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. ound Old London
1 like old suburbs that have
grown from country places. They
stand ten miles from London and
ten miles from a countryside that
is still Unspoilt because the train
service is so bad, The railway
station is of the Swiss chalet pat-
, tern and has a wooden lace
. canopy over the platforms. It once
took a prize for the beauty of its
flower beds....
In the straight streets planted
with trees and fringed with grass
plots stand the modern houses
where the families live. These
houses have quite different sorts
of names from the old houses.
The modern names are written on
the garden gates or slung in fret-
work over the porch: The Cedars,
Cumfy, Dunromin, the more or-
iginal D u n s e lc i n, Trottalong.
There is the house that is called
Horne Rails (a happy investment,
fortune - founding?). There is
Deo Data for the learned, Villa
Roma for the travelled, Portar-
lington Lodge for the socially am-
mitious, Ella, Basil and Ronald
live at Elbasron. There is also
Elasrofton which is "not for sale'
written backwards.
The place names on the way
to the city where the fathers
go daily to earn their living are
countrified -the mysterious Cock -
fosters, Green Lanes, Wood
Green, Turnpike Lane. Coining
nearer to the city there 'is Man-
or Park. And what is that curi-
ous building, an exact copy of
Stirling Castle, that stands to the
left of .the bus route? It is that
Waterworks,
In the high -lying outer north-
ern suburb the wind blows fresh
and keen, the clouds drive swiftly
before it, the pink almond blos-
som blows away. When the sun
is going down in stormy red
clouds the whole suburb is pink,
the light is a pink light; the high
brick walls that are 'still left
Keep Rain Away With These Gay Slic
BY VONA :NUNS
'14AMN+COA`t tili]Ii1tc, is: just around the corner for many
it of us. tlr `e farts of the country it's a year 'round'
thing but in lh 'ic>'tzoices, annual, spring showers are coming(
For
ouing-
For the veryn;naiss,'the oilskin slicker has returned.
Women wtho *Sl i't• 'when they were flappers in the
"Twenties" wilt view it with nostalgia. Their daughters
will take to it on campus, job, or just on the go.
The new slickers are in colors that range from pink
cloud to blue sky. There are vivid colors, too. Red
geranium, blue sapphire, yellow, and nut brown. The oil-
skin itself has been treated to render it completely water-
proof rather than water-repellent.
These slickers are styled Along the classic lines made
famous and popular by New England fishermen in the
1800's. For comfort and softness, a corduroy -lined collar
has been added.
One design features this collar in stripes, just for fun.
There's a matching hat too, Avith corduroy motif in stripes
carried out on underbrim.
In addition to the head -hugging cloche, there's the tradi-
tional fisherman's "sou'wester" to wear with the slicker.
+K --•-The traditionally flanehoyant.
oilskin slicker is toned] down .to
a beautiful shade of nut brown
for those who lean toward the
conservative in color. It is high -
Righted by a, striped corduroy
lined collar.
Inn keeping with this season's"-
sloping -shoulder silhouette, tile'
well -loved oilskin slicker takes
to raglan sleeves. A natural -
Colored collar may be worn up
or down, The cloche Is for pro-
tection and Omer.
standing where once the old es-
tates were held the pink light
And throw it back. The laburnum
flowers on the pavement trees
are yellow, so there is this pink
and yellow color, and the blue -
gray of the roadway, that are
special to this suburb. The slim
stems of the garden trees make.
a dark line against the delicate
colors. There is also the mauve
and white lilac. -Froin "Flower
of Cities: A Book of London Stu-
dies and Sketches by twenty-two
Authors."
Tllfl'MM FRONT
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Lean, meat -type hogs have
been raised as fast and as econo-
mically as fat - types in Iowa
State College tests. And with
strong consumer preference for
lean cuts, ;you'll be ahead with
the type carrying more meat and
less fat. Record on 144 litters
showed pigs of intermediate
length were fastest growers and
those of more than average
length were most economical in
feed requirements. Short, fat
hogs failed to lead on any of the
economy counts.
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Comparisons were made be-
tween Chester White, Duroc, Po-
land China and Landrace pure-
bred crosslines and with cross-
bred hogs developed especially-
for
speciallyfor their lean meaty carcasses.
The crosses included: Land -
race -Poland ChinaDuroc-Poland-
Landrace and Montana No. 1-
Duroc-Poland-Landrace.
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Feed per 100 lbs. of gain was
higher for the fat -type Chester
White and Poland China cross -
lines, averaging 353 and 352 lbs.
Meat -type Landrace made the
most economical gain with 326
lbs. of feed for 100 lbs. gain. The
Montana No. 1-Duroc-Poland-
Landrace cross did very well,
requiring 329 lbs. of feed per 100
lbs. They averaged 205 lbs. at 5
nios. with 47.8% lean cuts.
High percentage of lean cuts
means greater demand at the re-
tail counter. Poland China and
Landrace crosslines and the 4
crossbreds averaged from 5 to
9.6% more lean cuts. There was
little difference in dressing per-
centages.
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You can expect just as good
returns from spreading nitrogen
early in the year ahead of plant-
ing as from applying it to a grow-
ing crop, researchers at the Pied-
mont Research Center, Virginia.
The early spreading saves labor
and time because the nitrogen can
be put out with other fertilizers
instead of separately. Spring ap-
plications also have paid off in
Nebraska wheat fields.
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Working on a tight soil, George
D. Jones, agronomist, got a 2 -yr.
average of 100.3 bu. of corn an
acre where he spread 100 lbs.
of nitrogen on Feb. 15; nitrogen
applied when the corn was plant-
ed made 105.3 bu. an acre and
nitrogen side -dressed when the
corn was knee-high helped make
101.2 bu. All the corn in those
3 plots got 800 lbs. of 0-12-12 fer-
tilizer per acre. Yield from a
plot that received only the 0-12-
12 was 77.5 bu. an acre and an
unfertilized plot nnade 68.6 bu.
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Moisture was lower in the
grain which got early nitrogen,
but that was the only difference
Jones could find, according to a
writer in "The Country Gentle-
man."
He did' discover that nitrogen
residue will carry over in the
soil. He grew wheat on the plots
where he had grown the corn
and got a 2 -yr. average of 22.7
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bu, an acre where the nitrogen
had been plowed in before plant-
ing; 24.8 bu.. of wheat where the
nitrogen went en at planting
time; 25.9 bu: on the side -dressed
plot; 16.4 bu. for the 0-1242 only
plot; and 15.7 bu. from the un-
fertilized .plot.
Wheat growers also can make
better use of nitrogen by apply-,
ing it in early spring'. From the
standpoint of total nitrogren 're-
covery and added protein. con-
tent in grain, spring applications
have shown a distinct advantage.
in Nebraska tests.
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Good seedbed practices usually
mean enough available nitrates
in the soil' to support favorable
fall growth when wheat produces
around 1/15 of its total' weight.
But when growth is resumed in
spring, the plant develops very
rapidly. Adequate nitrogren sup-
plies are needed particularly from
April 5 to June 5 in Nebraska.
In this 60 -day period before'
heading, the basic substance of
the plant is practically all made
and little nitrogen is neededas'
it ripens. This explains why the'
most efficient use of nitrogen taites
place after April or May appli-
cations.
Yield tests in 11 Nebraska lo-
cations over a 5 -year period
showed 40 lbs. of nitrogen in _the
fall caused wheat to yield. an
extra 11 bu. over unfertilized
seedings. A like amount in the
spring brought 12 bu. more. Split
applications of 10 lbs. in the fall
plus 30 lbs. in. spring gave an
1.1 bu. increase.
In all tests, nitrogen was sup-
plemented with 30 lbs. of phos-
phorus. This increased yield 3
bu. per acre, compared with 6
bu. for nitrogen alone and 12
bee for the combination. Wheat
made no response to potassium,'
Chief advantage of spring treat-
ment is that need for nitrogen
supplement can be made accur-
ately estimated according to de-
ficiency symptoms and soil mois-
ture supply after the crop has
commenced growth in the spring.
On soil of very low fertility, a
split application helps, since it .
stimulates early growth and til-
lering.
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Ammonium nitrate and urea
have been more effective as a
spring top -dressing for wheat
than ammonium sulphate. On the
basis of nitrogen contained, these
3 nitrogen carriers are essenti-
ally equal when soil is moist
at time of application. Anhy-
drous ammonia applied 4 to 6"
deep before planting or in early
spring has been as effective as
ammonium nitrate.
A. popular theory promulgated
bj' critics of Hollywood is that
movies are successful because
a large percentage of the audi-
ence are children who are easily
pleased. According to a survey
the odds are 12 to 1 against any-
one in the audience being a child.
In metropolitan New York he
odds are 30 to 1.
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WE'vS BEEN SE~1='lUG GNtsS'i$/
JITTER HAS A pAOYCHiMp 1:
MIDDEN M Rs -r
Cockle -Women Scared Napoleon's
Troops Away!
The common cockle is found
ail round the British coast line
-in the vicinity of estuaries,•where
it buries itself in the sand or
mud. This bivalve is good to eat
all the year round and makes an
appetising and succulent dish in
these days of unvaried diet.
Cockles are especially nutritive
when boiled in milk, and there
is no doubt that the Romans used
this easily obtainable food as a
ration for their soldiers. At many
old camp sites huge heaps of
cockle shells have been unearth-
ed.
In England the most import-
ant centres of the cockte°industry
are the Wash, the Tha fah's Estu-
ary and Morecambe ";?ay; 'but
probably the oldest `}sec}',•. are in
Wales. The cockles 'Vole the
neighbourhood of Burry -Estuary
near Swansea are renT`i>ried for
their size, quality and flavour.
Even in the present day the wo-
men • who gather . cockles at low
`tide, and load them into, donkey-
• panniers, wear distinctive head-
dresses and shawls. Indeed, the
picturesque dress of Welsh cockle
women has an interesting histori-
cal association for, when Napol-
eon thought of invading England
and Landing at Fishguard, his
ships were frightened off when
the captains saw what they took
to be red -jacketed British sol-
diers on the sand -dunes. The
. 'troops' were really cockle -wo-
men in their traditional dress,
who had seen the French ships
lying off the coast and had col-
lected in force to parade around
like infantrymen; the ruse, of
Course, was entirely successful.
The technique of gathering
cockles varies in different locali-
ties. In Wales they are raked out
from under the sand with a hook
while in Cornwall a metal spoon
is used for the same purpose. In
some places gatherers simply
.stamp With bare feet on the
sands and the cockles rise to the
surface under the pressure. On
parts of the Lancashire coast a
base board, known as a `jumbo'
is nailed to a frame and pressed
down on the sand.
Cockle colonies have a habit of
shifting their locality and huge
beds covering several square
miles have been known to van-
ish in a night owing to a sudden
shift in the sea's current or a
change of temperature in the
water, These bivalves live on sea-
water and not on sand as is gen-
erally believed, and, owing to the
fickle nature of cockles, establish-
ed beds are carefully protected.
All cockles are graded through
a wire screen before marketing,
the size of the mesh being gov-
erned by a local by-law, and the
small specimens are returned to
the bed to grow and mature.
When the cockles have been
taken inland above high water
mark, they are sometimes put in
huge cauldrons of boiling water,
where they open, become free of
the shell, and are sold in local
markets as 'live cockles.' ,•
There is no poisonous 'beard'
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to extract from cockles as there
is in mussels, but they have a
`foot' by which they delve in the
sand. The Red -nose has a crim-
son foot 4 inches long and by
using it as a kind of catapult it
is able to leap right over the gun-
wale of a boat.
Paignton fish -wives, by the
way, have their own method of
cooking cockles. They are ' clean..
ed for a few hours in a tub of
cold spring water where they
spew up the sand inside them;
then they are fried in a batter of
breadcrumbs. The majority of the
people living by the sea simply
stew cockles and eat them in ple-
beian fashion, but a great deal
can be achieved with a little in-
genuity in the kitchen and when
serving at the table. After the
cockles have been cleaned, cook-
ed and seasoned with salt and
pepper, more substance and fla-
vour can be given the dish by
stirring in a spoonful of flour
and -simmering over a siow--flre.
Before serving, add a large
spoonful of essence of anchovy
and one of mushroom ketchup.
The Bretons cook cockles in
various appetising ways, some-
times frying them with ham;
they also put them in.pies, chop-
ped with chives, after a layer
of bacon has been put at the bot-
tom of the dish. The Belgians,
• who are very fond of cockles,
flavour with chives and fry with
oatmeal. For convalescing inval-
ids a good strengthening soup can
be made of cockles, though it is
sometimes found to be indigesti-
bel. On the Italian coast where
`cocciola' abound, they are usually
eaten raw or cooked in oil after
seasoning with herbs. The Spa-
nish consider cockles cooked in
oil a great delicacy.
In the past, the cockle has been
looked upon as the poor man's
oyster, but now it is regarded as
a general and democratic dish.
in many parts of Great Britain
For in these days the gourmet
is hard ,put to it to find tasty
dishes at reasonable .cost to en-
liven his palate and `warns the
cookies of the heart!'
And, incidentally, while the
strongest man is unable to Opel*
a cockle with his hands, the star-
fish
tarfish straddles the bivalve ant
opens it with the greatest of
ease!
HND&Y SCIIOOL
LESSON
Jesus Condemns False
Leadership
Matthew 23:1-12, 31.39
Memory Selection: Whosoever
shall exalt himself shall be abas-
ed; and he that shall inumb11
himself shall be exalted. Matthew
23-12
Who is more despicable than o
hypocrite unless it be a persona
who is small enough to try to
hide behind one? He excused
himself from being a Christian.
because there are hypocrites. Thea
religious leaders, Scribes and
Pharisees were hypocrites. Jesus
said so, repeatedly, and illustra-
ted his charge by specific instan-
ces. These men pretended to bet
virtuous but were wicked at
heart. Jesus did not speak this
tirade against them out of a feel..
ing of personal resentment but
with a view of warning the.
nation against their false leaders,
It is well that the lesson in-
ccludes our Lord's lament over
the coning destruction of Jeru-
salem. It demonstrates the bur-
den
urden that was on his heart. Hoa
loved his people. Even when ha
rebuked, it •vvas in love.
The eyes of the world are on.
the new president of the United.
States. What kind of a leader
will he be. When hetook his
oath of office the George Wash-
ington Bible was opened at Pg.
127:1. "Except the LORD build
the house, they labour in vain
that build it: except the LORI
keep the city, the watchman
waketh but in vain." U.S.A. is
the greatest producer in that
world. She may well be consider. -
ed the watchman of the free peo-
ple's of the world. But whether
building or alerting for danger
she needs God. The. Bible his
mother gave him at his gradu-
ation
radeation was opened at 2 Chr. 7:1C
If the nations would accept this
challenge war and the fear of
wars would cease. Shaine on th,
two large U.S. dailies who repri-
manded him for asking for thou
privilege of offering his own prii: •
vete prayer.
A mixture of orange and pine-
apple juices was the drink at the
evening festivities. This pointers
but President Eisenhower's desire,
for sobriety. Would that all our
leaders from municipal councils
up, would have the courage to
thus reprove drunkenness. Go4.
bless our leaders and may the
be true and not false.
(Upside down to prevent peeking),
H
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Busy Champion -With his mind definitely an his work, Duke,,
champion Doberman Pilischer, seems entirely unaware of pretty,
Iris Maxwell's blonde charms. In training for dog shows, Duke
works out on the beach, using iris for a hurdle.
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