The Seaforth News, 1953-03-26, Page 7Modern Etiquette
Q, Is it all right to use the
knife for cutting one', lettuce
salmi:'
A. Thti•re was; a time when
this was considers cl improper.
But good sense now admits it is
almost imposeible to cut some
head lettuce with just the fork.
Use the knife to separate it
slightly into sections, then discard
the knife and use the tort( fol'
eating.
Q, Some 111011 merely touch
tho brim of thou hats when
greeting wonted on the street. Is
this considered all right?
A. No; this is unmannerly -and
lazy. The hat should be lifted
slightly from the head,
Q. Ts it realty necessary that
a woman use heti' Atte "Mrs."
or "Miss" when signing her name
to a hotel register?
A. Yes, this is required in or-
der that the Hotel attendants will
know how to address her.
Q, Is it permissible to lean
across one person to shake stands
with a third?
A. It is usually better to
to avoid this, if you can, But if
the other person seems bent on
shaking hands, be sure to beg
the pardon of the person across
whom you are reaching.
Q. How long before the
(March wedding ceremony should
the parents of the bride and
bridegroom arrive?
A, One or two minutes.
Q. 'When a dinner guest is
net sure which pl0ce of silver to
use, what should he do?
A, Watch the hostess and ob-
serve which piece she uses --
follow suit.
Q. When a girl is attending
church with a young man .in his
chitrcli, should she make ber own
contribution when the collection
is taken?
A, Most certainly. Failure to
do this would show lack of cour-
tesy and good manners on her
part.
Q. When a double - pecker
sandwich seems too big and un -
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Look is a Must
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(�Nk; fash.iun iclett that's laking alt ilnportallt hold for
'L✓spring •is the knitted loot;, This means that dresses,
busk Sllits, even cravats, are knitted, crocheted, or hand -
Woven,
Designer Ann Fleischer has done a whole group of these fashions
on a knitted theme, even combining them wtti classic cashmeres
ht some instances. She has used monotone or multicolored tweed -
ribbon collars, cuffs and belts on cashmere sweaters and matched"
this trim to woven -ribbon skirts and jackets,
A skirt of hand-woven ribbon in a red, white, and blue check
was shown with three versions of the navy cashmere top, One black
cashmere with three -quarter -length sleeves and scoop neckline kept
company with a black, hand -knitted silk skirt dotted with large,
hand -knitted poppies.
For the first time linen yarn is crocheted in an Irish lace pattern
and cut into a dress -top worn with a matehing hand -loomed linen
skirt. For a hand -knitted sweater -dress, the designer uses dusty
pink, flame, and wine for a triangular top and pairs it with a skirt
*.in solid wine,
The hand-woven ribbon material has been adapted to men's
cravats, Women like to buy ties that match their own dresses and
give them to their husbands. These have banded details or solid
stripes.
Amur Fleischer designs an elegant hand-woven, ribbon -bee, ---a.
white, with a contrasting band worked on 4 slant. This is one
el the cravats she shows with her teatored knits for husband and
wife style harmony. The dress combines a cashmere pullover end
band -woven. black and white ribbon-9tcirt, collar and eufts.
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wieldy to handle with the fingers,
isn't it all right to eat it with a
knife and fork?
A. No; this type of sandwich
must be picked up. Only on the
"open -face" sandwich do you use
a knife and fork.
Q. Should a woman remove
Iter gloves When attending a
luncheon party??
A. Yes.
Q. When a woman is paying
her .first call on a neighbor, bow
long should she remain?
A, From 15 to 20 minutes
should be long enough. Usually a
woman who has just moved into
a new home has plenty to do, and
she might resent too lengthy a
visit.
Soon ati the snow will disap-
pear from the Canadian scene.
Ploughshares will be biting into
the moist soil. Many kinds of
seeds will be planted, always in
high hopes for a bumper crop
next fall.
But before the crop is harvest-
ed, a seed must surmount numer-
ous obstacles and fight Off hordes
of enemies. Let's take a wheat
,g► seed for example. Its fight for
survival began last fall alter it
was reaped and stored. Rats and
mice could have eaten it up.
Poor storage may have caused it
to freeze or sprout early. Insects
may have tendered it useless for
reproduction.
Once planted, ft is open to time
attacks of soil -borne insects such
as wireworms. Root rots and
seedlings blights may prevent the
young plant from maturing. Birci
or animal predators could use it
for a tender snack. Grasshop-
pers or cutworms may destroy it.
Weeds Will try to choke it out.
It has excellent chances of being
infected by rust and loose smut.
If it nanages to get anywhere
near maturity, Adverse' weather
may prevent it from ripening.
And it is harvested and stored,
the fight tor survival starts over
again.
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Fortunately for' humanity, a
seed has much more than a 50-
50 chance of bearing fruit—some-
thing it didn't have years ago,
The chemical industry has played
some part in this improvement.
Powerful fungicides have bben
developed to destroy soil and
seed borne diseases. Chemicals
are available to curb practically
every insect attaching aur plants.
Selective weed killers control
weeds without harming the crop.
New poisons have been develop-
ed fer successful rodet,t control.
in. addition, scientific storage
methods have been devised. Man
is even trying to control the
weather—by seeding ..louds with
frozen carbon dioxide to produce
rain.
The Colorado Potato Beetle is
found in every province of Can-
ada and is often so abundant that
a .large part of s potato crop can
be destroyed unless protected by
insecticide sprays or ducts writes
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mineral chemicals department.
For many years after they
were first Iouncl in 1924 on the
eastern slopes of dm Rocky
&t'.ountaies in the U.S., Colorado
potato beetles (potato bugs) fed
en a weed known as buffalo bur.
When settlers moved westwards
and brought the potato plant with
them, the beetles deserted the
weed for die potato. They pro-
ceeded to move eastward until
they reached the Atlantic coast
in 1874,
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by the larvae feeding on the
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loaves of the plant. As 111e lar-
vae mature, damage 's increasd
until the plant loses all its foli-
age. Adult beetles also eat
leaves but: cause little damage.
Three-eigtns et an inch long, they
are yellow in eater with 10 black
stripes on the wing covers.
Beetles emerge from the sail in
the spring and soon after the po-
tato plants come up deposit ehts-
ter, of small, orange -yellow eggs
on the underside of the leaves.
Larvae which hatch from the
eggs usually feed in groups. They
are red -brick in color, Pmtunp-
becked and have two rows of
black spots on each ride of the
body. When fully grown, the
larvae burrow in the soil and
form oval pupal cells from which'
the adults emerge.
The Colorado potato beetle is
easily controlled by such stoma
ach poisons as DDT and the ar-
senicals. Applications should be
made as soon as the first .eggs
hatch. In eeasons favorable to a
serious infestation, several insee-
ticidesticide applications should
be made at 10 to 12 day inter-
vals. Insecticides may be in the
form 01 a wettable powder or
emulsion for spraying of as a
dust. They may be applied al-
one or in combination with a fun-
gicide for control of potato dis-
eases. Since DDT came into use
in 1946, it has proven to be the
most useful insecticide for pota-
toes because it cantt'e15 other
insects as well.
In view of the marked inerease
in the use of nitrogen as a top
and side dressing on many crops
in eastern Canada, agronomists
of C -I -L's agricultural chemicals
department point out that use of
high nitrogen complete fertilizer
is often preferable L straight
nitrogen such a s ammonium
nitrate and sulphate of (inions(.
Since plants require a balanc-
ed supply, high nitrogen without
adequate potash and phosphoric
acid favors soft growth which
causes plants to lodge (fall over
easily). In the case of fruits and
vegetables, slow ripemea and
poor -keeping qualities are com-
mon rosette.
When extra nitrogen is being
applied during the growing sea -
sole and any doubt exists as to the
adequacy of the mineral plant
food in the soil, needs of a crop
can be safeguarded by rising a
complete fertilizer such as 10-10-
1.0 (Triple -Ten) on medium to
light soils and 10-8-4 on medium
heavy to heavy soils. The recom-
mended application for average
fertility conditions is 300 pounds
per acre.
Triple -Ten was used extensive-
ly last year on winter wheat,
corn, sugar beets, soybeans, can-
ning crops and pastures, and for
the treatment of stubble and corn
refuse being plowed tinder as or-
ganic matter. Growers report ex-
cellent re:.uits,
t re a
:rorty yearn ago it Moe 35 man-
hours to produce an acre of corn
yielding 20 bushels. Through im-
proved cultural methods and the
proper use of fertilizers and pest
control chemicals, it took only 17
man-hours per acre with a 38 -
bushel yiaiu in recent years
(1.949-51).
To produce 100 letore 15 al corn
4(1 years ago, it required 135 man-
hours of Ober, To produce the
same amount in recent years only
45 man-hours were required.
But --says you --'-the 81,4n to put
in the hours are fewer too.
I{Nt' W 'i''rni PLACE
Aecolding to a Hollywood
journal, a ehlelttadorabie was in
the process of getting married
for the fith or signs time. The
officiating elergymati, flustered
by all the publicity and glamour,
lost his place in the ritual book,
The star yawned and whispered,
"Page 84, stupid."
How Not To Wiri Friends
:'t third official protest from Canada to the United States in less
than two years, this time expressing "serious concern" at certain
vexing trade restrictions, ought to remind certain American con-
gressmen of the dangers of passing laws to protect special interest
groups without considering the possible effects abroad.
Source of Canada's irritation is a provision added over then
President Truman's strong protest, to the Defense Production Am of
1951, which expires this June. Section 104 provides that whenever
dairy imports threaten "domestic production, marketing, and storage
or price support programs," the Secretary of Agriculture shall im-
pose upon these imports quotas to protect American dairy producers.
Whether there is a legitimate need for protection or aid to the
dairy industry is not the whole question, There is more than one
way in which the governrnent might supply that need,
A related question is whether the benefits to the United States
from this form of aid outweigh the damage done abroad to America's
reservoir of good will. Canada's reaction strongly suggests they do
not. And it is worth remembering that Canada has given strong
support to the North Atlantic Cominmunity.
A drive among Canadian business and farm interests for better
protection from foreign competition, including American, as a reply
to dairy quotas has reached protections that make it a threat to the
entire machinery of Canadian -American defense cooperation.
How much longer the Canadian Liberal government can con-
tinue to resist a growing feeling that Canadian policy merely echoes
that of the United States, to Canada's detriment, is a waren question
in Ottawa, where the government is expected to face an election
this year.
Only Congress can give real assurance to America's friends on
matters such as this, which have troubled Denmark, France, and the
Netherlands as well as Canada. Most to be desired would be a repeal
of Section 104 before the entire act expires this June, Lacking that,
Congress night at least take caution against hasty adoption of any
more "cheese amendments." ---From the Christian Science Monitor,
Boston.
UNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
81.1 Rev R. 8eretu7, bi`olrer.
8 A., B. 0
Jesus is Crnicifhed, Matthew
27:32-44, 54.
Memory Selection: God coma
menden his love toward us, in
that, while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. Romans 5:8.
Crucifixion was a Roman mode
of execution usually reserved for
slaves and the worst criminals.
To this shame Our Lord and
Savior was subjected. The execu-
tioners shared his garments and
gambled for his vesture. In these
fateful hours Jesus Christ acted
like God. I'ie showed no resent-
ment against his mockers. Ile
prayed for his 080801es, made
provision for his mother, bore
oto sins alone and finally, of his
own free will, gave up his spirit
to the Father. Truly his greatness
never was more clearly seen,
The cross was an altar, Jesus
Christ did not lose his life, he
gave it.
'.Che cross W415 a pulpit. Here
love was proclaimed. Isere was
the final proof of the great con-
cern of Jesus for men, There was
nothing he would not give.
The cross is a window into the
heart of God. At the cross the
sin and the pain and the need
of the world mounted up and
reached the very heart of the
eternal, God not only beholds
eternal. God not only behold our
our sorrows, but is one with
theme,
The cross was a throne. Even
from the rude and bitter 11n'one
he rotes. Before he died one of
the malefactors trusted him as
King and Saviour. crying as his
spirit took its flight, "Remember
Inc when thou COlneSt into thy
kingdom.' Notunattended dict
the Lord pass Into the unseen. lie
took with hen a faithful subject,
the first of an innumerable rem -
patty, among whom we may be
counted,
The cross is an eliding, a con-
clusion, one of the great MI -
ailing moments of time. "1 have
glorifled thee 011 the earth," Jesus
said on the eve of iris mission. The
one thing left for him.to do or
suffer when he tittered these
words was to die upon the cross.
Having thus fulfilled his purpose,
he cried in triumph with this last
breath, "It is finished."
The cross is a great beginning.
It is the starting point of the
world's most important activities.
It is the fountainhead of the
sacrifices which have gone forth
to heal humanity. It is the birth-
place of the only 'elopes which
cheer human life today. It is the
(men411(4 of the doors of the great-
est experiences possible in man-
kind.
Matfett poetry may win a
sweetheart it seldom wins high
royalties. The chances are about
7.000 to 1 of a poem garnering
"decent" royalties. James Whit-
comb Riley did all right, though,
with his "An' Old Sweetheart of
Mine" which netted him royal-
ties of 2500 a word.
New Nippon Look — Japanese
Fashions have changed since V -
J day. At left is a modified ad.
aptation of the traditional cos-
tume, Both are mode of the
sante petiern-cloth. Note the
bare shoulder and short skirt on
the naw -style dress. The fabric
is Parisian. The place is; Tokyo,
liecp It Simple
it is usually a mistake atari
especially so where space is lim-
ited to be too formal in planting
about the house. Straight rows(
of flower,;, shrubs and trees look
stiff' and artificial. Flowers par-
ticularly will matte a better show'
if arranged in clumps with the
smaller sorts iu front and the
larger ones grouped to the rear.
The same le true et ;4hrubbery.,
Unless the granule are very
large, one should be connive with
only one or two trees: The main
idea is to Screen a bit of the
house and the femme here and
1 there but not to hide the lines
cemplt:•tely. with shrubbery and
trees it is important to remote-
' ber the full size et maturity and
allow plenty of room. -Big things
planted close to walls will have
nit 1'00tah to develop properly.
The Latyn
There are only a few Wilda-
ree:n1a13 to bear 3u mind, in the
handling 01 a lawn. The first of
these is good quality seed espec-
ially prepared for lawns, not just
some cheap, coarse grasses which
will soon become ragged. The
second point is to realize that
grass is a plant and needs food
and care just the sante as a flow-
er or a vegetable,
Grasses thrive best in cool
damp weather, therefore it is
most important that the ground
be prepared and the seed sown
as soon as possible in the spring,
and in any case before the really
hot weather commences. If this
is not possible one should wait
until early fall.
Because lawns are permanent,
it is much easier to get the soil
well worked, fine and level be-
fore seeding than afterwards. For
obvious reasons the seed should,
be sown on a day when there is
no wind and it is best to go over
the plot twice, broadcasting one
way, then the other. Because the
plants are tender, at first espec-
ially so, it is advisable to cut
with a very sharp mower, Well
rooted manure, and chemical fer-
tilizers rich h nitrogen are rec-
ommended for lawns and also an
occasional application of bone
meal. Well fed grass will crowd
out most weeds. The rest can be
handled with some of the new
2-4-D chemical sprays.
To Save Time
One of the quickest ways to
produce flowers and vegetables
is to use started plants. These
can go outside almost as soon
as it is safe to sow seeds. If
handled carefully one can have
flowers and new vegetables at
least two weeks ahead of usual
in this way. Another trick is to
sow some seed of each packet 41
week or two before the normal
time and then protect the young
seedlings with paper caps, panes
of glass or upturned flower pots
until the weather really turne
warm. Some people start a hill
of melons, squash or even corn
in a berry box indoors, then plant
box and all outside without dis-
turbing roots.
Spread Them Out
It is a mistake to plant all tin
vegetable seed in one afternoon.
Far more satisfaction will result
and much larger total yields as
well as finer quality, where each
pocket is roughly divided into.
three parts. The first and smell -
est of these parts is sown on the
early side and if they come
through without serious frost we
have some extra early vegetables.
The second or main sowing goes
in at the regular time, then from
a fortnight to three weeks later
we make the last sowing. With
some quick maturing things like
beans, carrots and beets, one can
make even more sowings at in-
tervals of a fortnight. In the
warmer sections of the country
it is possible to go right on plant-
ing roost vegetables up to early
July. By spreading out in this
way ere not only get a continuous
supply of vegetables but we get
that supply right at its beat (not-
ify,. '10 extend the seast'11 still
further experts adopt the practise
of sowing two or three different
types of the maim vegetable, an
early maturing sort, t a medium
one and a late one, This is a par.
titularly sound policy with such
things as garden pees and .corn,
as the former must go ht' lnirly
early to get a start t'uring the
cool weather and the latter is not
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