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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1952-07-17, Page 3Love By R. H. WILKINSON "If you are losing the affection of the man you love, pretend in- difference," confidently wrote one authority. Helen' laughed bitterly. That looked well in print, But !tow about a woman who had been married to a man for 10 years and loved hint now even more than the day of their wedding? How about it when you try and try to make yourself interesting to your hus- band, knowing all the time that you're playing a losing game be- cause grey streaks are showing iu your hair and inevitable lines are appearing in your face? From her bedroom window Helen could sec beneath the trees that surrounded the lodge, down as far as the lake, And suddenly she stif- fened) Roger was coming up the path, carrying a canoe paddle and laughing down at a slim gh'i by his side. The lines about Helen's mouth hardened. The girl, she knew, was Sally Murton, She was staying at the lodge with her folks. Watching the carefree progress of the couple coming up the path, she said aloud: "How can I stop it, before it's too late. How can I combat youth?" There wasn't any answer even in the story books to that one. Five minutes later Roger cause into the room. At 34 he had lost none of his good looks, nor his boyishness and eagerness of man- ner. "111 there, kiddol Say, lootel We're planning a picnic up at Birch Island tonight. Two canoes of us are going. There'll be a moon and Well cook steaks. I3ow about it?" Helen's blood froze, He acted - almost as if he hoped she'd refuse, yet was resigned to having her with Mtn. "I'm sorry, Roger. I've a dread- ful headache. You run along wtih the others and let me stay here and rest" "Do you mind if I do go?" he said, "It's the sort of thing I like doing, you know." "Of course not, darling. Now if SALLY'S SALLIES "I paid for parking an hour yes- terday and parked only 15 min* utcs. Can't I use the rest of it today for nothing?" you don't urine! --1'd like to go to bed." Not until the sound of picnickers had died away around a bend in the lake did Helen give way to her emotions. "He wasn't even concerned about my headache ... He was thinking only of the chance to be aolne with Sally Ilurtou . , , Oh, what's the use? 'What's the use of trying to cling to something you know You've lost?" !low -long -Helen lay there she had no way of knowing. She must have slept, for when site opened her eyes it was to have them blinded by lightning. Sharp, deafen- ing thunder followed. stain lashed against the building. Terror seized her. Ever since sise had been n child she had been afraid in electric storms. 13y 114W, even greater than this instinctive fear was fear for Roger. She slipped from bed and ran to the window. A flash of lightning showed her the take in a wild tur- "d'm sorry, (Ratter," she said, "I've a dreadful headache," moil. She thought of the two frail canoes that had left earlier in the evening. She thought of Roger and Sally Burton .. . A sound at the door brought her head around sharply. The room was suddenly flooded with light. "Roger l" He stood just inside the door, dripping wet, "Hi, kiddo," "Roger—you didn't—not in this storm—?" He nodded. "The others are safe —at Bailey's camp. They decided not to risk the storm." Ile came toward her, placed a hand on either of her shoulders, "I—knew you were always afraid of thunder storms, and—and it was the first time you'd ever refused to go any place with me. It made the won- der." ' Helen knew she was trembling. Even though she wanted she could not have stopped herself from ask- ing the next question. "And—what of Sally?" He stared at her blankly, sur- prised, puzzled. How should '1 know? She wasn't with our'bmsch. "Not with—" Helen broke off abruptly, feeling suddenly very foolish. Then Roger's arms slipped about her, and the old familiar sense of security swept over her as he held her close. "There's no answer to this," she whispered half to herself. "No an- swer at all—except real love." Bald men were found to have 40 per cent more male children than sten with full hair or with receding hairline that had not developed into full baldness, according to a study made by a Fullbright fellow, "Miss Universe"—Screen actress Piper Laurie places n crown that belonged to Russia's Catherine The Great on the head of Armi Kuusela, "Miss Finland," who won the "Miss Universe" beauty pageant. The 18 -year-old Finnish beauty triumphed over lovelies from all over the world, So You Thank YOU'RE Hot I � - So You Think YOU'RE floti--If you think the heat's got you down, chum, how would you like to hold down one of the jobs pictured below? Not so hot, eh? Or much too hall Heat -frazzled folk In those jobs probably give out with a hitter laugh when they hear someone moaning about the current heat wave. Or maybe you think your job is worse than these. Ile smirks When you say you're perspiry! Ile works At a blast furnace fiery! If -you !Dave labeled The heat "dadratted," Pity models sabled And muskratted! As unstarched As soggy dress Is this parched Flat work laundress Your scream Would be far more wrathful If steam You sold by the bath -full Farming uscd to be considered a muscle jolting occupation, a job for people with plenty of .brawn. The plain tedious labor and long (tours of half a century ago likely helped to fill asp our cities just as octets as the promised rewards of industry. 5 * * Then cants the mechanical revolt on the farms. Combines, tractors and machine milking made major farm operation easier, quicker and more pleasant. The small chores were still a lot of work. * * * But many farmers have trade these routine, time consuming dut- ies easier by using the tractor as a substitute for muscle. This mobile power plant can do more than pull plows, disc, haying machinery and combines, With its power take -off and its belt pulley, a tractor is equipped to handle all sorts of chores. Fence building is a job that often takes weeks of muscular efforts but a post hole digger attached to the power take -off can drill nut a hole in a few seconds. * * * The posts themselves can be pull- ed along on a light trailer and a post can be dropped off at each hole. The hardest labor is done by machines and the whole job is completed in jig time. * * * Melt pulleys are used to power circular saws, feed grinders, as well as hay and grain loaders. Water pumps can be run off the belt pulley, but the speed of the pulley rust suit the machine it is run - Mug, Grain loaders or circular saws can wear out quickly or be difficult to operate if run at excessive speeds 5 * �. A tractor blade can be useful to a number of ways, In winter the blade is used to clear snow from the Earns road to the highway, pre. venting the isolation so Common in many areas. The blade is used to cleats man- ure out of pen type barns, as well as moving dirt into soil depressions and doing shallow excavations. Some farmers use it to grade roads on the farm. * * * Tractors are handy machines to Have in a garden or orchard. They draw cultivating tools to till be- tween rows, yet modern tractors are so manoeuvrable small, odd shaped plots can be worked. * * * Some tractors have the power to drive a !sigh capacity "speed" sprayer by power take -off through an orchard, Booms can be mount- ed on any tractor and insecticide sprayed uniformly on orchard or garden. * * * An irrigation system can be laid out by plowing a network of dit- ches and furrows. Here again, the • tractor with a plow can dig out straighter ditches in a shorter time. * * * Tractors are often used to draw the rough work in clearing a field. Fallen trees or huge boulders can he chained to the drawbar and pull- ed to tlse side of the field- * * * Stones can be removed by at- taching the rock picker to any two or three plow tractor, This machine operates rather like a rake. After it has gathered a number of rocks, the tines can be lifted hydraulically and the rocks dumped into a bucket at the hack. * * * The bucket can hold two tons al rock and dumps hydraulically. The rock picker will gather every- thing from two inch stones up to 400 pound bounders. to * * Silage pits can be made by run- ning a cultivator or plow through a given area of ground, then remsov ing the loose dirt with a tractor mounted scoop. A survey by the National Office Management Association reveals that cuspidors are still in use in 20 per cent of firms. Seventy-five per cent allow shirtsleeves at any time, 13 per rent permit it in summer, 2 per rent never allow such attire. "Retired" From Life For 60 Years— What Was The Lady' s Secret? When 1. o t' d Clittrtt s lovely ttaci-liter, I„ilait, swept into a lilt- ing walti other Couples stood back from the fluor to watch. She danc- ed divinely, with her gracefully slim figure and fragile beauty. Brilliantly witty, she was the most popular debutante of her Clay, and when she married a former Lord Annaly, her happiness sectu- ccl assured, Yet, for some sixty years, until her death i n 1944, Lilals. lady Annaly, lived in sha- dos in a suite of rooms in llol- denby (louse. Northampton, un- seen even by many of her Clearest friends. - When t.ieorge. V and Queen Mary, the Duke of Windsor as Prince of Wales, and the Dake and Duchess of York, visited Ilol- cfenby 'House, this strange woman never saw them. Winter and auto - mer, she remained behind drawn blinds, and her relatives could not explain the riddle of her extra- ordinary ekistenee, Some strange and sad desire for the most .romp l e t e retirement touched her life. Acute in political knowledge, famous people con- stantly sought her views and friendship, yet site suddenly became almost afraid of meeting strangers. Iter slyness drove her to aston- ishing lengths She shut herself in her room until everyone else in tice 2.Ito'Ise had retired at _night, and 'returned there before the first scr- t'ants were about in the early nsornins'. Alone With Memories 'I'Isrougls the dead hours of night she roamed the stately horse where Ping Charles had concealed himself before Roundhead roughriders bore him away to face execution in Lon- don Concealed in Lady Annaly's life was tragedy, the memory of a twin sister who had died. Alone with her memories, she trod the spacious corridors and entered the ancient and historic rooms of her lsolne only - after every other light had been extinguished. Mer husband was meantime steadily making Holdenby House smaller and smaller. To adapt it to modern condition, Sir Charles Al- lotn was called in for architectural advice. Tie *sad heard the strange story of Lady Annaly's "retirement," and much to his surprise was told that she would see him in the small hours of the morning, long after everyone else was in bed. Peerage Mystery Lord Annaly led the way and tapped gently on the door. "It is -- 1, Lilals, with Charles Allom," he announced. A silvery voice bade them enter. In a corner of the room, in a soft and becoming light, sat Litals, Lady Annaly. As the old French clock on the mantelpiece ticked away the hours, she eagerly questioned her visitor as if she sought to touch the excitement of the human world outside. Yet, she never emerged from her strange self-imposed imprisonment, although her husband entertained brilliantly both at Holdenby House and in London. When royalty were her guests, she had to be excused her duties as hostess, She became no less beautiful with age, thought pale front lack of sunlight in her life. Even the death of her lntylxacsii did not break her solitude. A personal sonal maid brought Iter' news of the outside world; and through this sole compaction Lady. Annaly i'eeformecl much good, un- seen. She paid doctors' bills and arranged for entire families to take seaside holidays. .She equipped young men fon' careers in a world she had never seen. The strange secret of this beau- tiful woman's hie tree existence re. mains one of the greatest mysteries of the British peerage. When ,;;,ridesmaids Carried Gaits - Time•hoicoured custom 111 the weridiu; '1 scut junr bud ; is figs ap;soicutient of Icridesnsaid5, The duties of thc-e daintily -at- tired attendants seem to have changed over the years, Inc at one time the bridesmaids, reinforced by "bridesmen," used tr-, ferns part of the bride's bodyguard.. They alt carried w't•:rp"nS, too, in ea»e any romantic hitt rejected knight should decide to abduct the fair lady •osr her way from her home to -the weed• ling. Noisy Weddings The duties of the. bridesisnafds are thus a survival of the early primitive practice of marriage by capture. when the lady's frieuda resisted attempts to seize and carry Iter oil. Traces of this custom may ,tilt be found at some Ends-ls ciIl igc weddings, where a mock; contr,t Ise. tweets the [dol.', of the brute and briilegrs, to fornts ;cart of the day's L roceedings. I -p to the legiuninp; of this COW. tune in parts of Durham Comity the bridal party was escorted to church by men armed with guns, which they fired again and again close to the ears of the bride and bridesmaids. At Guishorouglt, in Cleveland, these gnus were fired over the heads of the newly married couple all•tise wav from clttrcic. This was 5. sii'rvivaf of the fighting which featly happened in the days of rnarfaj;e Ijy capture. Again, instead of being meet. graceful ornaments at the marriage ceremony, the bridesmaids of olden - tines had strict duties assigned to them. Every one of them had to take part in dressing the bride oa her wedding morning, and if any- thing was forgotten they were pun- ' ished for it. Important duty of the first brides- maid was to stand by the bride throughout all the restivities, which often lasted a week. Icfuch strong mead and wine was consumed in toasts and pledges, with the result that the bride often needed a help- ing !sand when 1t was time to re- tire. Of an estimated 20,000,000 cats in the United States, about 40 per cent board with families, 10 per cent try the luck of tlse road, 50 per cent earn a living as ratcatchers in barns, factories, prisons, res. taurants, churches, skips, etc. End Of The "World"—Scientists have predicted many ways that the world might be destroyed, but none of them thought the end would come in the form of a sledge -swinging workman. The world, in this case, is the 12,000 -pound stone -and -steel globe located in the Ford Rotunda. It is being destroyed to make room for a new display. 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