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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-08-09, Page 7WAGON WHEELS WEST—The Ernest Eifgren family of East Killingly, Conn., is shown near Han- nibal, Mo, en route to Nebraska, The Elfgrens started out for California last year, but made it only to Jerseyville, III., when, they were forced to return home for the fall opening of school. The family includes Mom and Pop and five children. UNARMED HUNTER What would you do if, un- armed, you met a lion face to face in the African bush? Ada Cherry Kearton once put that question to her famous animal - photographer husband, and he replied: "Stare it out." That's what he'd done one day when he went quail -shooting with a fellow -officer, armed only with small shotgun, became sep- arated from him in the thick scrub and, rounding a bush, sud- denly faced a magnificent black - maned lion only eight feet off. Cherry stood motionless, knowing that the slightest move would sign his death warrant, as they stood staring at each other. At last the lion snarled, show. big great curving teeth and his eyes dropped. He lay down, the snarl becoming an angry growl, his tail rose, and Cherry knew he was wondering whether to charge. But his stare, as he stood motionless, seemed to worry the lion, who began to edge slowly back after four or five minutes, with rumbling but slightly puz- zled growls. Finally he moved slowly off into the bush. Cherry stood, covered in perspiration,. for several minutes more, won- dering if the lion was watching him, then went back to camp, Another time a message came from a kraal in Southern Tan- ganyika saying that several natives had been killed by a man-eating lion or lioness: could he come to their aid? Cherry ret out to track down the killer with two other hunters, but to- wards evening lost the trail and returned towards the village, Cherry and one native going on ahead armed only with a cam- era. Suddenly, at the foot of a small hill, they saw five lions feeding off a gazelle. Cherry set up his camera and sent the native back to hurry up the others and bring his gun. He reckoned that as the lions had lust fed they wouldn't take much interest in him. But he hadn't allowed for the meal being insufficient, and it wasn't many minutes before a big lioness got up, yawned, fastened her eyes on Cherry, then advanced a few yards and stood considering him, while the others ranged behind her. This, he thought, was probably the man-eater. When the whole pride began to move slowly forward, some- thing had to be done, and quick- ly. If he stood still they would soon reach him, if he turned and ran they would be after him in e flash. There were no climable trees. He did the only possible thing —dropped flat in the waist -high grass, and after two nerve-rack- ing minutes, cautiously raised his head. The lions, evidently mys- tified, had stopped. But the !lioness began moving forward again, straight for where he lay. Like a jack - in - the - box he sprang to his feet, halting the astonished 'lioness. But after a few minutes she came on again, with steady purpose. He realized that unless he varied the game it could have but one ending; so the next time he dropped out of sight he began working his way backward in different direc- tions, jumping up every now and then to see where she had got to. Soon it became apparent that she was coming forward faster than he was going back, until she was less than thirty yards away, and about to charge. Yet the next time he sprang to his feet the whole pride had van- ished, the two hunters with their bearers appeared on a near -by ridge, and the frightening or- deal was over. In a most vivid account of her life with Cherry "On Safari" Mrs. Kearton said they would often watch lions at their "kill" from a hide near a water -hole. Once they saw a charming fam- ily scene — father, mother and a cub by the remains of a zebra. The mother lay on her back, rolling every now and then from side to side. Father licked the cub all over, then took hold of it with his front paws and roll- ed over on his back, hugging it to his chest. Then he rolled from side to side while it gambolled playfully around hm. When the cub became too rough, bting and hanging on to father's ear, his paw came down with a heavy smack. They kept up the game for nearly half an hour before, exhausted, it crept to its mother and fell asleep by her side. From another side they saw a troop of about 110 baboons come cautiously to the water's edge. Ten or twelve would drink to- gether, with two or three sent- inels scouting along either bank. Almost the last to drink were a family — father, mother and a young baby, whom father picked up and held awkwardly in his arms while mother stooped to drink. On a sudden warning bark from a sentinel — who had prob- ably heard the whirring" of the cameras in the hide — the whole troop bolted. Father, in his hur- ry to scramble up the bank, most ungallantly dropped the baby, who rolled down almost into the water -hole, jumped up, leapt into a thorn tree, and was com- pletely hidden. For several minutes there was silence, then an excited mutter- ing from a near -by hillock as the baby was missed. Presently the parents crept cautiously back, the mother spotted her babe perched aloft, rushed to- wards it with arms outstretched. In a flash it had jumped down and both vanished. Once Cherry was photograph- ing a dozen or more hippos from a small punt on a lake when one bull slid into the water from the mud bank, headed for him, and dived. A hippo attacking a boat, blrs. Kearton says, will either • TWO CONES AND A COFFIN -Ten -year-old twins Allen, left, and Barry Jones tempt the glass•ccoffined Blondini with their ice dream cones. Blondini, the "White Yogi", plans to spend two months in the glass tomb, buried under two tons of sand, He will exist on only glucose water. The endurance feat is being attempted at Brighton, England, where Biondini once chalked 4ep,12 hours on a bed of nails. try to crush it in his huge jaws, biting it in half, or dive and try to capsize it by surfacing under- neath. Realizing his clanger, Cherry dropped -his camera and seized a paddle. The boat shot round and headed for shore, closely pur- sued by the irate hippo. Once he tried to gain ground by putting a mud -bank between them, but the hippo cleared it at a bound, then surged angrily towards the boat, repeatedly diving. Cherry had about sixty yards to cover before reaching the shore, and reckoned that only the shallow water of the last twenty saved him. Mrs. Kearton says that, for savage drama, a fight between a rhino and crocodile on the Tana River bank has seldom been e q u a 11 e d. Immediately the rhino's mouth touched the water to drink there was a swirling rush of foam and the croc seized its lower jaw and slowly but surely dragged it in. A full- grown rhino weighs something over two tons, and is among the most powerful and dangerous of beasts. But even with the frantic strength born of terror it was dragged in to the river and within three minutes had disap- peared. Poor Security A daring Mexican girl of about eighteen nicknamed Lola has hit on a new method to de- fraud shopkeepers. First she kidnaps a child from the street, offering the inducement of candy or cake. Then she enters a ship, makes a purchase and suddenly discovers that she has forgotten her money. She tells salesgirl or proprietor that she will come back immediately with the money and leaves "her child" as security. But the girl may soon fall in- to police hands, for she has tried the same trick at least a dozen times, In one case the girl took six- year-old Maria Rojas while her mother was shopping in an- other part of the store. Lured by candy, the child went will- ingly and was led to a shoe store where the kidnapper bought sveral pairs of shoes, found she had forgotten her money, and left the hopeless Maria as security. It was only an hour later that the shoe store proprietor felt alarm, questioned a restless and crying Maria, and found that the strange young lady was not her mother. Lola's "cuckoo" tricks have got her a big nest - egg. But it could only happen in Mexico where many toddlers wander the streets unsuper- vised. Or could it? SHOP LOCALLY The fanner in the hardware store asked the price of an axe. "That'll be $1.75," said the merchant. The farmer opened a mail- order catalogue he had with him and pointed to the same item. "These people sell it for $1.40. "O.K.," said the proprietor, "if they can sell it for that, so can I. That'll be $1.40 plus 180." "Why the 18¢?" "If you sent off for it, you'd have to pay postage," The farmer had to agree. He counted out $1.58 and handed it to the 'merchant who wrapped up the axe and placed it on a shelf. But 1 . want to take it with me," said the farmer. . The merchant shook his head. "Come back in three days and it's yours." DRIVE WITH CARE Speed-up Your Rate of Reading You are reading this article —but have you any idea at what speed? Are you a fast or a slow reader? If you are one of the millions of people who can read and di- gest printed words very quickly, you'll be interstbd in a new gad- get called a tachistoscope which is now in daily use in 300 col- leges and universities in the United States. It's a little screen which slides down over the printed page at a set speed, compelling the reader to keep pace with it. As the reader becomes more ef- ficient, the screen's speed is in- creased. Some of the students now taking course in quick and ac- curate reading find they can read as many as 1,800 words a minute. That's good going. Corn - pare it with the speed of 450 words a minute which experts declared in 1946 was a pretty good working average for an educated person. What happens when you read? The eye moves along the lines of print in a series of jumps and pauses. Nothing is taken in while the eye is in movement, and only during the short pauses are words recognized. Average pause for a good reader is one-fifth of a second —of a poor reader, about one- third of a second. So, in ten minutes'reading, the good reader is a long way ahead of the poor reader. Some people recognize as many as four words in one pause, while others are limited to one or even part of a word. FOOT -NOTE: Greatest read- ing speed ever achieved was that of a Victorian student of liter- ature who proved he could read and remember fifty words a second. He sometimes read six novels a day. New -style Archery Deep in the heart of French Equatorial Africa a party of ex- pert American archers are hun- ting big game with bows and arrows. Doctors, lawyers and businessmen, each member of this strange safari is allowed to carry twobows and thirty-six arrows—and so far the bag has included gazelle, antelope, a lion and two elephants. This is just the latest facet of the world's fastest -booming sport. Archery has actually be- come adopted for U.S. army training and Ontario has set aside a hunting area of twenty- five square miles signposted for bows and arrows only. No fewer than 15,000 archery addicts will hunt in North America this season. Besides the yew bows that served the Eng- lish archers so well at Agin- court, steel bows are being used for flight records of up to half - a -mile and arrows of aluminum and duralumin are lending new accuracy to -a -bowman's skill. New -type William Tells, too can show off with new -style tricks. Ace bowman Howard Hill likes to release toy balloons into the wind a dozen at a time and he will pop every one be - for it escapes out of range. 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