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"*COMES OB AGE"â€"Princess Margaret holds her pet dog for an informal 25th birthday portrait in the go mtt House, London. in royal circles, a princess "ec Cgo" when she is 25. "PRETTY PLEASE"â€"Yank‘s photoâ€" genic catcher, Yogi Berra, is caught with an angelic expresâ€" sion on his face as his prayers are answered with a neat snare &f a pop foul at New York‘s Yankes Stadium. "‘The trouble is‘ Claude exâ€" plained, ‘the long life and good health of the chaps above me. It‘s unnatural, honestly, Elsie: "Elsie started getting impaâ€" tient, the way women do. ‘What about that better job you were going to get soon?‘ she asked. ‘I don‘t seem to hear it menâ€" tioned much now.‘" on bits of things for her bottom drawer. But it was slow proâ€" gress as the months went by, and with nearly a year gone they‘d still nothing like enough to get married on. "But gradually they began to realize they still had a long way to go. Claude gave up smoking and put the money away inâ€" stead in an old coffeeâ€"tin, and Elsie spent all her spare cash M oo se ie esn atwint and the way all the girls at the office looked at Elsie‘s ring you‘d have thought she‘d got the loan of the Crown Jewels while the Queen wasn‘t actually needing them. "He mentioned as much to Elsie one Easter Monday, but he was fair enough to explain that they wouldn‘t be able to get married until he‘d worked his way up a bit in the factory. But Elsie thought he was pretty bright and said she‘d risk it. A clever girl herself, Elsie was, given to writing bits of things for the local papers. For a week or two it felt loveâ€" ly. Elsie‘s mother stopped flyâ€" ing off the handle every time they were late home at night, ‘‘Nobody got the chance. It‘s my nephew Claude I‘m thinking of. His trouble started because love caught up with him before he was financially ripe for it. Not much more than twenty, he wasn‘t, when it suddenly ecame to him that the rest of his lifetime would he no better than beer without the hops in if a certain party named Elsie Tripâ€" joy wasn‘t there to steer him :llely through to his declining bet U S tvadiiien ns d Mc is 3k Er. Rocket said. "Very nice, too. won‘t be for long, I hope?" "Just until they‘re married," said the barmaid. "I mean," Mr. Rocket exâ€" plained carefully, "I hope â€" it won‘t be long before that blesâ€" sed morn does dawn. Long enâ€" gagements only lead to unhapâ€" &:0-. nervous anxiety and all ; thl.nr that make chemists 4nto millionaires." "Nobody let you down, did they?" ‘ ‘Well, if you‘re relying on &A COmPLETE sroRry your sister‘s engaged?‘ â€" "But at weekâ€"end the novelty | was still going strong. Elsie told | Claude that Jim â€" wanted to | take her to Brighton on the‘ Saturday and she‘d said she’d} go. ‘It‘s a sort of celebration of | him coming home,‘ she said. | ‘And as you can‘t take me to | the seaside while you‘re lav~| _ "He went home and tried to reason with himself. He told himself that Jim was an old friend of Elsie‘s and naturally she was pleased to see him. But one the novelty had worn offâ€" by weekâ€"end, say she‘d be her old loving self again. "After he‘d sat through two hours of it, Claude got up and said he‘d better be going, which was the first remark he‘d passed since he sat down. He waited for Elsie to do the usual and take him to the front door to kiss him goodâ€"night. "But his luck was out there, too. All Elsie said was: ‘You know your way out, don‘t you? Go on, Jim!‘ the day a mad Lascar chased him through Bombay. It was easy to see there had never been a dull moment in Jim‘s life on the ocean wave, and it was just as easy to see there were no dull moments for Elsie while she was listening to him. She was concentrating on him as if he were the football results. "‘What, toâ€"night?" Elsie lookâ€" ed at him as if he was off his rocker. ‘When Jim‘s called? That wouldn‘t be very nice, Claude. Besides, Jim‘s better than the pictures. He‘s just telling us about the time he got mixed up in a revolution in South Ameriâ€" ca. Do go on, Jim.‘ "Claude shrivelled up in the corner of the sofa and Jim obligingly went on. He was a good talker and he seemed to enjoy the exercise. After he‘d finished with the revolution, he passed on to a riot in China and "I thought we might go to the Palace, Elsie,‘ he said: ‘I beâ€" lieve it‘s a very good show this week.‘ J’ "‘Jim,‘ Elsie said, ‘lives just up the street. He‘s been at sea ’for the last ten years and now he‘s come home.‘ "Claude winced, partly because his hand hurt and partly beâ€" cause he didn‘t like the tone Elsie had used to speak about Jim with. Come to think of it, he didn‘t much like the louk of Jim, either. He was big and broad, and Claude ‘supposed that some women would be daft enough to think he was handâ€" some. He decided he‘d betver\ scrap his evening‘s programme‘ and try another. "‘No,‘ Claude said, ‘I‘m afraid I haven‘t.‘ He put his hand out and Jim seized it like a pair of nuterackers getting to grips with a specially ‘ tough ‘almond. "Well, Claude was still wondâ€" ering how any young couple ever got to the altar at all when he went round to see Elsie one night, that being the cheapest form _ of entertainment, _ and there was a young chap sitting in the parlour, He was lording it in the best armchair as easy as could be, with a full glass in his hand and with Elsie and her mum looking at him as aweâ€" struck as if Wilfred Pickles had just popped in. "‘I don‘t know whether you‘ve met Jim,‘ Elsie said. ‘ "‘Being engaged to you,‘ Elsie told him, ‘seems like nothing better than a nonâ€"stop self deâ€" nial week. Cheap seats at the pictures, no decent dances, no trips to the seaside â€" honest, Claude, it makes me wonder sometimes if being married to you can ever be worth it" " ‘Perhaps,‘ he suggested, . a month or two later, ‘we could save up a bit harder. If you deâ€" cided chocolates were bad for your figure, nowâ€"‘ _ "It worried Claude to hear her talking like this, and he looked in all the papers to see if there might be any better jobs adverâ€" tised. But there was nothing in his line at all. pension,‘ Elsie said, ‘it won‘t be me walking up the aisle with you.‘ (Ottl_n' m;rrl.d on IN THE ‘er pet dog as she t in the garden of princess "comes of your old age 111.484 gross of b: manufactured in .1 100,189 gross in 1952 h: Eomertty Experts who have gone into the question of why we yawnâ€" principal reasons are boredom, hunger, overâ€"cating and drowâ€" sinessâ€"have proved that yawns are catching. "Just think about yawning for a few moments and you‘ll find vourself _ doing it," said one. A radio appeal brought â€" a coastguard ‘plane which flew him to a doctor. The yawn had lasted six hours by the time the nineteenâ€"yearâ€"old _ m a n had closed his mouth again. _ New Jersey doctors rushed to the aid of a middleâ€"aged woman who developed a permanent yawn while hanging out the washing in her garden. The exâ€" planation was that a mouthful of clothesâ€"pins had jer}'.Ed her lower jaw out of position. A fisherman yawned aboard the boat Algiers, 165 miles off SanDiego, California, six years ago, dislocating his jaws so that he could not close his mouth. A radio appeal brought a A few years ago an actor disâ€" located his jaw when yawning in the middle of a romantic play. The performance was held up for half an hour, Medical explanation of this phenomenon is that it happens only when a person‘s ligaments are loose: Luckily for all of us these "permanent" yawns are not common. You see, when she had a really good yawn at her home a short time ago, she dislocated her jaw. A doctor had to be caled to free the locked bones. a woman,living in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, will be extremely careful next time she is tempted to yawn. Even Clothesâ€"Pins Can Be Dangerous We all yawn at times â€" and thin nothing of it. But in future something "The HAVING FUN â€" Clark Gable and his new Spreckels, are reported hittina the Hollvw "‘I know,‘ Claude said, not exactly sharing her enthusiasm, ‘you want to marry Jim instead of me. Don‘t apologize.‘ "‘Marry Jim" Elsie looked flabbergasted. ‘Him and his tall | stories! I could never be comâ€" .‘fortable with a husband if I never knew when he was telling |lies, could I? Besides, I‘m enâ€" ‘;’gagekd to you, aren‘t I?‘. "‘You ought to have known,‘ Elsie said, ‘I was only hanging around Jim because of his stories. You know how much I like writing and how I could never think of plots for myself? Well, I wrote one or two of Jim‘s stories down and sent them to "‘Well, I did think so,‘ Claude stammered, overcome with this pleasant surprise. "Straight away she opened it, looking brightâ€"eyed with the exeitement. ‘Claude," she cried;"»‘ ‘W&derful news!‘ "Claude heaved a deep sigh and got on gloomily with his work. It was his own fault, he supposed . . . if he‘d worked harder he might have had Elsie safely married before Jim blew in . . . He left work and -ix'xo;].('ed mournfuly on Elsie‘s front door. "From then on, Claude waited every day for Elsie to tell him she‘d decided to give him his ring back. He couldn‘t think of any single reason why a girl might prefer him to Jim. He was sure the big moment had arrived when, two months after Jim‘s first arrival, Elsie rang Claude up at work and asked him to call on his way home. ‘It‘s very important indeed,‘ she. said. wonderful li&b;.;' fi;i: ':;: plained when Claude grumbled. ‘He‘s been all over the world!‘ almost into a life‘sâ€"work for Elsie, and Claude never got to see her at all. ‘He tells such " But Claude did ?&M fl he went on minding a weeks. Celebrating Jim‘s home» ISSUE 35 More Balloons I thought you wouldn‘t again. have gone into reported hitting the Hollywoodflrâ€"\'ig.f'\.t- e King" never did before his marr; balloons were 1953 â€" versus growing LOTS OF "PLUCK" â€" Cathy Mcâ€" Cartney, 4, plucks a tune on a huge banjo at a music industry trade show, where news of naâ€" tional revival of interest in the banjo made sweet music to the mstrument makers‘ ears. Some plants, like the Christâ€" mas cactus, the Sanseviemfa, the Pearl Aloe, can be propagated easily by division. In repotting _ Some people don‘t want to bother. They prefer to throw out the old plants and buy a new set. Yet there is satisfacâ€" tion in raising a few plants oneâ€" self. Also, one grows fond of a plantâ€"perhaps because it was a gift from a dear friend or beâ€" cause it came from some inâ€" teresting placeâ€"and one likes to keep it "in the family." . A Christmas â€" cactus originally brought to the United States from Norway, later passed along through a friend, has been in our home many years (and has supplied plants for «hany others. Most house plants have a way of getting too large for their assigned spots on the window shelves, at which time new plants are propagated from the old ones. How You Can Slip Those House Piants "And Claude," Mr. Rocket concluded, "could only agree in a dazed sort of way that this news really did take the gingerâ€" nut. But no doubt later on he was able to reflect on the great human truth that no man ever knows what a woman‘s up to until she bothers to tell him." From "Titâ€"Bits" a magazine and they‘ve bought them and want some more. You see, Claude, we can get married now almost straight away. Isn‘t that wonderful? *° 2 % SDIESG Missiles Division, and Willy Ley, worldâ€"renowned exponent of space travel, meet in New York City as it becomes known that the United States plans to put the first manâ€"made earthâ€"satellite into the sky by the end of 1959. They are shown demonstrating how, by 1985, man may place in the skies a space station large enough to carry human crewmen and equipâ€" ment for their survival. The station, a possible jumpingâ€"off point for the moon and‘ man‘s "last great adventure" â€" the conquest of space â€" would orbit indefinitely around the a«rth THEIR DREAM‘S ARE COMING TRUE â€" Dr. We right, Germanâ€"born rocket expert who is . n Army‘s Guided Missiles Division, and Willy Ley, exponent of space travel, meet in New York C wife, the former Kay night spots. Thur’é marriage,. â€" would orbit ln&.fi'r;lâ€"';l-y ‘c-ro:md'v-ho _umh at an altitude of 1075 miles. By the end of 1958 Australia hopes to have a wireâ€"mesh fence stretching 5,500 miles across the contient, to â€" safeguard sheep and cattle from the ravages of )dingo dogs. These wild, hungry dogs kill about 600,000 sheep in Queensâ€" land each year: past â€" records show that one dingo alone deâ€" stroyed over 800 sheep in eleven tnonths. Keep the slips shaded for about two weeks, then give them more light, but do not let them dry out. When the roots are an inch of more in length, transâ€" plant them into a mixture of twoâ€"andâ€"aâ€"half parts loam, one part leaf mold or peat, and oneâ€" half part sand. Be sure the pots are not too big for the plants. so a piece of glass can be put over the top fora lid and moved to let in air. The trouble with the latter arrangement is that while it helps keep the roots moist, it is difficult to provide air and light. Such a propagaâ€" tion box," hom&â€"made or purâ€" chased, is filled with only about two inches of sand. Press the cuttings firmly into the sand when planted, and sprinkle unâ€" til thoroughly mist. A deep plate filled with moist sand makes a good rooting conâ€" tainer, or a boxrwith high sides YOU CAN DEPEND 0! When kidneys fad to ‘ remove eteam ands Certain other plants, like Afâ€" rican violet and Rex begonia, will root from leaves. Stick the Santpaulia leaf, stem down, into the moist sand ‘not over half its depth, counting the stem. The Rex begonia roots at the ribs of the leaf. Cut the ribs at interâ€" vals of an inch or so and lay the leaf, right side up, on the moist sand. Leaf rooting needs moist air. An inverted glass jar can be used. remove ercem seide Take a young nonflowering stem tip from such a plant, inâ€" cluding two or three sets of leaves. Cut it with a sharp knite or razor blade just below a node, or leaf joint. It is at this joint or node that roots will grow. Remove all leaves to within two inches from the bottom of the stem. Large leaf cuttings, such as some varieties of coleus, need to have more leaves removedâ€" about halfâ€"to send the activity into rooting. ‘ Sand, peat, or vermiculite make the best rooting mediums. Slips like wandering Jew and philodendron will root readily in water. You might try coleus and some others in water, too. Bottom heat will encourage rootâ€" ing. There are also commercial products for the purpose. Keep the sand or whatever you use moist qut not soppy. If you are. rooting in water, change it freâ€" quently and keep a piece of charcoal from the fireplace in it to keep it fresh. The decorative Spider Fern that sends down pendant little plants‘ on long stems, will keep within bounds itself, while proâ€" viding plants to give away. These baby plants sprouting from the long stems will root if set into pots of their own and kept moist until established, writes Millicent Taylor in "The Christian Science Monitor." A great many house plants may be propagated from stem cuttings. Right now in the late summer garden you probably have geraniums and coleus that can be "slipped" to make house plants for winter enjoyment. clump papart where it naturally separates and make two or three plants out of it. The Sansevieria, Aloe, and plants of similar growth will usually be found to have side shoots or baby plants beside the parent plant, which can be potted separately. the ‘Christmas‘ cactus break the who is . now chief of the â€" Dr. Wernher Von Braun CURTAIN® She built a modernâ€"style cotâ€" tage, but features that differed from the conventional home inâ€" cluded a shedâ€"like roof and a south wall consisting mainly of small windows. She trapped the sun‘s rays by a device built in just above the windows, carrying them by a circulator to a series of "heat bins" in the cellar. These bins she filled with a cheap chemiâ€" cal. The incoming heat melted the chemical. And as it solidified again the obliging chemical gave off heat which was distributed by fans and ducts all over the house. On the winter day she moved in, Dr. Telkes recorded these temperatures: outdoors, 49 deâ€" grees; indoors, 71 degrees. NgPieiinbiidnbiiiic in d set out in 1949 ot prove that it is possible to live in a house without coal, gas, electricity or any other source of heat but the sun. The water is then circulated through a series of other pipes incorporated in room ceilings throughout the house which is thus comfortably warmed. It is claimed that the house can be kept at a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit at all times. © IndSanabec d i9. t c Blonde, attractive Dr. Maria Telkes, a Hungarian scientist, who also lives_ in Massachusetts, How is it done? The sun‘s rays are ingeniously trapped by a huge black metal sheet, or plate, installed on the roof and facing south at an angle of 57 degrees. This plate has a number of copâ€" per tubes attached to it through which the sunâ€"warmed water flows to the insulated tank. Ensnaring the sun‘s rays and pufting them to work, however, is a formidable task which may not be fully accomplished until long after the year 2,000. But already "solar houses" have been built in various parts of~ the world. At one in Cambridge, Massachusetts, â€" scientists have found a way to store energy from the sun in an enormous atâ€" tic tank which holds 1,200 galâ€" lons of water. Its rays could drive every maâ€" chine in the â€"world, heat every building, light every house â€" and still leave a surplus of enâ€" ergy. "Specially designed to lure lady fish â€"â€" it‘s a mink stole!" say the scientists, the sun will regularly supply us with all the energy we need. To test lnow methods of obâ€" taining solar energy and conâ€" verting it into c! electric power, Israel is a new plant which . scientists confiâ€" dently believe will enable them to "plug into the sun" all the time it is shining. For several hundred years science has dreamed of finding a perfect method of trapping the heat of the sun. At the ‘sun‘s centre the temperature is calcuâ€" lated to be thirty million, deâ€" grees. Its surface is practically cold by comparison â€" a mere 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit At present most of the countâ€" less millions of horsepower of pure energy rained on the earth from the sun, which is 93,000,000 milu‘"uy‘, is wasted. One day, Anm t ho tate teams 0 26 T~ tA t t tote totes 6 26 Stores Sunshine In Her Cellar MERRY MENAGERIE Men who think The Jlouse of Seagram berPiage summer of 60 times. Maria Then another tragedy overtook Charles Nessles. The 1914â€"1918 war broke out and as he had forgotten to take out naturaliâ€" Baffled and enraged â€" by his treatment at the hands of London hairdressers, he set to work improving his machine and offerâ€" ing permanent waves to rich women at $30 a time. Some of his best backroom boys left him to develop the invention on their own lines, one of whom was Euâ€" gene Suter, the millionaire ownâ€" er of Eugene Waving. Another was Peter Sartory, who invented machineless waving many years later. Like _ Marcel Grateau, â€" the French hairdresser who invenâ€" ted this form of hair waving, Charles Nessler forgot to patent his process of making straight hair curly. Had he done so, said Mr. Justice Eve a few years later in the courts, his invention could never have been copied or infringed in any shape or form And Nessler might have died one of the richest men who had ever lived. Hardships followed his . first experiment. He gave a demonâ€" stration to leading London hairâ€" dressers and it ended in a near riot. The model was injured, the machine damaged and Nessâ€" ler himself was manhandled. Hairdressers were alarmed that what they had seen would kill Marcel Wavingâ€"with specially designed irons â€" upon which their living at that time deâ€" pended.. As soon as he could save enough money he came to Lonâ€" don and took a hairdressing shop at 47, Great Portland Street, in [the West End of London. Few hairdressers believed that hair could be permanently waved and money was hard to get to finance his work. He lived by working for wigmakers and makâ€" ing artificial eyelashes. invention of permahén't-_-wsving in 1905 â€" fifty years ago. AbACAD 4 "Pooh, fancy putting their hair into curlers!" mocked a little girl, whose mass of golden curls was the pride of the village "My mummy just holds my head in the steam of a kettle and it curls right away." Thus was the final link estabâ€" lished in young Charles Nessler‘s theory which led to his great _ Eventually, no doubt, these discoveries would have passed from his mind, if one afternoon. later in the seaimmer, he had not played a game of rounders on the village green. Boys were called away for milking, so an urgent invitation was sent out for girls to take their places. He had four sisters, but none, he knew, was available. He had to exâ€" plain, rather shameâ€"facedly, that they were having their hair put into curlers. tomorrow practice moderation today He told no one about the inciâ€" dent. It was not the only thing of this kind that he had noticed. On the way to school he had observed that, around noon, the twigs and leaves in the forest were straight, but in the early morning dew they curled and waved. The discovery enchanted him. He took a small ladder and let down the line. The trees sprang back into position and‘the line jumped into a series of kinks and «curls. line, he saw it gradually tighten until it became so taut that it caused the two young trees, to which it was tied, to bend over towards each other. collecting the family washing off the clothesâ€"line. . "It‘s going to rain, (Z:lxlu," his mother \warned. "You musi come in." The dreamy little boy sat on. The shower came. The hot sunâ€" shine followed. Then, to him, a remarkable thing happened. Wltcl_min( the hempen clothesâ€" In a small village in the Black Forest of Germany one summer afternoon many years ago‘ a small boy gat on his garden step watching his mother hurriedly Clothes Line Gave Clue To Permanent Waving A great soul prefers moderation C § B.C.â€"A.D.65 ) Although he was not a scier tist he derided medical opinio when it claimed that baldne: was the result of infectio through disease. He pointed 1 the tramp who is seldom with out luxuriant hair growth. H dismissed dieting as a means fo safeguarding the health of th hair. that the normal adult produce four and a half ounces of ha annually â€" and some produce up to seven ounces. He studie people who lived to be a hur dred and proved that they cha grown as much as thirtyâ€"fiv pounds of hair ‘during their life time. The hair produced from single root in the average hi man being during lifetime wi fifty feet in length. He was tireless in collectir statistics about hair. He foun that the normal adult nradnea Although Charles Nessler be came wealthy and successful i the United States (he died ther a few years ago), he never quit overcame a sense of being \pe secuted, the result of his ear} days in London. In his late years he became obsessed wit the fear that humanity was lof ing its hair and making his grei invention worthless. _ He attacked scientists wh said that baldness was hered tary and he vigorously denie that baldness had anything 1 do with age. ."If baldness were hereditary he wrote, "womenâ€" would be : least equally subjected to it a with one or two exceptions, th transmission of traits from pai ent to child alternates and th father‘s characteristics are foun tather in the daughter than i the son." vention fivei\â€"liionllln.w â€"';'ll‘l duulnf in Britain. From a mer h-lnd!u of h:.l:; hairdressin salons, thousan shops throughout the country ang per UE IBWID O7 inaulbedbsmant 1 6e throughout the coun m;l pel [mnent wavlnpmlzuu’ bt came worldâ€"wide with custorm ers for it running into millions. Today in Great Britain th industry employs some 150,0( people. In Canada and the Uni: ed States it is three times : large. There are now some 1( systems of permanent wavin and all the methodsâ€"hot, m: chineless, tepid and cold, wer‘ invented here. zation papers, he was interne« But after a brief period, he wi released and allowed to go ! the United States. After the we his possessions in London, h shop and the invention, wer seized and sold for almost noth ing to the landlord.