The Brussels Post, 1951-6-6, Page 3mold igares
By Patrick J. O'Brien
'Ibtnou'ow i.; Flaulutg1,'s wake,
Kathy Cl'\Luldigan recalled, as site
hurried up the brownstone steps
leading to the apartment where she
and Paddy had lived since -their
marriage three years ago, this very
day.
Kathy .smiled as she visualized
the now spring outfit she would
wear at the gathering. Paddy was
proud of her dress, too, even If he
didn't say so. She knew he liked
the way it emphasized her ligue.
Of coarse he had complained about
the cost adding: "If you- want to
waste motley on clothes, You should
- have married a banker.':
But the argument about the dress
was not the real reason she had
left. The tweaking point was reach-
ed when 1'uddy had refused to buy
the darling bonne) displayed in
Murphy's window. "Ridiculous!" he -
said,
Ridiculous? flow could a hat be
, ridiculous when every day, fon•
nearly a month, she had stopped to
look in the window and admire it.
Reaching the apartment door, she
turned the ku0b, but the door re-
fused to mien, Apprehensively, site
turned the knob bark and forth,
but to no avail, She was locked out.
Kathy blushed furiously with indig-
nation.
. Then she exploded:
"Opens this door! Do you hear
roc?" she shouted, pounding fran-
tically on the warped panels. "It's
not enough that I work myself to
the bone so a body ran have a
decent home to live in. No. I must
be locked out of my own home.
My home, mind you!"
"Your hone," Patrick O'Maddi-
gan's voice vibrated through the
thin partition, "Is it noir? And only
this morning you were ready to
walk out of my house."
"When f get sty hands on that
stubborn neck of yours," Kathy
O'Madd!gan shouted, "I'll "
"Sure now'." Paddy said, "would
you be Waulthig to harm your bread
aticl butter:"
"Open this door, I say!"
"In gond time woman," Paddy
replied. "it's your Irish temper
that has the best of you."
"Temper!" Kathy shouted, "A
fine one you are to he talking of
an Irish temper, Who was it that
woke tie neighbors with his carry-
ing 011 111 the wee hours of the
morning?"
No answer. '
"It was Patrick O'ietaddigau,
that's who it was. And all because
T wanted the money to buy the
hat."
"But the price, woman. I couldn't
afford a week's wages fora bit of
lace and 1•lolh," '
"Don't you want your •wife to he
the hest dressed lady at the ti.tike
tomorrow i" Kathy asked.
"'That I do, but could you not
purchase a hat that's 111o1'e treason-
able in pricer'
"I had Illy 1100r1 SOL on wearing
that hat to the wake," Kathy said.
"Don't you Iovc 1110?"
"it's not 0 qucst!ou 01 love,"
Paddy replied. "it's lite money I'm
thinking o[."
"'Then you'll not buy the hat for
m('?"
Silence.
"Let ole in. Paddy'," Kathy plead..
cd a pathetic note creeping into
'ler ('0i00. "I'11 be good .'
']'here were sounds Of movement
'n the apartment 'Then Kathy
heard a 1(03 rattle in the lock.
Swiftly site stooped, slipped a shoe
aft her foot and slt'aigt toned tip
with it grasped firmly 111 one 11111111
land,
She struck swiftly as the doe'
was opened soddenly, tlutl it was
so sudden that Kathy was thrown
off balance and the momentum cats
ried her to the center of the room.
She landed uncerem011101tsly on her
hands and knees,
Brushing aside a strand of hair
that was tickling the tip of hat'
Inose, she looked up al Paddy who
was standing' beside the open-door,
In his hand was a bit of Kelly
green anti a little white veil with a
a pink and 611(0 ribbon 011 the side.
"Vol (lid buy it, P1111dy, Tim
you . , said , .
"1 Meant to surprise yon KalIiy,"
Paddy explained. "f colleln't: let
you clown. 1Iave you forgotten our.
wedding anniversary?"
"01(, Paddy';" she said tenderly.
Sulphur Shortage
Really Dangerous
For .the pa.,* few In,,ntll- it stir
p11ur famine Ida•, I', I, 1110a1 1111111g
Mid 1111 tn(1(111v and cauei,:1( '0'1'1011S
set-haek, in 10'01110'0mi.
Cuts have had to be imposed on
(1.11" of '011p11er and sulphuric acid,
with the result (hat the prodnctfon
of such :Mow, as steel. textiles,
fertilizer';, inoecti1!des, motor tires,
synthetic dyes, batteries, disinfect-
aukgasoline and a hundred other
comntndities are being retarded.
For r!viliratfcm camtot 110 w!t1-
0111. this important chemical,
11 is bard in 10 r1111(1forms for
such a variety of purposes that it
1; quite impossible to find a oink
vessel substitute,
There is not one of us who clues
not handle something every clay
which could not have been made
without some form of .sulphur,
One sulphur eiunpound gives the
familiar dark anther colour to glass
bottles: another, when mixed with
a certain oil, enable, the thread to
111.0 cut an 1110 sm1111est screw.
Yet others help to fix iron rail-
ings firmly in cement, and perform
jobs that range from the thirds -maim
of wine casks to the prescrring al
dried fruits.
'Without another compound nail-
ed sulphur chloride our lives would
be very different, for this is indis-
pensable for ` vulcanizing motor
tires. clotirfc insulation, and all
the domestic uses to which rubber
75 now 11u1.
:But the most important of the
sulphur crnupmtlids is sulphuric
acid, Without it, within a very
abort lime. our great fertilizer in-
dustry would. have conte to a stand-
still, for it uses millions of tons of
sulphuric acid per year to make
supsr-phosphates 00,01)1(111 . (0 the
fanner.
1,00tumnely, scientists recently
discovered n method by which they'
can save a (matter of a (1)1111011 lofts
of sidphuric acid by substituting
nitric arid, of which there is no
shortage,
Nitric acid had been tried before,
but the resulting, phosphates were
useless because they absorbed 1011100
and hardened whet' stored.
'rile latest nitric acid fertilisers
however, are as good as those made
with sulphuric acid.
lit other fields science has not
been so successful, lsjo workable
substitute has yet been found for
sulphur in the newspaper autl ma-
gazine industry.
This paper would not only be
of a very different texture if sill --
Ow supplies were cul off alto-
gether, but it would be entirely
without photographic illustrations,
which are dependent on a chemical
called hypo -sulphite for fixing pho-
tos.
Chief sources of the world's sul-
phur are Texas and Louisiana in the
United States,
A single sulphur well may pro-
duce as much as 500 tons a day
and the Louisiana deposits are esti-
mated to be about 40 million tons,
so that America's supply at least
would seem to be assured for a
while.
Rapid rearmament, however, is
making great inroads into stocks,
and even the • 'U.S. is not mining
enough of this important chemical
to keep her industries going full
out,
SAILY'S SALLIES
'Calot yourself, darling! That's
the very first principle of price
control.".
Clothing Trouble
'On the Double'
P. shouldn't happen 10 the K.9
corps, the things they do to GI
clothing and equipment at the
Army testing center. There, to
test durability of uniforms,
groups of rugged soldiers crawl
'hrough barbed wire, cement
pipes, gullies, thick brush and
artificial rain to speed up the
wear and tear of experimental
Army gear, Here are some ex-
cerpts from a day in the short
life of a fatigue stilt at the
testing cen'er,
In green fatigues with white fronts, GI's crawl over cinder -packed rail ties, then down cobblestones,
Over a slate rooftop through a downpour of controlled "rain" ...... and now through a cement pipe. Itis tough on men and clothes.
TIILPA12M F
A little early, perhaps, to tali(
about picking peaches: Still, the way
the days, weeks, months and even
years seem to flit by, maybe these
hints front Fred R. Dreiliug, noted
horticulturist, as reported in "Coun-
'try Gentleman" might be worth
noting by some readers
Your peaches—Mr. Dreiling says
—are almost certain to sell -better if
the buyer can be sure of two things.
First, a' peach that's bees picked
from the tree at as near its peals
quality as possible. Second, one that
115811'1 been bruised in handling.
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Perhaps the best time to harvest
peaches for quality is when the
ground color is just beginning to
change to yellow (or white for
white varieties) and while the peach
is still firm, Some growers pick
their trees at least three tinges to
hit this goal.
1 s:
(;rowers who are Most successful
at marketing their crop usually will
tell you that good picking is the re-
sult of a smooth -working partner-
ship between grower, foreman and
• picker.
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The pickers themselves can be
more effective if they start at one
side and circle each tree in the
sane direction, If a picker first
pulls the highest peaches within
easy reach, he will find that many
of the low -hanging braiches will
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CLOTHES L INE HOOKS SCREEN DOOR
HOOKS TIED TO ENDS OF CLOT'HE5L.INIX
PROVIDE EASY MEANS FOR PUTTING UP
AND TAKING- t OWN LiNE INDOOR
lift enough so he won't have to
stoop,
After he has all of the ripe
Peaches that can be reached from
the ground, then it the time to set
his ladder for the ones on top.
Pickers should take hold of the
Peach so that the cushions of the
lingers, not the tips, touch it. The
fruit should he removed by pulling
it outward and giving •t slight
twist. The peach should be placed,
not dropped, in the picking con-
tainer and there shouldn't be any
steins or twigs attached to it if
you want to avoid cutting and bruis-
ing of other peaches in the con-
tainer,
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When the fruit is emptied,
pickers can help avoid bruising it
by using their hands to keep it from
falling and bumping.
A picker can make more money
if he keeps his hands close to-
gether in front of him and keeps
glancing ahead to select the next
fruit to pick. And he can save
his bade by not stooping, reaching
or climbing when his picking con-
tainer is nearly full. Start the (HAI.
cult picking with an empty con-
tainer.
* *-
Let a
-Leta picker seta pace he 0011 keep,
then have hint keep at it steadily,
One important thing to remember
is that picking clothes shouldn't
have trouser cuffs. It's loo easy to
catch a heel in 1110111 and take a
bad fall.
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The sante magazine also reports
that middle -western dairymen are
finding that the right moisture con-
tent is more important in top-
quality silage than the addition of
preservatives. Tt is generally agreed
that 65 to 70 per cent moisture
is about right for most grasses and
legutnes,
Art Giese, a highly successful
dairyman, has a rale of thumb for
moisture percentage. Fre gives a
handful of chopped forage a good
squeeze, then releases it. 5f the
material stays in a compact ball,
it probably has more than 70 per
cent moisture, handle too wet to
c n
c gradu-
ally
a preservative. If it g du-
ally swells and breaks into sec-
tions, moisture is about right. If
it falls apart completely, it's too
dry and should be made into bay.
*•
More than half of a group of
farmers surveyed last year made
grass silage without preservative
by wilting to 65 or 70 per cent
moisture. Those who added mo-
lasses or ground grains to forage
at that moisture level did not im-
ssrovc their silage,
Farmers ensiling low -moisture
forage actually cut quality as 150
to 200 pounds of grain added per
ton may further dry the silage
by 4 or 5 per cent.
Preservatives were useidtl (51(011
forage, especially that from legumes
was put in the silo Wet. The re-
sulting silage was more palatable
and better -smelling. Ground grain
and molasses, the most popular
preservatives, also reduced seepage
loss and boosted feeding values.
5 k,
Silage made with choppers .set
for a 34-111011 cut kept well 011
most farms when moisture was at
70 per cent. 1\'hen wilted below
tihat level. a ae-loch cut was better.
Over three-fourths of all grass
silage made in Wisconsin last year
event through forage harvesters.
This method takes about half the
time required with thr hay -loader
and silo -filler method,
New Paint With
Magic Qualities
In a wonderland of colour, cheul-
ists arc performing feats of magic
with modern paint". Spotted paint is
their latest miracle. Brushed oe
sprayed on from c single tin, this
gives a polka-dot effect, a light color
being speckled with a darker one,
Another new paint is called "brit-
tle lacquer." It is now being used
10 show the stresses and strains on
pieces of machinery or parts of air-
craft, ships, cars and weapons.
The lacquer coating cracks 11110
a. definite pattern when the forces
built up in the material are acting,
and thus engineers can plot wlfat
they call a "stress nap" of a piece
of machinery, which shows the
parts bearing the greatest strains.
Previously these stresses and
strains could only be detected by
using a complicated electrical de-
vice.
A life-saving phosphorescent paint
is another r of the latest wonders. A
staircase treated with this appears
Mike normal m daylight or in arti-
ficial light but in darkness it
glows so that every stair can be
seen.
Light switches, fuse boxes, the
names of streets and numbers of
]louses, signposts, time -tables, are
just a few of the uses to which this
"glow-worm" paint can be put.
Theatre exits and fire equipment
call be painted with it so that in the
event of a power cut or failure they
will still be visible.
Green and white paints—once the
first choice of those seeking bright-
ness and relief front fatigue in fac-
tories and workshops—are being
ousted by pale primrose, shades of
peach and lemon. Long tests have
proved these to be the hest produc-
tion boosters.
The traditional gleaming white of
hospital operating theatres is giviug
place to cool pastel shades which
reduce glare and prove restful to
the surgeons' eyes. In hospital
wards it has been discovered that
the usual "buff and white colors
tend to create a feeling of de-
pression," so a warm rose colour is
being reconunended.
COURTSHIP has been defined as
that short space of time between
lipstick and mopstick,—Mason City
Globe -Gazette.
GARDEN NOTES
Still Time For Garden
1 Mrs, is plenty of time eel in
an) par: 01 Canada to have a real
garden. Prtrtically all torts of
hardly flowery and vegetables can
still be sown and they should con -
thine to is. sown at intervals of
tee clays to two weeks until well
into summer. Spreading nut the
garden in this way makes the wort:
easier and niroe pleasant, but 11
also spreads the harvest of blooms
or vegetables over weeks and
months instead of days. In these
tunes of high-priced, scarce vege-
table, there is a real dollars -and -
rents saving in having a plentiful
supply Ot regetab les ('11ting Ors
right until fall,
Suitable Seed
lu seed, for iastailce, ft is falpor•
taut to use only those recommend-
ed for Canadian conditions. Those
listed in any reputable Canadiau
ted catalogue will be sttitahle be-
cause they have all been tested for
Canadian conditions. The best seed
roils only a few cents per packet
but without the best then it does
not make much difference how well
w e prepare the soil or look after
the resulting growth. But cultural
directions should he followed,
Watch Out For Damage
If insects ur disease really get
well developed in a garden there
is liable to be heavy damage before
control can take effect, To guard.
against this, experienced garden -
yrs are always ort the '801011 for
signs of pests and at the first in-
dication they open an offensive.
']'hese experts are suspicious when
they see a wilted or curled or eaten
leaf, even if the insects responsible
for seine are too small to he no-
ticed by the naked eye.
Generally signs are easy to read
and cures are readit • } available.
Boles in the leaves mean that bugs
that chew are present. These are
destroyed with poisons. If .the
leaves wilt and dry up, sucking in-
sects are extracting the plant juices.
Sprats or dusts that burn them,
but not the foliage. w -ill control
11 leaves turn reddish or greyish
this usually indicates the presence
of a fungus disease. It is common
with climbing roses and hollyhocks
especially during muggy weather.
Finely ground sulphur and other
chemicals will check it.
One tail mix his own sprays or
dusts but as a rule it is cheaper and
also far more convenient to buy
ready -mixed preparations, Many of
these are combined to control sev-
eral different types of pests, the
newer DDT dusts and sprays being
particularly eifec;,ive,
5 *
Keep .Planting
Too 21111011 stress cannot. be laid
on continuous planting of the
standard vegetables like lettuce,
radish, beans, carrots, beets, cora,
etc, These taste much better when
they just begin to reach proper
maturity. Beaus, lettuce, corn and
such things begin to get tough if
left too long. 111 Most parts of
Canada it is quite possible to keep
planting many vegetables right ftp
to mid -Juke.
Communists' Cadillac?—The caption accompanying the Soviet -
released picture above fails to tag a price on the Zim auto-
mobile about to roll off Moscow produc'!on lines. But judging
frorn the grill, which bears a suspicious resemblance to that of
the 1951 Cadillac, the sleek Russian car is probably beyond the
means of the average Ivan,
JITTER
I'VE GOT TO LOOK
RIGHT TODAY • HAVIN'
LUNCH WITH THE
BIG BOs5/
J ITTER I GET
°OWN BEFORE
YOU BREAK