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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-10-30, Page 7Chlorophyll -Or 44 Green Magic" Evereone has seen large amounts of chlorophyll, even if they do not know it by that name, for it is the stuff that makes grass and leaves green. For• years it has fascinated sci elitist's because it is the chloro- phyll fit plants that enables them to use sunlight to turn water, air, and minerals from the earth Into lit, ing material. To -day there is a boom in chlo- rophyll which started in the United States, has spread to Britain, and will probably go round the world. The boom is due to the almost accidental dis- cover>' that this chemical which makes plant life possible has the strange property of making li- quids completely odourless. Chlorophyll seems destined to product} a world without a bad smell. When eaten chlorophyll ap- pears to. be completely harmless, and, within a short time destroys all scent. Eat onions or garlic, swallow a small dose of chloro- ph3rIi. and within a matter of minutes your breath is as sweet as a new-born babe's. Chloro- phyll is 'going into dog foods to eliminate the "doggy" odour which owners admit is the one unpleasant thing about their pets. 'Vaporise chlorophlyy, and whatever undesirable smell may be in a room disappears. Chlorophyll is going into toothpastes, soaps, creams, as well as millions of tablets. The husband who has stopped on his way home to "have one"and the heavy smoker who wants to kiss his sweetheart, just swallow a minute amount of chlorophyll and ail is well. Frightened that if one of their prisoners escaped with a bottle of chlorophyll tablets the dogs kept to track escapes from jail ch,e a. Cup Chapeaux Bare Hairlines Dark green wool jersey slakes a debonair to Phan mated just e4 center. The fabric. is swathed about a fiat cram, fastened by ,Jet caw and tied in a 'casual knot at the )gide, me EDNA. MILES UE deep hat that cups the head but does it becomingly, keynotes the fall millinery collections of top designers. This means that the hairline is bared and the hat is worn deep and straight on, or tilted ever -so slightly. As done by Tatiana of Saks Fifth Avenue, these are young - looking hats with a •great deal of flattery. Black is all- important, but this year it's black polished with jet, satin or velvet braid. In color, there are delicate shades of lav- ender, pale blue, plus glowing reds and greens. In fabrics, there are velours, velvets, pleated horsehair, wool jersey, and a new very thin silk stocking jersey. There's news in a French fabric that's imaginative. It's fuzzy and soft much.like angora, but is in reality a mixture of nylon and rayon. The cloche is much in evidence. This designer does one in purple velours, gives it .a short, rippled brine and a long black quill For the equally important turban, there are lines that bare the brow and curve over the ears. One such is done in dark green taffeta with markings of cut black velvet. For after -five-o'clock wear, the beret appears in white sequins, dazzling as mid -winter snow, slanted against a black velvet arc. For a second beret, there's black velvet dotted by tiny red silk tassels. The three -cornered hat in a. pixie mood, with swirls at emelt corner so that the cre',n lies fiat yet eddies in pretty dips about the head. Made of a new nylon that looks like angora. would not be able to , pick up their scent, wardens in America's southern states have banned the tablets from their prisons. A very little chlorophyll goes a ,long way when it comes to destroying odours, and this is fortunate because, although when you look at a landscape you may see tons of the chemi- cal, it is very finely spread and expensive to separate from the rest of the plant. Very green grasses have lots of it. But it takes about one ton of lucerne to give 4 lb. of the precious green colouring matter, and the •cost of extracting it niay be $250. Guns are barking across the country. Farmers are keeping a wary eye on their livestock as red -capped hunters stalk through fields and woodlands on the lookout for game. Several cows • and horses will fall victim to the irresponsible actions of le fev,r so-called sportsmen, "I thought it was a deer" is be- coming a trite phrase even among hunters themselves. But it's still in common use -after a fellow hunter or a domestic animal has been shot. * Y, There are still too many week- end hunters who sally forth into the rural areas in the belief the land belongs to them. They blaze away at rocks, tin cans, trees and buildings with little thought of what may be within effects ve range of their bullets. They cut wire fences and fail to mend them after they leave. They gen gates and neglect to close them with the result that livestock wander off and the fanner must spend tedious hours rounding them up, They often start bush and grass fires on private property. Because of such thoughtless acts, relations between farmers and hunters have deteriorated to. such an extent that some .farm- ers. actually arm themselves to protect their property against hunters. "No hunting" signs are becoming more frequent. Soon hunters will have to travel far- ther afield for game .because no farrier will tolerate hunting on his property. s* This situation need not exist• if hunters observe common courtesy, says K. N. Morris, executive director of the Cana- dian Civilian Association of Marksmen. First, he suggests, get the farmer's permission to hunt on his land. If permission is not • granted respect the farm- er's decision. Treat the farmer's property as if it were your own. *. ,, Close gates after you pass through them. Don't shoot in the immediate vicinity of the barnyard. Be absolutely certain that what you're shooting at is legitimate game and not farm stock or , poultry, Know the range of your ammunition. A .22 long rifle will carry a mile; a .303 three miles. Observe pro- vincial game laws by shooting no more than your limit. Be sure to thank the farmer when you're leaving his property. If the hunt has been successful, offer hint a portion of your garne. .If ,wile is a shooter, leave a .few cartridges or shells or some token payment. And by all means offer to pay for livestock you might have shot accident- ally. Grass is the world's most common crop. No other crop can take its place but only in the past few years have farmers, extension workers and scientists S.'' lir WIZ ACROSS 0, Not this Donkey 7, w'ttding bird 4. City in Maine 3. Leather - 0, 1•Tot all covered seat S2. fitvall child g. Spoken 13, Dain 10. Blind at,tmai 14, In a line 10, Danish mote:1 of account t 6.0, Burn 17, Valley 13. 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"8 '3 1S i7 gieeStatee VVV"r 1W"V''V4y, V1 '131111~1111111111 41 - 61 Answer Elsewhere on °l 'his Page BAG MENDING -From Countryman's Year, by Haydn 5, Pearson BEFORE mcn harnessed power to long assembly lines and whirring machinery tossed out completed products for myriad uses, good country- men believed that a penny saved was, a penny earned. "Waste not, want not" was a fundamental tenet on farms among the hills and in the valleys. At the turn of the century farmers in the Northeast still raised barley, oats, wheat, and field corn. In the fall after the threshing was done and the corn husked and shelled, it was common practice to take a load of grain in burlap bags to the local gristmill for grinding. Thus it came to be, and it still is to a certain extent, an essential task on the farm to keep the burlap bags mended. A city dweller plight ask why the bags need to be mended. In spite of several cats and a dog, rats and mice abound wherever grain is stored, and they chew holes through the burlap. Therefore bag mending is an important link in the chain of tasks that constitute good husbandry. There's an art to the work. After a spring rain, when the soil is too wet to be worked or the fields are too soft for spreading barnyard dressing, the countryman likes to sit on a wheelbarrow in the sunny yard on on a box in the barn doorway and ply the long needle attached to heavy thread. Small holes and rips are sewed together with criss- cross darning stitches; they have to be reasonably close to prevent the ground grain from seeping through. Big holes and gashes are another matter. They must be mended with pieces from bags that have served their original purpose and are now sources of patching material. There's nothing spectacular about the task -it's just a homely, puttery job that has to be done. But after a spell of hard work, many a countryman rattler enjoys sitting in the sun and catching up on his bag mending. begun to realize its importance as a low-cost livestock feed. 4, R, 0 World planners believe that grasslands offer a workable so- lution to one aspect of the -prob- lem of feeding the millions of people who inhabit the earth. They have gathered statistics on acreages and production. Out of the mass of information they acquired, these simple facts stand out: with improved seed- ing, • fertilization and manage- ment, production of grasslands on most farms can be doubled and possibly tripled. How this can be achieved in .Canada is outlined in "Farmers' Grassland Guide," by Aubrey W. Hagar, an agricultural scien- tist on the staff of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph. Just published by Brunswick Press L i m i t e d, Fredericton, N.B., the book describes the growth, persistence, palatability, soil and climatic preference and feeding value of common grasses and legumes. Seed mixtures are suggested with instruction on the proper time and method of seeding. Special emphasis is placed on the importance of adding plant food in the form of commercial fertilizers and manure for high yielding, high quality pasture, and hay and grass silage. While broad recommendations are giv- en, the author stresses the value of having soils tested and con- sulting local agricultural author- ities. Methods of application are discussed and probable returns from fertilization set down. * 0 0 In a special section, "Grass- land Balance Sheet," Mr. Hagar compares costs with probable returns and suggests methods which will enable farmers to cal- culate their profits from each grassland acre, With 40 acres out of 100 of Canada's agricultural land in grass, this book should be of interest to a large and impor- tant segment of this country's population. SOLAR, STOVE The Indian housewife will cook on a solar stove if the Na-' tional Physical Laboratory at New Delhi has its way. The sun's rays are focused by a Iiickelplated concave mirror of copper, aluminum, brass or any other convenient metal on the cooking utensil. The mirror gives off the sante amount of heat as a 300 -watt electric heat- er, Object? To conserve scarce fuel for industrial purposes. UNSINKABLE Though many a change has been rung on unsinkable suits an English firm comes out with a new one. The basic idea is a "sandwich" of buoyant material between two layers of water repellent fabric. The suit has supported bathers who weigh up to 200 pounds. Leeds Univer- sity scientists developed the buoyant material. Home -Loving Mice Exterminators of pests can learn something from Howard Young, Robert L. Strecker and Prof. John T. Emlen Jr., all of the University of Wisconsin's zoological department. The three have found out that the city mouse is a hone -lover and therefore not given to wander- ing. The old fable about the city mouse that visited his country cousin is just bosh. The University of Wisconsin experimenters baited traps with peanut butter, which is more tempting to mice than cheese. Then captives were marked for identification and released ex- actly where they were trapped in two buildings. Most of the mice kept well within a radius of twelve feet. Some were re- captured oftener than five times. Only 10 per cent were trapped more than thirty feet from the point of previous capture, and these wanderers were mostly males. At that the wandering was a matter of no more, on the average, than two feet than for adventurous females. More- over the better the shelter the less wandering. The Wisconsin zoologists un- dertook this investigation when they learned that an effective poison was not cutting down the mouse population of an in- fested building. They reasoned that the mice were probably not reaching the poison. The reasoning proved to be right. Lesson for exterminators: Dis- tribute a large number of baits throughout a building. Boy Or Girl? - No Longer A Gamble A successful test to predict the sex of a child before birth has been worked out by two Chicago scientists, Dr. Gustav Rapp and Dr. Garwood Richard- son. The test is made with the mother's saliva. At present it is 85 per cent accurate, but the two scientists say that with bet- ter understanding of its mech- anism 100 per cent reliability may ,be• achieved. Substance responsible for a positive test, which indicates that a male child will be born, is believed to be a male sex hor- mone or chemical which comes from the unborn baby, eaters the mother's blood stream, and then her mouth saliva. Tests were made on 373 mothers -to -be, Of 225 who re- acted positively, 218 had boys. 'Of 151 who reacted the other way, 148 had girls. For 2,500 years medicine inen, philosophers, high priests, and scientists have been trying to take the gamble out of sex - determination. Only fifty years ago many people believed that a child conceived e.', the waronn dr the moon was bound to be a girl, acid at the waxing, a boy. If the last child to be born ar- rived at the waning of the moon. the next would be a girl. But if the birthday was during the moon's .increase, the next baby would be a boy. Other old wives' tales were that swallows nesting in a house would bring a matched family --equal number of boys and girls; and that if the husband wanted the baby most it would be a boy, but if the wife want- ed it most it would be a girl. A popular theory which still has not died originated about 500 B. C. through two Greeks, Parmenides and Anaxagoras, They believed that the two ov- aries in the female produced different kinds of egg cells.. The ova from the right ovary were responsible fors male children and those from the left female. Even nowadays some women believe quite firmly that sleep- ing on the right side will gua- rantee a boy; on the left a girl. Yet women who have had one ovary removed surgically still go on producing both boys and girls. Many parents would like to predetermine the sex of their children, but science knows no certain way by which a couple can have a boy or girl by deli- berate chice. Thereare certain facts, however, which do seem to increase the chances of sci- ence finding out before long. ,t 513 elk111AIR OL jJSSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B, A., B. D. Jesus' Power And Human Need Matt, $:5-17 Memory Selection: Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. Matt. $:17 The power of Jesus Christ to cast out devils and heal the sick is manifest throughout his ministry. The accounts of these miraculous works form a very thrilling part of the Gospel re- cords. Men and women who were a terror to their neigh- bours were delivered from the evil spirits which possessed them. They became law-abiding citizens and loyal disciples of Jesus. Mary Magdalene, one of these, was one of the few who stood by His cross and one of the first at the tomb. Disease' never baffled Jesus. Whether it were a fever, paral- ysis, blindness or deafness, it mattered not. Of all who came to him, not one went away dis- appointed. He healed them all. It wasn't even necessary for Jesus to see the sick one. On the basis of the centurion's faith, healing came to his ser- vant back at his home. Can God do such things today? The answer must be, "Yes, i; we believe." Does God do such things today? We believe He does. Men and women are deli- vered from the evil powers which have dominated their lives. Sinners became saints, as they, under the persuasion of the Holy Spirit, repent of their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. But what of dis- ease? We know that where there is the genuine there is also the counterfeit just as in Jesus' day. Our God is a jealous God anti will not give His glory unto an- other. If one is miraculously healed it is because he has rest- ed his faith in God and God alone. Not every sick person can arrive at that place of faith for healing. Nor is it necessarily sin that prevents him. God's ways are not our ways. It is most important that our will be subjected to_ His. This matters more than the state of the body. The attitude of resting one's faith in God is always conducive to good health. Space forbids adequate treatment of this in- triguing subject. God can heal„ aided by doctor's skill. He can, if He will, heal without man's intervention. A specialist speak- ing of my remarkable recovery from rheumatoid arthritis said to another patient, "He attri- butes it to Divine intervention. -I know there's something to it." I do, too. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking n k6 )m "1 0 a V Sub -sized Submersible -Lt. H. T. Perry, rear, carefully brings his miniature command to dock at London, England, as his second- in -command, Lt. Ralph Cudworth, prepares to• make fast. The British "pocket submarine,,' the XE -8, is one of the smelliest naval units in the world, but is rugged enough to hove taken part in to gigantic NATO naval manoeuvre, "Operation Mainbrace."