Loading...
The Seaforth News, 1957-09-12, Page 7Loss Of Memory Causes Odd Results Twice in one day recently people hit the headlines, through loss of memory. A Somerset girl picking primroses in .a glade lost a day out of her life and came back to find herself in a country road -wearing different clothes. A trade union secretary found himself' in Geneva -reliving a trip he had made four years previously! They are just two of the 10,000 eases a year of people in this country who leave their homes niytseriously-some never to re- turn.) ' It is usually while doing the most mundane things that people vanish. Like the Dorking, Sur- rey, man who left home to pop into the "local" a hundred yards. down the street to bring back e pint of beer. Nine years later he walked in his front door grenning cheerfully -and brand- fshing a pint he hadbought when his lost memory' suddenly re- turned! Even longer away was. the 18 - year -old boy sent by his mother to buy a pound of liver. He came back 28 . years later -with the liver. When his memory re- turned to him he found himself working in Alaska. He travelled straight home and bought the liver on the way. You wouldn't thinka honey- moon was the ideal time for vanishing, but one man did so while his wife was shopping and walked about till he wore out his shoes. He returned after three days with no idea of what had happened. Seven thousand out of the 10,000 who vanish in Britain each year are men and a quarter of all cases are due to loss of memory. Spring is the mnet dangerous time, say the experts. In April and May men, generally aged from 30 to 40, find the urge to wander irresistible. Another danger time is after five years of marriage. But many return to their wives in time to share the winter fireside! For women the dominant rea- son for disappearing is the sheer drudgery of housework and the feeling of being taken for grant- ed. "I'll show them!" says the woman who doesn't think her family appreciates her, and off she goes. And, of course, there are those who vanish with lovers. A fairly frequent cause among boys is a feeling of social in- feriority. They pass scholarships, go to better schools and mix 'with richer boys whom they can- not take to their own homes. So they go off to seek a fortune. "Did you tell your young man that I think he's no good?" a doctor inquired of his daughter. "Yes," she replied, "and he said it wasn't the first wrong diagnosis you'd made." A NEW CAR -The long awaited Edsel, newest car in the Ford line, made its debut recently at a series of press conferenies across the country. Aimed at the "medium price" market, the Edsel will have 18 -models in four series -Ranger, Pacer, Cor- sair and Citation. At right is the driver's eye view of the instrument panel and "Tele - touch" push button transmission controls located on the steer- ing wheel hub. The speed- ometer is drum type. Heater, defroster and ventilator are operated by a single control, right, centre. Front and rear styiing are shown in photo be- low of a Citation two -door hordtop and a Citation convert- ible. The car has a vertical grille and concave sculptured sides. Horizontal taillights blend into the flight deck luggage compartment to provide a solid bar of illumination. Each bar has two segments. Turn indi-' cqtors and brake warning lights are in outer segments. eellieeiteleeitt Can We See The Future ? The death -cell silence was broken by the condemned man's groans. "What's wrong?" inquir- ed his jailer, holding up a flick- ering candle. John Lee, called the Babba-. combe Monster, and due to hang next morning, stirred on his nar- row prison cot. "I had a strange dream," he muttered. "1 was pinioned, blind- folded, and with the rope round my neck on the drop. And when the hangman drew the bolt it wouldn't work." "Nonsense!" declared the jail-. er. "It always works," , But he was wrong. For just as in the dream, the drop failed to work. They took the condemned man back to the cell and worked on the mechanism. They tried again, and once more it stuck. There are thousands of cases of dreams such as John Lee's which revealed future events to the dreamer. And there haye MISS ARIZONA -The drawing board where Major Hoople is produced holds an especial fascination for Miss Lynn Freyse, who is Miss Arizona and a candidate for Miss America. Her father, Bili Freyse, draws the famous cartoon, Our Boarding House, and in addition to drama, art is one of Lynn's talents. been many attempts to explain this astounding faculty of seeing into the futl,lre. One day Charles Dickens, the great novelist, came down to breakfast and said: "I had a very curious dream. I dreamed that a lady in a red shawl called on me and said: 'I am Miss Napier.' I don't know any lady of that name. Yet the dream was most vivid.' The following day two ladies called on Dickens. One wore a red shawl. She introduced her- self as Miss Napier. She was an admirer of the novelist, but un- known to him. Lady Hester Stanhope was one of the most remarkable women of the nineteenth century. She suddenly turned her back on the glittering London society which had been her life and set out for the East. She settled among the Druse people of Mount Lebanon and adopted their way of life. When they came to be- lieve she had the power of divination they made her their uncrowned queen. Had she this strange power? It would seem so. For one day, before she left London for her strange new way of life, Lady Hester was enter- taining in her Mayfair mansion a number of guests, among thein a Mr. Wolff. She turned to Mr. Wolff and said: "You mentioned at lunch time that you were going to Aleppo and Antioch shortly?" He agreed. "That is my plan" "Well, don't go," advised his hostess. "Both those towns will shortly be destroyed by an earthquake." v Mr. Wolff did not take her warning seriously, and went to Aleppo. One day he was dining there with de Lesseps, the famous engineer who built the Suez Canal, and a Mr. Barker. "We are in peril here," he re- marked, half -jokingly, remem- bering Lady Hester's warning. "The town is about to be de- stroyed by a fearful earthquake." They all laughed at this and thought no more of it. But a few days later both Aleppo and Antioch were, in fact, destroyed. Jdseph de Lanyi, Bishop of Grosswardin, had a strange and disturbing dream. He wrote it down and sent for his servants to tell them of it, while still in his bedroom. "I dreamed," he told them, erseeteteeetereeletteeterer heeeteeteeethetettele ON SOME .FOR$ GN STRAND—Nearing completion in Rangoon, Burma, is this impressive war cemetery for allied sete4ters killed during World War II. Supervised by the British War Graves Commission, the cemetery will be for about 27,000 soldiers, including Americans, Britons, AustraR:ans, Indians, New Zealanders and Pakistanis. It is third war cemetery located acs. Burma, "that I had a letter with a thick black border bearing the arms of the Archduke of Austria- Hungary, formerly, as you all know, my pupil. "When I opened the letter it revealed a picture. I saw a street with an alley off. Seated in a motor -car were the Arch- duke and Archduchess. An of- ficer sat opposite tem, and a chauffeur was driving the car. "Suddenly two young men dashed forward and fired several Beer sat opposite them, and a duchess were shot. A crowd surg-ed forward in great confu- sion. "Then the picture faded and only the writing of the letter was visible to me. I then read this: 'Your Eminence,.dear Dr. Lanyi, my wife and I have been vic- tims of a political crime at Sara- jevo. We commend ourselves to your prayers. Sarajevo, June 28th, 4 a.m." Later came the news of the fateful double murder which started the first world war. One night there came a fright- ening dream to Dr. von Gudden, who was the medical attendant of the mad king of Bavaria, Lud- wig II. , The doctor dreamed that he was in a boat on the Bergersee lake with another man, when the other attacked him and both fell into the water and were drowned. A few weeks later, the mad king suggested to Dr. von Gud- den that they went for a row on the lake. The doctor had evi- dently forgotten his prophetic dream. For a time the king rowed the boat quite sanely. Then, sudden- ly, he attacked the doctor. There was a fierce struggle and both were flung into the water and drowned. Sometimes quite a trivial mat- ter is revealed in a dream. For instance, the great Ger- man philosopher, Schopenhauer, spilt a lot of ink all over the floor of his study. When he rang for the maid, she came and said: "Well, isn't that strange! I dreamed this last night." "Nonsense!" exclaimed the philosopher. "How could you dream what had yet to take lace?" "Oh, but I did," persisted the girl. "And what is more I told cook and the manservant." When Schopenhauer had cross- examined these witnesses to the girl's dream of the future, he was convinced of its truth. This is what he wrote about it: "This story, whose truth 1 guar- antee, puts the reality of such dreams beyond question. There- fore all that happens is fated. Mr. J. W. Dunne, following a dream in which 11e foresaw in detail that terrible disaster when the Flying Scotsman jumped the tracks north of the Firth of Forh bridge with great loss of life, studied the subject scien- tifically. , His method was simple. He be- gan to keep a dream diary. By reading back he found that he frequently had dreams of the future. He asserted that, if anybody, cares to take the trouble to keep a dream diary, they will find, as he did, that this power of dream- ing into the future is not limited to a small number of people, but is the. undiscovered .f ashy of us all. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AGENTS WANTED - - MEDICAL BE YOUR OWN BOSS.I MEN or women, can work your own hours, and make profits up to 500% selling exclusive houseware products and -appliances.. No .competition, not availablein stores, and they are a necessity In every home. Write at once for free colour, catalogue, show Ing retail prices plus confidegntial whole- sale' price list. Murray Salsa, 3822 St, Lawrence Blvd., Montreal. •ARTICLES FOR SALE MASE your own beverages, 10 topnotch recipes, 75c. Glidden's, 342 Lamarche St„ Arvada, Que. NYLON LACES, 38 yds. $1.00. Ribbon 1,500 yds. -$1,00. Beautiful taffetlzed, iii -WC Postpaid. Schaefer, 284. Drum- mondville, Que. BABY CHICKS IF you want to stay in the egg business it is necessary to buy special egg breeds. 'Ordinary egg breeds and dual purpose breeds, are not good enough, We offer the following top quality egg breeds, Ames In Cross Series 400, Strain Cross White. Leghorn, Rhode Island Red 'X White Ledhorn, Warren Strain Cross Rhode Island Red, Also. dual purpose Breeds, Broller Breeds, Turkey Poults, Older Pullets, Catalogue. TWEDDL I CHICK HATCHERIES LTD. FERGUS • ONTARIO CHICKS, pullets, wide choice. Including Ames In -Cross (extra eggs, low cost). Limited quantity started. Order Sep- tember -October broilers now. Ask us for further particulars, Bray Hatchery, 120 John N, Hamilton. FARM MACHINERY FOR SALE NO. 80 Allis Chalmers Combine; Intel. national 7 ft. Binder; Massey -Harris 7 ft. Self" Propelled Combine: Apply Guelph Implement Co. Limited, Guelph, Ont, MECHANICAL PARTS, REPAIRS MOTALOY RING AND VALVE JOB While you drive for only $8.00. For car. Motaloy saves you money. Motaloy tionally guaranteed. Effective for life of. car. Motaloy saves you money. Motaloy Sales Co., 34 West Street, Goderich, Ontario. Dealer inquiries invited. MEDICAL • READ THIS -EVERY SUFFERER OF RHEU- MATIC PAINS OR NEURITIS SHOULD TRY DIXON'S REMEDY MUNRO'S DRUG STORE 335 Elgin, Ottawa $1.25 Express Prepaid IT PAYS TO USE OUR CLASSIFIED COLUMNS as Biggest Best ? This philosophy of whatever is the biggest is the best seems to be getting out of hand. It is all right when applied to cir- cuses and anything in Texas, but now you have the Depart- ment of Agriculture chemists and plant researchers hailing the wonders of gibberellin, a new chemical which greatly in- creases the size of fruits and vegetables It has produced 12 -foot- cab- bages, tomatoes the size of foot- balls and pole beans from dwarf bush beans. The Department of Agriculture comments, "W e think there is a lot of research to do yet." So de we. Most of the fruits and vegetables are all right just es they now are. There should be some research to see just what would happen if fields of asparagus were to shoot up like palm trees, pumpkins and watermelons tipped the scales at 500 pounds, and the Hubbard squash resembled a Komodo lizard. The innocent whortleberry would turn into a gelatinous globule that would be as dan- gerous to attempt to carry home from the store as a small time bomb . . And what about onions and corn? If gibberellin is to quad- ruple them in size that will pre- sent two problems. How is any- one going to be able to peel such a large and powerful onion? And what would become of that good old sport of eating corn on the cb? -St. Louis Post -Dispatch. COMPETITION Competition for Canada's paper industry may still collie some day from lands of the bam- boo, says The Financial Post. A cheaper material than pine for making newsprint and wrapping paper is currently being sought by the Herty Foundation in the U.S. and bamboo has not been discarded. You Those days most people work under pressure, worry more s eep less. This strain on body and brain makes physical fitness easier to lose—harder to regain. Today's tense living, lowered resistance, overworky worry -any of these may affect normal kidney action. When kidneys get out of order, excess acids and wastes remain in the system. Then backache, disturbed rest, that "tired -out" heavy - headed feeling often follow. 'That's the time to, take Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's', stimulate the kii'neys tonormal action. Then you feel bettor • .sleep hatter—work better. Ask for Dodd's Kidney Pills at any drug counter. 53 POST'S ECZEMA SALVE BANISH the torment of dry eczem rashes andweeping skin troubles. Post' Eczema Salve will not disappoint yo Itching, sealing and burning eczema . acne, ringworm .pimples and foot sue ma wii respond readily to the steinle odorless ointment regardless of ho stubborn or hopeless .they .seem. Sent post Free on Receipt of Price PRICE $3,00 PER JAR POST'S REMEDIES 2865 St. Clair Avenue East TORONTO OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN FORMULA FOR LOVELINESS YOUR Complexion, -Fragile and Chen !shed, Ladies,' doyou have a dry and, lifeless akin? Do you want a fresh an lovely face? A truly clean and glow- Ing skin? A beautiful base for make- up? A clean rose leaf, Lovely. comp pplexion: is a thing to cherish and c Abe yours by using our peach bloo cleansing cream to really clean dee down and condition,_ your akin. 4 0 only $1.95 and our Orange skin foo to nourish and stimulate your akin,. oz. only $1.95. Sold on Money bee guarantee. Agents wanted. Apply: Mary Ellen Cosmetics Limited, 398 Dundee • Street, London, Ontario. BE A HAIRDRESSER JOIN CANADA'S LEADING SCHOOL Great Opportunity Learn Hairdressing Pleasant dignified profession; good wages. Thousands of successful Marvel Graduates. America's Greatest System Illustrated Catalog Free Write or Call MARVEL HAMDRESSING SCHOOLS 358 Bloor St. W., 'Toronto Branches: 44 King St. W., Hamilton 72 Rideau St.. Ottawa PATENTS FETHERSTONHAUGH & company Patent Attorneys, Established 1890. 800 University Ave., Toronto. Patents all countries. PERSONAL AUTHORS invited submit MS all types (including Poems) for book pub - 'Mallon. Reasonable terms. Stockwell Ltd., Ilfracombe, England, (Est'd. 1898). $1,00 TRIAL offer. Twenty-five deluxe personal requirements. Latest catalogue included. The Medico Agency. Box 22, Terminal "Q" Toronto, Ont, PUPS BOSTON'S MALE 8 months, young Pups, Registered AV53178. W. Heath- cote, Box 75,Langstaff, Ontario. SWINE OUR Landrace Sale held in Edmonton on June 24th was an outstanding. suc- cess. We received the highest average price of any swine sale held in West- ern Canada. And why shouldn't we? We took top quality Landrace Swine to this sale, all from imported stock, and Landrace is the fastest growing breed In Canada. Offering for immediate de. livery weanlings, four month olds, 6 lnmonth old sows and boars, guaranteed fromgimporteddstocls. cCbtae all. FERGUS LANDRACE SWINE FARM FERGUS ONTARIO LANDRACE Registered 4 -Star litter, 11 weeks old. Boars $76. Sows $100. JONES BROS., Wilton Grove, R.R. No. 2, Ontario. 401 (Sixx a idles south of London a LANDRACE Swine are becoming more and more popular in Canada. The de- mand for Tonra Landrace Swine, all from Imported stock, is Increasing by leaps and bounds. Why? We sell top quality stock, we sell at prices you can afford to pay and we satisfy our sus.. tomers. Offering for immediate de. Jlvery, weanlings, four month old sows and boars, guaranteed In pig sows and serviceable boars. Catalogue.. TONRA STOCK FARM R.R. 3, Holland Centre, Ontario WANTED FORD Model "T" or any older car brass headlights etc. Mail full list of parts. etc., to headlights, 655. Aylmer, Ont, ISSUE 36 — 1957 SLEEP TO -NIGHT AND RELIEVE NERVOUSNESS 4111 -DAY TO -MORROW! SEDICIN tablets taken according to directions Is a safe way to induce sleep or quiet the nerves when tense. SEDICIN $1.00-$4.95 Dnp Stoma oalyl YOWAY TO BICC '' PAY The lob you want and the salary you Tong for can be yours If you prepare for It now. At Shaw's you get intensive. busniess train. Ing for a definite career goal - rela- tively short training time -• individuals progress - minimum cost - free employ. ment service. ENROL NOW• BEGIN AS SOON AS YOU ARE READY DAY CLASSES NOW OPEN Recognized diploma courses or separate subjects o SECRETARIAL e. BUSINESS AD. COMMERCIAL MINISTRATION ® CLERITYPE ®'ACCOUNTINGS p. STENOGRAPHIC0 GENERAL EXECUTIVE FICE TRAINING • NG SECRETARIAL Phone, Write or Call at our office for complete information. 'HEAD OFFICE: 1730 BAY STREET, PHONE: WAinut 2.3165. Canada's Largest Private Business rraining. Institution.