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The Brussels Post, 1961-01-12, Page 34htne upsl el w c())frk. vTi ntetegraer waansd a psi teticoinegl which T disliked, but there Were. njautg•sg )fissirlvt;icaetsct.jti:flturtay:ili.opf.5 .jaanpi. chocolate bars as well as. the ariegated. -wool balli4 I chose the colours from thePituSty, tray iii the window. .r o.'' • I began the knittieet et once, tibon as I. got into tthe •wp,ocl„, by hammering four little Wks in an empty cottmcreel, usln a stone for the hammer, to make my primitive knitting machine,. The wool was twisted round the tacks which were evenly spaced about the centre hole of the Vohs. bin .and with a pin, or even 4. thorn, I drew the fresh wool over to make a stitch. Round and • round and a tfascinating ntha teins nake bobbin I of many mrkaneycl. ours was drawn through 4110 hole, Walnuts and chestnuts were the wildwood foundations for some presents, which had plen- ty Of diversity. We made a set of dolls' furniture, chairs and couch and table with shiny brown horse-chestnuts f re s from the green husk, and colour-- from the pincushion on' the dresser, Walnuts and some stout Pine 1 Walnuts grew in an old avenue of trees planted by my great-grandfather and although they no longer belonged to us we used to run, under. the great trees and stamp.- on the rIark rotten husks which lay among the fallen leaves. We carefully cracked the cream shells and kept them for our presents of mystery, Sixpence bought a bats tie of gold paint which lasted for years and we gilded the -nuttt for the Christmas tree and for presents. Some of them were made into little pin-cushions, with scraps of velvet and silk from the patchwork bag gtued across the half nut and they were ready for somebody's Christmas. My own recollection of .simple things, the painted text, the gild. ed walnuts, the surprise nuts, -the embroidered handkerchief, the pen-wiper, the pin-cushion., and itimattshzerlueitcinh mr,i y tpark.ilvgatelyb. d;rawlrei looked at thein Mail a time I. day. • Our hearts were warm as we thought of the store of presents. and Christmas was near.-Front "The Swans Fly Over," by Ali- son Uttley. FOUR-TON CHRISTMAS TREE One of Britain's record Christ- mas trees, was provided by the Duke of Norfolk for tenantry about a century ago. Grown on his estate, it was seventy feet high and weighed four tons. The first Christmas tree seen in England was erected by the Prince Consort, husband o Queen Victoria, at Windsor in 1840. It was forty feet high and carried a crop of presents worth an estimated $45,0002f Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking BREAKS BREAK - Harrisburg, sheriff B. Tanner pon• dors his duty -: through streams of blood. PriSoners in his tail beat• him with mop handles in attempted e$ape, but didn't get past him .4 The Poultry Division of the Canada Department of Agricul- ture will administer the project but inspectors from both the fed- eral and provincial governments will collect the incubator dust and fluff samples from hatcher- ies in their area for the analysis. This is the key innovation, * * 'I, The analysis will' 'be carried out at federal Health of Animals Division or provincial laborator- ies, whichever is most conveni- ent, and a report on the number and types of micro-organisms in the samples will be made. On the basis of these. analyses hatch- , eries will be notified of the ef- 'fectiveness of their sanitation methods or will be advised where necessary to take steps to reduce exposure of the chicks to excessive number of' the micro- organisms, * Studies in Canada have con- firmed the ability of formalde- hyde fumigation to kill bacteria and many hatcherymerr have re- sorted to this means of reducing disease in chicks. The next step was to find a method of measur- ing the effectiveness of the oper- ation. It was found that this could, be done by laboratory ex- amination of samples and esti- mating the numbers of viable micro-organisms in a known weight of incubator dust. Cases have been reported where a high bacterial population in a sample was definitely associated with high non-specific mortality in the first few weeks of brooding. Where significant counts of As- pergillus mold were found In samples, the chicks or poults often developed Aspergillosis, 'I, By the end of 1959 three prov- inces were engaged in fumigas tion and analysis work in chick hactheries and this year the pro- gram was extended to all of Can- ada • with governments at both levels offering inspection and analysis facilities. Inspection of hatcheries is, obligatory under the Livestock and Livestock Prod- ucts Act and the collection of in- cubator dust and fluff, camples can be done in the course of rou- tine checks on sanitation and plant operation. The willingness 'M3 3 ;,v 31 Old. Boston's Barley Toys Somehod•y who was hero dug- ing the summer asked if We had any old west-iron toys It ...seems • these have become cols lectors' items, too, and I thought back to certain fire engines, trains, and blue tipearts I'd had or bad seen in the earlier days. 1 remembered a cast-iron bank Which, through no effort of mine, had almost made me a rich man, A Oath Was inserted thus and so, and when you press ed. a button a cast-iron donkey • Would kick over a cast-iron boy, and the penny was tipped into the slot. I never exploited it, but 3 younger sister used to get it when anybody was around and ask for a penny so it could be demonstrated, .Shortly b e f or e• .she made me affluent the spring in the donkey broke, Last summer I said no, that we had no cast-iron toys left 0)7O1', but at Christmas time we always made barley toys - and with this I hit a blank. It ien't hard, • today, to find folks wile never had or saw barley toys,' Such are always amazed, when they finally see some, to dis.- :cover they are made from candy, And if there is any memory re- action it usually consists of, "Oh, yes - I remember - long ago „ ." One Of .the family ancestors operated a. candy shop on Bea- con Hill. Nobody seems . to re- member just where it was on the hill, or exactly how long ago. He, the ancestor, had the shop from his father, and tradition tells us he did well and was then recognized as an old Boston in- stitution. But instead of setting sip a continuity and giving us the , • eldest candy shop in America, for some reason he went out of business. And as the years have gone along certain of his equip- anent came to rest improbably under our roof. We have the. .copper kettle. in which he boiled his syrups; the spout :indicating ,that he was left-handed, and the heavy lead molds in which he cast Old Boston's barley toys. ' We also have the recipe he used, whiCh is supposed to be a secret in the family. it doesn't ' seem to be anything a good Abet couldn't figure out by him- self if he tried. The barley, toys, then, are a *Lard sugar candy made in the• form of enimals or other recog- nizable . objects. They have the added feature, which cast-iron. animals do not, that after you are through playing with. them, 100TH BIRTHDAY - Mrs. Em- ' le Schullz manages a Wan smile despite .adversity as she marks her 100th birthday. Confined to a wheelchair since she broke her hip in a fall last year, Mt's. Schulz busily cro- thets rugs. , LONELY HEARTS -Cl nging to each Other, these triOnkeye 4edefuilly Mee strange world •in experittente at the UniVer0, rilty 4±4 be, Harry F, *1-loelow, a otycholodit, it reii • learOilng Icidors 'OS another love and affection betWeine 1INDAY SC11001 LESSON 1y ftev. It, O. Warren,. PeAe. It Apperemly there urt• very few nonnents in life of a red squirrel when he is not full of zeal, when he Ct!riS(!.4 to be fired with the, intention of . doing something, whatever that some- thing may be. At least this Veins to be true of his activities In the open, "here he can be _ob. served, He!, may change his .obs jeotive frein moment to moms ent, but the change does not lead to an empty blank, He is no devotee of contemplation. A raccoon may find a corn-. iortable seat in the crotch of a. tree and remain there for an hour, merely looking out upon the world, A .fox may lie down in a sunny spot and enjoy O. plea- sant rest, watchful but not un- easy, A gray squirrel may climb to a comfortable limb, seat him- self there, curl his tail over his back, and apparently just do nothing, But a red squirrel is.• too busy , to • be quiet, has too. much on his mind. On the ground he zigzags, busily around, looking for food • or for Whatever will serve as an objective,. When he climbs a tree • he is in a hurry eto arrive somes .seshere, though his destination is subject to change es he ascends. When he returns, to earth he comes down with no flowing grace but in jerky starts and stops. Whe he pauses en a cabin roof he gives every indication of being about to do something radical, Perhaps, when the day is done and he retires to his hollow in a tree, he settles down for a few hours of quiet or even sleep,, There is no way of knowing. But, somehow it seems doubtful, - From "Beyond the Cabin Door,"- by Walter Collins. O'Kane, you can eat them! Some of there lead molds we have go back as much as 150 years, at least, some of them are newer - all 01 them are old enough now to he treasured as they are. The tra- dition is that the candy shop in Boston was always busiest just before Christmas. and that the, copper kettle was hot almost day and night as it worked on th(, little candy figurines, Naturally the work was done, at Christmas, in the front window of the shop so folks in the street could stand and watch - and be loosed into a purchase. . hf uncoloured the candy came out a rich honey-gold, as clear as amber, but colour was added to some batches, Green and. red. The candy comes 'from the molds as dogs, cats, 'birds, shovels, guns, boats, horses, and so on. A little teakettle that you can pop into your mouth comes freen one mold, while a big steam ios comotive with belled smokestack comes from another - the en- gine weighs exactly a pound and it takes over all hour to harden it and get it from the mold, We imagine the engine was one of the more recent molds acquired, and probably is no- where near so old in the candy business as the roosters and don- iseys, but it is naturally the fore- runner of the cast-iron choo- thee) and the whole model train business. We presume that when railroading got established, some mold maker went right at it. There is a deer, a daintily formed animal with head held nigh and a rack of antlers, but, there is no "Santy Clete's." You see, until "A Visit From St. Ni- cholas" was written, there had been no artful description of this character, and it hadn't occurred to anybody to depict him. The candy deer 'of the old Boston Candy Shop is therefore simply a deer, and has no connection with Prancer et als. There is a:so a camel, with Arab aboard; re- ppiendent eagles in several sizes; and inanimate things such as the teapot - a boat, a cornet, a broom, a musket,' and washtub. It is refreshing, we think, to dwell annually an this, for it tells of, a time when Christmas was less expanded. These little ,barley toys were sufficient for the day, and perhaps the only bad thing you can say, about ithem is that they axe the fore- runners of the great commercial- ezed Yule, which so often de- presses us now.' Yet they were dainty, delightful and delicious. Anyway every December we get the molds out, set the left- ,handed copper kettle on the stove, and pour batch after batch of :ficese old-thise candies. They make beautiful Christnias remembrances to our friends and relatives who seem more pleased than they would be with a ten dollar bill apiece. Nor is it 'only the children Who seem glad. They, the children, react prob- ably as children: did in old. Bos- ton 150 years ago - they fondle the toys and shortly eat them. But the older folks react too. "Why," says someone,, "I haven't seen one of those since , . ALL WET - Streets of Bath, England, are boaters' paradise as days of continuous rains flooded the resort city. Boatmen, above, accompany frogman, left, on rescue missions, Ye Must Re Born Again :Tenn 3: 1-7, 1241, Memory Selection: God sent not Ills Son Into the world to con- demn the world; but that the world through him might be say, ed. Jolla 3:17, There are Multitudes of peo- ple in this Christian land who know as little about the meaning of the New Birth as did Nico- demus. We understand church membership, good works, the sac- Laments, but until we are born of the Holy Spirit, we cannot un- derstand the new birth, Nicodemus belonged to the most religious sect of the Jews, He was impressed by the mir- acles which Jesus performed, He was startled when Jesus probed into his heart, saying, "Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again," The great evan- gelist, George Whitfield, was once asked why he preached so frequently from the text, 'ye must be born again,' His reply was, "Because ye must be born again," In the eighteenth century John Wesley was a true son of Nico- demus, It, took him thirteen years to abandon his false assumptions and humbly place his complete faith in Jesus Christ. Only then did he experience the new birth. Only then did he possess eternal life. For fifty years thereafter he travelled up and down the Brit- ish Isles convincing thousands of the truth explained to Nicodemus by Jesus, Before this experience he had come to America to con- vert the Indians but found that he himself needed to be con- verted, John 3:16 points out the means by which we may be saved; be- lieving on God's only begotten Son. We are saved by faith. Man Would like to make a way to heaven . according to his own wishes, But .there is only one way. We must turn from our sin and believe on Jesus• Christ, And this is not merely an intellectual assent; it is a committing of our all to Him. It is a deliberate trust. Jesus Christ and Be.alone, can deliver us from the curse of the broken law. He is all we need. THEFARM FRONT Joka=en All Canadian provinces have agreed to co-operate in a vol- untary program to increase the efficiency of chick hatchery fu- migation. One result of this pro- gram is expected to be an im- provement in the health of the national flock. 1.1 59: a 3 1m 9 p dos ao a 3 N .1. M 3 11 9 O O AN A 3 5 EIN 5 3 A 35 N 3 3 a A s And as the years have gone along, there are folks who come every:year just to see us make the:, toys. They watch us care- full,Y olive-oil the molds, stand them on end, and run in the ,hots, syrup. And when the molds laxel opened and the toys come put, they stand to one side and say; "It's a dog! It's ti" rooster!" And every year some of them ,say, "Why, you ought to go into bissiness with those - they'd /sell!" But we happen to think there are enough people, now, an business over Christmas, We prefer to perpetuate this custom from an amateur standing., - By 'John Gould in the Christian Science Monitor. V d V 3 AM, sxaq O rPriv- Wool, Walnuts And Pen-Wipers There was no money to spend on presents from shops, nor did we think of buying our gifts. The only bought presents were books which were the province of our parents. My Mother look- ed after this part of the festi- vity when she visited the coun- try town on the Friday before Christmas. One could buy balls of varie- gated wool for a halfpenny each in colours which shaded in a manner I thought 'magical. There was orange shading to yellow, and red melting to pink, and various tones of green and blue mingled like .a garden of flow- ers. I murmured the beautiful word "variegated" as I walked through the wood to the tiny sweatshop in the hamlet where the wool was sold. I clutched my twopence in my hand and thought of all I could buy with I unlatched the door of the ivy-covered cottage which was also a shop, and I nervously lis- tened. 'to the jangling bell that summoned Mrs. Else from her N.1 Pts MD -U MUM MOO EOM MD UMOD OUMMO MO fgODM OMMIDIUMM IMMO ©MO MMOM a d V 3 ONIONS FORETELL WEATHER 'Country folk in France have a quaint Yuletide onion custom which many thousands will ob- serveagain this year. On Chrlstinas Day twelve on- ions are placed on a shelf, each with a 'pinch of salt on top, to represent the twelve months of the year. If by Epiphany the salt on any particular onion has dissolved, the month it represents will be wet, they say. If the salt re- mains firm the month will prove fine, 3 a Making War On The Barnacles Thousands of dollars will be saved by shipowners thanks to a new British invention which will wage continuous war on barnacles, the• 'strange marine creatures which cling to ships, slowing' them down and rusting and rotting their hulls and bot- tom-plates. It is an ingenious system which pinups, fluid from ships into the sea to poison the barn- acles and other sea growths at- tacking their hulls. This "barnacle battle" is al- ready-under Way. But ever since the first iron ship was launched men have been fighting the barnacle, a salt water crusta- cean who can elso attach himself to rocks,, wharf piles and even whales, turtlei and other crea- tures under water. Whets marine scientists tried to see if colour hat any effect on barnacles, these hard - shelled cousins of the crab and crayfish sat tight in their "armour" and Went on attaching themselves to the hulls of ships, making them heavier and rougher so that fric- tion Was increased and the ves- sels' speed reduced, Highly coloured topper paints, though good for preventing other types of ship fouling, had prac- tically no effect on the barnacles, Conntless dockers in the past have had trio task of scraping Off the barnacles froth ships before rieW paint Could be applied, One recently introduced Meth. od of waging wain an the barn-. acres was to blast them off the plates with sand projected at high speed through tiozZies. Iii some docks brushes With bris. tlos of flame have been swept over the plates to make the barnacles release their tenacious hold. ISSUE 2 L- 1961 Most pencils are made six-sided rather than round so they won't roll away. 5.intentions 29. COvited Wail CROSSWORD I. 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Sign 15 lb Iti 26 it 28 Pro.408 I :::•' le i 9 24 Faucei 1 cmit.r. 32 6laillpilhitea Ai 96 be . /LinbItioue Ht. Non. ., oi.ofessintiiil 07.. Flesh Of . chives31‘.- Almehttildit of Athena. 40; Ottiimontni kill 41,0Corkki gals IR, tJ1100t. .. number43, Sittn16 sukat 47. illg.iit Si), minoN titiii•o Si, t11166avoted 33, 1.1filiete0 tiOltikit' tc01100.) 84. Stita11 116Ofeeeidit 17 20 * At If plants could talk they would complain of "catching a virus" just as often as human beings do and with more reason. For virus- es cause extensive disease in such crops as corn, potatoes and rasp- berries. While some• plants, like human beings, shake off a virus condition with little damage, others are noticeably affected. * * What exactly is the virus? It is - a tiny biological entity that multiplies by robbing its host of nutrients. The ineffective part of, the virus particle com- prises four basic units arranged in a specific pattern which re- mains constant in reproduction- and reproduction ,can take place in a few minutes, * * The process of virus penetra- tion, movement • and growth within the host can be traced by tagging one of the basic units of the pattern with radioactivity and it is .hoped eventually to learn how the virus assembles the, plant nutrients into its own pattern. This study.being carried on at the Canada Department of Agriculture research station at Vancouver, may lead to a better understanding of immunity and to better means of controlling disease. Other controls attempted are the breeding of varieties resist- ant to the attacks of 'the virus, and the protection of virus-free plants from infection in the early stages of propagation. of Canada's 590 hatchery opera- tors to participate is an essential part of the program. The Poultry Division at Ottawa is convinced that the values of the findings made will quickly commend the program to those poultrymen who are still new to it. 23 Ast 24 25 26 A. 31 30 29 28 32 3.3 34 35 *stst, as 39 37 39 rr *Se 04, 40 41 43 44 45 45 48 47 49 50 51 53 54 59 re.14 IDONDER AND ELITZENI Wihiank thoiridi of KanSat City, had lid "cast beforer the horse" idea when he hung catOuti. of •Stintsi and one of his reindeer on 'the gable of ithi 1'14 just tenet6 out that way," he said. Children end giOwn,14 neighbor's are having' so niudi tan Out of ,the way It bete decided fd thdeige Aeswer eleete Lift IS 00