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The Brussels Post, 1953-7-1, Page 7bizzyr Liked Peacocks & Fancy Waistcoats Like so many people who are not wholly indigenous, Disraeli was founder of England and the •English weir; of life than were the 3illtty% of the island. His lettersdisfilay a keen appreci- ntion"•bf t rd, scenery and the great couettele ;lses, though the av- erago. ng1ishman may have felt that 'life estimates were expressed too ornately. "Good-bye, my dear Lord," he once said after a visit tc Lord Shaftesbury, "tyou have given me the privilege of seeing one of the most impressive of all spectacles: a great English noble- man living in patriarchal state io his own hereditary halls." ..." Disraeli's home life was almost restricted to Hughenden.. • One Asiatic touch was provided by the peacocks on the terrace, "My dear lady, you cannot have terraces without peacocks," said Dizzy to a guest; and certainly he could not. Perhaps the only other hint of .the East came from the host hineself, whose clothes were not those of a typical Brit- ish squire.'. The fancy waistcoats that had been abandoned in Lon- don reappeared in the country, looking even more remarkable by contrast with a black velve- teen jacket and a Tyrolese hat. A rumor reached his friend Beresford in December, 1850 that he was growing a fierce pair of moustaches. "Now this is very sad," wrote Beresford to Stanley, "for heis not the person who ought to attrack attention by mitre dress and appearance, but by his talents. I do trust that this style is only assumed while he is rusticating. , .." Apparently it was. In spite of his oddities, or be- cause of them, his tenants and workmen liked him, and he at- tended to their wants. He en- joyed talking to them, finding their conversation racy, their manners restful and agreeable. He particularly liked the society of woodmen, whose knowledge, speech,quick observation and common sense appealed strongly to him.... "Nature whispers to them many of her secrets," he noted, "A forest is like an ocean, • monotonous only to the ignorant. It is a life of ceaseless va- riety." . He loved his trees and was constantly planting new ones, es- pecially cedars, firs and pines: "I have a passion for books and trees. I like to look at them. When I come down to Hughen- den I pass the first week in sauntering about my park and Top Dog -"Master Sgt. Angel Face" steps outside his quarters to take a look around, The "ser- geant" was acquired by trainee members of "Dog" Company as a mascot and will become a member of the company. Here Is a Dimble-Duty Blanket and Spread BY EDNA, 11MOLES QO. manly things are iutppeltuttt tiers clays to eii plity 4 the bed -making tusk that e sijlg up with theta re- quires f:elil attention to the sttlalet:l'•al (uintl. Pitted;3heets, fop and-.1Lottoin; lightweight b'ltinkets lit gay plaid and pastels for summer, and tilled blankets are some of the imuiy bonuses for the homemaker. Newest of these Is a bed -covering bedspread developed by a "arm of famous blanket makers.. It's a handsome bedspread on one side and a fleecy, brush -nap blanket on the other. This eliminates the need for both a blanket and spread. ''This Scuts down•the entire bed -making' operation too, and coupled with fitted sheets, practically reduces the whole matter t'o .a flip of the wrist. it keeps the bedrooms looking neat'and Pares_expenses leo. Furthermore, you can choose this blanket -spread in any one of - contrasting decorator colors and intwinor double sizes. You can treat it to a hand -laundering or pop it into your machine since it's guaranteed against shrinkage and is color fast, Sides of this blanket -spread are handsomely fringed. The top and foot have luxurious eight -inch binding which make it a Pleasure to own. This housewife is making up a bed witti a new combination-0- blanket-bedspread, ombinationblanket-bedspread, woven as a single fabric. She Is' able to cut down on the bed -making operation and shave expanses. elenttet-spread comes In a choice of contrasting decorator colors. examining all the trees, and then I saunter in the library to Theol- ogy, the Classics, and History." He had a favorite beech walk at the bottom of his garden, and whathe called a German Forest up the hill behind the house, . through which path were cut and rustic bences paced where he could enjoy the views. There were trees wherever he looked, and the woods of Wycombe Ab- bey bbey could be seen from his ter- race.-From er- race: From "Dizzy: The Life ,& Personality of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield," by Hes- keth Pearson. Slave Trade Is Still Booming A young girl, scarcely in her teens, steps fearfully on to the auction block. While she stands motionless, only her eyes betray- ing her fear and apprehension, the prospective buyers -shrewd, dusky -complexioned, hawk-eyed men -mill around her. Most of these buyers are pur- chasing the dusky damsels (sel- dom more than thirteen or four- teen years of age) for resale, at a handsome profit, to distant clients, It is all reminiscent of a savage, sordid scene from the 'Middle Ages, before the tawdry traffic in human bodies was condemned and outlawed by the civilized world. Yet it still takes place to -day. When the auctions are Over the carefully guarded human cargo is smuggled north to the many rich markets on the southern shores of the Mediterranean and the Le- vant. If the market in these areas happens to be at a low ebb at the time, then they may be sold as servants in middle-class homes. Missionaries' Difficult Task The latter method is becoming an increasingly common practi&e' in some quarters. Inflation is not a condition peculiar to Occidental countries, The rising cost of liv-, ing has hit many previously, wealthy men in the areas which provide the best market for this terrible traffic. Consequently many can no longer afford the considerable expense involved in the maintenance of a harem with a bevy of lovely but idle girls. So a houseful of pretty servants is often the highly satisfactory an- swer. This bartering of young natives is not confined to the more ob- scure and primitive areas of the country'. Some time ago a scandal blew up in Brazzaville, the capital of French Equatorial Africa, on account of" the open buying and selling of human merchandise, while in Tanganyika the brazen auctioning of young natives has become so widespread that mis- CROSSWORD PUZZLE A,CIOSS 2. One opposed 1. Mournful 3, Par down 4 Promontories 4. Desert plant !. Run between5 1) 0(101011 Ports '11'0110 12. lnity 12. Islant a the 7. 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After its destructive role is finished, it retires into a cocoon, later to emerge as a moth. sionaries recently took steps in an attempt to curb the scandal. \ A United Press report some time ago said: "Missionaries have begun a slow but steady battle in the jungles of Central Africa against the selling of young girls into slavery and harems." The (Catholic) News Agency, Fides, reported in a despatch from l itega that missionaries have re- established a mission , on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, aban- doned in 1881 when two priests and a helper were massacred by natives. The report said) "It is the hope of the missionaries that their presence will hasten the day when the scandalous -practice of selling young Barundis, a prac- tice that still exists on a large scale, .will come to an end." But is is highly probable that it will be many years before. this disgraceful and degrading trade in human flesh is finally and com- pletely eradicted. Age-old customs die hard in what still is, in many ways, the dark continent. TIE FARM FRONT Jokulaissell Hog raising records are due for a tumble, it is claimed down Missouri way, where hogs occu- py a far more prominent place in the general farming economy than they do here in Ontario. >f 0 * For they're trimming one to two months off the market age of hogs at the University of Mis- souri, And in the process, a lot of old beliefs on hog raising are being heaved overboard. * x t One crossbred pig (inbred. Po- land China X inbred Landrace) in the Missouri tests has pushed ..the scales to 201 pounds at four months. Others of ,the same lot, fed under the supervision of Dr, John Lesley, weren't far behind -two hit 193 pounds in the sane period. Most hog raisers do well to make that much pork in six months, 4 4, • Lesley used no magic -nothing but simple breeding, feeding, and manegenent methods, with antibiotics and vitamin B-12 added td the rations. Ile made sure that the pigs were never hungry. ' • • 4 The tests exploded tyro theor- pies: (1) That fast -gaining pigs are always fatties; and (21 that antibiotics drag down carcass quality. That 201 -Pound , porker, for instance, graded No. 1, and had only 11s inches of backfat! * 4 * Lesley; believes in feeding pigs before they are born. The mother sows got corn with pro- tein supplement and minerals. In the winter a stabilized Vita- min A and D mixture was ad- ded. While they were nursing the sows got a bonus of five mg. aureomycin per pound of feed. Shortly after farrowing, the baby pigs started getting aureo- mycin, mixed with clean sod. (The sod prevents anemia while the pigs are on concrete.) In the creep feeder on pasture, the pigs had free choice of roll- ed oats, shelled yellow corn, and a protein supplement made up of dry skim milk, fish meal, soy- bean oil meal, aureomycin, Vita- min B-12, minerals and rod liver oil. • 4 * * Atter weaning at 56 days, pigs went on this ration( self -fed on a concrete floor: Ground yellow corn .... 1435 lbs. Tankage (60% protein) .200 lbs. Soybean meal (44% protein) .......... 300 lbs. Wheat shorts or middlings' 100 lbs. Minerals (equal parts limestone, steamed bone meal, and salt) 10 lbs. Antibiotic supplement 10 lbs. B -Vitamin supplement 5, lbs. x e * The whole lot put. on 100 pounds of gain far . every., 330 pounds of feed. Good hog produ- cers usually use 400 pounds of feed for that much gain. * 0 Lesley steamed the farrowing pens before putting sows into them, washed the sows' udders before farrowing. The pigs got a shat of bacterin at one, two, and three weeks to ward off disease. * • 0 Not many new ideas here, but it shows what we can do when we put to work all of the things that we really know. What Goes On In The Milky Way The Milky Way, one of the most striking sights in the hea- vens on a clear night, is in for a very thorough examination by astronomers during the next few months. A giant telescope has been erected near Bloemfontein, in South Africa, where conditions are ideal for studying this stu- pendous galaxy of stars. Observations and mathematic- al calculations are to be made over a period of years, and it is hoped that many of the mysteries of starland will be solved. More than any other celestial object, the Milky Way has affect- ed Man with a sense of mystery and unknown destiny. To the American Indians it was the "path of souls." In ancient myth- ology it was the highway of the gods to Olympus. Its very name commemorates an ancient legend that Juno, when suckling Mercury, scatter- ed Milk across the skies. But this feeling of deep asso- ciation with the stars, and the simple affection for them which we find in Chaucer and other medieval poets, have been de- stroyed for us by astronomers who have measured their vast distances. These astronomers tell us that there are some stars in the Milky Way whose light takes not hun- dreds, nor thousands of years to reech us, but hundreds Of thou- sanTdsw, elve years ago a new type of star cloud was discovered the Milky Way, consisting of an immense "crowd" of .stars, 5,040 of which have been counted so far. Thee light from this star cloud takes 300,000 years to reach us, which means it is 18,000,000 billion miles away. NO CROWDING Gazing at the Milky Way on a clear night, about one million stars are visible to the naked eye. A 100 -inch telescope, how- ever, will reveal about 1,500 mil- lion, and there are many more, too numberless and too remote for any instrument to count. One might think this would cause overcrowding. But as one " astronomer has remarked: "Set three wasps flying over Europe, and its skies would be more crowded with wasps than the Milky Way is with stars!" LOST IN SPACE Sir James Jeans describes the Milky Way as the rim of a great central hub. Our sun is one of the lesser stars of Ibis cartwheel system or galaxy, and our proud earth is comparable to a speck of pollen floating in the Pacific Ocean. Yet in the Universe there are at least 100,000,000 stellar cartwheels similar to the Milky Way. Another brilliant star -gazer, Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasek- her, predicts that the Milky Way will not always hold together in its vast cartwheel across the heavens. The cartwheel, he says, will eventually stop rotating, and the stars will "jump their tracks," becoming wanderers lost in space. This calamity will not oc- cur, however, till about the year 9,997,000,000,000! Best times for seeing the Milky Way are in the evenings in- autumnor winter,' when the "cartwheel" effect can be ob- served. It is then high in the heavens, and suffers less from the interference of our atmo- sphere. Its appearance has been liken- ed to that of an old, gnarled tree - trunk, but even with a small telescope - the detail becomes clear. At one point it may consist of thousands of separate stars scat- tered irregularly upon a back- grund of darkness; at another of star clusters following one an- other in a long procession; at an- other, the stars seem to collect in small soft clouds, like drifting foam. A Laboratory That Deals In Death In a quiet road in the London suburb of Hendon there are two of the most remarkable collec- tions in the world. One is the British Museum Newspaper Library, crammed with copies of every news sheet, from the early issues of more than two centuries ago to to- day's latest editions. The other is the Central Lab- oratory of the Public health Laboratory Service, the nerve centre et the organisation which keeps epidemic illness at bay. Subscribers to the lethal items filed away in this quiet, straggling building are to be found in al- • most every capital in the world. They send for tiny glass tubes filled with nitrogen -and almost any kind of germ which can prey on mankind. Before the war Vienna was the centre of germ -breeding to sup- ply tbe makers of protective vac- cines and serums. The Viennese laboratories were destroyed and now the British collection of type cultures, as these invisible ene- mies of human life are called, is unique. Very few diseases of an epi- demic nature are caused by only one type of germ, There are divisions and subdivisions. As soon as one is identified and beat- en a slightly different one launches an attack. At the Hendon laboratory re- sources are available for identi- fying existing types and for re- cognising a brand-new one when it arrives. If, for example, a group of people fall 1I1 from food poisoning in Australia, a sample of the bacillus will soon be sent by air to Hendon. Maybe it, will be recognised as the same type as that which at- tacked some children in Colombo three months before, If so, radio can flash the news and suggest treatment, , If. Hendee knows nothing about it, then culture begins -and the newcomer is duly labelled with the name of the place of origin. The favourite food of the germs is horse's blood and a jelly made from a seaweed found on the coast of Formosa. READY TO FIGHT A confidential list in a separ- ate part of the library lists the many innocent carriers who Can quite unknowingly spread ty- phoid and paratyphoid. This is the best that cats be done to keep, the disease under control. It is impossible to isolate carriers, though the most danger- ous one who ever lived, an American woman, was finally persuaded to live in seclusion on an island for twenty-three years. Before this she was known to have caused fifty-three cases of typhoid. Other sections of the germ library contain specimens of all the germ groups which wage perpetual war on. Man. Strains are bred and sent overseas for other nation's health laboratories to work on in an attempt to find new vaccines. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ©O©. i0�©©© MIN win ladnZ N : s0n ®I4 D®MMUa fir®u V!J M©apo©0 m' ®O�s ElMa, I' s' /©i 'd3I0 ©0®:. CI®A©a© ©©r .©n©'; `fl®©p ®M®Q®®®om'' ounlamtuv2wo i inu i kiltU,; 0=0,1605 UNDAY SCIIO-OL LESSON Dv Ree. R Barotn) Warren B.D. .Paul's Joy in Christ riallippians 7,:12-27a, Memory Selection; The peace of Gott, which pnsseth all under- standing, shall keep your hearth and minds through Christ Jesus, Philippians 41 Paul's experience in the prison Of Philippi is one of the high- lights of Paul's second missionary journey. He and his compan- ion, Silas, had cast the evil spirit Out of a se -called fortune-teller. The young woman's masters suc- ceeded in rousing the, rabble against these good men and se- cured their imprisonent.: But at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praise unto God. Fol- lowing an earthquake the jailer was converted. (Acts 16). Now Paul is writing this Philippian church from the prison in Rome. He still has the spirit of joy. In- tact nfact the keyword- of the letter is, "Rejoice." The spirit of triumph in spite of grevious circumstances still persists in the world. Twb years ago Bob Pierce went to speak in a church in South Korea at 0 a.m. It was below zero. The un- heated building was crowded with these suffering people seat- ed on the floor, Bob read the chapter which contains today's lesson. "I would ye should un- derstand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel -in nothing terrified by your adver- saries: which is to them an evi- dent token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God." When he -finished, the native pastor further emphasiz- ed upon the people, the Iesson at joy in spite of suffering. R'hern they rose and sang lustily: "I must tell Jesus all of my trials; I cannot bear these burdens alone; In my distress he kindly will help me, He ever loves and cares for his own. I must tell Jesus all of my troubles, He is a kind, compassionate friend; If I but ask him; he will deliver,. Make of my troubles quickly an end." Yes, God can still keep us re- joicing, in spite of trouble.. Me For a Mig-Promising a date to the first MIG pilot who de- livers one of the Russian -built jets to United Nations' forces in Korea, the offer of pretty Kath- leen Hughes, Hollywoodite, will probably add more incentive than $100,000. The prize money was promised by American authorities hoping to obtain one of the planes fora research pur- poses. Kathleen's offer depends on approval of General Mark Clark. A rituals are Deer -Edward Yankoe, former policeman, quit his better -paying jab an the force to return as a keeper at the Lincoln Park Zoo. He 'gave in to his love for animals, .'onkae claims. they are more human than humans.