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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-02-10, Page 2« And usually, about "The Charles in the language. . . . Tlipr-e- is- por- _ .........., ___ -Tourists left $50,-1 trayed so vigorous, lifelike, and truth- 906,816 in Ontario last season accord- fu,i a picture' -of a time long gone by, A Hint for Young Bird-Lovers About Winter-Feeding. "Oh, Jack, look here! Come quick, ways one at a time, climbing down the but don’t make a noise.” | tree trunk head first, or flying directly Evan, at the kitchen window, had > to the moat. They never stayed long, just discovered a handsome, old blue- but they came often and the boys jay, making a meal of tho piece of, found them very^ fr-OHdly, suet- the two brother had tied to a: lows. . It limb of the applet-tree, in the garden, ‘ tinguish the a few days before. ' ' ' ' Excitedly the two boys watched that skillful beak chisel its way into the meat’as it plunged, first from one. angle, then from another. Once in a while the wary jay would pause, look : around, and reassured would continue ’ his meal. Well might the boys feel elated, be-1 cause this was their first attempt to 1 -attract these feathered friends to a festive board near the house, and now their efforts were crowned with sue-- cess. ! “We must tell mother and Helen about this,” said Jack. So off he ran to bring them to the window, too, and soon all four were enjoying the sight.; u vv„.t “It was very thoughtful of you, ‘ feather1”' ——............., I It was difficult at first to dis- nuthatches from tho I chicadees, but Helen soon discovered that the ehickad-’es had black throats, while tho nuthatches were white or reddish on both throat and breast. One Saturday morning’, early in February, Jack ran into the house very much excited. "Oh, mother, a chicadee lit on my hand,” he shouted. "Well, I declare,” said mother; "how did you ever bring it so close to you?” "It was just this way. I went out to tie up the new piece of suet to the tree, and a chicadee came down. There was no meat left there and the first thing-1 knew he was on my hand peck­ ing the suet, I got such a surprise I guess I scared him. But, gee! I wish he’d come again. He’s as light boys, to put your feeding stations up where I can enjoy your birds while I am baking the pies and biscuits for dinner,” was mother’s first remark. Not many days later, a pair of chicadees came along, singing their merry "chic-a-dee, chic-a-dge, chic-a- dee-dee-dee,” covered the ground, and the weed- i seeds were not so easy to find as they1 as were in September. So the chicadees Evc.^ ...».......„, ____ -n-- ____. were very glad when they found that one hairy woodpecker paid a shy somebody was providing a convenient breakfast call. And usually, about meal for them. One at a time they eleven o’clock, a pair of downy wood- would hop down to the piece of suet peekers cams. Whenever anybody and help themselves, standing now g0 +0 sec them at closer head up, now head down, but always rar,gO, "Downie” would simply turn active, always cheerful. The suet around, although shyly keeping an eye course over, off would go the chicka- on ]jjs observer, or would move a few dees to the apple tree to vary their, bops higher up to tree, if the intruder ’ 'came too close for comfort.. Everybody was agreed that it was the best winter sport imaginable. "We are going to feed the birds again next year,” said Evan. Evan thought he would play a joke on a pair of chicadees, one day, when he tried to imitate their plaintive whistle "phe-be-be,” To his amaze­ ment, one of the birds came to a I branch beside him and repeated the call. Evan had solved the problem of The first winter snow caiiing tho chicadees. The birds continued to come as long the snow covered the ground. ■ery morning, about eight o’clock, diet with a few codling moth larvae, hidden under the scales of bark. Soon the nuthatches found the festive board. With their trumpetlike nasal “Yank! Yank!” they came, al- Three Great Desires. Man is swayed by a thousand dreams Of pleasure and pomp and pride, An honored name, that is known to fame, But many a dream’s denied-. And there is the lure of a woman’s smile And the lure of a merry hour, ■ He is urged to rise, with ths great and wise, 4 ~ He is eager to come to power. Life dazzles- his eyes with endless charms And never his longings cease, But his great de-sire-s, tires, Are laughter and love and peace. For bis own must share in the joy he wins, And their laughter must urge him on, And their love increase, or his dream of peace And his reason to fight are gone. Hosts to Duke and Duchess of York in Australia, Vernon, B.C.—The Kelowna Fruit Growers’ convention unanimously adopted the Board plan fox’ handling the 1927 crop. Tho Board will con­ sist of three members, one represent­ ing the Associated Growers, one the Independents and one -the Provincial Government. The Board will have absolute control ovex* the fruit move­ ment, with legislative authority to regulate shipments to tho different markets, to fix prices and exercise an all-round supervision. Edmonton, Alta,—Fifteen hundred homt\-u.-...«> wc.e »«ea ac the Edmon­ ton land Office Inst year, tho largest number since before the war, The applicants represent 2o7,760 acres of potential cultivation. Moose Jaw, Sask.—The Harris Abattoir (Saskatchewan) Limited has been incorporated, according to the. Gazette, and registered under the/ company’s Act. Its present capital is <$10-0,0-00 and its headquarters in Moose Jaw. Winnipeg, Man.—During 1926 the Canada Colonization Association set­ tled 734 families on 168,094 acres in Western Canada, 69,678 acres of which were in the Province of Mani­ toba, according to T. O. F. Herzer, Manager of the Association. Since the Canadian Pacific Railway took over the Canada Colonization Associa­ tion on January 1, 1925, a total of 1,661 families have been settled, tak­ ing up 402,566 acres of land, worth, with equipment, between $18,-000,000 and $19,0-00,000. Forty-five per cent, of thi$ land is in Manitoba, 30 per Dr. (Mrs.) Muthulakahiml Ammal, B.A., M.B., C.M. A leading medical practitioner of Mad­ ras, has been nominated a member of the Madras Legislative Council, in South India. She ifj th® first Indian lady to be appointed for this high of­ fice. Dr. Animal represented India the world conference recently held Paris. • LORD AND’ LADY STONEHAVEN Lord Stonehaven is the governor-general of Australia. The Duke anl Duchess of York sailed- from Eng­ land,on January 6 for their Australian trip. They will inaugurate the pew -capital of the dominion, Canberra. A session of the Australian parliament is expe-ote'd to be held at Canberra nert May. Tranquillity. The moonbeams draw me To my window’: Can it be frost Upon the ground? Happy HGWgli. It was a perfectly white night, as they call it. All green things seemed to have made a month’s growth since the morning.. The branch that was; yellow-leafed the day before dripped; Lifting my head, I gaze On the moon; And bending low Think of my Fatherland. —Gonnoske- Kom-aL I ' 4 What They Are Saying. There'are no two words in all tho sap when Mowgli broke it. The mosses ( English language more wretchedly curled deep and warm ovex* his feet,1 misrepresented in current debate than the young grass had no cutting edges, < income and capital, none mo-re widely and all the voices of the Jungle boom- misunderstood. — William Graham, ed like one deep harp-string touched M.P. by the moon—the Moon of New Talk, j who splashed her* light full on rock and pool, slipped it between trunk, and creeper, ’and sifted it through a mil- I lion leaves, , Forgetting his unhappi- I ne-s, Mowgli sang aloud with pure de- ti'I'l Ills body1 light as he settled into his stride. It ! was more like flying than anything else, for he had chosen the long, down­ ward slope that leads to the northern In my view, the whole progress- of civilization in this world is bound up with the capacity that the- white races have and will have to help th-e races of the world, to advance.—Stanley Bald­ win. Character is p-ow-er, and do not for­ get that character is capital.—Sir John Ferguson. Deflation robs .all tiros© who owe marshes through the heart of the main j money; inflation robs those bo whom Jungle, where the springy ground J money is due.—H. G. Williams', M.P. deadened the fall of his feet. A man-| The W’orst -cricketer is generally the taught man would have picked his; most enthusiastic player.—Sir Ro-land way with -many stumbles through th©: Blades. cheating moonlight, but Mowgli’s mus-1 If all manufacturers would treat cles, trained by years of experience, j their workers well, they would not bore- him up as though he were a; alon© have happines-s, but they would ■ feather. When a roten log or a hid- make more money.—Bernhard Baron. | den stone turned under his foot, he ’ saved himself, never <' s pace, without effort and without • thought. When he tired of ground- (fashion to the nearest creeper, and Piano as Loud-Speaker. _____> Then© appears to be no end) to the _ .... way to Iugenuity of the radio enthu&Ias'ts, and i health fe the “itelTaTM Lvoeatel. ‘‘J® ^nazln? llw rema^’ . by Dr. OCtovta Lewin and ether p-liyat- i, l”™>tioM In com«ton with ■ clans. “Never stifle a sneeze,“ she nd-1 ]•«■*•" haT0 ”8">n vised health visitors and school nurses ■ teiuis‘- _ at Bedford' College. "Remember, the of health i® sound, through the nose,” win, who continued: Here is a verse to keep in mind: " ‘Sniffing’® bad for brain and head Sniff not-—blow your nos© instead.' “Lack of nasal hygiene- is very large­ ly responsible for defect® of the eyes. It will bo found -that nearly all tho •children in our echoo-ls who wear spec- tacl-e-s_have clogged beads. ^“Human-s should -take a lesson from the 'animals1. Take the elephant. If he* -gith -a yard and a half of nose, can keep his head -clear, surely we ought to be able to do something with our -children. Even Se little mouse and the canary know how to snee-ze.” A. .. . ■ Sneeze, But Don’t Sniff, English Doctor’s Advice London. — Sneezing one’s ’ fun dam ent al fact healthy breathing cautioned Dr. Le- For never can victory thrill his soul Or his fortune, be worth lbs- cost If he throws to the wind his peace of mind And laughter and- love are lost. —Edgar A. Guest.1 going, he threw up his hands monkey- •----------❖---------- ( fashion to the nearest creeper, and Politeness. . seemed to float rather than to climb Bill Collector—“I suppose I’m not Up jnt0 the thin branches, whence he so very welcome.” I -would follow a tree-road till his mood Tenant—"On the contrary, I want _ changed and he shot downward in a you to call again.” b-----................... x_ Many a bachelorship , has been checking his wrecked on a permanent wave-.—Lord Dewar. I j long-leafy curve to the levels again. There were still, hot hollows surround- ! ed by wet rocks where he could hardly breathe for the heavy scents of the o' "■ night flowers and the bloom along the- uiess up” .creeper buds; dark avenues where the in^ach^ofmoonlight lay in belts as regular as ■ - - j checkered marbles in a church aisle; ” The fi'm^ne?^rhtps7show twe ■' thickets'where the wet youn> growth boys seated at a table, reading a verse stood breast-high about him and throw of poetry aloud. They repeat it once-; lte armf round his waist; the hilltops or twice until 'they get It by heart. In ; crowned with broken rock, where he the second a y-o-ung lady tells her; leaped from stone to stone. fiance that her father has been ruined ' So he ran, sometimes s outing, as the result of unlucky speculations, < sometimes singing to himself, the and releases him from hi® engage-; inment. He replies that m-one-y does' flowers not matter and re-fuse® to accept his warned him that he was near the freedom.. She then confesses that the marshes, and those lay far beyond his story of her father’s ruin was a pre-,^Jhe^ . . hunting-grounds. -- From fence; she merely wanted to- test him.' Spring Running, by Rudyaid Finally, the -compound word, made- Kiphng. _____ ______ up by the two hidden in the scenes al-1 _ ? ZI "***. " ready given, i® represented. A num- it IS 31CV7 Work her of young people are shown shoot-1« “—Training a child to use good judg­ ing at a target with bows -and arrows. ’ ment _ . a Tho winner is acclaimed. By this time [ those accustomed to -charade® have, guessed Scene 1 means- "con”; Scene I 2, "test”; and tli-e whole, "contest.” These words -have actually been I spoken in the appropriate scenes. What Are Charades? One of the most popular pastimes at. social gatherings is acting charades. A number of young people "dress up” and act various scenes, 1-------- which a certain word is> introduced. When Things Went Wrong. Conjurer—“Now, to ^h-elp me with this trick I want -the services- of a boy. Just any b-oy in the audience—yes, you will do, my little man.- Come along. Now,-, you’ve never seen me before, have you?” Boy—"No, father.” your first —Changing the mind of a majority of the people. —Living down a bad reputation. —Building a character that will last through eternity, —Ridding the world of the war mind. —Saving the first thousand dollars. —Creating respect for law - while law-breaking is- profitable. Trout Have Scales* This spring when you whip favorite stream and land yo-ur Sipeclded beauty, we want you to make A close examination -of your -catch -todHsoovei' whether or not a,,brook -trout! Bias f-cales-. We venture to -say there! are thousands of anglera who liavoj lishtd' for trout for years, yet have novc-r taken tho trouble -to settle this <LUest.ionj for themse^yes. wettie it hArer and now. A trout has scales. They are micro­ scopically flii^ ondi you will have to look hand, to sea them. In a fresh fish 'they are scarcely visible, but in one that -hop beifcti in alcohol, where the ekln shrinks tho are mo-re easily Observed, pood Laws— “-Have seldom made good men; but they often restrain bad men. -“■Weed the support of good citizens to bo good laws-. —Can never be written by a de- So we will • graded citizenship. —Will only work their .best among a free people. “-Always work some injustices upon a few, —Cannot succe>8d without faithful administrators. / -—Are the noblest work of any gov­ ernment. --------------------- A Great Novel. Cloister and th© Hearth” Reade’s- greatest work—and, cent, in Saskatchewan and 25 per cent. I believe, the greatest historical novel in Alberta. 1 . Toronto, Ont.- <----------- - • ~ ■yvu,uxy ... yuvui.u ...uu luu y, .yivlUJ-t)' VI <l> UWH XUbUIg ftUXUU MJ, l1!.? tOjProvincial calculationj^of^which anj& differing In almost every particu- .from our own, that -th© would has 1926 never &ee'h i'tSl ilIk'e,‘ • • • As- -one reads I it, one feel® in -the very atmosphere of .Quebec, Que.—Under the jurisdic- j century; one breathes the air just tion of the Lands and Forests Dept, a' before the Great Dawn of Learning Forestry Research Bureau will start and Religion; it is still twilight, but to operate from the first of February, the blx’ds are twittering already on, with its headquarters here, under the/ th© bouglu®; it i® -a time when men are ... direct control of the Forest.Protection weary of the past; there is no fresh- apto parties contributed $30,779,566. Approximately 75 per cent, of the tourists coming to Canada in 122 C visited Ontario. Service which is headed by Gustave Pice, Chief Forestry Engineer. teurs-. The very latest Is an attachment for converting an ordinary piano into a Icud-speaker, which as said t'o be un­ equalled for purity of tone. It can bo A Field of Plovers. flock of plovers in an English in January is a sign of hope. kVR'vU, 1 * JJv t i t i •» /♦» w“Never sniff ad'a-pted- to fit any make of piano, and eliminates all harsh and indistinct notes both in speech and music. “Low frequencies,” which have been Mabie to distortion in the ordinary methods o>f reproduction, ar© now made as clear as crystal by the wide . register o-f -the piano and the immedi­ ate full expansion of the sound over compass-. -------—---------- How Long to Hang Curtains. It is always beter to make the cur­ tains to bang to the floor where the structure of the window permits. In a room which depends for its chief charm on quaintnesis it is often better to make the curtains to. hang six inches below the sill. In making them long enough to hang six inches below . _ . 1 one should allow for? tying ‘ , besides', prevents the “Silver Ship on Silver Sea” viik For Duchess of York’s Table! th© sin i London.—A feature of 'the Duchess j back—which, of York’® dining table decoration in curtains from blowing out sio easily, the -battle cruiser Renown is a "silver ship sailing on a silver sea.”' The beautiful wrought ship is a model of H. M. S. Endeavour, in which Captain' how stove pipe is Cook first visited Australia. ( J-ohnnle—"Well-, a big long around it.” ----------------Q,---------------- Johnnie Knew. ^Teacher—“Can any of you tell made?” * Teacher, you just hole and1 put tinThe plate was the property of the bake battleship Commonwealth, and- since the latter was scrapped has been i-m store-. The plate has been loaned to the Renown -for tho world voyage of I the Duke and Duches, who will return home in June. a? Contained Starch. Chemistry Professor—“Name article's containing starch.” Student—“Two cuffs1 and a collar.” three mo A Yes, Send It! Dealer—“Shall I send the clothes- horse you ordered?” Customer—“Send it! Did you think I Intended to rid-o it 'home ?’’ .... ..............J> Parrot Jail Breaker. ' An Australian parrot in the London Zoo hog gnawed his way out of eigh­ teen cages1 in three years. ADAMSON’S ADVENTURES—By O. Jacobsson. (Copyright, 1024, by The Bott 5yh<*rcate, Tae.> . Just Friendly—That’s AIL HELP YOURSELF I Sk ness or vigor -in -the poetry; all the tunes- are ol-d tunes. . . . In his chamber the scholar as-ka whether the newly found Greek is not better than a>ll the ecclesiastical jar­ gon. . . . There is uncertainty every­ where; there is th-e restless movement . There is, A field _ _ _ _____ __________________ They may be making no music, just which goes’-befo-re a-change. There is, quietly working in the field. The field _ however, plenty of ordered activity in may be but a .port of call, but to see ■ certain directions. Soldier® fight, and them is to know that spring happen-! great lord® lead armies; there are ings are once again on the wing. The ] court ceremonies- at which knights last flock seen may have been in; feast and common people gape; p-ren- November. .That was the end o-f n'tics lads go a-wa-n-dering along -the season. This is the beginning. At; roads-; with them tramp -the vagrant the turn of the year, with the shortest' gcholarsi. ... A fine, picturesque day left behind, there is a movement: time. . . _. toward those places where presently All this . . . and more—is in “The they will nest. That time is not yet. j Cloister and the Hearth”; not d-es- They are -still in flocks, -and flocks are; cribed, but acted. The reader who a sign of winter. That is how birds: knows the literature of the times spend the winter. They club together, Say® to himself as he goes on: "Here and forage together. A little later hs Erasmus; heir-e is Froissart; her© i-s -the flock will break up and here .and Deschamps; here ds Coquil-lart; hero there over the hillside, fields and up-! is Gringoire; here is Villon; hero is lands, pairs of birds will be seen and | Luther," and so on, talcing plea-sure heard, much noisier than they are on ! in proving the sources. The reader a January day. * ’ j who does not know, or does not -in­ In flight -a flock of plovers is a lovely J quire, presently (finds himself drawn vision, their white underbodies gleam ■ completely out dfhi ms-elf and his own in the sunlight, then they wheel and time; before he readies- the end he sliow pairs of dark wings strongly! thinks iik-e tho characters in the beating. The heart- leaps up to so©! book; he feals like them; he tallcs like them in January dawn. One feels bet-J them.. This i-s th-e general -effect of ter for a sight of them, especially in ‘ the book; bu-t, besides, there runs view of the fact that they are .a dim- through -it the swe-etest, saddest, and inishing race. The trouble is that the most tender love story -ever davlsed plover’s egg is supposed to bo a deli- [‘by wit of man. There is no heroine cacy. The writer once had two, his J in fiction more dear -to me- than Mar- farmer landlady reminding him that gar'et. . . . gentlemen in the west end o-f London! I do not suppo&a that byf these- re- would pay anything from half -a crown , marks- ome can ad.d anything to th-e ve­ to seven and six for such delicacies J putation o-f Cha-rles Reade, or to tho Perhaps plovers’ eggs are an acquired , admiration with which the English- tast-e. Possibly the price paid co-nsti-' speaking irace-s r&g-ard^his works. . . . tutes them a delicacy. Were the dom- One -can only say that he -stands in the estid fowl’s eggs a-s rare -and as high ' first rank, and that he stands1 atom©, priced, doubtless they would receive One can only ®a-y that this great writer the gourmet’s attention. j —there is no greater praise—paints Hardly any bird take.-, so little I women as- they are, inert as they are, trouble with its nest. Often it is but! things as they are." What we call the frost-hardened d-elve of a cow’s' genius, ds first the p-oweir of seeing hoof, a tangle of bent, or the hollow, men, women and things as they are—- of a misplaced stone. It prefers a • most of us; being without genius, are . ■small ridge, so that the water can purblind—and then the power of drain off on all sides. The nests and > showing them by means of-"invention" the eggs ana the fledglings are so —K-” -----<> •<>-----»----------- completely in keeping with their sur­ roundings that only the practiced seeker discovers them. The eggs are usually four -in num­ ber, placed in the nest point to point, so that the bird covers them more completely and hatching is thus made ; tho more sure. As soon as hatched' the young, being clothed at birth," run1 off in all directions and- cause much j „ . ____ trouble to tho anxious parents who traffic -problem-, composed of little Lon­ dons where people -can wa-l-k to their Work, is tho vi-slon which inspires the Health Miniis-ter’si invitation lio 120 local authorities around this city -to form a joint planning -committee. ! Th-e new London would nc-t be as | much a city as a vast group of pl-anne-d •| towns extending- over 2,000 square —by the grafting of "invention” upon fact. No man has- shown greater power -of grasping fact and of weaving invention upon it than' Charles Reade. —Walter Besant, in the Introduction to "Tho Cloister and the Hearth.” r ...______■ _ _v 11''1 11 , : London Plans to Divide • City Into Little Towns } London.—A greater London with no have to keep constant watch over them. Fortunately they are obedient to th-eir parents’ call. After hatching the nest is not used, as is the case with many other -birds. That is doubtless one reason why a more elaborate nest is not made, Plovers are -erratic and loose joint-', ed in flight, tossing and tumbling in j miles separated from each other by the air- and- excitedly crying "pee- weet.° Light of body it has difficulty in flying against the wind, The mean­ ing of its name Lapwing is "one who turns about in running or flight.” Gho Appeared Stupid. Horace wafi sent to-hls room for tak> Ing forbidden cako fr-O-m the cupboard. Hl® mother, thinking to make his pun­ ishment more impressive, went to his room and, after Now Horace, ?” 'Well, ma, I kept in bod ai the aftefndon, and now you don’t knoiv what you did it for,” Oak trees take so long in attainiiig any profitable sizo that it is not a business proposition to grow t!t*tn* I all was forgiven, said: what did I punish you like that! I've been % L-.—( — * bolts ^f open land with manufacturing and ■’housing hi-tes selected on a scien­ tific principle. How Electric Iron Heats. Certain metals have more resistance to -an -electric current than others-. For instance, 'Copper has a low resistance or conducts a current easily, while''j Gorman- silver has a high resistance, or docs Sot conduct rehdlly, When a metal Aav, a high resistance to an dec trio current, a large -amount of heat is produced. This principle is used In ( the construction of tlie electric Iron. Tito iron ha® wives inside, and those wires are made metal, The heat oloctrlo current boats the Iron. of high-rosi stance from these, when an is pctasod through, >- i