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Bin, Gur
By William J. Robbins Jr.
In checking back through my cal-
ender of activities for the past two
_ years, I find that my vegetable gar-
den program is just fifteen days
ahead of schedule.
To date I find growing in said
patch, 1 row of leaf lettuce, 1 row
red radishes, 1 row icicle radishes, 1
row jcarrots, 1 row beets, 1 row
purple top tumips, 1 row onions, 2
rows peas, 1 row early cabbage.
Corn planted over the weekend con-
sists of three varieties 56 day golden
bantam, 70 day marcross, and 88
day golden cross.
A serious mistake made in pre-
vious years shall be eliminafted this’
season. Tomatoes, pencil pod wax
beans, mangoes, egg plant, and caul-
iflower will be installed on June 1st,
after all danger of frost.. To play
nurse-maid to vegetable “plants is:
definitely out. The tasks of planting
and oultivation are laborious enough
without mmnning out each chilly
night with covers for the above
mentioned.
The rock and other Tower gardens
on the plot are also due for a gen-.
enal clean-up, Years have ‘slipped by
with out too much attention being
given to these. Perhaps ithe trips I
have made down to-the Moss home
on 'Carverton road has caused this
incentive to build up inside me.
Several years ago when Gertrude
and Bill Moss moved into their pre-
sent home, little did we :of the
neighborhood think that in a short
time their efforts would convert the
site into such a show-place. The
first change noted was house re-
modeling, and this I felt sure would
terminate their efforts. Not so, for
the following year a truck started
hauling top soil into the yard. This
was the crux. No, not so, for after
the soil was leveled off I saw gar-
dens begin to form and painted jugs.|.
in brilliant colors sprout mp all over
- the place. An addition to-the garage
might be classified as an open air
living room.
Flowers galore.; Tulips, daffodils,
primula veris, and many new types.
Some that have only been on the
market a few wyears. All kinds of
; flowering shrubs. Borders not
of sum, but hardy everbearing
strawberries.
If one desires to visit these most
gracious ‘people there is a hand of
welcome extended. A ‘word of warn-
ing is, that you won't find them all
and
eather
no doubt will be in blue jeans, down
on her knees, cultivating, while Bill
might be wearing a pair of old trou-
sers so stiff with paint, they would
stand alone, but very busy mixing
top soil, peat moss, lime, 5-10-5,
bone meal, and sheep manure for
the garden, and if you don’t know
him, you might mistake him for the
hired man, (which they don’t have).
The. welcome sign has also been
hung out for the birds, for the usual
array of coops can be found about
the place. I might add here, that I
am just a little envious for they
have nesting in one coop a pair of
tree swallows. Last year when these
beauties came to my home I vowed
to build a coop that would be attrac-
tive to them. This did not material-
ize, but I am glad they found secur-
ity in the Moss yard.’
Although. Gert has the usual
amout of house work, and Bill
spends eight to fourteen hours a day
in his office at the [Sherwin-Williams
paint store in Wilkes-Barre, they
still find time to keep their mini-
ature estate in spick and span shape.
You might see them in the yard at
six in the morning, and now that we
have DIS.T. at nine in, the evening.
We who love flowers and Nature
are glad of neighbors like these for
.| they are just what we need to keep
up interest in things beautiful. As
for me personally, I make the public
admission, that it took two gracious,
middle-aged people to awaken me to
exerting my every effort to nurture
that which I have, and replace that
which I lost during my dormant
state.
To Gert and Bill,——THANKS.
Jack Richardson Heads
Penna. Dodge Dealers
At a recent meeting of the Dodge
Dealers’ Association of [Pennsyl-
vania held at the Hazleton Country
Club, Jack: Richardson, local Dodge
dealer, was elected president. Jack,
who has been a Dodge dealer since
1938, has served as secretary and
treasurer of the Association for the
past two years.
Leon Uhl of General Auto Com-
pany, Wilkes-Barre, was chosen new
secretary-treasurer and Irving Todd
of Todd Motors, Hazleton, delegate
to the New York Resto Confer-
THE POST, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1952
The Dolphin
Dolphin
It is a thrilling sight, on a deep-
sea fishing trip, to watch a Dolphin
in a three-way race with a flying
fish and a giant marlin. At the
start, the flying fish is in the lead,
gracefully leaping through the air.
Holding second place is the swift
Dolphin, and not far behind the
marlin cuts through the water.
All three are fast swimmers, so
the outcome is in doubt. But there
is a good chance that the Dolphin
will win a double victory, His
first triumph comes when he
catches and eats the flying fish.
His second victory is won when
he speeds away from the jaws of
the hungary marlin.
When chasing his favorite food,
the Dolphin clings close to the wa-
ter, burrowing through the waves.
At other times, he hurdles through
the air in short leaps.
From these quick glimpses, it
can be seen that the Dolphin is a
fish of changing colors. The Nat-
ional Wildlife Federation says that
the main ones are green, yellow,
and blue.
There are times when the yellow
and green form a background for
patches of blue, purple, and green
spots. At other moments, the Dol-
phin appears to be dark blue with
silvery splotches. The many chan-
ges in color make it one of the
most beautiful of all fish.
The Dolphin’s shape is attrac-
tive, too. Its head is high, and its
body tapers toward the tail. Just
back of its head is the beginning
of a long fin that starts out tall
and slopes to a narrow point near
the tail. Underneath its body is
another fin which is about the
same shape and length.
The average Dolphin weighs 25
pounds, and the largest one ever
caught on light tackle tipped the
scales at 67% pounds. So among
game fish of the ocean, it ranks as
a small variety.
The. National Wildlife Federation
reports that Dolphins are found in
spruced up in fine toggery. Gert
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SAFETY VALVE
IMPRESSIONS OF BELGIUM
Dear Friends:
After seven pleasant months in
Belgium, I would like to put my
impressions together and give you
a picture of the country as I have
seen it. You can find out all about
its histroy and geography in books;
let me tell you that it is a nation
about the size of the state of Mary-
land which administers with vision,
sympathy and a sense of responsi-
bility a colony eighty times as large
as itself, Located in @ strategic spot
between, Germany and France, it
has suffered invasion and occupa-
tion twice in the last generation.
The quality which has impressed me
the most in the Belgians’ reaction
to disaster is their quiet attitude of
“business as usual” or as they say
in Flemish, ‘“Winke] is open”. Only
seven, years ago it was raining V2
bombs in Antwerp, but “Winkel was
open’ all the time as usual. Today
you will search in vain for spectacu-
lar bomb ruins, but the evidence is
here: in America a raw new facade
is mot an unusual sight, but in
Belgium a building does mot bum,
crumble, nor fall down—{for the first
few centuries at least—and a person
house just because he is tired of
its looks. No, those shiny modern
structures you see in downtown An-
twerp among the oh-so-solidly re-
spectable stone or brick fronts mean
thiat there have been high explosives
at work.
But come with me on an, average
day and see Antwerp for yourself.
Hop on the back of my good Belgian
bicycle, but hang on tight, for these
brick-shaped paving ‘stones are a
little rough until we reach the bike
path. It is nine o'clock and the
world is wide awake. The friendly
“facteur” has been by with the
morning mail an hour ago. The milk-
man is coming around, pedalling his
three-wheeled bike which carries a
triangular rack of bottled “Melkery
melk.” There may be a farmer far-
ther on with a can and a dipper—
this type of milk is boiled and used
in cooking. Then there is the baker
boy with his bicycle and tray full
of unwrapped, hard-crusted loaves;
this bread is good, believe me: firm,
tasty, full of natunal vitamins, even
if it is touched by human hands and
you slice it yourself,
There are all kinds of two-wheel-
ed carts: a carpenter or mason pul-
ling one containing his tools and
materials; a woman collecting rags
and bones, singing out her signal in
a strident tone; the fish man tooting
his horn. Antwerp is flat; in Brus-
sells, where the streets are often
hilly, a dog is harnessed beneath
the carts to help the owner pull.
The bicyclists are numerous and
experienced: there goes a delivery
boy with a big pane of glass under
his arm, we just passed a dignified
elderly gentleman in an impeccably
neat black hat and overcoat; some
of the working men are pedalling in
wooden shoes or in the felt slippers
they will wear in their wooden shoes
when they get to work: their labor
no doubt involves puddling around
in damp ditches or sand and gravel
—wooden shoes are wonderful for
that. A physical handicap doesn’t
‘slow down a Belgian much: hand-
operated invalid chairs are often
seen in the midst of the traffic, and
there's a man who rests his peg leg
in a cup on one side of his bike and
pedals with the good leg. But don’t
think Belgium is all carts and
wooden, shoes by any means. (Cars
and trucks well out-number the
bikes: the majority are American
makes, but there are also many
small European models such as Cit-
roen, Renault and Opel.
Let's notice the people who aren’t
in or on vehicles, The housewives
are emerging for their morning
shopping. No, that woman didn’t
forget her shoes: bedroom slippers
are a favorite footgear, even for
going to town in the tram (trolley
or streetcar to you). Other women,
are busy opening up their shops and
washing down the sidewalk. I don’t
mean. half-heartedly tossing a buc-
ket of water out the door either.
When a Belgian woman washes a
sidewalk, she puts on wooden shoes
or rubber galoshes land attacks with
a big brush.
You will notice right away that
small specialized businesses abound.
You go one place for meat, another
for vegetables, another for medi-
cines (no soda fountain!) [Chain
stores are few and far between. It’s
usually the wife who runs the little
store while her husband goes to
work somewhere else. She emerges
from her home at the back of the
store and greets you with a smile;
you hasten to say “Bonjour” to
establish which language you are
using. Don’t be surprised if she an-
swers you in English! Whatever she
speaks, she will be very friendly and
make remarks about the weather
and ask where you're from and how
wou like Belgium. It's quite a process
to get out the door again. “Merci,
Mademoiselle,” ‘Merci, Madame”,
,Au revoir Mademoiselle,” —Some-
day I must count how many ex-
changes of politeness you can run it
up to before you are outside! Down-
town you can buy anything you
want in “Au Bon Marches”, “In-
novation”—if it weren't for ‘the
does not renovate the front of his|
Nothing much has happened sense the last ritin! Sunday morn-
ing the dreadnaught and I load the barrel of bolts with a long
handled shovel, a pick, some miscellaneous garden instruments and
a couple of bushel baskets and head over the hills and down the
river for Briggsville where her sturdy ancestors sleep. unmolested in
the quiet cemetery beside the union church. :
Something stirs within the dreadnaught—like the day before
the opening of bass season—and a spring morning or an autumn
afternoon we must head for that spot high above the rolling farm-
land where she spent some of her happiest childhood days.
I ain’t one that terries long in graveyards, specially after dusk,
but if there is one where I could sit alone and watch a sunset give
way to darkness it is at Briggsville.
There the soft breeze on the hottest summer day stirs through
the pious arbor vitae, and there blue birds nest in the hollow ma-
ples, while a score of other songsters trill from the thickets where
unkempt graves of another generation sink below the creeping myr-
- tle or are hidden by a blanket of iris.
Until last year when a high wind swept across the hill top and
uprooted most of the trees in the older section, Briggsville was
separated into two burial grounds.
That surrounding the brick church where thrifty lot owners had :
established perpetual care and orderly tombstones stood in neat rows
on a carpet of closely cropped grass, and that, where released from
the touch of civilization, sumacs, second growth birches and maples,
untended tiger lilies and iris concealed the marble and granite mar-
kers of those whose sons and daughters have long since passed on.
Now I have no crow to pick with those who would like to hear
the click of a lawnmower above their last resting place, but as for
me I'd take the song of a woodthrush in the tangled thickets above
the creeping myrtle, the iris and tiger lilies, and let the world re-
member me for a thought I'd left in the mind of a friend or child,
rather than by a pretentious monument surrounded by perpetual
care.
And so it is Sunday while the dreadnaught is stirring up the
earth around the rhododendron and young dogwood and filling the
bushel baskets with the broken twigs of winter, that I flush a blue
bird from her sunny nest in a maple whose top was blown off by last
summer’s wind—and I wonder maybe—if some of her ancestors
didn’t hear the flutter of those wings better’n the click of a busy
lawnmower.
I wish some of you folks could a been along. Maybe you’d have
liked it, too.
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