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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-11-29, Page 3Mermaids Fought t sctop s Invasion luvasiou by °ctor.tlses1 hordes of them were descending on the Japanese island of Tatoku, their u g-1 y, multi - armed purplish bodies clouding the sea foe miles around. With dismay in his heart, Ifo- kichi Mikimoto rushed. down to the beach. I-Iere was yet another threat to his oyster br 's and the cultured pearl industry that he had struggled so long to.develop. Ravenously hungry, the octopus- es were descending on his oys- ters, prying open the shells with their tentacles to get at the meat inside — and swallowing thou- sands of dollars worth of pearlsl But Mikimoto was not to be beaten, "Set out traps," he told his workers. But that was no good -- there were far too many octopuses, "Send out the diving girls with spears," 'Fearlessly, the girls battled with the octo- puses for hours, until too ex, hansted-to dive any more. But stfil the invasion continued. "Announce to all the villages that I will pay ten sen for each large octopus.brought in and -five sen for each small one Milcf- moto declared. "And also tell the people they can -keep the oc- topuses for food," Octopus is a table delicacy in Japan and this ot'ier brought - hundreds more people into the fight. with the result That the Invasion was beaten and the ops- 'er beds were saved. At that time—loll—Milcimo- to, the ex -noodle peddler, was ouilding, up his cultured pearl Industry the hard way: for it was a new industry and there was no previous experience to guide him, "The average woman who ar- enntuates her natural beauty- with a string of cultured pearls will never know the years et trial and failure that- were ne- • Cesary to create these beads," says Robert Eunson in his vivid biography of the amazing Miki- moto, "The Pearl-Iiine.". Deaths, industrialist, expet t salesman, and quite a pllitoso- piter --- that. was Mikimoto, who died in 1954, at the age of ninety- sie. As a genius who stubbornly refttsed to accept defeat he could be compared to Thomas Edison. For it took fifteen years to pro- duct' the perfect cultured pearl. When he succeeded, he took it to his wife's grave and wept. For + Was his hard-working, ever - faithful wife. Ume. who inspired him to carry 00 in face of con- -titular seibac'ks. Not . all oysters produce pearl- they only do so, usually, be- rme:it some foreign body, such es u grain of .;and, has forcedits way into their shells. Unable to get rid of the irritation, they sur- round 11 with layer after layer (f a soft substance which even- tuaIly forms a pearl. Mikinoto's idea was to ensure that all oys- ols did produce pearls, by hi - sorting a foreign body into the shy Is. July 11th, 1893, was the great day when this bore fruit. After sive years of failure, Mikimoto had almost given up hope, thecal hes wife ora .nod -an oyster. . "Suddenly a low moan- came from tome, as if she had been truck in the pit of the stomach, Then a scream, '.hats --- you! Arista!' '•llc' scrambled to his feet and rsn to his wife, . Squatting • i, the sand,. a knife in one hand mei a' .freshly -opened nester. 711 the other, hie wife was sterna., -open-mouhed wonder at a icanthig white pearl. '.'We've - done it!' Mikimoto shouted, falling to the sand be. side -his wife, 'We've done 'They einbraoed, cried, ran nue d in circles and fell to the rid in laughter while Flui watehed. half -eaten rice ball in hand, hoping her parents had 1101 hot <_!,nne quite cmid.7' Milcim e110 never tried to pars off his r='ttured pearls as natural gents • , wherever Itis products are $nia they are always labelled "cultured pearls." • In 1933, when he was being harassed by com- petitors selling et shaper prides, he bought up 750,000 inferior pearls worth mare than $24,000 and, wearing his bowler hat and a formal black kimono, he shov- elled them into a furnace him- self, The furnace, for all to see, was. set up in the heart of Kobe. Mikimoto's diving girls- or amahs were a very colourful sight around Tatoku Island as his pearl industry developed. These girls have been diving for oysters and other sea creatures since ancient times and are as much at home in the water as they are in their tiny, paper houses with with grass -mat floors and sliding doors, says Eunson. The trade is passed on. from mother to daughter and the wom- en swim until they are "far be- yond the bloom of life." Mrs. Oroku Kitamura is still an active diver today and she is now past sixty. Asked hew she liked her. job, she replied: "We divers are willing to work any time and love doing it." • - Apar't from octopuses, another great threat to the oyster beds was the Red Tide, an invasion of minute marine- creatures that killed off practically all shell fish. In 1892, Mikimoto was nearly ruined by the Red Tide, which destroyed 5,000 .oysters, In 1900 it struck again, bel this time he was more prepared. Having received a telegram of the danger, he hurried back to • his oyster beds and sent out an SOS for trie diving girls who in a short time were assembling along the shore. "Now bring out the extra baskets," he command- ed. A thousand bamboo -baskets, each capable of holding fifty to sixty oysters, were distributed to the 300 excited diving girls. They ran OW a short distance into the wafer and then dived into the shallow oyster beds. They filled their baskets and then passed Them up to their menfolk - who had rowed their boats into position. As :mon as' one boat was loaded it was rowed out into the bay where the oysters were deposited sixty 'feet deep, where Milcimole Thought they wantd be sate. "In two days," says Eunson, "the diving girls, working -be- ieath the (wean until their bodies ached from weariness and their longs felt as if they would col- lapse from holding their breath so long, lied sniveeed nlmasl .all of the oyster.:," Employer s of diving girl, are great believers in marriage. They maintain that. unmarried girls are apt 10 b:• flighty and unable to keep their minds on their work. So le encourage romance on Tatoku, Mikimoto issued these orders to hie right -handl man: "Be sure there are plenty of boats for the workers to use at night, Perhaps if they go row- ing to the moonlight 'with same of our pretty diving girls, there • won't be so' many bachelors left among the population or Tatoku." Sometimes hubby handles the boat from which his wife dives. "Fi111, 0;1(01 as not," says sero an, "while Manna and the ei is off to work. Papa stays hone tending the younger children and trading gossip °ver the, back fence with the husbands and fathers of other :malls or Shima who go down to the ,4ea in slips." • Aster Pearl Harbour, Mikimoto -declared himelf • a pacifist and refused lo help in the war c•r- fort. "1'an a business man, not a soldier." he said after all en- • raged aunt' officer sent hila a sword with the suggestion that -he commit hara-kiri. When the war ended he was eighty-seven 'hty-seven ' but he went ,.it work again and completely 1r e'atablillhed the 0,' dusky that had hewn all I,It smashed. CROSSWORD. PUZZLE I. Li .~r11i 11; ]'. 01 • ••1:1111}'" ,ne,',, 1$, A11t1,1 t t, 1%,111,. 11 a, i 1 11 41,,1, 11r i7 a 17 , til' 1, 112. :MI a t t, i. I r•,q of 1 t S' 1 CB bt 1 14 1 , I F c•, I , 'Ali u l' dY i)C it 1n tuttuttri,t. 41 4,,, 43,t11.:•19.4 (4 13„rn 1 - d, (14,21 011 12 Grow N1eopy 45. Anthem fti W min/ nin sal/ SI.Il. l uii rw 11 5'S 5 9.441bpart'. (ar.aCixi i5. 'a "0,1,4 od Ya PA'iar,ou )DOWN 'i.. 40.kA sit int s. ,a x•C bt t.t1% L. -. It • 4, 441 +r1• :.i •, � � r 4..11en••.'r 111 1,:1,• :11. 1 i i- . 1 1 1 "1 ;,, aa. t',71:1,0 IA 1 110x: t I, 1 t n� a.•. 1 , -_, 1' i • i sgien0 1 - 1 1111. !f •.,t 2,1 '1.1 44 0., ,.�,ni•1'n�t,.,••IL•1 11171.0•1 1 II :10, 'Flit 4 :. 11011 ,Answ •r elsewhere an titin page. MILKMAID IN MANHATTAN—Manhattan, Kan„ that is. Connie Morgan, freshman at Kansas State College, has been chosen queen of the college's Agricultural Barnwarmer festivities. Connie won the title by beating out four other finalists with her cow -milking ability. An 011511e wllich'breathes dirt will wear out much faster than it normals•, should, Dirt acts as an abrasive causing moving parts to wear rapidly. There are case histories of engines which have worn out after a week of work as a result of dirt getting into the air used by the tractor. There are three ways for the dirt to get into the engine --- with the fuel, the lubricating oil and with the air. Ordinary care will keep dust out of the fuel and oil, but to keep the air that the engine breathes dust free, re, quiresmore attention. Engines may be equipped with an oil wetter or an oil bath -type cleaner. Either of these cleaners is designed to take 99 per cent or the particles of dirt nut of the air when operated at highest efficiency. Efficiency can drop as low ae 50 per cent with poor maintenance. An air cleaner ie thins of little value 74,1, 4. it Is properly cared for. Service the air cleaner Ire-. quentl;v The- service vice uue'rval can be dttermained by the dust condition.: ender which the en- gine Operates. If conditions are extremely duets, the interval should not be greater than 10 hours. Never, tinder any circum.. stances, allow the cleaner to 1,o unservieed beyond an oil change. Cheek all cleaner and carburetor connections. These must be tight to keep the dirt out of the Cleaned a u. Supplyinglvule the en- gine with ideal) an pay:; in 1•ednl•ed maintenance cp;,i, lettland is the 111d'rt 01141! 1 ously settled land in 1111 'West- ern Hemisphere. but the youn:_- eet c'ount'y. filets 010111.1..i were there as early as 750 A.D. and remained 1111111 11 mime about 1170 A.D. Treee do not grow ie: Iceland nor are there any mineral depos. its. 'rhe wealth of the count,d depends on f hiug and agricul- ture. The former industry pro vides the exports, the !idler pro. dues: e nnuteh meat and livr:tot-It prcaluele to feel the population of 170,000 people WaterNVater power it abund'hn1, and tight hal o.,iry s Inatilia prom 144 Ai c'ol d;n'•. I„ .1. 11. Cantonal, 1)e lcii [moot 01 n h • culture. ,1 Ps< I. thc ((4 4,0 tondo, 4" an! (('11(1. In 10, 1 it con 1. r(u idclr'd floe ,inh 11 -Id f'l'I5 , is clime cereals :1 1011 11 ogi'11l'4. principal era- + aro creeping - epin,g. red 1.0.4.111 de: daanln: i:1, north- ern bale 441 145 e.,. anti specie, id bent :eraF,. Sedges are rulnn:4'1. 1144 are heaths :Ind 11110..11''-, 1f the entire comnry w ,r• able it would have tremendous agricultural rcsourcas. However, ever, Mess than 15 per cunt of the 40,000 square miles area eon be devel- oped, el- oped, while only another 15 per cent produces vegetation tme kind. The balance is a cold des- ert, covered with immense gla- ciers, stark barren mountable, black shifting sand and extinct and active volcanoes. Of the approximately 6,000 square miles or arable land, less than 400 square miles of 250,000 acres are currently improved to produce. cultivated grasses. 4 N. Fertilization is essential In Ice- land to produce high yielding grass crops. Despite the 50 per cent or more organic matter con - tont of the soil nitrogen fertiliz- ers are required because soil temperatures • seldom reach a level to- promote rapid nitrifica- tion. Oddly, organic matter con- tent increases even when under heavy cropping. Legumes are of iittle value. Soil temperatures are too low to stimulate nitrify- irg organisms into feverish ac- tivity. Phosphorus is required on an soils while potash - and Minor elements are valuable in 'certain areas. Sulphur and iron_ ateabundant. Applications of up to 400 pounds of anunoniuln Wheats! per acre are economical, lis} making f:; the big agricul- tural chore.• Modern machinery is used on the level stretches, Lot the primitive seethe and rake are commonly employed wher- e ver tractors and mowers cannot operate. Strings of ponies pack tine hay to the farm yard ander these conditions. These crops are not uncommon during the short growing y.as0n. The tirsl may put up as hay, the second P0- ,.iled and the third pa44iured. Hay drying equipment f> not cont - ,n011, but ire use is:Treading. Marty tar nt : have :Moe, and ail will have : ub, t.arited hay sheds. '1'i1:• 000,11i)t1 or ;o ,h:',rp are wintered indoors and. turned out on range after lambing. There they remain until the fall round up. when the lambs a1=' cut out and slaushtered and their car- t asses frozen.'rhe practice of 'rte raneine m 11145 range man- egenn'itt very difficult because she range belong: to the district not to individuals. No charges colle„14'd for range improve - (11c111.. l':13:1.1r 1; 4(1114611 i° Ireland. f,:'f E•lialvc' tl'aca.s 11f :and Itai'e hewn 11.4 1(11 deity 1, In lhl?dei'-Iy- in, 114071,, a matter of maybe 30 1 r tn0044 1101. It must be realiz- ed il`ai this was ori:tinalh grass - 10,111, tilt soil d.'N,rbed Tv: -,•ulai- 5zit 1(,1,, „ Thorp iici11 r' you t t O tom program v•tei(14 -brio 1n, ddew- a laird tracts or land (1nd_r con- trl• Nearly 200.1)00 acres have bl 111 under cons.'rvation manage- .. .ni. Lii;cwise nen, ,!(4(4441(4 anal 144' ;:I(14i nti '4p' old grasses ars•' l in ul11001u4d 5,' til lfuivet. sry 1 - !rrh I Mute, not n(de 1 i`21.” but to in- rr;_ 44 th .'iaq,i from iira=sl:,nd '1.1,: fair r:cperimentat 11.111, - :u ,.11Idt io'.' :-•.14::,11 pnodue- 11,11i 1:1.1 ntar,n,ei ne nt tnetlI0ds, n.,(1 :11, 114,41147)40 denl- uII;:U':Im^ Ih,' 4441141 1 5(od i1'l4- eandey ted proper mrtiliaation, tlrot!ressive f psing all lailabie 10ftimation to improve illeir fataris and it'1• leadership to their districts. However, there t: a hard eons of freedom loving Norsemen who rnitnw the hus- bandry practices imported from Europe 1.000 years ago, HIS EXCUSE At a party one night a won1an was admonishing her husband. "Henry, that's the fourth time you've gone back for more food. Doesn't rtembarrass you?" "No" replied the husband. "I felt them Em getting it for you." Drive With Care Buried alive Then i Vanished Inhabitants of Suim0tha, Italy, are giving one part of their town - a wide berth because a man who was buried alive there, three months ago, at his own request, has vanished from the grave. - Raoul Hinay, a fifty -yea; -old - Hungarian who had learned Yogi in India, visited Sulmona with a concert party and agreed to de- monstrate his unusual powers by - being buried alive before wit- nesses. After Ilinay's hands were firm- ly tied, he was placed in the cof- fin—sealed up and lowered into an eighteen -foot grave which was then filled in with earth. He was 10 remain buried for eight hours. Among the witnesoes were a doctor, a magistrate and the local police chief to see that there was no fraud. Eight hours later, gravedig- gers brought up the coffin, - ex- amined the seals and declared them to be intact. The coffin lid was removed. The ropes with which Raoul had been tied were in the coffin but he was gone. There was an immediate search for the missing'man; the grave was examined by police officers but thele was no tunnel and no way out of it other than by the top which had been watched all the time by the - witnesses, Tel the ILmgarian was gone. Up to now he has not been found, despite help from tfie nternalional Police Commis- sion, Nowadays, when Sults-Iona par- ents want to scare their bam- binos into obedience they say: "The Yogi man will get you!" Fifty-six years ago a similar mysterious occurrence took place in Los Angeles when an Indian fakir allowed himself to be bur- ied alive for ten hours, sealed up in a crate in a hole fifteen feet deep. When the cof1n was raised and opened the fakir was gone. lie has• not been seem to this day. Desert Life S 1veral •times I came upon Ba- douin women- with their veils. themee0 back, but tine only time I saw these women with no veils on at ail was when riding In an Aramco exploration car toward the Rub al -Khali in southern Arabia. Without warning nut car breasted a dune and fled down the 'slope into the very -center of a Bedouin camp. The long low outlines of black tents were :;paced about the hollow-, While in the center was the dark astound of. a water well. dug down 111.440 )1 the sand to the rock below:, its rim darkened by the hoofs sold ropers of many years. A11unaware we had come upon this camp and saw women in dresses 1711 bright mange and red. devoid of their black robes, storm ':1 1!: from their .sections of the tents, - • Other women e,1 the tl it�,., like so u414(0 walking shadows In their Mayr: older robes. wound their graceful barefoot way in and -from the water well, balar,- eilG tapper kettles and other utensils on their heads. Children in knee-length white shifts stared •at -us open-nouthed hot tor some reason we saw no nen Perhaps theyslept the family ettetione of their tents, ars more likely. they were 111 the niajlis of their Sheikh. But the eheikh's tent, wherever it might be in this hollow, we did • not see. Some of the men, ot oour:se, were out with the flocks, but not many; for the true Bedouin 0401'ns the work of herding, and spends his idle clay instead In i. 44 shsa,1.>t:,' :sI his tent 0l:' t;efo't'r5 the collect hearth of his eiders, drawing lines in the sand with his stick and saying aye eye" and "nay nay" with his feltowie Thirty Seconds, I suppose, 1. savx that Camp scene before it disap'- geared behind a dune, yet I re- call it still as a scene of warmth, colt» and human charm, in r>< desert otherwise so barren. It falls to the lonely herds- man, nut in the burning sun alt day, to guard the tribal zlocir:a from whatever dangers there may be and then to lead them back at night to the friendly shelter of the camp. Here the camels are couched about each tent, to ruminate and grumble through the darkened hours, while the sheep are bedded down inside the ring of emelt, with the youngest lambs tether- ed to the ropes of the tent. Over the ages the Bedouin has developed certain narrows though highly specialized, skills. He is able to read the least sign in the desert around him that, may Lead him to water in hie arid land. From boyhood the skeletons of camels he has pass- ed on the long summer treks, and the blown sand mounds t 5 human graves, have warned him that he must Iearn his des- ert well. • The hoofprint of st camel in the sand is the kind et book he reads, and he knows al a glance, because his safetsr may depend upon it, the age, sex, and type of beast tha: made the mark, the speed with which its owner was riding and the probable purpose of lsfi' journey, whether peaceful otherwise, --• From "Heritage .I! the Desert: The Arabs and The Middle East," by Flarry B. ' Mrs. How Can 1? 8v Anne Ashley Q. How can I make an ink fee writing on glass, ivory, or othee smooth surfaces? A. Use 3 parts nitrate of sil- ver, 20 parts gum arabic, 30 parts distilled water. • Dissolve the 'guns arabic in two thirds of the water, the nitrate of sil- ver in the other third. Thee tete and add the desired color. Q. How can 1 Make paint al - here to tinware? A. Rub the surface thorougle- ly with a piece of rough pumice stone, or coarse sandpaper, Thee apply a thin urge of shella,a varnish berore • the.. surface it; painted. - Q. 'Whet can 1 (lo to cream that will - not -whip properly?! A. If the cream will not while, add the white of an egg to 32, 11144447 the veg.?, and the i'f0f)1a thoroughly chilled, (1..110W can l avoid shetl11t peas? A. Wash the pods and. prow them in the boiling water 'i+o cook. The pods will open aitt the peas settle lo the bottom 04f. the v seei. Dd l" lv :skim oil' Ilia pods. Upcidedtwn to 1' el. ent l ^king 23,_t-.k2,'Q31,143 3 a y H 21k!•.. di Yips d,WtV,� HE'S A STRING-SAVER—In less than Iwo yeats, hank Stoeber 1 , is has collected the huge ball of binding sen above twins e seven feet, five inches in diameter and weighs 4,035 pounds. He uses his tractor to wind the ball. Friends and neighbors save twines' for him and he thinks nothing of driving 25 r. S;:a to get a trunkful' of broken twine. Pictured with him ars 11)45 two grandsons, Rictrard and Arnie Collins. MINI1111111,1111111111 Z NW MN MEM 1111 1111 al Zri .0ii�® � ■MEIN - 111111111111•1111111 . as a a®■. v. Cb 4d ge', ,4::V, sataAse. ea .si x^';3<t Ci 11 yrs: ? ..:. •., tail 111111 ,Answ •r elsewhere an titin page. MILKMAID IN MANHATTAN—Manhattan, Kan„ that is. Connie Morgan, freshman at Kansas State College, has been chosen queen of the college's Agricultural Barnwarmer festivities. Connie won the title by beating out four other finalists with her cow -milking ability. An 011511e wllich'breathes dirt will wear out much faster than it normals•, should, Dirt acts as an abrasive causing moving parts to wear rapidly. There are case histories of engines which have worn out after a week of work as a result of dirt getting into the air used by the tractor. There are three ways for the dirt to get into the engine --- with the fuel, the lubricating oil and with the air. Ordinary care will keep dust out of the fuel and oil, but to keep the air that the engine breathes dust free, re, quiresmore attention. Engines may be equipped with an oil wetter or an oil bath -type cleaner. Either of these cleaners is designed to take 99 per cent or the particles of dirt nut of the air when operated at highest efficiency. Efficiency can drop as low ae 50 per cent with poor maintenance. An air cleaner ie thins of little value 74,1, 4. it Is properly cared for. Service the air cleaner Ire-. quentl;v The- service vice uue'rval can be dttermained by the dust condition.: ender which the en- gine Operates. If conditions are extremely duets, the interval should not be greater than 10 hours. Never, tinder any circum.. stances, allow the cleaner to 1,o unservieed beyond an oil change. Cheek all cleaner and carburetor connections. These must be tight to keep the dirt out of the Cleaned a u. Supplyinglvule the en- gine with ideal) an pay:; in 1•ednl•ed maintenance cp;,i, lettland is the 111d'rt 01141! 1 ously settled land in 1111 'West- ern Hemisphere. but the youn:_- eet c'ount'y. filets 010111.1..i were there as early as 750 A.D. and remained 1111111 11 mime about 1170 A.D. Treee do not grow ie: Iceland nor are there any mineral depos. its. 'rhe wealth of the count,d depends on f hiug and agricul- ture. The former industry pro vides the exports, the !idler pro. dues: e nnuteh meat and livr:tot-It prcaluele to feel the population of 170,000 people WaterNVater power it abund'hn1, and tight hal o.,iry s Inatilia prom 144 Ai c'ol d;n'•. I„ .1. 11. Cantonal, 1)e lcii [moot 01 n h • culture. ,1 Ps< I. thc ((4 4,0 tondo, 4" an! (('11(1. In 10, 1 it con 1. r(u idclr'd floe ,inh 11 -Id f'l'I5 , is clime cereals :1 1011 11 ogi'11l'4. principal era- + aro creeping - epin,g. red 1.0.4.111 de: daanln: i:1, north- ern bale 441 145 e.,. anti specie, id bent :eraF,. Sedges are rulnn:4'1. 1144 are heaths :Ind 11110..11''-, 1f the entire comnry w ,r• able it would have tremendous agricultural rcsourcas. However, ever, Mess than 15 per cunt of the 40,000 square miles area eon be devel- oped, el- oped, while only another 15 per cent produces vegetation tme kind. The balance is a cold des- ert, covered with immense gla- ciers, stark barren mountable, black shifting sand and extinct and active volcanoes. Of the approximately 6,000 square miles or arable land, less than 400 square miles of 250,000 acres are currently improved to produce. cultivated grasses. 4 N. Fertilization is essential In Ice- land to produce high yielding grass crops. Despite the 50 per cent or more organic matter con - tont of the soil nitrogen fertiliz- ers are required because soil temperatures • seldom reach a level to- promote rapid nitrifica- tion. Oddly, organic matter con- tent increases even when under heavy cropping. Legumes are of iittle value. Soil temperatures are too low to stimulate nitrify- irg organisms into feverish ac- tivity. Phosphorus is required on an soils while potash - and Minor elements are valuable in 'certain areas. Sulphur and iron_ ateabundant. Applications of up to 400 pounds of anunoniuln Wheats! per acre are economical, lis} making f:; the big agricul- tural chore.• Modern machinery is used on the level stretches, Lot the primitive seethe and rake are commonly employed wher- e ver tractors and mowers cannot operate. Strings of ponies pack tine hay to the farm yard ander these conditions. These crops are not uncommon during the short growing y.as0n. The tirsl may put up as hay, the second P0- ,.iled and the third pa44iured. Hay drying equipment f> not cont - ,n011, but ire use is:Treading. Marty tar nt : have :Moe, and ail will have : ub, t.arited hay sheds. '1'i1:• 000,11i)t1 or ;o ,h:',rp are wintered indoors and. turned out on range after lambing. There they remain until the fall round up. when the lambs a1=' cut out and slaushtered and their car- t asses frozen.'rhe practice of 'rte raneine m 11145 range man- egenn'itt very difficult because she range belong: to the district not to individuals. No charges colle„14'd for range improve - (11c111.. l':13:1.1r 1; 4(1114611 i° Ireland. f,:'f E•lialvc' tl'aca.s 11f :and Itai'e hewn 11.4 1(11 deity 1, In lhl?dei'-Iy- in, 114071,, a matter of maybe 30 1 r tn0044 1101. It must be realiz- ed il`ai this was ori:tinalh grass - 10,111, tilt soil d.'N,rbed Tv: -,•ulai- 5zit 1(,1,, „ Thorp iici11 r' you t t O tom program v•tei(14 -brio 1n, ddew- a laird tracts or land (1nd_r con- trl• Nearly 200.1)00 acres have bl 111 under cons.'rvation manage- .. .ni. Lii;cwise nen, ,!(4(4441(4 anal 144' ;:I(14i nti '4p' old grasses ars•' l in ul11001u4d 5,' til lfuivet. sry 1 - !rrh I Mute, not n(de 1 i`21.” but to in- rr;_ 44 th .'iaq,i from iira=sl:,nd '1.1,: fair r:cperimentat 11.111, - :u ,.11Idt io'.' :-•.14::,11 pnodue- 11,11i 1:1.1 ntar,n,ei ne nt tnetlI0ds, n.,(1 :11, 114,41147)40 denl- uII;:U':Im^ Ih,' 4441141 1 5(od i1'l4- eandey ted proper mrtiliaation, tlrot!ressive f psing all lailabie 10ftimation to improve illeir fataris and it'1• leadership to their districts. However, there t: a hard eons of freedom loving Norsemen who rnitnw the hus- bandry practices imported from Europe 1.000 years ago, HIS EXCUSE At a party one night a won1an was admonishing her husband. "Henry, that's the fourth time you've gone back for more food. Doesn't rtembarrass you?" "No" replied the husband. "I felt them Em getting it for you." Drive With Care Buried alive Then i Vanished Inhabitants of Suim0tha, Italy, are giving one part of their town - a wide berth because a man who was buried alive there, three months ago, at his own request, has vanished from the grave. - Raoul Hinay, a fifty -yea; -old - Hungarian who had learned Yogi in India, visited Sulmona with a concert party and agreed to de- monstrate his unusual powers by - being buried alive before wit- nesses. After Ilinay's hands were firm- ly tied, he was placed in the cof- fin—sealed up and lowered into an eighteen -foot grave which was then filled in with earth. He was 10 remain buried for eight hours. Among the witnesoes were a doctor, a magistrate and the local police chief to see that there was no fraud. Eight hours later, gravedig- gers brought up the coffin, - ex- amined the seals and declared them to be intact. The coffin lid was removed. The ropes with which Raoul had been tied were in the coffin but he was gone. There was an immediate search for the missing'man; the grave was examined by police officers but thele was no tunnel and no way out of it other than by the top which had been watched all the time by the - witnesses, Tel the ILmgarian was gone. Up to now he has not been found, despite help from tfie nternalional Police Commis- sion, Nowadays, when Sults-Iona par- ents want to scare their bam- binos into obedience they say: "The Yogi man will get you!" Fifty-six years ago a similar mysterious occurrence took place in Los Angeles when an Indian fakir allowed himself to be bur- ied alive for ten hours, sealed up in a crate in a hole fifteen feet deep. When the cof1n was raised and opened the fakir was gone. lie has• not been seem to this day. Desert Life S 1veral •times I came upon Ba- douin women- with their veils. themee0 back, but tine only time I saw these women with no veils on at ail was when riding In an Aramco exploration car toward the Rub al -Khali in southern Arabia. Without warning nut car breasted a dune and fled down the 'slope into the very -center of a Bedouin camp. The long low outlines of black tents were :;paced about the hollow-, While in the center was the dark astound of. a water well. dug down 111.440 )1 the sand to the rock below:, its rim darkened by the hoofs sold ropers of many years. A11unaware we had come upon this camp and saw women in dresses 1711 bright mange and red. devoid of their black robes, storm ':1 1!: from their .sections of the tents, - • Other women e,1 the tl it�,., like so u414(0 walking shadows In their Mayr: older robes. wound their graceful barefoot way in and -from the water well, balar,- eilG tapper kettles and other utensils on their heads. Children in knee-length white shifts stared •at -us open-nouthed hot tor some reason we saw no nen Perhaps theyslept the family ettetione of their tents, ars more likely. they were 111 the niajlis of their Sheikh. But the eheikh's tent, wherever it might be in this hollow, we did • not see. Some of the men, ot oour:se, were out with the flocks, but not many; for the true Bedouin 0401'ns the work of herding, and spends his idle clay instead In i. 44 shsa,1.>t:,' :sI his tent 0l:' t;efo't'r5 the collect hearth of his eiders, drawing lines in the sand with his stick and saying aye eye" and "nay nay" with his feltowie Thirty Seconds, I suppose, 1. savx that Camp scene before it disap'- geared behind a dune, yet I re- call it still as a scene of warmth, colt» and human charm, in r>< desert otherwise so barren. It falls to the lonely herds- man, nut in the burning sun alt day, to guard the tribal zlocir:a from whatever dangers there may be and then to lead them back at night to the friendly shelter of the camp. Here the camels are couched about each tent, to ruminate and grumble through the darkened hours, while the sheep are bedded down inside the ring of emelt, with the youngest lambs tether- ed to the ropes of the tent. Over the ages the Bedouin has developed certain narrows though highly specialized, skills. He is able to read the least sign in the desert around him that, may Lead him to water in hie arid land. From boyhood the skeletons of camels he has pass- ed on the long summer treks, and the blown sand mounds t 5 human graves, have warned him that he must Iearn his des- ert well. • The hoofprint of st camel in the sand is the kind et book he reads, and he knows al a glance, because his safetsr may depend upon it, the age, sex, and type of beast tha: made the mark, the speed with which its owner was riding and the probable purpose of lsfi' journey, whether peaceful otherwise, --• From "Heritage .I! the Desert: The Arabs and The Middle East," by Flarry B. ' Mrs. How Can 1? 8v Anne Ashley Q. How can I make an ink fee writing on glass, ivory, or othee smooth surfaces? A. Use 3 parts nitrate of sil- ver, 20 parts gum arabic, 30 parts distilled water. • Dissolve the 'guns arabic in two thirds of the water, the nitrate of sil- ver in the other third. Thee tete and add the desired color. Q. How can 1 Make paint al - here to tinware? A. Rub the surface thorougle- ly with a piece of rough pumice stone, or coarse sandpaper, Thee apply a thin urge of shella,a varnish berore • the.. surface it; painted. - Q. 'Whet can 1 (lo to cream that will - not -whip properly?! A. If the cream will not while, add the white of an egg to 32, 11144447 the veg.?, and the i'f0f)1a thoroughly chilled, (1..110W can l avoid shetl11t peas? A. Wash the pods and. prow them in the boiling water 'i+o cook. The pods will open aitt the peas settle lo the bottom 04f. the v seei. Dd l" lv :skim oil' Ilia pods. Upcidedtwn to 1' el. ent l ^king 23,_t-.k2,'Q31,143 3 a y H 21k!•.. di Yips d,WtV,� HE'S A STRING-SAVER—In less than Iwo yeats, hank Stoeber 1 , is has collected the huge ball of binding sen above twins e seven feet, five inches in diameter and weighs 4,035 pounds. He uses his tractor to wind the ball. Friends and neighbors save twines' for him and he thinks nothing of driving 25 r. S;:a to get a trunkful' of broken twine. Pictured with him ars 11)45 two grandsons, Rictrard and Arnie Collins.