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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 06, 1950
Page
3
Officials in Perth Western Australia report Mrs S Cook as the world's most perfect mother with nine children eight sons and a daughter born effortlessly. Doctors note her calm births and routines could aid pre natal care while a London midwife calls the case remarkable but says true drug free ease remains unlikely.
The column notes recommended daily servings including potatoes and leafy vegetables. It adds social remarks about women's roles and contrasts reactions to mothers brides and widows. It ends with a warning to protect all foods from flies to prevent disease.
A nostalgic digest presents a short story writer and wife trimming weight by eating more of nonfat foods like cottage cheese. It includes a detailed cottage cheese making method with pasteurized milk, a cottage cheese cake recipe, and a crumbled crust, plus a Dutch lettuce salad with bacon fat dressing.
The piece urges gradual introduction of new plants yearly to keep gardening interesting. It highlights hardier varieties now able to grow in Canada and suggests trying borecole Brussels sprouts Chinese cabbage endive watermelons Swiss chard peppers eggplants and herbs. It notes ongoing plant improvement and the endless list of improved flowers. Tender plants should be started now.
The text lists frost sensitive plants including dahlias gladioli petunias and other soft-stemmed flowers plus tomatoes peppers eggplants squash melons and pumpkins. It notes light frost may injure them and advises planting seeds and bulbs 1 0 10 days before last frost while noting warm soil and air are needed for growth. Cucumbers melons squash are usually grown in hills with rotted manure and well-drained soil for sun absorption.
Two American psychologists Dr. Buswell and Professor W. B. Clark propose reading lines alternately from left to right and right to left to reduce eye strain and eye movement. Their machine eye-testing suggests this zigzag reading costs more time and effort than the proposed method.
The UK research ship Discovery TL embarks on a nearly two year voyage with 56 crew and scientists to study currents, water masses, temperatures, and the movements of whales seals fish and birds. The expedition will operate mainly in the Indian Australian and Pacific Southern Ocean zones between subtropical waters and pack ice.
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