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Chimp Tried To Play Dentist Everyone rushed out into the garden when they heard the dog begin a terrible howling. They thought it was being killed. But, instead, they found a pet chimpanzee trying^ to pull out one of the dog's teeth with a pair of pliers! Mary, the chimp, was the fav-cr:t§ pet Qi Cherry Kea.rt.on, \he animal trainer. She' was alsd the most intelligent. A week before trying to pull the dog's teeth out, Mary herself had had a tooth out. She had come up to her master one day, looking very sorry for herself, and pointed to one of her front teeth. It was loose. Pliers were needed to extract it. Mary watched Kearton very closely as he completed the task. Later, she decided to try the same thing on the dog. Fortun-stely, the dog was rescued before any damage could be done. The dog, a fox terrier, seemed to be regarded by Mary as the ideal subject on which to try out all kinds of things she had seen humans doing. Once, when a doctor visited the house, she watched him very carefuly. After he had shut his stethoscope away in his bag, she went over to it, took out the stethoscope and fitted it on correctly. Then she walked straight over to the dog, stretched out before the fire, and proceeded to "sound" him! Mr. and Mrs. Kearton acquired Mary when she was quite a baby, and decided they would find out how far she was capable of developing along human lines. Accordingly, she was not kept in a cage, but lived with the family like a small child. All the usual accomplishments such as cleaning her teeth, washing, brushing her hair and putting on her tunic were soon RUMPLED STILT KID - Carefully manipulating her waterlogged ttilts, 12-year-old Gillian Caul-field walks through a flooded street in Wickford, England. Heavy rains pounded the town, forcing hundreds of homes to ated. picked up. At meal times sh«t sat up to table in a baby's high-chair, and her table manners were invariably good. All chimps are great imitatorg, and Mary did many extraordinary things without being taught --simply by watching her master closely. Sometimes, however, her capacity for imitation could be dangerous. When a workman called to repair the gas stove, his last act before going away was to light the oVen to make sure everything was in order. A little while later, the sound of an explosion came from the kitchen. Mary had picked up the procedure for lighting the oven correctly, but was rather slow in manipulating the match. By the time she had lit it, the oven was full of gas. This incident gave her a nasty shock, but did nothing to cure her determination to "have a go" at everything. • One of the most interesting aspects of Mary's upbringing was her daily lesson. For a quarter of an hour every morning, she sat at a table with an exercise book and a child's painting book. She was taught to use pen and brush, and even learned to write her own name, though not very neatly. During these lessons her hand was held to guide the movements. This must have impressed itself upon her as a necessity. Whenever she did work without such guidance, she always held he* writing hand with the other one. Incidentally, she was left-handed. Chimpanzees love all kinds of fruit, and when the plums began to ripen in Mr. Kearton's garden, it was a great temptation to Mary to climb the tree and help herself. But she knew that climbing the tree was strictly forbidden, and Mary was very obedient. It didn't take her long to realize, however, that there might be ways of getting plums without climbing the tree. With a thoughtful expression, she fetched a box and placed it beneath some of the lower branches. Then she hurried off into the house and came back with master's umbrella. Standing on the box and using the umbrella handle as a hook, she was able to pull down a branch and feast off the ripe plums. Cherry Kearton hadn't the heart to scold her for such an exhibition of intelligence. He was very proud of Mary and couldn't resist showing off her capabilities to visitors. Once, when they were all playing clock golf, he decided to show just how intelligent she could be. Accordingly, Mary was brought out, and Kearton showed her how to hit the ball into the hole from a few feet away. Then she was given a club. For once, her intelligence seemed to forsake her. With a puzzled frown, she waggled the club about a few times, then looked up at her master. Suddenly her face brightened. She threw the club aside, and picked up the ball, walked across to the hole and dropped it in. Then she turned to the assembled company with a look of triumph. Hadn't they realized that this was a much simpler way of getting the ball into the hole than by hitting it with that silly stick? DOG WATCH Hurling itself at a small boy wandering in the path of an oncoming lorry, a Dalmatian dog succeeded in knocking the boy into a ditch and saving him from injury. Returning to its home, at Stur-^ gis, Ontario, the dog awoke his master in time for him to put out a fire started by an overturned oil heater. Answer elsewhere on this page. RAIN OF GRAIN -- ChuYning up a miniature storm, a goggle-garbed gal makes the wheat fly during a threshing operation at a state farm at Akmolinsk, Kazakhstan Province, Russia. Photo and caption material are from an official Soviet source. ThEFAIM front )ok*v12itsseiL Contrary to the well-known nursery rhyme, Mary's little lamb did not have a "fleece as white as snow." As every sheep farmer knows, wool in its natural state is discolored and quite unsuited to the production of pure white fabrics, or even fabrics which must be dyed delicate shades. This factor, however, has not discouraged the growth of one oi Canada's earliest agricultural enterprises -- sheep farming, The first wool harvest in Canadian history probably took place around the year 1650 when early settlers removed the fleece from sheep they had imported from France. This year the number cf sheep shorn in Canada has been estimated by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at about 850,000, and the wool crop at approximately 6,205,000 pounds. Nor are Canadian farmers able to satisfy the domestic market. Each year large quantities of wool must be imported to feed the demands of the textile industry. * * * This picture of an excellent market might be completely completely different, however, if it were not for a chemical product which few sheep men have ever seen. And yet this chemical, hydrogen peroxide, is as essential to their operations as is phenothiazine, the chemical preparation which must be used to control internal parasites in their flocks. Hydrogen peroxide is a bleaching agent which removes the discoloration from the woollen fibres, insuring a true permanent white in woollen cloth and enabling tht fabric to be evenly dyed even the most delicate of tints. The art of bleaching has been practised in one form or another for thousands of years. Back in the days when the Pharaohs were building great pyramids and magnificent palaces, the Egyptians bleached their textiles by exposing them to the action of sunlight, moisture and air. Today the same principle is employed in the commercial bleaching of textiles but mechanical equipment and bleaching chemicals have replaced hand labor and nature's methods. A great deal of development, ,work had to take place before the slow, laborious methods employed on the banks of rhe Nile could be translated into modern technology. Until the middle of the 18th century the Dutch appear to have had a monopoly on bleaching. Most of their business was confined to linen cloth and brown linen was sent to Holland from all over Europe! About six months were required for the various steepings in lye soak-mgs in buttermilk and periods of exposure to sunlight before ?atisfactory results were obtained. * * * The centre of the trade next shifted to Ireland, where large areas of grassy meadows were set aside for the bleaching of linen in the sunlight. The Irish boiled the cloth in liquors made from the ashes of kelp and steep- . ed it in sour milk. These treatments were alternated with periods of sun exposure. The first major improvement came about 1770. A Scotch chemist realized that it was the scid in sour milk and buttermilk that made these materials suit- able as bleaching agents. He substituted water containing the then-new sulphuric acid. This reduced the time required for "scouring" to about 24 hours and cut the total operating time from eight months to four. An even more important change took place in 1787 when chlorine gas was introduced as a bleaching agent by James Watt. At first chlorine did not gain much headway because of its hazards and inconvenience. But in 1799 bleaching powder or chloride of lime was formulated. This gave the bleacher an easily-handled form of chlorine for making solutions that would bleach textiles quickly. Sulphur dioxide was subsequently introduced for bleaching wool. Finally, towards the close of the 19th century interest was shown in hydrogen peroxide. It was quickly found that peroxide could be used on all types of fibres and that it met the requirements of an ideal bleaching agent. The bleaching properties of hydrogen peroxide are due to its capability of liberating active oxygen in immediate contact with the material to be bleached. The liberated oxygen performs the same function as the oxygen from the air performed for the Egyptians. The chemical action, of course, gets better results infinitely quicker. With peroxide a satisfactory white can now be secured in hours whereas months were formerly required. * * * Hydrogen peroxide has done much to validate the old nursery rhyme. Although Canadian sheep farmers' are still unable to breed animals with fleece as white as snow, they now can he confident that their unseen hired man -- hydrogen peroxide -- will work the necessary transformation in a matter of hours. Although polyethylene is now used in almost every branch of farming, its greatest contributions have, perhaps, been made in the culture of plants. The film is widely used on truck farms and in commercial greenhouses and nurseries in many ways, with mulching, fumigating and plant propagation of particular importance. The mulching of horticultural crops with polyethylene film has opened a whole new field of usefulness for this plastic material. Only now are the possibilities of this field becoming evident. As a mulch, the film is spread in sheets over the area to be planted and held in position with soil placed along the edges. Experiments have shown a significant increase in yields results from the use of polyethylene mulching. Soil compaction has been decreased and soil temperatures increased. Harvesting of crops such as corn, tomatoes, beans and cucumbers has been advanced two or three weeks with a resulting improvement in crop value. Fruit cleanliness has been improved and ground rot lessened in crops such as strawberries. Black polyethylene has proven superior to the clear plastic film for mulching. Since it is not subject to deterioration in the sun, it will last much longer. It also cuts out all light and thus prevents weed growth. This method of weed control is of considerable importance in the growing of grapes, black raspberries and strawberries where adequate cultivation is difficult and weeds and quackgrass have long been serious problems. It is also important in orchards where squares of black polyethylene placed around young fruit trees will help control the grass and weeds which compete with the young trees for food and moisture. :- Words! Ever wondered which is the most frequently used letter in the English language? It's the letter E. This is revealed by etymologists who have been carrying Out Intensive research. They have found that the most rarely used letter is Z. In studying our everyday speech and writing they also discovered that many people use an average of 10,000 words a day. Thus, a person living for 70 years uses in his lifetime about 255,000,000 words. Words are fascinating things! Years ago a radio announcer was dismissed for pronouncing "indict", indikt. If you had to name the 10 ugliest and most unpleasant words in the English language, could you do so? Word experts tell us they are: phlegmatic, crunch, flatulent, cacophony, treachery, sap, jazz, plutocrat, gripe and plump. The most beautiful words? Here are a few named by a team Of word lovers: melody, splend-cur, virtue, happiness, purity, joy, Heaven, liberty, harmony, faith, hope, divine, radiance, nobility, honour, sympathy. We can all think of many others. A dictionary was once banned by the State of Arkansas, U.S., because the governor objected to the inclusion of the word evolutionary. He said he disliked the sound of it. ;on By Rev. R. B. Warren, B.A., B.D. Victory In Temptation Matthew 4:1-11 Memory Selection: In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted. Hebrews 8:18. We are all acquainted with temptation. Even the most irreligious will say, " I was tempted to-." Temptation presupposes a tempter. Satan, the fallen angel, is the archtempter. He tries to hinder people from accepting the great salvation Offered to us through Jesus Christ. He wants to drag us down to his own level. As we would expect, those who yield to Satan's powers become active in his service and thus become tempters of their fellowmen. But that is not all. Man has a source within himself. "Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death." James li 14-15. So man is tempted frorft without by Satan and sinnei/s and from within by the sinful propensities of his own nature. Is there any hope for him? Yes, there is -- through the example of Jesus Christ and through His power made available to us through the Gospel. Our lesson shows the three main avenues which temptation comes and how Jesus met them. There are the desires of the flesh. We must never attempt to satisfy these urges in a way that is contrary to the' Word God. Jesus miraculously fed others but to have turned the stones into bread for Himself would have amounted to a renunciation of a real Incarnation. In becoming man the Son of God had subjected Himself human limitations. Neither should we be presumptuous and seek the honour of men even under the guise of glorifying God. Jesus refused to leap from the pinnacle of the temple. Neither shou'd we serve Satan and his purposes in order to gain worldly possessions or honour. It is better to live poor than live in grandeur gained by crookedness. Jesus refused to worship Satan in order to gain the kingdoms of the world. One day the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord. But He will have gained this right to reign by winning followers by His holy life and sacrificial death. You and I may have victory over temptation through Jesus Christ. 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The jets, literally "flying weather stations," will range 4,500 miles on each flight and continuously feed weather information to both military and civilian ground stations.