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Zurich Herald, 1949-04-28, Page 3Let It Rain, L.et it Pour—Here's a lady who's smart when out in the rain—for she's sporting one of the latest rainwear styles by Kelton. It 'comes in tan, blue, grey or green. A. special feature is the extruded vinylite plastic belt and pocket edging. The bood forms part of the coat and has a tie for knotting snugly across the throat. This light -Weight acreages is made of vinylite metallized plastic wlticlt .cannot dry ,out or crack. The seams are partly hen t-eea]ecl. partly sewn. - .. siert .+; as gven.d.oLi r.e P. CtexIA,e Row foolish it is to try to cross our bridges before we come to them. For weeks Partner has been worrying about a cow that he was sure would have trouble in calving. And then one morning he went to She barn—and there was the cow with her calf, and everything abso- lutely normal, And was I relieved! Notonly about the cow but because Partner was relieved from further worry. Later that same morning I went down to see our barnyard family — and upon my word you couldn't move for calves. There were calves everywhere — some having their breakfast, others already finished and taking their "daily dozen" by chasing around the stable. Some were still tied up and a couple were running loose in -a pen. "For heaven's sake—how many calves have you got around here?" I asked Partner. "Darned if I know — I've lost track of them," he an- swered. So I went around and counted them . . . there were nine, even though we had already sent four out. I suppose the reason is. that we had eight heifers all pretty much of an age last summer. Evi- dently they realized their main function in life was to produce -- so they did just that. But definitely.. A year or two ago one of my readers said: "I don't believe a week goes by but what you talk about your chickens." I hadn't realized it but no doubt she was right. Now the chances are some- one will say that never a week goes by without my saying something about calves, And that, too, is true. But then this column is a chronicle of the doings at Ginger Farm -- and right now calves seem to hold the spotlight. But enough of calves. . . To - •day I had one of those unwelcome things that come to all of us whether we want them or not — I :neon a birthday. But even a birth- day has its compensations. It is sice to have letters, cards and phone .ails as if a few people, here and there, get the notion they are glad you happen to be alive. And I have special fondness for birthday cards — they are such nice, personal things. Daughter, for instance, has an uncanny habit of picking out cards singularly appropriate to Answer to Crossword Puzzle M E .5 p T G Y p Efiahan riga rti via G ! Q W A• � ' v 5 a f t rl E rl! i2 4t� 5 N 5 W 4 Y a Pi vc':q E N �. the person and the occasion. My card this year featured a cocker spaniel tethered to a bone stuck in the ground. As if one cocker spaniel by the name of Honey wasn't enough! This card was one of the folder type with a picture and a bit of verse running on each page. The doleful expression on the pupas face was really clever. The verse, put altogether, ran like this — A BIRTHDAY MESSAGE ACROSS THE MILES, Can't conte to see you, can't hear your voice, Too broke to call you; ain't got much choice. Can't do a durned thing— "ceptin' just set — And hope that this birthday's your nicest one yeti Daughter underlined "too broke to call you" which I took as a gentle hint that I needn't be expecting a long-distance call. Another very nice card was from a very special friend—and I knew it had been chosen for the lovely verse that was in it. Little things like that are heart-warming and so very welcome — even if ones birth- day isn't. How nice it is to have friends, You know, I often think the best thing about this poor old world is the •people in it. So why worry about a birthday—a year, more or less, what does it natter? We are never really old until we think we are. And we never need to think we're old as long as we can take an interest in what goes on around us, One day I told an oldish person, on her birthday, that I hoped she would have many more happy birth- days. She answered— "Well, I don't know — I'm not sure that I want many more birthdays." What an unhappy attitude towards life. And yet it is understandable with 'some older folks. The accent these days is on youth. Young people must be. provided with op- portunity for education, recreation, and a business or profession, The only opportunity denied them is a chance to stand on their own feet and prove that they have what it takes to make their own way in the world. Old people are not given enough consideration. Surely our whole social structure would fie greatly improved if more thought were given to the problem of those, still independent in mpirit btit un- able to fend for themselves. We mustn't have our old folk hoping they will not have many more birth- days. Old people should be accepted as the responsibility of the young�� Unfop, tln< Cly ti:1 e, onsibility is n alvei 4 reallied ani ace ed. Tickets bearing the followin words are being shown in a baker shop window: "Pies like mother •,t 10 male e• --50c. • Pies like ,Welber used to think she matdew-. ,,.1.00." Here are some questions about various weights and measures which shouldn't give you too much trouble. After you've tried to answer them all, check with the correct answers, printed upside-down, below. 1. How many yards are there in a rod? 2. In the avoirdupois system of weights, bow many ounces are there in a pound? 3. How many dozen are in a gross? 4. How many cubic feet of air are there in one pound of air? 5. How many points are there in a compass? 6. How many fluid ounces in one quart? 7. Is the gold carat a measure or a weight? 8. In what other table of measure besides the time measure do 60 seconds equal one minute? 9. How many mills are there in cent? 10. How many cubic feet are there in a cord of wood? 11. The word meridian pertains to what time of day? 12. If a Fahrenheit thermometer reads 32 degrees, what does the Centrigrade theremometer next to it read? 13. From what was the abbrevia- tion lb. for pound derived? 14. How many acres are there in a square mile? 15.What is the smallest liquid measure? 16. What measurement of time is . reckoned by the time it takes' the earth to turn on its axis? 17. How long is a furlong? 18. In nautical measure how many feet make a fathom? ' Answers to Vr c:ght and Measures '9 '8I 'sp.i8J 023 'LI sap atl,L '91 •doip auo .iltiZnoa 'ttULIT MU' aq,L 'et '0i'9 'VVI •punod 5Juiirsam ieagil upea aL1; mora '£I '0 'ZI 'uootI 'II '8ZI '0I •uay '6 to 581811t; to aans+eetu arj3. tit '8 .P1o8 sand ;o sped aqz saanssatu at — aansuatu y 'L The Great Moment .9 '£ .I The year holds one moment, which may last for a week, when tree and bush and vine are on the breathless verge of leafing out. It is then that you stand on a hillside and look across the wooded valley and see the scarlet and orange of maple blossoms like a touch of pastel crayon across the tree -tops. You see greenish yellow in the tops of the wineglass elms, and the amber green fountain that is the big weeping willow beside the brook. These generalities, so to speak, you see at a glance; and you know the breathless moment is here. Then .you look at particulars. The crab apple trees in the orchard are dressed in green lace, their leaves no larger than your little fingernail. The lilacs are all tufted at their stent ends, each leaf cluster tipped with a faint brownish purple and not a leaf among them as big as a squirrel's ear. The wild black- berries have scarlet tassels not half an inch long, each tassel an upfold- ing group of leaves whose forst can already be faintly seen. The late apple trees have gray silver nubs at their twig tips; draw down a branch and look closely and you see each nub as a young leaf cluster emerg- ing from its bud, each leaf the size of a ladybug's, wing and each red - tipped as though blushing. The privet has a leaf tuft like a minia- ture green magnolia, and the bridal wreath bush is green at every joint with little green rosebud leaves. These things you see now, this instant. An hour from now all will be changed; tontb.rrow it will be still , different. For this is the trembling moment when life stands between bud and leaf, between promise and achievement, A new world is in the staking on these old, old hills, even as we watch, Nothing is ever accomplished by committee unless it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent. Ail FOLDING BLEACHERS. Pold- ing bleachers which give maximum seating capacity for public assem- blies. Open, bleachers are said to provide adequate, comfortable seat- ing which in many large -room areas can be made revenue-produc- ing. Folded, they become safe playing walls for basketball and in- door games, less likely to injure athletes than walls of standard con stru ction. PLASTIC INFLATABLE BOAT. Vinylite plastic inflatable boat weighs only five pounds in- flated; 6 feet from stem to stern, will carry two adults and two chil- dren. Smaller size also available. Plastic sheeting is claimed to be resistant to oils, grease, tempera- ture change and abrasion.. Deflated, can be put in part of space of overnight case. SCREEN -AWNING. New -type aluminum screen, has cooling action of awning, shading value of vene- tian blind and insect protection of fine -wire mesh screen. Special che- mical coating reduces glare • and increases corrosion resistance. hem seful AUTOMATIC WINDOW. Double -glazed window disappears into wall at flip of electric switch, brings • screen into place. Since it's double -glazed, no storm sash is required, Easy to install in new buildings, makers claim it can be placed by any competent mechanic in building already built. FAST SILO FILLER, Machine that "blows" forage where farmer wants it. Load is dumped from truck into conveyor -belt trough; 42 -in, fan at other end of trough blows fodder through 8 - in. pipe where operator aims it. Claim it can handle 20 tons of hay or 26 tons chopped corn in. hour. FOUR -SPEED MOTOR- CYCLE. Advantages claimed for new motorcycle are: four -speed foot gear shift; automatic clutch; internal expansion -type brakes on front and rear wheels for self - braking use; constant mesh trans- mission and telescopic suspension springs said to elimtnafe bouncing. TESTS STRETCH, How much will a plastic or textile stretch under load? New electronic weigh- ing s,rstem its designed so theft loads _'rom two grams to 5,000 1,1 can be applied to sample; hills speed recorder, geared to pulling Jaw, Charts results as load -elonga- tion Curve. AIR WALL HEATING. Pre- fabricated 4 -in. ducts are used new warm -air heating systems makers claire two men can install system in six -room house in oil' day. Registers are placed in col (outer) wall; air is forced throng* at higher temperature and veloc3 than present systems, comes out register in fan-like pattern, heat. ing the wall above the outlet. SMALL AUTOMATIC BOWL. ING ALLEY. Built for homes, taverns, and coin -machine arcade*, the alley is 18 ft. long 26 in. wide —about one-third the size of the runway. The alley has a maple beds, The player bowls at an illuminated setup of ten pin images. His baitt, a little smaller than a duck -pin bdijt hits electrical contact plates instead of actual pins. After every two balls, unless he makes a strike; th score is tallied automatically o the screen and is added to in suo- ceeding plays. Balls are :returned automatically, there's no need foe pin boys or attendants. 0 0111.0.15 Time was no obgect to Cleopatra when her slave attendants served breakfast. The Cleo of today must be quick df the mark. So no wonder Mother praises the served -in -a -jiffy, eaten -on - sight Post's Grape -Nuts Flakes. They're not only convenient but delicious and nourishing, too. Yes —Post's Gatape-Nuts Flakes provide usefnll quantities of carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and other food essentials to start the busy day right. Made with two grains — wheat and barley — to give you that glorious Grape -Nuts flavor in crisp, golden flake foam. Ask your grocer for Post's Grape -Nuts Flakes., Sedde E RU An, AY T RED CYAN of Toronto Crowds along running hoard to an amerrgency brake in nub -zeta weather. The train was doing 50 m.p.h. when suddenly the car heating pipe uncoupled and the cab was filled with steam. 58 -year-old Fred Ryan, his hands burned, Climbed out and crawled along the narrow, icy running board. Clinging to the rail with his scalded hands, Ryan inched his way along the 55 hazardous feet until he finally reached the front bumper of the engine and ap- plied the emergency brakes. We are proud to present The Dow Award to heroic C.N.R. Engineer Fred Ryan. IL The Toronto -Vancouver train was speeding through a desolate part of Northern Ontario. Every- thing was normal until a pipe uncoupled in the cab. 3. Finally bringing the runaway express to a halt, Ryan fell exhausted in the snow. None of the pas. sengers realized how close to disaster they had come. DOW BREWERY 2. Suddenly the cab was filled with live, scalding steam. Their hands badly burned, both engineer and fireman were forced to crawl out the windows. AWA 94(Les-c. NATIONAL BREWERIES LIMITED THE DOW AWARD is a citation presented for ads of outstanding heroism and inductee a $100 Canada Savings pond. The Dow Award Committee, a group of editors of leading Canadian daily newspapers, scleds winners from recommendations made lig a nationally known news organization. '. MONTREAL OA 49 NONE OP YOUR BUSINESS ICOR BEIM' SO CURIOUS vou'LLJUST WAlr TILL PAPA SHOWS YOU! , ✓' By Arthur Pointer a7.