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The Seaforth News, 1952-06-19, Page 7Modern Etiquette Hy Roberto Lee Q. How can 1 give a buffet i supper? 1 A. Anytime between live and I eight, P.M, Hot 'dishes, salads, rolls, appetizers, dessert and bt•ver- Iages are netted. The dinheN, napkins and silverware ware are placed tut the table with the food, and the t guests help themselves. 'Citic is a good way to entertain a large gathering without staid service, Q. What kind of entertainments are appropriate for, announcing a wedding engagement? A. Engagements are announced by parents or older relatives of 1110 bride-to-be, and this may be done at formai or 'informal dinners or luncheons, dances, card or coNktail parties. Q. Is it considered improper to use the knife in cutting the lettuce in a salad? A, There is no ban at all against cutting the salad with a knife. Q. To settle an argument, will you tell me the correct way in which to eat ones? Is it ever proper to eat them with a spoon? A. 1 e is customary always to eat vegetables with the fork. This ap- plies to peas, to8, Q. If a couple know that their engagement is to be a long one, should a public announcement be made? A. Yes; but the announcement should include "that no date has been set for the wedding," Q. Is it proper to name the second son "junior" after his father, or is this title always sup- posed to be conferred on the oldest son? A. The "junior" in a fancily need not be the first son. Q. My husband and I have been invited to a double wedding ceremony. The one couple are very good friends, but the other we know only slightly. Are we obligat- ed to give wedding gifts to both couples? A. A gift to your good friends is the only requirement. Of course, a little gift to the other bride wottld not be unproper, but it isn't expected. Q. Is the prefix "Mr." ever omitted from a man's card? A. It is omitted from a man's business card, but never from the card which he uses socially. Q, Is it proper to sip your coffee or tea with the spoon? A. Not the entire cup. The spoon may be used for tasting only, never for drinking. After stirring your beverage and tasting, lay the spoon in the saucer and let it remain there. ANSWERS TO INTELLIGENCE TEST 1—Bowling. 2—Spain, 3—Britain, 4-700 yards. 5—Milton. 6—Aaron Burr. 7—(A) 'United States; (B) —Rome; (C) Turkey; (D) Britain, Colorful Paper Plates Ease Duties of Summer Hostess I3Y EDNA. MILES To entertain with the least effort and the greatest results is the aim of allnost every woman during the hot sum- mer months. She wants her guests to have a good tune, But she doesn't want to spend long, hot hours in the kitchen before they arrive nor does she want to return to the kitchen for another session when they've gone. One of the simplest and mast pleasant forms of party - giving is the bullet using paper -plate service. It leaves the hostess free to enjoy her own party, to talk to her guests and to eat without feeling harried. As the buffet moves out-of-doors for warm weather, the hostess may utilize almost any open space, from a small terrace in a city apartment to a back porch or a lawn. Color, in a buffet, cati be gained through the striking pastel shades of the paper plates—jonquil yellow, avocado green, paradise pink and blue—or in patterns on white grounds, The hostess can use a dark cloth for contrast or site can let the wood of the table top set off the plates. Table decorations need not be elaborate to he attention - getting. Flowers in an unusual arrangement, an interesting candelabra, a functional relish ferris wheel --any of these will turn the trick. When the buffet is over, neither quests nor hostess need feel obliged to' ruin the balance of the evening by doing dishes. The paper plates and matching paper napkins can be thrown out, thus getting rid of most of the clean-up work. Gay paper plates add to the friendly atmosphere of the outdoor buffet, Ilestess relaxes, free from visions of stacks of dishes. Note relish "ferric wheel" at left. In the latest issue of that very interesting American Magazine "The Farts Journal," there's an article by L. C Daggs which I'm going to pass along to you poultry raisers. These roosting "islands," as he calls then, sound like a really good idea --one that I'm sure many of us could adopt to our advant- age, * X * A hen scratching around on the floor looks industrious—says Mr. Boggs—and most of us have thought "that's good --she Must be slaking money." * * * But some of the poultrymen in the state of Washington note have a different idea. They are trying roosting "islands" that run down the centre of their Houses, with feed and water troughs mounted on the roosts. Their hens spend most of the time on the "islands," not on the floor. The advantages are: * * * You can keep more birds in a house; Your litter stays dryer; You get more clean eggs; C.P.R. VICE PRESIDENT MEETS DIESEL PIONEER: A college thesis was responsible for a long delayed meeting in Montreal recently between the Russian scientist who designed and built the world's first diesel-electric locomotive (shown above) and the vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The story began when N. R. Crump (right), now vice-president of the C.P.R., was studying for his Bachelor of Science degree at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind,, and was renewed in 1936 while Mr. Crump was locomotive foreman at Moose Jaw, Sask., and was working on his thesis for his Mechanical Engineer's degree. His subject, "Internal Combustion Engines in the Railroad field," was one that required a study of facts that were almost unobtainable at that time. Mr, Crump turned to the reports of Dr. George Vladimir Lomonosoff (left), a Russian mechanical engineer who had designed a diesel locomotive as early as 1909, and had one in operation in 1923, to get the information he needed. The 76 -year-old Dr. Lomonosoff, Whose son is a resident engineer with the Montreal Locomotive Works, has been living so quietly in Montrealfor The post Iwo years, that it was only recently that Mr. Crump learned of his presence in the city and arranged an interview. Modern C.P.R. diesel locomotive built by the Montreal Locomotive Works is shown in the picture behind Dr, Lomonosoff and Mr, Crump, Your birds are more comfort- able; And best of all, you save work. r. x: A. typical roosting island is • 12 feet wide, with a 10 -foot alley on each side. it's bat up 2 feet off the floor, e. * :1 You put the feed hoppers on. the outside edges of the Island, for easy, no -stoop filling from a feed cart. The water trough runs down the middle. * * * The sides are closed down to the floor, of course, so the birds can't get under the rack. All the Water the birds shake off their wattles, or bill out of the trough goes under the rack, where there's no litter to get wet. * N * So do most of the droppings, be- cause the birds spend nearly two- thirds of their time on the islands. That means fewer droppings in the litter, which stays dryer and clean- er and lasts longer. $ * * Harry l.eclmer of Redmond, Nash., says his roosting island lets icitn keep more birds. He figures that he needs only 2 square feet of floor space per Leghorn hen. itt used to use 3 square feet for Leghorns and 4 square feet for heavy breeds, * *. * How about this labor-saving angle? Y 1: '1 I ivatcbed Everett Peterson of Langley, Wash., drive into his lay- ing house with his tractor and field cultivator, and stir the litter in a pen -36' x 100'. It took hint just 10 minutes to make two rounds around the island, and the job was done. He didn't have to move a feeder, or dodge- a waterer. 0 What happened to the 1.500 hens in the house? They just ran ahead of -tlte tractor, or jumped up 00 the island. Peterson does the chore once a week, and the birds are used to hint. x k * Another poultryman using -an island says that it takes him just 10 minutes a day to feed mash out of a wheel -barrow to 1,200 birds. It takes him another ten ntiuntes a day to scatter grain in the litter rind pick np floor eggs, * * 0 Automatic feeders will work with this system, too. Those who ase them mount the hopper and motor on one corner of the island, to leave the alley clear alt the any around for cleaning. * * * 'Che dryer, cleaner litter is the tiling that produces more clean eggs. What's more, you've got more roots for nests, because you've got the whole back wall free for nests, now that the roosts have been moved away from the wall. . Mighty Mouthpiece — With the aid of tiny new electronic parts called "transitory," this newly - developed megaphone enlarges the human voice without exter- nal connections, Powered by small batteries the "transitors" do the work of vacuum tubes, eliminating the use of bulky high-voltage batteries and the need fur an external power supply. There's another saving, too. Reed Hanson at the Western Washington Experiment Station says that it takes only three-fifths as much time to keep built-up lit- ter in good condition in island houses as it 1:015 ;1, ordinary houses, A number of folks using'islancls tell me that their birds are less flighty, because they've got a place to go when •yon conte in to feed, or to gather eggs. They're more comfortable, too, especially in hot weather, hrcaese there's more air space overhead right aliote the is - laud than any other place in the house. There seems to be advantages than disadvantages in the system. lot of folks with 1,00(1 birds or more are switching to it. All of them P. ye talked to like it. BEER -PROOF PIANO A beer -proof piano Iral. been on display at the British Inchistries Fair. The piano is built of solid - oak. There arc - t to sharp edges to bruise souses who fall against it. Beer mugs and cigarettes slide of sloping lids. Keys are covered with a fireproof plastic that cannot be picked off. Neither money nor food can he thrown into the works. The string assembly is so fastened in place that it cannot be removed to be played on as a harp in some Barrluc outpouring or song. "Care must he evereiserl :n staking the holes - for seed planting, it naturally follows that the gardener can, by indulging in a mace orgy of hole -staking, practically wipe out his garden." —Frank Sullivan. Does a Curve Curve? :'t new and awesome electronic calculator says a common besc•ball, of the shape baseballs are supposed to be, weighing what official base- balls are supposed to weigh, pro- pelled at the speed and with the spin any good pitcher can put on it, actually curves. All of which may appear as merely superscientitic laboring of the obvious to several millions who have (a) sat behind the plate any- where from tt:e • Polo Grounds to Sportsmans Park or tb) fanned the air with a willow themselves. But souse—surprisingly few—will recall the stroboscopic pictures in Life magazine 11 years ago which showed that Carl Hubbell's and Cy Dlantoti s best twisters didn't curve at all —ju=t dropped. There they were: A string of white circles right down a straight chalk line. No optical illusion here. A camera can't lie—or can it? Anyhow, if two marvels of tech- nology are going to stand up aid call each outer liars, why not seize the baseball by the seams and see if it won't curve around something solid? The answer is, it's already been done—long ago. Sporting News tbaseball's fountainhead of know- ledge) says star pitcher Fred Gold- smith did it eight tithes in 1570. Ile and a catcher stood on the same side of a line of. three stakes. The ball left the pitcher's hand to the left of the first stake, traveled to the -right of the second and smacked into the catcher's !lands (no mitts then) at the left of the third, Rill i'osedel and Lenny Lewy did it again in 1950. right.' Well—anyone who has twisted himself into a pretzel as he swung at a big "round house" and hissed for the third strike knows that if that curve was an optical illusion then his bat had an invisible hole in it.— From The Christian Science Monitor. Save Labor Cultivators, $puzzlers,, spade*, rakes, and practically everything we use to dig, cut or prune ars much more easily operated if they have long handles. Ess'" the little Ingle -pronged cultivator is ' ban - tier with a three -to -five-foot hon- die Thus equipped it tvill save a lot of stooping. Another point in this labor' saving business. The average per- son is inclined to plant rows far too close together. Of course one can grow beets, carrots, beans, ete., in rows only 12 inches apart if space• is very limited, but it wilt be nmcir easier for cultivation if these are two feet or mare apart, and tvftll a garden cultivator they should be at least 30 inches or bee - ter still, three * * * . Ile Prepared A very necessary piece of equip- ment for most gardeners is a small sprayer or duster and the material,$ to load it. Nothitig is more dis- couraging than to get flowers, veg- etables or shrnbrry flourishing and then to discover some line morning that hugs or disease have started to attack theta, If one counter-at- tacks promptly, however, there is little difficulty about control. For every pest, fortunately, -there is some chemical or other treat- ment to keep it in cheek. t'sually a spray or dust is used. For in- sects that eat holes in foliage the usual remedy is a poison of some hind, smelt as arsenate of lead, DDT. copper sulphate. nicotine, ete.. Fur the pests that suck out the jukes a burning spray or dust incorporating sulphur is rccoiu- mendecl, or sometimes special soap. and water or some of the tobacco solutions. t'se sprays when the foliage is dry. With the dust, best results are obtained on a day with- out wind and just after a rain or before a derv. With all chemicals one is well advised to study and follow directions carefully and make sure that the proper mater- ial is used for the particular pest concerned. * * Pinch "Em Most beginners are too gentle or tender. They hate to do some very necessary surgery. Take the handling of what the tratle calls bedding plants. These are well - started annuals in both the bower and vegetable line which are grown from seed, sown indoors or in hot- beds, or are bought from the seed - men or florists, usually about a dozen to the box or fiat. The be- ginner is inclined to set these out without any pinching back, or without even removing buds or flowers. If just before or after planting one pinches off quite a lot of the growth, and especially alt flowers or buds, one will get touch sturdier growth and in the end more flowers or fruit. Water peonies frequently and thoroughly to fill out the buds. Don't worry about the ants run- ning around on the buds for they do no harm. Legend has it that the ants nibble at the bud cover- ing, enabling then to open more easily and •perfectly. TEST YOUR INTELLIGENCE Score 10 points for each cotrect answer in the first six questions: 1, "Sparc" is a term.used in: ---golf ---baseball--badmiaton --howling 2. The Balearic Islands are off the coast of: —Spain —Korea —Et hiopia • —Maryland 3. Joan of Are led the French army against the: -Palish —British —Germans—AIgerians 4. The greatest di01111, - a modern archer could shoot with a 1'ow and arrow would be about—, —100 yards —31)0 yards —500 yards —700 yards 5. The epic poem, Paradise Lost. was written by: —Byron —Shelley Goldsmith --Milton G. Alexander Hamilton fongl t a duel with: —Thomas Jefferson --Aaron Burr ---Tom Paine —Patrick Henry. 7. Listed behnv• are four wars and opposite them the victors, or one of the victors. Match them scoring 10 points for each correct answer. - AM War 01 1812 (111 Punic Wars (Cl Crimean (D) hoer War Total your points. A score of 0-20 superior; 90-100, very superior. -Britain --Turkey —United States ---Ronne is tar; 30-60. average; 7(1.80, YTTER 1'M TEACHSN' TH6 MONKS ' TO SRAM TE FUNNY ABOtfi' THAT? WArili f GOOK YOU A5 A NIGHT CLUB' ACT OR SOMEP'N;.Stt6 WON'T LAUGH THEM WHCN You 5KA1'R BACteWARD5 Se CARRFUL NOT TO RUN '`NTO By Arthur Pointer .\ (,.STorzly\ WINDOWSP