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- 4 had a pretty gwield I1ssuL Gentle People fRentle Manners ".e banns for Eli's wedding will not be read until three weeks before the wedding, and until that time it is supposed to be a secret from all except the families and a few of their most Intimate friends. But "it wonders me" if any- "one will be really surprised when the official announcement comes. Nobody' says anything publicly, yet surely a lot of peo- ple must know about the mar- ried-man's carriage being built for Eli in the local Weggli schoop. He goes over often to see how the.work is progressing on it; Emmaline and I have dropped in twice to check. It is a long and tedious job to build an Amish carriage. All machines used in its construction are run by small gasoline en- gines, 'since the shop is without electricity, and all the different ,wooden parts used are fitted and bolted together with the same care employed by the finest cab- inet makers. The shafts and wheels have been ordered fro a factory in Philadelphia, but i§ will "be , weeks yet bef finish coats of shiny bl pain are applied and the gray (canvas top put on. Seeing some sixty-five or so of these carriages pulled up in a barnyard on meeting day, one wonders how the owners ever tell them apart, so alike are they. However, on being questioned, Emmaline shrugs and says, "Oh, we yoost look at 'em and know. " Meanwhile, other events have pointed up the fact that a wed- ding is in the offing. Amos and Eli took time out from farming to attend the Thursday cow sale and came back with a fine young heifer, The girls and Emaline in the frames before the usual time for - quilting in the fall and winter. Knowing her so wel], I detect that Emmaline wishes the wed- ding could be in her home. She would love all the hustle and bustle attendant on a wedding, and the work would be nothing but pleasure for her. Since this cannot be, she will try to con- tent herself with doing what she can to insure its success. The parents of both bride and groom will 'do their utmost to give the young couple the best possible start in life, It is the dream of every Amish farmer to give each of his sons a farm. And since their earliest days in this country the Amish have striven to conserve the fertility of the land and if possible in- crease it. With his idea of per- manency, the Amish farmer thinks of himself.as holding the land in trust, as being honor- bound to pass it on to his sons as rich and fertile as he received it from his father. The wasteful methods that wore out the good earth of the tidewater plantations in the South were avoided by the Plain- People of Pennsylvania, who considered it sinful to deplete the land so. And long before lime was widely used .in other areas as a soil builder and sweetener, the limekiln was a familiar fea- ture of the early Dutch land- scape. It is this same sense of obliga- tion which keeps farms In this MERRY MENAGERIE "Quit shaking, geil ats not the way you spell 'MOUSE'!", iS region the models of neatness that they are, with even the trees in the house yards being treated to a coat of whitewash each spring. Whitewashed trees make the yard look more trim, but the .main theory is, that whitewash protects the. trees _ from disease and insects. ' "Every farm has its orchard <of apples, a grove of peaches, and "pie cherry" trees along the lane, The Amish think highly of their trees, and. this characteristic was bequeathed to them from ances- ters who deliberately chose to cut down the tall forest trees instead of girdling them and leaving them to die, as was the custom then. Nowadays it is a common sight to see a few fine trees growing in the fields, and they are there because the far- mer could not bear to cut them down. Eli, being the only son of par- ents who are considered well-. to-do by local standards, will have the best they can afford to give him. Custom decrees that the groom be given a horse, har- ness, a cow, a plow, and harrow, and perhaps some other farm machinery, a pig or two, some furniture for the house, and probably some dishes and linens, The bride, as her dower, is expected to bring a cow and some chickens, a stove, a cup- board, a table, a bureau, a bed and bedclothing, six chairs and a rocker to match, linen, dishes, hams, potatoes, canned fruit, and a barrel of flour. And wedding gifts from relatives will include not only such usual presents as dishes, clocks, lamps, and linens, but also such practical gifts as axes, hammers, wrenches, cross- cut saws and other tools neces- sary on a farm, Down {from the Zaugg attic come treasures that would make any antique collector 'drool: four-poster beds, bureaus, tables, corner cupboards, porch settees, and chairs, all of which have . been bought at county auctions, or else handed down in the fa- mily for generations. Anna and Hilda are wild with delight over the prospect of shin- ing up the polished pieces and painting the wicker ones. There is not a trace of jealousy in their generous hearts. Eli is their bro- ther, someone very special, and they know, too, that there will be enough for all. So they hoard the money they make from rais- ing rabbits and dressing them _ for market to buy linens and to make pretty kuppa-kissa (pil- low cases) and other necessary household items to show. their joy at having a new sister. No farm work ever mars the-. | . Sabbath- here. Even milk is not collected on Sundays, but used in the house for cooking or given to the pigs. And when, af- ter church, the people gather to visit at some chosen farmhouse, Eli does not sit with the older men, but frolics a bit with the "'unmarrieds." And there is no talk whatsoever of love and marriage by anyone. Amish courtings proceed ' according to custom, and young couples do not pair off, except to go to Sun- day night singings, when a boy . may ask his favorite girl to ride with him, and usually his sister or sisters. But we know that a wedding is to be, and it makes everything more exciting. On the first Sun- day that the banns are read, the intended bride will stay at home; Eli will be in church. Af- ter the reading he will leave immediately and go to her home, where she awaits his coming. It will be a solemn moment, but a thrilling one as well, As Hilda says, "It's goose bumps I get, just thinking about it." But it is all in the accepted order of gen- |. tle ways as lived by gentle peo- ple.--By Mabel Slack Shelton in The Christian' Science Monitor. Clean, bright shining milk cans not only look better, but are necessary to proper protec- -tion-of milk in transportation, dairy experts say. "CROSSWORD 8. Laundering 28. Swagger 9. Forelgn 31. Evadea 10. Cotton-seed- 35. Loud noise Ing machine .37, Color slightly "1. Individual 3%. Fine cloth " 12. Fresh 40. Billow 18. Swamp 41. Article 19, Punish 2 42. Domestic 20. Frantie . fow: 21. Marble 43. Total 22. Regiorm 44. Existed 23. Steeple 45. Entangile 24, Sewer 46. Gone by 257 Spear 47. Sea goa 26 Gon 60 Sun god AC1LOSS dessert ' 1. Concelver : f iy | 8. Cart «ike 13. Bouquet worn (3.00 by nu womun 6 Old onth 14. Straighten 7. 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Essentially the "same question will be asked of motorists-in-a hurry by a campaign against highway speed as such under discussion at the recent fifth annual meeting of the North- eastern Conference of the State Coordinators. Twenty-five states are now cooperating, and the conference anticipates a 48-state effort within wto years. From Ohio come a few ane swers to the question put speed- ing motorists: Hurrying home to a favorite dish at dinner; rac- ing to make the beginning of a certain TV show. Other drivers ingenuously -- or! cynically -- boast of beating the best-known time for a pleasure jaunt. < More and more are safety offi- cials pointing to speed and liq- uor as the two greatest killers on the highway. Both must be fought relentlessly and on every front. But it is valuable to un- derline speed and then. For there are drivers who escew drinking and driv- ing for themselves and cone demn it in others, yet blithely "burn the wind" without con- cern for the law or for the safe- ty of others. "Coffee Queen of South America is pretty Se- norita Analida Alfaro, 18, of ~ Panama. The 1957 Queen was selected over candidates from 15 South American countries during the third annual fair at Manizales, in the heart of Co- lombia's coffee country. Con- testants are presented only in native dress, not bathing suits. Timeclocks on Their Way Out? Time "clocks are running out faster than time. In their place, industry is relying more and more on the employee's sense ol honor and pride in his job. In reporting the ousting of the old-fashioned time clock, Chemical Week, a McGraw- Hill publication, notes that most firms began giving up this tra- dition some time ago when they dropped clock-punching for all salaried employees exempt from the wage-hour law (employees who don't have to be paid for overtime "work). And more re- cently, nonexempt salaried em- ployees in many firms can now ignore the time clock. For the most part, however, the production man -- the work- er who is paid an hourly wage rate = is still a clock puncher. Why drop clock-punching? One. production executive calls it a "club over the worker's head? PLL E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which hasn't installed a time clock ~in_ any' plant since 1950 and has removed them from" many older plants, says, "Peo- ple just don't like clocks." Another firm puts it this way: "The workers don't have to fool "around wth a mechanical check. Now they can come in to work - "just Tike the executives. It really - makes them feel good." Eliminating time clocks, how- ever, doesn't eliminate record keeping. Generally one of two ° systems has been adopted: Let- ting the forman keep the time sheet, or letting the work- ers keep their own rec ords. In either case, the fore- man is the key man, It's~up to him to verify the time log be- fore it is sent in to the payroll department, This means that he' must make certain that his men are on the job, And the more direct contact a good foreman has with his workers, the bet- ter the likelihood of good work- ing conditions, the publication ts out. separately now 4. WALK-IN WASH UP -- Prince of Davidsdell 13th -- all 911 pounds of him -- gets a bath at a filling station to get ready for the Fat Stock Show. Steers regularly bring higher prices per pound on the market than heifers but this spread in price is by no means uniform on the various markets or at dif- ferent seasons of the year. Comparison of eight years average sales records on the Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary markets show that To- ronto usually has the smallest spread, Montreal the largest, with Calgary and Winnipeg be- tween the two and Calgary clos- est to Toronto, They also show the spread is greatest on all markets in the late fall and early winter months when tha, largest percentage of heifers to steers come on the market. * LJ L The lower prices for heifers are stated as due to smaller dressing percentages for heifers, more waste in cutting heifer car- casses into wholesale and retail cuts, and a smiHer-percentage of the heifer than of the steer carcass going into the higher priced retail cuts. LJ - » The Marketing Service of the Department has assembled the available records on the relative dressing percentages of steers and heifers (of the same grade and weight) from different areas as means of checking how far actual figures 'support thesa statements. These records indi- cate that steers do tend to show higher dressing percentages than heifers but the differences are small and in many cases heifers exceeded the steers. There were far greater differences between individual steers or individual heifers than between steers, and heifers as such. LJ . LJ Only a limited number of re- cords are available on the wast- age in cutting carcasses or the relative percentages going into the higher priced cuts. Those collected to date indicate about the same trends as in dressing percentage. The average for most of the tests show steer carcasses as slightly superior to those from heifers of the same grade and weight, but with many ex- ceptions. And again the différ- ence between the two is consid- erably less than between indivi- dual steers or heifers. oe . Many more cutting records ara required before definite conclu- sions can be drawn.-Departmen- tal officials are seeking, in co- operation with producers, pack- ers and retailers, to obtain suffi- cient records, particularly in re- lation to retail cuts, to establish if possible the relationship be- tween the two in terms of meat value per carcass of equal grade and weight, y. J - x oc . A more detailed summary or interim report on the: records assembled to date is available in mimeograph form and will be sent to this interested on re- quest, Apply to Information Ser- vice, Department of Agriculture, » Confederation Building, Ottawa. L] Ld * Where a hedge is needed to provide a dividing line in the home garden, a suitable back- ground for other plantings, a screen to shut off an unpleasant view, noise anll traflic, or to give privacy in the garden, hardy evergreen species deserve con- sideration. Some of the advantages of evergreens are: they provide year-round interest and shelter; a minimum of pruning is re- quired to keep them attractive; and hedges of any desired height and shape can' be developed. L LJ Of course, the outlook and ef- fect may be too sombre if ever- greens are planted too freely. Evergreens that normally be- THEFARM FRONT come tall trees (spruces and pines) should be used only where a fairly tall and long hedge is needed. For low to me- dium-tall hedges, evergreen spe- cies of moderate height and of finer appearance (cedars and junipers) are to be preferred. * LJ . The choice of an evergreen hedge and the species selected ~ must bear a relationship to other evergreens used in the layout or landscape plan, otherwise the evergreen hedge may seem somewhat out of place. The height will be governed by the space available and the purpose to be served. Usually a taller hedge Is needed for a screen than-for a background. For low hedges three to five feet high, . plants should be spaced from 18 to 24 inches apart in a single row, and 'around 38 inches apart for taller hedges. * , ® . Pruning is the most important step in the maintenance of an evergreen hedge. Pruning is sel- dom required more than once a. year and only light pruning ra- ther than shearing is needed to keep the hedge compact. This will encourage new growth from lateral buds. Evergreen hedges retain their natural appearance if prumers or seccateurs-rather than shears are used Jor pruning them. 3 Evergreen Yetlins are best pruned ih late July or early Au- gust. If pruning is carried out then there Is still time for fresh buds to mature and be condl- tioned for the production of new shoots the following spring. ce LJ . In pruning, the hedge should be kept narrow at the top so that sunlight may reach needles at the bottom and keep them green and healthy. By careful and timely pruning as described, a very compact and attractive evergreen hedge can be devel- oped and maintained at low cost. Such a hedge can be a valuable asset where winters are rela- tively long. Farmers with sudan grass ex- perience say grazing can start when the sudan is 18 inches tall. Graze it down to six to 10 inches and then remove the anl- mals to permit the sudan to recover to 19 inches before grazing again, they adyise. NDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren B.A, B.D. Confessing Christ Today Matthew 16:13-27 Memory Selection: Whom say _ yo that I am? . .. Thou are the Christ, the Son of the God. Matthew 16:16-17. living On more than one occasion . Peter spoke unadvisedly. (Mat- thew 16:22; Mark 9:5,6; John 21:21). But his great confession (quoted in the memory selec- tion) is eloquent proof of his spiritual insight, Jesus sald, "Flesh and blood hath not re- vealed it unto thee, but my Fa- ther which is in heaven." No one fully appreciates the Divin- ity of Jesus Christ until he re- turns from his-sin and proves by faith that Jesus Christ is really a Saviour. Jesus said he would build his church, not on Peter (Petros) but on this rock (petra). What is this rock but the truth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? truth through Divine {llumina- tion. Peter was promised the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. His was to be the responsibilty of first introducing the Gospel to the Gentiles. The usage of the terms bind and loose by Jo- sephus and in the Talmud shows that to bind meant to forbid and to loose meant to allow. "The Jewish teachers held that these decisions were acknowledged in heaven" in the sense that God recognized and endorsed the teachings of the rabbis. Jesus i i Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking 3 [9] ol [\Y) Vv M 3 ba} wo OERCIZICZ|X A Vv M A N v d S <a w[ill ov T= ¥w COlZ]wil Jl] Z] Owl <|O]O O/-|zio|X|<|- ZS I< Zldvlz|-|ZIO J -ZIw|Z wel <nolZwuwl<olo ololr<[ol</v wll TwZ =lolwil/ «lo - [cB iT] ZIW[ZERWI Zw OE WY d S pe 3 S said that God would thus en- dorse the decisions of Peter and the other apostles (compare Matthew 18:18). The fraility of man is demon~ strated in the fact that Peter who was thus honoured was in a few minutes to deserve the stin ning rebuke: "Get thee be- hind me, * Satan: thou art ama offense unto me; for thou save ourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of man." Peter couldn't under- stand that Jesus and his dis- ciples must suffer to gain tha kingdom. We hear much these day to the effect that you cam really use religion to get rich and get along in the world. W God does bless his people. B let us remember that the condl« tion of discipleship lald dowa by Jesus hasn't changed it. It la, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Not A Job For a Poet-- The Canada Council, with the income from $50 million te spend on encouraging the arta humanities and social sclences, is due to be appointed ve soon; and the Government expected to name a businessman as its chairman. There will be an outcry from artistic souls, who presumably, would prefer a poet, painter or pianist for the job. Poets, painters and pianists are among the people the Can- ada Council will be able to help. It will undoubtedly seek and obtain the advice of gifted and representative people in all the arts. But, there is no good rea- son why its chairman or the members of its governing branch should themselves be persons capable of producing a sonnet, a landscape, or a sonata. On tha different talents of a business- man, They will have an executive Job, a job of getting things dona, -spending money wisely, mane aging staff, allotting grants fairly to various kinds of effort, slzing up the responsibility of those who ask for or recommend tha Council's support. TOP DOG -- Chosen best of show at the 81st annual West- minster Kennel Club Dog Show, Champion Shirkhan of Gran- deur poses regally with his trophies. : MIRACLES | IN MUTTON-Watched over by owner John Fekarson, a ewe and her four idk old offspring graze on his farm, unaware 'that thay are celebritties in the sheep world, The normal litter is one lamb--or passibly two. But the chance of quadruplets is about once in 100,000 births, * contrary, there is every reason - --+ why the chairman and most of his board should have the quite - 7 - Bh nt cio pies» RTI VN ot 1 J i a 3 wy ow 2 ringing ie rr oa or Uhr) a