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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON 10 A TUESDAY. AUGUST 27. 1963 rsiNCE 1872 .T.TOP-CAJAUTY MERCHANDISE AT WARDS LOW PRICES! Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Regime and Tribune Syndicate- '.963) K&v&r-i l : i If f 1 r fe j IP Vi HORSESHOEING-Fairette Marilyn Sand- second week end of the Los Angeles Coun- ers, 19, of Covina, Calif., gets a "go ahead" ty Fair, the Palomino Exhibitors associa- with the horseshoeing bit from Palomino tion will show some of the world's finest Sac's Morrgold in Pomona Sunday. During palomino horses. (UPI) Rolling on the Floor New Adult Physical Fitness Book Allays West's Fear of Exercise were so poor Washington - MM - When I was but a toddler, my parents they had to take in boarders to make ends meet. This made the im i n g impres sion on me. It wasn't being poor that made th im pression, how ever. It was wst one of the boarders. Miss Hippie lo be exact. Miss Hippie was a school teacher and a woman of con siderable girth. Every night after supper she would go Into the living room and roll around on the floor. Some nights I would go in and roll around, too. Miss Hippie rolled around because she was trying to re duce. I rolled round because I just happened to like roll ing around. Gets Rolled Over Our living room floor was sort of canted and when Miss Hippie started rolling she sometimes had trouble stop ping. One night, quite acci dentally, she rolled over me. Childhood affects people in different ways. Some people who come from poor homes re obsessed with making money. I grew up with a mor bid fear of exercise. Being rolled over by Miss Hippie gave my psyche a permanent scar. Not to men tion what it did to my sil houette. After that night, whenever T saw anyone taking exercises it was all I could do to sup press a scream. Only recently have I been able to conquer the phobia. For this I give credit lo a new booklet published by President Kennedy's Council on Physical Fitness. Program Of Exercises Titled "Adult Physical Fit ness," the booklet presents a program of exercises in such a way "that even the elderly, the inactive and the over weight can perform them." A funny thing, though. In the photographic illustrations, the models who are demon strating the exercises are young, ebullient and svelte. Anyway, I took the booklet . home and turned to the page of warm-up exercises. They consisted nf 10 bend and stretches, 20 knee lifts, 20 wing stretches, 10 half knee bends, 30 arm circles and 20 body benders. That left me completely out of breath. I figured that if I got nut of breath just reading about , t h e exercises, there wasn't much point in doing them. So I got down on the floor and rolled around for awhile. It was like old times. Roll- . Ing was fun again. The book let had stripped away all of my inhibitions, This shows whnl exercise . as flabby as ever, but I'm can do for a person. I may be ' not afraid any more. Ants Refused A Drink And Set About To Foil Poisoner There they were, the dumb jerks - greedily drinking the poison brew. They were too stupid to know this was to be their last meal. I watched them gleefully. At last I was getting even with the little pests. Why hadn't someone told me before about this method? It was fun to watch them, knowing they were killing themselves right before my eyes. I gloried in their num bers, for ants were coming from every direction to drink of the poison. 1 hadn't realized until now how many there were ... it must have been hundreds. This story was told by a gentleman who had been having ant trouble. At the question, "Did you get rid of them?" he shook his head and answered, "Well, no, I think there was something fishy there, for I have just as many as before, and I don't know exactly why." "I'll tell you what happen ed," he continued. "I was told to put this poison - a sweet-smelling, syrupy liquid - in empty bottle caps. 1 got the bottle caps, punched sev eral holes in my thumb re moving the corks, but I didn't mind because getting even with the ants would be worth some pain. "I put the bottle caps along the edge of my driveway about two yards apart, and filled each cap with the poison. When I finished, I went back to the first cap 1 had filled and there they were - a dozen of the little pests drinking the liquid. Who Is Smartest? "I walked along the row of bottle caps; there were ants drinking at every one of them. I gloried in their stu pidity; I would show them who was the smartest. "Finally I got tired of watching and I went into the house and took a nap. "A couple of hours later I thought maybe I had better fill the bottle caps again. The dumb ants must have emptied all of them by this time. By replenishing the poison I could complete the killing. "But that's when I noticed something fishy; Every one of those bottle caps was full of sand, small sticks and bits of leaf. Lively As Ever The wind wasn't blowing and there wasn't a child in sight. So, I asked myself, how did the caps get full? I found the answer in one of the last caps I had filled. There seemed to be as many ants as ever running around, and they were supposed to be dead. "Then I saw the little monsters carrying grains of sand, small sticks and bits of leaves, and dumping them into the caps. They filled them full, right up to the top rim, and then scurried away just as lively as ever. "They had completely fill ed to overflowing every sin gle one of those caps. Other ants were coming along all the time, but they didn't stop to sip at the wet sand. They merely ran over the top. Not a one acted the least bit sick or indisposed. 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