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L ER = One Dozen Roses By CHARLOTTE McCARTHY 3 Mrs. Moyer walked slowly feel ing as dismal jas the drizzly day. This was her 'wedding anniversary . and she knew, with no possible doubt, that her husband had for- gotten about it. Even the head of her fox' fur had an almost human expression. of weary disillusion as the cold rain dribbled over its nose. All very well to remind herself that she shbuld be thankful to have such a good husband. Never had he opened his own considerable pay envelope these last ten years. Nor had he stayed a single evening, nor complained about the way she man- aged her household: 'But tomorrow the girls would call up to find out about her present, and what could 'she tell them? : : Afterwards," Mrs. Moyer could r rer remember just how she got the idea, but she found herself in the florist's. SD "One dozen of your best roses, please." Her own voice surprised her, but she gave her own address calmly, and told the girl that she did not wish to enclose a card. "Years ago, when money had been | scarce and flowers an almost un- thought of luxury, her husband had sent henry on their anniversary, a dozen perfect roses.. There had been no card enclosed--no need of one. Over the dinfer table that night, she chatted about the trivial hap- penings of the day. "Oh dear! That bill at Taylors, and I forgot all about it. This ls the fourth, isn't ite" "It's the fourth, all right."" His voice was cheerful. "Old Murdock came around for .the rent today, "and he never misses the éxact date." "I thought you had forkgtten the date, but now I can only believe. ft just doesn't mean anything to "you." She tried to keep the tears out of her voice, saying the very thing she had made up her mind that wild horses couldn't drag, out She lifted the fragrant blooms to. hide 'her face. "They're gorgeous!" : . of her, but having started she had no intentiod of backing down now. + I'v. heard other women saying that their husbands sometimes forgot, but T never dreamed that..." doorbell pealed an interruptions" - "A box for you .. . looks like o. wm-~fowers. She didn't look at him as she fumbled with the ribbon. - She lifted the fragrant blooms to. hide her face. "They're gorgeous!" Her fingers trembled, as she pre: tended to search among the rustling. paper for a card. "But who could have sent them?" & "Don't you remember a certain - fellow who sent .you roses 30 years ago? You didn't need a card then." She almost dropped the: flowers. Of all the brazen . . . but surely he wouldn't dare pretend ,.. ? But he evidently would, "You thought I'd forgotten,' didn't you? I haven't asked in years just how you feel about it, but to me It's still the my life." . "For the first time in her life, Mrs. Moyer knew that she was going to 'make a scene, What she was go- - ing to" use for an excuse; she couldn't for her life imagine,.since shé just couldn't prdduce the flor: ist's bill to prove that she knew \ ¥ / ' he was trying to take' credit for something he hadn't done ... and ake matters' worse, ~~. 'Suddenly she became aware' that he phone was ringing~shrilly. "Hello, Her voice was surpris- ingly calm. ; d "Mrs. Moyer? This is the florist . calling. A lady placed an order for a dozen roscs to be delivered to your address, and the girl who took the order did not know that all "oui rogis had been sold. She didn't leave a name, As a matter of fact, we did deliver another order tlhiere + v4 . the ones Mr. Moyer ordered, 80 I hope you aren't too disap- "pointed . .. We would have let you know .sooner, but.. . ." "Oh, you let me know in time ., «just in time," she said dazedly and, leaving the receiver dangling from the - hook, rushed 'ifito the dining room. (ait kh . The | most important date in dressing it up with sloppy sentiment _ N = whirl affer passing through its pal- . tant. A snow fence is not, thére- ~ the men who before the snows came - "know something of the prevailing - must know 'also where it, will not . fence is to be has been planted 'in "rail fences rot away they are being Sure Sign Of Winter A traveling man just in from a tour of the countryside reported to this corner the other day that the snow fences are up: Have been for some time, in fact. The snow fence is a seasonal barometer, of sorts; perhaps it might better be called a seasonal marker,, since it does not _forecast but. meray con- firms certain things about seasons - Jwo in_ particular--that everybody . 13 pretty sure of already. When , the sow fences go up if is a sign not that winter is on the Way, just over the hill, but. that winter is here, - beating at the door. Whan they are pulled down one may be sure spring 1s not about to arrive in a few days or weeks, but that spring has 'come and already is turning handsprings "cross the meadows. Oddity on the 'Avenue Were someone to run a now fence down, say the middle of Fifth venue, it is quite possible alerge number of persons would not know what it was says the N. Y. Times. Many city folk might take the red painted fencing to be some new- fangled traffic control device. But those who have lived in the opfn spaces where snow fences are irt- portant would suspect, pardonab(®, that the city fathers had gone daft and they might write letters to editors on the futility of *puttiug snow fences at the bottom of Mau hattan canons. Fence Against Wind A snow fence is not "horse highs bull strong and pig tight)' as a good fence is supposed.to be; hut then its purpose is fiot to keep livestock from greener pastures. It exists to break the sweep of winds bearing snow, to cause the air t& ings and in that whirl and momen- tary pause to deposit the tumbling | .. flakes on its lee side instead of upon the roadway a few rods dis- fore, a true fence at all, being simply a device to sro snowdrifts to windward of highways, and is called a fence for the good reason that it looks like one. ~' The Forgotten Men : The motorist journeying over the countryside without difficulty after a heavy snow ls inclined to give silent thanks for cleared roads to the men who drive the plows--and these often deserve thanks -- but he is not likely to give thought to set out snow fences which may have diverted tons .of snowflakes from his route before the plows went to work. Putting out snow fences--several hundred thousand feet to a district --calls for a nice discretion. Before he places a snow fence, a man must winds; he must know where, along a stretch of road, the snow will drift if it is not checked by a fence; he will waste no field where the that he If the drift so fencing. wheat and if it is wet when he wants to set out a length of fene-. ing he must wait until the ground dries, for no farmer cares to see part of the crop planned for next summer being scraped from the soles of muddy boots--particularly if the boots are someone else's. - Fences of Yesterday Good snow fences have nothing to do with. the making of good neighbors, a function attribitted by oets to other fences, such as the Fo loaraating snake fence, known also as the stake-and-rider, or. Virginia, fence, The snake fence came to the end of its lazy crawl across the landscape with the introduction of the mechanical gost- hole digger and particularly of fence-machines to shape and plerce posts, making easier erection of the. neater but less picturesque plain rail fence of chestnut or locust. As replaced by wire fencing, which is tighter and less trouble to set out and to keep up than are wooden sections. "But in the transition something is being lost. Many trees along: old fence linés owe their existence there to gail fences © $d YE INTER "stalls tr affic on snowy hills, - Winter can freeze the plumbing. . Winter raises a fellow's bills, But it's nice to know it's coming! WINTER brings~the cough and sneeze, Winter endangers a city. i Winter makes people fall with ease, But when it comes, it's pretty! which served .as- elevated runways for nut-cariying squirrels and as - luncheomr tables for birds; from seeds and nuts dropped. along the rails have sprung countless cherry trees and oaks. The use of wire fences has reduced substantially fence-line weed and briar patches which: the sprawling snake fence encouraged and made available as cover for birds and small ganie. Farewell to the Stile It seems too bad that no one these days takes the trouble to build ' stiles over fences, Perhaps the end of stile-building signalled the close of an era; when people began to think . they. were in too great a hurry to follow a fence line to a stile but' took to clambering over anywhere, the age of the stile was dead. Today if a crooked man were to find a crooked stile at' the end of a crooked mild,chances are that .on the far side of the stile he would see stuck on-a crooked post in the fleld ;a sign reading. WARNING ~~. POSTED--KEEP OUT TRESPASSERS PROSECUTED These: crooked greetings have supplanted the friendly. stile gvery- where, and we are the po er. for "it [Merry Menagerie~By Walt Disney IN OUR TIME No" "Yi Wary vo utd ; at " ba Sa) ; . Released Ay Mev Era Baterprlese ' "I've tried olf sors of things but Vve had more success wih * THIS than anything else (5 Really Sensitive William P. Welch and Benja- min J. Cametti, two Westinghouse research engincers, have developed - a machine which is so sensitive that with it the weight of a feather can © be 'made to twist a steel bar. The ~ twist amounts to less than one- "millionth of an inch. The "twist detector"--technically known as an elastic-drift measuring machine-- can detect changes in weight as small as one part in 100,000 and can measure a twist of less than one- millionth of an inch, . The development of jet" engines and other powerful rotating machin- ery has brought a need for more accurate measuring equipment. Torqué-meters or twist measures are accurate weighing devices in which a steel shaft takes the place of the. spring mechanism of the standard scale. The twist in the shaft is a measure of the weight applied, and this can' be detected electrically or magnetically and transmitted to meters for easy read- ing. Although the, accuracy is very high--around 98.5 per cent--there are special applications where an even greater precision is required. Hence the new machine. Radium Annifersary . Fifty years ago two obdcure phy-- sicists, Pierre Curle and h world with the announcemegt that after' much chemical drudge had obtained from tons of blende a few grams of a substance --"radium" they called it -- which maintained temperature lightly higher than its sutroundings and . which emitted energy. Henri Bee- querel had previously - discovered that uranium, also contained in pitchblende, was radioactive. What © distinguished radium was the in- tensity with which it emitted energy. The discovéry that the heaviest metals such as uranium, radium, polonium and actinium ejected par- ticles. which were much smaller than atoms brought about a revolu- tion in physics. But it was not the only dtr that made it néces- "sary to /abandon! the conception of the atom as the smallest material particle that could combine : with another. The: subatomie electron 'had been discovered and ite. .masse determined. « There were other dlectrie 'pheno- mena that conflicted with the classic atomic theory, When it was found that radium shot out the very electrons observed in' X<ray tubes and also alpha particles It was neces- NS LJ « f je ary to invent.a new kind of atom, Instead of the old, invisible atom, somewhat like a minute invisible billiard ball, we now have a com- plex structure that no physicist pretends to understand. Physics was exciting in the Nineties and the early years of this century, when Becquerel, the Curles, Roentgen, Einsten, Rutherford, Planck and others to whom we owe the atomic theory of today were in their prime. In this practical age science is thought of as the handmaiden -of engineering, so that it implies motion plctures, electric communi- cation, chemical processes and machines. The change In outlook caused by :a' great discovery like that of radium is as important as the invention of an atomic power plant. And the change in outlook has been profound since the Curles did their work. In the heyday of Victorian science .a physicist rose before the British Association for clare that since the universe was demonstrably an intricate, colossal machine everything -- would =~ ultl- mately be found to obey mechanical laws, man included. That cocksure- N--laws of nature prove to be man- made--mere statements of statistical averages. Cause and effect have disappeared in atomic physics. Terrified Rats When they are in a panic of fear, wild rats stand on their hind legs by the hour and grasp wires at the top of herr cages. Even when thelr cages are left open, they make no attenipt to escape, but stand motion- - less "with noses thryst through the wire mesh, eyes fixed straight ahead, They keep this posture for months, except when they are disturbed or fun around the cage a few times but go right back to thelr awkward pose.,| Fear of food-poisoning is the explanation, according to Dr. Curt P. Richter: of John Hopkins -Hos- pital. 'He is the scientist who, in the course of psychological ex- " perinients orn the rat's ability to taste, discovered. the potent rat "were some that had survived doses of ANTU or other polsons which had made them very ill. In later experiments, the cholce of eating from 'either of two food cups. One contained the pol- soned food, the other the safe. The but suspected the unpofsoned food caused their"abnormal behavior, the Advancement .of Science to de- ness has collapsed. The mechanical " when they eat or drink, They may' poison ANTU. His terrified rats were glven a . rats recognized the polsoned food, . as well. . This fear and suspicion * THEFARM FRONT Es ,,. I ° For over a year now, from time to time this column has been polnt- ing out the danger -- to farmers especially--of not earrying enough fire insurance; or' rather, I might better say, of thinking you have en- ou_"t when, at present replacement costs, it is not nearly sufficient. Matter of fact I think that a lot of the insurance companies--and thele individual agents--have been very Iax in not bringing this matter more clearly to their customers' Btjsntion. LJ LJ] LJ So I was glad to see, in the Farm Forum Gulde of January 10th., that there was an article on the same subject, and that it would be dis- cussed as well on the Farm Forum alr show. The. article deals with a farmer they call Jim Davidson who, after fifteen years of hard work, had almost paid off the mortgage on hls place, and was 'thinking of taking life a bit easier: ' * 7 * * Then, one night, lightning struck. Telephone lines were out of order because of the storm, and before help could arrive the barn was a complete loss: * .* * = It turned out that Davidson had never bothered to take out any in- surance at all -- trusting, like too many of us, to'luck. Now he dls- covered that. it would cost him around $4,000 to build a new barn-- and the whole farm, including house and barn, had cost him only $8,000 to begin with. Maybe some of you think that I keep harping on this matter too often. But if 5 30 will induce only one reade poly stoek on how he stands In this re- - gard -- well, I'm not making any apology. x * Now here are a few tips, culled from here and there, which I hope . some of you will find of value. Poultry raisers are remindéd that after leaving a pen where" there are sick birds, it Is essential to change "your rubbers. Neglecting to do so is taking the risk of carrying disease _ germs over to houses healthy birds are fed. This goes for visitors too. A trained vetecinarian will never go from sick pens to other flocks without changing over: shoes, or cleaning same carefully. Also for poultry raisers Is the re- minder that hydrated lime makes - deep litter much more absorbent, and leas inclined to cake. An agri- cultural experiment station recom- mends stirring lime into the litter at . the rate of 10 or 1S pounds per 100 square feet of floor space. You can also use a rate of one pound per littler. * * * Even if poultry feed supply and prices may be a bit more favorable than In the past, keep om culllng. Low producing hens are expensive boarders, so get rid of them as poul- try meat. if a hen won't pay for feed with eggs, gat rid of her for what she'll bring. 5 * LJ * It's the little things--the things 80 easy to overlook -- that makes a farm, according to statistics, one of the most dangerous places there is to live on. For example, the farmer is probably the "climbingest" person on earth, Yet he takes less care of his climbing equipment than' most anyone else, in spite of the fact that falls are the Number .One type of farm accident. . in which | And there's no real necessity that this should be the case--not if you'll do these things. Keep your ladders in good repair at all times; build barn ladders so that you can get a secure. footing on each and every rung; extend permaneht ladders at least four feet above the level of the loft floor; build ladders so that you - can grasp the gide rails instead of the rungs; keep ladders and stair- ways clear of hay and other materials; and build a guard rail around all ladder and stair openings. LJ] * LJ I don't get around to tips for the ladies very often, but here's one which may save trouble for hose of you who have washing nfachines. Cold weather calls for special care of this sort of household equipment. Bring the washing machine into a warm room for a few houts before starting it going--or else let the tu' stand full of warm water for an hour before beginning to wash. This warms the grease of the motor. enamel. easlly cracle the : * * . City folks are given to complain- ing about the high prices of things like bread and milk -- and maybe they. have reason for so doing, but they shouldn't put too much blame on the "grasping" farmer. If farm- ers gave to consumers all the wheat needed to make bread FREE OF CHARGE it is said that the saving would amount to something less than three cents a loaf. * * And here are a couple of quotes which maybe you haven't seen be- fore. "They're still looking for the perfect tax--the one that's paid ex- clusively by ths other fellow.""---and "Lots of people can hear a rattle in "thelr cars far 'Quicker than one in thelr heads", Which should be about enough for just now! Queer Cases Law courts, at times, have some queet cases to decide. In a recent fssue of the New York Times, Harold Helper outlines a few that are really out of the ordinary, A Boston Man for pelting his estranged wife with chocolate eclairs. ' N * LJ * A Pittsburgh man for attempting - to force a golf ball Into his wife's mouth so she would not scream when he beat her, * LAE * A New Haven woman for call- "ing a judge "a fat Republican." * . . A 8t. Petersburg invalid for re- fusing to - yield the right-of-way -and crashing his wheel chair into "an automobile, : * * * A 'Kenosha man for driving his truck into a tavern to get his wife ho had been obstinate about * * * R ish-American war vet. ghtin) a duel with canes over a woluan, YL . A Brooklyn man for throwing a - bull - fiddle at another - during am argument, . * ; * - A Chicago man for . uncoupling the coaches from the engine whea he couldn't find a seat on a tralm period F EMALE HIGH-STRUNG on such days? Are you troubled by distress of female functional mon disturbances which restless, ~ at such times? Then try Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound to relieve such symptoms! _-.. 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