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Canada won the World Cham-
pionship in Hockey Canada
against Russia . . Canada -
five to nothing! What headlines
what a victory! Even peo-
ple not usually interested in
sports will be delighted with
the result of that hockey match.
We needed a little good news
like that to boost our morale
after all the dire predictions
about the effect of too much
atomic activity. And then the
unpleasant weather we have
been having just lately. Last
week we had everything -
wind, snow, rain; sleet, fog and
a thunderstorm. But then it's
March; we should expect almost
any kind of weather - and the
chances are we won't be disap-
pointed! Last year we had much
the same variety around this
time. Actually we ought to real-
ise how lucky we are. Think of
the floods in Australia and the
snowstorms in the British Isles.
What have we to grumble
about? Nothing really = but of
course we grumble just the
same, just as naturally as the
sparks fly upward. Anyway, the
sun is shining this morning .. .
"enjoy the pleasant smiling
hour." Let's do just that. Why
not, when Canada won the
Hockey Championship?
We had our own worries J.ast
week - sick dogs. Honey has
practically recovered but I ani
afraid poor old Tip is finished.
We tried to bring her strength
with brandy and rano' eggs but
her aging heart is giving, out.
In all our years of farming she
will' be the first dog to die a
natural death. The others were
either shot by accident or intent,
or run over by cars, except in
one or two cases when we had
the 'vet' destroy the poor things
for viciousness or some other
bad habit. Apparently there is a
terrific lot of sickness among
dogs just now. In some cases it
is a virus infection; in others, as
with Tippy and Honey, it is
some kind of flu. The vet dosed
them with sulpha drugs to
which Honey reacted quite
favourably but I imagine Tip
was too far gone before we real-
ized she was sick. The first sign
was a refusel to eat. I thought
perhaps she had caught a rabbit
and wasn't hungry. So, if you
have a dog that won't- eat -
watch out. We shall miss poor.
old Tip. She was excellent with
cattle and a good watch dog.
Still on the subject of dogs:
Remember what I was saying
about dogs being dropped from
passing cars? One of our neigh-
bours actually saw it happen.
Unfortunately he did not get the
licence number of the car. A
car drove by and a black cocker
spaniel was left on the road.
The driver evidently went up to
the next crossroads, turned and
came down the road again. The
little dog recognised the car and
raced after it but was soon out-
distanced. The farmer went into
the house for dinner. Next time
he opened the back door the
little dog ran in. His wife hadn't
the heart to turn it away so
she feel it. A week later there
were six puppies. Three of them
died but the others have all
been promised homes. When the
puppies go, the poor faithful
little mother is to be taken to
the Humane Society as these
people already have a dog of
their own. So you see that is
just one more instance of cruel-
ty an desertion on the part of
the original owners.
Just recently 1 have been
having a field day with books --
English magazines and old
Ile ,:.. of Coin Sit ' rtes: Rose i y on Career;
ere . ' ` rower, Fledgling Thrush of Two
By DICK KLEINER
NEA. Staff Correspondent
New York - (NEA) --- When
Teresa Brewer was two, she was
well started on the career that
made her one of the leading
thrushes of the day. When Rose-
mary Clooney was two, she was
just another kid.
That's how thrushes are cre-
ated - in many ways,
Teresa Brewer's career was
started for her by her parents.
She sang in her home town of
Toledo, O,, when ,she was bare-
ly through with pablum. By the
time she was five, she was a
regular with one of the Major
Bowes amateur units She's
been singing professionally ever
since.
Rosemary Clooney, on the
other throat, more or less stum-
bled into her career. When she
was 17, and her younger sister,
Betty, was 14, they started off
one day from their home in
Maysville, Ky., to go swimming.
On the way, Betty mentioned
that she'd read that the big Cin-
cinnati radio station, WLW, was
holding auditions.
The sisters had sung around
home, and they'd talked some
about doing it for money. But
it was a hot day, and Rosemary
wanted to go swimming. Betty
said they might as well get an
audition. Rosemary held out
for the swim. So they tossed a
coin. And it came up a stai.
ROSEMARY CLOONEY: Holly.•
wood gowns stirred ambition.
1
The audition got them a show
on the radio station right away.
And before long Tony Pastor's
band came to town, needing a
girl vocalist Tony's manager
asked an old-time dance band
leader turned booking agent,
Barney Rapp if there were any
girl singers around Cincinnati.
Rapp suggested the two kids on
WLW.
And so the Clooney sisters
came to Rapp's office and sang
for Pastor. There was no piano
in the office. It didn't matter,
He took the two kids along, and
a few days later, wearing the
homemade dresses their grand-
mother had stitched up, they,
were singing at the Steel Pier in
Atlantic City. Their Uncle
George went along as a guar-
dian.
Rosemary Clooney sang with
Pastor's band for almost three
years. Betty quit after a while
to go back to school.
Rosemary was only 18 when
she started with Pastor. She had
no great ambition even then.
The musicians remember her
mostly for her good spirits.,,
Then they played Hollywood,
The stars came to dance. Rose-
mary sew Ava Gardner and the
others, looking beautiful in their
expensive dresses. Right away,
an ambition was born. And it's
an ambition that's been realized,
Pastor's band made records
spasmodically. On one session,
Tony and Rosemary did a duet
on a now -forgotten song called
"I'm Sorry I Didn't Say I'i'Fi
Sorry When I Kissed You Last
Night." Jos Shribman, Tony's
manager and now Rosemary's,
remembers clearly.
"I was in the control booth,"
he says. "I heard her sing and
I lit up. So did everybody. Foi'
the first time, I guess, we were
really listening to her voice. On
the bandstand, all we cared
about was that she was in tune,
But I knew the minute I heard
her she had a big potential for
records."
There were a few more duets
with Pastor, then, under Shrib-
man's guidance, she. left the
band and Columbia signed her
to a record contract. The first
record went nowhere. Then she
made a thing called "Me and
My Teddy -Bear." as both a pop
record and a kiddy record, that
is still a kiddy best-seller. Af-
ter that came "Beautiful Brown
Eyes," which was doing reason-
1ERESA BREWER AND I°AUGUER
,'heli she was barely through pa
ably well until it was overtaken
by her next record, "Come On -a
My House." It made her a star.
Then carne a procession of bit
records, capped by the pheno-
menal two-sided hit, "Hey,
There" and "This Ole House"
which sold more than 2,000,000
copies. Hollywood called her and
she married Jose Ferrer and a
flip of the coin on the way to
the swimmin' hole sure changed
a gal's life.
Like Rosemary's "Come On -a
My House," Teresa Brewer
traces her stardom to one rec-
ord, too, It was the bouncy
little novelty, "Music, Music,
Music."
Between her Major Bowes
days and "Music, Music, Music,"
life wasn't too easy, She'd come
to New York, and was singing in
a 44th Street cafe, but she was
discouraged and was just about
to go back to Toledo. Then a
manager named Richard Lasella
walked past the cafe while she
was singing and -
"And I heard this odd sound,"
Lasella says. "I went in and it
was her singing. I signed her up.
The big record companies turn-
ed her down, but I got her on
MEGAN: She started singing
blum, but she prefers the nest.
this other label. Her fourth rec-
ord was 'Music,' and she's been
rolling since."
That odd sound is Teresa's
trademark. It's best described
as what a kitten would sound
like if a kitten could sing. With
it, Teresa can rip into any kind
of song - from a plaintive bal-
lad like "'Til I Waltz Again
With You," to the brassy "Jilt-
ed."
Her kittenish voice and her
kittenish looks - she's a cuddly
95 -pounder -- have led her to
popularity in night clubs, TV
and Hollywood. The only limit
to her activities is her prefer-
ence for home life.
She's married to a construc-
tion company executive, Bill
Monahan, and the Monahans
have three daughters - Kath-
leen, 41/a, Susan, 3, and Megan,(.
(The older two sing just like
Mommy, and delight in imitat-
ing her.) They live in .New
Rochelle, and Teresa turns
down many lucrative offers in
order to stay hone.
This is one thrush who pre-
fers the nest.
Canadian school readers, the
latter dating back to 1885. Evi-
dently school, readers used to be
the same year in and year out
for quite a long time. In these
books there are poems that I
remember very well although I
certainlyy wasn't around in 1885,
For instance I came across a
great old favorite of mine --
"King Bruce and the Spider" -
in fact I believe that poem help-
ed me to overcome many child-
ish obstacles. "The spider up
there defied despair, he conquer-
ed, then why should not I?"
There was also "We are Seven"
by Wordsworth. I used to won-
der why the man was so stupid
- why couldn't' he urderstand
that to the little cottage girl.
there still were seven in her
family? And there was the
sailor from "the Gray Swan"
who returned, to his mother af-
ter twenty years. And how he
was welcomed. "After Blen-
heim" was another favourite.
Peterkin asks - "Now tell us
all about the war, and what
they fought each other for." And
old Kasper replies -- "Well, that
I cannot tell," says he, "but
'twas a famous victory." An
aged -old question and an age -
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much with the years.
I suppose most of the prose
and poetry in the old school
readers was 'sob stuff' but at
least it appealed to the imagina-
tion and left an impression that
lasted through the years.
Another article, decidedly
modern, 'is u ell worth reading.
Dr. rock Chisholm, in Week-
end Magazine, says the greatest
threat in the world today is
over -population. Feeding the
masses is NOT the answer.
World-wide birth control is the
only solution. He also advises
inter -marriages as a means of
combatting racial prejudice.
Making War Or
Deadly Sliders
Mexico is to wage full-scale
war shortly against one of the
most vicious killers in the
world, the "Assassin" scorpion,
which' claims between 2,000
and 2,500 lives annually.
No serum has been found that
is effective against this scor-
pion's sting, which bilis within
a minute.
The scorpion is round mainly
in the Mexican provinces of
Durango, Nayarit and Jalisco,
where a poison is being de-
veloped for spraying strips of
the Sierra Madre Occidental
mountains, the breeding places
of the Assassin scorpion.
In the wheat belt of the Cape
Province, South Africa, another
form of war has also been de-
clared -this time against the
Button spieler, whose sting is
fatal in about sit cases out of
every ten unless a serum injec-
tion is given at once.
Now a poison has bean found
which is harmless to animals
and human beings, but fatal to
the Button and other spiders.
"This is the way," laughed the
great god Pan .
(Laughed while he sat by the
river),
"The only way since gods began
To make sweet music, they
could succeed."
•Then, dropping his mouth to a.
hole in the reed,
He blew III power by the
river.
E, B. Browning.
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tree.-s-Oid Testament
NMY SCIl00L
LESSEN
Rev. R. .Barclay Warren,
B.A., BD,
The Cross and Christian
Discipleship, 2 Corinthians
Galatians 2:20-21; 6:14-11
Memory Selections: God for-
bid that 1 should glory, save in
the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom the world is
crucified unto vie, and I unto the
world. Galatians 6:14.
The crows is central in Chris-
tianity. Omit it and Christianity
is no longer Good News. Even
the ethics set forth in the New
Testament loses its power if
Christ did not die for us. No
wonder Paul wrote, "1 deter-
mined not to know any thing
among you, save Jesus Christ,
and hint crucified." 1 Corin-
thians 2:2. One wonders if mod-
ern emphasis on the psycholo-
gical aspect of religion is tend-
ing to obscure the central truth
that Jesus Christ died for our
sins. Yes, we need to understand
ourselves better, But this will
not save us. Only as we cling
to Jesus Christ as our Lord and
Saviour will we find deliverance
from sin. Let us not shy away
from those hymns which focus
our attention on the blood of
Jesus Christ that was shed for
It on Calvary. Salvation is in
Him and Him alone.
Paul speaks of his own cruci-
fixion with Christ; also of his
own- crucifixion to the world
and the world to him. This im-
plies more than the forgiveness
of our sins. It involves a walk-
ing in the way that Christ walk-
ed. We are to be like Him. Chris-
tianity is a life to be lived day
by day. It is the path of self-
renunciation and consecration to
all the will of God. No longer
do we live for self but Christ;
not self-centered but Christ -
centered.
The cross has intlu.enced us
all more than we realize, J. F.
Gregory writing in Arnold'e
Commentary says, "There ie
nothing stronger in life than
vicarious suffering. es if wit
think of a soldier as one whose
business is to kill we recoil
from him in liorroi', If we think
of Auric Ars oto who exposes hits
body to death for the purpose
of protecting the weak, at once
he wins our admiration. The
cross of Christ claims the best
in us, for there we see suffer-
ing love at its highest." Let us
proclaim the cross by word and.
action,
CONVINCED
Aii elderly man consulted a
doctor about his health.
"Frankly," said the doctor,
"it's quite obvious to ,me that
you drink too much. If you.
don't cut it out, spots will ap-
pear on your face."
The advice and the prophecy
were both unacceptable to the
patient, who, with a few words
of derision, departed.
In a month, he returned,
wearing the promised spots.
"Doctor," he said, admiringly,
"you were quite right after all.
D'ye know anything for the
Kentucky Derby?"
And I am praying God on high,
And I am praying Him aight
and day,
For little house -- a house of
my own -
Out of the wind's and the
rain's way.
-Padraic Colum
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Under Glass
The very first planting job wig
not be in the garden outdoors at
all, but in the hot bed or special
flats placed in bright window
indoors. A hot bed is simply ai
glass covered yard or so of
special rich fine soil, heated with
manure, electrically or some
other means, Where a lot of
plants are to be started the hot
bed is the ideal solution and one
is advised to get a Government
Bulletin on the subject and fol-
low the directions. Where only
a few dozen started plants are
needed one can so* seed in fine
soil in a shallow box and place
in a sunny window. Where this
is not possible or practicable one
simply purchases the started
plants later on from any seed
store or nurseryman.
In this indoor planting pit is
important to use fine rich soil,
mixed with a little sand or leak
mould. One should not plant
more than a few weeks before
it will be safe to transplant out-
doors. If these things start t(e
grow too early they will get too
tall and spindly to stand the
shock of transplanting well,
Keep it Informal
The simplest design is usual-
ly the most effective in garden
layouts and for the non-profes-
sional it is also much the easiest
Except, of course, along walks,,
walls and similar fixed features,
it is best to avoid straight lines
both in the flower garden and in
laying out shrubs and trees.
The experts urge planting in
clumps, with two or three or
more of each plant in a group.
For the centre and foreground
nothing is better than a real good
lawn. On city lots this may only
be a few square yards The grass
sets off the whole layout and it
should lead up to the flower gar-
den with possibly shrubs or
trees or a vine covered trellio
or fence in the background, or as
a division between say a kitchen
or vegetable garden plot at the
rear.
Shrubs and flower borders arc
also used to line driveways and
fences. Against the house itself
but at least a foot or so in front,
one can plant groups of shrubs
or taller flowers.
In the flower garden or border
the informal or clump planting
is continued. Rather than set -
••ting out in rigid rows, one should.
plant groups of various flowers
with the little things like alys-
sum,
ly -sum, dwarf nasturtiums, lobe-
lias and so on, in front. Tails*
things like zinnias, petunias, a0->
ters towards the centre and reap
ly tall flowers such as cosmos,
marigolds . and delphiniums et
the rear.
Walt Until Ready
It's a great mistake to do any
general sowing `or cultivating
while the ground is the least bit
muddy. Heavy soil is injured
and later trouble results when
it is dug or worked too soon. A
good test is to take a little eartle
and squeeze it in the hand. If
when released it crumbles but
does not pack, it is fit for the
spade or plow. If it doesn't
crumble, it is best to wait a few
days longer. There is no gain in.
rushing the season.
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GOOD MILKER -- Pierre Petit proudly displays the trophy w4n9
by "Havraise 11" at the annual Farm Show in Paris, The cove
got the trophy, presented by France's 15.( ..:dont Rene Coty fart
winning contests for quantity a' -d quality of milk.