Zurich Herald, 1957-04-25, Page 3A Winter Storm
In Retrospect
"If it snows much more," said
Kathie, "we won't have any
school tomorrow." The joyful
anticipation of such a holiday
confuses me — you'd think with
the bigger and better bond issues
the finer and fuller program
would have prompted consider-
able eagerness. It seems not to
be so. "The bus had all it could
do to get up the hill tonight;"
she said.
In the continuing dispute
Over then and now, the severity
of weather in former times
seems to win, possibly because
the old-timers shout louder, but
truth -to -tell we didn't very of-
ten have a storm that stopped
school.
Another thing that compli-
cates comparisons is the tenden-
cy to remember specific storms,
instead of weather in general,
and Kathie's remark led me to
do just that. It was a storm we
had in 1920 that came to . mind
---one that filled in the country-
side and brought things to a halt.
The snow was so deep the
horses couldn't get around to
"break the roads"; it plugged up
a train so it stood three days;
and it filled in our cross-country
electric tracks so we had no
trolleys for weeks. They finally
let out the shoe factories so the
men could shovel and get the
tars goilf'g again. All the rest of
the winter the trolleys ran down
In a ravine with places fixed so
passengers could go down on
steps to get aboard.
This storm was northeasterly,
and began, about ten o'clock in
,the morning while we were all
at school. At noon -time the vil-
lage youngsters got home to
dinner all right, and came back
bundled and scarfed for the af-
ternoon session. But when things
let out for the day we trudged
off in snow that was hip -deep
and swirling in a bitter wind.
Ibbroke a path for the Pendle-
ton girls. They lived above us
en the road, and when I came
to my driveway I went right
en, with the Pendleton girls
wading behind Indian file, heads
down and nobody talking. Then
1 backtracked, and the.storm had
already filled in our path.
Mother had gone out to throw
scratch -grain to my hens and
pick up the eggs, because the
storm brought darkness early
that night, so I didn't have to
do that. I had my supper, and
passed the usual winter evening
at home with grammar and
arithmetic, popcorn and apples,
alnd a pitch game with Uncle.
Then I took my kerosene lamp
and headed for my attic room.
The house was wired for electri-
dty, but they hadn't run a cir-
aisit up into the attic, so I work-
ed off coal -oil. The little room
bad sloping ceilings, under the
roof, and red roses on the wall-
paper. The one single -sash win-
dow faced northeast by east, and
had to be taken out of the cas-
ing if I wanted air.
It was a wonderful boy's room,.
away up above the affairs of the
family, but uninhabiltable by
the newer standards of comfort. '
It was hotter than a sawmill
engine all summer, and worse
than Greenland's icy mountain
all *inter. But I made out, and
always thought I had the best
room in the house.
A winter storm in that room
was a magnificent experience,
and this one I speak of topped
them all. I didn't open my win-
dow, of course, and it rattled all
night in the casing. The thin
plaster . and the flowery wall-
paper had no insulation quali-
ties whatever, and beyond them
were the pine roofers, the cedar
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SAFE, ANYWAY — Chemistry
technician Glenda Bates is
doused for safety's sake. She's
demonstrating the emergency
shower f o r workers whose
clothes become splattered with
chemicals or catch fire. Similar
showers are spotted around this
chemical laboratory of 'the
Parker Pen Company.
shingles, and winter, My 'head
was ten inches below that.
I was warm in bed after I
got there and stopped quaking.
Speed was a great thing. It was
no joke that a boy could blow
out his lamp and be under the
covers before .it got dark. The
only heat in that bedroom was
what I made myself by coiling
up in a ball under the comfort-
ables and blankets.
I remember how the rafters
creaked that night from the
wind, and how the storm sound-
-ed like sandpaper on the shin-
gles, as the wind whipped the
stinging particles against the
roof. But I slept all right, and
it was still snowing when Mo-
ther opened the door at the foot
of the attic stairs and called,
"Hurry - it's the most won-
derful morning you ever saw,
more snow than you ever heard
of, and still corning!".
I remember this pleased me ,
It was fun to have a lot of
snow. My clothes were well
cooled down and I got them on
inthe usual nothing -flat. Down-.
stairs Mother had the kitchen
light on, because snow covered
the windows. "You'll have -to
hurry," she said. '"It will take
longer to get to school tlets
morning."
It did. I was really late, ex-
cept that I fell in with the tea-
cher at the post office, and she
was late too, so she couldn't
very well call anybody tardy.
It snowed that day until mid-
afternoon, and I'm sure if we'd
had busesthen wed never have
got home. We heard that a train
was stalled on the main line,
and they'd have to shovel 800
yards of track to get a snowplow
through. Some people thought
the trolleys wouldn't tun again
until spring. On the roads they
went out around big drifts, right
over fence.
Neal Fitts made his expected
witticism: "Wore out two snow -
shovels, I did, right down to
the nubs, just getting to the
shed." And the old timers were
all saying that while this was a
fair storm, it was nothing com-
pared to what they used to have.
— by John Gould in The Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
NiiRE'S HOW—Sam Snead points as he talks with reporters in
theclubhouse at Augusta where he took part in the Masters
Golf Tournamerit:' 'Snead looked like the winner for "'quite '
re while until Doug Ford caught up with him.
A BIG SPLASJII OF COLOR
It's easy to make a big splash
with flowers even around a
summer cottage, country lane or
other place where particular and
constant care is impossible. The
best plan, in any of these eases,
is to stick to things like petunias,
nasturtiums, cosmos, marigolds,
zinnias, asters, and similar plants
which are not only easily grown
but which also will bloom steadi-
ly for weeks. With only little
care at first these will practically
look after themselves. It is best
to have solid beds of one flower,
though not necessarily the same
color, for the showiest results
and one shoi:ild include some
of the newest : and:' brightest
varieties. A long 'bed oj; petunias
about three feet wide will set off
any driveway, and roughly cir-
cular beds of zinnias, marigolds,
or some of the smaller things,
will make a wonderful show.
Then for the smaller garden
there are all sorts of tiny flowers
like alyssum, portulaca, poppies
and similar flowers which thrive
even in poor soil and once well
started will crowd out weeds and
go on blooming until fall.
SPREAD IT OUT
Today's garden is no longer
a feast and famine proposition,
with more peas, beans or corn
than we can eat for a week and
then none at all, or with a great
showing of bloom in July but not
a single flower in August.
With .a little planning and a
good seed catalogue there is no
reason why flowers or vegetables
should not be yielding something
every day from the first blooms
and greens in the spring until
long after the ground is frozen
hard next fall.
RUSHING THE SEASON
Tlae average person does not
need any encouragement about
rushing the season. Most of them
are far too inclined to tear out
the first fine day and plant every
single flower and vegetable seed
they have purchased. Sometimes
they even plant in the rain and
very often long before the soil
is really fit to work. The ex-
perienced gardener, however,
knows that there are safe ways
Of rushing the season, little tricks
•that will produce flowers and
vegetables perhaps a week or
ten days ahead, of the fellow next
door. But they •don't get these
early things 'simply by going..gat
and planting top soon and
the lewd. They practice 'appro'c
short cuts.
Take such r e a 11 y . warm
weather things as : tomatoes,
melons or cucumbers among the
vegetables or some of the more
lender flowers. The experienced
gardeners will risk a small plant-
ing of these extra early, perhaps
ten days • or two weeks before
the main plantings. But these,
early rows of plants will be pro-
tected for the first weeks when
there is danger of late frost,
They will be covered with
special wax paper covers, or
panes of glass or perhaps if one
doesn't mind extra trouble simp-
ly covered loosely with news-
papers at night.
Then too, we may hurry
growth with extra fertilizer or
with specially 'prepared soil ar
for a few extra early tomatoes
or petunias or we may get extra ,.
big started plants and for the
first few weeks keep protected.
LOW COST BUT VITAL
Good vegetable or flower seed
costs but a few cents per packet
but is is the most vital factor in
gardening operations. Without
good seed, especially suitable for
Canadian conditions and climate,
it doesn't make any difference
how much we cultivate, spray,
fertilize and water. Without good
seed we can't possibly have a
successful garden.
Two workmen sat down to
eat their lunch and one began
unwrapping a narrow parcel
about half a yard long.
"What's that?" asked his
friend.
"Well, my wife's away, so I
made a pie for myself."
"A bit long, isn't it?" '
"Of course it's long — it's
rhubarb pie."
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ONE of the Largest and best herds
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YOU will eventually buy Landrace,
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ISSUE 17 — 1957
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