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/ IV\(iK«» -PLAINDEALER-FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1979 X COLDFRAMES CAN STRETCH YOUR GARDENING SEASON Economical ready-made coldframe Tying-in the corner cinder blocks Double-checking with spirit level Coldframes are unheated shelters for plants. Glass or plastic covers admit sunlight and, at night, conserve heat and ward off frost damage. Portable prefabricated cold- frames can lengthen the gardening season by 30 to 60 days. More substantial homemade coldframes with thicker walls and virtually airtight construction can ab­ sorb and store more heat. They can add 90 days to your gardening season, "fore and aft." The principal use of cold- frames in the spring is for "growing-on" seedlings started early indoors. Hun­ dreds of sturdy seedlings can be grown to transplanting size in a coldframe no larger than a kitchen table. Come fall, coldframes can be used for producing late salad greens or for prolonging the harvest from compact varie­ ties of peppers, tomatoes and eggplant grown in con­ tainers. Later on, frames can be stuffed with dry leaves and used for storing cabbage and root crops. Recently, the National Garden Bureau conducted a survey that revealed a great deal of interest by home gardeners in how to build coldframes. NGB funded a coldframe project at Michigan State University and left the coldframe design and construction to students, members of the Horticulture Club. Students puzzled out con­ struction details, ordered supplies and did the work with minimum supervision from the university staff. Materials for a 2 ft. deep frame, 54 in. X 38 in. length and width, included: 30 cinder blocks 2 bags mortar 15 ft. 1" X 6" lumber Copper napthenate, a wood preservative Students laid the blocks with mortar and tied-in' theJ cor­ ners for strength. They im­ bedded wooden blocks in the top course of blocks, to which screws could be an­ chored. Screws pin the sill to wooden blocks Experimental plastic pillow top Rather than build the frame one course higher in the back to tilt the cover for shedding rain, the students decided to shim and mortar under the rear and side sill boards. This produced a slight slope without requiring tricky cut­ ting of blocks on an angle. An experimental cover was built of clear plastic film stapled over a chicken wire pillow. This produced a deep lid with lots of dead air space for insulation. Lightweight, inexpensive and easy to prop up for ventilation, the cover was held snugly to the lid with quick-release tie-downs. The students call the pillow a "fig newton." They are con­ cerned about condensation inside the pillow affecting light transmission. If this oc­ curs, they will switch to used window sash for a cover. Cinder block coldframes can be left exposed in mild climates or, where winters are severe, banked up with soil for insulation. A deep floor of coarse sand is generally added for good drainage and sanitation. Above-ground construction is recommended. Coldframes built in below-ground pits can fill with water during spring rains. Orient the frames with the long dimen­ sion running east and west. Plans for building cold- frames can be obtained free from your local County Cooperative Extension Ser­ vice. Coldframes can be con­ verted to "hotbeds," miniature greenhouses, by the addition of electrical cables for heating the soil. CROSSWORD PUZZLE fattier /t&fM, Somethingness In the story, "A Clean, Well-lighted Place," Ernest Hemingway describes a waiter, walking home from work. He's depressed, thinking life has no meaning. So he mumbles a prayer to nothingness, feeling there is no one to listen. Here's his monologue, patterned in a negative way on the Lord's Prayer: Our Nothing who art in Nothing, Nothing be thy name. Thy Kingdom Nothing, thy will be Nothing in Nothing as it is in Nothing. Give us this Nothing our daily Nothing and - Nothing us our Nothing as . we Nothing our Nothings. And Nothing us not into- Nothing but deliver us from Nothing. "Life is an unpleasant interruption of nothingness," is the way famed criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow put it. And Robert G. Ingersoll, the Illinois agnostic, said, "Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud and the only answer is the echo of a wailing cry." Oscar Wilde was nearer the truth when he said, "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing." A life without values is nothing, even though such a life is surrounded by prestige, intellect, good looks, money, cars, mansions and travel. Someone asked Daniel Poling what he knew about God. Poling replied, "I don't know much about God, but what 1 do know has changed my life." The element of despair comes thru in the writings of Hemingway, Darrow and Ingersoll, for they -- or the characters they invented -- saw life as nothingness. Poling saw life as somethingness, because he saw Someone back of life. D o w e ? R. J. Hastings Ls editor of The Illinois Baptist in Springfield DOWN 1 "Herzog" novelist 2 Function 3 Colleen's land 4 Conceit 5 Bucky of the Yanks 6 Resolve 7 pick beetle 8 Fabric 9 Hayworth film 11 Post 15 Lively dance 19 Detroit export 20 Common verb form T O D A Y ' S A N S W E R uSKCSSH UQffl SKUDSS H&e EBBEEBE SE1H BQQHE BBHDH BBS EESH fcJSE BBSEBK BEEHK BgpsHE mow ElBEi] EE SHUSH HBBBH GSE2E HSnBBEIK] DBS eassBK BSE EHfeJSE 21 Nonsense! 22 Superman's wear 23 Russian peninsula 24 "It's De- 25 Motive 26 Young eel 27 Extorted money from 28 Highway horror 31 Run along 32 Reach across 33 Dorothy's dog 36 Before m ACROSS • 1 Species 6 Dolores -- Rio 9 Alice Gobel's man 10 Yale grad 11 Attendance number 12 Jail: si. 13 Novelist Drury 14 Overused 16 "Swear" words 17 Famous garden 18 Perry Mason's forte 19 Calling 22 Ms. Burnett 23 Red wine 25 One of Lee's men 28 Farm yield 29 Edifice extension 30 Fasten firmly 32 Barrel part 34 Wooden core 35 Rested 37 Chosen: abbr. 38 Spellbinder 39 Country dance 40 Mortise's fitting Loses 128 Pounds Thanks to Healthy Conway Diet When this photo was f,/ taken, Mrs. Delores War- ren had already lost 113 p o u n d s i n j u s t 1 1 months. She has since lost another 15 pounds. The now slim Mrs. War- ren, who loves to dance ; and is attending beauty school says, "I had never been able to stick to a diet and could never have done it without the Conway program." The Conway weight re­ duction program con­ sists of^hree main elements: • A balanced. 1000 calorie diet that includes all food groups and exceeds the established nutritional re­ quirements for adults. • Weekly educational seminars that deal with the physical, nutritional and emotional causes of over­ weight. • The Forever Slim plan for permanently maintain­ ing slimness. lOOOOOOOOOOOiKMKKHKKKHtOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOt NEW MJEMBERS -- SAVE $5.00 Bring this coupon with you to any meeting listed and you will save $5.00 off the Initial Registration Fee of $6.00 and Weekly Seminar Fee of $3.00. Pay only $4.00 instead of $9.00. Offers expires Fnday, September 22, 1978. iXXKH>00040000000000000000000<XXKKXXK>< Weekly Insight-Motivation Seminars ISLAND LAKE--Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. St. Johns Lutheran Church (church of tho lighted cross) Rt. 174 •AMINGTON--Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Barrlngton Park Building, Lions Drivo Or Call 344-1709 . New Members Always Welcome Registration $6.00 plus Weekly Seminars $3.00 CONWAY DIET INSTITUTE-No Fish Rewired BY JOSKIMI COOLS staff psychologist . news from the Family Service and Mental Health Clinic of McHenry County. (Editor's note: This is another in a series of especially written articles for McHenry County readers. Joseph Cools is a psychologist on the Family Service and Community Mental Health Center staff. This ar­ ticle is "Coping - Re­ establishing Trust".)' After a strong trust relationship has been broken, for whatever reason, it is usually very difficult and frightening to completely trust another person, especially under similar circumstances. For instance, if a woman has felt betrayed when her close' friend revealed things said in deepest confidence, she will have a difficult time confiding - in this or any other friend A man whose wife has divorced him will quite naturally fear getting married again. As people have, a deep and natural need for intimate companionship, it is practically a necessity to re-establish a trusting relationship. A natural reluctance to be hurt again in the same way often prevents this kind of relationship, however. The resulting conflict between need and fear, com­ bined with the hurt from the previous relationship can make life very miserable indeed. The only reasonable resolution to the conflict is to give oneself time to recover from the hurt, and to try to understand why the previous relationship went wrong. Since it is impossible to be objective under these circumstances, another person, such as a friend, or even a counselor can be of value. Hopefully, when the person feels ready to try trusting another person, the person chosen is worthy of that trust. There are no quarantees, but there are safeguards to protect oneself from the same hurtful experience. Most important is to not trust too completely, too quickly. Trusting in small does, over a period of time allows a person to decide whether the relationship is worth expanding and whether the other person is worthy of trust. It is only by testing a new relationship, slowly, that confidence in the other person can be established. Next: Communication dif­ ficulties. Kindness has never yet done anyone serious harm. Wonder Lake Inn & Lounge Featuring Chinese & American Cuisine NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH-TUES. THRU FRI. 11:30 TO 2 SPECIALS! •TUES. & WED. ALL DAY-SENIOR CITIZENS 10% OFF •THURS. ALL DAY-FRIED CHICKEN $2.*5 •FRI. NITE-FISHERMAN'S WHARF $2.95 rr-TTj CARRY OUT ORDERS I 5506 E WONDER LAKE RD WONDER LAKE. ILL. PHONE 815-72S-0411 OPEN FOR DINNERS: TUES. 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