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By Richard Hill Wilkinson It 'was only natural 'that. Rose - should. be thrilled at thoughts: of meeting' Loring. Hunt. After al], Loring Hunt was the most glamor - ous of modern day screen - stars. I had expected. And Rose--well, Rose was just an-, other young girl with dreants. She had fallen in- love 'with' Lor. ing Hunt when she was 12 years old." Maturity had rather dampened her enthusiasm; at least she never betrayed the real depths of it. When told of Loring Hunt's pending arrival Jerry had snorted. "What!" he cried disgustedly. "That sap coming here? To your house? Why, your mother rust be out of her mind!" "Mother's far from out of her mind," Rose replied furiously. "It's only common decency that she ask "Mr. Hunt to stay with us while he's in town. His father and mine were close friends. Since -Daddy's death, the Hunts have been splendid to mother." + She = added spitefully: "We'se giving a party in Loring Hunt's 'honor and I guess you'd better not come.' "Try and keep me away," said Jerry. "I'm not letting the girl I'm . engaged to run around unprotected with that lizard in the vicinity." "We're not engaged, " Rose told him, "We're practically engaged," said Jerry. A week later Loring Hunt arriv- ed. He .was wearing a mustache and colored glasses, both of which he removed as-soon as he was in- side the house, "It's my defense," he smiled by way of explanation. "I'd- .be mobbed down without them." Loring was all and more-than she There were /a few grey hairs about his temples, but what are a few grey. hairs when' the man of her dreams was here in the flesh and seeming to take a particu- lar interest in her. \ At least Rose imagined he was taking" a particular interest in her. During the first of the "evening Jerry assumed an attitude of aloof- ness. He -stood in a coriier and tried to look disdainful and super- ior, But when this "attitude failed - to impress Rose he abandoned it, "aud took to following her around: Toward the end of the evening Loring Hunt asked her if "she'd meet him outside on the terrace in five minutes. "Quite a trick, getting away from that crowd," "Loring Hunt smiled. He drew her to a hammock and sat down. "lI wanted to lave a few moments alone with you before 1 left." "Yes?" whisperé¢d Rose. "You remind me so much of your father, He was a fine man. I remember him well." . "You remember my father? But | was only a child when he died!" "You were at that," said Loring Hunt. "I was young too." He sigh- ed. "Ah, me! How time does fly, 'Here | am almost 50 and--" "Fifty!" cried - Rose. "Why, | thought te that is in your Killed Himeolf With Pack Of Cards No prison. has. yet been con~ ~ really clever, determined man, Ser- J Paria ad i Rih, f vicemenowho made such astonishing : ' escapes during the war proved that. Yet, for sheer ingenuity, few es- - cape attempts equal the feat of "William Kogut, an uneducated Po-.- lish lumberman, who migrated to the States where he was sentenced to .death for killing ° a woman with a pocket 'knife, "As" he sat in his cell; ticking . off the days and listening to the screams of desperate men as they were. dragged to .the chair, he determined to outwit the author- ities. But he had 'no weapons. All he had was a pack of cards. " Someone had told him once that playing cards are made of cellu: lose: a fibre from which tri-nitro cellulose, a high explosive is manu- factured. Being an exceptionally powerful fellow, Kogut snapped ~ off one of the hollow legs of his iron cot. Here was the casing for his bomb, Carefully he tore the cards into" minute pieces, soaked them in water till they were reduced to a pulp, pushed them into the iron tube and rammed them home hard like the charge in a muzzle-loading gun. Then, taking the handle of the broom with which --he swept his cell, he jammed it into the pipe 3 "on top of his charge, making it + from which tiny sequin-adorned - airtight. 3 felt trees hang as pendants. For These preliniinaries took hours | _ * , ® hair ornament she uses a pastel felf fel, complete with This young woman proclaims her Christmas spirit with a col- lar of crocheted metallic thread, and it was well past midnight when structed that will hold indefinitely a. Ea CS © was so powerful. When it went off he re-lit the lamp in his cell and held his improvised bomb over" the flame. The flame, he reckoned, would make the metal red hot and the charge inside would explode. - -:Kogut fully expected the wall of his cell to cave in, but he had no idea that the bomb he had made his and eight adjacent _ countryside for. mi For a time there Whistles shrill bullets whizz and warning sirens and horns shat-~ tered the night with their raucous chorus. But when quiet was restor- ed and guards rushed to the scene withi lanterns, they found the -shat- tered,. almost headless corpse of - No. 1651--William Yilliam. Kogut. 3 You've 10,000 Bulbs On Tip Of Tongue Hold "your tongue--and you're clutching one of the mysteries science. Physiologists still don't un- "derstand why substances should taste the way they 'do, why sugar is sweet or aloes bitter. One day when the chemistry of flavors is better known, children will be able to collect a whole chain of delight- ful fleiv sensations merely by lick- ing a -taste-card. Towards the tip of your tongue packed into a third: of an inch, are some ten "thousand little taste bulbs and chances are that each one flashes only one type of sensa- tion to the brain. Every flavor, from subtlest strawberry to arid dust, evokes a permutation of sig- nals from the taste bulbs... Four main signal flashes--sweet, bitter, actd and saline--control your re- sponse. Bitter and Sweet i Scientists have alvvays imagined that everyone 'has similar taste- powers. Now they've discovered. that some folks can be short-tasted as well as 'short-sighted. A new chemical called thiourea tastes bit- ter to six out of ten people, but proves tasteless to the minority of four. Dr. Julian Huxley and other experts tested it on twenty-seven chimpanzees, Their proportion of taste failures was the same. Children can taste with the in- sides of their cheeks, suggesting the presence of taste-bulbs that later fall into disuse. This, too, may explain why the desire for sweets is replaced 'by a preference for sich strong flavors as pepper- mints or curry as we grow older. Where Color Counts ____ Many animals have better taste book of carols and halo, r-- BY EDNA MILES it must be glitter with a point. band of becoming width. decorative touch. white straw flowers. gee Christmas belles are as much a part of the holiday scene as Yuletide bells, it's a wise woman who starts planning now for her personal adornment if she wishes to be: a sparking part of the festivities, Glitter alone is hot enough to make you the focus of ad- miring eyes. To properly proclaim your Christmas spirit, You can accomplish this nicely--and dress up your simple' "basic dress or a plain sweater--with 'an easy-to-crochet collar of metallic thread, suggests Patricia Easterbrook 'Roberts, noted New York designer. Use the simplest stitch you know, and keep crocheting until you've concocted a The next step is to fashion eye-stopping Christmas trees of felt, to attach as pendants to your collar. Tiny multi- colored sequins, sewed on as tree ornaments, are a clever, Fora hair ornament, Mrs. Roberts suggests a pastel mem- ber of the heavenly choir. Make him of pink felt--wings and all---and attach a hymn book of blue felt. halo, sprinkle on a circlet of glitter dust around the crown of his angelic head. Glue will-inake it stick. For street wear, with your coat or suit, try an old-fashioned nosegay, Mrs. Roberts urges, instead of the traditional cone- -and-berry corsage. You can easily make your own, using a pleated circle of red inefallic paper as backing for a layer- on-layer arrangement of glossy green ivy-leaves and snowy For a fitting ' The snowy freshness of while straw flowers and the glossy "green of Ivy. leaves offer an. in- teresting contrast to the red "metallic ruffle that forms the background for old - fashioned Christmas nosegay highlighting 3 £3 neckline of tallored suit. powers than we have, and a Here- ford bull especially enjoys his food. He has 30,000 taste bulbs! In addi- tion, many tastes are really smell sensations and some are due to pure imagination. Wey Tecu, a taster pronounced them lime. - Black tab. "lets had. a burnt taste, though they "localities, * depending on the salts and minerals in solution: Most were known to be free of such flavor, . Disregard" can blunt thé tasfe as well as tobacco. Tea-tasters say that the taste of water differs with people regard water as tasteless-- apart from the chlorine ir big cities -- merely because they've never given it full savor. - Damage to soil' caused 'by the force of falling raindrops is some- thing often overlooked, even by soil conservationists. The weight of water falling on an acre of land in an inch of rain is nearly 110 tons, points out Fred- erick Bisal of .the Swift Cyrrent Soil Research Laboratory, and the drops striking bare - soil, splash --about 225 tons of clay or loam soil. : * * * Water is as. important as fer- tility for growing crops so it is- essential to hold it where it falls. - 'Experiments at the Laboratory, says Mr. Bisal, 'show that an inch of rainfall on a bare clay or loam soil reduces the infiltration rate to "approximately. one-third of an inch an hour. If the rainfall is of greater intensity than this, the excess will become the runoff water. This run- off becomes very high during an intense rain, and is capable of car- rying a great load of soil with con- sequent severe erosion. * * * Nature's answer. is a cushion of organic matter of plants or dead undercomposed plant material. This breaks the force of the falling rain- drops and no soil is lost, but the water gently finds its way into-the subsoil for storage and future Jise by growing crops. The simplest way to five Hp soil and hold the rain where it falls, is to protect the surface of the soil from the force of the rain- drops wih a suitable plant or straw mulch cover. 2 ---maies-is-a sound basis for selection -are the three main factors deter- "from large thrifty litters, points out * should have*at least 12 and prefer- Selecting swine biveding stock is a year-round job. It is one call- ing for planning, observations, rec- ords, and finally the selection of animals which will maintain or im- prove the privRiante of the swine herd. * * Experiments at the Dominion Experimental Station, ~ Lacombe, show "that performance of litter for carcass quality. The individual animals must be physically sound, have good length, depth, and bone, and, if gilts, good teats; and should be from the best performing litters. Litter size and thrift at weaning, feed efficiency, and carcass quality mining profit from swine. * * ¥ The first profits from swine come J. S.- Stothart, Animal Husband- man at the Station, and so'the gilts going into the herd should: be from a large thrifty litter, from a sow which repeatedly farrows large thrifty litters and raises them. because she is a good milker and a good mother. The gilt herself ably 14 well spaced, functional teats. She should he checked carefully to sce that she has no blind teats, * * * 'Next, the extra profits from swine are from pigs which convert feed into gain efficiently, Some pigs will gain 100 pounds on from 350 to 400 pounds of teed while others take 450 to 500 pounds to make the pictur T==== = "1 look under 30, eh?" Loring. chiuckled. "They do marvelous things in Hollywood. But, here. Let's not talk of me. Tell me about yourself. Are you in love? 1 noticed a fine looking boy giving you a lot of attention." Rose was a bit overcome. She hadn't dreamed that her ideal was ----was an old man! She started to speak, but a figure had glided up and was standing in front of them, It was Jerry, In the pale light she could sce the set look to his jaw. "Ah" said" Loring Hunt, rising, "here -he is now. We were just talking ahout you, yoting man. Rose was telling me----well, rather 'I was telling her that it was a pity her father coundn't have lived to see his daughter grow to woman: hood." : © "Yeah?! smd Jerry, 315 There was a pause, Rose leaped to, her feet. "Mr, Hunt was asking me if I'm in love and--- and 1 told him yes. 1 t81d him | was in love with you, Jerry." Slowly Jerry relaxed. Rose had taken his arm and was hanging on for- dear life. It was a good thing, he told himself importantly, for | oring Hunt, that she bad come to ner senses, 'BY HAROLD TO A NCHOR WINDOW 80 ON SILL $0 \T'S EASY TO REMOVE, SLOT TWO WOOD CLEATS TO TAKE THE |. HEADS OF SCREW.EYES IN WINDOW FRAME. NAIL CLEATS TO BOX, SLIP SCREW EYES THROUGH BOX AND TURN. - ally the most economical pigs. The same gain. Obviously the. former_.{. is the more profitable. Rate of gain is important but mainly in its as- sociation with lower feed consump- tion, Fast gaining pigs are gener- task, and here is where a few sim- ple records taken throughout the year will help, is to select boars and gilts from litters which - gain at a satisfactory rate on a low con- sumption of feed. . * * * Finally, says Mr. Stothart, the real profits from swine -are . from 'pigs which combine litter size and feed efficiency with -carcass qual- ity. Carcass quality commands the top market price and comes" from pigs of good length without excess back fat; pigs with light shoulders and full medty hams and loins. The breeding stock which will improve © performance. and increase profits, therefore= should bé selected from large thrifty litters of good feeding, high grading pigs, as indicated by Advanced Registry tests, and car- © cass grading results. The Shadows Lift The rains come,\and the wind, and the woodlands ee left bare. Grays and browns possess the hills, * "more bleak and drab than seemed | possible when autumn was at its height.- For afew days the after- glow of the leaves remains under- foot, a warmth like sunlight. But it fades; it leaches away, and only the grays and the browns remain, Then comes heavy frost. You * waken to a November dawn when there is a shimmer, a new, strange light almost forgotten. Frost is there, frost on the grass and thy browning leavés and all the naked little bushes. And the world is no longer brown and gray. It is alive with brightness. Look through the woods amd you sce new vistas. You see frosty hills and gleaming hol- lows long hidden. For a little while, until the sun has measured a span: of its southern arc, it is a new world. Then the frost is gone, and it is a world of grays and browns But there comes another 'day, when the rain has turned to snow. Early snow that cannot last. At first it. melts as it falls, and the grays become blacks. But then the snow begins to stay. The first melt has washed away enough of the earth warmth to let a few flakes remain. Then more flakes. And suddenly it is a world of bright- mess again, a world of overcast and falling snow, but yet a world of light. The hillside whitens, and there are the vistas, the bright dis- tates marked by the naked trees. And one knows all is not brown or gray, that even winter is not so drab. Then a <chickadeg sings and a junco flashes past, and the gray sky scems to lighten. The shadows lift. --F rom the New York Times. Weighty Evidence--Size of this 40-pound channel bass may be- hard to top before the copper- colored fighters quit running this winter. So far it's the largest of the species to he taken in in 1951 with rod and reel The huge bass was landed by El- wood Groseclose on tackle more suitable for a three-pound blue- fish. . Blohdin Crosses Niagara Falls p------ Who now, unless it be those ageing inhabitants who were boys = and - girls in 1859, recalls the exe ploits of the mighty Blondin, Mon- arch of the Cable? It is Niagara with which his name is most intimately associated, I and it is probably Bd that -on m the day of Blondin's st. notorls ous feat alt roads' led to the giant : cataragt. This, according to one fa 'the historians of the event, was the way the rope was hung: First, a smaller cable was conveyed across the river, a thicker one attathed, and to this again was attached the cable pro- per--a three-inch rope of fine and tested hemp, This was in two sec tions of a thousand feet each, united by a long 'splice. On the summit of the! Canadian cliff {t was twined about three axletrees placed one behind another in holes drilled for them in the solid rock. It was made as taut as possible "by a windlass worked by horses on the American shore, some two thousand feet distant. The rope hung high at either end, however, and was sagged about fifty feet in the center by its own weight, To reduce the swaying of the slender bridge, it was necessary to put on guy lines. - ir He was no novice. He had walk- ed many ropes before, in perilous places and at perilous heights. It was no artificial courage that Blon- din possessed, . born of mere skill amd vanity. The son of one of Na- " poleon's own heroes, he had in-' , herited many of his father's quali- ties. On the voyage to America he had sprung overboard to rescue a drowning man. As performers, go, he is said to have been rather mo- !dest than otherwise] In spite of his reckless daring, "he is known to have been not a little cautious where caution seemed to be re- quired. h Blondin- was inspecting some of . the guys. Now he was talking 'with those about him. He was making ready to step off. He was picking up .his balance pole--a fifty-pound burden--and placing his foot upon the rope. And'itow he was launched in space and had begun his journey toward the. British province of Upper Canada: =a breathless mo- ment, Los ) Without hesitation; the perform- «er proceeded briskly, almost casu- ally, to the center of the cable. There he seated himself with great composure and glanced com- placently aboyt him at the throng- ing shores. He did not look down, it was reported; that was some= thing he had trained himself never to-do." After a few seconds he rose upright, strolled forward again for some fcet, and again stopped. This time he "stretched. himself at full length upon the rope, lying upon his: back, his balance pole horizon- tally across his chest. Another mo- ment of susyfense; then a feat of appalling rashness. He turned a back somersault upon the rope, came upright upon his fect, and walking rapidly to his landing stage, arrived as coolly as if he had no more than alighted from a bus. The entire journey, with its stop- overs, had occupied about five minutes.--Erom "Bookman's Holi- day," by Vincent Starrett, Copy- righ, 1942. ¢ IF'reckles: A nice sun _tan--if they'd only get together. They're Off And Runningl--Those are plastic nags; destined fo spend their days galloping around the outer fringes of a merry-go-round spurred on by hard-riding juvenile :owpokes Riaht now, with the aid of an automatic conveyor they're thundering off a Cargoliner They flew there in a : herd of 250 from the factory where they were foaled JITTER ITS AWFULLY HOT..,.WHY DONT" ) YOU MAKE SOME LEMONADE / THERE) AREN'T ANY {C6 CUBES! By Arthur Pointer ye NN ew - ' ' £2 Le ge he) p 1A +5 4 7.4 Jes FARE $3 kK b 1