Zurich Herald, 1950-04-20, Page 3a'
Canned Lobsters
Corine Out Fighting
Because rich epicures all over
America are clamoring for New
England deep-sea lobsters, Josepll.
R. IvIacDonald has spent $150,000
and tett years trying to perfect a
method of packing 'thein so that
they arrive fit and fighting after
travelling thousands of miles.
lie noir caths them alive.
Lobsters resent air travel. They
Are subject to altitude "bends" and
frequently
clic in tansit. A dead
lobster is, a total loss to an epicure.
They have to. be killed iuinsediate-
ly before cooking if the full fiin'
flavour is to be retained. The high
travelling mortality rate pushed up
Elie cost of New England lobsters
to exorbitant limits,
Mr.f c .oti 1
A a D a d gotto grips !
h
the problem in 1939 by fitting up a
laboratory and staffing it with mar-
ine biologists: 32,000 lobsters were
used in experiments before success
-was achieved. He won't' tell the
secret, but 'says that "a pinch of
powdery substance in the can of
fresh water does the trick."
This substance contains six ele-
ments highly beneficial to lobsters.
So beneficial are they that the big
claws have t
to be P mioned before
Canning:
g
Mr. MacDonald's firm guarantees
that their lobsters will remain alive
for six days after processing, Some
have popped out of their cans in
highly belligerent mood after spend-
ing sixteen days fn hermetic con-
finement. It's a wonder they don't
open their own tins!
Just What Is
"The Milky Way"?
"What is the Milky Way, and
why is it unapprochable by roan?" -
"There are two questions here, and
I shall deal with the first one.first:
"What is the Milky Way?" said
Sir Harold Spencer Jones, the
Astronomer Royal, in a. recent
broadcast.
This is a question that was much
discussed until the observations of
William Herschel, in the last decade
of the eighteenth century, answered
it beyond doubt.
When William Herschel first de-
veloped an interest in astronomy, he
bought a copy of Ferguson's As-
tronomy, the best textbook of the
day which passed through many
,Editions The almost complete ig-
norance of that time is reflected in
Ferguson's book, in which twenty-
one chapters are devoted to the
solar system and only one to the
stars.
The then current knowledge
About the Milky Way is summed
up in one brief paragraph. It says:
'There is a remarkable tract round
the. Heavens, called the Milky Way
from its peculiar whiteness, which
was formerly thought to be owing
to a vast number of very small
stars therein; but the telescope
shows it to be quite otherwise; and
therefore its whiteness must be due
to some other cause.'
Roger Bacon had asserted that
the Milky Way in the sky is 'a
meeting, or knot, of a number of
small stars, not seen asunder but
giving light together.' Ferguson
believed that the telescope had
proved his view to be incoorrect,
but he •iras unable to suggest any
other explantation of its appearance.
His' ;negative conclusion . was not
much more informative than the
view qf'. the old. Greek mythology
that -the -Hilly Way arose from a
few drops of milk which the infant
Hercules let fall from the bosom
of Juno.
When William Herschel was
seized with a passion for astronomy,
lie decided to make a telescope for
himself, because he was too poor
to buy one. II9 eras undeterred
by his early failures, and persever-
until lie was able to make telescopes
which far surpassed, in optical qual-
ity, any that had been made pre-
viously,. Having made a good
telescope, be.turned it on the Milky
Way,..anid h,6 -bas recorded how 'the
glorious ..multitude of stars of all
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Clear the Tracks for Springtime—with a mighty, "swoosh," a big rosary snow plow bucks its
way in the yearly spring chore of opening the Yellowstone branch line. Here, Old Alan
Winter's last stand is a solid one. Tiveh=e f eet of snow were moved to clear the 56 -mile rail
route for the rush for summer vacationers. ,
possible sixes that presented thein-
here -view
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selves to nny was truly
astonishing. '
Migraine Headache
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of people who did not marry.
to -day? Wotild Mrs. Siddons after
It was when Lady Portsmouth,
So the nature of the Milky Way
thinking to add to her social stature,
��
was settled beyond doubt. The
-stars of which it is composed are so
A migraine headache is what
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far away that they are individually
most of us call a "sick headache."
Brush Handles
invisible to the naked eye, but their
Sometimes headache ponders and
Handles of new paint brushes
number is so great that we can see
rest bring relief; more often they
won't calve, roughen *or Blister fing-
iv
their integrated effect.
do not.
ers, is claim. Of plastic, handles
Imagine a candle being moved
What causes a migraine or sic);-
have chisel tips to remove pits,
to such a distance that our eyes are
ache has been the subject of t'nedi-
blisters, holes for stringing.
just unable to detect it, and that,
cal discussion for decades. Not one
completely as in Restoration tithes.
when 100 candles are put in its
of the hypotheses advanced in the
'ieadache
1VlEdges
lace we should then be able to
past has been worth a
Areca gasoline -power "Sensa-
New
see a bright patch of light.
powedr. Now comes Dr. nN'furray
tion" mower which runs along
Herschel • explained also, why
M. Graaf in the New York State
fences, foundations for close cut -
the Milky Way appears as a narrow
Journal of i1'Iedicine with a new ex-
ting, eliminating hand work, says
belt stretching right around the
planation, one which he believes
maker. This made possible by
heavens. It is because our stellar
he has proved to be right in numer-
switching wheels to forward posi-
universe is in the form of a flattens-
ons cases.
tion. Front of chassis also folds to
ed disk, like a millstone. The radial
instead of finding the cpuse of
expose'blades for weed, brush cut -
extension of the system is much
migraine headache ithe bead, as ii
ting. Has 20 -inch blade, uses 1.9-
greater than its thickness. So in
most of his predecessors have done,
• 1!.p. engine, or larger.
or
any direction in the Milky Way, we
Dr. Braaf finds it in the neck. in
to the gentlemen and you, a
are looking through the system to
the majority of cases of migraine
does most basely" in the "Indian
its most distant limits; in any other
headache that came under his ob-
Ring Clothespins
direction, we look through a much
servation, tenderness to the touch
New circular clothespins fasten
smaller depth.
The stars in the Milky Way are
and X-ray pictures indicated a con-
clothes to line by finger pressure
very far away. Remember, that:
clition much like that which pre-
vails when disks are dislocated in
Oki "trigger" inside pin. Ring de -
sign enables housewife to clip sev-
our sun is a star, and not a partic-
the spice. He inferred that an in-
era) pins oil fingers for easy carry -
ularly bright one. But we should
jury to the neck (a fall on the head,
ing, say smaker. Of celanese
have to push it to a very great dis-
tance before it became invisible.
on the back on outstretched arms)
plastic.' v:
The distances of the stars in the
was the cause. The fall may have
Swinging Girl Clock
Milky Way have been measured.
occurred years before there was a
New clocks have girl on swing
I: we take as our unit of distance
migraine attack. When the neck
for pen..ulum forward and Uack
the light-year, that is the distance
was injured, ligaments were apt to
rather than sideways. Sat in re-
'1which light light—travelling at
give way, so that a disk between
cess with colored garden. Said to
186,000 miles every second—would
two vertebrae protruded. The dis-
fit into most room interiors; self -
travel in a year, which is about
placed disk compressed the sur-
starting electric movement; indi-
six million -million miles, the dis-
rounding nerves and thus set up a
rect lighting. Mautel, wall models.
tances of the stats in the Milky Way
neuritis, of which one symptom was
. * x` * •
are of the order of 10,000 light-
a sick headache.
Scientific Boomerang
years upwards.
If this eplanation was correct,
i strong can be
town plastic
That answers the second part of
the obvious remedy was to get the
ase
tI•ntowts by anyone strong enough
the question: Why is the Milky
protruding disk back into place by
to throw 'ball, claims manufacturer.
Way unapproachable by nip. i?
strengthening the ligaments and
Leading edges beveled to work like
If we could travel with the speed
g them to work. This is ex--
ailerons of airplane; flies out al -
of light towards the Milky WayPuttin
actly what Dr. Braaf did. He
most horizontally, veers left, re -
(assuming that, souse suitable mode
would
travel had been devised) it would
stretched the neck with a pulley
turns, does a spiral like autogyro
of
take several thousand years
apparatus applied at the back of
the head and under the chin for a
while landing. Measures 24 inches,
goes up to 100 yards, is bright red
arrive. The journey would take so
few minutes. There was no pain.
for finding if lost; special reversed
much longer than the span of hu-
man life that is, obviously, quite
Large doses of vitamin B-1 were
aileron models for southpaws.
,it
impractible.
also injected to counteract the neu-
licking his chops.
ritis. Of patients whose neck were
fiv„
A WHITE SPITZ do and
g a
stretched at least three times a
week for one to two months 85 ler
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Persian cat owned by Bob and
cent re P orted relief that lasted. The
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Judy Nesmith of Dalton, eat from
results were evaluated on the basis
the same dish. The dog always
waits politely until the cat has
of the frequency, intensity and `dur-
'..f.
f nished her half of the food before
ation of the attacks before and after
starting.
treatr..ent.
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gist, who had been aroused at 2
a.m., "when a glass of hot water
would have done just as well!"
" Weel, weel," returned McDoug-
al,„ I thank ye for the advice, and
I'll no bother ye after all, Good
t#ig•ht!”
PSYCHOLOGISTS, studying
gorillas at the P ons 'loo, found
thein suffering from melancholia
and recommended that keepers
should force themselves to act
jolly and so deceive the alle into
a state of ha'llpine".
King Took Actress To. Supper,
'Then Couldn't Pay Bill
How would the famous beauties,
ded Bliss" ---'a -vivid and entertain
the most celebrated actresses of the
ing collection of short biographies
past, strike us if we could meet them
of people who did not marry.
to -day? Wotild Mrs. Siddons after
It was when Lady Portsmouth,
some coaching in modern technique,
thinking to add to her social stature,
make the same vivid impression on
put on deep mourning for the death.
ps that she slid oil her contempor-
of a princely personage in France
cries?
to whom she was in no way related.
One who would be, if anything,
Nell lost no time in exhibiting her -
more of a success to -day than she
self in public in unrelieved black,
was in her owti time is Nell Gwyn.
burlesquely weeping, explaining to
For she was a cockney of cockneys,
enquirers that she was inconsolable
and the tree cockney -does not
over the passing of the Cham of
change. Her verve and vitality,
Tartary.
quick tongue, devastating honesty,
Best of a Queer Bunch
generosity, even her extravagances,
Nell was generally a winner in a
•would )vin London's heart to -day as
contest of this sort. But she was no
completely as in Restoration tithes.
match for Louise in getting what
writes Charles Solomon in 'TitBits'
she,wanted out of Charles---probab-
Did She 8e11 Oarnges
ly because she -was not very inter -
Next to nothing is known of her
ested in, money for its own sake,
early life. Even the story that she
She was extravagant but almost
sold oranges at Drury Lane is pro-
recklessly generous. And of all
bably untrue. Her father may have
the harpies who surrounded the
been a tradesman in Hereford or a
King she seems to have been the
soldier in Wales. The first hard
only one who was genuinely fond
fact comes from Nell herself, who
of him.
admitted in the course of a quarrel
Stopped the Show
with another actress that she had
Nell's reputation as an actress
first made her living in somewhat
rests chiefly on the diary of Pepys,
questionable surroundings. Nell
an enthusiastic and highly critical
s ' vt faithful-
•a contrasting her own fa
was h
g
lav goer. H adore her as
_ o e d a
P g
ness to one man with her rival's
woman and as a comedienne, but
Collection of three or four—"though
was very definite that she could not
T as brought uptofill strong water,
tackle tragedy.e S. He s P eaks of .a
to the gentlemen and you, a
great and serious part which she
Presbyter's praying daughter."
does most basely" in the "Indian
Nell never pulled her punches,
Emperor." But in "Secret Love,
even in the presence of Royalty.
or the Maiden Queen," he says:
She was once enjoying a busman's
"There is a comical part done by
holiday, watching a play with an
Nell that I can never hone ever to
admirer, when they discovered that
see the like done again by man or
King Charles himself was in the
woman." In this play N_ell had a
next box. Charles had already seen
dance in boy's clothing that
Nell on the stage. This closer
"stopped the show" and set a new
view so enchated him that Ile in-
fashion—all the Court ladies took
listed on taking the couple to sup-
to wearing male attire.
per, bringing with him his brother
Found Food for Convicts
James, Duke of York (afterwards
Even if there is no truth in the
James II). When the bill for the
tradition that Nell was largely re -
supper had to be paid, neither
sponsible for the founding of Chel--
Charles or Jaynes had any money
sea Hospital, there can be little
and Nell's unhappy admirer had to
doubt of her many charities. Highly
settle. "Odsfish," cried Nell, "but
practical they were, too.
this is the poorest company that
Among her other activities, she
ever I was in before at a tavern."
specialized in providing convicts
It may have ben her gift for re-
with food. And very necessary
partee that so endeared her to
this was, in an age when jailers
Charles—himself a very pretty wit
were responsible only for seeing
who did not object to being the
that their prisoners did not es -
source of wit in others. Certainly
cape and not for keeping tl.em fed.
he enjoyed the duels between Nell
Charles must have worried over
and her' chief rive!, Lauise de
his Nell's lack of money sense..
Kerouaille, the Duchess of Ports-
For as he lay dying lie said to his
mouth. At one time, when it
brother: "Let not poor Nelly
seemed as if the lovely Duchess of
starve." The request was loyally
Mazarin might carry off Charles
carried out: but Nell survived Nitro
under Louise's nose Nell went into
by only two years more.
mourning for, as she explained, at
Even allowing for those rollick -
the top of her voice, the Duchess of
ing days of laxer morals, Nell
Portsmouth's ruined hopes.
Gwyn cannot but be called a good
Another of her japes at her rival's
woman. But she was a warm -
expense, which also concerned the
hearted, generous creature, as' be -
wearing of mourning is quoted by
loved by her public as by her Royal
Kenelm Toss in his book "Unwed-
inaster.
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Self-control—The facial expression of "Tiger,” is that of a cat
who didn't eat a canary Tiger exercises almost perfect will
power as three pet canaries
stroll by under his. nose. He
wotildn't touch one of thetas for the world, bit can't quite resist
licking his chops.
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New Mosquito Boats on the way --Those lutrd-hitting, fastdodging PT boats of World War J1
are growing tali. Here'is a sketch of the new all -metal torpedo boats to join the fleet late
this'}•ear A9ucli larger than current PTs, the Clew boats will have greater operating range)
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