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SARA ! SULA eAN AE a A A er fe fi Sine 32.02 RF L470 2 8 AS 5) 5 * ; wt 52 4 ARI OT 8 ae ae USER UE SRE SN NA LS i . PAN 3 A Ae 350 2 2s A Pg NR Picking A Mate By The Kitchen Range Now we awake each morning to find that the thermometer has lummeted to new lows. Nine a, above zero is bitter cold. The morning news tells us it went as low as seven during the night. But, "Better now than in March or April," our neighbors say cheerfully, And it is indeed. Country people, Amish or not, take a sort of stanch "pride in -being able to withstand the on- slaughts of winter. Hunched up in their long, caped great-coats ~ with flat-crowned hats pulled so low that only the beards are discernible, unless 'one closely, the men meet at the vil- lage store for a brief moment and exchange pews of the farm. "Breaking ice in the watering trough we were all day yester- day," one says jovially. "Ja, up twice at our house during the night tending fire," another says with a laugh. There is something comforting about it. If we can take such hardships as frozen pumps and | nipped noses cheerfully, then it cannot be quite true that we are a soft, spineless generation, as some of the critics say. And now hat we are well in'o February there is a seoret soften- ing in the heart of winter, even though great winds roar and the temperatures go steadily dovwn- ward for a few days. When the stores in town are doing a brisk business in Valentines, wintsr cannot hold sway much longer. Amish boys and gic, do not send each other Valentines. From babyhood they have been taught that io speak of attraction between the sexes is unseemly, But who can monitor tender glances, or keep a young farmer from choosing his best beloved to sit beside him when the time comes for "the nickings" at sing- ings? The Zaugg farm is chosen of- ten for the weekly Sunday eve- ning "sing" in winter. Amos has a stove-heated room at the barn where he works on cold days at indoor tasks, and it can be clear- ed and benches arranged so that the young people can be com- fortable when they come to- gether for this weekly diversion. The 'pleasures of the Anish youth are still those of early America, and games are com- = bined with the singings. 'These are folk games, "Skip to My Lou," "Go In and Out The Win- dow," "London Bridge," and one called "Six-Handed Reel," which ¢alls for fast-stepping paces that approximate country square | "dances." The young folks meet in the village on "off Sundays," when word cannot be passed at hurch, to learn at which farm {he singing is to be held. Then the young men and their part- ners drive in open buggies to the place designated. Hot rod enthusiasts might be as thrilled as we are to see. this spanking cavalcade arrive at the farm, for there is no lack of speed. he bone-chilling cold is § factor, but more than that is the urge to show one's girl, and the other young bachelors, what a fine, blooded horse can do when given his head. The Amish take good care of elr horses, with special atten- fon being given to the feet, as tarred" roads are hard -on ten- der hooves. So, near the black- ith shop on weekdays there is the timeless sound of metal on etal, as horseshoes are skill- fully pounded into shape on an - gig Harness buckles are shined a high lustre on Saturdays, | "and buggies are cleaned and polished for next day's in- spection. The grassy strip along state highway is reserved for such vehicles, and when the bachelors' buggies come whirling into Amos"s barnyard just at - dusk, it is a sight worth seeing, writes Mabel Slack Shelton in The Christian Science Monitor. Now that Anna is a young lady, and Hilda is considered old enough to "go to singings," the Amish way of saying one is a looks * . ah ed "8 - ', ~ 2 a re 4 GOLF BALL IN SPACE -- Little brother to the huge 100-fool- diameter Echo satellite is this 12-foot polka-dot balloon. The balloon, made up of layers of plastic and aluminum foil, is designed to study air densities hundreds of miles up. The polka dots of white paint reflect sunlight and maintain proper internal temperature-in the satellite: "A series of experimental launchings involve this balloon. debutante, there is much activity at the Zaugg's on the Saturday's before singing is to be held there. Yet a busy day of baking, cleaning and getting everything in readiness seems ty enhance the bloom on their checks and increase the shine in the eyes of Emmaline's daughters. Riding at breakneck spred in open bugsics in near-zero wea- ther is rugged, so the guests are greeted with a hot drink as soon as they arrive. If there is fresh cider, the girls heat it with cin- namon sticks. If not, they make a delicious apple beverage by stirring hot water into apple- flavor gelatin dessert, three cups to a package and serve this in mugs with a sprinkle of cinna- mon on top. The singings enough = with start the soberly singing of hymns. Girls sit at long tables running the length of the shed, and lit by gasoline lamps hang- ing from the rafters, When the girls lay aside their big black outer bonnets and long fringed shawls, the snowy prayer caps on their heads shine dazzling white against 'the brilliant blues, purples, reds and greens of their | dresses. And they are pretty, with their long hair in shining braids, caught in a net, and their wonderful complexions. With no care of the skin other than soap and water, and no cosmetics whatever, Amish girls that more sophisticated young ladies might well envy. Is it the result of always wearing a sun- bonnet, or the healthful exercise they indulge in every day of their lives, or the eating of good food? Probably a combination of all three, Boys in their Sunday garbs sit on backless benches facing the tables. The young people have begun to use the small hymnal (Lieder Sammlunger) which employs "fast tunes" instead of the "slow" ones used in church. Some of the tunes are borrowed from American gospel songs. They have a special appeal when sung by fresh young voices. ' About ten o'clock the leader announces the "parting hymn," which is the signal for visitors to leave, and there are many roguish glances cast their way as the older folk take .their de- partuie, by invitation." -In-the pickings with-which-the- games start, the girls' pick the - boys and the boys pick the girls until rows of them, first a boy and then a girl, fill the benches, then they start to play the games their parents have handed down. Sooner or later they take time out for more hot drinks and cookies, or schnitz pie. It is the only really gay time _ of their lives, and with such simple, innocent fun they form the attachments that finally lead to marriage. To young people surfeited by television and movie ODD ONE ~ A new look in locomotives, The motor's on top, engineer underneath, It's ¢alled a "side-arm pusher" and was It was built fog pushing up to 50 cars at a coke plant in East Chicago, designed for over-all visibility. ---display a pink-cheeked-petfection--|- ~ "tetic Club meer. at Amish === i ; J BOSTON IN NEW YORK--Ralph Boston sails 26 feet 1% inches through the air in New York, to set a new indoor broad jump record at the New York Ath- romances, it would surely appear a tepid sort of courtship, with- out any protestations of love and longing. But this is not the case, It is only in keeping with the 'sort of lives they lead. Yet when courting takes place in a farm kitchen, where a coal fire is burning in the range, it is in all seriousness. "A girl has to sit up - vis a feHow-to-see if-she--cares-- for him," is the nearest anyone comes to using the word love, But when Amish couple marry, it is for life, Amish cooks make use of all the new foods which. appear in the grocery stores, especially if they are colorful. The manufac- , turers of gelatin desserts would be elated if' they could take color transparéncies of some of the glass compotes filled with layers of their products in all the 'colors of the rainbow that appear wedding feasts, for example, With such simple joys and peasurers, and labors that are Herculean by most standards, the Amish pass their days. To the thoughtless, it may seem bucolic and dull. But for sobriety, char- acter, mental health, marital stability, industriousness - and community responsibility, and an admirably peaceful way of life, they are without a peer, The test of any way of life must be "judged by one thing -- the end product. And for a shinging example of the Plain way, please to observe, the Amish People. Movie Stars Pay The Price -First it was Brigitte Bardot who made troubled headlines by trying to take her life, Calamity threatened a second film beauty when Elizabeth Taylor fell iil with a mysterious fever (which resulted, it turned out, from an abscessed tooth) 'in London, Last month, Marilyn Monroe's private world seemed to be reeling; she spent four days in Payne Whit- ney Psychiatric Clinic of New ~ York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, then checked into an- other Manhattan hospital. What was wrong with Marilyn? Her press agent would say only that she had been hospitalized "for a period of rest and recuperation following a very arduous year in "which she completed two films in rapid succession and in which she has had to face marital prob- lems." 'lar conclusion. sight _nor_sound of the intruder, BUOYANT BASE -- As a solution to the safe launching of huge chemical or nuclear-powered rockets of the future, a floating sea base has been proposed. It is called "PROP" (Planetary Rocket Ocean Platform). Drawing shows a 300-foot nuclear rocket ready for launching. The platform is well above the waves and is supported by an underwater buoyant chamber. A submarine is used to evacuate personnel through an air lock after a nuclear firing. PROP is designed to have good stability, even in a hurricane. Old Soldiers Never Die "A Complete Story by Nat Easton He was standing in the shedows of my porch in the middle of Dartmoor, pointing a gun at my stomach, A lean man with watch- "ful eyes, prominent Adam's ap- ple and an open mouth, His hairstyle probably had a special name: it swe is way and that, upwards, downwards and crosswise, in weird. and wonderful ways too fancy to hide under a hat. Wearing the rain- coat standard to these characters, he kept one hand in his pocket. The other held the gun. He didn't move, just said: "I'm glad you've come -- Nr Ayle- stone." : "I "don't "think I've: had the - pleasure," I began, but he cut me short with a jerk of the gun and a sudden change of stance "Let's go inside," he said jerk- ing the gun towards the interior of my home, T'd heard the crime wave was reaching out into the --country-notvadays but -for-the life--+|- of me couldn't see what it would want with a run-of-the-mill writ- er like me. "Inside, I said." His voice lost its laziness and. jumped to a snarl "of command. It came to me that this man as more than armed: he was unbalanced. Ranter, my twelve-year-old Alsatian, caught up with me at that momen and came to a simi- Liking neither he advanced, growling furiously. The gun must have been fit- ted with a silencer. It went off twice -- phut ... . phut, Ranter's growls, turned to a short yelping cough and he fell sideways, col- lar scaping the tiles. He' tried 'to turn his head back to look at me but never made it.- A spasm hit 'every part of him, then he lay still. I looked up, my hands curl- ing into fists. The man in the . porch was smiling. "Dogs," he said, "they're out "of -the-ark: Yqu didn't expect: to-= catch. me with: one of those things, surely? 1 did my soldier- ing in the paratroops, Mr. Ayle-- stone. We had to know how to shoot. How to jump to it." "Perhaps it sounds old-fash- joned to you," I rasped, "but some of us regard dogs as our best friends." : He stepped to one side, dismiss- ing the subject, and -waved mae angrily towards the door with the gun. I opened it and he fol- lowed me inside. My orderly house, product of a lifetime's selfsdiscipline, was in chaos. Books, bills, bedding, - pots, pans and vegetables -- all lay on the floor. Furniture had been 'overturned, pictures torn down, cushions slashed. "You seem to dislike me rather thoroughly," 1 said, pick- ing my way into the wreck of the lounge. "I can't think why." "We're coming to that," he said, His hand came olit of its pocket holding . some letters, "Recognize these?" He held them towards mie so that I could read the top envelope. <I tried to get nearer to him but a wave of the gun stopped me. "Of course," I said bewildered, but..." "But it wasn't nécessary to do all this to find them --- was that what you were going to say?" he barked. ¢ , I nodded, trying desperately to think how he could possibly be connected "with the letters. "The answer is no, it was not necessary, I did it because you had it coming to you -- Mr. Aylestone," ' 1 kept a tight hold on myself, righted a chair, sat down and got a pipe going. There was a lot of tension in the air. I had to lescen it somehow. "Suppose you introduce your- self," I suggested, between puffs "You know who 1 am, it seems.-- Who are you?" He remained standing. He was facing the window now and with the light on his face 1 could see that his eyes were light blue and he was older than I had thought~He was tough and un- predictable, "I-felt. A trigger- happy thug T'd have to handle with care, « "The name," he said dramatic- ~ ally, "is Murray, M-U-R-R-A-Y." He seemed to expect.a reaction, ac if this was a disclosure. "I'm sorry," I said politely; "should I know you?" a He blinked, then held up the letters. "D'you mean to say she did'nt tell you?" N . "Miss Carrington?" 1 inquired, "name as always)' "That's right, Sheila. She must have told you about me." "I'n¥ afraid not," I said coldly. "I'm her boy friend," he said. "Or rather, I was until you came along and took her away." I remembered then; this must be the man she'd befriended in London. He had been in some sort of trouble. Characteristically, she'd lent him a helping hand -- only to be misunderstood. The. fellow -- it must have been this Murray -- had made himself a nuisance. ; : Oddly, this was one of the reasons why Sheila and I had met. Three months ago, not wish- ing to put the police on to him and needing a change in any case, she had answered my ad- vertisement for a secretary. "Ah, yes, Mr. Murray," 1 said "with painstaking civility, "I think I've got you now." "On _the contrary, Mr. Ayle- stone, I think I've got vou -- --and---Sheila:**--~He flung up a wrist to consult a flashy, gold- strapped watch. "She'll be here in about ten minutes," he said. "You must be mistaken," I said, "Miss Carrington is away at her job." "She was -- until 1 used your 'phone." "What do you mean by that?" Despite the kid glove caution 'my heart skipping a beat at the i v I'd set myself, the question came out sharply. His smile was back again twisting his face into a leer. "I 'phoned her and pretendéd you'd had an accident. You should have heard her. Couldn't get her hat on fast enough." "Ingenious," I sald, "and may I ask what the idea of this meet- ing' 1s?" He looked t me unwinkingly for some fifteen seconds, then sald convincingly: "Why do you think? I'm golng to kill you both." It was eight minutes to five. Aceording to him, Sheila would be here in a few minutes. There wasn't much time, I thought, I dropped my matches deli- berately, and in picking them up, edged nearer to him. He moved back a step and chuckled. "No, you don't. Stay there." Murray chuckled again, mirth- lessly. "Think I've forgotten something, don't you? Sorry, but it's not that simple to get one over on me." "What's on your mind now?" "The dog. Think I've forgotten it and that it'll warn Sheila off, don't you?" At the point of the gun, .I cleared the porch. I'd have to bury poor old Ranter later -- if there was a later. Returning to the lounge, Mur- ray took up a position where he could watch both me and the door. As we waited he boasted how he'd traced Sheila and then me, how he'd planned the whole thing and how it was going to _ be staged as a suicide pact. He then went on to the story of his life, with a long chaptér on his experiences in the army. While he rambled. on I thought of Sheila. Within a few weeks of her arrival we had fallen in 'love, but I was fifteen years old- --er.and had {finally persuaded her to go away for a time and think it over. In the end, twenty-five long days ago, she had agreed to take the Exeter stand-in job for one month. We had not seen or heard trom each other since, according to the terms of our pact And now, here she was, riding full "tilt into this little set-up -- and all on account of me. I looked over at the clock. Five past five. Hope warned me suddenly: perhaps he was bluf- fing -- and then, out on. the roadway, I heard her scooter, -- "Smart little devil, aren't you?" I sneered, unable to con-_ trol my feelings further. He took me literally. "You had to be In my mob, Mr, Ayle- stone; Our sergeant-major had voice like a bullet and you h to be as quick yourself , . . ot else." i I_smiled knowingly, not dis sing the fact that I was a 4 soldier myself, having ih to the giddy rank of sergeant. major, t Iwas listening-to Sheila's foot gteps hurrying up the path. My heart was in my mouth when suddenly -- at the very moment she burst open the door and stood staring 'aghast at us -- an idea floated into. my mind. ~ "Darling," Sheila said an hour afterwards when the police car had departed, "what an ordeall You were terrific, absolutely ter- rific!" "I just had to find time to get * across the room to him," I ex- plained. "That was all it really amounted to." : "All! You give a bellow like a wild bull, the man snaps to attention, of all things. You fling yourself across. the. room and grab the gun, How on earth did you scare him like that, darling? What was it you shouted? "Why," I said, not without pride. "I simply took a "deep breath and roared, 'Squad, 'Ten shun!"" From "Tit-Bits." Stop Smoking -- Start Flirting! What's the best remedy for a middle-aged man who wants to take his mind off the. worlies of everyday life? That's easily one of the most popular ques- "tions asked of agony column ex- perts these days. The answer? In the view of a Leeds doctor, Dr. Alistair 'Mac- Kinnon, it is: "Don't smoke -- flirt!" - "People look upon smoking as a tranquilizer," he explains, "bug a healthier tranquilizer is that of having a platonic relationship with several women apart from the wife. . "If a man has other women friends he will love his wife more." Dr. MacKinnon's advice ap- plies only to middle-aged men. "I wouldn't regard flirtativn as an alternative to smoking for young men," he says. "That could be dangerous." You can prevent the heels of your socks from wearing out, when you wear rubber boots by rubbing a warm paraffin can- dle on the inside of each: boot heel, HEY! SOMETHING'S RA ii aati MISSING -- Fire fighters stand by in fmus- @ Ls 1 tration a¥ a home blazes away in Queens, N.Y. Heavy snow - stopped fire 'engines two blocks away, and hoses had to be carried to scene. Another house also was destroyed. # 3. 2 SOUTH AFRICA MINE DISASTER = Rescuers carry a body fro Roodenpoort gold mine, Johannesburg, South Africa. An 500 feet beneath the surface killed 30 woke. sn i ge AS Ae dd >. ¢ E SANTEE Teta ; Sit A CL rb Bm Ae NR a A Sg idl Sin wie the pit head of the South explosion of a half-ton of dynamite Shir sri niin RR