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Zurich Herald, 1950-06-22, Page 2The Compost Heap Books have been written on com- post heaps and it is a worthy sub- ject. The good gardener throws nothing away that will rot or de- compose and that means almost. anything. He piles them on his compost heap. green weeds, leaves and other trash should all be tossed i,i, covered with a layer of soil and it obtainable some manure. If watered occasionally and perhaps treated with some of The special humus -making chemicals this Ina- lterial will break down rapidly and make the finest sort of garden soil. :Most experts regard the compost pile as an essential part cif their gardens. Where the pile is large it can be screened with some. quick - growing annuals or some perinan- ent shrubbery-. If each new addi- tion of refuse is covered sell with a fresh layer of soil there should be no odour and no attraction for flies. :k Something Will Grow INTO matter how unfavorable the location there is some flower, vege- table or shrub that will thrive in it. Some flowers, vegetables and certain varieties of grass actually prefer shade, some want acid soil rather than sweet, some like heavy clay better than loam or sand. The thing in planning is to consider these special likes and dislikes, then to select those plants that suit one's special location. Most veaecables, however, are pretty keen on a generous amount of sun, but they have distinct likes and dislikes in the platter of soil. For deep-rooted carrots, potatoes, etc., it is important that the soils be fairly loose at least a foot down. Certain types prefer sandy soil to clay. But no matter what the soil is to start with by a little planning and care one can change it fairly easily. g Can't Do Without Cultivation Killing weeds is only one of several reasons for cultivating flowers and vegetables. Even if it were possible to have chemical weed killers which would destroy all but the Rowers and vegetables we would still need to cultivate. '.Phis stirring of the soil with a rake, hoe, or whatever is used, is essen- tial to let in air, to absorb moisture and to distribute plant food. In dry parts of the country it also keeps the soil from drying out. A good practice is to cultivate gardens or hoe crops regularly, after every good shower. Wait, of course, a few hours or so until the soil is just dry enough to work. Plenty of Time Too early sowing is definitely not repommended. It is all very well to sow a few short rows of vegetables a week or two before the regular lime just on the chance that there will be no late frosts, but the main sowings should wait until tThe time .recommended by the seed catalogue or the local experts. For plants that are tender nothing is gained in planting in cold soil and before the weather has definitely turned warm. Of course, where extra pro- tection is provided one can get tarted earlier but otherwise it is suer to wait. Even if tender plants do survive A late frost they are quite likely to be so retarded that later and .ormal plantings will overtake Them. In the vegetable garden, of course, one should never sow all seed at once. The experts urge spreading sowings over several weeks so that the harvest will like- wise be spread out. In most parts of Canada one can go on planting beans, beets, carrots, lettuce and Bauch things every ten days or so from the time of earliest possible planting right up to July. In a schoolboy's exam, paper. "`.l'o keep milk fresh it should be left in the cow until needed," In Line Of Duty--Rhett Butler, a Dalmatian fire clog Vets new bandages on his foot and leg, burned by flaming gas in a meat market fire. The nurse is fireman Bob Arivine, who answered the fire alarm with Rhett. A SIXE We wrote, not so long ago, some fairly uncomplimentary remarks regarding the torrent of books about baseball, baseball teams and baseball players which, for the past couple of years, have been gushing from publishers' presses faster than the Red River ever flooded, and with almost as depressing an effect. Now, after perusing—or at least glancing through — what seems like a long cord more of these volumes, we would say that the lads are rapidly writing them- selves clean out of material; and if we have to read just once more about what Dizzy Dean said to Frankie Frisch during the World Series, or about how Old Pete Alexander threw his hangover at the N. Y. Yankees and beat them with it, we are going to toss the book out the window and holler "Copper." (Here we would like to state again, however, that Ed. Barrow's reminisceilses, still running serially, by no means belong in the above category. But then Big Ed was an exceptional baseball man — one Whose influence on fhe growth and development of the game was probably greater than that of any other individual.) Anyway, fairly well fed up with baseball as reading material; it was a refreshing change to run across a book about a quite different sort of sport—the sport of Lawn Ten- nis. And when you consider what a gruelling, punishing, nerve-rack- ing affair modern tennis has be, come, it seems strange to recall that, not too many years ago, it was considered a lady -like sort of pastime, and men who indulged in it were liable to be called, by crude hangers-on around Dolans Tavern or Cassidy's fool Parlor, "Sissies" or worse. a +� The book we refer to is called "Romance of Wimbledon" by John 011iff, profusely illustrated with portraits and scenes from earliest times down to the present day. We are sure anybody who likes to either play or watch tennis will get a real bang out of this bogk; al- though some of them will undoubt- edly be surprised to learn that LWA ,IT 0�17 IC NVirnbiedorl —.the greatest tennis centre in the world—was actually started as a place for the playing of Croquet. But facts are facts— and it was Croquet that really kept Wimbledon going for the first thirty years of its existence. It was back in 1370 'that two brothers named Jones formed a Croquet Club and, after searching for a ground that wouldn'tput too great a strain on their limited bank -roll, acquired four acres , at V inlbledon at a rental of fifty pounds a year. And their All .Eng- land Croquet Club held its first championships there in June, 1870. Some five years later Henry Jones, who was always proposing startling innovations, suggested de- voting a small piece of the.grounds to lawn tennis. This was' at first re- garded as "just another of Henry's little jokes"; but Hank was appar- ently a persistent sort of bloke, and he had his way, the rather frighten- ing sum of twenty-five pouilds being spent oil the necessary equip- ment. The tennis folks rallied around, and the first Wimbledon championship was held in 1877. But, according to iMr. 011iff, Croquet kept the club together till after the turn of the century—in fact until 1904 when Lawn Tennis showed a profit of thirteen hundred pounds, while Croquet was in the red for six pounds. But for all that the suggestion that Croquet be re- moved from the official name of the club was twice rcornfully re- jected. :k =k • It was around this time that the two famous L"pherty brothers— "R.F." and "H.L." as they were known—began to put Lawn Tennis on a really solid footing so far as the general public was concerned. And from the Doherty's stems the long line of tennis stars right down to Gorgeous Gussie whose lace panties last year caused almost as much stir at 'Wimbledon as Suz- anne Lenglen's actions did in 1926 when she kept Queen :.Lary waiting —and lived to regret doing so. Suzanne, in case you don't re- member, was the French girl who won the Ladies Singles five times i in a rrv;, and ., hose opinion of hFrec f :°gas almr;st as great as her abi ity, In thrr:e days they didn't craw." as they do now, ar.,. .,z;'..I:rr- ..,,r.'ir, that all the in her section of ­rr,r:thing like a � fJr 1"g .;°,la fi:Iti Iileidellt the official referee's tactful --version, ra,,.s.erl by Mlle. JITTER Gleeful Gorilla — "Arno," all 8 -month-old gorilla flown front Urica, looks forward to the goad life in some zoo. Animal lealer JIenry Trefflich, holding ,Arno, calls the animal "ttgly and viciotis enotigh to grog lip to be a. Second fxarganlua." L englell,." be wrote. "Iter unques- tionable superiority .o£ the past few years to any other woman player had apparently led her to think. that Wimbledon ought to Ile riot to suit her convenience -,without regard to any other , interest whatever. Pos- sibly tpo touch attention batt been paid to her wishes in previous years. But in 1926 she prestulled too far on her position in the' tennis world." Boiled down to inure everyday. language this means that Suzy said they had to play it her way --or else. Queen Mary; there to see the great Frenchwoman play, was kept waiting for half an hour with noth- ing to watch. Possibly Hex Majesty didn't like this treatment. Certainly the Wimbledon folies didn't. Any- way, Suzanne scratched—and never played at Wimbledon again. Sounds like a tempest in a teapot at this distance; but it stirred up plenty of talk and excitenlc'nt then, * +k sk Theauthor says—and who are we to dispute his word?—that the most extraordinary Wimbledon .match of all occurred in 1921 be- tween Randolph Lycett, of Austra- lia, and Zenzo Shimidzu of Japan. It was played on one of the hottest days in memory, and by :the third set the Aussie lead to be revived' every time they changed ends. And we fear that his revival methods wouldn't tppeal very greatly to some of our temperance advocates -'for what Lycett used, as a stimu- lant, was plain gin. In the finr,' set, which ran to twenty games, it was plainly to be seen that the Australian was on his last legs, the combination of heat and gin having taken its effect. Lycett knew that it was impossible to carry on without further stimu- lant, so he did the most audacious thing the Centre Court at Wimble- don has ever seen. He ordered a Lottle of champagne to be placed fora. him . on the umpire's chair— and as the battle went on, he drank the lot. However, virtue was its own reward; and as the Jap eventually won, perhaps we'll be forgiven—in spite of the gin and champagne for calling attention to "Romance of Wimbledon" by John 011iff. As one reviewer puts it "this is a book that contains the statistics which lawn tennis enthusiasts will wish to consult, but is also packed with drama and, in some cases, tragedy." 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WAKE UP YOUR LiVER RILE -- Without Calomel — And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Ruin' to Go The liver should pour out about 2 pinta of bile juice into your digestive tract every day. It this bile is not flowing freely, your food may not digge�st. It may just decay in the digestive tract. hen gas bloats up your stomach You get constipated. You feel sour, sunk and the works looks punk, It takes those mild, gentle Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these 2 pints of bile flow- ing freely to make you feel "up andup.' Get a package, today. Effective in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pilis. 354 at any drugstore. ISSUE 25 — 1950 -By Arthur ur Pointer ., 6_ tyre /. cAursltkNo ' i S C,As