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[3 Woman Hit By A Flying Cow Several folk living in Bad Axe, Michigan, say they have sighted "flying saucers." But recgntly one resident in this tiny commu- nity, Whittaker, encountered 'a flying cowl, - + Setting off on a shopping ex- pedition, she heard a sudden thud as she came round a bend and "the next instant a huge cow: de- scendéd on her, Peirified, she had no chance of side-stepping and the cow, hit by a car, crashed full tilt into her knees. But luckily she sustained only slight injuries. No bones were broken, ~ Traftic accidents involving ani- mals often take strange turns. In this country, according to the Royal Society for the Preven- tion of Accidents' report, per- sonal injury accidents caused by dogs average 2,600 a year. And as the Highway Code warns "the presence of dogs and other ani- mals in the carriageway contri- - butes towards the 4,000 personal injury accidents a year." This is in Great Britain alone. Pet owners should be more alert and careful." And motorists should know more about animal reactions when caught in the traffic. Chickens nervously fol- low a single instinct when sur- prised by a car: they dash straight for home. Horses and ponies, which seem quiet, may be thoroughly startled if ap- proached too close and they may swing without warning straight into a car's path. Cows, being sluggish-minded, often behave very stupidly. And a solitary sheep, left stranded on one side of the road, with the flock on the other, merits extra caulon, For, seeing a mechanical monster approaching, the animal may panic and scamper across the road fo rejoin its companions. When, in April last year, the Queen attended the West Nor- folk Hunt's point-to-point meet- ing at Sporle, two races ended with a riderless horse galloping out of the main gate and career- ing wildly along the main Swaff- ~ ham road. } In the first instance, two . R.S.P.C.A. inspecotrs gave chase in their van. 0] Bokeham raced ahead of them on his motor-cycle. Very skil- fully, he managed to catch the hunter by the reins with 'one hand, whlle with the other, he steered his machine. He then rode alongside the runaway, talking soothingly to it all the time, until the horse calmed down and trotted to a 'standstill. Half an hour later, when another riderless racehorse bolted, P.C. Bokeham again gave chase and, using the same tech- nique, made a second capture, without injufy to himself or to- the horse. It was bad luck for a York- shire milkman of &¥ibsey, near Bradford, when hig ten-year-old onus] ODD EGG --'Thé hen that laid - this egg apparently grew tired of her anonymous contributions to humanity. So here it is;com- _ plete with monogram. 62-year-old. Mr8. Janet . But P.C. Thomas mare suddenly bolted. She raced off the main road, the milk cart swaying crazily behind her, and charged down a narrow lane. The cart' overturned, bottles + smashed and milk whitened the wreckage, The horse, now free, cleared a four-foot-high stone wall and fell six feet into a cel- lar entrance. There she was wedged, with her left hind leg trapped and in danger of being broken. - Arrivingly quickly on the scene, policemen, firemen and an R.S.P.C.A. inspector placed rub- ber fire hoses beneath her and lifted her forward into a more natural position to ease the strain on her back leg. Then, using a special lifting apparatus, they' raised her bodily from the cellar entrance into which she had plunged. The entire rescue op- eration lasted an hour and twen- ty minutes. The horse was saved from injuries which might easily have necessitated its being de- stroyed. But the residents were not at all happy at seeing their breakfast milk splashed all over the road. Drives Eight Miles _ With Eyes Shut What's happening to the wink -- the deliberate wink which was once so frequently exchang- ed between young men and women? It is losing popularity all over Europe, declares a French expert on courtship and marriage. . "Many a love affair used to begin with a wink, but you rare- ly see a man wink at a girl nowa- days," he says. "As for a girl winking at a man -- this just isn't done any more, not even in France! But in the 'twentles of this century such winks be- tween the sexes were very popular." Perhaps he's right. When did - you last wink deliberately at an- other person, or see a wink ex- changed between a young couple? Lots of schoolboys still wink in play, but even this type of wink- ing is much less often seen than it was a quarter of a century ago. Involuntary winking, or blink- ! ing, is as universal as ever. Ever tried to see how long you could go without winking? You'll find it very difticult to carry on for more than a minute or two, and "very uncomfortable. Yet Miss Maryan Curtis, a lovely U.S. brunette, won a bet of nearly $1000 for -- as the judges put it -- "maintaining a fixed stare for twenty-four hours without moving an eyelid." To scientists a wink is an op- eration of the eye which requires one-fifth of a second and occurs twenty-five times a minute. Thergfore, if you drive at an average of 20 m.p.h. for five hours, you will drive eight and a third miles with your eyes shutd--- : This winking business, you see, is necessary. It's Nature's way of keeping your eye-balls clean, moist and comfortable, " Some people wink more often than others. A nervous person winks most. It is calculated that his eyelids travel about 25,000 inches a day. Women tend to "blink less than men." It's considered wicked to wink deliverately in Falco, Alabama. If a woman's rapid winking is mistaken for saucy winking, she-* can -- under a local by-law -- be arrested and fined. Ne OPERATION Ca During an operation to remove. six-year-old David = Anderson's tonsils, the. surgeon found a small, plastic whistle lodged be- hind one of the boy's tonsils. Questioning the boy's mother later, the surgeon learned that David had swallowed the whistle some months previous but it gave him no bother. "He did snore with a peculiar sound, though," she added. "CROSSWORD ~ PUZZLE 1. Apple seed - 4 2 Cotton fabric 41. African fly . Wild revelry 44, Intervening : Landed estate N (law) . Unit of work 46. Malt liquor 1. Sound of a . Male swan clock 24. Donkey 48. Soon - " 26. Paddle 49. 8kin disease ACROSS 2. Barber 30a) ' 35 Intiation 61. Handful of 8. Beoverfond o . Canine straw 1. Together with 4. Band of colof 30. Acknowledge 63. Toa point 4. Rough matted going hed edge applause inside hair 6. 1st Hebrew 31, Anger 64. Maple genus 8. Outdoor game letter 32. Clear gain 65. "Auld Lang 12. George (ab.) 1. Sort 84. Went first -- 13. Device for 8. Caress 36. Supper 67. Poem measuring 9. Of the ear 39. Kind or velvet 58. Behold distances 15. Rooting out .Cuble meter Sport Bashful Hiatus Jurisdiction (Early Eng.) curve Young goat Song bird . Spirit . Cooking vessel . Caliber emove dirt Recelye Moisten River barrier 2d king of Judah Pagoda Recently 'acquire Elfjan Want of agreement Thickens Cardinal number Body joint Pertelng sword 8eaweed DOWN Arnwe 514 ET BOD RON ONO Ohh AAAAND COSININON DODD dd = W®= 3% AN ON FWNOnS nwo. / ' ERS eS CERT ee Anawer elsewhere on this page. g + mega Chak" § Pek Ai pore » Seeing Double By seeing double a man gain- ed his release from prison re- cently, , A Cockney, whom we'll call Smith, was arrested after two robberies ang taken to Brixton Prison to await trial. In jail was another East Londoner, Brown, eady serving sentence for an alleged wages snatch. He looked at Smith, and blinked, for the man was his true double, so like him "that their mothers could not have told them apart. Now Brown had protested his innocence from the very first and the authorities allowed a special identification parade in which he appeared with the new arrival. The resemblance between them was so uncanny that a witness was amazed and could not be certain which was which. The result was that Brown's appeal was allowed and he was +set free, His double was not so fortunate. He could not be said to have had anything to do with the offence for which the other man had innocently suffered, but he was sentenced on a totally different charge. g A White Russian woman who was said to bear an uncanny re- semblance to the Princess Anas- tasia, daughter of the late Tsar Nicholas, appealed last year to, the Egyptian police. She said that unprincipled people - had tried to persuade her to pose as the Princess and claim the for- tune of the late Tsar, rumoured to be about $75,000,000 and held in Englafid. She told the police that when she refused she was threatened with death and so asked the Cairo police for pro- tection. A BLOW-HARD -- Fred Polk, is all puffed up over his work, 'which makes sense because for 44 years he has been a glass blower. Polk demonstrated his special skill at the recent Glass Blowers Association convention. Frog in Your Bed Prevents Colds! Would you like to go through the rest o! the year without catching a cold? One way is to stay in bed all the time, But even this is not foolproof, es- pecially if you happen to have hardy friends like the Swedish professor, Samuel Oedman, The professor was so scared of catching cold that he spent the last twenty-five years of his life in bed. A friend came through a snowstorm to visit him.. But when he appeared in the bed- . room with snowflakes on his overcoat, the professor was so alarmed that he died of shock. "Many people have their own pet cures and preventives against the common cold. Turkey drip- ping smeared on the chest is guaranteed by many to get rid of wheezes. Another old remedy recommends sleeping with a live frog in the bed to avoid a cold. Even more disturbing is the old notion that a live fish placed on the chest will cure a cough. Ac- cording to this remedy, by the "time the fish is dead the cough should be gone. One of the strangest ways of preventing a cold was that favoured by Sir John Robertson, who was five times Premier of New South Wales and died in 1891. After suffering from one very severe cold he vowed that he would never catch another. From then onwards he® bought three pints of rum every day. He drank one pint himself, gave an- other to his horse and "poured the third into his riding boots. A. gentleman from Halifax has not had a cold for thirty-five years, He attributes this to the fact that he cuts the ends off his socks to allow his feet to breathe, He keeps his socks in place by stitching tapes to the bottoms and passing thém under. his feet. edy to a cousin in San Fransisco. It has proved so effective that a Barefoot Club has been formed in the U.S.A. to spread the idea. George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher, set his faith in tar water as a remedy against all ills. In winter he kept a barrel of it in his bedroom. - tatoes can be 'separated * content of He sent this cold rem-. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST -- That large, striped animal resting on the sofa Is a tiger from the Ussuri region of Siberia, where the largest of these giant cats are found. Its owner, Russian tiger tamer Margarita Nazarova strokes the animal while talking to Soviet hunter P. Borgachev in her Moscow home. The woman raised the tiger from a cub, and they appeared to- gether in a movie which was successful in Russia and abroad. The photograph and caption are from an official Soviet source. ~ THEFARM FRONT Cooking quality of potatoes de- pends to a large extent on their degree of meanliness when cook- ed. The food value of the potato « depends on its dry matter con- tent, and .many of. the qualities of texture -- or mealiness -- and taste depend on the percentage composition of the principal com- ponents such as water, starch, |. protein, mineral and cellulose. LJ ° * Over the past quarter-century research' workers have devoted much time and a great deal of effort in trying to develop a prac- tical method for determining the cooking quality of potatoes on a commercial basis, Of the many methods experimented with, the most practical has proved to be the specific gravity method. By specific gravity po- into classes .based on the total solids individual or com- posite samples -of tubers. The results of thousands of 'tests has shown that there is a very close correlation between the specific gravity or 'total solids' content of potatoes' and their cooking quality, reports N. M. Parks, potato specialist, Canada Depart- | ment of Agriculture, » o * Specify gravity is" defined as, "The relative weight of a given volume of any kind of matter as compared with the weight of an equal volume of a standard sub- stance, as water or air'. Henee the specific gravity of potato tubers can be determined either by (1) the flotation of individual tubers in a solution of known density, or by (2) weighing them in air and then under water and dividing the weight in air by the . Joss of weight in water, LJ - - It lots of potatoes with defin- ite dry matter content are desir- ed, then the specific gravity of individual tubers must be deter- mined. However, potatoes can be separated into classes with a range of percentage dry matter content and their cooking qual-~ ity 'predetermined by making specific gravity determinations on composite "samples of any given lot of tubers, *- ky . An instrument designed for this purpose and known ag a 'potato hydrometer' was devel- oped in 1936, This instrument is co designed that the specific grav- fty -- per cent total solids -- and per cent starch of any composite sample of potatoes can be read directly from the stem of the hydrometer. In using the potato hydro- meter the following points must be observed: (1) The composite - sample of potatoes being used to make a determination must be clean and free of all goil parti- cles; (2) A ten pound sample of potatoes must be weighed ac- curately! (3) The temperature of the water in which the basket of potatoes is suspended must be held at a constant tempera- ture of 60 degrees F. The following gives the sug- gested quality of potatoes fall- ing within. certain percentage range of dry matter. as deter- mined by specific gravity: Below . 15 per cent dry matter -- Poor Quality; 15.1-18 per cent dry matter -- Fair Quality; 18.1-21 per cent dry matter /-- Good kept. by six months, chances are sha" . WA AFA tigi nn Quality; 21.1 up per cent dry matter -- Excellent Quality: J * * Improved flock management is rapidly reflected In increased profits. Such factors as feed wastage, culling, labour, balanced rations and egg marketing, must be considered in a well managed poultry program. * . * =d®, As feed comprises approxli- mately 635 per cent of the cost of egg production this is the logical place to reduce expenses. However, this should not be done 'by limiting total feed consump- tion. A surprising amount - of feed is wasted each day due to carelessness on the part of the operator and improper construc- tion and location of feed troughs. By careful planning, practically - all of these loses can be limited. '. . . Culling is also important in the cost of egg production as fit costs about 30 cents per month to feed a non-layer. DPullets . should be culled when put in the laying pens so that only strong, vigorous, well-matured birds are If a pullet is not laying will never be a high producer. * * * Egg flavour and grades are often adversely affected through excessive amounts of green fegd.. For this reason hens should not Be allowed to forage for suffi- cient feed but rather should re- ceive 'complete rations. This will ensure desirable egg flavour, uniform volk colour, upstanding yolks and clean, white, strong shells. Frequent egg gathering and early marketing regardless of storage facilities on the farm is desirable, as quality deterior- ates rapidly even under the most favourable conditions. Operating costs could be re- duced still further by conserving . labour 'through the use of prep- erly constructed poultry houses and good organization. "One good thing about the ris- ing cost of living," said Mrs. Stern to her husband, "is the fact that I've lost fifteen pounds worrying abopt it." i Fifty-Two Years To Deliver Letter A tailor in Graz, Austria, re- cently received from his mother a letter which she had posted in Vienna, less than fifty miles away, in November, 1904. What happened to it during that fifty- two years remains a mystery which is still puzzling them both oo Postal services in Europe to- day are as near perfect as in- gennity can make them and such instances of delayed mall are rare. Letters have sometimes slipped unnoticed between floor- boards and remained undiscov- ered for years, but very few g astray nowadays. Thirteen letters posted be- tween 1915 and 1917 were not delivered to addresses in the West of England until 1934, but there was a good reasoft. They were discovered behind the sorting racks of a post office railway van when it was being repaired. A letter from the Post- master-General, apologizing for the delay, was sent to each of the addresses. During the siege of Paris by the Germans in 1870, postal of- ficials hit upon the idea of en- closing letters in small zine globes, water-tight and herme- tically sealed, and dropping them into the River Seine. They floated down to. the French lines, where a net stretched across the river gath- ered them in and they were sent on their way. When the Germans discovered what was going on, they stretch- ed across the river a net of thelr own and caught the floating mail. B . Thirty years later, in 1900, when the zinc balls and thelr use were almost forgotten, a fish- erman found one in the Seine. Inside were 300 letters dated 1870. "Jenkins," hundrede the em- ployer, "why do you keep look- Ing at the clock?" "Well, sir," replled the em- ployee, "I keep worrying whe- ther I'm behind on the two men's work that I do." Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ¥|o SY J NDAY SCHOOL _LESSON By Rev. R. Barclay Warren ' B.A, B.D. . The Last Judgment Matthew 25:31-46 Memory Selection: And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verlly I say unto yous, Inasmuch as ye have done #8 unto one of the least of these my brethren, yo have done if unto me, Matthew 25:40. The parables dealing with Divine Judgment emphasize God's condemnation on people not so much for what they did as for what they failed to do. The foolish virging did nos take an adequate supply of oil; the servant did nod use his talent; those put on the left hand did not care for - the hungry, thirsty, stranger, naked, sick or imprisoned. We incline to 'think of wickedness in terms of thé evil things which people do. Jesus focuses our attention on the sinfulness of those who fail to do good things. Men do not so readily detect the sins of omission." We are not saved by works; we are saved by faith. Buf Jamés wrote: "Faith without works is dead." A man's faith is manifest by his works. Per- haps we cannot do much toward feeding the hungry and cloth- ing the naked. But surely we can visit the sick. I have called on the sick of all creeds. Not once have I been treated un- kindly. The sick appreciate visl- tors provided they are cheerful and helpful and do not stay too long. I called to see a mas held on a murder charge. He didn't have to consent to see me. We had never met. We talk- ed, read the Scriptures and prayed. Developments since have demonstrated his apprecla- tion. Let us remember ou Christian responsibility to those in trouble. Is there really a judgment af- ter life? Jesus uses strong lan= guage. "Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." "Depart from me, ye cursed, into ever- lasting fire, prepared for the ° devil and his angels." We are prone to pass over such pass- "ages. Well, who are we to al- ter what God has decreed? Oux part is to repent of our si believe in Jesus Christ a bring forth fruit unto life eter- nal. ROLLING INTO DREAMLAND -- Thrilled by her first pair of roller skates, 2Va-year-old Susan O'Brien won't take them off even when sleeping. The skates may be heavy and cumbersome to wear while napping, but Susan's not giving them up or awake. - asleep FINNY FROLIC -- It's party time underwater as diver plays host at the 10th oc 632 vB 0 " birthday celebra- tion of Spray, oldest living porpelse born and raised in captivity. Spray is a star aliraction ot the Marine Studios. The birthday cake was decorated with tasty little fishes instead of candles, i Te Ng a