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r mechanics working on this high- vi "in the midst of the German town. rear mime meee ty ith its houses ETE standing on Jad Moist Hobby + ----| Here's a record that many peo- will .envy. Mr. M. S. Esdon, a w Zealander, has sampled 500 erent brands of bottled beer! es, it's: thirsty work making a col- lection of "beer "hottle labels. Me. Esdon has 5000 lahels from. all, parts' of the- world. ™ "They are all neatly bound and. 'as he flicks over the pages Mr. Es." don will-point 'out specimens from China, Bolivia, Rumania and In- dia, He has collected them during fourteen years as a shipwright, and fis hobhy "still keeps him busy writing round "the world to other collectors and to brewers, secking "swaps" and labels of new brews. He often tangalizes his palate on a warm day by looking over his collection, lle not only possesses practically all commercially-brew- ed beer labels, but labels from bot- tles of secret "recipe audit ales" made without resource to hops by University students. labels from He can show yon beer issued in H.M.S. Vanguard during the royal tour in South Africa, and labels of a beer (fut down in wooden casks for five years and "fed" occasionally with ; molasses. Note: A collection \ef TY00 beer - labels. was sold in London in 1916 for £7,000. Mr. IEsdon's collection is eclipsed by a New Plymouth man named Peters, who has 6,000. Tall Tail--It's no tall tale when ly secret eight-jet bomber say the huge ship is "way up there" even when it's on-the ground. Special scaffolding is needed to permit adjustments on the 48- foot-high vertical tail. Diamonds by the Peck Imagine. limping along an open road with a pebble in your shoe that turns out to be a ten carat diamond. ; Imagjne twelve thousand square miles with millions of carats of blue-white diamonds scattered all -over the place. For hours we tode over a highway the very paving of which contained "diamonds. At one point, Schweiger, my-chauffeur™ --whom"I did not then know. was also the number one detective-- stopped the car. We got out and he searched around, finally picking up what looked like a glassy pehs, - ble. "Twelve carats, blue white." It seemed to burn my hand. threw it away. Already the place had-begun to get on my nerves. We had left the European Hotel I should say-- 'high rocks or buried in the sand, at six a.m. A little way out of town we came fo a signboard: "Take Notice. You are entering Diamon- distic Area. Keep out. Trespassers will be liable to a fine of 500 Pounds or five years in Gaol, De BEERS ~EONSOEIDATED COMPANY." Two miles farther on, the. way was barred by a heavy gate in a high woven wire fence. A guard followed by a. Gernman police -dog --one of the breed I had seen at "Kimberley--came out of a lijtle house and opened the gate.' Schifvie- ger had to. produce permits and I[ had to sign a waiver before we were allowed - lo pass through. : The gate creaked shit on us. | was to learn that it was much harder to get out than it was to get in. ' Darkness caught up with: us as' we entered the great cleared yard of many. acpes around which ranged the electric power plant and con- verting works with a tall smoke - statk, the executive offices, the sort- - Ing hotises, the refectory and social hall, the guest house and the bar- racks and: liomes of the four hind- red white inhabitants, All were prisoners. All were under constant espionage, Diamonds were thelr dally bread and meat; their sleep and their dreams," But never their pleasure, Diamonds woilld never seen the same to me agaln--From "Cape- town to the Mountains of the. Moon" by Hey Albert Phillips. "with fT This "world's . The Stay He's going down again- Professor Auguste - ocean, At. a Naples blue clear, point and Mediterranean 'the: Frogman's Peep Piccard Sardinia, tow - headed -. r= n Just Can't "On The Level" | -thé man who can't stay level' Hero of the first st ratosphers surveys, now plans a deepest-éver dive into the fiidway--bélween : where the unusually Belgian scientist is preparing a divingbell descent to nearly a mile below the surface, one .6f the most dangerous diving trips ever attempted. On an carlier shallow dive 'in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa, a - frogman peeped through the port- hole of the balloon-shaped bathy- sphere and found the Professor and playing his chiess. companion quictly The Professor planned a des- | cent to-5,000 Teet--but then water leaked into the electric system, the shell of the sphere was twisted=out of shape, and Piccard cabled home. to his wife: Yet the amazing Piccard been taking risks all his life. "Too risky, Mama I" has Pecr- ing through thick-lensed spectacles at the highest-ever, lowest-ever tips his scientific' inquirics--he's a cosmic-ray specia-, list--took him to the peak of Mont of the known world, Blane and down into the coal-mines. Tearful Farewell Back in 1930 he was deepest already middle-aged, a devoted family 'man a Sort and three daughters, when lie determined to explore the highest reaches of the sky. he pioneered stratosphere. travel he © personally and little to gain. Though had everything to lose tle scraped the bottom of the barrel to finance his first altitude balloon, His wife and children . wept as they bade farewell. Then a Iudicrous anti-climax interposed. The balloon wag too heavy and failed to rise. But Auguste Piccard kept trying. cramped, instcument-packed gondola was re- -designed. One sum- mer morning just twenty-one ycars ago Piccard again zoomed skyward. The event created unprecedented over the Alpine roads following the balloon. The world imagined that the string- excitement. Cars necked scientist raced was as good as dead. If 1 lhck of oxygen did not get him, it was argued, the cosmic rays would kill. Terrible Silence For a day and a night a blanket of terrible silence fell on the. ex- pedition. -Distraught Madame Pic- card gave her husband up for. dead. Then . an Alpine shepherd found Piccard scrambling down a nioun- tain-side, After reaching the then record height of nearly ten miles, the balloon had landed on a glacier. "Till daybreak the professor and his colleague, Max Cosyns, slept inside the sphere, cosy and warm, Though their scientific findings had been disappointing, they had proved the * trip possible. "But never again I" said Piccard. Yet he kept : trying. Belgium's National - Foundation for Scientific Research backed him, Within a few weeks Piccard had nearly "$4,000,- 000 for fresh experiments. The following year the balloon went up and in barely three hours the Piccard craft broke another . height record of nearly ten and a half miles. This time results were all that had been expected. As they neared the maximum height the cosmic. fays increased in intensity till they "could be felt beating on Far-below- the- Swiss landscape seemed like a flat plain, » the balloon. like rain. mountainous balloon the And -when the the scientists yelped with joy. Agonies of Cold Tlie previous year the cabin had been painted black 'and had foaoy 1: balloon descended ab- "ANSWERS TO TEST YOUR . 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New Regulations Needed The Home Office is apt to be slow in listing new or little-knowm | dope products under the Pangerom -- --Drugs Act, A case in point.came "into the limelight recently. after &- wife was sent to trial for an alleged' - -attempt to poison her husband and another woman with drugs obtain- ed from -a- home: permanent -Waye outfit, 2 Conversely, a Tushand: managed to lull his suspicious wife inte + | forgetfulness. by treating her with . a drug to produce loss of memory. Although it is usual to have s doctor's prescription, there are ap-- parently no. actual regulations governing its sale. In view of re-- cent serious developments it would seem that new regulations are urgently needed. A liquid hypnotic, it is sold to the public at 476d. an ounce . . . 8 swift highway to forgetfulness 200 times cheaper than illicit opium | ------ie rs 3 New And Useful Too... Bachelors' Bliss -= Sewing machine features .auto- E matic darner. Other attractions? Machine, encased in aluminum, is lighter than most, has built-in non- paint, however,the temperature fell to 64 below and: they suffered agonics of coll. The climax caine as they landed. Racing to the spot peasants seized the mooring ropes, then made a mistake: and suddenly let go. Abruptly the craft shot up 150 feet and as suddenly crashed down. Only "the queer cushioned wicker 'helmets © which Piccard had insisted on wear- ing saved the passengers' skulls. "I'm too old for acrobatics", Pic- _card explained, when asked why he did not make another higlicr-than- ever cattémpt. Behind the scenes, however, lie sccrétly evolved a new type of "stratosphere balloon. Just another attempt when the -balloon caught fire. Piccard promised his worried wife but he said down. Apart {fn his sudden bursts into hectic publicity, his life"is one of quiet, purposeful routine. He rises early . .-, "Telephone me at six on kriday morning," was one of his messages to the writer. 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York --Congressman from Pennsylvania said to have played the violin while Rome-burned: 3 Who is $ + --Julius Caesar i. The novel, Rob Roy. --Tennyson™ --Scott --Nero was written hy: --Walpole ecSenator from 'Pennsylvania "--Secretary of the Navy: --~Claudius --Antony ,. ., .. --Lamb 5. Wl was Prime Minister of Canada during World War I? --Kfing --Meighen, --Laurier --Borden 6 The island of Zanzibar is off the coast of: } 2 =--Brazil --Argentina --Italy --Africa 7. Listed below, at left, are animal characters from Aesop's Fables. Opposite them are other characters or-objects with which they are - associated. Match them, scoring 10 points for each correct answer. (A) Tortoise we (B) Fox (C) Ant (D) Dog --Manger --Grasshopper - --Grapes --Hare "Total your points, A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, AVerage) "70-80, : superior; 90-100, very Superior. HRONTCLES FaineerFarm by Guendor ne P Cle. tke Now it canbe told! For the past four weeks we have been very busy getting ready for our daughter's wedding. I haven't mentioned it before because we wanted a quiet wedding -- just the family. But somehow it didn't stay quiet that way. There were friends who were going to be very disappointed if they were not invited. So plans. were changed and -we decided on having a small reception. Not hav- ing any help I suggested it could be held at a nearby guest home. But no, Daugliter wanted it at home. That" being so I decided 1 would' manage it somehow. Then we went to work, painting, cleaning--and Partner spent liours on the lawn, cutting and cross- cutting every few days. There was plenty" of telephoning -- flowers, cake and refreshments to arrange for---and- a trip to the city to get myself a dress. Finally--the-- great day arrived. Tie ride and ygroom and their two attendants went to our ipictur- esque little Anglican church, stand- ing high upon a hill, and there they were married. The.only guests at ly wanted to be present; most of them came to the house to await the coming of the bride and groom. The keynote of the whole affair was simplicity, with formality kept- - to a minimum, 'And yet there was a meaning and a purpose to almost everything that was done. "The decorations were pink and white &Tdioli, grown by one of our neigh- bour-friends, The 'two-decker cake was_all white, topped by a small vase! of real' sweetheart, rose-buds in a fovely" shade of pink. The tablecloth used was one specially "requested by Daughter because of the wide lace border, crocheted by her late grandmother, Of the two silver teapots that 'were used one had been a wedding present to that same grandma, and the other. a "wedding present to us, when Part: * ner and I' were married. The servi- ettes had written in silver lettering "Dee and Art, August 2, 1952" (~--a nice little memento. "A heavy thunder shower blew ap about 2 o' clock but, by the time the bridal - couple returned from the church the sun was shining. As a mother, may I be forgiven if 1 say the bride was lovely? She was dressed very simply in a two- picture hat. A corsage of Talisman roses was the only touch of con- trasting colour. POC, SPE Irrespective of the clothes The _ wears there seems to be an aura of loveliness about a happy bride * that shines through and around her as she stands with trusting feet upon the threshold of a new life. And Jn this our daughter was no exception. The bridegroom was. as most bridegroom is_are--proud, happy and self-conscious. What did tie wear? I haven't "the faintest notion. I only know he looked nicé and car- ried himself well. His parents are' no longer living so the _only im- mediate members of his family able _to_be present were a sister from Toronto and a brother from Ot- tawa, whom we liked immensely. Came the picture taking, both professional and amateur as guests stood alongside the photographer as he posed us for the group pic- tures. This over, guests went back to the house, moving in and around our rambling rooms, . getting to know each other and chatting with the bride and groom until refresh- ments" were served. Al, those refreshments -- they were grandl I can say that quite freely because the credit is not to me bit to our Scotch Block Women's Institute who arranged it all and did such a wonderful job. There were plates dnd. plates of dainty sandwiches to suit every taste . . . a wonderful assortment of little cookies and sweetmeats . «+ + punch, flavoursome and re- freshing | . relish and radish roses. ~All "this was. brought in carly in the afternoon, on covered Iplates and silver dishes, ready to serve, But the ladies themselves did not stay as some of her Datighter's younger friends were to do 'the serving, We" thought it would be more friendly and informal - that way and they would be happier having somdthing to do. (I am tell- _/yg you this in- detail--the infor- mation may come in handy for other members" without help in the house. 1 was a little worried about the tea and coffee problem until a good neighbour offered to look "after it for me. And then I knew I had no further need to worry, All in all everything went off without a hitch--thanks to the - WLI, There were twenty=nine rela- tives and friends. One person was sadly missed---a much loved aunt of the bride who passed 'away : two years 'ago. But"shé was not for- gotten, Next day, at Daughter's 'request, we took a big bunch of gladioli to the cemetery. " And there you have the high- lights of the first family wedding to be recorded in the Chronicles of Ginger Farm, 'Sold In Britain . cently occurred because the pilot --fidence produced by them led; Jn e . chemists. "homes he was running! --are found to have made mistakes - 'officially . poisonous, blue shawl collar, and a navy blue ER . . * : o glare sewing: lighting equipment. sorhed so much heat that they . Dangerous Drugs No Flies, No Odors emerged part-broiled, With silver Machine, powered by electricity, gives: constant, silent, automatic 'control-of flies, mosquitoes, millers and. other flying insect pests. Can be changed over "to ° deodorizing" machine, for removal of cooking and other unpleasant smells, in 30 seconds. 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