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The Seaforth News, 1957-02-21, Page 7Birds in Florida Dawn on the Tamiami Trail. We had left Miami before sun- rise for a purpose; to be well in the-.Everblades as the birds awakened: and started feeding. The friend who had planned our whole, trip for us had insisted that we start out in . the dark„ N so that we should not miss see- ing a single bird and all the brills, of this area, "that would take Athos. a ;pillion years to paint." Suddenly we saw ghost wings an owl? then a flying night heron; but there was not enough light to distinguish whether it was .a yellow -crown- ed or a black-crowned.As visi- bility came a coot could be plainly seen, then a pied -billed grebe, and we correctly identi- fied a black -crowned night her- on: Suddenly the sun was up over the horizon. The automobile idled along, for we were in no hurry. We were in a wildlife refuge of two or three million .acres that in- cluded the bulk of the Ever. glades, south of the Tamiami Trail, and taking in the, Bay of Florida and Whitewater Bay. There was no trace of white civilization in this wilderness ex- cept°the straight road, the canal on one side, and occasional stretches of so-called Australian pines that had been planted alongside the road. Now I am beginning to see birds thick and fast: dozens of coots in the canal; crows, spar- row hawks, and kingfishers perched singly on vantage points above the canal that was alive with fish. We saw twenty black vultures perched on some boul- ders by the canal, but we stop- ped counting turkey and black vultures, for they were in vast numbers. Next came a Florida gallinule, marsh hawk, several American egrets, and great blue heron after great blue heron (we saw only a few little blue heron), then a huge flock of boat -tailed grackles. Neal' a small truck farm (how did this farm man- age to be In this refuge?) were two mockingbirds and several bluebirds perched on telephone wires. Farther along . we saw three red -winged blackbirds, a green heron on a rock by the water, a cormorant, and a flock of tree swallows. Woodpeckers had been conspiciously absent, but a red -bellied woodpecker put in his appearance. We came to cypress forests, the tree trunks covered with clusters of air plants, one with open red flowers that stood out as a bold splotch of color in the gray - green landscape. Often the canal was choked with water hya- cinths. These make a beautiful sight when in bloom, but are the despair of Floridians, who try in vain to keep their water- ;aip--'--o ways cleared of this introduced plant. The banks of the canal held many flowers unknown to us until we saw a bloom we could name, the lowly thistle. In the distance we saw great numbers of American egrets and snowy egrets flying to- gether. The sight of these two types of white -plumaged birds was what I had been told made the Tamiami Trail so interesting. Prom "Menaboni's Birds," by Athos and Sara Menaboni. It's no use giving people more Liberty till they've learnt to handle what they've got. REALLY STACKED — The lure of money being whatit is, model Cathy Hild tries to wrap her arms around $8,000 in silver: dollars piled on a table. The table load of hard and heavy cash was golf's biggest one -day pay-off, offered at the recent Mac - Naughton Pro -Amateur Tournament. Who Started This Shaving : usirness? It's a surprising thing that there aren't more beards around, when you consider that the av- erage man spends some -,six months of his life gloomily scraping away 456 million un- wanted whiskers from two square miles of skin. Who started this futile busi- ness? Nobody knows. But the Egyptians were definitely shav- ing 5,000 years ago. It can be a painful enough process, too, even with a modern safety razor. Spare a thought, then, for the African tribe which uses planes of red-hot iron for a close singe; or the one in the Pacific which clips a whisker at a time between two sharp pieces of flint. In other parts of the world, beyond reach of razor blades, the local citizens use such ,.m- comfortable implements as sharks' teeth, shells, pieces of bamboo and broken glass. One of the sorest cheeks in shaving history must have been suffered by Samuel Pepys, who wrote in his diary on May 2nd, 1662: "To trimming myself, which I have done this week every morning with a pumice stone . . . I find 1t very easy, speedy and cleanly, and shall continue the practice of it." Two years later, he had chang- ed his mind: "This morning I began a practice which I find with the ease I do it with that I shall continue . . . that is to trim myself with a razor: which pleases me mightily." Men have always used a blade Of some kind to rid themselves of stubble trouble. The oldest razors yet found—jagged pieces of green obsidian stone — were used in Peru 3,000 years ago. Bronze razors dredged from the DIAMOND DOME — Something unique in construction is this aluminum -domed auditorium, shown during final stages of its erection at Honolulu's Hawaiian Village. The building was erected in only 20 working hours by a 38 -man crew. There as no interior framework or support. Diamond-shaped aluminum panels are bolted together to form a rigid shell, which, as. seen In lower .photo, is strengthened by addition of exterior struts. The auditorium will seat more than 1,800 people. • Thames and dating back to 1,000 B.C. have looped blades cast in One piece, so that a finger could be used to feel the skin while shaving. Down the centuries there have been as many reasons for.shav- ing as there have Teen different methods of doing it. Both Peter the Great of Russia and Eliza- beth I of England pounced on beards as a profitable source of taxation. Elizabeth imposing a penalty of 3s. 4d. a year on bearded priests. Alexander the Great forbade them in his armies on the grounds that they gave enemies too convenient a handhold. To the ancient Greeks, shaving was a sign of refinement, and Julius Caesar noted that in Britain it indicated noble birth. The first attempt at a safety razor carne in 1762, when a Paris master cutler produced a modi- fied cutthroat type, with a guard on the blade. The modern form of razor, with blade at an angle t0 the handle, came eighty-five years later. Meanwhile, inventors had a field day, creating such weird and wonderful instruments as a cylindrical beard -grinding ma- chine, driven by a foot treadle, and a razor to which was attach- ed a small boiler designed to soften the bristles with a jet of steam! Statisticians have had a won- derful time with shaving. It has been gravely calculated, for ex- ample, that the energy expend- ed on it in a lifetime is enough for a 140-1b. man to climb 764 nine -inch stairs; that the average face has 40 square inches of shaving surface, on which 25,000 'whiskers grow at least a hun- dredth of an inch in twenty- four hours. Down With Booze: A man went up to a passer-by in New York one warm after- noon last June and asked: "What city am I in!" The answer so disturbed him that he went straight tO the nearest police station. Dazed, he tried to explain to the duty ser- geant that the last thing he re- membered was being in a bar in Johannesburg — 8,000 miles away two months earlier. The police sent him to hospital for a check up. In July, a railway worker in France was astounded to see - snorting, hiccupping pigs stag- gering out of a truck. Hastily he called a vet. "Blind . drunk," decided the vet when the police had taken charge of the disorderly char- acters. Examining the -train the police foundthat the pigs' truck had been shunted violently at some point of its journey smashing open the pigs' cages and two barrels of the finest Bordeaux wine. The pigs were delighted; they guzzled the lot! Earlier last year, wine mer- chant Bill Gartner opened his cellar for the first time for near- ly a week and found thousands of ants wallowing in booze, Un- disturbed, the crawling army had gnawed through the kegs and drained away $500 worth of rum. Then as a 'chaser" they had a go at the champagne which was frothing 'everywhere. Bill Gartner was severly bit- ten when he entered the cellar for the ants were all fighting drunk. • ■ CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AGENTS WANTED GO INTO BUSINESS for yourself: Sell exclusive • houseware products and appliances wanted by every house- holder. These Items are not sold In stores. 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