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Lightning Palled
Her 3 `} i usb nds
Beautiful Madame Matikia of
Sofia has• been married three
times and must be nearing forty.
But she looks ten years younger,
and is also one of the rieheet
women in Bulgaria.
So there would seem to be no-
thing unusual about the recent
announcement of her engagement
to be married for the fourth time,
After all, plenty of people marry
four times: Yet the man who has -
asked Martha Matikia to marry
him must be •very, very brave.
In 1935 Martha was eighteen.
With masses of wavy, black hair,
flashing dark eyes and a figure
that Hollywood would have en-
vied, she was the queen of the
local beauties. The daughter of
poor peasants, Martha worked in
the fields and farm boys were
her only admirers.
It was festival time in Sofia,
and, dressed in her best. she went
there for the day and caught the
eye of Randolph Eastman, an
American on a grand tour of Eu-
rope. IIe fell in love with her,
and finding her as charming and
good natured as she was beauti-
ful, he proposed via an interpre-
ter and was accepted.
Iri spite of the many difficul-
ties they were deliriously happy,
and, after eight weeks of touring,
•wore making preparations to go
JO America. Then, during a
storm, her- husband was struck
by a flash of lightning, Martha
found herself tragically widowed
but richer by 3ti0,000—the for-
tune left her by her husband.
She went to Paris and one day
attended a display at the fashion
house of Mataux et Cie. Her in-
tereat was so nbviotts that the
• owner, Charles Mataux, spoke to
her and asked if he could help.
A few minutes later she was
trying on the most expensive
models in the shop. She was ad-
Miring herself in a very chic ere-
. cation and inquired the cost. She
was rather surprised when Ma-
taux told her she could have it
free or charge, together with
every other gown in his shop .. .
if only she would marry him.
Tisk; was sudden, even -for
France. Martha, still grieving for
her husband, took four months
to consider the proposal, then ass
vested Mataux.
For eighteen months she was
one of the best dressed woman
In Paris. Then her husband de-
cided to have a holiday, They
'Went to the south of Spain. One
day they were caught out in a
CHAMP AND A WOULD-BE —
Two contenders at the Los An-
geles County Fair team up for
a photo. The lambie-pie is 19 -
year -old Virginia Rodgers who
seeks the title of queen of the
fete. She's showing off straw -
hatted Champion Corbie, year-
old Southdown ram of many
blue ribbons, competing in the
livestock exhibit.
thunderstorm. Lightning flick-
ered. Martha was unhurt .. , but
her husband was killed.
The tragedy of losing by the
same means the two Wren she
had loved shocked Martha, so se-
verely that for weeks she hov-
ered between life and death, A
German specialist was called in
and under his skill she recovered.
He looked after her so well that
when he proposed to her, she ac-
cepted him.
Only then did she discover that
Mataux had left her his entire
fortune: $300,000,
With her new husband, Ma -
deme Matikia, as she now was,
went to Berlin. War clouds were
gathering and the Nazis were
gaining strength in Germany,
Martha did not like them or
their methods. When shedisco-
vered her husband was one, she
decided to leave him, and ran
away. He followed her. Near the
French frontier his car was
struck by lightning, IIe was
killed.
She stayed in France. Then
came to England with her fortune
and returned to Sofia after the
war. Still attractive and only
thirty, she said she was seared
of Marriage.
Who wouldn't be, after losing
three husbands in thunder-
storms?
One hopes her fourth marriage
will be es happy as the first two
--without any tragic ending.
Fain101IS Sundials
Sundials are increasing in
popularity 111 Britain, probably
beca0Se satire weather 'experts
nave predicted that they are go-
ing to experience a series or
sunny summers until at least the
sear 1966, -
You can still find a number
of centuries-old- sundials in the
quiet churchyards and gardens
of Britain, but many. of• those -
familiar to our forefathers have
crumbled away, being themselves
the victims of the time which
they recorded.
- The new sundials are likely to
have mottoes similar to those
of the old ones. The motto
chosen by Queen Alexandra for
the sundial on the wall. of San-
dringham House was:
Let others tell of storms and
showers,'
111 count only your sunny
hours.
Among wedding gifts to i.he
Queen and the Duke of Edin-
burgh was a sundial designed
emd executed by a man whose
family have • been stonemasons
since 1706. In the days of the
first Queen Elisabeth men often
carried pocket sundials for the
purpose of time -telling. Not long
ago it was reported that a Ger-
' man firm had begun to make
111,000 pocket sundials a month
because of the sudden revival in
their popularity.
• In France t:i art ancient sun-
dial gun made in Paris in 1600
which fires a discharge at twelve
o'clock every day provided the
sun is not hidden by clouds.
It is a small brass cannon, the
tooth -holt' of which is elougats
ed into a groove running in line
with the north -south line on the
dial. A teaspoonful of powder
forms that charge, a little being
also sprinkled 00 the long toueh-
It the burning -glass lens held
by adjustable arms above the
cannon is set in the correct -posi-
tion, the concentration of the
sun's rays makes the powder ex-
plode at midday,
WAST"" TORT
A film acto , disappointed
I at not being called upon to
make a speech on the occasion
of his retirement from films.
And as he said to a friend,
! "What makes it wo'se, old man,
is that I spend three hours in
the make-up department having
a lump put in my throat,
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HE HAS TOO MUCH MONEY — G. E. P. Alsem, of Amsterdam,
Holland, has monetary troubles — an abundance of money
of all different kinds. Alsem, an airlines flight engineer, some-
times has to carry 25 varieties of money from all over the
world. The Dutchman, whose globe-trotting has extended over
27 years and 27,000 flying hours, often finds making change
difficult.
When cows are housed in con-
ventional stables, the usual prac-
tice is to control the rate at
which silage is fed and provide
hay in accordance with the
cow's appetite for dry roughage.
V. S. Logan of the Central Ex-
perimental Farm, advises that
ander these conditions the feed-
er can make reasonably accurate
estimates of his storage 1'0-
quirements for both silage and
hay. Taking into consideration
the rates at which he wishes to
feed the respective roughages
and the anticipated winter feed-
ing period, he should store suf-
ficient extra feed at harvest time
to allow for losses and wastage
of approximately 25 per cent for
silage and 30 per cent for hay.
With the development of loose
housing barns and the adoption
of self-feeding devices both for
hay and silage, the question is
asked as to how much silage
and hay cattle will consume
when they are .allowed free ac-
res$ to both of these roughages?
The variations that exist between
quality and palatability of hays
and silages make it impossible
to estimate accurately the -pro-
portion of the individual . rough -
ages that will be consumed in
these circumstances, •
n
With adverse weather condi-
tions during harvest time it may
be advantageous to store the
greater proportion of the grass
crop as. silage. This would neces-
sitate a higher rate of silage
feeding, and with self-feeding
some arrangement would have
to be made to limit the access
to the hay supply. Otherwise
three units of silage to one of
hay is a usual ratio to allow.
c'anadian aerieultiir t scien-
tists are putting radio -active
materials from atomic energy
plants to use in many valuable=
fields of research. Just as the
discovery of the microscope en-
abled
nabled the medical scientist 10
identify and follow the move-
110111 of living disease organ-
isms that could not be seen
with the eye, use of these radio-
ai'tive elements (known as iso-
topes to the scientists to dietie-
guisli thein from the Benne (.le-
liietlts when not radio -active)
has made it possible to identify
and follow the path of these ele-
ments through living tissues and
accurately measure the quanti-
ty present in any part of the
plant or animal at any period of
growth. 'Their use permits it to
be doge far more rapidly than
by the old method of chemical
analysis and without injury to
the living plant or animal.
Extremely minute quantities of
a number of elements such as
phosphorus, calcium, cobalt, car-
bon and other's, used by planes
and animals in their growth,
when made radio -active, can be
nixed with much larger, 0011 -
active, quantities of the elements:
and makers the absorption and
movement of these elements
within plant arid animal tissues
easily followed,
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Instruments to nleasere these
movements have -been adapted
from the familiar 'Geiger count-
er and are so sensitive -that the
amount of carbon given off in an
enimal's breath c:en be detected
and measured.
Clwsni'ts (menet! in animal
nutrition research at .ciente
Service, Department. of Agricul-
ture, Ottawa, have used radio-
active carbon and 031011nn to
trace the movement of these
two elements in the animal's
system and determine the me-
thod by which the animal con-
verts them into bone:,, meat and
mirk.
•
hi western( Cau11001 wool grown
in an area deficient in sulphur
was a basis of study. Tracers at
radio -active sulphur mixed with
additional non-active sulphur
and fed to the ewes was dis-
covered not only in the wool of
the ewes themselves but in the
wool of Iambs later born to those
ewes.
Scientists at the University of
Saskatchewan have used radio-
active phosphrous in numerous
experiments to determine the
form of phosphorus in fertilizers,
most readily used by plants.
Their tests indicate that for
Saskatchewan prairie soils am-
monium phosphate is the form.
most readily available for grain
crops.
0.
Measurements of the phospho-
rus taken up by plants at dif-
ferent stages of growth revealed
that most of the phosphorus
supplied through fertilizers is
taken up by wheat plants prior
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BY REV R BARCt,AY
WARREN B.A. B,D.
The Great Invitation
Revelation 22:1-5, 8-0. 16-21
Memory Selection — The Spirit
and the bride say, Come. And let
him that hearetlt say, Come. And
let him that Is athirst, come.
And whosoever will, Ict him take
the water of life freely. Revel-
ation 22:17
It is :<aid that the invitation to
come is given by God some 111110
hundred times in the Bible. Man
is a free moral agent. God can-
not coerce him to surrender. He
cannot and will not take from
him his right to make his own
moral choices. God will have no
conscripts. But God can and does
entreat.
Since the fall of Adam and
Eve God has been calling man to
come to him. He has called
through the law and the voice
of the prophets His greatest
call -- the one which gives val-
idity to all others --- came
through His Son Jesus Christ.
God, come in the flesh, is a
tangible manifestation that God
is really calling man. From the
lips of Jesus Christ came the
great invitation which is still
sounding out through the world,
"Come unto me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden, and
1 will give you rest. Take my
yoke upon you, and learn of me;
for I am meek and lowly in heart:
and ye shall find rest unto your
souls. For my yoke is easy, and
rny burden is light. Matthew
11:25-30.
The Holy Spirit is here to
press upon men the urgency of
God's call, Ile speaks through
the written word, the Bible, He
appeals to the heart and con-
science of the individual. He
convinces the world of sin, right-
eousness and judgment. The
Church of Jesus Christ, His bride,
joins in presenting the call. .10 -
to the heading out stage. Alter
heading the plants continue to
take up quite large quantities
but it is taken from phosphorus
from the soil rather than from
the fertilizers. In their expert -
'n cots approximately 22 per
cent of the fertilizer, phospho-
rus was recovered by the grow-
ing planta.
sus in his revelation to Johts
says, "And let hint that is athirst
came, And whosoever will, let
him take the water of life free' -
1,y." A little boy was asked who
Was meant by `whosoever', He re-
plied, "That meants you and tnsl
and everybody else."
The greatest invitation you
will ever receive is to come to
Jesus Christ and find rest. What
will you with this invitation? De
not set it aside but bow your
heart and come to Jesus now.
Special Willows
Gr wn For Eats
One of East Anglia's "cricket
bat nurseries" is growing at
least 30,000 willow trees tliie
year. Cricket bat willows are
fast-growing trees and as many
as 400 blades have som.:timea
been cut from a fully -developed
specimen,
Bat willows are sensitive
trees. They must be planted
with the greatest care, lest the
bark be bruised or torn. So de-
licate are they that even foreign
bodies in the soil will stain
them, giving them that queer,
reddish -brown mark which all
cricketers know and sometimes
attribute to knot.
The great W. G. Grace would
have his bats made only frons
willow grown in a Hampshire
village. He well knew that the
average cricket willow takes
sixteen, to twenty years to grow
to the right size for cutting
about eighteen inches diameter.
From one of six willow cut-
t:ings sent from England to,A.us-
tralia fifty-one years ago by
Archie Maclaren. the English
Test captain, there grew the big-
gest willow plantation of its
kind in Australia. From these
cuttings grew a cricket bat in-
dustry which produces many
thousands of bat every year,
upsidedown to Prevent Revalue
P PE THE "PEOPLE MACHINE" — in their efforts to remake the
world, the Communists haven't quite gotten to the point of turn-
ing out good Reds on the assembly line. But that's what this
scene looks like. The big machine is a turbine, and visitors tea
the second Exhibition of Czechoslovak Engineering at Brno,
Czechoslovakia, are pouring out of the exhaust pipe after view-
ing the workings of the turbine from the inside.
FARM FAMILY ROBINSON --- Ranging in age from 61 to 80, the Robinson sisters of Bethel
Springs find no trouble at all in manning a large farm. The work -sharing quintet manage
everything from plowing fields to butchering animals. Between heavier chores, they spend
time in the garden, above, hoeing peas and drying apples. Left to right, the Robinsons area
011ie, Maggie, Dinah, Eunice and Lillie. Lillie, the only one of the five to marry, is a widow,
and the sisters form a collective band of "mothers" for her children and grondchildren who
live on the farm with they/