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Zurich Herald, 1957-02-28, Page 7Gentle People Gentle Manners The banns for Eli's Wedding will not be read until three weeks before the wedding, and until that time it is supposed to be a secret from all except the families and a few of their most intimate friends. But "it wonders me" if any- one will be really surprised when the official announcement comes. Nobody says anything "publicly, yet surely a lot of peo- ple must know about the mar- ried -man's carriage being built for Eli in the local Weggli schoop. He goes over often to see how the work is progressing on It; Emmaline and I have dropped in twice to check. It is a long and tedious job to build an Amish carriage. AU machines used in its construction are run by small gasoline en- gines, since the shop is without electricity, and all the different wooden parts used are fitted and bolted together with -the same care employed by the finest cab- inet makers. The shafts and wheels have been ordered from a factory in Philadelphia, but it will be weeks yet ,before the finish coats of shiny black paint are applied and the gray canvas top put on. Seeing some sixty-five or so of these ' carriages pulled up in a barnyard on meeting day, one wonders how the owners ever tell them apart, so alike are they. However, on being questioned, Emmaline shrugs and says, "Oh, we yoost look at 'em and know." Meanwhile, other events have ,pointed up the fact that a wed- ding is in the offing. Amos and Eli took time out from farming to attend the Thursday cow sale and came back with a fine young heifer. The girls and Emaline had a pretty gwleld in the frames before the usual time for quilting in the fall and winter. Knowing her so well, I detect that Emmaline wishes the wed- ding could be in her home. She would love all the hustle and bustle attendant on a wedding, and the work would be nothing but pleasure for her. Since this cannot be, she will try to con- tent herself with doing what she can to insure its success. The parents of both bride and Froom will do their utmost to give the young couple the. best possible start in life. It is the dream of every Amish farmer to give each of his sons a farm. And since their earliest days in this country the Amish have striven to conserve the fertility of the land and if possible in- crease it. With his idea of per- manency, the Amish farmer thinks of himself as holding the land in trust, as being honor - bound to pass it on to his sons as rich and fertile as he received it from his father. The wasteful methods that wore out the good earth of the tidewater plantations in the South were avoided by the,Plain People of Pennsylvania, who considered it sinful to deplete the land so. And long before lime was widely used in other areas as a soil builder and sweetener, the limekiln was a familiar fea- ture of the early Dutch land- scape. It is this same sense of obliga- tion which keeps farms in this MERRY MENAGERIE "Quit shaking, silly. -that's not the way you spell 'MOUSE'!". region the models of neatness that they are, with even the trees in the house yards being treated to a coat of whitewash each spring. Whitewashed trees Make the yard look more trim, but the main theory is that whitewash protects the trees from disease and insects. Every farm has its orchard of apples, a grove of peaches, and "pie cherry" trees along the lane, The Amish think highly of their trees, and this characteristic was bequeathed to them from ances- ters who deliberately chose to nut down the tall forest trees instead ' of girdling them and leaving them to die, as was the custom then. Nowadays it is a common sight to see a few fine trees growing in the fields, and they are there because the far- mer could not bear to cut them down. Eli, being the only son of par- ents who are considered well- to-do by local standards, will have the best they can afford to give him. Custom decrees that the groom be given a horse, har- ness, a cow, a plow and harrow, and perhaps some other farm machinery, a pig or two, some furniture for the house, and probably some dishes and linens. The bride, as her dower, is expected to bring a cow and some chickens, a stove, a cup- board, a table, a bureau, a bed and bedclothing, six chairs and a rocker to match, linen, dishes, hams, potatoes, canned fruit,and a barrel of flour. And wedding gifts from relatives will include not only such usual presents as dishes, clocks, lamps, and linens, but also such practical gifts as axes, hammers, wrenches, cross- cut saws and other tools neces- sary on a farm. Down from the Zaugg attic come treasures that would make any antique collector drool: four-poster beds, bureaus, tables, corner cupboards, porch settees, and chairs, all of which have been bought at county auctions, or else handed down in the fa- mily for generations. Anna and Hilda are wild with delight over the prospect of shin- ing up the polished pieces and painting the wicker ones. There is not a trace of jealousy in their generous hearts. Eli is their bro- ther, someone very special, and they know, too, that there will be enough for all. So they hoard the money they make from rais- ing rabbits and dressing them for market to buy linens and to make pretty kuppa-kissa (pil- low cases) and other necessary household items to show their joy at having a new sister. No farm work ever mars the Sabbath here. Even milk is not collected on Sundays; but used in the house for cooking or given to the pigs. And when, af- ter church, the people gather to visit at some chosen farmhouse, Eli does not sit with the older men, but frolics a bit with the • "unmarrieds." And there is no talk whatsoever of love and marriage by anyone. Amish courtings proceed according to custom, and young couples do not pair off, except to go to Sun- day night singings, when a boy may ask his favorite girl to ride with him, and usually his sister or sisters. But we know that a wedding is to be, and it makes everything more exciting. On the first Sun- day that the banns are read, the intended bride will stay at home; Eli will be in church. Af- ter the reading he will leave immediately and go to her home, where she awaits his coming. It will be a solemn moment, but a thrilling one as well. As Hilda says, "It's goose bumps I get, just thinking about it." But it is all in the accepted order of gen- tle ways as lived by gentle peo- ple. -By Mabel Slack Shelton in The Christian Science Monitor. Clean, bright shining milk cans not only look better, but are necessary to proper protec- tion of milk in transportation, dairy experts say, CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Conceiver • 8. Carr 13. 13ouquet worn by a woman 14. Straighten 15. Greek E 16. Exactly right 17. Muscle 18 Place of -epos, 19. That woman 20. Cutting instrument 23. Long stem 27. Excited 28. Team of norses 29. Flowed '30. Forbid 21. Oscillate 82. Insect 13. Inhabitant of • (suffix) X84. Listen r5. Claming pubes 36. Predetermine 8. Ocean-going vesgel t9 annoy 49. Gain the victory 41. Express • ra,titude 44. Pale 45. Bad (preps) 48. Thicket 49. Mean 61.11`ixtished 82. Legislator (.a, p'rdL ON dessert 3. Period 3. Epoch 4. Like 5. Candle 8. Old oath 7. Cnllecttnn 8. Laundering 28. Swagger 9. Foreign 31. Evaded 10. Cotton -seed. 25. Loud noise lug machine 37. Color slightly 11. Individual 38. Flne cloth 12. Fresh 40. Billow 18. Swamp 41. Article 19. Punish 42. Domestic 20. Frantic fowl 21. Marble 43. Total 22. Regiones 44. Existed 23. Steeple 45. Entangle 24. Sewer 46. (Sone by 25. Spear 26. Go in 47. Sea god 50. Sun god 1 2 4 5 6 111��9 10 n 12 13 ■UI®®Upj14111 ■111 • Cill .4'14 hhVNA.w.c 20 21 22 ; 4 " - ®®® 24 ilia 27 M29 ■11Bill11 ,s Km" 0®®?1'' III 36 ®®��®� \dt•. ..::::.0.::.?:!Sill.i Vey V}•1 iYi ,J. ill 1111111111t4 1„ :r .; Lv. sae Answer elsewhere on this page. WALK-IN WASH UP - Prince of Davidsdell 13th - all 911 pounds of him - gets a bath at a filling station to get ready for the Fat Stock Show. Tllfl'MM FRONT Steers regularly bring higher prices per pound on the market than heifers but this spread in price is by no means uniform on the various markets or at dif- ferent seasons of the year. Comparison of eight years average sales records on the Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary markets show that To- ronto usually has the smallest spread, 1V1ontreal the largest, with Calgary and Winnipeg be- tween the two and Calgary clos- est to Toronto. They also show the spread is greatest on all markets in the late fall and early winter months when the largest percentage of heifers to steers come on the market. * * The lower prices for heifers are stated as due to smaller dressing percentages for heifers, more waste in cutting heifer car- casses into wholesale and retail cuts, and a smaller percentage; of the heifer than of the seer, 'carcass going into the higkiele priced retail cuts. • • * a * • The Marketing Service of : the Department has assembled the available records on the relative dressing percentages of steers and . heifers (of the same grade and weight) from different areas as means of checking how far actual figures support these statements. These records indi- cate that steers do tend to show higher dressing percentages than , heifers but the differences are • small and in many cases heifers exceeded the steers. There were far greater differences between individual steers or individual heifers than between steers and heifer's as such. a. - r' • Only a limited number of re- cords are available on the wast- age in cutting carcasses or the relative percentages going into the higher priced cuts. Those collected to date indicate about the same trends as in dressing percentage. The average for most of the tests show steer carcasses as slightly superior to those from heifers of the same grade and weight, but with many ex- ceptions. And again the differ- ence between the two is consid- erably less than between indivi- dual steers or heifers. * • • Many more cutting records are required before definite conclu- sions can be drawn. Departmen- tal officials are seeking, in co- operation with producers, pack- ers and retailers, to obtain suffi- cient records, particularly in re- lation to retail cuts, to establish if possible the relationship be- tween the two in'terms of meat value per caroass of equal grade and weight. • * * A more detailed summary or interim report on the records assembled to date is available in mimeograph form and will be sent to this interested on re- quest. Apply to Information Ser- vice, Department of Agriculture, Confederation Building, Ottawa. * * * Where a hedge is needed to provide a dividing line in the home garden, a suitable back- ground for other plantings, a screen to shut off an unpleasant view, noise and traffic, or to give privacy in the garden, hardy evergreen species deserve con- sideration. Some of the advantages of evergreens are: "they provide year-round interest and shelter; a minimum of pruning is re- quired to keep them attractive; and hedges of any desired height and shape can be developed. s d * 01 course, the outlook and ef' feet may be too sombre • if ever- greens are planted too freely. Evergreen., that tlorinally bee come tall trees (spruces and pines) should be used only where a fairly tall and long hedge is needed. For low to me- dium -tall hedges, evergreen spe- cies of moderate height and of finer appearance (cedars and junipers) are to be preferred. * * • The choice of an evergreen hedge and the species selected must bear a relationship to other evergreens used in the layout or landscape plan, otherwise the evergreen hedge may seem somewhat out of place. The height will be governed by the space available and the purpose to be served. Usually a taller hedge is needed for a screen than for a background. For low hedges three to five feet high, plants should be spaced from 18 to 24 inches apart in a single row, and around 36 inches apart for taller hedges. YA Pruning is the most important step in the maiptenance of an evergreen hedger"Pruning is sel- dom required., more than once a year and only light• pruning ra- ther than shearing is needed to keep the hedge compact. This will encourage new growth from lateral buds. Evergreen hedges retain their natural appearance if pruners. or secateurs rather than shears are used for pruning them. " • * Evergreen 'hedges are best pruned in late July or early Au- gust. If pruning is carried out then there is still time for fresh buds to mature and be condi- tioned for the production of new shoots the following spring. In pruning, the hedge should be kept narrow at the top so that sunlight may reach needles at the bottom and keep them green and healthy. By careful and timely pruning as described, a very compact and attractive evergreen hedge can be devel- oped and maintained at low cost. Such a hedge can be a valuable asset where winters are rela- tively long. Farmers with sudan grass ex- perience say grazing can start when the sudan is 18 inches tall. Graze it down to six to 10 inches and then remove the ani- mals to permit the sudan to recover to 19 inches before grazing again, they advise. JIMJAY scilool LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A., R.D. Confessing Christ Tod y$:, Matthew 16:13-27 Memory Selection; Whom say ye that 1 am? . . Th_ ou are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Matthew 16:18-17. ' On more than one occasion Peter spoke unadvisedly, (Mat- thew 16:22; Mark 9:5,6; John 21:21). But his great confession (quoted in the memory selec- tion) is eloquent proof of his spiritual insight. Jesus said, "Flesh and blood hath not re- vealed It unto thee, but my Fa- ther which is in heaven," No one fully appreciates the Divin- ity of Jesus Christ until he re- turns from his sin and proves by faith that Jesus Christ is really a Saviour. Jesus said he would build his church, not on Peter (Petros) but on this rock (petra). What is this rock but the truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? truth through Divine illumina- tion. Peter was promised the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. His was to be the responsibilty of first introducing the Gospel to the Gentiles. The usage of the terms bind and loose by Jo- sephus and in !fie Talmud shows that to bind meant to forbid and to loose meant to allow. "The Jewish teachers held that these decisions were acknowledged in heaven" in the sense that God recognized and endorsed the teachings of the rabbis. Jesus Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 00©I►0e1©Q 0©r111� El�©©�©© ©®�©IG I �I►�Q 1111:1©.::©©©®© o IE IW :' 6119111 ®o®©©o 10E210 , EIDE/GI MIND F'ellOMIEI" .0121020' 1211400 IIonu 1:113E1111114311 ©GltI0111 ©on "0E1© I1131101L : EllE®©I 1 E ©CE7121©." ©©©ia®EIII11 said that God would thus en- dorse the decisions of Peter and the other apostles (compare Matthew 18:18), The fraility of man Is demon- strated in the fact that Peter who was thus honoured was 14 a few minutes to deserve the stinging rebuke: "Get thee be- hind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou say purest not . the things that ba of God, but those that be of man." Peter couldn't under- stand that Jesus and his disc, ciples must suffer to gain *the kingdom. We hear much these day to the effect that you can really use religion to get rich and get along in the world. Well, God does bless his people. But let us remember that the condi- tion of discipleship laid down by Jesus hasn't changed it. It is, "Ii any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Not A Job For a Poet - The Canada Council, with the income from $50 million to spend on encouraging the arts, humanities and social sciences, is due to be appointed very soon; and the Government is expected to name a businessman as its chairman. There will be an outcry from artistic souls, who presumably, would prefer a poet, painter or pianist for the job. Poets, painters and pianists are among the people the Can- ada Council will be able to help. It will undoubtedly seek and obtain the advice of gifted and representative people in all the arts. But, there is no good rea- son why its chairman or the members of its governing branch should themselves ' be persons capable of producing a sonnet, a landscape, or a sonata. On the contrary, there is every reason why the chairman and most of his board should have the quite different talents of a business- man. They will have an executive job, a job of getting things done, spending money wisely, man• aging staff, allotting grants fairy to various kinds of effort, sizing up the responsibility of thou who ask for or recommend the Council's support. TOP DOG - Chosen best of show at the 81st annual West- minster Kennel Club Dog Show, Champion Shirkhan of Gran- deur poses regally with his trophies. MIRACLE IN MUTTON Watched over by owner John Peterson, a ewe and her four wee: ofd offspring graze on his farm, unaware that they are celebritties in the sheep world. The normal litter is orq¢i, lamb -or ,possibly two. But the chance of quadruplets is about once in 100,000 births. 1211111 4