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THE CQLBORNE EXPRESS, COI BORNE. ONT. JAN. 10, 1 Wedding Bay M Brazil The guitar nestled close to his chest. His hand caressed the strings that sang the things his heart could not say in words. Upward, his hand followed the straight neck of the instrument. He began to hum. Words farmed in his mind and came out in ■eng. A finger slipped from the strings and rested against the opening of his worn s^'rt. He found a hole in the r^th. "Perhaps I ought ts buy another shirt before the wedding. A man should have things of his ewn. Not only a toiling raft with * sturdy mast, a patci^d sail, a basket for the fish, an* a violao." He laughed good - humoredlv. "Not even a bed I own! Only my hoat, my guitar, and my knife. Before the wedding, perhaps I wiJJ buy another sbvt and another pair of trousers. Marilia tikes a man to look clean." languidly his fingers strummed the strings of the guitar. The sound of lazy, sad minors surged above the angrj rush of the "Marilia has never said a word about a man looking new and important with a clean shirt on. Perhaps she did not want to worry me. She k»iew I have but one shirt, one pair of trousers." He laughed a low, intimate laugh. "Perhaps I have always seemed clean to her. The foam of the waves is better than the soao the women rub on their dothes. Still, 7. like the smell of thin«s clean. I like the way Marilia's kitchen is. I have never seen the table bare, as in the hut of CVavina, with the marks of Juca's fingers showing on the wood. Marilia's white eloth with lacy endings makes the kitchen a place where a prince would come to eat. When a man sits at a table that has a cloth like Marilia's, a man ♦Might to have his fingers clean. "She has knives and forks, too. Cravina says it is because Jlarilia thinks herself above the Others of the village, but I know it is because she likes her fingers always to be clean. Then, too, Marilia has often been at the house of Dona Vera. My woman must have gathered some «f her good manners from the PIPE THIS PIPE - With a pipe fashioned from a calabash, this dreamy-eyed Baluba native enjoys a casual smoke. By rolling tobacco cigaret - fashion and pushing it into a small tube in the end of the fruit, the Belgian Congo natives transform the calabash into a highly serviceable pipe. fine ladies cf Olinda." His voice hummed slowly the melody of the strings. "Perhaps I should buy a pair of shoes, too. But only for the day of the wedding." He spread his free toes in the sand. "Never have I walked with anything tight around my. feet. Nor a hat above my forehead. I like to leave the head bare, under the skies, so that I may feel the drops of rain coming from the clouds. A man does not make a sacrifice in all his ways because he is going to marry himself with a woman, even if the woman is as good as Marilia. Shoes perhaps, but a hat I will not buy. From "White Shore of Olinda," by Sylvia Leao. Fascination Of Deep Sea Shells I have often been asked, "What is the best time to collect shells?" There is no "best" time anywhere. Shells are to be found at all seasons in all latitudes and as some species are to be found at one season or even during a short period in one season, and are absent at other times, the collector should endeavor to hunt shells at all times. Very often some species of shell will be abundant for a day or two and then completely vanish. Neither is there any one stage to the tide which is the "best" for collecting. Some shells are to be found only at low tide, others at high tide, others at the turns of the tides. Also, many species of shells are nocturnal and only appear very early in the morning before they have hidden away, or late in the afternoon when they begin to come forth from their hiding places. If you are lucky enough to live within reach of the shore, or spend your summers by the sea, or go to Florida, the West Indies or California or some other warm place for the winter, you will find the "shelling" is a most fascinating occupation. A great many shells live in the short, dense sea grass that carpets many mud flats and shelly, sandy bottoms. Here is where you will find the ark shells or blood clams, many species of periwinkles and Naticas, a number of nice bi-valve shells, and if you are collecting in a locality where they occur, Murex and Cymatium, as well as the Astraeas or star shells, the dial shells, and if you are lucky, the strange carrier shells already described. A great many desirable species of shells rarely venture into shoal water but inhabit the sea at derjths from one to hundreds of fathoms. Of course it is quite out of the question for the ordinary collector to capture these very deep-water shells, for heavy dredging equipment and a good-sized vessel are needed to accomplish this. But it is a fairly easy and not an expensive undertaking to dredge in moderate depths of from ten to twelve feet to forty or even one hundred feet, and a vast number of shells inhabit these depths both in the north and in the south. But if you really love shells or are interested in them and are serious about making a shell collection, you will not mind the drudgery, time, and patience necessary. In fact you will come to enjoy the work, for there really is an immense amount *f satisfaction in seeing the dirty, unattractive - looking shells, gathered here and there, and everywhere become transformed into lovely, colorful, clean specimens such as you see in the exhibits in museums. From "Shell Collector's Handbook," by A. Hyatt Verrill. THREE ON AN ELEPHANT - The mahout keeps a regally bedecked pachyderm on a steady course as Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, left, and Tibet's Dalai lama, centre, find out the meaning of the phrase "elephant walk." The stroll took place around India's Presidential Palace in New Delhi. TROUBLE-SHOOTER - Year-old Janice Brazeau has a professional air as she probes the inside of Daddy's tubeless television set with a screw driver. Even if set were working, ycu couldn't get a prettier picture. Sat On Spy To Prevent Capture Violette Bushel!--English father, French mother--had been a slip of a Brixton shop-girl. Early in the war she had fallen in love with Etienne Szabo, a gallant young officer of the Free French Forces in England, married him and borne him a daughter. When he was killed at El Alamein she joined the A.T.S. to dedicate her sorrow to the service of her country, helped to man an ack-ack battery on the Mersey, then, on account of her knowledge of French, was invited to enrol in the Special Operations Executive as a F. A. N. Y. officer. It was one of the MAN TRAP - Bachelors beware! Tread ever so lightly on this snare and voom! -- 13 jagged teeth spring into your leg, rendering you helpless in the face of husband-hunters. The fiendish device, being pondered over by Chris Ccminel, was once used to ensnare poachers on an English estate. most dangerous jobs a girl could undertake. Not by the wildest stretch of Imagination could the slightly -built shop-girl have foreseen the role she was to play in German-held Normandy just after D-Day. Her second mission there was a parachute drop on June 7th, 1944, to toin a Resistance group and help sabotage in every possible way the German defences. With the chief of the local Maquis, "Anastasie," she had to contact groups in neighbouring sectors for a concerted plan of operations. It meant a perilous car journey over guarded roads which were being used by the Germans to rush up reserves-- and there was a price on Anas-tasie's head. At Salon-la-Tour they ran into an ambush. Anastasie leapt out with his Tommy-gun, Violette with her Sten, while others in the party scattered. Then followed a desperate running fight across fields which R. J. Minney describes graphically in his story of her life, "Carve Her Name with Pride." Bullets rained on them from about thirty Germans who were soon joined by the advance guard of an S.S. Panzer division sweeping the villages to clear the road. Violette received a wound in her left arm. then was brought down by an ankle which had been injured during her training jumps. Anastasie .picked her up, but she struggled to get free. "Don't be a fool," she said. "We can't both be saved. You won't stand a chance if you're caught. Besides, you've got work to do. Go on. Get out!" She beat his shoulders with her fists, kicked and wriggled, brought them both down into the standing corn. Bullets were pinging all round them now. She limped oft to an apple tree, an easy target. It was a miracle she wasn't killed. Standing up, she blazed away at the oncoming Germans, about 400 in all. "Run!" she called. "Run! It's ycur last chance!" As two armoured cars converged towards them he managed to reach a farmhouse and worm his way into a pile of logs. The farmer's two daughters, who knew him, came out and quickly piled more logs on top of him. Seeing a foot still exposed, one of them "promptly sat down on it to^iide it, a ruse which eventually enabled him to escape. Violette, her Sten gun magazines empty, was cornered and seized. As she kicked and fought back with her fists, two German soldiers pinioned her and half-dragged her--exhausted and in great pain--to the heap of logs where Anastasie lay hidden. "I like your spirit," the young armoured-car officer toid. her. "You put up a wonderful fight-- right up to the end." He took a cigarette from his case, stuck it between her lips, but she spat it ' Out. "You dirty cowards," she raged. "I don't want your cigarettes!" Then she demanded that the men let go her arms so that she coujd light a cigarette of her As the two armoured cars turned into the village street hundreds watching from their Windows saw her go by, shouting death and damnation to her captors: "Your fate is already sealed. The end is drawing near. It won't be long now. Then you swines will get your desserts in full!" During months of captivity-- at Limoges, Fresnes, Ravensbruck and elsewhere--Violette maintained her attitude of defiance. Questioned and tortured at the Gestapo H.Q. in Paris, she steadfastly refused to betray her Resistance colleagues. At Torgau prison labour camp she planned to escape with a masterkey that a man in the precision tools section made for her, but she was searched, and the key was found. Punishment: ten strokes and solitary confinement. At Koenigsburg, where she had to fell trees and clear the ground for a new airfield, she endured three bleak winter months of privation, and often for insubordination and contempt v/as beaten and denied her scant rations. Eventually, at Ravensbruck in February, 1945, she was taken out and shot in the back of the neck with two other prisoners-- Lillian Rolfe and Danielle Williams (real name Bloch) -- by order of the German Secret Police. "All three were very brave and I was deeply moved," said camp commandant Schwarzhu-ber in a report made later under oath. She was only twenty-three, the first British woman to be awarded (posthumously) the George Cross. 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A Frenchman made a set of imitation horse's teeth from wood, clamped it on his arm until the flesh showed the marks of a painful "bite" and then claimed damages from a big firm of haulage contractors. He made quite a nice living until one day he showed on his arm the marks of a perfect set Of horse's teeth, but the vet, who examined the old horse accused of savaging him found that it had only half a set of uppers! Another shady character used to make money by falling out of a moving train and then claiming damages. He was always breaking an arm or a couple of ribs. But the lucrative racket was painful, so he decided to "die" of his injuries. He "died" several times, until one of his claims was dealt with by an official who had previously worked for another insurance company and had handled an earlier death claim for the same man. As two deaths per person was more than an average risk, the official called at his address and found the "corpse" enjoying his dinner! 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