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Zurich Herald, 1951-08-09, Page 39 kt B Gordon Snaith Patches of light green, wide !blades in contrast to the regular lawn turf indicate the extent of the crabgrass invasion, Some crabgrass is inevitable in a lawn that was first seeded last fall or this spring. And it will reappear summer after summer, no matter how old the Lawn, if the turf is not vigorous :and thick. September to May are the months to build up turf; sum- mer, the time to fight crabgrass. '(n spite of its persistence, this weed need not be allowed to overrun the lawn and 'undo all past efforts. k 1' % '+rhe chemicals that eradicate crab- yrrass may be chosen in dust form go be sprinkled over infested areas, •or as a liquid to be diluted and ap- •plied as a spray. It •is generally +recommended That the lawn be fer- tilized nightly about a week before ;a crabgrass treatment. The first •reaction—bleaching of the grass—is +noticeable within 48 hours. 13rowti- •ing •of the turf is only temporary. * „The rain that has persisted for several weeks in many parts of the country is a signal for tomato - growers to take steps against late tomato blight. One of the most devastating .of plant diseases, it has already taken its toll in some .piaces. In a number •of places the blight is in a -very active stage at pres- ent, and tomato crops have already heart affected. * In localities where late potato bright has been reported, the ;dan- ger of tomato blight is particularly strong. The two kinds ,of blight .stre different strains of the same disease. .Although the blight appear, most often late in the season—in Sep- tember or October—a combination atf 'hot, humid days and cool, damp alights will generally bring on an ,:epidemic earlier in the year. When this occurs, the blight is easier to control -than it would he in au- tumn. 5, if late tomato blight occura be- fore fruit has develoved, it appears un the foliage as greenish black Proper Lost is First{ s derat on in Children's Foot a m..+.w,. w_.:: ,r .. <, 2:! y<;tr:: w..awz' 2:i::. '?.i'6• ,'£..`.f' , .e .!fix. ?'.... BY EDNA NILES BECAUSE summer is a time for relaxing, many parents tend to become a bit too casual about one important aspect of daily living --their clllldre' ' :. it0C's. You're doing your children no favor to toss the rules away during; vacation if this kin<<-heart^ii laxity results --as it very " well play—in foot discomfort for them in years to come Compromise should be your guidingprinciple in choosing holiday shoes that will protect your children's feet, and at the same time satisfy their own ideas of what they want. If cowboy regalia is currently, your youngster's idea of what the best -dressed young men in his set are wearing, then you may have a struggle on yam hands if you flatly refuse high -heeled Western boots on the grounds that they are too , !lot for summer wear, and that their heels and narrow pointed toes are not styled for growing feet. a ,= HAT you can do is oiler hi.lnsturdy oxfords which*are right for his feet and which still offer, in their tooled designs and metal -mounted buckle -straps, enough of a 'West- ern flavor to satisfy most range-riderr. The salve rule can be applied to many other shoes. Don't forbid your son sneakers, but explain to hint that his rubber - soled shoes were designed for sports and that they should he used for that, not worn from his rising hour until bedtime, Leather soles are considered best for regular 'wear. If your daughter has her heart set on sandals, they too can be granted. But it's the responsibility of the parent to make certain that the sandals are properly styled to offer sufficient support to flexible young arches. 0) Although t1ijs: young Dant laalrh the part a+f '$ cowboy from the tap of hip Western hall to .y. the tip of his tooled a di metaf, adios aed shoes, his feet can grow and develop as they shoteid, unhampered by unnatural lasts. spots which turn blown and cause the leaves to wither within two or three days. An attack on the fruit manifests itself in greasy -looking spots on the surface of the tomato; the flesh of the fruit often remains firm for some time. * a Proper spraying or dusting, start- ed in time, may prevent the blight. More frequent applications will help.' control it once it has started. When weather is favorable to the. development of the disease, grow- ers are advised to spray plants once a week with a copper fungicide or With a dust containing 6 to 7 i+et cent copper.. .praying is considered. to he more effective than dusting, but if the home grower prefers to use a dust, care should be taken to apply it when the air is still. This is especially important in any area where beans are growing, for cop- per 's ltartn[ul to, bean plants. Warm, dry clays impede the spread of the disease, and in a prolonged spell of such weather the control may be discontinued. L tai AndDews. Personally, I'm of the opinion that the perfect •drink fora sultry ,day is a good hot cup of tea. But Oen I'm like the woman in Arnold liennett's "Buried Alive" w h o said "It's. always tea -tine with me," But I know that there are far ,more Who like their hot weather athirst -quenchers long .and cool. So .a few recipes for cooling 'drinks ;may not 'come amiss at this time * LIME COOLER (4 an 6 Servings) 1 cup sugar 1 cup water 2 lemons, cut in slides 1 cup Time juice green food ,coloring 2 caps carbonated water 1 pint sherbet (your favorite flavor) `t. Combine *agar, water and le- .uiOn -slices. Bring to a boil and boil ..:5 min ites. 2. Add lime juice. Chill. 3. first before serving add a few dhtops of green food 'flavoring and srlhe ,carbonate;d water. 4. Po,ur into chilled tail grasses. Add ,a scoop of sherbet to each ,Mass .and sef4e at once. * PINK LEMONADE (4 to 5 servings) a✓a stti sugar WI, coup lemon juice DIA cup crushed berries, or 2 tablespoons cherry juice 1. Add sugar to lemon iuice and stir until dissolved. 2. Pour into pitcher. with 4 cups of water and $ to 10 ice cubes. 3. Stir in berries or juice. 4, Serve in tall glasses garnished with orange or lemon slices. When the crost•d gathers. serve pink lem- onade in a large punch bowl. * t FROSTED COFFEE (4 to 6 servings) LIZ cups strong coffee 11/2 cups milk !.'it cup chocolate sugar 1 pint vanilla or chocolate ice cream 1. ;Combine coffee, milk, choco- late ,irttp and sugar. Beat until frothy. 2. Pour into chilled glasses. Adel a scoop of ice cream to each glass. Serve at once. a a , CHOCOLATE MINT FROST (6 to 8 servings) 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate 1 cup water % cup sugar 1 quart milk 1 teaspoon vanilla r/ teaspoon peppermint flavoring TA teaspoon salt 1 pint vanilla ice cream 1. Melt chocolate. Add water and cook until thickened. 2. Add sugar and milk. Cook 5 minutes. Chill. 3. Add vanilla, peppermint flavor- ing, salt and vanilla ice cream. Beat until frothy. Pour into chilled glasses. if desired, an additional • ass tll;t:>1 esu;„;.a Music To Their. IE;ars Glee, awe and puzzlement were the reac- tion to these deaf and dumb Tokyo youngsters as they listened to music for the first time in their lives. The never -to -be -forgotten experience was made possible for them by a group•acousticon, rnn+t; of seven such instruments given to the Nippon Deaf and Dumb school, AirLift Heroes Honored -'Top allied officials and thousands of Ber- liners gathered in the German capital's Airlift Square recently to dedicate a 63 -foot concrete monument to the 39 British and 31 American pilots who lost their lives flying the airlift during the Russian blockade in 1948-1949. Carved into three parts repre- t;enting the airlift's three main routes, the monument bears the names of the 70 heroes. scoop of ice cream or whipped cream may be added to each serv- ing. Garnish each glass with a fresh sprig of mint. * r PICNIC LEMONADE Pack a quart jar with ice cubes. Add ? ; cup of sugar dissolved in 3i cup of lemon juice. Wrap jar in layers of nee' 411aper. Tee hili melt in 3 to 4 hours. * RASPBERRY TEA PUNCH (About 25 Servings) 3 tea bags 1% •cups sugar 1 cup raspberry juice (from frozen or canned raspberries 3 cups orange juice 1 cup lemon juice 1 cup pineapple juice 1 quart ginger ale 1. Pour 13 cups of boiling, water over tea hags and steep 5 minutes. 2. Boil 1 cup of tt ater and the sugar together 5 minutes. 3. Combine tea, syrup :mil fruit juices. Chill. Add ginger ale before serving. 4. Serve over a chunk of ice in a punch bowl: Garnish witlat lemon and orange slices and sprigs of mint. If desired,. freeze ice in a decorative mold. Put about rg inch of water in bottom of mold. Ar- range cherries and wedges of orange in mold and freeze. Then fill mold half full of water. Freeze. Finally, completely fill with water and freeze. Muscular Monarch King Frederick of Denmark, who recently returned to his eountry after a triumphant State, eisit to England, is something of a strong matt, Six feet three and a half inches tall, he has a chest measurement of forty-five inches, fifteen -inch bi- ceps—and can raise a 140-1b. dumb- bell above his head with one hand, Though he is keenly interested in physical culture, because he believes that a king needs to be fit to carry out bis arduous duties, it is doubtful whether he is, as suggested, the strongest monarch in history. In the past, when a king led his armies into battle he had to be something of a physical giant, if only to retain the respect and admiration of his followers. Richard Coeur de Lion must have been ex- ceptipnallty powerful if the massive arm holding aloft his sword in the statue outside the Palace of West- ininster is anything to go by. His' tory tells us that he alone could swing that mighty weapon. One of our most athletic kings was Henry VIII, who was a tre- mendous wrestler and a chain - pion at "casting the barre.” When first he ascended 'the throne his daily amusement, according to the historian, Strutt, included weight putting, dancing, tilting Raping and running. henry ordered his secretary Richard Pace, to advise the sons of noblemen to pursue sports and to "leave study and learning to the children of meaner people." Twisted Iron Bars A very powerful king was Au- gust the Strong, King of Poland. In the royal castle, at Cracow, is still preserved an iron bar an inch thick and four feet long, which he twisted with his bare handy into a symmetrical design. Maurice, son of Joseph 1 of Ger- many,' was another royal Hercules. Once when out hunting he broke off for something to eat and, find- ing that the corkscrews had been mislaid, called for a long nail which he twisted with his fingers; and with it opened ,a dozen bottles. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, was not only strong, but loved practical jokes. Once. when out sailing, he noticed two courtiers in elaborate uniforms preening them- selves. Leaning over, he seized each by the scruff of the neck and dumped them over the side, holding them under for a few seconds while they kicked and struggled. The last of the German emper- ors, Kaiser Wilhelm I1, was ex- ceptionally powerful, despite a withered hand, and to the end of his days indulged in his hobby of wood chopping, at Doorn. When Eugene Sandow was presented to him and tore in half a pack of cards, the Kaiser asked for a similar pack and, with a quick turn of his wrist, ripped it in two, He could not quite manage the two packs that Sandow ripped. The last Tsar was another pack tearer. He loved to ask strong men how the trick was performed. When they showed him, he would grasp the pack as instructed, tear it in two and exclaim innocently: "So that's how it's done!" Our Gardens One of the unheralded sights of America is the back -yard or kitchen garden. You see these gardens along almost all the highways, in the little towns and all through the farmlands, but they are particularly noticeable through the Midwest, green and fresh and neatly weeded, and often bordered with petunias or poppies or the ever-present hol- lyhocks. Many of them are as pretty as the pictures were in the seed catalogues in January, for this is a country of practical gardeners, Patin' -food gardeners. There is a certain uniformity about these gardens, with their tri- pods of bean poles, their fat heads of lettuce and cabbage, their lush rows of beans. Most of them have sweet corn, tasseling in fortunate places, and tomatoes and red -veined 'bets ssa�nd the fine fronds of est* rots. And, in farm gardens pat- ticulalrly, there are potatoes with - their small white blossoms. But there is also personality in every garden in sight, One has the corn in hills: another has its corn in rows, One still has the withering vines of late peas; another shows the young green of string beans where the peas have been pulled. One garden is fenced, and you know there are neighbor's chickens or nature's rabbits to be thwarted; another is open to .i1 comers and you suspect that here is a gar- dener with few troubles except drought, flood or insects. And there is the morning garden and the evening garden, Thesriorn- ing garden belongs to the women, You see them, in housedress or dungarees, straw hat or sunbonnet, doing fine weeding in the rows, or pricking beans, or cutting lettuce for the day's salad. The evening garden belongs to the men. You see the men there after their day's work is done, with a wheel hoe or a hand hoe, or with nothing but a pipe and an air of pride and con- tentment. But however you see these gar- dens, or whenever, they are a sat- isfying sight; for the garden that is still clean and green in mid-July is the garden of someone who loves the land and all the green things it grows. —From the New York Times. TIT FOR TAT The father decided to have a serious talk with young Jimmy, who was inclined to be lighthearted and irresponsible. "Jimmy," he said, "you're get- ting to be a big boy and you ought to take things more seriously. Just think—if I died suddenly, where would you be?" "Here," said Jimmy. "The ques- tion is, where would you be"? Foal Costs High In U.S.A. Also Canadian housewives battling with the cost of living, may find some con.eolatzon in the thought that they are not the only ones. Down in Washington, D.C., the Bureau of Statistics says that market basket that cost $10 in 1939 costs a housewife $23.75 today. A BLS study by Mrs. Aryness Joy Wickens, deputy commissioner of the bureau, lists these food items which a housewife could buy for $t0 in 1939: 10 pounds dour 5 pounds sugar 15 pounds potatoes 2 loaves bread 7 quarts milk 6 pounds rib roast 2 pounds bacon 2 pounds butter 1 package rolled oats 2 dozen oranges 1 pound coffee 5 pounds cabbage 3 pounds green beans At today's prices, $10 covers only the first 6a7 items. which are, to be sure, the more expensive staples: 2 pounds veal cutlet pork chops :t can salmon 3 pounds onions 1 pound cheese 2 dozen eggs 3 pounds apples 2 cans tomatoes 2 bunches carrots 1 can peaches 2 cans peas 1 head lettuce 1 box dried prunes and 10 pounds flour 5 pounds sugar 15 pounds potatoes 2 loaves bread 7 quarts milk 6 pounds rib roast 1 pound bacon You have 23 cents left over after buying this market basket, Mrs. Wickens said. but that won't get you even s pound of green beans today. aiSsatastasasaaltaaad Flooded With Fun—The worst floods in western Missouri's history brought disaster to thousands of persons, but tog oun Bob Hartman of Kansas City, they just meant fun. He rode his bike through y the rain -swollen waters of the nearby Little Blue River, which had washed out bridges liar i ground) on U. S. Highway 71.