The Brussels Post, 1952-2-13, Page 3Lice
ir' fly l;'c'tard Bill WiiltinSen
There wasn't any particular rea-
son why young Phil 1;avis and. his
wife should dislike. Templer. mpler. Yet
this was the ease. 1'or one thing
neither of them were used to the
habits and customs of small town
people. They were city bred, and
hence misunderstood the kindly in-
terest of their neighbors. Prying
curiosity, they termed it.
"That Mrs, Bixby was over again
this morning," Dot Davis said to
.her husband one night two months
after they had become nicely set
tied, "She wanted to knowwhere J
had my washing done. Said she'd
been curious ever since she discov.
erect I didn't do it myself,,'
"Prying old buzzard," Phil mut-
tered. "ht's a blasted shame we
have to put up with it, Tom Wheel-
er, who runs the local newlapaper,
was telling me today that Templer
was no different from any small
town. They're all the sante, he said,
God pity the people who have to.
live in them," ' he added bitterly.
"I'm sick of it," Dot wailed,
"Sick of seeing and meeting no
one but gossiping old hypocrites.
sick of the familiarity these people
assume, once they fitid you're here
to stay."
"But we're not here to stay," Phil
cried with sudden 'enthusiasm;
"Yott remember I told you how
I'd been worsting on t'ic' head of -
"I'm sick of ft," Dot walled,
. "Sick of seeing and meeting no
one but old hypocrites."
fice? Trying to persuade them to
transfer me to Suffolk? Well, 1
think it's going through. We'll not
have to put up with this drab, dull
existence ttwch longer. honey.
"I hope not," Dot cried fervently.
"I can't stand it a great deal
longer.'
Two weeks later the long -hoped-
for day arrived. Phil received no-
tice of his transfer to the Suffolk
office. Joyously the two young peo-
ple packed up their belongings and
said goodbye to Templer. They
took an apartment in the suburb
of.Asltfield and sat about the task
of getting acquainted,
This wasn't particularly difficult.
Mrs Cooper, who was rather a plain,
looking person and who occupied
at apartment on the sante floor
with the Devises. seemed eager to
help tate young folks get settled. She
cause in every day. and made sug-
gestions which Dot found helpful.
Phil came home one evening to
announce that he haul joined a
club, and would be out one night a
week.
"It's just as well." said Dot,
agreeably. "Mrs. Hooper has asked
me to join the. Neighborhood Bridge
Union, so I'll be out, ton."
They learned things from Mrs.
Hooper and °the' inhabitants 'of
the apartment about other people
in other apartment houses close
by. for example, the Ricks were
considered "fast." The Browns
weren't all they appeared to be.
Bit by bit Pltil and Dot adapted
themselves to their new life. They
learner] with whom to associate
and whom to ignore. Gradually they
settled into the usual routine.
A month after they had left Tem-
pler and its drab dullness behind,
Phil arrived home oneeveningwith
a • curious expression on his face.
Dorothy noticed the change.
"Oh, nothing nutrh," be replied
to her question. "Beth Talbert was
saying torlhy that Ashfield was like
a hundred other suburban towns.
Sane monotonous routine and dull-
ness, '1'hc only break they get is
when someone new arrives "
"That's odd," Dot said slowly.
"Mrs, Hooper was in today She
wanted to knot( where I had toy
washing done. She'd noticed, she
said, that 1 didn't do it myself."
Phil and Dot stared at each other
for a moment in alarmed silence,
Then suddenly, of one aecnrd,.they
burst into laughter,
"Dot," Ise said, ".1 wonder if it's
the place we live in or if it's just
us We wanted to he near a large
city, and now that we're fere we've
found renditions :pretty Much the
ante AS CISCIVII •t'e•"
DDI nodded, snbrrly. - "I guess,
Phil, .dear, it isn't the place that
makes one's life drab and dull, fl's
the peattle who live in those places,
it's the tiny you tree! thea and
they treat you 1 guess human ntt-
ture is pretty Duel, the spine every. y '
whett, it's up to the individual
wlirtlm't or not he or Flu is happy.
Phil held his wile close
Great Lakes Moke
Weather Forecasts
in i sniierntion with other mteteor-
ologists the Rev, j. Joseph Lynch,
5. 3., director •of .l+ordltaur Univer-
sity's seismic observatory, has been
Making a study that indicates a re-
lation between.. changes itt ",tile
weather and small ground waves,
Ile and bis colleagues have yet to
determine what causes these mtcro-
seisid c waves. This done, they hope
to prognosticate the weather as it
moves from west to east;
Unlike earthquake tremors, which
are recorded as two distinct types
of waves wilt a constant ratio of
speed and which therefore indicate
the distnnce of the shock from the
recording . machine micro -seismic
waves are recorded as a single vi-
bration. Distance, therefore, has
been the great unknown. The Office
of Naval Research awarded a con-
tract to FordhaneUniversity to con-
vert this unknown into a known.
Center in West -Northwest
Ueavy surface traffic in the New
York City area has made it difficult
to record the micro -Seismic waves
with accuracy,. for which reason it
was necessary to set up a seisnio-
iogical triadgulation station at St.
Andrew -on -Hudson, adjacent ttt
Hyde Park. This triangular net-
work showed that the center of
ground vibrations associated with
weather changes lay in the Nest -
N orthwest,
Center in Lake Erie
To make sure that the Hudson
River, wide at Hyde Park, was not
the source of the weather ground -
vibrations, a second network of
seismographs was set up on the
opposite bank of the Hudson. This
second network indicated that the
wales were coning from the same
source as those recorded on the
east bank of the river. The agree-
ment indicated that Lake Erie was
the broadcasting station.
The instruments were next mov-
ed to Ilot Springs in North Caro-
line in the Appalachians near the
Tennessee border. A triangulation .
pattern covering hundreds of miles
indicated that the source : of the
vibrations was almost due north, A
line drawn from the station in the
direction of'the source intersected
the previously drawn line at Pough-
keepsie at a point over Lake Erie.
`Father Lynch infers that probably
the entre Great Lakes system acts
as a transmitter of ground weather
waves.
"Sure Thing" Bets
To Amuse Friends
Ask a friend to think of any hour
between one and 12, and say that
merely by consulting your watch
you will telt him the hour he
thought of. He will be very sceptical
and probably willing to take a bet.
Hold the watch in your left hand
and a pencil in your right, telling
your friend to make a careful mental
note of the number of times you
tap on the dial, counting from the
hour he has thought of. Thus. if
he has thought of five o'clock he
starts cottnting to himself from six
as you tap. You add that he must
stop you when, mentally, he has
counted twenty, when the pencil
will be painting to t' " hn it he
. thought of.
This is how it works, The eighth
tap of your pencil. going round
the dial, crust be on the figure
12. The first seven taps can be
any -where you 11kz`hut to make it
look more mysterious, start on the
figure five and na2rk round clock-
wise until 12-is.reached, tapping
eotir pencil once •on each figure.
Front this eighth: -tap, work back-
wards -11, 10. 9, R, and so on, until
your friend says "stop" having
counted twenty taps. The point of
your pencil will now be resting
on the required hour, and you can
pick up your winnings.
Bet any lady present that you
ran make her tell you her age.
Give her a slip of paper and a Pen-
cil and stand away so that you
can't possibly see what she is writ-
ing. Ask her to multipy the years of
Iter age by 3, and add 1.
Quick Change Artists—This, sign in the American Express Company's window in Paris warns tourists
not to exchange their dollars at unofficial rates offered by shady characters. Caricatures of some of
the more notorious black -marketeers make up the display.
-Then she must multiply this total
by 3 and add the result to her
original number (her age),
Now ask what her total is. It will
always end in 3. Strike off the
figure 3 and the number remaining
will be the one originally thought
of -the lady's age.
Suppose her age is 21. Multiplied
by 3 you get 63; adding 1 the result
is 64. Then 64 multiplied by 3 gives
192, which, added to the original
number (21) gives 213. Drop the
3 and you have the original num-
ber, 21, It works with' any number.
Here is another trick, Place 21
matches on a table. Explain that'
this is a game in which one, two_
or three matches at a time can be
taken from the heap. You are will-
ing to bet that you can force your
opponent to pick up the last match
and so lose the game_
His Move First
Always allow your opponent to
- .. e
make' the first move. 3f he takes
one match you take three; if he
takes two, you take two—each time
you pick up the difference between
his number and four. After five
moves 20 snatches will be picked
up and your opponent will be forced
to take the last one.
The late W. C. Fields used to
win himself many a wager by
walking into a bar and betting any-
one that he could take a drink from
a bottle_ without touching the cork
or tampering with the bottle in any
way.
Hissecretwas to select the right
type of bottle -the type 'with a
hollow bottom. Bields merely invert-
ed the bottle, poured a drink into
the cavity, then drank it. He had
not touched the cork or tampered
with the battle, yet he had taken
a -drink from itl
That's the way to make a belt
iI19jM FRONT
1 don't want you to rush right
out to try and buy some, because
it won't be on the market in quanti-
ties until 1953. But there'll conte a
time, probably, when we'll all be
using a new synthetic organic
chemical called Tritium, which is
said to be from 100 to 1000 times
rnore effective iu improving soil
structure than compost, manures or
peat Doss.
* * *
Developed by a leading chemical
company, Krilium was introduced
by their researcher, Dr. C. A.
Hochwalt at the annual meeting of
the Association for the Advance-
ment of Science last December.
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Not a fertilizer, Krilium is a
soil conditioner which for the first
time radically and immediately im-
proves soil structure, Dr, Hochwalt
said.
It is highly resistant to bacterial
decomposition, effective and econo-
mical in control of rain erosion, It
shows promise in control of spot
erosion problems -in productive
agricultural areas.
* * *
One pound of Krilium has es-
sentially the sante effect on soil
structure as 200 pounds of peat
moss or 500 pounds of commercial
compost. Peat retails at four cents
a pound, commdreial compost at 214
cent, and Krilitttn at under $2.
* * *
Rate of application, which de -
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HAROLD
ARNETT
FISH CAN BE SCALED WITH A
CPSMPEE SCREWI
NG BOTTLE
10AIBROOM ANDL .
pen's on the -type and degree of soil
improvement desired, ranges front
concentrations of 0.02 per cent to
0.1 per cent. (by weight of soil).
* * *
In agriculture and hone -garden-
ing the new conditioner may be
spread on the soil surface at a
uniform rate. Both soil surface and
conditioner preferably should be
toy at time of treatment. -
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Since such minute amounts of
Kriliuin are effective, it may be
desirable to use a diluent. Then the
conditioner, which is a nontoxic,
free-flowing powder, should be
nixed thoroughly into 'the soil. to
the desired depth, by means of a
disk, rotary tiller or hand imple-
ment. * * *
Adding sufficient waiter to soak
down to the treated depth helps
achieve the maximum effect. If
rainfall is tite expected water source,
treatment may he made just prior
to anticipated rain. Seeding can be
done conveniently before watering.
* * *
Krilium is an effeetve and eco-
nomical agent in control of rain
etosiot. In this application it merely
may be spread on the surface even-
ly.
After it becomes wok. Krilium
• forms a water -permeable lila on
the surface of the ground during
the perigd necessary for establish-
ment of a perntauent cover crop in
erosion • enntrol.
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In addition to providing marked
resistance to the erosive action of
water, including splash erosion by
raindrops, Kritinnt hnproves con-
dition for seed germination and
subsequent growth of the grass or
vegetative cover always necessary
for permanent protection against
erosion.
* * *
The conditioner holds seed and
soil in place while grasses or le-
gumes are gerininating and becom-
ing established. Tests indicate that
the surface application of Tritium
is effective in treatment of a wide
sariely of soil types.
Tough On Tires — This picture,
taken at speed of 1/15,000 of
a second, shows what happens
when your auto tire, properly
inflated, strikes a brick at a
speed of 40 miles per hour. - It
is one of a series of photos
made by engineers at Seiberltng
Rubber Co, #o studyeffect of ob-
stacles on tires at high 'speeds.
Kr' item
Economic al advantages of
c g
in comparison with various surface
mulches widely used in erosion
control, include its ease of applica-
tion, lack of flammability, resistance
to wind, availability in areas) where
mulches are not obtainable readily,
and savings in transportation, stor-
age, and application costs.
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Krilium may be -useful in green-
houses, since 30 to 50 per cent..
crude organic wastes, such as peat
moss and composts, constantly must
be added to poor soils to bring
them to ordinary greenhouse stand-
ards .To achieve such standards,
sand and vermiculite also usually
are added because they do not rot
away. * * *
Krilium-treated soils may elimi-
nate considerable surface tilling
and mulching with organic natter.
hriliurn mixed with soil before
seeding or transplanting will im-
prove soil aeration for potted and
beech plants.
Even light surface treatments will•
aid infiltration and drainage, which
are important processes when sur-
face irrigation. surf, a: that used
in 'mist greenhouse,. is employed.
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Soil structure is the arrangement
of tiny. primary soil particles into
aggregates with varying stability
to water. Soil structure should not
be confused with 'sod texture,'nhich
is based on dee relieve proportion
of the three major sizes of soil
pattftlts—:and. silt and clay.
Kalium
fornis and stablizcs na-
tural soil aggregates against the
dispersing of staking action of
water. The new conditioner im-
proves aggregation of poor soils, in
which aggregates may range from
duet to. clods but have very iow
stability to water.
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In well-candit;ottect snits aggre-
gates retain an opt'mium size rang-
ing from a pinhead to a pea. In.
creases in vegetation through the
use of Krilium can be regulated as
conditions demand.
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Aeration, the pincess by which
plant roots obtain oxygen and uti-
lize nutrients, is increased greatly
by
Krilium. Roots need air in ad-
dition to water, and treated soil has
targe amounts of pore space for
tasy access of oxygen.
Doped" Horses In Olde Days
The doping of racehorses is head-
line trews to -day. 'There's DO doubt
that thoroughbreds are "got at"
from time to time by unscrupulous'
individuals; and it's also interesting
to'recall some of the perfectly legal,
but somewhat unorthodox, methods
employed by trainers to bring their
charges up to scratch in the early
days of the Turf.
One of the, first on record was
Gervase"Ivfarkham, who revealed
the mysteries of his calling to the
world of 1599 with awwork entitled:
"How tq Choose, Ride, Treble and
Diet both hunting -horses and Run-
ning -horses."
He explants, somewhat obviously,
that you must first pick a horse
whose `shape, countenance and de-
meanour give promise of peed." On
the morning of the race, after bring•
ing your •charge •to its peak on a
diet of straw and oats varied with
hay and bread, its recommended
breakfast is a large white loaf, cut
up, toasted, soaked in wine, and
then dried out between hot cloths.
There is now but one final service
for you to perform, Namely, to fill
your mouth with strong vinegar and
blowit in the animal's nostrils,
"making them apt for the receite of
wind." This rather tricky operation
should be repeated immediately be-
fore the off ... "and so bequeathe
hint and yourself to God."
An owner of the last century with
some original ideas was the fourth
Duke of Portland. He decided that
none of his two -year-olds should
face the alarums and excursions of a
racecourse without first being
thoroughly conditioned to noise;
and accordingly decreed that squibs
should be let off unexpectedly in
their`corn-bins, and that at exercise
on his estate they should constantly
encouetdr drum -and -fife bands at
full blast!
Another unorthodox owner of
that time was Lord Glasgow, who
used to shoot any of his horses
whose performance displeased him.
He also liad a way of dealing sum-
marily with servants; he once threw
a waiter neck -and -crop out of the
window of a Scottish hotel, break-
ing his leg and causing other in-
juries. When the irate manager
remonstrated with him, his lord-
ship remarked cheerfully: "Put him
on the bill, no matter what it is."
It's so long since a filly won the
Derby -1916 was the last occasion,
when Fifinella scored in both Derby
and Oaks (substitute races at New-
market) -that not everyone realiles
they are eligible for it. They are,
however (although colts, of course,
are barred from the Oaks), and al-
together four fillies have been suc-
cessful in both great Classics.
The first to bring off this re-
markable double was Sir Charles
Bunbury's Eleanor, whose excel-
lence inspired the famous last words
from - the mouth of the Bunbury
groom. to whose death -bed a parson
had been summoned just before the
Epsom meeting of 1801.
After a variety of helpless con-
tortions, the poor fellow finally
divulged the dramatic secret of
which he was so anxious to rid his
conscience before departure. ''De-
pend on it, that Eleanor is a hell of
a mare!" he cried—and fell back
dead. The parson had only himself
to blame if, a few days later, he
failed to back the. winner of botkk
Oaks and Derby. He had been
given the tip all rightl •
Denzil Batchelor tells that and
other amusing stories, in his very
readable book, "The Turf of Old"
notable' contribution to the literature
of raring. in Great Britain. Lie also
includes some _ remarkable wagers
of the bad old days, when a malt
could cheerfully lose 4E40,000 on
one throw of a dire, and when the
general zest for gambling is perhaps
best epitomized by the prince of
them all, Charles James cox, who
yawningly asserted that next t9.
winning at gambling he loved
losing best.
One of the most astute wager%
was that of the Duke of Queens-
berry, who had the temerity to bet
that he could dispatch a letter fifty.
miles witdiln, an hour in days when
the swiftest transport was the stage
coach,
His opponent must have con-
sidered himself on velvet . . . until
he saw the Duke enclose the letter
itt a cricket ball, which he handed
to twenty-four skilled throwers to
fling round a measured circle for
sixty minutes ... he won his bet.
He Paints Pictures
On Heads Of Pins
'When Italian artist, Egidio Bos -
chi, holds an exhibition of Isis
work, each painting cats be seen
by only one person at a time. View-
ers study his pictures through the
lens of a high-powered microscope.
For Boschi has executed seven
paintings—six landscapes and a
portrait—on the heads of ordinary
pins.
He will never stake any more
of these minute masterpieces, be-
cause the strain involved has cost
him the perfect sight of his left
eye. After three years' intense
work. it has been irreparably dam-
aged.
Art experts who have studied hie
work are amazed at the amount of
detail in the paintings. Boschrs
landscapes show clouds in the
skies, trees and shrubbery on tiny
hills and other items that are
frequently ignored in normal sized
pictures.
He used -special colours- that
would retain their brilliance rilliance under
enormous magnification, and instead
of a brush he used a single hair
from the back of his hand.
Artists throughout the ages have
attempted to paint the greatest pos-
sible detail in the smallest possible
area, but few have equalled the
work of Boschi.
An American named James W.
Zaharee is also famous for his
close work, but he uses a pen
instead of a brush. Zaharee's hand-
writing is so small that he has
been able to pert the Lord's Prayer
on a single grain of rice. It is said
that he has written more than
7,000 tetters (clearly visible through
a microscope) on one side of a grain
of rice.
A maul had been talking for hours
about himself and his achievements.
"I'm a self made man. that's what
I ata—a self made man," he said.
"You knocked off work too soon,"
came a quiet voice from the corner.
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Feeding Time At Oak Ridge — A workman places an aluminum -
jacketed uranium slug in a fuel channel opening of one of the
graphite reactors that make up the atomic pile at Oak Ridge. The
natural uranium slugs, like the one being inserted above, weigh
2.57 pounds each and are four inches long.
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