are two dozen others nut
with you. Butyou're the first who's,
guessed the reason," I sighed, "1
guess I'd better quit, Gill and Bette
thinly if 1 married yell T'd 11e get-
ting a prize. 1'111 beginning to agree
with them. AVitt you 1111rt•y mei"
"No." said S'lleila,
Which is what a chap gets for
!laying a secret like amine,
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1111 'IilIc 'l.n p ed :111 f, it •n 1111'
lit•! 1 ,h ilia Brill ,1 1' i 1 i t wealth
to heed, the rich, -.a, 'Miele gold-
tl,,,z1„
ot,l••p:. 01 the foiit'leeu-
wen 11 1')- ahfch lets jural set out
for the t,ILul tr Iso -clot gold reef
in a u , 11,, ,,, almost waterless area
of \u It 41st s Northern 'Fi'rrftory?
These gold -sockets of 11151 carry
111th thein Harp, laburimisly nettle
by a long -dela!, skilful hgold pros-
rt'n'. i., arry 1.11-4.'1,•', More
dead than alive, he emerged 150111
the desert to Alice Springs in 1817,
to tell the auhctzine 31050 of gold -
bearing oilterops of enormous l'it'h-
ness. His nape contained full
technical data—ruin is. \vent back
with them determined to overcome
the physical hardships and dan.
gers which had prevented hint from
exploiting his ;treat discovery
immediately,
Ilut L.assrter tisaet returned a
second time. A relief expedition
found 11is body, wracked by dysen-
tery ;old sandy blight, in the de-
sert where Ile hat died after en-
countering hostile Aborigines and
being deserted by his camels, The
neaps and technical data were found
intact.
Lived ion Tadpoles
Since then the so-called "curse"
has prevented other explorers from
finding his dream gold, bfany lives
have been sol.
Thousands of pounds have been
lavished on expeditions. Some
prospectors tried to find it by
'plane. The 'plane crashed. A
ground party with a huge desert
lorry gat near the reef as des-
cribed in hi; diaries. Then the lorry
broke down. Men crossed moun-
tains and chasms, were attacked by
nomad Aborigines and weakened
by desert sickne.'. —but failed to
find the. gold,
Australian Government officials
themselves have taken 1 art in the
hunt. Hard-headed Whining experts
who laugh at superstition have had
a go. They all knew that in his
last message to his wife Lasseter
wrote: "Darling, do not grieve for
ine. I ]tare done me best and peg-
ged the reef . - .
New Queen's Principal — Ap-
pointment of William Archibald
Mackintosh, C.M.G., M.A., Ph.D.,
LL.D., F.R.S.C., as principal and
vice-chancellor of Queen's Uni-
versity, effec"ive September 1,
has been announced by J. M.
Macdonnell, chairman of the
University Board of Trustees.
Dr. Mackintosh has been
widely recognized as an out-
standing economist, educator
and administrator. Ostler uni-
versities have sought him as
their head, but his heart is with
ueen's. He was honored by the
'ting with the C.M.G. for his
'ervices to the allied cause in
Norld War 11. He is a Ph.D. of
larvard, an LL.D. of Manitoba
Jniversity, a Fellow of she Royal
iociety of Canada. He is vice-
lrincipal of Queen's, Dean of
he Faculty of Arts, and director
,f the School of Commerce and
Administration.
Easy•On The Solt, Churn—Army veteran Alfred Furniss, a victim of rheumatoid arthritis, sprinkles
salt on his food with an eye dropper as part of the carefully measured metabolic unit investiga-
tion being carried out in various hospitals across the country. Nursing Sister Helen McLean is
shown with him at Sunnybrook Veterans' Hospital. Patients have every bite of food measured
down to the last milligram so that research doctors of The Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism
Society can find out exactly what happens to the food in the body and 'what influence drugs
like cortisone and ACTH have on the disease. The Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society is
campaigning for funds this month to continue this and other research programs and to add to the
number of clinics and mobile units across the country designed to bring more and better treatment
to the thousands of victims of the disease.
Two of the reef -seekers were liv-
ing of boiled n iled tadp oles when a
R.A.A.F. plane found them in the
desert. It is believed that a native
tribe who came upon Lasseter
transferred ill luck which had dog-
ged them for years to him and his
expedition, and that this curse in-
evitably descend- on all who try
to follow in his footsteps.
But the fourtcet: Wren now on
their way to Lasseter's reef believe
they will find "conclusive evidence
once and for all time" that it exists.
They remember the discovery near
Victoria many years ago of "The
Welcome Stranger," one of the
largest masses of gold ever diecov- •
eyed (it contained 2 2S4 oz. of fuze
gold-, and they tape heart, They
know that all 111511 who have sought
gold its Australia are convinced that
much more gold than the 72 tons
(worth $30,000,000) which passed
through the strongroom of the
Bank of Victoria, at Walhalla, in the
"roaring fifties" of last century still
awaits discovery there.
How To Attract
Mosquito Bites
If you want to be delectable in
one sort of way, wear dark, dull,
sweat -soaked clothes. This attire
is guaranteed to pique the appe-
tite of the most blase mosquito,
Prof, Anthony W. A. Brown, Uni-
versity of Western Ontario etoutrn
logist, told the American Mosquito
Control Association meeting last
week in Chicago.
Brown had spent last summer
touring Canada, which has a com-
plete set of mosquitos, accompanied
by an assistant and two dummies --
12 -gallon electrically heated water
tanks on stiltlike logs. Setting up
their dummies in likely spots and
dressing them in various costumes,
the experimenters would count the
number of mosquitos that alighted
and futilely . ttenmpted to feast.
(More discriminating insects got
easy meals from the two scientists
who excluded repltants for fear of
spoiling the experiments.)
A m o n g Brown's couch.tsi0115
were:
Moist clothing is four times as
attractive to mosquitos as dry gar-
ments. And• sweat has twice the
appeal of plain water,
White or green cloth does not
draw mosquitos so strongly as dark-
er hues.
Such shiny textiles as rayon satin
or nylon are significantly less ap-
petizing, And luminescent dyes,
which glow in sunlight, discourage
many mosquitos.
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BY -
HAROLD
ARNETT
REPAIR FENCEP0575 Ramo BELOW
GROUND WITH LENGTHS 0 t5NE-INCH GALVAN—
IZEO PIPS AND PIPS STRAPS, AS SHOWN, CUT TNS
PIPES LONG ENOUGH TO EXTENi, 3 FEET INTO GROUND!
TllLPA1M FRONT
Whenever dairy or cattlemen get
together the subject of artificial in-
semination—its advantages or other-
wise—seems almost bound to crop
up. Dr. John B. Herrick, a noted
United States veterinarian recently
pointed out one of the plain advan-
tages—namely, the control of ven-
ereal and other disease that can be
spread froin herd to herd by an in-
fected bull.
* *
It is possible, of course. for such
dread diseases as brucellosis and
trichomoniasis to be spread by arti-
ficial insemination as well as by
natural service. But 'field experience
]las shown a decrease in reproduct-
ive diseases when artificial insemin-
ation is used.
* * *
The reason is that artificial breed-
ing personnel pay close attention to
sanitation, -
• t *
This strict attention to disease
control in artificial insemination
studs starts with the purchase of
the bull. Managers of the bull studs
check breeding records, slake sure
the bull is free from disease before
he is added to the stud. And the
bulls have little chance to pick up
diseases from a sterile artificial
vagina. *
As a double check, bulls can be
given periodic laboratory exatnina-
tions for brucellosis, vibriosis and
trichomoniasis,
* r. e
Methods of inseninatiou now
taught by the colleges and bull stud
personnel stress the importance of
cleanliness and sanitation. insemin-
ators are shown the great need of
using sterile inseminating equip-
ment, scrubbing boots and tarrying
their own disinfected water.
d: *
In the early rays of artificial in-
semination, the semen was deposit-
ed in the horns of the uterus. This
method Held risks of infection, But
now itlsenhinatots use what is called
1110 deep cervical method, Usually,
there is 501115 mucus present in the
cervical callal. This traps 5111, micro-
organisms, allowing the sperm to
move along the canal and fertilize
the egg. ,
The very small dance for spread'
of disease through artificial insemin-
ation is a sharp contrast to the op-
portunities for spread of disease
4lirough 55114151 service.
is *
Natural'8Crvices gives the bull a
chance to pick op a disease from a
cow and pass it along to each cow
he servos. Trich0lnoniasis, one of
the most serious venereal diseases
of rattle, is spread mostly through
service by a bull.
Disease can be spread nun cow
to cow within a herd, 00511 though
the bull does not breed any cow
outside the herd. The danger of
spreading disease through natural
service by`a bull is far greater when
a "community" bull is used.
4: * *
A bull that travels from farm to
farm has a chance t pick tip in-
fections and diseases from each
farm. And 11e can carry those germs
along to other farms.
• a:
In holland, for instance, use of
community bulls is a common prac-
tice. But there is also a high rate of
venereal diseases of cattle.
• 4, 4,
It is hard to understand why cont-
inuity or travelling bulls are used
when superior bulls are available
to dairymen through artificial breed-
, ing centres. Certainly, one of the
main advantages of artificial insem-
ination is the control of diseases of
the reproductive tract.
* V *
It is a fact that S to 10 per cent
of all cow's in the average herd have
some sterility at one time or an-
other. Some of this sterility can be
attributed to the bull, Therefore,
means of controlling these venereal
diseases of cattle arc of real econ-
omic interest to farmers,
e. * *
1'o switch from cattle to pigs,
here is a suggestion for swine sani-
tation, which might be of great
interest to the farmer who feeds
large numbers of hogs on an en-
closed, paved floor feeding shed.
Periodically, the floor is thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected. When the
floor is dried, and before the pigs
are allowed in the pen, a corner of
the pen floor is wet down with
water. This wet corner is invariably
used by the hogs for toilet purposes,
leaving the retraining ,:pace dry and
clean wimcre they can rest comfort-
ably. This method also saves—labor
in cleaning out tile manure. As in
the case of domestic cats using a
sand box if given an opportunity to
do so, hogs are easily trained to
clean habits.
DINING OUT
A loan and two children entered
a restaurant and ordered three
plates and three glasses of water.
'1'hcu they tool: out sandwiches and
began to cat.
"Here," roared the manager,
"What are you doing?"
"And who are you?" asked the
diner.
"l'm the manager."
"Good," said the man, "7 was just
going to send for you, 1,Vhy isn't
the orchestra playing?" -
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, 11g conli'a'un': er1.7•141'1..{n$
iron, send i- on,- of 1h, most re -
to 1.1,14: the garden
511:10' that 1 11 .r4)11. US a nurbet'y.
S1111,, of 11,.. I.on1,-'01vn seedlings
',sill he to g., enough to 1010ce into
1,11111 ii ll? quarter'l w111111! four
*
Siure ,.4ergrecn becdliag,1 ars
tor, delicate to he entrusted to the
full strength of the sun during
their first year, a partly shaded
corner of the vegetable garden
makes an ideal nursery area for
them. If there is no natural pro-
tection available, alternating strips
of light and shadows can be fur-
nished wills a lath shade.
* * *
Good garden soil is suitable for
the seed sowing, but soil that is
heavy and sticky needs sand and
1111111115 added to make as easily
penetrable. non -crusting germina-
tion medium. A solid of proper
structure will also reduce the dan-
ger of plants' roots being injured
by frost action in the winter
months.
The seeds are covered lightly
with soil, the depth varying ac-
cording to their size, and the bed
is covered with burlap to conserve
moisture. They may take a month
or longer to germinate. When they
are duc to appear, the bed should
be inspected frequently and the
burlap promptly removed at the
first sight of green.
4, * • *
During the first growing season,
especially, it is important to see
that the plants never suffer from
lack of moisture. The surface soli
should be stirred as soon as it be-
comes workable after each rain or
watering. Over winter the bed
should be carefully mulched with
excelsior, hay or pine needles.
* *
Evergreens that develop more
slowly and require additional years
in the nursery plot need not be
spaced that far apart when trans-
planted the first time, but should
be set two feet apart when trans-
planted again two years later. At
all times they should have ample
room to insure symmetrical growth.
No tree should be moved to its
permanent quarters until it has as-
sumed the form typical of its kind
and has proved satisfactory in every
way. " * *
While it is possible to move
small evergreens successfully with
bare roots, provided they are shift-
ed immediately into a new hole,
without undue exposure, I always
prefer to dig even the smallest
seedlings with unbroken balls of
soil. .I ant then certain that they
will suffer no setback, Letting the
roots dry in the air is always a
dangerous risk. In the new location
the plants are set at the same level
at which they were orignally grow-
ing,
* 1 *
Watering is essential to the suc-
cess of transplanting. It will also
be necessary during any summer
dry spells to maintain continuous,
even growth of the seedlings.
Once the young specimens are in
their permanent places, a mulch
will reduce the need for watering.
is * *
Seeds of all the coniferous ever-
greens—arborvitae, hemlock, fir,
pine, spruce, and the various ce-
dars, as well as the one deciduous
conifer, the larch or tamarack—
are handled in the sane way. Gath-
ered directly from the trees or
from newly fallen cones when ripe,
the seed is stored in a dry, cool
place until planting time in spring.
A point to remember is that the
horticultural varieties will not come
true from seed. Only the species
of conifers can be depended on to
produce new trees which resemble
their parents.
.4 >f' it
'Seeds of desired evergreens often
can be collected from specimens
found in one's own neighborhood.
Then there are dealers who make
a specialty of such seeds,
Persons who lack the patience to
start from scratch, but who still
would like to assume a share of
the work that is usually under-
taken by commercial growers, will
find seedling trees in various stages
of development available from some
nurseries. These also are grown
for a year of two in nursery rows
in the home garden before they are
set out as specimen plants.
The 'Plain People"
\n ,A1 n;b 1511144 ru1c15t11,g .1101st
tate .sides. 11, iris ph,,1o• 1,.+0114
01,41:;,• t,'I,plunu'a al 0 fosis,llett
waved checrfllIly to 1 :young couples
p.';rulg in a btlggy. Aller marriages
the hay will grow a ;card and Loth
will ride in a 31530, hoastisa, wagon
like th ,4c which lined the street,
Th, it preliminary 3011 tin;' is at
:,,,, ,l v night 01131- 1011,•11' five llnn-
dre,1 ening pw'11r may gather,
Using the hencln•'+ 41'1 tit' 105 Morn-
ing wrier' , , , officially, they do
not listen to the radio or go to
the movies, but the word gets
around somehow. Tliey can, how-'
ever, visit the cirrus. if it has a
menagerie; it is proper to loolc at
the different animals God has t0ade.
The Amish do things their own
way. Their clocks usually run half -
an -hour fast. so that they will never
miss a bus or ]veep anybody waiting.
Under daylight saving they must
remember "fast time, slow time, and
our time". They invented pre-fah-
rication. At a house -raising in a,
Maryland colony started in 1939,
a reporter asked why they con-
structed sides for the houses flat
on the ground, instead of the usual
way. "Olt," said the foreman, we'll
have 400 to 50 here tomorrow. the
sides go up easy."
Outside the hotel in Lancaster,
I met an Ancient Mariner with
wandering gray locks and clothes
of rusty black. He is the nearest
approach to an Amish press agent,
a correspondent for the local press
and Amish newspapers in other
States. We had dinner together.
"Did you know that after every
service we have dinner for every-
body—free?" he asked . , . "Schnitz
pies—hundreds and hundreds of
them."
I asked about household conveni-
ences.
"Some have gasoline stoves and
washing -machines and water in the
house," he said. 'But no electric,
Did you know that we use the
Gregorian chant in our services—
and the oldest Protestant hymn
book. printed in Switzerland in
1564?"
There are one hundred Old Order
Amish churches iu the United
States, with about ten thousand
members. In Lancaster County,
there are eighteen hundred Old Or-
der Amish, all farmers except a
few carpenters, broom -makers, car-
pet -weavers. and harness-malce1e
The Amish newspaper corres' pn-
dent used to have a cheese business,
and what is still more unusual, he
has been around the world. I asked
why.
"Wanderlust," he said: adding
after a moment: "And to follow the
missionary journeys of the Apostle
Patt1,"—From, "That Old -Time Re-
ligion." by Archie Robertson.
VALUE OF FATHERS
She—"Aly father's a doctor. I can
be sick for nothing."
He—"Mine's a minister. I can be
good for nothing."
WINNIE WINS ONE—Winston
Churchill leans forward to get
the good word before the race
from Jockey T, Gosling, who
rode the British statesman's
horse, Colonist II, to victory its
the Churchill Stakes at London.\
Colonist II finished two lengths
ahead of Above Board, owned
by King George. Star-Spangled
Banner finished third,
JITTER
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