The timid rise to courage in crisis and elephants prove bold
A fragment compares human behavior under pressure with animal instinct. It suggests the weak or timid often show unexpected courage and calm, while the stereotyped tough man may panic. The analogy begins with elephants, implying similar contrasts in reaction to danger.
Try and Stop Me! Bennett Cerf anecdotes and Munich elephant panic
A collage of snippets includes a fatigued boxer asked to speak after a brutal round, college mates debating keeping up with Joneses and Rockefellers, a pastor’s small salary versus offers, a Wisconsin band mishap, and Munich 1585 elephant panic triggered by a dragon steam engine. The panic injures bystanders as elephants bolt through streets and courtyards.
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Carl Hagenbeck
Canada Food Rules Outline Basic Diet
The article stresses good nutrition as essential to health and lists a balanced diet as the best defense against disease. It urges meals with varied foods to supply protein minerals and vitamins and notes Canada's Food Rules provide a basic framework for children and adults.
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Canada
Greenland Could Split Into Three Undersea Regions
Studies suggest Greenland may consist of at least three major undersea parts defined by canyons carved below the ocean floor by ancient glaciers.
Hem Rod Tablet Piles Relief Ad
An advertisement touts Hem Rod Tablets for swollen painful piles claiming internal action. It promises quick relief from itching soreness and constipation and urges daily use two to three times with water. The copy offers a money back refund and states availability in drug stores at low cost.
Ostrich fern description and growth habits
The fertile fronds of the ostrich fern resemble an os trich plume. The sterile fronds sometimes reach 10 feet in height, with the plant forming a vase like clump.
Drownings claim thousands yearly in Canada
Dr. Gordon Bates of the Health League of Canada warns that over a thousand Canadians die annually in drownings and urges strict safety and ongoing artificial respiration. He notes long submersion does not preclude revival and stresses that death signs are unreliable in drowning cases.
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Toronto
Canada
Gordon Bates
Health League of Canada
Health Magazine
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Dr. Bates
Using outer lettuce leaves and beet tops in meals
Valuable outer leaves from lettuce and cabbage should not be discarded as they contain vitamins and minerals. Use outer lettuce leaves and cabbage in soups or shredded for salads. Beet tops offer a strong substitute for other greens in cooking.
Pattern Shop Offers Wood Grille Designs and Half Size Patterns
The article describes a pine jig sawed grille design 12 by 6 inches used in balustrades and columns with repeats and actual-size tracing patterns. Pattern 396 shows doors windows gates and fences, available by mail for 35 cents. Home Workshop Patterns package price and free catalogue offered by Vancouver based Be sure to send size name address and pattern number with payment.
Maternity Top Pattern Offer With Iron-On Motifs
Advertises Pattern 7036 for maternity tops in misses sizes 10 12 and 14 16 with a novel neckline pockets and washable iron on motifs in blue yellow and green. Enticing readers to mail twenty five cents in coins to obtain the pattern by mail.
Free 1956 Alice Brooks Needlecraft patterns offer
Household Arts Department promotes two free patterns from the new 1956 Alice Brooks Needlecraft book. Stunning home designs. dozens more patterns available to order. Readers urged to send 29 cents for the book copy.
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Alice Brooks
Fashion scarves surge in Britain with global appeal
British manufacturers unveil mohair scarves and new Lamora head square at the Handkerchiefs and Scarves Trade Fair. A Scottish firm offers 56 shades and exports 80 percent of its production, with a 500 percent rise in two years. The Lamora combines water repellent wool with a color rich head scarf design.
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United Kingdom
London
Tracing origin of Japanese seen as difficult task for researchers
Reuters reports that Japanese scholars, freed from the emperor divine theory after World War II, debate origins of the Japanese people. Oka of Tokyo University cites four schools of thought and notes Ainu distinctness, with debates on Mongoloid links and possible southern Malayan roots.
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Brian Kennedy
Reuters News Agency
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Oka
Manchuria
Korea
Malaya
Indonesia
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