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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1956)
o O cO O o o O o o O On o o O O o J O w O O o - - o TKtnrOJ!D(OHEGOI MAIL TR!B&i-rrNE Friday. Doom bet , o Men, We Got a Racket! Bont' Take Over Chores of the Little Woman Around Home o O By OTTO E. STRUM United Press Correspondent New-York U P M m, I hate W ..i. t... ... .... around but we've got a racket. V.'hSu the little woman mur murs "WoSan'j "work is never done" take ier word lor it. If she 5aXs "A.ny iime you want to "stay home nd take care of the house aod'irt me go to work etc. c3run,udon V wtlk, to the nearer eit. GO cWhat fivcic me the authority G to dishaaut this advice? My wife Mag's br&feen arm. that's what. GO I had soma .vacation coming .hen Mag had her rnisnap ar.d decided to ta it then. That was the end of 20 years of ijlissfui ignorance of what the other half G a o j Is TMSo? j of the marriage contract does for a living. Jly housemaid's knee and dish : pan hands will go away, I sup I pose. But will I ever be the ame i again? I don't know. I just don't ! know. Take Carol's braids, for in stance. Carol, 7, unlike ' Albert, 12, likes to fo to school. But to go to school, she had to have her long brown hair braided. Sop Splicer Men. do you know what it is O Euqtn. 8urns RMOir-Nituralirt ,G o ao O o 0 Or Flari are far from humdrum, thei unexpected marvels startle the Jmagmatioa, For example, did you know -that thera is a fish which shooU its victim out Cof the trees? Anntiier that has a gizzard, mtoh like a bird's? One that can walk overland? Another that Weeds its young in the mouthg o o To begin: tl rur?Ion along thecsouthern California beeches is regularly caught with the bare handa-on land, yet! During the bigh tides of summer this fish comes out of the ocean to lay its egg high lap in the sand. The eggs remain in the moist sand until the next series of extra high tides when they are 'un covered. Then within a couple of B&lnUes. the young halch and are carried nut to by the next high wavij, A marvelous adjust merjt, and exact timing' CTlie striped mullet has a giz zard, erjC similar to that found in birds, where its plant food is Qgrount Up by the action of thick mttscslar walls covered inside with a hnrny lining. In addition. Its intestine, is extraordinarily Inag for a D?h and coilftd. permit ting Omore complete digestion ar4 absorption. G c The arc'ner fuh shoots down Insects from branches with welf directed missiles water bullets. Swimming near the surface, the arphersights. its prey and takes careful aim" and lets fly a squirt of water" drnps from its mouth. O What'a more." up to distances of foutieet otit nf water, tlie archer, j- Qs almost 100 per cent accurate. 0 IrKe specimens, up to 10 inches long, car, squirt .water "bullets" G up W 12 feet. c .- , ""The climbing prch of South tea"stTh Asiacan not only live out of water for a day but can q;iso travel overland dv extend ing theirrt-ill covert out to the side. Wi!h t!fe.0 they hobble aloax as or? crutches, covering rbout 300 feet in 30 Tninutes. As q "its nameQaiplies, it-can climb trees . . . But seldom does so. , C o n s i d-e r tor complicated horrjeiffeg of the fish-pecked blk-chiiined mouth-breeder. In (Jt courtsriip tfsually attributed to higher animals, mate and female nod their 3a.'iii, puff out their throats, quiver? chase, nip, slap each othfflf with their tails the '-female ususlly taking the ag CgressivC, u Then s spawning approaches, a nest is scooped out of the sand. Shortly after the female lays her SO r so large eags. the male fer tilizes theig and then picks them q q up with his mouth. If he inclined O oQdelay, he femnle nips him iolnUy, and slaps him vigor O ously with her. tail. If he is a 3 -0 small Wiale witii a small mouth and eggs are left over, she will take them into t)cr mouth. Gen O erally the g hatch in a matter ol fivf days t)ux the young are retained in the mouth up to two weeks longer. Once they are re- lensed thecares of parenthood ,-aie over, and rlha adults have SQq their first food, perhap, in three weeks. n o OH our Pacific Coast, the sea ' -r" . ,i. T . percn oes m young anve. in fact the yiaung of the shiner ea Q-petiti are bora in such an ad vanced state of maturity that within two daysDof birth Ihe young malfe are courttnf acd mating! 0o Most animals may pause and rest) syietimes but not so the adult Atlantic nckerel. Should it stop swimming iP would suf-. focate for it requires a contin uous flow of fresh waer to keep its blood supplied with oxygen.. During Gthe day. he ASantic mackerel Ravels in schools num bering in tnousands: drrins; dark nights, these schools break up. (Copyright 1956. by a Eugene Burns) (Released by McClura News paper Sftidicale) 0 G O o to braid a little girl's- hair for i the- first time?- It's appalling, 'that's what it. is. Unless, maybe, ! you happen to be a rope splicer. Well, while Mag directed and Carol screamed and Albert laughed, I did my fumble-finger-i ed best. The finished product, when I finally put the clips on the pigtals and breathed again, was :pretty sad. .' After a few days of this, and expecting a note irom Carol's teacher saying something about child neglect, I stepped into a ; neighborhood barber shop and ' said "Joe, could you cut my little ' girl's hair?" He could and he did and everybody was happy. Odd Jobs The braids were the most dramatic, but only a small part of my blitz education- in male housewifery. Under Mag's sup ervision; I make breakfast, fixed the kids' lunch,, drove them to school, did the dishes, picked up the kids' wreckage of the night before, made beds (you "just pull 'cm together" when in a hurry), fixed lunch, more dishes, went to stores, got the kids from school, fixed dinner, cajoled and browbeat the kids into doing their homework and taking baths, more dishes, etc. After a few days, Mag tried working the washing machine one-handed. That added hanging wash to my. accomplishments. Extra Cleaning Days I learned we have extra-clean ing days at bur housa every week. Thursday, the kitchen, bathroom and back porch floors are- scrubbed rather tban given a lick and promise. Friday is general vacuuming day when the furniture is moved and you find the apple cores and candy wrap pers discarded by the kids while watching television. 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