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The Brussels Post, 1955-07-06, Page 7V .11 d THE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN COU- TURIERS, has, sculptured' this stunning bridal gown out of shim; mering snow-white acetate satin. The molded bodice features a decollete edged with pleated crystelette. The full length sleeves finish over the hands in a split-petal effect. Bands of the' crystelette are woven through the voluminous; skirt' which which sweeps into a train., Wool Puts Waves Into Hair oshion Hitt The store, of bow an eroded, tire-devastated, and near worth- less 1,000-aere Australian farm ' was made to blossom again in- troduces to the farmers of the world Australia's "Keyline story,' The. Keyline story began in 1944, when .Percival A, Yeomans, and his wife Rita walked over their fire-blackened acres seek- ing the solution to a formidable problem. Their new house was partly burnt, the fences were gone, And the stock had disap- peared, driven before the thrust of the great bushfire. The land itself stood valued at about 24 cents an acre. 8 * As Rita Yeomans has told in the foreword to her husband's widely acclaimed book, "The ICeyline Plan," which 'has cap- tured the interest of thousands. of Australian farmers, Mr. Yeo- mans was a man who had made a long and intensive study of land problems fronl a profes- sional engineering background. "Nevailan," the run-down, burnt-out farm,, was really a sideline to a busy life filled with larger professional and buSiness interests. But the "sideline" turned into "Keyline" and sky- rocketed this Australian engi- neer l to the forefront among re- search scientists in agricultural and soil management techniques. It; is doubtful whether the Yeomans -realized: that in their deCision to rebuild "Nevallan," they would evolve one of the turning points in Australian agriculture and perhaps, as time may yet show, in world agricul- ture. 4 As Mrs. Yeomans tells it, her ' husband began* Marshaling his ideas, tramping across .Nevallen in the middle of the night dur-• ing heavy rain, observing the ef- fect of the rain on the soil, ex- perimenting here, experimenting there, oblivious to all else, visu- alizing long-term effects and making notes on short-term ones observed. * It cost money and took much time but he:persisted..in face ,of pessipistic opinions, firm in his ' own view 'that this;.tYllq steep country was a worthwhile proposition ,and that a payable solution to its problems was )N TOUR 7" Burma's anti-Corn- nunist Prime Minister U Nu is on a world tour which when inished; will have taken him to trael, Yugoslavia, Great Bri- aim, Japan and the United -CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 2. Gorge L Bright 1 That thitte ;yellow bird / 4. Siotitin 7 Had mercy thdian Sound of rain 6. Siberian7. Titto, • tnvor 5. PI:vriunge. Mat/la/is t. Peel . much otor e important than ,,ethers realized, 6 The wide acceptance of Key.,- line farming is its own proof that what Percival Yeomans found was not only to his own profit, but, also a system that all farmers everywhere could un- derstand and use. Moreover, this, plan preyed to be cheap and simple to operate, and could be brought to production in a com- paratively short time, yielding results in a season or two. Soil fertility and water distri- bution are the basis for Keyline farming, Many types of fertile soil are more naturally resistant than worn, leached soils to ero- sion. Fertile soils tend to stay put except in extreme topogra- phical 'conditions. It is only when their level of fertility has been drastically 'reduced that they begin to move, * av Keyline farming greatly ac- celerates those processes which occur naturally in the building of fertile soils. It is therefore essentially a soil 'building tech- nique which aims broadly to do two things: (1) conserve rainfall right where, it falls; (2) release the vast store of, fertility building materials which exist below the top three inches or so of soil on which farmers gen- erally depend for results, 4, 4. K. On this vital aspect, Mr. Yeo- mans has said: "There is little evidence anywhere in nature to support the 'take and put' theory of farming, where farmers are taught to 'put back into the- soil each year what they 'take out' in crops. "So much of what is taken out is composed of materials that are available in unlimited sup- ply from.the sun, air, and moi- sture— moisture' alone requiring conservation — that if farmers cease to 'mine' the top inches of soil' and farm the land, little if anything else need be put back. "Fertilizers should be used' when they are necessary, but • they are 'rarely the 'first' need. . This is true of most of our farm= ing and grazing lands. "Corrective cultivation is a means 'of progressively improv- ing soil structure and soil fertili- ty, thereby developing a greater depth of fertile soil. Better crop production is incidental to the process." * 4. Iii Keyline farming, Mr. Yeo- mans discovered the basic im- portance to the entire, farm of finding and working frOm the Keyline, which practieally every farm possesses. 'This Keyline is the line drawn through the farm, sometimes` by the planting of a belt of trees, which marks the division where the higher land begins to give way to the lower as, for: ex- ample, across a valley. * 4' Tillage is parallel tar this Key- line in fairly tight 'rows beloikr it until the boundary is reached. It is also parallel above it but riot so loosely spaced because of the progressively steeper nature- of the land. .• When rain falls on a valley, it 'naturally concentrates in the floor throughout the entire length to form a stream. Key- line cultivation puts a barrier across this line of concentration. It drifts the water away from its center of gravity on the val- Is your hair naturally curly? If so, then you are the envy of many • women. On the other hand, perhaps You are one of the 'millions who derive their hair curl by artificial means. , Whatever your lot, most wo- men seem to believe that curled or waved hair is more becom- ing, even though nature might have deemed otherwise. And, of course, hair which has some curl in it offers so much more scope for ringing the changes with re- gard to styles.' Women nowadays are perhaps hair-conscious as never before. Doubtless this is influnced 'by the fact that waves and curls - can be induced into hair by arti- ficial means; and cheaply, too, since in its latest machineless form, a permanent wave can be applied at the cost of only a few shillings. These days "permed"-hair need not Iaiik dry, 'friZzy and 'artificial for thelir-A-month or so. Thanks to the cold or inachineless "Perm" it is Possible to get a Very natural and-lasting effect Which f011oWs today's trend for waved rather' than tightly curled hair. For.this admirable aid to gla- mour, women haVe to thank the eneep.1 Nee'many people that' research on the structure of wool fibres led 'to the invention Of cold peinianent waving.' This, by the way, came •acdidentally after seine thirty, years of -Scien- tific study on various aspects of • wool. .This discovery is not so astolp- i ishing When One is aware that sheep's "wool: and human *heir Are chemically almost •alike. 'For that reason, the results Of 'chern ical re-Search, Oli wool can Often be'applied ta .lithrian hair. The sheep,, therefore, is an obvious ally of the hair-dresser,. for far more money and time- are devot- et to research on wool than on human hair. But how does the cold "perm" work? Both hair and Wool have a Complex structure,. Although • there still remains much to xe- plore, the basic principles of the furidathentel Art. now established, These fibres are borrni&secr Of minute Particles or molecules, each of which consists of long ehains of atoms of a Springlike OtrUcture,, linked to- ley floor, out along ,the sides, thus ensuring an eVeri ditti'llitt- tiortoeaeily.absorbed by,,the soil and minus any capacity to erode. ,NO .tpeCial .and, costly drain., age systems are heeded iii this diStribtitiop, pattetn, that is heeded is a controlled deep tit; P.Paralleloto :the using -a chisel. plow outfit, Whieh Will 'Wei:he'll-IC heriZeits, . overcome ebinpadtion, and;; al- liw air and fridiStirite te pene- trate ‘and 4releaSe the fertility building. niaterialS iii the lawee That Keyliiie farthing.- Pays' off least Under seine ' it attested by the attisgritt,, of once worthless' end htitilt4otit gether lengthwise by,, means of bridges or bonds at intervals. In wool this is'an'a.siet, for it means that articles Of woel'eloth- nig will -retain their shape and the pile of wool carpeting will spring back after being crushed by feet or furniture. Yet when,' it comes to curling hair, it is a disadvantage. It is quite easy ,• to twist -a strand of hair round, ybur ringer because of the chair-like struc- ture of the fibres. But when you release it, the fibre springs back to its original position. This is due to the resilience of the inter- linked chains. In short, when the hair fibre is curled, the "springs" bend and stretch to accommodate to the new posi- tion. .At the same, time, strains are set up within ,the fibre and the chains try to slip past each other. The bridges, howeve,r, 'stop the chains from sliding. To enable Wool or hair to ,be- come permanently curled, 'there- fore,' it is necessary, to break down the bridge, strUctnres and allow the chains of steins' to-slip past each other; this permits: the Molecules to rearrange them- selves .with the fibre in its new. curled 'form. Working on weed, scientists found that by' certain, chemical action they :eatild Modify or re= move these bridges. This was done snot for the sake bf, 'perma'- nent waving but to explain the basic properties of, wool' fibre or to try. arid produce ;,wool with modified 'properties for special purposes; also because wool is "set" in, the finishing, of cloth, just as „hair is set by the, coif- feuse. Scientists proved that a fibre with some of its inter-Chain bridges brakeii could 'be • bent "and Stretched much more easily ' than an untreated fibre. While this process yielded advantage- ous results in wool if applied to human hair it would permit it to curl more easily; but urilesS the bridges were rebuilt the curled effect would not be last- ing because the hair would be too limp.' What the scientists next had to discover was some means of breaking dawn the bridges foe-. lowed by a second ;treatment to join the chains together again while the heir is still curled. This is exactly what happens during the cbUrse of permanent- ly waving hair. The hair is Oak, ed in a solution technically ;ablinoniiirn thioglyeellate, which breaks One type of inter- e/iairi "bridge known as the sulphide bend. Incidentally, ail= egly'cOlife aeid is one el 'the sub-' stances We'd in research Work On 'the chemical modification Of wool:,. - • After the bond-breaking solute Heil has hacl.time to act; arid the chains haVe settled down in ' ;neve 'Slade" it it neoeSSar'Y to re.linite the chains. A second' Sohition 'aehtevdt this by StoWirig , the precess Of the Brat solution and rebuilding tie* ' bridges, WI'S 'forcing The hair to remain in its curled position, The ssolutidii it linotOil at a "rientral, iter" and it-0011y of Potattittrii Pl,ore ,redelitlY, a, cold Witte PreideStlitia been developed using Only brit ,Seltitielik the first et- feet .Of the solution is to break the igi,5104s as before, but it con- tains a second chemical which, in co-operation with 14 oxygen of the air, re-unites the eha/nrit after. the first action has been completed. Thus, whether yOn: :use a one-solution or a twO,solu.. tion tecriniqUe, your ]lair is fin- ally restored to. its original chemical state, except That it now has a permanent Wave. It is of interest that the action.. of heat and moisture in the or, dinary permanent waving pro- cess is thought to be similar to, the action. of the chemicals. the cold • wave Process, In the older type of permanent wove, the hair is, moistened . and heat is applied, The steam thus gene-. rated. has a breaking' and. re-seal, • ing,..actiOn'on some of the inter, • ehair bridges rather like the cold Incidentally, ..there is a similarity between :these steam treatmens.atOrl ones used' in blew,- ing Ond decatizing wool cloth,-.4 process which allows steam through wool fabrics to take 'the curliness from, the yarn, In addition to helping to feed and clOthe us, and providing -lanolin,. the basis of many cos- met=es, the sheep is the basic.' means by which scientists have developed- a method ef giving every, woman curly hairif she. Wants it. Caption One of the latest creations- of Vasco of London, this ,attractive hairstyle is very suitable for hair permanently waved by the cold or. machineless„methOd. • ,e' FUTILE FLIGHT — Cyclist Bob Norton takes to the air—and to second place honors—as he nears the finish line during the International Junior Tourist Trophy Motorcycle race on Bri- tain's Isle of Man Earth-bound winner Was Bill Lomas, who averaged 92.33 m.p.h. for the course. Tiger Didn't Like Seltzer Water Word came along the line of elephants in the procession that the dak bungalow, the resthouse at which we were to stop for, the night, Was not far distant. The Maharajah was on a journey through his state' -of Mourbanj. He rode upon Dev Raj in a great howdah, followed by members of his staff upon Other 'elephants and a large number of bearers carrying all those many things which.a Maharajah needs when he goes upon a tour . . . , Toward eveningove reached the dak bungalow. :There was a great bustle as the meal was prepared. There seerned'no order to anything. But in the end we were fed, and people found places to sleep, some of us in rooms in the bungalow where the Maharajah was lodged, while the bearers made a kind of encampment at a little dis- tance. Gradually the fires died down, and quiet settled in upon us. A light wind stirred the trees and brought some relief from the' heat. The moon rose, and soon an eerie brightness filled the clearing and enveloped the bungalow, the sleeping bearers, and the line of elephants staked near them. . . - It must have been several hours later =that I awoke. The moonlight continued to pour into the lithe high windows, and there was stillness all about, save for a peculiar heavy breathing. This was a 'strange sound. The bearers were too far away. The breathing sound was too heavy, too deep, for a Snail at any rate. The steady breathing contin- ued. Curiosity dyer...ea/m fright 'after a bit, and I rolled, tip the bedding and other things and put theni against the wall tinder the window. Standing' on these, I could just look Oyer the Win- dow Sill into the moonlight night beyond, It was the whitlew on -the oppoSite side Of the bun* loW frOiri the encampmen=t bearers and elephants, A trba stocid het ler distant, Making a black shadow. Be- tWeeri me and .the tree Was a ling or light, and in thiS spot at, light mind ditectiY tinder *if ESS N Barelay. Warren, ILA., B.0 Signs of National Decay Jeremiah 22a-9, 24-25 Memory Beleetiolist Woe un him that buildeth his house unrightemoness, and his cham ens by wrong; that useth neighbour's service 'with° wages, and giveth him not his. work. Jeremiah 22:13. Israel, the ,northern kingd had been taken captive by Assyhians; Judah, the sleuth kingdom showed signs of nio. decay. Jeremiah, often call the 'weeping prophet!' tried forestall Judah's destruction. exhorted the king, "Execute judgment and righteousness, a ,, deliver the spoiled out of t hand of the oppressor: and do 'work, do no violence to t stranger, the fatherless, nor th widow, neither shed innoce blood, in this place." But Jehoia him paid no heed. He planne to build himself a wide hogs in the most luxurious style an compel men to work withou wages in carrying his projec through. Jeremiah didn't give up. He dictated his message of warning to Baruch, the scribe, who wrot it upon a scroll. Baruch Tea it in the temple and then to t princess on their request. The were filled with fear and tol the king. He ordered one of scribes' to read it before hin from God in utter contemp With his penkife he cut off th pieces as they ...were read an cast them into the fireplac But this did not stop. God's mem sage. Jeremiah promptly dictat ''lad a second version. Ot it Which he repeated all he 'ha said before and in additio "many like words." The welfare of a nation is no' indicated by its national in come but by its attitude towar God's revelation through th Bible.: 'There are still, leaders and 'some Of them are in th church, who are cutting ou those portions of Scripture whic o2fend their taste. Eternal puni Shraent and many of the record of miracle.; are relegated to th fire. But that does' not chang the truth. We are in danger as a natio Of disdaining God's Word. Sun day if fast becoming a holida rather than a holy day. Chufc membership is substituted fo membership in. the body of Christ by' way of the-nely It may be said that we are "lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." lay a tiger, asleep, breathing long, deep, rhythmicallY.. I almost gasped, but succeeded in making no noise. Then there came an idea. -Getting down ever so mletly, I found among my things a Seltzer bottle, which I carried back to 'the' perch, at the window. The tiger Continued' to sleep, and I shot a 'long stream of Seltzer water directly, at his, .nose. He reused. He brushed at his nose with a paw as •if a fly an- noyed him. I shot an other steram, and he appeared more annoyed, brushing his nose but only half awaking. Finally he got up, shook, his great head with some exaspera- tion, and walked off into the blackness of the jungle,—From "The Peacock Country," by P, ALSTON 'WARING. COOL IDEAS FOR BY — Camf rt Ils fashion for the nursery Crowd. Little lady of lift models a combed charnbrdy sunsuit ln aqua with white stripe.. 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