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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1955-08-11, Page 7Wedding Rings And Their Ways Wedding rings are never long out of the news. For instance, did you hear about the bad luck of a sass London housewife who lost her very valuable wedding ring is the garden while 'taking in washing a short time ago? After a vain search, she had an idea, She asked some men of the .loyal Engineers stationed not far off if they would come with their mine -detectors and search the garden. Obligingly they came, unload• ed equipment, and after dividing the lawn into sections with "marking tape, got busy. An hour Fater they had found a fine selec- tion of screws, rusty nails, nuts, washers and old clothes pegs — but still no ring. That young wife need not de- islaair, for lost wedding rings have a habit of turning up -- zeanetimes years later. ) farmer's wife tells the story eal how she was one day feeding a calf when the animal sucked her wedding ring off her finger sand swallowed it. Four years later the animal, grown to a fine bullock, was humanely slaughtered in the "normal course of the farm's ac- tivities. Curiosity prompted the termer and his wife to make a erearch and, sure enough, the ring -- little the worse for its adventure -- was found firmly + ibedded in the animal's stom- ach. Another authentic story of a wandering wedding ring was re - L SIGHT — Lovely Verne Nara looks through rose- wood sunglasses to watch ''?fie races at Royal Ascot track In England. She says peering through the "foliage" makes ahinea look cooler. AggetaltOP "HOLE" -HEARTED PRACTICE SESSION — Seattl e Rainiers hurler Ewell Blackwell serves 'em up for outfielder Art Schutt as Schult tries for th e range of the most -eyed bit of fence on the Pacific Coast circuit. A Seattle, Wash., TV station says it will pay $100,000 to ,any coast leaguer who drills one through the slightly -larger -than -baseball -size knothole in the Rainiers' left field fence during a scheduled game. vealecl during the first world war when an English naval officer chanced to meet in a train. a French naval officer who was in the seat opposite him. They chat- ted. "Excuse me," said the Eng- lishman. "But that's a very un- usual ring you'rewearing." "Yes," said the Frenchman, "and I came by it in a very cur- ious fashion before the war when ships of our Fleet were visiting England. "We put in at Weymouth and I saw this ring displayed for sale in a fishmonger's shop, The fish- monger told me he had found it inside a fish while cleaning it. I bought the ring as a curiosity." The surprised Englishman de- cided to explain his inquisitivness about the ring, "By a coincidence," he said, "1 once owned a wedding ring exact- ly like that and lost it while out with my wife fishing for mackerel off Weymouth in 1913. It can't possibly be the same ring, but all the same I'd like to know if it has the initials A.G.M. and H,K. M. engraved inside it." The Frenchman took the ring off his finger -and there inside were the initials quoted. Most wearers of wedding rings take special care of them, and many women never take theirs off, believing bad luck will fol- low if they do so. The rather careless wife of a farm labourer in Peterswalde, Pomerania suddenly missed her ring, and in spite of hours of search could not find it, That same evening her husband suddenly noticed she was not FULLY. . UMW= IM SAL ESMEN PUBLIC MARKET -All buyers may see your stock and bid against each other for its posses- sion when it is offered an the public market. 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With growing suspicions, the jealous husband threatened di- vorce, but still his attractive young wife was unable to tell him what had happened to her ring. M length he calmed down sufficiently to attack the home- made sausage provided for his supper. His rage returned when his teeth bit on something hard. It was the hissing ring! The wedding ring in the Middle Ages became a token of the wife's subjection to the husband and by ecclesiastical decree a bride had to fall at her husband's feet during the ceremony and then kiss his right foot. Some refused — and got away with it. Why the fourth finger was se- lected• for the wedding ring has been debated for centuries. The old explanation was that to that finger came an artery from the heart, but this is anatomically inaccurate. Perhaps a more logical expla- nation is that the ring was placed where it was less exposed to wear and tear. Th Hermits of WIjrnt kobose They Guard the Water Tunnel for Kitimat in Northwest Wilds, and They Don't Have Much Hankerin' for People' By Douglas Larsen, NEA Staff Correspondent Atop Mount Dubose, B.C. — (NEA) --Talk about round pegs -in round holes, Herb Skuce and his wife take the cake. Their job is to sit up on this ter in Colorado. She was a wi- dow when she met Herb on a hunting trip several years ago. Their mutual interest in soli- tude, the outdoors and hunting and fishing makes it the ideal snatch. In addition to relishing iso- lation Herb's special talents for HERB SKUCE AND WIFE: "We don't need a lot of people" mountain, guard. the flow of wa- ter through the intake of the 10 -mile tunnel to the gigantic power plant of the Aluminum Co, of Canada's new smelter at Kitimat, give daily weather re- ports and be ready to shut off the reservoir water if necessary. The Skuces have been up here more than a year and have only had a handful of visitors. They consider this an ideal working condition. The helicopter which brings up supplies and mail every two weeks frequently doesn't even shut off its engine, thus making conversation un- necessary. "It's just that I don't have much hankerin' for people," Herb explains. "That's some- thing we don't have much of up here, which makes it real nice for the few of us concern- ed," he points out. One chore of his unique re- sponsibility is chasing away curious pilots who land sea- planes on the big lake -reservoir near the tunnel intake. He has great talent for this. "We're really not anti -social," explains Mrs. Skuce. "It's just that we find we like this kind of private life and don't need a lot of people around for com- pany." Herb is 55 and a native of Vancouver. He got the job from having been a guide in this part of Canada, slightly south of Alaska, when the Alcan first de- eided to build a new smelter five years ago. He was the first man on the job. Mrs. Skuce is a native of Wyoming and has two married sons there' and a married Baugh' ISSUE 32 1 the job include being an excel- lent mechanic, a good weather observer and a radio technician. He has a telephone connection with the power house but also has to relay many radio mes- sages between distant points of the whole complex smelter pro- ject, which includes 5,500 square miles of lakes and mountains. As far as Mrs. Skuce goes there is only one small annoyance about the assignment. "At least twice a day I go fishing or out to inspect our traps and when I return I fre- quently find a bear on the front porch,", she explains. "I don't like to shoot them when it's not necessary, but sometimes I have to get in the house," she says. Most of them are fairly small black bears' but there are a lot of huge grizzlies, too, Both Herb and his wife have had to kill several of the big ones in the past year. * * a The aluminum company, de- lighted with the couple's job, has given them the best equip- ment and furnishings possible. There are two two-storey quon- set houses located about 200 yards from the lake. That's in t'case one should burn down or be damaged by the storms or snow. The winters are severe up here and the snow just begins to melt off to show green in June. They have a year's supply of canned food, if needed, and get fresh fish and meat from hunt- ing and other fresh foods from the helicopter every two weeks. Equipment available to theme includes a couple of power boats, two swill trucks, a snow plow, a tractor, oil heaters, emergency generators and a virtual arsenal of small arms an,'t ammunition, Their hunting gives thesis a *freebie side income. The mart- ens art..ens they trap in great numbers. hove top quality fur, for wh4ch there is a great demand. And what do they 'do for vacation? "We've never thought about that," Herb says, "and when you get right down to it this is a sort of a vacation all year around." TOUGH GOING A buxom lady tripped on the stairs and broke her leg. The doctor put it in a cast and warn- ed her that she wasn't to at- tempt going up 4r down stairs until it came off. Four months later he removed the east and pronounced her well on the way to recovery. "Goody, goody," gurgled the lady. "Is it all right for me to walk the stairs now?" "Yes," said the doctor, "if you promise to be careful." "I can't tell you what a relief it will be," confessed the lady. "It was such a nuisance crawl- ing outside and shinnying up and down that drainpipe all the time!" Natives Prefer "Tailor -Made" Smokes World war does literally In- volve everybody -- and after reading Colin Simpson's latest entertaining b o o k, "Adam In Plumes," one realizes just how far the effects extend. In this instance we visit some of the inhabitants of central New Guin- ea, the Mt. Hagen tribes. During the war the natives were introduced by the Ameri- cans to "tailor made" cigarettes, and liked them in preference to the sticks of trade -twist tobacco they earned, or the stuff they grew and rolled into 'dried ban- asla-leaf cigarettes, Fipe smokers alse became fewer clgar'ette smoking was the vogue. This habit set up a new sys- tem of economics when the Americans left,the natives by'• now had a definite liking for cigarettes and paper covered ones at that. Supply and demand for aper wrappings eventually arrived 1st the newspaper stage, ,and the established rate Of exchange- fox' the legacy of old newspapers left by the visitors, says Simpson,- was impson,was as follows: ":For a quarter sheet of 'The" New York Times': five pounds of" sweet potatoes, or two six-foot lengths of sugar cane; Or a big bunch of shallots; or eight earg. of corn. For a half -sheet of newspaper: a large bunch of bananas; or - three or four bundles of fire- wood; or a half -day's labour cut- ting the mission station lawns. LOOK, NO HANDS — That's they main feature of this new "direct reading" Elgin watch shown recently at the National Jewelry Fair. Instead of hands moving around to the figures, the new idea is to have the numbers move toward a fixed point, easing time reading. I SSIFIED ADVERTISING SAB( CHICKS MORE broiler growers tell us that out ist generation Indian River Cross, Arbor Acres White Rocks and Nichols New Ramps are second to none. 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