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The Seaforth News, 1960-02-18, Page 6, Girls Iltuy Bob or Good Luck While a Wisconsin farmerwas braying a nap one evening re- Gently, a bat flew in through an Open window and bit him on 'the ear. The man died a day or two later from hydrophobia. Sueb fatalities are rare any- where in the world, for most species of • bats are harmless and will not attack human beings. An exception is the dreaded vampire bat of the. American tropics, which preys on cattle and sheep and sometimes counts man among its victims, "Lords of the twilight" is one of the nicknames given to bats. They have even been associ- ated with witchcraft, Two hun- dred years ago a woman was executed, in France as a witch simply because bats were often seen flying around her cottage at night. In appearance bats are a strange mixture of mouse and bird although all bats are mam- mals. This probably accounts for many of the queer beliefs and sinister legends about these little creatures. Bats in Vienna are still caught and occasionally sold to superstitious peasant -girls who believe they are lucky and can lure lovers. A manwas fined $75 in South Africa for extract- ing money from a credulous youth in exchange for the in- formation that his stomach was infested by a live bats It was a flight of three million bats from what appeared to be a yawning black pit in New Mexico which led to the discov- ery of the mammoth Carlsbad Caverns in 1901 by a lone cow- boy, Jim White. He was nearly bowled over with surprise when he saw the bats, looking like a vast cloud of black smoke, emerge from the caves 750 feet belowthe scorching desert on a nightly raid in search of insects. Later,. Ire explored the caverns. High Finance A salesman, trying to sell a housewife a refrigerator, point- ed out: "You can save enough on your food bills to pay for it." "That's fine," answered the woman, "but you see we're pay- ing for our car on the fares we save. Then, we're paying for our washing machine on the laundry bills we save, and we are paying for the house on the rent we are saving. It looks to nie like we just can't afford to save any more at the present time." "Do you believe in heredity?" "I most certainly do. That's bow I name into all my money." Beginners' Beauty tri ZamaWk vs Cover your bed with colour— fresh and fanciful tulips in print, plaid 'n' polka-dot scraps. Two applique patchesl Stems of bias binding or embroidery. One block makes a pillow to match quilt. Pattern 650; charts; ,gjirections; pattern of patches. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Tor- onto, Ont. Print plainly PAT- TERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. New ! New ! New ! Our 1960 Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book is ready NOW! 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A network of gadgets and conveni- encesby which we are trapped' and left helpless if , the hydro should go off for any 'length of time, leaving us with stoves that won't function; kettles that won't boil; furnaces that remain cold as charity; electricfixtures that fail to lighten our darkness; refrigerators that thaw and drip with de -frosted foods; washing machines and dryers that are as useful as a car without a.battery. Oh yes, I could go on with a long list of other articles — things to which we have become so accustomed we take them for granted. Last week we .would have traded any of our so-called con- veniences for a good old-fash- 'ioned wood and coal burning stove. Buteven such a stove wouldn't have been any use be- cause there's no place in our modern kitchen to put a stove- pipe. We have only one chimney and that takes care of the fur- nace and fireplace. So, although we know only too well what could happen in a power failure we, too, ate caught in our own net, just the same as about ninety-five percent of our neigh- bours. And I'm telling you we think ourselves mighty lucky there wasn't a power break in this district. Need I say we kept our fingers crossed the best part of a week, Come to think of it, was there ever a time. like last week for bad weather? Not just locally but in practically all parts of the world — on land, on sea, in Europe, Asia, many parts of the U.S.A. and right across Canada. Naturally, as always happens, we' are more concerned with districts that we know and 'are nearer to home. We were parte, cular]y concerned about friends in Dufferin County. We still don't know how they fared as we haven't been able to get through by telephone. One couple in their sixties is farm- ing and depend entirely on hy- dro for pumping water to the barn — and of course for light. They do have fuel burning stoves so at least they would be warm. The other couple is retired and elderly, have a lovely country home in an isolated district with never a neighbour in sight. An ideal spot in summer, but in winter , .. ye gods! The thought of so much seclusion makes my blood run cold. As I say we did not run into too much trouble around here — except for icy roads and walks. Tuesday night was the worst, freezing rain coated wires and trees making us wonder how long before the hydro gave up the ghost, Friday morning it started to snow and we felt the worst was over, We breathed a sigh of relief and a prayer of thankfulness. I didn't get out to do any shopping; our local,,, W.I. meeting was cancelled and our television refused to func- tion but of course they were mere details. Partner kept him- self busy opening ditches, shovel- . ling snow, chopping ice, sprink- ling salt and watering ice -coated, bent -over trees - weeping birch. It was just an experiment but it worked, In a little while the trees were back to normal, The tee -stem led me to think of farm homes •— particularly houses where 61d -fashioned kit- chens have been re -modelled — and there have been many such during the last decade. Kitchens where a modern _electric stove' has been installed, and the old cookstove thrown out! How .fool- ish can we get? 'Remember how a few chunks of dry maple would have the stove -top red hot in a matter of minutes? On the farm we had a modern electric stove too — but we hung onto our old stove like grim death. In early spring and late fall .1 nearly always lit the stove for an hour or two in the morning and we enjoyed the pleasant warmth it gave until the sun was up. It came in useful in • summer too. If the hydro went off during a storm a few chips from the woodpile would boil water for tea or cook our supper. We also had a coal furnace. It was dirty compared with oil.. The pipes had to be' 'cleaned twice during the winter and ashes had to be sifted every day. But at least it always gave out heat, no matter what the weath- er, It didn't have a motor to burn out or fuses to. blow and it was certainly cheaper to operate than an oil furnace. Yes, once in awhile we look back and realise the advantages we enjoyed in the old days but that's about as far as it goes, I suppose we shall continue to live with our "conveniences" in spite of the inconveniences that often arise. I don't suppose we. shall. build a chimney or buy a stove but I really think, to the end of our -days, we shall have a nostal- gic longing for that 'old kitchen range. Well, I'd better takethis to the. post office. The weatherman just said — `;snow, turning' to freez- ing rain late this afternoon"! Oh no, not again! Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee Q. Is it proper for the bride- groom to give his bride 'some- thing for their home as his spe- cial wedding gift to her? A. This is not customary. Flis special gift to her should be something for her own personal adornment — usually jewelry of some kind. Q. When drinking a cocktail that has a piece of fruit in it, such as orange, lemon, pineap- ple or cherry, is it proper to eat the fruit? A. Yes; but be sure to do this gracefully as possible. Above all, don't be too obvious with your efforts .to get at the fruit -such as tipping the glass high and then tapping on the bottom of the glass in order to loosenan elusive bit of ,fruit. Q. Does a woman keep her hat on when . attending an afternoon bridge party? A. If the party is in a private home, she, of course, removes her hat, If, however, the party is in a public place, she may do as she wishes about this Q. What is the proper order of recession at the conclusion of a church wedding ceremony? A. Just the reverse of how the party entered the 'church. Th'e bride and bridegroom should I e a d, followed by the bridesmaids, and finally the ushers. Q. Is it proper to abbreviate the name of the month un the date line of a business letter? • A. No. Neither,the month nor the name of the state of the addressee is abbreviated — even of the. states of Mississippi or Pennsylvania. It is considered more polite: to write them out. Moonlight Can Be Dangerous More proposals of marriage are made by moonlight than at any other time, declares a French scientist investigating the effects of moonlight on human 'health and happiness. Why? Because when the moon shines brightly from an uncloud ed sky human emotions are at their highest point, he says. Plenty of lovers feel this is true. They don't dismiss as "moonshine" the widely held theory that the moon's rays make '• for specially happy courtships. Film stars kiss more convinc. ingly and with, more ardour at. the time of a full moon, accord- ing to an. American producer. He even believes that "cold moon- lightlike lighting" is a great help when lovescenes are being shot. The Romans thought the moon caused madness — hence the, word lunacy from the•Latin'luna; the moon., But any suggestion that it is harmful to walk or lie bare -headed ,in the moonlight was dismissed as "all moon- shine" some years ago by Pro- fessor J. Arthur Thomson. He said moonlight is merely "re- flected and gentle sunlight." A New York physician says he thinks the moon makes sleep- walkers more active. The wife of an Oklahoma man only 'sleep- walked when the moon was full. At 2 a,m, he .suddenly missed her and after searching the grounds of theirhome found her 20 ft. up a tree, picking the leaves and still asleep. LIFE'S NOT THAT BAD — The characteristic lines of worry seem to he disappearing from the brow of "Tray," o basset hound,' as he gets a kiss from Jo Anton, 2, at crag she,v. Everybody loves Those Penguins The face of Antartiee is ice and snow, but its persQnaltty is a penguin, I was a week in Antaretiea before 1 saw my first Adelie, penguin. It was up on the rook- ery at Cape Royds, where half a century ago a great man, Sir rnest Shackleton, built "a hut and challenged a continent, 13ut even the hut, an appeal- ing remnant of an heroic age, could not detain me from my long-awaited visit to the Adelies. I couldn't wait to get to the rookery, The .Adelies, .withthe shoe - button eyes and the comical lit- tle waddle, present the warmest and gayest aspect of an other-•• wise cold and saturnine land. As one writer once wrote, they .are the "little people of the Antars- tic world." There are two Antarcticists I among the world's penguins — 'tre Adelie and the Emperor. Shorter by half than the three- foot -tall Emperor, the Adelie is the clown of the continent. Named . for Mme Adelie D'Ur ville, wife of an early French. Antarctic explorer, he is not half so: dignified 10 bearing and be- havior as the Emperor. Early in the Antarctic sum- mer, abogt mid-October, tre' Adelie comes waddling — thou- sands of them — over the ice from the .open :sea in a noisy return to their ancestral rook- ery. Then the great' business of Adelie life —mating, stealing pebbles,' building 'nests, ' and raising chicks—commences. This performance, often slapstick, has amusing and fascinated men. since the days of D'Urville in tre 1840's. The Adelie nuptial rites are filled with throaty chants, pierc- ing : cries, and weavings and bobbings to and fro. During the _courting the ''Adelie stand with their beaks jutting straight to the sky, their bodies stretched, • and their little .flippers extended • and flapping slowly. in • the cold. Antarctic air. Adelies even . have trouble themselves telling male from female. But when a male finally gets things figured.out he courts the fair maid with .pebbles and stones, acquired .in themost illegal •manner. He steals them, writes John C. Waugh in the Christian Science Monitor. He goes out and ; grabs' them from an unwary penguin and plops: them in his• own nest. As soon as his backis. turned an- other bird steals them from him. When the maid is won, the nest built, the eggs laid, aiod the frantic thievery abates; one of each penguin pair heads for the open sea, leaving its mate to look out for things at the rook- ery. The remaining mate will sit on the eggs, or, in fact, anything else that is handy. During the entire courtship periods, which lasts a matter of weeks, neither mate has had a thing' to eat. For about a fort- night the absent Adelie eats his or her fill and waddles'back fat and shiny to relieve the hungry mate. We'•stood.'on the rookery and watched the Adelies returning. The open water lay about 20 milesacross the ice 'from, Cape Royds. In bunches as far as our eyes ' could see the Adelies were =waddling hurriedlyand happily home. The twomates alternate in this strange shuttle system from rookery to open water. But be- fore the summer is over the ice. In the Sound breaks and' drifts out to sea and tee penguins need not travel SO or ,Much et the food 'they, eat is later regurge tated and ted to the penguin, chicks. Often some lurking skua gull, the scavenger of the. Antareitic, dives in upon an untended nest and whisks egg .or chick away. Heartrending indeed is the sight of a pair of penguins bereft of egg, staring down pitifully, un- believingly into• an empty nest filled only with pebbles. To the Adelies, the human in- truder is a source of great curl- osity and bother, While sitting. on his nest he will squawk ominously and peck at any pass- ing boot: Some, out of sorts, will stand beak to shin -bone with the trespasser and flail away coml- cally and fearlessly with flipper- like wings. The Adelie is a funny little fellow, a plucky little gentleman, albeit a thief. And everybody loves him. He gives character to a continent. Q. When a guest in my house persists in telling off•colour jokes, what can I do about it? A. If the absence of any laughter from you is not enough to stop him, then you have a perfect right to take him aside and tell him pointblank that his kind .of stories are not accept- able in your household, Simply- The Smartest PRINTED PATTERN 4906 SIZES 10-18 s Fashion's shapely sheath in a beginner -easy version—no waist seams. Versatile for any hour, any day in cotton blend, wool jersey, or fluid crepe. Wear it with or without a belt. Printed Pattern 4906: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. Size .16 takes 2% yards 54 -inch fabric. Printed directions on. each 'pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send FIFTY CENTS (stamps'. cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Please print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Send order to ANNE • ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. 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