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The Seaforth News, 1961-09-07, Page 2How The Corals Make An Atoll The Pacific Ocean is the home a many coral atolls - those ro. mantic necklaces of islands which eurround their lagoons with a ~singe of graceful palm trees, . , The structure of the atolls s•ag- tests the reason for the flat- opped sea -mounts and shows the cyclic history of these features of deep oceans, .. The beautiful colours and the fantastic shapes of coral are the outward clothing of a small mar- ine animal, The coral polyp is most efficient at assimilating the raw materials necessary to pro. duce calcium carbonate, which is the chemical compound that is the basis of chalk and of lime- stone as well as of many sea shells, But the coral polyps only thrive in warm water, and if all the places where coral is growing today are marked on a chart they will be found to lie approximate- ly within the tropics 'More - ever, the coral animal likes light, tsnd those kinds that form reefs and atolls can only grow in water which is less than 200 feet deep, because at greater depths the life-giving rays of light are - too much filtered out. The really strong coral rock that forma haz- ardous reefs consists of colonies of coral polyps which are cem- ented together by further sup- plies of calcium carbonate. Coral Polyps dislike mud — part- ly beeause muddy water ob- scures the light, but mainly be- cause the animals like a fire: base on which to grow and propagate. Being marine animals, the polyps need salt water, and so Ail] not be found in fresh water For Holf-Sixes PRINTED PATTERN 4618 121—all' 611•147 1140 -fps ' Step irto thi? scooped, back - zipped sheat!: step out happily all Summer: Easy -sew in breeze - light cotton or shantung with yacket to contrast' or match. Printed Pattern 4518: half Sizes 12' 141.2, 1d'2, 181» 201/2 i',23,i. Si -:e 16'; 67ess takes 31/4 garde "5 -inch; ;et. 104 yards, Send ELM; i CENTS (stamps tanuct 1. a.: -...;, 3, use- postal rote f -i witty i Ear this pattern. ?leas,. print plainly S 1 Z E, YAiiE, .1D!?.ESS. STYLE RUMBLE. Send c:.';t' t. ANNE ADAMS, pox 1, 123 n!4htcenth St., New oruuto, Ont. The big_; :t tashion show of ummcr; 1961 — pages, pages, ages of pattirns in our new ,o1or Catalog. Hurry, send 35e, estuaries, When, all, the conditions for sueeessful growth are satis- fied coral is a great and powerftti builder, and many beautiful structures -- beautiful in arehi- tectural form as well as in the fine filigree detail—can be found. Darwin observed many types of coral island in his journey ac- ross the Pacific in the Beagle, Some islands like Rotuma con- sisted of a rocky central portion with an apron .of fringing reef growing out from it. At Bora- Bora a volcanic island rises out of a lagoon which in turn is en- circled by a narrow reef, just as if a mountain had been placed in the lagoon of a true coral atoll, The atoll itself is merely a ring of long, straggling islands which enclose the lagoon. The islands rise a few feet onlyabove sea level; the lagoon can be anything up to a hundred feet in depth.... It seemed obvious to Darwin that these three types were all natural process. In the beginning a volcanic island grew up out of the sea,and a reef of coral grew all round it, But the island slow- ly subsided — at a rate which allowed the coral polyps to build up and keep their heads above water. The coral grew badly near the shore because of fresh water and mud brought down by rain from the volcanic island. On the other hand the growth at the outer edge of the reef was strong and healthy, so that gradually, as the island sank and diminished in. size, a stretch of lagoon appeared between the island and the up- ward -growing outer rim of the reef. Eventually the whole vol- canic island disappeared beneath the sea, but the coral still con- tinued to grow, keeping pace with the sinking island. —From "Un- der the Deep Oceans," by T. F. Gaskell, Making Men More Like Women When a man has a heart attack, he may simply be paying "the penalty of being a male," This is the opinion of Dr. George C. Grif- fith, a University of Southern California cardiologist who cites the fact that twice as many men as women aged 40 to 74 suffer' heart attacks. In an article in the current Annals of Internal Medi- cine, Dr, Griffith suggested a pos- sible solution:: Make men chemi- cally more like women. According to Dr. Griffith, stud- ies have shown that men are far more likely to accumulate choles- terol, a fatty substance which clogs the arteries and is believed to be a major cause of heart at- tacks. Among women, says Dr. Griffith, the condition is much less common. This biological in- equity, says the USC cardiologist, has been traced to the fact that the female sex hormone, estrogen, shields arterial walls from fat (women past the menopause, lacking estrogen, are more liable to heart disease), while the male hormone, testosterone, seems to promote the fat deposits (eunuchs are less likely to develop ather- osclerosis). Putting this to practical use, re- searchers at USC (notably, Dr. Jessie Marmorston) have given 354 male heart patients doses of the female sex hormone — in am- ounts too small to feminize — daily for at least two and a half months. The results were encour- aging; The death rate for these men was cut from the usual 15 per cent after a heart attack to a mere 5 per cent. Dr. Griffith's recommendation: "The administration of estrogen in a small dose that does not pro- duce breast changes or loss of libido should be considered for every male patient found to have an abnormal distribution of the (blood) fat pattern plus early clinical findings of atheroscler- osis, Men must borrow the protec- tive factor that is the normal birthright of the so-called weaker sex." "Most people's financial prob- lems arc very simple," says an economist. Yes, they're short of money. REBUFFED — Little Sylvia Strickler of Annville, Pa„ apparently wants nothing to do with her sad -eyed, cold -nosed boxer friend. The expressions on both of them suggest the meeting lust didn't come off. t, ri4iAsGi/l6,-, HItONICLES INGERFARM c�.�.aou.,�o.ae=ue Well, what do you know? Af- ter four weeks of intense heat and humidity our furnace came into operation last night — the thermostat was set at sixty-four. But I'm not grumbling — no in- deed! Cool weather is preferable to the heat we have been endur- ing just lately. However, I did get up and set the thermostat gets everyone down — except maybe children at summer cot- tages. I know our eldest grand- son, David, was in his glory a week ago as he was in a regatta swimming race at Crowe's Land- ing — for seven years and tinder. There were 83 entrants, Dave came first in both heats and sec- ond in the finals. He was pres- ented with a ribbon and a flash- back to sixty. I think humidity light, There couldn't have been a prouder boy anywhere than our Dave! I was very glad be- cause Dave is a little inclined to- wards an inferiority complex and doing so well in his first swim- ming race may help boost his his morable. Every child should, if possible, be encouraged to ex- cel in something. It does a lot to boost his ego. Last Sunday we took a little trip with Bob, Joy and our other two grandsons. We got ahead of the crowds and went to see the flowers at the C.N.E. grounds. The waste land where the Manu- facturer's Building used to be is now a mass of flowers. It is ex- traordinary how quickly a trans- formation can take place. But it must have taken thousands and thousands of bedding plants to do the job. It almost makes me wilt to think of the financial out- lay, judging by what it costs to set out an ordinary home flower garden And then what can some- times happen when flowers are at their best is often tragic. We had a brief but terrific rain and wind- storm last week and many of our gorgeous gladioli were beaten in- to the ground, So discouraging. However, that's nothing to problems that farmers are fac- ing this summer. Hay already to cut; baler moves in but before one round of the field is cotn- Oc1UBL!e FEATURES -- Mrs. Ronald Satok was unable to resist mimicking a piaster head. She **pied the look right down ito the puckered lips at an art show in Toronto. pleted, down comes the rain. That was the distressing news contain- ed in a recent letter from farm- ing friends. We could visualise the situation so well because of our own past experiences. Many is the time we had the same thing happen. And yet, now we have been away from the farm a Few years we find it unbelievably easy to forget. And we don't really want to forget. I mention this because when we were on the farm we were often provoked by city friends who had so little understanding of our problems at that time. Now we can appre- ciate both sides of the matter. To farm folk wet, stormy weather means extra work, often coupled with financial loss. To urban folk it is a matter of an- noyance upsetting plans for a long week -end — for a, family picnic; a round of golf or attend- ance at a baseball game. It is a fact that one half of our popula- tion doesn't know how the other half lives sometimes because we don't even care. Surely it would be well to take a more sympathetic attitude to w a r ds each other's problems. However, farming problems are not what they used to be, Haying and harvesting, with balers and combines doing most of the har- vest work, doesn't make the ex- tra chores for 'the farmer's wife that it used to. Feeding and bak- ing for extra help was bad enough but in addition Mrs. Far- mer was often pressed into ser- vice to drive the horses or trac- tor on the hayfork. And the same when grain was being loaded into the barn. Then carne thresh- ing — taking up anywhere from one to four days, according to the size of the crop and. the threshing capacity of the ma- chine. Hours were long — from five -thirty to sundown — and barn chores to do after that. Looking back to those early 'threshing days almost makes me wilt, even now. Pies and more pies; great dishes of applesauce, vegetables, hot biscuits and huge roasts of good, red beef — to feed from eight to twelve men twice a day. Before the advent of hydro'lhat meant hours and hours over a hot kitchen range. Water for the men to wash was also quite a problem, They liked it hot but of course very few farm homes had water on tap. It had to be heated on the stove and then taken out to a wash tub, placed in the yard or the back kitchen, So, Mrs. Modern Farther, be- lieve me when I tell you farm women never had it so good! 1 know because we lived without conveniences and with them; from wood to electric stoves; from hand, pumps to taps; from pitch forks to balers and corn - bines. And yet this much I will admit. Every type of farming has its problems — even now. Like a country fair — what you make on the swings you lose on the roundabouts! But now we have other things to worry about — Berlin and East Germany, By comparison other problems are insignificant, DiRIVE CAREFULLY — The We you save may be your own, Getting Junior To Pose For Snaps In the time it takes you to read- this column; possibly sev., eral thousand doting parents are pointing cameras at their offspring and beseeehing the little tykes to smile, And quite a few are going to be disappointed with the results. The little fellow just won't smile. He stands there stiffly, squinting into the lens. Techni- cally, the picture is perfect but it just doesn't look like Daddy's laughing, bouncing boy at all. What happened? Here are a few hints, from one amateur to another, that might help to 'brighten up the family snapshot album for future amuse- ment and nostalgic reminiscence, First, don't let Mom "fix him up," for the camera. Chances are he rarely, looks like that for more than five minutes at a titne. Slicked -Sown hair, face scrub- bed shiny, wrinkle -free clothes. Hardly the way you'll want to remember him after he grows up. Don't try to pose him. He won't pose the way you want him to anyway, Let him do what he wants, Let him wander, Pre -focus the camera at, say, five or six feet and follow him, keeping the preset distance away. Patience is a necessity, If Junior is a little ham, let him ham it up. He'll grow tired of it after a while and you can snap him as he really is, If he's shy, let him hide. He'll warm up to the camera shortly. Once he has come to see the camera as just another part of Dad, like a finger or an ear, you can induce him to do things. Talk to. him. Make noises that interest and amuse him. Give him something to play with, a ball or a book, Normally, pictures of other people's children tend to have a "ho-hum" effect upon outsiders. You can brighten up your dis- play by shuffling the ` pictures into a sequence with captions. The little tyke might be a politician explaining away charges against his administra- tion, or a salesman telling the boss why he lost the last sale, or a rock—'n'—roll singer, or a host of other people. Perhaps it's corny but, let's face it, it's fun, Johnny And Frank Kiri Show Business Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, the irrepressible Can- adian comics who turned out to be entirely repressible when they lent their services this summer to a situation comedy called "Holi- day Lodge" are evidently fighting for air as plants strain for the sunlight. Although their show stays as sniffy as ever, the Can- adians popped up one day last month with something redolent of the old, pre -Hollywood days, a syndicated column for vacation- ing John, Crosby of The New York Herald Tribune. It was de- voted to a dialogue between Sir Melvyn Fynke, an Elizabethan writer's agent, and Will Shakes- peare hakespeare (author of London's latest smash, "Macbeth"). Excerpts: Fynke: Bard, baby! Great to see you! Sit down, sweetie , Five Emmys!. Billy boy, you got the whole town talking. W.S.: Well, the next will be greater. Fynke: You got a new play? Sensational. What's it about? w,C. c it's about a French prince . His uncle Murders his father and marries his mother, His girt friend goes crazy, his mother dies from poison, and he kills his step, father Funke: Sounds OK. Does the hero have to be French? France is a big market. You don't want to offend them, They're still steaming about Joan, W.S,: It's all set. f'm calling him "The Melancholy French- man." Fynke: Listen, why look for trouble? Remember all that mail from Verona? Make the locale Denmark . W,S,; We'll see, I've got to run. (lie leaves, almost bumping into Sir Francis Bacon .. ,) Fynke: Francis, baby! How'd you like to work on a series? Q, Although I was invited to a bridal shower recently, 1 did not receive an invitation to the wedding. Don't you think this was rude? A. Yes, Since an invitation to a shower is, in a way, a request for a gift, you most certainly should have been included in the guest list. Scrap -Savers! Knit up a storm — knit cozy, merry -as -a -carousel mitten f o r all the tots in the family! No more mitten mix-ups! Use knitting worsted leftovers — give each child a different color scheme. Pattern 945: knitting di- rections, sizes 4, 6, 8, 10. 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 Toronto, Ont. -Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- DRESS. ' Rend now for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog. Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, quilt, weave — fash- ions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits. Plus FREE—instruc- tions for 'six smart veil caps. Hurry, send 25 now! ISSUE 35 — 1961 REVERSAL — Lucky, a Lilliputian pup, suffered a •setback as he hid from a big bully of a dog, As he peeked around from -vs• fire hydrant to see where his foe was, a tiny trickle of water splashed over his head.