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Zurich Herald, 1956-07-26, Page 6ONICLES iNGERFi M• even-dol-Vme P. CL L"1 e "Now I've seen everything," said Partner, as he came into supper last night. "So ... and what's new now?" I asked. "Well, the starlings are nest- ing in the hens' laying boxes! Now what do you know about that?" The laying boxes, I should add, are made in three tiers but for some unknown reason the hens use only the two lower section. Evidently the starlings thought so much wasted house- room was a crime so they de- cided to take over the top sec- tion themselves. You have to hand it to the staal?ngs they make the most of e.tiefy-oppor- tunity, whether its ;int.a hen- house or a mailbeZ$ ;,-`;;, And another item of bird lore. The swallows returned a week ago - May 1st to be exact. It was far too cold for the stable doors to be left open at the top. Partner thought he might have to cut a hole in the boards so the swallows could get in and mut. But they found a broken window - pane and were soon busily engaged building their wonderful nests on the rough old beams in the barn. So we have swallows and starlings nesting but we still haven't heard the frogs. Nor is there any sign of spring seeding around here as we had another heavy rain recently. The land is getting pretty well water-logged. However, as far as we are concerned we have plenty to occupy our time even if it is wet outside. We have our grand- son here on a visit. Dee and Art RAWAIIAN BEACH BOY? - Curves to the contrary, Gail Young, above, is Waikiki's first Remote "beach boy." She's been hired at the Halekulani beach to help visitors with surfing, sutrigger canoe rides, catama- ran trips and skin diving. came yesterday and left David behind for a while. We won- dered what would happen when he woke up this morning and' found Mummy and Daddy gone. Fortunately he was quite happy and contented so we think the first real test is over. Just the same I expect by next week I shall possibly have a lot more to write about as I think 'Grandma is in for a very busy week. How- ever, Grandad will do his share if the weather is fit for Dave to go out. Or if we get com- pletely run off our legs Joy and Bob are ready to respond to an SOS anytime. Last week was a busy week too. One day in Toronto - and of course it rained. And on Fri- day night a unique experience - at least for me. I was invited to the first County Rally of the Girl Guides in Halton. It was held in Burlington and there were nearly a thousand Guides taking part. Such an excited group of youngsters, and all very much in earnest. There were folk dances, flag drills, a first aid pageant and twenty - one badge demonstrations. The grand finale was the campfire, with the Guides circling the impro- vised camp fire and singing songs with extraordinary suc- cess, considering there had been no rehearsal and the companies were in most cases unknown to each other. It was an excellent demonstration of the possibility of group work following good training and discipline in each company. Our local group - of which daughter was one of the • first members - demonstrated the Hiker's Badge and set about building a campfire with skill and intelligence. Others were equally good but we must admit the "Dairymaids" stole the show. Malk maids, stable boys and farm hands came on to the scene leading a refrac- tory cow complete with horns and a well-filled udder! Var- ious attempts were made to "milk" Bossy who alternately sat down on her haunches, got up and k i c k e d, or pranced around every which -way. It was so well done and of course the audience howled with laugh- ter. The next two days 'my time was taken up helping two octo- genarian ladies who had lost an octogenarian brother. All three had led busy and useful lives, and although they are all over eighty, this is the first break in their family circle. Those who are left feel very lonely indeed. Well, my grandson has got tired of watching television and is now busily engaged bringing his whole collection of toys into the living room. That is, when he isn't loving Robbie to death or walking around with his grandfather's gloves on his two wee hands. With such an active youngster I am sure his mother is glad of a little respite es- pecially as she had a most awful cold yesterday. Ah, here comes Mitchie - White so I expect he will get a little more attention than he is likely to welcome. What amazes me is the under- standing that seems to exist be- tween chldren and domestic ani- mals. Unless .children are de- liberately cruel, animals will ulscoverea C OSSWORD 6. Body bone 6. Eons 7. More pallid PUZZLE 8. Consultation 9. Past 10. Write 11. Understand ACROSS 59. Crooked 19 Written legal 1. Tablet 60. Contradict statement 4. Snare 61. Devour 21. Allow DOWN 23. Humor 8. Explosive 1. Wharf 25. Volcanic devices 2. Land measure matter 12. Frozen water 3. 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Put on 4 r' amnr 1 2 3 .:r " 4 5 6 7%:$:'r, 8 9 10 11 12 off 15 4+,14 15 IYII6 � 17 18 19 :::.•: 20 21$'r' t'' ,' ,y;:f r.v 22 t' .2' 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 >'3Z 33 '. ,. 34. 35 1';(J ,rl 36 37 38+ 59 40 41 42f r 2. 3. i f•'.,,1 Q ,"� 44 4'3 ...4, , 46 47 48 49 50 51 52. rr4:0 53 54 / 4� 55 58 56 1. 57 59 , /./,, 60 61 Answer elsewhere on this page. NOT ON THE PROGRAM -In this remarkable photo of unpro- gramed tragedy in a Rome, Italy, circus act, the newscamera catches a moment of tense drama. Tarzan, one of the lions, be- came jealius of his cagema.te, Tobruk, and killed him with a blow of his paw. With the smell of blood exciting the other animals, Lion -tamer Darix determinedly held them at bay while, dragging Tobruk's body from the cage. POGONOTOMIST - Eve Neil, 24, beards the men on a per- sonal problem heretofore con- sidered purely in the male do- main. She's a "pogonotomist" -an expert on the subject of chopping' off whiskers. Em- ployed by a razor manufac- turer, she does a tidy business in giving lectures before groups whose members have long since ceased being little shavers. take an awful lot of mauling and make no attempt to scratch or bite. David has already given me one attack of' near - heart failure. Not with the animals, but by getting outside unattend- ed and falling in a deep puddle of water - getting his boots and pants soaked of course. He got out by unfastening a kitchen door that I thought he couldn't possibly open. Yes, I really think I'm in for a very, very busy week. Cruising On The Saguenay ~`fiver The Saguenay in good weather is a yachtman's dream in more than one respect. For the first 50 miles, as the St. Lawrence .River Pilot points out, "sailing directions are unnecessary . as there is neither rock nor shoal in the fairway." Ilere is the deepest river in North Am- erica, perhaps in the world. To quote the Pilot once. more, "the water of the Saguenay is almost as deep as the mountains are high" -- and the mountains, or capes, are sometimes sheer precipices over 2,000 feet,in height! At the river 'entrance an Interest- ing marine note is the difference betwn theatoin ETAOISURMein between the dark, soft Saguenay water and the green, salt St. Law- rence. At flood the two water sur- faces come in contact without real- ly mixing they may even flow in different directions. We found tides all the way to Chicoutimi. The undercurrents rim upstream on the north shore, down- stream on the south shore, and the were advised to 'follow them but didn't always take the advlre, There are only two prevailing winds on the river, north and south, hot we noticed these directions are al. tered in coves by surrounding cliff formations. Margot met no small pleasure boats, only the excursion steamers that nightly ascend to Iiagatville on Bale de IIa-i3a (usnaily anglicized as Tia! fla! Bay) and return in early morning - the weekly " spe. tial" cruise runs to Chieont!ml .. . On the :south shore, the long and lofty profile of Pointe Crepe juts so far out it seems almost to close the horizon. We slanted to port, despite the favoring current on the other bank. It was after 6:0$ p.m. and an excellent anchorage lay just ahead. Margot deserved such an anchor- age in calm, lovely, secluded Bale St -Etienne. after recent experiences with Tadoussac's poor holding ground. We were just opposite the ravine near the end of Pointe Crepe, when the Skipper shut off the motor and helped th Mate throw out the Herreshoff. It buried itself in 20 fathoms and a good clay bottom, where -praise be -that anchor stayed put! Here is one of the best moorings we found on or near the Saguenay. -From "All the Way by Water," by Sidney W. Deane. Rare Diving At least 300 tons of age-old Scotch whisky lies aboard an old. ime sailing ship resting on the bottom of the ocean sixty miles from Bhisbane, Australia. Soon a group of underwater frogmen start diving for it. And there will be no shortage of helpers, for the whisky cargo is probably intact as it lies be- neath a layer of sand, which acts as a preservative. But it is likely to be a dangerous operation at such a depth. The vessel is the Scottish Prince, an all -metal windjam- mer of 800 tons that sank in 1890. Old records were studied and it was learned that in the ship's holds were sewing ma- chines, bathroom fittings, bis- cuits, nails, corrugated iron, but ninety per cent of the cargo was - Scotch whisky! GREEN THUMB Gordon Smith Try Something New Usually on a special page of ``the seed catalogue will be listed brand new varieties and novel- ties.. Among these will be the All-American winners for this year. These are new flowers and vegetables that in Canadian and American field trials last year were awarded the most points. A few of these will certainly add colour and interest to any border. In the vegetable lines there are a whole lot of '-improved productions. New, faster grow- ing and crisper radish, more tender carrots, new beans, beets and corn. Over the years plant breeders have given us tre- mendous improvement in all vegetables. Not only are the va- rieties grown today far more tender than those of a genera- tion ago, but they are also much earlier and more disease resis- tant. With these it is possible to have a' good garden with much variety in areas where it was hardly safe to risk any- thing but the toughest things before. This progress has meant more to Canada than most countries because our growing season is so short. Fertilizer Corot 1 ercial fertilizers contain three main elements: nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash These are usually indir'ated in a ,formula on OA bug or box, thus 2-4-8 or 8•-4-2 or some r,in,iiny first figure indicates the amount of nitrogen, the second phosphoric acid and the last the proportion of potash, If, for example, we' want to encourage green growth as in grass, lettuce, cabbage and such, we choose a fertilizer high in the first mentioned element. If it' is root growth we are in- terested in, such as beets and potatoes, we use more potash. Sometimes certain soils are very deficient in one of these ele- ments and we naturally select a fertilizer to remedy that defi- ciency. Chemical fertilizer is potent stuff and it should be handled carefully and according to di- rections. Results are literally amazing. It will start flowers and vegetables growing quickly, will make grass green almost overnight. The safest way to apply to lawns and flower beds is to dissolve in water and sprinkle during or just before a rain. This prevents any burning injury to the grass or flowers. With vegetables we usually sprinkle along the rows close to the plants but not actually touching then and then culti- vate in. A Big Show It is not too late to have a big show of annual flowers from a few cents worth of seed. Zinnias, marigolds, nasturtiums, asters, cosmos, and many others will- still produce plenty of bloom before frost in most parts of Canada. The easiest way to handle is simply to plant in little well raked plots here and 'there throughout the flower beds. A few weeks later when the plants have come up and developd their second set of leaves, we leave a few where they have grown, pick out the rest and transplant throughout the rest of the bed. IDENTIFIED Two travelers in Ireland, return- ing home late one night, lost their - way. "Whose is it?" asked Mike. cemetery. Here's a gravestone." Said Pat: "We must be in a Pat struck a match. "I didn't get the name clear," he deported pres- ently, "but he sure lived to a nice, rip old age - 175." "See if you can read the name," Mike suggested. Pat lit another match. He studi- ed the inscription, the match burn- ed out. "I don't know him," he stat- ed after some thought. "'Twas some man named Miles from Dub- lin." MERRY MENAGERIE "Oh, just the usual spring housecleaning!" SLIGHT ERROR If a salesman isn't a philosopher when he's five minutes on the job, he'll never be one. If he travels and has to stop at country hotels he gives up good dollars for poor quarters, and finds the room is fill- ed with odd scents. If he's selling vacuum cleaners, he knocks on a suburban door and is greeted by a lady straight out of a d'Aiessi cartoon, "You might try . the people next door. We use theirs and it's terrible." Another time his pitch went like this, "Lady, this cleaner sweeps up everything." He threw a handful of mod on the nice living room floor. "If it doesn't, Ill eat the mud. Why, where are you going lady?" "For some salt and pepper," she said. We tlou't have any electricity in this !house." R. Barclay � YCIIOOL LESSON Warren, B.A., B.D. The Gospel Overcomes Paganism Acts 19:9 8-10, 23-27 Ephesians 5:15-18 Memory Selection: Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light. in the Lord: walk as children of light, Ephesians 5:8. It has been said that wher- ever Paul went he had either a revival or a riot. In Ephesus he had both and the revival was in a sense the cause of the riot. Paul had visited. briefly at Ephesus on his return from Corinth on his second mission- ary journey. Now on his third missionary journey he comes to Ephesus, the third largest city in the Roman Empire. As usual he entered the synagogue. Af- ter three months, opposition be- came so acute that he retired to a school where he continued teaching for two years. The sick were healed and evil , spirits•-.,. were cast out. Seven' sons, `.eo '- -" cists, began to use the name..'ul:..:. Jesus to cast out demons but, were badly beaten by a demioii' possessed man. Many turned • ' from paganism to Jesus Christ. Many brought their books of magic and burned them in a huge bonfire. The total cost of these approximated the wages of 136 laborers for a year. The city was greatly moved. The silversmiths who made silver shrines for the goddess Diana saw their business falling off. Demetrius, their leader, made a rousing speech inciting them to anger. To the public they did not emphasize the money angle but rather the religions, shout- ing, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians." They ' caught two of Paul's companions. Soon a riot was on. "Some therefore cried one thing, and some an- other: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together." The town clerk finally quieted the people. The lesson closes with a se- lection from the letter Paul later wrote to the church at Ephesus. In it he says. "Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the. Spirit." On a conservative esti- mate, 16 of every 1000 adults in Canada, are alcoholics. Sixty per, cent of these 150,000 are in the semi -skilled, skilled, white collar, professional, managerial and ' proprietory occupational groups. But you need never be- come an alcoholic if you heed the warning of Solomon: "Look not thou upon the wine 'when it is red, when it giveth his col- our in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth an adder." Proverbs 23:31.32. This is the season when moth- ers go crazy trying to keep track of the children they've been longing to turn loose out- of-doors all winter long. • Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ©0N©�ijir i ' P L E] MW GIM`l '0MM0 .. ©IN ©0[J °`.COMM ®rc i um 6 WEL; Do®�►,'. iam ©©b©©®d ®E®0® Glad©,; Gly® .; M000 U00019 1BEIaOpW9 Elmo coo®o ®car -a® .®®oa-: 000 00©12; ;COM0:> ®0B &JD dVd1 D© HAND -POWERED MOWER - Frank W. Mauerman, blind for the past 15 years, goes about his daily task of mowing the lawn. Using a small knife and his hands, Mauerman goes over the six -by 100 -foot area each day. Besides his gardening duties, he still milks his cows.