The Brussels Post, 1955-06-22, Page 5APPEALING PEEL — Arm Lawrie of Indianapolis, Ind., peeled
- off her curly locks and came up with this surprisingly attractive
brush haircut. The 16-year-old took the short cut as a practical
matter for the hot months and good swimming ahead.
TENDER AND CRISP
The quicker we can get our
vegetables grown to eating size
or maturity, the tenderer they
will be, and the sooner they go
on the table or in the pot after
that, so much the better. With
certain things like green peas,
garden corn, baby carrots and
beets; there is all the difference
in the world if they are really
fresh.
But the main thing is quick
growth, especially for those
vegetables of which the roots
are eaten. Any check in growth,
is, bound to produce a certain
woodiness or at least toughness.
The expert gardener makes sure
there is no check whatever by
keeping the soil cultivated, en-
riched with the necessary fer-
tilizer, and watering in dry
spells if he can possibly manage
it. He will also thin properly
when the plants, are small so
there is no crowding and twist-
ing in the rows. Finally, he will
use those vegetables_ when they
are at the very peak Of their
flavour, and by successive sow-
ings, say two to three weeks
apart,, he will make sure that
there is always a fresh batch
coming on. Once past their ma-
turity most vegetables lose flav-
our and become. tougher.
SUPPORTS
Most people stake tomatoes.
Usually a six to seven - foot
stake is driven firmly in the
ground when the tomato plant
is set out. About every foot of
growth the stem is tied loosely
but securely. All side-shoots are
nipped off and towards the end
of the summer, to hasten ma-
turity Of fruit, the main stem is
also nipped.
For supporting sweet peas and
the taller sorts of garden peas,
and also other climbers, some
people use chicken wire or old
tennis nets or string. But a bet-
ter material is brush if a supply
can be obtained. This is pushed
firmly in the ground along the
rows and before the plants are
more than 'a few inches high.
Depending upon the locality.
• brush from, three to six, feet high
is suitable and the bushier the
better.
WELL-MANNERED RAT!.
Archibald MacKenzie, of
Croir House, Isle of Bernera,
Outer Hebrides, recently decided
to give himself the luxury of
breakfast in bed.
Half-way through his meal he
heard a stealthy noise on the
stairs. He could not understand
it, as he knew there was no one
else in the house.
The door was pushed open
and in crept a large rat. It
walked across to the bedside,
cliiribed on to the table, took a
sausage, and left,
After a few moments he heard
the rat returning. Again it
climbed on" the table, and this
time, believe it or not, grabbed
the knife. A third, time it came
back, and took, the fork.
Nov, Mr. MacKenzie had
solved a Mystery that had been
troubling hint for weeks,
Spoons had been disappearing.„
from the house, It was obvious
now Where they had gone.
That night Mr. MacKenzie laid
out some rat poison,• Next day
the rat was found dead near a
cupboard.
Opening the cupboard arid ,
pushing aside some boxes, he
found the rat's "treasure chest"l
a collection of spoons, the knife
and fork, a penknife, and even
cakes of soap,
Mr. Macs enzie has seen be
rats since, but lie says he will'
never forget the rat Who used
a knife and fork,
The wool blankets with col-
oured duffle stripes were great
favourites with the American
Indians in the 17th century. In
order to simplify the bartering
with the white man, they wore
woven with a varying number
of point marks in the selvage
corresponding to the number oi
skins, which the blanket wax
reckoned to be worth.
The point marks are still re-
tained today, and are used to
Indicate the various weights ot
wool blankets.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
GREEN
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GIVE IT PROTECTION
It is discouraging to get a fine
garden of flowers and vegetables
nicely growing then have bugs
or disease make a mess of it.
And it is not necessary. True
there are a lot' of garden pests,
but for everyone there is a spe-
cific cure. One is advised to con-
sult a good Canadian seed cata-
logue or government bulletin or
spray calendar. Front these
sources of informatio,n one can
learn the proper spray, dust or
other method of treatment and
for a few cents it is possible to
protect every sort of flower,
shrub and vegetable. Also in
this connection it is well. to re-
member that a, healthy, well-
cultivated garen, clean of
weeds, is far less susceptible to
attack than the neglected kind.
KEEP IT. UP
Much more important than
early planting is continuing that
job well into June, or even July.
One is making a great mistake
and robbing himself of lots of
fresh blooms and vegetables, if
he stops sowing too early. There
is no reason at all why such
things as peas, corn, beans, car-
rots, beets and several other
vegetables should not be sown
at two- to' three-week intervals
right up to the first week in
July. By spreading out in, this
way we spread out the harvest
and increase by many. times the
yield from the average garden.
We can further spread out by
using early, medium and late
varieties. With flowers, toe, the
season of bloom can be extended
by the same method.
MRS. GERTRUDE W. EISEMAN
OF BOSTON, Mass., was recent-
ly named President of The
Mother Church, The First Church
of Christ Scientist, in Boston,
Massachusetts, at the Annual
Meeting of The Mother Church •
attended by chur'ch m embers
from Many parts of the world.
WS. Eiseman'has been active
tri various dapaCitieS' in , the
Christian Selenen enovernent
for Many years. A native of
New York City, she is noW
'Christian Science practitioner in
Boston. Her appointment Was
announced by The. Christian
Board of Directors, The
term Of office is for ohe year:.
Prior to Elevotiliq.lier full time
to the 1)ublic oractIce of Chris-
stein' Science healing, Mrs.. 1.s4-
mart wos, Very active On variOuS
philanthropic 'and civic boards
Durihtf the Second World War
She ‘terVed on the Christian
,Science' War Relief taintnittee,
It., ilarOny Warren, 1),A,A,
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Psalm 122;1,
For years Judah had, neglect-
ed to keep the annual feast ot
the Passover, Josiah made ex,
tensive preparations to observe
this great occaSion. The official.
record. says, "There was no pass-
over like to that 'kept in. Israel
from the days of. Samuel the
People who neglect the pub-
lie assembly for worship miss st
great deal, For the next three
months thousands will bypass
the ehurches for the beachat
and their summer cottages.
Many will drive two hundred.
miles for the weekend but ex-
cuse themselves from driving
five miles to a church near the
cottage. Is God pleased with
this? Definitely not.
It is sad to record that Josiah
made a very serious error in
last days. Neeho, king of EgYritc
was on his way to war against
Charchemish. Josiah foolishly
went out with an army against
him. He went in disguise but he
was wounded in the battle. He
soon died and his body was
brought in his chariot to Jeru-
salem. There- was great lamen-
tations for him, Well might the
nation mourn, Josiah was only
thirty:nine years old when he
died. Upon his. death his re-
ligious reforms collapsed., Three
of the four remaining kings ot
Judah were his sons, and the
other a grandson. They were
weak and wicked, and under'"
them the nation quickly .came to
a disastrous end.
It is sad that so many good'.
men and women act foolishly in
their later days. Sometimes it
can be put down to the infir-
mities of olr age. But this was
not the case of Josiah. Had
pride crept in? We must al-
ways be- on the watch, against
this evil. God giveth grace to
'the humble but he resisteth the
proud.
Model T Memories
.A. whole new generation has
grown up since the last Model T
automobile rolled or the aSsent-
bly line. That car represented
Oilcan transportation, and even
in its most glorified form rarely
nicked the purehaser for $1,000,
Try to ge a new car today for
anything like that and you'll be
laughed 'at. Which is one reason
why a news item from Johan-
nesburg is interesting. The first
South -African -built automobile
is in production there. It costs
$715, and is said to be one of
the cheapest in the world, The
makers say it gets 85 miles on a
gallon of gas, and 50 mph,
Right, there the enthusiasm of
most American motorists will
stop. They aren't content with a
car that doesn't have more speed
than that. And most want more
chrome and, probably better up-
holstery.
As long as 5,000,000 or more
new cars a year can be sold at
present prices, no major Ameri-
can producer is going to risk
his fortune trying to produce
a good cheap car.—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Many Methods, for
Making Tea
Canadian tea drinkers are
either staunch "clear" drinkers
or insist upon tea with milk
and/or sugar. There are of
course many different ways of
preparing tea. It is probably
true that no beverage is used in
so many different ways in so
many different parts
In Tibet, for example, making
tea is quite a ritual. In Tibet
the tea is pressed into bricks
for convenience. The tea leaves
are broken off the twigs and
tossed into a copper cauldron.
The Tibetans then add a little
wood ash to bring out thetolour.
Brackish water is added and the
mixture is thoroughly boiled.
Once it has been belled, the li-
quid is strained off with a barn-
boo ladle, put into-a churn with
salt and a liberal helping of but-
ter, and is then thoroughly
churned. The liquid is poured
rather like soup into an earthen-
ware pot. The result is drunk
from the little wooden bowls
which all Tibetans carry in the
folds of their gowns. At break-
fast each person drinks five to
ten cups of tea, each containing
about 1/s pint and when the last
cup is half-finished it is mixed
with enough barley meal to
bring it to the consistency of
paste.
In other parts of the East, tea
drinkers scorn the addition Of
anything such as milk or sugar
and drink their tea entirely
clear. Incidentally, a request in
China to have a second cup of
tea is a polite hint that it is
time for you to leave. Japan, of
course, is a great tea-drinking
nation and the tea ritual is an
important part of Japanese life
and custern. They use pOwdered
green tea whipped into a light
green froth which looks very
much like pea soup. The Rus-
sians enjoy "a really sweet tea,
for they use jam to sweeten it,
and it' is not unusual in the
Winter for them to add a spoon-
ful of ruin!
Burmese natives drink pickled
tea, prepared as a salad by soak-
ing it In oil with garlic and
sometimes adding dried flail. In
the adjacent State of Siam they
chew tea with Salt arid other
condiments, while in parts of
India a bitter tea is favoured.
Perhaps the most startling of
these Ways of preparing tea is
the one practised by the early
Chinese. They steamed the
leaves, crushed them, made them
into a cake and boiled it with
rice, ginger, salt, orange peel,
spices, milk and A sometimes
onions. This practice is still car-
ried out among many Mongolian
tribes,
The early days of tea drinking,
for example, produced some
queer habits. Some English tav-
erns, assuming tea to be a bev-
erage patterned on beer, made it
up_ in bulk and drew it off as
they did beer, Others are Said
to have boiled the leaves and
served them with butter after
throwing away the liquid! Hi.-
story fells that the boys of a f a-
Mous British school were given
wet tea leaves to cat on their
bread and butter! A similar fate
befell the first tea to arrive in
Peririth, Scotland. It was sent
to friends living there, as a gift;
but with to directions as to its'
use. They boiled the cornplete
consignment; buttered and salted
the leaVes and sat down to eat
theirif- - •
Australia's popular 8bng
"Wanting 1Vratilda"., was based
the tea drinking habits. of.
Saint of the toughest men in the
world .the Andtraliati "siva.*
inen''. These men alWays carry
a billy-can with them, which iS
used td boil water over' eh open
fire flat their tea. They then to
the tea into the bbiling Water
drink the ensuing brew:
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the *Melt the
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House of Hapsburg once more glitters' over; an Austria which it
Once again iridependerit of both royal reign and e'.6.,patiien,
woikert have, just—fihithed tit*,
filosalt on the rr bestr. St e phen's Tower, 'Vieriti*,
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MY SCHOOL
MON
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When monuments are built to
commemorate Important people,
they are usually carved out of
inanimate stone after the per-
son is. dead and remain inani-
mate forever,
There is one monument, how-
ever, that pulsates with life to-
day as it has from. the day it
was built and its erection has
had a profound effect on Cana-
dian agriculture,
Constructed of sturdy red
sandstone, the monument is
situated on a wide section of
the St. Lawrence River called
Lake St. Louis near St. Anne de
Bellevue, Quebec. It is known-
as Macdonald College — built
by Sir William Macdonald, a
wealthy tobacco industrialist,
while he was still alive. And
while he did not intend it to
be a monument to himself, it
nevertheless has become one
and his name is remembered
daily by thousands of men and
women across Canada who have
passed through its doors. * *
In June Macdonald College
celebrates its 50th anniversary.
In the half century of its exist-
ence, it has seen many develop-
ments which have placed Can-
ada in the forefront- of world
agriculture, and have helped
Canadian farmers to solve many
of their basic difficulties. *
Several new crop varieties
have been developed at Mac-
donald College. Among them are
Meutcalm barley, Roxton oats,
Dollard red clover, Drummond
and Milton timothy, Laurentian
Swede turnip and Algonquin
corn. Soil fertility tests involv-,
ing crop rotation and fertilizer
use have been conducted at the,
college since 1911. Superior live-
stock developed in the college
barns has been shipped to many
countries of the world for breed
improvement.
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ter farm products, Macdonald
College scientists have worked
out more efficient methods of
marketing which have been
beneficial to both, producers and
consumers. The college also play-
ed a leading role in the estab-
lishment of Farm Forums and
development of the agronome
service in. Quebec, The .prov-
ince's first agronomes (agriculL,'
tural representatives) received
training at Macdonald.
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Boiled down, Macdonald's pile
of red sandstone has given Can-
ada better farming and thus
more and better food on the
tables of Canadians — a chal-
lenge to future monument build-
ers.
Millions of dollars annually
are extracted out of Canadian
farmers' pockets by a host of
plant bandits which carry the
common name — weeds.
The C-I-L agricultural chemi-
cals department has compiled
a guide to these !pickpockets
'which are divided into groups
according to their susceptibility
to 2,4-D chemical weed killer.
Group 1 — the readily suscept-
ible group — can be controlled
in early stages by spraying with
a solution of three to five ounces
of 2, 4-D in 80 to 100 gallons of
water per acre. Weeds in this
classification are:
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Bluebur (stickweed), burdock,
catnip, chickory, cocklebur, dan-
delion, evening primrose, fall
dandelion, false flax, healal,
lambs quarters, mallow, mus-
tards, plantain, pepper grass,
pineapple weed, pig:weeds, rag=
weeds, annual sow thistle,
Wild vetch, wild carrot, wild
radish and wild parsnip.
Top kill for the intermediate
group.. group 2 — is general-
ly obtained with on application
of six to eight ounces of 2,4-D
acid in 80 to..100 gallons of water
.per acre. In .this group we have
the following weeds:
Black-eyed Susan, black medic,
blue weed, ball thistle, butter
cup, Canada , thistle, common
chickweed, goats beard, golden-
rod, horse tail, king devil, may-
weed, mallow, oak-leafed goose-
foot, orange hawkweed, oxeye
daisy, perennial sow thistle,
purslane, sheep sorrel, shep-
herd's purse, silvery conquefoil,
smart weed, spurges,' speedwells,
stinging nettle, tansy ragwort,
wild lettuce and yellow rocket.
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Control of the following with
2-4-D is probably not feasible.
Bedstraws, bladder campion,
bracken, wild buckwheat, chess,
corn spurrey, cow cockle, crab
grass, foxtail, ground herry,
hemp nettle, knapweeds, knot-
weeds, milkweed, night flower-
ing catchfly, mouse-eared chick-
weed; mullein, St. John's wort,
toadflax, twitch grass, white
cockle, wild oats and yarrow.
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When Lendener aw r One ft
White settles down with his. TV
set, lie is rarely bothered by the
sort of folk We all know'who
would rather look in on some-
one else's, set than buy one of
their own. Without powerful
opera glasses they'd hardly be
able to, anyway.
For Mr, White's TV set is
probably the world's smallest,
with a screen measuring only 1%
inches by 11/S inches. Costing
$30, the set was built in three
weeks out of bits and pieces, To
obviate eye strain the picture
appears in green,
To be bitten by the desire to
fashion small objects means that
you have become a minimaniac,
but. it is a bug that can prove
lucrative as well as fascinating,
Tom Phillips, a one-time Welsh
miner, quickly threw up coal
mining when he discovered there
was a ready market for the min-
iature flowers he had been mak-
ing from breadcrumbs for his
own amusement.
Then there is Stanley Burchett
who paints the world's tiniest
pictures. Thirty of his miniature
landscapes were purchased by
the late Queen Mary ot be hung
on the walls of the Queen's dolls'
house at Windsor.
This is itself a masterpiece of
the miniature. Designed by Sir
Edward Lutyens, the dolls' house
4 has books on its library shelves
only one inch square containing
poems specially written for them
by G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard
Kipling and other famous poets.
At an exhibition in Switzer-
land some time ago the world's
smallest electric motor was on
view.' It fitted comfortable inside
a matchbox, In the following year
the engineer who constructed
this minute piece of mechanism
came up with another exhibit to
beat his own record. This time
it was 'an electric motor , weigh-
ing one-fifth of an ounce, and it
was tucked inside -a pearl!
Exhibited in a show at' Amer-
ica's Radio City was one of the
most exensive and fascinating
examples of minimania on rec-
ord. Hailing from China and in-
sured for two million dollars, it
was a walnut containing 3,000
golden spoons. Also on view at
this exhibition of the world's
smallest objects was a six-inch
long piano with every note per-
fect. With it was a revolving mu-
sic stool to match.
At the other end of the scale
is Henry Schmul, professional
photographer from Niagara Falls
who is the world's expert on out-
size objects. He spends all his
spare, time snapping everything
that comes into the category of
"the largest."
Henry owns the largest collec-
tion of pictures of outsize objects
in existence, all of which he took
himself in every country on the
globe. During his travels he man-
aged to acquire the world's long-
est bus ticket. Issued for a trans-
continental trip, it measures
thirty-seven feet!
Among the oddities in his files
is a picture of the world's larg-
est ball of string. Owned by
Joseph Schenk of Alabama, it
weighs 147 lb,, took thirty-six
years' to make, and is still grow-
ing,
Then there• is Jean Bertonnier
of Strasbourg. A peace-loving in-
dividual, he owns the biggest
private army in the world. 800,-
000 strong, it is the world's larg-
est collection of model soldiers.
Represented are the uniforms of
every nation and period.
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GRANNIE'S A GOER!
The day she celebrated her
ninety-eight birthday anniver-
sary, Mrs. Louise Wright, of
Glen. Cove (U.S.), emphasized to
her children and grandchildren
that she was still spry and in
good health. They agreed just to
mollify her. The old lady wasn't
deceived by their attitude, she
proved her statement by slid-
ing at breackneck speed down
the staircase ,banitesrsl
WHISPERING WELL—This striped
structure stands on the outskirts
of Maracaibo, Venezuela's sec-
ond largest city. It's an oil-dril-
ling rig fitted with a red and
w hite'lanti-sonic" shirt, which
reduces roar of drilling opera-
tions to a mere whisper, so
weary residents can get their
sleep.
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