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PURIFYING PUPPET â€" The Dark Continent is rife with strange customs, and ‘African‘s Northwestern Uganda is no exception. Maere a jester to the court of the king manipulates a weird civetâ€" eapekin puppet during the "Mpange" or "rebirth" ritual. The Benyoro tribesmen cleanse themselves of all evil fha'i;;oivg'fi; upen their spirits during the ceremony. GENTENARIAN PLUS â€" Mrs. Anna Hawkins, of Minneapolis, | Minn., has a good start into her second century of living} after recently celebrating het 102nd birthday. She was fickl-' ed to get a congratulatory note, fro m _ President Eisenhower.! wishing her many more years| of geod health. She has :ixl @rendchildren, 11 greatâ€"grand children. | \But her faith in him overcame all misgivings. She took all these things in her stride, accepting without a murmur the perils of their long trek up from the coast; ferrying the car across a mileâ€" wide river whose current set them spinning off down it, and later pitching headlong into roadâ€" gide bush when a tire blew as Garkness was falling. There were venomous snakes, gcorpions, centipedes; leopards, gorillas, savage wild pigs; violent storms and floods, hideous disâ€" @ases; swarms of insoct pests, germites that honeyvcomb house timbers, driver ants known to have overwhelmed and devoured & sick, helpless man. At ane village they stayed the might in a dusty, cobwebbed house with gaps in the palmâ€" leaf thatch and were nearly eatâ€" en alive by sandflies and mosâ€" Suddenly he noticed Hilda and the other native boys waving §rantically to him and saw, beâ€" hind him, seven buffalo, the "mmost dangerous of Africa‘s big game â€" mean, vicious and inâ€" gredibly cunning. As they were to live five days‘ garch from the nearest European and much farther from any docâ€" or, he wondered later if he‘d been foolish taking a suburban zirl to share his life with a primiâ€" ive tribe who were almost cerâ€" toinly cannibals. "When I squinted along the barre! of my Mannlicher and saw my wife and the buffalo in the game line of sight, I was so gripped with cold fear that I fusped out loud," says Merfield n "Gorillas Were My Neighâ€" pours" written with Harry Milâ€" Jer. Firing rapidiv, he just manâ€" aged to save her from a torrible geath when one buffalo was Barely ten paces from her. She was whiteâ€"faced and trembling. Where was no more hunting that day. j They were stamping, tossing their heads, ready to charge. As je sprinted for the nearest cover, & elump of bushes, three buffalo game thundering at thein. Firing, Re brought down the first The ether two pulled up. saw Hilda, and charged towards her. The boys instantly took cover. Hilda, with the buffalo almost upon her. She hadn‘t expected a breathâ€" taking escape from charging bufâ€" falo as part of the honeymoon programme, but it happened when Fred was stalking a fine male bushâ€"buck near the Doume piver. &n the French Cameroons. They were trekking up to her new home in the wild glendjim forilla and cannibal country. man‘s Life in African Jungle | _ Again the burning newspapers |were brought into action, From the ceiling the ants swarmed |down the string holding her | mosquito net, got insiie the {loosened net, and bit her face, \hands an *‘ feet. Agricultural experts state that at least 14 million actes of light soil subject to wind erosion in this region should be taken out of grain and tied down perâ€" manently in grass. Something like that was planned during the last dust bow! era. But in con: trast to Canada where several million acres of light soil were takerm out and seeded down, little was actually accomplished in the United States. Moreover, with the return of rains and higher prices more light land was broken and the U.S, wheat acreage‘ sharply increased. i Droughts more severe than those of the ‘thirties have hit a large area in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. Another halfâ€"minute and she might have suffered permanent injuries.» The ants‘ marching columns are so long that they may take three or four days to pass a given point. Dust Bowl Returning?â€" When she was barely a year old she narrowly escaped seriâ€" ous disfigurement from an army of driver ants which swarmed into the house at four o‘clock one morning. Shouting to Hilda to follow, Fred. snatched Trudie trom her cot and dashed out; then for hours they tried to stem the advancing hordes with hot ashes, burnt newspapers, coal tar and leaves. When daylight came, and it looked as if they‘d won, they ieturned to bed, standing the campâ€"bed legs in small tins of parafin in case the ants returned. But after an hour or so Fred was again awakened by Trudie crying, and found to his horror that her cot was blaeck with them. i » % WAdT NU €0 ute much the same food, Trudief'm'w hwol,:m" t & pPTh sharing in the feasts of fried‘,*d to the heâ€"maen film star. The ants which were a native deliâ€"\young actress sayy yesterday‘s cacy In due course three sturdy children â€" Trudie. Gordon and Brian â€" were barn and brought up under these primitive condiâ€" tions. They ran about half naked with the servants‘ kiddies and Most of the village babies, she noticed, had »trings tied tightly round their thighs and wrists, biting into the flesh and causing great pain. She cut them off when Fred told her that the mothers put them there to see whether the babies were growâ€" ing! i The Merfields settled into a new house specially built for them by order of the Chief. Ot-i ten Hilda was alone for days on end while Fred went off on hupting trips, but never did she feel insecure. Two or three spearmen guarded her night and day, and when she strolled in the forest they were always with her to see that she didn’r} got lost, ang to guard her h'om: wild beasts. | Behind the warriors came the women. clapping, hooting, patâ€" ting their lips; and with them more imen, singing, shoyting, beating drums. Hilda looked scared. "Is it all right, Fred?" ‘"This is their way of welcoming uup." Fred explained. } They‘d never seen a white woman before. All the women wanted to shake hands with her and touch her clothes. As they approached Arteck, their destination, they were sudâ€" denly greeted by fearful screams as hundreds of naked Mendjims from the suprounding villages came bursting out frem the unâ€" gergrowth, waving spears and @éancing round Hilda‘s hammeock. da‘s ciothes to shreds. QOnce Merfied plucked a wild white lily from the trackside and gave it to her, knowing bow‘ she loved flowers; and every day afterwards the carriers, seeing her. pleasure, brought her spuys‘ of orchids, hibiscus and Flame of the Forest to decorate the hamâ€" mock in which she was carried, three inches long reduced Milâ€" nearly The building was constructed for about the same cost per square foot &# a conventional building, and the designers are confident that operating costs will be much lower than with a gasâ€"firéd furnace. Serving as a basis for the design of similar structures, the solarâ€"heated ‘building may even influence reâ€" ruid.ncu ag well. Perhaps some day apartments may proudly advertise "solar heat." _ In conjunction with the solar heating system, the building has a "heat pump" and a evaporaâ€" tive water cooler! Thus, it is completely air conditioned the year round. The optimist calls halfâ€"empty halfâ€"full and the pessimist calls halfâ€"full hul!-orp\y. _ Engineers expect that sun heat will provide 90 per cent of the heating required for the n e w building. In the fall, and again in spring, it is sometimes necesâ€" sary to heat during night and merning while cooling in the afternoon. So, heat is shut off when not needed and stored in the water tank. _ And if you think the solar "furnace" shuts down after dark, you‘re wrong. A 6,0@0â€"gallon water tank stores heat in the form ef hot water and this is used at night and during cloudy weather. There is sufficient storâ€" age for three days‘ operation. t |OT LNE IOTCTMIOST The more than 800 square feet ‘Britain, of _ collecting â€" surface gathers| _ ‘Then in 1942 enough heat from the sun even released from ja on winter days to heat the iD= |startling _ revors terior of the building by MeANS | yrances Charlie of air blown over the hOtâ€"waterianiazeinng 22 0c coils Under the glass are metal panels through which water cir-t culates. Fabrication of these} panels is unusual. A sheet of‘ aluminum has the desired chanâ€"| nels for water passage "painted" on it with a special compound. | A second sheet of metal is placâ€" ed over the first and the two are bonded together with tremenâ€" doys heat and pressure. Where the "painting" was done, the metal does not stick together.[ Here, hydraulic pressure exâ€" pands the channel which was! marked out, and it is through | this that the water travels. Strikingly modern. the 4,300â€" squareâ€"foot building has one enâ€" tire wall of glass panels. This wall, actually a solar "collector" tilted to an angle of 30 degrecs, holds the key to the heating sysâ€" tem. A number of homes have been heated in the past with solar energy, but the office building is the first of its kind. Designers in â€" Albuquerque. N.M., have gone the engineers one better â€" heating an office building with another kind of furnace. This furnace is 93.000,â€" 000 miles awayâ€"in other words the sun. heroes are creaking in the joints. Teday‘s crop, she adds, need a mother‘s love more than a woman‘s affection. Office Buillding Heated By Sun Keeping warm in cold weather is so important to homeowners that oneâ€"fourth of the fuel they use is for heating. Winter comâ€" fort means a furnace fired by gas, oil. or eaal, with electricity about the only other means of doing the job. ‘ CRITICAL â€" Canada‘s gift to Hollywood, curvesome Dianne Foster, wonders what happen AFTERMATH OF GAS EXPLOSIQN§ â€" Firemen pour water â€" a department store that was destroyed by fla mes after recked downtown Reno, Nev. At least two persansy were buildings were demolished and scores of others damayed,. ‘ "We could use & man like you." @ senior officer explained. {"Safeâ€"breaking could be a useâ€" [ful asset with all your skill and |experience." IT‘S EVEN GOT A $PAREâ€"Here‘s the first photograph of the new .‘Teracruzer" tr launcher" semiâ€"trailer. The pillowâ€"tired units are shown carrying a TMâ€"61B » The eightâ€"wheelâ€"drive truck and trailer have huge, highâ€"flotation, lowâ€"pressure signed to travel where no roads exist to missle launching sites. | _ Then in 194%. when he was released from jail, there came a Istartling â€" reversal of â€" cireumâ€" !stances. Charlie headed south, 1dots~rminod to go straightâ€"and \before very long a detective ‘ealled on him and politely asked if he would mind stepping ‘around to Scotland Yard. on that occasion, the police speedilv rounded him up. | . Altogether Charlie served four \fiveâ€"year terms for safeâ€"crackâ€" \_He was to prove, however, inâ€" tsufflciently adept at faking an [alibi. The police arrested Charlie lafter one of his safeâ€"breaking exploits and Charlie pleaded Not Guilty, chiefly, he admitted, in |the hope that he might get away with it due to some flaw in the law. dng. During the decade before the war he was regarded as one af the foremost safcbreakers in Britain. Full _ of _ suspicion, â€" Charlie found rimself treated as a welâ€" come guest, | It was a trick he had learned |as a cat burgler . .. and crackâ€" {ing his way out of prison was as great a challenge to Charlie as /crncking a crib. It was the thrill ‘of crime, even more than the eash profit, that appealed to him. Yet police scientists secured a fiveâ€"year _ conviction. _ Sawdust and alum blown from the packâ€" ing of a safe in an explosion were found embedded in the welts of his shoes and his trouâ€" ser turnâ€"ups. _ That is how Charlie came to be hanging from a parapet of Peterhead Prison. Although he got clean away for a few hours He covered his tracks as he busted and plundered other peoâ€" ple‘s safes. Great skill was the hallmark of Charlie‘s work,. Pasâ€" sing an office building where he was at work on a safe, a police officer once actually heard a safe blown open . . . and thought it was a swish in the plumbing. so expert was Charlie at muffling the explosion, Botn in eastern Europe, Charâ€" lie came to that country with his parents after the upheavals of World War I, and found himâ€" self lodged in a Borstal instituâ€" tion at sixteen. Afterwards he worked | satisfactorily in the Lanarkshire coalfields. Yet the knowledge of handling exploâ€" sives that Charlie picked up as a miner led in‘turn to his startâ€" ling double life as a safebreaker. He was to learn, as lawbreakâ€" ers usually do. that crime does not pay. But experience also taught Charlie the extraordinary lesson that criminal techniques can payâ€"and pay wellâ€"proviâ€" ded a crook wins British Govâ€" ernment backing! The hue and cry died down. And _ gradually Charlie â€" the Cracksman®* inched himself up levering on his powerful arms until first his elbow and then his knees gained a hold. No one had ever escaped from Peterhead. In the grey light the prison officers searched the roofs and did not see his hands clingâ€" ing desperately to the parapet edge, slipping, slipping in the freezing snow. . . . The ceqnvict was hanging by his fingertips over an eightyâ€"foot drop, high above the granite cebbles of grim Peterhead Pri~ son. Craked Safes into the smovidering wreckage of three underground gas exposions killed and 42 others injured. Five Three Nova Scaotia lobster fishermen take time out from their traps to sing an old chantey much like the one from Lunenberg County introduced by the verse above. Their song is recorded (by an ethnologist from the Canadian Museum of Human History. ;For many years now, people like Helen Creighton have traveled to various parts of Canada with magnetic recorders to capture Canadian folk songs, ballads and sea chanteys. From Brantford 1und Cape Dorset, from Trois Pistoles and Peggy‘s Cove, Canaâ€" dian folklore has found its way to a treasury in Ottawa conâ€" taining almost eighteen thousand different selections in French, English, Indian and Eskimg. The Canadian Museum of Human History was established on January 1st to place greater emphasis on the study of man in the Conadian environment. Anthropologists and archaeologists will continue to study and record their findings, in an effort to give all Canadians a more complete understanding of their contemporaries and their predecessors, For Government And before long the man from jail was initiated into one of the war‘s greatest secretsâ€"the forâ€" mation of a Commando group which would be parachuted over enemy territory to act as guerâ€" rillas and secret agents. "Come all ye bold sailors that follow the sea lay your ship to an anchor and listen to me, It‘s all your attention 1 loudly would call To a song that was made up very late in the fall." e new .‘Teracruzer" truck and "Transâ€" carrying a TMâ€"61B Matader missile. He had decided to try to clean up as a bookie. Instead, his luck went @airay; and during a trip to Yerk races he decvided to reâ€" coup by staging "Just one more" safeâ€"busting exploit. It landed him baek in jail! Just one more try! The phrase haunts every . criminal. There happened to be one redceming infiuence in Charlie‘s lifeâ€"his love for a boybood girl friend. He wanted to marry her. but to ind the money necded just one more sateâ€"breaking job. With the peace Charlie was offered a job with the Contrel Commission in Germany, ecrackâ€" ing open Nazi safes and armoyrâ€" ed vaults is discharge had been marked "character exemâ€" plary." General Laycock paid him tribute as a firstâ€"class solâ€" dier, He even held a testimonial as being a reliable and honest man. But Charlie wanted to be back home. the cellar, Muffled by tens of soa!, the safe was blown~ and Charlie and his men made their taway with decuments which ccnnc invaluable to officers planning the final asseult, After the occupation of Rome, indeed. . Charlie was summoned to the Geyman embassy and found himself in a safebreakers paredise. Within s few hours he :l‘:w open ten massive safes and four strongâ€"rooms, his unit carried the safe down to Terraâ€"Tires de _ A. No. It is the man‘s place to say this, to which she may reply, ‘"Thank you." If he makes no such statement, then a smile and a "goodâ€"by" are all that is necesâ€" sary. Q. When a girl has been inâ€" troduced to a young man, and is leaving him, should she say that she is glad to have met him? A. If there is no great differâ€" ence in age, it is not necessary. If, however, the man who stépa is elderly, then it is courteous for the younger man to rise. Q. Is it necessary for a man to rise when dining alone, and anâ€" other man stops for a few words at his table? A. This isn‘t an unbreakable rule, but he should have a best man. If he has no brother, he should choose the brother of the bride or his own best friend. By Anne Ashley Q. Even if a wedding is a small one, is it necessary for the bridegroom to have a best man? Tou! droeinctet‘s KB . PRBSCHTDHOR "Dear Anne Hirst: I am really in a spot. I want to marry a fine young man whom I‘ve known since we were children, but I am not of age and Mother will not consent. She knows his people and likes him too, but her own marriage was not & happy one. I think she is afraid x.m first use of soothing, cooling liquid D. D. Prescription positively reliever waw red itchâ€"caused by eczema, rashes, alp irritktion, chafingâ€"other itch troubles. &gnrlm. stainless. 39¢ trial bottle must Modern Etiquette ... WwOULD MARRY NOW ItCh..ItCh Nearly "My father always gave me| & generous allowance," the wriâ€"‘ fer continues, "but when 1 got| married two years ago, my husâ€" band couldn‘t see why I want-’ ed one, He has evaded the ques» | tion since and, since my dadf usually enclosed a check in his letters, I‘ve not thought much! about it, But I do feel my husâ€"! band should supply spending money within reagon, Being senâ€" sitive, I have hesitated to bring ; the subject up again and if you don‘t agree, 1 shan‘t But I should like your opinion." t A WIFE‘S RIGHT * This wife has a grave comâ€" * plaint against her husband said it‘s the man who won‘t give his wife an allowance, every» body agreed . .. 1 had to join in, but I was the only woman there who doesn‘t have her own spending money! I was so ashamed that I came home deâ€" termined to end this humiliaâ€" tion onee and for all. But I don‘t know how. "At a recent eard party someâ€" body asked who is the meanest man in the world," reveals one reader, "and when one woman It is not the amount a wife? receives, it is the acknowlâ€" | edgement that she is entitled | to it that matters. As a selfâ€"| respecting individual in her! awn right, she should not be| subjected to such ignominiâ€" ous treatment by the man who claims to love and honor her. More divorces than readers guess have resulted from such injustices. Few selfâ€"respecting wives can be treated like irâ€" responsible children without coming to despise their husâ€" bands. TO "UNHAPPY": I.am sure you thought your husband would offer you‘an allowance without being asked. If you suggest a partâ€"time job, or find ways at home to make extra money, how ashamed he would be at the idea! If he reads this opinion, he will see himself as he is and hasâ€" ten, I hope, to earn the respect he is fast losing. Perhaps the man feels that money in his wife‘s purse promises too much independâ€" ence; maybe he glories in the sight of her outstretched hand, or perhaps he is just plain mean. Whatever the excuse, it is an insult to his wife‘s inâ€" telligence and loyalty, and he should be ashamed of himâ€" self. _ Businesswomen _ handle their income â€" wisely, â€" other girls learn to manage a reguâ€" lar allowance. What a shock it is to see their husbands dole out dimes or dollars grudgingly, demanding _ an explanation . or _ accounting ! "Doesn‘t he trust me" is their first reaction, and each repeâ€" tition deepens their resentâ€" ment. He is one of the many wellâ€" toâ€"do men who, fair in other ways, withholds any cash for his wife‘s personal use. He pays the bills without quesâ€" tion. 1 expect, and carties cash in his pocket fo. his own conâ€" venience; but he will not unâ€" derstend _ why she needs money for the hairdresser, the movies, to entertain her friends, or use at will for the many little needs that spell the difference between indeâ€" pendence and servility. [ ANNE HirST ] Nearly Crazy Send order to ANNE ADAMS, Box 1, 123 Eightcenth, St., New Toronto, Ont. Send THIRTYâ€"FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE NUMBER. Jiffyâ€"cut pattern is easiest to cut and sew .All pattern parts are pri_ntf(l gnic_)_NE tissue piece! Our newest Printed Patternâ€" JIFFYâ€"CUT! Paper pattern is all one piece; just pin to fabric, cut complete apron at once! Each of these pretty little styles takes just ONE yard 35â€"inch! Printed Pattern 4855 includes all three styles: Misses‘ Medium Bize only. 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