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TIttFABM FBONT 1 I Hot'* onto taffeta tub- [ft wrapping. Lawrance, headlMi, Provision* Looks like another mesa o; hash this week, and the first ingredient is something about fires. An insur- ance man says that only 11 per cent of farm tires are the result of care- lessness : which looks somewhat on the small side to us, but who are we to doubt the say-so of an expert? Poor construction of buildings, he claims, caused the balance. « * « f .,_ By that he means bad roots, chimneys "ha: aren't kept in good repair, stoves or furnaces that over- heat, and buildings without light- ning rods. Anyway, it mightn't be a bad idea to take a look around the place and see if anything needs iijc- ing. And this might be a good time for me :o remind you once again that the amount of fire i.Tsurance you carry SH "lULD NOT be based on what a building cost you vears ago, but on WHAT IT WOULD COST TO REPLACE at today'i prices. There's a mighty big differ- ence between the two. « » • Of course you know that w^ater -^ li;peff-tiT3r~arcir't below the frost level in the ground need extra pro- tection in winter; but it's also a good idea to check any vertical piping, that has been packed with sawdust or earth, to make sure that the packing hasn't settled, thus ex- posing some part of the pipes. .\nd even indoor pipes, which pass through unhealed portions of the house or other buildings, may need â- >^ insulation. « • ♦ This latter is particularly aeces- sary with hot water lines, as the insulation not only prevents e.xces- â- ^ five loss of heat, but will prevent freezing at times when such piping may be idle. • » • Dr. J. W. Bailey, a well known veterinarian, has some interesting things to say to all who keep dairy cows. We have long been told, he writes, that a lack of water mean* less nvlk from the cows â€" ar.d with _ â€" «ilk-^ing so largely composed oi wafer, it is easy to see why thi» â-  should t>e true. « « * However, a deficiency of water causes an even more seriou* losi than that of decreased milk produc- tion. The biggest loss of all i* sickness caused by indigestion â€" ia fact it i* this sickness which brings about the decrease in the mi'k flow. « ' * « It is only natural that cows should suffer most from lack of *ater in the winter months. A: other sea- _jojj» ihey are likely to ''..ive greener "ITeds and to be outdoors where water '^s more convenient. â-  • • » Dr. Bailify tells about a sick cow which '.\i attended in an ultra- modern bam." She was the only ailing auiuyial in a large herd and was really sick. It took the better part of .in hour to figure out what was the matter with her, and the . answer â€" when found â€" waj ;o simple. "^ that it made him feel foolish. What had happened was triat this cow's drinking cup wasn't working and Bailey estimated that the poor beast had been without a dritik for at least three days. Rep'.i»Ky*-it of~T"wornout valve in the drinking- cup soon fixed things ui>. New Airport Feature-Road Underpasses Runway Glass-Blowers Art A Delicate One An Air France Conjtellation taxis over the world's arst roadwav underpass built to p^rci-i 'i:e s:- multaneous movemait of aircraft and surface vehicles at New 'York's Internariocal Airport "Hie i^derpass, corisidered a major engineering feat, drocs to below iaa level at the soint o'crjred above Tae roadway, retaining walls and overpass comprise a 92.000-:on "concrete boat""buiI: to w:tfc- stand presstires from below sea levei pond. And injigestiou on a large icale may even appear in fairly mild weathe.--. That's because cows aren't built Uke camels, so trouble is com- mon in herds t'lat are only turned out to water once a day. Vi « « So, Bailey says, why not take time o£ some evening and see if you can figure out some ways of getting more water into your cows this winter? Plenty of good drinking water means better herd health, and that means less expense and more milk. » % . All ot which I pass along to yon, together with T'ae Compliments of the Season. > i Sometinies whole herds will sick- en with indigestion during the winter i when water pipes freeze, or "auto- matic" water systems go haywire, or drinking cups get plugged with feed. When cattle are watered out- side indigestion on a herd-size basis is likely to go along with a particu- larly cold spell. Shivering cows won't drink as much as warm osies, even though the water may be steaming and have a smoking heater standing in the tank. » • » The situation, naturally, is inuctt worse if the watering place is an unheated freezing tank, or x hole chopped in the ice of a creek or Searching for Orchids Ever since Jocelyu Brooke ivas a child he has 'nad a passion for or- chids, those strange and subtly beautiful plants. He says that of the sixty speciij that grow wild in Great Britain, many are very rare indeed and growing rarer owing to the increase of building, and the depredations of holiday makers, hikers and zealous botanists. He pleads that these lovely raritiea should be allowed to flourish where they grew and said: "If one must gather them, it is better to cut the stalk, as this is less likely to dis- turb the root." Brooke has been an orchid hunter since he was eight; entranced by t'se spell of these flowers he has sought and found some of the rarest of them. Orchids have a strangely imitative quality; there is the Bee Orc'nid. which looks like a cluster of living bees clinging to the steras and the Spider and Fly Orchids have this same quality of mimicry. There is a Man Orchid. Frog, liz- ard and Butlertly Orchids and. rar- est of all ia Britain, the Military Orchid. He ius searched all his life for this, but has not yet found it He has eve:*, written a book called "The Military Orchid." combination of personal anecdote kand botanical record which he terms an "autobontanography."-' He called orchids the Koya! Fam- ily of the British Flora and said, "like other kinds of royalty, they are on the decrease; 'perhaps the plant world in this country is be- comiug republican." He mentioned that orchids are thougiht of by the nuu in the street as symbols of Edwardian opulence or decadence; to hittt they have a fascination and a quality of uniqueness. "Orchids are not quite Uke anything else; there is souiething rare and singular about them, something a little dif- ferent, something a little queer, somethiag rather self-consciously and defiantly elegant." Jocelyn Brooke, product of Bed- ales and Oxford, has been wine and STQCKINCTIME By GLCrVAS W1LXXUI3 HAIW* UP ST!X>IN6 ON MftNTELPIECf IN LIVIN*. ROOM tOti IV TO KO COMES DO«MN KALf iWORESSfP fo MAJC6 iVK WAT STOCKING K IN M9ST C WCrtl*- ItNT n.ACE FOR «u«o A iinis ST»R1 LEP WHEN HE *PVeM?ft< »T POOR COMBS DOWN PNCt MORe lb M.>KE CER TWN THt^IE ISN'T fcHOLE INlfieiOe Of TX= STOC<iN(ii \ m^ n^-! . fSnr.tfOgV ACTION* OF fi\i?[NT; WHO «EMVf<\ili.-AT-€ASI »N9 KEEP Wf.MSELVtS MTWEFM HIM .\N0 «1X<CKIN0 '. ?»trf«>i. UM. >r i>» »»a Rf Tt<tt< PI." n\; To COWE CVWN .\C-A1N TOCONViNJC! 'â- "SKflF TWE HN !<. *TRO.\K< ST0<KIN&FTNOS.m?f>l1S mi uvKEp TMv ixvu bw.) C.£T^ Nt* MP W0(«- PtR'N^^ WHAT M*«S (BRENTS VT SO- ai*ER. WT « TOO SiEtPY TOvios^y MIVH A801II r book selier. la'.iior and meiiicai orderly in the .Army. He joined as a private during the war, remained in the ranks for five years, and has recently re-enlisted for a further term. He concluded his talk on British orchids by saying; " Waen JO many of our public or private sj-mbols are losing their power to sustain as I find it consoling to think t'nrat certainly, but I can still return every year to look at the Early Spider on the Dover cliifs, or the Lady Orchid in the woods of the Elham Valley, and feel pretty sure that they will still be there, and that they will still give me the same satisfaction that they did when 1 was a child in that remote, uubelieT- ible age of thirty years ago." Poor Hubby In recent months i perfiriie mak- er .las been carr>-ing on an uatisual- ly ambitious advertising campaign in newspapers of t'ne Mid-West and Far West. The ads smell like the perfume, w'nich is' mixed with the ink used for the partictilar page in w'nieh the ad appears. Ml went well until oni aews- paper, by error, got the perfume mlted into all its ink for one issue. The whole paper reeked. Heavily scented husbands hesitated to go home from the oiHce test their odor be misinterpreted. Tae gUiibiowjr'i deuca:* art is thousands of years old, and is gen- erally tho-jght to have been dis- covered about the beginning of the Christian era in the Phoenician city of Sidon. Since that time there has been little change in gL^ssblowing methods, although modem tools help simplify the procedure. In the great days of Venice, glass blowers achieved a high artistic status with their exquisite creations, but today t'ne blowing of glass for most uses iias been modified by mechanical means, although the art survives to contribute an essential skill to the field of chemical re- search. The scientist, and especially the chemist, has become dependeat upon glass as one ot the chief tnaterials for fabricaaoo of con- tainers in which his studies are made. » From the beginning o€ science to the end of the last century only the simplest glass apparatus was knowti: flasks, retorts and tubes were used and their style changed little down the centuries. In the last quarter cenrary. however, more elaborate apparatus and custom- tjoade glassware have been intro- duced, a development necessitated by the complicated work of tO'iay's scientific workers. In the type of work done for the laboratory, a raw stock of tubular glass, previously blown to this shape as part of the manufacturing process, is 'neld in the flame of a burner, fueled with gas and com- pressed air or o.xygen until the glass reaches the right state of flux, i point between rigidity and hque- faction. From long practice the operator konvvs by the colour oi the glowing piece when it has reached the proper state of pLasifcity. The glass can then be drawn out many times its own length or blown into any shape desired T'ae flame from the torch can be adjusted from a mere pinpoint to a fanlike blaze. Glass first become* red and then white-'not and in this latter stage is almost impossible to mould: t'nerefore, most of the work :i ^Oii< * :iue ^ia>4 .s reU-aoc .Vi glass is a poor conductor jt .heat the piece be.ng *orked ca» ite handled within an inch or two ji the molten portion. Withoot this happy faculty, the glassblower's eftorts ta mould the piece would be dil&ctiK indeed, as he must turn the entire aflair by hand, slowly and contina- ously to achieve even heating larhtte applying the flame. Strictly Fresh .\nthropuiog'!sts have tamed ap is South Africa another "missing link" in the evolution of man. Ultimately, we expect to hear of the e-xLstence of a whole ciiain of nothing bat missing link?. • « « In Englaai, the top quiz ;â- : n on BBC is 58. For that kind of moaeip here, yoa couldn't even get people to answer the phone! « • • One bookstore advertised x »»- i'jme entitled, "Harry Truman, t Political Biography," with this in- flationary sign: "Formerly W cents, now three dollars." And for a de- flationary note â€" tiiere's probably a drastic cut ia any Dewey titeratare. « * « Juliette St. .Vmoor was granted * divorce froai Romeo St. .\moar m Detroit. That's a new wrinkle ta • verv old clo"'i. Mcrrv Meflis«ie-B»WiitD<:saqr 'Ttn leery o( blind dates â€" de- scribe her to me!" Zk Other Christmas Christmas â€" a time of candle-UsKt flickering on happv taces, a time o{ carols and good cheer, of brishtly-wrappevl gifts and tinselled tre-e*. And deep within us all Is still another Christmas, the Chriarmw g^dc^'ng our etvf-y dav â€" a Christmas horn foe us o/ a toUrance and understanding that go<s b«vond wordsj bom for us so that men may Uv« In harmonv, with purpose to their lives and benevolence in their hearts . . . This is the othm Christmas, the spiritual Christmas. THE HOUSE F S B. A G R A M