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The Brussels Post, 1951-1-24, Page 2Circus Freaks Of Other Days Fifty years ago, no circus was complete without it, sidesltow-s. The great 13arnahn had "spotters" throughout the world looking for novelties in human or four -legged form. IIe exploited the blue -skinned Man, the etaetir-skhme4 man, the lion -fared toy-. a sword -swallower who put lighted electric 1 taps in his interior, a titan \rho could shift 1118 heart :, couple of inches, and the &guest Woman on Earth. The laet-uatned was not really ugly. but she was sufficiently differ- ent acially rout the average indl- • victual to eraa:e a sensation in the United States. Incidentally, •front earning a ,paltry living in Deptford as a ca,ted help she became coin- parativ.de wealthy from a -handsome salary and 3 percentage 0f her pic- ture postcard sales. Annie Jones, the Barnum bearded lady, was rich When She retired, She was very musical and spent the greaser part of her leisure hours in art galleries in various parts of the world. Two notable survivors of the freak era are the flea -circus and the midgets. Last year at Olympia a troupe of midgets appeared and the flea -circus, conducted by a "Ugliest Woman" — F B I agents said Mrs. Lucy Con- lisk, a former school teacher, admitted driving the get- away car in a $5203 bank rob- bery at Antioch, I11,, last March. Mrs. Conlisk made even bigger headlines by de- scribing herself as "the world's ugliest woman." womanae' - who had been an aerial- trapese trapese artist, did big business. They were the foremost attractions In the fun fair. Time was when almost every freak of nature was on show, Giants became the chief among them, It was claimed for Song Shu -tet, at Luna Park, Shanghai, that he 'was nine feet five inches and that at one sitting he could eat four large rice puddings, a chicken and twenty-four eggs. Giant.. on shoe in the last few years hove seldom been taller than eight fee:. Some, with the aid of the showman's vocabulary, have been described as being eight feet five inches. When actually they were rot more than seven feet six inches. But .pinny Duffy. attached to 'Wirth's Circus, in Australia, was seven feet four inches at the age of thirteen. At nineteen years of age he was nearly nine tett tall. There is a legend in Scotland that, once upon a time, there ex- isted a giant named Funnan, who measured eleven feet in height: but there is no actual proof. Tile probability i, that he was cotfusc•d with the Irish giants of fairy lore, one of whom, Fin Mac- Cou1, is said to have waiked across the Giant', Causcnay from Ireland to Scotland, Two much -boosted Iriell giants, Charles O'Brian and Patrick Cotter were 0,' more than seven feet nine and three-quarter inches. and eight feet two inches respectively. Among the hutnorous oddities, there was Tomasso, described by Barnum as the human Piucushiot, who claimed that he could control the Circulation of his blood. People ^;ea. iurited to stick pins, needles, and even hatpins through his ears, arms and jipe, and he wouldn't bleed. Another queer exhibit with Bar- num was ,be Heinen Ostrich, a Went 11(111110 iebo seemed to thrive on a diet of grass, nails, tacks and other dwnties, 'l'hc,•c hate Leen many armless men and women who count write a c0.,:,:erplate "haud" with their feet. Otte of them, t'nthan, who appeared at the London Hippo- drome, ased a typewriter. Fire-eaters have gone out of .fashion too. A woman named . Stromboli had a gas -bracket fixed to her mouth, and she lit the Jet with a taper, When gas mantles carne into vogue she fixed one in Iter mouth, turned on the gas and stood before the audience i0 full lncandeem,:tee, . On show at Ot1C •tittle WOS Attie 'Destur Arian, a native of India. who had a moustache sixty-eight Indies long from tip to tip. > INGERPARM e� um¢n.dol.i.ne P Clcveke "One man's meat is another man's poison!" How true --and how fort- unate. if we all liked the saute kind of cleat and it was equally good for everyone there would never he enough of it to go around. And by "meat" 1 ant not thinking of what we eat but of work, plea. sure, governments, climate—in fact anything and everything that con- cerns our way- of living. Sometimes, 1) that Coinfection, you wander at a person's choice of sort. as his or her way of making a living. For instance, if you have no liking for the type of work they do. you night wonder why anyone would want to be a doctor, a nurse, a telephone operator or a dentist. Yet all such work Hurst appeal to a great many men and women or they wouldn't be doing it. And isn't that fortunate for us? However, there is one outer thing to reuuember—so often choice of a vocation is as much a matter of fashion as diamond socks and short- ie coats. Young folk, in their for- mative years, get a notion for doing just what the other fellow is doing --which often leads to round pegs in square holes. Remember the period when most young fellows leaving school wanted to be bank clerks, and Most of the girls either a school teacher or a nurse. Later there was quite a run on insurance agents and travelling salesmen, while every other girl thought a stenographer's desk was, the place for her. Now there is a gnat increase in the variety of jobs available—now some girls think longingly of a job as stewardess on an airline and boys of being operators or transport dri- vers. Just a few of them—both boys and girls --think farming MIGHT be all right. The sante thing applies to plea- sure. No two people have exactly the same idea as to what really Con- stitutes pleasure. s'A quiet evening at home or among friends can be more satisfying to some iolk than all the highlights of the city . , . and vice versa. As for government and party politics . . well, we had better skip that one. But wouldn't it provide a good illustration of one man's poison? P010011 . , . Olt toy, yes! Take climate . . 1v11y is it that people choose to live in any partic- ular country or district? Why choose an isolated area when you might live in a•we"-populated coo - muni ' ty . Or why chooseq uarters as cramped as the proverbial sar- dine -can when you could, if you so desired, live out in the country? 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My Son, My Son—.After a 42 -year separation, 83 -year-old Isaac Neubart was reunited with his only surviving son, Leon, who arrived with his wife and child aboard the Gen. Blatchford.. Leon was located in Germany by the Hebrew immigrant Aid Society. He was six mouths old When last seen by his father and the only member of the German clan to survive- 'World \\'ar IT. driving at, What actually- started this train of thought was a letter we got from Bob. Bob, apparently, is in his glory—living and working among all kinds of heavy con- struction machinery. Noise all day 'and all night. Trucks with tires so big it tapes five strong me* even to tip them up on end. And the price of theta around $1200 a piece! Buckets om the power -shovel big enough for a man to crawl around inside theist. And the weather --so colts the men are work- ing in zero temperature a good deal of the time, And Bob has been our what he calls "the graveyard shift" --which wouldn't make it any warmer The plant shut down fur Christmas and then all the trucks had to he towed before they would start again: the shovels also refused to operate, At Christmas Bob went 10 1-11,i1 Itis uncle at La Cave. Drove there and had three flats on the way, caused by the extreme cold• :1t 2 a, waschanging a ire at tn. het 25 below zero! And yet to is happy ... that is the life he likes, Oil and gasoline seem as necessary to him as fresh air to a farmer. Why anyone should prefer that kind of life to farming is. hard to fathom, But so it is, The more 1 think of it the better I understand the feelings of the Mother Igen who hatched out a duckling. Partner has never want, ed to do anything other than farm so Bob can hardly be called "a chip off the old block". Unless one might say there is a similarity even though circtuustances arc differ- ent. You see, Partner was tate only one in Ids fancily who wanted to go fanning—and his fancily could - never understand why. Nor could my family understand why' I was willing to be a farmer's wife, But there you are --warming was our "meat" --acid could we go back 30 year; we would probably stake the same decissiort again. True, it has sometimes been pretty. "tough meat" but it has nes er been Illegal Parkers Read and Shudder Maybe the city council a£ Spat. ding, England, has bit upon the perfect device for staking motorists behave. If Spalding motorists don't pay their 35 -rear municipal parking lot charges, a policeman will de- flate their tires, The Spalding city fathers hate a sense of proportiot worthy of the great Mikado oho, in G and S's of t the same name, proposed to make the punishment lit the crime: And snake each prisoner pent Unwittingly represent A source of innocent merri- ment! Of inuoceiut merriment! The Mikados of Spalding, under such a syst hn, could work out a list of penalties for various offenses for which motorists are noted, And policemen whose (parking) lot has' not been a happy' otte might begin enjoying themselves. The Spalding experiment is nota- ble for harnessing a natural tu'ge in behalf of law enforcement. As Sir Walter Scott put it, lives there a man who never to himself hath said, "I wonder what the driver of that ear would say if he carne out and forum all four tires flat!'? When the United Nations finds so apt a penalty for aggressors, and so delightful far law enforcement agents to apply, motorists with an unpaid parking tot charge soon will be, ---The Christian Science Monitor ISSUE 1 — 1951 StINDAYSCIIOOL By Rev. R. BARCLAY WARREN B.A., B.D. THE GkEA'I' TEAClii(Il Mark iv:1-20: 26-34 Memory Selection: Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and' unto you that hear shall more be given.—Mark iv:24. ,lesns Christ • was the Greatest Teacher of all time. He spoke as Bever man spoke. In today's lesson He teaches concerning His kingdom by nutans of parables. A parable has been defined as an "earthly story with a heavenly meaning." Put we Host not think of the earthly as the source of the heaven- ly. Rather, "The Lord is king, not borrowing this title from the kings of the earth, but leaving lent his own title to them; and the 'king- dont of God' is, in fact, a most literal expr505ion; it is rather the earthly kingdoms that are figures and shadows of the truth." The parables arc simple so that even a child may understand, When we succeed in employing enough of simplicity to engage the mind of a child, our sermons will reach a level that strikes the heart of the adult; "for the children's heads are just about level with the hearts of adults." The kingdom of God b'econtes very great front what seems to man as a very insignificant beginning. Certainly when Jesus was crucified there seemed little likelihood that Idis followers would rise to spread Itis truth around the world. But that is the case. The Christian faith is the most powerful force iu itis world today, Evil still ex- ists, but in its midst God, as Lowell hits said, keeps His own, "Careless seems the Great Avenger, History's pages burs record One death -grapple through the ages, "rwixt old systems and the Word. Troth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow I(eepiug watch above His own." Some day truth will be on the thro1e, Curious Grounds For Divorce The t•a^i' \t illi which divorce can he obtained in the United States is resulting 111 au increasing 11tut1• her of applications based on more and more 511510tt5 t•hrittts. • Otte of the latest is the endive.. tion of a Detroit parson cut the, growols that hiyr wife refused to dust his Bible, A 1\lichig:el 111511 hus sued hie wle for divorce an- the grounds that when he proposed his 11o1mal spectacles- were broken and he was wearing a pair which were out of focus, Strange? 0 calirse it is, but not more so than the reason for which a Los Angeles Woman actually did get n divorce—het' husband called her a fool when she trumped his are in a card gauge, Nor is it more absurd than the reason for which a matt from Yar- mouth, in Maine, was granted a divorce --his wife gave hint too much pea soup, One can sympathise with some applicants, however, There was the man who found out after he had married that his wife had tWenty- seven pet cats. And there was the woman in Chi• sago who had little difficulty in get- ting et divorce on the grounds that her husband's pet dog and pet monkey made life unbearable be- cause of the patter's habit of throw- ing stones at her, It seemed she was afraid of Brent, and when they tried to conte near to iter she threw small pebbles at them. For a while this kept them at a distance until the monkey learned the habit of throwing then back, One of the latest divorce appli- cations is from a girl in Tennessee on, the grounds that she was too young schen site married to know what she Was doing. She has been married two years and her age at the moment is 13. Perhaps the answer is given in the bylaws of Nevada, where a residence of six weeks is neces- sary before qualifying for a divorce, but six months residence is essen- tial before a fishing licence can be issued. K'&vv. WluAg. 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Bake in 22.234" cup cake pens fn moderate oven (b50') for 30 minutes. The blend one 8 -os. package of cream cheese with enough milk to make of sauce consistency, Top each serving with a spoonful. v: 'Catermfribeecrt • "Dear Anne Hirst: I have a hus- band who does not trust me. 1 ant so fed up I don't know which way to tiro! "Before I mar- ried, I was off 031 the wrong trach. My hus- band knew about it -- and has never let me for - g e t it. Since meeting hint, I have never cheated. Iia does not believe it, While he was abroad and in service he had several affairs, tied he accuses me of the same sins at that time. "Day after day, I hear the sante thing, He doesn't even trust 1115 to go shopping by myself "He is a wonderful provider. He never lets our children or me do without anything We creed, Ile does- n't drink and he just likes to spend his time at 1101115 with the television, He leads a hermit's life, and feels I should too. I have no girl friends. The only place I visit is ,ny mother's or his, and then I have to take the children. I like visiting, for I ani home all week with the children. "I should he thankful to have a husband who takes care of us. But I am so miserable I sometimes feel like walking out! I (1111 love hint, but not like I used to. I know if he keeps up these accusations I'll be a ner- vous wreck in a few years. "I'11 do whatever you say. DISGUSTED" TAKE A STAND Unless you want to keep on living this sort of life, you will have to take a firm stand. You will have to tell your hus- band you cannot bear it any longer. Having to defend yourself con- stantly against his insulting accusa- tions is warping your nature so that your health is being cndam- gered. You cannot be a good mo- ther, nor a normal wife, when you are under continual suspicion. For the children's sake, as well as for your own, you must effect sonic change in your way of living, and quickly. If he will not go out with you, you will take the children and' go alone. You will stake new friends, and invite then to your home; if he is sullen and inhospitable, let hint be- You will take the children to movies, too, and give them little parties, so they will have a more normal life with their friends It is not enough for a man to provide for his family's material welfare. He owes them spiritual satisfaction, too. And lie owes his Wife his complete faith. It is his duty to stake sure she is enjoying being married to him, and making a home life for them all that is right and rich and full. —Or would your husband rather have an invalid wife on his hands? 4. 4, 4, A man who does not enter into the social life of his family and who deprives his wife of human rights, is cheating them ail of their due ... Anne Hirst will help you in your problems. Write her at Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toron- to, Ontario. 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