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TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1938.
WORKER WONDERS
"WHY?"
M. Paul van Zeeland, one-time Belgian Prime Minister, and first-class economist, has been
lives by feeding on them- selves; minute vegetable organisms developing at the rate of less than an ounce in 100 years-such are just a few of the marvels of
I have seen nursery Laindon, Essex.
PLANTS GO
Any preconceived ideas one may have about the enctus and
its botanic relatives are quickly upset here.
Three 6-inch spines of the cient to catch a shark, and they echino cactus emoryi are sufli-
MAD
The animal world
has some
strange creatures, but for monsters take a look at the plant world
are actually used for that pur- the seeds of a given plant will a pose by South American natives, who say that an echino hook will at
hold when a steel book would break.
Its owner is Mr. T. M. Endean and, in a way, he is something of a marvel himself.
**
Enthusiasts for cacti and suc-
their at-
reproduce the characteristics of culent plants divide the parent
form. The new tractions under four heads- plants may be so fantastically quaintness of form, symmetry different in outward appearance of form, beauty of flower, benuty that only a botanist, can ascer- of foliage. tain the genus.
On the other hand there are cacti with spines as soft us silk And what would you make of The loveliest flowers are and nearly as fine as gossamer. a plant the leaves of which only those whose life is briefest; His story, covering 50 years Climbing over the greenhouse hold to the stem by suction? and how lovely and how brief studying world economic ills of cactus and succulent plant staging is a plant resembling an Such is the crassula conpuncia, may be judged by the cercus the pro- old-fashioned English clematis. looking for all the world like family, on which one single per- growing, illuminates with a view to suggesting to res-
the same row of buttons threaded Of 21 gress of a working-class lack. But it's a cactus all
fect annual bloom with petals ponsible governments methods.
only leaved kind string. The "buttons" ney boy from crippledom and and is the
cu like a glowing silk fringe, ap for curing the complaints. This blindness to a position unique in
known.
actually be turned round and pears for seven hours only. At Another strange succulent in round on the stem. There is no will delight the wizards of the world of botany.
the Endean collection is an direct union, yet they continue even in the evening it is opened; by two in the morning finance and the worshippers of
echevaria, 40 years old and 3 to grow. abstruse economic theories, and To-day, towards the end of a inches high, which in its true There are plants which mimic it is gone. This flower grows on will leave the humble worker life which his has been, a can- form is an exact replica of a wolves' and tigers' mouths, height-foot plant.
At the other extreme I Saw stant fight with illness, Thomas bishop's mitre, but may just as with canine and feline "teeth." cold. While the leaders of in-Endean is still, by practical easily take the shape of a pile
There is a plant, not a cactus, succulent plants no bigger than dustry-commerce-and-finance stiutdards, a poor man, but his of haricot-beans-if-you-can-which-so-perfectly-counterfeits peas, throwing up violet coloured
In this form it able therefrom, except by botanists from every continent. points on them.
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. lick their tips and bare their greenhouse is Mecca for imagine haricot beans with that plant as to be indistinguish blooms, an inch across
teeth ready to rend in pieces It is believed to contain the finest is known as a refractory platit, perts. This is the euphorbin, bloom for a fortnight. M. van Zeeland's eure for general collection of cacti and one which has probably thrown filled with a milk-like fluid which economic ills, the worker will other succulents in the world. back" to the form of an ancestor, is deadly poison. Natives
on spearheads Only rarely can the cactus and ploy it try to go on working, pausing In 1933 this working-man's only to wonder why, in this so- nursery was the means of re- succulent grower be sure that arrows. establishing 37 varieties of suc-AINE called civilised world, his home culent plants in their native
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But it is in foliage that the em- succulent plant is unchalleng- and ably supreme. The best speci- mens in the Endean collection are breath-stopping in their perfection of pure form and colour harmony,
and family should he daily African habitat from which they THE GAME OF YOUTH
threatened by war, unemploy-unknown elsewhere in the world. had long vanished. They were ment, civil strife, loss of per-
sonal freedom, religious per-
It has long been insisted that
will do they too
cover
Beauty at the Neckline
takes
Light, playing on the natural wax coating of the plant, pro- of duces infinite gradations radiant metallic colour, running secution, and the rest of the was a complete failure. The THE most interesting game all at the same time work in a good cold alike through tall tongue-like women play to-day is the game cream, still employing the upward leaves or miniature rosettes, ac- movement with your finger-ups. cording to the nature of the depressing daily concomitants W.E.C. demanded sacrifices; and of youth.
-Frequent treatment with sulinble which comprise the "Twentieth so it failed. M. van Zeeland's There are many, however, who are
In this section nature Century Blues".
suggestions will almost certainly playing it in a haphazard manner pil is good for those necks which have plant, and changing subtly in
which gives them away as amateurs been hally neglected, and in con- every inch of surface.
A teaspoonful of pure involve sacrifices, and if they who have not mastered all the rules, sequence have developed scraggy
Se contours. A few of these they kusw and observe olive oil added to the daily diet up the challenge of art and beats be doomed!
faithfully: others they seem to re- intelligent public opinion alone to similar fate. Опе
finds gard as unimportant, but they console Rood when this can be taken. Mas it by a mile. I commend it to themselves with the thought that insage with warned almond oil is ex- the attention of modern interior
trealment for a thin and decorators. can save democracy. The con-
the same story with
the spite of their slipshed munner, they cellent
wrinkled neck. Steam the neck be-
* tribution of the intelligentsia
will be regarded as quite good players, fore commencing treatment, and work disarmament conferences, and]
ntly with firm upward are the oil gently
To what grout age will a suc- thwards the moulding of this
In short, too many women
knows. obversely one can easily dis-
playing this great gime with their movements. Finish off by sponging opinion has been the presenta-
the
There is a plant at Laindon- reason for the suc-faces only, and while a well-cared-with very cold water to which the culent grow? No one.
lemon has been added. for and well-made-up complexion; | Juice of
the anacampsus ustulata- tion of political, social, economic
cess of the Ottawa Conference.
youthful, curling lashes; a firm con- Simple Exercises
which is 3-inches high and 100 Land financial theories, so in-
tour and the complete absence of trium-
Every volved and complex that they Perhaps Mr. H. G. Wells and wrinkles muy
phantly through the early rounds, the in her appearance and wants to keep years old; and still it grows. It severed the ranks of their pro-his "Open Conspirators" are day is not too far distant when the firm and supple neckline must weighs perhaps an ounce.
There is a echino cactus,
obvious, for tagonists and left the worker Utopian, and maybe pacifists major faults of the play will be devote a few minutes every day to the necks they have these simple exercises. A good one begging for a statement of faith are cowards if judged by certain given scant attention to while they is to throw the head backwards, then needing two men to lift it, 130
gave unremitting care to their faces, bring it forward until the chin touches years, old. And there is that will break the spell of illusion.
leuchtenbergia, one of the few and action which he can com- values, but it does seem
Another is to make the neck take in the world, which was. old prchend. The world, having both have hit upon a funda-; It is extraordinary, yet an un-
which the when Shakespeare died, without any asistance built up its gigantic and be-mental demand for the creation disputed fact that very few necks and the whole strain of the movement
shoulders. Each day, look over your may have been growing on wildering systems, is now de-of a saner, happier world, when Regular Attention
shoulder a dozen times, without mov- South American bank in the which still feated by its own creeds, and they emphasise the need for-a! A great many women never given your body in any way; this must days of the Incas,
be done
slowly and deliberately. blooma
500 years, Mr. If your neck has a crepe-like skin and this must be massaged gently in, are compressed into the 34- to discover the solution through ship with man. This restate-ant neglected appearance. The op- you need a good tissue building oll, Endean moderately computes, national cures, camouflaged in ment appears to call for the pearance ports of the year when at least, twice a day whenever pos inch height of its base, to
aible-circulor massage.movements, international trappings.
subordination of self in the furs and heavy coats are worn, but
the masses-in a bleaching pack to your It is quite possible that M. interests of
Our present- van Zeeland's proposals, when short, sacrifices.
carry them
faces really match.
left floundering in its attempts restatement of man's relation- their necks any regular attention with skin-food or massage, with the result-
ing those months
the chest.
woman who takes a pride
from
IL
A
A few minutes musinge with a good which cach new spike thrown It is wise to make a habit of applying
neck at quality skin-food every night along up at the crown eventually adds regular intervals throughout the year. with the simple head-turning exer-n layer of tissue-paper thick-
heye cizes given above, done regularly These can be purchased already bring your neglected neck into a con-ess. Each spike-five appear they are made known, will go day systems would have no made up in a tube, and twice a week dition matching the school girl com- year-takes twenty to thirty "Do you wonder," asked my 50 if the contrast between neck and Take care to work all cream into a very long way towards the truck with such sentiment, yet is not too often to apply, especially plexion of your well-cared-for face. years to die. alleviation of existing distress. until the nations comprehend face is so obvious. First, open the your skin, any that is not absorbed pain-racked remarkable guide,.
removed, for unless must be carefully pores of the skin by wringing out a realistically- the vital necessity of this basic small towel in hot water, and hold your skin is allowed to breathe freely "that I have given my life to minded will recall that the creed, one fears, that, M. Paul this round your neck for a minute it will inevitably take on a dull life my plants?"
or two, then spread the bleaching Lean look, then all your regular exer- World Economic Conference van Zeoland's great efforts will paste on freely and leave till it sets claes and massage treatment will have
hot water, using only upward strokes, held out just as much hope and have been made in vain.-S.A.G. dry and firm. Then, rinse off will gone for nothing.
But the more
C. R.
Stanley Baron
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