HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-12-11, Page 7Spent Honeymoon
On Ocean Bed
It was the attractive, blue-
eyed blonde's wedding day -but
elle had failed to turn up at the
country church. The young
,American bridegroom with his
hest man, looking strained and
shifting nervously from one foot
to another. What had happened
to the girl he loved?
Near -by sat two bridesmaids,
almost on the verge of tears be-
cause of the bride's non-appear-
ance. Shewas already fifteen
minuteslate, having planned to
drive alone in her car to the
church from her town flat 30
miles away.
The best man, after consulting
the bridegroom, derided to ring
a police station near the girl's
flat, fearing she had met with
an accident. Meanwhile the
wedding .guests grew more
fidgety,
Another 20 minutes had passed
when a policeman suddenly ap-
peared with news he had just
received from police in the
bride's home town. She had
been found fast asleep in the
little country bungalow where
the couple had secretly planned
to spend a week's honeymoon!
The bungalow had been lent
to them by a mutual friend who
had gone abroad for a holiday.
On the eve of her wedding the
bride had impulsively decided to
driveto the bungalow to put
some finishing touches to it.
Feeling exhausted after the
strain of wedding preparations,
she lay down for "a tittle rest",
and at once dropped into a
sleep from which she did not
awake until a police car drew
up outside. The police had got
a clue to her whereabouts from
a pump attendant who had sold
her gasoline on the previous
evening.
The police whisked the bride
to her flat where she changed
hurriedly into her wedding gown.
Then she was rushed to the
church where the ceremony was
performed at p.m, instead of
ten a.m., the time originally
arranged.
Some adventurous couples de-
liberately seek adventure and
excitement on their honeymoons.
Take the one promised by Mr.
J. E. Williamson when he pro-
posed to Miss I.ilah Freelancls.
He was an underwater photo-
grapher so the pair went to the
ocean depths after their wed-
ding in a specially built flexible
metal tube which could be ex-
tended from 30 to 100 feet.
Through its glass windows
they daily watched the constant-
ly changing undersea scene,
PEP KID — Pert Peppi Hausman
appears to be living up to her
name as she does a fancy leap
on the sands.
viewing lovely fish, varied coral
formations and amazing plant
growths. Often the Willialnsons
were too absorbed in what they
saw to come up for meals, so
the men in. the ship above lower-
ed food and drink to them.
One of the worst misfortunes
that can befall a bride is to
lose her trousseau, This nearly
happened to a comely Man-
chester bride who, with her
groom, was already on board the
boat -train en route for the
United States when she dis-
covered that the porter at the
hotel where they had stayed
overnight had sent somebody
else's luggage instead of her
own:
The hotel manager was tele-
phoned and, just five minutes be-
fore the liner was due to sail, the
case was rushed on board.
A faulty lock on another un-
lucky bride's honeymoon trunk
led to trouble. She and her hus-
band had travelled 30 miles on
their motoring honeymoon in
North Wales when the bride
chanced to look behind and
found that the trunk on the old-
fashioned luggage grid was open
and that all her troussea had
vanished,
The couple turned back and
found the roadway for several
miles strewn with dainty gar-
ments!
When it comes to choosing a
place to spend a honeymoon,
some young couples seem dogged
by bad luck. While on honey-
moon at south coast hotel, a
former famous footballer and
his bride heard a noise on the
floor of their room . then a
man crawled out from under the
bed.
He had robbed the bride of
jewellery which he had found
in her handbag while the room
was temporarily empty. Hearing
the couple returning to the room,
he hid under the bed, but had
later become cramped and de-
cided to reveal his presence. He
was handed aver to the police,
Another bride made the dis-
turbirg discovery that her hus-
band was a burglar. On each
night of their honeymoon he
waited until she was asleep and
then crept out to 'burgle villas
in the fashionable resort where
they were staying, On the last
night she awoke to find him
sitting on the edge of the bed
counting a wad of banknotes
which he had stolen from a fel-
low guest at their honeymoon
hotel, She left her husband next
day, vowing never to see him
again until he had given up his
life of crime.
An American couple in Cleve-
land, Ohio, faced flood, fire and
lightning on their honeymoon.
In the middle of their wedding
night the basement room where
they were sleeping was flooded
when heavy rain caused a river
to burst its banks.
Young newlyweds who chose
an island in mighty Lake Vic-
toria took honeymoon jobs as
caretakers of a disused fishing
station there, with hippos,
leopards and vultures for com-
pany. Hungry crocodiles waited
,n the swamps of their honey-
moon
oneymoon island and its leafy jungle
hid Africa's deadliest snake.
Said the young bride: "We
loved it. I didn't mind the animals
a bit, but I disliked the ants.
The house where we stayed was
full of them and I had to stand.
all the food in tins of water."
Another newly married pair
spent an 18 -month honeymoon
going round the world in a
38 -ft. motor boat. The bride took
her turns at the wheel when
their mutinous crew threatened
to desert because of the perils
and hardships they had to face,
The newlyweds landed on one
island where they had to ex-
plode dynamite to scatter head-
hunters and cannibals who were
attacking them, They also fought
a monsoon in the China seas,
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'TIPSY LIQUOR STORE — While it appears quite secure from the
front, the view from behind this liquor store in Kansas City,
Mo., reveals that the rear half of it has a rather unsteady
foundation, hanging a number of feet above a creek by the
grace of three supports.
Good Old Days When
Pumps Were Pumps
If, as may be — sort of — an
overcritical attitude toward tele
vision creeps in here, it is not
so much that television causes
comment; but rather that tele-
vision so often puts me in mind
of something. I go off into placid
ruminations of my own, some-
times extending the transient
half-hour to a week or so. Tele-
vision itself is beside the point.
It is an electronic tip-off. It
happened again this time with
the pump.
The young man depicting a
disturbed rural citizen beset
with perplexities, • not exactly
typical as of my experiences,
dashed into the picture with a
wooden bucket, pumped briskly
on the handle about four times,
and rushed off again with the
pail slopping water all aver
everything.
A lot of country people would
greatly appreciate a pump like
that.
Most conundrums have a
simple answer. I figure this tele-
vision pump was really a painted
length of styrofoam, attached so
a plank on the stage, and that
a highly paid technician in the
wings turned on a valve to let
water flow at 80 pounds pressure
from the distant city reservoir.
The pumps in my life were
never so productive, and a pail
of water came much harder. I
am glad, however, I was born
after the chain pump era, and
never had that kind in my re-
grets. I have heard about them,
for whenever I objected to pump-
ing so much, some old - timer
would step forward to tell me
I was lucky — I should have
known the chain pump. The chain
pump was real grief.
The chain pump had a crank
instead of a lever, with an end-
less cable that passed down into
the well and came up again
through a pipe. On the cable
were cups, and as they passed up
through the pipe they brought
water with them, except some-
times, The cups and the pipes
would wear, and ordinary grav-
ity would dissipate the water on
its way up.
The crank was not geared—a
. little thought about gears might
have made it more efficient. You
had no speed ratio, to step up the
action. Mostly, the water which
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reached the top was fractional,
and came with. reluctance, You
would crank until your tongue
hung down like a red bedspread,
and a bull calf could drink
faster than water came.
An uncle, thinking back over
a long lifetime of sturdy affairs,
used to say the hardest, worst,
meanest memory of all was com-
ing home from school in the
gray afternoon of a winter's day,
to bundle up in every 'possible
garment, and go forth to stand.
in the windway between the
house and barn and chain -pump
the water for 47 cows, 16 young
stock, four horses, ten sheep, and
a bull—and enough more to car-
ry in pails to slop the hogs. My
uncle said he never honestly got
ao he could approach this labor
with open-faced joy, although he
never shirked until he was old
enough. to run away from home.
The common sink -shelf pump
was itself a miracle. It defied
natural laws. There is a recol-
lection of some such figure as 32,
for the length of a column of
water balanced by atmospheric
pressure, but also a codicil to this
because of friction and unco-
operative factors, amounting to,
seems -if, 28 feet. But they also
used to say about 22, if you
really wanted water. True lab-
oratory conditions and domestic
purposes were not always wed-
ded.
Anyway, if you had a well 16
feet deep, containing three feet
of water, and it sat down over
the knoll, and your house was
en granite underpinning, and
your sink shelf was three feet
off the floor — the fact that your
pump worked was a miracle.
You could stare the physicist
in the eye and pump water; yet
e v e r y schoolbok said you
couldn't.
I do not know why this was
so, particularly with the added
problem of "rundown". A pump
in these parts was always ar-
ranged so it leaked back into the
well and stayed dry except when
,you drew water. True, we knew
about foot -valves on the lower
end of the pipe, but we also
knew that a pipe with water in
it would be frozen come morn-
ing, at least between August and
June. Foot -valves would be all
right in Equatorial Africa, but
not so good in Maine.
We did not use foot -valves,
and we also cut a smallish notch
in the pump leather, inside the
barrel, so there would be a leak -
back. This notch didn't spoil
the suction action too much, but
it kept pipes from freezing under
the sink.
A typical household noise was
the pump "running down".
You'd get yourself a drink and
go back to the rocker with your
National Tribune to see if the
pension had been increased, and
you'd hear the pump gurgle and
wheeze, and then it would glug
and blup, and the handle would
lift to an east -west position, and
after about ten minutes of gasp-
ing and straining, the pump
would suddenly go "Groompl"
and be still. The water had run
down.
It would be quiet in the old
kitchen after that, except for the
ticking of the clock and wood
snapping in the stove and
Mother counting her knitting
softly. A run-down pump never
froze.
Neither would it produce
water when you went for more.
The handle would be limp and
loose, the leathers dry and re-
luctant. You had to dip in the
sink pail, or go to the reservoir
en the stove, and pour in enough
water to start the dry leathers
to working again, to promote
the suction. Then you pumped
and pumped and, pumped and
pumped, incl the water would
work up in the pipe like Musico;
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ISSUE 49 — 1958
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