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
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wearing it. Furiously, he asked
her what she had done with it,
but she said she did not know.
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.
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moving around to the figures,
the new idea is to have the
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point, easing time reading.
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