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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1951-7-11, Page 2The Square Dance I' enturkys fountain folk gather• Ings have helped t" preserve for America much of its rich and early 'culture, Foremost of alt forms of entertainment, thea as now, was the square dance. There are numer- ous type, of the dance railed by the simple description of "square," It is impossible here to go into the details of the steps, but while gay dancers whirl to and fro keep- ing time with the musicians strum- ming away on banjos and guitars or sawing on fiddles, they all keep apace with the caller. He shouts; * * * All hands up and circle left, Swing your partner and the one you meet, That's what makes the swing so sweet. (First couple lead out). Lady 'round the lady and the gents go slow. Lady 'round gents and gents don't go. 7 - (Meet (Meet on the center and swing,) Ladies change and gents the same. Right hands cross and "How do you do?" Opposites swing, and don't forget your honey in the center of the ring, (Second couple lead out.) * * * Another formation leads out with a somewhat more rapid stride , . . There is the famous "Old Tucker" formation, a really beautiful run- ning dance set, "Old Tucker" is an odd man in the ring who be- comes a potential robber of every man's girl, and a butt of the caller's ad libitum jokes . . . There are nearly twenty calls to this dance. It begins: *9 * * All hands up and circle left. All the way 'round. Half way 'n back. Dance, Tucker, dance. Swing your partner once on the corner, All way 'round. Half way 'n back. *• * * These dances, fortunately for lovers of the primitive dance, are still popular in the upper Ken- tucky Valley. -Front "The Ken- tucky," by Thomas D. Clark. Three good sports for your play life! Bra top, wrap -skirt with stand - away pockets, and wonderful pleat- ed shorts that are feminine and flat- tering! Mix together or with other separates. Sew -easy! Pattern 4539 in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 bra and skirt, 474 yards 35 -inch; shorts, 1 'b yards. This pattern, easy to usgysimple to sew, is tested for fit. Has com- plete illustrated instructions. Send THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (35c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern. Print ' plainly SIZE NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. It's ready for you! Our new Anne Adams Summer Pattern Book! Read all about your new vacation wardrobe, how easy it is to sew! Glamor -fashions, illustrations of thrift patterns in all sizes. Send Twenty-five Cents for your copy today! Free Pattern of se Jr.Miss san5nit printed in book. NAUGHTY WORD! The nervous curate had arranged to preach on Jonah and the whale. "And for three days and three nights," he began, "Jonah was in the ---e" He blushed, stammered, stopped, thest started again: 'For three days and three (tights Jonah was in the-----" Once more he was covered with confusion, and once more he stop- ped and mopped ed Incface,'O 1p fi rn which perspiration 'was y otri 1 , Then he gathered his courage hi both hands andm a ith mighty w t effort he finished triumphantly: for three days and three nights Jonah was in the society of the whale." •.r-. HRONIC 1 GERF oltiae fp. Cicalae Most people in central OtttarI t will have heard, or read, of the "twisterthat struck the Hornby district last week. Barnby is about 10 minutes drive from here, yet our first news of the terrible dam- age was by radio, We had no ink- ling of it because even though the wind and rain were pretty bad right here there was no real dam- age -except for the rain beating eight acres of newly -cut hay into the ground -and that may be dam- age enough. Thursday afternoon we went over to Hornby. The havoc was almost unbelievable, Thousands of dollars damage to three farms, and the house and barn on one small- holding. Yet no one was killed or seriously injured. It was a miracle, Details have been given iu all the papers but a few oddities have es- caped notice. For instance, on the Marclnnent farm -better known in the district as "the old McCurdy farm" -there was a great number of fine old trees.' Many were torn up by the roots; others remained standing and in these trees you could look up and sec huge strips of steel roofing lodged in the forks of the trees or wrapped around the branches. The massive bank barn set back quite a piece from the house, yet huge timbers, torn from the barn, were sent hurtling over the house- top and dropped in the field be- yond. Beams that would take sev- eral strong men to lift. The C,B,L. Transmitting Sta- tion is right next to the March- ment farm, but as far as we could see, not a wire was touched. CBC programme; were not even inter- rupted. Naturally the CBL pro- perty has a good, strong wire fence around, yet the next morning a calf was found on CBL property. It certainly couldn't have jumped the fence so one can only suppose it was carried there by the wind, Equally miraculous was the escape of Hornby United Church, within a stone's throw of the path of the storm. The poor little birds were most unhappy -a tremendous lost of chattering and chirping was going on among them. One tree, ripped in half, had exposed a flicker's nest and two little fledgelings were yipping away like a couple of lost chickens. On the Russel King farm, perch- ed on one of the barn stringers from which the roof had been lift- ed, there was one lonely pigeon and a little bantam hen, sitting disconsolately side by- side. Other hens and chickens appeared quite happy, picking' their way among the debris, more than likely delighted at. being allowed se enrich liberty. When the stormstruck the pullets had not yet gone to roost, so the casualty list on that farm was not more than 15. ' Across the road Harry Newton was not so lucky. There was noth- ing left of the pen that had !roused his 400 capons -and very few of the chickens, So far as we know none of the farmers carried wind insurance - too bad wind insurance is so often regarded as an unnecessary ex- pense. It seems to be just one of those things . . . one may pay premiums for years and never stake a claim. But if the necessity does arise then the compensation is worth all the premiums that were ever paid. After we got home that day, Partner made a few observations that had not occurred to rte. He was comparing the effects now to what it was 20 years ago. "At that time," said Partner, "a farmer was practically dependent on his barn, He couldn't carry on without it. But now, with his buildings gone, a farmer's field work need not stop. He can bale his hay and stack the bales. IIe can combine his crops, sell the grain and bale the er.essee- Hanclytn n Can Make�E dent Do BY EDNA IWZLES QUCH labels as "scatter -brained" and "inefficient" have 1J leen tagged on women for generations. .fousewines forget their appointments, lose their bills, foul up their bank accounts. WgWWen, charge_ their husbAll',ds, simply have no mind for business. A more aeeurate conclusion wpuld bet,'won?en have no place for business. The average home is simply not set up forfingertip organ- ization. The milk bill gets thrust in the kitchen door; the gas bill arrives in the Mail, but the baby grabs ft for play reeelpts and f o- portant papers get stuck in with recig,-er llnlerle, because there's just no other place for them, Most women have neither the spate nor the time for an elaborate filing system, but here's an idea for a- simple -to -make, easy-to-use file that may be hung on the back of the' kitchen door for easy avail- ability. This file, which is planned as a calendar system, is divrded'into 35 individual pockets --one for each day of the month plus 'four extra divlsions dor miscellaneous use, USE MAILING DATE AS GUrDE JT'S suggested that homemakers file their bills under the dates they should be mailed. Since most ;firms now use staggered bookkeep- ing systems, homemakers receive bills all month long. Sometimes, because there's no concrete reminder, the writing of checks in pay- ment gets shoved aside. By slipping your bill into the due -date pocket, however, you will find it easy to remember to deal with It promptly, Such a file is also an aid In keeping up with social appointments. Memos jotted down just after you've received a verbal or a telephone invitation may be placed in the proper slot. By checking papers tucked into the current day's file each morning, you will have a permanent. memory -jolter. If your husband is handy with tools, it will be an easy job for him to construct a calendar file for you. The materials he'll need are: a 2 -by -251/2 -inch piece of pressed wood; 171/2 inches of wood strip, one-half inch by th ee-quarters of an inch, to be ripped for With the calendar file pictured here, the busy homemaker entako can keels eight vertical and six, horizontal dividers; half-inch brads, numerals, track of •her hill -paying as well as ef appointlnmtts, parties anmit priming paint and enamel, screws and curved washers for mounting. other dates. Fel straw. It isn't even necessary to put up another high bank barn, as, with the use of modern machinery, hay and grain crops require less room than they did 20' years ago. A big barn nowadays has too much air space -and that in itself is a wind hazard," Sunday we went back to Hornby again and sass a striking example of what can be accomplished with the cooperation of good neighbours. Much of the debris had been clear- ed away. men had been busy with axes and cross -cut saws. A house acid a poultry barn had been re- roofcd. We saw a young housewife hurrying nvcr with home -baking to those who had lost the comforts of hone, We heard of an old gentle- man, over 80, who had been busy all clay Saturday fixing things here and there on one farm, and then, after supper, when everyone thought he had gone hone, he was discovered on top of a garage, help- ing to re -shingle a new roof that the wind had lifted. No platter where you Jive, neigh- bours are wonderful people. I AN NE RST L. //oak taw i' - L a e got ".1'm not an old fuddy- duddy:, Anne Hirst," protests a young woman -"indeed, I'm considered quite modern,' But I ant troubled be- cause our men today seem to le attracted only by the cheap sort of girl. "Why does she stake such an impression? With her raucous laughter, her vulgar actions, her filthy stories -why do the sten cluster about her? The intelligent, refined and cultured girl who would never make such a display is left out, even though she may be lovely to look at and interesting to be with, "Has the quality of our Wren sunk so low? Or is it the girls who have brought this about? - "WHY MARRY THEM?" "I am at a loss to understand.. What would a man have after marrying such a girl? "How horrible to live with as • empty little mind! There arc so many wonderful things to sec and do, good books to read, fine music to enjoy! It certainly doesn't sake any intelligence to male: a cheap exhibition of oneself. "Who has brought this about?" * Many a nice (andlonely) girl * has racked her brain over this * question.. • * Brought up in a cultured lam- * ily, she sets mien of equal birth * and breeding make fools of then- 1 * selves over a flashy km's who CROS SW D PUZZLE Acaoss 1, Dry 4, Ocean 7. wife or Abra- ham' 12, Constellation IR.:Rection 15, Good luck °Meet 17. Revere 18, Exclamation 19, Peels R0. Serine al. And not y. Swallow putrid), 43 Stud 24,litemo andum 55 Metric land measure 26. Bide - 28. :Pronoun 29. V1e. 40, Parrorm 15, wobbles 43, By 54. Ott MI, Some 57, Expense 23 Shallow vessel 79. Ignited 40, Threw 11, Near 42. Wagon 43. European swallow % W 48. Forgiven eas 48. Cuckoo 49, ]legate 50, small child In 44lnw DOWN 5. American *meta E Piave rubbed out R Chess place 4 Boat 6 Dine 6 Indian mul- berry 7 Fit 5 bract liquor 7 Sun god 96. Deoree bbrore. . 10. One of the - nand Three Moshe- ¶ am`b 11, Ca* 14. Chancellor's etilei - 10. Policeman (slang) 50. Satisfied 21. Nothing 22, Merry 22. Bolds 54, Soy Rs. might bed 27. Type measures 29. Affectedly shy 51, Worthies.. leaving se. Liget brown Dolor as, Mailing rnrd 54, Separate 35. irrigate R7, Vehicle 29. Final 46, Tiln 42. By way al 43, Sound of cattle 44. intent b egg 40. Myeel 47. !that. thing 1 2 5 1V9aA 1' 'i 5 6 k•••••..??5 1 7 ?t r�aAVMV d 9 illn °a' aQV3ONOV',9dV �JO VHs1, 9itr.7'nD7V r�t+zry-9-1g:`r O N ;..N0 '1dO'N10,1 -i 31 N I' 1O' O S 'd'7i' SV a - J1 -- • ill 1alb .l2 . 17 ■■21>ti la JIi.23 i® saua 2 im26 ■■■ �..Ma 28 .334:io� ®I.P®®2 111 111 . `��®31 al El 11 35 ..Mil I®E37 ■1I ©. 4 5 11 Aid II \ '� S IN R51 11 Answer Elsewhere on This Page * embodies all the vulgarity of * modern times. A few, bedazzled * by the girl's very difference, stake * the mistake of marrying -and * find themselves tied to a• coarse * and gaudy creature who within * a few months becomes (lisps- * tedly repugnant, * It -is not, however, as common * as this writer seems to think, * It is particularly the young 4' lad, inexperienced and curious, * who is lured by the show of sheer * atnnal spirits and misled by the * unrestrained• emotional exhibi- * tion. "My," he exclaims to him- ' self, "this girl is store fun!" And he proceeds to sow his first wild * oats in ignorance, if not defiance, * 10 prove he is at last a man. * Later, of course, his innate re- * finement opens his eyes, and he * sees the girl for what she is. Re- * volted and ashamed, he gives her * the quick brush-off. * It is no wonder that nice girls * like this one who wrote the are i' discouraged and alarmed. Neg- *' lecteel by the nice sten they * meet, they exaggerate the situ- * atiotr and come to believe that it *-is more common than it actually x is, - * Uncouth manners and lewd * minds have existed in ebery * population, but they are by no * means in the majority. The re- * taxed barriers of modern social t' life have made this type seem * ubiquitous, Girls who rightly re- * sent their apparent hold on de- * cent men can always cultivate * people like themselves, who ad- * here to high standards and con- * fine their social activities within * proper bounds. * To "A, M. C,": There are lots * of nice sten left, You haven't * met enough of then, You will, * if you seek out girls who think * as you do, and who know only * men that appreciate integrity and * good taste in woolen, * Don't be discouraged, Begin * now to build a different circle * of friends. Through them you * will meet men of taste and char- * atter-and you will wonder why * you ever thought they were 4' scarce. * * * A girl cannot be too careful in her choice of friends. Cultivate those you can be proud of, and so protect yourself from the wrong kind, . Tell your troubles to Anne Hirst, addressing her at: Box 1, 123, 18th St., New Toronto, Ontario, ONE TOO MANY Young Alec was watching a house painter at work, Presently he asked: "How many coats of paha do you give vc a door?" "Two, v 111 Y boy," was the reply, "Then .h `l eft l f L give of r y g v it three coals " said the lett 'brightly, "it would be au overcoat?" "No, my lad," retorted the painter (trimly, "it would be i4 waste cost," LAURA WHEELER Simply lovely the way this fern crochet blends with the embroider- ed cosmos. Simple to do, too, start your new linens today, Pattern C815 has transfer; six motifs 6x6 to 6x13% inches; crochet directions. Send TWENTY-FIVE CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be accept- ed( for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont, . Print plainly PATTERN NUM- BER, your NAME and ADDRESS. Send Twenty-five Cents more (in coins) for our Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. Illustrations of patterns for crochet, embroidery, knitting, household accesories, dolls, toys . many hobby and gift ideas. A free pattern is printed in the book, "Letting The Cat: • Out Of The Bag" Are you bad at keeping secrets? Do you frequently, let the cat out of the bag? Shrewd country folk going to market used to try to paint off a cat in a bag as a succulent little pig, As long as the gullible were content to buy •t "pig in a poke;' that is, make a blind bargain, all went well for the seller, and the trick was suc- cessful. uncessful. However, if the Moyer investi- gated, then the cat was well and truly out of the bag. "Poke" is 111 old word for bag, and pocket is a diminutive fos'm of it. BETTER FLAVOR A choice secret in preserving is ' combination of flavors, The boiling together of two or more fruits re- sults in a superior product of inde- scribable flavor, The fruits that blend best in Iny experience for pre- serves and marmalades are the fol- lowiitg: Apples and grapes Apples and black currants Apples and quinces Rhubarb and currants . Green -gages and lemons Grapefruit and oranges Tall erine s and orae °.grapes g cs I g fruit Orauges atld s hilar b f w q4 or without strawberry juice) Raspberries and red currants Raspberries and cltes'ries Plums and apricots, Exactly How Long Is One Yard? You have no idea, maybe, of the trouble they have been !laving with the yard. Not the back yard, or Scotland Yard, but the yard long. Most of us are content to dismiss it as just 36 inches and go gaily on our way regardless. Regardless of the fact that recently wit€n they cornered it, one yard was not 36 inches at all. It was exactly 35,998669 inches. And that, my friends, was just 0.000008 incites longer than it had been 10 years previously, writes John Allan May in The Christian Science Monitor. "They" are the folk who keep the yard tidy, the metrologists of the National Physical Laboratory here at Teddington. They have no sine- cure. The yard was made legal back hi 1878 by act of Parliament. It is the distance between two lines on a metal bar, deposited in • London with the Board of Trade, when the temperature of the bar, and pre- sumably of the board, is 62 degrees Fahrenheit. An international prototype teeter is kept at Sevres. near Paris, which seems fair, "Ultimately every milestone and kilometric sign denies its meaning from one or the other," the NPL.. declares, "If they are lost, we should live in eternal uncertainty about the last millionth, at least, of an inch or a centhneter were itnot for a development to be described later." This fate may not seem all that ajpatting to those 'Who don't even notice what the last milestone said, but we have to think of others. a. * * "Parliamentary copies of the _im- perial'standard yard are kept at the Royal Mint, the Royal Society, the. Royal Observatory, and the Board of Trade," NPL reports. "One copy is immured near the staircase lead- ing to the committee rooms of the House of Commons," perhaps for the benefit of members who if given' an inch are wont to take a utile. l+.very 10 years the NPl. come pares these copies and the origins& ".It will surprise the layman." they sty, oto learn that two iiinti,bers of the slaty worked tile equivalent of six months durjeig 1922.to complete the task," and they are right, It docs surprise the layman, in 1922 the NPL itis° "tools the opportunity" to compare the yard end the meter, They found the act- ual ratio did not agree with the legal ratio. It was way out, by 0.000634 inches, They've scarcely dared look since, Further complications culminated in 1947 in 'strong evidence that the imperial standard yard and its orig'•- inal copies had gradually shortened during the past 52 years by nearly two parts in a million," Ouch! Metal, of course, does all sorts of queer things. It even "creeps." But a new high in eccentricity has been reached by an NPL standard bar that has been found to measure differently in France than in Eng- land. ' "No satisfactory explanation was found," they say. 11 doesn't sur- prise nee. Then in 1948 along came the American National Bureau of Standards with the gift to NPL of a lamp of mercury transmuted out of gold in an atomic pile, its waves prove to be "the ideal measure of length. That's talking! 11 today metrologists atilt can legally measure only: the sante its•• penial, or jutnping, standard, I gather they now at least can mea- sure its eccentricities more accur- ately: "One day we will have a law passed staking this atomic light wave our standard measure. The yard will then he stable. That will be in 100 years, I imagine," I was mighty relieved to bear it. Really Big "Pile" By agreement with Canada and the United States Britain's Mb- istry of Supply discloses how a nuclear reactor of the latest type is constructed. The heart of a big "pile" or reactor is a huge block of graphite into which spears of ura- nium are inserted and which is en- closed in a jacket of steel and re- inforced concrete. Among the hun- dreds of different materials that go into the reactor are 5,000 trots of graphite, 3,000 tons of concrete, 600 tons of steel and forty tons of ura- nium. More than 1,800 channels are bored into, the huge graphite cube. Half of these carry rods of ora•• nium. Boron rods are inserted into the remaining channels' to control or neutralize- the atomic reaction. The surrounding graphite reflects neutrons that would otherwise escape .front, the central core. Ra- diation inside the pile is blocked by the outer casing, a shell made of reinforced` concrete lined with cast-iron plates six inches thick. The keeper.of.the elephants at a circus at Bielefeld, Germany, slept in their enclosure one, night. When he awoke he found that his charges had eaten his hat, coat,' wallet and had started on his trousers, - . Upsidedown 'to Prevent Peeking 1' 7t.10:1 f i b 11 ''t i W N11.4 1V9aA 1' ,L 4`•; 190D!:OAN ..3d-- S.9 1 7 ?t r�aAVMV d N V v d °a' aQV3ONOV',9dV �JO VHs1, 9itr.7'nD7V r�t+zry-9-1g:`r O N ;..N0 '1dO'N10,1 -i 31 N I' 1O' O S 'd'7i' SV a - J1 -- (Famous Paining At Toronto Art Gallery -The world famous point• ing"The Artist in his Studio," dso„ painted by the great Dutch artist, Jan Vermeer, r about aou t thre e centuries ago, is included in the 80 -million dollar exhibition of Art Treasures from the Vienna Collection in the Art Gallery of Toronto, August 5 to September 16, This is She only Canadian showing of this fabulous collection of rare paintings and other art treasures.