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= Lars Ca SC aw oa i rte Gt WC ah hr PN DTS SRE sce Marjory Higgins make her way --------g BT Majolica Vase bh) By L. T. McFARLAND ARRY LLANG had come pre- pared to spend fifty dollars for the vase. Heé sat nervously watching the auctioneer, the peaple, #nd the door. and prayed that Marjory Higgins (that horrid spinster who seldom missed an auction, and always outbid him for his treasures) had broken a leg or something so she couldn't ap- pear this time when the Majolica vase was to be put iip on the block. He strained his neck for the hun- dredth tim: toward the entrance. He wondered if her knowledge of antiques covered old pottery, Maybe not. Maybe his auction- ) sparring enemy didnt' know a Majolica vase from a beer mug. Yet the very thought of those, snapping eyes and that crisp san- _ guine voice sent his blood soaring. * bd » "What am 1 bid for this Majolica vase? A rare antique! Rirest thing in this room!" the auctioncer's well- oiled voice boomed forth while his free hand gestured over wash tubs, kraut shovels, and the carpet sweepers, There it was! Harry looked about cautiously 'and held his breath for the sheer beauty of it, " "Who will start the auctioneer coaxed. bid?" the "Five dollars." Harry called out. The girl was nowhere in sight. "I'nank you, sir, five dollars. Who will make it ten?" Thus the bidding proceeded until thirty was reached. * * + The crowd was swaying rest- lessly. Interest was on the wand Harry took a plunge. "Forty," he finally said. Now the vase was toil-worn ~ practically on his: lap, but_the auc-. tioncer held on. is all 1 am it fifty--¢" "INifty," the door. Suffering cats! It was her voice. The: crowd turned en masse to "Iorty--forty-- offered--who'll make called a clear voice near FUNNY BUSINESS 7 77 2 i i 8/7 yD 0 a iia im 5 i i HR % irs, S$ #4 1S Shien: % up the aisle to a spot almost di- rectly in front of Harry. She stood there, confidently, already pictur- ing her proud exit with the vase in her possession. Harry ground his teeth and mut- tered, Sixty." "Seventy-five" the crisp voice came back at once as Miss Higgins tossed a swift challenge back in Harry's direction. "Eighty," Harry took the. chal. lenge, and this time Marjory flush- ed and seemed 'embarrassed. o "Eighty," teased the "Fighty 1 am offered eighty-five, Miss?" The girl nodded Harry was really seeing red. "Eighty-five it is. Now make it ninety, Mister, s make it ninety. Don't let the lady outbid you." * * + Cryer. Make 11 Harry sensed that the crowd to a man was on the lady's side and were inwardly rooting for her, en- joying her sportsmanship--so he raised up and shouted, "Ninety." Now he had it. The auctioneer scolded and pleaded and begged but Marjory was immovable. She must be pouting. She Jreard the "Going--going--g--" Then it happened. Marjory Hig- gins whirled about and faced Harry Lang. She was trembling. "You cheap skate!" she shouted. "You penny pincherl It's not the money, but the principle of the thing that burns me up. All this embarrassment over a measly nickel or two. Ninety cents--well you don't get it for ninety. 1 bid one dollar. So there! And now that the vase is mine; I'd like nothing better than the privilege of break- ing it over your head." L* * * She stepped up to the stand and snatching the vase from the for- once speechless auctioneer, threw it with all her strength at Harry Lang's dome. Lucky for Harry he had made his record in football. catching forward passes. A mo- ment later it Jay neatly tucked away under his arm. "Touchdown." someone shouted and-- the crowd surged forward pushing Ha.ry lang until he was face to face with his assailant. "I'hanks, Madam. Thanks very much for the vase--the clerk will be along to collect your bid," ne managed as the crowd pressed up. And in the riot that Harry edged his way outside. By Hershberger "1 only have one dunce can!" 'MOPSY byGLADYS PARKER IN EVERY WAY. TOM 1S VERY MODERN, HE. THINKS MEN AND WOMEN ARE EQUAL am / GUST: vhm HE SOUNDS PRETTY. CONCEITED. ------------ a i "Eighty-five." followed; | --all--his--available dead Cream of the Tok Baby Crop-- These robust Japanese- youngsters are part of ic group of 25 recently picked as the healthiest babies in Tokyo. Mothers pose proudly with their sturdy offspring, who regard the cameraman with questioning "shoe button" eyes .and would rather go to work on thajr prizes--sugar candy. Germans Develop Spray System As Protection Against Frosts Paul Tegtmeicr, a botanist ying | in Hannover, observed 12 years ago during his studies of plant life, how nature.provided a natural pro- tection for her children. Many hours before the night frosts com- menced, heavy dew settled on the fields and meadows," often even a heavy mist, The ensuing frost then covered the plants and grass with -a layer of ice (by frost and dense mist it became rime). Observing the result;-Herr Tegtmeier noticed -}. that by-cven 3 degrees of frost of lengthy duration, no harm had come to the plants. If, however, the frost came quickly without preceding dew or moisture forma- tion, barely one degree of frost was sufficient to kill - the plants. The lack of atmospheric moisture did not afford a protection against the sudden drop in temperature, These observations caused Herr Tegtmeicr to experiment. He sank capital laboratories, and for scarched for an copy nature. many years cffective way to Finally, one day, he experimented with a cyclamen in full bloom. With a specially con- structed spray he enveloped the plant in a mist-like cloud of atomized water; he then took this plant from a room-temperature of about 68 degrees Fahrenheit and put it outside in a temperature of 18 degrees of frost, a drop of 50 degrees. Encased In Ice Within three hours the plant was encased in ice. At about 21.00 hours he brought the plant back into, a room-temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit and noticed immediately that, though the plant was encased Home, Sweet Home Though Mértgaged Morignged, there's no place like home, Judging from the statistics, that is about the way the American people feel. Today their homes are caryying a $24.6 billion mort- gage debt--the largest in history, says the Minneapolis Star. The sum is 15 percent greater than the previous peak in 1930, : The average size of the non-farm mortgage of $20,000 and under has risen stcadily from $2722 in 1939 to $4,206 in 1946. So far as'Home mortagages are concerned, Simon Legree is as out of date as is the model-T Ford, But despite this, 'there is some sound advice for prospective home owners in "Money Matters", pub- lished by the Institute of Life In- stirance. 1. Don't invest more than three. times your total annual income (after tax deductions), . -. - -2. Make as big a oni payment as you can and pay off the mort" gage as fast as possible, . J. Don't buy a heme in which the total cost of upkeep, including insurance, taxes, heating, Lind and interest and' mortgage pay- ments, exceed a quarter of your assured income, Mounties To Get Back Their Horses Fouts 8 10 Ton Return' of! Litre of Bogonnhy fi RCMP mounts is annofin is certain to win popuar acclaim, With the force resorting more and more to the use of fast patrol cars d planes in tracking down the West's "bad men", it had been feared that the highly- trained police horse was on its way- out. In the minds of people most SVery Whee the mounted Redcoat 'a symbol of law and order. Jithout the horse, the symbol is definitely weakened, The pages "of history cannot be §0- ~easily and "ghould Hor he €o Trarshty "blutred: Progress is fine but so is tradition.' into his % circle rafrasias Fay in an armor of ice of about 2.5. cm, the fresh green of the leaves was well recognizable. Late at night the ice thawed again and his ex- pectations had been surpassed. I'ree of ice and without flaw, the cycla- men stood before him in full bloom. > But a further problem presented itesli--the protection of the ground against too much moisture. Many more years were spent in experi- ments, but at last, after 12 years, he evolved -an atomizing spray, producing a mist-like "water dust" which is so fine and light it does not clog and cake the ground it falls. upon. It slowiy sinks to earth attaining -in the process a temperature: very to 'the ground temperature and accumulating oxygen from the air, which jt imparts to the ground, On account of its mist-like quality it does not cake the ground, and --hoeing-to loosen the earth after 'ts use becomes unnecessary. It offers the greatest possibilities of protec- tion. against frost: in spring and autumn without saturating the ground with wategy =r + Isolating Layer : The air which is enclosed be- tween the ice-crystals and the plant constitutes an isolating layer against the cold, and the heat of sublimation, relcased by the ice formation, serves as heating. If properly used, it produces earlier harvests in spring (about 3-4 weeks) and longer harvests in the autumn; better quality plants and fruit, greater yields and more frequent harvests. When questioned regarding the cost of such an installation for big market gardeners, Herr Tegtmeier quoted prices which. showed "that the advantages of even the first earlier harvest would mote than cover the expenditure, and the re- sulting harvests would bring higher profit, .increase output and thereby lower consumers' prices, "The German Trade and Industry Department appealed to "Tegtmcier to release his invention for "the benefit of all, and as the peace and wellbeing of the whole world are his main aim, he has released his invention to, the public in order to improve the foad situa- tion, aria many market gardeners and horticulturists in Germany are now availine themselves of the pro- ferred innovation on old methods. bd Today's Fantasy We can't vouch for the, authen- ticity of this tale which comes from Britain. 'Two men, photographing big game in Africa, came 'upon a huge clephant sitting op a jungle trail. One. of them' Dispered: "Let's him 'and' photograph him when he gets up.' : As they mancuveréd about. the animal they ran smack into a sec- ond elephant sitting with ¢his back to the first. The boldest - of the two men walked up to the creatyre and demanded:; two are sitting back-to-back?" The elephant, surveying the man - for a moment, rumbled:" "Don't shout so--I really mustn't. speak-- Josephine and I are playing hook ends." . week, cloud cf' near --- Herr "How come you, Lewis Asks Boost For Mineworkers According to the latest available figures the soft-coal miners were averaging about $69.50 a week, says the The New York Herald Tribune. This is. the highest average for manual "workers in any of the . country's major industries. The - steelworkers, for instance, with their recent' wage increases, have an average wage of about $55.50 4 the auto workers one of about $59. Yet Mr. John Lewis now insists that his mineworkers get a boost of 35 cents an hour, or else, though the steelworkers and others have been content with one of 15 cents r "less and 'the Northern and Western coal operators have offer- ed 15 cents. Approximately 45,000,000 immigrated to the United States in 'the 100 years from 1831 to 1931. people VOICE OF THE PRESS Slippery Money Scientists are now making, mer- cury out of gold. We hope' this doesn't mean that mercury is going to become the new. standard unit of money. The present one, as most of us have discovered, slips through the fingers easily enough, ' Kitchener Record. Must Be Vigilant ; Small children who dash 'out from. the sidewalk after a ball or in pure exuberance of spirits, often from behind a parked car, un: knowingly subject themselves to great peril," Vigilant motorists on city streets always drive with this sort of emergency in mind. --QOttawa Journal. Couldn't Do. Better Newsweek Magazine opines that: "Japanese closely associated with Hirohito are carefully studyihg the British' monarchy as a model for the Emperor's future under the new' constitution." They could do no hetter, _ "Stratford Beacon-Herald Ignorance Is- Bliss Everybody likes to, be humbug- ged once in a while, so long as they don't know how if's done. --Guelph Merciry, Then Education Begins Schooling is what you get at school, but education is what the rough old .world gives you when schooldays are over, --Brandon Radio-Minded . The small boy who was taken to the country for the first-time saw a spider spinnifg a web be- tween two tall reeds and told his father that a bug was putting up a wireless. | --St. Thomas Times-Journal. Sun, Neglected Language A Toronto educationist has let the cat out of the bay by referring to the "five languages now taught" in our secondary schools: He names them as Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish. This explains why so many graduates have an imperfect not tanght at all. -- Peterborough Examiner, com- mand of English, which is apparently Must Have 'Em Planning an overall parade to pub- licize a buyers' strike, members of the Vancouver Housewives' Con- sumers' League are presumably busy shopping for' the most attractive overalls they can find, at any price. 4 ~ Windsor, Star. : ! 'From Bottom Up The Massachusetts community of Newburyport has abandoned its month-old 10 percent price cut be- cause suppliers failed to co-operate. All other similar efforts to reduce prices must fail. tinless the .reduc- tions are first: made by the manu- facturers-and wholesalers. : V0 as ; Better Wait First Time saved by crashing traffic is often lost waiting for the ambulance. --QGuelph Mercury. Doyou sutter flO) wy FEMALE PAIN ? 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Unveiled at Santa Monica, Calif, the new DC-6 has a conference room which When ready for delivery, it will. have an American Eagle painted on its tapered nose. oh POP--Nothing Wasted 7 By J. MILLAR WATT'. - 2 ' TRATHATLL FIT HIM IF You. CUT OFF THE LS, TAKE THE PADDING OUT OF THE SHOULDERS, ~ A. rx finder, onfr Ancric n--AND PUT IT A IN THE SEAT \ OF HIS PANTS A pe por