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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1948-07-08, Page 2He Refuses To Smile For The Cameraman — Benny Beaver looks pretty glum about the whole thing as he poses for his picture at the fur farm of the four Pardoe brothers near Blen- heim, Ont. The brothers are making an experiment to find out if beavers can be successfully raised in captivity. If they succeed it may mark the beginning of a new era in Canadian fur - farming, as beaver pelts are worth anything from $50 to $60 apiece. Cross Wheat -Rye Experiments are being conducted at the Plant Breeding Institute of the Agricultural University of Wageningen (The Netherlands) fn crossing wheat and rye and it is expected that large-scale plantings of the new cereal will take place this year. Experiments during the past fifty years have produced only sterile crosses but a partially fertile variety has now been developed. The new cereal is stated to thrive on poor soils and is of a high nutritive value. A Smile The jury had just brought in a verdict of acquittal in a mur- der trial. The judge frowned, adjusted his robe, and snapped: "What possible reason can this jury have?" The foreman responded: "In- sanity, Your Honor." The judge leaned forward: "An twelve of you?" =FARM FRONT Jok11.lIc Lt11�"e L Fires in Canadian homes caused just as many deaths last winter as did automobile accidents on our highways. For the safety of his home and his family every home- owner should have his heating sys- tem overhauled and cleaned during the summer, rather than leave it till the fall when furnace men and heating contractors are rushed to death. * * * For those who attend to such personally, a few tips on the proper way to clean a furnace may be help. ful. Once the chimney has been swept, clean out the pit at the bot- tom of the chimney; also clean all soot from pipes connecting furnace to chimney, as soot can corrode the the pipes. Pipes should be carefully check • ed 'for holes and loose connections from which smoke and dangerous gases may escape. If there is any slope at all in pipes, they should slope upward toward chimney. Thunder Shower By NORMA MOSHER Joan Roberts called me the other day. Rather surprisingly, for I hadn't seen her in years, and after the usual exchanges, "How are you? It's too bad we don't see one an- other more often," she got down to the point. "Did you know your cousin Ethel was being married next month?" "I was aware of the fact," I re- plied, rather grimly. "I've already been to three of her showers." "Well, since I'm bridesmaid 1 simply have to have one, too. I've decided on next Tuesday, and I thought you might like to come." This was a "miscellaneous" show- er, which, as everybody knows, means that you can bring anything from the book -ends Aunt Hattie sent you for Christmas to the pil- low slips you picked up during the January sales for $1.98. Our household, unfortunately, never seems to yield any hidden treasures at the right moment, so 1 bought a rose bowl at the little gift shop up at the corner. I didn't get it wrapped until the last minute, as usual, and as usual, I found that there wasn't a bit of fresh ribbon in the house. But I still had the pearls to wrap np. Much as I disliked the idea, 1 bad to pass them along to the nein bride in the family—although Ethel didn't seem like family to me, be- cause until recently we hadn't .seen her in ages. I didn't even know whether she remembered the pearls, but the shower would provide a good opportunity to give them to her - So I did them up the best I could, Dt forgetting the little card that always Went With them. You know the old routine by now. When the scout posted at the door to watch for the guest of honor called "Here she comes!" the lights were turned out, and there was • comparative silence brokn only by a few giggles from the 'teen-agers. Then, as Ethel stood in the door- way, everyone yelled "Surprise!" on went the lights, and she put on a fairly convincingly display of amaze- ment. We all sat around in the usual circle, with Ethel opening the gifts and Joan reading the accompanying cards. Then they were passed on to be duly admired and exclaimed over, and returned via the circle to Ethel. The donor of the seventh gift by tradition to be the next bride, turned out to be a stoutish matron who lived down the street and had three strapping half- grown boys. It was getting late, and we were hopefully sniffing the fragrance of the coffee brewing in the kitchen when Ethel reached 'way down for the last package. The white paper and red cord looked rather plain af- ter all the other pretty wrappings and I was sorry that I hadn't taken time to dress it up a little. "This must be something extra," Ethel said giving away the fact that al) present and all presents had been accounted for in her busy little mind• She gave an embarrassed laugh when she saw the shabby box, an. ticipating another joke. But when she opened it, there was only the string of well-worn pearls. Not real ones, of course, bu' well matched and graded. As Joan read the card, a burst of incredulous laughter rose throughout the room. "'A pearl for every year of hap piness when you wear these on your wedding day.' Why, it isn't even signed." Ethel's voice Was shrill over the buzz of comments in the room. "This must be a joke. As if 1 would wear those—those pearls with my wedding gown. I think the person who did this should own up. And I have a pretty good idea," turning and looking pointedly at me, "who it is." I stood up. "Why of course, Eth- el, I'll own up," I said quickly. "And I did hope that you might wear them at your wedding. But I can see that it was a mistake on my part, and I'm truly sorry for what I did. But there's one consolation," I couldn't help adding when I saw the look of triumph in her eye. "You'll not get a duplicate of these at another shower. You see, they belonged to our grandmother." Finally, furnace fire box and heating boiler ^hould be thorough- ly cleaned and checked for cracks and other damage. Homeowners who haven't the exprience or nec- essary equipment to do this prop- erly should call in a heating con- tractor. It doesn't pay to take chances. * Old Horne Weeks and Reunions will be the order of the day in many parts of Ontario. Lindsay is hold- ing Old Horne Week from July First to Tenth. There will be an Old Boys Reunion at Elmira, July First to Fourth, while the Bruce County Reunion will be from July 20th to August Fourth- * * * Now that they're using egg shells commercially—and in a big way— about the only part of a chicken that goes to waste is the cackle, and sometimes we fancy we even hear sometimes we fanc wye even tear some of those coming over those "disc jockey" shows on the radio. Robert Frock of Nebraska is the one to find a use for the egg -shells. He is running what is claimed to be the only egg -shell dehydrating plant in the U.S.—drying up and grinding into flour no less than half a million shells a day. Most of them go Into livestock feed, re- placing bonemeal or limestone as a source of calcium. Sonne; however, are being used for human nutrition, principally in hospitals, Frock claims that egg-sh flour is cheap- er than bonemeal and more digest- ible than limestone and predicts that the day is coming when there won't be a wasted egg shell in the country. Writing in the Farm Journal re- cently Wheeler McMullin makes some suggestions to the U. S. Agri- cultural Authorities which might possibly be addressed, with equal point to - those on this side of the border. Soils all over America—he writes —are screaming for more humus, more organic matter. Soils, once friable and absorbent, have become hard and sticky. Agricultural needs a new crop that is mostly roots— roots that will reach down into the subsoil—roots that will leave the ground full of their organic matter can equal a really phenominal root structure. Why are not explorers searching for plants to fill that need? * * * Mr. McMillen goes on to discuss the growing -scarcity of cellulose. Use of paper—he writes—has risen until the average is nearly one pound her person each day. Celle lose gets scarcer and more expen- sive. Wood pulp comes from for. ests that steadily grow thinner and farther away. The time approaches when a yearly cellulose crop will pay. Somewhere on earth there must be plants which could be ad• aptd so that farmers here could grow the cellulose needed for paper and rayon. Why are not explorers looking for such plants? Queen Made Old Frenchman .:; Happy Back in the llit e_"•when the Queen was still Dutfiess of York, she was the honored . -'guest of the great French -Colonial Exposition, held at Vincennes.'. '(there, in the open air garden, she was being served tea' by the guiding genius of. the' Exposition, France's dis- tinguished - former soldier: and, statesman, Marshal Lyautey. Now on this occasion the excite- ment and the unusual exertions to which the Marshal bad been sub jectedhad reduced hitn' to the condition of a tired and disillusion' ed old man, Greatly admiring the old warrior, the Duchess wond- ered how she might help him regain his former attitude of cheerfulness and well -beings "Monsieur le Alarechal', she -fin- . ally said, "you are so powerful, you have done so much for your wonder- ful country, and you have created this great exposition—would you do something for me?" "For you, Madame", the old war- rior replied. "Burt what can I do for your Roya. Highness?" "Why this!" said .England's fut- ure queen. "The sun is- in my eyes. Will you make it go away?" The Marshal was about to dis- claim such powers, when suddenly the sun went behind a cloud. "Thank you, Monsieur le Maie' shall", the Duchess exclaimed grate- fully. The old soldier beamed with hap- piness- The Dluchess, with a mischiev our twinkle in her eye, whispered to a fellow -guest, "I saw the cloud coming." First Irishman: "Which would you rather be in, Pat — an explosion or a collision?" Second ditto: "In a collision, be- cause in a collision there yez are, but in an explosion where are yez?" Sizable Universe If we may judge from those parts of space which are accessible to telescopic observation - . writes Sir James Jeans in "The Stars and Their. Courses"—a large part of the matter of the universe is already condensed into stars: We obviously cannot state the total number - of stars in the whole universe with any approach to accuracy but its vast- ness is suggested by the statement that there are probably something like as many stars in the universe as there are grains -of sand on all the seashores of the world: Or, to take another comparison, the total number of stars .in the universe is probably equal to the number of drops of rain which' fall on the whole of London in a day of heavy. rain.' And we must remember that the average star is something like - a million times- as big as the earth. Just For Fun The youngster's parents had visited the neighbor's home the night before and when the neigh- bor answered the doorbell the next morning and saw Jimmy she thought his parents must have forgotten something. "Please; Mrs, Brown", Jimmy said, "may I look at your, din- ing -,room m'ug?" She was astonished but -said, "Why of course, Jimmy, come right in." The boy stared at the a•ug in, tentl'y. Finally, with a puzzled, . frown, he turned to its owner and said, "It doesn't make me sick". The last great comet to appear in the sky was, Hallcy's Comet 1910. It will lie seen again in Feb- ruary, 1980. Cigarette Tobacco ALSO AVAILABLE IN 1 POUND T!MS ,t 1 tE61.V0U . a1D" et SO%toRE �io��rnorJellyitth AND RESULTS ARE SURE! Sounds almost unbelievable — until you know the reasons why. Certo is nothing but "fruit pectin" — the natural sub- stance in fruit which makes jams "jam" and jellies "jell.' It's extracted from fruits in which it is most plentiful for better, quicker, easier jam and jelly making. 1. Short boil — That's why, when you use Certo, you don't have to "boil down" your fruit to make it set. A one -to -two -minute full, rolling boil is enough for jams .. . a half -minute -to -a -minute for jellies. 2. 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