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The Seaforth News, 1953-08-06, Page 3Buried in a Carpet Have y o u ever thought how you want to be dressed when you are buried? Some folk, like the doctor who was recently buried in blue serge suit, shirt, collar, tie, and shoes, jibe at the convert- Lionel shroud, and stipulate spe- cial attire. "Boss" Croker, the famous one- time political leader, wore a dress suit on his last journey, and the pall was woven of violets and evergreens. Then there was Captain Ro- bert Hutton, a 17th century hunt- ing squire, who at his own re- quest was buried in the orchard of Houghton Hall, Co, Purhaln, in full hunting kit, A priest directed that his body should be dressed in the vest- ments in which he used to cele- brate the Blessed Sacrament. The famous English preachers John Wesley and George White- field were both buried in gown and cassock. And Kid Gloves In spite of the fact that the Puritans scorned rich attitre, Oli- ver Cromwell's body was buried more richly draped with velvet, ermine, and costly lace than any English monarch ever had been in the centuries before. In the 18th century women ask- ed to be buried in their finest lace. The actress Ann Oldfield, for instance, directed that she be placed in her coffin wearing "a fine Brussels head, a Holland shift with a tucker of double ruffles, and a pair of new kid gloves." Petticoat, too Army officers have asked to be buried in full regimentals. One, an Army doctor, stipulated his medical staff corps uniform with medals attached. There was an • additional request: that a parcel containing the small pink 'half - petticoat, in which a certain lady died, might be placed beneath his head in the coffin. A regimental sergeant- major was buried in the scarlet tunic he wore in The Queen's Regiment, Not all the unusual burial re- quests are for fine clothes, Dr, Alexander Graham Bell, the in- ventor of the telephone, chose a e+orduroy working suit. The only decoration he wore was the French Legion of Honour which bo greatly prized. There's Evil in the Wind * Hay Fever Is Officially Here Take a good look at that black blob at • the right, hay -fever 'sufferers. That's a ragweed spore magnified 3300 times, and the cause of all your trouble, For the next two months the ragweeds will shed their pollen, agonizing some 3,000,000 hap- less souls,.hnany of whom •will suffer• until frost comes this ,fail, There's not much anyone caw do about it either, except go to one of the few areas in the country which are free from ragweed, or, in some cases, take skin shots or special pills under a doctor's direction. Ac- tually, the ragweed spore is only one-half of one -thou- sandth of an inch across, but it $agues a lot of persons,• like those shown in the above se- quence showing the various stages of the hay -fever sneeze. A Bournemouth resident asked that his body, dressed in pyjamas, should be placed in a plain deal coffn lined with calico. A Seven- oaks, Kent, man directed that he be dressed for burial in a knick- erbocker Suit and shoes, Some folk even disdain a cof- fin, like the monk of Coalville, Leicestershire, w h o preferred interment in his monastic habit, And Wilfred Blunt, traveller and writer, asked that he should be laid in the ground in his old Eastern travelling carpet, TllLFA1N F JokA T The question of hand versus mechanical thinning of sugar beets has been answered partial- ly by the Lethbridge Experiment- al Station as a result of co-oper- ative tests, 4: * 4 The Station found that hand, thinning gave, on the average, a yield one ton higher than com- plete mechanical thinning. But, on some farms where soil condi- tions were more suitable, there were no differences in yields be- tween the two methods of thin- ning. This suggests the import- ance of careful seedbed prepara- tion if you plan to use the mech- anical thinner. * *;, * Plots which had been gone over once with the mechanical thinner followed by hand thin- ning saved time over hand thin- ning alone. * 4 * But, twice over with the mech- anical thinner followed by hand thinning saved further time but gave lower yields than just hand thinning. * "' * The Station suggests that the mechanical thinner can be comb- ined profitably with hand thin- ning with no decrease in yield. Where labor is not available, the mechanical thinner may be used entirely but decreased yields may result unless careful attention is paid to the operation of the machine' and to- the selection of knife heads in relation to stands. * * A good tractor operator watch- es his machine closely. He listens for unusual noises. He looks at the smoke from the exhaust. If he hears unusual noises or sees excessive smoke coming from the exhaust he stops the tractor and investigates. The good tractor operator finds out what is wrong and corrects it immediately. * * 4: Excessive smoke from the ex- haust pipe means that something is wrong. * 4 4, Black smoke usually means a rich mixture so the carburetor or choke may be set incorrectly. Or, the tractor may be overloaded. Worse, you may be using a low quality and grade of fuel, If the smoke •from the exhaust CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Previouoly 4. Stop 8. Crustacean 12. Unit of wire measurement 13. Baked n)aY 14. Entice 16. Italian dessert 17. Praotiee swordplay 18. hound tapering solid 10. Musical note 20. Aflame 21 Mistake 20. Motion of the sea 27, Stuff 18, lepnch 20. Indian or Tierra del Fuego 30Straighten 31 Number 82. Rug 38 Wont to taw 34. Quarter bushel 26, Sleeping ear 37. TOnrly British inhabitants 38 Thing (!awl 30 Scraped linen 40, Acid fruit 48. Professional man 46, AM 47. Oil stone 48. nate (comb. term) 48, 17nded 50. Points 51, Secure DOWN 1.Oertnan oily 2. Tear 3. Make clear 4. Rock 6. Prong 8. Biblical priest '0 Myself 8. Not soiled 9. Operate 10, Curve 11. Working party 16, Greater quantity 17. Waterway 19. African antelope 20. Particles 21, Last 22. Thorn 23. Discovering 24. Upright 26. Files 27. Uinta 30. Tree 34. half quart 36. Wear away 37. Languishes 30. Give for n time 40. Boy 41. Individual 42. Chess pieces 43. Put on 44, Perceive 95, Little one 47, That chap Aus er Elsewhere on This Page is blue, it indicates that the engine is using too much oil. This may be due to poor fitting rings, loose bearings or worn valve guides. * Listen for unusual noises. A knock in the motor may mean serious trouble or a simple ad- justment may correct it. * , * o A knock may mean that your engine lacks lubricating oil, It may mean worn bearings or bushings. It could be that the spark timing or fuel injection is too far advanced. Possibly the carburetor is set too lean. Exces- sive carbon deposits or the in- correct grade of fuel may be the cause. Possibly the tappets need adjusting. * ": *. What is another physical evi- dence that the tractor is not operating right? It is the "feel" of the tractor as the operator drives, He notices signs of slug- gishness. He isn't getting the power he feels he should. * * * The first thing to look for is whether the brakes are set or dragging. The air cleaner may be clogged. It may be poor compres- sion due to leaky valves, worn or stuck rings or the oil may be badly diluted. * * * Then again sluggishness may be that the carburetor is set either too rich or too lean. The timing may be off or wrong spark plugs installed, Look for im- properly adjusted carburetor linkage, worn throttle shaft bushing or see if the governor to carburetor linkage is binding. * 4 * Included in the "feel" will be irregular or missing engine. First check all the ignition wiring for breaks, loose or corroded connec- tions, The coil or condenser may be defective. Spark plugs may be wet, dirty, fouled, cracked or improperly gapped. There niay be dirt or water in the carbure- tor, fuel pump or strainers. Valves may be the trouble - stuck, leaking, burned or incor- rect clearance. There may be leaky gaskets in the cylinder head or intake manifold. • "< * Whatever the signs are, stop the tractor and investigate. Find out what is wrong. The modern tractor engine is precision built. There are some adjustments you may do yourself. But don't guess. In making/repairs or adjustments follow the manufacturer's speci- fications as given in the instruc- tion book. If there is some trouble that cannot be fixed readily at home, then take your tractor to a trained mecharde SPEEDY MAIL Opening a slightly soiled let- ter which reached his home a week or two ago, a Plymouth auctioneer had a shock, The letter was posted to him by a friend, Mr, Rowse Mitchell, who wrote it while serving as a soldier in France on October 15, 1915. No- body knows where the letter had been dieting the intervening 33 years. A much more striking instance of a delayed letter dates back to 1927, when one posted in Knightsbridge, London, on Nov- ember 30, 1865, was delivel'ed in Baker St., little more than a nide away. It was -63 years late. And the letter was surcharged three- pence because the stamp was out of date! Handy Hints F Indoors and Out Save recipes that appear on both sides of a magazine page by "framing." Remove the magazine page and center it on a leaf of your recipe scrapbook, Then trace the recipes to be framed, bearing down hard at the corn- ers to make dots that show through. Join dots with pencilled lines and cut out section outlined. Paste "window" page over mag- azine page so the recipes will show through, * * * Stitch the pajama draw string in the center back of men's and boys' pajama pants and the draw string won't pull out, Also pre- vents the pajama cord frons gett- ing tangled with other clothes in the washer. * * * Add a pinch of cream of tartar to the water in the bottom,. of your aluinum double boiler to keep -the pan from becoming dis- colored, Try it in the baby's bottle sterilizer, too. * * 4: File paper dolls in a spiral or looseleaf note book to keep them from being lost or torn. Make pockets by cutting off the top half of every other page and pasting the remaining lower half to the nezt whole page at the bottom and sides. Slip each doll and its clothes in a separate pocket, and print doll's name on its own pocket. * 4 * Use your ice cream scoop to dip out muffin or cup cake bat- ter, Then each muffin or cake will be the same size, No grabbing for the biggest one on the plate! Carry the baby's bottles in a soft-drink carton when traveling. Keeps bottles from rattling, and from being misplaced. Perfectly sanitary if you invert nipples and - cap bottles. p * * * Mold gelatin salads in empty baking powder cans, Unn'lold when set, slide on to a plate, and slice. Round salads will please the youngsters. Warning to Lady Athletes* Don't Try To Overdo ISM Atter two famous airwomen, Madame Jacqueline Auriol and Mrs. "Jackie" Moggridge, had announced their intention of try- ing to crash the sound barrier, they were beaten to it bye third "Jackie," Mrs. Jacqueline Coch- ran. Flying a Sabre jet in Califor- nia, Mrs, Cochran took the world's women's air speed record from Madame Auriol, daughter- in-law of the French President, and claimed yet another distinc- tion for the so-called weaker sex. Women have advanced so far into what was once exclusively Man's territory that one wonders Whether in the near future they will catch up with men and then outstrip them. It must be remembered that women have been in the compe- titive field for only about fifty years of the many thousands that human beings have occupied their planet. At present, as far as feats of brute strength are concerned, women are no match for men. But in some sports at which no one ever dreamt of them compet- ing only a few years ago, they are corning on fast. Athletics is one of these fields writes "H.D." in "Answers." The modern Olympic Games were founded in 1896. In that year T. E, Burke, of U.S.A., the world's fastest sprinter, covered the 100 metres in 12 seconds. There are three women in the world to -day who have run the same distance at a faster pace. Helen Herring Stephens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, and Marjorie Jackson (recently awarded the M.B.E.), have all run 100 metres in 11,5 seconds, and Marjorie Jackson ran the distance in 11.4 seconds in Japan in 1952, though the record has not yet officially been confirmed. The first Olympic 200 and 400 metres races were run by men in 22.2 seconds and 54,2 seconds respectively. The times of the fastest women for those events to -day are 23.4 and 56.02 seconds, There are some sports in which one hopes that women will never try to compete with men; sports that have a brutalising effect on them -boxing, wrestling, games like rugger that need sheer physical strength, or long-dist- ance running, in which it would be agonising for the spectators to watch women at the end of their physical tether. Even at golf, a game at which men are supposed to be far superior to women, they have given us some shocks. In 1951 a team comprising Babe Zaharias, Patty Berg, Betsy Rawls, Betty Jamieson, Peggy Kirk, and Betty Bush played such stalwarts as Leonard Crawley, ex -Walker Cup captain John Beck, ex -amateur champion Max McCready, Ger- ald Micklem, Bromley Daven- port, and Brig -Generals A. C. Critchley over the tough, west course at Wentworth, Surrey, known as the Burma Road -and the men lost every game! Women, too, can hold their own at shooting. In 1930 M1sls Marjorie Foster snatched the King's Prize at Bisley from the finest sharpshooters in the Em- pire! The famous cyclist Eileen Sheridan, when 26 and the mother of a 4/ -year-old son, equalled some of the best male performances. She cycled from Birmingham to London in 5 hours 21 minutes; from London to Oxford and back in 5 hours 27 minutes 19 seconds; 51 miles in 2 hours 14 minutes 16 seconds; 100 miles in 4 hours 16 minutes 1 second-unpaced and unaided. Eileen Sheridan is under 5 feet tall and weighs 7 stone 10 pound. Yet she covered 237.82 miles in 12 hours. Compare this with the London -Heysham boat train ex- press that does 237.5 miles in 12 hours 23 minutes, At tennis women are not es good as men, though a first-class woman player can beat the aver- age man easily. At swimming the position is different. Many wo- men have crossed the Channel, involving a tremendous physical and mental strain, whereas some very fine men swimmers have failed, Women fear no challenge there, And on the ice they are infinitely more graceful and pleasing to watch, Women should keep to sports suited to their temperament and physique. Let them excel at these and give pleasure to themseives and those who watch them. The librarian of Staten Island's roving bookmobile was confront- ed recently by an importunate youth who demanded "that book you talked me into borrowing three weeks ago." The grafified librarian asked, "Was it so good you want to read it over agan?" "Heck, no," said the bookworm. "I wrote my new girl's phone number in it," Who's Next? In Atlanta, the Journal -Constitution carried an ad offering for sale a "honey- moon lodge with big stone fire- place .. , Rustic and different ... Reason for leaving: honeymoon over." (upside down to prevent peeking) MOO', D0® ' : fl©t1 ©OQ®©©13 51 , p• 113QII1, 101318100 1'�' ©©flL1©© DD©Cit t.7©fin 100 11/1111211;EICIMIEU AMMO U©©M.©13©E1 ,,r (M ES ©OC]CI©EE' D t ©©IIEI J -1311113 ' I©l©E!1 ', b©• t©17® ©Ellalai:©IJU©- >flIII Grand Opening -Giant -sized overhead door swings into opera- tion at the Watertown Municipal Airport. Measuring 120 feet in length, the door is operated by an electrically -driven weight system controlled by the touch of a button. No Sweat --Little Conrad Imhaus finds it hard to believe, but this big Duroc pig is not taking that mud bath for fun or as a beauty treatment. Pigs don't perspire, so covering themselves with mud is the only way they can keep cool when the weather gets hot. o II ��.C,� Nom IillN IIIiz . <. IV' ■. , la i Wall NO 27 . 29 ■II, 3e rrugy.y.IIII ■. III ill moil Mitilillifill iiiii iiirt-4 iiii ankr„,,,::, ::::,kia pi Aus er Elsewhere on This Page is blue, it indicates that the engine is using too much oil. This may be due to poor fitting rings, loose bearings or worn valve guides. * Listen for unusual noises. A knock in the motor may mean serious trouble or a simple ad- justment may correct it. * , * o A knock may mean that your engine lacks lubricating oil, It may mean worn bearings or bushings. It could be that the spark timing or fuel injection is too far advanced. Possibly the carburetor is set too lean. Exces- sive carbon deposits or the in- correct grade of fuel may be the cause. Possibly the tappets need adjusting. * ": *. What is another physical evi- dence that the tractor is not operating right? It is the "feel" of the tractor as the operator drives, He notices signs of slug- gishness. He isn't getting the power he feels he should. * * * The first thing to look for is whether the brakes are set or dragging. The air cleaner may be clogged. It may be poor compres- sion due to leaky valves, worn or stuck rings or the oil may be badly diluted. * * * Then again sluggishness may be that the carburetor is set either too rich or too lean. The timing may be off or wrong spark plugs installed, Look for im- properly adjusted carburetor linkage, worn throttle shaft bushing or see if the governor to carburetor linkage is binding. * 4 * Included in the "feel" will be irregular or missing engine. First check all the ignition wiring for breaks, loose or corroded connec- tions, The coil or condenser may be defective. Spark plugs may be wet, dirty, fouled, cracked or improperly gapped. There niay be dirt or water in the carbure- tor, fuel pump or strainers. Valves may be the trouble - stuck, leaking, burned or incor- rect clearance. There may be leaky gaskets in the cylinder head or intake manifold. • "< * Whatever the signs are, stop the tractor and investigate. Find out what is wrong. The modern tractor engine is precision built. There are some adjustments you may do yourself. But don't guess. In making/repairs or adjustments follow the manufacturer's speci- fications as given in the instruc- tion book. If there is some trouble that cannot be fixed readily at home, then take your tractor to a trained mecharde SPEEDY MAIL Opening a slightly soiled let- ter which reached his home a week or two ago, a Plymouth auctioneer had a shock, The letter was posted to him by a friend, Mr, Rowse Mitchell, who wrote it while serving as a soldier in France on October 15, 1915. No- body knows where the letter had been dieting the intervening 33 years. A much more striking instance of a delayed letter dates back to 1927, when one posted in Knightsbridge, London, on Nov- ember 30, 1865, was delivel'ed in Baker St., little more than a nide away. It was -63 years late. And the letter was surcharged three- pence because the stamp was out of date! Handy Hints F Indoors and Out Save recipes that appear on both sides of a magazine page by "framing." Remove the magazine page and center it on a leaf of your recipe scrapbook, Then trace the recipes to be framed, bearing down hard at the corn- ers to make dots that show through. Join dots with pencilled lines and cut out section outlined. Paste "window" page over mag- azine page so the recipes will show through, * * * Stitch the pajama draw string in the center back of men's and boys' pajama pants and the draw string won't pull out, Also pre- vents the pajama cord frons gett- ing tangled with other clothes in the washer. * * * Add a pinch of cream of tartar to the water in the bottom,. of your aluinum double boiler to keep -the pan from becoming dis- colored, Try it in the baby's bottle sterilizer, too. * * 4: File paper dolls in a spiral or looseleaf note book to keep them from being lost or torn. Make pockets by cutting off the top half of every other page and pasting the remaining lower half to the nezt whole page at the bottom and sides. Slip each doll and its clothes in a separate pocket, and print doll's name on its own pocket. * 4 * Use your ice cream scoop to dip out muffin or cup cake bat- ter, Then each muffin or cake will be the same size, No grabbing for the biggest one on the plate! Carry the baby's bottles in a soft-drink carton when traveling. Keeps bottles from rattling, and from being misplaced. Perfectly sanitary if you invert nipples and - cap bottles. p * * * Mold gelatin salads in empty baking powder cans, Unn'lold when set, slide on to a plate, and slice. Round salads will please the youngsters. Warning to Lady Athletes* Don't Try To Overdo ISM Atter two famous airwomen, Madame Jacqueline Auriol and Mrs. "Jackie" Moggridge, had announced their intention of try- ing to crash the sound barrier, they were beaten to it bye third "Jackie," Mrs. Jacqueline Coch- ran. Flying a Sabre jet in Califor- nia, Mrs, Cochran took the world's women's air speed record from Madame Auriol, daughter- in-law of the French President, and claimed yet another distinc- tion for the so-called weaker sex. Women have advanced so far into what was once exclusively Man's territory that one wonders Whether in the near future they will catch up with men and then outstrip them. It must be remembered that women have been in the compe- titive field for only about fifty years of the many thousands that human beings have occupied their planet. At present, as far as feats of brute strength are concerned, women are no match for men. But in some sports at which no one ever dreamt of them compet- ing only a few years ago, they are corning on fast. Athletics is one of these fields writes "H.D." in "Answers." The modern Olympic Games were founded in 1896. In that year T. E, Burke, of U.S.A., the world's fastest sprinter, covered the 100 metres in 12 seconds. There are three women in the world to -day who have run the same distance at a faster pace. Helen Herring Stephens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, and Marjorie Jackson (recently awarded the M.B.E.), have all run 100 metres in 11,5 seconds, and Marjorie Jackson ran the distance in 11.4 seconds in Japan in 1952, though the record has not yet officially been confirmed. The first Olympic 200 and 400 metres races were run by men in 22.2 seconds and 54,2 seconds respectively. The times of the fastest women for those events to -day are 23.4 and 56.02 seconds, There are some sports in which one hopes that women will never try to compete with men; sports that have a brutalising effect on them -boxing, wrestling, games like rugger that need sheer physical strength, or long-dist- ance running, in which it would be agonising for the spectators to watch women at the end of their physical tether. Even at golf, a game at which men are supposed to be far superior to women, they have given us some shocks. In 1951 a team comprising Babe Zaharias, Patty Berg, Betsy Rawls, Betty Jamieson, Peggy Kirk, and Betty Bush played such stalwarts as Leonard Crawley, ex -Walker Cup captain John Beck, ex -amateur champion Max McCready, Ger- ald Micklem, Bromley Daven- port, and Brig -Generals A. C. Critchley over the tough, west course at Wentworth, Surrey, known as the Burma Road -and the men lost every game! Women, too, can hold their own at shooting. In 1930 M1sls Marjorie Foster snatched the King's Prize at Bisley from the finest sharpshooters in the Em- pire! The famous cyclist Eileen Sheridan, when 26 and the mother of a 4/ -year-old son, equalled some of the best male performances. She cycled from Birmingham to London in 5 hours 21 minutes; from London to Oxford and back in 5 hours 27 minutes 19 seconds; 51 miles in 2 hours 14 minutes 16 seconds; 100 miles in 4 hours 16 minutes 1 second-unpaced and unaided. Eileen Sheridan is under 5 feet tall and weighs 7 stone 10 pound. Yet she covered 237.82 miles in 12 hours. Compare this with the London -Heysham boat train ex- press that does 237.5 miles in 12 hours 23 minutes, At tennis women are not es good as men, though a first-class woman player can beat the aver- age man easily. At swimming the position is different. Many wo- men have crossed the Channel, involving a tremendous physical and mental strain, whereas some very fine men swimmers have failed, Women fear no challenge there, And on the ice they are infinitely more graceful and pleasing to watch, Women should keep to sports suited to their temperament and physique. Let them excel at these and give pleasure to themseives and those who watch them. The librarian of Staten Island's roving bookmobile was confront- ed recently by an importunate youth who demanded "that book you talked me into borrowing three weeks ago." The grafified librarian asked, "Was it so good you want to read it over agan?" "Heck, no," said the bookworm. "I wrote my new girl's phone number in it," Who's Next? In Atlanta, the Journal -Constitution carried an ad offering for sale a "honey- moon lodge with big stone fire- place .. , Rustic and different ... Reason for leaving: honeymoon over." (upside down to prevent peeking) MOO', D0® ' : fl©t1 ©OQ®©©13 51 , p• 113QII1, 101318100 1'�' ©©flL1©© DD©Cit t.7©fin 100 11/1111211;EICIMIEU AMMO U©©M.©13©E1 ,,r (M ES ©OC]CI©EE' D t ©©IIEI J -1311113 ' I©l©E!1 ', b©• t©17® ©Ellalai:©IJU©- >flIII Grand Opening -Giant -sized overhead door swings into opera- tion at the Watertown Municipal Airport. Measuring 120 feet in length, the door is operated by an electrically -driven weight system controlled by the touch of a button. No Sweat --Little Conrad Imhaus finds it hard to believe, but this big Duroc pig is not taking that mud bath for fun or as a beauty treatment. Pigs don't perspire, so covering themselves with mud is the only way they can keep cool when the weather gets hot.