HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1950-06-22, Page 2The Compost Heap
Books, have been writteu 00 coin -
post heaps and it is a wortlly sub -
jeer. The good gardener throw
nothing away that will rot or de-
compose and that means almost
anything. He piles them on his
centpost heap. Breen weeds, leaves
anti other trash -should all be tossed
la, covered with a layer of sail and -
it obtainable some manure. U.
watered occasionally and perhaps
treated with some of the special
humus -"taking chemicals this ma-
terial will break down rapidly and
snake lire finest sort of garden soil.
Most experts regard the compost
pile as an essential part of their
gardens. Where the pile is large it
can be screened with sono: quick-
growing annuals or some perman-
ent shrubbery, If each new addi-
tion of refuse is covered well with
a fresh layer of soil there should
be no .lnar and nu attraction for
Hies.
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Something Will Grow
NO .,tatter how unfavorable the
location there is some Hower, vege-
table or shrub that will thrive in
ft. Some flowers, vegetables and
certain varieties of grass actually
prefer shade, some want acid soil
tether than sweet, some like heavy
clay better than loam or sand. The
thing in planning is to consider
these special likes and dislikes,
then to select those plants that suit
one's cpseial location.
Must vegetables, however, are
pretty keels on a generous amount
of sun, l,ut they have distinct likes
and dislikes in the matter of soil.
For deep-rooted carrots, potatoes,
etc., it is important that the soils
be fairly loose at least a foot down.
Certain types prefer sandy soil to
clay. But no matter what the soil
is to start with by a little planning
and carr one can change it fairly
easily.
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Can't Do Without Cultivation
Killing weeds is only' one of
several reasons for cultivating
flowers and vegetables. Even if it
were possible to have chemical
weed killer: which would destroy
all but tate flowers and vegetables
we would still need to cultivate,
This stirring of the soil with a rake,
hoe, or lv hat:ver is used, is e8seu-
tial to let in air, to absorb rnoistur:
and to distribute plant food. In dry
parts of the country it also keeps
the soil from drying out. A good
practice is to cultivate gardens or
hoe crops regularly, after every
good shower. \Vait, of course, a •
few hours or so until the soil is
just dry cnotgh to work.
., .k :k
Plenty of Time
Tor, early sowing is definitely not
reconun, Tided. It is all very well to
sow a few short rows of vegetables
a week or two before the regular
time just on the chance that there
will be no late fros£s, but the main
sowings should wait until tlhe time
recommended by the seed catalogue
or the local experts. For plants
that are tender nothing is gained
In planting in cold soil and before
the *cattier has definitely turned
warm, Of course, where extra pro-
tection is provided one can get
started earlier but otherwise it is
better 1n wait.
Even if tender plants do survive
a late frost they are quire likely
io be so retarded that later and
normal plantings will overtake
them.
In the vegetable garden, of
course. one •should never sow all
seed at .1100. The experts urge
spreading sowings over several
weeks so that the harvest will like-
wise be spread nut. In most parts
of Canada 7,01 can go on planting
beans, bens. carrots. lettuce and
such Voile' every ten days nr so •
from tete tepee of earliest possible
planting '1111 up to j• -ill.
1n elboy'e (rxlni:. paper:
keep leilk fresh it should be
]eft in ti;, row until need (1.''
In Line 01 Duty—Rhett Butler, a Dalmatian lire dog gets new
bandages on his foot and leg, burned by flaming gas in a neat
market fire. The nurse is fireman Bob Arwvine, who answered
the fire alarm with Rhett.
We wrote, not 't• 1 nig ago, some
fairly uncomplimentary remarks
regarding the torrent of books
about baseball, baseball teams and
baseball players which, for the past
couple of years, have been gushing
from publishers' presses faster
than the Red River ever flooded,
and with almost as depressing an
effect. Now. after perusing—or at
least glancing through — what
seems like- a long cord more of
these volumes, we would say that
the lads are rapidly writing them-
selves clean out of material; and if
we have to read just once more
about what Dizzy Dean said to
Frankie Frisch during the World
Series, or about how Old Pete
Alexander threw his hangover at
the N. 1. 'Yankees and beat then(
with it, we are going to toss the
book out the window and holler
"Copper."
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(Ilere we would like to state
again, however, that Ed. Barrow's
reminiscenses, still running serially,
by no means belong in the above
category. But then Big Ed was an
exceptional baseball man — one
whose influence on the growth and
development of the game was
probably greater than that of any
other individual.)
Anyway, fairly well fed up with
baseball as reading material, it was
a refreshing change to run across
a book about a quite different sort
of sport—the sport of Lawn Ten-
nis. And when you consider what
a gruelling, punishing, nerve-rack-
ing affair modern tennis has be-
come, it seems strange to recall
that, not too many years ago, it
was considered a lady -like sort of
pastime, and men who indulged in
it were liable to be called, by crude
hangers-on around Dolans Tavern
or Cassidy's Pool Parlor, "Sissies"
or worse.
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The brn.k we refer to is called
"Romance of Wimbledon" by John
011iff, profusely illustrated with
portraits and scenes from earliest
tittles down to the present (lay. We
are. sere anybody who likes to
tither play Lir watch tennis will get
a real bang out of this hook; al-
though some of theta will undoubt-
edly be surprised to leant that
(ileeftii Cifrilla ---- "Arno," an -month-old gorilla flown from
Africa Iroke forward In the gond life in some zoo, .ltlintu]
dealer Nulty Crefllich, holding Arno, calls the animal "ugly
and r;chine enough to grOW tsp 10 be a second t,tttr1atittlt, '
Wimbledon — the greatest tennis
eeetre in the world—was actually
started as a place for the playing
of Cro,luct. But facts are facts—
and it was Croquet that really kept
'Wimbledon going for the first
thirty years of its existence.
- I1 was bark in 1870 that twb
brothers named Jones formed a
Croquet Chub and,. after searching
for a ground that wouldn't put too
greet a strain on their limited
bank -roll, acquired four acres
\i , at -
imbledon at a rental of fifty
pounds a year. And their All Eng-
land Croquet Club held ha first
championships there in June. 1870.
Some five years later Henry
Jolles, who was always proposing
startling innovations, suggested de-
voting a small piece of the•grounds
to lawn tennis, This was at first re-
garded as "just another of Henry's
little jokes"; but Hank was appar-
ently a persistent sort of bloke, and
he had his way, the rather frighten-
ing sum of ' twenty-five pounds
being spent on the necessary equip-
ment. The tennis folks rallied
around, and the first Wimbledon
championship was held in 1877. •
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But, according to ler. 011iff,
Croquet kept the club together till
after the turn of the century—in
fact until 1904 when Lawn Tennis
showed a profit of thirteen hundred
pounds, while Croquet was ha the
red for six poands. But for all that
the suggestion that Croquet be re-
moved from the official name of
the club was twice scornfully re-
jected.
It was around this time that the
two famous Dpherty brothers--
-"R.F." and "ILL." as they were
known—began to put Lawn Tennis
00 a really solid footing so far as
the general public was concerned.
And from the Dolterty's stems the
long line of tennis stars right down
to Gorgeous Gussie whose lace
panties last. year caused ahnost as
much stir at -Wimbledon- as Suz-
anne Lenglen's actions did in 1926
when she kept Queen Itary waiting
—al:d lived to regret doing so,
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Suzanne, in case you don't re-
member, was the French girl who
won the ladies Singles live times
in a row, and whose opinion of
herself was almost as great as her
ability. In those days they didn't•
"seed the draw" as they do now,
and Suzanne—finding that all the
leading ladies were in her section of
the (hale --threw something like a
cnnuipiion tit.
beating with this incident the
author quotes the official referee's -
lactfui—e:.tO.1l ly tactful ----version,
"Storms were caused by- Mlle.
JITTER
{ I oo1JT000Me5 0
SCRsj1.MNCA
YtlU WHEN
HE 'MILLS YOUR
1.englen,:r' he wrote. ",Fier unques-
tionable superiority of the pant few
years to any other woman player
s had apparently led her to think that
Wimbledon ought 10 be retie to suit
Iter„ convenience withdut regard la
any other interest whatever. Pos-
Sit}ly too much al len11011 had been
paid to her wislive in previous
years. But in 11121, she preeumell torr
far on her position in thy ;semis
world.'"
Boiled Clown to more everyday
language this 511/1115 that Suzy- said
they had to play it her way .-or
elle.. Queen Mary, there to see the
great Frenchwoman play, Was Kept
waiting for half an hour with noth-
ing to watch. Possibly Her Majesty
didn't like this treatment, Certainly
the Wimbledon folks didn't. Any-
way. Suzanne scratched --told tlel'er
played at Wimbledon again. Sounds
like a tempest in a teapot at this
distance; but it stirred Lill plenty of
talk and excitement tltcu.
The author says—and who me
We to dispute his word?—that the
most extraordinary Wimbledon
match of all occurred •in 1021 be-
tween Randolph Lycett, of Ausu'a-
lie, and Zenao Sltimideu of Japan,
It was played on one of the hottest
days in memory, and by the third
set the Aussie lead to be revived
every bine they changed ends. And
we fear that his revival methods
wouldn't appeal very greatly to
some of our temperance advocates
—for what Lycett used, as a stimu-
lant, was plain gin.
lk 13 •k
In the fins,' set, which ran to
twenty games, it was plainly to he
seen that the Australian was on
his last •legs, the combination of
heat and gin slaving taken its effect.
Lycett knew that it was impossible
to carry on without further stimu-
lant, so he did the most audacious'
thing the Centre Court at Wimble-
don has ever seen. He ordered a
bottle' of champagne to be placed
for him on the umpire's chair---
stid as the battle went on, he drank
the lot.
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However, virtue was its own
reward; and as the Jap eventually
won, perhaps we'll be forgiven—in
spite of the gin and champagne—
for calling attention to "Romance
of Wimbledon" by John 011iff. As
one reviewer puts it -"this is a book
that contains the statistics which
lawn tennis enthusiasts will wish to
consult, but is also packed with
drama and, in some cases, tragedy."
MAD AT OWN VOICES
Do lions recognize their own
voices? Edgar .11, Queeney, an
American. naturalist, thinks not.
When he was filming big game
in the Lake Amboseli area of Kenya
recently, he pitclted his camp one
night beside a small river.
The party was awakened next
morning by a pride of five lions
roaring a few yards away on the
opposite bank. Queeney switches]
on sound -recording apparatus and
made a film of the din. then, be-
cause the animals would not go
an'ay, he played the record back
through a powerful loudspeaker.
Were the lions frightened? Not
a hit. The sound of their own
voices drove them to fury and they
made frantic efforts to cross the
river. Queeney struck camp very
hurriedly.
`Chance Takers' Don't
Belong on Submarines
A man who likes to take chances.
has no place in a submarine—cveti
though he may prove to be a good
commando,. or paratrooper. And
though a elan who fears being
alone may be unhappy in many
jobs he can be a competent mem-
ber of a submarine's crew. Lone-
liness is net problem in the crowd-
ed quarters of a sub. -
These conclusions result from re-
search conducted by Ernest A..
1-laggerd, on the special 'psycho-
logical stresses suffered uta sailors
in submarines.
Best fitted for submarine ser0100,
according to the findings so -for, are
nten who are seemingly independ-
ent but who actually' enjoy team
work. Good submariners can char-
nel aggression into 111e performance
of their duties. instead of releasing
it against themselves or their ship-
mates. Their thoughts - tend lo-
be specific and concrete, ranter than
abstract and general, Such men are
realists and not philosophers.
"Sweat out" the Attach
One eanse of great stress; aboard
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