HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1951-10-11, Page 3Men's Suits That
Are Really "Corny"
The Washington press Corps was
treated to a fascinating show re-
rently that made. it wonder what
the world IS coining to.
Out of the test tubes of research
scientists the miracle of modern
chemistry bubbled surprises for
an audience around a giant horse-
shoe table in 'a conference room
of the Department of Agriculture,
The gentleman on hand to ex-
plain these wonder products to a
group of farm journal editors was
Frank L. Teuron, director of in-
formation of the Bureau of Agri-
cultural and Industrial Chemistry.
As entertaining a speaker as he
is a competent chemist, Mr. Teu-
ron strode around the table and
turned up as .many surprises as a
magician with a tall silk hat.
First, he startled his audience
by announcing that he was wear-
ing a suit made from corn—the
only corn -fed suit in the world,
he said. Zein, a protein found in
the grain of corn, has been made
into a fiber suitable for clothing.
In fact, a dress made of zein is
currently selling on Fifth Avenue
for $125.
Based on the exhibits, the fol-
• lowing is a totally plausible pic-
ture of Mr. America in the twenti-
eth century;
He rises in the morning after a
comfortable night's rest on a mat-
tress stuffed with a fiber made from
the casein in milk. He hops ill,
the shower accompanied by
sponge made from corn starch,
After slipping into his "corny"
suit, he sits himself down to a
glass of orange juice which has
been prepared and frozen months
before. Over his hot .cakes he li-
berally pours a syrup that looks,
smells and tastes for all the world
like pure maple but actually con-
tains only one - third the costly
favorite from the maple trees.
While gobbling this tasty morsel,
he greets his young daughter, who
has entered the room wearing what
appears to be a linen dress, but
is actually made from low-grade,
short -staple cotton.
Then our hero leans his elbows
ungraciously on the breakfast table,
which is covered . with a protective
coating made from the starch in
Irish potatoes, and concentrates
on his morning paper, which is
made from wheat straw. (The news,
however, is the same as the old-
fashioned woodpulp variety.)
At this juncture Mrs. America
appears wearing, of• all things, a
fertilizer bag, But it looks so much
like all her other pretty dresses that
Mr. A. does not notice the differ-
ence, gives her a smack on the
cheek and hurries out to the car,
which he drives off while a milk
casein fiber (the sante kind he
slept on the night before) filters'
the air that groes into his carbure-
t tor.
Reporters tasted mouth-watering
samples of salted almonds that left
the fingers free from a greasy film;
delicious cucumber pickles that had
been pasteurized in a fraction of the
time required by the old brining
method; fresh -tasting tangy apple
cider- and grape juice made by mix-
ing a concentrate with water;
mushroom soup made from aspara-
gus; pasteurized jelly which holds
all the aroma that escapes in the
stewing process; a new kind of
crispy crunch called rice curls—
and peanut butter that won't stick
to th.e top of your mouth!
ROUND AND ROUND
The doctor was puzzled, "You
ought to be pretty well by now,"
he saki. "Have you carried out my
instructions?"
"Well, doctor," said the patient,
"I've done most of then, but I
can't take the two -toile walk every
morning that you ordered.. get too
dizzy,"
"What do yoti lean—'dizzy'?"
asked the doctor.
"Well," said the patient, "1 must
have forgotten to tell you, I'm a
lighthouse -keeper."
EY Eii)NA MIMS
.tiAS1.I ON'S new accent upon
the softly -rounded, womanly
figure is causing many a grimace
as women whose proportions are
less than ideal anticipate all the
stretching and straining that will
be necessary to get themselves in
shape,
This projected anguish is quite
unnecessary, according to Manya
Kahn, figure -molding expert, who
offers a routine of "body rhythms"
to replace the old.grunt-and-groan
exercises,
Miss Kahn, who bases her move-
ments upon natural muscular pat-
terns, suggests this modified barrel
roll to slim your hips and waist-
line, Lie upon . the floor, face
downward. Then, using your
arms as support, arch your head,
neck and torso upward and back-
ward. Your legs, which are kept
straight at the knees, are also
lifted upward until the entire
weight of your body rests upon
your abdomen, hips and the up-
per part of your thighs.
Keeping your feet together, and
inhaling, raise the right side of
your body off the floor, until your
body weight is resting upon your
left hip and thigh.
Exhale as you roll the right side
of your body to the floor. Make
a complete turn distil the weight
Rhythmic body rolls are an aid to this young woman in getting her figure in shape for new fall
fashions. Here she begins hip and waist slimming movements by arching her back, seek and legs,.
bearing weight argon baips, nabdasnsa and palms
of your body is distributed square-
ly upon both buttocks, and upon
your palms.
Your arms, placed behind you,
are bent at the elbow. They offer
support to your head which, on
outstretched neck. is resting in the
air upon an imaginary pillow.
Your position is now .the reverse
of the one in which you started,
with your legs still upraised, knees
together, but with arched feet
pointing upward r ether than
downward,
The movement is completed as,
inhaling slowly, you lift the left
side of your body off the floor,
resting your weight upon your
right hip and thigh, then flopping
your tummy to the floor to "regain
position one.
Young farmers down in Yazoo
County, Mississippi, have put to
shame the fabulous Pied Piper of
Hamelin by completely ridding the
Benton school district of rats ac-
cording to a story in the Progessive
Farmer.
* s: *
No flute was used, they didn't
have to pay the piper, and children
of the Benton community are safe
in their hones.
This modern paradox to the age-
old fable came as the result of an
unusually heavy influx of rats in
1950, Farmers reported heavy losses
running into thousands of dollars
caused by these destructive pests.
Many chickens had been reported
killed, stored grain destroyed, farm
buildings undermined, and may and
food damaged. Farmers had reason
to worry.
* * *
Realizing that seine action must
be taken, and not to be outdone by
the fabulous piper and his flute,
Teacher P. A. Norris and veteran
farm training instructors got to-
gether last October. E. B. Golding,
superintendent of Benton School,
agreed to launch some kind of ex-
termination campaign against the
rats.
After writing letters to tiffany
sources, requesting latest informa-
tion on rat control, it was decided
to try the new Warfarin formula
discovered by the Wisconsin Alum-
ni Research Foundation.
* *
Upon request, a pest control
company agreed to cooperate in the
campaign by supplying the poison
at $1.25 per 5 -pound sack. The
offer was later extended to all voca-
tional agriculture departments in
the state. Prizes of $10 were offered
for the purchase of 1,000 pounds
and $25 for 2,000 pounds or more.
* *
Members of the Future Farmers
chapter voted unanimously to pur-
chase the bait and distribute it to
farme>;s, Sixty-two boys, 144 vet-
eran farm trainees, and 100 adult
evening class members particapated
in the community campaign.
BY •
HAROLD
ARNETT
1EL / I 'ATE NOISE OF WHIRLPOOL 1N
SINK DRAIN BY INSERTING t.'ENGTW OF f,3RFr.SS WIRE
THROUGH I-lOLI1Sltrt STRAINER, I3ENtIRG ENDS AS 'SHOWN.
'TWO LENGTHS OF WIRE MAY '135' FLGcUil .iwD.
The new bait met with sut.h ap-
proval of users that orders totaling
1,750 pounds have been d'stributed
to over 200 farms, new orders con-
tinue to conte in daily, and reports
are that the rats are almost gone.
* * *
Future Farmer W. B. Chapman
reports that before using the poison
he had kept a large stick at the
door of his corncrib. and never fail-
ed to kill at least one rat when the
door was opened, Such a method of
extermination was too slow, and
rats continued to ' multiply. He
points out that after using the. poi-
son for one week no new rat sign
canld be found on his farm.
.
Atis Boatner, .a veteran farm
trainee, learned a lesson about War-
farin after its use. The rats disap-
. peared and there were no new signs.
He could see no rats or their signs,
and yet he found very few carcas-
ses, He was puzzled. A few weeks
later when removing corn from his
crib he found .the dead rats.
li.r. Norris, who bel'eves that
Warfarin is as destructive to rats
as DDT was to flies when it was
first introduced, says that rats rea-
dily eat the Warfarin bait when it
is hnixecl with cornmeal or some
other attractive substance. There is
110 evidence yet that the animals
develop either an aversion or toler-
ance after repeated feedings on the
poison.
So that's the story—and 1 th'nk
it might be a good idea if some
of our young farmers organizations
here in Ontario were to try out
something similar, I'll be glad to
pass along your experiences if
you'll send are the details. just ad-
dress John Russell, The Farm
Front, 123 Eighteenth Si„ New
Toronto, Ont.
•
Knows The Tricks
Authoress 'Agatha Christie was
sitting in the stalls at the Fortune
Theatre, watching jeanne de C'asai's
in "The Hollow," the latest play to
come from Mrs. Christie's pen.
"You know," she confided to a
friend, "I enjoy mystery stories, 1
read almost every new mystery
novel that comes out."
Docs the creator of that master
of detection, (Hercule Poirot, find
herself baffled? "Not often," she
confessed. "I usually guess the end
ing before I am halfway through.
You see, I know most of the tricks!"
Bot she does hand it to one
mystery writer. John Dickson Carr,
she admits, usually keeps her guess-
ing right to the end.
"Is Jack conceited?"
"Is he conceited?" Why, he join-
ed the Navy to let the world see
him!"
Pilot's Farewell
To His Plane
How ;does a fighter pilot feel
when he goes into action for the
first time? Trained but untried, he
has practised dog -fighting often
enough, hurtled round the sky, en-
joying a glorious game with his
squadron fellows. But what of the
real thing . . . when the game is
played for keeps?
"I stared round and suddenly I
spotted the tell-tale condensation
trials of the ferries. 'Here they
come!' I said to myself, hypnotized.
My throat contracted, my toes
curled in my boots. I felt as if I
were stifling in all those belts,
braces and buckles
The writer is Pierre Clostermann,
D.F.C. The excerpt is from his
book, "The Big Show" a vivid,
dramatic diary of the author's ex-
uaQAY Sc iOOL
LESSON
By'Rev. R'.''Barclay Warren
B.A., B.D.
JACOB RECEIVES
THE PROMISE
Gen. 28:10 22.
Memory Selection: Behold I am
with thee, and will keep thee in
all places whither thou goest. Gen,
28:15.*
God :las had to use imperfect
people to carry out His designs.
Jacob is one of therm. The younger
of twin boys, he was given the name
of heel -grasper because of an im-
cident at birth. But the name was
indicative of his nature! He bought
Esau's birthright for a mess of
potage when the latter carne in one
day hungry from the hunt. Then, in
concert with his mother, he deceiv-
ed his aged father and procured the
patriarchal blessing, Esau was
fiercely angry. Rebecca persuaded
Isaac to let Jacob go hack to Haran
to her people to procure a wife
there,
It was on his was to 1larch that
Jacob had the vision of the ladder to
heaven and heard Clod's promises
to hint and his seed. Jacob, though
very imperfect, was a' better man
than Esau, Esau had disqualified
himself by his marriages with the
heathen and by despising his birth-
right, to serve God's purpose, The
line of descent to the Messiah was
to he continued through Jacob.
It nhttst be conceded that Jacob
became a better man, Whim return-
ing from Haran and about to meet
Esau with an armed force, he pray-
ed earnestly. His name was chang-
ed and his nature was changed. Ile
was no longer Jacob the supplanter,
the heel -grasper, but Israel, a prince
of God. He paid dearly for deceiv-
ing his, father. His sons, too, killed
a kid and icd him to believe that his
son Joseph had been killed. But
at the last, the family was reunited
in Egypt and Jacob prophetically
pronounced the patriarchal blessing
upon his 12 sons., He was buried in
Canaan, the land promised to hint
and Isaac, and Abraham before him.
14e was a great men.
periences as a Drench fighter pilot
who served with the R.A.F. in
World War II, Later, he describes
his first "kill."
"Suddenly, the Focke-Wulf ex-
ploded like a grenade. A blinding
. flash, a black cloud, then debris
fluttered around my aircraft. The
engine dropped like a ball of fire.
One of the wings, torn off in the
flames, dropped more slowly, like a
dead leaf. I bellowed my joy into
the radio, just like a kid ..."
And what when it's all over?
After facing death each day and
miraculously surviving 420 opera-
tional sorties, how does he feel
when Armistice conies an dbe must
fly the aircraft he has come to
kno wand love for the last time?
"I took hili high up in the cloud-
less summer sky, 'for it was only
there that I could fittingly take my
leave," the author writes. "Together
we climbed for the last time straight
towards the sun. We looped once,
perhaps twice, we lovingly did a
few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I
could take away in my fingertips
the 'vibration of his supple, docile
wings.
"And in that narrow cockpit I
wept, as I shall never weep again,
when I felt the concrete brush
against his wheels and with a great
sweep of the wrist, dropped him ors
the ground like a cut flower,
"And when my waiting pilots and
mechanics saw my downcast eyes
and shaking shoulders, they under-
stood and returned to the Dispersal
in silence."
GENTLE HINT
"I know a man who looks so
much like you that one could hardly
tell you apart,"
"You haven't paid him that ten
dollars 1 lent you three months ago.
have you?"
Some Superstition
egarding Eggs
In medieval times a had egg wail;
still regarded as an evil omen por-
tending all sorts of calamities rang-
ing from an attack by wolves on the
homestead, to the slaughter of the
swine by evil elves,
Some superstitions about eggs
still survive, though none are taken
seriously. It is supposed to he un-
lucky, for instance, to sell eggs be-
neath one's roof after sundown, but
it is quite in order to sell them just
outside the door.
Sitting on Sixpence
And by warning an egg by bodi-
ly contact, hatching it out and eat-
ing the chicken, a man or woman
will acquire an understanding of
the language of animals.
A Scottish superstition is that
when a wife wants eggs t� hatch
out as cockerels she must wear a
man's hat when carrying them to
the hen, If she wants pullets she
must carry them in her apron.
White eggs, as well as white hens,
have always been considered lucky,
"Brown" eggs are doubtful luck -
bringers but a large number of them
gathered in one morning indicates
that the farmer will have bumper
crops that year.
Black hens are supposed to con-
sort with witches at night but can
bring luck in a peculiar fashion.
If a black hen is sitting sb.e
should be given exactly thirteen
eggs for hatching out, togethet
with a small silver coin such as s
sixpence which can be slipped
beneath her among the eggs.
With every hour she sits the coin
grows luckier, but it must be re-
moved immediately the eggs hatch
out, otherwise the spell on it is
broken,
You should never burn egg shells,
according to these old superstitions.
Why? Because the hens feel the
burns! And when you have finished
eating a boiled egg you should drive
your spoon through the bottom of
the shell. This will prevent a witch
using it as a boat,
A cock wandering before the door
of the house indicates a visit by a
gentleman. If a hen—one only—
walks up and down there, a lady
can be expected.
Message"`
If an egg is still soft. after boiling
for five minutes it represents a mes-
sage from the hens to the effect
that a fox is expected in the hen
' roost that night.
The evil -smelling gas emitted by
bad eggs is known as sulphuretted
hydrogen and in concentrated
amounts it has been known to be
fatal.
In 1930 a French poultry farmer,
intent on punishing his wife, lock-
ed her up in an outhouse where
eggs had been stored and forgotten.
Six hours later she was dead—
poisoned by the gas from bad eggs.
Science corrects the old creeds,
sweeps away, with every new per-
ception, our infantile catechisms,
and -necessitates a faith commen-
surate with the grander. orbits and
universal laws which it discloses.
—Ralph W. Emerson
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