M.M.S. Magazine - December 1956


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MMS Magazine 1956
THE MILKING MACHINE.

The milking machine is a very important thing to a dairy farmer.
The machine is driven by electricity. There is a metal pipe leading from the machine right along the mistle. About every stand there is a tap. When you have fixed the rubber air pipe on to the metal pipe you switch the tap on, which lets the sucking air through into the cup. When you have put the machine on the cow, the machine sucks away at the cow's teat and draws the milk. When the cow has finished, you switch the tap off and pull the machine off the cow. Then you take the lid off and pour the milk into the cooler.

A. BARKER, FORM 1A.

 

THE BLACKBIRD.

The blackbird, as its name denotes, is jet-black over the whole of his body, wings and tail. The beak, which is an inch long, is of a brilliant yellow, showing markedly against its sable plumage; the eyelids are also of the same brilliant yellow, surrounding a bright full brown eye. The length is about ten inches. The tail is long and slightly rounded. The legs and toes are dusky brown. The female differs considerably from the male; she is darkish brown on the head, neck and back, having the throat and breast a light rust colour, the belly being a paler brown. The bill is brownish-yellow, sometimes with age becoming quite yellow. The young are blackish-brown on the upper parts, each feather being streaked with reddish-brown in the centre, the male being darker than the female; the under parts are a light reddish-brown, tipped with dark spots, which are clearer in the male. The food of a blackbird consists chiefly of worms, slugs, caterpillars, beetles and suchlike insects. It is also fond of fruit and berries according to the season of year. It is particularly destructive amongst cherries, strawberries, currants, gooseberries and applies: the blackberry, too, furnishes the blackbird with many a meal. Blackbirds pair and breed early in the spring. Their nest is composed of coarse roots and grasses. The eggs are also very different in their colouring, there being seldom two nests alike.

BY ANNE HIRST, FORM 1A.

 

THE KINGFISHER.

The Kingfisher is a beautiful bird. He is a water bird and his nest is by water. The kingfisher's food is fish. The nest is at the end of a tunnel about three feet long in a banking. The bank has to be very steep so that water rats cannot climb up into the nest to steal the eggs. The nest is made out of old fish bones which smell dreadful.

Sometimes the hen bird lays two clutches of eggs, the last one being towards the end of June. The eggs are glossy white and if you have ever seen one you will find out that you can see the inside of the egg through the shell. After the birds have been taught how to look after themselves they are driven away from home by their stern parents.

When the cold weather comes they fly downstream to the coast. There they find food until the warm weather comes again.

M. DRANSFIELD, 1A.

 

A WOMAN'S WORK.

Should women who have an interesting job break up this career to get married and bring up a family?

Well, I myself think that every couple should think this over. They have a big responsibility ahead of them. If they are buying their own house, then all well and good that they should go out and work for two to three years. When they both have earned enough money to dwell in a happy and comfortable home, then the wife should certainly stop working if she wishes to have a family.

The child not only wants to have a happy home and parents but wants to live and understand life. Then he or she doesn't want to feel strange when growing up. Perhaps when the child gets old enough to go to school and has been attending a long while, then by all means the mother could go out for a part-time job 9 a.m. till 4 p.m. or maybe have the work brought to the house such as mending, as some mothers do.

If the husband is earning a good wage then I should prefer to stay at home. I am sure a mother who goes out to work cannot possibly have the home perfect and clean as the housewife who stays at home can have it and lead such a happy life.

MARGARET ENGLISH, 41.

 

HELEN OF TROY.

Helen of Troy in classical mythology was the most beautiful woman of her time. She married King Menelaus of Sparta in 1638 B.C. She was carried off by Paris of Troy, thus arose the Trojan War, the chief object of which, Helen, was to be recovered. On the capture of Troy she was reconciled to Menelaus and returned with him to Sparta. Helen wove a tapestry of her life while she was in Troy.

Helen is supposed to have been one of the most beautiful women of all times.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium. Helen's beauty was so famous that Christopher Harlowe, a famous English writer of Elizabethan times, wrote these lines about her.

BRENDA M. CLEGG, 4S.

 

ELIZABETH FRY.

Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845) was one of the pioneers of prison reform. Elizabeth Gurney was her maiden name. She was married at the age of twenty to Joseph Fry. Besides her life work in prisons, she improved the conditions of lunatic asylums. When she began prison work she started at the Norwich Prisons then went to Newgate in London. She was always well loved by the prisoners at every prison she visited. Later she visited prisons in Holland, France, Ireland, Scotland and England. She impressed many Governments with the need for reform, and seeing the reforms gradually adopted. Kings listened to her. Wretched criminals loved her. Elizabeth Fry was a Quaker and was born only two miles from Norwich. The first prison she visited was at Earlham Hall. When Elizabeth was seventeen she was a tall attractive girl and loved dancing. Her father said that before he would let her renounce the world he insisted that she should see it first.

Then she was taken to London, to the theatres, operas and visited all the parks. Elizabeth always had dreams of being washed away by the sea. When she was nineteen she set up a school for poor people. Only the rich people got education in those days. Elizabeth had a large family but always found time for the poor and the sick. She cared for gypsies who camped near by, and worked with a Roman Catholic priest.

In 1813 she began to work regularly at Newgate prison. Those three years were a life of bereavement, illness and money troubles and also the time when she lost a little girl, five years old. At Newgate women prisoners where Elizabeth was working at this time had to sleep on the floor huddled up together. After she had worked at Newgate ten months the House of Commons sent for her and Elizabeth Fry told them that prisons should not be places of State revenge but of reform.

Thus she spent her life trying to help the unfortunate people who crowded our prisons in those days.

JOAN HARDY, 4S.

 

THE RAINBOW.
I love to see a rainbow,
Stretch right across the sky,
And then I know the rain drops
Will clear up by and by.

They are such lovely colours,
They tell me there are seven,
And I often wonder
Can they reach to heaven?
S. SPENCER, 1A.

 

GHOSTLY NIGHTS.
It's a thundery night in the glen,
For the ghosts of Charlie's men
Will come o'er the hills again
And into the valley below.

And the Claymores will clash,
And the shields will crash,
And the lightning flash,
And the blood will flow.

When the dawn breaks once more,
The men all ragged and raw,
Will return through their heavenly door,
And back to their rest they'll go.
MARGARET WATERTON, 4S.

 

An Imaginary Extract from the "Cairo News," as it might have appeared 4,000 years ago.
DEATH OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS RULER, PTOLEMY II.
Mourning Begins.

With much wailing and crying from his people our great ruler Ptolemy II, on the third day of the tenth month, passed away. His last words were, “Ye people of my realm, remember me." Now three moons later the embalming, mummifying and funeral procession is over much to the relief of certain members of the multitude.
Forty moons ago the pyramid of our most almighty Pharaoh was started. Our scribe Neyel Saki paid a visit to this colossal monument, and later announced that the work was nearly finished, done chiefly by the cursed Israelite slaves. A wonderful entrance has been built to the tomb in the “Valley of the Kings." The final artistic carvings was done by that genius of carvers Meyel Gatei. In the interior of the tomb there were the King's treasured possessions, including his pet dog, Mala, which had died recently.
New Idea on Ventilation.
Meyel Gatei the great carver put forward the theory that air holes should be let into the tomb so keeping the fresh air circulating in the chamber, perhaps keeping Pharaoh in good health while in the next world.
Peaceful Reign.
“It hath been announced that his most Glorious Monarch Ptolemy II hath passed away on the third day of the tenth month. Praise ye thou unto the God Sekhet."
Those were the words that heralded the end of His Majesty Ptolemy II, after a long and peaceful reign of thirty years.
When His Royal Highness ascended the throne our country was merely a rural district with no cultural background at all, except for a few puny settlements in the far south. He thence united it into one Kingdom and held absolute rule. Besides having been a strong ruler he also united the political, civil and spiritual power of our nation. During subsequent moons the power of our Pharaohs has declined considerably. Nowadays he is retained only as a figurehead.
Grand Funeral Procession.
Horus, the Great Sun God, only helped to sadden the multitude's feelings when a great tuli storm swept the city's outskirts nearly burying the procession. In fact the elderly priests of the Order of Osirans tried to turn the procession back, but Isis, the King's son, urged them on.
By noon Our Great Master was laid to rest in the great tomb of Anulis where his belongings were already placed. Shortly afterwards the entrance to the tomb was sealed up.
Farewell, O Master, we hope you be happy in your next life.
Set down by our scribe,
Chaloy Tan.
T. BOLTON.

 

A FIRE.

One Saturday evening I was walking down by the Baptist Chapel when I saw some smoke. I rushed down the road and to my utter amazement I saw that it was the scout hut. Malcolm Ambler was coming up on his bike and he saw the fire. He rushed to the scout hut and opened it to see if there was anybody inside. Then after that he went to ring for the fire brigade. It was about ten minutes before it came. The men on the fire brigade got some pumps and hoses and one of the hoses was put down a drain so that it would enable it to pump water into the hose. Two boys were taken down to the police station as it was thought they had started the fire. Two policemen came and a reporter. One of the policemen asked Raymond Marley if he knew how the fire had been started. Raymond answered “No." About eight when I came home, the fire was nearly out, but it was estimated that there was about £500 worth of damage.

G. OLDROYD, 1A.

 

    THE LARGEST.
  1. Which covers the largest area, Land or Sea?
  2. Which is the largest Continent in the world?
  3. Which is the largest country in South America?
  4. Which is the highest mountain in the world?
  5. Which is the longest river in England?
  6. Which is the largest ocean in the world?
  7. Which country has the largest population?
  8. Which is the longest river in the world?
  9. Which is the largest country in the world?
  10. Which is the largest county in England?
  11. Which city has the largest population?
BY IAN GAWTHORPE, MICHAEL KILNER, 4S.

 

    YORKSHIRE QUIZ.
  1. A minster is in this city.
  2. York stands on this river.
  3. There are three of these in Yorkshire.
  4. A wishing well in this small town.
  5. The Ure joins this river in North Riding.
  6. This is a spa town.
  7. Cow and Calf rocks are here.
  8. A seaside place in the North Riding.
  9. Which Riding are the York Wolds in.
BY JOAN HARDY, FORM 4S.

 

    QUIZ (General Knowledge).
  1. What is a cartographer?
  2. What is the river called that Paris stands on?
  3. What does this sign mean ?
  4. What does R.A.F. stand for?
  5. What does tri mean?
  6. What does O.E. stand for?
  7. What is an Ape?
  8. What does a pigeon live in?
  9. What is the school motto?
  10. What town is famous for cutlery?
P. LEATHAM, 1A.

 

    TWO-MINUTE QUIZ.
  1. Hull is in this riding.
  2. Where do Geordie people come from?
  3. A place where people used to run away to get married.
  4. Which county is Morecambe in?
  5. An Island in the Irish Sea.
  6. Where is Sherwod Forest?
  7. Where do wild ponies roam?
Now spell the first letters of each answer downwards.
C. SHACKLETON, 4S.

 

JUMBLED TOWNS QUIZ.
In England and Scotland.

 

Scotland.

 

England.

1.

TABROHRA.

1.

NOLDON.

2.

INTSRIGL.

2.

OWNIDSN.

3.

KRKESLI.

3.

ENAMLCHTEN.

4.

UFNDMREIENL.

4.

FXORDO.

5.

UFMESDRI.

5.

HEDFILFSE.

6.

WLHEOMTLER.

6.

BDEYR.

7.

WGAOSLG.

7.

LIOFDR.

8.

DEINUBGRH.

8.

OEVCTNYR.

9.

OHJN O SORAGT.

9.

IRMIFELD.

10.

VEINNESRS.

10.

GRIBHTNO.

BY T. GOODALL AND F. IRISH, FORM 4S.

 

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB NICKNAMES.

1.

The Throstles.

11

The Toffee Men.

2.

The Hatters.

12

The Rams.

3.

The Bees.

13

The Gunners.

4.

The Tigers.

14

The Robins.

5.

The Glaziers.

15

The Pensioners.

6.

The Saints.

16

The Lambs.

7.

The Potters.

17

The Hammers.

8.

The Cobblers.

18

The Canaries.

9.

The Fishermen.

19

The Magpies.

10.

The Blades.

20

The Lions.

FRANK IRISH, FORM 4S.

 

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